Haha. I guess. Speaking spanish as a mother tongue helps understand Latin somehow. I think that proximity stops us from seriously pursuing its study with more rigor (the same goes for Portuguese and Italian). My ex-wife's best friends during the time we stayed in Athens, oh, were from Brazil and Mozambique. For 2 years they shared tons of hours each one speaking their language. It was so funny. Neither learned the other's language, they just understood one another.