*related=http://videosift.com/video/What-Languages-Sound-Like

What Languages Sound Like has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

Of the languages I sort-of-speak that she imitated, they're not very convincing, accent-wise. Sounds like she got stuck on Polish and never moved on. They are also nonsense, meaning-wise. Of course.

Even I think Dutch is an insanely hard language. And I am Dutch!
So many rules and exceptions to rules.

Example: Let's say you want to wright down 'pancakes' in Dutch. A decade ago that word just changed in all dictionaries, because it used to be 'pannekoeken' (pancakes) and now we need to write 'pannenkoeken' (panscakes!?). All because you can bake pancakes in multiple pans. I'm not making this up.

One more actual commonly needed rule:
If you combine a word consisting of two parts of which one is an animal and the other an animal, you need to write plural for the first word.. (I'm not kidding, this an actual rule)
So, for example 'paard' (horse) and 'bloem' (flower) in English becomes 'horseflower'.. We need to make it plural, so in English it would be horsesflower (paardenbloem in Dutch)

Just don't even try to learn the language, we all speak decent English and most also speak French and German, so we'll just adapt to you, that's better for all of us.

...unless you're trying to rent a property or get a job in the Netherlands. Then it would be quite helpful.

I have heard for some years that a sarcasm emoticon should be created.
:@ I think was the latest idea I think.

I should have added that to the last sentence.

Dutch friends correct my English. and I'm English. I kinda wanna learn Dutch just so I don't feel inferior