Journal of Language Education and Development (JLed)
Vol 2 No 1 (2019): Vol 2 No 1 November (2020): Journal of Language Education and Development

UNDERSTANDING NEW LANGUAGE: MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY IN ROMANCE LANGUAGE PAIR

Diana Oktavia (STKIP)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2019

Abstract

This paper concerns to the strategy applied by speakers of mutual intelligibilitity languages pairs in Europe, especially in Romance language pair, Portuegese and Spanish. Initial studies found a receptive multilingulism as a great strategy to break the gap of communication within these two languages. It is found that the speakers of both Portuegese and Spanish are able to communicate and understand each other even though they do not speak each other language. It happens because those two languages resemble each other and they have a large number of cognate words which makes them recognizable. However, it is also found that Portuegese speakers can understand Spanish easier than Spaniards understand Portuegese, because Portuegese is more complicated than spanish.

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pbi

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of Language Education Development (JLed) is an open access journal. This journal managed by the English Study Program at STKIP Muhammadiyah Muara Bungo. Its global audience includes linguists, journalists, broadcasters, writers, teachers, students and others who have a professional or ...