FRENCH or SPANISH?

Question

Here's the deal:

I have been learning French for only about a month, but since then, I've learned a lot. However, I'm not completely sure if I should continue, because I hear Spanish is so much easier, and my cousin speaks fluently, and so do a lot of people who currently live in the U.S. I love French, but it's so much harder. I kind of want to make myself believe I should continue, but I just need some advice and opinions. Please?

Answer 1

french and spanish, [ideally] are both among the easier languages to learn. i've been to canada and french is great to know, but i would have to say you'll get the opportunity to use spanish more often....but again, that depends on where you live, and i dont' know where that is. i don't have this experience with french, but people always seem very willing to help me with my spanish, and always encourage my speaking it lol. spanish is entirely phonetic, and they're both easy to learn, but i would say spanish has the extra edge because spelling is so much easier. pronunciation is also easy to learn in spanish...i'm not as sure about french, but it definitely isn't phonetic. ideally, learn both languages! if you study then together, it may come more naturally...or confuse you more...it depends on your learning style haha. if your cousin speaks fluently, i would say you'd have a great teacher. personally, my vote would be for spanish, but don't give up on french unless you're sure you want to!

good luck and have fun, because learning a language should be a good experience!

Answer 2

You can use French more than you can use Spanish unless you plan to go on vacation to Mexico, Chile, or Brazil, etc. Most people choose Europe over those areas, along with Canada. I take French. I didn't want to take a language, but I took one because it would be better for getting into college. I chose French because everyone else was choosing Spanish, my sister was in French (get help from her if needed), and because it was more appealing to me, along with the fact that I could use it. My teacher is excellent--she teaches the culture of France along with the language. She tells us about the food, music, art, etc. We all love her (except the people that don't have good taste in teachers) and though it's harder, it's completely worth it. Think about it: would you rather speak a smaller amount of something you'll use (they speak French everywhere--even in Africa and the Middle East!!) or a huge amount of something you won't? You can talk to your cousin in English, why bother learning a different language to talk to him when you already can as is? Besides, you could continue with the French and then you can have him teach you some Spanish on the side.

Answer 3

Since you've only been learning French for a month, I would suggest you give it another month before you bail on it...The hardest part of learning a foriegn language is learning the rules of conjugation. I speak Spanish fairly well but I mostly learned it while my dad was stationed in Spain. I had the opportunity to learn by context, which takes a bit more work. Both French and Spanish have a lot in common, being rooted in Latin , so the rules are similar, but different. If you still feel this way after another month, by all means, change...but DO give it a fair chance!

Answer 4

After Chinese and English, Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world today. It is the official language of 21 countries and the second language in many more, such as the U.S.A. In countries like Japan and Brasil, the study of Spanish as a foreign language has been growing at a very fast pace indeed in recent years. Around 400 million people speak Spanish worldwide and the number continues to grow.
The use of Spanish is also growing in the business world. As the Spanish and South American economies continue to grow and develop, along with the Hispanic market in the United States, interest in Spanish and Hispanic is also increasing.

Spanish is the second most used language in international communication, and it is an official language of the United Nations, the European Union, Mercosur and many other important organizations.

Answer 5

As someone who studied both languages for many years in school, I can tell you that the two languages are so similar that most sentances are identical except for the vocabulary. French has more exceptions, so I'd say stick with French and if you decide to study Spanish at a later time, it will be amazingly easy for you as you will only need learn some grammar rules and the vocabulary...everything else you will know.

Answer 6

French is the language of many and even as close as Canada. I highly suggest you do BOTH! There are careers in public communication and even government requiring one or the other. To have BOTH would be so nice! I speak SOME spanish and am trying to become fluent. I envy you to be able to formally learn french and hope you can do BOTH!

Peace in the NEW YEAR!

Answer 7

You should continue with French. If you learn French, you'd be working harder to learn something you really want to learn instead of just learning something because it's easy. I'm in French, and it's a challenge, but I really like it.

Answer 8

continue with french! french is soo beatiful, even if it is hard to learn. spanish doesnt have that beautiful accent, because ti gets to be so easy to learn spanish.

Answer 9

French because you aready started and it's hard yes we have people who speak spanish .
Good luck

Answer 10

do what you want and think is best. i have taken french for about...eight months and yes it is not easy. but your farther in french than you are in spanish. that's a thought. if you ever need help in french contact me.