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What language is more difficult, Spanish or English?
I live in Mexico, and i would want to know, what language is more difficult?
I speak spanish and English is difficult for me :(
20 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
English is easier than the spanish because, the spanish has got too many verb tenses, more than the english, so for me spanish is more difficult, The grammar is much more complicated - many more tenses, aspects and moods. The morphology is much more complicated too.
- U Mad?Lv 68 years ago
English is going to be a bit challenging because it's in a different language family.
Overall, English is not difficult. It is a bit more specific than Spanish in terms of sentence structure, but it is still similar to English. Where English has simple tense conjugation, Spanish has considerably more, and it's noticeable.
In terms of pronunciation, English is more difficult. Some of the pronunciation isn't common, but it's not something that can't be easily overdone. Spanish definitely is more difficult than it seems, and if verb endings and adjective endings make things easier to spot (however, o/a endings are very deceiving, they're a lot more insonsistent than people think). Plus, since English has gone through a pronunciation shift since its orthography was formed, Spanish is going to be more consistent.
Just watch people try to justify their answers that Spanish is easier. They're going to talk about "exceptions", as if Spanish doesn't have any for some reason. They're going to talk about homonyms, as if Spanish doesn't have any either. None of them have any clue what they're talking about.
I'm still going to have to go with English being easier.
Source(s): Linguistics, personal experience. - 8 years ago
In the world in general, Spanish is easier. If you know Latin or Italian or Spanish or Portuguese, and other similar languages, you can learn all the aforementioned very easily. English is not as widespread in the world's languages. I imagine it would be harder. However, English and Spanish have the same alphabet and that should help you. Get a textbook on learning Spanish like Viva! and then use it to learn English and to understand the basics before you proceed further. !Buena Suerte!
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- 8 years ago
It's english the one that is difficult to speak because If you speak spanish more than english then english is going to be more difficult because you speak spanish more than english hope this helped
Source(s): myself - Anonymous8 years ago
English is way easier than Spanish. However, people who already speak a romance language should find Spanish easier.
- CogitoLv 78 years ago
English.
I'm English and I speak a few foreign languages - but from speaking to a great many students of English as a foreign language, they say it's very difficult to learn.
- Anonymous8 years ago
English is one of the most difficult languages to learn. Spanish is one of the easiest.
Source(s): http://spanishsolved.com/ Free Spanish ezine for students of Spanish