Why Russian and Ukrainian Nouns Change their Spelling

[DarthDem]

2. Yes

Declension of nouns and adjectives is typically the reason why people claim that German and Russian are harder than French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. I tend to agree as to all but French because the French do not hew to conventional word order - whereas German and Russian largely do and the other romance languages almost exclusively do - in either spoken or written French.

Moreover, French has more very commonly used idiomatic expressions than any of the other romance languages and probably more than German or Russian as well. French might be easier to "learn" than German or Russian, but sounding like a native French speaker is just as hard if not harder than doing so in German and Russian for all of the above reasons.