The Adventure of English — Season 1, Episode 1: Birth of a Language
Documentary • 65 min • 1 season, 8 episodes • ★ 8.6/10
Episode synopsis
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.
About The Adventure of English
The history of the English language presented by Melvyn Bragg; from its modest beginnings around 500 AD as a minor Germanic dialect to its rise as a global language.