For all the non-native speaker: which is harder, German or French?

[otomatoe]

German is my 3rd language and is my main language in the workplace. and yeah, life's like that so I need to learn French to be a better individual at work lol.

I know German's grammar is really......something. I struggled. until this very day. I think the biggest problem for me learning new language, especially French, is the pronunciation since I believe it'll be so much different than German, and also the grammar. I wonder how the French grammar actually works, I haven't dig much but I already got the big picture. So my conclusion is:

German is easier in pronunciation, but harder in grammar;
French pronunciation might be harder, but might be easier in grammar.


So, for all the non-native speaker of both German and French, which do you think is the harder in general? Any suggestions for learning method?

 

[King Dorado]

ah didnt read you whole post-- i know only a smattering of french, but can speak childish conversational german. tried to learn french for a bit as a kid but didnt pursue it. As a native English speaker the German vocabulary and pronunciation is just so much easier given that English is a Germanic language.

 

[otomatoe]

ah didnt read you whole post-- i know only a smattering of french, but can speak childish conversational german. tried to learn french for a bit as a kid but didnt pursue it. As a native English speaker the German vocabulary and pronunciation is just so much easier given that English is a Germanic language.

Agree! the one thing that helped me learn German earlier is because of I knew English before. I'm not really sure about French, I know some words sounds similar but it is a whole new thing for me :')

 

[nintendofan85]

French, in my opinion.

 

[Shimmer]

French. It's closer to English in my opinion. The sentence structure is basically the same and a lot of French words are similar to English words like chocolate is le chocolat in French.

I mean, us Canadian kids grew up with French classes in elementary school so maybe I'm biased. xP

 

[crystalmilktea]

French sentence structure is very similar to English, the hardest part about it is probably the tenses, and conjugations. But you can definitely get by without knowign all of those perfectly! I was in "Late Immersion" and started learning French when I was 12, then 2 years later was mixed in with all the other French students who had been learning since at least they were 8. I think French is a pretty easy language to learn the basics of, of course the nuances would take a while (I still don't even know everything, but would consider myself more or less fluent)

 

[otomatoe]

French. It's closer to English in my opinion. The sentence structure is basically the same and a lot of French words are similar to English words like chocolate is le chocolat in French.

I mean, us Canadian kids grew up with French classes in elementary school so maybe I'm biased. xP

French sentence structure is very similar to English, the hardest part about it is probably the tenses, and conjugations. But you can definitely get by without knowign all of those perfectly! I was in "Late Immersion" and started learning French when I was 12, then 2 years later was mixed in with all the other French students who had been learning since at least they were 8. I think French is a pretty easy language to learn the basics of, of course the nuances would take a while (I still don't even know everything, but would consider myself more or less fluent)

ahh, this encourages me to get better understanding of French :') Thank you guys! <3 I just have to think if I can befriend German then I must be able to make French as my acquaintance lol

 

[King Dorado]

well bear in mind they're saying they are in french canada, so that's a unique setting re learning english and french languages.