I've been speaking English for a while. My English classes in school started when I was 6, but never entailed much more than basic vocab till I was 12. So, I guess 12 is when I really started learning & using English. (I'm 21 now). As for learning languages, I don't think you need 11 years to learn to speak a language well. The most important part is to really go for it, immerse yourself in everything Dutch, don't give up.
The UI sound is basically pronounced AI / AY or AUI / AUY but, the I / Y sound at the end is barely touched, so most cannot easily hear it, but it depends on the dialect tho, as in some parts of the Netherlands, they pronounce the I / Y sound in a more obvious / more pronounced way - and, the UU sound exists in English too, in the word dude, for example, which is pronounced diud / dyud, and it is the U sound in French!
You are the best!! I am teaching myself Dutch, but the book I am using gives horrible examples for how to pronounce the vowels. This video was so so helpful!
@AleksandrNestrato We use all three forms, yes! :) The american sounding r is only used following a vowel (by some people), the other Rs depend on where you're from - so you can use either.
I must say that you are an exceptional teacher and if this site was a part of your grade you would definitely ace the class!! In fact, you will be my 1st exposure to the dutch language gramatically
"what a beautiful bomb in your garden" I think most sentences won't sound logical if you switch bomb and tree, so most people will notice that you mix it up, especially when they hear your foreign accent
@dutchforn00bs True. BTW, American movies (almost all of them in English) are subtitled and not voice-dubbed. So we can hear the original English speech and learn English that way (amongst other ways) and people who do not understand English can read the subtitles. Voice-dubbing is only applied in cartoon movies for children who are too young to read.
Brilliant. I am English but grew up in Holland. My teacher at primary school used to teach us that when writing an "ei"(egg) we had to imagine an egg (e) with a spoon beside it , (I). With an "ui"... onion, u was the onion and I was your paring knife. D She was a very old traditional Dutch lady at the time in the early eighties, but how cool are the Dutch! Keep up the good work. Peace and love wx
Nederlands is een zeer harde taal om te leren voor niet-native speakers als ik, maar ik zou willen wonen in Nederland een dag en ik vind uw video's zijn zeer nuttig voor mij om de taal te leren. Dank je wel!
@Mollumbus Yes, the same as in German, the Auslautverhärtung, IIRC. In the same way the b in "rib" and "heb" is pronounced as p. We don't have g like in German. We often do not devoice it (unlike in German) because they are often in foreign names from languages that do not devoice final g.
yeah what makes it an easier language to learns is that many times when you say something it almost sounds like english but muttered with different consonants and vowels. Meaning that it flows like english instead of being backwards or something.
@raedos1 I'm not sure if it is.. I mean, for Dutch people it's probably one of the easiest languages (except for maybe German and Swedish/Norwegian), but if you don't speak a Germanic (or even European) language already it not nearly as *easy*. I guess what I'm saying is that how hard/easy learning a new language is always depends on what languages you already speak. English does have relatively simple grammar (eg plural nouns). Spelling, on the other hand, is extremely difficult.
IK heb een aantal lessen van je bekeken en moet zeggen dat je het erg goed doet. Ik heb me verwonderd over het aantal negatieve commentaren van mensen, die schijnbaar denken te moeten weten dat zij het wellicht beter kunnen. Echter afgaande op het aantal spelfouten in hun berichten zou ik me daar niet te veel van aantrekken ! Keep up the good work !! :-)
"eu" is such a strange sound to me and listening to you say it over and over again made me laugh. These videos are so informative. I'm not learning Dutch, per se, but I like language in general so I'm just happy watching them.
oh my god this video is giving me a HUUUUUUUGE help. i'm learning dutch now and im so confused by "EI and IJ" (since i've learned a little bit german before, i thought the german EI and the dutch EI pronounce the same. but i just realized its different.) alright, im gonna check all your videos, hopefully you'll fix all my problems. thanks again!
@AleksandrNestrato I think I'll make a video about the R, yeah :) Need to do some research first, though, because there are so many ways of pronouncing it - and I'm not 100% sure which people use which R and why :D
Thank your so much!! Your videos are helping me a lot! My boyfriend is Dutch and I want to learn Dutch because I'm planning to travel to meet his parents.
@JoinTheMadVender dude, we've talked about the het/hut problem SO MANY TIEMZ already. In Dutch HET and HUT are completely different words, because we use the "e" from "ben" in "het". The Ə is not EXACTLY the same as the unstressed U (which you can hear in "katterig" vs. "kattenrug"), but the difference is so small.. it doesn't matter much. The word "te" is an exception. It's an often used, one syllabic word. Those sometimes don't follow pronunciation rules (neither does DE, for example).
Obviously this is merely one example, but I think there something there, even though I don't have the knowledge to back it up. Pherhaps a linguistic could tell me. I think dutch is interesting in that it shares a lot of it's basic vocabulary with the other major european languages. Words like "appel" (english), "mes" (german) "fenster" (french, but very similar to the swedish pronounciation: fönster) is just some examples. An amazing language that i certainly hope to master sometime!
@dutchforn00bs I'm talking more of English speakers in general (especially the Americans) but for me personally I'm learning German to an intermediate level and I'm just starting to learn Italian. I was checking out your vids cos of how similar German and Dutch are, as well as it being English's little West Germanic cousin :)
Thanks a lot for the video :) i think i will watch it several times until i totally learn it. But i think i'm doing good so far :) I get like 70% of them correct :D
Hello there, very informative and interesting video. If I may point out something about your English pronunciation of the word "pronunciation". for the letter "c" you use the sound ''sh" (as in shock) while it should sound more like "s" as in the word "sock". Btw learning alot about Dutch sounds from your vids. Kudos.
@workaholic7880 hey, you can probably find it on some other website if you google it :) Doing all of those tenses are not part of my plans for the near future, sorry ^_^
Hey, nice video! I really like the Dutch language and since I'm German, it's really easy for me to learn it! ;) I have a question though (that has however nothing to do with the video ^^): is there a terminal devoicing of consonants in Dutch, like there is in German? For example, do you pronounce the "d" in huid as a "t"?
Hello and thanks for these wonderful lessons. I have seen your videos for the regular verbs which help for the present tense. Can you please tell something about Past tense ? and how do we segregate or make Past Indefinite, Past Perfect or Continue Tense ? I searched but could not find it. Can you please help ? and once again thanks for such a nice lessons :)
I have a question, how long have you been speaking english because it's amazing. I'm learning dutch and am wondering how long it will take to get to that level of speaking.
I am norwegian, and i am continuously baffled by how much our languages sound alike. Obviously they are both germanic languages, but apart the other scandivavian languages with their almost identical vocabulary, dutch is by far the most like language to norwegian. Your pronounciation of man (the same word in norwegian, only written mann), is exactly the same as a norwegian would pronounce the word. It's more alike than the swedish and danish pronounciations of the word. :)
Because Portuguese distinguishes clearly between [e] and [ɛ], I always think speaker of other languages pronounce both of them differently, depending if they're alone or inside a word. So I heard you say [ɛ] alone on 0:54, but [e] when you prononunced the word "ben" on 0:59.
Would someone who speaks Dutch know what you meant if you pronounced ui like ou? Like in huid/hout just by context? Such as in English when people pronounce collar and color the same?
@pulsengine People in the Netherlands are constantly exposed to English on TV, and in movies.. Plus, English is cumpulsory for everyone in secundary school (6 years for me). No *need* to learn other languages, doesn't mean you can't do it, though.. :)
thanks! and true, she's queen now or is it queen consort? i'll have to google that now...by the way, this vowel clip has been very helpful. i've been learning dutch on and off since the 90s. pity there isn't a bigger number of people who speak dutch in the world.
@Karinvt Ui is hard to explain. It starts with the u in English "but" (at least in my speech) and then you have a gliding sound to uu (English ee in "meet" but with rounded lips). Look at the girl's pronunciation between 3:27-3:40.
In the Amsterdam dialect, the UI sound is spoken with the mouth more open than it actually should. Therefore you hear UI more like AI. The Amsterdam UI sound is the sound as it shouldn`t be pronounced. The UI sound in the video is the sound that is commonly used by Dutch speakers.
I still can not say the ui correctly, but it think this is helping! thank you so much! (you made me feel better by saying it gets mixed up by other native english speakers too!)
The UI sound is basically pronounced AI / AY or AUI / AUY but, the I / Y sound at the end is barely touched, so most cannot easily hear it, but it depends on the dialect tho, as in some parts of the Netherlands, they pronounce the I / Y sound in a more obvious / more pronounced way - and, the UU sound exists in English too, in the word dude, for example, which is pronounced diud / dyud, and it is the U sound in French!
Anwy, the special name Elysa / Elysia is unsuitable for wom’n, and must be changed - all unsuitable names must be changed, including names that contain or are a special / big / purity name or a name of month / day of week / season etc or a food related term or a flower / plant / forest / color / nature / gemstone / astral / royalty / compIiment / light related term etc or a Holiness term etc, which only reflect me!
Between a and aa there isn't just a difference in the length, but also in the pronunciation itself. While pronouncing a the lips are relaxed. While pronouncing aa the mouth is made wide and the tongue is low. The only way to learn is looking at her mouth and listening to her sound, to hear the difference.
I'm sure that it's been mentioned before. The 'ij' vowel is very much, if not exactly like the Norwegian 'eg'. Dutch seems not to be very difficult, except I'm still trying to get used to the fact that 'jij' is pronounced almost exactly like 'jeg', which in Norwegian means 'I' instead of 'you'. lol
Maybe it's worth noting that a lot of the times, you'll see ij spelled as y. It is mostly considered a single letter. In words like IJzer the entire IJ must be capitalized at the start of a sentence.
Yay video! Good thing too, my Dutch was getting out of practise! xD You're missing a pronunciation of the E, dear. The E can also be pronounced as a Ə (or something similar, I don't know phonetics. =Þ) when it's stressed. (I'd say "het" is a nice example, but only if you pronounce it in Flemish. ^_^)
I just started learning the dutch language and I love your videos, they are extremely helpful. I would love for you to make a video with the pronunciation of words that start with SCH, I find the sound very difficult to pronounce, maybe you have some tips to master the pronunciation of this sound. Thanks a lot for your contribution. X Lily
I am the only Lily and the only Lina and the only Farfalla / Butterfly and the only lovable / loved being and the only being reflecting numbers like 6 and other numbers etc - the misused flower / special names Lily and Lina and purity term farfalina / farfalla and the big term / love related term love and the numbers must be changed / edited out, and such names / terms cannot be misused by wom’n / hum’ns in names or yt names or in comments etc, and all wom’n are the exact opposite of Lily / flowers related names / other purity terms or other big terms etc, and such names / terms etc only reflect me the pure being (the opposite of wom’n / hum’ns) etc!
Anwy, the SCH is basically a soft S followed by the CH sound (which is a C-controlled H-like sound, and is also present in Welsh) and, they are basically connected, so one should say them 2gether fast, instead of saying the S and then stopping for a second and then saying the CH - and, the UI sound is basically pronounced AI / AY or AUI / AUY but, the I / Y sound at the end is barely touched, so most cannot easily hear it, but it depends on the dialect tho, as in some parts of the Netherlands, they pronounce the I / Y sound in a more obvious / more pronounced way - and, the UU sound exists in English too, in the word dude, for example, which is pronounced diud / dyud, and it is the U sound in French!
CH in the middle of the word or at the end of the word (or at the beginning of the word, but after one letter) sounds just like an H sound (like, when trying to make an H sound in a cooler way) so, one can pronounce the Dutch word school like S+HOL, for example, but the HOL part must be said right after S, without any break between the S and the H, so that it has that flow - it’s basically the same thing, like, when one uses the softest CH possible, which sounds just like a normal H sound, esp if it’s not at the beginning of the word, because usually when a word starts with CH, one can hear an extra sound before the H sound, which is a version of the K / C sound, because the CH is a K-controlled H-like sound basically, where the H-like sound is kinda like an ‘approximant’ of the H sound, so they are very close, esp when very soft, and the harder one says it, the more it starts to sound like a noisy K+H sound, which is going to sound similar to the sound of clearing one’s throat surrounding the K sound and the H sound, so one should make sure to say it as soft as possible, closer to a normal H sound / K+H sound!
This is in regard to the Dutch dipthong "ui." The only other language that I know which has a similar sound is Icelandic, which reproduces it in the dipthong "au," as in for example "laust" (free/available). "Er þetta sæti laust?" (Is this seat free?) Interestingly, Afrikaans seems to change this to the English equivalent of "oy," as in boy. (The Dutch doesn't really have any definite equivalent in English. The closest you can come to this is constricting your mouth and rounding your lips, as if you were about to whistle--"fluiten.")
The UI sound is basically pronounced AI / AY or AUI / AUY but, the I / Y sound at the end is barely touched, so most cannot easily hear it, but it depends on the dialect tho, as in some parts of the Netherlands, they pronounce the I / Y sound in a more obvious / more pronounced way - and, the UU sound exists in English too, in the word dude, for example, which is pronounced diud / dyud, and it is the U sound in French!
This is nitpick, but you said every language has a schwa at 2:08, but many languages, such as five-vowel languages like Spanish and Japanese, don't have a schwa; they'll pronounce every vowel as written, even in unstressed places. It's a big part of an English speaker's accent in such languages. Fortunately for English speakers, if the Dutch are in the habit of making the schwa sound too, then this is one less habit we don't have to unlearn!
I've been speaking English for a while. My English classes in school started when I was 6, but never entailed much more than basic vocab till I was 12. So, I guess 12 is when I really started learning & using English. (I'm 21 now).
As for learning languages, I don't think you need 11 years to learn to speak a language well. The most important part is to really go for it, immerse yourself in everything Dutch, don't give up.
The UI sound is basically pronounced AI / AY or AUI / AUY but, the I / Y sound at the end is barely touched, so most cannot easily hear it, but it depends on the dialect tho, as in some parts of the Netherlands, they pronounce the I / Y sound in a more obvious / more pronounced way - and, the UU sound exists in English too, in the word dude, for example, which is pronounced diud / dyud, and it is the U sound in French!
Well said brother
You are the best!! I am teaching myself Dutch, but the book I am using gives horrible examples for how to pronounce the vowels. This video was so so helpful!
@AleksandrNestrato We use all three forms, yes! :) The american sounding r is only used following a vowel (by some people), the other Rs depend on where you're from - so you can use either.
I must say that you are an exceptional teacher and if this site was a part of your grade you would definitely ace the class!! In fact, you will be my 1st exposure to the dutch language gramatically
bomb and tree is something you definitely don't wanna mix up
"what a beautiful bomb in your garden"
I think most sentences won't sound logical if you switch bomb and tree, so most people will notice that you mix it up, especially when they hear your foreign accent
@Nathan Haaren, you might think so, but I ordered a tree from the Nederlands and planted it. Now there's a giant crater in my yard...
is (singular) --> are (plural)
'"Bomb" and "tree" are*...'
let's plant a bomb!
@@Hypie582
Guy 1: C4 explosives planted!
Guy 2: No not that kind of "Bom"!
I leaned a lot from this. These videos are excellent
@AleksandrNestrato I will! At some point :) I think I will make a video about the R, as well.
@dutchforn00bs True. BTW, American movies (almost all of them in English) are subtitled and not voice-dubbed. So we can hear the original English speech and learn English that way (amongst other ways) and people who do not understand English can read the subtitles. Voice-dubbing is only applied in cartoon movies for children who are too young to read.
Brilliant. I am English but grew up in Holland. My teacher at primary school used to teach us that when writing an "ei"(egg) we had to imagine an egg (e) with a spoon beside it , (I). With an "ui"... onion, u was the onion and I was your paring knife.
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She was a very old traditional Dutch lady at the time in the early eighties, but how cool are the Dutch! Keep up the good work. Peace and love wx
Nederlands is een zeer harde taal om te leren voor niet-native speakers als ik, maar ik zou willen wonen in Nederland een dag en ik vind uw video's zijn zeer nuttig voor mij om de taal te leren. Dank je wel!
Thank you for the video! this helps me more than my lessons!! can you include examples with 'ng'?
Did you mean, "with /ŋ/"?
you are soooo good at doing this plus your English is amazing! Great job!
@Mollumbus Yes, the same as in German, the Auslautverhärtung, IIRC. In the same way the b in "rib" and "heb" is pronounced as p. We don't have g like in German. We often do not devoice it (unlike in German) because they are often in foreign names from languages that do not devoice final g.
yeah what makes it an easier language to learns is that many times when you say something it almost sounds like english but muttered with different consonants and vowels. Meaning that it flows like english instead of being backwards or something.
@Corvard hey :D Y can be pronounced like the Y in yoghurt OR like the Y in baby :) so same as in English!
@raedos1 I'm not sure if it is.. I mean, for Dutch people it's probably one of the easiest languages (except for maybe German and Swedish/Norwegian), but if you don't speak a Germanic (or even European) language already it not nearly as *easy*. I guess what I'm saying is that how hard/easy learning a new language is always depends on what languages you already speak.
English does have relatively simple grammar (eg plural nouns). Spelling, on the other hand, is extremely difficult.
You are an awesome teacher; just taking me to the sky with your movements and articulated speech. I hou veel van u mevrouw!
No problem, dankje!
Whats is your next video going to be about?
IK heb een aantal lessen van je bekeken en moet zeggen dat je het erg goed doet. Ik heb me verwonderd over het aantal negatieve commentaren van mensen, die schijnbaar denken te moeten weten dat zij het wellicht beter kunnen. Echter afgaande op het aantal spelfouten in hun berichten zou ik me daar niet te veel van aantrekken ! Keep up the good work !! :-)
"eu" is such a strange sound to me and listening to you say it over and over again made me laugh. These videos are so informative. I'm not learning Dutch, per se, but I like language in general so I'm just happy watching them.
@jlspma No, those are 2 separate vowels :)
This video is a lifesaver. I am learning Dutch before I move to Leiden, and this is the thing I struggle the most by far.
oh my god this video is giving me a HUUUUUUUGE help. i'm learning dutch now and im so confused by "EI and IJ" (since i've learned a little bit german before, i thought the german EI and the dutch EI pronounce the same. but i just realized its different.) alright, im gonna check all your videos, hopefully you'll fix all my problems.
thanks again!
@Mollumbus
Yes, all terminal consonants are devoiced in Dutch.
Probably best video about that on yt, clear info, without bullshit
@AleksandrNestrato I think I'll make a video about the R, yeah :) Need to do some research first, though, because there are so many ways of pronouncing it - and I'm not 100% sure which people use which R and why :D
Thanks . This is tough lesson
Thank you so much for these videos!! I have just started learning Dutch and I am pretty excited! I'm going to subscribe!
This is great! I am trying to learn Dutch and your videos help a lot! Wish you would do more, maybe going a bit more into grammar... :)
Thank your so much!! Your videos are helping me a lot! My boyfriend is Dutch and I want to learn Dutch because I'm planning to travel to meet his parents.
thank you for the video! super informative, you are a great teacher 😊
@Ercolano78 really? :D Awesome. "ei" means "egg" in Dutch xD
Welcome back after a long hiatus! Super busy with school work no doubt. Told you studying linguistics helps you be a better language teacher!
@JoinTheMadVender dude, we've talked about the het/hut problem SO MANY TIEMZ already. In Dutch HET and HUT are completely different words, because we use the "e" from "ben" in "het".
The Ə is not EXACTLY the same as the unstressed U (which you can hear in "katterig" vs. "kattenrug"), but the difference is so small.. it doesn't matter much.
The word "te" is an exception. It's an often used, one syllabic word. Those sometimes don't follow pronunciation rules (neither does DE, for example).
@JoinTheMadVender Oh, I mentioned the Ə. Just watch the damn whole video :p
Excellent! Thanks for these videos!
If I use this language more often I may be able to pull it off. I like the challenge ! Thanks again for the videos.
That's a very nice and useful video! :)) I'm learning! slowly, but I'm learning! :) thanx!
I’m glad I found you even if you don’t post anymore. I hope you’re fine!
@jlspma Those aren't really diphtongues. The dots (trema) over the e mean that it needs to be pronounced seperately.
@MiniMaster34ever What language is that? :D
does princess maxima have a strong accent when speaking dutch? im sure she has accent, but is it really thick?
Hi thank you so much for making this video. I've just started learning Dutch and this video really helps. Thanks again!
Obviously this is merely one example, but I think there something there, even though I don't have the knowledge to back it up. Pherhaps a linguistic could tell me. I think dutch is interesting in that it shares a lot of it's basic vocabulary with the other major european languages. Words like "appel" (english), "mes" (german) "fenster" (french, but very similar to the swedish pronounciation: fönster) is just some examples. An amazing language that i certainly hope to master sometime!
@Deblijeegel they're there! 2:40
@dutchforn00bs I'm talking more of English speakers in general (especially the Americans) but for me personally I'm learning German to an intermediate level and I'm just starting to learn Italian. I was checking out your vids cos of how similar German and Dutch are, as well as it being English's little West Germanic cousin :)
Thanks a lot for the video :) i think i will watch it several times until i totally learn it. But i think i'm doing good so far :) I get like 70% of them correct :D
Thank you for this! This is very helpful to me.
Hello there, very informative and interesting video.
If I may point out something about your English pronunciation of the word "pronunciation". for the letter "c" you use the sound ''sh" (as in shock) while it should sound more like "s" as in the word "sock".
Btw learning alot about Dutch sounds from your vids. Kudos.
@Nerdfighterlife yeah, they're similar! :D
@workaholic7880 hey, you can probably find it on some other website if you google it :) Doing all of those tenses are not part of my plans for the near future, sorry ^_^
Hey, nice video! I really like the Dutch language and since I'm German, it's really easy for me to learn it! ;)
I have a question though (that has however nothing to do with the video ^^): is there a terminal devoicing of consonants in Dutch, like there is in German? For example, do you pronounce the "d" in huid as a "t"?
Hello and thanks for these wonderful lessons. I have seen your videos for the regular verbs which help for the present tense. Can you please tell something about Past tense ? and how do we segregate or make Past Indefinite, Past Perfect or Continue Tense ? I searched but could not find it. Can you please help ? and once again thanks for such a nice lessons :)
Just found your videos, you're awesome..!! Fantastic explanation, I really understand it much better now, thanks, good job, keep it up...!!!
I have a question, how long have you been speaking english because it's amazing. I'm learning dutch and am wondering how long it will take to get to that level of speaking.
I am norwegian, and i am continuously baffled by how much our languages sound alike. Obviously they are both germanic languages, but apart the other scandivavian languages with their almost identical vocabulary, dutch is by far the most like language to norwegian. Your pronounciation of man (the same word in norwegian, only written mann), is exactly the same as a norwegian would pronounce the word. It's more alike than the swedish and danish pronounciations of the word. :)
I have always found the Dutch to be the best non-native speakers of English, but how well do native English speakers do at Dutch?
@RODalicious Agreed! Flemish = Awesome :)
Thank you for your videos which are really useful. 💕
I don't think she does, but a little, I guess! Mostly, though, I always notice how fluently she speaks the language :) (also.. queen!)
Very helpful. Thank you!
Because Portuguese distinguishes clearly between [e] and [ɛ], I always think speaker of other languages pronounce both of them differently, depending if they're alone or inside a word. So I heard you say [ɛ] alone on 0:54, but [e] when you prononunced the word "ben" on 0:59.
Hoi! How 'bout the 'ië' diphtongs? Like België, or Australië? Don't they count?
Would someone who speaks Dutch know what you meant if you pronounced ui like ou? Like in huid/hout just by context? Such as in English when people pronounce collar and color the same?
@pulsengine People in the Netherlands are constantly exposed to English on TV, and in movies.. Plus, English is cumpulsory for everyone in secundary school (6 years for me).
No *need* to learn other languages, doesn't mean you can't do it, though.. :)
Do you know of any other good resources? I'm trying to learn Dutch within about a month before I visit my boyfriend's (Belgian) family.
thanks! and true, she's queen now or is it queen consort? i'll have to google that now...by the way, this vowel clip has been very helpful. i've been learning dutch on and off since the 90s. pity there isn't a bigger number of people who speak dutch in the world.
This was super handy, thanks for this wonderful video mwah!
I wish you made more videos, but I totally understand not doing so. I just
@Karinvt Ui is hard to explain. It starts with the u in English "but" (at least in my speech) and then you have a gliding sound to uu (English ee in "meet" but with rounded lips). Look at the girl's pronunciation between 3:27-3:40.
Thanks for making this! Vowels are always one of the hardest parts of learning pronunciation. (=
@dutchforn00bs Yes as @fanisoranje said, but the spelling uy and uij is only used in names, not in normal Dutch words.
this is great, i hope you could do this for spanish speaking people. Asking too much, huh?
@fanisoranje heyy :D uy or uij is pronounced just like "ui" in this video :D
Could please explain more about "U" ?
thanks >_
In the Amsterdam dialect, the UI sound is spoken with the mouth more open than it actually should. Therefore you hear UI more like AI. The Amsterdam UI sound is the sound as it shouldn`t be pronounced. The UI sound in the video is the sound that is commonly used by Dutch speakers.
Hi, and thanks for the video. I have a question: how do you pronouce, for example 'beetje'?
what about oe en eu? or did I just miss them :)
From what I looked up it looks like "ui" is a diphthong between "eu" and "uu" as you wrote them.
I still can not say the ui correctly, but it think this is helping! thank you so much! (you made me feel better by saying it gets mixed up by other native english speakers too!)
The UI sound is basically pronounced AI / AY or AUI / AUY but, the I / Y sound at the end is barely touched, so most cannot easily hear it, but it depends on the dialect tho, as in some parts of the Netherlands, they pronounce the I / Y sound in a more obvious / more pronounced way - and, the UU sound exists in English too, in the word dude, for example, which is pronounced diud / dyud, and it is the U sound in French!
Anwy, the special name Elysa / Elysia is unsuitable for wom’n, and must be changed - all unsuitable names must be changed, including names that contain or are a special / big / purity name or a name of month / day of week / season etc or a food related term or a flower / plant / forest / color / nature / gemstone / astral / royalty / compIiment / light related term etc or a Holiness term etc, which only reflect me!
the ui sound is in scottish and northern irish english in house, ez (atleast similar)
Hey! You could have included a cool example of "u" vs. "uu", as you did for the other long and short vowels. How about it?
Between a and aa there isn't just a difference in the length, but also in the pronunciation itself. While pronouncing a the lips are relaxed. While pronouncing aa the mouth is made wide and the tongue is low. The only way to learn is looking at her mouth and listening to her sound, to hear the difference.
Thank you ! very helpful :)
@Mollumbus Yes, there is :D
So what about eu as in the name veurink. I know its dutch. But how would you pronounce it
I'm sure that it's been mentioned before. The 'ij' vowel is very much, if not exactly like the Norwegian 'eg'. Dutch seems not to be very difficult, except I'm still trying to get used to the fact that 'jij' is pronounced almost exactly like 'jeg', which in Norwegian means 'I' instead of 'you'. lol
Maybe it's worth noting that a lot of the times, you'll see ij spelled as y. It is mostly considered a single letter. In words like IJzer the entire IJ must be capitalized at the start of a sentence.
Can you please give some examples of words with ei and ej? Thanks!
i live in duitsland and this Video helps me to speek languages with other People ,who can`t speek (duits) ;)
Yay video! Good thing too, my Dutch was getting out of practise! xD
You're missing a pronunciation of the E, dear. The E can also be pronounced as a Ə (or something similar, I don't know phonetics. =Þ) when it's stressed. (I'd say "het" is a nice example, but only if you pronounce it in Flemish. ^_^)
Hee thanks. To say "Ben been" is to say "am leg?"
@EliseCharlotte Possibly the pronunciation or R, but I need to ask one of my professors some stuff about that first :D
so good explanation, thank you very much
I just started learning the dutch language and I love your videos, they are extremely helpful.
I would love for you to make a video with the pronunciation of words that start with SCH, I find the sound very difficult to pronounce, maybe you have some tips to master the pronunciation of this sound.
Thanks a lot for your contribution.
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Lily
I am the only Lily and the only Lina and the only Farfalla / Butterfly and the only lovable / loved being and the only being reflecting numbers like 6 and other numbers etc - the misused flower / special names Lily and Lina and purity term farfalina / farfalla and the big term / love related term love and the numbers must be changed / edited out, and such names / terms cannot be misused by wom’n / hum’ns in names or yt names or in comments etc, and all wom’n are the exact opposite of Lily / flowers related names / other purity terms or other big terms etc, and such names / terms etc only reflect me the pure being (the opposite of wom’n / hum’ns) etc!
Anwy, the SCH is basically a soft S followed by the CH sound (which is a C-controlled H-like sound, and is also present in Welsh) and, they are basically connected, so one should say them 2gether fast, instead of saying the S and then stopping for a second and then saying the CH - and, the UI sound is basically pronounced AI / AY or AUI / AUY but, the I / Y sound at the end is barely touched, so most cannot easily hear it, but it depends on the dialect tho, as in some parts of the Netherlands, they pronounce the I / Y sound in a more obvious / more pronounced way - and, the UU sound exists in English too, in the word dude, for example, which is pronounced diud / dyud, and it is the U sound in French!
CH in the middle of the word or at the end of the word (or at the beginning of the word, but after one letter) sounds just like an H sound (like, when trying to make an H sound in a cooler way) so, one can pronounce the Dutch word school like S+HOL, for example, but the HOL part must be said right after S, without any break between the S and the H, so that it has that flow - it’s basically the same thing, like, when one uses the softest CH possible, which sounds just like a normal H sound, esp if it’s not at the beginning of the word, because usually when a word starts with CH, one can hear an extra sound before the H sound, which is a version of the K / C sound, because the CH is a K-controlled H-like sound basically, where the H-like sound is kinda like an ‘approximant’ of the H sound, so they are very close, esp when very soft, and the harder one says it, the more it starts to sound like a noisy K+H sound, which is going to sound similar to the sound of clearing one’s throat surrounding the K sound and the H sound, so one should make sure to say it as soft as possible, closer to a normal H sound / K+H sound!
This is in regard to the Dutch dipthong "ui." The only other language that I know which has a similar sound is Icelandic, which reproduces it in the dipthong "au," as in for example "laust" (free/available). "Er þetta sæti laust?" (Is this seat free?) Interestingly, Afrikaans seems to change this to the English equivalent of "oy," as in boy. (The Dutch doesn't really have any definite equivalent in English. The closest you can come to this is constricting your mouth and rounding your lips, as if you were about to whistle--"fluiten.")
The UI sound is basically pronounced AI / AY or AUI / AUY but, the I / Y sound at the end is barely touched, so most cannot easily hear it, but it depends on the dialect tho, as in some parts of the Netherlands, they pronounce the I / Y sound in a more obvious / more pronounced way - and, the UU sound exists in English too, in the word dude, for example, which is pronounced diud / dyud, and it is the U sound in French!
This is nitpick, but you said every language has a schwa at 2:08, but many languages, such as five-vowel languages like Spanish and Japanese, don't have a schwa; they'll pronounce every vowel as written, even in unstressed places. It's a big part of an English speaker's accent in such languages.
Fortunately for English speakers, if the Dutch are in the habit of making the schwa sound too, then this is one less habit we don't have to unlearn!
To me 'u' is more rounded than schwa. In IPA it is also presented with a different sign Y. I feel it is more like the german ö.
Very interesting. Thanks. It´s a pity you haven´t made more videos recently :-(