English borrowed vocabulary mostly from Norman French, and from Latin. Very little from Celtic. But its grammar, word formation and syntax are doggedly Germanic.
English is not an especially good place to start from to learn German. Danes, Germans and English speakers can't understand each other the way Italian and Spanish speakers can. But if you know a little German, languages like Dutch, Norwegian and English seem more like a family with German than not.
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Date: 2022-03-01 04:44 am (UTC)English is not an especially good place to start from to learn German. Danes, Germans and English speakers can't understand each other the way Italian and Spanish speakers can. But if you know a little German, languages like Dutch, Norwegian and English seem more like a family with German than not.