Why are Spanish and French so similar?

Why are French and Spanish (or Castilian) so similar? The answer is simple. The two languages (as well as others: Italian or Romanian) are similar because they come from a common origin: Latin. Both languages share the same 26-letter alphabet and therefore the same writing system.

Is Spanish easy if you know French?

Learning any language is challenging, but learning Spanish if you know French would be relatively easy. As Romance languages, they share a lot of vocabulary, and many grammatical features. The same would be true of Italian for a French speaker, which could be slightly easier, but probably about the same.

Is French easier than Spanish?

What also makes French easier than Spanish is that French has fewer verb tenses/moods than Spanish. French has a total of 15 verb tenses/moods, four of which are literary and rarely used, thus only 11 are used in daily French.

What languages are most similar to Spanish?

French

Which is easier to learn, French or Spanish?

Both languages share a common Latin origin, which makes easier for a Spanish speaker to learn French (or Italian, or Portuguese, for that matter…) than, say, German or even English. French is way less tolerant than Spanish to phonetic errors, being richer phonetically.

Which is more useful French or Spanish?

There is a common myth among English speakers in the United States that Spanish is much easier to learn than French. American high school students often chose Spanish to fulfill a foreign language requirement, sometimes under the premise that Spanish is the more useful language, and other times because it seems the easiest to learn. In comparison to French, Spanish pronunciation and spelling seem less daunting to the average learner, but there is more to a language than just its phonetics.