French-English Connection
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- French imports into the English language help speed up learning of French
French and English are closely related
languages. There is a huge stock of French words and syntactic features in the
English language thanks to the French Norman invasion of England by Guillaume le
Conquérant in 1066 and the ensuing centuries of ongoing, linguistic, cultural, political, military
and economic contacts.
Consequently there are many cognates (commonly shared words in English and French), identical words, similar or identifiable words that will help to accelerate the English learner to acquire French.
Tens of thousands of French words already in your pocket right at the outset of your attempts to learn French, without having done any French.
But of course, the Germanic tribes of Angles, Jutes, Danes, Saxons, the descendants of the Vikings and those of the Celts had trouble to learn to pronounce the French words from the French William the Conqueror correctly even though they kept the French spelling of the borrowed French words.
So today even though very often the French words are written the same
as the English counterparts, you will have to invest a bit of energy to speak
French as the French. For example the French word "beauté" is retained as "beauty" and pronounced slightly differently. Sometimes the spelling is entirely the same but pronunciation is different, eg. nation (FR) nation(EN).
If you follow my tricks and suggestions in this project, the exercise to learn to pronounce the French words as the French do, should be fun and a rewarding and rapid experience.
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- French imports into the English language help speed up learning of French
French and
are closely
languages. There is a huge stock of French
and syntactic features in the
English
thanks to the
Norman invasion of England by Guillaume le
Conquérant in
and the ensuing centuries of ongoing,
, cultural, political,
and economic contacts.
Consequently there are many cognates (commonly in English and French), words, similar or identifiable words that will help to the English learner to acquire French.
Tens of of French words already in your right at the outset of your attempts to learn French, without having any French.
But of course, the tribes of Angles, Jutes, Danes, Saxons, the descendants of the and those of the had trouble to to pronounce the French words from the French William the Conqueror correctly even though they the French spelling of the French words.
So today even though very often the French words are written the same as the English counterparts, you will have to invest a bit of energy to French as the French. For example the French word " " is retained as " " and pronounced slightly . Sometimes the is entirely the but pronunciation is , eg. nation (FR) nation(EN).