French Language | Can Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Speakers Understand It? 

Yeah, I'm Italian and I understand almost nothing of what she said.

@@nicoladc89 whereas us french people we don’t struggle thattt much to understand you usually , it’s funny

Yeah, I was thinking about it. I, as a native Spanish speaker, understood almost nothing of what she said

As Brazilian id say I understood like...20% of it 😂... Italian and Spanish i could understand 90%.

@@mayfielcl Actually reading french it's not that hard, the problem comes when you talk. Damn it your fancy talking is so annoying, i mean it's not your fault but your ancestors made the language like this, with a lot of non-speak letters, fancy accents and closed vowel that make it really hard to understand to ppl who don't listen a lot to french. Luckly in Italy you can choose French as a third language in middle school so that helps a bit.

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Up!

yes please

yessss, please!

yes, pleaseeee!!

Italiano, português, espanhol e francês são bem semelhantes

Same! I'm french too and went in Portugal two weeks maybe, I was worried when we arrived because I just realized I didn't speak a word (I don't know why I didn't think of it before...). But I could read most of it. I think the spanish classes at school also helped, but still it's quite similar. But yeah, the pronounciation is really different so I couldn't understand most of people speaking, only a few words here and there.

As a Brazilian this is exactly what happens to me. When I read something in french, I'm able to understand like 70-80% of what it's written, but when you guys start to talk....well...😂

Actually as a french speaker who never learnt Italian, I have 0 trouble understanding italians if they speak slowly, even easier to read. I consider it the closest to french.

Na parte em que ela fala que pratica Pilates eu entendi que ela era pirata. 😂

Italian probably wouldn't have any trouble. Italian is extremely similar to french, the vocabulary is almost identical. The only issues would be speed and accent.

@@zaydalaoui9397 but i think french and italian speakers have the same issue as spanish & portuguese, i sense french's can understand italians way better than the other way around, the same goes to portuguese speakers understanding hispanics better but not being understood... now when it comes to those languages on internet (reading it) i think we can all understand what's being written pretty easily

@@genari4649 True! I think because some like french and Portuguese have really specific prononciations far from latin origin.

Don't think there are a lot Romanians in Korea

I'm French i want to visit Romania this summer Bucarest and around it if i have time should i learn a little bit some different words before going ? (And if you know some places that have to be seen but are not seen by a lot of tourists)

Only Italians are able to understand Romanian, because Italian has 450,000 words but Spanish for example has only 95,000 words and we have forgot weird Latin roots in words.

Your language is quit similar to us french i think At least we got some common words and similar prononciation

@@AixlaachenPax1801 sorry, dude, i know next to nothing about romania hahah the few things i know about are: its capital is Bucareste, the language has quite a bit of slavic influence, and that the economy was struggling. that’s why i’d really like to see romanian speaking people in these vids.

kkkkkk A Irene é muito engraçada.

É mesmo né..😅

Elle va survivre

Incluso borró su dibujo😂😂😂 en verdad tenía pena😂😂.

In latin america we say ¨Pega ¨

we say goma in Ecuador@@Peter1999Videos

@@Peter1999Videos ¿? ¿En que pais?, en el mio le decimos goma o pegamento o tambien cola pero esta ultima solo cuando se trata de la que usan los carpinteros en su trabajo.

⁠@@oscarberolla9910en Venezuela le decimos Pega a la comun , la que se usa en casa o escuelas .. y Cola a la especial (ojo que aveces tambien le dicen pega ) ..

Bravo !

Mostly because of the nasal songs. The other 2 don't have.

@@igormedeiros8021 faz sentido. Num outro vídeo a francesa repetiu "Pão" com um sotaque perfeito. Nunca tinha visto um estrangeiro pronunciar o "~" tão bem.

Le commentaire que je cherchais 😂

cest aussi uneconstellation

Were you any good at it ?

​@@goofygrandlouis6296 Just like everyone else without practice my French gets rusty but it easily comes back whenever I'm around francophone people .. I studied there long time ago 😂

Hi, im catalan thank you for realise

Catalan is the closest to French, with Italian pretty close. Spanish is next and much farther. Portuguese is the farthest, it sounds very weird and exotic to French ears.

Catalan is not very similar to Italian but it's crazy similar to Neapolitan, another language from Italy

The closest languages to latin are Italian and Spanish (Castilian). Catalan is much further from Italian (and therefore from Latin) and very close to French.

@@AllieOk catalans actually owned sardegne, naples, sicily and malta so they have lots of influence, even in the town of l'Alguer or l'Alghero they speak catalan

I don't speak portuguese at all, I'm french and I learned Spanish at school and could understand almost all of what you said in this comment: pretty useful! 😁

That's what I love about our romance languages, we can sit down and have some coffee and chances are we will understand each other quite well. I'm spanish speaker and I already speak portuguese and some Italian. My next challenge is French, so I think that Italian will be helpful. Si escribo en español, creo que lo podrán comprender perfectamente.

we know.

Yes, I understood correctly about 80% of your comment even though I never learned portuguese and don't have any contact with portuguese speakers. I'm french and I shortly studied italian in college (2 years).

Yeah it's the same with french. There are a lot of cognates, most of them with italian but there are still a lot with portuguese and spanish. So some words we understand even if we don't use it in everyday language because it's an archaic french term. Like the cognate for ver in portugese is voir in french, but the cognate of mirar is mirer in french, which is a more archaic verb we don't use anymore but we would still understand. For finestra for italian, the french word is fenêtre which is really close as well

What ? I'm French and she has NO accent.

I am French and indeed, her French sounds crystal

Cachorro means puppy in Spanish. Any native can correct me if I'm wrong

Actually in Italy we use "cucciolo" to indicate all baby animals

@Antonio Adinolfi interesting cause in portuguese we use "filhote" for that

@@matteusfreitas - In Portugal we use "cachorro" for a puppy and "cão" for an adult dog but "cachorro" is frequently used also as a term of endearment towards small or cute dogs, even if they're adults. We also use "cachorro" for hot-dog but that's a different story. 😄

In French "cane" is a bird like duck 🦢 ... 😄 . However we have a specific species of dog which call " caniche " it is a small dog with curly hair and the adjective to describe "dog's world" is "canin" . So we can get this same latin base for dogs .

Also Brazilian and I thought she said she was 20...and the rest i got the same as you...

And she speaks VERY slowly and articulates a LOT. Typical French you find in Paris is more of a rapid fire mumble, that would be a lot more challenging. Grammar and lexicon are pretty close to the other languages, but I expect a lot of challenges would come from how we talk. In formal contexts we tend to slow down and articulate more BUT we then enjoy making sentences that never end and using complex vocabulary to the moon t of being very convoluted. I don’t know if this would be easier - you might try listening to the traditional New Year discourse of the President if you can stand such a thing, it a good exemple of the typical longer sentences in formal French (the more you go back in time the longer they were).

"Hablador" no es una buena traducción para "speaker", ya que tiene cierto componente peyorativo: un "hablador" es alguien que quizás hable demasiado. Prefiero "hablante" pero incluso así, es complicado encontrar la palabra aislada y suele ir unida al lenguaje: hispanohablante. Pero para idiomas se suele utilizar más "parlante": angloparlante, francoparlante... pero dependiendo de los idiomas, a veces se cambia completamente el sufijo y se prefiere usar los derivados del griego: rusófono, por ejemplo. ¡Viva la variedad del español!

Sí, Ud. tiene toda la razón con sus comentarios, todos. Perdóneme por el error de "hablador" y el uso de que me equivoqué. Así no la debería haber usado y de verdad sé mejor. Entiendo que la palabra quiere decir en inglés "chatty" o "chatterbox," pero no me daba cuenta de que era tan pejorativa.

Y, ¿por cierto, tal vez escribí pejorativa con ortografía incorrecta? Pensaba siempre que se escribe con "j" y no "y."

@@SrJCA84 Hehehe.... sí, peyorativo es con y griega. False friends, no worries. Por cierto, el término "prepa" (como apócope de escuela preparatoria) creo que es exclusivo de México. En España usamos "instituto" (de enseñanza secundaria) para "high school" 😉

Im a English speaker and I want to learn all four…. Which language is easier for me to start out with?

@@Afrocreolebombshell I can't be impartial because I'm a native Spanish speaker but... I think Spanish is the best language to start with because seriously, if Italians and Portuguese speakers speak slowly, we hispanics can understand a lot of what they say

Moldovan citizen is also fine since it's also Romanian.

throw in tagalog (filipino) just because, strong spanish influence in there

@@Nitrxgen Maybe Chabacano, which is a Spanish creole. Certainly NOT in Tagalog, apart from some dozen acquired words in that language.

What are the chances you find someone who speaks Aragonese in Korea? They are one in a million in Spain, so what makes you think they'll find one? Also why Basque? It's a completely unrelated language to these Romance languages.

​@@lissandrafreljord7913 I don't see any problem including Euskera in an all-Spain episode. They can feature Basque phrases like, "Eskerrik asko" or "Zer moduz" and have its counterparts in Castilian. A Basque person sounds just like a normal Spaniard so it would be interesting to hear a non-Romance language that is native to Spain. You're right about Aragonese but hey, you never know, someone might have ventured out in Korea. 😄

And Aranese Occitan

benvengut lol

A nadie le interesa el catalán , parece que no os quereis enterar. Sigue el infantilismo de pretender como un niño que nos hagan caso cuando a nadie le importas un pimiento.

​@@claramente8087Vete con tu odio, troll

French has more influence from the Germanic language than the other Romance languages and Romanian has a strong Slavic influence. This means that, despite being Romance languages, these two are very distinct.

​@@newton8698Spanish has more Arabic influence

@@stephanedumas8329 Portuguese as well, that´s why spanish and portuguese are so similar in some ways

it's the opposite ! This video proves how similar french is with italien, spanish and portuguese

@@newton8698 French and italian is more simular vocabulary than other romance language but the prononciation is different Also French not influence Germanic influence Celts ( Gaulish than germanic

She said, « J’adorerais » (“I’d love to”). But it's normal that you heard « J’adorais » ("I loved it") because we swallow a lot of letters, especially in the north of France. 😂 If you listen carefully again, it sounds like a double R. We don’t pronounce the E.

That's the sad part about the US, so many migrants and you guys still didn't manage to learn your ancestors' languages because it used to be frowned apon. The US has the largest number of German descendants in the world and yet, the biggest Oktoberfest outside of Germany is in Brazil 😅

Sí, tiene toda la razón. No hablo ni una palabra del alemán. La última persona que lo hablaba era mi abuelo paterno que nació allá y vino con familia durante los años 1910. Y es verdad que durante la guerra mundial II en Estados Unidos la gente se detenía o ponía en cárcel por hablarlo por las calles por mied de espianaje.

They’re also linked by tourism. All these country have a huge tourism industry and there are a lot of people traveling between them. We have heard the accents of the others country from tourists. And it’s not rare to travel abroad in Europe, a lot less than it is in the US. Moreover it’s not just Latin. There is a current shared country. For instance with cinema - we know the cinema of each others and seeing movies in original version with subtitles is pretty common in big cities, even if we don’t know the language. It’s even something that starts early - I’m overjoyed that my 9 year old can now follow subtitles because it means I no longer have to watch dubbed movies ! In most cinema in Paris, dubbed movies are in the afternoon and then they switch to subtitles in the early evening : dubbed movies are for kids ! I mean even the latest Pixar I went to see had half the projections in American with subtitles and it’s a « kid » movie. All this means we have a lot of exposure to each others cultures and languages. The situation is very different from the USA which is a huge country with the current lingua franca and thus is more closed unto itself and favors dubbed movies.

​​@@geraldomelo8371as o Brasil é o segundo em descendentes de alemães, só perde para os EUA

@@wilsonbarbosa4683 verdade, mas a quantidade é muuuito inferior. Foi uma quantidade absurda de alemães para os EUA

Sim, em Porto Alegre algumas escolas publicas tinha/ou ainda tem, frances e ingles, ao invés de espanhol e ingles.

No meu colégio, tínhamos inglês e francês no que seria hoje o Ensino Fundamental 2 (o inglês começava no que seria hoje o 6o ano, mas o francês só no que seria o atual 8o ano). No ensino médio, naquele tempo, ainda se separavam as classes em exatas, humanas e biológicas. Todos tinham inglês, mas o francês era só para os alunos de humanas. Mas isso já faz 30 anos. Não sei como é hoje.

She's also very pretty.😍💛💙

@@Nicamon Really? I had not noticed 😇 Ha. Half the World Friends girls are models and even amongst them, she stands out, so she must have something rare. I like them all, but Lucie and Shannon from North Carolina are probably my faves.

@@celestinomoya4470 "Half the World Friends girls are models"Really??😳I didn't know that!!

Fiz todo o ensino básico em escola pública, não tive nenhum ano de aula de espanhol. Tenho 28 anos, sou de Natal-RN. Acho que a oferta de aula de espanhol varia entre estados e cidades, também tem a questão da época.

In Spanish, there's also "cola" which is the (generically white) glue that carpenters use with wood. Anyway I didn't get that word at first. "Cola" in Spanish has also a homonym which means "tail" in English (coda in Italian, cauda in Latin, queue in French). And also a homophone with French: "col" which means cabbage in Spanish.

In spanish is "pegar"

"La cola" it could be a special glue white-colored

French and spanish are very similar : 75%

Not much when she doesn't know that there is glue called "cola" in Spanish.

@@paulosantos_989 Agree

​@@paulosantos_989 Nope, to the contrary 😂 I just want to hear more languages from Spain.

Fatos 🛐

É Tua mãe

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Yep, agreed!

@@paulosantos_989 Isn't NECK where a NECKlace stands?😂

@@paulosantos_989 I _think_ you meant collarbone...if that's the case in Italian that's called clavicola.

@@paulosantos_989 So I was curious and checked how you say"neck"in Portuguese and,correct me if I'm wrong,it's pescoço?🤨It's weird because I don't know how the ç is supposed to be pronounced but the word looks very similar to pescoso which means when a place(like a part of a sea or a river or a lake)is full of fish that you might catch.😅🎣

@@paulosantos_989 Yeah...as I said"pescoso"means"full of fish",referred to a place where you go to fish.🎣And,from how you described it,I _think_ the pronunciation _is_ the same as pescoço. In Italian"ass"is"culo".

​@@Nicamon Spanish is cuello, pescuezo, culo...

Im Brazilian and I can also understand french writing tbh...and i dont speak french 😂

​@@henry247 same for us (french people) 😁😁 At least we can understand each other languages by writing 😂

Exactly. And the French girl speaking a very slow, articulated and foreigner friendly French. I doubt she would speak this way to French friends of hers. So in essence she is speaking to them the French they learnt at school.

Concordo, seria interessante!

eu diria 80% de espanhol

​@@strogonoffcore Eu 95%

and 90 % occitan lol

@@chocotendr definitely not, Occitan looks and sounds a lot like French, it's hard for us to understand

@@strogonoffcore não exagere. Espanhol Vulgar é meio complicado de entender. Já conversei com vários venezuelanos e sempre tive muita dificuldade de comunicação, eles falam extremamente rápidos e usam muitas gírias. O espanhol da Espanha é ainda pior e com muito sotaque.

@@paulosantos_989 Sim 😂😂 nesses vídeos mais 'globais' acabo que comento em inglês mesmo 😂 as vezes até sem querer haha

Nossa Vc é um gênio

@@paulosantos_989 e você precisa aprender a sua.

​@@paulosantos_989 Pourquoi le sarcasme ? Il faisait seulement une observation...

É mesme? Sebie neun

@@paulosantos_989 Je te pardonne

as a french speaker i almost understood what you said lol

She could be even more French if she was dressed more nicely

I think your insight is right on. The 4 languages may have 80% lexical similarity, but that doesn't mean they can be understood equally in speech. I'm an L2 Spanish speaker, and have had a pretty easy time with some novice level reading of the other 3. In fact, I used to carry on convos with a Brasileña at a past workplace; she in Portugués and I in Spanish. We rarely missed a beat. But the French gives me fits in both reading and listening. Main ideas? Sure, but without the details.

It has more to see with gaulish pronounciation rather than germanic. In the southern half of France the accent is different because the traditional language there was occitan (langue d’oil) and not oil language (from witch french is derived from)

@@fablb9006 occitan was influenced by iberian languages anyway but yes I see what you mean. Anyway this just shows that french is kind of the average if all western europe pronunciations blended together.

that's quite untrue tho, yes there's a lil bit of germanic influence but not that much. Most of french vocab is still latin. However the pronounciation and writing of many words changed through history but nothing to do with a germanic influence

@@danemon8423 I said germanic pronunciation not vocabulary