{"id":17354,"date":"2017-07-31T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/?p=17354"},"modified":"2017-07-25T21:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T04:07:34","slug":"germanenglish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/blog\/germanenglish","title":{"rendered":"3 Surprising Ways the German and English Languages are Similar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>English and German are Germanic Languages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While English borrows many of its words from Latin, French and Greek, it is actually considered a Germanic language. This means that the majority of the most common words in modern English have German roots. This blending of languages came about over a thousand years ago, when French, English and German tribes encountered one another in present day England.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Shared Alphabet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shared origin of English and German has led to a shared alphabet between the two languages. German also has the umlauted letters: \u00e4, \u00f6, \u00fc, and the \u00df. When talking with your professional au pair, you may have noticed some pronunciation differences. For example, in German a 'w' is pronounced as a 'v'. Knowing these differences makes it easier to understand one another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>German Words in English and Vice Versa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both German and English have borrowed words from one another. Here's a list of some you may recognize:<\/p>\n<p>Kindergarten (school for young children)<\/p>\n<p>Angst (fear, depression, anger)<\/p>\n<p>Doppelg\u00e4nger (someone\u2019s double)<\/p>\n<p>Fest (feast, celebration, party)<\/p>\n<p>Gesundheit (bless you)<\/p>\n<p>Poltergeist (ghost)<\/p>\n<p>Wanderlust (desire to travel)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What's your favorite German word that you've learned from your professional au pair?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English and German are Germanic LanguagesWhile English borrows many of its words from Latin, French and Greek, it is actually considered a Germanic language. This means that the majority of the most common words in modern English have German roots. This blending of languages came about over a thousand years ago, when French, English and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12080,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,4,36,69,67],"tags":[86,116,11,85,14,58,117,107,18,19,82,20,84,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17944,"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354\/revisions\/17944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proaupair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}