Spanish vs Italian! Can they understand each other?!

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[andreacalzoni]

Being born bilingual, since my mother is from Spain and my father from Italy, and being a teacher of Spanish in Italy, I always have to warn my students not to trust the fact that Spanish seems easy to them, just because they understand it. Understanding is one thing, being able to speak it is another one. The fact that Italians can understand Spanish with a certain level of ease is a trap, because they think they have a level that they probably don't really have.

[martatrane]

I’m from Spain and when I was in high school we get to travel to Rome, and I perfectly remember our teacher telling us ‘You don’t have to talk to them in english, it will be easier and faster if you juast speak spanish’ And it work out amazing 😊

[ggabrielaaa]

Speaking a Romance language is like having a superpower

[miriamiraci]

I'm Italian and Once my dad had a work meeting with other two Italians and three Spanishs and they had to choose a language to use. The problem was that none of the Italians spoke Spanish, the Spanish guys didn't know Italian and only my father and one of the Spanish men knew English, so they decided to each speak their own language. They understood everything

Edit. HOLY SH- THIS BLEW UP! THANKS GUYS!

[paolavitale]

I’m Italian and recently moved to Spain. When my parents (who do not speak any Spanish) come visit me and go out and about on their own, they easily communicate with everyone. They manage to have long conversations with other elderly people about their lives, their past, their families..
It never ceases to surprise me and love it!

[alej]

I'm Spanish and I worked in a reception. I loved every single time Italians came because we could speak our own languages and understand each other. It's a beautiful communication, and I'm also charmed by the Italian musical sound

[ROBERTOCARLOSVEN]

We are children of Rome, our languages ​​originate in Latin, it is logical that we understand each other perfectly. Amo a Italia 🇪🇸💕🇮🇹

[henri]

After great videos comparing Spanish and Portuguese it's good to see the comparison between Spanish and another Latin language, Italian 🇮🇹🇪🇦

[pablomartinez]

On my flight back to New York I sat next to a Brazilian girl. She only spoke Portuguese and I spoke Spanish back. We had a full conversation about music, travel and our homes like that. Super cool experience

[LM-ohvw]

Italian here. My dad in his 20’s went to Spain for 2 months, he had never spoke a word in Spanish. When he came home he had completely mastered the language.
He also went to Argentina and as a result he can tell apart the Argentinian and the Spanish accent. He still speaks fluent Spanish well in his 50’s.

[angy]

As a Spanish girl, when I moved to Italy at the beginning I could understand everything they told me, but I didn't know how to answer and it was so so frustrating. After a year learning Italian by speaking I lack grammar and verbs, but I considerate myself pretty fluent. So I encourage everyone out there to practice a lot with native people when learning a new language :)

[real__prx]

I'm from Romania, where our language is from the same family language as Spanish and Italian. I lived in Spain for a while and I can speak French too, so I was amazed by the fact that I understand really well both languages :))

[juanabad]

Actually is funny the fact Spanish people think that adding an “i” at the end of every word sounds Italian and Italian people just the opposite, adding an “s” is Spanish. Because as a Spanish guy and Italian speaker, the formation of plural words in Spanish and Italian is with the “s” and the “i” ending, respectively.

[rain]

It’s amazing how speaking 1 romance language gives you bonus access to understand other “sister” languages. As a native Spanish speaker, I can understand about 90% of Brazilian Portuguese and about 70% standard Italian. (when watching a normal tv show - if the person speaks slower with less slang, I understand a lot more naturally)Off course, writing and speaking them is a different story since I’ve never taken classes, but I could have a general understanding when I read (by context). Spanish also gives me access to understand a bit of Catalan and Ladino. I also speak French, but I found it difficult at the beginning and not so similar as 🇪🇸🇧🇷

[sasharama]

Being from Sardinia (Italy), Spanish is even easier for me.
We have many similar words like trabajar ( to work), which is "tribbagliare" in Sardinian, or "brincar" (to jump) which is "brincare " in Sardinia.
It's a weird experience being able to understand a language even if you don't speak it🤩

[henri]

Andrea : ¿Qué sabes de España? ( what do you know about Spain ? )
Stephania : "I know that you are a beautiful girl" ( se que eres una chica hermosa 🇪🇦 )
Andrea : Thank you so much ( Muchas gracias ), i love they go like first italian-spanish and end up in english and still understand each other

[sirmione]

As a Japanese, I cannot imagine how it feels to listen to foreign language and understand the meaning. I once studied Korean and it was somewhat similar to Japanese in grammar but still it was difficult to understand what people speaking.

We use Chinese characters so I could imagine meaning of written words in Chinese, but even the same characters are used, meanings can be different. For example, a word “手紙” consists of 手=hand and 紙=paper. In Japanese, it means letter. In Chinese, it’s toilet paper. (I don’t know Chinese so this is just what I heard and don’t know if it’s correct).
Also, 飯店 means hotel in Chinese, but to me, it looks like restaurant because 飯 indicates meal and 店 indicates shop.

[kelleylmiller]

My grandmother was from Italy, did not speak Spanish and used to watch Telemundo! She said she could understand what they were saying. I studied both Italian and Spanish - Italian first then Spanish. Having the fundamentals of Italian down made learning Spanish so much easier for me. I do confuse words from language to language sometimes though.

[nathanspeed]

I definitely learnt something new today! As an non Spanish or Italian speaker, it’s very impressive to me that they understood each other!

[Noah_ol]

An Italian understand Spanish easier, faster and better than the other way around and portuguese speaker as well, especially from Brazil, they understand Spanish easier than the other way around, I think portuguese speakers also understand the italian more easier then spanish speakers and the French...well, neither portuguese, Italian or spanish speakers understand french that much and the other way around as well, French is way different from the others