What’s more, many familiar English words, from angst to kindergarten to schadenfreude, are borrowed directly from German.
Historically, the two languages are closely related in core vocabulary (compare English arm and German der Arm), sound system, and structure (if we look at Old English grammar). But, it’s easy to forget that English is a Germanic language. German can indeed be daunting to English speakers, with its mile-long mouthfuls like Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaft (“a legal protection insurance company”). OL249409W Page_number_confidence 98.33 Pages 1440 Pdf_module_version 0.0.As Mark Twain famously wrote in a hilarious 1880 essay about his struggle to learn German: “A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is.” Urn:oclc:record:665156807 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier newgreekenglishl00donnuoft Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4cn7100x Lcamid 319917 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang el Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9911 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng+grc Openlibrary_edition
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