Will learning Spanish help me learn Italian and Portuguese?

March 10th, 2010 | by admin |

Hello, I am a high school sophomore and am currently taking a Spanish class. I want to become a doctor who travels to different countries, and I heard that by learning Spanish, the other Latin-based languages will be easier to learn. Is this true? If so, I definitely want to try learning those languages too, but I should take it one language at a time…right? Any information will be useful to me, thanks in advance!

Basically, yes
All of the romance language do the sound the same, but are very different when spoken or written. Confusion often occurs, which is why you want to learn each language separately at its own time.

I suggest you learn Spanish completely
Then take Portuguese, the closest language to Spanish
Then finally Italian
If you would like to French is also similar to the rest of the romance languages, and you could take that into consideration hence the use of French in the continents of North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and certain Asian countries

  1. 5 Responses to “Will learning Spanish help me learn Italian and Portuguese?”

  2. By adam on Mar 10, 2010 | Reply

    Definitely! Spanish and Portuguese are very close. Italian, not as much but has many similarities. Grammar structure in all of them are very similar.
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    I speak Spanish.

  3. By American N on Mar 10, 2010 | Reply

    Portuguese is the closer one to spanish. so learning Spanish will help you when you study Portuguese.Italian is similar too but not much so I guess will be a little difficult to learn it.
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    Myself. I speak Spanish

  4. By Alex on Mar 10, 2010 | Reply

    Basically, yes
    All of the romance language do the sound the same, but are very different when spoken or written. Confusion often occurs, which is why you want to learn each language separately at its own time.

    I suggest you learn Spanish completely
    Then take Portuguese, the closest language to Spanish
    Then finally Italian
    If you would like to French is also similar to the rest of the romance languages, and you could take that into consideration hence the use of French in the continents of North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and certain Asian countries
    References :

  5. By Mia S on Mar 10, 2010 | Reply

    The Spanish language definitely will help . Portuguese and Italian have many many words in spanish. Good luck!
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  6. By . A l ι ι н on Mar 10, 2010 | Reply

    yesss. and also french ;)

    kisses.
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