English also seems very amenable to loanwords from other languages -- you can usually just drop foreign words directly into English without any special twists. It seems much more fiddly in French, German, etc. In Japanese you always have to modify the pronunciation of English words (though maybe that comes easily with practice); in English you just go ahead and say "karaoke", "tsunami", etc.
Am I right in thinking English is unusual in that respect? I'm not expert enough in any other languages to know for sure.
Am I right in thinking English is unusual in that respect? I'm not expert enough in any other languages to know for sure.