Well, I happen to be a French major. To be practical, I used to be good at school English in high school. Speaking of similarity, it seems to me that many words in French and English have the same spelling and meaning, or are very similar. For example, in French, they become examples, but this may also cause beginners to misspell French words into English words. But if you think that you can learn French well soon by learning English well, you may be too optimistic. Because the tense and voice of French can't be compared with English, and there is no verb shift in English, these are difficult to master. Of course, learning English well is still helpful for learning French. For example, when I first started learning French, every time I wrote a short essay in French, I would first conceive it in English and then translate it into French, so that what I wrote was more accurate than translating China people's thinking into French, and it gave people a more real feeling. So I think it is very useful to learn French and French-English dictionaries. Getting started with French shouldn't be too difficult. You will soon find that you can read the whole paragraph of French accurately (but don't quite understand the meaning), but it is not easy to master it. I have studied for three years now, and I feel that I have made great progress. I didn't know French three years ago, but now I can roughly understand some French academic lectures at school, but I think I'm still far from mastering them. Of course, French as a second language is certainly relatively simple, but learning French is by no means easy. Anyway, good luck!