Natural B,

Sometimes I be on the Internet and there is a French Website that I watch certain programs on. I was under the impression that the word"outre" meant outward or " away from" because when they refered to the segment being from France, the used the word " Outre Mer" so I assumed that it meant away from France.

I took very little German when I was a youngster. I thought that German wasn't a very bad language to learn, but forgot most of what I've learned from it. I liked it fairly well. Far as coinciding one language from another, that can happen.Currently, I'm taking Spanish and it's funny. I was listening to a Cape Verdean CD and they had what they were singing in English and in Portuguese. For the most part, I was able to translate what the lyrics said because in some ways Portuguese and Spanish are similar, but at the same time their pronounciation was different as I matter of fact it's similar to France----it isn't as it looks and in some way if I had to compare the comprehension of French and Portuguese, French is slightly easier to comprehend than Portuguese, but I like Portuguese because it seems like a beautiful language. I was talking with a Friend of my boyfirend's. She's a Cape Verdean-American woman and she was telling me that if you know Spanish, than you can pick up on Portuguese very fast. Supposedly that was how she was able to Speak Spanish in 6 months.Out of all the languages I liked and learned I like Spanish the best. To me, it's an easier language to learn and it's a down to earth. I especiallylike the historyof the Spanish culture.

Bele,

I think that if you really like a certainlanguage , you're going to understand more than the other. French isn't a bad language, but it's a little tricky for me. If I think a word is pronounced one way , it end up being pronouced another. You also have to do a lot of connecting for them as well, which has thrown me off at one point. Even moreso, the French( Just about France)history is less relative. I just couldn't relate to it. I don't know if it was my old professor or it was just about the book, but she mainly taught about French history and . Unless it she was talking about other French Speaking countries .I couldn't relate to it, whereas with Spanish I could do thata little more.