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Which language is easier to learn-french, spanish or german?

I want to learn a language, and i do really want to learn german because one side of my family is german, but is it hard to learn? Which is the easiest out of french, spanish and german. I did do a bit of spanish when i was at school. Also, which language is most useful, like which one is most commonly used in Business? Thanks.

The notion that one language is easier than another is an illusion. The only sure thing is the easiest foreign language you learn will be the first one. That's because you'll be younger at the time.

If you're a native English speaker, you'll have a very easy time with German vocabulary, but you will be driven nuts by the case system. On the other hand, if you do Spanish you will not be bothered by any case system but will go crazy with grammatical rules and verb forms. Perfective and imperfective etc.

Spanish is a simpler language, because it has been codified for longer and is less of a mongrel language than english. But English is more like German than any other language. Except Frisian and maybe Dutch.

If you learn French, you will find it is very, very similar to Spanish, like all Latin languages it took Latin and mutated it into something different. So you'll see the same thing at the root, but different on the surface. They are similar like English and German are similar.

In business the most commonly used language is English. Spanish is in business in Spain and Latin America, and German is used in Germany, and is also one of the four Mathematical languages. Also big in science and philosophy. Not to mention Communism, if you want to be a Marxist you'll get extra credit for being able to quote Das Kapital in the original German. Of course with Spanish you could quote Che Guevara. And French, you could quote Sartre.

Think about this: if you can learn both German AND Spanish, you will be in a perfect position to be a true multilingual. Spanish will let you easily conquer French and Italian, and their verb forms along with German cases will give you an opportunity to learn Russian. Then get Chinese or Japanese and you'll be a world traveler.

One other thing about German, they LOVE compound words. Like single family house, Einfamilienhaus. And they they will throw in prepositions and other filler words into those nouns too. Awful lot of complicated nouns in German. Hardest part of their language for an English speaker.