What matters in life is not where you stand, but the direction you are heading.

English is a West Germanic language first spoken in early medieval England that eventually became the dominant language of international discourse in the 21st century. It was named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples who later immigrated to the area of ??Great Britain, after whom England was later named. Both names originate from the Baltic peninsula of Anglia. English is most related to Frisian and Lower Saxon, but its vocabulary has been heavily influenced by other Germanic languages, especially Norse (North Norse), as well as Latin and French.