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    In what order do you like Western Romance languages in terms of sound, beauty, etc.?

    Going by what I've heard, here's mine:

    1. French
    2. Italian
    3. Portuguese
    4. Spanish

    Not sure why but never really liked the sound of Spanish. Italian and Portuguese I would say are near tied. If Ecclesiastical Latin were included I might put it as number 1.

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    1. Italian and Portuguese (can't decide)
    2. French
    3. Catalan
    4. Castilian

    Phonetically it would be Italian for sure, but writing I guess French would be the 1st.
    Spanish overall sounds awful to me, specially from spain.

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    Tough one, along with English, Portuguese is my native tongue, Castilian, Asturian and Galician are my ancestral languages, and French I actively sought out to learn.

    1. Portuguese (Brazilian)
    2. Castilian
    3. Asturian
    4. French
    5. Italian
    6. Catalan
    7. Ecclesiastical Latin
    8. Galician
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    1. Italian
    2. Solo Italiano
    3. Azzurri
    4. Spaghetti
    5. Pizza

    Italian language is the most beautifull language in the world and it cant be compared to others for me.

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    I like Spanish and Italian..really dislike French.

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    Sacrebleu!! - le français, italian, spanish and portuguese (difficult pronunciation)

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    1. Spanish
    2. Italian
    3. French
    4. Portuguese

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    If I remember correctly Italian is not a Western Romance language

    (From Wikipedia) Some classifications include Italo-Dalmatian; the resulting clade is generally called Italo-Western Romance. Other classifications place Italo-Dalmatian with Eastern Romance.

    Under many aspects Italian is more similar to Romanian than to Western Romance languages.


    BTW returning to the score, I would add to the rank also Sardinian that in the Romance family is the closest to vulgar Latin (even if Sardinian is neither Western nor Eastern, but it's alone in its own Insular Romance group; it's however very close to Western group).

    1) Sardinian
    2) Italian
    3) Spanish
    4) Catalan
    5) Portuguese
    6) French



    Sardinian text (translated from the Italian text below) :

    Spoiler!



    Italian text :

    Spoiler!
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    Non Auro, Sed Ferro, Recuperanda Est Patria (Not by Gold, But by Iron, Is the Nation to be Recovered) - Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman General)

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    Well i will not put them in order, I'll just say that the one that i like the least is french. I actually don't like Spanish also that much but i respect his history and i do like Cervantes and thanks to this I'll probably put it on a higher scale than french.

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    À mon avis , qu'il vaudrait parlez français. Le français est la langue supérieur-- c'est si très bon !

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