Is Dutch and German mutually intelligible?
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For a German speaker, Dutch sounds familiar, and it can be possible to get an idea of what someone is talking about, but it is not readily intelligible, neither spoken nor written. ... It was created as a lingua franca to facilitate communication among speakers of different, mutually unintelligible German dialects.
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For a German speaker, Dutch sounds familiar, and it can be possible to get an idea of what someone is talking about, but it is not readily intelligible, neither spoken nor written. ... It was created as a lingua franca to facilitate communication among speakers of different, mutually unintelligible German dialects.