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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
I have heard a rumour that it is easier to learn French, THEN Spanish, rather than trying to learn Spanish with zero french.
Is that true? Does that even make sense? When I was in Mexico some of the more educated locals at the resort told me that.. apparently the two languages are very similar?
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I would say this is true. Both are Romantic languages, and are very very similar. With French, you have to be very particular with your masculine/feminine nouns, and the grammar rules are pretty strict, especially with verb conjugations.
In Spanish, it's less important because most times you can omit the pronoun, which often means you can ignore the gender of the word. And the verb conjugations are slightly simpler.
A bit OT, but Japanese is supposed to be one of the easiest languages to learn. The gender of a word means little, and there are only two tenses: past and present. I tried learning a bit for fun a while back, and yeah, it wasn't too bad.