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Belgians have French either as their mothertongue or as the second national language. As such I only realized Spanish was really easier than French after an elementary level language course, which took me much further than anticipated. Several years of upgrading were required before being able to watch television or movies spoken in Spanish. I learnt Italian after reaching an intermediary level in Spanish. Pronunciation is even easier than Spanish, but I agree with the peculiarities in plurals and articles which take time to acquire. Portuguese I only started learning as I was approaching retirement age. Even though I never fully reached an intermediate level, I realized that understanding and being able to communicate in Galician is a bonus.

As a Portuguese speaker I find Spanish extremely easy to understand and at the same extend hard to speak, because I never know if I'm speaking Portuguese or Spanish. Even with words I know well, false friends, for example, I keep mixing up, they are always interfering in each other.

Yes, around 50-70% of English words are derived from Latin. In fact, Latin and Greek roots are the primary source of words in English science and technology, where the figure is over 90

I learned Bulgarian for 6 years and i can actually speak half of the language as well 😊 Also understand the grammar and vocabulary words. So let me show you some basic words that i learned first Basic Everyday Words: Hello: Zdraveite How are you: Kak ste? Welcome: Dobre doshli Goodbye: Dovizdhane Good Morning: Dobro utro Good afternoon: Dobar den Good evening: Dobar vecher Good night: Leka nosht Family members: Mother: Maika Father: Bashta Brother: Brat Sister: Sestra Grandma: Baba Grandpa: Dyado Aunt: Lelya Uncle: Chicho These were the first words i learned in Bulgarian, it was quite fun to learn a new language and im happy for myself 😊😌

I learned Spanish first until I grasped the basic grammar then I switched to French and now I can read most online content or listen to lower intermediate levels in french. I guess my initial Spanish learning helped fast track my French. Speaking English also helped

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ps... In your opinion from a phonetic standpoint which language is more phonetically consistent Italian or Portuguese?

Thank you for your insight this was very interesting. I want to make a point with regards to the "easiest language to learn" but I will come back to that shortly. English is my native language I also speak fluent German which is not a category 1 language from an native English standpoint.(Category one refers to a group of languages that are easiest to learn for native English speakers and German is not among that group) Yet I learned it with great ease. I'm probably B2 in Spanish or maybe between B2 and C1. And just recently started learning Portuguese. I was undecided between Italian and Portuguese. Obviously as you state anyone who speaks Spanish can read a lot of Portuguese however as you note the pronunciation is quite different, very closed mouth and very nasal almost reminds me of some Asian languages. Back to my point and wanted to make. Everything is relevant. I would say it's easier for a native Spanish speaker to learn Italian that would be English speaking person to learn German for example. And again it would be easier for a Swedish native speaker to learn Norwegian then it would be for a Swedish person to learn Finish. Yes , I fully understand the concept of groups of languages, so depending on your native language everything is relevant. However nothing is ever written in stone. I still don't understand why I learned German without any effort and yet I literally put 10 times the effort into learning Spanish and my Spanish is still nowhere near my German ability??

You have to script all your stuff

Аз знам 🇧🇬🇨🇵🇪🇦🇮🇹🇵🇹🇬🇧 , мисля че румънския е най -труден от всичките румънски , граматиката му е коварна и много трудно се изговарят думите , и доста се различава от френския , когато научих италиански, малко по малко взех да разбирам езика от етикети на продукти , италианския е най -близък до румънския , а що се отнася до италиански по мое мнение най лесният от всички поне по отношение на слушане и лексика и думите ти влизат инстиктивно , не е като при френски или испански, на мене испанският ми беше по труден , но както каза италиански му е гадна граматиката , да.... От най-труден към лесен според моето учение към езиците : 1.Румънски 2. Френски 3. Португалски 4.Испански 5 . Италиански

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The passion for me comes from all of the exotic languages and the cool writing systems. I am a mental head, I want Korean, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm in a beginner plateau. I have been on an A2 level in Japanese for such a long time. It's frustrating, I want to understand I just can't yet despite all of the training

"Woman"=1 "women"=2 it matters to a woman trust me.

You explain even the hardest topics so easily!

One thing that few polyglots or multilingual speakers often mention is that the more languages you try to learn at once, the slower your progress will be in each of them. My advice is not to attempt learning more than two languages simultaneously from a beginner level. It’s much more effective to reach an upper-intermediate level in one language before moving on to the next. For example, I’m currently learning four languages, but only one (Chinese) is at a beginner level. The other three are at upper-intermediate to advanced levels. I learned each one separately, not all at once, and that was key to successfully bringing them to an advanced level.

I thought Bulgarians generally know Russian too?

Romania?

Yes French prononciation and writing is difficult, but not more than the English ones which are a mess too. And a lot of English vocabularies come from French language so you won't be totally lost ; don't be affraid by that. Still, I agree with the ranking.

ai uitat de romana

De fato, você é uma das poliglotas que realmente sabe o que diz e coloca os de forma objetiva e sincera. Obrigado!

I think this is the eleventh time i listen to this video and I was very sceptic in the beginning. Language learning should be based on grammar and inherently painful, so I thought, remembering the German declination tables from school. But what you are saying starts to sink in. I have just started to learn Spanish and of course bought a grammar to study, but today I tried something else: I watched the Amazon Prime Colombian series "Sayen", which I have seen before, and I put on the Spanish text and just tried to relax and enjoy the film and to my surprise it was so much fun; I enjoyed "the music" of the language and understood more than I had expected. But the greatest experience was that my brain "enjoyed it" and I didn't have to force myself. Thank you so much for opening my eyes!

That’s not me😒

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.

That's fantastic. The real question is: are you single?

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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!