Is it true that they can understand 90% of each other's languages?
Is it true that they can understand 90% of each other's languages?
no
I'm Italian - I can't understand beaner talk
nah more like 70 %
nao
Portuguese is phonetically Slavic
No.
I can understand ~85% Castilian and ~30% Italian only if written.
75% Castillian and 15% Italian if spoken.
Can understand 90% Galician tho, both spoken and written.
This
No
As a Spanish Speaker I can understand about 70%, 70% and 50% of written Portuguese, French and Italian respectively. And about 60%, 60% and 40% of those languages, in the same order, when spoken
no, people say that but when you show them an italian/portuguese actually speaking they don't understand shit
I mostly agree, but I would say Galician % are higher.
this, I probably exxagerated with my spoken figures, it's more like 50,50,30 (in my case)
Spaniard in America, that's about the same for me but for whatever reason spoken Italian is easier for me to understand than Portuguese. Maybe it's all the mafia movies and shows I've watched.
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Yes
You're just dumb.
Spanish 90% and Italian 50%. Dialect continuum principle.
Written? Maybe
Spoken no
non puoi capire un cazzo e fai schifo
both are very easy to pick up by immersion (Spanish more so for Italian speakers), in about one month you'll be understanding basically any conversation. that doesn't mean that you can understand Spanish or Portuguese just by speaking Italian. Also actually learning how to speak properly takes way longer than that, also because they are full of false friends.
basde
spanish: kind of
Lusitanian portoguese: no
brazilian portoguese: kind of
italian is the most easy for us
ranking for romanian speakers
between french and spanish its hard to decide which one is harder
portuguese is the hardest for us
I'm a native French speaker and fluent in Spanish. I can read Portuguese and Catalan with no problem, and understand most of a text when reading Italian. When I hear Portuguese spoken out loud I can get the message, but not so much for Italian, unless spoken very very slow.
One language everyone can understand though is interlingua.
i was surprised how much romanian sounded like italian when i first heard it
I worked in a restaurant in downtown Lisbon and would get Italian tourists daily, I could understand them without any problem, unless they were from Naples then I couldn't understand shit.
gonna leave it here
My linguistic ancestors :)
What?
this, in my experience with italians doing itnernships in my office they catch spanish in that time more or less and are able to speak an italinized spanish that's very easy to unerdstand
Spanish yeah. Portuguese not so much.
TĂș nivel de italiano.
not in the country sides
the accent is complicate to understand