Spanish and Italian sound very similar, my native spanish speaking friends tell me that they can understand and be understood easily in Italy. However, they can't read it very well as the sounds are spelled quite differently. The opposite from Portuguese, which is fairly easy to read for a Spanish speaker but much harder to understand.
I love languages and the cultural aspects of them. You're doing really well Tarev with a smattering of so many languages. What I've read is that a child that grows up bilingual has a better ability to learn other languages and they are less likely to get dementia or alzheimers. Interesting. Apparently you have more paths to the same knowledge or something like that. You should go back and take some Spanish classes Hetty, it helps to keep us young
At least, that's what I'm telling myself.
