[quote=@Penny]
[@POOHEAD189] Maybe I just need to find the right teacher. I tried to pick up a little Swedish to wow my Swedish friends, its tantalizingly familiar to English, except when its not :(
[/quote]
Aaaw. 
If you break down sentences between English and German, you can see a lot of similarities. For example: 

[quote]Ich liebe den Hund[/quote]
"I love the dog" 

The way the words sound when you say them sound strikingly similar. "Ich" sounds very much like "I" "liebe" sounds like love. Den is the only one you'd need to think on. Hund is of course a word for Hound.