Talking to a Frisian farmer in Friesland with Old English 

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*immediately surpasses your vocabulary*

Older Dutch people generally don’t speak and understand English

@@Nattedooier Also rural Dutch people. Then again it's hard to come by a rural settler in a place like the Netherlands

@@MM-vs2et Would someone still be called a settler if their family have probably farmed there since before the bronze age?

@@JootjeJ I think settler only applies to new generations that have just moved to the land and “settled” it Don’t quote me on that I am barely passing highschool English.

no

@@tindekappa9047 yes

Ikr

@@Paste-Bean Ja

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As a Dutch person? First learn English and then leave a comment

@@levent.a.7280 Nein

​@@levent.a.7280???

@@levent.a.7280 Oh yeah.. bc you people own the World hahahahaha

Mine, as an intellectual, takes me to both.

@@mattvaughn8525 if you unironically watch tate then you're not, sorry bro

@@kadmuspl830 do because i agree with his views of bringing back mascunility and that women are precious beings that shouldn't die in war

@@meso_p lmao jesus christ man. The dude sexually humiliates and uses women for profit, get your morals from literally anywhere else. Nobody should die in war, but war exists and women would rather fight for their life than let man trample on it, just for them to get raped before dying. Just like men would rather fight for their life vs letting other men trample on it. Andrew Tate has far less honor than any soldier, man or woman. He wouldn't give up his life and safety for others, and he has no room to speak on it.

@@mattvaughn8525 anyone who says "as an intellectual" better be ironically trolling. Please bro, don't be cringe bro.

someone should try this but with proper old english pronunciation

A lot of the Frisian pronunciation is similar to a Cumbrian accent today - the words are a little different but the accent is very similar, which is kinds trippy

The "dude" is Suzy Eddie Izzard.

​@@GailDLWwho?

​@@GailDLWwait, you're saying the Frisian farmer is actually a famous British comedian?

Its your date, but not everybodys, when it changes for everybody. Mine was September 16th 2023.

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I thought it was a brother.

Okay redditor. Cpt. Obvious. Still though, inasmuch as German retains many archaic features, German is a good first approximation for Old English. In fact some dialects of Dutch and Frisian will be even closer to the sound and feel of Old English.

@@sh-ig9fm in English, the feminine is always used in this form of inheritance.

@@mistersir3020 Unfortunately, reading the comments, it wasn't very obvious. But you're right. German is one of the closest modern day approximation of Eald Englisc.

@@RonJohn63 sister countries, sister cities, brother people

In linguistic terms a 'dead language' is not to be confused with languages that are classified as 'extinct'. A dead language may still have a number of existing speakers but is no longer considered the 'native language' of the area to which it belongs. An extinct language has no living speakers and no living native descendants. They mean different things.

@@vallejomach6721 Well, Frisian is neither extinct, nor dead. At least not West Frisian.

@@iKrivetko On what basis have you determined that? I'm not arguing that it is or isn't, but you would need to provide some support to that claim to make that argument. To what extent is Frisian a 'native' language of the area? (again, a term that has specific meaning that may differ from the non-academic, generally perceived, definition of what people think that it means). *"A first language, native tongue, native language, mother tongue or L1 is the first language or dialect that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the 'critical period'"* Other determinants... Based on origin: the language(s) or dialect one learned first (the language(s) or dialect in which one has established the first long-lasting verbal contacts). Based on internal identification: the language(s) one identifies with/as a speaker of Based on external identification: the language(s) one is identified with/as a speaker of, by others *Based on competence: the language(s) one knows best Based on function: the language(s) one uses most* So what percentage of people from that area does that include?...and what percentage of those use the language primarily as their main means of communication on a day to day basis? A minority language having 'official' language status can also generally be ignored, as that label is often a modern token gesture that has come about by lobbyists and preservationists that have successfully defended their language and won concessions for it to be given that moniker and status. So, what you would also have to take into account would be...what is the primary language of major institutions and organisations of the region in which it is spoken...i.e. What is the language of Church? What is the primarily used legal language? What is used primarily by the courts etc, What language is used by the state/government? What is the language of business? What is the status of the Frisian language in education? Again, a cursory glance as far as education is concerned, would suggest that the majority of instruction is in Dutch, with some English...and as little as only one hour per week in Frisian (may be out dated, this was information from 2007, and I'm not invested enough to seek out more recent research data). Also, of note from that brief survey of literature on the topic, it would appear that where it IS used it is primarily spoken...literacy in the language in that data was as low as fewer than 12% of those that claimed they could speak it. Again, this is not ordinarily typical of a healthy living language. I'm also fairly sure that UNESCO considers the language to be critically endangered of becoming 'extinct'...so what term would/should be used, of those that exist typically when classifying languages, for a language that isn't quite actually extinct yet, but nearly? Again, having a fairly significant number of speakers is not an indicator of language health...in terms of academic semantics, which is what is being argued here, is it reasonable to label Frisian as a 'dead' language under the definition that terminology denotes? Maybe...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@vallejomach6721 I think you are unnecessarily overcomplicating it. West Frisian has a fairly sizeable amount of L1 speakers of all ages, therefore it isn't dead. It is characterised as "vulnerable" which is UNESCO's mildest epithet: Belarusian, Chechen and Bashkir are all "vulnerable" as well, and as someone from that part of the world I can tell you that they are alive and kicking, even with Russian being the definite lingua franca.

@@iKrivetko Are you wilfully NOT listening or stupid? 'has a fairly sizeable amount of L1 speakers of all ages' ^THIS IS NOT RELEVANT in respect to the term.

That was the highlight of his day lol

58 seconds ago

Lmao what's up?

Yoooo

It waard filme mei in ierappel.

With Philips' first potato cam. Made in the Netherlands. Very famous.

Lmao

Yes that was the year the last known speakers of these languages passed😢 unfortunate

When British people speak English its like a German doing a french accent while having some sort of throat disease

I’m Dutch and I agree

@@onebigsnowball What do Americans sound like?

@@mirroredvoid8394 if a bin could talk

@@onebigsnowball thats how the language is suposed to sound

Or English was spoken in England.

@@User_5tjk42gj9 that is a myth, English was never spoken in England, it's a misnomer 🤣

It was recorded right after the coronation of Aethelstan😂

This is why we should hire Filipinos instead for english. Cheaper yet at least is better at english

@@WingMaster562 In your dreams

@@shigrakumar Thanks *Kumar,* how's Kolkata btw? Heard many 'good' tech support from microsoft refund center from there

Remember the Indian call center from South Park

@@WingMaster562 yea its pretty good here looting the elderly i enjoy seeing those wankers getting what they deserve for ruining my country

Which is also called Dutch. :)

@@Cl4rendon it's not Dutch is from the netherlands from germany its Deutsch

@@Zeasq Dutch and German are from the same Germanic language spoken in this region just a few hundred years ago

Sounds like niederdeutsch!

@@suevialania it is!

amen

so hold on to your papers

@@GeorgiKrastevMusic Die pappier bitte!

Yeah, he got "iċ" wrong, for instance. But it's okay.

No he didn't but fun none the less. :D I knew Frysk and English are closely related, but only after seeing this do I realised just how closely related they are.

His pronunciation wasn’t so good

Who doesn't love "brewn coo's"?

it did, not the first time ive seen this video either lol

That's basically how I feel when talking to Spanish-speaking (and even Italian-speaking) people, since Portuguese is my mother tongue

Dutch sounds like German, English and Swedish and the speaker is drunk too

True

English is Germanic, it only is so different cause it's an orgy of Germanic, French, Latin, Norse and Greek

Yeah the French fucked up the language in 1066

​@e4iojk most french/Latin/greek words aren't everyday words though. One thing I like to point out is that England is more genetically Britonic, so English initially comes from what was basically like a bunch of Welsh speakers who switched to West Frisian.

well the saxons and angles came from germany so... not that strange

and i who speaks only english understand it pretty well too

Why am I here? I don't know but I watched it.

Scots is just old english mixed with gaelic instead of old english mixed with Norman french

@@jackcocker545 extremely little Gaelic in Scots

@@jackcocker545 Scots is derived from the Northumbrian dialect of Middle English.

Brune koe in Frisian! (oe = 'oo' sound)

@@jackcocker545 it's so not

a lot of young frisians still speak it though, you will be stunned by the amount that still speaks it

Can you tell us some Frisian curses?

Gibt es irgendwelche Apps/Seiten/Sprachkurse wo man Friesisch lernen kann?

@@B1K3PACKR Are you referring to East-Frisian (Germany) or West-Frisian (The Netherlands)?

@@elskewietzes9963 west

Yep, to click on some crap with Eddie Izzard.

Yes now he is a female candidate for parliament they want us to like him.

@@madeinengland1212 oh fuck no... Your comment made me look that guy up. He should've stick to looking for brown cows in the middle of nowhere for the rest of his life, would've been a more meaningful existence.

indeed

I was just looking for advice on square floor tiles vs rectangular ones . . .

I agree

I wonder the same thing since I'm from Chile. I recently traveled to the south of this country near Patagonia and their dialect is very different and characteristic... damn algorithm

If you didn't know, English is based on old German, at least partially. That's why lots of words are very similar: English: water German: wasser Eng: bread Ger: brot Eng: mother Ger: mutter Etc etc.

@@CaptainPuputhat or I’ve noticed words are just older outdated versions of their English counter part Like Dog=Hound= Hund People=Folks=Volks those are just two small examples but it’s neat to see similarities

@@DelGTAGrndrs both of those words are German. Hund means literally dog in German. You don't even need to know German, just common sense to know. Dutschund, the " sausage " dog. Is made out of dutsch = dutch+hund, dog. Folk is volk.

@@CaptainPupu Eh, English and German aren't based on the other, they're both descendants of Proto-Germanic. So they're related and have a common ancestor, and if not for the Norman invasion of 1066, English and German would still be very, very similar.

@@thenathanhaines German has many forms. From middle to high etc. Both English and German, dutch, Frisan etc are in Germanic language family. English is a mix of a lot of stuff, part of that is Anglo Saxon settlers who again spoke a different tongue but still Germanic. Not directly related, but holds lots of similarities and borrowed word. Well, at least it used to. Today's English, especially in america is a bastardized and disrespected form of the language of kings.

Mad respect to your reading skills and love from the Netherlands to Serbia!

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Dude, the algo is still hitting people on Oct. 2nd!

this hitting me on oct 5th, 2022

​@@sabilarasyad6458Oct 4th 2023

This is too accurate… are you in the fbi?

gaht dayum

I did look at it

bruh this is exactly what I'm actually doing rn 💀

He's on tv, to be fair

faszinating and nazinating 😁

@@EvilHamster428 Haha true 🖖

I'm American but have learned German and I was pretty much able to understand the whole conversation without subtitles and you are right to me it sounded like German and English but at the same time under the disguise as trying to be Dutch if that makes any sense

Konntest du dem wunderbaren Dialog von diesen beiden Herrschaften denn etwas entnehmen beziehungsweise verstehen ? :D

@@Runningtaco Geschichten aus dem Paulaner Garten.

I'm okay with that tbh

Frisian is beautiful

Lmfao

weebs be like

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Lolololol what if five year old us saw us now?

Aye.

Yeah just went to ikea😂

for some reason everyone just been recommended this lol

Oh yes, in der tat

Haha, pretty fitting for me as I live in Ost-Friesland

Me too, wtf

not Dutchman Frisian man. Frisians are a people other than the Dutch. Related but Dutch and Frisian are different nations

@@yldrmh3903 my mistake thank you for correction 🤝

​@@yldrmh3903not different nations. They have an official language but are just a province within the Netherlands and have a Dutch passport

No it doesnt. English changed much over time compared to Frisian.

@@berserk9085 That’s not his point. He’s saying the farmer can understand modern English.

@@Valdaur But modern English dont really help to understand Old English. Frisian is much more usefull to understand Old English because it doesnt changed that much compared to Modern English. And that Man is old and that Video is not from today. So its very likely that he couldnt understand English.

​@@berserk9085"no it doesn't"

@@Mr.__Sofi Whats your Point?

Frisian is the closest to the English language in the Germanic languages so they aren’t “vastly” different, but definitely different

@@oraveczkristof1828 "of a now unified language" frisian and english aren't now one language

@@rextheroyalist6389 he never claimed that?

Well I mean, as a catalan I do this with occitans and north italians. I do so too with some spanish speakers, although there the language is further apart so it's harder for them. But when speaking with an occitan, lombard or piedmontese speaker, its just like this

it's about as similar as czech and polish

Me as a Dutchman going to rural Germany (Saksen-Anhalt, Westfalen or Ost-Friesland)😂

Get a look at him now in his pink berret and makeup :) stunning and brave.

Yup, the Friesians fought in their famous yellow armour and the house of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha in their traditional pink attire.

Non-whites should be expelled from Europe.

@@accelerationquanta5816 Holy shit

@@accelerationquanta5816 What!

And so a 1000 years later a member of the house of Saxe Coburg Gotha married a member of the house of Battenburg.

same with icelandic, I can understand some of it without the subtitles

my thought exactly

Gute Morgen aus Amerika, ich bin lerne deutsch. Meine deutsch ist nicht gut aber ist nitch schizen.

Same

Was about to comment the same thing. Im learning German right now and a lot of the dialogue sounded close to modern German. I bet with both German and English one can communicate with a Frisian speaker with minimal barriers

The same happens with Spanish and Portuguese

Well it sorta is, even the ver-stehen is the old way of the calque under-stand

@davidtrak2679 Nope. That would be verstaan

@@human7491 I meant the under- element of understand, which was calqued sometime between then & today from ver-. Stand/stehen/staan are obviously just evolved forms of the same element.

​@@davidtrak2679 There were a few OE verbs for understand. Two were _understandan_ and _forstandan,_ two different words. It was never spelled with a 'v'. But the primary sense of those words was not 'understand', with the modern meaning being only a subsidiary one in OE. The main words for "understand" in OE were "oncnawan", ie. "on know", and "ongietan", ie. "on get", which is where the modern "to get" = "to understand" comes from.

@@godfreypigott The German ver- and English for- are cognates to some extent (forbidden-verboten). So whether it had been for or ver or on, it's irrelevant to the point at hand - the switch between verstandan and understandan. While it's interesting what you're saying, it doesn't change the fact that even if OE had both ver- and under- some predated the other, and it's no coincidence German chose -ver, English under-. On the semantic & usage side I see what you mean.

From a french : it does sound very differently..

Funny that, french isn't germanic.

Uf schwyzer dütsch: brauni Chur. 😂😂😂

@@aenorist2431 Yep, I meant how it sounds, how it "rings" for the ears...

Can hear "Swedish" in there too, especially "brun ko". It's cool to see how our Germanic and Anglo languages are connected.

@@ano_nym English is germanic

ja fr mer verstaht öpe t helfti

Dat kann ned wahr sein. Fr fr thou. Ikr !

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AKKURAT, DET VA DET EG TENKTE

@@esa6321 JAAA

I was just gonna write swedish lol

@@Sam_Guevenne samma här haha. skänsk eller småländska

@@esa6321 tenkte = thought?

Same with german and english

Why did youtube select us to receive this knowledge?

Or AI took over RU-vid 😜

:D

Algorithm wildin

To buy a brown cow it seems

and cows

Frisian is a great language, I've lived my entire life in Frisia and speak the language as well, my dad is a Frisian poet born and raised in Bolsward which is just under 15 minutes from my home. Especially the elderly folk are great to talk to! The older farmers (like the man in the video) however, speak with a very heavy accent which is usually not seen under the general population here.

haha

Based.

@@lucasblanc1295 "based" ? What language do you speak?

@@branthomas1621it’s an internet lingo word

@@branthomas1621 This man liveth in the 16th century

Nooo in Europe its the 26th of April

Yep

yup

Yes

yap lmao

Yeah and we all clicked it🤣🤣

Vikings are the reason the languages are similar in the first place.

@@FatManJackson No. If anything Normans who are descendents of Vikings radically changed the English language bringing it closer to French and Romance languanges detaching it from its Germanic roots. But apart from this Vikings never really interfered with languages of the countries they ruled.

@@rao8559 "Normans who are descendents of Vikings", you wrote this and it still did not click in your brain?

@@FatManJackson First access your brain to figure out the difference between the words "similar" and "different". Check what I wrote again carefully.

@@FatManJackson Viking settlers and Anglo Saxons could communicate somewhat, to what degree is unknown but some believe they were mutually intelligible. It helped those that settled in the Danelaw to assimilate into what was becoming early England. Fun fact, almost every word in the English language beginning with "sk" is derived from Old Norse's influence on the langue eg skull, skirt etc.

Jup hahahaha

Mhm

ALL HAIL THE ALGORITHM

FOR REAL

May the algorithm be with you o7

This has to be a coordinated strike.