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1 CE
English did not exist.
The rise of English is a story of wonderful success. When Julius Caesar landed in Britain nearly 2000 years ago, English did not exist. -
500
English was a mothertongue for few people.
English was spoken by the people who inhabited Great Britain, but they were not many and their English was not the language we know today. -
6 million Englishmen spoke English.
By the time when W.Shakespeare created his works, English was the native language of about 6 million Englishmen. -
750 million people all over the world speak English
English has become an international language. More than half of world's scientific periodicals and 80% of the information in the world's computers are in English.