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Sure. Here's another -- my grandmother spoke in Bristol dialect. Here's how she would say "he is in the pub" -- "he'd a bist down th'pub". Obvious German connection there too . . .

Short version -- the Norman conquest. That caused a bunch of Romance elements to enter the language and the funky inflections mostly went away. After the sixteenth century, the language sort of...

Dogboy:

Have a look at this for starters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English

The most famous text in Old English (aka Anglo-Saxon) is probably Beowulf. There is a recent bilingual...

This thread is probably already dead. I think we can conclude (1) that some languages are easier than others depending on your first language and target language and (2) no generalizations can be...

Cool. Good motivation to learn Russian to know that one might get some basic knowledge of other languages chucked in as freebies.

Of course, some gemanic languages ARE really similar . . Dutch is similar to German and Dutch and Flemmish are the same language (okay, maybe technically different dialects of the same langauge, but...

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I never studied German but don't you see the rooots "Bundes"(I guess it's kinda "federal"), "doppelt" (kinda "double"), so, menschen - men, Arbeitsmarktreformen - it's clear - "work market...

No question Arabic has high credentials given the rich tradition of philosophers, historians, mathematicians, etc. that have written in the language. But, there again, so do a bunch of languages --...

I am with Dogboy on this one. Linguistically speaking English has deviated quite significantly from German. Yes, it is in the germanic group that there is a huge influence of French and Latin in...