Dutch and german | Any similarity?

[Konvict]

Is there any similarity between dutch and german? I mean if i learn/speak dutch do i understand what a german is saying and vice versa?

['PL']

Some similarity
But both parties deny having any.

[SilverQuick]

Some similarities in pronounciation maybe, but I think dutch is little bit harder to learn than german.

[Fisu]

you wont be able to understand them, yet you will belive they speak german xD ( in their case dutch) haha i like it tbh =)

[Rawrplus]

They share similarities, but you will need to learn both in order to speak them.

[taha]

Just think of Dutch as mix of English , French and German
to be honest I can speak English and French and I can understand a lot of words , and sometime I can understand sentences , although that's not really frequent !
but yeah Dutch and German are two distinguished languages , so you won't really understand a german/dutch if you learn the other language ...

[Pim]

They share similarities, but you will need to learn both in order to speak them.

Exactly what he said.


Reading is a tiny bit easier though, loads of words look the same or are pronounced somewhat similiar.
However, you really need to study both if you want to do anything in that language, grammar is quite different.

No you won't understand a german guy talking to you, unless he says 1 word a minute

Also, i've heard people find dutch incredibly harder to master than deutsch

[EGCFaKe]

yo, this aint right man, Germans have somethgi ng we have cheese man, please stop bro

[Konvict]

Really helpful replies , thanks for the explanation guys

[DonTodo #]

Helpfull?


Dutch people have a complete different pronouncation which is more difficult to understand then germans.
We as dutch use almost every single tone that u can imagine from different languages.

German is completely different imo. I could speak fluently german but it took me a while to learn it.

[Konvict]

I thought that it was pretty much as it is spanish with portuguese or even italian but it seems much , much more complicated...

[Alves]

I thought that it was pretty much as it is spanish with portuguese or even italian but it seems much , much more complicated...

Spanish and Portuguese have some similarities but Italian is completely different, even though all 3 languages are originated from Latin.
As a Portuguese, I only understand a few words in Italian.

[Koray]

Well, as a Turkish guy who lives in Holland and speaks 3 langauges and understands 4(5 not everything tho).

German is a mixture of Dutch and Turkish, atleast thats how I hear it, I have no problems understanding/reading what they say but speaking is a whole lot harder because of all the different pronouciations.

[SilverQuick]

German is a West Germanic language so as Dutch. It derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. A number of words are derived from Latin and Greek, and fewer from French and English. Widely spoken languages which are most similar to German include Luxembourgish, Dutch, the Frisian languages, English and the Scandinavian languages.

[Pim]

German is a West Germanic language so as Dutch. It derives most of its vocabulary from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. A number of words are derived from Latin and Greek, and fewer from French and English. Widely spoken languages which are most similar to German include Luxembourgish, Dutch, the Frisian languages, English and the Scandinavian languages.

Actually, germany is a germanic language
Dutch is a mixture between latin and germanic

[Rawrplus]

yo, this aint right man, Germans have somethgi ng we have cheese man, please stop bro

lol ok mate. Very good point.

[tajski]

and Polish is similar to Serbian, just sayin

imo, dutch = harder words // german = harder to pronounce xD

[Duke Devlin]

Hmmmm
Sure if your Dutch vocabulary is good you'll understand the very BASICS of German, hi, how are you, how do I, where is ....
but not much more

I'm dutch but I can't speak dutch nor german for shit

[lopedog]

I can't speak either fluently, but in my experience German was easier to pronounce. Dutch was too guttural to speak :<