Unlike the Angara Group, the group I am working for now is a fairly formal company. The management is almost always a graduate of a prestigious university or simply a returnee.

For the first time in my life, I felt the frequency of a real domestic workplace elite. I admire their talent and ambition, and their fighting spirit makes me even more ashamed.

In order to learn from everyone, I gradually found that their values made me very confused and incomprehensible.

Could it be that I have been in Russia for too long and the ideology at home has been detached? Or am I inherently different? I think that now even my three views are outdated, let alone my own taste pursuit.

It turned out that he was a hillbilly with a foreign face, and he rarely shared a language with these elites.

In addition to work, everyone is more concerned about three things: stock trading, real estate speculation, and immigration. These are beyond my ability and cognition.

Unlike the managers of "Angara", none of us have a bachelor's degree here, not only are they fluent in English, but also use their mastery of English as the criterion for their knowledge and insight. Naturally, we don't need any translation department here.

At first, I met my colleagues who greeted me with "Hello! I replied, "Hello." I thought it was because my appearance caused confusion to others that people talked to me like this, but later, I realized that this was just the most normal way of communication between colleagues, but my answer made everyone misunderstand, and I was emphasizing that I was proficient in Chinese.

Hehe...... There are really few people who can empathize with me!

What struck me even more was that there was a lot of English in the group's internal meetings. I even wonder if the speaker is no longer able to express himself clearly in Chinese. This is something I have never encountered in a Russian company.

I remembered Andrei laughing and saying, I must not learn to speak an American accent when I go to the United States, that is only suitable for speaking in the United States! I'm in China now, but I have to hear English in all kinds of tones every day.

It may be understandable that I learned Russian because of my special ancestry, but I am baffled by my colleagues' obsession with English: I like to listen to European and American songs and follow the original American dramas, which is the common taste of everyone.

Not only do you keep improving your English, but you also have a perverted level of English education for your children: you can ask for an English tutor if you can speak, you must choose a bilingual kindergarten, and an international school that uses the original English textbooks......

Even if I was born in a language, I admired the five bodies of the earth.

What does English mean? I closed the Oxford Dictionary in my hand. Lost in thought.

For English, we all know its importance. English is the most widely spoken language and, as a foreign language, is an international, official language of communication. English is the most widely spoken language in the world and is an important tool for international communication.

It is said that more than 70% of the world's mail is written in English; 60% of the world's radio programs are conducted in English; The vast majority of the world's scientific and technical information is published in English; The vast majority of international conferences use English as the first lingua franca; English is one of the official working languages of the United Nations.

However, it has only been nearly 200 years since English has become so widespread in the world. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the first technology in modern times took place, and Britain was the first in the world to realize the transformation from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy. As a result, the country's strength increased greatly, and colonialism was vigorously pursued abroad.

As a result, English began to become the official language of many colonies and became the mother tongue.

This, coupled with the rise of the United States, has boosted the development of the English language.

The United States became the hegemon of the world in the 20th century and had a great influence on the world pattern, so the United States, which speaks English as its mother tongue, naturally pushed the influence of English to a higher level.

The globalization of information and economy has also promoted the influence of English, the common language of the international Internet is English, more than 95% of Internet information is provided in English, and the development of informatization has consolidated the status of English as the world's first language.

English is also the dominant language in aviation, finance, and technology. That's why English has such a status.

Many people are accustomed to referring to A-Z as the "English alphabet", in fact, it should be called the "Latin alphabet" or "Roman alphabet". This is because the 26 letters of English A-Z are taken from the Latin alphabet of Latin.

Historically, English seems to have just been more popular these days.

English is derived from the Anglo-Saxon language, which is cognate with Latin. Anglo-Saxon had earlier borrowed some words from Latin.

In the 7th century, more Latin words were absorbed, largely due to the writings of St. Augustine of Canterbury (not St. Augustine of Hippo), who had been sent by Pope Gregory to convert the Anglos to Christianity.

After William the Conqueror ruled England in 1066, Norman French became the upper language, and Anglo-Saxon was seen as an inferior language spoken by the defeated and serfs.

Anglo-Saxon is no longer a literary language, but a vernacular of everyday life.

However, after another two centuries or so, the Anglo-Saxon language was reaffirmed as the descendants of the Normans finally merged with the local British.

But because of its own poverty, it had to borrow hundreds of French words literally, intellectually and culturally before it became a literary language.

In the 13th and 14th centuries, as this borrowing increased, Middle English slowly developed, and its representative was Geoffrey, who died in 1400. Chaucer. In addition to these French words with Latin roots that were absorbed, there were also words borrowed directly from Latin.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Renaissance rekindled interest in classical works, thus reinforcing this process.

Since then, Latin has been the source of many new words, especially scientific vocabulary.

Now let's talk about Latin!

Latin is a classical Western language that has died out as an everyday colloquial language. Today, it is generally used only as a documentary language for research, or borrowed from other languages to use some words, so the so-called Latin pronunciation actually refers to the Latin pronunciation, that is, the pronunciation of people today when they are recited according to written Latin materials.

The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the alphabet system used in Western European languages, including English, and is the most common alphabet in the world.

Due to the influence of early European colonialism and Western culture, some languages that use other scripts, such as Vietnamese and Turkish, have also switched to the Latin alphabet.

Many languages that did not previously have their own scripts, such as Malay, Indonesian, and many indigenous languages, also use the Latin alphabet to record their language.

In the Middle Ages, Latin was the medium of international communication and the language of science, philosophy, and theology.

Until modern times, proficiency in Latin was an indispensable prerequisite for any liberal arts education; It was only in this century that the study of Latin declined,

Historically, when the Roman Empire was at its peak, its tentacles reached many people and many places, and Latin became the lingua franca for a time, and it has influenced many fields such as botany and medicine to this day, and Latin is still often seen in many fields such as botany and medicine.

After the European Renaissance, the languages of the peoples replaced Latin, but Latin still had its place in the academic field. The modern Catholic Church continued to use Latin as its first official language, and Latin was used in church ceremonies until 1963.

Ancient Latin culture was a direct inheritance of Greek culture. Originally the language of the Latin tribes on the west coast of the central Italian peninsula, and the Oscops? The Umbuli language belongs to the ancient Indo-European language family of Italian Croats.

As a result of the strength of Rome, the Romans' Latin gradually gained an advantage among the coexisting dialects.

It became the official language of the Roman Republic at the beginning of the 5th century BC. During the heyday of the Roman Empire, as the military and political power of the Romans expanded, Latin as an administrative language spread to the islands of the Western Mediterranean, the Iberian Peninsula, and Gaul (present-day France), and to Dazia (present-day Romania) in the Danube Valley, where it became the language spoken in the core of the empire at that time.

Latin is the official language of the Church, and the Latin translation of the Bible in the 4th century is the most authoritative textbook, so in the 5th ~ 15th century, Latin is the religious, cultural and administrative language under the rule of the Church, and it is also the language of communication between the peoples of Western Europe, called Middle Latin.

At the same time, there is a growing difference between written Latin and folk popular Latin. Since Middle Latin had somewhat detached itself from classical Latin, it was not standardized and pure in the eyes of Renaissance Latin writers. The Latin of the latter, modeled after the classical Latin writers, is called Neo-Latin.

Latin lacked the diversity and flexibility of Greek to a certain extent, which may have reflected the practical national character of the Romans.

The Romans were more concerned with the development and expansion of government and empire than with the diversity and flexibility of literary creation, and less interested in speculative and poetic imagination.

But even in this case, in the writings of many of the masters of the classical period, Latin is still the language of literature and poetry comparable to any other rich language in the world.

English and Latin belong to the same language family (Indo-European) and different languages (English belongs to the Germanic language family, while Latin belongs to the Italian language family) and are therefore grammatically different.

Modern English writers tried to apply Latin grammar to English, such as imposing rules prohibiting the use of adverbs between to and verbs, but they were not successfully applied to everyday language. Despite this, more than half of the English vocabulary is derived from Latin. In addition, some Latin languages evolved from Greek, and the adoption of such a large number of foreign languages in English did enrich the otherwise monotonous English vocabulary.