Subj : Request
To : Sean Dennis
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sat Mar 26 2022 10:52 am
16 Mar 2022 13:18, you wrote to me:
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SD> While your points about those languages being different, they indeed
SD> do share a lot in common and if you understand that, you can make out
SD> the jist of what is being said in all three languages.
Agreed, they are closer than e.g. Spanish and English. Only that I find Italian closer to Spanish than French. Even more if it is spoken, because of the pronounciation. (If I had studied French at school instead of English, it would be different for me, of course.)
SD> I unfortunately lost my "tongue" for Spanish as I had no one to
SD> converse in Spanish with though I think with a bit of effort, I could
SD> bring myself back up to at least to a conversational level. French,
SD> to me, is overly complicated for the sake of being different. <G>
SD> Spanish has always been easy to speak for me because it tends to
SD> follow its own rules better than English.
You are welcome to ESP.GENERAL or any of our ESP.* echos...
