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I am thinking about taking French, how hard is it to PRONOUNCE and SPEAK the language?

I am a native English speaker, and am in my 3rd year of Spanish. I really love Spanish and want to learn another language, and I’ve decided French. I know that there are going to be grammar similarities and other similarities because they are both romantic languages, but how hard is it to learn the pronunciations of French? I have looked up some stuff online, and listened to audio clips, and it seems next to impossible to try to pronounce these words and phrases. With Spanish, pretty much every letter is pronounced, except h which is silent, but it seems like there are many more things in French that are hard.

Is French hard to speak at first?

THANKS!!

It’s hard at first, but then it gets extremely easy. there are a lot of false cognates, and there always exceptions( for example eyes in the singular l’oeil; in the plural les yeux. or the word for garlic l’air(pronounced liah with a tiny, tiny bit of a j.))

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5 Responses to “I am thinking about taking French, how hard is it to PRONOUNCE and SPEAK the language?”

  1. ricardo9505 Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    well it’s different from Spanish I’d say. I speak english, spanish and french. some patois. french has what i call many nasal words so ponunciation is a bit tough. I suggest u watch french news which is what I suggest to those learning spanish- watch spanish news.
    References :

  2. Allan Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    It’s different, for sure. R’s are pronounced in the back of the throat (uvular trill), U’s are pronounced like "ee" with your lips rounded, "eu" is pronounced like the ‘o’ in ‘world’… the phonology is pretty different than English and Spanish, but once you’ve got it down, it’s easy to speak.
    References :
    Fluent French speaker.

  3. b-angel Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    At first French may seem a little bit hard if you aren’t listening to the language carefully. The grammar and vocabulary is really easy to catch on with though. I’d say you should give it a shot! I’m fluent in the language and always thought back in high school that it was way easier than Spanish ;)
    References :
    personal experience

  4. Kenley Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    French is hard to pronounce at first.
    References :

  5. Thunder Elman Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    It’s hard at first, but then it gets extremely easy. there are a lot of false cognates, and there always exceptions( for example eyes in the singular l’oeil; in the plural les yeux. or the word for garlic l’air(pronounced liah with a tiny, tiny bit of a j.))
    References :
    I learned french in school, going to my 3rd year, next year.
    Tu devrais apprendre le francais.

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