I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.
I can speak English, Portuguese, and a bit of Spanish, or Sportugal. It's a mix of Portuguese and Spanish. I understand French and Italian, but I can't speak them.
I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex.
I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.
Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and at the beginning of 1852, I received the doctorate for a dissertation on the refrain in Provencal poetry.
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
Latin is an international language.
