Alles kan beter (4)

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?"

Alles kan beter (1)

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.'"

Plan langues (3)

Just a sketch by the The Monty Python (in Monty Python's Flying Circus) that I find really funny:



"Was ist das Wort für Mittelschmerz?"

"He shouldn't be saying that: we haven't done comparatives yet!"

Plan langues (2)

This is incredibly idiot, and that's why I'd like you to watch it. It's a Chyprian soundtrack on actual Star Wars footage, with silly (approximative) English subtitles.



The second half is crappy, though.

Plan langues (1)

As part of this blog's goals – namely that of getting the whole world in contact with unknown languages – I suggest that you watch the video below. It's one of the numerous sketches written and played by Manu Thoreau for a programme named Faux Contact, a spoof based on the official Contact, a didactic program about road-traffic safety. Manu Thoreau imitated (and also exaggerated) Commandant De Nève's (the presenter) way of talking.

In the following extract, he explains in a pseudo (because full of unexisting words or words that don't make sense here) Walloon language how to place a spare wheel…



There's also a scene in a pseudo (because full of French near-words and absolutely ungrammatical) Flemish dialect…



Don't laugh: lots of French-speaking Belgians talk like that in Dutch and think they're doing it properly! (Morons.)