Are there any languages similiar to Spanish?
Spanish isn't the only language I want to learn but I thought it would be easier to learn a language that similiar to Spanish or English. But mostly it's just out of curiosity 
. Thanks!
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Speaking from experience, it is incredibly helpful to have a background in one of the Romance languages when learning another. It is easier still if you also have Latin, though so few people take it any more so it's not that likely. Although there clearly are differences, there are many similarities in grammar, syntax and vocabulary and, once you've conquered the idea of using the Subjunctive or reflexive verbs, for instance, in one language, it becomes much easier to learn how to apply it in another language.
On a cautionary note, I would suggest that you ensure that you have a reasonable grasp of Spanish before you embark on another language, especially if that other language happens to be Italian. I had already been learning French and Latin for some years when I began learning Spanish and Italian within a week of each other - weird, I know and not what I had planned really, but that's just the way it happened! Although I continued to study both Spanish and Italian for some years, including at university, it took me a long, long time to get my head to a point where I didn't stray from one to the other. Heaven knows how many times I wrote "che", the Italian word for "that" instead of "que" and vice versa. They are pronounced the same and I just wrote what I heard in my mind. And then there are the classic mis-matches, e.g. in Spanish "burro" means "donkey", however in Italian it means "butter"; not quite the same thing! My native-Spanish-speaking "novio" in college took up Italian in first year at university and found it far more challenging than he had expected, both because of the differences that can jump up and bite you on the nose, and because of the "che"/ "que" issue.
In my opinion, the benefits far outweigh the downsides however, so I would definitely encourage you to learn another language when you feel ready. As I mentioned in another topic the other day, I can make a reasonable stab at understanding Gallego and Catalan, for instance, based purely on the the background material in my head. (Travelling through the "País Vasco" proved daunting though. I really couldn't understand either the spoken or written language at all.) Portuguese I find challenging I but can make out bits of it. I gather that it has quite a complex vowel system but don't know anything about the formal structure of the language. I would consider Italian, both grammar and pronunciation, to be easier than Spanish but bear in mind my note above. Although I love French and studied it for 10 years, I would consider it to be more difficult than Spanish. The pronunciation and spelling can be particularly tricky for "Anglophones", as they call English speakers. However, if you would like to springboard on to another Romance language further down the line, French would probably be your best choice.
Hope that helps a bit, rather than confusing you completely.
Yes. It is called the Romance Language Group. It involves all the languages which evolved primarily from Latin. The main ones are Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and (bizarrely ) Romanian. And of course all the dialects- Sicilian, Wallonian, Catalonian etc which derive from those languages listed
No one has yet mentioned Romansch - one of the Latin-based Romance languages that is also one of the official languages of Switzerland.
Hitchens, why do you find it strange that Romanian is also a Latin-based language? Its very name strongly suggests something Roman, and, I do believe, Latin originated in the region of Rome.
To those who ask why i said it was strange for Romanian to be a Romance Language. Its because Romania is surrounded entirely by slavic to all sides. . To find the next Latin language you would have to go 600 km west all the way to Italy. It is an island of Romance in a sea of Slavic.
ps i know how Latin got to Romania, i just said it was odd for it to be the only surviving bastion of Latin in Eastern Europe.
Look here, I had a wider but also similar question some time ago. Maybe you'll find some thoughts link text
They're all correct. I speak Italian and it is helping me immensely with Spanish. French is quite similar though I expect Portuguese is closer, especially in pronunciation.
In my opinion, French is similar enough to take advantages of the similarities and different enough to prevent too much confusion between the two...so that learning the two concurrently would probably not be a problem if you have the time to devout to them both.
However, Italian and Portuguese are so similar to Spanish that you can actually read and understand (or misunderstand) a little of them both just because you already know Spanish. I think this would make learning either of them easier if you already have a solid grasp (like a near fluency) in Spanish. Otherwise, I worry that there would arise some confusing of vocabulary, grammar rules, idioms, etc.
In fact, when I was still quite the beginner in Spanish, I watched a little over half of the Portuguese version of the Sponge Bob movie before I figured out it was NOT Spanish (I had thought the accent quite strange the whole time). The word for crab tipped me off...I looked up crab in my Spanish dictionary...it was cangrejo, but what I was hearing was definitely different...similar, yet different...it was very puzzling...so puzzling I double-checked the language version...that's when I noticed I was watching the Portuguese version. Crab is caranguejo in Portuguese (the pronunciation is more different than the spelling). Mind you, I was only able to understand a word here or there any Spanish movie that I watched. And, I was definitely hearing those same words in this movie here and there... only with a strange accent I thought.
To me, Portuguese sounds like someone accidentally put Spanish and French in the same washing machine at the same time.
As a more startling example of similarity, when is cuando, quando, and quando in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian respectively. All three are pronounced roughly the same!
Yess!!!! French , italian , oh and mostly portuguese!!! they're almost the same :D well because they are latin languages... 
Portuguese, Catalan, and Italian are three off the top of my head. I want to learn Portuguese after Spanish, it sounds so cool.
I know someone who is French. He learned Spanish. And now he is learning Italian and he says it is really easy because it's a lot like French and Spanish.
