A Very Brief History of English

[bweedin]

At least with classical Chinese you have Chinese characters, so you can KIND OF guess the meaning, but with old (olde?) English, I'm completely lost.

[Patel10314]

If you don't have Ambien on hand just watch this video.

[vveq]

I bet you speak Klingon also.

My name is Mr. Klarns and I like to eat cheese. *munch munch munch*

[gibsonslasher22]

hey people, what could be the possible reason why people on mountains does not have the same language as the people on land in a country? please give me websites that can feed up my queries regarding to this.. thx a lot,.

[autumnenergy]

Awesome video dude ! Very informative. You rock !

(Ye video is endowed with sych meikleness) <-- my feeble attempt at Middle English

[acromel]

I'd like to see a comparison of current and old, or classical Chinese. :o)

If you can cover the change of hanzi from traditional to simplified as well, that would be greatly appreciated.

[HyperLingual]

interesting ideas!

unfortunately I don't really understand these topics well enough, but eventually I should =D

[acromel]

Fair enough :o)

I'm currently studying Japanese but, if I can ever get past kanji, I hope to start on Mandarin next.

Compared to kana and kanji pinyin should be easy! Although I know I'm going to make some spectacular mistakes when I mix up tones :o)

And Cantonese has up to 10 tones? Crazy; that's just too many!

[neoguy9090]

Don't forget that Japanese has tones too!

[acromel]

Well, the intonation is certainly different, if that's what you mean - with the emphasis on the first syllable. And the extended sounds like かこい　and かっこい　but still easier than Cantonese :o)

I think many people forget how tricky English must be for non-native speakers - with so much meaning conveyed through intonation and stress. A bit like the　「 はとが」　difference.

[HyperLingual]

そうですねぇ〜

[spekkyguy]

What a load of pish - English,old English,middle English, anglo-saxon. The English language has nothing to do with AS - it's just a dialect (a calculated cold expressionless one, at that) of the British language spoken by SE England and tourists. The British language has been spoken in GB since the end of the last ice age (10,000 years ago) by Geordies, Scousers, Yorkshire folk, Glaswegians and the like. Cockneys are a separate breed!). Beowulf, I'm afraid is a foreign import.

[HyperLingual]

YES absolutely right hahahaha

[psviking1]

@spekkyguy Forst og fremmest, du skulle laere hvor Engelsk stammer fra, det stammer direkt fra Dansk. Efter alle disse aar, kan en stadig se, hvor naer Engelsk og dansk er. First and foremost, you should learn where English stems from, it stems directly from Danish. After all these years, can one still see, how near English and Danish are. DU taler en form for Dansk.! YOU talk a form of Danish!

[karlsefni01]

your old english and middle english are both really good.

[paixespoiramour]

i love this video!!!!

great job!

[aiyaaa]

Hahah this is amazing!!!

You are super talented ^^*

(nice lion, by the way)

[hapaJESSICA]

i love your videos! you are great. let's get married

[anubistiger]

great! how did you learn all of this and all of the linguistic talents?

[HyperLingual]

The Internet is helpful =D