Today we’re doing “guess the spoken language” challenge, where I try to guess what language is being spoken. As a polyglot I have studied dozens of languages, perhaps as many as 50, which has given me a good deal of insight into what different languages sound like and how many language families are out there.
There are some really difficult ones here, let’s see if I can get them all right!
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2:58 Spoken Polish and Ukrainian are completely different and impossible to confuse. Also that language you listened to wasn't Ukrainian, it was Russian, the video you watched is wrong.
I think the author of the video got it wrong, since he took the audio from a video in Ukraine. The language is Russian but clearly with Ukrainian accent and a very unambiguous "шо" at the end :)
Exacly, Polish and Ukrainian aren't even in the same language group.
@@philosopherkinkah ffs, i guessed ukrainian
@europonei I meant that Polish is part of a West Slavic language group along with Czech or Slovak. Meanwhile Ukrainian is part of East group like Russian or Belarusian. There's also South Slavic group.
So glad for this, I’ve been learning russian for over a year and I could understand like 90% of what was said I was like… there’s no way its not russian
Very good, but my wife knows the differences between Russian and Ukrainian and swears that what you said was Ukrainian was in fact Russian.
Yep it's Russian
@@Pvemaster2 correct, it was rus
I know the written diference bot spoken Kinda
Im a native speaker and I can confirm it was russian.
As a native Russian speaker, that's Russian.
in 2:30 it's not Ukrainian, it's a Russian
@@kb9512 Yeah i was like super confused
It is definitely, I was super confused when I saw the Ukranian flag
Yep. Not even a mix, just 100% Russian. I'm guessing the one who made the video didn't speak either language and just found footage of a Ukrainian person speaking Russian and assumed it was Ukrainian or something.
It's 100% Russian
ukrainian is a horrible language. that was pure russian.
2:30 It wasn't Ukrainian, it was Russian =)
I thought it was Slovenian
yeah. Russian speaking by Ukrainian man
Exactly. It was Ukrainian-accented Russian.
When a polyglot struggles with some languages, it shows how much effort is required to learn. Keep up the good work, the learning and sharing on here, Xiaoma. I am leaning 3 more languages since subbing a couple of years ago 👍
Lol 😂 A polyglot simply means a person with the ability to speak multiple languages. It’s unlikely that there aren’t many languages that they don’t know. There’s over 7K official languages world wide. Its obviously hard to understand languages that you don’t regularly hear. I love learning different languages. I speak 7 to varying degrees of fluency. But Xiao is a New Yorker so he’ll have a head start from his school days. NYC has 6 or more languages on school curricula. In fact NYC has more polyglots than anywhere I’ve ever experienced.
He doesn’t speak multiple languages fluently, he can speak a couple fluently and then knows some phrases and grammar points
It’s not really a good work when one is learning mostly non-pretty languages that aren’t fun to see and hear, instead of learning super gorgeous languages like Dutch and Norwegian and Icelandic and Breton and Hungarian and Welsh and and Gallo and Catalan and Galician and Slovene and Old Norse etc that have almost only or mostly pretty words - anyways, the true Latin languages are Galician / Portuguese / Gallo / Catalan / French / Spanish / Occitan / Latin / Aranese / Ladin / Guernsey / Esperanto / Walloon / Italian and the other Italian-based languages and the other French-based languages, and they shouldn’t be including that non-pretty language as a ‘Latin’ language which is just a bæd mix of Turkish and Slavic languages and modified ex-Latin words, pfff, which has the most non-pretty word endings and letter combinations and is very uncouth, so it has nada similar to true Latin languages which sound so refined and pretty, and pretty languages such as Gallo and Galician and Occitan should be included instead, like, I don’t even understand how can ppl speak languages that are so non-pretty with embarrassingly funny words, I could never...
Greek also has mostly non-pretty words! I only choose to learn pretty languages with mostly pretty words such as Dutch and Norwegian and Icelandic and Breton and Old Norse and Hungarian and Slovene and Welsh and Portuguese and Gallo and French and German and Italian and Galician and the three Frisian languages and all other Germanic languages and the other 4 Celtic languages and the other true Latin languages and possibly Finnish and Estonian and Latvian as well because they also seem to have a lot of pretty words! Less than 10% of all languages are pretty languages with mostly pretty words, and there are about 50 or 60 pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!
Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...
I missed Greek and Fijian. I only got Mongolian because of you thinking aloud... when you said Siberia my mind jumped to Mongolia. I only speak English fluently and dabble in a few others (currently learning Swedish)... take some harder quizzes... it's fun to see you process them!
This was good, Ari. Do more of these.
That was not Ukranian. That was Russian.
Russians (who aren’t insane) have a bad rap lately…
@@redzeppelin24well yes but the language is still russian🤓
Это не русский язык.
@@aflow- Это русский язык. Там звучали слова, которых нет в украинском языке, но все эти слова есть в русском языке
@@redzeppelin24 Its still two completely separate languages
Omg, I thought I was insane for thinking that Portuguese sounds like Spanish mixed with Russian. Feeling so validated!
As a native Portuguese speaker, I get that a lot from foreigners (that my language sounds like Spanish mixed with Russian). But the most unusual for me was: European Portuguese sounds like an angry Russian, Brazilian Portuguese is more like a drunk French. 😮😂
@@BrazilianSky That's so true tho. :DD
It's because of the "l" sound which sounds the same in Portuguese and Russian.
@@kuab1313 With European Portuguese, it's more the vowel reduction that makes it sound Russian.
It's more like spanish spoken by a dutch person IMO. Especially since some dutch and brazilians get similar accents in english (though most dutch speak very good english so it's hard to tell). Meanwhile at Castilian (that's spanish for the rest of the word) and Greek speakers also get somewhat similar accents when speaking other languages. Neither portuguese and dutch or spanish and greek are that closely related, they just have similar sounds in their languages I guess.
Please do a video on the Welsh language! It has some cool features such as mutations that come from the history of poetry developing the language from brythonic
+100 I am English but Welsh seems so far from my language yet so close geographically.
Please make more videos like this! The last ones were too easy 😅
The last 6 or 7 languages almost seem ingrained in most of our muscle memory from watching many language videos on KZhead these days along with some of the Chinese dialects. That was a good get on guessing the Romanian question. I've never really heard Mongolian being spoken. It seems like a unique language.
The true Latin languages are Galician / Portuguese / Gallo / Catalan / French / Spanish / Occitan / Latin / Aranese / Ladin / Guernsey / Esperanto / Walloon / Italian and the other Italian-based languages and the other French-based languages, and they shouldn’t be including that non-pretty language as a ‘Latin’ language which is just a bæd mix of Turkish and Slavic languages and modified ex-Latin words, pfff, which has the most non-pretty word endings and letter combinations and is very uncouth, so it has nada similar to true Latin languages which sound so refined and pretty, and pretty languages such as Gallo and Galician and Occitan should be included instead, like, I don’t even understand how can ppl speak languages that are so non-pretty with embarrassingly funny words, I could never - anyways, it’s not really good when one is learning or guessing etc mostly non-pretty languages that aren’t fun to see and hear, instead of learning and guessing super gorgeous languages like Dutch and Norwegian and Icelandic and Breton and Hungarian and Welsh and and Gallo and Catalan and Galician and Slovene and Old Norse etc that have almost only or mostly pretty words, and, there’s nada ‘unique’ about Mongolian, it’s similar to the other Asian languages with mostly non-pretty words and odd overly complicated scripts that are impossible to read or properly learn, I would never make myself learn such languages...
Greek also has mostly non-pretty words! I only choose to learn pretty languages with mostly pretty words such as Dutch and Norwegian and Icelandic and Breton and Old Norse and Hungarian and Slovene and Welsh and Portuguese and Gallo and French and German and Italian and Galician and the three Frisian languages and all other Germanic languages and the other 4 Celtic languages and the other true Latin languages and possibly Finnish and Estonian and Latvian as well because they also seem to have a lot of pretty words! Less than 10% of all languages are pretty languages with mostly pretty words, and there are about 50 or 60 pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!
Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...
Some of the prettiest Welsh words are derwen / nest / afon / talar / adeilad / helygen / afal / hyd / lolfa / enaid / bedwen / neithiwr / ynys / nos / sydd / noswaith / ers / mynd / rhosyn / eistedd / gwych / tân / fawr / telyn or delyn / ynddyn / llaw or dwylo / doeth / fewn or mewn / gwar / bys / ffynnon / swrn / tew / blin / mynydd / braich etc, and Welsh reminds of Dutch (Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest and most refined languages ever with the most pretty words) because they have a similar intonation / vibe and they both have the soft CH (H-like K-controlled) sound and many of the words have similar types of letter combinations - Welsh is a category 1 language, and Breton / Cornish are also category 1 languages, just like Dutch and English and Norwegian etc, so they are very easy to learn, and have mostly pretty words, and I am beginner level in Welsh and in the other 5 Celtic languages!
I guessed romanian but more by luck I think, my native language is a Romance one and I had a hard time recognizing it so it must have been a distant one, so romanian
The Mongolian and Fijian languages are amazing to hear 😮
All Indigenous ones are! Sadly most are extinct or almost due to white invaders, but that applies to most of the world. All the more reason to not let it happen anymore (like the military or others that want to invade and destroy all) and help foster them back if you’re not part of it yourself!(:
Mongolian is immediately recognizable because 1. i speak it but 2. those airy kh sounds are very distinct, because i dont know of any other language that has them, especially not used in the same way
@@Cassxowarylol, learn some history
@@SakuraTempura Yes learning history is how we know this, thanks for reiterating 👍
@@SakuraTempura 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
2:28 it’s Russian not Ukrainian!
Maybe it's someone ukrainian but speaking russian, because instead of "shto" he pronounced "sho", like southern russian or ukrainian man would. But this is a minor thing, he also has some kind of southern pronounciation, and in one moment has strangely phrased his thought, probably because he is not exactly sure how to say this in Russian. This is an explanation of my assumption for those, who are not Eastern Slavs and can't tell the difference between the languages of the region.
@@markmoiseyev3726 shto in Ukrainian is "Schcho"
@@gnas1897 true, but I thought ukrainans say "sho" sometimes too, when speaking russian. Like an accent-thing. But maybe it's more common in eastern Ukraine, where we can say, people more often speaking "surzhik", so it's more like between ukrainan and russian language. Maybe even like the Kuban' region, (south of Russia) speak.
@@markmoiseyev3726 yeah they do it but Russians do it too as well. Though you can clearly notice that unstressed "o"s are pronounced as "a"s which never happens in Ukrainian.
For the greek I thought it was Portuguese until I heard "Ellada" which is how you say "Greece" in Greek so I knew it was Greek LOL
Good catch!! Portuguese has "Shh" "Sem" and "Ow" in its language, sounds that are not in Greek at all, but I can see the similarity.
do this again! I love these kinds of games
As somebody who doesn’t speak and understand any of the languages in the last part I was still able to figure them all out. Only the Thai part almost threw me off but the text looked similar to a lot of the Thai comments I’ve read and translated here on KZhead.
We all have our struggles. The first one, Greek I recognized immediately whereas Slavic languages *uff* they sound all the same to me. Also Mongolian. That was my first time to hearing that language 😄 Greetings from a Dane 🇩🇰
Godt at se en dansker her!
Godt at læse noget Dansk fra USA. 😊
I thought Armenian
I only speak English, but I'm learning Norwegian now, Danish will be next. And in other words.... Jeg snakker bare engelsk, men jeg lærer norsk nå, dansk blir neste. I guess they're super similar so I figured it would be an easy transition.
Greetings from an Indian, studying Swedish 🇸🇪.. We love DANMARK 🇮🇳💖🇩🇰
Danke for these
I also thought Portuguese with the first one
I thought it was Romanian
I almost but there wasnt enough sh
As a portuguese, at first I thought it was but I quickly changed my mind. Greeks do be speaking similarly to portuguese tho
I knew it was Greek because I’ve been there and I remember I thought the taxi driver spoke Spanish because I wasn’t paying attention but he was just speaking greek
Im not even Greek hit recognized it was Greek, specifically from the accent and certain words
Oh My, I got the first one right as well as a few others. Fun game 😊 Thanks.
This was fascinating and so is your brain!
I got them all right. I guess you heard something resembling "ora/ahora" in the first one and guessed portuguese and the 2nd one you just went through the process of elimination since most western romance languages place the article in front of the noun. Mongolian is very recognizable in the way it sounds too.
Can you one day do a youtube with you doing ASL ? Thank you !
Loved this hope you do more
please do more of these
I enjoyed this challenge I was so pleased I said Romanian before you did ☺️I got the obvious ones Japanese, French , Russian and German I guess it pays to learn how to say thank you, hello , and goodbye in a few languages . I once worked with an Israeli and still can say I love you ( female to a male) I love to listen to classical music on the radio , sadly I can only count to five and not to ten like I used to be able to do. I was excited for you to get Mongolia every other language could have been Finnish for all I know. I know for a fact I would not know English spoken by the Finnish grandfather of my brother in law.Congratulations on being able to recognize so many and that they weren’t Greek to you. I hope you don’t mind my Charon behaviour ❤😂❤
He's the geoguesser of languages. For the hard polynesian language that was my first area guess. There were so many vowel sounds in each word I though maybe Hawaiian, too.
That was hard! We dont have much of a focus on languages in our curriculum here in Aus. Id sure like to hear you speak bogan-ese one day tho!
all the last 6. you have a fun job!
Please study some Māori and Samoan and pasifika languages. I think you would really enjoy hearing and learning them
Of the somewhat harder ones I got Romanian, the example with "the dog" turning into "dog the" was a big clue as I speak a few words of Romanian and they are referring to "ul" at the end of words... I got French because it is my native language and I got the other easy ones like Spanish, Russian, Japanese, German, etc...
Good video 👍🏻
That was fun!
About the dogthe, Icelandic definite articles also come at the end of words and are conjugated. Karl (man), karlinn (the man), karlarnir (the men). Kona (woman), konan (the woman), konurnar (the women). Borð (table), borðið (the table), borðin (the tables).
HI, I`m looking at your masterclass. Is this for a certain language, or is it more about principles that are applied to any language?
always been curious about this. as someone that speaks multiple languages fluently what do you think it when people talk to you, do you think in the language that you are speaking in the moment or do you always think in your native tongue?
Your amazing.
Fun fact the article comes after the noun in Haitian Creole lol. I guessed Romanian too but only because it was a Romance language and I couldn’t think of another one where I didn’t know how the articles worked
First one I tipped Brazilian Portuguese. I have Brazilian friends and when they talk native, it sounds very similar...
He’s back!
Most Germanic languages have 3 genders (masculine, feminine, neuter), which I also think you find in Latin. Scandinavian languages have got the definite article added to the end of the nouns, instead of a leading article. The vowel range was harder, excluding most (or all) of the Germanic languages. Didn't consider Romanian simply since I don't know enough about it. The Ukrainian sample was pretty close to Russian, but I have to check with my Ukrainian colleagues to ask if they can confirm/agree on the sample content.
it's definitely Russian
Ukrainian closer to Polish then russian. (The closesest language to Ukrainian in terms of Vocab is Belorussian) As a native Ukrainian speaker I can confirm that the language in the example was 100% russian.
It was absolutely Russian, and not Ukrainian.
I got baited hard. I thought there would be a Swedish one in there due to thumbnail. Was looking forward to your guess as a Swedish person myself 😂
I instantly recognized Mongolian, mainly because there are almost no other languages like it and because I listen to a lot of Mongolian music and watch documentaries.
I recognized Fijian as Polynesian, but not more specific. Interestingly, Welsh has that "LH" sound you noticed in Mongolian, which is written as LL in Welsh.
Você é incrível
went into this thinking i would do badly, but was shocked to have got the same ones you got right, for the same reasons.
Yes the end was easy. I got that from watching movies, plus high school French over 50 years ago 😂. Have you done Finnish? That’s my family, mom’s first language. I can make a lot of things sound Finnish. 😂 at least to me. I’m in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Most Finns here, northern Wisconsin, northern Minnesota are where we live in the US. Love your channel ❤
I'm Finnish too! I love the U.P. and grew up eating pasties 😂
@@maddieh5253 What type of pasties?
I did the same on Greek! 😮
@@Jess-737lol keep it up you will get there... I'm Greek and I'm learning German on Duo. I struggle a lot with the listening part.
That was fun, Ari. Do you ever get to Las Vegas? If so, I'd love to go with you to our China Town. I'll be the videographer. I have this cool camera called iPhone.
I wonder how well Laoshu would have done at this. His loss still affects me. I miss his presence and videos so much.
So strange how one day Laoshu was there, and then BOOM! gone. Miss that dude.
you should try learning portuguese from the açores, its a form of slang exclusive to the islands
Really interesting.
Do more of these!!!!!!!
4:29 would be cool to see you try and learn a Polynesian language. It'll be a bit hard finding resources online, although they're there it's not as in depth as other languages. Also I'm not sure how big the Polynesian community is in NYC. Would be pretty dope to see though.
I only really see a bunch of polys here in nz
I hope you could learn some Swedish. Want to see how you tackle the accent.
missed mongolian and fijian and romanian. I should have gotten romanien when the romance clue came out. The others i nailed. Fun video and excersice. Thank you for this content.
I did this to see how bad I would lose to you! Tied after one, I did a premature end zone dance when I heard the article in final position clue, because we had Romanian violinists at my university that I learned some Romanian to talk to, but then you pulled it off! I thought I had lost my one chance to keep up, but we kept even until it came to that language with the L-TH blend thing. Another end zone dance, because we had a Mongolian violinist, that I studied up to have my first conversation with in Mongolian. But then your Hail Mary connected again! Picked myself up off the floor, but then they went into the easy part, and I am proud to say that I tied Xiaoma in a Guess The Language Shootout! Exactly the same languages were misses and wins. (I counted your Mayan joke as a hit, because of course you know Spanish.)
*one thing that might help to know is that languages from colder places have more closed mouth sounds and hotter places more open mouth sounds*
cześć z Polski :D jesteś super!
3rd language was russian. The speaker might be ukranian , but he speaks russian
Definitely that was Russian, maybe spoken by Ukrainian person, not Ukrainian. BTW in what way is Polish pretty similar to Ukrainian? That would be like saying French is similar to German. Yes, a few same words, but that is it.
Well, that was easy for me. I got confused by Romanian, firstly I thought that was Azerbaijani. I was pretty surprised, that this video has Mongolian, I'm speaking Buryat, so for me it's mother language. Xiexie for this video, Xiaoma!
Yoooo, I am verry impressed with all the languages you know. I am actually busy learning Japanese. It is hard ngl and I need some tips lol😅 Kan u die taal verstaan?🤔 Dit sal kwaai wees!
the third one is definitely russian. I mean I speak ukrainian as well as russian, so I can tell the difference
You're right. I'm a native speaker of both.
It is Russian language, not Ukrainian
I also thought it was russian
Lol yeah as a native Ukrainian I surely can tell that it’s russian
The person who made the quiz has never heard probably real Ukrainian. That part pissed me off as an Ukrainian speaker
I gave this a thumbs up not knowing the answer😈
Agree. More like Rissian speaking Ukrainian, cuz of “шо” in the end of a sentence. But language is not a Ukrainian.
Have you ever thought of learning some Australian Aboriginal languages? There are more than 250 of them. The Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole) language is the most spoken as per google
Hey Xiaomanyc , would you consider learning the Fijian language?
Do you think you could have gotten Basque, or other lesser used language in Spain?
Randomly enough I got Romania within like 2 seconds and I don't know how that happened. I love you videos
Would be fun to see you try to tell more Slavic languages apart! You'll get a lot wrong and it'll be good fun for all
basicly got the same ones u did and proud to say i guessed portugese and mongolian before you :)
the Thai and mongolian I didn't get. But some that you were struggling were pretty easy for me.
I even studied Greek, but as soon as I heard Spanish sounds it made me think Portuguese or Tagalog!
My husband had read that the Khoisan languages were the most difficult to learn (usage of clicks). Have you tried this one at all?
0:10 I heard "Ellada", I definitely know it's Greek
This was fun
0:47 Xiaoma! This is so so so so so similar to my Non Indo-European language's vowel system! It's so strikingly similar to Telugu. Even the other rules as well! Not to forget Tamil, Kannada and Kannada. And these languages of Southern India ain't even of Indo-European family. They are of Dravidian family. But all these rules are so strikingly similar to not only the above mentioned Dravidian languages but also to Sanskrit and pure Hindi! Wow! The similarity is just mind boggling.
Missed on Romanian, Mongolian and Fijian. Got Greek on the slight lispy sound they do.
My most impressive guesses were "polynesian" for fiji and romanian. I missed a few, but knew most of the easier ones.
The Greek one I thought sounded like Italian, so my guess was that or my second guess was Greek. That's the only hard one I got, but I definitely recognized the easy ones at the end
Greek celebrities and TV personalities often put more intense emphasis on random parts of the word (bcs it makes it sound more engaging and interesting), so don't let that fool you into thinking it's Italian or Spanish lol.
@@gnas1897 yeah there was this FEEL of Italian but I think I've heard enough Italian to recognize it probably wasn't that, which made me think it was a neighboring language.
Wut? As an Italian I thought it was Catalan
2:53 I'm a native russian speaker and this totally sounds like russian. I'm 99% sure that's russian, not ukranian. Yes they both sound alike, but there are mild differences, and since I can't speak ukranian, it can't be that I understood 100% what they said. The person said: "You know, this question never existed for me, never exists and will never exist... that's why I don't how I should answer this, because I never in my life..." (Seems like a part of some interview, where the interviewed one, doesn't want to answer a question.)
Yep 100% not Ukrainian it's Russian
1:24 There are some indo-european languages that do that. Apart from Romanian also the north Germanic languages (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Faroese and Icelandic) do the dogthe thing.
your doorbell had me go check my own door lmfao
4:10 I'm Fijian and I was so happy he heard the Fiji language
I guessed quicker than you, but matched your answers on all except Mongolian and Fijian (although I did guess Polynesian). I'm fluent in exactly one language, but have half-assed started learning a ton of others..
I'd say Romanian is the Indonesian of Europe. It's quite easy to pick up. I'd love to hear you speak it
Saludos desde Bolivia.
interesting to hear you struggle to identify greek! it does share with iberian languages that somewhat lisp-like sibilant "s" but unlike them, the "th" fricative doesn't (always) sound lisped
Oooh the only one I knew was Fijian…only bc the “kah” or /k/ sound is similar to how Polynesians words sounds (I know Fiji is considered Melanesian but they have close ties to Polynesia ancestry wise)
Languages I missed and my guesses in parentheses: Fijian (Indigenous American)and Mongolian (Finnish). Fun video!! 😊
Where is the finnish?
@@jonza4204hmmm...you mean where do they speak Finnish? In Finland (Suomi) 🇫🇮 ... cheers!
hahah the greek one is hard as hell, im happy i was there 2 weeks ago otherwise id be screwed on that one too
greetings from Slovakia. Learn the Slovak language. We had the first alphabet in 863 and the Bible was translated into our language as the 4th in the world. St. Cyril and Methodius Proglas text
For the last one French and German are easy for me to recognize, since I speak both a little, and Spanish come on, was also easy. Russian and Japanese were the first languages coming to mind. I did recognize the Thai script somehow as something I've seen before, but I wasn't sure of which language it was.
Finally , finally hear some Greek on this channel
2:54 it's Russian man...
2:28 pure russian
Bro you should try to learn a bit of Mongolian. Mongolia is one of the coolest Asian countries from experience
HA! I got the first one straightaway before the reveal. It is easy to confuse with Portugues, at first, because of the "sh" sounds here and there. I've lived in Brasil off and on since 1991, so I was able to rule out Portugues quickly. My first assumption, Greek, turned out to be a good hunch. I don't speak Greek, but I once asked some people what language they were speaking in because it did sound so similar to Portugues, here and there. They said "Greek". On to the next languages, mais idiomas, favor!
I m native Greek who's spent some time in the UK and I can confirm this, majority of people confuse it with Portuguese and some people even Spanish.
@@aLeXx1314 Greek sounds; phonetically more like Spanish than Portuguese. My guess is that in Britain, hearing Greek spoken, and recognising that it it's not Spanish, by default they think it is Portuguese, a language they have less frequently heard, probably.
Dude! Do an ancestry DNA test! It would be so cool to see which languages you can speak out of the nationalities within your genetics!
Such a USA thing to do
@@littlefrank90 or you just think genaolgy is interesting, i did one, although i knew most of my ancestry and it just confirmed what i knew, it was still cool, though yes pricey as i went with 23andme
@@littlefrank90omg wanting to know about your family? Such a USA thing to do
I had no idea that's a USA thing to do hahahaha that's hilarious
@@littlefrank90what makes it so USA?