Is it difficult to learn French?

In their language difficulty ranking, the Foreign Service Institute puts French in the top ten easiest languages to learn for English-speakers, alongside notoriously easy languages such as Spanish and Italian.



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You can learn French in one year. Some people take a decade to learn a language, while others have become fluent in a year or less. It all depends on your discipline. In a nutshell, you need to be proficient in reading, writing, listening, and speaking to be considered fluent.

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You can learn basic grammar and vocabulary at any age. That explains my “good enough” French. But there's also an enormous amount of low-frequency words and syntax that even native speakers might encounter only once a year. Knowing any one of these “occasional” words or phrasings isn't essential.

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5 easy languages to learn
  • English. It's the most widely spoken language in the world, making practice possible. ...
  • French. French has over 100 million native speakers and is – as the official language in 28 countries – spoken on almost every continent. ...
  • Spanish. ...
  • Italian. ...
  • Swahili.


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