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You know you are Dutch when you hear the alarm and take out your cheese sandwich because it's lunchtime
That's literally me XD
@@ildikomelindacsabina3291 welcome to Dutchieland
Pfffff hahahah
Omygod I laughed way too hard. this is so true.
You know you're Dutch when you start complaining about Belgian roads
They are horrendous, I live in Limburg so I have encoutered them quite often.
you know you're Belgian when you give up complaining about them to the government and just buy a car with a heavy-duty suspension.
@@garfieldt 😂😂😂 yeah I think at that point that’s the only option
@@garfieldt or just avoid belgium all together, but thats a bit difficult to do if you live there. Well, should've stayed dutch. Then you'd have proper roads😜
@@HvV8446 proper roads yes, but also no sense of humor and terrible food.
You know you Dutch when you get upset when the train is 3 minutes late :)
Yes!!! 🤣 this should of been on the list
I'm sometimes one of those. Not because of the 3 minutes delay, but because it might cause me to miss that tight connection, costing me half an hour (which is still quite managable, but annoying during your daily commute).
That's just your inner German. xD (just kidding, couldn't resist)
@@RH-ro3sg half an hour is still a very short time to wait compared to most other countries
@@RH-ro3sg if you miss a connection because of a 3 min delay, you scheduled your trip to tight.
I love when Dutchies call out "hallo" and throw a hand in the air if somebody steps into the bike lane
and since moving back to Australia I miss tikkie so much!!!
Walking on the bikelane
The only mortal sinn in The Netherlands
Oh my, don't even get me started on runners who think they are better than everyone and just run side by side on the bike lane when they could be on the sidewalk.
@@julieannelovesbooks they are called runners because you just run them over
@@Terrorrai1 😂😂😂😂😂 I just died laughing, hold on.
Ah but the question is do you make a mini deltaplan when you're busy with 'het prakken' of your veggies and potatoes for the gravy.
The only way to do it
That's how the whole Delta plan was invented!
We always used to make lakes in our puree with the gravy. The goal was to make the biggest one with the thinnest walls. Good times!
A friend from abroad once visited me in NL, and the first Monday of the month was in his visit. I didn't tell him about it, though I did casually drop that the Russians were installing long-range missiles on their border (they weren't). He quickly realized that everything was fine, but for a split second he was in absolute sheer terror
I feel like a very proud Dutchie because I knew you lived in amsterdam by the way you talked about bikes. That way of treating a bike is more typical for larger cities.
Interesting video. A warning about _prakken_ though. Yes, it's very Dutch, but also highly informal. There are families where it's not done, not even in private settings.
True. In some circles it is considered rather.. boorish. But most families accept it without batting an eye. It also depends on the meal. Some meals it is kind of expected you do this.
My Canadian family did it. Terrible! So, I'm from the Never Do This people, except with stampot.
@@KootFloris Or when you've got sore throat. That's the only other moment it was allowed, but then it got "puree'd" and don't you dare call it anything else! ;-)))
@@SwirlingSoul Hahaha! Yes.
I would have been scolded for prakken. Only paupers do that, I was taught. You may use your fork to break up whole cooked potatoes, though.
After the first few minutes, this seemed more like a "help, save me, I've been taken hostage by Dutch people and forced to adopt their culture" message xD
As for the calendar, it's expediency, it's the one place you're sure to visit every day, so it's the best place to be reminded who to buy a card for.
Exactly and, that's the place where people usually are relaxed and look at it...
Also: I am falling so in love with Dutch culture. All the little things I dislike about my culture are better in the Netherlands. My friend the other day was like "oh you're learning Dutch? Great! Another language you'll never use!" I feel like he was partially coming from a place where he is jealous or self-conscious about his progress with tagalog (his wife is from PH) vs. my progress with Dutch when I don't even know anyone Dutch. But also partially he was coming from a position of having this misconception that like, you have to know FOR SURE, EXACTLY when you are going to go to a country, and how long you're going to be there, to start learning the language. Dude, I don't know when I'm going to be rich enough to afford international travel! What I do know is that when I suddenly realise that I am, I will wish I had been learning Dutch for a long time! And that's why it's important to me.
Anyway, so now I'm motivated to do better than him LOL
Hope you enjoyed my long, irrelevant comment.
Respect on the dutch progress! I have a few friends back home who can be resentful of my progress here vs theirs in Ireland. The thing I like most about the Netherlands is the bluntness and individualism here. As they say, "doe wat je wilt"!
En, hoe goed is je Nederlands ongeveer?
Respect, you are at least trying! I speak 5 languages, some better that the other, but i made many friends in my Navy days (35 years) from countries where they are not very keen on speaking English. Like France and Spain. One is rich when speaking another language.
I'm in the same position. The first question is always, "oh, when are you traveling there?" And when I respond that I don't know, they're like, "then I don't understand why you are learning it..." Like, EveryOne! I don't seem to have any like-minded friends or family that just want to learn languages because they're fun to learn and the possibility of using them when the opportunity arrives.
@@happycrusader8433 het is slecht 😅
Very curious how you would explain the meaning of the Dutch word "hoor" As in "Ja hoor" or "Komt in orde hoor" etc.
My first guess (as a native speaker) would be that it generally signifies a certainty, and is usually used to reassure someone. For example:
"Ja hoor" --> "Yeah, sure".
"Komt in orde, hoor" --> "It'll be fine, don't worry".
Unless used sarcastically, in which case it's more like "It's bound to be alright, so stop fussing/bi***ing/etc", or because something is so obvious to you that you don't see why someone doesn't get it.
Mum: "Are you gonna clean your room any time soon??" Young me: "Ja, hoor!" *sigh* (ie: stop nagging pls)
"De aarde is gewoon rond, hoor..." --> "The earth is round, in case you missed it?" (ie: are you stupid?)
One other use I find a bit trickier to explain is when you use it too express annoyance at some event, that maybe (with hindsight) you could've expected. Like when the bloody train is late. Again.
"Ja, hoor! Het zal ook eens niet..." --> "Well, of course. It figures..."
@@dwylaw the problem with all these translations in English, is although they are correct... the English language just isn't used as sarcastically. This was the hardest thing for me when I lived in England for a couple of months. My English was fine but I felt like I was constantly speaking very 'correct' and polite because I couldn't use my sarcasm in every possible sentence. Before I went I didn't even realise that so much of the Dutch language is used sarcastically. It is so common to say things like: 'een beetje' but one means 'very' instead of 'a little'. A lot of words like this are used with an exact opposite meaning. I found that whenever I did translate my sarcasm in a literal way (by accident) it was almost always misunderstood. Even the sentence 'yeah sure' which would be the best translation for 'ja hoor' is taken literal almost always. You can add sarcasm in your tone of course but then they'll just think you're having a bad mood. You could for example make it more personal and say: 'I'm sure you would' and mean it sarcastically but that can be quite insulting. While in Dutch sarcasm is often only meant to give our words more power, not really to insult the other person. It's a real challenge lol. I'm quite fluent in English and try to learn as many expressions as I can but it still feels very different whether I express myself in the English language or in the Dutch language.
@@Lily_and_River In essence the Dutch " Ja hoor! " is similar in vibe to the English Huhaaaayy!! when someone drops a beer in the pub :') Like you fucked up and now we let you know you fucked up but let's keep it at that xD
@@reznovvazileski3193 I feel like in Dutch people also would say something like "heeeey" in that context. I would use 'ja hoor' either literally like 'yeah sure' and when I would use it sarcastically I would use it when someone tells me something that someone else did that is hard to believe and I was like 'sure...' but I meant more: 'really?'. But then without the question mark because it's not that hard to believe, it's just a bit stupid or strange or out there.
@@Lily_and_River yeah but jah hoor is also a bit of an oooookaay dude... in the sense that when someone cuts you off with a bike ok the pavement you could yell Ja hoor! or Doe maar! at them and they'll know exactly what you mean which has nothing to do with the original definition of those words and everything to do with calling them an inconsiderate asshole without actually saying it xD
u know ur dutch when you are watching foreign people reacting to dutch things
I've never prakked my veggies. Only potatoes are meant to be prakked. I never thought of prakking veggies actually. I notice I'm a bit judgemental about it. Hah! The monthly siren still catches me off guard though. It never freaks me out because I know what it is, but I always forget about it.
Well Bob, some people 'prak' all their food and love to have a 'gehaktbal' or 'Draadjesvlees' to it for obvious reasons.
Not even Brussel sprouts or carrots?
I suddenly feel somewhat betrayed
Carrots.. okay
I think it's a bit class related, traditionally lower or working class praks, middle class absolutely not , they eat with knife and fork, and don;t want to be associated with the common man but want to mimic the elite. And then the upper class, they do whatever they like because they don't need to keep up appearances. (But they know how 'het hoort' at formal occasions. )
Your point about bikes and locks really hit me. I had three of my bikes stolen and always shrugged it off as a normal thing in a big city. But the one incident I just cannot get over is when I arrived at the train station to find my bike where I had left it, but with my lock cut in half on the floor next to it. Who does something like that? Just steal my bike if you like it so much, but don't go around destroying my lock for no reason.
my favorite is "spruitjes prakken met aardappelen". I do it since I was 10 or so. I'm now 71 and I still do it
Spruitjes eet je gebakken met spekjes en amandelen, niet geprakt met aardappelen... Groenten prak je niet, enkel aardappelen.
@@Hadewijch_ Spruitjes met spekjes ken ik niet, prakken is inderdaad uit den boze.
Gewoon aardappels, met spruitjes (niet te gaar) en een gehaktbal.
Vroeger hate ik spruitjes, moest ze altijd plukken, midden in de winter, hartstikke koud natuurlijk.
Nu is het eigenlijk mijn favoriete groente.
@@Hadewijch_ laat gerard dat anders voor zichzelf beslissen?
Spruitjes met satesaus??
Wordt ik hiervoor verbannen of niet??
@@HvV8446 Nee hoor, iedereen heeft recht op zijn eigen afwijkingen :-)
I laughed so hard. It's so accurate.
But you know that you have become a real dutchie when you not only use "ja.... hallo zeg" but also "ja.....dag (dat ga ik dus niet doen)".
Ohhh... and you know you've become dutch if you not only "prak" your potatoes but refuse to eat them without gravy as well..
Words like Halloo, Leuk, Mooi, Lekker, Fijn, Dus and more are actually musical words. The musical way you say them determines the meaning. So Dutch has some music. ;)
i'm dutch and lived in the netherlands for my entire life, and it is so weird to hear that all these things that are completely normal to me, are weird for people who aren't dutch. i really thought everyone hangs their calander by their toilet, but apperently not hahah
#7 so much, explaining to my inlaws (from UK) that I went on my bike to buy a vacuumcleaner and then transported it holding it on my handlebar with one hand and steering with the other is something I still remember clearly almost 2 years later
Omg thanks Casey!! I'm blushing 😊
I too have noticed that "dus" is used a lot. Also, the phrase "en zo" (in the sense of etc.) seems to be used a lot.
Well
People use
So and thus a lot too
People use
Etc and “and such” and “stuff like that” a lot too
I mean that’s just language.
No, you're completely right: "en zo" is overused. I've noticed this myself and I am Dutch. Especially in names of small businesses. I half want to start a carshop and call it "Ferrari en zo". A joke for people who know a bit about cars ;)
As a native Dutchie, I have no idea how you appeared on my recommended, but Im glad I took the time to watch. How funny is it seeing someone else talking about habits that are just so insanely normal to us. This list is amazing hahaha
Great this mirror that you are holding up to us! Very perspicacious and very humorous as well
I'm Dutch and I never ever prak my veggies, if you are able to prak your vegetables you overcooked them in my opinion. With the exception of course of starchy tubers like potatoes, yams, celeriac, etc.
Prakken will become les common I think. A generation of Dutch women were taught to boil their veggies to death. Young people have a different style of cooking. Though I loved mashing my veg with potatoes and gravy as a kid.
@@Korilian13 to true, my grandpa from my mom's side and grandma from my father's side used to make them to soggy, cooked to death and most of all BORING. The rest of my family prefers blancheren (really short cooking on high heat) to keep a bit of texture in the veggies (mostly with broccoli)
@@Korilian13 I think you are a bit mistaken. Younger people don't want to stand an hour in the kitchen. next to that, potatoes are a cult here. Gladde aardappels (they don't crumble), afkokers (crumble) and half of the kind. They are seasonal as well. I can make a complete chapter just on potatoes in Holland.
I also never “prak” my veggies as a native Dutch person and I grew up with typical Dutch food, we only ever mash up our veggies if we are making hutspot(peen en uien), or with boerenkool, andijvie but not with just every dinner. I have to say though that my husband who is not native Dutch like to mash up all his Dutch dinners even when we are just eating peas, potatoes and meatballs and applesauce (appelmoes)
We mash everything, if you don't have some struggle mashing your food it's overcooked haha
you forgot about the cheap cans of energy drink with a frikandellen broodje
Funny and accurate! Those language examples are great. Language does reveal a lot of cultural features.
I really love the content you're creating. So thanks .... again!
Love seeing the tulips in the background
6:27 The trams have stopped driving at 23:00 in Amsterdam? Unless that happened to be on New Years Eve, that seems unlikely. Usually the trams only stop around midnight to 0:30.
Bikes get stolen quite often in Amsterdam, however, in other parts of the Netherlands it's so normal to have a good quality bike without an extra lock
and you dont think it doesnt get stolen? in my village bikes get stolen all the time. its a normal thing to see. no matter where you live in the netherlands bikes get stolen. and cities like leeuwarden zwolle amsterdam (cities with canals basically) they drop the bikes in the canal. i have seen bikes in groningen who where crap af with motorbike chains and everything.
@@metalvideos1961 ja ze worden overal gestolen, maar wel in veel mindere mate dan in Amsterdam. Ik heb zelf een fiets van goeie kwaliteit zonder extra slot waar ik al jaren meedoe. In mijn studentenstad heb ik wel een wat oudere fiets, daar heb ik inderdaad ook liever geen fiets die de aandacht trekt.
first Monday of the month at noon, would be the best time for an enemy to attack the Netherlands. Everybody would carry on as if nothing is happening.
Strictly speaking, people should be able to tell the difference because an actual alarm wouldn't be preceded (nor succeeded) by a long signal, indicating it's only a test run. But yeah, I think a lot of people wouldn't respond at first.
@@RH-ro3sg Yes and it would probably keep going for a while longer. Also everybody gets a message on their phone these days aswell explaining if it's a test or not.
Whaaaaat?! That explains the birthday calendar in my Dutch grandma's toilet!!
Casey, als geboren Nederlander is het geweldig leuk om je video's te bekijken. De zaken waar jij meer worstelt, geweldig of raar vindt en die wij heel vanzelfsprekend vinden, geweldig. Het maakt mij er (oeps) weer bewust hoe we onze taal gebruiken. Ook ik zie zaken voorbij komen in je filmpjes waarvoor ik geen verklaring heb, woorden die je instinctief gebruikt. Leuk om dat eens door de ogen van een Engelstalige te zien.
Leuke video!
Ik mocht m’n eten vroeger nooit prakken, dat was een belediging van de ‘chef’
Best lastig als je stamppot te eten krijgt....
That's a beautiful desk
It's funny as a Dutch person to realize how much I am NOT a standard Dutch person. 😄😄
Soms klopt het ook niet helemaal, omdat het hier allemaal over Amsterdam gaat. Een dorp is heel anders
@@lottevoorwinden6001 en niet elke stad is Amsterdam
Als wij direct nederlands terugpraten ben je ingeburgerd 😂
Wil het een beetje lukken met de cursus?
maar gji zijt nen belg ... NL'ers zsggen meteen, wij zeggen direct :)
We are Dutch. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Your individualism will be added to ours (from Star Trek). But seriously. You don't need to be something else than you are to be Dutch. What is essential is that expats give their children the choice. I lunched with a Japanese diplomat once and he told me that his son studied in Amsterdam and did not want to go back to Japan. He let him choose his own future. I think that is the way to go. When I was at school, I had a female Turkish classmate. She was rather wild, even by our standards. But not worryingly so. She was sent back to Turkey to receive forced islamic education. That is not the way to go, in my opinion. I think everybody living here should be him/herself. That is my message.
Hi Ronald - I agree with your point. As you are Dutch, I know that you are joking about the Borg thing.
When Willem was fighting the Spanish, many religious zealots were on his side. But he raised the bar. Instead of aiming for a victory that would see him able to inflict suffering upon the religious group that he dominated him before, he aimed to ensure that no groups could dominate other groups - to build a society that-as the highest ideal-held freedom for all their citizens as the highest priority.
Luckily he achieved that and we are all harvesting the benefits.
Much respect to the Japanese diplomate you mention. To allow others to chose for themselves in who they are and what they want to be, is surely the sign of an open mind. While his son did not turn out 100% Japanese, I am sure his dad was proud of him for setting out his own path.
When I teach my expat kids about being Dutch, it is not about windmills, polders and kabouterjes, but about using an independent, analytical mind, and having a spine. To me, this is the core of Dutchness.
Dutch kids seem a bit spoilt and unappreciative. Cultural differences.
It should be stressed that Amsterdam has a rather large Japanese community. So for many Japanese that makes things so much easier.
@@jb9433 Well, the United Nations surveys the happiness of children in countries around the world. Guess which children are the happiest? The Dutch ones. So, they might be spoilt, but they are certainly not unappreciative. And as for spoilt? Yes, they have a lot of freedom. But they need to reach high levels in everything they do as well. Dutch universities are all in the top 100 in the world (and that is fairly high). Same for colleges. Foreign students here perceive the levels of education as "tough".
@@ronaldderooij1774 Speaking your mind with no ability to be accountable isn't directness; it's hypocrisy.
”Ja dus?...." when you mean to say "you’ve got it completely wrong". Then let that sink in for a split second, and finish it off with "Hallo!!!"
De wc kalender moest ik erg om lachen!
We hebben toch rare gewoontes in dit land!
En oja als iemand nederlander zou moeten zijn dan ben jij het wel,omdat je nederland en de nederlanse taal vertegenwoordigd.
En ik al best wat van je video,s geleerd hebt,en daarbij is het ook nog entertaining!
Thanks casey!!!
Even for Dutchies is this video an eye opener :)
nice video :D
I´m from Germany and and a lot of things that you mentioned are actually the same here (ecxept for the tikkie thing of course, we Germans love cash xD)
I´ve been learning Dutch for nine months now and it still surprises me how similar yet different our northwestern neighbours are...
You know you're about to become Dutch, when the first thing you say is: "Hello, how are you, good/bad wether, not?" 🤣🤣🤣
Jeetje, wat een weertje hè? Zo hé, ben gewoon van mijn fiets afgeregend.
I loved #9. "people starting to speak Dutch in reply". LOL. I admit being guilty of replying in English and/or German instead of Dutch, when spoken to in Dutch-with-accent. Will stop doing that, unless asked.
At number 2 you said 'dus, ja' perfectly
In the U. S. a siren is also sounded on the first day of every month but at 11:45am. It is done to make sure all the sirens are working properly. The sirens are used to warn of some sort of imminent civil danger such as an approaching hurricane, flooding, and in Hawaii where I live, a tsunami.
At 4:10. This is also a thing you hear when dutch people are talking english because we will say 'so' alot in sentances. So is the translation of dus
Real danger alarm rises to a high pitch and stays that way all the time. Testing alarm goes up and down repeatedly... Not many people know this.
Little note on the calender at the toilet.
The calender is one especially for birthdays and doesn't show the year or day of the week, so it can be used year after year.
Fun fact: you can personalize your calender with your own favourite pictures😁. Just google 'verjaardagskalender maken' 😄
Did you know, that if there is a pen near the B-day calendar in the toilet, you are allowed to write/add your own B-day to the calendar without asking permission.
Hoi, je kan je tulpen langer mooi houden door ze in een iets grotere vaas te zetten, een bodempje water gebruiken (probeer het op 2cm te houden; niet droog staan, maar ook geen volle vaas) en een gaatje net onder de knop te prikken. Ze hangen snel slap (ook met voldoende water) omdat ze zeer snel groeien en daardoor slungelig worden. Door een gaatje onder de knop te prikken kan de tulp niet meer in lengte groeien :).
I walked into the rail museum in Utrecht and said Hallo to the person behind the reception desk, panicked when they responded in Dutch lol.
Leuk filmpie.
Most examples of words are more common "boven de rivieren", I believe
Or as I already used somewhere in replies on this video: above the (great) rivers. Above and below the (great) rivers are a perfectly fine translation of boven en onder de grote rivieren - of riolen ;)
It must be amsterdam then.. i live for almost 33 years in the netherlands, born and raised=D but my bike never been stolen😅
These comments are gold. Hilarious (and well ok... very relateable)
Hahaha, die verjaardagskalender xD Ik kijk ook vaak of ik er op sta of niet, het toont toch een beetje je status ;)
Daarom zet je jezelf erbij
Wow straight off the bat feeling called out here lmao :') That's very true we're born with a masters degree in turning random normal expressions like " Hello " (Hallo) and " Yea sure" (Ja hoor) into derogatory or sarcastic insults :')
Now knowing you're going to stay, I subscribed. Welkom.
im dutch myself and can confirm #9 i love speaking english.
"Echt kijken deze is fatoe"
Love it! XD
Ik had het niet meer 🤣
Fun video, if you have an old bike it is less likely to get stolen, so you can do with a regular lock, but not a super cheap one because it will rust.
My close friend’s family is Belgian and it only just clicked for me while watching this video that they have their Callander with birthdays in the bathroom because they’re Belgian and life makes so much more sense now
Hey Casey, love your videos. I was thinking, what would you think of this idea of you listening to some iconic Dutch (or even Flemish) songs and then try to figure out what they mean. A bit like a song reaction video, except with translation and interpretation of the text.
Love this!!!
@@caseykilmore Nice, I'm sure we viewers can give you lots of suggestions :)
Can we give some songs from West-Vlaanderen?
And yes, I'm evil.
I even have 2 bikes. An old bike that I can leave at for example the trainstation, and the second one is for exercising during the summer.
Also do I have an extra chainlock so I can lock the frame of the bike to a pole (for when I have a bad feeling about the place I leave my bike)
Even if you're a native Dutch speaker, city people still adress you in English quite often, especially in Amsterdam in my experience
2:31 Yes, you got a handle on "dus"!
The funnies thing is that because I am a dutch woman I learn what typical dutch culur is .About words like hallo en dus.I have one for the Americans I hear the word like so often in a sentence.A lady on you tube used the word like 9 times in 2 minuten.So we all have our words we use all the time.
Hallo Casey. I am Dutch born and raised in Amsterdam. Please, please, always remember that Amsterdam is not "the Netherlands". For example, there are plenty of places in this tiny country where your bike would be completely save. Wel erg leuk on je video's te zien.
One of my ground rules is: "Dus" komt nooit aan het einde van een zin, dus...
Hi Casey, As a native Dutch woman, I would like to draw the attention to some tipical Dutch expressions (like the 'hallo' you mentioned) but I can't paste a photo in the comment. Do you have a punblic emailaddress?
Fun fact: at the East side of the country we do not have as many foreigners as the Randstad has, so people are less likely to switch directly to English when hearing a little bit of an accent in your Dutch
Might depend on the region in the east
On these kalenders you can even find birthdays pf folks dead for over 30 years....they get copied over 6 generations ;)
Nederlands is mijn moedertaal, maar Nederland is niet mijn vaderland ... 28 jaar heb ik in Nederland gewerkt en toen men me daar ontsloeg, omdat men geen PASSEND WERK voor me dacht te hebben, kreeg ik niks extra, maar ondertussen was ik klaar voor een nieuwe uitdaging ... tussen toen (2009) en nu zit de BMS - het was de Vlaams-Nederlandse basisschool, waar mijn kinderen op school gingen en ik moet zeggen dat ik hoe langer hoe minder contact had met de andere moeders, want men begon zich als snob te gedragen. Ik dacht dat ik het meegenomen had, de school, de wijk waar ik woonde - ik creëerde niet de sfeer waarin ik wilde leven en het nam extreme gevolgen aan, tot en met het weggekeken worden uit mijn huis en de straat, waarin ik woon. Ik registreerde het, maar begreep het niet, nu wel - het is die combinatie tussen ongezonde hebzucht en ziekelijke gierigheid, ze willen het allemaal op een gouden schaaltje aangeboden krijgen en kijken tegelijkertijd neer op alles en iedereen, want zij zijn op de plek waar jij alleen maar van kan dromen. Ik ben wie ik beweer te zijn en 'beheer' de Ka of ons collectief leervermogen - met een beetje goede wil, kunnen we heel wat bereiken en eerlijke complimenten kosten geen geld. Mijn laatste troef zijn mijn boeken, ook dat heeft Nederland willen stelen en van Antwerpen naar Amsterdam willen overbrengen ... ken je iets van geschiedenis, dan weet je dat dit alles een retake is van de reformatie en contra-reformatie, maar deze keer is alles op het moment zelf vastgelegd en is er geen ruimte voor speculeren. Wat geweest is, is voorbij, Nederland moet zijn eigen problemen maar oplossen en Europa moet leren als een orgaan te denken. Ik hou van mijn taal en bewijs dat door in deze taal te schrijven - zó wil ik herinnerd worden en dat ik de lokeend bleek te zijn voor elitaire snobs van divers pluimage, maakt het juist interessant, want mijn verhaal overtreft de fantasie, die van het verleden een oud verhaal gemaakt heeft. Go with the flow en gebruik je gezond verstand als het erop aan komt, oplossingen komen niet als manna uit de lucht vallen en vergissen is menselijk, maar niet als het de ene beloont en de andere dubbel laat betalen ...
My biggest pride, the bicycle thingy
The one about moving furniture by bike might just be in the big cities only? because I never see that where I live in the Netherlands. My bike did get stolen once, but I feel like it happens way more often in Amsterdam etc than where I live, so I don't have a fancy lock on my bike, just a normal one.
I don’t use an expensive lock on my bike. My bike was stolen once (I’m 42), when I was a student living in Groningen. My bike isn’t very fancy. In fact it’s ‘Hufterproof’ as the guy in the bikeshop called it when I bought it 10 years ago 🤣😂. If my bike was stolen, I would have an excuse to buy a new one....
hufterproof!!!!! Ik krijg geen adem meer. omg. Ik heb dus gewoon de fiets van mn moeder uit haar studententijd. Gewoon een oud gamel ding dat toch niemand wilt jatten.
"hallo! " But also "ja, dag!" Of course 😅
Mean as I am, mensen die falen in de Nederlandse taal, will receive a free lesson from me, gedurende de tijd dat ze mij aanspreken. Dutch is worth it. Echt wel.
Casey, Is the "super, super" you use to describe things, a Dutch thing or an Aussie thing? Thanks.
super good you're asking that, I feel it's pretty Amsterdam-ic or definately north of the rivers: supergoed. It's keigoed in North-Brabant and steengoed in Zeelandic, both translate to rock / stone good. Don't ask me how. It's a thing in the south here.
Question: Do you find yourself imitating accents? I'm always a bit mortified when speaking with a different English accent person, because I almost always instantly take over their accent, ...and it feels like mocking sometimes, while my brain is just...imitating. Trying! I wonder if our Dutch accents also trick you into using them when you hear them? Or do you not even hear them? Are they...the same to you as the rest of the Dutch language? Drents, Fries, and Zuid nederland (brabant, zeeland, limburg) are very particularly different accents to the rest of the country. (and to think we're such a small country to begin with!)
Congratulations on being praktified! (Don't you just love Dunglish?) :-))) Also, Tulips on display. Yep, definitely dutch!
I can definately hear she lives above the rivers, since I don't.
English
#7,5 - 8: Bicycle & lock;
To me it depends on where you live in the city or town.
Ofcourse in most places it's almost an unwritten mandatory that you mùst have a cable/chain-lock on your bike.
My mother told me to put the (chain) lock through 3 holes:
1. The front/rear wheel;
2. The frame of the bike;
3. The bycicle-rack.
That way, in moast cases your bike won't be stolen.
Besides, I've got a spare lock laying around (3cm thick and 2 meters long),
if you want I can bring it with me to The Hague, when i'm going train-spotting there.
Dutch:
# 7,5 - 8: Fiets & slot;
Voor mij hangt het af van waar je woont in de stad of het dorp.
Het is natuurlijk op de meeste plaatsen bijna ongeschreven verplicht dat je een kabel / kettingslot op je fiets moet hebben.
Mijn moeder zei dat ik het (ketting) slot door 3 gaten moest steken:
1. Het voor- / achterwiel;
2. Het frame van de fiets;
3. Het fietsenrek.
Zo wordt uw fiets in veel gevallen niet gestolen.
Trouwens, ik heb nog een reserveslot liggen (3 cm dik en 2 meter lang), als je wilt kan ik het meenemen naar Den Haag, als ik daar ga trein spotten.
If I’m right, you live in The Hague now. Does our public transport stops at 23:00 o’clock? That’s new for me. But, tbh, it was ages ago last time I was in a tram.
Busses go on longer than trams tho so idk.
My American partner has been sufficiently Dutchified to by 'prakken' turn several kinds of food into the very Dutch 'stamppot'. Including Tacos...
I think its not necessarily true that bikes are cheaper than locks and bikes don't get stolen that often. Yes in Amsterdam and other big cities it happens a lot, but if you like me live in a smaller place having an expensive bike is normal
I love this
Hey Casey, nice video...again ;-) One thing though: How do you recognize a person who's becoming Dutch? They've got fresh Tulips in their vase and they'll never ever make a home video if their Tulips look thirsty or when they are on the end of their cycle ;-) So look at your own video again and see what you can approve the next time you make a video about becoming a Dutchy...
54 and never ever had any tulips in my house
if got a quick connect bicycle seat then remove the seat then they choose the other bike to steal faster
Hanging a calendar in the toilet is smart thinking. I guess you know why :-)
yep it's an efficiency thing
If you catch yourself thinking the language you're learning (in this case Dutch), it's also a sign that you're adapting to the language.
Casey your more Dutch then the "Dutch". I'm over 400 year Dutch so most of your vids is fun for me.. Keep your Ausie habits and combine it with dose Dutch strange and "only typical Dutch" things.. More more more of your love of The Netherlands, Dutch, and other strange, weird and odd things. ***** 5 stars for all you vids.. Keep up Dutchies
When you write "in too deep" with one 'o', and have to depend on your readers to tell you.
Pappie prakken is familjer
kettingslot door voorwiel fiets-frame en om paal of boom
Frits uit A,dam
ketting door het voorwiel? dat is het domste wat je kan doen. je haalt het voorwiel er uit en je hebt een fiest. altijd door het frame van de fiets halen.
You are fully integrated when you give a party where everybody sits in a cirkel and there are bowls with cheese and sausage on the table in the middle.
'the alarm', that's a air raid sirene to be perfectly clear haha. For non-Dutchies, once a month this thing is tested which means you get to hear it screaming. This is nation wide at the same time (exactly at 12AM)
Trains stop running because they are making a lot of noise. With nothing really to do at night aside from getting drunk the public transportation in general just calls it a day. Another good reason is the amount of junk left by drunk people makes it rather dangerous for a tram to ride trough town. That's why the streetsweepers will go out before the trams start driving.
As soon as you ask a german to bring back the stolen bike, you are dutch.
Wait the calender hanging on the toilet is just a dutch thing??
Must say if i hear an accent i too directly turn to English cos id rather speak English then .
It does not matter if the person speaks Dutch yes or no .
At work wiv few speak English as for us its a faster way to communicate .
And some do not know English English the way we do so its slang , upperclass and mixed English as i learned in North and South London .
I am born and raised here, my family is in the Netherlands atleast from 1670 as far as i could figure out, even my last name is very very dutch. Well for fun i did the questions in the 'inburgeringscursus' and it showed i am not Dutch enough to qualify for Dutch citizenship lol....
Yes! Let your lock be more expensive then your bike!
From Amsterdam ;) hehe
I eat almost all of an apple, so there is nothing but the chamber with the seed left. Maybe, it is that chamber, the dutch think of, when they speak of a bellhouse (klokhuis)(?)