shared history sure but if it were about relations then it's English, German, and one of the other germanic languages. I learnt Latin in school third of the cl

shared history sure but if it were about relations then it's English, German, and one of the other germanic languages. I learnt Latin in school third of the class did, Bavaria, you know...) and funny enough it was a good help to improve my English. On usage, unlike 25 years ago when I would have needed more English, we can have access to radio and tv streams from around the world. Sitting in Helsinki and wanting to learn Portogese via Brazialian telenovelas? No problemo!