Was halten die Niederländer vom belgisch-niederländischen (flämischen) Akzent?

Very pleasant accents. Some harder to understand (west flemish) than others

Ik vind het een zalig taaltje.

I think it’s adorable

I used to think of it as a very pleasant, slightly formal sounding accent. Then I went to Brugge and had to work with some locals there and I changed my opinion.

I think Flemish sounds childish so I often have to laugh when I hear someone speak Flemish.

Love it in women.
A bit ridiculous in men.

There is a certain brand of Flemish where a lot of emphasis is used, for example the way David van Reybrouck and Paul Verhaeghe speak, that sometimes obfuscates that what the person is saying is not as deep as it sounds. Idk it has some quasi-intellectual vibe to it. 

Ik heb er echt een zwak voor en vind het altijd zo rustgevend klinken.

I’m Dutch and lived in Belgium for a couple of years. The Flemish accent is certainly charming and I have been part of the VRT (Flemish national TV/radio station) which used the „cleanest“ Flemish, I kind of picked up that accent, but lost it a few years ago. It’s not an attraction for me, but I do enjoy hearing it, it’s nowhere near how Americans are into British accents.

Either very pleasant to listen to (most Flemish accents), or atrocious and incomprehensible (west of Antwerp).

I think it’s cool, all the variation and different words and such.

Belgian dutch also has some cool composite new words or „old-fashioned“ words where in the Netherlands we use a english loanword (pompelmoes vs grapefruit or zwerfauto vs camper), or in Belgium they use a french loanword and in NL a different word (confituur vs jam). Often they also use words which sound dutch to dutch people, but we’d have no idea what they would mean (vijs vs schroef), or which can cause unfortunate misunderstandings (poepen).

It’s also interesting from a linguistic point of view. In NL the „standard language/prestige language“ already started appearing during the Republic (16th century) with the dominance of the province of Holland/Amsterdam and started spreading early, so it has been relatively standarized. However in Belgium they had a longer occupation by Spain/France/Austria, so no region had much power over other regions. Additionally French was the prestige language for a long time. So „standard“ Dutch in Belgium is a more recent mixture of different Belgian Dutch dialect and there is less of a consensus which rules/words are the standard because there are many different dialects to chose from and less of a dominance of one region over another.

Practically, even if Belgian people try to speak more „standard“ Dutch instead of dialect, it can still be difficult to understand at times due to the different words and expressions. Dialect can be completely impossible to understand.

Pleasant soft sounding accent, nice but very indirect people to work with.

Depends on the region and the setting , f.i. the news is very pleasant and understandable and I will sometimes switch to the belgian channel during cycling or the Olympics because the commentary is nicer but I’ve also had situations where I had to really concentrate to understand someone.

Like British I suppose.

I find it very soothing and very relaxing to listen to

I really like it. It pronounces loanwords flemish. Like flat and tram. In Dutch we say flet and trem. In flemish they pronounce them with the a from appel. I also love words like botten for boots, schuifaf for slide and buitenwipper for bouncer. When they say I love you, they say ik zie u graag. The use of gij, ge and u is very charming in my opinion.

Pretty much what everyone else said, but I also have a really hard time taking it serious and sometimes have to laugh.

Sound childish and dumb. Not all the accents tho, Antwerp and Gent accents are a lot nicer and they use kinder words. West Flamish are impossible to understand. Rest of Flamish just sounds dumb and most of the time they use less kind words

Flamish women with that soft pronounciation melts ny heart.

I can’t understand it at all

In my experience it is generally looked down upon, I can’t say I care much for it either.

I often watch sports on Belgian channels when the Dutch commentary is bad. I like it. Maybe it’s because I grew up relatively close to the Belgian border (Zeeland), but I never found their way of speaking weird or hard to understand, even if it’s quite different from my own.

As a person from Brabant it feels familiar how soft they speak in Flanders. Sometimes they feel closer to us compared to those from north of the rivers who use the stange word for Friet called Patat.