FrenchCons: Verb conjugation is hard to master. Liason makes it impossible for beginners to comprehend spoken French. Pronunciation is difficult to get right too. Pros: for a native English speaker, French is relatively easy in terms of learning new words. 50% of the English language words are derived from French.Can pick up a girl by saying anything random in French. Can order a croissant and poisson a la carte at La Madeleine and look like a conceited jerk. Spanish Cons: Compared to English, is slighlty more difficult in verb conjugation, but easier than French. On top of that has two grammatical genders, but so does Portuguese and French. (But hey, Latin and Russian have three grammatical genders AND 7 cases for nouns, adjectives and pronouns). Pros: can retire at one of the many Spanish speaking countries and be able to converse with a little over 470 million native speakers. Watch mexican soap operas. Join a Colombian cartel. PortugueseCons: also has grammatical genders and a slightly difficult verb conjugation. Pros: Portuguese sounds sexy as hell. Shares an immensely similar vocab and grammar with Spanish (like Ukrainian and Russian) so knowing one of the two greatly speeds up learning the other.I'd probably pick Spanish and French and learn Portuguese later. French is one of the two working languages in many NGOs (besides English). Spanish is more practical for someone who lives in the U.S.
More suggested is spanish, is more simple than portugese, and you can find spanish speakers more often, yet, if you can, try learning both, they are tools for your own success, the more you learn, more possibilities you can have
French and Portuguese harder than Spanish overall, but from a English-speaker perspective French is closer. The only thing about which French is probably harder is grammar. So my advice is to learn Spanish. By learning Spanish, you'll be better able to communicate with Spanish speakers. Latin American countries are our most important trading partners. Being able to speak Spanish greatly enhances your resume. And the best way is learning from online courses.. Try to learn from them.tips to learn spanishWatch Telenovelas. If you thought learning phrases like, “The maid did it!” ...Read everything. ...Enhance your commute. ...Translate. ...Find a Spanish-speaking lover. ...Or at least travel to a Spanish-speaking spot (and then practice!) ...Put more effort into your flashcards. ...Be consistent.Here are the Best Spanish Online Courses:#1 Spanish 1-4: Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced#2 Spanish for Beginners. The complete Method. Level 1From these courses you may learn about:Hold simple conversations using common Spanish phrases from daily life.Handle the basic structures of Spanish with ease and confidence.Introduce yourself and others and can ask and answer a wide range of questions about personal details in Spanish.Speak with good pronunciation due to constant repetition and imitation of native Spanish speaker.Communicate in Spanish about routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
Spanish first in any case. German. And finally, French.Why?Let's talk about how difficult is to learn any of them and you would like to learn the three of them.Let's give 10 points of difficulty to each one: 30 points in total.Every point represents about 20 hours of studying > learning > speaking.If you start learning French, once you have learned it, Spanish will have only 6 points of difficulty and German 9 points. Total 25 points. If you start learning German, French will have 7 points and Spanish 8 points. Total: 10 + 7 + 8 = 25 points.If you start learning Spanish, then French will have only 4 points of difficulty and German 7. Total: 10 + 4 + 7 = 21 points of difficulty for learning the three of them. You would have saved 9 points of difficulty. It is a lot.From 600 hours of studying > learning > speaking you drop to 420 hours.Well, this is only my opinion.
What language should I learn? (Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, French)?
Raised Italiano, spoke english and italian growing up. Italian and Spanish are similar ... and were pretty easy to learn. Italian sounds better. Spanish is more universal. If you choose one of these, consider which one you will use more. My favorite Uncle married a Norsk lady. So I tried to learn it ... piece of cake ... it is not very different from anglo-american english. Norsk, er ikke vanskelig å lære. Det er nesten som engelsk, med andre ord. Norwegian, is not hard to learn. It is almost like English, with different words. :o) It's a germainc language and you already know german it is WAY easier than german according to aunt Ledi. Here is the web site I ran across while learning. http://www.pagef30.com/2008/08/why-norwegian-is-easiest-language-for.html French, I think is harder. It sounded cool ... that is why I wanted to learn it. I tried it for 1 semester in school, then switched to Spanish (for an easy grade), because, I just couldn't get French. If you learn French the down side is ... Il popolo francese lo parla ... Perché parlare ai francesi? Sono un branco di stronzi!
Honestly? Probably.I'm a native Portuguese speaker, and when I was a kid, I started learning Spanish to fluency. To this day, I mix up some words, and second guess whether I'm actually speaking Portuguese or Spanish. In fact, when I had to take required Spanish class in school (despite being more advanced), there were quite a few times where I had to check with my teacher.The issue is, not only are they similar languages, there are many false cognates.This shouldn't discourage you though. Both are great and valuable languages to learn, and while the similarities can sometimes leave you confused, it doesn't tend to be to an extent that would get in your way much.Best of luck!
Hi,Yes it is a good choice if you just are planning on using some French and Spanish to use them in a short trip to the respective countries.I would not recommend Memrise is the ONLY source to learn from if you want to become fluent in the language. You would have to learn the language the traditional way in levels of A1,A2 etc with a private tutor online or in person, or attend classes in government paneled institutes such as Alliance Francaise for French and Instituto Hispania for Spanish.Check out my blog for Language Learning tips!Cheers,Jane@LanguageStation