Let's Learn Dutch! (Lesson #6) - Counting till 10 & Reading the Time

[Turf112]

hahah poesje mauw! ik voelde hem al aan komen. leuk gedaan mensen!

[seddielover99]

Ahaha dat liedje :) Wel geniale video..!

[Brandtner1234]

lol, you spoke a bit of spanish, awesome.

[MsRobinlove]

But you can say ''poes'' , but also ''Kat'' as Cat

[Isivish111lol]

@MsRobinlove it depends on the gender of the cat. "poes" is female and "kat" is male

[machigaiXdesuXanata]

@Isivish111lol That's not completely true either. They just have a different connotation. 'kat' is 'natural' while 'poes' has a more positive connotation. Most people don't even look wether it's a male or female.

[nina32182]

hello,,erico,,im nina,,i like to know more dutch language,will upload more videos which more of conversation...

[rmo18]

have you fucked?

[manualmaniac1]

@rmo18 the qestion is have you?

[musicpassionforever]

that two of u are really nice..ah and learn time in dutch I think is trick...

[musicpassionforever]

Can I meet the two of you when i come to Netherlands?I will stay next to Amsterdam...it would be nice to meet you...

[yurismir1]

Dutch sounds strangely like English sometimes.

[TheVonneGirl]

dit is echt lollig:D

[VivaLaSam95]

Wow. Dutch people smoke a lot of grass.

[alfa2zer0]

@VivaLaSam95 no they smoke weed

[DayGleFin]

@VivaLaSam95 No we do not im dutch to but dutch is just so different compared to english

[Karinvt]

so goood... I am so enjoying this and finally got to figure what's the song my husband sings to our poesjes

[ddmori1996]

@hojoOsanagi

Dutch is hard to learn that is treu but if you start and you go on with lessons it wont be that hard i think xD

[HojoOSanagi]

@ddmori1996

Ekj sproake nen Ütsproak det Dietschen de fäle änlijchkjeiten too Enjelschen onn Nadelauntischen häft, daut ekj nijch irjentwoone Probleeme hab.

[614560w]

can "poes" also mean "pussy"? as in you no, a womans... :p

[patrick10001]

@614560w pussy is an American Dutch word. Which mean poes.

[HojoOSanagi]

@patrick10001

Actually Pussy is not an American-Dutch word. It comes from the Old English word Pusa meaning female genitalia or bag/sac. It's been a word in our language for over a thousand years.

[technostylesn]

its little bit like german ^^

[rubisuperstar16]

Jill is so funny! xD

[shortizahn]

did you notice that not only kids want to learn dutch please a little bit less childish :<

[15XG]

Hahaahaha! You guys are priceless!!! All I can say is: "heeeeeeeeeeel leuk" and of course "ik hou van jou"!!!

[YouriIsEenBanaan]

Haha jij bent toch ook EricosVlogs, En jij komt toch oorspronkelijk uit amerika ?

Heel goed dat je die amerikaantjes ook was nederlands wilt bijbrengen ! XD

btw, ik ben erg fan van je vlogs (:

[brandrenet]

Uw buurvrouw is mooie!!! ;-)

[Nokisia]

You are cool - thank you! :D

[Orangemailbox1]

ik will melk in je kamer

[aguccy]

4:30 :D love that place <3 my sisters would love it :D

[kyliegotponed]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

MY DAD USED TO SING THAT SONG ALL THE TIME WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID

LIKE

I'M CRYING I'M SO HAPPY HAHAHAHA

<3

[TheFannyfunny]

Haha ! :) I like it, really funny ! I try to learn dutch but that's a little bit hard with the pronunciation ;)

[funmeiske]

Hahahahaa dit is echt...omg

[TheJohnsoned]

I really impressed my wife today with what i learnt. thank you guys

[js30blackhawks2010]

This is really a great way to earn basic Dutch. Thanks, Ericos (and Jill) for making it easier to learn this language. You are much more entertaining than a boring teacher. Graag gedaan!

[harris7692]

it's helping me a lot, since i am a mixed race (dutch and chinese) plus, i live in indonesia, i surrounded by english and indonesian environment. i have a little time to practice my dutch, and this video is helping me a lot! dank u wel! groetjes, harris :)

[bluishskin]

@harris7692 u live in indonesia? whereabouts? i'm indonesian but i'm interested in foreign languages, including dutch. anyway, nice to meet u. tot ziens! doei! :)

[MrFremdsprache]

Made me smile!

[kajmusic]

Cat = Kat, poes is het vrouwtje, kater het mannetje. Net als rund, koe is het vrouwtje, stier is het mannetje.

[hillarrr]

It bothers me for a long time, which one is correct pronunciation for words ending with "en". Is the "n" letter silent or not. "Negen" for example. At first you say "nege" with silent "n" as your neighbor and then "negen". I've listened many other audio books and lessons and some guys pronounce "n" and others not.

[ericos]

@hillarrr It depends on what kind of accent you have. It doesn't really matter. ;)

[dodongo1991]

@hillarrr Well...if you can say the n in English, it's the exact same. (you have words ending with n in English too, right? like, known, flown, grown, can...) Hope this helps :)

[patrick10001]

@hillarrr nege is an accent negen is correct ;)!

[veerleke]

@hillarrr If it's the last word of the sentence, you may just leave it out. If there follows another word, especially if the first letter of the following word is a vowel, you can say it. It sounds very clean/artificial if you say the "n" in words ending on "en" ALL the time, but it's not really wrong.

[MrAdamska1]

@hillarrr your american, u fail at anything other than american things...and china is going to whoop your country in short years to come and you will all 'realise' that they will be stronger.

[gojira4life]

@hillarrr There are many ways we Belgians say words. Many accents cut off the last letter of some words while some go and pronounce the words completely different than normal. The word "Negen" is mostly pronounced as "Nege" leaving the last n off. In The Netherlands they pronounce all words like the hear them, making their Dutch the most correct by grammar pronunciation. The way you say it really doesn't matter at all to most people but in polite conversations it's bets to speak clean and clear.

[Phantomagia]

HAHAH  zeer aardig!

[NozMcGoo]

You guys are so awesome!

I'm Dutch by Nationality but i was born and raised in England, and my mum found it hard to learn me the language as i was surrounded by English speaking people all the time. I knew basic words from visits to my family but i've sort of lost it now. I shall definitely be subscribing and looking through all these videos.

I have a question is Dutch really as hard to learn as people say it is? I've heard its the 3rd hardest language

Thanks for posting these awesome videos!

[ericos]

Thanks for that. Yeah, Dutch is pretty hard is what I hear from others. It has a lot of similarities with German and English tho. But it takes a lot of practise for sure. ^^

[NozMcGoo]

No problem. Yeah it seems preety hard with all the different pronuntiations like the korte ei and the lange ij, its a lot to get your head around. But this has really insprie me to learn so my mum says shes going to start teaching me :)

[riyazvw]

@NozMcGoo

it's a hard langue but its has many acceptation and thats makes it difficult

[HojoOSanagi]

@NozMcGoo

Dutch is definitely not the third hardest language in the world, it's not even the most complex Germanic language (German or Icelandic). I would probably say that a Slavic or Baltic language would have to be the most difficult European language to learn due to their retaining of archaic, complex grammar in combination with their difficult phonology. (Or Gaelic which doesn't even sound anything like its written form) I don't know about the entire planet though.

[patrick10001]

@HojoOSanagi Learning Dutch might not be that hard for Germanic speaking people. But for all those who don't speak a Germanic language is quite hard.

[HojoOSanagi]

@patrick10001

I'm aware that allophones of many different linguistics families may find Dutch to be difficult. I'm just saying that it isn't even close to being the hardest language in the world, and that in the Germanic family Icelandic has the most difficult pronunciation and grammar which has barely been altered in the past thousand years while most other Germanic languages' grammar have decayed to such an extent that it's almost pathetic (Besides German).

[patrick10001]

@HojoOSanagi That is your opinion. Do you speak Dutch?

[HojoOSanagi]

@patrick10001

No, but I speak a hybrid of it, and German with Baltic and Russian influence; the offspring of the Dutch migration into German occupied Eastern Europe (Prussia).

[patrick10001]

@HojoOSanagi Believe me Dutch is hard to learn. It's harder than German.. People who try to learn Dutch in an adult stadium will never learn speak Dutch flawless.

[HojoOSanagi]

@patrick10001 Have you ever heard of la Marquise du Châtelet. She went to the Netherlands for three months and was able to fluently speak the language in that time and conducted herself in it during a court session over property rights. It doesn't take very long to learn if you put your heart into it, especially if you're Scandinavian. Members of almost every language claim to have the most difficult language to learn, or at least from anecdotal evidence it seems to me to be the case.

[patrick10001]

@HojoOSanagi I practice Dutch to foreigners and I see the results..

[HojoOSanagi]

@patrick10001

Well yes, phonologically Dutch can be quite difficult for many peoples, but that doesn't mean that there aren't languages which have even more difficult pronunciation, such as tonal languages which can have over 200 distinct sounds and also such languages as Arabic which has many unusual sounds that most Europeans would have difficulty pronouncing properly as well as a complex grammar system which is superior to any Germanic language's.

[bordkrijt]

@HojoOSanagi German is I think similar diffeculty as Dutch, but the weird thing is that Dutch people learn German easier than German people who learn Dutch (generaly). I do think that Dutch and German are very diffecult European languages. But I dont know, there isnt such a language as "the hardest language to learn" in the world, for me arabic/russian is very diffecult but German not.

[MrSavelife]

@NozMcGoo

it aint that hard cuz some words look like english words xD

the only hard part of dutch is the grammer srry for my bad english im dutch

[zeldafreakholland]

@NozMcGoo

yes it is really hard i am 15 years old and my parents started teached it to me from my birth and i also get dutch on school but i still cant speak flued dutchs so yeah it is hard.( by the way Dutch is nationality)

[MisterMarcoX]

Poesje mauw ahah!

[ilucdkmylove]

hey guys you are sooooooooooo cool and nice i am learning alot of u its about 6 monthe i am here in NL i enjoy ur clips keep it up

[skmacmania]

u guys are so good

[MisterMarcoX]

Sure it isn't your girlfriend?

[ericos]

Nope. :]

[squeelinqueelin]

I think you guys seem "aardig en geweldig"!

Best video yet :-)

[Anutochka1983]

Ericos, n really nederlands is very much different from flemish? Can u say for example - I live...I work....i want...to do smth, I can do smth, I must...like this in nederlands and in Flemish

Dankje well

[riada1990]

lol ur so funny....also cute. my family is dutch and i am really wanting to learn it.

[lennartzuidwolde]

Ik haat het dat iedereen altijd zegt dat Nederlands zo veel op het duits lijkt maar ik kan het ook wel begrijpen want voor ons lijkt Chinees en Japans bijvoorbeeld ook heel erg op elkaar lawl

[XyoramX]

@lennartzuidwolde

Alleen mensen die er nooit echt op gelet hebben zullen dat zeggen, als je een beetje Japans luistert en een beetje Chinees zul je gelijk opmerken dat ze totaal niet op elkaar lijken, Japans heeft veel minder gemeen met Chinees dan dat Nederlands gemeen heeft met Duits..

Wat trouwens ook wel grappig is is dat er best een hoop Nederlandse woorden in de Japanse taal zitten.. ;)

[Belson20]

U should make a video about the different dialects in the netherlands.

[ericos]

That's a difficult thing to do. =]]

[Belson20]

It's just that my best friend is dutch and he pronounces the "R" differently. He says his accent is more typical to the northern part of the country but actually most of the dutch people I've heard had his kind of "R" rather than yours. it's too confusing to me.

[Amaraiyah]

waarom zegt Jill pas 'nice to meet you' op het einde van de video? Dat zeg je normaal toch in het begin?

Maakt niet uit XD. Het zijn goede videos, do zo verder =P

[ericos]

Haha ach ja. 'Nice to have met you' had het beter kunnen zijn. ;)

[picilanyka01]

when will you make the new video?:O

I would like to learn much more,continue it...so i hope its ready for a few minutes haha:) You're very good teacher!!! plz plz plz help for us, do it for us, its a wonderful language!

xxx

bedankt

[ericos]

Thanks! There's a new video coming this week. Stay tuned. =]]

[Taishudo]

@ericos My friend, these videos are amazing. I'm English and planning on moving to the NL in the next year or so and very keen to speak fluent dutch by the time I roll in. I've been to Amsterdam before and loved it. The "G2 pronunciation is not too hard for me as I'm half iranian and the farsi pronunciation of the "kh" sound is exactly like the "g". I love your videos man, please keep them coming. I've subscribed.

I'm buying you a beer when I roll in to the NL. Peace and love my friend.

[ericos]

Thanks for the great comment. =]]

[Weekrulez]

Now I'll explain you, when I've been in Netherlands, and asked indications for Vollendam, the person said the first V it seemed like a fully F, so then I wondered if in some places there the V is completely devoiced up to F (as the difference between V and F, is that V is voiced, F unvoiced). Dutch V in standard Dutch is half-voiced, but I swear that guy seemed to say Vollendam like Follendam!

[ericos]

I know what you mean. We have so many dialects here. So that's possible. I don't pronounce it like that tho. And yeah, in Volendom/Amsterdam they talk like that. ;)

[Weekrulez]

In my language (Italian) I've both V and F, but V in Dutch seem to be devoiced, not completely of course, while in English or Italian it's completely voiced.. just try yourself to compare these.. of course for Dutch speakers it's much more evident ;)

[Weekrulez]

Good :D ..Also another question, you distinguish well enough in Dutch G/CH minimal pairs? And is the V in the mediatic accent pronounced as F? Thanks again ;)

[ericos]

The pronounciation of the V is different than the F. But it's quite difficult to explain. The V has a harder sound than the F. Like 'vanish' and 'fact'. I hope this helps.

[Weekrulez]

As far as R is concerned, I learned from a linguist that in neutral pronunciation (then the less used, found in dictionaries), R is alveolar (with the tongue touching the alveolars then), with a bit of uvularization, while in mediatic (the most widespread, and I think yours) R at the beginning of a word or between vowels is uvular (as in French), while at the end of a word or in between (as paRt) is like English' .. you can confirm me? Bye ;)

[ericos]

I think you are right with that. =D

[Adrilondon]

loved Mrs Jill man!! shes = cute

[ruellan2003]

how do u say i love u....dankje

[ericos]

Ik hou van je. There's a video about that. I think it's Dutch Lesson #5. =]]

[heartsvoice1989]

voor jou ,,, DONT say it in spain :D

the sound for a spanish means f*ck ( AS AN ORDER ! )

[otleybey]

How important is rolling the r's in Dutch? I really can't do it. I have no trouble with the throaty 'g' and 'ch' though, which is weird because I guess that's what English people have most trouble with (my mum speaks Afrikaans though).

[ericos]

I think where I live in The Netherlands have more of a rolling r than the people who live in the east. So it's not extremely important. We have a lot of different dialects. =]

[colmschate1]

ook in het oosten des lands wordt de r rollend uitgesproken. het is wel zo dat het meer van toepassing is in ruraal gebied dan in de steden. waar ik woon is de rollende r gebruikelijk. (oost nederland). en ja, ik spreek nedersaksisch.

[Nutzername92a]

is it just me or did you really say "Deutsch lesson"??? xD

[ericos]

No! I said 'Dutch' ;)

[Agnehka]

Thanks guys!

[weusa]

why does 7 sounds different? daes it have more than one way to pronounce it?..any other number has a different pronunciation?

[yoshiki28]

great :)

[rudyarlene]

YOu should have done it alone Ericos...she seems just an annoying one!!!...You are best teaching dutch alone...that is my opinion anyhow...anyway thanks...

[Edelsteentje13]

haha. hip gedaan xd.

[artistche]

hi eric, i want to learn dutch, I m from the Philippines, I have many dutch friends here but my bf is a Belgian, at least he also speaks dutch, i want to surprise him through ur lessons, now i put all ur videos in my favorites and starting to take some notes,,,,More power , If u want I wil teach you my language ...

[imapenguin1996]

5/5!! I love dutch =) and my mom used to sing me poesje mauw, plus...the cat is adorable! :)

[musanifero]

hallo! Eric! I really enjoy your Dutch classes! so funny!, where exactly do you live in the Netherlands? keep on teaching! doei!!!!!!!!

[ericos]

In the west coast. Near Rotterdam, know that place? =)

[musanifero]

I haven´t been in the Netherlands yet, I live in Brazil and there's a little town here in the state of São Paulo called Holambra where live many Dutch people and descent, they preserve the flower culture which makes the place very beautiful and you feel like you were in the Netherlands!!! don´t stop teaching us, please!! we love you!

[ericos]

Oh wauw, that's AWESOME! =)

I will definitely continue making Dutch video's, don't worry. ^^

[serinasyuan]

are you living in Hoek van Holland?haha,just guess

[triconex]

Very entertaining, I would say you are the best on youtube. keep up the good work.

[asshol3434]

(dutch)goede lessen blijf door gaan met julie lessen(english) good lesson keep going great jop

[KXATL]

Eric, do you ever pronounce the 'n' in "zeven" or 'negren' ? When pronunciating, I know you leave the 'n' off in verbs but I was not sure of the rule concerning this.

[ericos]

Well, a lot of people don't pronounce it, but other people do pronounce it. =]]

[griffon58]

Why is half past four half vijf in dutch?

[ericos]

Cause it's half an hour after 4?

[marshy1kanobi]

i love you man

[Evyn545]

that cat is so chill, it just slumped on her shoulder and seemed to pass out hahaha

[muyagsoil]

Thanks for teaching (lesson 6)..wow you have a partner already..haha+...

I really wait to learn Dutch from you...

[biocrite]

This is exciting.

Can't wait for more !

Gaurav.

[idt100w]

Goed zo! :D

[NOTghettofabulous]

Thank you, Thank you!!! :D You're the best!

[chazziieee123]

its kind of the same as german :)

[NOTghettofabulous]

Ahhh!! Eric, you are awesome!! What is that song??? I want the words for it...please???

[ericos]

Lyrics are in the description now! YAY!

[RrahRachael]

I love these videos. They've taught me a lot. But can you do some verbs and they're conjugations? Like ik ben

jij bent

hij/zij is

wij zijn

jullie zijn

zij zijn> Verbs like to jump, sing dance things like that.

[ksharpe]

Eric... you're sooo awesome. you should add me to msn! :)

[braziliaan]

Dank jullie voor een nieuwe les!!!

Jullie zijn zoooo grappig!!!

[Pheobus3309]

Should have sang Gat in mijn dak xD It's a funny song.

[mariah992]

omg! the numbers 4 and 8 in dutch are the same in german! haha.

[headrushindi]

de grote baan, houdt van vid, houdt omhoog het goede werk

theres a little homework for you LOL

gret stuff love it

[coltrane1966]

We used to be taught French when I was at school long ago, but the teachers were

always boring and we never learn't much at all.

Then, one day we had a new teacher who taught us in a different way by using old songs

that were simple and melodic, and even decades after I remember all the words.

It works because it gives the foreign words some texture, they convey pictures in your mind

for you to associate them in your imagination and you get a sense of rhythm for the grammar.

[akmalhakimvlog]

its hard!lol

[RODalicious]

cat sounds like puss lol

could you write the song??

awesome!

[pvampire]

I love your Dutch lessons! I think it would be so cool to know both languages like you guys! I can pronounce the words but remembering them for any amount of time is my problem..happy new year!

[d2dfff]

Hahaha! Ik heb deze video aan m'n favorieten toegevoegd. :D

[robertsolace]

u bent goede leraren Jill en Eric :D haha  I love the poes song

: )

[Justified248]

Omg at 4:07 I died! Fun.

[Finken]

That was really funny. My friend Kali and I are thinking about doing something like this, but a German verison. <3

[n3rdyNugg3ts]

cat... poes.. ... lol. sounds like puss. is that bad that i said that. ??

[cizmoe]

don't worry I totally thought the same thing :P

[distructica]

is it common in the Netherlands for people to speak such fluent English? I always assumed you were somewhat special were you were from for that, but knowing your neighbor also speaks English makes me wonder?

[Green4321]

All of my Dutch relatives speak fluent English, except the very young children who haven't learned it yet. Nevertheless, Eric is still "special" :-) And so is Jill!

If you try to speak Dutch & have an English accent, Netherlanders will probably answer you in English.

[distructica]

that is so crazy, makes me think of the real cultural divide we have here in America, for the most part if you speak any other language then English people tend to get annoyed. Which has always bothered me.