Prague, how many languages do you speak?
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Today we visit Prague, Czech Republic and ask people how many languages they speak.
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This will be my last video from Europe for a while. Hope you enjoyed the series!
Hey Dan, my name is Aymaan, I filmed a "how many languages do you speak?" video in Calgary! I was inspired by your videos! It'd be an honor if you could check it out! Its on my channel if you want to watch! :)
Where to next?
sad its already over🥲
would be interesting to see interviews in central asian cities 👀
Come to Egypt 😂
As a Slavic person, I would say a lot of people from Eastern Europe are simply shy to say "I speak English" when you ask them, because of the knowledge level, pronunciation, etc.. But if you would ask for kind of help, where they would need to explain you something, then it would be completely different story :)
To the south, in the Balkans - yes, but definitely not the Czechs. Not only they will not help you, they will pretend to not understand what you ask them so that they won'thave to help you.
Czechia is not in Eastern Europe.
@@julianareich7802 Czechia is in Eastern Europe in the sense of being a country from the former Eastern Bloc, which, unfortunately, it's still very much noticeable so many years later and that's usually what people refer to when calling Czechia an "Eastern country". Otherwise, geographically, it's situated in Central Europe.
@@dreadsasho how exactly is it "noticeable"? I literally see no difference between Prague and other central European cities like Vienna or Berlin in terms of development.
@@vitkrivan9380 It's in the mentality of the people - customer service is still pretty much non-existent and the society is still very immature and closed-minded, especially towards foreigners. Unlike in Vienna and Berlin. Also the politicians in charge are still very closely related to the former regime, even the newly elected president is a former agent and don't get me started on the old one... So yeah, still far from the Western world.
1:00 'my chef is very crazy and I really hate him'. The chef watching this video 👁️👄👁️
...that moment when you're about to quit a job and the truth comes out 😂
"chef" - guessing she meant to say "boss"
@@SimonGrayDK Yes. That's a common mistake in Eastern Europe languages. To us, the boss is our 'chief'(jefe), even tho we pronounce it like 'chef'.
@@figliodellestelle22 Same in Germany. There the boss is also Chef/Schef
What a dumb Ukrainian - they hate everyone as it was evidenced right at the beginning of this video.
The way German guy directly translated “how is the day going today” is actually sooooo German 😂
Is it common to say it like that? As a non German guy, I would have automatically thought of something like "Wie läuft dein Tag bisher ab?" (I probably made an error xD)
haahahahah so typical
They look Austrian though
no, every non native english nationality does this
4:40 Nice to include the guy's playing. He's really talented and seems like a cool guy! Bravo Alex.
It’s impressive how many Czechs can speak multiple languages although I suppose Prague might be quite different from the rest of the nation. Other cities in Europe i’d like to see you do this show in are Stockholm, Copenhagen, Zurich, Vienna, and Milan!
Yes, the czechs who dont speak english are not in this video, that is for sure 🙂
And I don't think this was a good sample of people because most of the people were turists or foreigners living in Prague
If you’re Czech the Western world doesn’t understand you at all and no one is really trying to learn Czech as it is quite difficult, so we have to learn languages to be able to get around haha
@@igorbohm6370 I think even if we filter out tourists the result is good and Czechs can be relatively proud in regards to languages knowledge.🙂
It is pretty common for everyone in Czech to know multiple languages. I guess at least 4-5. "speaking the language" is usually regarded as really having vast understanding about the language, huge vocabulary, being able to hold a conversation about anything as well as write any type of text, but at the same time, but we like to mention at least which languages we know, not necessarily fully speak. Like every Czech person speaks Czech and Slovak, understands Polish and at least knows English and German/French/Spanish/Russian.
Interviewer asks 'Say how is your day going in German'. Guy proceeds to say that in German. Interviewer then asks what that means. Guy says 'how is your day going'.
Deutsch spirit 😅
I was surprised that so many Czechs from this video know Spanish. And in general people know 4 languages in average. Good job, Prague!) Thanks for video, Dan!
in high school we have to learn English plus another language and you can choose between German, French, Spanish and Italian
Most of the people he asked weren't Czechs 😂
Most aren’t even Czech 😂 Secondly, they all have said “ aaaand …a little bit of ..” means they don’t speak those languages
@@zwiderwurzn5908 but I talked about Czechs from this video.
@@mykola5127 well the czechs who dont speak english are not in this video, that is for sure 😁
That guy called Alex is a legend! What a nice human beeing. And his music is amazing too!
I didn't know Polish sounds exactly like English xD
It was English actually
@@denius97 he was making a joke bro
Hi! I just love watching your interviews with all the people in different places and can't wait to see the next 😊😊😊
If you go to Asia, I’d be very curious to see you ask this question in Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur, should be many bilingual/multilingual people in those cities 😅
If you ask japanese this question, everyone say only one language😂😂
Maybe everyone say 2 languages 😅😅😅😅
Why do most people think they are multi. If they can speak english one can already be happy😂
My English is not strong, but I can put my mind to it and gain knowledge from watching your videos. Thank you, man, for sharing this knowledge with me, as I am a beginner to learn English.❤🙏
Fun fact: Czech didn´t mention understanding/knowing Slovakian language, because for us it´s so natural that we don´t coun it as "foreign" one.. We used to be one country - Czechoslovakia, today we´re split, but e.g. on internet or in TV we act like one country. Internet for us is Czecho-Slovakian, we have shows together like Superstar (Czecho-Slovakian Idol). Slovakian has also specific status in Czech legislative - although it´s not official language of Czech Republic yo can use it in official administrations, or Slovaks don´t have to learn Czech for going to university to Czech degrees and can write their theses in Slovak too
that's because their basically the same language, like serbo-croat
Very interesting. I knew about Czechoslovakia. But I never realized how similar both languages are. But it makes a lot of sense. What are some of the differences?
@@JeroenyBoth languages have plenty of different words, some of the grammar is different, too but as a Slovak I can understand a fluent Czech conversation with no problems. I’ve never studied it but I’ve been exposed to it via TV my whole life. Same goes for Czechs understanding my language.
It's like the difference between American and British English@@Jeroeny
@@justmeiam4996 no, it is not
I lived in Prague for 4 years and I really do miss it. It was so nice watching this video, makes me miss it a ton
I enjoyed your guitar, Alex! Thanks!
You play the guitar very well, Alex!!❤
Your music is great, Alex!
Well done man!;) It's very interesting, to watch your videos with different people and them accents.
Really, Alex plays extremely well! Great song
Such a beautiful city! Great video.
watching this from Dresden, germany. finishing my beer, when you started talking to the irish/french musician... I was drinking Kozel. :D nice coincidences
Thx for doing content from my town 🤝
Great music, Alex!
Alex was killing it on guitar :)
🐢 I loved enjoying this beautiful "How many languages do you speak" experience Daniel because I'm pretty curious about finding out amazing and interesting things like how many different languages those nice people can speak on their own and stuff like that. I speak English and Spanish as my primary languages, I'm currently learning German as well and I'm also so keen on learning another languages which will benefit me at any aspect in the future. I'm not a traveler and I don't have such unbelievable traveling experiences you have and I have in mind visiting the US first and then I'll plan to go to several countries in Europe. Have a good one, goodbye 🤗.
So different people from around the world. Amazing center of multiple cultures.
Going to visit next week, so excited! Any recommendations (food,bars) ? Bon video comme toujours!
I would LOVE to see another video in this series from Michigan, Tel Aviv, Dublin, Cardiff or Bern.
A city is nothing but the people who live in it. Great work capturing the essence of these places!
nice video! can't wait for the next episode🐢
I really enjoyed Alex's music. Thumbs up!
8:29 She seems nice and it is a pity that she didn't answer the question in Polish.
its mentality thing I guess - shock to be question on public street bringing untrust from comunist era. This trauma i feel even I was born into democratic regime many years affter fall of comunism.
@@vlastimilzlamal2982 Thanks for the reply.
Leaving a comment for Alex, the legend!
I like your channel because you talk to the locals!
such a great content :)
What a great video I live in Prague 16 years and I love the energy of international people
I like how he is a little awkward. It makes the interactions seem more genuine lol.
I am surprised that the half Irish guy has foreign accent in English.
same lol
I am from South Korea and we have a lot of half Korean kids mostly with a Korean mother and an American/British/Canadian father. And never have I once seen such person have foreign accent in English even when they went through Korean education system.
He has a French accent so he probably grew up in France even though he has Irish origins
Why? He obviously grew up in France, speaking French as his first language.
Super! I like it! I study English and want to speak fluently. Speaking English is a good skill for living and I tell my son this thing all the time
🐢 Reminds of my visit in Prague and Budapest a few years ago.
Great guitar playing by Alex! What tuning is that? It’s so dreamy! Also wonderful video! ❤
Thanks for including a couple of minutes of the guitarist.
This French guy guitars skills were amazing ! wish you could have recorded him a bit longer
I enjoy your content so much that I often imagine telling you how many languages I speak.
Funny, I am from Prague and met in the city centre these two german guyes and talked to tham… I do not know which day it was exactly, but it was friday.
Well done bro
14:30 Wow, this guy speak really good. He has an accent but I (as Czech) understand him :) Go ahead, keep learning
Alex was pretty good with his guitar (better than I).
very interesting, thank you!
great! i like your videos!
I enjoyed listening to Alex play.
What a nice video! Sending love to everyone from Prague 💌 Pivo prosím 😎
the screen saver is missing a couple of thousand Czech crowns
I am so pleased to have found your channel. I have always loved this style of video and language related content. I will delve further! 😀 I also enjoyed my visit to Prague. My only regret was not managing to visit the castle. The queue was absolutely insane. 😂
Very nice music Alex
I love your interest in languages, Dan!!
I find it a little bit misleading, most of the people were foreigners :).
Hi from Glasgow in Scotland. I only speak English, though it's a heavily Scots influenced version. Say hi to Alex and thanks for the music.
when i say i wanna back-pack across europe, i specifically mean i want to have a conversation with the musician in prague drinking beer i’ve never heard of
You need to do this in Belgrade
Prague is probably the most pleasant place to live in the world. Amazing culture, amazing local people etc. I really wish France would have stayed like this...
I speak 3 and German little bit eventho I have studied it for 4 years but was not really expose to any German. I believe nowadays in Europe especially with young generation you would be ok with just English. Every young person is expose to it. Through netflix, youtube, facebook, internet generally but it is harder to speak just in English with older people who especially in Eastern Europe were most likely learning Russian
as a czech person, i have to say that czech blondie summarized it pretty well :)
With her California accent!
You should keep in touch with the French Irish guy. He’s also a musician. Would be interesting to see what he’s up to in the future. I wish you all the best. Respectfully.
Alex's music is great!
i and my friends brought atleast three anker soundcore headphones using your link.
Thanks :D
You should come to Tallinn! :)
Here's something that happened to me while in Prague October last year. It was evening, I was going back to my hotel and decided to get some snacks from a local Lidl supermarket. I paid everything, but when I crossed the checkout the alarm simply went off. There I was, with my backpack, on the very first day in a city whose language I couldn't speak, and by myself. The cashier asked me in czech to open my backpack - as soon as I said I couldn't speak the language, she asked me again in this perfect and clear English. They took a look for, like, 5 seconds, and told me that I could go. Most people I interacted with in Prague were able to speak English, but a very good one. The alarm going off, though, that's the second thing I won't forget about my brief visit to Prague. This has never happened to me in Brazil
as a local, that never happened to me :D I hope you enjoyed your stay however
They have no right to check your backpack, sometimes they are pretty agressive towards people who have backpacks. Those security guys are mostly some apes from soviet countries who can't even speak Czech.
Most of the people under 30 do speak/understand English. English have been compulsory in schools for years, so they are just shy to speak but they do understand. Older people on the other hand had Russian as compulsory language in school, they still kinda understand it to this day, but they don't speak it.
I don´t know if I would be considered an old person. However, I can speak quite fluently both English and Russian. My experience is rather that much older (let´s say my age and older) usually don´t speak English (because they didn´t learn it) nor Russian (because it was hated and not effectively taught). The biggest Czech problem with languages is that the style of teaching at schools and even courses has still been outdated and useless. As you write, most people are shy to say something, because they are afraid to make a mistake. The y often know a lot of vocabulary but don´t try to say a simple sentence.
@@helenablizikova332 It's exactly how you say, older people have some pasive knowledge of Russian, they can understand something, but they mostly can't speak anymore, many of them can't even read cyrillic anymore. When we visited Latvia with my father, he was like "I will be speaking Russian" but it ended like he always pushed me forward and said "Say it in English" because his knowledge of Russian is not enough even for basic conversation. Most of them had even German in school, but I don't know how well they can understand or speak it. It happened to me in Poland that some older people started talking to me in German which is pretty annoying when I can't understand single word.
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8:06 lol.. 10s of millions of people in india speak urdu.
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Trying not to fall in love here 11:20 Another great video man 🐢🐢
Alex is tripping balls and having a lot of fun !
I visited Prague a year ago. It is a nice place.
I enjoyed Alex's music. Best wishes from India.
first girl is such a mood XD
she knows that she is doing one of the worst tourist trap and we will hate her for that, but she has to do that because it's her job, I would be also complaining about that 😀 but I don't understand why these people can't find real job, we have low unemployment and every company is looking for people
Prague looks like a beautiful city, very traditional
if you went in the middle of czechia or just any random other city outside of Prague and maybe Brno you'd mostly hear that they can speak only Czech or Slovak
in these days more like only Russian, I visited Brno recently and there are only Ukrainians now, you will barely meet someone at street who can speak Czech
Do languages off Luxembourg City 🇱🇺
no
@@fayereaganlover why?
I was hoping this is going to end like Czech streets
Fist bump denial was brutal but she was still very friendly
Fist Bump for him🤜🤛🐢. Nice video.🐢
Love this country a lot
The first girl is amazing, i want to follow her personal blog xD
Pilsner is actually the most expensive beer out of the common ones. Of course there are some special beers (IPA etc.), that are more expensive, but that's not what Czechs usually drink.
It's funny for me that she's saying at 0:59 "My chef is very crazy." I always thought that this is a typical mistake that only Germans make because "chef" is the German word for "boss". But now I know that non-German speakers make this mistake too!
In Czech it's exactly the same. Boss = šéf (pronounced as chef with prolonged "e").
@@vitezslavnovak2077 Okay. Then it seems to be similar in Slavic languages. I just wonder sometimes when someone who only speaks English and no other language hears the word "chef", if he still knows that actually a "boss" is meant, or if he is thinking of a cook.
@@MarkusDuesseldorf For Czechs, it's actually hard to realize how to say a "cook" as a person in English, because cook looks like a verb and your mind yells that it can't be the same word for verb "to cook" and for person who is cooking. 😀 There is a lot of similar examples how English looks totaly foreign like from different planet to us.
Wow, it's interesting coz in Portuguese, chefe means boss
she is ukrainian/russian and chef\шеф is a Boss in those languages too
In the old town in Prague, the dominant trade is tourism, and aside from the many tourists who speak everything except Czech, you will find immigrants working in tourism who will speak a bit of Czech and a few other languages, and Czechs who speak at least fluent English. I have been to Prague recently and parked my car far outside the centre on a park and ride parking. When I retrieved it, I couldn’t pay by card and the attendant spoke only Czech! But he was very kind and resourceful, and managed to explain to me via his smartphone how I could finally pay and retrieve my car. And since I am trying to learn a bit of Czech, I could at least answer his questions and thank him! Czech is really very difficult to learn and there are only 10-11 million speakers worldwide, but it is an interesting language that has surprisingly many links to my native German, although it is to all effects a Slavic language.
6:15 - no fist bump from super sensible girl, left you hanging there 😆😆
bro i swear i'm not kidding she's my classmate XDDD
tell her she was being totally witch @@stepanvrana88
Didnt know so many Czechs knew spanish! awesome!
yep, we have quite a lot of high schools teaching Spanish, also there are some high schools which are Spanish bilingual meaning that most of the subjects there are taught only in Spanish (in the past usually it was that people were taught English and German but nowadays you have English and then you can choose between German, French or Spanish-at least in the better high schools).
@@vitkrivan9380 False testimony made by a Hispanic disguising as a Czech. You're talking about immersion classes? Spanish immersion classes in regular schools worldwide do not exist not even in the US because no businessman would dare to take a risk to invest to establish a school where the medium of instruction is Spanish. The most popular immersion classes all over the world in regular public and private schools is the French Immersion Classes not Spanish and Hispanics need to acknowledge that because the government of hispanic countries does not have the funds to set-up such schools worldwide unlike France and the rest of the Francophone countries that can subsidize schools for French classes in non-francophone countries. A good example of that is South Sudan, where they made French compulsory in the school curricula with the help of DR of Congo and the aim is to have at least 1 million French-speakers in a decade. In the US too, where there are lots of French Immersion classes in both private and public schools and students in this program perform better in academically than those from regular classes. So, it's very likely that those schools with Spanish as the medium of instruction are for the children of hispanic expatriates or diaspora 🤔🙄
@@flxdz7103 you are wrong. I do not know where you are from, but Im Czech and I went to one of the schools I described where you could select this special program(yes, you can call them Spanish immersions, although we call them Spanish bilingual) which ended in passing an official Spanish state exam as well as regular Czech state exam which everyone takes at the end of high school . And I know of schools which have the same program in German, French, English. It is however true, that these schools that I know of are either Catholic schools (which was my case- called: Biskupské gymnázium J. N. Neumanna) or private high schools. So Im not sure if any public high school offers this kind of program, but there are a lot of catholic and private HS in the Czech Rep....
Can you do Lviv, Sarajevo, Baku, Almaty
So? Drei, tres, three that I actually use. Cool video!
I actually really like how this person didn't knock the fist. It can look kind of rude maybe, but in fact, it is a highly controlled choice of defense of the personal space, in my opinion.
Essas eslavas são muito lindas.
São atraentes mas gosto elas de retundas
2:24 - Love them! :)
1:35 - damn! One of those underwater specimen! I believe it's called Mudshark.
hello from eastern Europe, Türkiye 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
Turkey is not in Europe
1:00 My chef(my boss).
Amazing 🐢
0:56 "My chief is crazy, I hate him..." and all of that on the youtube, congratulations, your job is assured, I think...:))))))