I find the history of the English language fascinating. It's always funny when you hear a foreign speaker use an English word, except it's not, it's from their own language and was incorporated into English hundreds of years ago. I've heard it called a living language and it seems an appropriate description.

Sometimes English can seem so complex, but in other ways it's so simple. When a foreigner is not fluent with the language they can often still make themselves understood, because English is so flexible. Word order can often be swapped around and still make sense. I can see, in many ways, why it became the go to language for communicating internationally and I don't think it's purely because of the British Empire. Every country that speaks it as their main language uses some different words as each has evolved separate to British English.