Game of Thrones Language Creator Reviews Valyrian and Dothraki Pronunciation | Vanity Fair
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- David J. Peterson created two complete languages for Game of Thrones based on only a few lines of dialogue in the books. Watch as David reviews people on the attempting to speak Dothraki and High Valyrian. Do any of them impress him?
David J Peterson created Duolingo's High Valyrian course which you can find here-
www.duolingo.com/course/hv/en...
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1:55 Valyrian has dialects. Not only did this guy make a language, he made dialects of the language. Holy lord.
right?? dude you're taking this way too seriously...lol..lol..
It’s insanely awesome!
@@d.r.robinson9599 it's his job. Hr should take it seriously
@@Mushimiya its a fake language...its not like he can actually use this in real life...like we the audience would of have really known if Emilia Clarke pronounced a certain word all wrong...LOL..
Many people do that. Natural languages have dialects, so naturalistic languages should also have dialects.
I love how he speaks of the languages as if they are real with a rich history.
@@starrystudy00 I agree Tolkien made such an immersive world, languages included. I have read the trilogy and the Hobbit, but have not yet gotten to the Simarillion.
It is rich with history you uncultured swine
@@elizabethh8579 As much as I love Tolkien I wouldn't really recommend the Silmarillion. It's pretty boring since it was never edited by Tolkien himself and wasn't ready for publishing before his death. It's kind of like reading a history textbook except the guy that edited the book wasn't completely sure if what is said is true or not.
@@kylershumaker1242 Hey she makes cat toys, she's clearly very cultured.
@@maxhydekyle2425 It's kind of liking reading the bible but a lot more epic
Job resume:
Fluent in
-English
-French
-Valyrian
Mdr
Léon what
Aimeee Colins « mdr » is the French « lmao »
Bsksos SBssfcgg ok
ouais c vrai lol
The pride in his eyes when he’s watching Emilia speak Valyrian is adorable
Shoutout to everyone learning high valyrian on duo lingo
I don’t have a choice. Duo has my family trapped in a bunker somewhere in the middle of nowhere and has threatened to sell them to the Taliban
Esaie Romain 😂😂😂
I love it
Just FYI: David Peterson created the Valyrian course on duolingo.
Yup. Still on the sweating mothers and knights levels 😂
This dates back to the time GOT writers actually cared about the details.
Mimimi
You mean the time when they had books to follow.
@@mistein837 then that means these writers arent that good cause the sheer difference is astounding.
@@mistein837 It has nothing to do with the books. The books had two Valyrian words. So basically this was the time when D&D cared about the show & weren't impatient to move on to Star wars.
SSHSHSH I CANTT
I have a french exam tomorrow and I'm sitting here watching a guy speak a made-up language, just kill me
I hope you got bad grades
Rodrigo F.N it’s been a year bruh
Lol
I Hope you passed.
Well technically all languages are made up
This really makes me respect Emilia Clarke as an actress. Her being able to speak MULTIPLE languages that do not exist and execute them perfectly whilst pulling off her scenes is beyond me. The scene in 08x06 when she’s giving a speech to the Dothraki and the Unsullied gave me chills. Her being able to interchange between 3 languages, Westerosi, Valyrian, and Dothraki shows how much talent she had. And the fact that she spoke all 3 FLUENTLY without pausing in 1 scene is ridiculous
It's her job
@@yourlandladysson6395 EVERYONE DOES NOT DO THEIR JOB CORRECTLY
She in an interview that she had no idea what she was saying, that she was told what to say at the beginning of the scene. She didn't learn the languages to the extent she could carry on a conversation.
@@ralphm6901 wow! That makes is more difficult!
Was there westerosi language?😮
lol Danys one sentence in Valyrian to the slave master has more depth and thoughtfulness than the entirety of season 8
DrBlueCow 😂
Your so right😂
!!!!
The common denominator is GRRM...
She did really great... 👍🏿
What a smart guy, he literally created a language!
Multiple languages! For multiple shows and movies!
2 languages!
~JRR has entered the Chat~
@@szeth14 Haha that's not fair! Tolkien is the father of conlangs and probably had like 100 languages entirely mapped out.
Tolkien did too, and he created Middle Earth so I guess that's a league up. Not that this guy isn't good.
To anyone who has watched “The 100” TV show, he also wrote the grounder language called “Trigedasleng”
DUUUUDE really?? Mad respect for this guy
that’s dope
He created Elders Speech for The Witcher too
Wow grounder language 🙌🏻🙌🏻😚
NO WAYYY OMG that's epiccc
I believe I saw a clip were Emilia said that when she was trying to learn these languages, she would remember them by making a song with them. I assume that is why she had such great rhythm in her sentences. She still blows me away with her dedication to this role. This guy was awesome also.
He was speaking so passionately about these languages that I doubted several times if these were actually real languages created ages ago.
So did I
@@fupta6449
Latin
Steel Bear latin is real and exists? you mean dead languages. but that doesn’t make them unreal or non-existent lol
@@fupta6449 latin is a dead languange?
@@alhamjamain638 yep
Valyrian sounds so good. Props for him creating it.
I know right? It's such a beautiful language. It's like the Italian of the Thrones world. The only language that's proper for true poetry and music. At least high valaryian is, astapori valaryian sounds like ghetto valryian.
@@maxhydekyle2425 sounds more arabic than italian
@@maxhydekyle2425 More like -Portuguese or Spanish- a mix of Romance and Slavic languages.
@@luf4rall it litteraly sounds nothing like Arabic lol
@@txmilxssi7803 sorry was thinking of dothraki
Fun fact : What he describes at 3:13 is a real sound change that happens in actual language evolution . It's called metathesis.
like the whole 'ask' being pronounced 'aks'?
@@rujon288 precisely :)
I hate it when Emilia says "dracarys" without thrilled "R" s! Especially in later seasons.
bugrilyus omfg right
Right??!!
That’s what was missing! I always wondered why it had such less of an impact
right?
ME TOO THANK YOU
I love how this guy even has the history of how these languages changed and developed over centuries. That's absolutely amazing. Including local dialects, just amazing that he created this all.
i wish the show used more of his worldbuilding, to be honest. he went beyond what was needed. you can see why he won the competition
Not to diminish his job, it's awesome, but thinking the evolution of the tongue is most often part of creating a fictional language.
I think it's part because the lore setting constraints helps the creative process, and part because language nerds are the biggest nerds you'll ever meet.
i dislike how he talks about the languages as if they have history
Also, as languages evolve through time - they become simpler. Thus, it allows the fictional linguist to create a simple language (which is functional in your universe) and you may build upon it (and its complexity) by referencing the language's history.
@@theory2480 Why? It's part of creating a language for a fantasy world because they do have history and it's almost always incredibly complicated history in fantasy.
I can't get over the fact that he talks about mispronunciation and using word variants that no one else besides him understands. I'm amazed that he treats these languages as real, spoken languages with real history behind them
Ah the detail and effort game of thrones *used* to have in its world building
@@glendarjj3991 You can basically sum of thrones by: Everybody did a great job and cared a lot, except the writers/show runners.
If I made my own language, I'd definitely make sure people get it right lmao
It's as real as any other arbitrary human language. Learn it correctly or don't.
Fake it until u make it lol he made fake language till it became cultural phenomenon
As a native spanish speaker, I think High Valyrian might be easy to pronounce.
High Valyrian for Spanish speakers should become a Duolingo course
Muy cierto
@@ishmamahmed9306 well kudos for seeing the future. It is
Siento que sería más fácil para serbios, croatas, por esos rumbos.
@@ishmamahmed9306 It is currently a course on Duolingo.
Every time Daenerys said "Dracarys" without the "trilled r" I was kinda sad since I enjoyed Emilia's performance of the first time sooo much
the people who aren't pronouncing right sound like voice actors for the sims
J Mercieca It's truth 7:15- 7:30 XDXDXD
SO TRUE LOL
Yes
What is valyrian for "felt cute burnt kings landing" ?
strange scorpion drogonae bharbaeque
@@ocandro 🤣
@@ocandro for tho
DRACARYS MYASSOFF
felt cute zālagon dārys tegorīr
You can see that he’s really passionate about the languages he created! He really wants to be informed and included in anything that involves them lol.
The only dracerys that sounded badass was when she spoke it with that valeryian accent.
She should have done them all like that ):
Omg right?? Thats when she ”r” in the right way
All anything before season 7 was great imo
This guy would have probably written a more in-depth season 8, then the entire actual writing team of season 8....LMFAO
100%
The entire writing team is Dave and Dan. Which is why it sucks
Wait until you se the final episode
@@jazminyamilachamorropineda7566 Just saw it and let me just say that I feel robbed of the years I spent watching this show.
Lamiek_1 they really just fuckup the 2 last seasons. The ending makes absolutely no sense.
Am I tripping or does this guy have normal fingers for thumbs??
Hahaha this comment made me laugh way too hard, he has hella long thumbs 🤣
Annnnnd the rest of the video I'm staring at his freaky thumbs fml
Longest thumbs I’ve ever seen 😳
Lmao
Can we try to be nice to people? It’s really not necessary to make fun of people’s thumbs or any other parts of their body.
How do i say "season 8 sucks" in high valyrian
Setting Mind Jeda jenqa iksos quba.
Dracarys
Da kawragi kan uryan na season ning show na kadi!!!!!
Lol
Baho kag nawong
Actros: makes mistake by accident.
David J. Peterson: "It was actually thousands of years of language development, after the Doom of Valyria took place....."
You guys need to invite him back so he can go in-depth on Grey Worm. I really wanted to know more about that.
I've heard directors of GoT episodes say the same thing about Jacob Anderson and his ability to talk in the fictional languages of GoT
@@FreakieFan It's cause he's a rapper.
IKR i really wanted to hear what he had to say about him!!
Jacob Anderson is the GOAT. He's a talented musician, a funny guy, great actor and can pick up a fake second language flawlessly?
@@princeapoopoo5787 Second and third
As someone who studied Linguistics, this makes my day
Tasha Solomon what’s it like to study? I love languages and I’m passionate about learning. Been wanting to create some for my fantasy worlds but I don’t know much about it.
Tasha Solomon I'm thinking about majoring in linguistics, do you think it was worth studying, in your opinion?
Teddy Bear Tasha
Yes!! Im currently an undergrad and I love it!! It helps understand other language structures and makes it easier to learn because language has specific patterns and rules for irregular verbs. I personally love it and many linguists are polyglot. Ive studied over 5 languages and I wish to learn more.
The only downside to the degree, if you live in the states, is there isnt much of a market for linguists unless you plan to become a teacher/professor, translator, interpreter. Most other jobs like editing, copywriting, or journalism require you have an english, marketing or journalism degree. So having a second degree to back your first would help tremendously.
Same!!
@@imbatgirl omg! that's so cool!
I'm currently studying linguistics and literature (in my country those careers are one degree not two unless you want a major or doctorate) and I want to be a translator/interpreter but I don't know how.
Do you how can I become one?
Too bad you couldn’t help Dave and Dan with the actual script 🤦🏻♂️
_Me trying to speak Valarian_
My tongue : *_and I oop-_*
I speak the common tongue, I guess that's pretty good?
Well, depends. The common tongue uses non-american accents.
KingZ they are a variety of British accents
@@khazms If you look closely enough you'll notice Westeros is just Britain flipped 180°. Besides, I'm not American anyway so yay?
Ich auch, du ☺
I speak two versions of the common tongue
If only they put this much effort into making the final season good
Cinyx GP Right
@@HunterG5 The show is perfectly fine now. S7 sucked
Then stop watching it FFS.
Its impossible to finish a show like GoT in 1 season with 6 episodes, especially when it just started getting more interesting when 1 of the main characters just landed herself in the playzone. D&D just didnt wanted to properly finish what they started and im extremely dissapointed but ill probably happy once this destruction of a once beloved show ends
DMCEagles05 “perfectly fine” that’s why they’re fine churning out mediocrity😭😭
7:48 as a native Spanish speaker I was nodding my head like "yeah, he's right""... In this part
I could be learning Japanese, I could be strengthening my Spanish or studying German but as a game of thrones fan and house of the dragon fan I can’t resist learning high Valyrian, so I shall follow this path 😌
I hadn't watched GOT but I started learning High Valyrian.
Now I'm watching little by little.
i could be building on my missed spanish grammer(thanks high school..) and conjugation
but as an elf-friend I decided Sindarin, Telerin and Quenya to be my fate
High Valyrian rocks. I always wondered why Emilia pronounced "iksos" as "iskos" and I love that without knowing, she got it right in Astapori Valyrian.
although the whole Iskos-Iksos inversion in Astaporian seems very much apocryphal. I mean, the dude invented the language, so I guess he is allowed to make things up on the spot!
Lou Ayneux if he inveted it on spot then props to him, because he even gave it a backstory as to why Emilia’s mistake made sense. Loved it. 😂
Yeah, honestly, even if it is retconned, I don't mind. It only shows extreme creativity when it's done properly like this.
And anyway this kind of skks switch happens in real languages so I'll allow it.
@@anttihelin6820 some americans pronounce ask as aks .. i aksed 😅
Lmfao
Job description: *prefers to be bi-lingual
Me: *speak english and high valyrian
couldnt choose a username my cousin’s job is to hire people for this company. Her only job is to review resumes and do interviews and then send the finalists to someone else. She’s seen a few resumes with fictional languages under skills. For other reasons she never approved the resumes but she thought it was pretty cool.
It's really crazy to realize that he is perfectly fluent on a language that doesn't even exist. He's probably the one who "speaks like a native"
Had the awesome opportunity to attend a lecture he gave, it is actually incredible how passionate he is about linguistics and all the thought that went into Dothraki and all the other languages he created for GoT.
Second time I've heard that the actor who plays Grey Worm is the best at this, yet he was not used as an example in this video?
Grey Worm truly does sound natural in Valaryian.
His natural accent is crazy strong too. Very normal English but a strong accent.
Yasss that is true!
Emilia's Valyrian sounds, slightly unnatural and forced at times, hehe sorry just an opinion 😁
Jenno Contreras hers sounds the best to me! it just rolls off of her tongue
@@jennocontreras623 Especially when saying "dracarys" in later seasons without the thrilled "R" s
"Okay, now im gonna hear you guys speak Dothraki to Jason Mamoa"
*fan and Jason speaking to like no volume to the point where all you hear is static*
12:35 "I definitely liked the energy"
SAME
Oh you have to listen that with headphones
Wear headphones
just came back to this after the more extensive+casual use of Valyrian in HotD - Millie’s “Dracarys” is perfect AND the difference with the 150+ year old accent compared to time setting in GoT is felt and appreciated… the lil details make a show which is why HotD is amazing. Thanks GRRM!!!
I’d love to hear what he thinks of Ranerys’ and Damon’s high valerian
Don’t feel bad! We all wish the Dothraki got more screen time.
They did! They came back to get fried in King's Landing 🤣🤣🤣
No we don't. F. Off.
That was the best impression of a gringo I have ever heard.
omg, yes
"Thrill those R's, I know it's hard for americans..."
*[Laughs in south Brazilian Portuguese]*
It'd be lovely to have him again to talk about the changes in the High Valyrian spoken in HotD!
i think he's the only guy who has more knowledge in the history of the languages of GOT world than GRRM
GRRM created 2 sentences and this guy knows the history of how language changed, its mind blowing
Please invite him back where he talks about the scene where Melisandre is chanting that spell! That was so mystical it gave me goosebumps
Are you talking about John's resurrection? as far as I am concerned, in one of the interviews the actress said that she forgot her sentences and promptly made up sounds by herself
So it's technically not Valyrian(
I can tell he’s super protective over his language... but also this is so interesting!
need vanity fair to bring this guy back and have him react to the high valyrian scenes in house of the dragon. there are only 2 episodes out, but there's so many great dialogues already!
This is awesome, hearing that Jason as Drogo even had a "manly" affectation on his dothraki accent is such a nice touch. This makes me want to get into linguistics.
His proud face is everything
Yes, Grey Worm speaks it like its his native language. He really accepted it deeply!
Thank you for putting so much thought into it. The world needs more people like you in it!
They should have had this guy write the show, with the amount of detail he focuses on it would have been better than D&D
ohh stfu. The pressure will probably crack him like an egg. you think "detail" is the only thing u need to create a good show. even david fincher has admitted he wouldnt want to make a marvel superhero thing like avengers cause he doesnt like the presure does kinda jobs brings with it.
😂😂😂
Yea and it was announced that they are doing the next star wars trilogy, so they most likely rushed this, to be able to do that
For SURE
love that chick being so confident and failing so hard speaking to Jason
This is amazing, all the production surrounding this show is just incredible.
The linguistic explanations and layers of meaning created are just delightful. What a great video.
This guy is a genius don’t get me wrong but his hair cracks me up😂😂
I quite like the hair. Although, it's not a common hairstyle in America. It is in European and Asian countries though.
@@khazms I'm European and I can tell you that this hairstyle is not typical for Europeans lol.
@@FabiJenneke Europe has many countries, it's a literal continent. You can't possibly speak for all Europeans. I've seen the hairstyle common in some European countries.
That said, I'll take your word for it. I'm just saying, I've seen it more common in Europe and Asia than America.
genius people don't care what they look like
For me it's his thumbs lol
Before they spelled it out I thought he said "The BEATLES will feast on your lungs".
Like, "Okay, random" lol
I thought the same thing. Glad I'm not the only one
Me too 😂😂😂
Paul McCartney will devour you
"Awww honey"
J. R. R. Tolkien
Aghhhh I love this guy too much. I've never actually seen Game of Thrones, but a couple of years ago I was doing a school project on conlanging and read a lot about Dothraki and Valyrian and ended up contacting him with a few questions. He answered them all really helpfully and kindly, and I still have quite an interest in linguistics and conlangs.
i like this guy he is nice not like the other douchey language experts we've seen before
omg I can't stand the "accent" guy they have with a passion! Dude thinks he's the star rather than Brad Pitt who's in the clip right next to his face.
@OIFMeDiC89 Nils how nice did you need him to be? I thought he was awesome
@OIFMeDiC89 Nils He just didn't like people making a mockery out of something he spent a looooong time creating innit.
@OIFMeDiC89 Nils Just because you're not smart enough to understand him doesn't mean he's pretentious.
7:00 that woman has never seen the show, and probably never even heard a single foreign language, if that was honestly her best attempt.
Sam Hilton-yeah absolutely insane. Pronouncing everything as if they are English words. You would say that if she has seen game of thrones, she could’ve altered that.
Would love to see her try to speak Japanese lol
TheGhost-yeah clearly hahah
It's like a sim talking
Bruh you made me get a add
I’m a gigantic Game of Thrones fan, & this video makes me love it a hundred times more! He invented a beautiful language, & his passion is well proven! I’m so beyond impressed
I want to see him react to Rhaenyra and Daemon speaking High Valyrian
So basically he just made up 2 languages.
what else u gonna do :l
And there's actual people learning them on language apps
Julian Sen people must really have a lot of Time
He says he even creates languages in his spare time when he’s bored, he’s probably created a good amount of them.
this is his job, but he got it by having it as a hobby for years and years
He went to the same highschool as me and was a guest speaker for my German class
I believe him
Is he German? Why was he there?
@@backpfeifengesicht8415 because he went to my school and took German?
@VanderbiltQuinn it happened when I was a sophomore
@@Zack-bl1cw haha I thought he was there as a guest :D
“That’s it, that’s the sound” - true enthusiasm
Man's rolling them R's like his life depended on them
Was it just me or did anyone else have trouble with the sound of the clip with the woman speaking to Jason Mamoa in Dothraki ?
I never heard anything on that part, it kinda sounded like it was muted out with some static
Same
Same here
John Doe no I didn’t
Try again with earphones/headphones. At first I didn't heard anything either, but when I tried again with earphones on it worked fine c:
This blows my mind the fact that he created two new languages for a mythical show. I applaud you.
Follower in the steps of Tolkien
As a little language nerd I loved this! Fun fact, the y in high valerian is the same as the Norwegian y. Also hard for native English speakers.
It's 6:14 AM and I am absolutely enjoying watching this video. This guy created a whole new language and the passionate way he is talking about it just amazes me. props to this guy
VANITY FAIR!!!!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!! Please make a video with Ramin Djawadi next
agreed, another great genius in the series!
I wish Dothraki was on Duolingo too. I'm having a hard time with High Valyrian whereas Dothraki comes naturally to me
Indra Nemty cool
I love how this man put a value for language he created
At around@3:00 when you talk about her accidentally using the S in the wrong place and it was fortuitous that because the regional dialect happens to do the same thing. What's cool about the way you made the language dialect for that region is that that's how regional dialect end up working anyway. It's what "feeeeeels" like the right thing to say basically so it came out natural the way it would in real life! Neat! :]
This man is a genius but someone please tell him to part his hair a different way...
Hahahahhahaa
😂😂😂😂😂
He came up with Dracarys. He can do what he wants
Eccentric people have a habit of parting their hair that way, I'm guilty too. It looks bad but feels right! lmao😂 Good Day
@@alieniverson8139 Actually George came up with dracarys, but you're right😂
I am so annoyed that the second Dothraki clip is completely cut off. It just sounds like white noise; we can’t hear her at all. :(
Oh good I thought it was my phone messing up.
Strange. I have no problem hearing her
Same thing happened to me. The right headphone is white noise, the left and very soft speech. Put them together and you can hear it perfectly.
Only on devices with a single speaker. The left and right channel are 180 degrees out of phase, meaning they cancel each other out. If you use earphones, headphones or any device with two speakers so that the left and right audio channels are not combined, you will hear it just fine.
@@Philafxs Yes, it works perfectly fine with my laptop. :D Thanks for the heads up!
Such a genuine energy I love him
I love him and can't imagine how intelligent he must be to create languages. Blown away.
Jajajaja those people really spoke valiryan like some english speakers speak spanish 😄😭 use your Rrrrrrrrrrr
It's like Braking Bad scenes in spanish all over again.
@@27poker Now you made me remember Gus Fring's horrible Spanish. As a native speaker I appreciated the effort, but God, where they atrocious
I like his recommendation of Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away for people to practice the pronunciation. I've never even thought of that.
I speak Portuguese.
Never learned how to do that Rrrrrr.
27 poker not all of us can roll our r’s😔
he does have a spin off ... it’s called AQUAMAN
Exciting to learn about this!!
He's got tons of passion for what he does. Kudos to him.
this guy just wants to bro down with people and get invited to parties haha i love him
This is good. I wish I spoke this language. If only it was useful in life.
Like klingon?
I mean 😏 yea I guess. 😆
@@jaydattchampavat6387 You can actually read stuff in Klingon though and take classes for it.
It will get you all the girls bro.
Something doesn't need to be "useful" to be worth learning or enjoying. Don't let capitalism ruin your life lol
What a legendary guy. He’s such a cool and charismatic guy without even trying.
I love how those languages reflect the attitude and character of people speaking them
He's so chill and nice and obviously a genius lol
I like when the woman was trying to speak to Jason in Dothraki he was not above correcting her mistakes though she was clearly proud of herself in the video. 🤓
I need a part two off this
I'm learning dothraki with some friends at the moment and I it made me so happy when they said "asshekhqoyi vezhvena" to me on my Birthday 2 days ago❤
Did anyone else have an audio issue when the fan is speaking dothraki to Jason Mamoa?
i did! wonder why that is..
It works with my headphones, but not without, and I have no idea why
I love how much he seems to love the languages he has built.
I'm so impressed, he's truly a brilliant man.
His book, The Art of Language Invention, is such a fun read if someone is into that type of thing. As a sociolinguist, it’s always an interesting time studying conlangs. :D
Thanks for this wonderful video~