A big thank-you to Simon Roper for collab'ing with me on this project! Be sure to check out his channel for more Old English content if you haven't come across him yet: kzbin.info/door/hnRk6mxWsSOGElm8phdSxw
@figsrabbithole20933 жыл бұрын
So my dad speaks Portuguese fluently (I didn't grow up learning it though). But I remember one day we had a Mexican family friend over. He spoke in Portuguese (Brazilian) and she spoke in Spanish. I sat on the couch watching. I took some Spanish in school so I could tell when they were asking clarifying questions and saying something like "ok so that's orange in spanish and orange is portuguese is this...."
@jadet-g14863 жыл бұрын
I don't think you read replies but this level of depth in free education means the world to me. I hope I can make donations to Patreon soon because your channel and work has made a huge difference in my life as I am not of age for college.
@simonroper92183 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much indeed for doing the bulk of the work, and glad to be in contact!
@LivWildStyle3 жыл бұрын
This is what its about.
@JS-fd8ey3 жыл бұрын
I'm curious if the original location of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes on the mainland of Europe has an effect on the intelligibility of Old Norse. Because when studying the Germanic languages, the mutual intelligibility spectrum, from west to east to north, makes the difference between Saxon vs. Anglian Old English dialects to Old Norse make sense to me.
@CyrodiilicKhajiit2 жыл бұрын
As a subtitle reader, I understood everything.
@Beaglefan2 жыл бұрын
Same bro
@bobby-gl9qz2 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@stefanwilkinson15362 жыл бұрын
Highly underrated comment.
@ruruyu592 жыл бұрын
My language is also subtitle
@zoverawizo74762 жыл бұрын
As a subtitle reader, i understand billions of language, even if its alien or made up. 😜😜😜
@jormungandr78853 жыл бұрын
As a swede, I understand more of this danish old norse dialect than I understand modern danish.
@64mickh3 жыл бұрын
Even the Danes don’t understand modern Danish
@issyd23663 жыл бұрын
It's also Old Swedish and Old Norwegian at the same time.
Modern Swedish palatalises in a similar manner to Old English but Danish doesn't, does anyone have any idea when that happened?
@albanborici80932 жыл бұрын
"Good weather and true arrows" gotta be one of the most badass farewells i've ever heard
@buia4992 жыл бұрын
As an icelander it's really cool to actually understand most of the words that they are saying.
@riccardolaspina1053 Жыл бұрын
IWe have often hear nthat is possible, but yours is the first actual testimony of this. But which of the two come closest to your own language?
@buia499 Жыл бұрын
@@riccardolaspina1053 Old English has the pronounciation of Icelandic but the words are very different. It's like a mix between Old norse, Gaelic, and Welsh. Old Norse however is spelled exactly the same as modern Icelandic but with a few tweaks to the pronounciation. It's sort of like trying to understanding a very weird dialect.
@fani50008 ай бұрын
Þetta er geggjað!
@eVill4207 ай бұрын
@@buia499 I guess Icelandic just appeared around this time at 1000 AD so this is like the starting point
@user-yl9sw4ed2f5 ай бұрын
Ikke in Danish is not. Nej is no.
@o...3 жыл бұрын
Now *_this_* is the most ambitious crossover event in history
@user-hk8yp7cw1v3 жыл бұрын
þat hefir þú réttr í!
@theroy77573 жыл бұрын
Han har rett i det ja :)
@gdbssa2 жыл бұрын
butter
@Nihilio2 жыл бұрын
A Anglo Saxon and a Dane speaking? Far from the most ambitious crossover in history more like a daily occurrence in the Danelaw
@pimplejuice87742 жыл бұрын
Not really a crossover. Many English settled Germanic tribes and Norse tribes battled against each other and sometimes often traded.
@Randomdudefromtheinternet3 жыл бұрын
This is how it feels when a latinoamerican/ talks with a Brazilian or an italian, we don't understand each other but at the same time we do.
@Randomdudefromtheinternet3 жыл бұрын
@@Drive_Far_Away You'll be surprised (also Spanish and Latin American will of course understand each other, we speak spanish, only different versions of it).
@KlavierMenn3 жыл бұрын
@@Randomdudefromtheinternet Yep. There's a certain degree of integibility between brazilian portuguese and tuscan italian moreso than the european variety of portuguese. This happened because we had a really big migration of italians on the beginning of the last century (it was such a gigantic migration that the word for 'foreigner' was 'italiano' to many people that lived on the rural parts of the newly-republican brazil) So, the italian vocabulary made way into the brazilian portuguese, but since both are latin languages, they shared many cognates and such, so, it became more of an accent than a pigdin language (Or a portuguese-based creole)
@merineyit3 жыл бұрын
@@KlavierMenn - Interesting indeed!
@merineyit3 жыл бұрын
@@Drive_Far_Away - Except Welsh has no relationship to English, so English people can't hope to understand it unless they have learned it - although, if Welsh people speak the bastardised version known as Wenglish, then an English person may think they can understand snippets.
@yankoelgueta11163 жыл бұрын
Im chilean , and when i hear brasilians i understand like 30%
@viral_suppressor41542 жыл бұрын
As a German non native speaker, I understand old danish a lot more than I expected. You guys did a great job! Thanks!
@MrKarlozz2 жыл бұрын
I'm Danish and understood like 10% lol. But then again, I only speak English and Spanish apart from Danish
@jackcraven79792 жыл бұрын
English is my only language I could understand old English better than Norse
@sadflix87542 жыл бұрын
It’s kinda interesting to know that guten Morgen has stayed pretty much the same from these old languages until modern german
@fwfry3144 Жыл бұрын
@@sadflix8754 ja
@walterweiss7124 Жыл бұрын
@@sadflix8754 moooin :)
@aeronidas36472 жыл бұрын
It's amazing hearing old languages like this being spoken again
@Subieghost Жыл бұрын
Lmao you say that like it's nostalgic
@aeronidas3647 Жыл бұрын
@@Subieghost am VERY old
@Awtora Жыл бұрын
@J Miller well Catalan people are doing a great job at reviving their language, however Bretonnic language for example is sadly near extinction now(and Occitan too i believe)
@CHRB-nn6qp Жыл бұрын
@Please unsubscribe The Prussian language has gone from extinction to having native speakers. Anything is possible :) (Btw when I say Prussian, I don't mean German, I mean the Baltic language related to Lithuanian and Latvian.).
@JFLATTERMANN3 жыл бұрын
Having studied medieval German language, I was astonished how well I understood both old Norse and old English.
@KlavierMenn3 жыл бұрын
Both are germanic too, no? Pretty sure if you got your hands in some visigothic texts you would understand them too, because they were also germanic (The frankish tribes punted the visigoths into the Iberian Peninsula, where they made a few kingdoms before getting overrun by the Umayyad arabs)
@kamalindsey2 жыл бұрын
I am baffled when someone told me the Palestinialied poem is very hard to understand for modern Germans when to my untrained ears it sounds like German.
@isaac42732 жыл бұрын
@@KlavierMenn yeah but the Gothic language has been extinct for a while now, and also didn't undergo certain changes like the rest of the germanic languages, still the East Germanic languages are quite an enigma
@aurothelarper2 жыл бұрын
@@KlavierMenn The Visigoths were heavily latinized by the time they came to Iberia
@Laikalister2 жыл бұрын
666th like
@Blake_Stone3 жыл бұрын
"How did your conversation with that Norseman go, Harold?" "Well I got most of the words, but it was hard to make out with that American accent of his."
@tedarcher91203 жыл бұрын
What's cool is that norseman could really be from america lol.
@Krompierre.3 жыл бұрын
@@tedarcher9120 I'll ask you sarcasticaly, are you really stating that as a fact?
@tedarcher91203 жыл бұрын
@@Krompierre. I am. The norse colonies in the north america existed from 985 till about 1050, so there 100% could be a norseman from america in england in 1000
@_nanking53743 жыл бұрын
Ah, one from vinland then? A rare sight indeed.
@Krompierre.3 жыл бұрын
Just because it could, doesnt mean it was. It's like saying that they could've potentialy had plate armour just because they had steel. We cant take "they did just because they could do it" as an evidence.
@Johna41223 Жыл бұрын
The fact that such a niche interest can garner 2.3 MILLION views is nothing but insane
@annbretagne21082 ай бұрын
Isn't K a thousanx?
@OriginalPuro26 күн бұрын
If you want to use a different definition of the word "insane", sure, but if you use the word properly this is absolutely not insane.
@iceomistar4302 Жыл бұрын
I've been basically obsessed with ancient languages since I was 15, I feel so happy when I can understand both of you without the subtitles.
@kniviritsyn3 ай бұрын
That's a super impressive skill dude!
@MrGeneration833 жыл бұрын
As a dane who have live in the faroese and have learned german and english, I am suprised at how well I understand both the old norse and old english.
@emcarnahan3 жыл бұрын
That’s very cool.
@MSchmitz773 жыл бұрын
I know both Old Norse and German, with the Old English bits I could understand pretty much everything without looking at the subtitles. Never have studied Old English either
@alexlarsen64133 жыл бұрын
Yeah me too, but Jackson did use old danish and they were talking really slowly. Interestingly enough, I would perhaps understand faroese about as well as old danish if you guys spoke more slowly but as it is, in normal conversation, both faroese and icelandic are unintelligible to me. German too. I catch a phrase here and there but that's about it. Norwegian and swedish on the other hand, I understand almost perfectly
@MSchmitz773 жыл бұрын
@@alexlarsen6413 I actually find spoken faroese a bit harder to understand, must be the accent
@alexlarsen64133 жыл бұрын
@@MSchmitz77 Me too, I literally can't say that I understand it. I mean, I understand it about as much as german without ever having learned german. Luckily all the faroese I've ever met spoke standard danish
@disengronkulifactice3 жыл бұрын
A friend (American) was backpacking in Ireland and fell in with a group of Germans. She spoke no German but their English was good. After a day or two of traveling together, one of the Germans turned to another and said, “Ich habe Wasser in meinen Schuhen,” to which my friend said “me too,” without noticing they had switched into German. It’s funny how quick that can happen where there are very clear correspondences. (edit: German inflectional endings!)
@panzrok87013 жыл бұрын
*Ich habe Wasser in meinen Schuhen ;)
@jmolofsson3 жыл бұрын
@@panzrok8701 That hopeless grammar! We Dutch, English and Scandianivians never get it right! :D
@disengronkulifactice3 жыл бұрын
@@panzrok8701 sorry. Ive not studied German myself, either! Thanks for the correction
@Microtherion3 жыл бұрын
@@disengronkulifactice My brother's wife - and therefore rather obviously her parents - are German, and her mother very rarely uses any English. I've never studied German but I did study linguistics, as well as Latin, and later learned some Old English. So my sister-in-law's mother was talking to me in German, and I managed to hold a conversation for about half an hour - by talking some kind of mish-mash of bad German, Anglo-Saxon, and throwing in Latin words with German endings on them. I'm pretty sure my grammar was all over the place too though - whatever language I was technically using. I suppose, if we 'split the difference', it was probably some kind of 'Wonky Frisian'. :)
@washinours3 жыл бұрын
I was visiting Romania (I'm Belgian) and on the 3rd day my host was arguing about something with a friend of his, ofc in Romanian. Well, after about 40min of discussion I got caught in it and he said something I disagreed with, over which I jumped in with a "nah man that's bs what you just said mate". They stopped, looked at me ; "dude you understood?" I wasn't aware either, but I did indeed, thanks for speaking French and Spanish I somehow grasped to an acceptable level the gist of it. I was absolutely thrilled, so they were, and the argument actually went away like this. Human interaction is fascinating :D
@iberius99378 ай бұрын
Mr. Roper was so polite throughout this video, always pausing mid-speech to make sure Dr. Jackson still had something to say. Excellent talk! Very invaluable to Germanic comparative linguistics.
@mrCetus2 жыл бұрын
I've been studying icelandic for some years now and I could actually understand both of you in a 70-80% without reading. Great thing!
@HistoryTime3 жыл бұрын
Awesome cross over
@jurikurthambarskjelfir35333 жыл бұрын
ᚷᛟᛏᛏᚨ᛫ᚺᚨᚹᛖ᛫ᚺᛟᛈᛖ᛬
@brythonicman32673 жыл бұрын
They even look alike
@theirmanager52043 жыл бұрын
History time!!!! ❤️
@luiki31793 жыл бұрын
Love this comment
@matthewabln69893 жыл бұрын
Should have known I'd find you here.
@echolalia6822 жыл бұрын
Your guys' pronunciation notes are one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile yet simultaneously conveying the point perfectly. Great job. Beautiful languages. We should have never strayed from them
@echolalia6822 жыл бұрын
@@mushroommanny One of them says "Picture Ah-nold saying bIRd". Another one says "The 'o' in 'coffee' in New Jersey"
@thanosthearabtitan87222 жыл бұрын
islam = terorrism religion
@Rene-ie4im2 жыл бұрын
I mean evolution is unavoidable
@jakesemrow26782 жыл бұрын
i think this modern english language is a little simpler
@rinzlr35542 жыл бұрын
@@jakesemrow2678 it is. Far more simpler. Language changes with technology, we won’t speak the same English in 1000 years.
@thomasparkin2592 жыл бұрын
English man here, it felt very strange because I could follow along listening to the bits about the doe, boars, river, hills and bears and the place names of (S)Nottingham, Derby and York. But there whole chunks I couldn't parse. I suppose it helps my grandfather was from York and spread some of that heritage to me. My father is also very keen on having a broad vocabulary so I've kept a lot of the different variations of words in my head. It was all not quite right to me, it was easier to understand when not reading.
@opcscott28752 жыл бұрын
Names don't change much when spoken in diff languages
@partypao Жыл бұрын
Modern English has a lot of French and Latin influence added to the old English. Not to mention a lot of Old Norse such as the pronouns and around 800+ words!
@Blake_Stone3 жыл бұрын
I thought the line where Simon gives Jackson permission to use "thou" (þū) was pretty cute. Only pre-Norman kids remember when English still had formal and informal pronouns!
@weonanegesiscipelibba29733 жыл бұрын
> Only pre-Norman kids will remember when English had formal and informal pronouns Maybe if you watched more than the first 2 minutes you'd know that only ON does that, and the Anglian character Simon's playing was only acknowledging that. "Oh yeah I forgot they do that weird thing to be polite."
@jamesestrella59113 жыл бұрын
Shakespeare retained them.
@phil28543 жыл бұрын
Thee and thou were used in Britain until not that long ago. In my dialect (Yorkshire) not many people still use them, but it's not that long since they were in common usage (the actor, Patrick Stewart used them as a child).
@weonanegesiscipelibba29733 жыл бұрын
@@phil2854 they're reduced tho right? "tha"
@phil28543 жыл бұрын
@@weonanegesiscipelibba2973 thou is pronounced "tha" or "ta" depending on the sentence ("Where's tha bin?" "hast ta seen owt?"), thee is still used ("that's not for thee"), thy becomes thi ("is this thi book").
@GravityTwist3r3 жыл бұрын
As a native Dutch speaker it's funny that I understand more of the old English than old Norse. Guess the Frisian component is responsible for that. Funnily enough I'm also a native Portuguese speaker (Continental) and I can confirm the comment about it being easier for a Portuguese speaker to understand Spanish than the other way around. Love the video!
@mariodatguy49883 жыл бұрын
Feyenoord 💯
@ak56593 жыл бұрын
As a native English speaker who's studied German (hoch) and Old English, I can add that I found the Platt spoken in and around Hamburg much easier to understand than hoch deutsch. And every Portuguese speaker I've asked has told me the same thing about Spanish.
@KlavierMenn3 жыл бұрын
Didn't the spanish had more arabic influence than the portuguese? Also, I heard that Bilac called the Portuguese the 'Last Flower of Lacio' that is, the last Larin Language to diferentiate from the Vulgar Latin, and thus retained more Latin words and grammar, and by doing so, anyone who learns it has a better chance to understand the other Latin languages
@eTraxx2 жыл бұрын
When they were talking about saying 'No' .. I kept hearing Dutch 'Nee' .. which I have become familiar with watching Floor Jansen in interviews
@ThePizzaGoblin2 жыл бұрын
apparently, according to the US diplomatic service, Dutch is the easiest language to learn for native English speakers.
@bri-annaedwardine169711 ай бұрын
It's so funny how you two look exactly alike yet are on the other side of the world, yet both speak these dialects of ancient language perfectly. Clearly twins!
@M3rover2 жыл бұрын
A great reminder that you shouldn't travel too far into the past or the future with that time machine you're building. Just keep it within a couple hundred years so you can still talk to people!
@CandyCarbonnier3 жыл бұрын
This video was so cute- just two geniuses geeking out over their hunting convo in old norse/old english hehe
@netanelohimwarren36293 жыл бұрын
So sorry we dont have time machines
@norsemagicandbeliefs81343 жыл бұрын
This is seriously cool. I did my thesis on exactly this, how well they were able to understand each other. Really happy to see this in practice
@Sour013 жыл бұрын
Anywhere we can access ur thesis or a summary??
@norsemagicandbeliefs81343 жыл бұрын
@@Sour01 It was published, through the University of Agder. Almost 10 years ago and wasn't able to find it now. I should try to get it posted online somewhere again.
@cahallo59643 жыл бұрын
@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 If you ever did or do please come back to this comment
@kalina91982 жыл бұрын
I’m an intermediate learner of Swedish and loved seeing how many words I could make out in Old Norse. Makes me appreciate both languages more.
@klausknielsen2 жыл бұрын
Interesting. My mother, born 1922 in the north-western part of Jutland told that the old fishermen had no trouble communicating with their English and Scotch colleagues from across the North Sea. And although it's a century ago this year, it was still far from the iron age.
@keiths81ca2 жыл бұрын
Frisian is England's closest relative
@christoguichard4311 Жыл бұрын
The Jutes from Jutland, settled the county of Kent where I live in the 6th to 8th centuries. In terms of DNA...us English are most similar to the people who live in present day Jutland.
@Bjowolf211 ай бұрын
@@keiths81ca The closest relative of OLD English to be more precise - later on English would take a Norse turn to a remarkable degree.
@Bjowolf29 ай бұрын
It was still the dark ages in Jutland back then though 😂 ( Copenhagen here 😉 )
@macwinter71018 ай бұрын
@@Bjowolf2 Modern English has more words of italic origin (French and Latin) than Germanic origin. So while English is considered a Germanic language, it is more similar to French in terms of vocabulary. Old English, however, would've been most similar to Frisian.
@rogerfenn233 жыл бұрын
Mutual intelligibility 03:07 Localizing the Old English, with Simon Roper 27:11 Localizing the Old Norse, with Jackson Crawford 35:55 Slang, informal speech, contractions 43:11 "False friends", pitfalls of sister languages 48:20 Colloquial or shortened forms of common words 52:37
@AmosBatista3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the hard work.
@redberries80393 жыл бұрын
Do they hold a conversation in the oldie speak anywhere?
@syystomu3 жыл бұрын
18:43 I'm a native Finnish speaker and I definitely have this urge with Estonian despite the fact that Estonian is definitely not mutually intelligible with Finnish. It still feels familiar enough that trying to speak it feels like imitating a dialect that isn't my own and it feels weird. Mostly the problem is that Finnish and Estonian have a LOT of cognates that have shifted in meaning in one language or the other (usually in Finnish actually, Finnish tends to have more semantic shift in its vocabulary) and also words that sound similar by pure accident due to the similarities in phonology, which makes misunderstandings extremely common. I actually have a couple of joke books that just contain fairly ordinary phrases in Estonian that sound like something comical or macabre in Finnish. The example that always comes to mind for me is: Estonian: _Ruumide koristamine on mu töö_ ("Cleaning the rooms is my job") Which sounds a lot like: Finnish: _Ruumiiden koristaminen on mun työ_ ("Decorating the corpses is my job") _Koristamine(n)_ is a cognate ("decorate"/"clean up" - the underlying meaning is "make pretty") while _ruum_ is a Germanic loanword meaning "room" in Estonian and _ruumis_ in Finnish is of an unknown origin and means "body" (usually dead). _Mu töö_ and _mun työ_ are just perfectly ordinary cognates, except in Finnish it sounds colloquial and in Estonian it's standard. But yeah my point is that yes I could absolutely see this happening between Old Norse and Old English: people learning the differences but still mostly speaking their own language.
@thego-dev2 жыл бұрын
estonian here, and i feel quite the same. i'll frequently have the radio playing and i passively hear something interesting, but when i focus on it, i realise that it's in finnish and i have no good idea what they're talking about, and it's one of the weirdest feelings ever.
@transformersrevenge92 жыл бұрын
Lebo värk noh.
@Paveway-chan2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the Swedish experience with Dutch. Our languages are definitely not mutually intelligible, but Dutch sounds a little like what you'd get if a Swede tried to speak German bt with Swedish pronounciation, which means that at a distance, Dutch sounds like Swedish but you just don't understand any of the words xP
@jimjones87362 жыл бұрын
Great comment on the often subtle shifting of word meanings over time.
@Katharsis540 Жыл бұрын
Check out the Book Saga. Tolkien loved that region for language.
@gamergirlmars2 жыл бұрын
Now I can see how cool English from today sounds hearing it all like this. When you understand history and this context it makes it so much more valuable to the ears. I am German-Slavic American and I have traced my heritage back and in the process found your channel. It is a fantastic resource!
@yoonjay32392 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your informative video. Both languages sound alike for a non-speaker like me. They both sound like modern German, especially 'Good morning neighbor' part. Your video is refreshing.
@echolalia6822 жыл бұрын
??? Modern German? Have you ever heard modern German being spoken?
@erzdev56692 жыл бұрын
As a german, I have to disagree on that 👀
@Unethical.Dodgson2 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Not hearing the modern German at all.
@Tranitosaur2 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like Norwegian dialects to me
@elizabethford72633 жыл бұрын
This is incredibly cool and it reminds me of those scenes in The Last Kingdom (& Vikings) where they had characters from each region trying to communicate. As an archaeologist, these exchanges really flesh out the people we are trying to resurrect.
@vsync2 жыл бұрын
I will have to watch that
@legionitalia3093 жыл бұрын
The collaboration of the decade.
@royhandy8365 Жыл бұрын
How I know we live in a simulation and I'm not even lying: I was just thinking, a couple of days ago, about a teacher who made me recite a poem in Old English. I then thought about how I'd like to hear a pro speak Old English to see just how bad I was. Today YT offers me Mr. Crawford's channel, out of the blue, and this afternoon I come across this fine video. Simulation for sure.
@ReggieSova2 жыл бұрын
KZbin Algorithm. You've not only brought me here, but had me watching the full video! Kudos to you!
@bread25463 жыл бұрын
crawford with a gaming headset is what I needed in life
@oe35673 жыл бұрын
Wa he playing doe?
@NotCthulhu3 жыл бұрын
Probably an incidental purchase, but who knows. Maybe he's hardcore into Skyrim 😂
@thomasjuniardi35593 жыл бұрын
He play for honor ?
@sonnenhafen54993 жыл бұрын
assasins creed valhalla... duh..
@JangoBlader3 жыл бұрын
@Bradley Puppies what an irony
@anoukori3162 жыл бұрын
I'm an English Student from Germany and I had a class about the history of the English language last year. I am yet again stunned how incredible these two languages sound. At the same time, I can't believe that how much I (sort of) understand. It sometimes just sounds like a funny mix between English and German ☺️
@RNFLACKOratshobo2 жыл бұрын
There's a really cool story thats been passed down in my family. My maternal great - grandfather was from Denmark (Jutland) and around the 1920s was working in Yorkshire, England where he met a man with the last name "Gunn" my great - grandfathers name being "Gunnar" he asked the man if he had any relatives from the village that he was from which was Bøvlingbjerg in Denmark because his last name sounded so Norse. The man said that he was from a village named Ravenscar in North Yorkshire and that his grandmother had told him stories passed down the generations of a man who had crossed over from a place called Boverskar and settled in what became modern day Ravenscar in Yorkshire and that the man was a Viking. My grandfather always spoke of feeling a strange connection to that man as if he was somehow related to him going way back, he also said that if you heard the people of the area speaking from a distance it sounded like they were speaking Danish and that their accents and local place names were oddly Scandinavian in either prefix or suffix. My great grandfather passed away in 1983 almost 40 years ago now, I never met him but did meet my Great grandmother though I remember nothing because she passed away when I was 1ish, she told a lot of stories to my grandmother who then passed them on to my mother and me. Lately I've been doing a lot of research into family history while simultaneously being interested in Norse history. All I can say is this story makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck, it gives me goosebumps to think that there was some guy probably named "Gunnar" or something; more around a 1000 years ago who emigrated from around Bøvlingbjerg in Denmark to Ravenscar in England and how that random man in Yorkshire and my great grandfather (and hence me) are related in some way going way back to the Viking age.
@samarayyaz6822 жыл бұрын
That sounds amazing. Much luck to you on your quest.
@mr_h8312 жыл бұрын
My dude if you're white you're probably related distantly to someone somewhere. Theres a guy in south Africa that bares my last name, he's not white but he looks damn near identical to me. My last Name's origins are Gaelic. I wouldn't be surprised if basically everyone with my last name are related in some way. I've got: danish, [irish somewhere] polish, and german blood in me. Heck for all I know you and I may be related. Lol
@thereareantsbehindyoureyes75292 жыл бұрын
@@mr_h831 bear in mind there are non related families with the same parternal name
@mr_h8312 жыл бұрын
@@thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529 I've never met another human with my last name that wasnt related to my family in some way. It's a very specific galic corruption of a british last name.
@jimjones87362 жыл бұрын
Great comment. Go back far enough though and we're all related - and ultimately all African. Everyone with blue eyes in northern Europe is related within 5000 years, and all people with blue eyes within 15000.
@Dorodere89 Жыл бұрын
as a german it's nice to hear "guten Morgen" and "golden Morgen" and it's different but the same, because a sunny golden morning is a good morning, right? and I never thought I could understand danish. so awesome of you guys to show us something so incredible!
@Bjowolf211 ай бұрын
You would be totally amazed by how many basic Danish words you are able to understand directly with very little effort - at least in writing, if you are just a bit relaxed about their spelling and notice some simple and quite systematic sound shifts ( E sh- = D sk-, E w- = D v- / _, E wh- = D hv-, E th- = D t- / d- etc. )
@Dorodere8910 ай бұрын
@@Bjowolf2 ah, that sounds interessting! like it's time to buy some danish vocabulary books or beginner books. since I hears it's one of the hardest languages to learn I don't dare to say I would ever be able to speak it, but it sounds like those shifts in words you described are a bit comparable to those between official german and those 400 dialects we have. sure nice to find something :) thank you for that input
@Bjowolf210 ай бұрын
@@Dorodere89 Cool 😊 No, not really difficult for a German speaker - only some of the sounds and some extra vowels. And we don't really mind a bit of accent, if people make such an effort, or a mistaken grammatical gender ( e.g. "en sten" ( common gender ) vs. "et hus" [hoos] ( neuter gender )). The grammar is generally rather simple compared to that of German (😳 - caseless for nouns (except for the genitive), their articles and associated adjectives + the SAME verb conjugations for ALL grammatical persons! ), and with more or less the "same" word order as in a simplistic (older) English ( without "do" & "-ing" with verbs ). Norwegian and Swedish are also very similar with respect to their basic vocabularies ( 95 % & 85 % ) and grammatical structures, so it's "almost" a three for the price of one package ( very easy to learn once you know one of the three 😊). Our many mutual words are usually just pronounced somewhat differently and with melodic intonations in N & S - both probably easier than the Danish pronounciation for a "poor" foreigner. 🙄 You can btw. watch our Danish public service TV DR, which has lot of programmes with selectable subtitles in Danish, where you will then be able to understand many bits and pieces with just a little effort via German and / or English. dr. dk ( also radio ) App. DRTV / DR Lyd ( radio & podcast ) PS For movies, some TV-series, documentaries and sports you will need a VPN service to be able to watch them, but the rest of the programmes are actually freely available from abroad.
@Bjowolf210 ай бұрын
@@Dorodere89 Yes, some N. German & Low German (!) dialects didn't go through the same Germanic sound shifts as (High) German did, so they are probably more similar to our Scandinavian languages in this respect, but I don't know very much about Platt G. But I do know that it has had a big impact on Danish over the centuries - often the bigger words, borrowed or loan translated and usually somewhat distorted by now ( e. g. "overleve" ("überleben"), " overtage" ( "über+nehmen"), "mulighed" ( Möglichkeit), "forvirring" ( Verwirrung )... ). Examples: E hope, D&N håbe [ho-be], S hoppa(s), but G hoffen E hate, D&N hade, S hata, but G hassen E bite, D&N bide, S bita, but G bissen OE hatan ! ( to be called), D hedde, N hete, S heta, but G heissen E live, D & N leve, S leva, but G leben Etc.
@eVill4207 ай бұрын
after learning Swedish, French and English I can legit make out what a German comment is saying 90% of the time
@TheTommasz3 жыл бұрын
If it was the only good thing that would come out of invention of the internet it would be still worth it.
@paranoidrodent3 жыл бұрын
As a bilingual French and English speaker, I'm used to seeing this kind of partial intelligibility between Romance languages but it was really interesting seeing it between English and another Germanic language (albeit in their old forms). The Portuguese-Spanish comparison sounds fairly apt, although French and Occitan (or perhaps Franco-Provençal or Walloon) sprang to my mind first based on how easily I can follow them with my Canadian French (which admittedly has some archaic features compared to modern European French).
@BreadLoeuf2 жыл бұрын
This might be kinda like Old Spanish and Portuguese (aka Galician Portuguese). When considering how they're both spoken nowadays, they're hardly mutually intelligible. The old version had much of the same sounds as back then. In regards to Old Norse/English, it feels like they're almost speaking the same language but different dialects, like you're a Midlands American English speaker trying to understand Northumbrian English.
@joaomartins98002 жыл бұрын
@@BreadLoeuf from my personal experience, portuguese speakers can understand spanish almost perfectly. The only problem are the few false cognates. However, maybe spanish speakers can't do the same.
@isaac42732 жыл бұрын
Yeah, partial for you. The Norman conquest of 1066 screwed up both English and French, making them the oddballs of their language families. I speak Spanish and Portuguese and can understand Italian, Occitan, Gascon, Romanian, but not a bit of French
@Unethical.Dodgson2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I used to be fluent in French. That knowledge is loooong gone. I hated... no, despised that language. Italian is a nice Language. I can understand just a little of that. Everytime someone says "I can't understand French" or "I dislike learning French" I can be like "Yep. I feel ya."
@AveSicarius2 жыл бұрын
@@isaac4273 I mean if you know English you should also have some good degree of intelligibility with German, Dutch (I can read both these languages somewhat but cannot speak them), and several other languages from the region still. But with French your only hope is if they are speaking some (partial) bastardization of the language, like Catalonian (which having spoken a bit of French and Spanish at the time of travelling through Andorra and neighbouring regions sounded like complete gibberish when combined with the local accent) or Canadian French. I can also understand snippets of French purely through the context of English but only if they have common wording, or should I say word's that we had stolen from them.
@sbraypaynt2 жыл бұрын
0:34 That’s just glorious The last sentence in Old English sounds identical to the phrase in English with a Brummie accent.
@Teverell2 жыл бұрын
Just listening to the Old English... you really can hear where folks from the north of England got their accent!! 'Is the day unlucky?' sounded exactly as it would in a broad Yorkshire accent, at least to my ears!
@lawnerddownunder34613 жыл бұрын
My greeting from now on shall be "good weather and true arrows"
@dantopper1233 жыл бұрын
Amazing how English has radically changed over the centuries. Imagine if that English dialect was still used today
@poplops12 жыл бұрын
It would be if the Norwegians took over England instead of the Normans.
@theTHwa3tes112 жыл бұрын
@@poplops1 yes
@Matt_Alaric2 жыл бұрын
@@poplops1 The Vikings aren't necessary, if the Norman invasion had failed at all then English would have carried on developing along this course all on its own.
@wallacesousuke14332 жыл бұрын
The Normans made this language palatable, unlike regular Germanic languages are all disgusting to listen to 🤣
@And0-de-evenki2 жыл бұрын
it is spoken in Scotland
@kevinlawler3252 Жыл бұрын
It may sound odd, but in my research and and also hearing these old languages, it definitely stirs something in me.. I can feel the connection to my roots.. along with curiosity.. that is probably what makes people like us who find interest in this , and feverishly dive into the research and study.
@themajesticbulldog38322 жыл бұрын
As an Englishman myself I’m so eager to learn Old English
@macwinter71018 ай бұрын
It honestly might be easier to learn Old English as a German Speaker or as a Dutch speaker than as an English speaker. But it definitely is still worth the effort for English speakers!
@TrithemiusFinnegan2 жыл бұрын
As a Native English and Native Spanish speaker, Old English and Old Norse have been on my radar for many months. Now, you two have come together to reinforce my quest to master these elder Germanic tongues.
@Petravalis3 жыл бұрын
Highly inspiring nágrannar! As a native of the Icelandic tounge I am most thankful for your curiousity invoking research. I wonder why modern Icelandic hast lost the fine greeting “góðan morgun.” Even if perfectly grammatically correct we never say this akin to our Nordic nágrannar; “God morgen.” It almost sounds outlandish in Icelandic! We go directly to “góðan dag” until evening; “gott kvöld” and at bedtime; “góða nótt.” Perhaps due to the late dawning in winter and bright summer nights there is little sense of morning? Or because we all too often sleep in after long nights of drinking mjöður. Thus we seem quite binary in Iceland; it is either day or nigth. Or just day with midnight sun. I will experiment with “góðan morgun” as of now. I will report on the progress of this disruption. It may mark a comeback of praising the morning in Iceland 😁 Ykkar skál! 🍻
@gunnaringvarsson54893 жыл бұрын
I say góðan morgun all the time :)
@sarco643 жыл бұрын
As a native speaker of Icelandic, how much of the Old English and Old Norse did you understand? Which is closer to modern Icelandic?
@orarinnorarinsson6543 жыл бұрын
@@sarco64 As an Icelander I think I understood everything in old Norse but I had some difficulties with Old English
@Marta-oc8ng3 жыл бұрын
In the Faroe islands we use góðan morgun a lot!
@Bjowolf23 жыл бұрын
@@gunnaringvarsson5489 Don't people think that is a weird thing to do? 😂 ( saying "góðan morgun" all the time )
@gregcollins76027 ай бұрын
I could butcher either one of these ancient languages with my West Texan draw. Very pleased to have stumbled upon this excellent discussion.
@ChantelStays2 жыл бұрын
This was brilliant. I felt transported. I wish I was blessed enough to know both old English and old Norse.
@snagletoothscott37293 жыл бұрын
"He can speak fluent Old English...in Old Norse. The most interesting man in the wrold"
@allisonblack58033 жыл бұрын
The crossover I didn't know I needed. This made my week!
@lindagarczynski24152 жыл бұрын
I’m from Leeds, Yorkshire. We were born just after the war. Many of our childhood words were from the original Viking words. I can’t say I’ve heard them in the modern day language.
@ontoya12 жыл бұрын
It's crazy cuz Old English seems to not just be an accent difference and it's not just a few different words there's also words that are the exact same written but are now spoken differently which is, it's insane how much Difference just 1000 years makes. Very interesting
@angelasorensen44432 жыл бұрын
This was super fascinating to hear both languages being spoken! The similarities between the two old languages and even how they have morphed into modern language is fascinating. Brilliant discussion!
@MaresBarres3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of when I was learning Dutch and my friend was learning Swedish. We had no one to practice target languages with, so we just practiced with each other.
@ak56593 жыл бұрын
And it worked, right? I always tell people that the Germanic languages are actually much closer to each other that it sounds like from listening to them.
@MaresBarres3 жыл бұрын
@@ak5659 Somewhat. More for me than my friend because of my historical linguistics interest.
@stannypk5k93 жыл бұрын
For anyone interested in this subject, I recommend Matthew Townend's 'Language and History in Viking Age England' book. He delves into the topic of mutual intelligibility, provides examples from Old Norse texts and Old English texts which could provide some evidence and in the end makes a similar conclusion Dr. Crawford's in the video: that they were merely dialects that could be learned very quickly by either Saxon or Norse., leading to easy mutual understanding. The book is very extensive, it reads well and was written by a fantastic scholar who makes a compelling argument. I highly recommend.
@magdahearne4973 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing that 💖
@user-yz2iw3ti9k2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I can recommend checking out Gustaf Vasa’s Bible from 1541, written in old swedish, which is basically a product and successor of old norse.
@CocoAzoitei10 ай бұрын
This was so badass!! Love it. I’ve learned a bit of Icelandic in the past and am now learning modern Swedish and am fascinated by how understandable these old languages are. I hope to get into Old Norse at some point. Discovered both your channels during lockdown and love them both. Keep the collabs coming! 💪🏻
@ingvarharaldsson6773 жыл бұрын
Wow! Until today I watched them separately. Seeing them discussing Old English and Old Norse, I thought I would die! 🔥🔥🔥
@user-ik1qu9wp9x Жыл бұрын
I could listen to you for hours. You have actually invented a time machine for me. Thanks for the great job you are doing!
@Madkingstoe2 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. I'm glad I stumbled upon this video.
@Eulemunin3 жыл бұрын
It’s so nice to hear to experts speak so politely to each other. Never knew I wanted to hear this discussion about how languages changes form the base language.
@jeremias-serus2 жыл бұрын
It should be noted that Simon is not an expert academically speaking, he regularly reminds people of this. His linguistic knowledge comes from purely personal interest in his spare time. Whereas Crawford has a degree and was formerly a teacher in the field.
@jennil77973 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating!. I am Yorkshire born and had an enlightened head/class teacher who gave us a year off from learning about the glories of Rome, which seemed to be the mainstay of all children's history books in the early 60s. Instead, he used the time to instruct us in the effect the coming of the Vikings and the following settling and intermarriage had on local dialects (Yorkshire does not have one dialect even today, regardless on what some KZbin presenter's think), culture, attitudes and the closeness of family and community. I have often wondered how true this might be, but certain dialect words and place names do sound Norse to my untutored ear and many of the vowel sounds are similar. I also remember him giving each of us a small brush and white paint, asking us to open our text books and commanding us to paint over the enormous horns on the helmets of the advance Viking raiding party, so big they couldn't have stood side by side. Then I went to a grammar school and history reverted to being boring.....
@magdahearne4973 жыл бұрын
Wish I'd have gone to your school back then, your teacher sounds epic. You're right about the Yorkshire dialect though, when you tell folk our dialect changes from village to village along with the colloquialisms used they don't believe you 😅
@LS_Lee2 жыл бұрын
I was an adventurer once... until I took a arrow to the knee
@AndyIsLazy182 жыл бұрын
This a certified "WHO ARE YOU I AM FROM ANCIENT GREECE" moment
@olavc.oevele19023 жыл бұрын
I hope that when I die this video is among the things I'll see passing by before my eyes once more. (And then I will see my father and mother and all my dead relatives seated and so on.) With this video you made a sad day cheerful in its end.
@Lawson8552 жыл бұрын
It's interesting that the "Nay" word is also used in Hindi and Urdu to indicate "no"
@__________________________79812 жыл бұрын
i dont know if that is the cause but both hindi and urdu are also indo-european languages
@andrewstephen9096 Жыл бұрын
Yes, it is absolutely because Hindi and Urdu are Indo-European languages..... I am an American native speaker of English who has studied Hindi and Urdu for many years and can speak fluently....... Here is a sentence in Hindi/Urdu that shows just how Indo-European the language is...... All of these words in this sentence descend from Sanskrit and have naturally morphed over the centuries...... Ye mere daant nahin hain.... - These are not my teeth.....
@Katharsis540 Жыл бұрын
Check the Bok Saga. Also have Naysayers.
@chan625 Жыл бұрын
It would be more like Nahi or just Naa (not sodium 😉) in informal. Marathi on the other hand has Naahi (same as Hindi but longer a vowel sound) and Naay in rural areas
@AaronBiswas Жыл бұрын
@@andrewstephen9096 Haa bhai yeh tumhare daant nhi hai
@PixieStixx2 жыл бұрын
As for loanwords and similarities and a German native that speaks english fluently I found it astounding how many of the spoken words in both old english and Norse sounded so familiar and also sounded like mix of english and german. I used to think english speakers spoke of being at a lake/ See when they were at the ocean/sea/ Meer.
@iamrobberino21072 жыл бұрын
Jag älskar dina videos Dr. Crawford! :D Keep 'em coming
@cyberroar3 жыл бұрын
12:08 In my local dialect from north western Norway and in related dialects further north in Trønderlag, we say oheppe (unlucky / accident) And if someone have wounded themself or had an accident we say that they have "ohapa se". Cool to see that this word have survived in parts of Norway.
@hoathanatos61793 жыл бұрын
And it is cognate to the English unhappy, where the concept of luck and happiness for ancient Germanic peoples were seen as pretty much synonymous. To be lucky is to be happy and vice versa. Thus you also have the German glücklich and Norwegian lykkelig meaning happy but being cognate with English lucky. Happen, haphazard, mayhap and mishap are other English words that have a meaning closer to fortune and luck than to happiness, though.
@guestimator1213 жыл бұрын
@@hoathanatos6179 In most of the Slavic languages "lucky" and "happy" are the same word. I also thought in German glucklich also means both lucky and happy ( I know a bit of German, but I'm far from an expert and/or fluent speaker)
@hoathanatos61793 жыл бұрын
@@guestimator121 It is. Just English has evolved to not see them as synonymous where luck is even borrowed from Dutch due to sailors gambling bringing the word into English. Before English just had the word Hap for both. Celtic languages tend to be the weird ones out in European tongues where happiness is tied to knowledge and wisdom rather than to fortune and luck.
@hoathanatos61793 жыл бұрын
@@guestimator121 In my dialect of German the most common word for happy is the word social, for there is an understanding culturally that someone who has a community of others who care about them is happy.
@EpochUnlocked3 жыл бұрын
Is Oheppe related in any way to oops?
@cmx83523 жыл бұрын
i have been waiting for this!
@3arendel8 ай бұрын
I understood lots of it just listening. From Sweden.
@dersg1freak2 жыл бұрын
This was very interesting. I really enjoyed hearing about the thought processes to hone in on a specific time period. The script and delivery were a real joy as well. Thank you for making this!
@niku..3 жыл бұрын
It's incredibly fascinating to me how many similarities there are between that particular form of Old English and the general Holstein variety of Low German or rather Middle Low German. The general lack of palatalization, the /-ik/ > /-ix/ shift etc. Obviously the Old Norse influence on Old English was much stronger than on Low German
@unraed3 жыл бұрын
it depends on what do you mean by saying "Old Norse influence". The Norse settlers bring about several thousand words of Norse Origin. But in terms of phonology and sound changes the influence of the ON was minimal, especially on the West of England.
@er67303 жыл бұрын
Right?! I speak Low German and could understand much of the Old English. Interesting!
@marconemeth96833 жыл бұрын
English and Saxons lived in modern Northern Germany and Denmark before they migrated to the British Isles. It makes sense to be close to Low German as their ancestors lived in close proximity.
@bleunt3 жыл бұрын
As a Swede, this was pretty neat to hear.
@sorenbuenneke64343 жыл бұрын
How much were you able to parse out of each language??
@Ozzianman3 жыл бұрын
@@sorenbuenneke6434 As a Norwegian, I understood a surprising amount from that conversation. Without looking at the subtitles, I understood the general context of the conversation and some of the details. Probably helps that I am used to listening to a lot of different Norwegian dialects (If you are not used to this, do you even know Norwegian?), as well as Danish and Swedish.
@jonwooldridge37662 жыл бұрын
This was really great! I watch both channels, and seeing these languages converse was really great! Thank you.
@hussamgunter73812 жыл бұрын
It’s super Interesting to see how language evolved, I only speak English fluently but I was able to keep up with most of the conversation.
@Subcleff3 жыл бұрын
This is the most geeky and also coolest thing I've ever seen! :D Also, as a dane it's amazing how much is actually understandable when you pay attention
@rh6453 жыл бұрын
Where I've lived in Durham/Newcastle and now Northumberland we still use so many of these old pronunciations when talking amongst each other, but usually drop most of it in more pollite/formal situations, or to be understood by people not from the region
@chisatofan47692 жыл бұрын
It’s awesome how you can imagine how the languages evolved over time. Fascinating.
@nathanversluys66252 жыл бұрын
I'm a german speaker from the U.S. it was really cool to watch this video and see the similarities and contrasts between the pronunciations and dialect of the two languages!
@juliaconnell3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else stopped WATCHING and just *listened* to see if they could follow any of this? This was AWESOME - thanks both, very much appreciated
@grytshrt3 жыл бұрын
OMG YAAAAAAAASSSSSS. the collab we've been waiting for!
@odenbeatmeat2 жыл бұрын
I ignore this video so many times, but now I'm here to watch it
@Chemtrooper462 жыл бұрын
00:11 the manliest good morning I I’ve ever seen
@SunnyAquamarine22 жыл бұрын
We language aficionados can't get enough of this stuff! I really appreciate how you had the original languages subtitled plus the English translation and explanations for various words. Great!
@raiknightshade34423 жыл бұрын
This really cements in my mind that modern english was formed from both of these languages, because there were parts of the dialogue where I understood the Old English near perfectly, but there were also parts where the Old Norse actually sounded more familiar!
@unraed3 жыл бұрын
it is a natural development of the sounds in English, "no" has the same vowel as in such words like stone, home and so on, all of these words had different spelling, in our case, it was "a" like in "father". No, stone, home was na, stan, ham. The word na is a contraction of ne+æfre
@natquesenberry63682 жыл бұрын
I have a friend, in his eighties now, who grew up in the far north of England. He said that when he was young some rural people in the area still spoke a dialect that was more Norwegian than it was English.
@CHRB-nn6qp Жыл бұрын
That's awesome! It may have been Norn, which was a North Germanic language spoken in Northern Britain.
@Stefan-vr7mi Жыл бұрын
This is the first time i hear these languages and as a Swede i do understand some. Anyways the old norse language the pronunciation feels quite good and is quite easy for me to mimic. I do think i have quite easy to catch tones since i also do speak a bit of a Asian tonal language where one word can mean five different things only depending on how you pronounce it. That makes you listen very carefully about the tones. Thanks for posting this i am more then just interested to learn more about these old languages. I´m quite stubborn when it comes to learning languages so if i have the opportunity i will give it a go and try it out. One example that i catch the tones quite well is probably that i learnt how to sing a song in german but i do not speak german, ok i understand some but not more then that. My german friend listen to me when i sang this german song and he was stunned ! If i did not know that you are a swede i would never had guessed since your accent is 100% German. Beside of that my wife´s daughter is married to another german guy and have been living in Germany for 12 years and when i spoke a sentence or two in german this guy said to his wife my god he speaks german better then you ! The thing is she speaks german almost fluently, i´m certainly not but probably i catch the tones quite well. Sorry for this long post i could not keep my hands of the keyboard. Where can i get to know more about these old languages ? I am very interested indeed I will be checking out more of your videos. Once again thanks :)
@procrastinator993 жыл бұрын
Just watched this on Simon's channel, now I'm coming here so you don't "lose" likes, etc. This was SO great, thank you both!
@ryanhampson6733 жыл бұрын
I’ve always been amazed at the influences English has had over the centuries..Here in America you can go almost anywhere in the country and understand someone, yes accents are different but still understandable..Maybe in 1,000 years New Yorkers wouldn’t be able to communicate with people from Texas, although with modern technology and television we might be losing dialects rather than developing new ones.
@champnotchicken43182 жыл бұрын
We are losing a lot of different accents. For example the Chicago accent is dying.
@whitingpie51462 жыл бұрын
It's cool when people have different accents and languages, but realistically it would probably be better if everyone spoke the same language, in a practical sense.
@FernandoDenise25582 жыл бұрын
Globalization is killing accents, culture and language.
@Konoronn2 жыл бұрын
@@FernandoDenise2558 It's so depressing.
@odious53172 жыл бұрын
@@FernandoDenise2558 Yep, we need to stop globalization.
@Spellman623 ай бұрын
I love this so much. I’ve been fascinated with Old Norse since I was a child. As a native Spanish Speaker who learned English at a young age, I was fascinated to hear that German was the sister language of English then it snowballed into Germanic languages and then Nordic. However I’ve only mastered basic German and Norwegian Old Norse / Old Icelandic I can only grab bits but hardly can put it into a sentence. Thanks again though. Loved this.
@wolvves42932 жыл бұрын
Funny how english now is so much more different than Old English, but we can definitely still detect some of what is being said. I've heard that Scandinavians can still understand a lot of Old Norse, which is very impressive.
@wulfgreyhame68573 жыл бұрын
I've been following both Jackson and Simon for a while now; I never thought to see a collaboration - what a wonderful surprise! I'd looked at various articles and evidence about the relationships of ON and OE but this really brings the information into focus.
@lucafurini29993 жыл бұрын
How can someone dislike this... Historically accurate, ambitious, and overall very well done👍🏼
@ianhelyar63833 ай бұрын
My sister once communicated with the mother of her Dutch friend, using only German. The old lady answered in Dutch, and the conversation went fairly well. I had a similar experience in Hong Kong, speaking Mandarin to a local. He answered in Cantonese, and we got on. Trust me, it wasn't my Excellent Mandarin that saved the day! Likewise, I had less trouble talking to a Swedish lady who had no English, but my English and my German seemed to fill in enough gaps.
@sebastianliancourt52002 жыл бұрын
Quite interesting. That's nice there are such experts. That can give a good idea and an insight on the development of the languages and its analysis.