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Is Catalan closer to French or Spanish? In this video, we explore the similarities and differences between the Catalan language, Mexican Spanish, and Canadian French.
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#languages .
I speak Valencian so is easy to me for understand.
Me impresiona como el mexicano le esta diciendo como son las palabras en español a la española es una cosa que nunca entenderia
I wonder if the mexican thinks that Catalunya is in Italy?
As a romanian it's much easier to understand catalan than french.
I don't want to offend anybody but catalán sounds just like a spanish person trying to speak Italian or French xD
"Catalan"? Oh, you mean the DIALECT of Castilian-Aragonese with a touch of French that some want to upgrade to language status? lol
I just stumbled across this and associated channels today. 45 or so years ago I accumulated 30 hours each of conciliary Latin, Koine Greek, and Biblical Hebrew. I had a smattering of German from ancestors and picked up some Spanish from co-workers. This stuff fascinates me! Perfect stuff to stimulate a boomer's gray matter.
Cuando dijo culera yo dije QUE?! 😦
as a native catalan speaker. i find it easy.
Marc can get it
En valencià diem "estanc", perquè la paraula "estany" es l'element químic, i causa molta confusió @.@
Això al menys en Alacant, sobretot pels pobles, i t'entenc el que dius, però parles molt tancat. Es nota que parles oriental ^^"
Jo, al nàixer a un poble al que parlen sobretot castellà use molts castellanismes, de fet ara estic en Madrid i la majoria de gent m'entén el que dic la majoria del temps xD
Jo parle valencià i me menjen la pilila els catalans, parleu massa obert
He vist aquest vídeo i al principi no em creia que el català sigui famós
Occitan!! 🙂
isidro porfavor
I'm learning Catalan right now as my 2nd language (I only speak English) and this video felt really useful. I need more content like this.
What she said near the end is so true. Catalans talk really fast and full of slang and even when I feel like I'm progressing with the language I visit Barcelona again and it's like my friends there aren't even speaking the language I've been learning…
Basque people: I'm lonely 🙁
As a Portuguese speaker, I understood about 65% of everything in the video. The beauty of Romance languages.
La palabra izquierda evolucionó de Esquerra que creo que viene del Vasco,es una palabra muy íbera,en las demás lenguas Romances será más próxima a siniestra como se decía en el Español Medieval.
La diestra y la siniestra.
En Andalucia sí que nos comemos las palabras,en Andaluz la frase:
Escucha hermano no tardo,ahora voy para haya se dice:
Cuchamano no tardo araipaya.
is she catalana and spanish ?
Really cool, thanks!
These experiments in mutual understanding are fun and educational. I prefer the ones in the Romance languages to the ones in Slavic languages because I speak (Montreal) French fairly well, a bit of Spanish and even less Portuguese. I have no clue about other language groups. I have noticed that Isidor seems to be speaking from the same place as Norbert in a couple of these exchanges – same background pictures (Frida Kahlo, Polish flag) and the same stack of books on the right. I'm guessing Isidor is visiting Norbert in Poland. N'est-ce pas? Verdad?
Catalan looks (in writing) and sounds (in spoken form) a lot like French and Italian. I agree that there are some apparent similarities to Portuguese. Only the rhythm bears resemblance to Spanish.
I mean if you know catalan you also know spanish because both languages are learned in Spain
Buena representación tenemos los mexicanos en ese camarada
PD. Me enamore de la catalana
For me it's hilarious, I speak Catalan Spanish French and English and watching them struggle I know how it feels at the beginning
Catalonia: part of Spain that borders France
This guy: puts a spanish speaker from Mexico and a French speaker from Canada
Me: 👁️👄👁️ ok..
como odio el catalán
the mexican guy not realising she actually is a native spanish speaker too
Come se llama El Mexicano?? 😍😍
i am very glad to say i speak all lenguages here exposed. the four lenguages i mean.
2:52 Tranqui bro no había por que insultarla xd
This test is unfair, any catalan person can undersatand and speak spanish as well as catalan
Buen idioma el valenciano
Soy mexicano, hablo español e italiano y entiendo perfectamente a la tipa
Endevinar en vez d'esbrinar 😐😂
that area between barcelona and france is like some weird world where oil and water mix in varying degrees
HABLA ESPAÑOL QUE ESTAS EN ESPAÑA!
As a B1 speaker of both, French and Spanish that wasn’t easy at all, but fun to watch
A mi m'agrada la pastanaga
El Catalán es como el intermedio entre español y francés
Sí, si lo entiendo. Tienes unas pocas palabras wue son diferentes, pero suenan familiars. La dificultad es probablemente en escribirlas. Suena bien parecido a Portuguese.
Get a Spaniard to do the Castilian part this dude is annoying.
As an English speaker who’s learning Spanish I could pretty much understand everything.
I understood everyone ,amazing ,I'm brazilian