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How far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself.
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I could understand more-or-less everything at 1300, got the gist of the story at 1200, and could make out some familiar roots and morphology from other languages at 1100 and 1000 but not enough to puzzle things together.