The Story Of English Program 2 The Mother Tongue Complete
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2013
- Program two in the series The Story of English traces the history of the language in terms of successive invasions of the British Isles, from the Anglo-Saxons through the Norman French in 1066. Practical, but necessarily theoretical demonstrations of English at various stages are demonstrated, such as The Lord's Prayer before and after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the introduction of French words into the English language. Also demonstrated is Chaucer's English and the Middle English prior to Shakespeare. The video includes footage of Welshmen speaking, Hindu people chanting in Sanskrit, and a man in Northern Holland speaking Frisian. Robert McNeil hosts.
I posted this originally in 2006. I'm glad to see my copy reposted by dozens of other youtubers since then. In 2006, nobody remembered this video cassette anymore.
One of the best shows ever seen on TV.
38 years ago I watched this series on PBS, and was captivated. This is the first time I’ve seen it since then. Still a fascinating topic, the English language, even changed so much since 1986!
What an unexpected joy to find this upload on UA-cam after all these years. When we watched this in honors english class back in the fall of 87, I was so entranced by it that I asked for the whole series on VHS for Christmas. Thanks for some awesome geek memories.
I've been entranced since 1986 too!
@@TigerzLionzPistonzWingz Me, three -- love it!
That's where I fell in love with it, in 1998!
1992 for me
1986 for me, on its first showing. I hope to find all the episodes on UA-cam.
Fascinating at 30:00. Where they describe how Old English had different words whether something was singular or plural. Then it was simplified, to where we just add "s" to any word for plural.
Listening to the old man speaking Frisian, I can totally see where the southern English accents come from.
Thank you for sharing this series
Thank you for the upload!
A wonderful series!
"2000 years ago, on the shores of Northwest Europe, lived a tribe called the Aglii: ancestors of the English speaking peoples."
This second episode shows the beginnings of English from its Angle & Saxon(Anglo-Saxon) roots.
Off topic but Tollund Man (the head with the hat and noose) really is beautiful. He looks so peaceful.
Good god why was I assigned this for a lecture
Dude it's probably the most interesting tv show I've ever watched, how could you find it boring
It’s incredible, just give it time to sink in.
Falling
hath felled
a
flowering
kingdom
"The king meets the bishop" (vs. its opposite) is a bad example of the significance of "innovative Norman syntax system" as compared to the "auld-fashionned Sassenach inflection system", since "to meet" implies mutual participation and concurrent incidence; in my local version of English, the king and the bishop are meeting each other, no matter who initiates the action. (it takes two to enact the verb "to meet"... of course, there are shades of meaning; one is doing the the "meeting", and the other is "being met", but it's hazy at best... "The king KILLS the bishop" would be a better and more contrasting example..)
I've seen this series a number of times and that example always puzzled me. Thank you.
Yje series is older than I thought it was, copyright 1987 and made not by America's PBS as I first thought, but Britain's BBC.
It was shown on PBS in the US.
The first few minutes are getting me fired up, I wish I could gather European and Asian Indo-European speakers and teach them about how similar our languages are.
I am astounded that 1986 looks so different and weird in these old films. That rather stings as 1986 is when I was a young adult. Ouch.
17:48 what beautiful land
Where can I find 3?
Hi people watching this for Brit Lit
Is Program 3 uploaded? I seem to be missing it... thanks, Robert
In 2006, I posted the full series. Since then others have corrected some problems with my initial upload. I found this at Mid Continent Library in Independence, Missouri, USA across the street from the Truman Library and recorded it onto my old BlackBerry from the VHS on my television. I know this is from that download by where the cassette pops and makes odd noises.
Yeah, same here.
Waddup AP Lit class
If y'all see this, reply fam cuz I'm doing it late night stupidly
Wow, that's some modern er uh English. Fam.
ok but me too
ap lit gang
Where has english derived from?
From a part of the Netherlands known as the Frisian Islands where there was a tribe known as the Angles. From there came the word Anglo-Saxon
Is that Nigel North playing a medieval lute at 56:35!?
+Brynnan Robbins Mental!
18:14 Hamlet is a French word, hameau. Oh dear, got it wrong from the very start!
Hello UNMDP students!!! Which professor brought you here today?
mike
Mark Heap at 55:30!
Someone else spotted him!
It's crazy to think that when this documentary was being made Northern Ireland was one of the most dangerous places on earth
heeeeey battenburg squad
It very difficult understanding
The first two lines of the Lord's prayer are covered here: 40:36
He leaned Anglo-Saxon and Viking to understand dusty texts.
I learned Brazilian Portuguese and Brazilian Italian to pick up women.
We're both driven by heads but they weren't the same body parts LOL
латыпова, привет
Although I'm an atheist, I believe that they should be allowed to worship as they choose...without the dismissal attitudes of the government or other Greeks...After all, weren't these gods worshiped long before Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?...Who is to say that they aren't the real religion?...They were here first...
lol
Just because they were first, it doesn’t mean they were the right ones. If those religions died out, there must have been a reason. All your comment shows me is a lack of commitment to any religion, thus an ignorance of any and all religions, really. And foolishness.
@@bwsmyhero Died out because their believers were purged by the Catholic church. Don't fool yourself, none of those gods or religions are any more or less believable than yours
Except that the view of the Anglo-Saxons, as invaders and replacers isn't supportable by modern archaeology or genetics.
I hope that welsh is mandatory in Welsh schools
The young " minstrel " in the turtleneck at 21:00...bit of a prat.
“Minstrel”??? A lot you know.
Here are some of Dr. Page’s credentials. “Professor Christopher Page FBA. Christopher Page was Gresham Professor of Music from 2014-2018. He is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is an internationally renowned performer and writer, as well as being an experienced presenter through BBC Radio. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology.”
@@RKHageman Thanks for that information, and I loved that musical piece -- could have listened to much more of it. But to be honest, even I couldn't get past that turtleneck jumper on first viewing.
New Falconer Records Bear in mind, that was the early 80s. You’re looking at a historical artifact! ;-)
@@NewFalconerRecordsThe turtleneck is all you noticed?? I didn’t even pay attention to that. I was listening to the words.
welsh accent reminds me of indian accent. probably bcauz celts were indo-europeans??
" ..... like Latin that developed into modern romance languages like French and Spanish. Dude, the modern language which reflects the Latin language better than French or Spainish is ITALIAN!! No mention of it! BTW, coffee is not a ancient word, so its use and pronunciation is meaningless in pre-English speaking tribes! This dude must think everyone is stupid!
+Giovanni Serafino You don't go much for humour do you.
+Wallace actually, dear friend, I do have a very good sense of. humour, Indeed! LOL! My point was , that they mentioned French ( which in my opinion Is just barely a Romance language because of its pronunciation,) Spanish, okay on the right road, but completely left out my own language which is Italian! If there is any language that reflects Latin, it is Italian! What are your thoughts ?
+They Said what are you talking about? You are not making any sense!
+EJ160E man you are one piece of shit!
Hmm dunno about that: Spanish is in many ways the most conservative of Romance languages: my linguist friends would say if there's such a thing as Modern Latin it's Spanish. It does seem odd to mention French but not Italian though!