The English Language: Where Did It Come From?
🇬🇧Fiery dragons, unruly spelling, and fierce invaders? Grab a paper and get ready to take notes. This is the story of English you were never told in school!
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Intro
0:16 – What is English?
0:51 – Celts and Romans
1:50 – Germanic Tribes
2:36 – Old English
4:25 – Vikings
6:09 – Writing
7:16 – Middle English
9:20 – Late Middle English
12:03 – Sword and Sorcery Tales
12:36 – Early Modern English
13:44 – Enter William Shakespeare
15:11 – The Academy Attempt
16:23 – Late Modern English
17:06 – Alphabet and Pronunciation
17:52 – Astonishing Things
📜 SOURCES & ATTRIBUTIONS:
🎬 Video Clips:
Do You Understand the Words That Are Coming Out of My Mouth? – Rush Hour (1/5) Movie CLIP (1998) HD
The Ancient Celtic Languages
What Was Life like in Medieval England?
Cædmon's Hymn 🎵 (Sung in Old English)
Beowulf (Old English)
How the Normans changed the history of Europe – Mark Robinson
Where did English come from? – Claire Bowern
General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales (Premiere)
What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like – and how we know
Original Pronunciation – Hamlet | To Be, or not to be… | Ben Crystal
The Queens English
🖼 Images:
“Claudius crop” by Marie-Lan Nguyen is licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
“RP English Monophthongs Chart” by RP_vowel_chart is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
