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                                    It is said that Canadian English (CaE) used to be the most related to British English due to the ties to the motherland and active belonging in the Commonwealth. Nevertheless since the eighteenth century it has received a lot of influences from French and aboriginal languages, and after the Second World War the so called "Canadian dainty" with British accent (following the Received Pronunciation) began to decrease and the Canadian media (radio, television, press, literature...) boost the mixture of words from the neighbour US, French and indigenous languages. The most distinctive features are the Canadian shift ( cot-caught merge which triggered other vowel sounds), the raise of "ou" vowel sound slightly, double "l", out pronunced as /oat/, the Greek ending in -ize in words instead of British "-ise". There are many AmE words such as curb, tire...especially relate...

                         Africa is the second most populous continent in the world with a growing population, after the decolonization of colonies from the English empire most of the seventeen countries colonized by England continue with English as official language along with their native languages. Moreover, there are around 130 million of Africans who speak English and there are 24 countries in total that have adopted English as official language and 27 in total where English is secondary or lingua franca or its used as a pidgin of English to boost their economy and general welfare in a globalized world such as Rwanda or Eritrea which were former colonies of Belgium and Italy. It is said that Uganda is the first best English speaking country in Africa because is obligatory in all educational centres though it goes along with sixty indigenous languages, secondly it is South Africa which is  the first language of the...

                                               The variety of English in Australia (AusE, AuE or AusEng) is featured as the country´s common language and de facto national language along with some native languages. It began to differentiate from British and Irish English after the First Fleet established the colony of New South Wales in 1788. Australian English was a dialectal "melting pot" created by the intermingling of the early settlers. By the 1820s the native born colonists language was different from that of the British Isles speakers.  Dialect levelling which ensued produced an homogeneoua new variety of English which mixed South East English, Cockney, Irish, Scottish and Welsh. After the Australian Gold Rush in the 1850s there was a growing population in Victoria and NewSouth Wales which received migrants and their dialects from the Commonwealth regions m...

                                              The United States was founded initially by British and Scottish Pilgrims and the Thirteen British colonies and the new country had already many languages from the natives which were incorporated in the English. Besides after Britain signed the Peace Treaty due to the American Independence War (1781) the English has not evolved as in the British Isles, so we can find vocabulary which was spoken in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the American English. Nowadays 65% of English native speakers live in the USA and though there are other languages widely spoken such as Spanish, the official language is English and the USA is the most influential country in the world in terms of military, economic, commercial and cultural areas so American English (AmE) is widespread due to the top-notch North American companies in...

  It is essential to be able to understand what is said orally in any language in order to assimilate it, learn words, gramatical structures and be able to communicate. Listening attentively every production in any foreign language can make anyone learn it in order to communicate which is the ultimate objective of any foreign language speaker. Es esencial ser capaz de entender lo que se dice oralmente en cualquier lengua para aprender, asimilar, aprender palabras y estructuras gramaticales y ser capaz de comunicarse. Escuchar atentamente cualquier producción oral puede hacer aprender la lengua para comunicarse que es el principal objetivo. Thus when grammar books and language courses were not available or did not exist any learner would pay attention to any conversation, songs, speeches in the street or the mass media such as the radio, TV or the internet to learn the language and achieve its communicative goal. For example Spanish workers in Germany during the sixties of the pas...

In English there are subordinate sentences inside a major sentence and there are many sort of  subordinate sentences, we focus now those parts of the sentences which are introduced by a relative pronoun and these relative clauses use to describe a noun. A relative clause gives more information about the person, animal or thing that can be essential (defining) or just informative (non-defining) to the main sentence. They are very useful in sentences because we avoid writing two  sentences and contributes to the fluidity of the sentence. The most common relative pronouns are who (used instead of people), where (used for places), which  (used instead of things), whose (used instead of possessions), we can replace that instead of who or  which. Defining relative clauses define or identify the people, animal or thing we are referring,  sometimes we can avoid the relative pronoun because the subject is the same as in the main sentence. Ex. The man who is wearing a ti...