It's really nice

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How can you include Federer and not Djokovic???

It is not that we dutch are so good, it is just unbelievable stupid how other countries are so bad when it comes to speaking more then just their own language.

And the Poles. Mainly the Canadians and the poles liberated the Netherlands. And what do you know about Dutch television?

The Dutch are amazing at speaking English for all the reasons you talk about. But with other languages they are just the same as everyone else. I was really taken aback a few years ago when I met a Dutch person in Spain where I was living at the time who I was told spoke Spanish fluently. I automatically presumed she would be better than me even though I actually studied Spanish at university. She was Dutch. Of course she would speak Spanish pefectly. I was SO relieved when I found out my Spanish was way better than hers. And I also remember her being a bit surprised too.

I thought Germans were very good but the Dutch essentially speak native language with an Africaans accent

I hope that the Dutch language never dies and expands in the future, however I studied linguistics, language acquisition and bilingual education, and coming from a country subordinated politically and economically to an English speaking nation, while having a different language, I fear that Dutch lovers should be aware such a powerful language could surpass Dutch, in a short time if some changes are not made. I read of situations of native languages turning into a creole, education especially in universities all in English, and worst of all of some native people not teaching their kids their native language but English and belittle anyone who insists in keeping the original tongue, and assuming that anything in English is far superior to anything in the local language. I had seem all that. English is an useful tool which we use to communicate with the world, no doubt about it, but it should not replace the mother tongue in which we love, cry , learn, think, have opinions, and in general live and die. The lost of Dutch, will be a great loss not only for Netherlands but for humanity.

Dutch is definitely merging with English. Words like “weird”, “creepy”, “awkward”, “fun”, “fake”, “whatever”, “cool”, “not done”, “heavy” are taking over and were never used 30 years ago.

Great video, thank you! I'd noticed English has a place in advertising and slogans, and you explained its olace well. Very interesting 👍🏻

Viggo also speak elvish

I keep saying it's a myth. The Dutch do not speak English any better than Germans and most definitely not any better than Scandinavians. The Dutch (Dütch, Trümp, üpdate, pick-üp trück) are just brimming with confidence - that's all it is.

I belive Christopher Lee could also speak the black speech from Mordor

Jodie Foster

As a tourist with relatively fluent English, I found myself comfortable while in Amsterdam, as in London Since I am able to start a conversation with local ppl, ordering meal, buying ticket, ALL in English...wicked It's unfair that they have to take IELTS when applying Universities from English speaking countries Despite they should score pretty high on those tests. btw, I think their English helps, particularly those footballers who looking for top English clubs, without language barrier.

I am surprised that Djokovic is not on the list.

I hope Indonesia follow the dutch in terms of English language: Mandatory Language, English made official or recognized isn't necessary just mandatory language 🇺🇸🇮🇩🇳🇱

Fluentu is the best thing for intensive listening

Christopher Lee probably speaks Quenya as well and maybe Black Speech

which were parents language vs learned?

I heard Christopher Lee speaking Czech also and I think Roger Federer speaks Italian too, and also probably knows some Slovak words because of his wife

Jodie Fosters French sounded perfect.

Congratulations to Mr Wilders !!!

Christopher Lee has the most amazing life

Correction: Viggo wasn't speaking Norwegian, he was speaking Danish. Scandinavians understand each other because their languages are so closely related and similar.

My favourites were Jodie Foster, Shakira surprised the heck out of me speaking perfect Brazilian Portuguese. Vigo Mortesen is amazing! And surely Christopher Lee was a legendary poliglot!

They are all Americans of EUropean descent. Next time, put a few Asian American celebs as well. America is a melting pot and there is diversity in American people. Asian Americans aren't foreign in the US. If they are, so are these celebs shown in the video. We are all immigrants anyway.

Pope John Paul 2 spoke eight languages

THE SWEDISH PRONOUNCIATION of ROGER!🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🤩🤩🤩 (I’m swedish as you prob can tell from my reaction) ”SKA VI SES GRABBEN!”🤣 - ”Wanna hang out my boy?”

Do another list!

Romelu Lukaku parle 8 langues : lingala, français, néerlandais, allemand, anglais, espagnol, portugais et italien.

I don't know abt giving the top spot to C Lee... he didn't seem all that fluent in some of those langs. I was most impressed with Audrey Hepburn. She seemed to have a deep understanding of, and skill in 5 langs, and she was prob conversational in a 6th. That's impressive.

I cannot believe this. At my work they were looking for some one who can speak English. Most people cannot and know only some basic sentences. There is a difference in the capitalcity Amsterdam and outside the capitalcity.

Dalida and Nana Mouskuri sang in 10-11 languages. Mireille Matthieu is not far away.

After seeing this, I would of have thought Audrey would be the top one but Christopher Lee is pretty impressive with all those languages.

Roger Federer, of course, speaks his native tongue: Schwiizerdütsch. Similar to German, but different.

Damn! Mira Sorvino is said to be a polyglot, not sure if that's true.

Now it makes sense about advertising in the Netherlands. When I lived there briefly in 2017, I notice a lot of English slogans, phrases and captions used in advertising media there which I initially found bizarre.

If I podcast in my home language (zulu) on other country can understand what happened because im not perfect in English

But how to get started. All I see are short trailers advertising films but no actual films.

Your video is 9.11 minutes long

Audrey Hepburn her mother was Dutch. So it''s not a surprise that she speak Dutch. She lived in her young days in The Netherlands and Great Britain. She also learnt French and Deutsch at school. As the most dutchies do. Only French not so much.

I am Dutch. This makes me think about my niece (4 y/o). I asked (of course in Dutch) the color of her dress. She answered in English "yellow". Sigh..... Still, I don't think that Dutch will go extinct. We had these periods before (like ages of French dominance in higher classes). Such periods change the Dutch language, but never eradicate it. Ask the Flemish. They still speak Dutch despite ages of repression of and contempt for their language.

I really like Tom Hiddleston but that wasn't greek. It was an effort to recite an ancient Greek text but with an English accent. And unfortunately not a successful effort. I have never heard a foreign person speaking Greek successfully and I can't understand why. Every time I hear someone from a foreign country speaking Greek it's like I hear a bizzarre language.

Be careful Dutch people, mind your own language. English has become such a pervasive language, a beautiful language like others but it has become so generic when spoken as a second language. Remember, once whole generations of speakers of any language start studying at university level in English or any international language the next generation is given the clear message that their native language is inferior to, in the case of the Netherlands, the English language. If you replace your language at post-grad level it will begin to decline in quality and prestige. Be careful Dutch speakers.

Viggo speaks all the languages with an argentinian accent, argentinian spanish was his first language and is very evident

Very nice overview and nice to see some unexpected polyglots! However, singing in a language or reading a few lines from a paper does not qualify as speaking a language.......

I really like this three levels language classification system. It seems clearer and simpler to me than the more popular CEFR system. Anyone agrees or disagrees or maybe has an opinion on another language classification system altogether?

Hey! Is there any relationship between the numerous conditional that the English language teaches, to the survival of Dutch English? 1:05

Over een paar jaar draaien ze wel weer bij. Er is al een wet in de maak om de universiteiten weer Nederlandstalig te maken en gezien meer dan 80% de immigratie naar beneden wil (zie eenvandaag), is het politiek erg aantrekkelijk weer normaal te doen.