When it comes to spelling, yes, English is much more difficult. Words in Spanish are spelled just as they're pronounced while English spelling is crazy. But language isn't just about spelling, and spelling isn't even the most important thing about a language. After all, languages existed long before the written form was created. The most important thing about a language is being able to communicate verbally. Even illiterate people can communicate verbally. And in terms of verbal communication Spanish is much more difficult than English because of verb conjugations. There is very little conjugation at all in English, but there are endless conjugations in Spanish (and regular forms and irregular forms). And in Spanish, because of conjugations, the subject pronoun can be dropped from the sentence. But if you don't understand the conjugation you won't know who the subject of the sentence is. And if you don't know who the subject of the sentence is, then communcation fails. In English, because of the lack of verb conjugations, you simply CAN'T drop the pronoun. And because the pronoun is always there you'll always know who the subject of the sentence is when English is spoken, even if the rare conjugation gets messed up: unlike Spanish, you'll still accurately communicate your thought regardless, thanks to the pronoun still being spoken. I speak, you speak, we speak, they speak, he/she speaks -- that's waaay easier than hablo, hablas, hablamos, hablan, habla. Great video, by the way. You make these topics so fun.
And just to give an example: If I say "he speak" instead of "he speaks," even though the verb conjugation is wrong you understand exactly what I mean. But if I say "hablo" when I mean to say "habla" you probably will NOT know what I mean because you'll think I'm referring to myself when I mean to refer another person.
Es fácil decir este argumento si no piensas en lo importante que es saber escribir. A menos que quieras decir a tu amigo por mensaje: Hao ar yu? (How are you?)
You need a Japanese person or someone to judge. I have only studied a little Spanish on Duolingo, but I don't count because I started studying French at age 9 and have also studied Italian, so I have that Romance Language familiarity. Other than our crazy-ass spelling, it seems to me that the other maddening thing about English would be the way we add prepositions to verbal meanings and it changes those meanings. Take out, take up, take in, take over, take through, take after (which has 2 distinct meanings), take down, etc. This must drive English learners bonkers. BTW, most of those "take" phrasal verbs have nothing to do with the base meaning of "take," as in to grasp something, or to move it from one place to another. Bonkers. Example: "take after" can either mean resemble, as in "He takes after his dad," or chase, as in "The cops took after the suspect when he ran into the woods." How the hell is a non-native speaker ever supposed to understand how that can be? Poor English learners. And then there's The Great Vowel Shift, which is the Brexit of language. Those ornery Brits just won't do things like the Continentals. "We live on an Island; we have to do things differently. We have to have an insane spelling system to confuse those Dutch and Spanish and damned French. Ha! That's how we'll get back at them for the Norman Conquest! We'll make our spelling more illogical than theirs could ever be! " (maniacal laughing)
For me english is complex, no format to follow on its verbs changing tenses. So with the spelling, one must learn to spell and to immerse before you'll deeply understand why pronounciation and spelling changes
There are more spanish speakers in the world, therefore there is more opportunity to practice. The spanish pronunciation is easier. Spanish is my first language 😂😉
Well English is spread further geographically. And if you include countries where it's a second language, but widely spoken, English has close to a billion.
Hello, I'm an English speaker who is currently trying to learn Spanish. Here are a little of things that I find challenging (1) remembering the gender of nouns, (2) the word "se" in general, (3) pronouns are all over the place, and (4) last but not least, Spanish is spoken very fast, it's the second fastest language behind Japanese.
Reglas gramaticales de género. Los sustantivos son femeninos cuando terminan en: -ción/sión: la pronunciación, la atención, la situación, la extorsión... -a: la chica, la risa... (excepciones pequeñas: el rosa...) -dad: la ciudad, la cantidad, la felicidad, la navidad, la maldad... -lud: la salud... -tud: la juventud, la actitud... -tad: la libertad, la lealtad, amistad... Los sustantivos son masculinos cuando terminan en: -o: el chico, el abrigo, el rojo... (pequeñas excepciones: la moto, la foto...) -or: el comedor, el roedor, el motor... -ote: el pegote, el lote, el mote... -án: el huracán... Los sustantivos que empiezan por "a" son masculinos en singular y femeninos en plural: -El agua -> las aguas -El ave -> Las aves
Pronombres por todas partes: si te refieres a que utilizar el "Se", además del pronombre directo, te parece mucho añadido. Inglés -> Español Me = me You = te Him/her = Le Us = nos You all = os Them = Les (los/las si es un objeto) It = La/lo (yo) Doy una manzana al chico = Se la doy (yo) Una manzana (femenino) = la Al chico = Se I give an apple to the boy = I give it to him An apple = it To the boy = To him
I think English is harder, but I'm not sure if I should let English win because argument 2 for Spanish about RAE just doesn't sit well with me. I don't think an academy gets to decide language (prescriptivism), I think speakers get to decide how language is spoken (descriptivism.) Regardless, having to learn fewer words is definitely easier, so Spanish still is easier, in my opinion.
The only difficult part of Spanish is the irregular verbs, but in English you have many irregular verbs also, for me the main issue with English is the pronunciation, and the utilization of the memory is higher in English, I mean you can infer all the word pronunciations by looking at the spelling in Spanish, which in English is not the case. If you need to use your memory a lot that doesn't make English easy to learn, Spanish you infer more than memorise.
Hmm.....it's a close call! I love Spanish because I can pronounce any word even if I haven't seen it before (and I don't know what it means). There are only 5 vowels! Thank you Thank you Thank you Spanish! Also Spanish is very regular and logical (if Spanish was a person he would always do his homework, always clean his room and always be polite to everyone). However.... Spanish pronouns are a nightmare! What does "SE" mean??? As you say masculine/feminine is difficult too. "Usted, tu, vos, vosotros/as, Uds" = You. You need to clean up your act Spanish! However.....English has 274,987 vowels. And thats just in England. Phrasal verbs are a pain in the a***! They must be a nightmare to learn. "Do, should, shall, shan't, won't, couldn't...." English - you need to clean up your act! I live near a place called Loughborough (pronounced Luf - br). Yes. English is a nightmare
Almost getting to a year in my Spanish studies, it’s so much easier!! One I love what you mentioned about just making a question sound like a question! For example - ¿Coges ese plato por favor? Rather than, please can you take that plate? Playing warzone with some Spanish speakers, even with my limited Spanish, it’s so much easier and quicker to relay information! Subemos rather than let’s go up, están arriba rather than they are up stairs. Also, ‘joder’ is so much more satisfying to shout when you eventually die! I must use ‘vamos’ and ‘vamanos’ about 10-20 times a day even in my English speaking life!
I learnt Spanish as a teen when I lived there for around 2 years. I had to attend school after 6 months intensive study. I only knew the numbers 1-20 before going to live in Spain. I would say the verbs are the most difficult to get correct. I’m still struggling to this day lol I’m now back in the UK and find it hard to have the conversation to keep improving my Spanish as I’d like to. Hace casi veinte años desde que escrito en Español me parece que necessito practicar mucho mas. Es igual para mi hablando en Español tambien. Subscribed 👍 English certainly harder to learn speak and write. Spanish sounds like it’s written, written like it sounds.
Both are easy if you practice Spanish is easier to pronounce but latinos from the Caribbean speak to fast It's a mess I think it's easier for Latinos to learn English That Americans to learn Spanish (Usa population 20% Latinos 22 % speak spanish For Americans is hard to learn Spanish) Conclusion to learn from A1 to B2 English is easier To learn from C1 to C2 Spanish is easier to learn My humble opinion
Ai anderstand oul your mesig, bat Ai dount nou hau tu ruait english bicos ai onli hav level A2. (I understand all your message, but I don't know how to write English because I onlY have level A2.
I'd say learning English is waaaay harder. As a native English speaker learning spanish, I often say to myself "wow, this makes so much sense!" in regards to grammer and spelling, etc. Totally not the case with English and all of its ridiculous rules.
I’d have to disagree. I’m a native English speaker who also speaks other languages including Spanish. Yes Spanish spelling is easier but you also have to remember that unlike Spanish, English doesn’t have genders for words. Also, Spanish has so many forms of the same verb. The verb “hacer” has many variations depending on the context. English grammar I would say is easier, although pronunciation can be difficult. Spanish is a phonetic language just like Italian and Portuguese. English on the other hand isn’t. It also depends on the native language of the Spanish learner, for example Japanese or Korean natives would find learning Spanish easier than English because they share similar sounds and some words are linguistically intelligible. There are many Koreans especially who can learn Spanish with ease.
@@nathanosei-atenka71 would you say that once you’ve mastered verb conjugation in Spanish you basically know the language because it’s the same word just said differently? I feel like Spanish is easy because of this reason. Most verbs follow the same rules. Like for example ar verbs are always going to en in o when referring to one’s self therefore I just apply that rule to every AR verb and I automatically know how to say “I do something”
@@sweetzs100 I'd say that once you've mastered how the verb conjugations work, it'll make constructing sentences a lot easier because you'll know which ones to use.
@@ConvoSpeak when I was younger I had a hard time with the Sound and I am native English speaker so it's hard for me it's hard for Latin Americans. Spanish wins when it comes to production of sounds
@@assomeoneelse2275 ¿Pero cómo va a ser difícil para Hispanoamericanos entender el español de España? He ido 100 000 veces a Hispanoamérica y siempre me han entendido. Además, no sé si sabes que en América también tienen ese acento, depende de la región es más ccomún o menos escucharlo, pero por ejemplo en Chile es bastante común.
They’re equally as hard for a speaker of one to learn the other. 3:43 Familia /fam’ilia/ There’s supposed to be an acute accent, because spelled like ‘Familia’ will make it sound like /fami’lia/. If spelled Família, then it can sound like /fam’ilia/
Also, not 6:49. English does have a Subjunctive, but schools (here in America, and maybe where I live) were shit at teaching that. It’s used in the same context as Spanish, but they don’t teach you irregulars. “It’s important that he go to the hospital,” rather than ‘goes,’ because ‘goes’ is indicative (Fact), while ‘go’ (in this context means Probably)
What is your verdict????
When it comes to spelling, yes, English is much more difficult. Words in Spanish are spelled just as they're pronounced while English spelling is crazy. But language isn't just about spelling, and spelling isn't even the most important thing about a language. After all, languages existed long before the written form was created.
The most important thing about a language is being able to communicate verbally. Even illiterate people can communicate verbally. And in terms of verbal communication Spanish is much more difficult than English because of verb conjugations. There is very little conjugation at all in English, but there are endless conjugations in Spanish (and regular forms and irregular forms). And in Spanish, because of conjugations, the subject pronoun can be dropped from the sentence. But if you don't understand the conjugation you won't know who the subject of the sentence is. And if you don't know who the subject of the sentence is, then communcation fails. In English, because of the lack of verb conjugations, you simply CAN'T drop the pronoun. And because the pronoun is always there you'll always know who the subject of the sentence is when English is spoken, even if the rare conjugation gets messed up: unlike Spanish, you'll still accurately communicate your thought regardless, thanks to the pronoun still being spoken.
I speak, you speak, we speak, they speak, he/she speaks -- that's waaay easier than hablo, hablas, hablamos, hablan, habla.
Great video, by the way. You make these topics so fun.
Excellent and very strong argument for English. I loved the way you framed it with a focus on verbal communication!
Thank you good sir. And thank you for these wonderful videos.
And just to give an example: If I say "he speak" instead of "he speaks," even though the verb conjugation is wrong you understand exactly what I mean. But if I say "hablo" when I mean to say "habla" you probably will NOT know what I mean because you'll think I'm referring to myself when I mean to refer another person.
All.of.this!!!!!
Es fácil decir este argumento si no piensas en lo importante que es saber escribir. A menos que quieras decir a tu amigo por mensaje: Hao ar yu? (How are you?)
You need a Japanese person or someone to judge. I have only studied a little Spanish on Duolingo, but I don't count because I started studying French at age 9 and have also studied Italian, so I have that Romance Language familiarity. Other than our crazy-ass spelling, it seems to me that the other maddening thing about English would be the way we add prepositions to verbal meanings and it changes those meanings. Take out, take up, take in, take over, take through, take after (which has 2 distinct meanings), take down, etc. This must drive English learners bonkers. BTW, most of those "take" phrasal verbs have nothing to do with the base meaning of "take," as in to grasp something, or to move it from one place to another. Bonkers. Example: "take after" can either mean resemble, as in "He takes after his dad," or chase, as in "The cops took after the suspect when he ran into the woods." How the hell is a non-native speaker ever supposed to understand how that can be? Poor English learners. And then there's The Great Vowel Shift, which is the Brexit of language. Those ornery Brits just won't do things like the Continentals. "We live on an Island; we have to do things differently. We have to have an insane spelling system to confuse those Dutch and Spanish and damned French. Ha! That's how we'll get back at them for the Norman Conquest! We'll make our spelling more illogical than theirs could ever be! " (maniacal laughing)
Hahahah believe me. I'm there with you with phrasal verbs. What a pain they are! So far it seems that English is losing this battle
Linguists will tell you that Spanish is much easier to learn than English and I have to agree.
For me english is complex, no format to follow on its verbs changing tenses. So with the spelling, one must learn to spell and to immerse before you'll deeply understand why pronounciation and spelling changes
Excellent point. Yes English seems to be more difficult
There are more spanish speakers in the world, therefore there is more opportunity to practice.
The spanish pronunciation is easier.
Spanish is my first language 😂😉
Alright! Big point for Spanish!
Well English is spread further geographically. And if you include countries where it's a second language, but widely spoken, English has close to a billion.
@@shaungordon9737 I am talking about spanish as a first language 😉
Hello, I'm an English speaker who is currently trying to learn Spanish. Here are a little of things that I find challenging (1) remembering the gender of nouns, (2) the word "se" in general, (3) pronouns are all over the place, and (4) last but not least, Spanish is spoken very fast, it's the second fastest language behind Japanese.
Reglas gramaticales de género.
Los sustantivos son femeninos cuando terminan en:
-ción/sión: la pronunciación, la atención, la situación, la extorsión...
-a: la chica, la risa... (excepciones pequeñas: el rosa...)
-dad: la ciudad, la cantidad, la felicidad, la navidad, la maldad...
-lud: la salud...
-tud: la juventud, la actitud...
-tad: la libertad, la lealtad, amistad...
Los sustantivos son masculinos cuando terminan en:
-o: el chico, el abrigo, el rojo... (pequeñas excepciones: la moto, la foto...)
-or: el comedor, el roedor, el motor...
-ote: el pegote, el lote, el mote...
-án: el huracán...
Los sustantivos que empiezan por "a" son masculinos en singular y femeninos en plural:
-El agua -> las aguas
-El ave -> Las aves
Pronombres por todas partes: si te refieres a que utilizar el "Se", además del pronombre directo, te parece mucho añadido.
Inglés -> Español
Me = me
You = te
Him/her = Le
Us = nos
You all = os
Them = Les (los/las si es un objeto)
It = La/lo
(yo) Doy una manzana al chico = Se la doy (yo)
Una manzana (femenino) = la
Al chico = Se
I give an apple to the boy = I give it to him
An apple = it
To the boy = To him
I think English is harder, but I'm not sure if I should let English win because argument 2 for Spanish about RAE just doesn't sit well with me. I don't think an academy gets to decide language (prescriptivism), I think speakers get to decide how language is spoken (descriptivism.) Regardless, having to learn fewer words is definitely easier, so Spanish still is easier, in my opinion.
Thanks. I agree with you. And we don't listen to RAE. We still make and use our words . Thanks for sharing Sara
The only difficult part of Spanish is the irregular verbs, but in English you have many irregular verbs also, for me the main issue with English is the pronunciation, and the utilization of the memory is higher in English, I mean you can infer all the word pronunciations by looking at the spelling in Spanish, which in English is not the case. If you need to use your memory a lot that doesn't make English easy to learn, Spanish you infer more than memorise.
Hmm.....it's a close call! I love Spanish because I can pronounce any word even if I haven't seen it before (and I don't know what it means). There are only 5 vowels! Thank you Thank you Thank you Spanish! Also Spanish is very regular and logical (if Spanish was a person he would always do his homework, always clean his room and always be polite to everyone). However.... Spanish pronouns are a nightmare! What does "SE" mean??? As you say masculine/feminine is difficult too. "Usted, tu, vos, vosotros/as, Uds" = You. You need to clean up your act Spanish!
However.....English has 274,987 vowels. And thats just in England. Phrasal verbs are a pain in the a***! They must be a nightmare to learn. "Do, should, shall, shan't, won't, couldn't...." English - you need to clean up your act! I live near a place called Loughborough (pronounced Luf - br). Yes. English is a nightmare
Hmmm so the winner is maybe Esperanto lol?
@@ConvoSpeak Spanish is easier than English
Is this that movie “split” I’ve been hearing so much about?
let's not even pretend this is a fair fight, spanish has far superior swear words
Hahahah totalmente
Almost getting to a year in my Spanish studies, it’s so much easier!! One I love what you mentioned about just making a question sound like a question!
For example - ¿Coges ese plato por favor? Rather than, please can you take that plate?
Playing warzone with some Spanish speakers, even with my limited Spanish, it’s so much easier and quicker to relay information!
Subemos rather than let’s go up, están arriba rather than they are up stairs. Also, ‘joder’ is so much more satisfying to shout when you eventually die!
I must use ‘vamos’ and ‘vamanos’ about 10-20 times a day even in my English speaking life!
Really cool video btw, I really enjoyed it 🤩
Glad you enjoyed
I learnt Spanish as a teen when I lived there for around 2 years. I had to attend school after 6 months intensive study.
I only knew the numbers 1-20 before going to live in Spain.
I would say the verbs are the most difficult to get correct.
I’m still struggling to this day lol
I’m now back in the UK and find it hard to have the conversation to keep improving my Spanish as I’d like to.
Hace casi veinte años desde que escrito en Español me parece que necessito practicar mucho mas. Es igual para mi hablando en Español tambien.
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English certainly harder to learn speak and write.
Spanish sounds like it’s written,
written like it sounds.
Well the comparison is in favour of English 😂
Both are easy if you practice
Spanish is easier to pronounce but latinos from the Caribbean speak to fast
It's a mess
I think it's easier for Latinos to learn English
That Americans to learn Spanish
(Usa population 20% Latinos
22 % speak spanish
For Americans is hard to learn Spanish)
Conclusion to learn from A1 to B2 English is easier
To learn from C1 to C2 Spanish is easier to learn
My humble opinion
Ai anderstand oul your mesig, bat Ai dount nou hau tu ruait english bicos ai onli hav level A2.
(I understand all your message, but I don't know how to write English because I onlY have level A2.
I'd say learning English is waaaay harder. As a native English speaker learning spanish, I often say to myself "wow, this makes so much sense!" in regards to grammer and spelling, etc. Totally not the case with English and all of its ridiculous rules.
I agree 100% with you! Let's see what everybody says!
I’d have to disagree. I’m a native English speaker who also speaks other languages including Spanish. Yes Spanish spelling is easier but you also have to remember that unlike Spanish, English doesn’t have genders for words. Also, Spanish has so many forms of the same verb. The verb “hacer” has many variations depending on the context. English grammar I would say is easier, although pronunciation can be difficult. Spanish is a phonetic language just like Italian and Portuguese. English on the other hand isn’t. It also depends on the native language of the Spanish learner, for example Japanese or Korean natives would find learning Spanish easier than English because they share similar sounds and some words are linguistically intelligible. There are many Koreans especially who can learn Spanish with ease.
Are u kidding me?
I can assure ya Spanish's like a million times harder to learn
@@nathanosei-atenka71 would you say that once you’ve mastered verb conjugation in Spanish you basically know the language because it’s the same word just said differently? I feel like Spanish is easy because of this reason. Most verbs follow the same rules. Like for example ar verbs are always going to en in o when referring to one’s self therefore I just apply that rule to every AR verb and I automatically know how to say “I do something”
@@sweetzs100 I'd say that once you've mastered how the verb conjugations work, it'll make constructing sentences a lot easier because you'll know which ones to use.
Apologies for mispelling bough! Let us know the winner below
conjugations are stupid, abolish conjugations
Th sound European Spanish and English
Yes for us Latin Americans is not too great!
@@ConvoSpeak when I was younger I had a hard time with the Sound and I am native English speaker so it's hard for me it's hard for Latin Americans. Spanish wins when it comes to production of sounds
@@assomeoneelse2275 ¿Pero cómo va a ser difícil para Hispanoamericanos entender el español de España? He ido 100 000 veces a Hispanoamérica y siempre me han entendido. Además, no sé si sabes que en América también tienen ese acento, depende de la región es más ccomún o menos escucharlo, pero por ejemplo en Chile es bastante común.
@Iván Ovich Delfín Well, I say it's harder for an American to learn latin american spanish than european spanish
They’re equally as hard for a speaker of one to learn the other.
3:43 Familia /fam’ilia/ There’s supposed to be an acute accent, because spelled like ‘Familia’ will make it sound like /fami’lia/. If spelled Família, then it can sound like /fam’ilia/
Also, not 6:49. English does have a Subjunctive, but schools (here in America, and maybe where I live) were shit at teaching that. It’s used in the same context as Spanish, but they don’t teach you irregulars.
“It’s important that he go to the hospital,” rather than ‘goes,’ because ‘goes’ is indicative (Fact), while ‘go’ (in this context means Probably)
"Familia" se dice "Familia", no Fam'ilia. Fa-mi-lia. No puedes separar la "m" de la "i", porque es la misma sílaba.