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I had the same reaction too. After googling it to make sure, english was a germanic language like I always knew. Then I'm like, English might as well be romance

I had the same reaction too. After googling it to make sure, english was a germanic language like I always knew. Then I'm like, English might as well be romance because it's riddled with french words.

weinzierl 10y ago
It's not (just) the vocabulary. Besides a the history it's primarily the inflection system that Romance languages have in common. Compare for example English with Spanish, Italian and Portuguese: en es it pt I go voy vado vou He/She goes va va vai We go vamos andiamo vamos They go van vanno vao While the Romance Languages are very similar, English is completely different.