What does Dutch sound like to you?

[Gediminas]

sounds like german

[Tommie]

-double post-

[SvartVarg]

Dutch is Dutch. Not the only language where regions sound different.

Irony is, is if some of them were speaking English they might be surprised to find similar sounding accents in Scotland & Northern England. Not all us British sound like RP English/Standard or media folk.

[Tommie]

The ugliest most peculiar Dutch dialect is the dialect of Leiden (Leids). A Hollandic dialect which supposedly has origins in a Walloon immigrants (Protestant malcontents and refugees in the 17th century) who got Dutchified.



They have the same R as Americans do. It's just sounds weird.

Interestingly there exists a hypothesis that US Americans speak the way they do due to Dutch influences. I'm sceptical lol.

This one sounds pretty similar to American English to me

[Dominicanese]

sounds like a twisted mix of french and german but also alittle like old english vibe somewhat

they have similar tone to the ppl of the black country of england

[Dandelion]

Dutch is Dutch. Not the only language where regions sound different.

Irony is, is if some of them were speaking English they might be surprised to find a very similar sounding accent in Scotland & Northern England. Not all us British sound like RP English/Standard or media folk.

Scouse is very similar to Northern Dutch.

[♥ Lily ♥]

They have the same R as Americans do. It's just sounds weird.

Interestingly there exists a hypothesis that US Americans speak the way they do due to Dutch influences. I'm sceptical lol.

Americans have nasal accents like the French and they also have rhotic accents like the Irish and the West Country English farmers.

They don't talk from both the throat area and mouth area as much as British people do to get the deeper sounds, and they have nasal accents instead.

The rhotic R sound in the US, Caribbean Islanders, and in Canada reminds me of the Irish and West Country farmer's R. Some people in the US have even confused people from Devon in SW England as being from Virginia.

I think the American rhotic accent is due to the Irish influence in the US as they're one of the largest groups of people to settle in the US.

[İrle]

Hurts my throat to watch this. Dafuq is this.

[Dandelion]

Hurts my throat to watch this. Dafuq is this.

Here a song in Leids about cable television piracy (from the '80s).



Once had this sent to me by a Dutch person. I was like WTF. I sent it to other Dutch people asking what it's about and they reacted similarly. 'What a ridiculous accent'. Only later did I learn it's an actual dialect. lol

It sounds like Flemish people mocking Hollanders, but actually being genuinely spoken like that.

[Profileid]

It does not sound nice.