How to learn any Romance language

[@Thelinguist]

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[@horatiotodd8723]

French is definitely the easiest language for English speakers

[@tombernard4612]

@@horatiotodd8723 definitely have to disagree with you there. There are so many silent letters in the French language it is absolutely NOT a phonetic language. There are so many exceptions to pronunciation and if you don't pronounce perfectly a French person won't understand you.. This is very contrary to Spanish and German ( both phonetic once you learn the alphabet what you see is what you get and what you hear, there are very, very few exceptions to the pronunciation in these languages) I am fluent in both German and Spanish so I speak from experience.

[@RazanOraby]

​​@@tombernard4612I'm actually Arab but I'd say that spanish is infact one of the easiest romance languages for an English speaker to learn dont know about the r tho we already have the sound in Arabic but french is literally perceived the same way regardless of ethnicity I've seen Arabs struggling I've seen Hispanics struggling ig it just narrows down to how determined you are

[@tombernard4612]

@@RazanOraby agreed it's all about determination but make no mistake some sounds will be more natural in some target languages due to the fact they are similar to your native language , for example Spanish and Italian.... A lot of people wouldn't agree with me but I have a very near perfect German accent and I'm a native English speaker. Even native Germans are fooled sometimes when I speak... Yet I have a great deal of difficulty with the Brazilian Portuguese accent and pronunciation.

[@RazanOraby]

@@tombernard4612 That's actually insane I haven't found that many (any) English natives having mastered German so far. Having Arabic as my mother tongue has made almost any foreign language easy to master in terms of pronunciation (I still suck at grammar) so ig that's an advantage there but even under the same conditions people here be struggling w the English accent so...but overall yeah I'd understand that learning french as a native korean wouldn’t be the same as to let's say an English one. So yeah ur right it does have a role là. btw what language do u speak if I may ask

[@MathAdam]

Steve is the true hyper polyglot gigachad.

[@RJ-ku2mh]

The OG for sure

[@laythadrian5705]

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[@jalillgamble7158]

This comment is underrated!

[@chrisbunka]

He runs a true linguistic rotation.

[@dickmannholger5290]

Yeah, s.o. who doesn't know that hand is feminine in French.🤯

[@IncredibleStan]

Merci à vous M. kaufman. J'apprends le français depuis 3 ans. Vous êtes une motivation. !

[@khush1894]

et moi depuis quelques mois. 🎉

[@Tepes1448]

I’m so glad for being born in Brazil. I’ve been studying English for 6 years now and my dream is to become fluent in a level that the native speakers would be amazed by. After achieving this, I’ll continue my French and Spanish to do the same thing. I also hope to become fluent in Russian or Romanian. Greetings Gigachad polyglot Steve 🇧🇷

[@SR-jm9tz]

Greetings from Russia! I m also dreaming of being able to speak Brazilian Portuguese.

[@Tepes1448]

@@SR-jm9tz nice brother! If you ever need tips just let me know!

[@Tamara-ju3lh]

I'm a native English speaker and your comment is amazing me! It's perfectly written. If only my Spanish was as good (I've been studying for a year). I also would love to learn Portuguese.

[@Tepes1448]

@@Tamara-ju3lh thank you ☺️☺️☺️☺️

[@mihaelaserman]

omg, i am romanian and i am learning brazilian portuguese and i love it!!

[@tomasmills8258]

Thank you for re-enabling danish subtitles!

[@IslandLobster]

underrated comment

[@ragsna1630]

@3:58 there is a mistake: the word hand is also feminin in french: la main

[@Ballykeith]

_Sacré bleu!_

[@IncredibleStan]

Qui se fiche...mdr

[@horatiotodd8723]

@Ballykeith Non, sacre dieu

[@hugues-v8i]

la main is a girl but le pied (the foot) is a boy. In German too, die Hand is feminine and der Fuß is masculine. German even has a neutral gender, neither feminine nor masculine: das Mädchen, the girl; but in French une fille is definitely feminine😀 Oh the French!

[@NicholeRojas-r8i]

Native Spanish speaker here hehe, but I love your content ❤ Hugs from Colombia!

[@JesusGonzalezzz]

As a Spanish speaker I wanted to learn Italian then I ask myself "what for?" Just because it sounds lovely? So I finally decided for Portuguese, due to my job I have the chance to practice it with native Speakers

[@tombernard4612]

For any Anglophones wondering when you explain about different dialects and accents etc., just ask yourself , lets say you live in Vancouver you're a native English speaker, can you understand somebody from Scotland, Ireland or even Alabama when they speak? My answer for myself would be yes. Not every single word but I definitely get what they're saying so the same is with these cross continental languages.

[@AtomikNY]

And the more exposure you get to those dialects, the easier it will be to understand when they use words and phrases and pronunciations particular to their region. Same goes for foreign languages. Even if you’re focusing on learning to speak a particular regional dialect, it’s still a good idea to get exposure to a variety of other dialects so you have a broader base of comprehension skills.

[@emack2130]

This. I used to only speak English, but I’ve now learned Spanish Portuguese and now am learning Italian. I agree completely with this comment . I learned mainly the European accent for Spanish and could understand that the best. For a while I couldn’t understand Dominican, Chilean and other accents but over time as I got better and through exposure I got used to them. The same thing happened with Portuguese. I learned Brazilian first and European seemed very tough to me but I eventually got through it. It’s literally the same thing that happens American vs Australian vs English accent etc.

[@tombernard4612]

@@emack2130 .. por cierto, "Chileano" no es español, para nada! jejejeje... Sólo un bromo :))

[@wastingtimeop]

I am an American, but have a ton of British friends, as well as Australian, South African etc. They make a big deal out of how different our languages are, but I never agree. I don't even consider them dialects. For an American English speaker, you just need to learn 20-30 words and get used to the accent and you are good to go. While some languages are actually dialects but called languages. Thoughts.

[@tombernard4612]

@@wastingtimeop so coincidentally one of my languages is German and I will use this as case and point when it comes to true dialects and differences within a language. For example if you're watching Swiss TV in Germany , Swiss German it is so different there will actually be High- German subtitles on the Swiss program so the German viewers in Germany can understand. . Now that's a pretty obvious example. Another example would be in Süd Tirol , in northern Italy on the Austrian border, this is another true dialect of German and to be honest I can hardly understand them at all. And then there are all the different micro dialects within Germany that are very very different. So as a native English speaker I don't really find as you say, a huge differences throughout the whole spectrum of the English language. Even from South Africa to Alabama and back to Scotland, it's just different accents and a few different words, by definition they are by no means different "dialects."

[@CiorbaDeConopidă]

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[@SusanMartinez-pd1yr]

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[@vc3367]

I wouldn’t say that Catalan is a regional language though. It’s the OFFICIAL language of Andorra. In Spain it’s also spoken on a cooficial level in Catalonia, Valencian region, Balearic Islands, El Carche in Murcia and La Franja in Aragon. In France it’s spoken in the Rossellonès region and it’s also spoken in L’Alguer in Italy. With a total of around 10 million speakers, more than half of languages in Europe…

[@manuvazyap8657]

Yeah but that number stays little next to the 500 million spanish native speakers around the globe, it's still a language of a little "region" in europe. The same happens with lots of lenguas indigeneas here in S.A. many of them count millions of speakers in more than two countries, and even have a status of official but they are still regional

[@Donquijote98]

I love this channel and Steve. You are someone to look up to! I hope us English speakers learn more languages.

[@tombernard4612]

Motivation is absolutely key! I learned German 35 years ago living in Germany whenI met my would be first wife… Five years ago I started learning Spanish when I met my Colombian would be second wife… Now I'm learning Portuguese just for the passion of language learning but now my Colombian wife figures I must have a Brazilian mistress!!! True story ...jejejejje

[@NormanIdk]

Haha, que maravilha. Espero que o seu aprendizado da língua portuguesa seja satisfatória!

[@tombernard4612]

@@NormanIdk Obrigado! a verdade é que comecei literalmente há apenas duas semanas. mas como falo espanhol. o principal desafio que tenho com o português é o sotaque , não tanto a gramática.

[@martinromangette7372]

any advice for German? I am lost 😅

[@tombernard4612]

@@martinromangette7372 ignore the grammar, for example ignore anything about the Dativ und Akkusativ" ... (for now) Concentrate on a few pronouns and learn the language in "chunks" and the pattern will come together for you. I did it before KZbin or the Internet and it worked.

[@jhon9647]

​@@tombernard4612 hola este consejo también puede ser efectivo para learn inglés?

[@ernestorevollar3632]

I think about learning Italian soon but it feels like I still procrastinate what can be a new language journey. However, I got an ideal language learning plan from a chat with an AI that helped me figure out what could work best for me. I already speak a Romance language, which is Spanish, but I don't really want to use it when learning Italian just to avoid mixing up the two being so similar in vocabulary and some grammatical structures. I'd rather use English to learn Italian because they're obviously different, but it would also be convenient for me to use Spanish for some difficult structures to memorize in Italian. Thanks again, Steve, for the awesome advice you give us on learning languages. 😊❤

[@l.w.paradis2108]

When I learned French, without first knowing another Romance language, something I found useful was to use a monolingual French dictionary as soon as possible, especially one that middle school or young high school students would use. Then I started using French grammar books as well. This will help you a lot. When I lived in France, the bilingual Spanish-English speakers learned French twice as fast as the rest of us did. Literally twice. It was amazing.

[@ernestorevollar3632]

@@l.w.paradis2108 Wow, you mean that those folks outpaced you in learning French? That's unbelievable.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

@@ernestorevollar3632 It's very believable.

[@ouimonsieur]

@@l.w.paradis2108 Once you learned another a language the next one would be easier to acquire. You already have the automatism to make the switch of languages.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

@ouimonsieur I was bilingual since childhood, with no memory of being monolingual, but my two languages didn't include Spanish or any Romance language. The English-Spanish bilinguals were still twice as fast as I was in understanding and speaking French. I was a pretty good reader, though, having practiced a lot.

[@LetMeGetAUhhh]

1:25 it's important to keep in mind that Greek and Etruscan are not Italic languages like Latin and its descendants. They were just spoken in parts of Italy. Greek is distantly related but belongs to a different, Hellenic branch. Etruscan is completely unrelated to any known language, and its presence in the peninsula predates European arrival.

[@danield2836]

in french the noun hand is femminine "la main"...

[@robertobahamondeandrade]

As a Spanish speaker, my advice for people who want to learn more than one Romance language is this: "Learn CATALAN!" It is in the middle, like an average Romance language.

[@RogerRamos1993]

The regional languages of Italy and France are endangered. Catalan on the other hand is alive, kicking and rocking.

[@Suhnik]

Yeah but in Catalonia almost everybody does. I’ve seen many times in grocery stores that the food is even labelled in Catalan with a small secondary label in Spanish. The respect and kindness people show you when you bust out a few sentences in Catalan is always heartwarming.

[@unoreversecard1o1o1o]

In Catalonia most places are only in Catalan lol it’s just Barcelona that’s predominantly Spanish-English speaking

[@InappropriateShorts]

>>>>>>latin

[@InakiSB]

That's a very good suggestion. But IMO the real middle is the Occitan/Gascon/Provençal. Apart from that, it is such a beautiful language! Sounds better than Catalan (no offence here) and it is closer to standard Italian too.

[@dr.phil.pepper3325]

French literature and cinema are strong motivators for me as well. I'm on my second day of studying French, but after years of studying Japanese I find it relatively easy to make progress in the language. But that's just from my German perspective, non-indo-european native speakers might probably have a hard time learning French.

[@litozulueta6013]

Very helpful. Yes you’re right! One should be motivated.

[@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948]

3:59 ‘Hand’ is feminine in French too though… it’s ‘la main,’ not ‘le main,’ right?

[@Poliglotovic]

Romance languages are a huge romance ❤️‍🔥 of mine!

[@NormanIdk]

Cadê os falantes do português? E cadê os nossos irmãos falantes de línguas latinas? Um abraço e beijo para todos vocês! Ótimo vídeo Steve, amo o seu canal.

[@lizzethmancilla5197]

¡¡Saludos cordiales hermano!!

[@josephphelps1350]

I find it strange everyone seems to downplay Catalan. Yes, it’s regional in the sense of being spoken in a region of Spain rather than the whole country, but it has more speakers than many well-known European languages like Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, Baltic languages, Maltese, etc. More people should study Catalan.

[@jinengi]

Thanks ♥️♥️ I don't understand why some people group Catalan as a regional minority language when it's spoken by more than 10M people, with great usage on the internet and an official language. Very different scenario from Napolitanu, Sardinian, Aragonese, Occitan...

[@unoreversecard1o1o1o]

Exactly!! I don’t speak Catalán but I speak a sister language (a much less widely spoken one, Aragonese, we used to be one Crown lol) so it kinda annoys me if they’re a regional language what is Aragonese??? 15 million speakers , 4 countries and the only official language on 1 isn’t a regional language

[@davidbrown2806]

I am currently learning Spanish strictly as a mental stimulation. I am hoping that this journey will be enjoyable and successful. Should I want to learn another language, would you suggest another Romance language, or something totally different. Being a Canadian I really should learn French as well, however I am concerned that since French and Spanish are closely related, I am concerned about getting them mixed up. Suggestion ?

[@Thelinguist]

Learn whatever language you are most motivated to learn. Learning more languages from the same language family works well.

[@matt92hun]

Also, if you speak English, you already know thousands of Romance words.

[@Vilert-i2m]

4:00 in french hand is feminine too it’s la main

[@jinengi]

Why did you exclude Catalan on the lexical similairty part? The study you took the data from literally includes it 😓

[@AB-tn3jd]

I know French and have been taking up Italian for a while, in part because of familial reasons, but also just to get better. Indeed I'm glad the two languages are very similar in terms of vocabulary and structure, because it's been easier to understand and correlate words in Italian to their French counterparts and see the similarities. Of course the accent and speaking of the two is different, something I don't really have a problem with, but I can see how it's true of many Italians I know that they dislike learning French because of that. If they put their minds to it, sure they can pretty well read french text and understand it, but they'd rather not work hard on their speaking because it's quite the jump from the Italian accent and sounds.

[@Safh185]

Please make a another video on how to learn any Slavic languages ? 😊😊😊😊😊

[@djaponezu63]

Present tense conjugation of the verb love in Romanian has some errors, second person both singular and plural.

[@pierreabbat6157]

"Perra" does exist, meaning a female dog. However, one says "el miembro es una persona" regardless of the member's sex. I went to Portugal for two weeks, already knowing French and Spanish (I count both as native, though I was just an overhearer of Spanish). It took less than a week to break the sound barrier, and before I left I asked someone in Portuguese what "mordomia" means and understood the answer. I watch Curiosamente, Superholly, and Derivando, whose accents are different. Curiosamente's is like mine except that final -n is [n], not [ŋ]; Superholly's I can't put a finger on; and Derivando speaks with distinción, I have no trouble hearing or saying /θ/, it's just not part of my Spanish. La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

[@Ballykeith]

@@pierreabbat6157 the last sentence is a great example 👌🏼

[@Thelma_7]

My favorite Polyglot. You just mentioned another country where Portuguese is spoken. It always baffles me why almost everyone only ever mentions Portugal and Brazil.Ignoring the other four Portuguese speaking countries. I'm currently drowning in a sea of Spanish verb conjugation.Thanks for the tips.

[@lxportugal9343]

It's oficial in 5 Africans and Timor-Leste and the region of Macau. Not all of them have native speakers but for instance there are more native speakers in Angola than in Portugal

[@Thelma_7]

Oh, I only knew about 4 in Africa: Cape Verde Mozambique Angola Guinea Bissau. Which one is the 5th?

[@lxportugal9343]

​@@Thelma_7São Tomé e Príncipe

[@Thelma_7]

@@lxportugal9343 Thank you

[@LOKI77able]

​@@Thelma_7Actually São Tomé e Príncipe is the country with the highest proportion of Portuguese speakers after Brazil and Portugal: in the latest population survey (taken in the 2012) 98.4% of locals aged 1 and above declared to speak Portuguese

[@vincenzovinciullo4666]

Hello, I love Romance languages. I am thinking about learning French or Portuguese or Romanian languages. I dont know which one I have to choose one of them. I love all of them. What do you recommend me to learn one of them first? Thank you.

[@ppn194]

Romanian.

[@alanguages]

French. Easier than Romanian and has more resources to learn it from.

[@ouimonsieur]

Learn the language that you have the opportunity to speak with native locutors.

[@arrunzo]

The answer is learn the one that is most immediately useful for you. Portuguese is useful if you know for sure you'll be spending extended periods of time in Brazil. Meanwhile, French is a good choice for a big portion of Europe. Another option is to learn something called "Romance Neolatino" (or simply "Neolatin"). It's a synthesis of modern Romance languages into one standard. It's Romance language version of Interslavic.

[@LanguageswithErman]

Gracias amigo...

[@karfagenium]

Do you have plans to learn Latin?

[@boccobadz]

For me Spanish and Italian sound and feel pretty much the same and I would say they're pretty easy to learn for Slavic speakers. On the other hand, Portuguese pronunciation for me sounds closer to Hungarian than Spanish.

[@AlesadraOliveira-j2m]

Portuguese grammar similar to Hungarian? nothing to do with it, as a Portuguese speaker I wouldn't understand 1% of what a Hungarian speaker said, unlike the Latin languages that I would understand. Portuguese and Spanish share 89% similarity, while Spanish and Italian share 82%, and Portuguese and Spanish share 75% similarity with French. Spanish and Portuguese are more similar in terms of grammar, they share more similar words, but in pronunciation, Spanish and Italian are more similar.

[@fablb9006]

Actually Italian is closer to french than it is to spanish

[@Luritsas]

Your reading comprehension skills are not great... ​@@AlesadraOliveira-j2m

[@Luritsas]

​@@fablb9006not phonetically nor when it comes to mutual intelligibility.

[@Luritsas]

​@@AlesadraOliveira-j2mPortuguese PRONUNCIATION. They never mentioned its grammar.

[@Reveur.lucide]

3:57 I just want to correct a mistake of gender. In French we say "la main" and not "le main" it's feminine not masculine so it's the same gender than in Italian

[@Ballykeith]

Hand seems to be feminine across the board.

[@zane17760]

Do you think Mongolian would ever be offered on Linq, or is it too niche for the platform? Thanks

[@zane17760]

@@LangXplorer Beautiful language, but man is it difficult!

[@xolang]

Thank you! İt's a shame that when talking about Canadian French, usually only Quebec is mentioned and the rest of the country's francophones get ignored.

[@user-mrfrog]

Il y a aussi le français louisianais aux États-Unis. Vive la diversité !

[@CrysolasChymera2117]

3:40 Romanian. There is a mistake, it goes this way. iubesc iubești iubește iubim iubiți iubesc

[@jorschu]

thank you i just about left this video thinking romanian had an identical first and second person singular form

[@mimisor66]

​@@jorschuI would have liked to see you use a word similar across all the languages, like to believe (a crede in RO) or to have. To love in RO is a Slavic origin word.

[@gabrielvieira9832]

Give us tips for japanese. What should we focus on

[@romankolyuka8153]

It is good to learn Romance languages after learning Latin language.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

Exactly!

[@alanguages]

Although I agree. Latin is the mother language, and will take the most time and difficulty level will probably be the highest. With that said, the daughter languages would be a cake walk after knowing Latin at a high enough level.

[@Səv]

Latin grammar is very complex compared to romance languages

[@romankolyuka8153]

@@Səv But it will be easy to learn Romance languages after Latin language. This especial applies to Romanian language which grammar are more similar to grammar of Latin language than grammars of all other Romance languages.

[@karfagenium]

Планируете ли Вы учить латинский язык?

[@TitoNaMacho]

I want to learn Spanish, Italian and Brazil Portuguese (currently learning Spanish). The only non-Romance language I really want to learn is Japanese.

[@jamesforrest8371]

I appreciate the importance of reading and listening, However, when choosing reading materials, does the selection of reading material influence how quickly a person can improve their overall fluency in a language? In short, are some sources of reading (and listening) better than others when learning another language?

[@kennethwdc]

You chose good graphics and maps but you just flashed them on the screen. I would have enjoyed looking at them longer while you were talking.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

Yes! ❤

[@AdrianCaden]

Thank you so much

[@Bamdad-k6b]

Make like this for Germanic languages

[@l.w.paradis2108]

That's just it -- it's not possible. They are far more different from each other. Of the Indo-European languages, the Romance family is unique. When I lived in France people told me that studying Latin was actually useful for them, because if they took it seriously and studied hard, they could then spend a semester in Italy, Spain, or Portugal and be reading well and would start speaking by the end of that time. Would learning Old English do that for you, for learning Danish, or Dutch, or Icelandic? No. It would probably help a little. But there is no bridge from every Germanic language to every other.

[@alanguages]

@@l.w.paradis2108 There is no bridge like you mentioned, but you can still do it to a lower degree. One attempted project in Europe was to attempt to do that with the Romance, Germanic and Slavic families. The Romance was the most successful for the amount of resources made. Considering Romance based books to learn the Romance languages they had Germanic and Slavic language based books to learn the Romance languages also. The attempt for a Germanic family was only made with a German based book. It was to comprehend German, English, Dutch, Frisian, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish. Strange they did not put Afrikaans and Faroese in it. Unfortunately, none was made for intercomprehension for the Slavic family, even though it was a goal. It seemed overall the intercomprehension pilot did not take off.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

@@alanguages Could you give me more information on who designed this? It's fascinating.

[@alanguages]

@@l.w.paradis2108 If it is the Germanic family intercomprehension book in German you are interested in, then look up Eurocomgerm: Die sieben Siebe. The publishing company is German. Shaker Verlag. There was a website on it before, explaining about the purpose of the project. I haven't been able to find it recently, as it was outdated and I already bought the books I wanted. Just to let you know, although not related to the project, other authors have made intercomprehension or comparisons between Germanic languages on their own, as their is a demand for it. Although a small one. Examples: Comparative Grammar of German, Dutch and Afrikaans: Learn & Compare 3 Languages Simultaneously Comparative Grammar of Swedish, Norwegian and Danish: Learn 3 Scandinavian Languages at the Same Time

[@alanguages]

@@l.w.paradis2108 I replied to your post, but for some reason it did not show up and seems to be deleted. It showed up on my history of comments, but on this page it is not there, nor indicate it was a 4th reply.

[@thehapagirl92]

Learning another language is so good for keeping an elderly person’s brain sharp! I will say though that French isn’t as easy as other Romance languages. You don’t pronounce all the letters

[@Kinotaurus]

The map at 0:27 represents no language family grouping I can think of. Arabia and North America in the same colour? Since when is English an Afro-Asiatic language?

[@fablb9006]

It is true that, contrary to what most people tend to think, that french is significatively closer to Italian than Spanish is. PS : hand in french (main) is still feminine, like in the other romance languages : LA main

[@MonkeySoup-t7w]

Do how to learn any slavic language

[@sebastianstavar]

As a native Romanian speaker who has lived in the US for the past 27 years, I started learning a Spanish on Duolingo with English as my primary language, since that’s what I use most now. However, after three months, I’m starting to think it might’ve been a mistake. I’m considering switching my primary language to Romanian instead. Has anyone else experienced something similar or have any advice on whether this switch could help?

[@hiranmarcondes]

yes, im brazilllian and ive been in quebec for a while and ive been learning french... i could say that it is much easier to use my portuguese brain to speak french than my english

[@sebastianstavar]

@@hiranmarcondes Thank you!

[@lugo_9969]

Excellent work Steve. I would love to hear your thoughts on the difficulties and challenges of learning irish gaelic. The Celtic language family is yearning for polyglots to have a listen. 😂

[@alanguages]

Some book resources to help learn some of the Romance languages simultaneously mainly for reading comprehension. English base: Comparative Grammar of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French: Learn & Compare 4 Languages Simultaneously. The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages French base: Pratique des langues romanes Comprendre les langues romanes: Du français à l’espagnol, au portugais, à l’italien & au roumain Variable base: EuroComRom - The Seven Sieves: How to read all the Romance Languages right away. (Base languages can be English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician) (Others bases I know of: Bulgarian, Polish, Dutch, German) No specific base: EuRom5: Leggere e capire 5 lingue romanze (No specific language base and any speaker of the five languages can use it to learn read French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan)

[@arrunzo]

Great book recommendations! A couple of them I've read myself (Seven Sieves and Comparative Grammar)!

[@Swedishpolymath]

By the way I just realise that you have a second channel. Since you are a former diplomat would you consider posting more on that channel on political stuff as there are lots of things going on right now in the world. It would be interesting to hear from a former diplomat/business man.

[@Francis-uw3np]

Bonjour Steve

[@unoreversecard1o1o1o]

Catalan is spoken in 4 countries and is the only official language of one of them (Andorra) I don’t think it can be considered a regional language, it’s the 17th most spoken language in Europe above languages like Finnish Danish or Albanian

[@josegonzalez5211]

The best

[@argos.languages]

Portuguese is the easiest Romance language to learn. It doesn't matter how bad your pronunciation is, natives will always understand you. Spanish on the other hand if you don't pronounce words properly, they won't understand you. Gender in Portuguese is easier than Spanish as well. In terms of verb conjugation, the rules are not the same, but both are pretty consistent.

[@robertobahamondeandrade]

I disagree. The easiest Romance language if you don't speak anyone of them is probably Italian (few vowels and consonants, straightforward orthography, not so much 'crazy' grammar). Portuguese and Spanish are almost twins in grammar, but Portuguese has 14? vowels and a less consistent orthography while Spanish has 5 vowels and a more consistent orthography. If you pronounce Spanish badly people will understand you and praise your effort.

[@lxportugal9343]

​@@robertobahamondeandradeItalian... straighforward orthography??? I think I understand spoken Italian better than writen

[@robertobahamondeandrade]

Really? In Italian every letter or combination of letters has one sound (excepting h is silent and e and o may be open or closed) and every sound has asigned one letter or combination of letters. The most straightforward orthography among Romance languages. Portuguese has around 14 vowels and 5 letters for them, Spanish has 18-20 consonants and 22 letters (b = v, je = ge, ce = se, que = ke, y = ll, x = s or j or ks or sh without rules), I won't talk about French "orthographic rules".

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

​@@robertobahamondeandrade well there is one small inconsistency in italian orthography, sometimes when the stress is unpredictable it is not shown with an accute accent. this also leads to some "cia"s being pronounced as "cha" and some as "chia"

[@marcoac-sx6lq]

Spanish is the easiest one. The second easiest one is Brazillian Portguese. Spanish grammar is sensibly easier than the Italian one, for example it has 1 auxiliar verb instead of 2. Italian grammar is also more complex than Portuguese, as there are structures like ci/ne that are absent in Portuguese. Spanish pronunciation is straightforward, you can always say where the stress goes, the same is not true in Italian. Italian plurals can be unpredictably irregular, can take different vowels and can even change gender, contrary to Portuguese and Spanish. Italian is also the only major romance language having phonetic double consonants.​ Somewhere I read that Spanish and Brazillian Portuguese are the easiest ones to learn for an English speaker, followed by Italian and then the others @robertobahamondeandrade

[@vincentstef5708]

Trying to learn Romanian but you basically never mentioned it..

[@Kinotaurus]

OK, so it was an infomercial for LingQ. Not much on "how to learn Romance languages".

[@chiefpanda7040]

hola Steve me encanta sus videos

[@thiagoxaviersoutricolor8260]

Steve how's it's going? Great weekend Sir bye see you next.

[@nimrod4463]

5:26 not really true haha, I saw some french people who came here to Québéc who were having hard time understanding the french here, especially the contractions, informal language spoken and so forth.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

Spoken French itself is hard if you move away from France! It changes fast.

[@liambyrne591]

Learn the verbs first especially the verb to be and helping verbs

[@nocheinhamster]

0:24 - Why is Mongolia marked as English speaking?

[@ngenglee149]

Believe it or not, English is starting to gain popularity there. Especially amongst the younger generation

[@thumpybones]

Never saw the “How to learn…” part.

[@neurosp]

Don’t try to learn Spanish watching Spanish movies, and if you don’t get the genre right, don’t worry, the Spanish or Italians aren’t French.

[@luismanuelvelazquezmejia2619]

No traten de aprender Español viendo películas, si no comprenden bien el género, no se preocupen, Los españoles e italianos no son franceses.

[@Thatboymeher]

LANGUAGE SIMP MENTIONED, no way, a God mentioned by another God.🙏🏽

[@jordanpotter8993]

J’aime suivre vos vidéos, mais c’est LA/UNE main en français. Je ne connais personne qui dit “le main.”

[@awetewtewtewawetwetw500]

how is retirement?

[@satowa1621]

My favorite polyglot

[@DBoone123]

Hola

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

i think my Portuguese motivation is dwindling. my best friend is Brazilian but we never talk on the phone.. we write everyday.. although I feel like my writing is becoming worse and not better because I am finding myself using the translation more. haven't been studying vocabulary for 3 months so maybe that's a cause. I'll use LingQ after this video but I really want to have someone to talk to on the phone.. and I think this is a reason I'm getting worse.. I just WANT to talk on the phone to native Brazilians :') if Any Brazilian wants to practice English and also help me practice Portuguese please tell me. it has been 3 years and I'm nowhere near fluent or even where I want to be:')

[@Mobile_Antelope_937]

Try languatalk! It has a great ai function, it really helped me with my Italian speaking :) (lingq has helped my reading a lot, but I found the talking options too expensive)

[@tonttaana8930]

Spain is very confusing for example in english we have "was" that covers all!, but Spain you have fue , era , estuvo and estaba!!

[@tombernard4612]

Yes indeed the beauty of the different past tenses in Spanish it's a beautiful thing!! I'm not a polyglot but I do speak three languages and my advice would be when you're learning a language and you notice such a great difference between your native language , English in your case it's best to stop making comparisons back to your native language and just absorb what is... And believe me a native Spanish speaker can surely tell you a lot of confusing things about the English language!!

[@parcerito9817]

At the beginning yes indeed. But when you have studied 4-5 years it all starts to make sense.

[@tonttaana8930]

@@tombernard4612 hah...actually im from Finland so finnish is my native langue not English!.vocabulary wise english is much better tool aproach spanish than a finnish!.

[@tombernard4612]

@@tonttaana8930 I have always been amazed by the Finish and Scandinavian people in general of their amazing ability to grasp and command the English language… I learned German very fluently when I lived in Germany years ago and I regret not learning a Scandinavian language when I was younger. I may attempt Norwegian after I'm done with Portuguese.....no doubt English is a better angle to attack Spanish from... Italian or Portuguese would even be a better angle of attack on the Spanish language as I'm sure you well know.. Mucha Suerte!

[@tonttaana8930]

@@tombernard4612 here in finland english and swedish both are (language study)mandatory in our school system!!!, in addition to that english is everywhere with music, video games and many many other chanels. Particulary movies we don't dubbed like in france

[@wowjef]

I'm a native English speaker who speaks fluent Spanish (I even used to teach it at university), I have B2 Italian (self-taught), and A2 French and Portuguese. I can confirm everything Steve has said. But moving from Spanish to Italian was so much harder than Spanish to Portuguese, contra Steve's experience. When I majored in Spanish at university, I found the transition from Spanish to Portuguese not so hard. With Italian, I thought I would just identify the "small differences" with Spanish and "slide on over" in 6 months 🤦‍♂ No way!

[@LucasCzarnecki-PoliPsych]

Did you learn Italian before Portuguese? I am wondering if the latter was easier because you were a more experienced language learner.

[@wowjef]

@@LucasCzarnecki-PoliPsych I learnt Portuguese as an elective subject while majoring in Spanish in the 1980s. I started Italian 4 years ago and found it challenging at first. I had to "park" my Spanish while learning Italian. My wife is Colombian (language teacher at university), but bilingual, so we just speak in English at the moment. My Portuguese is crap because I stopped learning it, but I know I can regenerate it if I devote time to it (which I shall do at some stage). I have B1 Finnish too. The best way to learn is to live in the country where they speak the language, but we can't all do that. Thanks for asking

[@lindaestrella9436]

​@wowjef what did you to improve considering those small similarities? I'm native Spanish speaker but Italian has been hard bc even when I can understand a lot of things since is similar to Spanish that similarity makes it hard for speaking. 😭😭

[@wowjef]

@@lindaestrella9436 I don't know, really. One thing I had to do, being a fluent non-native speaker of Spanish, was "park" my Spanish for 3 years (try not to use it too much), by which I mean try to ignore it. I first bought some Italian language texts (New Italian Espresso) and after 2 months solid study, sometimes several hours a day during summer vacation (while my Colombian wife was overseas), I then paid a couple of Italian university students stranded in Australia during COVID to chat with me online twice a week. After 1 year of that I moved to italki with a different teacher. I have been chatting with her once a week for one hour for 2 1/2 years. I follow about 8 Italian teachers on KZbin and have watched 975 videos as of today. As well as all that, I did specific studies of the use of "ci" and "ne" and other grammatical aspects that caused me problems. I am a bit fanatical, but that helps when learning languages. Saluti

[@arrunzo]

I find that people overestimate the similarity between Spanish and Italian and underestimate the similarities of French and Romanian with other Romance languages.

[@guilelmusguilelmus8267]

“Le” main? It’s feminin, “la” main, isn’t it?

[@albertmousquetaire4128]

La main.

[@guilelmusguilelmus8267]

But in your exemple, when you compare with the italian “la mano”, you wrote “le main”.

[@unoreversecard1o1o1o]

Yup he messed up, it’s la main. In aragonese we say “la man”

[@FrenchwithBasu]

❤❤❤

[@lynndocherty6743]

Very interesting talk about these languages, and very encouraging about the learning process. Thank you.

[@lxportugal9343]

*How to learn Romance languages?* Learn latin and you became Neo and master the matrix code

[@brentcole8464]

Il a un accent québécois:)

[@felixarquer7732]

The use of the adjective 'regional' languages is disparaging and scientifically meaningless. All languages, big or small, are equally deserving of respect, regardless of whether they happen to be spoken in a territory surrounded by a border or not (that random historical accident). It’s plain to see that, in a world carved up in just around 200 states, the vast majority of the roughly 6000 languages won’t have one to their name, independently of the number of speakers (which in many cases is larger than that of some state languages).

[@Bruh-cg2fk]

greek

[@ROMULOBENICIO]

It's ROMANCE languages or ROMANIC languages. It comes from ROMAN empire.

[@hafsamourabit9605]

wa zebi next time complet the moroccan map

[@vjunaperoh]

😂😂😂 zebbi wlh ghi mochkila ...

[@lizzethmancilla5197]

Me gustaría aprender Latín pero no hay mucho contenido de la lengua.

[@zaqwsx23]

El latín se debe estudiar con el curso "Familia Romana" de Hans H. Ørberg. Es el método ya utilizado a nivel mundial y funciona como si el idioma se aprendiera de manera natural, como un niño. En cuanto a los contenidos, la literatura latina es enorme y abarca muchos siglos.

[@Pixelmen426]

this did not help me give cpr to my grandma!

[@be_better1000]

Thank you so much