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[–] 17982403? ago 

What makes you think it's close? After the great vowel shift it became practically a different language.

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[–] 17982405? ago 

yeah, I just watched a video and it looks unintelligible. How hard would it learn to speak?

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[–] 17986498? ago 

In theory, no harder than German.

In reality, incredibly hard owing to the fact that there's virtually no one you could practice with. Right now, you can't immerse yourself in Old English like you can with living languages and it's pretty hard to find anyone who can even correct you when you get stuff wrong. Something people often forget is that the single most important factor in determining whether you succeed in learning a language is whether or not you get enough practice.

You'd have to try to set up a community and be very active and charismatic in order to keep it alive. It's theoretically possible to resurrect a dead language, but it's only ever happened a few times.