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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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  • Teaching English as a second (TESL) or foreign language (TEFL) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) are terms that refer to teaching...
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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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    William 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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  • 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 as a second or foreign language refers to the use of English by individuals whose native language is different, commonly among students learning...
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    bear influences of Irish English. Second-language varieties of English in Africa and Asia have often undergone "indigenisation"; that is, each English-speaking...
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    Faroese, the development of English in the British Isles isolated it from the continental Germanic languages and their influences, and it has since diverged...
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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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  • English-language education in Japan began as early as 1600 with the initial contacts between the Japanese and Europeans. Almost all students graduating...
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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 United Kingdom taken...
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    The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Outside of these states, it has official status...
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  • vocabulary in English entered the language after the Norman Conquest in 1066. Old French, specifically the Old Norman dialect, became the language of the...
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    language of the speaker's home country, or a foreign language. A speaker's dominant language, which is the language a speaker uses most or is most comfortable...
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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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    The English Wikipedia is the primary English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on...
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  • original English-language manga or OEL manga is a comic book or graphic novel drawn in the style of manga and originally published in English. The term...
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    The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early...
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    English orthography History of English Foreign language influences in English List of English homographs List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in...
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  • Pidgin (alternately, Hawaiʻi Creole English or HCE, known locally as Pidgin) is an English-based creole language spoken in Hawaiʻi. An estimated 600,000 residents...
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  • Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other. The study of language contact is called...
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    the first foreign language of choice by English in Vietnam. Nevertheless, it continues to be taught as the other main foreign language in the Vietnamese...
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  • vocabulary deeply rooted in its Austronesian heritage. Over time, it has incorporated a wide array of loanwords from several foreign languages, including Malay...
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    English is taught in schools in Algeria. In recent years, English has gained popularity as the second most widely studied foreign language in Algeria...
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  • Computer-assisted language learning (CALL), known as computer-aided instruction (CAI) in British English and computer-aided language instruction (CALI) in American...
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    resulted from influences of local languages in Indonesia, such as Balinese, Madurese, Sundanese and especially Javanese, and foreign languages such as Arabic...
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  • linguists) is an English-based creole language with influences from West African, Arawak, Spanish and other languages, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among...
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  • influences which are considered 'impure'. Historically, linguistic purism in English is a reaction to the great number of borrowings in the English language...
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  • Bonin English, also known as the Bonin Islands language or Ogasawara English, is an English-based creole of the Bonin Islands (officially the Ogasawara...
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    Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines, and is one of the nation's two official languages, alongside English. Tagalog, like the other and...
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