Germanic Languages Comparison

Dutch people should clear the spits out of their mouth before they speak.

As well as being connected through their languages, are all of these Germanic peoples genetically connected?

Icelandic, Norwegian, Dutch and German are probably my favorites. Especially Icelandic.

Old English - back in the 1400s sounds VERY German.

Dutch sounds like its having an identity crisis

As a Chinese, I can understand English German Yiddish

Esperanto?

My family spoke a form of Low German from the Middle Ages.

Except English and German they have something in their throat.

As a russian kid with 10 years of Deutsch in school I have to say to all Dutch: HOT PATAYTA, VERY HOT POPAYTO!

Dutch sounds worse than German!

As a Dutch person learning Norwegian I understood:
English 100%
German: 75%
Dutch: 100%
Swedish: 25%
African: 95%
Danish: 5% 😭
Norwegian: 60%
Yiddish: 40%
Luxembourgish: 25%
Icelandic: 15%
Faroese: 2%
Bonus:
With Frisian the language you forgot I would understand: 99%

what aboot Frisian?

It's so weird, I know why this is the case but it almost sounds like they're trying to speak English

Languages I understood as English as my 2nd language
Swedish-10%
German- 2%
Yiddish-1%
Faroes-1%
Icelandic-0%
Dutch-0%

O inglês nunca deveria ser considerado uma lingua germânica, nao tem nada a ver com elas

As a Dutch speaker I understood:
- English: 100%
- German: 100% (I had German as my second foreign language in school)
- Afrikaans: 90%
- Yiddish: 80%
- Luxembourgish: 50%
- Swedish: 15%
- Danish/Faroese/Norwegian: 2-3%
- Icelandic: 0%

It is interesting that you can still hear the Proto-Germanic stress pattern when primarily the first syllable is stressed in all Germanic languages.

Ich verstehe Afrikaans einfach besser als niederländisch.

How is jiddis a germanic language?

Jeg har akkurat merket, that I can cover about 70% of germania med språkkunnskapene mine. Ich denke ich sollte jiddish lernen. :D

YEAH RIGHT! While you are at it BULLSHITTING, why don't you link Chinese and Hindi to German too......

its crazy cuz I feel like English is so different from them all like im a native English speaker and only know a little bit of German so I got some of that but literally nothing of everything else and everyone in the comments who is like German, Swedish, or something else can understand a bit of either most of the languages or find some other language very understandable besides English. English is obviously understood because they were taught it but as a native English speaker I don't get a lot of it (tho I know German does have a good amount of similar-sounding words that mean the same thing but its mostly casual speech I feel like and dutch is considered the closest to English but I don't really get it most of the time)

As a Spanish speaker I didn't even understan my language itself

As a European Portuguese speaker who has studied some of this languages, I can say that:

I understood English perfectly because, well, it's the current lingua-franca of the World and she spoke quite clearly, so, yeah, 100% understood.

I had some classes of German so I could understand some stuff, not a lot, but enough to understand what she was talking about, I would say 25 to 35%, more or less.

The same applies to Dutch, I only had classes on Duolingo but I've been in contact quite often with the Dutch language therefore it was not too difficult for me to understand some stuff, I would say 35%.

I've been in touch with the Swedish language before and from time to time I listen to some music in Swedish but it was a bit difficult for me to understand what she was saying, 15%, maybe.

Regarding Afrikaans, if you understand Dutch you can more or less understand Afrikaans, I mean, I understand a bit better Dutch than Afrikaans but the two languages are not too different, I would say I understood 25% of what the news reporter was saying.

As for Danish, yeah, I like the language, but it sounds very different from Swedish and Norwegian, probably only 5% understood.

As for Norwegian, it was probably the Scandinavian language in which I understood the most, 25%, I'd say.

Regarding Yiddish, yeah, it sounds like German but with a strong Hebrew flavour, I mean, it's somewhat understandable for German speakers and people who know some German but it's still different enough to miss some stuff, and the writing system is the Hebrew one therefore it's much easier to understand the oral language rather than the written one. 15% understood, more or less.

Luxembourgish I can say I could more or less understand some stuff because it sounds a lot like German, so, if you know some German you'll understand more or less well Luxembourgish, I would say 25% understood.

As for Icelandic, yeah, it was incredibly hard for me to understand, probably only 5%, if anything.

And finally, Faroese, yeah, forget it, I don't think I catch a single word there, 0%, really.

I like the Germanic languages, they're quite unique, obviously English is so ubiquitous that it's almost impossible for someone these days especially in the first world not to understand it, plus, for Romance language speakers it's incredible easy to understand because at least 75% of the English lexicon comes from Latin or French, so, yeah, easy-peasy. But my favourites I'd say are Dutch, German and Luxembourgish.

And yes, you forget about Frisian (Frysk), maybe in another video?

I'm learning Danish slow down man please

The Dutch is so weird as an Englishman, I feel as if I understand what they’re saying but at the exact same time they are speaking gibberish. On the other hand the Afrikaans clip is what I imagine English sounds like to non-speakers, however that may not be the case with the language as a whole.

Thank you, great video! But Swiss German is missing!! An understandable language for German, so it's not a dialect of German but a real language.

As a native english speaker i dont understand shit here

I felt like i almost understand German. It felt like when someone talks to you when you're drunk and you kind of understand what their saying but it also sounds jumbled.

Danish is like mix of chinese and german. Dutch is like mix of english and german

Luxemburgisch sounds like drunk German.

As my boss says: Dutch is when drunk German speaks English

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2nd Video from ARD1 (german national television)
The third one from RTL Dutch

Bundesliga 👀

Always surprises me how difficult Swedish is to understand as a Dane compared to Norwegian and German

As an American I didn't understand any of these

По моему забыли упомянуть фризский язык( фарерский был). Фризы, небольшой германоязычный народ, живущий на севере Нидерландов и Германии.

where is frisian

You forgot Low German, it's actually a different language from (High) German, and Frisian as well.

The Danish anchor has a very particular dialect - not sure whether its Amager or Vestegn but it is definitely one of the worst dialects of Danish.

Dutch sounds like an Irish German

English and Afrikaans speaker here, Danish sounds like the person is trying to swallow while they’re talking on some of the words

As a Russian and English speaker, I loved Afrikaans speech