What language is most difficult, the english or the spanish? Why?

Answer 1

I have heard it's English. It's because in English, we can use many words to mean one thing unlike other languages. That's partly due to the slang we use.

L.E.R.

Answer 2

English, or more exactly, AMERICAN English... a distinction that is necessary partly because American's can't actually speak their own language... they can't conjugate verbs, so everything they say is in the First Person Subjective... they can't USE past or future tenses and, when something comes up where they MUST use something other than present tense, then they modify the sentence to make it in the present.

An educated European would say something like "In 1945, during the War, the British people were living a bare existence and going to church more often" while an American would change the sentence to "IT'S 1945 and the Brits LIVE a bare existence and GO to church more often"

The mark of an educated person is the way they can use vowels... and when it comes to the difference between American and Spanish, the American are in a real bind because they can't use the 6 Verb Tenses they have in their OWN language... let alone using the 16 tenses you have in Spanish.

There was a time when American English was a proper and very exact language, but with the way the semi-literate Americans have bastardized their language... with using half words or contractions that are nearly meaningless... American is now a Rogue language...

BUT, since AmeriKa is also considered a Rogue country by the rest of the world... I guess it's only fitting their language is a Rogue language.

Answer 3

English is more difficult for the following reasons. 1) In English, there are about 300,000 regular words. There is a total of approximately 500,000 English word forms, and an additional 500,000 scientific terms. Spanish has only 100,000-150,000 regular words as compared to the 300,000 in English. By comparison, German has about 185,000 words, French less than 100,000. 2) The pronunciation of Spanish is much easier due to the constancy of the vowels a, e, i, o, u. These equate to the short vowel sounds in English and virtually never change, but in English, how you pronounce a vowel in a word depends on the word, its origin, etc. For instance "height" is pronounced with a long 'i' sound, and "weight" with a long 'a.' It's very idiosyncratic and nonstandardized; therefore, spelling English words is also far more difficult than spelling Spanish words. 3) Spanish pulls words from fewer languages of origin, Latin mostly; but English pulls from a variety. These factors all combine to make up the essential differencesand make it clear that English is the more difficult language of the two.

Answer 4

I would say for beginners English is easier. Less rules, and you can get by with limited grammar and vocabulary. The basic building blocks of a sentence are easy to use.
To be understood in Spanish you have first to learn a whole bookload of complex and unforgiving grammar rules. This is a latin language after all.

But once you are past the beginner stage it is English hands down. It is then that you start learning all the difficulties, sneaky rules and exceptions to those dratted rules that make it so much fun and the vocabulary to go with it.

Spanish, once you have learned the rules, is pretty straight forward, all you need is the vocabulary to enjoy that language. Of course you still have to deal with words with multiple and sometimes very different meanings but this gives the natives the occasion to have a good laugh from time to time.

Answer 5

Non English speakers usually find Spanish easier to learn than English.

For example, I once heard a Polish man say "I went to Argentina after the war (World War II) and learned Spanish. Then I came to the U.S. and had to learn English and I found English to be much harder than Spanish. "

English will be more difficult than Spanish to learn for several reasons. Mainly because of its spelling and pronunciation but it is also a more heavily nuanced language than Spanish.

For instance, in Spanish you can use the word "polvo" to mean dust, powder, crud or a pinch of snuff depending on the context. However, English specifies all four concepts with a separate word.

Likewise, in Spanish "El lleva sus pantalones" can mean either "He takes, carries or wears his pants" depending upon the context but in English you must be precise about which verb you use.

The English system has its advantages but it is more difficult for the learner too because it taxes the memory more, especially when you're talking about hundreds, even thousands, of words.

Answer 6

Very good question! I always thought that Russian was the hardest but through the years and talking to people that speak other languages I've found that English is the hardest to learn. Living in Texas..Spanish is pretty easy to learn. Tex-Mex that is. I don't know about proper Spanish. It might be harder to learn. From my consensus...English is the hardest. Hell. look how many definitions of the word Rose there are. Boggles the mind.

Answer 7

English is going to be slightly troublesome because of the fact this is in a various language kin. common, English isn't perplexing. this is form of extra particular than Spanish in terms of sentence shape, inspite of the undeniable fact that it remains equivalent to English. the place English has basic demanding conjugation, Spanish has extensively extra, and this is significant. in terms of pronunciation, English is extra troublesome. a number of the pronunciation isn't undemanding, inspite of the undeniable fact that it is not something that won't be able to be certainly overdone. Spanish truthfully is extra troublesome than it form of feels, and if verb endings and adjective endings make issues extra convenient to locate (inspite of the undeniable fact that, o/a endings are very deceiving, they seem to be a lot extra insonsistent than human beings think of). Plus, on the grounds that English has long previous via a pronunciation shift on the grounds that its orthography grow to be formed, Spanish is going to be extra consistent. merely watch human beings attempt to justify their solutions that Spanish is extra convenient. they are going to talk approximately "exceptions", as though Spanish does not have any for some reason. they are going to talk approximately homonyms, as though Spanish does not have any the two. None of them have any clue what they're speaking approximately. i'm nonetheless going to might desire to head with English being extra convenient.

Answer 8

If you are talking American English then that would be the most difficult because of all the slang we use.

Answer 9

I would say English just because we have so many words and rules. Cabal has a good point, though.
Miguel obviously hasn't ever been to the USA. lol

Answer 10

spanish