英文 means English language, not English culture. This meaning of 文 as language is attested to in plenty of ancient Chinese sources. 文 and 語 are often interchange

英文 means English language, not English culture. This meaning of 文 as language is attested to in plenty of ancient Chinese sources. 文 and 語 are often interchangeable. There are sometimes circumstances where 文 has connotations of writing and 語 has connotations of referring to the language holistically, but it's not a hard and fast rule. For example 你能說英語嗎？and 你能說英文嗎？are both idiomatic and both mean "Can you speak English?" 文化 (culture) is using a different meaning of 文 where it means cultured or refined (see e.g. 文雅 "elegant"). The rules for when you are allowed to use 文 and 語 are slightly irregular. Notably the term 漢語 (the Han language, a synonym for Chinese although even more all-encompassing, e.g. encompassing its many forms through several thousand years) exists, but 漢文 does not, at least not as a modern, common term. It sounds very old-fashioned. Likewise 粵語 (the Yue language) exists. 粵文 does not, at least in the same sense (again sounds very old-fashioned/archaic or sounds like it's referring specifically to the written language). However, for smaller "scopes" of languages, e.g. dialects, neither 語 nor 文 can be used. It is 廣東話 (Cantonese) not 廣東語 nor is it 廣東文. There are many terms in Chinese that have no direct translation into English. There's however a rather glaring pair of words in English that have no direct translation into Chinese. "Yes" and "no" have no direct corresponding words in Chinese. The closest Chinese equivalents of words expressing affirmation or negation such as "是" and "非" cannot be used universally. 你吃過飯嗎? "Have you eaten?" cannot be responded to with "是" or "非" (at least in modern Mandarin, 非 has a more universal sense in Classical Chinese). Responding affirmatively requires repeating the verb "吃了," literally "eaten." While responding negatively doesn't require the verb ("沒有") 沒 cannot be used universally either. 沒有 is not a valid response to 你要去嗎? ("Do you want to go?"). This is true of many languages, e.g. Latin.