Dutch pronunciation: korte EI vs lange IJ, part 1

Dutch pronunciation: How to pronounce 'de korte ei' and 'de lange ij'?
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How to pronounce Dutch letters? This lesson is an extra lesson to the Dutch alphabet video by Bart de Pau. In each Dutch pronunciation lesson Bart explains in detail how to pronounce letters in Dutch (vowels, consonants, diphthongs), with recommendations for students of Dutch on how to pronounce and overcome difficulties in speaking.
Translation of the dialogue in the video:
Hello Mr Small, how are you?
Hello Mr Rich, I am very well. What about you?
I am fine as well! I arrived at five o’clock by a train from Leiden.
Oh… I never travel by train. I always drive my small, grey car.
Oh… How nice that you have your own transport. I envy you!)
These videos come with extra speaking exercises. Check the Dutch pronunciation playlist or learndutch.org.
This is a free course. Bart de Pau is an online Dutch Tutor at learndutch.org and program manager at the Dutch Summer School, www.dutchsummerschool.nl
This Dutch pronunciation lesson is written bij Mirjam van Beijsterveldt. She is a Dutch teacher (NT2) at the BLC Dutch Summer School, and author of books for children, like 'tips voor de verdrietige koe', 'de avonturen van de huunkvogel', 'de huunkvogel en de supermuggen van Sweenjoland'.
If you are serious about learning Dutch, you need to be able to make phrases. For that purpose the course #dutchgrammar can be recommended: www.learndutch.org/dutch-grammar/

[@AverageSilenceEnjoyer]

Damn i used 6min watching this when instead you couldve just said "theyre the same"

[@SilverSkySE]

Yup they are pronounced exactly the same, in order for you to know which one to write, you need to know the vocabulary by heart.

[@L.A.ismyname]

lol

[@DikWhite]

Thank you. I'm half Dutch and grew up bilingual. When I started watching this video I wondered whether I had always incorrectly assumed ei and ij were pronounced the same. Thanks for putting my mind at rest. By the way, when the ij comes at the beginning of a word it is always written as IJ as in IJmuiden or IJsselmeer. I thought that was worth adding here.

[@alexisericson241]

Woah people do treat it like a letter unto itself then!

[@etiennedevignolles7538]

@@alexisericson241 I used to have a typewriter which had "ij" as a single letter!

[@kokorox61]

Jeeez, 7 minutes just to say that they're pronounced exactly the same. LOL

[@Definitely_not_pi]

Yep

[@ronaldderooij1774]

The short and long IJ are called that way because originally (40 years ago) the ij was one letter instead of two and it was written with a tail below the writing line. So therefore "long". The short ei remained above the writing line, so it was called "short". Officially it the ij is a separate letter and is unique to the Dutch language, just like the "ß"is unique to German. However, with all the computer keyboards nowadays, it is easier to replace it with "ij".

[@richardbrinkerhoff]

I had a typewriter at my first job that had a separate key for the ij where the two letters were written as one.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

@@richardbrinkerhoff Ja, met de rechterpink te bedienen.... rampzalig.

[@richardbrinkerhoff]

@@ronaldderooij1774 Het was 46 jaar geleden, dus ik weet niet meer met welke vinger.

[@nhunka44]

I've heard people in Den Bosch say "ij" as we say the word "eye" or "I" in English. The way Bart pronounces is sounds more like the sound in "hey"

[@dominikam7508]

Hi. The same problem with people from Haarlem / Amsterdam. On the other hand my flemish teacher has taught me the same pronunciation as in tge video. Honestly, I don't know which of these I should follow. Weird thing that no one is able to explain these differences.

[@koen293]

@@dominikam7508 I think this is because of (regional/local) dialects, of which we have many in the Netherlands.

[@rrbrambley]

This is exactly the reason I came to this video. I cannot figure out which sound I should be using. If I say it like "eye," is it okay to always pronounce it this way? For example, I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say hij or mij with the "eye" sound, but only instead as Bart says it in this video. Can someone please address this?

[@richardbrinkerhoff]

@@rrbrambley English 'eye' sounds like aai to a Dutchman. It's definitely not the same pronunciation as ei or ij.

[@cherylunrestricted7816]

Bedankt :)

[@anaisaerksen]

I was just thinking about that when studying my vocabulary today. Thank you :)

[@teleclipse8489]

i'm not learning dutch, but my last name is 'cosijn' and i've wanted wanted to know why it was pronounced so differently to it's spelling. interesting video! :)

[@gijsbrans2338]

holographic cloud its not that different, the dutch soilund for "i" and "j" right behind each other almost sound like the "ij" sound so its really more of a simplification in the pronunciation that has been created over time.

[@kdub1242]

To my uneducated ear, the Dutch language rather sounds like a "kinder, gentler" German.😉

[@ArmArmAdv]

Bedankt! These two sound so similar.

[@etiennedevignolles7538]

I loved this video (I've just started trying to learn Dutch). And I have subscribed for more of this.

[@michaelyemane2063]

zeer bedankt

[@joalexsg9741]

Thank you so much!

[@NamNguyen-hz9tn]

Heel erg bedankt

[@brasil366]

heel goed !!!!!

[@ochampagne1157]

bedankt!

[@huiyuanzhu2585]

Heel erg helpen 👍

[@naniyoo6247]

bedankt

[@salimjamal8799]

dank u bart. ik ben een van uw studenten, ik vind het leuk

[@gijsbrans2338]

Salim Jamal you're comment is gramatically perfect, and yet i can make up from it you're not natively dutch. I think the main problem is that you could have finished your sentence in a better way, as well as "dank u wel" will sound better than just "dank u". it is not necessarily a problem but maybe something you want to look at if you want to become really good at dutch.

[@MarksmanSnir]

Yours isn't grammatically perfect, though :(

[@mehreteabte1139]

bedankt.Bart Tot deel 2.

[@thales361]

Bart you are awesome! I am studying the 1000 most common words and using Duolingo to learn Dutch from scratch, after I have some good ground I will start the #dutchgrammar, your teaching skills, voice and programs are awesome! Dankjewel! =) By the way, do you think it is necessary to begin with the #dutchgrammar1 if I already studied for like 4-6 months (everyday at least 30min, sometimes more than 1 hour)? Or should I just dare and go to #dutchgrammar2 ?

[@amandahicks9858]

w is u

[@timpeters7852]

Ik heb me altijd afgevraagd waarom we nog niet een van de twee hebben afgeschaft.

[@benw9949]

Two notes: (1) The leading sound is somewhere between English short E (bed, let, egg,), English short A (apple, cat, ash), and a schwa E, (up, but, the last sound in sofa, and so on). Like UH-EE, EH-EE, AE-EE with their first sounds all blended together. But AA/AE (apple, cat, ash) + EE sounds most like it, even if technically, it's EH-EE. (2) If the only phonetic difference between korte and lange EI/IJ is duration, prolonged for the long one, then my goodness, just say so. Much simpler.

[@Niels-3]

Native Dutch speaker here. There is no difference in duration between ei and ij. The reason ij is called 'de lange ij' is because the letter j is vertically longer, lol.

[@noushindamirchi775]

Wat leuk 👌

[@itinglin8290]

Hi Bart, thanks for the excellent video. I have a question though regarding pronunciation for ij, I notice that some people when saying "vrijdag" like English Friday, and "kijken" the ij is pronounced as English i. Can you explain why?

[@Sloanexhd]

There are loads of dialects so it's probably the accent.

[@gijsbrans2338]

Iting Lin that might be a dialect, we have a shit ton of those in the netherlands. but in proper dutch the "ij" should be pronounced like in this video.

[@pedrosaavedra437]

Bedankt 🙂

[@elisabird6245]

I´d love a teeshirt like Bart has.

[@esunisen3862]

Dutch: ei, ij French: è, ê, est, aie, aies, ais, ait, aient,...

[@rcidcobo]

too long for such a simple fact :-)

[@deliefsteroos4449]

haha, interessante video! ;)

[@anjapalmer8305]

Kan u mischien alstublieft de nederlandse verkortingen leren?(( Woon 50 al jaar in Zweden . Ben wel heel veel vergeten)) dit berrichtje ook verkeert?

[@mykolapokhylets3105]

Actually, I do hear a subtle difference between ei and ij, The latter sounds a bit closer to ai.

[@amcaesar]

Try telling that to south Amsterdam residents who pronounce the arena neighborhood as "Ballmer."

[@fs2728]

Are there people in the Netherlands who still make a difference between ij and ei? Cause they were different in old german: ij was a long î and ei was a real diphthong.

[@DithanBeatz]

De lange ij is called lange ij omdat die j er lang uitziet toch? Maar dan heb je ook nog woorden als "Heerlijk" en "Moeilijk" waar de ij als een sjwa klinkt.

[@sandralechner2974]

tiny little little spelling mistake in the English subtitle; min 1:55-2:03 litterally instead literally German subtitle is done

[@PS-cw1dq]

Mirjam van Bijsterveldt, or Beisterveldt, or Beijsterveldt. You see that this vowel comes in more than one appearance 🤣

[@miguelangel6368]

agrega por favor subtitulos en español

[@zeyaddaoud3503]

ik wil u iets vragen waarom u heeft gestopt met de viedoes van seizoen 2 als u blieft verder gaan u viedoes is gaaf

[@user-ld5sg7nw6e]

Dit filmpje is kort en makkelijk

[@PS-cw1dq]

In most parts of The Netherlands these vowels do not sound the same.

[@Niels-3]

That's not true at all.

[@PS-cw1dq]

@@Niels-3 so please enlighten me

[@PS-cw1dq]

@@Niels-3 Waar jij hebt leren praten klinken de ij en de ei wellicht hetzelfde, maar in bijvoorbeeld de Achterhoek niet hoor.

[@aamirkhan6692]

5 mins just to say they are both the same 🤔

[@lordronn472]

I know how to pronounce IJ because of Rebecca Romijn

[@inhhongthang6563]

so they are the same?

[@ogulcanyldrm8409]

bart turkish cc please

[@thuglifewestside3397]

een naam vertaal je toch nie meneer klein blijft toch mister klein en meneer rijk blijft mister rijk

[@Frahamen]

is het niet "mijn klein, grijs autotje" ipv 'mijn kleine grijze autotje"?

[@xAquamarinax]

Frahamen no, the written version in the example is correct. When you use it as an adjective you usually add an e. If it is used by itself then you don't. For instance, mijn kleine, grijze autootje VS mijn auto is klein en grijs

[@jessezandstra1]

Nee, omdat autootje een 'het' woord is vanwege de verkleining. Je zegt ook het kleine kind, niet het klein kind.

[@PS-cw1dq]

Ik heb een klein grijs autootje, het is mijn kleine grijze autootje.

[@vladimirchorchordin5615]

Heerlijk, leiden of lijden? ;-)

[@Definitely_not_pi]

Now you finally know ij is not pronounced as an itch and ei not etch

[@Kokurorokuko]

Hey, Bart. I noticed a lot of native speaker pronounce these difthongs more as /ai/. I said "Hij is goed" or something like that to a Dutch speaker and they didn't understand me.

[@Thomas.c4647]

Actually it is closer to 'ae-i'. The amount of speakers pronouncing a-i are still a minority, but it is gaining ground. Ei and ij might one day be pronounced like 'eye' in English.

[@aeiouaeiou100]

What's the difference? There's no difference. The end.

[@sovideo_]

You realise you deal with a stupid language teacher, when they say one in long, one is short, but they are the same :D It is actually a diphthong , where the main vowel is short/long and the semivowel is what a semivowel is :) The stupid teacher seems to now know the original pronunciation of the Latin letter E, thus delivering confusing information. The original Latin E is like in Italian, Spanish, Romanian. The Dutch E is a little funnier, but you can fairly approximate it with the Latin E. Then you just have the diphthongs [ei] and [e:i], with a funnier Dutch [e].

[@Niels-3]

The reason ij is called 'lange ij' is because the letter j is vertically longer. It has nothing to do with pronunciation. Ironic how you call Bart (a native Dutch speaker no less) stupid while you're the one who misunderstood

[@TaylorHailee]

IJ EI

[@giorgosmalfas7486]

I cannot perceive any difference at all. Please do not call me deaf or stupid, because I 'll be tempted to reciprocate the compliment.

[@Legac706]

De pijp

[@mostafakayal632]

bedankt