If you learn spanish,will you want to learn french?
Learning one language can help you learn another!
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Oh no I decided that I'll learn Greek after finishing my Spanish course , learning Greek is a challenge for me !!!
I've studied French quite a bit. I think that French is easier to learn than Spanish. As an native English speaker, I've found that because English vocablulary comes 60% from French (due to the Norman invasion of 1066) there are fewer false cognates and Elizabethian English (as one would find in the US Appalachians) borrow French constructs. "I commenced to . . " from "Je commence á . . .". "I heard tell . . ." from "J'ai entendu dire"
Soooo . . . as a French Canadian by ancestry, I would encourage you to learn French. It all depends on whether you think you would need French more than you need Italian or Portugese.
French is all Greek to me.
I will probably stick to Spanish, but you are right it does get easier once you have learnt one language, other than your own. Or so my sisters family tell me and they all speak at least 3 languages so they should know.
I was a fluent French speaker before I started learning Spanish and I've noticed TONS of similarities - not so much in vocabulary, but grammatical structure and conjugations (past tenses, subjunctive). You'll definitely find French easier to get your head around with a background of Spanish!
Heh... well, I'm learning French now. There are more differences than I imagined at first, knowing (more or less) Spanish. Some things are closer to English, others closer to Spanish, but you'll see the connection to both.
The words and language concepts that are used all the time are definitely somewhat different from both, and I was a bit surprised at how much I actually had to learn from a clean slate.
I haven't been to France for any relevant amount of time, but the French people I've met in Norway and other places have actually been wonderful, so I strongly suspect that any notions floating around about French people are simply based on cultural differences, but hey, I live and learn.
I learned French when I was a youngster living in Europe: when I struggle to find the correct word in Spanish, my 'young' brain promptly delivers the word I need in French no less. My language lessons have taught me that we don't appreciate our young brains, which sopped up everything to learn quickly and easily.
I have to admit I find it preposterous that, years ago, people always touted Spanish as the easier of the two languages. I think people may have been referencing that in Spanish you at least get a clue with the a or o endings of nouns as to the gender of the word whereas when learning French, one or at least I, was given pages and pages of nouns and had to memorize the gender.
Me gusta españo. No francé 
Learning spanish has been step one in my explorations of latin american culture, i then began learning Triqui (a language from Oaxaca) in rural Mexico, and next i want to learn Aymara and Quechua. I have found spanish most useful in understanding pieces of tagalog conversation as well. Maybe one day I will work up the motivation to learn Japanese, but since it is not latin based, nor connected to the languages of south america, that one might be a long ways down the road.
I find that I am forgetting what little French I knew.
Before I started learning Spanish in earnest I thought it would be wonderful to learn both Spanish and French. Now that I realize that learning a language well is a lifetime activity (i.e. you don't just take a few courses and become fluent) I plan on staying with Spanish. For me it is more useful.
Considering a good portion of my family is from Quebec and speaks French as their first language, I probably should have learned that before Spanish. To answer your question, yes, I'd love to learn French. I'm really excited that I'll have people to practice with.
The only thing I'm not sure about is whether or not it's a good idea to start while I'm still in the middle of learning Spanish. Does anyone here have any experience learning two languages at once?
Si tuvíeras tiempo me gustaría estudiar Fránces siguiente.
No I would prefer Italian.
The Italians would appreciate my efforts more than the French.
Me gustaría aprender Inglés siguiente.
I would like to learn English next.
From Sir Ian.
