When you are in France you will need to eat so let's start to build your vocabulaire relating to foods.
If you don't eat you will be hungry or famished. The French word for hungry is faim. If there is no food to eat there would be a famine and everyone would be famished.
hungry = faim
Fortunately there are lots of foods in France which you can order using your English vocabulaire.
apricot = abricot
bacon (rashers) = bacon
beef = bœff
chocolate = chocolat
crab = crabe
juice = jus
mayonnaise = mayonnaise
menu = menu
mustard = moutard
omelette = omelette
onion = oignon
orange = orange
peach = pêche
pepper = poivre
pork = porc
pizza = pizza
quiche = quiche
restaurant = restaurant
salad = salade
salt = sel
sandwich = sandwich
sardine = sardine
sauce = sauce
souffle = soufflé
soup = soupe
spagetti = spagetti
vanilla = vanille
vinegar = vinaigre
vitamin = vitamine
The word for salt is sel which you may think is considerably different.
English words which will assist you to remember it is sel are saline and desalination.
One of the rules introduced in Franglais was that words ending in ~able are often the same. However there are exceptions and vegetable is one of them. Vegetables are légumes.
The Amercians call courgettes zuchinni whilst the English call them courgettes which is the same in French. Similarly egg-plant is American for aubergine.
aubergine = aubergine
courgette = courgette
Many French restaurants use the word auberge in their name. Auberge means an inn.
Mnemonic: All French inns serve aubergines
When you eat, you may want a glass of wine. The word for wine is vin. Grapes grow on vines in a vinyard. The French pronunciation of vin is more like “van”.
The word for a grape-vine is a vigne.
Vinegar is often made from wine and bad wine tastes like vinegar.
auberge = inn
wine = vin
grape vine = vignes
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