I have a bunch of Italian friends, with which we frequent mostly Italian establishments so I’d like to be able to communicate a bit more. I do like the Italian cultural romance idealogy, frequent an Italian Barbers and Deli along my street.

However, they are also have Spanish and speak both languages plus we holiday in Spain a bit, it’d be nice to speak the lingo. I also understand Spanish is the second most widespread language in the world?

So, which one?

Graci / Gracias in advance…

Just shout at everyone in English with an Italian or Spanish accent.

both the same – mostly

learn one and the other is a doddle

Esperanto – it’s the future!

Nederlands.

It’s damn near useless outside NL and pretty tough, but yeah, its what I am learning so 😉

I’d go with Spanish….the Michel Thomas CDs are quite good.

Just add o to the end of every other word, instant Italiano.

What sunglasses for a trip to the Italian barbers or deli? 🙂

“both the same – mostly

learn one and the other is a doddle“

This. I had a friend at school who was Italian, he took Spanish GCSE without any formal lessons and still got an A (in the days before the A*).

Any recommendations as to resources? I’m thinking of starting with this:

I would go for Italian.
You have already driven an Alfa and you like smart shades.
“Arrivederci, buon venerdì” 🙂

Spanish. As above very similar to Italian but much more widely spoken.

Greater variety of hot women available with Spanish so I went with that . Faldero!