Agree with watching soap operas. Many of them even have English subtitles, which help a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:I recommend Arabic. It’s basically Spanish but harder but strangely, I found Arabic much easier to learn and I dont even have Arab ancestry

Only because Arabic and Spanish sound similar?

For a native English speaker Arabic is a throaty language to try to learn.

Best to always have plenty of H2O on hand when attempting to speak it!!
Lol!

I like Arabic because it sounds nicer than Spanish. Also because Arab countries have a more richer and better culture imo.

Anonymous wrote:As a native English speaker, I found Canadian to be the easiest language to learn.

Sorry to hear that.

Anonymous wrote:Spanish is the easiest.

This is what I don't understand. Spanish is just not that hard.

This must be some psyop thread because a whole lot of Americans actually do already know more Spanish than they think.

Like, if you grew up in NYC you probably already know more Yiddish than you think, even if you aren't Jewish yourself.

Just ever having seen Fiddler on the Roof or reading the menu at Ratners or ordering at a deli

Spanish just isn't that hard if you already live in the US, because it's everywhere you look, unless you somehow willfully ignore it

Even your typical mountain quality dipshit probably knows how to say "Si Señor" even as they are trying to use it as an insult or something ... and they definitely know words like cajones and pendejo because they've learned them from car chase movies. Or something. Or they like certain actresses.

As a native English speaker, I found Canadian to be the easiest language to learn.

Anonymous wrote:I heard Korean and French are easy.

I can't think of any similarities between the two

I speak passable French and listen to a lot of BTS and watch a lot of zombie movies with subtitles, I haven't picked up on a thing in Korean. Though, granted, the zombies don't speak much

Spanish is the easiest.

Not sure why, but I found French to be easier to learn than Spanish.

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Anonymous wrote:I like to watch movies in Italian, French and Spanish with English subtitles and repeat the dialogue out loud as they say things

Just pay attention. I learned "chingas-a-tu-madre-cabron !!!!" from the apple TV show Pluribus. I absolutely looked that one up lol

I also liked learning "va te faire foutre !!!" which was something they definitely didn't teach me in any classroom

Language is fun

It’s chinga tu madre. I went to HS in Arizona. Very very common phrase. The speaker in Pluribus very obviously spoke very bad Spanish.

If you want a master class in Mexican swearing, watch Club de Cuervos. And then you can compare it to the swearing in Casa De Papel from Spain.

Muchas gracias!

Also, Spanish was in North America way before English.

If the English had arrived in Mexico and South America earlier on, it would be an entirely different linguistic story overall today.

The English snoozed, they losed.

In closing, the United States has never had an official language, and I don't know why it's some kind of flex today to declare that you only know how to speak one language. You go, you guys! Winning! /fin

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Anonymous wrote:Don't try French if you can't do Spanish. How about Mandarin? Arabic? Ebonics? Russian?

I don’t know about Mandarin or Ebonics, but if OP found Spanish tricky, highly doubt they’ll find Arabic or Russian any less tricky with the added bonus of learning all in non-Latin alphabet and the same as Spanish gender adjustments, changing word endings depending on context, etc.

What languages do you already speak or learned before Op?

Native Russian speaker here. I don’t speak Spanish, but I did learn French which is supposedly harder than Spanish. Out of the three languages I speak - Russian, English, French - I would consider Russian to be the hardest by far. At least in terms of grammar. Not only are there changes due to gender, but nouns have declensions (different endings based on which preposition is used, and there are 6 of those - so each noun can have 6 “varieties”). Verb tenses are much harder than either English or French too.

If OP struggled with Spanish then I don’t think Russian is the way to go, unless she already knows another Slavic language.

If you are familiar with Latin, the declensions in Russian should not be a surprise. English doesn't really have declensions because English relies on a strict word ordering to determine which nouns are subject (nominative) or object (dative.)

Anonymous wrote:What is best program for learning Spanish at home?

Kids cartoons and telenovelas (soap operas in spanish) ... they all speak slowly, deliberately and repeat the same things over and over

There are whole generations of people around the world who actually learned English largely just through the syndication of "Friends"

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Anonymous wrote:Don't try French if you can't do Spanish. How about Mandarin? Arabic? Ebonics? Russian?

I don’t know about Mandarin or Ebonics, but if OP found Spanish tricky, highly doubt they’ll find Arabic or Russian any less tricky with the added bonus of learning all in non-Latin alphabet and the same as Spanish gender adjustments, changing word endings depending on context, etc.

What languages do you already speak or learned before Op?

Native Russian speaker here. I don’t speak Spanish, but I did learn French which is supposedly harder than Spanish. Out of the three languages I speak - Russian, English, French - I would consider Russian to be the hardest by far. At least in terms of grammar. Not only are there changes due to gender, but nouns have declensions (different endings based on which preposition is used, and there are 6 of those - so each noun can have 6 “varieties”). Verb tenses are much harder than either English or French too.

If OP struggled with Spanish then I don’t think Russian is the way to go, unless she already knows another Slavic language.

Anonymous wrote:Don't try French if you can't do Spanish. How about Mandarin? Arabic? Ebonics? Russian?

I don’t know about Mandarin or Ebonics, but if OP found Spanish tricky, highly doubt they’ll find Arabic or Russian any less tricky with the added bonus of learning all in non-Latin alphabet and the same as Spanish gender adjustments, changing word endings depending on context, etc.

What languages do you already speak or learned before Op?

What language did your ancestors speak? That might come more naturally if it's not your native language.

I heard Korean and French are easy.