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  • @sergiocerina7876
    @sergiocerina7876 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2337

    The uzbek one totally said "Uzbekistan"

    • @prisminc158
      @prisminc158 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Sergio Celina, Yeah I heard it too.

    • @petra123987
      @petra123987 7 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      And the Russian one mentioned "Russian Federation"

    • @Michael-vs1mw
      @Michael-vs1mw 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      leipero, more like Rassiyskaya Fidiratsiya :D

    • @Andrij_Kozak
      @Andrij_Kozak 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      he said "Uzbekiston" which means Uzbekistan in Uzbek language.

    • @angeliquemarx3132
      @angeliquemarx3132 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Andrij S uzbekistan in uzbek is O'zbekiston

  • @soralb6368
    @soralb6368 7 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    Ossetic is the language of Northern Osseatia, which is a part of Russia and Southern Osseatia which is a break-away region of Georgia. It is an Iranian language and a decedant of the Scythian language. I think it is the only living northern Iranian language. It would be a nice subject for a video I guess. Or you can make one about Iranian languges in General. Keep up the good work.

    • @Kurdedunaysiri
      @Kurdedunaysiri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Ossetic is a north-eastern Iranian language like Yaghnobi and many others.

    • @thegodofthegods1084
      @thegodofthegods1084 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's an Iranian Language Descendent of the Scythians

  • @hatalarm3760
    @hatalarm3760 7 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Paul, even if you're not a polyglot, you help and encourage others to pursue language and the love and study of it. Your videos are always entertaining and informative, and I absolutely love this game! Keep up the good work!

    • @samguy7654
      @samguy7654 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      John Ishan Shah He technically is a polyglot though, even though he doesn't like to be called that.

  • @camiloaa
    @camiloaa 7 ปีที่แล้ว +513

    I like you use same criterion as me: "I don't understand a word, it must be Danish."

    • @RichieLarpa
      @RichieLarpa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yes, funny assumption. When I decide for Danish, I do it because I hear strong influence from German language, which could be true, if they lie next to each other.

    • @heynyquildriver
      @heynyquildriver 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah, I speak a good chunk of Danish so i did understand a bunch of the words, but it just sounds different from Norwegian or Swedish, more of those back of the throat sounds. Potato language.

    • @Bjowolf2
      @Bjowolf2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RichieLarpa No, just some borrowed German words and some loan translations ( using similar constructs for the bigger words), many of them distorted almost beyond recognition now - and it doesn't sound like German at all, only some sounds do here and there. Most (basic) words by far are however very similar to their Norwegian and Swedish counterparts ( c. 95 % & 85 % ) - and even to their English ones ( around half of the Germanic ( OE + ON ) part of English! ).
      And the same goes for the grammar, which is far simpler than that of German - and even has many similarities with that of a basic older English ( without the use of "do" and "-ing" with verbs ).

    • @Bjowolf2
      @Bjowolf2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Christian Luong Larsson Of course you do - the vocabularies of those two languages are 95 % the "same", the Norwegian folks are just poor spellers 😂

    • @dan74695
      @dan74695 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Bjowolf2 Like half of Danish's vocabulary is from Low German, and the pronunciation sounds German-influenced to me, it sounds like Drunk Low German or something.

  • @rodrigodealencar323
    @rodrigodealencar323 7 ปีที่แล้ว +809

    you don't need to focus. you need to langfocus.

  • @tizianodematteis7071
    @tizianodematteis7071 7 ปีที่แล้ว +342

    Ossetic is an Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus region that has been heavily influenced by Caucasian languages and Russian!

    • @PedroAguiar
      @PedroAguiar 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This answer should be displayed as the first one. :-)

    • @amikecoru
      @amikecoru 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Dari is not „Old Persian“, it's a modern language.
      Ossetic is not like Dari, Tajiki or Farsi, it's more related to Pashto, Yaghnob and, well, that's it, the „Easterna subgroup“ of the Iranian languages is not large. Ossetic has no language intelligible without much learning, it's more like an isolate (it is not in terms of genealogical classification, of course).

    • @calvinyahn2840
      @calvinyahn2840 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And when Russia invaded Georgia back in 2008, it was to protect the unrecognized country of South Ossetia within Georgia's official borders.

    • @scaper8
      @scaper8 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Calvin Yahn Oh god! Now that you mention South Ossetia it's perfectly clear, buf i never made a connection before! :-)

    • @robert_wigh
      @robert_wigh 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Tiziano de matteis I've got to say, it's a really interesting language! It has interesting phonology. From reading a bit on Wikipedia, I was familiar with Ossetic even before watching the video, but still...Now I know how it sounds!

  • @TheIlustrado
    @TheIlustrado 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1205

    "Whenever I have no idea what any of the words are, it's Danish."
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @papaquonis
      @papaquonis 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      DrSunTzu Yeah, that was pretty good. As a Dane, I've definitely heard that before.

    • @alexwei3124
      @alexwei3124 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      For me it´s Danish when it sounds a bit as Northern Dutch, but I don´t understand anything or just very few words :DDD

    • @curiousgiraffe9172
      @curiousgiraffe9172 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      DrSunTzu Danish is Swedish if you have a muffin in your mouth

    • @andypre1667
      @andypre1667 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I thought it was Norwegian with a potato in your mouth... :D

    • @alexwei3124
      @alexwei3124 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      before watching this flick i had no idea how Norwegian sounds 😂 but it was surprisingly smooth and pleasant, that it was

  • @zooblestyx
    @zooblestyx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +798

    In Sweden, Danish is referred to not as a language, but a throat condition. ^_^

    • @AttractorsAltAccount
      @AttractorsAltAccount 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Hahahahahaahhahaaahahahahahahhahahahah! I Get It! I Live In Sweden, And the Potato Mouth Thing Joke. AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • @AttractorsAltAccount
      @AttractorsAltAccount 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      (Lays Down In Floor, Eyes Open, Like When You Lie Like Garbage In Undertale)

    • @Haaklong
      @Haaklong 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We have the same with Frisian. (^_^)

    • @jez9999
      @jez9999 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Swedish sounds weirder. You guys have this rising intonation at the end of words.

    • @AttractorsAltAccount
      @AttractorsAltAccount 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tack För Att Göra Mig Ledsen.

  • @memelordmarcus
    @memelordmarcus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +354

    "Now I will fail and embarrass myself in front of you all."
    You are now officially a youtuber.

  • @HeadCannon19
    @HeadCannon19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    The most famous philosophers of all time:
    Plato
    Aristotle
    Mickey

  • @CanadaMills
    @CanadaMills 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Really enjoying your channel, which I only discovered about a week ago. Informative, humorous, and with humility! Thanks/merci/obrigada/blagodarya!

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thanks! I appreciate it. 🙂🙏🏻

  • @kokuasama
    @kokuasama 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Hello, I am 17 and I know Kazakh, because it's my native language. I also speak Russian due to the fact that I live in country, which was the part of Soviet Union. I think in both of them. I have been learning English for 3 years. Sometimes there are some problems with articles, but I find a lot of similar vocabulary between Russian and English, so it helps me a little. Today, I have scored 6,5 in my IELTF examination.
    Paul, I want to say you: thank you from Kazakhstan. Your channel and works are amazing, facinating and really great. I start to be inreresred in linguistics because of you. Nowadays, I am going to learn the Ancient Greek and improve my English skills.
    I wish I had teacher as you. :D

  • @AKHalex
    @AKHalex 7 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    "I don't know what the hell they are saying, so it's probably Danish"
    Hahaha, made me laugh!

    • @Bjowolf2
      @Bjowolf2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Vi kan sende Paul en bombe for hans mobning af de Danske _ord_.
      Maybe he wil understand that then? 😂

    • @Bjowolf2
      @Bjowolf2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ 😂😂😂
      But then we shouldn't mention what Swedish men sound like, should we? 🙄
      Or Norwegians when they get excited? 😂😂😂

    • @Bjowolf2
      @Bjowolf2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ Nice try, but we don't use ß, ë, ö, ð, and ï in DK 😂

  • @vuhdeem
    @vuhdeem 7 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    The trick to differentiate Polish from Russian is that Polish consists of continuous "psh" "sh" and "ch" sounds. The Ukrainians call Polish people "Psheki" in a slang reference.

    • @vladd896
      @vladd896 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Vadim the Russians called them so, I mean that name came from Russia but still is used among Ukrainians too

    • @amilyeliza8407
      @amilyeliza8407 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We call Polish people 'Polandio' in Bengali (Bangladesh).

    • @ash_phoenix3282
      @ash_phoenix3282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And the w sounding ł

    • @millie5205
      @millie5205 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      isn't it pejorative?

    • @EUGEN093
      @EUGEN093 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@millie5205 it is

  • @samovarmaker9673
    @samovarmaker9673 7 ปีที่แล้ว +304

    the Russian one actually said "Российской Федерации" (Rossiyskoy Federatsiyi), which roughly means 'of the Russian Federation'

    • @parthiancapitalist2733
      @parthiancapitalist2733 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Samovar maker. Of the Union of socialist Soviet republics

    • @тралльилитный-ь7я
      @тралльилитный-ь7я 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The dude in the recording tolked about politics, as far as I can tell

    • @Rastarandie
      @Rastarandie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Samovar maker roughly? You mean exactly ?

    • @sobanya_228
      @sobanya_228 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes. And Uzbek said "Uzbekiston"

    • @RichieLarpa
      @RichieLarpa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I thought I was poor linguist, but as a Czech, I can almost immediately understand Slavic languages.
      Russian and Ukrainian was too easy for me in that case...

  • @camerkiddo
    @camerkiddo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    that dog part was hilarious,and the video was great. thank you!

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My pleasure! I'm glad you liked it!

    • @camerkiddo
      @camerkiddo 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Langfocus 😊

    • @MrSnow-qn1ij
      @MrSnow-qn1ij 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      blackpink bts kpop anime lover YOUR USERNAME.

    • @xcyt1888
      @xcyt1888 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey I didn't see any dog, could you please post the time on video where we can see his dog?

    • @camerkiddo
      @camerkiddo 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      A User thank u. I'm also a fellow ReVulv. And HEY FAM!!

  • @liamskeen2884
    @liamskeen2884 7 ปีที่แล้ว +247

    In in the uzbek one i heard the word "uzbekistan"

    • @Olebrucanism
      @Olebrucanism 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too

    • @andypre1667
      @andypre1667 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      And in the Russian one the speaker said российская федерация.

    • @enesozdemir4085
      @enesozdemir4085 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Andrej Prevodach mean?

    • @andypre1667
      @andypre1667 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      "Russian Federation" - pronounced rossiyskaya federatsiya.

    • @samguy7654
      @samguy7654 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Andrej Prevodach I don't think many none Russian speakers could catch that.

  • @ignemuton5500
    @ignemuton5500 7 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Ossetic is an Iranian language spoken near Georgia.

  • @charliemclegend4885
    @charliemclegend4885 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I don't expect comedy from your channel, but i always get a few chuckles from your videos :)

  • @hankat2
    @hankat2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    It was funny how in the Finnish one at the beginning the speaker used a lot of English loan words, for example; pointti = point, and ideoita = ideas. Hearing those words some might have thought it was an Indo-European language. Good job on getting that one right!

    • @Bjowolf2
      @Bjowolf2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They are probably loans via Swedish - there is a large Swedish speaking minority in Finland, access to Swedish TV for decades and many Finns go to Sweden next door for work and studies etc.

    • @SocialistFinn1
      @SocialistFinn1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Bjowolf2 I think those particular words he mentioned might actually be more recent English loanwords, but I get what you're saying.

    • @PaulVinonaama
      @PaulVinonaama 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SocialistFinn1 Hah! Idea is neither recent nor English. Try Greek.

  • @birdsmeet
    @birdsmeet 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Great video Paul, I had so much fun watching :) By the way, I have transcribed the Turkish audio sample. It goes: “...içinde içki varmış gibi ve sarhoş taklidi yaparak yolda yürüyor, böyle bir alışveriş merkezi gibi bir yerin ortasında yürüyor, ve işte otobüse gitmek istediğini filan söylüyor karşısına çıkan insanlara. Hollywood'da galiba oluyor olay. Tabii buradaki erkekler, şey, daha yengeç, yani artık kartal moduna geçiyor millet...”
    which roughly means: "...as if there was a drink in it and she walks, pretending to be drunk, in the middle of a place like a shopping mall, and she says that she wants to get on a bus or something. I think it happened in Hollywood. Of course, the men act like hunting eagles (meaning they tried to take advantage of the girl's drunkenness)..."
    I guess he is talking about the “drunk girl in public (social experiment)” video. But he is talking kinda fast so I can understand why it wasn’t so obvious that it was in Turkish.

  • @PicklePickle7
    @PicklePickle7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +422

    This video is different and awesome. I like the idea!

    • @ronizuckerman7785
      @ronizuckerman7785 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      totally unrelated, why do i see you everywhere i go

    • @LinkToon000
      @LinkToon000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      UltraWorlds i see him too. literally on 75% of the history videos i click on

    • @aamirchhapra3700
      @aamirchhapra3700 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too

    • @PicklePickle7
      @PicklePickle7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      UltraWorlds LinkToon000 Aamir Chhapra It might not be a coincidence though. Do you guys know the "history of the entire world I guess" video by bill wurtz? I saw the video within hours of it is release and left a comment. There was more than 8000 comments. Yet one dude named "marvelfannumber1'" found my commen. I knew him from before, I often find and talk to him. He found my comment on the bill wurtz cideo and replied to it. My comment had no likes and it was likely at the bottom. I asked him how he did it and he said, and I quote: "It was simply the first one that showed up for some reason." , out of 8000+ comments. A lot of people told me that I am pretty much everywhere. But could it be because of some sort of system in youtube you guys find my comments? Or maybe not. Anyway the "marvelfannumber1" thing was not normal.

    • @aamirchhapra3700
      @aamirchhapra3700 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what is your video-to-comment ratio?

  • @GarfieldRex
    @GarfieldRex 7 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    the Uzbek said Uzbekistan, the spanish one said Paraguay, the Russian said Russian Federation. wtf this game

    • @koumei1709
      @koumei1709 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      hausa one said boko haram and also mentioned muhamudu buhari(president of nigeria)

    • @auzakov1977
      @auzakov1977 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      D I am Uzbek.

    • @auzakov1977
      @auzakov1977 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lucifer Salom., Calesan / Calesis? Yashemasis? Tuzumasis? I am from Tashkent so the language might be different.

    • @awsomemodels
      @awsomemodels 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@artnemiz1 the way they say baghdad 😂 but sadly i think it got mentioned in bad news which is annoying lol

    • @Shanedeliveryi
      @Shanedeliveryi 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @David wow you're that good? What's your score?

  • @ashleyd4563
    @ashleyd4563 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was a really fun video! I think it might help me a bit when I go to play The Great Language Game myself. I noticed that the further you get the more choices they give you!

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I've played it a couple more times since and it varies quite a lot. They must have some kind of randomizing algorithm.

  • @alwaysuseless
    @alwaysuseless 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What I enjoyed most about this video is all your sharing about your process of narrowing the answer down. I think anyone who watches this video will benefit by scoring higher on the Language Game and on your Mystery Language videos, and more generally by gaining a greater appreciation of the variety of languages!

  • @edatube7616
    @edatube7616 7 ปีที่แล้ว +641

    you've got a very wise dog there

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Mickey is all-knowing.

    • @pischpilot
      @pischpilot 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      can you please make a video about the scots language or yiddish ?

    • @lsquad
      @lsquad 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Langfocus Can u make Albania language and its Illyrian and Pellasgic ancestors lang. :)

    • @oortclouddomicile
      @oortclouddomicile 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Dalai Dogma

    • @mansuralmutawa-9824
      @mansuralmutawa-9824 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Dogfucius

  • @idanzamir7540
    @idanzamir7540 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Your sense of humor and personality are so unique, that is really amazing to me.

    • @recklessroges
      @recklessroges 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I also enjoy Paul's videos. If you are interested in languages you might like to know that there are not degrees of uniqueness; Something is unique or it isn't, "so unique" ironically is such a common mistake and isn't unique.

    • @idanzamir7540
      @idanzamir7540 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Reckless Roges Interesting! in my language the equivalent of "unique" is totally on a spectrum. but you're right, in english it is silly to think that something is "uniquer" than something. :-)

  • @rayaasl
    @rayaasl 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "I don't understand what the hell they're saying, so I think it's Danish" sound about right!

  • @saladman6434
    @saladman6434 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    LMAO! I love how he pronounced Jacksepticeye at 1:05. I know it was intentional, but it was funny lol

  • @RoyMcAvoy
    @RoyMcAvoy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This channel should win an award on one of the most useful and informative channel on TH-cam

  • @haydenhigginbotham6551
    @haydenhigginbotham6551 7 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Focus, Paul. Focus. Langfocus.

    • @J11_boohoo
      @J11_boohoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you know in tagalog "focus lang" means "just focus"

  • @valtschef2797
    @valtschef2797 7 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    I enjoyed this video a lot!
    1. Ukrainian sample has a hard diaspora accent, Canadian I suppose.
    2. What?! You don't know what Ossetic is? =)
    Ossetic IN NOT Slavic language. It is Iranic but sounds a bit similarly to Russian due to its prosodia.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Yeah, that must be what threw me off. I looked up Ossetic after the game and it made sense.

    • @dmytro732
      @dmytro732 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm from western Ukraine but live in the US. I right away knew it was Ukrainian but I could recognize a lot of the pronunciation mistakes that Ukrainian Americans make. I suppose they're pretty similar across Ukrainians living in English speaking countries.

    • @Вольныйказак-ю2й
      @Вольныйказак-ю2й 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I knew right away it was Ukranian, but the prononciation hinted at Bulgarian as well ...

    • @valtschef2797
      @valtschef2797 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ossetic albeit is Iranic, is very distant from 'mainstream' Iranic tongues.
      Ukrainian actually is similar to Russian in some its varieties, especially eastern. But western has its particular pronunciation, intonation. Moreover, this very accent, I suppose, is a 100 years old conserved Western dialect. And this dialect REALLY differs from Russian and isn't similar to it whatsoever.

    • @valtschef2797
      @valtschef2797 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This 'americanized' accent sounds horrible to me as to a fluent Ukrainian speaker :)

  • @bliss9595
    @bliss9595 7 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    The Ukrainian one had a strong Western accent, it is very unusual pronunciation, even though I speak Ukrainian natively.

    • @olek609
      @olek609 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's Ukrainian as spoken in Australia based on the accent, some words and the fact that he talks about banking in Australia

    • @Miezientsev
      @Miezientsev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's seems like Canadian diaspora sreaker

    • @Zoombieknr1
      @Zoombieknr1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm bad at distinguishing between Russian and Ukrainian, but in this case it sounded much similar to Yugoslavian languages so it had to be Ukrainian since it sounds more "soft" than Russian.

    • @soyjoyy
      @soyjoyy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, lol, he sounded a little bit like an Eastener trying to mock Western Ukrainians with this over-exaggerated accent and too many wrong stresses.

    • @jollycomputer9748
      @jollycomputer9748 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@soyjoyy I believe easterners sound more surzhik, but westerners just go wrong stresses with ukrainian words

  • @feihe2053
    @feihe2053 7 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Ossetic is actually an Indo-Iranian language, not a Slavic language.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Yeah, I've learned that since playing the game.

    • @mp6471
      @mp6471 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      何非 Iranian

    • @denalihedgehog
      @denalihedgehog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Langfocus but it kinda makes sense, since Ossetia is partly in Russia, and Ossetian has a lot of Russian influence.

  • @eliasgallegos3058
    @eliasgallegos3058 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I discovered this website years ago! It's great that people it's becoming more popular!!! you're great!

  • @bishallol7375
    @bishallol7375 7 ปีที่แล้ว +471

    the website is now down because of you lol

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      lol, they should probably host their website on a real server, not shared hosting.
      I can only wonder what happened when Pewdiepie made his video.

    • @ghenulo
      @ghenulo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Someone will have to rename "the Slashdot effect" to "the Paul effect".

    • @belbel91
      @belbel91 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Ah so that's why I couldn't play it! I just played along with the video

    • @namingisdifficult408
      @namingisdifficult408 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bishal Lol wow

    • @marcooros9103
      @marcooros9103 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Which website?

  • @billkelly8222
    @billkelly8222 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    An Alsatian (dog) goes into a telegraph office and asks the clerk for a form. The dog writes: woof woof woof, woof woof woof, woof woof woof. The clerk says, "I notice you plan to send nine woofs. We're having a special this week, and you can send ten woofs for the same price." The dog replies, "But that wouldn't make any sense."

  • @MrDirtBaggins
    @MrDirtBaggins 7 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    Do a vid on Ossetic please

    • @1nopoint
      @1nopoint 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      MrDirtBaggins Or on all Iranian Languages to be more broad.

    • @Vank4o
      @Vank4o 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      "Arabic family language" what tf does this even mean?! Ossetic is an Eastern Iranian language, it's an Indo-European language and nothing in its prosody sounds even remotely similar to any Semitic language. How do you get this is beyond me.

    • @yourmajesty1361
      @yourmajesty1361 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      leipero Actually Ossetic has barely any arabic loanword

    • @amikecoru
      @amikecoru 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think I am ready to help with that :)

    • @hansdejong8733
      @hansdejong8733 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vjaĉesláv Ivanov mi renkontas vin ĉie

  • @Jdebrusk987
    @Jdebrusk987 7 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Your dog was savage..

    • @Xanthas1453
      @Xanthas1453 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mickey don't screw around

  • @angelswings1219
    @angelswings1219 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm loving the closed captions trying their best to make sense of what they are captioning! I watch a lot of subtitled films and series and even though I don't speak anything other than English sometimes I question what they are translating. Frequently in period dramas they use modern terminology such as in a 20's series they used the term Ms when I know it was not around until the 60's or later. In the case of some films where there is a little English sprinkled in I see they are not always putting what they are saying.

  • @PicklePickle7
    @PicklePickle7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    nice new haircut Paul!

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Thank you!

    • @hirsi8073
      @hirsi8073 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Could you do somali
      it has a rich history and is quite amazing

    • @sonhadorpr
      @sonhadorpr 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Langfocus So you live in Japan? Awesome dude!

  • @andres6868
    @andres6868 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ossetic is a language spoken in the Caucasus, it is an Iranian language, thus related to Farsi

  • @ruthgoh4869
    @ruthgoh4869 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    "One of those super polyglots selling e-books" 😂😂😂 savage

    • @Cassxowary
      @Cassxowary 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      * scratches that off my career goal list * 😂😂😂

  • @adambrickley9088
    @adambrickley9088 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That was fun! Looking forward to your in depth exploration of Ossetic. :-)

  • @JHaras
    @JHaras 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You beat me! Well done =D
    I felt cocky when you missed on Russian, which I have studied, but you regained it on your Swahili guesses. I "lost" by one playing alongside you, missed out just before.
    I am a language geek who can speak several, but I'm evidently not an expert at pinpointing languages that are obscure to me.
    Lastly, being Swedish I think that the selection of languages gave me a big advantage also, given the high prevalence of Nordic languages.

  • @Fin4L6are
    @Fin4L6are 7 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    LOL you broke their website.

    • @sergiupopescu5057
      @sergiupopescu5057 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yep - confirmed - the site is unreachable

  • @АнастасияНикифорова-ю5л
    @АнастасияНикифорова-ю5л 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've just finished playing this game and my score is 1850! Thank you so much for showing such a good game!

  • @annafernando6816
    @annafernando6816 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love The Great Language Game. It's REALLY hard when they put closely-related languages as choices - - the Slavic ones get me every time!

    • @nehcooahnait7827
      @nehcooahnait7827 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can’t tell the difference between Ukrainian and Russian 😭

  • @markandersh
    @markandersh 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    That language game was awesome. I got most of the ones you did and missed most of the same, and from your comments I was doing the same thing you were doing: looking for phonetic patterns where I didn't know the language. I have been around Russian enough and speak a bit of Russian so I picked those examples up where you missed one. What was important to me was that I was doing the same thing you were. Even where I didn't know a language, if I picked up phonetic qualities that I knew belonged to a language group, I narrowed it down.

  • @AlexWindsor
    @AlexWindsor 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the link Paul - I am quite good at this game because I spend a lot of time on busses in south London.

  • @lewis9159
    @lewis9159 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I knew it was hausa when it mentioned 'Boko Haram'

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The musical bit at the beginning also sounded African.

    • @maxben3391
      @maxben3391 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think they also mentioned Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria.

    • @vladd896
      @vladd896 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      gcf xnbv same though I've no idea what does it means, I've just heard these words in African context before.

  • @elisalo4742
    @elisalo4742 7 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    jackspedicy lol

  • @Wolffielp
    @Wolffielp 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Hey Paul, I like your videos a lot!
    Could you make a video about Grimm's law? I think it is an interesting topic and it shows clearly that English can be classified as a Germanic language.
    Greetings from Germany

  • @nHans
    @nHans ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh boy, that brought back memories! I'm a technology consultant, and I travel a lot to meet clients in different countries. I can't tell you how many times I've woken up jet-lagged in my hotel room, to the sound of gibberish coming from the radio-alarm! 🤣

  • @klt777
    @klt777 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is more entertaining to play along with you. I was stumped at almost all the same samples. Love the intro with the pooch.

  • @jacekwesoowski1484
    @jacekwesoowski1484 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I think the two easiest distinctions between Polish and Russian are the stress pattern and the "singing l". The stress in Polish always falls on the penultimate syllable (and when it occasionally doesn't, speaking like it does isn't a big mistake), whereas in Russian there's more variation. The "singing l" is absent from Polish entirely. There's just the regular l and w you know from English (though to make things more complicated the w sound is spelt 'ł' and the letter 'w' is pronounced 'v').

  • @thomasfrench914
    @thomasfrench914 7 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    11:38 I guess you could say you need to LANGfocus. I don't know, that was terrible. I apologise.

    • @oldcowbb
      @oldcowbb 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      you stole my joke

  • @nishantgaidhani9001
    @nishantgaidhani9001 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    That Hindi part was funny for me...
    i am a native speaker of both Hindi and Marathi

  • @clkoinonia
    @clkoinonia 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Its
    strange as I followed you in your test we were even (made the same amount of
    mistakes but with different languages)- but it depends totally on the samples
    you get. On my own the result differs a lot. If you know the language family
    tree and they show you two options which are related like Swedish/ Norwegian or
    Slovakian /Czech its just a game of chance. I recognized Turkish in your test
    quickly but in mine I had an other sample and failed. -- Thank you for
    introducing this, its great!!!

  • @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714
    @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As someone who can speak russian it was so ammusing hearing a perfectly good paragrapth and then you say its not russians and click polish, I mean you and I bough heard Rassiskaja Federacija in the recording itself.
    When you called turkis ossetian it was also very strange since I know that ossetian is a very europian language, and that obviously sounded like a turkik language.

  • @izabelagizdra6250
    @izabelagizdra6250 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I guessed the Russian after 3 seconds.I'm a language master! :D Nah,I am kidding,I am just Polish :P

    • @ochenkrasivy86
      @ochenkrasivy86 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      miss independence im learning polish)))

    • @cutecommie
      @cutecommie 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How to identify a Russian: look for the ")))".

    • @izabelagizdra6250
      @izabelagizdra6250 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      cool! :D

    • @deltoroperdedor3166
      @deltoroperdedor3166 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      miss independence I don't even speak any Slavic languages, but I immediately recognised Russian. Must be the Balkanic PTSD

    • @Rofel_Wodring
      @Rofel_Wodring 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      When I played this I guessed russian but it was polish :(

  • @poolina7566
    @poolina7566 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I think you didn't get Russian because the man had a bit of a speech defect ☺

  • @jossarch367
    @jossarch367 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "I don't understand what the hell they're saying so I think it's Danish" This is a thought I've had a few times myself when eavesdropping on someone in a public place who is speaking a language in other than English.

    • @Bjowolf2
      @Bjowolf2 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      But actually with many deep similarities with English - for historical reasons 😉

  • @guidojansen6720
    @guidojansen6720 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Paul, I guess you would like German TV programme 'Die Sendung mit der Maus'. It's a children's educative series aired every Sunday. At the start it has a spoken summary of this week's show in German and this is repeated again in a random language which you can guess as a viewer, because the solution is given right away: 'Das war ...' -- 'That was (insert language)'

  • @garyrector7394
    @garyrector7394 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great score! You got several that I missed, but there were a couple languages I'm familiar with that I can give a hint about. One way to spot Hindi is that a lot of sentences end in a syllable that sounds like "heh.' To distinguish Polish from Russian, listen for nasal[ized vowels; Polish has some, but Russian doesn't.

  • @Shanedeliveryi
    @Shanedeliveryi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this guy, he's so relatable!!❤️

  • @t-mag3004
    @t-mag3004 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Speaking of Norwegian & Danish, When are you gonna make a comparison video on the two??

    • @dollasquaredtv7885
      @dollasquaredtv7885 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      T-Mag 3004 He made a video comparing Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish

  • @enthusia492
    @enthusia492 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Have you ever considered doing a video on the languages of India?
    Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, etc.
    I've known for awhile that there are many different languages throughout the region, but i've never really known the differences between them or what makes them culturally distinctive other than their locations within Indian States.

    • @elborrador333
      @elborrador333 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's nothing very interesting about the differences between the Indo-Aryan languages (Hindi, Guj, Punj, Marathi). They seem to have evolved from older "Prakrit" languages, which were common speech "corrupted" languages that existed in parallel to the "refined" Sanskrit in different regional areas. Some have diverged more recently than others and use different writing scripts, so the level of mutual intelligibility depends on that. India was just a bunch of warring kingdoms and princely states cut off from each other before unification after WW2, so each region had a different culture and language that was distinct, although all Hindu.
      Dravidian languages like Tamil and Telugu are a different language group altogether, probably derived from languages spoken by Indian natives before they were pushed southwards by the Indo-Aryan invasion. They have a lot of Sanskrit loanwords and influence, weren't affected by the Persian/Arabic influences from Muslim invasions in northern Indian, and seem to have influenced development of nearby Indo-Aryan languages like Marathi. I don't think the Dravidian languages are mutually intelligible either. They use different writing scripts as well, although all abugidas.

  • @michelamarcellino4029
    @michelamarcellino4029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You're great, Paul 💪💪💪

  • @insanitytruth
    @insanitytruth 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video Paul! Certainly different from what you normally do, but in a good way :)

  • @Mertiy7
    @Mertiy7 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Dude as a Turkish I've never heard spoken Uzbek before and this was so weird. I couldn't guess Uzbek but after you guessed it right I listened to it again and after focusing I picked Turkic and Arabic words with an alien pronunciation. I think I need to study some other Turkic languages

    • @inuitatsumi
      @inuitatsumi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh, I had thought that Turkish people understand a little Uzbek...but I guess I was wrong.

    • @inuitatsumi
      @inuitatsumi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +yağmur seven I see :) So you can't only understand some of written Uzbek, but also some of written other Turkic languages, I guess...

    • @inuitatsumi
      @inuitatsumi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +yağmur seven Ooooh thank you for giving me the information :) As for Japanese, we hardly understand spoken Ryukyuan languages (even written ones) which belong to Japonic family , but Ryukyu islands are in Japan and it seems they speak Japanese instead of them in resent years.

    • @seda5112
      @seda5112 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      inui tatsumi
      Well at first listening to uzbek it feels kinda weird and like a different language but after like 20 seconds when you get you understand what is spoken slightly you understand its uzbek and if you still being listening or hearing to it after like some minutes you mostly understand and try to talk your speech fits to it

    •  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      for me I know it's Uzbek because it sound like Turkish but it's not Turkish lmao

  • @Vero_la_fea
    @Vero_la_fea 7 ปีที่แล้ว +298

    I don't know if I'll forgive you thinking Russian is Polish :'(

    • @ylntsdynp251
      @ylntsdynp251 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Vickynella They sound a bit the same though that's why he failed . I like polish language

    • @Vero_la_fea
      @Vero_la_fea 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Heeey :D Don't make me more angry xd

    • @leolinox
      @leolinox 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Carpe Diem literally this

    • @Artur_M.
      @Artur_M. 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I think it might depend on vocabulary. It's actually a second time this week I hear someone saying that Polish sounds a bit French. It confused me at first, but I'm pretty sure it's because of the nasal vowels and the voiced sibilants (French "j" /ʒ/ - voiced palato-alveolar sibilant being very similar to Polish "ż" or "rz"/ ʐ/ - voiced retroflex sibilant, and kind of to "ź" /ʑ/ voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant).
      Also yes, confusing Polish with Russian is one of easiest ways to "trigger" a Pole :)

    • @amikecoru
      @amikecoru 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The Russian examples are not very clear, both of them (the first one is even with an accent). But that's fair, most of the examples are radio pieces (and that makes the game close to real life guessing a language).

  • @kennethmcintyre9449
    @kennethmcintyre9449 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hey Paul! Can you please do a video on the Jamaican Patois i would really appreciate that! :)

  • @Maj33y1
    @Maj33y1 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is intriguing and fun ... but the Quality isn't always alright ... Great video idea enjoyed it !!! hope this won't be a one time thing

  • @Lenin2304
    @Lenin2304 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for introducing this link, will spend some time with it now.

  • @hansdejong8733
    @hansdejong8733 7 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    Where are you guys from?
    I'm from the Netherlands

    • @ijthecuber9288
      @ijthecuber9288 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hans De Jong
      🇦🇺:)

    • @zheka1780
      @zheka1780 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hans De Jong 🇰🇿

    • @jinengi
      @jinengi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Hans De Jong Catalonia ^^

    • @pauljmorton
      @pauljmorton 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Finland!

    • @giorgioj4557
      @giorgioj4557 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Guillem lm is this Spain?

  • @shaunwong158
    @shaunwong158 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @Langfocus I guess because of your recommendation, the website can't handle the traffic any more lol

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah, they really should have their website on a better server. They must have the $5 hostgator plan. lol

  • @elimalinsky7069
    @elimalinsky7069 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ossetic is the only living language descended from a Scythian language, more specifically Sarmatian or Alanic. It belongs to the East Iranian branch of Indo-European and is considered extremely conservative. Ossetic was instrumental in reconstructing Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European at that.
    Ossetia is an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation (some of it is in Georgia and this Ossetian-Georgian territory has been claimed by Russia since 2008). It is situated in the North Caucasus region between Circassia and Ingush-Chechnya. The Ossetians are predominantly Orthodox Christians and are the only Iranian ethnic group practicing Christianity.

  • @GabrielLopez-we6yn
    @GabrielLopez-we6yn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    xDD I'm AMAZED that the first one was Paraguayan spanish. I'm paraguayan and the accent is hard even for other latin america countries to grasp. Great channel dude!

  • @melvynhunt480
    @melvynhunt480 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got to 1750. I think it's good fun and hope I've learned to do better for next time. Thank you for pointing out the site -- and for your own videos.

  • @ArturoStojanoff
    @ArturoStojanoff 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    9:54 "I'm getting tired I have to focus".
    Would you say you have to... LANGfocus????
    eeeeeeeh

  • @martfp88
    @martfp88 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    9:54 ... you have to... Langfocus? :D

    • @amikecoru
      @amikecoru 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      At least two jokes about that among the comments :)))

  • @TheIamtheoneandonly1
    @TheIamtheoneandonly1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “The worlds most famous and popular language is music.” - Psy. 🎵🎵🎵

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I like PSY 👍

  • @KenFullman
    @KenFullman ปีที่แล้ว

    I speak English as a native and know enough French to pass as a 2 year old Frenchman. But I did just as well as you, just from the sounds and elimination. It really helped that I heard "Uzbek" in the Uzbeck sample.

  • @flugschulerfluglehrer
    @flugschulerfluglehrer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You win! Congrats!

  • @CalvinLimuel
    @CalvinLimuel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Some of them have some obvious clues like in the Uzbek clip the guy said Uzbekistan haha

  • @eurideryu3679
    @eurideryu3679 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ossetic is a language spoken in Russia/Georgia

    • @psiangel
      @psiangel 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's spoken in Iran near georgia

  • @davids.2424
    @davids.2424 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well done, Paul! ;-)
    Greetings to Japan!

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks, David!

    • @davids.2424
      @davids.2424 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're welcome ! ;-)
      And to also leave my score in the comment(s): 2000 ^^

  • @HarborFighter
    @HarborFighter 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best video yet! My favourite game - makes waiting in airport lounges around the world a little more fun!

  • @yuaelt
    @yuaelt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got exactly the same score - 950 :) The 'when you don't know what it is, it's Danish' strategy works really well!

  • @MrNickTube1
    @MrNickTube1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    HUEHUEHUE
    Mickey is BR

  • @jemts5586
    @jemts5586 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I don't speak Hausa, but after the first second or two I was like "Hausa!!!"

  • @grampton
    @grampton 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Ossetic is an Iranian language.

  • @sylwuskak7065
    @sylwuskak7065 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've tried 3 times and my best score was 750. Greetings form Poland, Paul. I love your channel :)

  • @johnallen1311
    @johnallen1311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    RIP The Great Language Game

  • @lindsaykearney5089
    @lindsaykearney5089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I got a lot of these right from being a choir kid 😂 I’ve sung in so many languages that I recognize some of the sounds. I only speak English and Spanish, though.

  • @mitrydatespruski
    @mitrydatespruski 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You seem to immediately notice that a language is slavic, I'm a native Polish speaker so I don't feel it that way, I just recognise similar words, soo if you could tell be by what distinct features you are able to tell it's slavic right away as a non slavic speaker, I'll be very glad, cause I got curious watching this video.

    • @pr0xykill978
      @pr0xykill978 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mitrydates Pruski
      'Sk' 'shk' 'bl' and 'ch' sounds stand out when listening to a Slavic language imo

    • @pr0xykill978
      @pr0xykill978 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      as well as short syllables

    • @TheRavenir
      @TheRavenir 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't speak any Slavic language, but I can always tell whether it's a Slavic language. It's about the high amount of consonant clusters, the many "sh" sounds and such. I can't really distinguish well between the Slavic languages, though.

  • @hawaianico
    @hawaianico 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    paul well done! good idea. yes, ur rigth!! ossetic is iranic from osetia in georgia

    • @CarlosRios1
      @CarlosRios1 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      uwwalon dude, Georgia is in the east coast

    • @hawaianico
      @hawaianico 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Carlos Rios georgia, caucasus, not the states xD. georgia,azerbayan armenia... and southossetia in georgia, its an independent region. they speak iranian languages in the middle of caucasian languages..a very complicated confusing melting pot. but im not till sure if ossetic is osetian?

    • @КонстантинТирский
      @КонстантинТирский 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, Northern Ossetia is in Russia, and South Ossetia not in Georgia anymore. So you are totally wrong. But ossetic is Iranic BTW, so maybe not such totally wrong)))

  • @johnfox17
    @johnfox17 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're a humble gentleman. Thank you, I enjoyed the video.