What percentage of English is French?


What percentage of English is French? English vocabulary comprises 29% French, 29% Latin, 26% Germanic, and 6% Greek. Why are there so many French words in English? French was King William's native language.


Is French easy to learn?

In their language difficulty ranking, the Foreign Service Institute puts French in the top ten easiest languages to learn for English-speakers, alongside notoriously easy languages such as Spanish and Italian.