Which language is the easiest for you to understand in your country?

Are they actually speaking portuguese?
Couldn't understand a word tbqh

Both. (In Toronto, Ontario)

Based if true

Italian
I can understand 99% of spoken italian (never studied it)

>I can understand 99% of spoken italian
Damn, is it that similar to french?

Bari merda

italian has influenced german a lot more
Some Austrian examples:
Scherzerl for the end part of a bread ( comes from italian scorza meaning bark of a tree)
Trafik for tobacconist (from italian traffico for trade)
Gspusi for a romantic relationship (from italian sposo for groom)

when it comes to food stuff obviously a lot is just direct borrowings from italian:
pasta, pizza, capuccino, melanzani, etc

Would you say the number of Italian loan words in austrian is significant?

Curious how I've heard a lot of French people tell me that but French is completely unintelligible to us.

yeah theres generally a lot more romance language influence in austrian / bavarian german due to centuries of border contact than in northern german.

Are austrian/bavarian german and northern german mutually intelligible?

Well, i know french spanish and a bit of latin, so I can just guess most words
for a native monolingual french speaker I'd say they'd understand about everything in catalan/occitan, most of it in italian, maybe about half of it in spanish and a few words at most in portuguese
and romanian sounds like total gibberish lol
that's because we have nasals, no tonic accent, guttural r, and a lot more vowels
italian is easy for us to understand because although our language changed a lot phonetically, it is much closer to other romance languages when written. So because of our "archaic" orthography, we can understand a lot more of other romance languages.

Compreendo o português

It's probably a creole

>and romanian sounds like total gibberish lol
Same thing here honestly

all dialects pretty much have gotten a lot closer to the standard ever since the printing press i guess but really fast increasing since the second world war. My great grand parents generation meeting someone from the far north I can't see how they would have communicated desu but nowadays yeah.

probably

Italian. It's not like I understand either, but I do catch some words in Italian but not in Portugese, which is like French

Crazy how that works

It's incredible

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>which is like French
wow damn, the consensus seems to be that italian is way easier to understand for literally everyone desu

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