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Originally Posted by ROBINDESBOIS

Well, I speak both languages, I have a diploma in Italian. Learning Italian was very easy for me, because The grammar is almost similar, and the pronunciation is practically the same but for 3 or 4 phonemes. As far as vocabulary is concerned, the best thing to do is to learn just the words that are completaly different from Spanish, the rest is easy. At the beginning was difficult to do the agreement with all the endings singular, plural, masculine and femenine, because they are more like latin.
Though Written Portuguese is more similar to Spanish, it´s more difficult to understand because of the phonetics. Sometimes when I go to Italy I think they speak Spanish because they sound very similar except for 2 or 3 sounds as I said before, the rythim of the sentence is different, Spanish Argentinian is Spanish with an Italian accent.

Questo e molto vero! Es la pura verdad. Very true.