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Hello everyone.
Welcome to the Lange Focus Channel and 

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my name is Paul.
Today's topic is how similar our French 

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and Italian,
well they're actually very similar.

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They share a lot of common vocabulary 
and the grammar is very similar but in 

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terms of phonology they are quite 
different.

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So in their spoken form they are 
generally not mutually intelligible.

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French and Italian are both romance 
languages.

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They both developed out of the vulgar 
Latin spoken throughout the Roman 

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empire,
but French kind of stands out as 

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different from other romance languages.
The historical land of goal is located 

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inside Modern Day France and one theory 
is that when the Roman empire conquered 

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Gaul and tried to force the local 
population to speak Latin,

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they spoke at using golish speech sounds
and that has affected the phonology and 

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the pronunciation of French.
Until this day goldfish was a Celtic 

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language.
So that means that there is some Celtic 

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influence in the French language,
specifically in phonology and any case,

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French and Italian are very closely 
related.

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Let's have a look at just how close they
are.

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Vocabulary,
Italian and French are very similar in 

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terms of vocabulary.
The lexical similarity of the two 

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languages is 89% that means that 89% of 
the words used have equivalents or 

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cognates in the other language.
That doesn't mean the words are exactly 

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the same,
but they are clearly related.

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Some obvious examples,
Valenzuela,

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bon Jordan'll until the song into the 
Sunday mosaic,

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monae,
Jada,

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and there are some less obvious cognates
to or be dull or medallia order Akella,

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[inaudible] Yada Shelf Shit.
She had a car.

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Then I think the figure of 89% is 
probably true if we include formal 

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literary vocabulary,
but in daily conversation that seems to 

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be a little lower.
Let's look at these examples.

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Maquila to have Aaliyah,
avn,

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ecomaine,
Cucina t prep,

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our own cafe,
Msi,

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Sita Valisa,
viansa vic McDonald cuisine is you're to

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play pound coffee.

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So here you can see that most of the 
words have an equivalent except for the 

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words that are in red.
Those ones are different,

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like the word for here in Italian it's 
queen and in French it's see and that 

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were four width.
In Italian it's con and in friendships 

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Avec the word for Ian in Italian,
it's in and in friendships don't,

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aside from those words,
the other words are all basically 

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equivalent except for a couple of 
definite articles which are used 

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differently.
I recommend that you pause the video now

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and look at the two sentences along with
an English breakdown and see what you 

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notice about the equivalents.
Here are another couple of examples in 

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nondomestic rtd and Entrada in an 
[inaudible] in nuclear power,

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don't weight loss a magazine,
the ceramic,

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so again,
these sentences are quite similar,

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but a few of the words are different.
The mentee,

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Kathy,
that means forget in Italian and who 

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bleah means,
forget in French.

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And again,
we see the different words for in the 

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Italian word in and the French word 
don't.

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And we see different words for store,
the Italian word,

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niggled steel and the French word 
magazine.

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So again,
why don't you pause the video and have a

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look at the two sentences and see what 
you can learn by comparing them.

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So you can see that in a typical 
sentence.

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The majority of vocabulary used is 
similar to the vocabulary used in the 

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other language,
but not all of it.

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Grammar in French and Italian,
the word order and the sentence 

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structure are generally very similar.
Here's a simple sentence to show.

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Similar would order.
This sentence means I have a newspaper 

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for the trip.
He Oh and John anally pedal viaggio j on

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[inaudible].
And you can see that these sentences are

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word for word translatable.

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Hmm.

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But there are also some grammatical 
differences too.

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In French subject,
pronouns are consistently used,

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but in Italian subject,
pronouns generally aren't used except 

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for emphasis.
So in French you ship out lonely.

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In Italian you will following lazy but 
yo is not usually said so which just 

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paddling glazer and there's another 
difference in pronouns in French.

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The second person,
formal end plural pronoun is in Italian.

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The third person Pronoun Lei is used for
the second person formal.

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So when French we'd have [inaudible] 
toll on tomorrow,

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but in Italian [inaudible] so the 
Italian sentence is like she speaks too 

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slowly,
but it should be clear from the context 

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that you are seeing you and not she 
because you're talking to someone 

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directly.
Also in Italian direct object pronouns 

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are also normally attached to the end of
a verb.

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When it's in the infinitive form.
In French we'd have shoveled day,

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but in Italian we'd have eal volume.
Rollo negotiation is also a little 

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different.
In the two languages.

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In French we'd say Jeanette backlit 
phone,

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glee with no end path to show negation.
But in Italian we'd say eo known 

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paddling,
Lazy.

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So in French we have no and pop,
but in Italian there's no equivalent of 

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Po.

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Those are some little differences.
But other major things like the verb 

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tenses are basically the same.
French and Italian.

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Share the same 14 verb tenses.
Of course,

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they're not conjugated exactly the same,
but the tense is function in the same 

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way.
For example,

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let's look at how the past tense is 
formed in French to a mosaic.

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Elka shows in Italian too.
I'm on Jato quelled Coza.

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This means you ate something spoken to 
one person informally.

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The verb consists of two parts.
First,

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the second person,
singular form of the word for have and 

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second the past participle.
Obviously the forms are different,

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but the way you use them together to 
create the past tense is the sin.

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And just as a quick side note,
notice how to say something in the two 

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languages.
Kelika shows versus qual.

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Coza,
French and Italian grammar is very 

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similar,
just like the vocabulary is largely 

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similar pronunciation.

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The biggest difference between French 
and Italian and the one that prevents 

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mutual intelligibility the most is 
pronunciation.

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Italian pronunciation is mostly phonetic
and mirrors the written words.

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Exactly.
French words are pronounced from the way

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they're written,
and you have to keep some phonetic rules

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in mind when pronouncing words.
Most Italian words end in a vowel,

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which makes it easy to pronounce the end
of the word.

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In French,
there are many consonants that are 

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usually silent at the end of a word.
For example,

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this sentence meaning the weather is 
cold in Italian [inaudible] in French in

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fifth squat.
Notice that the d sound at the end of 

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fall is silent.
Another example is the phrase for white 

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wine in Italian Vino Bianco in French.
Then blown here at the final C is 

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silent,
so the last song we hear is the nasal 

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sound represented by in van also ends in
a nasal sound.

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The end is not pronounced as a consonant
here.

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Instead that nasal aises the proceeding 
vowel,

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so rather than Van Blonde,
it's van blown.

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There are also some other sounds that 
are quite different than French.

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For example,
the French are,

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it's not the same as the rolled or that 
you would find in Italian.

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In Italian,
you produce the are by flapping the tip 

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of your tongue against the roof of your 
mouth,

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behind your teeth,
but the French are as a guttural are 

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that's produced at the back of your 
mouth.

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In Italian [inaudible] in French 
bacteria.

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So those final silent consonants as well
as the nasal sounds of the French are 

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south.
Those are some differences with Italian,

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but there are also some of the things 
that learners find challenging about 

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French pronunciation.
Let's finish by just breaking down a 

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couple more sentences and seeing what 
similarities and differences we notice.

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Here's the sentence,
meaning what are your favorite dishes in

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Italian quality?
SONA,

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we've lost [inaudible]D in French,
Kennison Ville,

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Platte,
[inaudible],

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la,
so word by word.

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The sentence is what are your plural 
dishes?

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Plural.
Preferred quality and Ken are 

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equivalents.
But notice that the plural ending is 

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different.
In Italian,

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it's often eat or act,
but in French it's a silent s Somol and 

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some are equivalents.
But notice that Somo ends in a vowel 

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while some ends in a nasal sound and a 
silent t evos three invo are equivalent,

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but in Italian,
the definite article is normally used 

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with a possessive pronoun like votes 
three.

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While in French there's no definite 
article,

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PRT and Pla or equivalent,
but notice the different plural endings 

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and notice that words with I and Italian
often have an l in French.

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We've seen another example of that,
the uncle in Italian and blog in French,

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but if fell,
Iti and pressure are obvious equivalents

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just with different accent markings and 
a different ending.

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Now here's one more pair of sentences,
but this time I want you to have a look 

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at them and notice the similarities and 
differences without me breaking it down 

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for you.
In Italian he knows three [inaudible] in

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French and those,
I mean finish days unit.

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So I hope this video has made it clear 
just how similar French and Italian 

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really are.
The speaker of one of them can probably 

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learn the other quite easily and in 
writing the level of mutual 

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intelligibility is quite high.
But because the cognate words are all a 

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little bit different,
and because of the pronunciation of the 

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two languages is so different,
the two languages are not mutually 

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intelligible in their spoken form.
But as a learner of Italian,

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my previous knowledge,
French makes a lot of things in Italian 

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instantly clear to me.
So the question of the day for speakers 

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of French and Italian,
how similar do you consider the two 

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languages to be and to learners of 
French and Italian?

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Does your knowledge of one of those 
languages help you make any sense of the

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other or help you understand the other?
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