Frisian: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews

Alexander Arguelles presents a series of videos to provide introductory overviews of the languages of the world. Working diachronically through various language families in turn, he demonstrates how to identify each language, translates a text sample to show how it works, and discusses its genetic affiliation and cultural context. For further information about the series, please refer to http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• polyglottery
• polyglots
• foreign
• language
• learning
• Frisian
• Frysk

[DerPrinzVonPreussen]

@xXDominoXx

Actually it is the closest, my linguistics prof said it has closer grammar than german. It is the closest language to English 

[superstormj]

Thank you for making these videos! :3

[theothefox]

Proud to be from Fryslan,......Fryslan Boppe, Well done Alexander

[Pierdonia]

Men moat net alles sizze wat men wit, mar wol alles witte wat men seit

[HarryBodensson]

@harrychown1989

Scots is the second purest form of English. So no it's not anything near a language like old English was but it's closer to old English than modern English believe it or not.

[moomoochacoo]

i wanna learn this now i dont know why.

[Honeydew7396]

Huh. It sounds like German or Dutch with a Scottish accent, kinda. It's really cool.

[marinesproudsis32]

i think dutch sounds closer to english than frisian!

[KillerBee256]

Seems like it's a half way point between english and german.

[pashedmotatos]

isn't it pronounced like Frees-ee-an?

[harrychown1989]

@junglefresssh Scots ain't exactly a language. It's a strong dialect of English with a few different words thrown in like American English.

[VolvenIV]

I saw a spongebob episode in Frissian once. yeah idk why I said that it just sounded funny.