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4 days ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
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1 day ago · English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom, [13] but a number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional indigenous languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish.
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Adults who really speak well had formal instruction in English (attended hundreds of hours of English lessons, college, make constant effort to learn, etc.). Speaking advanced English requires around 1000 hours of guided instruction. As the article above points out, learning solely through "immersion" is a myth.
5 days ago · A lingua franca is a common language used by speakers of different native languages for communication, often developing as a means of trade or cultural exchange. Teaching students about lingua franca has numerous benefits and can help them develop useful skills for their personal and professional lives. 1. Encourages Cultural Understanding and ...
5 days ago · The ‘virtual merging’ of the South African and British press at the Cape, claims Potter in chapter 2, ‘reflected underlying commercial forces that bound newspapers around the empire together’ (p. 41). British papers developed close links with the political establishment and the latter used the media to try to win the propaganda and ...
2 days ago · Lingua Franca Nova; ... the British Empire) expanded, ... The diocese was the first Church of England see created outside England and Wales (i.e. the first colonial ...
5 days ago · As Sathnam Sanghera writes in Empireworld, the discovery “revolutionized the logistics of international plant transportation.”. Suddenly there was a means of securely transporting seeds and seedlings across vast distances. Empireworld is a sequel to Sanghera’s wildly successful Empireland. Where the latter examined the legacies of empire ...
