Can American Guess the Nationality of Slavic Language? (Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, Serbia)
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Can American guess the nationality by the language?
Today, we invited 4 pannels who speak Slavic languages
and see can American guess where they are from
Hope you enjoy the video and please follow our pannels!
🇺🇸 Shannon @shannon.harperrr
🇺🇦 Rosina @rosina_0313
🇵🇱 Ayliee @ayliee_k
🇷🇸 Draga @draga__
🇸🇮 Eva @evakotnikk
The fact that she didn't know who Djokovic and Zelensky were is crazy to me 😂 I get it, Doncic and Blaszczykowski are famous in their respective sports but Novak is more like a worldwide known star and Zelensky oh well...
Nikola Tesla, the greatest scientist of all time, is the most famous Serb, and the most famous Ukrainians are Mila Kunis and the Klitschko boxers. Mila Jovovic is half Serbian and half Ukrainian. Djokovic cannot be the first choice, and it is especially shameful that a girl from Ukraine chose that caricature of the president.
@@mlrd2687 with Americans you never know, if you mentioned Tesla half of them would only now about Elon Musk's cars and the won't even know who the company is named after
@@mlrd2687 for Poland it would be Maria Skłodowska Curie, Mikołaj Kopernik or Lewandowski
Maybe if she said clown Zelensky she would have gotten it 🤡
@@frostflower5555 the only one clown here is you
It's funny how Ania is clearly trolling by saying hard words instead of the most obvious answers.
In the previous film, when talking about dolphin, she put in some unnecessary stuff, like ,,o ile mi wiadomo,, which only made it all less legible.
She spoke Polish, what did you expect? Anyway, how was she supposed to answer? Besides, since they knew each other, it was logical that she tried not to say the obvious. The most obvious answers were given by a girl from Ukraine and Serbia when asked about famous people, so it couldn't be easier. Błaszczykowski is a well-known figure in Europe, but I don't know about the US. And Luka Doncic is not that famous, but he should certainly be a more famous person in the US than the Polish footballer. Anyway, all the answers were on the same level. So I don't quite understand your comment. I guess the idea of these movies is to show utterances in these languages in a natural way. So I don't understand how they would say otherwise. If a Polish woman gave her name, she would immediately guess where she comes from. Polish dumplings are very famous in the world, including Lewandowski, so her friend only made it a bit more difficult for her. Which didn't help to confuse her anyway. In my opinion, Slovenian was the most difficult to guess.
@@kazepl8988 Blaszczykowski is not known in Europe, moreover, in Poland he is not even remotely as known as Lewandowski. I could have mentioned my neighbour's last name to the same effect.
@@fandzejka9540 I'm giving facts, not crap like you. In the US they may not know, but in Europe they do. In addition to Lewandowski, Wojtek Szczęsny and Zieliński are also mentioned. Of course, they are far from Lewandowski's popularity, because they know him even in Mongolia. Either way, if you don't know something, don't say anything. Good advice. ;)
@@fandzejka9540 Kuba is relatively well-known to anybody who follows football, which is most people in Europe to at least a basic extent. Also, Blaszczykowski sounds super-Polish anyway; you don't need to know him for it to be a hint.
Shannon said: 6:23 number #2 is Russian because of the way they said yes 🤦🏻♂" I worked with some people from Russia in the past" Ukrainian - yes = Tak Russian - yes = Da
Not much of the difference phonetically speaking.
@@AcidumAscorbinicum But Shannon said that because she was so sure with associating the Ukrainian "tak" with Russian, even though Russians say "da".
@@mmagnusson87 Also if she is Ania's friend, she should associate Tak with Polish because in Polish Yes is also Tak
@@worldclassyoutuber2085The Ukrainian girl didn't pronounce the "k" at the end of "tak", so why are you surprised the American heard "da"??
@@SwieczkaNiweaniewierzeDarek, i'm Ukrainian. She pronounced the "k" at the end of "tak". I definitely hear the sound.
The soul left the Ukrainian girl's body when she said "I think I know Russian" 🫠
and when she didnt know who Zelenskyy is 🙄
Gotta admit, this comment was sad and funny as hell at the same time
Yeah, that's kind of insulting.
Вона така українка як я американець😂
@@Taras_Sahaidak Тарасе, вона українка. Хоча і не дуже, як на мене, або не дуже розумна, або, попросту, трохи сором'язлива. Увесь час якась скута. Я б хотіла, щоб на її місці була інша дівчина.
I can actually undertstand why girl from Ukraine had tense face expression everytime it was said she's probably from Russia.
It looked like it was done on purpose.
@@xohyuuе вони схожі? Моя родичка говорить російською та не розуміє українську, лише відсотків 20% однокорінних слів
@@xohyuuno they aren't lmao
@@xohyuuin Ukrainian will be :" Нехай наш Бог береже Україну".
+++ Russia is a terrorist country, it is hated by all decent people
zelensky and djokovic was so easy to guess the country
And luka doncic
American. No surprise there.
Yeah but Zelenskyy is involved in a war and Djokovic is a Men's Tennis player, two things young women don't exactly follow lol. I agree though.
its fake she 100% knows that playing dumm
❤GOD JESUS TOLD US TO LOVE GOD AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER! LET'S NOT DESTROY THIS WORLD! NO WAR!!! БОГ СОЗДАЛ ТАКОЙ ПРЕКРАСНЫЙ МИР! НЕ БУДЕМ РАЗРУШАТЬ МИР! ПОЛЮБИМ БОГА И ВСex ЛЮДЕЙ! НЕТ ВОЙНЕ!!
Imagine living in a world where you don't know the name Zelenskyy. I am jealous of that level of ignorance actually.
She is American so
bro i didnt knew who tf he was before war??
@@ginger.fairy666 but the video was recorded after the war began, it is obvious that she would not have called him before the war, but conditionally called Shevchenko (writer)
Im russian and I had no idea who he was before warr
Cool it, bud. She likely know who he is but didn't understand the prononciation.
As person from Poland I get that Ukrainian language is confused with Russian (the same as Polish). But it doesn't make it less painfull for me and I can't imagine how awful it is for any Ukrainian in current situation. PS: And how can you not hear about Zelensky?
Дякую за підтримку
I guess she didn't got the name, because she has just seen it written. There's a difference between hearing and seeing a word, especially if you are not used to a language or even a native speaker. But with the rest I'm with you. As a Bosniak war/genocide refugee (now migrant), it's a triggering moment when people think and say I'm Serbian or Croatian. Can't help it at this moment. But through my pain and trauma I have to remind myself, that not all Serbs and Croats are cruel brutal fashists and for everyone who is, there are many more who are nice, hospitable and understanding and also just want peace between our three ethnicities like I do. It's a slow process though. In these videos for instance I'm rooting for Draga. She seems to be nice, funny and intelligent.
@@frauerde5282bosniak, serb and croat are literally the same ethnicity, wtf you on about?
Yeah, I kinda wish they warned the American not to say Russian.
Totally! Unintentional but the Zelensky part also threw me off.
I feel bad for the Ukrainian girl.Felt kinda awkward when Shannon kept saying Russia.But I guess understandable,even though I was shocked when she didn't know Zelenskiy😂
I dont feel bad for anyone honestly, everyone on this world know that ukrainian and russian languages are pretty the same, so I understand why Shannon kept thinking Anya was russian. She had no clues to say ukraine rather than russia so she just said Russian because she worked with russian people in the past and thought it was the same.
@@019bc3 Fine, ok even if this is true, but Ukraine has always been marked as a fellow country of Russia, so how would a 20y American girl know how to differentiate what is russian and what ukrainian? Honestly, talking in general, American people and non don't know much about Ukraine, and just because of that, that's why most of the American people don't care about what's going on in Ukraine and don't care about what weapons Biden's administration is giving to Zelenskyy.
@@mmarkoooUkrainian and Russian aren’t similar. Ukrainian and Polish are
@@wiktoryzinski5747 kiddo I’m Ukrainian and I learned Polish. Almost all the words are the same but diferent sounds and somewhere different letters
@@wiktoryzinski5747 because the Ukrainians who are in Poland right now they speak Russian, almost the whole Ukraine speaks Russian. Only Western Ukraine speaks Ukrainian
It's funny see this knowing that Shannon and Anya 🇵🇱 are good friends and how Anya tried to hide it from Shannon 😂 , first member from Slovenia 🇸🇮 Eva 👏
Ania*
🥳🥳🇸🇮🙏🏻☺️
❤GOD JESUS TOLD US TO LOVE GOD AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER! LET'S NOT DESTROY THIS WORLD! NO WAR!!! БОГ СОЗДАЛ ТАКОЙ ПРЕКРАСНЫЙ МИР! НЕ БУДЕМ РАЗРУШАТЬ МИР! ПОЛЮБИМ БОГА И ВСЕХ ЛЮДЕЙ! НЕТ ВОЙНЕ!!❤❤
@@n-oliviaa❤GOD JESUS TOLD US TO LOVE GOD AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER! LET'S NOT DESTROY THIS WORLD! NO WAR!!! БОГ СОЗДАЛ ТАКОЙ ПРЕКРАСНЫЙ МИР! НЕ БУДЕМ РАЗРУШАТЬ МИР! ПОЛЮБИМ БОГА И ВСЕХ ЛЮДЕЙ! НЕТ ВОЙНЕ!!❤
@@evakotnik❤GOD JESUS TOLD US TO LOVE GOD AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER! LET'S NOT DESTROY THIS WORLD! NO WAR!!! БОГ СОЗДАЛ ТАКОЙ ПРЕКРАСНЫЙ МИР! НЕ БУДЕМ РАЗРУШАТЬ МИР! ПОЛЮБИМ БОГА И ВСЕХ ЛЮДЕЙ! НЕТ ВОЙНЕ!!❤❤
It's funny how languages can sound so similar yet you have no idea what one is saying and completely understand what another is saying. I've been studying Ukrainian on Duolingo for over a year and I understood the Ukrainian's introduction, which made me so happy, yet I understood almost nothing of the other ones' introductions.
I'm really glad you are learning ukrainian. Thank you!
@@catzeliix3255 🥰
So did I!!
I am a Pole, so I understand every girls. If you know better ukrainian, you would understand everything. :P :P :P :) :) :) :D :D :D For example 75% polish and ukrainian words are very close, very similar.
@@wiktoryzinski5747 u mnie w domu po wybuchu wojny przewinęły się 4 rodziny ukraińskie. :) Cóż. Po prostu teraz wszystko rozumiem.
Great to see the Slavic Languages represented. West Slavic (Polish), East Slavic (Ukrainian), South Slavic (Slovenian, Serbian). Hello / cześć Anya. Na zdrowie! / Bless you! (my limited Polish vocab lol)
@xohyuu нацисты восславляющие свою нацию , а не богов обречены на поражения и последующие унижения. Слава Украине !💊
@xohyuuділення слов'янських мов на південну, західну та східну - то повна дурня та застаріле мракобісся, нав'язане російською імперією аби тримати українців та білорусів в рамках міфу про походження їх мов від російської (що є неправдою). На території Німеччини живуть носії лужицької мови (яка, нажаль, вимирає), так от - ця мова найбільш споріднена з українською мовою. Також білоруська і польська мова більш споріднені з українською, ніж російська. Взагалі, російська через своє походження від старо болгарської більше схожа на південнослов'янські мови.
@@nataliya6093До речі так. Російська мова схожа на болгарську, У мене друг живе в Софії, родом з Пітера, швидко вивчив болгарську мову. але в кожних наших мовах не лише слов'янські слова, прислівники та діалекти. у білоруській мові багато від литовської та польської, в українській взагалі купа всього, тюркські, мадярські, румунські, польські. У російській і слов'яни, і тюрки, монголи, і финовгры. Ще не варто забувати русин, кашубів, поморян, силезців та поморів, які живуть в Архангельській області
i am from slovenia i would personaly add slovenian to west slavic langauge family i know geographicly we are south slavic but slovenian is more closly realted to west slavic langauges
@@tilenHD Pozdravljeni, jaz sem iz Rusije, iz mesta Belgorod. Govorim in pišem lahko skoraj vse slovanske jezike, vsi so enaki. Zakaj ste se odločili, da je slovenski jezik bližji zahodnim Slovanom
When you hear at least once in your lifetime Ukrainian and russian language, you will never forget the difference)) Believe me. This Ukrainian girl is amazing❤️
And she's gorgeous too
Believe me, we will forget the differences! Even Romanians have trouble sometimes when they hear the two languages just as the Hungarians and they are neighbours. Slovakian share so many similarities with ukrainian and still i had a slovakian girlfriend who sometimes shuffled the two. German speakers have no ears to the eastern slavic languages. Why is she amazing? Only for being an ukrainian? She is a simple shy girl, and we've heard nothing smart or funny from her? Why is she amazing? I know, you are ukrainian and you guys just growing your nationalities but pls don't denny the facts! Nothing will be 'cool' just for being ukrainian. No language, no people, no region. Well... by that logic. Arabic is the best language, Iraq is the best country! All the people from Iraq are so amazing!
@@georgschrotten622First, why do you think this guy or girl is from Ukraine? Secondly, the commentator did not say that Ukraine is the best country and should be idolized. Yes, I agree with you that people will not remember the difference between the Slavonic languages the first time. But the commentator said correctly about the girl. Everyone has different tastes. To me, she is truly amazing. She is very beautiful and looks like Snow White. For some, this is already an occasion to write such a comment.
Depending what will you hear. Some words and expressions are very similar. Some are completely different. But you have to pay attention to pronunciation more than actual vocabulary
Ukrainian is mixed Polish and Russian
Polish and Ukrainian have about 60% similarities. It’s much easier to understand polish as a Ukrainian native speaker than Russian (of course without knowing Russian language).
no, i'm russian and understand Polish. I just little learn it, very little. easier for me to read than listen Polish
Yeah, and funny thing that as russian I can understand almost all from ukranian, but 0% in polish
@@dalantren3758якщо б не русифікація української мови в 33 році, вам би було дуже тяжко зрозуміти українську мову
@@dalantren3758приклад щоки (щеки) то з української до 33 року ланіти
Are they? Ukranian is east Slavic, but it is kind of Russian with Polish influence
OMG, she doesn't know who is Zelensky..It is just unbelievable taking into consideration the fact the girl has an access to the Internet, how is it f*cking possible? I understand that the war is far from her, but that's a real shame
Who the f is "Zelensky"??? Oh wait, that irritating drug addict and a beggar in a dirty green shirt 🤡
bro who pays damn attention to the news, old people, just like you!
I love that you included Slovenian, thank you, hi from Slovenia! Maybe now, with this year's Eurovision, our language will get even more recognition and I already know more people are wishing to learn it, so I hope some more apps and courses include it in the curriculum. Love your videos on this YT channel also, I'm a big fan of languages! Keep up the good work!
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Joker Out are such a good band 💙
@@xohyuu Annoying Bot...SHUT UP,cale a boqui...
@@EricReno20 I'm happy you like them, thank you for saying that.. They really are a great band & people (it shows even more when experienced live)!💛
@@xohyuu you mean how do you say those things in slovenian? "My name is.." = "Moje ime je...", "yes" = "da" (more formal) or "ja" (more informal) and "no" = "ne"
“I am not as familiar with European languages, I speak English, French and Spanish…” 😅
😂😂😂
An American like her claiming to speak languages is the equivalent of me saying that I understand Quantum Physics
Since when have Slavic languages been spoken in Sweden or the Netherlands? I understand not knowing Djokovic, not everyone has to be a tennis fan and know one of the best players in the world, but not to know Zelensky? Especially now that the war has been going on for a year and a half, and Zelensky has become one of the most recognizable politicians in the world?
I noticed that many people totaly ignore news and they are not interested in politics at all and "some war in Europe" is just one of many news for them, not interesting I guess. But it's still weird when Zelensky is calling with Biden all the time and you open internet and there is Zelensky everywhere. But I also can't distinguish Ukrainian from Russian, I need longer example and focus on H sound, accent depends on speaker, it won't help you much, some Ukrainians sound totaly Russian to me.
Djokovic is more famous than Zelensky. Zelensky is like a year in the spotlight. Djokovic has been playing tennis for 20 years.
We get it, you're super smart 👍🏼
@@Ivan-fm4eh I mean no, he is not retarded, this was actually very odd indeed
@@snowdolphvov4193 indeed very odd
Thank you for the participation of the Ukrainian language ❤
@@xohyuu "My name is ..." in Ukrainian it is translated as "Моє ім'я ..." or "Мене звати ..."
It's literally Russian
@@mihailostanic8977 The closest language to Ukrainian is Belarusian with 84% of the common vocabulary, followed by Polish with 70% of the common vocabulary, followed by Slovak with 68 percent of the common vocabulary with Ukrainian. With the Russian language, only 62 percent are in common. And the closest to the Russian language is Bulgarian, followed by Macedonian, etc. So leave your Kremlin myths to yourself. Stop spreading lies
@@Fafnirych Wait what Macedonian is similar to Russian, is this true? Macedonian and Serbian are nearly the same language and as a Serbian I have hard time understanding Russians
@@FafnirychWhen comparing languages, not only the lexical method is used, but also at least morphological. There is a Swadesh list for this. And there we will see a similarity with Russian in 86%
Welcome back , Shannon , after good videos with Germanic languages and Latin languages , it's time for slavic languages ❤
I cant understand why Ukrainians always mention borscht. Ukraine has another popular traditional dish - "Varenyky", which is unmistakably recognized (if a person has at least heard something about Ukraine). But anyway i cant understand how not to guess that she is Ukrainian after she named Zelensky as a famous person and say "tak" (doesn't sound like russian "da" at all).
In russian language in direct contex word "tak" means "yes"
@@borelina11 Usually is 50/50 from context
@@mexiders yes. Only in context
@@borelina11 no.russian da means yes,as answer for question but tak means in such way or somethink like:могу ли я сделать это так? да, ты можешь это так сделать
@@Hubert_G I am a native speaker of Russian. You are right in your statement, but my comment is that a single word "Tak" can mean "Yes" in a certain context.
Thank you so much for having me on the channel! It was so much fun and everyone was so lovely 🩷🥰 I was soooo nervous as it was my first time doing anything like this so fulllll honesty, I'm actually 25, turning 26 this year hahah but my brain stopped working with that first sentence 😂🫣 Thank you to everyone showing love and support in the comments as well! Proud to represent my country- Slovenia 🇸🇮x🇰🇷
You did nice 👏👏 Greetings from Spain, guapa
@@vooidesThank Yooou☺️🙏🏻🇪🇸👋🏻
Welcome , darling Eva 😘 👏 , hope see more of you , especially 'cause Slovenia 🇸🇮 isn't so common , your first time was pretty good
@@henri_ol such lovely words from you! Thank you! Would love to do it again!☺️💪🏻
You guys all did a great job in this video👍
I get excited when I hear Polish in foreign productions . It's nice to see such a comparison of Slavic languages, I think you can also do tongue twisters.
FINALLY SLAVIC LANGUAGES DZIĘKUJĘ
What? She doesn’t know who is Volodimir Zelenskyy. Does she live in the Moon? Unbelievable 😢
Exactly, there is no point of such videos if you bring here people completely unaware of the most basic international affairs, who... somehow all happen to be Americans. They wouldn't name a single person from Europe nor even a single country from Europe so why bother making them associate countries with famous people.
Pretty sure even if the Serbian girl said Nikola Tesla she still wouldn't get it. I honestly doubt she ever heard of Serbia
@@kacperzimowski4626 the vast majority of americans only know big countries from Europe like Italy Spain France Germany Uk and Russia, so i'm not surprised at all
She probably never saw how her president met with Zelensky and the like
@@Saverio_Simone_Marino In a sense? So you know about Russia, it is a terrorist country that wants to take over another country? Almost the entire civilized world is talking about it now. The American president even visited Ukraine
The American girl seems to live in different world
We Slavs always get along. Our languages are very similar. I understood everything the girls from Ukraine, Serbia and Slovenia were saying. p.s. please do not confuse Ukrainian with Russian because these two languages are different from each other.
And what is your native language?
@@nataliasalmanova6020 Polski ( Poland )
My native is Russian, I understood 100% Ukraine, however could probably get only 30% of other languages. Still good I guess
"We Slavs always get along." you gotta be kidding right? XD
@@someoneelse8103 if politics weren't a thing we would really get along with eachother you know...
Serbia is Netherlands Slovenia is Sweden well.... close enough for an American!
Dont be so cruel on her! At least, she didnt say Minnesota and Arizona.
@@nesimiaydeniz4618 This video is about guessing Slavs, not Americans. Besides, the Netherlands and Sweden aren't Slavic at all. Please understand I don't condone arguments.
I mean, honestly those countries are all totally irrelevant compared to the US so... US invented the modern age. Go cry about it😭😭😭
Poor Rosina keeps getting mistaken for a Russian! It's not the first time it's happened to her on this channel.
Because there is little difference between ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.
@@eliasziad7864 Well, there are ways to easily distinguish between them even if you don't speak them (though it's harder for Russian and Belarusian, even I, speaking Russian, have to keep listening for a while to know that somebody's talking in Belarusian 😆) but without any knowledge it has to be hard, as they are all parts of one subgroup.
Ukrainian sounds nothing like Russian. Polish sounded more Russian than the Ukrainian did here!
I mean, Russia is the largest and most relevant Slavic country and Ukrainian is a very similar language.
@@Jdzo268 Ukrainian has more in common with Polish than Russian.
You can see that for Rosina, confusing her with a Russian girl was not pleasant.
But most of people just can't distunguish Russian and Ukrainian, I also can't even when I am a slavic speaker too. But what is super ridiculous and not understandable for me is when my language (Czech) is confused for Russian because accent is totaly different.
@@PidalinI'm Polish. Of course, you are right, I also encountered the fact that my Polish language was confused with Russian. We will distinguish our languages from each other because we know that we see these differences (for me, too, it is not a problem to distinguish Russian from Ukrainian). I wrote only in the context of what Russia is doing in the homeland of this nice girl.
I can hardly imagine why it would be otherwise. The reason why Ukrainian is often confused with Russian is the overwhelming representation of Russia in the international arena before Ukraine's Independence. Plus, the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union did everything to make Ukrainian disappear. There were laws that prohibited the language, dictionaries were censored 'cause some Ukrainian words were considered nationalistic (as if that was even possible), poets and artists who wrote in Ukrainian or about Ukraine as a distinct culture were murdered by the regime, Ukrainian-language schools have been closed one by one in a span of decades, not to mention one or two genocides. And modern Russian continues this legacy by saying that the Ukrainian language is not real, that it is a spoiled version of Russian, and that every Ukrainian is just a Russian who cast their roots aside and must be punished for doing so. I've been born Ukrainian after the Independence, in 1997, actually. I've been speaking Ukrainian my who life and some Russian-speaking dudes mocked me for doing so. I've been getting low ratings in taxi services because I refused to speak a language I did not like (Russia) and some people said slurs to me when I wore ethno-styled elements. During childhood, there were incidents when children who went to a Russian-language school threw sand into my hair because I was talking 'fancy' and they could not understand me. Later I learned that their grandmother was speaking Ukrainian, so they actually understood everything I said, they just copied their father's mannerisms. This attitude originates from the Soviet policy where you are rather Russian or a nationalist and a Western spy. It got better with time. People in Ukraine know both Ukrainian and Russian but because of this hostile uprising, some prefer to speak Russian, for it is safer that way. During the past 20 years, people started speaking Ukrainian more. There's a law that supports the transition by making the services industry obligated to deliver services in Ukrainian (the switch to Russian is possible at the customer's request). Nobody attacks people for speaking Ukrainian, so they became braver and more comfortable with it. Russia does not like that so it brought up the narrative that Ukrainians are prohibiting Russian or attacking other Russian-speaking citizens, so that people with Soviet mentality go outside and start messing things up. So yeah... when a Ukrainian is confused for Russian, we immediately think of all these things and they upset us. We know that others do not mean to make us feel miserable, and that's why we do not say anything. It still hurts, though. The only thing we can change about that is to be more proactive as Ukrainians and visit a therapist, maybe
@@tinnasell4161 You overthinked it, people don't think it's Russian because of politics, they just don't hear the difference and there is more Russian speakers, so obviously, they think it's probably Russian. But most of "east slavic speakers" you meet are actually Ukrainians or people from those former USSR somethingStan countries who don't even have Russian as their native language.
@@Pidalin I did not phrase it properly, my appologies. I've ment that it is what Ukrainians assume when they try to explain the origins of this confusion. Ukraine and Russia are in an informational war against one another after all. But I agree with everything else you've said.
Hopefully there will be a time, when ukraine and its culture finally won't be confused with russia
this won't happen
@@channingpalmer maybe, but i hope it will
@@catzeliix3255not happening, they are too close and intertwined. It’s like Canadian and American, or Spanish and Portuguese, or Indonesian and Malaysian, or Norwegian and Swedish.
Never will happen lol. Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are incredibly similar.
@@eliasziad7864 russians can't even understand ukrainian
finally one of these with slavic languages
what do you mean Tak was for Russian? I mean in polish you also have this word and it's very common so why Tak = Russian?
@@kunegundabrunhildabrum-bru4306 i dont think you understood my comment
@@hybirr yeah, bcs "tak" isn't very good for saying it's this language or this, because in Polish it means "yes" and i Czech it means "so" and probably in other languages it is also something similar, in Russian translator saying it's also "so", so idk why u think she should know it's not Russian
@@kunegundabrunhildabrum-bru4306 yes in russian is da, yes in polish and ukrainian is tak, that's basically all. wtf is ur point
@@kunegundabrunhildabrum-bru4306 russian also has word tak
It is interesting that she did not know where Novak was from, but it is impressive that she guessed that Serbian and Slovenian/Slovene are similar languages, that is, that they belong to the same South Slavic group. It is interesting to me that when someone hears "DA" they think that only Russian has it, when it exists in almost all Slavic languages except West Slavic (Polish use "tak"; in Serbian we have a similar expression "tako je" - "that's right" but just "tako" means "so, like that, such", ect. and Slovak and Czech use "áno / ano") and Slovenian uses "Ja" but they also have "Da", in Serbian standard is "Da" but colloquially we also have " Ja" (most often in the expressions "ja i?; ma ja" and we have "jašta").
And the girl actually said Tak, not da
Bruh, only Poland from West Slavs uses "Tak" 😶
@@Catos23 Yes, that is correct, I forgot to add that Czechs and Slovaks use "Ano /Áno".
@@Catos23 In certain context in can also mean ''Yes'' in Czech, but most of the time the meaning here is ''So''
@@xohyuu Its "Nie"
“I think, this is Russian, and they are Sweden and Netherland.” 🤦🏻pizdec
"I understood Russian because of the way she said yes" meanwhile Russian: has a totally different word for yes
? Dont they say да in Russia?
@@stefana2171 All South-Slavic languages use "da" as "yes" with Slovene being the exception of using "Ja" in informal speech, due to their proximity to the Germanic world. So with Russia, that's already 8 additional languages that use "da" as a form of "yes".
@@kurosumomo Ukrainians do not use "da" as "yes", so here's another exception for you. Ukrainians use "tak" for "yes".
she is trying to guess slavic languages and said swedish and dutch?? americans and geography lmao
HAHAHHA
Omg Eva Kotnik, Slovenian sounds soft and smooth. Never thought so either until I've heard you speak next to other slavic languages
All the love🥹🥰❤️
how do you have the same name and not even heard slovenian😂
@@florianbischoff9764hehe she's my mom, she meant it in the way as "she never thought so before as well, until she heard me speak next to other slavic languages"☺️ we discussed this before and we always thought that other people must hear Slovenian as a very "harsh" language, so it was a surprise to all of us to hear differently ☺️
Slovenščina/Slovene is not harsh for me. Serbian / Polish are harsher.
Slovenian sounds beautiful to Finnish ears.
As ukrainian I am beyond happy to see one of us in your videos. Thank you for the work you do!
Even when she kept mentioning Russia for your Girl?
@@cpj93070 please do not saн to Ukrainian girl - russian - that's very annoying, if you want to be liked by Ukrainians strictly differentiate them from russians.
@@cpj93070 ofcourse no, but we all know that people are often mistaken about ukrainian and russian similarities. To me it’s pretty understandable
@@cpj93070 Mila Kunis, the most famous Ukrainian, even lied to people by telling them that she was from Russia because there is not much difference and that Russia is wildly more known than Ukraine...
@@stefaniya2923 Before the war, I have never seen Ukrainians get upset when they are mistaken as being Russian, it's either that they lie and say they are from Russia or just correct them that they are from Ukraine and acknowledge the similarities.
Someone like her claiming to "know a language" is the equivalent of me claiming to understand Quantum Physics.
need another video with slavic languages!!!
When will they finally stop mistaking Ukrainian for russian? They couldn't sound more different. And how was "tak" for "yes" her first clue? That's Ukrainian for "yes", the russian word is totally different.
Oh damn, considering the given international circumstances, confusing a Ukrainian for a Russian, was kinda unintentionally brutal.
I mean it wasn't intentional and for someone who doesn't speak a Slavic language these 2 may sound very similar, I find it more alarming that Shannon doesn't know who Volodymyr Zelensky is.
Good incentive to learn some Ukrainian.
@@janslavik5284 Yup, was thinking the same thing. That name is in the news 24/7. AND he's been to the US and met the president so...
totally agree... it was co confusing for lady from Ukraine...
Confusing anybody for a russian was like spit someone in the face
As an Englihman, Ljubljana and lake Bled (tourist places of course) are insanely nice! Most underrated city Europe I think, most Brits have probably never heard of it! It gave me Italian vibes.
So happy to hear such lovely words about Slovenia! It indeed is gorgeous🇸🇮🩵✨
Nice public service comment of Melanialand (Slovenia's improved Trumpist name), but are you really an Englihman?
@@Sayitlikitiz101 Indeed, born and bred!
@@JackSonEFla2 You're a party-pooper, 😋 I was having fun with this Englih person. @xohyuu WTH are you saying?
We love Slovenia 🇸🇮 and small countries 🫶🏾
🥳🥳🇸🇮🩷🩷🩷
Ждал что сербка назовёт Николу Теслу что просто сломает американский мозг, имя то знакомое
I feel so sad for Ukrainian girl, russian trolls simply would not stop trolling her. Hold on beautiful Ukrainian souls ❤️🇺🇦
But ukranian language sound like russia language. Even if you asked me, i will answer the same.
@@boboboy8189 Ukrainian is only 40% similar to russian and 70% similar to polish. Tf are you talking about?
@@OlehTsymbal ukranian has a lot of polish loand words but that doesn't that in other aspects it is closer to polish. Contrary grammatically it (and belarussian) is closer to russian rather than polish
Don't be "so sad" and go hug your two daddies 😀
Very disappointed in my fellow American. Apparently, she lives under a rock.
Maybe Shannon just didn't really hear what the Ukrainian said *shrugs*
@@xohyuu When only "American" is used, that means USA.
Awch, poor Ukrainian girl. Could see her visibly cringe being guessed as Russian 😂
Бідний ти, ідіот
Just type a sentence into Google Translate and hear that Ukrainian is a completely different from russian language. It feels like everything was recorded here.
People wondering that she confused a Ukranian with a Russian and not wondering that she confused a Serbian with a Dutch and a Slovenian with a Swede??? People writing such comments are really STUPID and paranoide. I mean, Russian and Ukranian are pretty similar, and Dutch has absolutely nothing to do with Serbian or Swedish with Slovenian. Something is going wrong with this world...
As a Serbian this is so funny 🤣
I am Serbian😂😂😂😂
For me, a Brazilian Portuguese speaker it's funny 'cause some words like "protein" has a very similar pronunciation so if you're paying enough attention it's undertandable and after that word it's returns to unintelligible😅
there's actually interesting videos on youtube explaining how portugese and russian phonetics are similar. so maybd that translates with other slavic languages as well? hahah
Thank you for an interesting video! I learn Polish so I could understand it quite well. However, I was surprised that I could also understand some phrases from Slovenian and Serbian! That's exciting (I am Ukrainian)
It was interesting when they were saying "My name is Shannon." The Polish girl said "I call myself Shannon." Ukrainian - "They call me Shannon." Slovenian - "My name is Shannon." Serbian - "I call myself Shannon." (same as in Polish) The exact Serbian words would even work in Polish, it would just sound archaic. If you changed the Slovenian "je" to "jest", it would be correct Polish too. That said, Ukrainian is the closest to Polish. It sounds similar to Slovak, but with an eastern twist to the pronunciation.
As as Czech, I can understand Slovak, to some degree I can understand Polish, but I can't understand Ukrainian at all. Btw jest is archaic in Czech. And Czech version is I name myself Pavel, or I'm Pavel. In Slovak it's I call myself Pavel. This time Serbian was pretty close - I'm ... I can't tell. Weirdly Serbian is sometimes easier to understand than Polish and sometimes impossible. I guess Polish soft accent makes it hard to understand, but words are closer.
Hey, I would love to see a video comparing Haitian Creole🇭🇹 with French, or other Creoles😄 love the videos
Ania tried to hide as much she could: famous person Blaszczykowski intead of Chopin, Marie Curie or Lewandowski and famous food rosół instead of pierogi. She tried her best but friendship won haha
I never heard about Blaszczykowski; to me, his name sounded almost like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.
@@dmitrylytov5005 He is popular football player in Poland
How about Iga Świątek? She's pretty famous nr 1 tennis player
@@mysteriousdoge1298 Yeah, she became a legend in Poland
@@karolszczerbien7885 - tastes differ. People like me don't watch sports channels. Talking about Poland, I'd rather recognize film directors, actors or writers, or maybe politicians or military. The first name that comes to my mind is Jerzy Stuhr :)
Had it not been my studying Polish, I think as an American it would be easier to guess Slovenia and Serbia because of their basketball stars in the NBA. Zelensky and Djoković are giveaways, too in a sense of global influence.
And Anya chose such weird examples of famous Poles & famous Polish dish that not many would guess Poland after those to be honest
Like Iga Świątek or Robert Lewandowski & pierogi would be much easier for many people
@@mysteriousdoge1298Well, she had to make it difficult because they are buddies😂
I will watch and like it because Shannon is back!!! yay!!!!
I initially thought she would call them all Russians. But when she realized that there were people from the Netherlands there. The video has become much more interesting. How can a Slav be mistaken for a Nemetс.
Fioletowy means Violet in our Polish Slavic language. It's not a long word actually and very similar to English. Except it's written with the letter f and the suffix -owy which is like the -ish. So it means "violetish" if you translated it literally. Notice how the Ukrainian girl pronounces it the same way. Another great example how close Ukraine is to Poland 🇺🇦🇵🇱
Emiliana, don't wanna feel you upset but fioletowy/фiолетовий/фиолетовый is a German loan word "violett"
@@Karbon545 Not upset at all. Sure it means "violett" in German. As someone living in Germany and speaking the language perfectly like a native I can agree with you. And I never said it was a slavic word, so don't put your words or thoughts into my mouth. Obviously you seem to care about the origin of the word. It might come from Latin or another old language. I don't care, it's not my topic. But you yourself can research it where the word originally came from. Be my guest. That's your business. Have a nice day.
А что ты понимаешь под Украиной?
Another proof that stereotypes about blondes are not stereotypes at all 😅
shes more american than blonde
lets see you then
Oh Shannon I thought u were smarter than that… Sweden and Netherlands? Both are germanic languages 😢😅
Her interest is in Asia, she has never been to Europe.
She is still more informed than 90% of Muricans, they never heard of Sweden and Netherlands either 😀😀
"I think number 2 is Russia..." Triger!!!!!!
Đoković, Jokić, Dončić 😭 It's a great video anyway! Greetings from Serbia! ♥
They are all pretty ^~^ This was very fun to watch; I enjoyed seeing how they apparently enjoyed as well ;D
So what are the other Slavic Languages? Sweden and Netherlands? The look on their faces was priceless. I am just thinking if Shannon even knew other Slavic countries than Poland and Russia (which she kept saying instead of Ukraine)
Slovenia = Sweden. Serbia = The Netherlands 😂
That girl from Ukraine is beautiful
Oh Shannon, you made the fatal mistake by confusing a Ukrainian with a Russian, even after she gave you the Zelensky hint! FWIW, my entire ethnicity is Slavic with 4 Polish great grandparents, and 2 each of Croatian and Ukrainian.
I think calling Sweden and Netherlands Slavic countries is the real fatal mistake.
@@lemonz1769 I don't think they tell them which language family they are guessing. For all Shannon knows the people behind her could be from Central Africa.
True
Nah lol
Hey guys! I had so much fun filming this video with these beautiful ladies and my bestie Ania! I really enjoy getting the opportunity to learn about languages and cultures I’m not familiar with and I consider myself very lucky to get to do these videos:) With that being said, i really hope you guys can understand that I do make mistakes and I’m not perfect but I’m here to learn and educate myself as well! Let’s be kind and keep this space positive while we learn about the world together🦋 much love🤍
Your way of interacting with people and all that positive energy you spread out made me subscribe on your channel. I can easily see you have the potential to be a successful youtuber, I wish you the best!!!!
❤GOD JESUS TOLD US TO LOVE GOD AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER! LET'S NOT DESTROY THIS WORLD! NO WAR!!! БОГ СОЗДАЛ ТАКОЙ ПРЕКРАСНЫЙ МИР! НЕ БУДЕМ РАЗРУШАТЬ МИР! ПОЛЮБИМ БОГА И ВСЕХ ЛЮДЕЙ! НЕТ ВОЙНЕ!!❤
@@hasanluaibi3714❤GOD JESUS TOLD US TO LOVE GOD AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER! LET'S NOT DESTROY THIS WORLD! NO WAR!!! БОГ СОЗДАЛ ТАКОЙ ПРЕКРАСНЫЙ МИР! НЕ БУДЕМ РАЗРУШАТЬ МИР! ПОЛЮБИМ БОГА И ВСЕХ ЛЮДЕЙ! НЕТ ВОЙНЕ!!❤
@@xeither289 peace and love
Don't worry, there are always adequate and understanding people, and there are offended by something, it's just the time.
Under every word "Ukraine " you see mad russian trolls . I mean, under EVERY word "Ukraine" in social media.
How in the world she didn't know zelensky??
Там есть мигранты приехавшие в США в 90-е годы XX века, если она родилась в такой семье, то у неё крайне смутные представления о её Родине.
She doesn't know who Djoković and Zelenskyy are... Yeah she's definitely American 😂
I thought it weird she didn't know Dončič and Djoković. However, I am pretty sure the pronunciation of Vladimir Zelensky threw her off.
@@ginismoja2459 nah you cappin'.
As a brit who speaks German, Polish, and Greek all 4 sound very strikingly different to me.
Thanks for video! In what country this video was filmed?
>Zelenskyy >are you from russia? HOW? I mean, WHY?.. muricans, please 😞 Upd Swedish and Dutch be Slavic? It’s somehow ok to say “they speak Spanish in Brazil” considering the similarities, but calling half of Europe Slav is beyond by apprehension
“Can you name a famous person for, your country?” *the Slovene girl answers* Me, yelling: BOJAN CVJETIĆANIN
Joker out 😀
Only reason I would have gotten the languages of Slovenia and Serbia is because of the famous people they said are NBA players
I only guessed Polish, Ukrainian and Serbian languages. Slavic languages are difficult to understand even for Slavic people. Couldn’t make out the Slovenian language maybe because I wasn’t exposed to that language in my life.
It would be funny if you put czech and slovak They sound simular and we understand eachother
“I don’t know European languages that well” Meanwhile speaks English, French and Spanish 💀
She is learning French for 7 years, which means she is not learning, after 7 years you should be a master in French or very close to a native speaker.
@@kurosumomo I learned German for five or six years cause it was mandatory. I can order schnitzel and beer. Then I can catch some words that are similar to English or local slang. Learning language without a need to ever use it and lack of motivation is almost pointless. Even my English is getting different - after 15 years of watching youtube videos, I can understand it. But writing proper sentence containing conditionals, not omitting articles which do not exist in Czech, using continuous tense properly (which, kind of, ceased to exist in Czech) needs some effort.
girl literally said volodymyr zelensky and she still somehow thought it s russia 💀
Zelensky is more Russian than ukrainian, his native language is Russian.
Light violet in ukrainian is actually a combination of two words, it's written with hyphen: світло-фіолетовий. I'm surprised though when she asked for "how to say yes" and got "tak" she thought it was russian! I mean isn't the russian "da" a bit of a meme in US? Not anymore I guess. But even more shocked was I when she said the last two clearly slavic languages were germanic. I don't speak swedish, but I can recognize it for sure just because of the way it sounds. I would not be able to tell it apart from danish or norwegian, but one can easily get the nordic stuff. And as for dutch - many say it's similar to german. And though IMO it sounds surprisingly different from german (despite some common vocabulary), it certainly doesn't sound slavic at all. So mistaking something slavic for dutch is, well, quite unexpected.
In Russian tak can also mean yes, the meaning depends on the context.
@@xohyuu It’s more of a “so”, for example “eto tak” in russian stands for “it is so”.
@@funnycorner2802 this is a blatant lie. There is no such word in Russian
@@ArchonLicht In Russian, the word "tak" can have the meanings of both "so" and "yes", depending on the context.
@@Yaroslav_Rus а приведите пример, пожалуйста, где "так" употреблялось бы в контексте как "да"
It must be so nice to be best friends with someone from another country. Shannon and Anya's friendship seems to be so wholesome. ❤
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And so what if an American confused a Ukranian with a Russian? That could happen to everyone. All slavic languages are somehow similar after all. I don't see what's the big deal about that and all these comments about it are totally paranoide. For me it's much more to wonder how she didn't know who Djokovic or Zelensky are when you can read their names in the newspapers almost daily.
For constantly confusing Ukrainian and Russian - insta ban the channel. They are similar not more than Dutch and German and not mutually intelligible
Snowflake
I hope we get a bunch of videos with this group. Slavic languages are very interesting and sound very beautiful also!
I don't think they sound beautiful at all, quite harsh. But to each their own lol
All lovely ladies.
Especially the Polish one!
I can't with this girl not knowing Zelensky. What kinda priviliged cloistered life do you lead? How can you afford to block out the war for a year and a half? How?!
Just look at her, she's just an another tool created by Tik-Tok.
She lives in Korea. Asia has different information bubble.
@@alevyts3523 If it's not North Korea--and it isn't--that ain't it.
@@tamcon72 For Americans, education is also illegal
@@alevyts3523 I don't think it's illegal. It's just not comprehensive anymore.
The girl from Ukraine was not at all happy with the Russia guess. Ukraine needs to be liberated from everyone else involved. What’s going on there at the hands of foreigners is evil.
No need to say "foreigners". They were invaded by Russia, to be clear. One country invading another's sovereignty and killing people there in violation of numerous international treaties and agreements, not to mention committing numerous war crimes, is truly evil.
yall are crying over this not realising ukrainian and russian are very similiar languages
@@realmadrid9432 yeah, so similar that ruzzians, descendents of Finno-Ugric tribes can't understand neither Ukrainian nor any other Slavic language. Except of Bulgarian, because artificial ruzzian language is mix of old Bulgarian church, Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages of their former Mongol-Tartarian masters.
I think she was just malnourished. She is so incredibly pale, too. Maybe she's trying to look Korean.
@@realmadrid9432so similar that Ruskis can't understand us without previous exposure
Trzeba być naprawdę ograniczonym żeby w 2023 roku nie wiedzieć kim są Zelensky i Djokovic! Straszne!
Amerykanie mają własny świat, i nie za bardzo interesują się tym, co się dzieje w Europie, a sportem tym bardziej nie można od każdego wymagać, żeby się interesował gdyby nie to, że u nas cały czas trąbią w serwisach informacyjnych o tym, że taki i taki zawodnik wygrał taki czy taki turniej, to ja też bym nawet nie kojarzył z nazwiska kto to jest, bo tenis mnie ani trochę nie interesuje.
Zgadzam się z @miosnikgentoo3598 i potwierdzam, że nie mam pojęcia kim jest Djoković.
@@stanislok.7106 Tak samo nie wiem kto to
Americans. That's not surprising. They won't even show you on a map where these countries are. Another world, other interests. I never watched tennis in my life, but I've heard of Djokovic and I know where he's from.
Sorry, a Costa Rican passing here. I know who is Zelensky, it's impossible not havong heard of him, but I don't know who is Djokovic, since I'm not interested in sports even in my country.
I have a crush on Slovenian girl 🥰
🙊🙈☺️☺️
Swedish is not even remotely close to a slavic language...
Very little people speak Slovenian because it's so hard to learn. I ended up just speaking Serbian/English mix when I was there and they understood me just fine :)...
native speakers of Slovenian understand Serbian for the most part and most of the older generation speaks it fairly well due to the fact that it used to be an offical language in Yugoslavia. there is also quite a few young people who speak one of the languages that used to be considered Serbo-Croatian at home since their parents are from one of the countries that speak it. Slovenian has loads of accents so even if someone learned the formal version of the language, they would probably take a while to understand the local dialect.
@@yvs6663 Highly true! It's kind of funny but while a huge percentage of Slovenians understand Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian..., people from those countries usually do not understand Slovenian much. And you described it perfectly! We do get exposed to those languages often so it's easy for us to understand it! Another thing that you mentioned is all the dialects. I was trying really hard to speak as grammatically correct as it gets here in the video, but if I actually spoke in my own dialect, even many Slovenians from other regions outside of the one where I come from, they would not be able to understand a lot of words that I say and vice-versa🤪
@@xohyuu Slovenians speak Slovenian(as their first language). most of the working age people(18-65y.o.) who grew up here in Slovenia learned English in school at some point. but of course how well they speak it depends on the person. younger generations are usually better at it because of internet and TV.
@@evakotnik It's true. I'm a Croatian speaker (štokavski) and I admit struggling to understand Slovenian. If I knew kajkavski it would be easier.
@@evakotnik well depends on the region you are from. some accents are impossible to understand even for natives. (Prekmurje, Cerkno and towns in that region). i(from Kranj) do ok with the rest(of the ones ive encountered) as long as people are sober. ( experience shows that i can't understand drunk people from Koroška region) but apperently even my own accent is sometimes hard to understand for people who are only familiar with one dialect. a Slovenian guy from Trieste my sister used to date was once basically like "are you even speaking Slovenian? i can't understand you." but than again, i was talking to someone from my family so i wasn't holding back on the accent at all.
She don't know who Zelensky is? Omg I literally can't escape this guy, he is fckn everywhere. It's impossible to open a browser and not see him 100th times in a day.
@@wiktoryzinski5747 you wanna say that in Asia there is no news or something? Or they do not care?
disregarding epically failing Ukraine... since when Sweden and Netherlands are Slavic? :D Geography in US is smth special :D
0:34 "Especially if it's European languages, just because I'm not as familiar with those" As opposed to African languages? Asian languages? North & South America where nearly all speak Spanish, English or Portuguese? Girl, just admit that you're generally clueless about languages. And apparently also about sports and world news if you don't know about Djokovic and Zelensky. The 2 girls on the right were mentioning names that end with -ic, and she guessed Sweden and Netherlands. Wtf? Didn't they tell her this is Slavic languages only? Does she not know that Swedish and Dutch aren't Slavic?
Щодо відомої людини з України , треба було сказати Шевченко , бо Зеленський став відомий лише зараз , а у світі знають багатьох Шевченків.
Ah, swedish and dutch, fine Slavic languages
Bad guess about Sweden and Netherlands since both of these are Germanic languages