Old Swedish: Languages of the World: Introductory Overview

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:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• polyglottery
• Old
• Swedish
• East
• Norse
• Fornsvenska

[Duvefjord101]

vi borde snacka runsråk istället!!?!?! tummen upp om ni håller med!!

[ALBIONTYKE]

It's amazing to think that all those years ago you could trek through out Scandinavia, Germany, The Netherlands and England and they could all understand each other

[johanbogg]

@bushinarin skriver is more proper to use there...

[bushinarin]

@wakeupjimmy Är du svensk? Jag är amerikan, och du skriva som jag skulle.

[Cronkonium]

@JoachimderZweite Why Harvard? You can take Scandinavian languages in Sweden or other Scand. countries. I would much rather prefer to learn the language within the country itself rather than in a foreign classroom. I have to say though what I have found out is that with learning so many different ways of pronuncing the latin characters (characters overall) that it is often confusing in other languages and it sometimes takes practice getting rid of your personal preferences to speak properly.

[Penguinpimp95]

I love you...



[TheSeriousBeast]

Ojj, som språket ser ut idag i förorterna osv ser ju inte så bra ut då vi aldrig kommer kunna lära oss gammelsvenskan igen.

[Skraelingful]

@Svitjod100 Jag hoppas att svenskan börjar ta rikting lite tillbaka till fornnordiskan så att vi inte förlorar vårat kulturarv helt. Vi har så många låneord som nästan förstört svenskan.

[JoachimderZweite]

I love the fact that there are people who are passionate about the Germanic languages. I speak German and have just started learning Swedish and I am loving it. If I were young I would major in Scandinavian Languages at Harvard.

[lukashausler]

@wakeupjimmy

Minst!

[wakeupjimmy]

haha jag älskar den här personens entusiasm. Lite som att han har druckit för mycket kaffe innan videon:) Detta var mycket intressant/informativt, tack!

[RalfdaLau]

its amazing how the English language has evolved