Latin Languages l Portuguese, Italian, Spanish Speakers, Can They Understand Each Other? 

I agree, after all we are all on the same floor of the tower of Babel.

I once was in italy for a week, and I was astonished to see how easy was to understand everything people said in italiano... and a noticed the other way around was the same

Como brasileiro eu também sinto o mesmo. Quando conseguimos entender melhor parece que a comunicação flui muito bem e de uma forma que conseguimos aprender uns com os outros.

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Mah beato te, io non capisco nuente quando parlano spagnolo o portoghese

Accurate

For me French is more elegant than portuguese

@@stephanedumas8329 HAHAHA French? LOOOL

@@alexvaznogueira2817 HAHAHA portuguese ? LOOOL

@@stephanedumas8329 There is no worse language than French.

Yeah! I’m brazilian and lived in Spain, I never pass through a situation that nobody could understand me when I was talking a slowly portuguese.

Keyword: NO SLANG. 👍

Esattamente, l'importante è non parlare in gergo. In questo modo ci si comprende molto bene, soprattutto in forma scritta. Saluti dall'Italia, compa'!

Keyword: no slangs, without regionalism and urban or rural slangs or dialectology. Simple as that .

por que viviste en tantos paises??

Yes, I guess there's no thing like or next to Brazilian Portuguese in the world. Even European Portuguese. It's very common that Portuguese media needs to be subtitled for Brazilians. About the variations and dialects, in fact Brazilian Portuguese always will be poorly represented if we take only one speaker. Me, while living in Rio almost get triggered when she explain the sound of R. Apparently she is from São Paulo where the R sound is very different.

O português do Brasil é suave, falamos cada sílaba de forma melódica, já o português de portugal as vogais são compactadas, ou pouco pronunciadas, então o som fica como se falassem "para dentro", por isso, para nós brasileiros é difícil entender o português de portugal

I've seen stories from Hispanics saying that Russians who speak Spanish have a Brazilian tone, many Russians in Brazil report that they sometimes think they hear someone speaking in Russian but they don't understand anything, Russian and Portuguese have a very similar resonance, both have many phonemes in common, this makes the muscular structure of the vocal apparatus similar

@@antoniomultigames4968 Yes, both Russian and Portuguese have many similar phonemes, but in fact these languages are not mutually intelligible.

@jerzyodolski2232 it's the same thing with Spanish from Spain and Greek they sound very similar, although they have nothing in common, the rhythm of speech together with some sounds make this similarity

nah

yeah

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i dont think people from those african countries would be in korea lmao and also not the whole country speaks it unlike brazil and portugal

Wud yu laik tu hav an trio wid dei?

concordo

Espanhol não kkk

​@@thedanizin5953espanhol tbm, oxi

​@@thedanizin5953Principalmente espanhol

​@@thedanizin5953cállate rapai

I love her voice so much ❤

It's the weird sounds it has. The complicated vowel sounds and composite consonants. More like french. While Italian and Spanish are more regular and clear, once you understand some Italian letter sounds you can read it so easy, with Portuguese it's impossible, like french letters go mute, change sounds and do weird sounds depending combination.

@@Argentvs I speak Spanish at a upper intermedia level and I can understand and read Portuguese with some high accuracy, same with Italian. But then randomly Portuguese will look like some other foreign language lol

But do you think the same with european portuguese?! Or both, brazilian and european portugues sounds like french?

@@AndSacramento honestly not too sure, I don’t think I could pick one out from the other. Haven’t heard enough of it to tell the difference. But I can definitely hear Andrea’s Spain’s Spanish difference from the Latin American Spanish I speak. But it’s mostly just accent, just have to listen a little more carefully.

@@AaronRossman Hmm, I see. It’s just ‘cause I don’t see that “mix” in brazilian portuguese, but I definitily think of european portuguese could be very similar to french in some accents.

Same happened to me once, un italiano vendiendole a un Estadounidense 👍

Brazilian and Spanish (we call it Castilian) came from Ibero romance. Both have influences of Arabic, Celt and Iberian languages.

How about you learn arabic, you Will shocked how much arabic influenced romance language

​​@@boboboy8189 some words are unintelligible between Portuguese and Spanish because one language borrowed theirs from Arabic whereas the other didn't. Examples: PT "romã"/ES "granada" (pomegranate); PT "alface"/ES "lechuga" (lettuce); PT "porquinho mealheiro"/ES "alcancía" (piggy bank); PT "canto"/ES "rincón" (corner). We have a lot of the same Arabic loanwords, though.

El famoso portuñol 😁

French is the annoying cousin.

I speak neither Spanish nor Portuguese as a native speaker, but I think there is a big difference between European and Brazilian Portuguese. In Portugal, many vowels are swallowed, so it becomes a lot harder to understand.

It depends of the accent. Spoken Portuguese can be harder to understand than Italian due to the phonetical system of Portuguese language. In fact, the most mutual intelligibility languages among the big Romance languages are Spanish and Italian, not Portuguese and Spanish.

I enjoy these types of comparing languages exercises, me gano la Risa quando Sofia demostro su respuesta based on the description of the giraffe

Written is almost 90%. Spoken the intelligibility is around 70% I'd say, just because of portuguese phonetics

​@@O_Tucanose a nossa pronúncia do DI e TI fosse igual a dos outros países e também a pronúncia do O e do E no final das palavras fosse respeitada seria muito mais fácil de entender o português brasileiro

Ass.: Gustavo Soares kkkkkk

@@diegoflorencioPelo nome deve ser asiático.

I can't agree more with you. Portuguese sounds amazingly beautiful indeed. - Verinha do Churros

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Bello ..lindo ...❤

In Brazil there's a stereotype that Italians speak very loud. Sofia surely breaks this. In time: Italian descendants are the first to brag about this.

She´s from the north, right? she´s more calm and shy, she almost dont move her hands. lol

There's differences between northern vs southern. Southern is famous with their mafia and sicily while northern famous with Milan and fashion

From her facial features I will say she is from southern Italy

​​@@francescofucito1854a lot of people who actually live in the North are from the South or were born from southerner people who established in the North

Thanks 🙏

​@@Saverio_Simone_Marinono need to thank me

E a pronúncia deles tbm não é silábica como a nossa

E eu concordo com a Italiana q o português carioca da Ana parece uma mistura de espanhol com Francês.

@@DomingosCJM ela não é carioca mas sim paulista

Creo que es porque alguno de sus acentos, tiene sonidos como el ruso, o similares (como "Ж", "З", "Њ", "Ш", nasalizaciones, etc.) más frecuentemente que en otras lenguas romances. De todas formas, el portugués es una de las lenguas más bonitas de oír.

Ela é casada, pare com isso 🤦🏽‍♂️

The population of Portugal is only 11 million people, that is, half the population of the São Paulo City (metropolis)!

Portuguese is also spoken in Africa, for example in Angola 🇦🇴 my country, we are 33 million and we speak Portuguese, besides countries like Mozambique, Cabo verde, São Tomé e Príncipe and Guiné Bissau.

For European Portuguese, Portuguese with Leo is a good channel.

@@marcobruno4417 - There are almost 80 million Portuguese speakers besides Brazil.

​@@nr6726great channel

You have to be thrown into a Spanish-speaking country for a day to see how you manage, then you will see that in reality you don't even come close to that percentage of understanding hahahaha. Brazilians love to deceive themselves and think they understand much more than they actually do. What is shown in this channel is the very basics of Spanish, my friend! And spoken REALLY slowly! I am Brazilian and I know very well what I am talking about, you simply can't understand anything anymore when you come across real Spanish, and that's just because your language is PORTUGUESE!!!

Como paulista do interior de SP. Entender o italiano é bem fácil, pois temos a maior colônia italiana fora da Itália. De cada 10 paulistas 8 é descendente de italiano.

Vc é preciso pra caramba caramba, nunca vi alguém falando que entende 48% de outro idioma.😅

@@eddiesantos4978 Probably I'm an Asperger, idk,..my sister always says that to me...kkkk

@@eddiesantos4978 Né kkkkkkk O cara não tem a menor idéia do que tá falando

"Portuguese girl" oh god 🤦‍♀brazilian girl

He pensado lo mismo, en España también llamamos rompecabezas a los pasatiempos.

En Brasil hay todos los sonidos fonéticos hablados en español, pero em españa no hay todos los sonidos fonéticos hablados em português

For italians learning spanish is more easy, we have simpler phonetics and grammar. enjoy

"Largo" is also a false friend to the Portuguese, because it means wide. We would use the word "longo" or "comprido".

Curiously, (or not) "largo" in portuguese has the same meaning as in the italian, which is wide. Maybe learning Portuguese will be a little trick for you, because the similarity is so great that you will often think you are speaking in Portuguese and in fact you will be speaking in Spanish and vice versa, but you're to find out that many words in portuguese are almost the same as in italian.

I'm Brazilian and I'm surprised that I understood almost everything the Italian woman said (like 90%), maybe because her accent. This made me very happy! Italian is a beautiful language, I want to learn!! 🥰❤

I couldn't get much of Italian the first time I watched this video, but when I rewatched it (knowing what she meant) surprisingly I understood almost all, cuz I could see all the similarities that before I didn't notice, and there was so much. It worked in the other videos comparing them too

Sofia*

@@didonegiuliano3547they don’t put their names. Right names spelling cannot be expected

Para uma pessoa que fala espanhol como língua nativa será muito mais fácil entender o português escrito do que falado. Mudamos o som das consoantes frequentemente ao falar, e isso causa confusão. Eu, por exemplo, consigo compreender perfeitamente o espanhol da Espanha e do México, sem nenhuma dificuldade. Porém, o espanhol falado na Argentina é muito difícil para mim, pois não consigo identificar rapidamente quando falam “y” ou “LL”, que soam iguais para mim e não os consigo identificar com facilidade. Apesar de que soa belíssimo o espanhol argentino, assim como o colombiano, meu preferido.

​@@amorislaetitia8113As a Spanish speaker I can say that this is true, in lexical similarity Portuguese is the language most similar to Spanish, but if we talk about pronunciation it would be languages ​​like italian, Greek and to some extent Japanese If it were not for the pronunciations of: de, di, te, ti, the nasal vowels and the degraded vowels, Portuguese at the pronunciation level would be easier for us, even so, Portuguese is a unique and beautiful language.

isso aí vale pra todos os sotaques do Brasil ou só pros do sudeste e sul?

@@I-SOY-SMART Pra todos! Na verdade, o que se torna diferente entre os sotaques das regiões do Brasil são algumas palavras diferentes e ritmo de fala diferente.

Não sei de onde tirou esses dados

@@ClaudioPereira222 não

@@ClaudioPereira222 kkkkk para de mentir mano

@@bumble.bee22 Então argumente por gentileza ao invés de ficar apenas e tão somente refutando sem colocar nada no lugar...

@@rodrigogoncalves3024 vou pesquisar antes

Portuguese form portugal is not even simliar to russian, this is fake, is this because we speack fast , but when we normaly is very easy . All languages speack fast is ahrd to understand, like italina or other language when speack fast

​@@oldwine2401O português de Portugal "soa" como o russo. Claro que em termos de vocabulário nada tem a ver. Porém, quem não sabe nada das duas línguas pensa existir semelhanças.

Sono d'accordo con te, sono nato nel nord-est del Brasile e ho visto molte persone avere difficoltà a parlare, questo è dovuto allo slang che abbiamo

@@LekNauta Nao soa nada a russo, repito, qd qqer lingua falada de modo rapido e normal que ninguem entenda, ha varios sotaques e em portugal voce nao pode concluir qd nao sabe. Dentro de Portugal tem muitas diferenças e nada tem a ver com russo o sotaque

@@oldwine2401 não é uma opinião exclusiva minha, logo não fui eu quem criei tal "tesis", porém concordo quanto à sonoridade (da mesma forma em que o espanhol se parece ao grego, quanto ao ritmo e sonoridade, por exemplo, vale?). Conheço o português lusitano, e como é uma opinião (inclusive compartilhada por vários) e estamos em uma tribuna livre, merece ser respeitada mesmo que não concordes com ela.

In italian that kinda sounds like: "whoever loves Ana must go to prison" 😅 I guess I will go to prison then.........😅

@@ramingo9534 😂Perfect

​@@ramingo9534Hahahaha

O sorriso dela é muito bonito e cativante!

Belas pernas.

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You are right. As native Spanish speaker, European Portuguese sounds to me like a Slavic language and it’s pretty hard to understand. However, Italian sound clear and well articulated as you said earlier.

Articulation and clarity are subjective's questions, but it's true that portuguese has too much phonemes than the others so people don't arrive to understand and a lot of phrases sounds not so clear. For exemple, Portuguese has 5 differents r sounds, but Spanish and Italian just 2, and so on and so on. It's the reason that brazilians understands better than they are understoods. Theremost Ana doesn't swallow any vowel because basicly do that it's excepcional in Brazil.

Most Spanish speakers will understand Portuguese from Brazil better than they understand Italian , especially the ones from Latin America who speak Spanish.

@@lArmstrongl Generally speaking Spanish speakers understand better Italian than Portuguese. Same regard to Italian speakers who understand better Spanish than Portuguese. The different ways to pronounce some consonants by Portuguese speakers depend on where they are located, not only the vowels swallowing phenomenon, implicates a lower understanding of the Portuguese language compared to Italian one.

As a Spanish/Galician this if a first time for me to hear. I saw a similar comments from other european but not from other Spanish people. Either way Portuguess from Brazil and North Portugal sound similar. Many Brazilian say that they understand Galician better than South Portugal Portuguess... I was in Lisbon a few times and even if I could understand it was kinda difficult. But in Viana do Castelo, Braga or Porto I could understand almost everything. Maybe and just maybe, south Portugal Portuguess could sound like Russian...

i know Russian and thats not the case. Russian language has many soft sounds, its not harsh and it doesnt have so many "sh" sounds. The reason why EP and Russian may sound similar is that both languages will swallow sounds that are not emphatic

Also, the plural "pães" makes the similarity to "panes" (ES)/"pani"(IT) more apparent.

In old Portuguese it was "pan" as in Spanish

@@antoniomultigames4968 True. Modern Portuguese merged the sounds "on" and "an" from Old Portuguese into "ão" when they appear at the end of words. That's why the plural for "coração" ("coraçon" in Old Portuguese) is "corações", but "capitão" ("capitan") turns into "capitães".

@lucasribeiro7534 Just as "cão" was "can" and "mão" was spelled "mano" is curious about this nasal diphthong that only happened in Portuguese. That didn't even happen in Galician

@@lucasribeiro7534 - "Pães" is just the plural, so the similarity (or lack thereof) is the same as in the singular.

The accent of the cariocas because of the sh can also sound similar, I remember foreigners seeing "cidade de deus" saying that they were listening to Russian everywhere

She's speaking using Brazilian accent

She is Brazilian.....

Galician influence in Brazil.

Phonetically Portuguese is similar to Galician. As we have 7 vowels too

and if the one who speaks it is cute even more

My fab are Spanish, then Italian and then 🇵🇹

​@@axwleurope9519 Portugués es 🇧🇷

Son similares en muchas cosas

​@@axwleurope9519The Portuguese in this video is Brazilian, the Portuguese one is different.

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@@junniormattos1 it doesn't matter if you like it or not haha ​​language spoken in brazil was born in portugal and 98% of the words are in portuguese from portugal

@@junniormattos1 oh you are a xenophobic ? you are a person who is self-conscious ? the accent doesn't count... putting the Brazilian flag for the Portuguese language is cultural approval my friend

@@junniormattos1 ahaha I knew you were going to say but do you see the behavior of Brazilians in Portugal? it's a simple question and I want a simple answer 😅 do you think that the Portuguese, Haitians, Argentinians and Venezuelans are well received in Brazil? you too have to watch the news from Brazil! 1 month ago 2 Portuguese tourists were killed in an airport in Brazil it was an anti-Portuguese ambush 😳 and the Venezuelan Haitians who live like slaves? or recently the Argentinians attacked by the Brazilians? Are you turning a blind eye to that? I have already been to Portugal several times and I met a very dark-skinned Guadeloupean and we agreed on one thing in Portugal, it was the respect of the Portuguese welcome and I looked at it, it is a of the most peaceful countries in the world with Iceland Denmark and New Zealand 😉 if Brazilians are discriminated against in Portugal it is because there are necessarily reasons

@@junniormattos1 if you come to Portugal and respect the country I don't think they will disrespect my friend! disconnect from the networks and explore the world, it's the best thing

Spanish is more regular and clear. To me Portuguese sounds like people have their mouths under anesthesia.

@@Argentvs Portuguese from Portugal, right? They speak with their mouths more closed, portuguese from Brazil sound more open imo

Not exactly. She was confused with the word "cuello", which means neck. She thought it might be "cú", or butt, that's why she picked monkey, because of the "tail", and also that's why Andrea laughed a lot, because she got it since butt in spanish is "culo".

@@Yostheou Makes sense. Thanks.

​@@Yostheouexatamente...foi o q aconteceu comigo...nunca pensaria em girafa....achei q era algum animal com bund@o e 2 chifres

​@@eduardosantos5078in Spanish and Italian bunda is culo and in French is cul.

Es como ha dicho Luis Fonsi en su cancion: "Despacito Quieres que te hable solo despacito Para que comprendas to' lo que te digo Y nunca lo dudes que eres mi amigo" jajajaja es broma. Saludos desde Rio de Janeiro!

@@p3rafael Ahora entiendo por qué esa canción se hizo tan popular 😂. Saludos, que tengas un buen día

Portuguese speakers understand well spanish but it doenst happen the same in the other way around. :(

@@contreirasf Soy Hispano, saludos 🙂

@@contreirasf Había entendido mal tu comentario. Es cierto que muchos hispanohablantes reclaman no entender el portugués, pero mi opinión es que más que una falta de capacidad es una falta de actitud. Muchos hispanohablantes escuchan portugués y en lugar de tratar de entender bien y asociar cada palabra al español, escuchan muchos fonemas desconocidos y se rinden. Todos los hispanohablantes podemos entender el portugués sin haberlo estudiado, lo que pasa es que algunos (si no es la mayoría) no se esfuerzan en tratar de escucharlo y asociar cada fonema con el respectivo en español. Yo soy hablante de español nativo y nunca he tenido prpblrmas para entender el portugués. Quizá al principio no llegaba a entender todo lo que decían (diría que entendía entre un 0 y un 100% depende del acento). Hay un acento de Portugal que no se si es el de Lisboa o cuál, pero que no entendía nada de lo que decían y de hecho pensaba que era un idioma eslavo (rumano o albanés o alguno de esos) y resulta que me dijeron que eran de Portugal. Me quedé sorprendido al saber que era portugués (porque ya había tenido contactos previos con portugués de otras regiones de Portugal y con el portugués de Brasil, a los que por contra sí que les comprendía muy bien, algunos incluso al 100%. Probablemente ese contacto que tuve con portugueses que como te dije pensaba que era un idioma eslavo, hubiese entendido mucho más si me hubiese esforzado en escuchar cada palabra y tratar de descifrar lo dicho en la oración. Los hispanos que dicen ser incapaces de entender el portugués es básicamente una tapadera e indirectamente están diciendo "no quiero esforzarme a entender vuestro acento". No temas en hablar portugués con los que dicen que no te entienden. Si quieres puedes probar utilizar un portugués que opte por vocabulario en común y más al estilo portuñol si es necesario para facilitarles la asimilación de los fonemas.

Here in Rio many people use a lot of slangs, and like Chile, we have a very unique pronunciation compared to the others

Soy de Río y comprendo lo que has escrito, nuestro acento es muy marcado, quizá el de San Pablo, Sur de Brasil o algunos estados de Nordeste sean más comprensibles a ti. Amo Chile, chilenos en general hablan muy rápido, pero es solo les pedir que me hablen despacio que todo se queda bien. Me gusta el acento de España (especial Madrid), colombiano, mexicano, ecuatoriano y peruano son más claros a mí, saludos!

In realtà non sono dialetti, ma lingue, motivo per il quale anche fra noi italiani non ci possiamo capire parlando le rispettive lingue regionali. Quello che ho appena scritto, ma in siciliano (dialetto palermitano/occidentale della lingua siciliana): pi da veru 'nsunnu rialetti, ma linğue, i pi chissu mutivu fra noavuţri 'taliani 'nciputemu càpiri parrannu i nošţri rispettivi linğue reggiunali. Saluti dall'Italia, compa'!

Id you think carioca accent is hard try the ones from the northeast of Brazil

@@wandson5410 For Spanish speakers, some Northeastern accents would be more understandable. Because the pronunciation and intonation are faster and dry (like most Castilian), and not melodious and marked like most Brazilian accents. I say this because I'm fluent in both languages ​​(and know their variants).

Yes haha i always forget they are in korea

There's also an old French song by France Gall called "Bébé requin". You can add that to your shark playlist 😂

Jajajajaja, muy español pensar en esa canción jajajaja. Yo por suerte sí pensé en la de Baby Shark. Aunque también pensé en una brasileira

Oh I was wondering how could a person be so interested in building packages 😆 Now that makes sense. Also, I think Ana said that the other two girls got about 70-80 % of what she said, but in the subtitles you can read 78%. How could someone casually say a sharp percentage like that one?😆😆

Of course we understand, its the same damn language 😅

Exatamente 😊

And Romania 🤔

Do you have tried galician any time? - "ENTENDE UN GALEGO O PORTUGUÉS BRASILEIRO? 🇧🇷 co @glossonauta " watch?v=4UbWD8QY8QI

European Portuguese is curious, I understand young people perfectly, I even think that the influence of Brazil or the Brazilians who live there are changing the Portuguese accent or maybe older people are more difficult to understand, even in Brazil I have difficulty understanding understand some seniors

I never had contact with the Romanian language@@stephanedumas8329

Português de Portugal 🤢

🗿🇧🇷

And someone from a Portuguese African speaking country.

Andréa já fala espanhol

no.

Castelhano/Espanhol é galego do oeste. Tanto o castelhano quanto o português são oriundos do Galaico-português. Sendo o português muito mais próximo do galaico-português do que o castelhano. O Português na verdade, é o galaico-português gramaticado, oque nunca ocorreu com o galaico-português. De modo que o português não pegou nada emprestado do castelhano. E sua similaridade advem desse tronco comum o Galaico-Português.

@@lancasterclanNão entendi. Você afirma que o português não tem nada de espanhol? É isso?

@@evaldograsso3298 Você disse: "o Português assimilou mais palavras espanholas do que o contrário". E eu: "que o português não pegou nada emprestado do castelhano. E sua similaridade advem desse tronco comum o Galaico-Português.". Repetindo então, o português não pegou nada do espanhol, oque existe em comum, e que confere similaridade é provirem de um tronco comum, sendo oportuguês muito mais próximo, ou mesmo dizer, que é o próprio Galaico-português gramáticado.