How hard is Spanish compared to english? I'd really like to learn it but I don't even know where to start

How hard is Spanish compared to english? I'd really like to learn it but I don't even know where to start.

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Spanish it is worse than finish.

>dle.rae.es/?w=alto
>Word: "Alto"
>45 meanings
>dle.rae.es/?id=M5ucdgy
>Word "Ir"
>38 meanings

And pic is to conjugate a verb, all verbs are different.

WELLCOME TO THIS MEME HELL

>learning Spanish

For what purpose

Ez for French, portuguese, italians and romanians.
Difficult for germanic language speakers (english, german etc)

600 million speakers.

This
But what the fuck is even finnish, uralic?

Because 20+ countries have it as a first language, maybe?

oh shit

I want to do somethin meaningful

And USA?

Assuming you're a Finnish speaker:

Spelling: a thousand times easier.
Grammar: a bit harder. Verbal conjugations and genders are two bitches, but they're usually consistent.
Pronunciation: about the same? I mean, both have their quirks and weird stuff (English has their R and TH, Spanish has the soft G and bilabial B/V)

If you're a native Swedish speaker, consider Spanish grammar a bit easier, since you'll know better the basic gist of genders.

Only New Mexico

Not yet, but soon.

>oh shit
Spanish is a very difficult language... It is recommended to first learn grammar and vocabulary later.

Use this book is official:

>rae.es/sites/default/files/1ortografia_espanola_2010.pdf

CONQUISTA DE USA CUANDO?!!!

PRONTO.....

CHI

I am ok with this

CA

The basics are very easy, much easier to have a conversation early on than in French for example

Chi?

Easy as fuck desu

As I'm French I'm kinda influenced
Shouldn't be too hard if you speak English though, there are some similarities in vocabulary
Plus the spelling and pronunciation are piss easy really straightforward

There are genders but they are pretty easy to guess

>The basics are very easy, much easier to have a conversation early on than in French for example

I think you confuse that Hispanics be kind and understanding unlike the French, but Spanish is worse than the French and far.

Dai, siamo in Sup Forums, a la gente qui piace lingue. Anche spagnolo è utile.

600 millions of speakers and barely relevant language

Out of which, zero live above the poverty line

Learn something better than Spanish and that you can put on a CV. Arabic, Russian, Chinese or Hindi.

The conjugations are pretty easy to learn desu

NO

>future primary language of the united states
>barely relevant

it's easy and logical
go for it, take some classes and buy some school books

The problem is the vocabulary, what is not normal is "Yo voy" has 38 meanings.

>Arabic, Chinese, Hindi
t. Mohamed Pajeet Chang

what's with finns wanting to learn spanish

And like in French some of those forms aren't even used in common speech

>Plus the spelling and pronunciation are piss easy really straightforward
It's easy to make yourself understood in Spanish, but quite hard to sound like a native. You'll end opening/closing the vowels too much or failing to soften V/B/D/G.

Besides auxiliary future verb and the literal meaning "to go", is there any other I'm not aware?

I like the culture, mainly music

>a friend of mine told me Spanish is the easiest for japanese to learn in terms of pronunciation
>"really? Okay I'll start learning it then"
>encounter the word "reloj"
>mfw

It's quite hard to sound like a native in pretty much every language you learn if you don't immerse yourself in the country
Plus sounding like a native isn't even necessary

>argues that hispanic countries are too poor to make the language relevant
>lists arabic, russian and hindi as useful languages
Just take your (You) and go

Japanese is really easy to pronounce for French people desu

like this?

youtube.com/watch?v=LEsxzjKBQvw

or this?
youtube.com/watch?v=C4DPEEQZagM

or do you mean this?
youtube.com/watch?v=qGKrc3A6HHM

>Spelling: a thousand times easier.

Spelling is really easy though unless you are using american spelling. Its just blocks of letters instead of individual letters

>Hablar (20)
>Ver (22)
>Doble (23)
>Barra (26)
>Ir (38)
>Alto (43)
>Hacer (58)

This is normal? Really?

For spanish speakers it is also easy, epecially compared to english that has completely retarded pronunciation.

>ayyyy no hablo el ingles, what eres las sheikkos, Los chinamen ricos et Los russos mafiosos pleno de pesetas¿¿¿

Ride your donkey home, Sancho Panza

>out of which, zero live above the poverty line

start with duolingo
and it's hard as fuck, duolingo is nothing compared to real life desu

t. tourist

The difference is we if we use them all. :^) Sorry France but spanish is hard and french is easy

French has terrible punctuation rules. There's like 6 different tildes.

Fair point, but I think Spanish "quirks" in this regard make it harder than, say, Italian or German.

(Although, we're comparing it with English... English has one of the most fucked up vowel systems on Earth.)

No, it is not. See this:
zompist.com/spell.html

While this, Spanish in a nutshell is "pronounce X like Y" with very few placement rules (and you sometimes can ignore those to the cost of sounding weird but understandable - nobody will misunderstand you if you pronounce bu.e.no instead of bue.no)

Spanish is as easy as French tbqh

You don´t have as extensive as our vocabulary, you not use all verbal forms, we do.

Have I said "they are better to Italy" somewhere?

Get back to your English classes, Alejandro. People with basic logical skills are speaking now

Reminder that Rioplatense is best spanish.

English spelling is plain retarded and they have a pretty rich phonology desu

La pelotuda de la concha de tu madre y la vela ya te la metiste en la poronga!

English is the easiest of all languages
I still can't believe i learned it by taking sporadic lessons and watching english tv
I mean which other language can be learned by basically don't even noticing you're learning it?

>zompist.com/spell.html

This proves me correct though

>English spelling is plain retarded

Its completely fine, if you are going letter by letter you dont know english very well.

Agreed. It's like it tries to chase both Romance and Germanic conventions and loses both.

This isn't about being easy... this is about exposure to language. Hell, if you did it with Japanese, odds are you'd be "konichiwa desu ne? ^______^" right now.

I'm not going letter by letter, I just know how each word is pronounced
You could almost use a logography at this point desu senpai

>I'm not going letter by letter, I just know how each word is pronounced

Well you arent very good at english then are you

Classical, flamenco, rock

I have a C2 level lad

From memorising things instead of knowing them fluently as you said

About the spelling using blocks of letters instead of individual letters? Yes.
About it being easy? No, no and no. Specially no if compared with Spanish - just a simple letter/digraph vs. sound table and you can pronounce shit correctly, like, 90% of the time?
Let alone compared with stuff as Italian or Finnish.

>Learns spanish
>learn it thanks to a cool colombian profe
>tries to speak and use it so I will not forget it
>go to meetup group
>only white people and one hondureño
I swear most of the time, I have no chances to use it. But I swear the mexicans here are shy, the other nationalities will speak to me and are happy when someone is speaking their langauge.

Flamenco is a gypsi thing although Yes,they speak spanish

I want to frighten white fatburgers, do edgy business with my spanish friends, ese.

Yeah and it was born in sbane
And it's easier to find info about it in Spanish

Because the mexicans you encounter are all chicanos and they already know English. It's even awkward when chicanos speak Spanish to each other

>But I swear the mexicans here are shy

>Ashamed of speaking their own language

Top cucks.

Its easy enough for you to be able to predict how words sound when you havent heard them before or they are made up. You just have to know how diagraphs are pronounced in what parts of the word, recognise which parts are added on to the word and then memorise the few odd ones out that dont fit at all such as cupboard for example which used to be pronouncd properly but changed because its so awkward to pronounce fully.

They're probably ashamed of your accent

well what do you expect when you also have a lot of americans complaining about people not speaking ''american''? some people just don't want to be on a spot light

Compare it with this:
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish/Pronunciation

There's no real ruleset. No need for those rules. It is just a correspondence table with some positional stuff.
[And keep in mind this table can be simplified further if you don't bother sounding just like a native.]

>Flamenco is a gypsi thing
Really? Flamenco is the first thing that comes to mind when I think about Spanish culture.

Yeah lad, Nobody likes flamenco here, only gypsies and of course they are scum


Do you like romanian gypsi music? The same thing with us

Nah it's actually moorish. But only gypsies like it and it's generally associated with them.

Hurr it's crap because it's gypsy shit

Learning Spanish atm. Just completed an A2 course with an A. Then the world is progressive, perfect and subjunctive was opened to me, now in feel overwhelmed.

Will be in Spain for a year taking classes, hopefully I tackle this language

Isn't subjunctive amazing?

Making spelling mistakes cause on phone

Subjunctive is really awful I have to agree. The worst part is there's no direct translation to English, so I can't even translate in my head to see if it makes sense.

I guess I just have to memorise those qualities of indicative and subjunctive and try and stick to them.

Something about trying to advise, if it's an event that may or may not happen etc

no me digas mentiras

Hard:
>Shitloads of conjugations, shit like subjunctive and indicative
>por y para
>ser y estar
>the speed a which sudacas speak

Easy:
>Present progressive like civilized languages
>Reliable verb placement
>Fully phonetic
>Crossover with other latin languages

Japanese is easy to pronounce for everyone.

English speakers are pretty bad at pronouncing it desu

I wouldn't even know how to explain subjunctive to someone 2bh.

El lituANO.

>ser y estar
>hard

why do you want to learn this shit? i would choose learning french for example, honestly all spanish speaking countries are bullshit ( economy or crime )

wow, you are always an asshole to me in every spainish thread.

Good point, it still takes practice though

Subjunctive is fucking amazing, CHIs.

French is spoken in decent countries but it's mainly spoken in nigger countries desu

Those conjugations also exist in English, but through aux verbs.

>Estoy comiendo = I am eating
>Gostaría = I would like

Por can be roughly translated as by/through; para as to/in direction of.

And come on, ser/estar isn't that hard. In general, use estar for estates, ser for intrinsic shit.

Gustaría

Spanish is just dumbed down Arabofied Latin. Even 90 IQ manlets can learn it.

Anyone can learn any language if they grew up with it

You can take the BR out of Brazil but you can't take the Brazil out of the BR.