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Originally Posted by aelle  French is a latin language, so it's close to Spanis, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian (and latin of course, if you find any utility for it). But I think Spanish - Potuguese - Italian are closer to one another than French is to any of these 3 (Native speakers of these 3, please correct me if I am wrong) |
No offense intended to anyone, but Portuguese and Italian sound to me like more informal forms of Spanish, but they extremely similar. Like the author of a book that I read said, "Portuguese sounds to me like Spanish that's been damaged on delivery."