Is French Hard to Learn? - My Experience + Facts

[@civirus0796]

I’m fluent in both languages and I gotta admit that French is MUCH harder regarding grammar, even pronunciation could be tricky sometimes, but it is only a matter of hard work and practice guys

[@tinus1429]

French is « easy » to learn if you want to speak the « basics » of the language, but trust me, it will take you several years at least to write anything without any mistakes. I’m french, but I still make some mistakes in a french essay at the age of 18 and being native. And that happens to nearly all of french people, I mean it’s common to find a “conjugaison” mistake in a text. :)

[@deepalakshmi1674]

Thank u so much for this comment. Somehow i really hopeless for learning this. I'm passionate that's y I'm sticking!!

[@edo_far]

I have to say this channel became my favorite channel about language because of its frequency and its contents.

[@LanguageBoost01]

Eduardo Farías Thank you Eduardo. We're trying our best to stay consistent :)

[@gyp3xp48]

The primary requirement to learn any language is motivation. Choose subjects and vocabulary that you need to use. Any language is a living resource. It's not just an exercise from a book.

[@henriques9560]

his accent is adorable

[@stefanreichenberger5091]

By the way, knowing French helps enormously with learning Russian. There are a large number of French loanwords in Russian: магазин, этаж, кошмар, газета, пальто, макияж, каникулы, журнал etc.

[@cmolodiets]

каникулы ça vient du français? Je l'ignorais. C'est un faux amis alors

[@afrocyberdelia]

Bulgarian,rumanian,Turkish and farsi too

[@12341430]

Spanish is my native language, so French was quite easy for me to learn.

[@mbdg6810]

After learning french i could pick up spanish easily

[@陈昱良-v3p]

The Spanish is similar to English I think.

[@Marcelo-dk6ye]

@@陈昱良-v3p I'm spanish native speaker and fluent in English. I'm currently studying French, and I have to say that there are many similarities among these three languages.

[@陈昱良-v3p]

@@Marcelo-dk6ye Actually, it's quite difficult for us Chinese speakers to get used to your linguistic habits.

[@marcosantonio9987]

I think the hardest part is definitely the writing. One of the things that hampered me from learning French faster is that I didn't find interesting content as easy as with English. For example, I just found some musics in French that I like, while that in English I have a huge variety of songs I am addicted.

[@robertosoto1370]

The first time i took the task of learning french without taking classes i decided i wanted to learn it all by my self i didn't only found it difficult to learn due to the pronunciation, i found it very tricky french as everyone knows is not phonetic like its cousins languages ;spanish, portuguese,italian&Romanian french &portuguese are nasal languages,but french is even more nasal than portuguese once you get the hang of it &learn how to pronounce it then it gets lot easier for sure french is a beautiful language & i am very passionate about it in spite of a lot of frustration i wiil master the language sooner or later je pense que j'ai ameliore ma pronunciation je sais que je peux parles francaise couramment!!!

[@dreamingoffluency1519]

Great vid! Obviously any language is hard, but I always considered French one step above the rest in terms of difficulty. Thanks for breaking it down into conversational french (to get by) vs super fluent French.

[@JoyeuxJovialement1]

I do agree totally for the written language.

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[@stefanreichenberger5091]

It took me 2 courses in Germany and 2 years of full immersion in France to become fluent. I found French much harder than Spanish (also harder than Portuguese).

[@edo_far]

I think 2 years It is a realistic time to learn another language in a high level (b2,c1)

[@stefanreichenberger5091]

Well, in fact I was only conversational after two years, not completely fluent. At least after two years I finally understood what people said...

[@edo_far]

Currently I have been 1 year in Sweden, and I reach a conversational level, but I still struggle to understand long speeches or movies without subtitles. I hope It will not take more than 2 years, although I already began with another language, and I bet you are being a little humble with your level.

[@leiton5541]

Youre absolutely right I speak anglais et espagnol ..francais is driving me crazy ....

[@essombayankep5070]

Hello. I 'm call Soh from Cameroon that is a bilingual country ( French and English ) .i am a native French speaking .then i am also preparing my fslc in Inglish language .in conclusion iam bilingual. With my experience in learning , French language is more difficult to learn ,speak than English language because in French we have some accents,articles ,combinasons required that makes it difficult.

[@jian658]

People always think that Chinese is difficult , this is not true , in fact Chinese is most easy language to learn in the world ( one sample : I go movie tomorrow , they go to movie now , she go to movie yesterday , “go” all the same never change。。。。。。。。。。。）Chinese no tense ,no voice , no gender , after you learn 1000 words and expressions and Chinese totally has only about 410 different pronunciation , you will be master of Chinese another sample : Chinese say : big violin : cello hand machine : cell phone electricity brain : Computer alibi( in Chinese , even do not have this word ) Chinese people just simply said ( piece of evidence that no be there ) ...........

[@seanifraimov7278]

The tones tho

[@Remolizzo]

English is my native language but I grew up with Spanish too. I’m learning French now, and the grammar is easier to grasp if you have foundations in another Romance language. The spelling and pronunciation are the most difficult parts for me.

[@axek9954]

I'm native russian speaker. I studied french at school about 30 years ago. Now I'm restoring skills. Also I use english and a little german. I can say that french is not difficult. Difficult langs are: chinese, arabic. I tried them both... too much time is needed.

[@stefanreichenberger5091]

My problems were - auditive comprehension - the grammar, which is much more messy and less logical than Spanish grammar - the high degree of metaphoricity (?) of the French vocabulary

[@Neuroneos]

French grammar is not illogical, it's just extremely precise and nuanced. What do you mean, messy?

[@holysex1052]

And I oop

[@JoyeuxJovialement1]

@@Neuroneos i would say both. Precise but the spelling is a mess with double letters.

[@ashspace0880]

I 'm french and this is difficult to learn your French is so sweet and cute bon courage 🇨🇵🤗❤

[@languageswithotavio]

Merci mon ami !

[@Swiss_Mountain_Girl]

I always had much more difficulties in learning French than in learning Chinese. 😄 And one reason is definetely that Chinese grammar is much easier than French grammar! And as a native and teacher in the German language I know exactly about difficult grammar. In fact I've started learning French in the age of 10 years (16 years ago), but the older I got the less I used the language anymore. So I actually never got to the point to speak the language fluently. On the other hand I've started learning Chinese just 4/5 years ago and I am very fluent now and that's mostly because I now use Chinese every single day. Would I say Chinese is easier than French in general? Well, it depends... (on what means difficult for you personally). It's excactly as you said, you need to spend a lot of time learning the language and you need to be passionate about thelanguage. That's the most important thing to learn a new language. 😊

[@maxhope7691]

Hi ! Have you been learning how to write Chinese too? If yes, how do you find it?

[@TheBouliboula]

« If you see a russian word you know How to pronounce it »....that ‘s true only if you know the accentuation...moloko is not pronounced moloko....

[@cmolodiets]

even if you know the accentuation you don't necessarily know how it is pronounced

[@hannahduggan3599]

Thank you for this wonderful video. The French language is so classy and elegant. And you are very cute.

[@baranaksoy3096]

Where is Lucas???

[@steverocksyo]

Your default pronunciation of your French works sounds really good, especially for three years. Maybe because your English is Dutch/British? Especially because you're saying other languages are easier. With my American English I really have to try to make my French words sound more the way the French would pronounce it.

[@archivo2895]

C’est trop bien cette video

[@jbyoungfr]

For me English reading is much more tricky! Maybe I am not objective because I am French lol! Sinon ta prononciation est assez bonne!

[@rushdialrashed9627]

The difficulties of French are :,YOU : say blah blah blah. ME : huh? Hmmmm, dunno. YOU write it. ME: oh! Ok. That’s easy. The problem is the huge gap between the saying and writing - reading! Loooads of letters are not pronounced , plus the IRRAGULAR verbs. So here u go, voila!

[@bigpissboy]

My goal is to learn French, and then move on to Spanish.

[@b-6870]

Goodness! Same here😂

[@לעזאזלעםגוביידן]

Same

[@mbdg6810]

I need some time to pick up spanish, i already know lots of french

[@sgtK0420]

You should try learning Korean someday!! haha

[@desalpagesgator4988]

Un français met neuf ans pour acquérir la base de la grammaire, il met douze ans pour atteindre le niveau du français standard, à la condition qu'il soit doué. Seul un quart de la population française parle correctement le français, pour l'orthographe c'est une catastrophe, et pour la syntaxe on se demande s'ils comprennent ce qu'ils disent. Il y a plusieurs types de français, le français écrit et le français parlé, divisés en français familial, populaire, argotique, standard, littéraire et érudit, le parlé ordinaire ne peut pas s'écrire car il y a des difficultés pour exprimer les élisions. Lorsque vous apprenez le français, vous apprenez le français standard, celui des journalistes, des présentateurs radio et télévision, des hommes politiques ainsi que des responsables de la communication des entreprises ou des organisations privées ou publiques. N'oubliez pas que la langue française est la plus précise du monde. N'oubliez pas aussi que l'oubli d'un accent ou d'une liaison peut changer entièrement le sens d'une phrase, comme exemple : l'animal s'enfuit dès qu'on avait ouvert la porte, si vous ne faite pas la liaison de "qu'on_avait" la phrase doit s'écrire "l'animal s'enfuit, des cons avaient ouvert la porte" et la phrase devient une grossièreté. A Frenchman takes nine years to acquire the basis of grammar, it takes twelve years to reach the level of standard French, provided that he is gifted. Only a quarter of the French population speaks French correctly, for spelling it is a disaster, and for syntax we wonder if they understand what they say. There are several types of French, written French and spoken French, divided into family, popular French, slang, standard, literary and scholar, the ordinary spoken can not be written because there are difficulties to express the elisions . When you learn French, you learn standard French, that of journalists, radio and television presenters, politicians as well as communication managers of companies or private or public organizations. Do not forget that the French language is the most precise in the world. Remember also that forgetting an accent or a binding can completely change the meaning of a sentence, for example: "L'animal s'enfuit dès qu'on avait ouvert la porte" (the animal flees as soon as the door was opened), if you do not not the link of "qu'on-avait" had "the sentence must be written "L'animal s'enfuit, des cons avaient ouvert la porte" (the animal flees, some idiots had opened the door) and the sentence becomes a rudeness (the English translation does not exactly reflect the meaning of the sentence).

[@diariosdelextranjero]

Es un milagro que pude entender tanto del texto por saber hablar el español. 🙂

[@desalpagesgator4988]

@@diariosdelextranjero J'ai écouté un reportage en portugais brésilien, je comprenais 80 % du texte alors que je ne parle pas portugais. J'arrive à lire assez facilement l'italien, l'anglais, le catalan, moins l'espagnol car je ne rencontre que rarement cette langue dans mon travail.

[@mbdg6810]

Je suis stupéfait !! You wrote all that and translated it? Excellent travaille mon ami

[@shantellewilliams1977]

Bonjour! Je m'appelle Shantelle. I have been learning french on my own and I must say that it has been pretty hard. One of the problems i'm having is that french speakers, speak too fast and as result of that you cant quite understand what they are saying.. and also, the pronounciations of some words with the letter " R" have become overbearing! The french " R" literally hurt my throat.

[@JoyeuxJovialement1]

Try to listen some singers : Maître Gims or France Gall.

[@paulvaulker5004]

I am new to this channel and I thought you were actually French and then I hear "When I started learning French..." surprise, surprise. Yeah, I will soon learn your nationality, no worries.

[@canman5060]

If you can pronounce the acute 'u' effortlessly you will have no problem in learning French.

[@andythurlow1614]

Even the French people that I speak to think that French is very hard and complicated lol.

[@pje1976]

I learned French for two years after 10th class . Still I can’t understand French speakers by listening even the words I learned. I think French people speak too fast for for me catch words.

[@essombayankep5070]

I can identify your problem .you know my brother ,in French language there is lesson in the primary that we call that means sound and word building in Inglish language.if you want improve how to listen to English try downloading it on play store app and study it .

[@stefanreichenberger5091]

I'm not sure whether Russian is really more difficult than French. Once one has understood the basic concepts of Slavic grammar, Russian is pretty straightforward, I think.

[@carlos158]

I think it also depends on where you come from, I am Spanish and French will be much easier for me than Russian.

[@LockMacFly]

Hahahaha how many hours have you studied russian? The words are so different, the grammar is very hard to master and the pronounciation is not as it is written down, it's similar but not the same. There is nothing more for a language to make it more difficult. Or wait Long vowels, rolling R, hard and soft sign, very fast speed in the north, кгшщчхц that often have different endings, words that connect to a specific case,...

[@stefanreichenberger5091]

LockMacFly: Not too long: 1.5 years. I've done 5 courses so far. The rolling r is not unique to Russian. Indeed, I can't do it, but I've heard native speakers on the radio who can't do it either. So I don't worry about that.

[@LockMacFly]

Stefan Reichenberger lol, doesn't mean you shouldn't neither. Nobody talks perfectly but that's not an excuse to just sound bad :D

[@LockMacFly]

Stefan Reichenberger anyway that's not the point being. The point is that french is way more easy.

[@the-language-learner]

French is very easy, I speak it since I was born 😂

[@fmango]

Spanish : Yo como, tu comes, el come, nosotros comemos, ellos comen

[@Girvid]

English pronunciation (and spelling) is still much more difficult and irregular than French.

[@jbyoungfr]

So true!

[@thename535]

Nope, english is easiest and I ma asian

[@НадеждаПопова-л9г]

Girvid English speakers don't speak so quickly as French ones. So it's easier to recognize words in sentences.

[@theatreman292]

Girvid XD I’m only 15yo and english is just super easy to learn (and speak) u r telling shit dude

[@Mateo-et3wl]

The spelling in english is worse but not the pronunciation

[@youmuqututube4248]

I like your accent 'onnest' hahaha klinkt een beetje als rotterdams

[@afrocyberdelia]

French is spoken mainly only in one country: France Where else only by a minority always poorer than the rest of the country. Guess why?😂😂😂

[@user-mrfrog]

Ce qui est fatigant avec les langues, ce sont les exceptions aux règles! Pourquoi, les chouX mais les chouchouS? En anglais, il y a toutes les différentes prononciations pour -ough! Ex. Cough, through, bough... En ce moment, j'apprends l'islandais! Vive les déclinaisons! Mdr

[@lanzamaxxing]

as a native french speaker, i fucking hate french. Gerondif, passé composé, présent de l’indicatif, futur proche, conditionnel, concordance des temps, impératif, règles inutiles, exception, grammaire, subjonctif, proposition, passé simple, adverbes, propositions subordonnées relatives… y’a trop de trucs

[@timarnott9784]

GO AWAY M8