American Guess 4 Slavic Languages Speaking Countries!!(Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine)
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Today, American tried to guess the nationality
by listening Slavic languages!
Can you distinguish those languages?
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Slavic People speaking their language
American people : Russia
typical american world awareness
Sad but true xD
to be honest, as a Czech when I hear some other slavic language, I also don't know what is that and I guess russian 😀
@@Pidalin Im your Slovak brother and idk :D i never think of russian language at first
@@soldierswag4884 when I really have no idea, I say it's probably bulgarian 😀
1. Ahoy does give it away, but could be Slovak or Czech
2. Borst is Ukranian.
3. Vodka and pierogi are Polish.
4. Tricky, it is East Slavic, but she mentions nature, so i think of Belarus, because it is way smaller than Russia, since Russia has more land diversity.
2. borscht is general regional not just ukrainian, alsopolish - historically it passed on to ashkenazi quicisne - to some extent klhuthianain belarusianlater also russian
3. vodka is poliush but other countries too
fun fact borsh is from 16 century and its central eastern countries dish not ukrainian there was no ukraine back then
@@kubx5036 It was actually 😂
Keep listening russian propaganda, dude
Its Ahoj
@@Anbopro im not russian xd bro red borsh is also polish national dish invented by central eastern slavic people
it's pretty hilarious that she asked for numbers and colours - both of them are pretty much same in all same in all slavic langs :D
The oldest basic words are similar even in other language groups like germanic or romance.
Number 3 is similar even with English.
Pink in Ukrainian really sounded similar to French red, but they are not related at all. If someone is interested, I could describe why.
@@user-tk5rg6hc8s It is actually related, word pink in slavic languages is from flower rose, so it can be actually from french.
@@Pidalin Thank you for your interest. Yes, their pink literally means rose as adjective. Rouge was inherited from Latin word rubeus, which with another Latin word rosa possibly are very far cognates, actually rosa's origin is not certainly known.
When I looked for information about rouge, I found another similarity, it's an Ænglisc word rudiġ, means reddish and sounds very similar to the word that indicate ginger colour.
@@Pidalin It actually comes directly from Latin, not French.
As a Belarusian I can say that I have a few questions in the last girl (Belarus). At the beginning she said "Pryvet" but it would be more correct to say "Pryvitańnie" or "pryvit" or just "vitaju", it would also be possible to say "Dobry dzień", Because there is no word "pryvet" in Belarusian, it is more like a mixture of Belarusian and Russian.
Ukrainian will be closest to Belarusian, and Russian and Polish will be in second place, which are approximately equally close to Belarusian. The Belarusian language has its own history and vocabulary, which is larger than in Russian, the third statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was written on it, it used two alphabets: Latin and Cyrillic. But during the times of the Russian Empire and the USSR, Russification was carried out in Belarus, which caused great damage to the Belarusian culture and language. in 1933, the Soviet authorities carried out a reform of the Belarusian language in order to artificially bring it closer to Russian, as a result, there are now two variants of the Belarusian language:
1) Classic Belarusian (before the reform of 1933)
2) Official Belarusian (after the reform of 1933).
Now the Belarusian language is not in the best condition, and the official Belarusian authorities are not interested in what state it is in. Russian Russian is mainly used by the authorities, and Belarusian is perceived as the language of the opposition, so it performs only a decorative function, and the president, once even resented the traffic sign in Belarusian, and said that it should be replaced with Russian. Therefore, the topic of language is very important to me and I am a little not pleased and sad that some Belarusians do not know Belarusian or mix it with Russian.
In general, there are a couple more mistakes, for example, instead of the Belarusian "kava" she said "kafi", which is more like a strange mixture with the Russian "kofe".
never give up on preserving Your culture and language - all the best from Poland!
¿Pero la chica no dijo que estaba hablando ruso?
@@ivanovichdelfin8797 Disse, mas não estava. Ela falou um belorrusso contaminado pelo russo.
@@jorgecandeias Ahh, vale
as a belarusian get your shit straight and start using your own language!
Ukrainian lady speaks kind of mixture of Ukrainian and Russian! We call it "Surzhik"! I say that confidently because I am native speaker of Ukrainian. Polish and Belarus languages are the most understandable to me. Belarus girl speaks kind of "Trasyanka" which is mixture of Belarus (the language is almost dead) and Russian!
What about Rusyn?
no she doesnt. she had one single word from russian in her speech. dont spread bs
@@lenas6246 You probably dont even speak any of those slavic languages. She sounded for me like a native Russian speaker who learned Ukrainian later, probably from East Ukraine or Kiev.
@@Denyo666*Kyiv
@@Denyo666 If you want to be truly right, don't call Kyiv “Kiev”.
"Kiev" is a Russianized name.
Finally , the slavic are back , i hope see of this new US lady too 😊
does this girl really only think of russia? borscht originated in ukraine, vodka in poland
Fr💀
A lot of Americans are uneducated in other countries besides the US 😂
Pierogis are Polish too. I'm not even Slavic (I'm Nordic), and I learned that vodka and pierogis are Polish and that biorscht is Ukrainian. In fact, I learned about borscht after Russia's war against Ukraine.
Yeah, many people really have to educate themselves about these topics before talking about them because they are walking on a very thin ice
I think it's a general lack of knowledge of eastern Europe. Not just her, but many Americans know they have borscht and especially vodka in Russia but don't know the origins and hardly know anything about the smaller Slavic countries so they attribute them to being Russian. Russia gets more exposure because of their larger role in more recent history in events such as the World Wars and the Cold War. Eastern European culture is also harder to learn than Western Europe unless you have Eastern European background since Eastern Europe is farther and so different from Western Europe.
Im surprised how Americans get affected by using “ wrong pronouns ” and not being ashamed to call Ukrainian people and national dishes- russian .
stop cry
What we discovered during the pandemic is that this multi-gender theology seems to be the primary subject taught in American schools. Home schooling is becoming a popular option for those Americans that can afford it.
@@uchexo It's not about american education, it's just about Russians stole their culture and people just can't know something is originaly from Ukraine when all movies show it as a Russian thing. I think it's mainly fault of popculture where everything slavic is russian and everything russian is slavic.
I am Czech and before war, nobody knew there is a difference between russians and ukrainians and still, we can't distinguish between them. I know they will be angry, but they look the same, speak the same and their culture looks the same for us, so how can they want from americans to recognize them when even as a Czech I can't distinguish them?
It's the same even with Africa, in movies, there is just Egypt and rest of Africa, but it's a really big continent, so I guess there must be massive differences.
why choose her for the video then@@user-rk3vw3pk4w
ok you are slovak then@@Pidalin
First member from Czech Republic / Czechia 🇨🇿 , someone from Slovakia 🇸🇰 would be great too ,
There are probably more Americans that have won a lottery than those that could correctly identify between a Czech and Slovak person every time lol
so excited to see Czech here!:)
yes I was so excited when I was reading "czech" and then my smile just slowly disepeared when I didnt see slovak. but still happy to see our brothers ^^
I'm sad, bcs people from Belarus don't know Belarusian language. I mean I live one year with girl from Belarus and she know only Russian and she couldn't say anything in Belarusian. And she told me that nowadays people know only Russian and maybe older people know Belarusian at least partially. So I wish they will use their mother language or at least know both Belarusian and Russian and not only Russian. Poland wasn't on map for 123 years and we still use Polish language, so it's sad for me that Belarusian is going to stop existing in future.
Щоби знати білоруську, треба забути російську.
funny thing, foreigners are much more concerned about death of Belarusian than Belarusian themselves. If you ask Belarus people, most will agree to have only one official language Russian. And unfortunately, I'm not exaggerating here
@@Brukc87не разумный вариант
Not of your concern.
@@KGBkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbk maybe, but I am from east Poland and nowadays here is a lot of Belarusian people, they escaped to Poland, so maybe young generation see problem or at least more people than in older generations. I hope some people will learn Belarusian and pass to their children, so this language will not vanish.
Borshch is a ukrainian national dish!
It’s a slavic national dish
ні, це українська національна страва, не присвоюйте її собі, ви маєте щі@@elenapovarova4201
- Borsch.
- OK, it's not Ukraine.
Bruh... I'm not Ukrainian and I lowkey found this offensive. 😂
As a Russian I feel a little awkward when someone confuses another Slavic language with Russian, because I hate it when it’s like Slavic=Russia I just want other Slavic cultures and languages to be more praised and receive more representation.
Also vodka and borscht don’t mean Russia immediately. I mean borscht is definitely eastern Slavic , mostly Ukrainian.
The only reason people are thinking right away about Russia is because it is the largest, the most significant and the best known Slavic country. Other Slavic countries in Europe are desperately trying to be considered "western" and thus people not very familiar with this area may get somehow confused, whereas Russia is very proud of her history, traditions and achievements (and so should be you), and never pretend to be something she's not. Similarly if you ask North or South American to name three countries in Europe, in 99% they say France, England and Italy. Nobody will start with Austria, Belgium or Finland for example. Let those other countries earn such prestige and importance and then perhaps people will start noticing them too.
@@xawecki8149 my nie próbujemy być nikim innym niż Polakami, za to ty prezentujesz wzorową postawę pucownika rosyjskich chujów xD Rosja jest naszym naturalnym wrogiem, ale jak ktoś jak komentarz na który odpowiadasz zdaje sobie sprawę z tego że nie są najwspanialszym narodem świata to jest dużo bardziej wartościowym człowiekiem niż zdrajcy jak ty, ha tfu
@@xawecki8149what should the current russians be proud of? Destroying their "brother" nations, genocide, disrupting global peace, poverty, or hiv?
@@xawecki8149 What the heck you are on about. It's you who are ashamed of your history and traditions. An offshoot of the Mongol Empire where people have Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Turkic and East Asian ancestry yet you insist being more Slavic than anyone else and bully people over it. That's like having an average white American claim they are more Anglo-Saxon than people in England or Wales.
The Mongol Empire was a multiethnic Empire and if you start from the Grand Duchy of Moscow and then conquer everything in reverse it does not change the fact. Centuries of government led Russification and national insomnia do not change it either.
As a Bulgarian I hate when they say that I'm speaking Russian))
As a native Belarusian speaker I'd like to say, that girl's level is something between B1-B2. Though this is the same for many belarusians.
She doesn't speak Russian in this video, but she speakes belarusian with mistakes and even some made up words😅
Also, the word "privet" or "pryvet" doesn't exist in Belarusian.
I mean, it's not her fault, it's about the educational system.
However I am very glad that Belarusian sounds here. Thank you Anastasia.
For a native Belarusian speaker, her speech sounds like.
Hola. Mei name is Anastasia.
Today I also had a cahfeea.
We have a muchogh (made up word) delicious potato.
..but the mostO famous is Draniki
I really WILL like dark green
I was put on with a white dress
I hate these video's when they invite people to present their "native" language when they are not native speakers at all. It sounded for me that the Ukrainian is also a native Russian speaker who learned Ukrainian later. Also very weird that they never include the Russian language in all these Slavic language video's
@@Denyo666 it's quite difficult to find someone who speaks fluent C2 Belarusian even in Belarus (in Korea it's almost Impossible).
The situation with Belarusian language is similar to the situation with Gaelic Irish in Ireland.
Still, Anastasia speaks Belarusian better than 80% of Belarusians.
I also noticed the problem with the Ukrainian girl. Her pronounsiation is OK, but she confuses some words as well. But she was born in Crimea, so I am not surprised.
@@user-mw2ne7db5i Aah so they are in Korea? Didn't know that! Belarus is an amazing country, I speak Russian and I have been to Belarus and I really liked it. The food was amazing there, my wife is from Russia from the Moscow region and she said she didn't hear a different in accent between the people in Minsk and Moscow. But she can always tell when someone is from Ukraine when they speak Russian.
@@Denyo666 in Minsk and other big cities most of people speak quite standard Russian, rarely using some specific Belarusian words such a "shufliadka", "burak"
Belarusian land survived two waves of polonization and strong russification in 18-19 centuries and the Soviet era.
For example my ancestors are from western Belarus and my Greatgrandmother spoke pure Belarusian, her daughter spoke mixed belarusian-russian language, her son (my grandfather) was forced to speak pure Russian when he moved to Minsk University back in 60s. Now as a result, my mother and uncle can't speak Belarusian.
If someone wants to hear authentic belarusian they need to go to small towns and villages especially in the northern-west part of Belarus.
You can hear ot from the old ladies here (for example at 7:05):
czcams.com/video/YFxYkhZW2qU/video.htmlsi=aElX2HfsTi2aYA-k
They use some Russian words though, which makes it more understandable for russian speaking people, but your wife will definitely hear the huge difference.
Запрашваць дзяўчыну якая валодае акурат трасянкаю, а не моваю - то дрэнна. Выбачце, але шмат русыфікаваных словаў ад яе, што якраз паказвае які зараз ўплыў на беларусаў ад Расеі😊
Це вельми журливо
Гэта крынжовы пацяшальны кантэнт для не самых разумных людзей, цана якому 0. Ecolinguist значна лепш за гэтае дзярмо
думаю дуже важко в Кореї знайти білоруса який говорить не суржиком - наслідок асиміляції
Russian Russians and Ukrainians are not "Russified" - they are Russians who speak dialects of the Russian language.
Змагарское хрюканье это не беларусский язык.
As a Pole, Belarusian still remains the most intelligible to me out of this list, both semantically and phonetically, while Russian (and Bulgarian which is not here obviously) seems furthest from Polish, I tend to have a hard time understanding Russian in general.
Hi, actually, Belarusian girl mixed a lot russian words there. There is a big comment above or below about that. But she is still great
@@____5461 yeah, true, but in general I’ve heard a bit of Belarusian before, so I kinda have associated my opinion with that as well 😀
How about czech? Do you understand that or pieces like russian. For me its hard to understand polish except when i hear similar words and context.
@@L1berty1776 Czech and Polish are very tricky because even if it sounds similar, it usually has a completely different meaning. And Czech usually sounds more archaic to us in a way that they’re using specific words that we’d use like 200-300 years ago 😀 Not to mention the part when both of us find each other funny, haha! But I love Czech and the fact that they’ve kept our original Slavic long vowels that Polish unfortunately got rid of
@@meliae. There are at least several hundred false friends between Czech and Polish.
It might be just me, but i loved when polish girl kind of triggered when was about to say shes russian
That makes no sense, your comment but she was joking
This Ukrainian girl speaks Ukrainian with great difficulties. It seems she spoke Russian when she lived in Ukraine.
Next time choose the Ukrainian-speaking girl.
it's weird because she has a western accent
Excuse me, but the Belarusian girl speaks Belarusian slightly incorrectly. We don't say "Pryvyet" and we don't say "Cafye". I think it would be more correct to say “Vitayu” or “Pryvitanne”, and the coffee would be “Cava”. In Belarusian, the sound “Ya” is used in the pre-stress position and “Menya” turns into “Myane”. We don’t have the word “Adzho”, she probably wanted to say “Duzhe smachnaya bul'ba.” And some other small mistakes. Once again, sorry for my bias towards the girl😅
Inviting Belarusians person who don’t speak the Belarusian language.
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She did. But not at a perfect native speaker level.
@@SiarheiSiamashka she has a shitty level and has no right to represent it. It's the same if I would represent Polish (even though I would do a better job than her anyway)
One issue for the channel: I know is hard to find someone from every country, but if you put Belarussian person, she or he must speak the native language.
If the person doesn't speak it, Belarussian people will get mad at you.
I guess it's hard to find a speaker of language which nobody uses. No offense, but just deal with facts. It can be hard even to find an Ukrainian speaker who can really speak Ukrainian. That's why it is so tricky to distinguish these 3 languages.
Belarusian Anastasiya spoke precisely in the national language and at the end she just clarified that she also knows Russian
@@Pidalin You were just unlucky with Ukrainians that you've met. However, it's definitely harder to find native Belarussian-speaking person. They are rare breed nowadays (my grandfather was one of them).
@@maksimkempe3425 Well, most of those ukrainian workers who are here since 90s are from eastern Ukraine I guess, so it kind of makes sense. In west, economical situation is maybe better, so we don't see them as workers that often.
@@stacy264 she spoke mostly in Belarusian, but she injected a couple of Russian words and didn't remember how to say 'coffee'
For everyone:
Vodka came from Poland
Borsch is a Ukrainian national food, Poland also has own borsh, but it's way more different.
Pierogy from Poland, in Ukraine we call it Varenyky. It's almost the same dumplings(except some recipes or type of preparing (hot water or steam)).
But Russia has its own super-power: "Cultural appropriation"
To video: As a Czech I had this one a easier. First girl same language as me. The second and third girls I guessed correctly based simply on their facial structures alone. If it wasn't bellow, I wouldn't be able to differentiate from Belarussian and Russian.
My experience: A online group I am part of had a meeting IRL. When we were guessing who is who, based on our speech in English, my Czech accent was confusing for most and they were guessing I am maybe one of the southern Germans. French guys had the most problems understanding me and to be honest I barely understood one from the north-west France. He had the most sterotypically Frenchiest-French accent one can speak in. Funnily, the rest of the French guys also barely understood him.
Polish sounds the best to my non-Slavic ears. I hope one day I can learn more about this language.
You can surely learn more ABOUT Polish, but better not try to learn Polish...
From a Pole's perspective, Polish sounds the best to my ears.😅😅
But I would learn one sentence in each of these languages, so it's a simple task for me. The problem will appear with Belarusian and Ukrainian, but I will also distinguish them.
They pronounce their softened Z like in French and they have nasal sounds, that's why it sounds more romance than slavic. But even other slavic languages have that French like softened Z, our Ž in Czech doesn't sound that French.
@@maniek-pp4hg From a Czech's perspective, every time I hear Polish my ears starts bleeding. Sorry I like you guys.
Congratultions! May I ask, how old are you?😁
*Wow great! Slavic Languages here!*
*East Slavic* : Belarus 🇧🇾, Ukraine 🇺🇦
*West Slavic* : Poland 🇵🇱, Czech 🇨🇿
*South Slavic ?*
Slovene, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bulgaria
Imagine identifying between all of these nationalities.. would be level impossible even for slavs :D Also, btw you are missing some, like Slovakia.
South Slavic languages - Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian and North Macedonic. In Montenegro people speaks Serbian, in Bosnia Serbian and Croat. On Kosovo in use are Serbian and Albanian (not Slav language).
3 language : Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian
Who knows? Maybe Draga will join in later.
@@mirekkisiel9719 You are right. I forgot Slovenian. My mistake.
I’m Indonesian, our languages are worlds apart from Slavic languages but I was gobsmacked when I heard the numbers 😮 Due to Hindu-Buddhist influence, we’re also familiar with Sanskrit numerals on top our own, so I was amazed that they’re very similar with the numbers spoken in this video. The Proto-Indo-European language connections can be clearly observed here!
There is a reason why we call it Indo-European group of languages...😊 Look for Sir William Jones to learn more about this subject.
You're right, and in Hindi the word for 5 is also panch almost just like slavic
The unfortunate truth about why it is hard to distinguish Ukrainian and Russian, is because many of Ukrainians only recently started to switch to the Ukrainian fully. They have accents that make a melodic language sound harsher than it should. It is a tragedy, since the two languages are distinguishly /not/ alike.
That's what I am saying all the time, they don't make it easier for us to distinguish them and they are angry when we say that because of today stupid war with russia. For me as Czech, only hint is H sound in Ukrainian and ETO in Russian, everything else sounds totaly the same to me. Sometimes I was sure that it's Ukrainian and it was Russian or vice versa, everything very depends on actual speaker and his accent. But that's the same even with Czech, speakers from Bohemia sound totaly different than someone from Moravia or Silesia.
@@Pidalin As a Ukrainian, not agree. There are many differences between Ukrainian and russian phonetic . They cannot pronounce many Ukrainian words, for example "palyanytsia" (the sort of Ukrainian bread), "zaliznytsya" (railway), "spindnytsya" (skirt) etc 🙂
@@Pidalin This dynamic will change with years, trust me :). And if you'd heard the Western Ukraine's speakers, you'd instantly notice a distinctive difference.
@@VVishq you have to realize that for people who don't speak Ukrainian nor Russian, there is no distinctive difference
@@Pidalin I know :). Because most of what people in the world hear of Slavic languages is ruskies one, and because Belarusian and Ukrainian language were heavily infused with ruskies one because of loooong history of occupation, it does sound pretty similar. This will change in a few decades though, which is a positive thing.
For example Czech and Polish that were less affected by russification, have more profound and distinguished accent even when they name the same word.
The Belarusian girl is speaking poor Belarusian. Although people in Belarus speak 2 languages for the ‘purity’ of the linguistic guess experiment you should have found somebody speaking better Belarusian, it sounds like Polish and Ukrainian in vocab and pronunciation…
Ти ще спробу знайти таку людину.
@@Pes_patron. я тут
It’s better not to invite Belarusians who don’t speak the Belarusian language, otherwise it’s cringe.
In fact, she did speak Belarusian language, which is obviously isn't her native language. That's why she also used couple Russian words and spoke with distinctive Russian accent.
Unfortunately, native Belarussian speakers are the minority in Belarus.
to be fair, this channel would be cringe anyway
@@maksimkempe3425 there are no Belarusian speakers in Belarus, stop lying please. Every citizen of Belarus speaks Russian as the first language, some learn it on their own to speak with nobody, but they still are not a native speakers. Their levels are often pretty basic
@@KGBkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkthat's not true
@@user-wy8py8gw6g добра. Можа ёсць адзінкі накшталт цябе. Але 99,9% насельніцтва краіны рускамоўныя і сотні беларускамоўных на дзевяці мільённую краіну гэта мала для нацыянальнай мовы. Да і сумняюся, што ты да ўніверсітэта быў цалкам беларускамоўным, бо ўмоў жыць поўнасцю ў беларускамоўным полі немагчыма.
Let's go Poland!!!!!!!!🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
Polska Gurom
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🇵🇱 🏳️🌈 💩 💩 💩
POLAND STRONC
OMG, she didn't know that vodka is the most famous polish invention! Outrageous! 😁😉
I discovered this year that fact when I met a Polish girl in Japan n_ñU In my defense, I know nothing about liquors, since I BARELY drink those. I don't know if that is an actual wide misconception, I need to ask some of my fellow Costa Ricans where do they think Vodka come in order to verify it.
Uczę się polskiego, ale nie możę mówić po polsku. I tried to write it from memory, so I don't know if I mistake in something XD XD Greetings from Costa Rica, ¡Pura Vida!
Vodka is not the most famous polish invention.
@@maksimwiszniow9 Talking about vodka as a "Polish invention" is the same as talking about wine, beer or, for example, the wheel as the invention of a particular person or nation - and is simply a display of stupidity and ignorance. The oldest find that proves the use of distillation is a vessel for performing the process from Mesopotamia (Tepe Gawra) dating back to 3500 BC.
Brakuje, żeby się okazało , że dumni Polacy to nawet wibratory i berety z antenką wynaleźli.
@@JesusMagicPantiesTell the same to the Irish/Scottish about whisk(e)y. 🤣 Wine is a Georgian invention. And the oldest image of the wheel (actually even of a 4-wheeled carriage) as well as the oldest tools for making cheese have been found in Poland.😛
* Polish
Навошта запрашаць дзяўчо, у якой узровень беларускай мовы ніжэй сярэдняга? Яна ёй не карыстаецца ў штодзённым жыцьці, зачапіце каля сэрца ёй сьцяг іншай краіны.
Навошта прыдумляць нейкія Прывет/прывіт, няма гэтых словаў у беларускай мове, ёсьць Вітаю/вітанкі/добры дзень/дабрыдзень.
Кафі? Таксама стрэл у іншы бок. Кава.
Якая ў яе бульба? Аджу (гэта якая мова?) смачная? Можа Вельмі/дужа/надта/занадта?
Наиболее - зноў памылка - Найбольш.
Яна не валодае беларускай мовай, зразумелі, але ёсьць перакладчыкі, слоўнікі, чаму нельга выправіць памылкі ў цітрах?
Наапошку. Вымаўленьне Belarusian - гучыць як Беларусіэн (b ɛ l əˈ ɹ u ː s i . ə n). Судзячы па ўсім, з ангельскай мовай таксама ёсьць цяжкасьці.
Мабыць у Карэі не так проста знайсці беларусак. Хоць так беларуская мова прысутнічае, але дзяўчына няхай лепей рыхтуецца да наступных відэа
Згодны. Гэты канал люты крынж
Згодны на 100%, але хто не ведае беларускую мову, не пачуе вялiкай рознiцы. Лепш будзе хтосьтi, хто размаўляе па-беларуску як вучань 5 класу, чым не будзе анiякiх людзей з нашай краiны.
Чому ви дивуєтесь. Відео зроблено не для "славіків". Відібрали гарненьких дівчат, щоби аудіторія була задоволена. Не заважайте людині грошей заробити)) Ще тре розуміти, що вона не дуже така собі лінгвістка, просто цікавиться мовами.Не можемо від неї чекати якогось наукової методики. Вона вправна, всі оті наші свари - свари папуасів про діалекти суахілі))
I never understand what English speakers mean when they say Slavic languages are "harsh". Do they mean lots of sibilants? (the sh, ch, tsch, zh, j, etc sounds?)
I've even heard people say that Slavic languages are guttural. That's completely untrue. None of the Slavic languages have the throaty guttural sounds of French, German, Dutch, Modern Hebrew, and Spanish.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural#Examples_of_significant_usage
А чего тут понимать. Европейцы считают себя господами, остальные для них - грубые рабы славсы. Вот и тешат свое самолюбие любым способом.
@@user-bc8lj1mz3dвы ведёте себя абсолютно также если не хуже
Я белорус. И для меня самые понятные языки- польский и украинский. Русский язык- самый непохожий из всех славянских языков
Ага, конечно
Вы почитайте Афанасия Никитина (научные издания). Он спокойно переходит на татарский. Все расияне (московиты) до Петра Терибля на нем говорили. Так и в Бларуси и Украине все понимают русский. Но говорить на русском в Украине уже зашквар - язык оккупанта. Мы то вас понимаем. И друг друга. А вы нет. Только суржик, который считаете исходным украиским и беларуским. Живите дальше в своих заблуждениях. Это помогает нам на войне.@@poohoff
Це тому що він вигаданий. Зліплений з бідної московської мови і мов сусідніх народів
1. The first woman literally started with "ahoj," that's a dead giveaway she's either Czech or Slovak. When she starts counting, she's immediately given away as Czech by the numbers 3 (tři), 4 (čtyři) and 5 (pět'). Compare the Slovak tri, štyri, and pät'. For a native English speaker of either language, the number 5 is the clearest giveaway: the Czechs pronounce it like "pyet" while the Slovaks almost like "peh-ch."
2. Again, the Ukrainian greeting доброго дня gave it away immediately, if not for the greeting itself then with the use of an English-sounding "h" sound, which Russian and Belarusian do not have (Russian has a stronger unvoiced fricative "ch" like in Scottish English "loch," while Belarusian has that *and* a voiced fricative that sounds sort of like if you tried to breathe through an English "g" sound - the latter has no equivalent in English phonology).
3. Dzień dobry is a standard greeting that occurs only in one language: Polish. If in doubt about what West Slavic language it is, "cześć" as a greeting would be the next dead giveaway.
4. The final language is much harder to establish as Belarusian, especially at the beginning. It sounds and has a very similar vocabulary to Russian (more similar than any of the other languages in this video), but it is (from a Russian perspective) excessively palatized - that is, there is a consonantal "y"-like sound that appears in places where a Russian speaker would find it intrusive or overused. There is also unusual intrusion of the ы vowel (again from a Russian-speaking perspective), which makes certain things sound more like Ukrainian. The use of кафе (kafe) instead of the Russian кофе (kofe) for "coffee" starts to give it up, as well as the phrase у нашай краіне for "in our country." The nail in the coffin is the phrase "...but the most famous one is draniki," which in Belarusian is "але [найболье?] папулярны з'яўляюцца дранікі." Compare the Russian (но самыe популярныe являются драники) and Ukrainian equivalents (але найпопулярнішими є драники), which are both quite different.
She said Chopin and Lewandowski and I was like, yeah thats it she's going to guess it right now but...🫥
How can you not know Chopin or Lewandowski, I thought they were pretty famous
she's from US
@@pankeriot940 What does that have to do with it? I'm American, and most everyone I know is familiar with Chopin.
@@CMV314 With him maybe, but certainly not Lewandowski
She spoke "Chopin" out Polish way ("Szopen"), not French. Do you know one star of American football?
forget about chopin and lewandowski - no american would have clue, but pierogi? come on, there is something wrong with that girl....
Man, the languages are very different from my language Portuguese.
You will explode my heart with these women! ❤🤯
All of them are very beautiful.
How could she be so serious saying she’s not Ukrainian after girl mentioned bortsch…
I’ve just finished watching and she’s so obsessed with Russia omg. She literally went with Russian for everyone😭
@@VladyslavaTarhonia Well.Its biggest slavic country so she had biggest chance to guess it
how is she supposed to know? these comments are so salty over such an innocent video. touch some grass
Well i know that for slavs always being confused for russians Is bad, but i would guess that borsht outside of eastern europe Is not that known🤷 ( as an Italian i also never heard of It honestly)
because russians stole your culture and nobody knows that bortsch has something to do with ukraine
Самыя распаўсюджаныя вітанкі на беларускай мове гэта “Вітаю” і “Прывітанне”. “Прывет” у бел мове не існуе
Або "дзень добры" як на 5:56. Мне нават спачатку падалося, што гэта была беларуска. Адзін з маіх сваякоў заўсёды казаў "дзень добры ў вашу хату", калі прыходзіў да нас у госці 🙂
@@SiarheiSiamashka дакладна
"Guess nationality by language" challenge.
*speaks Italian*
"Nope, sorry, Switzerland."
Seriously? That was a cheap shot.
szkoda ,że ostatnia dziewczyna nie mówiła piękną Białoruską mową...
As soon as Deni mentioned Švičkova, I knew that she was Czech.
Wow when Czech girl says sweater (2.20) sounds 200% like polish !!
Měla říct řeřicha. Nebo třistatřicettři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes třistatřicettři stříbrných střech. 😊
why they keep thinking russia may be here? Russia is canceled everywhere, you won’t see a russian on this channel
🇨🇿 Ahoooj Denisko !!!!!!
I really enjoyed this video + nice expirace to hear Belarussian
I have never listen this language (maybe once) but I'm really glad that I heard it
🇵🇱 Nice come back Monica - I remember her by her name 😅
Please, Belarusian with only one S).
Also it wasn't pure Belarusian, more like mix of Belarusian and Russian. After all, our language has a long history of repressions till the very day and Belarusian is almost never used in cities
It is not Belarusian.
my personal clues would be.
polish, alot of L has shifted into kinda W sound (for ex. when she say "white") and don't forget the nassal tone, also the soft R sound
ukrainian, alot of G sound has shifted more into deepthroat G (GH/KH). and vowel O is much clearer than russian O
russian, alot of D sound has shifted more into J sound. some vowel O pronounce a bit like A (for ex. when she say "milk")
czech, a lot of vowel skipped
I felt a bit bad about the Ukrainian girl, considering current events, and the fact that borscht is internationally recognised as Ukrainian heritage. Similar with vodka and pierogi regarding Poland, given Poland's history. Both are originally Polish, and Poland has a very turbulent history with Russia.
Why ? Many people in ukriane speak Russian language. Its normal
@@mirekkisiel9719 This is not normal, I hope the next generation will all speak Ukrainian
@@kyrylopysanets9186 Next generation will speak Russian, Russia will win in Ukraine
@@Taketheredpill891 россия исчезнет в следующем году, как исчез советский союз. а русский язык останется, но не принадлежит россиянам
@@Taketheredpill891in your wet dreams, little goblin
Anastasia is actually a Greek name but it became very common in Slavic countries due to Orthodox Christianity.
Almost every common name are Greek, Jewish or Latin, so...
Czesi witają się "Ahoy" nie mając dostępu do morza, dlaczego też Polacy mówią sobie "Dzień dobry" skoro żaden dzień w tym kraju nie jest dobry? 😂
😂😂😂😂😂 good point😂😂😂😂😂🎉
Ještě používáme čau. Asi proto že nesousedíme s Itálií.
cheers Ukrainians returned to this channel, thank you
Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@qwertyytrewq973 salo to ukraine
yeah
@@qwertyytrewq973Glory to Heroes 🇺🇦
@@achmed-machachevstop oinking
Stop talking to Russia.
Дякую дівчині з Білорусі,
Дякую дівчині з України,
Dziękuję kobietę z Polsce,
and thanks girl from Czech❤
Stop talking for Russia, it's terrorists country, live Ukraine and Belarus!
Both Ukrainian and Belarusian girls have Russian as theirs native lol
@@orangevietnam5380 No way dude, it's a stereotype. How much times you be living Ukraine, Russia or Belarus?
@@slatehooman5218 Bro it's not a stereotype, it's literally a fact. Btw I have friends from Kyiv and Minsk. Guess which language they speak as their native?🥴
terr0rist country? how come
@@orangevietnam5380Guess why 🤯🤯
Kahem kahem, russian imperialism
Kahem kahem russian chauvinism
Kahem national purges
The correct flag of Belarus is white-red-white defaced with the historical Pahonia coat of arms
This is too much of information for this cringe channel. I bet they didn't know about Belarus existence yesterday. Let alone they would know anything about flags
@@KGBkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbk Most people do not know those things but some do: Belarusians, Ukrainians, Polish, Lithuanians and some more.
I do not know most flags from other continents that Europe and N. America.
why do you show at 5:03 Ukrainian and Russian flags? Elizaveta speaks Ukrainian here and that is why here should be only a Ukrainian flag (even if she knows Russian, because you don't put French or Korean flags to American girl, you put only American flag at her independently of her knowledge base)
I think because she could be Half
Well, I have just watched the parts of Jane the Virgin and I can understand her confusion now: The actors are trying to speak Czech, but they have very heavy Russian accent.
She should watch Stargate Atlantis with Mr. Zelenka instead.
Ok, I would like to change my mind from the other video featuring Ukrainian from this girl. It is obvious she has been speaking Russian before (and yes, they indicated that in the video), but she switched to Ukrainian nowadays, we all know why. Good job, Elizaveta! You have a way to go) I guess, you know already, but "depends" is "залежить", not "зависить". :)
Ye same for the Belarusian girl.
Glad to see Ukrainians coming back home, leaving occupier language behind.
@@viktorias63 You mean the language the language they always spoke when they were born before the war? People are so dumb, a language doesn't have to do anything with war lol. It's not like Russia came and forced people to speak Russian lol
@@Denyo666 lol sure they don't
That's why when Russian territorists started to occupy Ukraine, the first thing they did is change the name of the cities in to Russian and banned Ukrainian language. Because language doesn't matter, definitely never did.
@@viktorias63 You are an idiot, they already spoke Russian since the collapse of the soviet union not recently. I know many Ukrainians who speak Russian as their native language, they also know Ukrainian now. But doesn't change the fact that they speak Russian since birth when there was no war. You are not so smart
"dzień dobry" and "pierogi" are immediate giveaways for Polish.
I find it interesting that "dzień dobry" at 5:56 sounds like a perfect Belarusian greeting "дзень добры" with perfect Belarusian pronunciation. I actually expected Polish "dz" to have a bit different sound.
finally there are no European countries like france, italy, germany, spain, usa , japan , vietnam and other👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
USA, Japan and Vietnam are in Europe?
@@Onnarashi dont hang on every word, *and other countries that were here* 👋🏻👋🏻
Its so weird watching this as a person from Poland. I guess all of them after like 5 words
People, Slavic sounds are way different than English or other western European languages. Not being able to place the language has very to do with cultural literacy and more to do with no lingual similarity. The patterns of Slavic languages are completely alien to most Germanic or Romantic language speakers.
I'm a Bulgarian which means recognizing and understanding Slavic languages is easier for me and still I feel like this challenge was difficult. I could easily distinguish East Slavic languages from West Slavic languages but nothing more. The American girl did a good job for somebody who isn't familiar with these languages.
Northern Slavic xDDDD
@@bobstone0 Okay, are they called East Slavic languages?
@@loraivanova8635 xd
Czech girl made it more difficult because she speaks in something we could call a woman accent or something (mostly girls speak like that, I don't know why, it's that accent which phone sellers and such people have to bother you even more), she sounded much more soft and eastern than average Czech speaker should sound.
Please, tell Belarussian girl, when there are two state languages, you must speak both. But not to choose.
there are no 2 state languages in belarus. russian has replaced belarusian in everything. it's a state language on paper. there's no way to get a belarusian education or service, I also doubt the Belarusian native speakers now exist in belarus
@@KGBkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbk 😢😢😢😢🙏🙏🙏
It's mush better to only speak Belarusian, Russian is everywhere
I'm honestly impressed an American GenZer even knows these countries exist so she gets all the points from me.
I can imagine this is hard for an American. It's like bringing 4 people from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and guessing who's who.
I've just checked that Jane the Virgin sequences and except for the woman in TV in the link bellow all of them have so thick foreign accent and sometimes incorrect inflection! So I understand why Brit didn't recognise the real czech language than! :D
(On the other hand its undestandible what they are speaking about in the serie so I admire the effort. Czech language is quite hard to handle though even for other slavs usually since very evaluated grammar)
czcams.com/video/XwbahHtCjuU/video.html
She went with Russian on all 4 lol
Ukrainian girl and Belarusian girl are native Russian speakers, as a Russian speaker myself I could hear that with their mistakes.
your stupid, she ruled it out on the first
I think that the basic idea of this is pointless At the beginning she already mentioned that she speak only French and basic Korean
Was anyone expecting that inexperienced in Slavic languages she will be able to sort out the right one from a group of closely related languages ?
Not to mention that all of this countries share borders and regions where languages overlapp
The same would happened if there were girls from Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Danmark
The girl from Belarus made several mistakes during her turn, so it could have confused the contestant.
Zdravím Denisu! 🤗Finally smn from Česká republika😁Greetings to Denisa! Hope to see you more here❤🇨🇿
this video is a great example of russian imperialism and colonization policy. they have so strongly appropriated the cultural features of other Slavic countries that this girl could not help but think about russia.
too much russia in a video without russia 😒
Ты чиканутая грузинка, что россия себе присвоила ?
Северный кавказ не считает вас кавказцами, вас считают цыганами из ирана. Смотри про свои языки, а к славянам не лезь.
И вообще ты че забыла в славянских языках как будто тебя это касается.
Russia is the largest country in the world. Of course the first thought is about Russia
pig squeak
@@daden8994 якраз мене стосується на всі 100 відсотків
The differences are not the point of this video, this is about how similar we are. And there is no reason to yelling “no, it’s out!”, because a lot of things are just common 😊
In Belorussian Hello is "Вiтаю" (Witaju) and not Privet.
I m from Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Czech language is the easiest to understand for me
actualy the american girl was right with the german accent in czech language, its because of big german influence on czech language and because of most of people 200 let ago were german speaking or bilingual in Czech lands.🙂
We have kind of similar accent, so even when your vocabulary and grammar is more south slavic, we can at least hear what you are saying (it works even with Croatian) and try to type it to the translator. For eastern slavic languages, very often I have no idea what they are trying to say and how to type that, expecially when I can't read cyrillic. When I've been to croatia, very often I didn't understand but because of similar pronunciation, I was able to remember what word was that and google it later, that doesn't work with Russian or Ukrainian and it doesn't work well neither with Polish because of their very alien pronunciation full of nasal words and DZI sounds everywhere instead of our simple softened Ď etc...
@@davidpelc But she compared Russian to thick German words, that it sounds more harsh according to her. She described Czech as a smoother sounding language, even smoother than Polish and Ukrainian when she spoke to a Polish girl. :D
It makes totally sense, although Slovenian is officially classified as a South Slavic language, but due to its relatively large historical connection to the West Slavic region, it has many words and expressions common with Czech or Slovak, as well as the pronunciation of Slovenian (and Serbo-Croatian as well) is way more understandable to us, Czechs, than East Slavic languages, which for us have very strange "uo", "ua" or "eu" sounds and a very harsh accent, which quite often makes mutually identical words very incomprehensible.
@@ctiradperunovic "which for us have very strange "uo", "ua" or "eu" sounds and a very harsh accent, which quite often makes mutually identical words very incomprehensible."
Exacty, for me as Czech, even when word in east slavic language can be actually similar, I just can't hear that because I can't identify even basic vowels, everything is just some uo, ua, eu exactly as you said instead of basic latin vowels like A E I O U like we have in Czech. And also I can't tell if they say U or V or some VU/UE/VUE or something. So word can be actually similar, but I just don't hear that. In Slovenian or Croatian, I hear the word, but I don't understand it anyway, but I can at least type it to translator later. 😀
Holy shit I didn't even thought that someone from my country (Czech Republic) would make it to World Friends :D
Czech sound so nice. Greetings from Slovenia
aaaaa, dlaczego flaga łukaszenki...
no bo to flaga naszych braci i sąsiadów z Białorusi.
@@Waldek9100 Poprawna flaga Białorusi jest biało-czerwono-biała z Pogonią
Najbardziej poprawna i najbardziej na temat jest tutaj rozmowa o językach. Bo od "wyzwalania Białorusi" (od białoruskiego przemysłu i majątku), czy od wprowadzania na Białorusi tzw. "zachodniej wolności i demokracji" (tzn. korpokracji), to w Polsce jest już aż nadmiar "Biełsatów" i tego typu "demokratycznych" (tzn. korpokratycznych) szczujni propagandowych, które aż za bardzo "solidarnie" i "prometejsko" są finansowane z pieniędzy coraz bardziej dojonych polskich podatników, skolonializowanych wcześniej przez cały świat zachodni. Bo nie tylko przez aktualną "ekologiczną" Unię Eurosowiecką ze stolicą w Brukseli, przy której mocno blednie nieaktualny ZSRR.
@@Robertoslaw.Iksinski Świetnie powiedziane! Nigdy za dużo uświadamiania, oświetlania rzeczywistości połączonego z przyprowadzaniem do porządku.
zhodzien, heta poŭny krynž
How many traditional attributes stereotypically are counted to russia, that actually isn't their. Hopefully such videos breaks such stereotypes
That's because those bastards steal everything.
i like how she said she is confident about ukraine and russia, and then proceeds to rule out ukraine because of an dish originating in ukraine itself, and then guessing pierogi for ukraine
Fucking borscht is eaten equally a lot on the territory of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, the recipe is different everywhere and everyone didn't give a fuck about where the borscht came from, it's just that Ukraine has nothing to be proud of except a hole in his pants
All good. I’m glad that the representatives were nice and chill and explained the true picture.
xD
To be honest, I know these things only because I visited Poland several times and I am in slavic languages group on facebook. If I was just average Czech, I would guess it wrongly the same as she. When you say vodka, everyone will say Russia, that's just fact and the same with borsch. To be honest, in the past, most of people didn't make any difference between ukrainian and russian culture, it kind of change only because of war.
never visited any slavic country so far
Why would you choose a Belarusian girl who unfortunately can't speak proper Belarusian to represent the country? As a Belarusian I am sooooo sad.
I understand her, i know not many things from other countries... I wouldn't even know what countries are slavics...
Słowianie teraz się pewnie podśmiewają, bo my wszyscy raczej prawidłowo rozpoznajemy swoje języki i często nawet je znamy i rozumiemy. Ale teraz wyobrażam sobie sam siebie, gdy trafiam w grupę ludzi z Norwegii (jak wiemy mają dwa języki), Danii, Islandii i Szwecji. Chyba też bym nie odróżnił. Pozdrawiam wszystkich :)
Chyba duński od szwedzkiego i norwezkiego byś wyróżnił. Przecież to jedziny język, żebyś wśród tego bełkotania nie poradził sobie wyróżnić ani słowa. Nie myśle źle o Duńczykach, to widziałem pod jednym wideo, że sami Skandynawowie tak żartują, toż chyba w tym żarcie jest cząstka prawdy...
Islandzki odrazu słychać od reszty on jest zbyt mocny, w sensie jego akcent itd, ja jestem z isl i nawet rodzina mi mówi że jak mówię po polsku to zaciągam strasznie akcentem bo jest na tyle mocny
I'm a native Spanish speaker from Costa Rica. I just recently started to study Polish this year, little by little. But I'm impressed how much similar are the Slavic languages between them, I would have only clasify them in Polish and not-Polish n_ñU But really, I knew they're relatively new languages, but still they're surprisingly so similar, in contrast to Romance languages.
There are some pair of Romance languages that are very similar, but I think these are confined in certain countries (languages from Spain, languages from Italy, etc). But between the major Romance languages there is difference enough to tell at least they're not the same (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and Rumano are quite different. Even Catalan, despite being a major language spoken in Spain, it's somewhat in the middle of Spanish and French, hence the few Catalan I have read or heard sounds quite different from Spanish).
They chose to this videovery similar slavic languages (all are neightboors of Poland and have a lot of influences from each other). For example Czech is considered as the most similar to polish from all slavic languages. South slavic are not that similar (you can check other videos)
Not sure what you mean by "new languages". Languages evolve constantly over millenia. Distinct Slavic languages (Czech, Polish, etc.) evolved from Proto-Slavic (which itself evolved from Proto-Indo-European) some 1000 years ago.
@@Gosudar Oh, yeah, by "new" I didn't mean like 500 years ago or something like that XD XD Indeed, these languages are old, but they started to diverge from Proto-Slavic way after Latin, for example. So, compared with Romance languages, Slavic ones are younger.
@@azarishiba2559 I see what you mean, nevertheless, these early differences seem negligible from today's perspective, considering how much all these languages have evolved over the last 1000 years. Swedish or Danish diverged form Old Norse much later than the Slavic languages from Proto-Slavic, yet I wouldn't call them "new" based on that. :)
@@Gosudar Polish evolved/diverged from proto slavic about 1000 years ago, and the evolution from proto-indo european is likely further because proto-slavic was already spoken in europe in 200 bc.
So the distance between Polish and Russian (the furthest 2 slavic languages linguistically) is about 1000 years.
The distance between German and English is 1500 years, which makes English and German about 500 years further apart than the furthest slavic languages.
yeah, the Czech in Jane the Virgin had very little to do with the actual Czech language... It was like the writers just google translated some sentences from English to Czech and went with it :D
The quest for Czech comprehensible input continues
@@smorrow huh?
@@quiquiqui Czech CI is almost non-existent. I would have checked the show out if your comment didn't forewarn me. Now I have to look (keep looking) for other things to check out.
@@smorrow you comments make no sense, sorry
@@quiquiqui Well I can't make it any clearer. CI for Czech is rare, therefore finding it is a quest. That is the entire comment.
This experience proof of one thing, and one thing only Americans are so….. exactly🤣
😁
Ukrainian, Belorushian and polish similar enough. Even for us, native speakers. For me, ukrainian, I easy can understand belirushian and get a half of word from polish. But if we want to speak other slavic languages, we must lean. And for me fast czech sound like language from other planet.
For me, as a Pole, I understand more Czech than Ukrainian or Russian. Czech sounds like Polish but with very, very strange stress, surprising syllables and the very beginnings or the very end of words.
I'm russian and I actually thought czech was ukrainian 😅 The others I recognised almost immediately though, since I follow a lot of ukrainian and belorusian media and polish memes from the witcher
Ukrainian and Polish have quite similar vocabulary, but different pronunciation. Sometimes when I hear a phrase in Polish I don’t understand anything at all, but then I slowly translate it word by word and see many similarities with Ukrainian. In the case of Belarusian there are no problems at all - both the vocabulary and pronunciation are very similar to Ukrainian.
*Polish *Ukrainian *Slavic
*Russian *Czech
No offense at all. She's a sweet and cool American girl. But she thinks she did well after simply guessing everything wrong, although she's got so much hints. 🤪
Her every time: "Not Russia"
The Polish girl used the word "polsk" (spelling?) so it was easy to guess after that. She also mention Chopin and vodka.
And pierogi
She used the word "polsku"
Водку придумал Менделеев. И он был русским.
I love beauty of belarusian girl! So pretty! Regards from Poland.
Would like to notice that it's correct to pronounce BelaruSian with just one "S", there is no double "SS", like in Russia. But really nice to finally see my home country getting more exposure on CZcams)
The slavic countries🗿🗿
Guess what? I'm Russian and I felt so bad for borscht and Ukrainians! I don't blame this girl for not knowing all slavic languages, but how it came to the point that I was tired of hearing about Russia😂All languages are awesome!
ur japanese, mizuki is from japan
@@wojtulacehoe5089 haha yeah, it's Japanese name, but it's just a nickname. My mother tongue is Russian and I speak Japanese a little, that's it.
It's not the first time a Ukrainian has been mistaken for a Russian on this channel 🥴
I feel bad for them when thart happens. Same with Poles, given their history. To be fair, it seems to happen to a lot of Slavic people. I can sympathise as a Norwegian, since Nordic people for some reason get confused with Russians too, even though we're not even Slavic.
Aren't they pretty close? I mean I would understand if a foreigner didn't know the difference between Scandinavian languages.
@@reineh3477 It's true. But the Scandinavian countries are not at war with each other. In addition, many achievements of Slavic countries are immediately attributed to Russia because foreigners know almost nothing about other Slavic countries. The worst thing is not knowing that borscht is Ukrainian, Kievan Rus is the land of the ancestors of Ukraine, Vodka was invented by Poles, and Cyrillic is from Bulgaria.
@@Onnarashi Interesting fact, this is the first time I’ve heard that Nordics are confused with Russians
And Ukrainian sounds distinctively different from Russian, that's from the guy who is fluent in both languages.
Ukrainian can be easily confused with Belarusian, though.
Please, change the flag for Belarus. Although it is still the official one (sadly) people who recognize (and regime)it don’t speak the Belarusian language.
absolutely agree
fun fact, borscht originated in ukraine
there is no proof
@@molly2364🧐
Indeed. It was internationally recognised as Ukrainian heritage.
этого никто не знает
In Poland.
Why at 8:30 you made a mistake? Polish flag, Monika, and "UA" letters? Cmon! Should be PL! She is from Poland guys!
🇨🇿 Czech Republic, you stole my heart! #travel #wanderlust
niestety rusyfikacja na Białorusi się udała...
@0:20 “I studied French for 8 years but can’t speak it fluently.” 2 things to note here: 1. If you study _anything_ *properly* for 8 years (of course, 8 years here means ‘2 hours a week’, so it doesn’t really count - although the famous ‘10,000 hour rule’ is much-maligned, in my experience with learning languages, there is much truth in it - particularly if you don’t happen to live in the country of the language you are trying to learn), you should really have it mastered. So, in that sense, it’s not necessarily her fault she can’t speak French fluently after 8 years, because 2 hours a week for 8 years is only about 800 hours’ work, at best. Very few people, if any, would be truly fluent in a second language after 800 hours in a school classroom. 2. When you study anything, absolutely _anything,_ the key to success is one word: ‘motivation’. If that’s not there, it’s pointless. Shakespeare, who was generally right about absolutely everything, said: “No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en: In brief, sir, study what you most affect.” Translation: study what you most enjoy!
She said its definitely not czech, but she was Polish, which sounds just like czech :D......is she without ears??
It is nice that the American girl tried to distinguish all the languages. My Swedish friend told me once that all eastern european languages around like russian. Point.
Your Swedish friend told you the clear ruzzian propaganda. During the empire and soviet occupation, the Ukrainian language was banned and restricted with different laws and by all means possible: for my language was banned (!!!!!!) Naturally, it has caused unchangeable damage. But still, it is alive. But still, it is spoken. But still, it is progressing. So never ever tell anyone that Ukrainian unbeatable language is the same as any other it borders with. Because it is simply not. Language defines us as a separate nation. Language tells us how long we are existing on this planet. As a famous Ukrainian writer and poetessa Lina Kostenko said: "Nations are not dying from a heart attack. At first, their speaking ability (language) is taken away".