Can anyone confirm this..
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English is originated from German. It means english is created from using German's features in grammar.
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Highly doubt so.
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absolutely. now we just have to find out what German originated from.Originally posted by Sky2D2:English is originated from German. It means english is created from using German's features in grammar.
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I thought English came from Latin
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let's try to find out. I have these examples:Originally posted by aRcTiC_sTaR:Highly doubt so.
English German
I have Ich Habe
I have eaten Ich habe geessen.(pls check the spelling)
All the tenses and prepositions are the same in these two. Who is copying who??
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you're not making it easierOriginally posted by Sky2D2:let's try to find out. I have these examples:
English German
I have Ich Habe
I have eaten Ich habe geessen.(pls check the spelling)
All the tenses and prepositions are the same in these two. Who is copying who??
Please help -
who care
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by replying, showed that you did careOriginally posted by amicute:who care -
English is a West Germanic language that is spoken in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and many other countries. English is now the third-most spoken native language worldwide (after Chinese and Hindi), with some 380 million speakers. It has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries and that of the United States from the 20th century to the present. Through the global influence of native English speakers in cinema, airlines, broadcasting, science, and the Internet in recent decades, English is now the most widely learned second language in the world. Many students worldwide are required to learn some English, and a working knowledge of English is required in many fields and occupations.
one day i bolaio go search english on wikipedia
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amazing.
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ok wowOriginally posted by dragg:amazing. -
Originally posted by RaTtY81:English is a West Germanic language that is spoken in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and many other countries. English is now the third-most spoken native language worldwide (after Chinese and Hindi), with some 380 million speakers. It has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries and that of the United States from the 20th century to the present. Through the global influence of native English speakers in cinema, airlines, broadcasting, science, and the Internet in recent decades, English is now the most widely learned second language in the world. Many students worldwide are required to learn some English, and a working knowledge of English is required in many fields and occupations.
one day i bolaio go search english on wikipedia
hindi ,indian?chinese ,indian more than english .but useless .i hope chinese will become real no1 language. -
Originally posted by amicute:
go to bed
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hindi ,indian?chinese ,indian more than english .but useless .i hope chinese will become real no1 language.[/b] -
english originated from damn bloody hell alot of languages and slang.
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may origin from sgOriginally posted by Linkage:english originated from damn bloody hell alot of languages and slang. -
for example, english also has french ("quay", "champagne") and russian ("proletariat", "tsar") influence. not just german.
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partially true.Originally posted by Sky2D2:English is originated from German. It means english is created from using German's features in grammar.
True or false?
as posted earlier it has west germanic roots gthrough european settlers, but was changed through the invasion and conquest by the normans, bringing french language with them.
mixing this with th anglo-saxon [germanic] settlers gave a friesien influence [what you now find in belgium], which diluted the germanic language - with further influence of latin by scholars - meant that while the germanic influence is there, the gender-based grammar of that language was not part of what became the english language.
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Some learners come to German with preconceptions about its being 'remote' or even 'exotic', which means that they are expecting German to be like French or Spanish, for example. However, for native English speakers Germanis far from remote: English and German are historically very closely related. Where these historical links still shine through today they will always help you remember many German words, their forms and/ or their meanings.
Everyday German words such as machen (make), danken (thank) etc are more closely related to English and therefore more easily remembered than are their French equivalents. The reason for strong similarities between English and German is that, unlike Romance (Latin-based) languages (such as French, Italian, Spanish), English, German, Dutch and the Scandinavian languages have their origins in what has been called 'Common Germanic'.
Different dialects of 'Common Germanic' developed as Germanic tribes on the European continent migrated. One distinct group of dialects emerged in Scandinavia, and another, a 'West Germanic'group, in central/ western Europe.
West Germanic eventually sub-divided into 'High' and 'Low' varities. 'Low' describes those that developed in the continental lowlands towards the North Sea, such as Dutch and Anglo-Saxon (the forerunnerof modern English); 'High' describes those varities that were and are spoken at higher altitudes, i.e further inland towards the Alps. 'Standard' German belongs to this 'High' group and is indeed often called Hochdeutsch ('high' German).
After the Norman invasion of England in 1066, a large number of French words were absorbed into English, which nevertheless still remained essentially a Germanic language. manu longer English words such as 'characteristic', 'particular', 'invasion', 'influence', and even
'language' tend to be of French/ Latin origin, whereas most shorter, more everyday words - e.g 'speak' (sprechen), 'over' (uber) and (und) 'unter'(under) - are germanic in origin and therefore frequently have, as indicated, look-alikes in modern German. However, longer German words formed with shorter words (e.g unteroffizier) are translated otherwise as
'under - officer'...it simply means 'non-commisioned officer'.
Much more recently, German has imported a large number or words from English, which of course is also helpful to the English speaking learner.
- extracted from "COLLOQUIAL GERMAN, THE COMPLETE COURSE FOR BEGINNERS". (revised edition) -
Originally posted by amicute:
I thought you persuaded us not to learn Chinese?
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hindi ,indian?chinese ,indian more than english .but useless .i hope chinese will become real no1 language.[/b] -
Originally posted by yourma:by replying, showed that you did care
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hmm...
hu cares where its frm..har?
as long as we noe the language,its enuff.