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Re:After 7 years of blogging in German, I am switching to En... by tormeh on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:13AM (#8723152)
>(It also gives you German for free)

That's like saying that learning English gives you French for free. It really helps, but it hardly gives you the entire language for free, just a significant chunk of it.

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Re:After 7 years of blogging in German, I am switching to En... by scrollaway on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @03:10PM (#8725348)
English does not even sort of give you French for free. It does give you Spanish (and Italian, to an extent) for free though. And I speak of all this from experience.
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Re:After 7 years of blogging in German, I am switching to En... by scrollaway on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @06:56PM (#8726678)
Oops, I meant French gives you Spanish for free, of course.
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