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I still know rudimentary French despite not really using it since 9th grade.
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Not enough for a full conversation though.
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@normandy I'm trying to learn more french texts now that I'm in class, although I find it easier if I approach the language from Spanish rather than English.
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@hfaust Both Spanish and French are romance languages, so they would be more similar to each other compared to English, which is a Germanic language.
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@normandy English is more like a mix of German, Latin, French, and Saxon, a little bit of Dutch.
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@hfaust Wait, there is Dutch inspired words in English ?
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@hfaust @critialcloudkicker Oh wow, didn't really know this. Many seem to be farily recently introduced to English too.
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@critialcloudkicker @hfaust WOO TIME FOR LEARNING
Old English is closely related to the Germanic languages Frisian and Dutch. The Angles moved into England (Angle land, land of the Anglos) shortly after the Romans had abandoned it. Over the course of the years they were relatively isolated except for the occasional viking invasion which left an imprint on the native English. The first introduction of a Latin language into the common household was after the Norman invasions (Normans being vikings the French had paid to protect France from other vikings centuries prior) during the 100 years war. The French nobility would speak solely in French and this caused English to adopt some Latin words like pork and beef. After the French were kicked out they were once again isolated except for Latin and Greek which were used in religious and scientific matters. English evolved afterwards with little contribution from other languages (modifying existing words) except for the occasional loanword from it's colonies. -
@dokidoki @critialcloudkicker There's also the divergence between US English grammar and UK English grammar thanks to Noah Webster.
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@hfaust @critialcloudkicker This happened in most of the colonies, with poor Canuckistan using both American and British English. There is also the subsets of these with the local dialects, Ebonics unfortunately being considered one.
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