English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family.
English is a language that started in Anglo-Saxon England. It is originally from Anglo-Frisian and Old Saxon dialects. English is now used as a global language. There are about 375 million native speakers (people who use it as their first language) in the world.
Frisian is the language closest to English. The vocabulary of English was influenced by other Germanic languages in the early Middle Ages and later by Romance languages, especially French.
English has changed and developed over time, like all other languages. The most obvious changes are the many words taken from Latin and Old French, which then came to Old English and then Modern English, which is used today.
English grammar has also become very different from other Germanic languages, but it stayed different from Romance languages. Because nearly 60% of the vocabulary comes from Latin, English is sometimes called the Germanic language that is the most Latin, and it is often mistaken for being a Romance language.
I have own English learning path, which can help me to understand English materials, media and people.
Collactions (словосочетания)
One method to learn English is learning collocations. They very useful to learn natural language. Collocations are words that are used together in a sentence. There are some types of collocations: Fixed, Strong, and Weak.
Grammar (грамматика)
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