Spanish, Portuguese or Italian: Which language to choose?

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    What is the easiest language to learn? Italian or Spanish? Spanish or Portuguese? Spanish or Italian which is easier to learn? What are the most useful languages to learn? Which language to learn and choose? These are all questions you might ask yourself and here is a comparison of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

Komentáře • 223

  • @EJ-ku4eh
    @EJ-ku4eh Před 3 lety +145

    To be honest I'd learn Spanish first because it is more useful and it will be easier for learning the other ones ❤️

    • @ssjr3604
      @ssjr3604 Před 3 lety +8

      Am learning Spanish now wanna learn portugese French n Italia too also kno a lil German and already speak shona and ndebele from Zimbabwe

    • @EJ-ku4eh
      @EJ-ku4eh Před 3 lety +6

      @@ssjr3604 keep learning bro

    • @Mellyouttaphase
      @Mellyouttaphase Před 2 lety +7

      Absolutely! I have been studying Spanish since 2017 (peaked a while back at B2 level but soooo rusty now) and have just started learning Italian. I am SO glad I learned Spanish first, so much easier and it really set me up to learn Italian :)
      Ps. Italian is so fun, I love it so far!

    • @myad2152
      @myad2152 Před 5 měsíci +1

      i disagree people should learn whichever language they are drawn to first

    • @princemlambo8270
      @princemlambo8270 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@ssjr3604am learning portuguese - the brasilian one.
      I am shona and can speak just about all south african languages..
      Kana ndaita portuguese ndoda French

  • @mattiamartino2207
    @mattiamartino2207 Před 3 lety +63

    I'm an Italian native speaker and for us spanish is the easiest language to learn for the easy pronunciation and many words are similar to italian

    • @skipfuego6339
      @skipfuego6339 Před 2 lety

      Can you hold a conversation with a fast Spanish native speaker?

    • @bracciodiferro1401
      @bracciodiferro1401 Před rokem +2

      @@skipfuego6339 not really but we can someone understand the context of a sentence :)

    • @marioandres1006
      @marioandres1006 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@skipfuego6339 depending on the persons that speak each language , italian has many varieties and so spanish , maybe a roman will be able to comunicate better with someone from central Argentina and Uruguay...

  • @CaramelSwatches
    @CaramelSwatches Před 9 měsíci +9

    I studied Spanish for years in school and just couldn’t get past intermediate level. I just started taking Italian this year and I feel like I’m learning and understanding so much better; part of that could be because of the similarity to Spanish, and already knowing some Spanish words, but to me, Italian just seems to make more sense grammatically and somehow my Italian pronunciation is easier for computers to understand than my Spanish pronunciation is.

  • @howardstern9129
    @howardstern9129 Před 3 lety +57

    One of the main reasons to learn Spanish is because of the U.S. if yu go to a market or Target or Walmart or Big Lots stores yu will always find someone that speaks Spanish. Even Politicians advertise in Spanish.

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +14

      Yes, speaking Spanish is definitely always a plus.

  • @FEARDROP
    @FEARDROP Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks a lot for this informative and enjoying overview!

  • @SharonizedMakeUp
    @SharonizedMakeUp Před 3 lety +12

    Thank you for the information! I have studied: Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. I am struggling between Spanish and Italian. I will be focusing more on my Spanish and maybe in the future Portuguese.🙏🏾❤️

  • @SirprofMagic
    @SirprofMagic Před 3 lety +21

    Whoever learns and perfect any language aside his or her mother tongue is a hero/heroine💪.
    It takes hardwork, determination and courage to learn another language and perfect it. If you have these attributes, you can learn any language.

  • @MattBravado
    @MattBravado Před 3 lety +14

    I’m a B1 level in Spanish right now, but wanting to learn Italian and Portuguese or French next.

  • @001islandprincess
    @001islandprincess Před 14 dny +1

    I have partial Spanish, Portuguese and Spanish ancestry. I learned Spanish in high school and university in my home city Toronto. I was nearly fluent and Latin Americans said I spoke it like a native. I haven’t spoken Spanish in years, but I can still read and understand some of it. I did a “crash course” in Italian for my first trip to Italy in 2018 and people complimented me on my Italian. I had to relearn it for my September 2023 trip to Italy and again, I was able to use the language. I am now learning Portuguese to prepare me for my trip to Portugal next year. In my opinion, if you know one romance language, learning another one will be relatively easy. I also know some French.

  • @davyjones1693
    @davyjones1693 Před 3 lety +5

    Hey Eve, I loved your video. the way you approach the romantic languages is clear to understand and it's heartwarming; because I'm from Brazil, so I have Portuguese as my first language.
    Besides, I've been learning English since July 4th of 2019, I'd say is pretty easy to understand you; you have such a good level in your speaking skills.
    Thank you for share with us a little bit of your experience!

  • @stacysoin766
    @stacysoin766 Před 3 lety +11

    Hello, Eve! Thank you for the video☺️Well, to be honest, from these 3 languages, I would definitely choose Italian. I have a lot of personal connections with Italy, and my level at the moment is something like Intermediate. When it comes to Spanish, I like it, too, and actually would like to learn it in the future. About Portuguese: I suppose I would love to study it as well! One of the similarities between Russian (my native language) and Portuguese that amazed me was the rhythm and intonation. It's scarily similar!

  • @GoIndyGo18
    @GoIndyGo18 Před 3 lety +64

    Portuguese is the most beautiful in my opinion 😄

  • @damjanpeselj3501
    @damjanpeselj3501 Před 3 lety +2

    Wow que chulo este vídeo !! Muchas gracias por contarnos sobre tus experiencias 😊 no sabía que el portugués se habla en tantos países 👏🏻 muy informativo e interesante 🙌🏻

  • @NotiandSera
    @NotiandSera Před 3 lety +14

    I like italian it just sounds beautiful to me,however I had to start with German which I have recently completed B2.I will be starting French in summer

  • @Mina56
    @Mina56 Před 3 lety +11

    I chose Spanish last year for fun, I just liked it right off the bat after watching a show and picking up on a phrase without even realising.

  • @CrisOnTheInternet
    @CrisOnTheInternet Před 3 lety +17

    I'm a native Spanish speaker and I know Portuguese too, so, Italian it is 😜

    • @flibbettyjibbetts6766
      @flibbettyjibbetts6766 Před 2 lety +1

      Buena lista de idiomas: inglés, español, portugués, italiano. Muy versátil

  • @mariats361
    @mariats361 Před 3 lety +5

    I really liked the video! Thanks ! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +3

      Thank you so much! Greetings back from Germany 😀💚

  • @shkalulugaming3402
    @shkalulugaming3402 Před 3 lety +24

    I’m from Middle East i speak Arabic as a first language and i speak British English as second language and i speak Spanish as third language i understand pretty much Spanish i’m not in a bad level but kind good i’m still 16 year’s old i’m still going forward i’m in love in learning European languages.

    • @CrisOnTheInternet
      @CrisOnTheInternet Před 3 lety +9

      Did you know that a considerable amount of Spanish words come from Arabic?

    • @user-rx9zl7iz4d
      @user-rx9zl7iz4d Před 2 lety

      @@CrisOnTheInternet cuáles?

    • @JA-jh5gr
      @JA-jh5gr Před 2 lety +1

      Any tips on learning Spanish?

    • @DarkoRajakovic_
      @DarkoRajakovic_ Před 2 lety

      Middle East should be learning Italian. Not Spanish.

    • @aisha.ibrahim
      @aisha.ibrahim Před rokem +1

      @@DarkoRajakovic_ Why Italian and not Spanish?

  • @Hebamagdy43
    @Hebamagdy43 Před 7 měsíci

    Thanks a lot for sharing.

  • @kevinpalomo7800
    @kevinpalomo7800 Před 3 lety

    Brilliant! I really enjoy your videos! What would you recommend for someone who wants to learn the Romance languages?

  • @juanjulianndongnguemaabeso3924

    There are 21 countries having Spanish as the official language around the world. He in Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 we speak Spanish but not Portuguese. Muchas gracias y saludos desde Guinea Ecuatorial.

    • @user-rx9zl7iz4d
      @user-rx9zl7iz4d Před 2 lety +4

      ¿eres de guinea ecuatorial? el único país del continente africano que habla español 😉

    • @alejandrotabilo1988
      @alejandrotabilo1988 Před 2 lety +1

      Me encantaria ir a Guinea Equatorial.

    • @michaellombard894
      @michaellombard894 Před 2 lety

      Spanish and Portuguese of course have many more speakers, Spanish is more widespread with 21 countries.... nonetheless my favorites, in ranked order:
      1) Italian
      2) Portuguese
      3) Romanian
      4) Spanish
      5) French

    • @jerryspringer1085
      @jerryspringer1085 Před 2 lety +2

      I like that an African nation speaks Espanol

    • @Olsjaz
      @Olsjaz Před 2 lety +2

      Esooo, saludos desde Honduras. A seguir manteniendo viva esa lengua materna, española.

  • @enriquecerros
    @enriquecerros Před 3 lety +12

    So true about the similarities between Spanish and Portuguese! I’m Mexican American and used to work in a department store in downtown Chicago, we always received lots of Brazilian tourists and I was able to have a basic conversation with them and we were able understand each other (due to Spanish and Portuguese having 89% lexical similarity).

    • @LHollan
      @LHollan Před 2 lety +1

      you didn't know but their were (trying) speaking Portunol, like many Brazilian when find a Hispanic. If their were like 100% Portuguese you would have understood way less. But yes, the romance languages are very similar, even French if the person speak slowly the communication happens haha

    • @256ugkalix3
      @256ugkalix3 Před měsícem

      Muito obrigado... Excelente video.. Gracias Deus.. tchau tchau

  • @catwoman3247
    @catwoman3247 Před 3 lety +18

    Hello, 😀 I have started learning Spanish and in the meantime I have started a little bit Portuguese and probably/maybe Italian in the distant future. I simply like three of them. 😀

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +9

      That's great! Don't you mix them up? I did. That's why I waited until I got pretty much fluent in Spanish and then went on to Portuguese and Italian.

    • @catwoman3247
      @catwoman3247 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheUrbanEve hello 😀, yes 😀at first it was very confusing, they are soooooo similar but the more I learn Spanish a1, the less Portuguese is in the way. This "method" works for me. I have listened to your advice on how not to translate in your head it was very helpful, it's easier to switch languages. Thank you.🙏 English is not my native language so I know a little bit how to learn language. During weekend I study Spanish 80%, Portuguese is at the weekend as a dessert🍰10%- 20 %. I am still learning basics like alphabet and greetings and listening to the sounds of the language. So you know 😀 lots of work ahead. I didn't want to postpone any longer Portuguese so I have decided to start learning even just a little bit of Portuguese. I just like learning languages.🥰 I have different question. In what language do you learn languages.? You are so fluent in languages. I admire your hard work, talent and selfdiscipline. 🥳🙏👏You have encouraged me to start. Thank you.🙏🥰 I am learning Spanish and Portuguese in English so somehow it also helps to switch between languages.

  • @conceicaolima1476
    @conceicaolima1476 Před 3 lety +15

    Tô estudando para aprende inglês e Espanhol🥰

  • @LilT9180
    @LilT9180 Před 2 lety +4

    Very helpful great video, I want to learn Spanish first, then Italian.

  • @gerlautamr.656
    @gerlautamr.656 Před 3 lety +19

    Spanish, because it's more useful, and their music is awesome, period.

  • @beargrylls7399
    @beargrylls7399 Před 3 lety +4

    I'm from Brazil, but first I learnt English (and always improving) listening this vídeo for example then now I started learning Spanish..but sure it's kinda just improving and training the speak because it's very very easy to Portuguese speaker to understand about 90% of the Spanish language, sometimes it's like a Portuguese with accent and some percentage of differents words, very interesting but I think is useful to study and trainer to do it more correct.😁😁 About Italian language I like the sound a lot and also because it's the most language similar sound with the Latim language the Mother tongue of romances languages very cool.😁

  • @damianooi8261
    @damianooi8261 Před rokem +4

    i would like to learn Italian because of catholicism.. their prayers and everything. At first i was looking for latin but heard that language already long gone.

  • @juliomio9726
    @juliomio9726 Před rokem +3

    Saludos desde Perú 🇵🇪 , actualmente estoy aprendiendo inglés, el portugués se hizo amigable debido a el parecido con el español y me gustaría aprender italiano sobretodo lo básico para tener una conversación sencilla con citadinos al viajar en unos años a Italia.
    Excelente canal Eve.

  • @lavernewarren4310
    @lavernewarren4310 Před rokem +1

    All of them! My first foreign language is French. I studied all 4 years of high school. I've spent the last 2 years learning spanish. I've recently started with Italian which will be followed by Portuguese. I will be maintaining all languages simply by comprehensive imput. I'm 45 years old doing it. So can you!

  • @naria2224
    @naria2224 Před 3 lety +15

    I was trying to decide between Brazilian Portuguese and Italian. I’m not interested in Spanish honestly. I think I will go with the Brazilian Portuguese.

    • @antoniorodrigues1345
      @antoniorodrigues1345 Před 3 lety +7

      Bela escolha amigo 😁🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

    • @davyjones1693
      @davyjones1693 Před 3 lety +6

      I hope to speak with you someday in Portuguese, thank you for your decision. I'm sure you'll love our culture and language as well.

    • @toatoa6094
      @toatoa6094 Před 3 lety +5

      Yey, I'm a Brazilian myself and i would recommend spanish first because it's easier, but Since u don't like Spanish, then Portuguese is the best choice, italian isn't really useful if you don't live in Europe

  • @moneyinvestingwithvandi7727

    I love Spanish but I’ll probably learn Portuguese first

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +21

      That's great! Spanish is a lot easier than Portuguese in terms of pronunciation. That's why I'd always recommend starting with Spanish. Most foreigners who speak Portuguese started with Spanish first. It gives you an easier start with Portuguese because it's rather simple compared to Portuguese and Italian.

  • @juanjulianndongnguemaabeso3924

    Spanish is also spoken in Western Sahara( Arabic and Spanish).

  • @deltonconti
    @deltonconti Před 2 lety +4

    I'm Brazilian and I learned English as a second language... but I understand Spanish and Italian

  • @mustafabelal38
    @mustafabelal38 Před 3 lety +3

    Which one of these languages is your favorite?

  • @pawelmazuer5939
    @pawelmazuer5939 Před 2 měsíci +2

    I love Italian language and love Italy. I know that may be it is not very useful language when it comes to professional reasons but I don't care about it. I want to speak this language fluently. But Italian is not so easy as it seems to be (I am Polish).

  • @TheMorganVEVO
    @TheMorganVEVO Před 3 lety +9

    Italian is definitely easy. I love speaking and hearing it.

  • @juanjulianndongnguemaabeso3924

    Eve, please let me correct you. It's Guinea-Bissau the country that speaks Portuguese, not Equatorial Guinea. There are 3 countries in Africa with the name of Guinea: Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶( The official language is Spanish). Guinea🇬🇳(the official language is French) and Guinea-Bissau🇬🇼(the official language is Portuguese). In Africa Spanish language is officially spoken in my country, which is Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶.

    • @flibbettyjibbetts6766
      @flibbettyjibbetts6766 Před 2 lety +1

      Very interesting. Thanks for the input

    • @LHollan
      @LHollan Před 2 lety

      You´re clueless, mate. Equatorial Guinea adopted Portuguese more than one decade ago. Nowadays, Portuguese is their official language alongside their native African language and Spanish.

  • @hibamichealnaouiri7858
    @hibamichealnaouiri7858 Před 2 lety +2

    Thank u I think I am gonna learn Spanish

  • @jangofett7857
    @jangofett7857 Před 2 lety +4

    I'm a spanish native speaker. I also speak English and French. Now i'm torn between Portuguese, Italian, Chinese and Korean. Probably I will go with Portuguese cause it's easy and it's quite useful for Iberia and Latin America (the markets an enterprise hire a spanish speaker for)

    • @mrkfinance8974
      @mrkfinance8974 Před rokem

      Chinese and korean are not good. Stick with the others you mentioned.

  • @docq143
    @docq143 Před 2 lety

    Muito obrigado

  • @mep6302
    @mep6302 Před rokem +5

    I'm a native Spanish speaker and I learned Portuguese a long time ago. I haven't practiced it much recently. I also learned the basics of Italian but I would really like to get fluent.
    As a Spanish speaker, the easiest part of both Italian and Portuguese is:
    Italian = Pronunciation
    Portuguese = Vocabulary and grammar
    Italian vocabulary and grammar are more similar to French.
    And Portuguese pronunciation is a little more similar to French, in my opinion. That's because Portuguese has nasal vowels but Spanish and Italian don't. Also the rr in Portuguese is like French r. Spanish and Italian have the same r sound.

  • @feliciaasante8238
    @feliciaasante8238 Před 3 lety +2

    Hello 🤗
    I have tried to go onto your language corse from a previous video but it won’t work is there any way you can help?

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +1

      Hi! Do you mean the website is not working? You can try here again or the link in the description: courses.theurbaneve.com/

  • @anitam.9943
    @anitam.9943 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you very much for this video 😍 you answered my doubts 😄 but I have one question: what about speed od speaking? Spanish seems to be difficult to understand because of fast speaking. What's your opinion? Thanx in advance 💕

    • @antoniorodrigues1345
      @antoniorodrigues1345 Před 3 lety

      Portuguese 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

    • @davyjones1693
      @davyjones1693 Před 3 lety

      Well, in my experience learning a foreign language, whatever language you choose, at the end of the day is all about getting used to it, I mean; in the beginning, is difficult, but as time passes it'll become easier and easier to understand the fast native speed. (I hope I helped answer your question).

    • @anitam.9943
      @anitam.9943 Před 3 lety

      @@davyjones1693 Thank you Davy :) that's motivating 😀

    • @davyjones1693
      @davyjones1693 Před 3 lety

      @@anitam.9943 Don't mention it, I'm glad I could help. ;)

  • @jonathangonzalez4385
    @jonathangonzalez4385 Před 2 lety +3

    Spanish is my target language, i am learning English, and my next language will be portuguése.

  • @user-nm2bq8zy6u
    @user-nm2bq8zy6u Před 9 měsíci +1

    I love Spanish since I'm half Dominican LOL. But I do also ❤ Brazilian Portuguese. By listening to a lot of Brazilian music, I am so familiar with Brazilian Portuguese. Italian is beautiful too. I took a few clases when I was in college.

  • @juliamontenegro6868
    @juliamontenegro6868 Před 2 lety +5

    I'm Brazilian and I have a mental block for Spanish, maybe it's too similar so my mind just goes back to what's more comfortable with, so now I'm learning Italian

    • @JA-jh5gr
      @JA-jh5gr Před 2 lety +1

      I feel almost the same with Spanish. How can we get out of it

    • @DarkoRajakovic_
      @DarkoRajakovic_ Před 2 lety +1

      We almost have same last name hehe I’m Italian tho Montebello.

    • @mep6302
      @mep6302 Před rokem

      The same happens to me with Portuguese. Since I'm a Spanish speaker when I want to speak Portuguese, I end up speaking "Portuñol". I basically use Spanish words with a Portuguese pronunciation and hope it's correct. But I know some words that are completely different in both languages. For example: window = ventana (es) janela (pt) comes to mind.

  • @IConquer
    @IConquer Před 3 lety +3

    Spanish!! But i need helppp. 😩😩

  • @sgill4833
    @sgill4833 Před 4 měsíci

    I need to pass A2 in 6 yrs but want to learn Spanish as well. So should I learn Spanish first and then Portuguese. Right now Im leanring Russian. Wanted to start woth the hardest language first.

  • @midtwilightblue
    @midtwilightblue Před 3 lety +5

    Me being an American in the south, went to Miami and my friend and I had a hard time asking where the bathroom was at A DOLLAR GENERAL! No one there spoke English! Very odd and awkward trying to explain, especially as a young teen 😅

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +3

      The same thing happened to me in NYC. That's why it's always useful to speak Spanish😀

    • @xinnasinpatria3202
      @xinnasinpatria3202 Před 3 lety +2

      The singer Celia Cruz used to say that as Cuban she has never had to learn speak English coz she lived in Miami.

    • @NelsonBlandonArceda
      @NelsonBlandonArceda Před rokem +1

      @@TheUrbanEve Yes #Eve, I know nowasdays there are in the #USA more than 60 MILLION hispanic people (native Spanish speakers and for some of them Spanish is their second familiar language). Hugs from Nicaragua, I´m a Spanish native speaker, but I do speak Portuguese, French, and Italian too.

  • @pablobordon4121
    @pablobordon4121 Před 2 lety +3

    My vision about this:
    Easy to "difficult"
    1. Spanish
    2. Italian
    3. Portuguese
    BUT... If you know Spanish, Portuguese becomes very easy to learn. Better, if you really know Spanish and Portuguese, Italian becomes a gift for you. ; )
    They are all beautiful lenguages!!

    • @Fracasso321
      @Fracasso321 Před 2 lety +1

      As a native Portuguese speaker, I understand a lot of Spanish, but I know nothing of Spanish.
      As a native Portuguese speaker, I understand a lot of what is said in Spanish, but I know nothing about the language.

  • @colombuss8194
    @colombuss8194 Před 2 lety +7

    Tutto verissimo ma la forza dell’italiano si vede anche dal fatto che pur non essendo una lingua particolarmente utile internazionalmente è la 4º lingua più studiata al mondo ( dopo l’inglese, lo spagnolo e il cinese)❤️

  • @skipfuego6339
    @skipfuego6339 Před 2 lety +7

    I learned Italian because it's closer to all of the other languages. I was never thought Spanish growing up and when I asked questions, some people would refuse to help me. So, I gave up on Spanish and read Italian books and I was enjoying how I discover how close it was to English.

  • @leonardailic6566
    @leonardailic6566 Před 3 lety +3

    Vielen Dank für dein informatives Video. Ich beneide dich wirklich um deine Fähigkeit Sprachen zu lernen. Mir fällt das nicht ganz so leicht. 😅 Ich kann mich Moment wirklich nicht entscheiden, bevorzuge aber portugiesisch. ☺ An meiner Uni habe ich die Möglichkeit alle 3 Sprachen zu lernen, jetzt frage ich mich nur welche ich lernen möchte. Beruflich ist für mich keine der Sprachen relevant, aber da schon einige meiner Kommilitonen spanisch sprechen, möchte ich lieber eine Sprache lernen die etwas "außergewöhnlicher" ist.

    • @user-rx9zl7iz4d
      @user-rx9zl7iz4d Před 2 lety +1

      NO ENTIENDO ALEMÁN PORQUE NO HABLO ALEMÁN 😃😃😃 POR QUÉ COMENTA EN ALEMÁN!!!??? ALEMÁN NO ESTÁ EN ESTE VIDEO

    • @LHollan
      @LHollan Před 2 lety

      haha For any person from a country with a Germanic language to learn a romance language (specially French and Portuguese) is as hard as it could go hahaha To English speakers however learning a Romance language is not that hard because English is hugely influence by Latin structure and vocabulary. Like this sentence I wrote, it has around 40% of Latin vocabulary that got into English through the French.

    • @luciorezendebr
      @luciorezendebr Před 2 lety

      @@user-rx9zl7iz4d Un tonto amigo acá!

  • @polle4862
    @polle4862 Před rokem

    I am really in love with the sound of Italian. But since I have no plans to live in Italy or going there on a regular basis I kinda don't need it.
    So I guess Spanish is my choice. But to be honest here in Germany, I can basically do everything with German and English. It's very rare i get in contact with Spanish speaking people. :(

  • @nehabind7233
    @nehabind7233 Před 3 lety

    Which dialect of Spanish u have learned ? And which dialect is easy to learn ? And is Spanish and there dialects are different?

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +5

      I learned European Spanish because that's what is taught here in schools and later on I lived in Spain. But nowadays I speak a mix since most of my friends I communicate with are Latin Americans. I'd say Latin American Spanish might be easier to understand because it is often much slower, like Mexican or Colombian Spanish. However, of course, there are still exceptions (e.g. Caribbean Spanish is very fast and not as clear since they often don't pronounce certain letters like the s sounds and ending of words) All in all it doesn't really matter which variant you learn as they are all the same language. It's like deciding on British or American English. At the end of the day, it's the same language.

  • @TheZcarekrow
    @TheZcarekrow Před rokem +2

    Spanish native, learned italian, but i am not interesed in learning portuguese

  • @sarahp4339
    @sarahp4339 Před 3 lety +4

    I learnt spanish at school but i've been learning portugese

  • @spiritolibero2023
    @spiritolibero2023 Před rokem +1

    L'italiano è parlato anche al confine con Francia,Austria e Slovenia e studiato anche in Albania nelle scuole

  • @nikushiko_
    @nikushiko_ Před 3 lety +4

    Do u recommend learning Spanish or French? Which one is more useful and easier? Did u like France or Spain more? Are those languages similar?

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +11

      Yes, they have the same roots but are quite different. I find Spanish to be much easier in terms of pronunciation. Spanish grammar is also a bit more simple. I'd definitely recommend starting with Spanish first if you want to learn both languages. I have lived in both countries and up to date, Spain is definitely my favorite!

    • @nikushiko_
      @nikushiko_ Před 3 lety +2

      @@TheUrbanEve ty for answer🥰

    • @toatoa6094
      @toatoa6094 Před 3 lety +6

      I also recommend spanish, spanish is the easiest of all romance languages and also the most popular nowadays

    • @nikushiko_
      @nikushiko_ Před 3 lety +3

      @@toatoa6094 I will take that into consideration :)

    • @user-dw6im3cs4b
      @user-dw6im3cs4b Před 2 lety +3

      They 3 are OK, and yes, Spanish is more popular namely nowadays, unlike centuries ago, when French was the most widely spread diplomatic language. French and Italian are for exquisite and aristocratic things: fashion, classical music, opera, cuisine, wines, design of furniture, parfumerie, jewellery, architecture, arts, classical culture. French and Italian have more profound aristocratic history than English, Spanish and Russian. Aristocracy of England spoke French 700-1000 years ago and of Russia 150-260 years ago. French and Italian even sound much more exquisite, very beautiful and romantic. British and American elites now rule the West, but they use the language which borrowed 29% for French+6% from ancient Greek +29% from Latin. Even the word language originated from French "langue"

  • @stefanwebdev1803
    @stefanwebdev1803 Před 2 lety +1

    As a native in a romance language: romanian language , learning italian or spanish language is really not that hard , which I intend to learn them both in near future . But french/portuguese eh.....even catalan language is more pretty.

    • @LHollan
      @LHollan Před 2 lety +2

      Portuguese and French are vary nasal languages, that turns their language harder to speak if compared with the other romance languages.

  • @lindaegwuh9792
    @lindaegwuh9792 Před 3 lety +3

    I ❤️ this video

  • @michellevenus661
    @michellevenus661 Před 2 lety +5

    SPANISH FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ELA7337a
    @ELA7337a Před 2 lety +2

    I want to know Italian, because it's the easiest one of all of them. I desire to know the Italian culture and teach people that language.
    However, I am still concidering to know Spanish in the future.

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 2 lety +2

      Spanish is actually a lot easier than Italian. But yes, since they are similar it makes sense to learn it in the future.

  • @jaxieredu
    @jaxieredu Před 15 dny

    Hi
    What Portuguese did you learn? The European or the Brazilian?

  • @jardstenmark5005
    @jardstenmark5005 Před rokem

    between italian and spanish, wich was easier to learn?

  • @tamisjcloud
    @tamisjcloud Před 3 lety +2

    I saw brazilian flag (my country) so I'm here haha you're so beautiful 🥰

    • @joaojosesilva693
      @joaojosesilva693 Před rokem +1

      The portuguese language should be represented by the Portuguese flag is yhe motherland of the language.

  • @gessemouraflauzinocarvalo7288

    Vc conhecer espírito santo vitória no Brasil.

  • @2kool4myskool
    @2kool4myskool Před 2 lety +4

    Spanish and Portuguese are Iberian languages and very interchangeable, if you learn Portuguese it's like learning two languages at the same time, all Portuguese speakers understand Spanish and can easily speak it. Italian will also become easier to understand while French will take a little longer, my advice is.....Portuguese!

  • @ashtonshorts6904
    @ashtonshorts6904 Před 2 lety +1

    ¿Tu hablas francais?

  • @FKAwalkwithwade
    @FKAwalkwithwade Před rokem

    Which should I learn first

    • @mep6302
      @mep6302 Před rokem

      I recommend Spanish because it's the second most spoken language unless you don't want to go to Latin America or Spain.

  • @zetnikoven
    @zetnikoven Před rokem

    similarities, Doesn't make confuse us? These languages have very similar vocabularies some of them almost the same writing? Today I am afraid the learning these languages after Spanish.

  • @Grandiloquence
    @Grandiloquence Před rokem +1

    Um grande dia para todos aqui 😆
    Un grande giorno per tutti qui 😃
    يوم عظيم للجميع هنا ❤
    Einen tollen Tag für alle hier 🙏
    Wielkim dniem dla wszystkich tutaj. 🖖

  • @michaelenns8872
    @michaelenns8872 Před 9 měsíci

    How to learn a language....you wanna know how?...get a lot of freaking input.
    Output is not important at the beginning and will never be in the forfront.
    You need to get input.....A TON.
    What can that entail?:
    - reading
    - listening (radio, podcasts, vids, listening to friends that know your target language or just people that know your target language in general)
    - watching stuff, like vids, movies, tv series etc.
    Put with a big discrepancy more time into reading.
    The reasons are as followed.
    - way more input in a short period of time while also learning how to read the language (knowing how to read stuff in your target language is always of advantage)
    - because there are no pictures (usually) and no video the author has to describe a lot of stuff which equals out in you getting input that you probably wouldn't meet in the other options or at least wouldn't meet as often in the other options.
    read stuff that interests you and if it is easy to understand than that is a bonus.
    As long as you read you learn even if you do not understand a whole lot.
    Generally speaking you will pick up a lot of things subconsiously..for instance certain letter combinations, you'll meet certain words with a high frequency and start to read these words way faster even if you might not understand this word/these words at the moment; you'll pick up on grammar (for instance endings, when natives use which ending in which scenario), you'll pick up on how natives use certain words and their meaning in different contexts and probably way more.
    If I convinced you and you are about to start more reading for your target language I'll highly advice you to not overthing stuff.
    Don't look up every word, don't even look up every second word.
    You might not know a lot of words and you might not understand certain phrases which is okay just continue reading.
    The reason for that advice is because once you start looking up every word or every second word you'll waste a lot of time, effort and probably get discouraged.
    You might think it doesn't take a whole lot of time checking out an unknown word, especially with the internet nowadays but you will be thinking incorrectly.
    Most words have a bunch of different meanings depending on the context which in turn means that you can't just take the first meaning that the web or online dictionary spits out.
    And what about in the same phrase there are two or more words that you don't know and you'll look up every one of them. You try to figure out which meaning fits, you think you got the meaning and after reading that phrase with these meaning in mind you end up finding out that it just doesn't fit....congratulations you just wasted several minutes and are now annoyed and frustrated.
    That time you could have just continued reading.
    Some words you'll understand later in your journey. Sometimes it takes time.
    Even when that doesn't happen but you have met that word already so many times. You have a reference point, then you might want to check out the meaning of that word in that context you last met the word and in that case there is a higher likelyhood of you finding the correct meaning and being confident about it as well.
    Now about me, who am I to tell all that stuff. Who am I to say how to effectively learn a language, weeeeell......I am just a rando in the internet at the end of the day.
    I don't really have credentials to show for and I can only tell you that I know three languages and especially the last language I have learned pretty effectivly by that method.
    Besides english I know german (which is my native tongue) and russian.
    Russian is the last language I learned.
    I would also like to add that if you will follow my advice you might and probably will doubt that advice several times throughout your journey.
    I "know" that for a fact because I have lived through it.
    What I have described is NOT how it is teached pretty much anywhere.
    Not in schools, not in language schools, not in these places where people do their exams for "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" (aka A1, A2, B1 etc)..nowhere.
    Which is the reason why you'll question it many times.
    The first time I got introduced to it was when I actively wanted to learn more about that subject through the internet.
    In school barely anyone gets really efficent in languages. In english you might make a case for the opposite but for the next langauge that is not case. I don't know one person from school who got efficent in french or spanish when I still went to school and had these subjects even though we all had to put in so many hours into these languages, had to do so many homeworks etc.
    For me and for you it'll probably be very similar: I saw very quick and rapid progress at the very beginning. But this progress will at one point or another stail and I wouldn't notice it for several weeks if not months. That happened to me several times throughout the journey. I doubted what I did and several times thought that at that point I needed to change something. In these moments I thought about my conversations. If I remembered that the people I often talked to in that language started speaking either faster with me or used more complexe vocabulary than I knew I was on the right track. Or if one of these people told me that my language skills improved I knew I was on the right track.
    Which helped me even more so tbh was when I noticed that I got better at reading and that it started to be easier for me and that it was that energy consuming for my brain anymore.
    Everytime I noticed that it didn't take much longer till I noticed my language skill being better than they used to.
    And guess what....everytime I worked on my language by reading as my main focus. Everytime I doubted this method and thought about my reading skills I noticed them improving, being better compared to months or even weeks ago.

  • @lys2536
    @lys2536 Před rokem +4

    My favorite language is Italian.✨ I'm studying to become an Italian-French interpreter at university, and although Italian grammar is hard to memorize, I've never enjoyed school so much.😍😍 I'm not learning Spanish, because I think it's already learned too much and other languages deserve this attention too. Anyway, I manage to understand some of what the Spanish speakers say because it's similar to the Portuguese I've been studying for a few years.😊

    • @bracciodiferro1401
      @bracciodiferro1401 Před rokem

      can i ask what was the hardest part for you when you were learning Italian?🙂

  • @juanjulianndongnguemaabeso3924

    Hello Eve, Spanish is spoken in more than 20 countries. You forgot my country , Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶. It is an African country with Spanish as the official language. Here in Africa we speak Spanish. So, please don't forget Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 whet counting Spanish-speaking counties.

    • @LHollan
      @LHollan Před 2 lety

      (along with an african native language and spanish) Portuguese is the official language in your country in case you dont know hahaha

    • @NelsonBlandonArceda
      @NelsonBlandonArceda Před rokem +1

      @@LHollan 95% of people in Equatorial Guinea speak Spanish more than any language, very much more than French and Portuguese, and also more than native languages. 95% of Equatorial Guinea people speak Spanish because they were a province of Spain very long (centuries).

    • @LHollan
      @LHollan Před rokem

      @@NelsonBlandonArceda Never was a province but a Spain COLONY, it’s comply different

  • @user-bt1xm9uk7k
    @user-bt1xm9uk7k Před 9 měsíci +1

    🇧🇷🇧🇷NA MINHA OPINIÃO ITALIANO PORTUGUÊS E ESPANHOL E GALEGO, SÃO AS LÍNGUAS ROMÂNICAS QUE MAIS SE PARECEM ENTRE SI. NÓS NOS ENTENDEMOS TÃO BEM! SÓ O FRANCÊS E O ROMENO QUE NA MINHA OPINIÃO É MAIS COMPLICADO DE SE ENTENDER...🇧🇷🇧🇷

    • @Lucario-Good
      @Lucario-Good Před 16 dny

      O Francês e o romeno são complicados quando são falados , mais escretos saõ com irmaos com os outros

  • @FKAwalkwithwade
    @FKAwalkwithwade Před rokem

    Does learning Portuguese make Spanish easier to learn

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před rokem +1

      Yes, but it’s easier to learn Spanish first.

  • @ilanchii
    @ilanchii Před 18 dny

    Spanish the easiest of the 3, once you know Spanish you will be understood in the other 2

  • @gary455
    @gary455 Před 3 lety

    I'm curious to know why you omit French out of this comparisons? .

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před 3 lety +12

      The video would have been too long. No particular reason :) Also, those languages are much more similar to each other than French.

  • @wandersonmiranda9138
    @wandersonmiranda9138 Před 2 lety

    where you from? Paris?

  • @josephduran3977
    @josephduran3977 Před rokem +1

    Spanish and English are the two most widely spoken european languages in the world, so make your choices.

  • @salozinp
    @salozinp Před 2 lety +2

    Spanish,second language of world,very simple.

    • @NelsonBlandonArceda
      @NelsonBlandonArceda Před rokem

      TOTALMENTE de acuerdo contigo amigo. A nivel mundial, en todos los aspectos y campos, el #Inglés es el 1o, y el #Español es el 2o. In fact, in the #USA the second spoken languages after #English is #Spanish.

  • @oller04
    @oller04 Před 3 lety +5

    I'm Brazilian and I'm learning Spanish (because there are 7 Spanish speaking countries around Brazil) 🇧🇷
    I didn't count Ecuador and Chile because Brazil doesn't border them

    • @BLabourdette
      @BLabourdette Před 3 lety +2

      And because in Chile we speak chilean, not spanish :P

    • @oller04
      @oller04 Před 3 lety +1

      @@BLabourdette hahahahahah

    • @xinnasinpatria3202
      @xinnasinpatria3202 Před 3 lety

      No te preocupes, hablar español chileno ya es otra categoría más avanzada 😅

  • @InteractiveDNA
    @InteractiveDNA Před 8 měsíci

    You learn Brazilian Portuguese you know most of Spanish and some Italian, but not the other way around.

  • @kieronhoswell2722
    @kieronhoswell2722 Před 8 měsíci

    I don't think that Mandarin is widespread outside of China and Taiwan. Not compared to the other major languages such as French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic or English. Even most Chinese communities outside of China are more likely to speak Cantonese although this is changing to Mandarin.

  • @milagrosjimenezderuiz7788
    @milagrosjimenezderuiz7788 Před 9 měsíci +1

    If you learn Spanish you can go 23 countries without change the language, is more more useful

  • @stanislavbauman7680
    @stanislavbauman7680 Před 3 lety +2

    you look good

  • @MatthGulins8555
    @MatthGulins8555 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Ai dimenticato il francese che fa parte della stessa famiglia

  • @magnofelipeteixeira1540
    @magnofelipeteixeira1540 Před 2 lety +9

    Sou brasileiro e acho que existem mais países e pessoas que falam espanhol. Porém o português é mais bonito de se falar.

    • @1Maestr00o3
      @1Maestr00o3 Před rokem +1

      Good joke

    • @mep6302
      @mep6302 Před rokem

      Você está errado

    • @CountofSerenno
      @CountofSerenno Před rokem +1

      Olá do Canadá. Eu também penso português é mais bonito para ouvir e falar. Eu aprendi português para duas semanas agora então eu não é muito bom.

    • @Lucario-Good
      @Lucario-Good Před 16 dny

      Bueno , si es vuestro idioma materno claramente será para usted mas bonito de hablar

  • @logan9920
    @logan9920 Před 8 měsíci

    Português first its the hardest for English speakers doing one year than switching to Spanish and Italian.

  • @joaojosesilva693
    @joaojosesilva693 Před rokem +1

    I don`t understand wy you put the brazilian flag next to Portugal? The mother country of the Lusitanian language is Portugal! If you put Brazil then you have to put the rest of the portuguese speaking countries; Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Goa, Diu, Daman, Macau, East Timor, etc. In my opinion you are not being correct.

    • @TheUrbanEve
      @TheUrbanEve  Před rokem

      Well, I’m speaking about Brazilian Portuguese mostly so logically I put that flag, i did not learn the accent from Portugal. And it’s rare to meet Portuguese around the world as well as learn from media. Most pop culture is always Brazilian.

    • @joaojosesilva693
      @joaojosesilva693 Před rokem +1

      @@TheUrbanEve if you are really talking about Brazil you don't need the Portuguese flag. As for your difficulty in seeing posts about the Portuguese language, I think you are very distracted. Try to do research on the Portuguese language in its origin, you will see that you will find many Portuguese posts about the Portuguese language.

  • @Lampchuanungang
    @Lampchuanungang Před rokem

    Eve ya like more latines idioms ya like italian, french spanish and portuguese. You have a latine soul. It's sounds funny and weird on same time cos ya is german, ya don't have much attraction and passion by germanic culture. It's not much natural to brazilians and americans eyes. You love portuguese and spanish we known that. You cherishe our heart with affection by our culture.

  • @gio_toro856
    @gio_toro856 Před 2 lety +3

    Spanish italiano Portuguese= modern latin.....pd French and Romanian is the more far away Latin lenguages from latin

    • @mep6302
      @mep6302 Před rokem

      In my opinion, Italian is the closest language to Latin, second is Spanish, third Portuguese, forth French and last is Romanian.

    • @gio_toro856
      @gio_toro856 Před rokem

      @@mep6302 yes is like you say....but a minor lenguage is closer the Sardinian

  • @seid3366
    @seid3366 Před 2 lety +2

    Trick question: Learn Galician.

  • @gregoneill990
    @gregoneill990 Před 2 lety +4

    I'm asking myself the same question. I'm tending to Spanish as Spanish language cinema is far and away bigger and better than the other two.

  • @user-jw4jz6kz6l
    @user-jw4jz6kz6l Před 2 měsíci

    that's not the portugal flag

  • @giovannig2509
    @giovannig2509 Před 2 lety

    what about French? :-) a video about French pls :-P

    • @mep6302
      @mep6302 Před rokem

      Not considering Romanian, French is the hardest romance language. Its vocabulary is more similar to English though.

  • @solarpunk_hive1306
    @solarpunk_hive1306 Před rokem

    Abolire le lingue romanze e sostituirle con il latino

  • @kubi1923
    @kubi1923 Před 2 lety +2

    German is best ;)