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Poor Romania didn't even get mentioned

@Pdasilva0324

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he could have given it a mention, but it has less lexical similarity to almost all other romance languages due to the heavy Slavic influences.

@jojijohn7121

Жыл бұрын

​@@Pdasilva0324 can someone explain to me just what in universe ass is so heavy about this cursed slab influence that will not leave Romania alone and end the bulshit stereotype?

@ghostlion8616

Жыл бұрын

​@@Pdasilva0324 add even Hungarian influence and Dacian substrate

@tideghost

Жыл бұрын

@@jojijohn7121 isolation

@jojijohn7121

Жыл бұрын

@ghostlion8616 Those hungry for transylvania dipshits have nothing to do with Dacia

It's so cool how you pick alternative countries to represent the languages

@layolajedrick6989

Жыл бұрын

Yes But didn't show the Romance Countries such as Portugal,Spain,France and Italy which we're mostly the language names comes from those Countries

@user-ok1ks5ks9t

Жыл бұрын

​@@layolajedrick6989The comment says that he chose AlTERNATIVE countries, not the specific countries of origin.

@netquartz

10 ай бұрын

Quebec: I feel honored /j

@ledues3336

10 ай бұрын

​@@netquartz Salut ami québécois

@netquartz

10 ай бұрын

@@ledues3336 sup 😁

Definitely Galician and Portuguese. They are like 95% the same. ❤

@rickytricky5719

Ай бұрын

We must have Portugalicia one day

@ayuwoki453

25 күн бұрын

However when hearing a Galician speaking it sounds almost like Spanish to me, a native Spanish speaker. But when listening to a Portuguese speak it sounds like gibberish. Something I do find pretty cool is that I can have a written conversation with a Portuguese person writing in Portuguese and me in Spanish and we can understand each other despite writing in different languages.

@ThiHills

25 күн бұрын

@@ayuwoki453 Ikr, even for me as brazilian (native portuguese speaker) I find it tricky sometimes to understand a portuguese person speaking with a portuguese accent. To be honest it's easier for me to understand Galician better than portuguese with the european accent. I guess the brazilian accent will be easier for you to understand, since we usually don't 'swallow' some letters and we speak the a more open mouth (somewhat like italians).

@animotiondesign

7 күн бұрын

​@@ayuwoki453 That's cos of the Spanish dictatorship and media ruining the accents in Galicia, cos if you listen to older folk speak Galician, it is almost identical to Northern Portuguese

As a Spanish Speaker learning Catalan, I've noticed it resembles a lot like French, The Words like Romanian, and the Pronounciations like Castillian Spanish

@teknul89

7 ай бұрын

It’s because Catalan is in the same sub group with Occitan which is closer to Gallo-Romano which is the French-Italian border so for Catalan people it’s easier to understand what French or Italians say than what Spanish say because they are closer to them Where Spanish is more closer to Portuguese because they are in the Iberia sub group Both can pick words up from each language in Catalan or Spanish but I guess it’s not more than about 70% mutually understandable for both groups

@ValeriusMagni

5 ай бұрын

Ocxitan and catalan are gallo-romance French-Italian border?

@Lostouille

5 ай бұрын

I am from Occìtania and it looks like 96% Catalàn 😂

@sergiogarpla2902

Ай бұрын

Despite the fact that Spanish and Italian has a closer lexical similarity to Catalan than Catalan to French. Tho Occitan and Catalan are pretty much identical, after all catalan is occitan direct son.

@Wahrheit_

3 күн бұрын

​@@sergiogarpla2902Occitan and Catalan were considered one language for a long time, or dialects of one group

I love your choice of countries to represent their languages lol

@laxusraf

10 ай бұрын

The stereotypes

I am Italian and it quite surprises me that Catalan has a lexical similiarity to Italian even higher than Spanish

@Pdasilva0324

Жыл бұрын

I think because Catalan has more French than Spanish influence on vocabulary, and Italian vocabulary is closer to French than Spanish.

@Pdasilva0324

Жыл бұрын

Listening though as a 2L Spanish speaker, I can understand as much Catalan as Italian especially if there is not a lot of local slang used.

@javierhillier4252

Жыл бұрын

catalan is very similar to Italian it's like french but if it was more Italian with a Spanish accent

@lodewijkvandoornik3844

9 ай бұрын

​@@Pdasilva0324 The "French-like" vocabulary of catalan is not because of a French influence, but just how the language has evolved. Catalan, Occitan and Gallo Italian are the frontiers between major romance languages, it is the continuum...

I mean if we're talking main romance languages wise then sure but actually the most similar language to Italian is Neapolitan and the most similar language to Portuguese is Galician

@4rumani

Жыл бұрын

Obviously...

@gabrielmaldonado1903

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunaly almost no one speaks galician and neapolitan now days

@96wtfomg

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielmaldonado1903 Galician is spoken brother

@wololeiro2364

Жыл бұрын

Portugese came from galician so...

@brunovb2650

Жыл бұрын

There's also Galician-portuguese which is even more similar but it's an extinct language from what i can tell.

As a native Spanish speaker, I have to say that from the big languages in the Romance group, Italian is the easiest to understand, while Castilian/Spanish and Portuguese have a lot of cognates,the pronunciation is way different, Italian sounds more familiar and it's generally easier to understand. Then of course I would put Portuguese in second place and that's it, Catalan, french and romanian are so weird that they sound alien to me. Smaller regional languages like ladino/judeo-spanish and asturleones are the most similar to Castilian though........

@Pdasilva0324

Жыл бұрын

Yep, Spanish has 5-6 vowel sounds, Italian has 6-7. Portuguese has at least 9, with some dialects having several more. That is why a lot of Portuguese speakers understand spoken Spanish much more than the other way around.

@mathy4605

Жыл бұрын

The Italian language, unlike the other examples here, only emerged naturally up to a point. As Italy was slowly being unified, proponents of a unified language picked a dialect that was easier to understand from the perspective of multiple regions, and likely meddled with its grammar to make it even simpler to teach. It was a language handpicked to be easy, unlike other natural languages, which sort of just evolved and often times ended up a lot more complex than they had to be. It’s therefore no wonder that Italian is so easy to learn if you already speak any other Romance language.

@96wtfomg

Жыл бұрын

Si hablas castellano como huevos te cuesta menos el Italiano que el catalan jajajajaj

@horsermchead2504

Жыл бұрын

I’m a non-native Spanish speaker and find Portuguese leagues easier to understand

@angelpardo1530

Жыл бұрын

In my experience I have been able to hold conversations with Portuguese speakers from Brazil using our respective languages. On the other hand I have never been able to understand a full sentence in Italian due to the evolutionary difference of the words.

What about the similarity between Galician and both Spanish and Portuguese?

@Pdasilva0324

Жыл бұрын

I think he is mainly focusing on the largest members of the family. Maybe an idea for a future episode can involve the lesser spoken languages. I am a Spanish speaker with some knowledge of Portuguese. Galician sounds to me like if they were speaking Portuguese vocabulary with Spanish pronunciation. I have almost no trouble understanding spoken Galician unless it is full of slang

As a French speaker if you put an Italian accent on French words and speak to an Italian, you have a good chance of them understanding you, but looking at you strangely.

The flags bro 💀💀💀💀

@seid3366

Жыл бұрын

Paul wanted to diversify and not use the flags associated with each lang

@arya_1503_fancade

Жыл бұрын

Probably because this video was influenced by Language Simp

@ElectrostatiCrow

Жыл бұрын

It's all about disrespect.

@asligaletto8196

Жыл бұрын

the flags are perfectly fine. I am Argentine and here we speak Spanish natively. Even Spanish in Latin America is more widely spoken than its European version. Well, I forgive your ignorance because from your name I can assume that you are not informed on the subject.

@syedmohammadaanasfarukh890

Жыл бұрын

@@asligaletto8196 I am very well informed about latin america. I'm a big admirer of gabriel garcia marquez and read quite a few of his books. But yeah it is still funny cuz the flag of san Marino (a country which barely exists) was used for Italian so ofc it's funny.

From French perspective, people find it easier to learn Italian indeed than spanish and portuguese. And my portuguese friend said that spanish is really close to his language to the point that he can understand some of it.

@Danknight403

5 ай бұрын

Not some of it, but a lot of it; that's the Brazilians don't want to learn spanish.

@bodybuilder6969

Ай бұрын

more like almost all of it

@geissinhorms1433

28 күн бұрын

​@@Danknight403why should we learn? We don't need to learn it. Spanish is not as useful as English

@Danknight403

28 күн бұрын

@@geissinhorms1433 It ain't as english, but it's useful.

@geissinhorms1433

28 күн бұрын

@@Danknight403 only in latin America and USA in others countries it is not.

If we're not counting the Balkan branch of romance, Romanian is closest to Italian at 77%, the 2nd being with French at 75%, same as French and Spanish are.

@ardeleanelisei971

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@fablb9006

Жыл бұрын

French and Italian are at 89%, not 75%

@seid3366

Жыл бұрын

​@@fablb9006 I'm counting between Romanian and French, they're 75%

@javierhillier4252

Жыл бұрын

interesting didn't know Romanian was that close to french

@smelly1060

11 ай бұрын

​@@javierhillier4252they both say merci

As a Spanish speaker (who has had a few formal classes in Portuguese but not years and years), I can read a Portuguese language newspaper and understand almost all of it. Listening to it though, I can understand quite a bit of Brazilian Portuguese with some effort. Even with great effort I have a hard time with European Portuguese..I can maybe understand every 4th or 5th word or phrase. Italian I can get the gist when reading and translation help but listening, I can grasp a lot more. Sometimes I even think it's Spanish being spoken until I hear words that don't exist in Spanish. Even with 2 years of high school French it's difficult unless spoken very slowly. I can actually understand Romanian more than French, though reading French is a tad easier.

@brunovb2650

Жыл бұрын

As a Brazilian, i think Spanish is easier to Portuguese speakers than Portuguese to Spanish. But i'm not sure since i'm on a beginner Portuñol level lol. I can understand just fine but not formulate sentences myself.

@Pdasilva0324

Жыл бұрын

@@brunovb2650 That makes sense. It is because Spanish has only 5 vowel sounds which are very regular. Some dialects have more, but for the most part, there are only the 5 vowel sounds in Spanish. Brasilian Portuguese has all 5 of these sounds, so a Brasilian should have no problem reading, understanding, and speaking out loud any Spanish word that is cognate to Portuguese, as long as you know those are the only 5 basic vowels. So while Portuguese has those 5, they also have 7 more, including nasal vowels which just don't happen in almost any dialect of Spanish. Spanish has nasal consonants, but not vowels. This mismatch means that most Spanish speakers who try to speak Portuguese will do so as if they are just speaking modified Spanish. Many Brasilians would understand some of it, but would definitely be noticeable as portunhol. And those same Spanish speakers have a much harder time understanding the spoken BrPortuguese because of the unfamiliar vowel sounds.

@Lostouille

5 ай бұрын

As a French I studied german/english/italian . Italian was rhe easiest I understand 80% of what they say , it took me at least 10 years to master german and for english...it was the worst 💀. Tbs most of kids back then took spanish and when we went to italian courses they were struggling because they confused both meanwhile with german it was less confusing. But I feel like the opposite of you like I can somewhat understand romanian but portuguese ? Impossible , I feel like I understand mlre the portuguese of brazilian people without even studying any portuguese 🫠🫠🫠. In portugal they have like a slavic accent ???

I know that you focused on the "main" romance languages but do you know what the figure would be between Catalan and Occitan?

@INBCPC1994

Жыл бұрын

They're almost the same language like, the provençal dialect that's spoken near the border of Spain and France is pretty much the same language, like according to google is 98-99% mutually intelligible, but the farther you go from that region the less similarities you'll find. Castilian/Spanish for example is 99.5% similar to ladino/judeo-spanish and 99% with asturleones, like as a native Spanish speaker is insane how easy and familiar those languages sound. And while Portuguese has such a high percentage in vocabulary, I would say that Italian is actually way easier to understand, like the pronunciation is so easy to understand, french, Catalan and romanian sound weird as hell though lol

@josegabrielvizuete3071

Жыл бұрын

In that case Galician and Portuguese are basically identical

@Pdasilva0324

Жыл бұрын

@@josegabrielvizuete3071 The pronunciation of Galician is heavily influenced by Castilian, but with vocabulary you are much correct, save for a few anomalies such as the days of the week (which are basically old Portuguese)

@marolibez

Жыл бұрын

@@INBCPC1994 Just a minor comment: by "Provençal dialect" you probably meant "Gascon dialect". The real language from Provence shares more features with Lombard, in northern Italy (for obvious geographical reasons).

@fablb9006

6 ай бұрын

Catalan is considered a dialect of occitan among Provençal, Gascon, languedocian, Gascon, Auvergnat, etc.

Portuguese and Spanish are the most similar when speaking and writing. I don’t find French and Italian all that similar.

@fablb9006

6 ай бұрын

Lexical, etymology but also grammar between french and Italian are among the closest.

@capeverdeanprincess4444

6 ай бұрын

@@fablb9006 Not closer than Spanish and Portuguese. I find that Italian has a lot of similar words to Portuguese and Spanish. I also find the similarity between Italian and French highly overestimated.

@Lostouille

5 ай бұрын

​@@capeverdeanprincess4444 not that much when we had italian lectures in high school the professor was always saying "like in french , next page" 😂. And at least 70 to 80% of vocabulary was easy for us to guess.

@williammoon7774

Ай бұрын

Indeed most people that say it clearly have only shallow knowledge of french or Italian... Unfortunately

That’s crazy I always saw Spanish and Italian to be almost intelligible with each other more than French or Portuguese. I thought those two were anomalies

@langfocusclips

Жыл бұрын

They might be more mutually intelligible in speech than French and Italian (or Spanish and Portuguese, especially if it’s European Portuguese) because Spanish and Italian pronunciation are more similar. In the video I limited the criteria to vocabulary (because it’s a Short, it has to be under one minute long 😃).

@silviastanziola659

Жыл бұрын

I think that it’s the similarity in pronunciation indeed. Portuguese has a lot of different sounds than Spanish, so I usually see Spanish speakers have a hard time recognizing the similarities in the speech (but I think that they can read it well). I remember meeting groups of Italians and Spanish people who straight up just talked among themselves, so it is a bit surprising to see that Italian is closer to French - French flies a bit under the radar among these languages because the sounds are so different, but when you read it you can see the similarities more easily.

@thebasketballhistorian3291

Жыл бұрын

I'm studying Spanish (still low level). But when I hear my Italian friend talking on the phone in Italian, I kinda feel like I could understand her (I don't though, haha). But our mutual Spanish-speaking friend said she kinda does understand/sense her Italian.

@moferest

Жыл бұрын

I am spanish and i struggle to understand french, actualy i understand almost nothing in a conversation. Instead i can understand portuguese and Italian pretty easily, let's say 80% of portuguese and 70% of italian. But again french sounds very different to me, i just catch 1 word in each sentence if anything

@stephanedumas8329

Жыл бұрын

@@moferest I am French I understand italian roumania and little bit spanish no portuguese

❤❤ I love Spanish and Portuguese ❤❤

If we count minority languages too, I would say that Corsican and Italian share 90% ore more of their vocabulary.

i think spanish-gallician or galician-portuguese are close, and catalan-occitan

Lexical similarity doesn’t mean mutual intelligibility, particularly in oral way. Spanish and Portuguese shares 89% of lexical, the same between French and Italian. However try to hold a conversation between a Portuguese person and a Spanish one or a French person and Italian guy. The Spanish guy and the Italian one will get lose in the conversation with the Portuguese guy and the French one. Nevertheless the Spanish guy and Italian one are able to understand each other. On the other hand, lexical similarity means a cognate word. A cognate word that might have evolved enough you couldn’t be able to recognize it, for instance, “cat” in Italian is gatto and in French is “chat” or “dog” in Italian is “cane” and in French is “chien”. These four words are cognates, yes, but if you don’t speak French o Italian or you haven’t been previously exposure you won’t able to recognize those words.

@fablb9006

6 ай бұрын

From a french person it is easy to understand that « Cane » means « chien », not only because « chien » derive from the same word, bit also because we have lot of related terms related to « chien »that are very similar to « cane » : canin, canine, canidé, etc.

thanks a lot for representing Brazil 🤍🥳

Well, using Switzerland for the Italian language is probably not going to trigger italians, but it will for sure trigger the swiss.

Spanish is my mother tongue and it only took me 3 months of full-time study in Brazil to learn advanced Portuguese.

Romanian: I do exist

Argentinian Spanish and Italian are also VERY similar, because of the immigration of italians back in the day, having the same words in many cases

Romanian is quite similar to Italian.

I’m spanish and I understand more italian than portuguese

@langfocusclips

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, while Spanish and Portuguese are more similar in terms of vocabulary, Spanish and Italian are more similar in terms of pronunciation.

@Hunchbackswift

Жыл бұрын

If you're talking about portuguese from portugal i totally get you, im from brazil and i understand spanish better than european portuguese

@kauanthierry3737

Жыл бұрын

​@@Hunchbackswift you're crazy, then

What about Romanian?

Portuguese 🇧🇷 Spanish 🇦🇷 Arabic 🇹🇷 Russian 🇺🇦 German 🇨🇭 English 🇳🇿 French 🇲🇱 Italian 🇱🇾 Dutch 🇿🇦 Greek 🇨🇾 Romanian 🇹🇩

I speak Portuguese and I read the Italian in a degree where I understood it

Isnt Portuguese and Galician the most similar?

@braziliantsar

Жыл бұрын

Well, in that case, he would've had to put french and occitan as well

@tcbbctagain572

Жыл бұрын

@@braziliantsar French and Occitan aren't really that similar

@Antarctide

Жыл бұрын

@@braziliantsar Occitan and Catalan you mean

@wololeiro2364

Жыл бұрын

Portuguese came from galician

@piadas804

Жыл бұрын

I think he is counting them as one single language.

Ah yes so romantic, Spain, France, Italy... Romania

@drkclshr

Жыл бұрын

Roman Empire

@hhhhhhhhh1071

Жыл бұрын

Romanian is a romance language, as a Romanian I can say it's pretty similar to Italian since I can read Italian and understand about half of it without knowing the language

@kreuner11

Жыл бұрын

@@hhhhhhhhh1071 I'm making a joke about the other meaning of romantic

That subtle way of trolling lmao

Amazing !

I believe that Rhaeto Romansh and Gallo Cisalpine languages are closer to French than Italian is to French.

Romanian left the family

Italian is the easiest language after English to learn for a french speaking person.

Aragonese is more similar to Spanish than Portuguese and Gallego is more similar to Portuguese. There are several languages ​​within Spain that are very similar to Spanish. Even the supposed lexical similarity with Catalan doesn't seem to take into account the "Spanish loanwords" used daily by Catalans. Another important point: You got that lexical similarity from Wikipedia, right?These lexical studies are outdated and the collection process was not precise. Due to the lack of advanced tools and technologies. The percentage is only a very vague approximation where the variable could be up to 20% aprox. I recommend not considering this information as valid, especially since this study didn't take into account the most used vocabulary (indispensable for measuring intelligibility between languages) only the vocabulary in general. There are other studies of lexical similarity and the results vary depending on many factors as; 1.Border cities 2.History 3.Exposure to the language. There is even a process where speakers can't find a direct translation to a word so they are forced to assimilate a foreign language word which increases the lexical similarity. If you really want to learn about lexical similarity, I recommend reading recent studies or Linguistics student theses that are approved. There is a lot of information about the Romance languages.

No me gusta dejar dos comentarios en un mismo vídeo, pero quería decir que es increíble como eres capaz de mantener la compostura con esta gente. Viendo estos vídeos me pongo a insultarle al móvil, parezco Roberto Vaquero.

I like how he uses different countries for each languages, instead of using the only European country as an example, making noticeable the variety of those languages around the world

As a Spanish speaker, when I took French in high school I was able to comprehend the reading portion. Can’t say the same when listening 🥲

Which romance languages are the most different?

@ANCalias

2 ай бұрын

Maybe Romanian and Portuguese

Can you do one on which Germanic languages are the most similar?

Romanian: yes, but I have vampires

Can you do Slavic languages please?

Great short. Where did you get the percentage figures from?

Romania is always left in the shadows

Poor Romanian not even mentioned lol but not surprisingly it would be the farthest from the other Romance languages.

@langfocusclips

Жыл бұрын

That’s the reason. The closest one to Romanian is Italian, but they’re not as similar as the ones I mentioned.

@braziliantsar

Жыл бұрын

@@langfocusclips Romania's case is interesting; as portuguese speaker, I can understand a bit through reading, but not listening. However, while listening, sometimes there are some words that are identical to portuguese (while those same words in italian aren't), for example, the simple "eu". I'm pretty sure only portuguese and romanian use the same "eu" for me, meanwhile others use "io", "yo", "je".

@hat5564

Жыл бұрын

Isn't Romanian the closest to Latin?

@nuvreau1902

Жыл бұрын

​​@@braziliantsar well, we also have "io" for "me", but "eu" is more formal

@CobraKaiNoMercy

Жыл бұрын

@@hat5564 No.

If I understand correctly, Spanish is as mutually intelligible to Portuguese as English is to Scots, right?

@saintburnsy2468

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean Scottish English, Scottish Gaelic, or Scots? (All different languages)

@sockbot41

Жыл бұрын

@@saintburnsy2468 I meant Scots, not Scottish Gaelic.

@Exelium

Жыл бұрын

Only written, spoken Portuguese and Spanish are very different and usually its difficult for Spanish speakers to understand spoken Portuguese

@Hunchbackswift

Жыл бұрын

​@@Exelium not really, spanish speaking celebrities come to brazil and they have full interviews with no translator, if they don't understand a word of portuguese they just ask about the meaning of it and that's it, also many hispanics come to my town in the summer and they straight up chat in different languages as if it was the same language

Spanish - Un nuevo libro. I want a refund !!!!

Why did you leave out Romanian? 😢

@smelly1060

11 ай бұрын

No other country speaks it

@LittleLivre

6 ай бұрын

@@smelly1060Moldova?

Those flags... 💀

@thebasketballhistorian3291

Жыл бұрын

So cool he's showing other cultures that use those languages.

@IloveRumania

Жыл бұрын

@@thebasketballhistorian3291 No one would use Peru for Spanish!

@elazar2980

Жыл бұрын

@@IloveRumania ok but at least Peruvians speak Spanish instead of Thpanish

@ledues3336

Жыл бұрын

@@elazar2980 who speaks thpanish?

@stefanbirlog4622

Жыл бұрын

Tf ur profile name 💀

Don’t show country that no one cares about

When I was kid, I used think that Italian is spoken somewhere in the Americas continent

@langfocusclips

Жыл бұрын

I used to think that France was short for San FRANCISCO. 😃

@wololeiro2364

Жыл бұрын

Well it surely was spoken in argentina brazil or uruguay 😂

As a Galician speaker, I feel offended that you do not mention Galician and Portuguese.

I never thought that Italians could understand french like the portuguese can understand spanish. That's weird but really cool! From similarity of those i know i'd say Portuguese - Spanish - Romanian - Italian - French

Portuguese and Spanish are phonetically very different. Portuguese and Galician are maybe the closest romance languages.

San Marino and Quebec lol

All depends on what it means by language or dialect. The most similar to French is Lorrain (oïl languages), than Francoprovençal, then occitan and Gallo-italic. Occitan and Catalan are also very close, isn't it just one continuum??? Historical and political can be the reason they are separated (but we could say the same for many other languages/dialects Continuum)... Whatever there are many other "combos" in Romance languages

Which Germanic languages are the most similar to each other?

What about Portugueses and Galician that speakers can understand one another very well?

And then galician and portuguese appear

Well they did speak one language at one time. It was called old Norse lol

No Manches Güey, las Banderas Que Elegiste 💀

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What about phonetic similarity?

Romanian and Moldavian have a similarity of 100% 🥴

As an American who speaks fluent Mexican Spanish (half Mexican), I understand Italian the best out of the spoken romance languages, and French the best out of the written equivalents. I’m probably helped out by French’s influence on English as well. I should not that I’ve practically never encountered Romanian so I don’t really know where it ranks in intelligibility for me. P.S. - I went to Paris a few years ago thinking that my knowledge of English and Spanish would suffice in understanding spoken French. It did not.

What about portuguese and galician if they're considered different languages?

@langfocusclips

Жыл бұрын

I've never seen a reliable number for that. I would guess it's between 89 and 100, since it's so close to Portuguese but has been influenced by Castilian. I avoided regional languages and stuck to "major" Romance languages (maybe not the best word choice) to keep things clearer.

@seid3366

Жыл бұрын

One source I've found said 85%, which is the same between Italian and Sardinian

@langfocusclips

Жыл бұрын

That's the figure I've seen, but I'm skeptical of it, considering that Portuguese and Spanish are 89% similar (lexically).

@seid3366

Жыл бұрын

We could be generous and bump it up to 88%. Higher, but still relatively close to each other.

@braziliantsar

Жыл бұрын

@@langfocusclips In that case, then it's 90% or higher, despite what the numbers might say. Unless it's between galician and brazilian portuguese, as brazilians most of the times struggle with european portuguese; a language which is a "mix" between european portuguese and european spanish would likely be even worse to understand lol.

As a spanish learner- i can quite easily read stuff in Portuguese but the magic disappears when i hear it spoken. Too hard. It's completely opposite to ... Italian that I can understand surprisingly quite a lot of in its spoken form.

English and French.

Corsu / italiano - tuscan

What about Galician and Portuguese?

What about Romanian to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French?

What about Portuguese and Galician? Or Spanish and Aragonese, Asturian or even Ladino

Bruh using secondary countries for the languages really?

you forgot Britain and English British and Usa

@preciouse

2 ай бұрын

lol

@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn

2 ай бұрын

You mean France and Quebec, Spain and Hispanic America, or Portugal and Brazil, as they said Romance languages.

I can’t believe you put Spanish-Portuguese and not Leonese, or French-Italian and not literally “any other language in between”. Sad to see Lombard or Romagnol mistaken with Italian, too😥

@langfocusclips

Жыл бұрын

I said I was focusing on the major Romance languages, and by that I meant widely spoken national languages and other official languages. Standard Italian is an official language of Switzerland and San Marino. That doesn’t mean anyone mistakes it with the spoken dialects used alongside it.

@thibaultsardet7399

4 ай бұрын

Occitan is lacking between French and Italian.

For me it's Asturian with Spanish

Serbian 🇷🇸 Croatian 🇭🇷

South Americans will be happy with this video

What about galician and portuguese?

The flags killing me

Is it Romance or Romanic? I can't understand why romance languages... lol

😂

Tentei aprender francês mas o italiano é bem mais fácil. Percebi wue há muito mais similaridade entre o português e italiano que entre Pt x Francês.

El idioma más similar al portugués es el gallego un idioma de España

I would say that Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish are most Romance-like. Meanwhile, French is Germanic-influenced language (due to German and English impact) and Romanian is a hybrid between Romance-Slavic languages.

@thibaultsardet7399

4 ай бұрын

No some Old Frankish substrate for French, but not from Modern German as we hear today.

@ahfei6847

2 ай бұрын

French is no more Germanic than Spanish is Arabic

What's up with the mixing of flags? 😅

The problem is that the Italian accent is much more similar to Spanish and the French one is incomprehensible to the non French. So basically everything is more similar to Spanish

Norway - Sweden - Denmark :(

@Sun-God2

6 ай бұрын

Wtf dude these are not Romance Languages, they're Nordic Languages

What about English and German

Portuguse and Gallician could have 95-99% of vocabulary similarity pharaps

What about the mighty piemontese 😔

He’s definitely not talking about pronunciation because Spanish and Portuguese sound absolutely NOTHING alike

I speak Spanish and I don't understand anything when a Portuguese person speaks.

English, as a hybrid, nonetheless has similarity to French and other Latin languages. How much?

@stephanedumas8329

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English is more simular German and Dutch than French

Where's Romanian?