This is interesting to see as someone who hasn't been able to afford to travel. One of the cool things since learning German that I have noticed is that I can read a lot of Swedish and Dutch. Those languages kind of look like a combination of English and German with alternative spelling to me now.
Before English standardized, you could be in different parts of what is now england and hear 'egges' and 'eier' depending on which languages influenced things.
This is interesting to see as someone who hasn't been able to afford to travel. One of the cool things since learning German that I have noticed is that I can read a lot of Swedish and Dutch. Those languages kind of look like a combination of English and German with alternative spelling to me now.
Yeah I would say there's a spectrum of intelligibility of English - Dutch - Swedish - German.
Before English standardized, you could be in different parts of what is now england and hear 'egges' and 'eier' depending on which languages influenced things.