Do you know what is the History of English language? Let´s watch this video and learn about it. It is the first part, every week I will post another one.
Olá pessoal,
Vocês sabem qual é a origem da língua Inglesa? Vamos assistir este vídeo e aprender sobre ela. Esta é a primeira parte, a cada semana eu vou postar uma parte dela.
Here is the audio script
The History of English in Ten Minutes
Chapter 1, Anglo-Saxon, or whatever
happened to the Jutes?
The English language begins with the
phrase “up yours Caesar”, as the Romans leave Britain, and a lot of Germanic
tribes start flooding in, tribes such as the Anglos, and the Saxons, who
together gave us the term the Anglo-Saxon, and the Jutes, who didn’t.
The Romans
left some very straight roads behind, but not much of their Latin
language. The Anglo-Saxon vocab was much
more useful, as it was mainly words for simple everyday things like house,
woman, loaf, and werewolf. Four of our days of the week were named in
honor of Anglo-Saxon gods. They didn’t
bother with Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, as they’d all gone off for a long
weekend. While they were away, Christian
missionaries stole in, bringing with them leaflets about jumble sales and more
Latin. Christianity was a hit with the
locals and made them much happier to take on funky new words from Latin, like martyr,
bishop, and font.
And along came
the Vikings, with their action-man words like drag, ransack, thrust, and die. They may have raped and pillaged, but they
were also into give and take. Two of around two thousand words they gave
English, as well as the phrase “Watch out for that man, with the enormous ax.”
