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How far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself. (www.deadlanguagesociety.com)

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[–] KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I muddled through the 1200s with context clues, and was still catching words in the 1100s, but gave up on the 1000s. It was too brutally yuele.

I would love to find an audio version to see how far I could get on spoken word alone. Being from the Appalachians, I've always been told our dialect is older.

[–] tychosmoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Here is a similar thing in audio monologue:

https://youtu.be/842OX2_vCic