This is for entertainment value only. I disagree. The charts you linked to are quite interesting and go much deeper. They're also harder to parse, both visua

This is for entertainment value only. I disagree. The charts you linked to are quite interesting and go much deeper. They're also harder to parse, both visually and conceptually. But (for the unacquainted) the original chart tells you right away -- bang! -- how the main linguistic groups in Europe relate to each other, to a first-order approximation (give or take a few regrettable omissions). Keep in mind that many people are still very ignorant of even the basic overlaps between these families (like that English and German are actually quite close, for example). And this has a lot to with why they think that learning another language (as an adult) is much more difficult than it really is.