Guillem and Sara show that Frisian isn't that hard to understand for Dutch native speakers

[@fablb9006]

It is funny that the introduction to Frisian to Dutch people is made by a Portuguese and Catalan people...

[@tonegrail650]

As a native English speaker I could understand that it meant butter bread and green cheese.

[@BobWitlox]

The word tsiis is closely related to cheese, so this sentence is actually easier to understand for an English speaker. Cheese is kaas in Dutch. That's why people are not making the connection with tsiis.

[@HenryVandenburgh]

@@BobWitlox Yes. It was odd that they picked those words, which are notorious as indicating the Frisian-English link.

[@SuperExodian]

as a fleming... frisian seems easier than half the flemish dialects lol. i for the life of me can't understand west flemings when they speak. but it is techncially a different family of dutch. my own dialect is brabantic and the rest of flanders is flemish.

[@r.v.b.4153]

"my own dialect is brabantic and the rest of flanders is flemish" Don't forget the Limburgish dailects in the east. They (much like Brabantian) do not speak (East/West) Flemish dialect either.

[@yannschonfeld5847]

Back over 20 years ago in Brittany, I was asked by a Breton farmer to translate what his Frisian farmer neighbours said in negotiating the manure quota for their respective lands. I speak only English, French and Breton. The Frisian farmers understood my English and I understood their Frisian (North Frisian). It was very basic but almost mutually intelligible. An old saying: " Bread and butter, and green cheese, is good English and good Frise."

[@HenryVandenburgh]

It's also because you can speak English. I speak German and can almost understand Dutch. Butter, Bread, and Green cheese are sounds in common with English, not Dutch or German, which have a common sounds different from these. (Booter, Brot, Grun, Kass...)

[@HenryVandenburgh]

Many think that Dutch is the language closest to English. It isn't. It's Frisian.

[@helloworld0911]

Butter bread and green cheese, even i got that and I don't speak Dutch or Frisian...

[@SuperExodian]

to be fair, the english word for cheese is closer to tsiis than the dutch, which is kaas. if you read tsiis you naturally kind of pronounce it as "cheese" whereas kaas is not even close.

[@Simon-oy7kf]

It's not bead though, "Brea" is something else, definitely not bread

[@AnOriginalYouTuber]

My uncle grew up in Friesland in the Netherlands. He barely knew anyone who spoke Friesian.

[@anthonyscully2998]

Can the Dutch understand africaan

[@SIG442]

Ja, wij kunnen Afrikaans grotendeels verstaan. Er zijn echter woorden die anders zijn.

[@klontjespap]

ja ons kan een bietjie Afrikaans verstaan

[@SIG442]

Ik bin it der mei ris, Frysk moat de nûmer in binne yn Fryslân en net Nederlânsk. It is net in offisjele taal om it fluch wer te ferjitte om't de Hollanders neat wolle begripe.

[@Leonardo7772012]

Moai!

[@peteymax]

Los inglés hablantes piensan el mismo sobre la lengua irlandés

[@AnOriginalYouTuber]

El irlandés pertenece a una familia lingüística totalmente diferente. Está relacionado con el idioma latino.

[@peteymax]

@@AnOriginalKZbinr Irlandés es una de las tres hermanas de la Familia Gaélica o la rama q-celta (irlandés, Manx, y Gaélico escocés). La otra rama de esta familia es rama p-celta (las lenguas de Galés, Cornwall, y Bretaña de Francia). Ellos tienen influencias del latín pero son partes de otra rama distinta de la gran familia Indoeuropea. Saludos y Sláinte