Why does everyone pretend that Spanish and French is easier to learn than German? German is literally the easiest language to learn.
English = I am = and = It is
German = Ich bin = und = Es Ist
French = J'suis = et = C'est
If you think French is easier y'all on some bullshit
German has three genders to memorize and also cases. Once you get over the meme cognates, it’s a harder language.
>german is harder because it has three genders
All the conjugations of the verb "saltar" (jump) in spanish, which is a completely normal verb:
Saltar
Saltando
Salto
Saltas
Salte
Saltas
Saltes
Saltamos
Saltemos
Saltan
Salten
Salté
Saltaste
Saltó
Saltaron
Saltaba
Saltabas
Saltábamos
Saltaban
Saltaré
Saltarás
Saltarás
Saltaremos
Saltarán
Saltado
Salta
Saltara
Saltare
This happens for every single verb.
I dont know how many german has, but since it has the same origins as english, and english has only jump, jumped, and jumping, then I dont think german will have many.
I meant verbal times
Je suis* is the correct term. What you wrote is what is said casually as an i formal tone. French is super easy, it's just that it takes some time to study, not unlike all other languages, really.
Francophilia. Any germanic language is easier than any other language
> Any germanic language is easier than any other language
No, it depends. French is an easier language for English speakers than German but Dutch and Norwegian are easier. That’s just a fact.
No it isn't. German is leagues easier than French. Cognates alone make getting to B1 German a cakewalk, and the sentence order is easy if you're familiar with early modern English.
The hardest Germanic languages would be Elfdalian, Vilamovian, and other tiny languages but it's only because of lack of materials. Even then they'd be easier than romance languages let alone a non-IE language.
When it comes to speaking the language and getting the pronunciation right (i.e. sounding like a native) I think (for an Anglophone) French is harder than German.
Perhaps Germans would disagree. (Or perhaps Germans are just more polite about English people trying to speak their language.)
If you want to speak another language and not have native speakers wince at your pronunciation, Latin is the one to go for. No-one knows how it's meant to sound, so your version is as good as anyone's.
Every sound in German exists in English except the two difficult R sounds. I find a uvular fricative impossible but overall it's not that big a deal and German speakers have regional differences with it anyway.
In German you have 3 genders and 4 cases, while in French or Spanish you have 2 genders and no cases(besides pronouns), also there is more shared vocabulary between English and romance languages because 30% of English vocab is of french origin and the other 30% of latin origin but only around 25% of Germanic origin.
>Muh genders
Really not a big deal if you aren't incel but pop off chud
>also there is more shared vocabulary between English and romance languages because 30% of English vocab is of french origin and the other 30% of latin origin but only around 25% of Germanic origin.
Oh wow 5% difference that's crazy bro
Can you count?
30 + 30 = 60
The vocab from french is mostly of latin origin and also shared with other romance languages.
Most of the latin vocabulary in English is in technical terms that most people don't use, e.g. in medicine. The vast majority of most commonly used words in English are of Germanic origin.
Yes, the most popular words that are the easiest to learn because you see them constantly.
Words that are less common and therefore harder to remember are often shared between English and French and you have to learn it from scratch in case of German.
The ones in German have cognates to older English words which any well-spoken English native would know.
In exchange you have the mess of accents. Picrel comes to mind.
And do not get me started on counting in french, though flipping the last digit in german is not easy as well.
I consider both equally difficult. Both are hard to "master" though. As are most languages.
Actually anything within your "language tree" is easy enough. Anything outside of it becomes a lot more challenging.
also given this thread is start, good books on the history of languages? How they evolved etc.
I know all 3 languages. None of them are hard. So how about instead of debating this moronic shit my, why not learn them?
German has much more complex grammar than English. French has simple grammar and more cognates.
Id say German is easier at the beginning but harder to master, while french is hard at the beginning but the learning curve is shorter.
If you mix Spanish and Germen you get Sperm-men. Which is pretty gay
German is easy to learn at first, but then you start to encounter all the vocab that doesn't exist in English.
Whereas in French, at first it is hard but once you get past this most vocab is more or less like English.
Yeah, this is logical, because English has easy words in common with German (house - Haus, bread - Brot) and ‘difficult’ (Latinate) words in common with French (judicious - judicieuse/judicieux).
Feynman mentions this phenomenon a bit in his autobiography. When he went to Brazil and learned Portugese he found that the everyday words were hard but the 'impressive' words (‘consequentemente’) were just like English.