The History of the English Language by Tabitha Hergest

Is incredible how a language can get so different because of the artistic movements and because of the changes in the government as English did. 

England where English takes its origin comes from Angle, who is the German race that following the collapse of Roman contingent, invaded the southern part of Britain. The roots of the English are based mostly in the people that invaded Britain as the Angles because they were elitist people so they didn’t with indigenous Celtic cultures. After the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes came into Britain territory too. All of them left mark in the old original English. Also the Vikings left important words as anger and mush, as consequence of their settlement in Britain. The church also took part in the creation of the English; they introduced the Latin to their language because of the rules in the church of those times.    

With the last conquest of England by French Normandy, the English turned into a very different language, because with that conquest England starts to use French as a lingua for the nobility. And with the renaissance, England started to interest in Latin origins of Europe as Greek civilization, so they started to add more and more Latin word into their alphabet. Latin inspired art and culture in England it started to become more and more and important part of the English language. 

 The expansion of renaissance touched a lot he English literature it added more and more Latin culture and word to the English alphabet. It made that people as Shakespeare and Marlowe enriched more the English of those times with a lot Latin derivate words. So with the conquest of new territories and the loss of other England added more words to their initial list and the language changed more and more. The English started to also add idioms into its language culture. The English as a language will never die because it’s now globalized, and the language as it will never die, it will only change because of the different circumstances occurring between the pass of the years. 

Not all the people now how the renaissance affected the English, or how it affected the modern English. Most of the people know that invasions and the imperialism affected in different ways the English; also they know that with our technology era English is changing because of all the new words that are being created. Renaissance created new English based in poets as Shakespeare that make idioms and brought new word to the English alphabet. Poets as Shakespeare inspired in words of another languages created a new gamma of idioms and words.

The History of the English Language by Risa

The English has been contrasted by all the European expansions and invasion into Britain a brought to it a big change into a global language. 

Now the English has become a global language with speakers in the entire world. But in spite of that English is not an old language as other important language. English arrived to South Britain in what’s now England, by the original English speakers, the Angles and Saxons, and the called their language Englisc (language spoken by angles). English is part of the Western Germanic sub Family of the Indo European languages, and the old English is very similar to Frisian. When the Englisc arrived the predominant language was Latin and Celtic variants of it, as Pictish, Syriac and Tintagal. And because of this English didn’t become important until arrive of Alfred the Great, that conquered all the territories in the southern Britain.  

In earlier centuries York became the center of the English-speaking world. But this started to change and It moved into Winchester because of the conquests during that era, until the arrive of Danish rule of Canute that made London the new English speaking center and make it to remind as well to our days. And this affected a lot to our now used English. 

The English has also adapted through the years to be more easily understood between the speakers so because of the accent and the stress use of the words the English has been adapting to cover the necessities between the speakers as more clarity when writing or speaking English to ends it conversion into a global language. Aside of the grammatical changes the pronunciation changed a lot because of the needs of the speakers.  English because is a very used language, has changed; only non-used languages keeps as they were left behind. But despite of the English still have things of the original English. The English has changed a lot because of the requirement of the people and because of the problems of pronunciation and also because of the trends of the era. Is unlikely that any modern reader can understand Shakespeare works because of the type of English used in the Elizabethan era. And is more difficult when the work is very similar to another in pronunciation. Change in a language will keep because is a language that is still being used and It will continue adapting to the necessities of the people. Today’s Globalization will take part of the future evolution in the English language.  

The English can be thought as an adaptation of various languages, it started as the language spoken by conquers of the old Britain, but it become a more origin-complex language. The English changed a lot from a language spoken by warriors, it changed all the pronunciation in order to make a language easy to speak and understand, is believed as the English globalize more it will keep changing and evolving through the years, imagine in 100 years people speaking English that and English native of our era cannot even understand it.  

The History of the English Language by Laura Howard

The use of a language, reunited the minds of the past to make it colorful variation of the original thought, shifting into a beautiful language made by the combination of others.

The English language didn’t started in England, the bases of English started in the place that now we know as Germany. English is part of the Anglo Frisian group of the indo European languages: Swedish, Dutch, Icelandic and Norwegian. The Old English or original one was talk by the German Angles, Jutes and Saxons. When they decided to invade Britain each one took a part of the south of Britain; Angles the north of England, Saxons the middle and Jutes the south, they pushed away the native Celtic cultures to the north and east, what is now Scotland and wales. And then because of the invasion of the Vikings and sharing some places with Celtic cultures they started to gain new word to their vocabulary such as down and cut.

Then with the invasion in the 11^th century of the French Normans they changed more their language adding a French touch to their language, and this is what is called the Middle English. French started to be used by the nobility so the language started to combine more with the English, giving new words and changing the meaning of others. Then England los the power over the Normandy lands so they stop using the language, but the French impact in English didn’t left.

The “modernization” of English started between 1500 and 1800, in the Renaissance. This brought to the English new words from Greek and Latin language, and the created of new idioms by the most important English Litterateur, Shakespeare. One big factor that affected English especially in pronunciation is the Great Vowel Shift. The Great Vowel Shift is the big change that started in 1400, and gives a big evolution for what now is pronunciation of English words, and was intended to make English easier to pronounce and understand.  Now in our days, English went into its final important change with the boom of industrialization and with the technological revolution. Words a cyber, byte, nuclear etc. that was no talked before are now commonly pronounced by our contemporaries. Now the English change more but not because of the invasions to Britain, now the English grew because of the globalization of this language, adding new words made by non-native speaker and evolving the English that we know now.

Is amazing how a language can take its words from everywhere but where is spoken. English is a combination of all the movements that affected the country like wars and invasions, and also the artistic ones, including church as a movement in that time. English is an incredible combination of global languages that at the end created also a Global Language.

What should we learn, English as a lingua franca or "formal" English?

I think that all the people need to learn more the Formal English that as a Lingua Franca, because if you learn the formal English, it will open more opportunities in your life, because now in our times the English is a global language and is used in the most of the countries around the world. One big profit of learning formal English is that it will give you the possibility to enter into a multinational company, and it will give more opportunities to get a great job with good benefits and wages.  The Formal English will serve you more because is most likely that in great companies as the multinational, you will need to travel a lot, or use a plenty English a lot. So I think that learning formal English will open you a lot more opportunities in your life.