I do really love the Lowlands-L site. It is actually a collection of the lowland germanic languages. The audio files are what I love the most. In that all the Germanic, English and Saxon dialects are reading from the same story "The Wren" I think they are amazing to listen to.

A little trivia because I love Germanic languages so--- that spur of land connecting Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark, here you are able to hear people speaking in what sounds eeirly like a lost dialect of English. Occassional snatches of it even make sense as when they say "veather ist cold" or inqire of the time by asking "What ist de clock?"

Many language scholars agree this is very close to the way people spoke in Britian more than one thousand years ago. It shouldn't be much of a surprise since this area of Germany called Angeln, was once the seat of the Angles, one of the German tribes that fifteen hundred years ago crossed the North Sea to Britian, where they displaced the native Celts and gave the world what would one day be its most prominent Germanic language!

Not far away, in the marshy headlands of Holland and western Germany, and on the long chain of wind battered isles strung out along the coasts, lives a group of people whose dialect is even more closely related to English. These are some os the three thousand Frisians, whose Germanic tongue has been so little altered by time that many of them can still read the medieval epic Beowulf 'almost at sight' This gives me goosebumps to think of being able to hear it read to me in that way. On Lowlands-L they do the same.