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Learn German with our street interviews: In this episode Linus from the Easy Dutch Team tries to find out if the Germans understand Dutch. With a few simple Dutch sentences, he carries out a little test in Berlin. It turns out that these two closely related languages are not as similar as they seem.
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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.
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Host of this episode: Janusz Hamerski/Carina Schmid
Camera & Edit: Chris Thornberry
Translation: Ben Eve

[@EasyGerman]

Hey everyone! 😃Don't forget to check out the Dutch version of this video! Linus and Tim ask Dutch people in Nijmegen whether they can understand German 😊👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZfWo3Sho5WVmpo

[@EvdogMusic]

For lesser-known places (e.g. Essen at 2:01), it may be useful to briefly show its location on an onscreen map

[@blickwinkel7147]

@@EvdogMusic In früherer Zeit war Deutsch einmal Weltsprache. Einige haben das schon verstanden und lernen deutsch. Es geht nicht um "Welt" sondern weil die Sprache sehr gut ausgefeilt ist z.B. die jeweilige Stimmung in der Wortwahl sehr treffend ist.

[@wagnernonato407]

Eu ja assisti e achei interessante!

[@stephanullenboom]

okay Nijmegen ist ja wirklich sehr nah an der Grenze - Meine Verwandten kommen aus dem Raum Kleve, Xanten und Issum und verstehen darum auch mehr Niederländisch. Viele Deutsche in der Gegend arbeiten sogar auf der anderen Seite der Grenze.

[@petriburgian]

It's all double dutch to me!

[@paulien4939]

Funny to watch as a Dutch person. I had German in high school for 5 years, but wouldn’t say I can actually speak it. Understanding the German in this video was no issue tho 😄 Time to refresh my German knowledge 🇩🇪

[@whyparkjiminnotridejimin]

I have the same with Dutch and Spanish. I can almost perfectly understand it but not speak it quite well.

[@dominik6375]

For me it’s other way around and I feel like that’s bc the human brain tends to be lazy not to actually actively take up new vocabulary if you can understand the sense in which words are used but they are used differently in your mother tongue for example. That way you can understand the language and logic quite well but cannot come up with it yourself too well. Ex.: afgelopen = vergangen in German if someone would say abgelaufenen Donnerstag I’d understand it but the correct way would be vergangenen Donnerstag. Other way around I would understand if someone says afgelopen week but it would be more difficult to come up with it myself as I would actively have to remember the use of this word in this logic.

[@BuurmanDirk69]

Godverdomme

[@sunnyday1564]

Ich wohn in Deutschland‘s Hauptstadt 😂 also Berlin ja

[@BearMeat4Dinner]

I was brought up in America. Born in Madrid. German is easy for me. Dutch and German to me are similar. Both beautiful languages

[@carlosvazdecamoes3486]

I am a native speaker of Spanish who learned German quite long ago. I have always been quite confident in understanding, let's say, 40% of Dutch vocabulary. But there was this time when I was riding my bike happily in Flanders when I saw a big BIG billboard that said "Huren?" along with a beautiful young lady. Apparently, "huren" means "to rent" in Dutch. Those who speak German will understand why I completely freaked out.

[@ingo_8628]

Theyre also rented, so its the same thing. Boels verhuurt bijna alles! - Boels vermietet fast alles! Dont know why they dont use "beinahe".

[@Big-BossX]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SuAva]

In Dutch the word you were associating it with would be 'hoeren' :D

[@tecnoChannell]

I studied german and I completely understand what you mean...

[@crilf]

??????

[@yusufseedat8340]

As a person that speaks Afrikaans I understood all the Dutch in this video 😂

[@jaydonnelly5038]

Same!

[@groupmariental]

Afrikaans is mutated Dutch)))) This is why you understand it)

[@bettievanderberg2599]

Afrikaans is vir my nader aan Nederlands as Duits. Ek verstaan Nederlands beter as Duits. Ek bly in Suid Afrika

[@danielvanasewgen6274]

i speak german afrikaans and dutch and the similarities are quite stark

[@williamhosford2796]

I think Afrikaans would be such an interesting language to learn.

[@eddihaskell]

I'm an English speaking American who can understand much German (I studied it for 3 years in High School as an elective language). When I lived in Amsterdam and attended Dutch language school (taught in English) we formed "study groups" and it was easier for me to sit in the German native speakers study group rather than the generic English speaking study group since I was translating Dutch into German in my mind rather than English. It helped with the genders and tenses. When our teaches saw my notes and what I was doing she was amazed ---

[@mariaeugeniaotaegui6702]

I'm a native speaker of Spanish, and I'm also fluent in Italian, French and Portuguese. Until some years ago, both German and Dutch were completely "opaque" to me. When I started learning German, I noticed that at least I could get the main idea of a text in Dutch. For me, German opened the door to another language family.

[@sweiland75]

Have you tried learning Romanian, the other Romance language?

[@mariaeugeniaotaegui6702]

@@sweiland75 No, I live in Argentina, there isn't much chance of finding someone who teaches Romanian here. I should try to find some videos or texts at least, to see how much I can understand.

[@_Udo_Hammermeister]

Estos ejemplos que mencionaste representan una situación muy parecida. Por un lado el español versus el portugues e italiano, y por otro lado el alemán versus el holandés. Yo los considero todos estos idiomas como propios que *no* son entendibles entre sí. Lo que sí es cierto es que es mucho más fácil estudiar estos idiomas cuando ya sabes hablar uno de estos. Para aprender el holandés me costó solo una tercera parte de esfuerzos en comparación con el español (siendo alemán y para llegar a un nivel comparable).

[@mariaeugeniaotaegui6702]

@@_Udo_Hammermeister Sí, en eso se nota la diferencia, en el tiempo que lleva llegar a un nivel de comprensión y comunicación intermedia. Estudié primero inglés, luego italiano, francés y finalmente portugués. Cada vez que iniciaba un nuevo idioma lograba llegar a ese nivel un poco más rápido. Sin embargo, al pasar al alemán, y a pesar del entrenamiento previo en tantos otros idiomas, descubrí que me llevará mucho más tiempo. Tengo la mente entrenada para aprender gramática, pero el vocabulario es para mí una gran barrera de comprensión.

[@antiwokebr]

@@_Udo_Hammermeister I'm from Brazil and the Spanish latin America is 100% comprehensible, even I just had for a few years in mid school. It's automatic principally when you're reading. The Spanish from Spain just feels different when you're listening.

[@philipparm9700]

As a native Dutch speaker I do think it's easier for the Dutch to understand German than it is for Germans to understand Dutch. It probably has a lot to do with pronunciation (Dutch is much harsher and guttural). I'll go check out the Easy Dutch video to see if I'm right or not😂

[@BobWitlox]

And almost all of us learn German in school for some years. Even if you're not fluent in German, there's a lot of basic understanding of German. I'm also from a generation that loved to watch German krimis on TV. Derrick and such.

[@philipparm9700]

@@BobWitlox so true! My mother could actually already speak German as a child before she ever learnt English. And I was born in the late 80s and remember there being loads of German language series on tv when I was young (Kommissar Rex, Cobra 11, Medicopter 117 etc) which is something you don't really see on Dutch tv anymore now.

[@inotoni6148]

@@philipparm9700 These series no longer exist in Germany either. But for 2-3 years there have been a lot of crime series, like the "Tatort" for example. But these have become darker and harder than before.

[@philipparm9700]

@@inotoni6148 yeah I don't mean these series specifically. I just mentioned a few that were shown on tv back in the day. But nowadays you'd be hard pressed to find any German language series/programmes on Dutch tv at all.

[@inotoni6148]

@@philipparm9700 It reminds me of Catalonia in Spain, where I lived for a few years. The older generation used to learn French there, but today's generation is more likely to learn English.

[@NotinEzugo]

As a Norwegian, the fact that I immediately understood what «Hoe gaat het met jou?» meant really blew me away! (I’ve been learning german for almost a year now)

[@PeculiarPlanets]

I’m a Dutch person learning Norwegian and I find Norwegian to be a mix of English, Dutch and German. It’s very easy for me to learn! Also some Norwegian words are similar to Low Saxon dialects, which are spoken in the East and North of the Netherlands and West and North of Germany. In the end, they’re all Germanic languages so they’ll have overlap here and there!

[@Ed19601]

åssen går det and hvordan står det til seem very different from dutch 'hoe gaat het', but the dutch 'hoe staat het ermee' is correct as well, albeit a bit outdated

[@thorbenmoe4195]

jeg er tysk og nederlansk er enklere som nederlansk for meg. Nederlansk og Tysk er kannskje som Norsk og Dansk

[@thorbenmoe4195]

but very much people in North Germany whos speak ,,Plattdeutsch (maybe friesic dialects) can easily understand Dutch People compared to a big part to the other germans

[@Nonbelieverification]

@@Ed19601 Hoe staat het ervoor? (How are you doing?). This is still being used, albeit more by older generations and also depends on region.

[@Thytos]

I'm German and I was once to an open day of a Dutch university in Enschede, listening to various presentations. And when German-natives were speaking Dutch I was amazed to understand around a third, enough to follow the presentation and understand what they were talking about even though it was my first time being in the Netherland and I had no meaningful exposure to Dutch before.

[@i.k.8868]

In high school our German teacher just arrived from Germany and didn't speak a word of Dutch. We had to learn him Dutch as he was teaching us German. This was extremely easy, as we had no trouble understanding him, and he was a quick learner and very intelligent and kind! He was the best German language instructor in our school. Our class scored almost a whole grade higher on average than the class of 'Herr Muris' (the dreaded angry old guy, who would flunk his entire class. He even gave people an impossible score of -14 on a scale of 1-10.). We actually started to love German (we had grown to detest it under Herr Muris). The first half hour of the class we had to do tasks, the last half we watched German movies without subtitles. The teacher was very well liked :)

[@hackman8909]

-14 is funny though, from Herrn Muris.

[@MauriceLeviejr]

Meh the German scoring system is volledig geschrift, een is goed, vijf is kut.

[@Patrick-tz3od]

This just shows that learning by immersion seriously works

[@janrichcronje2970]

I speak Afrikaans and I find it relatively easy to follow a conversation in Dutch. When it came to learning German it also helped me more than expected and sometimes I am pleasantly surprised when I find words that are similar across languages e.g. steen, stone and Stein are all so close.

[@haruyanto8085]

Definitely, I'm surprised as well when I started learning German

[@GholamFareed]

Ja meneer ek voel dieselfde, daar's so veel woorde wat dieselfde beteken, maar daar is 'n effense verskil in spelling. Ek het ook opgemerk dat die uitspraak baie anders is in Duits & dis waar dit deur mekaar raak, veral die letter R maar 'n Duitse ou het vir my gesê dat hulle in sommige Duitse dialekte ook hul R'e rol so dit is aanvaarbaar en hulle sal steeds verstaan.

[@phindokuhlem5113]

Lol funny enough I can understand Dutch fluently because I’ve learnt Afrikaans😭🤣🤣🤣

[@mariadebake5483]

But beware of false friends! E.g. the English 'slim', the German 'schlimm' and the Dutch 'slim' are NOT the same..... And there are more of those!

[@janrichcronje2970]

@@mariadebake5483 Even worse, in Afrikaans "slim" means smart or clever😂

[@polemeros]

I learned German for university studies but when I was given an article in Dutch to read, I found that if I read it aloud, as if I were a drunk German, I could get the gist ;)

[@tomm4073]

Linus is echt een leuke gast. Hij komt zo sympatiek over.

[@TonySlug]

Dutch and German languages were much closer in the past. There have been grammar and spelling reforms over the years. My grandmother (Dutch) would still write words like "Mensch", "Visch" (German : Mensch, Fisch) with the "sch" suffix that was later abandoned in modern Dutch spelling and became "Mens, Vis". Rule of thumb is : the "sch" is omitted, and a double S in German becomes the letter T in Dutch... Wasser, Schloss, Schmeissen, Fuss, will be "Water, Slot, Smijten, voet" There are more handy spelling rules like this.

[@Simon-sw4ov]

Very underrated comment. Thank you!

[@gandalf_thegrey]

You blew my mind at this very moment.

[@Adam_True]

Dutch is in the face one of the German dialect the low German dialect (Niederdeutsch/Plattdeutsch), the people who speak this kind of dialect, they can understand and speak Dutch

[@TonySlug]

@@Adam_True Correct. Especially in regions near the border. People speak the SAME dialect on either side of the border. In a city like Venlo that dialect is sort of a mixture between German and Dutch.

[@Adam_True]

@@TonySlug I'm from Duisburg, but unfortunately don't speak Plattdeutsch:))

[@e_zee5902]

I'm a 15 year old from Canada who speaks Dutch because of my family. I'm good friends with a kid from Germany and we often compare languages. It's interesting to see the similarities and hige differences between the two

[@scor_China.]

You Born in Canada and live there?

[@e_zee5902]

@@scor_China. Yeah, I've been here my whole life so far. My grandpa was from the Netherlands

[@AlexWJ93]

We were on holiday in Germany once and a couple of Germans heard us talking English and asked if we were Dutch. I didn’t know it was a thing that some people might even mix up English with Dutch.

[@paulmartinlife]

I'm an Australian learning German in Germany. I sometimes get asked if im Dutch.

[@Hotspur1882]

Different subject but nearly every Dutch or German person I’ve ever met can speak English which amazes me. Of course I know the languages are related but it’s still very impressive how good there English is! I’m English of course 😂

[@Spentastic]

That’s because English is what’s known as a lingua franca or bridging language especially in Europe. Say you’re a German and you meet someone from Denmark and neither you speak Danish nor the the Dane speaks German, you end up speaking English because it’s the bridging language that most Europeans learn in school. The French however maybe something of an exception because a lot refuse to learn it due to their anglophobia

[@bishplis7226]

@@Spentastic wrong; the dane would speak english and the german would keep speaking in german, while the dane still understand him

[@Spentastic]

@@bishplis7226 Ok but what about a German and an Italian?

[@blizyon30fps86]

@@Spentastic even then most French people speak English yet still act like they don’t

[@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive]

I knew a German who said he usually understands enough to decipher the general meaning of what a Dutch person is saying if they speak slowly. Not all the time though.

[@ggj1987]

It’s the same for the Dutch

[@dylanroemmele906]

@@SpecialSalads As a English speaker there are some sentences I can figure out what's being said. Like if I see "something something gekoloniseerd" I have a pretty good idea what's being said.

[@mijnmening]

@@dylanroemmele906 Haha love this!

[@e_zee5902]

I speak Dutch and I feel the same with German

[@1__1734]

@@e_zee5902 come to someparts in austria or switzerland you wont understand much even slowly speaking 😂

[@icerepublic]

I grew up close to the Dutch border. I sometimes watched Dutch TV which we could receive over the air. And still today, I can receive Dutch and Belgium FM radio stations. They play far better music so I listen to them a lot while driving. I can understand a lot if it's not spoken too fast. If it's written I can understand even more. Still, it's a different language so there are always things that are difficult to understand if you don't know a specific important word in a sentence or when sth. cannot be guessed from context. Overall, I'd say I understand 80% approximately. What's very embarrassing though: The Dutch for some reason always speak excellent German. So you don't really dare to bring up your humble knowledge of a few Dutch words given the opportunity 😊. Amazing people by the way. Can only say the very best. Very friendly and helpful. Never had a bad experience whenever I needed to travel there (e.g. airport, shopping etc.). Great to have them as our European neighbors. 👍

[@speerboom]

I personally speak pretty decent German. It doesn’t happen often that I encounter a German who gives it a go at speaking Dutch, but when they do I realy like that. If I’m not in a hurry I’ll keep the conversation going in Dutch. (But I may very well switch to German if I do need to hurry).

[@wolfthequarrelsome504]

Friendly compared to a German isn't saying a lot. 😆

[@deherder8458]

I live close to the german border. I learned German form school and from my grandmother. She always watched german tv because it was better. My Dutch dialect is a variation of PlattDeutsch, niedersachsisch. So german has always been going faily well

[@misty1458]

As a dutch person living close to the border with germany, I feel a bit embarrassed for speaking so little german. I had it for three years at school but that didnt help. But a lot of my friends speak decent german.

[@susannabonke8552]

Durch adapt foreign costumes and language so well. I find them charming and intelligent.

[@Tatzuki]

It feels good to understand sentences like these now. I have only been learning for 3 months yet, but I love the language and would like to speak it a bit some day :)

[@Natass8]

Haha leuk om te zien, ik verbaasde me echt hoe goed hun de uitspraak deden! Juist daar hebben vele moeite mee👍🏻

[@gevoel8293]

I speak Afrikaans and never needed to learn Dutch. I just pick up a Dutch book or newspaper and understand it. German on the other hand, we did learn in highschool as a thrid language. I did pass my German and today I can sort of speak good German. Still not fluent but getting there. Also vielen Dank für die Videos Easy German.

[@BlaBla-su2yh]

Written Dutch is a lot easier to understand than spoken, even though you still get like half the meaning when listening and can deduct what someone is talking about. But Dutch newspaper articles are pretty easy to understand without actual Dutch language skills. Afrikaans is a lot harder for Germans, I'd say it's like 25% intelligible compared to like 70-80% of dutch

[@toade1583]

90-95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is from Dutch so it makes sense.

[@Empobaer]

Jammer dat ik er niet was voor het interview. Hoewel ik uit Berlijn kom, kan ik een beetje Nederlands praten, omdat ik in Nederland heb gestudeert. Dus een groeetje an alle Nederlands, welke Duits willen leren. Jullie zijn echt grappige en vriendelijke mensen! Nog een tip voor jullie: als "Huren" ergens op een venster staat betekent dat niet, dat iemand het huis wil verhuren. Ik hoop dat jullie al met het Duits "klarkommt" ;)

[@fatserbjensen]

😂

[@xolang]

🙈

[@luckyqualmi]

Ich war erst zweimal in den Niederlanden im Urlaub und hab die Sprache nie gelernt, würde aber deinen Text grob wie folgt übersetzen: "Schade, dass ich es nicht war der interviewt wurde. Obwohl ich aus Berlin komme, kann ich ein bisschen Niederländisch sprechen, [irgendwas] in den Niederlande studiert habe. Daher Grüße an alle Niederländer, welche Deutsch lernen wollen. [Jullie] sind echt [irgendwas] freundliche Menschen. Noch ein Tipp für Jullie: [Und ab hier wird es sehr komisch... irgendwas mit Huren, Fenster Staat bedenkt das nicht, dass jemand ... :D]. Ich hoffe das Jullie mit den Deutschen klarkommt. Und, wie nah war ich dran? :)

[@Empobaer]

@@luckyqualmi der Text von mir war gemein, weil er auf falschen Freunden basiert. Bis zum huren Teil lief es perfekt, danach warst du logischerweise verwirrt. In NL-> huren= vermieten Häufig steht ganz dick bei Häuser welche vermietet werden "Huren?" Im Schaufenster. Beim ersten Mal in NL könnte man annehmen dass es sich um ein Bordell handelt :D Mein Text sagt deswegen: Noch ein Tipp, wenn irgendwo "Huren" im Fenster steht bedeutet das nicht, dass jemand das Haus vermieten will. Klarkommen war der 2. Falsche Freund. Ich meine der Satz wurde von dir richtig übersetzt weil ich das deutsche klarkommen benutzt habe. Allerdings kann es zur Verwirrung kommen weil: Klaarkomen= abspritzen (im Sinne vom Orgasmus)

[@biancad.5894]

Haha geil 🤣😂 (dat betekent bij ons iets anders lol)

[@antoniescargo1529]

Ik kwam in Tiel-NL, bij de katholieke kerk in gesprek met een man die met een collega het dak van de kerk aan het restaureren was. Hij sprak Nederlands met een licht accent. Ik vroeg of hij een Limburger was. Hij zei nee, ik ben een Duitser. Dan heb je goed nederlands geleerd, zei ik. Hij zei nee, dit is mijn eigen taal. Ik kom van net over de grens. Jongeren willen het niet meer leren. Bij Benrath (Düsseldorf) ligt de Benrath-Linie. Daarboven is het 'ik/icke'.

[@TaraftarVekili]

Hey! Danke für das tolle Video! Du bist immer voll mit der positiven Energie. Das tankt mich auch irgendwie und bin voll mit der Lust den deutsch weiterzuüben. Mittlerweile, ich verstehe auch ein bisschen, wenn ich niederländisch höre. Grüße Utku

[@paulmartinlife]

I lived in the Netherlands for a couple of years and learnt a reasonable bit of Dutch. It was difficult, because English is near universal in NL and the Dutch always want to speak English with native English speakers. Many Dutch can speak German, I found it normal for them to speak at least 3 or 4 languages (my girlfriend at the time had self-learnt 5). When I started learning German, I kept mixing the Dutch in and so had to block all the Dutch out of my head, and now I can remember almost no Dutch at all. And, BTW, Nijmegen is one of my favourite places in NL - it actually has hills (every where else in like a pannenkoeken). 😀

[@betonscheitel8635]

Nijmegen is beautiful. I´m from Germany and i like to visit Nijmegen from time to time.

[@NLJeffEU]

"Hills" 😂

[@jpdj2715]

Nice. I don't think that Dutch people want to show off, nor do I think they want to exercise their English - it's more a matter of "is your Dutch better than my English and how can we communicate as efficiently and effectively as possible?" It's also a matter of courtesy. I once Dutch-direct asked an English native that question, if they thought their Dutch was better than my English and the answer was "yes". After 10 minutes of painful patience I asked, "would you mind if we switched to English?" The problem for you is how to learn Dutch in this country, given these circumstances. The first thing you need to do is learn to completely get rid of your English accent. A couple hours with a speech tutor ("logopedist" in Dutch) may help with that. That presents Dutch natives with a smokescreen and as they cannot guess your language is English, they will have to exercise their patience so you can exercise your Dutch immersion. It's also a matter of walks of life. Many Dutch circles actually really do not feel comfortable speaking English.

[@janbruin4662]

No not all except Nijmegen in a pannenkoeken, there are Dunes, Wad isles, Gooi and Utrechtse Heuvelrug, part of Overijssel, Drenthes Heuvelrug, and for all the south part of Limburg, with chalk hill even higher than 300 m, so you have to travel if you want to see hilly landscapes, as you also have to travel to see the pannenkoek, or the polders 10 m below sea level.

[@passattdise]

Well, I speak no Dutch but pannenkoeken means pancake in the USA... and we say a girl is flat as a pancake when her mammary glands are not well developed. ie flat chested. Holland is definitely flat, mountain biking opportunities, I suppose are quite rare there.

[@birds_are_really_fierce2226]

Please never stop teaching languages this way ! I love seeing languages in real world context!

[@EasyGerman]

Thank you!

[@charlesphirpo2833]

As a German, if you become acquainted with a few basic changes, like how the "g" is pronounced, or that the "f" becomes often a "p" for example, you will understand much more intuitively without having to look up a word. In many cases Dutch seems to be a very old and grammatically simplified version of German, at least for people from northern Germany, and yet there is much more to learn so that you can follow a conversation fluently.

[@UBootFschJg]

Been learning Dutch for a couple of years now, on and off. I understand almost everything written, especially listening skills really only improve in the Netherlands/Belgium itself because there are an incredible amount of dialects given the small space which makes it quite hard if you are not at a very high level.

[@gisbertvonromberg2227]

Interessant wäre eine Umfrage wie diese in Bocholt, Münster oder Kleve. Dort ist der Anteil der Menschen auf der Straße, die einen Bezug zu den Niederlanden haben, schon aus geographischen Gründen deutlich größer als in Berlin.

[@katrincarstens5125]

In Schleswig-Holstein verstehen viele Leute auf ähnliche Weise Dänisch, Norwegisch und Schwedisch. Das ist unseren Ohren auch irgendwie nahe. Meine Geschwister nahe der Schweizer Grenze (ich kam als Kind wieder gen Norden, wo wir zuhause sind) verstehen Schwitzerdütsch und ihr örtlicher Dialekt teilt damit viele Worte, Redewendungen (auch das "oder" hinter vielen Sätzen) und auch viele Laute. Ich denke, lediglich die Ostgrenzen, wo die Sprachen slawischen Ursprungs sind, ist das nicht so. Da ist die Sprache jenseits der Grenze vielmehr Fremdsprache als für die anderen. Übrigens ist solch eine Ähnlichkeit auch zwischen Plattdeutsch und Englisch. Meine Omi aus Cuxhaven konnte sich in englischsprachigen Ländern ausgezeichnet verständigen, auch wenn ihr Englisch nicht sehr umfangreich war, denn erreichte sie ihre sprachliche Grenze, sprach sie einfach auf Platt weiter. Ich treffe im Sommer öfters amerikanische Touristen, die auf den Spuren ihrer Ahnen wandeln und das auch berichten, daß selbst als Texaner ein Norddeutscher super zu verstehen sei. Englisch hat aber eben viel Einfluss durch die Angeln bekommen. Die waren (sind) Menschen aus Angeln nahe Flensburg, die vor langer Zeit nach England einwanderten und wie die Römer auch einen großen Einfluß auf die Entwicklung der Sprache nahmen. Und Dutch und Deutsch sind sich auch nicht ohne Grund selbst als Worte ähnlich. Ganz früher gab es nur Volksstämme, aber keine Grenzen. Es gibt zB die Friesen von der Ostküste der Niederlande bis rauf zur dänischen Grenze. Und sie alle verstehen sich, wenn sie Friesisch sprechen. Ich war mal mit einem holländischen Friesen segeln und auf Friesisch war es so, als ob ein Hesse und ein Berliner miteinander sprechen. Nur die Betonung differierte ein wenig. Und bei den Allemannen im Süden war es auch so. Als die Sprachen entstanden, gab es diese Grenzen und Nationalitäten noch gar nicht. Allemannen waren in Schwaben genauso wie in der heutigen Schweiz, benachbart von den Helveten. Aber das zeigt sich in alten Traditionen wie den Fasenachtslarven, also die hakennasigen Masken und die Umzüge zum Ende des Winters. Sie sind ganz anders als anderswo und sehr speziell geprägt. Und die südlichen Länder nennen Deutschland Allemania. Bis auf Italien. Für die Nordländer sind wir tysk und für den Westen Germanen. Wir sind heute zwar alle deutsch, niederländisch, schweizerisch, belgisch, französisch, dänisch usw, aber früher waren wir alle Stämme. Der Nordosten Schleswig-Holsteins war von Wikingern bevölkert. Ud nur ein Stückchen weiter lebten schon ganz andere Stämme, die mächtig Angst vor ihnen hatten. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@bintisf]

@@katrincarstens5125 danke für diesen schönen und interessanten Kommentar 👏

[@leonie364.]

Au ja, ich komme aus Münster und habe alles ohne Probleme verstanden! Wir sprechen hier ja münsterländer Platt, was definitiv hilfreich ist.

[@TheMichaelK]

@@katrincarstens5125 Gut geschrieben, aber ich würde da gerne noch zufügen, dass die Ähnlichkeit zum Englischen nicht allein durch die Angeln gegeben ist. Auch das Plattdeutsche wurde bis etwa 1600 noch als sassesch, also sächsisch bezeichnet, und bis heute im Lateinischen als lingua saxonica. Das Angelsächsische / Englische geht in seiner ältesten Sprachform eben zum Großteil auf die Sprache der Angeln und der Sachsen ("Plattdeutschen") zurück. Der Name Plattdeutsch kam im 17. Jahrhundert im Rahmen der Verdrängung des Plattdeutschen auf. Die Hansezeit hindurch wurde es nicht so genannt, sondern eben sassesch bzw. sassesche sprake (sächsiche Sprache).

[@katrincarstens5125]

@@TheMichaelK Danke für die lieben Worte! 🥰 🙏🏻 Ja, die Sachsen waren ja ein großes Volk, das stark wanderte. So wie auch die Franken. Aber die Sachsen gingen gen England und man sieht eine Spur der Verbreitung heute noch durch die Namen der Bundesländer von Sachsen über Sachsen-Anhalt bis Niedersachsen, daß bis an die Niederlande reicht und eben zu den Angelsachsen. Also, würde vor mir jetzt eine Zeitmaschine aufploppen, würde ich genau Dich abholen und einmal diese Menschen und ihre Sprachen und Kulturen besuchen. Du bist da ja auch sehr beleckt, sozusagen. Das wäre klasse. Zumal ich zur Zeit Wolle (nicht Merino, sondern nordische Rassen) von Hand so verarbeite, wie man es vor tausenden von Jahren tat. Langwierig, aber das Geschick und die Routine wachsen. Und wenn man sich einer Tätigkeit aus einer Zeit oder Kultur wirklich annähert, indem man sie sich zu eigen macht, bekommt man einen winzigen Eindruck von dem Lebensgefühl von damals. Essen, dann mit Nagelbrett und Handspindel vors Feuer setzen und loslegen. Wie entschleunigt und konsistent es im Vergleich zu heute war. Man kann sogar eine Bewegung von Mustern und Werkzeugen, sowie Schmuck Oden wie Nadeln für das Schließen von Mänteln sehen. Einiges gibt es im südlichen Skandinavien, weiter bis Norwegen, rüber nach Schottland, die Färöer und Island. Die Muster Macharten ähneln sich. Sprache, Handwerk, Technik und Mode wanderten ja miteinander. Ein wenig experimentelle Archäologie selbst zu leben, verbindet doch sehr mit dem ganzen Geschehen. Seitdem fühle ich mich viel mehr als ein Teil dieser Geschichte, denn mir wird klar, wieviel wir heute wegen alledem noch gemein haben und wo die Unterschiede liegen. Sprachlich ist es am offensichtlichsten, die anderen Dinge sieht man erst auf den zweiten Blick. Und je tiefer man eintaucht, umso ähnlicher werden sich die damaligen Völker. Ich glaube, die Globalisierung begann schon vor weit über 1000 Jahren. 😉 Hab einen wunderschönen dritten Advent, Ihr alle hier, und sollte ich eine Zeitmaschine finden, schreib ich Dir! 😁

[@neginalmasi2843]

I komme aus dem Iran und ich lebe in Tehran, die Hauptstadt von Iran. Ich habe Deutsch Sprache sehr schön gefunden, die ist eine alte Sprache und ich denke Dutch is auch schön wenn der Deutsche Spracher ähnlich ist. die nächste Sprache die ich lernen will ist Dutch💗 Danke für Ihnen nützliches Video Cari🙏 Es tut mir leid für meine Fehler🙏

[@joni3503]

Vielen Dank für dieses großartige Programm, ich bin gebürtige Niederländer. Meine Großeltern väterlicherseits waren Deutsche, die in Belgien lebten. Ich habe also einen deutschen Familiennamen. Die niederländische Sprache ist schwierig und der Bereich, in dem sie gesprochen wird, ist klein, also schäme dich nicht, wenn du sie nicht verstehst. Ich würde Deutsch als Pflichtsprache für alle Schulen in den Niederlanden befürworten. Halb Europa spricht Deutsch. Ich kann gesprochenes Deutsch gut verstehen, ich lese Bücher auf Deutsch, verfolge Diskussionen im Fernsehen, also ist es für mich kein Problem, es zu verstehen. Was mir schwer fällt, ist, selbst fließend Deutsch zu sprechen, ohne peinliche Fehler. Das habe ich mir zum Ziel gesetzt, fließend Deutsch zu sprechen.

[@MadMarky]

Deutschunterricht wird an fast allen Mittelschulen gegeben. Die meisten Niederländer haben mindestens zwei jahre Ausbildung gehabt können Deutsch zumindest etwas verstehen, sowie das andere video von Easy Dutch auch zeigt. Für die Deutschen, die jedes Jahr massengeweis zu die Niederländische kuste abreisen, gilt das leider anders herum oft nicht so.

[@joni3503]

@@alinamorsbach Zeker ken ik kinderen voor kinderen, en ik vind het ook leuk. En natuurlijk mag je Nederlands praten, ben je Duitse die Nederlands heeft geleerd? dat vind ik zo knap, want Nederlands is best wel moeilijk.

[@joni3503]

@@alinamorsbach Ja, die zijn leuk. Kijk je ook wel eens naar Unicef Kinderrechten Filmfestival? die zijn altijd zo grappig. Versta je ook alles wat ze zeggen? kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHqvqKynaLN5hMk

[@rikib1171]

Aussgezeignet....uitstekend!! in Afrikaans

[@joni3503]

@@rikib1171 Dank je 👍🏻👍🏻

[@luca_ds9805]

I love how we can connect through different languages 🥰

[@mespel1232]

For me as a native German speaker it's interesting to see that when you really start pondering it you might very often find something in common anyway. It's about discovering the roots that these languages share and then trying to build kind of missing links or mixed forms between them, for instance: Moeilijk --> "mühelich" (Mühe) --> mühsam (troublesome) Makkelijk --> "machelich" (machen) --> machbar (makeable, feasable) --> einfach (easy) It very often seems there is mainly difference in the endings which on the other hand may appear similarly in other words: Makkelijk --> freund"lijk" --> freund"lich" --> friendly. I find this absolutely amazing! I would have learned Dutch long ago if I had had the time and hadn't been "distracted" by other languages such as English, French and Italian.

[@sgtscheetje]

And that's also a booby trap: we Dutch easily 'Germanize' words. So we think we speak German, but the Germans don't understand a word of it. For example: my landlady rented a room to a German family with little children. So once she said "Sie lüsten graag ein Schnüpfchen". In Dutch: "Ze lusten graag een snoepje" (English: they love to eat a candy). The German family didn't understand it at all.

[@Simon-rc5sf]

@@sgtscheetje "Lüsten" could actually be used in german, but it's very uncommon and old-fashioned, which makes it unintelligible if the context doesn't make sense

[@renevanderkooi5473]

Cool I was just reasoning the other way around. Schwerig-schwer-zwaar (zwaar means heavy, difficult) Einfach-eenvoudig (eenvoudig you can translate as easy, but also as simple)

[@daan9094]

Mühsam is also similar to the dutch Moeizaam which is a synonym for Moeilijk. Same as Eenvoudig is a more formal way of saying Makkelijk

[@midmichiganrr24gp9]

Knowing german helped make dutch easier to learn. It is similar enough to get the gist of what one is saying. Usually.

[@BETOETE]

Remember that Dutch is more related to platt Deutsch and English than to hoch Deutsch.

[@haruyanto8085]

Knowing Afrikaans makes learning both; German and Dutch easier to learn

[@icylakepaxphile]

@@BETOETE no.. Dutch is definitely more related to Platt Deutsch, it's true. but to English.. no... far more than to Hoch Deutsch.

[@BETOETE]

@@icylakepaxphile I say if English hadn't changed so abruptly, it'd be that close to Dutch which was the closest relative in the western Germanic tongues.

[@kanaal-73]

For all those questions about Dutch and German and where they came from I recommend to you the KZbin channel from Simon Roper He is very interested in languages and also proto german and the way its related to English. In his early videos het talks about all of them and shows ther relations between most of the languages in Europe.

[@SwitzerlandYT]

as a native dutch speaker i loved this video, my little language getting some attention is very fun!

[@biased6463]

Fascinating. The origins (or etymology) of the word "Winkel" is corner (Ecke). In dutch we also have the word "winkelhaak", which is a snag tool with which people measure corners.

[@MindlessLittlePony]

A little unsolicited etymology (sorry if anyone else already brought it up): The place where people did their groceries was usually on a corner. So later, "Winkel" changed its meaning from 'corner' to 'place on the corner where we do our groceries' in Dutch. As far as I know, the only time we use "Winkel" in the sense of 'corner' in Dutch, is in the word "winkelhaak" (= one of the top corners in a football goal). I'm a native Dutch speaker btw (Belgian) :)

[@speerboom]

As far as I know your etymology is correct. The only Dutch word I know of where winkel means corner is indeed winkelhaak. However I only know it in the sense of a tear (in a piece of fabric and possibly a wound in the skin/flesh) in the shape of the letter L. I think there‘s also a tool used in carpentry used to make straight angles (the tool is also shaped like a L). I‘d never have guessed it could be used for the top corner of a goal but it makes sense and if I‘d seen the word winkelhaak in the context of a football goal I‘d have no trouble figuring out it‘s the top corner. (Native Dutch speaker from the Netherlands)

[@appeltaartenslagroom]

I'm Dutch and I didn't even know this! So interesting

[@PetraStaal]

Zeggen jullie ook kruising voor de hoek in een voetbaldoel?

[@speerboom]

@@PetraStaal Ehhhh… eerlijk gezegd ben ik geen voetballiefhebber, maar ik geloof dat ik kruising in die zin wel eens heb horen vallen. En hoek als het beneden is dacht ik. Maar pin me er vooral niet op vast!

[@GholamFareed]

We say hoek for the word corner in Afrikaans.

[@DidrickNamtvedt]

I'm Norwegian and already knowing a fair share of German and some Dutch, it drove me crazy that I knew that "lopen" meant "laufen/rennen" but I had to pause the video to really concentrate and think about "de winkel" because I have heard "de winkel" before and deep in my head I know what it means but I spent ages thinking and pulling my hair until I went "ah natürlich....laden!" or "geschäft" as also heard in the video. I was like "Ich bin so dumm" haha 😂😂

[@GholamFareed]

What's the biggest difference between North Germanic & West Germanic languages, I know in Dutch they also roll the Rs like in Norse languages.

[@whyparkjiminnotridejimin]

You're Norwegian but think loud in German? O.o

[@iwantum]

Cooler Typ ! have a good one mate

[@braincytox7314]

@@GholamFareed actually in durch there're 3 different ways of pronouncing the r

[@GholamFareed]

@@braincytox7314 okay.

[@rennoib]

It's very interesting this video because helps more deeply to understand how people speak in the street and how they figure things.

[@ryantamboryman4184]

Finde eure Videos echt super, es macht echt Spaß sich diese anzusehen. Top Arbeit ! Weiter so !!!

[@AntoineRx]

Wenn man die Lautverschiebungen zwischen den Sprachen kennt, kann man es viel einfacher verstehen, find' ich! Besonders im Geschriebenen

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis4346]

Ja das wirkt wunder. Ich finde es wirklich schade, wie grade in den Schulen Sprachen unterrichtet werden. Kinder sind nicht dumm, sondern nur unkonzentriert wenn sie nichts lernen. Mehr Linguistik direkt im Schulunterricht mit einbringen und nicht nur Englisch oder Französisch unterrichten. Unsere Nachbarländer schulen alle Deutsch aber hier gibts kein Polnisch oder Tschechisch in den Schulen.

[@maksim5078]

...zum Beispiel: "lopen" vs "laufen"... (und auf English: "loop").

[@nutzungsbedingungen1980]

Wenn man Platt kann oder selbst Richtung Niederlande/Norddeutschland wohnt und noch Dialekt spricht, ist es wirklich einfacher. (bei Englisch half mir das aber kaum)

[@TheMichaelK]

@@nutzungsbedingungen1980 Jo, dat Niederdeutsche/Niedersächsische ("Plattdeutsche") ist da ja doch sehr oft näher am Niederländischen denn am Deutschen: (Deutsch - Niederländisch - Niederdeutsch) laufen - lopen - loupen kaufen - kopen - köypen eichen (Adjektiv) - eiken - eyken alzeit/immer - altijd - altyd Wasser - water - water ich habe geschlafen - ik heb geslapen - ik hev slapen usw.

[@user-jc6vh8ck1f]

@@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis4346 ich stimme dir vollständig zu!

[@mariusschamrel9514]

As a Afrikaans speaker, I was understanding both the Netherlandic and German of the video, the German was a tad catchy at some points but I could make out what was said with the help of the subtitles. Great video guys !

[@tillylovesholland1161]

Ik vind het Zuid-Afrikaans leuk om te horen. Ik kan het ook verstaan maar wel grappig dat woorden voor hetzelfde anders zijn. Zo noemen wij een hijsbakkie een lift bijvoorbeeld en grondboonboter pindakaas.

[@cyberherbalist]

When I was in the US Army I was briefly stationed in Limburg in the Netherlands for training. I could speak fairly fluent German, FWIW. Many of the people in Limburg seemed to speak German, so I got along just fine. It happened that |I had a conversation with a woman who owned a cafe, and she told me that when she went to Aachen (20 miles away in Germany) for the farmers market there, she could speak her "low Dutch" dialect (Limburgish) with the farmers who could speak their local German dialect, and they were pretty much mutually intelligible. Amazing!

[@ITSplit]

Sehr interessantes Video und sehr interessante Umfrage. Sehr schön gemacht.

[@stephanx2384]

I am currently learning Dutch and only had like 10 lessons. I am soo proud I understood everything perfectly fine !

[@sherubijntje]

let me know if I can help you with your Dutch :)

[@Gerardus1970]

Germanic languages are generally easy to learn if you already speak one. My ex learnt to understand Dutch in 8 weeks when we went there for a holiday.

[@vmrs70cr]

So beautifully done! Especially it's all in its original language!! That's how culture is supposed to be enjoyed!!! 👍🏼💓

[@TVEDUStudienberatung]

Sehr cool gemacht ... informativ und unterhaltsam :)

[@Ichbineinediedunichtwillst]

when i was in the netherlands for the first time i was completely overwhelmed but still about 1 week I could bit fijne avond voor jou

[@BootyCrusader]

I'm Dutch, and I haven't ever really learned German. I went through this whole video only reading the German subtitles and listening to the words. I understood most of it :D

[@rogerflatt8054]

Haha! I am English, I also have German family, and a while ago I worked for five months in the Netherlands. I could read Niederlandisch (z.b. Zeitungen) but speaking it ... and understanding the spoken language was ... difficult. LOL. Thank you NL and DE for the English language! 😁😁

[@Patrick-on2ty]

🤩

[@Julian-ke2tg]

Could u explain how ur English but u have german family im dumb sry

[@joebar2249]

hahaha listen carefully I will only say this once ....you English cant't speak one word foreign language without youre accent

[@Typhoonis88]

@@Julian-ke2tg you can be English by being born in England or having English parents to be English with German Family means that one of there Family members is German by biology or birth. For instance My Grandpa is German and has family in Germany I was born in Australia same as my Mum. My dad is Canadian. So I am Australian but I also have German Family and Canadian Family.

[@Julian-ke2tg]

@@Typhoonis88 so ur dad is full Canadian and ur mom is half german half aussie right?

[@Carlboros]

Dieses Video hat mir sehr gut gefallen! Ich habe vor zwei Monaten angefangen, Deutsch zu lernen, und das Deutschniveau in diesem Video ist perfekt für mich. Ich abonniere!

[@EasyGerman]

Danke für abonnieren! ☺️

[@djorkaef8093]

Dat is een zeer goede video. Dank u zeer!

[@gislenecoucke9032]

I went to Vienna when I was young to learn German. Some years later I met a Dutchman and thanks to my German I learned Dutch a bit faster than if I had only my Portuguese and English. Now I speak Dutch and I can only speak German after a glass of beer.😄

[@robotnik77]

A glass of Bier does help, and for the life of me, I don't know why.

[@SachinBhattarai]

I have to say: this is one of my favourite episodes of Easy German. 😊😂 I love both languages: especially Dutch, it sounds really polite and nice to me. Also, as a learner of both German and Dutch languages: I find these two languages share some words similar to each other, but with a different pronunciation. 😊 Both are beautiful languages.

[@saab_9]

Dutch sounds polite ? ..🤣 in reality it's actually considered less polite in comparison with German. ( Coming from Someone who is born in Amsterdam and living in Germany) Nice to read you find both languages beautiful in Europe 😂

[@48677]

@@saab_9 arey ap toh bharatiya hain!

[@adrianseanheidmann4559]

@@saab_9 it DOES sound "cute". But definitely not polite... I don't even know what that means, how can a language sound "polite"?

[@saab_9]

All good Sachin. 👍🏽 If this is what you feel, then this is what you feel. 🙂

[@GholamFareed]

@@adrianseanheidmann4559 LOL

[@Kholdaimon]

At the university of Groningen (the Netherlands) we had a course about plant-ecology which was also available to students of a college in Wilhelmshaven (Germany). We spend 3 weeks together on the island of Schiermonnikoog (the Netherlands) and Öland (Sweden), doing research projects and practical exercises. During the first week we tried communicating in our free-time in English, but after the first week we realized that if the Dutch spoke Dutch and the Germans spoke German back then we could communicate far more easily. Wilhelmshaven lies in a region called Ost Friesland (East Friesia) where the German dialect doesn't sound German at all, it sounds almost the exact same as the Dutch dialect of the province of Groningen. I was also in a football (or soccer ;-)) team with several Germans studying at our university, they learned to understand and speak our language fluently within weeks of arriving in our country. Foreign students at the university of Groningen can follow Dutch courses, the German-speaking students however follow a different, far shorter, course then the rest of the foreign students. of course

[@markeuro4500]

Moin Moin 😀😁 ik will di seggen dat ik ut the gegend van osnabrück kum,wi proaten hier plattdeutsch use dialekt un mien opa heff immer seggt wenn du noa holland kummst mus du mit de lüe platt proaten dan verstaat di dich beter un ik mot seggen dat klappet ganz gaud 😀 dat ist the plattdeutsch ut de region van osnabrück to cloppenburg 😀

[@Kholdaimon]

@@markeuro4500 "Platt proaten" has the exact same meaning in the dialect spoken in Groningen, Drenthe and Twente in the Netherlands... So yeah, they can understand you pretty well... ;-)

[@MarcosEFink29]

4:33 i'm in love with this dude

[@TrandaRecord]

Danke für eure Arbeit! Ich, als Sprachlerner, finde eure Videos toll! Macht weiter! Tolle arbeit!

[@EasyGerman]

Danke dir! 😊

[@shadowofmoonlight3167]

I'm a native German speaker, but I also learn Dutch right now. I think that Dutch is a beautiful language, so I wanted to understand it a little bit better.

[@srisusantiwinoto2551]

Apakah bahasa Jerman dan bahasa Belanda sangat berbeda?? Actually I'm Indonesian, sorry i'm using Indonesian 🙏

[@elwag12]

@@srisusantiwinoto2551 They aren't really

[@simonevanmuiswinkel9464]

​@@srisusantiwinoto2551Bahasa German dan belanda adalah bahasa keluarga. Serupa, tetapi tidak sama :-)

[@colourhaze1359]

i'm swiss and i had a blast when i went to the netherlands. pretty similar to swiss german, especially when you read it!

[@Qilver]

I am dutch myself and I found it surprising how good the pronunciations actually were when the Germans were speaking dutch

[@bishplis7226]

no dutch was spoken in this video

[@hannekehartkoorn5987]

I'm Dutch, and I grew up with every Sunday morning die Sendung mit der Maus (und dem Elefanten). In highschool I completely and utterly failed in my German classes. Now I teach it 😉

[@tbobojonov]

I love both languages german 🇩🇪 and dutch 🇳🇱 !💚💚💚💚

[@DunkelblauerMB]

Then imagine that Winkel and or Wenkel also meant Corner in the 14th century Neder Dietsch that was spoken in what is called The Netherlands today. It seems back in the day most shops were usually situated at the corners of the street, at the crossroads. So it was commonly said to go to the corner to buy something. Since the Dutch also use Hoek for a corner, (Hook in Englisch and Haken in Deutsch) over time Winkel changed permanently in to shop. 🙂 Hence today the Dutch still use the word (tool) Winkelhaak - Carpenter's Square - Winkelhaken.

[@Ed19601]

"Winkel" is also in dutch a word for 'corner', but it is hardly used anymore. In dutch there is the 'Winkelhaak' (a carpenter's square), in german Winkelmaß

[@agasays]

Meine Lieblingsepisode! 💖 Unterschide zwischen Sprachen sind am interessantesten

[@dariamagalas2952]

I think it's funny how they translated "brocken" to "nugget" as someone fluent in German and now located in America, that's just... a really German thing to do/say

[@Topster94]

I am German and the border to the Netherlands is just 50 km away from here. We have learned Dutch in the Abitur because we had to learn a second foreign language. That's super helpful when we visit the Netherlands at least each week. It is interesting to speak Dutch since it is very similar to Platt which my Grandmother used.

[@Sarah83_metalhead_4ever]

Hatte in Belgien ab der 7. Klasse neben Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch dann auch Niederländisch, für mich war das super, da ich Sprachen liebe... für andere eher nicht so 😅🙈👍🏻 Dazu kommt, dass mein Papa aus der Genter Ecke in Flandern (Belgien) kommt, daher bin ich mit Flämisch bei Familienfeiern groß geworden, war schon praktisch beim Niederländisch lernen 😉 Und obwohl mein Abi 21 Jahre her ist, hab ich noch viel aufm Schirm und die Sätze hier im Video waren wirklich easy 😅👍🏻

[@MarcelVolker]

What I found interesting is that several German people thought Dutch was sort of "halfway between German and English" but in fact, all the tricky Dutch words are nowhere near English: winkel (shop), fiets (bicycle), taal (language), moeilijk (difficult), makkelijk (easy), usw. Maybe that's because current Dutch has a lot of recent borrowed English, so it "looks English" but at its core it still has 500+ years of other accumulated differences to German.

[@andreafalconiero9089]

I agree with all of your words except _taal._ I could be wrong about the etymology, but that one immediately jumped out at me as a cognate of "talk." I agree with you about all the other words, though. I can't think of cognates for any of them except maybe _winkel_ = "winkle", but I can't see how those are remotely related in meaning if _winkel_ means "corner" or "shop". In English, a "winkle" is a type of marine snail, but the word can also be used as a verb to mean something like: to extract, or pry out.

[@c.i.a8359]

Is dutch older than English and German

[@tycondero1647]

The english vocabulary also has a very strong connect with french. So, knowing english words helps a lot with french and vice versa. Dutch and french have much less in common.

[@Denkie578]

Jou and you its more similar than du and jou.

[@YourCreepyUncle.]

I don't know about "halfway", but Dutch is definitely between German and English in appearance. Dutch sound shifts, pronouns, declensions and spelling conventions are very similar to English (and also German, but in different ways) Example: "Can I help you" vs. "Kan ik jou (je) helpen?"

[@nolannernberg4627]

Crossover episodes are the best!

[@atstrollz6875]

Context makes it much easier to understand, without context, it's tough.

[@dukoo81]

Dat was een leuk filmpje om naar te kijken.

[@El_Martleby]

Nou, en ik heb altijd veel plezier in het oosten van Duitsland met Nederlanders lekker gezellig te praten. Ik heb er zelf 2 jaar in Breda gestudeert... und bin Deutscher :) Es ist eigentlich einfach zu lernen und macht Spaß :)

[@vanderquast]

Top 👍😊🇳🇱❤️🇩🇪

[@berniceoerlemans7757]

Hallo Easy German! sehr schönes video! Ich bin Niederländer, also vielleicht bin ich ein bisschen voreingenommen. Ich glaube, dass Niederländisch für Deutsche schwieriger zu lernen ist als Deutsch für Niederländer. Weil Deutsch eine strukturiertere Sprache ist und Niederländisch eine weniger strukturierte. Aber ich glaube der Wortschatz ist im Deutschen schwieriger, weil es für alles ein Wort gibt. Mit Geschlecht! XD Auf wiedersehen!

[@happymaker2344]

Sehr gut und plausibel erklärt, danke!

[@MrTjonke]

Dutch feels more like a mix between German and Old Nordic than German and English. As a Swedish speaker and having lived in Germany it feels quite easy to understand. Especially in written form

[@sandervw123]

This is very funny to watch! Dit is leuk om te kijken haha

[@salimrahal1811]

Als ich einst in Ferien in Spanien war, bin ich zum ersten Mal auf ein paar niederländische Wörter auf einem Paket gestoßen, ich habe "Brood met Tomaten" gelesen und mir ist aufgefallen, dass diese Sprache sowohl dem Englischen ( Bread with tomatoes) als auch dem Deutschen ( Brot mit Tomaten) gleichsieht, von jenem Moment an habe mich ich dafür interessiert und heutzutage lerne ich die Sprache mit Duolingo und Memrise. Jetzt bekomme ich mit, dass diese Apps sehr hilfreich sind, da ich jeden Satz in diesem Video kapiert habe. Zudem, gefallen mir einige falsche Freunde zwischen dieser Sprache und dem Deutschen, zum Beispiel: Mond bedeutet "Mund", durven klingt ein bisschen wie "dürfen", doch es steht für "sich trauen" und so weiter. übrigens vielen Dank für dieses tolle Video.

[@Empobaer]

Zum Thema falsche Freunde: huren=mieten nuttig=nützlich klaarkomen=Orgasmus haben. Kann manchmal echt zu lustigen Verwechslungen kommen :D

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis4346]

Once you give a german the written sentence it's often easy to figure it out. But just by hearing it it's difficult. Intonation and context of the situation you're getting the sentence from helps to understand it.

[@prodigy1979]

As an Austrian, I was surprised in Rotterdam to understand spoken Dutch easily, but when I read the words, I am lost

[@michaelruijtenbeek8672]

The difficulty with the word 'winkel' is that did originally meant 'ecke'. It was the corner of a house where the grocer had his products.

[@ausgepicht]

Fun video. I'm a native English speaker that speaks conversational German. I understood the first question no problem, had a little trouble with the second but got most of it, and was close on the third - I thought it was asking if the Dutch language was similar or unlike German. I think you have a "leg up" on learning Dutch if you speak English and German. I could see the roots of German and English words, even though I was reading/hearing the Dutch words for the first time. However, like your guest said "lots of false friend" to trip you up. Thank you!

[@Lioness99a]

I'm a native English speaker currently learning German who had no problems with the third one, although I think I guessed based on the context of the video more than anything because the other two made no sense to me!

[@kaan8296]

that's the best episode since months. wow. i would like to see luxembourgish version as well!

[@sonjad9367]

Ich finde es immer wieder krass, dass ich als Deutsche ähnliche Sprachen höre und immer nur kurz vor dem Verstehen bin - klingt alles vertraut, aber du verstehst es dann doch nicht wirklich... Wobei man sich im Schriftlichen wesentlich mehr herleiten kann als wenn man das Ganze nur hört

[@erik5374]

04:00 and 04:30 pronounciation are spot on. Geschäfts sind oft an der ecke, so Winkel.

[@bora8254]

I have been learning Dutch via Dualingo for two months and understood all of the sentences.

[@behrouz6625]

How did you get along with the owl?

[@putlerkaputt9201]

duolingo keeps your family as hostages for skipping days

[@bora8254]

We are a happy family :)

[@basvandriel2497]

@@behrouz6625 You don't need kneecaps to learn a language

[@bora8254]

Seems that EG Team hates Duolingo even it works :)

[@deeptoot1453]

Thank you easy German I am learning a lot.

[@triggamusician]

When I moved to NL for my studies in 2009 I didn't speak a single word and since I joined the English stream at uni I also didn't really have to. However, since I'm German and in Germany as a foreigner you really have to learn the language I thought I had to do the same in NL. Want some tips how I learned it? First, I looked up the basics of how to read it. Second, we had Dutch TV which basically is English TV with Dutch subtitles and I kept reading them. I always understood English very well, so reading along was like making connections between three languages in my head. I didn't feel comfortable speaking though. That took me another few years. I started working in a restaurant and that's when I really had to speak some Dutch. We sat around with the colleagues after work for hours every night and I sucked up the language word by word until one of them said: Let's have some beers and I don't want to speak English. That's when it kickstarted for me. I got more comfortable and I learned more and more words. I've got a different job now, still in the Netherlands. I'm there for more than 7 years now, working with people, speaking Dutch every day and sometimes even my thoughts are in Dutch. Great people btw. They also have a very different mindset compared to Germans.

[@jonatanarends204]

As a Dutch person ive bern waiting for this video forever!😅

[@mehrdadhajihashemi4416]

Danke das war total interessant . Ich möchte es .

[@user-vi6wx5ec2j]

Я оба языка понимаю! С Уважением, Аскар Махкамов, Республика Казахстан 🇰🇿, Город Алматы

[@user-vi6wx5ec2j]

I like to speak German, but understand Dutch too ! Best regards, Askar Makhamov, Republic of KAZAKHSTAN 🇰🇿, Almaty City

[@frdml01]

When I try to demonstrate the tricky false friends, I made up this funny example. Saying "could I ask you to call back" in Dutch would be "Mag ik u verzoeken terug te bellen" Using false friends in German that would become: "Mag ich Sie versuchen zurück zu bellen".

[@tobit_924]

I’ve always been interested in the connections between the German and Dutch language as well as their native speakers. I’m currently learning German. I’ve grown up with German culture and being able to speak the language even a little bit makes me feel much more connected :) I plan to where Dutch as well so we’ll see how that goes.

[@simonevanmuiswinkel9464]

I guess you should, Dutch is in a way easier than German, if you know english. And less complicated grammar.

[@valentinewang745]

As a Chinese who studied in NL work in Berlin I understand more Dutch than Germans😅 after move to Berlin I immediately recognize a lot of similar things

[@lucinhapennylane]

Ik ook...ik begrijp meer Nederlands de familie van mijn vriendin haar moeder komen uit Duitsland mijn vriendin weet hoe Duitsland praten maar voor mij...man man man

[@47AndyT]

Took a year of German in school. It was easy. Many years later before doing a transatlantic flight on KLM the passenger cabin crew did a pre-flight huddle speaking in Dutch. Nothing the said translated. BTW many of them speak easy to understand English!

[@bluebillbo]

I'm neither German or Dutch but after living in Germany for 2 years I took a trip to Maastricht and visited the 3 Countries point. I tried to read a dutch newspaper and could understand most of it even though many words were spelled differently

[@robotnik77]

I was stationed in B'haven, West Germany, never paid much attention to Dutch, but when my friends and I visited Amsterdam, we found that we could understand the newsreels even though most of the guys knew only English. Of course, language in newsreels is short and to the point, and is accompanied by pictures and film.

[@alenarezendecosta7135]

I lived in Belgium (Flamish part) and was learning the language. I would say it is easier to understand and learn Dutch for those foreigners who can speak German already. I was able to jump through several levels thanks to my German :) This combination of English and German makes it a bit easier. But no way I would say it is an easy language :)

[@808yann]

10:14 this guy is so calm idk why

[@markvanderhorst1333]

Was bedeutet: "Hoe gaat het met jou?" "Irgendwat mit Fleisch....? "LoL, Ja so kennt man den Deutschen....! Nicht boese gemeint, ich habe lange in Deutschland gearbeitet. Liebe Gruesse aus den Niederlanden.

[@andreafalconiero9089]

I think in this case the phrase is much closer to English. My literal translation would be "How goes it with you?", which is very similar to the English greeting more commonly expressed as "How's it going?", so it wasn't that difficult to decipher. I may be wrong about the meaning of _gaat,_ but that would be the word that makes sense within the context of the other words which I think (hope!) I translated correctly.

[@MarcelL-DM]

😂😂

[@markvanderhorst1333]

@@andreafalconiero9089 correct and exact literal translation of the Dutch to English, gaat means go(es).... I merely thought it was funny that that German man meant to hear or read something with meat. ;-)

[@andreafalconiero9089]

@@markvanderhorst1333 That seems odd to me as well. Isn't _met_ cognate with German _mit?_ It seems like a straightforward mapping of one word to the other. In English we don't have a cognate for _mit/met_ (as far as I know), but I happened to encounter the German word before and used that to figure it out.

[@herrnoname2.094]

😂😂😂😂😂