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How easy is it to learn spanish? - Mr. Golgonto - 17-01-2023
I managed to get to grips with german in a year or so. not to the point where i'm completely fluent, but i can watch german films and understand them to the point where it's fairly comfortable
Spanish is supposedly a bit easier to learn + i'm pretty ok with french as i used to live in france when i was a kid.
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - kathisterima - 17-01-2023
very easy
I dont know spanish but I learned basic words from just from playing in lobbies with south american guys
Like q onda comp quiero ayuda ven aqui player x es muy facil tu eres muy fuerte etc
Grammar is so simple and vocabulary is easy to pick, you could probably get to B2 in a few months if you tried
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - Mr. Golgonto - 17-01-2023
(17-01-2023, 01:42 AM)kathisterima Wrote: very easy
I dont know spanish but I learned basic words from just from playing in lobbies with south american guys
Like q onda comp quiero ayuda ven aqui player x es muy facil tu eres muy fuerte etc
Grammar is so simple and vocabulary is easy to pick, you could probably get to B2 in a few months if you tried
B2 is pretty advanced. I'm probably at a b2, if that, in German after a fkn year of mixed effort.
Spanish just sounds so much better and there's so much music and media to learn from. German music is complete shit tbh
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - lonelyjak - 17-01-2023
(17-01-2023, 01:45 AM)Mr. Golgonto Wrote:also sucks because every single german speaks english fluently, so a little bit harder to practice your german in many cases(17-01-2023, 01:42 AM)kathisterima Wrote: very easy
I dont know spanish but I learned basic words from just from playing in lobbies with south american guys
Like q onda comp quiero ayuda ven aqui player x es muy facil tu eres muy fuerte etc
Grammar is so simple and vocabulary is easy to pick, you could probably get to B2 in a few months if you tried
B2 is pretty advanced. I'm probably at a b2, if that, in German after a fkn year of mixed effort.
Spanish just sounds so much better and there's so much music and media to learn from. German music is complete shit tbh
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - kathisterima - 17-01-2023
(17-01-2023, 01:45 AM)Mr. Golgonto Wrote:(17-01-2023, 01:42 AM)kathisterima Wrote: very easy
I dont know spanish but I learned basic words from just from playing in lobbies with south american guys
Like q onda comp quiero ayuda ven aqui player x es muy facil tu eres muy fuerte etc
Grammar is so simple and vocabulary is easy to pick, you could probably get to B2 in a few months if you tried
B2 is pretty advanced. I'm probably at a b2, if that, in German after a fkn year of mixed effort.
Spanish just sounds so much better and there's so much music and media to learn from. German music is complete shit tbh
I'm also B2 in German, we have mandatory classes at school and I went for the Goethe exams after. It's probably one of the more difficult European languages, Spanish shouldn't take the same effort. And yes, mostly I used literature as practice material, don't find German acoustically enticing.
I think with Spanish you unlock a portal to a different world by knowing the language, same with Russian.
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - Altruist - 21-01-2023
I was briefly studying it on my own 15 yrs ago when i was obsessed with la liga and can still easily form tenses
Vocabulary is either very memorable or stems from latin
And pronunciation is extremely easy
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - lololololol - 21-01-2023
(17-01-2023, 01:33 AM)Mr. Golgonto Wrote: I managed to get to grips with german in a year or so. not to the point where i'm completely fluent, but i can watch german films and understand them to the point where it's fairly comfortable
Spanish is supposedly a bit easier to learn + i'm pretty ok with french as i used to live in france when i was a kid.
only pronounciation is easy, of course vocabulary too since you already speak English and some French
grammar is about as hard as French (imo quite hard tbh, maybe not as hard as Slav languages but comparable to German in difficulty), if you already speak French you should have a massive leg up
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - Altruist - 21-01-2023
(21-01-2023, 04:32 PM)lololololol Wrote:(17-01-2023, 01:33 AM)Mr. Golgonto Wrote: I managed to get to grips with german in a year or so. not to the point where i'm completely fluent, but i can watch german films and understand them to the point where it's fairly comfortable
Spanish is supposedly a bit easier to learn + i'm pretty ok with french as i used to live in france when i was a kid.
only pronounciation is easy, of course vocabulary too since you already speak English and some French
grammar is about as hard as French (imo quite hard tbh, maybe not as hard as Slav languages but comparable to German in difficulty), if you already speak French you should have a massive leg up
how, tbh? i found it extremely intuitive/easy
maybe because my first language is slavic, but spanish sound like a less perverse esperanto
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - lololololol - 21-01-2023
(21-01-2023, 09:01 PM)contributing_autist Wrote:The grammar systems of both languages are very similar. Conjugations are pretty damn hard in Spanish. At least it seemed to me when I studied it.(21-01-2023, 04:32 PM)lololololol Wrote:(17-01-2023, 01:33 AM)Mr. Golgonto Wrote: I managed to get to grips with german in a year or so. not to the point where i'm completely fluent, but i can watch german films and understand them to the point where it's fairly comfortable
Spanish is supposedly a bit easier to learn + i'm pretty ok with french as i used to live in france when i was a kid.
only pronounciation is easy, of course vocabulary too since you already speak English and some French
grammar is about as hard as French (imo quite hard tbh, maybe not as hard as Slav languages but comparable to German in difficulty), if you already speak French you should have a massive leg up
how, tbh? i found it extremely intuitive/easy
maybe because my first language is slavic, but spanish sound like a less perverse esperanto
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - FatalFlaw - 21-01-2023
(21-01-2023, 09:47 PM)lololololol Wrote:It’s because English is your native language. Unlike most (all?) other European languages, English has no genders for nouns and has simple conjugations that don’t change based on the subject noun. Not to mention there are a lot fewer conjugation forms in English than in Spanish. I studied Spanish and my experience is very similar to yours.(21-01-2023, 09:01 PM)contributing_autist Wrote:The grammar systems of both languages are very similar. Conjugations are pretty damn hard in Spanish. At least it seemed to me when I studied it.(21-01-2023, 04:32 PM)lololololol Wrote:(17-01-2023, 01:33 AM)Mr. Golgonto Wrote: I managed to get to grips with german in a year or so. not to the point where i'm completely fluent, but i can watch german films and understand them to the point where it's fairly comfortable
Spanish is supposedly a bit easier to learn + i'm pretty ok with french as i used to live in france when i was a kid.
only pronounciation is easy, of course vocabulary too since you already speak English and some French
grammar is about as hard as French (imo quite hard tbh, maybe not as hard as Slav languages but comparable to German in difficulty), if you already speak French you should have a massive leg up
how, tbh? i found it extremely intuitive/easy
maybe because my first language is slavic, but spanish sound like a less perverse esperanto
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - Altruist - 21-01-2023
(21-01-2023, 09:47 PM)lololololol Wrote:(21-01-2023, 09:01 PM)contributing_autist Wrote:The grammar systems of both languages are very similar. Conjugations are pretty damn hard in Spanish. At least it seemed to me when I studied it.(21-01-2023, 04:32 PM)lololololol Wrote:(17-01-2023, 01:33 AM)Mr. Golgonto Wrote: I managed to get to grips with german in a year or so. not to the point where i'm completely fluent, but i can watch german films and understand them to the point where it's fairly comfortable
Spanish is supposedly a bit easier to learn + i'm pretty ok with french as i used to live in france when i was a kid.
only pronounciation is easy, of course vocabulary too since you already speak English and some French
grammar is about as hard as French (imo quite hard tbh, maybe not as hard as Slav languages but comparable to German in difficulty), if you already speak French you should have a massive leg up
how, tbh? i found it extremely intuitive/easy
maybe because my first language is slavic, but spanish sound like a less perverse esperanto
found them pretty easy, probably because my language is more complicated in that regard
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - lololololol - 21-01-2023
(21-01-2023, 10:27 PM)FatalFlaw Wrote:(21-01-2023, 09:47 PM)lololololol Wrote:It’s because English is your native language. Unlike most (all?) other European languages, English has no genders for nouns and has simple conjugations that don’t change based on the subject noun. Not to mention there are a lot fewer conjugation forms in English than in Spanish. I studied Spanish and my experience is very similar to yours.(21-01-2023, 09:01 PM)contributing_autist Wrote:The grammar systems of both languages are very similar. Conjugations are pretty damn hard in Spanish. At least it seemed to me when I studied it.(21-01-2023, 04:32 PM)lololololol Wrote: only pronounciation is easy, of course vocabulary too since you already speak English and some French
grammar is about as hard as French (imo quite hard tbh, maybe not as hard as Slav languages but comparable to German in difficulty), if you already speak French you should have a massive leg up
how, tbh? i found it extremely intuitive/easy
maybe because my first language is slavic, but spanish sound like a less perverse esperanto
It's not, I am from EE.
RE: How easy is it to learn spanish? - FatalFlaw - 21-01-2023
(21-01-2023, 10:33 PM)lololololol Wrote:What’s your native language? I guess it’s because Spanish just has more conjugations then. Like multiple past tenses for example.(21-01-2023, 10:27 PM)FatalFlaw Wrote:(21-01-2023, 09:47 PM)lololololol Wrote:It’s because English is your native language. Unlike most (all?) other European languages, English has no genders for nouns and has simple conjugations that don’t change based on the subject noun. Not to mention there are a lot fewer conjugation forms in English than in Spanish. I studied Spanish and my experience is very similar to yours.(21-01-2023, 09:01 PM)contributing_autist Wrote: how, tbh? i found it extremely intuitive/easyThe grammar systems of both languages are very similar. Conjugations are pretty damn hard in Spanish. At least it seemed to me when I studied it.
maybe because my first language is slavic, but spanish sound like a less perverse esperanto
It's not, I am from EE.
The step from English to Spanish seems even greater. The plus side for me is that studying Spanish has made it easier to learn other European languages.