Garth Wallace wrote: > Werner Purrer wrote: > >> Thats my native language, German, believe me you don´t want to learn >> that unless you have ten years too much in your life... > In can second that. Human languages are a clusy thing evolving out of our shortcomings that doesn't really do the job too well. Much ambiguity and even less logical. A pain to learn. If you want to learn a new and different language, learn Java. ;-P
>> Japanese must be easier to grasp I guess. > > I beg to differ. At least German's vocabulary is somewhat related to > that of English. Yes. From my POV (not sure, if that is the historically correct evolution), the English volcabulary is a mix between German and French. I read somewhere no the web: "English (and German) are not Latin-based; they're Germanic, not Romance."
