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'100' (from 0 to 100 years in 150 seconds) (Original Post) DainBramaged Sep 2012 OP
Interesting. freshwest Sep 2012 #1
Cool! JeffHead Sep 2012 #2
"...what was that? Swedish?" Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #3
Though so Confusious Sep 2012 #4
Like for "18" Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #5
That's the giveaway for Dutch. Every once in a while there is an English word. JDPriestly Sep 2012 #6
I'm a bit embarrassed to confess this but, are they all speaking the same language-German? midnight Sep 2012 #7
No, probably dutch Confusious Sep 2012 #8
I can hear a bit of the German.... But like you say.... not all of it.... the way a German speaks.. midnight Sep 2012 #9
Dutch is closely related to German and English and is said to be between them progressoid Sep 2012 #10

Confusious

(8,317 posts)
4. Though so
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:24 PM
Sep 2012

I recognized few numbers, vier and acht, but the rest didn't sound german.

They said 'five' not funf.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
6. That's the giveaway for Dutch. Every once in a while there is an English word.
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 11:00 PM
Sep 2012

But some said funf. Some said five.

It's so much fun to listen to foreign languages. You listen so keenly, hear so intensely. I love that.

midnight

(26,624 posts)
9. I can hear a bit of the German.... But like you say.... not all of it.... the way a German speaks..
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 12:29 PM
Sep 2012

Every year, Milwaukee has German Fest.... and it's so much fun... Lot's of Germans here....

progressoid

(49,964 posts)
10. Dutch is closely related to German and English and is said to be between them
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 02:50 PM
Sep 2012
Dutch is closely related to German and English and is said to be between them. Apart from not having undergone the High German consonant shift, Dutch—like English—has mostly abandoned the grammatical case system, is relatively unaffected by the Germanic umlaut, and has levelled much of its morphology.[n 7] Dutch historically has three grammatical genders,[3] but this distinction has far fewer grammatical consequences than in German.[n 8] Dutch shares with German the use of subject–verb–object word order in main clauses and subject–object–verb in subordinate clauses.[n 9] Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and contains the same Germanic core as German and English, while incorporating more Romance loans than German and fewer than English.[n 10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language
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