Starting tomorrow, you will receive a new lesson straight to your inbox every morning for 10 days. Speaking More English in Real Life: Part 2
Speaking More English in Real Life: Part 1 Using Your Vocabulary Materials Effectively “This course gives us the necessary tricks to hold on.” “Great course with great and simple ways to improve english! Thank you very much! <3” It’s time to speak real English confidently and fluently. If you follow all the steps in this course, you will have created a super efficient and effective personalized study plan for yourself so that you can start speaking like a native. What do you think? If you're reading this, English is your language too.Do you need to speak real, native-level English for work, travel, study, or life? This course will take you step-by-step through the best study tips to successfully speak English. There is a lot of debate about whether International English should be standardised and, if so, how. For example, speakers might not use 'a' or 'the' in front of nouns, or they might make uncountable nouns plural and say 'informations', 'furnitures' or 'co-operations'.Īre these variations mistakes? Or part of the natural evolution of different Englishes? 'International English' refers to the English that is used and developed by everyone in the world, and doesn't just belong to native speakers. As a result, language use is starting to change. For many people, the need to communicate is much more important than the need to sound like a native speaker. English is being used more and more as a way for two speakers with different first languages to communicate with each other, as a 'lingua franca'.
More than 1.75 billion people speak English worldwide – that's around 1 in 4 people around the world. The different varieties of English created through this history of migration and colonisation are known as World Englishes. People from all over the world were using English to talk and write about justice, equality, freedom and identity from their own perspectives. Many brilliant writers from diverse places across Africa, the Caribbean and Asia had started writing in English, telling their stories of oppression. By the time former British colonies began to gain independence in the mid-20th century, English had become established in their institutions. They stole land, labour and resources from people across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania. During the European colonial period, several European countries, including England, competed to expand their empires. The spread of English all over the world has an ugly history but a rich and vibrant present. By Shakespeare's time, Modern English had developed, printing had been invented and people had to start to agree on 'correct' spelling and vocabulary. An estimated 45 per cent of all English words have a French origin. People couldn’t understand each other at first, because the lower classes continued to use English while the upper classes spoke French, but gradually French began to influence English. In 1066 William I, from modern-day France, became king, and Norman-French became the language of the courts and official activity. Later, Scandinavian Vikings invaded and settled with their languages too. The story of the English language began in the fifth century when Germanic tribes invaded Celtic-speaking Britain and brought their languages with them. Can you guess what they mean? The origins of English He also invented phrases like 'break the ice', 'all our yesterdays', 'faint-hearted' and 'love is blind'. For example, the words 'gossip', 'fashionable' and 'lonely' were all first used by Shakespeare. At the time he was writing, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the English language was going through a lot of changes and Shakespeare's creativity with language meant he contributed hundreds of new words and phrases that are still used today.
As well as being the English language's most famous playwright, Shakespeare also had a huge impact on modern-day English. This day was chosen because it is thought to be Shakespeare's birthday, and the anniversary of his death. Why is English Language Day celebrated on 23 April? These are the six official languages of the United Nations, and each has a special day, designed to raise awareness of the history, culture and achievements of these languages. English Language Day was first celebrated in 2010, alongside Arabic Language Day, Chinese Language Day, French Language Day, Russian Language Day and Spanish Language Day.
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