Frenching up!

25 french words that you know already!Without making any effort, you already know the below words in French! Voila! That credits a decent score in French vocabulary.

Montage	The technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole. Assembling layers of pastry , small chocolate show pieces are also referred as Montage in French
Déjà vu	Deja' means already in French. 'Vu' is saw' . a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
Boulevard	Referred to wide streets. I hardly saw Boulevards in France though. Streets are called 'Rue de _____' , In Paris we have 'Arrondissement‎ ' with numbers.
Amateur	A person attached to any activity or skill in  a non-professional manner. French definition of 'Amateur' is 'lover of' . For instance, you can use 'Je suis un photographe amateur - I'm an amateur photographer' also 'Il est amateur d'art - He's an art lover'
Lingerie	I had the worst pronunciation for this word. One of my Asian friends also had similar bad pronunciation for this word. I assume it is common for non-europeans and especially Asians . The fashionable women undergarments needs no definition :P
Crème de la crème	A very commonly used french expression to mention something or a person as THE BEST.
à la carte	We all know that and surprisingly it is not writtten in most of the restaurants in France. I have seen 'LE MENU MIDI' - afternoon menu, LE MENU SOIR - Evening Menu, LE MENU ETUDIANT - Student Menu
Bon appétit	Even a stranger in France says this when he/she sees you eating :)
Bon Voyage	I started saying after coming here :P
Bouquet
Café	Never thought this word is French. Always thought it is English.
Chauffeur	luxury car driver :P
Chic	It has to be french
Cliché
Couture	Fashion and French .
Crèche
Eau de Cologne	Eau is water in French. Cologne is the fourth largest city in Germany. Later this term is used for perfumes
Eau de toilette	Scented cologne, aromatic water with high alcohol content
Entrepreneur	I know this isnt an English word as it took some time to pronunce it well :P
Fiancé
Mousse	French word for foam.
Omelette	I thought this word is from England :P But it has many country influences
Niche
Valet
Rendezvous	I pronounced every letter in this word first time when I read this in India for some Alliance Francaise event. I was laughed at.

Besides this, there are many words that are similar to English in French and without saying it has a very different pronunciation that makes it little hard for learners like me. 

French	English
Normalement	Normally
Egalement	Equally
Exactement	Exactly
Probablement	Probably
Manuellement	Manually

Many French borrowings have troublesome pronunciations, because most English speakers can't speak French very well, if at all. However, we are comfortable with many anglicized French words as we know such objects or elements only in French first like ‘Déjà vu’. However words like ‘Crepe’ that are familiar gets a beating while you speak French because the ‘R’ sound in English and French is way different. 

French has é, è , and ê out of which è and ê are almost the same. My internship boss told me that we don’t know why we have è and ê as they are same. 

Yesterday, I was invited to a Christmas lunch and it took 3 times for one of the French guys to understand my American English way of saying ‘Crepe’. So that’s how it is when I try to speak French :P 

Most of the French words have extra letters that they don’t pronounce. God knows why. But as they say in French ‘c'est comme ça!’  -‘Its like that’ . All said and done, French is the Romantic language and except for the pronunciation, I like every bit of learning the French. 

Allez! Bon courage :)