Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this episode of languages of Italy, we're testing mutual intelligibility between Friulian and the Spanish language. Can Spanish speakers from different countries understand the Friulian Language?
Friulian or Friulan is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian.
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📝 Contact details for the guests of the show are:
🤓🐮 Michele Calligaris - Friulian language teacher and activist;
📱Instagram: → @maybuz
🔴 Nicolás Rosano - Spanish teacher from Uruguay and photographer;
🎥YouTube Channel → Subarashii Supeingo - youtube.com/channel/UCy6HAsz8B1Lw8Vv84CD7VGQ
📱Instagram: @nicolas_rosano
🔴 Blanca de la Torre Dulanto - Spanish teacher and content creator from Spain;
🎥YouTube Channel → @Spanish connection Edinburgh → →youtube.com/channel/UCM4A8sBFp55DhH8SAXuguVw
📱Instagram: @spanishwithblanca
🔴 Isidor Morales - Mexican Spanish speaker, a Spanish teacher from Mexico
🇲🇽Spanish lessons with Isidor: italki.com/teacher/4120452/spanish
You get $10 Dollars towards your lessons on italki by signing up using the following link: italki.com/i/ACBGGA
🕰 Time Stamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:33 - 1. WORD
7:07 - 2. WORD
16:02 - 3. WORD
19:55 - 4. WORD
28:25 - 5. WORD
32:42 - 6. WORD
38:45 - Commentary in English
🎥Recommended videos:
🤓 🦂 Latin Language Spoken | Can Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speakers understand it? → youtu.be/C77anb2DJGk
🤓 Sardinian Language | Can Italian, French, and Spanish speakers understand it? → youtu.be/KcfYGLwF0rM
🇮🇹🤓Trentino Dialect | Can Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese speakers understand it? → youtu.be/f19-4jPRZGQ
🇧🇷🇲🇽🇮🇹Brazilian Portuguese | Can Spanish and Italian speakers understand? → youtu.be/buqqqVNQHHI
🇷🇴 🦂 Romanian vs Latin Speakers | Can they understand it? → youtu.be/FSwRoNtXdsE
🇫🇷🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽French Language | Can Italian, Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand? → youtu.be/sqxgY6c6mqs
🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽Italian Language | Can Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand? → youtu.be/VCtg1upDmWs
🤠🇧🇷🇲🇽Norbert speaking Spanish to Polyglot Erika - a Brazilian Portuguese speaker. → youtu.be/cO7fPGwcOEo
Romance Languages Comparison Playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
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#friulian
In this episode of languages of Italy, we're testing mutual intelligibility between Friulian and the Spanish language. Can Spanish speakers from different countries understand the Friulian Language?
Friulian or Friulan is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian.
🏋️♀️ Support my Work:
My name is Norbert Wierzbicki and I am the creator of @Ecolinguist channel.
☕️Buy me a Coffee → paypal.me/ecolinguist (I appreciate every donation no matter how big or small🤠)
📱Instagram: @the.ecolinguist
📝 Contact details for the guests of the show are:
🤓🐮 Michele Calligaris - Friulian language teacher and activist;
📱Instagram: → @maybuz
🔴 Nicolás Rosano - Spanish teacher from Uruguay and photographer;
🎥YouTube Channel → Subarashii Supeingo - youtube.com/channel/UCy6HAsz8B1Lw8Vv84CD7VGQ
📱Instagram: @nicolas_rosano
🔴 Blanca de la Torre Dulanto - Spanish teacher and content creator from Spain;
🎥YouTube Channel → @Spanish connection Edinburgh → →youtube.com/channel/UCM4A8sBFp55DhH8SAXuguVw
📱Instagram: @spanishwithblanca
🔴 Isidor Morales - Mexican Spanish speaker, a Spanish teacher from Mexico
🇲🇽Spanish lessons with Isidor: italki.com/teacher/4120452/spanish
You get $10 Dollars towards your lessons on italki by signing up using the following link: italki.com/i/ACBGGA
🕰 Time Stamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:33 - 1. WORD
7:07 - 2. WORD
16:02 - 3. WORD
19:55 - 4. WORD
28:25 - 5. WORD
32:42 - 6. WORD
38:45 - Commentary in English
🎥Recommended videos:
🤓 🦂 Latin Language Spoken | Can Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speakers understand it? → youtu.be/C77anb2DJGk
🤓 Sardinian Language | Can Italian, French, and Spanish speakers understand it? → youtu.be/KcfYGLwF0rM
🇮🇹🤓Trentino Dialect | Can Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese speakers understand it? → youtu.be/f19-4jPRZGQ
🇧🇷🇲🇽🇮🇹Brazilian Portuguese | Can Spanish and Italian speakers understand? → youtu.be/buqqqVNQHHI
🇷🇴 🦂 Romanian vs Latin Speakers | Can they understand it? → youtu.be/FSwRoNtXdsE
🇫🇷🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽French Language | Can Italian, Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand? → youtu.be/sqxgY6c6mqs
🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽Italian Language | Can Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand? → youtu.be/VCtg1upDmWs
🤠🇧🇷🇲🇽Norbert speaking Spanish to Polyglot Erika - a Brazilian Portuguese speaker. → youtu.be/cO7fPGwcOEo
Romance Languages Comparison Playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
🤗 Big hug to everyone reading my video descriptions! You rock! 🤓💪🏻
#friulian
![Occitan vs French vs Italian vs Catalan | Can they understand each other? | feat. @ParpalhonBlau
English subtitles Available [CC] → Occitan vs French vs Italian vs Catalan | Can they understand each other? We test mutual intelligibility between Romance languages.
In this video, Gabriel speaks the Lengadocian dialect of the Occitan language. Also known as Languedocian, Lengadocian or Lenga dòc. Due to its central position among the dialects of Occitan, it is often used as a basis for a Standard Occitan.
Support my Work: @Ecolinguist
My name is Norbert Wierzbicki and I am the creator of this channel.
☕️Buy me a Coffee → https://www.paypal.me/ecolinguist (I appreciate every donation no matter how big or small🤠)
📱Instagram: @the.ecolinguist
🤓🇵🇱👨🏫 Book a Polish Lesson with Norbert → http://ecolinguist.com/ (language conversation practice)
Contact details for the guests of the show below:
🔴 Gabriel Pelisson - Occitan content creator
🎥YouTube Channel @ParpalhonBlau 🦋 → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAhIhWM_VV4Cg2vDB8F-SYg
📱Instagram: @parpalhon_blau
👩⚕️Pati Cubells Ricart - a dentist and a medical translator → http://www.dentaltranslator.com/
🔴 Lionel Rondeau - French teacher and YouTuber
🎥YouTube Channel @Le français pour de vrai → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCEAKg3qaASm_ptfwAGtLQ
✍🏼Andrea Zoller - Russian Italian translator
📱Instagram: @dererumverdura
🎥 🤓 Andrea was the host of the video featuring the Trentino dialect → https://youtu.be/yfxiSpQrmu8
🎥Recommended videos:
🤓Catalan Language | Can Spanish and French speakers understand? → https://youtu.be/AtPa_U8Efao
🤓 Dialect of Venetian | Can Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese speakers understand it? | #1 → https://youtu.be/yfxiSpQrmu8
🤓 Neapolitan Dialect | Can Catalan, French, Spanish, and Latin speakers understand it? → https://youtu.be/q9fHciwdclU
🤓 Louisiana Creole vs French Speakers | Can they understand it? → https://youtu.be/MPZHrYdxw6I
🤓 Latin Language Spoken | Can Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speakers understand it? → https://youtu.be/C77anb2DJGk
🇭🇹💬🇫🇷 Haitian Creole vs French Speakers | Can they understand it? → https://youtu.be/P1J21pgqJLE
🇫🇷🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽French Language | Can Italian, Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand? → https://youtu.be/sqxgY6c6mqs
🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽Italian Language | Can Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand? → https://youtu.be/VCtg1upDmWs
🇧🇷🇲🇽🇮🇹Brazilian Portuguese | Can Spanish and Italian speakers understand? → https://youtu.be/buqqqVNQHHI
🤠🇧🇷🇲🇽Norbert speaking Spanish to Polyglot Erika - a Brazilian Portuguese speaker. → https://youtu.be/cO7fPGwcOEo
Romance Languages Comparison Playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJ3IAEluGMjuLXkJ3M3zbdutw38BInsv
#occitan
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![Lombard Language | Can French, Spanish and Romanian speakers understand it?
In this episode of languages of Italy, were testing mutual intelligibility between the Lombard language and three other Romance languages (French, Spanish and Romanian). Can they understand Lombard?
The Lombard language is a language, consisting in a cluster of dialects spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland, including most of Lombardy and some areas of neighbouring regions. Lombard is considered a minority language, structurally separate from Italian, by Ethnologue and by the UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages. [Wikipedia]
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My name is Norbert Wierzbicki and I am the creator of @Ecolinguist channel.
☕️Buy me a Coffee → https://www.paypal.me/ecolinguist (I appreciate every donation no matter how big or small🤠)
📱Instagram: @the.ecolinguist
📝 Contact details for the guests of the show are:
🤓 Simona Scuri - Lombard language speaker;
📱Instagram: → @scurisimona
🏫Far Lombard - http://www.lengualombarda.org
🔴 Elisa - French teacher and content creator from France;
🎥YouTube Channel → @FrenchmorningswithElisa
📱Instagram: @frenchmorningswithelisa
🔴 Elena Herraiz - Spanish teacher and content creator from Spain;
🎥YouTube Channel → @Linguriosa
📱Instagram: @_linguriosa_
🔴 Răzvan Dobre - Romanian speaker and a subscriber from Romania
🙏 Volunteer your language skills for the future videos → https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9I2GI7plOElgXkQajre7z7CIfdnPBmYudUl0d4YnJ-W jg/viewform
🤓 Join the Ecolinguist DISCORD Server → https://discord.gg/xKBQCc3V57
🕰 Time Stamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:20 - 1. Word
7:15 - 2. Word
17:47 - 3. Word
22:52 - 4. Word
28:09 - 5. Word
32:53 - Commentary in English
🎥Recommended videos:
🤓💬 Friulian language vs Romance languages → https://youtu.be/aNZW7wyLVRs
🤓 🦂 Latin Language Spoken | Can Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speakers understand it? → https://youtu.be/C77anb2DJGk
🤓 Sardinian Language | Can Italian, French, and Spanish speakers understand it? → https://youtu.be/KcfYGLwF0rM
🇮🇹🤓Trentino Dialect | Can Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese speakers understand it? → https://youtu.be/f19-4jPRZGQ
🇧🇷🇲🇽🇮🇹Brazilian Portuguese | Can Spanish and Italian speakers understand? → https://youtu.be/buqqqVNQHHI
🇷🇴 🦂 Romanian vs Latin Speakers | Can they understand it? → https://youtu.be/FSwRoNtXdsE
🇫🇷🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽French Language | Can Italian, Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand? → https://youtu.be/sqxgY6c6mqs
🇮🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽Italian Language | Can Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand? → https://youtu.be/VCtg1upDmWs
🤠🇧🇷🇲🇽Norbert speaking Spanish to Polyglot Erika - a Brazilian Portuguese speaker. → https://youtu.be/cO7fPGwcOEo
Romance Languages Comparison Playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
🤗 Big hug to everyone reading my video descriptions! You rock! 🤓💪🏻
#lombard Lombard Language | Can French, Spanish and Romanian speakers understand it?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/exL-A3y9ZzA/mqdefault.jpg)
