"BY THAT POINT NO ONE COULD COUNT ANY HIGHER IN FRENCH" Jesus Christ this is so amazing

"Clitoris was still a source of confusion" Amen brother.

My old Irish father, RIP, used to say that the sun never set on the British Empire because Christ couldn't trust them in the dark.

The Bible: "Let there be light reading." Ha! Ha! That was precious!

"and the Italians arrived with the Pizza, their Pasta, and their Mafia." I'm dying.

Nothing beats animation for us simpletons.

Never was learning more fun! This really both entertained me and informed me. Well done!

as a linguists, I find this video very helpful for any historian, student, or even a person who is into History. thank you for uploading such.

Students of History of the English Language will love this! Thanks.

"Their Pizza, Their Pasta, and their Mafia. Just like Mama used to make"

I'm just enjoying this conversation about linguistics and grammar, almost as much as I enjoy these videos. Thanks for posting them, and thanks for talking about such an interesting subject on here! Kudos to you both! :)

This is the interesting part of my degree in a nutshell! LOVE IT!

You should get an explainity Oscar! I think after watching this 4 times I finally got all the information and will pass my test 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

“And then the Italians arrived with their pizza, pasta, and mafia. Just like mama used to make.” I love The Godfather reference with the horse head!

Let’s admit honestly,this is the most powerful video i’ve ever seen! Love the animation,the accent,literally everything…Keep up the good work❤️

Watching this was the most fun I've had all day.

I think I've watched this about 5 times. Funny and informative!

Helpful, informative and amusing. Well done!

Oh my goodness, this is a fantastic last minute overview of language change for my A2 English Language exam tomorrow! THANK YOU

I remember this video from a lesson in uni, 10 years ago!! I still come back to it every other time because I simply love it!!

This video pretty much covers everything I need to know for tomorrows exam in Global English. Awesome

I just love this well told historical spot

This was linked to my french/literacy lesson for today and it is by far the most entertaining thing that has happened

I'm glad I asked the question. I never knew videos could be slowed down in the options. Thanks for helping me be a better teacher with technology! be well

Excellent. For a similarly acessible and informative tale on the history of the English Language, try Bill Bryson's book 'Mother Tongue'.

Fantastic! Witty and accurate and hugely entertaining. Thank you OU!

this video makes the history of English so interesting....it really helped in my project work I had to do

This 15 min history lesson should be voted best youtube educational video!

"American English, or not English, but somewhere in the ballpark." Hilarious!!

8:22 and their mafia, just like Mama used to make! lol The horse's head reference is awesome by the way.

Another excellent 'History Of' from the Open University. Please keep them coming!

I was born and raised there and wish I could have learned about England like this when I was at school!

There should be a reference to ancient Greek language influence in the science chapter. Most scientific terms and names are in Greek. Every medical direction, every dinosaur name and many other words as well are Greek. Some of them are: idea, policie, method, episode, enthusiasm, dialogue, organization, economic, dogma, analyzed and synthesized, critical, problem, agony, melancholy, phenomenon, characteristic, thesis, dynamic, practice, chaos,catastrophe, parallel, synergy, harmony, democratic, climate, basic, apology, eccentric, monologue, emphasize, gastronomy symposia, strategy, philanthropy, magic, monopolies, antagonism, orthological, logic, academic, acme, prognostics, tyranny, phrase, epilogue, cosmos and many more...

The sun never sets on the English language ♥

There´s also "Denglisch" which is a ironic German term for the many anglicisms and pseudo-anglicisms in contemporary German language like "handy" for cell phones, "checken" for "to understand" or "to check", "date" for "romantic appointment", etc.

Very amusing AND educational - the best kind! Thanks so much!

These are great videos about the English language from the Open University. Very informative while being very entertaining.

brilliant genius who made this video

Wao, a creative way of teaching or informing about the history of English. I really liked and enjoyed it. I'm sure my students will love it too. Thanks for sharing!

I did not know how English had developed throughout history. This job is fantastic!

This is brilliant! It's fun and informative and gave me a lot of inspiration for my final essay!

Whoever wrote this script, genius. So entertaining and “punny”.

I watch a lot of KZfaq videos, I think that this is one of the best that I have ever seen !

This here is an amazing, utterly remarkable video.

Many years later and I'm still looking this up for a 12th grade project

Excellent, but NO CREDITS?!?! Who wrote and drew it? Or doesn't that matter? (And, yes, we all recognise Clive Anderson, but I'm sure he doesn't want to take all the credit).

i think which the idioma is one the most important idiomas, since today is used on all aspects of job, this idioma is used in commerce international for do business too is one of idiomas that more speak around the world. for us in our university its important speak english because we needs to create business with others countries and relation with others persons for get more knwolwge and can be more competitive

Greetings from the Philippines! The Jutes joined forces with the Saxons in 415 AD. Jute - n, referring to a citizen of the Jutland Peninsula in Northern Europe. Thus, keeping two thirds of the peninsula as a part of Denmark, of course. Why? Because the other third belongs to the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which also formerly speaks Saxon.

Actually, texting and writing small blurbs like comments use our spoken language brain, not our written language brain. As such, they are not extensions are written language, so shorthand is more than appropriate.

I teach English as a second language. My focus is on speaking and listening. My students can not understand this, even though one of them lived in England for 2 years while reading his master's degree.

I had really fun listening to it and found out things I probably kind of could have been taught before Thanks !

Though I am russian, I love english language and fins this information very useful and entertaining. Thank you for you work and appreciation of good humor and animation! :)

Brilliantly done!

greetings everyone! welcome to another episode of "where quarantine has lead me today!"

Amazing! Great job!

This is great. A good lesson on English history. I am looking for good English videos for my students at курсы английского киев to watch and learn. Thank you.

This is terrific. Entertaining and interesting. Thank you! What DID happen to the Jutes?

Great fun. And informative.

Highly entertaining and educational. I very thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. Bravo!

I actually took a course on this in College. It was alternatally the most interesting and deadly dull class I ever took! Would much rather have watched this video. And you young folks today have no idea how lucky you are to have the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-rom. I had to use my Dad's hard copy...the print was so tiny it came with it's own magnifying glass! And wow, looking up and documenting history of words for the Language class (also for my Chaucer class)! Oy! The stuff of nightmares!

This is beautiful. Thank you, so much for uploading this.

... and "if we're honest a life threatening accident was pretty hilarious" simply became FAIL.

Simply wonderful.

Amazing, interesting and useful! Thank u very much )))

NHS Dental Care, lol

awesome video - love the animation makes it easy to follow :)

well explained I really enjoyed it Highly instrumental and entertaining master piece ...

brilliant! splendid! extraordinary!

Almost all of my ancestors contributed to English in some way. On my dad's side, I'm English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, but also part German, a la the Germanic tribes. On my mom's side I'm French, like the Normans (my middle name is Norman in fact), and Scandinavian, I'm one quarter Norwegian and Swedish to be exact, and those cultures can be traced back to the vikings. It's like I'm speaking the language I was meant to speak. And it's the most widely spoken in the world! I'm so proud!

English language is unique and beautiful. Germanic with a touch of Latin to smooth it out.

This video sumed up my college book. Thank you so much

Hello there Would it be possible for me to use this video for a school presentation that I am doing?

um... no, much of science terminology was not 'invented'. it was adopted from the greeks.

Isn't a firewall something you put in buildings in between flats to stop fires from spreading, or something you put in welding tanks to stop burning gas from travelling to the tank?

hah that is amazing! thank you so much. me and my group have to do a presentation on the history of English in class and I'm gonna send the link to them now ;)

Could you make this for french? I'd love to know about it's evolution

Most people in the US speak the English Slanguage.

Epic voice!

On September 26, 1957 and October 2, 1959 in Washington, as part of the World Bank Annual Meetings, Mr. Xenophon Zolotas, a famous and highly educated Greek, delivered two speeches in English using (exclusively) Greek words. Not ancient ..... but words used by the Greeks, as they are, from Antiquity until today, in their daily lives and not only!!! Mr. Zolotas was a great Economist, who at the age of 24 became a University Professor, for a number of years Governor of the Bank of Greece and Prime Minister. who by many has now been accepted as one of the most important personalities of the last century). The special element was that he used throughout his speech words that were of Greek origin and are used in English. The audience watching the IMF meeting was speechless and Zolotas's speech became historic with him and his wife making headlines in the NYT and "Washington Post". (Somebody must be fluent in English and Greek to be able to write two such speeches. I will quote you the first one.) The speech was: ''Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia. Η δεύτερη ομιλία στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959: Kyrie, It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic. In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics. The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.''

Excellent read on the topic. "Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language" By Bill Bryson

very interesting video.However,there is a mistake because most of the scientific words and medical jargon come from greek words which pre-existed

Funny seeing all the people arguing that such-and-such word obviously came from their (other related) language. Some are borrowings, especially where the two cultures overlapped (eg. Norman French words in English) but in other cases, the reason words are similar is that most languages spoken in Europe, India and inbetween evolved from an even older language called Proto-Indo-European.

lots to ponder here. thanks for sharing.

learned a lot.. thank you!!

facts you don't know about The English language

loooool "How to read with gravity"

Whether its Germanic or Latin doesn't matter, what matters is how beautiful this was presented and how it teaches people how languages not only grow but evolve and steal and/or adopt from other languages. All and all English is English. Whatever its true bases doesn't matter.

Very informative ! , i didn't really know a lot about the history of the English language ,Thanks

good video! Neverethess It is sad that the authors do not mention how many greek words English contains

"Watch out for that man with the enormous axe!"

Amazing! Brilliant!

thank u soo much coz of ur vid, all the haze of english time period and the development of english language just vanished! literally u saved my 20 marks aka from b grade to atleast b+ !!

You all forgot Spanglish. Latinos in the US all speak both Spanish and English in a cluster of strange dialog.

Well, many English words adopted from Latin but the majority of Latin words adopted from Ancient Greek language and those who know about glossology can prove it. Oops glossology sounds Greek: glossa (γλώσσα) means language. And if you are not sure if Ancient Greek civilization is one of the oldest, then just refer to history as there are enough evidences about this.

Such a charming video. Favorited.

We watched this in our English lesson yesterday. It was a pretty good lesson! XD

Simplistic, incomplete, inaccurate at some parts but I really liked the animation. Outcome: The Open University has good animators and bad historians 5:11 Electricity: "Invented by the English". Really? 5:17 Pendulum: "Invented by the English". Really? 5:22 Cardiac: "Invented by the English". Really? 5:25 Sternum: "Invented by the English". Really? 5:31 Clitoris. You are right. This could not have been invented by the English.

Haha...! this question is simple,...see the next facts please: Hand, in English = Hand, in German...Finger, in English = Finger, in German...Arm, = Arm... Shoulder, in English; is the same as Schultern in German...Foot, as Fuss...knee, as knie...Mouth, in English is coming from Mund, in German...Nose, from Nase...Lips, from Lippen...Ear, from Orr...Head, from Haupt (synonymous from Kopf)...Hair, from Harr... Summer= Sommer... Winter= Winter... Wind=Wind...Long=Lang...Small=Schmal... Water= Wasser... Cold, Kalt...Hot, Heis... Earth, Erde... Moon, Mond... Sun, Sonne... Star= Stern.... Planet= Planet... High, Hoch... Under= Unten... Deep, Tief....Folk= Volk... House=Haus... Home= Heim...Land=Land... Good= Gut... God= Gott... Holy= Heilig... Soul= Seele... Ghost= Geist... Son=Sohn... Father= Vater... Grandfather= Grossvater... Mother= Mutter... Uncle= Onkel.... Daughter= Tochter... Sister= Schwester... Flesh= Fleisch... Fish= Fisch... Man= Mann... Fat= Fet (or Dick)... Dog= Dogge... Hound= Hund... Cat= Katter... High, Hoch... Nether, Nieder... Light, Licht... White, Weiss... Red, Roth... Brown, Braun... Blue; Blau....Etc...Etc...Etc...Etc...and thousand words more as: One, Eine...Two, Zwei...Three, Drei...Four, Für...Five, Fünf...Six, Sex...Seven, Sieven....Eight, Acht....Nine, Neun... Ten, Zehn...Twelve, Zwölf...etc...Twenty, Zwanzig....etc....Hundred, Hundert.....etc...Thousand, Tausend... Million, Million....Milliard= ETC::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::ETC, I never study English (sorry for my bad English),...but I understand this language, ¿ why ??, simply because I know Spanish, German, and a little bit French. And English is a very humble and simple language because has not inherited, the intermediate vocals from German or French; and nor has neither the compound words from German ( very practices for German speakers, but very problematics to learn and understand for strangers)...and German has much more synonymous than English. There are the raisons, because German is very complex and complete than English... And Spanish is Very rich than English too. Naturally has English, words from other origins than German and Latin, but not many (10 to 20 %, including the words of your text),......the rest (80 % or more) is German (including some dialect), and Latin (including French, from Rome and Normands conquerors over the Britain Islands. SO, MY FRIEND; YOU CAN SEE THE TOTAL PARALLELISM. I think you are not blind...or?? SO, MEIN FREUND, DU KANNST SEHEN DAS TOTALE PARALELISMUS. Ich denke du bist nicht blind....oder??

@juicykarkass Oh I assure you I do know what grammar is. However, about half of the people using English do not care for grammar and do not know it, and make themselves reasonably well understood. The only thing you need to learn to communicate in English is lexic, you can then use your language's grammar to create meaningful sentences.

Brilliant from start to finish.