9 ways to sound Dutch - the Dutch accent in English

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Sorry about the spelling of Klanken. Thanks to everyone who pointed that out.

[@Phantasia.Official]

"klinkers en medeklinkers:" at 2:26 ???

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

You should work for Hollywood giving accent lessons ! I've never heard a native English speaking person manage the Dutch accent as well as you did. It's interesting how, the few times, you did slip up slightly ,it sounded South African. ( Like when you said Cobblestones )

[@Kaede-Sasaki]

Please do japanese next. お願いします

[@nrfuente1489]

I'm a native Dutch speaker living abroad. Your Dutch pronunciation is spot on. Even some of us Dutch enjoy exaggerating the Dutch accent, as it can be amusing. It took me some time to get rid of the Dutch 's' (sh-sound), as it sounded very "thick". Now, when speaking, I'm usually mistaken for Canadian. Interestingly, Dutch and English share many similar words, but they sometimes have completely different meanings, which can create some hilarious sentences!

[@fonkbadonk5370]

For my 10th grade graduation trip, we went on a sail on the IJsselmeer. We were a group of German teens with very basic English skills, and two teachers that weren't good at any other language than German. Our skipper and 1st mate were Dutch and only capable of their native language. This was not a problem whatsoever! We've had entire evenings just talking and laughing together, realizing that Dutch is the cutest sounding interface between German and English, and with people able to speak any of the three to varying degrees, one can have proper meaningful and actually fun conversations! If it hadn't been for my discovery of severe sea sickness, this trip would have made the top of my list. I still adore the Netherlands and Dutch, and if I was ever forced to leave country, that would be my first pick by far. Embrace your native sounds - they're gorgeous.

[@LucyTheBox]

One such pitfall we learned at school is that you 'apply' for a job instead of 'soliciting' for one... (Dutch word for "apply" in this context: "soliciteren")

[@AM_o2000]

Nah, too many lapses and too parodic-sounding.

[@ivovandevelde2165]

All the English this guy is speaking has a Dutch accent, must at least have Dutch ancestors

[@Dowlphin]

There's lots of English and German in Dutch, so to speak. And words that sound similar in different languages but mean different things are called "false friends".

[@keestel6975]

As a native Dutchman this was the first time I watched a video from you and at first I really thought you were some goofy Dutch vlogger with a 'bad' English pronunciation. Only until you made the conversation with (obviously) yourself in the hotel reception desk I realized that you are actually a real English speaker. This was so entertaining and informative to watch! #subscribed

[@zndernaam]

Echt he!😁

[@SoapandSecrets]

En een uitglijer naar wat Duitse klanken ;-)

[@lucbloom]

Same. Ja inderdaad, de aloude Duitse valkuil was te horen.

[@saintinel]

Ik had exact hetzelfde! :)

[@VFella]

Same XD

[@ajs11201]

The last time I was in Amsterdam, I was at a restaurant and a waiter was so cordial and polite. His English was flawless, but he did encounter a problem at dessert time. He was trying to describe a cake they had on offer--but he couldn't think of the English word to describe the frosting on this cake, so I asked him for the Dutch word. He said, "Well, in Dutch, we call it marzipan." I laughed and said, "I can help you. In English, we call it marzipan!" He got a good laugh, too.

[@renskee.jellema8697]

The Dutch word is: marsepein.

[@ajs11201]

@renskee.jellema8697 Thanks. Since we were speaking and not writing, the pronunciation was close enough, and the spelling didn't matter, but thanks for adding this additional clarity.

[@carmenl163]

What a lovely story!

[@MartinMaat]

OK, here's a good one, true story. In Scotland at the end of a meal in a restaurant I said to the waitress "I want to pay". She responded by giving me directions to the toilet.

[@ajs11201]

@MartinMaat Oh, yes, British euphemism. Some still say, "I need to spend a penny," referring back to pay toilets.

[@gary.h.turner]

1:29 - it looks like you've managed to do what John Cleese couldn't, and written a new episode of Fawlty Towers! 😂

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

😊

[@220773]

John Cleese never made it to a Scottish accent...

[@gary.h.turner]

@@220773... let alone a Dutch accent! 😂

[@220773]

@@gary.h.turner Aye, well, I'm a Scot, so that's what came to my mind...

[@sanchoodell6789]

DON'T mention THAT seventies sitcom set in a Torquay hotel! (I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it alright!)

[@JackyRowe]

I was once experimenting with accents, and tried to do two accents at once, as in, what someone from the Netherlands might sound like if they tried to do a Scottish accent. What came out was the only good Sean Connery impression I've ever done. Never been able to recreate it.

[@stevecarter8810]

The intonation makes them sound enthusiastic and the fricatives make them sound angry. At the same time, all the time. Love it

[@timv17]

Basically if you mix being enthusiastic and angry you get the basic Dutch personality type of assertively trying to be right about things nobody asked for.

[@bikeamour]

​@@timv17Are you Dutch? Or maybe Flemish?

[@timv17]

@@bikeamour Dutch, but from the deep South. So I guess that counts more as Flemish 😅

[@claudias.4094]

you should listen to chinese or russians. then you will hear what angry or agressive is).

[@IvoTichelaar]

​@@timv17assertively trying to be right about something nobody is asking for, that's pretty spot on. :-)

[@tubab72]

They way you said "medeklinkers" was absolutely impressive .... at first it made me think you were actually a dutchman ! Excellent channel and fabulous language skills !!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Wow, thanks! That made my day!

[@sail4life]

I was going to say the same thing: you 100% nailed "medeklinkers" !

[@kilianhekhuis]

Agreed! :)

[@greedokenobi3855]

Ferry Ferry good!

[@GrumpyBonobo]

@@greedokenobi3855 *goot ;)

[@severs1966]

"a jar of spare faces [...] by the door" Excellent Beatles reference there.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Oh yes. I hadn’t realised that. Clearly subliminal.

[@MichaelAE]

I must say that not only did you nail the accent, your facial expression in the hotel sketch was also spot on.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

How interesting. Thanks for pointing that out.

[@sanderappel4499]

If I hadn't seen any of your other videos, I'd legit think you were a Dutch person speaking English, the accent, is subtle but spot-on

[@willemgrooters4958]

I am from the Netherlands and your pronounciation certainly sounded surprisingly like dutch.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

That’s good to hear. Thank you!

[@weiareinboud6990]

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages Well, it still sounded as a speaker of (British) English mimicking a speaker of Dutch trying to speak English. I mean, there were too many correct English sounds in it!

[@willemgrooters4958]

@@weiareinboud6990 Correct. I also think that I must re-write my previous reply. By applying those 9 ways/different pronounciations one will ONLY sound MORE like someone who has been born and raised in the Netherlands. There are more subtle and not so subtle differences in pronounciation between english and dutch for a number of words. Any one who has been born and raised in the Netherlands will be able to spot these differences between english and dutch without too much effort. Nonetheless, it was good to hear a few of typical dutch pronounciations spoken by someone who wasn't born in the Netherlands. I am NOT a language purist but I sometimes get annoyed by the large amount of english words we're using here in the Netherlands.

[@aruvielevenstar3944]

😂 I am Dutch and never knew how English people hear us, this is very eye opening and I learn a lot of this ❤

[@endmtzinn6165]

Não tentar ser do jeito ingles, seja você do seu jeito e com sua cultura e sotaque holandes

[@marybeiter3568]

my opa is from vechta and moved to america when he was 16 so he now speaks english with a heavy german accent and german with a heavy american accent - both of which have become thicker as he aged. I noticed it especially when we visited his family in germany and I heard his german compared to theirs. hearing you say "for my fviolets!" made me smile, it was the same exasperated way he'd defend the fviolets in his garden

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

I love it! Thanks for the story.

[@winandd8649]

Nice! but remember we're talking about the Netherlands here 😉Did you know that many english (american) speaking people can't tell the difference between Dutch or German language? To my Dutch ears, that is unbelievable..

[@jaapweel1]

FWIW, in Belgium and some Dutch regions near the border f and v get distinguished quite clearly, if not exactly the same as in English. Traditionally this was one of the few aspects of Southern pronunciation considered technically more correct, but that's mostly gone. For speakers of contemporary standard Dutch and the most common dialects spoken within the Netherlands, you are absolutely spot on.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

That’s for that - very informative.

[@gerardvanwilgen9917]

I wouldn't say the devoicing of /v/ is a feature of Standard Dutch. It's more a regional thing,

[@timv17]

@@gerardvanwilgen9917 I agree, it defnitely feels like a characteristic of the more Hollandic dialects to delete the distinction between /f/ and /v/. I've lived in Limburg and Brabant for the biggest part of my lives and in different varieties of their local languages, I've rarely heard anyone not voicing their /v/'s whereas in all of North Holland /v/ and /f/ are just the same sound.

[@SANDRA-ni3wi]

⁠@@timv17True, I am a Dutch speaking Belgian, and we do make a clear distinction between the f and v, unlike in the Netherlands. But there are also regional differences, like for instance in Limburg they also have no distinction between the h and g sound, they sound exactly the same. Whereas if you are from Antwerp, there is a clear difference between the two.

[@timv17]

@@SANDRA-ni3wi not really with that last thing. Limburgish is my first language and there's a distinct difference between the G and H.

[@MrUbister]

I was so confused at the start because it obviously was a Dutch accent but then some vowels sounded so British (like the O in rotation at 0:25), but I guessed having English parents before a skilled linguist, great stuff, compliments!

[@hunchbackaudio]

I thought you were actually Dutch until you spoke Dutch, that moment the English accent became apparent. Well done!

[@Linkr07]

het feit dat ie oranje heeft aangetrokken maakt het nog beter🧡

[@bernmahan1162]

Harry and Paul nailed it with their Amsterdam cops sketches in "Harry Enfield and Chums".

[@mjwemdee]

Quite brilliant. I’m a Brit living in cloggieland and my Dutch is progressing. Your pronunciation is exceptionally good. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the difficulty the Dutch have with the /æ/ sound, as in ‘happy’. They seem to err towards ‘heppy’.

[@220773]

The /æ/ British sound is difficult for anyone in Europe. It happens with other dipthongs too, but you'd have to move inside Britain to get a taste of it: I'm a Scot, the /æ/ sound is just a straight /a/ sound for us and all northerners, it gets closer to an /ɛ/ sound down south... then if you consider the /ai/ sound here in Scotland it's actually an /əi/ sound, in Nothern Ireland it can stretch into an /ɛi/ sound, then you move to the North of England and you'll get an /a:i/ (sometimes even an /a:/ sound!), further south you'll tend to get to things like /ɑi/ or even /ɒi/ and /ɔi/ (in Birmingham especially). Now move to the /əʊ/ sound: to us Scots it's simply an /o:/, the Northern Irish might get to /ʊə/ (same as the Geordies), in the North of England it approximates to /oʊ/ or /ɔʊ/ (in Liverpool, i.e.) or even simply an /ɔ:/ sound in Lancashire and parts of Yorkshire... as you move into the Midlands it starts developing into an /ɐʊ/ sound, its exaggeration might lead you to hear something like /ɑʊ/ especially in Birmingham and London.......... And how 'bout the /ei/ one? In Scotland it's just a straight /e:/, in Northern Ireland and Newcastle it can move to /ɪe/, in the North of England you'll get the correct /ei/ sound (very stressed in Liverpool) but also an open /ɛ:/ in Lancashire and Yorkshire... move to the Midlands and you'll start hearing the usual /ɛi/ or /æi/ sounds you'll also find in the South of England. These dipthongs can make it hard for us Brits to understand each other: what to a Southerner or a Midlander is 'A BOAT' is definitely 'ABOUT' to me!!! What to them is a 'LAKE' is 'LIKE' to me!!! And what to me is 'RIGHT' is simply a 'RATE' to them! What to them is a 'VICE' is a 'VOICE' to me... If these sounds can't help even us Brits understanding each other, well, what might happen to a foreigner? So tough...

[@VictorPM1550]

Yeah... even the highest ranked military generals speak of "the good guys and the bed guys" 🙂

[@Hneel65]

The words Bad, Bat, Bed and Bet all sound the same when spoken by a dutchman.

[@nispen]

What do you mean, "err"?

[@mjwemdee]

@@nispen to err = to stray from usual paths or accepted norms. From Latin ‘errare’ meaning ‘to stray’.

[@claudias.4094]

This is so amasing). Dutch people also have a very specific tone of voice, which is VERY NICE. The world is GREAT in its diversity. and only russians are condemned and will be.

[@princesschariclea]

Nice work - from an in the Netherlands living Greek (& linguist). Shall we make it even more complicated? In the north of the Netherlands, especially in the province of Groningen, f and v are both pronounced as v. "Kovvie he'm?" = "Koffie hebben?" = "Would you like coffee?". 😂☕

[@andrevandervlies5700]

As a non-Groninger myself, the hardest thing to understand is their habit of inserting the word "ja"(yes) in the weirdest places. It seems completely random, but when I try I'm told I'm doing it wrong. So clearly there must be a rule that I can't figure out.

[@MacXpert74]

Pretty good attempt at a Dutch accent. As a Dutchman I can still hear you're not actually Dutch, but you did do a better job than most other non-Dutch people attempting to do a Dutch accent I've heard so far. If you like to 'improve' your Dutchness, I think you should concentrate a bit on your vowel sounds. They still sound too 'English' for a real Dutch accent. For instance in the line "This doesn't happen in Dutch" the word 'happen' sounds too native English for a typical strong Dutch accent. A Dutchman would pronounce the 'a' as the Dutch 'e', and the English 'e' as a Dutch 'u'. Phonetically in Dutch it would be "Heppun". If you put that in Google translate as Dutch and listen to the Dutch voice, you'll hear a 'perfect' Dutch accent for the English word "Happen" 😂 But anyway, I did enjoy your fun video!

[@vanderworp]

As a native Dutchman, I always struggle with the differences between the pronunciation of scent, sand, sent and send. Thank you for this special contribution.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

If it’s any help, scent and sent sound exactly the same.

[@vanderworp]

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages Thanks. The soft "a" and "e" (sand and send as in sandpaper and sending a paper) remains a challenge. There was a moment when I thought: that guy is Dutch. Take that as a compliment.

[@FrankHeuvelman]

I can hear perfect English in my head but can not make it sound that way by a lack of muscle memory. I must speak English more often to improve this but there aren't to many occasions to do that. But on the other hand, it's pure esthetics so why bother?

[@laurabasola4081]

English must be a nightmare to learn for adults from other languages! So many possibilities to sound odd.🤗

[@FrankHeuvelman]

@@laurabasola4081 Yeah. Hun a's klinken als e's, hun e's klinken als i's en hun i's klinken als ij's. Degene die ooit bedacht heeft dat het wel eens lollig kon zijn om klank en schrift één letter te verschuiven mag wat mij betreft vooralsnog postuum gekielhaald worden.

[@Conservator.]

That Dutch accent comes naturally to me! 🤣 Fank you for de hilarious fideo

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Any time!

[@carmenl163]

I do that a lot (trying to be funny) - write English in a fonetical Dutch way. So: senk joe for a hilarijus fideo

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

It's not "Fank", it's "Senk" or "Denk"

[@PathSythe]

im a native dutch speaker and i only realised at the end of the video that youre actually english and not dutch. I was amazed at how good your english accent was 😂 this video is highly underrated at how good it is. +10 also thanks for making me more conscious about my bad dutch accent. Bedankt he

[@lactobacillusprime]

Wow - this is quite something. Native Dutch here, spot on! Been watching the videos for a long time. Love the explanations you do about English accents. "Going Dutch" was quite a surprise.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Awesome, thank you!

[@FoxInClogs]

You forgot to mention that a lot of Dutch people live in flets and travel by trem. They also seem to think that the French invented the railways, catching their trains from stahshons.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

You’re right that I missed the ball on that one.

[@oilslick7010]

uhh.....that's because 'station' actually is a French word by origin (itself derived from Latin ofc) and predates the invention of railways by a good margin. I'd argue that the Dutch pronunciation is as close (or distant) to the original as the English version

[@TheHighlander71]

I'm Dutch. I thought this was hilarious. One thing I learned while learning to speak English is the fact that Dutch has no words that end in a "z", while the English "has" is pronounced (usually) as "haz". A Dutch person will most likely prounce "has" ending with a sharp "s" sound like "hass". So softening your "s" sounds makes a world of difference for Dutch people trying to speak English.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the tip.

[@shdon]

Quiz and fez are both in the Van Dale and ending in z. Loanwords, though.

[@TheHighlander71]

@@shdon And you'll find the Dutch call it "quiss" and "fess" instead of quiz and fez. Thank you for that.

[@shdon]

@@TheHighlander71 depends very much on where you are in the country. Around here is the south, is definitely not pronounced with a hard s

[@TheHighlander71]

@@shdon I didn't realise there were Dutch people who pronounced "Showbizzquiz" with actual z's. I have some colleagues from the deep south of Limburg. I'll do a little test :)

[@andimathenyactingstudios]

This is such an amusing and helpful video. I'm currently using the tips for an audition. Thanks for posting!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

How cool! Break a leg!

[@teqfreak]

Thanks for the superb video! You had me wonder a moment if you were Dutch or English because you did the Dutch accent so incredibly well. Then I concluded that because of your orange shirt you must be Dutch. A real convincing finishing touch that one! Only to realize with the goodbye that you are English after all (very well done as well though!)

[@kilianhekhuis]

Some important ones you missed: the Dutch don't have an /æ/, and use /ɛ/ instead, and don't have vowel lengthening, so also sounds like , which is ferry bet! Oh, and the plural of "klank" is "klanken", with an (although it's hardly ever pronounced).

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

No vowel lengthening? I think the oe in poes is distinctly shorter than the oe in boer. Try saying boer with the oe from poes, you'll sound like some foreigner. Am I making sense to you?

[@kilianhekhuis]

@@fukpoeslaw3613 Vowels before "r" are a special case in Dutch. They always lengthen, and may get a different quality.

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

@@kilianhekhuis aha, you a prof. linguist?

[@kilianhekhuis]

@@fukpoeslaw3613 No, an amateur one 😄. And Dutch is my native language.

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

@@kilianhekhuis ja da' laatste hatikal begrepe' Kujje meschien ook uitlegge' waarom ik bij 't schrijve' bijna nooit g en ch door mekaar haal maar wel regelmatig niet meteen weet of 't ij of ei moet zijn?

[@TomSleeUK]

I didn't know about 'Trochaic. I wonder if this explains why people things Welsh and Finish sound similar. I've done it myself. I have have seen people debate about an angry man being Finnish or German. I personally can tell spoken Dutch apart from every language. You probably know that the Irish say Filum and Miluk. This video was brilliant. Very funny and informative. I work with a Belgian man who has immense enthusiasm when he speaks and tells stories. He is a financier and floats around the continent and Britain and brings back tales. I am always in awe when he speaks in his booming 'fFemmish' dutch voice. Nuances in speak and language intrigue me and your wisdom hit the note.

[@scottamusprime2510]

"He has a face for violence" is a new turn of phrase you just locked. 😂👹

[@bellamcguinness9044]

Loved this! fascinating throughout, and showcases your creative talent/humour, alongside languages

[@DXCommanderHQ]

Haha.. I absolutely love this one!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

I'm glad!

[@robbievangeenenNL]

Great job! Nailed it. It's usually football coaches butchering whatever language of the country they're currently coaching a team in.

[@gmaasry]

I mean wow ... this is by far the best breakdown I've seen on the topic. As a Dutch-origin English speaker I have actually found it very difficult to break down for others ... but now I have a video to forward! Cheers

[@PaulMac-tj4dq]

Haha. Love the fawlty towers interjections!!! 🤣🤣

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Glad you appreciated that!

[@allaboutmarquetry]

Been living in Holland for many many years and I thought you was Dutch (lol) and helping people out to know about the differences in the language. Thx Dave a pleasure to watch you and fun too. Kindest M

[@shaunmoran9004]

I am an Englishman who has lived in ”de Nedderlandsh” for 7 years and now live in Belgium with my Flemish partner. I always do this sort of thing snd he laughs and says it’s “ofer de topp” but it’s so much fun. It really struck a chord with me. #subscribed :)

[@gammaraider]

As a Dutch guy, I'm impressed. Pretty spot on! And your little Dutch goodbye at the end was really well pronounced.

[@estarling8766]

Your enthousiasm put the viewers in good mood.

[@DarkFumungus]

I'm spanish, but I lived in the Netherlands for 5 years. I went straight away from the Netherlands to UK and people thought I was dutch. I couldn't point out why, I think the cadence, the r and the sh sound (I tend to pronounce the "s" like that, I won't say it's typical Spanish) made the trick, thanks for the video!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

The /s/ in many Spanish accents is similar to the Dutch one.

[@Samplesurfer]

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages The Netherlands has some shared history with Spain and Portugal 😊 The most famous 17th century Dutch comedy is called "De Spaanschen Brabander" (Bredero, 1617). It's a comedy with a big role for accents and dialects about a Spaniard who moved from Antwerp to Amsterdam in 1577 (after the Spanish Fury). About a third of the Amsterdam population in 1617 came from Flanders including a lot of Spanish and Portugese. A lot of that comedy is about the accents and daily misunderstandings, quite like the sketches in this video.

[@Sal.K--BC]

It's interesting because many things in this video also help explain aspects of the South African dialect of English which is influenced by Afrikaans, which originates from Dutch.

[@S0K0N0MI]

Im Dutch and this amused me to no end. Well made video!

[@joeytje50]

I missed the mention of the W sound, which is different in the word "jouw" and "wij". When it follows a U, it's fairly similar to the English W, but when it's anywhere else, it sounds more like the German W, except it's different still.

[@lobstervortex]

Hilariously spot-on!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Thank you!

[@weiareinboud6990]

The initial f- for v- and s- for z- depends on the Dutch dialect. In Amsterdam it is really f- and s-, but many other Dutch dialects only partly do it that way, in fact they say fv- and sz-. It depends on when during the sound voicing sets in. But there are also dialects that make perfect z- and v- at the start of a word. And by the way: Frisian is the sister language of English and it has no v- and z- and so when speaking Dutch they say f- for v- and s- for z-.

[@rookievideos8865]

In Frisian, they do have v and z, just not as the first letter. For example: leave and rûzje.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

I was going to point this out as well. Nearly all Dutch speakers outside of Amsterdam do distinguish F and V, it's just that the V is a bit closer to an F than it would be in English. Same with W and V.

[@alankwood]

brilliant Dave.. The french one is still my favourite !!!!!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Merci!

[@ChrisGoos-t7e]

Haha, as a Dutch person I can confirm this is absolutely spot on 😂

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Good to hear!

[@HB-mj2jz]

I don't agree at all. I know literally not a single dutch person who talks speaks like that. I speak English on a daily bases. Maybe that is the difference. The people i interact with? It sounds more like people from the east or northeast of the Netherlands maybe?

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

​@@HB-mj2jzit's literally how dutchmen sound when they speak english.

[@VictorPM1550]

I just stumbled upon this, as a Dutchman I say: Brilliant! As for the v/f and z/s: I'm form the southern part of NL, I do distinguish between them the right way. Those who don't... your misunderstanding sketches serve them right 🙂

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

So glad you like it.

[@jasonroos8431]

This was fantastic!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Thank you!

[@CMON75]

I'm preparing an audiobook of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and I want to get Van Helsing exactly right. Your video was the first hit when searching "how to speak with a Dutch accent" and it's perfect for my needs. Thank you!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Glad it was helpful!

[@zegmijnnaam]

I realley enjoyed dis fideo 😂

[@HaroldHeidendom]

So uuum, this video is funny as hell. Spot on, and very entertaining. Love from your West-Germanic neighbour

[@jaxxon98]

Fun video. Especially your Basil Fawlty impression.

[@ArmArmAdv]

Very interesting! I actually learn Dutch through English as explained in my latest video. My only problem is nailing the Dutch sounds which you have great tips for. Bedankt!

[@nyxstyxy]

I have lived abroad since I was ten when my parents decided to work abroad, I was born in the Netherlands to Dutch parents but speak very good English and pronouncing the TH's and use the words starting with V & F's properly. Not trying to brag, I was young and learning a foreign language is easier at that age 😂. I have lost a lot of my Dutch English accent though and my colleagues were complaining that I couldn't tell them how the accent sounded. This video was perfect!

[@rhodatacaldo4947]

I'm an English voice-over for Dutch and I don't get it when some of them complain about my voice, they say it's almost not understandable. So I asked others here and they say they understood it. It's clear. Maybe it has something to do with the letters that you have mentioned here.

[@laurabasola4081]

Funny and informative as always! Thanks 🙏👍💗

[@SaskiaFeain]

That was very good, I'm Australian Born, with Dutch and German parents, The Dutch ask me if I speak English when I speak Dutch, the Germans ask me if I speak Dutch when I speak German. I have had Australians and Americans (where I now live) if I'm South African. In watching this I can understand why my speech is so confusing for people because I know I have a lot of Dutch intonation in my sentence structure, and probably influence from learning German which is different from Dutch intonation. I would really love a comparison of American to say Australian - as this is such a touchy subject for many expats.

[@JaccovanSchaik]

We have the English "r" too, it's called the "Gooise r". It's used in the area around Hilversum, and it's ridiculed by the rest of the country 🙂

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Someone told me recently that a PHD study had revealed 16 different rs in accents of Dutch.

[@timbergroeneveld1287]

It's already standard in the entire Randstad, almost everyone under 40 uses it here

[@carmenl163]

​@@timbergroeneveld1287I'm over 40 and it always sounds like a speech impediment to me. Very annoying!

[@starbuck125]

​@@DaveHuxtableLanguagesmain dialects and one official language. Still, I'm from Schoonhoven and I have a hard time understanding people, if the go all out dialect, from neighboring village of Cabauw. Which is 3km away. Both are in the dialect region of Utrechts-Alblasserwaards.

[@DrLoco]

Nice educational video, clearly explained. And extra points for the gags with the fourty towels (Faulty towers)

[@haraldtorsten8746]

Brilliant! The last sentence was perfect!!😂

[@jayjohnson7594]

Very good analysis and very entertaining as well!. I'm Dutch ,studied English and like to think I came close to achieving near native RP. One thing that also does not exist in Dutch is the lengethening of certain sounds. This often goes hand in hand with final devoicing, resulting in 'sent' and 'send' being pronounced the same. Also, most of the English we hear is American English, which explains some of our 'r' pronunciations. I do have to say though that in your efforts to replicatie the Dutch accent, from time to time you came closer to a German one instead. Granted, they share many of the same patterns such as final devoicing, but they do sound very different.

[@grainnehillery9819]

I love this. So informative and so entertaining!

[@obsoquasi]

I also noticed that Dutch speakers have issues with k-sounds. Where English speakers pronounce "car" something like "khaa(r)", Dutch speakers pronounce it more like "ggaa(r)" - so without that little bit of air after the k.

[@bikeamour]

The little bit of air, sometimes a lot of it, Brits share with Germans. For instance to come, kommen.

[@obsoquasi]

@@bikeamour genau, und bei den Holländern würd' come dann tönen wie "ggömm".

[@erichodge567]

I was in Amsterdam 40 years ago. I was amazed that it seemed everyone spoke English, and spoke it well.

[@yt-nx1qm]

Now most speak arab or turkish because its (to) full of them.

[@OuweMan]

I'm Dutch and reading and writing in English is no problem for me. But to speak it...... Lot of English words as *dad, dead and that* sound the same as I say them. Same with *bed, bet, bad, bat*

[@maartje1138]

😂 I really thought you were Dutch (and I am a 100% Dutch) and I thought your English accent was great 😂. Love it! And love your humor!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Wow. I'm really pleased to hear that.

[@heuvelke1065]

The dutch have many dialects with many different accents. The accents are so strong that you can hear from wich province(former countries) they come from. There is no real dutch accent.

[@TheTygertiger]

loved the Fawlty Towers bits! They were hilarious!

[@LegendOfTheBat]

If someone tells you that they'll "learn you" something, you can be almost sure that they're Dutch.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Actually, some people in the UK say that too.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

Germans do this as well

[@ramamonato5039]

0:15 Dutch, English and German belongs to stress-timed languages. Indonesian and Japanese are syllable-timed languages. In an English sentence, words belonging to nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are stressed.

[@Jokkkkke]

You are an absolute riot! Heel goed gedaan meneer!

[@Adamgamer42069]

Thank you im dutch but i dont have a dutch accent

[@macho_mayo]

hello sir! i must say thanks for how you've helped me. i was casted as dr van helsing for my school play. i was struggling with the accent, but this helped out

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

That’s great! Hope the play went well.

[@md_studios9819]

Closest I’ve actually come to learning a good Dutch accent in English. I already speak Dutch without American accent but can’t transfer that over to English very well

[@markjowen66]

As a kiwi/Brit living in the Netherlands I found this too funny!

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

Good to hear.

[@DutchEdelweiss]

I don’t know how I came across this channel but I’m glad I did.

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

I’m glad you did too!

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

In the Dutch language the Amsterdam accent pronounces the S like the English SH, or the Dutch SJ, so adopting that in the English is probably only done by Dutch people from Amsterdam, and that is obviously all Dunglish that most English people will ever hear.

[@apertamono]

Prachtig! I'm painfully aware of our devoicing and non-aspiration tendencies, so I was happy to hear you start on a positive note. I'd never thought about intonation patterns, which probably means I speak like this all the time. But I'd have to check recordings of my own voice. People tell me I'm a vivid public speaker, and I thought this was a personal achievement... Could you tell us more about different intonation patterns? Do the French speak in anapests?

[@TheOnlyArtifex]

This is incredibly useful for Dutch people. I learned some things about my pronunciation here that I had no idea I was doing wrong!

[@winandd8649]

All dutch people living 'north the rivers' or northern half of the Netherlands do have troubles pronouncing the F and the V, even in dutch. It all sounds like an F to me 😆 (I'm from the south where you really can here the difference between the F and the V)

[@Dave5400]

I like how Dutch for "sound" is "klank" which is basically clank.

[@Isilnis]

Hello Yes!😂 1:32 , it's funny how your pronunciation of the S's gets better througout the video. Most people just can't imitate the 'stonecoal' English us Dutch speak. By the way; the plural of klank is klankeN and it is also noteworthy that there the hard G is used in the northern parts of the Netherlands whereas the further south you go, the G is soft (and even is swallowed in parts of the country and in Belgium). Great video!

[@kevinbush4300]

4:03...lol, now we're getting to the nitty-gritty 😅

[@michielvdvlies3315]

i got a friend from Jamaica, she loves the Dutch language she said its like singing

[@aerodaan]

This made helemaal sense. Thanks for the lange uitleg

[@sloanlance]

At 1:30, is that Basil Fawlty‽

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

A homage.

[@DuCinema1]

i need the mate to make the bet 🤣

[@DaveHuxtableLanguages]

😎

[@fxmachina9072]

Had a good laugh especially the fawlty towers dialogues. 😂

[@robertvermeer5951]

The Fawlty Towers skit was spot on! 😄👌

[@peteymax]

After having returned from my first visit to the Netherlands and their English is hilarious but cute

[@jamesvanderhoorn1117]

Not mentioned was the fact that Dutch has only one /u/ phoneme, which results in many Dutch speakers pronouncing the vowel in 'foot' exactly as in 'boot'.

[@matthewtrow5698]

There's a few people in my wider team who are Dutch - to my ears, your impersonation is really good. (which sounds like veeley gud) 😆

[@matthijsbeets424]

From another Dutch person. Great video!

[@jonathanvalk726]

These rules do apply more to the dialects of the west (and maybe north) of the netherlands, compared to east and south.

[@Fastbikkel]

Haha i like this program Dave. And i am also dutch ;-)