Old English (up to about 1200) has an exclusively Germanic vocabulary, complex declension systems, a completely separate set of pronouns for two people as opposed to one or three, and odd syntax....
Modern English is the language that Shakespeare wrote in, and is not very different from our English. However, Old English is the language of Beowulf, and is very different from our English.
Technically, there is no "better" version of the language, because language is evolving every day. Modern English is what we speak, but Shakespeare did not actually speak (or write) Old English, he...
Old English, also known as Anglo-Saxon, was the language spoken in England from the Germanic invasions in the 5th century until the twelfth century. To a modern reader it looks like a foreign...