Old English Spoken | Can American, Australian, and Non-Native English speaker understand it?

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Have you ever heard Old English spoken? In this video, American, Australian, and Non-Native English speaker from Poland try to understand Old English by ear. 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 4 жыл бұрын

Ich bin ein Muffin. 😌

@altralinguamusica 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Yes, you are.

@Ecolinguist 4 жыл бұрын

😜

@thatmfrandy4150 4 жыл бұрын

You looks like

@polskiszlachcic3648 4 жыл бұрын

Ein Muffin? Dann bin ich ein Kuchen😂

@KasiaB 4 жыл бұрын

Kein Muffin, sondern ein KZfaq-Star :)

@7R1KKY 4 жыл бұрын

This sounds like a Scandinavian who’s fluent in German and tries to speak English for the first time.

@saber2802 4 жыл бұрын

And then throw in the French language and you get English.

@Dark_Plum 4 жыл бұрын

@@saber2802 and some Latin, little bit of others, then blend for thousand of years. Oh, and remember - when you change how words are spoken don't change how they are written. Otherwise spelling will be to trivial ;)

@thirstyboiisgodforever8169 4 жыл бұрын

That especially what it is

@zeytelaloi 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah they shouldve had a Scandinavian too.

@nickisuhl 4 жыл бұрын

Lol that is the best grasp on it I've seen! xD

@TacoTimePablo 4 жыл бұрын

A lot of old English surprisingly sounds like current Dutch.

@rickhemminga601 4 жыл бұрын

I tought the exact same thing

@TNTnor 4 жыл бұрын

Frisian and dutch are the most closley related languages to english. But after 1066 english got a tremendous french makeover

@kcisme144 4 жыл бұрын

@@TNTnor "a tremendous french makeover" is my new favorite way to describe this

@RsStom 4 жыл бұрын

Lol i was gonna say that , i think frisians would uncerstand this

@David-km2ie 4 жыл бұрын

I noticed it too. If you both speak dutch and english you understand old english very well

@rubenspoolder3567 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy how close english, dutch and german are when you listen to this

@lHawkyl 3 жыл бұрын

Germanic languages

@fyiatflyta 3 жыл бұрын

I'm icelandic so I can easily understand a lot unless its distant from old norse

@MrWinotu 3 жыл бұрын

English is created from German, Dutch as well.

@kashonder 3 жыл бұрын

Of course, they are based on one foundation.

@zephyrean8824 3 жыл бұрын

@@fyiatflyta I believe Icelandic evolved from old english and Norse. Also, it is the only language that still uses the letter, "thorn" which looks like a b mixed with a p and makes the th sound

@eckelrock 3 жыл бұрын

"Hit is, hwæt hit is."

@lp2059 2 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA INDEED

@y.stevens4315 2 жыл бұрын

Hit is!

@user-kh6jf5zj6n 2 жыл бұрын

@@y.stevens4315 Hwæt heet ees

@genius6084 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-kh6jf5zj6n Indeed

@Rmnznh. 2 жыл бұрын

it is what it is

@711jastin 4 жыл бұрын

Old Chinese: I'm about to end everyone's career.

@Ecolinguist 4 жыл бұрын

😂

@user-ed8zf5zv5j 4 жыл бұрын

No, just about to prove you're a 40 year-old virgin.

@defencebangladesh4068 4 жыл бұрын

😂

@JayzSpray 4 жыл бұрын

@@user-ed8zf5zv5j stop talking about yourself buddy

@KyleOzz 4 жыл бұрын

@@user-ed8zf5zv5j Whats the link? Your comment just seems random and therefor, not funny.

@Fae_van 4 жыл бұрын

It's like i can almost understand him. It's rather frustrating.

@dizzydaisy909 4 жыл бұрын

It sounds like English with a really thick Irish/German accent.

@Fae_van 4 жыл бұрын

@@dizzydaisy909 yea it does!

@KIR018 4 жыл бұрын

@@dizzydaisy909 i think the german comes from the fact that early england was mainly germanic settlers

@Xmasta420 4 жыл бұрын

This is how I imagine English sounds to people who don't understand it

@jadejaguar69 4 жыл бұрын

Your picture is terrifying

@Jujuoak 3 жыл бұрын

This really just reinforces the fact that English has strong roots from Germanic languages

@Jujuoak 3 жыл бұрын

@Hello hi this is Ahnab true, we do have quite a mix of languages, but English is described as being a West Germanic language with Anglo-Frisian dialects. So Germany, Denmark, Netherlands

@corydorastube 3 жыл бұрын

@@Jujuoak French. Loads of French. From 1066 to the 1500s French was the language of court and along with Latin was used in legal documents up until the 1700s.

@stephencrompton4352 3 жыл бұрын

@@corydorastube It has a lot of French and Latin vocabulary (in fact more so than that of Germanic origin) but the very core of the Language remains Germanic, it's ancestry is Germanic, and the most commonly used words in day to day speech are mostly Germanic.

@stephencrompton4352 3 жыл бұрын

@Sergio Diaz I know, my point was that English is not Romance language simply because the majority of the vocabulary is Romance in Origin. I just glossed over some of the details you mentioned.

@Bob-jm8kl 3 жыл бұрын

What if....William never conquered England. What would English sound like today?

@Andre-ih5ig 3 жыл бұрын

The words sounds like german, but the pronounciation sound SOO norwegian

@wolfofsolace349 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, that pretty much sums up the Anglo-Saxons.

@Kasiarzynka 3 жыл бұрын

Omg YES

@l.3ok 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@bungtempe 3 жыл бұрын

its basically Dutch

@swagrobloxgamer1531 3 жыл бұрын

I think it sounded more icelandic

@plantemor 4 жыл бұрын

I'm Danish and I understood almost everything he said. Sounded like someone took a sledgehammer to the Icelandic language and made it easier for southern Scandinavians to understand

@philomelodia 4 жыл бұрын

Plante Mor Guthorm and Aelfred could converse in their own respective languages and still understand one another.

@fenrirunshackled4319 4 жыл бұрын

Makes sense, it was basically a mix between the Norwegian and Danish of the time. It makes a lot of sense for it to sound like Icelandic+Danish because Icelandic is basically just norwegian from the 10tj century preserved.

@CuDobh 4 жыл бұрын

I am from Sweden and totally agree with you. Sounded like an Icelander speaking "Mainland Scandinavian"-like.. Or maybe a Faeroese person...

@sondersonics7534 4 жыл бұрын

I live in northern Sweden and I understood a lot but it’s also because I can read it at the same time so it’s definitely not just easy for southern Scandinavia to understand. A lot of the pronounciation sounds like far north Swedish accent.

@Olinn2000 4 жыл бұрын

As a native Icelandic speaker I understood everything thing he said and it was really funny hearing them butcher the words

@laavo3754 3 жыл бұрын

Speaking a scandinavian language, english and some german really makes it a lot easier to understand.

@OOoOski 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, knowing a little bit of danish, I guessed first 2 without any problem. Old Norse and old English comparison would be very interesting

@MrStokkich 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Swedish, English and whatever German vocabulary I have left from school made this quite understandable. Of course, I could read the words and they couldn't, but still. Fun concept for a video for sure!

@aggi999 3 жыл бұрын

more like speaking a Nordic language rather than Scandinavian. I don't think knowing Finnish is going to help you a lot here, but being a native Icelandic speaker surely did

@omenoid 3 жыл бұрын

@@aggi999 Knowing Finnish won't help at all, but almost all Finns speak at least a little English and Swedish and many have taken optional German courses in school. So when you know 'djur/Tier' and 'ek/Eiche' it gives you an advantage.

@largol33t1 3 жыл бұрын

It was like that for me too! I know a teensy bit of Swedish and Swiss-German. If I had not, then the words would have been total gibberish to me. However, Swiss-German is a bit strange too because I can understand a German but a German cannot understand me! Ack! I am still annoyed that the Swiss hoodwinked me by not telling me their language is NOT the same German used in Berlin or Frankfurt...

@Zarzar22 3 жыл бұрын

I am half Dutch and half American, and using a combination of both languages, this is pretty much all completely understandable. Pretty nuts how accurately it seems to combine the two

@HypercopeEmia 3 жыл бұрын

@lilzeekys it's probbably the fact that old english ha sthe same roots as germanic languagess

@kokomrade2541 3 жыл бұрын

@@HypercopeEmia yubi

@titaan814 3 жыл бұрын

I have exactly the same. I speak fluent Dutch and English. I understood him with much ease.

@Kasiarzynka 3 жыл бұрын

English and German are my second and third language and I understood almost nothing, lmao.

@willemveenstra2084 3 жыл бұрын

@@titaan814 same here as well! Needed to read to comments to see if there where more people that experienced the same haha! So cool!

@Sp00kq 3 жыл бұрын

It sounds like German, English, some kind of Swedish or Norwegian, and maybe Dutch all mixed together into a language. It's amazing just how different old and modern English is

@Liimeyyy 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know what English is?

@blackmage1276 3 жыл бұрын

I blame french!

@Nuka0420 3 жыл бұрын

Damn William of Normandy

@66hss 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I'm amazed how I could understand this only having knowledge of Scandinavian languages and modern English!

@corydorastube 3 жыл бұрын

@@Nuka0420 A fine chap was Guillaume le Batard. One of my personal heroes.

@jonathanemslander6896 4 жыл бұрын

If you know Dutch and German this isn’t too hard!!

@peterfireflylund 4 жыл бұрын

Danish helps, too.

@samvodopianov9399 4 жыл бұрын

I know! The second one I understood very well - habben is like in German 'Have'. Sounds a bit irish?

@tonyguy231 4 жыл бұрын

The next video idea. :D

@platonshubin 4 жыл бұрын

I learn German and am not a beginner anymore but it did not help me at all. I understood the basic verbs but not the special words.

@paveldronov9944 4 жыл бұрын

@@samvodopianov9399 , nope. Irish is (a) a Celtic language, and (b) it has no word for "to have." Instead, it uses a construction "Tá rud agam", which could be translated as "There is something at me". (В общем, почти как по-русски - "у меня есть").

@headcanon6408 4 жыл бұрын

“Are you an animal?” X Æ A-12: *nervous sweating*

@LazyBastard69 4 жыл бұрын

X Æ A-12: Do i pass the Turing test?

@o.sunsfamily 4 жыл бұрын

Having your name become a joke in the YTbe comment section, the girls named Fanta and Cola feel his pain.

@Xomsabre 4 жыл бұрын

It's Kyle... X = Greek "Chi" (pronounced like the word "key" or the name "Kai") Æ is still used in modern phonetics and is commonly pronounced as "i" A-12 is just saying "Using the alphabet, what is the 12th letter?" to which the answer is "L" The Musks came up with the most ridiculous way to name their son "Kyle"... technically "Key - eye - el"

@RunninUpThatHillh 4 жыл бұрын

Cool; attaching el means "of God" .

@RunninUpThatHillh 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget gematria.😆

@bheinfishwick7032 3 жыл бұрын

It's a pity that I dont have other people within my own life that take interest in meanings and origin's of things, but it sure is a breath of fresh air to see others having more intriguing conversations.

@davidfairclough3664 2 жыл бұрын

Know the place you are coming from

@sahildoshi1670 2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing the internet exists. I go on about this stuff all the time and don't mind that most dont care!

@anonymousntwiggn8911 2 жыл бұрын

At least you have the internet people

@sailenkatel3436 2 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way

@itsshrimpinabag9544 Жыл бұрын

Keep looking, we are out there!

@vKross 3 жыл бұрын

As a German I was actually able to understand about 80%, I can finally feel special

@doratheexplorer185 3 жыл бұрын

same

@mauriciorv228 2 жыл бұрын

bist du eingentlich "special"

@nevergonnagiveyouupnevergo3924 2 жыл бұрын

As an american, I understood about 5%

@PhilippeLarcher Жыл бұрын

I'm french and I got 8 clues out of 9 :p

@purromemes7395 Жыл бұрын

@@nevergonnagiveyouupnevergo3924 I’m American but I understand most😊

@sonofbelz 4 жыл бұрын

Back in school there were a couple of guys who were generally considered "nerds" who spoke to each other in a secret language most of the time. I didn't find out until way later that it was actually just old english and they were huge history nerds.

@user-ed8zf5zv5j 4 жыл бұрын

@@Nhzharuthopar Rumor has it they got killed by partying dwarves drunk on mead.

@dustinthewind3925 4 жыл бұрын

@@user-ed8zf5zv5j No big deal. You may not respawn with your equipment, but you keep the skills.

@baronthebeaver8586 4 жыл бұрын

History nerds are the coolest nerds

@rotwart 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, whatever. Liar.

@andyc6542 4 жыл бұрын

Find it hard to believe to be fair, but whatever gets you those likes I guess.

@Cemike 4 жыл бұрын

Old english sounds more Frisian,German and nordic than the "new" english

@akcjaxd7863 4 жыл бұрын

Modern English is a germanic language heavily influenced by French thats why it sound so different, more melodic than other germanic languages.

@Cemike 4 жыл бұрын

@@akcjaxd7863 yeah you're right

@BFKAnthony817 4 жыл бұрын

Well, the Anglo-Saxons did come over from that area of Europe when they settled England. So it absolutely should. In fact one of the easiest languages for us native English speakers to learn is the Scandinavian ones, specifically Swedish, Norwegian and Danish since our ancestors actually did come from close to Denmark. Then a few hundred years after that, we got invaded by our cousins the Vikings who incorporated more Scandinavian vocabulary in our language.

@AtlantaBill 4 жыл бұрын

"Bûter, brea en griene tsiis, wa't dat net sizze kin is gjin oprjochte Fries". Butter, bread and green cheese, who can't say that isn't a proper Frisian.

@iopqu 4 жыл бұрын

@@BFKAnthony817 No, the easiest language to learn is French, because of all the cognates. I've never studied French and I can read some of it. It's completely not understandable when spoken, but the spelling tells you what word it is

@Jelisawesome 2 жыл бұрын

The old English word "fugol" sounded almost exactly the same as the Frisian word for bird: "fûgel" and it is similar to the Dutch word for bird: "vogel".

@lp2059 2 жыл бұрын

Here in German it's also literally "Vogel"

@martinm6027 2 жыл бұрын

Frisian is the closest living language to English, and is much closer to Old English than modern English, which has been heavily modified by Danish/Norse, French and Latin.

@jeanvaljean7266 2 жыл бұрын

@@martinm6027 Perhaps Low German from Lower Saxony and Northeastern Netherlands is even closer to Old English than Frisian

@element4element4 2 жыл бұрын

In Danish: fugl

@thaolinthaolinsson7748 2 жыл бұрын

and in swedish it is: Fågel :D just goes to show how connected english is with germanic and northern languages

@jayw8726 3 жыл бұрын

Guys, this is why even if time travelling would be possible we wouldn’t be able to communicate with historical figures. 😅

@Lukas-hi1ho 3 жыл бұрын

Well, that guy could 😳

@gunnarsvensson7165 3 жыл бұрын

Well we managed to communicate with many different tribes and people without speaking their languages

@Clayt910 3 жыл бұрын

If we have time travel we’ll have to have some type of technology that could easily translate languages, unless it’s some lost or unknown language

@jayw8726 3 жыл бұрын

@@Lukas-hi1ho Lol...yeah we would need him as the travel guide.

@jayw8726 3 жыл бұрын

@@gunnarsvensson7165 Please check how many important historical figures were fluent in Latin.

@4ultra 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine how cool it would be if historic movies actually used the languages spoken at that time?

@rinkorinko9969 4 жыл бұрын

Closed caption writers: It’s free real estate

@bravo320zf 3 жыл бұрын

Reading this comment kinda reminds me of watching the Passion of Christ. lol

@Shitbird3249 3 жыл бұрын

We already have the Mandela speech Sign language guy.

@Arisenbezzle 3 жыл бұрын

The Witch (2015) was apparently written using documents from the time (its set in north america in the 1600s) and its Robert Eggers first film (guy who made The Lighthouse). great movie :)

@PinHeadSupliciumwtf 3 жыл бұрын

That's what I like about inglorious basterds I'd love if every film did that There's an interesting one in the language of the Basque region called errementari

@MrPianoMan 4 жыл бұрын

"They can't see the captions" Like that's gonna help them! 😂

@MD-mk3lh 4 жыл бұрын

Well it actually does help, since the pronunciation is often times more messed up than the spelling. But maybe it's just because they look like germanic words. (I am a German)

@cherahsBroll 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂 Listening was easier than looking at the subtitles.

@eshafto 4 жыл бұрын

Helped me an awful lot. I wish I had watched it first without them, to see if I would have done as well. I suspect I would have done worse than the panelists if I couldn't see them. Also, please do one of these per day forever. I'm loving this!

@EliteTeamKiller2.0 4 жыл бұрын

It does help. That''s why I'm trying not to read as I play along. In fact, it helps quite a bit.

@Vaderi300 4 жыл бұрын

you can actually figure out or make guesses about what a word means by seeing how it is spelled, especially since audio clues can be misleading.

@Variner 2 жыл бұрын

12:15 interestingly enough, the German „Tier“ has another, narrowed meaning in the German hunter‘s jargon: the female red deer. So this becomes full circle.

@Labroidas 3 жыл бұрын

Dude there are German dialects that I understand less than Old English, it's fascinating

@silverdiamond2098 4 жыл бұрын

In old English you can really hear that English is an Germanic language. Some words and grammar really reminds me of the German language or other Germanic languages

@michable100 4 жыл бұрын

Old english was pure germanic. Modern is just a weird hybrid language.

@josephscott1870 4 жыл бұрын

As an english speaker who also speaks dutch i can really hear the dutch in this too

@Nipponing 4 жыл бұрын

And norse.

@cestakou357 4 жыл бұрын

@Re Up You're contradicting yourself in the very same sentence. I doubt you know the meaning of the word "etymology". It literally means the "study of the true meaning" and it is the part of linguistics concerned with the origin of words. English is a Germanic language, no matter how many words it takes in. Most function words and common words are still Germanic, some existing alongside well-established loanwords like Germanic "buy" and Romance "purchase", the latter being fancier. The clusterfuck you mention has nothing to do with foreign loanwords. Actually, it's the Germanic words that more inconsistent, such as "meat"/"meet", "knight"/"night", which used to be pronounced differently. The real reason is the conservative nature of English orthography, a lack of adjusting the spelling once in a while.

@TitanOfDarkness25 4 жыл бұрын

Ond and und for example

@mikkizmakeetas6529 3 жыл бұрын

As a Swede I am content with the fact that if I for some reason travelled back in time where people spoke old english I would probably understand most of it.

@Franckdatank 3 жыл бұрын

Not if they spoke while having only 12 teeth in their mouths (half joke)

@Cloiss_ 3 жыл бұрын

I think the best part of this video was the ending where they all discussed the etymology of the words "deer" and "animal," it was so cool to see them making all of these connections between the different languages

@sfinnable 4 жыл бұрын

Australian guy: Deer aren't really common animals in everyday life BC, Canada: what u talking about

@holyjoeli 4 жыл бұрын

I’m from the US and probably see a deer everyday

@vishmonster 4 жыл бұрын

To be fair any deer in Oz is probably getting kicked to death by an Emu.

@shanemorrison7867 4 жыл бұрын

To be fair,deer are an introduced pest species here, and seing as they are classified as such if you are so inclined may hunt them at any time of the year.

@LuisCaneSec 4 жыл бұрын

@@holyjoeli I'm from Michigan and annual deer collisions factor into our insurance rates.

@ennagaeas4311 4 жыл бұрын

@@vishmonster our local pub has a couple of emus and just got a baby deer. I'll keep you posted.

@_b_e_a_n_s_ 4 жыл бұрын

when he moves from old English to regular English my brain has a stroke

@PhilipJReed-db3zc 4 жыл бұрын

It threw me too. Apparently my subconscious had concluded that he was brought up in an Old English family and thus was a native speaker.

@feliz5919 3 жыл бұрын

@@PhilipJReed-db3zc he actually is a native Old English speaker from what I heard lol

@anneliesS04 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Dutch; I also speak German and English. Fascinating how much of the old English I can understand! The common roots of these languages really become more clear to me because of this video. I like it!

@dazedledzep3891 3 жыл бұрын

As a person who speaks german and English it helped quite a lot. If I could speak norse I'd have the ultimate advantage

@cecilyerker 4 жыл бұрын

This was just a nice wholesome video of dudes politely discussing language.

@chenzenzo 3 жыл бұрын

This is my jam!

@jebatman756 3 жыл бұрын

Ms. Obvious strikes again

@VCRider 3 жыл бұрын

@@jebatman756 mr. Obvious needlessly responded again months later

@feliz5919 3 жыл бұрын

@@VCRider lmao fr

@feliz5919 3 жыл бұрын

@@jebatman756 Mr. obvious doesn’t get a obvious joke when he sees one.

@sarahhardy8649 4 жыл бұрын

It’s strange that if I close my eyes, I seem to understand it better. I was taught that the animals are named in English, because it was the servants who farmed them. But the meat is named in french, because the rich Norman’s were the ones who got to eat it. So pig and cow are in English but pork and beef come from the french.

@lilydrimm6626 4 жыл бұрын

Omg that's....true x) Now that i look into it (as a french/english person) haha

@Vaderi300 4 жыл бұрын

yup. The English language is fascinating like that. The Norman conquest made language a class divide, which sticks with us to this day. Not many wars can make the claim they hit so hard the language felt it.

@2GoatsInATrenchCoat 4 жыл бұрын

An English teacher once taught me that many English words have one common synonym from French and one from German, and that the synonym that we perceive as being fancier is often the one that came from French (and vice versa). For example, "smart" came from German and "intelligent" came from French. We tend to use more German words conversationally and more French ones professionally/academically because we still have those arbitrary class associations with the words.

@michaelgrabner8977 4 жыл бұрын

also "venison" for meat from deer, or "mutton" for meat from sheep and "veal" for meat from calf After the slaughter the ruling Normans got/ate the meat and the old english peasants who were their servants were just allowed to get/eat the innings and the meat debries scratched from the bones those debries were usually then filled in emptied bowels in order to become sausages..also the blood was caught and processed further in order to become blood sausages...and the bones were cooked in order to become soup..simply the whole animal was processed

@oliviapatricia5573 4 жыл бұрын

Same here. I covered up the subtitles and could understand better. The second word and clues were the easiest to understand.

@MissPipistrella 2 жыл бұрын

I really love this! Finally men who do not talk about football all the time :-)I think Old English is easier to understand for German speakers than for modern English speakers. Languages are so fascinating! Norbert, you are doing a great job bringing people and cultures together. Dziękuję i pozdrawiam!

@OrangeDied 7 ай бұрын

you really need to talk to more people

@alfonsstekebrugge8049 2 жыл бұрын

If you're Dutch and your English is good enough this is no issue at all. Sounds like English with Dutch syntax and just some Dutch words thrown in for good measure. Got all three words without even trying. Furthermore the whole intro was just like 99% understandable to me without any mental effort.

@beebee2783 4 жыл бұрын

This is so weird.. Hearing a language that is so similar to your own yet so far removed is painful..

@ZecaPinto1 3 жыл бұрын

No french fries

@sprachschlampe353 3 жыл бұрын

I've had that experience visiting Louisiana and not being able to understand the locals speaking English. Interestingly, though, after a while your brain figures it out and you start understanding. After listening to this video, I feel like with a bit of exposure, that would happen with OE, too.

@ZecaPinto1 3 жыл бұрын

@@sprachschlampe353 quite normal. In Louisiana the main dialect after english is a french dialect

@sprachschlampe353 3 жыл бұрын

@@ZecaPinto1 One particular conversation I remember was in English. I was embarrassed that I had to ask the young gentleman twice to repeat it before my brain would parse what he was asking. I wish I had had the opportunity to hear the French there, too, but unfortunately I did not. I understand and speak (European) French pretty well. From what I've heard on KZfaq of Louisiana French, I can understand most of it with a little hiccup here and there.

@exquaze3785 3 жыл бұрын

I speak polish and this is the same way I feel about some other slavic languages

@shellgecko 4 жыл бұрын

I hope to see something similar with romance languages speakers, can they understand Latin?

@user-mb4ux7xv4j 4 жыл бұрын

I think Metatron can speak a bit of Latin? He certainly knows how to pronounce it correctly

@Kalifornya040605 4 жыл бұрын

That would be amazing, I'm studying latin... but now I don’t feel that confident to have a conversation. But I think I could prepare sentences and words like this guy did...

@amjan 4 жыл бұрын

My half Italian half Polish friend understood Latin pretty well. Italian words and grammar similar to modern Polish.

@Kalifornya040605 4 жыл бұрын

J M yes, classical latin had declesion cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, vocative and ablative. Romanian still has four cases, but the other romance languages lost them. Still, you can see the heritage of declesions in some characteristics of romance languages...

@lissandrafreljord7913 4 жыл бұрын

As a Spanish speaker, I will tell you that classical Latin is very hard. Without prior knowledge of its grammar and even certain vocabulary, you will not understand. The Romance languages evolved from Vulgar Latin. I think Romanian will have an advantage when it comes to grammar and syntax, and Italian when it comes to vocabulary. But if you have a Sardinian speaker, then the Sardinian should beat all.

@klrp3248 3 жыл бұрын

"deer are not a common animal" Clearly, you do not live in Michigan.

@lucydean4028 3 жыл бұрын

Or many other places in the U.S. The deer in my hometown were so docile they let us pet them.

@Tirryna 3 жыл бұрын

Deer is probably one of the MOST common animal....we friggen have deer here All over Arizona....including the Sonoran Desert. White-tailed deer is SC state animal. Deer are the animal that kill the most humans in the USA (via car accidents).

@nordvestgaming1238 3 жыл бұрын

I live in a decently big city, and there is still deer just vibing everywhere, granted not in the downtown area, but all over the place just outside it

@BrokieTheJokie 3 жыл бұрын

Bruh even in Atlanta there's a lot of deer

@fourthaeon9418 3 жыл бұрын

virginia also

@catsara9114 2 жыл бұрын

As a German, who also knows a good deal of Lower German, this was amazingly well to understand!

@AlexBeerForEveryone 4 жыл бұрын

As a German-speaking person, I can understand almost everything 😏 Ofc I speak English as well so that helped.

@amsterdamG2G 4 жыл бұрын

Same for me as Dutch speaking

@mrx-jz8us 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah knowing German and English really helps a lot with understanding it.

@emreertan2295 3 жыл бұрын

Oud engels lijkt sprekend op het nederlands en duits

@SrChatty 3 жыл бұрын

I'm Swedish, and same here. A lot of words are very similar. Länge leve de germanska folken! ❤️🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇩🇪🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸🇨🇦

@vince371vc 3 жыл бұрын

Ey krass oder? Richtig cool

@floyddog2283 4 жыл бұрын

So the Polish dude’s first language isn’t English, and he’s trying to understand a version of English that the vast majority of English speakers don’t understand

@Anna-ug8cq 4 жыл бұрын

But a lot of people are saying this sounds more like a Dutch, German or a Scandinavian language (which makes sense.) Polish is closer to those than Australian or American modern english?

@notayoutuber3518 4 жыл бұрын

People who learn a language often understand aspects of the language better than native speakers who may not have studied their own language in-depth.

@Sephaos 4 жыл бұрын

@@Anna-ug8cq American English is spoken with the natural accent. Britain adopted theirs during the industrial revolution.

@Anna-ug8cq 4 жыл бұрын

Abel Sephaos Really? I’m from northern ireland and we speak english but we pronounce a lot our words closer to how Americans do than the english. There’s so many accents in Britain that I doubt they all came about at the same time

@jqxok 4 жыл бұрын

I think this is easiest if you speak a Germanic language. I am Swedish, and got all three and could understand pretty much everything he said.

@thomasalberto613 2 жыл бұрын

As a Portuguese speaker, old English is a lot harder without the words from Latin and French lol

@kylekauz4384 3 жыл бұрын

I love how the linguist come out of each of these men as the contest went on. This is fascinating!

@truthoverfalsehood__8757 4 жыл бұрын

Old english is basically german I understood almost everything.

@itsamario 4 жыл бұрын

Old English is basically German, I understood almost nothing

@justinfrancis4621 4 жыл бұрын

@@itsamario Lol

@J0J0McM0M0 4 жыл бұрын

laber keinen scheiß

@GrimYak 4 жыл бұрын

close, yes. but yeah English is part of the Germanic language family.

@711jastin 4 жыл бұрын

@@GrimYak Anglo-Saxon to be precise.

@ilijamitrevski1210 4 жыл бұрын

There should've been a German dude in the listeners; it would've made things a little bit more interesting hahahah

@TypicalRussianGuy 4 жыл бұрын

I honestly doubt German would've been helpful. Sure, it would've helped to understand some of the words, but the KEY words, the words one needs to understand what he was saying, are way too different in modern German. My knowledge of German is way better than my knowledge of Swedish or Norwegian, and yet it were Swedish and Norwegian that helped me guess, while my German only helped me with the auxiliary words like ''haben'', not much more.

@hoathanatos6179 4 жыл бұрын

I speak a dialect of Low German and I could understand most of the words.

@ilijamitrevski1210 4 жыл бұрын

@@hoathanatos6179 that's really cool. I've been learning standard German for a few years and Low German seems like the coolest German. Hopefully they'll be a Friesian or Low German speaker in part two.

@hoathanatos6179 4 жыл бұрын

The key words I understood from English or Norwegian, which I have also studied. Like grinde toth from grinding tooth (Baktän [cheektooth] in my language), æcernu from acorn rather than Ieekjenät [Oaknuts], great treow I could understand Groot in my language but treow from English tree or Norwegian Tre (Boom is tree for me). Muþ is like half way between the English mouth and Mül in my language, which means mouth, so that was easy to understand; alive would be läwendich for me but from Scandinavian origins I could understand it as alive [i live], and the same with dead being daud in some dialects of Norwegian [Doot for me]. Sciella sounds like the word for balancing scales rather than those of fish and reptiles in my language so I got it from there, and deor would be Dia so that was easy. Pronouns, verbs and preposition were super easy to understand and it was like listening to someone speaking another dialect of Low German. Just the nouns trip you up a bit and you have to think about them.

@hoathanatos6179 4 жыл бұрын

@@ilijamitrevski1210 My dialect is from Prussia as well, which became parts of Russia and Poland so we have many Slavic loan words, like Gruschkje is Pear, Tschinikj is Garlic, Tschemodaun is suitcase, Blott is mud, Bockelzhonn is eggplant, Prekauzhnikj is a manager or clerk, the adjective atelje is from отдельный, Laufkje is a shop related to Russian лавка, etc... There are a lot of loan words from Slavic languages.

@aysseralwan 3 жыл бұрын

Old english sounds a lot like some weird pronounced german

@thekingshussar1808 3 жыл бұрын

More like Dutch

@aysseralwan 3 жыл бұрын

@@thekingshussar1808 that's also just weird pronounced german with some english 😂

@aysseralwan 3 жыл бұрын

@L C yes indeed

@nylesfinchester1837 3 жыл бұрын

@@thekingshussar1808 Dutch is basically weirdly pronounced German

@zebragreif2612 3 жыл бұрын

The English language derived from German and French.

@Gertol31 3 жыл бұрын

When he spoke in whole sentences at the beginning it sounded like my dutch uncle speaking german with a heavy accent.

@alanfraser7666 3 жыл бұрын

Deer still meant "animal" right into Early Modern English. Even Shakespeare uses it as such in King Lear. "But mice and rats and such small deer ..."

@diouranke 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it might be animal it's dyr in norwegian

@magiv4205 3 жыл бұрын

"Tier" in German

@jerry2357 3 жыл бұрын

@18mac That explains something from when I was at a hotel restaurant in Arnhem twenty-odd years ago. The menu was available in English, but the weekly specials were only listed in Dutch. The waiter tried to explain what they were, and one was a dish made from “a kind of small deer”, which I later discovered to be hare. I always wondered how a hare could be a type of deer.

@scottyj6226 3 жыл бұрын

I think this could explain the jackalope For those who dont know a jackalope is made up animal, a rabbit with antlers from a deer. Sometimes taxidermists make them.

@CountArtha 3 жыл бұрын

The German cognate is Tier, as in "Tiergarten"

@nerysghemor5781 4 жыл бұрын

I didn’t realize “deer” was related to German “Tier”!

@nbell63 4 жыл бұрын

and modern Deutsch/German for bird is spelt 'Vogel' but pronounced 'foe-gul' whereas we see the Old English for bird is 'fugol'... nice historical echoes.

@chgeri2232 4 жыл бұрын

I picked up on that when learning Dutch, where "animal" is "dier"

@Anna-ug8cq 4 жыл бұрын

Nigel Bell Yeahh, it’s so cool

@teethirtyfour7394 4 жыл бұрын

Well when you break it down, English is pretty much just German, but with a few French and Latin words, and it’s evolved a bit over time

@SternLX 4 жыл бұрын

@@nbell63 Also note how close fugol is to Flug(flight). I have to wonder if fugol is also a root for Falter(Moth) even though it's an insect and not an Animal.

@ptderu7349 2 жыл бұрын

As a native German and pretty much fluent in English, it feels natural and easy to understand.

@ennuiarduous6446 3 жыл бұрын

The best episode so far. I'd love to see more episodes like this, with deciphering the text.

@itzdavid7714 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine spending years learning a language no one else speaks

@tomm.catt.9911 4 жыл бұрын

Well from what I can gather in the comments about other languages, Scandinavian and Germanic languages can understand him fine

@cambs0181 4 жыл бұрын

Think it's about exploring the origins and connections of language.

@barbaradyson6951 4 жыл бұрын

@@Johnny_Is_Dead you forgot Cornish.

@kirstygunn4523 4 жыл бұрын

The only reason Welsh isnt spoken very much is because the English beat it out of them when they invaded the country and took over . Kind of the same thing they did with Scotland and the Gaelic language. They didn't die out they were murdered .

@whetherman3016 4 жыл бұрын

@@kirstygunn4523 Yeah no, in 1066 the English were conquered by the Normans who then enslaved the population and forced them into building Motte-and-bailey castles from which the population could be controlled, the English lords and royalty were killed or fled, and were replaced by French Normans (our royalty fled to Scotland and married into Scottish royalty), we attempted to rebel and the Normans burnt the North to the ground with scorched earth tactics and there was mass starvation, this was called the "harrying of the north", thousands of people died. The English tried to rebel for like a hundred years, this is the period in which the French Normans conquered Wales and incorporated it into England. At this point the English and Welsh were ruled by French noblemen who spoke French, married French people and lived in France, the famous "English" king Richard the Lionheart spent a grand total of 6 months odd living in England during his reign and couldn't speak English. It wasn't until the French noblemen were dispossessed of their French lands that they started to integrate. Where the Scottish are concerned... We took on their King!! (as mentioned before, the Scottish line had links to the original English line through marriage). From that stage England and Scotland were ruled by the same royalty, but had separate parliaments, much later the Scottish parliament voted to join with the English parliament after some disastrous decisions bankrupted Scotland.

@unidalmann1025 4 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly enough as an Icelander I can easily understand this since I’m quite fluent in English and Icelandic, the use of æ and þ is natural to me along with some words resembling Icelandic

@brettfafata3017 4 жыл бұрын

How easily can you understand it? Is it a struggle?

@annonimooseq1246 4 жыл бұрын

Brett Fafata if I had to guess I feel like it would be like trying to understand Scottish tweets as a non-scot in terms of understanding

@Olinn2000 4 жыл бұрын

Uni Dalmann no way I’m also Icelandic! Mér fannst þetta mjög fyndið vídeó lol

@jahjoeka 4 жыл бұрын

Ur last name is almost my first name lol

@EliteTeamKiller2.0 4 жыл бұрын

When you listen, þ just sounds like a th in modern English, so I don't see how being familiar with the character would help (unless you're reading... CHEATER! ;) ). But the vowels and general flow is probably much easier for you than people who don't speak Icelandic and similar languages.

@tazepat001 2 жыл бұрын

"Beorcon." And my alcoholic brain thought "Thats definitely beer can."

@pigeonarmstrong 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate this channel!

@lf8262 4 жыл бұрын

As a Swedish speaker with a slight grasp of German, I understood about 95% of what Simon said. Let us have Simon back!

@MrNicopa 4 жыл бұрын

Simon has his own Old English channel.

@MrNicopa 4 жыл бұрын

Simon Roper

@Facerip 4 жыл бұрын

Same here! Understood a lot

@cheetahjammerplaysaj591 4 жыл бұрын

I been learning Danish and Swedish for 3 years and learned Icelandic a bit, I can only understand like 85%

@69luca_33 3 жыл бұрын

The old English word for speak (sprecan) is pretty similar to the german word sprechen (speak)

@LLiivveeeevviiLL 3 жыл бұрын

A bit older Swedish: "språka"

@anniek4681 3 жыл бұрын

And the dutch word spreken

@jonomoth2581 3 жыл бұрын

The majority of English, German, Dutch and other European languages all come from a common ancestor. Of course a lot of other vocab has been added (especially in English) and a lot has been changed but many of the basic words are the still very similar: (English, German, Dutch) I, ich, ik. Have, haben, hebben. Hello, hallo, hallo. Father, Vater, Vader.

@anniek4681 3 жыл бұрын

@@jonomoth2581 Water, wasser, water. School, Shule School😁

@LLiivveeeevviiLL 3 жыл бұрын

@@jonomoth2581 Jag (medevial: iag), Har, Hallå, Fader (Swe)

@DINKY77142 2 жыл бұрын

I love this, what a great, fun time. Nice. Please more like this!

@kvonribbenburg Жыл бұрын

I'm Dutch and when I heard the first few sentences in Old English it reminded me of when I first heard Afrikaans.

@jpslb418 4 жыл бұрын

I've heard people speaking Old English before, but it was so cool to see it in a conversational context! Awesome video!

@Ecolinguist 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😃

@ThomasSchuuring 4 жыл бұрын

If you speak dutch or german you can understand like 80% of this

@marypetrie930 3 жыл бұрын

Take the word "like" out of that sentence.

@imperator7896 3 жыл бұрын

Diggah das war so einfach

@LauraFreisberg Жыл бұрын

I just stumbled upon this videos and immediately fell in love with old english and its handsome speaker. ;) As a german speaker it opened so many doors in my mind. Thank you!

@Lichfeldian--Suttonian 3 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating. Many thanks!

@Alexander_Fuscinianus 4 жыл бұрын

I hope to something like this with slavic languages. For example, could Russian, Slovenian and Bulgarian speakers understand Old Church Slavonic

@zrinkakovacevic5492 4 жыл бұрын

Александр Черных they might be able to guess, especially if they have the knowledge of more than one slavic language.

@samvodopianov9399 4 жыл бұрын

It is much easier for a Pole to understand a Russian than for an Englishman to understand a Swede

@irynaestrella5015 4 жыл бұрын

Болгары поймут лучше всех церковнославянский

@milosbulatovic2578 4 жыл бұрын

Постоји меджуславјански/међусловенски језик који је још у развоју који је изведен из старо црквенословенског. Норберт је урадио 2 видеа са меджуславјанским, па видите и разумећете минимум 90% што на видео снимку причају, забавани снимци.

@AlexxHO 4 жыл бұрын

There were already some.

@AlvisePeltreraLeoneProductions 4 жыл бұрын

Old English is way easier to understand if you are norvegian, danish, swedish and so on. It's 80% related, especially the gramma, with that part of germanic languages. For obv historical reasons :)

@Pidalin 4 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine learning this old English, even normal TH sound is crazy for non English people and this old English have that sound everywhere and much harder to pronounce. But at least they have normal R, today silent English R is also nightmare for us.

@gunnara.7860 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, for example, the word "dēor" seems to be used in the same way as Swedish "djur".

@blckroseimmortal 4 жыл бұрын

I'm studying Danish and it definitely helped a lot. I understood like 70-80% of it.

@aleksandraleksandrov4740 4 жыл бұрын

@@Pidalin This Czech letter "ř' is also a nightmare for learners. Every language has its own difficulties.

@caim3465 4 жыл бұрын

Related with English grandma?

@tarynhathaway4269 2 жыл бұрын

This was amazing!

@lannifincoris6482 3 жыл бұрын

In German the word for bird is "Vogel" so it is very near to "fugol".. that's really amazing how close the languages has been once....

@paulah.l. 4 жыл бұрын

As someone who has studied Swedish, German and English at school in addition to my non-Germanic mother tongue, Old English is weirdly easy to understand.

@Sophia-ql4md 3 жыл бұрын

I studied the same set of languages, and can confirm it was strangely easy

@daidiary4748 3 жыл бұрын

Is that not because Old English is actually Old German language?

@Sophia-ql4md 3 жыл бұрын

Dai Diary it is because Scandinavian languages, German, Old English and modern English are all in the Germanic language family. Still, it was surprising to see that Old English is more similar to Swedish/Norwegian than it is to modern English

@floatingsara 3 жыл бұрын

I guess Swedish is the key, I speak English and German and I am as out of track as the guys in the video.

@Ari33sa 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I feel the same with just german and english, though i have some difficulty... Weirdly enough though, in between I didn't know where I pulled my associations from. Like, which language a word reminded me of. When they said 'beorcan' for example I immediately understood what it meant, but I somehow thought, I pulled the meaning from german 'birke' (which I assume might share a common word root) but in any way Birke of course is 'birch' not 'bark'... So I immediately knew that 'beorcan' has to be 'bark', but because I thought that association came from 'birke' I was half convinced for a hot minute, hat 'Birke' also means 'bark' before I remembered it's actual meaning.... if this makes any sense.

@snopure 4 жыл бұрын

"Animal" is indeed Latin, referring to things that move, like in "animated."

@quentinbobin2549 4 жыл бұрын

In deed, in modern italian, Anima means Soul, and Animale means Animal

@hoathanatos6179 4 жыл бұрын

Well Anima in Latin meant soul, heart, mind, passion, emotions, etc... and its male equivalent animus meant rationality, sensibility, consciousness. The French âme (anme in Old French) also means soul and the Romanian inimă means heart.

@yoshikagekira5747 4 жыл бұрын

so paralyzed people who can't move aren't animals?

@IggyWhite 4 жыл бұрын

Only if they fall off their wheelchairs.

@valenesco45 4 жыл бұрын

Yea, English also has many words from latin, because of the roman domination...and got the latin alphabet aswell

@palco22 3 жыл бұрын

There's no end to this subject, you can dive into it at a very young age and 80 and 90 years later, you are still digging up new information ! We are so intrigued by our past ! Great video, thanks.

@kaizerdestiny2947 3 жыл бұрын

This is definitely not something I should have in my feed...... So why is this content so addictive! I love this.

@s.g.3042 4 жыл бұрын

Being half german, half swedish, I understand him 100%

@dieenttauschung4124 4 жыл бұрын

Of you're Dutch you can also understand all of it, it's almost the exact same, even the pronunciation

@ihavenoidea2736 4 жыл бұрын

Being half Hungarian, and half Hungarian, understood all of those things

@greham 4 жыл бұрын

"Et dyr" in Norwegian, or "ein Tier" in German, still mean "an animal".

@krimhildpl6688 4 жыл бұрын

"Djur" in Swedish as well. :)

@hrivefiryasessrumnir8451 4 жыл бұрын

"Een dier" in Dutch

@catalina6 4 жыл бұрын

@Table-Country pinxing THRYM Firearms 27 ;)

@NICEFINENEWROBOT 4 жыл бұрын

@Table-Country pinxing THRYM Firearms 27 Do deer in SD have only one food? So they have less feed than a chicken?

@littlesnowflakepunk855 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely adore the way you can kind of tell where "old-timey" sentence structure comes from - a good amount of this is preserved in appalachian english, interestingly enough. just in his introductory few sentences, we have "here we have [introduces guests]," which would in most modern dialects be something like "i'm here with [guests]" "and today, speak we/i in old english" the hints of this structure can be seen, i think, in old people in Westerns adding "says I," to the end of their sentences.

@McMxxCiV 2 жыл бұрын

If you ever do this again, call me. West-Flemish, my native dialect of Dutch, is very close to Old English at times. At university we read Beowulf, and parts of it read like I was hearing my grandparents speaking.

@stever6603 4 жыл бұрын

Even as an English native you can really hear the Germanic influence in the words there spreacan/sprechen, habban/haben, deor/tier etc

@ymmv99 4 жыл бұрын

It's clearer in Dutch (because like in English we didn't have the High German consonant shift) : spreacan/spreken, habban/hebben, deor/dier

@alekshukhevych2644 4 жыл бұрын

Well, Anglo-Saxons were Germanc!!

@Hurlebatte 4 жыл бұрын

Influence isn't the right word. If something is Germanic then you don't say it's like Germanic because of influence. You say it's like Germanic because it is Germanic.

@IluvinortheIneffable 4 жыл бұрын

@@Hurlebatte But they left the area and became isolated and got more influence form other languages before making their own. It isnt a solely Germanic language. It is Norse and Celts influenced as well.

@newingvaeona8907 4 жыл бұрын

Candler318 Norse IS a Germanic language. Germanic isn’t synonymous with Germany itself.

@frankrault3190 4 жыл бұрын

In modern Dutch "deer" (written like "dier") still is an animal, whatever the species.

@hieratics 4 жыл бұрын

And if I am not mistaken, "dear" in English has the same origin of the Dutch "duur", that means something expensive rather than something endearing

@gwhats 4 жыл бұрын

In German the d becomes a T

@frankrault3190 4 жыл бұрын

@@hieratics Yep, that's correct! It also is related to Dutch: "dier"-baar, which means dear, like precious. ("I hold you dear" = I hold you "expensive") It's funny to see how the world of money and the world of love are intertwined, in terms of language

@frankrault3190 4 жыл бұрын

@@AndersGehtsdochauch Next to "teuer", There probably exists a German variation which can be pronounced like "Dear" (oder Deutch-phonetisch: dier). It gets visible in Yiddish: "Diregeldt" (German: "Miete", English: "rent") I'm saying because Yiddish as a language is so very close to German and also derived from German..

@Terrus_38 4 жыл бұрын

The same with German "Tier".

@vastaria1830 Жыл бұрын

Enjoying these sessions!

@mmneander1316 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice chemistry between the participants.

@RetroSmoo 4 жыл бұрын

They should use this language whenever they make historical movies to make them more believable

@TomorrowWeLive 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. All historical movies should be in the language of the time, with subtitles, to make them more immersive.

@dylanflynn1895 4 жыл бұрын

Except for the fact that subtitles ruin immersion. More specifically they interfere with vera-similitude which is quintessential immersion

@reliposkar6963 4 жыл бұрын

Yes instead of using British accents hahah

@user-zv6dv3rx3d 4 жыл бұрын

As much as I like the idea I find subtitles to be the opposite, I find myself reading them instead of getting fully immersed in the movie.

@gogoprofit 4 жыл бұрын

Lazy Americans don't like anything that's not English so that wouldn't work

@antoinebeauman6645 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know the English word 'Deer' originated from the old English word for animal. In Dutch 'Dier' is still the word for all animals. 'Vogel' is the Dutch word for bird.

@letozabalmaty 3 жыл бұрын

Fogol-Fowl

@antoinebeauman6645 3 жыл бұрын

@Steef S die Afrikanen moeten altijd weer iets aparts doen :) !

@homoerot03 3 жыл бұрын

yea, same in german, deór -> tior -> Tier

@greengreen110 3 жыл бұрын

they also called all fruit apples witch is how the pineapple got it's name

@antoinebeauman6645 3 жыл бұрын

@Steef S Yes it could be, ik ben nog niet op de Antillen geweest maar ze hebben in ieder geval een ander accent !

@derbdep 8 ай бұрын

i loved the chemistry between you all in this vid! hope the same guests can come back for round 3! The old english was surprisingly easy to understand in some places. I'm a native speaker and learnt some German though :)

@wilhelmbittrich88 Жыл бұрын

I loved this video so much

@ProstyChlopiec 4 жыл бұрын

I like the old English letter "R". It sounds distinctly, clearly, as in the Slavic languages.

@kijul468 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Very few dialects retain that pronunciation. Where I come from, it's not a tap (although some letters are pronounced that way depending on context), and I don't know what it would be called, but it's made with my top teeth on my bottom lip, but the teeth lower down the bottom lip compared to 'V' and on the inside of the lip.

@Mr.Nichan 4 жыл бұрын

@@kijul468 I've heard of this. I'm guessing you're from London or maybe somewhere else in Southern England. That would probably be called a labiodental approximant [ʋ]. This is actually a pretty common sound in the the worlds languages, just not usually connected to the letter "R". I believe it's a common Dutch realization of " W" and is the Hindi sound transliterated with "V".

@kijul468 4 жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Nichan I'm from the Midlands. But the thing is, my top teeth are actually touching the inside of my bottom lip so it definitly isn't an aoproximant.

@mortenreippuertknudsen3576 4 жыл бұрын

that R exist in swedish as well

@brianortiz9502 4 жыл бұрын

This makes want to learn the old English

@BETOETE 3 жыл бұрын

I'm truly sad how the English tongue, NOT language (that's latin french) was almost wiped out by the Normans.

@Correctrix 3 жыл бұрын

I'm pleased that I understood everything Simon said.

@JTGaffley 2 жыл бұрын

The presenter in this show did very well in Dutch with his old English, and as a saffer, it is amazing how Afrikaans helps with Old Eng, never would've guessed in a miljon years

@Anna-ug8cq 4 жыл бұрын

“Habben twelf” is so much like “haben” and “zwölf” in German

@diana6echo 4 жыл бұрын

I thought he was talking about year on moon months :v

@Anna-ug8cq 4 жыл бұрын

Diana Lis I was thinking months as well lol

@Not_A_Tourist 4 жыл бұрын

And hebben in Dutch

@helenahandkart1857 4 жыл бұрын

I recognised it as 'have 12', but that & 'dead', was all.

@ferofax 3 жыл бұрын

"it's in ze mouth, we eat on with it, and we have on twelve" so it's basic english with a very very thick accent

@JorenVerspeurt 3 жыл бұрын

Dutch speaker here, I didn't have too much trouble understanding the old English, especially with the transcription, pretty interesting!

@user-oo8xg9gx3m 3 жыл бұрын

Дякую за відео, Норберте!

@StaraptorEagle 2 жыл бұрын

Please do more of these, they’re interesting!

@flamingmuffin666 3 жыл бұрын

Sciella - “scale”, but also sounds incredibly close to shield - if that’s the origin, then that’s an incredible example of natural language evolution of transplanted definitions to different nouns which functionally do the same thing. And makes me feel warm inside.

@riffers 3 жыл бұрын

Googling the etymology of each word shows they both come from the same root word meaning to divide or separate.

@jof1953 3 жыл бұрын

I'd say its related to 'shell'.

@dislexyc 3 жыл бұрын

I went for shield maiden because of thinking it was hair and shield

@greeniegogo 3 жыл бұрын

It actually reminds me of the scientific word cilia (usually referring to small, hair-like structures). I picked up that it was related to and contrasted to haer/hair, but didn't figure out exactly what it was.

@deltav864 2 жыл бұрын

@@riffers Hmm interesting... I was once taught that the word "shield" has it's origins in the Dutch word "schilderen" (and the Germanic equivalents) which means "to paint" and they called them that because they more often than not painted their shields.

@ggevorgyan99 4 жыл бұрын

Simon and Norbert making a collab? My day just got better.

@SuperCreh 2 жыл бұрын

"Deer really isnt a common animal" Me with 20 deer in my backyard on the daily, and having to watch for deers while driving: "Excuse me, what?"

@iriemember1time 2 жыл бұрын

I love these videos!!!!

@DerWaidmann_ 4 жыл бұрын

When you know German it's so much easier to understand Old English

@michaelgrabner8977 4 жыл бұрын

Old German and Old English are very similar... There is a reason why most of the christianisation on german/austrian/swiss soil was done very often by english saxon priests/monks round about the 6th till 8th century because the language barrier was very small at that time and those clericals simply got understood besides the fact that those anglo saxon clericals were the most educated clericals of that particular time period..

@saoirse7167 3 жыл бұрын

The second one was really easy. ‘Grinder teeth’. ‘Wir essen mit...’

@Mi_Ke27 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, if you know English and German and go with your gut feeling after hearing the words (I felt like reading them threw me off sometimes) it is somewhat understandable

@BellambiFredRoberts 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Icelandic + german

@CowmanCowman 3 жыл бұрын

I am now kind of wishing that I got to learn German in school instead of french.