Which language is more important, French or Spanish?

JR   Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:06 am GMT
That's funny, I'm a native Spanish speaker and I can read what you're saying just fine.
augustin717   Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:14 am GMT
I can read Spanish too, provided it be of the academic kind.
Jorge   Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:53 pm GMT
I'm a Portuguese speaker, and except for certain words, for the most part I have no trouble understanding written French either.
JR   Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:16 pm GMT
I'd say the only major Romance language that is beyond my reach of understanding is Romanian. I can catch certain words, but the idea as a whole most of the time escapes me.
Benjamin   Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:52 pm GMT
« estados unidos y canada son los unicos dos paises de america que predomina el ingles »

Hay también Guiana que predomina el inglés, pero es muy pequeña.
Guest   Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:39 pm GMT
« estados unidos y canada son los unicos dos paises de america que predomina el ingles »

there are much more than two mainly anglophone countries in America :
USA, Canada, Jamaica, Belize, Guyana, St Lucia, Virgin islands, Antigua, Dominique, And I may forget some...
Guest   Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:33 am GMT
"I'd say the only major Romance language that is beyond my reach of understanding is Romanian. I can catch certain words, but the idea as a whole most of the time escapes me."

As a native speaker of Romanian I feel rather advantaged, as I can understand rather much of any Romance language.
Now I shall put it into Romanian:
"Ca vorbitor nativ de romana, ma simt mai degraba avantajat, deoarece pot intelege destul de mult din orice limba romanica."
DANTE   Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:34 am GMT
PORTUGUESE IS JUST POORLY SPOKEN SPANISH
DANTE   Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:36 am GMT
PORTUGUESE IS JUST SPANISH SPOKEN POORLY
CHINESE   Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:38 am GMT
Spanish and Portuguese are absolutely both the third world's languages!

German is the first world's powerful language, as well as Japanese and French.

Note: (Although French is also widely spoken in poor African, French is mainly spoken in romantic and powerful France, Belgium, as well as in part of Switzerland and Canada.)
greg   Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:42 am GMT
CHINESE : tu rends-tu compte de l'insondable stupidité de tes propos ?
Benjamin   Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:20 pm GMT
« Spanish and Portuguese are absolutely both the third world's languages! »

Spain and Portugal most certainly do not constitute the 'third world'; they are developed Western countries.
Gringo   Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:45 pm GMT
««PORTUGUESE IS JUST POORLY SPOKEN SPANISH »»

Spoken?

You reached that conclusion after comparing the extremely rich phonetic system of the Portuguese language with the Castilian phonetic system?
JR   Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:06 pm GMT
<<German is the first world's powerful language, as well as Japanese and French.>>

(Their usage being replaced by English)
greg   Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:34 pm GMT
Benjamin : « Spain and Portugal most certainly do not constitute the 'third world'; they are developed Western countries. »

Mais les sociétés brésilienne, argentine, mexicaine, chilienne, vénézuélienne (etc) sont toutes duales : il y a des pans entiers de ces sociétés qui sont tout à fait identiques à l'Occident.

D'autre part, la misère et la pauvreté existent également en France, en Allemagne et au Japon.