England was a roman outpost. London was literally built by Roman's. King Arthur, a Roman.
English script uses Latin letters.
English the language is a mix of German and French, a Latin language.
Discussion
The Latin in English comes more from loanwords used in early modern English. (Post 1500)
The French influence was post 1066 when Norman French replaced the Germanic elite
Prior to that it was an evolving language that began as a west Germanic language introduced by Anglo Saxon migrants in the mid 5th century.
( displacing what was left of British Latin)
I always hear this "English is French and German" the fuck? French has different tenses and conjugations, masculine and feminine, and accents. What part of English come from French?
Something like 30% of english vocabulary comes from French then like another 30% comes from Latin which is where French came from.
As someone who knows french, that fact is unbelievable, but somehow true. Wow.
Just knowing English you can understand most of French. Or even Spanish really. So many cognates.
Compare it to a distant language like Chinese where there is only like 12 cognates.
Pizza = pee za
Hamburger = Ham baow
Mango = mang gou
Shaman = Sa mon
only a hand full more.
Most of French... No, some yes.
You cannot get by in France without knowing French. How ever italians and Spanish often simply speak each others language and get by 100%, it's wh they vacation in the same spots.
I'm trying to say the difference manifest after like a year of study.
Once an English man studies French (or spanish) for 1 year it will be fairly easy to get by.
He automatically gains comprehension of something like 60 percent of the nouns.
Once he has a feel for how the language works.
Study Chinese or Japanese for one year and then see how much you understand.
Basically nothing.