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by oneepic 1717 days ago
I don't speak it, but I'm told Dutch is very similar to English, at least grammatically.
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It's not really.

Half of English is Latin based, the other half is Germanic based. Dutch is a Germanic language so maybe that's where you're getting the idea from.

Biased source, but see examples like the sentence here: https://understandingdutch.com/why-dutch-is-so-easy-to-learn