English Courses For Beginners
Welcome to Multilingual Café! English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family , whose speakers, called Anglophones , originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The namesake of the language is the Angles , one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations ) and the United States . [ 7 ] English is the third-most spoken native language , after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish ; [ 8 ] it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official langu...