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"on time of crisis there are those who cry and there are those who sell handkerchiefs"

Now that I'm using my imagination on you speaking Spanish to me lol. I love how you put it, Chinese old saying goes, 有危机就会有转机. As in "For any crisis, there will be a turning point". And turning point meaning of doing the opposite to be prosper.

When everybody is selling, we'll be waiting at the bottom to buy them back.

如果你对外国语言有兴趣我能教你西语。。。稍等吧,你多大?妈呀!我现在不知道怎么叫你?我二十九岁。。。那可是我应该用您或者大卫兄弟?我不太清楚

網上教學比較困難,除非你用視頻教學。不過,語言始終需要互動,就好像我們現在溝通一來一往就比較容易學習。

還有,我對語言的文化比語言本身來得更有興趣。比如為什麼意大利語言和西班牙語的相似度接近90%。然後,為什麼葡萄牙語和法語也有大部份共用詞?而這些詞最後又怎樣演變成英文,到最後現在變了不三不四的美國英語😂

換句話說,如果要學習,到底應該學習哪一個國家的語言才會是最正宗的拉丁語言?這幾天復活節,我都在看羅馬天主教的直播。他們到底是在用意大利話還是西班牙語呢😂

My goodness, an approximate answer to the questions you asked are way to complex for me to be able to explain them using Chinese...

Let's see... For you to have some idea of the differences and similarities of the main Latin-derived languages you can have a look at this picture and try to.overlap the map of western Europe on it:

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So a handy rule is that neighbor countries have the most similarities (similarities in the way they evolves from Latin, you can still feel the influence of Latin even if you cannot fully understand another romance language)... It's very likely that Italian is the language more close to the original Latin from where all the other languages evolved from, but at the same time is one of the less spread romance languages lol.... Actually the whole western part of the world is influenced to a certain degree by Latin, for instance, even though English isn't a Romance Language the grammar of the language and some key aspects of the logic upon it's built has some much Latin influence that it feels as it's the same Spanish structure for me... Of course, this might be an opinion based on my particular experience since I don't have a deep knowledge of linguistics.

My advice for you would be to learn the language you like the most if you're 100% for the fun or learn the one you can use to connect with the most people if you want it to have some utility... In which case it's defined Spanish (although I'm a little bit biased towards Spanish because in my opinion is both useful and fun to learn because we latin americans are crazy and most of us speak Spanish... You can tell the latin american influence of our ever-party culture is so big that most of the southern part of the US you can use Spanish as well as English in your daily live because Spanish is so popular between youngsters... I think that mostly is because of the music 😜

As for the Christian Church, I know for certain that in Italy they use Italian and Latin... But I have no clue what could be the one you are listening to, it depends on each church... Maybe you can give me a link to a recording of that and I can point you which one it is.


As for learning online, of course you need interaction.... But I think that you can just let it slowly get to you... If you're not learning it because of work or academic interest, you can take your time and let it sink into your brain... The key here is surround yourself with as much as the targeted language you are trying to learn as possible... It's as if you are a little baby again, and have to Learn everything from zero... Of course it's really slow this way but it also is the more strong and genuine way to learn a language and as far as I know you're not in a hurry 😂

Fair enough.

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon settlers. With the end of Roman rule in 410 AD, Latin ceased to be a major influence on the Celtic languages spoken by the majority of the population.
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另一件事,您是尊重稱呼長輩的稱呼。我年紀比你大,你可以用您,不過我會不習慣。所以,你還是直接用”你“來稱呼我就可以了。

好的,那我还是用你来称呼。

Gracias amigo 😀