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In case anyone doesn't recognize the cognates, I think they'd be

"Set the television on."

"Where been ye?"

"I have hunger, when ere going we eating?"

(It would be easier for English speakers to understand "wanneer" by the similarity to "whenever" but it turns out that "wanneer" is actually cognate with when+ere (as in 'before') and not with when+ever.)

Those aren't too out of place in Scottish English.

I grew up hearing German, Schwaebisch, English, Latin, and French regularly. Dutch is readable for me, but hearing it is sometimes completely foreign.

There was a commotion on Twitter recently when a Dutch politician posted a tweet (in Dutch) that started with the words, “we hebben een serieus probleem”.