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by TheOtherHobbes 3823 days ago
If you want to feel really confused, visit Portugal.

The soft consonant formations in Portuguese sound bizarrely similar to those in Russian, but grammatically the language has more in common with Italian.

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The same thing happens with romanian. It sounds a little like russian with italian, french and latin words but the grammar is latin/italian. youtube.com/watch?v=dGK40ykalTw