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Old April 24, 2008, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Hombre-AraƱa View Post
How do Italian and Spanish compare? I've heard the romantic(romance is the word, but they have been accused of being romantic too) languages are all very similar in vocabulary, but do they have similar sentence structure, reflexives, etc.?
From what I know, romance languages have similar structure. As Rusty
states, its the vocabulary that differs. Also, it's the pronunciation. Italian speakers often accent the third to the last syllable. Spanish speakers usually accent the second to the last syllable.

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