@@furo.v Bruh, those asian ladies are genetically respectful towards each culture in general, that's asian way BUT Shannon is from the different culture and that's why she's impressed. She didn't mention those asian ladies doesn't mean they are disrespectful.
10:42 She speaks Thai so clearly and it sounds natural. I can tell she is a language genius because she knows how to catch the sound, really smart. I love Shanon she's kinda sweet and really pretty too. Welcome to Thailand soon Shannon.
I guessed everything because I live in the Philippines, lived in Indonesia, teach Chinese kids, watch Korean tv shows and movies and went to school with Koreans too, Thailand has a very obvious accent as does Vietnam, and we all know what Japanese sounds like! The American girl is so sweet and friendly.
Same with me. The vietnam is tricky but i can still guess it right. It can be look the word that used "nh" in the last of the word or other word with last alfabeth in word is "h". Phillipine i know because im born and live in indonesia, and its neighbourhood country. Also i follow and subscribe some vtuber from philippines and always watch them. Thai i know because i had often watch horror and other movie from thai. Korea because i have listened to kpops and korean drama. Chinese because i know of some chinese guy in my country and always watch comedy film and reel videos from china. Japanese of course im a weeb look at my account name, lmao.
I'm filipino too and guessed every single one too, i know japanese cause i watch anime, i know vietnam cause of vietnamese commercials, i know thai cause i watched some thai tv shows, i know korean cause of course kpop and k dramas, i know chinese cause i used to watch their shows, i know Indonesia cause of many tiktok
Wow! I'm learning Tagalog and Chavacano. I watch KDrama and Anime. I knew some girls from Vietnam in college (one of their names was Lien, close to Linh). So, I got the girls from Korea, Japan, Philippines, China (Niha I remember some cartoon my son would watch), and Vietnam. I didn't get Thai though. The girl from Indonesia I wasn't sure if it was Malaysia or Indonesia. I got the word lima which is number 5 in tagalog, Malay and Indonesia.
@@popnfreshz Really that's crazy i don't have this kind of eyes, for me them are all the same, specially when thai bleaching themself. But with out that bleaching issue i would probably be able to rocagnise only with the appearance, but not everyone.
provided you know those foods and are able to understand the answer without looking at the subtitles. Nasi-Goreng was a giveaway for Indonesia for me, but the others didn't help me much.
Shannon is so educated on different asian countries, it’s refreshing to hear her mention southeast asian countries because a lot of americans only know east asia! from a laotian person 💕
Have you ever heard of an animated American show called King of the Hill? The neighboring family is from Laos, so I think a lot of people in the USA are at least aware of your country thanks to that. 😀
@@spk1121 i wasn’t strictly talking about laos, but yes i’ve heard and watched it, i also know a lot of people who have never heard of laos and a lot of other south asian countries included
@@SherriLyle80s there’s so much asian culture in the US, food especially! Pho is my childhood food so for it to be shared with many others is awesome 🥹
Philippines was the easiest for me because I could hear the Spanish influence (I'm a native Spanish speaker) and also she was such a good singer, and Filipinos are great singers lol
@@etlogramen8665 it doesn't sound malay, their accent and toning are strong not similar in Filipino Tagalog and even if ever she sounded Español doesn't exist in those languages. Fyi in Filipino is same in Spanish in sense that the way you spell it, is the way pronounce it too. The only difference is Filipino has milder accent.
@@moonbellebelle4523 I said some words sounds similar in tones and such. I'm not fully saying it's really sound malay and indo when you say it. Fyi i'm a filipino and i major in filipino.
@@Nivimary 😂😂 What do you mean, it's unusual? But yeah the Kha kha sound and that khao khapro moosub bit just sound so pretty. Well maybe she's a soft speaker, but everyone in the video kind of already are soooo Anyway yeah it's nice, goes like an asmr
@@Walkman-hf9et Actually, most Thai girls are soft-spoken, including me haha. And yes, it’s an unusual compliment! So, I totally appreciate it. I also got to tell you that I’m surprised to see that you know many Thai words! Guess you probably like khao kraprao moosub 😊
@@Nivimary Ah that's nice. Yeah well other than our occasional fancy thai food (my favourite is the sliced red pork thing noodles and the spicy sour minced pork) and my father's favourite the magic beams song by this Thai artist I don't really know that much about the country haha😂 Yeah I'd love to visit the country sometime!
The easiest for me to guess, were Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Philippines. I’m an Asian drama addict and so most of these languages, I’m pretty familiar with.
If u live in asia, it shouldn't be hard, but the more obscure south east asian languages like Cambodian, Laotian or even Burmese will prove to be hard for people to identify accurately. For east asian languages, i think most people can't recognize mongolian or tibetian..
@@lyhthegreat I live in the states, but I’m Asian myself and have been exposed to many of these languages, so yeah, I didn’t find it difficult to identify.
As a person who has lived in Thailand and is also half Thailand, I was actually really happy that she said that she wanted to learn and go to Thai and my other half is Japanese and I was happy that she also sang the national anthem
@@booyee6410 No one talks about malaysia here, i don't even see Malaysian flag. So just stop to take some attentions of Indonesia and Indonesians. It's not cool
Actually english is germanic like German or Dutch , but many words from Latin are used in English , but the language from Latin are Portuguese , Spanish , Italian , French...
As an Asian person, it’s the looks and overall demeanor that’s a giveaway. It’s the hair style and the way they dress. It does get harder to differentiate if an Asian person has been westernized more. I’m ethnically Chinese but people usually think I’m Korean or Vietnamese. This is a cool video! Very informative showcasing the differences of Asian languages!
@@범고래ksb the US, the Americanized Asians (especially in California), it’s harder to differentiate because the tanner skin tone, outfits, makeup, hairstyle, etc. Of course this is a generalization, may not apply to everyone in the US. I am just speaking from my personal experience.
Inilah kenapa Kita sebagaimana bangsa Indonesia Harus terus berusaha memperkenalkan Budaya Indonesia dan Bahasa Indonesia. Orang luar Mungkin taunya Bali tapi sebagai anak Muda mari terus berbahasa Indonesia Agar kelak bahasa kita Setara dengan bahasa lainnya.
Kita kekurangan orang yg bisa bernarasi di dunia internasional, jadi selama puluhan tahun merdeka kita tetap gak dikenal. Bahkan orang Asia masih banyak yg belum tau
Wajar jika saat ini Indonesia masih kalah terkenal (khususnya di US) dibanding negara2 Asia timur, Filipina, Vietnam dan Thailand. Asia timur ada Mongolia, bangsa bermata sipit pertama yg diketahui orang barat (Eropa); China banyak perantaunya, kungfu dan sejarah; Korea banyak perantau dari sana yg ke US selepas pecahnya Korea; Jepang sebelum PD sudah banyak yg merantau ke benua Amerika (apalagi ke Brasil); Vietnam banyak perantau dari ex Vietnam Selatan karena kalah sama Komunis; Thailand salah satu negara yg paling banyak turis asing; Filipina banyak perantau karena TKW-nya lebih kepake dibanding TKW Indonesia karena lebih jago berbahasa Inggris, begitu juga dengan yg berprofesi sbg perawat, banyak yg merantau ke US juga. Kalau Indonesia, ayo... Udah mulai sangat dikenal dunia loh lewat netizen2nya. Coba aja ada orang luar singgung Indonesia, siap2 notifnya jebol. 😄
Chinese and Korean numbers sounds similar because Korea used to use Chinese characters, and when their king invented Korean he decided to create two ways of number, one with Chinese pronunciation but written in korean: 일 (one - il) 이 (two - e) 삼 (three - sam) 사 (four - sa) 오 (five - oh) 육 (six - euk) 칠 (seven - chill) 팔 (eight - pal) 구 (nine - ku) 십 (ten - ship) and a 100% korean way: nativo: 1: 하나 2: 둘 3: 셋 4: 넷 5: 다섯 6: 여섯 7: 일곱 8: 여덟 9: 아홉 10: 열 20: 스물 30: 서른 40: 마흔 50: 쉰 60: 예순 70: 일흔 80: 여든 90: 아흔 100: 백 your welcome?
90% of other Americans would have gotten most of these wrong. She is already very familiar with Asia and currently lives in Korea. I absolutely adored her though. So so cute and humble and enthusiastic to listen and learn to other languages. I'd love to see someone do this who wasn't already so knowledgeable specifically about Asian languages. She was so easily able to identify little differences between all of them
@@naijagerd7909 haha true. I feel like even other Asian speakers would have a hard time. Unless their close to eachother. I know some Thai and Cambodian words are similar to each other. But then conversely. Chinese and Japanese and Korean are so distinctly different from each other. I'm Vietnamese but was adopted as a baby to a white American family on the east coast. I'm 100% American by culture and nationality. The only reason I can pick out Vietnamese easily is from my family trying to give me experiences that exposed me to it. Japanese I recognize instantly because of my love for anime, and Korean I can identify after a few seconds of listening but not immediately. And that's from my love of K-Pop. But without those preconditions I would have no chance of accurately identifying these languages and accents. This girl has truly dedicated the time to study and learn linguistics
I got all of them right so fast, I’m a little proud of myself! Twitter and Duolingo have taught me a lot. I’d love to see a pt. 2 with languages like Khmer, Hindi, Cantonese, Telugu, Tamil, Sinhala, Mongolian, etc! I loved the person guessing the languages in this btw, super kind & smart.
I can't believe I guessed them all correct. Chinese, Philippine, Korean, and Japenese were very easy for me. Thai was somewhat diffiuclt, and the last one was very hard.
@@KimAhrina11 fyi..yes there are plenty of different asian races work and living in the Philippines especially on big cities like manila, Makati city ,Bgc,Aseana City, mackinley and Clark city. I'm pretty sure with that since I worked on McKinley which plenty of Chinese, Koreans, japanese, vietnamese, Thailand , whites and blacks works there. They even have their own schools and different many restaurants. They are working on big companies which catered for their language consumers. Indian what you say? Yeah there are also plenty of indian and Nepalese in manila like in Malaysia they are employed mostly on loan or credit companies. Don't cackling if you did not visit Philippines yet because you are really obvious that you don't have the knowledge and idea.
I just feel Thai girl or anythings about Thailand, it makes very impressed in Shannon's mind. Whenever you're arriving in Thailand, every Thais will always welcome you... Don't miss to visit my hometown!! ปล. ฟิลลิ่งเหมือนคนไทยเป็นเซเลบริตี้อ่ะ ใครๆก็อยากเข้าหา ทำไงได้ อยู่เฉยๆเขาก็รักอ่ะนะ ขนาดตอนยกมือไฮไฟว์ แชนนอนยังยกให้ก่อน
Love seeing people that actually acknowledge and aren’t ignorant about Asian countries! My husband is Vietnamese and I remember working and I told a coworker he was Vietnamese. She replied with, “so he speaks Chinese?” 😭
Haha I guessed every country except for Indonesia:/ Perks of watching kdrama, Jdrama, Cdramas, Philippine teledramas 😂🫶 A south asian (Sri Lankan 🇱🇰) here❤️ Asia is so diverse, I love and is proud of being born as an Asian 🫶
Terimakasih and Thank you. I'm Indonesian, but honestly Indonesia language is easier for learning, cause we use almost the same words formula with English.
But Bahasa Indonesia is one of the easiest languages to learn , spelling wise & grammar wise. The pronunciations are according to romanised spelling system, unlike English pronunciations which sometimes are too far from the actual spellings. It's hardest for westerners when they're not familiar with countries from other regions.
@@pinkblossoms You're completely right. She's so pretty! I have been saying how beautiful she is on other videos that she's in and I can't believe I didn't mention it on this one, lol but yes she's absolutely stunning!
Thank you Shannon for making the effort to bringing unity in diversity of the human race. You are so blessed. May God protect you and shower you with love and with His Glory! The whole world needs to see videos like this.
When the Indonesian girl started to sing that lullaby song, it sounded so familiar to me even though I am not Indonesian, but Brazilian. I think I reacted like this because "Nina" is really similar to "Ninar", which "Canção de ninar" ("lullaby", in Portuguese) came from.
Nina Bobo is a lullaby from Indonesia with the image of a keroncong rhythm . This song is also known outside Indonesia, for example in the Netherlands . The song was popularized by Anneke Grönloh and Wieteke van Dort .
Ooh, actually 'nina' is supposed to mean little girl, and apparently it even comes from the Portuguese 'menina'. It's one of the few Indonesian loanwords from Portuguese. And Muhammad already mentioned that it's a keroncong song. Keroncong is an Indonesian music genre that originates from Portuguese music.
@@kykale I really thought Nina is supposed to be a person's name. Even now, Nina is more common to be a name for an Indonesian girl, than to be a word with meaning. I mean even if you tell us, I don't think I can relate for what you said. Nina is just a name for me.
This was really cool! It would be interesting to have someone try to guess different Spanish speakers from a bunch of different Spanish dialects/countries as well. Slightly different but could be interesting.
fyi, that Chinese lullaby is came from Indonesian folk song called dayung sampan. Teresa Teng translate it into Chinese and then the song became popular, same like Bengawan Solo
the easiest for me is Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian. Korean because of Kpop/Kdramas, Japanese because of animes and High School, Chinese because i learnt it from friends and Indonesian because of Primary School
to me, this was super easy because everyone started out saying hi in their language and that immediately gave it away lol. but to be fair, it's also super easy as a southeast asian since all the languages here are commonly heard in SEA. if it was south asian or central asian or middle eastern languages, it would have been harder to guess.
OMG, I was shocked after hearing the Indonesian girl count. Almost all of the numbers she counted have the same pronunciation in my province in the Philippines ( Region V, BICOL). " Saro (One), Duwa (Two), Tulo (Three), Apat (Four), Lima (Five), Anom (Six), Pito (Seven), Walo (Eight), Siyam (Nine), Sampulo (Ten). But if you count "1-10" using our official language, which is Filipino, it sounds different. Well, I think only Bicolano's the one who can relate and find it interesting.
Bruh in Indonesia there is java language which more similar to your language, example for number is ; siji loro telu papat limo enem pitu wolu songo sepuloh
omg!??? this so similar to one of region language in indonesia lol (it's called batak language) which are sada, dua, tolu, opat, lima, onom, pitu, walu, sia, sampulu i'm so surprised bcs how similar they are, i think these two languages were related in the past im not quite sure how
Perfect score here! Japanese, chinese, korean are very obvious thai has "ha" sounds at the end, I got vietnam by cinciao 😆 and im from Philippines. Indonesia also has some similar words with Philippines so yeay i got perfect score 💯
I got Vietnam from the banhmi. Ik what Thai sounds like because I heard Lisa speak it, tbh I don’t really like the sound of the language. Korean, Chinese and Japanese were pretty easy to guess. I had a hard time with Indonesian
The two she got wrong were Filipino and Indonesian. The Indonesian is hard to guess even for Asian. The Filipino, however, has a very unique sound that most Asian would recognize right away that she's from Philippines. BTW, I'm Thai and I hope you enjoy a trip to Thailand.
Shannon was amazing! She really has an ear for language. As a Swedish person we learn English in School so I can speak both Swedish and English but I really want to learn Japanese. Right now I can only speak some few words but I love learning.
Keep it up! I mostly learn languages via Duolingo nowadays. And try to speak to random people in that language on VRchat. Which is quite a fun experience sometimes
Shannon aura is so lit. If you're American and you're white, you have that commanding character. As a Filipino, I would say that majority of the Americans have a great partnership with these 3 Asian countries. South Korea, Japan and the Philippines. In Japan , South Korea and The Philippines has this Mutual Defense treaty with the United States government. 🇺🇲🇵🇭🇯🇵🇰🇷 Other Asian countries that have this close ties with The United States are Taiwan of course and Indonesia. 🇺🇲🇮🇩🇹🇼
Nina Bobo ooooh Nina Bobo Kalau tidak Bobo digigit Nyamuk... Nina Bobo is a lullaby from Indonesia with the image of a keroncong rhythm . This song is also known outside Indonesia, for example in the Netherlands . The song was popularized by Anneke Grönloh and Wieteke van Dort . In Indonesian, the words used to sleep in this song are lullaby(k) or lullaby . Verbs such as "to lull", which is also derived from this song, have the meaning of "singing a song to lull". The use of the word is specific only in Indonesia. Meanwhile, in Malay , "to lull" translates to dodoi . The word " nina " is often mistaken for a girl's name. The word actually comes from the Portuguese menina , [1] which, although it also means girl , is not a name. However, this song is sung for both boys and girls without discrimination. Some Indonesian words are taken from Portuguese; for example also in the word Miss . Since the 16th century, the Dutch and Portuguese headed to East India and left their mark in terms of language and culture.
4:36 I knew bestie was Thai as soon as I saw her lol she’s cute! But it was fun playing along. I only missed the Indonesia one. I watch a lot of dramas(Korean, Thai, Taiwanese, filipino, Japanese) and it helped me so much👏🏼 and I also have a Vietnamese bf. Lol I love languages! I wish I knew them all!
I have never visited east Asia and I do not speak any of these languages, but having watched many international shows/movies/anime from different Asian cultures with subtitles and loving Asian foods is all it took to get all these right. Indonesia would have tripped me up, but she said "goreng" I immediately thought of those "mi-goreng" noodles from when I was in college.
I will definitely learn Vietnamese!!! Now I'm learning Chinese I'm Brazilian so this languages are really different from my native one but If I was able to learn English I will definitely learn any other one hahaha 😄
Inglês é bem mais fácil e parecido com o português, temos que nos esforçar para aprender idiomas de famílias linguísticas tão diferentes… mas vamo lá!! as línguas asiáticas são fodas, meu sonho aprender pelo menos uma kkk
As an Asian myself, I think the more you learn Asian culture and history, the more you can see how each is different, even the looks. I'm not saying Caucasian looks the same but Asian is culturally more vast and you can also guess them just by the looks. Say, you can differentiate Japanese from Chinese or Korean. Same with South East Asian, Vietnamese and Thai looks different even though they're basically side by side. But of course, someone who's not familiar with Asian culture or countries couldn't tell the difference. Sometimes, even we can't say for sure because of westernized culture influencing in Asia and also because there are a lot of mixed races, most Asian looks more similar nowadays. Still, you can obviously spot the huge differences. When you see an Indian, you just know it. And same with Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Mongolian etc..
Agree for chinese, korean, japanese. Kinda easy with just looks, throw in clothes or just their mannerism and very easy to tell apart. I lived in singapore for 6 months over 2 years. And live in a highly populated asian city in USA. I have issues telling viet, laos and combodian apart. Indian, paki, sri lankan and bangladeshan are also kinda hard, i can see a difference, sometimes, but hard to really pinpoint :( I am completely clueless. It is like south american countries..... Also malay and indonesian are a bit hard to tell apart. Had to use skin darkness to kinda make somewhat of a guess. But was still basically a 50/50. And of course, singaporean is just a wildcard, melting part of SEA. Good freakn luck if they are from malaysia or indonesia. or native....
i love how polite and respectful she is towards other cultures
Yea
You don't love how the asian ladies are respectful towards her culture?
Why though?
@@furo.v the comment says nothing about not loving the way that the asian ladies are respectful towards the american woman's culture.
@@furo.v Bruh, those asian ladies are genetically respectful towards each culture in general, that's asian way BUT Shannon is from the different culture and that's why she's impressed. She didn't mention those asian ladies doesn't mean they are disrespectful.
because she was the person guessing, I only paid attention to her
10:42 She speaks Thai so clearly and it sounds natural. I can tell she is a language genius because she knows how to catch the sound, really smart. I love Shanon she's kinda sweet and really pretty too. Welcome to Thailand soon Shannon.
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As a thai, I was perplexed.
She was too good at it Tbh.
Exactly!
I guessed everything because I live in the Philippines, lived in Indonesia, teach Chinese kids, watch Korean tv shows and movies and went to school with Koreans too, Thailand has a very obvious accent as does Vietnam, and we all know what Japanese sounds like! The American girl is so sweet and friendly.
Same with me. The vietnam is tricky but i can still guess it right. It can be look the word that used "nh" in the last of the word or other word with last alfabeth in word is "h". Phillipine i know because im born and live in indonesia, and its neighbourhood country. Also i follow and subscribe some vtuber from philippines and always watch them. Thai i know because i had often watch horror and other movie from thai. Korea because i have listened to kpops and korean drama. Chinese because i know of some chinese guy in my country and always watch comedy film and reel videos from china. Japanese of course im a weeb look at my account name, lmao.
I'm filipino too and guessed every single one too, i know japanese cause i watch anime, i know vietnam cause of vietnamese commercials, i know thai cause i watched some thai tv shows, i know korean cause of course kpop and k dramas, i know chinese cause i used to watch their shows, i know Indonesia cause of many tiktok
Wow! I'm learning Tagalog and Chavacano. I watch KDrama and Anime. I knew some girls from Vietnam in college (one of their names was Lien, close to Linh). So, I got the girls from Korea, Japan, Philippines, China (Niha I remember some cartoon my son would watch), and Vietnam. I didn't get Thai though. The girl from Indonesia I wasn't sure if it was Malaysia or Indonesia. I got the word lima which is number 5 in tagalog, Malay and Indonesia.
wow! 💕
@@kaizenryujinmaru yep
the question " what is your favorite food" pretty much gave everything away with each person
most asian people can probably get pretty close just based on appearance lol
@@eric_kirsch who said I'm asian ? I'm white living in Germany , knowing / eating them all.. just open your eyes and try some new things
@@popnfreshz Really that's crazy i don't have this kind of eyes, for me them are all the same, specially when thai bleaching themself. But with out that bleaching issue i would probably be able to rocagnise only with the appearance, but not everyone.
provided you know those foods and are able to understand the answer without looking at the subtitles. Nasi-Goreng was a giveaway for Indonesia for me, but the others didn't help me much.
but they speak in their first language
That lady from Thailand is such a gorgeous lady… I had to rewind the vid after she presented to see what she said. ❤😅
The fact the Filipina can sing is not surprising to me as a Filipino myself.
what do you think about the indonesian lullaby as a filipino? does the lyric makes it weird for you?
BC PHILIPPINES AVE THE BEST SINGERS😭
@@kurisu6312 as a Filipino, its actually pretty good
@@heartsforzab nina bobo is good??? Kawawa naman si nina 🤣🤣🤣
@@kurisu6312 i pity nina. Nina bobo 😭😭😭
The girl from Thailand is very very beautiful.
Yep Thai girl was so Cute so much thai girls wear glasses
yeah, with all the surgeries she got in Korea lol
@@ferneycelis1243 more beautiful than you hahahahahaha🤣🤣🤣
@@cmix1498 Actually no, I'm not plastic 🤮😝
@@ferneycelis1243 Even if it's not plastic, it can't be compared to him. Poor envious person.hahaha
The girls from Thailand beautiful 🤩
Shannon is so educated on different asian countries, it’s refreshing to hear her mention southeast asian countries because a lot of americans only know east asia! from a laotian person 💕
Have you ever heard of an animated American show called King of the Hill? The neighboring family is from Laos, so I think a lot of people in the USA are at least aware of your country thanks to that. 😀
@@spk1121 i wasn’t strictly talking about laos, but yes i’ve heard and watched it, i also know a lot of people who have never heard of laos and a lot of other south asian countries included
We love east asian cuisine in the US! Pho and other dishes are very popular. We aren't as smart as at picking out accents but she was the exception 😁
@@SherriLyle80s there’s so much asian culture in the US, food especially! Pho is my childhood food so for it to be shared with many others is awesome 🥹
maybe because she is living in Korea and interested in Asian cultures, which is a nice thing.
the Thai girl is so gorgeous
Philippines was the easiest for me because I could hear the Spanish influence (I'm a native Spanish speaker) and also she was such a good singer, and Filipinos are great singers lol
Then the girl claim she speak Spanish then, she then her final answer is Malaysia, she doesn't recognize the Spaniy in her Tagalog.
@@moonbellebelle4523 It does sound like malaysia and indonesia because of some tonal words and similarities. But some words came from spanish.
@@etlogramen8665 it doesn't sound malay, their accent and toning are strong not similar in Filipino Tagalog and even if ever she sounded Español doesn't exist in those languages.
Fyi in Filipino is same in Spanish in sense that the way you spell it, is the way pronounce it too. The only difference is Filipino has milder accent.
its most likely because the american lady doesnt know much about the philippines nor malaysia nor indonesia to know anything about it
@@moonbellebelle4523 I said some words sounds similar in tones and such. I'm not fully saying it's really sound malay and indo when you say it. Fyi i'm a filipino and i major in filipino.
Thai girl so beautiful😍
Which one?
@PakistaniMan. hmmm
i dunno
you seem pretty Nauruan to me 🤷♀️
@@amohsamuel35144:41 here in this part this girl is Thailand just like me
@@amohsamuel3514 😧
@@ธีรพงษ์สมทรงsame I’m thai
I just love Thai especially the Kha ka sound. Sooo pretty
Thank you, I wasn’t expecting that to sound nice to a foreigner ☺️
@@Nivimary 😂😂 What do you mean, it's unusual?
But yeah the Kha kha sound and that khao khapro moosub bit just sound so pretty.
Well maybe she's a soft speaker, but everyone in the video kind of already are soooo
Anyway yeah it's nice, goes like an asmr
@@Walkman-hf9et Actually, most Thai girls are soft-spoken, including me haha. And yes, it’s an unusual compliment! So, I totally appreciate it. I also got to tell you that I’m surprised to see that you know many Thai words! Guess you probably like khao kraprao moosub 😊
@@Nivimary Ah that's nice.
Yeah well other than our occasional fancy thai food (my favourite is the sliced red pork thing noodles and the spicy sour minced pork) and my father's favourite the magic beams song by this Thai artist I don't really know that much about the country haha😂
Yeah I'd love to visit the country sometime!
@@Walkman-hf9et That noodle dish might be bamee moo dang but I’m not sure about the latter.
Anyway, yes, you should visit Thailand someday :)
Thailand 🙋🏻♀️ So beautiful. Land of smile 🤗
Thai language sound so good to my ears like its sound natural, beautiful and calm.
the thailand girl is so pretty omg
cant be a model if ur not pretty
She mix Indonesia-Thailand
I mean model it ordinary
@@umisulastri5827 I guess ur Indonesian that’s why u said that 😂
@@umisulastri5827 nope she’s not
Thai girl is so beautiful!
I love Thailand language so soft & polite ^^
Haha that’s good we feel so appreciated!
The Thai girl literally looks like a Disney princess ❤
Shannon is simply amazing!! I failed to recognized them all...
The easiest for me to guess, were Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Philippines. I’m an Asian drama addict and so most of these languages, I’m pretty familiar with.
Fun fact tho, Indonesian language or Bahasa is the easiest compared to those you mentioned
If u live in asia, it shouldn't be hard, but the more obscure south east asian languages like Cambodian, Laotian or even Burmese will prove to be hard for people to identify accurately. For east asian languages, i think most people can't recognize mongolian or tibetian..
Why I guess 100% correctly
Because I am Asean.
@@lyhthegreat I live in the states, but I’m Asian myself and have been exposed to many of these languages, so yeah, I didn’t find it difficult to identify.
@Andre li i only know indonesia because she said nasigoreng and that's a recipe from a game i play
That Thai girl though 😻
As my opinion, Thailand lady has so beautiful English accent and prounciation...
Yes she so cute,i love her
Shannon is such a great person!!
She is very polite and so respectful!!
As a person who has lived in Thailand and is also half Thailand, I was actually really happy that she said that she wanted to learn and go to Thai and my other half is Japanese and I was happy that she also sang the national anthem
I'm also Thai and Japanese!
fwa
half thailand 💀💀
Every American always says they want to learn other languages but they never do
@@PakistaniMan.Turkish?
It's so good see Shannon more often now , her first videos were pretty good , now that Christina is out for a while , she is the main US 🇺🇸 member 😍
Agreed! I love her personality ❤
Why is Christina out
I totally agree with you, my friend
Shannon is more lively
@@Dominik-zy8zm Trip to Thailand 🇹🇭
The "nasi goreng" is the real clue. I love Indonesian foods.
Yep, I only picked that up from Uncle Roger🤣
Could be malaysia
Nasi goreng can also mean it could be Malaysia tho cause Indonesia and Malaysia share some similarities
@@booyee6410 No one talks
about malaysia here, i don't even see
Malaysian flag. So just stop to take
some attentions of Indonesia and
Indonesians. It's not cool
@@coolsimpleman Since when was I trying to take attention away from Indonesia? I was just giving an opinion that you didn't need to reply to
Actually english is germanic like German or Dutch , but many words from Latin are used in English , but the language from Latin are Portuguese , Spanish , Italian , French...
I think she meant the Latin alphabet
🥰😊🥰😊
Yeah, Dutch is actually very close to English, but especially to Old-English without the 'latin" influences.
My brother’s father in law, a German immigrant, thought English was closer to French than German, all of which he spoke
@@tomhalla426 It's grammatically similar.
I've been to Thailand and Indonesia. The people there are awesome. Super friendly
As an Asian person, it’s the looks and overall demeanor that’s a giveaway. It’s the hair style and the way they dress. It does get harder to differentiate if an Asian person has been westernized more. I’m ethnically Chinese but people usually think I’m Korean or Vietnamese.
This is a cool video! Very informative showcasing the differences of Asian languages!
??? 한국인과 베트남인은 닮지 않았는데???
@@범고래ksb違いますね。ベトナムの人の方が目が大きいです。😊
@@범고래ksb the US, the Americanized Asians (especially in California), it’s harder to differentiate because the tanner skin tone, outfits, makeup, hairstyle, etc. Of course this is a generalization, may not apply to everyone in the US. I am just speaking from my personal experience.
Thai lady is beautiful
The Thai Girl looks so stylish and pretty
Inilah kenapa Kita sebagaimana bangsa Indonesia Harus terus berusaha memperkenalkan Budaya Indonesia dan Bahasa Indonesia. Orang luar Mungkin taunya Bali tapi sebagai anak Muda mari terus berbahasa Indonesia Agar kelak bahasa kita Setara dengan bahasa lainnya.
Kita kekurangan orang yg bisa bernarasi di dunia internasional, jadi selama puluhan tahun merdeka kita tetap gak dikenal. Bahkan orang Asia masih banyak yg belum tau
Ehh aku selalu tengok kau memaki hamun di comment video pasal malaysia 😂😂😂,, tak sangka aku jumpa hang kat sini 😂😂😂
ga tau kenapa sedih banget waktu Indonesia ga di recognize sm dia 🥲
Wajar jika saat ini Indonesia masih kalah terkenal (khususnya di US) dibanding negara2 Asia timur, Filipina, Vietnam dan Thailand. Asia timur ada Mongolia, bangsa bermata sipit pertama yg diketahui orang barat (Eropa); China banyak perantaunya, kungfu dan sejarah; Korea banyak perantau dari sana yg ke US selepas pecahnya Korea; Jepang sebelum PD sudah banyak yg merantau ke benua Amerika (apalagi ke Brasil); Vietnam banyak perantau dari ex Vietnam Selatan karena kalah sama Komunis; Thailand salah satu negara yg paling banyak turis asing; Filipina banyak perantau karena TKW-nya lebih kepake dibanding TKW Indonesia karena lebih jago berbahasa Inggris, begitu juga dengan yg berprofesi sbg perawat, banyak yg merantau ke US juga.
Kalau Indonesia, ayo... Udah mulai sangat dikenal dunia loh lewat netizen2nya. Coba aja ada orang luar singgung Indonesia, siap2 notifnya jebol. 😄
Kau mmg kerja dgn TH-cam ke? 😂
Chinese and Korean numbers sounds similar because Korea used to use Chinese characters, and when their king invented Korean he decided to create two ways of number, one with Chinese pronunciation but written in korean:
일 (one - il)
이 (two - e)
삼 (three - sam)
사 (four - sa)
오 (five - oh)
육 (six - euk)
칠 (seven - chill)
팔 (eight - pal)
구 (nine - ku)
십 (ten - ship)
and a 100% korean way:
nativo:
1: 하나
2: 둘
3: 셋
4: 넷
5: 다섯
6: 여섯
7: 일곱
8: 여덟
9: 아홉
10: 열
20: 스물
30: 서른
40: 마흔
50: 쉰
60: 예순
70: 일흔
80: 여든
90: 아흔
100: 백
your welcome?
백 100 is from Chinese actually😂
90% of other Americans would have gotten most of these wrong. She is already very familiar with Asia and currently lives in Korea. I absolutely adored her though. So so cute and humble and enthusiastic to listen and learn to other languages. I'd love to see someone do this who wasn't already so knowledgeable specifically about Asian languages. She was so easily able to identify little differences between all of them
I guess I'm one of the 10% then. I guessed them all correctly within one second.
@@Mu5icPr0ducer yassss love it
I'm also gonna guess that 90% of people from any other country will also get it wrong. 😅
@@naijagerd7909 haha true. I feel like even other Asian speakers would have a hard time. Unless their close to eachother. I know some Thai and Cambodian words are similar to each other. But then conversely. Chinese and Japanese and Korean are so distinctly different from each other.
I'm Vietnamese but was adopted as a baby to a white American family on the east coast. I'm 100% American by culture and nationality. The only reason I can pick out Vietnamese easily is from my family trying to give me experiences that exposed me to it. Japanese I recognize instantly because of my love for anime, and Korean I can identify after a few seconds of listening but not immediately. And that's from my love of K-Pop. But without those preconditions I would have no chance of accurately identifying these languages and accents. This girl has truly dedicated the time to study and learn linguistics
@@willcookmakeup That's alright.
Same here, I can recognise Mandarin, Japanese and Korea due to influence from their media. I'm Nigerian however.
The Thai girl so super cute wtf✨😭 She so pretty.
Yes she so cute,
Cute yeah, Shannon is beautiful.
1:30 It's not lullaby it's japanese national anthem lol
That girl from the Philippines sings so well!!😮❤
Of course bro, she Filipino.
Never met a Filipino that couldnt sing 🤣🤣🤣
What do you expect, she's from the Philippines
It's in the water they drink .. 😆
if you drink their water your voice will change
It’s just tipped of iceberg 😅
im obsessed with Shannon. I've watched every video with her in them.. she's so sweet and kind
I got all of them right so fast, I’m a little proud of myself! Twitter and Duolingo have taught me a lot. I’d love to see a pt. 2 with languages like Khmer, Hindi, Cantonese, Telugu, Tamil, Sinhala, Mongolian, etc! I loved the person guessing the languages in this btw, super kind & smart.
I'm crushing on the Thai girl 😍
Shannon choose Thailand 🎉🇹🇭😊
The fact that she added English words in the conversation, that would be your give away that she is from the Philippines
The Thai girl is so pretty.=)
I can't believe I guessed them all correct. Chinese, Philippine, Korean, and Japenese were very easy for me. Thai was somewhat diffiuclt, and the last one was very hard.
I am Thai.=ฉันเป็นคนไทย จะบอกว่าทรงแบบนี้แหละพิมพ์นิยมไทยเลย น่ารักเกินต้าาน555 ตอนคุณยิ้มเหมือนคนที่ผมเคยชอบคนหนึ่งด้วย และก็ยังชอบอยู่5555
noodle language
@@Tom57744 Actually Khmer uses a script very similar lol
รอยยิั้มนึกถึงลิซ่า
@@Tom57744 so?
@@Tom57744 it seems like you are hungry 😂 มากินก๊วยเตี๊ยวมา
Wow proud of myself as Arabian, I guessed them all right! My trips to the Phillipines paid off. You can find people from all over Asia in Manila.
All over Asia in Manila? You mean some East Asian and southeast Asian plus South Asian like Indian? Not all Asian people in Manila
@@KimAhrina11 fyi..yes there are plenty of different asian races work and living in the Philippines especially on big cities like manila, Makati city ,Bgc,Aseana City, mackinley and Clark city. I'm pretty sure with that since I worked on McKinley which plenty of Chinese, Koreans, japanese, vietnamese, Thailand , whites and blacks works there. They even have their own schools and different many restaurants. They are working on big companies which catered for their language consumers. Indian what you say? Yeah there are also plenty of indian and Nepalese in manila like in Malaysia they are employed mostly on loan or credit companies. Don't cackling if you did not visit Philippines yet because you are really obvious that you don't have the knowledge and idea.
yeah thats true..
Let us see Shannon in this channel again❤ I love the way she speak and react toward other cultures, so polite n respect n adorable
Im so proud of my country
Im glad that thailand is in the video too
And she is so beautiful
This is the first video I’ve seen Shannon in but I’m already crushing 🤣
the girl from Thailand is stunning!!!
I just feel Thai girl or anythings about Thailand, it makes very impressed in Shannon's mind. Whenever you're arriving in Thailand, every Thais will always welcome you... Don't miss to visit my hometown!!
ปล. ฟิลลิ่งเหมือนคนไทยเป็นเซเลบริตี้อ่ะ ใครๆก็อยากเข้าหา ทำไงได้ อยู่เฉยๆเขาก็รักอ่ะนะ ขนาดตอนยกมือไฮไฟว์ แชนนอนยังยกให้ก่อน
น้องเขาเป็นใคร อยู่ที่ไหนครับ น้องเขาน่ารักมาก มีออร่า เตะตา บอกไม่ถูกครับ
@@suncarnegie4747 อันนี้ไม่ทราบเหมือนกันค่ะ แต่น้องผู้หญิงเขาจะอยู่ในกลุ่มยูทูปที่เกี่ยวกับคนเกาหลีรีแอคเรื่องต่างๆเกี่ยวกับเมืองไทยค่ะ
@@suncarnegie4747 หมายถึงน้องบิซใช่ไหมคะ น้องเป็นนางแบบและนักแสดงอิสระอยู่ที่เกาหลีค่ะ
@@mbkbenz อ่อครับ น้องเขาน่ารักดีครับ ขอบคุณมากๆครับ
@@suncarnegie4747 ใช่ค่ะ น้องสวยคมมาก ฟีลแบบสาวใต้
And Shannon is gorgeous first time seeing her and her vibe is so friendly, chill and open minded and nice, would like to have a friend like her💕
Yes she so cute i love her
Love seeing people that actually acknowledge and aren’t ignorant about Asian countries! My husband is Vietnamese and I remember working and I told a coworker he was Vietnamese. She replied with, “so he speaks Chinese?” 😭
Love makes friends everywhere you go .
Hate makes enemies around the world .
Respect for others and you'll be respected .
Hope to see more of Philippines in this channel.
Indonesian language is so similar to Kinaraya dialect! Im so amazed!
Haha I guessed every country except for Indonesia:/ Perks of watching kdrama, Jdrama, Cdramas, Philippine teledramas 😂🫶 A south asian (Sri Lankan 🇱🇰) here❤️ Asia is so diverse, I love and is proud of being born as an Asian 🫶
I love asian woman, they are so nice and that beautiful girl BIZ, she is absolute stunning.
Shannon has such great attitude and you can tell she could really good at languages. the lullabys were amazing, nice work!
Thai girl is very beautiful
The Thai girl can speak with her eyes.
Yes
Indonesia for me was the hardest to guess. I love how the lullabies sound.
Terimakasih and Thank you. I'm Indonesian, but honestly Indonesia language is easier for learning, cause we use almost the same words formula with English.
But Bahasa Indonesia is one of the easiest languages to learn , spelling wise & grammar wise. The pronunciations are according to romanised spelling system, unlike English pronunciations which sometimes are too far from the actual spellings. It's hardest for westerners when they're not familiar with countries from other regions.
The tittle of lullaby from Indonesia is "Nina bobo".
@@ade_prambudi "Bobo" is a bad word in my language lol
@@TeaDrinker-eq3md what language bro?
In indonesia "bobo" is sleeping.
You can easily identify a Filipino by the way we talk as our language has a some Spanish and English words incorporated in it.
Japanese girl is so pretty 🥰 I love her little claps of approval at the end
She always is cute^^; | Cầu nguyện cho Үкраїна và hòa bình.
I was watching patiently to see the return of Nikki from China 🇨🇳 , my favorite member from Asia until now , loved the way she speaks her language
Same!
@@khalilahd. I agree. I like her too. Nicki is very pretty.
Thxxxxx❤
@@_niki3245 你超美❤❤❤❤❤
@@_niki3245咱们中国姑娘就是最美的😂
I love Shannon! She's such a fun and friendly, down to earth personality.
You’re forgetting to mention how she’s stunning. 👀
@@pinkblossoms You're completely right. She's so pretty! I have been saying how beautiful she is on other videos that she's in and I can't believe I didn't mention it on this one, lol but yes she's absolutely stunning!
Shannon did very well, she got most of them right. Those lullabies were beautiful.
Yes so
Thank you Shannon for making the effort to bringing unity in diversity of the human race. You are so blessed. May God protect you and shower you with love and with His Glory! The whole world needs to see videos like this.
I wish they bringer south Asians as well it would been nice to see my poeple too hahah
Ive been learning thai. I lovee the language
I guessed all of the East Asian languages correctly, filipino and Thai :)
Thai girl prettiest one
When the Indonesian girl started to sing that lullaby song, it sounded so familiar to me even though I am not Indonesian, but Brazilian.
I think I reacted like this because "Nina" is really similar to "Ninar", which "Canção de ninar" ("lullaby", in Portuguese) came from.
Nina Bobo is a lullaby from Indonesia with the image of a keroncong rhythm . This song is also known outside Indonesia, for example in the Netherlands . The song was popularized by Anneke Grönloh and Wieteke van Dort .
@@muhammadramadhanpanjaitan233 keroncong dari Portugis kan? Mungkin memang bisa aja ada pengaruh bahasa Portugis.
@@mimimada734 so relatable
Ooh, actually 'nina' is supposed to mean little girl, and apparently it even comes from the Portuguese 'menina'. It's one of the few Indonesian loanwords from Portuguese. And Muhammad already mentioned that it's a keroncong song. Keroncong is an Indonesian music genre that originates from Portuguese music.
@@kykale I really thought Nina is supposed to be a person's name. Even now, Nina is more common to be a name for an Indonesian girl, than to be a word with meaning. I mean even if you tell us, I don't think I can relate for what you said. Nina is just a name for me.
This was really cool! It would be interesting to have someone try to guess different Spanish speakers from a bunch of different Spanish dialects/countries as well. Slightly different but could be interesting.
fyi, that Chinese lullaby is came from Indonesian folk song called dayung sampan. Teresa Teng translate it into Chinese and then the song became popular, same like Bengawan Solo
摇篮曲应该是:
睡吧，睡吧，我亲爱的宝贝，睡吧，睡吧，妈妈喜欢你。
她唱的是爱情歌曲
But it sounds better in chinese language haha
cool, i didn't knew that...
@@嗯哼-s8p 干嘛那么生气？ 人家只是实话实说罢了。。也不确定他是日本人。。
@嗯哼 他说的是实话。你别在这里丢人现眼
American: can you sing a lullaby?
Japanese: *started to sing the national anthem
🤯😂
😅
either average japanese is an ultra-nationalist or they cant wait to leave the country 😂
Cringe
それな！😅
Banzaiiii!!
the easiest for me is Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian. Korean because of Kpop/Kdramas, Japanese because of animes and High School, Chinese because i learnt it from friends and Indonesian because of Primary School
to me, this was super easy because everyone started out saying hi in their language and that immediately gave it away lol. but to be fair, it's also super easy as a southeast asian since all the languages here are commonly heard in SEA. if it was south asian or central asian or middle eastern languages, it would have been harder to guess.
OMG, I was shocked after hearing the Indonesian girl count. Almost all of the numbers she counted have the same pronunciation in my province in the Philippines ( Region V, BICOL). " Saro (One), Duwa (Two), Tulo (Three), Apat (Four), Lima (Five), Anom (Six), Pito (Seven), Walo (Eight), Siyam (Nine), Sampulo (Ten). But if you count "1-10" using our official language, which is Filipino, it sounds different. Well, I think only Bicolano's the one who can relate and find it interesting.
I agree. Really interesting.
Bruh in Indonesia there is java language which more similar to your language, example for number is ; siji loro telu papat limo enem pitu wolu songo sepuloh
omg!??? this so similar to one of region language in indonesia lol (it's called batak language) which are sada, dua, tolu, opat, lima, onom, pitu, walu, sia, sampulu
i'm so surprised bcs how similar they are, i think these two languages were related in the past im not quite sure how
True. Same with ours in Bicol.
because we have same ancestry, austronesian
She’s very good at guessing wow👏 and Thai is her destination and she also want to learn Thai language wow! What a wonderful girl 💗
She so cute.
Perfect score here! Japanese, chinese, korean are very obvious thai has "ha" sounds at the end, I got vietnam by cinciao 😆 and im from Philippines. Indonesia also has some similar words with Philippines so yeay i got perfect score 💯
Just FYI, but here is how you spell out "hello" in Vietnamese: xin chào
I got Vietnam from the banhmi. Ik what Thai sounds like because I heard Lisa speak it, tbh I don’t really like the sound of the language. Korean, Chinese and Japanese were pretty easy to guess. I had a hard time with Indonesian
The japanese woman is stunning beautiful. I needed to say this hahah
0:44 I've been learning Japanese for a short time, but I understand everything, which is such a wonderful feeling
The two she got wrong were Filipino and Indonesian. The Indonesian is hard to guess even for Asian. The Filipino, however, has a very unique sound that most Asian would recognize right away that she's from Philippines. BTW, I'm Thai and I hope you enjoy a trip to Thailand.
Thai food is my favorite too. 💗
Shannon was amazing! She really has an ear for language. As a Swedish person we learn English in School so I can speak both Swedish and English but I really want to learn Japanese. Right now I can only speak some few words but I love learning.
Keep it up! I mostly learn languages via Duolingo nowadays. And try to speak to random people in that language on VRchat. Which is quite a fun experience sometimes
I want to learn Japanese so bad buy they don't have a course in Spanish in Duolingo
You want learn japanese because of work?
Gambatte!
Shannon aura is so lit. If you're American and you're white, you have that commanding character.
As a Filipino, I would say that majority of the Americans have a great partnership with these 3 Asian countries. South Korea, Japan and the Philippines.
In Japan , South Korea and The Philippines has this Mutual Defense treaty with the United States government. 🇺🇲🇵🇭🇯🇵🇰🇷
Other Asian countries that have this close ties with The United States are Taiwan of course and Indonesia. 🇺🇲🇮🇩🇹🇼
That has nothing to do with language or the subject in the video.
Nina Bobo ooooh Nina Bobo Kalau tidak Bobo digigit Nyamuk...
Nina Bobo is a lullaby from Indonesia with the image of a keroncong rhythm . This song is also known outside Indonesia, for example in the Netherlands . The song was popularized by Anneke Grönloh and Wieteke van Dort .
In Indonesian, the words used to sleep in this song are lullaby(k) or lullaby . Verbs such as "to lull", which is also derived from this song, have the meaning of "singing a song to lull". The use of the word is specific only in Indonesia. Meanwhile, in Malay , "to lull" translates to dodoi .
The word " nina " is often mistaken for a girl's name. The word actually comes from the Portuguese menina , [1] which, although it also means girl , is not a name. However, this song is sung for both boys and girls without discrimination.
Some Indonesian words are taken from Portuguese; for example also in the word Miss . Since the 16th century, the Dutch and Portuguese headed to East India and left their mark in terms of language and culture.
In Tagalog, bobo means dumbass 😊
4:36 I knew bestie was Thai as soon as I saw her lol she’s cute! But it was fun playing along. I only missed the Indonesia one. I watch a lot of dramas(Korean, Thai, Taiwanese, filipino, Japanese) and it helped me so much👏🏼 and I also have a Vietnamese bf. Lol I love languages! I wish I knew them all!
indonesia,malaysia , brunei , singapore had almost similar language n culture ..
Indonesia have 700+ ethnic groups, every tribe in Indonesia have their own language, tradition & culture, so you totally wrong!
Wow chinice girl soo beautiful 😍⚘
From Kz 🇰🇿
I love this social event and The all of the girls were amazing!
I really want to learn Mandarin or Cantonese... they sound so cool, and I love Chinese music
Haha, Banh Mi as her favorite food was the dead giveaway for the girl from Vietnam. Banh Mi is very popular in the US.
True. I have a lot of Vietnamese friends and eat at Vietnamese restaurants a lot.
I love how she respects different countries
I also from Thailand yeahhhh❤ love your content
How many Thai alphabets are there^^? | Пусть наш Бог хранит Үкраїну.
Shannon is a star
I have never visited east Asia and I do not speak any of these languages, but having watched many international shows/movies/anime from different Asian cultures with subtitles and loving Asian foods is all it took to get all these right. Indonesia would have tripped me up, but she said "goreng" I immediately thought of those "mi-goreng" noodles from when I was in college.
So you are Eupean or American(US Canada Mexio, etc)
I will definitely learn Vietnamese!!! Now I'm learning Chinese I'm Brazilian so this languages are really different from my native one but If I was able to learn English I will definitely learn any other one hahaha 😄
Inspired by thiago and Nhan haha JOKE
Hi I’m Vietnamese. I’m learning Portuguese so can we be friendssss
@@嗯哼-s8p 你管别人学什么，学中文有不错的发展
神经病，反串中国人吗？
Inglês é bem mais fácil e parecido com o português, temos que nos esforçar para aprender idiomas de famílias linguísticas tão diferentes… mas vamo lá!! as línguas asiáticas são fodas, meu sonho aprender pelo menos uma kkk
As an Asian myself, I think the more you learn Asian culture and history, the more you can see how each is different, even the looks. I'm not saying Caucasian looks the same but Asian is culturally more vast and you can also guess them just by the looks. Say, you can differentiate Japanese from Chinese or Korean. Same with South East Asian, Vietnamese and Thai looks different even though they're basically side by side. But of course, someone who's not familiar with Asian culture or countries couldn't tell the difference. Sometimes, even we can't say for sure because of westernized culture influencing in Asia and also because there are a lot of mixed races, most Asian looks more similar nowadays. Still, you can obviously spot the huge differences. When you see an Indian, you just know it. And same with Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Mongolian etc..
Agree for chinese, korean, japanese. Kinda easy with just looks, throw in clothes or just their mannerism and very easy to tell apart.
I lived in singapore for 6 months over 2 years. And live in a highly populated asian city in USA.
I have issues telling viet, laos and combodian apart.
Indian, paki, sri lankan and bangladeshan are also kinda hard, i can see a difference, sometimes, but hard to really pinpoint :( I am completely clueless. It is like south american countries.....
Also malay and indonesian are a bit hard to tell apart. Had to use skin darkness to kinda make somewhat of a guess. But was still basically a 50/50.
And of course, singaporean is just a wildcard, melting part of SEA. Good freakn luck if they are from malaysia or indonesia. or native....