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2000 years ago, if you’d heard a human voice around here, the language would have been incomprehensible. 1000 years ago, the English language had established its first base camp. Today, English circles the globe. What started as a guttural, trbal diaclet, seemingly isolated in a small island, is now the language of well over a thousand million people around the world.
The story of english language is an extraordinary one. It has the characteristcs of bold and successful advanture,

这部纪录片讲述了英语从2000年前的难以理解的方言,到如今全球超过十亿人的通用语言的非凡历程。它经历了入侵、生存、反击,成为莎士比亚的语言,并在美洲、加勒比海、印度和澳大利亚等地发展出新的方言。英语现已成为商业的国际语言和世界公民交流的媒介。
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