This pretty cool map shows distances between languages. English is Germanic and French is Romance but they are quite close.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elms.wordpress.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;03&#x2F;04&#x2F;lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elms.wordpress.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;03&#x2F;04&#x2F;lexical-distance-among...</a>