Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:09:59 -0000: "Robert A.M. van Lopik"
>: in soc.culture.portuguese:

>Of course I know they speak Italian in Italy. I only said he would be alble
>to _understand_ .... In
>fact, you illustrate my point. Your two sentences are sufficiently similiar
>to be understandable for the other, contrary to your German example.
>
>On international conferences I always noticed that Italians and Portuguese
>seem to understand each other quite well.

The fact that I can read quite some Italian, without ever having
learnt it, on the basis of poor French, poor Spanish, and gradually
improving but still leaving much to be desired Portuguese, further
illustrates that point.

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Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.com/