Question

emma studied spanish for three years in high school. now emma is taking a course on conversational italian. italian is related to spanish and is moderatelt similar in sound

Answer 1

This is because Italian and Spanish are both a part of the romnce langue family branch. Languages in the Latin-based branch are languages like French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, etc.

For example, most languages like French and Spanish use the word 'en', meaning 'in' in English which is a prefix in Latin. Some languages are even similar in syntax (SOV/SVO).