Why Australia Doesn't Speak Dutch

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Despite what it may seem, Australian history is actually incredibly vast and complex, way too much so for an ignorant American to cover in a 6-minute video, but there is one question that is perhaps worth taking a look at: why does all of Australia speak English?
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[@KhAnubis]

For those of you who are about to comment it, yes, I know I mispronounced Geelong. Seriously. There are already enough comments here that bring that up.

[@SuperNinjaChef]

You pronounced Melbourne, Brisbane and especially Canberra correctly though :)

[@dasistliana5151]

KhAnubis well get it right to begin with. Seriously.

[@amnow4456]

Me: i'm excited for you to say Cairns Reality: *butchers it*

[@matthewdodd1262]

Misspelt Brisbane, Mispronounced Geelong and Cairns.

[@HugoWiffen]

Lol was just about to

[@Melvin420x12]

It’s just now that I realize New Zealand is named after the dutch province Zeeland.

[@EggKingBingChilling]

Ja dat is waar

[@ieriesb]

King Kong i think everyone knew that already but ok

[@ajdegroot1980]

The north of Australia is called Arhemland. Also very Dutch. Tasmania was named after Abel Tasman, but was actually named that by the British. They wanted to honour the Dutch discovery, but the Dutch had originally called it Van Diemensland. But if you pronounce that in English it sounds like Demonsland, and that was a bit too ungodly for the Brits :-)

[@allangibson8494]

@@ajdegroot1980 Van Demon's land was also a bit too close to the truth for the early residents.

[@rombout73]

Melvin das waar

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

sees Australia.... Dutch: Gekoloniseerd British: *Rule Britannia* Dutch: Damn (said Amsterdam)

[@grovemeister04]

Hello there Avery

[@tatarosgaming3176]

Amsterdamn

[@logestt]

We gotta start pillaging some stuff

[@ElroyNL]

Damn in Dutch is verdomme.

[@killertoxic2859]

We gotta start pillaging some stuff

[@MissMdubs]

I'm Australian... you don't have to be Australian to be able to talk about Australian history... just like you don't have to be English to talk about English history, or American to talk about American history. As long as you are well informed, keep making videos :) It is nice to see Australian history being discussed and having people who are not Australian realise it is actually quite a rich and interesting history in its own way. Keep exploring history :)

[@godawa-d9288]

Fake you dont exist 😉

[@user-xb9yv2ci4c]

GEKOLONISEERD

[@user-xb9yv2ci4c]

@@godawa-d9288 Like Bielefeld. The government says, that there is a German town called "Bielefeld" but thanks to random dude, who wrote something in the 90s in the internet, we now know the truth. (Fun Fact: The government of Bielefeld offered 1 Million Euros to the one, who proved their inexistence.)

[@india-russia6064]

Shut up you are Chinese. Don't be what you ain't

[@rombout73]

Hallo Nederlanders

[@joshual4513]

The Dutch were always good at discovering things, but never good at keeping them.

[@Tiktik_Xanim]

PrinzVonLangdelberg idk why they doesn’t make a colony for sletters, Australia would be a bilingual nation

[@bubbykins4864]

@@Tiktik_Xanim Farming: *Not very good* Netherlands: Nee. (No.) Some random prisoners: *discover gold* Netherlands: OH NEE! (OH NO!)

[@OGrandomunknownperson]

Spain: am I a joke to you

[@TheJH1015]

We were until the British came along... *looks at South-Africa, Ghana and the current states of New York, New Jersey and Delaware*

[@OGrandomunknownperson]

@@TheJH1015 u can take new Jersey back we don't want it

[@Maxime_K-G]

Poor Australians, now they don't have the pleasure of using "verkleinwoorden".

[@corejourneydotorg3166]

Verkleinwoordjes

[@IvonTheInternet]

😂

[@IvonTheInternet]

We Dutch people put “pje, tje or je” behind a word if it’s small. For example: Small = klein Window = raam Small window = Klein raamPJE Raampje is here the “verkleinwoord”

[@average-osrs-enjoyer]

@@IvonTheInternet "klein raampje" is echter nu dubbelop

[@IvonTheInternet]

Das waar

[@masterdebater6096]

We all know history started in 1588 *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

[@ArdePiertje]

Master Debater 😂😂

[@calibvr]

XD

[@thewhen1684]

nah fam Indonesians don't even speak yo language anymore.. we win 😌🇮🇩

[@psychedashell]

Adam Hills summed it up nicely. The Dutch found a place in what is now Western Australia where desert met sea and said 'Well, this is ridiculous. We cannot grow our marijuana crops here.' and left. The French found a place in what is now Southern New South Wales where sea meets swamp and declared that they agreed with the Dutch and the place was shit. They left too.

[@hughbukowski4810]

😂

[@simplyyellow6240]

Then british came and they say "Welp,everything in here try to kill us,better send those criminal down here so they can die naturally "

[@psychedashell]

@@simplyyellow6240 Population control that flies under the radar...or simply predates radar anyway.

[@jantschierschky3461]

@@simplyyellow6240 weird thing, I live in Western Australia and spend a lot of time in the bush and I am still alive.

[@milesellis2847]

South Coast of New South Wales is paradise

[@mississippimoo8854]

just a thought, brain4breakfast has passed away recently 2 months ago, but its nice of you to recommend his video though

[@bigdickdaddy12]

He mentioned that

[@mississippimoo8854]

@@bigdickdaddy12 ah ok i probably didn't see that

[@thevioletskull8158]

I never knew,my he rest in peace.

[@coolseanlee1974]

Actually like 4-5 months... Also coincidentally my dad discovered my comment about his death Anyway he should have been alive....

[@kap1242]

How did he pass away? That’s very sad.

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

Australia didn't get colonized by the Dutch because it didn't have spices on it.

[@xXWesterlingXx]

Or any known ores the dutch did send an expedition to look if it would be a good colony but the abnoriginals didnt have any knowledge of ores and the island didnt have spices

[@CharlesvanDijk-ir6bl]

The natives in Bali were better looking.

[@NasyaAyudianti]

Harrison La time traveler Anna ou- yeah they colonized Indonesia instead

[@ronzac55]

Charles van Dijk lol 😂😂😂

[@TheIamtheoneandonly1]

That being the case, why South Africa then?

[@defaultmesh]

continent when no spice 😴 _i sleep_ continent when haves spice 🤯 _r e a l s h i t_

[@Nitrodino7875]

What the fuck is this meme? Its not even funny or even makes sense.

[@darcylawler1688]

S p i c e r i j n

[@richardnixon2445]

@@darcylawler1688 zeg makker

[@andrewjgrimm]

Jose Castillo it’s a spicy meme.

[@defaultmesh]

@@andronikus_tppu1256 *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

[@MythologywithMike]

Dutch colonialism summed up- "We can find lots of places but we can't hold on to 'em!" Indonesia is the exception that proves the rule

[@Astro-pi6vt]

Mythology Guy we still have 8 countries under our name

[@PShermanWallabyBaySydney]

It was never the Netherlands' intention to colonise entire nations like Britain. We held strategic points around the world convenient for trading. That being said, the Netherlands still does own a couple of Caribbean Islands

[@robvoncken2565]

well we could have, we just did not want to. they were there to trade, granted we needed some strong points allong the way (New York, South Africa, indonesia ) but they were really there to ensure the flow of goods back home. KOLONISEREN not our thing

[@FOLIPE]

@@PShermanWallabyBaySydney It held quite a lot of land though at different points it time... It was simply pushed out of most of them eventually.

[@PShermanWallabyBaySydney]

@@FOLIPE aside from the Caribbeans, Indonesia and South Africa are the only countries we actually influenced

[@kleropunt277]

The NETHERlands: Under sea Australia: Down under 🤔🤔🤔

[@zaph8015]

Western Australia is pretty nice in its own way, though there is a ton of desert in the north and central parts of the state. The south of the state however (where I live) is much more temperate and there's actually a big rainforest about 1.5 - 2 hours from my house. Margaret River is a great example of this, the conditions are great for vineyards and as a result the region is very well known for wine.

[@masoncj6992]

west aus gang

[@lucadsa]

West Australian gang

[@kaelinabrahams6471]

Great Southern lads

[@xgormo9805]

Ahhh Western Australia, the place with a population of like 10 people 😂

[@caba.vrc1]

🇦🇺 W.A!

[@menice6736]

No spice Netherlands:..... Spice Netherlands: G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@claude1366]

A tourist was stopped by immigration at Sydney airport and was asked "do you have a criminal record" the tourist replied" I didn't know that was still a prerequisite for entry into Australia"

[@GhostNameless]

The real question is: why Australia doesn't speak Mongolian?

[@aussie870]

хэн мэдэх вэ

[@bubbykins4864]

Indochinese trees spoke Vietnamese at the Mongols and Japan kept watching the Mongols die in typhoons.

[@bucktooth002]

They do speak a variation of Hindu languages from India.

[@Nastya_07]

Australia was never part of the Mongol Empire

[@clar1nettist204]

why doesn't america speak the hundreds of native languages

[@proffesor_diggi1166]

As a citizen of ‘Gee-long’ I would like to inform you it is known as ‘Ji-long’, like a ‘Ji-raffe’

[@SillySaurous]

Ok 👍

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

No one really cares about that shitty part of the world.

[@SillySaurous]

@@thvtsydneylyf3th077 ok 👍

[@lordgarysoh]

Mentions 'late brain4breakfast' My heart hurts

[@devluz]

Nice to see another video about New Zealand’s West Island.

[@NashTheGreat]

That one time an australian guy tried to sell new zealand and the highest bid is 3000 dollar...

[@chocolatez9042]

Petition to rename Australia to west new zealand

[@dagsy70]

West Islands, don’t forget Tasmanian

[@MooKau_]

New Zealand is Australia's semi colon. Look ;

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

I'd pay 50p for Arderns removal

[@filmicreviews3270]

Britain seems to have a thing of taking Dutch territory such as New York, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa.

[@DidiPort]

These territories were Portuguese before they were Dutch, the Dutch took them from Portugal. They are the Portuguese East Indies 120 years before the Dutch even thought about coming to these places.

[@takurachitukuta6884]

They were territories of the natives

[@thomasov2004]

@@takurachitukuta6884 and europe was once conquered by romans. Boo-hoo everyone in the world was once ruled by someone else. Natives are not special.

[@lilblock3564]

@@takurachitukuta6884 Oh shut up

[@coolsummers7668]

@@thomasov2004 tf where did he say natives where special you stupid fuck 🤣 calm down loser

[@dylanrogers3723]

The simple version I was taught was that the Dutch came across Australia and thought it was a useless island with nothing on it, went home and never came back. A few years later the British came along and decided to explore it, found it was a good place and went home for permission to colonise. Then they came back with convicts and violence towards the first nations people and the rest is history... or future.

[@kakakhodenn9128]

The typical BRITISH way. 🇨🇼🇩🇲🇨🇦

[@sebastianlodge7549]

The violence towards the aboriginals actually came a bit later than immediate settlement. They got a long to begin with, apart from an aboriginal man stabbing the governor (who was trying to comfort the crying aboriginal man), probably some mis communication there. Interestingly the governor ordered no retaliation to take place. And also aboriginals throwing rocks at the settlers in their row boats. But yes, not soon after conflicts startled appearing, fighting over the resources of the land, animals hunting and stuff. But the settlers didn’t come with violence in mind, the horrible violent treatment of aboriginals came later. Sorry to the First Nations peoples about that.

[@hallerihanna932]

They actually traded with the indigenous peoples

[@masondegaulle5731]

@@kakakhodenn9128 Well they _did_ have a flag...

[@patrickbateman6885]

@@sebastianlodge7549 Typical fucking Twitter user. Stop apologising for something you didn’t do.

[@KorehannahBuitenlander]

As a person who has lived in both Australia and the Natherlands (still now), this video is very interesting and fun! Thanks! :)

[@BioDjango]

The Netherlands 👍🏼

[@sneeheee0674]

@@BioDjango Australia>Natherlands💪💪

[@kaanerdem2822]

Holland!

[@mcj2219]

Short answer: Sand was not good enough to plant weed or tulips

[@bubbykins4864]

Also, gold wasn't known to be in them hills.

[@mauricevandraanen4286]

The wooden trees were to hard to make glocs

[@loggerdogger8219]

And THE FUCKING FLIES

[@wotchermuch]

I’m sorry to make fun of you but I did have a hearty chuckle at the pronunciation of Geelong (Local pronunciation is “g-long” essentially)

[@MrDaverunamuck]

As in capital G long

[@LaPingvino]

as opposed to g-spot or g-string, got it!

[@Langeheinicke]

jee-long

[@andychauhan6544]

Never realized that the aussies were speaking english till now.

[@loggerdogger8219]

Wait what, what the fuck, which school did you go to, I knew americans spoke English from kindergarten

[@ohasis8331]

@@loggerdogger8219 What did they speak before kindergarten?

[@loggerdogger8219]

@@ohasis8331 to busy playing with my friends in preschool to worry about other stuff like that

[@hypercomms2001]

As an Australian, I do need to point out the major oversight in your production about why Australia doesn't speak Dutch. it is inexplicable that you made no mention about Abel Janszoon Tasman was the first European to actually discovered what is now New Zealand, and what is now Tasmania (as Tasmania is named after him, he named it Van Diemens Land, the name it held for many years, but was changed because of the bad reputation it gained because of the treatment of the convicts).... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman#Second_major_voyage And.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHfTaKN-mqyZq9U What would have been a more interesting topic in your documentary, is why. after the voyages of Tasman that the Dutch did not follow up with further explorations, as he did follow the Tasmanian coast up to Bass Strait, but was not able to cross it. The Dutch missed their opportunity to colonise Tasmania, or New Zealand. The rest of your documentary is peripheral to this central issue.

[@Mullkaw]

💀

[@parkesyreviewsstuff7587]

Look at the fucking neek in the comments

[@hypercomms2001]

@@parkesyreviewsstuff7587 Bummer… looks like a Neanderthal has decided to join Conversation…..

@@parkesyreviewsstuff7587 no need to belittle someone for having knowledge.

[@sieteocho]

As a Singaporean, I also need to point out one more thing. The Malay Archipelago is also another part of the world which had Anglo Dutch rivalry. The Dutch colonised Indonesia (and Malacca) for hundreds of years, and didn't get them to speak Dutch. (Some Indonesians spoke it, but it died out). Whereas in Malaysia and Singapore, we still speak English. New York doesn't speak Dutch either. The only foreign places colonised by the Dutch where they speak the language are South Africa (where Afrikaans is a variant of Dutch) and Suriname. The Spanish managed to spread their language to their former colonies, and so did the Portuguese and the French. Germany, Belgium, the Dutch and the Japanese didn't. So the answer as to why Australia doesn't speak Dutch is not to be found in Australia. You have to look at what's going on with the Dutch.

[@damienblackmore5318]

One language? HA! You've never noted it's only the official language, I can't go 100 meters in a city center without hearing at least 8 different languages.

[@LuckayyLucario]

3:22 just a tip, geelong is pronounced "jeh-long" and Canberra is pronounced "can-bruh" (basically if you say canberra really fast it makes the "berra" sound like bruh) bruh moment

[@Jan_Koopman]

It's cool that you remembered that the Dutch were the first to arrive in and name Nieuw Holland and Nieuw Zeeland, but that you forgot to mention that Tasmanië was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman

[@adambrock3932]

Actually Tasmania's original name was Van diemans land before that and before that it was part of new south Wales

[@QuilloManar]

Caiiiirrrrns I’m kidding, I really like this video. I’m from the Gold Coast and didn’t even know it’s the 6th largest city in Australia o: I always love videos about Australia even if the presenters get the strange way we pronounce our town names incorrect. I’m just really happy you didn’t say, “Can-bear-a, or Mel-born, or Bris-bain”

[@papacaliente8789]

Nice video!

[@emilyjay7844]

I grew up in Wollongong and ive never heard a non Australian pronounce it that close to correct, and you did great with Canberra (our forgotten by the rest of the world capital city)

[@MooKau_]

But if youve been to canberra, yould understand why its best left forgotten.

[@emilyjay7844]

@@MooKau_ i.. i live there.. i have for 6 years..

[@MooKau_]

@@emilyjay7844 My condolences.

[@emilyjay7844]

@@MooKau_ yeah fair enough

[@christopherellis2663]

Apart from the fact that the Dutch never settled there, apart from the odd SHIPWRECK, there are over sixty non-indigenous and more than that indigenous languages spoken in Australia 🇦🇺 including Nederlands and Vlaams. English is only the official language. The French, on the other hand, claimed Western Australia and explored much of the rest of it. Eg , Barallier. You need to pay attention when you travel, or you won't know anything, like Hazelnut Ice-cream in seven languages or kafe esna, café amb lat, kava s mlijekom, Cafe con leche, cafea cu lapte 🥛 🇦🇺🧙‍♂️🇲🇪

[@thetrashmaster1352]

There is no official language in Australia, there are multiple streets with signs in Mandarin, Dutch, Italian and Arabic and there are TV channels and radio channels which are exclusively Non-English. Also the French never claimed WA, they explored the coast to see if it was one landmass and once they found it was one island they gave up. Also, Barrallier was a French Refugee The whole point of colonizing Australia was to stop the French doing it.

[@MissMdubs]

Yes, there are many languages spoken in Australia but to suggest the dominant language spoken isn't English is misleading. It is the lingua franca of Australia. Indigenous communities and immigrant communities of course speak their own languages in their homes and among their community groups but the schools teach in English and the government institutions are English speaking. This is an unfortunate by-product of how comprehensive British cultural colonialism was, particularly as it pertained to reducing the population of indigenous peoples. Australia is multicultural and proud - but when you go there the main language is English. If we spin it any other way we are not being honest with ourselves and our history.

[@timxg]

@@thetrashmaster1352 WHEN???

[@rachelcookie321]

@@thetrashmaster1352 while there is no official language, the National language is English.

[@JakeyDill]

Well done on the pronunciation. One mishap is a solid effort.

[@m.j.4927]

Australia doesn't only speak English we speak many indigenous langouges

[@amyrowe486]

You did an excellent job at pronouncing the names of our weird places! I’m Australian and cannot pronounce half of them, well done!

[@andyjay729]

It also came relatively close to speaking French. The French explorer Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de Laperouse, arrived at Botany Bay just south of present-day Sydney literally three days after the First Fleet. There's definitely an alternate universe out there where "l'Australie" became a French colony, and, with a further base in still-French Polynesia (Tahiti), the French proceeded to dominate the Pacific. Who knows what sort of ripple effects THAT might have had elsewhere? With a closer base to India, could they have forced the British out of there and taken over? Could the 19th century have become "the French Century" as opposed to "the British"?

[@rachelcookie321]

New Zealand also got some French colonies. See the towns of Akaroa and Duvauchelle. Side note: Kiwi’s terribly mispronounce Duvauchelle.

[@loggerdogger8219]

Botany Bay is in Sydney, not south of it, you go south you'll find Wollongong and Lake Illawara And the first fleet did not land in Botany Bay, captain Cook had told them too, because thats where he landed, but they got there and it was too shallow for the ships to go in very far, so they went 4 kilometres north to Port Phillip, (modern day Sydney Harbour) and settled down in circular quay

[@SirChappie10]

Great video! The way you said Geelong had me rolling with laughter.

[@RonZhang]

So the Dutch went to Western Australia and failed, whereas the British went to the Eastern Australia and succeeded. Brilliant.

[@boratsagdiyev1586]

They happend to sail past it, a discovery is not a failure. Occupying a wasteland is.

[@satan422]

@@boratsagdiyev1586 exactly

[@dlhussain81]

Ron Zhang are you a WOG?

[@yellfire]

The dutch set foot in NORTH australia in 1605. Willem Janszoon landed in Cape York Peninsula as the first european. He thought he discovered a part of New Guinea. In the following years twenty-nine other Dutch navigators explored the western and northern coasts in the 17th century in search of gold, spices or Christian converts, and dubbed the continent New Holland, but made no attempt at settlement.

[@drpepper3838]

We didn't fail, we realized we couldn't do much with a huge dry piece of land so we let the English have it

[@trokoro]

Australia could had been an "American" colony same way as the Philippines were a "de facto" Mexican colony (from the Viceroyalty of New Spain) even if Mexico got independence in 1824 while the Philippines continued to be an Spanish colony until 1898 with the American invasion.

[@TheNinjaDC]

Simple, they performed even worse against the Emu than the Australian army. Dead men spread no dialect.

[@toni4729]

The Dutch managed to sail right past South Africa without you noticing.

[@tarwinwannatham4196]

did you guy know that siamese samurai Yamada Nagamasa is one the first to discover Australia around coral sea and torres island. Around early 17th century. He was order by Thai king during Ayutthaya time.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

“Siamese Samurai”?!

[@FC-BS]

As an Australian I would have to agree that this is true

[@michielvdvlies3315]

tasmania is also named after a dutch sailor! Abel Tasman

[@dabohdsta]

I was told in Australian school that James Cook took the route under Africa Africa through the Tasman Sea...

[@apvlogs93]

Portuguese came to India first but Indian don't speak Portuguese. It's not about who came first, it's about who controls the most land and have more influence over people.

[@vanderpraast4938]

You should ask "why Indonesia doesn't speak Dutch?😏

[@normaldutch1285]

Would be fun if you guys speak dutch

[@FedorSteeman]

The Dutch colonisers realised that there already was a local lingua franca and educated people in that rather than Dutch.

[@TopNederlands1]

Some of indonesia speaks dutch.

[@hendrikdependrik1891]

The Dutch were convinced a made-up language would be better for Indonesia than Dutch. If the Netherlands had decided that Dutch should be your language, you would have spoken Dutch today with of course the local language at each island. The Dutch chose the Caribbean language policy instead of the Suriname policy.

[@BloodRider1914]

Do a video on why Australia exists

[@sarksdhar3693]

Wait it does?

[@Zak-ob5ze]

Because Britain needed a place to export criminals

[@jamesalexander5623]

I exists because of continental drift!

[@minitin108]

@@sarksdhar3693 Mr sarks, I don't feel so good

[@diamondmarker8072]

Some nice piece of history

[@killertoxic2859]

*_But Oversimplified, the British didn’t discover Australia...T H E V I K I N G S D I D_*

[@Rainb0wzNstuff]

Hey where yall at

[@cobbercube]

KillerToxic28 no the aboriginals did

[@danpanoke223]

Geelong is pronounced je-long, welcome to oz... Edit: autocorrect made je, double E :)

[@EvilParagon4]

Jee-long.

[@Hannah-xi7ng]

I love how you pronounced Geelong wrong. Gave me a chuckle, great video though!

[@samueljesse2179]

The Portuguese navigated Australia before the Dutch , the Dutch only sailed down the West coast, William de Vlamingh . The British explorer William Dampier also explored the West coast of Australia around this time. The French had expoditions to the South Western part of Western Australia and South Australia, the Dutch also navigated over as far as Tasmania which they called Van Diemens land.

[@neddyladdy]

The Dutch were not the next mob to find the continent after after the Aboriginals, That honour goes to the Portuguese as far as anyone knows.

[@nqadventures9773]

Don't say things you don't now aboriginal s are probably the first people on earth

[@guuslombarts9004]

That’s too strong of a statement. There is no actual proof. Only a canon that was found that looks a lot like the ones from Portugal back in the day.

[@neddyladdy]

@@guuslombarts9004 Fuck me dead, what do you require as proof ? That is how almost everything from antiquity is identified. That is a hand axe because it look like a hand axe. That is a Roman coin because it looks like a roam coin and so on. There are also Portuguese maps dating to before the first Dutch claim.

[@rickheuvels5124]

This summer i'm going there, so time to recolonize something 🇳🇱🇳🇱

[@user-vs8kj7pl8p]

Om te koloniseren neem ik aan?

[@henk-3098]

Ga naar de regering van Australië en bied aan om tien frikandelbroodjes te ruilen voor Australië.

[@rickheuvels5124]

@@henk-3098 zal t proberen

[@nqadventures9773]

Don't watch this video to recolonize things he now's nothing about Australia

[@imgonewiththewindfab]

Boring . Always bread and milk

[@koffiewolf]

Its because ''Een gevangenis eiland verstopt in een eindeloze zomer voor een miljoen jaar'' is more catchy in English.

[@cizzalav3215]

Recommend anyone interested in such things to read Islands of Angry Ghosts, about the Batavia shipwreck in 1629. A Dutch East India ship that wrecked off the ghost of Western Australia, and the awful things that happened to the survivors (by other survivors). Fascinating part of history!

[@Joe13313]

We Have Dutch People Living In Australia. I Call Them Australiaans

[@Tiktik_Xanim]

Joe 13 Australians are more boxers than Canadians

[@starsavior10]

But KhAnubis , weren't the vikings were the first to,reach Australia?

[@Daaninator]

Would be cool to have more Dutch speaking people

[@sangliupdate7368]

First tell what ist the difference between Dutch and british

[@matteomurphy7541]

I’m from Western Australia, one of the nicest places in the world with a vast array of landscapes that take years to explore them all.

[@finnlaygrant-mackay3029]

0:05 Khanubis. Are you aware that Sydney isn’t the entirety of Australia? Also, we kinda made the first polymer bank notes.

[@Buenosz8]

Sometimes I wonder if we cared more about bigger colonies, and let them speak our language, how big Dutch would be. If you look at all the countries: Australia, New Zealand, United States, Indonesia and already The Netherlands, Belgium, South-Africa, Namibia, Suriname and some Caribean islands Dutch would be literally one of the most spoken languages in the world

[@James-lk3ts]

You were almost perfect with City pronunciation im so proud 🥺

[@James-lk3ts]

Also geelong is pronounced juh-long and canberra is can-bruh :)

[@loggerdogger8219]

@@James-lk3ts everybody mispronounces it to a point that it's annoying lol

[@lordtrigon1733]

As an Australian I am flattered you consider the words we speak a form of English.

[@brianmo7763]

More interesting question: why doesn't Indonesia speak Dutch?

[@MegaBallPowerBall]

Brian Mo The wealthy and powerful Dutch elite there used the language as a power symbol and prevented the language from becoming widespread. By the time the Dutch changed their minds, it was too late.

[@raediaufar4454]

They don't teach dutch to locals. Also melayu is already become lingua franca for hundreds of years in Indonesia

[@raushanaljufri]

Even before colonialization, Malay (which eventually developed into indonesian) was already used as a lingua franca in the region. So the dutch just learned malay and it was enough to control the local population. Additionally, Dutch was reserved for the colonial elite, and was never actually imposed on the local population

[@RealLifeW0rld]

*Any piece of land exists* *Britain :* It's free real estate. *Rule BRITANNIA intensifies*

[@AridersLifeYT]

dude you are wrong within the first 15 seconds, Aborigines were the first to get here when they migrated from micronesia THEN, the Portuguese navigated it 60 years before the dutch then cook chimed in about 110 years later.

[@schaos2765]

G in Geelong is pronounced in the same way it is in the word Gin…you did remarkably well with the rest

[@devilpizza123]

Lol Geelong is pronounced more like Je-Long btw.

[@jacobpaint]

Often outsiders can give a different more objective point of view even if they might miss many nuances that locals understand better. To an outsider the idea that Western Aust is a worthless barren wasteland is possibly indicative of why the Dutch bypasssd it but in a modern world it's probably quite nice to visit (the only mainland state I haven't been to) as a tourist. The northern and southern reaches are probably much more interesting but if your looking for resources it's probably quite lovely... But the Dutch explorers had no way of seeing that.

[@stantonclark]

3:25 did u just say “GEE long”. 😂😂😂

[@K3.z00]

Just for the peeps wondering no idea if that is said in the vid cuz I’m not far but Tasmania is named after Abel Tasman I believe who is a Dutch navy leader (idk I’m not sure)

[@9264tri]

English is the offical language but Chinese is mostly spoken

[@Princeofbelka]

HighNeder Mapper unfortunately (help)

[@jecos1966]

Australia don't have offical language

[@abandonedchannel281]

When Australia becomes ROK

[@jecos1966]

@@abandonedchannel281 ROK?

[@9264tri]

@@jecos1966 republic of korea

[@EvilParagon4]

Great video, two things: Australia is a Continent and an Island. Queensland is pronounced exactly as it's spelt. Unlike most areas around the world that turn -land into -lund, Queensland is just pronounced as "Queen's Land."

[@MissMdubs]

You mean... don't make the mistake of pronouncing it like the English pronounce "England"?

[@daddytummy786]

Oceania is a continent

[@jamesalexander5623]

@@daddytummy786 Yeah, but 97% of it is under water!

[@EvilParagon4]

@@daddytummy786 Oceania is not a continent, Australia is the continent.

[@rachelcookie321]

Australia isn’t a continent, the continent is Oceania.

[@norskibox1780]

I can confirm, the main language everyone speaks is English. Schools teach German or Spanish etc but i've noticed they're teaching native Aboriginal tribe languages to younger kids which is pretty cool. Some areas have little communities who speak a different language. I remember once passing a town that had Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana on all it's posters, advertisements and billboards. I've also seen Arabic on property signs. Australia is known for it's multiculturalism. Some people in my highschool communicate to their friends in their first language, and since i'm half and half, I speak 2 languages often. But, if anyones travelling, English should be just fine.

[@jeksewnoleeray1020]

3:30 I'm sure someone's corrected you already, but we don't pronounce the 'r' in Cairns so it's pronounced more like 'cans'. Geelong is pronounced with a soft 'g' sound so it's more like 'jehlong'. Otherwise your pronunciation is fine.

[@RRAAZZAA]

And Ballarat isn’t pronounced bell-rat its pronounced bell-a-rat

[@TRtraybloxeey]

Australia is a very open country which has people coming from 200+ countries, speaking their own languages.

[@SebOrSam]

RIP brain4breakfast 💔

[@realblu000]

KhAnubis: *call australia as a island Me: wait that is not true.... australia is a continent

[@loggerdogger8219]

Haven't even watched the video, but let me just say, the Dutch landed in a remote part of dessert WA, and saw the atrocious amount of FUCKING FLIES SWARMING EVERY FUCKING LIVING ORGANISM, and got the fuck out of there

[@timehmalzeuzkeh7618]

No one really pays attention to australia other than its seemingly “dangerous wildlife,” people dont know the names of our states, any city besides sydney and our culture. We have a history of being cruel to the indigenous and its really pleasent to see someone who isnt australian give it some recognition.

[@martinjenkins6467]

We're kids play compared to what the American's did to the Indians. The Spanish were even worse in Mexico and South America. Everyone colonized back then. The American Indians would have Been better off if the British had kept America as colonies. They didn't take the western half. The American's made treaties and then Broke them.

[@ddc2957]

Yes we have a history of being terrible to them & they have a present & future of being terrible to us.

[@graaace1]

@@ddc2957 What are you talking about?

[@ddc2957]

Life in Australia

[@coolsummers7668]

@@ddc2957 when ? I’m sure indigenous Australians traveled to Britain lmao 💀

[@richardmartin8998]

Spoiler alert: the Dutch might have found parts of Australia first but the British ACTUALLY did something by establishing settlements. The Dutch mostly arrived as immigrants after WW2. So basically you snooze, you lose.

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

Western Aus is still very odd, from the people, to the landscape

[@cathybaldry7822]

"And some ppl in Tasmania!" Chuckle! Thanks for even mentioning my city

[@user-vs8kj7pl8p]

The world would be a better place if everyone could eat frikandelbroodjes. If you have never tried it my condolences

[@BenHohn]

I live in Australia 🇦🇺

[@saturnproductions1827]

Same

[@xXWesterlingXx]

Gonne throw a shrimp on the barbie?

[@nqadventures9773]

@@xXWesterlingXx stop plz stop

[@teddy_alwaysfindsaway5278]

o live in australia sooooooo good job you did really good

[@trokoro]

Don´t forget the Torres Strait named after the Spaniard Luis Vaz de Torres in 1605. So why Australia didn´t become an Spanish colony when Spaniards were already in the Philippines, Northern Borneo, Guam, Caroline, Mariana and Palau islands (Spanish East Indias)

[@kingdomplantae7790]

Dutch grammar is quite difficult, that's why the Australian government decided to adopt English and Italian as official languages.

[@EdekLay]

Why would a British colony speak Dutch?

[@jevongraham5223]

They should adopt some aboriginal languages in their official languages out of a minimum amount of respect for them

[@myamdane6895]

i Preza The vast majority of Australia can't speak any Aboriginal dialect.

[@jevongraham5223]

@@myamdane6895 you mean the ex-British immigrants can't speak any aboriginal, whereas some native "real" Australians can, so they should maybe aknowledge at least the native aboriginal and maybe have it as an official language or teach it as an option in school. Sorry for going on about it lol

[@ShockingPikachu]

Probably the only person I have seen pronounce Melbourne correctly and Geelong incorrectly

[@shadowredstone7123]

tassy is the most habitable place in Australia, also it Geelong is pronounced, GE-long

[@Kalashboy420]

i dunno melbourne has won most liveable city multiple times haha

[@Zei33]

You did pretty well pronouncing the names of the cities. Only Geelong was wrong as far as I noticed (pronounced jilong). Rep Sunshine Coast

[@milky694]

I can't believe how you BUTCHERED Geelong , it's not gee-long , it's je-long

[@thetrashmaster1352]

Fun fact: Australia doesn't have an official language and one in 24 Australians can't speak english. English is just the de facto language but nothing is stopping schools, towns or the government from switching to another language, in fact, a lot of places in the major cities have whole communities where English isn't spoken at all and even the road signs are in other languages (Usually Chinese).

[@yescool4005]

R u dumb. Australia's official language is English . There are no major cities/ towns that don't speak English. I live in Australia and I have not seen 1 street sign that has any Chinese on it. Only 1.6 percent of people In Australia speak Chinese . There is only 18.2 percent of people that don't speak English and they are probs fresh off the boat

[@mauricevandraanen4286]

Well then I must have been blind sided because I never saw those other names in non English and i traveled around Australia nearly 2 times on the coastal roads ofcourse, not the beaches

[@ChasingDragons420]

You will only see Chinese roadsigns around popular tourist destinations.

[@fang8227]

this is not true its english schools teach english there might be some special school out there that teaches specially in other languages as their probably is in america etc but no in every public school you would need to know english

[@KeySniffer12]

The Portuguese where the first to get into close proximity to Australia.

[@wesdahlqvist_]

being victorian.. so i am very close to all of my surrounding towns saying geelong really triggered me 😩

[@ronh2660]

Ha ha ha Good joke Have you ever heard an Australian speak? It is anything but English!!!

[@ahmadmuhdi190]

Hahaha Good one, Mate...

[@RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv]

English is a Germanic languages. And so is Dutch Danish Swede Norway Island Austria Belgium etc etc etc.

[@branndly]

Redbad van Rijn u mean Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic (austria and belgium aren’t languages)

[@RedbadvanRijn-ft3vv]

@@branndly There all Germanic languages,even English is a Germanic languages. North Europe,are all brothers.

[@branndly]

Redbad van Rijn im not denying that im just trying saying that belgium and australia are countries which speak germanic languages but aren’t languages on itself. U get me?