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'100' (from 0 to 100 years in 150 seconds) (Original Post)
DainBramaged
Sep 2012
OP
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
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
freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Interesting.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)2. Cool!
Now I know how to count from 1 to 100 in what was that? Swedish?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)3. "...what was that? Swedish?"
Dutch.
Confusious
(8,317 posts)4. Though so
I recognized few numbers, vier and acht, but the rest didn't sound german.
They said 'five' not funf.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)5. Like for "18"
They said atten instead of achtzehn.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)6. That's the giveaway for Dutch. Every once in a while there is an English word.
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)7. I'm a bit embarrassed to confess this but, are they all speaking the same language-German?
Confusious
(8,317 posts)8. No, probably dutch
Some German, but they don't use it all the time, like a German would.
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..
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
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, Dutchlike Englishhas 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 subjectverbobject word order in main clauses and subjectobjectverb 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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language