"I speak very good EEnglisssh. I leaarned it from a booook."

Here's the big month for doing schoolwork. Literature, literature and more literature.

Now is the time to DELVE into those books which -up to now- I have been neglecting to read.

My first major feat will be to answer the question: "What is English?"

This question is so ambiguous and so nebulous, but I have been given the simple guideline that it must match up to my own personality and what the prof knows of me.
"To thine own self be true" (Polonius, Hamlet) and all that nonsense.
Needless to say, (though I will say it for the sake of illustration) I am quite perplexed.
I am constantly occupied with the thought of this question.
So, I would ask, whoever does wish to make a remark to this, what is English to you?

It doesn't have to be anything especially philisophical. Just lend me some initial reactions. I already have my own, of course, but I am curious what everyone else thinks.
Here are some extra questions to give you extra stuff to think about.
What is English as an area of study? What does that study need? What does it do?
What is English as a language? How does it affect culture?
What is English as in literature? What are we to glean from reading?
What is your experience with English? How does reading, listening, or even speaking or writing affect you?

So there it is. I may post my own thoughts about it later (the questions I have asked may give you some idea where I am heading already).
Till next time,
I eat, I read, and read some more.