#9 How to survive... speaking Dutch!

[SurvivalGuidetotheDutch]

We'd love to hear your suggestions for part 2 of this series! Which Dutch words would you say are real tongue twisters for foreigners?

[thomasbruinsma]

It's funny how the woman at 0:48 actually pronounces the 'g' sound and word 'gezellig' very well. But then she goes on saying to the man he's really good, even though he's awful.

[thror]

I hate when they pronounce the G even "rougher" than the Dutch guy and think that's how we speak. (I'm Flemish btw)

[coen]

"A made up language, that's what it sounds like" *Can someone please tell me wich language isn't made up??!*

[maudtrenite]

“What would I swaffel? The white house!”

Bless this man

[rolandet]

lol
"Arbeid" that's not so hard
tap tap tap tap but you might get it
tap tap tap tap tap :| i nearly fell of my chair laughing :)

[casperTM]

"A made up language, that's what it sounds like"

bish theres more languages on this world than just plain old english lmao

[gregorybeukes]

I'm from South Africa and my native language is Afrikaans
I love this
Make more videos plz
Ek verstaan alles 😂

[ItsMuxum]

The English girls have to shut op about The Netherlands

[audymaulizar]

Fun fact : if you say "gezellig" fast enough it sounds like "keselek" in Indonesian meaning "choking" which could probably accurately describe the feeling of foreigners when they try to pronounce those "g" sounds.

[norasprooten]

Niemand maar dan ook NIEMAND gebruikt het woord ‘swaffelen’ in nederland.

[justrosbief]

I fear no man but that thing scares me




G

[rimweber]

like when the two girls of the UK said "its a made up language" well thank you we didnt wanted to learn english in school, but we needed to.

[Luna-ifjw]

I am dutch and this was so sad to me the where like scared if the g or something😂

Plus i have never heard of swaffelen

[KexGD]

I love to see these kinds of videos about the Dutch language. And the fun part is that I'm Dutch myself, and I always love to see people react to the language, those can turn out pretty funny aswell!

[rosinabuckland]

Did they pick the most ignorant, narrow-minded people on purpose?

[robinsinpost]

I am from Norway. Ik kan Nederlands praten. Ik ben een noor.

[le.banana]

I swaffel
You swaffel
He/she/it swaffels
Haha how does a girl do that?😂

[sonjakramer]

Boi I'm dutch and wtf is Swaffelen.

Oh..

Oh fuck..

I DIDNT NEED TO KNOW THAT

[greutera]

On my fathers side I am Dutch (Lokker), Swiss (Greuter) and Irish (Murphy) and on my mothers side German (Preussner). I am fluent in German and can read Dutch but speaking and understanding it are very different. On one trip to Europe I visited family in northwest Germany and then took a train to visit friends near Gouda in the Netherlands. It was a learning experience of pronunciation of Gouda in English, German and Dutch.

I find all languages interesting. And there is an English equivalent to Swaffelen, it is Swaffling.