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Do you understand the Old English language? In this video, American, Australian, and Non-Native English speaker from Poland try to understand Old English by reading sentences written in Old English. It’s part of the Language comparison series on my channel, in which we explore the mutual intelligibility phenomenon between closely related languages.
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@Ecolinguist Год назад

Old English vs German | the video is ready! 🙀 → ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SFPBJRkFVTc.html

@hildegerdhaugen7864 Год назад

I am a Norwegian and figured them all out immediately.

@onbedoeldekut1515 Год назад

No to 'understanding'. It would have been some etymological root of the current words 'verstehen' and 'versed' (i.e. being well-versed in a subject). That should've been an easy one to get right.

@______IV Год назад

@8:12 You pointed out that "hāl" cognates with the word whole, and I think in this context it means healthy? But I just read "hāl" phonetically as hale, which also means healthy in English. Is that a coincidence?

@benanjerris6744 Год назад

I lowkey wanna be in a video if you ever redo this. Ain't really got a channel or anything but I'm down to hop on a video chat and just flow with it. I'm german btw :)

@Alex-hz2xg Год назад

Also isn’t hāl connected somehow to the word “heil” meaning salvation or in dutch “heilig” meaning holy.

@vast634 3 года назад

Bottom line: anyone speaking a modern Germanic language (be that German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic etc) would understand old English better than a modern English speaker.

@marchauchler1622 3 года назад

True. It's because English adopted many Latin words. However, there is an abundance of Latin derived words which have Germanic synonyms / counterparts. ..

@adriszabo1665 3 года назад

I think the same, I am a non-native Norwegian speaker and the sentence was quite easy to understand, except the feoh part. Butan is actually the Scnadinavian utan/uten, it's the same thing, they just added a b at the beginning. I don't think this is closer to German, England had an entire century with danes and norwegians in it in the middle ages.

@marchauchler1622 3 года назад

@JET Snr You are right. It is a great language in its modern and older version coming from England which has a rich history but where is the link here? What are you trying to say? The interesting fact about English is its abundance of words which is due to the impact of Latin (plus French) and Germanic lsnguages/ Dialects (Saxon, Frisian, Danish etc.). The fusion / influence of several languages (Germanic, Latin, Celtic) is one of the reasons why the English grammar had automatically been simplified for centuries as Merchants who spoke French, Saxon etc. had to communicate with each other. Thus English eventually became a comparibly simple language to study and (besides its geographic distribution due to Britain's history) to be used as global lingua franca....

@brog5330 3 года назад

Adri Szabó I mean yes but don’t forget the Anglo saxons they were from northern Germany.

@matthewarnold6794 3 года назад

@@marchauchler1622 English is a Germanic Language.

@barbdunn8886 3 года назад

The older the English, the more similar to German

@Steve-zc9ht 3 года назад

FACTS

@cfam2438 3 года назад

It’s is baiscally German, to be correct Anglo-Saxon in fact the have of the englisch roayls are half German.

@Puleczech 3 года назад

Well, it's no surprise since English is a GERMANIC language.

@jand.4737 3 года назад

@@Puleczech well, despite being considered a germanic language, it's strongly latinised as remnant of roman occupation in ancieng times. Ironically, even german is strongly latinised while staying a germanic language. (I learned more german in latin class than in german class, I always had the feeling.) Saying that northern germanic languages like norwegian or swedish are truest to our common linguistic ancestors is a wild guess, though, because I know nothing aboug theif lknguistic history.

@octoberschild3115 3 года назад

Brilliant Observation that. Seriously, I thought the same thing!

@ferisadi2418 Год назад

As a Dutch person who fluently speaks Dutch, German and English, all three sentences where fairly easy to understand. Old English sounds like a combination of these three languages.

@ketotodadze2482 11 месяцев назад

I am fluent in Norwegian, so I am surprised to see that there are many words from modern day Norwegian language in old English.

@OP-1000 11 месяцев назад

@@ketotodadze2482 It’s your Viking ancestors. They brought a lot of words to English.

@judyp. 11 месяцев назад

Yes and when I (German) learnt Dutch, I said that it's like a mixture of German and English! Now I think that old English is a mixture of German, Dutch and Scandinavian 😅

@billder2655 10 месяцев назад

⁠@@judyp.hat’s certainly the case - old english was the language of the anglo-saxons after all (influenced by long periods of norse occupation); if you’re interested, listen to some middle english - the difference is v interesting, it’s a very odd language, spoken in a very strange accent 😂 it’s also pretty much intelligible to modern english speakers

@judyp. 10 месяцев назад

@@billder2655 thank you 😊

@schneeweichenmunster8416 Год назад

I can speak Lower Saxon fluently and could understood everything! It did not seem like an different language to me! This is amazing.

@simonevanmuiswinkel9464 Год назад

True, it's most close to Frisian and to the Saxxon dialects, I think. (Grew up with low Saxxon as well, in Eastern Holland)

@dutchskyrimgamer.youtube2748 Год назад

@@simonevanmuiswinkel9464 Beste Simone, Nedersaksisch is wordt niet gesproken in Holland maar in Oost-Nederland.

@morganking3004 Месяц назад

That's because the two largest tribal groups in the Anglo Saxon confederacy were the Angles from Denmark and Saxons from northern coastal Germany. You understand Saxon because you ARE a Saxon!

@oidualclaudi0 4 года назад

You need to get this guy to speak with a Frisian speaker or with German and Dutch speakers, it will be interesting

@fab006 4 года назад

Get a Swiss German speaker on there, too. I’ve noticed that the dialect sometimes helps with vocabulary.

@alanguages 4 года назад

A Frisian speaker is likely already trilingual with Dutch and English, if you are able to get someone from the Netherlands. It would be difficult to find a monolingual Frisian speaker. If it is a Frisian speakers in Germany, then they also would likely be trilingual with German, Frisian and English.

@jockeberg4089 4 года назад

Yes, seriously. I'm a Swedish speaking rune enthusiast who speaks English and "studied" German for a while. I understood almost everything, a lot thanks to german. Old norse and runes made me understand "feoh". The first rune in the younger futhark is "fe", and it means cattle. It was called "fehu" in the elder futhark. So in the anglo-frisian futhark? Feoh, of course! :)

@MrThingstodotoday 4 года назад

Icelandic would work peobably the best

@Pandzikizlasu80 4 года назад

Norbert should pay more attention to Kashubian and Silesian conversations he did, even check Polish with old Germanic words preserved in a "Slavic refrigerator". Buten - sl. csb. outside, blumy - flowers, ratusz [rada-council + (h)us-house] - town hall etc.

@akrinord 3 года назад

It's just crazy to me that - judging from the comments - German speakers/Dutch people/Scandinavians seem to understand Old English better than native English speakers do.

@felixroseweiss3066 3 года назад

Although English is in the same language group as German and Scandinavian, for some reason they have become very different.

@ludwigamadeus11 3 года назад

@@felixroseweiss3066 Perhaps it is because of the influence exerted by Roman culture with the Latin language. As well as romance languages, especially French.

@jameeztherandomguy5418 3 года назад

Why is it crazy? Old English was just a different version of Ingvaeonic German, and was pretty close to Old High German that you could understand them about completely. Like the difference between English and Scots. Old English stayed the same until 1200, when the Old French people invaded. Their language was a TINY bit of Frankish (which was a Germanic one) and mostly Latin (which was not Germanic). But, since Germany didn't have much invasions, and Old High German was quickly evolving into Middle High German, the words couldn't be more different! I mean, only 29% of English words have an Old English cognate. 58% of the words are from Latin, so it is better regarded as a Romance language though in it's core it is Germanic which is why you could probably understand simple sentences in Old English better than late Latin.

@bobafruti 3 года назад

Jameez TheRandomGuy i always wondered why it was so easy to read French or Spanish but reading German makes no sense.

@kekeke8988 3 года назад

Modern English shouldn't even be considered a legit descendant of Old English. It's more like a dumbed down creole language ever since the Norman Conquest. @Wasoll It's hard to believe that's true. I'd expect to recognize much more Latin based vocabulary in German, if Latin words were that abundant, as I can in romance languages, but I cannot. As native English speaker, perusing any Romance text I find half the text is cognates immediately. But German may as well be moonspeak.

@jessicasturm5099 11 месяцев назад

I‘m from Austria and I understood 50-70% of everything. In our dialect (west of Austria, near the Swiss boarder) we still use words that are quite similar to old English, like Feer for cattle and hus is a house. So interesting to see all the similarities 😃

@TheReddkatt Год назад

Wow. As a Yorkshireman from England and also a dutch speaker this was soooo easy !! The influences of Old English are very noticable in old Yorkshire dialect

@kring2602 3 года назад

In modern Dutch it reads: “Ik heb 26 vee buiten mijn huis” quite literally the same sentence. I understood it right away.

@reginakniprode246 2 года назад

Vieh in German

@ArthurPPaiva 2 года назад

now you feel how english evoluted a lot.

@henner7371 2 года назад

"ik hebb soss un twintig Veeh buten mien Huus" in low german how it is spoken in the Elber-Weser region. The same origin as the old english language and of course Dutch.

@CrippleX89 2 года назад

@@henner7371 oh wow, that's actually very close to my local Dutch dialect: "ik heb zes en twintig vee buut'n mien huus"

@lyidspino7653 2 года назад

@@CrippleX89 Gronings? :)

@zenkerlifts3526 3 года назад

I'm danish. For some reason I understand everything he is saying since I am a fluent English, German and Danish speaker. To me it just sounds like a mixture of those !

@CrankCase08 3 года назад

Notably, the Old English of this period was heavily influenced by the Normans, who were the recent descendants of Viking settlers. That could be a reason why you understand it easily.

@samgyeopsal569 3 года назад

@@CrankCase08 the old english here is from before the norman conquest. Besides, the normans spoke french not norse. It is true however that old english received notable influence from old norse as a result of contact with Norwegian and Danish settlers

@egz3637 3 года назад

@@CrankCase08 You got it mixed up. English is influenced by vikings first, then later, become heavily "Latinized"(definitely wrong wording) by the Normans under William the Bastard, which were French speakers.

@jan_777 3 года назад

@@egz3637 Definitely. And it's interesting that the Vikings also crossed the Atlantic way before "Great Britain" was born. They not only settled in Britain, but also in Iceland. I find it higlgt interesting, how people, and therefore cultures and languages moved, mixed and progressed into what we can see today. Would be interesting to see and hear what the world looks like in a hundred or a thousand years.

@H.G.Halberd 3 года назад

as german and english speaker (aus deutschland) i can understand most of it too

@suzannedwight9272 Год назад

Learning Old English, I found having a northern British accent helped a lot. My Gran still used many of the words the panel struggled with

@soldanellaalpina Год назад

For me as a German and Swedish speaker this was super easy! So interesting!

@jort93z 3 года назад

This is suprisingly close to german. As a german, who doesn't know any dutch, i'd have guessed that language was dutch if I didn't know.

@Hifi_RoosterMan 3 года назад

It's incredibly close to Danish, they even say the numbers the same way

@NeoMicy 3 года назад

@@DarthNihilusKorriban Yo Nihlus i thougth I killed you !

@robindemeyer8960 3 года назад

@@Hifi_RoosterMan that's also how you say it in German and Dutch

@robindemeyer8960 3 года назад

Dutch alfabet is the exact same as English so no Eszet or a and e in one letter, also there are some, but very few accents on the letters

@archados 3 года назад

As a Dutch speaker, I can tell you that its verrrryyy similar to Dutch. Almost identical. For example the Dutch equivalent to the first sentence would be "Ik heb zes en twintig vee buiten mijn huis".

@webpig711 3 года назад

Me (from Northern Germany): Why is he speaking German?

@ilovebmth2007 3 года назад

Ich komme aus Bremen 🙈

@sayven 3 года назад

Thought for a second when I read the thumbnail that it was a German video

@webpig711 3 года назад

@@gravy-jones Yes, we still have a district here in Schleswig-Holstein called "Angeln". ... and there are three Bundesländer with "Sachsen" (Saxony) in their name.

@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei 3 года назад

I mean, I'm German too, but I wasn't able to understand everything without the explanation. But then it all made sense. So it's not the same, it's just quite similar. It's much easier if you know some Northern German dialects or Old Frisian language, I guess. Like "buten" is a thing in Low Saxon/Low German. And I did not recognize the similarity of "feoh" and "vieh" , because the spelling is so different and die pronunciation sounded kina weird.

@Blackleopardavrilkim 3 года назад

@@ilovebmth2007 ich auch

@HenkKroonenburg Год назад

As a Dutch born citizen residing in Germany I can understand everything I'm also raised with dialect and I also speak the dialect here in Germany because it's very Dutch so you can see that old english is very close to Dutch exactly!

@exhxv Год назад

I'm Dutch, and only didn't get the féoh in the 1st sentence. We also say 'zes en twintig' (twenty-six) and 'buiten' (butan - outside). But when Simon explains 'féoh' I immediately recognise the word, because we say 'vee' for cattle in NL. Language is so cool... and so related... just, wow.

@michaelhahn6955 Год назад

In German: we say "sechsundzwanzig" for 26, "feoh" is similar to german "Vieh" (modern: "Stück Vieh") und "buten" is Low Saxon (Plattdeutsch) "draußen", "außerhalb" - the opposite "binnen" means "innen"/"innerhalb" // (2) "beda" is german "baden"(to bath) and "eure Hände" (your hands) - "belifan", similar danish "bliver", german "bleiben" - "hal" similar to german "heil" ("heil bleiben" - like: to remain in shape), also german "heilen" (to heal) // (3) (ger) "Es ist Sommer. Die Blumen sind hier." - (dan) "Det er sommer. Blomsterne er her." - (lowsax) "blomen".

@simonevanmuiswinkel9464 Год назад

@@michaelhahn6955 In Dutch very similar as well, it is: 'Zes-en-twintig', feoh is 'vee', inside and outside are 'binnen' en 'buiten'. Blifan is 'blijven'. Flowers are bloemen (pronounced Blumen), Hal is 'heel'. Bade is 'baden', hus is 'huis'. Etc. "Het is zomer. De bloemen zijn hier".

@vergesserforgetter2160 Год назад

I like and hate related languages at the same time. I like that they are related, but hate that they are languages, because mutual efforts can easily make the speakers of the two languages intelligible to each other. Germans and Dutch need to work on a middle language, or better yet go back to an older way of speaking (not everywhere obviously, just taught in school) this way they have an easy lingua franca to use when going about, Mittelhochdeutsch was a fine mix tbh between the Lower and Higher dialects. And this is completely fine and very effective method. All Arab countries speak different languages zum Beispiel, but all teach the same language (old Arabic from 600 A.D) in their schools. so even though they speak Iraqisch or Tunisisch with their families, they quickly switch to Old Arabic when speaking with Arabs from far away.

@kleinfritzchen3226 4 года назад

We Germans clearly excel here at guessing Old English sentences meanings, having great fun to know better than even native English speakers! :D

@delilah4668 4 года назад

It’s where the large chunk of Old English comes from, so-

@jennys.8703 4 года назад

yes, the British have a lot of old German blood in their veins, whether they like it or not 😜

@JM_TheBassist 4 года назад

thats because old english is basically still anglosaxon, wich is close to saxon. and well..we have especially in german dialects a lot of old words. even some that were already in germanic in use.

@NICEFINENEWROBOT 4 года назад

But the #2 was not too easy one!

@NICEFINENEWROBOT 4 года назад

@Mikê'e Stark Coventry and such likes...

@falcone5287 4 года назад

Seems like Old English is much closer to German rather than modern English

@tarkhan1981 4 года назад

Angles and Saxons are Germanic tribes, so they spoke practically the same language

@Erics_Youtube_Handle 4 года назад

The modern languages would probably be much closer even today if English hadn't been so heavily influenced by Old Norse and Norman French. It's interesting to me in this video that they keep wanting to relate to Romance languages like Spanish. That influence came later, but it's just second nature for us go think of French/Latin as a common source of English words.

@troublewithweebles 4 года назад

Those old connections are the foundation of english actually. We still retain similarities to Old Norse and proto german languages, too!! German is one more language in the long family that our english is indebted to!

@brittakriep2938 4 года назад

Old English can be called Anglo Saxon. There is still a german federation state ,Niedersachsen' and in the state ,Schleswig- Holstein' there is a region still today called Angeln, so the people of the ,Low German Region' are the descendants of those Anglo Saxons which not moved to England. For example the low german word for little is lütt, and the low german word for fork is Forke.

@HernilLynn 4 года назад

They said that German is the mother of English language. I am just not sure.

@tokiarven Год назад

When I stopped trying to hear English, and instead looked for the German, it got a lot easier to understand! Very fascinating :)

@BeckyMesser Год назад

Agreed, I’m definitely relying more on my German-speaking portion of my brain than my native English-speaking portion haha

@emilsinclair9945 Год назад

I am really interested in languages and etymology in specific and I’m really happy to find people on RU-vid just talking about this sort of stuff. The „wholeness“ theme reoccurring in languages of a completely different families is really amazing

@Matzo_ 3 года назад

It's like you put German and (modern) English words into a pot, cook it and then season it with some Swedish pronunciation

@MV_96 3 года назад

true lol

@allaselboskar5767 3 года назад

Indeed

@J75Pootle 2 года назад

Knowing how modern English formed, it's more like sticking English in a pot and removing most of the non-germanic influence

@hinchlnt 2 года назад

Some Swedish? LOL. Yes, it was due to those beastly Vikings coming ashore on English beaches, plundering, feasting and eventually enjoying the humble, helpless English peasant girls.

@carollizc 2 года назад

@@hinchlnt Actually, I read once that those "helpless" English girls actually *preferred* the Viking lads, since they were more invested in practicing personal hygiene, and weren't bad looking on the whole.

@gregorbenediktmanfredliedt2034 3 года назад

German and Dutch People, probably just laughing how you are always thinking into the wrong direction.

@misterkami2 3 года назад

Gregor benedikt Manfred Liedtke How did you mean in the wrong direction? (Actually easily had all 3 sentences (did need the “remain” info to see the second one). I speak Dutch, German, English and a bit of French and Portuguese, but the Dutch is definitely what made the connection)

@RenzoVV98 3 года назад

@@misterkami2 Lol I had the same experience, even speak the same languages as you.

@gregorbenediktmanfredliedt2034 3 года назад

@@misterkami2 People who neither speak German nor Dutch (nor Frisian nor Scandinavic Languages) aren't qualified enough to understand many words of old English, so they think something else about words which are just easy for us

@misterkami2 3 года назад

@@gregorbenediktmanfredliedt2034 Ah.. I thought you meant German and Dutch were the ones thinking in the wrong direction.. what you meant was us laughing about how others think in the wrong direction. Thank you for the clarification.

@misterkami2 3 года назад

@@RenzoVV98 Wow, that is cool! It's a quite unusual combination of languages. I would love to learn something completely different such as Japanese. I assume you are Dutch?

@BlackfeatherTanfur Год назад

I knew feoh because of knowing the Elder Futhark (runes), the very first rune is 'feoh' and sometimes translated as Aurocks (a now-extinct wild bovine). Also in Modern English, 'hale' means healthy.

@irenejohnston6802 Год назад

Pecus. Cattle pecuniary/money, Latin

@rubenscherer3804 Год назад

i also linked it to fare or whatever, a female horse?

@rubenscherer3804 Год назад

or maybe fohlen? im confused, but i immediately thought of animals

@vincentdequiram1102 Год назад

The modern German version of feoh is Vieh.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Год назад

Yet you can't recall your real adult name!

@D.J.Themeparkvideos Год назад

As a Dutch speaker i fully got the first and last one and it blew my freaking mind.

@marvinh1091 3 года назад

Generally: If you’re German you can nearly understand everything because the words are much more similar than those used in the present with Latin roots.

@maythesciencebewithyou 3 года назад

Because the roots of old English are Germanic. The roots of modern English are still Germanic. It's just that they replaced far too much with words of Latin root.

@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 3 года назад

@@maythesciencebewithyou damn you're telling me that English, a Germanic language, is Germanic? No way

@kekeke8988 3 года назад

@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 Does it even still count as a Germanic language if 90% of the original Germanic vocabulary was replaced by Latin, French, and various words from random world languages?

@phralvim 3 года назад

English people was in process to adopt french as official language, but the process was interrupted. So english is a mix of germanic with french.

@michaelmatisse2808 3 года назад

english is based on old french rather than latin...william the conqueror was a native old french speaker (from Normandy) and imposed old french as the elite language of England but in the long run the English language became a creole of old germanic (mainly frisian) and old french.

@tobiasleira 2 года назад

As a Norwegian speaker with English skills this was actually surprisingly easy. I managed more or less all of them. Fascinating!

@kotrynasiskauskaite4995 2 года назад

I thought that these letters like þ and the other one reminded me of icelandic.

@aidy6000 2 года назад

@@kotrynasiskauskaite4995 English retained most of those extra letters until the arrival of the Printing press 😊👍

@missa2855 2 года назад

Same for Danish.

@missa2855 2 года назад

@@kotrynasiskauskaite4995 they have practically just gone and become normal roman letters. Like Þessum being related to the word "this" And also disse in modern danish. And ð is basically just soft d. So I guess Icelanders don't just gave to KNOW when a d should be hard soft or silent, since they can read it.

@miscellaneous5228 2 года назад

Hehe, yeah, really easy for me (I am danish)!

@hideouswh5718 Год назад

Heya, native West-Frisian speaker here. I understood every sentence 100%!

@metalmeisje Год назад

This is so COOL!!! With the second example I immediately keyed into the 'belifan' meaning remain, because in Dutch it's 'blijven' - but seeing how English speakers parse it as 'believe' makes so much sense. This is fascinating!! (I'm bingewatching this entire show now, haha!)

@inspectorseb5286 3 года назад

I speak Swedish, English and German so this was easy to understand, it's like a mix of words from all those languages, really cool

@annekabrimhall1059 3 года назад

I speak English and German but I got it immediately. I dreamt that sweds could understand my German. Is that possible?

@MrJakobMovies 3 года назад

Same its really cool that i kindoff actually understand most of it

@beeping2blipping 3 года назад

@@annekabrimhall1059 It depends a lot of how you pronounce each word and your intonation for how good the one you talk with will be to decode your intention (meaning). Also a lot of Swedish people today haven't even had German as a second language at school, so they are more trained in English then any other language (from passive consumption of media) and that is also more or less the second language after Swedish in every school today. (German or any other language will be the third language they will have opportunity to learn.)

@renatanovato9460 3 года назад

You must feel the same I feel watching the ones with latin languages. In this episode it sounded like nothing i heard before. (I am na portuguese native, bybthe way)

@annekabrimhall1059 3 года назад

My son studies Latin and Japanese!

@H0llaZ1990 4 года назад

If you speak English, German and a Scandinavian language, this shit is easy!

@koala1234ish 4 года назад

Yes, as long as you follow your intuition and don't overthinking it is surprisingly easy! But it would be a pain to properly learn the grammar and vocabulary though :D

@SuperRedtrout 4 года назад

Agreed. As a Norwegian that knows english and some german, this makes me think i would manage communicating with an old-english speaking person

@chiar0scur0 4 года назад

I was surprised at how badly they did. I speak just english fluently, with terrible spoken spanish and a bit of German, and the second one in particular was like immediately obvious. Bathe your hands to stay hale (and hearty)

@eosgaspar3598 4 года назад

@@chiar0scur0 i would say it is absolutely not "immediately obvious" (and i speak Swedish, English and German) :D

@ericforsyth 4 года назад

Not ”fēoh”. That sounds exactly like får = sheep.

@NOLAGuide Год назад

I love this!!! I have found several channels which do NOT teach language, but teach the origin of language. Similarly, I found a guy who speaks about the entomology of individual words. This is incredibly cool....thank you!

@warpedweft9004 Год назад

As an Australian speaker who learned German at school, yes it's very easy to understand. Surprisingly I can understand a lot of written Dutch, and even some Norwegian, although I struggle when it's spoken. But then I taught English to Speakers of other Languages and can pretty much work out a lot from a combination of body language and sounds.

@TheeEnglishKnight Год назад

‘australian speaker?’ lmao, australian isn’t a language

@eZ6Pain Год назад

@@TheeEnglishKnight In linguistic topics it matters which dialact you speak bro

@handeruiter7595 Год назад

Could you teach my grandson some Dutch? I would be much obliged. He is 9 years old, growing up near Melbourne, is regularly in the Netherlands (except for the recent corona years), but is not picking up many Dutch words. Except for calling me "opa' and pronunciating "train' as the Dutch "trein'. His mother, my daughter, is Dutch, but since many years 'abroad', my son in law is as Australian as can be, including his accent and his old mother still managing an enormous sheep farm.

@celem1000 10 месяцев назад

I had similar experiences. I have native English with a little schoolboy German and always found reading Dutch to be vaguely possible. I then went and learned fluent Swedish, which probably improved my Dutch comprehension even more. Latin is huge too. Even if you never formally.studied it, just the habit of seeking roots in modern languages will lead you to discover related words in others.

@juanpascallucianobravado6112 3 года назад

Someone over my shoulder asking why I watch something so “boring”. I could only think about how boring they were. I learn so much from these videos about languages and their origins. It’s endlessly fascinating and I feel a tiny bit more intelligent after each one.

@But_WhatIf 3 года назад

Some People are just simpleminded let them be, in most cases they don't change^^

@renatanovato9460 3 года назад

I have so much fun watching this. I play the game along. Love the comments. I really can't see someone saying it boring.

@TheUntypicalGerman 2 года назад

Me as a German: "Meh, this isn't too hard actually"

@SobrietyandSolace 2 года назад

Me as an English person 'WTF this is literally just German, not English- it makes perfect sense now' lol

@lilaschwarz1236 2 года назад

I had to think of the old people in the Northern German villages speaking Platt.And also, when I have to deal with Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh at work, thinking Plattdeutsch helps a lot to understand them, after all, the elderly have much stronger local accents.

@baphithi 2 года назад

Me too, learning German.

@jolotschka 2 года назад

Vieh, Viecher = beasts, animal. Buten = outside. Ick heev sesontwintig veh /deren buten min hus. So snackt man platt. Das ist altsächsisch. Old saxonian. Like the elder spoke

@barbdunn8886 2 года назад

@@SobrietyandSolace I’m jealous! 🙂

@tomash3904 Год назад

this was so bloody interesting... thank you so much ! got here by accident, happily stayed to watch the whole thing. Very interesting stuff !

@martinhiesboeck Год назад

Its amazing how much context German adds. sindan - sind etc.

@cmillivol98 2 года назад

Being a native English speaker didn’t help a bit on this one, but the semester of German I took in college and having a few Swedish friends I learned Swedish from helped a lot😂

@SobrietyandSolace 2 года назад

Same here, I remember that little bit of German I did at school when I was 15 and am sat here the whole time like 'this is just German lol'

@renerpho 2 года назад

@@SobrietyandSolace If you ever need an argument for why it is useful to learn even a little bit of a foreign language (even if you won't speak it later in life), here you have it. :-)

@EinDeutscherPatriot620 2 года назад

Taking two years of German pretty much helped me understand all of it XD

@rutherfrogp.wilmington4907 Год назад

Same with me and my Danish studies

@karenchiavazzo2091 3 года назад

As a dutch and German speaker this was actually pretty easy to understand! You should do a video with Dutch/German speakers to see how much they understand

@westend37 3 года назад

karen thx. me too.

@ju5t_0nl1ne7 3 года назад

Yeah, I'm a Dutch speaker too and this is quite understandable. But i think that has to do with the fact that old english stems from old frysian.

@babelwabel170 3 года назад

jeah, me too. I'm German

@fabianniestegge4105 3 года назад

@OkaySoShit 3 года назад

@@ju5t_0nl1ne7 Dutch Is rich?

@Schizopantheist Год назад

Nice to see Simon popping up here and doing his thing and repping for Old English.

@dysonsquared 11 месяцев назад

I love this! I will be watching more here!

@MrMaselko 3 года назад

My 6 years of struggling through German lessons are paying of. Finally.

@laurenelden6694 3 года назад

lol same

@noxfury2281 3 года назад

How did you study german for 6 years ? Are you fluent now?

@user-pl6hv6nn5m 3 года назад

buahahhahahahahh same feeling lmao

@melaniebeltran2703 3 года назад

Now I see how my german teacher said that English and German have the same roots. Looking at it.. its like German is closer to Old English

@DarkTrevort 3 года назад

@@melaniebeltran2703 English (or its progenitor) is basically a Low German dialect from various areas around the North Sea. To this day Frisian, which is still spoken in the North Sea area of Germany and the Netherlands, is the closest language to English (not considering Scotts here).

@williamsmith455 3 года назад

Speaking German certainly helps with this. "Es ist Sommer. Die Blumen sind hier." (don't I wish)

@franzelias5368 3 года назад

Old English was a germanic language for sure. Also I'm thinking feoh = Vie(c)h (modern German dialect for Tier/animal)

@3st3st77 3 года назад

Yeah, same with "Badet eure Hände" (Bathe your hands).

@charlesrockafellor4200 3 года назад

Ja. The first two I had a word or two, but "Hit's Sumer. Se Bloman sindan her."? I laughed when I saw it! :-D

@ItsARandomDragon 3 года назад

For Fēoh i thought of the rune Fehu, but i thought that meant "Wealth", but it seems it can be "cattle" too

@micayahritchie7158 3 года назад

I know English natively, I've been learning Swedish for a year now and it's funny because I'm certain a year ago I wouldn't understand these sentences but it isn't actually that bad now

@leemoore7930 Год назад

Fascinating! Thank you.

@danielmeier8321 Год назад

Im a german native speaker and its actually fascinating that old english is so closely related to modern german. We germans count still the same way like in the first example, saying „sechsundzwanig“, which means literally „six and twenty“, instead of twenty six. The same goes for the third example: „We are“ means in german „Wir sind“. Extremely close to old english. Flowers means Blumen in german too.

@TheMichaelK 11 месяцев назад

If one speaks Low Saxon (Low German) things get even more similar. For example: Ic hæbbe syx ond twintig fēoh būtan mīn hūs LS in different spellings/dialects: Ik hev/hebbe sös-un-twintig vey buten myn huus (Northern Low Saxon/Eastphalian, New Saxon spelling) Ik heff söss-un-twintig Veeh buten mien Huus (Northern Low Saxon, SASS spelling)

@famkedegraaf5135 2 года назад

Im a Frisian so i actually understood about 90% of this! I love how frisian and english are so similar. for instance cheese is tsiis, roof is rûf, door is doar (all pronounced basically the same and mean the same thing)

@MrRcn23 2 года назад

If anything, the spelling for the words you used as an example makes more sense than the english one!

@javicruz9754 2 года назад

I heard Frisian is now declining as a language because some prefer talking Dutch, and I saw a comment from another Frisian speaking saying he didn't speak Frisian stating it's not suitable when talking to God or the rest of his neighbors Don't let it fall out of use and continue use it as much as possible a it is the closest related language to modern English

@famkedegraaf5135 2 года назад

@@javicruz9754 Sadly enough, it's true. In most small villages people still speak Frisian, and also in church, so I don't see why it would be difficult to talk to God in Frisian. Not a lot of elementary schools teach it anymore either. I hope we can keep speaking it for a long long time here!!

@mileech2107 2 года назад

I just found out Old English had it's roots from a variety of languages including old Frisan hence the similarities seen today. I missed most of the sentences as a native English speaker 🤣

@thomasrosenthal1738 2 года назад

@@MrRcn23 When I was in school I learned that "Good butter and good cheese are good English and good Fries".

@BigIZeezy 3 года назад

so Germans pronouncing ''the'' like ''Se'' is actually kinda the right way

@weatherwaxusefullhints2939 3 года назад

Best comment!!!!!

@stephankiener6640 3 года назад

Muahahaha! Thumbs up!

@HesseJamez 3 года назад

No, sis is just se correct German accent -:) We use to struggle with the "th"-noise, since we don't have.

@NICEFINENEWROBOT 3 года назад

@@HesseJamez Exthept when you thuffer from a thpethial pronounthing dithability that affecth your tongue. Then it'th all eathy.

@unicornisis2820 3 года назад

@@NICEFINENEWROBOT Thank you for traveling with the deutsche Bahn!

@abi1021 7 месяцев назад

I love this so much. I understand so much of this 🤗❤️ I really want to learn this language now.

@MoniqueAO888 Год назад

Being from Germany I almost understood or guessed almost everything. It's amazing how similar those old languages were...so it's no wonder that people from different countries could understand each other.

@luancardoso3060 4 года назад

CAN ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH SPEAKERS UNDERSTAND LATIN ? 👍 IF YOU WANNA SEE THIS VIDEO

@SamuelMK_ 4 года назад

That would be interesting to see as well. It's pretty much the Romance language equivalent of this video.

@IlGab02 4 года назад

Sarebbe fantastico

@kijul468 4 года назад

Yes. Classical Latin as well so it's just that more difficult for the Italian speaker hehe.

@IlGab02 4 года назад

@@sonicps9056 eh sì

@moisesgomes6191 4 года назад

europeans are at an advantage because usually they take latin lessons in school. So maybe PT-Potuguese, Spanish (non latin americans) speakers can understand this language better.

@andryuu_2000 3 года назад

It's literally a Northern German getting confused when speaking English

@JoaoVictor-nl5gp 3 года назад

Lol

@brunohill3229 3 года назад

Or in my case, an Australian the speaks really bad German, I have it nailed.

@maaax1173 3 года назад

It’s just a mix of dutch, german and a scandinavian language

@rogerwilco2 3 года назад

Basically Dutch or Frisian.

@Adis1 3 года назад

@@rogerwilco2 I live in the east of The Netherlands, and beside standard Dutch, i am also very proficient at local languages, meaning Nedersaksisch, i understood like 85% of this.

@olesyagunko6582 Год назад

I would be happy if you continue this sort of videos with Simon and old English - I enjoyed it very much! Thank you and hello from Ukraine! :)

@jannis95 Год назад

It was unexpectedly easy for me as a native German speaker to figure out a lot of these sentences.

@alldamnnamesaretaken 4 года назад

As a native Dutch speaker I understand I have 26 outside my house but didn't know feoh, until you said cattle I was like: oh, Vee

@chrys8048 4 года назад

it literally sounded like 4 but in a french accent lol

@esther2376 4 года назад

Appeltje eitje dit!

@CraftedFTW 4 года назад

SAME

@HannahClarkgreencupcakes 4 года назад

I thought deer for some reason, like my brain turned it into the word “fallow” which incidentally were also used as money hence the American Bucks

@johaquila 4 года назад

Exactly the same happened for me as a native German speaker. (German for feoh/cattle/vee is Vieh or colloquially Viech). I think my problem was the spelling difference, which was just big enough for my knowledge of English to get in the way. (English getting in the way is incidentally also what happened when I learned Dutch using Duolingo. It actually made Dutch word order kind of difficult for me, because I had to consciously remember the weird German word order in order to get the identical Dutch one.)

@theTHwa3tes11 3 года назад

French: I'm gonna end this language's whole lexical similarity.

@Mullkaw 2 года назад

😈

@jprec5174 2 года назад

Damn Normands ruining the English language.

@Ash_Lawless 2 года назад

@@jprec5174 start speaking Aglish then.

@rngnv4551 2 года назад

*snort laughs* Too true.

@mrscreamer379 2 года назад

The Normans just gave us extra words. They didn't take much away. So they give us a word like centre. But we also still have the word middle. We didn't lose it.

@laustudie Год назад

For a dutch person knowing english and a bit of latin this is suprisingly easy to read. Only the letters are quite different, but it sounds pretty familiar.

@schutsheer_des_vaderlands Год назад

A comparison between Old English, Dutch, German and a Scandinavian language would be fascinating

@Kaiserland111 3 года назад

As an American who has learned German, this was very interesting and not actually too difficult! If you just average the German and English in your brain you can usually come up with something that has the right idea, if not exactly the correct particulars.

@rjbiii 3 года назад

Agreed. I've only been studying German for 4 months now (and studying it very casually), it's easier to guess these.

@erstenamefamiliename7988 3 года назад

Same here! It was pretty cool. It also shows just how different Old English is from Modern and even Middle English.

@clarissa1811 3 года назад

yeah im a native english and german speaker and i was actually surprised at how well i could understand it! i read the thumbnail and it didn't even click to me that it was old english at first

@Cuticho 3 года назад

I made the mistake to try to think in Danish/English Mixture. Should have gone for German yeah :)

@datpudding5338 3 года назад

@bademeister I think the word your looking for to describe the relation between low and high german is called 'Idiom'

@madgeordie4469 3 года назад

The American guy actually hit the nail on the head when he said that he always thought that the Southern US accent sounded closer to that of the original British settlers. Linguists have been aware for many years that a minor vowel shift occurred in Britain at the end of the eighteenth century. Most of the British colonists in America arrived there before this happened and so took their pre shift accent and pronunciation with them. Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were colonised by British settlers after the shift happened so their modern accents reflect this. That is why the American accent sounds so different to those of everywhere else. Weird (the circumstances, not the accent)..

@katelpo 3 года назад

This is so interesting! Thanks for sharing in a nutshell :)

@kadmow 3 года назад

Mad Geordie: however, despite the late timing NZ seems to have received a different demographic (More Scotts??) to Aust, hence they have avoided suffering the great vowel switch which all Australians betray themselves with. Apparently. (I am Australian - we mock NZ'ers E and I, though historically we are probably more incorrect (If that is any way to look at language)

@madgeordie4469 3 года назад

@@kadmow The majority of the early settlers of New Zealand were English but there was a large number of Scots and Irish and their accents and intonation have influenced how English is spoken in New Zealand to this day. As you say the Lesser Vowel Shift at the end of the eighteenth century did not reach Scotland or Ireland so they continued with the older type of pronunciation which is reflected in the modern New Zealand accent.

@williamjordan5554 3 года назад

Well, there is a type of Southern accent which is not rhotic.

@madgeordie4469 3 года назад

@@williamjordan5554 .....and that is?

@miro9440 3 месяца назад

Fascinating subject!

@wieslawirzyniec4527 Год назад

it is actually crazy how one it is being explained it makes sense ( i speak Polish, German and English) so as one of the people said - it makes perfect sense once you said it

@sozinho1 4 года назад

"Hale" meaning "healthy" is still used in the expression "hale and hearty".

@JesusFriedChrist 4 года назад

sozinho1 Is that a common expression where you live? It is not common at all in NW North America.

@GdotWdot 4 года назад

And the 'sound' in 'safe and sound' is a cognate of German 'gesund' and Dutch 'gezond' (healthy.)

@VioletEnds 4 года назад

@@JesusFriedChrist I hear it every once in a while here in the South. Mostly from older people

@lumpenhund2772 4 года назад

Or in an infamous chant: "Heil!"(ei=ai) At least that is what popped into my mind. In German, things can be hale(heil), aswell as men. Wishing it, consequently means that you do not wish for its dimise. I wonder why some fellow Germans do not point out this similarity...

@Dicska 4 года назад

@@GdotWdot Wow, thanks, I always wondered where that 'sound' came from. Do you think it may also have common roots with the latin 'sana/sano', or it's just a coincidence?

@wakinyanokiye 3 года назад

I speak Dutch/Flemish/German and I could read and understand everything. Some words are very similar or the same and they're still used in many dialects today in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany

@michaelbollinger8060 3 года назад

Because saxons originate from germany lol.

@Fete_Fatale 3 года назад

English & Spanish speaker here, but with friends in Flanders. In the first sentence I got "bῡten" straight away, as "binnen, buiten, boven, & beneden" (inside, outside, upstairs, & downstairs) were concepts drilled into me when hearing my friend telling her young child where his shoes, toys, or football was ... or that it was time to go to bed, upstairs. "fēoh" (cattle, "vee" in Dutch) however I confused with "foot" ... as in the pre-metric measure ("voet" in Dutch, at least as a body part)), and therefore read it as "my house is 26 ft long", since it's more practical to measure the outside dimension. Also, having a backyard full of cows isn't a concept that leapt out at me :)

@IAmFat1968 3 года назад

@Brand Bioc-har and Frisian, which is the mother of every germanic languages

@bpinkhof 3 года назад

@@IAmFat1968 interessant, is that echt, oud-fries dan of anglo-fries?

@jenniferhuntley9769 3 года назад

Sounds very much like my brilliant German friend trying to explain things in English. 😂 I always said he was speaking Deutchglish. 🥰 thank you for making this...I love it!

@ljsilver733 Месяц назад

The „Flower Sentence“ is almost german. „Es ist Sommer. Die Blumen sind hier“.

@FalkFlak Год назад

Even it was propably stated here before a few hundred times: In german it's called Vieh (Cattle) and numbers as "sechsundzwanig" (six and twenty) until today.

@roddbroward9876 4 года назад

I’ve studied just a little bit of German, but the similarities are very easy to spot.

@spir1tcs 4 года назад

As a german speaker I immediately understood the third sentence

@pt3085 4 года назад

Another Keyboard Cat me too

@TheMichaelK 4 года назад

If you‘d speak some modern Saxon (Low Saxon / Low German), you‘d understand even more. E.g. first sentence in Low Saxon: Ik hev/hebbe sös-un-twintig vey buten myn huus.

@unnamedchannel2202 4 года назад

@@TheMichaelKjau datt hebb wi us glikks tosoomriemelt.

@Cornu341 4 года назад

@@TheMichaelK feoh -> vey -> vieh for german speakers, which is the word for cattle.

@rogbard 4 года назад

I gave these sentences to my mother who is from the north west of Germany and doesn´t speak a word of English. She got the first and third sentence right without even thinking about it, altough she thought it was female deer instead of cattle in the first sentence. The second sentence was a bit harder. She understood "do something to your hands to live healthy".

@Ecolinguist 4 года назад

Wow! That's so awesome! Say hello to your mum! :)

@Kammreiter 3 года назад

Diese Frauen 🤔 können sowieso schon (fast) alles 😄

@ioe2767 Год назад

As a German and English speaker I was able to get most, but not all of this. Very cool video!

@cescobertolo1157 6 месяцев назад

It’s also really interesting that the verb buttare in italian means to throw away. Or “throw out” the trash in an English sense similar to the preposition use of butan. So cool.

@oisnowy5368 3 года назад

As a Dutch speaker, I could outright read the sentence: "ic haebbe syx-ond-twentig feoh butan min hus" "ik heb zes-en-twintig vee buiten mijn huis" Some vowels get thrown about a bit. From haebbe to heb might look a bit of a jump, but the infinitive of "to have" in Dutch is "hebben".

@telocho 3 года назад

In dutch east dialect (formally nether-saxionian) it would be "ik heb zes en twingtig vee buut'n mien huus"

@AneGaarden 3 года назад

How do you count in Dutch; like in German & Danish, or like the other Germanic languages?

@emdiar6588 3 года назад

@@AneGaarden een, twee, drie, vier, vijf, zes zeven. acht, negen, tien. elf, twaalf, dertien viertien etc then twintig, eenentwintig, tweeëntwintig, drieëntwintig etc Then the same rules until 80, when a 'T' is added to the beginning of acht for some reason: Tachtig, eenentachtig, tweeëntachtig etc. My favourite sentence in Dutch is 'Achtentachtig prachtige grachten' (88 wonderful canals). It's how I mastered the 'g'/'ch' sound when I learned Dutch.

@mlipinski3396 3 года назад

The sentence in German: Ich habe sechs-und-zwanzig vieher außerhalb meines hauses

@bpinkhof 3 года назад

ik heb hetzelfde geschreven

@TheYear-dm9op 3 года назад

I'm german, I don't understand old german but old english is like modern german to me xD .

@Halicos93 3 года назад

Wel English is derived from German .

@connyhartl1362 3 года назад

die King James Bibel geht sogar mit altem Bairisch besser als mit Englisch

@WessauR 3 года назад

Lmao

@JudgeJulieLit 3 года назад

@@Halicos93 Old English (Anglo Saxon) derived from the same older Germanic language stock as Old German, but Modern English is not a child of Modern German, but a cousin who over centuries intermarried other languages, mostly Norman French, Latin and Greek, and imported words from Dutch and Scandinavian and other Romance languages like Spanish and Italian.

@alexpond648 3 года назад

Yes, but it sounds a bit off. Badet eure Hände zu bleiben heil. Grammar is def. English in this example. Es ist Sommer. Die Blumen sind hier. Grammar is German. Dialects would be even closer. S'is Sommer, de Blume sin her.

@grotemuis4889 Год назад

This is so cool, I got number 1 and 3 perfectly right exactly how it was written on the screen!! If you have knowledge of German, Frisian, Dutch and English it helps a lot. Of sentence number 2 I only got two words right.

@paoloh885 6 месяцев назад

I'm Dutch and most of these are quite easy to understand for me. Cool to see how English and Dutch are connected.

@murkotron 4 года назад

"eowre handa" is clearly modern German "eure Hände" =))

@joi9480 4 года назад

icelandic: yðar hendur

@pt3085 4 года назад

murkotron I think it's very close to "our hands" too.

@murkotron 4 года назад

@@pt3085 "your", not "our"

@letozabalmaty 4 года назад

@@pt3085 our hands in old English - ure handa.

@erwee7329 4 года назад

Jouw handen = dutch

@gbolahano9851 4 года назад

Hit's Sumer. Se blõman sindan hēr. German: Es ist Sommer. Die Blumen sind hier.

@H0llaZ1990 4 года назад

Det är sommar. Blommorna är här.

@GdotWdot 4 года назад

Het is zomer. De bloemen zijn hier.

@wingedhussar1117 4 года назад

Her we habban... I do not speak Old English, but as a German native speaker that sounds incorrect to me because in German we would say "Hier haben wir" (verb second order) and not "her we habban" :) Here is what I understood without reading the subtitles: Ic habbe syx ond twentig feoh butan min hus. = Ich habe sechsundzwanzig ... mein Haus. (I don´t understand "feoh" and "butan"; but I assume that "feoh" may be a noun and "butan" a preposition).... "butan" could also be a verb... maybe "bauen" (to build)??? (After I saw the solution: "feoh" = "Vieh"... Oh, I could have seen that... but "Vieh" does not have a plural form in German... In German you cannot say "Ich habe 26 Vieh in meinem Haus", only "Tiere") "Bedat eowra handa to belifan hal."

@Fenditokesdialect 4 года назад

It is Summer. The Blooms/blosoms are here.

@Liftinglinguist 4 года назад

@@H0llaZ1990 Det er sommer. Blomstene er her. I got the last sentence quickly, "bloman" was easy enough and "sindan" sounded so much like "sind" in German. Got all three sentences more or less correctly, in the first one I figured it was sheep (får) or simply livestock in general, and thought of "fe", which is a Norwegian word used for farm animals in general (usually pertains to sheep, cows, and pigs though). "Bufe" is another form, meaning much the same, but used mostly in rural regions and dialects. I don't think my connection with the Swedish "nötkreatur" would have been as useful in this instance! :P

@EpRoos Год назад

in modern NL the word for outside is "Buiten". So I think we can say its clearly related. in NL we use also "zes en twintig" or officially written "zesentwintig" We turn it also arround, no idea why English suddenly started saying the twenty first. in modern NL we also use the general word "Vee" for animals on the farm. Any way if you take this line to modern Dutch it would be "Ik heb zesentwintig vee buiten mijn huis." Which is rather close written.

@manuelmanolo7099 Год назад

This was really interesting as a german. Didn't get all of it but I definitely could have helped out here and there! The flower sentence in germn btw is: Es ist Sommer. Die Blumen sind hier. So the "sindan" was actually kind of guessable for a german (even though I didn't get it)

@EpreTroll 2 года назад

Some of it sounds very similar to Dutch making it not so hard to understand at least when reading

@rotciv003 2 года назад

butan en buiten, bloman en bloemen, belifan en blijven.

@nielsberkers 2 года назад

indeed can be easily read as 'Ik heb vijf-en-twintig vee buiten mijn huis'

@cedricvanderleelie7738 2 года назад

Zeker bij de laatste

@coffic 2 года назад

I'm a Frenchwoman who can speak English, some German, and useless smatterings of a dozen other languages, including Latin, middle English and middle French. In the Netherlands? No need for a dictionary! When you want to be understood in return though...

@cedricvanderleelie7738 2 года назад

@@coffic Well the Netherlands is the best English speaking country worldwide, besides countries with English as their native language, so you should be fine being understood in the Netherlands while speaking English