Assuming this person would be part of the upper class and would have the time to study properly. How would studying even work when there’s no language to translate to and from?

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    If you traveled to the 800s England, you wouldn’t understand the English they would speak.

    Yup. You could probably go back to the late 1300s and get a grasp within weeks instead of months, at least in the southern half of England, and it would get easier with each passing decade, but you’d probably have to drop in a couple of generations after Shakespeare to be sure of being mostly functional on Day One.