Dont be fooled, the Dutch QI was a flop. It was cancelled after 6 episodes. The Dutch have a lot of qualities, but making and presenting a decent tv-show isn't one of them.
$5 and 4 hours on Fung "Wheels Of Fire" Wa between Boston and NYC. 45 minute walk between 35th and 53rd. and $15 for a ticket to MoMA just to be moved to tears by one of his paintings. i spent many a day in the MFA, and plenty of time on all the different floors in MoMA...and being an artist i've seen A LOT of art...Vincent is the only one whose art as made me feel something so moving that i brought tears to my eyes.
I think it's funny Stephen pronounces van Gogh right, but he says Arthur Japin like Arthur Yappin'. Arthur's surname should actually be pronounced as if you were a Frenchman.
to everybody saying van Gogh should be pronounced with a 'soft' g, Arthur said that the correct Dutch pronounciation was with a 'hard' g, which is true, since the hard 'g' is the standard in ABN. It doesn't actually matter where he's from.
@Lachuhbekjuh Just think about what you said.... I'm dutch. I even live in the municipality he grew up. And used to work next to the house he grew up, and got raised. So please screw you..
@Ari70 we gaan vriendelijk doen! :P als er een smiley achter heb staan boeit me dus echt niet hoe je het zegt, dat jij het nu zo serieus neemt! trololol! :) Merry X-Mas
I live in the south of the Netherlands and here we don't pronounce it like that at all.. it's called a hard G (that throat-sound you heard) we use a soft G (can't come up with an English word that has a soft G right now)
@NichtcrawlerX He is most definitely not.. Stephen Fry is intelligent, has a natural charisma and is incredibly funny. I would say Arthur Japin is the exact opposite of Stephen Fry. He's the ''anti-Fry''. By the way, Japin lied, the Dutch QI was cancelled after a few shows because it was nowhere near as good as the British version and people hated it.
I have a teacher who always pronounces it as "van cock". It causes a great deal of amusement for the immature people in class, which is a depressingly high number.
@geganobo ja het was een paar jaar geleden op tv, maar ik denk dat er maar 1 of 2 seizoenen zijn geweest. Het is misschien nog wel te zien op uitzendinggemist
Interesting as it may be, it should be pointed out that we only get hung up about a select few foreign names - no English speaker pronounces Barcelona with the local lisp (apart from Fiona Bruce on the news, but even she doesn't say 'España').
Arthur Japin is a briliant dutch writer, read "In Lucia's Eyes", briliant book, though I thought the dutch title is better which would translate as "A beautiful flaw". Interesting to see that both the British and the Dutch version of QI is presented by a homosexual intellectual, though Stephen Fry wins with overwhelming charm. I love him.
@Daleksaresupreme1 Not sure if the English version was ever shown in Holland, but as far as I can see, the Dutch version was cancelled, so I don't think so.
@KryzMasta well in the Netherlands we got a lot of foreign tv channels as a standard on television. BBC1 and BBC2 and german channels like ARD ZDF are always available in the Dutch living room. So it is easy to learn and hear other languages very often.
@cosmicshambles It's supposed to be one of the easiest languages to learn, which is why it's so widespread throughout the world. It has really simple grammatical rules in comparison to other languages supposedly. I guess that makes sense when you consider a language like French in which every subject must be given a gender word! :-/
@wimpylassiter2336 Haha, really? Well maybe I'm wrong, who knows. I'm pretty sure Russian and some of the Chinese languages are meant to be really tough.
@BlueVane stop being polite and nice. this is youtube. ahem. "you jerk!" etc.... anyway yeahh lol i may be wrong too. i heard vietnamese is hardest to learn. i thought english was so widespread by the sword/gun (british) or the fast food restaurant or starbucks (american) lol. mcdonalds and disney brought down the soviet union, after all... sorry, how did i get on this subject?
@BlueVane And incidentally, it is the language of the world's only superpower. Perhaps that's the only reason why English is so widespread after all...
@Xozny Only British people who quit school at 12 do that. :-D Most British people pronounce it very similar to the correct Dutch pronunciation, but with a harsh G, instead of the softer almost H-like one the Dutch do.
I'm used to pronouncing it Van Γoo[x] (rather than Hoo[x])... although it annoys me slightly because there's only two consonants in the word and neither of them are represented by letters in the english alphabet ... I have to borrow from Greek and IPA xD
@lauwer Although, not bad. Stephen's dutch wasn't too bad. Although he did tutoyeer in the beginning, which is fine, but vuvoyeerde at the end (Dank u wel). Overal, pretty impressive. And Arthur Japin's english was of course good as well. :-)
i think if you're english and you're seriously learning our difficult language.. it actually sounds pretty good! (: at least.. i concluded that from what I just heard.
Its correct pronunciation should be closer to the way an English speaking person would pronounce the English word 'agog', with an 'v' and an 'n' added, than to the harsh sound that comes out of Arthur Japin's throat. He speaks with an accent from the western part of the country (he was born in Haarlem, to the north of Amsterdam), while Van Gogh was from the south (Zundert, near Breda, under Rotterdam), where they use a much softer g.
@angiem577 Are you trying to learn Dutch? :P Fry said ''Hoe gaat het met u?'' and the rest is kinda garbled. And of course at the end he says ''Dank u wel''.
@xRedster ooh, thank you v much! and not really, but i've tried Dutch a bit, the pronunciation is awful =P i only know a handful of Dutch words (ok ok, mostly food-related -- erwtensoep, kaas broodje, etc.) which is why i wanted to see the words Stephen said :)
PS. i think i forgot to say Alstublieft in my request! sry :)
@angiem577 Hoe gaat het met jou? (How is it going with you? / How are you?) - Response: Het gaat goed, Stephen, dankjewel ja. (It's going well Stephen, thank you, yes.) - Het gaat goed? (It's going well?)
Listen carefully, and you'll hear Stephen say "mopje" to Arthur near the end of his greeting. "Mopje" in this context means something along the lines of 'sweetheart'.
Ironically, Stephen mispronounces the name "Arthur Japin" in the end - he uses the Dutch pronounciation for his surname where it should have been the French (Sha-pehn or something along those lines).
No, ColdHeartMinor, you're being a complete arse! The way Arthur Japin pronounces the 'g' is not the way 'rich' people pronounce it, this is how it is generally pronounced in the major cities, in "proper" Dutch. The soft 'g' you're talking about is simply a dialect from the south. The way you pronounce words and letters depends on where you're from, not on your wealth. Don't be stupid.
@AMRPK I had never heard of the word 'sjaaties' (I'm from the south of the Netherlands), but judging from usage on some other websites, 'sjaatie' is a variation on 'schatje', which means about the same as 'honey' or 'darling' (literally, 'little treasure').
@mwvandersteen thank you. you have solved the puzzle for me. i should have said that my friend heard this in Overijssel, around Enschede so it would be the Twents dialect of Dutch. Dank Ja mwvandersteen.
It was indeed a shame the Dutch version didn't last long, it wasn't that bad. Although not nearly as good as the original. You can still catch the episodes on the digital channel Humor TV every now and then.
BTW to Coldheartminor: the pronounciation of the rich people?! Are you kidding me? At least half the country speaks with a 'hard g'. And I for one am not that rich!:P
Arthur Happin'? 1:21 Well, as a Dutch viewer, I can tell you he does a very good job on presenting the Dutch QI. Too bad most Dutch people are too stupid to understand this kind of humor, therefore the show didn't last long. But I see emielfvisser has informed you very well already :)
Arthur's totally being an arse by the way. He's making it them too difficult. As he pronounces it, is the way the "rich" people in Holland would pronounce it. With a so called "hard g". With a soft g, like most of the Dutch in the south have, would make it alot more easier for the English. And also quite funny. I saw this when this was aired on the BBC, and that was when show was cancelled months ago already. XD
@ColdheartMinor You do realize that not everybody who lives in the North is rich and everybody who lives in the South is poor, right? The hard 'G' is the northern accent, whereas the soft 'G' is the southern accent, most well-known to be from Limburg and Brabant. I personally am from Limburg and find it a more comfortable and correct accent, but it IS based purely on region and has nothing to do with how wealthy anyone is.
Secondly, I'd like to see most Dutch folks try to speak English, or German, or French, or Japanese. In fact, I have heard a lot of dutch people trying to speak another language. We suck. I myself suck at most accents as well. I say: kudos to Stephen for even taking the trouble to try and learn the northern dutch accent, it's pretty hard and he did very well.
@UltimateSonicFan0001 Not really, they go by what they learn. ''Dough'' ''Though'' etc all end in 'gh' and you pronounce them like ''Do'' ''Tho'' etc. So it's no suprise to hear an English speaker pronounce it like ''Go'' Pronouncing it like 'Goff'' is a disgrace, since at that point they've given up all hope and just try something random.
He acted in the movie "the Discovery of Heaven", which was inspired by "de Ontdekking van de Hemel", written by the Dutch author Harry Mulisch.
During the taping of this movie in the Netherlands, mr. Fry showed (again) his ability to learn a foreign language in a very short time.
Coincidence: Thomas van Luyn, who fulfills the role of sidekick Alan Davies in the Dutch version of QI, imitated Harry Mulisch a couple of times in the satirical Dutch tv show "Kopspijkers".
"Vincent Fuck Off"?
obglobgablob 2 weeks ago 5
Wie hier is Afrikaans?
Toxicmanish 2 weeks ago
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Toxicmanish 2 weeks ago
and he's called Arthur Japin, pronounced the French way, not Arthur Jeppin :-)
poppylv21 4 weeks ago 3
NOT as "van cough", so please stop that! Learn the Dutch "g"and you'll be fine
poppylv21 4 weeks ago
You pronounce it as it is written. What is so difficult about that ?
Spirifiume 1 month ago
Now try and pronounce "rouwregister"...? XD
Cassavius 1 month ago
@berrycccc all though "Scheveningen" is difficult "'s Hertogenbosch" is total mind wrecker to the british
TheFalloutGuy1121 1 month ago 2
@TheFalloutGuy1121 English is NOT Anglo-Saxon at all English is a Latinic/Germanic/Gaelic Hybrid
YamiBarai21 1 month ago
It's still wrong because Van Gogh is from the south where we pronounce our g's differently.
Jitteee 1 month ago 4
By the way : The most difficult word in Dutch is "Scheveningen". No one abroad will ever be able to say this word without an accent.
berrycccc 1 month ago
Ik know. And I'm Dutch. You call our language a "serious throat disease " . Thats why we love you !
berrycccc 1 month ago 2
1:28 the presenter's pronounciation is quite good there
OhReallyNoWai 1 month ago
The way how they pronouce Arthur Japin is also hilarious.
adventuresawaiting 1 month ago 4
I really dont get why people think jimmy carr is funny...
Eloise13zzz 1 month ago
Love how he mispronounced Arthur Japins name.... There goes his credibility ;)
[Well only on this very particular subject of pronouncing Dutch names]
EJ386 1 month ago 2
Dont be fooled, the Dutch QI was a flop. It was cancelled after 6 episodes. The Dutch have a lot of qualities, but making and presenting a decent tv-show isn't one of them.
P8II 2 months ago 16
I love the face Jimmy Carr has when he says that the man from the video is in the audience :') 1;25
MsPrincessVamp 2 months ago
$5 and 4 hours on Fung "Wheels Of Fire" Wa between Boston and NYC. 45 minute walk between 35th and 53rd. and $15 for a ticket to MoMA just to be moved to tears by one of his paintings. i spent many a day in the MFA, and plenty of time on all the different floors in MoMA...and being an artist i've seen A LOT of art...Vincent is the only one whose art as made me feel something so moving that i brought tears to my eyes.
tazmon122 2 months ago
"Mopje." Aww!
Kitsune88 2 months ago
Americans and British people will never ever be capable of pronouncing Dutch names properly. I love them, though =).
MuziekFan1995 2 months ago 4
Sounds like "Van Rock."
IoEstasCedonta 2 months ago
the dutch QI lasted 6 episodes, apparently I was the only person watching.
Robcobes 2 months ago 5
Me neither, never heard of a dutch QI. Can't imagine it being interesting either.
jorenvonk 2 months ago
i live in holland, i love qi but I've never seen the dutch version; never heard of it either before just now
BroodjeEend 2 months ago 5
@BroodjeEend Me neither, he said it's "very popular"... :S riiiight.
Asperitas 2 months ago
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Lachuhbekjuh 2 months ago
The IPA for Dutch is the same as Afrikaans apparently. I should know that, as my parents are South African. But I didn't.
RaincloudPlay 2 months ago
I think it's funny Stephen pronounces van Gogh right, but he says Arthur Japin like Arthur Yappin'. Arthur's surname should actually be pronounced as if you were a Frenchman.
Rynnakokki 3 months ago
to everybody saying van Gogh should be pronounced with a 'soft' g, Arthur said that the correct Dutch pronounciation was with a 'hard' g, which is true, since the hard 'g' is the standard in ABN. It doesn't actually matter where he's from.
imthedevililovemetal 3 months ago
Stupid dutch Host... van Gogh lived in the South of Holland... So his "G" sounded much less pronounced.
The dutch show didn't even air a second season. Instead of the BBC as we all know
Ari70 3 months ago
@Ari70 But we are still talking about Holland and since he's Dutch we'll just keep it as we say it ;) :D
Lachuhbekjuh 2 months ago
@Lachuhbekjuh Just think about what you said.... I'm dutch. I even live in the municipality he grew up. And used to work next to the house he grew up, and got raised. So please screw you..
Ari70 2 months ago
@Ari70 we gaan vriendelijk doen! :P als er een smiley achter heb staan boeit me dus echt niet hoe je het zegt, dat jij het nu zo serieus neemt! trololol! :) Merry X-Mas
Lachuhbekjuh 2 months ago
@XaeeD 2009 one season was canceled.
NathanWubs 3 months ago
@XaeeD Same hahaha. Nooit van gehoord.
TheBaronessIsAwesome 3 months ago
@TheBaronessIsAwesome Look at my comment above.
NathanWubs 3 months ago
Thomas van Luyn is a boss, just like Alan. The host is a pompous asshole though, unlike Steven.
TheBaronessIsAwesome 3 months ago
@TheBaronessIsAwesome Arthur japin is lovely, why do u think otherwise?
MerelMystery 2 months ago
I live in the south of the Netherlands and here we don't pronounce it like that at all.. it's called a hard G (that throat-sound you heard) we use a soft G (can't come up with an English word that has a soft G right now)
XaeeD 3 months ago
How to pronounce: Van Gogh
V - The F in Fred
A - The O in Other
N - Just the same as in British/American English
G - A sound produced by using your uvula (the back of your throat)
O - The A in awesome(British)
G - Again: Uvula
H - Isn't pronounced
janjonasappel 3 months ago
Mopje :P
GiniBaggins 3 months ago
Finally, a question on QI I would have NAILED! (Being Dutch and all)
slashfilledmind 3 months ago 2
Bow down to our supreme pronunciation skills.
Mwahahaa
Jasper1399 3 months ago
Having this last name I prefer the 'van go' version in English, since they mess it up anyway if they try to do it properly.
laliho86 3 months ago
To a Dutch guy, this sounds hilarious. "van gghcchochchchcch"
TrunksTrevelyan 3 months ago 93
@TrunksTrevelyan Agreed xD
ApriliaRS50Terror 1 month ago
Zomg, Stephen Fry is speaking my language! That was insane! Awesome, though!
TrunksTrevelyan 3 months ago
"VAN Go! Van go. Van go? Van GOOOO!" 0:18 buahaha
glitteraddict44 3 months ago
"Arthur Yappin' " hahhahahaha!!! What a GENIUS. Did he call him "Mopje?" That's too adorable!
naymeequillo 3 months ago
Now they know how to pronounce van Gogh, but they still cannot pronounce Japin...
Also, while Thomas and Alan are quite different, Arthur is in every way the Dutch version of Stephen.
NichtcrawlerX 4 months ago
@NichtcrawlerX He is most definitely not.. Stephen Fry is intelligent, has a natural charisma and is incredibly funny. I would say Arthur Japin is the exact opposite of Stephen Fry. He's the ''anti-Fry''. By the way, Japin lied, the Dutch QI was cancelled after a few shows because it was nowhere near as good as the British version and people hated it.
evildeathmonkey1 3 months ago
omg Stephen Fry en Arthur Japin in één uitzending!!!!
KitchenKiller95 4 months ago 4
I have a teacher who always pronounces it as "van cock". It causes a great deal of amusement for the immature people in class, which is a depressingly high number.
Cresendoll 4 months ago 75
@Cresendoll
:D I love immature people
timen1986 4 months ago
@Cresendoll unfortunately i think i would be part of that high number :)
lilsi93 2 months ago
@Cresendoll penis
videogames5196 4 days ago
The dutch QI version was on tele a couple of years ago :)
MerelMystery 4 months ago
Never heard about our version of QI...
Bellie93 5 months ago
We have our own IQ? wth never saw or heard about it
geganobo 5 months ago
@geganobo zwakste schakel ;)
CreepyFrogg 5 months ago
@geganobo ja het was een paar jaar geleden op tv, maar ik denk dat er maar 1 of 2 seizoenen zijn geweest. Het is misschien nog wel te zien op uitzendinggemist
MerelMystery 4 months ago
Interesting as it may be, it should be pointed out that we only get hung up about a select few foreign names - no English speaker pronounces Barcelona with the local lisp (apart from Fiona Bruce on the news, but even she doesn't say 'España').
kisbie 5 months ago
Nice seeing a Dutchman on QI. I'm from the Netherlands but I've never even heard of a Dutch version. Or Arthur Japin for that matter.
I think I'll just stick to the English version anyway :D
susannetevenanders 5 months ago
@susannetevenanders jij niet alleen ;)
erico72 4 months ago
I'm from the Netherlands and i think Steven actually pronounced the Dutch words very well.
UnitedEuropa 6 months ago
1:29 splendid job
2:23 fail
surrealIdeal 6 months ago
Stephen's last comment was the best... ;D
PhoenixCrystalHatter 6 months ago
Mr DutchDude pronounces it kinda weird... as if he puts several sneaky 'r's in there for no particular reason
myvidutube 7 months ago
@myvidutube not really it just how we pronounce the g's
EJ386 7 months ago
Comedian Alfred Marx said to Donny Osmond he thought he had Van Gogh's ear for music and Donny thanked him for the complement .
binaway 7 months ago
I love how Jimmy just decides to abort the attempt to say 'Van Gogh' and goes with that French name.
Love the fact I can just say it correct (I'm Dutch :D )
TimMeijerDoctor 7 months ago
The one video where Van Gogh painting 2:08 looks like Chuck Norris and there are no jokes, weird.
5t3Maiden 7 months ago
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5t3Maiden 7 months ago
I love how Stephen gets 'van Gogh' and 'mopje' (sweetheart) right but not Japin's name. Bless him.
Charmredux 7 months ago
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Charmredux 7 months ago
Arthur Japin is a briliant dutch writer, read "In Lucia's Eyes", briliant book, though I thought the dutch title is better which would translate as "A beautiful flaw". Interesting to see that both the British and the Dutch version of QI is presented by a homosexual intellectual, though Stephen Fry wins with overwhelming charm. I love him.
whackthedog 7 months ago
Those clicky languages in africa are prob the hardest to learn.
kives1985 7 months ago
japin is gay and so is fry. big deal
12345dfgtyh 7 months ago
is the dutch version more popular than the original
Daleksaresupreme1 7 months ago
@Daleksaresupreme1 Not sure if the English version was ever shown in Holland, but as far as I can see, the Dutch version was cancelled, so I don't think so.
KryzMasta 7 months ago
@KryzMasta wow Afganistan. i looked at your profile your a bit of a world away. do you guys like English shows such as QI?
Daleksaresupreme1 7 months ago
@Daleksaresupreme1 Haha, sorry mate, sometimes people lie on the internet. ;-) I would have liked it to be true though, if only for your enjoyment!
KryzMasta 7 months ago
@KryzMasta oh well i that case i am the son of joseph starlin and a one legged hermaphrodite called Phill
Daleksaresupreme1 7 months ago
@KryzMasta
You mean you're NOT in Afghanista? I'm shocked, really, shocked that gambling's going on in this establishment.
patrickcorliss 7 months ago
@patrickcorliss It's a travesty. To America!
KryzMasta 7 months ago
@KryzMasta well in the Netherlands we got a lot of foreign tv channels as a standard on television. BBC1 and BBC2 and german channels like ARD ZDF are always available in the Dutch living room. So it is easy to learn and hear other languages very often.
jeroenis 4 months ago
I love how Fry and Japin have their own little 'superior figure in QI club' going on there. xD
MrBuch169169 7 months ago
wow, hoe gaat het met jouw. He really did pronounce that right :)
uzemakistyle 8 months ago
That's awesome, I've read a book from Arthur Japin. And I could just talk to Stephen in my own language, that's even cooler! :3
Sietsje93 8 months ago
That's awesome, I could talk to Stephen in my own language!
Sietsje93 8 months ago
wtf do british people pronounce it with an F?
Xozny 8 months ago
@Xozny There's so many ways of pronouncing -ough that it's not surprising really. Trough, through, ought. English must be a nightmare to learn.
cosmicshambles 8 months ago
@cosmicshambles It's supposed to be one of the easiest languages to learn, which is why it's so widespread throughout the world. It has really simple grammatical rules in comparison to other languages supposedly. I guess that makes sense when you consider a language like French in which every subject must be given a gender word! :-/
BlueVane 8 months ago
@BlueVane umm ive always heard it was like the second or third HARDEST to learn.
wimpylassiter2336 8 months ago
@wimpylassiter2336 Haha, really? Well maybe I'm wrong, who knows. I'm pretty sure Russian and some of the Chinese languages are meant to be really tough.
BlueVane 8 months ago
@BlueVane stop being polite and nice. this is youtube. ahem. "you jerk!" etc.... anyway yeahh lol i may be wrong too. i heard vietnamese is hardest to learn. i thought english was so widespread by the sword/gun (british) or the fast food restaurant or starbucks (american) lol. mcdonalds and disney brought down the soviet union, after all... sorry, how did i get on this subject?
wimpylassiter2336 8 months ago
@wimpylassiter2336
Hardest to learn for English speakers, according to the Foreign Service Institute are: Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean.
thecritiquevirtuoso 7 months ago
@BlueVane And incidentally, it is the language of the world's only superpower. Perhaps that's the only reason why English is so widespread after all...
Saruman38 7 months ago
@Xozny Only British people who quit school at 12 do that. :-D Most British people pronounce it very similar to the correct Dutch pronunciation, but with a harsh G, instead of the softer almost H-like one the Dutch do.
BigJimUK 8 months ago
The Dutch guy is a very famous writer in Holland.
NeyoProductions 8 months ago
That was some good dutch stephen!
lizoerd 8 months ago
The Dutch presenter is very handsome :O
Also, I love it when Stephen asks if they want to see him and Alan says "not really..."
WasMilkABadChoice 8 months ago
Too bad that the dutch version was cancelled after 1 season:S
empirecircle 8 months ago
The Dutch guy looks royally pissed when he's first introduced...
SkrateBeastin 9 months ago
@SkrateBeastin I think it may be because Stephen mispronounces his last name, haha..
DanMilanS 8 months ago
"Is he um. Is is er. Is he um. Whats he like?" LOL
krizan1 9 months ago
Yay Arthur bij QI! Waarom is dat in Nederland nooit vertoond?
Bigfatbutterfly02 9 months ago
The englisch version is funnier! Thank god for YouTube!
HaarStijlSteil 9 months ago 32
ok time to go searching for dutch qi vids
shakin2009 9 months ago 14
Fry pronounces van Gogh correctly but not Japin.
tuigleven 10 months ago 7
I knew it was pronounced like that because Diane Keaton says it like that in Woody Allen's Manhattan.
jerryhello100 10 months ago
Here's a thought: He was a hair away from being remembered as "Ben Hooch" xD
HaniiPuppy 10 months ago
I'm used to pronouncing it Van Γoo[x] (rather than Hoo[x])... although it annoys me slightly because there's only two consonants in the word and neither of them are represented by letters in the english alphabet ... I have to borrow from Greek and IPA xD
HaniiPuppy 10 months ago
too bad he pronouces Arthur Japin's name incorrectly (the dutch presenter)
lauwer 10 months ago
@lauwer Although, not bad. Stephen's dutch wasn't too bad. Although he did tutoyeer in the beginning, which is fine, but vuvoyeerde at the end (Dank u wel). Overal, pretty impressive. And Arthur Japin's english was of course good as well. :-)
AussieEvonne 10 months ago
I used to say 'van go' until I got into languages a ton and then learned the proper way :D
Caconymic 11 months ago
I can pronounce it correctly. But I will choose to call him vinny. Thats just how I roll.
catuvelauni 11 months ago 17
i think if you're english and you're seriously learning our difficult language.. it actually sounds pretty good! (: at least.. i concluded that from what I just heard.
YumeYasuu 11 months ago
Vincent Van [phlegm]o[phlegm]
Boredman567 11 months ago 4
Wat is daar nou moeilijk aan van gogh^^
keesdecrip 1 year ago 5
Its correct pronunciation should be closer to the way an English speaking person would pronounce the English word 'agog', with an 'v' and an 'n' added, than to the harsh sound that comes out of Arthur Japin's throat. He speaks with an accent from the western part of the country (he was born in Haarlem, to the north of Amsterdam), while Van Gogh was from the south (Zundert, near Breda, under Rotterdam), where they use a much softer g.
mwvandersteen 1 year ago
Hoe gaat het met jou, mopje?:)
LOL. Very cute:)
creaturanoctis 1 year ago
Could someone type out all of what Mijnheer Fry said in Dutch? Dank U! :D
PS. In Doctor Who, the Doctor (Eleven) called Vincent Van Gogh "Vinnie" <3 :)
angiem577 1 year ago
@angiem577 Are you trying to learn Dutch? :P Fry said ''Hoe gaat het met u?'' and the rest is kinda garbled. And of course at the end he says ''Dank u wel''.
xRedster 1 year ago
@xRedster ooh, thank you v much! and not really, but i've tried Dutch a bit, the pronunciation is awful =P i only know a handful of Dutch words (ok ok, mostly food-related -- erwtensoep, kaas broodje, etc.) which is why i wanted to see the words Stephen said :)
PS. i think i forgot to say Alstublieft in my request! sry :)
angiem577 1 year ago
@angiem577 Next time order a kroket (Cró-cat) it's a dutch delicasy
jobrademaker 1 year ago
@angiem577 Hoe gaat het met jou? (How is it going with you? / How are you?) - Response: Het gaat goed, Stephen, dankjewel ja. (It's going well Stephen, thank you, yes.) - Het gaat goed? (It's going well?)
Dutchtica 1 year ago
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angiem577 1 year ago
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angiem577 1 year ago
the funniest thing is that he totally prenounces "arthur Japin" wrong xD
MerelMystery 1 year ago 32
@MerelMystery
Even funner is YOU misspelled "pronounces"!
stevenscottoddballz 4 months ago
@stevenscottoddballz well, I'm sorry :P
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Charmredux 1 year ago
Listen carefully, and you'll hear Stephen say "mopje" to Arthur near the end of his greeting. "Mopje" in this context means something along the lines of 'sweetheart'.
Gigano1986 1 year ago
@Gigano1986 I never noticed that! But you're right :P That's cute!
GiniBaggins 1 year ago
Ironically, Stephen mispronounces the name "Arthur Japin" in the end - he uses the Dutch pronounciation for his surname where it should have been the French (Sha-pehn or something along those lines).
Doesn't make it any less brilliant, though...
FraxVids 1 year ago 3
No, ColdHeartMinor, you're being a complete arse! The way Arthur Japin pronounces the 'g' is not the way 'rich' people pronounce it, this is how it is generally pronounced in the major cities, in "proper" Dutch. The soft 'g' you're talking about is simply a dialect from the south. The way you pronounce words and letters depends on where you're from, not on your wealth. Don't be stupid.
Frederique1989 1 year ago
i learned this from dr who comic book.
wimpylassiter2336 1 year ago
Can any of our Dutch friends or those fluent in Dutch tell me what the word SJAATIES means. I've heard my Amsterdammer friend use it a lot. Dank Ja.
AMRPK 1 year ago
@AMRPK Difficult to say, is the "aa"pronounced as in a-ha? And ties as in neckties or pronounced as tees/teas?
vanjara 1 year ago
@AMRPK i'm dutch and i don't now what it means sorry.
sjaaties?? how do you pronouced it then?
SuperRomario31 1 year ago
@AMRPK I had never heard of the word 'sjaaties' (I'm from the south of the Netherlands), but judging from usage on some other websites, 'sjaatie' is a variation on 'schatje', which means about the same as 'honey' or 'darling' (literally, 'little treasure').
mwvandersteen 1 year ago
@mwvandersteen thank you. you have solved the puzzle for me. i should have said that my friend heard this in Overijssel, around Enschede so it would be the Twents dialect of Dutch. Dank Ja mwvandersteen.
AMRPK 1 year ago
It was indeed a shame the Dutch version didn't last long, it wasn't that bad. Although not nearly as good as the original. You can still catch the episodes on the digital channel Humor TV every now and then.
BTW to Coldheartminor: the pronounciation of the rich people?! Are you kidding me? At least half the country speaks with a 'hard g'. And I for one am not that rich!:P
RiverStyx01 1 year ago
Arthur Happin'? 1:21 Well, as a Dutch viewer, I can tell you he does a very good job on presenting the Dutch QI. Too bad most Dutch people are too stupid to understand this kind of humor, therefore the show didn't last long. But I see emielfvisser has informed you very well already :)
kleinmormeltje 1 year ago
Dutchland xD
Gyroglle 1 year ago 70
@Gyroglle He seems to speak atleast 4, latin included.
m1grant1987 1 year ago
Arthur's totally being an arse by the way. He's making it them too difficult. As he pronounces it, is the way the "rich" people in Holland would pronounce it. With a so called "hard g". With a soft g, like most of the Dutch in the south have, would make it alot more easier for the English. And also quite funny. I saw this when this was aired on the BBC, and that was when show was cancelled months ago already. XD
ColdheartMinor 1 year ago
@ColdheartMinor You do realize that not everybody who lives in the North is rich and everybody who lives in the South is poor, right? The hard 'G' is the northern accent, whereas the soft 'G' is the southern accent, most well-known to be from Limburg and Brabant. I personally am from Limburg and find it a more comfortable and correct accent, but it IS based purely on region and has nothing to do with how wealthy anyone is.
jursle 1 year ago
@jursle you can be forgiven for not pronouncing hard g, but pronouncing it as "van GO" is a disgrace.
UltimateSonicFan0001 1 year ago
@UltimateSonicFan0001 First off: "forgiven"? it's an accent, not a crime you know.
Secondly, I'd like to see most Dutch folks try to speak English, or German, or French, or Japanese. In fact, I have heard a lot of dutch people trying to speak another language. We suck. I myself suck at most accents as well. I say: kudos to Stephen for even taking the trouble to try and learn the northern dutch accent, it's pretty hard and he did very well.
jursle 1 year ago
@jursle true, but to a certain extent. I understand alot of people cant pronounce "van gogh" but americans could atleast pronounce it "van goff".
UltimateSonicFan0001 1 year ago
@jursle Actually most Dutch folk can speak English as well as French and German.... it isn't that hard
EJ386 7 months ago
@EJ386 Sorry, I was referring to speaking them with the correct pronounciation. Trust me, most people suck.
jursle 7 months ago
@EJ386 I bet learning French German & English pronunciation is easy if one is fluent in Dutch
AS2Roy 5 months ago 4
@UltimateSonicFan0001 Not really, they go by what they learn. ''Dough'' ''Though'' etc all end in 'gh' and you pronounce them like ''Do'' ''Tho'' etc. So it's no suprise to hear an English speaker pronounce it like ''Go'' Pronouncing it like 'Goff'' is a disgrace, since at that point they've given up all hope and just try something random.
xRedster 1 year ago
@xRedster Dough is pronounced Doe but enough is enuff
Vladd67 1 year ago
@xRedster Dough is pronounced Doe but enough is enuff so why shouldn't Gough be Goff?
Vladd67 1 year ago
@Vladd67
The simple answer to that is: English grammar and Dutch grammar aren't the same :)
Akfilm92 1 year ago 2
@UnlikeMyTrousers The Dutch version was briliant, but there won't be a second season!
paskwal21 1 year ago
ROFL
Littlefire100 1 year ago
Van Schush... As if he's trying to make people to shut up... Nice name.
Namaechan 1 year ago
Incidentally, Stephen did mention the correct pronunciation in Series A.
TinTower 1 year ago
well we called him van Goth. Americans called him van go.
dim432 1 year ago
@dim432 Sounds like a removal company.
XD
HaniiPuppy 1 year ago
so...its a success in the dutch land not just a one off thing?
kakaze 1 year ago
Stephen Fry speaks dutch? I didn't know that.
CBGB42 1 year ago 58
@CBGB42
He acted in the movie "the Discovery of Heaven", which was inspired by "de Ontdekking van de Hemel", written by the Dutch author Harry Mulisch.
During the taping of this movie in the Netherlands, mr. Fry showed (again) his ability to learn a foreign language in a very short time.
Coincidence: Thomas van Luyn, who fulfills the role of sidekick Alan Davies in the Dutch version of QI, imitated Harry Mulisch a couple of times in the satirical Dutch tv show "Kopspijkers".
emielfvisser 1 year ago
@CBGB42 He played in a Dutch movie, so he knows a few lines. ;)
ppkoning 1 year ago
@CBGB42 Stephen Fry can do anything
marykeith47 1 year ago