Which Romance Languages Are the Most Similar?

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Жыл бұрын

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In this short video I talk about which Romance languages are the most similar (at least for one important criterion).

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@langfocusclips Жыл бұрын

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@joseluisnietoenriquez6122 9 ай бұрын

You need opinions from native speakers. For example, the channel Metatron (who is italian) has very recent videos where he reviews all the romance languages, and apparently the easier for him to understand is spanish with madrid accent. But french is very hard for him. He also tries reading them, and french becomes easier, but spanish is still the easiest to read. A good series of videos could be: italian reviews all romance languages, spaniard reviews all romance languages, and so on.

@saathvikbogam Жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

@@jojijohn7121 isolation

@jojijohn7121 11 ай бұрын

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

@ledues3336 Жыл бұрын

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

@layolajedrick6989 11 ай 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 10 ай бұрын

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

@netquartz 9 ай бұрын

Quebec: I feel honored /j

@ledues3336 9 ай бұрын

@@netquartz Salut ami québécois

@netquartz 9 ай бұрын

@@ledues3336 sup 😁

@Skeletone56 Жыл бұрын

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 5 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 3 ай бұрын

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

@Lostouille 3 ай бұрын

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

@ThiHills 6 ай бұрын

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

@hyxlo_ Жыл бұрын

I love your choice of countries to represent their languages lol

@laxusraf 8 ай бұрын

The stereotypes

@carmi7042 Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@lodewijkvandoornik3844 7 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...

@TheNYVSC Жыл бұрын

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

@INBCPC1994 Жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@angelpardo1530 11 ай 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.

@teov5190 11 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@syedmohammadaanasfarukh890 Жыл бұрын

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.

@UnenlagiafraMaknoeja Жыл бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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

@Auxblanchesmains Жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@Pdasilva0324 Жыл бұрын

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 11 ай 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 11 ай 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 3 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 ???

@seid3366 Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

interesting didn't know Romanian was that close to french

@smelly1060 9 ай бұрын

@@javierhillier4252they both say merci

@johnpaullaizure7330 23 күн бұрын

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.

@loworochi Жыл бұрын

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

@dacktube6957 9 ай бұрын

❤❤ I love Spanish and Portuguese ❤❤

@kame9 8 ай бұрын

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

@capeverdeanprincess4444 9 ай бұрын

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

@fablb9006 4 ай бұрын

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

@capeverdeanprincess4444 4 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 3 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.

@michelsbrn Жыл бұрын

thanks a lot for representing Brazil 🤍🥳

@DCA1971 4 ай бұрын

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

@alessandro_natali Жыл бұрын

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

@ValeGadogni Жыл бұрын

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

@zaranski2009 4 ай бұрын

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

@DimitrijDimitrij Жыл бұрын

Romanian is quite similar to Italian.

@Ribbion_holder Жыл бұрын

What about Romanian?

@Desmuu 3 ай бұрын

Which romance languages are the most different?

@ANCalias Ай бұрын

Maybe Romanian and Portuguese

@escfuego Жыл бұрын

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

@basedkaiser5352 10 ай бұрын

That subtle way of trolling lmao

@serakxi Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

I think he is counting them as one single language.

@serfin01 9 ай бұрын

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 4 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.

@kreuner11 Жыл бұрын

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

@Watermelonsone Жыл бұрын

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

@danielescalantedemedeiros. 5 ай бұрын

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.

@carlex7562 7 ай бұрын

Romanian: I do exist

@Greerbowski Жыл бұрын

Why did you leave out Romanian? 😢

@smelly1060 9 ай бұрын

No other country speaks it

@LittleLivre 4 ай бұрын

@@smelly1060Moldova?

@kaosak9919 Жыл бұрын

Romanian left the family

@Realjoselosorio856 6 ай бұрын

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 🥲

@LanceAbrams 3 ай бұрын

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

@asligaletto8196 Жыл бұрын

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.

@orlandolopezmartinez5282 3 ай бұрын

Romanian: yes, but I have vampires

@isanewday Жыл бұрын

Amazing !

@prostekrystof9853 10 ай бұрын

Can you do Slavic languages please?

@_delriooo1396 2 ай бұрын

For me it's Asturian with Spanish

@josegabrielvizuete3071 Жыл бұрын

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

@laythalghaba5035 8 ай бұрын

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

@sockbot41 Жыл бұрын

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

@Matt-cw1mv 9 ай бұрын

Romania is always left in the shadows

@IloveRumania Жыл бұрын

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 💀

@lodewijkvandoornik3844 7 ай бұрын

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

@karldo4809 Жыл бұрын

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

@piadas804 10 ай бұрын

Kkkkkkkkkk Argentina e Brasil ao invés de Espanha e Portugal!!!!

@yuriydee Жыл бұрын

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.

@yamacibarak Жыл бұрын

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.

@nelsonferrer8994 8 ай бұрын

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

@yohanapereira1629 Жыл бұрын

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 😂

@Brinquitos9 5 ай бұрын

No Manches Güey, las Banderas Que Elegiste 💀

@brunovb2650 11 ай бұрын

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

@juanpedronardin8596 Жыл бұрын

San Marino and Quebec lol

@jaydengreenberg9618 Жыл бұрын

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

@Nissardpertugiu 3 ай бұрын

Corsu / italiano - tuscan

@zactrejo 9 ай бұрын

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.

@juanantoniovazquez1731 Жыл бұрын

What about Galician and Portuguese?

@hd28br Жыл бұрын

What about galician and portuguese?

@awbinn3377 6 ай бұрын

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.

@alicarbajobrisam2309 Жыл бұрын

And then galician and portuguese appear

@oladayooyenekan3937 11 күн бұрын

you forgot Britain and English British and Usa

@preciouse 6 күн бұрын

lol

@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn 6 күн бұрын

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

@miktheraccoon 3 ай бұрын

You made a video refering to portuguese and spanish but used Argentina and Brazil. Portuguese and spanish come from Portugal and Spain/Castille. This is extremely innacurate in that regard.

@wronginfluence Ай бұрын

What's up with the mixing of flags? 😅

@yaqub5447 7 ай бұрын

The flags killing me

@quindin Жыл бұрын

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

@davidprimo8236 Жыл бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

Occitan is lacking between French and Italian.

@reamelf Жыл бұрын

Serbian 🇷🇸 Croatian 🇭🇷

@marvinsilverman4394 6 ай бұрын

portuguese come from the Galego is a dialect of the Galego

@khyberw 10 ай бұрын

South Americans will be happy with this video

@harmonthesimp Жыл бұрын

What about English and German

@InvictusSolDeus 9 ай бұрын

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

@Aiden-Editzz 4 ай бұрын

Norway - Sweden - Denmark :(

@Sun-God2 4 ай бұрын

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

@richmondmemedepot7180 Жыл бұрын

Paul why do you use San Marino's flag to represent Italian? I guess its a good way to say hey, they exist too lol

@Sun-God2 4 ай бұрын

French it's a Romance Language,but it was Heavily influenced by German, and Romanian was influenced by Slavic and Hungarian Language

@thibaultsardet7399 2 ай бұрын

Frankish substrate for French, but not German as well hear today.

@ANCalias Ай бұрын

Not true, stop make disinformation 🤐

@lombardyball Жыл бұрын

Bruh using secondary countries for the languages really?

@iacobus_riparius Ай бұрын

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

@qpdb840 4 ай бұрын

Je parle le français qui est une langue italique

@lucaozzello8655 7 ай бұрын

What about the mighty piemontese 😔

@Priyamvad_Priyadarshi 4 ай бұрын

And what is the position of German ?

@Sun-God2 4 ай бұрын

German is not a Romance Language

@Priyamvad_Priyadarshi 4 ай бұрын

@@Sun-God2 o sorry i didn't pay attendance? You are right German and english are germanic language so that he has not implemented in this video.😂

@colinsandberg5550 7 ай бұрын

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

@thefattestbird4365 Жыл бұрын

Portuguese and Galician where?

@q-sup9108 Жыл бұрын

What about Romanian and Italian? 😭

@langfocusclips Жыл бұрын

I did a video about those a few months ago on the main channel.

@zaqwsx23 11 ай бұрын

77% of lexical similary.

@lon3don Жыл бұрын

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

@stephanedumas8329 Жыл бұрын

English is more simular German and Dutch than French

@user-hc3cc7tq8f 8 ай бұрын

Dear Author mind you that Argentinian Spanish is not a good example for Spanish in Latin America

@chatgentil9870 Жыл бұрын

Merci

@langfocusclips Жыл бұрын

De rien 👍🏻

@sturedman6920 6 ай бұрын

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

@stephanobarbosa5805 8 ай бұрын

Romeno é mais fácil que o francês... Português e galego são as línguas mais similares... quase 100% de semelhança.

@aziatix1168 11 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@ahfei6847 23 күн бұрын

French is no more Germanic than Spanish is Arabic

@yohanapereira1629 Жыл бұрын

Where's Romanian?