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Originally Posted by lilly
I researched about it a bit and guess what?! The Romantic languages(mainly French,Spanish,Italian,etc) and Sanskrit(the origin language of most languages here) have the same common ancient language called Scythia. Weird huh!? 
Also that would explain why Americans and others may find French a bit difficult to understand as some of the grammar concepts are new to them. |
Actually, I'm afraid that's not quite true. The common language of the Romance languages and Sanskrit is called "proto-Indo-European." It's a reconstructed language; nobody actually speaks it today. It's believed by linguists that Sanskrit is closer to PIE than any modern tongue.
However, this Indo-European root is shared not only by the Romance languages but also by the Germanic, Slavic, Celtic, and Greek languages, and at that I am probably forgetting a few. So that's not something distinguishing French from English. It's something they have in common.
You're right about the grammer being odd, though. I'm still learning about that and making mistakes.