> I don't have a lot of experience with Italian but it seems like the pronunciation is closer to Spanish. Yeah the phonetics are very close. Castillan has more

> I don't have a lot of experience with Italian but it seems like the pronunciation is closer to Spanish. Yeah the phonetics are very close. Castillan has more fricative sounds like [ð], [θ], [x] and [β] and no open vowels, but that's it.