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Shakira speaking 7 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, Arabic) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While you can transfer a lot of knowledge from a Romance language into another, I wouldn't call it "cheating"; people do this all the time when learning a new language, even unrelated or not-closely-related ones.

In special, both her Portuguese and Italian show that she spent quite a bit of time/effort actually studying/training the languages, she isn't just breezing through mutual Romance intelligibility.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, I don't mean to downplay her effort. She did say in her Portuguese interview that she learned it "in a month when she was 18" which was pretty much my experience learning a bit of French a few years back which I can mostly read after passively absorbing the grammar. It feels like reading Spanish for the most part.