Save ya a click, lmao no. English is a Germanic language.
Weird to even suggest it
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Aïe quante beulive its naute romantique!
It's like 30%. Anything that ends is -tion and -ce, etc. Lots of stuff. Not to mention it's technically a cretin language, English. Not fully Germanic. You can speak it in a Germanic way, but most don't or won't.
30% is high. It may have a lot of words from French, but they aren't necessarily pronounced in a French way - they often become Englishized (Germanized?).
English is squarely a Germanic creole, with French being the single greatest contributor (courtesy of the 1066 Norman Invasion).
Today an English speaker can nominally/marginally understand middle English, and learn it in perhaps a week or two. I learned both Spanish and French, and French is so removed from English I can't say I know it even today.
It doesn't have to do with how it's said more than influence generally. Some words in English simply wouldn't exist that we use on a daily basis without French influence.
French is just badly pronounced English. Nevermind that it technically came first. They just couldn't quite invent English before the English did.
The Romans would have hate crimed the French (again) if they saw their pronunciation "rules"
No, it isn't.
It's a Germanic language* with a strong French influence, and the influence of pretty much every other language (so much so that it arguably has as many loan words as most other languages have words).
*A Germanic language is one that comes from the same precursor language that produced German.
Any linguist would tell you this, it's pretty surface-level stuff.
If you really want to understand the story, check out The History of English podcast.
The video covers that in the first few minutes.