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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In this audiobook, Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language, from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. Embracing elements of Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, and Gullah, this 1,500-year story covers a huge range of countries and peoples.
The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion, and trade, but also the story of people and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.
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- irtapil
- 12-03-2020
get the Unabridged version
very good, surpassingly comprehensive for an abridged version, but i bought this by mistake, the unabridged version is also available, performance is good on this one, but not good enough to be worth missing 80% of the content. unless you particularly want the short version.
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