France Year in Brazil

This year our country is promoting the “France Year” and I think is a good subject for a post because we are all involved with languages and because French has a lot to do with English.
We’re having festivities around the country and the reason for it is that in 2005 the opposite was true. Yes that’s right in 2005 France had a “Brazil Year” I don’t know how they called but it was probable something alike to how the Brazilian government is calling now.
From April until December we have the opportunity to enjoy yourselves watching something in tribute of this amazing country which is France. In many capitals of Brazil different spectacles are going to be performed. Of course it will be very hard to attend it but we can be happy because the third semester of Portuguese and French is promoting a similar thing here in our college. They have already invited three nice people to give lectures around the French culture and the French language.
I would like also to talk about the similarities between English and French. Now that I’m learning French I can see it clearly although during the first semester - together with Aline Brown, Evelise and Samantha - I made a paper explaining the origin of English when I could found out that English was very influenced by French in a age called “Middle English” when new vocabulary was introduced because English had a lack of it.
Some examples: the word cousin comes from French and it means the same but in the male gender the female on is cousine another example is fiancé which is male and fiancée which is female. Parents is one other example and there’s a lot more.
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Now I want to propose a challenge try to catch the words that are similar in this songs. One is the original version in English and the other is the second version in French from a Canadian singer named Melissa Auf der Maur.Have fun!

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