English, the language of the world.0:04
Countries where people use English as their native language are English speaking countries.0:08
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are English speaking countries.0:15
These countries are situated on different continents.0:27
People of different nationalities speak it.0:30
And the English language they use is not absolutely the same.0:34
For example, in the uk, people have different accents according to the part of the country they come from.0:38
But all these people easily understand each other.0:45
When people live in the same place and talk the same way, the words and structures they use are language.0:54
We use words all the time to tell other people what we think and we want to be sure that they understand us.1:03
We don't want to feel lonely.1:13
We want to talk to each other.1:15
That's why we have languages.1:17
Today there are more than 3,000 languages in the world.1:20
They include English, German, French, Russian, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese and many others.1:23
You learn to speak when you are very young.1:35
You probably don't even think that you are learning anything.1:38
The language that you speak is the language you hear around you as you are growing up.1:42
The language your family and friends speak.1:48
If you are born in Russia, your native language is probably Russian, but you may speak some other languages too.1:52
A baby can learn any language he or she hears.2:00
In some families, people use two or more languages and children there are often bilingual.2:03
The English language appeared in the fifth century of the Common Era.2:11
For more than 10 centuries, people spoke English only on the territory of the British Isles.2:17
Certainly Old English and the English language the British speak nowadays are not absolutely the same.2:24
But these days people use a lot of words that came from Old English.2:31
When we speak about the most important things in life, we use Old English words.2:37
Man, woman and child.2:43
Eat, drink and sleep.2:46
In the 16th century, people began to speak English not only on the territory of the British Isles, but in other European countries.2:52
After Columbus discovered America, lots of Europeans moved there.3:01
The English language became the official language of the United States and together with French, the official language of Canada.3:06
In the 18th century, Captain James Cook, a British sailor and explorer, sailed to Australia and New Zealand.3:16
These territories became British and many men and women from the UK moved there.3:24
They brought English with them.3:31
Today, English has become one of the most important languages of our planet.3:34
People learn it as a foreign language in Europe and Asia, in South America and Africa, practically in all countries.3:39
When you know English, it is easy to speak with people of different nationalities if they also know it.3:48
But if you both speak only national languages.3:54
It will be nearly impossible for you to understand each other.3:58
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