I get your example but it is not quite correct:
Rafa gets bashed for his English from Fed devotees' anti-Rafa propaganda apparatus.
Of course, but it comes easy to them when they are young, plus in bilingual environment, and not to forget the 85% similarity of the two.
It's not my assessment, found it online.
Spanish and Catalan have a lexical similarity of 85%. Spanish is also partially mutually intelligible with Italian, Sardinian and French, with respective lexical similarities of 82%, 76% and 75%. So give these mutually intelligible languages a second look.People who speak both Spanish and Catalan say that the languages are not mutually intelligible.
Are Spanish and Catalan mutually intelligible?
Answer (1 of 13): I am an ethno-linguist from Bogotá, Colombia. Catalan is not a mixture of Iberian dialects, nor is it mixed with French. This is a big misconception. Català is a distinct and very old language of the "Occitan" group of Romance languages. It is closely related to other Occitan l...www.quora.com
However, we don't know if they are bilingual at home... Which wouldn't matter much anyhow, as entire island is bilingual.
Spanish and Catalan have a lexical similarity of 85%. Spanish is also partially mutually intelligible with Italian, Sardinian and French, with respective lexical similarities of 82%, 76% and 75%. So give these mutually intelligible languages a second look.
https://www.fluentu.com › blog › mutually-intelligible-languages
Spanish: Astur-Leonese and Galician (high),[26] Portuguese (high in written form; asymmetrically in spoken form), Extremaduran, Catalan, and Italian (partially),[30][41][25] Ladino (very high in written form; partially in spoken form[25]).
Mutual intelligibility - Wikipedia
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French, Italian and Spanish isnt THAT similar. I started to speak Italian and Norwegian. Had French in school and it wasnt that similar to Italian, as if it was different dialects, though French was easier for me to learn than it was for Norwegians. But still, a lot different and I had to study to learn it. I found Spanish maybe easier, after some days in Spain I could understand some Spanish, but not speak it well.Spanish and Catalan have a lexical similarity of 85%. Spanish is also partially mutually intelligible with Italian, Sardinian and French, with respective lexical similarities of 82%, 76% and 75%. So give these mutually intelligible languages a second look.
https://www.fluentu.com › blog › mutually-intelligible-languages
Spanish: Astur-Leonese and Galician (high),[26] Portuguese (high in written form; asymmetrically in spoken form), Extremaduran, Catalan, and Italian (partially),[30][41][25] Ladino (very high in written form; partially in spoken form[25]).
Mutual intelligibility - Wikipedia
No you didn't. You tried to insinuate that I think Italian and French are the same language, while I didn't even claim that for Catalan and Castilian...
Well, you don't seem to have a problem to do it yourself...I wonder why you write about things you don't know much about.
Yeah, the French seems hardest to me as well, in despite that I've studied it for many years and not at all Italian or Spanish. The last one does seem easiest, indeed.
Hilarious
I still think it was much easier for Rafa: Spanish 1st language at school, environment where Spanish is used "on the street", higher similarity of language. Katarina: Serbo-Croatian 2nd language at school, not used on street, lesser similarity.
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You are wrong about education in Mallorca.
June 2019: ¤¤ Education in Mallorca.
In the Balearics education system the majority of classes are taught in Catalan, rather than Castellano.¤¤
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