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| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 7035 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 17 of 18 02 September 2005 at 6:17am | IP Logged |
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First a small intro: I don't master a Roman language yet but I do have some experience with both languages. I have French and Spanish speaking friends and I have started to learn French for a while, but later I changed to Spanish because I have met a nice Spanish lady :) I'm studying Spanish now for two weeks. I studied French longer but now I finaly have a better learning method: audio tapes (Pimsleur) so my Spanish is getting better much faster :)
My experience is that I find Spanish easier when it comes to spelling, the words themselfs and the sequence of words. French is more difficult I think. But when it comes to pronounciation, I find French much easier because I'm more used to that. It is also pronounced more clearly I think. Sometimes Spanish words seem a bit unclear and I have to hear it several times before I know how to pronounce it. With French I often already know how it should be pronounced, even before I hear it. So far my contribution :-) Tuffy 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Martien Heptaglot Senior Member Netherlands martienvanwanrooij.n Joined 7106 days ago 134 posts - 148 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, French Studies: Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Swedish, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 18 03 September 2005 at 10:40am | IP Logged |
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For me, French is definitely the most difficult language to understand. I still have problems to find out where one word ends and another starts because I tend to "visualise" the words I learned from a textbook. Some days ago a colleague said in a phone call "avez-vous déja appelé chez nous", and for me it sounded like "avez-vous déja plêché" so I thought there was a word "plêcher" I didn't know :) In fact my Italian is much weaker then my French but I can understand it much better. I started to learn Spanish when I was about 13 years old and I felt pleasantly surprised by the fact that Spanish grammar seemed to be easier then French grammar (especially for irregular verbs). In my opinion Spanish and Italian are more or less of the same difficulty level. I would classify Portuguese between French and Spanish: the grammar is a little bit more complicated than Spanish (e.g. plurals) and with pronunciation I sometimes have the same problem as in French, but not too often.
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