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I think for the dialogue at around 12:40 there's a grammatical error with the Old English. "Hwā wunaþ in þæt hūs" should be "hwā wunaþ in þǣm hūse" because wunian is a static action not involving movement. The "þæt hūs" is accusative but you need "þǣm hūse" which is dative. It's the same in German how you say "ich wohne in dem Haus" instead of "ich wohne in das Haus".

Dragă româncă, de când a intrat cuvântul "OK" în vocabularul limbii române??? Acum nu mai există expresia "ei bine" în limba română? Sau crezi cumva că o persoană care vorbește latina înțelege mai bine cuvântul "OK" decât expresia "ei bine"?

Yes folks, people Who speaks 7 languages can't understand Danish!, That hard is it!, not even in 2 live times I could sound native in danish !

Sounds much more like Dutch than German.

The question is, can old English people understand German?

cheveux not cheuveux :)

Swedish: understands.

Tzicara in sardo. Xícara em português. Mata in portuguese is a general term for vegetation.

Maybe "blēo" is somehow connected to the german word "Blasonierung" or short "Blason" which is the description of a coat of arms in heraldry. A coat of arms consists of colours (not only, but yeah..), so you could use "Blason" as "colour" with a slight shift of meaning. Another thaught to support this idea is the expression "hoist the colours" or in german "Farbe bekennen" (show your colours), which makes the words "colour" and "coat of arms" identical. Okay, just looked it up. In French "blason" means actually coat of arms. Guess, I nailed it xD

uma das razoes do portugues brasileiro soar t'ao bem, eh que usamos a forma mais formal do portugues, muito obrigado eh a forma mais respeitosa de agradecer a alguem, agradecer eh diferente de ser grato.

Haha! So, us Dutch Brabanders and Limburgers belong to Flanders? We call fries/chips friet(en) too.

In some regions in Germany and also in german radio communication "Zwei" (two) is pronounced "Zwo", so that it can't be misunderstood as "Drei" (three), because through a walkie-talkie "Zwei" and "Drei" might sound quite similar. And in some german dialects, which are of course not written language but spoken, you'll hear people literally say "Zwa" instead of "Zwei". That's almost twā. Great video! I'd find it interesting to give out the written sentence before solving the riddle :)

id say that its not harder for the Võro to undertand Finnish because they are required to learn the north Estonian at schools.

äike = lightning, müristamine = thunder, äikesetorm = thunderstorm (I know funny)... no idea where you find these guys but they're not very good at this, most of us understand each-other much better than that, there are so many similar words they miss (in this and the other video with võro language). Funny fact: estonians understand finnish much better than vice versa - cause many go to work there or watch finnish TV channels, specially at the soviet times it was our only source of decent entertainment

Corsican is a central Italian dialect. It's only called a 'language' for sociopolitical reasons (much like 'Moldovan' and 'Romanian'). No insult intended to Corsican-speakers, but that's the truth. If Corsica were part of Italy, Corsican would not be considered a separate language any more than 'marchigiano' or 'umbro'.

As a fluent speaker of Romanian, Italian and English (with some understanding of German, Latin and Slavic languages): Gaulish is a lot easier to understand if you have knowledge of latin and some basic knowledge of indo-european roots. I speak no celtic laguages, but for me in the first sentence these words were obvious: CARRON COM MARUS EPUS (CAR/CHARRIOT WITH BIG HORSE). In the second sentence DEDE GLADION ISARNI RIG/gave gladius iron king: "dete" is gave in oltenian romanian, "gladion" is gladius, "isarni" is germanic iron and "rig" is rex, or "rege" in romanian. The third sentence was harder, since i only got "treis", but after the explanations I could make out cognates for "sin diu"- this day, "balcus" in slavic "bolshe", "caitu" in romanian "codru" (meaning dense forest). For the last "mediu" and "enter" were obvious but other words became clearer only after the translation: "etsi" - este in romanian, "derwon" - dendro, abo - apa in romanian. So, as a language I would put Gaulish more closer to PIE than to modern celtic languages, sadly, and even closer to Latin. The "gallo-latin" theory about a dead IE branch seems very plausible after seeing this video.

This is great format, but when they give you they answer you have to include English in order to understand each other. This way you never know if they give right answer and they also don't know because they don't understand you 🤔

I studied the German language and had to learn „Middle High German“, at university, the language that was spoken in German regions in the middle ages. What I found very interesting is that a lot of the words at the time had been much closer to English than today, because the German language has gone through some sound-shifts, like t -> z. „water“ became „wazzer“ and then „Wasser“ or p -> Pf/f like in pound -> Pfund. If you go even further back to Old German and Old English, then you have very similar languages, that have the same source and developed from there into different directions.

Simona a raison, c'est un coin en français en tout cas pour l'objet utilisé pour fendre le bois. Sinon, pour bloquer une porte ou une roue, on dit plutôt "une cale".

I absolutely love Slavic languages and how closely related they are to each other.

I find it strange she's from Gothenburg but has a very strong viby i common in Stockholm.

Я первый. I 1!

It sounds even more latin than french does.

The guy isn't a native Irish speaker. It's painful to listen to him.

Now do the can old English natives understand German?

I'm hearing some Norweigian tone in Welsh

Sì

Přidám se, milovník, nebo pravidelný konzument kávy je kafař. Máme jich tu nepočítaně.

Como Portuguesa consigo entender tanto 🙂E palavras como "cigarro" por exemplo, igual 😮 E vocês dizem algo parecido com o "quase todos" que usamos também.

It just sounded like English with a local accent and slang tbh. I feel like, for someone who isn’t well versed in English accents, it’d be easier to understand this than say a strong Geordie or a thick West Country.

me sa degjova un 70% ishin fjale te huaja

It's really similar to German, English in a twisted way.

ok, now I'll surprise you (!) - as a Pole(!!), I can say with 100% certainty (!!!) that I don't understand a single sentence, whether in German or Old English

"¿y Los usamos para comer?" "No... par bevi" 😂😂😂😂 100% furlan

Белорусский язык удивил - ничего не поняла. Чешский непонятный ожидаемо. Только Лёшу и поняла...

I started with Latin in our fifth-grade elementary school in the USA, and liked it so much I actually corrected the Teacher's pronunciation more than once, but not out of malice. This was the pure, phonetically consistent version from the Classical Period that is on display all over Rome, especially in the Vatican itself, and since then I view anyone who doesn't even try to get it right as a loser, Grammar Nazi that I am in several different languages by now, especially in German and Russian ;) Spanish and Italian are especially easy with a little effort, but Romanian is too far removed for me, even when a very attractive native speaker (and gymnast!) encouraged me to try!

Болгарский ближе к польскому получается, без вашей помощи Лёша мало что понял бы. И я ничего не поняла, если бы не текст

as who can speak catalan, italian, and a lil tiny bit of french, i found i can easily understand 80%+ occitan!

Romanian is interesting in that the letter "i" at the end of the word is almost silent but not quite. Her pronunciation of _holuri_ would be very hard for a native English-speaker to pronounce properly because we don't have vowels that become barely audible.

To je zajímavé, taky tomu rozumím...

super, ano, prosím

I got 6/8 as a German native speaker and for me the transcripts throw me off too. I need to hear the word and then see it, written alone is not enough. On a different note I still don't fully agree with something many people (including native Dutch speakers) have told me which is that Dutch sounds like "drunk German", but the more I listen the more I at least understand why people might think that.

the last cysqtig could mean geestig wich means funny

the wood is rotten . an there is wood enough or something

4 is you speak wild enough ? xd something with wood forward? i may deal mine angry ...? you did something something?

3 is somebody has strange something. something sound like lion

i heard mang instead of mann

second i think is 'you all much hard?' it sounds so weird how you say it xd .

actually i need a full sentence

what doors way day?