German and Dutch speakers: Is Brazilian Hunsrückisch intelligible to you?

[Etelfrido]

I can understand it.

I know Dutchmen generally speak many languages, so do you speak German? If you do, do you think a Dutch monolingual would also understand it?

[Etelfrido]

Quiet impressive. The older couple in the second video talking about speaking German with their grandchildren almost speak the same as I do irl.

That surely is impressive! When I search for Hinterwald most results are from Baden-Württemberg, are you from there? That would answer my question about it being similar to modern-day accents from Rhineland-Palatinate.

[noricum]

It's cool that even an Austrian can understand them!

Due to German media we are more and more used to northern accents. And after all it's all German. The Brasilians in the videos also speak in very simple sentensens about basic things making it even easier.

[Rædwald]

I'm not a German speaker. Though having dipped my toes into language, especially German, anyone with a basic knowledge of German vocabulary would have no difficulty understanding this. Maybe if the subject of the video were more specific or technical? but still, I wouldn't see a native speaker having difficulty figuring it out.

I've heard dialects in English that would be more difficult to understand

[Your Old Comrade]

I know Dutchmen generally speak many languages, so do you speak German? If you do, do you think a Dutch monolingual would also understand it?

I understand German, and you would be hard-pressed to find Dutch monolinguals. But, yes, Dutch-speakers, unless he's a total hick moron, would understand German.

[Batavia]

I presume you're Swiss and that you also speak or at least understand Standard German. Do you think you'd say the same if you only spoke Swiss German?

I´m half Dutch half Austrian

[coolfrenchguy]

even i don't speak german it seem closer of german than the yodeling Moselle Franconian called Lothrìnger deitsch/ditsch, Lothrìnger Platt spoken in the north eastern of france who sound more like a mountaineer german like in tyrol or swiss

alsacian is more build like german and indeed very close of it

[Ruggery]

I understand German, and you would be hard-pressed to find Dutch monolinguals. But, yes, Dutch-speakers, unless he's a total hick moron, would understand German.

Is it more common for a Dutchman to understand German than for a German to understand Dutch?

[Ruggery]

even i don't speak german it seem closer of german than the yodeling Moselle Franconian called Lothrìnger deitsch/ditsch, Lothrìnger Platt spoken in the north eastern of france who sound more like a mountaineer german like in tyrol or swiss

alsacian is more build like german and indeed very close of it

That is because those areas, Tyrol and Alsalcia are still not 100% assimilated to the culture of Italy and France, and they still retain part of their German culture.

[Your Old Comrade]

Is it more common for a Dutchman to understand German than for a German to understand Dutch?

Depends on where the German is from: Low Saxony and North-Rhine-Westphalia probably have it the easiest.