Language "categories" (was: undergraduate >Honors in Russian)

Tue Mar 1 19:43:23 UTC 2005

>How related is "related"? Obviously both English and Russian are
>Indo-European languages, although not in the same subgroup. How does German
>end up in category 2 when it's more closely related to English than Spanish
>(category 1)? (I grant that everyone seems to think Spanish is easier, but
>why?)

Common roots and sentence structure.

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