(23-04-2018 03:13)Сяргей Леанідавіч писал(а): Каково ваше мнение?
Интересно, что по этому поводу пишут нэйтив спикеры.
«French is easier. Because of the Norman invasion of England, French and English share something like 30% of their vocabulary.»
«both French and German have very complicated grammar compared to English.»
«German and English are in the same language group but the former's grammar is far more complicated. On the other hand, I find speaking German far easier than French, which has a lot of sounds very foreign to English.»
«I'm Canadian, so French was a part of the curriculum, and let me tell you...no. German's easier, and I learned the bulk of it on my own. It's not even like I had more interest in German, I took French 3 more years than I had to, it's just a large pain.»
«Also, for English speakers, French can be easy to understand or even to write, but really difficult to speak. My gf is American and despite spending a year and a half in France her spoken French is still quite bad whereas she's fine with comprehension.»
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/going-fro...an.999569/
«Luckily the relationship between German and English made other parts of the learning process much easier though. Pronunciation isn't as difficult as French, though it does take some effort to soften/adjust your vowels and even some consonants (why is "r" hard in every language for me?
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«For English speakers? Almost undebatably German. The case system, the grammar, and the unintuitiveness of many aspects of German all make it harder. Also, a lot of English words come directly from French, and are spelled the same. I can often guess a French word just by saying the English word in a French accent.»
«Word order and the 48 possible adjective endings is what is hard about German for me. Several of the French tenses sound really similar though (imparfait and future) and then the compound tenses are pretty difficult because they're similar too.»
«While I understand why many would say German is more difficult, I have to vote French. German is highly regular and transparent - the rules, while perhaps more complicated than those in French, are nonetheless clear on their own terms, and there aren't very many irregular conjugations or pronunciations. French, on the other hand, is riddled with irregularities. The spoken irregularities - all the unvoiced syllables, compounded by the tendency towards slurred diction - drive me crazy.»
https://www.duolingo.com/comment/6677616...-or-German