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 The English language is dynamic and flexible enough to adapt itself and create the words its needs through different means. English is a language alive and has the ability to evolve over time. The formation of words in English can be divided in the main following process: 1- DERIVATION/AFFIXATION: derivation involves creating a new word by adding prefixes or suffixes to a base word, sometimes it also changes the meaning or grammatical category of the original word, the adding of syllables before or after the root of the word are usually of Latin or Greek origin related to a specific meaning. - Prefixation : the formation of new words adding of syllables before of the root of the word. -Negative prefixes: -Prefixes of degree or size: -Locative prefixes: -Prefixes of time and order: -Number prefixes: -Conversion prefixes: - Suffixation : the adding of syllables after the root of the word.  -Noun suffixes: -Noun/Adjectival suffixes:ç -Pejorative prefixes: 2- COMPOUNDING: creat...

  In the United Kingdom is spoken more than the 16% of English as mother tongue in the world and it is the origin of the language, however there are many dialects different from the standard or Received Pronunciation from the city of London and southern regions like Thames Estuary, Essex, Poole, etc. -Cockney: it is a dialect from middle class East Londoners, they have rhyming sounds because at the beginning was argot or coded for criminals since the nineteenth century, it appears in films such as "Pygmalion", "Mary Poppins" and many twentieth century literary works. -West Country accent:  spoken in South West, Cornwall, Devon, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Bournemouth, etc. similar to RP English though with some archaisms "I be", thou bist, we be... they are rhotic and resemble Canadian and Irish accents in some expressions. -Welsh English: mostly spoken in North Wales and the Valley. There is a trap split in Cardiff, it is non-rh...

                                    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...