Strangely I can hear a link between this and a west country drawl. Coincidence?

Sounds like a sentence contrived from a handful of words that remain similar. One could do the same with modern English and German. It would be interesting to compare randomly chosen sentences in the two languages and see how similar they really are.

Funny video. I knew this would work. Just one remark, you've got the area where Frisian is spoken in the Netherlands wrong. The eastern part is Groningen, where Gronings is spoken which is a lower Saxon dialect, not Frisian.

He should have said in old English Ic will ān brūne cū cēapian. Cēapian is old English for buying. Keapjen in modern Frisian (kopen in Dutch, Kaufen in high German). In modern Frisian: Ik wol ien/'n brúne ko keapjen.

Is close to old english

Some Frisians are german or Scandinavian i think Not all of them have the Frisian component

It sounds like a sort of Southern/Appalachian accent and like I should be able to understand it.

This is like what english sounds to someone who can't speak english

Very drunk Irishman!

The cadence sounds like English for sure

Ya ya ya brunn cu resume of video

As a native English speaker, I did not understand any of it.

just sounds like a drunk man from texas LMAO

Sounds like the drunkest German I’ve ever heard!😂

Alright, as this video apparantly is still attracting viewers I'll do a translation and a word for word literal translation so you can compare grammar. And seriously I swear, the Frisian and English parts of my brain were fighting constantly with the literal translation and it felt oh so wrong. No, bin we foar Dútslan. Tr: So, we're in front of Germany Lit: Now, are we before Germany Soeden we der wol even yn meie? Tr: Are we allowed to go in? Lit: Would we there well a moment in allowing? No ik sis we kin it probearje Tr: Well, we can try Lit: Now I say we can it try Sjoch de douane stong der noch foar no Tr: you see, there was still border control back then Lit: See the border control stand there still before (no is a stop word here that can be left out, maybe best translated as you see) Dat wie lang lyn hjer Tr: That was long ago Lit: That was long ago here En eh ik sei tsjin die kerel ik sei eh ik ha alle papieren wol, mar myn mem hat niks, mar ik sei "meie wy wol even nei binnen, meie wy wol even dútslân sjen?" Tr: And eh I said to the guy I said eh I have all the papers, but my mom has nothing, but I said "are we allowed to go in, are we allowed to see Germany for a bit?" Lit: And eh I said to the guy I said eh I have all papers well, but my mom has nothing, but I said "allow we well a bit to inside, allow we well a bit Germany see?" Kom mar sei der, weromreis mar wer even melde Tr: Come on in, just report back in on your way back Lit: Come but say he, return trip but again moment report No ha wy even Dútslân sjoen Tr: So we saw Germany for a bit Lit: Now have we moment Germany saw Ha wy noch even winkele Tr: We then shopped for a bit Lit: Have we still moment shopped No hiest toch yn Dútslân west net? Tr: Well you still went to Germany right? Lit: Now have still in Germany went right?

Sounds like Age of Empires II

My maternal Grandmother escaped from East Germany in 1959 and she spoke Low German. Sounds fairly similar to this.

The Norman 'Harrowing of the North' wiped out the population of Munucceaster, so the Conqueror's son built a New Castle and settled folk from Friesland there. You can hear the Geordie accent here.

As I Englishman, I didn’t understand a word. But the rhythm of the sentences seems identical; so much so that I found myself nodding in agreement to everything he said. I just assumed he’d been on the electric soup.

You can do it in the Black Country dialect I think to

Ai this is awesome. I understand all of it. 😂

This is why my English ancestors left. Couldn't understand what they were saying

Kinda sunds like a Dane speaking Dutch 😊

as an american i understood 0%

That sounds like a broad East Anglian accent.

Is it just me or does it sound italian?

Its awesome

Sounds like a rural Irish farmer with that accent 😂

It sounds like he’s speaking German with a US southern accent.

🤣🤌y u bothering a werking mon foo¿

🍀😳🍀 holy crow datz like tapping into da' past bruh ...

A brun cou?

I've seen this clip before and never realized that's Eddie Izzard. He looks so different without a dress.

2:05 "YA,YA.YA 🗿🗿🗿"

Im a native English speaker fluent in modern standard German and this entire dialogue is perfectly comprehensible to me which is insane

Wow. Fascinating to hear an extremely old language being spoken.

The language of EVIL!

"a jojgjsjsjeeyiia" I felt that part

If the English man knew what he was saying, he would understand what the farmer said.

As a Dutch woman, living un fryslan, this was absolutely incredible and funny.

💖 John 3:16 💖 🦋 Romans 10: 9-11 🦋

Sounds kinda German with the ‘kuh’ 👀

I prefer Low German

Iċ þipe alþes Englisċ

2:17 I thought that frisian farmer started speaking modern english since they'r sometimes struggling to understand but he still spoke in frisian which he said "foar de tsiss en foar de buter" this shows how english and frisian linguistically sounds mostly related

Since when word combination such ,, Ich bin,, became an Old English?

bruun cuw

Me after 12 beers. 😂

Ja ja ja!

It sounds a little Italian and a little German