Russian is essentially an articulated wail. --Dan Seriff
Russian and Belarussian are essentially badly spelled Ukrainian. --Andreas Johansson
Rrrrussian essentially is a language that requirrres its speakerrr to have a tongue that worrrks like a vibrrratorrr. --Hangbing Feng
Japanese is essentially the linguistic equivalent of kicking someone's butt. --Danny Wier
Japanese is essentially a language that adopted the world's most complicated writing system, and then made it worse. --Peter Bleackley
Danish is essentially Swedish with a sense of humor. --Anders Engwall
Danish is essentially Norwegian, only you drop out all the consonants, skip all the vowels and then mispronounce the rest.
--David Oftedal
Swedish is essentially the strangest dialect of Dutch I ever heard. --Christophe Grandsire
Icelandic is essentially Björk for those who don't know where Iceland even is. --Sally Caves
German is essentially a philosophical cough. --Luís Henrique
Dutch is essentially English spoken with a French accent by a German. --jmallett
Written Dutch is essentially German with misspellings one would expect from small German children. --Terrence Griffin
Spanish is essentially bad Italian. --Eugene Holman
Italian is essentially machine gun fire heard from a long way off. --Dan Seriff
Italian is what happened when Romans tried to learn Latin and said "screw it." --Charles Lavergne
French is what happened when Germans tried to learn Latin and said "screw it." --Charles Lavergne
Portuguese is essentially Spanish as spoken by a Russian. --Peter Clark
Portuguese is essentially Spanish spoken while on Viagra. --Danny Wier
Portuguese is essentially Danish posing as a Romance language. --Benct Philip Jonsson
According to generative linguists, all languages are essentially English. --Arnt Richard Johansen