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Phần 1

When we talk about English, we often think of it as a single language but what do the dialects spoken in …(1)…of countries around the world have in common with each other, or with the …(2)…of Chaucer? And how are any of them related to the strange words in Beowulf? The answer is that like most languages, English has evolved  through …(3)…of speakers, undergoing major changes over time.

By …(4)…these changes, we can trace the language from the present day back to its ancient roots. While modern English shares many similar words with Latin-derived romance languages, like French and Spanish, most of those words were not originally part of it.

Instead, they started coming into the language with the Norman invasion of England in 1066. When the …(5)… Normans conquered England and became its ruling class, they brought their …(6)…with them, adding a massive amount of French and Latin …(7)…to the English language previously spoken there. Today, we call that language Old English. This is the language of Beowulf. It probably doesn't look very familiar, but it might be more recognizable
if you know some German.

That's because Old English belongs to the Germanic language …(8)…, first brought to the British Isles in the 5th and 6th centuries by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. The Germanic dialects they spoke would become known as Anglo-Saxon.

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Từ mới: 

dialects: thổ ngữ

undergoing: chịu, trải qua

trace: lần theo, phát hiện ra

Latin-derived: có nguồn gốc Latin

invasion : cuộc xâm lược

ruling class: giai cấp thống trị 

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