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Originally Posted by tobiast88
Italian is not similar to Latin, and all romance languages are certainly not alike (I would know, I'm french, and spanish and italian are not intelligible to me). The same way, German is not similar to English. There is 2000 years of difference; yes, one evolved from the other, but that doesn't make them "alike".
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I never said they are totally similar, but they have got many similarities. I speak portuguese and I can understand catalan/french/italian/etc without any problem (actually, many of these languages have mutual intelligibility, when I go to Spain I speak portuguese and everybody understands me). I may be a bit biased though, as portuguese sounds a lot like latin to me. French is probably the language that differs the most from Latin, out of these.
I never said they are the same, though. I understand that all of these are totally different.