1. The English language is native for almost 400 million people, and it’s the second language for more than 1 billion. Nevertheless, English is the third-widespread language in the world after Chinese and Spanish.

2. The oldest words of English are about 14000 years, for example, such words as ”apple”, “bad”, “gold”.

3. Lexical composition of English is the biggest in the world, it includes about 800000 words. The lexical reserve of the most part of speakers compiles from 12 to 20 thousand words. Lexical composition – словарный состав Lexical reserve – словарный запас

4. In English the names of all continents start and finish with the same letter.

5. According to Oxford English Dictionary, the longest word in English is (45 letters), the name of the lung disease. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

6. There are no words in English which rhyme with the words “month”, “orange”, “silver” and “purple”.

7. The most exploitable letter of the English alphabet is “E”, the less – “Q”.

8. While you are listening to me, 700 million people around the world are learning English.