Italians: do you understand French or Spanish more easily?

[Tooting Carmen]

French is closer lexically, but Spanish is phonetically, so which is it?

[Tooting Carmen]

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[Ouistreham]

I'm afraid you won't reap many answers to that question.
For some reasons, the Italians are reluctant to admit that their language might be closer to Spanish. As if they were frightened at the thought of being confused with Mexicans in America.

[Tooting Carmen]

I'm afraid you won't reap many answers to that question.
For some reasons, the Italians are reluctant to admit that their language might be closer to Spanish. As if they were frightened at the thought of being confused with Mexicans in America.

Well it's a shame if (some) Italians feel that way.

[Ouistreham]

Your thread is not an indisputable success...
I told you so.

[renaissance12]

My dialect sounds catalano

[NSXD60]

I'm afraid you won't reap many answers to that question.
For some reasons, the Italians are reluctant to admit that their language might be closer to Spanish. As if they were frightened at the thought of being confused with Mexicans in America.

Because Spanish from wherever has horribly lazy enunciation, making New World speakers sound, more or less, like Mexican Wetbacks, or, even worse, guttaral Chulos. And yes, Spain has lazy enunciation, minus the Wetback and Chulo factor. Italians can also hear what I'm hearing, and they reasonably assess it as unpleasantly sounding.

[Tooting Carmen]

Because Spanish from wherever has horribly lazy enunciation, making New World speakers sound, more or less, like Mexican Wetbacks, or, even worse, guttaral Chulos. And yes, Spain has lazy enunciation, minus the Wetback and Chulo factor. Italians can also hear what I'm hearing, and they reasonably assess it as unpleasantly sounding.

LOL.

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[Tacitus]

Spanish, I admittedly have a horrible ear for French (though I have an easier time reading French).