Spanish grammar vs. English grammar
Which is simpler in terms of syntax?
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English is harder because of its Germanic routes and many "exceptions" and "irregularities." Spanish has a relatively simpler and logical grammatical structure to it.
Hello, i'm from Spain, i speak spanish and understand french. The english is easy for learn fast, but only a basical english, is not easy thinking in english. The French , for exemple, is hard, but easy thinking in french when you know a basic french .
If i use a automatic traslator for French or Germany i understand de most messages, with the english is impossible.
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I think that in general English is easier than Spanish.
Neither of them is my native language, I had to learn English in school, and I started to learn Spanish recently, just for fun.
Anyway: - In English you don't have to know gender of nouns that point to things that are not people or animals (whether it is feminine or masculine). - Nouns which denote things without animal life are said to be Neuter or of Neuter Gender. - When it comes to conjugation of regular verbs, things are pretty straightforward. While in Spanish with each personal pronoun goes different verb form, in English it is not the case. (vivir -> vivo, vives, vive, vivimos, vivís, viven....to live -> I live, you live, he lives, we live, you live, they live).
OK, maybe reading and pronounciation are little bit harder in English, but still generally I find English a bit easier...
Of course, Spanish sounds better than English 
Whenever me or other people in my language classes complain about French or German grammar, my teachers always tell us to spare a thought for the people learning English because of its irregularity and lack of any structure whatsoever.
But on the other hand, my boyfriend,who is Mexican, says that English is really easy to learn and that's the reason he's almost 100% fluent in it. This leads him on to say that i'll never achieve fluency in Spanish because he reckons it's the second hardest language after Japanese to learn and he does not reckon my language skills are up to the challenge. 
...............but little does he know that with the right motivation (him) i can do anything i set my mind to 
I think English Grammar is definatley much more simpler then the Spanish grammar as in Spanish grammar there included many symbols and hyphen marks like French and German so writing wise English Grammar is much simpler and easier then Spanish Grammar
Many good points made but also a lot of confusion (stemming from the vagueness of the question).
The fact that English is a Germanic language has little to do with how hard it is to learn (German grammar is much more regular than that of English). A major complicating factor is that English, although a Germanic language, has been subject to tremendous influence by French (and, both directly and indirectly by Latin). During, roughly, the 18th/19th centuries, there was tremendous influence from the "linguists" to fix English grammar (so as to correspond more closely to Latin (which was thought to be the ideal).
According to most authorities, where English shines, is when one wants to obtain a minimal capacity to communicate. For really basic communication, a few thousand word vocabulary suffices and one needn't concern oneself with the subtleties of grammar. The main problem is that for real fluency, one must deal with our "phrasal verbs" (and here there are no rules, simply hundreds/thousands of expressions for which there is no logic (other than "that's the way we say it").
When I studied Arabic, the teaching method was purely "conversational" (no real discussions of formal grammar) but I rarely/never had the inclination to ask "Why on earth do they say it this way?" In fact, I had very little sense of exceptions/irregularities (although there must have been some). There were only two features that seemed unusual: the distinction between feminine/masculine in direct address (2nd person sing/plural) and the frequent use of an internal vowel change to distinguish sing/plural (as opposed to a change in suffix).
On the basis of my experience in this forum, Spanish speakers make few/no mistakes in Spanish (and not many in English) while native English speakers almost always employ constructions that are (at best) considered colloquial and by some, flat out incorrect.
I never have understood the contention that English has "no structure whatsoever." To me, this statement in itself is patently absurd.
Certainly, to say that English has a different structure than Spanish is accurate, but even between these two languages there exist certain similarities regarding construction. Both languages have enough differences, however, to make them a challenge to someone seeking to undertake to study them.
Regarding the issue of structure, in some cases English does tend to follow a seemingly less structured pattern of syntax; however, there are also instances where Spanish might appear less structured. For example, in English a strict Subject-Verb-Object order; however, in this order in Spanish is not clearly defined, that is to say there exists more flexibility in where the object and subject are placed within a sentence in relation to the verb. For those used to a more rigid sentence structure, this type syntactic freedom can seem very confusing when first learning Spanish.
All that being said, in both languages, with a bit of study and familiarity, it is possible to discover a structural pattern. However, even with an understanding of this pattern one is bound to find instances of divergence from these patterns (in the case of irregular verbs or idiomatic usages etc) in both languages.
Have a look in the conjugation tool above for the verb "to be" in English and then do the same for the Spanish "ser" and "estar".
In English there are about 15 variations max and in Spanish 100s.
Try the translator for the words this - that - these - those.
Now tell me which language is "easier"
As for automatic translators I agree the lack of "structure" in English can cause problems.
