Frisian Trade

[devilsMovieBull]

Becouse it was pert of frisia

[TheJudgeMic]

Why isn't east-frisia signed as frisian land??

[mahlithebest]

I'm from England and I can understand every other word.

[LOLLIEGEEFMELOLLY]

Frisian people are the most badass people on the planet!! Muaha, freedom forever

[Frysianboy]

jammer dot dorestad net meer von us is :(

[degruttepier]

mei ik jimme freegje wa't dy keart yn it filmke dien hat? it limburg fan no hat nea by fryslan heard! derneist wie it fryske ryk ek grutter oan e noard&east side

fjierder wol in moai filmke

[LOLLIEGEEFMELOLLY]

Frisian is my native language. I liked this video but that thing about that the trading over water stopped in 19th century is not true! The Frisians were still trading with countries over sea. Especially in the eel-trade with England. The village called Heeg even had his own domain right under the Tower Bridge on the Themes were only ships of the frisian were allowed to moor and for free of course. In 1914 it came to an end. Kinda nostalgic isn't it...

[petelucas51]

HI

This is fab, I live in Holland for a few months and picked up abit of Dutch (Hollans). This id Fries however is so near English my first language a lot of it is intelligable. it almost like a very thick Newcastle accent The two tongues Fries and English would have been the same at some point. I feel like if I had a sharp smack on the head I would understand ALL of this.

[Kdssow]

Ik ben een Hollander, maar ik kan het grotendeels verstaan aangezien ik uit een dorp kom die een oud-hollands dialect heeft.

[mratcl]

I can understand it from having learnt Dutch and my first language being English

[BiggestATLAfan]

I speak dutch but frissian just sounds strange to me but I still understood what was said.

[easterlinear]

sounds 100% like dutch, except i don't understand a word of it

[cubosensaj]

ik ben fries en ik kan geen fries hahaha!

[dinggeling]

kreas!

[iorixs]

erg interesting. bedankt for posting this video

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[madraven07]

It's amazing how similar Frisian sounds to English. I can almost understand it.

[NederSaks]

The best thing you did do was making it in Frisian, and you even added English subtitles.

Thumbs Up!

[ajoajoajoaj]

Wow, I was able to understand about a quarter of what he was saying.

[funkeyfact]

jo hei disse clip better maatsje in it engels

den ha der volle mer mense it ek kunne volgje

toch fan ek it informatief en positief

[zjeraar]

Thanks. There's a translation in English (under the button with the arrow), but I'm not sure if it shows automatically when one displays the clip.

[folkard84]

Also, who would write an introduction in English if not a word of it is spoken.

[zjeraar]

It's for a broader appeal. To interest people from other countries, like the people who've moved from Friesland to Canada, the USA and Australia in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.

The language actually is the second official one of the Netherlands. Not just only in Friesland.

[folkard84]

is this dutch or german,,,,words sound german but the sound of his accent seems dutch

[zjeraar]

It's Frisian. Who would have guessed, huh? :-)

It's the second official language of The Netherlands.

[folkard84]

within frysland province its co-official

[lightsky587]

@zjeraar

Dude, does Frisian have a strong " g" sound that is found in Dutch? I don't like that sound,makes my throat to hurt. I was thinking about learning Dutch but I don't like it because of that. In some other videos about Frisian languages, I don't hear that deep throat " g", but in others I hear a little bit, maybe because the guys are pronouncing it like in Dutch?

[zjeraar]

@lightsky587

Unfortunately, yes. The Frisian language also has that deep throat g sound, for example in the word 'acht', 'sjoch' and 'troch', which is 'eight', 'see' and 'through' or 'by' in English, respectively.

[ArgotMay]

I want to know more about my Frisian heritage. Good ol' Redbad! What did Freya ever do wrong ,but scare the kings?

[ferkeap]

moaie makke en nijscierig