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How similar are the germanic languages?
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How similar are the germanic languages?
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>>61259409
Hard to understand when spoken, but you can read quite a bit. Especially nouns tend to be quite similar.
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Like poortugish and french
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>>61259517
>american flag
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>>61259517
kankerhond
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>>61259409
we all think others are just speaking our languages with weird accents at first, but we quickly realize we have no clue what they're saying
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>>61259409
cute cat
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>>61260256
Cute accent
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>>61261139

Why does Dutch look like a retarded version of German
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>>61261139
English has its roots in the Germanic family. It just has a lot of Latin and French vocabulary.
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