Here's a breakdown:
* Indo-European: This is a large language family that encompasses a wide range of languages spoken across Europe, parts of Asia, and even parts of the Americas (due to colonization). Languages in this family share a common ancestor, likely spoken thousands of years ago.
* Germanic: This is one of the branches of the Indo-European family. It includes languages like English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Icelandic, and many others. These languages share a more recent common ancestor than the entire Indo-European family, and they have a number of common features in their grammar and vocabulary.
Think of it like this:
* Indo-European: The entire tree.
* Germanic: One branch of that tree.
So, it's not accurate to say there's a difference between Germanic and Indo-European languages. Instead, Germanic languages are a *subset* of the Indo-European languages.
It's like saying the difference between apples and fruits. Apples are a type of fruit, not separate from them.