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 same. I wonder how related were English and Dutch around that time period. It seems like the latter is still somewhere in that time period in speech and grammar style.
Talking to a Frisian farmer in Friesland with Old English

YouTube