Subj : Request
To   : Shaun Buzza
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sun Mar 20 2022 01:24 pm

16 Mar 2022 12:11, you wrote to me:

CN>> Italian and Portuguese are closer to Spanish.

SB> Really? I mean, Portugese, sure...but Italian? That's closer to
SB> Spanish than French? I find that a little hard to believe. However, I
SB> am only barely able to hold a conversation in French, and don't speak
SB> any of the others...so what do I know?

From my own experience, I find it easier to understand Italian than French. Spanish and Italian pronunciation are similar. I suppose that helps.

I don't know if they are closer from a linguistic POV, but I've found this:
https://thelanguagedoctors.org/languages-similar-to-spanish/
According to this article, Italian and Spanish have a lexical similarity of 85%, but French-Spanish is 75%

Carlos

--- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707
* Origin: Costa Blanca, Spain (2:341/234.1)

You are viewing proxied material from cvs.synchro.net. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.