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Old 06-02-2008, 11:04 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Martin wrote:

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:21:22 +0100, "JennyC" wrote:


"johannes" wrote
The Danes that I have worked with in Holland could guess Dutch to a
certain
extent and learnt it quickly.

The only reason for this is that the Danes learn foreign languages in
school
by necessity of being a small country; English, German, French at least.
Dutch is as far away from Danish as German. The Danish language belongs to
the Scandinavian family of languages.

The Dutch learn English, French and German at school too and are also pretty
quick at picking up other languages.....

Dutch and German are indeed similar and Danish has a completely different
ring to it :!)

It sounds different, but has similar roots.

Similar in a sense that English and Spanish have similar roots.

Not as similar as the roots of English, Dutch, Danish, German and
Swedish. How much language history or linguistics do you know?
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