Story I learned to speak fluent Spanish in 1 year (700 hours). Story/AMA

[moggie]

IMO Spanish is probably easiest to learn and most useful (I did a bit on duolingo and it seems very easy to pick up).

I learned some French due to growing up in Canada so I could probably pick it up quicker due to the constant exposure.

What did you find to be the most challenging parts of learning a romance language? Is it the grammar / gender / word order?

 

[fatchadlitecel]

What did you find to be the most challenging parts of learning a romance language? Is it the grammar / gender / word order?

With French the word order and gender conjugations are a bit confusing/annoying because it seems vocabulary based rather than rules based.

Spanish doesn't really have word order issues as much but it seems to be more gendered. So overall as long as you learn the vocab I think Spanish is probably easier. Also Spanish speakers are probably not going to shit on you for having the wrong accent.

If you speak French with the wrong accent (Parisian in Quebec or vice versa) the locals seem to treat you like an Anglo shitter regardless.

 

[fjor2096]

which category I language is the best to learn first?

Spanish and French are the most useful, however French takes a few hundred more hours to learn than Spanish due to liasons + not being as phonetic as spanish. For geomaxxing purposes Spanish is best followed by Portuguese (Portuguese is slightly hard, although probably not that noticable -- they have a few more verb conjugations that in Spanish are archaic or only used in literature).

 

[Aphex]

Has speaking spanish ever helped out irl?

 

[fatchadlitecel]

Has speaking spanish ever helped out irl?

South Americans don't have the same level of ESL fluency as Europe

 

[Aphex]

South Americans don't have the same level of ESL fluency as Europe

True, SAs struggle alot with that

 

[fjor2096]

Has speaking spanish ever helped out irl?

Besides dopamine boosts not really anything significant yet

 

[fjor2096]

South Americans don't have the same level of ESL fluency as Europe

Spain doesn't either tbh outside of Madrid and the upper class in general they have a pretty low English proficiency

 

[geomaxer]

Eurasian

is your dad white and mom asian?

 

[fjor2096]

is your dad white and mom asian?

both my parents are asian, im central asian although ive had some white ancestors (admixture)

 

[leafy]

What types of stuff did you read

 

[KebabMancer]

i have languages: arabic, english, italian and frensh.
i probably should learn spanish or some asian language aswell but too lazy to spend over 20 hours reading some chinkoid words. seems like a ton of effort tbh.

Russian, Polish, Thai, Vietnamese: 1,760 hours

this is probably the most worth it tbh.
can geomaxx to EE and also some parts of asia, seems like a good investment.