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    of the most common foreign language influences in English, where other languages have influenced or contributed words to English. Celtic words are almost...
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  • English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants...
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    English as a second or foreign language is the use of English by speakers with different native languages, often with students whose native language is...
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  • A foreign language is a language that is not an official language of, nor typically spoken in, a specific country. Native speakers from that country usually...
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    English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The...
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    Shakespeare's influence extends from theater and literatures to present-day movies, Western philosophy, and the English language itself. William Shakespeare...
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  • it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken...
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    focus of modern foreign language (MFL) learning in school lies on English, German and/or French. Despite an ever stronger focus on English, learning two...
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  • vocabulary in English entered the language after the Norman Conquest in 1066, when Old French, specifically the Old Norman dialect, became the language of the...
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  • English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English...
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