An interesting journey in story form, showing how English changed over time.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
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@derickr I started having trouble around 1300, which forced me to read it out loud, which tends to help me when reading middle English. I can grasp pretty much everything up until 1000, which is when it gets to point where I can’t make much sense of things without looking up a lot of words.
