hello
i haf not taken french nor german b4 and i m not a student
too
i juz haf an interest or two in linguistics that's why i m
replying to u. I am typing the below from my knowledge, not
searching from the net 
and i
am not sure whether you can understand all from what I type, so
please feel free to reply me to ask for more facts and
verifications
French is a language which is related to Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Moldovan (these 5 are official
languages of the countries respective of Europe), Langue
D'Occidental, Catalan, Sicilian, Sardinian, Corsican (these 5 are
the regional languages of the countries of Europe). All of these
language comes under the umbrella of Romance Language Family, which
in turns comes under the Indo-European Language Family.
The word French evolved from the root "Frank", which meant the
original inhabitants living in the area before the Romance people
invaded the area. These Franks were originally Germanic-speaking
people (the ancestors of modern German, Dutch, Belgium, Danish
people of that area). After they were subdued by the Romance
people, they switched to the language of their conquerors, the
Romance Language. But during the first few generations of their
language switch, the originally Germanic language still had the
effect of influencing the new language, that's why now we find that
French is the most divergent Romance language in terms of it's
vocabulary, syntax and pronunciation.
French is an SVO language, which means the Verb comes in between
the Subject and the Object. In French, the adjective comes after
the noun, similar to the Malay Language of Malaysia and
Singapore.
German is also an SVO language, but it belongs to another
language family called the Germanic language family, which in turns
also comes under the Indo-European Language Family. In the Germanic
language family, the language which is the most popular in the
world now is English. Other languages in the Germanic language
family are Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Danish, Dutch.
Some interesting points on French:
- The "R" is not to be pronounced like the English "R"
- Many consonants at the end of the words are not pronounced
when not followed by another word
- "H" is not pronounced in French, and "U" is read like "雨" as
in Chinese, therefore "Hugo" is correctly read as in Chinese as 雨果,
and not like some people would misread it as "Hew-Go"
