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I'm surprised that list puts French in category 1, and German in category 2. Would have expected it to be the other way around. In my experiences, learning Fre
by pen2l 7y ago
I'm surprised that list puts French in category 1, and German in category 2. Would have expected it to be the other way around.
In my experiences, learning French well is more difficult than people think, German not as much.
- ThrustVectoring 7y agoDue to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 there's a good chunk of vocabulary overlap, particularly for the more formal and technical words likely to be used in State Department contexts.
- barry-cotter 7y agoSpelling aside French isn’t really more difficult than Spanish. Neither language is terribly difficult when you compare it to Hebrew, Arabic, Russian or Japanese but German grammar is definitely more complex than French and that’s where most of the difficulty is in Category 1 and 2 languages, not the phoneme inventory or vocabulary, with their masses of cognates with English.