Is french 1 hard ? ****10 points ;)?

Question

i'm taking french one right now, & so far it seems pretty easy.

but does it get harder ?

what was your final grade for french ? OR is spanish easier ?

kthanks :D

Answer 1

If you speak English, both should be about the same in degree of difficulty.

The best way to make it easy is to use it.  Read in the language (all kinds of magazines are available that you might find in a topic that you enjoy) or listen to radio (right here on the internet you can find international broadcasts).

And as your final prize to yourself... travel and immerse yourself in your chosen language, food and culture. :-)

Answer 2

french is very easy i took it last year in 9 th grade i learned it very easly trust me you have nothing to worry about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Yes, it's easy. It gets harder at the end of French II. My final grade was an A. Spanish is easier.

Answer 4

french and spanish in writing are extremely similar.

Answer 5

it was easy to me. my final grade was a 95. u just have to make sure u dont miss alot of the class cuz its hard to catch up.spanish and french are equally hard cuz they both deal with a lot of verbs  

Answer 6

I had an A+ throughout the whole year...it's not really that hard.  You're learning things like Je suis, tu es, il est.  Je suis américain.  Elle est française, etc?  It really doesn't get too much past that.  It wasn't a hard class for me at all, but I studied french that whole summer so I kind of had a head start.  My advice would be to never go on without understanding something completely.  Everything, especially in language, is linked together.  If you don't understand one thing, you can't understand the next.

If you don't understand the past tense, you won't be able to say:

L'année dernière, j'ai joué le football à l'école and j'étais très diligent.

That was just an example...

Good luck in French though, it's an amazing language :D

Answer 7

It's pretty easy at first, but you get put through the ringer in French 2 and 3- then it's easy again after that.

Spanish is also "easy" to some extent in that it's "moderate" the first year or so, "easy" the next two, but then it gets crazy around fourth year as you learn the Subjunctive mood.

All things considered, they're about equal- here's some pluses and minuses for each one:

Spanish:

+Phonetically based orthography- it's written how it's pronounced. This makes it easy to pronounce even a word that's never been encountered before. It's even more phonetically based in Northern Spain, where there's a distinguishment between C/Z and S.

+Practical in the Americas- most countries in the Western Hemisphere speak Spanish. It's also the most widely used non-English language in the United States.

+Less accent markings- In French, there seems to me to sort of be no rhyme or reason regarding the use of their many accent markings. In Spanish, the only accents are the acute "á" accent placed over vowels to denote stress or break up diphthongs, the "ü" following a "G" to make a "w" sound, and the "ñ", corresponding to the "gn" digraph in French (we invented one letter in place of two :P)

French:

+Fewer verb forms: For instance, French doesn't use the preterit form in modern-day language, it lacks a Progressive tense, and has an easier subjunctive mood.

+More practical in Africa. If you plan on working in Africa, go with French. In addition to English and Portuguese (which to me is basically a combination of Spanish and French), French is perhaps one of the most widely spoken languages on the African continent.

+Almost a necessity in Canada. Well, ok, not really, but if you want to truly enjoy all the country has to offer, including being able to converse with Les Québecois, then French is really important.

In response to Caroline, yes, there are quite a few words in Spanish that sound similar to English. For example, pretty much all words ending in "tion" in English become "ción" in Spanish. For example, words like navigation/navigación, exportation/exportación, correction/correción, etc.

Also note that many words in English come from Spanish like tortilla, taco, corral, tornado, desperado, fandango, hurricane, etc.

Answer 8

It is kind of hard but not at first. When you get into the speaking of a sentance it gets harder.

Answer 9

Try Gaeilge !

Answer 10

in french 1 all your going to learn is the basics, and towards the end of the year you'll start doing sentences and there it gets a little harder because u have to chose teh correct verbs etc.

i got an A+, and i mean some words sound just like english. spanish isnt really easier because there are no words that sound the same as english, maybe there are a few but i think you would have a harder time

:)