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The Awful German Language
Nightfox:
Now i know why people frome the us sometimes ask if germany is near brasil ;D
K9Primate:
Apparently it's not quite clear where these languages originate from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages
But it looks like they're all somewhat related. :)
TheSonicGod:
Well, something simple. The Scandinavian word for "I" is "Jeg," or "Jag," which curiously sounds very similar. (The G is silent, a trait of Scandinavian and the English languages.)
In Old English, the word for "I" is "Ic." (pronounced "itch".) "Ich," the German word for I, sounds similar, and is also orthographically similar.
The word for "You" in German, in its informal form, is "du," however, is much closer to the word "thou" in certain cases. "Thou" is obsolete in today's modern English.