Middle High German: Languages of the World: Introductory Ove

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
• Middle
• High
• German
• MHG
• Mittelhochdeutsch
• MHD

[ferladdie]

Dear Professor Arguelles,

are you still interested in a video-reading of this text? I am German and studied this stage of german and could send you one.

Regards,

Nicholas Gudrich, M.A.

[ProfASAr]

@ferladdie Yes, please do this. I am sorry for the delayed response, but I did not see your comment until just now.

[ferladdie]

@ProfASAr sorry, it's under "nibelungen". I tried to put the link here but it didn't work.

[ProfASAr]

@ferladdie Have you tried to link it here as a "video response"?

[SarcasticWino]

This guy is awesome... language is so interesting to me

[Jotamrocksdashit]

Dear ProfASAr,

unfortunately you made a couple of mistakes when you read the text for us.

Two vowls always mean a diphthong in MHG, so it would be "muosen", not "musen". Also you got the "ei" confused with the "ei" of today's German. At this time it was spoken like you would pronounce an "ey".

Every single vowl is a short vowl, long vowls are marked by an circumflex. "klagen" has to be short, if it was today's German, you would spell it "saggen".

Anyways, I appreciate the effort. Thank you.

[wetekind1]

Was würde der Duden dazu sagen?

[1890matteo]

@ProfASAr

Dear Professor Arguelles,

I have a question: How should I pronounce this " î "? I've always pronounced it as the modern German diphthong "ei", which makes it easier to understand words such as sîn (sein), or lîp (Leib), or wîp (Weib).

Thank you very much

[nublered]

nice video, just a question:

from my intuition: doesn't ward translate into "has/had been" rather than became?

[HesseJamez]

@strophe4

Vollpfosten schreibt man aber mit "PF", du Feife....

[Spieldamelenium]

Schöne sprache.

[beegir2002]

I studied for a year in Austria and I found I can understand a bit of this!

[CelticSister]

I love speaking and hearing different languages!

I am German and speak English, Swedish and Norwegian and little French and very little Italian and Spanish.

And I love the old languages, too.

Thank you so much for your introductories!

[kleinerchecker12345]

could you please tell me waht the most difficult language is that you ever learned or you ever had to deal with?

thank you

[ramade100]

it´s so funny as a german to read or listen to this and understand

almost everything if you also know a little bit english and latin

:D

[Dagonetification]

and one thing left: :-) ... "arebeit" doesn't mean "work" or "deeds", but "suffering" or "effort".