CarloSsS
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- Aug 8, 2010
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- Czech
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Hi CarloSsS!
It's not surprising about Germans since English is a germanic language too, so they are similliar in many aspects.
It is as far as the dubbing aspect is concerned.
I speak some German. I admit my German is a bit rusty, but still I think that it is a bold statement to claim that the languages are similar because they're both Germanic. They might have been similar a few centuries ago (I wouldn't know, I'm not a history linguist) but I don't think have much in common nowadays. One huge difference is that the English grammar does not have grammatical cases, while in German there are 4 of them. The pronunciation is also very different, not to mention the vocabulary. The word order isn't as strict as it is in English and also there's the fact that there are only 4 grammatical tenses in German. I could dive deeper into this matter, but I guess I've made my point.