Thread 213095616

I'm learning Dutch because it sounds funny.

>>213095616 (OP)
I thought we were the only ones to whom it sounds funny.
Nice people, though, and a nice country.

>>213095658
It sounds funny to English speakers because there are a lot of similar sounding words and phrases. And it kinda sounds like English sometimes, but in an uncanny way like the Sims.

>>213095697
To us in the northwest it sounds exactly like farmers used to speak until a hundred or so years ago. Lowlands German and Dutch are mutually intelligible. Lowlands German has died out, though. (Or is in the process of dying out.)

>>213095616 (OP)
En wat ga je met die vaardigheid doen zodra je het onder de knie hebt?

>>213095616 (OP)
Good for you. Watch more Studio Massa, I guess. I can’t get behind Germanic languages though. They give me the ick
>Tp
>Tf
English is honorary LATIN. Honi soit qui mal y pense

>>213095872
>Honi soit qui mal y pense
You know that that's French, though?

>>213095616 (OP)
We hebben een serieus probleem
We hebben iran gebombardeerd
>>213095872
English is no Latin. Go to Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian for that.

>>213095770
I'll probably vacation to the Netherlands once and try to use Dutch only for everyone to switch to English when they realize that Dutch isn't my first language, and then come back disappointed and regretting having learned a language with the majority of native speakers also speaking English.

>>213095872
>English is so classic and noble like Latin but I still use stupid neologisms like 'ick' because I'm a retarded mouthbreather
OHHH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEEEE

>>213095872
>the ick
Uvular consonants don't filter me.

>>213095925
yes aka THE real Latin dialect

>>213095948
Aren’t Dutch the most fluent in English compared to the rest of Europe? It’s funny how there’s a country in South America that speaks Dutch that everyone forgets about.

>>213095925
I meant to say Latinx.

>>213096068
There's Suriname and a few Caribbean islands that speak Dutch.

Best Dutch language guides?

Watch Ongezellig for input. Nothing else worth watching so just watch that as many times as you sneed to.

>>213096143
Not sure if it's the best, but here's a grammar guide
https://www.dutchgrammar.com/en/index.php?n=Grammar.DutchGrammar

>>213096143
Not really guides but:
>Easy Dutch (don’t know if they have their own channel though)
>Lingopie (requires subscription but they just released shows/programs in Dutch)
>Pimsleur (subscription that focuses on listening comprehension)

Probably doesn’t hurt to buy a grammar book

>>213096213
EasyDutch does have its own channel: https://www.youtube.com/@EasyDutch/videos
There are other comprehensible input resources listed here, but I haven't looked at them myself because I'm not learning Dutch
https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Dutch