Being a french that always do EN and FR multi locale websites, I'm quite surprise of this question :) The french text is almost always longer than english one.

Being a french that always do EN and FR multi locale websites, I'm quite surprise of this question :) The french text is almost always longer than english one. Not sure if it's about word count, though. Also, something very common for french people when learning english is to try to translate their french sentence exactly. It always seems over-complicated in english, and quite pedantic. With time, we learn to stop trying using the same words and try to express it directly in english. We realize at this point english sentences are always way more simple. But here again, vocabulary complexity says nothing about word count.