which language is more difficult? English, French or German?

Answer 1

It generally depends on your individual language background how difficult it is for you, and thus may not be the same for any two people.

However, German has the most difficult grammar, and is the most difficult to master, then French. English grammar is the easiest by far!

Even though English has a large vocabulary, only a small fraction of that is used or needed in daily life - and the majority of native English speakers do not use the full English language vocabulary.

Answer 2

First, here's a little riddle: If you had your choice, would you like to have a ton of feathers fall on your head or a ton of rocks?? Answer: it doesn't matter - a ton is a ton LOL. I speak all three fluently and I have taught ESL for over 20 years. In addition I speak 5 others and learning #9 Korean. It always amazes me that the myth of how difficult English is, still survives and floats around like a silly balloon. Neither one of these or any other language is more difficult than any other. The crux of the matter is that each language has its own set of difficulties and idiosyncracies. These can range anywhere from it's alphabets (ie Roman, Arabic or symbol based), grammar (Chinese has no tenses), idioms, directional writing, vocabulary.....the list is endless.... Here's one of the main advantages of speaking more than one language - when one learns 2-3 languages the brain becomes quite adept at decoding subsequent language patterns, therefore, learning multiple languages is not as difficult as learning a second one. The first additional language is the most difficult because the brain doesn't yet know how to sort out the linguistic patterns.

Answer 3

My guess would be English. English is the most irregular language of the bunch. There are just so many different ways to pronounce letters and sooo many exceptions to the rules. Plus, there are tons and tons of idioms and slang terms which are very much unique to the English language. From what I've noticed while French and German are by no means "push-over" languages they are quite as akward as English either.

Answer 4

I would say English, then German, then French. Most of the people living in this country cant speak English, let alone proper English! I took French for 4 years and its really not that hard. German scares me.

Answer 5

I think French is easier because so many of the words are found in English, too. Especially the more complicated and technical terms, which English and French both use Latin to describe and German uses German.

Also, German has by far more complicated grammar.

I speak English natively, so I don't know about it.

Answer 6

English.

Answer 7

I tried German in high school and with what my teacher called "datif, accusatif and neutral" ; (i am not sure how to spell them); whether the subject of a verb is inactive or active, a person, an animal or an object, the sentence structure has to change.

I tried all three languages and my personal opinion is that German was the most difficult to learn.

Answer 8

I talk English, Spanish and a few German, and stay in Canada the place our 2d language is French, and picture French is the main unlike English and perplexing, I on no account did nicely in that type lol

Answer 9

I've never attempted German, but French is MUCH more difficult than English, both in grammar and pronunciation.

Answer 10

It depends on which language is your native tongue and what talent you have for languages.If you have a talent for languages, you could perhaps learn Chinese or Finnish, Swedish or some other language. If you are talented in let´s say mathematics perhaps you never learn other languages well.So one cannot say which language of those 3 you mention are more difficult than the other. For me personally French is a difficult language.If you decide to study for example German or French, I wish you good luck.