Is it difficult to learn French?
It depends on your mother tongue.For example, if your mother tongue is Spanish, Portuguese or Italian; it won't be so hard to learn French. Highly similar grammar, lots of true friends* will help you a lot during the process of learning French. Nevertheless, there will be tricky false friends** too.If your mother tongue is English, Dutch or German; the French grammar will be a bit hard to learn. But there will be still true friends which will help you at learning vocabulary.If your mother tongue is a non-European language; it will be tough. But do not let it discourage you. French is an attractive language which can make you fall in love with itself. I am a Turk whose mother tongue is Turkish (which makes French so hard for me to learn), but my French level is B1.2 which means that I have almost no problems with speaking and understanding French in daily life.____________* true friends: cognates or similarly pronounced words which exist in two different languages and which mean same thing in both languages.For example: "exemple" in French and "example" in English mean the same thing.** false friends: similarly pronounced words which exist in two languages but which have different meanings.For example: "actuellement" in French and "actually" in English."actuellement" means "currently" in English"actually" is translated as "en fait" in French.Edit: Well, I got my DALF C1 certificate with 75,5. Therefore, if you try, you won't fail! :)
How difficult is it for a Tamil speaker to learn French?
I am tamilian and came to france at 6yo, and honestly it was’nt easy but it depend mostly on your aim, your goal. With modesty, know i am in a category of those top skilled speaker : meeting, conference etc…More you are interested more you will learn quickly. Don’t get stuck on french grammar it’s difficult even for us here. good luck
How difficult it is to learn French for Indians?
Do you know that French is similar to Hindi . So if you try to think in Hindi during your French lessons and don’t try to translate from French to English , I assure you that you will not face any difficulty.Take an exampleIn French , we have two verbs : être ( to be ) and avoir ( to have )how you can say it in French : <>Which verb , we can use here << être or avoir >> ?être ? ……. b’coz we have <
How difficult are french classes in college?
College-level French usually goes faster than high school French, but don't let that scare you. As long as you keep up with the work (and really, it's not that much--maybe half an hour of homework most nights, more when there's a test or essay due), you won't find it too fast. As for French vs. other languages, it's one of the easiest to learn for a native English speaker because about half of English vocabulary comes from French. Pronunciation takes some getting used to, but don't sweat it, it'll come with practice. The best advice I can give you is to not be shy in class. Even if you're normally shy, even if everyone else in the class has had French before or finds it easier because they're already fluent in Spanish, suck it up and talk every day--volunteer answers, participate in group conversations. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, everyone does. You'll learn from them. Invent a "French class" persona if you must. You can sit at home studying verb conjugations for hours, but if you don't actually practice speaking regularly, it will never come naturally. You have to be there anyway, make the most of it. (Also, if learning to speak better isn't enough incentive, participation is often a large part of your grade in language classes.)
Is it hard to learn french?
It depends on the extent to which you have learned other languages. French has more verb tenses than English, and has grammatical gender too. So if you've studied a language such as Spanish or German, you'll already have some level of preparation to help you learn the various tenses. If not, then you'll make plenty of mistakes at first, just as anyone learning something new does. But don't get discouraged; you'll eventually get it by practice, and over time you'll begin to see a correlation in grammatical structure between English and French. As Goethe once put it, "Wer keine fremde Sprache spricht, kennt seine Muttersprache nicht" (whoever doesn't speak a foreign language doesn't know his own).
How difficult is it to learn French for someone who knows English and Italian very good?
French IS a difficult language or to be more precise, written French IS awfully difficult. Some surveys rank French in the top 10 of the most difficult languages in the world. But others suggest that French is on a par with languages like English, Spanish or Italian…One technical challenge is the opacity of French. This means that the connection between what you read and what you say is very thin. Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German are a lot more transparent with Finnish being the most, but with the most complex grammatical system with something likes 17 different cases. Only English is less transparent than French. It means that many French-speaking children, or most, cannot read French fluently after their first year in school and experience dire spelling difficulties till the age of 12 or 14 if not for the rest of their lives.On the other hand spoken French, provided you can cope with some specific sounds like /y/ as in “je fume” or the “nasales” as in “un bon vin blanc”, is relatively easy. The reason is again opacity, but here it means that we usually don’t hear spelling or grammatical mistakes. In Dutch “twee kinds” is a clear mistake as one should say “twee kinderen” but in French “deux enfants/enfant/enfans/enfents…” have exactly the same pronunciation. And it’s the same with “je pourrai, pourrez, pourré, pourrer…” while only the first form is right!Now finally the question here is “would it be easier” if you already have a good command of Italian and English. Definitely yes, a lot easier as the three languages are relatively close and thanks to Italian you would be already familiar with the trickiest grammatical feature of French while English could help with French words that are used in both languages.
Should I learn french or german?
Well, you do not say what you want to go in for, career wise, or which other language you want to study as well. You usually take more than one in your first year. In fact French and German are a very common option for students to study together for their degree. As far as which is easier: French is a Latin language. We have a lot of French vocabulary in English, but our verbs follow the Germanic languages. The French verbs are quite difficult to learn with all the persons and the many tenses as well as having to remember the irregular verbs too. The French pronunciation is quite difficult for English people as well. German is a Teutonic language. We have quite a lot of vocabulary which comes from German in English as well. We find the German verbs easier to learn as they are more like English. The sentence order is possibly more difficult in German as you have to remember to put the verb at the end of the sentence in subordinate clauses (after because, then, when etc), but you get used to it quite quickly with practice. You have cases of nouns which take different endings in German, which is possibly one of the most difficult things to learn, but not really more difficult than all the masculine and feminine agreements in French. The pronunciation is easy and German is phonetic and easy to spell, unlike French! Both languages are widely spoken and are very useful for both travel and business. Personally, I found French quite difficult, but loved German and I speak it fluently. I am now though, going to French classes, to brush up the French I learnt in school so many years ago and I am enjoying the challenge as there is no pressure on me. I am bilingual in Welsh and English, speak German fluently, know quite a lot of French, can speak a little Italian and started learning Norwegian last summer. I love Italian, it is such a beautiful language and really easy to pronounce. Norwegian is great fun too, it is so like English and easy to pronounce. I would say, try both French and German and see, which you like best. If you can do them both in university, I think you should, as they will both be very useful to you in the future. Good luck and I hope this helps you choose what you should do.