THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Here's a mind-map of the historical evolution of the English language.

More information about the Great Vowel Shift (before and after 1500).

WHERE DID ENGLISH COME FROM?

This post brings another video about the origins and evolution of the English language throughout history.

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HOW BRITISH & AMERICAN SPELLING PARTED WAYS

Here's another animated video to show us the origin of how British & American spellings parted ways.

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH (2)

Another old video (from 1943) which tells us the history of the English language from the beginning until then. Interesting.

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH (IN 10 MINUTES)

Here's a 10-minute cartoon video which summarises the history of the English language. Funny to watch.

A compilation of ten videos on the history of the English language. It has been compiled into a film to make it a little easier to watch. The originals are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Licence agreement. The original webpage can be found here

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