West Does West Frisian Sound Like To You?

[♥ Lily ♥]

If English and Dutch had a baby, you get Western Frisian.

[Impaler]

Sounds like a mix of English and Afrikaans.

[Not a Cop]

Sounds simply Dutch to me.

[Ülev]

nectar for my ears

[Moje ime]

Like how I imagine Icelandic language.

[billErobreren]

It still rings too close to English. It's worth fostering and studying further. There's an old rhyme often uttered by the infamous pirate Pier Gerlofs Donia before he'd take out his wrath on someone on board.

Goes a little something like: "buter, brea en griene tsjis, wa't dat net sizze kin, is gjin oprjochte Fries" I've mostly written it as it came to mind(so I reckon I've misspelled a fair amount here) but it, means "butter, bread and green cheese, whomever cannot say that, isn't an upright Frisian" upright meaning true or legit in this context. Easy enough to understand written and eerily familiar said aloud as well.
Like I said our French and Latin loanwords are overwhelmingly filler and it's rather easy to steer clear of them.

[The Lawspeaker]

It's a sound of its own.

[Norb]

sounds Dutch to my ears with slight 'Scandinavian', I cannot differentiate any of the accents in NL

[The Lawspeaker]

sounds Dutch to my ears with slight 'Scandinavian', I cannot differentiate any of the accents in NL

Hmmm.. there are some real dialect differences in the Netherlands. I would constantly need to ask a Frisian to slow down and he wouldn't understand a word I'm saying if we didn't speak standard Dutch.

[Norb]

in my view it 'sounds' much closer to Scandinavian languages than it does English