Sometimes I genuinely forget that I'm bilingual and that I can speak another language natively and I think about like French or something where you have to keep track of the gender of the nouns and I go "oh, wow, imagine" and then LOL I realise I can do that in Cypriot Greek. 
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No. Everyone tells me Greek sounds like Spanish, but the comment I had for Cypriot Greek is that it sometimes sounds like Italian. I always assume that’s due to the lack of long vowels in the first two, unlike the latter ones.
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Spanish-speaking people tell me Greek sounds like Spanish, which it does to me too. But they and I do not think Cypriot Greek sounds like Spanish at all.
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Nope not at all. Cypriot Greek has long vowels and many phonetics that do not appear in Spanish/Greek, so it’s phonetically very different.
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I had am italian housemate who spoke Greek among other languages and the first time he heard me on the phone he told me it sounded A LOT like south italian Greek (griko/greco) but he understood much less compared to that
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But it's a bit disturbing either way. Thanks brain.
Also many nouns change gender between Greek and Cy Greek so that’s another extra thing to balance in our head.