diff --git a/django/utils/translation.py b/django/utils/translation.py
index 0737d9a0cd..6362a5923e 100644
--- a/django/utils/translation.py
+++ b/django/utils/translation.py
@@ -114,9 +114,6 @@ def translation(language):
     """
     global _translations
 
-    if language == 'en' or language.startswith('en-'):
-        return gettext_module.NullTranslations()
-
     t = _translations.get(language, None)
     if t is not None:
         return t
@@ -290,8 +287,6 @@ def get_language_from_request(request):
     if request.GET or request.POST:
         lang_code = request.GET.get('django_language', None) or request.POST.get('django_language', None)
         if lang_code is not None:
-            if lang_code == 'en' or lang_code.startswith('en-'):
-                return lang_code
             lang = gettext_module.find('django', globalpath, [to_locale(lang_code)])
             if lang is not None:
                 if hasattr(request, 'session'):
@@ -303,16 +298,12 @@ def get_language_from_request(request):
     if hasattr(request, 'session'):
         lang_code = request.session.get('django_language', None)
         if lang_code is not None:
-            if lang_code == 'en' or lang_code.startswith('en-'):
-                return lang_code
             lang = gettext_module.find('django', globalpath, [to_locale(lang_code)])
             if lang is not None:
                 return lang_code
     
     lang_code = request.COOKIES.get('django_language', None)
     if lang_code is not None:
-        if lang_code == 'en' or lang_code.startswith('en-'):
-            return lang_code
         lang = gettext_module.find('django', globalpath, [to_locale(lang_code)])
         if lang is not None:
             return lang_code
@@ -341,23 +332,15 @@ def get_language_from_request(request):
         langs.sort(lambda a,b: -1*cmp(a[1], b[1]))
 
         for lang, order in langs:
-            if lang == 'en' or lang.startswith('en-'):
-                # special casing for language en and derivates, because we don't
-                # have an english language file available, but just fallback
-                # to NullTranslation on those languages (as the source itself
-                # is in english)
+            langfile = gettext_module.find('django', globalpath, [to_locale(lang)])
+            if langfile:
+                # reconstruct the actual language from the language
+                # filename, because otherwise we might incorrectly
+                # report de_DE if we only have de available, but
+                # did find de_DE because of language normalization
+                lang = langfile[len(globalpath):].split('/')[1]
                 _accepted[accept] = lang
                 return lang
-            else:
-                langfile = gettext_module.find('django', globalpath, [to_locale(lang)])
-                if langfile:
-                    # reconstruct the actual language from the language
-                    # filename, because otherwise we might incorrectly
-                    # report de_DE if we only have de available, but
-                    # did find de_DE because of language normalization
-                    lang = langfile[len(globalpath):].split('/')[1]
-                    _accepted[accept] = lang
-                    return lang
     
     return settings.LANGUAGE_CODE