Listen to Coupure Electrique. You will learn everything you need to know about French from that song.

I took a year of Spanish and I found it easy and was one of three people who got the full qualification, I also took French for GCSE didn't pass it though, but I ended up passing the French qualification that I finished this year, the easiest part of French was the accent, I had it already and I knew most of the words that we went over, the hardest part of Spanish was gaining the correct accent, I could never grasp it at all.

If English is your native language, French and Spanish are equal in terms of difficulty. Spanish is phonetic but I believe the tenses/verbs are a bit more complicated than the French ones.

For the most part yes it does? Foreign words are exceptions. And we even pronounce some of those as they are written occasionally (the world 'club' for example)

I think French is miles harder. The pronunciation makes it so difficult.

In some cases it can be a bit tricky. I've seen natives insert h's where they don't belong because it's a silent sound. Like I've seen "echar" spelled as "hechar". I've seen "he" and "ha" spelled as "e" and "a". Latin Americans in specific have the problem with the "s", "z", "ce" and "ci". I've seen the word "hacer" spelled as "aser" before. Of course these people have little formal Spanish education, but spelling in Spanish isn't always as black and white as some make it out to be. However, in comparison to other languages ESPECIALLY French, it's a million times easier.

I'm Spanish and I agree. I hated French in high school becuase it made me suffer so much. It was so difficult to learn and speak for me

I even chose Arabic over French in college and it felt easier than the French I had in high school

True, but like you said it's more of a literacy issue. Spanish is still a largely phonetic language. French is actually not that bad, it's worse than Spanish sure but it's on equal standing to say English, when it comes to phonetics

Estoy de acuerdo en que para los extranjeros no es un idioma sencillo, pero lo que digo es que el español es un idioma fonético. Lo que ves es lo que lees, es muy intuitivo. El francés es mucho menos intuitivo...cómo pronunciarías la palabra "aux"? Se pronuncia "o"

Spanish from Spain > French > Spanish spoken in Latin America

Eso es cierto, al mismo tiempo frances tiene solo unas pocas reglas que debes aprender para pronunciar todo perfectamente - cada vez que tengas las letras "aux" en una palabra las pronuncias en la misma manera exactamente. Es mucho más facil que inglés por ejemplo, en que debes memorizar todas pronunciaciones por que no tienen ningun tipo de sentido.

Spanish is a phonetic language. They made it out this way. Which like mentioned before it is highly standardized.

I don't know why people like to claim their language is difficult. Languages shouldn't be difficult, because then it's a bad language. The whole point of a lanaguge is to communicate. Spanish isn't difficult which makes it a good language to communicate, it's straight to the point and clear. You'll get little confusion.