> and they do seem very similar to me. Maybe on a superficial level, as a lot of the English vocabulary is taken from (older) French, but once for you example

> and they do seem very similar to me. Maybe on a superficial level, as a lot of the English vocabulary is taken from (older) French, but once for you example read D.H. Lawrence and Proust in original (two great writers both of them) you'll be able to see and most especially feel ("feel" as in not "scientifically" provable) that the two languages are indeed very different. The same goes for French and Spanish or French and Italian, even though all three of them are Romance languages once you go down to the specifics things are starting to look and fell more and more different. I know that this being a programming-oriented website everything out-there is seen as either data or information, and as such languages are just seen as ways of forwarding or communication that data/information, but in the real world languages have a lot deeper meaning than that.