Not necessarilythe case. Languages are weird, and there's not a clear line. (Which, of course, can make it hard to make game rules about it.)The Undying wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2017 5:33 amOne is not derived from the other in the sense that most romance languages are derived from Latin and yet they are so inherently different... that knowing one doesn't really help you speak or understand the other in a meaningful way.
I'm decently fluent reading French and, with a little acclimation, can understand spoken French (though not as well). (Sidebar: Back in my youth I was a lot more fluent, having lived in France for a year when I was 11 while my mom was getting her Masters. I took a trip to Quebec City about ten years ago and after a couple days, my brain was pulling up all sorts of stuff it hadn't used in a while. My spoken French is still atrocious, largely through atrophied vocabulary.) This fluency does allow me to understand the gist of written Spanish or Italian. Less so Portuguese.