English is a language that the inhabitants of England historically used. The United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and more than fifty more nations use English as their primary language today. (Interestingly, even though it had long been the official language of many US states, English was not the country's official language until 2017).

Over 400 million people speak English as a first language globally, and over 1 billion more speak it as a second language. When counting both native speakers and non-native speakers, English is likely the language with the third-highest number of native speakers worldwide (after Mandarin and Spanish). Sign up for our online English classes today.