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English-German language relationship - Bearkiller72 - 12.11.2010

Just found this while looking for something different - oh, the strange places "googling" sometimes takes you to...:

http://german.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/alreadyknow.htm

Well, well, well, blimey! :wink:

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Re: English-German language relationship - Jambo - 27.01.2011

Very nice and interesting find. 8)
Danke schön hem, Thank you!

Somehow I always knew we had something in common:
- to drink a huge amount of alcohol and then to act and talk in a very strange way..... :mrgreen:
- or sunbathing the whole day, at the first day on holiday at the beaches in Spain and getting red like a lobster! :mrgreen:

Jambo :wink:

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Re: English-German language relationship - Fireskull - 27.01.2011

Thanks, BearKiller

At little fact that I learned in High School German class is that the 100 most commonly used words in the English language are the same as the 100 most common ones in German. Those words all have the exact same root word of ancient times.

Example is the word [in] which is spelled the same and nearly pronounced the same in both languages. Actually, there are hundreds of words which are pronounced almost the same way in English and German.

In the United States of America when the first Continental Congress was adjourned to decide the official language of America, the German language lost by only 1 vote in the congress.

German and English are sort of like cousins among languages. Perhaps it would be more like grandparent and grandchild, since English actually is a decendant of Old German.

Very cool!



Fireskull

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