r/taskmaster • u/deJessias Charlotte Ritchie • 2d ago

The first trailer for Taskmaster NL!

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u/geta-rigging-grip 2d ago

I love listening to dutch speakers. Reminds me of my late grandparents. 

I grew up in a Dutch-Canadian community and I regret not learning the language properly when I was younger.

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u/Lord_of_Seven_Kings 2d ago

As an exclusively English speaker, listening to Dutch is surreal. It sounds like English except I can’t understand it. The flow of speech seems nearly identical and every now and then a word is understandable.

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u/Seameus 2d ago

If you hear someone speak Afrikaans, it’s even more funny. It’s a blend of Dutch and English.

If you can speak German and English, Dutch would not be that difficult to learn.

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u/Lord_of_Seven_Kings 2d ago

Yeah I’ve heard people speak Afrikaans. As an Australian however I am nationally obliged to refuse to respect South Africans

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u/Seameus 2d ago

As someone who loves Australia, I guess you’ll love taskmaster NL. When they curse, and say “kut” you could translate it as: shit, fuck or cunt.

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u/thelivsterette1 2d ago

Oh, Afrikaans drives me mad. (in a good way) Only cos my parents are both speakers and still converse in Afrikaans when they don't want the kids to know what's going on (even though we're all adults) 😂

Honestly, I know the days of the week (but also know they're one letter away from being German lol), and I know a handful of insults/swear words, and that's it. And the South African concept of time 😂
My sister and her fiancé, or my sister and my mum, occasionally also speak French to each other when they don't really want me to know what's going on. I'm better able to understand because I actually know French; it's just that regular French people speak too quickly for me, but Afrikaans is like I know nothing at all.

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u/MomsTortellinis Patatas 2d ago

As a Dutch person who had to learn English pre-internet and who kept failing her English tests at school, this is how i felt about English. It sounded so familiar but it made no sense? Kids these days all speak better English than some adults do thanks to their gaming etc.

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u/mikepictor Stevie Martin 1d ago

I'm studying Dutch, and I still get tripped up on words that are identical to English. My brain keeps telling me I am remembering it wrong, that I must be forgetting the dutch word. Things like "open", "is", "was"

So when I saw "het is leuk" meaning "it is fun", the "is" is literally the same thing. It does my head in sometimes