English as a Second Language people: Do you like Shakespeare?

[Electric Cupcake]

The Immortal 'Bard of Stratford on Avon' is often called the greatest wordsmith the English language ever had, but the older Early Modern dialect is a bit tricky to grasp, even for native English speakers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnk1fbGNWrM

[Capuno]

i dont like shakespeare
i dont like most stuff that comes from that island

[Triple G]

Автор сообщения: Electric Cupcake

Interestingly, students of Middle English (a few centuries earlier than Shakespeare's Early Modern English) would find that sentence structure quite familiar and easy to grasp.

And only three words in it, which made it into high German. "fern(e)" for distant - and Sonne for sun - and "Ende", while You just lazily skipped the e at the end... "Hath" is also more closer to the Germans "hat" instead of "has". But You can probably oftentimes replace the S with a T. Wasser - water. Was - what. Das - that. Fuss - Foot. (while i don´t understand why You have to use a double oo to make the u sound...) Replacing a D with a T isn´t that far away, but i find it weird, that one can sometimes replace a G with a Y. Tag - day. Weg - way. Sagen - say. "Es mag sein." - "It may be."

But then again i wouldn´t understand the people speaking their northern German dialects. Like i would understand some words, but i couldn´t make a sentence out of it. Dutch people might say they sound like speaking Dutch, but with a German accent - and those who speak these languages would say that the Dutch speak it with a Dutch accent. I´d say that Dutch is probably a middle ground between German and English - in a cute way.

[Hobbit XIII]

Автор сообщения: Electric Cupcake

The Immortal 'Bard of Stratford on Avon' is often called the greatest wordsmith the English language ever had, but the older Early Modern dialect is a bit tricky to grasp, even for native English speakers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnk1fbGNWrM

Shakespeare is blocked in my country because of copyright grounds. Anybody see what the issue is here?
Or am I in another dimnension.

I cannot comment on your link.

So here is this one

Arnie says 'i'll be back'

We have Henry V!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyEnDwmtrZc

[Electric Cupcake]

Автор сообщения: qb

if they got shakespear pron then yea, cause i barely understand,. but its nice to hea.

Coriolanus is nicknamed "the anus play" for a reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSXFOsuRULg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syyHSmz6L4g

[PurpleCreativeValiant]

I don't shake spear

[THE LORD]

English as 1st language and I hate shakespeare.

[Lime]

i would never shake my spear at shakespeare.