Did you ever encounter Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in college? That's your middle English. We can sort of recognise it as English by then.
It has some words we still use. "
And of his craft he was a Carpenter. With him ther was dwellinge a povre scoler"
Shakespeare or Elizabethan is usually classified as early modern English.
With Old English we don't stand a chance. It looks & sounds like a foreign language. Even if I could read it I couldn't type it as we don't have all the characters we need for it on the keyboard.
It looks like this.