The History of the English Language by Lucy Rucker

How Did the English Language Begin?


One of the languages that are more complex in this world is English; this language has been seen since the fifth century, by people who arrived to Britain, and till after the eleventh century it began to introduce the Latin language too, by the Vikings arrival. Old English was a reflection from the Anglo-Norman-French and nowadays it is still spoken in other forms. This is a good help, because the old English is difficult to read and understand. During the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, the Middle English started; resulting with the use of vowels and the change in grammar, with the spelling and meanings of the words. This change has been making English, the language that we talk today. As time passed, the Modern English was introduced, which is the English that we speak today. It brought new phonics and spelling; although it has developed, it is still difficult to learn it. Every country have their own and different system of words; where we live, we share the same language to keep certain traditional words alive and sometimes we may only understand because of our area of life. Learning English as another language might be exasperating and it might exist the case in which two people speaking English and not understanding one another. English is a challenging language and is constantly changing and developing.

I think that this article is very good, because it presents a reality that each of us live with the language English. This language, as the article mentions, has been changing and renovating through the pass of the years; it is important to be aware of those changes to know exactly the history of the language that we talk or want to learn to talk. This article is dedicated, or in other words, the audience of this article is to the people that want to learn to talk the language English; they might want to know its origins, like who started, in which places they speak it, and many other important data. The purpose of this article is to give a brief description of how English started and who started it. Also its purpose is to inform us that this language since its beginning till now has been changing constantly in the meanings of the words and its phonetics. The tone of the article is formal, because it starts with a simple question and then gives you a brief description to respond it, using formal words and language.