How Similar Are Spanish and Italian?

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

[Tooting Carmen]

Pretty similar.

[LP0956]

Both are non-white.

[Newsboy]

Spanish and Italian are as similar as English and Dutch.

Mexican and Spain Spanish are as similar as American and British English.

[Albobalboa]

Exactly as similar as Moors and Italians.

[Sikeliot]

Italian is lexically closer to French than to Spanish.

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

Italian is lexically closer to French than to Spanish.

Yes !! In the video he explay Italian and Spanish have 82% lexical similarity.
82% of words of one language will have cognates ( equivalent words ) in the other language.

But if we look only to lexical similarity Spanish has more in common with portughese ( 89%) than italian.
And Italian has more in Common with French (89%) than with spanish (82%)

But Spanish and Italian are more similar in pronunciation , so more intelligibility.

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

I notice that i the video , who speak in spanish is a mother language while who speaks in italian is not :-p

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

the interesting fact is that if you can speak spanish you can learn italian and portughese in a relative short time and make your curriculum richer

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Italian is the most similar language to Spanish after Portuguese.