Abstract of my bachelor thesis This thesis is concerned with the problem of the phenomeon of false friends from the transitional language (English) in the process of learning of Dutch. The study was preceded by the theoretical part, representing a review of literature dealing with the above problem.There were made attempts to define the concept of false friends, described the difficulties of naming phenomenon and signaled the need to further explore and describe the problem. This phenomenon is also presented as one of the elements of the transfer of the language in the process of learning another language. In addition, there was noted the role of the mother tongue in the process of acquiring foreign languages ​​in order to work at a later stage to compare the influence of the mother tongue to the influence of transitional language in the process of learning a new language (Dutch). The survey was conducted among first-year students of the Dutch Philology at the University of Wroclaw and the A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, so people who are just starting to learn the Dutch language. It consists of three parts: the first, containing questions about gender, age, mother tongue and foreign languages, the second examines the knowledge about the problem of false friends, and the third, which is the test for English-Dutch false friends, constructed in such a way that the respondents committed the greatest number of errors. The results of the study are described according to two methods - quantitative (amount of examining individual responses in this category) and qualitative (investigating their mutual dependencies). The results showed that the mother tongue to a greater extent, influenced the choice of answers in the test than the transitional language, despite the fact that English is more closely related to Dutch. Summing up, the research showed that the role of transitional language is not as big as you might expect.