The English Language - History & Global Variants | ASMR
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- Hello everyone, I'm so happy to finally share a new video with you! I had planned to talk mainly about Global Englishes, but apparently I can't help myself, so let's start at the beginning with the history of the English language. I hope you enjoy it! 🥰
The books are:
Jennifer Jenkins, "Global Englishes"
Kevin J. Brown, "A Journey Back in Time Through Maps"
Apart from Jenkins, another great author if you're interested in the topic of English as a Lingua Franca is Barbara Seidlhofer!
And the (imo very entertaining) document on misused words and expressions in EU publications can be found here: www.eca.europa.eu/Other%20pub...
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Thank you!! 💙
As a French I'd say French is the most germanic language of the romance language fam and english is the most romance language of the germanic language fam.
Your comment made me realise that I know basically nothing about the history of French, this is super interesting!
@@MelangeASMR En gros pour résumer, les gaulois sont là tranquille quand soudains les romains arrives, la société gallo-romaines s'établis jusqu'à être en paix quand soudains les Francs arrives. Quelques années se passent et paf la langue Française comme on la connais apparait. On a des mots gaulois, latin et germain dans notre langue. XD
This is brilliant.
Probably true, although the Celtic influence on French is even bigger.
@@EresirThe1st Genetically yes, linguistically not really
You are one of the few channels that I actually always look forward to seeing a new video from. You are hands down the most relaxing in my opinion. Another great job.
Thank you so much, that means a lot! 🙏🙏💜
Came here for the ASMR, stayed for the ASMR and for abundance of knowledge you share. I know this sounds cliché, but I don't understand how your channel isn't much bigger already. Your content is simply fantastic and I sincerely hope you keep up this amazing work and also that you get a lot more visibility. Thank you!!
Hi Fernando, thank you! And I don't mind if it's cliché, it's very nice to hear anyway haha.
Your books are so substantial both physically and in their content. I learned things AND I became comatose. Success all round!
Aah the best combo! 💖
Have you ever read the paper English: The Language of the Vikings by Joseph Emonds and Jan Faarland? They argue that old English died out, and what we speak now is actually a descendant of North Germanic dialects not West Germanic and therefore modern English should be reclassified as North Germanic. Whether you agree with it or not it's a very interesting read! (If you're not into 200 page essays though you can find summaries of it lol).
anyway, sorry for the rant, this is a great video! I came here for the history first and then stayed to help me fall asleep!! your voice is super comforting!
I have not! Very cool, thank you bringing it to my attention!! And I'm glad I could help you fall asleep, that's fantastic :)
There's a few vids on TH-cam about this, for anyone interested. EG th-cam.com/video/XimUGRX81V8/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful video Melange, you have very interesting books, I really appreciate your soothing and comforting voice. Your themes are very engaging as well . Thank you again for taking the time to create these videos. Blessings
My pleasure, Analisa! I'm happy I can help people find some relaxation, especially with everything that's going on. Hope you are well :)
i’ve struck gold with ur channel omg ! one of my favourite topics paired with my favourite style of asmr. ur a gem : D
That's so nice to hear, thank you!!
Was so happy to get today’s notification! Thank you for another lovely video 💚
Exactly how I felt about recording this! Thank you for your support, I'm really happy you enjoy my work 💛
English speakers like to say that English is one of the hardest languages to learn as a second language, which is partially true. It is quite difficult to learn to read/write. It is, however, relatively easy to learn how to speak English.
English's relatively simple structure makes it easy to pick up in a conversational way. And that relative simplicity also makes it very forgiving when trying to get one's point across. You might not speak fluently, but you can easily get close enough to be understood.
Yeah, spelling definitely is an issue! I've had someone explain to me that one particularity about English is that it gets more difficult as you progress. So like you said, it's easy to make yourself understood at the start, but if you're aiming for C2, there's more and more irregularities and things like phrasal verbs that you just have to memorize. The comparison at the time was the Russian language which works the opposite way - tons and tons of endings to learn at the start, but once you've mastered that it's quite a regular language. (Not that I ever got that far haha, but I cling to that promise!)
This is so relaxing. You clearly have a natural talent and understanding of ASMR. I’m an instant fan 💗
Thank you! I'm glad our tastes in ASMR seem to match 🥰🧡
I love your channel! You have such a relaxing voice and the content is educational as well! Not sure if you take requests, but I'd love to see a history lesson/map on the Hanseatic League. I think would fit very well with other content you've done.
Thank you, Greg, that's wonderful to hear! And yes, Hanseatic League is a great idea - no promises on how quickly I'll be able to get to it, but it's on my list.
Glad to have you back! I’ve been looking forward to this 😊
I'm so happy about it too, that break was too long!!
Another excellent video. I always come away from your videos feeling more relaxed and more knowledgeable.
That's fantastic, thank you, Mark!
Greetings from the UK 😁 I've just found your channel and it's amazing! Relaxing and informative, by the way your English is excellent 👏
Hey there, thank you!! I'm glad you enjoy it 🥰
Fascinating video - thank you so much. Really enjoyed that 😊
Thank you!
This was tremendous! Enjoyed the tracing, soft spoken, and LOVED the history lesson. Are you a historian, professor, educator? You sound like someone who greatly enjoys teaching. Also, are you familiar with Bill Byson’s book, The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way?
Thank you so much, that's a really lovely comment! I'm none of those things, though yes, I do enjoy talking about things I find interesting haha. And thank you for the suggestion, I don't know this book but it sounds exactly like my kind of thing!
I know Ireland is small, but population is similar enough to New Zealand so not sure why it's been excluded from the circles. English is co-official as a language too
It should be included in the inner circle, I don't know why it's left out here.
@@MelangeASMR The reason why Ireland isn't included in the traditional anglosphere is because even though English is the dominant and an official language, its Irish government policy to put forward Irish as the national language, hence why we in the rest of the Anglosphere don't include them. Plus they also purposely don't include themselves in Anglosphere politics, agreements, pacts, etc, whilst NZ, UK, US, AUS & CAN do include themselves.
Such an interesting and relaxing video!
I'm happy to hear that, thank you, Michelle!
Genuinely interesting aswell as relaxing
Awesome, thank you!
I enjoy your videos. Thank you
I came here from another ASMR page (not sure which) and never left. I have difficulties falling asleep and due to not being able to use melatonin, that did help a bit, these videos help to get the boost to fall asleep and actually better as i stay asleep, where melatonin i woke up after a few hours. The topics are interesting and i watch them many times at different times to get the relaxation but also getting the lesson in full at some point 😆
It is also a fun thought that from your voice and hands etc i have a picture of what i think you might look like and it is probably not even remotely close to the truth, but i can kinda see "you" speaking when i watch 😄
I wish you an ever growing channel and following for the benefit of us all 😊
Hey Kristiina, thank you so much 💛 I am so happy that my channel has helped you fall asleep, that's fantastic!
Ahaha I would love to see that picture of myself 😅
I have a sociolinguistics quiz coming up on the history of the english language so i'm just going to listen to this and hope i remember everything wish me luck🙏🏼 (jk i will study eventually but i'm too sleepy tonight!)
Hope I'm not too late, best of luck!!! All fingers crossed.
Amazing! 🤩🤗❤️❤️❤️
🤗🥰😘😘😘
Yessss I am going to sleep so well to this except I'll be fighting it all the way because it'll be super interesting
Ahaha not sure whether to wish you good luck with staying awake until the end or not. Either way, sleep well ☺
ASMR + atlas + language theme... I love all of them so much! Thank you!
I'm very happy to hear that, thank you!
Your research is amazing. So interesting and I have no idea how you learn the information
Honestly, with most videos I rely on wikipedia. It's so handy for this purpose, I'm not sure I would be able to do this otherwise. (And I'm also genuinely happy that I can ramble about things that interest me and share that with you all 💖)
@@MelangeASMR you do it so well ..I'm from UK and didn't know alot of what you said so was really interesting.
@@katethawley4356 You are too kind, thank you!!
Great video!
Thank you, Ludvig!
This is super interesting but I keep falling asleep before I get much information 😂
Yes that's how it's supposed to be!!!
Great 😍
This video is amazing! What is the first book, the one in German, it looks like a great resource! Thank you for your content!
Thank you Laura! That's the Hölzel Universalatlas.
Great video! Hey, what is the book with the color maps you showed at the beginning of the video? Thanks a lot for sharing!
Hey Ariel, that's the Hölzel Universalatlas, an Austrian school atlas.
@@MelangeASMR Danke dir! Grüsse!
Thanks for this video, that must have taken a fair bit of research and reading. There are some countries missing from the ‘circle of influence’ bit though, including Botswana and South Africa.
Hey, I'm glad you liked it, thank you! And yeah, the details are a bit odd. I don't know if this is a simplified version of the circles - I haven't read the original text - but the construct itself was a neat new approach to categorizing different kinds of English.
Absolute banger
I'm honoured. Thank you, Nathan!
I love your channel so much. I'm one of those who speak very bad English but I'm trying to get the hand of it, my native language is Spanish and it shows, I'm really enjoying learning another language tho.
Hey, thank you so much for the kind words! If my videos can help you with practicing listening comprehension, that's fantastic, I'm honoured - and btw your English looks pretty good to me :)
Your English is pretty good! Its getting the hang of it btw
Please tell me you're a teacher? That was brilliant and despite being from England I think others speak it better than me
Sadly no haha, but also I don't think I'd be very happy as a teacher. I prefer this sleepy audience here :)
Actuelle in French seems to mean the same as in German? I think there’s a lot of overlaps in French and German in general, so it could be fun to see how they team up to slowly change English.
You sound like a teacher who really love her work
That's really sweet, thank you!
The first map of North America has Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI as French speaking, which in the case of Nova Scotia and especially PEI, is not very accurate at all. Those regions of Canada have been majority English speaking since the seven years war in the 18th century. New Brunswick is actually Canadas only officially bilingual province (Quebec is officially French only). Northern New Brunswick is largely French speaking, southern New Brunswick majority English speaking. The north is a remnant of New France while the south was settled by United Empire loyalists (American settlers loyal to the British crown).
I think one of the cooler things about English is how it’s the most widely spoken languages when you account for non-native speakers, yet it’s only number 4 (iirc) in terms of first language speakers. Still a lot, but it shows how the world has changed. For me I always thought it made sense that English was popular as a second language, but after seeing the stats I felt validated that I wasn’t being unscientific.
I’ve spoken with friends from Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Iraq, UAE, India, as well as Mexico, Brazil, and then anglophone countries like Australia, Canada, New Zealand the UK. It’s expected for me for the last set, but when I was younger I was blown away by hearing it from people from all the first ones.
Oh and if it matters at all; your English is quite good. I don’t think I’ve ever had a complaint about it except for words that can’t be translated from German anyway.
Very true! In certain contexts, the overwhelming majority of interactions carried out in English happens between non-native speakers, which is pretty impressive. I think around here, there is an underlying assumption by now that everyone has a certain level of English - and for a lot of people that's certainly true, but it can cause some difficulties too.
Thank you :)
Hi! Just watching this video for about the 100th time. But I was struck that South Africa didn’t make one of the circles! In 1992 they were doing the apartheid referendum so I guess that author was ok to include the defunct USSR but would not touch South Africa. They wouldn’t necessarily be inner circle due to Afrikaans, Xhosa and other languages but outer circle surely??? So interesting how intertwined language and politics are. Thank you!!
Yeah there are a couple of oddities with the circles, like Ireland is missing as well for some reason. I don't have the original source, so I can't tell what the reasoning was or whether this was ever meant to be a complete illustration - maybe everything else was listed in the initial text?? It's a bit weird.
And I'm so happy you've watched the video so often, thank you!!! 🥰🥰
I keep drifting off and thinking about my Kebab sticks in my Kitchen drawer. 😁
Hope you're not getting too hungry!
could you please give me the book link so i can buy it ?? the same copy as in the video !! , i try to find it , but i dnt want to purchase the wrong one !!
Which one of the books do you mean?
@@MelangeASMR thank you for replying 💙 , the atlas book " A journey Back in Time Through Maps"
Ah ok, the one in the video is the German translation, so I don't think that's one you're looking for ;) I believe it's based on the first edition so it should be this one, though the second edition is probably pretty similar:
www.amazon.com/Journey-Back-Time-Through-Maps/dp/8854412023
Have a look around for other sources, you can get a better price than that!
@@MelangeASMR thank you so much for your help !
I am sure i will find a better price !
But some cheap price are black and white book !
And ofcourse i need a colored one !
Thank you again ! You the best
15:17 Surprised South Africa Isn’t there
That was fascinating, and your voice is beautiful.
I was a little surprised that the Roman invasion didn't significantly alter the language too.
Thank you, Jamie, I appreciate it!
Latin has had a big influence on English, but that came later, primarily from its use as lingua franca of church and science. From what I understand, the Vulgar Latin that was used in Roman England was only spoken by an elite (similar to the case in France) and got replaced once the Anglo-Saxons arrived and brought Old English with them.
The Latin language was brought to Britain by the Romans, who arrived and left before the English language arrived. So the Roman invasion did alter "the language", but the language that was spoken in Britain when they invaded, not English.
Please, make one video of Romance Languages or Spanish :)
Thank you for the suggestion! I'll add it to my list, though I can't promise anything right now - there's been quite a lot of requests recently.
Meine Muttersprache ist Portugiesisch aus Brasilien... Ein großes Dankeschön 0/. Von Paraty - RJ
i would love to see Turkish and Turkic languages in general
Turkic languages is next! I just need some time to prepare :)
@@MelangeASMR wow thats great to hear! btw this was the first video i saw from you and i subscribed, amazing work😍 i hope TH-cam recommends you to more people
Can you do a video on Romania 🇷🇴
At some point, yes, but I have a long list and I'm slow with getting through it.
The English creole language hypothesis I always thought was very cool. I am certianly no linguist but Enlgish seems to have changed the most in its history compared to other related languages, and German and latin, the two languages with the most influence, also seem so foreign. The accent is completely different as well and its impossible to match similar accents to French and German, Granted I am American. But I always thought looking at the English language as this creole was cool. It is interesting the British Isles are this historical melting pot of so many language influences despite being an island sitting off the northwest corner of Europe.
It is a really interesting theory! I can't judge how likely it is either but even as a thought experiment, it's a fascinating explanation why English is so easy to learn at first.
And yeah, the way it sits between French and German is so odd. With some vocabulary, the relation to Germanic languages is so obvious, like water - Wasser. But then when it comes to grammar and sentence structures, I find it much easier to translate between French and English rather than English and German.
Haha yeah, maybe that's why people were forced to talk each other, because they couldn't just walk off the island.
@@MelangeASMR It's a nice sound hypothesis, but one that doesn't have evidence to back it. Creoles form from a pidgin language, a simplified version of multiple languages formed with there is a mass migration and a sudden need for communication, and consist of a superstrate (the prestige language) and a substrate (the non-prestige languages) Pidgins lack consistent grammar that would define it as a language. The most well-known example would be when Europeans brought slaves over to the new world. Pidgins can become full-fledged languages when the speakers, usually the children, start to use it with consistent grammatical structures. There isn't much evidence this happened in English. Instead, English was heavily influenced by other languages. A large percentage of the lexical words (the vocabulary) in English are from Romance languages while a large percentage of the grammatical words (the words that make it function) are Germanic.
English simply has loanwords from other languages, that doesn’t dislodge it from its Germanic roots. What is with this ugly obsession over trying to debase English?
@@mattert14 Yes you are almost certainly right, but its an interesting thought as the English language, at least on its surface, sounds so much different than its neighboring and most related languages
@@EresirThe1st I dont think anyone is trying to debase the English language, I was just thinking out loud about history. I think its interesting and I thought it would be nice to share a comment on my thoughts even if they are most likely wrong. No need to get upset about it
Why do you have a German map?
Because I live in Austria.
@@MelangeASMR sehr schön!
As a French guy... no hard feelings right? 😅❤
Mais pas de tout, j'adore la langue française :)
@@MelangeASMR And the French language loves you! :)
We've had German and English - French or Spanish next?
French is already on my list!
@@MelangeASMR Tres bien!
Sehe ich da etwa Deutsch? Wo sind die deutschen Kommentare?
Unter den deutschen Videos :)
Ukraine please
Hey there, thank you for the suggestion! I'll definitely come back to more history of Eastern Europe, but at the moment my list of requests is pretty long, so no promises as to when.
Super interesting, just wanted to add that technically the United States has no official language
thank you for this very relaxing video, you have such a calming manner. Just one point, generally in Ireland the term the British Isles is not used as it has connotations of being under the British empire. We generally use Britain and Ireland and the term British Isles is not recognised. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute
Thank you! And yes, it's been pointed out. We still learned the term in school and I didn't realize that it wasn't the preferred term anymore. Apologies :)