EMBARRASSING misunderstandings when speaking DUTCH! #2

Have you ever had an embarrassing situation because you were trying to speak Dutch...
... but you mispronounced something, misunderstood something or made another mistakes?
That's what we asked to foreigners who are learning Dutch.
These are students of the BLC Dutch Summer School.
More Dutch language videos with Dutch language students in the following playlist:
• EMBARRASSING misunders...
More Dutch culture videos with Dutch language students in the following playlist:
• How do the DUTCH celeb...
Video produced by:
Bart de Pau
(online Dutch teacher and founder of the Dutch Summer School and Dutch Winter School)
Editing: Nicolas Balbontin, Kim van den Corput, Bart de Pau
Video was recorded at the BLC Dutch Summer School - 2019.
To know more about our:
- Dutch Summer School: dutchsummerschool.nl
- Dutch Winter School: dutchwinterschool.nl
- Learn Dutch online with Bart de Pau: www.learndutch.org

[@KCML82]

"Ik wil graag een broodje kipfilet" Is perfect. He just didn't understand you well because of the accent probably, but to be honest, the accent isn't even that bad.

[@daanwillemsen223]

I don't know how the waiter gets to cola tho

[@codex4046]

Good chance he said it wrong in the video by actually saying it right.

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

might have been near a busy street.. recently i've gotten chinese takeout and i literally had to ask the chinese lady at the counter to repeat herself like 5 times because of the loud blaring sound of the road outside even though her dutch was clear to me.. i just had a hard time hearing what she was saying thanks to the fact that my ear hones into the loudest sound there is in the area.. and softer sounds will just be drowned out

[@arposkraft3616]

sommige mensen zijn ook gewoon hardhorend , als je bij mij in mn verkeerde oor praat en je hoofd is ook maar een beetje schuin hoor ik het amper

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

@@arposkraft3616 of gwn niet opletten.. gebeurt mij ook vaak (ik heb ADHD en ik hyperfocus redelijk snel op een tv of film als iemand dan iets tegen mij zegt hoor ik dat er wat gezegt word maar ervaar ik dit meer als een soort achtergrondruis dit is hoogstwaarschijnlijk ook de reden waarom ik altijd het luidste geluid wel hoor maar als iemand aan het praten is als zij bijvoorbeeld aan het stofzuigen zijn hoor ik alleen de stofzuiger)

[@xw6968]

Nothing but respect for people that are learning and trying to speak Dutch. As a dyslexic person i find my self all to often on the receiving end of jokes and comments about mistakes i made. And im a Dutch. Don't feel embarrassed regardless of the mistake and keep going.

[@nanouboram2798]

Thank you for your encouragement. 🥰 I'm interested by learning Dutch.

[@arposkraft3616]

completely useless if you ask me...als we zo doorgaan dan bestaat nederland en de nederlandse taal over 100 jaar niet meer

[@minime3803]

You are so kind, much love for you ❤️❤️

[@The2100km]

Once i've said Konijn Willem-Alexander instead of Koning :))))

[@adriaangommer3278]

Are you france? becourse Lodewijk Napoleon called himself The Konijn of Holland. Like the way of John f Kennedy said “i’m a Berliner”

[@The2100km]

Nope :) Russia

[@markjacobs1086]

Doesn't even matter, he'd probably laugh about it anyway if you said it in his face 😂

[@ItsMeMarieClaire]

😂😂😂

[@dimrrider9133]

@@ItsMeMarieClaire your both right hahaha

[@ItsMeMarieClaire]

3:16 "just smiling", "understand a little bit" --> I know the feeling 😂

[@Fiyaaaahh]

My Indian colleague once looked up the status of his PostNL parcel on their website using google translate. It said "status: Bezorgd" and after translating he was very worried about his parcel😂 ("bezorgd" has a double meaning and can also mean "delivered", but google translate isn't aware of that)

[@zorkt6613]

that one always gets me as well hahah

[@NahvomaLena]

I didn’t even know it had a meaning other than delivered 😂

[@Adamski1987]

When there was a big reorganisation at Post NL a few years ago people always made a word joke by using that word. They said: "de klanten en het personeel zijn bezorgd, maar de post is dat niet" (the costumers and the stuff is worrying (bezorgd), but the post is it not (delivered: also 'bezorgd').

[@ItsMeMarieClaire]

Good to know I'm not the only one who gets confused by being pregnant because of not drinking alcohol sometimes 😂

[@devaulter]

I had a funny experiences when trying my Dutch out to order food in an Amsterdam restaurant when the waitress shrugged and apologized, saying she didn't speak Dutch. Much to the amusement of the Dutch people sitting nearby!

[@Dilyora19]

😂😂😂

[@ilseh.8853]

'Why is everybody so excited bc of a glass of water' hahahhhhahah aaah so funny

[@mlb-xxl1132]

i once worked with someone from england , he said he had to go to the loo , we tought he was saying '' Toedeloe !''

[@agerven]

It is bound to happen when you are in any country and still trying to learn the language. Fortunately all of these expats are now able to relax and laugh about it! Daarom kijk ik regelmatig met veel respect en genoegen naar deze videos. Het is erg verhelderend om te ontdekken hoe buitenlanders ons Nederlanders en onze vreemde maatschappij ervaren. Waar ik werk zijn momenteel meer dan 100 verschillende nationaliteiten en is het een gezellige smeltkroes van culturen en ontdekkingen.

[@Adamski1987]

Actually "weet ik veel" is meant ironic / sarcastic. It is used when you ask someone a question and the other is sure to not be able to give a right answer to it. But the confusing is understandable!

[@888records]

I guess you could compare “Weet ik veel?” to “Do I look like I know a lot?”

[@RacingPepe]

Yea it has that kind of sassy annoyed vibe to it. Prefer to just say "ik weet het niet" or "ik heb geen idee, sorry" to be polite. Weet ik veel is edgy teenager language.

[@agnieszkavanheirreweghe5837]

When Napoleon declared himself king of Holland, but said konijn instead of koning 😂😂😂 "i am rabbit of Holland"

[@ThisIsTheBestAnime]

konijn is bunny, haas is rabbit ;)

[@AnymMusic]

....how did the guy mistake "kipfilet" for "cola". pretty sure that subway worked spoke less Dutch than him lol

[@marn200]

Probably becaus it’s in Amsterdam?

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

@@kitchfacepalm or the restaurant was next to a busy street.. i have no trouble understanding people if there's no or little background sounds.. however if let's say there is a busy road i'll only hear the engines of the cars and the tires on the concrete whizzing and whirring away.. so someone will be saying something and instead of what they are saying i'll only hear road noises and i'll have to ask them to repeat is like 5 to 6 times because i just can't understand for the life of me.. my ears tend to hone in on the loudest sound around..

[@Nexils]

Even as a Dutch person I sometimes come across these weird sayings that I've never heard of. Someone told me: "Hey, if X and Y wonder where I am, tell them that that I've been 'aangereden'." Which roughly translates to "I've been run over" or "I've been hit by a car" and I was so confused. And when X and Y asked me where he was I repeated him exactly as he told me. He was 'aangereden' and they just understood and nodded. Later I discovered it simply meant that he already left.

[@tidalvvaves]

That's a saying from Brabant, I suppose. As a 'Rotterdammert' that confuses me too.

[@fermitupoupon1754]

@@tidalvvaves Not just Brabant, some parts of Limburg and Gelderland too. Comes from the German anfahren. We do the same thing with aanlopen.

[@Jappiebomb]

Wonderfully funny and charming videos! Thank you. xxx

[@AnymMusic]

if the classic "waar is de koffieshop" (where's the coffee shop) isn't in this, Imma be mad

[@fleximanbayeva]

Wait how is that a mistake?

[@lunadams5095]

Aziya Imanbayeva in The Netherlands a “coffeeshop” is a place where people buy/smoke weed. A place where you can go and drink a coffee would be a cafe.

[@fleximanbayeva]

Luna Dams oh I know that😂 I thought they actually wanted to smoke 😅

[@lunadams5095]

Aziya Imanbayeva oh haha 🤣 But it’s true tho, a lot of tourists think The Netherlands is the smoking paradise 🙃😂

[@reznovvazileski3193]

I believe that one got covered in part 1. I have heard it on this channel for sure though :')

[@luchie621]

Beginner Dutch learner here and I'm absolutely loving this! But please, ditch the background music. It's bloody distracting!

[@reznovvazileski3193]

Dutch grammar is a bitch sometimes :') "Weet ik veel?" Is a question implying you don't even know how much you don't know, where-as "Ik weet veel." is a statement claiming you do know a lot. All with the swap of 2 simple words the entire spirit of the phrase changes :p Additionally, interpunction can be absolutely crucial in some cases. My grandfather always showed me with a sentence showing how important the placement of a comma can be: Deze man deugt niet, ter dood veroordelen. (This man is no good, sentence him to death.) Deze man deugt, niet ter dood veroordelen. (This man is good, don't sentence him to death.) This way he always told me how the simple placement of a comma could quite literally be the difference between life and death. Never forgot that example :')

[@ItsMeMarieClaire]

2:52 "Weet ik veel" also mentioned in another recent video about expressions 😊

[@spyryal]

If that lady would ask me for a "Flasche Wein" I would start talking German.

[@kiraa6684]

'A MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR' In dutch we call that SCoOtmOBieL

[@Hadewijch_]

nope, in Nederland noemen we dat een elektrische rolstoel.

[@joppeoostvogels6355]

Ik wil graag een brootje kipfilet (geweldig)

[@Margonite]

I missed adding "hoor" to sentences (often confused with the oldest profession), and tourists asking for directions to "coffee shops" (while they actually mean coffee bars or restaurants.

[@codex4046]

That has been mentioned almost every other video. It's not interesting anymore.

[@LM-te9qj]

@@codex4046 To you maybe. Why so rude!

[@codex4046]

@@LM-te9qj it ain't rude, it's Dutch directness. Personally if I want to see the same content I just re-watch something.

[@LM-te9qj]

@@codex4046 Lol I am Dutch, lived here all my life, maar wat jij nu zegt is gewoon onbeleefd. Heeft niks met "Dutch directness" te maken.

[@sakinasousou3856]

Dankvel Pau voir Cursus

[@robertfurner1729]

when i was first here was in a hotel restaurant tried my bad dutch and wanted a spoon i asked for a tapel instead of a lapel

[@meesvanwinsen]

2:53 😂😂😂

[@cornellwaters9089]

♋ Thank You!

[@Rutteopvakantie]

Ik zeg niet eens woorden en ik zet mezelf voor schut

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

same.. maar in mijn geval ben ik gewoon de grootste kluns ooit.. als er iets om te gooien valt of als er iets is om je hoofd tegen te stoten dan gebeurt het minstens 2 keer..

[@asher3795]

Gefeliciteerd in plaats van gecondoleerd in eeen begrafenis. 🙄😭😢

[@ynel77]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :)))))))

[@sjtimmer7]

Veel water drinken... zwanger. Oh ja, dat is een gedachtegang die heel makkelijk te volgen is! Heeft iemand een bordje met het woord SARCASME erop?

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

🤣 ja nee dat dus.. ik zou juist denken na die heeft gewoon dorst of ze zal wel gezondere drankjes willen drinken ipv koffie of thee

[@sronvoorst]

Die achtergrond muziek staat wel hard hoor. Best irritant als je wilt volgen wat ze zeggen.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

I'm surprised you don't provide the actual words and translations on screen in your videos, given that your channel is aimed at language learners. If your interviewees don't say on camera what the dutch phrases they are using (or confusing) and what they mean in English (or another language), then it is impossible for anyone who is only beginning to learn Dutch to understand. Also, there are many people who are interested in Dutch but haven't actually started learning it. My interest, for example, comes from knowing three other Germanic languages (including English) which has meant that I can sometimes pick up the meaning of Dutch words and sentences because of shared vocabulary and familiar grammar (to Hoch Deutsch in particular). Sadly, most of this video and others like it are not understandable to me because it focuses on the nuances of the language which learners have come to understand - but they don't actually explain it.

[@samuelb6550]

I never clicked so fast

[@adzijderlaan7070]

Hier wordt weleens gezegd: wie zeurt krijgt een beurt en als je blijft zeuren kan het gelijk gebeuren. Grapje he, weet eigenlijk niet of dat tegenwoordig nog kan ? Moeilijk, moeilijk.

[@SinisterMud]

Okay why on earth would someone conclude that she is pregnant while asking for a glass of water?🤔

[@nomennescio7457]

It is because Dutch people assume that everyone that isn't drinking alcohol, must have a 'medical' issue. I'm Dutch and think this assumption is very annoying.

[@astridbell6709]

@astridbelll

[@YoYo-bb4nh]

I want to meet the black girl...

[@theophonchana5025]

Palestine (Israel)

[@anasawitri2678]

Nee. What a troll