Here’s a very witty Open University animated video about the history of the English language. Made up of 10 shorter episodes and narrated by popular broadcaster Clive Anderson, it takes us from around the time of the Romans leaving Britain right up to today’s Internet & International English. The jokes are often very UK-centric and the pacing is very fast for non native English speakers, but it’s worth a watch to get a quick overview of the language’s history and some British humour.