This animated history of the English language covers 1600 years of linguistic history in just 11 minutes and 20 seconds. It starts in the fifth century AD with the Angles and the Saxons and goes right on through to the present and beyond.
You will
learn the origin of phrases such as “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”, the
significance of Shakespeare’s plays on the English vocabulary, why one idea can
be conveyed with two different words, which words are of Anglo-Saxon or
Germanic origin, why faucet and tap,toilet and restroom,...
The video
was created by The Open University, OU,a distance learning school out of
the UK and its producers claim : “the series looks at how English grew from
a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of
English in the 21st century.”
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the video by clicking on the link below:
Watch the video and then write a
short summary explaining how English has evolved by being in contact with other
languages. Add examples taken from the videos to support your views.
