Old English: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews

Alexander Arguelles presents a series of videos to provide introductory overviews of the languages of the world. Working diachronically through various language families in turn, he demonstrates how to identify each language, translates a text sample to show how it works, and discusses its genetic affiliation and cultural context. For further information about the series, please refer to http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/

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[TookTheBluePill]

sounds like an italian wizard baked off his ass.

[HorazGER]

Sie haben in mir ein großes Interesse an diesen alten, germanischen Sprachen geweckt, vor allem Altes Englisch und Altnordisch, oder Gotisch, vielen Dank dafür.

Freundliche Grüße.

[dragons123ism]

Do you seriously not know what happened in 1066?? Yes, English is Germanic and French is a Romance language but French has still been greatly influential. They share an origin through PIE anyway.

[Vicki N]

Yes, but there's a lot of influence of Old French.

[Jack Rose]

Old French, Latin, and Spanish are huge reason for why English is the way it is. There's no need to say for German to be a big part of it because that's where the language came from.

[naedanger123]

Yep. I always hold the hope that in 40-50 years, it will slowly begin to (somehow) revert back to its roots (it can be a bit different from this, as long as it regains its ' old Germanic' feel, as I like to call it), and that I may live long enough to speak something like this in everyday life.

[dudeonthasopha]

english has borrowed an enormous amount of french words.

[xplinux22]

True, but "simplified" is a bit of an understatement :/

[CiraBG]

english has nothing to do with french, totaly difrent roots

[Draious]

I believe he is reading the elf language from the Tolkien universe :P very interesting video

[TranceExplosion]

The base of English is Germanic making it a Germanic language and certain dialects of modern English still use words and pronunciations based on Old English.

[Levente Maier]

Modern English is like simplified Old English mixed with French !