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Can you do a video on how you learned German and what all tools you used? Which ones you enjoyed and didnt like it. Did you live in the country?

as argentine we all grew up in italian neighbourhoods, my granny my neighbours were all italians from the south and some spaniards that s why we react to many situations as them, nowadays we still keep in our speech some italians expression thanks for your video and interest!!

Gallego is basically Spanish Sounds identical to Spanish

Great channel brother!! Keep doing great work you got your new subscribe

Also OJALA is derived from, like oh Ala in Arabic I am an Argentinian American and this topic is completely ignored here. It’s just a very ignorant mentality that is super prevalent here. I took Italian in school because I grew up en una casa hispanohablante but I got a second BA in Spanish linguistics so that I could teach high school Spanish … But my main gripe is that- at least my family - doesn’t say “hablo espanol” sino “hablo castellano” - the term “Spanish “, used in English , should be used as an *umbrella term* … because I was SHOCKED when in my civilizaciones y culturas de España class while attending uni, the profe hooked the class up to SIRIUS RADIO CATALÁN and I was *SHOOK* bc I can understand Brazilian Portuguese FLUENTLY, I understand Italian and Latin but CATALÁN is where my brain draws the limit?! Arg

Nice video! I know the CH isn't easy to pronounce for English speakers. Fun fact: You failed when saying iCH, but you succeded when saying bissCHen...

My Spanish is intermediate but I noticed the accent immediately Sho instead of yo. Love it

(American by birth, Catalan by eleven years of marriage) I agreed that your Catalan taxi driver doesn't want to practice Castillian with you. Many Catalans strongly dislike the tendancy to call Castillian 'Spanish' as you did throughout after explaining it once. It evokes Franco's attempt to erase their language and culture. Calling it 'Spanish' sounds 'right' to us as English speakers, but can be considered offensive. There's also no great reason to keep saying Catalonia instead of Catalunya. (Similar to how it would be more respectful to stop calling Turkiye 'Turkey'.) I consider 'merci' an appropriate thank you for casual situations (say, when the cashier hands you your receipt) but not for example for bigger expressions of gratitude (like for a valuable/thoughtful gift or when someone cooks you a meal). Other commenters have already explained in detail, but the vowels are significantly different. Catalan also leaves unpronounced or makes some letters nearly silent in a predictable way (T after N, final R in infinitives with some exceptions for use with pronouns that make the R not really final.) There are also some tricky combinations used less frequently which made my Barcelona-born kids see the English word 'pig' and guess that it was prounounce like 'peach'. Catalans will definitely be bilingual in Castillian, but the opposite isn't necessarily true and it's a point of contention. Catalan is now the official language of Catalan tax-funded schools, but there are so many user-funded schools opting out and/or offering multilingual approaches that a person can still choose to be not great at Catalan while living here. It's also worth noting that immigration from Latin America to Catalunya influences the number of people who identify first as 'Spanish' speakers. My twins are ten and I'd say about half of their classmates have parents who'd rather be speaking 'Spanish' on parent texts and for communication with the school. LatAm origin is a big factor, complicated somewhat by the fact that they're not speaking Castillian either. France is an historic enemy of Catalunya so while the languages may be close on the family tree there's some lingering bad blood including an annual day celebrating Catalan culture and commemorating the loss to France (a la 'Remember the Alamo' in Texas). PS. Yes, you're butchering it but get some credit for trying. Revisit the word platja! ;)

this was set as my homework 😂 anyone else?

I'm sorry but Catalan is ugly and bad. Please reconsider, just speak a real language.

You will have a hard time canceling Lingopie no customer service contact number you can't call them hard time trying to cancel my membership which I looked at once for about 10 minutes poor quality content of their teaching method I'm still trying to cancel my membership.

Do you know that Catalonia was for more than 7 centuries an independent nation, although there was a confederation with Valencia, the Balearic Islands and Aragon? From 1714 the joint Castilian-French troops defeated our armies, becoming of Castile, and at the beginning of the 19th century the concept of Spain appeared. Since then we are real colonies with permanent abuse from Madrid. Hence the permanent demand every year on September 11th, in which the people express their desire for independence!

I'm pretty sure the taxi driver replied in English because he was native in Urdu/Punjabi 😂 OH cmon, 🤣 don't look at me like that, you people from Barcelona know you thought that as well.

Estoy de acuerdo en que el argentino tiene una entonación que recuerda mucho al italiano, aunque también los gallegos hablan con una entonación muy musical y fueron muchos los que emigraron a Argentina, por tanto,el acento argentino podría tener las dos influencias. Pero en lo que te equivocas totalmente es en el planteamiento que haces del "voseo" como una originalidad argentina, como algo que se inventaron ellos porque les importaba un pimiento (they didn't give a fuck) la gramática española. En el siglo XVI, el vos y el tú convivían como pronombre de la segunda persona del singular. El vos se usaba como fórmula de respeto, cuando el interlocutor era de clase social igual al hablante (el vuestra merced, del que se originó el usted, se usaba cuando el interlocutor era de clase superior) y el tú se usaba cuando existía confianza con el interlocutor, o este era claramente inferior en clase social. Posteriormente la situación se invirtió, y el vos no implicaba respeto alguno mientras que el tú, sí. Este último cambio se reflejó en las zonas de América que tenían virreinatos (Perú, Méjico, etc), y estaban más en contacto con la metrópoli y los cambios lingüísticos que se producían allí. Ese no era el caso de Argentina o Uruguay, ni de muchas zonas de Centroamérica, o incluso Colombia, etc. Por ello allí permaneció el uso del vos. Pero, insisto, el vos no es una invención de los argentinos, sino una palabra del antiguo castellano que se perdió en la península y otros territorios de América y subsistió en Argentina, Uruguay y otros lugares de América.

I genuinely appreciate your video above. @Lingua-Focus. If I was a person who wanted to learn Spanish (mainly for the work I do) and will dedicate the time of about 30-45 min per day -- do you have a recommendation of PC software -- or combination of software to successfully be speaking within 12 months? I have used rosetta stone in the past, to learn German, and a lot of that "REPETITION" has still stuck with me today.... I know you said you are a Spanish teacher, so if You were going to design a course using PC Software or MP3 recordings to help the 'average" student successfully complete a degree of proficiency in Spanish... what would you use, knowing what you know now? Pimsler, Rosetta Stone, Rocket Languages, Babble, etc... What do you think would be the best road map for someone who is serious about learning a language in the fastest time possible, taking into account accuracy and proficiency?

Did you day most words on Spanish come from Arabic? No way! About 4000 words are supposed to have Arabic origin.

It's viceroyalties, not colonies, Spain had a different view on their overseas territories.

Aragonese is the mix between the two, we say paxaro, cadeira and ciudat.

I made a short movie on my channel about Italian immigration to Argentina. In my film, there are Argentinian accents, food, and body language among them.

en vitoria gasteiz estamos hartos de que creais que euskadi es solo donosti y bilbao

los idomas oficiales en españa son.castellano catalan gallego y euskera...lo demas son dialectos

el aranes no es un idioma oficial

Si estás en un pueblo de Valencia no les digas que hablan catalán. Se enfadaran con tigo . Valencia era un reino mucho antes que Cataluña dejara de ser un condado . No te creas las falsedades de los independentistas catalanes sobre la historia. Informate mejor y aprende in poco de la historia Valencia y su cultura.

Basque is related to Aquitanian, but it is an extinct language

Uruguayan Spanish is the same as the Argentinian!

Basque has a similarity to Spanish as its vowels are the same.

Your attempts to show the difference in Spanish and Catalan by speaking it is probably a waste of time for most of us.

Periphrastic and simple past what?

Catalan sometimes seems like french or italian ==>manger/menjar/mangare ;lire/llegir/leggere , same as the word for bird ocell sounds like more italian ucell(o). The way to use the letter (X=SH sounds) is closer to galician and portugese.

Funny relevant story. Was at an after-match press conference by tennis player Rafael Nadal. Questions began in English. His English was so-so with a very heavy accent. After years on the tour, I thought, ok he's an athlete, not great at languages. Then the Q&A language for the press conference changed from English to Spanish. Then it changed to Catalan. Lastly, a local journalist from his home island of Mallorca questioned him in that dialect. At the end of this all I thought, "well for a fourth language, he was damn good at English!"

yes. you murdered my language when you tried to read it but it was SOOOO cute. and i am happy you made this video. you did an excellent job. adorable.

good video. but the wikitongues videos are wack. the people aren’t native speakers.

It's from the ITALIAN roots of Argentina.

The Spanish of Argentina might somewhat resemble Italian, but it's not as if it sound like Italian. I lived in Argentina.

The galician speaker just sounded like Penelope Cruz.

Great video! The Portuguese accent was a bit off, but fair try.

Hay otras lenguas como el Bable o Asturiano, el Leonés, el Aragonés, el Mirandés. Y también son cooficiales en sus respectivas regiones.

Bro how does à sound like in Catalan. What is the difference between à and á in Catalan

If I'm not mistaken, Mirandês is not a language in Spain but in Portugal.

great topic. Only to add that lunfardo comes from "Lombardo" from the lombardia region in italy. Theres a great book about argentinian lunfardo called lunfardia

You mentioned Spanish derives from Iberic Latin (an Ibero-Romance language); instead, Catalan derives from Gallic Latin (a Gallo-Romanic language), originary from the region called Gaul, nowadays approximately France, to be precise, from the sub-group called Occitano-Romance languages, that's why Catalan is closely related to Occitan.

Did you know that Catalan is more related to French than to Spanish?

I’m half Catalan half Galician so I have 3 native languages 😅. Castilian also has Iberian and Celt words and also Germanic words.

I am 50% Catalan and 50% Aranese. 20% Asturian. Thank you very much for this very accurate summary about us. I think it's beautiful that other countries in Europe and the UK are known and talked about us. Thank you for this! keep it up!

That’s great! I’ll definitely give Lingopie a try. One platform I’ve been using lately is Immersive Translate. I found it to be a great way to generate subtitles to all my shows and movies on Netflix, and I’ve been using it every day.

8 000 years ago basque people left the South Urals. Haplogroup r1b

I would say that there are more words in Catalan that are similar to Italian than French.

The Voseo comes from old spanish. Like most of the verbs. Tenés Tenéis, Venís Venís, Querés Queréis, Sabés Sabéis, etc. Vos also from old spanish. That's where Vosotros comes from. "Vos sois"

Castilian (as they call Spanish in Catalonia) is as similar to Catalan as it is with Portuguese.