Romance Languages Mutual Intelligibilty
, Spanish phonetic peculiarities (the 'j' and 'z' sounds, and the blurred distinction between 'b' and 'v' are a lot more distant from what Latin sounded like. Standard Italian is certainly much closer
The italian sound sh doesnt exists in Latin either, nor double consonants. Also closed e and o are not present in Latin. So Italian is not closer to Latin than Spanish. Obviously French isnt as well.
<<French doesn't sound beautiful at all just because it does not sound like a Romance language.
German is the worst of German languages, it is more than horrible.
English is not beautiful nor refined but it is latinized enough to sound acceptable.>>
Ugh -- Latin trollery, foam-laced, hate-tinged, and all...
Ugh -- American wannabe french trollery, foam-laced, hate-tinged, and all...
Italian, Spanish and French are all heavily barbarised and quite far away from classical Latin. Romanian is the only one that has kept some few structures from Latin.
Romanian sounds very slavic. A Roman emperor surely would find more familiar the sounding of Spanish.
neah, Spanish sounds very Arabic, and Italian germanic, I don't think he would be more familiar with those languages
Romanian reminds me a lot of Latin from the look of the words. There are also words that I puzzle over. Sometimes I can figure out the possible origin, sometimes not. For a long time (certainly when I was child), I falsely thought that Romanian was a Slavic language. It is both familiar and very foreign to me, but that makes it interesting to learn.
Latin itself sounds very greek. Romulus or Numa surely would find more familiar the sounding of lithuanian.
Spanish sounds Arabic? man, you are strange, Spanish has 5 vowels and Arabic 3, Spanish is spoken with the lips , teeth and the tip of the tongue. Arabic is spoken with the throat. Probably German sounds a bit similar to Arabic. Spanish is known for preserving quite well the classic Latin prosody and pronunciation. Romanian on the other hand sounds slavic, and French God knows what.
Spanish to me sounds Mexican or perhaps Aztecan...definitely not like the Latin of the Roman senators.
either way, move my car...
In fact Spanish sounds very much like Greek, which had even more prestige than Latin for the Roman Senators.
GREEK? That peasant talk?
I prefer to elaborate in Persian over (spit) GREEK
Indeed Romanian sounds very latin, I don't know from where this impressesion that romanian sounds slavic...