In A.D. 449, living in north-western Europe three Germanic tribes began to infringement of Britain. They are the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. After one and a half centuries, in the 6th century AD, basic conquered the island of Great Britain. This is in the history of British "Germanic conquest." With the development of human society, the angles, saxons, and jutes, gradually formed unified English nation also blended in their use of dialect, there is a new language: Anglo - Saxon this is Old English. 公元449年,居住在西北欧的三个日耳曼部族开始侵犯不列颠。他们是盎格鲁(Angles)、撒克逊(Saxons)和朱特人(Jutes)。经过一个半世纪之久,到了公元六世纪末,大不列颠岛基本被征服。这就是英国历史上发生的“日耳曼人征服”。随着人类社会的发展,盎格鲁、撒克逊和朱特人逐渐形成统一的英吉利民族,他们各自使用的方言也逐渐融合,出现了一种新的语言:盎格鲁—撒克逊语(Anglo—Saxon)这就是古代英语。 Modern English Today, more people speak English as their first, second or foreign language than ever before.But English speakers maybe could’t understand all kinds of English because English had changed more than before. And from about 1150 to 1500 English had changed to became more similar to the language we are speaking now.It called Early Modern English Peroid. In 16 century,one big change in English usage happened. Noah Webster wrote the first American dictionary of the English Language, giving American English an own identity. And then, diffrerent kinds of cultures made this language in diffrerent types, just like Australian and Indian, they made their own identity about English. And during abou 1700 from now——which is called Late Modern English Peroid,English became a globalize language. [发自WindowsPhone客户端-百度贴吧]