Italians: do you find Portuguese or Romanian easier to understand?

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Brazilians speak vowels longer and wider, while Portuguese pronounce the words with a more closed mouth.

In writting i guess portuguese is easier to understand for italians.

Written is another thing,yes,and i personally think that if an italian with a bit of imagination can read and understand decently well the portuguese language

Many words are pretty much the same or look a lot alike,just a few basic examples:

Terra‐Terra
Filho‐Figlio
Olho‐Occhio
Mundo‐Mondo
Bandeira‐Bandiera
Sempre‐Sempre

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[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Romanian is probably the Latin derived language that is the furthest away from other romance languages. Portuguese has the most distinct accent from the Romance languages in my opinion though, it sounds quite rushed and mumbled to an untrained ear. Interestingly there are some articles that claim that Portuguese along with Italian are closer to the ancestral language proto-Romance than the other Romance languages.

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Written is another thing,yes,and i personally think that if an italian with a bit of imagination can read and understand decently well the portuguese language

Many words are pretty much the same or look a lot alike,just a few basic examples:

Terra‐Terra
Filho‐Figlio
Olho‐Occhio
Mundo‐Mondo
Bandeira‐Bandiera
Sempre‐Sempre

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For these particular words it is closer to Portuguese than Spanish interestingly, despite closer proximity. In Spanish:

tierra
hijo
ojo
mundo
bandera
siempre

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Romanian is probably the Latin derived language that is the furthest away from other romance languages. Portuguese has the most distinct accent from the Romance languages in my opinion though, it sounds quite rushed and mumbled to an untrained ear. Interestingly there are some articles that claim that Portuguese along with Italian are closer to the ancestral language proto-Romance than the other Romance languages.

Castilian Spanish is overall closer to italian than portuguese.....BUT some words that in castilian are different than italian,usually for the presence of an "i"(like in "tierra","hierro","sierra") in Portuguese and italian are identical(terra,ferro and serra)

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For these particular words it is closer to Portuguese than Spanish interestingly, despite closer proximity. In Spanish:

tierra
hijo
ojo
mundo
bandera
siempre

All these words are easily understandable,yet the spelling is a bit different

"Nunca" for example is a real latin leftover from "numquam"...in italian the word for "never" is "mai"....i studied Latin in high school so if i didn't know the meaning of the word i could have guessed it.

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[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

All these words are easily understandable,yet the spelling is a bit different

"Nunca" for example is a real latin leftover from "numquam"...in italian the word for "never" is "mai"....i studied Latin in high school so if i didn't know the meaning of the word i could have guessed it.

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Did you study Classical Latin or Vulgar Latin? All modern Romance languages evolved from Vulgar Latin.

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Did you study Classical Latin or Vulgar Latin? All modern Romance languages evolved from Vulgar Latin.

More classical of course but i read something about vulgar Latin as well,some late authors

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Fun fact: italians and the portuguese also share the 25th of april as a date that marked the end of dictatorial regimes in both countries

25th of april 1945: Giorno della Liberazione

25th of april 1974: Carnation Revolution

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[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Fun fact: italians and the portuguese also share the 25th of april as a date that marked the end of dictatorial regimes in both countries

25th of april 1945: Giorno della Liberazione

25th of april 1974: Carnation Revolution

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A dark day in our history, I personally do not celebrate it. What our traitorous rulers did to millions of Portuguese in the former overseas territories should be considered a crime against humanity if we did not live in the world of the politically correct.

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A dark day in our history, I personally do not celebrate it. What our traitorous rulers did to millions of Portuguese in the former overseas territories should be considered a crime against humanity if we did not live in the world of the politically correct.

What happened?

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