French and Spanish and Portuguese are easy to understand in reading.

[Cerberus]

The latin languages have a lot of words that are close resemblance to English and easy to figure out. Example "Warning" is "Attencion" and in English "Attention" means someone wants your focus.

I was able to understand what my driver was talking about despite never taking any Spanish learning course.

He said "What part of the airport entrance are you at?"

I replied and he replied "I'm coming".

 

[Jabuuti]

did you use google translate in the process?

 

[Cerberus]

did you use google translate in the process?

No, all of it just me figuring it out and the guy responded "Understood" so he understood my respond in Spanish of the airport
door I'm at. You can go to even Frencu news sites or Portuguese News sites and understand what the article is talking about because enough words are close to English versions of that same word. Example Traffico is Trafficking or Traffic.

French is the harder one of the 3 big latin languages. Example in this article below I was able to pickup in the title without using Google translate that it is talking about China criticizing something about Washington DC (America) getting a new technology alliance with London UK and Australia. Some words like Surprise, technologie and permatent in the article are obvious for English speakers,. Permanent is permatent and everyone knows technologie and surprise are no brainer.

La Chine critique l’alliance entre Washington, Londres et Canberra, et menace l’Australie

La Chine s’inquiète de la formalisation du Quad, structure qui rassemble les Etats-Unis, l’Australie, le Japon et l’Inde.

www.lemonde.fr

Portuguese articles and Spanish articles are even easier to understand than the French ones.

 

[Caaro]

did you use google translate in the process?

en q, at which

parte del aeropuerto, part of the airport

se enceuentera, no Idea what that means but just from the “at which part of the airport” is enough to guess what he’s saying.

And I never learned spanish but I do know english and french which makes it easier.

OP is right, latin languages are very similar.