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[โ€“] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most linguists formally classify English as Germanic (West Germanic, alongside Frisian, Dutch and German, though one Norwegian linguist made a case for it being North Germanic), though some people refer to it as a Romance-Germanic creole. It is quantifiably true that, if you want to read Old English, knowing Icelandic will be more helpful than knowing modern English.

And that as a native English speaker, my English improved by studying Latin.