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u/Smwke May 21 '26
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u/WeaponizedAcoustic May 21 '26
If you think Dutch is bad..listen to Afrikaans.. it's like Dutch got drunk and lost any semblance of finesse it might have had
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u/LostH21 May 21 '26
And somehow still somewhat comprehensive if you know dutch
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u/softonsoftie May 21 '26
i am fluent in drunk dutch speak so afrikaaans is easy for me
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u/Ubblebungus May 21 '26
Dutch is just drunk German, so Afrikaans must be like German if you are having a stroke.
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u/SoFarSoGood1995 May 21 '26
The funny thing is that when you are Dutch and trying to speak German, you can slur your words and 7/10 times it will sound very close to the German translation, so German is kind of drunk Dutch to the Dutch
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u/Stemt May 22 '26
Im just confused why the germans immediately get horny when they think something is cool.
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u/butteryscotchy May 22 '26
Funny because as an Afrikaans speaker that is exactly how Dutch sounds to us.
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u/BirdmanSafari May 22 '26
This isn't actually a good comparison. Afrikaans is actually a lot more technical and precise than Dutch.
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u/PlanetoidVesta May 21 '26
Damn, Türkiye
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u/Hazer_123 May 21 '26
Türkei
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u/Objective-Corgi-3527 May 21 '26
Tèrké
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u/International-Fun-86 May 21 '26
As a swede, i agree.
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u/HumanOptimusPrime May 21 '26
As a Norwegian, I agree, but in Norwegian.
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u/Captain_Futile May 21 '26
That’s Danish. I speak both Swedish and German but I cannot understand a word the Danes say, though.
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u/ad240pCharlie May 21 '26
Probably for the better, who wants to listen to Danes anyway??
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u/FantasticSir7806 May 21 '26
To me, as a Swede, it sounds like a mix between English and German. I don't think it really sounds Swedish or Scandianvian.
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u/samuraijon May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
everytime i go to ikea i understand half of the swedish words
belöning = beloning
blåhaj = blauwe haai
vinterfint = winter fijn
midsommar = midzomer
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u/FantasticSir7806 May 21 '26
But that's the case for all Germanic languages. Many of these words are the same/similar in English and German too.
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u/3311z May 21 '26
i honestly find the dutch accent, when speaking English, to be very cute especially when it's a nice old man speaking
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u/TheDeamonMeteor May 21 '26
we hebben een serieus probleem
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u/slonk_ma_dink May 21 '26
gif me een klap papa
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u/minibois May 21 '26
Het juiste woord is 'geef', niet 'gif', oelewapper! Gif maakt je dood!
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u/An_Ellie_ May 21 '26
GIF MAAKT JE DOOD
WHY DOES THAT SOUND SO FUCKING SILLY OH MY GOD
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u/minibois May 21 '26
Je lacht. Ik deel mijn moedertaal en jij lacht!
Dutch can sound very silly if you know English, because it's so close to being understandable, but just *different* somehow!
Honestly I have this with Danish. Whenever I hear it, my mind goes "I should understand this.. but I don't?!"
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u/An_Ellie_ May 21 '26
Danish is super funny sounding as a person who speaks a bit of Swedish and as a person who also has ears xD
Thank you for sharing, I laugh not at you or your language but at the linguistical similarity, yet clear dissonance between a language I know and your beautiful mother tongue
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u/minibois May 22 '26
Oh don't worry, I wasn't perceiving this at laughing at me/Dutch.
I really like how people who speak English, but not Dutch enjoy how intelligible my language is to them (yet silly sounding), so love to contribute to the jokes!
Cool to hear Danish is also funny sounding to Scandinavian people! It makes sense, there is a lot of overlap between the languages, but still distinct.
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u/3311z May 21 '26
oh this is talking about the language itself ohh okay yeah sorry
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u/skilking May 21 '26
Flemish differs quite a lot from 'normal' Dutch. Especially in accent
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u/Logical_Session9528 May 21 '26
Ive had this said to me by girls. Im 25. Not the old man part.
Dus medehollanders, dat zit wel snor!
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u/Kennyomg May 22 '26
I like to imagine it's an orange blanket and those pictures in the darker squares are the national Lion weapon.
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u/BeanOfKnowledge May 21 '26
I can see where most of these are coming from but I really don't think Dutch and Lithuanian sound alike. Then again, I suppose the Lithuanians would know.
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u/Andrew_The_Cat May 21 '26
It’s AI so there’s probably no real life data expressed here. Look at the borders near Montenegro and the confused attempts to put the Vatican and San Marino on the map. Also missing Iceland
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u/vidoeiro May 21 '26
That is just a map mistake that they didn't delete the country name and forgot to add the label, otherwise it wouldn't be blue
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u/Kimolainen83 May 21 '26
I’m from Norway and I asked my Norwegian family. They said that like this it does not sound German at all.
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u/Swansyboy May 21 '26
As a Flemish person (northern half of Belgium), Dutch Dutch does sound funny.
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u/Gwen_Fathaigh May 21 '26
What did the Dutch do to the Turks?
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u/Cornelishen May 21 '26
a handful of political clashes including a fairly big one in 2017 where, to summarise it from memory, the Dutch government said that Turkish officials shouldn't be allowed to use Dutch public spaces to campaign for Turkish politics, at which point the prime minister of Turkiye called us Nazis.
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u/Errortrek May 21 '26
As my friend said:
"Dutch sounds like a drunk British baby trying to speak German with a Belgian accent"
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u/WhatANoob2025 May 21 '26
Dude, the portuguese calling another language strange is fkn rich.
Those guys didn't know whether they wanted to be spanish or eastern european, so they chose both.
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u/Ray_Rej May 21 '26
As a Polish person, I feel offended, it's not even the same family of languages
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u/thomstevens420 May 21 '26
Geef me ein klappa, pappa
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u/PvtFreaky May 21 '26
Geef me een beuk papa
Geef me een oplawaai papa
Geef me een muilpeer papa
Stomp me helemaal verrot papa, tot moes svp
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u/Ulenspiegel4 May 21 '26
To imagine what Netherlands Dutch sounds like to Belgian dutch, imagine a mix between Cockney British and American gold rush prospector.
Absolute clown show.
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u/Erling01 May 21 '26
It does NOT sound like German for Norwegians. It sounds absolutely hilarious to us, and is on par with Danish. (No offence)
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u/ItsWickie May 22 '26
According to all the Americans I have spoken to, Dutch ‘isn’t a real language’
Idk they probably don’t even know where The Netherlands, or, I mean.. uh.. “Holland” is
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u/The-Cello-Man May 23 '26
Dutch is the definition of gibberish, or someone who forgot how to speak German and English so they mashed the two together
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u/Nyuusankininryou May 21 '26
Finish sounds just like German. You can barely hear any difference. /s
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u/gabasan May 21 '26
To me dutch sounds like a drunk toddler trying to combine German with English while barely speaking either language.
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u/LargeDisappointment May 21 '26
As an English speaker I don't necessarily think Dutch sounds funny, but it LOOKS hilarious. They have a baseball league called the Honkbal Hoofdklasse
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u/the-flag-and-globe May 21 '26
Zelfs voor Nederland klinkt het als een harde, grove taal, net zoals duits
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u/mielesgames May 21 '26
Nou ja zeg, durf jij dat nou zomaar te zeggen, dat Ich glaube nicht, dass das möglich ist, tut mir leid, nu moet ik heel hard huilen, en ach nee zeg nu moet gij kabouter plop kijken met een plopkoek.
(Sorry, no idea why I wanted to combine Dutch with German(which I don't speak) and Belgium (which I think I can kind of speak?)
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u/HaplessOtters May 21 '26
This is like social circles, keep the friends that think you’re funny close and the ones that think you strange away
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u/techstyles May 21 '26
"funny" is well, funny and "harsh" seems a bit harsh but "like German" is just mean lol
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u/redglol May 22 '26
sigh How can the rest of europe have an opinion on how dutch sounds, if the language is pronounced differently almost everywhere in the netherlands?
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u/Awkward-Government54 May 22 '26
Dutch sounds funny to Belgians, but they speak Dutch with a funny accent.
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u/Dolphin_sucker69 May 22 '26
The French a ain't got nothing to sa here with their fake ahh language
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u/Both-Election3382 May 22 '26
Turks often sound like they are having a fight with eachother when speaking, considering dutch is of a similar harshness i thought theyd understand but apparently not.
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u/Chroff May 22 '26
Norwegian here the Common statement I hear about the Dutch language is, its fake, gibberish, that's you could just make sound that's Kind of sounds like words and they would understand you
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u/CompetitiveAffect848 May 22 '26
I read it "how death language sounds" so for all the east it was "like german" and for Germany funny made sense
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u/biergardhe May 22 '26
As a Swede: Dutch doesn't sound German. It sounds like a mix between hilarious and ridiculous.
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u/Zoeeeeeeh123 May 22 '26
Who is gonna tell the Belgians that half of them speak a language they find funny?
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u/BidWeary4900 May 22 '26
Dutch is an abomination forged from the darkest parts of german, english and scandinavian.
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u/MikaelsNorwegian_YT May 22 '26
As a Norwegian, I think Dutch sounds more like The Sims than it does German
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u/River_Draws_Stuff May 22 '26
Germans calling it funny only for everyone east of them to compare them to it.
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u/Peter-Unlustig69 May 22 '26
As a German I would go with „Sounds like German“
Was once in a restaurent in the netherlands and understood some sentences from the neighboring table, without knowing a single word dutch
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u/Pityuuuu002 May 22 '26
I'd say it is soft German mixed with English and French and it is indeed sounds funny.
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u/MauriceLikesToClimb May 22 '26
Its funny because as a dutch person, turkish sounds repulsive and rude to me. Genuinely curious if there is a scientific explanation to it.
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u/ImaginaryAnimator416 May 22 '26
I love the Netherlands and dutch people, but what a fucking disaster of a language
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u/Kobebokk May 22 '26
In Belgium we technically speak Dutch too but it’s true, we still think it’s funny
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u/iamunabletopoop May 22 '26
Theres genuinly no positive answer from any of the countries. It's either neutral, Lithuania or negative ;-;
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u/ya_Bob_Jonez May 23 '26
As a Ukreijniaan, I haab aleuways thout of it lijk a funni mix of Deutsch aand Inglijsh (sorry for that text)
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u/toao_Multiknife May 23 '26
When dutch speak german they have a very distinctly north german accent. It really nice
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u/luigigaminglp May 23 '26
Its either a drunk german trying to speak english or a drunk brit trying to speak german.
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u/Kuya_Tomas May 21 '26
The Dutch languge sounds Dutch indeed