Why is Spanish much easier to learn than French or German even though these form the basis of English. Spanish is by far the easiest language that I have attempted to date. Gaelic was the most difficult even more difficult than Urdu and that has an entirely different script.
Originally posted by robbie carrobie1. Spellings are phonetic.
Why is Spanish much easier to learn than French or German even though these form the basis of English. Spanish is by far the easiest language that I have attempted to date. Gaelic was the most difficult even more difficult than Urdu and that has an entirely different script.
2. A previous romance language (French) makes the vocabulary easier.
I learned French, Latin, Spanish, Italian in that order.
(At very basic level I may add ... GCSE "O" levels in French & Spanish,
failed Latin, self-taught Italian)
Spanish and Italian are far easier than French.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieWell, as you know, German in particular has a lot of cases: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive. Spanish? Not as many, I guess. Also German has odd noun and adjective endings depending on case, etc. And three genders.
Why is Spanish much easier to learn than French or German even though these form the basis of English. Spanish is by far the easiest language that I have attempted to date. Gaelic was the most difficult even more difficult than Urdu and that has an entirely different script.
I studied Russian on my own over the summer. Six cases: four as in German, plus instrumental and prepositional cases.
I've read that Finnish has a couple dozen cases!
Originally posted by Soothfast15 in Finnish and 22 in Hungarian, I believe.
Well, as you know, German in particular has a lot of cases: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive. Spanish? Not as many, I guess. Also German has odd noun and adjective endings depending on case, etc. And three genders.
I studied Russian on my own over the summer. Six cases: four as in German, plus instrumental and prepositional cases.
I've read that Finnish has a couple dozen cases!
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I've never tried to learn Italian but i was taught French in school and for me Spanish is easier mostly because of a stronger desire to learn but also because the rules are so much easier to understand. Saying that it does get harder the deeper you go into it but learning the basics is easier in Spanish than it is in English.
Originally posted by Trev33That's how we feel about learning English: few rules, many exceptions and the more you learn, the more difficult it gets.
I've never tried to learn Italian but i was taught French in school and for me Spanish is easier mostly because of a stronger desire to learn but also because the rules are so much easier to understand. Saying that it does get harder the deeper you go into it but learning the basics is easier in Spanish than it is in English.
When I studied German, I kept the same grammar book all the time. Many rules to learn but few exceptions.
In fact German I just picked up 😉
English was quite easy to be started with. French I found more difficult. But with French my attempts at rudimentary Italian and Spanish went well.
Ancient Greek is a language I liked quite well, though I don't really considering that a language, we were never encouraged to "think" in that one, just analyze it.
