To think that Spanish is a ridiculous language?

[Ammadam]

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"

That’s a completely ordinary verb conjugation…?

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

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

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

Or German

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

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.

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

There are loads of verbs like that in spanish

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Eh? Spanish is one of the easiest languages IMO.

French is far less intuitive

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

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!

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

it literally doesn't

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.

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.

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.

Spanish is very similar to Italian so you are being unreasonable.

Why are you so obsessed with Star Wars OP?