Catalan Language | Can Spanish and French speakers understand it?
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As a catalan speaker I find that Catalan is really easy to understand.
@@joret9814 Jo estic sorpresa d'entendre'm i tot! XD
No fucking way
same
LoL
@Dean Martin Aleshores ens entendrem :)
As a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, Catalan sounds to me like a crossbreed between French and Spanish, but spoken with the Portuguese accent of Portugal.
in fact, Italian language according to linguistics it's even closer to Catalan than French, Portugyese or castellano/Spanish. As to pronounce refers Portuguese its clearly very similar since in Catalan we have almost the same sounds (the J of João but NOT the J of Juan) and we akso use the letter ç (França as in Portuguese). But there is still one language that is even closer to Catalan than Italian which is Occitan (a language spoken in the south half of France and in Valle d'Aosta in Italy (also spoken in a small county in the Catalan Pyrinees called Val d'Aran)
I do not speak any of the languages but I have heard of Spanish, French (my friend speaks French) and Portuguese spoken before and I have the same idea as you
@@fernandyprima6728 It´s weird, but with time you kinda get used to it.
I did the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian courses on Duolingo when it was still pretty new, I was also using the equivalent Pimsleur courses for each language. This was after travelling through the Carribean, Panama, Ecuador and French Polynesia and realising how dumb it was that I hadn't put more effort to understand the languages before setting out, so I was maybe overcompensating.
Anyway when Duolingo said they were going to come out with Catalan as well, I really thought 'well, maybe this is superfluous...., but in for a penny, I'll try it if they ever finish it'
It took a long time to develop that course, however when it finally appeared it felt at at the same time like a language I already met but had never encountered before. It really feels like some sort of magical hidden 'keystone' language that holds the bridge between them all together.
How can it be that it can seem like a dialect of Spanish, a dialect of Italian, and even a dialect of French simultaneously? No other Romance can claim all to be all three.
It honestly baffles me how it ends up treated like an unwanted stepchild, when it should be marvelled at and studied and promoted to anyone who will listen.
@@rorychivers8769 Well, it is a separate language and culture. In fact, Spain is a very "forced" country in that it has many cultures and languages that the world doesn't really know about because of the dominance of Castilian Spanish. There used to be several kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula and they were all but one (Portugal) included in Spain through a series of conquests and diplomatic actions. I don't know enough about it but I certainly know there are many romance languages should be treated as separate, though they follow a certain continuum between Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.
I am a native English speaker with Spanish as a second language. I am constantly surprised by how much I can understand of the romance languages. I love these videos! Keep on producing them.
I am also an English speaker with French and Spanish as second languages and it was interesting how much I understood. Catalan is a fascinating language.
Yea because you see it written and with a lot of repetitions.
I speak Italian, English, and Spanish and I agree with you 💯. Languages are fun!!
@@emilstorgaard9642 you make a great point tbh I have maybe a a2/b1 level in French as a native English speaker (French is my my only other language) but without the text it would take me MANY listens to actually understand what she is saying
@@itchyPoncho
Yes exactly, in real life, it would be much harder
Part of me wonders if Isidro realizes that she’s literally from Spain so she also knows how to speak Spanish
Of course she realizes that xd, but the fun thing is to watch the Mexican man trying to understand catalan
I doesn't really matter, he's not only speaking to her but also to the canadian guy and the future viewers, who might not speak either spanish or catalonian
@@Eva-co5zh I see your point. I felt like he was directing the question to her more so, which had confused me because I was like it's literally in the Spanish constitution that all Spanish citizens know how to speak Spanish and it seemed like he thought she only spoke Catalan. Anyway no harm, no foul.
She obviously knows French as well.
@@kylekinneer1116 how tf is he suppose to know that???
Catalan: Cullera
French Guy: Ohhh!
Mexicano: JAJAJAJAJA
No pude contener la risa 🤣
Note French, french canadian
@@jonpetter8921
Quebecoise is what French would sound if spoken all over the American continent , deal with it.
@@juanme555 Just like English mostly is American English. But this fact doesn't imply that there are no other English accent beside the american one
Mas gracias medios cuando no le dijo que era esperma!
The mexican guy's face when repeating "Cullera" He wants to say it but he knows he shouldn't!
Lmao
You can say that someone is a culero" or a "culera" when they are assholes, is ofensive but not as much as you can think, there are words way more ofensive in the spanish vocabulary, also if you doesnt want to sound rude, you can said that he/she is "culey" like my sister when she took my soda from the fridge
Oh, I recognized that expression. Linguistic drift and new meanings can lead to hilarious differences. It's the one French Canadians get when French guys talk about their "gosses", particularly if they offer to show photos. In France, that means his kids. In Canada, that's a vulgar term for his testes. Canadians also use it as a verb to crudely describe having tried various things to get something working again, typically some sort of device (akin to "I screwed around with the gadget until I got it working"). Both uses are very informal words. Clearly the word has some etymological root pertaining to reproduction but it diverged rather amusingly sometime after 1760.
It's also the same look every English Canadian school kid gets when they are first taught to word for "seal" (the marine animal) in French class (phoque - sounds like the English F word with a French accent). My aunt taught French out in BC and that one just exasperated her.
I thought the same thing 😂😂
Just like in Tagalog (in the Philippines) "puto" is a rice pastry 🙊 🙉 🙈 🤣
I'm italian from the south, in Puglia, and when she says "L'utilizem per manjar" I laughed becouse it's the same sound in my dialect!
How is it spelt in your dialect (language)?
Similar to Sicilian
@@Alan-xe4st FIY in italian it’s spelled “Lo utilizziamo per mangiare”
You normally don’t “write” in dialect, you just speak dialect, works similar to the british dialects as well, at the end they all write in english even though a Birmingham citizen wouldn’t understand a word of what a Liverpool citizen is saying.
@@rookiemaster4318 thank for your answer
As a French speaker, I don't think I would have gotten very far without the subtitles, but when reading it was pretty easy to understand Catalan.
It's so funny to hear people speak three different languages and still understand each other. Is this how it sounds when scandinavians meet? :-)
Yes
Yeah, pretty much. Except sometimes the swedes look a bit confused until the danes talk slowly.
I'd say that the Scandinavian languages are a lot more closely related being a speaker of both Danish and French. I watched the video and had a rough idea of what the Catalan girl was saying due to common key words, but a lot went over my head. I had maybe say around 60% of comprehension with the aid of subtitles. I understood about 40% of what the Mexican guy was saying. Comparatively I understand about 95% of written Norwegian (bokmål) and about 80-90% of "standard" Olso Norwegian. Swedish is more like 80% when written and 60-70% when spoken, and it's not uncommon for Danes and Swedes to just switch to English when faced with difficulties in understanding one another.
Sort of but sometimes they joke not even the Danes understand each other.
I suppose the mexican guy speaks some french, but actually most spanish speakers wouldn't be able to understand spoken french.
When the Catalan woman and the Mexican guy were talking to each other, everything was ok. Then the Canadian guy started speaking, and I was like: "Nooo, please, I don't understand youu" ahahahahaahaha
Catalan woman is bilingual as everyone in Catalonia. Is not a fair play
For me, the situation was au''contrairy... Perhaps it is because am Russian, who's living in Montreal for twenty years...
Who wants to learn Catalan? Being able to learn Spanish is spoken by 600 million people. Who knows Spanish understands Catalan. It is very similar. .. It's true
Because the catalan language is from Spain, so that meand the girl must understand spanish
Source: i am catalan
Pepe the Frog just a reminder there’s a different between using ‘French’ as an adjective for nationality/ethnicity and as an adjective for language-speaking. They were most likely just referring to him as ‘the French-speaking guy’ but in a shortened, more colloquial way
Being able to speak a romance language is truly a blessing
Catalan is the most beautiful language in the world! A mix of French and Spanish. There's no over politeness nor delicate way to speak it. What a shame it's not spoken outside of Catalunya. Saludos desde Brisbane Australia.
Catalan is spoken outside of Catalunya - it is also spoken in Valencia and the Balearic Islands and, outside of Spain, in the tiny country of Andorra (sandwiched between France and Spain in the Pyrenees) and there is also a dialect in part of Sardinia (Italy). I agree that it is an interesting language and should be better-known.
Too bad the catalans are super impolite lol
In France, there is Catalan's sister language: Occitan. Unfortunately, it's disappearing due to France's single language policy...
Interesting. I do not find the phonology pleasant. Sounds like someone took a cleaver to words and hacked the ends off. And the affricates are harsh.
@@gracecarpinter8623 And in Italy (Alguer), Aragón (Franja de Ponent) and Múrcia (el Carxe). I'm from the Franja de Ponent, so I would know.
Don't forget that Greeks still remember the Catalan invasions, so...
I am Italian and I find Catalan extremely easy to understand. The phonetics (pronunciation) system is not that far from the Italian one, so it's quite intelligible and the Italian vocabulary is also much closer to Catalan than to Spanish.
Here are some examples:
Molt (catalan) molto (italian) muy (Spanish)
Fer (Catalan) fare (Italian) hacer (Spanish)
Joc (Catalan) Gioco (read: joko; Italian) Juego (Spanish)
Paraula (Cat.) Parola (Ita) Palabra (Esp)
Parlar (Cat.) Parlare (Ita) Hablar (Esp)
Començar (Cat) Cominciare (Ita) Empezar (Esp)
Menjar (Cat.) Mangiare (read: Manjare; Ita) Comer (Esp)
Perxò (Cat) Perciò (read: Perchò; Ita) por eso (Esp)
Anar (Cat) Andare (in some italian dialects It exists: Annare; Ita) Ir (Esp)
Escoltar (Cat.) Ascoltare (Ita) Escuchar (Esp)
I think "molto" in Italian cognates to "mucho" in Spanish
@sHaDoW HuNtER yes of course, but "Molto" is still more similar to "molt" than to "Mucho".
In italian we use "molto" for both "mucho" and "muy": for example, in the video, the girl says: "molt bè" which in italian would be: "molto bene" and in spanish : "muy bien"
or the sentence "It's very cold" in catalan is "Fa molt de fred"; in italian: "Fa molto freddo"; in spanish "Hace mucho frio"
It would be great to see a video with Occitan, Catalan and Italian speakers. The Occitan speaker could be from the Languedoc or Provence regions, which I figure are the ones with a stronger connection to both Italian and Catalan languages (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
No you're absolutely right, but the problem is that it would be a nightmare to find a young fluent native speaker of Occitan in France!
@@kodekadkodekad4380 Occitan is also spoken by a community of 180,000 people in northern Italy, but yes, I don't think young people speak it fluently. Unfortunately, this language is disappearing
The mexican guy is really cute when he explains her how the things are said in Spanish. As if the girl wasn’t a spanish native speaker LOL
But he also had to explain for the Canadian guy.
She speaks fluent french and spanish, she already knew everything the two colleagues were telling her. The goal of this video, as the title says, was understanding her, not viceversa
@@paticubellsricart5961 You mean yourself haha. M'ha agradat molt!
Loool, exactly what I thought! I was kind of surprised that she didnt Mark when he asked if it was a candle. Because the french guy hasnt understood it yet. I cant stop myself to think that she'd like the french guy to understand Catalan quicker and more than the Spanish guy...
Quinna Marie Abella do you know what “em sentiu?...ho torno a repetir” means? Even more when this goes with a frozen image?
I did French from childhood to Freshman year (9th grade), Spanish in Sophomore and Junior (10th and 11th) and Ancient Greek and Latin in university. Listening to this is a serious mind trip, so much Latin influence.
This is sooo cool. Three people speaking 3 different languages but they understand each other!!! We’re all one race at the end of the day, the human race ❤️
No, what this shows is that the three ones are Roman.
Put an Arabic person doing the quiz to a Japanese and a Thai ones.
@@Diosvaporti *Romance
They're sibling languages. Every region has its match language with others. For instance, as far as I know, Sweden language has a lot of english words.
Add a German and it's over 😂
As a French speaker, with the subtitles I understand like 90% of what she says. That’s crazy how similar to French it is when you can READ (without subtitle I would struggle).
bgdan1010 Me, too. Catalan is very similar to French.
As diferenzas máis importantes entre o francés e o resto de linguas latinas son sobre todo na fonoloxía
(Galicien pour: "Les differences les plus importants parmis le français et les autres langues latines sont surtout à la phonologie")
@@CestSG Its also similar to Spanish. In fact, Catalán Speackers understand 100% Spanish
I was going to say it sounds like Occitan, the language in which the Troubadours would write their song in the medieval France
@@maria-luciaraffinatore It literally is the closest language to catalan, it's its closest "relative"
I'm Italian and I understood almost everything everyone said, but, admittedly, Catalan and French would have been much harder to understand without subtitles
Da vero? Io sono catalana, ma imparei italiano tempo fa. Perchè feci un tirocinio in Roma in 2016 per due mesi. Adesso ho dimenticato tante cose, especialmente dopo di imparare il portoghese, ma ancora posso parlare la lingua.
Ecco, quello que io voleva dire é che imparai più semplicemente il italiano perchè parlavo già il catalano. Queste lingue c'è l'hanno parechie parole uguali o somiglianti, come: finestra, mai e manca que sono esatamente uguali oppure parole come asciuguare/aixugar, pesce/peix che hanno la stessa radice e suonano quasi uguali...
@@judna1 Ciao, io sono italiana e posso dirti che in Catalano è probabilmente più difficile la pronuncia però, sì, le parole catalane sono più simili a quelle italiane.
Ecco alcuni esempi del video:
Molt (catalan) molto (italian) muy (Spanish)
Fer (Catalan) fare (Italian) hacer (Spanish)
Joc (Catalan) Gioco (read: joko; Italian) Juego (Spanish)
Paraula (Cat.) Parola (Ita) Palabra (Esp)
Parlar (Cat.) Parlare (Ita) Hablar (Esp)
Començar (Cat) Cominciare (Ita) Empezar (Esp)
Menjar (Cat.) Mangiare (Ita) Comer (Esp)
Perxò (Cat) Perciò (Ita) por eso (Esp)
Anar (Cat) Andare (in some italian dialects It exists: Annare; Ita) Ir (Esp)
Escoltar (Cat.) Ascoltare (Ita) Escuchar (Esp)
@@letiziac5492 A lingua che aiutò di più quando imaparai il italiano fu il catalano😊
@@letiziac5492 In Spanish we do have the words Comenzar and Andar.
@@letiziac5492 Comenzar is in spanish and andar are also cognates
What’s crazy is, I know French, I’m learning Spanish, and Catalan actually sounds like a little cousin of the two. Like, there were a great deal of words the woman was using that I didn’t understand or even partly recognize, BUT, through context I understood her
Catalan and French are both Gallo-Romamce languages so that makes sense
All three participants were very kind in speaking in a adequate speed so that the rest of us could understand. Pati, you are in the right profession; your teeth are perfect!
As Russian only one word: el cafe.
Ravil Bukhareev lmao
RUSSIAN MUST USE OCCIDENTAL ALPHABET, AND ALL THE PEOPLE COULD LEARN EASIER RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.
nochi+noche
@tpszzz00 that's a silly reason, you can learn the alphabet in one day, just try to transliterate a full text
@@rickhunter8216
The Cyrillic alphabet is the easiest thing about Russian. It takes 1 hour to learn.
Like si ets català o el parles
Mayorquí
Jo si :)
Valencià, una mica diferent, però son la mateixa llengua després de tot.
Som-hi! 🙂
lluc...Si el parlo , una vegada quan era a Barcelona fent turisme a l´Eixample, encara no parlava bé com ara i he anat a la farmácia de Passeig de Grácia , raconada de la Casa Milá , tenia mal de gola i el dependent em va fer que demanés el antibiotíc en catalá ! Sóc NEOYORQUí , BLANC ,DE PARES CUBANS DE ABANS EL COMUNISME i parlo castellá perfecte !!! Doncs vaig fer bé demanant peró ell era un covard a darrere de quatre barres de ferro :Era de nit.Aixó no és fa a ningú !!! Vaig dir "un dia me la pagarás" . No saps quanta felicitat vaig sentir per aquell fill de puta FEIXISTA DE MERDA quan vau perdere el referendum. La Unió EUROPEA DEIA PAS !!! VISCA CATALUNYA !!! VISCA ESPANYA !!! MIRA QUANT ESTIMO EL CATALÁ !!!
English is my first language but I have a pretty good grasp of Spanish and I understood all three of these without subtitles and I am super proud of myself
Born in the US with Mexican parents but spoke Spanglish growing up. Somehow I can understand Catalan but spelling it is something else 😁 love the Catalan language. I’m learning it more everyday.
bro a spoon is called culera lmfaoo
Vi la cara del mexicano luego de escuchar “Cullera” 🤣🤣🤣 the magic of languages!!! 🤘🤘🤘
I laughed too---it's hilarious.
Culera, jajaja.
Lo que pasa es que él oyó /culera/. Pero eso no es lo que la chica dijo. La pronunciación de la ll en catalán es como la pronunciación tradicional de la ll en castellano que lamentablemente pocas personas dicen ahora, la mayoría de los hispanohablantes se hizo yeísta. Ese sonido se parece al italiano _gli_ o el portugués _lh._ En el alfabeto IPA la pronunciación de _cullera_ es [ku'ʎerə]. Como el chico mexicano no está habituado al sonido ʎ, no lo percibió correctamente y lo asimiló a lo más cercano que conoce, la ele.
Jajaj me muerooo😂😂
@@jordillach3222 Exacto! En portugués, se dice colher.
I'm French. Fluent in Spanish. And I understood 80%. It sometimes sounds more similar to French than to Spanish in my opinion. I love catalan so much.
I understand a little bit of occitan... Which obviously must help me.
manu hildeberg
Actually, Catalan is a variation from Occitan and probably that is what you kind of hear here: back in the day it was the same political region (a thousand years ago almost) and we shared the language with the south of France, but that shared language was Occitan, not French. The thing is the Pyrenees (Pirineus for us^^) were in the middle of that region and that is why the accent started to evolve in a different pronunciation on the two sides of the mountains and with time Catalan became a thing ‘per se’ till nowadays.
Here we are all 100% fluent in Spanish too due to politics, but if you live outside Barcelona, our lives happen completely in Catalan: we study everything - kindergarden to university - using Catalan (try to do math in a language than isn’t your mother tongue... impossible!), we use it at work, friends, family, to go shopping, order online, etc. Also, many of us speak English or French, English for obvious reasons, French for the proximity with the country.
Thanks for the appreciation of our language! We love it so deeply because it has been banned many times and we have resist every time even when it was about to disappear, that’s why we consider it our most valuable asset in our specific Catalan culture... and every time somebody says they like it, our heart melts a bit in happiness!
@@adrianaalsinaescabosa3396 estoy siempre sorprendido por el super buen nivel de frances que hablais en Catalunia. Habeis salvado y conservado vuestro idioma à pesar de Madrid à pesar de franco y es increible. Para nosotros... Es otra historia... El puto estado centralizador jacobin creado por la révolucion logro su trabajo de destruccion total de Los particularismos culturales. Y de lo que in fine hacia la riqueza, la profundidad, y El Alma de este Pais.. Por 2 factores muy potentes : el ejercito y la escuela. Mi abuela murio hace 2 meses y Ella y Los de su généracion llevan la lengua occitan a sus tumbas... Se me podrian venir la lagrimas pensando en esto...tinc 30 anys...es la generacion de mi madre que dejo la lengua.. Hoy ya no es mas que algo folclorico...dicen las paradas en el métro de Toulouse en occitan... Y poco mas..ya ves tu.. La intento aprender pero la verdad es que es un combate vano. Visca El catalan y Visca la lengua d'oc lengua de l'amor y dels troubadors.
manu hildeberg
Siento mucho escuchar eso... toda lengua es un patrimonio cultural sin fronteras ni estados ni política de ningún tipo, solo es eso, cultura!
Pero hay muchos estados que entienden las diferencias entre sus ciudadanos como algo que temer, como una forma de no controlar a todos, y ciertamente Francia es un estado muy centralista en ese aspecto (aquí tampoco nos quedamos atrás, pero creo que vosotros lo habeis sufrido incluso más).
A veces no entiendo muy bien como el Catalán ha logrado sobrevivir, y en parte creo que es por la eficacia con la que el ejército francés ha pisado vuestra lengua y cultura regional, haciendo que una generación entera piense que hablar occitano es de “pueblo” y no es culto... además las dos guerras mundiales afectaron mucho esa zona y aquí fué diferente en ese aspecto.
Tampoco soy ninguna experta sobre el tema, simplemente me parece triste que no se haya mantenido (lo mismo con el Gaélico en Escocia, y mil ejemplos que ni siquiera conozco).
Si nunca quieres practicar catalán (aunque no es Occitano, lo siento!) por mi genial, siempre va bién poder repasar francés!^^ Tu nivel de castellano también es muy bueno, felicidades!
I si, visca el català, l’occità i la llengua d’Oc, llengua d’amor i trobadors!
Sounds more similar to French than Spanish? If I heard her talk I would had automatically thought she was speaking fluently Spanish
I've spent a lot of time in Catalunya and also Valencia where Valencian language is basically same as Catalan, but this is the first time to hear it spoken slowly and clearly so that non-Catalans can listen to it. I really enjoyed this experience because I found it surprisingly easy to understand everything she says. Of the major romance languages Catalan is the most beautiful to my ears, and I would love to have more opportunities to hear it spoken like she does in this video to better accustomate my ears and develop better listening comprehension for Catalan. It'd be wonderful to comprehend Catalan at natural speed eventually so when the pandemic is over and we can travel again I will be able to understand people much better in Catalunya, Valencia, Andorra and the Illes Balears the next time I visit!
How relaxing catalán is! I'm learning Spanish at the moment and the sound of the Spanish "j" is strange for me, as if it's from German or Russian. But Catalan pronounces the j like in French. This is easier
The Portuguese J aiso sounds like French or Catalan.
@@FelipeCarreiro this is good!
Catalan sounds like a mix of spanish, portuguese, french and italian. Sounds good, sounds smooth to my ears. I liked it!
May I ask where are you from?
yeah until you go to Catalunya and you hear them speak at real speed while eating a lot of letters lol. Believe me, I'm studying in Girona and even when I speak French and Spanish, Catalan is quite a pain in the ass XD
@@Thedemonlord66 ask us to speak slower m8.
For us, catalans, spanish sounds like a mix of portuguese, french and italian; italian sounds like a mix of spanish, french anb portuguese; portuguese sounds like a mix of french, spanish and italian... and so on xD
@@XavierCucurella pero... ustedes hablan Español, no sé porqué decís que es una mezcla de esos idiomas
As a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker I understood:
Spanish: 100%
Catalan: 75%
French: 40% (60% when written)
Como estou estudando francês deu pra entender praticamente tudo, incrível
Same here native Spanish speaker
As russian, i understand 0% of these languages
Same
As a native English speaker in Texas who took a few Spanish classes:
Spanish: 40% (95% when written)
Catalan: 2%
French: -500%
As someone who doesn't speak any of these languages, I was amazed how much I could understand from very, very, very little knowledge of Spanish and French, and from being fluent in English.
@Apollo Is Back Eh, that is true, but everyday language is primarily Germanic. The top 500 most used words in English are like 95% Germanic.
67% of the English language is of romance language. Wow almost 3 ¹/⁴
Blessings
@@sylamy7457
Only 23% of English is of Germanic origin
While 67% is of Romance languages
And only 7% is of Greek
The last 3% is of unknown.
Wrong, I can prove there are a lot of basic Spanish/Romance languages terms are used in English, e.g:
Color/color
Sofa/sofa
Refrigerator/refrigerador
Excellent/excelente
Super/super
Virus/virus
Pandemia/pandemia
Doctor/doctor
Medic/medico
Hospital/hospital
President/president
Medicine/medicina
Television/television
Cellular/celular
Telephone/teléfono
Radio/radio
Perfect/perfecto
Plant/plants
Similar/similar
List/lista
music/música
Secret/secreto
Politic/politico
Etc
Not to mention the French terms 😅
Blessings
@@monotrema7162 because you're wrong. There is no such thing as "
*a* German language. There are *dialects* of THE German language (Standard German) and Germanian language - which are a different thing. And English is much more than a Germanian language. LangFocus has a great video about it.
This was so much fun! I would like to see more episodes like this
The Catalan language is so charming! Ever since I watched Merli I wish to speak it
Are u spanish ?
Catalan is really good for insulting people XD sooo u should learn it to insult your friends in a funny way
Exemple d’ insult en català: torrecollons
@@rinnotkagamine11037 es veritat jajaj
I strongly recommend you to learn Catalan. Is a very beautiful lenguage
as italian, wathing this video, i can say that catalan is really understable by us too, mabye even more than spanish or french
As a native catalan speaker I back up what you're saying, both Italian and French are closer to catalan than to spanish.
I feel like I could have a conversation with an Italian perfectly and we would get to understand each other quite easily.
@@adamelhawari166 cool! as a non-native speaker I always thought that Catalan sounds very close to both French and Italian.. thanks for confirming xD
(By non-native I mean I'm not from a "roman language" speaking country)
As a italo-catalan-spaniard I think the same. Mostly sure the closest lenguage is occitane and, then, italian.
The same as me, Brazilian.
@@adamelhawari166 No. You are a separatist...and that explains your words. I am from Zaragoza... saludos compatriota español. Sigue soñando con tu Cataluña independiente. Perderéis Barcelona, que se separará de los paletos nacionalistas.
What an amazing video, really refreshing to see this kind of content.
Merli makes me want to learn Catalan. As a Spanish speaker from Ecuador who knows some Brazilian Portuguese, sometimes it’s easy to understand her, sometimes it’s tricky. It’s like Italian, Portuguese and Spanish combined with a hint of French.
She sounds like she is speaking to a 3 year old to us native Catalans, here is why, she explains it perfectly at the end, we catalans speak really fast, and we tend to naturally eat quite a lot of letters while speaking
Estava pensant el mateix xd
I thought exactly the same! It's funny how people in the comments say it's easy to understand considering people talk way faster in real life. Also I think if she was from someplace else in Catalonia it'd be harder, too. Vull dir d'una comarca d'interior per exemple, on hi ha moltes paraules que es pronuncien amb la vocal neutra i l'accent és més tancat (no sé com definir-lo)
@@paulacarbonellg yup she has a very open accent from the city, Barcelona, but Catalan has also a very rich quantity of dialects, and some are very distinct from the others, I myself i am from Osona a region, with history that dates back ti the reconquista and the foundation of Catalonia, which has a unique deep low accent, specially among farmers, but that It is also is the place of birth of many caregiving thinkers, writters, philosophers, teologists and musicians of the catalan language, amongst them, the greatest catalan poet of all times, and to me of all times alone in the world; mossèn Jacint Verdaguer. Therefore so following your comment i Will explain This which you surely know but to our fellow non-catalans; there is variety inside Catalonia itself but also all the way from the French part of Catalonia, to the Valencian Country (from North to South of the so-called 'Catalan Countries' even though I don't really like this concept), where they call Catalan "Valencian", and to Alguer in Sardegna (Italy) where Catalan is also spoken (but it is already dying in there).
Adrià Međina-Altarriba I mean I really could not have worded this sort of explanation better than you already have. To be honest, I don't have anything else to add except for the fact that I am also from Osona. Nice coincidence! I find it ironic to talk to someone in one language when I could be doing so in another one, but I guess there's some sort of beauty in it, too. I hope a lot of people read your comment and learn more about Catalan
Adrià Međina-Altarriba you forgot the Balearic Islands! Hi there, I’m from Menorca :D
When catalans talk to foreginers:
Nosaltres anem a comprar el pa
(We go to buy bread)
Catalans talking to each other:
Naltresnemacomprálpá
so true!
Hahahaa tant junt no ho dic jo, jo dic , "nosaltres anem a cumprá el pa"
@@mickybcn7453 jo ho dic com "nuzaltrazanemacumpralpa"
nemcompraixó ;)
Jo tenia un amic francés al que li parlava en valencià i sempre me dia lo mateix, que ells no compren pa. Pos ja me diràs com se mengen es ous fregits...
Saludos de un Salvadoreño:
Yo entendí
Catalán: 70%
Francés: 20%
I'm a native English speaker with Colombian Spanish as my 2nd language plus having studied several years of Euro-French, I understood about 80% of the Catalan and Canadian French. Having the words onscreen definitely helped.
Sou falante nativo de português. Entendi:
Espanol-100%
Catalá- 85%
Français- 40%.
Cumprimentos pelo belo vídeo.
As a French speaker, Portuguese is usually the language I understand the least when compared to Spanish or Italian (and Catalan in this video). Interesting to see it's the same for you, I guess Portuguese and French diverted more from Latin than the other ones.
Samuel M yeah same here I’m french I understand everything in Catalan Italian and Spanish but Portuguese is so different from the others
I cant believe you can understand 100% Spanish without having any basics of it. You must be exaggerating
@@fs400ion Entendí 100% del que dijo el mexicano del vídeo, no dijo que entiendo 100% espanol. "Do you understood now "? 🤔It's sample. Todavia, se hablan rápido el espanol, no entiendo nada, o casi nada. Si, yo aprendi un básico de espanol y italiano. Abrazos de Brasil.
@@SNM34 I agree with you. But for me, french becomes more understandable in It's written form.
Se me hizo más fácil entender el catalán que el francés. Fue muy interesante este experimento lingüístico.
Normal, Cataluña es una región de España
Cualquier idioma es más fácil entender que el francés xd
@@GioGio14412 no tiene mucho que ver, aparte que se habla en otros paises
@@GioGio14412 No tiene nada que ver. Seguro que entiendes mejor el francés que el euskera, por ejemplo, y de la misma forma, seguramente entiendas mejor el portugués que el catalán, ya que se parece más al español.
@@alex_lopez_iglesias el euskera es un caso a parte. Y te puedo asegurar que se parecen mucho porque hablo tanto catalán como español
As a French, Catalan is very easy to understand !
Eu acho o catalão um misto de todas as línguas românticas, é muito louco. Como eu tenho uma base de italiano, junto com meu conhecimento de espanhol e, claro, português, é muito incrível como consegui entender várias coisas. E como se um brasileiro tivesse falando um portunhol e, ao mesmo tempo, lançando umas palavras em italiano no meio da frase, kkkkkk. Muito louco (e lindo)!
"romance languages" traduzido não se diz "línguas românticas" mas sim "línguas romanas" ou "línguas latinas" simplesmente. Porém, a palavra "romance" em inglês pode ser traduzida para "romance" em Português com o sentido de algo romântico xD.
@@Xamurai13k ai, é verdade 😂😂 jurava que era assim, mas não pela tradução, é que eu lembrava de alguém de ter me falado desse jeito 😅 enfim, valeu! ❤️
@@leticiafariasl é, traduzido literalmente é ahahah, de nada :)
Yo, sin saber portugués, he entendido casi perfectamente todo lo que has dicho. Es muy extraño como se puede entender una lengua que nunca has estudiado tan solo por las similitudes que tiene con nuestro idioma nativo😅
@@IWontTellYouMyNameHehe muy extraño no? ahah. Saludos de Portugal :)
Oh my God : Catalan sometimes sounds like Portuguese with some words in French here and there.
And for me Catalan sounds like Spanish + French with some words in Italian
Interesting. As a European Portuguese speaker and Spanish/Castellano speaker, for me it sounds more like some Italian dialects.
To me it sounds to mostly like Italian with some Portuguese thrown in.
@GustavusAdolphus1 I don't think so. Basque sentence structure is so different of romance languages, vocabulary has nothing to do with spanish, catalan or french. Really a different language. Spanish is in reality Castillan and it was born in the center of spain, at about 150 km from North of Madrid; Far from basque country.
@@stateless4255 Maybe his comment was more aimed at phonetics, which is what makes a language sound like it does, even when you don't understand it.
as a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I may say: I could understand Catalan more than I thought I would. Beautiful language!
Tbm entendi muita coisa, tem palavras muito parecidas... tem muitas palavras próximas do italiano tbm...
É uma mistura doida de espanhol, francês e italiano. E esses idiomas já tem haver com o português então... hahaha
Também gostei.
Um poliglota brasileiro do CZcams listou o catalão como a língua mais fácil de aprender, avô que é Gabriel poliglota o canal dele
@@viniciusbrito3132 Esse cara é engraçado até. Acho ele bacana mas (pra quem sabe um pouco de inglês pelo menos) eu prefiro mais os vídeos do Ikenna, ele tem um bom conteúdo.
@@yan.f.s8266 maior namorador interlinguistico da internet kkkkk ele parece ser gente boa, assisto pouco ele
As a mexican who also speaks french it was really interesting to see that I could understand everything she said, like it is a combination of both
Hmm Catalan is such a cool language. It’s like French and Spanish combined which is pretty cool.
I got to know Catalan because of an amazing series on Netflix, Merlí. fell in love with the series and the language
Merlí🙌🏽
Such a good series!
@@ojrivas6843 in Brazil we had all three seasons! maybe you can use VPN
@@lingux_yt They recently made a spinoff that's not in Netflix about the life of one of the students (Pol) in university
@@mrfronzen
yes! Sapere Aude
I'm from North East Italy and Catalan is surprisingly understandable, even without subtitles
I'm from Valencia and I signed for Italian classes only to discover I never needed them lol If you know both Spanish and Catalan you already know 80% of Italian.
Tieni conto che lei parla molto lento e nitido. Però hai senz’altro ragione il catalano è veronese parlato da uno di Lodi ;)
Da bravo Torinese ho sempre trovato il catalano molto simile a tanti dialetti del nord
@@lucarinaldichini324 eh credo che tu abbia ragione perché il torinese è diciamo cugino delle lingue occitane che sono sostanzialmente l’alter ego orientale del catalano.
Purtroppo in Francia la lingua d’oc è stata macellata da quelli di Parigi ma ancor oggi ne resta la eredità dalle valli alpine piemontesi ai Pirenei.
Tegn dür mola mia :)
Same
As a valenciano native speaker I found Catalan very easy to understand almost 100%
I am fully surprised for that discovery
Lool
jajajajaja
Ecolinguist, you're going an exceptional job. Keep going, please.
As an Italian speaker, Catalan is very easy to understand, more so than Spanish. I got all the words after only a few seconds of her explaining. Never realised it was so close! -
-would love to see a video with Catalan and Italian and Romanian
It's funny, because as a Catalan myself I spoke few times with italian tourists here in Barcelona and we understand each other talking in our respective languages. The same with portugese. With french it happen at a minor level tho.
Sí el Catalan y Italiano se parecen demasiado
Не пи*ди тут😂😂😂😂😂😂
Io sono italiano e non ho capito quasi niente del catalano. Anzi il catalano e il francese si somigliano moltissimo
@@dylantero-yu1631 catalano e francese sono troppo simili. Io italiano non ho capito niente
As a french speaker I understand
Catalan: 95%
Spanish:90%
Spanish speaker:
Catalan: 85%
French: 20%
Just by listening or by reading subtitle?
Same, but I took a Spanish class in high school, so I might be cheating...
As a Mexican I like
Tacos: 100%
Tortas: 80%
Tamales 70%
@@19ars92 x2
Amazing video!! Really good concept
I appreciated this so much!
I am an Italian speaker and I understand 96% of what she said and I have no knowledge of spanish whatsoever
So is Italain a strong langauge? So if I learn italian will I be able to understand Spanish and Portuguese? Yes or No?
Atem Yak all the west mediteranian latin languages have strong ressemblance. Cause its latin + they interacted a looooot beetween echothers
But french is the less compatible because its based on Paris version of latin. And not south of france version latin which was a now dead language named occitan
Italian. Portuguese. Spanish. South french interacted a loot beetween echothers through trade. Commerce. War. Political issues etc. Which help the language not distance themselves too much
Hi I speak catalonian ,spanish and polish fluently.And it is the same when we speak with italian tourists ,we do not speak to them in spanish normally because we know that they would understand better in catalonian.Norbert ,mógł byś zrobić : Italian-Catalonian comparison ,jestem ciekawy,bo naprawde dużo słów jest bardzo podobnych w tych dwóch językach.
@@gaipa2006 if you learn Italian you will be able to understand most of Spanish and a little less Portuguese.
@@gaipa2006 when I went to Italy I only used Spanish and people understood fairly well.
I’m a West African Francophone who speaks fluent Spanish and I understood everything everyone said which is crazy! Catalán is wayyy more beautiful than I expected and has more similarities to French and Portuguese than I would have anticipated
Si vous parlez espagnol et français.... Bon, le Catalan ne sera pas compliqué!
THIS IS SO EPIC THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS
M'ha encantat aquest vídeo! Sóc estudiant de català però la meva llengua materna és l'espanyol, així que he intentat endevinar recordant les paraules en tots dos idiomes. Em fa molt feliç veure la representació del català en aquests vídeos, és una llengua molt bonica!
Dude I can't believe you managed to put this together, you're making my dreams come true!
Catalan is a hidden gem in the romance language family. If somebody speaks Spanish, it is a great gateway (in terms of vocabulary) to the languages further east of Spain such as Italian and French. The little bit of western Catalan I learned as a youngster visiting places like Lleida helped me learn Italian much faster than if I only spoke some Spanish no doubt. It is a great language with a very rich history.
Thanks! :D I'm glad to hear that!
@@Ecolinguist I know I'm asking for too much but if you could get an Italian speaker with a Catalan speaker it would make my year haha
seGuritas direct I’m interested in your language. It sounds beautiful. I will be moving to Valencia once this pandemic is over. So I’m excited to learn valencian/Catalan. Greetings from Canada. 🇨🇦 🇪🇸
@@marinasj no problem! The western variant is my favourite and I need to learn more!
Too bad spaniards always attack and despise our language. They dont like any other language other than castillian. Unevolved hicks and primitives. No wonder so many of us catalans want independence!
I love how us the romance language speakers can understand each other easily 😎
Expect Romanian, they speak with such a slave accent it's almost impossible to get it
@@QuentinWolffMusic Careful now. It's slav. Not "slave". 🤣
@@GROENAASMusic Slav e with a latin accent.
@@guywithalltheanswers6942 Huh...?
@@GROENAASMusic 😂😂😂
Great iniciative. There are similarities among the languages. I really like the blog. Congrats
As a South African speaking Afrikaans, English, some Spanish and a tiny bit of Portuguese, I was weirdly able to understand a lot of this video, how interesting!
Visca Catalunya! Vive le Québec! ¡Viva México! Um abraço de um falante do português do Brasil.
*Visqui
Obrigado!
Gracias bro aquí también los queremos
Un abrazo para Brasil también un hermoso idiomas que tienen.
Visca España, viva la hispanidad
As a native French speaker I find that Catalan is really easy to understand when reading for me
Same. I don't speak french, but I do speak: Catalan (my mother tongue), Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. And I can manage to understand a bit of French, but, I understand it better when I'm reading it.
What about portuguese? The francophones specially struggled a lot to understand in the last video
@@judna1 You should learn French then! It's gonna be very useful and knowing all these similar to French languages, it will be really easy.
As a native French speaker who also knows Spanish, I'd say Catalan is pretty intelligible to me.
So gentlemen, where are our "beloved" native Russian speakers who will now write comments about how they perfectly understood all 3 languages? ))) How do they usually do it, under all Norbert’s videos with Slavic languages))) At the same time, not understanding at 90% of Belarusian and Ukrainian))) Well, well))) 🤣🤣🤣 False, insidious, wild, worthless, cynical, feigned, Russian (Finno-Ugric) bastards!
This is such a helpful video and way of learning new languages. The pronouncing of certain words and the comprehension side of learning. I have been studying Spanish. I’ve also tried learning some French. Catalan is so intriguing to me because it mixes the two.
I love that different people of different languages talk together, its beautiful!
Hello from Spain
In the island of Sardegna in Italy, there's a city called l'Alguer and the people of this city speak catalan
Went there last summer, one of the best cities in sardegna
Has estat?
I knew that in a part of west Sardegna people speak Catalan, they speak it too in Andorra, Valencia and Balearic Islands as an official language, but in Toulouse, some parts of Murcia and east Aragon speak it too
yes, so pretty to visit
True but they speak a kind of medieval form of catalan
This was my first exposure to Catalan as a native spanish speaker from the Caribbean and it was so fascinating! Loved this video and gained an instant sub.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Heyyyy also Caribbean here
Heard Catalan for the first time while watching Merlí (which is a really good series btw) and it always amaze me how much romance languages relate to each other, to the point you can understand other people without speaking it.
I'm learning Catalan right now as my 2nd language (I only speak English) and this video felt really useful. I need more content like this.
What she said near the end is so true. Catalans talk really fast and full of slang and even when I feel like I'm progressing with the language I visit Barcelona again and it's like my friends there aren't even speaking the language I've been learning...
All in all, Catalan might not have been the best idea for a language since its only spoken on the east of Spain and Andorra - and even then, most people will communicate using a mix of Spanish and Catalan/Valencian.
I'm sorry for your friends not speaking you in catalan. Els catalans tenim aquesta mala costum, canviem al castellà en el moment en el que algú té la mínima dificultat per parlar la nostra llengua, no ho hem de fer, hem d'ajudar-hos a aprendre'l
@@peperodriguezalcaraz2609 You presume to know my desires and motivations? Don't tell me what language is best for me to learn. You don't know me.
This video helped inspire me to start learning Catalan :)
as a French speaker, I can understand most of the Catalan it's true (but it's really slow and written as well, that helps)
same, reading it is quite easy but i wouldn't be able to understand just by hearing it.
can u understand canadian french ?
The dude from canada is so slow, French is my 3rd language (English is 4th) and if was easy for me to understand her. He doesn't even know the difference between Canard and Canari in his own native language.
@@EgoJinpachi_ As a native french speaker of France we can understand Canadian French they just got an accent and some words change but it's French
@@EgoJinpachi_ of course, that's the same language, even though they have a different accent and some wieeeerd expressions :p
I wish Duolingo would release Catalan for English speakers I need to learn Catalan
Catalan is definitely easier to learn with a Spanish background, but I wouldn't recommend Duolinguo. I used their Catalan course as a starting point but it doesn't do a great job actually teaching the language beyond vocab. I found it much more useful to look at it and realise what duolinguo wasn't teaching me and go find that information on my own, plus just looking for articles in Catalan to read. Its a fascinating language definitely worth checking out
in some universities all around the world they are doing catalan courses. maybe you have one close to you.
Learn castillian, the language of the gods, and then you can learn catalan in duolingo.
@@KizCat Yeah Sydney has 2 universities that offer Catalan
well, I reccomend knowing Spanish too if you're gonna learn Catalan. it's a good base, and viceversa
This was loads of fun listening to the three-way convo; I know Spanish well, a bit of Catalan, and very little Quebec French. It helped greatly that there was captioning and I loved seeing the similarities and differences between each set of languages. Thanks for an entertaining video!
I'm a french speaker who learnt Spanish at school, and it feels like Catalan is closer to Spanish, but there's also many similar words to French, so by knowing both languages, Catalan becomes pretty easy to understand.
Occitan is spoken in about 1/3 of the southern provinces in France, and that language was once considered one and the same with Catalan. A large part of the lexicon is shared between Occitan and Catalan, and written words are for the most part mutually intelligible. I’ve always been fascinated with the Romance languages in particular and wonder as a French speaker, have you ever heard Occitan spoken?
@@Lutefisk_Fettuccini yes I actually have. As you mentioned the written words are quite close to French/spanish/Italian, but when spoken, the accent make it quite hard to understand. I think it'd be slightly easier for people from the south of France (I'm from the North) to understand, because of the accent and some dialects words that might be a bit more close to Occitan than standard french.
@@ruskasielu6261 It seems the French speaker had more trouble understanding langue d’oc, whereas the Catalan and Italian speaker had an easier time. I noticed right away the similarities between Occitan and Catalan, as the woman who spoke Catalan mentioned they’d be able to speak their respective languages and understand each other. My father is Norwegian and he said Norsk and Svensk (Norwegian and Swedish) are very similar spoken languages, and he’s able to understand Svensk. English, however, is the red headed stepchild in the Germanic family of languages. Are you able to understand Canadian French?
@@Lutefisk_Fettuccini yeah I agree with what you said. As for Canadian french yes definitely, it's basically french with a different accent and some dialect words and expressions, so unless the person has a very strong accent it'd be easy to understand. Some french people might struggle, but it's just a matter of getting used to the accent. I've lived in Canada, and I never had any troubles understanding people there.
Having studied a little Norwegian (bokmal), it seems to me Norway has dialects that are way more different than french and Canadian french
Cullera, cuillère, cuchara.
In my german head:
*Löffel* lul
@@medora2499 Det är "sked" på svenska. En gaffel är en annan sak.
Und colher auf Portugiesisch :)
Can you understand Old English?
What's going on here amk
Ich spreche Katalanisch, also spreche ich auch Spanisch (es ist in Spanien). Meine Mutter ist Deutsche, also spreche ich auch Deutsch (und ich kann sehr gut Englisch sprechen) xd (vier Sprachen)
I think it would be really cool to do some sort of Germanic languages comparison. Like with English, Dutch, Frisian, German for example or the 3 main Nordic languages.
Probably won’t work or won’t be fair, because English is spoken and understood by pretty much everyone in Germanic speeking countries.
With the caveat that Scotts speakers also speak English, Scotts and English could be interesting. Maybe how different English speakers (e.g. US, British, C2 Second Language speaker) understand the sibling language
*cough* Nordic languages are just dialects of a single continuum but with politics and a potato in Danish throats *cough*
@@louisvictor3473 *cough* Scots also forms a dialect continuum with English *cough*
I haven't studied any of the north Germanic languages but they can't be more similar than English and Scots, right?
@@550077 all catalan speakers speak French or Spanish, so Dutch With English and some other Germanic languages.
English isn´t a (real) German language anyway. Even the most basic vocabulary has been partially replaced by non-Germanic words. I saw a statistic saying that half the German population doesn´t speak English btw, the percentage being higher in the east and lower in the west. It should be even easier to find an English speaker who doesn´t speak any other Germanic language. I also saw that German is understood by 49% of Dutch people and 34% of Danes.
I think there´s plenty of combinations as long as German and especially English speakers stay relatively passive (like the Mexican and the Canadian in this video)
I speak German, English and a little Swedish and I can hardly understand any spoken Icelandic, Frisian, Danish or even Dutch. Vit, the Czech guy, also speaks fluent Russian and he´s still participating, so I guess only knowing one language in the family has never been a requirement.
Yo creí que el catalán no era tan diferente al español perooo siii, es súper diferente, que bonitos son los idiomas
Como cuanto porcentaje entendiste?
I feel like thanks to these videos about riddles between different languages and dialects I am suprisingly increasingly better at understanding even languages I've never heard of. I am Czech so it was fun to understand the Rusyn language. I teach English and learnt some Old English so it was fun to follow the Old English and Old Norse videos. But I have not mastered my French yet and I've learnt only the basics of Spanish so I am positively surprised taht I can actually understand Catalan!
Thank you for the incredible content!
As a Northern Italian I understand Catalan better than both French and Spanish. I literally understood 80+% of what she said.
Yeah, if one had to choose the most 'neutral' Romance language, Catalan would be a pretty solid contender, especially if you used Valencian as the basis since its phonology is even more straightforward for other romance language speakers.
I undersand Italian very well too (I am catalan). They are very similar languages
My dad is italian, my mom catalan. They are always saying that both languages are very similar !
Yeah I'm catalan and I'm currently learning italian, and even though it's my first year I can already understand very well a person speaking it
@@kevinmartin93 can they understand each other when they speak in their own language?
Catalan girl: * is from Spain, where the Canary Islands are a region of it*
Mexican guy: "Do you know canary birds?"
Catalan girl: "...dude"
not really
@@guilhermemelo1307 It belongs to spain though.
XD A mi me hizo mucha gracia, ya que los catalanes hablamos Castellano perfectamente y sí, Canarias es de España
Fun fact, the Canary Islands ("Islas Canarias") aren't named after the birds, its name comes from Latin "Canariae Insulae", or "Islands of the Dogs". Further fun fact, the birds are, in fact, named after the islands. Dog birds :-)
@Krifeto yeah but he wasn't speaking only to the girl, he was speaking to the viewers and the french guy aswell
Love their conversation and glad to see a French Canadian share his knowledge with them ..
I found it fascinating that despite me being a native English speaker and heritage Spanish speaker, who had been learning French as an adult, the Catalan was completely intelligible to me. I feel like I basically new everything she was saying.
Catalan sometimes looks like Portuges, sometimes like Italian and occasionally like French from what I'm seeing. That was fascinating for myself speaking a lot of French and Spanish -- ( and a little Portuguese).
@Henry of Monmouth I agree with the Italian part. I'm Catalan myself and I've made an Italian friend and I can understand almost everything she says because it sounds similar to catalan words but with another accent
Eu falo português, sou brasileiro, é impressionante como os idiomas italiano, espanhol, francês, catalão são similares eu consigo entender se eu me concentrar bem, principalmente o italiano e o catalão, o espanhol é 99% de similaridade eu entendo muito nem preciso me esforçar, já o francês eu ainda demoro um pouco, enfim línguas latinas
Eu falo o Português falado no Brasil e pude entender muita coisa
@@ABELINOOFICIAL francês eu tbm acho a mais diferente das latinas mano, talvez a língua é um pouco diferente por conta da proximidade da França com a Alemanha.
@@rhuanfidelis755 eu também achava até ouvir uma pessoa falar romeno, mds o desespero que me deu, pq romeno é misturado com língua slava tipo o russo por exemplo, agora imagina só, o francês que já é bem diferente por causa da influencia germânica, imagina o romeno kkkkk ouve pra tu ver o desespero que dá 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣
I am from Barcelona and I have to say she has a beautiful catalan accent, I don't speak that good catalan although it is my first language tbh haha
el chava? 😂 Jo soc de la Garrotxa i tinc un accent molt tancat (es podría dir que campestre) però especificament jo, parlo molt """pijo""" per ser originari de la Garrotxa
Jo sóc mallorquina-catalana, la mama és catalana i el papa és mallorquí
@@joelrodriguezorth305 hostia jo també sóc de la Garrotxa
@@joelcompta8512 oleeeee
jo tembé soc CATALANA
Loved it. Thanks.
This was so much fun to watch.
I found her accent surprisingly easy to understand as a Romanian
Did you? Nice! I bet I couldn't understand yours. Or well, maybe I could a bit. Cause I speak Catalan (my mother tongue), Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. And I saw a video where two Americans were trying to guess European languages. One of them was Romanian, and I could understand some stuff, thanks to Italian basically, but also cause of the Catalan.
@@judna1 I'm Romanian and I was able to understand her too. She spoke slowly and enunciated every syllable.
I had a Romanian co-worker and he would understand pretty much everything I would tell him in french haha!
that woman as she said in the end spoke like a "modern standard Catalan", majority of people don't speak like that
Catalan and Romanian sound very similar, after all they are both romance languages.
Catalan is so cool, the bridge between Spanish and French in many ways. At the same time it has its own clearly distinct qualities. If I read it I can understand 95%of it. When spoken, no more than 20%. Great video as always!
Thanks! :)
@@Ecolinguist I would very much like to participate in one of your experiments some day. Should you ever need a Spanish speaker from Central America, count me in! Best regards.
Hi! I'm catalan. And yes, Catalan might be some sort of a bridge between Spanish and French, but there a language that is even closer to Catalan than those two, and this one is Occitan, it is even spoken in a region of the North-east Catalonia, in the Lleida's Pyrenees.
Until recently Occitan used to be spoken over the major part of Southern part of France, but unfortunately, it's a dying language there. But if you have knowledge of Occitan, Catalan speach is really easy to follow!
@@kodekadkodekad4380 llengües llemosines bessones
Moltes gràcies per aquest vídeo👌👍
Love this videos. Thanks
I found it interesting how, as a Spanish speaker myself, I thought that the sentence grammar was super similar to Spanish and the accent sounded Spanish like, but the words that were guessed were so much more similar to french. Languages are so fascinating ❤️
La gramática y ortografía son muy diferentes en la escritura
Lo mismo pensé es genial
A lot of the writing is similar to French. for exemple paraules in French paroles, bougie, l’utilizem in French l’utiliser.
What I found fascinating was that this language is between Spanish and French grammar wise and words are also similar to French, while also having a lot of Portuguese influence for the pronunciation.
Yes I found a lot of word completely opposite of Mexican Spanish as I speak Spanish Mexican and I only understand a part of what she said the French is way more close to her language than ours
I can speak Spanish and Italian and when she explains how in Catalan they contract words, she cites an example which, in it's proper form, seems closer to Spanish, but when contracted it's almost identical to Italian: per aixó (por eso) -> perxó (perciò) ☺
I probably wouldn't be able to understand spoken Catalan out of context. If I knew what the topic of conversation was, I probably would be able to tune in.
That's how I'm able to understand my Brazilian fiancé even though I never studied or spoke Portuguese.
When I know what the topic is, I expect certain vocabulary to come up in conversation, and the vocabulary within the Romance language family is similar.
What usually differs are connectors, fillers and of course individual words here and there, but then I can ask for clarification if I don't pick up the meaning from the context.
È avvantaggiata dato che in catalonia lo spagnolo è comunque parlato 😂
Me robaste el comentario broder porque estoy en el mismo caso. Casi no entendi el frances, pero catalan si porque tambien hablo italo. Asi que mi comentario es sesgado.
Comunque anche in italiano esiste “per questo” (por eso), “ciò” è un sinonimo di “questo”
+Letizia C. Eso significa quello XD
I was in Barcelona and everybody spoke Spanish to me, Pati understood everything that Isidor said.
Really cool, thanks!
I wish this interaction among people from all over the world could be possible forever, as long as we’re alive
Please find a Romanian speaker to join with a Catalan speaker! (: Thank you for the fun videos!
Uuuf! I could try if you want. I'm catalan and I speak: catalan (my mother tongue), spanish, english, italian and portuguese. Though, even if I speak those languages, I still would find really hard to understand Romanian, I can understand some French, but I can only manage to understand some words of Romanian, and the language that helps the most is Italian and yes, some Catalan as well, but, basically Italian is the one that can help me the most.
Judith N oh wow that is so cool, I also speak English very fluently, spanish (Mother tongue), portuguese, and the very basic of Italian lol, greetings from the US
Nobody understands Romanian
I am Catalan who lives in a town with a 10% of Romanian population and I don't understand Romanians at all. Neither here, nor when I was in Bucharest.
Following a conversation is impossible but reading some words is easier... Names like "Banca Comercială Română" could not be misunderstood though, I think, even a monolingual English speaker would guess words like these
Canario es "Canari" en francès. It's not a very common bird to know about in Quebec I think, though, so it might be why Marc didn't catch this one.
Marc pensó que canard era un canario y que el Quebecois se equivocó de animal 🤣
Mexico is not that common either but we all remember it for the cartoons hahaha
I don't think that's why Marc wasn't able to say that. He failed to understand the connection that the Mexican guy saw, because there really isn't any in terms of french and also there isn't any in terms of Spanish either. That's like talking about "chaise" which is chair in french and thinking there is a relationship with chess and "chaise".
When he said that the baby canards are called “canaton” that seems like an augmentative rather than a diminutive. Is that right?
@@caseyrogers573 why, just why! Oh gosh frick man
Thanks to the subtitles I was able to get ~50% of the conversation for each speaker. I'd never heard Catalan before (that I'm aware of) so this was really interesting to watch.
Knowing more than one Romance language makes Catalan really intelligible. I know Portuguese and Spanish and I was surprised with how much I was able to grasp.