Curious. My personal experience is that as an English speaker the Romance languages seem much closer than German does. But the article places English in the Ger

Curious. My personal experience is that as an English speaker the Romance languages seem much closer than German does. But the article places English in the Germanic cluster with a distance of 49 to German vs 56 to French. Yet for most English speakers I would guess that they find it easier to make some sense out of reading French than German. Beautiful visualization and interesting data set.