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Christmas Week: Alles kan beter (10)

Special Christmas songs!

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"Allez Albert !"

Former Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene make comments during King Albert II's Christmas speech… (Of course an idea of Mark Uytterhoeven for Alles komt terug!)

Alles kan beter (7): "Hip, Hip, Euro !"

I'm sure you're familiar with those special telephone numbers thanks to which you can find information about anything. If you can remember, about a dozen of years ago a so-called "Eurolijn" or "Euroligne" was created to answer the citizens' questions about the (then) new European currency. As you could imagine, people sometimes asked stupid questions, as can be seen in this Alles kan beter sketch with Rob Vanoudenhove:



"En die biljetten, hoe gaan die er eigenlijk uitzien?"
"Drie meter op drie, in 't wit en in blauw, op Triplex-platen en die wegen 300 kilogram!"

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Who said that Italians spoke with their hands? Jean-Pierre Detremmerie, president of the football club of Mouscron, is "interviewed" by Mark Uytterhoeven:

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Alles kan beter explains how to shoot a carjacking scene:



Some driving lessons, if you want:



"Links en rechts… de termen betekenen niets voor mij…"

"Gas geven, meneer Mortier!"
"Gas? Ik heb er zelf last van!"

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Let's watch a couple of other fragments from the tremendously hilarious show Alles kan beter. The first extract is evidence that French-speaking students of Dutch are not the only ones who make mistakes when saying the plural form of a noun:



Waw! The former rector of the K.U.Leuven, André Oosterlinck, had a combover! Gotcha!


"Na de maaltijd begaf minister-president Van den Brande zich naar de toiletten. Daar zag ie drie lavabi. Hij deed pipo in de middenstens.



"Blind date?"
"Een 'Braille-afspraak'."

"Hoe noemt men Vlamingen in Benidorm, bijvoorbeeld? 'Paellatievepatienten'?"
"Baignoren."
"VTM-ers?"

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The team of Alles kan beter hasn't forgotten old people who are a bit deaf: they've created a special newsprogramme for them:



"Met een beetje geluk, tot morgen!"

A comparison between the VRT and VTM news programmes:

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Did you know that the human body is controlled by a kind of small room where engineers determine what the body does and says? In the following video, Alles kan beter (with Mark Uytterhoeven, Guy Mortier and Tom van Dyck) guides us through the meandres of former Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene… Beware: it's absolutely hilarious.

"Aaakes! Degoutant, onz' nagels zijn ze zwart als [?]"

"Dju!"
"Wat is er?"
"Geblokkeerd, he! We zijn geblokkeerd! De rechteren arm, he."
"Harder trekken…"

"Hij zit te lachen?"
"Ja, 't is een nieuwe functie."
"Zet dat toch af!"
"Sorry, mannen, voilà voilà!"

Sorry for not being quite able to transcribe tussentaal correctly…

And once again for those of you currently studying taalvariatie and some things about Dutch and Flemish dialects, they could be interested in watching this other video featuring Jean-Luc Dehaene:



I won't transcribe anything: I'm definitely not able to do so.

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This fragment from the popular VRT programme Alles kan beter (with Mark Uytterhoeven, Guy Mortier, Rob Vanoudenhoven) is dedicated to those of you who are currently studying the subtilities of Afrikaans:



"Dankie!"

Now for those of you who are presently studying Dutch idiomatic expression, I found a video showing native speakers creating new expressions:



"… gewoon de koppen in elkaar moeten slaan…"

"We weten het allemaal: 'hoge bomen vangen veel vis.'"