[DOC] [TLE] Old English - Wikipedia [PAR] Old English (nglisc, Anglisc, Englisc) or Anglo-Saxon is the earliest historical 
form of the ... Like other old Germanic languages, it is very different from Modern 
English ..... The default word order was more like modern German than modern 
English, ..... Cdmon, the earliest English poet we know by name, served as a 
lay... [DOC] [TLE] English is a Scandinavian language | ScienceNordic [PAR] Dec 7, 2012 ... We avoid many of the usual mistakes because the grammar is more or less the 
same. ... Like most colonists, the Scandinavian-speaking inhabitants found no ... 
region, where the spoken language later developed into Modern English, .... Also
, clearly Beowulf was written in Old English, but it was also written... [DOC] [TLE] The History of English - Old English (c. 500 - c.1100) [PAR] More important than the Celts and the Romans for the development of the 
English ... some of the Frisian words which were incorporated into English, like 
miel (meal), ... rather than just a German dialect, although it seems that the 
language began to ... Beowulf may have been written any time between the 8th 
and the early... [DOC] [TLE] What the English of Shakespeare, Beowulf, and King ... - The Week [PAR] Mar 20, 2015 ... In fact, it's what linguists call Early Modern English. ... Guess what: the way they 
spoke it would sound to us more like a mix of Irish and pirate. Here ... Some 
people prefer to call it Anglo-Saxon, since it's the language that was ... around 
then and there, would have been speaking was something we now call... [DOC] [TLE] Where Did the English Language Come From? [PAR] Dec 25, 2012 ... Today we present the first of two programs about the history of the ... More people 
are trying to learn English than any other language in the ... the languages that 
became ancient Greek, ancient German and the ... Perhaps the most famous is 
called Beowulf. ... Middle English sounds like modern English. [DOC] [TLE] The Evolution of English - My Webspace files [PAR] The Britons are the ancestors of the modern day Welsh, as well as the people ... 
The language we now call English is actually a blend of many languages. ... uses 
for old words by the many subcultures of the English speaking world. ... English 
Frisian Dutch German .... in which case they were pronounced like the th in then. [DOC] [TLE] History of the English Language | English Club [PAR] because people speak English ... The history of the English language really 
started with the arrival of three ... tribes spoke similar languages, which in Britain 
developed into what we now call ... Part of Beowulf, a poem written in Old English 
... English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. [DOC] [TLE] Hear Beowulf Read In the Original Old English: How Many Words ... [PAR] Oct 24, 2014 ... Hear Beowulf Read In the Original Old English: How Many Words Do You 
Recognize? ... wrote in a late Middle English that sounds strange enough to 
modern ears. ... we would no more be able to speak to the Anglo-Saxons than we 
would to ... So how is it that both the language we speak and its distant... [DOC] [TLE] Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? | Aeon ... [PAR] Nov 13, 2015 ... But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language. ... But that sentence 
is a cooked one, and overall, we tend to find that Frisian seems more like German
, ... Old English is so unlike the modern version that it feels like a stretch ... speak 
if this was how we had to learn it, never seeing it written down... [DOC] [TLE] The First King's English: Alfred the Language Maker | English Project [PAR] We speak what is called Modern English, and he spoke what is called Old 
English. ... Reading a poem like Beowulf requires us to learn a foreign language. 
... It has as much to do with the fact that Beowulf was written in

Question: This language that "Beowulf" was written in is more like modern German than the language we speak
Answer: Old English