Its quite fun to watch these videos as a native dutch speaker. I never think about how complicated dutch is but this video made me realise how many exceptions there are. When he mentioned koeieuier i couldn't help but laugh. Good luck with learning dutch!
Everyone on my Fathers side of family speak fluent dutch and immigrated from the Nederlands. Pronouncing wrong when trying to learn in front of family is not a picnic. I am giving up on these quick phrases for travelers videos and going this direction.
I'm 28 and dutch is my first language. It has always been hard for me to learn the ei, ij, eu, uu, ui, au, ou, vowel combinations and I still make mistakes with them in my writhing. So don't worry it's not just you and it's not your fault.
Daffy Eend Hoi! Geodenavond Daffy Eend! Meneer/Mevrouw! 😃😃😃😃😃 Mijn naam is Michael Galan-Diaz, hoe gaat het? :) And no! I'm NOT Dutch! I'm English! XD I'm from Sunderland, England and I'm learning Dutch! XD Why? Cuz I was bored! 😝
@@i.m.385 I had the same thought, what is our language difficult with all these exceptions. I don't understand these rules, but I do usually do all these things corrct automatically without any thought.
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
in the first week it was terrible to try to speak RUGGENGRAAT. However, after 6 days, I am able to speak perfectly like a native Dutch and without straining my throat too much to leave the sound of GRAAT at the end of the word. Hallelujah hahaha, thankypu Bart🖒😉
I am here to thank the only teacher who made me understand the pronunciation of the vowel combination UI, I am very happy that there is someone in the world who was born with the divine gift to teach and help those who are beginning to know the Dutch language. Thank you very much Bart for being someone so focused on teaching with details😍. God bless you all your family with health and prosperity always🙌
Dear Bart, I have two years and a half untill I move to Amsterdam, so I'm starting to learn Dutch on my own thanks to your material. I plan to see all your videos, copying stuff on a notebook, pronouncing the words with you and taking the tests after each section. After that I'll seek for a private teacher, since we don't have Dutch schools in my city (what a pity!). Thank you very much for your work, I'm really excited with your content, your voice and how you stress letters in a word makes everything easy and pleasent. Again, DANKE U WEL!
I am Dutch and learnt Spanish as a student, I found it so much easier to pronounce than French. Our languages have in common that "what you see is what you get" you pronounce all the letters that are written and we have the g-sound (j in Spanish) in common.
i had to do that on school , luckily now i only have to learn dutch english and french, ik ben best wel goed in nederlands, misschien omdat ik het al best wel lang spreek ;D
@@FuerFelix no, one is like english w but the upper teeth is touching the bottom lips like in v. very subtle difference for foreign ears. according to wikipedia some dialects pronounce it as english w so that pronunciation is an alternative. im having trouble pronouncing the one shown in the video lol so im substituting it with the english w. hope this helps
Hello! I started playing with the idea of learning Dutch after a few trips to Amsterdam. I speak both English and German (2nd language), so Dutch is a bit familiar with certain words. This video is by far the best one I've come across to date. It's clearly spoken and explained...and at a good pace. I look forward to more!! Thanks!
learndutch.org dank u, Bart! now i understand that "g" sounds like "ch" as in Scottish "loch". more guttural than "k" just like German "ch". does Dutch not have umlauts? for example: ä ü ö?
Hello ! Thank you very much for this video lesson. I'd have however some questions: there are parts not clear enough for me. Can the letters "v" and "w" be respectively considered as a soft and a hard version of the same sound? You say that "ee" is a long "e", but when you pronounced "veel", you say "veol". Is that true? "Smerig" should be pronounced "smerex" but you say "smirex". Is "taal "said "taal" or "tàol"? Is "Eeuw" an "ièu" or a "èo"? Is "u" a French "u" and "eu" a French "eu"( such as in "controlleur", "grandeur") ? I don't have also understood the pronounciation of the group "Ui"
Kristjen Štjuprić No in dutch the symbol you call umlaut is a 'trema' and it is used in plurals of words like zee (pl. zeeën) It makes it clear you have to say ee-en and not zeen.
In 1999 I took a Dutch sommer Kurs while I was in. German classes here in Sao Paulo Brazil. German helped me in Dutch. I keep hearing songs sung in Dutch since them.
I' going to stay in Amsterdam for a few days and wanted to learn how to pronounce the dutch street names and so on. I'm German, so I can read and recognize many dutsch words, but the pronounciation is so different! But I love it!
I'm Polish and I see it's actually much easier for me that for an English person - we read a, e and i pretty much like you :) And we can execute the "g" sound pretty well, as well as the rough "r" :) Great lesson, thank you! I'll definitely stick around.
This video lesson is great. I am trying to learn Dutch in my spare time and have been struggling with pronunciation. I am going to be replaying this lesson over and over again. Thank you
+janajana14 Yes, it is true; some of our previous students from Serbia also reached a very good pronunciation. I think none of the sounds is a real issue for you. So good luck in studying Dutch!
I wish I could have had the possibility to stop the music in the background so I could've concentrated on the accent further! Great videos and efforts though,, Thanks heaps!
Dank u wel voor dit video! I have been trying to learn Dutch for a month and a half now and this is so far the best channel to refer to specially when you are just self studying. The books are helpful but having this videos in a very organized channel makes learning easier and better! Thank you, Meneer Bart de Pau!
Its kind if easy when u know english and german...finally the years of learning german help for something i mean its different but u kinda know how to say things and im bulgarian so i already can say most of the sounds
Yuo are the best teacher! I was lurn duch for a month in 2004 when i leave in Antverp,but now i have to lurn more,cose i go to Holand.Greetings from Bulgaria.
Wow!! how i liked this dutch lesson. This is my first time to learn this language. I thought I wouldn´t like it, but I was mistaken, as our teacher Bart is so clear in his explanations. I hope I could continue without much more difficulties. Thank you so much Bart for your excellent videos. See you soon!!!
I am now in my golden years and i find your website very informative and i strongly commend you sir... English is my native tongue but i am open to learning a foreign language. I do expect i have to start from scratch in order to be proficient. Once again i thank you for today's lesson. It reminds me of my schooldays --ABC
Bart, you're an amazing teacher! Thank you so much for your wonderful material and your incredible generosity! If you allow me, I must confess I don´t think that kind of music in the background befits the needed concentration for learning; perhaps if you use a soothing, low tune instead it'll be less distracting and maybe even enjoyable.
If your looking for tips on pronunciation in the comments here's one: While pronouncing the "G" in dutch don't over do it. Try to make it sound gentle.
I am moving to NET in 6 weeks, so I have been studying the Dutch language quite a lot. This is video is VERY helpful and I intend to watch all of your lessons. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am grateful. Thank you!
Great video once again. I am currently actively learning Dutch and I would like to take an official exam in the near future. I have been trying to book an exam in the UK , however I do not have any issues travelling to the Netherlands if necessary. If anyone here could help me find an easy way to book an official exam to track my progress then I will be forever grateful.
I am really struggling with the letter G. I've tried using CH as in lock, but it is a very difficult letter to pronounce. It would be great to have a video for this letter.
Start to make a K, hold your tongue against your palate . Then allow a little air to to pass between your tongue (still in the position to produce a K) and your palate. Practise :)
Brilliant!!.Been learnig German for about 15 years,if I can learn the vowel and consonant combinations I might be able to guess the meaning of some Dutch words.
I think I'll get a sore throat from the letter "g". I thought this letter has the same pronunciation like our German letter "ch" ... but I think it's more a mix between a German "r" and "ch" .. I don't get it ...😥
Ich denke, die Aussprache des holländischen Klanges 'g' /'ch' mit dem Aussprache des Klanges von Wörter wie „Dach“, „hoch“, „durch“ usw. (beziehungsweise, a/o/u + ch) vergleichbar ist. Ich bin selbst nicht sicher und entschuldige mich, ob es viele Fehler gibt 👀
Bart, thank you so much for this lesson. You are absolutely right in saying that beginners must learn first to pronounce the alphabet. I really like the idea of turning down the volume of the music while you are pronouncing the letters and / or phrases. Maybe, you should give a 5 seconds more for the students to repeat the words on the exercise given by you. Great work!
About the letter 'g': the southern part of the Netherlands (Noord-Brabant and Limburg) pronounce it higher in the throat, resulting in a soft g. The ''zachte g'' is something you'll hear a lot if you plan on going south of the Rhine river, and it's a way of recognizing southern-born Dutch, so you might as well remember the difference. Also because nearly all Brabanders make fun of people who use the throaty hard 'g', all in good fun of course ;)
This is amazing I really like it but can you please do some lessons that can teach us how to connect the sentences. Thank you so much for the beautiful lesson
Nazra Haybe Hi Naza, glad you like the lessons. I am working together with an other teacher on a course in which this will be explained. But we are still in the beginning of working it out. Follow us, and you will be informed when it will be available.
me alegra por haberme suscrito en este canal te felicito por ayudar mucho antes odiaba el nertherlands ahora lo amo porque lo estoy comprendiendo sigue asi
hallo! dank u for this video, it really helps a lot. honestly i'm half belgian. my dad is a belgian but i'm just learning dutch and i'm already 15 yrs old. maybe because my family lived in the philippines and i grew up here. anyway, i want to learn dutch, and i won't stop till i learn it :) i'll start with this and enhance my speaking skills with my father. although one thing i'm still confused about is the pronunciation of "g". but this helped me very much. thanks again! :)
This is such a good start to my Dutch learning :) Thank you for sharing . Where can I find the written version of this lesson that you mentioned at the end of the video? I would like to go deeper in this. thank you
I got really interested on Dutch after this lesson. It's quit easy for me as a portuguese speaker. Also, it has a lot of similar sounds of many other languages (Didn't mean it in a bad conotation, just to be clear). Pretty good content overall! Nice job!
Hello Im just started. Thank you for your effort to teach us. And the muzik in the background is bother so much that makes difficult to listen the lesson. Thank you.
I was so happy because it's mostly a mix of pronunciations from languages that I already know... and then I got to the g 😭😭 how the hell does one make that sound
Put your tongue in the end of ur mouth like you gargle ... I'm Belgian (also Dutch but another pronunciations sometimes) so I can't do it either .. I have a soft g pronunciation, and that's the one that they can't pronounce so It's a 50-50 xd
Greetings from Antigua Guatemala. Had fun learning the explanations and understanding more about the "G, ch, sj, sch" sounds and diphtongs. Had fun practicing with my dutch girlfriend. BTW "achtentachtig" is my new favorite dutch word!!!
Bahasa Belanda sejak lahir kita udah di indoktrinasi bahasa penjajah. Kita kita jadi auto benci.. Padahal pengucapannya 70-80% sama persis dengan alphabet kita. Eh, kitanya malah lebih gampang English
I can speak Chinese it’s kinda close to Indonesia right? But I still struggle your lucky cuz this 你好 compared to this hallo is... well you already know what mean XD and good luck with your learning
Actually it's the other way around. German English and Dutch come from the same language Dutch is the most conservative of the tree and sounds the most like the original language West Germanic language.
I don't have any problem in pronouncing the 'g' thanks god. because I am arab and we have these kind of pronunciations in arabic. so it's very easy for me. I think who knows arabic can speak and pronounce vero easly any language.
Yes, I don't have any problem to pronounce the g either! Well, I'm not arab but I'm a spanish native speaker and we both have a few similarities in our languages :D
Carol Arciniega im Dutch and im learning spanish and its super easy for me especially pronounciating with which ive seen Americans struggle with it like its impossible
Hi Bart. I have a question regarding pronounciation of "g". It doesn't say here why sometimes we say it as this rough sound like in "gesloten" and sometimes it's just "g" like in "jongen". One of my friend told me that when it's the ending "-gen" it will be always non-rough sound (like GroninGEN). But again "morGEN" is pronounced in a rough way. And the pronounciation of "ij". Is it "ey" or "ay" because in Rotterdam I have impression they say it as "ay". Hope you could clear it out for me:)
Barbara Madera ''ng'' is a completely different sound from just ''g''. ''ng'' is pronounced exactly the same as ''ng'' in the english word ''dancing''. I hope that was helpful, do you get it now? :D
Barbara Madera ''ng'' is a completely different sound from just ''g''. ''ng'' is pronounced exactly the same as ''ng'' in the english word ''dancing''. I hope that was helpful, do you get it now? :D
Barbara Madera ''ng'' is a completely different sound from just ''g''. ''ng'' is pronounced exactly the same as ''ng'' in the english word ''dancing''. I hope that was helpful, do you get it now? :D
Barbara Madera ''ng'' has its own sound. Thats why in ''jongen'' you dont here a ''g'' but in ''morgen'' you do here a ''g'', because ''morgen'' doesn't have ''ng'' in it. It's weird to try to explain this lol, do you get it now? And about ''ij'', you need to just listen to the audio in this video because there's no way of explaining the sound. And yes, different parts of Netherlands have different pronunciation.
"g" as "kh" is not so unusual if you know Georgian lenguage they have too many rough pronounciation as its "ხ" like "g" in Dutch and many others :D thanx for video it is very helpfull for self learning
+nok nittaya duolingo is an app for learning languages. it works like a kind of little game losing and earning "hearts" when you answer incorrectly or correctly. it's nice, but sometimes you get fed up with few useless sentences they give, but you can have a taste of building sentences if you keep on. :)
hello, thanks for this wonderful video, easy to learn this way... i was wondering if there's a way to mute the back music while you explain .... thanks.. bye
This is extremely very helpful....I was learning dutch by using Ling app and I thought about first how to pronounce alphabet correcty, this video was very helpful and now after watching and taking notes as well I feel comfortable in prounouncing dutch words. Thank you so much I will subcribe to learn more
Thank you very much! It’s a great challenge for “g”, “ch”, “sch” and all other combinations of vowels/consonants, especially when there are too many of them in one word like achtentachtig. I hope there are videos showing how to say words like this in a more natural way, since I struggle to stress “ch” in every single syllable, and I cannot say the whole word smoothly and naturally.
I have a question about the ij. Like in rijden or vrijheid. I noticed some speakers pronounce it like "ei" (as in the video). However others pronounce it more like "ai". Are both pronounciations correct and those are just different accents? Thanks!
CraZy291 it depends on the location. And, moreover, Belgians have a different pronounciation also. Most of them use ai. Bijna [ baina ] . And most of the Dutch people say also ai. But that nds on the words too....but while boh are correct, you can simply adspt yourself to the other person
You help me a lot to brush up my dutch since i majored in dutch language at university and since then never use the language and never find a partner who can speak dutch .is there anyone who would like to practice your dutch with me. I am not a native but i can speak it well.no matter where you are from, i'd appreciate it
I have a new nemesis: "g" At best I can only naturally say this in a way that sounds like the German "ch". But I hope it's good enough if I can make some kind of a distinction between "g/ch" and "h" when I talk. Everything else is cool though.
I would guess you don't often look into the comments two years later, but do you have any advice regarding the difference in the au/ou and eu diphthongs? I try to pronounce them, but not only do I find it impossible to properly say eu, I cannot even hear the difference
"The real difficulty starts only now." Oh great because so far it's been a picnic
Its quite fun to watch these videos as a native dutch speaker. I never think about how complicated dutch is but this video made me realise how many exceptions there are. When he mentioned koeieuier i couldn't help but laugh. Good luck with learning dutch!
Haha you're so funny
Haha
I was like
Wait
Hol up
I thought I mastered this bitch
Everyone on my Fathers side of family speak fluent dutch and immigrated from the Nederlands. Pronouncing wrong when trying to learn in front of family is not a picnic. I am giving up on these quick phrases for travelers videos and going this direction.
I'm 28 and dutch is my first language. It has always been hard for me to learn the ei, ij, eu, uu, ui, au, ou, vowel combinations and I still make mistakes with them in my writhing. So don't worry it's not just you and it's not your fault.
Daffy Eend Hoi! Geodenavond Daffy Eend! Meneer/Mevrouw! 😃😃😃😃😃 Mijn naam is Michael Galan-Diaz, hoe gaat het? :) And no! I'm NOT Dutch! I'm English! XD I'm from Sunderland, England and I'm learning Dutch! XD Why? Cuz I was bored! 😝
ugh wanna learn dutch but your language is soo difficult
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Sorry I had to haha.
Mr. Wizard-Knight youre dutch is great but jou said gEOdenavond but it is gOEdenavond
thank you now i know i am now hopeless
Me: *Is Dutch*
Also me: *Interesting*
lmaoooo
dit doet pijn bro
Me: *is Dutch*
Also me: *this is difficult.*
@@i.m.385 I had the same thought, what is our language difficult with all these exceptions. I don't understand these rules, but I do usually do all these things corrct automatically without any thought.
Can I just download this information into my brain?!
haha, thanks!
Just trying to copy the girlfriend all the time, at the moment
I wish the same
I was thinking the same when i watch the video
You can, in fact everybody can. But The data is somehow corrupted because brain error
yes bro just like in the matrix
02:13 a 12:23 au
03:10 b
03:39 c 13:51 ch
04:00 d
04:21 e 11:34 ei 12:53 eu
05:12 f
05:25 g
05:47 h
05:58 i 11:46 ij
07:03 j
07:14 k 15:02 kn
07:25 l
07:36 m
07:46 n 14:41 ng 14:51 nk
07:57 o 12:12 ou 12:31 oe
08:19 p
08:29 q
08:47 r
08:56 s 14:12 sj 14:22 sch
09:08 t
09:33 u 12:42 ui
09:54 v
10:10 w
10:37 x
10:48 y
11:08 z 13:02 eeuw/ieuw 13:21 aai/ai/ooi/oi/oei
Taking basic german has really gave me a head start on Dutch. A lot of these sounds are found in german.
German is dutch spoken by drunks
ion. Jim
Leloli - ja
Leloli -
Dutch = Swamp German lol
ItsLeloli ilr
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
in the first week it was terrible to try to speak RUGGENGRAAT. However, after 6 days, I am able to speak perfectly like a native Dutch and without straining my throat too much to leave the sound of GRAAT at the end of the word. Hallelujah hahaha, thankypu Bart🖒😉
Just immigrated to the Netherlands and trying to learn it. Thank you. i like the word "achtentachtig"
go back please, Europe for Europeans
ItemIsJewish oi no need to be rude
Brown Traveller you are very welcome here, don’t listen to that other guy we don’t claim him :)
@@maya_hossain I help YOUR PEOPLE after YOUR PEOPLE'S GRANDPARENTS killed 6,000,000 of my people, This is ur way of appreciation?
ItemIsJewish sorry but can you state who you mean by “your people”? You have no idea where I’m from
I am here to thank the only teacher who made me understand the pronunciation of the vowel combination UI, I am very happy that there is someone in the world who was born with the divine gift to teach and help those who are beginning to know the Dutch language. Thank you very much Bart for being someone so focused on teaching with details😍. God bless you all your family with health and prosperity always🙌
Still, but why in a lesson of pronunciation is there background music !? arghh
Omdat vervelende achtergrondmuziekjes geboren zijn in Nederland
@@stinky-oc2wc ja
music helps with learning
Because of lack of good judgment!!
English speaker: that meme is pretty dank
Dutch speaker: um your welcome
You're *
@@warau.exe2 well what would you expect in the comment section of a language learning?
graag gedaan
Dear Bart, I have two years and a half untill I move to Amsterdam, so I'm starting to learn Dutch on my own thanks to your material. I plan to see all your videos, copying stuff on a notebook, pronouncing the words with you and taking the tests after each section. After that I'll seek for a private teacher, since we don't have Dutch schools in my city (what a pity!). Thank you very much for your work, I'm really excited with your content, your voice and how you stress letters in a word makes everything easy and pleasent. Again, DANKE U WEL!
I know this is a year too late, but try Duolingo if you haven’t already. Its a free app and I find it very useful
Dank u wel (not danke)
Hi...are you already in Amsterdam?
Did you move, even stay?
Did you end up moving? How was it?
i'm a native spanish speaker and alphabet doesn't seem to be as difficult as I expected! thanks for uploading this!
I am Dutch and learnt Spanish as a student, I found it so much easier to pronounce than French. Our languages have in common that "what you see is what you get" you pronounce all the letters that are written and we have the g-sound (j in Spanish) in common.
Trying to tackle German, French and Dutch at the same time and boy is it confusing xP but this awesome video helps a lot.
AmSay8D Well, that's a great challenge! Wish you success!
Good luck with that!
Loool same here but I'm also doing Spanish, it gets really hard to keep all these languages in practice, isn't it? :P :D
i had to do that on school , luckily now i only have to learn dutch english and french,
ik ben best wel goed in nederlands, misschien omdat ik het al best wel lang spreek ;D
Wie ist es gelaufen?
Me: understands all diphthongs
Also me: thinks v and w are the same
Wait. Aren't they the same?
@@FuerFelix no, one is like english w but the upper teeth is touching the bottom lips like in v. very subtle difference for foreign ears. according to wikipedia some dialects pronounce it as english w so that pronunciation is an alternative. im having trouble pronouncing the one shown in the video lol so im substituting it with the english w. hope this helps
Hello! I started playing with the idea of learning Dutch after a few trips to Amsterdam. I speak both English and German (2nd language), so Dutch is a bit familiar with certain words. This video is by far the best one I've come across to date. It's clearly spoken and explained...and at a good pace. I look forward to more!! Thanks!
My Dutch ancestors are probably watching me and cringing
Rebecca Veenstra you r so American
Same
As long as you try i don't think so.
Zeker weten, ja. Geen twijfel
@@stinky-oc2wc ja, hè. Ik denk 't ook.
For the written version of this lesson - please read the transcript in youtube (in the bar next to About | Share | Add to )
Found it in your pdf e-book! Tx! Will another e-book come with les 21-40?
learndutch.org dank u, Bart! now i understand that "g" sounds like "ch" as in Scottish "loch". more guttural than "k" just like German "ch". does Dutch not have umlauts? for example: ä ü ö?
Hello ! Thank you very much for this video lesson. I'd have however some questions: there are parts not clear enough for me.
Can the letters "v" and "w" be respectively considered as a soft and a hard version of the same sound?
You say that "ee" is a long "e", but when you pronounced "veel", you say "veol". Is that true?
"Smerig" should be pronounced "smerex" but you say "smirex".
Is "taal "said "taal" or "tàol"?
Is "Eeuw" an "ièu" or a "èo"?
Is "u" a French "u" and "eu" a French "eu"( such as in "controlleur", "grandeur") ?
I don't have also understood the pronounciation of the group "Ui"
Kristjen Štjuprić No in dutch the symbol you call umlaut is a 'trema' and it is used in plurals of words like zee (pl. zeeën) It makes it clear you have to say ee-en and not zeen.
***** Therefore is the group "eu" a simple "e"?
In 1999 I took a Dutch sommer Kurs while I was in. German classes here in Sao Paulo Brazil. German helped me in Dutch. I keep hearing songs sung in Dutch since them.
I'm dutch and I can hear that he is dutch when he started talking
Noë Hartmann true
Ik ook 😂
Op het moment dat je Engels spreekt, maar toch probeert om Nederlands te spreken
why are you watching a video about learning dutch if you're dutch?
random user idk...for fun, I guess
I' going to stay in Amsterdam for a few days and wanted to learn how to pronounce the dutch street names and so on. I'm German, so I can read and recognize many dutsch words, but the pronounciation is so different! But I love it!
What a hectic language ? Deutsch is much easier. I just need to know this language as soon as possible but it's seriously hard
Dutch is german spoken by drunjs
@@leloli funny and original joke 😐😐😐😐
@@xanderkiela you really didn’t need to answer I commented that 1 year ago
Very helpful , I speak English but now learning Dutch because I've now got a Dutch friend, so recommend this video.
Did you learn it yet?
That's so funny! I'm here because I have a Dutch friend too
Did u learnn it now ??
4 years ago
Im here for the same reason.
I'm Polish and I see it's actually much easier for me that for an English person - we read a, e and i pretty much like you :) And we can execute the "g" sound pretty well, as well as the rough "r" :) Great lesson, thank you! I'll definitely stick around.
This video lesson is great. I am trying to learn Dutch in my spare time and have been struggling with pronunciation. I am going to be replaying this lesson over and over again. Thank you
I had to come back a couple of times. But noow I'm able to see it more clearly. Thank you very much!
I'm from Serbia and pronouncing those alphabet is so easy to me, i am thinking of start learning dutch
+janajana14 Yes, it is true; some of our previous students from Serbia also reached a very good pronunciation. I think none of the sounds is a real issue for you. So good luck in studying Dutch!
+janajana14 , So you are from Serbia , witch region? And why do you think to learn Dutch?
Ludwig van osselaer
Belgrade, because language is interesting and not that hard, i also study german and these two languages are in some ways similar.
learndutch.org if I'm from Mexico is the pronunciation easy or nah?
ok wie gut sind deine Deutsch kenntnisse
Gracias!!!. Desde Avilés, Asturias, España 🇪🇦
I wish I could have had the possibility to stop the music in the background so I could've concentrated on the accent further! Great videos and efforts though,, Thanks heaps!
Dank u wel voor dit video! I have been trying to learn Dutch for a month and a half now and this is so far the best channel to refer to specially when you are just self studying. The books are helpful but having this videos in a very organized channel makes learning easier and better! Thank you, Meneer Bart de Pau!
Its kind if easy when u know english and german...finally the years of learning german help for something i mean its different but u kinda know how to say things and im bulgarian so i already can say most of the sounds
We are learning German at school, and it is quite easy because we live in The Netherlands :D
Yuo are the best teacher! I was lurn duch for a month in 2004 when i leave in Antverp,but now i have to lurn more,cose i go to Holand.Greetings from Bulgaria.
Wow!! how i liked this dutch lesson. This is my first time to learn this language. I thought I wouldn´t like it, but I was mistaken, as our teacher Bart is so clear in his explanations. I hope I could continue without much more difficulties. Thank you so much Bart for your excellent videos. See you soon!!!
I am now in my golden years and i find your website very informative and i strongly commend you sir... English is my native tongue but i am open to learning a foreign language. I do expect i have to start from scratch in order to be proficient. Once again i thank you for today's lesson. It reminds me of my schooldays --ABC
Bart, you're an amazing teacher! Thank you so much for your wonderful material and your incredible generosity!
If you allow me, I must confess I don´t think that kind of music in the background befits the needed concentration for learning; perhaps if you use a soothing, low tune instead it'll be less distracting and maybe even enjoyable.
My husband is from Nederland, and I really I need to spreekt Dutch lauguage, I can learn so much to you Bart thank you so much l'm appreciate that,
thank you so much and i'm so happy found this amazing acc! i'm indonesian, really interested to learn dutch. Terimakasih
Ik vind het een hele goed idee,om nederlandse les zo te leren op internet.nog bedankt voor alles uit te legen in het eenvoudige manier.
If your looking for tips on pronunciation in the comments here's one:
While pronouncing the "G" in dutch don't over do it. Try to make it sound gentle.
You haven't been to Groningen, have you bud?
@@notyetactive Haha, guess not.
There's nothing wrong with the soft g
but when i try it just come sout as gghghhhghhghghg
the actual pro tip is that you should choke on some food to pronounce it correctly
that's the best explanation for dutch alphabet! Thank you so much! You made my life easier
I am moving to NET in 6 weeks, so I have been studying the Dutch language quite a lot. This is video is VERY helpful and I intend to watch all of your lessons. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am grateful. Thank you!
Great video once again. I am currently actively learning Dutch and I would like to take an official exam in the near future. I have been trying to book an exam in the UK , however I do not have any issues travelling to the Netherlands if necessary. If anyone here could help me find an easy way to book an official exam to track my progress then I will be forever grateful.
I am really struggling with the letter G. I've tried using CH as in lock, but it is a very difficult letter to pronounce. It would be great to have a video for this letter.
Start to make a K, hold your tongue against your palate . Then allow a little air to to pass between your tongue (still in the position to produce a K) and your palate. Practise :)
Try to hiss like a cat.
Brilliant!!.Been learnig German for about 15 years,if I can learn the vowel and consonant combinations I might be able to guess the meaning of some Dutch words.
I think I'll get a sore throat from the letter "g". I thought this letter has the same pronunciation like our German letter "ch" ... but I think it's more a mix between a German "r" and "ch" ..
I don't get it ...😥
And I love it how you say "letterrrr" 😍
Maja Konna Also ich find das ist garnicht so schwer auszusprechen :o
Ich denke, die Aussprache des holländischen Klanges 'g' /'ch' mit dem Aussprache des Klanges von Wörter wie „Dach“, „hoch“, „durch“ usw. (beziehungsweise, a/o/u + ch) vergleichbar ist. Ich bin selbst nicht sicher und entschuldige mich, ob es viele Fehler gibt 👀
Maja Konna But g can be pronounced as ‘ch’, but also harder
@@mavera-5777 kannst du sprechen der Niederlanden bitte danke
Bart, thank you so much for this lesson. You are absolutely right in saying that beginners must learn first to pronounce the alphabet. I really like the idea of turning down the volume of the music while you are pronouncing the letters and / or phrases. Maybe, you should give a 5 seconds more for the students to repeat the words on the exercise given by you. Great work!
This is a nice way to learn please make more video s
best of the best tutorial work! teacher bart deserve more life.
About the letter 'g': the southern part of the Netherlands (Noord-Brabant and Limburg) pronounce it higher in the throat, resulting in a soft g. The ''zachte g'' is something you'll hear a lot if you plan on going south of the Rhine river, and it's a way of recognizing southern-born Dutch, so you might as well remember the difference. Also because nearly all Brabanders make fun of people who use the throaty hard 'g', all in good fun of course ;)
this is sooo helpfu.I hope you are still making video lessons, I DECIDET to learn it with you.Thank you Bart!
The pronunciación of the letters in Dutch is pretty similar to the pronunciation we have in Spanish (Español/Spanish/Spaans)
I know both the languages have a trilling 'R'.
@@inferiorinferno8859 Which is fucking impossible for me to pronounce lmao
@@καλαμ Do u mean u cant make the trilling R?
@@galaxydave3807 Yep
I have moved to Rotterdam and am just beginning my study, this video is useful.
This is amazing I really like it but can you please do some lessons that can teach us how to connect the sentences. Thank you so much for the beautiful lesson
Nazra Haybe Hi Naza, glad you like the lessons. I am working together with an other teacher on a course in which this will be explained. But we are still in the beginning of working it out. Follow us, and you will be informed when it will be available.
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me alegra por haberme suscrito en este canal te felicito por ayudar mucho antes odiaba el nertherlands ahora lo amo porque lo estoy comprendiendo sigue asi
1:17 the pronunciation of the alphabet begins
Can you also make pronunciation and phonics tutorial of dutch letter G?
hallo! dank u for this video, it really helps a lot. honestly i'm half belgian. my dad is a belgian but i'm just learning dutch and i'm already 15 yrs old. maybe because my family lived in the philippines and i grew up here. anyway, i want to learn dutch, and i won't stop till i learn it :)
i'll start with this and enhance my speaking skills with my father.
although one thing i'm still confused about is the pronunciation of "g". but this helped me very much. thanks again! :)
tomorrowxtuduro global shooky Did you learn it haha
This is such a good start to my Dutch learning :) Thank you for sharing . Where can I find the written version of this lesson that you mentioned at the end of the video? I would like to go deeper in this. thank you
I got really interested on Dutch after this lesson. It's quit easy for me as a portuguese speaker. Also, it has a lot of similar sounds of many other languages (Didn't mean it in a bad conotation, just to be clear). Pretty good content overall! Nice job!
estava pensando a mesma coisa enquanto assistia kkkkkk tem muitos sons parecidos com português mesmo
Hello Im just started. Thank you for your effort to teach us. And the muzik in the background is bother so much that makes difficult to listen the lesson. Thank you.
I was so happy because it's mostly a mix of pronunciations from languages that I already know... and then I got to the g 😭😭 how the hell does one make that sound
Put your tongue in the end of ur mouth like you gargle ... I'm Belgian (also Dutch but another pronunciations sometimes) so I can't do it either .. I have a soft g pronunciation, and that's the one that they can't pronounce so It's a 50-50 xd
Isabella Maria it’s like in Russian the hard х sound it’s fun
a bit late to the party but i've been told that it's like lightly clearing your throat
I'm Mexican learning Dutch so that part is kinda easy-ish, lucky me xD
You need to grunt like you have something stuck to your throat, but make it a letter.
Thank you sir this is a very big help for me to watch your video
Lol waarom kijk hiernaar ik ben Nederlands!
lol i understood that and im German :O
Ja ik ook ahahha
Ik vind dit best grappig
Je bent nooit te Nederlands om te leren!
Me not getting it bc I’ve legit just started 👁💧👄💧👁
Greetings from Antigua Guatemala. Had fun learning the explanations and understanding more about the "G, ch, sj, sch" sounds and diphtongs. Had fun practicing with my dutch girlfriend. BTW "achtentachtig" is my new favorite dutch word!!!
Its kinda easy if u start with speaking indonesian👌
I can speak bahasa, chinese, english but why did I still find it hard to speak the g... :(
Sure😂
Bahasa Belanda sejak lahir kita udah di indoktrinasi bahasa penjajah.
Kita kita jadi auto benci..
Padahal pengucapannya 70-80% sama persis dengan alphabet kita.
Eh, kitanya malah lebih gampang English
I can speak Chinese it’s kinda close to Indonesia right? But I still struggle your lucky cuz this 你好 compared to this hallo is... well you already know what mean XD and good luck with your learning
Oof I forgot to add a i in between the what and the mean so here it is what I mean XD sorry
Love it! Finally some real linguistical approach to teach Dutch!
I found most of dutch words from this video similar to english and german ones, like they are combined from english and german.
Actually it's the other way around. German English and Dutch come from the same language Dutch is the most conservative of the tree and sounds the most like the original language West Germanic language.
@@dipearbore9149 Hi
Like middle high german (mhg) of the indogermanic
This goes into historic linguistic I think?
Great class, but I wish you'd spent more time on -ui/uy, which to me seems the most difficult of all Dutch sounds.
The letter "J" , pronounced "Yay", like in "YEEEEEEET"
funny
Why in f*cking Grand Line are you learning Dutch while you should be kicking Kaido’s ass rn ?
I am indian and i want to learn dutch because i want to move there. This lesson is quite good for me for beginners like me. Thanks
Dankjewel van Rusland! Will you make a video with comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch languages? It would be cool!
Nice video. The unusual choice of words kept it interesting... cow's udder, the last one really stuck!
I don't have any problem in pronouncing the 'g' thanks god. because I am arab and we have these kind of pronunciations in arabic. so it's very easy for me. I think who knows arabic can speak and pronounce vero easly any language.
Yes, I don't have any problem to pronounce the g either! Well, I'm not arab but I'm a spanish native speaker and we both have a few similarities in our languages :D
+Carol Arciniega oh yes I know
Carol Arciniega im Dutch and im learning spanish and its super easy for me especially pronounciating with which ive seen Americans struggle with it like its impossible
That's what I think about both Spanish and Portuguese. They're way easier languages to learn.
Aug, muslims invading europe😒
I have been watching this video again and again. One of the most helpful information online. Can't thank you enough!
Hi Bart. I have a question regarding pronounciation of "g". It doesn't say here why sometimes we say it as this rough sound like in "gesloten" and sometimes it's just "g" like in "jongen". One of my friend told me that when it's the ending "-gen" it will be always non-rough sound (like GroninGEN). But again "morGEN" is pronounced in a rough way. And the pronounciation of "ij". Is it "ey" or "ay" because in Rotterdam I have impression they say it as "ay". Hope you could clear it out for me:)
Barbara Madera ''ng'' is a completely different sound from just ''g''. ''ng'' is pronounced exactly the same as ''ng'' in the english word ''dancing''. I hope that was helpful, do you get it now? :D
Barbara Madera ''ng'' is a completely different sound from just ''g''. ''ng'' is pronounced exactly the same as ''ng'' in the english word ''dancing''. I hope that was helpful, do you get it now? :D
Barbara Madera ''ng'' is a completely different sound from just ''g''. ''ng'' is pronounced exactly the same as ''ng'' in the english word ''dancing''. I hope that was helpful, do you get it now? :D
DBDennisvdG No I don't bcs I ask about "gen" not "ng" :)
Barbara Madera ''ng'' has its own sound. Thats why in ''jongen'' you dont here a ''g'' but in ''morgen'' you do here a ''g'', because ''morgen'' doesn't have ''ng'' in it. It's weird to try to explain this lol, do you get it now?
And about ''ij'', you need to just listen to the audio in this video because there's no way of explaining the sound. And yes, different parts of Netherlands have different pronunciation.
Thank you very much. The 'r' can't it be pronounced also in other ways?
"g" as "kh" is not so unusual if you know Georgian lenguage they have too many rough pronounciation as its "ხ" like "g" in Dutch and many others :D thanx for video it is very helpfull for self learning
You can actually pronounce Dutch g like ღ in ღარიბი and ch like ხ in ჯოხი, according to what I've read :3
7:58 The letter "O". The short vowel has two pronunciations. Like said in "bos". But also as in "potlood".
Thank you so much but it might take long time to learn Dutch.
I have no any basics of Dutch before. This my first time to learn Dutch.
+nok nittaya Hi, I suggest you to try duolingo and come back here to learn about pronunciation, like Im doing right now :D. good luck
+Tony StarK what is the duolingo? I mean what is the way you do?
+nok nittaya duolingo is an app for learning languages. it works like a kind of little game losing and earning "hearts" when you answer incorrectly or correctly.
it's nice, but sometimes you get fed up with few useless sentences they give, but you can have a taste of building sentences if you keep on. :)
Excelent explanation! I started learning Dutch, but I gave up. However, I began studying again.
Thanks!
Someone: sh!t!
Captain Netherlands: Hey, taal!
hello, thanks for this wonderful video, easy to learn this way... i was wondering if there's a way to mute the back music while you explain .... thanks.. bye
Once I finally finished the letters I heard "The real difficult stuff starts only now." I just whispered "Oh shit".
This has been the most helpful piece of information I've found so far. Thank you.
Dit is een hele goede uitleg, toppie :D
Jessey van der Toorn e
Alleen voor mensen die nederlands moeten leren
I'm a beginner, this language is so amazing! I keep learning it.
The music has to go. It’s a distraction and also unnecessary; maybe for introduction and the ending of the video.
This is extremely very helpful....I was learning dutch by using Ling app and I thought about first how to pronounce alphabet correcty, this video was very helpful and now after watching and taking notes as well I feel comfortable in prounouncing dutch words. Thank you so much I will subcribe to learn more
Me: let’s pronounce the [r]. My tongue: NO.
Thank you very much! It’s a great challenge for “g”, “ch”, “sch” and all other combinations of vowels/consonants, especially when there are too many of them in one word like achtentachtig.
I hope there are videos showing how to say words like this in a more natural way, since I struggle to stress “ch” in every single syllable, and I cannot say the whole word smoothly and naturally.
I have a question about the ij. Like in rijden or vrijheid. I noticed some speakers pronounce it like "ei" (as in the video). However others pronounce it more like "ai". Are both pronounciations correct and those are just different accents? Thanks!
Yes some accents pronounce it more as ai
Thanks, that's good to know. I wonder which accent I should adopt as a non-native speaker.
CraZy291 it depends on the location. And, moreover, Belgians have a different pronounciation also. Most of them use ai. Bijna [ baina ] . And most of the Dutch people say also ai. But that nds on the words too....but while boh are correct, you can simply adspt yourself to the other person
Actually, in Belgium the ei/ij is pronounced as a monophthong, like /ɛː/ similar to British "square". You will not hear an "ai".
@@Yatalu Exactly! As a Belgian I was confused at the other person saying we say it like "ai" 😂
You help me a lot to brush up my dutch since i majored in dutch language at university and since then never use the language and never find a partner who can speak dutch .is there anyone who would like to practice your dutch with me. I am not a native but i can speak it well.no matter where you are from, i'd appreciate it
I have a new nemesis: "g"
At best I can only naturally say this in a way that sounds like the German "ch". But I hope it's good enough if I can make some kind of a distinction between "g/ch" and "h" when I talk.
Everything else is cool though.
It's the same sound as the 'ch' in the German word 'Ach', maybe that helps :)
Try saying schreeuw or worse yet " van Gogh".
I am Vietnamese and some sounds I have never heard in my life before, so difficult to tell them apart or say them =))) wish me luck !
I would guess you don't often look into the comments two years later, but do you have any advice regarding the difference in the au/ou and eu diphthongs? I try to pronounce them, but not only do I find it impossible to properly say eu, I cannot even hear the difference
i'm working on extra pronunciation videos, including this
Max Painter au you say with your mouth more open and eu you say more with pouted lips
The eu diphthong , as in keuken, is unique to the Dutch language, and indispensable. Like ui, and ou; they are pronounced by first puckering the lips.
Very interesting. I like your video because you explain very well. It is difficult but not impossible. Thank you. Grettings from Mexico.
Thank you for your job! I found it very useful.I'm trying to handle Dutch, it's not so easy but it's a beautiful language! Greetings from Italy
Very clear and easy examples. TX for making this video ☺👏👏
“Dutch i want you to understand me.”
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Lmao dit is idd geweldig om naar te kijken😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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It was nice learning durch alphabets. My gratitudes 2 my friend who gave me dis information. Dank alot.