Is learning french easy?

1. No language is easy. There are only levels of difficulty.

2. Per the American Foreign Service Institute, for the average monolingual English speaker, both require 600 hours of study to reach competency (not fluency). That makes them level I languages, the easiest (but not easy) level on their list.

3. Spanish is only seemingly easier in the beginning. If you truly learn Spanish well, it balances out and is comparable to French.

4. Spanish is very nearly phonetic and the sounds letters represent are fairly intuitive to an English speaker. French is not.

5. Spanish usually clear marks grammatical gender with specific suffixes. Often, gender must be memorized in French (although there are guidelines that can greatly reduce the need for memorization). Many nouns do not end in suffixes, and those that do, do not always follow gender guidelines.

6. The Spanish verb system as a whole is more complex than the French system. There are tenses that French no longer uses in the spoken language, and French has no progressive aspect. The French subjunctive is far simpler in form and use.

7. There are many other level I languages that are just as easy/hard as Spanish or French.

I studied Spanish in high school and French in college; I got straight A's in both. I never thought either was particularly difficult; I actually majored in French for awhile. Most people would find French a bit more difficult because pronunciation of the words is considerably different from what they look like in writing. That's not the case with Spanish.

Some find it difficult, some find it easy.
I found it easy and Spanish even easier.
I know hundreds of people who speak at least some French.

I think Spanish is easier because closer to a Latin base than French. The sentence structure between and some pronunciation is similar between English and Spanish. Even if you don't know any Spanish, you can still understand part of what they're saying. With French, that's not the case.