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Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

1.2.17

WHY WE SHOULD LEARN ENGLISH


Learn English
Forever English
          English has been described as "the language of opportunity", and by the time you get to yhe end of this article, we are pretty sure you'll agree, too.








    Lets look reasons together:




1. English is one of the most spoken language

  • English  is the most commonly used language among foreign language speakers. Throughout the world, when people with different languages come together they commonly use English to communicate and basis on 2 billion people who speak it Will you make this number even bigger by learning it yourself?.  Many countries include English as a second language in their school syllabus and children start learning English at a young age. It means that English is the language that will give you the best return for your efforts; after all, intellectual challenge aside, there’s little point putting a huge amount of time and effort into learning a language that you’ll hardly ever have the opportunity to use, easly you can find people from eround who speak english and oftet you can make practice with them. After your efforts it's not so difficult to learn.



2. English is the language of the world's greatest literature.



  •       If you say it's not enought to me to know english as a speaking, writing, reading, and if you want to learn english literature you’ll be able to enjoy works by some of the world's most famous writer's, in the language in which they were intented to be read or heard. The works of Shakespeare will take on a new meaning when yo're able to speak English, and you can look forward to enjoying such influential classics as Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm (you should read this one), Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and many, John Faustes'  Doctor Faustus, Ben Jonson's Everyman and Volpone and many more. You can read them in your language as a translation, but if you know English it's  not the thing that you have to do. So, to understand them, the onlyway appreciate a classic literary work properly is to read it in its original language. Even better, through doing so. You will deepen you knowledge of English by enriching it with new words and sentence structures, idioms etc...




3. English allows you to get more populer culture and societies.

   
  

  •    Before, we said if you read classical literary works in it'ts original language, you can understand their real meaning. And you can also learn the cultures which the works written in. So, while you are reading English Works, you also learn it'ss cultere and you can compare them with time when they written in. It's not the only works, books, poetries, plays, also from movies we can learn their cultures. The world’s highest-grossing movies are made in Hollywood, and needless to say, they are made in English. Everyday and everywhere we see english movies. For example, are there any people from any country who don't know Game Of Thrones?




4. English will open up more opportunities for you.




  •      We said that English spoken by 2 billion people. So, being able to speak English allows you to communicate effectively in numerous countries, and this opens up lots of possibilities for you in terms of the countries you could choose to seek work in one day - not to mention travel to as an tourist or such things like this. You won't have to worry about getting lost when you travel to an English-speaking country, because you'll easily be able to ask for directions or ordering food and chatting to the locals will no longer be a source of stress or taking guided tours to your directions. It's doesnt't matter to you that you are in which country, because you know english and you can easily communicate with them. This means that if you speak english very well, you'll understand tahat you've a great number of possible careers to choose from after you graduate from  your university.








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30.9.16

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

History:
History of the English Language
A short history of the origins and development of English
The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. These tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, crossed the North Sea from what today is Denmark and northern Germany. At that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language. But most of the Celtic speakers were pushed west and north by the invaders - mainly into what is now Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Angles came from "Englaland" [sic] and their language was called "Englisc" - from which the words "England" and "English" are derived.
Map of Germanic invasions
Germanic invaders entered Britain on the east and south coasts in the 5th century

Old English (450-1100 AD)

The invading Germanic tribes spoke similar languages, which in Britain developed into what we now call Old English. Old English did not sound or look like English today. Native English speakers now would have great difficulty understanding Old English. Nevertheless, about half of the most commonly used words in Modern English have Old English roots. The words bestrong and water, for example, derive from Old English. Old English was spoken until around 1100.
Example of Old English
Part of Beowulf, a poem written in Old English

Middle English (1100-1500)

In 1066 William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy (part of modern France), invaded and conquered England. The new conquerors (called the Normans) brought with them a kind of French, which became the language of the Royal Court, and the ruling and business classes. For a period there was a kind of linguistic class division, where the lower classes spoke English and the upper classes spoke French. In the 14th century English became dominant in Britain again, but with many French words added. This language is called Middle English. It was the language of the great poet Chaucer (c1340-1400), but it would still be difficult for native English speakers to understand today.
Example of Middle English
An example of Middle English by Chaucer

Modern English

Early Modern English (1500-1800)

Towards the end of Middle English, a sudden and distinct change in pronunciation (the Great Vowel Shift) started, with vowels being pronounced shorter and shorter. From the 16th century the British had contact with many peoples from around the world.
This, and the Renaissance of Classical learning, meant that many new words and phrases entered the language. The invention of printing also meant that there was now a common language in print. Books became cheaper and more people learned to read. Printing also brought standardization to English. Spelling and grammar became fixed, and the dialect of London, where most publishing houses were, became the standard. In 1604 the first English dictionary was published.
Example of Early Modern English
Hamlet's famous "To be, or not to be" lines, written in Early Modern English by Shakespeare

Late Modern English (1800-Present)

The main difference between Early Modern English and Late Modern English is vocabulary. Late Modern English has many more words, arising from two principal factors: firstly, the Industrial Revolution and technology created a need for new words; secondly, the British Empire at its height covered one quarter of the earth's surface, and the English language adopted foreign words from many countries.

Varieties of English

From around 1600, the English colonization of North America resulted in the creation of a distinct American variety of English. Some English pronunciations and words "froze" when they reached America. In some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Some expressions that the British call "Americanisms" are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain (for example trash for rubbish, loanas a verb instead of lend, and fall for autumn; another example, frame-up, was re-imported into Britain through Hollywood gangster movies). Spanish also had an influence on American English (and subsequently British English), with words like canyonranchstampede and vigilante being examples of Spanish words that entered English through the settlement of the American West. French words (through Louisiana) and West African words (through the slave trade) also influenced American English (and so, to an extent, British English).
Today, American English is particularly influential, due to the USA's dominance of cinema, television, popular music, trade and technology (including the Internet). But there are many other varieties of English around the world, including for example Australian English, New Zealand English, Canadian English, South African English, Indian English and Caribbean English.
The Germanic Family of Languages
Chart of the Germanic family of languages
English is a member of the Germanic family of languages. Germanic is a branch of the Indo-European language family.
A brief chronology of English
55 BCRoman invasion of Britain by Julius CaesarLocal
inhabitants
speak
Celtish
AD 43Roman invasion and occupation. Beginning of Roman rule of Britain
436Roman withdrawal from Britain complete
449Settlement of Britain by Germanic invaders begins
450-480Earliest known Old English inscriptionsOld
English
1066William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, invades and conquers England
c1150Earliest surviving manuscripts in Middle EnglishMiddle
English
1348English replaces Latin as the language of instruction in most schools
1362English replaces French as the language of law. English is used in Parliament for the first time
c1388Chaucer starts writing The Canterbury Tales
c1400The Great Vowel Shift begins
1476William Caxton establishes the first English printing pressEarly
Modern
English
1564Shakespeare is born
1604Table Alphabeticall, the first English dictionary, is published
1607The first permanent English settlement in the New World (Jamestown) is established
1616Shakespeare dies
1623Shakespeare's First Folio is published
1702The first daily English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London
1755Samuel Johnson publishes his English dictionary
1776Thomas Jefferson writes the American Declaration of Independence
1782Britain abandons its colonies in what is later to become the USA
1828Webster publishes his American English dictionaryLate
Modern
English
1922The British Broadcasting Corporation is founded
1928The Oxford English Dictionary is published