What is an easier language to learn – Russian or French?
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at
10:50 am
Both languages intrigue me, and I would like to learn one, but Im not sure which would be easier. Im kind of an impatient person, so the easier the better!
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if you’re a native english speaker i’d imagine french should probably be easier, for starters you’d already know the alphabet, and pronunciation isn’t that different either.
French is way easier to learn, since you already speak English. English and French are related… because English was originally a mixture of French, and German. They share common words and sentence structure.
Also, French is more useful, imo. You can use it in many parts of Africa, South America, Europe and even Canada. Russian is just useful in Russia. Although, there’s fantastic Russian literature that you can really only appreciate the full value of in Russian, because it’s non-translatable.
You can’t go wrong with either.
Dear friend,You will need a lot of patience.I have been learning Spanish during the last 50 years and I am not done.I think it would be easier to learn French than Russian.Russian has a different alphabet.Unlike English and French it does not share words from the Latin.Any language is very difficult to learn and takes many years of constant exposure and repetition.
FRENCH
its the same alphabet and mostly the same grammar structure if you know spanish it would be even more helpful but knowing english you should take french. Russian is very confusing and has a whole different alphabet. Besides so many more countries speak french including europe (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, etc.) and also eastern africa (Nigeria, Cameroon, Algeria etc.) French Guiana is in South America, Haiti and various other islands and also in North America ( Canada and even Louisiana! so you would have so many more opportunities to speak it rather than just going to Russia.
Think about it!
French would be easier, but russian isnt that hard to learn at all… dont let the others mislead you. I am doing russian and im finding it a walk in the park
russian unlike french is a very structured language and doesnt have as many exceptions to rules as french does (my russian teacher often jokes by comparing russian to the strict soviet government where everything must follow rules).
russian has 6 cases; Nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, prepositional, instrumental.
whilst french has only got 3; Nominative, objective and genitive. (and these i believe are only for pronouns)…
so in that sense french is easier to learn since there is alot less grammar to learn. even still russian grammar isnt hard to learn at all, its just that theres just alot of it.
i think the russian language is alot more pleasing to the ear. (but thats just my opinion)
in terms of usefulness;
well russia is a major player in the political arena and russian is one of the six official languages of the UN, and because its considered a hard language. it looks very good on your CV when your applying for competitive jobs. (im learning russian specificly because it would help me get a place to do medicine at a better university)
it is the 5th most spoken language in the world with 277 million speakers
it will make learning other languages such as bulgarian, ukranian, french much easier to learn
not to mention russian girls are HOT!
French is also a good language to learn because its a language that is widely spoken albeit not as much as russian (being the 10th most spoken language with 127 million speakers).
its a political language and is also one of the six official languages of the UN.
it a romance language and will make other romance languages easier to learn such as romanian, spanish etc.