THE CHANGING WORLD OF ENGLISH

HOW HAS ENGLISH CHANGED THROUGH THE DECADES? HOW WILL ENGLISH BE IN THE FUTURE? 

         Since the 1900’s English has experienced many changes. Language is always changing, evolving, and adapting to the needs of its users. This isn't a bad thing; if English hadn't changed since1950, we wouldn't have words to refer to modems, fax machines, or cable TV.

" As long as the needs of language users continue to change, so will the language. The change is so slow that from year to year we hardly notice it (except to grumble every so often about the 'poor English' being used by the younger generation!). But reading Shakespeare's writings from the sixteenth century can be difficult. If you go back a couple more centuries, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are very tough sledding, and if you went back another 500 years to try to read Beowulf, it would be like reading a different language.”----Linguistic Society of America

        Our prediction about English is that in the future it will become one of the languages that you MUST Speak, English is now a tool for communication and education, but it will become something that you won’t be able to avoid. Kids will be taught English since the moment they learn how to produce sounds in their firsts months alive. Teachers will be present in every aspect of the learning process, and kids will become the teachers so that they can teach younger generations how to produce this amazing language.