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Anika
Lv 6
Anika asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 6 years ago

Is french hard?

I took latin for 2 years (9-10 grade) and I got burned out and decided to quit. For my junior and senior year, I opted for french just because IVE been around Spanish my whole life and wanted to try something different. So, since I have studied latin for 2 years, will french be hard? I am going on a vacation to france next year and I plan on perhaps finding a french interne penpal to help? Thanks!!!

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  • 6 years ago
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    Even though French is descended from Latin, the spelling and pronunciation are quite different. Still, the words have Latin roots and so many times the Latin may halp you guess the meaning of a word.

    More importantly, Latin has introduced you to the idea of gender, of verb conjugation, and the use and name of various verb tenses that we don't always learn in our own language. So you'll have a good basis in grammar.

    And French doesn't have a neuter gender, nor does it have declensions of nouns (nominative, genitive, ablative, etc). So the grammar is simpler in those ways than Latin.

  • Red
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    You say you wanna try something different. Well there are differences, but French, Spanish and Latin are all almost the same language haha.

    French is actually pretty easy. The only hard part is the pronunciation. The words often sound different from the spelling. Other than that it should be a breeze.

  • Murzy
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    the Latin will certainly help you learn French

  • 6 years ago

    not atall being doing it 8 years

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