Romance Languages Comparison 

I love the fact that Romanians can mostly understand more than 50% of any other Latin language and that others can't understand 10% of Romanian.

How I am supposed to understand Italian if she doesn't even move her hands?

Fun fact: Portuguese is also spoken in Portugal.

Americans after hearing all of this: *What a weird spanish accents*

French = France. Catalan/Spanish = Spain. Italian = Italy. Romanian = Romania. Portuguese = Brazil. Portugal is cry.

As a native Japanese, I do not understand any of these languages.

Portuguese: **shows brazilian portuguese** Portugal: 😐

As a brazilian I understood: 100% Portuguese 80% Spanish (kinda easy because spanish is very similar to portuguese) 50% Italian (very beautiful and relaxing) 30% French (sounds fancy and rich) 25% Romanian (its like a mix of italian and french, very beautiful too) 25% Catalan (???? that girl speaks so fast is she a rapper?)

Italian: We speak fast Romanian: No, we speak faster Catalan and Spanish: Hold up!

Nobody: Catalan girl: I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God

Cool fact: Italian has the closest vocabulary to Latin, but Romanian has the closest grammar to Latin Guys I know I've fucked up, just read the comments

As french Brazil 100% Romanian 90% Italian: 75% Catalan 20% French 5% Spain 0% I'm talking about presentator's attractiveness of course because like every good french i can only understand my own language.

I don't think I have much issue learning Romance languages. The issue is... You guys speak too fast

Main Romance languages: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, French. Main Germanic languages: Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, German, English. English, French and Romanian are sort of oddballs in their categories. English because of its Latin influences, French because of its Germanic influences and Romanian because of its Slavic influences.

As a slavic speaker, Portuguese sounds like a mashup of Italian and Romanian

Yo hablo español, aprendí portugués, y ahora estoy aprendiendo italiano. Mi meta es entenderlos todos.

As a german: 0% italian 0% spanish 0% romanian 0% catalan 0% portugese 1% french

I do appreciate that you put in the degree of separation from Latin.

As a Romanian speaker, I think the other Romance languages may have had more trouble understanding Romanian because she was mentioning quite a few regions in every other sentence that may have seemed like just a mix of unintelligible "Russian sounding words" among the phrases, but if you take the time to closely pick out the words I'm sure at least Italian or Spanish speakers may at least understand some phrases

I am a portuguese speaker and i studied spanish, french and italian. The more you study latin languages, easier to understand its origines, verbal constructions and vocabulary. Even the english has a lot of latin vocabulary and verbal constructions in common.

Italian tourist: says something in italian. Brazilian tourist: says something in Portuguese. Romanian tourist. Says something in Romanian. people in America: sorry I don't speak Spanish. :v

I'm Italian and I understood: 70% sunny 20% cloudy 8% rainy 2% stormy

As a Mexican (Spanish speaker) 🇲🇽, here is what I understood of the other romance languages on this video. My mother tongue is Spanish and I also speak Portuguese. I wanna learn French and Catalan! 🇮🇹 Italian/Italiano 🇮🇹: The north (of Italy) will be largely sunny. Occasional afternoon showers are not entirely ruled out in the alpine areas of Veneto and in the Piedmontese highlands. Clear or slightly cloudy sky. In the center of the country it will be densely cloudy in the Tyrrhenian strip and in Sardinia, where, in particular, temporary periods of sunshine are not ruled out. Widely sunny weather in the remaining sectors. In the south it will be good weather in all our regions. 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇬🇹🇸🇻🇭🇳🇳🇮🇨🇷🇵🇦 Spanish/Español (my native language) 🇨🇴🇻🇪🇪🇨🇵🇪🇨🇱🇧🇴🇵🇾🇦🇷🇺🇾: Conforme avance el día los cielos se irán quedando ya mucho más despejados, con las temperaturas todavía por encima de los 30 grados, sobre todo en la parte sur del país. En Asturias también la mañana estará marcada por las nubes, algunos chubascos y temperaturas ya mucho más bajas; como pueden ver, algunas superando los 20°. Eso sí, durante la tarde, las precipitaciones irán cediendo y siendo cada vez más ocasionales, pero el cielo se quedará totalmente nuboso. Habrá chubascos más intensos y tormentosos en áreas del sureste peninsular. Sin duda habrá inestabilidad y ahí sí que va a notarse el descenso térmico. Como les contábamos, la situación para los siguientes días aún estará marcada por el calor intenso en gran parte de España y también por las tormentas que empezarán a afectar el este peninsular. Nada más. ¡Que disfruten la noche! TRASLATION: As the day progresses, the sky will become much clearer, with temperatures still above 30 degrees, especially in the southern part of the country. In Asturias, the morning will also be marked by clouds, some showers and much lower temperatures; as you can see, some exceeding 20 °. Of course, during the afternoon, the rainfall will subside and be more and more occasional, but the sky will remain completely cloudy. There will be more intense and stormy showers in areas of the peninsular southeast. Undoubtedly there will be instability and there the thermal drop will be noticeable. As we told you, the situation for the following days will still be marked by the intense heat in much of Spain and also by the storms that will begin to affect the east of the peninsula. Nothing more. Enjoy the night! 🇷🇴 Romanian/Română 🇷🇴 Degrees Celsius, center, north, Moldova, precipitation, temperatures, especially in the north, zones, precipitation, moment. (That's all I understood, sorry 😅). 🇦🇩 Catalan/Català 🇦🇩: Let's start in the morning: there will be sunshine and periods of cloudiness in certain parts of the north and the extreme south; temperatures will increase. At noon the temperature will drop again and instability will decrease, the sky will clear up in a more punctual and scattered way, temperatures will increase a little more and will continue that same trend in the coming days. There will be some showers in the afternoon in the interior of the Valencian Country and there will also be some showers in the Balearic Islands; The weather in the Balearic Islands will also stabilize, which will cause the temperature to rise. This would be the weather trend today and the next few days. It will be a little more stable weather, with rising temperatures, starting Thursday and Friday. 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese/Português Brasileiro 🇧🇷: (Esta) é a chamada zona de convergência do Atlântico Sul. Em várias cidades entre São Paulo e o Amazonas, o volume de chuva amanhã pode passar de 50 mm, o equivalente à média de 10 dias; tempo fechado o dia todo do leste do Paraná ao Rio de Janeiro. Dia insolarado nas áreas claras do sul, do leste e do norte (no mapa). Mínima de 14° em Porto Alegre e de 17° em São Paulo; máxima de 27° em Brasília e de 33° em Manaus. Até ao começo da próxima semana, choverá forte com trovoadas em Goiânia; no Rio e em São Paulo (haverá) chuva e temperaturas baixas; em Natal (tem uma) previsão de tempo aberto. TRANSLATION: (This) is the so-called South Atlantic convergence zone. In several cities between São Paulo and Amazonas, the volume of rain tomorrow may exceed 50 mm, the equivalent of an average of 10 days; closed weather all day from eastern Paraná to Rio de Janeiro. Sunny day in the southern, eastern and northern light areas (on the map). Minimum of 14° in Porto Alegre and 17° in São Paulo; maximum of 27° in Brasília and 33° in Manaus. Until the beginning of next week, it will rain heavily with thunderstorms in Goiânia; in Rio and São Paulo there will be rain and low temperatures; in Natal there is a open weather forecast. 🇲🇫 French/Français 🇲🇫: On Saturday it will be cloudy and there will be a very considerable disturbance in the Mediterranean that will have an impact on the southeast. There will be a lot of stability in the center, contrasting with the Mediterranean area or the north. On Sunday there will be a lot of stability in the Pyrenees and the eastern border, with snow on the relief. There will be a disturbance in the northwest of the country, which will affect the weather in the north of France, where we will have rain.

As Italian I understood 100% Italian, Spanish and French (I speak both of them hahaha) 80% Brazilian Portuguese (the one from Portugal is much more difficult), 60% Catalan and 40% Romanian. But when I read any of those language I can understand almost everything, of course spoken is more difficult, but written is very easy for any Romance language.

Wow, l am Romanian, but l have a huge passion for the Portugesse language. I really like how it sounds.

man, people speaking spanish looks like someone is going to score a goal

As a french speaker, I understood 100% of French

As a Filipino Spanish: 30% Portuguese (Brazil): 10% French: 3% The rest: 0%

I love how most of the people in the comment section speak Romance languages but they're all communicating in English 😂😂

I'm italian and I just love how brazilian portuguese sounds like!!!

as a romanian who did 1 month of spanish duo lingo 2 years ago i understood: 100% romanian 85% Italian 55% spanish 25% portuguese 15% french 5% catalan

I am Croat (so, Slavic group of languages). I am only fluent in English... but I must admit that Slavic nor Germanic languages are as beautiful as Romance languages... specially Italian, Spanish and French. I love them

As a Japanese: Italian :0% Spanish : 0% Romanian :0% Catalan :0% Portuguese :0% French 0%

El Catalan, el Castellano, el Portugues y tal vez el Italiano son las q mas tienen un parentesco en sus pronunciaciones, pero el Rumano y el Frances solo Dios sabra lo que dicen.

Oddio, I'm Italian and I study spanish during three years and now, after one year without studying it, I lost so much, but I can confirm that is an amazing language like portuguese, French and other. 🇮🇹❤️🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹🇷🇴....

The Portuguese speaker seemed to have the most comfortable meter to their speech for me. I could understand a few words and cities. Even though I speak some French, the French speaker was so fast, I'm comprehending words but still don't have time to listen harder for what I don't.

Romanian sounds like someone switching back and forth between Polish and Italian mixing sounds

_Portuguese people then:_ *THE MUSLIMS BLOCKED THE TRADE TO INDIA, SO I AM GOING TO SAIL AROUND THE ENTIRE AFRICAN CONTINENT TO BUY MY GOODS* _Portuguese people now:_ Choose language: 🇪🇸Spanish 🇲🇫French 🇧🇷Portuguese

Nossa, italiano é uma língua muito linda !

Soy de Chile y entiendo mas a menos lo que se dice Español 100% Portugués 96% Italiano 45% Catalan 44% Rumano 4% Francés 3%

Forgot the galician language, also 95% similar to portuguese.

I'm from Ukraine Italian 0% Spanish 0% Romanian 0% Portuguese 0% Catalan 0% French 0%

Muitos estrangeiros alegam que o português tem uma fonética muito similar ao russo. Eu, como brasileiro, sempre achei que as pessoas se referiam ao português de portugal, porque aos meus ouvidos eles puxam muito o "s" e o "r", e as cadências que eles realizam em frases, lembra-me muito a um eslavo falando. Enfim, eu acredito que é um caso muito simples onde a gente não consegue perceber o próprio sotaque. Ou melhor dizendo, nem o paulista, nem o carioca acham que têm sotaque. De um modo geral, aos próprios ouvidos, ninguém tem sotaque, somente os outros é que têm. Se tentarmos abstrair um pouco a sonoridade da nossa língua - como? tentar ouvir o som despindo totalmente o significado das palavras e o nosso conhecimento sobre a língua; dificílimo, mas é possível tentar. - podemos ouvir e notar na fala da repórter, quando ela fala "37 º" (Trinta e sete graus), por exemplo, ou palavras assim, soa muito parecido e tem praticamente a mesma pronúncia de algumas palavras em russo que têm a terminação em "ечи", como em "встречи". "Trinta em sete graus" estritamente foneticamente falando, em russo, ficaria "тринта и сэче граус" (óbvio que numa aproximação bem grosseira e talvez um tanto desonesta, hahaha) É provável que realmente o português, tanto o de Portugal, quanto o do Brasil, realmente tenham uma sonoridade que fazem falantes de outros idiomas lembrarem do russo ou outros idiomas eslavos, e que talvez nós não conseguimos detectar essa semelhança simplesmente pelo fato de estarmos tão acostumado ao som de nossa própria língua. Afirmo isso também, pois pessoas que falam Romênio acham que nós brasileiros soamos muito como russos, e ao meu ver a língua romênia é talvez a que mais se aproxima da fonética eslava. Então provavelmente o que determina se uma língua soa ou não como outra tem mais respaldo subjetivo, ou seja, no sujeito que a escuta, do que em elementos efetivamente objetivos do idioma em questão.

To all the people saying that the italian girl speaks so fast, no. Trust me, she is speaking really slowly. Don't compare us to the spanish people, they actually speak wayyy faster!

Italian is the smoothest and most pleasant to the ears.

As a Spanish speaker living in the US I understood: Spanish 100% Portuguese 90% Catalan 80% Italian 70% Romanian 50-60% French maybe 10% 😂

Portuguese 🇧🇷 Spanish 🇲🇽 Italian 🇦🇷 French 🇨🇦 Romanian 🇲🇩

As Brazilian I understood : Italian : 90% Spanish : 98% Romanian : 30% Catalan : 50% French: 20%

The Romanian weather report music sounds like Wii Sports Resort

It is not a real perception as a degree of understanding between speakers of Romance languages. The more often you hear a language (possibly of international circulation) and you are used to it, the better it seems to you to understand it. The Romanian language, for example, is not as well known and publicized as the others, which is why some speakers of Romance languages ​​find it a little harder to understand. But if it were a first audition for all languages, the situation and the degree of understanding would be completely different.

Despite some major differences and cultural influences, romance languages have a lot in common. I am romanian, and never studied Italian, but understand a lot (I guess 70% verbal and 85% in written)

As a Colombian i understood: Spanish: 100% Portuguese: 90% Catalan: 70% Italian: 65% French: 30% Romanian: 10%

I'm mexican 100% spanish 60% italian 90% portuguese (Brazil) 80% Catalan 20% French 20% romanian

As a native spanish speaker i understood: Italian: 40% Spanish: 100% Romanian: 5% Catalan: 80% Portuguese: 95% French: 20% (i'm currently learning it)

romania é tipo o primo que mora longe, não da pra entender muito mas é familia

Countries of europe Brazil.

Italian sounds nicest to my ears Respect other languages From Iran

Como chileno entendí 100% Español (nativo) 95% portugués 70% italiano 60% Catalán 20% rumano 1% francés

Português brasileiro e português de próprio Portugal têm diferenças significativas.

Romanian and Italian: latin Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan: sounds cool but quite different from latin French: *oui oui baguette*

Weather reports in Latin would be interesting. I'm sure there are more languages

As a Spanish speaker myself, Romanian sounds like if I dreamt in Spanish and somebody was talking to me but I couldn't hear what they were saying because sometimes dreams are like that where you can't make out any words.

La fonética del italiano nos acerca a ellos, pero la semántica del portugués nos es más familiar, entiendo en su orden portugués, catalán, italiano, poco de francés y casi nada de rumano. El latín me es incomprensible por su gramática, pero lo que se considera como su pronunciación clásica lo hace más cercano al español que a las demás romances nacionales, nunca he escuchado el sardo, el más cercano al español actual es el sefardita para mi es comprensible 95%

3:33 26° "temperaturas baixas" (low temperatures) I love Brazil so much

As an italian native speaker, I understood: *Italian* - 100% (no shit, lol) *Spanish* - 75% (if he was speaking slower I would have understood more) *Romanian* - 15% (just a few words) *Catalan*- 20% (wow, the difference is real) *Portuguese* (Brazilian) - 55% (i got the gist of what she was saying but audio only it would have been harder) *French* - 65% (still less intelligible than Spanish but familiar)

Romanian sounds a lot like Italian and seems to have a lot of common or intelligble words with it. I would guess that Romanian speakers could understand a good deal of Italian but less the other way around.

as a brazillian: italian: 40% spanish: 90% romanian: -200% catalan: 20% portuguese: 100% french: 30%

Sardinian:Am I a joke to you?

👽As a Martian I understand: Saturnian: 95% Jupiterian: 76% Neptunian: 52% Plutonian: 30% Mercurian: 29% Venusian: 22.0002% Earthian: 0.0004%

Why is there a Brazilian speaking Portuguese and not a Québécois speaking French or a Mexican speaking Spanish?

The Portuguese from Portugal is quite different from Brazil, specially the accent.

They all sound beautiful. :) But my favourite is Brazilian Portuguese, it sounds so melodic 💚

Are we all going to ignore the fact Romania is shaped like a fish?

Latin Languages French Italian Portuguese (🇧🇷) Romanian Spanish Catalan Thank you for your 😊

As a Brazilian, I understand: 100% - Portuguese 99% - Spanish 80% - Italian 50% - Catalan 20% - French 10% - Romanian 🪅💮🪅

As a native Spanish and Catalan speaker, I can understand: 100% Spanish 100% Catalan 75% Italian 75% French 90% Portuguese 10% Romanian

I like how we,Romanians, understand more than 50% of other languages, but other languages understand no more than 20% :/

As Argentinian i understood way more brazilian portuguese than catalan

0:07 Para mim, o Italiano é o mais belo! Bela Italiana, a propósito! 😎

Im brazilian and sometimes I understand better spanish from Spain than portuguese from Portugal.

As a Romanian: Portuguese sounds more Russian than my own language. French is easier to understand when written. Catalan is unknown territory. The others: I understand a lot. I love that we Romanians understand most of what other latins speak but they cannot understand us ❤️😂

as portuguese, I understand more the Italian and Catalan than the spanish and Romanian

I found this video quite fascinating, however, not for its intended purpose. You never really think about how news outlets and other countries report the weather forecast. I feel like I have learned a lot about these other cultures just from how they warn about the rain in Spain that falls mostly on the plain. Like seriously though, I thoroughly enjoyed observing the differences in each culture respective meteorologist reports.

O português, italiano, espanhol é mto parecido

As native catalan speaker I understood: Italian 🇮🇹: 60% Romanian🇷🇴: 35% (my bestfriend is half romanian) Spanish 🇪🇸: 100% (lots of native catalan speakers are also spanish native speakers) Catalan (no hi ha la bandera 😭): 100% Portugese 🇵🇹🇧🇷: 80% (quite similar to spanish) French 🇫🇷: 75% (catalan and french have the same ancestor)

I love how as a Chinese all these languages sound Greek to me.

As an italian and romanian native speaker, i understood Italian: 100% Spanish: 60% Romanian: 100% Catalan: 5% Portuguese: 5% French: 70% (took it at school)

Portuguese and Italian sound the best. I like how Romanian sounds too.

Estoy enamorada del portugués y el italiano. No hay nada mas sexy que las lenguas romances😍

No bi sunt petzi cussas de limbas latinas. Prus de importu istoricu est sa limba SARDA ca est prus acurtzu a su latinu classicu. Cumprendo ca totus sas limbas inoghe corrispundint a sos istados ma tando proite b'est su catalanu, unu logu a lacana de s'Ispania?

As a mexican I understood: Spain Spanish: 98% understood perfectly there was just a couple words i havent heard before Brazillian portugese: 80% understood what she was saying besides the beginning and random words between sentences Italian 50% every other word i understand Catalan 40% French 35% Romanian: 30% understood wednesday, north, random phrases/words here and there

As an Italian i understood: Italian:100% Spanish:70% Romanian:50% Catalan:20% French:60% Portoguese:50%

As a french speaker from Switzerland 🇨🇭 Italian : 90% (but i have some notions thanks to duolingo😇) Spanish : 60% Romanian : 15% Catalan : 20% Portuguese : 75% (i also have very elementary notions) French : 100% (native speaker)

Como brasileira, entender espanhol não é tão difícil por causa da aproximação de palavras, então pra mim faz sentido, só que se for traduzir certinho pro português, apesar do sentido continuar o mesmo, as palavras podem mudar depois da tradução e essa aproximação de palavras as vezes pode ser enganosa. Catalão descobri que é bem mais difícil de eu entender.

List of languages: 1. Italian 🇮🇹 2. Spanish 🇪🇦 3. Romanian 🇷🇴 4. Catalan 🇦🇩 5. Portuguese 🇧🇷 6. French 🇨🇵

As a Mexican, I understood 100% Spanish. Gracias por su atención.

Probably should have included peninsula Portuguese first and compared that to Brazilian Portuguese.

I studied French for 7 years but lived in Italy for 3. I had a tough time understanding either one because they were speaking so quickly.

As a brazilian I understood... 100% Portuguese 80% Spanish (Speaks very fast) 1% Catalan (I understood just "las temperaturas" 😂 0% Italian, French and Romanian

Siendo argentino, amo el portugués y tengo muchas ganas de aprenderlo bien