Why do people think German is harder to learn then French?

Because German employs a number of grammatical difficulties for English-speaking people.

Or at least, things that seem scarier than they really are.

Firstly: there are three genders in German, as opposed to two in French (we don't differentiate between genders with articles in English)

French has le/la for masc/fem

German has der/die/das for masc/fem/neut

German also has the dative case, which is absent from French and is used to mark the indirect object of a sentence.

So whereas we usually say "Der Tisch" we would say "Auf DEM Tisch"

All nouns, including common nouns, like "Tisch", meaning "table", are capitalised.

And the last thing is that the word order of English and French is almost always the same:

Subject Verb Object

In German, however, the second verb is thrown to the back, leaving you with:

Subject Modal Verb Object Verb

Overall German is almost as easy as French, though, in my opinion; and my explanation makes it seem more difficult than it is.

First off, is German or French more difficult to be taught (no it) and seeing that IT sounds lovely, cautious with the ones matters. And German is a large number, no regulations for plurals nor genders, highly lengthy phrases that are very special from the latin headquartered ones, and so on, plus Germans use plenty of dialects which means you wont be ready to make use of it far and wide. French however is a lot more like Spanish considering the fact that it´s yet another latin headquartered language and a ways much less problematic with a clearer constitution in relation to genders and plurals, even though it has too many irregularities, however no less than it doesn´t difference a lot around the French speakme international and it´s a UN language spoken in five continents and the moment so much utilized in global industry. Also if we don't forget that the germans probably are a lot more fluent in English than the French who love to be adressed in French you could use French plenty extra most often.

I think that most people assume German is harder to learn than French is because for someone whose native language is English, typically the Romance languages are easiest to learn because they're similar to English-- Spanish, Italian, French, etc. With the German language, you have to learn a whole new alphabet, not to mention the weird grammar things since every single noun in capitalized, not just the proper ones.

:) Hope this helps