Comments on: Commonly Confused Words in French

By: Enrique

Enrique — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 14:08:50 +0000

In reply to Carolyn.

Hi, Carolyn,

Yes, French is derived from Latin. Knowing Latin will certainly help, but I don't recommend studying more than one Romance language at the same time.

And yes, those in the arts have to learn languages. I have a friend who studied opera, and she had to learn Italian and French to sing some arias.

Thanks for commenting.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:24:11 +0000

Hi AL, thanks for such an interesting, in-depth post. I am fascinated by languages, but do not feel skilled in anything but English. Is French a Romance language? Does knowing Latin help you learn French? I have several friends who know many languages. Some as many as 5 languages. Those people usually live in Europe. I never had a good opportunity to learn language in school. I have heard that those who are musical are good at learning languages.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 04:26:04 +0000

In reply to AL. S..

Hi, AL,

To be honest, I don't recommend you study Spanish and French at the same time. You will get confused. It's better you study one until you reach fluency and then move on to the next.

Thanks for commenting.

By: AL. S.

AL. S. — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:41:16 +0000

I love learning languages. I am currently working on Spanish, but have looked at french as well. After learning Spanish for about I year and then looking at French I realized that there are a whole lot of similarities between French and Spanish. I did not realize until reading your post that both French and Spanish have Latin roots. I guess I always just assumed French had its roots in the Germanic languages.