The History of the English Language by Sammy Stein

As all the articles, this is a formal, educative, and informative article that talks about the history of English. It has no specific audience, but to mention someone it can be for children, schools, adults, etc.

In this article Sammy Stein states that English is not a pure language as most of the people think. Many words come from Latin, French and some other languages. It has had many changes thanks to all the invasions England received by different cultures.

The most important change in this language is thanks to the Vikings when they went to England and those words are the ones that we use every day. After them, Romans were the second ones to invade. They brought new words from Latin origins. Thanks to that, Latin came to be the dominant language in educated people, including schools. Those who were not well educated, they still used their own dialect that they learned day by day. After that Spanish rulers came, and words from them started joining the English language. Those words became English words.

Even though English language has many words from other languages, it is still unique because those words with the time changed in their spelling, pronunciation, meanings, etc.

This beautiful language is the second most common language of the world, science mandarin Chinese is the most common. Even though in all parts of the world, you will find sign in English science is a universal language. Thanks to this English has become to be the most important language in the world of business because it helps you communicate with people of the entire world.

English history is continuing growing and words are used daily thanks to the advanced of technology. There is never a time in which dictionaries will stop growing because each day there are boning new word that in time there are considered daily used word and are put in them.

If you want to see physically the advances and changes of all the words you can compare a dictionary of 20 years ago and one actual.

Thanks to my experience of life, I agree with the author in some of the thinks mention. It is amazing how English language is mixed with different languages such as Spanish. Me as a person who learned English, I get confuse with some words in Spanish and English, since some of them are very similar, but there are other is which they do not have any similarity between them as “casa – house”. I think English has been changing in time because not only of the antecedents, also because of how people as teenagers start changing the meaning of words.