“Netflix and Chill”
Hallo ihr alle,
day number 4 and the second Advent. Great time for some Netflix and Chill.
But that’s not what is behind this door.
The only thing wild, passionate and almost feral thing we do here is learning about German.
So what’s really behind today’s door?
It’s the Nemesis of Netflix and Chill:
Youtube and Learn
Seriously though, a while ago I came across a video about the various families of the Indo-European languages that I really liked and that I wanted to share with you.
I already shared a video about Indo-European a couple of years ago in the calendar, but that one was more focused on the absolute origin.
The one I want to share today gives us an overview over how the various branches evolved – the Latin branch, the Slavic branch, the Germanic branch and so on.
It’s really well made and informative and I definitely learned a few things I didn’t know. Which… actually isn’t that hard… I’m not an expert on this stuff by any means.
Anyway, if you’re interested in how the branches evolved and moved and changed, you’ll probably enjoy this. The very intro is a bit weird and generic, but
So if you need something to watch while eating dinner or lunch or just to relax, this is perfect.
Oh and by the way… they actually have a really interesting video sponsor for once, that they introduce in the beginning.
A service that lets you watch the video in several different languages, right there on Youtube, just by changing the settings.
German is not available for this video unfortunately, but if you’re learning Spanish or Hindi or Indonesian you can switch to those languages, too.
Anyway, viel Spaß with the video or just with a day off.
Have a great day and I’ll see you tomorrow :)
(Link to the video on Youtube: click here)
I know you would enjoy a couple of books I just read: ‘The Power of Babel’ by McWhorter and ‘Timeline’ by Micheal Crichton. The first is the History of language and the second is a group of historian that go back in time to 1400 France. Check them out!
I have to confess that I don’t really… read. It’s been years that I have read an actual book from start to finish and I don’t see it happening soon :). Aber trotzdem danke!!
Good one. This constant morphing of languages is super fascinating to me. It makes me want to go back in time and experience how all this happened.
This stuff is always happening, also today, but it’s just too slow for anyone to observe :). But yeah… it’s fascinating to think that Gothic for instance was the lingua franca in Europe at some point and still, it completely vanished.
Das YouTube Video war sehr interessant.
Fascinierend!
Ich mag Kings and Generals und dieses spezielle Video steht bereits auf meiner Beobachtungsliste. Beobachtungsliste, wow, das ist ein Schluck!
This is such a huge fascinating topic, difficult to pack into a 20 minute video
A few thoughts:
I was particularly interested to find that there was a romance language spoken in North Africa – I wonder if there are traces of that language in the languages that are spoken there today…
Was a bit confused by the statement that Celtic languages in the islands of Ireland and Britain were oppressed by “various states”. I’d have been interest to know where the idea of “various states” came from as I don’t think its controversial to say that the overriding factor here in the decline of these languages was English colonialism….
I’m slowly grinding my way through David Graeber and David Wengrow’s “Dawn of Everything”. They extensively criticise the idea that we can confidently infer from burial customs that ancient societies had a similar kinds of property relations to modern western societies, so I raised an eyebrow at this part too…
I found out recently that Bussi is word for kiss in certain parts of Germany (is this just a south German thing Emanuel?) and also in Farsi (Buss i think?) which I thought nicely underlines these deep rooted linguistic connections…
No, I know “Bussi” and it doesn’t strike me as southern. It’s this kind of “pecking”, quick kiss and it’s not erotic. Like what Italians do to greet, that’s
ok good to know, i knew the word then someone told me this was actually a south german thing recently, but you and Duden both say its not and the person who taught me it first never lived in south germany…
“Buss” is also an English word for kiss, albeit a bit archaic
Ähnlich ist es auch auf Polnisch:„buzi”
Das video übrigens war interessant. Danke
Now I checked the origin and the etymological dictionary mentioned that it’s part of a family that comes from a root for “mouth, lips” and that there’s a word in Polish “buzia(k)”, that also means that. Is that the same word?
Yes……
“buzia” is a face.
“buziak” is a kiss.
Give me a kiss (“buzi”).
In Swedish:
Puss – with lips closed
Kyss – with lips open (especially on the mouth of someone else, although the behind is another possibility)
The responses here really seem to validate the results of the last poll – it suffices to say that no member of Gen Z can discuss “Bussi” at length with a straight face.
Oh, because of the other English word that sounds similar :)?
Hallo,
Lil’ typo correcting as well, I also do that on Sundays :)
expert of this stuff (expert on this stuff)
you’re interested how (you’re interested in how)
service that lets you can watch (service that lets you watch)
Thanks for the video and bis morgen!