I have been learning German for a while now and I have noticed something funny. Sometimes I learn a new German word, I realize I already know it. It just has a different accent.

English and German share the same Germanic roots, so many words that feel completely English actually started in Germany. Words like wander, kindergarten, doppelganger, and angst are all direct loanwords from German. Even delicatessen and noodle have German origins .

And then there are words you would never guess. Waltz is from German. Rucksack is from German. Fahrenheit is named after a German physicist. Zeitgeist, schadenfreude, and wanderlust are all German words that we have simply adopted as our own.

I find it strangely comforting that languages borrow from each other. Nothing exists in isolation. Even the words we think are ours actually came from somewhere else.

Here is a fun fact I came across. Every 98 minutes, a new word is created in the English language. That means by the time you finish reading this, another word has been born somewhere in the world. Someone just said something that has never been said before😉.

Irina🔥