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If I'm over 25, is it still too late for me to "learn" French or can I just watch French sitcoms for like a year and be up-to-speed? (lemmy.world)

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[–] Nevrome@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's never too late to learn a language. However, French is one hell of a step coming from English.

French is my main language and even if I've been speaking it for close to 40 years now, I still learn language exceptions and rules today.

Still, I'd give it a go if I were you, learning something new is always fun. Enjoy!

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

If you want a rough comparison of the relative difficulty for a native English speaker to learn different languages, the US military’s Defense Language Institute’s guidelines are well-regarded, and they consider Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese to be the easiest.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

French is tough, but I'd argue it isn't that hard compared to some other languages. Grammatical gender and conjugation are a pain in the ass, but the vocabulary is very familiar to a native English-speaker because of the languages' common history (thanks, William the Conqueror)

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Im Canadian and also already have a significant french education, just never got "conversational", def have since like age 3 exposure if only Ontarioish