Spanish vs French (How Similar Are They?!)

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Special thanks to Edu Tudela for his Spanish audio samples, and Lùthais MacGriogair for his French audio samples.

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[Palki]

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

[diegomoreno]

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

[racsito]

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

[ykall]

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

[和平和平-ci]

"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.

[Tameemterminator]

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

[dubfun]

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

[mborok]

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".

[Syl]

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.

[masichasi]

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

[iduntyra]

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

[ardaakn]

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

[YouWinILose]

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 ❤❤❤

[Kusamezi]

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!

[antoinemathis]

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 !

[theblondieone]

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

[ggarzagarcia]

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.

[olyashalnova]

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

[BassicVIC]

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!