Italian versus Spanish

I hope one of our resident linguists like Giovanni will contribute to this
thread. Obviously Italian and Spanish are similar. For a language-
challenged person like myself, which would be the better one to study
from a multiple-purpose point of view? To put it another way, is it
easier for a Spaniard to understand Italian or vice versa? I've already
tried to study both of them and have come to the conclusion that I do
not have the linguistic skills to keep them both straight, so I will learn
one or the other. I read somewhere that Spaniards can understand
Italian easier than the reverse, but I have no idea how true that is.


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