yeah honestly as someone who only speaks english and listens to music in several other languages i mistake a lot of foreign songs for being in a different language because of the style of the song
@@ezraabottmcklein8379 it's not even the accent, it's the way he even wrongly said words (not wrong sounds, which is due to an accent, but wrong letters which is based on knowledge)
I'm Italian and the accents was so messed up that I thought it was Albanian at first. Then I started to understand what he was saying and I realized ahahhaha
I’ve been listening to so much Romanian music recently and I thought it couldn’t possibly be just because of his accent lol I really need to just learn Romanian
not gonna lie as someone born in romania, the dude speaking romanian had such a thick english accent that i didn't even recognize my own native language.
@@AngryKittensexactly what I was thinking, like he speaks English as a secondary language and a romance language as a mother tongue. Really odd that one.
As an Indonesian I felt kinda the same. I could recognize the word 'mobil' when they were referring to cars but I completely thought they were Filipino. LOL. Luckily Matthew asked them to count from 1 to 10 though, so I was sure they were actually Indonesian.
it’s true. I had to really pay attention to what he was saying, i thought at first it’s a dialect close to it or something like that. I could only recognise it because im native, born and raised here so yea... Not only the accent was way off, but he didn’t speak properly either so it was easy to miss it.
@@crazydragy4233naw dude I'm American this isn't what we sound like either, I genuinely believe that he does not speak the language, if i had to guess his grandparents were 1st or 2nd gen and his parents could understand but not speak it persey, then he learned to mispronounce the mispronounciation of the word... anyway yeah dude could almost definitely learn the language faster than others but to say he speaks it is at best hyperbolic
yeah, that was the most ambiguous romanian i've ever heard. Mom is from romania, hear it all the time, his accent was just so american i could not tell lol
An east Asian bumblebee that was an adorable description, Matthew does his research and is really sweet bring him back. We were all thrown off by the Romanian guy.
Nah Matthew had the right reaction, 1-5 sounded so Latin it’s not even funny. Accent is irrelevant when you hear “u…t…th(don’t feel like spelling it with the phonetic alphabet)…Qu…Ch/Qi…” it’s a Romance language hardstop.
I think the music background helps him understand and hear the cadence, tone, and rhythm of languages, and he also knows basic phrases from it. Polyglots are often region-specialized, and if they’re not, they’re more focused on vocabulary and trying to understand the person and figure out how to communicate with them. They’re generally good at hearing different language families and conversing with new languages, but the specific guesses aren’t as strong because that’s not how their brains are wired
The power of immersion :) And I get it. Granted my immersion exposure is not as wide as his, I experience the same kind of “I know what that sounds like” between my exposures to Japanese, Korean, some standard Chinese and a little of Thai.
it's not even the accent, it's the way he even wrongly said words (not wrong sounds, which is due to an accent, but wrong letters which is based on knowledge)
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the guy who spoke Romanian has definitely learnt it as a second language. he probably left Romania as a small kid, or his family had moved before he was born even. He doesn't sound like a native speaker , so it seems like an unfair task for Matthew
If there would have been a price it would be unfair. But in this setup i feel it‘s refreshing for the content. Especially for their algorythm as everybody is talking about it in the comments😁
It was slightly annoying, I'm Romanian and the first two sentences i couldn't tell he was Romanian, i realized it when the subtitles said something about onion (ceapa matii :D) You can understand what he is saying once you know what language he's speaking, but he's mispronouncing vowels so bad, it doesn't sound like Romanian.
Not only a good guesser makes me feel better about humanity that someone cares enough to invest so much time in cultures and languages as a study and educational passion.
I'm dyslexic but I try my best to learn every language I interact with. I'm genuinely afraid of ever meeting a paitent on a 911 call who I don't share at least one language with me and then I'm not necessarily going to be able to do my best work to save them and that's something i fear more than being ran over with the fire engine lol
My heart goes out to the man from Burma. You can tell the affection and pain he feels for his home country so clearly, I’m glad he was able to find a good life even though it had to be somewhere else
I was in the US Navy in 1988 when our task force was diverted to Burma due to the military coup and concern over American dependents in the country. Most Americans don't know it ever happened, but the political unrest has been going on that long!
YES. He kind of dissects all of the phonetics without even "trying" (he has a career, I don't mean it in a bad way whatsoever), to me is so interesting and fun to watch
I mean I wasn't gunna mention it but since someone else did he is clearly autistic (not an insult this is how my brain works and I've realized its EXCLUSIVLY an autistic thing, it's part of the difference between our brains and the brains of neurotypicals, oh and before someone tries to tell me that they think this way and aren't i trained under the most recent DSM and have lived my whole life with ASD, I can literally diagnose from a distance, perks of ems I guess, im literally just giving an informed and educated take on my field of expertise if you think I'm wrong you need to talk to a drn not me ant this cuz I'm not)
I totally get why he didnt understand romanian, cause he has a different accent. even i who was born and raised in Romania couldnt understand him at first.
it's not even the accent, it's the way he even wrongly said words (not wrong sounds, which is due to an accent, but wrong letters which is based on knowledge)
I also like that he asks really interesting questions, it’s not just “tell me about yourself” or “what’s you’re favourite colour” they’re not overtly personal but they’re deeper and more interesting versions of icebreaker questions☺️
The fact that he’s wearing T-shirt with Georgian alphabet on it and there’s no Georgian participant …😅 thank you for bringing that little bit of my country with you 🥹🇬🇪
So it is Georgian! I have some Georgian friends, and I thought that his shirt had the Georgian alphabet, but I wasn’t sure, thank you for clearing that up!
When I was deployed in Afghanistan I worked with Georgians. Some of the coolest people with such a beautiful language! Their handwriting was amazing. I hope that next time your country is featured. 🌸
I spent some months in Georgia as a teenager. One of the most beautiful languages and cultures I’ve ever experienced. It’s been nearly 20 years and I still dream of Adjarian khachapuri!
13:55 well actually he guessed it right because Dari is not a distinct language but just a dialect of Farsi(Persian),smililar to Tajiki,another persian dialect which is widely spoken in Tajikistan.
Yeah and I couldn't understand fully her, so I think she's Pashtun, that's why she doesn't know because all Tajikis, Nuristanis, Hazaras and Balochis know that Dari = Farsi-ye Dari. They also know about the Greater Iran, the historical region.
@@Oli-lk1gpShe is herati they have a different accent I also couldn’t fully understand her because of some words. Their accent sounds a bit more Persian than the common accent
@@XsarahX1 but most Herati, Tajikis, Nuristanis and Hazaras do know about Dari being Farsi no ? Maybe it's just the people I talk to. But I was under the impression that most did know.
@@Oli-lk1gp Ok and? I’m pretty sure she knows, she probably just wanted him to guess it exactly as Dari. And even if she didn’t know it’s not really a big deal plus she said she didn’t grow up in Afghanistan she’s American so..
Love his Georgian alphabet shirt! As a native speaker of Shanghainese, Sherrisse's classic style Shanghainese （with a slight American accent) caught me off guard at first. I would probably come up the explanation for koala as “bear feeding on gum leaves” 喫桉樹葉個熊 or“no water” 勿用喫茶 as in the aboriginal language or “bear without tail”嘸沒尾巴個熊 as how they are called in Taiwan. I really appreciate her effort preserving the language by speaking it. The language/dialect is dying now and I think one of the reason is that the younger generations are so afraid of being judged and told that ours are not native/standard/fluent. So big thank you Sherrisse for demonstrating it. Thank you Cut for recruiting a Shanghainese speaker so more people know about the language of my hometown. Like what happened in Taiwan where the KMT government forbidden Taiwanese (Hokkien) in public. My generation in Shanghai has also experienced the era of suppression of the language/dialect. In fact, we are so afraid of being accused to be xenophobic by other Chinese people, so even the locals do not dare to use Shanghainese among ourselves nowadays. The latinisation and writing character set of Shanghainese are less popular or unified compared to Cantonese. But you can still find Shanghainese Siri for dictation in iOS and Shanghainese Wikipedia. The amazing thing about Shanghainese is that the language/dialect itself has experienced blending and evolving over the centuries. The accents and set of vocabulary used by our grandparents and parents are different from those of our generation. The accents of each district and county will also be slightly different. Again, it's so nice to hear the language from my hometown. Thank you Cut! Thank you Matthew for guessing it right!
OH IT’S GEORGIAN oh my gosh I’m half Armenian (don’t speak it fluently but I know most of the alphabet)and I was looking at his shirt and like short circuiting because I thought it was Armenian at first but there was nothing familiar haha!
Matthew makes me feel proud to be neurodivergent. It is so entertaining and insightful to listen to him explain the connections he is making in his mind. Such fun and wholesome videos to watch!
My guess is his family is Romanian and left when he was still learning to speak (like below 5yo). So he heard the language but learned English and took up learning it past understanding it when heard on his own
Can yall do more of these language lineups...they are the most interesting and informative to me. It's also so fun. Please make more episodes of this for languages.
The Romanian speaker they brought in had such a thick American accent, it's unsurprising Matthew couldn't guess it, so I wish he wasn't that hard on himself for it. I don't think anyone who grows up speaking Romanian from an early age, even if outside of Romania, has that kind of accent. P.S.: fun fact, the "numa numa" song is in Romanian, but the guys who sing it are from the Republic of Moldova. It's our neighboring country in the east and we share the same language.
As a Hmong person, I'm always surprised when someone who is not from a major city center in California, Minnesota, or Wisconsin knows that Hmong people even exist, so props to this man. I wanna be his friend.
i really liked the guy speaking burmese (sorry if i spelled it wrong) he seemed so sweet and i love how he was telling matthew all of these little snippets about his life !!
Matthew seems like such a smart and clever person, so cool to see him guess. Whenever I watch a video like this I see that there is some good and kindness left in the world. Keep it going Cut!
LOOOOVE Matthew. Gotta see him more; he is humble, he explains his thought process, he is respectful and asks brilliant questions. In fact, he would be great for any line up video, as he is so good will al that.
MORE MATTHEW PLEASE! Super interesting because he's a music nerd first.... I'd love to hear him listen to bands that have an ethnic style also and guess folks off that.
I recognized Lao immediately and I even knew the song she sang. My grandma speaks Lao and my aunt (her daughter in law, not bio daughter) speaks Thai. My grandma never enforced the language with her kids or with me as one of her grandchildren but at 15, I started learning the language all on my own and now (17) I can speak well with my grandma and aunt, though I can’t exactly hold a conversation yet. I can fluently read and write Thai though.
i like when he determine indonesian and Malaysian bahasa using 8, as a person who born and raised in indo but studied 4 years in malay, i never thought about that lmao
I would loooove to see a Belarusian speaker in the lineup series! Our language is endangered and not many Belarusians speak it well unfortunately which is the fault of oppression and dictatorship. I hope one day my beautiful Belarus will be free ❤ Жыве Беларусь!
The romanian threw me off so hard, because I instinctively knew that it was a european language, but his accent was just so strange. Alot of central european languages sound like someone speaking English Gibberish. I was convinced he was speaking Dutch until he started counting.
Matthew seems to know a few things about linguistics because he could distinguish a tonal language from another. Really fascinating! I‘m a linguist myself and love learning about other languages.
My man knows the austronesian language family dayuuuuum. Most people from my culture who speak the language based on the austronesian language don’t even know what austronesian is
I listened to his playlist of languages and I found some music I absolutely love! Thank you Matthew for introducing me to so many new bands, especially No Party for Cao Dong, my most played of 2023!
I'm surprised you know of us! But few of us speak a Sámi language fluently, some of them are gone now. There are 15-20 Ume Sámi speakers left (us), about the same for Pite Sámi, Ter Sámi has lost all its speakers I believe. There were 2 but I think they recently died. Most Sámi languages have a couple hundred remaining speakers, and only two Sámi languages have over 1,000 speakers remaining. There are some people trying to restore the languages but smaller Uralic languages have poor documentation so learning on your own from limited resources is very difficult. There is also the pressure of forsvenskning (forcibly making everything more "Swedish") and whatever it is called outside Sweden that has unfortunately very successfully eliminated a lot of access between Sámi and their original culture/language/land. I would also love to see a Sámi language featured here! I would not be shocked if it didn't happen though.
The fact that he's doing this based off music and that he's not a linguist, doesn't actually speak the language, is the craziest part for me.
yeah honestly as someone who only speaks english and listens to music in several other languages i mistake a lot of foreign songs for being in a different language because of the style of the song
That's why the American guy speaking Romanian threw him off. His accent was so strongly American you could hear it! That, and his flow was choppy.
Its almost like using maths and calculations instead of lingual aspect to pin point a location.
Has an 'ear' for it.
Art truly shows others not native to the tongue, the culture of one’s language
I don't blame Matthew for not guessing romanian. As a native speaker, he had such a thick english accent that I couldn't even recognize it at first
He said it himself, his accent is americanized
@@ezraabottmcklein8379 it's not even the accent, it's the way he even wrongly said words (not wrong sounds, which is due to an accent, but wrong letters which is based on knowledge)
Funny. I’m portuguese and I instantly thought it was romanian.
I'm Italian and the accents was so messed up that I thought it was Albanian at first. Then I started to understand what he was saying and I realized ahahhaha
I’ve been listening to so much Romanian music recently and I thought it couldn’t possibly be just because of his accent lol
I really need to just learn Romanian
not gonna lie as someone born in romania, the dude speaking romanian had such a thick english accent that i didn't even recognize my own native language.
It sounded almost Portuguese.
@@AngryKittensexactly what I was thinking, like he speaks English as a secondary language and a romance language as a mother tongue.
Really odd that one.
As an Indonesian I felt kinda the same. I could recognize the word 'mobil' when they were referring to cars but I completely thought they were Filipino. LOL. Luckily Matthew asked them to count from 1 to 10 though, so I was sure they were actually Indonesian.
Fr😂😂😂😂
@@sonicmonster483he was fine as hell tho
Love all the Romanians commenting that they couldn't identify the language either. I think that's vindication Matthew! 😂
it’s true. I had to really pay attention to what he was saying, i thought at first it’s a dialect close to it or something like that. I could only recognise it because im native, born and raised here so yea... Not only the accent was way off, but he didn’t speak properly either so it was easy to miss it.
@@iosif6959 He's speaking that ameromanian😂
Dude clearly listened to Google translate once on the way there, sorry not sorry
@@crazydragy4233naw dude I'm American this isn't what we sound like either, I genuinely believe that he does not speak the language, if i had to guess his grandparents were 1st or 2nd gen and his parents could understand but not speak it persey, then he learned to mispronounce the mispronounciation of the word... anyway yeah dude could almost definitely learn the language faster than others but to say he speaks it is at best hyperbolic
yeah, that was the most ambiguous romanian i've ever heard. Mom is from romania, hear it all the time, his accent was just so american i could not tell lol
"You did your homework"
"Well I GAVE the homework"
The hardest fucking line ever spoken
it really was
I love that this guy guesses languages so well that when he gets one wrong, it's actually the language speakers fault.
Yeah sorry what the fuck was that Romanian? Dude cleanly used Google translate in his way to the shoot imo
Disappointed, I thought this was a new one. Bring Matthew back for more languages!!
fr!
Same!
Right I was so excited and then it was like wait a min I’ve seen this already 🤣 still I love Matthew
Yes omg
Took me 3 minutes to figure that out
An east Asian bumblebee that was an adorable description, Matthew does his research and is really sweet bring him back. We were all thrown off by the Romanian guy.
He literally wasn't even speaking Romanian, like not those letters don't go there that's not how this language works
Regional dialects love to throw expectations out the window
Nah Matthew had the right reaction, 1-5 sounded so Latin it’s not even funny. Accent is irrelevant when you hear “u…t…th(don’t feel like spelling it with the phonetic alphabet)…Qu…Ch/Qi…” it’s a Romance language hardstop.
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@@ConstantChaos1 I've seen you comment the same thing like five times lol
The fact that he’s not a polyglot makes this even more impressive…
I think the music background helps him understand and hear the cadence, tone, and rhythm of languages, and he also knows basic phrases from it. Polyglots are often region-specialized, and if they’re not, they’re more focused on vocabulary and trying to understand the person and figure out how to communicate with them. They’re generally good at hearing different language families and conversing with new languages, but the specific guesses aren’t as strong because that’s not how their brains are wired
The power of immersion :)
And I get it. Granted my immersion exposure is not as wide as his, I experience the same kind of “I know what that sounds like” between my exposures to Japanese, Korean, some standard Chinese and a little of Thai.
that romanian guy has absolutely no romanian accent, even I was disturbed
it's not even the accent, it's the way he even wrongly said words (not wrong sounds, which is due to an accent, but wrong letters which is based on knowledge)
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Am I rude for saying this guy speaking Romanian is the closest sounding thing to what Sims speak that I've ever heard😂
Nope @@euphoricwhearthe fully does not speak Romanian, I just re-lisyened to it he clearly listened to Google translate just before filming
@@euphoricwheartthis is exactly what i thought
“well I gave the homework” atee
Right.. I was like he ate that so bad
the guy who spoke Romanian has definitely learnt it as a second language. he probably left Romania as a small kid, or his family had moved before he was born even. He doesn't sound like a native speaker , so it seems like an unfair task for Matthew
If there would have been a price it would be unfair. But in this setup i feel it‘s refreshing for the content. Especially for their algorythm as everybody is talking about it in the comments😁
@@deenhaniyah4707 Truee
It was slightly annoying, I'm Romanian and the first two sentences i couldn't tell he was Romanian, i realized it when the subtitles said something about onion (ceapa matii :D)
You can understand what he is saying once you know what language he's speaking, but he's mispronouncing vowels so bad, it doesn't sound like Romanian.
A long version of Matthew’s immense knowledge? Yes, please.
Not only a good guesser makes me feel better about humanity that someone cares enough to invest so much time in cultures and languages as a study and educational passion.
I'm dyslexic but I try my best to learn every language I interact with. I'm genuinely afraid of ever meeting a paitent on a 911 call who I don't share at least one language with me and then I'm not necessarily going to be able to do my best work to save them and that's something i fear more than being ran over with the fire engine lol
Seriously! This guy gives me hope, we need more people as passionate about the world as him
Word !
My heart goes out to the man from Burma. You can tell the affection and pain he feels for his home country so clearly, I’m glad he was able to find a good life even though it had to be somewhere else
I was in the US Navy in 1988 when our task force was diverted to Burma due to the military coup and concern over American dependents in the country. Most Americans don't know it ever happened, but the political unrest has been going on that long!
He can find the most obscure thing and connect the dots lol.
Like how the guy said the letter T. Like what?! Lol
YES. He kind of dissects all of the phonetics without even "trying" (he has a career, I don't mean it in a bad way whatsoever), to me is so interesting and fun to watch
That was so weird he said that cause all east/horn African languages pronounce the word T different
I mean I wasn't gunna mention it but since someone else did he is clearly autistic (not an insult this is how my brain works and I've realized its EXCLUSIVLY an autistic thing, it's part of the difference between our brains and the brains of neurotypicals, oh and before someone tries to tell me that they think this way and aren't i trained under the most recent DSM and have lived my whole life with ASD, I can literally diagnose from a distance, perks of ems I guess, im literally just giving an informed and educated take on my field of expertise if you think I'm wrong you need to talk to a drn not me ant this cuz I'm not)
@@Happypotato917 I know and the way he managed to guess that is what makes it more crazy.
I totally get why he didnt understand romanian, cause he has a different accent. even i who was born and raised in Romania couldnt understand him at first.
it's not even the accent, it's the way he even wrongly said words (not wrong sounds, which is due to an accent, but wrong letters which is based on knowledge)
@@daisy_elle_ copy pasting every comment get a grip
He has to be the most impressive person I've ever seen on video, I'm genuinely in awe
He's such a nerd for languages and music, I love him! Plus he seems friendly, unlike some of the people cut has on
I also like that he asks really interesting questions, it’s not just “tell me about yourself” or “what’s you’re favourite colour” they’re not overtly personal but they’re deeper and more interesting versions of icebreaker questions☺️
Me too, the questions are probably related to what he knows about the language from his music/ listening of the music
The fact that he’s wearing T-shirt with Georgian alphabet on it and there’s no Georgian participant …😅 thank you for bringing that little bit of my country with you 🥹🇬🇪
გარმაჯორბა მეგობარი
Well yeah cos he’s guess it’s right away.
So it is Georgian! I have some Georgian friends, and I thought that his shirt had the Georgian alphabet, but I wasn’t sure, thank you for clearing that up!
When I was deployed in Afghanistan I worked with Georgians. Some of the coolest people with such a beautiful language! Their handwriting was amazing. I hope that next time your country is featured. 🌸
I spent some months in Georgia as a teenager. One of the most beautiful languages and cultures I’ve ever experienced. It’s been nearly 20 years and I still dream of Adjarian khachapuri!
"You're, like, an East Asian bumble bee! "
as a romanian i now want to pass the language to my children even more than before after listening to this guy butcher romanian like that
I always love seeing Matthew!
He's so sweet and really knows his languages.
13:55 well actually he guessed it right because Dari is not a distinct language but just a dialect of Farsi(Persian),smililar to Tajiki,another persian dialect which is widely spoken in Tajikistan.
Yeah and I couldn't understand fully her, so I think she's Pashtun, that's why she doesn't know because all Tajikis, Nuristanis, Hazaras and Balochis know that Dari = Farsi-ye Dari. They also know about the Greater Iran, the historical region.
@@Oli-lk1gpShe is herati they have a different accent I also couldn’t fully understand her because of some words. Their accent sounds a bit more Persian than the common accent
@@XsarahX1 but most Herati, Tajikis, Nuristanis and Hazaras do know about Dari being Farsi no ? Maybe it's just the people I talk to. But I was under the impression that most did know.
@@Oli-lk1gp Ok and? I’m pretty sure she knows, she probably just wanted him to guess it exactly as Dari. And even if she didn’t know it’s not really a big deal plus she said she didn’t grow up in Afghanistan she’s American so..
That's weird cuz I'm a Persian from Tehran and I fully understood@@Oli-lk1gp
Love his Georgian alphabet shirt!
As a native speaker of Shanghainese, Sherrisse's classic style Shanghainese （with a slight American accent) caught me off guard at first. I would probably come up the explanation for koala as “bear feeding on gum leaves” 喫桉樹葉個熊 or“no water” 勿用喫茶 as in the aboriginal language or “bear without tail”嘸沒尾巴個熊 as how they are called in Taiwan.
I really appreciate her effort preserving the language by speaking it. The language/dialect is dying now and I think one of the reason is that the younger generations are so afraid of being judged and told that ours are not native/standard/fluent. So big thank you Sherrisse for demonstrating it. Thank you Cut for recruiting a Shanghainese speaker so more people know about the language of my hometown.
Like what happened in Taiwan where the KMT government forbidden Taiwanese (Hokkien) in public. My generation in Shanghai has also experienced the era of suppression of the language/dialect. In fact, we are so afraid of being accused to be xenophobic by other Chinese people, so even the locals do not dare to use Shanghainese among ourselves nowadays.
The latinisation and writing character set of Shanghainese are less popular or unified compared to Cantonese. But you can still find Shanghainese Siri for dictation in iOS and Shanghainese Wikipedia. The amazing thing about Shanghainese is that the language/dialect itself has experienced blending and evolving over the centuries. The accents and set of vocabulary used by our grandparents and parents are different from those of our generation. The accents of each district and county will also be slightly different.
Again, it's so nice to hear the language from my hometown. Thank you Cut! Thank you Matthew for guessing it right!
OH IT’S GEORGIAN oh my gosh I’m half Armenian (don’t speak it fluently but I know most of the alphabet)and I was looking at his shirt and like short circuiting because I thought it was Armenian at first but there was nothing familiar haha!
This guy is fascinating and I love his little information tidbits about the languages. More Matthew!
Matthew makes me feel proud to be neurodivergent. It is so entertaining and insightful to listen to him explain the connections he is making in his mind. Such fun and wholesome videos to watch!
Oh is he neurodivergent? I absolutely got the vibes but I didn’t think they talked about it anywhere. I love these videos so much.
Did he say that somewhere or are you just ascribing that to him?
@@user-ru3zw6lz9h it’s obvious that he is.
The geeza speaking Romanian sounded like he was speaking simlish
I’m not even native and my boyfriend doesn’t sound NOTHING like that
That one who was Romanian sounded like he was someone who just learned the language
My guess is his family is Romanian and left when he was still learning to speak (like below 5yo). So he heard the language but learned English and took up learning it past understanding it when heard on his own
“Those dang whites” is so funny from this wholesome white man 🥹😂
3:07 not matthew just understanding that he asked him why lmfao
this guy is such a legend. best guesser in cut, amazing breadth of knowledge, and won the virgin episode of odd-one-out (in dominating fashion).
Can yall do more of these language lineups...they are the most interesting and informative to me. It's also so fun. Please make more episodes of this for languages.
The Romanian speaker they brought in had such a thick American accent, it's unsurprising Matthew couldn't guess it, so I wish he wasn't that hard on himself for it. I don't think anyone who grows up speaking Romanian from an early age, even if outside of Romania, has that kind of accent.
P.S.: fun fact, the "numa numa" song is in Romanian, but the guys who sing it are from the Republic of Moldova. It's our neighboring country in the east and we share the same language.
As a Hmong person, I'm always surprised when someone who is not from a major city center in California, Minnesota, or Wisconsin knows that Hmong people even exist, so props to this man. I wanna be his friend.
I dated a hmong person here in seattle area. They have a sizeable population here. But yes, they're def in minnesota too, lol
this dude is so impressive, to just hear dialect and tone and being able to differentiate the languages takes skill. major respect.
Matthew, do you have a spotify playlist? I NEED IT 😄
It’s only on CZcams somewhere. I asked him last time. Let me check if I find it.
There you go, human.
czcams.com/play/PL-ClEBppfwRjAUJhVHH1Xar7zGWglMaEj.html&si=5KXqnv_3fIH9982v
I think it's mentioned in one of the other Cut videos he's in, check the description!
Only a youtube playlist - czcams.com/play/PL-ClEBppfwRjAUJhVHH1Xar7zGWglMaEj.html&si=0yHcqCpWd4x87zgS
The way he decodes the languages is fascinating
kudos to the Shanghainese girl for bringing awareness to this dialect! she has a little bit English accent which is interesting to hear
i really liked the guy speaking burmese (sorry if i spelled it wrong) he seemed so sweet and i love how he was telling matthew all of these little snippets about his life !!
I’ve never heard Romanian spoken but even I was picking up on his thick accent.
It sounded like a made up langauge, I was so confused when I heard it.
Go Matthew! Truly a joy to watch. I love his openness and love of language. Can’t wait to see more of him!
I’m glad we got to see the whole of Matthew’s attempts at guessing. Like the woman in the skirt said, it’s amazing to see the way his brain works!
I love that he technically got everyone right and was only wrong for very understandable reasons (like slang and non-native accents)...
Matthew seems like such a smart and clever person, so cool to see him guess. Whenever I watch a video like this I see that there is some good and kindness left in the world. Keep it going Cut!
Matt's absolutely fascinating and so sweet.
So incredibly intelligent!
LOOOOVE Matthew. Gotta see him more; he is humble, he explains his thought process, he is respectful and asks brilliant questions. In fact, he would be great for any line up video, as he is so good will al that.
Matthew could go anywhere in the world and would be protected by every country 😂. He’s a national treasure.
even when he’s wrong he’s still so close and it’s very impressive! i’m not counting the romanian guy because his accent was very americanized
"You did your homework."
"Eh, well, I assigned the homework."
Love Matthew he need to be a regular for this series
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MORE MATTHEW PLEASE! Super interesting because he's a music nerd first.... I'd love to hear him listen to bands that have an ethnic style also and guess folks off that.
I could watch Matthew guess languages all day long. Love this guy!
i love the questions he asks to get people speaking in the language! its so cute
Matthew: "so embarrassing"
...dude this is still insanely impressive
That dude has only spoken Romanian to his Duolingo app
Make a whole compilation of Matthew because I will watch it! And keep bringing him back, he's educating us on the world and I love it!!!!
I recognized Lao immediately and I even knew the song she sang. My grandma speaks Lao and my aunt (her daughter in law, not bio daughter) speaks Thai. My grandma never enforced the language with her kids or with me as one of her grandchildren but at 15, I started learning the language all on my own and now (17) I can speak well with my grandma and aunt, though I can’t exactly hold a conversation yet. I can fluently read and write Thai though.
Matthew is the reason I watch Cut. I enjoy lots of the videos, but if Matthew is in them, they win by a landslide.
This guy had proved he is good at guessing. Let’s see how he does this time.
"You're like an East Asian bumblebee" 🤣
This has to set some kind of world record or something, he is just so intellectually in tune with languages. It’s just amazing to watch.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone more passionate tbh
I already know he’s a phenomenal teacher 🔥
He is adorable. Oh my gosh, all of the wholesome.
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Matthew is awesome! Please keep bringing him back!
i like when he determine indonesian and Malaysian bahasa using 8, as a person who born and raised in indo but studied 4 years in malay, i never thought about that lmao
i would've loved to have this guy as a teacher. you can so clearly tell that he's passionate about languages and that makes for a fantastic teacher
I would loooove to see a Belarusian speaker in the lineup series! Our language is endangered and not many Belarusians speak it well unfortunately which is the fault of oppression and dictatorship. I hope one day my beautiful Belarus will be free ❤ Жыве Беларусь!
Damn this guy is out of this world, he can spot so many little thing and hints... I can spot a little bit of what he share with us but it's hard !
I love every video with Matthew in it. Languages are so fascinating to me and he's just the coolest person I've ever seen.
I want to see Matt's do this again so badly. I really want someone who speaks Welsh on here for him to try and guess.
Watching him guess is so wholesome and i love it! Bring him back PLEASE!!!
This needs to be an entire series you make.
Dang it, I was hoping this was a new vid 😭 love watching Matthew analyze the languages and reacting like 😱😂
The romanian threw me off so hard, because I instinctively knew that it was a european language, but his accent was just so strange. Alot of central european languages sound like someone speaking English Gibberish. I was convinced he was speaking Dutch until he started counting.
If you know one Germanic language and one Latin based it becomes easy to tell who is from where in Europe
Matthew seems to know a few things about linguistics because he could distinguish a tonal language from another. Really fascinating!
I‘m a linguist myself and love learning about other languages.
I just love that his love of music has given him so much knowledge of languages. These are so amazingly interesting!
This man is legendary, get him for more episodes
There's something so beautiful and wholesome about this video
gosh, I love it, bring him back more for the languages guessing
5:48 this gentleman is the most East African looking man I have ever seen.
He's dancing with the singing of the woman from Lao. 😭
This is so wholesome. i love seeing people get so excited when he narrows it down.
I’ve never heard anyone speak Romanian but this guy sounded like my 5th grade ‘spanish’ teacher.
Justice for Matthew’s mom’s onion
Clutched my pearls when he said that 😂
Ugh! This is a re-post. I love the language videos, DO MORE! 😲
My man knows the austronesian language family dayuuuuum. Most people from my culture who speak the language based on the austronesian language don’t even know what austronesian is
Daamn thme moment i saw Georgian language on his shirt i was like hes good at this😂😂
This guy is chillest most down to earth guy ever. What a great guy!
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Matthew has such a good, wholesome energy. It's so cool to see his mind working.
I LOVE this guy especially since music has tutored him. Such joy!
I love hearing shangahinese. I get so excited when I hear it cause it’s what my family and I speak
Bring Matthew back for more of these episodes! He’s a legend!
Really appreciate to include the Burmese language here. Our country is going through a lot right now and needs our voices to be heard.
I listened to his playlist of languages and I found some music I absolutely love! Thank you Matthew for introducing me to so many new bands, especially No Party for Cao Dong, my most played of 2023!
Could you include a Sámi person in one of these soon? I’m sure not many know of this indigenous group yet
I'm surprised you know of us! But few of us speak a Sámi language fluently, some of them are gone now. There are 15-20 Ume Sámi speakers left (us), about the same for Pite Sámi, Ter Sámi has lost all its speakers I believe. There were 2 but I think they recently died. Most Sámi languages have a couple hundred remaining speakers, and only two Sámi languages have over 1,000 speakers remaining. There are some people trying to restore the languages but smaller Uralic languages have poor documentation so learning on your own from limited resources is very difficult. There is also the pressure of forsvenskning (forcibly making everything more "Swedish") and whatever it is called outside Sweden that has unfortunately very successfully eliminated a lot of access between Sámi and their original culture/language/land. I would also love to see a Sámi language featured here! I would not be shocked if it didn't happen though.
@@emmalake1653that’s so sad that it’s dying out. I learnt about Sámi when visiting Finland. Hopefully the language can be saved from dying!
We love him! Bring him back! Make him a series! Something!!
Always love seeing Matthew in Cut's videos 😃 please invite him more often