Comparing learning experiences: English and Spanish I was thinking about comparing my level of English with the that of Spanish. I've noticed that when I watch a film in English, I still find it difficult to understand quite a lot of the dialogues, if not subtitled (with English subtitles, everything is much easier). The same doesn't happen with a Spanish film, even if I've been learning Spanish for shorter than English. This makes me think that if I could have started to learn Spanish in the same period of English (as a teen-ager), I would have reached a very high level, due to the close resemblance between Spanish and Italian. Of course, in the long term my objective is to improve in both Spanish and English as much as I can. I hope Italki can be useful in that respect.