27.01.2011, 16:17
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
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