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[–] cucumberbob@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There’s a guy on YouTube who, among other things, makes language intelligibility videos. Here’s the one he did on how well German speakers can understand Old English

[–] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This video is also a good one!

Or this one.

As a Dutch speaker, I can understand some of the Old English, but not all of it.