Which romance language do you understand the most after your own?

[Foxy]

I am an Italian mothertongue. My understanding of the other romance languages follows this order:

1) Spanish/French (Spanish is easier for pronunciation but French is easier for lexicon)
2) Romanian
3) Portuguese

I find Portuguese particularly hard, both written and spoken.

What about you?

[Amapola]

Spoken languages (the order would be different in written comprehension)
Galizian, Catalan, Italian, portuguese, French, Romanian.

[Daos]

I am an Italian mothertongue. My understanding of the other romance languages follows this order:

1) Spanish/French (Spanish is easier for pronunciation but French is easier for lexicon)
2) Romanian
3) Portuguese

Standard Romanian, sure, but I bet you wouldn't be able to understand my dialect!

I guess I find Italian the most comprehensible, but French (mainly due to the loanwords from the 19th century) and Spanish aren't much less intelligible, while Portuguese I understand less so.

[Sikeliot]

I am not fluent in Portuguese but from what I do know and from my mother's perspective, it goes like this;

1) Galician
2) Spanish (reading and pronunciation - pronunciation is not even close to identical but none of the others come closer.. French is in some ways phonologically closer but the lexicon is not as similar as Spanish)
3) Cape Verdean Creole and Papiamento (not proper Romance languages but they have a Portuguese base).
3) Italian/French
4) Romanian

[Peyrol]

I am an Italian mothertongue. My understanding of the other romance languages follows this order:

1) Spanish/French (Spanish is easier for pronunciation but French is easier for lexicon)
2) Romanian
3) Portuguese

I find Portuguese particularly hard, both written and spoken.

What about you?

1) Catalan
2) Franco-Provenzal / Patois
3) Castillian
4) French (standard)
5) Romanian (from Romania, not from Moldavia)

I understand better brazilian portuguese than portuguese of Portugal.

[Foxy]

1) Catalan
2) Franco-Provenzal / Patois
3) Castillian
4) French (standard)
5) Romanian (from Romania, not from Moldavia)

I understand better brazilian portuguese than portuguese of Portugal.

Do you understand Catalan better than standard Spanish and Provencal better than French? Well, I have never heard Provencal but it can be becouse Langue Doc and Italian were very similar, but Catalan is really difficult to me. Even written I don't catch a word.

About Romanian, if I listen Romanian TV or texts in standard Romanian it sounds like a dialect of Italian but I have also listened some Romanian songs who were not understandable at all.

[Sikeliot]

From my perspective Romanian sounds like a bizarre Italian dialect (by bizarre I don't mean anything bad, it sounds like Italian with a twist, essentially).

[Peyrol]

Do you understand Catalan better than standard Spanish and Provencal better than French? Well, I have never heard Provencal but it can be becouse Langue Doc and Italian were very similar, but Catalan is really difficult to me. Even written I don't catch a word.

About Romanian, if I listen Romanian TV or texts in standard Romanian it sounds like a dialect of Italian but I have also listened some Romanian songs who were not understandable at all.

Of course, i spent many of my holidays in Tossa de Mar, when i was child...i understand catalan quite well...provencal and patois are both spoken here in Piemonte, so i can understand both.

[Siginulfo]

I know very well Spanish. The other Romance languages are more difficult to me, mostly French.

[Francisco D'anconia]

I only know some french.