Easy Dutch 1 - Basic Phrases from the streets

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People in Enschede help us to learn some of the most basic phrases in Dutch :)

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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

[aphrog]

Dutch is like the love child of English and German

[happybirthday]

1:43 Are we going to ignore the fact that this man needs help and we do nothing?

[spookje]

1:05 "how are you?" Background: screams

[joadsonmatias]

I've been studying Dutch since so long and I can understand naturally all of these expressions, they sound very familiar to me. This shows that I'm doing well with my studies! 🇳🇱😄

[radiofrog]

Dutch sounds like if a German person got really really drunk and tried speaking English to someone

[fishandchips]

As a native English speaker with some, albeit limited, German and an interest in old English and the Scandinavian languages, Nederlands has always fascinated me. It seems that either I get the gist of what people are saying to me, or feel like I really should have. I genuinely enjoy the way it sounds.
At first, it's the guttural consonants that draw your attention, but those are pretty easy and can even sort of serve as a marker in a word or sentence to keep you from losing your way. What I find difficult to reproduce are the vowel sounds. Some of them seem to hover tantalizingly just out of reach...langzamer alstublieft spreken

[gulakbulut]

Just watching Dutch peopel gives my face big smile, they always have good vibe! Love you guys!!!

[laurenbeeton]

I speak Afrikaans, understood basically everything (99.5%) . so surprised. i think i can speak dutch too after discovering this

[coffle]

1:32 I'd like to hear her say that in an airport

[rudyeilabouni]

So many words are like their German counterparts! 

Dutch - German
Det is een Boom - Das ist ein Baum
Natuurlijk - Natürlich
Gisteren - Gestern
Goedenavond - Guten Abend

Just some examples...

[lmusima]

Dutch is so straightforward. I had no struggles understanding what they were saying. Believe it or not I’ve never learnt this language at all. I’m a native English speaker and I did some German for a couple of weeks. I look forward to learning Dutch when ready

[soysauce]

I completed a 45-day streak of learning Dutch on Duolingo, and I found this video very motivating. I'll study further to understand all the expressions used here.

[vicachcoup]

Clever idea- much better to hear the native speakers than one person going through all the phrases

[asvinau]

english + german > put them in a blender > dutch

[LEON-]

I lived in Holland and loved it, took 1yr class and picked it in 2-3months not hard if you really want to learn it, you can pick it very fast, Also Dutch ppl are very nice, country is very nice, after living, visited Holland several times, and I communicate in Dutch not English, will visit holland soon, tot ziens ( see you) 👋

[danzillestrauss]

It is extremely similar to Afrikaans. So much, that I fully understood everything. This is the language we speak in south Africa, And Namibia.

[lyfelessemo]

As an English speaker, natively, Dutch, as written, seems like a mixture of English and German. Therefore, much of the vocabulary if you pay attention is quite similar.

[irondasgr]

Οοοοοοh I love Dutch people. They are so straightforward yet kind and happy.

[skeltonguy]

I am a native Arabic speaker and I speak English and French fluently I needed to learn dutch and after seeing how much dutch have similar words with English I guess I can speak it fluently in a month.

[haquoctienalejandro]

Go to a US airport and say this is a tree in Dutch :))))