Dutch Language | Can English speakers understand it? | Part 1

Can English speakers understand the Dutch language? 🤓 Watch the video and play along to find out! 😁

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My name is Norbert Wierzbicki and I am the creator of @Ecolinguist channel.

📝 Contact details for the guests of the show are:

🇳🇱 💬🤓 Kim Jautze: the Dutch teacher → @learndutchwithkim
📱Instagram: @learndutchwithkim

🤓🇯🇵 Matt: the Japanese and language learning expert → @mattvsjapan

🤓🇬🇧 Simon Roper: the Old English expert → @simonroper9218

🕰 Time Stamps:

0:00 - Introduction
1:45 - 1. Sentence.
3:43 - 2. Sentence.
6:57 - 3. Sentence
11:26 - 4. Sentence
15:19 - 5. Sentence
18:01 - 6. Sentence
21:54 - 7. Sentence
25:12 - 8. Sentence

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Soundtrack:

🤗 Big hug to everyone reading my video descriptions! You rock! 🤓💪🏻

#dutch

[edding]

As a native Dutch speaker, I could understand all sentences.

[Nostalgia_Realm]

In this video: Old English turns out to be a gateway drug into learning other Germanic languages

[Foodgeek]

As a Danish, German and English speaker. Reading Dutch almost always makes perfect sense :)

[urphakeandgey]

I think this video really shows how much English is, in fact, a Germanic language no matter how much it tries to be a Romantic Language.

[ballinbadger]

Prediction: Simon, with his knowledge of old english, is going to knock this out of the park.

[britt]

Me, watching as a dutch person: wow I'm really good at this

[jjgg]

Simon's analytic skills are really impressive in the way he disconnects from his own linguistic background

[sovanima]

impressive how Simon was able to understand everything by decoding the meanings with the solid knowledge of how language logic has developed trough time

[potman]

"I think the Old English has helped me more than I realized it would."

Absolute fucking King.

[FeanaroNoldoran]

I'm a little disappointed Simon didn't introduce himself as: Speaker of Old English

[tonycasey]

I really like these "can X language speakers understand Y language speakers" videos. I also really like how laid back and quietly confident Simon Roper is.

[headrush]

As a German with English knowledge I understand almost all. Especially if you hear the sentence and see the written from. Some sentences I understand immediately. Like "Mijn vriend doet kaas op zijn brood." Means in German "Mein Freund tut Käse auf sein Brot"

Acutally "tut" is mostly interchanged with "macht"(makes) in case, but in some regions of Germany tut is also used.

[cheeveka]

There needs to be a video of Old English, German, and Dutch.😌

[MrWennerstrom]

"will be representing a British English speaker" (who speaks Old English fluently)

[raymondwhatley]

My knowledge of German seems to have given me an unfair advantage while I was playing along at home.

[Bartkonig]

Maybe I'm just a linguistic geek, but I love watching these videos. And It's very interesting to see how much these people do or do not understand Dutch. Keep it up😉 (Dutchie here!)

[booma]

As an Afrikaans person I felt like i was almost cheating. The patat got me though.

Genuinely enjoyed this video, was a lot of fun to guess along with you guys

[markdelange]

Funny how Simon was able to understand a lot of it through his command of Old English - when I studied English in university, I aced my Old English classes by reading everything as though it were Dutch.

[pilzz]

As a native german that is almost fluent in dutch and currently at uni to become a Dutch teacher in the future, I actually got every sentence!
No, I‘m actually so impressed by Simon. I knew that old English is quite similar to modern Dutch and German but to be able to put the sentences together like that is seriously impressive.