Why does Dutch sound so strange?

Dutch is an ugly unmusical language due to deafening harsh sounds. There are some 30 dialects in the relatively small area of the Netherlands and Belgium. And it is only in some of them that guttural and uvular sounds are prominent. If you don’t like these sounds, then you can easily avoid them by making a softer sound …

Why does Dutch look like gibberish?

You may notice that almost every letter of the Double Dutch alphabet begins with the applicable English letter, i.e. “v” in Double Dutch is “viv-a-gee”. The English letters are used as a jumping off point for the Double Dutch letters, where the English letters are obscured just enough to sound like gibberish.

Should Dutchmen speak English with a Dutch accent?

In plays or movies, I think Dutchmen (or any non-native speakers of English) should only speak English with a Dutch (or their own country’s) accent when in the reality that is depicted they would speak English, like when talking to Americans or English people or others who don’t speak Dutch.

What is the difference between Dutch and English words?

V and Z at the end of words – In Dutch, there are no V or Z sounds at the end of a word. Dutchmen will avoid those sounds at the end of English words too, and say F or S instead. Have you heard? English O is sometimes more like a Dutch A, and vice versa.

How common is it for Dutch people to mix up words?

Dutch has one word ‘als’ ->> for both the conditional ‘if’ and ‘when,’ so it’s quite common for Dutchmen to mix up those words. I really like Gene Wolfe’s ‘Solar Cycle,’ I’ve read all the books twice, but as a Dutchman I was a bit disappointed by the nonsense word order of the Dutch characters (and by their weird and/or wrong names.)

Could Santa Claus speak Dutch?

Not a problem for polyglot Santa – but then the Dutch in the audience will notice the little girl’s thick American accent: it’s not credible that she shouldn’t speak English. For the Dutch any illusion of reality is shattered. No, Virginia Kris Kringle, on the other hand, could speak Dutch in any accent (Arctic?)