Table of Contents
What language is very similar to French?
The languages that are most similar to French are Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and others like Romanian. These languages have one or more things in common with French, which mainly revolve around a high lexical count, in turn meaning shared vocabulary, and similar grammar.
Is French closer to Spanish or German?
French sounds me quite catala, rather than german. So its phonetic is closer to latin languages like spanish than germanic ones. As far as the vowel sounds of the languages considered are concerned, many are common to French and German AND are absent in Spanish.
Is Spanish or English closest to French?
“Lexical similarities” means how many words are identical (or nearly identical) between two languages. For Spanish and French, their lexical similarity is about 75\%. In comparison, Spanish and English have a lexical similarity of only 30-50\%, and French and English of only 40-50\%.
Is Italian language close to French?
The lexical similarity between French and Italian is around 85-90\%. That means that almost 9/10s of the two languages’ words are similar but does not mean that they are necessarily mutually intelligible to native speakers due to big differences in pronunciation and syntax.
What countries speak French?
France (60 million native speakers)
What language is easier French or Latin?
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.
What languages are related to French?
– Czech/Slovak – German/Dutch – Occitan/Catalan – Catalan/French – Spanish/Portuguese – Italian/Romanian – Italian/French – Russian/Ukrainian
What language are you speaking in French?
France. French, the official language, is the first language of 88\% of the population. Most of those who speak minority languages also speak French, as the minority languages are given no legal recognition. 3\% of the population speak German dialects , predominantly in the eastern provinces of Alsace-Lorraine and Moselle .