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Thread: Does French sound closer to (British) English or Castilian?

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    Default Does French sound closer to (British) English or Castilian?

    French

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    Castilian

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    English

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    Far from both (in sound). French is closer genetically to Spanish-Castilian as they're both Romance languages.

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    More close to Castilian and Romanian than english:



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    Castilian, they are both romance language.

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    Castilian, both genetically and sound wise(but not by a big margin)

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    Phonetically it sounds like neither but 'genetically' it's closer to Spanish.

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