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I thoroughly recommend this podcast if you are interested in where the English language comes from: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com

English is a mix and merge of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon.

english is (latin greek french anglic arabic) in a trench coat

The core is just proto-Germanic + Latin via French. A bunch of foreign words don't really count.

They also important some foreign grammar here and there.

Arabic?

Thanks, but those are only ~150 random words; that’s not enough to be important.

considering the amount of use a lot of those get (especially in more technical fields), I say it counts