French and English Similarities

The good news is that French and English have a bunch of words in common: Think evaluation/évaluation, qualification/qualification, limit/limite, tourist/touriste. Around 60% of words in English come from French or Latin (and French is a Latin origin language too), so that leaves far fewer lexical items to learn: Just say the English word with a French accent! It doesn’t work all the time, but it’s worth a try if you have a memory gap. Furthermore, the grammatical structures of French and English are remarkably similar: subject + verb + adverb + adjective, and verb before subject for most questions.