Can Danes understand low German?

Can Danes understand low German?

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I'm not convinced Danes can understand each other

probably less than they can understand english

As a person who speaks dutch, Frisian and decent german most of these kinds of maps only show relation and language roots, not mutual intelligibility. Its very hard to follow our neighbours without prior knowlegde.

this. I think they just ruined their language so they wouldn't have to talk to Swedes

no

Can you guys understand some of this

youtu.be/7EKmx5pMuxg?t=5m49s

Starting from 5:59.

5:49*

as a swede i can understand the context of most dutch conversations, same with german but much less

No, I can't

no not a word, sounds a bit like dutch but somehow less alien
understood way more of the german being spoken

I don't understand any of it

Is there any other European people who can semi/mutually understand English without any teaching in it?

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If you speak a Romance language then you can understand the gist of certain academic or journalist articles that is laced with Latin-based loanwords. You have to understand that English underwent several drastic changes during its history due to strong contact with other languages like Celtic ones, Norman French and Old Norse which had an almost créolizing effect on English.

This is Frisian, the closest linguistic relative to current English varieties.

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Not at all, I can't even understand regular german

Hallo! Wie gehts?

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netherlands

no,no you got it wrong
the northern dialect is "low"

We gets what?

unironically this
that just sound like regular dutch?