Hebrew And Aramaic Do Not Resemble English!

Of course they don’t. They do resemble each other (and to a lesser extent Arabic, Maltese and the Ethiopian languages). If you want to study a language similar English, try French, Spanish, German or Dutch.

lesschumras: English is a mixture of French and German, relating to several centuries when the upper class spoke a dialect of French while the lower class spoke English (which at the beginning of the time was little more than a dialect of German, but by the end of the period was an entirely different language). BTW, Yiddish is also a “fusion” language with large amounts of German mixed with large amount of Hebrew and Aramaic (and some slavic mixed in to the eastern dialects, and recently a lot of English and zionist Ivrit thrown in for good measure). “Pure” languages like French, and German, and Arabic are far less interesting.

lesschumras: The changes were more than a few cursewords. It including “pairs” such as the Germanic cow for the live animal (cared for by Anglo-Saxons, and French beef for when the Normas ate it. Depending on the subject matter, English vocabulary is often half French. Whereas English in 1066 was close enough to German that a translator wasn’t needed, today it is totally foreign to German and probably closer to French. In addition, the whole process resulted in messed up spelling (English is written as it was pronounced when printing was introduced in Europe in the 15th century, and while the language was still forming) and much simpler grammar (minimal use of gender, almost no use of case, almost no use of the subjunctive – though still over a dozen tenses).

English IS from French. Asbout 30-40% of English words come from French. Even though its a Germanic language. its easier for an english speaker to learn a Romance language than it is to learn German

That is why many times you can figure out Spanish words even though they are in Spanish. Look at unrelated languages, you cannot figure out the words.

French is not a “Pure Language” it evolved from latin as did all the Romance languages

German evolved from old German , as did old english, however with the influx of French words its very different

and what does yiddish resemble? German!

yiddish & german language is very similar & yiddish speaking started from the days in germany. you can probably make your way around germany if you know yiddish well

One of the main differences of modern English compared with most other languages is the lack of a gender-specific grammar.

I think that distinction makes it much more difficult for native English speakers to learn other languages, like Hebrew and Yiddish or the so-called Romantic languages.