British Reacts To Is Dutch EASY to learn

British Reacts To Is Dutch EASY to learn

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[ronaldderooij]

Most of the basics of Dutch are quite straightforward and logical comparable to German (but easier). BUT.... if you dive deeper, you WILL be mentally shredded, eaten alive and your sanity will be up for grasp!! So, my recomendation would be, stick to the basics and then go with the flow. It will come automatically, eventually. Ask Dutch people NOT to switch to English! I know from an Australian woman who married a Dutch man and went to live in The Netherlands that she made her husband promise not to use a word of English for three months. She was a very reasonable Dutch speaker after that. I have a deep respect for that approach.

[pamforrester]

They say it's easier to learn the younger you are when wanting to learn a second language, I've been exposed to the language some and it does have a beautiful sound, this was fun, thank you as always

[Pietervandebuurt]

Dutch is actually the closest major language to English, the closest language is Frysian, which is spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland.

[nielsvaneijk]

True - most ppl make the mistake to compare it to German when actually it is easier to compare with English when reading or speaking usually it is more or less the same only pronunciation is way different 😊

[oldebarneveldt]

"Things in a kind way, doesn't exist in Dutch" (3:00)
First you can express yourselfin Dutch in a very polite way. e.g. Zou U genegen zijn om ons voorstel in beschouwing te nemen (Would you be inclined to consider our proposal, "U" being the polite form of 'you').
Second, a distinction has to be made between expressing oneself in a polite way and being kind. Let's take an example:Do you think this is kind? to say "Interesting! I'll have a closer look.", whilst you think it's crap. I don't!

[mg]

Dutch and German are simular but diffent, not the same. When they dont know any of each others language it will take a lot of effert to do understand. You can make big errors when you use a same word in Dutch or German (false friends). We do have some remaining rules for genders, and for not native speakers its almost impossible to find out if the article is "de" or "het" (the in English).

Emigrants, even second or third generations, make this mistake. Far to often they use "de" (originally the article for male or female words) where it must be "het"(neuter article). Het meisje = the girl is a deminiative and therfore always "het". They will use "de" instead.
People will make the same mistake with "the girl that", "het meisje dat". "Dat" in this case is the relative pronoun and people will say "het meisje "die" instead. "Die" is only used for words that originally are male or female. And nowadays more and more people make this mistake with the relative pronoun. Even on TV you hear it more and more. Its is predicted that in a hundred years time (if humanity is allowed to live that long) the neuter article will have vanished alltogether. The cases and genders, like in German, have allready disapeared for the most part.

[palantir]

Dutch is relatively easy for speakers of indo-Germanic languages like English, German and Scandinavian.

[sevenfingeredpianist]

hey Dusank, your Discord server is quiet, apparently no one likes talking to me or they are busy.... anyhoos still working on it

[FacelessJanus]

In this case, my boy, your opinion means deadly squat to me. Being a polyglot translator and for fun do some etymology on the side, I think I know my languages. (Better ask my friends, as I can not help but be biased in regard to myself.) Chinese is easy by comparison, however Russian or Hungarian are a different thing. And yes I do speak Hungarian, no Russian, as I think my next language must be something a tiny bit easier to grasp for me.
I do understand that the grammar can be seen as difficult for native English speakers, but in my belief that is due to the extreme flatness of English as a language. With that I mean, there are mainly no formal/informal forms of words. I address a young kid as you, but the King of England I will still address as you. Also there are not many nuances in words, meaning angry, mad etc which tend to have 5, 6 or more variations in other languages, to express the emotion more properly. These are a few examples, to explain what I mean by a flat language. I could go much deeper, and compair modern English to Old English etc, but I think you get what I am trying to say here.
From my own experience, and yes others might find a few languages more difficult or complex, so I am not stating an absolute truth, I would say Hungarian is by far the most difficult language I know.
Dutch, like German is a Germanic language. French is a latin language, English is Anglo-Saxon. In case of the latter Saxon comes from Saxony (Sachsen) which is a region in Germany. I can go deeper, as this is pretty much overly simplyfied, but it explains a bit imho.

[damienzwikstra]

if you want the EZ views from our dutchies, have some respect and start leanring our language abit. nah jk, but it would be alot of fun to hear you give it a try