As an english speaking person, would it be easy to Learn French?

There are so much grammar issues that you cannot even conceive at the present moment. And, after you are able to understand and apply these things, there comes the exceptions to these rules which all works in peculiar ways.

For example, gender. Consider a table is a feminine noun in French. How will you ever guess this? And it's very important because the pronoun you will be using must be feminine, if do not want to repeat it. The adjective will be feminine, certain past participles must also agree in both gender and number.

This catches about each and every English speaker who tries to learn it. And we're only about very basic notions here, wait until you get to verb agreement. 6 persons, 6 different endings... and this is true for about each and every verb at the indicative mood.

If you are committed to it, are a fast learner, listen to French, read French, write French and speak French a lot, then perhaps it is realistic to think you will be able to speak a basic French plus or less fluently.

But it seriously takes a lot of time to get the feeling, the pronunciation and the correct grammar form.

What country will you living in while you're there? If you're going to a French-speaking country, like France or Belgium or the French speaking parts of Austria and Switzerland, by all means study French. And the sooner you start, the better. The hardest part of learning a new language is understanding others while they speak. The biggest challenge I had in learning French was the grammar; there were things about the French grammar that my French teacher would talk about that I did not quite understand because I didn't know what it was in English.

To learn French, take classes if you can fit them into your schedule and there are a ton of podcasts and websites that will help you in doing so. Also there are a lot of CDs that will help you as well Here are some podcasts and websites that will help you in your learning French:

www.livemocha.com

www.learner.org --do a search for a program called French In Action

Katia and Kylie Mac Learn French Podcast (www.katiaandkyliemac.com)

Learn French By Podcast

Coffee Break French Podcast

French-Survival Phrases

It will help to listen to French music, watch French films or even your favorite films dubbed in French. And if you can find someone to speak French with, that will help a lot!

Good luck!

Of all the Romance languages, French is about the hardest to learn, especially the pronunciation. You will probably be able to get the basics down in three years if you're a fast learner or immerse yourself in it.

The important question is: where in Europe will you be working? If in France or French-speaking Switzerland, I'd say study French, by all means. But if you'll be in a part of Europe where French is not the primary language, you might be better off studying Italian or Spanish.

French is obviously useful in France and French-speaking part of Switzerland and Belgium. If you are moving to Germany it is pretty obvious that you should be learning German, not French.

The French verb infinitives are very similar to English, but speaking and pronunciation are, as you know different. I think it is a good idea for you to learn it, as English has many Latin words. The grammar will be a bit of a shock, but if you are going to live in a French-speaking country you will be using it every day, so you'll learn quicker.

The vocabulary is about 27% the same as English, but it has more difficult grammar. It will be tricky at first, but after you get used to it, you'll start to notice the grammar/pronunciation patterns.

(As for it being the most difficult of the Romance Languages, I wouldn't say it's more difficult than Romanian).

I couldn't tell you how hard it is to learn, because I've known it since I was 5 years old.

It is more about attitude towards language than difficulty itself. If one thinks language learning feels difficult, then it really is so! Language learning should always be fun for the learner, and it is important to find topics that interest the learner. Memorising things such as words/vocabulary and/or grammar rules is NEVER the best way to learn, instead, use the language as much as possible and in as many ways as possible. In other words: Listen, read, write, speak, talk, understand, communicate! Context is always your best teacher!

Depends. If you can learn fast, it will still be difficult. Italian and Spanish are much easier and you can learn them much quicker. Also, if your going to be living in a French speaking area, then you need to do that. Good luck! Bon voyage.

Nyzo

english speaking persons suck a.s.s in french!

u will never have the correct accent! like NEVER

but on the other hand, french speaking ppl can learn english fast, and master the accent.

i'm not french, but lebanese and here we learn both english and french in school. i started out as a french speaker. when we started learning english at abt the age of 13, i noticed the similarity between them

alot of words are the same, they are just pronounced differently

for example : table---> TAY- BEL (english)

table: T- AH- BLE

depends on how well you learn stuff

i rekon its ok if you have a good teacher and if you practise enough

there is a lot of words in common

the difficulties are :

our accent

and our conjugation (even for us, it is somtimes quite difficult)