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What I get from that link:
- Most of the spanish-speakers are native speakers. So spanish is very spoken, but no many people learn it. This is different with English.
- The modern arabic language has a lot of speakers, but no natives. So probably it has some way of standardisation (sorry for my ignorance). I think the arabics people share the Koran's arabic, and every people have his own arabic dialect. (again, sorry for my ignorance)
What I get from my poor experience with other languages:
- Most of people with romance languages (part of the spanish origin tree ) understand spanish better than we understand them. For example, portugueses and italians understand spanish better than we understand them. It seems that in a lot of countries, they see the TV in the original language with subtitles, but we always dub the tv series and films.
- Other languages in Spain are even better understood than spanish (we have several co-oficcial languages in Spain, but sadly we most of time revile them, instead of feel proud of it). For example, I talked with an italian and he told me they understand Catalonian better than Spanish. Portuguese and Galician language are very similar... We even have a very "strange" language called Euskera (edited), not connected with any other known language...
- I remember when I was in Italy (Bergamo), and I could understand (more or less) the italian people spoken slowly... then we talk with a waiter and we didn't understand anything. We start to speak English with another waitres and we ask her why we can't understand her workmate. It seems she was talking in Bergamo "language" (bergamesco?)... not so similar to "spanish" but to french...
What experiences (curiosities) have you with other languages?
Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World
This detailed visualization breaks down the 100 most spoken languages around the world, by total and native speakers. Can you find yours on the list?
What I get from that link:
- Most of the spanish-speakers are native speakers. So spanish is very spoken, but no many people learn it. This is different with English.
- The modern arabic language has a lot of speakers, but no natives. So probably it has some way of standardisation (sorry for my ignorance). I think the arabics people share the Koran's arabic, and every people have his own arabic dialect. (again, sorry for my ignorance)
What I get from my poor experience with other languages:
- Most of people with romance languages (part of the spanish origin tree ) understand spanish better than we understand them. For example, portugueses and italians understand spanish better than we understand them. It seems that in a lot of countries, they see the TV in the original language with subtitles, but we always dub the tv series and films.
- Other languages in Spain are even better understood than spanish (we have several co-oficcial languages in Spain, but sadly we most of time revile them, instead of feel proud of it). For example, I talked with an italian and he told me they understand Catalonian better than Spanish. Portuguese and Galician language are very similar... We even have a very "strange" language called Euskera (edited), not connected with any other known language...
- I remember when I was in Italy (Bergamo), and I could understand (more or less) the italian people spoken slowly... then we talk with a waiter and we didn't understand anything. We start to speak English with another waitres and we ask her why we can't understand her workmate. It seems she was talking in Bergamo "language" (bergamesco?)... not so similar to "spanish" but to french...
What experiences (curiosities) have you with other languages?
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