Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish
I have to take one of these languages for high-school, and I don't know which is easier to learn and closer to english. Experiences from people who's natural tongue is not Spanish or German, but learnt from school would be appreciated. Thanks!
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German and English are more closely related. You can see it often in short words (hand, water/wasser, drink/trinken, mouse/mous, I/Ich, etc.).
However, English also shares a lot of cognates with Spanish, thanks to the influence of Latin and French. These cognates are often longer words: ability/habilidad, previous/previo, employee/empleado.
I think Spanish is easier to learn because of the vocabulary (What’s easier for you to remember – habilidad or Fähigkeit?) and because you only have to worry about two genders of nouns, while German has three.
Also, if you’re in the United States, you’ll probably have more exposure to Spanish than German.
Instead of just thinking about which is easier to learn, you might want to think about the possibility of using it. Would you like to go to Oktoberfest in Germany? Contact some long-lost German relatives? Study engineering? Drive on the autobahn? Speak to a German Shepherd in its mother tongue? If so, study German!
Spanish, if your school has italien. Take it, its just as easy as spanish.
My friends say german is hard
None of these languages closer to English, but Spanish is easier to learn, because you can watch TV and listen the pronunciation, regarding German if you have any TV channels on German you can learn that too.
Spanish is the easiest to learn and fun to speak. German is said to be comparative to English because of it’s complexity and difficulty to understand. Although, personally, I studied them both and found that each one has its beauty.
german is a germanic language and shares MANY more roots and similarities with english, than spanish does.
and @ justin: i wouldn’t say italian and spanish have the same difficulty. italian is slightly harder. for instance ‘chi, che, ci, ce, qui, qua, gue, gui, ghe, ghi (which in spanish, you can never put H after G, but in italian you can: spaghetti), gna, gne, gni,’ etc. are pronounced completely different in spanish. example: chi in italian is kee, in spanish: chee. ci in italian is pronounced chee and in spanish that sound is see. italian: qui is kwee and spanish it is kee. also italian ‘gli’ does not exist in spanish. not even spanish double LL is pronounced EXACTLY the same as gli. gli has a bit of a ‘y’ sound in it (lyee) than spanish LL which is more ‘ee’.
also the italian grammar is FAR harder than that of spanish’s.
example: i went: italian – sono andato/a. spanish: fui. completely different! another example is: i took. in italian: ho preso, and in spanish: tomé. also italian has the articles: il, la, lo, le, i, gli and spanish only has: el, la, lo, las, los.
and still, though they are similar latin languages, they have a number of complete differences!
english: i am eating cheese that i put on the table.
italian: sto mangiando il formaggio che ho messo sul tavolo.
spanish: estoy comiendo queso que poní en la mesa.
eng: my cousin has two brothers.
ita: mio cugino ha due fratelli.
span: mi primo tiene dos hermanos.
remeber, they are still seperate languages, just like english and german are.
EDIT: i apologize if this seems irrelevant, but i DID techinically answer the question up above: "german is a germanic language…" i just wanted to correct what someone else wrote in their answer. that’s all.
look at where you live, the career that you want to have and then decide if you want to learn spanish or german. both will be hard if you have no experience with them. i think spanish would be more useful unless there are germans somewhere in your family
I speak German almost fluently and I used to take Spanish in school. I also learned some Italian last year, which is similar to Spanish. German probably has more roots and similarities with English, but if it’s about difficulty GO WITH SPANISH! German has countless grammatical complications and annoying rules. It really is not fun to learn them. I’ve been in Austria for the past 9 months or so and I go to school in German but I still don’t have the grammar down. Spanich is so much more simple.
Another little note that is actually in favor of German: German people speak relatively slow and clearly! With Spanish, it’shard at first to keep up with people. Hope this info helped!
I think German is actually easier to learn, I guess it’s because English is a Germanic language whereas Spanish is a Romance Language.
If you just want the easier option, take German. You’re lucky you get to pick. At my school I’m forced to do French and German.
I’ve taken German 1-3 at school and Spanish 1-4(currently in 4). I’m almost fluent in both.
Spanish to me is a bit easier to learn though they both have their differences when comparing them to English.
Its true that you’ll probably experience situations in which Spanish would be more useful than German. For example if your school is anything like mine you have plenty of Latino/as. German for me seemed a bit closer to English because of pronunciation and rooting of words but that’s about it. Spanish on the other hand was easier to remember and I picked up on it quicker. Spanish and German with require you to learn different grammatical structure and such so they’re on the same level of difficulty.
I suggest Spanish just because you’ll encounter it more or at least that’s how it is around where I live.