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I am a northern German and I have never learned Dutch, but if I read a Dutch text or hear a Dutch speaking I am able to comprehend some words, parts or even whole sentences. In spoken language, it even depends where the Dutchman comes from, people from northern Holland are more difficult to understand because their language seems to be influenced by Frisian (this is my assumption).

To answer your question, both are distinct languages but they have their similarities. Both are Germanic languages, somewhere in the distant past they have common roots.

2007-06-05 01:24:04 · answer #1 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 3 0

properly, relies upon on what you prefer to apply it for. German is by utilising a good distance the language spoken by utilising the main folk of the languages you stated in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it is likewise grammatically the trickiest for an English speaker. understanding German might help plenty while gaining information of Dutch, and probably slightly to benefit Swedish and the others, yet vocabularywise they're fairly distinctive languages. Swedish does have an vast quantity of Low German loanwords, however, as a Swede, i come across i will study fairly a great form of Dutch with out certainly understanding it. understanding Swedish helps plenty while gaining information of Danish and Norwegian and vice versa, and Danish and Norwegian are very close considering they have shared their undemanding written language for a protracted time. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, while it comprises conversing any of the languages stated, or expertise it spoken, it incredibly is an entire distinctive rely. As a Swede i will discover it fairly complicated or on the factor of impossible to comprehend, as an occasion, a Danish speaker, even however analyzing Danish could be a chew of cake. on the different hand, Norwegian is plenty much less complicated. There are Swedish dialects that are harder to comprehend than Norwegian, for different Swedes. Icelandic is a thoroughly distinctive tale. And to get the words precise. they're all Germanic languages, in simple terms distinctive twigs of the comparable branch. English is likewise a Germanic language, even however the vocabulary those days is principally loanwords from French and Latin. The skeleton of the language continues to be Germanic, however.

2017-01-10 13:59:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

You'd better ask : is there any similarity?

Because Dutch and German are most different languages,
although there are some points in common,
but never as far as the pronunciation is concerned.

A Dutchman couldn't understand the German language
without a thorough study of it, and the other way round.

But most foreigners don't hear the difference,
strange as it may seem.

2007-06-04 23:45:40 · answer #3 · answered by Corneille 5 · 5 1

dutch and german look a like because the are both germen languages, english also comes from germen.
most german people cant speak dutch, but the dutch can speak german, cuz we get that in school, also french and english

2007-06-07 04:09:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

No,they have a common root language,but that happens to french and Catalan,remaining already set idioms.Lower German is much more similar than its southern dialect,called however the standard or "proper"German.
<>is the same word used in German as Dutch by the English,it means "popular" or "of the people",as spoken by naturals of themselves and related to the ancient Teutons as well as <>(everybody)of nowadays Italians

2007-06-04 23:51:06 · answer #5 · answered by Lucy,I'm honry! 4 · 0 2

no exactly... dutch is pretty different than german. perhaps they sound the same but the sound of the "G" is an unmistakable characteristic of dutch language.

2007-06-05 00:28:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

not exactly the same, but similar. Dutch has its own words, rules... the same for German I guess.

2007-06-04 23:41:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

Russian and Ukranian.
Similar but both will not be friends because both have differences that the opposite side absolutely hates.

2015-02-13 19:40:28 · answer #8 · answered by Somedude 6 · 0 1

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