Can Romance Language Speakers Understand Each Other? 

As an English speaker I understood the subtitles just fine.

I love how when the French start speaking the mutual intelligibility of Latin languages falls apart

English:🙂 Portuguese:🙂 Spanish:🙂 Catalan:🙂 French:🤨

As a Portuguese speaker i found french the hardest and Spanish the easiest.

As an Italian native speaker I would say: 1. Spanish is of course the easiest one. Very similar to Italian 2. Catalan is pretty easy too 3. Portuguese is pretty hard, but i could understand some words 4. (spoken) French is impossible to understand unless you have attended some classes

I am French and I feel that speakers of other Roman languages understand French better when it is written. I think it’s our very different way of pronouncing words with many mute letters that make it difficult to understand.

As a spanish speaker I understood catalan 99% French 15% Portuguese 70% Italian 50%

Imagine if Latin just walked in, now that's the real test 😂

Romanian is such a underrated romance language

As a Spanish speaker I understand Portuguese 80% Italian 60% Catalán 60% French 20%

o cara ficou pistola pq a brasileira disse q não gostou da comida mexicana e quis devolver falando de taxa de criminalidade do brasil KKKKKKKKKKKKK

As a French native speaker 🇫🇷, this is my ranking based on my level of intelligibility: 1) Italian 🇮🇹 (I almost didn't have to make any effort, it's just so clear and melodic to my ears) 2) Portuguese 🇧🇷 (I'm biased because I actually studied Portuguese for a semester - If it had been Portugal Portuguese, maybe I would've ranked it lower) 3) Catalan/Spanish 🇪🇸 (Sometimes I understood the Spanish speaker better than the Catalan one, and sometimes it was the other way around, so I give them the same rank. However, I'd like to point out two things: 1) French may be harder to understand for other Romance language speakers, but when spoken slowly, I'm sure the level of intelligibility goes up. The French guy spoke really fast at the beginning and was looking for his words, it's normal that the others didn't get anything. Then, he slowed down, and it seemed like the others understood him better. 2) Il n'est pas nécessaire de parler anglais entre nous, nous pouvons très bien nous comprendre dans nos langues respectives, avec quelques ajustements pour le français ! 😁 Cette vidéo en est la preuve ! Vive les langues romanes !

As a native french speaker, I’d say that Italian was the easiest to understand. Portuguese was definitely the hardest!

Believe me, Romanian is as hard to understand for a Portuguese speaker as French is. And in the case of French, only the pronunciation is very different, when I read newspapers in French I can understand a lot. In the case of the Romanian, not even the words are known, almost nothing can be understood, neither listening nor reading. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

🇲🇽Qual é a sua comida favorita do México? 🇧🇷-Nenhuma 😂😂😂

Creo que todos anduvimos un poco confundidos con el francés 😂 ¡un video muy bueno!

9:18 COMO SE NO MÉXICO FOSSE SUPER SEGURO, NE QUERIDO?

Im Italian-Canadian. 🙂 I speak English, Italian and French. I understand Spanish more than Portuguese but some Portuguese words I get. Makes sense since they're all romance languages. 🙂 Awesome video! 🫶🏼💜 Everyone seems so sweet! 🥰 God bless everybody! 🙏🏻✌🏼❤️ Take care and be safe 🙂

As a Spanish speaker (born and raised in California of Mexican parents). I understood the Italian speaker the best aside from Raul. This Italian speaker seems to have a more neutral way of pronouncing words. I would even argue his intonation appeared inflected by the neutral spoken Spanish in Mexico by living there so long.

J'adore cette diversité des langues romaines 😍. Moi, je ne comprends que le français,, mais je peux comprendre un peu d'autres langues également, à mon avis, le portugais est le plus difficile.

as korean, im mesmerized by this video and yeah this video is so *UNDERRATED* 부럽다... although Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese have slight Chinese origin, we can't understand each other...

I speak Spanish and I found Italian the easiest to understand, besides Spanish of course

"Brasil é muito perigoso" Brasil para gringo = Rio de janeiro Claro que vai ser perigoso.

if you learn the phonological and some lexical differences of french and Portuguese as a spanish/italian speaker you'll also understand them pretty easily.

Haven’t watched the video yet but as a native English speaker with a slight background in Spanish who’s currently learning Spanish too my proudest moment was when I could understand Italian

Without studying , just listening to music and watching movies i understood Italian ! Super easy ! Good job Raul !

Dude this is such a freaking cool experimental video!!!!! So cool to see them all talking around. Such a good job 👏🏼👍🏼👐🏼

imagine a world where speakers of a romance language could just understand speakers of other romance languages without having to speak it ?? man that would be sick

as a portuguese speaker from easiest to hardest Spanish I understand everything Italian 80 - 90 % Catalan 20 - 30 % French 10%

A musicalidade do italiano me encanta, sou apaixonado pelas línguas românicas, e acho fascinante o tanto de inteligibilidade que temos entre as nossas línguas irmãs!

I think this group talk is cool because you try to give-and-take each time. Usually I find videos where there is one language speker who does the main talk while the other ones only focus on whether they can tell the words or something. I think I like this setting, it looks just like you are sitting at the cafe and talk to each other. It's not just one-way but two-way.

To me, a Japanese native and English as second language speaker, it appears that all those guys can well understand each other, particularly about soccer. Very good video.

This is gold my friend!!! Enjoyed it immensely!

Yes yes yes si si si oui oui oui IT IS GREAT I loved your spirit guys The conversation was so fun I enjoyed it as if I was there with you I laughed and felt it One of the Best thing in the world for me is THIS, human connection Young People From diffrent parts of the world with varied cultures talk about many subjects, just feels perfect ❤️

Genius! A dream come true to witness this. Thank you! 😄

as a japanese speaker, i notice the 4 or more romance language speakers have possibility that their romance language will be recognized as one of the common languages on this planet if the romance language speakers start commonalizing the languages.

9:17 Fala como se no México não tivesse milhares de homicídios por ano que piada 🤔🤣

Went better than I expected! They really already started to get used to it after the first five minutes

Awesome dude! It's like watching a movie with ensemble stars. Exciting and insightful video. Great concept 👍👏🙌

i really enjoyed this video!! and as a spanish speaker i also find french to be the most different/difficult among them all

We brazilians think the same about mexico 😍

As a Spanish speaker (learning French + Portuguese) I found Portuguese the easiest just more fast paced and with some diff pronunciations and French was the hardest for me however because I find it hard to understand/communicate in French although I can read and write way better

As a brazilian I can understand spanish and catalan very well (and gallego even better) we are very similar, italian I can understand well but they have some different pronuciations that can change everything, and french I confess that in this video I didn't understand him the most of the time, but I'm learning now so, maybe next year I will know everything.

This channel is SO UNDERRATED

As someone who studied Italian for years why do i find Catalan easier and more understandable, like i literally understood most of her talk 🤯

as spanish speaker I understood in this order : 1 _ Portuguese , 2 _ catalan 3_Italian 4 _ French (im from Argentina)

This is so good. ¡GRACIAS! for posting.

This was really interesting I’d love to see something like this with other language families as well to see the results

As spanish speaker I recognize that the Italian it’s the easiest to understand because the pronunciation it’s really similar to Spanish, but as well Portuguese it’s more similar in writing to Spanish, so for the hearing Italian and for the writing Portuguese.

This came up on my feed, LOVED it !!!!!!! I speak english and Spanish, and im learning portuguese. French is the hardest to understand for me !!

This is great content! Love it

I would have loved to see a Romanian person here too. (I know they would be so hard to find!) Romanian has so many nearly identical sounding or spelt words to all the languages here, but it also haa a lot of difference!

As someone who has a passenger understanding of spanish, italian seems to follow a very similar way of speaking, aside from the vocab the way the two languages are spoke with the comas and breaks and inflections. It similar enough and there are enough words that kind of overlap if you squint that i can make out individual parts.

Gosto muito do seu canal meu amigo, por favor traga mais vídeos assim, isso enriquece o seu canal e o nosso conhecimento, já estou ansioso pelo próximo video, um abraço do Brasil.

Omg dude this videos is sick🔥🔥🔥I really liked the concept of the video,it was so cool haha I don't know but this video made me proud of being a portuguese speaker,a latin language because it's easier to learn these languages

as a braziian the order from easiest to the hardest one for me was portuguese (obviously), french (I live in france), spanish (very similar to portuguese), catalan (somewhat similar) and italian (not so similar but I still could grasp like 50%)

A brasileira com certeza é descendente de japonês hehe amei ela a não saber nada sobre o messe kkk

As brazilian from the easiest to the hardest: 1) Spanish ☺️ 2) Italian 😊 3) Catalan 🙂 3) French 😐

Great insight 👏🏾👏🏾

Awesome 👏 As a galician(french descendant) I can understand all of them, glad to have such a multicultural family.

Gran video Raúl, el idioma que entendí sin problemas fue el Italiano, ya que es del que tengo un mejor dominio. Saludos!!

I’m Arab/Brazilian and I speak Portuguese and I can speak Spanish and Italian and I see there is great similarity between Spanish and Italian and Portuguese, And I find it difficult to understand French, but I think the accent is the reason, because I can understand French writin I also want to learn Catalan, which is very similar to Spanish

Este video es increíble y merece más vistas.

LOL THIS IS SO FASCINATING !!

I think Catalan is difficult because we don't hear it very often. Spanish and Italian are quite familiar. And French... well... it's undoubtedly the most different, but it's a very important language and everyone knows some words and expressions. I'm from Brazil.

No sé sí fue intencional, pero me gustó que estuvieron sentados al lenguaje más cercano, como el español al catalán y al portugués 👍

This is super interesting to watch

I am italian, I can undestand very well Spanish and Catalan, Portuguese too, but the one of brasil; it is easier than the original, The problem of French is the pronunce, Anyway all these language, if written, are very easy to me, the romanian too.

Spanish speaker here. It's crazy how different the french language is, it doesn't even sound like a romance language 💀 Maybe it's because of the close relationship between spanish speaking countries and Brazil/Portugal, but I feel like Portuguese is the closest to Spanish. It's very easy to understand for me. I understood a little of Catalán and Italian, but not as much as Portuguese

Excelente ideia para um vídeo. Por favor, faça mais.

As línguas de origem latina são consideradas as mais linda do mundo!

Bro, you forgot about Romanian xD, cool vid tho! I enjoy your vids, my goal is to learn first of all these romance languages and btw I got interested in learning portuguese because of you, you have an interesting accent

O francês é o mais difícil de entender desses cinco idiomas. Mesmo assim, eu quero aprendê-lo.

You should do a video about different Spanish..like one from cuba, Dominican republic, mexico, Puerto Rican, Argentina an Spain. To see the differences in slang an dialect

Que vídeo incrível

As a spanish speaker who can speak portuguese, this was enjoyable

I can understand 90% of Portuguese and Italian as a Spanish speaker. But French, that language terrifies me. HOW DARE YOU BE DIFFERENT.

I was adopted from Peru and grew up 22 years in Chicago. Even I know you don't put pineapple in pizza it's an abomination. 😆 it's soo cool that they can understand each for the most part. Is it just me or does the Catalan language sound a lot like Spanish and Portuguese mixed up together?

This is an amazing video

Great video! I studied French, Italian, and now starting with Spanish, it was a little harder to understand the Mexican guy and the girl from Catalonia but Portuguese is just not understandable at all

French is the odd (hard to understand) romance language. The others are easier to understand for me being Colombian. You forgot to invite someone from Romanian.

for me the order of understanding the languages from easiest to hardest: spanish portuguese catalan italian french

Tal vez el mejor video de este tipo que he visto, se debió a que todos los integrante tienen buena dicción, lenguaje neutro con pocos modismos (slang), buen nivel de conversación y fluida. El francés es el que tiene mayor dificultad para entenderse por la pronunciación gutural que lo caracteriza, el oído de personas hablantes de otras lenguas romances necesita habituarse a esa forma de pronunciar las palabras y al hacerlo, puede entenderlo al igual que los otros idiomas derivados del latín. Con gusto dejo mi like. Saludos

i love that when comes to food the Italian looks offended when Brazilian eats pizza with ketchup

As an Asian, It's hard for me to distinguish Catalan, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. French is very different among these languages.

As a French speaker, French was the most difficult one to understand

Gostei muito dessas entrevistas .

Deberían hacer otro video así de interesantes. Saludos desde México

Soy Argentino y cómo acá en Argentina la mitad de nuestras palabras son italianas entendí casi todo y del portugués también (deber ser porque tenemos de vecino a brasil). El francés no le entiendo casi nada cuándo habla pero escrito lo entiendo bien I'm Argentinian and here in Argentina we use a lot of italians word, i understood very well the italian, the same with the portuguese (maybe it's because we have to brasil as a neighbour). The french lenguague i don't understand almost nothing when he talks, but written i understand very well

9:18 acho engraçado que a visão que você tem do Brasil é a mesma que todos os brasileiros tem do México kkkk Especialmente em Cancún e os cartéis do México. Mas em geral, amamos os mexicanos por que nos presentearam com o Chaves do 8

What I like about this video is that the way each speaker reacts to the other languages is "accurate". Like how they all struggle with the French speaker, how Catalan *should* be similar to Spanish but is different enough to cause some confusion, and so on.

It's very strange when you're learning Spanish and all of a sudden Italian and Catalan kinda make sense... going from only speaking English my whole life to now understanding another language and vaguely understanding languages I've never even studied is a wonderful feeling.

The girl that speaks Catalan can obviously speak Spanish also. She has at least two Romance languages in her mental database. A Corsican or Occitan speaker check if they can understand other Romance languages, when in fact they also would have French in addition, due to growing up in a country, that has it as their official language.

Just roman citizens from different places of the empire communicating with each other in latin with different dialects

I've been told by a bilingual BR Portuguese and Italian speaker who was studying French (in France) that when reading French, he pretty much understood around 70 to 90% depending on the topic but when it came to spoken French, he could only understand around 30 to 50% mainly because of his Italian since French pronunciation is very different from the rest of the Romance languages.

Buen video!

French is like the "Tagalog" trying to understand the rest of the languages in Philippines

as an italian i find portuguese the hardest one, many italians say we can understand it pretty well but it’s almost impossible for me, there are a few words similar to ours but the pronunciation is so different. i can understand french cause i studied it, but that would be hard also if i didn’t

when I was fluent in spanish(haven't spoke it in a long time) I could understand Italian and Portuguese decently, like I could get the overall idea of what people said

My family is from el salvador but I was born in the u.s. and I speak Spanish and a very decent amount of Portuguese and since I've learned Portuguese I understand more Italian now fore French is so much harder and I never heard that other language spoken