English Language Courses

English has four major word classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Of these four classes, nouns are the largest, followed closely by verbs. Nouns are people, places, and things, such as cars, island, or engineer. Verbs are actions, including to write, to listen, and to drive. Adjectives are words that modify nouns: a green car, a smart engineer. Finally, adverbs can modify verbs and adjectives: walk quickly, a very tired puppy. However, there's more to it than just those four word classes. English is unique in a couple of ways. First, English speakers sometimes create new words by turning nouns into verbs. For example, in the sentence "We mothballed the project," the word mothball (originally a noun) was turned into a verb. Second, especially in everyday spoken English, people often use adjectives instead of adverbs. For example, "you drive too fast," where fast (an adjective) is used to modify the verb rather than quickly (an adverb).

American English is the most widely heard dialect of English because the United States is where many TV shows, movies, and music are made. However, millions of people speak British English. Australian and New Zealand English are also very common dialects, as is South African English. In terms of sheer numbers of speakers, Indian English and Pakistani English are very widespread. While people who speak different English dialects can usually mostly understand each other, they might have to be careful not to use too many idioms.

Increasingly, English has become a leading language for business, travel, science, and many other things. On the internet, over 25% of websites are in English. Anyone who hopes to do business outside of their country would find English helpful to communicate with people worldwide. Knowing English is often a requirement for people who wish to work in the hospitality industry. People who travel the world often rely on English to communicate with others, regardless of what country they're in. And that's just the beginning! Many forms of entertainment, including movies, TV shows, apps, video games, etc., are in English. As the world becomes more and more connected, it has relied more and more heavily on English as a shared language.