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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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.