It is estimated that there are 300 million native English speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million who us it as a foreign language in the world today. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.8) Of these above-mentioned branches of the Indo-European family, two are of vital importance in the development of the English language, the Germanic and the Romance. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.8) The history of the English language can be traced back to the arrival of three West Germanic tribes to the British Isles during the 5th and 6th Centur...

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While the Italian language and the English Language both contain 26 alphabet letters Italian does not use every letter as often as Americans. ... The first Italian documents that were wrote were dialectal in language, and many writers following wrote in their native dialects, which produced a number of competing regional schools of literature. ... A word that uses 'Ah' in America is 'Hah.' ... Some American words that have the vowel sound in their A's are Pasta, and Pizza in English. ... If someone does not pronounce the vowels right, then the whole word can sound ...

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