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Germanic Languages are spoken natively by about 515 million people and by 2 billion as a total (native and second language speakers) around the world. English 0:00 German (Deutsch) 0:2 Dutch 0:47 Swedish 1:16 Afrikaans 1:47 Danish 2:14 Norwegian 2:37 Yiddish 3:01 Luxembourgish 3:30 Icelandic (Icelandic) 3:57 Faroese (Føroysk) 4:22
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Out of those languages, Luxembourgish weirdly seemed like the easiest one to keep up with, at least as far as picking out random words with no prior exposure to any of them. I was expecting Dutch to be easier, but whatever Luxembourgish is, it feels strangely familiar. Not really sure why. Maybe it had something to do with who was speaking it. And even though I can tell it's related to German, for some reason it just sounds a lot more pleasant to the ear than German itself.
I'm from Switzerland (mostly speaking french but also german) and I can say that dutch and nordic languages sounds like broken german to me, especially dutch feels like i'm hearing someone drunk trying to speak a weird german dialect lmao
For the German news, is that Eva Herman?
All germanic speakers sgould unite and give a fuck about eu
I'm fluent in English, Swedish and I studied German from 6th-10th grade. I understood
English:100%
German: 75%
Dutch: 1%
Svenska: 100%
Afrikaans: 0%
Dansk: 3%
Norsk: 85%
Yiddish: 0%
Luxembourgish: 0%
Icelandic: 0%
Faroese: 0%
most surprising is Dutch, their slurring sounds like the way Irish does, the Swedish tone actually sounds somewhere in the middle between casual American conversation and British politeness, whilst Norwegian and German sounded in a female voice both tone nearly to the fullest.
Afrikaans also seemed closet to German but more harsh and directly sounding. Yiddish is the secondary surprise as it's nearly German but clearly originated from arabic.
Every other language I think goes outside of the group and that is Luxemburg which sounds as though is heavily Latin influenced likely by the French and even in my mind Russian for some ways of word pronunciation.
As an english speaker I always think English sounds the most different to the rest or is it because it's my native language? Hmm.
as an Indonesian, i wish we were colonized by the Germans.
As a dutch person, danish sounds like as an Asian influenced language
only scotch is missing
i love icelandic sooo much. i want to learn it but there are nearly 0 resources 🙁 but i love swedish and norwegian too, and i’m learning swedish now! ☺️
Então qual é o Pai do Neerlandês??
É o Alemão??
Ou é o Neerlandês que é o Pai do Alemão??🤔
Dutch sounds like a combination of German and the Sims language with a french accent.
Dutch sounds like a drunkin Irishman speaking German.
Considering their evolutionary distance, it’s actually impressive how spoken Icelandic sounds a lot like Dutch for me – a neutral listener. The rhythm and everything. Except by the fact that Icelandic has not the G Dutch sound.
And the gotish tongue?
As a Dutch speaker trying to learn Swedish and German, I understand:
Dutch 100%
German 90%
English 100%
Swedish 70%
Norwegian 60%
Danish 30%
Icelandic and Faroese 0%
Yiddish 60%
African 90%
Luxembourgisch 40%
English is closest to Dutch here in terms of its structure and words, but sounds and has the rhythm of Danish to me! The Old Norse must have had a big impact on the Old English and of course we know Norman French did.
Jiddisch sounds good, it is a serious contender for the best sounding germanic tongue..
I start understanding Danish!!!! befokk!!!
Other than English these languages are what I hear English sound like when I still can't speak and understand it.
I'm Russian and I like Dutch, German and Icelandic, but Icelandic is my favorite one and Dutch is between German and Icelandic!
English sounds too arrogant and haughty.
0:00 sounds good
0:24 perfect
0:47 terrible (sorry)
1:16 good
1:47 ok
2:14 terrible (sorry)
2:37 good
3:01 ok
3:30 good
3:57 ok
4:22 perfect (Sounds like turkish)
Luxembourgish seems to have French influence?
As a Dutch speaker i can understand Afrikaans 100%. German 80%. I can understand some Nordic words but not enough to know what the conversation is about. The rest is just like any other foreign language. Unintelligable.
Dutch is by far the worst lmao
Yiddish sound to me German
I find spoken Danish to be confusingly different from written Danish. It's not the æ, ø and å that are the problem, it's the fact half of the Ds and Bs are missing in seemingly random places
Germanic isn’t German
Afrikaans is basically dutch
Danish is Diet Deutsch.