It has become the world’s lingua franca. English’s grammatical structure still fits well within that of other Germanic languages and is unlike that of French or the other Romance tongues. English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. English is like German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic a Germanic language. So Germanic … BTW there are much more words from French in English than Arabic words in Spanish. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. You also have a lot of english loan words in German.French on the other hand is "easier" because it sounds softer and the only thing that hard is accent and to some extent grammar. In 2016, English vocabulary is 26% Germanic, 29% French, 29% Latin, 6% from Greek and the remaining 10% from other languages and proper names. The main reason English seems closer to Romance languages than it does other Germanic languages is because its vocabulary has been highly influenced by Romance languages over the years. Caps on Nouns eg ( wine and German Wein ) must be Caps locked on up in here. The Romance languages (nowadays rarely Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth centuries.

Im learning German and it is mind boogling/ I see it rather a romance language like italian, french. Germanic: ~26%; Others: ~16%; Other surveys, by Thomas Finkenstaedt & Dieter Wolff (1973), and Joseph M. Williams in 'Origins of the English Language' are in broad agreement. lit I want wine to drink in direct translation to english. It's absolutely not a Romance language. also by stats Spanish is the easiest second most spoken language by native english speakers. It is easy to consider English differently on this basis – but then it is not how languages are often classified. The fact that English has a lot of loan-words from medieval Norman French does not make it a Romance language. And Spanish is a Romance language (despite the Arabic loanwords). English has a Germanic skeleton and mostly Romance flesh. It is a Germanic language so it is closer to German (French is a Romance language).