similar languages

Slavic   Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:07 pm GMT
Faroese/Icelandic
sss   Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:23 pm GMT
British English/American English

American Spanish/European Spanish

European Portuguese/Brazilian are too different, actually
.)Y(.   Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:23 pm GMT
Spanish=Italian (very similar languages)
skiopla   Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:28 pm GMT
Brazilian portuguese= American Spanish
reality   Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:35 pm GMT
Spanish=Italian (very similar languages

Are you sure

Italian = Gli uomini vogliono mangiare e scopare

Spanish = los hombres quieren comer y follar

English = Men want to eat and fuck

Are Italian and Spanish so similar?
Guest   Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:55 pm GMT
Compared to English yes, they are very similar. Instead of follar and scopare one could use "fornicar" and "fornicare" instead.
blanc   Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:59 pm GMT
And in English you could use "fornicate".
Guest   Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:06 pm GMT
Maybe, but it's a latinate. In Spanish and Italian this word fits better.
Similar   Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:21 pm GMT
Similar   Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:37 pm GMT
PARISIEN   Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:41 pm GMT
The Question was:

<< Which languages are more similar: Spanish/Portuguese or Swedish/Norwegian/Danish) >>

The Answer is:

There are much more similarities between Norwegian and both Danish and Swedish (grammar is virtually the same, lexical differences are easy to overcome) that between Spanish and Portuguese.
Guest   Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:52 pm GMT
Spanish and Portuguese are much more similar to each other than Danish and Swedish/Norwegian. The biggest difference between Spanish and Portuguese is pronunciation, but the rest is the same. Brazilian-Portuguese , Galician and Spanish are mutually intelligible to a very big degree, not so European Portuguese and Spanish, but European Portuguese is spoken by a very small proportion of lusophones.
Similar   Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:53 pm GMT
Guest   Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:16 am GMT
Norwegians understand 88% of the spoken swedish language
understand 73% of the spoken danish language

Swedes understand 48% of the spoken norwegian language
understand 23% of the spoken danish language

Danes understand 69% of the spoken norwegian language
understand 43% of the spoken swedish language


Norwegians understand 89% of the written swedish language
understand 93% of the written danish language

Swedes understand 86% of the written norwegian language
understand 69% of the written danish language

Danes understand 89% of the written norwegian language
undestand 69% of the written swedish language.

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=209571
Guest   Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:25 am GMT
According to these numbers and to my own experience with Portuguese and Spanish , lexical similarity between Danish-Swedish-Norweigan is lower than Spanish-Portuguese. A Spanish speaker can understand more than 90% of writen Portuguese. As for oral Portuguese I'm not sure, but spoken Brazilian Portuguese is not less mutually intelligible for a Spanish speaker than spoken Danish for a Swedish at all (only 25%!). Galician, a very closely related language to Portuguese is more than 90% mutually intelligible for a Spanish when spoken. This is from the Spanish speaker side, because Portuguese speakers understand Spanish better than vice-versa.