The Importance of English

English is very important, because is the most popular language and is an international language; english is the only language that any one can understand.If you know english it will be much easy to get a job any where in our out your country, to translate for a person or a group of people, to communicate with foreiner from all over.

But first we have to learn the language:

The first stage of learning this language  is that once you are fluent with the alphabets, slowly you can learn many words. It would always be better to follow the method of reading first, then writing.

The next step is learning the grammar of the language. It is quite simple and very systematic compared with other language.

There are four different types of sentences:

1) statement

2) Interrogative sentence

3) Imperative sentence

4) Exclamatory sentence

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ACCENT (LINGUISTICS)

In linguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation. An accent may identify the locality in which its speakers reside (a geographical or regional accent), the socio-economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class, their first language (when the language in which the accent is heard is not their native language), and so on. Accents typically differ in quality of voice, pronunciation of vowels and consonants, stress, andprosody. Although grammar, semantics, vocabulary, and other language characteristics often vary concurrently with accent, the word 'accent' refers specifically to the differences in pronunciation, whereas the word 'dialect' encompasses the broader set of linguistic differences. Often 'accent' is a subset of 'dialect'

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-eastScotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the economic, political, military, scientific, cultural, and colonial influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, via the British Empire, and of the United States since the mid-20th century, it has been widely dispersed around the world, become the leading language of international discourse, and has acquired use as lingua franca in many regions.It is widely learned as a second language and used as an official language of the European Unionand many Commonwealth countries, as well as in many world organizations. It is the third most natively spoken language in the world, afterMandarin Chinese and Spanish.

Historically, English originated from the fusion of languages and dialects, now collectively termed Old English, which were brought to the eastern coast of Great Britain by Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) settlers by the 5th century – with the word English being derived from the name of the Angles.A significant number of English words are constructed based on roots from Latin, because Latin in some form was the lingua francaof the Christian Church and of European intellectual life. The language was further influenced by the Old Norse language due to Viking invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The Norman conquest of England in the 11th century gave rise to heavy borrowings from Norman-French, and vocabulary and spelling conventions began to give the superficial appearance of a close relationship with Romance languages to what had now become Middle English. The Great Vowel Shift that began in the south of England in the 15th century is one of the historical events that mark the emergence ofModern English from Middle English.

Owing to the significant assimilation of various European languages throughout history, modern English contains a very large vocabulary. TheOxford English Dictionary lists over 250,000 distinct words, not including many technical or slang terms, or words that belong to multiple word classes.