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2000 years ago, if you’d heard a human voice around here, the language would have been incomprehensible. 1000 years ago, the English language had established its first base camp. Today, English circles the globe. What started as a guttural, trbal diaclet, seemingly isolated in a small island, is now the language of well over a thousand million people around the world.
The story of english language is an extraordinary one. It has the characteristcs of bold and successful advanture, tenacity, luck, ne