Question: Is Spanish or English considered harder?
Is Spanish considered harder than English, or is English considered harder than Spanish?
Es el Español considera más difícil del Inglés, o es el Inglés consideró más difícil que Español?
Please correct my Spanish.
12 Answers
Back in the days of yore, I would have said that you're all completely off your heads, but as I peruse through the comments want to bang my head on the wood of my desk. I think some threw the main point out the window: It takes many, many years to become proficient in a language (even if one grew up speaking it). It's a funny thing about language because of its many exceptions to the rules. Those are the things that confuse me the most - in any language, which is ever-evolving. That's my silly answer, and I'm sticking to it.
I could say English is easier, because I spoke it from birth. I am taking ages to learn Spanish because there are so many sentences that do not translate exactly to English (and vise-versa). Plus, I am not speaking with Hispanics every single day - that's the big difference.
But then again...
Speaking as a non-native of either country: Yes, I agree, Spanish is much harder, becasuse of the verbs. English has 7 tenses in use, Spanish has 13, and all conjugated to the person...
I come from a country that forgot how to conjugate verbs hundreds of years ago! English is easier!
However I would like to add that English spelling and pronunciation appear totally random and illogical. At least, in Spanish, if you can say it, you can write it, or vice versa. In English, no.. How do you pronounce the simple word bow? Three letters only...
My sweetheart tied a bow to my hair , then he bowed to me before reclining in the bow of a ship under the boughs of the old oak tree where it was moored. My brother shot him with an arrow from his bow. I was bowled over. Sure, easy!
Yo creo que el Español es mas difícil que el ingles, creo que al tener tantas formas verbales y demás cosas es más difícil hablar bien el Español que el Ingles
Is Spanish considered harder than English, or is English considered harder than Spanish?
Harder for whom?
Yo también creo que el español es más difícil, pero con matices. Por ejemplo, para un francés o italiano seguramente le será más fácil de aprender el español que el inglés, ya que nuestras lenguas proceden del latín. Creo que en eso tenemos ventaja, porque las declinaciones nos son familiares y nos cuesta menos aprender cualquier otro idioma, incluido el alemán.
Pero en general, la gramática inglesa es más sencilla, en mi opinión. Y el vocabulario se aprende igual en cualquier idioma.
Algo que me gusta mucho del español, a diferencia del inglés, es que la pronunciación está muy bien reglada. Conociendo las reglas, cualquiera puede leerlo correctamente aun sin saber una sola palabra de español. Y por la misma razón, cualquiera que conozca las reglas puede escribir correctamente lo que escuche en español aunque no haya oído esas palabras en su vida (salvo excepciones, como palabras con b o v, que se pronuncian igual, las "h" intercaladas y poco más).
HCAStudent, te corrijo la frase: ¿Se considera el Español más difícil que el Inglés, o se considera el Inglés más difícil que el Español?
Mi sugerencia:¿Qué se considera más difícil (de aprender): el Inglés o el Español?
Ahora que se algo de Ingles, pienso que el español que aprendí desde niño es mas dificil que el ingles. ¿Porque? Porque hay cosas extras que aprender en el español. Hay muchisimos verbos que son bien dificiles de conjugar y puedo seguir......
Now that I know some English, I think that the Spanish I learned from childhood is more difficult than English. Why? Because there are extra things to learn in Spanish. There are many verbs, which are difficult to conjugate and can go on......
Assuming we are comparing a fluent Spanish speaker learning English and vice versa, there are many similarities where the words have a Latin or Greek route, but English also shares many words with German. When I first started to learn Spanish I had already studied [but not mastered] French and I loved the ease of pronunciation of Spanish.[iti is definitely easier to pronounce than English!] I find basic Spanish a joy, but mastering [and remembering] all the different verb conjugations and the meanings very tricky. I think using the correct preposition is as difficult in English as Spanish. English has a much larger vocabulary. However, I assume phrasal verbs and pronunciation/spelling must be a major headache for learners . I still remember a fun lesson when I was 8 and the teacher was explaining how to pronounce 'ough' He wrote a word and we pronounced it - it was the one annie mentioned 'bough' which rhymes with cow. he then wrote cough and pronounced it cow and we had to say No! It rhymes with off.He then wrote through and pronounced it 'throff' There are eight different ways to pronounce those letters and I am pleased I learned them as a young child!
I was at a party last Saturday where I was the only native English speaker. This and my boat were two of the biggest conversations. Sitting at a table of 12, everyone when asked this question said that Spanish is by far the harder language to learn. Now that is 11 native Spanish speakers saying it is easier to learn English than to learn their native language. The only aspect of English that was almost universally mentioned as being difficult is pronunciation due to so many different vowel sounds.
So the winner is .....
I feel that English is harder to learn
Two Spanish speakers have expressed their opinions already. I concur with them: Spanish is harder to learn than English. I get to speak with Latinos often, and some of them have told me so too.
I had someone tell me that it is easier to learn Spanish first and then English, but I don't have any experience with that. 
It seems though that English would easier to learn first and then Spanish because English is a lot more seemingly complex, and most times it's easier to go from complex to simple, at least in this case it seems like it would.
I've spoken English my whole life and am now trying to learn Spanish. So I'm coming from the native-English speaking point of view. I find neither one to be harder than the other. Both are complex languages with their own quirks and rules. I see that some Spanish-speaking members think that English is easier because Spanish has strange verbs and things, but English is just as bad. It has weird verbs, nouns, and prepositions. Sentence structure is strange, and it is horrible to try and pronounce the words. My sister who is older than me still cannot properly pronounce many of the words she uses, and we are forever correcting her. Findy's post gives an excellent example of the confusion in English. I'm not saying that English is harder though, because I do not know enough Spanish to judge fairly. But from what I learned from Spanish, it is confusing too. I have a hard time conjugating the verbs and figuring out how to write a sentence. The pronunciation is hard for me too, sometimes. So, I believe it is simply a matter of opinion on whether a language is hard or easy to learn. Some people say English is harder, and some say Spanish. But I'm going to say that they're both the same level of difficulty, it just depends on your point of view.
Oh, and I'm not going to translate all this into Spanish
