When I switched to Dutch on my channel Loepsie’s Theetuin, many people left comments that they were trying to learn Dutch or were excited to pick up a few words in Dutch. I’m all for learning new languages, as you know, so I can only encourage that and I’m very excited to present to you: Dutch Word of the Week!
One word out of the Dutch language will be highlighted in these videos (which are exclusive to my blog & won’t turn up in your YouTube subscription boxes) every week. I hope you enjoy them, I sure have lots of fun filming these!
This week’s word is “theetuin”. Enjoy!
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This is soooooo awesome! That you for making this language learning video! Now I can finally learn some Dutch! Also, when you give examples of the sentence with the word of the week, please speak a little slower so it’s easier to hear the sounds. Thank you ~
I was thinking that the sound you’re referring to is similar to how you would pronounce the “ou” in “house” with a Scottish accent. The way you pronounced “huis” sounded like a Scottish person would say the word “house”, at least to my ears, haha.
Oh yes! Thank you! I love this :D
This is great! Thanks for doing this. 😊
This is awesome! But your dutch sentence was too quick for me to listen to, read and read the english translation like all at the same time.. Maybe you can say it slower next time? I’d so love to learn some dutch!
Yaaay I love that!!!
Awesome idea, Lucy! This is so helpful.
Until now I thought “Theetuin” meant the same as before: “Life”. So Loepsies Life = Loepsies Theetuin.
But no! I think you chose a really pretty word and it also fits your channel overall!
I’m excited and I can’t wait to learn some more Dutch words!
Linguistics student incoming :D A diphthong is a sound that consists of two vowels in one sillable such as English “I” (where you basically have an a-sound and an ee-sound combined), but they’re usually spelled with two letters, so you have a point. :D Also, you made me realize that I always misspronounced “ui” in Dutch and my teachers and Dutch speaking friend never corrected me. D: Or maybe it’s a matter of dialect.
There’s a similar sound in French, for example in the word “feuille”. :)