Spanish vs French (How Similar Are They?!) 

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When you're french, with a little bit of Spanish classes you can understand Spanish memes, and this is priceless

"Molestar" in Spanish = to disturb "Molester" in French = to molest It is my favorite false friends in Spanish. It makes "No molestar por favor" sounds so funny for naive French-speaking tourists.

Salir in French = to make dirty Salir in Spanish = to go out Salire in Italian = to go up

My favorite false friends (shown in a very funny French movie) - French - gateau = "cake" Spanish - gato = "cat" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

As a native Spanish speaker, I can generally understand written French. However, this is not the case when listening to French.

As a native spanish speaker and french student I can ensure you that this guy nailed it Great video!!

When I was in Mexico, I kept asking people to speak "mas lente", thinking the word for "slow" must be a cognate of the French "lent". Turns out I was asking for "more lens".

As a Turkish, French and Spanish are my favorite languages. I want to learn both of them. Greetings from Turkey.

I speak Spanish and French and never realized they were so similar. The "pl" / "ll" blew my mind.

In French secondary schools, when we have to choose a second foreign language between Spanish and German, 70 to 80% of the schoolchildren choose Spanish for one simple reason: it's easier.

How do you pronounce oi? Spain: oi Italy: oí Romania: oi Portugal: oi Catalonia: oi Galicia:oi Piedmont:oi France: *_ua_*

6:49 I very much love this aspect of the Spanish language, other languages should definitely adopt it.

When you know French and Spanish you basically understand Italian Edit: I think it's also pretty easy to learn Portuguese when you know those langages, but personally, I think Italian is easier than Portuguese

I'm learning Spanish now, and I feel so grateful that I know French. For all Spanish speakers learning French, you'll just have to get over our weird sound systems and then the grammar will not be so bad! I was literally laughing when I started learning the Imperfecto, Futuro, and Condicional - they're very similar to French! El Pretérito made me want to die though, so many irregulars!!! Cheers to two beautiful languages! I'm very excited for the day I can read Naruda, Borges, and Marquez in the native language ❤❤❤

My mother language is Korean, second Spanish, and third English and I am trying to learn french. So far English is the hardest one to learn. There are so many exceptions in grammars XD

Actually, as a Portuguese I find it harder when it is the cognates that have different genders. Not that non cognates with different genders are easy to remember, but not so confusing at least. It is easier when we do have a cognate but we just don't use it as much or we use it with a different meaning. Because even if the use/meaning was somewhat lost in the way, the gender is the same. Taking the examples in the video "lit" is masc and "cama" femn. However (in Portuguese at least) there is "leito" which is a cognate to "lit", it is masc and it does mean bed (just a more formal/archaic way). "Viatura" also exists in Portuguese and has the same gender as "voiture" (even if we use "viatura" more broadly to describe motor vehicles in general).

It’s a super coincidence . I tried finding this video that shows similarity between Spanish and french about 20 minutes ago and then I see you uploading a video on this . Unbelievable

Why can't everyone else pronounce all the letters like we do in spanish? Sigh.. it makes it so much easier.

The French word "aujourd'hui" is like the Spanish phrase "en el día de hoy". I hear it somewhat regularly in Spanish when people are referring to the present day in speeches, talks, news reports, or other similar settings

Actually in some French dialects and especially Meridional French, the final e's always pronounced thus making them more similar to Spanish.

As a French-native speaker, I can say that French ppl usually understand Spanish well, cause as you said we share a lot ! It’s ten times easier understanding than speaking though !

When you studied French, are studying Spanish and watching video in English, which is also not native to you. Perfect combination

As a Portuguese native speaker who have learned Spanish and can speak it fluently, then have learned Italian, and now is currently learning French, I have to say I used to mix up Italian and Spanish much more than with French. I often mix up the French with English though, which is kinda weird, but understandable. However, the previous knowledge of Portuguese, Spanish and Italian definitely help when learning French. I risk saying I took a quite good path. Awesome video! Thanks

Native french speaker here, learning spanish is pretty easy since there is so much cognates, but I think it's also because the syntax is soooo similar, except for some little things but they aren't complicated to remember. However, i did some tutoring for Mexican teens learning french when I was in college and it seems a lot harder for spanish speakers to learn french than for french people to learn spanish. I think it is due to all the graphemes and the silent letters in our words since in spanish they pronounce every letter. It was really really really hard for the students to remember that certain letters are silent at the end of words. Also the pronunciation is soooo different, especially nasal vowels. They are just so alien to non-french speakers in general. and we laughed a lot when I tried to explain to them how to do it! For me it's so natural since it's my first language and I never really have to think about it, but for them it was so difficult! Oh and also the "u" sound. No, it's not an "oo" sound lmao (when english people say "déja-voo, it makes me laugh) but I understand it is a really difficult sound to learn to do! And the "ch" sound. They say it as "tsh", but we just say "sh" without the t sound in front. Anyways, spanish is a very pretty language, I wish I could continue learning it!

Native Spanish speaker. Yes, my reading of French is 60% or so. I studied some Latin and Italian, so that percentage is up. But listening is quite hard, because of the vocal sounds, changes the game completely.

I’m a native Spanish speaker learning French for a few months now. Although a Romance language, french phonetics are very alien to our Spanish ears. Italian and Portuguese are definitely more intelligible for us than French. Also, French grammar posses quite a few tricky dissimilarities that are counterintuitive for us Spanish speakers. Once you get the hang of the differences, the similarities become more and more apparent. One must make a very conscious effort to pronounce French correctly. It’s hard, but very rewarding!

I'm Mexican 🇲🇽 my native language is Spanish, the French language for me is a difficult language to learn, I think it is the most difficult of Romance languages. I consider the Portuguese easier, I can understand Portuguese without difficulty.

As someone who speaks french, it's very heartwarming to speak with a spanish speaker speaking french too. It's hard to explain but the conversations tend to create a "pyramid" effect of understanding and the end result is very satisfying.

11:02 "vosotros y vosotras" pronouns are only used in Spain, while "Ustedes" in Latin America is used in both formal and informal contexts

As a Chinese whose first language is mandarin, I've learned French as my 2nd foreign language for 2 years (Obviously English is my second language). Now I've been learning Spanish for 2 months and I'm gradually saying goodbye to my poor French! Especially when pronouncing French words. I can't help but start to pronounce the parts that shouldn't be... Mi Espanol is not good enough to form up sentences correctly so now I'm sometimes mixing Spanish, English et Francais together when talking to my Spanish friend who's fluent in both French and English. It's quite funny to learn these languages. Thanks for the video it's quite interesting and helpful. Also gracias for the Espanol subtitles, it also helps when reading it at the same time listening to the English version! 谢谢~ Merci beaucoup! ¡Muchas gracias!

Spanish is much easier for me to learn than French as an English speaker, even though English took a lot from French. I don't really struggle with French pronunciation, but it just seems like Spanish has more consistent and sound logic. I love the French language though. Growing up learning Spanish has made learning French easier, but sometimes I mix them up.

Para responder a tu pregunta cómo nativa de español. Entiendo solo un aproximado de 40% escrito del francés y casi nada hablado, pero creo que saber español me ayuda al menos un 20% más a aprender con facilidad, pues sus similitudes me ayudan a memorizar y aprender :). Saludos hermanos 💜

As a french Spaniard. Having to know 2 languages that are very similar makes things much easier for me. Unlike remembering English vocab which is mainly German based. Latin brothers 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹

Hi! Here it's a Spanish native speaker who also speaks French. Before I started to learn French, I wasn't able to understand spoken French. In fact, that's a difference when comparing Spanish with other Romance languages: Spanish native speakers normally understand a lot of Catalan, Italian and sometimes Portuguese (especially Brazilian Portuguese), but not French. On the other hand, written French is much more comprehensible than the spoken one, and I agree with the estimate of 60% or even more. That happens because French phonology is quite different. I think written French is even more understandable when you speak both Spanish and English: there are a lot of similar words in Spanish and French, but when not, in many cases the French word is similar to an English one. In example, the word for table in French is also written "table", but in Spanish is "mesa" (in Spanish, the usual meaning of "tabla" is "wood plank"). And of course, being a Spanish native speaker makes it easier to learn French (than, in example, learn English), as we have a similar grammar and vocabulary. What I said about English and French, also happens with French and Catalan. I'm Castilian, and I learned Catalan after I learned French. Catalan vocabulary is "between" the French and the Spanish ones, and so French helped me to learn Catalan. The problem when speaking several languages, especially when they're related, is that you might mix or confuse them. If two languages share a cognate, sometimes you don't know if you're puting other language's word in that language.

It never occurred to me that 'hui in French and hoy in Spanish were cognates. Some real food for thought in this video. Fascinating.

As a French speaker, I can say with some level of confidence that I can understand most sentences in Spanish fairly easily. Having some notions in Italian and English def helps, but I feel like other French people can still get the point of a sentence in written Spanish. The moment they open their mouths Im completely lost though.

Je suis espagnol et j'étais en train de finir mes devoirs de français.

As a fluent speaker of both French and Spanish, you absolutely hit the nail on its proverbial head. Congrats on a great video. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I studied both French and Spanish at school and am proud to be fluent in both but this video has taught me so much new information. I also found Italian to be the perfect mid-step between the two! Thank you your channel is incredible

The verb "habiter" in french can also translate to "habitar" in Spanish. That's why I never forget that one. Also, I'be been told by french speakers that "Au" is equivalent to "à le"; and in Spanish we have "Al", which is equivalent to "a el", so "aujourd'hui" would be equivalent, word by word, to the Spanish expression "al día de hoy", but it has a different use in Spanish. As a Spanish speaker, this video has been really helpful, as it comer neither from a native Spanish nor french speaker, so it is not biased as other similar videos I've seen.

Spanish seems easier to learn than French because Spanish has fewer vowel and fewer accents. And by the way, I’m Indonesian.

🇪🇸 As a Spanish native speaker, I think French is really easy to understand when you read something, but the pronunciation is completely different from Spanish. French native speakers have a lot of different vowels and I struggle to learn them. ¡Buen vídeo! ♥

There is a person in my French class that took Spanish up to the 4th year and decided to take French for the last 2 years, and they are like super far ahead and get everything pretty quick, so it really seems like knowing one really helps with learning the other.

I'll say this: I once helped someone with their French homework despite not speaking the language and only having a sketchy intermediate understanding of Spanish. That person aced their homework.

Autres similitudes : CH en français = CA en espagnol (vache= vaca, cher= caro, chemise=camisa, chaleur=calor, chèvre=cabra, chameau=camello, cheval=cavallo) et ^en français est un s en espagnol (île= isla) et les 2 règles ensemble (château= CASTILLO)

FRENCH AND SPANISH ARE GREAT LANGUAGES 💕💕💕

When they say it's easier to learn guitar if you already know piano, it's the same with French & Spanish.

i've been binge watching you for a week! I LOVE languages since I was a child and taught myself basic french words from the encyclopedias since I was 4. This is awesome! and now I dont feel crazy being fascinated by language similarities and differences!

La información de este video es maravillosa y el inglés que habla este compa es de lo mejor que he escuchado.

I am Spanish speaker, and I think French is the most difficult romance language for a Spanish speaker.

I’m Filipino who self studied French last year, this year I started studying Spanish. Since we were conquered by Spain, we have Filipino words that are similar in vocabulary. Usual Spanish sentence structure are similar with French. I guess this is what people say… the more language you know, the easier for you to learn a new language.

Thank you for bringing so much knowledge in such a consistent and fun way to all of us ! i am a big fan of linguistics and language learning and I speak spanish, french, english and now learning German. I absolutely applaud you dude ! Good on ya ! (I learned english in Sydney where I live since 2002!)

Native speaker of French. In your example of gracias and merci take note that in French we have the word "grace" often used in the sentence "grace à" which means "thanks to" which comes from gratitude and is the same in English. In English you also have the word "grateful" from the same origin.

Le français contient beaucoup de lettres muettes. Ce qui fait une langue difficile à apprendre pour les étrangers. Merci beaucoup pour la vidéo. Ces deux langues sont incroyables et passionnantes ! As you can see, I'm french.

As a French speaker, I found that Spanish was easier to learn than Italian. For many words I didn't know, I realized I often could "hispanize" it (ie: pronouncing it the Spanish way) and I would hit bull's eye or at least be understood.

I really enjoy these comparison videos of the Romance languages! I always find myself learning something I didn’t know! Thanks 🙏🏼

Hi everyone! A couple of comments on this video: -In the video I said the French word "large" means "large" in English, and it can be translated that way in some contexts (for example when clothing is too large), but it more generally means "wide". -I used Castilian as the main basis of comparison, so some points are a little different for Latin American Spanish. In Latin American Spanish, "vosotros" and "vosotras" are not used for the informal 2nd person plural pronoun, but rather "ustedes" is used as both the informal and formal pronoun. Also, regarding the simple past and present perfect, in Latin America the simple past (pretérito) tends to be used more often in contexts where the present perfect might be used in Spain. This depends on the exact area. Also, people in some Latin American countries have pointed out that "bombón" means "a candy" where they live (whereas it's "a chocolate" in Spain, and "a marshmallow" in Mexico).

I'm a native french speaker, I have learned Spanish for many years now, and yes it feels often very familiar. You often can guess a word you don't know once you've understood the structure of the langage and the similarities with french. The side effect is that there are many false friends or different genders for similar words.

Se puede entender el frances escrito diria en un 60%, pero el hablado es dificil más que todo por la rapidez del hablante, pues he visto entrevistas de extranjeros hablando un francés más pausado y se le entiende muy bien.

language is wonderful. i acquired mandarin and english by mother tongue, learned spanish with english, and now i'm learning french with spanish and english. it gets confusing at times, but how european languages link with each other is fascinating as hell

ROFL I will never forget quand un garçon de l'Amérique latine a pleuré quand je lui ai offert un morceau de gâteau! Il a dit "maman! Ella come gato!" jajajajajaja

I live in Canada Québec, so my native language is French. I went on a tour with my choir to France and Spain. I had some background in spanish since I learned it at my school two years before the trip. Obviously, two years with 1 class a week ditdnt make me trilingual (french english and spanish). We got hosted by a spanish family and when we tried to speak to eachother, it was suprising how well we could understand eachother. As a native french speaker, most of the words in spanish are the word in french with a random vowel at the end

Dear sir, thank you for yet another highly informative and useful video. I have been a teacher of French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese at the high school level for many decades. I am grateful for the abundant resources on language learning that are available online these days, especially on this website.

Very well explained 👏🏼 thanks for posting.

Funnily enough, "ç" is originally a Spanish letter: it is the evolution of the Visigothic "z".

French is my first language. I learned English and I just started to learn Spanish and I can’t assure you that Spanish is wayyyy more easy to learn than English and this video is very accurate! He nailed it !

We can understand some writing phrases in French, but our pronunciation are some different in many situations. But once you take some French lessons then you can understand much better cause as you mentioned before... We have a lot of similarities. Thanks so much for this video, I'm learning French and this video teach me things I haven't knew.

7:10 I totally agree. They should add this feature in Italian (my language) as well. Like you said, one should know at the beginning if that is a question or an exclamation. And maybe the exclamation/question marker at the beginning is even more important that the one at the end, so maybe one should use it only at the beginning.

As a Spanish speaker and a fluent French speaker, I find you covered all of the possible cases both languages feature in an outstanding accurate way. Your vids are great. Congratulations on the good work

I live in the US. The first language I studied in school was French. I started studying Italian while I was studying French, and being familiar with French gave me a definite advantage over the students for whom Italian was their first foreign language. Looking back on those days, I'm amazed that I had no trouble keeping the two languages separate. When I started studying Spanish, about 50 years later, I often threw in an Italian or French word. I guess my mind just functioned better when I was 13.

Thank you so much. I've learned a lot! ☺️

excellent travail, très impressionnant!

As a French native speaker, I found that the 4 years spent learning Castillan Spanish at school were more than enough to read any book in its original version. Though I don't understand 100% of the words, I'd say that with the context of surrounding sentences, there's no difficulty at all. Especially since we learn which words are faux-amis, and most distant cognates are actually easy to spot (they usually correspond to a second or archaic meaning of their French equivalent). When it comes to colloquial Spanish, it's usually pretty easy to understand too, since it has pretty systematic rules regarding the tonal emphasis within each word : to me Spanish basically sounds like French spoken ultra-fast with extra final vowels and a southern accent (from Perpignan, for example - since people in the South tend to pronounce each and every letter and add a tonal emphasis on some syllables, unlike in canonical French, and some still use the rolled 'r' that was lost in standard French in the second half of the XXth century and is now associated with old singers like Piaf or Brel) ; I can't understand Latin Americans as easily as Spaniards : I never know whether they're using singular/plural - familiar/formal forms, and there are many small differences in pronunciation that add up. They're still intelligible, but listening to them requires an effort, unlike listening to people from Spain (provided they speak Castillan, and at medium speed). Spanish grammar seems more straightforward than French grammar to me, but it might be because apart from the condición realizable/irrealizable, there was barely anything that I hadn't already had to learn in French. Spanish conjugation was a pain in the a** though, because unlike in French, there's no verbal form that you can afford to forget (excluding forms using an auxiliary and the imparfait du subjonctif, each verb could theoretically have 45 different declinations in French, but, mainly thanks to homophones, the highest number of different forms - which belong to the verb savoir - is "only" 38 ; and since we only commonly use about a dozen of those, we forget the others as soon as we're done with primary school). Irregular verbs are to be learnt by heart (as we already have many in French, I didn't need any more, but again, one has to digest them to speak Spanish), and though we do use the subjunctive mood a lot in French, we stick to the present tense, as you said. It goes even further than that : I'd say we only ever use 7 of our 'temps' (mood+tense) in spoken French (présent de l'indicatif, passé composé, conditionnel présent, impératif présent, subjonctif présent, infinitif, gérondif) and generally prefer using the present tense and its numerous "valeurs" instead of any other "temps" ; to signify that we're in fact talking about the past or the future, we'd rather add time indicators ("je le fais ce week-end" instead of "je le ferai") or use extra verbs to evoke a tense rather than actually use it ("il va lui dire" instead of "il lui dira")... whereas in Spanish verbs are systematically conjugated in a way that reflects the sentences' timeframe. So yeah, knowing the whole conjugation table is (unfortunately for us lazy francophones) a must to speak Spanish. When it comes to vocab, I have been told by several people that I tend to mix casual/familiar and formal words in the same sentences in Spanish. I think it's because many of the words that are commonly used in French are not in Spanish, tough they exist (like your "fatigué" example : "fatigado" is gonna be understood by a Spaniard, though they'd probably go for "cansado"). The same happens in English : if a francophone goes for cognates to translate individual words from French, they'll end up using "commence" for "start", "tempest" instead of "storm", "entire" for "whole", "permit" for "let" and "allow"...and won't realize they're talking as if they were born in 1824. PS : in French the present tense has several "valeurs", including présent d'habitude, présent de vérité générale, présent de description, présent d’énonciation, présent de narration, présent du passé récent, and présent du futur proche. The *présent* *d'énonciation* is the exact equivalent of the English present progressive : it means the action that is described is currently happening...so we don't have to use "être en train de + verbe" : "je mange" already means "je suis en train de manger". I was surprised by this inaccuracy in the video, but it is a minor one. French also has a 'gérondif' mode that can be used to express either simultaneity or continuity/progression, as well as the participe présent... I think we simply don't use them as much as we could because it would require an extra mental effort to form entirely different sentence structures and...we're lazy. Spoken French is really a lazier and simpler version of French that's full of grammatical mistakes and drops most of its formalism (which is why non-native speakers tend to sound quaintly literary... they speak standard written French, not the oral language).

I'm a native English speaker. I learned French to an intermediate level. As soon as I started learning Spanish, I saw SO many cognates. I can practically guess at a lot of words in Spanish based on the French word, just with a different ending or beginning (as pointed out). Learning French has DEFINITELY increased my rate of learning Spanish.

Brilliant video! I speak both French and Spanish and yes they're very similar in writing, but orally very little intelligible, especially for a Spanish speaker, as French pronunciation has undergone massive changes since the two languages diverged from Latin. Nonetheless if you have a good knowledge of the two languages, you can easily read Catalan and Portuguese and understand spoken Italian. It also helps if you start learning Romanian or smaller romance languages such as Reto Romantsch or Occitan.

As a student of both Spanish (first) and French (second), I find Spanish to be a bit more straightforward and phonetic than French , which is far more nuanced in pronunciation. However, the number of tenses and moods in Spanish can be a bit much to remember and conjugate, especially with stem/radically changing verbs and reflexives.

"Parler", in Spanish, not very common, but still used is "parlar", and specifically, when a person talks too much is a "parlador", in America the speakers are called "parlantes" and in my little village in Spain when you meet with friends we say "Vamos a echar un "parlao" that means "Let's talk". "Fatiguée" is the equivalent to the Spanish "fatigado", very common, but maybe more formal than "cansado". "Jour" equivalent to the Spanish "Jornada" that means "working day" or "day trip". "Vouler": Spanish dropped the verb "volere" used in the initial states of the language and started to use "querer" from Latin "quaerere" (to look for), but we still have the same root Latin root ("volere") for many other words. For instance: "voluntad" (will), "volitivo" (volitive), voluntario (voluntary) and so on. "Acheter" cognate of the Spanish: "adquirir" (buy, purchase, acquire). "Adquirir" is a common verb, but more formal than "comprar". "Habiter" cognate of the Spanish "habitar" (to live in or to dwell). "Lit" cognate of the Spanish "Litera" (bunk bed). "Vous" cognate of Spanish "vos" (old fashioned in Spain, but used in Argentina and Uruguay instead of "tú"). Conclusion: as a Spanish speaker, I cannot speak French, and not even write it, but reading French is very easy because the words that at the first sight look totally different usually have a Spanish equivalent that belongs to the same semantic field.

"Constipado" actually means constipated, but most commonly understood on the context of "Constipated Nose"

You mention the French word “habiter” which is a cognate of the english word “inhabit”. Such as “birds inhabit the island in the summer months.” But I like to equate it with the word “dwell” which sounds archaic in English like “I dwell in the land west of Washington DC”. LOL On a separate note when I was a linguist in my college days a professor at the University of Maryland in College Park gave a lecture called “French or Spanish? Which is more difficult for English speakers?” and the gist of the lecture was that French starts out difficult but actually gets easier by the third and fourth year of college level French, while Spanish starts off simpler but gets very intricate and more difficult grammar-wise especially in the third or forth year of college level Spanish. He blames the subjunctive as Spanish has more subjunctive cases than French and uses most of them more often than French does. In regard to pronunciation Spanish can be sorely mangled yet understood, but French requires more careful pronunciation. Thank you for an informative and fun video!

Man, these videos are tight! Love them all!

I love about spanish and german that's phonetic... meaning you can look at a written word and know how to pronounce it. Or you can hear a word and know how to spell it.

I guess that means French compared to Portuguese is next in the romance comparison series

Thank you for your time and effort in these videos. Very interesting stuff and your videos are always the go to.

“Constipado” in countries in Latin America means the same thing as in French and “fatigado/da” is a sinonym for “cansado/da”. Fascinating!

¡Felicitaciones! Buen trabajo. Soy profesor de español en China. Incluso se han mencionado el fenómeno lingüístico de pro-drop, la diferencia entre los verbos inergativos y inacusativos al formar el pretérito perfecto (haber p.p.). De hecho en el castellano antiguo, había diferencia entre ser y haber con diferentes verbos como la situación actual en francés. Pero ahora (ser p.p.) simplemente es la forma para formar la voz pasiva.

I'm a retired teacher of French and Italian and have a strong background in two Germanic languages. I find your videos extremely accurate, clear and fascinating. You scholarship is superb and it's a pleasure to see your work.

8:05 Also, there's the verb "habitar" in spanish, and it's a synonym, but it's much more common to use "vivir" when we talk about residence.

Native spanish speaker here learning French and I'm just grateful that I already speak spanish, it seems so difficult learning it from 0 lol

Hey :) As a native French speaker, I just want to say that this video is great ! Btw, the imperfect subjunctive in French is, indeed, very formal and literary, but should you be able to use it properly in a speech, people would probably see you as eloquent, like you really truly master the language Good luck to anyone learning French: I admire your courage

I thought: "Paul hasn't uploaded any video for some time" ... In that second I saw the notification :D

Hiciste un excelente trabajo, te felicito

Mil Gracias and merci beaucoup Paul. The video explained very clearly the differences among the 2 languages which I have tried to learn a bit. Recalled I was once extremely frustrated by the French grammar years ago. After I picked up Spanish, I noticed many similar grammar points, bringing me joy in learning instead of being defeated. This video well summarises and helps greatly.

I speak Spanish so for me it’s easier to read French then it is hearing it Since I’m also fluent in English it also helps me better read it and understand

Spanish and French are some of the most important languages in the world thank you for making this video

Thank you for this video Paul. Spanish is my mother tongue, and I definitely got benefited by it when I studied French (also knowing English helped me A LOT in matters of vocab). I love how accurate are your videos all the time :D (also, we can use fatigado/a as a cognate of fatigué. Not always as it means to be extremely tired, but it can be added as an extra fact)

This video is well put together and I appreciate it as a French speaker studying Span.

I'm a simple man: when I see a notification of Langfocus I immediately press play PS: Catalan and French are more similar than Spanish and French

I'm a native Spanish speaker and I'm currently learning French but (funnily enough) in English. Because of this I often find myself translating French into Spanish (instead of English) because it is more similar to it, therefore easier to remember. It is definitely easier to read French, than to listen to it, but that happened with English as well, so it is just a matter of getting used to the sounds. But as someone said in another comment, it is a great advantage to know both English and Spanish when learning French, because it has cognates with both languages, plus many other benefits. Also, it's always fun to discover phrases in French that are the same in Spanish, but don't exist in English. Thank you so much for this video, really thorough!!

Loved this video so much!