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Date of upload: Aug 1, 2022 ^^
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Being born bilingual, since my mother is from Spain and my father from Italy, and being a teacher of Spanish in Italy, I always have to warn my students not to trust the fact that Spanish seems easy to them, just because they understand it. Understanding is one thing, being able to speak it is another one. The fact that Italians can understand Spanish with a certain level of ease is a trap, because they think they have a level that they probably don't really have.
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Italian here. My dad in his 20โs went to Spain for 2 months, he had never spoke a word in Spanish. When he came home he had completely mastered the language.
He also went to Argentina and as a result he can tell apart the Argentinian and the Spanish accent. He still speaks fluent Spanish well in his 50โs.
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I'm Italian and Once my dad had a work meeting with other two Italians and three Spanishs and they had to choose a language to use. The problem was that none of the Italians spoke Spanish, the Spanish guys didn't know Italian and only my father and one of the Spanish men knew English, so they decided to each speak their own language. They understood everything
Edit. HOLY SH- THIS BLEW UP! THANKS GUYS!
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As a Japanese, I cannot imagine how it feels to listen to foreign language and understand the meaning. I once studied Korean and it was somewhat similar to Japanese in grammar but still it was difficult to understand what people speaking.
We use Chinese characters so I could imagine meaning of written words in Chinese, but even the same characters are used, meanings can be different. For example, a word โๆ็ดโ consists of ๆ=hand and ็ด=paper. In Japanese, it means letter. In Chinese, itโs toilet paper. (I donโt know Chinese so this is just what I heard and donโt know if itโs correct).
Also, ้ฃฏๅบ means hotel in Chinese, but to me, it looks like restaurant because ้ฃฏ indicates meal and ๅบ indicates shop.
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Iโm Italian and recently moved to Spain. When my parents (who do not speak any Spanish) come visit me and go out and about on their own, they easily communicate with everyone. They manage to have long conversations with other elderly people about their lives, their past, their families..
It never ceases to surprise me and love it!
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Being from Sardinia (Italy), Spanish is even easier for me.
We have many similar words like trabajar ( to work), which is "tribbagliare" in Sardinian, or "brincar" (to jump) which is "brincare " in Sardinia.
It's a weird experience being able to understand a language even if you don't speak it๐คฉ
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Actually is funny the fact Spanish people think that adding an โiโ at the end of every word sounds Italian and Italian people just the opposite, adding an โsโ is Spanish. Because as a Spanish guy and Italian speaker, the formation of plural words in Spanish and Italian is with the โsโ and the โiโ ending, respectively.
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As a Spanish girl, when I moved to Italy at the beginning I could understand everything they told me, but I didn't know how to answer and it was so so frustrating. After a year learning Italian by speaking I lack grammar and verbs, but I considerate myself pretty fluent. So I encourage everyone out there to practice a lot with native people when learning a new language :)
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@ggabrielaaa9530
1 year ago
Speaking a Romance language is like having a superpower
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