I prefer you as an Anglo Saxon. Get the sheet back on!
handcrafted
“look at it from two angles”, or maybe two Saxons. 😂😂😂
windyworm
As a German living next to the Dutch border it is VERY easy to understand Old English. In German the bird is called Nachtigal. Nearly all words in "simple rural live", heaven and "easy weapons" come from German words. Shakespeare still used the swine (Schwein/pig) and hound (Hund) is our word for a dog.
We have Kuh (cow), Gans (goose), Acker (acre), Feld (field) Pflug (plough), Milch (milk), Sonne (sun) Mond (moon) Sterne (stars), Speer (spear) Schwert (sword), Axt (axe) and many more...
Cadfael
Baldrik, your English is coming along so well
exanimo
Where is your ego? It is so very refreshing to see an intelligent young man being knowledgeable and engaging without treating us to parade of his\her empty headed ego on centre stage. Keep up the good work. It would be great to hear more of you.
connoroleary
“They couldn’t be bothered to learn all the subtleties, so they just didn’t” mood
luciabasigalup
I honestly thought this guy couldn't speak New English. I feel betrayed
taniamanik
Guy: “Can you understand me?”
Baldrik: “Ja.”
Valhalla_Heathen
Old English is waay easier to read and understand if you're German, because we still have all the inflectional case markings that Old English had. Also a lot of the OE words are a lot more similar to the German cognates than to the PDE equivalents.
This comes in really handy when you're a German studying English diachronic linguistics :D
johannasophia
This dude looks like he just got out of The Lord of the Rings movies.
MexlycanFilmico
Your pronunciation is really good, you should do a Canterbury Tales series.
unfinishedtelevision
Many years ago I was walking up the stairs at home saying out loud "a", "e", "i", "o", "u" at each step. My kids asked me what was I doing. I said I was having a vowel movement. This was my great vowel shift.
shaneeaston
I love these videos. I teach English in California and show these to my students.
vilicus
I've realised something very important recently when exploring other languages and cultures: How insufficient my understanding of my own native language really is. Your vids were an immeasurable help in this realisation. Thank you sir.
Nikelaos_Khristianos
I think many people overlook the cultural and historical aspects of the English. As if English is the vanilla flavor and all the other cultures and languages are interesting. I think other people like to make English just a combination or alteration of other languages. Though that may be true, all languages are related, and English is just as valid of a language as any other. I find lots of people that are fascinated with ancient Rome or Persia or Scandinavia or Germany, and they geek out over the battles and lore and rituals and languages of these cultures, but few are interested in ancient England. This is just my experience here in the southern US, but I think it's a shame we overlook some cultural just because of their familiarity
natejack
This totally reminds me of when I visited Kenya. I went with a Tanzanian who talked about how Kenyan's speak "bad" Swahili. From what I gather there are a lot of polyglots in that region of the world. Swahili and English are both a lingua franca in both countries, but everyone has their own tribal or ethnic language. I guess when you have many groups of people who don't share a native language the mutually intelligible language probably starts to shift and change more rapidly than it normally would. Maybe 200 years from now there will be a New Swahili that will be very different from what people speak today.
t_ylr
I find this most interesting. I have been living in Germany for 50 years and have learned to hear and understand the many different inflections in the many dialects spoken. Language is always changing and I find it unfortunate that some modern forms of English try to simplify and reduce the richness of the language. Local dialects reveal the history behind speech. Don't lose them!
marylochhas
This theory makes a lot of sense, I'm a native Spanish speaker, I've been in the UK for a decade now and I've always been interested in languages and history to me your theory explains the crazy difference between old English and modern English, as a Spanish speaker I can read any text in Spanish even from the 9th century and nothing really has changed other that some letters would have sounded more Italian than Spanish like the letter "z" I can even understand most words in any Latin text although I couldn't understand the context or what the text actually says but I have tried to understand old English and I've always found it fascinating how different it is to modern English, it's a language I'd like to learn.
