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My native language is a German dialect, I grew up talking Portuguese, learned French in school for 5 years, 3 years of Spanish and I strongly disagree. The Fre
by bipson 9y ago
My native language is a German dialect, I grew up talking Portuguese, learned French in school for 5 years, 3 years of Spanish and I strongly disagree.
The French language is full of irregularities and weird, complicated sentence constructions (try to negate something in a conditional past tense), and worst of all, so many flowers of speech, that francophones love to show off.
- jjgreen 9y ago"Flowers of speech" is not, as far as I know, idiomatic English, but it should be: fantastic!
- bshimmin 9y agoIt's very close to the idiomatic "flowery speech"!
- singularity2001 9y agoflowers related to flavors?
- apendleton 9y agoThis list is a measure of difficulty for native English speakers, specifically, for whom some of the complexities in French you mention are offset by a comparatively larger shared vocabulary as compared to Spanish (thanks, William the Conqueror).