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Which is closer to which?
I don't have much experience with Germanic languages beyond English and neither with Slavic languages but I think I generally feel the second group (except West Slavic languages, probably) has a somewhat more natural pronunciation than the first, despite Slavic languages being Satem and the other two groups being Centum.
Some things that I think make Germanic languages considerably distinct are their necessity of dummy pronouns, V2 word order, and most of them either having merged the masculine and feminine genders into a common gender distinct from neuter (Dutch, Danish, Swedish and to some extent Norwegian) or lacking gender distinctions altogether (Afrikaans and English) whereas Romance and Slavic languages have masculine and feminine genders in addition to a neuter one in the case of Slavic languages and a few words in some of the Romance grou).
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