Learn Dutch - the days of the week

[soil4u]

U are really a very good online presenter and i have loved to speak dutch language in my life but have not yet learnt it . guess i would love to have u as a teacher . I love your video and i guess i like u too

[kaamilotv]

I am from somalia and this lesson help me well,.

thanks

[ujjwal45]

I am trying to learn this for somebody. This is so DIFFICULT. But I love AVB,ORANJE football team..... and this Girl IS Awesome !!!!!!!

[goJonnySwift]

Your English is AMAZING! How long have you been learning English? May I recommend a video of you describing a household item that we can all see on Camera in nothing but Dutch with Dutch subtitles? That would be awesome. Your videos are great! I totally SUB'd

[dutchforn00bs]

@goJonnySwift since I was 12, and maybe I'll do a video in just Dutch, yeah :) I'll think about it!

[rohullahaliali]

hey dude. this is Ali and i am from Afghanistan.your videos are just splendid.i really enjoy when i get to learn the lessons.how should i thank u i have got no ways for that.but after all thank u so much.i had a question as well.that what is the vowels and how do we pronounce them and what are the verbs like am , is, are,i mean to be verbs......please help me with this i would be more then thankful of you.thank. and to not forget HAPPY BIRTHDAY.....it may brings you lots of joy and gladness.oye

[bhwaaaHannah]

@rohullahaliali A- in the word 'all' E- in the word 'hey' I- as in 'steel' O- in 'open' U- 'you' but slightly different OE- as in mooo (the sound a cow makes :P). And for the verb to be. I am-ik ben, he is-hij is, you are-jij bent, you are(more than 1 person)- jullie zijn, we are-wij zijn. Hope it helped a bit. The vowels A,E and O can also be pronounced differently. I am not a teacher but I tried the best I could and if you have more questions I'd love to answer them ^^

[doaLeon]

Birthday yeah :D

[REALNassshole]

How do you make the difference between "zij" een "ze"?

[eowen515]

@REALNassshole zij and ze is used to point out a single person (in this case when you use zij or ze it's about a girl/women. Ze is also used to point out a group of people. Ze in english would be they. For example: Ze zijn buiten. In english They are outside.

Hope it helped a bit.

[REALNassshole]

@eowen515 Thank you for the reply, but not it didn't help haha. I know what they mean, I'm just wondering why sometimes it's written Zij and other times Ze. "Zij is mijn vrouw" or "Ze is mijn vrouw"

[miezziej]

@REALNassshole "zij" and "ze" basically have the same meaning. I prefer "zij" because it sounds more.. Proper or something, but that's just my weird mind I guess.. :P

I don't really know why we have two words which basically mean the same thing..

[REALNassshole]

@miezziej Ok, so basically, it's like the pronunciation of the "the" in english. I mean, there's no difference wether you say "I go to de videoclub" or "I go to die videoclub". Unless there's some rule about the germanic root of "the" (die/der)? Mmm?

[miezziej]

@REALNassshole there is a difference in "de" and "die". "I go to de videoclub" is like "the videoclub" in English. But when you say; "I go to die videoclub" it's like "that videoclub" in English.

[marf7245]

heel goed

[MiniMaster34ever]

0:41 LOL no, it's not hard for me at all :P

[schattig1elfje]

even om te zeggen je leert het goed aan <3

en jullie kaas is overheerlijk Haha

Groetjes uit Gent (Belgie, Oost-Vlaanderen)

[schattig1elfje]

Hahaaa ik weet niet waarom ik dit kijk want ik ben van Belgie

[fku89]

something really confusing me about " W " de Week sounds like de Veek ,, is it always like that "W" sounds like "V"

[dutchforn00bs]

@fku89 hey, the w does always sound like it sounds in week, but it's not the same as a v! I made a video about the pronunciation of the W. It's on my channel in the playlist "Dutch Pronunciation" :)

[MARKMYOPINIONS]

@dutchforn00bs

make a video on how to pronounce the G in Nederlands. Some pronounce it as K with an H sound at the end and some just make it sound like its rolling a G. I'm not sure and I'm afraid I'm doing it wrong.

[Guitars0nMushrooms]

Ik spreek perfect nederlands , ik ben namelijks Vlaams. Maar ik vind het toch zeer amusant om ze te bekijken. Je legt alles zeer goed uit , zelfs je Engelse uitspraak is zeer mooi. Ik heb al veel Nederlandse mensen gehoord die Engels praten , en dat klonk nogal vreemd...

Goed werk , houden zo !

[dutchforn00bs]

@Guitars0nMushrooms Bedankt!

[kikokraak12]

@Guitars0nMushrooms BELG!!!

[Guitars0nMushrooms]

@kikokraak12 Vlaming !!!!!!!

[MissStaleyHere]

i'm celebrating christmas this year in holland because my bf has family down there.. this is helpful :) dankjewel :D omg i think I spelled that correctly? must celebrate with a glass of water!

[usmcn]

keep up the good work;)

[jsantoyoc]

love you!!



[sweetnymphetamines]

Hello!

Is it also possible to say: "Vandaag is woensdag" without the het, to say just like in English "Today is wednesday" ?

[dutchforn00bs]

@sweetnymphetamines Yeah, that's fine.. just a little less common, I guess.

[MegaCarloz123]

Hey whats your name? I am from kenya trying to learn some dutch and I find your teaching enjoyable.Good work and keep it up!!

[dutchforn00bs]

@MegaCarloz123 My name is Lidewij :) What's yours? Nice to meet you!

[MegaCarloz123]

@dutchforn00bs My name is Thomas.I will watch all your videos before I explore this world of dutch hence get acquinted with basics from you.Good job I like it,as you said(tot ziens/vaarwel).Good to hear from you.

[Ducesweden]

It sounded like a mix of the english and scandinavian alphabet. When you said "Vrijdag" you sounded almost exactley like if someone from south Sweden would say "fredag"

[dutchforn00bs]

@Ducesweden I feel like all Swedes talk about the accent in the south a lot :D

[Ducesweden]

@dutchforn00bs Well it's because our accent in the south is the accent wich is closest to for example German and dutch. We have some accents in the west that are distant relatives with norwegian accents, accent's in the east wich sound like some baltic accent or something.

[2112201211]

It seems you've fallen from the heaven. Well then, I've been studing Dutch for a couple of months, I'm a self -thaught man and learn languages very easily but I find just robotic and unnatural conversations on audio books. Could you please teach us a few idioms and bit of your daily informal Dutch?. I need to talk to you because I'm looking for indications on good books, once living in Brazil you can't find good books on Dutch anywhere.Is there a way for we to talk?

[dutchforn00bs]

@2112201211 You can email me (dutchforn00bs at gmail dot com), or add me on facebook if you want (link is on channel page) :). Not sure I can help you with books, though, but if you have questions I might be able to answer them.

[2112201211]

@dutchforn00bs I've just sent u my invitation(don't know if it's the right name) on facebook. I don't know if I've done that right because I'm not very used to facebook. I've just rushed it in order to ask you some questions...when you see a robsonn, it's me......and thank you really for this work and all the best for u.

[dutchforn00bs]

@2112201211 I think it worked :)

[ottawadrummer]

dounderdar! lol that's the kind of sounds/words that North Americnas poke fun at because it sounds like dirkiedirkiedirkiedirkie...hah­ah just joking, it's cute and bouncy sounding.

[dutchforn00bs]

@ottawadrummer :D

[Rody]

Really good! There's a G in like every syllable huh xD hihi難しそう^_^

[mtjlarkin]

I'm confused about something.. In the question "Welke dag is het vaandag?" ..

You pronounce the 1st dag as 'docck' and the 2nd dag which is part of the word vaandag as 'daack' ... is there a difference of is it just me?

Your videos are really really good.. Thanks :)

[dutchforn00bs]

@mtjlarkin Hey! It's "vandaag", not "vaandag". The double aa is indeed pronounced differently :)

[ps3lightsfixcom]

I've been watching all of your videos and I have been learning German now for 7 years... Ich kann nur sagen, dass Niederländisch wie das deutsche ist. Können Sie mich verstehen? It's actually really similar, and I'm interested in taking up Dutch!

[dutchforn00bs]

@ps3lightsfixcom Ja, ik begrijp je wel! Ik heb op school 5 jaar Duits gehad :)

[Anelson88]

for noobs? :)

[666bruxinha]

i am brazilian and learn german i am in love with dutch i wanna learn this language, i love ur videos !! wuaaaa !! german is making me understand many other langs i love this <3

[B0r1n9]

I FREAKING LOVE YOU , YOU teached ME how to SPEAK DUTCH in 2 hours (well atleast the basics) , ur incredibly HOT & U make me laugh , got all the reasons to wait for your next videos :D

[HANSMKAMP]

A remark to this video and to the video about names of months:

The names of days of the week and the names of months are not capitalized in Dutch (while they are in English). We write "oktober", not "Oktober".

[jcdurst]

acrtually i speak spanish and the g sound is very easy because we pronnunce the j and sometimes the g similar =D

[Bumbumawangis]

On Maandag i kiss all over her,until zondag.

[QzarVideos]

Your parents must be like: WTF?! She's talking to herself :P. Nice vids, btw ;)

[AdriMSimamora]

Thanks Dutchforn00bs :)

All these video are easy to folow and have been helpful.

Regards from a sunny Breukelen

[Change6609]

A very nice video lesson in Dutch. My compliments!

For those that see similarities between the Dutch language and German and Danish: These languages share some roots. Untill the Middle Ages, in parts of North-Western Europe (Germany, the Netherlands incl. Belgium and northern France and parts of Scandinavia) the language 'Diets' was spoken, from which different languages developped. Also, there was intense trade going on between "Hanse" cities in our countries that led to common words.



[richykwan]

I 've been to holland,my boyfriend at there,i like to learn dutch from you , ^_^ i like you teaching more about holland ..maybe important person , important place ..

dankje

[7pansy7]

I love your videos! I'm half Dutch, but since I live in America my Dutch has really gone downhill and I've been finding it difficult to speak and understand. Your videos bring back so much for me. Thank you!!

[Paulusvrouwtje]

Goeiesmorrugens!!!! Das ook Nederlands, en goeiesmiddags!!! En lekker chillen en boeiuh!! Das allemaal moderne taal!! Lachuh he?

[jessicabentley1999]

@dutchforn00bs hey do you think you could make a vid on the dutch colours ive looked for it but i cant find a good one your the only vids that are clear! :)

[freddyzcount90]

Maandag & zondag are VERY close to the danish mandag & søndag. And "overmorgen" which is the exact same spelling as in danish! We just pronounce it a little more softly. The G is not pronounced for example.

[fIugasche]

"Middag" is actually lunchtime and not afternoon. Like our german "Mittag".

[dutchforn00bs]

@fIugasche That.. is not true. "Middag", like afternoon, refers to the time between lunch and dinner (or noon-6pm), not lunch time.

[EminaHanic]

@dutchforn00bs same in Danish. We also call is ''middag'' and we also say it's from 12:00-18:00 :)

[Change6609]

@fIugasche

Actually, in Dutch 'middag' means not only lunchtime, but all hours between 12 AM and 6 PM (12.00 - 18.00).

We don't know the difference that the German language knows between 'Vormittag' and 'Nachmittag'.

('namiddag' is used seldomly nowadays: it is a rather old fashioned word in Dutch. To indicate 'late in the afternoon' we say : 'laat in de middag' of 'tegen de avond')

[fIugasche]

Is the plural form of weekday "weekdagen" or "weekendagen"? I found both on google.

[dutchforn00bs]

@fIugasche definitely weekdagen :)

[snoko2]

@dutchforn00bs

is het niet gewoon dagen van de week? volgens mij bestaat het woord weekdagen niet :P

maar ik weet het ook niet zeker, ik weet eigenlijk ook niet waarom ik dit kijk aangezien ik nederlands ben XD

[dutchforn00bs]

@snoko2 ohh. You might be right. I would use it, but it's probably an Englishism.

[xR1singSt4r]

 am I the only one who hears someone snoring at about 1:50 / 2:20? xD

[EvanC0912]

your english is very good. how did you learn?

[dutchforn00bs]

@EvanC0912 At school, from TV, on the internet.. mostly :D

[fabiomn1965]

post more videos! Excellent job!

[mostwanted1406]

you are so pretty, i love this grirl!, uo-la-la!!! XD

[cElijah27]

Your English is very, very good. It's nearly flawless

[alesmajer]

Good English pronaunciation aswell. Nice! :-)

[LiovaElise]

Ik ben Nederlands en toch vind ik 't leuk deze filmpjes te kijken ^_^

[HANSMKAMP]

@LiovaElise Ik ook. Ik vind het ook leuk anderen te helpen met Nederlands.

[viraarman]

Lidewij i'm a big fan of your videos, that really help me to learn about dutch because i'm moving to Groningen soon. Thanks a lot :D

[javirezio5]

Thankyou Lidewij! Your class is fantastic. I speak deutsch and i find dutch very similar and funny! Many Greetings from Argentinië =)

[JoseNakamura]

Thank you very much for your videos! I am moving to Amsterdam in less than one month and I didn´t know any word of Duch so I am seeing all your lessons. You are really good as a teacher :)

[TheJumpyPopcorn]

I don´t have any problems with the rrrrrrrrrrrr xD

Thanks for the video, it really helped! Nice work!

[kefco5]

de middag = the afternoon ?

de middag = the noon !!!

[anber2000]

@kefco5 de middag= the afternoon

[KaterinaScorps]

@dutchforn00bs Thank you!! Of course it helps :) That's more or less what I also figured after watching more of your videos for an hour now ( :-) ) Another question: what's with the weird "reversed" e that I saw in some video? (don't remember which one it was..) And the e with "Umlaut"? Are there more of these letters in Dutch? (I've always loved weird letters..heheh)

[dutchforn00bs]

@KaterinaScorps the reversed e is a symbol in the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) which is used to express a sound. It doesn't exist in the Dutch alphabet, I just showed it for people who know IPA from studying language at uni or something :)

The ë is used to indicate a syllable border. So, in words like "patiënt" we use it to show it's pronounced "pa-ti-ent" and not "pa-tient". :).

[KaterinaScorps]

Hi Lidewij, thank you for these videos! :-) I've got a pronunciation question. I noticed your 'r' sounds like the american r..But suddenly there comes vrijdag and turns my theory on the dutch 'r' upside down. xD Is there a rule about where it sounds "american" and where it sounds "german" or is it a matter of language-instinct? I have a guess on it, but I'm waiting for the professionals' tip. ;P

[dutchforn00bs]

@KaterinaScorps hey :D Not 100% sure, but as far as I know these are the rules:

The American R is never used in the onset of a syllable - the 'onset' being the letters BEFORE the vowel. This means only Rs that occur after the vowel in a syllabe can sound American :) For other Rs I use a back-of-the-mouth R.

This doesn't mean everyone does that - there are also people that use tongue-tip Rs in ALL cases - while I never do. It's a matter of where you come from, I guess :) Hope that helps!

[Raad123Eens]

Ik wil nu niet moeilijk doen fzo, maar volgens mij is het gemakkelijker als je ze VLAAMS leert, daar zit je niet met die lastige G

[dutchforn00bs]

@Raad123Eens dan moet ik eerst zelf Vlaams leren.. xD een vriendin van mij doet Vlaamse videos: FlemishForDummies is haar channel :)

[hauntingbeauty]

thank u so much for this video! i was in amsterdam during the world cup finally and fell in love with the place and i'm trying to learn dutch on my own.

i speak fluent armenian so the pronunciations aren't too difficult for me

[ahmcity]

I am learning much from your videos, and I think they are really helpful

it's really great to see a dutch girl with funny personality ( specially when you thumb up ) devote her time to teach us dutch

I like your videos, and of course I like you as well :)

[dutchforn00bs]

@ahmcity why thank you! :)

[Rebelmusic1000]

jij heb echt niks beters te doen he ??

[sniperele]

Hello! Good job with these videos, it really help me to learn dutch. Valentine's day it's approaching, can you make a video having this subject? Have a nice day!

[dutchforn00bs]

@sniperele hahaha, I don't think I'm going to do that! xD several people have actually asked me before.. and although I think it's technically a good idea, it's just too awkward to record something like that.. :D sorry!

[christizeee]

because they ARE dutch. :) they've been studying greek & latin and wanted to switch. me too. :)

[christizeee]

keep them coming! my kids are learning dutch with your videos. love em!

[dutchforn00bs]

@christizeee Thank you! Why are they interested in learning Dutch? :)

[TheFeJaPiDi]

I never realised we use the "gggggrr" in every word for the days... XD even overmorgen and stuff XD!

[HojoOSanagi]

Soo leijcht fe' mie. Eenje Wead sent äwa’reen opp miene Sproak. Be'dank fer det!

[magsantug]

this language is confusing i need help, i'm an exchange student to there next year D:

[dutchforn00bs]

@magsantug awesome :D where are you going?

[magsantug]

@magsantug Not sure quite yet, I'll know in December, I'll have the contact info of my host family then :) I just hope they have rugby near by *crosses fingers*

[fraidycatxxxx]

You are pretty...I saw a couple of your vids but the light in this clip really shows your features.Btw:thx for the awesome clips.

[Scarlettfallenangel]

These are great videos! Thanks for them! I just begin to learn Dutch at school. Unfortunately I have a lot of problem with G:) But I try...:)

[ashkillsben6]

Thanks for your videos they are very helpful, I was wondering if maybe you could make a video sounding out long and short vowels and maybe explain an easy way to sound out the dutch letter g cause i have problems with that :P lol.

[dutchforn00bs]

@ashkillsben6 I've already made a video about the long and the short A, and I'll make videos about the other vowels in the future. The G is hard to explain, but I'll try ;D

[ashkillsben6]

@dutchforn00bs Thank you sooo much sweetie (:

[931012theman]

Thank you for these great videos! :)

You should have a video when you teach a bit about the dutch culture, and talk about Stroopwafels and Poffertjes and other cool dutch stuffs. :D

[dutchforn00bs]

@931012theman Haha!! I will probably do that some time :D

[SPNDW79]

I have one question, another person on youtube was doing some dutch education like this and said that goedemorgen is good morning. but I always figured from that that morgen meant morning but then in your vid morgen is tomorrow. So I was wondering if you could help me with this. I'd appriciate it bunches!!!

Oh and surprisingly enough I don't have much issue with the G sound at the end of dag. cool huh?!

[dutchforn00bs]

@SPNDW79 "morgen" means both tomorrow and morning :D

Another way of saying 'morning' is 'ochtend' :)

I'm glad the G isn't too hard :D What is your native language? :)

[SPNDW79]

@dutchforn00bs If you can beleive it English. I live in Indiana U.S. But as I've said before I would love to go there for a few years after school. And thank you very much for the help! :D

[mazdancer5741]

your videos are great and soo helpful!

i'm South African and speak Afrikaans , its alot like dutch so learning it is pretty easy,although i am struggling to understand when to use het or de before words but ill get there ,

thankyou lidewij, keep it up!

[avecpulp108]

Thank you so much for the interesting video! Please keep it up!

[gianluca7883]

Thanks for your wonderful videos! I'm trying to learn Dutch by myself... it's hard but I like it... An idea for your next videos? Countries of the world and relevant nationalities, together with useful sentences such as (Where are you from or What nationality are you?)... Ciao from Italy!!!

[dutchforn00bs]

Thanks for the suggestion :) It's onnn the list of videos to come now :D

Is there any particular reason you're learning Dutch? :) Or just for fun?

[gianluca7883]

@dutchforn00bs Wow... what a pleasure, an answer from you!!! Well, I like learning foreign languages and I already speak Italian (which is my mother tongue), French, Spanish, Portuguese and English and I decided to learn a new foreign languages, I choose Dutch because 5 years ago I visited both Vlandeeren and the Netherlands and it was an amazing experience!!!! and I enjoy this new challange!!!

[LorrenFTW]

I definitely prefer dutch to german now xD Purely because morning and tomorrow are different words, rather than just being "morgen" only one having a capital letter at the start and the other not. It ALWAYS confuses me.

[dutchforn00bs]

Hahaha, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you.. 'morgen' means either tomorrow OR morning, while ochtend just means morning xD

Sorry ;D <3

[alinaalecu]

I think this is really good and useful. You should really do more, with the most common phrases, and questions etc.

[heartfantasynhorror]

this is sooo helpful.I always wanted to learn dutch in a faster way.I love this channel! =D dankje Lidewij! also happy belated birthday =]

[Francis9105]

I still think you should make a Valentine's Day video. (=

Also, "I'm liking the lighting and standing up."

That's what she said.

[zakwan1]

that location is so much better, it doesnt look like you are being held hostage somewhere in a secret location :)

and yeah a Valentine's Day with Dutch love phrases would be awesome :)

[alexisaf]

It would be great if you could make a video about jokes in dutch

[ilsehugsbeatles]

jakob: 'eergisteren?' *makes face like smelling something really bad*

[ilsehugsbeatles]

i would like you to make a video about sexytalkz in dutch ;D <3

[dutchforn00bs]

Ahhh!! Do you want to make a valentine's special?? With sexytalkz?!

:D:D

[Chrisindapurplehouse]

happy birthday tomorrow Lidewij

[Chrisindapurplehouse]

where i was born we had gutteral slag words like gaan which is also a dutch word and words like that its just i dont live there anymore so its been a while since ive used em but im ok with the g

[MarcHoekig]

What is "ect"? o.O Did you mean "etc"? I love the lighting. =P I'm getting better at the G too! (A)

[Francis9105]

I'm getting better at the "g" sound.

At least, I think I am.

[dutchforn00bs]

Hahaha, I'm glad ;D You should really show me sometime on skype ^_^

[princeword]

you have a birthday? I do too, but not morgen, it's in the summer, when it's warm and cosy on the rocks by the water...

mmm rocks..

[dutchforn00bs]

vrijdag is de beste dag van de week!!! :D:D

IT SO IS! *does friday dance* <3

[ameliepoule]

^_^

Yay for the lighting!

[booksandquills]

F I R S T!

[JoinTheMadVender]

I'm gonna look for headphones first... ^_^