The History of the English Language by Lucy Rucker

The article seems to be a little confusing with all the information that is given, so I had to read it 2 times to understand it better. This article is all about the history of English. The article point is to teach how English progressing was thought the time and how it had been changing in different regions. Also it shows its roots in the European continent and how it was adopted as a universal language until today. The author also includes her opinions in the entire article. She thinks that it’s frustrating that in different parts where English is spoken, there are different languages, but the language has to advance and form new words and changes others. She also says that the English language is the most challenging to learn which might be not true, because other languages are wider and use uncommon characters such as Japanese.  The author intentions are to teach how the English language is hard in some situations and what problems might result when the people speak English in different forms. Also it teaches us some story of the English language and how it has been adopted by the European and American countries. The author gives us some hints to understand totally the text like: “Old English itself was a reflection from the Anglo-Norman-French” This says that English is a combination of different languages and have been changing over time.

“But no matter, how Modern English has developed, it is still found rather difficult to learn by others”. English will always be difficult, but it may vary with the region and the learning capacity of the people that want to learn it totally. It also depends of the type of education that the person received in his childhood and in his adulthood.

I think that the author omitted some things in the article like: “Where is more difficult to learn English? In which countries is easier to learn English? Why some people have more capacity to learn English than others?”

The author is a little biased with his article, I disagree with him in the part that English is one of the hardest languages to learn, because they are some more even more complicated than English hand compared to them the English would be nothing.

In conclusion, I think that this article was made only to make a superficial reflection of the English language, and it doesn’t shows how hard is to learn it.