From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue

I have wanted to see something like this for a long time. It is amazing how much language drifts.

3 comments

  1. Very interesting! I could start making sense of it around A.D. 900, but only because I’ve had some German in college (but not much, really). A great post. Many thanks.

  2. Ik (als Nederlandse) begon een ietsje te begrijpen zo rond 900, maar het werd veel gemakkelijker te verstaan zo rond 1500/1600. Alles wat ik voor die tijd hoorde leek meer een Skandinavische taal.

    1. Google translated

      “I (as a Dutch person) started to understand a little bit around 900, but it became much easier to understand around 1500/1600. Everything I heard before that time seemed more like a Scandinavian language.”

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