Franglais - learning French vocabulary from the English you already know.

In the first post I explained how I ended up here. The 1,000 word challenge to learn a 1,000 foreign words is in fact a simple challenge if you want to learn French.  It's possible to learn about 2,000 French words in 1 hour.  I'm surprised schools fail to teach these simple techniques to children.

The English language is in fact made up of many thousands of French words. 

So let's start with a real simple rule.  Most English words ending in ~able are the same.

table
comfortable
acceptable
enjoyable
agreeable

The French pronunciation is different of course.

Take comfortable. Cum-fort-bl The French pronunciation is Cum-for-taar-b-le

With this simple rule,  there are 72 words which you've instantly acquired. Of course there are exceptions.

Words in English beginning with un~ are in~ instead so “insociable” is “unsociable”. There is only one exception to this un~ to in~  prefix which unanimous (unanime). This rule does not apply to words starting uni~.

If you are stuck, use the rule that all words finishing in ~able are the same will help you get talking, but be aware that there are exceptions. For example uninhabitable is inhabitable in French. Completely the opposite meaning!