2006-12-14 06:54:13 · 14 answers · asked by karkondrite 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
jessi I don't think German is Latin-based. It has a lot of Latin vocabulary, but it is not Latin based.
2006-12-14 07:06:41 · update #1
DUTCH IS THE CLOSEST-RELATED LANGUAGE TO GERMAN.
2006-12-14 07:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by tearaway_weft 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some form of Dutch, that is spoken in Belgium, or Latin (because German is a Latin based language.)
2006-12-14 07:03:55 · answer #2 · answered by jessi.swimchick 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For an English speaker, German is the least complicated language to verify. they're sister languages, and something like 25-35% of the words in English and German are the two an analogous or comparable. you will even have an greater handy time discovering the grammar of German, seeing it incredibly is equivalent to previous English.
2016-10-05 07:46:21 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dutch by far. Dutch is extremely similar to German and both share several words. Dutch is also the closest language to English, and I realized that it is very easy for me to learn Dutch because of the relations it has between German AND English. You should try Rosetta Stone and you won't believe how similar Dutch is to German.
Examples:
Vrouw = Frau (Almost pronounced the same)
Huis = Haus (pronounced the same)
2006-12-14 07:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by Devin O 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would be NEDERLANDS. The language spoken in the Nederlands (Holland) and the northern half of Belgium. Nederlands is also a germanic language. English and Danish are the other two languages on the same branch of the "tree".
Sometimes Nederlands is called "Dutch" by English speakers.
Sometimes it is called "Flemish", but this is only Nederlands with a different accent, they are the same when written. (similar to British and American English).
I have some German friends, but I don't speak German.. I speak English with the husband and NL with his wife. She replies in Nederlands. Jokes are made in NL and we all laugh.
2006-12-14 06:59:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Dutch language
2006-12-14 07:00:19 · answer #6 · answered by Knackers 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Must be Dutch! When I was in Holland with my friends who were native German speakers, I witnessed that they could communicate with Dutchs without knowing Dutch! I mean my German friends were asking something in German and the Dutch were answering in Dutch!
2006-12-14 07:23:40 · answer #7 · answered by Earthling 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It must be Dutch or Nederlands. Just a few examples of how similar those two languages are:
English: What is that? in German is Was ist das? Dutch: Wat is dat?
And there are many more, but I think you can see very clearly what I mean. Plus that gutteral sounds are similar in German and in Dutch, which will be difficult and choking (or shocking?) to people of other nationalities, and think you are about to spit on his face.
2006-12-14 07:27:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on what age you talk about. kids from 2-6 years understand nearly every other language (don't know why, but somehow they always manage to talk to other kids in their age when we're on holiday), from 6-13 they understand netherlands because that's nearly similar to german and later i think it's english because english is what we all learn at school. and people older than 70 understand french best...
2006-12-14 23:21:34 · answer #9 · answered by tine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ig-pay Atin-lay.
2006-12-14 06:58:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋