French vs german

For those who have learned both french and german:

Which one is the most difficult to learn - grammatical?
I don't know whether or not I shall take french too...

I had to make a choice 4 weeks back on what to take at GCSE level in school between French and German, I chose German.

I dont know which one is harder, I just decided on German as I have done that for around 10 year and I have only done French for 3.

I took German myself for GCSE's-I believe it to be easier.

German and French are both, like English, derived from Latin, so they will be similar in grammar.
I guess there's only the preference based on country you like most, teacher you'll get, which one you feel you'd need more in life, things like that.

hope I helped

I was born french and am learning german right now... I think that french is tougher because of all the verbs (24000) but german has its difficulties too ... and what makes french tougher for me is all the exeptions ....

Thanks for the help!
It still hard to decide...
'Cause if I take french then I'll have 5 (writing) languages in school...
So I don't know..
But thanks, thanks, thanks

Well, Joelle, I see you're from Norway, meaning you speak Norweigan... therefore learning German would be easier for you. I speak English, Danish (my mom and grandma are from Denmark), French (I learn it in school and study it privately, so I'm almost fluent), Spanish (my brother teaches it) and a bit of German (my aunt is from there), and I can tell you the most difficult for me to learn (besides the Danish pronunciation) is French. However, French is my favorite of all of them, so if you're up for a challenge, learn French. However, if you merely want something to be able breeze by, with your native language, it would be German. You see, English, German, Norweigan, Danish, and Swedish are all Germanic languages, meaning they, as someone has said, derive from Latin. If you know one language in that group, then learning another would not be as difficult as learning a Romance or Asian language, Grammar-wise (pronunciation is different) and vocabulary-wise.
Romance languages, meaning Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian (I'm sure I'm missing some) are in a similar classification, and are vastly different from Germanic languages, but some vocabulary is similar.

Will someone please tell me why they think Germanic languages derive from Latin and the Romance languages don't? ()_(); I know Spanish to a goodly extent (not yet "fluido," unfortunately), and I know some Italian (that being my main-line heritage), and I can listen to Latin and pick up a good deal. So.....someone clear this up for me, please.

Helpfull Reamia.
But I have heard from someone else that french would be easier than german, because french don't have as many cases(if I write it that way...) as german, and that the nouns and their 'bendings' is harder to get a grip on in german...
I have already begun to learn german, so I have already taken the hardest beginning stage of learning it, so I know that the words are similair to norwegian and the skandinavian languages at least.

Have you learn't danish??
That is so interesting, 'cause there's very few who learns any skandinavian languages compared to the more known languages.
I can imagine you having problems with the pronunciation yeah...
I don't even try to speak danish, but then I'm lucky and don't have to, 'cause we understand our neighbours.

My native language is French and I can tell you, it's a very hard language. I still have difficulties with verbs, grammar and mainly how to build sentences (I think it's called syntax). I really like to talk French, especially Canadian French (it's a bit different than France French) but like some people told you, I think it's more difficult. I don't know a single German word so it's hard for me to compare but a person I know learned German and it didn't seen so difficult...

I really really hate french, and its much harder too so choose german...

France french is nasty lol but around here we speak chiac which is a mix between french and english (very weird) but to speak french is probably easier well for me anyways since german has different pronounciations for letters and it gets confusing

both french and german suck anyways

Only learn it if it's going to be useful to you: that's my advice.
Personally, I prefer French to German. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter; I've just found French easier to learn.

Bonjour mes amis! Je parle des francais, mais je ne suis pas super. Mais francais est facile. Je ne sais pas Allemand.

Translation:
Hello my friends! I speak french, but I am not good. But French is easy. I do not know German.

Hi,
I'm new to this board and i'm from Quebec (Canada). My main languague is french, but i took german class in school, so i'm quite good at it. If you have any question to ask me regardling french, i would be happy to answer.
Si ya du monde qui parle francais, sa serait bien cool que vous le dites!

I've had French for 3 years at school now, just started the 4th. It's not THAT hard, but you may be a little confused with the verbs. Some important verbs you just have to learn by heart. And they have some weird ways of making sentences, but you get used to it.
And French is a sexy language

I think french would be much easier.

The only thing that's 'strange' in German and so difficult are the, don't know the name in English, but I can explain. In English in a sentence you always use: the or a or his/her, in German it's different, in German you have the basic forms( der(m), die(f), das) and when it's for example: he's in the sporthall, it's not translated with der but with dem, and so there are a few more forms.

I'm fluent in french, and even I have problems conjugating verbs. Believe it or not, German is very similar to English. Old English actually sounds alot like German (My German friend was able to read the old english text of Beowulf and understand a little bit of it.) Of course, after the Normans invaded England and took it over for a while, the english language changed and started having french words in it. Alot of law terms are part english part french words. Anyway, I would think for an English speaker, German would be easier, but I heard that the way that you form a sentence in German is odd (Can really elaborate on that statement).

The hardest part apart french is the conjugation.