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| cothromóid Triglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6146 days ago 77 posts - 78 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Irish Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 1 of 18 28 February 2008 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Lately I have been spending a lot of time learning the words for various animals in French and Spanish. I have
noticed many similarities that make simultaneously learning vocabulary easy. For example (English-French-Spanish):
Edited by cothromóid on 29 February 2008 at 10:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 18 28 February 2008 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
The corresponding Italian words are also extremely similar in some cases: Spanish - Italian araña - ragno lobo - lupo topo - topo 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rodYon Pentaglot Newbie Croatia Joined 6148 days ago 38 posts - 38 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Serbian, Croatian*, Latin, French, English Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 18 29 February 2008 at 1:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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lol?
of course they are similar! they are romance languages. as we say, when you have learned one romance language, you have learned them all. compare French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. they are all Latin-based languages and of course that they are similar. sorry, but this was like discovering that hot water actually does exist. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cothromóid Triglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6146 days ago 77 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English*, French, Irish Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 4 of 18 29 February 2008 at 1:52am | IP Logged | |||||
I am aware of the similarities between all romance languages. I didn't create this thread thinking that I had just made a huge linguistic discovery; I simply wanted to discuss these similarities with other members and see what similarities they had noticed. Do you have anything useful to contribute? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rggg Heptaglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6325 days ago 373 posts - 426 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malay Studies: Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, Swedish | Message 5 of 18 29 February 2008 at 9:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi!!!
Romance languages are very similar indeed, but I don't think that after having learned one, automatically you have learned them all, sure, it might be easier to learn another Romance language after mastering one of them, I totally agree with that. And not all animals have similar names in Romance languages, to name just a few: murciélago - chauve-souris - pipistrello - morcego mariposa - papillon - farfalla - borboleta conejo - lapin - coniglio - coelho ardilla - ecoureil - scoiattolo - esquilo golondrina - hirondelle - rondine - andorinha cucaracha - cafard - scarafaggio - barata tiburón - requin - scualo - tubarão Of course, Romance languages share a lot a vocabulary between them, they have the same ancestor!!!, but to say that they're all the same, well ....... Cothromoid, some more examples of the similar ones, I added Portuguese :) camello - chameau - cammello - camelo gato - chat - gatto - gato caballo - cheval - cavallo - cavalo ballena - balaine - balena - baleia Take care!!! Edited by rggg on 29 February 2008 at 11:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rodYon Pentaglot Newbie Croatia Joined 6148 days ago 38 posts - 38 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Serbian, Croatian*, Latin, French, English Studies: Italian | Message 6 of 18 29 February 2008 at 9:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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english - french - Italian - Spanish
cow - vache - vacca (mucca) - vaca horse - cheval - cavallo - caballo camel - chameau - cammello - camello giraffe - girafe - giraffa - jirafa bear - ours - orso - oso bull - taureau - toro - toro buffalo - buffle - bufalo - búfalo ........... and so on.
no, but it isn't amazing. or you are easily amazed.
of course not, it's just a saying in our department on faculty. they are very very similar, that's all. i really don't see what is so much 'amazing' about that. Edited by rodYon on 29 February 2008 at 9:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 7 of 18 29 February 2008 at 10:43am | IP Logged | |||||
It's easy to take the similarity of the Romance languages for granted once you're used to it, or if you're familiar with another set of languages which have a similar relationship. I can easily see being amazed at it the first few times someone sees first-hand evidence of this in his/he own studies; it is rather striking. Japanese and French, or Spanish and Basque, are very different languages. German is significantly farther from Spanish than Italian is. Perhaps you're saying "but that's obvious" at this point - but, unless you know the languages, or about their elements and/or histories, it really isn't. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cothromóid Triglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6146 days ago 77 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English*, French, Irish Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 8 of 18 29 February 2008 at 10:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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Rodyon:
Perhaps "amazing" was the wrong word to use. To prevent more problems, I have removed it. In fairness though, when I posted my opening message I didn't expect you to analyse every word of it. Edited by cothromóid on 29 February 2008 at 10:49am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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