The History of the English Language by Lucy Rucker

This is an educated article that is about the history of English language. It can be for children who want to know about how English was developing throughout the years, and also to any person who is interested on that.  The purpose is to show how English was divided into several stages because of the influenced of many cultures and how it stated to grow.

In this article written by Lucy Rucker we can understand the origin and the changes of the English language as a complex language. If we look in the fifth century we find the origin of the language brought by the Germanic tribes to Britain, but this was only the beginning because after a while it also introduced what we now know as Latin, brought by the Vikings. This language can be divided in three stages:

Old English: this type is still spoken, but in another way, it is more difficult to understand, but over the years has been modified in some aspects.

Middle English: over time how to speak and write was changing, while some words failed to have a meaning, other were corrected and many others were put on a completely different meaning and this gave way to what is the current language

Modern English: this is English we know today and that was created after all a process

But it is important to know that although they have made progress and has developed this language still remains complicated, as mentioned at the beginning. The reason for this is that the way English is spoken depends on the region, city, etc. where you are. After all, you can’t imagine how it will be English in a future. As a language, English, is constantly changing and increasingly in the future we will have new words, new meanings among many other things.

My opinion based on my experiences is that the English at the time that I live is something very important to know, is essential to ensure at some point a good future career. It is so true that English learners, as me get frustrated when talking to someone in English and do not understand them because of the way they talk.

A very ironic part of the text is when it's mentioned that there may even be people who completely dominate the English but living in different regions or countries, maybe they can't understand words, expression or something.

I agree that, depending on the place, will have new words, different expressions and even somewhere that means something in another can be quite the opposite. This also happens with the Spanish language, for example, in Monterrey we use words that in many states of the republic do not even have meaning.

Maybe we could not observe the specific change that had the English, or the steps that were mentioned, but it is obvious that with the passage of time, new cultures, technology, customs, language had to also modifying or upgrading.

In conclusion the English language is constantly evolving and is not legible, it just changes from generation to generation, some more pronounced than others but in the end it changes. Its origin is long and everyone takes the kind of English agree to the place where they are.