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It is well known that English is one of the working languages of the United Nations, and in fact it is also the international language of communication. English belongs to the Indo-European Germanic which is a member of West Germanic language family, and English was spreaded around the world through British colonial activities.

In addition, as a foreign language, English is the most common language which was learned in Europe and Japan, followed by French, German and Spanish. The basic English is a kind of English language which was simplified for the cause of international exchange. It is usually used by some aircraft manufacturers and other international business as a written manuals for communication. Some schools in East Asia teach English as a kind of basis language.

In 1066, during three hundreds of years after Norman wars, the king of England speak French only. At this time, there were a large number of French words put into Old English, meanwhile Old English changed itself with lots of twists and turns, so that at this time two kinds of languages formed Middle English. In 1500, as the vowel developed, ...
... the Middle English had a deformation of the modern English. The most famous literature in Old English is "Beowulf", while the one in modern English is "Canterbury Tales".

Modern English began to boom in the period of Shakespeare times, some scholars divided modern English to early modern English and late Modern English following a dividing line of the year of 1800. As Britain had colonial occupation to most parts of the world, the local language also greatly affected the development of English language.

So we can see from above that the changes of English Language is affected by its history events and its cultural communication with other nations, so if you wnat to learn a new kind of language well, you had better learn its culture and its history well. If you want to learn this kind of language, you had better own some excellent softwares such as Rosetta stone English as a teacher of you. This kind of software has many wonderful programs to practise English very well from your listening, your reading, your pronunciation and other parts of learning, so you can understand this kind of language better, and have a good usage of English. You can make use of this kind of software to watch some famous movies and listen to some famous radio programs such as BBC, of course you can also write some articles for some famous websites, and you can write some letters to your foreign friends without any dictionary.

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