The History of English in 10 Minutes

A compilation of ten videos on the history of the English language. I compiled the videos into a film to make it a little easier to watch them all. While I do not own the originals. They originals are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Licence agreement. The origin webpage can be found here http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history...

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  Film & Animation

[OhhCathy]

I remember wanting to create my own language when i was growing up.

[excelkit12]

I like the part where he says: "The History of English, in four minutes."

[MrCaliFunk]

Very interesting video

[ScreamingInTheCalle]

LMFAO @ 6:37

[MdmMim1]

10:51 hey, Malay made the list! We gave parang, sarong, cockatoo and junk (the ship)

[podmoreir9kd]

it will always remain English,because as you and the rest of the world should know,God was an Englishman

[podmoreir9kd]

are you crazy,the kids in Britain,US,Australia,Canada,Ne­w Zealand are not learning Chinese or Hindi,but I can guarantee you kids in New Delhi are desperate to learn English.What foreign language do you think they teach in Mexico,Japan,Israel etc,it ain't Chinese or Indian,its yet again English.Chinese and Hindi will never be accepted in the western world because it does not use a latin script.While western countries have the largest economies this will always remain.

[Phantasmagorian1]

All these people saying how English is weak - well, that's because it's a mix of languages.

[LemonatoR32]

The new name will be "American."

[chronozon937]

Terran.

[jropz]

earthish.

[eedqs]

I'm good with calling it Standard