Why is Spanish so similar to English?

Are they similar? I had one Spanish class in my 2 years college. It really seems to me different. The garmmar, the spelling and they have something between men and women usages. To me they are different.

I'm not saying they are the same, but they have alot of similar words that's why many people find spanish easy to learn.

In our college, C-level students took Spanish as a foreign language requirement., B-level students prefered French!

J/K

I would not say they are similar. You can find spanish similar to other languages that share the same latin origin such as italian or french, but definitely not to english

Spanish is way too different with English... let's say in counting... they say uno, dos, tres, kwatro.. in English we say one, two, three, four.. Forward for them is abante, and up is abajo.. hmm what else? Those words I learned from watching Dora with my nephew

I took Spanish in middle school and high school, and I did notice that the longer a word is in English, the more it tends to resemble its Spanish counterpart. You can even begin to guess what some of the words will be, based on the endings. I think -ty endings in English will often become -dad in Spanish, so you'll have words like "responsibility" becoming "responsabilidad". (Someone please let me know if this is wrong, because I'm certainly not a native speaker!) As for why this happens, I'm guessing it has to do with English being an amalgamation of a lot of different languages--it isn't a Romance language, but I think it does have a lot of things in common with them. For example, Spanish has two ways to say a singular "you". One of them is formal, and one of them is informal. I'm fairly sure that English also used to have this, but one of the forms was dropped, and now we just use the other form for all cases. (I think the other form used to be "thee/thou", something like that, but I don't know if it was the formal or informal version.)

I guess this is where we see the cross cultural influences that we have. Remember that some words in English are like derived from another language but just written with alteration like the responsibility and responsibilidad that you just mentioned. The same goes for other languages.