{"id":10660,"date":"2023-04-13T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2023-04-18T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T09:32:56","slug":"english-is-a-smorgasbord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/english-is-a-smorgasbord\/","title":{"rendered":"English is a smorgasbord!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>It is currently a popular idea that national identity, <strong>Englishness<\/strong> for example, is a fixed and eternal quality. History teaches us otherwise, and in no area more so than in that of <strong>language<\/strong>. If you put an &#8216;Englishman&#8217; from 1000 years ago in a room with another from 500 years ago and another from today <strong>they would not be able to understand each other<\/strong>, at least not through speech. A huge part of that linguistic evolution comes from the <strong>influence of other languages and peoples<\/strong> &#8211; see <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/acutrans.com\/the-history-of-the-english-language\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for a quick summary &#8211; so we would like to celebrate the <strong>smorgasbord (Swedish buffet!) that the English language is today<\/strong> by looking at a few common words which are borrowed from other languages. <strong>Click on the picture to find out more!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Ed Taylor (Head of Studies at King&#8217;s Training)<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/quizzes\/is-english-really-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10662 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Diseno-sin-titulo-17-e1681396197844-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Diseno-sin-titulo-17-e1681396197844-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Diseno-sin-titulo-17-e1681396197844-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Diseno-sin-titulo-17-e1681396197844-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Diseno-sin-titulo-17-e1681396197844-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Diseno-sin-titulo-17-e1681396197844-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Diseno-sin-titulo-17-e1681396197844-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Diseno-sin-titulo-17-e1681396197844.jpg 1622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is currently a popular idea that national identity, Englishness for example, is a fixed and eternal quality. History teaches us otherwise, and in no&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":10677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publica",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}