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To think that Spanish is a ridiculous language?

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Ammadam · 25/04/2025 09:58

Sorry to any spanish speakers. But I just wanted a mimor moan.

I've lived in France and Italy before. I thought the French and Italian languages were totally fine. They make sense. I became quite good at speaking Italian with the locals.

I'm in Spain on holiday. I've come to Spain many times on holiday, and so I'm always trying to learn Spanish a bit.

It's just such a crazy language.

Why is every word so long. Why are there so many changes for every word. Why does it sound like babble. Add to that, it's spoken extremely fast. Apparently it's the second fastest spoken language.

I was actually just talking about this to some Spanish people at a group here. They agreed that it's a very difficult language.

They said that everything is said in a much longer way than in English.

For example "Star wars" in Spanish, is "la guerra de galactica"

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RobinHood19 · 25/04/2025 10:53

SnoozingFox · 25/04/2025 10:51

I think it's fairly clear that the OP doesn't understand anything about languages. And is arguing with those of us who do.

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She’s also confused about how to google things.

An article on Star Wars the franchise and another one on the Galactic War, are apparently interchangeable and proof that the Spanish translations are all messed up.

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Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:53

RobinHood19 · 25/04/2025 10:48

This doesn’t refer to the movie title!!! It’s an article on the Galactic War (the conflict that happens in the movie). It’s literally the same wording as in English.

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As I've said many many times , it was a spanish person that told me that was the title.

I didn't come up with the phrase. You've said that spanish person is wrong. So that's that.
Be angry at him. Not me.
You don't need to keep saying it.

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Ddakji · 25/04/2025 10:52

Your thread title made me laugh so that you for that!

I know nothing about Spanish but it’s quite a jangly, gargly sounding language.

Portuguese on the other hand sounds more like Japanese to my ill-educated ear.

TinyTear · 25/04/2025 10:52

Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:31

Well I didnt come up with it did I

A spanish person told me that is what it is. So are you saying that they are wrong?

I went online to look.

It also literally says its "la guerra de galactica" on the spanish Wikipedia page"

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it literally doesn't

BlackStrayCat · 25/04/2025 10:52

SnoozingFox · 25/04/2025 10:29

I think it's la guerra de la galactica.

Think what you like, it's not.

And besides, the brand "Star Wars" is now so huge and widely recognised that most Spanish speakers would use the English phrase.

It depends where you live in Spain. There are at least 3 major dialects in Spain.

Octavia64 · 25/04/2025 10:52

I found Spanish one of the easier languages to learn. Admittedly only at tourist level.

i tried to learn some Greek for my holiday in Athens last year and by comparison that was very very hard!

SnoozingFox · 25/04/2025 10:51

OMGitsnotgood · 25/04/2025 10:50

I don’t think anyone who really understands anything about languages would claim that English is simpler than French or Spanish!

I think it's fairly clear that the OP doesn't understand anything about languages. And is arguing with those of us who do.

gertrudebiggles · 25/04/2025 10:51

Eh? Spanish is one of the easiest languages IMO.

French is far less intuitive

OMGitsnotgood · 25/04/2025 10:50

I don’t think anyone who really understands anything about languages would claim that English is simpler than French or Spanish!

Purplecatshopaholic · 25/04/2025 10:50

Did French, German and Russian at Uni. All hideous languages, lol. Currently learning Spanish, which I defo find easier. I gather English is really tough to be properly fluent in, so I’m glad I’m a native speaker, lol.

HauntedBungalow · 25/04/2025 10:50

TheNightingalesStarling · 25/04/2025 10:24

Ateast it uses the roman alphabet. Try Greek.

I see your Greek and raise you ... Russian. So. Many. Consonants.

Spanish is much easier than French imo, plus like a pp said if you have a go at speaking it while in Spain, Spanish folk will generally be quite encouraging towards you, rather than staring blankly at you and going back to doing their manicure or whatever. It is really fast though. And unstressed, so it's easy to get lost in long sentences when listening.

English is bonkers for speakers of most other languages. Pronunciation, grammar, spelling - the rules change all the time, especially for the most commonly used words. It's treacherous.

YRGAM · 25/04/2025 10:49

I get where you're coming from

Structurally and in vocabulary terms it's one of the simpler languages for Engish speakers to learn. But I think it's statistically the language spoken the most quickly in terms of syllables per minute, and that makes it extremely difficult

GreenCandleWax · 25/04/2025 10:49

Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:47

"One of the few" . You don't know spanish at all then i see.

There are loads of verbs like that in spanish

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I do speak reasonable though basic Spanish, as it happens - not like a Spanish person, but well enough.

Needhelp101 · 25/04/2025 10:49

YABU. I've been learning French, Spanish and Italian for over a year now and Spanish is by far the easiest.

SnoozingFox · 25/04/2025 10:48

Spanish speakers have told me that they think English is a very simple language.

They are humouring you.

They perhaps think it is easier because in Spain at least children are taught a foreign language - or two - from a much earlier age and many continue with it right through the end of secondary school. They are exposed to English through music, film, television and the internet in a way that English speakers are not exposed to Spanish.

WindingStair · 25/04/2025 10:48

Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:47

"One of the few" . You don't know spanish at all then i see.

There are loads of verbs like that in spanish

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Are you normally this belligerent about something you seem so deeply underinformed about?

RobinHood19 · 25/04/2025 10:48

Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:43

For fuck sake. Does it fucking matter!

Did you ever think I was looking at a different page to you. There are more than one websites. Here is the one that I was looking at.

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This doesn’t refer to the movie title!!! It’s an article on the Galactic War (the conflict that happens in the movie). It’s literally the same wording as in English.

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Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:47

GreenCandleWax · 25/04/2025 10:46

You have deliberately chosen one of the few irregular verbs in Spanish. The vast majority are regular and easy to learn.

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"One of the few" . You don't know spanish at all then i see.

There are loads of verbs like that in spanish

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Acc0untant · 25/04/2025 10:47

Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:40

English is so much easier than Spanish. There are much less word changes.

For example in English , it's

I go
You go
He goes
She goes
We go
They go

In Spanish it's

Yo voy
Tu vas
El va
Ella va
Nosotros vamos
Ellos van ( they for males)
Ellas van ( they for females)

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But you're not taking into account how the English actually speak to each other.

You might say I go, we go, they go etc but you'll also hear "we're off to the zoo" instead of "we are going to the zoo" or "we will go to the zoo." Other people might "nip" to the zoo, or "pop" to the zoo. I expect the proper phrasing should be "I will visit the zoo."

We have simple grammar but a huge number of exceptions and irregular verbs. English is one of the hardest languages to learn and without realising it you probably aren't speaking it in the way in which someone would learn.

SnoozingFox · 25/04/2025 10:46

BassesAreBest · 25/04/2025 10:44

But how is this worse than French?

Je vais
Tu vas
Il / elle / on va
Nous allons
Vous allez
Ils / elles vont

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Or German

Ich gehe
Du gehst
Er/Sie/Es geht
Wir gehen
Ihr geht
Sie gehen

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Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:46

BassesAreBest · 25/04/2025 10:44

But how is this worse than French?

Je vais
Tu vas
Il / elle / on va
Nous allons
Vous allez
Ils / elles vont

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I'm pointing out that Spanish is harder than English.

Spanish speakers have told me that they think English is a very simple language.

French and Italian have word changes too. But I think that a lot of things add up to make spanish more difficult

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GreenCandleWax · 25/04/2025 10:46

BassesAreBest · 25/04/2025 10:44

But how is this worse than French?

Je vais
Tu vas
Il / elle / on va
Nous allons
Vous allez
Ils / elles vont

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You have deliberately chosen one of the few irregular verbs in Spanish. The vast majority are regular and easy to learn.

WindingStair · 25/04/2025 10:46

Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:40

English is so much easier than Spanish. There are much less word changes.

For example in English , it's

I go
You go
He goes
She goes
We go
They go

In Spanish it's

Yo voy
Tu vas
El va
Ella va
Nosotros vamos
Ellos van ( they for males)
Ellas van ( they for females)

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That’s a completely ordinary verb conjugation…?

See for instance the English
I am
you are
he/she/it is
etc

RobinHood19 · 25/04/2025 10:45

Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:40

English is so much easier than Spanish. There are much less word changes.

For example in English , it's

I go
You go
He goes
She goes
We go
They go

In Spanish it's

Yo voy
Tu vas
El va
Ella va
Nosotros vamos
Ellos van ( they for males)
Ellas van ( they for females)

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Those are not “word changes”. They’re called verb conjugations. Regular verbs also don’t “change” like that. When you learn Spanish, you first learn to conjugate regular verbs - the example you’ve given is something that’s picked up quite easily as you go, or studied much later when the concept of regular and irregular verbs has been understood.

You also say French and Italian are easier. Do you realise they conjugate verbs exactly the same way as the Spanish?

  • je vais: (I go)
  • tu vas: (you go, singular)
  • il/elle/on va: (he/she/one goes)
  • nous allons: (we go)
  • vous allez: (you go, plural)
  • ils/elles vont: (they go)

The verb to go, in French. It’s even “worse” than Spanish! In Spanish all of them start with the same letter at least…

You do need a background in grammar to understand how to learn most languages though. English-speaking people don’t always have this grammar knowledge.

BassesAreBest · 25/04/2025 10:44

Ammadam · 25/04/2025 10:40

English is so much easier than Spanish. There are much less word changes.

For example in English , it's

I go
You go
He goes
She goes
We go
They go

In Spanish it's

Yo voy
Tu vas
El va
Ella va
Nosotros vamos
Ellos van ( they for males)
Ellas van ( they for females)

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But how is this worse than French?

Je vais
Tu vas
Il / elle / on va
Nous allons
Vous allez
Ils / elles vont

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