I speak Spanish already, so would it be easy for me to learn Catalan?

Answer 1

Yes, Catalan is a romance language that would be very easy to learn! The grammar, syntax, and lexicon is very similar to Castilian.

Answer 2

It may help a little but Catalan is completely a different language than Spanish.

Catalan is very similar to Occitan. Although Catalan is often thought of as a transitional language between the Iberian Romance languages (such as Spanish) and Gallo-Romance languages (such as French), this characterization is not accurate. For instance, phonologically, Catalan is more similar to Italian than Spanish or French.

Some Catalan words do not arise from Latin, but from other languages: Germanic (Ramon:[1] Raymond, espia: spy,[2] ganivet: knife, guerra: war... and the place-names finished with -reny, as Gliscareny), French (brioix: brioche, garatge: garage, fitxa: card...), Italian (piano: piano, macarró: macaroni, pantà: marsh, finestra: window, porta: gate...), Occitan (espasa: sword, beutat: beauty, daurar: to gild, suffixal -aire...), Arabic and Mossarabic (alcohol: spirit, sucre: sugar, alcova: bedroom... and most of toponymy like Benicàssim, Albocàsser...), from Spanish (senzill: easy, xoriço: kind of salami, amo: owner, burro: donkey...), from Basque (esquerra: left, isard: surly, estalviar: to save money... and toponymy as Aran, Benavarri or Algerri...) and from English (bar, web, revòlver...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

Answer 3

The problem with closely related languages is that you can end up mixing vocabulary... or.. you get too "lazy" to do an effort and say things "almost" as in your strongest language (because speakers of the other language would get what you mean anyway).
The good part is that, with so many coincidences, your learning time could be cut down.

Answer 4

catalan the french spanish mixture i dont advise u to learn it thou its going to be easier for thee as a spanish

chinese/farabic/french/german would be much of use to thou