Guess the Language w/ STEVE KAUFMANN (Dream Come True)

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  • @RorinoTheGreat
    @RorinoTheGreat ปีที่แล้ว +2007

    Wow! The two men I have framed photos of hanging above my bed are finally making a video together! Thank you!

    • @Bruhh221
      @Bruhh221 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      :3

    • @Yo1gamefantapro69
      @Yo1gamefantapro69 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Bruhh221 UwU

    • @-danR
      @-danR ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Kaufmann's former language office was less than two blocks from my home. By the time I discovered it, it was closed, unfortunately. Would have been interesting to drop by and wish him a Guten Tag.

    • @RorinoTheGreat
      @RorinoTheGreat ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@-danRwould’ve been a gigachad move to memorize 30 different greetings and hop by. Oh well, you couldn’t have known earlier

    • @Ryz3n_o
      @Ryz3n_o ปีที่แล้ว

      Ты самый красивый мужик которого я виДел❤ шучу ты не добавил субтитрЫ к этому виДео😢 ыддыдыдыдыдыддыддыдыььььььььььъъъъдвдвдв

  • @tsakeboya
    @tsakeboya ปีที่แล้ว +5807

    Hearing Steve Kaufman say "I am a hyperpolyglot alpha male gigachad" has completed my life

    • @lungsfullofleaves
      @lungsfullofleaves ปีที่แล้ว +98

      And it's 100% true

    • @zevelgamer.
      @zevelgamer. ปีที่แล้ว +38

      It has completed mine too😊

    • @SeBBoX
      @SeBBoX ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah, I felt that

    • @Alonoda
      @Alonoda ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Ultimate satisfaction

    • @SukunaIsHim
      @SukunaIsHim ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Facts

  • @siejaiz
    @siejaiz ปีที่แล้ว +1021

    Steve can't speak American, he's speaking Canadian... glad you guys were able to understand each other

    • @tbountybay3080
      @tbountybay3080 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      😂😂

    • @beans00001
      @beans00001 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      American and Canadian are mutually intelligible, both languages have over 80% lexical overlap, with pronunciation and grammatical differences.

    • @togekiss09
      @togekiss09 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@beans00001🗿

    • @canberkpesman1604
      @canberkpesman1604 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@beans00001 Hi, can you translate that to Canadian pls i dont understand

    • @NameIsCanadian
      @NameIsCanadian ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@canberkpesman1604 Burger land and Canadian understand each other (we don’t) and both languages barely have any pronunciation and grammar differences. (we have tons)

  • @ivanthaboi
    @ivanthaboi ปีที่แล้ว +2743

    Finally, the best polyglot of all time gets to meet Steve Kauffman

    • @dirtydirtyshisno7284
      @dirtydirtyshisno7284 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Steve got to meet him*

    • @jqa16
      @jqa16 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      best polyglot of all time died 2-3 years ago. Moses Laoshu

    • @A1lexander
      @A1lexander ปีที่แล้ว +27

      ​@@dirtydirtyshisno7284bro didn't get the joke

    • @eriktoth1137
      @eriktoth1137 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Here's your 420th like

    • @imaadhaq540
      @imaadhaq540 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      ​@@A1lexander I think you didnt get his. he rearranged it to make it seem like it was an honor for steve to meet mr simp

  • @Supreme_Chad
    @Supreme_Chad ปีที่แล้ว +1107

    Bro I'm a native German and didn't understand anything in the third one. This goes to show how diverse our dialects are.

    • @Euroeater
      @Euroeater ปีที่แล้ว

      Ne, die labern einfach Scheisse

    • @koberburwa
      @koberburwa ปีที่แล้ว +99

      More like, how audacious Germans are at calling other languages dialects of German

    • @hendrikhans3729
      @hendrikhans3729 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      I've heard Badisch ever since my childhood and the pronunciation wasn't really good.
      I did not recognize the dialect so it wasn't a very good depiction
      (Nothing against the guy of course)

    • @pierreabbat6157
      @pierreabbat6157 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I recognized the tonguetwister, not the dialect. I've made up tonguetwisters in several languages, including German, which is my first non-native language.
      Der Zahnarzt zieht Zähne mit Zahnarztzange im Zahnarztzimmer. Mit Zange muss er Zunge ziehen nie und Zähne ziehen immer!

    • @uhhhbingus
      @uhhhbingus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hendrikhans3729 where at in baden?

  • @inglescomshane5798
    @inglescomshane5798 ปีที่แล้ว +1227

    as a monolingual American that speaks English FLUENTLY I really do have to say that you both have excellent accents when in your English forms.

    • @emrekazanlar1461
      @emrekazanlar1461 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I agree

    • @brittlediamond
      @brittlediamond ปีที่แล้ว +69

      As a trilingual Brazilian who speaks English as my third language, I have to say, your typing-words-in-English skills are really good, keep it up!

    • @inglescomshane5798
      @inglescomshane5798 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@brittlediamond valeu, meu rei!! Um beijão na nuca 😘

    • @Frietoe
      @Frietoe ปีที่แล้ว +21

      As someone who doesn’t speak any language and communicates solely through the power of telepathic memes I do have to commend you on your exquisite use of the letter a.

    • @GuilhermeMichel
      @GuilhermeMichel ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In America you speak american!

  • @Regzillaaa
    @Regzillaaa ปีที่แล้ว +262

    The Spanish guy cracked me up.. I was almost convinced it wasn't Spanish.. so much conviction

    • @pluviophile1988
      @pluviophile1988 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The nerve lol

    • @dersteppenwolf5458
      @dersteppenwolf5458 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And the guy is also using a peruvian accent from Lima 😅

    • @theparadigm8149
      @theparadigm8149 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I figured he was telling the truth, so I guessed Castilian, which is very close to Spanish

    • @atalantamatchesviews6512
      @atalantamatchesviews6512 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@theparadigm8149 thought it was galician ngl

    • @theparadigm8149
      @theparadigm8149 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@atalantamatchesviews6512
      Yeah, that’s what I meant to say! “Castilian” is the same as modern Spanish

  • @benthesodaman6582
    @benthesodaman6582 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    I am only 17 seconds into the video and had to pause. I am overwhelmed to tears. This is beautiful.

  • @juan_salvador_gaviota
    @juan_salvador_gaviota ปีที่แล้ว +1657

    My wife is going into labor but I’m skipping it to watch this instead.

    • @squishtomar1676
      @squishtomar1676 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      God bless

    • @Duffy87
      @Duffy87 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Spoken like a true hyperpolyglot alpha male gigachad

    • @tiagolacerdamuller4719
      @tiagolacerdamuller4719 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      brasil campeão do mundo

    • @edinonjunio
      @edinonjunio ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tiagolacerdamuller4719 BRASIL NÚMERO 1 CAMPEÃO PENTA ☝🥇🏆🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

    • @daxx238
      @daxx238 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now legally name your child Language Simp

  • @helixsapiensis5078
    @helixsapiensis5078 ปีที่แล้ว +892

    I am German and I understood more of the Icelandic than of the German. Edit: my guess would also have been Maltese Arabic.

    • @bananenmusli2769
      @bananenmusli2769 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Bin Franke und hab bisschen was verstanden aber hauptsächlich weil ich den Zungenbrecher kenne

    • @louisaufyt7255
      @louisaufyt7255 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was sagt er genau? @@bananenmusli2769

    • @Sinthoras155
      @Sinthoras155 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@bananenmusli2769 ich komme aus der gegend und habe kein wort verstanden, habe es ausm gleichen grund wie du erkannt. schade dass die dialekte aussterben

    • @leirex_1
      @leirex_1 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Same. But I am very sure it's because of the tongue twister. Normal badisch shouldn't be this comprehensible.

    • @jonas9
      @jonas9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hab kein Wort verstanden...

  • @josephobonyo2
    @josephobonyo2 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    This is the most interesting interview with Steve that I've seen. You can just tell he was loving it.

  • @canchero724
    @canchero724 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    I couldn't believe Steve's first words. Absolutely smashed this video😂😂

  • @samuelwaller4924
    @samuelwaller4924 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    "I gave up learning Hebrew because it was just so much easier to speak one of 5 other languages"
    Such a relatable problem, polyglot struggles

    • @saturahman7510
      @saturahman7510 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Try to learn finnish.. !

  • @orrknaan5459
    @orrknaan5459 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    What Steve said about not understanding something if you aren’t anticipating it is sooo true. When I heard my native language it took me a few words to recognize it

  • @sebastian3217
    @sebastian3217 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    I'm from a region of Germany close to Baden and I have NEVER heard german like that ever!

    • @christopherstein2024
      @christopherstein2024 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "Schelle schellt irgendwas bla Schelle schellt"

    • @uhhhbingus
      @uhhhbingus ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@christopherstein2024 schelle sie net an sellere schell, selle schell schellt net, schelle sie lieber an sellere schell denn selle schell schellt

    • @ro.kn.2665
      @ro.kn.2665 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      war es nicht irgendwas mit Sellerie schälen?@@christopherstein2024

    • @ladispute8810
      @ladispute8810 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@christopherstein2024I‘m Swiss German and we also have the word „Schelle“

    • @christopherstein2024
      @christopherstein2024 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ladispute8810 Warum denn auch nicht?

  • @Awkward7176
    @Awkward7176 ปีที่แล้ว +298

    Lmao, even as a native polish speaker I didn't recognize the swedish accent guy at first (at 2x speed), that was very well done

    • @Cypekeh
      @Cypekeh ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I did recognize it except for the first two, three words
      But I wasn't sure if it's some Kashubian or something at first

    • @pseu9098
      @pseu9098 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      When he started speaking my brain froze

    • @TonyLang1984
      @TonyLang1984 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I heard a few Polish words, so I was guessing Kashubski!

    • @TonyLang1984
      @TonyLang1984 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Cypekeh same here!

    • @janstozek4850
      @janstozek4850 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      At the first attempt I recognized only a few words, but thought it was Russian. Only during a retry, I recognized my mother tongue. And still have an impression that it was actually recorded backwards.

  • @alfonsmyrvold7487
    @alfonsmyrvold7487 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    As a Swedish speaker, I got very confused when I heard someone speaking what sounded like Swedish, but I couldn’t understand anything

    • @jakubgumowski8230
      @jakubgumowski8230 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      As a Pole I had to listen this part again to realise that IT was Polish. Even then it was hard to understand😂

    • @blakewood2755
      @blakewood2755 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That was the weirdest polish ever. The dude was trolling I guess.

    • @Overlycomplicatedswede
      @Overlycomplicatedswede ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Samma trodde jag

    • @greenLimeila
      @greenLimeila 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@blakewood2755 he took people with a strong accent from a language speaking a different one to spice the challenge up! the guy speaking French also had a strong foreign accent *and* was almost only using slang, it was very well done to trip Steve up on one language he's very proficient in. As he said, knowing what to expect is very important in communication. If he had been told beforehands it was French, he could have picked up most of the meaning for sure!

  • @dg6645
    @dg6645 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Is incredible how sometimes he guesses wrong, but he basically understood the sentence.

  • @flashgordon6510
    @flashgordon6510 ปีที่แล้ว +417

    I hope ancient Albanian sign language is one of them!

    • @arnaubasulto4448
      @arnaubasulto4448 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Your wishes have been fulfilled

    • @flashgordon6510
      @flashgordon6510 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@arnaubasulto4448 Steve's AASL accent is really thick!

    • @circa902
      @circa902 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *Foreshadowing*

    • @LazarOrthodox04
      @LazarOrthodox04 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ancient turkish*

    • @StillAliveAndKicking_
      @StillAliveAndKicking_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, but what he said isn’t fit to repeat.

  • @kostindonk
    @kostindonk ปีที่แล้ว +190

    Congrats on the minor milestone on your big journey to meeting Дора!

    • @stupiditiusmaximus
      @stupiditiusmaximus ปีที่แล้ว +11

      nah dora gonna kidnap him

    • @ToastedSeagul
      @ToastedSeagul ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@stupiditiusmaximusNot if Duo gets him first.

    • @morfy2581
      @morfy2581 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LanguageSimp? More like дора-simp

  • @ggbaranga2575
    @ggbaranga2575 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    As a member of Kauffmanism I totally agree

  • @WirtualneSpaceryPawelTomalka
    @WirtualneSpaceryPawelTomalka ปีที่แล้ว +112

    I am Polish native speaker and I didnt understand the Polish with a Sweedish accent. I had to go back and listen again to understeand it. I think it was too hard even for Steve!

    • @ArtemySmyslovsky
      @ArtemySmyslovsky ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I speak Russian and could understand the entire sentence. Since Kaufmann speaks it too, that must've been fair enough

    • @4Roman204
      @4Roman204 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ArtemySmyslovskyAnother Russian speaker here. Same for me! I also recognized the language as Polish even though I've never learned it (maybe that's exactly why)

    • @Soreto23
      @Soreto23 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      apart from his accent, the strange intonation of his voice made it difficult to understand him at first

    • @urbanistgod
      @urbanistgod ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah, I was like: Which Slavic language is that? Is there a Slavic language that resembles Polish even more than anything I’ve ever heard before?

    • @workgd3083
      @workgd3083 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here im Polish and i didn't recognize it. Apart from "ciekawy" but i thought it was dialect

  • @Speechbound
    @Speechbound ปีที่แล้ว +80

    I'm a native German and that first German tongue twister is such a heavy dialect that it only faintly resembles high German, very cheeky haha!

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund ปีที่แล้ว

      I think I caught one word the third time I tried: “lieber”.

  • @dropview7013
    @dropview7013 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Big Up Steve Kaufmann for being a great sport and for being so humble. If it wasn’t for him, I would hardly know about any of you other polyglots. Look forward to checking out the Language Simps back catalogue of videos here on TH-cam 👍🏾

  • @rabomarc
    @rabomarc ปีที่แล้ว +33

    As a Polish native speaker with some knowledge of Swedish, the sound of Polish with very heavy Swedish accent was really surprising.

    • @kuulalaak3ri
      @kuulalaak3ri 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I truly thought I was witnessing some sort of ancient north germanic-slavic pidgin

  • @pewp_tickalar
    @pewp_tickalar ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I love Steve's apathy toward conlangs and anime

    • @benharmonics
      @benharmonics ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Me too 😂

    • @ChosenOne-CursedOne-AshenOne
      @ChosenOne-CursedOne-AshenOne ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Hes GigaChad he does not watch cringey japanese cartoon

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So do I. Conlangs have no culture behind them (or, associated with them); and anime (🤢🤮) degenerates the youth.

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ChosenOne-CursedOne-AshenOne Exactly 💪🏻.

    • @estrafalario5612
      @estrafalario5612 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Esperanto COULD have been a big thing, something really useful at least in many cities of the world...but it never woke up back after the effects of the two World Wars.
      It's a pitty, but It's what it is.

  • @hayyanalmemsani805
    @hayyanalmemsani805 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Bro. Can't believe this collab happened! You guys had great energy together. Congrats, language simp❤

  • @Zestieee
    @Zestieee ปีที่แล้ว +32

    6:16 this shit got me laughing so hard
    It reeeally sounded like Swedish but then he said "to prawda?" and I was like hold on a second
    then I listened again and I heard "jest ciekawe" and other very Polish stuff.
    language trolling. honestly good job on that, i loved it.

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo ปีที่แล้ว

      My thoughts, exactly 😅.

  • @eragons1894
    @eragons1894 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    6:14 I'm LITERALLY Polish and i didn't guess that one. I knew it was Slavic, but dude's accent was so strong, that i didn't catch it was Polish. Of course when i rewatched that part, it all made sense. He was in fact speaking Polish. Kudos for that dude for making me not understand my own Native language 🤣

  • @ObamaBinLaden525
    @ObamaBinLaden525 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The joy on Simp's face just shows how it really was a dream come true for him.

  • @gabrielbatista4650
    @gabrielbatista4650 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    0:21 He knows AASL in cursive, what a chad

    • @The_Engineerr
      @The_Engineerr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This comment deserves more

    • @Hessa6thKhaled
      @Hessa6thKhaled 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I didn’t get it , would you explain?

  • @prajwalavhad7059
    @prajwalavhad7059 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    For the first time I've seen him smiling and laughing 😅

    • @uhhhbingus
      @uhhhbingus ปีที่แล้ว +16

      a smiling steve kaufman is a gift to this world 🙏

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Becasue he fears that Zoolensky's racist Yuckrainan regime will fall at any moment.

  • @babarasul680
    @babarasul680 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    it's interesting that he thought Hebrew was Arabic because Hebrew was actually a dead language for sometime then it was revived using Arabic as a scaffolding. Really awesome video!

  • @capslocked7274
    @capslocked7274 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    this has been the best video in a while

  • @sharemyjoys
    @sharemyjoys ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Awesome! And great advice from Steve at the very end

  • @noamflorin4554
    @noamflorin4554 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    German is my native language, but when I heard that badish tongue twister, I was convinced it was a distantly related language that had barely any similarities to German, the dialects are truly astonishing

  • @Aaaaaahmallice
    @Aaaaaahmallice ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hearing steve say “I am a hyper polyglot gigachad” made me cry

  • @louiserocks1
    @louiserocks1 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I haven't seen the answer yet, but that has got to be polish with a extremely strong Swedish accent , that's absolutely hilarious I'm dying, well done to whoever did that, that's real talent lol.

    • @louiserocks1
      @louiserocks1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can speak russian with a strong scottish/glaswegian accent, and with a strong Finnish accent, since I spent a lot of time in those places. And I can do a perfect australian accent and various roadman/cockney/London accents in english, but I can't for the life of me transfer those accents to russian, it's hard haha

  • @FirstLast-wg1gs
    @FirstLast-wg1gs ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Fluent/native Polish speaker here and between the "unnatural" way the Polish words were inflected and pronounced... I did not guess that it was my language. The last sentence did stick out to me though because I recognized every word. It didn't sound like any other Slavic languages I knew either. Maybe I would have guessed it if it was played for me a second time lol these were pretty hard!

    • @lolinator.
      @lolinator. ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same for french.
      I am a native French speaker and the accent was just terrible and the slang was so overused you could barely make out the sentence

    • @nightspicer
      @nightspicer ปีที่แล้ว +2

      well, it did have a strong swedish accent

    • @whatsup9159
      @whatsup9159 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same with Japanese, although it was clear what they were trying to say some words had bad pronunciation and a word was straight up wrong too unfortunately...

    • @Jedittee
      @Jedittee ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fluent Polish here. I could understand this Polish with swedish accent.

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lolinator. So, it’s like the Helsinki slang, in Finnish. The whole ”””dialect””” is a slang, and hard to sometimes understand, even for native Finns, who don’t live, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. On top of which, the degree of _”juppeuma”_ (= the contamination/pollution by youth/popular ”””culture”””) is just downright infuriating, for me, as a _”Rahvas”_ Conservative Nationalist.

  • @larrydzemorsky1777
    @larrydzemorsky1777 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    6:16 great bait, I was like: yeee some Scandinavian language. It took me 10 seconds and a rewind to realise that's my native language 😂

    • @kirkgoddard7198
      @kirkgoddard7198 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I also speak some Polish and didn’t understand it until I listened again

    • @tamastasi428
      @tamastasi428 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@kirkgoddard7198for me the interesuję się gave it away instantly

    • @alfredberggren5985
      @alfredberggren5985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m from Sweden and I thought it was russian with a heavy swedish accent

  • @CouchPolyglot
    @CouchPolyglot ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The collab we did not know we needed, awesome! 😂❤

  • @owenpalmer8242
    @owenpalmer8242 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I love how he always understands what they're saying but fails to guess what language it is 😂

  • @jk-pz1cx
    @jk-pz1cx ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is the crossover i needed!!!!!!😭❣️

  • @johnfordon7200
    @johnfordon7200 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I was so proud that I got both Toki Pona and Polish with a Swedish accent. Am I a polyglot gigachad alphamale now?

  • @DominikGuzowski
    @DominikGuzowski ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The fact i had to relisten to the Polish with a swedish accent after you said what it is, because i thought it was swedish, and I am fluent in Polish 💀. That was really good

  • @nightbreaker3187
    @nightbreaker3187 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I couldn't stop laughing at the last sentence the Lebanese guy said. I also loved how half the answers were Arabic

    • @enle2002
      @enle2002 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It didn't surprise me that Steve took Hebrew as Arabic since both are semitic languages with quite similarities between each other.

    • @DrWoofOfficial
      @DrWoofOfficial ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂

    • @NonsensicalFactual
      @NonsensicalFactual ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fellow lebanese language simp fan?

    • @nightbreaker3187
      @nightbreaker3187 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NonsensicalFactual Yessirrrr

    • @yourmum69_420
      @yourmum69_420 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nightbreaker3187 Is ca va legitimately a part of Lebanese Arabic now, borrowed from French, or was the speaker just mixing some French into there?

  • @shadowcatgamer2521
    @shadowcatgamer2521 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    As someone learning Japanese, the translation of "hontou ni" as "no cap" has me on the fucking floor. Because...it isn’t *wrong*...but....

    • @downey2294
      @downey2294 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      that's what its like in my anki deck
      what else is it supposed to be.

    • @RadenWA
      @RadenWA ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is nothing new to Japanese that one word can mean 10 different things and I’m not even talking about the homophones

    • @Rationalific
      @Rationalific ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@RadenWA But "hontou ni" means "really" or "truly". "No cap" is something that I don't even know in English, but even if it means that, it's wrong as a translation (except for just entertainment value) due to its very different formality. Just like "dope", "cool", and "exquisite" are separate words for a reason, you can't translate one word into another that has a totally different tone and formality. (I should also mention that the Japanese spoken in this video was made to be difficult to pick up on purpose, and the voice is of someone who is almost definitely not a Japanese person, or if she is, has been heavily "foreign-ized", i.e. grew up in another country and does not have Japanese speech patterns or mannerisms.)

    • @Ace_Of_Bass8
      @Ace_Of_Bass8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@Rationalificマジで is a much better translation due to the colloquialism

    • @Rationalific
      @Rationalific ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ace_Of_Bass8 I agree that マジで is slang, while 本当に would not be considered slang at all and should not be translated to English as such (in any serious translation, at least).

  • @josephbaker6804
    @josephbaker6804 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating that a thick accent or use of slang could throw someone off so much, but it seems you only know what material you've trained yourself with. As someone trying to study a second language for the first time, its encouraging to see a successful linguist like Steve be so humble about making mistakes. He clearly loves learning and has the right mental approach. Thanks for the video.

  • @julbombning4204
    @julbombning4204 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Cool! Finally I can hear how Swedish actually sounds!

  • @gamalielbontilao3679
    @gamalielbontilao3679 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    4:03 never fails to crack me up

  • @Mtioo1
    @Mtioo1 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    As someone who speaks German I must say WHY THE HELL DOES BADISH EXIST
    and I thought bavarian was hard😂

    • @circa902
      @circa902 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe that's where they got the Demonym from

    • @adlovett9831
      @adlovett9831 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Me being proud of attaining fluency in German, only to encounter Badisch and guess that it's Arabic.🤣

    • @Mtioo1
      @Mtioo1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adlovett9831 Same

    • @rndjulez
      @rndjulez ปีที่แล้ว

      ich kann badisch und es hört sich in wahrheit nicht so komisch an hahha

    • @Miura.Powers
      @Miura.Powers 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Alter, ich wohne hier an der Grenze zu BW und hab kein Wort verstanden :D

  • @hector_sh3861
    @hector_sh3861 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    El cierre de Steve fue magnífico, aprender un idioma es una carrera de Resistencia, hay que ser persistente y disfrutar el camino. Me encantó el video.

    • @estrafalario5612
      @estrafalario5612 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ey ¿En qué idioma es tu comentario? Supongo que no es Español, pero se le parece...
      Ha sido muy divertido

  • @fab006
    @fab006 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I didn’t understand the Badisch until you said what it was 😂 (Closely related to my native Swiss German.)

  • @MrSalas
    @MrSalas ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I hit the like button after the first 3 seconds, lmao.

    • @uhhhbingus
      @uhhhbingus ปีที่แล้ว

      the intro is godtier, absolutely flawless

  • @Wazkaty
    @Wazkaty ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Haha the strong accent in French had me too, I was surprised ! With all these twists it was a hard exercise

  • @maxduewel54
    @maxduewel54 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    As a native speaker I doubt that was german lol

    • @gewitteroma6966
      @gewitteroma6966 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      same

    • @christianbrunner1740
      @christianbrunner1740 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      That is because it's Badish German using words that do not appear in Standard German and a tongue twister.

    • @reedy_9619
      @reedy_9619 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah the french one was rough imo. It’s my native language and i didnt recognise it at first.

    • @ldelgg
      @ldelgg ปีที่แล้ว +6

      As a German learner who stayed for 5 months in a tiny village in Rhineland-Palatinate in a student exchange program, i am impressed by how unrecognizable Badish is, even when compard to the local Rhineland Palatinate Dialect. The only thing it shared with the Middle Franconian dialect from my host father was the "nit" instead of "nicht".

  • @LPintendo
    @LPintendo ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This was honestly amazingly adorable from both of you ❤

  • @jimmey123XD
    @jimmey123XD ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You look so genuinely happy, that's adorable ❤😅

  • @gusteau8433
    @gusteau8433 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Миф встретил Легенду! Спасибо за ваши труды,Стивен!

  • @FeatherPhoenix
    @FeatherPhoenix ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi Language Simp! I loved this video, just like all of them. Actually I just thought of an idea. You could make a fun video like "My favourite endangered languages", in that way you could bring people's attention to endangered languages and perhaps spark some interest, in a fun way! Hope you like the idea (and have time to read this comment for starters lol)

  • @katarzynalpzm0arajko-nenow32
    @katarzynalpzm0arajko-nenow32 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    As a Pole hearing Polish with a Swedish accent made my day 😂😂😂 I thought it was UFO accent ❤

    • @PC_Simo
      @PC_Simo ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As a Finn, I instantly recognized it, as a Swedish accent; because we make fun of Swedish accent, all the time 😅.

  • @cito2820
    @cito2820 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    "may your god bury me" at 3:40 actually made me laugh audibly

    • @JohnSmith-me4ik
      @JohnSmith-me4ik 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Classic Lebanese lmao

  • @PC_Simo
    @PC_Simo ปีที่แล้ว +5

    6:40 Also, «Правда» _(”Pravda”)_ is Russian for: ”Truth”; but the pitch accent literally sounded like Medieval Norse, or something. 🤯

  • @bananabangers8132
    @bananabangers8132 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I never thought I would here Steve Kaufmann say those words. Changed my life

  • @erikouwehand
    @erikouwehand ปีที่แล้ว +12

    In the beginning' God created Steve Kaufmann, and Steve gave every language its name.

  • @Patrick.Khoury
    @Patrick.Khoury ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Lebanese tetrachad polyglot myself, I was delighted to hear you promote my dialect, Lebanese Arabic!

  • @BonBonWasHere111
    @BonBonWasHere111 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    OMG! I’m so glad you have this collab 😂

  • @yotamchaimmoshe8013
    @yotamchaimmoshe8013 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This really is harder than it looks. I didn't realize the hebrew one till the middle even though I'm a native speaker.

  • @moaydDrawing1
    @moaydDrawing1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've never thought this would actually happen holy shit

  • @MohaMed-qh2kq
    @MohaMed-qh2kq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Most of what Steve got wrong would understand if in the streets because it's absolutely not common to use twist phrases in dialogues , it's delightful seeing the current and the old generation of polyglots and thank you language simp for this episode

  • @BrynHr
    @BrynHr ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Congrats Mr Simp, very happy for you

  • @nestoratilioromeodemarchi3809
    @nestoratilioromeodemarchi3809 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi there!!! Steve is an amazing man. He's an example for all of us. Great interview 👍

  • @AhmadAkbar-j8l
    @AhmadAkbar-j8l ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We love you Steve Kaufman (and Language Simp).

  • @gaarakabuto1
    @gaarakabuto1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a Norwegian learner being able to spot Icelandic right away made me proud.
    Du kan gjøre alt!
    (That's all I could come up with and being sure I made no grammatical mistake stop judging.)

  • @gorba939
    @gorba939 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Im from Germany. Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart to be exact, so I live in the same State from where the "Badenser" (as we call them) come from. I understand our local swabian dialect. When the "badisch" toungetwister came up I literally didn't understand anything and was so fucking surprised when he said its German lol.

  • @xmatias9
    @xmatias9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What an amazing colab !!! I'm doing backflips while I'm watching !!! 🔥🔥🔥💪

  • @TheGaming_Bay
    @TheGaming_Bay ปีที่แล้ว +8

    7:55 Simply based

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!

  • @jonathan13co
    @jonathan13co ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Honestly surprised he didn't guess hebrew correctly. The woman spoke very clearly, with a strong israeli accent and used words made up of familiar roots which are common throughout the old tastement(א-ה-ב, ש-פ-ט, מ,ו,ת). I'd imagine it's hard distinguishing it from arabic sometimes, them being sister languages, but they diverged quite drastically over the centuries due to modern hebrew being a thing - like what you brought up at 4:55 - hebrew originally has these syllables just like in arabic, yet native israeli hebrew speakers won't pronounce them correctly(which is pretty funny if you think about it) unless actively trying to( or in cases where they have moroccan, iraqi or yemeni decent) - this makes for a pretty easy distinction if you're ever struggling to decide.
    Also isn't Steve jewish? 😂I wonder if he'd recognize yiddish with his parents being czech.

    • @JayzsMr
      @JayzsMr ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes i speak neither Hebrew or Arabic but i immediately knew it was Hebrew, Hebrew sounds very distinct, almost like Dutch at times.

    • @mehmeterciyas6844
      @mehmeterciyas6844 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can you explain what that "hayyaa" was? It sounded cute lol

    • @jonathan13co
      @jonathan13co ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mehmeterciyas6844Hahaha, I have no idea what it means. I presume its a sound that is supposed to mimick anime waifus, but it is definitely not a word in hebrew. The girl was asking steve why he studied japanase and also that she loves watching anime, so I guess that fit. Interestingly, there's a word in arabic that sounds similiar to it, which means shyness/modesty/bashfulness.

  • @wadebredin7795
    @wadebredin7795 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was truly the colab of the century.

  • @unczi5404
    @unczi5404 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I was here at this historical moment

  • @DeeCee1984
    @DeeCee1984 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Steve is such a good sport! Makes me feel better about not being fluent in my one and only 2nd language, Spanish.

  • @jan_kisan
    @jan_kisan ปีที่แล้ว +12

    6:20 umieram ze śmiechu, ten akcent.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @andyman301
    @andyman301 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is truly one of the collabs of all time

  • @bubotanus
    @bubotanus ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Now if he pulls a collab with Luca or Richard, the world will be an even better place

    • @IsraelCervantes-le4gf
      @IsraelCervantes-le4gf ปีที่แล้ว

      Richard would be better I think Luca is very talented and his Spanish sounds native like but I feel like he doesn't teach anything of value

  • @somehowy
    @somehowy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we need more of colabs like this.

  • @andresantiago8344
    @andresantiago8344 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    protect this man at all costs

    • @uhhhbingus
      @uhhhbingus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      he is truly an asset to the world, I would die for him

  • @haikas
    @haikas ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The only video where you see behave yourself adequately and with dignity. Thank you. I click like.

  • @tigrafale4610
    @tigrafale4610 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Lol nice to see him playing along.

  • @IlluminatiReign
    @IlluminatiReign ปีที่แล้ว

    This one of the interviews of all time…
    Had me dyin’.

  • @troyrowe7670
    @troyrowe7670 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    -" introduce yourself in American"
    -speaks Canadian

  • @maxsz91
    @maxsz91 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:16 First thought - definitely Swedish. Then halfway through I go - wait an effing minute, I don't know Swedish and I'm kinda understanding what he's saying. I go back and I'm listening closely and then it hits me - no way that's Polish in disguise 😂
    Well played, well played
    Transcript:
    Hi i siema, LingoSteve.
    Słyszałem, że interesujesz się skandynawską historią. To prawda? Świat Wikingów jest ciekawy i pełen różnych tajemnic.

  • @harmlesspapaya
    @harmlesspapaya ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Michael is the most relatable human being 😢😢😢😢😢😊

  • @askarufus7939
    @askarufus7939 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:20 OMG that is sooo great. Literally the last time I was in the toilet I was wondering how polish with a swedish accent would sound like, thank you ❤

  • @no1fanofthepals
    @no1fanofthepals ปีที่แล้ว +5

    oh my god he finally met his idol Language Simp

  • @archaon593
    @archaon593 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey man, i rrally aporeciate bkw, despite all the satire, you are indeed very serious and super strict on yourself about your peoficinecy (just wayched the tier list from about a ywar ago).
    All praise Gigachad Steve.
    And incidentallt, Merry Christmas!

  • @jdhed.mcpack6947
    @jdhed.mcpack6947 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They did him dirty with the Polish with the Swedish one

  • @starvingartist3155
    @starvingartist3155 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is the dream of every polyglot. how are you speaking complete sentences in front of the king? bravo

  • @1191Russ
    @1191Russ ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Make a video where you have a conversation to each other in different languages

  • @daverichardhadley
    @daverichardhadley ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can we take a moment to appreciate, given that Language Simp (who I love) is a comedian that basically makes fun of Hyper-polyglot Giga-chad Alpha-males like Steven Kaufmann, what a good sport Steven is to take part in this video?