Breve confrontación do galego co inglés: achegas históricas e fonéticas

Abstract

English, which is recognised as the world´s most widely used, most important language and the international lingua franca, was subordinated to French across the Middle Ages, just the same as it happens in Galicia today between Galician and Spanish. In the same way its phonetic and phonological system shows great differences and also some similarities with our language. We consider that both, the phonetic and the historical aspect, could be developed and used in the classrooms so that the students would profit from that.