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Hola Fox. I lived in Italy and then went back to school there on a scholarshipe from the Los
Angeles, California Italian consolate. I got a scholarship grant and went to school in Mexico
taking advanced Spanish conversation, Mexican history and Mexican literature.
I lived with a Mexican family that only spoke Spanish. I've been to to France 4
times. Also went to two French churches here in California where the preachers
gave the sermon all in French. So I learned Italian, Spanish and French. Portuguese
I learned from my Brazilian students when I taught ESL classes to adults.
Once you know one Latin based language the others are easy to learn so learn
Spanish well and you'll have a basic idea of Italian, Portuguese and French.
Italian is like a bridge between Spanish and French. Portuguese is a bit of a mix
of Spanish, Italian and French.