https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50By01L7uzY&feature=youtu.be
Old English at 8:30  Anybody understand anything?

Quote from: kalash on January 17, 2016, 04:39:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50By01L7uzY&feature=youtu.be
Old English at 8:30  Anybody understand anything?

A brick mason from Wales did some work at my house and I couldn't understand anything he said. 

Kalash, that was fascinating.  Thank you for posting.

OLD ENGLISH - I could not understand one syllable.  LOL 

LATIN - Call me naïve, but I was astounded how much Latin sounded like Italian, with a few "us" thrown onto the end of many words.   I knew 2 people who studied Latin in high school.  Neither one sounded like this.  They must have been speaking Philly-Latin, (i.e. Latin spoken with a Philadelphian accent)   
I studied in the medical world, heard Latin Medical-ese spoken constantly, yet no one sounded Italian.  Hearing Latin spoken as it should be put me into culture shock.  You mean the whole world does not sound like Philadelphia? 

ARAMAIC - This one really got me emotional.  Caused a serious case of the warm fuzzies, and my eyes to fill with sentimental tears.  This is the very language that my Jesus spoke.    
Reading His words translated into English in the bible is powerful enough, but hearing a man speaking His actual language really hit home.

Quote from: kalash on January 17, 2016, 04:39:04 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50By01L7uzY&feature=youtu.be
Old English at 8:30  Anybody understand anything?

Interesting, although the guy speaking had something like strong Hungarian accent, or probably more like Chinese or Japanese. The Old Church Slavonic (at 10:30) doesn't sound as it should have in my opinion, it was probably not spoken by a Slavic person, but some foreigner.