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Since it is well known the difficulties of learners of Romance languages studying nominal phrases without articles, in this paper we will present evidence of a comparative study regarding the use and the absence of definite and indefinite articles in five Romance languages, languages which distinguish genre and number. The analyses show significant differences in the use and absence of the article in Romance languages, even if they are related languages. In this study we consider the acquisition of the article in L1 as a reference point for the acquisition of it in other Romance languages. Authors like Cenoz, 2001; Jarvis, 2003; Odlin et Jarvis, 2004; Pavlenko et Jarvis, 2002 highlight the necessity to take into account the role of other languages previously acquired. This exhaustive analysis will serve as a tool for the learners who are in contact with Romance languages for whitch the similarities of linguistic structures are not always a help in the process of language learning, but they present difficulties which must be removed from their interlanguage stuctures.