So, I speak English (spoiler alert!). I know enough Spanish to pick it out when I hear it, unless it's actually Portuguese. French is unmistakable and Italian is recognizable. German, especially at sufficient volume, makes me break into a cold sweat. But once you get beyond those, I must admit I have no ability to tell them apart. The table next to me at dinner, what language is that? Just Croatian, maybe? Or Montenegran? Hungarian? Russian? You lose all the loopy vowel sounds of the Romance languages and replace them with hard consonants and it all just sounds like everyone is speaking Russian. I blame too much Red Dawn as a child.
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