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Dutch sure sounds a lot more like English than Swedish does. The famous "Geef me een klap papa" comes to mind. Quite a bit of Dutch sounds nearly as close to En
by causi 3y ago
Dutch sure sounds a lot more like English than Swedish does. The famous "Geef me een klap papa" comes to mind. Quite a bit of Dutch sounds nearly as close to English as, say, Scots does. "Zet de televisie aan." "Waar ben je?" "Ik heb honger, wanneer gaan we eten?"
- BirAdam 3y agoI grew up hearing German, Schwaebisch, English, Latin, and French regularly. Dutch is readable for me, but hearing it is sometimes completely foreign.
- schoen 3y agoIn case anyone doesn't recognize the cognates, I think they'd be "Set the television on." "Where been ye?" "I have hunger, when ere going we eating?" (It would be easier for English speakers to understand "wanneer" by the similarity to "whenever" but it turns out that "wanneer" is actually cognate with when+ere (as in 'before') and not with when+ever.)
- astrange 3y agoThose aren't too out of place in Scottish English.
- philwelch 3y agoThere was a commotion on Twitter recently when a Dutch politician posted a tweet (in Dutch) that started with the words, “we hebben een serieus probleem”.