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The base language of the English language is Anglo-Saxon and that is a kind of old-fashioned (Low) German.
Anglo-Saxon → Old English → Modern English
as a german native I really like this "tricks" maybe it may help reading german? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebSZrHmsI4 really good video
Dutch similarly creates compound words by sticking smaller words together. There is a tendency to simplify these long words by adding spaces between the subwords. Doing that is known as "the English disease" 😏 It's better to improve the recognisability of long words by adding hyphens in a couple of places imo.
Scandinavian is the same.
Compound words exist in English too. It is just not very concise.
Butterfly – Fruit fly
Bedroom – Living room
Snowball – Snow plough
etc.
etc.
It's quite amusing for me, being Dutch but being more-or-less fluent in German…….. she's lucky she didn't choose Dutch as a language. Dutch is quite similar to German but with a much more guttural pronunciation; even Germans find it challenging.
It's not "hyen", but "chen". Soft ch and hard ch are so called fricatives that don't exist in the english language. The Soft ch ist produced by pressing the tip of your tongue on your palate. It has to sound like a broken steampipe. But not like "shhh", that's a different sound – in German it is written as "sch". This one is produced with the front of your mouth, with sort of like a kissing motion. The ch in contrast doesn't require a duck face, the front of the mouth doesn't move.
The hard ch is a throat sound that is produced by flapping your vocal cords, a bit similar to the rolling r. I know this sounds strange, but you kinda have to practice these sounds, there is no other way of learning them. We grow up with them, so it is no problem for us but foreigners often just physically can't produce them.
The umlauts (ä, ö, ü) were originally combined vowels, so you can also write them as ae, oe and ue. Foreigners often have problems hearing and speaking them, sort of like it is hard for Germans to get the difference in pronounciation between woman and women. It's obvious for you, but not so much for us. You also have to practice the umlauts in order to be able to speak them, there is no other way. But don't just use normal the a, o or u, they sound as wrong as it sounds to you when Germans pronounced th as t.
Here is a video that explains the umlaute:
https://youtu.be/IMYU0eNOADE
Slavic languages are the opposite. Those tend to describe. For example "Streichholzschachtel" the match box in english would be "pudełko do zapałek" in Polish. Literally meaning "box for matches". You find the style in sentences, literature and even song is composed, too. English in comparison lays between, because it does lack the precison of German it tends to describe, but also it tends to shorten everything it can down.
Latin is the classic root of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. There is also a lot of Latin in German and French and a huge number of English words in daily use have Latin roots.
I did four years of Latin and I have found it to be an immense help throughout my life when trying to determine the meanings of so many words.
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