The History of the English Language by Risa.

Topic: The History of the English Language.

Audience: This article is for all kind of people, since young persons to adults, that are interested on how the English came from and how it is changing.

Purpose: To tell us how English was spread and how it mixed with other languages over time.

Tone: Formal.

The way the English has spread all over the world doesn’t mean that is an old language, in fact, what the author is trying to tell us is that the English is not as old as much of the languages are. The truth is that the English has been growing as it has been changing. Indeed, the English was not common in England and then started to grow as the country was going up.

The English is a language in which the pronunciation is very important, and works on different ways, is not the same if you pronounce the accent in one syllable than in another. The ways the English is spoken in different periods of time is very different, because it changes a lot, not only in the pronunciation of words, but also in the meaning and the way of using it. In the English, they were different types of it, such as, Elizabethan English (that was what Shakespeare used), Old English, and so on. In fact, it varies by the epochs it passes through. But for the language to survives it has to change every time, if not the language would died. Nowadays the English will continue changing by the expressions that we use and how we write.

In my opinion when the language started to be more popular was because the countries that the English was use were growing, so more people was interested to learn that language and the language started to became more a global language than just one that was speaking in a few countries. When the people started to use more this language it started to change, as all the languages did, and the language commenced to have idioms, and it started to have deformations as well on the pronunciation part as in the written part.

In my point of view, the English will continue changing, because that is the way the people is used to, many people use idioms and they create new ones, and the language will continue that way in the future, if not the language would died and no one would speak it anymore. I think the English has passed for deformations as well as other languages did, it is not the only language that have that, because the languages need to change every time, so the people would be capable to talk to each other and comprehend what they are saying.