The Adventure of English (2003)

Season 1 Episode 1

Birth of a Language

0.05 / Nov / 2003•65m

We are going to delve down to the roots of the language and deduce its history - and in that one sentence we hear words from four different sources; delve from Dark Age Anglo-Saxon, root from Danish invaders, language from medieval French, and deduce from Renaissance Latin; four of the main - but not all - contributors to the richness of modern English.

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