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Do Dutch people understand German?

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I never met a Dutch who doesn't understand German … Probably because they got German television (though I can't understand why they watch it …). Once when I was in Groningen - about 70 km from the German border - we saw in many houses people looki... read more

So if Dutch people want to understand the essence of a German conversation they will need a bit more than just some basic knowledge of the German language, otherwise they will get lost very quickly. And I suppose same is true for a German wanting to understand a Dutch conversation. read more

Dutch people mostly understand Germans - although without practice they don´t speak German. Germans on the other hand need practice to even understand Dutch, since it involves many different ways of pronouncing similar words. read more

Dutch and German are very similar (in fact, both are Germanic languages, sharing the same roots). English is also a Germanic language — although it was more heavily influenced by Latin vocabulary. read more

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