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And welcome back to britain under the microscope

欢迎你回到闲话英伦

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Helan

Hello

Everyone so alan

What are we going to talk about today

Well

Today we're going to talk a little bit about the history of english

That sounds like a huge topic

Well it is

So this is going to be part one of something that we hope it's going to be five episodes about five episoin total tal about history of english

Here we're talking about english as a language

Yes

Because to understand english

It's important to understand its history

It's important to understand where the words come from

Where all the influences come from in english

So today we going to start by talking about the beginning of the english

The very beginning engenglish

I was wonred

English is such a world language

Now there's a huge number of people who can speak english and use english to communicate

Did it start off as a major language

No

Not at all

English was only spoken in a small area of what is now great britain

And it's also quite recent language

Um

You think about two thousand years ago

If you went to england

This is something like what you would have heard gracan't can have a day go three with them enalthy bubules in gge

Okay

That's two thousand years ago

That's how people sounded like well similar to this

This is actually well

This is a language of spoken in whales

And welsh comes from the original language

The ancient britains used to speak so as an english person do you understand this at all

Not all so it's completely different language

Completely different language

Oh

Most english people we can understand

Maybe french or german a few words

But welsh is

We just can't understand it unless

You study it at school in whales

So now people in wales do this don't speak

Well sure do they speak english

Oh

They speak both

But if you go to schooland wells you have to learn wwelsh as well uh

So that's when it started two thousand years ago

Well

Two thousand years ago

The womomants were in britain

The 罗马ain the 古罗马

Yeah

So you had the womoms who spoke latin

And then you had the anchtion britain's who spoke something like what we just heard

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所以是拉丁文和guwhere ar you so where does english as we know it come from them

Is it a combination with these two languages

No english actually comes from denmark or northern germany

From demark k denmy 问过来的

I would thought it was the other way round

I thought was nedannish ororrowed english words

So it's not no english is closely related to german and duch and other northern euroan languages

It's what we call a germanic language 啊

就是日耳man 语族

Gramaic

That's because around five hundred ad the jutes

The sextions and the angles

These are three different people

There are three different people

三个不同的民族

And the jutes

The sections and the angles

So they were migrated the angle land

Angle land

The angles

Yeah

Which became england

They go

They go angle land or england

And that was in thousand around five hundred ad 公元五百年

Yeah

So english itourself only about one thousand five

Five hundred years

Years old

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So you just said the ancient britains those spoke something like whales

So where did they go after that well

The ancient britains went to the west in britain mainly living in whales quite a few went up to scotland and coral

Wh that's where they kekept languguwell well that's where we would say the cltic people

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Caritter 人so for example

Scotland whales distinct different countries from england

Different culture

Different traditions

Different language and different languages in many cases yeah very interesting

But if you went back to england five hundred ad um the language they spoke wasn't more than engenglish

It was old english isn't a bbit 古汉语and 汉语

Uh it's a little bit further

Uh it's even even more different yeah

That's because if you listen to old english or angle said so as she sounds more like german than modern english

Because it was a germanic language

So is english still influenced by angle sexon yeah very much

So about twenty five percent of the english focabrary comes from old germany

So many of these are the basic words

So for example

Rud d red red

It was that old german

That was old english yeah

But came from german 那个language yeah

Um give me another one green green yeah

Ah gallow

Gallow No

That's too difficult

The word could you say that again gallow

I don't know

I give up yellow

Yellow

So it

It doesn't have a yet sound

It's as a good sound gellow and model model mother

Mother okay

Father well father yeah

So that's what old english sounded like yeah well roughly

My science like great

My pronunciation so like good in old english

Um do we have any audio records of old english

And how they sounded like well people worked out

How it sounded like mostly from one

The first poem that was written in english

This is cool

Bear wolf

Bear wolf it was made into atv sh

Yeah so that's aa film and film yeah

So this han't lilistn to a little clip from bear wolf

See how much you can understand and that's an old english

That is an old english okay

I'm sorry

But that doesn't sound like anything even remotely related to english

Sounds more like german

I can hear worrts like conniic

Like king

King assuyeah

So it doesn't sound like modern english at all no

The financiciciation is completely change

But if you see ve written

You might be able to understand one or two words

So why has it changed

Why don't people sound like that anymore well that's

What we're going to talk about in the next lesson uh

But as a cliff anger

You do know how to keep us waiting so in the next episode

Um we're gto talk a little bit about how this languguischange

And how it became more recognizable

Um especially if you think is the modern ate english

Modern n engsh

It has

Has lot lot worwords from friend

And that's

And wewhat we're going to be looking at in the next episode

Brilliant can't wait

So that'll be offer today's episode

And we will see you next time by for now bye