What is English?

Archive Africa Asia Europe Middle East South America United States		This class project began in 1997 when a group of students were studying the history of English for about a month. The What is English? survey was designed to get a wide ranging, world wide response. Now, in the year 2000, we publish some of the results of this Internet poll.   Asia/Former Soviet Union   Age: 20 Sex: male Level of education: Elementary School Location (City/State): Ukraine Submitted the following answer: English is one of my favorite languages it's very useful and want to study it in US   ---------------------------------------------   Age: 26 Sex: male Level of education: Graduate Degree Location (City/State): Thailand Submitted the following answer: English is very important language as it's a global language. It's is like a tool for people around the world to communicate. Besides, it's become even more popular when there is an internet.   --------------------------------------------   Age: 27 Sex: male Level of education: College Degree Location (City/State): Okinawa, Japan Submitted the following answer: English, to me is the ability to communicate and understand ideas and thoughts with ease. While I understand and respect that 'grammar and punctuation etc.' has it's place in English I do not feel this the the most important function. I belive English has become an international communication tool and in the future will continue (with such entities as the internet etc.) to change and grow to be even more useful as an international language. note: I teach conversational English here in Japan and am from Canada originally. If I had a nickel for every American teacher who asked me if my wife (who is Japanese) "...can speak American?" "American-English" is one type of English but... 'American' is not a language! (this was asked by teachers!!!)     --------------------------------------   Age: 20 Sex: male Level of education: College Degree Location (City/State): bombay,india Submitted the following answer: only a very imp lang.very essential,i crave to learn more and more abour the language,like " the history",grammer new words etc..
		A class made up of two seniors and eleven juniors and teacher Brian Thomas compiled an archive of the survey. Marin Academy is an independent high school in San Rafael, California.