Dutch Pronunciation, Video 1: Dutch Phonetics & Spelling (2021, new version)

This is the first of a three-part series on Dutch pronunciation. The goal is to quickly familiarize you with the sounds of Dutch and the IPA symbols for those sounds. You'll then be able to learn them faster, either through your own studies or through the Fluent Forever app.

Please refer to this new video as you learn Dutch. It's our most up-to-date trainer, and it's what is used in our app.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
01:12 Easy consonants
03:23 Familiar sounds, new symbols
04:59 Modified versions of familiar sounds
08:36 4 new sounds
13:09 Review

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[spppjzu]

thank you for using professional language, transcription signs and schemes to describe the sounds, it makes understanding so much easier. most of the videos on YT offer you to just repeat without actually explaining what's going on. would also love to see mouthing closeups but still - this video is excellent

[reigo]

I absolutely love your pronunciation guide series! Please make more in other languages 😃 Looking forward to Danish and Vietnamese.

[AcuCN]

The dutch 'Sj' like in 'Sjaal' is just like the 'Xi' in chinese, this really helps!

[joadsonmatias]

We need the new version of the phonetic description of the other languages and new ones.
This is an excellent work!

[eduardo-urnj]

This is what I needed thank you so much!!

[pixelfrenzy]

I'm very pleased to stumble across this since I just started learning Dutch, but the audio quality on this is bad in places... much too heavily compressed, at least on Gabe's parts. Is there a better quality version somewhere else? Dank je wel!

[romuloVG]

Not "American" R, but English R in all English major variants

[memo]

Please make a video for the Turkish language

[ejt]

Very helpful. I took notes. But it also seems you left out the sound of 'd' at the end of words, which is often like 't'. I observe that Dutch 'wind' is pronounced something like 'vint' as an English speaker would say that spelling. In other words, a final 'd' seems a bit reduced from 'd' in other start or middle locations. Comments? ejt

[fgdfhdhjd]

You gave a wrong pronunciation guide for L. The l and ɫ are both in English and Dutch. It is not as you said that /ɫ/ for English and /l/ for Dutch. English link it is still /ˈlɪŋk/ not /ɫɪŋk/. It is sad that I need to point out this as a Dutch learner of first week.

[Hwelhos]

i actually pronounce both f and v as v word initially
and say sjaal as [sʃɐːʟ] and [sʃɪps], chip, jus and gin r said as [tjɪp], [ʒu] and [dʒɪn]
i usually use the correct one, [r], word finally its sometimed /ɾ/ and sometimes /ɽ/, having [buːʊɾ]
also /ʋ/ can be pronounced [w] word initially before o and u, like in [wɔrt]

[olof]

how do i pronounce ‘gr’ or ‘chr’ like in graag, schrijven?

[pallieterbeer]

As a native Dutch speaker I found that terribly hard to understand. Some of the sounds appeared totally foreign to my ears. I regret just spending money on a 2 year subscription to follow Spanish following your program. I thought I check out what you have to say about the pronunciation. What can I say: not impressed. 🤨

[MK-mmui]

Theres a lot of mistakes with the IPA in this video