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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Still better than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35IG66H7vLE
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Mierenneuker posted:I'd scratch the "perfect". "Steenkolen Engels" (=coal English) is not uncommon, mainly with older people who grew up with no/barely any English education. A TV program that follows local people had an incredible example of this kind of "Dunglish" last year. It makes perfect sense to a Dutch person, but the mishmash of words is probably hard to follow if you don't speak the language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV3uUsoRe4
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Inzombiac posted:I speak German as well and went to Amsterdam this year. You didn't have something you could wear to signal to them? Like a Bills hat? Paladinus posted:Almost everyone in the Netherlands speaks nearly perfect English. When I was in Amsterdam it was funny how many people were obviously Dutch because their English was too good. Their enunciation was way better than most of us slack-jawed North Americans. Like when Apu tried to sound more American or when black comedians imitate white people.
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The Dutch police are also very friendly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfluaMKoOY
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Here's legendary Norwegian weirdo Kristoffer Schau interpreting some old Dutch joke and song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mwxE7Ky5hs What I always wondered is, what the hell is karlsborst? I'm assuming it's some sort of food since it takes place in a restaurant. Also, is the song about a ship maker?
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Lodin posted:Here's legendary Norwegian weirdo Kristoffer Schau interpreting some old Dutch joke and song. Kalfsborst. Calfs breast. The song is this one which aside from Dutch only has a Norwegian wiki entry: https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schipper_mag_ik_overvaren%3F
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Underrated movie. Between that and the underwater bar fight, it did some really creative stuff. It helps that I also know a little German.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Underrated movie. Between that and the underwater bar fight, it did some really creative stuff. It helps that I also know a little German. It's got great gags, but terrible, terrible pacing.
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theflyingorc posted:It's got great gags, but terrible, terrible pacing. Enough about your sex life!
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Underrated movie. Between that and the underwater bar fight, it did some really creative stuff. It helps that I also know a little German. 
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theflyingorc posted:It's got great gags, but terrible, terrible pacing. oldpainless posted:Enough about your sex life! Have you tried one of these? 
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oldpainless posted:Enough about your sex life! More like oldprisonerless 
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There was a thread once in GBS (might have been the tail end of the 1.0 era) asking what English sounded like to a non-english speaker, and the best responses were "Dutch" or the "Prisencolinensinainciusol" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
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Flemish sounds even closer to English imo, it's basically just a Dutch dialect that sounds like a Dutch person trying to do a British accent Here's a thing for the Flemish dub of Frozen 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=luq4gNCHPT0
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bike tory posted:Flemish sounds even closer to English imo, it's basically just a Dutch dialect that sounds like a Dutch person trying to do a British accent How about an Englishman trying to do a Dutch accent for some reason https://youtu.be/2ZnoP4sUV90
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bike tory posted:Flemish sounds even closer to English imo, it's basically just a Dutch dialect that sounds like a Dutch person trying to do a British accent I'm Flemish and I'm not sure I agree. For example, the way that Dutch people pronounce many of their vowels is very reminiscent of English, in my opinion. Their 'r' is also often pronounced identically to the English one, and it's a very easy way to tell if someone is Dutch or Flemish. Historically, it depended on the dialect, but that specific way of pronouncing the r has conquered most of the Netherlands at this point. Flemish accents are closer to French in terms of cadence and tonality, loathe as I am to admit it
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Phlegmish posted:I'm Flemish and I'm not sure I agree. For example, the way that Dutch people pronounce many of their vowels is very reminiscent of English, in my opinion. Their 'r' is also often pronounced identically to the English one, and it's a very easy way to tell if someone is Dutch or Flemish. Historically, it depended on the dialect, but that specific way of pronouncing the r has conquered most of the Netherlands at this point. Don't be too hard on yourself, buddy. As a Dutch person I've always found Flemish to be beautiful, soft and gentle, compared to our harsh and gutteral way of speaking. Most Dutchies I know of agree with me. Also a group of Dutch friends once spent 4 weeks with a Flemish guy and by the end we had all subconsciously adopted the soft G, instead of the other way around, which annoyed the poo poo of my sister when I got back home.
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Bobby Digital posted:How about an Englishman trying to do a Dutch accent for some reason Chris von Rohr, a Swiss rock musician, has the weirdest accent. He sounds anywhere from Dutch to Scouse or Scottish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNXBfsAa1RA&t=11s Phlegmish posted:I'm Flemish and I'm not sure I agree. For example, the way that Dutch people pronounce many of their vowels is very reminiscent of English, in my opinion. Their 'r' is also often pronounced identically to the English one, and it's a very easy way to tell if someone is Dutch or Flemish. Historically, it depended on the dialect, but that specific way of pronouncing the r has conquered most of the Netherlands at this point. You're probably thinking of the so-called Gooise r at the end of words or before consonants, which is more like how Americans pronounce the sound. It's a fairly recent development even in the Netherlands and has only spread there so much because at some point it was very prevalent in children's radio and television, and children from all over the country picked it up. It's become so wide-spread now that the few people who still speak Frisian started using the Gooise r.
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Phlegmish posted:I'm Flemish and I'm not sure I agree. For example, the way that Dutch people pronounce many of their vowels is very reminiscent of English, in my opinion. Their 'r' is also often pronounced identically to the English one, and it's a very easy way to tell if someone is Dutch or Flemish. Historically, it depended on the dialect, but that specific way of pronouncing the r has conquered most of the Netherlands at this point. Maybe it's the fact that the Belgians I've known had lived and worked in a mostly English environment for ages? They might've spoken english-accented Flemish. But I also think it's that the Dutch /g/ sound just doesn't exist in English and isn't even close to sounds we use, whereas the rolled /r/ that Flemish uses is easily recognisable (and is close enough to a soft /d/ sound in English) even if a lot of English speakers struggle to produce it.
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Taeke posted:As a Dutch person I've always found Flemish to be beautiful, soft and gentle, compared to our harsh and gutteral way of speaking. As a French-speaking Belgian, I cannot agree more. For years we are taught the Algemeen Nederlands, but nothing, nothing can ever prepare us for the harsh reality that is trying to understand a Dutch speaking.
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I wish she would hurry up and solve climate change. Cause it's getting kind of warm and it's only January.
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chitoryu12 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/03/greta-thunberg-sharon-twitter-celebrity-mastermind Ah, that's pretty funny. Good for her.
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NtotheTC posted:Here's a really cool video of what English sounded like to non-English speakers: Is this what having a stroke is like?
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Paladinus posted:Chris von Rohr, a Swiss rock musician, has the weirdest accent. He sounds anywhere from Dutch to Scouse or Scottish. I don't speak any German and haven't spent any real time in German-speaking Switzerland, but this guy sounds like my Alsatian in-laws when they start speaking in Alsatian.
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chitoryu12 posted:Is this what having a stroke is like? Nah even stroke victims wouldn't cook two whole roast chickens for two people.
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I had to fight Flemish like three or four times before I finally beat her in Dragon Age: Origins.
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bike tory posted:Nah even stroke victims wouldn't cook two whole roast chickens for two people. Maybe stroke victims want leftovers for the week to make sandwiches to take to work for lunch.
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It's good on blackened toast.
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Shut up Meg posted:Simlish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq-usnBoAns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSGbAFNVwU
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JoelJoel posted:It's good on blackened toast. Nothing is good on blackened toast 
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Eh! Frank posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq-usnBoAns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjDO91gNiCU
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My buddy took all the Simlish songs he could find, put them on his car's audio system and basically convinced his then-fiance that she was losing her mind on the commute into work. this is the best one imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6AgO-5ebXc
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