How similar are German and Dutch?

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Host of this episode: Carina Schmid and Nina
Camera: Janusz Hamerski
Edit: Janusz Hamerski / Carina Schmid
Translation: Ben Eve

[soapdispenser]

"Hey can I copy your homework?"

"Yeah but change it up a bit so it's not obvious"

[skwirl]

whenever I hear dutch it sounds like a mix of German and English.

[mHeartJC]

Nina spricht quasi akzentreies deutsch. Sehr beeindruckend. Man würde sie als Muttersprachlerin wahrnehmen, wenn man es nicht anders wüsste.

[mecharoo]

You forgot the false friend pair: meer and zee/see! (lake <-> sea)

[hansstromberg]

Being a rather ancient Swede - 74 - I spent six years in school - Realschule und Gymnasium - learning German, and about a year - evening courses only - trying to learn some Dutch.
Yet, when speaking German, I often find myself using Dutch words when I cannot find the apropriate German one.
Hans Strömberg

[michaeljuliano]

Ich verstehe Niederländisch besser als Schweizerdeutsch.

[janusluke]

Ich bin echt so begeistert mit Ninas Deutsch, ich würde wahrscheinlich denken dass sie Deutsch schon als Kind gesprochen hat. Wirklich krass!

[MJ-rvri]

4:17 So funny how the German woman pronounces 'twijfelen' in perfect Dutch immediately, and then she corrects it to the Flemish variant

[carlavandermeulen]

Ich bin Südafrikanerin und lerne seit 2011 Deutsch. Meine Muttersprache ist Afrikaans. Afrikaans ist fast gleich wie Flämisch. Ich verstehe Niederländisch auch, aber Flemisch besser. Seit ich Deutsch lerne, verstehe ich jetzt Niederländisch besser, weil es so viele Ähnlichkeiten zwischen Deutsch und Niederländisch gibt.
Ich habe gedacht das wäre interessant zu sein zu teilen

[Timbo]

4:15 Here Carina actually pronounced "twijfelen" more Dutch than Nina did with her Flemish accent haha

[desmorgens]

German: Komm hier!
Dutch: Kom hier!
English: Come here!
(West) Frisian: Kom hjir!

[HiddenXTube]

Niederländisch ist noch einfacher zu verstehen, wenn man westfälisches oder norddeutsches Plattdeutsch sprechen kann.

[aussieevonne]

This video is made for me. I speak Dutch, I'm learning German, I love the Flemish accent, and I am Australian. And, I love your videos. Thanks!

[greg_]

I'm an English speaker who studied German for 8 years before studying in Germany. When I went back to graduate school I took a few semesters of Dutch just for fun. I kept having to explain to my fellow students that I was not some kind of language genius, I just had a very big advantage going in.

[patrickaalfs]

I'm an English speaker who grew up around Dutch speakers so could comprehend and answer basic questions in Dutch. At University, I was required to take German for two years and now have problems with both. I never know which words are Dutch which and which are German without thinking it through, I just know neither are English.

[itsbk]

Get someone who speaks Afrikaans if you can so we could see the difference between all three

[jairomongegonzalez]

Two of my favorite languages! I always wanted to see you guys talk about this topic! Excellent video and keep up with the good work!

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[timsummers]

This has been one of the most interesting videos from Easy German in my opinion. What a lovely young lady Nina is!! Please have Nina in more videos that compare German with Dutch or any other theme you can use her for. Dutch and German are very closely related and I really like to study the differences and similarities between the two. How about have a native speaker of Dutch try to understand spoken German on the streets? That’d be a cool idea for a future video as well.

[linkskywalker]

I don't know why, but whenever I try to speak Dutch I sound like a pirate.

[joecool]

I reale love the Netherland people. I grow up in NRW and I was several times a year in the Netherlands. It was always fascinating. When both speak slowly their languages you're able to understand the most. Netherlands is a form of old German and so the language sounds somewhere between German and English.