Interview with Nick Clegg..... in Dutch

[Biervrienden]

He speaks German and Spanish as well.

[SantomPh]

those people aren't holding up the signs in support...it's raining j/k

[Invesigator]

Het is mysterious en een beetje geweldig dat een Engels polticus vlottend Nederlands kan spreken.

[globetrotter0580]

He also speaks German pretty well...

[03jackp]

Hij spreekt wel goed nederlands! Maar hij is geen Geert Wilders....

[Invesigator]

Het is geweldig dat een Engelsman vloeiend in het Nederlandse taal kan spreken. Meeste Engelsen zijn te trots om een andere taal dan Engels te leren.

[dellboid]

@Invesigator Niet trots maar lui. Ook ik denk niet dat andere taal leren in school is een prioritaire als het binnen europa is. Sorry als mijn nederlands slecht is, proberen ik ben aan nederlanse te leren.

[nageljeuk]

@dellboid Het is compleet leesbaar, maar de woordvolgorde klopt net niet helemaal.

[dellboid]

@nageljeuk dankjewel, ik kan probeer alleen

[nageljeuk]

@Invesigator Zijn moeder is Nederlands, hij is er gewoon mee opgegroeid verder hoor.

[mty1]

why are people talking about trolls lol, is this something to do with dutch people? lol, crazy dutch bastards with their shit sense of humour. Ofcourse he only speaks dutch because his mother is dutch, if you think i am lying why dont you come to England and walk into a hotel or a pub or a shop and try to speak dutch with them and see how far you get. Why would we learn your funny little language when our language is the best in the world, although, chinese will probably become more powerful.

[Robotnik]

@mty1 Mate I'm English and what thou is sprouting here is absolute drivel. If thou realised just how close Dutch is to English even coming down to the use of 'thou' and 'thee' in the 2nd tense just like dutch ' gij' and 'u', then perhaps us Englishman would be better at been world beaters instead of bleating about Johnny Foreigner taking our jobs or complaining people cannot speak proper English, considering that as Englishmen, we do not even speak'proper' English no more.

[mty1]

@Robotnik I don't really care what you think of my opinion, most foreigners including Dutch people think that they speak English very well, and the truth is they do not. The End!

[Robotnik]

@mty1 Well they might not but they usually do a better job than us. As I said, when we start speaking proper English again then perhaps thine argument will stand up.

[nageljeuk]

@Robotnik Mate, that's absolutely not correct, the English archaic pronouns 'thou' and 'thee' are related to the Dutch archaic pronouns 'du' and 'dee', neither of which are in use any more. 'gij/jij' is related to 'ye' and 'jou' to 'you'. 'Thou' was actually informal and 'you' was formal, Thou fell out of use because people were just extremely formal, same thing happened with Dutch, for plural we use 'jullie' which basically literally means 'you guys'.

[GulleGelderlander]

@mty1 Do you lot speak any foreign language at all, and do you lot have any respect for foreigners? Clearly not. At least we learn foreign languages. I speak Dutch, English, German and a little bit French, and you're whining about Dutch people with terrible accents? The old people never learned English and simply improvise since German was more important in theirs youths. Mainly old people visit England due to it's weather. Low educated people have problems with it too. Pathetic little man.

[mty1]

@GulleGelderlander

You ought to write "I speak a little bit of English", because i can see from what you have written you do not speak it properly. You have made a lot of mistakes there Dutchman. The tense usage is catastrophic. I am not willing to correct you because you have not paid me. All Dutch people make a hash of our tenses. Ask anyone who is not Dutch. Dutch is by far the ugliest language most would answer. Bye, good luck with improving your command of English loser.

[GulleGelderlander]

@mty1 Then at least I speak "a little bit of English". Do you speak "a little bit" of a foreign language? Spanish or Chinese for example? You know what it's like to learn a language after you've reached the age of 12? I don't care if our language sounds ugly or not. Language is merely a tool to communicate. Besides it's the language of my ancestors.

[mty1]

@GulleGelderlander

Ye i speak a litle bit of French.

[GulleGelderlander]

@mty1 Oh really? Let me guess, you know the words 'oui and non' and 'merci'. Chapeau! Mais je ne suis pas Français, je suis Neerlandais. I understand you don't speak with an English accent when you speak French. It would be quite foolish to correct other people if you can't speak a foreign language properly yourself. Ne soyez pas arrogante, s'il vous plaît.

[VendeeD85]

@mty1 You may think it's an ugly tongue to listen to, but I've heard that to some foreigners (like the French) spoken English sounds kind of like Dutch... of course English doesn't have the guttural Gs, but the tone whereat it's spoken is very similar. It is also an indisputable fact that Dutch is the most closely related Modern Foreign Language to English.

[mty1]

@VendeeD85

errrr no.

Dutch is closest to German. Danish is probably the closest to English.

[VendeeD85]

@mty1 errrrr yes.

If you hadn't had such a rod up your backside you may have been able to understand what I said.

"Dutch is the most closely related Modern Foreign Language to English." I didn't say: "English is the most closely related Modern Foreign Language to Dutch".

That's according to University College London anyway - have you a better source?

[nageljeuk]

@VendeeD85 Well, depends on how you look at it, horizonally, it's definitely Frissian. English and Frissian are both part of the Anglo-Frissian subgroup of Saxon languages, Dutch is of the Low-Saxon subgroup which also includes Luxemburgish, German is High-Saxon.

Danish is far less related to either Dutch or English than they are to each other or to German.

[JaimeinUK]

@VendeeD85

Dunno his/her source but mine is logic. Supposing Dutch is the closest to English, as you said... well how close in absolute terms? how close in relative terms is the 2nd closest one? If 100 meters is the standard and the three closest magnitudes are, say, 17, 18 and 19 respectively, why insisting in being the closest one? why not saying that the Dutch is the closest language to German at a percentage way greater than that between Dutch and English?

[adgw1423]

@mty1 Danish is most definitely not the closest to English. English is closest to Frisian and Dutch.

[foxsux6000]

@adgw1423 english is an Anglo-frisian language and that's a fact.

[RadioNul]

@GulleGelderlander Well, if you just speak Dutch with heavy a German accent, you already speak 75% German, so that's not so impressive.

[mty1]

Dutch is such a stupid and ugly language, the reason why we didn't vote for Clegg as PM is because he speaks this awful language and his mother is Dutch haha

[Gyroglle]

@mty1 You're incompetent, unreasonable and irrationally abusive.

[mty1]

@Gyroglle Don't try to use big words that you don't understand, i will say whatever i wish, i speak the truth, and it is what all English people think. This man did not learn Dutch because he wanted to, he learnt because his mother is Dutch, he had no choice haha

[Gyroglle]

@mty1 So you, as an individual, are 100% sure that you share your opinion with all of England's people? You make me laugh. Please do go on providing this amusement to our community that is Youtube.

[mty1]

@Gyroglle maybe not 100% but the vast majority. If you are a Dutchman, why don't you write in Dutch? instead of someone elses language

[Gyroglle]

@mty1 I sense a nationalist troll. I'm not gonna go any further with this discussion. G'bye.

[PippinRally]

@Gyroglle Good man (or woman)! That mty1 guy is starting to sound like he belongs in that damn EDL (may it rot in hell). The only reason *I* wouldn't vote for a person is if I didn't agree with their policies. After all the Lib Dems did increase their share of the vote (even if the did lose seats) so obviously he's wrong but I doubt he'd ever admit to it. :)

[lazytown222]

@mty1 nah ur correct !!

[Dominiekske]

@mty1 lol

Trolls are underappreciated

[KingOfTheShrews]

Haha, all the press and supporters just crowding around in the rain listening to a language they have no comprehension of.

[DieZeitman]

i wish there was a pm who can speak a foreign language and be intergrated with europe, because us english seem to not care about anything other than english.

[kikimckenzie]

@DieZeitman British*

[Abdikareem0]

hij heeft geen britse accent, zijn moeder is nederlands terwijl hij zijn hele leven in Groot-Brittanie opgroeide.

[loesjuhb]

@Abdikareem0 hij heeft wel een brits accent. Sommige zinnen niet, sommige zinnen heel erg. Maar voor een Engelsman is het heel erg goed.

[Abdikareem0]

@loesjuhb ja zijn woordkeuze is af en toe wat kort, en hij spreekt sommige woorden op zijn brits (democracy) maar voor de rest is het prima.

[Abdikareem0]

@loesjuhb Ik woon zelf in GB dus ken Nick Clegg goed

zijn partij heeft een coalitie met de Conservatieven

dus hij is Vice Premier en Cameron is Premier.

[loesjuhb]

@Abdikareem0 uuhmmm nou oke? leuk denk ik... Ik zocht op funny British man, en kreeg een of andere gast waar ik nog nooit van gehoord had, maar ja nu weet ik het dus... XD

[boldkevin]

Nick Clegg walks on water

[Grolloo]

Mr. Clegg's Dutch is far better than that of the average Dutchie! I am Dutch and just went SNORK! LOL

Maybe we can now understand British politics better........ roflmao.........

[kirstythornley]

is this broken? it stops at 0:16. before Nick speaks :-(

[psrh6]

wat geweldig, ik kom ook van de zelfde soort achtergrond, engels sprekend, ik woon in engeland maar ik kan ook vloiebaar nederlands spreken. leuk te zien dat er anderen ook zijn, vooral in de pers!

[psrh6]

wat geweldig, ik kom ook van de zelfde soort achtergrond, engels sprekend, ik woon in engeland maar ik kan ook vlooiebaar nederlands spreken. leuk te zien dat er anderen ook zijn, vooral in de pers!

[rianbobbink]

Van Engelsen wordt heel vaak gezegd dat ze alleen maar Engels kunnen, terwijl Nederland zich er altijd op roemt dat het zo veel talen spreekt. Opvallend dus dat de Engelse vice-premier beter Nederlands spreekt dan de Nederlandse premier Engels spreekt:S

[HenkJovialusDikkus]

@rianbobbink Dit komt natuurlijk omdat zijn moeder Nederlands is. Balkenende heeft geen Engelse moeder of vader hè.

[Maedhros0Bajar]

The fact that he sounds like a Dutchman when speaking Dutch has probably a lot to do with the fact that he has a Dutch mother

[jelleuhh]

if i dind't knew who he was.. and someone told me he was dutch, i'd believe it! (i'm dutch myself) ... that's how good he speaks dutch :)

[RsGhost1]

Zijn uitspraak is perfect :) Je hoort wel dat hij hier niet woont aan z'n woordkeuze e.d. maar hij spreekt vloeibaar Nederlands :P

[amyb2b]

@RsGhost1 vloeibaar? :P

[barefootfiona]

@RsGhost1 His Mum's Dutch but he grew up in the UK, so that would make sense. I speak German and experience a similar thing - my pronunciation is perfekt but my grammar has faults and you can tell I haven't lived there for a while...

Trying to teach myself Dutch, by the way! I can sort of read it, but not speak/write it.

[RsGhost1]

@barefootfiona Keep up the good work I'd say ^^

[barefootfiona]

@RsGhost1 Dank je!

[Dominiekske]

@RsGhost1 Aan de andere hand doet hij wel zijn best.

[RsGhost1]

@Dominiekske Dat zei ik toch?

[Dominiekske]

@RsGhost1 Het was een grapje, Clegg zei "aan de andere hand" i.p.v. "kant".

[RsGhost1]

@Dominiekske Ja idd, das een Anglicisme. Als dat zo heet :P

[Abdikareem0]

@Dominiekske een stukje anglo-nederland ''At the other hand'' en dat heeft hij vrij vertaald in het Nederlands.

[Dominiekske]

@Abdikareem0 "On the other hand" inderdaad, wat hij letterlijk heeft vertaald, terwijl de uitdrukking "aan de andere kant" is :)

[frankjuuh]

@RsGhost1 En hij spreekt een beetje 'vorige generatie' Nederlands. Z'n tongval is een beetje jaren '50achtig.

[guliosh]

wow this is great it sounds like he is actually dutch

[shahnur79]

Ja, hier zijn we natuurlijk heel blij,,,maar is Belgie of Nederland klaar om zo'n anderstalige kanditaat voor premierschaap te hebben? daar twijfel ik hard aan...

[oliderid]

His French is quite remarkable as well. I have watched him on France 2. Quite impressive.

[mgw825]

Time for change and well overdue, we have an unfair and almost corrupt system of politics here. It does get our prospective PMs out on the street thought. I'm voting for the Liberal Democrats.

[Tjykar]

Mooi. Je hoort het Engels er soms wel doorheen - "aan de andere hand" - maar dat maakt het juist zo charmant. Van mij mag 'ie winnen!

[martiniisgood]

@Tjykar Dat soort Dunglish hoor je ook genoeg van echte Nederlanders tegenwoordig...

[GulleGelderlander]

His Dutch is very good. Native Dutch.

[Chrotisofus]

Wow. Echt geweldig Nederlands. En ook nog eens een mooi alternatief voor de heersende machten.

[bababadoobeedoobdoo]

Grappig om te zien dat als hij NLs praat zijn uitstraling meteen anders is.

[joverbis]

Hij spreekt beter Nederlands dan de meeste van mijn (Vlaamse) vrienden... Als ik zijn naam niet erbij zag staan, zou ik zweren dat hij een nederlander was.

Best of luck with the elections, Nick!