Italian or Spanish: Which One Should You Learn?

[@iamweronika]

Which language are you planning to learn or learned first? Let me know your opinion below! 👇

[@HakimaHouhine]

I need your choice for me

[@tiagopolyglot]

I'm learning both.

[@gmicg]

l am a native French speaker. l am fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. My Spanish fluency prevented me to study ltalian because it is too similar to Spanish. Too many similarity between them, too many confusions. lf l persist, l will damage my knowledge in Spanish.

[@fablb9006]

Thiq is what I thought, but when I decided to learn Italian I realize that is was actually more similar to french than to Spanish. I do not confuse both language. Sure they are similar bit not more similar together than the other latin languages

[@gmicg]

@@fablb9006 As a native French speaker, l was impaired in my learning process of Italian by my fluency in Spanish due to this big many similarity between the two languages. If you want to see one Latin language that is a melting pot of all of the other ones look at Romanian.

[@alessandrorossi1294]

I agree, this happened to me because I studied portuguese before italian and I kept confusing the two.

[@gmicg]

@@alessandrorossi1294 Spanish is way easier to learn when you already know Portuguese and vice-versa. ltalian is too close not to encounter confusions frequently. What is your native language?

[@alanguages]

Spanish first, as there are more resources. Afterwards use Spanish resources to learn Italian. It will strengthen the Spanish you already learned while learning Italian, which is closely related and easier to acquire.

[@danielward7008]

In my opinion you should learn Italian first. If you've only ever learned Spanish then Italian will come as quite the shock. But if you learn Italian first, then Spanish is a piece of cake.

[@magicja]

In America, Spanish is prescribed because it is the second most commonly spoken language. However, I would rather learn a language I find to be more beautiful.

[@dianatralli4099]

As an italian i think that unless you're planning to live in italy for an extended period of time you should learn spanish because it's way more useful than italian due to the fact that it's one of the language with the most speakers in the world.

[@alessandrorossi1294]

Caro can mean expensive in Italian too, depending on context. Caro translates to english as "Dear" or "Valuable".

[@nicholascauton9648]

While I do know English and a decent bit of Ilocano (mostly due to my parents and my wife who are all from the Philippines), I'm currently learning Spanish mostly for practical reasons. For one, there's currently an influx of Latinos coming to my home state Hawaii for work. Plus there is a slowly rekindling interest in the Philippines in picking up Spanish again which could mean the Philippines could reinstate Spanish back to official use alongside Filipino and English. And I'm all here for that. This being said, I'm open to also learning Italian which I do consider to be a beautiful language. I think it's good to also know some Italian. But looking at things objectively, Spanish is technically more useful considering how many countries and people actually speak the language. Heck even some of my coworkers speak Spanish even though we normally speak English to one another.

[@Schnittwin]

caro also means expensive in italian, and sobrio also means sober in italian

[@carlosmc7304]

China is now teaching its students Spanish and making a lot of business in Latin America, the US is already the second country with most Spanish speakers in the world, Spanish is spoken in 4 of the 5 continents so I’d recommend learning Spanish first and then go for Italian.

[@alessandrorossi1294]

The Italian articles are not that hard because there are rules to determine which one to use. Before s+consonant you use "lo". Contractions happen when the vowel of one word would glide into the other.

[@iamweronika]

I also teach Polish! 🇵🇱 learnpolishwithweronika.com/polish-courses/

[@azharsalama2448]

i am going to choose Spanish

[@shamicentertainment1262]

I’m learning German. Austrian German is quite different, but it’s not impossible to understand the basics. But Swiss German sounds like another language to me lol

[@alfonsohshk8998]

I am from Madrid and a native speaker of Spanish and French. I speak UK, D, I, PT, NL, Swiss Geeman as well, but never mind, what you’re saying on your video is a quite good representation of nowadays reality, BUT, just for your information, people from Spain or Mexico or Argentina or no matter from which Hispanic country, we will always use a neutral Spanish to communicate with each.other I have been to Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, etc and I have never ever had any problem because we use a neutral or general Spanish to communicate with others while abroad as a tool. You mentioned Argentina and I can tell you Argentinian Spanish is very clear and beautifuo and very understandable unless the speaker is a weirdo or a peronist. I understand Milei 100%, no difference, just vos or tú, se entiende perfectamente

[@awbinn3377]

De acuerdo. No soy un nativo como tu, solo aprendo español. Y aunque mi profesor es de Venezuela (y creo que me enseña a hablar como hablan en su país, naturalmente) nunca tengo dificultades grandes para hablar con la gente de otros países. Pues, a veces no es fácil - pero solo porque todavía no se muchas palabras, no porque lo que me enseña mi profe venezolano resulta ser inútil en otros lugares donde se habla español. Vale, hay muchas palabras diferentes, pero cada vez cuando viajo a España (soy polaco y es mas cerca para mi) md entienden y a veces me dicen "oh, tio, sabes? aquí en España se dice 'zumo' no 'jugo', y ya! Ni una vez me dijeron 'que dices? No te entiendo - habla castellano ibérico". Tampoco no me lo ha dicho la gente de Argentina, México, Colombia y otros países. Espero que no he cometido muchos errores en mi comentario Saludos 🤘🤘

[@alfonsohshk8998]

@@awbinn3377 castellano ibérico no lo he oido en mi vida, sólo jamón ibérico. Cambia de amigos españoles, o son raros o no son raza celtibérica auténtica! 😀

[@danielward7008]

Learn them both, they're both beautiful languages. But do Italian first, as it has a lot of complexities that Spanish doesn't have. Spanish is a piece of cake by comparison.

[@rudikatzer1606]

preferito studio italiano :)

[@alessandrorossi1294]

"preferisco studiare italiano" o "il mio studio preferito e' italiano"

[@LatinCrassus]

Soy de Venezuela, hablo español, soy nativo, y el español es parecido al italiano

[@JacekKot-iv9gd]

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[@MrMario477]

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[@tommyprotrampx]

Trillions? Lol.

[@alfonsohshk8998]

If I were from Poland (or UK, or D, or SK) I would learn Brazilian Portuguese because is very neutral, easy phonetics, nice people and because of 🇧🇷🥰🏖👙😎😇🤽‍♂😍

[@alfonsohshk8998]

And music! 😍🇧🇷