frisian

A native Frisian speaker would probably have an even easier time, given that Frisian is the closest language to English.

You can still see the similarities when you compare High German, Low German, Frisian and English words.

There's pretty good evidence that there were subtantial Saxon and Frisian settlements in Britain before the Hengist & Horsa incident.

It's true that English historically comes from the Germanic side of the tree -- starting with Old Frisian with later Old Norse influences.

Old English is very closely related to Old Frisian and Low German.

However, Frisian is still more similar to other west-germanic languages than English.

There's a hilarious video on Youtube where the comedian Eddie Izzard attempts to talk to a Frisian Farmer in Old English and gets surprisingly far.

Take a look at Frisian for the beginning of an answer.

I talk Dutch, German, English, Frisian and a little -just a little- French.

So plattdeutsch, frisian, langue d'oc, sicilian, catalonian, etc.

And Bede's account (and similar stories of the era) fail to explain why Old English had a much closer resemblance to Old Frisian than it did to Old Saxon, or why Celtic monuments disappeared from the southeast of England long before the invasion was supposed to have occurred.

I know people from four different places in germany who can speak in hilariously heavy dialects (frisian, bavarian, saxonian, swabian), in northern uk (scotland), and various parts of the usa (people from 'redneck' states are amazing for online play), and they're able to switch to the standard version of their country's language at the drop of a hat.

Which becomes "master" later in English, but remains Mäster in Frisian (the closest Germanic language to English) and is also mäster in Swedish.

That red is "Celtic, Basque, Italic, Frisian, and Saxon", a rather too large and too diverse of a group I must say.

I always liked the rhyme: "bread, butter and green cheese is good English and good Fries", which in Frisian is "Brea, bûter en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk".

Many that don't are already labelled distinctly, either as creoles/pidgins, or from historical divergence (e.g Scots, Frisian).

Old English makes more sense if you’re aware of Frisian, Dutch, and other non-Scandinavian Germanic languages, since that’s the area it originated from.

Noticed it does not find Frisian, but then again neither does Google.