The Moment Foreigners Will Encounter in The Netherlands
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- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2021
- This video got viewed so much on my TikTok so I just wanted to share it here.
Some people might say "Yes we speak Dutch, of course, this is our language" but that's not the point.
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This made me laugh. So true. I am a Dutch guy living in Japan and whenever I go to the konbini I always say 'No thank you' but they keep asking me if I need a point card in Japanese:p
I am also ducht!
Dutch*
Just a question because I live in the usa what is a point card ??? Is it like a credit card or a discount card I am very curious :)
@@theextremepopecuuer8511 Yes pretty much. Whenever you go to the store and buy stuff you build up points to get a discount later on when you've build up enough points. ALL STORES want to give you one.....you quickly end up having 50 of them in your wallet xD
Dutch? Deez nuts
My Irish friend noticed the same thing: "Bonnetje mee?"
What does that mean?
@@KaceJ4D It means 'do you want the receipt'
@@Safforn142 Okay thanks!
Isn’t that a normal thing to ask in other countries? I usually have inner discussions whether to take the bon or not
@@PrincessAfrica3 It's normal to ask if you want the receipt but how is someone who doesn't speak dutch supposed to understand it
Its same in korea too. They never give up speaking Korean even tho they know i cant understand
Same in France. They insist you try.
I think we should use translators instead
@@dontmindimjusta1765 nah they know how to speak the language they just don't wanna most of the time (in my experience)
lol, i was at an Immigration Office in Korea and at a booth next to mine, the Korean worker kept repeatedly asking a white European woman: "can you speak Korean?".. in Korean, even tho she obviously was confused n kept telling him in English that she can't understand Korean.
i thought this was so bizarre/illogical at the time.. also, even tho he worked at the Immigration Office and had to talk to foreigners everyday as his job, he could not speak English at all. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
this wasnt even in the countryside or small town, it was in Seoul. my Gen-Z Korean cousins who studied English can speak exactly like me as an American and even know all the slang, so I thought that most ppl in Korea or at least Seoul have pretty good English proficiency nowadays, but i found that it still really depends on the individual.
@@SaintShion lol thats funny. im surprised by that and also this short, bc what ive commonly heard specifically abt the Netherlands n France, as well as experienced personally in France, is that foreigners will try to practice the local language, but the natives just keep responding in English, as soon as they see that you are a foreigner.
But maybe it depends, based on what city/town, and also if they know any English or not.
i do remember one exception: i tried to call my French friend's house n his mom answered, she couldnt speak English at all, yet just kept talking anyway n had a entire conversation in French that i barely understood.
so it seems like one of those 2 extremes 😂
AHAHA YUP cashiers dont give one flying shit. They don’t get paid enough to speak english😂😂
Many of the older cashier's, especially outside of touristy areas, just don't speak English at all. It's something they learned in school, but haven't used in decades... (And depending on the school they didn't learn much to begin with 😅)
@@Trekki200 ohh
@@Trekki200
Why would they need to speak English in the Netherlands especially in East Netherlands or village
@@mcj2219 in some stores they don’t get paid enough so that is why the most people don’t give a sh1t
@@mcj2219 "Especially in the Eastern Netherlands", yup we are getting shat on once again by the Randstad area. Especially in the tech hub of Eindhoven or in the Food Valley area, it is absolutely an advantage to know English to an advanced extent.
Most people in the Netherlands speak or at least understand English pretty good. Wonder where you went that they didn't speak English 🤔 but yeah you're not in England or America so generally we're speaking Dutch in the stores 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe Gelderland? Outside of Nijmegen and arnhem most speak only Dutch with shaky English
@@Zenaidafromthemoon And don't forget Wageningen, which has a staggering college student population of about 25% nowadays, lmao
@@meo779 I’m literally from Gelderland I think I know my people lmao
@@meo779 if your not from rural Gelderland why are you trying to speak on what happens in rural Gelderland lmao
I was wondering the same. When I went practically everyone spoke English.
That we can speak English doesn't mean we do it a lot in public.
yes, but in most non-english speaking countries the biggest tourist cities will be very english accessible. i had no issues in Amsterdam speaking only English, albeit once they heard my American accent people felt more than welcome to let me know how they felt about me. atleast in Amsterdam theyd talk shit to me in English, got called Americani brutti a few times in Italy
@@bigploppa154That’s douchy
@@benjackson7872if that's douchy to you, you need to develop a thicker skin.
@@smeller1214 Don’t you think it’s douchy trashing him just because he’s American? Doubt he did anything. I get the country’s not doing so well, but it’s pretty unfair bashing someone of something odds are, they had no control over. I guarantee you they wouldn’t like that if the role was reversed. Nobody would.
@@benjackson7872 maybe clarify what you find douchy next time buddy
This is so accurate lol
Tbh. These days in Amsterdam. The workers in store cant even speak Dutch...🙃🙃
Same in Utrecht!
What were your overall expectations when you came to the Netherlands and how do you view the Netherlands now, after living here for a few years?
oh shit he lives here?
@@desuno2609 He has for a while. I believe he's back in Japan now, reviewing Japan from an international perspective 🙂
@Wouter S. i see, thank you for telling me!
Honestly, I mean I don't know if this was in Amsterdam or not, but as a former cashier... it's either bc they didn't care or also honestly, I've had so many customers who were foreigners and didn't speak Dutch but didn't really speak English either, so me trying to be helpful and switch to English made it more confusing because at least they were used to the "bonnetje?" question...
Plus I mean I would still say our English is pretty good, but obv Dutch is our actual language so we will speak it much much more and in most settings
It’s fine, it’s easy to hear (not like French) so it’s not hard to learn the common words in transactions. You don’t have to speak English in your own country 🤷🏻♀️ but it is helpful if someone is struggling and you can help.. which, personally I feel/have experienced that most Dutch are kind and would do that
If you visit amsterdam you'll actually see nearly more people speaking English than Dutch. My poor grandma was so lost in amsterdam. Plus the elderly are more fluent in German than English.
As a dutchman this is very depressing to hear but not surprising because we all already know Amsterdam is mostly populated by foreigners and tourists and it’s like they don’t realise we have much more better cities and places to visit than just the tourist attraction
@@dennisvanoord3278 Im in limburg and they speak it here alot too, I guess because there is a shortage in staff for horeca
@@detective8205 no, it’s the cause of to many foreign tourists and especially immigrants coming here and staying. Thats why i found it depressing that we do hear more English actually (based upon ur first comment and reply)
@@dennisvanoord3278it happens everywhere; in Vancouver you hear Chinese, and other languages, more than English a lot. We are a country of 40 million and let in a MILLION immigrants last year 😳
@@dennisvanoord3278
Waarom blijf je dan ook in het Engels typen terwijl je tegen en Nederlander spreekt
We all know fluently English but we just like to annoy tourists.
zwz haha
Not my problem when they don't understand. I don't even live in a major city
Did no one notice him walking on water in the beginning- 💀💀💀 (I know it’s a green screen but still)
GREEN SCREAM- 😂
I worked as a cashier for a while and got a lot of foreigners and i really didn't know what to fo other than continue speaking in my language and hoping they would suddenly understand 💀it's basically cause you just have no idea what to do and just used to the speech to every other customer which you actually have to say..
That’s totally fair - people don’t switch languages in Canada because you have no idea where they are from or you don’t speak it (they might if they know the language, though). Why do other counties always have to by default? 🤷🏻♀️
Me in the beginning saying sorry? everytime someone spoke to me in dutch to let them know i don’t speak and then later i found out they use sorry the same way as english speaking countries 😅
Yup! We use several English words in our vocabulary :)
Sounds totally different though!
@@Cafeallday222 Yeah lik sori
Tbh I’m English living in UK and trust me half of the actual brits can barely talk English themselves 😂I swear they make up their own lingo every generation 😂
[sorry for rambling a little too much...I'm tired and I tend to do that]
lived in the UK for most of my life, I was asked to read some English (so they could see if I had an accent?) - apparently I use "the Queen's English" (this was also before her passing, but tbh, I feel like ppl would use phrases/references like this more than like "the King's English")
I assumed they meant I speak kinda posh - I'm weirdly confused and stubborn about pronouncing every single letter and I feel like I sound weird when I say stuff like 'let'r' or 'le'er' or 'le'ter' but at the same time it also feels weird (like kinda too pretetious??) when I accidentally emphasise the 't' a little too much (like ' leh-tt-tuh ' ...??)
- but I also grew up in more northern areas.....but then again, it took me several yrs to even start using net-slang/abbreviations, so slang is another thing I stubbornly avoid + as a shy non-talkative Asian
[friends of various races didn't rly say much about the way I talk besides me being high pitched
{which only registered in my brain as like 'making fun of a girl' way and not a 'maybe I actually have a high-pitched voice' way until I was in my mid-teens - very much started having an existential crisis when a random 11 yr old I met online said I sounded younger than him ˶꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ˶}
- I technically got made fun of for my name because I just...don't care about having an English name??
but when that happend, I was mostly just being angry like "why are you so stupid and can't understand what I'm trying to say!?!"
- which reminds me....of some classmates not understanding that "Park Road" is a pretty common British area name, and failed to understand that I don't live on the literal roadside, even after the teacher had to interfere..
..that was frustrating to experience.....
besides from that incident, I feel like maybe they [year group in general] thought I had 'fun angry reations' so they just tried to lightly rile me up often - obviously that wouldn't have crossed my mind at the time, but in retrospect, it was fine, especially since I managed to not ruin 'magic' for them...but at the same time, I feel like I could have prevented sth....(there was someone I knew who was kinda susceptible to being bullied and rly didn't listen to me about that, and I just feel like I could've at least taken a different approach instead of repeating the same thing that didn't work -- children making fun of children, I don't think I had much of a problem because everyone kinda got over stuff pretty quickly, and nothing negative rly stays long enough at my schools,, but there was bloodshed - that's kinda where I had to draw a line even if it wasn't on purpose - and it very clearly was intentional - I just wish I was at least there to try to prevent it...idk if I was still eating lunch or just elsewhere, but it was extremely upsetting to know that it happened, and even more so when she decided to continue playing w/ them {I would like to emphasise that this wasn't a pebbling throwing situation, it was apparently a rock to head situation - I did not see the process but I definitely saw a bloody head and a bloody rock and some angry staff members} -- this was probably when I started to hang around all of them more often so at least it wouldn't be 2 v 1 if anything does happen again.........so ANYWAY-]
, and I don't speak ENG at home + I rarely watched British TV],
I guess I just didn't have many opportunities to do so either
I have also been told that I don't actually have an accent - but mostly by Brits/other ppl living in the UK, in retrospect;;
- but if I hear a recording of myself talking in ENG or sth, I'm always like "why do I sound so British??"
- and then proceed to ask ppl who say I don't have a British accent
and trying to question my ears
Most european countries prefer it if you know the basics of the language at the very least.
*casually walks on water like aquaman*
Well you’re in the Netherlands. I’d assume you’d want to learn Dutch because you’re here. So when I used to be a cashier I’d just speak Dutch so you’ll learn it. If you REALLY don’t understand, I would speak English. It’s not that I can’t, I just don’t want to.
What many foreigners expect of every dutchman or woman:
Fluent in Dutch
Fluent in English
Fluent in French
Fluent in German
and that we actually care lol
If I ever visit I won't get mad over that. I'm not owed anything
Me: *watches video*
Them: *casually walks on water*
You are a japanese travelling to the netherlands. I am so jealous right now.
Cashier here, I try to speak English when I think someone doesn’t understands me butt… sometimes I dunno if it’s just someone who is Dutch, that’s just respons with some words in english. Like sometimes people say thank you, but they’re Dutch.
Me who have translator app: gigachad time boys 🗿
This is sponsored by Duolingo
Simple *Spanish or vanish*
💀
they will burst into laughter right before switching to english. had it happen once
Duolingo? That bird who is sending me dead threats since I didn't learn German every day?
Im dutch and this is so true every time i see someone in the store who is english i can translate! :)
as a german, i always accepted that the communication with dutch people works that way. all speak slow. i say sth in german, the dutch person responds in dutch, and so on and so forth xD
Hahah with most sentences it works xD only if spoken slowly
Ik zie die elke keer. Maat ik leer het Nederlands en vind het een leuk ding.
I went to the Netherlands over summer. This is very true.
We don't speak it as first language, but most can sleak English
I love that you choose this song! Specially this part!
Honestly, before studying abroad I literally gained the highest rank certificates in both english and german. They are your hosts and you should respect them. The world doesn't revolve around mediocre engineers.
bro went into a jumbo
I had the opposite experience hahaha. I'm Dutch and I was guide for a foreign friend. Everyone kept talking to me in English, even after I explained I was Dutch. Though some randomly switched back and forth making me switch back and forth and speaking dutch to my poor friend XD
As an American in Germany who has also visited Holland..It is true,They speak Dutch,and it is not so often that they speak English..I would help you with English if you wanted.. Also subscribed..Welcome to Europe..
How's been your experience in Germany as a foreigner?
Yes we speak Dutch in the Netherlands (like duhhh, we are Dutch, we speak Dutch). But there are enough people who speak English here. Most of the time people who don't speak English are the ones not educated (themselves) enough or are insecure, but that is everywhere in the world.
@@prive7469
Most people who don't speak English are dutch people, they don't have to be be educated
@@mcj2219 maybe only the Dutch people in your circle you know. In my Dutch circle everyone speaks English. All traveling a lot also.
Strange… All Dutch people talk in Dutch… so funny 😂🎉
Some dutch words sound like english words like vork , Level , Banaan etc
Yes also "Bonnetje mee?" means: Want a receipt?
no one talking about how he's literally walking on water at the start
man i love netherlands and the weed of course
You can encounter with international students
Bro was walking on water
This is soooooo true!!!! I live in the Netherlands!!! But we are still the country with the most english speakers with english not as a official languege!
Isn't that germany
And then there's me. Someone who's lived here my entire life yet when I go to places where there are many tourists, they only speak English
I went to Netherlands and its true. But hotels and stuff they can communicate in english
True bro I’m dutch and that very true lol
I love Amsterdam so much everyone speaks English
That’s funny. As a Dutch person that’s exactly what I hate about Amsterdam
@Inepiny lol, I don't blame you. I speak fluent Spanish as well, but if everyone in my city spoke a foreign language even if I could speak it myself, I wouldn't be happy!
yup im dutch, altough some labes on stuf are english..
Yea its a absolute mesh of french dutch english and everything else have fun trying to talk here :D
don't forget the dutch german english xD
For everyone who does not speek Dutch but is planning to go to the Netherlands.
Most people here know at least basic english so you can always ask for an employee who is fluent ( almost all store's here have at least one person who is fluent in english).
And if the person who you are talking to still does not get you, just say:
" Ik spreek geen Nederlands"
Or
" Spreek je ook engels?''
Good luck
Ayyy i live in the Netherlands! The shop is called: Kruidvat
(Sorry for the paragraph)
Well if the cashier was a 16 year old girl at a big supermarket then it’s normal cause those don’t care, they have broken English and only know idk, idc, idgaf, lol and rip. If you go to a less touristic place like Leiden or smth then you’ll find people who are either 40 year old men with a thick accent or independent girlboss women, they mostly can speak English so yea, also don’t talk to the teenagers they’re scary and will threaten you to impress their little friends (British 2.0 kids)
Btw I’m Dutch! For me i prefer speaking English online because this way more people can understand me and in some games dutch words get censored even tho I’m not saying anything wrong, for example the Dutch word for “how” is also a garden tool in English 😅
casually walking on the river
People in the Netherlands immediately switched to perfect English when I apologized that I didnt speak Dutch, and I was in small towns, so Im curious how that happened?
As a German it was not too hard to get what they were saying sometimes but luckely everyone I have met was quiet good with switching to English when I did too xD
I'm born in Netherlands and I went there like 5 weeks ago
in Belguim you see everything english and the music too
HAHA RELATABLE IM FROM HAWAII just moved to netherlands lmao
You made a wrong turn it seems, from Hawaii to the Netherlands… I feel sorry for you, especially around dinner time.
Literally every foreigner gets annoyed that we speak with them in English and therefore never get the opportunity to learn Dutch and yet this comment section is full with people complaining we should speak in English.
How about you accept that we are from the Netherlands, where we speak Dutch and that's it? Damn.
imagine going to a foreign country and not expecting them to speak their native tongue lmao.
Come to Copenhagen, Denmark- We would love to speak English with you 😊
Please have our tourists. We have way too much. And you may keep them as well and speak as much of English to them. 😂
Bro stepping in water in a background
We have a language for a reason 😭
Very true, but it’s also like they thought you understood the first time they said something but just can’t properly speak dutch yet.
People also think we can speak german or any type of dialect from scandinavia
In my region very close to Germany a lot of people can speak a bit German
Some probably would ask in broken English "Do you want a bonnetje?"
i lived there for half a year this is pretty true although i learned some dutch as it helped
nah we would say
''uhmm do you want bonnetje or not?''
To make things clear.. We do speak English , but our native language is still Dutch.. So , in the Netherlands we speak Dutch. 🤷♂️
Lmao why is this so accurate? How long were you in the Netherlands?
you went to netherlands i understood everything 🤗
Omg I went on a trip to Amsterdam last month and I have a picture of myself standing there
For some reason I don’t think many of us know what bonnetje means in english
Tbh with you, Dutch people do speak English actually they speak much English than you think they can, however they’re language is similar to Dutch for example asking where to go like finding the exit only the word exit is different than English it’s called “waar is de uitgang” pretty easy to learn, even greeting is same for thank you is “bedankt”.
walking in water while thinking got me thinking
In the netherlands we do understand english but we moslty talk dutch to each other bcs we are not an old volony of the british😅
Bro walking on water
I'm half Dutch. Even i have difficulty talking to my Dutch family. Lols.
Sometimes it's because the cashier is not completely sure if they don't understand Dutch at all. I'd sometimes speak in English to the customer and then they randomly throw in Dutch words, so I then assume they know words like bonnetje.
I experienced this there, too. It was a problem in the grocery store when I wanted to buy milk and yogurt and couldn’t understand the labels and accidentally bought buttermilk 😝🥛
All of the packages have English description on them also. Stop lying. Often i even have to look for the Dutch description.
don't know about as a whole but couldn't disagree more about Amsterdam. Loved there for a year 7 years ago and I don't think I had to speak a single Dutch word , everyone in the city spoke fantastic English
Love this song!!!
Did you go to see Belgium when you were just next to us? We speak French, Flemmish (Dutch) and German. But the Flemmishes speak English in big cities like Antwerpen!
Dutch people like me always speak like this I'm only friends with 2 Dutch people and the rest of my family speaks Dutch too, we usually speak Dutch around us but when there's friends over and my mom and me are talking in Dutch, she's just so confused 😂
i have had a similar experience. In the supermarket, 2 employees couldn't tell me where the chopsticks are (they didn't understand). Then the manager had to come
The song 😍😍😍😍😍😍
I am dutch and i am going to a school where they talk much english
lolll exactly like that
I have collected 20 bonus kaarten, I got you bro
Walking on DA water
I'm 26y italian living in Utrecht..
hehehe interesting! Wanna visit Netherlands when Covid disappear. I’m a bit worried if I cannot do anything cuz I can’t speak Dutch language, Altho my manager and colleagues are fluent in English :)
Btw, How did you overcome the language barrier?
In the major cities you’ll be fine.
I think you will still enjoy it without Dutch. Many tourists places have information in English and workers there speak English too. I think I have not overcome the language barrier in the end haha so I barely have Dutch friends. To live without problems is possible if you don't speak Dutch, but I think making truly the best Dutch friends require you to speak Dutch. That's what I feel🤔
@@jinfromjapan next time you are in the kingdom of the Netherlands visit Zwolle city, and visit our church on sunday morning, LifeHouse Zwolle, You will have friends :)
Most people speak English pretty well so i wouldn’t worry about that! There are many fun things to do in the Netherlands like “madam Tussaud’s” it’s a museum in Rotterdam with overly realistic looking statues, “Madurodam” a park located in Den Haag its a miniature world and its really cool, “Efteling” the biggest attraction park in the Netherlands, a tour in the home of Anne Frank or just a canal tour!:) you also have fun transportation stuff, like the watertaxi or waterbus!
Ive been living in the Netherlands for over a year and im from america and it not hard to do much here plus lots of people speak english my advice is ask the younger people for direction or advices in english because older dutch people dont speak english very much lol also bring rain jackets!!
Yeah, welcome in The Netherlands where people speak the local language: Dutch.... Strange..? Nope ---> very logically. Remember that English, just like Japanese or Russian just like German and French are foreign languages to us Dutchies for we grew up with one language and one language only: Dutch ! later in life at school we were introduced to some foreign languages; the very very basics of these languages. So don't expect us to speak any other language as well like as we speak Dutch!
its french lol
here in the netherlands people either speak english excellently or not
theres no in between.
True story 😢
Ik ben ook nederlands
Sadly you will always find those who refuse to speak English if they can help it😅
I think it's a pretty safe thing to say that we Dutch are in general, on AVERAGE, a bit better in English than people in other countries. And yes there will always be Dutch people who don't speak a word English - or even worse, Dutch people who think they speak English.
U just walked in a water bro
Bonuskaart liet me lachen😂😂
AHAhaaaq
i was born in the netherlands and i always hear people saying: WILT UW EEN BONNETJE?
Somtimes people dont want to buy most of the times they do but jou can always ask if They can say it in english