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1499 Spain or 20BC-10AD Rome. I know Spanish and I took two years of Latin, so I'd probably get by as long as some noble or ruffian didn't shank me first.

4000 BC Pontic-Caspian steppe. Fuck shit up

>>29647

Nigga do you even realize how different 15th century castillian is from modern day spanish?

>>29652

It'd probably still be close enough to get by with a lot of difficulty.

>>29648

About the same, though I'd rather opt for late Yamna culture, about 1500 years later.

Chariots are useful stuff.

I believe know Indo-European roots well enough that I wouldn't be a complete foreigner. You can get a lot across by waving hands and saying all words you can remember that vaguely mean what you want to say, from my experience.

>>29664

>Do you realize how no one back then spoke modern day Spanish?

Exactly my point, the Spanish he knows is modern day, not 15th century Castillian

>>29668

OP said "before 1500", can you suggest a place with a lower language barrier?

Honestly I completely ignore the differences between modern and 15th century Spanish, but unless they were like Anglo-Saxon and English, it doesn't sound so bad.

>>29670

If you can read El cantar del Mio Cid without any problems youre set for medieval Castille

>>29672

I understand ~30% of the text, and considering it's not everyday speech and I don't even speak Spanish, I don't find it particularly difficult. Mainly a matter of vocabulary, most of which I presume a Spanish-speaking person already has..

On the other hand, how much did pronunciation change in five centuries?

>>29676

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Spanish_language

This should give you an insight

>we all go back in time

>no old language is our own

>we die as slaves trying to tell people how to use black powder

ayy lmao

>>29690

>>no old language is our own

>tfw not icelandic

England 1495

>know english, so it shouldn't be too hard to adapt to their middle english

>use /k/ knowledge to get attention of the English army

>build better cannons, muskets and the like, make some explosives like napalm

>use money to found pimping colony in Florida Keys

>Loot Mexicans before Dirty spanish can get there

>get more mad dosh, sail around south America and raid the fuck out of Japs

Get on my level Nerds

>>29700

reality

>"Hello, ye olde knight, where be the grandest lord of yonder land?"

>gets knocked out

>enslaved and used as a cum-dumpster for the rest of your life

>>29700

>shouldn't be too hard to adapt to their middle english

better start studying all the vowel shifts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

>>29700

I made a super long reply saying shit about how that shit wouldn't work (though Ilike the idea) and how some of it would work but browser crashed so fuck it.

TL;DR of what I wrote

injuns could be easier to kill than they were historically cause you know how to do so already

japan is fucking tough to conquer even with your "improved" weapons

Financially impossible to do the shit with the new world and then to turn around and attack japan.

if you conquered the aztecs and inca, couldn't you just get ships onto the west coast of the americas? i'm assuming this includes panama, I didn't do well during the South america segment of world geography

This is all assuming you could convince them to do fuck all

>>29710

>japan is fucking tough to conquer even with your "improved" weapons

>Financially impossible to do the shit with the new world and then to turn around and attack japan

He said raid not conquer so I'm thinking he meant just leading pirate activities in the area which is possible, the only problem with it is getting to a market to fence those goods because you're not going to speak the language.

>>29710

>conquer

I never said conquer I said raid and pillage the shit out of it

>>29707

secretly want this

>>29708

Well I mean it would be easier to learn it than say fucking french or Mandarin, go to some family say I am trader from Norway and eventually learn all the Vowel changes also not sure if 1495 England was still in middle English or early modern

>>29670

Bohemia maybe. The Czech language almost died during 17th-19th century, one philologist who wrote some (at the time important) stuff in 18th/19th cent. about this originally thought of it just as documenting a dead language. Much of the revived language was based on a Bible from 16th century so it basically skipped 3 centuries. Provided you speak Czech, the barrier should be manageable…. alternatively if you speak Hebrew, then maybe ~0AD Palestine but I don't know much about this. I don't know about Latin, but I suspect it didn't change too much and it'd give a wide variety of choice.

>>29727

>bohemia

The guy speaks Spanish bro, but interesting nonetheless.

>if you speak Hebrew, then maybe ~0AD Palestine

Sure some spoke a dialect of Hebrew (Mishnaic) along with Aramaic, but hell that's a shitty time for a shitty place if you ask me.

also 0 AD doesn't exist, after 1 BC comes 1 AD

>>29730

>also 0 AD doesn't exist, after 1 BC comes 1 AD

I am so fucking triggered right now, are you serious?

there has to be 0BC :(

>>29734

no there doesn't

>>29700

>know english, so it shouldn't be too hard to adapt to their middle english

A poem read in middle english

>>29763

adapting to that would be easier than say, learning classical Gaelic

>>29769

>mfw all those palatalized consonants

>>29639

Rome, document Latin before the fall and give it to linguists to compare to medieval Latin.

>>29763

hmm doesn't seem the hardest in the world, that and in 1495 it was in the middle of middle English transitioning into modern English so I guess it would be even easier.

>>29770

I don't dare to show you Russian

>>29809

nigga I know Russian, Old Irish has fuggen θʲ and ðʲ also ṽ

>>29824

what could g wrong?

>>29639

Be part of christopher columbus expedition and try to learn spanish

>>33613

or I will visit the manhattan natives and say where can I get some good ny pizza around here.

Florence, late 13th Century, I'd fuck around with Dante.

>>33614

And Columbus will proceed to call you a terrone.

>>29639

Indonesia in 1945, so I can fight the Dutch and then install myself as the dictator to replace Soekarno. I'd immediately kill Soeharto of course.

>>29639

I'd go back to Denmark in 1330, and start working to establish a medical university, in order to avert the brunt of the bubonic plague crippling my country. From what I've read, it took 500 years for the population levels to reach a million again, and that's after we lost several holdings in Sweden, The Baltic and Northern Germany.

I believe that when the bubonic plague hit in 1349, the fate of Denmark was sealed, as a second rate European power, instead of being an actual contender in European power politics.

I believe that if my efforts were successful, I could save at least tens of thousands of my countrymen. And in a best case situation, I could start a medicinal revolution in Europe, which would accelerate the progress towards industrialization.

Also, I'd be serving under Valdemar Atterdag, one of the more successful Danish Medieval kings.

>>33624

>before 1500

>>34116

The plague would've hit you anyways, just isolate the country like Poland did.