Spanish vs. English

Question

I am a native English speaking person learning the Spanish language. To me, the Spanish language appears to be thought out better. I like the sentence structure and punctuations. Formal/informal and gender, help with directives. The English language relies more on inflection and reading ahead. I feel that the Spanish language has more efficient communication. For me, learning Spanish is not easy, but I feel that having to learn English would be more difficult.

• I've moved your post to "general discussions." - --Mariana-- Dec 1, 2009
• Hi Coma - Maybe English is more difficult in some ways but in many ways it is easier to get started than Spanish. - ian-hill Dec 1, 2009

Answer 1

Makes sense to me. It's still hard to get used to changing all your adjectives to match the gender of their nouns for Spanish, but I imagine just spelling and pronunciation alone in English would be hard to tackle as a second language.

• The biggest problem I agree - both completely illogical. - ian-hill Dec 1, 2009
• Spelling and pronunciation can be difficult in English as a second language but don't forget about French. - epicfail Dec 1, 2009

Answer 2

For the most part, I'd agree that Spanish is generally more logical than English. Spanish phonology especially makes it much easier to read and speak. Commands in Spanish also seem more polite and specific. Spanish doesn't seem to have a problem with gender ambiguity unlike English. However, I'd say English is more logical than Spanish when dealing with adjectives and word order. Also, English's ability to convert nouns into verbs (or vice versa) and other word conversions in context seems logical to me.

Answer 3

I think that Spanish is a very logical language coma, much more so than English. Reading, writing and pronunciation are a piece of cake. I think the person that invented Spanish was very clever and spent years perfecting the formula. The person that invented English lived in a cave and threw it together in an afternoon However....................

.............when he/she invented Spanish pronouns........erm.......I think he could have learned a bit from his cave-dwelling cousin.

• Spanish isn't perfect. If so then why are "rebelarse" and "revelarse" homphones? - epicfail Dec 1, 2009