Centre for Innovation, Research, and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Lund, Sweden;Taylor & Francis GroupIndustry & InnovationFassio, C. (2015). How Similar is Innovation in German, Italian and Spanish Medium-Technology Sectors? Implications for the Sectoral Systems of...
Although Castilian became the primary language of the area now known as Spain, its use didn't eliminate the other Latin-based languages in the region. Galician (which has similarities to Portuguese) and Catalan (one of the major languages of Europe with similarities to Spanish, French, and It...
Catalan has obviously close ties to Spanish but shares a lot of similarities with Italian while being closely related to Occitan which is itself some kind of Mediterranean translation of French... Catalan is at the core of Romance languages (just like Frisian sits between Dutch, Low German, Eng...
Similarities Despite the differences we just covered, Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish have very similar grammar and syntax. They are almost identical when it comes to: Voseo: The use of “vos” instead of “tú” is virtually nonexistent in both regions. It’s more common in Central and ...
Spanish has two forms to introduce comparative standards: que ‘that’ and de ‘of.’ The comparative morpheme is always the same m
They tested monolingual speakers of Spanish, L1 Italian–L2 Spanish, and L1 English–L2 Spanish speakers to investigate whether language systems that have grammatical gender in the L1 (i.e., Italian) make it easier for L2 learners to access and use that information in their L2 Spanish when ...
Finally, Spanish grammar is relatively simple compared to other languages, even “simple” Romance languages, like Italian, that are often described as “easy” for English speakers to learn. That being said, learning any language requires time, effort, and consistent practice. With consistent pract...
In written form, Catalan looks something like a cross between Spanish and French, although it is a major language in its own right and may be more similar to Italian than it is to Spanish. Its alphabet is similar to that of English, although it also includes aÇ. Vowels can take both...
Although it may sound like there are a lot of differences, between Spanish and Mexican Spanish, there are far more similarities between the two. Here are just a few of the most impactful ones:Subject-verb-object (SVO) structure: Both Spanish from Spain and Mexican Spanish predominantly follow...
Family and Welfare State Reorientation in Spain and Inertia in Italy from a European Perspective This article departs from previous comparative research on Spanish and Italian families and family policies, which focused on their similarities. Here the main thesis affirms that in the last two decades...