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In article , Martin writes: | 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. To use a gardening analogy, if we consider languages as angiosperms, Dutch and Danish might be Pyrus communis and Chaenomeles japonica. One's a tree and the other a shrub, but they are closely related. English, of course, is an inter-generic hybrid :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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