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But the question is how could we resolve this problem? I have the same problem with Spanish and English but I don't know why with arabic and french I don't have it , probably because my level isn't advanced in this two languages.., but if you have any suggestions to resolve it, share it with me ..

The last problem is one faced by Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) students learning Languages Other Than English. Fellow STEM students often do not "get" their interest in languages. That's why it's important to try to connect them with other STEM students interested in LOTEs, to foster a sense of community

I agree, Spanish is by far the easiest of the four. (And French, the hardest.)

1. Spanish. Being from Texas, it's everywhere. 2. Portuguese. It has about 90% lexical similarity with Spanish. 3. French. Similar vocabulary with Spanish, Portuguese, and English. 4. Italian. There are a lot of words that simply don't exist in or are similar to words in other Romance languages. 5. Romanian. Fewer resources for learning it. Some of the vocabulary came from Romania's neighbors. The definite article is glued to the end of nouns, especially with masculine nouns. Possible Scandinavian and North Germanic influence: Old Norse, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish all place the definite article at the end of a noun. 6. Latin. Grammar, grammar, grammar. Latin grammar may be easier for a Russian than a Bulgarian, but Russian has very much lost the vocative case.

I always skip drills but feel a bit guilty afterwards...and I also hate flashcards haha thank you for mentioning such good advice! this video is priceless how has it not gone viral? such great info on here

My mother tongue is french (french Canadian), and I'm learning Spanish because my girlfriend is mexican. I found it fun to learn her language, so it made it easier and french is already similar. Catalan intrigues me, it's look like a mix between french and Spanish

For a native English speaker, French is made easier because of so many recognizable words. The pronunciation and liaison system is a challenge. Spanish has ser/ estar which I still struggle with as well as more complicated subjunctive rules, but at least it's phonetic ... but with so many different regional accents, that makes Spanish hard. I found Italian fairly easy ... but I studied it after French which helped A LOT! I think it's hard to speak Italian precisely at the grammatical level but it seems easier to get the gist across to someone. I've never studied Portuguese formally, but I have a really hard time matching the spoken language to the written. I think I need more exposure. And like you, I don't speak Romanian. Great video - it really made me think about my own experiences.

My native language is Spanish and I learned French and English and let me tell u something: Even though French is closer to Spanish in terms of vocabulary, grammar, etc... English was by far the easier one !!!, French is definitely crazy.

Even tho im native Spanish speaker I struggle a lot with grammar. Conjugation and Tenses can be really tricky. But other than grammar Spanish is extremely easy. The "pronounced as it's written" is very suitable. But smth hard of spanish besides Is how it changes depending on the country. Even the region. So ys Spanish is really easy and I recommend it to be learnt

I'm trying to practice some languages and I think it's a problem😮

Hello Ms kostadinova i have a question i am 18 years old and who enters college i speak English (C1) and german (B1) but i don't know how can i keep improving because i might get only 3 hours a day which i am free do you think i can improve my german to B2 in this year?

B2 is the mark

Разбрах, че е българка само като я видях и чух три изречения.

I’ve done Spanish and Italian/ Spanish and German. You can get mixed up in both, but in my experience is way worse with Italian because it’s so close to Spanish.

As someone that was trying to learn Spanish and Italian simultaneously it does mess you up, you’ll start mixing up words if the languages are too similar usually

French is really composed of 2 languages. The written language is definitely different from the spoken language. Even native speakers struggle with spelling. I don't think French has necessarily more tenses than most other romance languages: the difficulty there is the fact that a lot of it is not pronounced.The conjugated endings look very different on paper but are often similar sounding.

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Honestly, it's like when you're a kid and you learn all the sports at the same time. No problem: the skills usually cross-polinate.

But Portuguese and Spanish have got pretty much of all that influence. Okay, let's talk about history here. These romance language speakers were ALL romanized, and by "ED" here, I mean being part of a process of becoming something you were not. So the very name of Portugal shows that, since it is a hybrid of the celtic elderly Mother Goddess, Cailleach and Portus in latin, in other words, The Port of Cailleach. Even the symbol for portugal is the same celtic rooster they adopt in France. So, we are talking about the Coinos, Lusithans and most importantly, the Galaicos, the celtic tribes that lived there. If we check on the musical aspects of Galicia, Asturias and the Northeast of Portugal, the celtic roots, their bagpipes, dances and rhythms are still alive. Celtic words in portuguese: cachorro, cerveja, briga, cuca(a word for head), plus many nasal sounds which are believed to be mandatory in major celtic influences. Then, once fully romanized, the Peninsula was invaded by the Suevos and the Vysigoths, which were germanic. Words of germanic origin? Mala, Irmão, Irmã, Guerra (from the vysigothic word wirra), the slang for beer, bira, the word branco, guarda, etc. Then the arabs invaded the Peninsula and stayed there for not only 8 days, but 8 centuries. Arabic words? Wow, so many. Alcateia, almoxarifado, xarope, jarra, azeite, camisa, alparcata, alcaparra, almôndega, oxalá, aldeia, etc, etc. Then, after the diaspora, Jews migrated to Spain, after kicked out from Spain, they went to Portugal, more than a 100000 jews went to Portugal back then. Then yeah, that's the basis of the people there, romanized celtic tribes with a whole lotta germanic + arabic + jewish influence. Then they came to Brazil, where portuguese mingled with tons of Native american words from different native american languages, from where we inherited words such as: capim, capivara, sucuri, quati, jacaré, tatu, caju, urucum, etc. Then with the Yoruba language with people who were enslaved in Nigeria, words such as Caçula, Cangote, neném, bagunça, cafuné, cachaça, etc. The thing is, yeah, the basis to the language is pretty much a latin one (let's not forget how many greek words the romans took everywhere, like metáfora, anacoluto, catacrese, disforia, símbolo, metanoia, etc, etc) but there are still so much of a linguistic melting pot in the iberian languages, with or without, after and even BEFORE, the formation of the ibero-american countries.

Ah, sei bulgara te? Bello! 🙂 Mi domandavo di dove eri credendoti di madrelingua neolatina. Il tuo inglese è fluente e perfetto, ma sentivo nondimeno un vago accento che poi non sapevo indirizzare. Con il rumeno voi bulgari avete una cosa in comune, se ho capito bene, ossia gli articoli enclitici, tipo "la casa" = "domul" e infatti anche con noi dei paesi scandinavi. Io ultimamente ho seguito un corso di rumeno e ho notato che alcune cose della grammatica sono molto diverse dall'italiano (l'unica lingua che so abbastanza bene), per esempio l'uso del congiuntivo dopo verbi modali, tipo "devo lavorare" che deve essere tipo "devo che io possa lavorare". Forse questa è una cosa slava entrata poi nel rumeno? Comunque per me che so l'italiano lo spagnolo è molto più trasparente delle altre lingue neolatine. Con gli spagnoli mi faccio capire piano piano, con i francesi poco.

Well, don't feel bad there are many who feel the same way about languages which are similar to their own native language. For many years I too had a similar situation for learning another language. In my case it was German and kept on pushing the date back because I would get caught up in other things. At the moment I am learning Greek and Italian I dabbled in German a couple of times. BUT I told myself that I will focus on Greek and Italian for at least 2 years straight and once I get my Italian to a B2 level I will switch Italian for German. Anyways Good luck! I guess just pick a date even if it is 2 years from now but set the date on stone.

İ agree that French is tough, although in terms of grammar, it is actually simpler than most other romance languages. The verb conjugation is arguably simpler, especially in the spoken language. e.g. "parler" in the present tense ends up having only two pronunciation: "parl" and "parlé". also the different adjectives and participles end up having the same pronunciation. compare "vəny" in French to four form of "venut_" in İtalian. French uses subjunctive probably the least frequently compared to its brother languages. You also mentioned partitive, but this is pretty normal in Valencian and İtalian.

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I tried reading graded readers and short stories but I’ve found that I get very invested in the story and characters so they weren’t long enough for me. After two days of reading them I decided to buy self published teen/young adult books from Amazon instead which has been a success. I learned so many new words and phrases and the stories so far have been great. The self published books are inexpensive so I can buy a few at a time and they can be shorter than the average publishing house books as all that I bought are under 300 pages and each are about 10 dollars and under. I do look up every word I don’t know as I am reading because for me I want to understand and enjoy the story as I am also reading for fun and I can’t do that if the sentence only half makes sense. Also Portuguese has a lot of phrases that mean something completely different than the literal meanings of the individual words and sentence. I am reading 3 books of each genre I like right now and I started with romance since it tends to have a lot more frequently uses everyday speech and fiction writers tend to use a lot of the same words repeatedly in their work so it really gets me accustomed to the words I just learned from the book. I think it is really important to choose a method of reading material that you will enjoy that keeps you reading. Even though I’m only in my 6th month of study fiction turned out to be the right pick for me as I understand everything I’m reading except for those few words I have to look up which for me doesn’t stop my flow or enjoyment of the book. I think you give great advice but everyone does need to take the advice and definitely tailor it to fit their own needs. Thanks for a great video!

I'm a black french, spanish is so easy for us. European portuguese is very difficult to understand. Brazilian portugùese is my favorite and italian is the closest language to french with catalan. French pronounciation in southern french is my understandable. In Marseille they almost pronounce all the letters, even the silent "e". French is the most germanized latin language, despite french having relatinized after the middle age.

For me, only learning one language is like choosing between your kids which ones you will spend your time with. I have taken french, spanish, japanese,russian, tagalog and tsalagi. But french and spanish are the only ones ive been most successful with. I havent been able to practice my russian and japanese so those have gone by the wayside some. But since my daughter is taking japanese, Ill re up this. I want to "finish" the langauges I started (not that that there's ever a finish) and then maybe take greek and hebrew for Scripture reading.

I took french right before spanish class in school and I can say that my french learning helped my spanish learning. But I laugh because i went to the Philippines for a year before i did the dual french and spanish and I got two answers wrong in spanish on a test because the words for aunt and uncle are very similar in tagalog

You know that Portuñol is an actual language spoken in Uruguay, right?

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As a native Spanish speaker, I liked this video. The list goes like this for me (from easiest to hardest) Spanish (obviously) Portuguese (Brazilian) Italian French Portuguese has more similar words to Spanish. In fact, many times, they're the same or so similar I only have to change the pronunciation or a little portion of the word. The disadvantage is false friends because they can trick you when you try to learn the other's language. Also grammar is very similar, you can translate many times word by word and both sentences in both languages will be correct. Italian has the easiest pronunciation. For Spanish speakers, a few days of study is more than enough to learn how to read in italian and many words are the same. Grammar is more different but still somewhat similar. Plurals and ci ne particles can be tricky to understand and remember. French is the hardest because of the reasons you mentioned. Hard pronunciation, many silent letters, liaison, grammar isn't that similar compared to Italian and Portuguese. Ce vs il, y and en particles. Ironically, this is the first romance language (apart from my own) I've learned and I still love it! For some Spanish speakers Italian will be easier than Portuguese and it's understandable. Now talking about european Portuguese in particular, it would be harder than Brazilian Portuguese and Italian but easier than French only because of its pronunciation and grammar. European Portuguese is more different and difficult to understand without practicing your listening. Now I understand it better but the first time it was hard, silimar to French.

Wow. I didn't realise that French was so difficult. In Belgian French - they do away with base 20 number system, and 70 is septante instead of soxiante-dix, if you see what I mean.

Hi, I am glad I watched your video it has helped me a bit. But I have a question. My native language is English but I speak Spanish up to a B2 level. So I can speak Spanish and write it a bit. But I was wondering from your point of view if you know Spanish decently how quickly could you learn Italian? From your personal point of view how easy do you think it would be to learn? In 6 months do you think its possible to be able to at least read and speak the language some what decently?

Is Hungarian different from Bulgarian? Are they the same or not?

What’s your native language?

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Funny that as a Bulgarian you didn't learn Romanian, so phisicly close...

I'm think that bulgarian maybe is the most easy slavic language, from a spanish speaker, greetings from Chile.

I agree it is annoying being said it can't be done I learned English and Spanish as a child

What is "Google translate paralysis" exactly? Is that when something said in one language cannot be expressed in the other language?

Wait until you hear or see the Aromanian language, XD

Just Say the number please 😂

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Please answer this from your learning experience. I got a new Spanish book. And I can’t read it. What do you do. Do you get anybody that read for you. Or. You get each new book with audio sounds in order to read in a new language. Thank you

romanian is the most difficult imo

Or they ask me what happened to the other one I was studying. I’m still studying that one too lol

Literally at this point my family is like “ he she goooo” anytime I say I’m learning a new language and then proceed to say what they think I should learn. 💀💀