01-19-2007, 07:34 PM
In my area they are really pushing Spanish to the students,( this was not an American practice a few years ago-language isolationism)however, my son and his German transfer student friend say that English is much more complex than 'old time' linguistic experts use to say. For example, so many Spanish words are similar to English that it is easy for Spanish speakers to learn English. They say their is more similarity with Spanish in matching words than German, whatever that means.
To complicate matters his Friend says Latin is similar to German in the linguistic tree and sounds more Germanic than smooth sounding 'Romance 'languages.
History so complicated in the British Isles that English is the one true international language they claim.
I am not a linguistic expert but more on the genetic side and I will not even no where to begin to lecture on this, way too complicated. However, I am surprised to find that linguistic research is complicate too....seems on the surface a simple science- am wrong again I guess.
To complicate matters his Friend says Latin is similar to German in the linguistic tree and sounds more Germanic than smooth sounding 'Romance 'languages.
History so complicated in the British Isles that English is the one true international language they claim.
I am not a linguistic expert but more on the genetic side and I will not even no where to begin to lecture on this, way too complicated. However, I am surprised to find that linguistic research is complicate too....seems on the surface a simple science- am wrong again I guess.
Ralph Varsity
