If anybody has any experience, how much mutual intelligibility with Spanish is there with the other Romance languages? By this, I mean how well would a Spanish speaker communicate with someone who spoke another Romance language, such as French, Italian, or Portuguese?
2006-11-26 12:39:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The ones with the grearest mutual intelligibility would be Portuguese, Italian, Galician, and Catalan. Speaker sof these could communicate reasonably well at a basic level with a Spanish-only speaker. It may take two or three tries, using different words, but the ideas would get through.
Romanian (all types) would be much more distant, and French probably farther still.
2006-11-26 12:56:56 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just from personal experience...speaking Spanish is no help at all with French, but has a lot in common with Italian and Portuguese...I can understand a moderate amount of those languages..especially in writing.
2006-11-26 12:45:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, Italian and Spanish speakers would have the highest percentage of mutual intelligibility. The word roots and word order are very similar if not identical.
You may look at this website as I am not yet an expert....
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/letchfoa/comparison.htm
Great Question!!! :)
2006-11-26 12:42:55 · answer #3 · answered by mandakathryn02 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Portuguese and Italian. Although French is very similar to portuguese you would not do as well with spanish.
2006-11-27 00:28:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I knew someone who spoke Portuguese but no Spanish at all, he said he got by fine in Mexico just by putting on a Spanish accent.
My French is pretty good but I can't understand Spanish.
2006-11-26 12:47:14 · answer #5 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is like Slavic languages; I speak Croatian. Polish people , Polish. I have no Idea what are they talking about when they speak. Difference betwen French and Spanish is huge. Italian is closer to Spanish, but only for both countries to learn each other's language easier then something Slavic.
2006-11-26 12:46:22 · answer #6 · answered by sheba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Afrikaans and Dutch. Afrikaans started as a dialect of Dutch, and only separated about 300 years ago (Portuguese and Spanish at least 1100 years ago). An estimated 90 to 95% of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin, the grammar is much simpler, and Dutch-speaking people like me can easily understand most of it, apart from a few relative recent neologisms.
2016-05-23 06:50:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why does this question arise.
Spanish and French have many words in common.
Spanish is my first langue, English. I learned 3 yrs of French in HS.
Some Italian because of the county I was born in has many Italian word.
I loved learning French.
2006-11-26 12:50:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hablo inglés- y francés bien(spanish)
je parle anglais-espagnol et français bien(french)
I speak english spanish and french well(english)
2006-11-26 12:51:38 · answer #9 · answered by jaylen 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋