Spanish or French easier to learn?
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?I guess it's easier to pronounce and the basic grammar is quite easy..I'm not sure about A level though, some say that the Grammar becomes harder because you have to use different moods more often.
But I think people sound cooler if they can speak Spanish really fast and fluently
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?Na, never know. But that is soooo cool! You must be a fashionable person.(Original post by LauraEmilyT)
Aw cool, you'll have more of a chance than me at finding work lol, my dream would be to work for a company like mango, there HQ is in barcelona
I'm from a place called Driffield in east yorks nr Hull
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Never heard of Driffiled
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Haha I don't think i'm fashionable, and no ones really said that as such to me before so thankyou!(Original post by scribbledoutname)
Na, never know. But that is soooo cool! You must be a fashionable person.
Never heard of Driffiled
quite a boring place, only a little town nr the countryside. Do you have twitter?
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?Yeah! In fact, one of my lecturers this year is from a Spanish-speaking country, and none of us can even tell what he's saying when he's using English, he speaks that fast!(Original post by scribbledoutname)
I just listened to some Spanish radio and French radio. My head nearly exploded! They speak sooooo fast in Spanish.
PS For French, try watching some of http://www.tf1.fr/
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?I want to live somewhere like that. Hate city life... Yes I do,(Original post by LauraEmilyT)
Haha I don't think i'm fashionable, and no ones really said that as such to me before so thankyou! quite a boring place, only a little town nr the countryside. Do you have twitter?
do you?
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?LOL! Why is that? I don't understand... Do you think we sound fast to people who don't talk it?(Original post by placenta medicae talpae)
Yeah! In fact, one of my lecturers this year is from a Spanish-speaking country, and none of us can even tell what he's saying when he's using English, he speaks that fast!
PS For French, try watching some of http://www.tf1.fr/
thank you for the link
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Yes, I'll follow you, my thing is the same as this so. LauraEmilyT(Original post by scribbledoutname)
I want to live somewhere like that. Hate city life... Yes I do, do you?
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?What is subjunctive? Sorry if I sound dumb...(Original post by duharvalgt)
Well the subjunctive in spanish made more sense to me than french... -
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Aw, I'd like to live in a city, London maybe tho thats with all the jubilee lol!(Original post by LauraEmilyT)
Haha I don't think i'm fashionable, and no ones really said that as such to me before so thankyou! quite a boring place, only a little town nr the countryside. Do you have twitter?
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One time on a practise role play there was one about Portsmouth & spinnaker tower :L u might see it but depends what exam board yours is with 'cos mine is OCR
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?(Original post by paniking_and_not_revising)
I personally found Spanish easier to pick up but did better in French because I studied it for 9 years.
Yea I did both at GCSE.
And I found the Spanish accent, sentence structure and grammar easier?
Further on though Spanish can get harder since there are more tenses than in French but you will only work with a few simple tenses at GCSE and I can't remember if we ever went through any of the compound tenses.
^^^ Exactly this! I did both to GCSE and I do both at uni now, Spanish was definitely the easier GCSE but now I find French much easier (I've just finished my 2nd year at uni) However I think if I'd have kept Spanish up through A-Level too then there might not have been such a gap. -
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?Mine's nadiachowmein, LOL. I'm not chinese...(Original post by LauraEmilyT)
Aw, I'd like to live in a city, London maybe tho thats with all the jubilee lol!
One time on a practise role play there was one about Portsmouth & spinnaker tower :L u might see it but depends what exam board yours is with 'cos mine is OCR
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I think London is the only brilliant city cos it's so big and well everything happens there but I'd rather live in the countryside.
Omg really? Haha! I am laughing right now. Portsmouth does have a lot to do though! x -
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?As opposed to merely Être in French.(Original post by LauraEmilyT)
Yea but Spanish there's only 2 verbs for to be: ser or estar -
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(Original post by scribbledoutname)
Mine's nadiachowmein, LOL. I'm not chinese...
I think London is the only brilliant city cos it's so big and well everything happens there but I'd rather live in the countryside.
Omg really? Haha! I am laughing right now. Portsmouth does have a lot to do though! x i'm now following you!
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Sorry I don't speak French so être means nothing to me haha(Original post by WillowSummers)
As opposed to merely Être in French.
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It's annoying & hard, well I think hardest aspect of grammar, it's not a tense & we don't use it in English however it's used to express impersonal opinion, desire like I hope to... In situations like maybe, perhaps, even if.. + other situations but i've forgotten them :L maybe the other person will say something different(Original post by scribbledoutname)
What is subjunctive? Sorry if I sound dumb...
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?Ditto(Original post by LauraEmilyT)
i'm now following you!
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?Maybe, depending on how linguistically minded you are. But then, I learnt Latin whilst doing two other language Aas levels, so it's possible to do that.(Original post by scribbledoutname)
Lol, both GCSEs? Would that not be a massive workload on top of four AS levels?
Btw, does anyone else find the bilingual/trilingual/whateverlingual trait slightly attractive in a person -especially if it's not their mother tongue?
Yes, I do find it attractive. Hence me dating a girl who speaks both Italian and German - we cover the major European languages between us. -
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?It's to be in French. It's the only word for it, thus being less confusing than ser and estar. At least to me.(Original post by LauraEmilyT)
Sorry I don't speak French so être means nothing to me haha
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Re: Spanish or French easier to learn?If I were given £1 for every time I heard that myth ...(Original post by LauraEmilyT)
we don't use it in English however it's used to express impersonal opinion, desire like I hope to
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quite a boring place, only a little town nr the countryside. Do you have twitter? 
