Re: Romance or Romanic?

nicole perrin <nicole.perrin@...> wrote:

> Does anyone know a real reason why people think Spanish is easier to
> learn than, say, French or Italian? Have any of you noticed in your
> communities a persistent mindset that causes people to think French is
> incredibly difficult?
Well, of course; French is *terribly* difficult. :)

> Barely anyone at my high school takes it because
> they all say Spanish is so much easier, which makes it very difficult to
> find a class to sign up for.
Sorry about that. Seriously, I found French a rather twisted language when
I learned some in high school, though it probably was more because of the
phonology. I can't give an unbiased opinion on Spanish, but *for a Spanish
speaker* French is clearly more difficult than Italian or Portuguese. I mean,
I can understand Italian, Portuguese and Catalan at a regular speed if they're
not too idiomatic, but I don't get a word of French when I hear it.


--Pablo Flores