<p>Just curious what you guys think, i’ve only taken spanish and i heard french is harder to speak and read, but spanish is harder to write.</p>
<p>i feel that Spanish is easier than French, but if you knew Spanish than you could pretty easily learn French. Spanish is pretty easy in general as many of the words are very similiar to those in english.</p>
<p>ive always thought spanish was easy weak sauce to write, but harder to speak. thats been the case at least for me (im not native speaker). but ive never tried french.</p>
<p>I think Spanish is easier than French.</p>
<p>To me, I think it depends what your teacher is like. :] I say Spanish is easier than French. 
Latin is easier than both of them.</p>
<p>I agree with the person who said Spanish is easier to write but harder to speak.</p>
<p>If you can’t roll Rs then Spainish is hard to speak. So I agree with the above posters that French is easier to speak. The French alphabet is basically the same as English and that’s what made me choose French over Spainish. Also, French is pretty easy to read. Once you know the groups of letters and what sound they make, it is very easy.</p>
<p>French is definitely easier to me (becuase I never took Spanish LOL.)
But French word order is nearly, almost exactly similar to English word order, and therefore you can become fluent fast.</p>
<p>Spanish is easy to me…after I learned to roll R’s it became very easy…I just forget the tenses sometimes…</p>
<p>I think French is easy to me. Spanish? I don’t know because i never took it. </p>
<p>But also, i think it depends on whether or not you like the language. I personally like French (b/c i wish i can go to France someday, which i will in this summer), therefore I can enjoy learning it, then it becomes easy. If you don’t think you can enjoy learning whatever that language is, then you won’t be interested in it, and it may be hard to learn.</p>
<p>And it also seems to be important if you took the language or not.
I haven’t taken French before, but it sounded difficult when my friend spoke some of the language to me. I like French & Spanish both though, but I am getting a bit fed up with Spanish at the moment. I still think Spanish is easier with all of the cognates, and the similar alphabet, etc.</p>
<p>French is harder/more complex conjugations.</p>
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<p>Morere, stulte! 
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<p>I’d say French is much, much harder to pronounce. Spanish is *probably * easier; I couldn’t say. I never got past Spanish I.</p>
<p>I’ve taken both and agree that Spanish is easier to write but harder to speak. Spanish vocabulary is also easier due to the fact that it’s a highly phonetic language whereas French requires a lot more memorizing in regards to spelling. However, I think Spanish may have a little more vocabulary to learn due to the variations that have evolved from being spoken in so many places.</p>
<p>personally, I think that Spanish is easier to write and speak. French just sounds much more foreign to me. when I was in France, I couldn’t distinguish the beginning and end of words. it seemed that all the words just blended into each other.</p>
<p>I take spanish and I love the fact that the rules for conjugation are almost always consistent like how you can’t have three vowels in a row (I know that there are exceptions in the preterite tense) or that all regualr er verbs have the same ending.</p>
<p>i feel french is harder.</p>
<p>i take spanish</p>
<p>Spanish seems to be a bit easier for me. By the way, how can I learn to roll my R’s? I try but I can never roll them for more than half a second or so. I think learning to roll them is like learning to blow a bubble with bubblegum; it’s something you kind of have to learn to do yourself even though others can “guide” you.</p>
<p>Spanish is really easy…I’m in Spanish IV, and it’s incredibly easy…I know, however, that the people in French are usually miserable, as they never have a clue what’s going on, because they say it’s so complex…</p>
<p>Both languages should be easy for English speakers, as they are all inter-related (although English is not a Romance language). However, at my school, the French program is dreadful, and most kids are absolutely miserable in it. The teacher is a total tyrant who hands out arbitrary grades that have more to do with her preference for that person’s general character than for their actual work in French. Many kids who get top marks in other subjects may find themselves getting 75% in French. I bolted out of French as soon as I had the chance, and now, I’m getting a 97 in Spanish, so I’m mighty happy. Unfortunately, Spanish also tends to attract the bottom-feeders of academics who jump out of the French frying pan only to land in the Spanish fire. </p>
<p>From a linguistic point of view, I find Spanish easier because for one thing, since I chose Spanish, I find myself trying harder. French was always this horribly boring subject that I had to force myself through, but it’s not like that with Spanish. Plus, in French, I was always self-conscious when I had to speak it since for a lot of the words, you have to make this nasal, hawking sound.</p>