OK JJ. Since you're the german master obviously you know if a german were to come to america and have no idea of the english language, and try to stop someone on the street and ask for something. He'd get nowhere, unless he found someone who speaks german.

Let's look at this example.

*German* Wo ist die schule ? bitte ?
*American* huh ?
*German* Kennen sie wo die schule ist ?
*American* Yea, ok... Bye.

Even in your examples, ich habe, ich bin.... they sound NOTHING Like the english "I have" "I am", and there is no way you would just understand them with no knowledge of german.

And, if a Russian were to have no knowledge of ukrainian, he could get by just fine in ukrain.

English. I love you
German. Ich liebe dich
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Russian Я люблю тебя
Ukrainian Я люблю тебе

Hmm which one is closer ? I just don't know.