Can Americans Identify These European Languages?
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Every European in the comments: *triggered*
Nah, not triggered, makes us feel superior than we know more languages
Just kidding..
We are not triggered. If you say that Spanish is not an European country, honey you should go back to school
Czechoslovakia man, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Europe is better than america i would say
bogi i’m European myself and i didn’t even recognize the Italian lol. his accent was different
*_"sounds Spanish, but we're talking about Europe, so it's Portugal"_*
Sara Binte Reza *me currently living in Madrid*
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
Americans are a different breed of human
I swear i died laughing when she said that. I mean come on people 😂😂😂😂
*born in barcelona*
I know that that woman didn't just say "Czechoslovakia" to the Portugese girl.
I'm Czech and I was on the verge of crying.
Yh lol same
I'm portuguese I got sad too
český brat
I was waiting for Slovak or Czech 😩 currently visiting family in the Czech Republic :)
bro are all czech people clingy?
I love how the woman in the right said that she would get Italian right and then managed to get it wrong
I always thought Italian was a pretty distinctive language, but I guess it’s not? As a native Italian, maybe it’s just that I grew up speaking Italian
@@giuliacatalena9409 beh può sembrare spagnolo ma se sai un minimo minimo capisci subito che è italiano😂
E gli americani non sono conosciuti per essere bravi in geografia… e storia… lingue.. e tante altre cose
That one was tricky for me; I almost mistook it for Spanish.
SHE SAID SHE SPEAKS SPANISH AND GUESSED ITALIAN AS SPANISH
“It kind of sound Spanishy but we’re talking Europe so Portgual”
Hold up...
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Yup we all know Europe= Spain + Portugal 🤣
I guess their knowledge of countries are limited to spanish languages = south america.
Ah ah Most Americans think Spanish is from Mexico.
@@sumalx they do think/eles pensam mesmo
European person: * speaks *
American person: "sounds like Spanish!"
Alice Sampietro as a Spanish speaker I was saying it the whole time 😂
YASSSSSSSSSSSSS
They only did romance languages and swedish and aside from english spanish is the language we're most familiar with 😂🤔
So true, a lot of people I know (not just Americans) have mistaken Slavic languages for Spanish
Because it does
The Portuguese girl literally said “I am from Portugal” when she was starting to speak Portuguese and they were still arguing which language she was speaking! 😂😅
a gaja xibou-se toda... não gostei , achei péssimo , e devia ter sido um homem a representar, ela literalmente disse que era de portugal, que sentido tem isto?
I literally screamed when they described Swedish as Polish. It is beyond me to comprehend how could you mess up two languages that have NOTHING in common
Not being surrounded by the languages probably has an effect.
I know nothing of either and I thought they were pretty similar. I know another language and read about languages for fun, so I was able to pick up the phonology of the Germanic language and see that it wasn't Slavic that way, but it's totally reasonable for a native English speaker to think they sound similar.
@@mushymass9716 english is a germanic language, so no its not
English speaker should be able to recognize many similiarities in swedish, compared to polish
@@herramirtsaaja9032 As I'm sure you know, the origins of the language have little to do with whether or not the phonology of the language is similar. In this video, the ability to place the languages from just the sound of the language is being tested. The similarities would be relevant if they were studying and comparing things like vocabulary, grammar, syntax, etc.
@@mushymass9716 there are multiple recognizable words in swedish compared to polish
Also there are lots of different s sh ch sounds in polish while swedish is more similiar in the sounds
Americans hear any Latin language: That’s definitely Spanish.
Americans hear any other European language: That’s definitely Russian.
Truuee
Latin is European
blackshadow did you see “any other european language”?
@@andreamarsi73 Latin is America Latin.
The latin language is from the region of Lazio Italy and was the language of the Roman Empire. Latin America is a region not a language of the Americas. They are not latin, they just speak a latin language. The real Latin’s are the Italians.
"sounds like spanish but we are talking europe" that hurt.
Ikr
Viva españa
So Spain is not Europe?
joebaer I was soo confused
americans be like yes Spanish that language which is spoken in Puerto Rico and Mexico but there's not an actual country called Spania or something like that where the language comes from
Bottom line, the only language they guessed was the one where the girl said where she was from (5:13).
But only one girl😂
thank you, next
But, they didn’t get that one either!
As a Romanian it was funny to see how they don't get it at all. 🤣🤣It's an obscure language for Americans, but I liked that they got the Spanish and French vibes in our language as it's very closely related to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French.
The worst was that they didn't even understand it was from the same root language, they just said "Its got a bit of French, a bit of Spanish" and its just...no.
For me personally it sounds the most like italian,at least when you read it
God that Romanian woman is fantastic 😍
“Spanishy but we’re talking Europe”
GORL- THEY SPEAK SPANISH IN SPAIN-
After every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa.
@@mcdaniyarbob9692 *Together we can stop this !*
@@erenjaeger9902 How? Lets do this.
Also why do they guess Spain? That’s a country, not a language! Do they mean Spanish? Because there are many native languages from Spain...
@@mickeyrube6623 Thats not so weird. They just mean that the guy is from Spain, i can get that.
And are you seriously going to talk about Catalan? (and the others). Sure, but then you got millions of languages.
Obviously they make Spain-Spanish, UK-English, Netherlands-Dutch, Germany-German and not all other smaller languages there.
I wonder if they know that English is a European language.
Its american, not english!1!1
Slaven Rašić No, English are originally from Britain and that happened to be in Europe. Sorry to break it to you but the language you speak in America is just a cheap ripoff.
@@jjkembo8810 woooosh
@@jjkembo8810 lmao i can't believe i have to explain this but like.. nobody uses "!!!1!!111" unironically and they're obviously not american themselves, judging by the name they're probably serbocroatian
@@jjkembo8810 lmao that seems like your own issue
As a Greek person,them saying almost every time that the language sounds like Greek is ridiculous to me
Bet thats because you were stealing words from other languages people keep getting it mixed up
No is not, You know I speak French, Spanish, English, Italian and a bit German and Greek but when I started learning Greek lemme tell you for someone who speaks Latin languages Greek sounds like one of them .
Actually greek sounds like a mixture of Italian and Turkish
@Alocin 😅😅 Turkish? You might be right because one part of Greece was Turkish land
@@blueshadow331 Greek is not similar to Italian at all. No words in common at all.
"Sounds like spanish but this is Europe so its probably Portugal." - An american
Only americans say that sort of stupidity
"It sounds like Russian but also Spanish"
Yup. That's Romanian.
Glad i saw this comment ✌🏼
Romanian is a Roman langage with huge slavic influence, she was close without even knowing it ! Her logic was good though !
I kind of think prtuguese sounds like a mix of spanish and russian.
I know it's Romanian if I recognise 50‰ of it being Italian and the other 50% I have no idea
Stephanie Barcan 🇷🇴
Portuguese: *says Portugal*
Americans: maybe she's Spanish
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, Portugese and Spanish sound very similar to foreigners
Owlynx Kathi not at all i myself am from switzerland and portuguese sounds like a mixture of various diffrent languages to me and many people i know but not really much like spanish
@@vanesanoja4889 Ja nice, bin Deutsche und finde, dass es sich sehr Spanisch anhört (sind ja auch in derselben Gegend). Ist vielleicht sehr subjektiv?
@@uchikattana what I mean is that she said Portugal/Portuguese several times, and they still said Spanish
I could listen to the Lady from Romania all day. What a beautiful voice. All of the people that participated were kind. And the two lady's guessing did a great job, they're interested and kind. CZcams comments section is just horrible.
Agreed, but this is literally every Buzzfeed comment section. People watch the videos so that they can say hateful things, because it makes them feel better. I enjoyed the video! True...the ladies guessing weren't the best, but they were respectful, which is more than I can say about the majority of people commenting!!!
Portuguese too!
Finnish is extremely easy to recognise when you have heard it a few times;
there is something about the general melody of that language that is very tenacious, so it gets stuck in your head.
It also sounds really nice, so it is quite pleasant to listen to.
perkele :)
Im a finn and this is the first time in my life i hear somebody say finnish sounds pleasant 🥲 usually ive heard people say it sounds either awful or too harsh. Thank you for apprisiating our odd language ❤️
True. Jari Litmanen as an example.
@@spookyscaryskeleton2211 It might just be bad luck, then.
Most people I know think that Finnish sounds cool and pleasant (I am from Sweden, by the way).
Also, Finnish was actually a very strong inspiration for Tolkien's invented language Quenya, and that language is pretty much meant to be as beautiful as possible.
@@victorsamsung2921 Yeah, another example is also the guy on the CZcams channel "Hydraulic Press Channel".
That guy has an extremely strong Finnish accent, and I am not sure if it is his natural accent or if he emphasises it a bit extra, but he sounds pretty badass.
She studied Spanish but she thought Italian was Spanish....great
Americans
@@brtz1460 ikr
When i said i live in asia to an american he said "wait... are u from korea,japan,china,?
And when i said no, he didnt talk to me anymore, why do westerners think just because im asian it means im from korea or china?
@@weirdk_9256 honestly i'd be like "i'm running out of places here, Russia?"
It's high school, though.
THE PORTUGUESE WOMAN SAID SHE IS FROM PORTUGAL AND THE AMERICANS STILL DONT KNOW WHAT LANGUAGE IS SHE SPEAKING
Aki Akinie i know right i was like 🤯😂😂
im from southeast asia and i still thought it was spanish. so what? why are most of the comments coming of so nationalistic? chill.
Harvey F. it’s because every time someone speaks portuguese everyone thinks that is spanish, it’s not nationalistic I am not even portuguese, i am brazilian
To be fair, I tried it at the same time and turned my phone on the back so I couldn't get what they said and I thought it is not Portuguese because she said it 3 times and thought it was a false hint.. And I went 0-4 and I'm from Europe so don't be so harsh on them 😂
Aki Akinie Hahaha and she said it twice 😂😂
I guessed the Romanian ! I had Romanian colleagues and I heard them talking. They literally understand every Latin language it’s amazing.
Lmao I’m Norwegian and I got everyone right. But I did see some of the subtitles so Portugal and Romania I could have guessed wrong on with blindfolds like that.
Would love to see a version where Europeans from different countries guess languages. I feel like Europeans in general would be a lot better with this
same im english and i got all right
Even we Europeans would mess up,i think most people would just only know the languages that come from the same family as their own language and some of the most known languages in Europe.I would be clueless on the nordic languages,hell,i would even mess up a lot of the slavic languages even though i speak one of them
@@alladeenmdfkr2255 Yeah, but still, most Europeans would maybe get only one or two wrong out of ten. Many will have had contact with a lot more languages than your average American.
In Switzerland I had classmates from Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, France, Ireland, Germany, Turkey, Czechia, Slovakia, Denmark, Russia, Serbia and Spain and I myself am Hungarian. I heard all of those languages at some point growing up and most I could positively identify. There are of course some European languages that are virtually identical and nobody, who doesn't really speak them will be able to tell them apart (say Slovak and Czech for example).
@@andreasferenczi7613 Well said
European: *speaks fluent Swedish* Americans: “Sorry I don’t speak Italian”
I knew instantly from the intro that he's Nordic.
Lauri Kaunisto that’s probably because you’ve read the subtitles 😁
@@marybrown2723 I mean before he started even talking
@@laurikaunisto7403 I thought he was finnish lol
I was going for Norwegian but then I heard the way he spoke "jag" instead of "jeg"
“sounds spanish but we’re talking europe so portugal”
i hate
I too
The funny thing is that Portuguese doesn't even sound "Spanish"...
@@nervengewitter Wrong, portuguese and spanish shares a lots of words but the prounouncation is different.
@@mid5503 Exactly? That's why it doesn't sound as alike as people might think. When written it looks very similar to Spanish but when spoken it doesn't.
Ikr I’m Portuguese and I’m dying like whaaat like were RIGHT NEXT to Spain lmaooo
Romanian probably IS the trickiest language in Europe, has a lot of influences and sounds like it could belong to multiple language groups. But what she said was kinda accurate it does sound like a mix between russian and french or Spanish (especially accent). It also depends on where in Romania you’re from, this woman spoke with a very standard Romanian accent, but take someone from moldova and all that “french vibe” is out 😂
Only the accent is different depending on the area. Also, the accent differences are extremely small if we are talking about big cities, but from different areas!
It might be just me, but Romanian is far from the most tricky ones, it's very clear that it's not Italian or Spanish and definitely doesn't sound slavic. The trickiest language would have to be any ex-yugoslav language (seriously they swear their languages are different, but you have to know the vocab to notice) or, like Czech and Slovak.
@@Aadrian7 i mean “tricky” in terms of “what language group does it belong to”. All the languages you’ve mentioned sound typically slavic and the vocab has nothing in common with any Latin language (with some exceptions of course) so even for someone who doesn’t speak any slavic language they are obviously slavic. I’m not even talking about “what language is it exactly” cause ofc for someone who doesn’t know the vocab it will be hard to differentiate those languages.. but with Romanian, people don’t even know where to start because they do hear the words and might recognise the similarity to other Latin languages, but they still get confused by the accent, which to someone who doesn’t speak Romanian or any slavic language, it does sound rather “eastern European”.
it doesn't sound like any of the languages you mentioned and there's nothing tricky ab it. it's a latin language with significant slavic influences, period.
@@evaraiara try and ask ANYONE who doesn’t speak any latin or slavic language.
Was kinda fun to follow and try guessing on my own (had to minimize my browser not to read the subtitles!). Kinda embarrassing to say as a European with a degree in languages but I only regognized two: Italian, because I've been there twice, and, oddly enough, Romanian which I've never heard before and only knew it was the only Eastern Romance language in existance. Pity you didn't include more sampled, I'd love to play along :)
Americans hear a foreign language: “ is it spanish?”
@@arolemaprarath6615 ??
@@arolemaprarath6615 Why are you trying to "educate" me on things im already educated on?
English is foreign to North America not United States of America.
Europeans didnt enslave the Africans they were already enslaved by the African kings that sold them.
@@arolemaprarath6615 You are a crazy person.
Do you realize that we were talking about English language?
Why are you talking about Natives and Black slaves.
English is foreign to North America but not to the United States of America.
@@arolemaprarath6615 Why do people always forget about Hawaii, they took our land too. 😭
@@arolemaprarath6615 okay thanks
Hello everyone i’m from Portugal
Americans : Spanish
sAmE tHINg
It's just horrifying, for real
😂😂😂 or czech, czech... 😂😂
Hello fellow tuga.
Diogo Damázio actually i’m half brazilian but i’m a disgrace since i can’t speak Portuguese 💀
As a French guy with an Italian friend when the girl said "It sounds spanishy, but we're talking about Europe so Portugal" I wanted to cry
En tant que français avec un ami italien a dit, Quand la fille dit "C'est espagnol, mais nous parlons d'Europe, donc du Portugal", j'avais envie de pleurer
as someone trying to learn romanian, i got super exited when i heard the last girl speaking it and i could make out some of the words she was saying and knew immediately that it was Romanian 😃
Portuguese girl: I'm from Portugal. Oops, wasn't supposed to say that.
Americans: Czechoslovakia???
Its not CZECHOSLOVAKIA!
And it's even better, because Czechoslovakia doesn't exist for like at least 20 years xD
She said 2 times and how they couldn't now that !
Michal 1848 more like 70 years...
@@swedishbloke yeah, I wasn't sure for how many so I jist went with at least 20 because I'm sure of that
How in hell does Swedish sound Russian? They are nothing alike.
Alcohol was the hint🤷🏻♀️😂
I thought the Swedish guy was speaking Norwegian. 🙈
Swedish do not sound like russians!!! We can't even under one word of the russians😂
Haha yeah i was wondering why they would say Russian
@@KP-sn8rx I did not I thought wow svenska
Its so funny because everytime they reveal the language at the end they’re like ohhh like they knew it 😂
Why are they blindfolded. When you hear someone speaking, is watching them considered cheating? WTF?
"Sound a little Spanishy, but we're talking about Europe, so is Portugal"
Me: **Visible confusion**
this
😂
I'm Portuguese, so i'm triggered af
@@vicenfdez Lol no
when she said romanian sounds like russian it really triggered me dont know why tho
If Swedish sounds like Russian, then I'm Jesus.
he looks so done with them
My dad worked in Sweden for years and honestly it’s not at all like Russian. But she guess Polish but polish is faster
Swedish sounds nothing like polish, russian or czech. 🤔
As a Czech I'm actually surprised she knew there is czech and slovak language.
@@laoisefarrell8675
I'm an American, and I thought it was Icelandic.
Why do you need blindfolds when your hearing the languages
Italian sounded like Portuguese. When he said his name, that’s when the Italian came out. Lmfao her reaction when he said “Maximilliano”, that’s one of them strong Italian names but then you just shorten it to Max.
"I was thinking Spanishy, but we're talking Europe, so Portugal"
That is the biggest bruh moment ever caught on camera.
Bruh
If you want to show the world how ignorant you are thats the way to do it.
I am from Spain and i was kinda mad a bit
Right 🤣
@fabrizio lora I wonder if they know English is a European language...
“It sounds Spanishy, but it’s in Europe... so portugal”
Spain: Aight, I see how it is
Choco tenty 😂😂😂😂😂
that's what I thought too!! ^^
Choco tenty 😂😂 I think many Americans don’t realize that Spain is the motherland and where Spanish originated and not Latin America
mai ka Yes, my fault 😂
Damn that statement was hard to hear hahahah
Ah! When Ana started talking there was a bit of nostalgia that blew up in me! I am a air force brat and my dad was stationed in the Azores. This was when I was in preschool so I don't remember too much of that time but her speaking reminded me of a teacher I had and other people around the base. 💚
And those were not even among the most "exotic" European languages... Imagine Basque, Hungarian or Welsh.
Although, to most US people, any language other than English is exotic.
Random European: speaking in their native tongue
Americans: well that sounds like Spanish.
Well, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian are related to Spanish.
Pranav Tiwari but as a Spanish person I can tell you I can somewhat understand Portuguese/Italian but not speak it. Not Romanian tho😂
@@pranavtiwari6772 I'm gonna stop you right there. All of the languages you mentioned are not related to Spanish. Spanish isn't a mother language. The Latin is. And if we're getting technical here, the closest language go The Latin is Italian, and as you can see, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Romanian all sound very much different. So please refrain from saying such things.
@@PedroWeissach
You didn't get my point. The languages that I mentioned have the same origin, ie LATIN. Thus these languages are 'sister' languages.
Pranav Tiwari Not related. They all just share the same Latin root.
"some obscure country, like Croatia" is such an American thing to say.
Haha at least they've heard of it, that's above average for them
Croatia is litteraly such a beautiful language I really want to go back there
Cate lmao, as a croatian, you really don’t wanna live there
@@milanzivanov963 jealous serbs whenever someone mentions Croatia🙄
@@TeatheThea плачемоооо ☹️☹️☹️
i could listen to this swedish guy talk all day lol
the girl that straight up says hi im from portugal 🤣🤣
Americans: Czechoslovakia
Czechs and Slovaks: *angry noises*
Yah true
Yes
Yep Yep
Tak tomu ver
To mě neuvěřitelně trigruje
Woman in blue: I'm getting Portuguese vibes
Portuguese woman: *literally says "Portugal" and "Portuguese" several times*
And the one in the dress, still got it wrong
Right?! 🤣 I was just like - ladies, are you deaf or what??
As a european, I had no Idea that was Portuguese, it sounded like Czech to me too. Sounded nothing like I expected
You all really need to travel to Romania! It's a really fun place with tons of stuff to do from culinary to outdoor activities. You can go to Vlad Tepesh's castle too!
put each slavic language in a video and watch the Americans say 'Russian' for all of them
Just like they said Italian, Portuguese and Romanian were "Spanish-y"
@@LandgraabIV that has the same energy as 'Australian'
@@LandgraabIV didn't the Romanian girl confirm it is kind of Spanishy because all the languages are related?
@@Blasto2x yeah sure but it doesn't change anything. If they are related doesn't mean they sound exactly the same. I was shocked when one of them said that Italian sounded like French...like what
@@polinakovbenko Italian and French are linguistically related as well. And some words in some of these romance languages are the same, and are pronounced the same, but sound a bit different due to the accent. It's not hard to understand why someone can't determine what language Romanian is especially when ones ear isn't used to hearing it spoken often if at all. English is known and spoken worldwide. Romanian? Not so much. Hell, a British person would have trouble understanding what someone from Louisiana is saying although they're speaking the same language. Linguistics is complicated.
portuguese girl : *talks portuguese*
american: it sounds like spanish
portuguese people: so you chose death
It does sound like spanish to people that don’t speak spanish or portuguese
@@thecrazyeagle9674 yhea but to us portugueses People os very ofensive
@@bart1528 fr, as a Brazilian I understand you
For Americans every latin language sounds spanish lol
@@bart1528 Eu sou português e não acho ofensivo. Se te picas com coisas sem importância... _good luck with life_
If she hadn’t said Portugal I’d have still guessed that as I have been learning Spanish (I’m not very good) and the only word I understood from her was hola
I think that would be a guess tbh, Portuguese and Spanish are very similar
“¿Hola, cómo estás?” - Spanish
“Olá, como estás?” - Portuguese
One of the reasons they don't recognize foreign languages is that in the USA foreign movies are always dubbed.
In Italy they are dubbed as well. 😉
@@eolobrontolo9117 In my opinion only children's cartoons should be dubbed. I can't imagine Sophia Loren speaking Croatian. 🤣
@@danipetric5416 Hi, thank you for your reply.
During the fascist period, the governement imposed the dubbing of the foreign movies.
Today everyone is used to dubbed movies, so am i.
Film theorists argue that a dubbed movie is a different work than the original language movie.
After all, dubbing is an art and voice actors are artists ( e.g. Tina Lattanzi, Gigi Proietti and other )
Today there is no shortage of means to see a movie in the original language.
Thank you again and good night. 🙂
@@eolobrontolo9117 Thank you for this interesting information. 👍
@@danipetric5416 My pleasure. 😄
"Sounds a little spanishy but we are talking Europe so I'll say Portugal"
Ladies n gentlemen, American education at its finest right there.
Ok
Batnetic _1_ „most of us make a monthly salary of 8-13 thousand euros“ I am bilingual, raised in two different coutries in Europe one of them being very rich and the other one pretty pour. I have not met anyone who makes that much money monthly, so I really do not know who you are talking about when you say: most of us, but that is pure ignorance to the real numbers...That amount of money is insane!!
@@blackapple34
Same. I live in Germany and I had to read his comment like 4/5 times, because I thought I misunderstood something.
I only know one person who makes 10k per month, but the majority "just" earns 3-6k.
And the Romenian girl says in English her language belongs to the group of five coming from Latin. But they had no clue! They are: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romenian.
ангел Russians are so cringe
Americans: Europe in their head - Russia, Spain, Italy and Germany. The end.
Angelika Ch that’s the clever ones. The others think Spain is close to Mexico hahaha they know nothing about geography haha
France too
Ahhh yes so true lol
@@TheAngellina90 germany is not germany for them germany is like "Nazi" or "Mercedes"or " BMW"
Nah, there's also the mythical almost unknown lands of Croatia and ... Slovakia
I think italian is the most relaxing and romantic language of all
English is a European language...
"I can speak a tiny bit of French" basically means I can say Bonjour and Oui.
Eheh, c'est clair ! :P
Oui.
I can't, but sah quel plaisir
@@vadfoot Bien vu
oui c'est un tres parfait description pour cette situation, also no, french is not my first language so spare me your correction.
OMG the left woman saying: "It sounded Spanish, but we are talking Europe so maybe Portugal" sums up the education system in the US.
Uh... what exactly does it tell you about US education system? That they don't teach what every foreign/European language sounds like? Do they teach that in the "European" education systems?
At 2:02 , Destiny says: "It kind of sounds a little, like, _spanish-y_ , but we're talking Europe so I was thinking, like, Portugal"
She wasn't saying that Spain isn't in Europe. What she meant is that contrary to America, in Europe Spanish is spoken in only one country, so she feels free to go with a different guess than Spanish.
Note that at 2:17 , both women give their answer as "Spain", so obviously they know Spain is a European country. Furthermore, even before the first European speaker appeared, they were discussing Spanish, French and Italian as possible languages that they might be asked to guess, so obviously they were aware that Spanish is a European language.
@@yurenchu really wrote a whole paragraph 😭
@@yurenchu you are completely right
@@yurenchu They meant Geography it is a basic of all school systems, no?
@@yurenchu in Europe Portuguese is spoken by one country like spanish
Romanian is really the most mixed language in Europe.. There's not only romance influence there but also Greek, Slavic and probably Ottoman.
Știu și mulți nu înțeleg asta și cred că ie așa de simplă🤣
By ottoman, you mean Turkish, right the Ottoman empires exist anymore lol
Bosnia and Turkish people are all that’s left it
That Portugese girl literally said it like 2 times🤣🤣
Language: *exists*
Americans: *Is that spanish?*
"Mexican", "Middle Eastern", and "Chinese" are the only foreign languages that we know about in 'murica. (I really, really hate living in this country sometimes. Feel free to judge us. We deserve it.)
Sean Silence Speak for yourself.
Sean Silence honestly they used to teach all different kinds of languages but now we are only allowed to learn Spanish or French in school! At least that’s my school
@@izyreadsbooks5735 I love other languages. It's just a shame that so many people here get really up in arms if someone isn't speaking English
Izabella Ash I’m in UK and a student who came from Australia said her school taught her Japanese (I think it’s because they’re so close to the country I’m not sure)
Yes there are only two languages in Europe: Spanish and Russian
The two languages of Europe
Siema
German is the most spoken language in Europe, but come on, what can we expect from them 😂
@@alexanderalex1608 english is the most spoken I europe ahah
And of course english originated in america
I shouldn’t be too judgy considering I’m fluent in French, have had a lot of exposure to Spanish and am learning Italian and actively watch foreign content, but come onnnnn. Those were not that hard 😫
"sounds Spanish but we're talking Europe so I'm thinking Portugal" wtf?
*any of slavic language"
Americans: IT'S RUSSIAN
Not me buddy, I got all of them. I hear you though.
Literally.
Slavic is the hardest for me. The only ones i can guess easy is polish, czech and slovakian, because they are very different. Russia, belarus and ukraine has basically the same language, allthough i might get the difference if it's written
Even Swedish... Americans: **IT’S RUSSIAN**
@@Stalinlover-jx1jy You could say nothing more wrong than ukranian , russian and bielorussians having the same language.I dare you to look any russian / ukranian and tell them that.Each has its own language despite the similarities and every one of these peoples are proud of their own language.
American: *Says Swedish sounds like Russian*
Swedes: "Say sike right now or I'm taking back the furniture."
* Carolus Rex intensifies *
Skurtavus Grodolfus I use the IKEA guy as reference but he speaks English 😂
Underrated lmao
@@DeIirium1 yeah, so underrated
Pewdiepie is disappointed
Alternative title: How bad that are Americans are at geography.
Love this video! The girl who was so proud about knowing Croatia made me laugh 😂
Why do most Americans give me the impression of feeling like they're the center of the world?
_Martina_ due to the lack of good education, lots of us are very uneducated and uncultured
it’s cuz America is the most important country in the world, so most americans don’t rly care ab the rest
Because they do think it
@@johncavaliere7062 jajajajajajjajajajajahah hahahhahahahahahshshahahahahaha oh my GOSH!!!! America is not even a country darling
Lula cuarenta the full name is United States of AMERICA, we just call it America cuz it’s a little shorter yf
Cool how I, as a portuguese, guessed Romanian right away. It sounds a bit like Russian but the familiarity of the latim is really beautifull.
Portuguese always sounds so Slavic
7:04
girl: "I am feeling like Czechoslovakia"
*Czechoslovakia not existing since 1993*
I died
Thank you for writing this comment. I thought I was the only one who noticed.
SOME PEOPLE REALLY KNOW THAT?
Americans 😂
Exactly lmao
Only someone who has never heard ANY of these languages would confuse Swedish with Greek and Russian.
To be honest I easily confuse Swedish with Norwegian and I'm Danish.
I thought it was Finnish
@@rasmusjensen291 I don't and I don't speak these languages at all.
The accent is quite distinct
@@rasmusjensen291 I am SWEDISH and I am confusing some dialects of Norwegian to Swedish quite often if I don't listen too closely :)
@@wootkennziz6914 Honest mistake. In Narvik the dialect is a mix of northern Norwegian and Swedish 😅
what… their guesses were so farrr off. I’m American but I def got the Italian, Swedish, and Portuguese, and thought the last was Ukrainian or something
American here. I got Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian, but can’t easily differentiate Norwegian and Swedish, so I wasn’t sure with that one.
She's studied Spanish... but now thinks Italian is Spanish.
They should have sent someone British to speak in front of them.
they thought swedish was greek. can we discuss this
bea we should talk about this , geographically not even close
Juwen Armando im clearly very baffled about this whole situation
Honestly I just kinda wanna forget about it...
Katharina Dembach let’s all do that. im here for you
yess ! watching it from finland? hum? it would make more sense if they say its norwegian or danish (obviously not these two cuz they didnt sound like potato in my mouth or tunes going up when they finish a sentence...)
the ignorance in this video is unbearable...
shshs shshsh precisely why they picked them. The video wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining if they picked informed people
There is nothing ignorant about this. People arent taught different languages. It's like asking you to tell which country in Africa someone is from by language. I bet most of the people calling thses people ignorant can never guess it like 3 would guess most correctly. They are not ignorant for not knowing this.
@@seoluniverse5417 of course they do not have to know the every single detail about those languages but there is a difference between detailed knowledge and general knowledge. Living in a country that is surrounded by different languages and cultures and not being able to distinguish EXTREMELY different languages is just absurd. I mean, it takes just a little bit of geography knowledge and a little bit of experience. Ignorance doesn't just come from not having school education but also from not improving yourself. Same goes for Asian, African and Oceanian languages as well. This is ignorance and it shouldn't be justified.
shshs shshsh eh just cause they live in America doesn’t mean they’re surrounded by different languages just saying people generally stick with their groups
@@madiseen5376 it still doesn't change the fact that it is ignorant not being able to distiguish languages and countries around the world and it's such a shame that it's being justified. I'm not trying to target these people or "americans" in general. It includes everyone within this position. Though I hope this type of videos encourage people to learn or acquire more
Why are they wearing blindfold as if they would found the country if they saw them hahahaha so hilarious
This is like taking someone from engineering and saying please recognize everything in medicine.
To americans EVERY language outside english "sounds like spanish" lol
That's so true! My friend went to the US (she spoke dutch there, because she's from the netherlands) and the americans thought she was speaking spanish LMAAOOO, Dutch doesn't sound like spanish AT ALL
As a Spanish speaking Mexican American, I can confirm
It's the only language other than English most Americans are familiar with. It's literally on all of the cans and stuff at the supermarket there. Language education in American public schools is awful and they start so late. Kids start learning English from the beginning of their education in Europe and Russia too. They've got a ways to go in order to catch up now.
In some video an American confused Chinese with Spanish so yeah..
@@nickk.689 hahaha how is that even possible?
European:*speaks a language*
American:,,iS tHAT rusSiAn???"
Lovely huh
jimin's tighs or Spanish 😂
@@BlueSwampyCraft lol,yeah:)))
lmaooo
@@greetingsearth387 lemme guess,you are American,right??:////
these two never heard different language than english. seriously? you call swedish a czech language? or romanian russian/finnish?
this video really hurt my european heart
So...one of the girls think Spain is outside of Europe....
Are there schools in USA or something??
paula-chan apparently not
you mean the shooting ranges?
No it’s just that they are in Los Angeles and we first associate Spanish with Mexico and South America. I’m sure they are having a cringe because they know Spain is in Europe.
@@irene1024 😆😆😆
You forget about Russia being in Europe
Speaks three languages= *trilingual*
Speaks two languages= *bilingual*
Speaks one language= *American*
Speaks Portuguese,Italian,Romanian= *Spanishy*
Speaks Swedish= *Greekish*
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people in english-speaking countries just aren't taught other languages as much as the rest of the world bc they don't need to - english is the global lingua franca and has the highest total number of speakers
@@edwardgeorge5584 False, go to Australia and England.
@@edwardgeorge5584 well but it is common in Europe to at least learn 2 different languages (often Spanish or French + English) even though English is the global language it is still important and an enrichment to be able to speak multiple languages fluently :)
Maybe English is not the global language, maybe is that the ones that speak English refuse to learn other languages
@@annamay1966 America is a giant country, most European countries are less populated and area wise can fit inside of our states. Much more closely packed European countries are more likely to learn and be exposed to other languages. In America unless you are an immigrant still speaking your native language, you speak English and maybe a little Spanish due to the high population of people of Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Portuguese friend said "portugal" THREE TIMES and American friends still had a hard time 🤣😵😳
How on earth did they think he was Russian
1 question: why do Americans talk about Europe like it’s 1 country. Thanks for all the likes and I’ve probably set like 50 different arguments off but oh well
The EU and euro don't help.
they do the same for Africa
Well if you ask an American where they are from they'll say their state, which makes no sense whatsoever in an international context.
eden lol
@@philipe1502 it makes sense because USA is a big country and in order to travel from one state to an other is like travelling from Germany to England. And that's a small distances. I am from Greece and I understand why you say that. Also you have to consider that every state has lots of cities
Slavic country: exist
Americans: OH THAT’S OBVIOUSLY RUSSIA
egoizm I think they just don’t know the term “Slavic”, so every Slavic language they call “Russian”. It has nothing to do with Russia as a country.
Romanians are latins not slavic. We had our first words and phrases waaaay before others surrounding us.
@@alexsimion7190 well, not exactly. The Slavs had their own language way before they migrated south, so you can't really say that your language is older than Serbian, Bulgarian and so on.
@@Terter1551 it is, well dacian is
@@tortellinifettuccine the Dacian language was in one family with Thracian. Today's Romanians don't speak Dacian. Their language was later romanised and even more romanised after the middle ages.
Italian-1:13
Swedish- 2:41
Portuguese-5:06
Romanian-7:37
How americans see languages in europe
*if its words similar to english, its spanish*
*if it sounds like random letters put together, definetly russian*
Sorry buzzfeed, but you should probably have chosen someone who are not completly clueless in terms of geography. One of them thought spain is located outside of europe
Agreed. There are plenty of us who actually do know some things about Europe in general, and some with a love of languages too
Agreed
Axel Gustafsson they just choose an average american lol
@$@
Seriously.... she even said Russia! It’s not fair to pick someone who hasn’t been exposed and traveled to Europe and the plethora of languages.
"it sounds a little spanishy but we are talking europe so portugal"
murica
OMG 😂😂😂 I was like... girl... 🤦🏽♀️
Well it’s not a surprise - they are American 🤷🏼♀️
@@MargieMedina me too. My face was like 🙃
To clear up confusion, most Americans are used to spanish speaking from countries such as Mexico and Puerto Rico, which are NOT in Europe
Hello my name is Massimiliano
Murican: ohh Mäsilmiljanooou
honestly i thought that the swedish guy was speaking danish because he said schnapps and schnapps are really popular in denmark plus sweden has 10 mil people and he said said 11 mil so that threw me off, but still its a great video
video title: “can americans identify these european languages?”
me before watching the video: no
Ikr- before the video even started i was like "they're American, why would they know how to do that"😅
Hi, my fellow MyDay
I was literally thinking the same thing
stan talent
@@arsi3419 yes, stan talent
trueee