Subj : Request To : Sean Dennis From : Carlos Navarro Date : Sat Mar 26 2022 10:52 am 16 Mar 2022 13:18, you wrote to me: [snip] SD> While your points about those languages being different, they indeed SD> do share a lot in common and if you understand that, you can make out SD> the jist of what is being said in all three languages. Agreed, they are closer than e.g. Spanish and English. Only that I find Italian closer to Spanish than French. Even more if it is spoken, because of the pronounciation. (If I had studied French at school instead of English, it would be different for me, of course.) SD> I unfortunately lost my "tongue" for Spanish as I had no one to SD> converse in Spanish with though I think with a bit of effort, I could SD> bring myself back up to at least to a conversational level. French, SD> to me, is overly complicated for the sake of being different. SD> Spanish has always been easy to speak for me because it tends to SD> follow its own rules better than English. You are welcome to ESP.GENERAL or any of our ESP.* echos... Carlos --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707 * Origin: cyberiada (2:341/234) .