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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:16 - What is English?
0:51 - Celts and Romans
1:50 - Germanic Tribes
2:36 - Old English
4:25 - Vikings
6:09 - Writing
7:16 - Middle English
9:20 - Late Middle English
12:03 - Sword and Sorcery Tales
12:36 - Early Modern English
13:44 - Enter William Shakespeare
15:11 - The Academy Attempt
16:23 - Late Modern English
17:06 - Alphabet and Pronunciation
17:52 - Astonishing Things

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🎬 Video Clips:
Do You Understand the Words That Are Coming Out of My Mouth? - Rush Hour (1/5) Movie CLIP (1998) HD
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The Ancient Celtic Languages
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What Was Life like in Medieval England?
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Cædmon's Hymn 🎵 (Sung in Old English)
   • Cædmon's Hymn 🎵 (Sung in Old English)  

Beowulf (Old English)
   • Beowulf (Old English)  

How the Normans changed the history of Europe - Mark Robinson
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Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern
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General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales (Premiere)
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What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know
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Original Pronunciation - Hamlet | To Be, or not to be... | Ben Crystal
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The Queens English
   • The Queens English  


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“Claudius crop” by Marie-Lan Nguyen is licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
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“RP English Monophthongs Chart” by RP_vowel_chart is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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