Why do so many people think spanish is hard its so easy
people say its to hard to learn
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I agree with Nancy. What one person finds easy another person might find difficult.
For me Spanish is easy until I come across things I don't know. For instance, I really don't know the difference between indicative and subjunctive verbs. And I certainly have a limited knowledge of even regular verbs.
I think I know a verb and then I discover it can be used in a totally different way. For instance "to drink" usually means "beber" but if specific fluids and foods are talked about like coffe, tea, or soup, "tomar" is used.
Instead of hard I consider to view Spanish difficulties as challenges. In other words I try and view the glass as 1/2 full rather than 1/2 empty; certainly easier said than done, but a valuable view or attitude to have in order to not give up the challenge of learning a new language.
Hi, elchapo! Welcome to the forum!
What an interesting point of view! As soon as you start to be more careful with your grammar and spelling in English you might be a great help for this forum!
I'm one of those who find it hard, but I can't wait to learn from your Spanish!
It depends on the point of view. For some people spanish may be very easy (French, Italian, Portuguese...), and for some - very difficult (Chinese, Japanese...). For Polish (I'm Polish) spanish isn't really difficult. But some think it's impossible to learn it.
But actually, no matter what your native language is, if you want to learn a language, you can do it.
So if you're just lazy and don't want to learn a language, you say - "It's so haaaard!"
If you want to learn a language and like it, you say - "Sometimes it's hard, but not so bad".
Hola, elchapo,
Maybe that is why the expression:
One man's meat is another man's poison.
La carne de un hombre es el veneno de otro hombre.
Spanish must be your "meat"!
Congratulations! Felicidades!
....but that 20000 points tells me you must be quite adept!
Nancy I had to look up adept, because I was not sure of it's meaning. "An adept (person) is an individual identified as having attained a specific level of knowledge..."
I think those who have attained even 50,000 reputation points will say they, too, are still learning and if asked what they are studying they can tell you their weak areas. In other words to just look at points does not really indicate how deeply embedded the new language (or new event in life) is.
Each of the forum members have a method or way of learning this difficult language. And as you were saying of elchapo, they have obtained that knowledge or "meat" through study, experience, maybe being a native speaker, or having access to native speakers. For elchapo, he says he is fluent is Spanish so of course it's easy for him. What makes it hard for others is the fact it's so new to them, or they haven't had a chance to travel and absorb the culture and tones of speech, and of course many here on the forum have been born into non-Spanish speaking countries.
Please forgive my attempts to express myself.
I agree that your language of origin has much to do with how "easy" or "hard" you find learning Spanish. Many concepts in Spanish have a clear relationship to concepts in English, but for others the idea is brand new. "Ser" vs. "Estar" for example.
Believe me I found learning Danish much much easier that learning Spanish.
I can explain the structure and conjugation of English regular verbs on one piece of A4 paper.
Try doing that for Spanish!
Of course you have to teach the Modals and Phrasal verbs seperately.
Some things are easier in Spanish I do admit.
Final comment - even "rocket science" is easy when you know it.
Many tenses, moods, conjugations, prepositions and pronoun placement are perplexing, subjunctive, etc.
I mean it's not like these are impossible concepts to grasp but putting it all together to become conversational is hard. Once you move up into advanced levels it gets challenging.
I think many people are fooled by Spanish because it has easy pronunciation and it's easy to spell words. But that's where the fun ends.
Its a lot easier than mandarin,ufff!
In spanish I struggle with the tenses and modes daily, the issue is that I am immersed for the most part. As I "work" in the forum and the lessons, I put work in quotes because its more fun than work. I find myself making fewer errors every day, and chatting more freely. Yes it is difficult for me at times ,I am a slow learner, but to everyone whose head is spinning with all the forms and verbs ,I'll just say "hang in there" it will all come together. If this old curmudgeon can do it so can you!!
i know plently of people who say Spanish is a hard language to learn. Everyone learns at a different pace.
I dare you to try German... rofl.
Acht alte Ameisen assen am Abend Ananas. 
Hello Elchapo and welcome to the Spanishdictforum 
I would have to say in response to your initial question and comment and taking account of what others have also said: It is all relative; (and I am not talking about aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents here lol) things that are easy for some to learn maybe perceived by others as much more difficult
It seems to depend upon an individual's early experiences or encounters with foreign languages, any innate potential for learning languages, and of course especially, not forgetting, their intrinsic interest and motivation to learn
Even those who find languages relatively easy would still have to work at learning new vocabulary they would simply be able to grasp/understand complex aspects of the language more quickly and easily than others.
Personally speaking, I find Spanish fairly easy. it is certainly easier than French to pronounce as it is more phonetic in nature and miles easier than Portuguese However, we are comparing the relative complexities of acquiring new languages as adults having to work at learning them. Children can usually learn so naturally to copy what is being said by significant adults with whom they communicate on a daily basis: eg parents, relatives , peers, teachers and only begin to understand the rules of grammar once they have started primary school....having already built up a significantly large vocabulary of around 5,000 words by the age of 5
Well i think spanish is one of the easiest languages. I tried learning russian.. and wow spanish is a lot easier.
