// SUGGESTION 1

istringstream iss(line, istringstream::in);
int nWord = 0;
int i=0;
while( (nWord < 2000) && (iss >> word) )
{
    strncpy(temp_eng_word[nWord], word.c_str(), 49);
    temp_eng_word[nWord][49] = '\0'; // if it's not already zero-allocated
    ++nWord;
    cout <<temp_eng_word[nWord]<<endl; // Skips first word in line
}

// SUGGESTION 2
vector<string> words;
istringstream iss(line, istringstream::in);
while(iss >> word)
{
    words.push_back(word);
    cout << word <<endl;// PRINTS THE FIRST WORD IN EACH LINE
    copy(istream_iterator<string>(iss), istream_iterator<string>(), back_inserter(words));
}