If I learned Spanish, how easy will it be to learn Portugese and Italian?
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at
3:36 pm
I took four years of High school spanish and I will probably take Spanish in college. I am nearly fluent. (Spanish is not my native language). How easy/hard will it be to learn Italian and maybe Portugese?
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Italian, easier. You should be just careful about a lot of "false friends", and some consonants do have different pronunciation. Still, better than not knowing!
Spanish is more similar to Portuguese, words are similar but pronunciation not identical.
It will be a lot easier than trying to learn German or Chinese. But don’t think that they aren’t distinctly different languages. Knowing Spanish will help, but the "ease" of it will depend on your own learning curve.
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian are all Romance Languages, which have their roots in Latin.
if u learned Spanish then it will be easy to learn Italian..they are truly similar. I don’t know Italian, but i do know Spanish…but when i hear to people speak Italian i grasp like 90% of the conversation…it’s that close! Portugues is more different.
That depends on how well you know Spanish. But it shouldn’t be that hard since their grammars and structures are very similar.
Protuguage and Italian will be more easy…
as I learned italian first and have not much problems with other
also French will be easier….
I learned Spanish to a fairly high standard at High School, then during my last school holidays before going to University, I worked in an Italian restaurant; by the time I left, 9 weeks later, I was speaking fluent Italian.
After spending 4 years studying Spanish and French at University, I then got married and spent my honeymoon in Portugal. It took me 2 weeks to learn enough Portuguese to make myself understood. However, it then took me several years before I managed to convince native Portuguese speakers that I was indeed speaking Portuguese and not Spanish to them!
Both Portuguese and Italian should be relatively easy to learn now that you are almost fluent in Spanish.
Spanish, Portuguese and Italian are 3 of the Romance languages, which all come from Latin, so they are relatively similar.
I would recommend Italian, because I think it’s the prettiest of the 3 languages, lol
But I believe you should choose which ever language will be more interesting or meaningful to you, so that the learning process will be an enjoyable one.