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

Hope they also do Catalan as Irene speaks it.

how many bots like your comments bro?

​@@tuffini think it's not bots , he said all the 4 languages for these countries , probably the people from these 4 countries ( or even more ) agreed with him

@@oliverfa08 i mean, he has the comment with most likes in every single World Friends video and that is so strange

@@tuffin I readed his comment ans basically these comments talk about the language of the video ( and Yes , this may help his comments ) , saying something about the members or giving his opinion about the language , he said Dutch is a mix of german and english for example or spanish and portuguese being so similar to each other

Ouais c’est vrai que c’est bcp plus simple pour nous à l’écrit

Actually the Italian vocabulary and syntax is a lot closer to French than Spanish: it’s only the pronunciation that is a lot closer to spansih

​@@marcopanzironi6612Italian is 90% closest to Latin. Spanish 80%. French is like 45% of Latin. It is the least like Latin of the romance languages.

@@gofishglobal7919 are you sure about that percentage? I highly doubt a romance language can have such a low similarity percentage to Latin, even one as innovative and germanic-influenced as French. Also, what you’re saying doesn’t automatically exclude what I said: even if French is the most innovative of the neolatine languages, it can still have inherited characteristics of the language that are shared by Italian

Fun fact: the silent letters we see in French words today were often pronounced in Old French. Buy why bother reforming the spelling?😶‍🌫

french is more easier if you know english

Victor is correct portuguese is the masterlang of ALL romances langs have connections til romanian and aromanian too and ALL romances langs.

And also there's so many different sounds in portuguese that even speaking other languages is easier than other language speakers speaking portuguese

Absolutely not. The Latin language found at among all Latin languages is Italian. It is the true bridge language.

​@@TunahTak The language most similar to Romanian is Italian. Italian is the bridge language between Latin languages

Capybara, is Ronsoco in Peru, Carpincho in Argentina.

Capybara is like the bush in Brazil, it's everywhere! Even in big cities

@@oscarberolla9910 Chigüiro in Colombia

Exacly 👌. In Venezuela we say "chigüire", very similar to the colombian word 👍

Noffa

Complimenti, bravissimo! Baci dall'Italia! 😉

Troppo bravo

yes, that was what i was thinking. i knew the brazilian would get it but i had a feeling the rest would not know

I agree. As there are no capybaras where I live, I wouldn't have guessed the animal off the top of my head, even though I could understand the description quite well.

It's the same word in french, but this animal is just not very well known here

i love capybaras!

You will fin a lot of Capybara in colombia and Venezuela, maybe colombia is where they are the most

nah la pobre francesa acabará siendo expuesta 😄

​@@jalilali1415 why? I don't understand 🤔

​@@luancsf123pq ela n é muito boa em adivinhar kk

@@isag.s.174 también es que el francés tiene menos similitudes con el resto de lenguas romance por eso le costará mas entender

I am italian and I understand

Ela tem um canal aqui nessa rede

Qual o nome por gentileza?

She speaks so fast that sometimes it is difficult to understand what she is saying even for an Italian.

I thought about capybara because she said something similar to "porquinho da Índia" 😁

No corrections needed, capybara is how its said in English

im italian and she doesn't speak too fast, here in italy we speak faster @@nicoladc89

It is personal. May be she did. I am Portuguese to and I did not need my knowledge. When you listen good you can get a lot although Ana is right: she gave context. Without context on the streets in Italia it really takes a lot of effort to understand them. Written it is very simple.

I saw that too lol 😂

Basically the Romanian would understand quite a bit of Italian. However, when she/he would be the one doing the talking the others would be virtually completely lost.

rua principal>strada principale>Calle principal

@@ulriquepkxd7519 All nice and well but Spanish is clearly closer to Portuguese than Italian is. There is not argument about that. How easy it is for you is a different matter of course.

Molti brasiliani sono pronipoti di emigrati italiani, soprattutto dal Veneto.

wow I'm brazilian and didn't know that!!! very interesting!!!

the word "capim" (grass) comes from Tupi "ka'pii"

@@joatanpereira4272 exactly! ☺️

I think it came from Spanish that came from Portuguese, since spanish speakers don't pronounce the V, they probably changed the V to B. And In english they got the Spanish version.

​@@FallenLight0I mean, both Spanish and Portuguese took it from the Tupi-Guarani languages, but the English word definitely has a Hispanic pronunciation and spelling

Because Catalan is like a mix between Latin languages

Why does Spain have Spanish, Galician, and Catalan as languages? Are these languages very different? Why not just Spanish?

@@omegajrz1269 there is another one called Euskera or basco. All of these variants came by colonization (Holy Roman Empire, Portugal, Germans ecc) and all of the languages of the colonizers influenced roman hispanic leading to the variants we have nowadays. The reason why Spain has so much living languages is only a social matter. Spanish people tend to be conservative and very proud of their cultural properties as language

@@omegajrz1269 yep they are different, Cataln is a mix of roman languages, Galician is a mix between Portuguese and Spanish, Esukera is a completely different language and to this day the origins of Basco is still not clear

@@lucasoliveira9834 Different. We speak them in different regions, for example catalan it's spokennin three regions. It's spoken here because we always had spoken it here

Also for "stella", in french we have the adjective "stellaire" which means related the stars (like "stellar" in english). So this one was easy

Italian here: my understanding is that the "e" in etoile is actually derived from "s" or lost the "s" sound with time, [another example could be "ecurie"(French) -> "scuderia" (Italian)], so the French word has actually the same root as the Italian one, it just evolved differently. If you put the Italian, Spanish and French words one after another you can catch a hint of the evolution: stella->estrella->etoile. While learning French I was able to discover these little tricks. In many cases Italian and French words are way closer than you may think when first hearing them.

j'ai étudié l'italien mais ça fait longtemps, elle parle très vite, j'ai compris quelques parties mais sinon comme d'autres disent, l'italien est plus facile à comprendre à l'écrit que l'oral, on a des mots similaires, je me souviens à la fac quand je me souvenais pas d'un mot ou que je ne le connaissais pas, j'inventais un mot à partir du français et je prierais pour que ça soit juste

I've tried to read latim n i didn't get a thing haha. I think we understand each other bcs we conjugate all verbs, in a very similar way; the linking words we use are like the same as well, the structure is also the same. The only hard thing is the pronunciation and some different words, but recognizing 3 or 2 we get the hole sentence. Also half of the different words sound like a synonym that we wouldn't use but in a very rare context.

Romance languages in Europe are all blended one into another. Going from Italian to French, Spanish and Portuguese you find other languages such as occitan, Catalan, Galician. In Italy there are over 30 different dialects and people are used to understand and guess different words and languages. For instance my dialect in Trentino, coming from Venetian, is more similar to Catalan and Spanish than Italian is. My mom's dialect, milanese, is between Italian and French.

My native language is Portuguese, and I have recently been studying French and Latin. I agree that modern Romance languages, such as Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Italian and French are much more similar to each other in grammar and vocabulary than they are to Latin. It is indeed very fascinating that they resemble each other more than their mother language. Nevertheless, Latin is not so different from its "children" as it may seem at first glance. It is a fact that there is no mutual intelligibility between Latin and the Romance languages. For example, a Portuguese native speaker wouldn't be able to understand a Latin text without studying the language. However, everytime I compare Latin texts to their translation into portuguese, I am shocked at how similar they are. An exemple: (This passage is from the Gospel of John, chapter 11, verses 25-26.) Latin = Dicit illi Iesus: Ego sum resurrectio et vita. Qui credit in me, etiam si mortuus fuerit, vivet. Et omnis qui vivit et credit in me, non morietur in aeternum. Credis hoc? Portuguese = Disse-lhe Jesus: Eu sou a ressurreição e a vida. Quem crê em mim, ainda se morto fosse, viverá; E todo aquele que vive e crê em mim, não morrerá eternamente. Crês nisso? The most "alien" word for me in the Latin text is "hoc" since it is very different from its equivalent in Portuguese, "isso". The word "omnis" for "everyone" is not strange at all since, just like in English, there are words like "omnipotente" in Portuguese that are related to it.

Latin crawls back in French in complex words. For instance, forest in French is forêt (actually English borrowed it from French). And ê usually stands for a "st" in Old French, so it's essentially the same word. There you have derived words such as forestier - things that are of the forest. But when we talk about cultivating the forest, forestry, it becomes sylviculture which is almost straight from the Latin "silva" for forest (yes, the Académie Française decided to substitute a y for the it to make it sound Greek, they do things like that). It happens a lot of times, you search for the most complex or scientific variation of the main word and you have the Latin - and often the Italian word since they're closer to Latin. Learning the French lexicon for someone who knows both Italian and English should be pretty easy, because a lot of our words are either from pure Latin roots (and close to Italian) or from the melting pot that was France after the Roman invasion and these words have been heavily borrowed by English. But yes, the grammar has not much to do with Latin. Italian and French have a pretty close grammar actually.

The romance languages are descendent from vulgar latim, while written and medieval latim comes from classical latim. They were already quite different back in the day and only got further apart with time. As languages continued to evolve, they still kept in contact with each other, exchanging vocabulary through migration, commerce and shared culture. But that didn't happen with latim, that didn't saw much change past medieval times, I would imagine. Not only is brasil neighbor of Spanish speaking countries, we received major immigration waves of Italians, both during the Italian unification and during world wars. As for French, it was the language of the elite and academia until WWI.

For a French speaking it’s so easy to read Italian but very hard to understand when she speak

It's not the Italian in general that sounds similar to Portuguese, it's northern Italian especially from lombardy region that has a similar rhythm... Italian from other regions is VERY different.

​​​@@M.C.P.Italian is Italian, dialects are different. Italian is the same for everyone and she was speaking the standard language. Not everyone in Italy knows dialects, also, to talk to people from other countries, no one would use them, since that's not how you'd do it if you were to study the language.

@@laurajanco2i ma a dire il vero la cadenza regionale cambia moltissimo il RITMO dell'italiano cosiddetto standard! Il ritmo cantilenante dell'accento lombardo non lo troverai MAI a Roma o a Napoli o a Bari o a Palermo... lei ha un accento del nord abbastanza marcato, che è molto più simile alla parlata cantilenante del portoghese che al RITMO dell'italiano di altre regioni! Fatti una cultura sull'italiano regionale e ne scoprirai delle belle.

@@laurajanco2i True... but there's also the fact that certain languages/dialects from the north of Italy have some words exactly as if they were in Spanish, even if they're very different from Italian. When I visited Venice, I remember reading signs that said "Calle" and "Rio" instead of "Via" and "Fiume".

@@VicenteTorresAliasVits Calle and Rio don't come from Spanish though. They're from old latin. Both Italian and Spanish come from the same origins, so those words aren't words that Italy adopted from Spain. If you look at ancient Italian literature, you're gonna see those same words but with different pronounciation.

Congratulazioni

Eu achei que era castor pq pensei que ela n ia conhecer a capivara 😅

@@isag.s.174 Poisé, imagino que na Itália não tenha.

I'm Italian and I totally agree!

I have Romanian people who told me the dialect from the south of Italy (Lecce) is very similar to their language 😅

Its true .... I'm italian

as brazilian, i can understand the sentences in italian, for me is more easy than french... and i already studied french at high school but my mind erase all and the italian i never have studied at all

Being Italian, I can confirm 👍🏻 Written French is much easier to understand than Spanish or Portuguese, but phonetics are so different that people don’t get how similar they are. And yes, letters that are silent in French are sounds in Italian… Spanish and BP sound more similar to Italian, but they’re “tricky” languages for an Italian because there are a lot of “false friends” in vocabulary, especially in Spanish. So, sometimes you feel you got it right, but in fact you were wrong…Catalan is more similar to Italian, less “tricky” I would say, than Spanish

@@lorenzob206 exactly, you couldn't have explained it better!

​@@lorenzob206ma aldilà dei vocaboli qual è la lingua davvero più simile all'italiano? Ossia più simile grammaticalmente e sintatticamente. Cioè come costruzione della frase per capirci. E magari con un uso simile dei verbi.

​@@raffaelefederico5427tra queste tre anche dal punto di vista sintattico e grammaticale il francese è la più simile all'italiano. Il problema sta quasi tutto nella pronuncia francese!

I would say that 90% in Portuguese as well.

@@laisamaral4272 Verdade, todas as palavras são escritas quase que iguais no português, com sutis diferenças.

99% é quase igual ao português.

As a french I could translate 95% of it 😁

Non capisco se sia in italiano o in spagnolo 😅

It's like asking your professor to go slower and then nothing changes or changes for just one second and then goes back to the same xD

@@KitArchexactly!

​@@KitArchnon è così veloce

Colou na cara dura

I haven't seen it 😂

How about romanian? Lol

As a francophone, I think this comment is exclusive and I disagree

@@fs400ion tell me you don't understand jokes without telling me you don't understand jokes 😂

The French one, proving that they are indeed, the distant cousin, lol. You can tell as soon as they say “Francophone“. LMAO.

@@Rosannasfriend what's the problem with the word francophone? I'm not French so I'm francophone

Undoubtedly

I think she has a competitive personality, she wants to trip them up.

As an Italian, I can say that northerners, like myself, talk faster than the southerners, but the latters usually add more regional words. So you can't expect Italians to all talk the same, but yeah, she could've slowed down, but I don't think she did it on purpose

@@karllogan8809 nah italians tends to speak very very fast

she wasn't so fast at all and she spoke very clearly. There wasn't regionalism and this made sentences easier to understand.

Sounds about right. Catalan really sound like old French. But you end words with a, o and e.

Also, the accent is definitely the most similar amongst the Latin languages!

Why are you adding "Brazilian" to Portuguese here? For us it is every bit as easy.

@@jaysimoes3705 because despiste being the same language, there are significant differences between Brazilian portuguese and European portuguese, such as Brazilian portuguese being syllable-timed and European portuguese being stress-timed.

@@RudahXimenes No. Why do you think a Brazilian would understand an Italian better than a Portuguese. We have all the sounds Italian has so there is nothing new to us. So no: for Portuguese Italian as every bit as easy. Proof of concept is that I understood virtually everything she said.

@@jaysimoes3705 parabéns. Você é o bichão mesmo

Constelação is similar to constellation and costellazione.

I got "pane" cuz normally when I see this "ne" is like our ão. Ex. pane - pão, canzone - canção, passione - paixão

And cuz of panetone that bread we eat in christmas times

@@ytalomello9152 are you Brazilian?

@@adrianomarchesi3982 sim

É verdade, as vezes existe 2 palavras para uma só coisa e a palavra mais popular de uma das duas no país pode ser a mais distante das outras línguas.

Sono brasiliano👍😁

Yep, such a cheater ^^

All Romance languages have that loanword, including non Romance languages like English .

It is the reverse. Zanahoria comes from arabic actually

@@fablb9006 *Most people in North Africa use the Word Seenaria or Sfeenaria, Arabs in Egypt,Iraq,Syria and Gulf use Jazar which comes from Persian,what is the Arabic word for Zanahoria?*

"North Africa" invaded Portugal and Spain long time ago, so... I think that's way we have words like Alface here in Brasil.

@@user-ry2qs7xf9k Seenaria and Sfeenaria are clearly related to Spanish zanahoria and Portuguese cenoura. Spanish and Portuguese were under Moorish rule for hundreds of years, so they received a lot of words from Arabic.

@@lissandrafreljord7913 *I think the real origin is Greek because ancient Arabs didn't have a word for carrot.*

yeah, the english her is very good

@@r_ramon É colega, mas o seu precisa melhorar tbm hein.

@@gislaineassaiante simmm kkkkkkkkkk

Arraza????

​@@r_ramonsim

Pode até ter alguns sons parecidos, mas o espanhol de longe é o mais facil de entender

Certo ma in Brasile avete anche un dialetto, il “talian”, che è molto simile all’Italiano (del nord), mescolato con veneto e friulano. Siete un po’ abituati credo😅

@@antoniopera6909 Antonio, quanto a isto nem discuto. Além de ser a mais próxima do português ( espanhol) há tb um fator geográfico. Brasil é cercado de países de idioma espanhol, o que faz tb com que nos familiarizemos mais ainda. Só disseque o idioma italiano das principais grandes linguas neolatinas é depois do espanhol, a mais próxima ( só inclui estas que estão presentes no video) Há palavras no italiano que se pronuncia e se escreve da mesma maneira que no português . Muitos brasileiros talvez não tenham nem ideia disso. Outros sim, pq a imigração italiana foi enorme para o Brasil e muito foi incluindo no português falado aqui no Brasil. A palavra imbróglio por exemplo foi agregada... Com o espanhol temos mais proximidade, mas o italiano pra mim ê mais próxima do que o francês...

Eu realmente não estou entendendo elas acharem que o francês é mais próximo do italiano e espanhol do que o português. A gente entende muito melhor o italiano e o espanhol e perde muita coisa do francês.. achava que do outro lado seria a mesma coisa (no caso, eles considerarem português mais próximo da língua deles do que o frânces)

@@brunorodee Sim. Repare que com exceção da brasileira, todas elas são europeias. Não sei se pesa nisso a questão do português europeu que é distinto ao nosso. Já estou familiarizado pra entender portugueses falando, mas de primeira para um brasileiro, pode ser uma missão hercúlea. Os portugueses tem mais contato com a nossa cultura e modo de falar, inclusive os sotaques de várias regiões do que nós brasileiros ao modo deles. O outro motivo pode ser pq elas desconhecem o idioma português e por serem jovens, acabaram por falar sobre o idioma que mais conhecem, que neste caso o menos conhecido delas é o português. Se não fosse o Brasil, o idioma português ( principalmente o falado na Europa) teria menos impacto ainda, pq Portugal é um país de aproximadamente 11 milhões de habitantes. Deve ser menos difundido a nível europeu do que os outros 3 idiomas...

not because they are all girls, that they know how to cook things... lol

They'll fight for who has the best cuisine. Especially France and Italy.

​@@lissandrafreljord7913no Brasil a gente tem a regra se da pra abrir/cortar então da pra rechear.

Claro, vamos aterrorizar o mundo com nossas criações. Kkkk

@@CobraMJD que de início assusta, mas encanta com o sabor.

Già, giusto, concordo!

Yo si la entiendo bastante bien.

Concordo al 100%

È vero.

È vero, anch'io parlo così È fastidioso ma non ci posso fare niente

And Portuguese?

I agree and as I already commented somewhere, this could be a job for Polymathy (Luke)! Collab please!

Yeah Spanish and Italian are pretty similar, but I speak Portuguese and I never had any Italian classes, I can understand quite a lot too, it's quite similar to Portuguese, I'd say Brazilian Portuguese, the pronunciation in Italian is not far off from what we speak here in Brazil.

Spanish is more similar to Portuguese than Italian.

French is the most different among the 4 languages in this video

Among the languages showned in this video, catalan is the most similar. Portuguese and spanish are from the same region in the Iberian Peninsula. 👍

It doesn't change the fact that most spaniards understand better spoken italian than portuguese, when it's written portuguese is easier but the pronunciation and the nasal vowels make it harder to undertand for us.@@davidbio1​

⁠@@brunnocesar1411 Eu falo os 4 idiomas deste vídeo, e tenho que dizer que não é verdade o que está afirmando. Porque o francês e o italiano têm mais do 90% do vocabulario parecido. Se você dizer isso, só é porque o francês tem uma fala muito germánica, mas eu posso confirmar (falando francês) que é um idioma completamente latino e que pode se entender sem problema.

I agree in parts, though I think Spanish is much closer to Portuguese than Italian, but as a Portuguese speaker, I can understand Italian better than French.

Linguistically speaking French and Catalan are the closest to Italian.

@@marty8895 and occitan.... remember that not so long ago (one century and half) half of France spoke occitan rather than french. In most of its history occitan was the most spoken language in France.

Depende muuuito do ponto de vista No português a gente reduz E e O para I e U, e no italiano é muito importante a distinção entre essas essas letras pra fazer o plural por exemplo (amici e amice) Apesar de ser mais fácil de entender do que o francês, o espanhol é mil vezes mais próximo do português e fácil de entender, porque as 2 línguas evoluíram lado a lado.

⁠@@fablb9006Yeah, true. Where I live some people still speak Occitan and it is very very close to Italian