The Adventure of English - Birth of A Language - Ep 1

[redsonha]

Thank you for uploading this excellent documentary and in such good quality !

[JackyRowe]

23:30 - The LEAST dramatic music ever composed

[teddythebenny]

soo the english language has, celtic, german, french .. geez, guess i have to tell that to my jap students.. yes, in order for each and everyone one of you, to learn, understand English, you must learn, atleast german and french.. lol

[Fizzynipple]

good stuff. i like how everyones an expert after watching one or two episodes, 56-60% latin in laughable

[pucksterz12]

I love the English language - I will speak no other.

[Coffeeisnecessary]

@pucksterz12 I love the English language - I will speak no other.” No offence, but that’s an ignorant comment; I hope that you are not serious. I agree that English is an extraordinary language, but there are many other languages that are very beautiful, and beautiful people speak them only. I’ve studied Latin, Spanish, Italian, and I’m studying Arabic! Having the ability to speak multiple languages is a beautiful thing because you can speak to more people! <3

[corvidification]

funny how he never mentions Irish monks who wrote Gaelge down long before English and taught the Saxons to read, as well as founding Lindisfarne and Iona and creating the script shown in this show. good doc but this is a glaring omission. without the Irish monks the English would still be worshiping Odin...

[DaithiDublin]

Excellent documentary. Looking forward to watching the rest. Thanks for posting it!

[teatimelud]

klidstone1970: Sir, you should receive a knighthood for posting this whole linguistic series up on youtube. I've been looking for this for ages. Free access to culture for everyone, I'm convinced Mr Bragg (Lord Bragg I think) wouldn't object to that.

[tacotony24]

It's considered Germanic but it's ironic that the majority of the words in the English language (56-60%) originated from Latin. English is also written in the Latin alphabet.

[jaymorpheus11]

@tacotony24 it's not ironic, Englad was conquered by france in the 1300's

[LeeHoxton1]

@tacotony24 The Latin words in the English language are not English. English words are English. 95% of the most common daily words used are Anglo-Saxon German. probably out of the first 200 most common words spoken 10 are Latin. Latin is Anglisized, but it's not English. The words vocab and language are not English. Most of these Latin words have been acquired only in the last 300 years, since British globalization

[klidstone1970]

@TheApffff

Wonderful!!! I hope you enjoyed the doc and please check out the rest!  Best wishes.

Kimberley

[TheApffff]

My english teacher brought me here! xD

[baycast]

Thank you so much for this wonderful documentary. I have been looking for this and am so very pleased to see you have it here. Best Wishes. Irebhne.