Can American Identify These European Languages?
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"Polish and German sound so similar"
Nah, they actually don't, lol.
😁😁
Yeah like I couldn't understand a thing the polish girl said
I mean I see what you’re saying, they are in different language groups, but they have a lot of similar sounds
@@danyagha5654 just a few not a lot
it’s so funny because i’m polish everyone that tried to guess what language I was speaking (I was at a party with some friends) said either German or Russian haha I have no clue why either
As an European, this was very easy for me to guess that languages. Probably more difficult if the languages would have been, for example, latvian, finnish or greek.
Finnish is easy distinguishable.
U better try to separate Czech and Slovakian xD
Aslo Danish and Swedish and Russian and Serbian :)
I ve just confused Dutch and German but principles languages are simply to identify... But for an American is more complicated understand the language without knowing the European states 😂😂😂
How about National Anthem challenge nxt time
Polish was hard to guess for me at first (czech was my 2nd guess), but I saw long ago the iconic "Pigs" crime drama with subtitles, so my guess was right in the end. :D
Latvian would be easy for me because I am Latvian haha
Finnish to be honest I could confuse with Estonian because they are quite similar
Greek to me sounds similar to Spanish
But great choices you got there :)
“I don’t know any European languages”
*speaks english*
Oil lenguage
😂
Verdade é muito engraçado a pessoa esquecer que inglês é uma língua europeia também 🤣
@@carlossousa8827 o inglês não é uma língua europeia também, é uma língua europeia ponto.
@@F.Picknaipa AVC?
Me being Russian I felt so bad for the poor Polish girl, it was bad enough when she said Russia and then comes Germany.. the two most beloved countries in Poland 😂😅
🇷🇺🇵🇱🇩🇪
Mmm What about us 🇫🇷 ?
lol
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 You won't get it... :P But Vlad understood very well what a Pole has in his mind :D I can confirm as a Pole.
@@jakubkful Our French Anthem "La Marseillaise" : Let's water our fields with their blood
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 I have to admit, the Marseillaise sounds beautiful if you don't know French. I recently came across a translation somewhere and... Damn
As a Pole speaking German as well, hearing someone say "German" after hearing Polish makes me laugh, cause it sounds nothing like it, except some single words 😂 It's easy to distinguish languages if most countries on your continent have their own ones and you've heard most of them being spoken at least once, can't blame Americans much for this one.
For example i can not distinguish what is Polish, Czech or Slovak and im from EU as well :D
I'm from England and have Polish friends but I'm not sure I'd recognise Polish except for a few words I know. I think I'd take an okay guess but I think it's spoken more around me in the places I've been, but we're not regularly taught it like you'd pick up phrases in Spanish, French and German without learning the language formally.
Yeah like Kurve, which sounds very similar to a Polish swear word.
But we have the same word for Brother In Law. I know there are others, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. When you're neighbors, it's almost impossible not to share some common words.
Polish sounds quite different from Czech or Slovak, though they're all closely related. I was expecting her to misidentify Polish as Portuguese or Spanish as Greek, or vice versa.
@@pierreabbat6157 Sound different for those who are familiar but not for all. For example I do not know where you come from but I am curious to know if you can distinguish Balkan languages !?
"It's not German, is it? ... It is Russia?"
*sad Polish noises*
If it makes you feel better any slavic language is probably going to be guessed as russian.
@@guppy719 Because Russians (Ukrainians and Belarusians included) were the only Slavs who became a world superpower.
For all its faults, USSR was an undeniable superpower.
I knew it was polish lol
@@KillerofWestoids Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth???
i'm kinda suprised how she got it wrong, i tought it's easy to tell if its not russian or not like????? ;-;
As an American I think the easiest languages to identify are Spanish, French, and German.
My country France, our neighbor's Germany, Italy and Spain are the most popular touristic destination afterall
Long live Europe 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇦
This a weird coincidence but on another video I just responded to your comment that I love France.
@@RoccosVideos You do love our country France, don't you 🇫🇷 ?
Vive la France. 🇫🇷
allahu akbar should be easiest
Had a fun time guessing European Languages! Let us know how many you guessed right! 😆 -Christina 🇺🇸
All, but I'm German and know the other countries and languages and have some friends from there!
You did well and it was fun again :)
@@MadameDeTourvel Same 😂
I just love your positive vibes, and not just in this video 😍 Congratulations, you did really well again 😊
Watching the video was good fun, thank you to all involved; it really adds to my day!
Cheers from Germany/Belgium
Tim
Got 3 😅
Christina please help me
Hola hola! 🇪🇸 Im Claudia, I'm so glad to be back, I hope you all to have enjoyed the video and guessed well some of the languages hehe! See you in the next videos 🥰
Nice to see you again in the videos , i love spanish , chica 👏😁🇪🇦
Great positive vibes in the video 😍
Hehe Our Neighbor's Spain 🇨🇵🤝🇪🇦
Hola Claudy it's nice to see you again! 🙂👌
She's a pretty girl huh ? 😏 It's true she is 🤭 Your reaction was really funny ahaha ! You all are tbh ! This video was really fun ! ☺
You should do Scandinavian languages or nordic ones. They can be hard to guess and tell apart for Americans ☺️
for everyone i guess except nordic people
@@agustinarcusa7696 You might be right, I just wrote americans because the last few times I saw this channel it was an american guessing😊 I think the countries near us could, but I could be wrong 🤷♀️😊
yes northern languages could be hard
but probably its hard to find native speaker in general
@@90kidd08 Yes I do not know where they record it, but there are nordic speaking people living all around the world 😊
When the Polish girl started talking, my initial guess was Czech, so I was kinda close. I could at least tell right off the bat it was a Slavic language. The rest were easy to identify for me.
I totally agree. I thought it was between Czech, Slovenian and Slovak. And only in the second part did it look like Polish.
Same here. I watch a lot of react channels and one of the girls on their is Czech and it sounded so similar in accent.
Polish sounds nothing like Czech.
Same, the First guess was Czech and a backup guess was Polish.
I think just knowing it was Slavic language is enough. The Polish giirl was too nice by saying that it can sound like German...
As Polish I am actually happy that there appeared a Polish person in American Channel because it does not happening very often😊👍
To koreański kanał
These are people from other countries living in 🇰🇷.
Is it a Korean channel though?
@@ABCD_NA yes it is I just realized
Me too!
Maybe next time this channel can highlight less known European languages like Romanian, Ukrainian, Greek, Scandinavian, or Basque. I think it would be very interesting.
Greek is less known ? Every single human speaks greek even when they dont know it
@@markosgelos3321 that's what I meant with less-known bro
why is greek so unknown though, it's one of the oldest european languages that is still used today..as a matter of fact words like democracy came from greek
They definitely need to showcase harder languages.
Would be interesting to see Galician vs Portuguese 😁
@@lyhthegreat having some words and knowing the language are two different things, in addition Greek is not as popular as Italian or Spanish.
I got the Polish one right cause I watched Karolina Zebrowska videos 😂
The big languages from Europe are easy to identify. French, Spanish, German, Russian and Italian. The others, God speed trying to identify those 🤣
Cuz We're the best 💪🇪🇺🇨🇵🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇦🇵🇱👊
Guessing the languages is easier than guessing the country. German = Switzerland, Austria, Germany ... ??? Etc. And separating the Slavic languages is nigh on impossible unless you speak one of them. Russian sounds fairly distinct, but separating the others is very difficult for a non-speaker.
Haha one can identify those languages by those stereotypical language traits: French, it's soft and quite unique sounding; Spanish, the es in the end, lisps, and expressiveness; German, it's commanding and has English sounding words; Russian, it's rough and cold; Italian, similar to Spanish words but louder and musical (hand gestures give it away).
I wasn't sure if Spanish was Spanish or Portuguese but the rest including polish I got immediately
Don't forget about English lol
I got them all except Polish too. Actually I knew it was a slavic language that wasn't Russian, but wasn't sure if it was Polish or Czech or maybe Serbian. I took German in school and my folks speak Italian and French, so French was easy; and as a Californian, we hear Spanish all the time (but rarely with a Spanish accent) and that was easy too.
The other ones were SUPER easy. I knew the polish one was a Slavic language though
Moi aussi
Poles say cześć for hi whereas Czech and Slovak say Ahoj
I’m polish and I understood what she said, polish was the only one I got right 😭
i got all including polish because i am polish
So Spanish can be an "exotic", unknown language for an American? Lord have mercy!
For an American who has heard the Latin American version of the language, the Spanish of Europe (Spain) is different, it has other sounds.
no, it's very easily recognizable and most of us know very basic words in Spanish. not very exotic.
@@beyonceschild There's nothing exotic about , English , French , Spanish or Italian.
As "exotic" as English is for a Spanish speaker.
@@maxrojas9714 "Latin American" is not a single variant. Venezuelans don't sound like Argentines who don't sound like Mexicans.
There are really only a couple different sounds, with c/z and the s sounds somewhat unique in Spain.
I got them all right (I'm American, and have never been outside the USA). I can understand how Polish can be hard to identify for someone not used to hearing it, but once you learn more about them you'll find that Slavic languages are fairly easy to identify as being Slavic.
I could recognize a few words as sounding Polish, there's a certain Polish accent and way of speaking, and also the ł/Ł character isn't in many languages and in Polish is equivalent to the "w" in English. It definitely didn't sound Russian to my ears. In terms of well known languages, closest to Polish would be Czech or Slovak.
She: Is this German?
Me: No, but we invaded them :D
Polish pronunciation is very different from Czech or Slovak
@P T Yes, but they have similarities and to some people's ears they might mistake them for one of those.
@@Souls_p_ I agree with you
Soul the only similarity is that all of them are Slavic languages. So there are some common words and grammar. But Polish have very special pronunciation among Slavic languages that's very different from Slovak or Czech. Once you've heard them you cannot confuse them.
The Polish girl, when asked for one more sentence, gave a classic Polish tongue twister
She made it "easier" with Strzebrzeszyn instead of Szczebrzeszyn
I need a video of someone doing this with Greek, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Bosnian etc. Like more Eastern European and Scandinavian languages into the mix. Sprinkle in some Welsh too, I always find it hilarious when people react to it.
Thank you for including Polish. I've never heard eastern European languages before, so I learned something new!
It's a central European language
@@shion3948 i knew someone’s gonna say that 😂
Jesteś z polski? Jak tak to dzięki, za poprawianie ludzi, chociaż bawi mnie w sumie, ze to dla nas takie ważne i nie chcemy być tymi ze wschodu
@@thebrightyoungthing768 1. Oczywiście że jestem z Polski
2. To ważne bo kraje centralne to Czechy Słowacja i Polska a wschodnie to Ukraina Rosja Białoruś myślę że my jesteśmy bliżej kulturalnie i językowo z tymi centralnymi i tez z nimi chcemy być utożsamiani.
@@shion3948
1. Niby dlaczego takie oczywiste?
2. rozumiem, jesteśmy w centralnej Europie, nie mówię, ze nie. Chodzi mi tylko o to, ze Polacy ogólnie mają taką tendencję do oburzenia się czy poprawiania ludzi gdy mówią, ze jesteśmy ze wschodu, bo nie chcemy być kojarzeni z Rosjanami czy cos (wsm nie jestem pewna czm)
@@thebrightyoungthing768 no wytłumaczyłam czemu już
You should do a part 2 with more difficult languages (e.g. Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Serbian, etc)
I know I thought it would be way harder! I probably wouldn't know Serbian or Romanian if it were spoken but maybe...
@@JTBCOOL1 i am serbian😁
It would help to know the three big language families in Europe: Romance, Germanic an Slavic. About 95 % of all of Europa belong to one of them.
Languages within one family are mostly really close to each other, often people can understand at least some words.
"It's not german , It's not russian , it's polish"
Poland 🇵🇱 is between Germany 🇩🇪 and Russia 🇷🇺 , people have learned that in school about World War II
Lol What about us 🇫🇷 ?
Many German words made it to Polish like "plac" (square).
Interestingly, the Russian language adopted the word Maßstab (scale) from German: Масштаб
And yes, so many consonants like "brz", "krz" or "szcz" can only be Polish.
@@Nikioko Szcz exists in most, if not all of the slavic langauges. In Czech and Slovak, it'd be šč and in Cyrillic it'd be Щ .And Krz and possibly brz exists in Czech too, with the rz sound represented as ř
But western people doesn't know where is Korea. Already studied in school.
@@user-vu9uh4iv6l Wrong. We Europeans do know where Korea is. Stupid comment
Any European language you know? Answer: not fluently (whilst speaking a European language 'English' fluently lol)
Boom
European language to describe English would certainly be denied by some Brits.
@@EssenceofPureFlavor can't always keep stupid people happy
She speaks American English though.
@@petalchild Which is the same language as British English, key word being English.
Polish sounds actually amazing! i've never heard it before, i am really surprised
I live in Poland, and I'm surprised some people never heard of this language
@@bryanu1737 chyba bardziej im chodziło, ze nigdy nie słyszeli jak brzmi polski, a nie że nie wiedzieli o istnieniu polskiego
Buziaki
@@thebrightyoungthing768 ah ja rozumiem, to ma teraz sens
nie ma sprawy 🤗
Nie wiem skąd jesteś, ale po twoim komentarzu widzę, ze chyba nie z Polski. Tak tylko na przyszłość, jeśli chcesz brzmieć płynniej - w polskim nie mówimy kto jest wykonawcą czynności - „ja rozumiem”, mówimy i piszemy tylko „rozumiem”, np. Lubisz koty, a nie Ty lubisz koty.
Żeby nie było, ze od razu atakuję, chciałam Cię tylko poprawiać żebyś na przyszłość wiedział o swoim błędzie i go nie popełniał
Buziaki
@@thebrightyoungthing768 tak, nie jestem Polakiem, ale wiem że tego nie mówimy "ja". uczę się polskiego w polsce. mówienie po polsku jest dużo łatwiejsze
i feel so proud to guess them all right.
- i speak French fluently
- i learned German for 2 years back in 2014
- to me, Spanish is easier to guess because i heard it much often during my life
- i was surprised when i got Polish right 🤭🥺
Where are you from ?
👏🏼👏🏼
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 im from your house
It was nice to hear Polish here.
Right?
Yes this is true
Ahaha, I'm not a big expert on languages, but after "Buenos dias" there's nothing to even guess, I'm not surprised that Christina guessed so quickly. The second girl - if there were doubts at first, then after the last sentence they simply disappeared. I will not confuse this "pshssssh" with any language in the world)) Maybe it helps that Polish is also a Slavic language. But the very characteristic sibilants also helped.
I'll try to guess everyone else)
The third girl, I thought she was Austrian or Swiss... But then I read that there is also German, as in Germany. So I don't even know if I guessed right or not))
Well, the last girl, there's not even a single word needed, it's immediately clear from the first sound. And again, even the greeting immediately gives out. French, of course. Oui, mademoiselle.)
Buon giorno.
There is shch sound in Ukrainian and Russian too, it is just not that common as in Polish.
"Psh" sound itself was not said by the girl.
@@Nikioko Buona sera ))
@@3nutria Well, i know about "shch" in Russian.)) "Защищайтесь от шишек, брошенных шутниками, в шубах, сшитых из шкурок шиншилл." And I didn't want to offend Polish speakers, once again "I'm not a big expert on languages". I know Polish only from TH-cam, a game about the Witcher, and a couple of funny swear words. But listen to the additional sentence of the second girl, isn't it more composed of hissing sounds?
@@Doctor.Whommm I don't find it offensive, it is just the way the language sounds ;). That's not something that makes a language better or worse. But I understand why the American girl was confused. For her Russian has also a lot of hissing sounds.
The additional sentence is a tongue twist, not something that people talk on every day basis.
French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, and of Course English Are the most Famous European Languages. Good for them for including Polish but i kinda wish they included more relatively unknown ones to Americans
lmao when the Pol came out I could tell in 5 seconds. Nothing more beautiful than the Polish language fr. glad y'all incorporated it especially since so many, like her, find it to be Russian first. It has sooo much more volume
Good job Christina! I got the same ones you did. I thought the Polish was Russian too. You ladies are all so beautiful too. Have a great day.
I love watching these videos!
"I would like to hear Asian languages."
That's just screaming for a crossover with Kotoha, Jane and Hyejin!
come challenge the native southeast asian languages
Or Tokyo Creative that'd be great.
omg thank you for bringing polish language in your European languages video, we really need to spread more info about our culture and language, diękujemy wam ❤️❤️
It honestly surprised me that Christina knew the EDM and especially the Hardstyle scene in western Europe. 🤟🏻 Music does connect people from all around the world. 🙏🏻
Christina did a great job. I speak Spanish and French so I knew what they were saying. Plus I have lived in California and in Louisiana where you will hear Americans speaking forms of these languages. I can carry on conversations with Portuguese speakers although I don’t speak it because of the Romance language connections. For us Americans, I think German is a little easier to recognize because English is a Germanic language and a lot of words are similar. Plus the sound of German tends to be somewhat harsh to our ears so it stands out. For me the Polish was the hardest one. Could tell it was Slavic but I wasn’t sure. Christina was close with Russian. ❤️ I really adore watching her in these videos.
I mean… those are the most recognisable languages in Europe.
Anyone could recognise Spanish, German, French and Italian.
Polish… mhh. I thought it was a Slavic language but I really cannot distinguish them!
Try languages like
Hellenic🇬🇷 (everyone says sounds like Spanish…😒)
Scottish Gaelic🏴
Swedish 🇸🇪
Hungarian 🇭🇺
Romanian 🇷🇴
Maltese 🇲🇹
Hehe Long live the Western Europeans
💪🇪🇺🇨🇵🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇦🇵🇹🇱🇺🇧🇪🇳🇱👊
Kolious... Archaia Ellinika or Nea Ellinika? ;-)
I would also like Venetia, Occitan or Catalan. Basque would be difficult as well.
@@Nikioko it would be the same for them.
Even if they know and they use numerous Hellenic words every day I believe many of them couldn’t recognise Hellenic!
Languages like Catalan are difficult for the most of us too!
Catalan sound like Spanish to me.
Occitan like… Italo-french-Romanian😜
But yes, it’s would be nice to see something else, something less common!
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 long live Hellenic which is more ancient than all of these languages together and it gave vocabulary to all of them as well.
@@Kolious_Thrace I don't know how close ancient and modern Greek are together. Could you read the Iliad without difficulties (apart from the outdated style)?
Very well done Christina... btw you look awesome in that outfit...
This channel is fun and I love it!
As a flemish speaking belgian i gotta say that i think a lot of europeans would easily distinguish these big languages, things like croation or telling the scandinavian languages apart would be much harder
Yep, would be a whole other game if they did like norwegian, hungarian, welsh for example
I do not think so: Finnish is very distinct. Danish is Germanic, but sounds very strange "öeah" "heaea" and is therefore also easy to distinct from Norwegian/Swedish which are in fact rather close and somehow closer to German.
Yes, do an Asian language guessing video too! I'm sure that Jane and Kotoha and Heejae or Hyejin would be happy to help with that one. :)
I really like these videos!!!
French, Spanish, and German are what Americans are most exposed to and familiar with out of the many European languages, so this was a bit too easy.
Well, I'm Polish and I have been learning German at school since six years and no, these languages are not similar to each other at all- I'm still not good enough to communicate in German. In Russian it's possible for me to understand some words, but not many and I have never learned this :p but those Polish who had learned it say that It's also hard for them. In my opinion the most similar language to Polish is Czech- I have a friend from Czech Republic and we teach each other our languages and I can see lots of the same words. I think it's possible for me to understand Czech up to a point. Btw Czech sounds a little bit like warmer and cuter version of Polish! People from Poland are also able to communitate with people from Slovakia in our native language because they understand us and we understand them less or more ;p
Czech and Polish were much more close in the past, we had some Polish kings and vice versa, parts of Poland were under Czech rule for some time, but since like 18th century (when we lost Silesia) Czech and Polish are moving away from each other. But you can still see that it was almost one langauge few hunderds years ago, some archaic phrases are completely same, grammar is almost the same, grammar case questions are the same and both languages still have vocative case. Polish sounds to me like very archaic Czech and vice versa. Advantage of Polish is that they use a lot of international words, so it's mostly easier to understand Polish for Czech than vice versa, because Czech has too many new Czech words from 19th century and from my experience, Poles are not that good with that instinct which is needed to decipher a word. For example when I say "to nefunguje" like machine is not working, they had no idea what I mean because they say "nie działa" which is understandable for Czech becuase it's equivalent of Czech "nedělá" like it's not working, Polish has word funkcjonalny which means functional and they can't find that connection and decipher that funkční in Czech is funkcjonalny in Polish and nefunguje means not functional. There is a lot of similar examples, like mluvit in Czech vs mówić in Polish, when I said "nemluvím polsky" they had no idea, which is really odd to me because it's very similar in Polish.
Napisze po Polsku bo po prostu mi łatwiej. Ja uczę się niemieckiego od podstawówki i nadal mam z nim problem. Jak widzisz z angielskim też. Niestety jestem bardzo słaba w językach. Fajnie że w komentarzach znalazł się też ktoś z Polski 😊
I'm Japanese, but I think Polish subtitles have a mistake. It has to be "Mam na imię."
Damn, u're correct xD Even I've missed that mistake but maybe because I (like many Poles) don't use diacritical marks when I'm for example texting with someone via messenger or something but you're correct
Christina is lovely human being, undeniable!
I love Christina, she boosts my energy!
I've never heard polish before, so I'm surprised that I even guessed that right. It is so different, but as they said, also similar to their neighbours. I'm from Brazil, so the most we'd really have to go by is english and spanish. German and french, like other foreign languages would come from my own interests (just like how I want to learn korean some day).
French, German and Spanish are very easily identifiable. I actually knew Polish though! I was in the region about 5 years ago, but I haven't been there recently. I recognized one word though, and guessed from that. 😅
Polish is easy with all the multiple š, č, ž in one word.
i love the concept of this video!! but i wish for you guys to do more unknown european languages. i feel like everybody knows what spanish, french, or german sounds like. it would be more interesting to see harder/more unknown languages like albanian, turkish, greek, bosnian, swedish, etc
Hey @World Friends, I really love your videos and I am currently watching them to improve my English skills even though I am really good at speaking English to be honest. I wanted to tell you guys that there are more than four European languages as you already know. Therefore I would be happy to see guests representing countries like Denmark, Greece, Sweden, Bulgaria, Macedonia and more! Otherwise people will start to think that Europe is split into just four countries. Kind regards, Azad:)
I am from Spain and I guessed:
1. Spanish (obvious)
2. Polish. However I was unsure whether it was really polish or maybe czech or slovak but my final guess was Polish.
And I have to say that Polish is not close to be a mix of German and Russian. It is close to neighbouring slavic languages.
3. German (very easy). But I would never say Germany, there are some other countries speaking German in Europe.
4. French (very easy). And I noticed she is from France when she said she was from the South.
Maybe for an European ear is much easier.
I am sure i can distinguish: Spanish (obvious), Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, German, Dutch, English, Rumanian, Greek.
Maybe I am able to distinguish Hungarian but probably will confuse Finnish and Estonian
And on the other hand I maybe would be able to define the area I mean:
I am unable to say if it is Danish, Swedish, Norwegian but will be able to say is one of them.
I am unable to say if it is Polish, Czech or Slovak but will be able to say is one of them.
I am unable to say if it is Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian but will be able to say is one of them.
Bulgarian-Macedonian and Russian could be difficult to distinguish.
Latvian and Lithuanian no clue. Is Luthuanian close to Polish? I do not know.
It is not close to Polish as same as Czech or Slovakian, they are completly different languages.we can understand each other but as Polish I don't find eny similarities betwen them.
Pole: Cześç [something's wrong with my compose key]
Me: This can *only* be Polish.
Christina: Could you say another sentence?
Pole: Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie. (One of many tongue twisters I know in various languages)
Nice to see Claudia again. Also Julie and Emilie are gorgeous!
Go Christina!! love love love from Philippines ^_^
Polish can be pretty hard because it sounds pretty similar to Czech for an English speaker. Generally it's not too hard to distinguish slavic languages from non slavic languages with a bit of practice, but it can be pretty difficult to distinguish which slavic language exactly.
You know, my first thought was, how could Polish sound similar to Czech - I am a Slovak native speaker, and even I have sometimes hard times to understand Polish! But than I realized that I couldn't tell the difference between the asian languages.
@@MissSlovakia2 I can usually tell whether it's a west slavic language or east slavic language, but I'd struggle to pinpoint whether it was Polish, Slovak or Czech. It's a similar story with Russian, Belarusian and Ukranian. I'm pretty awful at guessing South slavic languages. They tend to sound pretty similar to eastern slavic languages to me.
@@JamesKelly-tn2oz yes, that's what I did realize a second later 😀 the first second was like I have already mentioned... I think this is the issue in every language group if you are not a native speaker or a speaker at any kind of level. I also hear the difference, but can't tell if is mandarin Chinese, Japanese or some other asian language. And the east slavic languages - if it's Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian I need a few sentences and then I can tell what language is it. But yeah, sometimes it take a while to recognize the correct language...
True. Same problem with Scandinavian languages, especially Norwegian and Swedish.
I knew all except the 2nd too. I was actually debating between Dutch and Polish.
As a Korean, I can easily distinguish English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, and Russian among European languages. Perhaps it is because of having had many experiences in various ways such as broadcasting football matches, movies, travel... When Polish lady speaking, it sounds like Russian to me as Christina did. I think it would be more interesting to include other languages in this series like Northeast Asian , Central Asian , Arabic, Turkish, Scandinavian etc.
Are you sure? As a Czech, I can't distinguish neither other Slavic languages (except Polish and Slovak ofcourse because these are close to Czech). I need always longer example to distinguish Russian and Ukrainian (I know that Russian doesn't have H sound, they have G instead and Russians are saying ETO all the time while Ukrainians are saying TUT all the time) and with southern slavic languages, I have no idea what is what.
Kind of agree. Would've been fun to throw stuff like Basque, some form of Gaelic, maybe Croatian, and then -- as a twist -- both German and maybe Luxembourgish. Happy they included Polish though.
I also guessed correctly for Spanish, German and French, and also incorrectly guessed Russian, but I was thinking Eastern European broadly as I don't know any spoken Polish words. Knowing some Spanish helps a lot with understanding French and Italian words as well. I think that I would have a hard time identifying Nordic languages or other Eastern European languages from just listening to them.
Guessing anything you can't really grasp is like guessing that any asian language is mandarin
You do not need 2 know the words of the language 2 b able 2 guess which language it is. Its about the sound. However it benefits if you have heard some of these languages and have associations with the sound. Her guessing Russian / Polish was the right direction. Both are Slavic languages.
Please do a video with scandinavian languages, that would be so cool and more challenging. 🇸🇪🇸🇯🇮🇸🇫🇮🇩🇰Thank you💕
Finnish is not a Scandinavian language ;)
I am from Brazil and I am very happy I got all of them correct. When the second girl said: “Cześć” I immediately said Polish, but I couldn’t understand any of the rest kkkkkkkkkk. I had a teacher that was polish when I was in middle school. I would often ask her some words in her language, that’s why I know Cześć means ‘Hi’
Got all 4 straight away, but the Polish one, I torn for a few seconds on whether it was Russian or Polish.
I'd be lost on Asian one's though 😅
I'd also be terrible with American accents. Reckon I'd get the obvious one's, like the Cali valley girl/boy accent, Brooklyn/Bronx and Boston one's, as they stand out.
I love this kind of videos!!! I recognized every language, except Polish where I thought it would be "some Eastern country" (and I wad right!). Btw, I'm from France
A) Christina did a pretty good job at this b) this was the entry level of European Languages though so I really hoped she'd do well. That being said, I would presume its extremely hard to find a Macedonian speaker in Korea or so...
I'm Brazilian and guessed all correctly.
Spanish and French were obvious to me as they're in the same family as Portuguese, and when the Polish girl said "czesc", I immediately figured it out.
Probably not a good idea to confuse RU with PL, though!
German is also really easy to guess.
a lot of Poles live in Brazil, right? or people with polish ancestors
@@beasnoil3139 Yeah, you're right, although I've never met any in real life. They probably live in the South and I'm from the Southeast.
Well my first thought was that this was waaay too easy. But I do speak a bit of Spanish, German, French and my best friend is half Polish.. But the idea of doing this with Asian languages made me realize how hard this really can be if you really don't know any of these languages. (Although I really don't know how people in the western world can grow up not hearing at least a bit of these major languages)
As a European I got all of them right.
Love World friends by the way🇷🇴
I would love to see a Dutch person as well, since people think its similar to German. And a Belgian person, since they speak both French and Dutch with an unique accent.
It's actually easy to distinguish because Dutch has rispid sound in the throat, kinda like Hebrew
@@marcoschagas9646 that's Netherlands Dutch where the and sound very guttural, but in Flemish and some Southern Netherlands area the and sound are soft and almost sound like between in English and in Spanish
@@ff_crafter wow, i didn't know that
As a Swede, I have to admit I wouldn't be able to pick out Polish every day of the week. I hear it too infrequently.
It is very easy language to recognize.
I love these! Suggestion: Please use the squeaky hammer on these. It would be that much more fun LOL.
I'm Australian & I got them all right. It's not so much about understanding individual words, but recognising the way they sound.
I was so surprised I got polish right! I’m Brazilian but I heard the similarities it had with German and Russian (despite being sure it wasn’t either of them) and guessed the country in between lol
The only one I couldn't guess was Polish. I almost never hear that language. I sadly guessed Russian which is bad considering I took a semester of Russian lol
Can you guys do a video with Australian and New Zealand accents?
when polish came up, I guessed czech
very interesting video. some more non mainstream languages would be interesting as well
Here in Israel, people came from the all world. So I can easily recognize languages from all over the world and aspacialy from Europe. For example, I had no problem to recognize the Polish.
Now take to consideration the fact that she is from America which is multinational country, and logically she should be able to recognize them all, America by its essence is Europeans, Asians, Africans and few other national backgrounds + natives. That girl has a European background herself and she either knows or doesn't. She's not "American" maybe a citizen of current America. This fact has always amazed me about 'american citizens'.😂 Like you all are immigrants + now you live around people from different places how can you not know the difference in at least 5 European languages😂 they don't even sound alike, like at all. 😂 And why did they cover her eyes???😂😂😂😂 It's just she's not well-rounded person at all, ignorant by choice. Simple.💁🏻♀️
As an American, I guessed them all! :D Too easy. Should've included lesser-known ones like Romanian, Serbian, and Greek lol
I wonder if world friends could be turned into a gameshow somehow with cash prizes.
It's pretty entertaining, maybe you guys could make a lot of money off this format.
my little american self is proud, the two i got really easily was polish and german
german because i speak german (my family is from there so i wanted to learn it lol) and polish because i just spent like 3 hours watching polish videos and
listening to polish songs, learning about poland- then after that i clicked this HJGJK so i had poland on my mind
Spanish|portugeese/italian/french/german/russian are languages that id expect almost everyone to guess...without having to know a single word in those languages.
Delighted to see Polish as someone that's learning the language 🥰 in disbelief that this woman even thought for a second that it was German🤣🤣
독일 스페인 프랑스는 그 나라 아니더라도 타국에서도 그나라 언어가 모국어인 곳이 있다보니 쉬운거같아요! 유럽권 중에서도 그 나라에서만 쓰는 언어권 분들도 모아서 이런기획 보고싶어요! 체코어나 헝가리어 같은거요!
I wanna see a Video of Hungarian,German and English(UK) Word Comparisons
Personally I recognized Spanish instantly with the "Buenos dias", Polish got also regognized with its particular sound, like I hear a lot of "sh" in the language, then for German I have the basics, and I'm a native French speaker sooo..
I'm so proud of myself that I guessed Polish
I loooove Christina 😍 she's so beautiful and kind 💕
Christina,you are American but I can hear and see the Korean influence in the way you react and respond! It's very interesting :) especially when you say "ohhhh!!!"
The pain in my Polish soul when she said German and Russian. My poor ancestors XD
Sometimes polish words actually sound like russian so idk how you could confuse that with german. german has that distinct sound, when she was introducing herself “Hallo, ich heiße..”, it was so easy to guess.
rather Polish and Russian are Slavic languages, one cannot say that Polish sounds like Russian Russian like Polish
The are a lot of germanisms in Polish tho
Do national anthems next!!!
I really love the contents of this channel. I have one question though, how come the participants are almost always all women?
“Any European languages you know?” Not fluently as she speaks perfect English
it's a nice experiment but you have chosen two of the most famous European languages. You should try with Portuguese (not the Brazilian pronounciation), Greek, Dutch, I would avoid Italian of course
I really like this page
as an american im shocked i got the polish thing kinda right. i knew it was like a slavic or close to it language, and the others i got super easy since i recognized some words (and french has a super distinct sound
"Is it German? or is it Russian"
Polish: *Flashbacks to WW2*
I only knew french and spanish
Spanish because when she said Buenos dias i immediately knew it was spanish
French because i learn french at school
Bonjour Hehe Glad to hear that you guess our French Language 🇨🇵
I’m going to Germany in the summer of 2022 and I’m very excited like I just can’t wait
As an American, French and German are the easiest to immediately identify. I personally knew Polish because I learned quite a few phrases in the past. Distinguishing Spanish was probably the hardest thing here because I never know whether it's Spanish or Portuguese being spoken, though I think Portuguese even sounds a bit Frenchish to me sometimes.