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- Can you guess a language based on an audio sample? Nate Tecotzky from @SpanishWithNate. - a fellow CZcamsr from California takes part in this language challenge not only for his own satisfaction but also for your entertainment! I’m excited to hear what you think about his format and how well you did in guessing languages featured in this video. 🤓
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Are we alone in the Universe? 🤔
We are the aliens
It's quite possible that life exist in our Solar System(outside of Earth)probably as micro organism in Europe(Moon of Jupiter) or Enceladus (moon of Saturn)
Since we was born
When the aliens discovered us, they stood back, took a little time and secretly watched us from a distance.
Then they decided they rather wouldn't want anything to do with us and silently moved away.
Norbert, have you used non native speaker in all them? I'm sure that portuguese speaker was not native.
When he said the first one sounded a bit Italian 👁👄👁
When he asked if Ukraine had its own language 👁👄👁
When he asked if Czech Republic and Lithuania were neighbors 👁👄👁
When he did his impression of Japanese 👁👄👁
When he said there was an ø in Russian 👁👄👁
"Persia is a region of Iraq" 👁👄👁
I am laughing on this comment, thanks😂
Ikr 😂
Yeah I was really confused about the ø in Russian. What did he mean?
Ø да, у нас мнøгø букв ø в русскøм, пøстøяннø испøльзуем
Денис Maybe he meant “Ө”? Which is used in a lot of central asian languages which use the Cyrillic alphabet?
-Are you good with maps?
-I'm American
-Oh
Just nailed it.
I'm an American and I can name almost every country on a blank map 😂
Angolan accent of Portuguese language. I guess.
@@fabiolimadasilva3398 I can see why you'd say that. I'm very puzzled, but I would guess Cape Verde, or maybe a non-native Portuguese speaker who is mixing features of Brazilian with European Portuguese.
I knew it would either be Lithuanian or Latvian. I always get their countries mixed up.
I'm in shock, this guy literally can't tell apart Latin and Cyrillic script.
But, but he can define Russian by "o with line through it". if it's even like like (tell me please) : Ф ф
man, he was confused between the scandinavian Ø, the cyrillic script and the polish latin script version, XD such a noob
@@egor_myers The interesting thing is he correctly identified that letter but it's not all that common so you could have a long sentence without it. It's kind of like q or z in English in terms of how often it is used.
Yeaah
@@egor_myers that sentence gave me a bit of a stroke, tbh. no offence.
"Ф ф" is F in Russian, and i believe, he was referring to Ø, which is a danish version of ö (O umlaut)
«Actually I have Polish roots” - Norbert face 😶
「got a “mix’ of quotes there »
Norberto has no poker face for the Polish language 😂😂
That's the only thing this guy was certain about. Where tf did they found him?
13:50 😅
ahaha
My wife thought I lost my mind when she heard me screaming ''IT'S POLISH!!'' at the guy participating in the challenge..lol
Hahahaha. I think my neighbours might now be having doubts about me for the same reason.
European languages tips for english speakers:
If it sounds like russian but the writing is latin - it's polish
If it sounds like greek and russian - it's lithuanian
if it sound like russian, spanish and arabic - it's portuguese
if it sounds like italian and russian - it's romanian
If it sounds like absolutely nothing - it's hungarian
Hugarian is Uralic not indo-European!
@@tomwang3712 yeah, but Hungary is still in Europe...
SatsukiYo that’s exactly why people think Hungarian has something to do with Indo-european!
Agreed - no language in the world sounds like Hungarian. Even though I can't speak it, I usually recognize it instantly because it has such a distinct and unique sound, created by the way the front and back vowels sound.
@@tomwang3712 Hungarian sounds to me quite Indo-Europeany... When compared to "anything" outside of Europe... I mean at least anything in S-E Asia. Turkic languages have this feature as well.
And also - I´m a Czech with a lot of experience with Slovak. When I first heard Hungarian, I was very surprised how much "Slovak" is in it.
This Japanese voice sample sounded like it was spoken by not native speaker... =\
Yes, for a moment I thought it wasn't Japanese.
I detected a Yokohama accent.
I don't think it was a native speaker either...
@@michaelxx7022 wtf no that's an american dude
yeah, I agree with you. my mother tongue is Japanese and we do not pronounce like the one in the video
"I have Polish origins" he says while being unable to recognize the Polish language.
And? Origins doesn’t mean knowing fuckall
@@Cassxowary It's a funny moment lol. No need to get worked up.
@@Cassxowary true, it doesn’t. We’ve come to expect Americans to be disconnected from their ancestral roots, and people could say they’re ignorant.
@@kkuwura The thing is that USAians identify so much to their origin of immigration, yet the third generation at the latest usually has no clue about their ancestral language.
That being said I have a hard time differentiating between the Slavic languages, and Polish somehow is always the hardest.
@@HotelPapa100 completely true about the Americans and ancestral languages. About Slavic languages, I know Russian, so I am more perceptible to the subtle differences between Eastern, Western, and Southern Slavic languages groups. However, if someone gave me a sample of a Western Slavic language and asked me to guess if it’s Polish, Czech, or Slovak, I would be pretty stumped (same about Southern Slavic, but Eastern is way easier)
I felt Norbert's disbelief at the first guess being "I think it's not Italian"
And as the second guess I've got so triggered because I'm from Romania
I mean, he wasn't wrong
>language without any words that sound familiar from romance languages
Hmm could this be Italian
adorno_gang really? I heard words very similar to evolution, intelligence and universe in the first sample. Judging from Portuguese and Polish, I’m guessing all six samples said exactly the same.
The first one sounded really Romance to me too.
"my poker face sucks"... I disagree. It's incredibly entertaining. I appreciate the skill of trying not to look incredulous and being encouraging at the same time.
I was sure it was Polish with the script and it was funny to see him trying not to show anything, especially when the player said he had Polish roots ^^
Yessss this made the video so much more entertaining 😄
>I wanna say the Czech republic
>They're neighbours right?
So the meme of Americans having literally no clue about geography is true
Oh it is not a meme, this guy actually did great for an American
I am American and I was crying - California is not a great representation of the entire country
The only student in my 11th grade social studies class (back in the day) that could write the names of all our states on a blank map of the US was the Swedish Exchange student.
@@dumvivimus 😲
If I am honest, I can not place all US States at its right positions for sure. OK, Hawaii, Alaska, California, Texas, Florida e.g. are easy, but for the inner states in the midwest and smaller ones in the north east, it could be challanging. I am certain, I can put them in the right region but certainly will mix up some with direct neighbours or others in that region. So I wouldn't blame him for mixing up Lithuania with Czechia.
Your face expression was PRICELESS when he heard your own Polish. OMG, I literally cried.
" I have Polish origins "
This one was great! :):)
"... but it can't be Polish!" made it even greater. And then Norbert's face like 😳 and Nate still not guessing it from that, was the gold medal 😀🤩🏆🏅
Americans and their "origins" ^^
I am Serbian, and it is the same with my cousins who are from Canada, they know English and French but no their original language to which i react like Norbert reacted to "i have Polish origins" poker face
@@mihajlogolubovic52 haha brate i ja sam pola srbin (hercegovac) i pola Maltezanin ali naucio sam da pricam Srpski jezik. Znam dosta. I znas sta i ja se prezivam Golubović. Mi smo iz Mostara. Odakle ste vi? Vizim na Malti :)
@@tomidfm3723 keeping this a reference forever
Interesting this game seems a lot easier as a European, this guy tried hard tho.
As a brazilian, it seems easier to me too. I just didn’t get it the last one.
I’m American and had no problem. I think it just depends on the individual, really.
You don't have to be European to know the world map.
TheMidwesternLegionnare yeah, I guess so.’Cause it seems he thinks Slavic languages are basically Russian + Ukrainian (at the beginning he was not sure if it was a proper language) and Czech.
The guy was pretty good to find persian at the end, don't be so harsh !
Language one (Hungarian) confused him because of the three or four Latin loan words.
Maybe, but it is also possible that he didn't recognize those Latin loanwords at all. Such a feat requires an attuned ear.
Here they are btw:
millió
evolúció
intelligens
forma
univerzum
@@igorjee cuando
That’s what got me. I’m American as well and I heard the Latin words and thought of a Romance language.
@@Gizmonips Then your ears are most discerning, Sir.
Nick Page i heard intelligens, but as a Spanish speaker i knew it wasnt a romance language at all, but i wasn’t sure if it was Russian or other slavic language. I mean i dont really distinguish any eastern european language tbh, they all sound like Russian to me lol
this person don't even know that russian is written in the cyryllic alphabet
Cmon at least he recognized polish script as not russian
Russian people are taking offense
There's no such thing as a cyryllic alphabet. There may be a cyrillic one...
@@Serendip98 sorry sorry
@@Serendip98 I just took that from polish "cyrylica"
This was so much fun Norbert! Thanks for having me. We can get you 10,000 likes on this video!
You tried ur best
@@yakublmaoo8468 did he though?
Nice try Nate even though you didn't guess too many of them languages
Congrats!
Very nice! I just followed you. I hope you get to play again!
I’m Japanese. I don’t think he is Japanese but actually he is Japanese according to the description. The strange thing is that the sentence was wrong subject and predicate. So I couldn’t understand the meaning of whole sentence. But I could understand each word
What was it saying? If you don't mind me asking.
yes there was sth fishy about the Japanese text...
I heard it was Japanese and the pronounciation was there, but the pitch accent was not right. As though, he was a language learner himself.
I'm studying Japanese and it sounded very non-standard... I wondered if it was some Okinawan or Hokkaido dialect or something... but you can definitely hear words like "kono" and particles like "ga" and "ka" in there.
@@pixelfrenzy Maybe a Finnish guy learning Japanese?
I just stopped watching at 0:40 to post this comment. His answer is GOLD. "What's the prize? SATISFACTION!" I love that! hahahaha
Your facial expressions were priceless, glad Nate could get some satisfaction!🏆😂😂
Yes they were lol, i was sitting here laughing my rearmostbodypart off hahaha 🤪
Here were my guesses, as an experienced linguist:
1. Hungarian (correct) (Based on the unique vowels such as "ö" and hearing the word "hogy", and hearing an ending "ban")
2. Lithuanian (correct) (I always think of Baltic languages sounding like "watered-down" slavic languages. Plus I heard the word "kaip". Plus I know that like, literally every Lithuanian noun ends in "as", which I heard quite a bit.)
3. Japanese (correct) (Japanese is extremely unique sounding. It did sound a little weird though, so I was tempted to say Okinawan. But most likely it would just be normal Japanese, but no doubt the speaker had to have an American accent.)
4. Galician (incorrect) (No doubt romance, but not Spanish. However, I didn't think it sounded super Portuguese, so I dialed it back a little to Galician.)
5. Polish (correct) (Ecolinguist himself is literally Polish xD How can you not get this one? And you can hear the nasal vowels. And then the script only further confirmed it for me.)
6. Persian (correct) (At first I actually thought a Celtic language, like Welsh. When he gave the hint though, I instantly got it. It had to be Persian. For me, Persian actually sounds a bit similar to Hungarian. And as someone who has studied Arabic, I know it's not Arabic, despite the loanwords seeming like they would be from Arabic. So without the hint I probably wouldn't have gotten it. And plus the third time he played it, I caught the word "ketab".)
I'll take my medium cup of satisfaction :D
🏆🤓
Portuguese sounded weird even to me as a native speaker.
Farsi also sounded very much like Hungarian.. if that would was first, I would have made a mistake ;]
I guessed all of them right, but some were pretty hard. I recognized some Hungarian suffixes, the frequent -as endings (but wasn't sure it was Lithuanian, not Latvian, until I saw the map), and "watakusi" in Japanese.
As to Portuguese or Galician, I'm a reintegrationist, so I don't consider Galician a wrong answer. I've been in both Portugal and Brazil, so I recognized it easily.
Polish sounds a lot like Russian, but the "zh" sound where I was expecting "r" gives it away.
I don't know how I recognized Persian. Maybe it's the vowels.
I'm Lithuanian, it's true that many nouns end in "as" but definitely not all of them, only the male gender ones. There are plenty that end with an "a" or "ė" which would be the female gender nouns.
I’m Brazilian and I don’t know from where is this Portuguese accent. Isn’t of Brazil and Portugal. I think that it’s from Angola or Mozambique.
É o sotaque de Moçambique, amigo!!!
That's the point. To guess the language, not the region. That Japanese didn't sound like the "typical" Japanese either.
The creator that provided the voice sample is a Brazilian woman that lives in Ukraine.
@@ChrystianDanucalov I would bet she moved to Ukraine at a young age. Because if she is Brazilian, she is either impersonating a Portuguese or learned Portuguese from a non-native or native from some other country besides Brazil. And her impersonation, if that is the case, doesn't sound like any Brazilian impersonating it.
I guarantee 99% of Brazilians would say she is either a non-native speaker or speaker of any other lusophone country besides Brazil.
@@ChrystianDanucalov I agree with José Franciso. Maybe she's learned Portuguese as a foreign language despite being Brazilian, just like I am an "Italian" person who started learning Italian as an adult since I was born in Brazil. Her accent sounds like from Mozambique or Angola, though.
Russian from Moscow here: I got 6 out of 6.
1 was like "Hmmm. Sounds definitely european, but a bit strange, so could be Basque". After the second listen: "Wait, is that Hungarian?" and after hearing "-ok, -ek, -ban" - "That's definitely Hungarian!" (Been to Budapest almost 10 years ago).
2 was easy, because I've been to Lithuania.
Japanese, Portuguese were easy too, cause they're pretty big languages.
Polish was easy too, because I've been to Poland several times and even understood what was being said in the sample.
6th was the hardest, but I got that it's from the Middle East or and is neither semitic (arabic or hebrew) nor turkish. So I bet it should be Farsi or Urdu or somewhere there. After the second listen I was like "Ok, not sure about that one, but let take that for Farsi".
You're an educated man. Good for you.
I initially thought Basque too. I went Basque to Finnish and then figured out Hungarian after hearing those same endings.
I liked Nate's positivity. He learned sth. new, and some part of his reasoning was not bad at all , e.g. that the last language sounded a "bit like Arabic", but that it wasn't. That's why he went for a Middle Asian language. I'm guessing you can embarrass most American native speakers by presenting them with any language from Middle and Eastern Europe. While a somewhat educated European citizen will hear the differences and nail it, to an American they sound more or less the same. Another reason why we in Europe must fight for knowledge and education of our children. I liked the fact that you gave him an example of the language of his forefathers.
Yea, he never ceased to be happy, that's what I really liked as well!
I'm usually the one bashing Americans at every opportunity but I must say I'm tired of the pretentiousness in these comments. I don't think it's because he is American and not an "educated European citizen". It's just an individual thing. As for the sparse knowledge of geography you can imagine a Europeans would know their geography better
@@OHYS exactly.
I agree with Juicy Boi, I think it's an individual thing. I'm not European and I got 5 of them correct from the first guess:
1) Hungarian was easy because it's very unique and no other European language sounds like it.
2) I got the Lithuanian wrong, because I don't have enough exposure to it.
3) Japanese was very easy, the first few seconds were enough.
4) Portuguese also was easy, but first I thought it's Galician because the woman has strange pronunciation.
5) Polish also was very easy because of the script. Without the script, I thought it's Belarussian.
6) Persian was the easiest because I'm Arab and I recognizes some Arabic words.
true, let's give the guy some credit. American culture and education system is extremely U.S.-centric, so his starting point really didn't give him any advantage! I like his attitude, he's a genuinely curious guy and he speaks great Spanish, you should check out his channel.
Where is the Portuguese sound speaker from ? It doesn’t sound Brazilian nor Portuguese.
Not a native speaker! I'm brazilian and that person was not brazilian
Angola
Galego spoken in galicia
Actually, it was probably an Angolan or Mozambican trying to speak with a brazilian accent
I think it is from Angola, because these more opened and acute sounds are usually from their portuguese
Nate is so enthusiastic and comes across as such a nice guy! I'm glad you had him in this video.
Nice guy as in soy boy, right?
As a Romanian who lives in Transilvania I couldn't help but smirk at his attempt to decypher Hungarian.
Also could you please have an Italian and a Romanian speaker challenge, please?
Smug is not a verb. I think you mean smirk?
@@StatusQuonald Better late than never, yea, that's what I meant.
Guys, this guy is no linguist amateur, cut him some slack. He's a bilingual American, which is already pretty impressive in my opinion. Yes, he doesn't know his European map, I would personally have some trouble putting every state of America on a map too, so I don't blame him for that. There is too much contempt in this comment section :(
Whaaaat ? You don’t know where your own states are and you come from that country? 😱
I absolutely agree with you
@@almounasaddiyeh8685 I'm not American, that's the point I was trying to make.
@@almounasaddiyeh8685 There's 50 of them, and it's not like my life will ever depend on being able to point them out on a map
@@luhinopalermo7339 "Offensive mistakes", try again fam.
As a french guy, I only guessed 3 three languages : japanese, portuguese and polish. It was difficult for polish but I began to learn Czech and when i saw the construction of the words, I knew it wasn't czech at all. It was very interesting, it could be cool to make another video with the same concept !
You did not guess Lithuanian even after seeing the map?
Instantly knew it was polish when I saw words like czy
Le polonais, tu le reconnais immédiatement à l'oreille, il y a plein de chch dedans.
Il y a des combinaisons de beaucoup de consonnes qui se suivent et des lettres qui n'existent pas chez nous genre "ł". En soit, le tchèque et le polonais sont assez proches mais le tchèque est un peu plus simple à prononcer (c'est pas non plus de la tarte quand même).
@@nattoxe1703 ah bon? il me semblait que ces consonnes polonaises étaient simplement des digraphes ou des trigraphes qui correspondent à une seule consonne phonétique. (et qui ont toutes ou presque un équivalent phonétique en tchèque, orthographié avec moins de consonnes.)
Le polonais, en revanche, a des voyelles nasales pas évidentes à reproduire, qui n'existent pas en tchèque.
Mais le tchèque est doté du fameux rhotacismus bohemicus, qui, parait-il est unique au monde, et difficile à prononcer.
Hungarian is like Basque - it's almost completely alien. It's even quite different from Finnish and Estonian, which are almost the only other languages related to it.
Every language is Russian and Russian has ø 😂😂😆😆😆😆
i guess he meant this: ф
@@anticapitalist1917 yes 😅
@@anticapitalist1917 Yes, because he heard "Vladimir Putin", so it must be russian 😂😂😂
But whenever he said "it sounds Russian", the actual language was Balto-Slavic, as is Russian. Moreover, as a Russian myself, I can confirm that the Lithuanian sample from the video was pronounced with an accent which is very similar to Russian, while Polish, though being further apart in terms of the actual accent, was almost 100% intelligible to me. Ukrainian, which was also his guess, is even closer in both pronunciation and vocabulary. So, in both cases, Russian wasn't a bad guess at all.
Also, when he said "o with a line through it", he meant ф, which indeed is a letter in the Russian alphabet.
I know you're joking, but his "Russian" guesses were honestly justified and in actuality relatively accurate.
A møøse once bit my sister. No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law...
The person who did the japanese bit had quite a bit of an accent. Can definitely tell it wasn't recorded by a Japanese person hahaha. Who happened to record it?
I think the same.
A very strong accent, but; easily understandable still
@@LodiJP yeah, it's still understandable
You're right... the person who recorded the Japanese had a rather thick (non-Japanese) accent. Not a bad job, but definitely not a native speaker.
That's right. I first thought it was Korean.
welp after just watching like 4 5 of your videos I have decided I love this channel **subscribed**
I'm late to seeing you here Nicky but it just made my day!
My types are:
1. Hungarian - correct
2. Lithuanian - correct
3. Japanese - correct
4. Portuguese - correct
5. Polski xD - correct
6. Turkish ?? - incorrect
5/6
The medium cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳
I only got Japanese and Portuguese. I get no cup of satisfaction.
I got all of them except Hungarian, which I also guessed as Romanian
My guesses:
1) Instant guess: Finnish (not sure, as I don't know how to differentiate it from other Uralic languages). I would have found with a script hint. Otherwise I would have made a random answer between Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian.
2) Instant guess: not Russian, not Ukrainian either, maybe Belarusian. With the map hint: Lithuanian for sure.
3) Instant guess: Japanese (not sure, doesn't sound like standard Japanese). But knowing that there are also dialects with peculiar accents, it could be the dialect from Osaka for example. Final guess: Japanese (no other idea).
4) Instant guess: Portuguese (100% sure, I understand that language even if I never learnt it).
5) Instant guess: Polish (not sure). With the script hint: Polish (almost 100% sure, thanks to the diacritic sign on the "L" that I saw only in Polish words).
6) Instant guess: Vietnamese (not sure at all, the vowels are different). With the fact hint: assuming that this was clearly not Arabic, and clearly not Hebrew, the most likely language was Farsi.
@@miaclarkwebb I understand why.....Probably because, we, Romanians, eat gulash .... common mistake 😂
I was surprised to see Lithuanian here, a lot of people either don't know or forget that we exist.. 6/6, great video!
Wow! The big cup of satisfaction goest to you! 🤓🏆👏🏼
The language sounds really nice. To be honest, never heard it in real life (though I could tell the country when the map was shown).
A Latvian here. Told the Lithuanian from the first phrase.
My family emigrated from there in the 20s and my mom still speaks, so I was so proud to hear it because most people don’t know Lithuania even exists
I mean he's polish, would be weird if he didn't know lithuania
Ставь лайк, если понял что говорилось на польском.
P.S. У парня польские корни и он не узнал язык, было смешно :)
На Земле, потребовались миллионы лет эволюции, чтобы задать вопрос: "Одни ли мы во Вселенной?"
Вот так я понял, но не на слух, а увидев текст и додумав некоторые моменты. Буду благодарен за правильный перевод:)
@@maozel На земле потребовало много лет эволюции чтобы формы жизни постали интеллигентные и смогли думать об этом процессе и задать вопрос: Если мы сами в Вселенной?
Прости за плох русский
@@minchy4926 Спасибо!
da (iz Slovenije)
Да ! (Србиjа)
I'm curious to know, would it be more fun to watch someone getting all the answers right, or to watch someone who finds this more challenging? I found it a little tense but also fun! Props to Nathan for trying himself!
Love from Argentina 😊
American here. The only one I got wrong was Japanese. For some reason I thought that the accent was different, so I guessed Okinawan. It helped to have a Lithuanian friend lol. When I hear "kaip" I know it's Lithuanian.
The Japanese speaker is definitely non native so that's probably why :-)
Japanese is one of the few I did get. Though it didn't sound like normal Japanese to me, it was good enough. Of course it helps that I've been there 7 times. As for the others:
1) No clue: Thought it was Romanian. Geographically I was close, linguistically I was distant.
2) No clue. I'm not even sure what Lithuanian was supposed to sound like. Thought it was maybe a slavic language. Not even right on that.
3) Japanese. Got it.
4) Thought it was Spanish.
5) Figured it was Polish
6) No clue but after he gave word clues, figured it had to be Persian because it sure wasn't Arabic
9:33
Same here. That was the only one that I couldn't quite get. I heard some Japanese words but they were spoken so weird I also thought that maybe it was Okinawan. Like maybe an outlying island somewhere and that's the only one I could think of.
I just realized that I just made that sound like Okinawa wasn't part of Japan. smh
It didn't sound like a native Japanese speaker...
which I liked, cuz it would've given away it too easily, the point is to guess the language as the words used in the audio, not to catch a stereotypic anime stuff or something to decipher it
the portuguese version didn't sound brazilian (I'm from Brazil), and it didn't sound from Portugal either. And I also don't feel it's from other countries that speak portuguese. Sounded more like a foreigner speaking brazilian portuguese.
@@EgoJinpachi_ yes by that logic every language would sound like say French with a very thick French accent. Most languages highly rely on their pronunciation (Mandarin tones) to be distinguished.
@@keptins japanese is not one of them
Marius Mariuz Japanese doesn’t have tones but it has a distinct pitch accent that only natives & non-natives who’ve studied the accent in detail have. Japanese pronunciation is straight-forward, but not knowing the pitch accent can make it sound really different
I was so relieved that he won at least the small cup of satisfaction! Such a likeable guy!
I myself was able to recognise Hungarian, Portuguese and Japanese straight off the bat, and after I saw the hints, I eventually got Polish and Lithuanian.
Can you imagine my surprise when, after those two European languages, suddenly from the opposite side of the earth, completely understandable and the most familiar sounds flowing out! He was really quick to guess it correctly. The Japanese has a certain foreign accent but is still decent.
Thank you for the great video!
Какой покер-фейс??? С первого звука польского языка лицо Норберта - одна гигантская подсказка.)))))
There's that strange alphabet again..
Can't understand a damn thing :/
@@goofygrandlouis6296 смирись, это кириллица!
Мало је срамно ако имаш Словенске крви а да не знаш како иде језик својих предака, али нема везе.
@@goofygrandlouis6296 I can read but don't understand anything beyond basic phonetic "copies"...I'll try to learn Russian after getting a decent conversational level in German.
I think the alphabet keeps many people from learning even a couple of words but that's a shame because it's really easy.
Напълно съм съгласен! :D
As a Romanian who grew up among Hungarians, I thought the first was super easy. And then I heard him say "I got Italian, but I was gonna guess Romanian"... My reaction: dude....
I am an Italian speaker. Romanian is similar to Italian but sounds nothing like it, while Hungerian is nothing like Italian but it sounds... well I kind of understand why he thought of Italian.
Gabriele Are you serious? Sorry if this comes off as blunt but how on earth does Hungarian sound like Italian to you?? Romanian sounds very much like Italian in many aspects. Maybe you haven’t been exposed to a lot of spoken Romanian samples.
@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 LOL. I have and I have learned to understand a lot of Romanian but when you first hear it as an Italian you hear the slavic sounds... you have to learn to go past that to recognize word. Now imagine having zero background in Romance languages (like this guy in the video) you hear Italian and Hungarian... you might be tricked by the rhythm given by the double consonants... I don't think it's absurd
@@gabriele7921 Yes, Romanian has some sounds that can be perceived as "Slavic" sounding, but you're telling me Romanian sounds nothing like Italian, whilst Hungarian does? That's just not an accurate observation even for Italian speakers. Not just because Romanian and Italian are both romance languages but because they do in fact share a lot of similar sounds more so than other romance languages. Maybe Spanish sounds closer to Italian, but Romanian is a close second. This guy speaks Spanish so he should be familiar with at least one romance language. But I guess everyone is different. I'm sure that someone out there will say Mandarin sounds just like English.
my reaction when he doesnt get polish haha
I’ve guessed all the languages expect Lithuanian 😭😂
To me, Lithuanian sounded like Latin with some Slavic accent... Which makes sense cuz it’s a very old Indoeuropean language just like Latin.
I know Latvian so Lithuanian sounded like a more slavic sound than Latvian yet having a lot of the same accents in the word structure. I heard 'mes esam' as well which means we are. That gave it away for me.
I thought it was Latvian so I had 5 of 6. But it's close.
Yeah I was sure it was Latin either
@@dymytryruban4324 Not really. It only appears that way because it was purged of foreign influences in the XIX century. If my memory doesn't fail me, before the purge about 50% of the Lithuanian vocabulary was derived from Polish and Belarussian.
Every Indo-European language is of the same age. But I guess you meant that Lithuanian still has the "-s" endings in it.
This was so much fun, specially when Norbert said ".....your last name, right??" and then his eyebrow went to the roof. I laughed so hard! Also the persian audio clip from the great Bahador! can´t ask for anything more.
I love this channel so much!! More of these challanges please, they are so fun to watch and to guess as well!
I loved this video mainly for the beautiful energy of these two guys, Nate and Norbert. Amazing video 🎉❤
For all the pretentious and offensive commenters, not having an encyclopedic knowledge of languages and geography doesn't make you dumb, just ignorant in those topics. I'd like to see these armchair polyglots recognizing types of engines or identifying baroque composers
It's absolutely boring when you ask a completely clueless person to recognize a certain language. It's absolutely predictable that we'll get as clueless answers. Where's fun in that?
From this type of videos I would expect Norbert to invite some linguist or a hobbyist to guess some rare languages or dialects. That would be much more interesting to watch.
This guy lacks basic knowledge about things. You do not need to be a professional linguist to know how very well-known languages spoken by millions sound. And you do not need to be a professional geographer to be able to imagine a map of Europe or to know what Persia is. Torelance to ignorance can be very harmful for society imo. Especially when we talk about Americans who are notorious for their lack of knowledge about the world, yet always have opinions on how other countries and nationalities should live and behave. So, yeah, call them out on this.
ooh the baroque composers would be quite a fun video! I'd love a guess the composer game! I'm probably one of the pretentious commenters here and admittedly would fail miserably at the types of engines game, but I'd give it a try. I mean I'd be able to tell the difference between a car v a motorcycle v an airplane and I frankly think some of the mistakes he made here were about on par. And I think part of it is that Americans get such a bad rap when it comes to this topic that, as an American, when someone is perpetuating the stereotype so very well, it's not really that wonderful for those of us who have worked hard at breaking it. But, really, it's all in good fun anyway. It's a game. Who cares! And seriously, if you know baroque composers enough to make a game, do! I'd love the challenge!
It's OK not to know how the language sounds (I would have never guessed Luthuanian or Persian, I even missed Japanese). But to say "is Ukrainian a proper language?" or to literally look at the European map and NOT to recognize a country there is just plain dumb. I'm sorry.
We learnt the entire map of the world at school, and one more time at the 1st year of Bachelor. And you have to live under a rock for the past 30 years to realize that Ukraine is a separate country with a separate language.
it's a bit sad to know about machines but have no clue about what the world you live in looks like
Nobert, here's an video suggestion: You should invite Milena from the "Canal Polaka Brasil" ( a CZcams channel that shows her routine as a polish woman that has lived in Brazil a while and speaks a perfect portuguese, and she also gives lessons about her native language.
In a case that all the languages are spoken by non native speakers, otherwise it is misleading to put a non native to represent the language
Nagyon király lett! Köszi a lehetőséget ez nagyon vicces volt ☺️☺️
How can he say that Hungarian sounds like Italian?!
shmoo 😆
And Romanian. I got mad.
@@nonabgo well sometimes it does, especially to foreign ears, romanian is one of my native languages and I hear it sometimes
An American with little knowledge of languages. Not sure why Norbert picked this guy. Hopefully he is not representative of US linguists.
most people don't know what hungarian sounds like. i know what hungarian looks like but have no clue about the sounds etc.
I recognized all of them (I'm Slovenian). Lithuanian and Latvian sometimes sound similar to me, but Latvian has fixed stress unlike Lithuanian, so it is not very difficult to distinguish them, I didn’t need the map.
I got the second language: Lithuanian. At first i thought it was Swedish, then it took a russian curve so i was thinking around Poland (?), but then some old sounding words appeared (which sounded pre-Slavic, pre-Latin, PIE like).
Lithuanian and Latvian sometimes sound similar to me (I’m Slovenian), but Latvian has fixed stress unlike Lithuanian, so it is not very difficult to distinguish them.
@@timg.5400 wow cool, i was completely clueless there 😊
That language sounds like as if russian and spanish had a baby
@@SaschaBraus77 hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
@@SaschaBraus77 There is absolutely no tinge of Spanish in Lithuanian, and not that many Slavic or shared Balto-Slavic (not necessarily Russian) words on a daily basis.
Nate is so cheerful guy. Congratulations on your small cup of satisfaction.
It was a very enjoyable episode. What I liked the most was the fact that Nate hasn't had a lot of contact with other languages. Therefore, his answers were refreshing.
Can we ask for the more episodes of this kind? I'm aware that they require a lot of work but *please, please, please* :)
Aww Nate is so enthusiastic and gorgeous and if he asked me, I wouldn't say no. But his geographic and linguistic knowledge definitely needs a tune up.
Tf 😂 😂 😂
that's good to know Brian
Well when the maps were shown, the answers were given but...Czech Republic instead of Lithuania, and neighbors, really lmao?
He said that he was not very good at geography and lots people are not good at it
Do you know where all 195 countries in the world are located just looking at the map?
@@brunocunha6706 yes
@Bruno Cunha I’ll know that czechia and lithuania dont share a border
now you know how Geography lessons look like in US high schools ....correction.....have looked like for at least 40 years (when I was a kid I was already confronted with similar "dollies")
My general linguistic degree did not help me at all. Lol. This was very interesting to watch. I can’t wait for the next episode. Nate you did a great job. I need to improve my Spanish so I’m heading your way.
Another great, fun, and challenging language video Norbert!@
Thank you, Norbert, for this format! Very cool!
This guy is a linguistic miracle. I've especially adored Taiwanese language (16:10). After Mexican and Australian, Taiwanese is my favorite one.
I got 5 languages right! I don’t know how I didn’t recognize A Magyar Nyelv, still, I really love these kinds of guessing videos
Keep em up!
She did swallow a few sounds, e.g. amiko~ instead of amikor, and the like. But apart from that she pronounced quite clearly, at least i thought
@VFM #7634 So it might be the Chameleon of Languages, haha 😆
VFM #7634 My problem with Hungarian is its phonology, when I hear it I straight up know it’s not an Indo-European language, but I don’t know which. I know Hungarian is an Uralic language, but good god is it a pain! I can identify Finnish and Estonian immediately.
First thing I thought about once I heard it was that it's Hungarian,but tbh I kinda started doubting it as it went on,until I heard the word "ül" (for some reason),then it became clear. What tricked me were mostly the loanwords,like the one for evolution and some like "unclear" "gy" sounds ('cause I think,she said something like "vagyon" at one point and the "gy" sounded more like "j")
I failed the first one as well. Had no idea what to think tbh...
I really enjoy your channel and especially this 'guess the language format'! You should do more of it!
Heck, I'd be willing to participate myself hehe
Great idea!Would love to see more of this.😀😀
Love to hear that Hungarian sounds close to Italian :D Love from Budapest!
The Portuguese sample, while not possibly being mistaken for anything else, didn't sound either European or Brazilian. Was it spoken by a national of Angola or Mozambique?
It was problably an african dialect
I'm Brazilian and I'm positively sure it's an African dialect but I don't know which one.
@@JoaoGabriel-hk8ub I dont think it is African portuguese. In African dialects "de" and "te" are not palatalised as in Brazilian accents ( i.e. "jee" and "chee") But the woman in the video pronounced "de vida" as "gee vida" . She sounds like someone from Portugal ( or Portuguese Africa) putting on a Brazilian accent. But if i had to choose I'd say she is from Brazil where they speak with very strong s chiado.
I think it’s Angolan. I once heard somebody from Angola speak Portuguese and she sounded just like this.
@@keptins Maybe she's from Timor? I have no idea of how it sounds... But it's definetely not Brazilian nor Poruguese. There are many different accents here in Brazil but I've never heard anything like that in here and I've heard a lot haha
Lack of knowledge and experience compensated by positive attitude and enthusiasm. It was fun to watch, thanks to you both!
Really like these videos, much more so the ones with knowledgable guests.
It was an awesome contest. However I assume without your extra hints Norbert, Nate would have only guessed 2 out of 6 correctly. Nice job, anyway.
The African dialect of Portuguese sounds so cool!
As a Portuguese speaker, I don't think it's an African dialect. I think it's Brazilian, but with a strong foreign accent to it.
The woman made up a mix of Angolan and Brazilian accents. She commented she had lived in those countries
Jorge Candeias yeah, I’m a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I’ve been to Portugal and I’ve been around people (some friends) that are from Equatorial Guinea, and it sounded very similar
I could've sworn I heard some Greek words in there
@@jorgecandeias i don't think you understand the meaning of dialect. In linguistic terms, a dialect is a regional version of one language.
More of these videos! These are fun! :)
This is great content, i enjoyed watching it.
I love these kind of challenges, sometimes i challenge myself to guess the language from other channels but you guys take it to hole new level. Congratulations 👏🏻
I hope you continue these challenges 🌹
You may as well have told him it was Polish XD.
The only one that fooled me was Portuguese... thought it was Greek
The one speaking portuguese was a fake accent, probably one african portuguese speaker trying out to speak brazilian portuguese
If it were Brazilian Prtuguese , you'd have had more chances for not to be tricked.
I didn't get it immediately neither. It was so weird that I asked myself if Norbert was being tricky with samples of language that are not nationwide. Galego (I don't know how to write it in English) was a possibility for me here.
@@alovioanidio9770 Was Portuguese from Angola
Portuguese clip had a very weird accent. I was confused too, because I mostly hear Brazilian Portuguese.
This game was fun to watch. As a Brazilian American, I was only able to get Portuguese and Japanese correctly. The other 3 were tough as I've never really listened to those languages.
Excited to see more of these. I'm in love with the Portuguese/Italian/Spanish game videos!
There were 6 though. I got Polish, Japanese, and Lithuanian right, and Hungarian, Portuguese, and Persian wrong.
That was super fun! Please make more ♥️ what nice guys 👏
We need more of this!
My answers:
1) Polish ❌ (it was Hungarian)
2) Lithuanian ✅ (I used the hint)
3) Thai ❌ (it was Japanese, my first answer :'v)
4) Some dialect of Portuguese ✅
5) Polish ✅ (I used the hint)
6) Hindi ❌ (it was Persian. No cup of satisfaction for me :'v)
Men i wish i could have participated in this game. The guy couldn't even guess when Norbert shown him the country on the map.
Yeah I don’t think he was the best contestant for this.
Well though Europeans may know the map of Europe they may not know the map of Southern America or Africa and how every country looks there. We all have poor knowledge in something
How many did you guys get? I got 3/6. Thought Hungarian was Spanish, Portuguese was French, and Persian was Hindi.
Hi, I really like your videos, and I was wondering what's your model of microphone because the sound is very good:)
Wow! I would love to give this a go as your guest! I am hugely interested in languages and speak a few! Your style of hosting is brilliant, fun and captivating!
My guessing was :
1. - I recognized from the first hearing that this is Hungarian, it's sounding tells a lot!
2. - I recognized that is in the Baltic region, I first thought it was Estonian, but then I thought by the sounds that is either Latvian or Lithuanian, and after Nate took his hint, I convinced myself that is Lithuanian!
3. - I understood immediately that is japanese!
4. - I was first thinking this of Catalan lol, because it sounded too much like Spanish, but then I agreed that is Portuguese, and specifically Brazilian Portuguse! Edit : It's not Brazillian Portuguese, it's from other country spoken Portuguese!
5. - I understood after 2 seconds that this was Polish, I will never confuse it!
6. - I was 90% sure it was Persian, those Asian sounds are specific for it!
This was my opinions and tries, how the other people done it? Tell me of you want! :)
Dark gamer Shadow Just to clarify it's not Brazilian Portuguese I'm telling this as a Brazilian myself
Dark game Shadow it's definitely not Brazilian Portuguese. It sounds like a slow version of European Portuguese, most likely African.
Porguese spoken on this video isn't Brazilian accent.
As a Brazilian, I tell you it was too far from being Brazilian Portuguese. There are too many European sounds.
As a brazilian, this is portuguese from Portugal or some african country, brazilian portuguese doesn't sound like that.
I sometimes play this game with my family.
So
1 - guessed correctly.
2 - guessed correctly. This is my favorite language.
3 - guessed wrong. I confused it with Finnish, the sound is similar.
4 - guessed right.
5 - it's a sin not to guess the Polish language.
6 - guessed wrong. Thought it was Chinese
3 - watash-, -oista - instant Japanese, Finnish sounds "stumbling" all the time due to different vowel lengths
6 - AFAIK, most of the popular aisan langs (except Japanese) are tonal, so is Chinese (Mandarin has 4 tones)
Super fun game! I hope you make more episodes like this one!
We guessed the fifth one right! :D We had so much fun watching this video. Though we really enjoyed the #2 with Raphael, so much interesting knowledge, we were stunned, definitely subscribing to his channel. ;-)
nate speaks spanish so he guessed very quickly the portuguese, since portuguese and spanish are extremely similar, i follow nate's channel and his channel is basically how he learned to speak spanish..nate habla español por eso él adivino muy rapidamente el portugues, ya que el portugues y el español son extremadamente parecidos, yo sigo el canal de nate y su canal es basicamente como aprendio a hablar español
"There's an o with a line in Russian"...
He cant possibly have seen written Norwegian/danish and honestly thought it was russian.
@@simonolthenorwegian Because he thought of ф
@@simonolthenorwegian Actually, he learned Norwegian for 5 years and all the time he was convinced it was Russian.
Dude, your challenges are exceptional. I had listened to a band singing in Hungarian, but I have watched a lot of Finnish TV shows, and the cadence of the language and the sounds are pretty similar. For the second one, I did not that Lithuanian has a Slavic root. I didn't think that Persian sounded so South-Asian. I need to listen to more samples of languages
Cool video!
Love the positive energy
Норберт, сколько у Вас терпения. Спасибо за интересные видео. Здоровья Вам.
First language was mine, and it caught me seriously off guard :D
Norbert uwielbiam twoj kanal!
Very interesting, more of this, please!!
17:28 that random breaking scared me so much
My guesses:
1. Hungarian / Hungarian
2. Latin but Slavic / Lithuanian
3. Weird Japanese / Weird Japanese
4. Portugese
5. Polish (my language)
6. Arab-hebrew-chinese / Turkish or Tatar / Arabic
Omg, your number 6 involves 4-5 different language families!
@@tomwang3712 I know 😁
Norbert, thanks a lot for this amazing video. I had ask for the map on the first, the script for the second and the fact for the third one and I hadn’t had more problems...
This game is so interesting, I'd love playing it...
I'm Hungarian, it was fun to watch this video. Thank you!
I want to participate in this game :) I guessed all of them.
Some more guests would definitely be interesting. : )
This is beautifully camp ... especially you gifting Nate Persian at the end.
Man, I'm Macedonian speaker and when i heard the polish voice i understood maybe half of it (second hearing :D). But when I read the script it became so clear :))), understood most of it :). Slavic languages are so similar .. 😍