Thanks for posting this. I’ve watched several of this guy’s videos. He’s always interesting.
I listen to a few history podcasts and one recently had a story about the formation of the Holy Roman Empire. The quick version of the story is that isolated areas in France of what used to be part of the western Roman world were now, around 800, being contacted by Latin speakers who couldn’t understand what they were saying. Due to the separation and isolation from the Latin world their language was developing into French.
Another podcast talked about a WW2 British pilot shot down over France that the underground was helping to escape back to England. His high school French was helping tremendously as they moved him along trying to get him to the coast and a boat back home. Then he hit Brittany where the partisans started speaking a language he didn’t understand at all. It was Breton a language closely related to Cornish and Welsh. The pilot was concerned and unsure of who these people really were. But it all worked out and he made it back in a small boat. Here’s a sound of Breton from YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XeGjnOTOx8
I listen to a few history podcasts and one recently had a story about the formation of the Holy Roman Empire. The quick version of the story is that isolated areas in France of what used to be part of the western Roman world were now, around 800, being contacted by Latin speakers who couldn’t understand what they were saying. Due to the separation and isolation from the Latin world their language was developing into French.
Another podcast talked about a WW2 British pilot shot down over France that the underground was helping to escape back to England. His high school French was helping tremendously as they moved him along trying to get him to the coast and a boat back home. Then he hit Brittany where the partisans started speaking a language he didn’t understand at all. It was Breton a language closely related to Cornish and Welsh. The pilot was concerned and unsure of who these people really were. But it all worked out and he made it back in a small boat. Here’s a sound of Breton from YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XeGjnOTOx8
