1. Your native language 2. How well can you understand the following?

>>76848054
1. Spanish
2. I understand everything

>>76848054
100%

>>76848054
English
I can understand everything wtf

nada

>>76848054
1. French
2. Understood mostly everything.
> gratias al rolo importante del immigration in le economia e historia del nation; e le americanos indigena
Did not understood what "e le americanos indigena" meant.

>>76848054
Russian
Understood 80%

>>76848054
English
Understand 99% of it

The USA is a constitutional federal republic composed of 50 states in a federal district, Washington DC. The majority of the nation is located in North America, with a total area of 9,529,063 km^2; it had many Pacific and Caribbean territories (only sentence I wasn't sure about).

The US has 300 million inhabitants. Minority ethnicities include representatives of every nation in the world, thanks to the important role of immigration in the economy and history of the nation, and the indigenous Americans. The most spoken language is English, in second place is Spanish which is very used (with more than 30 million speakers, 11%) as well as Asiatic and indigenous languages.

>>76848054
1. spanish
2. literally everything

>>76848169
>american edukado

>>76848054
1. Portuguese
2. Can understand it all pretty well

>>76848054
1.
2. Everything. Unless that's a grocery list, in which case I misunderstood it all.

>>76848285
*and a federal district

>>76848054
1.French
2. Can """almost""" understand everything

>>76848102
This

>>76848054
1. Greek
2. This is clearly a dialect of Greek.

>>76848054
1. Norwegian
2. Almost everything

It's literally English.

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Nice try, interlingua, nice try...

HOWEVER

1.italian
2."il etiam habe plure territorios pacific e carribean." i have problem only with this phrase

>>76848054
1 flag
2 i can understand everything

>>76848211
>Did not understood what "e le americanos indigena" meant.
What? It obviously means "and the indigenous Americans"
>>76848054
Almost everything thanks to my English and French. I didn't get only one thing: if "cata" means "most" or "all".

>>76848054
understood every single word and the meaning of each sentence. I have not spent 1 minute studying Spanish ever.

>>76848488
It means "each". In Spanish we say "cada".

>>76848488

cata = cada (esp) = each (eng)

>>76848054
100%. Is that Ido? Interlingua?

>>76848444
Don't they teach you Latin at school?
Etiam is "also".

"They also have more Pacific and Caribbean territories"

Oh shit it's interlingua not Spanish

>>76848571
It doesn't seem to be Spanish, but Interlingua, a constructed language with less grammatical rules

>Spanish is more closely related to French than Italian
Than why is Italian so much easier for me to understand?

>>76848746
Your greentext sentence is false.

polish, know some basic italian words which are literally the same or similar to spanish apparently (not all i guess)

The United States of America (USA) is a republic constitutional federal country(?) with(?) 50 states and a capital state/city(?), Washington, D.C.. The majority of nation is located in North America, with a extension of total 9 529 063 km2; a country(?) has many pacific and carribean territories(?).
The US population consists of three hundred million residents. Ethnic minorities include (?), thanks to important role of immigration in economy in the history of nation; in the american (?). The languages mostly(?) spoken is english, secondly spanish which is spoken by many people(?) (with over 30 million speakers, 11%) (?) is the language asian and native.

this is how much i understood

>>76848746
>Spanish is more closely related to French than Italian

It's not true though, OP's pic doesn't imply that at all. In fact, the French and Italian flags are closer to each other in the pic.

>>76848746
We have a lot of influences from German and old Celtic words as well.
In fact, phonetically we're closer to German than to Spanish or Italian.

>>76848821
OP's pic has Portuguese, Spanish, and French is the "Western" category and Italian in its own, separate one. Usually things in the same category are supposed to be more similar to each other than to anything outside that category

>>76848917
One of you means "Spanish is closer to French than Spanish is close to Italian" and the other one means "Spanish is closer to French than French is close to Italian".

t. Language expert

I understood 100%.

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>>76848746
Don't confuse a phylogenetic chart, such as the one in the OP, with an intelligibility chart.

From a strictly historical and linguistic point of view, French and Spanish can be said to be closely related than Spanish and Italian, but French underwent a MASSIVE chain of sound changes that made it quite different from the rest of Romance languages. As a result, it's really hard for the average Spanish speaker to understand spoken French whereas it's not so difficult to understand at least some Italian, even though our languages are more distantly related.

French
everything except some words

>>76848211
>Did not understood what "e le americanos indigena" meant.
Des americans indigenous or something, dumbass

>>76848315
Rhode Island please leave

>>76849119
It's what the "and" referred to that I didn't understood.
Now I see.

>>76848746
Two languages being phylologically related does not necessarily mean that they are closer to each other than languages to which they are more distantly related.

Low German is "technically" closer to English than to Standard German, but Low German is also a German dialect.

It's widely accepted that French and Italian are closer to each other than Spanish and Italian.

>>76849200
Sorry but I already gave the same learned explanation.

>>76848054
1. Italian
2. Literally everything, some words are different but I could easily figure out their meaning from the context

>>76849200

>It's widely accepted that French and Italian are closer to each other than Spanish and Italian.

This Murrican is right, this statement shouldn't be confused with the fact that an Italian and a Spaniard will understand each other better in an oral conversation than a French and an Italian, especially due to Spanish and Italian having similar phonologies.

Italian and French are grammatically more similar to each other. Example:

Io bisogno de (ita)
Je besoin de (fr)
Yo necesito (esp)

Yet I believe that educated French and Italian people would understand the Spanish verb "necesitar" since they have an archaic version of the same verb in their own languages as well.
There is plenty of examples of this kind, it's also very common between Portuguese and Spanish.

>French
Everything except "cata" but I deduced it was the same as the french "chaque"

>>76849474
>>76849200
>>76849063
wtf since when does /int/ have interesting posts about foreign languages

>>76848102
same

>>76849606
When /pol/sters are asleep

Completely understood both.

>>76848054
1. Japanese
2. 70%

>>76850007
wait, I read it carefully and i'm pretty sure I got 99%

>>76848102
Same here.

>>76848102
Esto

>>76848862
>phonetically we're closer to German than to Spanish or Italian
C'est récent ça.

>>76848444

Same here.

"il etiam habe plure" is the only part that is uncomprehensible. But with that context, I'd guess it means 'tambien hay/tiene muchos'

>>76848054
1.speak turkish, english, spanish
2.%100 percent

Estados Unidos de América es una república federal constitucional compuesta de cincuenta estados y un distrito federal. La mayoría de la nación se encuentra en América del Norte, con una extensión total de 9.529.063 km2; también tiene otros territorios en el Pacífico y en el Caribe.

La población estadounidense es de trescientos millones de habitantes. Hay etnias minoritarias representando a cada nación del mundo, gracias al importante rol de la inmigración en la economía e historia de la nación, además de los indígenas americanos. La lengua más hablada es el inglés, seguida del español (con más de 30 millones de hablantes, un 11%) y de lenguas asiáticas e indígenas.

>>76849474
In Interlingua: "Io bisonio de"

>>76848444
Same
>>76851917
This
>>76848688
My school only taught me Latin, Greek and Nahuatl roots with their respective alphabets in case they had one, so just the basics. But I honestly already forgot.

>>76848054
I understand less than 10% of what you said. I guess I am the only one who's taking German...

>>76848054
1. Spanish
2. I understand everyting but it took me more time to read than spanish.

>>76848054
FUCK OFF WITH THIS SPANISH SHIT

>>76852896
Almost every word is shared with English. If you know English, you should be able to read it.

>>76851917
>>76848444
Etiam = anche/tambien

>>76852712
Io ha comprende quasi toto. Penso que es multo facile per comprender l'alie.

>>76848488
I had some problems with cada too, then I supposed it had the meaning than in italian has "cadauno", that is very rarely used though.

>>76852945
I'll try to do say what OP typed if you want me to; I don't care if I become a laughingstock.

1. German
2. 100%

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>>76848102
Same

>>76848102
because it is spanish shit created by spanish speaking people fuck off and go eat cocaina you piece of mierda

Honestly I really like interlingua, it feels way more natural than esperanto

so if I learn this language will I be able to understand all romance languages when written?

>>76848102
This

1. Flag
2. 100%

>>76853052
Really, nobody wants to see me embarrass myself?

>>76853121
Io etiam. Iste lingua es plus natural que Esperanto, e si lo sapes, es plus facile apprender totos de linguas romanic.

>>76848054
the gaulish accent in French completely ruins it for me in speech, its kinda like the vowel shift in english making arbitrary vowel pronunciation (or rather skipping) rules
its great in french songs tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCHi5apc1lQ

>>76853000
>cada uno
>each one
i wonder where italian got that word... trade with catalans maybe?
>>76853305
how many (You)s do you need to post the vocaroo and why havent you done it already in the first post
>>76853308
i would change "plus" for "mais/mas" there

>>76853477
Because I don't want to do it. I'll only do it if someone wants me to try.

Fuck it.

>The United States of America (USA) is a federal constitutional republic composing of 50 states and a federal district, Washington, D.C.. The majority of the nation is located in North America, with an total extension of 9, 529, 063 km2; there is american territories in the pacific ocean and Caribbean.

>The population is over 300 million. Ethnic minorities include <I'm not even going to bother>, with immigration being a historic foundation in America. The national language is English, and Spanish/Espanol is second with 30 million speakers speaking Spanish.

>>76852943
>>76853113
Butthurt much?

>>76852943
Even I can read this, dude.

the most literal translation of the 2nd part would be like this (order can be kinda messed to keep it as literal as possible)
>The Unitedstatian population amounts to three hundred million habitants. "Minoritarial" ethnicitiess include representative of each nation in the world, thanks to the important role of inmigration in the economy and history of the nation; and the indigenous americans. The language most spoken is english, the second is spanish wich is "very used" (with over 30 million speakers, 11%) and the assian and indigenous languages.

>>76854002
i thought you meant you would try to say it out loud in vocaroo, or at least record what you thought it meant in vocaroo
conta / cuenta = counts - amounts to

dunno how you didnt get that "representantes" = "representatives"

>>76854346
dear God no, that would be awful.

>>76848054
>>Le Statos Unite de America (SUA) es un republica constitutional federal componite de cinquanta statos e un districto federal, Washington, D.C.. Le majoritate del nation esse locate in America del Nord, con un extension total de 9 529 063 km2; il etiam habe plure territorios pacific e carribean.
The United States of America (USA) are a constitutional federal republic consisting of fifty states and one federal district, Washington D.C.. The majority of the nation is located in northern America with a total area of 9 529 063 km2; [it has additional pacific and carribean territories?]

>>Le population statounitese conta tres centos milliones habitantes. Ethnicitates minoritari include representantes de cata nation in le mundo, gratias al rolo importante del immigration in le economia e historia del nation; e le americanos indigena. Le lingua le plus parlate es le anglese, secondo le espaniol es multo usate (con plus de 30 milliones parlantes, 11%) e le linguas asiatic e indigena.
The population of the United States counts three hundred million habitants. Ethnic minorities include people from [every?] nation on the world, giving immigration an important role in the economy and history of the nation; [and the native Americans?]. The most spoken language is English, on the second place Spanish gets used a lot (with more than 30 million speakers, 11%) and asian and indigenous languages.

Never learned Spanish but pretty sure about like 80-90%

>>76854263
DUH YOU'RE A FUCKING MEXICAN OF COURSE YOU CAN READ IT

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>>76854437
full-blooded Mormon pioneer
pic related

>>76848054
1. English.
2. I figure I understood it well enough. Took half my courses in French back when I was a kid. Romantic languages are pretty similar.

English but I did a bit of French and Spanish at school
Everything

>>76848054
1.la glorieuse langue française
2.100%

>>76854533
>Romantic
its "romance"
>>76854437
go to bed Tiago

>>76854725
>its "romance"
Kek. My mistake. English is far superior anyway.

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>>76848437
>esperanto

>>76854725
GO EAT COCAINA YOU BURRITO SHIT ARRIIBA ASASJASJASAJ JAJAJAJ MACONHEIRO DA PORRA VAGABUNDO LIXO

>>76854514
>Mormon
Tell us some of the religion's secrets. What's up with the magic underwear for example?

Also there are Mexican Mormons m8. I don't know why but there are.

>>76854824
When you're getting married or going on a mission you go to the temple, do some funky ceremony, and get given your garments ("magic underwear").

They're supposed to protect you from Satan. Lots of anecdotes/faith-promoting-stories about this or that soldier in some odd war whose garments stopped a bullet, or some dude who stopped wearing garments and fell to the snares of the devil.

I'm no longer practicing, it should be said..

>>76854824
>Also there are Mexican Mormons m8. I don't know why but there are.

I don't really know much about these guys, but a lot of them immigrated back to my town when Pancho Villa was in charge of Mexico. Their descendants are called Pachecoites.

Pancho Villa is still villainized by this group.

About 90%

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>>76854778
you're biased into having the wrong opinion, i don't blame you

>>76848420
It's literally the result of years dealing bacalhao whit portugas.*

>>76848054
1. English
2. Understood everything

>>76852896
are you really trying to convince us you didn't understand the following words?

>Statos
>Unite
>America (SUA)
>republica
>constitutional
>federal
>componite
>districto
>federal
>majoritate
>nation
>locate
>in
>Nord
>extension
>territorios
>pacific
>carribean.
>population
>statounitese
>conta
>tres
>centos
>milliones
>habitantes
>Ethnicitates
>minoritari
>include
>representantes
>mundo
>importante
>immigration
>economia
>historia
>americanos
>indigena
>lingua
>anglese
>secondo
>espaniol
>multo
>usate
>asiatic

>>76855379
Please dont do that again

>etiam
Doesn't ring a bell, I deduce it means "also".
>rolo
Only know it because of English.

That's it, everything else is clear. What is this about?

>>76848054
LE
STATOS
CHICANI
DE AMERICA

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>>76860118

>>76848054
as a speaker of French and Spanish, I understood everything, although without context I wouldn't have been able to understand what "etiam" meant.

1. Spanish
2. Absolutely everything, except for the word "etiam", which I had to look up. Apparently, it's a word that has no descendants in any modern Romance language, and means "also", "in addition to", "furthermore", or "even so".

>>76848054
CHI American who studied french on duolingo, i understood all of but the word 'etiam'

>>76848420
no...its not

>Burmese/English, but I am learning Spanish

>I Do

Actually, I though it was just Spanish until I got to the second paragraph. Latin is cool.

>>76848054
I thought this was French.

>>76853356
>gaulish accent

...heh?

I thought French phonology was mostly 'germanic'

>>76848054
1. Spanish
2. I understood 100% of that text tbf

>>76848279
First language was Cantonese, but it's shit composed to my English now.
I understood 90%

>>76848054

1. Russian, obviously.
2. I undestand almost everything.

>>76860979
Fuck, I was literally wiping my ass while posting this.
Meant to reply to OP and composed should be compared.

>>76848054
1. Spanish
2. 95% i don't know any better but id say this could be Catalonian. no?

>>76848054
> Statele Unite ale Americii este o republica constitutionala federala compusa din cincizeci de state si un district federal Washington DC. Majoritatea natiunii este localizata in America de Nord, cu o extensie totala de 9.. . . . ele au mai multe teritorii pacifice si caraibiene.

Populatia Statelor Unite numara trei sute de milionane de locuitori. Etnicitatile minoritare cuprind reprezentanti din toata lumea, gratie rolului important al imigratiei in economia si istoria natiunii/tarii si a indigenilor americani. cele mai vorbite limbi sunt : engleza, pe locul secund spaniola e intens folosita (cu mai mult de 30 milioane de vorbitori) si limbile asiatice si indigene(bastinase).

Take Romanian for comparison.

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>>76849474
>bisogno

Texas
100%

>>76848054
Fronch
All of it

>>76848054
English
95%

>Portuguese
>Entendo tudo

>>76848054
More language family trees please

>>76848054
1.Spanish
2. Everything
Is this Italian?
In my head sounds Italian idk

1. Cantonese
2. Understood pretty much everything.

>>76848054
i can understand some words but definitely not because i am a r*ssian speaker

>>76848437
>lo memeino lingvino

Fuck off Zam, your conlang is shit

>>76853477
>i would change "plus" for "mais/mas" there
"Más/Mais" se confunde con el "pero" en Francés y Portugués

>>76861204
You like the letter i

Pretty much all of it. The words I can't understand, I can get the meaning from contextual clues.

1.Hungarian
2.Understood a lot of it.
I can understand basic texts like these if I read carefully. I have no idea why.
Never learned Spanish and I was never interested in learning Spanish.

>>76848054
1. French
2. I understand all of it.

It's good to have a Latin language as mothertongue

>>76848054
Native language is english.
Lived in France for 10 years so i also speak that fluently. Also intermediate level mandarin.

I understood pretty much everything except for
>cata nation
although i can guess from context that it means every nation.
Also in french it would have been 'chaque nation' so maybe i should have been able to understand it without guessing.

>English
>Can understand everything

English is a Romance-Germanic bastard language.
The syntax, structure and basic words that string everything together come from Anglo-Saxon (Germanic). But many vowels, nouns, and other "key" words that are important for understanding the gist of a sentence come from Anglo-Norman (Romance)

This leads to the interesting situation where, although the majority of English is Germanic rather than Romance, it is easier for an English speaker to read French compared to Danish. Even though English is far more similar to Danish.

That's what it feels like anyway.

>>76864478
>It's good to have a Latin language as mothertongue
Agreed *CHI intensifies*

>>76848054
1. Filipino
2. 100%

>>76848054
Dutch
I understood the whole thing

1. Greek
2. ~90% because of English
What is this written in?

>>76868368
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

>>76848054

> Spanish
Italian is so fucking easy dude

>>76848054
1. Portuguese
2. 100%

>>76848054
everything except
>il etiam habe plure territorios pacific e carribean.

>>76848054
Almost everything wtf.

>>76848054
And Slovak ofc.

>>76849063
Also, French is VERY northern. South "French" used to be Occitan and was far more like Spanish, in fact it is basically Catalan.

>>76848054
See >>76848134

>>76848054
I'm 100% Burger and I understand like 95% of.

Here's something harder.

>El presidente de Ciudadanos (Cs), Albert Rivera, ha anunciado hoy que ha llegado a un acuerdo con el Gobierno para que los "mileuristas", es decir, los que cobren por debajo de 14.000 euros anuales, estén exentos del pago del IRPF. Rivera ha hecho público este acuerdo en su intervención en EFEForoLíderes, donde ha confirmado que los 32 diputados de Cs votarán la semana que viene en el Congreso a favor del techo de gasto de 2018, al haber logrado el compromiso del Ejecutivo de reducir la carga del IRPF por un valor de 2.000 millones de euros.

>Además de esa exención del IRPF para los españoles que ganen menos de 14.000 euros anuales, Rivera ha avanzado también una rebaja impositiva para el tramo entre los 14.000 y los 17.500 euros, y una "devolución" de 1.200 euros para las familias con personas con discapacidad o mayores a cargo.El presidente de Ciudadanos (Cs), Albert Rivera, ha anunciado hoy que ha llegado a un acuerdo con el Gobierno para que los "mileuristas", es decir, los que cobren por debajo de 14.000 euros anuales, estén exentos del pago del IRPF. Rivera ha hecho público este acuerdo en su intervención en EFEForoLíderes, donde ha confirmado que los 32 diputados de Cs votarán la semana que viene en el Congreso a favor del techo de gasto de 2018, al haber logrado el compromiso del Ejecutivo de reducir la carga del IRPF por un valor de 2.000 millones de euros.

>>76873805
>I'm 100% Burger
t. CHI

1.French
2.>>76848444 this.

>>76849474
it's j'ai besoin de (avoir besoin de)

>>76873805

>"mileuristas", es decir, los que cobren por debajo de 14.000
No, los mileuristas deberían cobrar esos 14000 euros (con dos pagas extras claro), los que cobran por debajo no llegan a mileuristas.

>>76848102
Same.

>>76848211
American natives, maybe?

>>76848054
I'm not fluent in Spanish at all and most of this is guess work.
>The United States is a constitutional republic composed of fifty states and a federal district Washington, D.C. The majority of the nation is located in North America, with a total area of 9,529,063 km2; it has multiple territories in the pacific and carribean

The States' population is three hundred million inhabitants. Ethnic minories include representatives of every nation in world, whose immigration played an important role in the economic history of the nation, and indigenous americans. The languages spoken are English as a first, second is spanish in multiple states (with a population of 30 million,11%) and asian languages and indigenous languages.

>>76864277

That's not Spanish man.

Also, ofc you can understand it. Most of the words in that text are the kind of words that are very similar in most european languages.

>>76848054
1. English
2. Everything
Is this esperanto?

>>76875521
I had no problem with Spanish texts in the past. Could read the text on the back of Don Quiote when I wanted to know of the text in the book is modernised or not.

>>76848054
>Dutch
After reading it over it makes a lot of sense and i can make out pretty much the total meaning of the paragraph.

>>76875521
But he is Hungarian, mate. That language is similiar to...nothing, really.

Random Hungarian text:

John William Strutt és William Ramsay kutatásaik során rájöttek, hogy egy teljes csoport hiányzott a periódusos rendszerből. Ramsay-nek az argonnal kapcsolatos kutatásai során elsőként sikerült héliumot előállítania a kleveit ásvány hevítésével.

And this is on a technical topic, from Wikipedia.

For fun, I wonder how many words are understandable from this Slovak text. It is Indo-European at least, and uses internationalisms:

Demografia Spojených štátov je pomerne pestrá, keďže územie štátu bolo osídlené prevažne imigrantmi, ktorí do USA prišli z celého sveta. Niekoľko kolonizačných vĺn malo rôzne zloženie v závislosti na krajine pôvodu.

Ľudia sem prichádzali za lepším životom, utekali pred chudobou a pred náboženským utlačovaním. V Spojených štátoch potom našli slobodu a mohli začať nový život. K imigrácii taktiež prispeli zlaté horúčky a vidina rýchleho zbohatnutia. V predchádzajúcich storočiach sa do USA sťahovali hlavne Európania, dnes sú to Ázijčania a imigranti z Latinskej Ameriky. V roku 2006 prekročil počet obyvateľov Spojených štátov 300 miliónov.

>>76876147

>demografia
>imigrantmi
>kolonizacnych
>Europania
>Latinskej Ameriky
>milionov

And that's it. Maybe Spojenych= Spanish???

>>76848054
1. English
2. Everything
I speak Spanish as a second language though.

>>76848437
It's Lingua Franca Nova and not Interlingua

>>76851917
también/também must have evolved from "etiam bene" or something similar

>>76848054
1. Moldovan - Forgot this language
2. Romanian - Forgot this language
3. Russian - Speak fluently
4. English - fluent/daily language since I moved to the US
5. Spanish - Light

>>76876147
He is Hungarian, but he clearly speaks English.

>>76848102
Same

>>76879919
>usa
ты чтo eбaнyтый, ты чe тaм дeлaeшь

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>>76879919
>Moldovan language

>>76875586
esperanto has a more variety of languages(romance, slav, etc), this appears to be a mix of Romance languages