The Level Up English Podcast
🇬🇧 I'm Michael Lavers and this podcast will help you improve your English. I'm an online English teacher for students learning as a second language. In this podcast, I look at a variety of different fun topics and teach you British English at the same time.
Each week, I cover topics related to language motivation, vocabulary and grammar, or something totally random! Once a month, we have a guest episode where I talk to a teacher or expert on topics related to language.
The Level Up English Podcast
#229 The History of English with Kevin Stroud
In this episode, we talk about a variety of things, including:
- Why TH doesn't have its own letter
- In what part of England the language was standardised?
- When did the first dictionaries come
- Why there are so many French words in English
- Why we have so many silent letters
- Why we have different words for animals and meat (pig, pork)
- Where English surnames come from
- And more!
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