House Of The Rising Sun 1270 A.D (Cover in Old French 800-1400 A.D) Bardcore/Medieval style

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • 1270 A.D was a bad year to be in Tunisia, nobody won 😢
    Also, take me back to when the French used trilled R's 😂
    Original song by ‪@TheAnimalsOfficial‬ : • The Animals - House of...
    Apologies to all the French-speaking folk out there 😅 This was a really hard one and I know It's not perfect but please let me know what you think ❤❤❤
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    Also while making this video, a friend of mine introduced me to a cover of the original song done by a French artist Johnny Hallyday called "Le Penitencier." Its a damn nice cover too, (THANKS EMMAAA) Here's the link: • Johnny Hallyday - The ...
    I have been procrastinating a lot after going on a break weeks ago but I'm back folks. Currently working on upgrading my hardware, I will be getting a better mic and also a camera as I want to start posting videos soon. Want nothing but the best for all you lovely folk. Thank you as always ya'll kind folk for all the love and support. Let's make Bardcore last a 1000 years yeah?
    Also, Here be the lyrics. Courtesy of AB
    Il y a une meson en Orleans
    Qui se sousnomme le Soleil levant
    Et ele fu la ruine de maint garsilleurs
    Dont fui aussi partant….
    Ma mere estoit une taillieuse
    Qui cousit mes braies de lin
    Mon pere lui estoit un joueur et
    D’Orleans un citadin
    E les seules choses qu'un joueur requiert
    Sont une male et une botte
    E le seul moment de repos pour lui
    Est saül au fond d’un pot
    O, mere, di le aus anfaz
    De ne pas feire com moi
    Pechiez tout au lonc de vos tristes vies
    La ou le Soleil feict loy
    Bien, j'ai un pié sur le pavement
    L'autre est sur le char
    Sui de retorn a Orleans
    Ou l’air-mesme est une bare
    #theanimals #medieval #bardcore

Комментарии • 6 тыс.

  • @drymice500
    @drymice500 4 года назад +20659

    When I asked my History of English professor about the possibility to reconstruct some even older languages (like Proto-Indo-European and Germanic) so far as to use them creatively, he ridiculed me in front of the class and said it was a stupid idea. I'm glad I'm not alone with this idea, after all. 😍😍😍

    • @azenxhlaalu6338
      @azenxhlaalu6338 4 года назад +3039

      Wow how dare he. What kind of shallow academic disparages such intellectual creativity!
      Israel and Ireland are doing exactly what you describe...

    • @chasbodaniels1744
      @chasbodaniels1744 4 года назад +863

      “The History of English Podcast” covers Proto-Indo-European and the Germanic languages and their shifting geography, politics and socio-economic evolution in great detail. Brilliantly produced and it’s been running since 2014 +/-. Remarkable work. Available free on their website, or on the usual other sources.

    • @jimmyprantalos6482
      @jimmyprantalos6482 4 года назад +184

      He was right. We were not around to know what the languages sounded like now do we know the idioms of the time

    • @SightsNScapes
      @SightsNScapes 4 года назад +357

      Yeah but isn’t Proto Indo-European languages 4,000/5,000+years old? If so we have very little capability of reconstructing any meaningful language from the time, especially without knowing the writing system it’s a dead language.
      We aren’t even particularly sure of how Latin sounded we have very good educated guesses but we truly don’t know, so to try and make a song out of a language being reconstructed that is several thousand years older than Roman Latin? Yes that’s an absolutely silly thing to think is possible.
      I apologize if some of my grammar is off I’m using talk and text on my phone

    • @dylantatarian2372
      @dylantatarian2372 4 года назад +799

      That’s sounds like an awful teacher. Ridiculing a student for wanting do something productive and academic. It’s kind of like the opposite of what a teachers meant to do...

  • @mrfish1178
    @mrfish1178 4 года назад +10899

    Next song: Pompeii in ancient Latin

    • @mnorth1351
      @mnorth1351 4 года назад +207

      That would not be very hard (comparatively - since lots of people know Latin) - I don't think Latin has changed very much since is stared being written down. And to the extent that it has, "old" Latin would be more like before year 0 AD - And that does not quite seem medieval. Ironically, medieval Latin would be "new Latin" technically. That would be ecclesiastical Latin, rather than Classical Latin. But even then, ai think the only differences are pronunciation and a little bit of different vocabulary being favored (but the old vocab still being known and in use, for old texts) - it is really not comparable to the difference between modern English and Old English.

    • @timomastosalo
      @timomastosalo 4 года назад +138

      House of the Burning Lava

    • @valentinmitterbauer4196
      @valentinmitterbauer4196 4 года назад +151

      @@mnorth1351 There are some difference between "Caesars" latin and "medieval" latin, so to speak. For example, Caesar's name is pronounced "zee-zar" in modern english, in "modern" latin it's "tze-zar" (with e like in "red"), in classical latin he would be pronounced "ka-e-zar", almost like the german word "Kaiser" (meaning emperor). Same with Cicero being pronounced as Kikero instead of Tzitzero and so on. From my experience though english speakers have more trouble with latin pronounciation by default than, for example, italians or germans.

    • @jabrrwocky
      @jabrrwocky 4 года назад +20

      Yes please would love a bardcore Latin cover

    • @AgmaSchwa
      @AgmaSchwa 4 года назад +10

      oh that would be beautiful

  • @tazking93
    @tazking93 4 года назад +2203

    I love the touch that the city being talked about is Orleans not New Orleans... That made my day

    • @althealligator1467
      @althealligator1467 4 года назад +23

      I mean yeah but that's why it's in Old French

    • @thedj67
      @thedj67 4 года назад +95

      @@althealligator1467 Orléans is a french city. New Orleans was named after it and still called "Nouvelle Orléans" in french.

    • @althealligator1467
      @althealligator1467 4 года назад +21

      @@thedj67 rEaLlY? i DiDn'T kNoW! i'M fRrEnCh AnD i DiDn'T eVeN kNoW tHaT! lIkE mY rEpLy WaSn'T bAsED oN tHe fAcT tHaT i AlrEaDy kNeW tHaT iNfoRmAtIoN aT AlL!

    • @thedj67
      @thedj67 4 года назад +77

      @@althealligator1467 l'idiot du village

    • @tamerelapute5256
      @tamerelapute5256 4 года назад +13

      @@althealligator1467 malaise supprime

  • @drtrekwars
    @drtrekwars 4 года назад +3470

    People in 2019: I can't WAIT for next year! I want sharp suits, jazz and swing music, and Peaky Blinders to return for the 20's!
    2020: Best I can do is 1120 🤷‍♂️Enjoy Bardcore and a new plague

    • @Mr-__-Sy
      @Mr-__-Sy 4 года назад +173

      Man you're right, 2020 is just black death with internet

    • @SukacitaYeremia
      @SukacitaYeremia 4 года назад +61

      Yeah, isn't it weird? Right when a pandemic arises, a genre arises in popularity that represents music from around the same era as the previous great pandemic (Spanish Flu aside, although I could argue that it's the era from which electroswing and the sorts took inspiration from).

    • @deadacc2816
      @deadacc2816 4 года назад +6

      god this is true and i hate it

    • @-haclong2366
      @-haclong2366 4 года назад +12

      @The Knight Spain didn't exist in 1120.

    • @kvproductions2581
      @kvproductions2581 4 года назад +4

      @@-haclong2366 .... whut. I'm not a history expert but... i'm pretty sure it did man

  • @dualkitsune3813
    @dualkitsune3813 4 года назад +326

    "Where the air itself is an obstacle." Well damn, this man has Definitely been in Orleans.

  • @Zer035_eee
    @Zer035_eee 2 года назад +40

    As a bilingual from Canada I can understand most if not all the lyrics, most of the words are almost all the same, it truly is a masterpiece…

  • @dmitrys.2932
    @dmitrys.2932 3 года назад +164

    Old French sounds so epic. True language of Knights

    • @Thefrenchishere
      @Thefrenchishere Год назад +13

      Deus vult ! ✝⚜

    • @carloolivari1072
      @carloolivari1072 11 месяцев назад +29

      I speak French to men, Italian to women, Spanish to God, and German to my horse.
      - Charles V, Holy Roman Emporer

    • @sabrasabranise3335
      @sabrasabranise3335 11 месяцев назад +16

      @@carloolivari1072 It's not correct. this one is : "I speak English to my accountants, French to my ambassadors, Italian to my mistress, Latin to my God, and German to my horse"

    • @carloolivari1072
      @carloolivari1072 11 месяцев назад

      @@sabrasabranise3335 ok, fair enough, mais pour quoi?

    • @sabrasabranise3335
      @sabrasabranise3335 11 месяцев назад +8

      @@carloolivari1072 I speak spanish to god seemed really weird. How come he will speak spanish to god ? So I checked if he really said that, and not. It's Latin, not Spanish. Which make more sense.

  • @jessicawardlaw1821
    @jessicawardlaw1821 4 года назад +2243

    Next: zeppelin's Immigrant Song in Norse language

    • @jeniseerikson5109
      @jeniseerikson5109 4 года назад +60

      honestly this should be done

    • @ericko5232
      @ericko5232 4 года назад +13

      OMG Yes, please do it!!!
      I beg you

    • @WendingWind
      @WendingWind 4 года назад +11

      We don't know enough about spoken old Norse to accurately portray it, unfortunately.

    • @yiftacheliav1099
      @yiftacheliav1099 4 года назад +6

      Ja! Jeg trenger det!

    • @Gandalf-The-Green
      @Gandalf-The-Green 4 года назад +19

      @@WendingWind I think we should ask Dr. Crawford of Colorado University, he can do it.

  • @BrotherInfernus
    @BrotherInfernus 4 года назад +284

    As a medieval historian who studied a lot of documents written in medieval french...I must say it's very good!

    • @I6074
      @I6074 4 года назад +1

      What is the meaning of "garsilleurs"? I

    • @PatrickBaele
      @PatrickBaele 4 года назад

      Danny Lake-Giguère mais enfin,faut pas trop rigoler....

    • @raphaelfillos6120
      @raphaelfillos6120 4 года назад +14

      The pronounciation is very off, but the lyrics are really accurate.

    • @bebetyechandler32
      @bebetyechandler32 4 года назад

      @@raphaelfillos6120 i was wondering about that 😂 i wasn't sure whether "ancient french" just had different pronounciation

    • @raphaelfillos6120
      @raphaelfillos6120 4 года назад +3

      @@bebetyechandler32 I'm native french, the singer isn't a native or fluent speaker for sure.

  • @Phlebas
    @Phlebas 4 года назад +117

    I am impressed by the sheer nerdiness of this.
    Also, I was kind of surprised that I could understand Old French without too much difficulty despite being an English speaker. Medieval English, on the other hand, might as well be another language to me. I don't know if this is because French hasn't changed as much or if my brain is just in "second language mode" and I'm just understanding every third word and filling in the blanks without realizing it.
    Edit: Probably helps that I'm familiar with the original song.

    • @user-rn6cb5tc6r
      @user-rn6cb5tc6r 4 года назад +10

      And older versions of English are much more German, while modern English borrows a crap ton of French and Latin. This has more cognates to pull from.

    • @hayalci
      @hayalci 4 года назад +4

      it's the subtitles

    • @fevriertheo1414
      @fevriertheo1414 4 года назад +2

      As a french native speaker, modern english is a walk in the park, Medieval english on the other hand...

    • @Yougaljuboja
      @Yougaljuboja 4 года назад +2

      Well, lucky you, because I'm french and I could barely decypher anything ;-)
      It doesn't sounds like old french, it only sounds like a non-french english speaker trying to read a french text.

    • @fevriertheo1414
      @fevriertheo1414 4 года назад

      @@Yougaljuboja Except for the pronunciation of the double Ls it seems to be correct from what I could find on the subject

  • @princecalcium
    @princecalcium 5 месяцев назад +2

    taking french class and loving the fact that I can understand this without subtitles! really goes to show how much cognates help

  • @IblOOpQc
    @IblOOpQc 4 года назад +1635

    As someone who lives in Québec where French hasn’t evolved since the 1600/1700s this sounds exactly like the informal French I would speak with my friends although with a slight English accent.

    • @the_miracle_aligner
      @the_miracle_aligner  4 года назад +241

      I live in Montreal rn, lovin Quebec and its chill history ❤😁

    • @alexm.4876
      @alexm.4876 4 года назад +212

      I wouldn't say our French didn't evolve since, in my opinion it would be more appropriate to say it evolved differently from European French. We kept some of the old way of talking, but a lot changed too, particulary since recently where French from France seems to be getting more influence. ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/aujourd-hui-l-histoire/segments/entrevue/130123/francais-quebecois-nouvelle-france-soubresauts-historiques-bedard

    • @yukimoe
      @yukimoe 4 года назад +92

      I live in Quebec too, I'd say it's more closer to the French spoken in Acadia (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the like).

    • @justsomeone1757
      @justsomeone1757 4 года назад +40

      the_miracle_aligner chill history of indigenous assimilation and abuse? Not so chill

    • @kamikazes03
      @kamikazes03 4 года назад +76

      I am a linguist and I can say that you are all full of it. This is a pseudo Old French text sung by an unilingual Anglo and you can't tell the difference. Sad!!!

  • @mattc9998
    @mattc9998 4 года назад +271

    I speak Spanish and Portuguese and understand this better than modern French.

    • @zeinnanla5422
      @zeinnanla5422 4 года назад +14

      If you speak Portuguese you can speak Spanish and that's just the truth

    • @Marcoplo
      @Marcoplo 4 года назад +1

      Right? they sound Spanish. or Portuguese.

    • @aaronculebro8672
      @aaronculebro8672 4 года назад +3

      Confirmo

    • @jad93624
      @jad93624 4 года назад +4

      I speak French and understand almost everything >_< though it sounds like a child with a few missing “critical parts” saying them

    • @oniflrog4487
      @oniflrog4487 4 года назад +10

      Español : Estar
      Portugués : Estar
      Français : Être
      Hol up, French what you doing?😂

  • @andrew7134
    @andrew7134 4 года назад +83

    I love the emotion in the singer's voice, this is the first bardcore song that felt actually like a song, and not a meme translation with a bland voice

  • @FcoAngelPD
    @FcoAngelPD 3 года назад +12

    Much love to my frenchy brothers and sisters from Andalusia ❤️

  • @madcatlover7554
    @madcatlover7554 4 года назад +40

    While the craze has died down and I’ve lost interest in bard core, I’m going to stick with you, you’ve got my admiration

  • @alexanderpenny7828
    @alexanderpenny7828 4 года назад +16

    Brilliant. Now I want an ABBA medley in old norse.

  • @paxbritannica16
    @paxbritannica16 11 месяцев назад +2

    Help, I can't get this out of my head, great job!

  • @olwens1368
    @olwens1368 11 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing. One of my mother's favourite songs- I wish she was still around to hear this version !

  • @oneoflokis
    @oneoflokis 2 года назад +4

    Ma foi! C'est vraiment grand!! Super!! 🙂👍

  • @redj1101
    @redj1101 4 года назад +15

    It’s interesting how Old English is incomprehensible to modern English speakers, some of this makes sense if you speak modern French. This sounds closer to North American French varieties than anything I’ve heard from France though

    • @Keegah
      @Keegah 4 года назад +4

      To be fair, France never had a completely different language imposed upon it, to my knowledge. As English did, when the Normans invaded.
      I could be wrong though, I'm not really great on French history.

  • @semoncho
    @semoncho Год назад +2

    Merveilleux, I'm speechless.

  • @gizem7983
    @gizem7983 5 месяцев назад +2

    I'm really enjoying it right now

  • @LebaneseBaron
    @LebaneseBaron 2 года назад +8

    As a Portuguese speaker, this is 100× more understandable than modern French

  • @topshaggerdavid3587
    @topshaggerdavid3587 4 года назад +4

    This makes french sound like an actual language

  • @therootbeerenjoyer
    @therootbeerenjoyer 2 месяца назад +1

    Old English and Modern English: *Literally Different Languages*
    Old French and Modern French: There's a difference?

  • @TJ52359
    @TJ52359 3 года назад +6

    Teen Spirit in Latin
    Rising Sun in French... and what do I see but The Immigrant Song in Norse in the 'up next list...
    .... and Subscribed...

  • @onelastyogurtproductions7190
    @onelastyogurtproductions7190 2 года назад +1

    So nostalgic. Takes me back to the time my buddy Jean Chastel took down the Gévaudan

  • @stevecloutier8670
    @stevecloutier8670 2 года назад +2

    The old french is closer to the french spoken in Quebec than the one spoken in France because in the Quebec the Francois as it was called back then was the common language for the settelers for my part i find easier to read old french than understand a movie made in France nowadays .

  • @demon_xd_
    @demon_xd_ 2 года назад +2

    Finally.. there is a house in normal Orleans

  • @countercivilization
    @countercivilization 3 года назад +1

    Tres belle chans tres bien choisi!

  • @eggballo4490
    @eggballo4490 2 года назад +1

    That sun. This must be some great of Medieval Teletubbies.

  • @robertovolpi
    @robertovolpi 7 месяцев назад +1

    More than medieval French it sounds very cajun, and it is great.

  • @aposeastwood200
    @aposeastwood200 4 года назад +4

    Hey man old french seems to be kinda fire
    much better than the modern mouthful of baguette in my opinion

  • @gaufrid1956
    @gaufrid1956 3 года назад +1

    Trilled r's and pronounced end consonants! Merveilleuse!

  • @rejvaik00
    @rejvaik00 3 года назад +1

    🎶 _Il y a une meson en Orleans_ 🎶
    🎶 _Qui se sousnomme le Soleil Levant_ 🎶
    🎶 _Et ele fu la ruine de maint garsilleurs_ 🎶
    🎶 _Dont fui aussi partant...._ 🎶
    🎶 _Ma mere estoit une tailliesue_ 🎶
    🎶 _Qui cousit mes braies de lin_ 🎶
    🎶 _Mon pere lui estoit un joueur et_ 🎶
    🎶 _D'Orleans un citadin_ 🎶
    🎶 _E Les seules choses qu'un joueur reqiuet_ 🎶
    🎶 _Sont une male et une botte_ 🎶
    🎶 _E le seul moment de repos pour lui_ 🎶
    🎶_Est saül au fond d'un pot_ 🎶
    🎶 _O, mere, di le aus anfaz_ 🎶
    🎶 _De ne pas feire com moi_ 🎶
    🎶 _Pechiez your au lonc de vos tristes vies_ 🎶
    🎶 _La ou le Soleil feict loy_ 🎶
    🎶 _Bien, j'ai un pié sur le pavement_ 🎶
    🎶 _L'autre est sur le char_ 🎶
    🎶 _Sui de retorn a Orleans_ 🎶
    🎶 _Ou l'air-mesme est une bare_ 🎶

  • @cringlator
    @cringlator 4 месяца назад +1

    Anyone else notice that Late-Latin and Old-French are never in the same room together?

  • @shinjinobrave
    @shinjinobrave 3 года назад

    Holy shit, I could go back in time and learn this no problem :o

  • @ogladaczr.t.3168
    @ogladaczr.t.3168 2 года назад +1

    Man, someone was really mourning for King Louis

  • @johnleed6774
    @johnleed6774 3 года назад

    Next up: the Drunk Scotsman and Drunk Sailor in Celtic. Hell yeah.

  • @celestinopulcoto8702
    @celestinopulcoto8702 3 года назад +322

    Fun fact : there is a neighbourhood called "Le Soleil Levant" in Orléans ;)

    • @pierren___
      @pierren___ 3 года назад +5

      Probably a Royal office/place? Isnt it?

    • @ussinussinongawd516
      @ussinussinongawd516 3 года назад +4

      @@pierren___ they said neighborhood

    • @pierren___
      @pierren___ 3 года назад +1

      @@ussinussinongawd516 hmm yeah but the name must be link To something

    • @GuiSmith
      @GuiSmith 3 года назад +20

      If I'm not mistaken, that's where the song got its name. I'd hazard a guess it's pretty close to Bourbon Street's infamous bars and historically crammed casinos, hence everything else in the song.

    • @coffic
      @coffic 7 месяцев назад +4

      Very fair attempt 😁 though I have to say it's more 16th c. French than Old French ("she sewed my linen breeches/ qui cousit mes braies de lin" would be closer to "cui lié brayes lignées de moi coussút" and that's interpretative on the conjugation)

  • @The_Mister_E
    @The_Mister_E 4 года назад +3761

    "...Wait. There's a NEW Orleans?!"

    • @corriedebeer799
      @corriedebeer799 4 года назад +156

      apparently it borders new york on the one side and new amsterdam on the other side.

    • @Bohous156
      @Bohous156 4 года назад +338

      Orleans was so popular they made Orleans 2

    • @moristar
      @moristar 4 года назад +70

      @@corriedebeer799 And the New England is just across the channel.

    • @milascave2
      @milascave2 4 года назад +18

      @@corriedebeer799 Those are the same place.
      However, the New World, from what I have been told, very much resembles the old. There is, for example, a New Jersy, and an entire New England. And sometimes there is simply redundancy. For example, there is a higher and lower California, and both an old and a new Mexico, oddly located right next to each other.

    • @moristar
      @moristar 4 года назад +41

      Don't forget Nova Scotia

  • @BramVanhooydonck
    @BramVanhooydonck 4 года назад +6141

    Old French sounds like a Flemish student who doesn't want to learn French, but still wants a good grade.

    • @thibs2837
      @thibs2837 4 года назад +208

      It's because they have an accent

    • @arnaudmenard5114
      @arnaudmenard5114 4 года назад +384

      A strong accent. Really this doesn’t sound much like old french at all to me... It’s just modern french with some odd spelling! I’m a bit disappointed to tell the truth, a lot of words they chose are awkward, like pavement...which they “translated” as pavement... they could have used “pavé” or “parapel”.

    • @eleanorhelensarahdarcks8018
      @eleanorhelensarahdarcks8018 4 года назад +17

      So true

    • @tenorlove
      @tenorlove 4 года назад +162

      @@arnaudmenard5114 This sounds like Spanish speakers doing a recital in French 101.

    • @jensgabrielarbeitmunck1918
      @jensgabrielarbeitmunck1918 4 года назад +241

      As a french speaker, I always say that french is basically getting a dutch guy to read latin

  • @gaborodriguez1346
    @gaborodriguez1346 3 года назад +1961

    As a Spanish speaker, this is much easier to understand than Modern French.

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger 2 года назад +126

      Modern French and English = take old French and English, then speak as lazy and fruity as possible.

    • @senatuspopulusqueromanum
      @senatuspopulusqueromanum Год назад +46

      @@LTPottenger old english sounds like icelandic, tf u mean?

    • @randomyankee8923
      @randomyankee8923 Год назад +40

      @@senatuspopulusqueromanum þe Olde English language had letters still used in Icelandic

    • @lightasmr6623
      @lightasmr6623 Год назад +18

      @@senatuspopulusqueromanum By « Old English » he meant english from the 1200-1300s and after… at that time it was very close to French

    • @theshamanite
      @theshamanite Год назад +2

      I'll say, apparently the word sauce is related to salsa. Both have entered English

  • @loofahsswanson559
    @loofahsswanson559 4 года назад +6399

    “Where the air itself is an obstacle” is the best description of summer in New Orleans I’ve ever heard

    • @RampinUp46
      @RampinUp46 3 года назад +336

      I think I'm going to start using this instead of my description of "walking through soup".

    • @LiftYagami
      @LiftYagami 3 года назад +52

      @@RampinUp46 walking through homeless shit piss and beer soup

    • @gordfortin2782
      @gordfortin2782 3 года назад +95

      But is he talking about new Orleans, USA or orleans in France?

    • @volksmann
      @volksmann 3 года назад +206

      @@gordfortin2782 Original song is referring the US I think, but the medieval one refers to the French one

    • @dtman2445
      @dtman2445 3 года назад +6

      Agreed

  • @onecertainesquire486
    @onecertainesquire486 4 года назад +2730

    When you, an Englishman, arrive at the University of Paris, only to be put in the German Quarter...

    • @MrJMB122
      @MrJMB122 4 года назад +16

      That great joke

    • @chingizzhylkybayev8575
      @chingizzhylkybayev8575 4 года назад +6

      What is that reference?

    • @onecertainesquire486
      @onecertainesquire486 4 года назад +246

      Chingiz Zhylkybayev eh, it can be interpreted in many ways. It could be a joke about how most English Scholars could speak perfect French, but still get thrown in the German Quarter, how the French couldn’t distinguish between different Germanic peoples etc etc

    • @JBGARINGAN
      @JBGARINGAN 4 года назад +80

      Strange considering the French are descended from Germanic tribe Franks. But then they became Christians and had their language latinized, but the other Germans had only their lords and clergy speak Latin and the peasantry still spoke German though they too were Christians.
      Perhaps this is related to some modern French people having a sort of arrogance/ego about people speaking French poorly? It is quite fascinating because they laugh at those who speak French poorly but would not resort to speaking English because it is an ugly language to them. Only to then speak English when they've heard enough butchery of French and speak English poorly themselves. Of course this is not all French people, only few. Most of the time when you attempt to speak someone else's language they will feel appreciative that you tried.
      "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." -Nelson Mandela

    • @Pedrosa2541
      @Pedrosa2541 4 года назад +52

      ​@@JBGARINGAN When Julius Caesar did his conquest of Galia in 60 B.C, he genocied the gauls living there and later replaced them with latin settlers, so in 300 to 400 A.D, the time where the Franks arrived in mass in to today France most of the population would speak latin. Even if the Franks were a germanic people at heart, they were only a tiny elite surrounded by a sea of latin speakers peasants (vulgar) and by assisted by a latin (high) speaking clergy. We call french because of it was the name of their political elite, but the base of the language actually came from that vulgar latin spoken by the masses.

  • @jeremiahsmith916
    @jeremiahsmith916 4 года назад +15957

    It pleases me to know that humanity’s collective first attempts to speak French sounded exactly like any individual person’s first attempts to speak French.

    • @ChronicNewb
      @ChronicNewb 4 года назад +833

      This. This exactly.

    • @tkeleth2931
      @tkeleth2931 3 года назад +1216

      French is best spoken after the second bottle hahaha

    • @lordilluminati5836
      @lordilluminati5836 3 года назад +1327

      I know right? almost like this was the natural way of speaking and the language was unnesesarily and artificially made harder in an attempt by the royalty to stop the lower classes from becoming educated.

    • @ben8147
      @ben8147 3 года назад +843

      @@lordilluminati5836 I wouldn't go that far, but it is true that the nobility were the ones that made most of the rules. Part of the reason English has so many odds and ends is that England had French nobility for a stretch.

    • @ArtilleryAffictionado1648
      @ArtilleryAffictionado1648 3 года назад +274

      @@tkeleth2931 LMAO. Not untrue tho. Drinking boosts confidence just enough that you'll start speaking other languages and not care. That means you are exposing yourself (and others) to that language and actually learning a lot in the process. Which is fucked up, but awesome. I know 4 languages so yeah i'm not kidding. 2 bottles of wine is what? 4 glasses of Jack Daniels? On a medium tolerance that is the recipe for a woman in your bed and lots of fake friends to practice with. So, allez!!

  • @Oblivion776
    @Oblivion776 4 года назад +9214

    Old French: pronounces word final consonants
    Modern French: wait that's illegal

    • @richardcuenca420
      @richardcuenca420 4 года назад +651

      Modern french: we don't do that here

    • @FoxTrotteur
      @FoxTrotteur 4 года назад +487

      I sang once "Belle qui tiens ma vie" with my choir (all french). The choir conductor had a lot of knowledges about middle and old "françois".
      When we began to sing it, he said : "You have to sing it like you just began to learn french. Make no nasal sound at all and pronounce all the letters (with some exceptions of course)."
      For us it was a torture! That was goddam difficult not to swallow consonants.
      Even today, I can read anglo-norman, and middle french texts without any translation (even old french is not that hard with a time to adapt) but i wouldn't be able to pronounce a single sentence! 😅

    • @blackheartb7316
      @blackheartb7316 4 года назад +48

      C'est tout à fait cela 😂

    • @Cha0tiqu3
      @Cha0tiqu3 4 года назад +151

      But joke aside, what happened in the intervening x hundred years to leave the writing very similar but completely kill the pronunciation?

    • @FoxTrotteur
      @FoxTrotteur 4 года назад +300

      @@Cha0tiqu3 I am not a linguist but i think a lot of different things can explain that :
      1- There is a clear biais. We compare the official standard French at the time with our unofficial language, when i sing for instance "The secret" from Fauré I use the today's official pronunciation and it sounds like "Je veux que le matin l'ignor-e...". But if I said that irl, it would rather sound like "J'veux qu'le matin l'ignor'..."
      2- The writing evolves really slower than the saying. Take as an exemple late ancient Egypt (before the Ptolemies). The pharaohs and priest still used ancient egyptian with hieroglyphs as a writing system whereas the people already spoke proto-demotic and then demotic. Very few understood what was written.
      2b - We have a very strict "French Academy" that controled the spelling all over the world slowing the evolution. But they have no control over how the people speak
      3- French is today well more spoke than before with a great diversity of people all over the world that interact. All of them have different prononciations and influence the others. In the 15th century, pretty much every French speaker were in France.
      4- The change in pronunciation is noticeable but not that bad. I mean, in 500 year of time the change from late vulgar gallo roman to old french (thank you franks ^^) is much more important than the one in modern french. It's like the change in the Australian pronunciation.
      5- It's a general tendency in all of Europe to soften the pronunciation. English and Scandinavian languages do already that (Danish are well known for that). German follows the the same path as French but 50 years later with the dropping of the ends of the words ("en" becomes "-n") and the loss of rolled "r"s.
      6- France (always has been but) was really for the last three centuries a place of immigration. Words were imported from Polish, Italian, Arabic in numerous variances, Antillean Creoles, Kabyle... and from local languages via the Argot (parallel language composed originally of Picards, Champenois, and Lorrains dialects). All of these word have a specific (often modified) pronunciation that doesn't follow the French standards.
      I hope it wasn't too long and that I was quite complete in my explanations. With all of that, it's even surprising that French did just evolved that much.

  • @anonchop5814
    @anonchop5814 4 года назад +4955

    Next song: Toto - Africa but ancient Egyptian

    • @TarkTheConlanger
      @TarkTheConlanger 4 года назад +464

      *Proto-Niger-Congo language

    • @TarkTheConlanger
      @TarkTheConlanger 4 года назад +267

      or Proto Afro Asiatic

    • @bonetonelord
      @bonetonelord 4 года назад +382

      Proto-Bantu would be more appropriate. The song mentions Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti, both of which are in Tanzania, so the ancestor language of Swahili, Tanzania's most widely spoken language, would be the best to use for a cover of Africa. Granted, Proto-Bantu dates to around 2,000-3,000 years before the medieval period, but so does ancient Egyptian (if you're using Old Kingdom or pre-dynastic Egyptian, it's more like 4,000).

    • @madcatlover7554
      @madcatlover7554 4 года назад +9

      Anon Chop that would be difficult

    • @dualkitsune3813
      @dualkitsune3813 4 года назад +46

      Sure....just as soon as we figure out how ancient egyptian sounded...

  • @ori8107
    @ori8107 4 года назад +938

    damn, time hasnt been generous to the teletubbies sun baby

    • @warriormaiden9829
      @warriormaiden9829 4 года назад +15

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @coldmossonarock7743
      @coldmossonarock7743 4 года назад +27

      He now rises over an empire to wich he is the sun-emperor.

    • @MsMary957
      @MsMary957 4 года назад +15

      Orange face, crazy hair, reminds me of someone.

    • @ori8107
      @ori8107 4 года назад +5

      @@MsMary957 hhmm... yeah it does sound familiar

    • @leonardoflorentin
      @leonardoflorentin 4 года назад

      I've seen that sun face (the one in this picture) more time than I can count, it's a god, an illuminati god most probably.

  • @benedictekibler4563
    @benedictekibler4563 4 года назад +4605

    I am French, and this pronunciation reminds me of Cajun or Quebec way of talking, which makes sense because they have kept some ways that we have forgotten in France. Congratulation for this cover. I find it beautiful ! I love it ! thany you so much !

    • @syntheticteapot
      @syntheticteapot 4 года назад +193

      Yeah my grandmother speaks cajun French and this sounds just like it.

    • @Archpope
      @Archpope 4 года назад +164

      When trying to study French in high school, I struggled with all the silent letters. It looks like there was a time when they were pronounced.

    • @StabbySabby
      @StabbySabby 4 года назад +140

      Archpope don't worry, it's alright, as a quebec french speaker myself i completely understand that this language is an utter fucking mess

    • @nonamesansnom35
      @nonamesansnom35 4 года назад +77

      sound more like acadian french tbh i've got familly in beauce and it's kinda sound like this lmao

    • @anthonylong9067
      @anthonylong9067 4 года назад +46

      I think the cajun language is spoken commonly in the state of Louisiana. Would make sense as it used to be colonized by france

  • @Anish-
    @Anish- 3 года назад +2856

    Ah yes, the days when the french actually pronounced every letter
    This is the best version of french in my opinion.

    • @carthkaras6449
      @carthkaras6449 3 года назад +228

      French speaker here, I think that it is less elegant. Knowing that there is a difference in the evolution of the written language and the spoken language and waiting that the French academy will do the same work as the spanish did to simplify the written language with the pronunciation of today.

    • @epingchris
      @epingchris 3 года назад +154

      @@carthkaras6449 Knowing the French Academy, they will never do that...... ;)

    • @carthkaras6449
      @carthkaras6449 3 года назад +80

      @@epingchris There is too much far left youtubers constantly attacking l'Académie Française but this institution is far less conservative than depicted

    • @epingchris
      @epingchris 3 года назад +27

      @@carthkaras6449 True, there are probably a lot of exaggerations surrounding what it does and represents: I admit I too am sometimes guilty of taking lazy jabs at them. (I don't think I "hate" them though; at least I've come to understand a little more about their functions through time)

    • @labeilleautiste6318
      @labeilleautiste6318 2 года назад +60

      Like if english actually pronounce letters

  • @spooko3991
    @spooko3991 4 года назад +786

    It sounds like a less French version of French.

    • @pallasproserpina4118
      @pallasproserpina4118 4 года назад +60

      I know this was just a joke, but that’s basically what old French was. It’s not wildly different from modern French except in the quirks of pronunciation and spelling that developed over time and make French so distinct from other Romance languages-it’s closer to the more simple pronunciation of Latin. That’s not to say my assessment is completely accurate-it’s not-or that the translation and pronunciation in this video is perfect-it, of course, isn’t, because old French is a hard language to get right in the modern day. But it’s funny how accurate your joke comment happened to be

    • @andryuu_2000
      @andryuu_2000 4 года назад +15

      Old French should sound more like franc-provençal iirc, basically if an Italian was reading french for the first time.

    • @solarprogeny6736
      @solarprogeny6736 4 года назад +16

      Well the pronunciation is completely off for most of it

    • @pallasproserpina4118
      @pallasproserpina4118 4 года назад +8

      ishei Ehhh to an extent yes but in general it’s pretty accurate, considering we don’t know for a fact what old French even sounded like

    • @dunekilens1898
      @dunekilens1898 4 года назад +11

      I mean there is in this song the most basics mistakes an english speaker can make like pronouncing s and t at the end of words, and the way "in" is pronounced is completely off too. Yes we don't have any evidence of how french sounded like at the time BUT if you want it to sound a little bit like french at some point in history you'd better pronounce it with sounds closer to modern french.

  • @communismwithgiggles2515
    @communismwithgiggles2515 4 года назад +3237

    Modern French people: "How can you sing this? There are consonants!"

    • @corriedebeer799
      @corriedebeer799 4 года назад +120

      wee wee

    • @i_teleported_bread7404
      @i_teleported_bread7404 3 года назад +119

      Plosives? *Not in my house!*

    • @link_biscuit7786
      @link_biscuit7786 3 года назад +66

      I'm pretty certain this music video was made by an anglo-saxon man. There is no way on earth, knowing what we know about prononciation of latin, Frankish and Old French that this is an accurate reconstitution. Old French was closer to actual Italian or Spanish.

    • @Taeerom
      @Taeerom 3 года назад +58

      @@link_biscuit7786 Italian is a much later adoption of vulgar latin than what this song is trying to recreate. Why would it sound like Italian?

    • @link_biscuit7786
      @link_biscuit7786 3 года назад +27

      @Taeerom italian, Spanish and French, the roman language, stem from vulgar latin; italian being the closest for obvious reason. During the middle age vulgar latin was the common language in all three of these actual countries. The differences between them that we hear today is due to the interaction of the pre-roman invasions languages spoke by the people and tribe which were later part of the roman empire. Ancient French is derived from the Langues d'oïl, the languages spoken un northern France during the late middle ages, appearing from the interaction of the Frankish dialects, spoken by the Franks, with latin.

  • @nath0ues1
    @nath0ues1 2 года назад +765

    I'm French and even if we don't speak like that anymore, i really think old french has something extremely charming and i'm proud of my mother tongue and what it was in the past !

    • @EnglandRemoval
      @EnglandRemoval Год назад +27

      I think its actually a bit better than modern french, I could never speak the current language because of how you essentially have to absorb certain letters through your sinus and also not pronounce 80% of the letters near the end of the word, like C' et and C' est sound identical but one has an extra "fake" letter

    • @vonwthaud289
      @vonwthaud289 10 месяцев назад +10

      @@EnglandRemoval The difference between those two words are the fact that one is a verb and the other is a coordinating conjunction. There is however a slight change in the pronunciation that can be heard, even though nowadays few really pronounce both of these words differently: "et" will be pronounced like "é", whereas "est" on the other hand will sound like "è".

    • @LedurGtag
      @LedurGtag 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@vonwthaud289WoW toi tu connais

    • @vonwthaud289
      @vonwthaud289 10 месяцев назад +10

      @@LedurGtag écoute c'est comme ça qu'à l'école on me l'a appris, après c'est vrai que quand on parle français tous les jours on prend pour acquis cette distinction et on ne fait plus l'effort de le faire

    • @LedurGtag
      @LedurGtag 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@vonwthaud289 oui je me rappelle. Juste que je n’utilise pas vraiment dans la vie donc pour moi ça a sombré dans l’oubli. Je ne sais pas sa fait combien de temps que tu as été à l’école mais je crois c’est toujours ça hein

  • @alpenschatz
    @alpenschatz 4 года назад +432

    To think I'd live in a time where I'd get to hear extinct forms of languages from nearly a millennia ago being sung along to a catchy tune. Great work!

    • @dragonmaster613
      @dragonmaster613 4 года назад +2

      What a time to exist!

    • @hereLiesThisTroper
      @hereLiesThisTroper 4 года назад +3

      Try searching the oldest Greek song here in YT and click on the video by Hank Greene. He sang it at the tune of a 90s boyband. It was amazing.

    • @pabloarroyo6091
      @pabloarroyo6091 4 года назад +1

      @@hereLiesThisTroper va

  • @nebojsag.5871
    @nebojsag.5871 3 года назад +6670

    Is it just me, or is old French just French, but where they actually pronounce the letters?

    • @paolo8339
      @paolo8339 3 года назад +539

      well, at the time there was'nt really any orthography, so you could write the words pretty much the way you wanted, and the singer has quite an english accent, and so sometimes in the video there are letters that are pronounced because the modern spelling is used, but the letters could maybe not even be here in spellings of the time.

    • @martinaubin4169
      @martinaubin4169 3 года назад +343

      As a French person, I can tell you that this is barely audible; I often had to read the English text to know what the hell was going on. « Di le aus enfaz ». What the sh!t?! « Dis le aux enfants ». Now that's more like it!
      Come to think of it, if nothing would've been written, it probably would've been easier to understand because it does sound similar even if they pronounce « in » as in « i-n » instead of... you know... « in »

    • @nebojsag.5871
      @nebojsag.5871 3 года назад +46

      @@martinaubin4169 like the "im" in Rimbaud? As in nasally pronounce the I without really pronouncing the m? Yeah, I am a bit of a language nerd, I know.

    • @LarsOfTheMohicans
      @LarsOfTheMohicans 3 года назад +263

      I actually prefer the sound of Old French, rather than the excessively nasal sound of "New" French with its useless consonants.

    • @souzouker
      @souzouker 3 года назад +96

      it's french prounonced the way english is pronounced

  • @mrfish1178
    @mrfish1178 4 года назад +382

    Honestly I think you’re the best bard in the land. I think having proper historical lyrics with the music is great, you obviously put a lot of effort in

    • @MikhalisBramouell
      @MikhalisBramouell 4 года назад +4

      His lute gives a +2 Speak Language bonus and +2 Int

    • @koft_nedted
      @koft_nedted 4 года назад +4

      Facts. Most of Bardcore is low effort midi conversions of well known songs. This is quality

  • @TheGlassman14
    @TheGlassman14 3 года назад +1195

    I hate when people ask what music im into because how the hell do I explain this?

    • @jimfritz9503
      @jimfritz9503 3 года назад +24

      WORLD MUSIC .

    • @roboticol6280
      @roboticol6280 3 года назад +31

      tell them that you listen to medieval msuic

    • @adl805
      @adl805 3 года назад +58

      Tell them that you're based and refuse to elaborate

    • @Rhaenarys
      @Rhaenarys 3 года назад +36

      Bardcore. Theres literally a genre for it lol. That's what I tell people if they ask. Though, I admittedly still feel weird telling people that lol.

    • @fawneoconnor6894
      @fawneoconnor6894 2 года назад +18

      I usually say "from classical, to opera, to oldies, rock, metal, some rap and everything in between."

  • @CesarGarcia-nd5xz
    @CesarGarcia-nd5xz 3 года назад +119

    When you write a song to impress your crush lady Joan of Arc.

    • @CGEcastingagency
      @CGEcastingagency 3 года назад +4

      Joan of arc was born in the 1300s

    • @dad6451
      @dad6451 3 года назад +9

      @@CGEcastingagency close enough

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 2 года назад +8

      @@CGEcastingagency AND she was still a young girl! never lived to become a woman.

    • @midorithefestivegardevoir6727
      @midorithefestivegardevoir6727 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@inconnu4961 Let's sing for her lost soul executed by the Brits, then.

  • @mauriciofuentes7638
    @mauriciofuentes7638 4 года назад +1230

    Katy Perry's "Firework" but in an ancient Chinese dialect

    • @timothywilcox1539
      @timothywilcox1539 4 года назад +37

      So Mandarin?
      Idk if Modern Mandarin is the same as it was several centuries ago, but maybe.

    • @ArsyaUtomo
      @ArsyaUtomo 3 года назад +29

      @@timothywilcox1539 canton

    • @i_teleported_bread7404
      @i_teleported_bread7404 3 года назад +25

      How about Yi?
      (Edit): Okay, so it's come to my attention that Yi is the name of the script (as well as the ethnicity of its native speakers), whereas the language itself is called Nuosu.

    • @justelliot4870
      @justelliot4870 3 года назад +20

      @@i_teleported_bread7404 Hell, I wonder how difficult it would be to make a song in Whenzhounese. That could be interesting

    • @curtiswong7280
      @curtiswong7280 3 года назад +20

      @@timothywilcox1539 Old or Middle Chinese seems to be what you're looking for; the former is lost to time, but the latter is much easier to track down and bears similarities with the southern Chinese dialect, Cantonese.

  • @redbeard9136
    @redbeard9136 4 года назад +2415

    The language itselft is surprisingly close to current French, with a bit of words we don't use anymore but are still technically viable, unlike in Vikings where I couldn't understand half the shit Charlemagne was saying

    • @ДаниилЖевнерев-т9ы
      @ДаниилЖевнерев-т9ы 4 года назад +162

      Isn't the laguage Charlemagne was speaking supposed to be Germanic, not Romance?

    • @redbeard9136
      @redbeard9136 4 года назад +217

      @@ДаниилЖевнерев-т9ы he spoke Frankish, wich from my understanding lacks a massive amount of Anglo-Saxon bits the modern French has, but our language has some Germanic and Latin roots, as most of North-Western and Southern Europe languages

    • @ДаниилЖевнерев-т9ы
      @ДаниилЖевнерев-т9ы 4 года назад +245

      @@redbeard9136 Frankish is fundamentally Germanic, having Germanic grammar and all. French is still Romance, as it has clearly Latin-derived grammar.

    • @PiousMoltar
      @PiousMoltar 4 года назад +126

      Frankish was a Germanic language.
      I'm still baffled as to how France ended up speaking a Romance language. But that's what happened.

    • @redbeard9136
      @redbeard9136 4 года назад +41

      @@PiousMoltar because Frankish was spoken in the Northern half of modern France

  • @eliemervelez3583
    @eliemervelez3583 4 года назад +880

    as a spanish speaker, old french is what i thought french would read like

    • @beter21137
      @beter21137 Год назад +25

      Yo tambien

    • @ikarusxv
      @ikarusxv Год назад +13

      Pronouncing all letters, like in Spanish lol

    • @darthtleilaxu4021
      @darthtleilaxu4021 9 месяцев назад

      @@ikarusxv Ils ne prononçaient pas toutes les lettres en anciens français. C'est pour cette raison que nombre d'entre elles furent supprimées.

    • @elpoiro
      @elpoiro 13 дней назад +1

      Fui = fue
      Old French sounds like Occitan, an old other "French" language spoken in Southern France like Toulouse or Montpellier and Bordeaux. And even a bit in the old Aragon Kingdom.
      Might be the reason it sounds familiar to Spaniards.

  • @amybourriaque87
    @amybourriaque87 2 года назад +245

    This is so close to Cajun French.. This makes me so happy and its beautiful.

    • @jean-claudetergal5271
      @jean-claudetergal5271 6 месяцев назад +10

      it's also close to current French, so I understand it well (I'm a French speaker, but not French). But I don't know if the pronunciation is as obvious and close to current French.
      But it is also well known that Cajun is an ancient French language inherited from the colonists who came from France.

    • @sheolghies2197
      @sheolghies2197 6 месяцев назад +10

      @@jean-claudetergal5271 As a Frenchman and as some comments have pointed out, we feel the difference especially in the fact that the silent letters at the end of the word are pronounced where today everything is silent. So it's close enough to be generally understood but different enough to be able to perceive the difference.

    • @flyingsquirrell6953
      @flyingsquirrell6953 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@sheolghies2197 As an American learning French - Je suis d’accord.
      Ngl this sounds so much worse than modern French. Like modern French is soothing and this just sounds like Latinized English.

    • @Orsu-B
      @Orsu-B 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@flyingsquirrell6953 les paroles sont comme en français d'aujourd'hui avec quelques petites différences sur l'orthographe des mots.
      Le seul problème pour moi qui est français est l'accent qui rend difficile la compréhension de la chanson

    • @flyingsquirrell6953
      @flyingsquirrell6953 5 месяцев назад

      @@Orsu-B Agreed

  • @АндрейГорбунов-ц3ш
    @АндрейГорбунов-ц3ш 2 года назад +122

    Year 1269. A young 21 years old bard, Pierre, was trying to compose song. He worked at it for more than 3 years, but all attempts was failure. But one day, Pierre decided to wake up early and go for the walk to saw the sunrise. He went to his favorite hill, overlooking the whole of Orleans. Pierre sat there, and soon he saw a big yellow ball rising from the horison. Suddenly, the inspiration strikes him, like lightning. The words of the song formed themselves into a rhyme in his brain, as if Pierre had learned them for many years in a row. 2 months after, after melody of the song was done, Pierre grab his guitar and walked down the streets of Orleans, singing his song. Citizens of Orleans liked Pierre's song very much, and it became popular quickly. It was spreading across the cities and villages of France.Even Louis IX found out about this song, but he was indifferent to it. As time went and Pierre died, people began to forget about the song, and it was forgotten for many years.
    In 1964, group of archeologists conducted excavations near Orleans to find some artifacts, but they find only one piece of paper and few coins. After they careful clean that paper, it turned out that it was a sheet with notes. One of the archeologist called his musician friend, and he played this song on guitar, according to sheet. They like the melody,so they record it and sent the song to the radio. This melody was played on several radio stations, and it so happened that Alan Price, the keyboardist of The Animals, listened to it. He was quite interested at the unusual melody of the song, so he tell it to the rest of the band, and soon, they released their famous song, ''House of the Rising Sun''.It was listened for many people all around the world.
    56 years later, another archeologists group conducted excavations about 20 km north-west from Orleans, at place, where 8 centuries ago, was trade road. They find several chests with jewelry, letters, and weapons. But all of them was in very bad condition. Except letters from deepest chest.These letters were brought to the Orleans Museum. At it, turned out, that one of the letters was different from others. It's look like a lyrics of something, not usual letter. Text of it was in old French. After 32 days of hard translate, as letter was almost impossible to read sometimes, turned out, that it was a song named ''House in Orleans'' lyrics. This song was incredibly similar to the ''House of the Rising Sun''. Someone did an AI voice simulation, that shows, how the song would sound, if it was sang, and posted the song on RUclips. We don't know his name, but because him, we now can listen to this almost 800 years old masterpiece.

    • @engdark1
      @engdark1 Год назад +18

      I don't want to break your narrative but orleans is in a really flat land, there is no hill from where you can see the whole city

    • @xrogaan
      @xrogaan Год назад +21

      @@engdark1 Do you really believe somebody would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?

    • @sourdrop
      @sourdrop 2 месяца назад +1

      @@engdark1 no it's true I was the hill

    • @michelguevara151
      @michelguevara151 Месяц назад

      quidére, pas "guitare".

  • @NathanClingan
    @NathanClingan 4 года назад +1014

    GREAT work! To those saying, "this doesn't sound French, it sounds like an American accent" -- rumor has it that this was sung by French Canadians, BUT, that's really irrelevant. Old and Middle French pronunciation was COMPLETELY different from modern parisian French pronunciation. Vowels were more differentiated, throated "r" was uncommon, and hard "r" was much more common. Words like "moi, toi, loi" were pronounced more like moï, toï, loï, as evidenced by the accents preserved in some of France's older colonies, like parts of Québec. Here's one great example:
    ruclips.net/video/rp8tu8TgrXo/видео.html

    • @selas9238
      @selas9238 4 года назад +22

      Well, you're right, but to me they still sound "english" because of the vowels :') you can almost hear their lips curl in pronouncing them, when old french being closer to latin it had more open vowels (listen to the difference between the "o"s in this song and the video you linked, or modern italian, for example)

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor 4 года назад +47

      Funny thing is, depending on what part of France you're from, the accent changes too, like I'd be told I have a german accent if I went further west, because I live right on the border.

    • @ah.1190
      @ah.1190 3 года назад +69

      People from France tend to be particularly conceited when it comes to the french language, so them discrediting the people behind a video like this was to be expected

    • @anaonthenet
      @anaonthenet 3 года назад +8

      Only until the 13th century. It then turned into mwè, twè, rwè. What is p"reserved" in Québec is already a lot more evolved

    • @the_nautillus9176
      @the_nautillus9176 3 года назад +3

      @@selas9238 You had me until that cringy emote.

  • @homeristro3472
    @homeristro3472 4 года назад +1977

    I actually learn how to sing this, my D&D character is a bard and i sing this a lot to my party members, they absoloute love it
    Nice vid, music and lyrics!!

    • @the_miracle_aligner
      @the_miracle_aligner  4 года назад +156

      LOL tyyy, too kind Sir Bard, Bardcore seeping into D&D sessions is one of the things which im really happy about :) May your adventures always be fruitful, friend. ❤

    • @chewbaccadog9840
      @chewbaccadog9840 4 года назад +18

      @@the_miracle_aligner I mean it was kind of inevitable.

    • @JesusPensiones
      @JesusPensiones 4 года назад +2

      What Is d&d?

    • @katierisley
      @katierisley 4 года назад +27

      wait that’s dope that you’re legit a good bard. i just start singing wonderwall badly to annoy them

    • @landonsorenson9278
      @landonsorenson9278 4 года назад +2

      xdd only a really good pen and paper!

  • @vespasiancaesar9842
    @vespasiancaesar9842 4 года назад +261

    That sun knows more about me than I do and it scares me.

    • @callerunknown
      @callerunknown 4 года назад +2

      Lmao true

    • @O-5Council
      @O-5Council 4 года назад +3

      This is true... And I don't like it.

    • @chrisalex82
      @chrisalex82 2 месяца назад +1

      Fur somé reseon tze sun luked lik it vas muving bute it was juste the lighte lmfao

  • @carluy7351
    @carluy7351 4 года назад +1304

    modern french: croissant
    old french: cRuoiSseNt

    • @Gabdube
      @Gabdube 4 года назад +25

      Nah that's just due to the modern English accent.

    • @imlost19
      @imlost19 4 года назад +21

      @@Gabdube interesting. Did you study old french as well?

    • @dr.solanum766
      @dr.solanum766 4 года назад +28

      En vieux français le mot croissant (viennoiserie) n'existait pas 🤭

    • @MonsieurPhoton
      @MonsieurPhoton 4 года назад +1

      this is not not modern modern French, however I have not complaints in this case.

    • @dr.solanum766
      @dr.solanum766 4 года назад +2

      @@MonsieurPhoton si tu le dit mon gars

  • @averyconnor8467
    @averyconnor8467 4 года назад +234

    Soundtrack to the HBO series about Joan of Arc

  • @Graywyck
    @Graywyck 4 года назад +483

    Wonderful

    • @the_miracle_aligner
      @the_miracle_aligner  4 года назад +30

      All thanks to you and AB, you mad lads. Looking forward to more collabs with you kind SIr ❤

    • @sireuchre
      @sireuchre 4 года назад +3

      @@the_miracle_aligner We're all looking forward to more collabs like this. Amazing, awesome stuff.

    • @jonathans1759
      @jonathans1759 4 года назад

      Bis

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 3 года назад +70

    I swear, with the added pronunciation of all the letters left off today, Old French might be easier for me to learn than current French

    • @_Executor_
      @_Executor_ 3 года назад +14

      As a native Spanish speaker I totally agree with you

    • @aviator2117
      @aviator2117 2 года назад +5

      @@_Executor_ have fun with case systems then 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @tompatterson1548
      @tompatterson1548 2 года назад +2

      @@aviator2117 I like case! Maybe I should learn it!

    • @dieblaueflamme4387
      @dieblaueflamme4387 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@aviator2117le cas sujet and le cas re'gime.
      It was not that much.

    • @ns2859
      @ns2859 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@_Executor_ Yes, if you speak Spanish, it would be easier to pronounce than modern French for sure.

  • @comack669
    @comack669 4 года назад +626

    Wow French didn't change much. As a native English speaker, Old English I can barely follow, but with my rusty French, this is pretty straightforward.

    • @richbarnes2451
      @richbarnes2451 4 года назад +163

      This time period would actually correspond to Middle English, is Chaucer. Which takes some getting used to but is still intelligible to modern English speakers. Old English would be a couple hundred years older than this time and basically a foreign language

    • @BlommaBaumbart
      @BlommaBaumbart 4 года назад +120

      As Rich says, Old English is to English more like Republican Latin is to French. European languages actually developed at quite different speeds if you look at them. Slavic languages didn't go far in the last 500 years whereas for example Danish threw most of its grammar overboard and changed the majority of its sounds. Finnish basically didn't change at all since it was first recorded and English and Greek sort of collapsed in themselves after the Middle Ages, whereas smaller languages like Low German and Gaelic didn't change from about 1100 until about the 1850s when speakers started learning a 2nd language (High German and English respectively) and soon began to speak their region's original language with a foreign accent.

    • @MikhalisBramouell
      @MikhalisBramouell 4 года назад +31

      @@BlommaBaumbart I don't know where you heard that about Greek, modern Greek is still basically Medieval Greek which only lost a noun declension and changed the Perfect and Pluperfect verb conjugations. We still read ancient Greek at least weekly in church.

    • @BlommaBaumbart
      @BlommaBaumbart 4 года назад +9

      @@MikhalisBramouell I mixed up periods in a moment of confusion, my bad.

    • @MadManchou
      @MadManchou 4 года назад +24

      @@richbarnes2451 actually that's more 18th century french with maybe a couple of older words thrown in. What is typically refered to as "old french" is from the late 10th to 14th centuries and is quite a bit more different from modern french (for one thing, cases (like in latin or german) were mostly still alive, although reduced to two ; conversely, word order was much less fixed)
      Old french is sort of intelligible for a french speaker, but actually more difficult than spanish or italian (although it might only be down to the ear being unacquainted with OF sounds)

  • @rodrigopalmerin
    @rodrigopalmerin 4 года назад +309

    Dude these darker melodic songs are your thing your voice is so expressive

  • @nolanrichoux3538
    @nolanrichoux3538 2 года назад +126

    To everyone wondering why it sounds so much like english, look at the time period. This french is the actual language we shared with the english, after the Norman conquest. English evolved from existing Anglo-Saxons dialects and this peculiar French, which sounds weird to my very own french ears. And even though I can understand it pretty well, I must say that I think it's also thanks to the fact that I learned english, and went to quebec. Quebecois ressembles very slightly this language, in that compared to metropolitan french, it is "old". But only 18th century old... so imagine the differences with this form of french, lol

    • @patrickwillybottom9897
      @patrickwillybottom9897 2 года назад +3

      It sounds nothing like English. What do you mean lol

    • @patrickwillybottom9897
      @patrickwillybottom9897 2 года назад +1

      It’s not the french that spread to England that was the Norman dialect of Middle French which is completely different

    • @nolanrichoux3538
      @nolanrichoux3538 2 года назад +11

      @@patrickwillybottom9897 . . . Norman dialect was quite litteraly french. They had been french for more than 250 years, at this point. There was no "Norman language", only a norman accent. What are you on about ? Do you despise having french links that much ?

    • @patrickwillybottom9897
      @patrickwillybottom9897 2 года назад

      @@nolanrichoux3538 I didn’t deny they were french I don’t know if you can read properly or not I said they spoke Middle French and a Norman dialect of it too which is quite different from Parisian old french isn’t it. And what do you mean “having french links”? Just because my mother tongue borrowed words from Anglo Norman doesn’t mean I’m french mate.

    • @patrickwillybottom9897
      @patrickwillybottom9897 2 года назад

      @@nolanrichoux3538 You clearly have no idea how quoting works as you claim
      I said “Norman language” which appears nowhere in my comment

  • @BoneistJ
    @BoneistJ 4 года назад +436

    Sweet Jesus, it's a crime of the highest order that I can only like this once.

  • @nero7469
    @nero7469 4 года назад +706

    Old French basically sounds like Italian men trying to speak/sing in French

    • @dafushpu
      @dafushpu 4 года назад +54

      @Mara L That's exactly what I was thinking. I grew up in southern Louisiana and this sounds like Cajun French more than anything.

    • @azuregriffin1116
      @azuregriffin1116 4 года назад +34

      @Mara L Cajun is closer to old French while Parisian continued to morph. Acadian French preserved some of the oldest features, including to trilled R here.

    • @chestnutplanter
      @chestnutplanter 4 года назад +31

      Rusty my family is Québécois and this doesn't sound like Quebec French to me, it sounds more like French mixed with Italian or Spanish - which would make sense for old French since they all come mostly from Latin - but I can see Cajun possibly.

    • @antoineturgeon1437
      @antoineturgeon1437 4 года назад +18

      I simply think the man who made this doesnt speak french

    • @9Johnny8
      @9Johnny8 4 года назад +13

      I was just thinking: It's like a Dutch person reading French lines without knowing the French pronunciation, so he just pronounces each letter. Especially the ones which are silent in modern French.

  • @ProvingDemons
    @ProvingDemons 4 года назад +850

    This will sound strange but I felt this song. About a year ago I travelled to Paris and snuck into the forbidden Paris catacombs for a documentary i was shooting. To let the cataphiles, those who live in the catacombs, know that we were peaceful we had to blast music as we trekked for hours in the claustrophobic tunnels. The first song we played was house of the rising sun, deep in the flooded tunnels from the 1400s. This just hit me in the good place memories for miles

    • @romaindemarais
      @romaindemarais 4 года назад +58

      no one lives in the "Cata". Some people spend a lot of time there, sometimes 2 to 3 days but let's not make up things.
      Police walks through the many galleries and gives tickets... no one stays more than a few hours in one place.
      My brother has been a cataphile for 30+ years and goes there with no maps and i have been going there many times myself in all the different networks.

    • @fcalvaresi
      @fcalvaresi 4 года назад +59

      Nobody lives in the Catacombs, and that’s fortunate. The cataphiles are just enthusiasts who like to spend their time there.

    • @user-gj4zg4tj3w
      @user-gj4zg4tj3w 4 года назад +3

      can you link me the documentary?

    • @delilah3556
      @delilah3556 4 года назад +3

      @@romaindemarais Saluut!! Est-ce-que ton frère acceptera eventuellement d'aider quelques étudiants ? Nous sommes sept cinéastes qui habitent sur Paris et on cheche à filmer un docu court dans les catacombes, mais on a du mal à trouver un bon guide. Mon insta est @lilah.mm si ça lui intéresse.

    • @rbacosta6226
      @rbacosta6226 4 года назад +6

      r/ThatHappened

  • @SFalcone
    @SFalcone 2 года назад +65

    Incroyable, une musique en vieux français sur ma ville, Orléans !🙂 Coucou d'Orléans et vive la France !

    • @presidentJameskpolk-rm8gl
      @presidentJameskpolk-rm8gl 2 года назад +3

      New Orleans is better

    • @x-a-
      @x-a- Год назад +9

      @@presidentJameskpolk-rm8gl isn't it riddled with crimes and stuff ?

    • @darthtleilaxu4021
      @darthtleilaxu4021 9 месяцев назад

      @@presidentJameskpolk-rm8gl La cathédrale est plus jolie. Ceci dit la musique à la Nouvelle Orléans est excellente ainsi que la nourriture.

    • @presidentJameskpolk-rm8gl
      @presidentJameskpolk-rm8gl 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@x-a- Orleans isn't much better

    • @tyrannosauruscock
      @tyrannosauruscock 5 месяцев назад

      @@presidentJameskpolk-rm8glNuh uh

  • @jonathanmeredith5111
    @jonathanmeredith5111 4 года назад +476

    Next: walk like an Egyptian in ancient Egyptian (if anyone has any idea what that sounds like)

    • @razworquazarus5419
      @razworquazarus5419 3 года назад +2

      +

    • @isaacbruner65
      @isaacbruner65 3 года назад +73

      They do have an idea how it sounds. Part of the reason is that Coptic is still spoken today by Egypt's Christian Copts as a liturgical language, and it's directly descended from Ancient Egyptian (with a strong Greek influence)

    • @ravinchowdhury5215
      @ravinchowdhury5215 3 года назад +34

      @@isaacbruner65 Depending on when you consider 'Ancient Egypt', the Greek influence on Egypt is pretty old. The Ptolemaic dynasty is roughly as far back to us as the pyramids were to them, roughly 4500 years in total.
      I really wish popular media did a better job showing how wildly long the Egyptian time frames were. 2000 years generalised to one clothing style and one language. Most of us have difficulty understanding Shakespeare, only 400 years old.

    • @user-ft3jq5vi2l
      @user-ft3jq5vi2l 3 года назад +26

      Or "Walking in Menphis"

    • @cam4636
      @cam4636 2 года назад +6

      @@user-ft3jq5vi2l ^This one is objectively funnier and therefore the superior option

  • @iamtheiconoclast3
    @iamtheiconoclast3 4 года назад +457

    This is amazing. I've never heard Old French before; it feels like the missing link between modern French and modern Catalan or Portuguese. Also love how you replaced New Orleans with Orleans. :)

    • @buddermonger2000
      @buddermonger2000 2 года назад +23

      Same tbh. It sounds almost understandable for me who knows Spanish.

    • @BassHarderonline
      @BassHarderonline Год назад

      Nope french is more like italian

    • @Zaher74
      @Zaher74 Год назад

      ​@@BassHarderonlineobviously, french is a latin language and Italian is pretty much modern latin. But spanish is also a latin language and so is Portuguese,but I don't know if catalan is latin although since it's pretty much a Spanish dialect, it probably is

    • @Belussy
      @Belussy Год назад +4

      @@Zaher74it’s a language separated from Spanish, and it has the same Latin root as Romance languages

    • @ibnbattuta7031
      @ibnbattuta7031 Год назад +8

      Catalã is first off, not a spanish dialect, it's a totally different language from a different sub-group of the western romance languages, It's closer hereditarily to occitan or french then it is to spanish.@@Zaher74

  • @bethoconnell6123
    @bethoconnell6123 4 года назад +745

    Weirdly, as an English speaker with only schoolgirl french, I find the lyrics of this easier to understand than the medieval-english Pumped Up Kicks ones

    • @hollowhoagie6441
      @hollowhoagie6441 3 года назад +12

      *you've intrigued me*

    • @TheMops14
      @TheMops14 3 года назад +69

      Wow, this is weird because the same thing is happening to me, except :
      I'm a French native speaker,
      And I find medieval English "Pumped-Up Kicks" easier to understand than this.

    • @catholicdad
      @catholicdad 3 года назад +22

      @Beth & TheMops:
      Clearly, we've reached the nexus of the Universe

    • @dorkmax7073
      @dorkmax7073 3 года назад +32

      English has changed a LOT more in the past thousand years than French has. There really isn't any set speed at which a language changes. The semitic languages for example (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic) have changed very little in the last 4000 years. But English has undergone a lot of change because of political and cultural change. You are speaking the Modern Standard American offshoot of English. At the time of the split in the 1700s, English of England had only barely entered its Modern phase, and undergone the Great Vowel Shift. 500 years before that, English was taking latin and french influence. 400 years before THAT, and it was playing second fiddle to the Norse languages!

    • @Rhaenarys
      @Rhaenarys 3 года назад +8

      I learned French in school, and actually found both to be equally easy to understand lol. But in old English, if you listen carefully, at least for me, you can literally hear the modern English equivalent for many of the common words,.

  • @ludomous
    @ludomous 7 месяцев назад +21

    Chapeau bas pour la version en vieux français , vraiment touché en tant que Français (nous c' est la version de Johnny qu 'on connait ) travail impressionnant que vous avez fait

    • @v.j.3029
      @v.j.3029 3 месяца назад

      Ça sonne un peu comme du Ch’ti, tu trouves pas?

  • @ethanmarble2866
    @ethanmarble2866 4 года назад +261

    why tf the sun looks like he's watching his girlfriend cheat on him

    • @MrAwawe
      @MrAwawe 4 года назад +15

      The Moon is hooking up with Mars.

    • @scottyj6226
      @scottyj6226 4 года назад +7

      He's just a big frickin ray of sunshine.

    • @bonzaisamurai4072
      @bonzaisamurai4072 4 года назад +3

      He looks like Donald trump for me

    • @ethanmarble2866
      @ethanmarble2866 4 года назад +4

      @@bonzaisamurai4072 this is the best sunrise in history, mabye ever

    • @BimpytheWimpyShrimpy
      @BimpytheWimpyShrimpy 4 года назад +2

      @@ethanmarble2866 I'm gleefully looking forward to the upcoming sunset, myself

  • @mtjakubec
    @mtjakubec 4 года назад +100

    I thank thee m'lord, for this magnificent tune by Les Animaux.

  • @chigeh
    @chigeh 4 года назад +106

    I had listened to this song five times before realizing that they dropped "new" out of "new Orleans"

  • @avatar9520202
    @avatar9520202 3 года назад +1345

    As a foreigner, learning french, am I the only one finding old french easier to understand than "modern" french ?

    • @hollowhoagie6441
      @hollowhoagie6441 3 года назад +187

      Modern French speakers merge their sounds so something like Je suis can become J'ui or Je veux could become J'eux. They also have a habit of dropping the eh sound from words.

    • @matheo8651
      @matheo8651 3 года назад +120

      If you're an English speaker yeah
      Because as a French It sound to me so strange, It sound like an English speaker trying to speak French but he don't know a single word of French

    • @davidandremelchorzavala2100
      @davidandremelchorzavala2100 3 года назад +58

      The song still has an English accent

    • @paul_position50
      @paul_position50 3 года назад +71

      @@davidandremelchorzavala2100 it seems to be an English accent but french dialects have this kind of accent. (I'm a native french)

    • @davidandremelchorzavala2100
      @davidandremelchorzavala2100 3 года назад +2

      @@paul_position50 I’m curious, where?

  • @hysterical5408
    @hysterical5408 3 года назад +159

    God, that sun looks either really disappointed in all of us, or they just got out of bed.

    • @isaacorr3180
      @isaacorr3180 3 года назад +24

      He just got of bed he is the Rising sun after all
      Lol

    • @Karcinos64
      @Karcinos64 2 года назад +8

      I think it's supposed to be king Louis XIV

    • @monus782
      @monus782 2 года назад +3

      Could be both

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 2 года назад +4

      The sun looks creepy as hell

    • @mikshinee87
      @mikshinee87 2 года назад +7

      @@mrtrollnator123 It knows you were supposed to clean your room today.

  • @HMan2828
    @HMan2828 4 года назад +1200

    I'm a native French speaker from Quebec, and I could actually understand pretty much everything, just some of the words were a bit "old head slang", but some of the pronunciations were a bit off. I'm just curious if it's actually how it was pronounced, or if it's because you're not 100% sure.... "Saoul" for example, the word for drunk, is pronounced "soo" here... But it sounds like it's being sung by an Acadien from the accent, which is a whole other can of old French...
    Here's the lyrics in modern French:
    Il y a une maison en Orleans
    Qui se nomme Le Soleil Levant
    Et elle fut la ruine de maints pauvre gars
    Dont j'en fait aussi partie….
    Ma mère était une tailleuse
    Qui cousit mes braies de lin
    Mon père lui était un joueur et
    D’Orleans un citadin
    Et les seules choses qu'un joueur requiert
    Sont une malle et un coffre
    Et le seul moment de repos pour lui
    Est saoul au fond d’un pot
    Oh, mère, dit le aux enfants
    De ne pas faire comme moi
    Pêchez tout au long de vos tristes vies
    La ou le Soleil fait loi
    Bien, j'ai un pied sur le pavement
    L'autre est sur le char
    Je suis de retour à Orleans
    Ou l’air même est une barre

    • @wavearts3279
      @wavearts3279 3 года назад +46

      Le français de la toune n'est pas celui de 1200, celui-là est vraiment incompréhensible. C'est plutôt le français du 18e siècle, mais Champlain parlait un français moins compréhensible.

    • @geeksworkshop
      @geeksworkshop 3 года назад +11

      native French speakers come from France x

    • @HMan2828
      @HMan2828 3 года назад +159

      @@geeksworkshop Spoken with the predictable pretense of a true Parisian...

    • @silverpleb2128
      @silverpleb2128 3 года назад +19

      The pronounciation you hear dont have anything to do with the real pronounciation of old french.
      What you hear is just French canadian singers, singing with their accent.

    • @HMan2828
      @HMan2828 3 года назад +55

      @@silverpleb2128 No, it's a very specific accent. I'm French Canadian, this accent is either Acadien or Cajun...

  • @chingizzhylkybayev8575
    @chingizzhylkybayev8575 4 года назад +439

    So at what point exactly in their history did the French get too lazy to pronounce their consonants then

    • @Redgethechemist
      @Redgethechemist 4 года назад +99

      As a French native speaker, I can't agree, some words are misspelled and not pronounced exactly how they should, but mostly, it's pretty good. We like mute consonants almost as much as English like sounds not related to the spelling😂 like in tough, though, through and thought or like in gauge.

    • @jlk426
      @jlk426 4 года назад +70

      @@Redgethechemist didn't french actually used to have a pronounced S sound that ended up getting lost, and that's why some words have an circumflex accent on top to show the lost s (forest/forêt, hospital/hôpital)?

    • @levilepsylonake5751
      @levilepsylonake5751 4 года назад +20

      When mondialisation began to be easier in France all of the different dialects kinda merged together : not saying all the syllables was something from northern France

    • @rextheroyalist6389
      @rextheroyalist6389 4 года назад +15

      Redgethechemist at least we can blame our inconsistent spelling on over-eager spelling reformists, while you can only really blame bad pronunciation on the people themselves. Hard consonant gang. Imagine being such a coward that you refuse to pronounce the letter 'x'.
      jk but seriously, old French is so much better than modern French, I'm so glad that English got influenced by the old Norman dialect rather than modern Parisian

    • @Redgethechemist
      @Redgethechemist 4 года назад +20

      @@rextheroyalist6389 Ha ha, actually, a lot of our silent consonants are here to reflect their latin or greek origins, as from the spelling, you can guess (sometimes very hardly as words have evolved so much) the meaning. And concerning French orthography, we have a committee in charge of regulating words spelling, and every year, they decide which new words should be accepted in dictionaries. They are called the "immortals" and they belong to the Académie française. In Quebec, they are defending their French even stronger, they are much less permeable to Anglicisms. I heard that English language evolved a lot due to the plague which killed so many nobles and bourgeois in London, and as they spoke French/Norman, the influence of French decreased a lot as they were replaced by populations coming from the countryside who had almost no knowledge of French and spoke different variants of Saxon languages and that's how the great vowel shift happened, but time after time, linguists were too lazy, or maybe just nobody thought it should be done, to make the spelling fit with the phonetics and that's why English is so inconsistent with its spelling. I was really surprised to learn that draught beer has to be pronounced "draft beer".

  • @pascholatti
    @pascholatti 4 года назад +150

    "take me back to when the French used trilled R's" that would be a dream come true

    • @tachy1801
      @tachy1801 3 года назад +22

      In some regions of France (the south-west mostly), 'r' are pronounced like that by people with local accents. Go in some rural area and talk to old people, and your wish should be fullfilled.

    • @tonyl4571
      @tonyl4571 3 года назад +8

      We have this in certain regions in Quebec.

    • @hamzapetridis206
      @hamzapetridis206 3 года назад +8

      All old persons in my village roll the R’s lol

    • @hamzapetridis206
      @hamzapetridis206 3 года назад +8

      And even in the 1970’s 1980’s post WW2 Tv French people would roll the R’a

  • @Dr.Goldstein
    @Dr.Goldstein 2 года назад +33

    Huge Shout out the the guy who recorded this back in 1270 A.D.

  • @khyzarus7745
    @khyzarus7745 4 года назад +107

    You should really shill your patreon at the end of the vid otherwise people won't know you even have one

    • @the_miracle_aligner
      @the_miracle_aligner  4 года назад +17

      Ahhh, thanks for the tip m8 :) will do that in the future.

  • @masseffect435
    @masseffect435 3 года назад +98

    as a french who knows a bit about old french i have to say i'm really impressed by your prononciation. Old french i really hard to pronounce especially if you don't know shit about french.
    do you study old languages or something ?

    • @CyrusLagom
      @CyrusLagom 3 года назад +14

      He had a trainer to help him translate and pronounce the language.

    • @polherverolland
      @polherverolland 6 месяцев назад +6

      Alors attends , d'où tu tires que le vieux français se prononce de cette façon ? Pour l'écriture ok, on a pas mal de texte notamment Rabelais, mais déjà la grammaire, l'ordre des mots m'interroge dans cette traduction.
      Et l'accent.. non sérieusement c'est impossible que des gens aient parlé français avec cet accent anglais moderne, impossible.

    • @marcapouli7805
      @marcapouli7805 6 месяцев назад

      @@polherverolland Je me disais la même chose. Peut-être ils ont trouvé des enregistrements d'époque 🤷‍♂ ?

  • @GrandadmiralSeewolf
    @GrandadmiralSeewolf 4 года назад +618

    "Es gibt, ein Haus, in Neu Berlin..."
    Oh sorry, wrong version, my bad

    • @Dowlphin
      @Dowlphin 4 года назад +2

      Rote DieFlora? 😆

    • @akiko7831
      @akiko7831 4 года назад +42

      Die Version aus Wolfenstein war meine Lieblingsversion, aber jetzt gefällt mir diese

    • @Zardichard
      @Zardichard 4 года назад

      *Neuruppin

    • @jaizzj.z.3690
      @jaizzj.z.3690 4 года назад +3

      in neu Berlin 😂😂

    • @alexanderblack4477
      @alexanderblack4477 4 года назад

      Tja

  • @johnhall7522
    @johnhall7522 2 года назад +41

    1:14 Idk why but this exact moment is the absolute peak of the song, I hear him say "D'Orleans" and my soul leaves my body

  • @Adonys
    @Adonys 4 года назад +136

    The best part about it is that it's still mostly understandable French

    • @Adonys
      @Adonys 4 года назад +4

      (i'm French so I can check)

    • @maximeduchalet4662
      @maximeduchalet4662 4 года назад +1

      kinda mostly, this guy speak some fricked up french, if i met someone speaking like that i would assume they're portugese or canadian?

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 4 года назад

      French has changed less since that time than English has, that's for sure.

    • @troodon1096
      @troodon1096 4 года назад +1

      @@maximeduchalet4662 French sounded a lot different then than it does now.

    • @maximeduchalet4662
      @maximeduchalet4662 4 года назад +1

      it sure did but he does have an accent on top of that

  • @Aquason
    @Aquason 4 года назад +798

    To francophones who are bugged by the pronunciation of word-final consonants:
    >As a result of the pre-French loss of most final vowels, all consonants could potentially appear word-finally except for /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ (which were always followed by at least a schwa, stemming from either a final /a/ or a prop vowel). In Old French, however, all underlying voiced stops and fricatives were pronounced voiceless when word-final. This was clearly reflected in Old French spelling, e.g. the adjectives froit "cold" (feminine froide), vif "lively" (feminine vive), larc "large" (feminine large), and similarly in verbs, e.g. je doif "I must" vs. ils doivent "they must", je lef "I may wash" vs. ils levent "they (may) wash". Most of these alternations have since disappeared (due partly to morphological reshaping and partly to respelling once most final consonants were lost, as described below), but the adjectival alternation vif vs. vive (and similarly for other adjectives in -f) is still present.
    >Starting in the Middle French period, most final consonants were gradually lost. This proceeded in stages:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_French#Changes_to_final_consonants
    This is intended to sound like Old French, when word-final consonants were still pronounced.

    • @BirdOfCreation
      @BirdOfCreation 4 года назад +7

      I thought consonants were added at the end of words by scribes, since they were paid by the letter. Like it was the case for many doubled consonants in French.
      Thanks for the piece of info

    • @tangsolaris9533
      @tangsolaris9533 4 года назад +10

      Underrated comment

    • @FassinTaak
      @FassinTaak 4 года назад +2

      Oh, quoted from Wikipedia, must be 100% ultra undoubtedly legit

    • @BirdOfCreation
      @BirdOfCreation 4 года назад +98

      @@FassinTaak you're cynical but you didn't even bother checking Wikipedia's sources. They're written at the bottom. It's mostly history and linguistics books.

    • @delphinedelphinedelphine
      @delphinedelphinedelphine 4 года назад +2

      Do you think the vowels are pronounced as they were once were as well (is the "u" sharp enough?)?

  • @LehySnek
    @LehySnek 2 года назад +36

    I'm Italian, I had to study French in middle school, I can handle Old French better than its modern counterpart.

    • @lecoureurdesbois86
      @lecoureurdesbois86 8 месяцев назад +1

      I'd be curious to see how you understand Québec French versus France French.
      I'm not objcetive, but I always had the feeling we speak more in a "latin" way and in a more "bastardized" way that ressembles old French, as modern French was very influenced by the Académie française and from the 18th century changed it quite a bit

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy 6 месяцев назад

      @@lecoureurdesbois86 you didn't say if you were Québécois or French, yourself! Who's "we"? I suspect the French Revolution also changed the language quite a bit in France, changes which probably did not carry over into Québec

    • @lecoureurdesbois86
      @lecoureurdesbois86 6 месяцев назад

      @@squirlmy Yes that's also what I'm saying, I'm from Québec

  • @Anaxakorgas
    @Anaxakorgas 4 года назад +57

    The house of the rising sun; Versailles !
    _- That message was approved by the sun king Louis XIV_