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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:23 am


I'm italian but if you want my opinion, just keep french since, like someone wisely said, it's more used than italian.
btw it's not true that italian is easier to learn than french. italian it's pretty hard to learn (expecially verbs). I studied french for 7+ years but... i dont use it for a very long time.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:52 am


i say: learn italian! i speke both english and italian and i've also speke a bit of french. trust me: frnch isn't worth it.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:54 pm


I would suggest Italian if you have a background in spanish. Well, more than a year, that's for sure. In a way, Italian is easier to learn if you know spanish because, if I'm not mistaken, my teacher had once told us that it was mostly made up of spanish words. But I hear that French is a lot easier. I think it is. Depends, also, on what you're more interested and which one you think you might have more fun learning. Otherwise, they'll both end up being hard and big pain in the butts.
PostPosted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:53 pm


it doesnt matter which ever one u learn frist as soon as u learn one it will be really much easier to learn the next one for spanish italian and french are similar

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:14 pm


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french sounds more "fun"...but italian grammar is a lot easier and less complicated to learn...if you know latin, it'd be much easier than french, too wink

i agree completley! french has too many accents....
PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:07 pm


I'd say French if you've taken Spanish at all. The two are almost the same. (Not to say Italian I'SNT similar, but I can speak French already, so I'm kinda biased. XD )

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:02 pm


Yeah, take french, I am french.. even tought I suck at spelling xD
PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:20 pm


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It sucks!
Italian all da way!!
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:23 pm


I speak French, but Italian would be easier with the Spanish connection....but it is up to you.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:40 am


It really depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for the "easiest," Italian should be easier. It has straight-forward pronunciation, and knowledge of Latin will make it much easier. If you're looking for the most useful, I'd say French. It has more speakers and is used in more countries. I may be biased though, as I'm studying French. Both are great languages though. smile

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:52 pm


I speak some French, so I would have to say French. If you know Latin roots, it's pretty easy to interpret.
PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 6:03 pm


I take Italian at the moment, and I truly love it. The way it flows to every other word makes it sound musical.

I hear it's easier, I wouldn't know because I know a total of 2 phrases in French.

Maybe it's just because I'm Italian, and I find it fun, but I reccomend you take Italian. That's only if you want.

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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:15 am


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French is cooler and is more useful because people speak french in France, Quebec, Mali, Maghreb, etc. but people only speak italian in Italy...


no way... this is a LIE!! smile I'm italian and, really, french is simplier and italian's not very peculiar to spanish... smile
PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:54 pm


Evil Nemo
It really depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for the "easiest," Italian should be easier. It has straight-forward pronunciation, and knowledge of Latin will make it much easier. If you're looking for the most useful, I'd say French. It has more speakers and is used in more countries. I may be biased though, as I'm studying French. Both are great languages though. smile




I hate to disappoint you, but Italian is still considered one of the most difficult languages in the world, so I'd not call it "easier" than French [I know, I'm partisan because I'm Italian and very proud of my culture, but it's true!].
Yeah, maybe a base knowledge of Latin might be useful, but the same goes for most of neolatin languages [French and Spanish included].

However, French is more widespread, so it'll be more useful [and I have to admit that I'd love to read Proust and Hugo in their original language -but studying Italian you'll be able, at an advanced level, to read the Divine Comedy or other great literary works!].


Trivia: the lexical similarity between Italian and French is 89%, and Italian generally is the fourth or fifth most taught second-language in the world.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:45 pm


well i actually can speak italian and its nice but i actually recommend french. its more of a challenge if you want one and actually Italian soundls like its in between french and spanish so if you take french youll probably be able to understand italian. good luck with you choice
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