Hello. My question is are French and Italian closely related? What differences are there? I think one of the differences between French and Italian are the nasal sounds. Do you agree?
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How similar are French and Italian JohannesBe050995268Hello. My question is are French and Italian closely related? What differences are there?
I think one of the differences between French and Italian are the nasal sounds. Do you agree?July 2, 2018
JohannesBe050995268
JohannesBe050995268
Hello. My question is are French and Italian closely related? What differences are there?
I think one of the differences between French and Italian are the nasal sounds. Do you agree?
July 2, 2018
2 CommentspumaconcolorItalian and French are both romance languages, they both descend from Vulgar Latin. In terms of grammar they are similar with differences here and there, for example like the fact that subject pronouns in French are mandatory (like in English), which I believe is unusual for a romance language. In terms of lexicon they are also similar, (have many cognates) being the majority of their vocabularies derived from Latin. But phonetically they are quite different, I’m a native Italian speaker and I can’t understand quickly spoken French, on the other hand I can understand written French better, the writing system is much less phonetical than that of Italian and many times those ‘silent letters’ help me make out what the word could be, based on which words in Italian it resembles.July 2, 2018MacIomhairI already had French and Spanish before attempting Italian – I found Italian to be close to Spanish for vocabulary but French for grammar and syntax.
[Edit – ignore my flags – my French is fluent, so no need to learn it here and my Spanish is conversational, so I only revise it here, not really learning it]July 2, 2018
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pumaconcolorItalian and French are both romance languages, they both descend from Vulgar Latin. In terms of grammar they are similar with differences here and there, for example like the fact that subject pronouns in French are mandatory (like in English), which I believe is unusual for a romance language. In terms of lexicon they are also similar, (have many cognates) being the majority of their vocabularies derived from Latin. But phonetically they are quite different, I’m a native Italian speaker and I can’t understand quickly spoken French, on the other hand I can understand written French better, the writing system is much less phonetical than that of Italian and many times those ‘silent letters’ help me make out what the word could be, based on which words in Italian it resembles.July 2, 2018MacIomhairI already had French and Spanish before attempting Italian – I found Italian to be close to Spanish for vocabulary but French for grammar and syntax.
[Edit – ignore my flags – my French is fluent, so no need to learn it here and my Spanish is conversational, so I only revise it here, not really learning it]July 2, 2018
pumaconcolorItalian and French are both romance languages, they both descend from Vulgar Latin. In terms of grammar they are similar with differences here and there, for example like the fact that subject pronouns in French are mandatory (like in English), which I believe is unusual for a romance language. In terms of lexicon they are also similar, (have many cognates) being the majority of their vocabularies derived from Latin. But phonetically they are quite different, I’m a native Italian speaker and I can’t understand quickly spoken French, on the other hand I can understand written French better, the writing system is much less phonetical than that of Italian and many times those ‘silent letters’ help me make out what the word could be, based on which words in Italian it resembles.July 2, 2018
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Italian and French are both romance languages, they both descend from Vulgar Latin. In terms of grammar they are similar with differences here and there, for example like the fact that subject pronouns in French are mandatory (like in English), which I believe is unusual for a romance language. In terms of lexicon they are also similar, (have many cognates) being the majority of their vocabularies derived from Latin. But phonetically they are quite different, I’m a native Italian speaker and I can’t understand quickly spoken French, on the other hand I can understand written French better, the writing system is much less phonetical than that of Italian and many times those ‘silent letters’ help me make out what the word could be, based on which words in Italian it resembles.July 2, 2018
Italian and French are both romance languages, they both descend from Vulgar Latin. In terms of grammar they are similar with differences here and there, for example like the fact that subject pronouns in French are mandatory (like in English), which I believe is unusual for a romance language. In terms of lexicon they are also similar, (have many cognates) being the majority of their vocabularies derived from Latin. But phonetically they are quite different, I’m a native Italian speaker and I can’t understand quickly spoken French, on the other hand I can understand written French better, the writing system is much less phonetical than that of Italian and many times those ‘silent letters’ help me make out what the word could be, based on which words in Italian it resembles.
July 2, 2018
July 2, 2018
MacIomhairI already had French and Spanish before attempting Italian – I found Italian to be close to Spanish for vocabulary but French for grammar and syntax.
[Edit – ignore my flags – my French is fluent, so no need to learn it here and my Spanish is conversational, so I only revise it here, not really learning it]July 2, 2018
I already had French and Spanish before attempting Italian – I found Italian to be close to Spanish for vocabulary but French for grammar and syntax.
[Edit – ignore my flags – my French is fluent, so no need to learn it here and my Spanish is conversational, so I only revise it here, not really learning it]
July 2, 2018
July 2, 2018
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