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

https://lemmy.ca/post/60857723

How far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself. - Lemmy.ca

Lemmy

About to 1400, then it starts to look more like Dutch or something. A few hundred years more and it starts to look like Danish or something. I bet it’s harder to understand verbally.
Yeah, I said it looked like Dutch in the 1300 and before period. Maybe that’s a bias because I can speak danish (okay, anyway) but dutch is like a random bunch of nonsense to me