Over 90% of Germans speak English. What foreign language do you speak?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

166. I think you are right.

I took singing lessons and learned mostly Italian and French, a bit of German. Italian really is the best to sing in!!!

Took Spanish and Latin in high school. I can speak some complete sentences in Spanish from living in Texas and absorbing some. And I can sing "Estrellita".

l love Romance languages b/c they are so logical.
You know the declension by the middle vowel in the verb, and the ending tells you the person. No pronouns needed!!

In Latin you have 5 declensions--a, e, i, io, eo. In Italian you have 3--a, e, i.

And you can put subject-object-verb together which is used in older forms of English, like the Book of Common Prayer. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship.

In English word order is important because you don't have many forms of words, and even then it's easy to get confused in pronouns.

Started a once a month group to learn Chinese after I bought a book of characters. I got as far as "ni hao" which is "hello".

German absolutely baffles me even though English is a Germanic language. I eventually realized that there are German words from Latin.

Fenestra, window in Latin. Finster, window in German.
Speculum, mirror in Latin. Spiegel, mirror in German (like the newspaper Der Spiegel.)

My kid was impressed when I told her that pandaemonium is Greek for "wall to wall demons" and defenestrate means to throw someone out a window, from fenestra.

I picked up a lot of Greek prefixes and suffixes studying medical terminology and a bit of it is Latin. When I have sinus trouble I call it "crudosis".