French vs. Italian - Which Language is Harder?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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The advantage of Italian over other languages is that it is spoken as one reads without major changes. The Italian has a very complex grammar, but I believe that the sound of Italian is one of the most beautiful in the world, even if anyone who imitates an Italian always ends up imitating Super Mario
Italian is absolutely gorgeous
L’italiano è lo strumento della cultura italiana ed è la 4 lingua più studiata al monti. L’Italia è la patria del bel canto che parla Italiano. A
Aww, thanks for support my leanguege
actual fun fact: charles martinet (the voice of mario") is french
@@christianzeugna no he's american
I tried learning french for about a year and a half and still couldn't hold a conversation because I have a terrible time identifying french sounds into words. I've only been studying Italian for about 6 months but it is a lot easier to understand when I hear it spoken.
Also counting in french is bonkers. quatre-vingt-dix-neuf? They need another revolution.
I totally agree with you Cameron. I had been learning French for 4 years. I managed to read and write in French, but not understanding it when it's spoken. However, I've learned Italian for less than 6 months. I could understand the content far more than in French despite my Italian grammar is still bad.
Yes BUT French is the official language for 450 million people and Italian for only 62 million people...
@@marcmoulin7342 French is spoken by 200 people with only 75 millions of natives,
@@neyougogo9923 these Anglo-Saxon figures are obviously biased : they date back to the eighties, at this time, it was the total native speakers in France, Québec,Wallonia and French-speaking Switzerland ONLY.
Nowadays, a great number of Africans are NATIVE French-speaking, that's more and more the case in Gabon, Cameroon,Congo and Ivory Coast.
French has overtaken since a long time ago native German-speaking people and even Japanese ones.
Comprehension in French is a huge struggle. In many languages, you may not have the vocabulary yet but at least you can determine (for the most part) where words begin and end. One of the features of French that makes it sound so flowing and beautiful is that words blend into each other. It’s even encouraged with the liaison.
I am studying French for almost 3 years now and Italian for about 7 months. Here's my take on both languages. For vocabulary, French is easier. For grammar, French tenses are easier. The imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive are commonly used in speech in Italian. In French, these only appear in literary works. The subjunctive is used frequently in Italian conditional clauses, but never in Italian. French does not use the present continuous (e.g., I am running), while Italian does.
Italian is easier to spell out words while writing than French because Italian doesn't really have silent letters except for H (like all other Latin-based languages). On the other hand, French has several silent consonants at the end, and all other pronunciation rules including liaison, elision and enchainement.
Yet when speaking, Italian places much more emphasis on stressing vowels than French, especially when conjugating verbs. For example, in French: je parle, tu parles, il parle, and ils parlent. These conjugated forms are all pronounced the same in French. But when I started learning and speaking Italian, I had to pay special attention not to mispronounce the vowel endings: io parlo, tu parli, lui parla, loro parlano. This is also the case for agreement in the present perfect. In French, 'je suis né' and 'je suis née' are pronounced identically; but in Italian, this is not the case with 'sono nato' and 'sono nata'. In these cases, Italian is more difficult to pronounce.
In French, every syllable is supposed to be stressed equally. This is not the case in Italian, where the stress falls on one of the syllables. In this case, French is easier.
For me, while learning Italian grammar has come in quite easy especially with my previous knowledge of French, I sometimes mix French words while speaking Italian unconsciously. The biggest problems for me include saying 'il' instead of 'lui', 'elle' instead of 'lei', 'pas' instead of 'non', and pronouncing the French throat R instead of the Italian rolled R.
much too long
Me too! Lol
omg too long can't read.. please make it short and sweet
@@UdayKumar-zm4ft Read you freaking muppet
I know this is an old comment but great take on the subject
Here's the thing:
If you learn French and Spanish, you get Italian for free.
If you learn Italian and Spanish, you get Portuguese for free.
I find French a bit more difficult to understand than Spanish or Italian maybe because it's a softer pronunciation? I also found that speaking Spanish gave me an instant ear for Italian. I think you'd find you have an ear for Spanish if you ever learn it! Ciao Tom!
Italiano e espanhol são muito similares ao portugues
I would say:
-If you learn Spanish and Portuguese, you get Galego for free.
-If you learn Italian and French, you get Catalan for free.
Italian portuguese and spanish are similar. French and italian are a little bit similar
@@sophiesdollhouse eso no es verdad, aprender italiano y francés te dará a catalán. El catalán te ayudará a entender mucho mejor al español, mas no todo.
@@anonimolopez1702 exacto, el español y el portugués son muy similares, sin embargo, hay muchos falsos cognados que dificultan el hablar el idioma sin recurrir al portuñol.
You sound more natural in Italian. It flows easier, but again you’re more comfortable and experienced with Italian. Your French is very good. Once you learn more, it will flow more naturally. Your videos are very helpful. Do you speak Spanish? I feel you would do well with it seeing that Spanish and Italian are very similar. Good luck 👍🏼 with your studies. #livelonglearner
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French and Romanian all help each other out. French and Romanian are the more difficult ones though out of the group.
Well I'm a French Canadian native speaker and I think it's not so hard to be able to speak French. But writing and reading French is very hard.
I mean, in English, at the age of 10 years old, we can write a text without grammar mistakes .
In French...
In French we still makes mistakes at the age of 17 years old and more.
Well!Try Italian grammar!Sooo hard!Language easy!But grammar? Half populations cant get it write!
Yeah that's the same thing here in France, im totally French but I make more mistakes writing in French than in English, that's because we have too much rules in grammar etc so that's kinda boring. But I found that all this rules and exceptions etc makes the beauty of the French language 🙃🇫🇷🇮🇹
@익숙해눈물이 나와 im glad that you like French🙃 and yeah I have no other european language that comes to my mind which has a plural form like French🙂
@익숙해눈물이 나와 but be careful sometimes the plural form change in French, like "un travail, des travaux" for exemple😉
@익숙해눈물이 나와 yeah I understand French is a roman language with a celtic pronunciation or something like this🙃
Maybe because France and Germany was once a unique kingdom, in the south of France the accent is more "latin" than in the north and I heard some stranger say that they understand better french with the accent of the south🙃 maybe you would understand better the southern accent too😉
French is said to be harder BUT the conjugation is easier. French has fewer verb tenses than Italian and Spanish.
Well, the past tense is easier. But there's a lot of homophones in spoken French.
@@eugeneimbangyorteza Like in English, there are a lot of homophones, even in Spanish we have homophones, but homophones aren´t a problem with context.
But phonetics in french ARE SO DIFFICULT, I MEAN, HOW THEY CAN SPEAK WITHIN GET A SORE THROAT.
French has the same number of tenses as Italian (even more if you consider passé surcomposé and 1 or 2 other similar tenses), but 2 of them are rare even in books, and 2 of them are used only in books (still a good thing to know if w"e want to read books).
@@Laurent69ftm Nowadays, French has fewer verb tenses used in written and spoken language. For example, imperfect subjunctive is used in Italian and Spanish in addition to present subjunctive. In French, we only have the present subjunctive. In Spanish, we use the past simple in addition to "passé composé". In French, we only use the passé composé.
@@Laurent69ftm I think he`s talking about conjugation, french conjugation is more regular and, one verb has 6 forms in writting, but 2 or 3 forms in sepeaking (that would be an advantage or not, each person is different), so, that`s why french needs pronouns in each sentence.
That doesen`t mean french is easier than italian, french has other tramps, but in conjugation, is the most simple talking about romance languages, it`s not its cup of tea.
La mia lingua madre è lo spagnolo, anche so parlare l'inglese ed ho stato imparando l'italiano da 4 mesi fa, voglio anche imparare il francese, mi piacciono troppo le lingue. (Mi scusa se non ho detto tutto bene, ma il tuo canale mi ha aiutato molto)
Raymundo Martínez hey are you italian?
not at all, i'm mexican
But can you help me with my Italian?
So anche parlare l'inglese e STO imparando l'italiano da 4 mesi.Mi piacciono MOLTO le lingue."Ho stato" non esiste in italiano, noi diciamo "sono stato".Spero di esserti stato utile.
Mi piacciono "troppo" non è sbagliato!
I don't think that Italian is easy because it has so many different tenses that I don't have in Russian 😅
Ксе Ния The Cyrillic alphabet is annoying to me lol. I mean ь=veh come on to a native English speaker that is AIDS 😂
@@SuperDSJGaming Greek β = vita, Spanish v = uve [u-be]
Let me tell you, even as a Serbian native speaker, Italian is easier to me than Russian.
I tried to learn Russian and failed, so I learned French.
Then i tried to learn Russian again and failed, now I will learn Italian in the same time that I needed for basic knowledge in Russian ;p
I give up on Russian, it is hell on earth to learn. Even the pronounciation is harder than Italian and French together :,(
A german friend is trying to learn Russian for several years (10, 5 regularly learning), got a russian girlfriend and travels to the country... he still can't speak.
What annoys me the most with russian is that there is a huge ammount of verbs. For each verb you have to know both the perfective form and the imperfective form and you have to remember every possible preposition that changes the whole meaning of the verb
@@franziv4593 Kako to? Ja san iz hrv i ruski je poprilicno lagan sta se tice izgovora. Inace slavenski jezici su nama blizi i tribali bi bit laksi za naucit od romanskih ili germanskih
I have a preference for french language definitely. Italian is a very beautiful language, but french for me sounds so awesome.
As a bilingual I can say that both languages are difficult, each one in different manners
what are the two languages you speak?
Italian, for me, is easier to pick up and understand being fluent in Spanish, but French is way more widespread. Outside, of Italy and Swtizerland, not a lot of places speak Italian whereas French is either the national language or second language in a lot of countries outside of France. It makes more sense to master Spanish and French since they're used more.
There are a lot of people of Italian origins everywhere (me for example, born in France) and a lot of people who study Italian. Italian is much more spoken and studied in the world than you think (even if only spoken as national language or co-national language in Italy, Switzerland and part of Slovenia and Croazia).
Like Canada
To me Italian was easer because Spanish was my second language.
Cuánto tiempo te tomó para aprenderlo?
È da vedere come lo parli, l'italiano
Italian understend about 75% about spanish lenguage. It's like an italian dialect
@@sart56 el español no es un dialecto del italiano, ni siquiera se compara.
As a spanish native speaker, I totally agree with you. Italian phonlogy is pretty similar to spanish
Thanks for your detailed explanation. I love linguistics and learning different languages. Growing up, I traveled a lot and I was exposed to many languages such as; Italian, French, Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Farsi. My favorite languages are; American English, Italian, French, and Farsi. They sound very beautiful when spoken properly.
I started with French (currently studying for 4 years) before Italian (1 year serious). From my experience, here are the advantages:
French -
1. Many of the most commonly used regular verbs are pronounced in almost the exact same way for four of their six conjugations (je parle, tu parles, il parle, ils parlent; je m'appelle, tu t'appelles, il s'appelle, ils s'appellent) even though they are spelled differently.
2. You can't drop the subject pronoun. It actually takes me longer to understand an Italian sentence because, owing to my English background, there's no subject pronoun at the beginning of a sentence to clue me in.
Italian -
1. Numbers. There's no soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix. (Yes, I know that Switzerland and Belgium use an easier version of 70, 80, and 90, but if you're learning Standard French, you add things up.)
2. Speaking in Italian is easier for me because every word is pronounced as they are spelled, except for the letter "h." I find transcribing in Italian easier as well.
halfthefiber hey can u help me with my italian
Based on my personal experience, Italians stress out their vowel loud and clear anyway to understand the subject of the sentence.
I've studied French in high school, and it wasn't' very good experience, may be because I was stressed due to exams and so, I find it more difficult. And I feel also that my mouth is tight when I pronounce anything in French. Now I'm studying Italian and I enjoy it sooo much and I like how Italian words sound; something vivid in Italian pronunciation 😄😍
Good luck with your studying French, and please keep doing this kind of videos; I like comparing languages 💗
I’m a 3rd Gen Italian living in Canada (Montréal) and I was floored when I started learning the verbs and grammatical structure in Italian. It’s practically identical to French. Actually forced me to revisit my French learnings to be able to draw comparisons and make it easier to pick up
Saint Léo gang ou Petite Italie? J'suis dans aucun des deux coins, mais j'avoue que les italiens,grecs et irlandais ont bcp shape Montréal et c'est bien.
Haha mes neighbours sont italiens so je me force un peu à parler avec eux.
That answered my question on whether I should learn some French or Italian. I guess I will look into French for now. I live in Ontario, Canada as well. I have a sister who lives in Italy so wasn't sure if I should learn Italian or French. 👍
French is impossible to pronounce for me as I have a visual memory and better at phonetic languages. Grammar is less of an issue as it does not mean much when you know the grammar perfectly but not able to speak
French ISN'T PHONETIC! SAME AS ENGLISH IN THIS GOD DAMN REGARD!
If you think French is not phonetic, then it means you're still thinking in English or any other language.
First, yes, there are exceptions that will rot your life as much as it ruins a lot of native French Speakers.
But... French is much more consistent than English.
Don't let the di/trigraphs confuse you, they're just symbols.
- You need a vowel for any consonant to be pronounced at the end of a word.
les, Trébuchet, lait... pronounced lé, trébuchè, lè (if you use é for all of them... no one's going to lynch you)
Beware of the following consonants: CaReFuL: avec, cher, tarrif, appel (Where the consonants) ARE pronounced
- eau = eaux = au = aux = o No ifs, no buts (no x either).
- h is silent. It doesn't exist, it's pretty much useless - but it helps reminding you of NOT saying a liaison in 'Les Haricots' (but DO do it in 'les habits' - don't ask)
- nn = n, tt = t, mm = m, ll = l (il and ill make a yeu(fr)/yer(en) sound)
- ai = ey = ay = ais = è
And that's about all you need to know! :-)
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LOVE FRANCE FROM ITALY 🇮🇹🤝🇫🇷❤️
Stai ovunque🤩 viva l’Italia ragazza🇨🇵❤🇮🇹
Je mangerai (manjeré) = futur / je mangerais (manjerè) = conditionnel. La distinction entre les deux est claire et nette.
Italians, Spaniards, Romanians and Portuguese all pronounce their words fully. The French only pronounce the first 2-3 letters of their words. Mother Latin: "I've raised this child wrong!"
Like in English.
@@bakedbeans5494sure but it‘s Mother Proto-Germanic‘s job to discipline English
Your French accent is very good, especially for a relative beginner.
Italian is obviously easier, even when your native language is not a Romance language. Italian is a phonetic language, you read what you wrote,unlike French. It also has easier grammar too.
Jake T what? Easy grammar? In which world are you living?
Italian indeed does have easier grammar than French, Davide. In French, you add part “ne” before the verb and the part “pas” after the verb, when in Italian you just need to put “non” before the verb. For example, "Je ne parle pas Français” (I don’t speak French) is equal to "Non parlo Francese" in Italian ;)
Jake T well, as an Italian i can say that you should go deeper in the Italian grammar... You can find things like the "analisi logica" and "analisi grammaticale" of a phrase.
Jake T Easier grammar? Ew, no.
Jake T i agree though. the french has a really bad obsession with grammar mostly because they don’t know how to teach it considering the fact that 90% of rules taught only work 3 out of 4 times. they also have trouble finding terms to designate the grammatical functions of words. for example, kids when learning about complements d objet they learn that they complete the verb and that when there’s a de or à before the words, it’s a coi, otherwise it’s a cod. they also learn that complements circonstanciels can be moved or omitted. however, in a sentence like “je vais à la plage”, what it the function of “à la plage”? it completes the verb, but it doesn’t answer the question “je vais à quoi?” (= technique taught to children to identify cod and coi), but to the question “je vais où?” (= where am i going?) which is what is taught to children to identify complements circonstanciels of location. so therefore it must be a complement circonstanciel, but it still can’t be omitted or moved without sounding like yoda. sorry to make this so long but i think that the french really need to find new grammatical terms because if they can’t even teach it to french kids then how can they teach it to non native speakers. i don’t really know about italian but i think that this would make french, along with the pronunciation, harder to learn
i love France accent so I'm going star learn France
Wow! Your French is really really good! As your accent!! Thank you so much for your video!
E io sono italiano studio francese inglese e l anno prossimo latino e greco ( odio le lingue ) 👌
L0ck hey can you help me to learn italian? :D
Daisy Anderville humm ok...
Do you use any other social media ?
Daisy Anderville search me on telegram Luigi Acquaviva
Y yo soy italiano estudio francés ingles y el año próximo latín y griego (odio las lenguas) 👌
I think for me french is easier.. although the spelling is much more difficult because what you pronounce is often not the same as what you write, the speaking is a lot easier than italian because there you have all those end sounds that change -o, -i, -a, -e... in french the the plural form is often pronounced the same so you don't have to think too long about it...
Hi. I started to study French half of year ago. I am still in basics but I am so so interested in to learn more. All it needs is practice, practice and practice. I suddenly found this video clip and thank you for doing this! I have always been thinking is French too difficult? But the best thing is when I can speak French fluently (hopefully soon haha) I am able to learn easily Italian or Spanish. I love languages :D
I will speak for Italian only. For some things it will be easily (verbs and tenses), because of "similar" structure (only structure). But to be fluent in Italian is another thing. It's impossible for French / Italian people to understand at each other (except for some "basics"). It's different for Italian / Spanish (even if Italian and French have more vocabular in common). PS : I apologize for my poor English. PPS : I speak both French and Italian (born in France and living here but with Italian parents).
I forgot to leave a comment 😉 That was very good :) You sound natural in Italian and in French 😊
I studied French for 12 years, including 4 years in Canada and France. I studied Italian for 3 years after learning French. Knowing French made Italy so much easier. Part of that was that I didn't know how to learn another language when I was taking high school French, so the skill of language acquisition factored in.
I think Italian is far easier than French, even though I'm much more fluent in French now. French has sounds that are difficult for English speakers to say, especially the "r" and the nasal -n sounds like en. It's also hard for English speakers to differentiate between the various "e" sounds and the nasal sounds. I still struggle with French spelling because the French drop many letters in pronunciation. There are a lot more irregular verbs and exceptions to rules in French, though not nearly as many as English. One thing that was easier is that 40% of English words come from French through the Normans or through modern adoption, so higher level vocabulary is fairly easy to build. Learning French greatly improved my English vocabulary.
In Italian, everything is straightforward. The pronunciation is fairly simple and standard. If you can roll your Rs, you can say almost anything in Italian. Italians pronounce every letter, including double letters, so you can sound out spellings. An Italian spelling bee would be pretty boring. Italian is much easier to pronounce, spell, and understand as a result. It's also very easy to know Italian genders, as nearly every singular noun ends in -o or -a. In French, memorizing gender is a pain. I even notice French speakers misgendering words.
Italian has many fewer exceptions to their rules as it hews much closer to Latin. The one thing that does make it harder is that they use the subjunctive more than the French, especially in Southern Italy, but not as much as Spanish.
The other thing that does make French easier is availability. Most schools in the US teach French, but few teach Italian. It's also much easier to find French materials in the US, and in Canada, it's mandatory. If you are in the Northeast US, you can easily go to Montréal to practice French, although Québecois is a different animal altogether. You pretty much have to fly to Italy to practice Italian, and Italian materials are harder to find here.
You said : "It's also very easy to know Italian genders, as nearly every singular noun ends in -o or -a" : yes of course... as "fiore" (flower) for example ? In Italian nouns finish by "o" / "a" or "e" (not only but mainly). On plural, "o" becomes "i" like in "albergo" (hotel) / alberghi (have you noticed the "apparition" of "h"), "a" becomes "e" : mela (apple) / "mele", "e" becomes "i" : fiore / fiori. According adjectives with nouns is all but easy (singular or plural) : "un fiore bianco" (a white flower) / "dei fiori bianchi" but "una farfalla bianca (a white butterfly) / delle farfalle verdi (a green butterfly)". In Italian you have two singular pronouns (not in French) : "il" e '"lo" ("l' " as in French is a "special" form) in French you have only "le". In Italian you have "lei" (she) e "Lei" (very formal as formal "Vous" in French") but of course used for a man or a woman... Yes, all very easy. I apologize, but I'am not sure your knowledge of Italian language is quite so good (yes, I know my English is weak). PPS : verbs and tenses in some ways are very close even if, as you said, Italian tends to use much more subjunctive. PS : I'am an Italo-French (or Franco-Italian if you want) born in France by Italian parents and I speak very well both languages (not as my "poor" English). Another thing : you said "You pretty much have to fly to Italy to practice Italian, and Italian materials are harder to find here" : are you joking ? I don't know in the US (but it sounds strange to me) but here in France you can study Italian (and find materials) very very easily !
Italian grammar and sentence structure is more difficult for sure! Great video.
Me,as French filology student, who started learning italian much later then French, I can say when people who study Italian or French without any other roman language knowledge, the both languages will be hard
In France as a child it takes a very long time to be able to write it, and most of the french ( no exageration ) never write it properly. Because of the letters that exist and that are not writen. That's the big problem of this language and that makes it longer to study. I also speak spanish which is closer to Italian and it's so easier, really. Actually with my spanish and french I can have a conversation (a strange conversation mixed of french and spanish;-) ) with italians if they don't speak too quickly.
Para mi que hablo español me resulta super fácil el italiano pues la pronunciación es casi parecida ,varias palabras de italiano se pronuncia como se escribe al igual que el español , francés su pronunciación es diferente y tú puedes ver un texto aparentemente grande pero en realidad al pronunciarlo se reduce bastante jajajaja así en conclusión francés es más complicado que el italiano .
You have a superb Italian, but I hear 2 mistakes first we all know that r in Italian is a lot harder than in English but you pull it too much like we say RR and u RRr second the cadency idk how to say it but rly you are a boss!
Here's my take on both languages. For vocabulary, French is easier. For grammar, French tenses are easier. The imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive are commonly used in speech in Italian. In French, these only appear in literary works. The subjunctive is used frequently in Italian conditional clauses, but never in Italian. French does not use the present continuous (e.g., I am running), while Italian does.
I can read some French. However, when it comes to pronunciation, I suck in any language. I concentrated on reading and writing. In my mind, the learning of a language ia a "mental game" and language learning is " busy work for the sake of learning". I can translate in my head but I hate to speak any other language than English. That is my idiosyncrasy.
can you please drop the "PARDON MY FRENCH" business? You know very well how talented you are. You have NOTHING to apologize for.....it's verging the "fishing for compliments"....ahahhahha (-:
I’m Italian and i study french at school... the vocabolary is kinda easy many words are very similar, but grammar even if kinda similar is very difficult in both language
So Italian tap dances and French slow dances! Thank you for this video!
maybe it's just me but i find your french better sounding than your italian; it has a nicer flow imo. for me, when i speak a non-english language, my pitch tends to be a little higher because i'm subconsciously self-conscious about it. when i speak english though, it gets dropped back down :'D
As you help us so much, i am pleased to tell you in French about the pronuoncaition of the end of conjugation. "ai" or "ais".at 2.35 of the video. For the end "ai" the correct pronunciation is "é" and for the end "ais or ait" the corect pronuntiotion is "è" It is the same with "et" (&) and et at the end of a word.. Et (alone) = é and et at the end of a word = è. Hope this usefull.
Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese look alike because they come from Latin
You forgot Romanian.
Romanian also comes from Latin.
you are VERY VERY talented. Especially as an American!!!
It's 3:35am and I watching how to speak French like it's not my native language. Wtf is my life that this point ?
Same but at 3:49am
Great video. You make two important points. First of all, it’s never wise really to say one language is more difficult than another - as you say, different people will find different aspects easier or harder. Secondly, you do need to pronounce the language in the right area; indeed, you need to adopt the accent - a little like an actor getting in character. Bien fait / Bene fatto! :)
Loved your video ❤
Very good french indeed and, as my italian teacher said, you start to be fluent in italian when you start to use your hand when you spoke. ;-)
for myself, it is the "verbi reflessivi" or the pronominali one that are causing me problems
My mother tongue is French.... you are doing really very well with your accent!
I speak English and Spanish, and I find Italian and Portuguese easier than French, and Romanian is kind of hard.
Je mangerai vs je mangerais
Je mangerai prononciation ends with "hey", same as "hey", how are you. Or, the equivalent, in french, to a "é" prononciation.
Je mangerais prononciation is like how you prononce the "e" in "este" (Spanish word for "this"). Or, similar in French to "è" prononciation, or >est" (ie "tu es, il est"
You should try to learn portuguese. I am brazilian so speak portuguese and now I am trying to learn italian and i realize many things in commun between portuguese and italian.
Gustavo Nascimento True!
Eu sou italiano e falo bem espanhol, empece "estudando" português este verão sozinho sem ajuda de ninguém e creio que é o idioma mais fácil para aprender das as línguas romanas.
Desculpa se tem errores, não sei falar português todavia 😂
eli watson Vero... Si riesce a capire!
mangerai: at the end, it's 'é' like the Italian 'e'
mangerais: et the end it's 'è' as the 'e' 'hello'. (As for me, with my derived Parisian accent all 'è's tend to turn into 'é's - sorry!)
Also, it would appear some liaisons are disappearing. Je suis zamericain... can be said... chuis americain! Great vid.
I find Italian so hard just so say basic things. French is much easier and Spanish too but Italian - I think I need to practice a bit more.
Sto imparando French right now but Italian is much more difficult in my opinion. It’s a cool, but very weird language. I love it though.
If u know speak spanish, speaking italian , it is a piece of cake.😎😎😎😎😎
I actually watched an Italian video once and thought they were speaking some weird Spanish dialect until I listen closely to their accent and realize it was Italian😂😂 it sounds like Spanish half the time
Elvis Bustos If you’ve studied both French and Spanish, the Italian word is likely to be closer to one or the other so it’s even easier. 😂. As someone else said on a different thread, it’s almost like you get Italian for free if you know both French and Spanish, haha. For example, French and Italian have almost the same word for eat (manger/mangiare) but Spanish will be the outlier (comer). But then there will be other examples where the Spanish and Italian sound alike but the French one is different. Having both languages covers all the bases.
I love your videos such inspiration!!!!!
I am French and I lear English and Italian with you with fun, thank you so much.
celia1945 hey, can u help me with my italian?
Alex Jackson There are so many resources to learn Italian, even here on UA-cam. I suggest you search for Italy made easy, that helps you to learn the language at all levels. Buono studio.
Kim Ngân Trần I'm Italian, but I can't really teach, if you want you can ask me a few questions, but that's it
@@lucabralia5125 Thank you a lot but I have a italian penpal to help me. We work together on skype every weeks.
Marie-Cécile André no problem, I'm glad you found someone to help you
For me it depends also on the native language of the student...if you are french/spanish/portuguese and you want to learn italian you could find some difficulties but in general is gonna be quite easy. If you are japanese or chinese you're gonna hate romance languages (especially italian because all the verb conjugations, the articles and the singular and plural of a word).
I am italian and you all ate wonderful an bro your otalian is almost perfect
French of course
I've learned both and I think french is easier for grammar but italian is easier in pronounciation
your italian accent is very professional
im a beginner in self learning korean and i struggle with grammer. i wan tot learn italian because it sounds so pretty
Wow, I am thinking on taking French or Italian as a second language. This video is really something I needed!!!
Actually your french is not bad at all, I follow you since long time ago but I didn't noticed this video
Thanks for your sharing, keep it up
Ciao, alla prossima
I've just seen your UA-cam channel , it is amazing, congratulations! I am Brazilian, I study English and have a dream of learning italian
Jhessyk Silva romans language, not romantic 😜
@@ilrompiballe6187 actually, Romance language.
I started learning German way before Italian so the Subject Pronouns always appearing are completely normal for me. I actually find the omission of the pronouns in Italian confusing since I was used to thinking that I should structure my sentences as I hear the pronoun. :)
J'm Italian, j'm sure that if you ask "spaghetti with ketchup" we DON'T understand!
I have been studying French for almost three years. I’m just starting Italian!! Any tips?
How's it going?
Italian wins!!!
la quarta lingua piu studiata al mondo è l italiano , è una lingua meravigliosa, altro che russo, o cinese..
bnl666 sapevo fosse l 11 lingua più parlats
dovrebbe esserci differenza tra studiata e parlata .. o no?
Russo e meraviglioso..per quelli che lo sanno parlare ovviamente..non per uno che lo abbia sentito due volte e non ha capito niente..
Andrey V vero, io lo sto studiando il russo
Come si dice in inglese 《è una lingua meravigliosa, ALTRO che russo o cinese》? Che poi quando diciamo 'altro' in questa accezione c'è sempre un'intonazione particolare perché è una esclamazione camuffata. Il tono è tra l'asserzione e l'esclamazione. Queste sono le tipiche espressioni che non riesco a rendere in lingua straniera e mi sento limitato nella mia espressività, una cosa quasi castrante che mi fa allontanare dalle lingue..
The difference of pronunciation would be easyer to recognise if you had te complete information. For futur tense = je mangerai short é - conditionnal = je mangerais, long è. . Thank you for all your videos.
Italian is hard.
French speakers use fewer verb tenses in common speach than italians and Spanish*, but they have more or less as much. Indicative simple past, subjuntive imperfect and subjuntive pluperfect are needed in official texts and cultivated speach.
French and Italian don't have subjuntive future like Spanish has, but they do have a pretty common present participle Spanish don't have. Furthermore, Spanish doesn't use subjunctive future. Just as Italian and French, it uses the subjuntive present instead. French and Italian can also use indicative future in those cases, not Spanish.
French has a present perfect as italian and Spanish, but it needs a modal with the verb (en train de + verb) insteand of (to be in present + geround). It isn't built the same, but it has the exact same function.
The past participle in French and Italian is the same, Spanish doesn't have two auxiliaries and doesn't accord the past participle with OC or the subject like the other two languages.
Spanish has two common verb "to be," Italian and French don't (I know, Italian also has two, but one is way less common and isn't used as it is in Spanish.)
The punctuation is way harder in French than in Spanish. There's way more commas in their sentences. Spelling of words are harder in Italian and French than Spanish.
French is way harder with phonology and has way more homophones than the two others.
They are all about the same to me, just as hard or as easy to learn. Each one have its particularities, but none is easier or harder. It really depends on the person who is learning it.
Also, all those languages have dialects that are totally different from the norm, they all come from several languages and they are all alive. I'm sure Occitan is as diffent from French norm as Sardinian is from Italian standard or Catalan with Spanish. This isn't a valid argument.
* It depends on which dialect though, there are Spanish dialects which doesn't even use the subjunctive mode.
This is about French and Italian why you brining up Spanish 😑
Sorry i must react to your vid. I am French. To say "They give the book to me" you must say :"Ils me donnent le livre"; "They give it to me"= "Ils me le donnent" where you are correct. But 'Ils le donnent à moi" is not correct from the grammatical point of view...
moi aussi j'ai eu mal aux oreilles!!!
It's not about which language Is harder, It's about which phonetic Is harder
Your french accent is great
Italian difficile Tom
As italian speaking i think that is harder Laotian
Ok try to learn correctly the singular and the plural in italian. 'Then we talk about which language is more difficult. in Italian the "S" is not used to form the plural as does the rest of Europe.
Which one is easier to understand?
First of all, I wonder why would anyone ask this. But let's try to be objective. Maybe for English language speakers, for Germans, Celts and other nations that have unclear and blurred languages (not about grammar but sounds), the French is easier. But for me, Serbian, The Italian language is 80 times easier and clearer.
French are Celts speaking a very remote from vulgar Latin derived-language
Sto imparando entrambe lingue e trovo che l'Italiano è più dificile che la Francese, particolarmente la gramatica. :)
Sto imparando entrambe *le lingue e trovo che l'italiano *sia più difficile *del francese, *in particolare la *grammatica
Hope this can help you :)
("francese" is a male word, so use il instead of la)
Grazie brother
至少你們有一個alphabet/letters. (At least you guys have an alphabet/letters)
As a secondary English speaker I can say that Italian is much easier to spoke than the French,,
I know a little bit of Italian, so I can get the meaning while I am reading french, But when I'm hearing French conversation,, then I'm be like
WTF they're saying??
Italian is much more difficult. Grammar in Italian will give you a headache .... beautiful language though!
That is okay for you to make mistakes in French but Italian is more easier than French I like both Languages equally and they are the only two favorite languages of mine and we believe Italian helps you to learn another language Italian helps us and easier to learn than French and both uses past participle instead of past tense
Passé Composé in French and Pasato Prossimo in Italian
French. (J'ai mangé une pomme)
Italian. ( [Io] mangiato una mela)
Instead of Passé Simple in French and Passato Remoto in Italian
French. (Je Mangeai une pomme)
Italian. ( [Io] Mangiai una mela)
Ciao. Io da italiano che parla e conosce perfettamente il francese, credo che la grammatica italiana, per uno straniero sia la più complessa, questo perché non abbiamo un sistema grafico su ogni sillaba, salvo su alcune eccezioni, come esiste nelle altre lingue romanze. Ma fino all'800 esisteva anche in italiano ma fu poi eliminato. Inoltre non è vero che l'italiano si legge così come si scrive, in quanto il nostro sistema fonetico è totalmente diverso da tutte le lingue neolatine. Potrai leggere, come nello scritto, buona parte delle consonanti, ma le vocali assolutamente No. Abbiamo un sistema vocalico che richiede che si fondino l'una nell'altra, soprattutto tra due parole. Possono diventare allungate se ci sono le doppie, oppure più silenti. I plurali sono difficili per chi non è italiano, cambia la seconda parte dei termini come pure gli articoli. È difficile anche capire quando a fine parola ci vuole una i, a, e, ecc..
Mentre la grammatica francese è ricca di dittonghi che, però, ti riportano tutti e quasi sempre sullo stesso suono e una volta che li hai memorizzati ti ritrovi a pronunciare lo stesso tono, così che non ti puoi sbagliare. L'italiano vuole per ogni parola dei suoni precisi e distinti l'uno dall'altro.. Insomma per chi ama le sfide questa ti darà soddisfazioni. 😊😊
What language is easier to understand when other people are speaking it?
Tom YeEt. Italian
As a Lithuanian, French is almost like learning Chinese, at least the pronunciations.
Ils donnent le livre à moi is absolutely too heavy and I'd say we could spot that the person isn't mastering French yet! Ils me donnent le livre is how it should be x)
That's correct. French will not say à moi here.
Any English literature student here ! 👀♥️
Bravissimo 👏
Je mangerai (ay) vs je mangerais (è), like the "e" of Edward. But Parisians don't distinguish between the sounds. You also never say "il donne le livre à moi" in French!!!! : "Il me donne le livre/il me le donne".
Italian sounds much more authoritative than French because it retains much more Latin.. now you know.
Learn italian verbs and say me.