Dutch Accent Voice Over Recordings

Working with translation and production companies

Adding audio visual services to your mix will create many new sales opportunities for your team. We can add translation, voiceover and subtitling to your company’s offering, which will appear seamless to your clients and yet mesh easily with the processes in your own departments.

Matinée has over 40 years of experience working alongside translation and production companies. So you can be sure our project managers are fully at home with the technical process of supervising and delivering localised material, in a professional and timely manner.

If you are a translation company, we will send you some helpful guidelines for providing us with copy or scripts, as they will need to be formatted correctly for voicing or for subtitling. If you are a production company, we can organise translations and create the subtitles in your preferred format. Voiceover recordings can be supplied as edited files, or we can remix with the original music and effects and layback to complete the new video soundtrack, ready to go.

Working seamlessly with your team, we can take on all or part of the process, according to your needs, and help widen your service offering.

Origins of the Dutch language and accent

Dutch is spoken mainly in the Netherlands, which is in North West Europe, it’s capital is Amsterdam. You can also hear the Dutch language in Belgium.

The language which is taught in schools is called General Civilised Dutch or Standard Dutch. Dutch spoken in Belgium is called Flemish and there are some differences in the languages in both pronunciation and vocabulary.

The Dutch language is said to share features with German and English. There are a number of Dutch dialects including Friesland which is a bilingual region where they speak the West Frisian language and Dutch. There is also East and West Flemish, Brabantian and Limburgish amongst others. In Holland they speak Hollandic.

You can even hear a Dutch dialect in South Africa. Afrikaans is heavily influenced by Dutch and this is due to the fact that the Dutch colonised South Africa. Many Dutch speakers can understand Afrikaans and vice versa.

The first known Germanic tribes that settled in land that was between the lower and middle Rhine. They were known as Franks. The Franks lived in what is now the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France. They ruled most of Western Europe and it is thought that the Franks, along with the Frisians and the Saxons, are the original ancestors of the Dutch people.

Another place you can still hear the Dutch dialect is in New Jersey in the United States. It was originally spoken by Dutch settlers and African-American slaves. Listen to English spoken with a Dutch accent in this interview with Racing Driver, Robert Doornbos.