Closest Foreign Language To English? - Comments

Huh...I thought it was German also, and I'm pretty sure it is.
I think I learned somewhere that English is derived from this language and out of the other Romance languages, the sound and speech comes closest.

For example:

Guten Morgen: Good Morning

Sohn: Son
Bruder: Brother
Onkel: Uncle

Mein/Meine: Mine (masculine/feminine forms)

Braun: Brown
Weiß: White

Uh, sorry about the odd selection of cognates...It has been a while since I last took German. XD

I heard that Spanish was the closet thing?

A lot of languages have Latin roots. Like... really. It's redonkulous how much you can understand by staring at random Latin words. Dx

I think French is a decent closeness to English.. except for the insaneness of all the rules and exceptions. I live in a French city but I'm English. There are a lot of similarities.

French is actually pretty similar to Spanish which can be similar to English with certain words.

Alot of our words come from Latin roots though so I figure Latin perhaps?

That got me thinking, so I went to google and looked it up. XD Found on wikipedia that Low German is the one that most resembles modern English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages#Middle_Ages

I'm not sure what it was, but the reason you can hear English words in German speech is because a lot of languages in the western world have roots in the same languages, often Latin or sometimes Greek. Different parts of the world have languages with different roots; most Asian languages have the same roots, a lot of languages in the Middle East have the same roots, and a lot of languages in the western world--Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, English, etc--have primarily Latin roots.

I always thought it was French lol . At least that's what I've been told ... I've never really paid much attention in my French classes...::shrugs::