english continued to take new words from other languages, for example mainly from french (around 30% to 40% of its words), but also chinese, hindi, urdu, japanese, dutch, spanish, portuguese, etc. because scientists from different countries needed to talk to one another, they chose names for scientific things in the languages they all knew: greek and latin. those words came to english also, for example, "photography" ("photo-" means "light" and "-graph" means "picture" or "writing", in greek. a photograph is a picture made using light), or "telephone". so, english is made of old english, danish, norse, and french, and has been changed by latin, greek, chinese, hindi, japanese, dutch and spanish, along with some words from other languages.