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| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6120 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 1 of 7 18 November 2011 at 4:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I saw an interesting dutch language interview here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/alternative-languages/hp_ssp/trydutch/i nterview.html ...and I was able to understand maybe 80%, after watching it 3 times. It was fun trying to figure it out and noticing new words each time I watched -much of it just sounds like heavily accented English. Anyway I wanted to ask if any of you knew of any other video/text samples in a Germanic language that could possibly be understood by English speakers. Edited by tritone on 18 November 2011 at 4:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2 of 7 18 November 2011 at 5:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Try your luck with the model Doutzen Kroes speaking West Frisian (with English subtitles for comparison) or Dr. Dauvit Horsbroch talking about Scots in Scots (if you consider Scots to be a distinct language rather than an English dialect)
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| ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5032 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 7 18 November 2011 at 8:39am | IP Logged | ||
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De kat zat op de mat. Could you understand that? You just read you first Dutch sentence.
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 4 of 7 18 November 2011 at 11:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Very simple Dutch and German can be intelligible to English speakers without prior study, but that is about it. My guess is that, without the Norman Conquest bringing a huge influx of Romance vocabulary, there would have been much greater intelligibility between these languages and English than there now is. English to me feels likes a Germanic language, but only just, and there may be grounds for viewing it as semi-Romance.
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5226 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 5 of 7 18 November 2011 at 11:37am | IP Logged | ||
The book "Studien und Plaudereien, by Sigmon M. Stern" (there's a second series) was mentioned in the thread Natural method for German. From the transcriber's notes at P. Gutenberg: "Even though nearly the entire book is in German, an English speaker can read the book cover–to–cover without any other reference work. This is a remarkable feat of authorship." with which I concur. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 7 18 November 2011 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have listened to the lecture in Scots of dr. Dauvit Horsbroch (thanks to Chung), and I would be surprised if native English speakers couldn't understand most of it - but sometimes he ventures into Northerly dialects and he quotes a poem which could be slightly more problematic - at least there were a number of words which caused me problems. But mostly he speaks the 'mild' version of Scots.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 7 of 7 19 November 2011 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dauvit Horsbroch... That's an bit of a weird video, because he's overpronouncing certain sounds. To a point, his accent is more "Scottish English" than Scots, even though he is talking Scots (grammatically, and in terms of vocabulary).
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