The language of Crusaders

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Originally posted by sreenivasarao s

Re:I am not sure how close the modern French is to Latin. Some one
on the Forum may comment on this aspect.
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I have since posted this issue separately.

A very lively discussion is on at

http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19295 

The general view is that Spanish is a lot closer to Latin than French.A
Spanish speaker  can read  most Romance languages to
understand the general idea of the text(French, Catalan, Gallego,
Portuguese etc.) .Spoken languages are, however, different - it's
harder to
understand because of the varying pronunciation.

As regards  French , it began to rapidly change from standard
Latin about  300 years ago and modern day French
is  fairly far removed from Latin .

That looks like a fair view.