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A great documentary about English language.Description:Melvyn­Bragg travels through Britain to tell the story of how an insignificant German­dialect, which only arrived in the country in the fifth century, evolved into a­language which is now spoken and understood by more people than any other around the­world. We trace English from its humble roots to its flowering in the writing of­Shakespeare and his contemporaries.English is a global language. Every day,­in cities all around the world, English is used in encounters between people of­different countries. It is estimated that well over a thousand million people around­the world speak, or have a working understanding of, English.This is its­story. It’s a story that really reads like an adventure of extraordinary survival,­invasion, near extinction on more than one occasion, and astonishing flexibility. Engaging enough for 12 year olds to Senior citizens.–A sequel to this one was uploaded by me earlier here: