Is it easy to learn both German and Spanish?

October 30, 2008 by Admin - LearnGermanLanguage.org 

I just can't decide which one to learn, so how hard is it to learn both? Not at the same time, of course. How difficult do you thing it would be for me to learn Spanish, then when i've learned that start learning German? Like generally, can most people learn both languages, and end up speaking them both fluently with plenty of practice?

For an English native speaker, Spanish is usually quite easy, but German is aweful. Especially the German grammar is horrible. But perhaps it is more of an advantage to learn something difficult? When you learn first Spanish and then German or the other way around, I don´t think the first language will be a great help when learning the other one.

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5 Responses to “Is it easy to learn both German and Spanish?”

  1. Yo on October 30th, 2008 6:49 am

    I´m Spanish and I don´t know which one would be more difficult for an English-speaker, I guess German is closer to English. Although, Spanish is much more widely spoken.
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  2. . on October 30th, 2008 7:14 am

    You can learn both without difficulty and should be able to speak both fluently with practice and a lot of interaction with Spanish and German speaking peoples.
    I've taken classes in both languages and even as dumb as I am I felt that I could have learned to speak both fluently if I had kept with it.
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  3. Bqweqe A on October 30th, 2008 7:45 am

    german isnt easy to learn
    some english native speakers, espcecially US americans who learned german for 4 years think they speak good german but in fact their german is very very bad and wrong

    donnu about spanish
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  4. mai-ling on October 30th, 2008 8:28 am

    For an English native speaker, Spanish is usually quite easy, but German is aweful. Especially the German grammar is horrible. But perhaps it is more of an advantage to learn something difficult? When you learn first Spanish and then German or the other way around, I don´t think the first language will be a great help when learning the other one.
    References :

  5. bmph8ter2000 on October 30th, 2008 8:49 am

    mai-ling is right. Starting with Spanish will be easiest for most people (native English speakers anyway). The key is finding a good program that offers audio lessons so you can be sure that you pronunciation is correct.

    I'm using Rocket Spanish right now (I just started) as it was recommended by one of my friends; a teacher actually. It's a nice program and came with free trial lessons. Good luck!
    References :
    Rocket Spanish
    http://www.thingsiknowaboutstuff.com/rocketspanish

    Rocket German
    http://www.thingsiknowaboutstuff.com/rocketgerman

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