People asked about the term "Romance Language."
Technically, the Romance languages are a sub-branch of the Italic language group, branching from Vulgar Latin (considered to be a "dead" language).
Corsican is a part of this branch, as is French, Spanish & Italian.
English and German are part of the Germanic language group.
For more on this topic, see Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages