THe title says it all.
What language is easiest for Spanish Speakers to understand?
<Romanian? French? No way José! They are completely unintelligible! >
they are unintelligible only if you are mentally retarded and dyslexic !
they are unintelligible only if you are mentally retarded and dyslexic !
This is something no one knew, did you know Sander and Tiffany are black?
Ladino-Spanish of course, as was mentioned, but few people have ever been exposed to that.
Asturianu is a spanish dialect (language?? ive never heard it spoken but have seen examples of it written and it seems closely intelligible, though not 100%, but more so than galician).
Galician is generally pretty intelligible, I have lots of family in Galicia and usually understand 60-70% of a newscast or a conversation, more or less depending on speaker and topic.
Brazilian portuguese is tricky. If it is spoken slowly and clearly, or fluently by Americans/south americans (or other foreigners) as a second language, most Spanish speakers can understand a great deal (and the same for written). But Iberian portuguese or 'slum' portuguese (for lack of better term) definitely impairs intelligibility.
French and Romanian are not that intelligible to Spanish speakers, although i think Romanian is somewhat more than french.
Catalán is also not as intelligible as people claim...I haven't heard much of the language but from what I'm heard it sounds about as intelligible as Italian (to me).
Asturianu is a spanish dialect (language?? ive never heard it spoken but have seen examples of it written and it seems closely intelligible, though not 100%, but more so than galician).
Galician is generally pretty intelligible, I have lots of family in Galicia and usually understand 60-70% of a newscast or a conversation, more or less depending on speaker and topic.
Brazilian portuguese is tricky. If it is spoken slowly and clearly, or fluently by Americans/south americans (or other foreigners) as a second language, most Spanish speakers can understand a great deal (and the same for written). But Iberian portuguese or 'slum' portuguese (for lack of better term) definitely impairs intelligibility.
French and Romanian are not that intelligible to Spanish speakers, although i think Romanian is somewhat more than french.
Catalán is also not as intelligible as people claim...I haven't heard much of the language but from what I'm heard it sounds about as intelligible as Italian (to me).
Brennus
Quina llàstima is the correct classic Catalan usage. On the other hand, it is absolutely impossible to say "fame" in Catalan since Catalan drops those final vowels.
No comments.
Quina llàstima is the correct classic Catalan usage. On the other hand, it is absolutely impossible to say "fame" in Catalan since Catalan drops those final vowels.
No comments.
A simple search in Google gives 576 "Què llàstima!" and and 16,200 "Quina llàstima!".
I hope it's clear now what the correct Catalan usage is.
I hope it's clear now what the correct Catalan usage is.
I get about the same number of hits for each:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Qu%C3%A8+ll%C3%A0stima%22
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Quina+ll%C3%A0stima%22
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Qu%C3%A8+ll%C3%A0stima%22
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Quina+ll%C3%A0stima%22