How Similar Are Spanish and Italian? 

Wonderful video as always. Thank you! There are two aspects I missed: 1- plurals in Italian don't end in S (apparently they come from latin words in Nominative, and not in Accusative as in the other Romance languages) 2- Spanish uses more continuous tenses (Present Perfect, etc) than Italian and also uses them more frequently. Thank you!

Hello! I just wanted to clear that in Spanish, we use "el" with feminine nouns that start with tonal "a": El agua --> ("agua" is feminine) El águila --> ("águila" is feminine) Thanks for reading, I typed this because you put "that's it👍" at 9:52 but you forgot to explain this rule.🥰

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Really a good job, i’m italian and you are very informed about these languegese, not in every video people are informed, congratulacion!

sorry but in spanish pronto mean ready like in italian .....also mean soon in spanish too but is very rare to use it like that .......guardar in spanish dosent mean to keep guard....it mean to put something in some place .ex. voy a guardar los zapatos en el ropero ...it means im going to put the shoes in the closet sorry about the corrections ,you teach me a lot in every vid...thanks marry xmas

Oscar Benítez los franceces tienen un language muy hermoso

@@NiteDriv3r so are spaniard and italian you just stereotype them

😂😂😂 this had me dieing

Only Italians understand my hand gestures and why I move my hands a lot. I’m Hispanic and they understand me. UPDATE: I found out I’m 1.2% Italian from 23 and me so now Ik why. I think my third great grandfather was Italian

@@NiteDriv3r if you mean they are blond and blue-eyed, actually northern French are, but southern French are dark haired and dark-eyed. They look the same than Italians and Spaniards

A good example of this is Haiti. The island of Hispaniola is divided between Dominican Republic and Haiti. Haitian's language is French, Dominican side speaks Spanish. Haiti is an alien country to us Latin Americans that we don't know anything about. But about Dominican Republic we can tell you what are their big cities, who are their top singers, who is their top athlete, etc, etc.

Basically everybody hates the French what a shocker.

I'm Speak spanish but i think that French is the most beautiful language in the world

Pues tienes razón lol

You are right bro 😂

Is your grandpa Sicilian?

cool story ! do you speak any italian ?

I've been told that a person who speaks Spanish fluently can automatically comprehend about 75% of Portuguese and 50% of Italian. A native of Spain may have never had any prior exposure to the Ianguage; but even if he were to step on the soil of Italy right off the boat or airplane, he could still understand much of the conversation going on around him.

@@JLFAN2009 El porcentaje que has cifrado solo se aplica en el primer contacto con el idioma. Después de un primer contacto, el porcentaje sube rápidamente a comprender un 70-80% de italiano y 90% de portugués (habiendo tenido escasos contactos con el otro idioma)

​@@elwayan3860 I speak italian.

Another small thing they got wrong is that in Italian you generally can't put an apostrophe instead of “e” when you use the definite article for feminine plural (le). It is something that is done (and apparently Treccani says that it can be done), but it's still very rare as in school they tought us all that is incorrect. I mean, teachers could put a 0/10 on your essay just for a ’ there. lol

She take my dinero

Necessito

In Spanish we also have the word "saldo" we usually use to talk about the money available in a phone card or a bank acount. And "la banca" exists in feminine too if we speak about the banking system as a concept.

@@violetalar5387 us too, we have also the word "saldo" that is the same of spanish

Really you can do it? I speak spanish and I cant

@@josokfgjk3799 Yes I can.

@@josokfgjk3799 I speak Spanish too :v. Where are u from?

@@leandronogueira3676 ¿verda herrmàno?

@@enriquegarcia2790 Sim irmão, é verdade.

As a non-native Spanish (sort of)speaker I can confirm.They are like the Oghuz Turkic languages.

I am italian and I can tell that Portuguese is not easy at all for Italians, if I read i understand much, but if somebody talks,I dont get much (similarly as with the french)

I'm Italian, I've been studying russian for the past 3 years and spanish is not that hard to understand. I SWEAR that portuguese sounds like a mix of spanish and russian that I don't understand at all

@@riccardodevaleri I had a colleague from Brazil living in Italy for couple of year, when he was talking Italian with strong Portuguese accent some of my friend asked me if he was Russian 😀.

@@lupoExplore Soy parlante del español pero se me dificulta entender el portugués muchas veces por que hablan muy rápido

I can understand Italian better than caribean spanish and i am an spanish speaker from south america 😂

@@andresgalindo7682 que rara la vida 🤔

​@@andresgalindo7682😂me too carribieans think they speak Spanish😂

Where is this neighborhood?

@@Thisissssmychannel “Little Italy”, on the near west side of Chicago.

Yes espichally with the older people. Most of mine generation still do this new one does not at all or few,its sad really.

It's not true! I am Italian, native speaker and I have many troubles trying to understand Spanish people. I actually never studied Spanish.

@@atlantis4516 i'm italian, i never studied spanish and can actually understand about 60/70% of what a spanish speaker say. I guess it's mostly subjective but at the same time most spanish and italian words are also objectively similar and easy to understand.

@@atlantis4516 Italiano de Albania? O italiano de Italia?

@@ericsonbenito3267 Ma che razza di domande fai?

Ahahah Thanks from Italy! Take care

I’m pretty sure in Trento they speak a dialect that’s even more similar to Spanish than normal Italian

i had this with a lady in a train on my way to the north. she only spoke Italian and me Spanish. (i understood some Italian bc we went there on holidays since i was a kid, i m just not able to speak it)

@@danyboza5389 There was a video of a Catalan, Mexican, and Brazilian guy trying to understand the Trentino language, which is a dialect of Venetian. They did an okay job I guess, but the Catalan speaker understood best.

Lissandra Freljord Yes I’ve seen that’s where i got it from

and we love you bro :) un saluto a tutta la Grecia da Genova (IT) :)

Nosotros también os queremos mucho, Chris.

Μιλάω ισπανικά και νομίζω ότι η ελληνική γλώσσα είναι μια όμορφη γλώσσα.

Dear Chrys Gnt, thank you so much for your lovely comment! I am Irish and you know they say the Irish (and the Gaels and Brythons generally) are the Latins of the north so we are like the Greeks, Spanish and Italians. I have a special love for the Greeks and I hope you like us irish too. I speak French, Italian and Spanish (in order of fluency). But I have no affinity whatsoever with the Germanic languages. The people are very nice but I much prefer southern Europeans.

@@DendraEkta Altrettanto!!! Thank you for your lovely message! In Greece there is an expression that Greeks and Italians are "una faccia, una razza". This is used to show that we are very close! :)

How do you say in Italian : what is it called? or what's it called? or what do you call it? or what's its name? or what is the name of it? in Italian?

no

Un saludo para los amigos italianos :D

Saludos Fratelli

Viva a Italia y viva España los dos mejores países

Eravamo noi che abbiamo tradito i tedeschi o il contrario nella prima guerra mondial

Argentinian here (native spanish speaker) and can confirm, the first time I watched a video in italian with no subtitles I understood like 80% of what they were saying without even basic knowledge of italian. Note that our country had a huge immigration of italians in the past, so some of their culture and words are common knowledge here (only the most basic ones I would say).

As a Salvadoran, I can confirm that I understand most Italian if they speak slowly without studying the language either.

@@cerka27 hey man my mom is Salvadorian. I’m half Salvadoran

@@averagettenjoyer1625 I doubt it there are many false cognates, in my Italian lessons all of my classmates including me, we make mistakes almost every time we speak 😂

@@Cristian-hn2ey e sim, entende-se alguma coisa, talvez alguma palavra não entendas mas o contexto ajuda, é o mesmo com o português i tried translating your sentence to portuguese because i have nothing to do, how accurate is it?

In Spanish, pregnant is also called preñada=embarazada=encinta, and embarazoso (Spanish) is imbarazzante (Italian) and embarrassing (English). Many Spanish words that look different in Italian, sometimes there is an equivalent in Spanish that looks like the Italian one. This means that when speaking it is understood by another equivalent word.

People make such a big deal about that one word.

Same feeling when I was trying to learn French! Since I know English and my native language is Spanish, it wasn’t that difficult to understand. The only problem was the pronunciation, but some phonetics in English are similar in French like the ɘ sound.

LoreSka Ma sei italiano o spagnolo? ;D

The Krieg può essere entrambi, chi lo sa?

E se escrevo em Portugues, os Italianos e os Espanhois compreendem =) voilà

LoreSka puedo entenderlo en español, posso capirlo in italiano and I can understand it in English either.

Esatto lol

really??? ahahhahaha xD it's funny

Certo...yo también te diría eso

Italian and Spanish are not really as close a people think. I am willing to bet that it was a disaster!

@@George-rb6bvyou're right, for me Italian -> French -> English

12:30 there is also a "h" missing in "ha entrado" for spanish.

it's written necesito😊

11:32 And he could have said: “Loro vivranno a *Nuova* York” to be equivalent with “Nueva York.”

Necesito*

12:30 the video is correct... It does literally mean "He has entered".

Johnny Arbuckle French is kinda easy for me since obv it’s a Latin language but is like the step brother of the 4😂

The same with Romanian

@@ChristianDorettiactually romanian is mostly similar to the other Latin languages when written, it’s different when spoken though because of the Russian accent

Same from me, I'm Italian and when i hear a spanish talk i understand the 80% at least(but there is spanish people that rap instead of talking)

@@figzzyfiga5433 no...Italian and Spanish is the more closer lenguages to Latin.....Romanian and French the more away

Is that you Horatio Sanz..? Quit bustin beans...

You mean Italy... Italian is the language...

@@user-uq4ho1vr3e hence why he said Italian speaking place, so he was correct n how he said it

booooooooooooom...great job brother ahahahah

@@user-uq4ho1vr3e he/she said in an “Italian speaking place”

Entonces usas las pronunciaciones Argentinas, como “shuvia” y tal?

@@carlito6038 cuando hablo con gente de Argentina, sì. Cuando estoy en España, no.

​@@Aandicoc Conosci molto bene l'inglese a quanto leggo.

How do you say in Italian : what is it called? or what's it called? or what do you call it? or what's its name? or what is the name of it? in Italian?

Because of the pronunciation, but sometimes I am reading the manual of an appliance and I don't realize that I am reading the Portuguese version instead of the Spanish one, which is my native language. Written Portuguese is quite similar to Spanish.

As an Italian, I kinda understand written Portuguese too.

I understand about 30 percent of Portuguese . One of my very good friends is Portuguese (i am italian) I would also like to say I love the sound Portuguese gives, it reminds me much of the ancient Latin tongue

It depends. I usually understand portuguese, as long as people doesn't speak too quickly. Same happens with italian. I've been in Portugal once, and I could understand everything. People could also understand me, specially when I used galician instead of spanish ❤

My barbers speak portuguese and i can't understand them at all lol

French our charmant brothers!

@@g.alberto3958 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸 much love!!!

Broo💕💕💕💕

@@zettazurdita ❤️❤️❤️

@Nuria Saez I am extremely serious when I say this, I genuinely love both countries... why would i lie?

I don't think Italians will appreciate that...

​@@szimonettaster what means of communication should be used instead?

Y si añades “mamma mía” al final de la frase mejor, más italiano 😂😂

Cierto!! 😂

O con portugues que creen que con agregar iño ya es portugues

Más bien agregar "ere" al final xD

exactamente

Keep in mind too its very possible he was speaking mostly italian with several spanish words thrown in to make sure you understood. Italians do this all the time. It might not have been pure italian with only italian words.

BULLSHIT

sooo similar... try to do it in asia, like in china, they dont even understand each other ahah. travel to other province, its it too local they are at loss... latin languages are sisters, spanish and italian, french also but they speak a bit different.

todo es amor somos familia para jajajaja real.

... until the driver took you to the wrong place, and you realized that you really didn't understand each other so well, after all! ;)

That's not in our DNA

true story

There are variants that are spoken quite clearly, I think Standard Italian and Standard Mexican Spanish are very clear. But definitely not slow!

@@FlowerTrollSan except "Standard Italian" only exists in the dubbing industry and on theatre stages.

@@pirimpallopirimpalli4932 ma che dici?

Funny, many Americans think that by adding an "o" or an "a" at the end of an english word it magically becomes a spanish one.

There's a myth here in Argentina that, to speak italian, you have to put "ini" or "iare" at the end of any word, lol.

And to speak English, we have to take out the last vocal to all the words. Guys, congratulations, you know Italian very well x'''

We have something like it in portuguese too lol, we think that to speak spanish you only need to add "IE" and "UE" in almost all words. "niecessieto um puequieto de agua" I think this is actually portuñol.

The sentence structure you used here is really similar to the Spanish one, even those commas are exactly on the same place. That makes me want to study Italian language even more.

But "denaro" is not colloquial in Italian, it's either old-fashioned or formal. Whereas "dinero" is colloquial in Spanish.

@@Konradp68 I know.

@@Konradp68 It depends, here in Argentina "plata" (silver) is the common word, "dinero" is more formal.

@@JuanManuel-ii1ov Here in Venezuela, plata is the most used too, and stupid people say "ninero".

@@seamusforever7081 No sé por qué me causa me gracia cuando hispanohablantes se hablan en inglés entre ellos :v

That's amazing lol I want to go to Italy now

Je sais un peu le français, je peux comprendre ce que tu écrives. Tu m'entendes? Je t’entends très bien. Le français et l'espagnol ne sont pas si différents lorsque tu le lire. Mais j'entends plus d'italien que d'espagnol, nous partageons beaucoup plus de mots similaires.

@@cheeveka3 Cierto, el español y el francés se entienden muy bien por escrito, hablado es más complejo de entender.

Oscar Grau Certes, la partie compliquée est la forme parlée. Je trouve vraiment intéressant que si les mots sont conservés, une communication simple soit possible. Ma première langue est l'anglais, donc apprendre le français n'a pas été très difficile à apprendre pour moi. L'anglais détient également grande quantité de vocabulaire français.

@@cheeveka3 puedo entender frances escrito hasta cierto punto el frances esta mas apegada al ingles y al alemane q el español

Raul Gonzalez Quand je lis l'espagnol, j'entends quelques mots. Nous pouvions nous entendre mais les mots doivent être simples. El verbo "entender"es similar a un verbo llamado"entendre" que existe en francés. La mayor diferencia es cómo se usa el verbo

Sinceramente la pronuncia e molti verbi sono diversi ma alcune parole sono simili

That's not quite true. I am studying Italian for many years and I still have sometimes a hard time to undertand certain italian dialogues when I see Italian movies and series in streaming (netflix, pime viedo, disney) dubbed into italian. That's not the case when people that speak diferent languages talk each other they unconsciously speak slow and understandable to make sure they can be understood each other. (I am native spanish speaker)

Is your uncle a native Spanish speaker? Where is he from?

But now i'm confused...are you italian, spanish, or english?

@@gabrielevento6527 I'm Swedish! ;)

vikingspeaking oh, ok XD

mind blown

Cool! I didn't know that and I'm a native Spanish speaker

Whenever you notice a mistake like that, you can rest assured that hundreds of people have already commented about it.

Hey Paul, love your vids. Btw, in the same frame the literal translation for Italian should read "he is entered". I do not know if it has been commented yet.. Is this correct? Maybe not, my main languages are ES-EN-FR. All the best!

Well, maybe add annotations correcting the things people point out? I mean, your answer implies it's obvious people has noticed but he doesn't have to know that, unless you expect him to check every comment. So he is politely telling everyone about an error so they don't have wrong info. Haven't yet ended the video but otherwise it seems excelent work (don't know italian though so I could be missing something). Keep it up and try not to feel attacked when viewers notice something wrong. They're just tryin' to contribute to make a perfect product. Maybe I'm missreading your answer but it felt like that to me.

santiago uccella I totally agree with you. He sounded like a douche to me, instead of thanking or correcting the mistake.

11:30 -> "Ellos viviran a Nueva York" it's wrong it is "Ellos viviran EN Nueva York"

Facer, fambre, fierro, etc. Se parece más a la raíz Latina escrito así. Que extraño del castellano 🤔 he leído que es por la influencia vasca, pero no sé

Dobbiamo mettere al lavoro il cervello un po' per intenderci... ma ci intendiamo al fin dei conti...

Vero! Simpatia immediata :)

Con un piccolo di impegno ho capito la tua frase. Siete dei fratellini, un abbraccio dall'Italia

Siete i nostri cugini simpatici, al contrario dei francesi, che invece sono quelli antipatici

Cuando visité Rio de Janeiro, un turista español se acercó hablándome en italiano. Yo le pregunté porque no hablava en español. El me ha dicho: "perchè tu sei italiano". Mientras soy brasileño descendiente direto de italianos y españoles. Así tengo cara de italiano y terquedad de español según mis parientes jajaja

Yeah, those are "false friends" but not too false anyhow, because you can get the idea way too easily. "Sueldo" in Castilian-Spanish is "salary" incidentally. One (dinero/denaro) comes from the Arab silver coin "dinar", the other (soldi/sueldo) comes from the Byzantine gold coin "solidus".

by the way ....diner/denaro ...come from Republican Rome currency system more or less in 211 B.C. meaninng a silver coin of the value of ten "assi" (bronze coin)

You're right: it comes ultimately from "denarius".

Maria Funaioli the term came to Europe from Arabic form Dinar دينار via Greek via latin denarious.

you can say soldi as well than Deniro

If you're italian and you go to Spain, you discover that they speak spanish, and you understand what they say, you speak italian and they understand what you say.

Sketchy Spanish 😂😂

@@sammymarrco47 You know,like the Brummie accent of England.

Te do nò sciafon che te pituro su par muro!

​@@mangiapetardomangioskij8711 I used to live in Rome and Spanish tourists would come up to me just speaking Spanish, asking for directions! I usually tried to answer in Spanish and failed miserably, then I switched to Italian and we understood each other perfectly lol

wow!

Awesome story

Thanks from Barcelona

Thanks from Caerano near Venice

CIAO

Russian is wonderful

привет из Италии 🇮🇹🤝🇷🇺

I love Bulgaria~

Grazie mille! Tanti saluti dall’Italia. - Thank you very much! Greetings from Italy. 😊

I love Bulgaria ❤️ from Spain ❤️🇪🇸🇮🇹🇧🇬

blagodaria!

I love Bulgaria, Italy and Spain. Greetings from Argentina

Saludos hermano, yo también soy salvadoreño pero resido en EEUU, y desde que escuché a un montón de Italianos hablar en un restaurante me fascinó a la temprana edad de 16 y ahora estoy aprendiendo más😎. Sólo un Grimaldi presente por aca y vos?

@@blyatmanputin5430 Yo aveces visito Norte America asi que tambien he visto las muchachas italianas hablarlo y me derriten LOL (las regazzas)

Guanaco🙋🏻‍♂️

jajajajaja

@@EgoJinpachi_ Hahahahaha*

@@youreokayboah2128 n0

@@youreokayboah2128 Jajaja Why are you correcting it, Un poco grosero

Had the same issue with quite a few Pitbull, Voltio songs...

Lo mismo me pasó a mi pero en Londres hablando con Italianos, portugueses y brasileños en el trabajo jaja

@@carlosmunoz2148 :D

Con la boca vacía no?

Eso es lo que dice el video.

Interesting, I'm Norwegian have never studied Spanish but I understood almost all of that.

❤

Saluti

ciao!

Ciao! 🇮🇹💞🇪🇦

Amogus?

Españoles, italianos y portugueses the best

davide bla bla Yo hablo el italiano y quiero el español. En italiano es: Io parlo italiano e amo lo spagnolo.

Ale World Jajajaja ustedes se han hecho una novela con todo y final feliz jajajajaja ¿puedo ser el padrino?

Volcán Krankenwagen ne, mejor no :v

io non capirei nulla se uno spagnolo mi parlasse sono l'unica?

in portuguese is also Donkey..haha

Cuando estas en un bar y quieres la mantequilla... Y todo el bar vuelve en una carnicería...

Yes, but donkey in Italian is Asino and in Spanish you can also say Asno for donkey, though less common. Those two are cognates. You also got Chivo (male goat in Spanish) vs Cibo (food in Italian). The cognate for Cibo is the word Spanish word Cebo, which means bait. In this context, Cebo is sort of related to food or Cibo but specifically for fish. Also, you got the word Carta. Carta means playing cards or letter in Spanish (not letters in the alphabet but a written letter), and in Italian means paper. You can clearly decipher the connection there, though their current meanings have diverged. What I noticed is that sometimes, it is easier to see the connections of cognates when written, such as the words Cibo vs Cebo, Cipolla vs Cebolla (Onion), Piacere vs Placer (Pleasure), Piano vs Plano (Plane, not the instrument or airplane), etc. I remember when I first learned English, the words that threw me off were Embarrassed and Etiquette. Embarrassed sounds like the word Embarazada in Spanish, which means pregnant, and Etiquette sounds like the word Etiqueta in Spanish, which means label/tag.

How about Cocina... Literally had a conversation where I thought we were talking about a dirty kitchen perche Cucina... but she kept saying fat too so I was confused... A fat dirt kitchen, okay. Lol. Little words they sound similar but they're off by one or two letters.

I want eat a bit of burro

@Pop that bro not mediterranean. Sorry

@M16 yes!!!🇮🇹🇪🇦🇬🇷🇵🇹 SPQR💪🤚

Neii

Ma non siamo fratelli linguistici xd

@@rickmellor5775 L'Italiano e lo Spagnolo sono pieni di parole derivanti dal Greco. Parole con "Grafia", parole con "Crazia" e molte parole scientifiche e politiche. Questo vale per entrambe le lingue

It’s my pleasure.

Well explained. Plus in Argentina we've adopted a lot of Italian terms such as "laburo" (lavoro).

You a fellow Sicilian? Haha, ben detto, ho notato anch’io un paio di similarità tra le due lingue come questa qui.

We, argentines, also adopted the word "birra" to refer to beer, but we use it in a funny way, because the word for beer in here is "cerveza".

What about Soldi/Solidum and Dinero/Denarium, both Roman Empire coins? It's wonderful and remember us our political union 2000 years ago...

I speak both languages - non native, but pretty well. I have Russian accent in both... my Italian is better though. I learned Spanish after Italian, and initially it was really easy. It gets more difficult when you get to more complex stuff because there are subtle differences in, for example, the use of Subjunctive, certain expressions, the use of articles in some situations, etc. For someone like me, who isn't a native speaker of either of these languages, keeping them apart becomes challenging as well. Sometimes I speak in Italian, and suddenly a Spanish word comes to mind, at other times, I want to say something and then suddenly am not sure "is this an Italian word?", "Is this a Spanish word?" Also, my Spanish teacher was a woman originally from Madrid, she spoke a little Italian, and she always wanted to use "stare" instead of "essere" when it didn't make sense because in Spanish, she'd use "estar".

Very interesting observation, thank you!

@@jewelmarkess I am italian and i think to understand the confusion between the verbs "stare" and "essere". In our language these verbs are used sometimes with similar meanings, but most of times these are very different, also the past of "essere" can be confused with "stare". I try to clarify with some examples: "the poor dog was on the sidewalk" can be "il povero cane era sul marciapiedi" but also "il povero cane stava sul marciapiedi", both correct. Again, "Mario is living at the first floor" (translated "Mario vive al primo piano") can be also "Mario è al primo piano" or "Mario sta al primo piano". In these examples we use the two verbs to describe "where" something or someone is, or is living. Now let's find some differences, in english the verb "to be" used to ask "How are you?" and the reply "I'm fine, thank you". In italian we don't translate "to be" with "essere", because if you ask "Come sei?" the reply would be a description, like "Sono alto, ho la barba, i capelli neri...". If you want know the mood of that person you need "stare" to ask "Come stai?" so the reply would be "Sto bene, grazie!". And now another complication, the past tense of "essere" (in Italy we can have the "passato imperfetto" when we describe how something was in the past, and the "passato prossimo" when we describe a fact happened in the past, often we use this for a recent past). For example, when i remember my holidays i can say "I pony erano piccoli" meaning "The ponies were small", i would not say "I pony sono stati piccoli" (this doesn't make sense). Another one, "The party was horrible!", can be "la festa era orribile" or "la festa è stata orribile", both are correct sentences in italian, the second sentence is for a recent past (used when I am just exiting from the party, I would not use the first one because it is a form to use later), don't worry, we understand both versions, it is just... not really common, we notice you are a stranger. Then, if i describe an event like "the bomb was deafening" or "the bomb has been deafening", in italian i have some options: if this happened one year ago i could use the "passato remoto" like this "La bomba fu assordante" or the "passato imperfetto" like this "La bomba era assordante" but this version is not very good (in this case there should be some context, and a continued action, for example i am explaining that i was doing something while the bombs were deafening, something like this "Le bombe erano assordanti mentre correvo tra i detriti" to translate "The bombs were deafening as I ran through the debris", this form is correct). Last but not least, the "passato prossimo", if it happened few moments ago i would say "La bomba è stata assordante". Other examples: "i've been to the sea" you translate "sono stato al mare". If you exit from the cinema you can say "The movie was beautiful", in italy you would say "Il film è stato bello". I know there could be some confusion, but italian is a bit more situational than english, as you can see.

I have a similar theory I am Mexican and when I have been in Spain or Italy I feel I part of this people but not the same happens when I am in the USA

Siamo fratelli!

The french also kiss a lot

Probably why covid spread so much faster in our cultures. 😬

*spaniards

And both uncircumcised.

Pay attention when you use hispanics usually we mean latin American not people from Spain

Valentin Daria It also means "Soon" Saludos desde México!

Thanks in Spanish is Gracias and in Italian is Grazie.

I never heard it. Maybe in Argentina and nearby countries, who are extremely influenced by Italian immigration.

My mom always uses it like "La mas pronto la mas tiempo"

I'm spanish, I've never used the word pronto as ready, pronto in spanish can only mean soon. May be that some countries in America use it that way.

Jonathan Gini ya “ho bisogno di” is used 95% of time and “soldi” 65% of time.

I'm Italian we can say also me(mi) gusta but it hasn't used too much (I'm 12 years old I don't know if you can understand and I will be if someone will correct me)

In Italian the verb "gustare" means enjoy or taste. So a lot of Italian people can understand a Spanish when he says que le gusta algo.

Sì ma siete tutti e 4 italiani quindi basta fare i sapientoni con l'acqua calda

@@stocarsonuch ma che c'entra, appunto che siamo italiani possiamo dirlo! L'abbiamo scritto in inglese perché è una lingua compresa da 3 mld di persone mentre l'italiano solo da 100 milioni. Sei un babbeo

Lucipedia *fantastiche

I speak Spanish and I understood it perfectly

Ciao,sono adriano,non sono italiano,sono malesiano ma sono abituato capire tutte le frasi quello dice..salute da malesia..😂🇲🇾

@@grymoniaracemosa4062 actually he didn't make a mistake: fantastici refers to both the language and the people. fantastiche is only referred to the people but he obviously meant both. what he said is not common but it isn't wrong either. btw Grazie Luca

Grazie caro, è un onore.

Mello Miller 😆

hahahah same مش ذنبنا ان مفيش محتوى عربي يغطي الموضوع واحنا بنتكلم انجلش كويس

specially from a Mister MILLER very arabic isn't???? pompinoman

is fun! jejejejje.

Mello Miller well actually Spanish and Arabic are quite similar to some extent And yes agreed the internet is a very weird place lol

Soy de América también

Which country tho. America is a whole continent

same here bro. Except I wish italian also had s at the end of plural like english and spanish.

@@jujunooice7384 I'm from the U.S. and my Canadian friends get very angry when someone tries to call them an American. They always respond with "I'm Canadian, not American" (even though they are North American).

I disagree. Spanish and Italian are quite different languages. Especially when they both get into the more complex vocabulary and grammar. Like you, I'm not Spanish or Italian (English) and I'm learning both languages and personally find Spanish much easier to grasp than Italian.

jsphat81 hahahaha

In French, one would use a cognate to the Spanish word desayuno, which is the word déjeuner, both of which come from the Latin disieiunare, meaning to stop fasting; collation means snack in French though, so I would have thought that they would want a snack rather than a meal if they said voglio colazione to me.

HistoryArchiver I agree with you, even my kids don't understand italian properly and they speak fluently spanish, because the father speaks only spanish, they grow up listening mostly spanish. They get some italian words when I'm speaking, but if I need to have some privacy all I have to do is talk faster and they will have not a single clue about what I'm talking about. Just because some words are alike doesn't mean the languages are alike!! Good point.

HistoryArchiver While this is a valid point, it is also interesting to note that these differences still derive from a common, shared Latin root. the words for bro and sis in Italian come pretty much directly from Fratello and Sorella in Latin, but the words Hermano and Hermana come from the word after Fratello or Sorella "Germanums" I believe means genuine as in blood brother or sister where hermanos comes from. While I believe "comer" comes from the Latin word to eat "comedere" while Italian's "mangiare" comes from Latin "manducare" which I believe means to chew like Spanish's "machucar".

HistoryArchiver I'm Italian American My ex husband Mexican.

Possibly you should learn to use the English language correctly as well.

Mrs. Worldwide

@@mfjdv2020, what a stupid coment. I understood perfectly what she said and so do you. And before saying to me that my English could be better, ask yourself "how many languages do I speak?". You speak more than one? You should know how hard is to learn a new language. You speak only English? Shut up.

bellycurious I'll go along with that. If you're young it's easy to learn a different Language. And what your taught in school with regards to pronunciation and alphabet diferences stays with you and has to be unlearned when you learn a new lingo. Its actually easier for latin speaking laguages to learn English than those of us who learned English as children to speak theirs. In my travels i stayed in places that had a mixture of Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and latin Americans of both lingos Brazilians and the rest. It surprised me just how fast they could adapt to understanding each other. I'm a Kiwi yet have difficulty at understanding someone from Argyle in Scotland. Or even some of these so called gangster dialects from the USA.

@@robertbrugh8426... So... What is your point? That Romance languages speakers are more intelligent? Well, thank for the compliment, but I desagree ! Let me tell you, I speak Portuguese and although I can read Spanish and understand it. When it comes to listening Spanish I don't understand it. Last time I tried to communicate with a spainard we had to resort to English. Guess what? I don't understand azorian accent! It's Portuguese but the accent is so strange that mainland Portugueses don't understand it. Stop Making excuses, if you don't like romance languages you can try German (it's a cousin of the English), arabe, Korean, chinese... Pick just one. Everybody else in the world can learn a 2° language, native English speaker can do it too.

Alexbox the spanish of spain is with “S” but if you watch latin america spanish is very very very diferent

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@@Jagermeister1811 could you give me an example? Please I'm very curious!

Francesco Monti ok, for example. Here in Paraguay we dont use the “Tú” here we use the “Vos”

Francesco Monti only in Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay our use the “vos”

Asma A.H molto/tanto amore

@@MrBegliocchi spanish/italian

Gracias learn nena. I want to learn italian even though i am a spanish speaker

I have one question please ..what is the most preferable language that me be needed more , italian or espanish language ?

Ali Razaq depends if you want to do a lot of work in Italy or just prefer Italian culture .Spanish is spoken across most of an entire continent. You’d find a lot to do there. 😃

And the Greeks our parents, because the Greco-Latin culture hahaha. In addition, the Greek language and the Spanish of Spain are very similar phonetically for some strange reason.

@@samvel_mmiii Right! xD

Pero Francia e Italia son países vecinos 😛

@@alexurfantasy Es que el Español es más similar al Italiano, el Francés ya es otro rollo, es un poco más complicado de entender para un español o italiano.

Maybe... It happens to me to work with tourists ( USA) and they, with a bit of proud start talking spanish as if it were perfectly natural for us to understand. I find it extremely irritating >.

I made a mistake thinking speaking Spanish would at least make communication easier in Sicily. Fail!

@@Otrebor0707 yo hablé español en roma, venezia, florencia y milan y todos me entendieron bastante

Jorge denverg Estaba hablando de hablar español a los sicilianos. Siciliano es bastante diferente a italiano, pero no lo sabía. Quizás sería un buen tema por Paul para hacer un video.

è sempre meglio parlare lo spagnolo che parlare l'inglese ... grazie Nicholas

Anche la Sicilia... it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storia_della_Sicilia_spagnola

+Ain za3dod Southern Italians and Sicilians are pretty close in their DNA to the Greeks and Spaniards are quite similar in customs to Italians so I would imagine that they're both quite fond of each other.

Sardinia ain't Italy compà!

+DubZenStep No, even though Sardinians speak a language apart from Italian, it's still a region of Italy.

DUH! I'm Sardinian buddy!