This pretty cool map shows distances between languages. English is Germanic and French is Romance but they are quite close. https://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/

This pretty cool map shows distances between languages. English is Germanic and French is Romance but they are quite close. https://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among-languages-of-europe/ https://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among...