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Originally Posted by Sancho Panther
My wife (born in Extremadura) lived for thirty years in Barcelona and cannot understand a word of Catalan.
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Curious. I can more-or-less follow it without taking any lessons. Maybe it's because I know more French than her?
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The first time I heard Catalan I thought it was Portuguese!
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I often get the impression that Castilian has diverged the most from the common ancestor of the Romance Iberian languages. I live in a Catalan-speaking area of Spain and visit Portugal for a few days most years, and I can confirm that Portuguese sounds closer to Catalan than it does to Castilian.