How are German and English different?
Easily the most obvious difference between English and German is how complicated it is to learn articles. The fact that the German language has multiple versions of each article is incredibly unusual for an English speaker. Most European languages have two genders for their articles, but German has three.
How different is German and French?
French is a Romance language, whereas German is a Germanic language. So there a very little risk of confusing vocabulary. The two languages share grammatical genders. Which makes them not so foreign language and yet not very easily confused.
Where did the Germanic tribes come from?
Germanic Tribes The Germanic tribes originated in Scandinavia, from which they moved south around 1000 BCE. By 100 BCE they had reached the Rhine area, and about two hundred years later, the Danube Basin, both Roman borders.
What is the difference between the French and Alemannian German?
Alemannian German is still spoken in various parts of Germany and also abroad e.g. in Switzerland etc. The French language however remains distinct among the Romance languages which is due to Germanic influence from the Franks and Normans. I read somewhere that: French is what happens when Germans learn Latin.
Where did the Franks and Alemanni live in Europe?
Once the “Dark Ages” began, the Franks sort of stayed where France is now, and the Alemanni stayed where Germany is now, though the lines must have been blurry, since Charlemagne was a Frank, but I’ve heard Germans call him Karl der Grosse, and claim him as being German.
Why are the German and French languages so different?
So the reason German and French are so different is that they have been separate languages for thousands of years. Actually the border between Germanic and Romance languages never correlated closely with any political borders until modern nationalistic governments forced schooling in the national languages.