If there was a french dict.com would it be as popular

Question

like spanish dict

Answer 1

Echoline you have hit the nail on the head, there would not be the number of

French speakers available to act as moderators , Also it has been my

experience that French is a language in which one is required to be correct at

all times, whereas in Spanish there is a deal of give and take , and because Spanish

has been spoken in so many countries for hundreds of years the differences

between the many countries allows a more flexible attitude to the teaching.

And dare I say that the Spanish culture is more forgiving ,and this comes

across in our lessons .

• True, French, unlike English and Spanish, is not a very democratic language. - rabbitwho Apr 4, 2011

Answer 2

Don't forget about Canada. We have over 33 million people and we are a bilingual country (English and French). I would love to see a frenchdict!!

• Je suis Francais-Canadian aussi! La meme chose pour me! - garytruckey Apr 27, 2011
• pour moi - samdie Sep 30, 2011
• But the French speakers make up only about 1/3rd (according to one source). - samdie Sep 30, 2011

Answer 3

If we have the French version of lovely Paralee, prospects might change for the better.

Answer 4

Yes, of course, I would use this kind of website as I love to learn many different languages

Oui, bien sûr, je emploierais cette sorte de site Web parce que j'aime bien apprendre beaucoup des langues différent **

• différents (adjective modifying "langues") although one can't tell from the pronunciation. - samdie Sep 30, 2011
• Thank you very much Samdie :) - FELIZ77 Sep 30, 2011

Answer 5

I'm Australian. I think that a frenchdict.com would be fairly popular over here. My sister's learning French and she asked me if there was a French equivalent of spanishdict.com. I know a lot of people who would like to learn French but don't have the resources for it.

• G'day Raw, Im'e an Aussie also. There was a great surge into French about 30 years ago , but it has dropped away ,Spanish classes are popping up everywhere, it is deffinately the flavour of the day, Bienvenido. - ray76 Nov 13, 2010
• Incidentaly,vivo en melbourne. - ray76 Nov 13, 2010
• Hey mate, ever been up to Donald or St. Arnaud? :) - cristalino Apr 3, 2011
• Yes, I have many times , why? Donald has a world class restaurant in the local pub. - ray76 Apr 4, 2011
• I use busiuu.com at present for French :) Apaert from receieving french lessons with a lady from my church who has a degree in French and is married to a native frenchman :) - FELIZ77 Apr 4, 2011
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Answer 6

I think it would be because if u master spanish u might want to go onto French

• you - Echoline Nov 13, 2010
• "on to" (different use/meaning from "onto") - samdie Sep 30, 2011
• :) - RAWRKAL Nov 4, 2011

Answer 7

I think that it would be very popular, and very helpful. This community has been instrumental in furthering my facility with Spanish. But in order to succeed, it would have to have moderators of the same caliber that we have here...and that would not be easy to find.

• Living in France just asking for a loaf elicited a lesson in grammar and pronuctiation, whereas in Italy a sentence in Italian produced an invitation home for a meal. - ray76 Nov 13, 2010
• I would agree with this coment. When I was in France, just a lost soul on the road, I was not helped just because I did not speak any Franch even though the person spoke English. I love many attributes of French culture, I do prefer spanish. - nosweat Nov 14, 2010
• @perspiration-less: Same story here when I drove from SW France up to Belgium...sortie this and sortie that... but get someone to help me?? I could barely get "do you speak English" out properly! OH, and watch out for all those "péage" roads! - cristalino Apr 3, 2011
• ray - your comment would make an interesting discussion on it's own. It shows how language is much more than simple communication. It's culture, I think you finally clarified what I like about the Spanish language. :-) - elainepnj Sep 21, 2011

Answer 8

It would be great. I've found that learning two things (or more) at the same time has it's benefits. This would be especially true in the case of languages (particularly those of the same language family). By comparing the same grammar rules between Spanish and French, you could begin to see patterns emerging which would be beneficial to your learning of both.

• Ay! My poor brain wouldn't handle it! - elainepnj Sep 21, 2011

Answer 9

Hello, and welcome to the forum. I would guess that probably not quite, at least in the US. A lot of SD users are students taking Spanish in school, but mainly I think SD users are trying to learn Spanish outside of school. So, despite Spanish and French both being common high school classes, there is a much greater demand for Spanish-learning resources in the US, than there is for French-learning resources. I'm sure there are other places in the world where there is a very large population of people who want to learn French, but there is a great desire to learn Spanish in the US, at least partly because of the growing number of Spanish speakers in the US, and the US's proximity to Spanish-speaking countries.

Answer 10

But in order to succeed, it would have to have moderators of the same caliber that we have here...and that would not be easy to find.

Thank you very much Echoline, very kind.

And dare I say that the Spanish culture is more forgiving ,and this comes

across in our lessons .

Gracias Ray

• I would have to agree however I do know some lovely french people The person who teaches me french at church free is married to a french native and he is very friendly and helpful so they french are not all bad :) - FELIZ77 Apr 4, 2011
• for free I mean - FELIZ77 Apr 4, 2011
• Oh French people are lovely! I don't think anyone was questioning that, but there is a whole council in place to control usage and limit the language's changes and evolutions, and people actually pay attention to it! - rabbitwho Apr 4, 2011
• Hmmm I was not aware of their reluctance to allow change they should be careful on this point since when a language is not free to evolve it often dies - FELIZ77 Apr 4, 2011
• The "council" you refer to is called the Royal French Academy. Its purpose and role are exactly the same as the RAE in Spain and the "whatever they call it" for Romanian. - samdie Sep 30, 2011

Answer 11

If it were as well administered, and had participants of equal determination and desire,it likely would be, French is more precise in pronunciation there are fewer speakers in the world. spanish and english are more forgiving in my opinion.

• English forgiveness does not usually extend to the failure to capitalize the name of their language. - samdie Sep 30, 2011

Answer 12

My son would use it, unfortunately he drew the short straw and has to learn French at school. Half the year group do Spanish and half do French. It would help him a lot if there was a site like this.

I think more people in the UK learn French than Spanish so it would probably be popular here.

Mind you French tuition is much easier to get here. I cannot find anyone locally to teach my kids Spanish, except me and I am only a beginner myself. There are loads of people offering French tuition.

• Oh that's so unlucky! I bet I would have been able to get out of French classes on the grounds of my dyslexia though. English spelling was hard enough! - rabbitwho Apr 4, 2011
• If you are in Europe it's very common for Spanish students to visit for their summer holidays to try to learn English, if you have a spare room there are organizations that arrange it for you. There might be something similar in the states? - rabbitwho Apr 4, 2011
• "tuition" = the money one spends for lessons. "tutoring" = private lessons. - samdie Sep 30, 2011

Answer 13

If there was a french dict.com would it be as popular

Nope.

Answer 14

I learn french at school (in the uk) and used to learn german (which i dropped, i don't like the language), but i hope to move to france in the future and learning extra french would be helpful. i am so glad i found this because it is like a life ambition to be bilingual with experience in other languages. i used to learn japanese. Spanish is as nice a language as french and there are many french-speakingcountried across the globe, i think frenchdict.com would be as popular, if not more because in europe especially, it is commonly learnt or desired.

Answer 15

I think so. I want frenchdict too. If you do this it will be very popular.