>influenced what would later become French and Spanish To be picky, also Italian, Portuguese and Romanian. If you are native or fluent in any of these languag

>influenced what would later become French and Spanish To be picky, also Italian, Portuguese and Romanian. If you are native or fluent in any of these languages and also have a basic knowledge of Latin, you are usually capable of reading simple texts in any of the other ones, deriving the meaning of the "diverging" words by the rest of the sentences or by connecting the word with a different Latin root. Paradoxically, the bigger issues come from "false friends" that - while not very common - can be deceiving.