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Funky, English is a Germanic language. Half of the words in English sentences are rooted in German or are otherwise related... I Ich real real is ist that d
by lispm 11y ago
Funky, English is a Germanic language. Half of the words in English sentences are rooted in German or are otherwise related...
I Ich
real real
is ist
that das
hard hart -> schwer
learned -> gelernt
in in
the den
and und
student Student
university Universität
has hat
had hatte
years jahre
lessions lektion
- notahacker 11y agosure, but the Anglo Saxon words sharing common roots with German have diverged at lot once you get beyond phrases as simple as "mein Name ist". It's not just a reflection on the English education system that after 5 years of high school German (and an A grade!) I could often grok more from a text written in a Romance language I hadn't learned than written German. On the plus side, German has no sounds English speakers should find difficult to pronounce, nicely regular word order and a fondness for compound words which are as simple to remember as they are long, but by the standards of European language groups the vocabulary really isn't that similar.
- nationcrafting 11y agoIndeed (in der Tat), it's a remarkably easy language to learn for Anglo-saxons. Many words are even spelt the same way. Lamp lamp Light licht Arm arm Hand hand Finger finger Often words that are spelt weirdly in english (compared to how they're pronounced) make sense when you know the way they're pronounced in German e.g. eight (acht). The only real complications are to do with declensions (nominative, accusative, genitive, etc.), subject-verb-object syntax, and composed words. But any programmer who can work in different programming languages will find those rather easy to learn.
- panzi 11y agoAnd in Austrian dialect: I I learn learn English Englisch