Pronunciation: French has uvular, similar to the pronunciation of "ha". Spanish has a loud tongue sound, so the tongue needs to vibrate quickly. Relatively speaking, tongue sounds are more difficult to pronounce.
Pronunciation: The pronunciation rules of both languages are very simple, and the pronunciation of each letter is fixed, but there are some special rules to remember. In French, the letter H has a hiss and mutes. In Spanish, the letter X is pronounced as he or iks, and when B and V are pronounced as B and V, you need to remember. Comparatively speaking, Spanish has more pronunciation rules.
Intonation: French intonation is very flat. Spanish has a sense of rhythm, word stress and sentence stress. Spanish intonation is more difficult to master.
Grammar: The grammar of both languages is very complicated. Verb displacement. There are 4 modes and 22 tenses in French, and the commonly used tense is 1 1. There are six patterns in Spanish, 19 tense and 14 are commonly used. The imperfect tense and perfect tense of virtual future, which are not used in French now, are still used in Spanish daily life. Spanish tone sandhi is difficult to master.
Writing: There are abbreviations in French, for example, the first letter of la+ vowel should be written as L'. This phenomenon does not exist in Spanish. French writing is troublesome and error-prone.
Listening: The difficulty of French listening lies in the phenomenon of continuous reading. Read some words together. The difficulty in Spanish listening is that B and V are pronounced the same. Comparatively speaking, French listening is more difficult.
French speakers: 87 million people speak French as their mother tongue. Spanish is the third largest language in the world, with 406 million people speaking it as their mother tongue. Spanish is widely used.
As a person who has studied French and Spanish systematically, I suggest you choose French. Spanish is too difficult to learn, and Spanish is faster than French, so it is difficult to keep up with the initial stage.