Italian Vs Spanish – Will Knowing Spanish Help You Learn Italian Faster?
Learning any foreign language is a challenge. If it wasn’t, everyone would speak all languages easily. As for learning to speak Italian, Spanish speakers do have an advantage. The similarities, and even the differences, of Italian vs. Spanish in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation will give you a boost towards mastering Italian. Round 1: Italian vs. Spanish – Both Are Romance Languages Both of these languages are considered romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages), meaning they have Latin roots and linguistics. When reading the words in both these languages, you could figure out what is being said because the spellings are similar. For example: My name is (English) = me llamo (Spanish) = mi chiamo (Italian) The root of the word for ‘name’ is ‘amo’. So, a Spanish speaking person could recognize that ‘mi chiamo’ means the same as ‘me llamo’ when used followed by a name. Many other phrases follow this same concept. That is al
