Spanish is my native language ….
If what people here say is true, how come I’ve never met a foreigner who speaks it with a perfect accent and grammar, (unless he/she grew up in a Spanish speaking country), no matter how many years he/she has spent learning it?.
Please, don’t insult me. I can see that coming.
I’m just curious to know why they think Spanish is that easy.. Even natives make grammar mistakes sometimes and even grammarians cannot agree among themselves on certain issues. I just wonder…
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No, darling, I don’t know the answer.. that’s why I’m asking.
Why do people think that.. I have no idea..
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Son_of_glen, that’s my point. So why do they think it’s an easy language. That’s my question. I don’t understand and I’d like someone to explain it to me.
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Maybe I’m dumb, but I don’t see the similarities between English and Spanish. One is a Germanic language and the other one a Latin language. The grammars couldn’t be more different. As for some words, well, the words that come from Latin may be similar.
Thank you so much Izabel -or whatever your name is- it took longer than I thought for someone to say something nasty..Lol.. somehow I managed to offend you.. LOL
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I think people say it’s "easy" because it has a lot of similarities to English (compared to other languages) and because there are a lot of resources available to study/practice, at least in the United States.
The difficulty of a language is always relative; any language that is similar to your own will be easier to learn than a language that is very different. A language you never hear will be more difficult to learn than a language you can speak with people in your community, hear on TV, etc.
I think when people say that Spanish is "easy," they are comparing it to other languages — not comparing their Spanish to native Spanish speakers. German has vocabulary that is similar to English but the grammar is very different. Spanish has some similar vocabulary, similar word order, similar grammar. Also, Spanish spelling is pretty easy to learn compared to English, French, etc., and doesn’t involve learning a new alphabet like Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic….
Acquiring a second language is dependent on many factors, including the ‘linguistic distance or relatedness’ of the target language. Therefore, for English speakers, Spanish isn’t as hard as learning a totally unrelated language such as Japanese, which also uses different orthography.
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Darling! You sound as if you know the answer already.
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I would never insult you, Spanish is a Lovely language. I live in a Spanish speaking area. The words and how to put them together to be understood is easy. But grammar/ accents and such are difficult. One can take spanish classes and learn, but try speaking to someone who grew up with it and that’s a different story. Also, people in Spain and people in Mexico both speak spanish, but they both speak it differently. They have a hard time communicating with each other from what I have seen.
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I think people say it’s "easy" because it has a lot of similarities to English (compared to other languages) and because there are a lot of resources available to study/practice, at least in the United States.
The difficulty of a language is always relative; any language that is similar to your own will be easier to learn than a language that is very different. A language you never hear will be more difficult to learn than a language you can speak with people in your community, hear on TV, etc.
I think when people say that Spanish is "easy," they are comparing it to other languages — not comparing their Spanish to native Spanish speakers. German has vocabulary that is similar to English but the grammar is very different. Spanish has some similar vocabulary, similar word order, similar grammar. Also, Spanish spelling is pretty easy to learn compared to English, French, etc., and doesn’t involve learning a new alphabet like Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic….
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learning a language and speaking it with a correct dialect are 2 different things. also, if they are speaking english "perfectly," how would you know what country they were born in?
the only way you learn a language is to memorize and practice with native speakers. its related to english as far as them both being romance languages, but no i would not say that it’s ‘easy’ to learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
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Thats an Issue i don’t get either. Spanish is my native tongue and still, I’m loosing it by communicating in English too much. I’m also trying to learn french and i see the similarities, but english has mostly none with spanish. I think people say it’s easy, because its just so easy to express yourself in and many english words are taken from latin (The father of Spanish, portuguese, French, Etc.) Hope that helped.
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It is easier to learn spanish, than it is to learn french, for instance, because of some of the similarities in the spanish and english words. Claro. My husband is from Guatemala, and my family from Spain. he can’t understand some things we say. Guess it just depends on the person.
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Is that so?
I think my Spanish is fine, thanks. But maybe it’s because I don’t spend as much time speaking it as a native might, just like no one will speak Portuguese better then a native like myself, and I speak English better then a lot of natives do. Your theory is ridiculous.
Spanish is probably one of the easiest languages out there, if not the easiest.
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