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Shakira speaking 7 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, Arabic) (www.youtube.com)
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[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I think they were more referring to how knowing Spanish, a Latin-based language, can help in learning another Latin-based languages.

English is primarily Germanic-based so it falls out of the category for the most part.

[-] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

I think the REAL "cheating" example is Spanish & Catalan.

I took 5 years in HS/college, and when I was in the Barcelona airport, I actually asked "why is everything written twice?" The differences seemed very very minor.

But I speak english poorly, and spanish... not really. So she's still 700% better than me!

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