So happy Dutch is so easy to learn. Do half of the swaps and you're speaking German. Do the other half and you're talking in English!
German went through a major consonant shift that English and Dutch avoided. On the flip side, English went through a major vowel shift that German and Dutch missed. So match the German vowels and the English consonants and you've got it made.
By the way, it's almost mandatory to call what I just described "the great vowel movement" 😂