The joke will even get better after Brexit, since the UK was the only member which claimed English as official language.
à la prochaine! :)
PS: for completeness there are indeed some transformation rules for English <-> German, (consonant shifts) but applies only for at most 30% of vocabulary.
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German preserves a lot of old grammar like 4 cases (think Latin) that English lost after the Norman conquest. (Try to read the beowulf saga to see what I mean)
But it's more consistent with less exceptions than English and has simpler tenses.
I heard linguists saying that learning perfect German is easier than perfect English.
Unfortunately it's also mostly taught like Latin in school with endless grammar lessons.
I spend much time learning Russian grammar and can sympathize how painful this can be.
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