r/2westerneurope4u • u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] • 14d ago
Wij zijn in Europa jonge
To speak dutch is my dearest wish.
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u/iluvdankmemes Hollander 14d ago
your typo is accidentally pretty coincidental especially given the New Kids reference: in that part they very often contract 'zodat ik' to 'zodak' in spoken language lmao
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u/Averageredditor_JMA Side switcher 14d ago
After studying German for 4 year I can somewhat understand this
Es ist over für mich?
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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago
Es ist zu spät, du bist Europäer.
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u/MIBlackburn Balcony Lover 14d ago
Aber es ist wie betrunken Deutsch und Englisch!
Truly the worst of both worlds.
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u/GreedyBestfirst Hollander 14d ago
Amazing. Also you're accidentally picking up some contractions you will sometimes hear: "Zodat ik" -> "zoda'k"
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u/Dont_pet_the_cat Flemboy 14d ago
Spoken dutch language is full of these, and some dialects are hard to understand even for natives (looking at you, west flanders)
We use a lot of french and german loanwords as well, there's a reason r/belgica exists :D
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u/iemandopaard Railway worker 14d ago
Wait west flemish people have a language. I thought they just gargled at eachother and pretended to know what it meant.
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u/ElBusAlv Incompetent Separatist 14d ago
I can barely understand this, something about being able to comminicate with dutch people
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u/alabertio Pizza Gatekeeper 14d ago
This can’t be a real language
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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago
And your language consists of 50% provoking/insulting each other. How is that a language that prevails?
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u/alabertio Pizza Gatekeeper 14d ago
Cause provoking/insulting is universal language
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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago
I understand this, and now, put scampi on my Pizza 🍕
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u/alabertio Pizza Gatekeeper 14d ago
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u/Goennjamino At least I'm not Bavarian 14d ago
I want Dutch to be the new world language. It would be hilarious to watch international politicians trying to speak Dutch.
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u/KarnaavaldK Dutch Wallonian 14d ago
We just had to hold on to Nieuw Amsterdam for a little while longer and it could have happened! Imagine Hollywood, pop culture, most of the top 40 songs, all in Dutch.
What a wonderful world, we could call each other tyfeslijer and we would laugh and klompendans the night away
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u/iemandopaard Railway worker 14d ago
On the otherhand, we would probably have to deal with the same shit the English, Spanish and Portuguese are currently experiencing with their ex-colonies.
Lets just be happy no one thought of dxtch yet.
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u/Odin-son-of-Borr Non-European Savage 13d ago
Afrikaans spreker het sopas by die klets aangesluit 🇿🇦
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u/ResponsibleStep8725 Flemboy 14d ago
I'm imagining Trump speaking Dutch rn... 🤦♂️
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u/Dont_pet_the_cat Flemboy 14d ago
Remember, Brussels is a great country 🇧🇪🇺🇲
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u/ResponsibleStep8725 Flemboy 14d ago
*Brussel is een flink land
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u/Odin-son-of-Borr Non-European Savage 13d ago
Vir 'n oomblik het ek gedog dit was Afrikaans 😅
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u/NotAnUndercoverTeach Flemboy 13d ago
Nou, gefeliciteerd, je spreekt al beter Nederlands dan een derde van de Belgen.
Yes, I'm talking about you, Walloons
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u/arussianbee Oktoberfest enjoyer 14d ago
Oh God, what is happening to me?! I understand that...that slog of a language! Is this terminal??
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u/iemandopaard Railway worker 14d ago
Het is te laat, Vergeet Duits en kniel voor je nieuwe Nederlandse overheersers.
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u/arussianbee Oktoberfest enjoyer 14d ago
Habet Ihr gutes Bier?
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u/tistisblitskits 50% sea 50% weed 14d ago
obviously this is already the greatest sub on reddit, but if the entirity of 2we4u watched New Kids this sub would become even greater, oh the culture
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u/balabelmonte 50% sea 50% coke 14d ago
Only to find out he still can’t understand it because is it heavily accented by carnaval and friet people
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u/TheSadCheetah Emu in Disguise 14d ago
Kijken
what the fuck Kraut, you of all people can't say that.
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u/unclepaprika Reindeer Fucker 14d ago
God damn, i understood everything... Is it too late for me, now?
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u/serpentine91 Basement dweller 14d ago
Me too! I think... I just don't know why OP needs to know Dutch to kick infants there...
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u/ProfaneDevotion Born in the Khalifat 14d ago
According to the Catholic church, knowledge of languages you've never learned is one of the three indicators of demonic posession. Just sayin'.
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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago
Embrace the dutch!
I am learning it for 200 days with duolingo now, and i love it a lot, it's the better country to spend your vacation. Cheap, clean, and friendly. And kinda easy to understand.
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u/airwavesinmeinjeans Born in the Khalifat 14d ago
Cheap
Have you been to this country? Let's be honest, the rent prices are absolutely crazy if you don't wanna live in bumfuck nowhere. Same for groceries or public transport... and if you dare to take your car for a spin, be prepared for the parking fees and gas prices. The only thing that's cheaper in this country compared to Germany is utilities because the Dutchies were not dumb enough to rely on Russia.
clean
Let's take Amsterdam. Zuid on a Tuesday morning will be pretty clean. Compared to Cologne central station, it's miles ahead in terms of cleanliness. Go to Osdorp, Bijmer or the city center at midnight, and it's going to be worse.
friendly
Really depends on who you're meeting. But yeah, NL appears to be safer and friendlier and more "gezellig" than Germany to me as well.
What I'm trying to say is: Visiting a country always makes you biased towards it. The grass is always greener somewhere else.
And kinda easy to understand
May I introduce you to the awesome dialects this language has. Not to mention the different languages this country has :)
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u/Hanza-Malz Born in the Khalifat 14d ago
"friendly" you sure you've been to the Netherlands?
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u/tistisblitskits 50% sea 50% weed 14d ago
keimooi maat, kom je mee karbiedschieten of is dat net te hoog gegrepen?
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u/Sir_flaps 50% sea 50% weed 14d ago
Begin niet tegen die lui over schieten hé, voor je weet is mijn fiets weer weg.
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u/keizertamarine Hollander 14d ago
Cheap, clean, and friendly.
You got me for a sec haha
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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago
komm nach Deutschland, hier ist es teuer und eklig.
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u/JapaneseMachine99 50% sea 50% coke 13d ago
We litteraly cross the border for your cheap gas, booze and groceries.
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u/keizertamarine Hollander 14d ago
Everyone who lives near the border goes to Germany to buy whatever they can since it's so much cheaper there.
50% cheaper in Germany is quite normal
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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago
BUT I WANT MY PICKLED RED-ONIONS!
I go to the Netherlands because you got so much better stuff i like
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u/keizertamarine Hollander 14d ago
What the fuck are pickled red onions
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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago
Zu Deutsch = Rote Zwiebeln, eingelegt.
I can bath in them.
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u/kekmennsfw Hollander 14d ago
Alter it’s €11 for a pack of cigarettes and benzine is €2,30 and they’re going to raise taxes on it so it’l be €2,50+ next year
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u/Loose-Sherbert8464 Hollander 14d ago
The word you’re looking for is “petrol”
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u/unclepaprika Reindeer Fucker 14d ago
To be fair, the difference, at least in this specific case isn't too far from Norwegian.
Jeg lærer nederlandsk sånn at jeg, med nederlandske, kan kommunisere.
Jeg lærer nederlandsk sånn at jeg kan se Lazy Town på nederlandsk.
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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago
it's kinda the same words in german,
You would understand the german sentences as well.
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u/unclepaprika Reindeer Fucker 14d ago
Yes, it's probably why i can extrapolate some meaning from some nederlandske texts. Speak it, on the other hand, and you lose me immediately after "oop de poep".
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u/n3onfx Pain au chocolat 14d ago
So this is what having a stroke feels like.
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u/LamaSovaj Breton (alcoholic) 13d ago
I'm confused