English

  Don’t forget to have fun while you learn              If studying the English language only feels like a burden, it will seem tedious and you won’t perform as well. This is why it’s important to stay motivated and enjoy the experience of learning a new language. Find ways to add entertainment into your studies, such as playing word games with friends that will boost your critical thinking skills. Obviously, learning a new language is a long-term project and you can’t start from zero and write an academic paper a week later. But, when building on a decent foundation, you can achieve great results quickly if you devote yourself intensely. Especially for exams like the IELTS, you should really know what questions will be asked, what the formats look like and how to deal with the respective tasks. Try to stay focused and improve certain parts, rather than frantically trying to catch up with everything at once.

 Practice, practice, practice          Let’s face it, academic phrases won’t just fall from heaven and straight into your brain. Even if your English is already quite good, don’t be complacent and underestimate stressful factors such as the time pressure in an exam. You still have to practice, no matter how much time you have left before your big day. Try coming up with a word of the day, and then try to employ it as often as possible. If you do this, don’t waste time on extremely specific words you will never actually use. Instead, focus on conversational English which is likely to be relevant in the exam.      

 Have conversations in English As helpful as listening and reading tasks may be, you also need to use English interactively and practice your own speaking skills. If you’re lucky, you’ll be friends with a few native speakers who can help you out, but if not then try to meet up with someone else studying English. Another option is to talk to yourself in the mirror or record yourself. Listening to the sound of your own voice might be a little bit awkward at first, but you will be able to hear mistakes of which you weren’t previously aware.     

 Start a vocabulary book of useful words               Either in a notebook or on your computer, start making a list of useful words and phrases. Every time you hear or see a word you’re not familiar with, note it down. Don’t only focus on the word itself, but search for synonyms and phrases in which it’s used. After all, you might understand what words such as “precedence” or “tantalizing” mean, but do you know how to use them accurately?

 Immerse yourself in English language news         Try to sample a broad range of English language newspapers, including broadsheets as well as magazines and tabloids. As well as helping you keep up to date with current affairs, this range of news sources will also expand your vocabulary. Another advantage is that you will also become more comfortable with how words are spelt and the contexts in which they are used.     

 Watch movies in English       Watching series on Netflix might not exactly improve your debating skills or formal register, but it helps you to understand the language better, get used to colloquial, conversational forms of English and implicitly get a feeling for the language. Also, you could try to pick out words that sound highly informal and look up their more scholarly counterparts. Of course, there is also a plethora of documentaries (try anything by David Attenborough to start you off) to be found online as well. Being exposed to a language for the length of a movie might help you to actually start thinking in English.          

  Since the ninth century, English has been written in a  Latin alphabet  (also called Roman alphabet). Earlier Old English texts in  Anglo-Saxon runes  are only short inscriptions. The great majority of literary works in Old English that survive to today are written in the Roman alphabet. [ 38 ]  The modern English alphabet contains 26 letters of the  Latin script :  a ,  b ,  c ,  d ,  e ,  f ,  g ,  h ,  i ,  j ,  k ,  l ,  m ,  n ,  o ,  p ,  q ,  r ,  s ,  t ,  u ,  v ,  w ,  x ,  y ,  z  (which also have  capital  forms: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z).

 English grammar started out based on Old English, which is considered to be a Germanic language. After the Norman French conquered England in 1066, parts of the Latin language were brought to the English language by the Norman French. Nouns

 English grammar has also become very different from other Germanic languages, but it stayed different from Romance languages. Because nearly 60% of the vocabulary comes from Latin, English is sometimes called the Germanic language that is the most Latin, and it is often mistaken for being a Romance language.[6]

Experts believe English originated from nomads traveling amongst the European plains about 5,000 years ago. Their dialect was called Proto-Indo-European. Over time, Proto-Indo-European morphed into the ancient variations of Latin, Greek, and German. The Ancient German language evolved to become Dutch, Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, and eventually English. About 1500 years ago, the influence of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes produced a version of English referenced as “Old English” or “Anglo-Saxon.” With land acquisition, trade, and travel, the language continued to morph so much that historians and linguists have divided the English language periods into Old English, Middle English, and Modern English.

  Openness of vocabulary implies both free admission of words from other  languages   and the ready creation of  compounds   and derivatives. English adopts (without change) or adapts (with slight change) any word really needed to name some new object or to denote some new process. Words from more than 350 languages have entered English in this way. Like French, Spanish, and Russian, English frequently forms scientific terms from Classical Greek word elements. Although a Germanic language in its  sounds   and  grammar , the bulk of English vocabulary is in fact  Romance   or Classical in origin.

 It is generally stated that English has around 170,000 words, or 220,000 if obsolete words are counted; this estimate is based on the last full edition of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1989

  English belongs  is therefore related to most other languages spoken in   and western   from   to   The parent tongue, called Proto-Indo-European, was spoken about 5,000 years ago by nomads believed to have roamed the southeastern European plains. Germanic , one of the language groups descended from this ancestral speech, is usually divided by scholars into three regional groups: East  (Burgundian, Vandal, and  Gothic , all extinct), North ( Icelandic ,  Faroese ,  Norwegian ,  Swedish , and  Danish ), and  West  (German , Dutch and Flemish , Frisian , and English). Although closely related to English, German remains far more   conservative  than English in its retention of a fairly elaborate system of  inflections . Frisian, spoken by the inhabitants of the Dutch province of  Frisland  and the islands off the west coast of  schewling , is the language most near...

 English is either the official language or one of the official languages in 59 sovereign states (such as India, Ireland, and Canada). In some other countries, it is the sole or dominant language for historical reasons without being explicitly defined by law (such as in the United States and United Kingdom).[9] It is a co-official language of the United Nations, the European Union, and many other international and regional organisations. It has also become the de facto lingua franca of diplomacy, science, technology, international trade, logistics, tourism, aviation, entertainment, and the Internet.[10] English accounts for at least 70% of total speakers of the Germanic language branch, and as of 2021, Ethnologue estimated that there were over 1.5 billion speakers worldwide.

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