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French Vs EnglishKey historical facts and
effects on those 2 languages
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Invasions
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2 000 years ago, the Romans invaded Gaul (France).
Gaul people adopted their language : LATIN.
The Roman Invasion
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500 years later, Germanic tribes from the North invade the Roman Empire and England.
English is born. French Latin borrows
some German words.
“Barbarian” Invasion
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The Roman Empire 1st BC – 5th
German tribes
Celtic tribes
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500 years later, in 1066 the Duke of Normandy William the Conqueror invades England.
Old French became England official language
for 2 centuries.
Norman Invasion
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Old English merged with Old French.
More than 50% of English comes from French and Latin
Modern English is a hybrid language with
huge vocabulary.
2 main consequences
.
English was left as a market language
The grammar went through
simplification.such as disappearance of
declension, cases, genders…
English grammar became unique in
Europe.
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French words in the English languageFrench words
Accepted latinate
(longer words)
Assimilated words
(short words)
en route
en masse
déjà vu
cliché
coup d’état
vis-à-vis
bienvenue
voilà
joie de vivre
savoir-faire
fashion / imagine
animal / activity
pleasant / leisure
transport / difficult
exercice / category
beauty / energy / culture / develop / trouble / souvenir / season / scissors / pupil / problem...
move / try / able
very / search / use / castle / car / calm / cash / catch / obey / note / envy / trip / trick / treat / taste / touch / sure / stew / spy / shop / screen / rush / rock / rice /
reply / real / proud / prove / hour...
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English & Latinate homonymes
ENGLISH
Germanic = Latin
FRENCH
answer = respond flood = inundate
end = finishcome = arriveshut = close
wage = salarytown = citypig = porkearth = soilbig = grand
deadly = mortaldeap = profound
répondre inonder
finirarriver
clossalaire
citéporcsol
grandmortelprofond
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2 good reasons to learn French
1. It opens the door to other Romance languages
2. Improve your knowledge of English
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50% Germanic 50% Latin
LATIN
my rose ma rose mi rosa mia rosa
a fruit un fruit una fruta un frutto
to discuss
to prepare
discuter
préparer
discutir
preparador
discutere
preparatore
faculty faculté facultad facoltà