The Adventure of English
October 4, 2013 @ 7:15 am | Filed under: Books
On the homeschooling blog, I’ve mentioned a documentary Rose and I are enjoying the heck out of: the BBC’S The Adventure of English, a look at the history of the English language. I came across it while looking for the old PBS series, The Story of English (inspired by a book I read and loved in a college linguistics class), but this BBC doc looked even more fun. And it is! We’re glued to the screen. Here’s part 1:
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Kristen says:
Oh! I can’t wait to watch this- one of my all time fave books is Bill Bryson’s The Mother Tongue!
On October 4, 2013 at 7:55 am
Dianna says:
Oh, oh, I read this book! It was really good. I can only imagine the documentary is fabulous.
On October 4, 2013 at 7:55 am
Ellie says:
Ah, over there I asked if you meant history of the language or the people. Can’t see the video? Do you have a link you could share? Thanks!
On October 4, 2013 at 10:29 am
Melissa Wiley says:
Oh dear–sorry! Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wGYiM_ZnjAc
I saw your question over there and threw this post up as a hasty answer, then got pulled away before I could reply to you THERE! 🙂
On October 4, 2013 at 11:49 am
Ellie says:
Oh well, here, there, anywhere! 🙂
Thanks for the link; dunno why, but the videos just aren’t showing up anymore here. They used to. Silly internets.
On October 4, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Pippi says:
Whoo hoo! Thanks, Melissa! I can’t wait to watch this!
On October 4, 2013 at 8:26 pm
maria says:
Oh! Excited, excited, excited!!!!! 😀
This will fit perfectly with what we are doing currently.
Thank you much!
🙂 maria
On October 5, 2013 at 11:07 pm
Melanie B says:
🙁 The video is no longer available because the user closed their You Tube account.
On October 6, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Ellie says:
Melanie, our public library has the series on dvd, perhaps yours does to0?
On October 7, 2013 at 12:11 pm