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| CS Groupie United States Joined 4920 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Latin, French | Message 17 of 18 23 March 2011 at 2:50am | IP Logged | ||
Les faux amis are pretty big problems for an anglophone learning French, and probably the other way around. I thought that French vocabulary would be easier for me when I first started studying than it turned out to be. On the other hand, even if English had fewer French borrowings it wouldn't necessarily help an English speaker much when learning German since common Germanic roots often have different meanings in the languages - not to mention the sound changes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| CS Groupie United States Joined 4920 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Latin, French | Message 18 of 18 23 March 2011 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||
Sometimes it is, sometimes, it isn't. A line from the story of Adam and Eve in OE (West Saxon): God cwæð: "Hwā sǣde ðē ðæt ðū nacod wǣre, ġyf ðū ne ǣte of ðām trēowe ðe iċ ðē bebēad ðæt ðū ne ǣte? God quoth: "Who said that thou naked were, if thou not ate of the tree that I forebade though to eat?" My translation's sloppy, and literal, but there really is a continuity between OE and Modern English. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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