The Frisian part was really funny because it sounds so much like English and it sounded like he was an extrmply drunk farmer sluring his words. I'm sure it won't sound like that after I learn it.
Very good and interesting footage. Well done! Ps - For those who are interested in Germanic languages, I have "discovered" another one - the Vilamovian language. It is spoken in only one town in Poland. The Language is related to the Dutch and Low-German dialects, was introduced in the Town of Wilamowice by the Western Europeans settlers who came there in the 13th century. Nowadays it's at risk of falling out of use.
At least I can understand most of these languages when they say prepositions..."in, over, under". That West Frisian man was the coolest speaker of all!
Very interesting! One thing I notice about the Flanders and other northern low land tongues like West Frisian, even though they're unintelligible to me, is how they seem to have what to my ears sounds like that "Scottish brogue"! After listening to other examples of Frisian available on TH-cam, and a quick vid on the Scots dialect, I realized that this "Scottish brogue", which I have always assumed was a function of Scottish Gaelic, is in fact a characteristic feature of the Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic languages and authentic English. This is what one would have heard at one time across the entire expanse of Britain! The bull$#1+ Queen's English accent of Oxford and which became the standard for performances of Shakespeare, for example, is a relatively recent thing. Thanks for posting this!
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The Frisian part was really funny because it sounds so much like English and it sounded like he was an extrmply drunk farmer sluring his words. I'm sure it won't sound like that after I learn it.
Nothing against you, but the low german video is very bad, because the banker uses hundreds of german words, who cant be translated into low german.
Frisian sounds so English I feel like I should understand it. It just sounds like an English speaker having a stroke or something.
I'm German and it is harder to understand swiss german than english to me...
They forgot Faroese
English is a strange dialect of German..shocking that is so widely spoken..
I'm from the Netherlands and i can understand a little of al these languages so cool Germanic bro's :D
Why are Francoinian and Bavarian own languages in this video? They're just German dialects as Swabian or Colognian or whatever...
The Scot's pronunciation sounded like a hybrid of Norwegian and English
Western Frisian sounds likes American English and it hurts my brain.
Standard German -
As an English speaker, it sounds like the Frisian guy is deliberately speaking jibberish. Really uncanny.
Southwest Jutlandic sounds like someone who's completely wasted!! haha
South West Jutlandic (from
Very good and interesting footage. Well done!
Ps - For those who are interested in Germanic languages, I have "discovered" another one - the Vilamovian language. It is spoken in only one town in Poland. The Language is related to the Dutch and Low-German dialects, was introduced in the Town of Wilamowice by the Western Europeans settlers who came there in the 13th century. Nowadays it's at risk of falling out of use.
At least I can understand most of these languages when they say prepositions..."in, over, under". That West Frisian man was the coolest speaker of all!
Very interesting! One thing I notice about the Flanders and other northern low land tongues like West Frisian, even though they're unintelligible to me, is how they seem to have what to my ears sounds like that "Scottish brogue"! After listening to other examples of Frisian available on TH-cam, and a quick vid on the Scots dialect, I realized that this "Scottish brogue", which I have always assumed was a function of Scottish Gaelic, is in fact a characteristic feature of the Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic languages and authentic English. This is what one would have heard at one time across the entire expanse of Britain! The bull$#1+ Queen's English accent of Oxford and which became the standard for performances of Shakespeare, for example, is a relatively recent thing. Thanks for posting this!
Weirrrrd, Luxembourgish kept switching from sounding like Dutch to german to french
i really love germanic languages, im also learning dutch, thats so beautiful
Wow, West Frisian is about a hair's breadth away from sounding like English, and yet I still can't understand a single word of it.