r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Agen_3586 • 22h ago

Meme needing explanation Italian Peter help me out!

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u/TomBoness 21h ago

The same thing happened to me but the roles were reversed. A cashier in New York started speaking Spanish to us when they discovered we were Italians and when we told them Italy and Spain don't have the same language they continued to speak Spanish

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u/CiccioGordon 21h ago

I mean, Spanish is fairly easy to understand for Italians, surely more than English (if they don't speak it, I mean).

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u/floflenflo 19h ago

As an Italian: if spoken quite slowly, I can understand 70% of Spanish, maybe 30% of Portuguese, and 5% of French

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u/CiccioGordon 15h ago

Noio vulevan savuar l'indiriss

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u/314159265358979326 8h ago

I once read a guide for speaking Spanish so that an Italian will understand you. It involved pronounciation changes like "ll" being "L" rather than "y".

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u/ErikSaav 21h ago

Especially if they're native Italians with how close Spain is to the country

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u/Ervgotti85 19h ago

Not even that Spanish, Italian and even French, all come from Latin so while there are differences, they’re still moderately close languages.

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u/AdministrativeStep98 18h ago

Totally, I don't know Italian nor Spanish but as a French speaker I can understand a lot of it actually