I Tried Speaking “Old English” in the Last Town That Still Speaks It

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I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare language called West Frisian, but is remarkably similar to Old English, so similar in fact that 1,000 years ago the English and Frisians could understand each other, and even you too modern English speaker can probably understand much of the dialogue in this video. That’s because West Frisian, a language spoken in the coastal Netherlands province of Friesland, is the closest living relative of modern English. Frisian is getting more and more rare these days, but I visited Leeuwarden, the capital of Friesland, to see just how far this “Old English” could carry me and the result just totally blew my mind.

0:00 Introduction
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1:41 Why is this language so similar to Old English?
2:53 "Why are you learning Frisian?”
4:45 Interviewed by a reporter
5:12 A farmer sells me buttermilk in Frisian
5:54 Frisian man gives me food to eat
6:53 Very traditional Frisian store shocked that I speak Frisian
12:15 Friesland is closer to England than Holland
13:10 If you pronounced this wrong you would be killed
14:16 A raw milk vending machine

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