What does Old English sound like? [Shorts]

3-Second Blueprint (English)

1. Sixteenth-century Shakespearean writing is Early Modern English, whereas true Old English was spoken by Anglo-Saxons over a thousand years ago.
2. Spoken Old English—such as eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entries—differs so greatly in grammar and sound that it requires translation.
3. Despite later loanwords like French-derived 'giant', nearly all of the 100 most frequent everyday words in Modern English are Anglo-Saxon.