sc94597 on 21 October 2009
| SimonSaysFYou said: Spanish is solely latin based though. English isn't |
And? English got a lot of latin words and grammar from french. Before that English was predominately Germanic. Germanic and Latin have a common root about 6,000 years ago. Japanese and it's closest living reletive 40,000 years ago. It is actually easier for English speakers to learn French and Spanish due to how "latinized" english is compared to other germanic languages than it is to learn High German, Scandinavian languages, or any non low german languages(Dutch and Frisian are old english' closest ancestors.) To be honest, it is kind of a stretch to even call english germanic anymore.
