Can Germans understand Old English? | Language Challenge | Part 2 | Feat. @simonroper9218
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Published 2022-11-24
In this episode of the Germanic languages comparison series we focus on understanding mostly the spoken language.
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All Comments (21)
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The language of Bahamas | Can English speakers understand it? š¤ ā https://youtu.be/bu0juoLA2H8
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As a french speaker I understand 0% of old english
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Never felt so foreign as an English speaker listening to old English.
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When Germans and Dutch can understand it better than native speakers šš
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As a Dutchman I had trouble with understanding by sound alone but reading it I can translate it correctly up to a 100%.
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For me as a former linguistics student who speaks English, German and Dutch it was so interesting
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This guy has now, for better or worse, become the face of an Old English native in my mind. If I travel back in time, I expect all the people there to look like him.
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Iām English but I also speak a little German. I managed to understand the odd word here and there but always from my knowledge of German not modern English. Iām glad you had a Frisian speaker on your panel, very enlightening, along with the Danish input.
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May I just say, they all acted extremely German in the most delightful way
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Hey Norbert, you should try this with one english speaker, one dutch speaker, one low german speaker and maybe one norwegian speaker. That would be very interesting, cause maybe we could see the steps of changing. Btw you have a great chanel! Very enjoyable to learn about the relationship between these 4 languages. Greetings from Berlin š
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As a speaker of German, English and Wesphalian PlattdĆ¼tsch I really like these challenges.
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German also evolved away from its roots alot which makes this quite hard. Erik here who can speak frisian which hasnt changed as much as german understands old english quite well. But its really fascinating. Im a native german speaker too and i understand a few words in between.
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With Austrian / South German, it is very difficult to get the connections to Old English. But around 20% was understandable. Very interesting.
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7:45 The German cognate you are looking for is Blei, it means lead but it also has an older meaning: i.e. Colour. ā> German word Blei comes from Proto-Indo-European *bŹ°lehā-, Proto-Indo-European - -Ć©yti, and later Proto-Germanic *blÄ«wÄ (Colour, hue. Lead (metal).)
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Wow those remarks by Moritz about the "goose"/"Gans" phenomenon and the fact that sand in Danish means truth and the way he connected all of this to the old English word were amazing.
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Fascinating .. Years ago I worked in Nordrhein Westfalen as a village postman for a few months and there this old guy that could speak Plattdeutsch as a living language and we tested a few sentences both ways from English via Dutch and Frisian to platt deutsch and back again... It was fascinating to see how close the languages were in each step....
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Did I just witness a well-moderated healthy conversation and learning experience online? Wow! Thanks, YouTube automatism; Thanks, Ecolinguist&Co!
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9:50 I realized that "bleo" sounds a lot like "blue" or "blau" which led me to guess "the sky is an unfamiliar shade of blue". I did not realize that the word that we use for "blue" today meant any general color in Old English. Very fun video!
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I studied modern and old Germanic languages a long time ago. Old English wasn't a module offered, so I'm particularly happy when this comes up. Thank you to Simon for sharing his knowledge and interest! On the subject of "soĆ¾lice" possibly being related to Danish "sand" (truthful) - Norwegian and Swedish "sann", I also thought it might be related to English "sooth" as in "sooth-sayer". I looked up the etymology of "sann" in the Swedish etymological dictioary (SAOB: Svenska Akadamiens Ordbok) and it looks like it is : Old Swedish: "sander"; compare with Danish "sand", Norwegian "sann", Old West Norse "sannr, saĆ°r" even English "sooth"; Gothic "sunjis", Sanskrit "satyaįø„" (true, real) and shares a root with Latin "sum" (I am) . [I don't know if I can post a link, so I've just pasted and partially translated the text.]
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Native English speaker from the US. I find Old English fascinating. Studied standard German in school for many years and have a slight passing familiarity with Dutch. I really have to dig into my Germanic languages background to make any sense of Old English. Def not mutually intelligible with modern English. I also learn so much from the comments section!
