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Is Latin and Spanish different?
Yes. They are two completely different languages. Well not completely because latin is an origin language that also influenced Spanish so you are bound to find some words that are similar.
Is Latin similar to Spanish?
Latin seems to resemble Spanish in the first person plural of most verbs. Spanish is one of the Romance languages that descend from Vulgar Latin rather than Classical Latin. In order for Spanish to the closest language to Latin, it would have to be closer than all of the other Romance Languages.
Is Spanish a Latin based language?
Spanish, along with others like French, Italian and Portuguese, is one of the Romance languages–a family of modern languages with foundations in Latin. Spanish derived many of its rules of grammar and syntax from Latin, and around 75\% of Spanish words have Latin roots.
Is the Latin language the same as Spanish?
Spanish, as it is spoken in the Americas, is not the same Spanish as spoken in Spain. They are different dialects of the same language, and Spanish in Latin America is referred to as Latinoamerica, and Spanish in Spain is referred to as castellano.
What language is most similar to Latin?
The most similar living language to Latin is Sardinian. Sardinian is a Romance language spoken in Sardinia , the Mediterranean ’s second largest island and part of Italy. It is generally considered to be the most conservative of all Romance languages i.e. the most similar to Classical Latin.
Spanish language belongs to so-called Romance Family or Romance Languages. This means, that the most related languages to Spanish are from this tree, which are Portuguese, French, Italian.
Which language should I learn, French or Spanish?
Both languages share a common Latin origin, which makes easier for a Spanish speaker to learn French (or Italian, or Portuguese, for that matter…) than, say, German or even English. French is way less tolerant than Spanish to phonetic errors, being richer phonetically.