Difference Between English and French

英语与法语

There are a number of differences between English and French such as grammar,pronunciation, spelling, etc. English and French are two languages that are very closely related to each other due to the fact that they both belong to one and the same family called the Indo-European family. This is one of the most important language families in the world as it contains a number of languages. English belongs to the Germanic group in the Indo-European family. On the other hand, French belongs to the Latin group or the Italic group of the Indo-European family. The sub-group in which French appears in this Italic group of languages is also known as the Romance Languages. This is the main difference between the two languages.

More about English

It is interesting to note that both English and French have borrowed the cerebrals from Sanskrit of the Aryan group of languages. English is not governed by a number of rules regarding pronunciation. On the other hand, some of the letters in English become silent occasionally as in the case of ‘p’ in ‘pneumonia’ and ‘p’ in ‘psalms.’ The ‘k’ in the word ‘knife’ is silent too.

Moreover, English language has an influence of different languages such as French, Italian,Latin,Arabic等等。英语借来的法语单词的一些例子包括会合，高原，信封，飞地等。诸如烤宽面条，卡布奇诺之类的词是意大利语的借款。酒精是阿拉伯借用。

If we think about grammar of English language, we know when we are conjugating verbs, all thepronounshave similar verbs except for thethird personsingular. For example, I/we/you/they eat while she/he/it eats. In English, you do not have gender for all nouns other than the personal pronouns.

有关法语的更多信息

French is the national language of France. It is one of the Romance languages. When it comes to pronunciation, French is governed by a number of rules of pronunciation. This is especially true, when it comes to the combination ofvowels. If e, a and u combine in French, then the combination should be pronounced as ‘o’ as in the word ‘beaucoup.’ The same is true in the case of the word ‘plateau,’ as well. Hence, many French words have been borrowed by English in the course of time. The pronunciation of ‘vous’ in the word ‘rendezvous’ is simply ‘vu’ and the ‘z’ is totally silent. It should not be pronounced. Usually, the last letter of any word is not pronounced in French. However, if a word ends with a consonant and the new word begins with a vowel usually there is liaison. That is the two words are pronounced together without having a pause in between.

重要的是要知道法语对拉丁语具有很大的影响。在法语中，每个代词中的动词都有不同的结合。因此，法语更加复杂。在法语中，每个名词和大多数代词都有性别。您必须根据主题的名词或代词的性别和数量达成动词。

What is the difference between English and French?

• Language Family:

Both English and French belong to the Indo-European language family. Under that,

•英语属于日耳曼群体。

• French belongs to the Italic group of languages.

• Pronunciation:

•英语关于发音的规则较少。

• French has more rules regarding pronunciation, especially, about combination of vowels.

• Silent letters:

• In English, some letter becomes silent in certain words such psalms, knife, etc.

• In French, the last letter of a word is not pronounced. This is a general rule.

This is another important difference between the two languages.

• Accents:

• English language uses accents only in the foreign borrowings.

• French language uses a number of accents.

• 性别：

•用英语，只有个人代词具有性别。

• In French, all nouns and most pronouns have gender.

• Negation:

•使用单词“不”进行否定英语。

•用法语，相当于英语不是两个词，是“ ne pas”。

As you can see, the English and French languages have many differences between them. Remember only the letters are similar. Everything else in these two languages is different from one another.

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