1. The English Language

2. From Where did english come?
Proto-Indo-European Language –1 world language

3. Old English 449-1100 Anglo-Saxons from area now
called Germany invaded the
British Isles, changing the
Celtic language.

4. Old English

5. Middle English
Normans from the region of France invade the British Isles, giving birth to the Middle English Period.

6. Middle English

7. Modern English 1500-present
The birth of the printing press changed English once again.
Think—King James Bible, William Shakespeare—
(ie. spaketh, thou, thee,)
evolved to what we speak today.