Similarities Between Romanian and French
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2018
- In today’s language challenge, we are comparing French and Romanian, two Romance languages belonging to the Indo-European language family. Jackie, a French speaker, and Andrei, a Romanian speaker, challenge each other with a list of words and sentences.
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Romanian is an East Romance language primarily spoken in Romania and Moldova. French (française) is a Romance language that descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Today, French is one of the most widely spoken languages in the word and a French-speaking person or nation is often referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu. French is spoken as a first language in many parts of the world outside of France, including the Canadian province of Quebec, and among large communities in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick, and numerous other places including parts of the United States such as Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. - Zábava
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Dear Bahador I just noticed that you've had Andrei in your videos for a while now and you've made quite a few videos comparing Romanian with other (European) languages so how come you haven't done a video comparing Romanian and Persian?I'm sure you know they are both Indo-European so finding cognates between them shouldn't be a difficult task.right now I know one word which is the same in Romanian and that's دشمن :) Anyways hope you can manage a video with Mahtab competing with Andrei and I hope that Mahtab wins:D oh,and please bring Serena on the camera more often because we would love to see her
Romanian and serbian please. They are a lot of similar and same words
malolelei
Thank you my friend! That's a great idea and we've thought about doing it. Each time that Andrei came over we were doing a different language so we just say, we'll do Persian and Romanian another time. So for sure, we'll do it in the future. We all appreciate your lovely message :) sepasgozaram!
Khahesh mikonam,payandeh bashid!
Bahador alast I'm new what languages do you speak ?
I'm italian and I got all the romanian and french words. Romanian, Italian, Portuguese, French and Spanish are very alike.#Romancepeople
Catalan too.
Not all but I got a lot of them also,I speak portuguese...
Italian is the missing link between French and Romanian
@@brendangordon2168 But there's something missing between Italian and French (...Friulian...)
Parlare retoromano ?? (Rumantsch) Catalano? Galego ? Veneto ?? Friulano? Lombardo ?
She said « ours » without the « s » sound maybe it’s how the québécois say it but not French from France.
No, we also pronounce it. she's not a native french speaker so she's making mistakes
I see there is something wrong with the way she says *Argent*
She has an accent that is a bit strange, not fully québécois. I wonder if she's a francophone from an english province.
@@yellowdoritos oui, mais our-s avec un s est beaucoup plus fréquent. et tout le monde sait que c'est ainsi qu'il faut le prononcer, à moins de n'être jamais allé à l'école... ou alors de venir d'une région assez éloignée...
IT's more the accent of a franco-canadian than one of a Quebecois. She has an english accent when she speaks.
Romanian is my favourite language, such a beautiful language.
For me it was easy to learn, I'm from Spain
The latin language of Eastern Europe, amazing language
You're amazing ! As a Romanian I think the grammar is quite hard, but systematic! Even we Romanians are sometimes questioning if we are correct or not (I personally do :D) 😅😅😂
@@Cris-hd1wb mulțumesc prieten
alejandro alex9990 Prietene* bcz it's in vocative case 😅 ! But you can also say amice, it's just as good and prettier for me 😘
@alejandro alex 9990 - Back in 1999, I've visited Spain on a 2 week tour. The local guide in Madrid, enumerated the Latin languages to our English speaking group, INTENTIONALLY skipping the Romanian.
Once he finished his explanations, I approached him and told him that there is another Latin language : Romanian. He seemed to be embarrassed and made a clear grimace.
PS - are you really a Spaniard or just a Romanian living in Spain ? (alejandro - alex ?????????????)
@Ilinca Sirbu That means a lot to us*
Portuguese and romanian are quite similar
Vânt - Vento
Amic- amigo
Tot- Tudo
Verde- Verde
Urs - Urso
Mare- Mar
Cânta- Cantar
Dormi- Dormir
Amic
Also "eu" is the same in both Romanian and Portuguese.
Also :
Eu-eu
Meu-meu
Peixe-pește
Josué Gabriel Eu sou romeno e adoro a lingua portuguesa! 🇵🇹 Eu sunt român și ador limba portugheză! 🇷🇴
iodeceneu I understood all the Portuguese 😁
I am a French and Romanian speaker and her accent confused me at first lol
nice video, Andrei is handsome ;)
I am French I agree her french accent is terrible. The women is NOT French Maybe english speaker from Canada but definitly not French speaker. By the way I love Romania and Romanian language 💖
@@mbp9790 C'est québécois
, n'est-ce pas
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@@mbp9790 elle est quebecoise, ils parlent un ancien francais
Moi aussi elle m a perturbé avec son “ va “ ( vent)
@@sarys5169 Je pense pas qu'elle soit québécoise - plutôt Franco-Ontarienne.
I speak Italian and French
I find that Romanian is closer to Italian than to French in general
Romanian is a Latin language that was influenced by Slavic languages
merci, grazie, mulțumesc, شكرا
In fact french is closer to italian that roumanian to Italian. But the sound is french ( Paris dialect) has changed a lot . Just like in a family you make look more like your cousin than brother.
Romanian is more closer to Vulgar Latin the Italian.
You should listen to Vulgar Latin wich I doubt someone speaks it in the modern age.
Its also influenced by turkish/persian because of the ottoman empire
@@AnoNym09878 i dont think so
@@scottpascal3099 Actually vulgar Latin was not a language but a variety of different dialects and slangs.
She has a big Quebec accent and for people who doesn't speak French it's the hardest accent to understand, the Romanian guy was going to have easier to understand if it was a French or a Belgian
@Finn MickCool I know I'm a French speaker but her accent is particularly difficult especially for foreign people French or Belgian accent would be quite easier
Lucas Cordaro yep no wonder it sounded so different she pronounced more words than usual which I knew right away French Candian #Caught
@@lucascordaro6634 I am a Romanian speaking French.
No, a native French speaker would have been harder to comprehend, they would speak too "harsh" for us and the difference in accentuation will definitely hinder the understanding.
Please note that he repeatedly asks to read or to pronounce the word by each letter: we use almost the same letters for common (between French and Romanian) words. They didn't choose the word "water" :) In Romanian it would be "apa" and in French it would be "eau". Good luck to any Romanian to understand it :)
On the other hand, we have very many substantives common with French; very many verbs are different (simple examples: alerga - courir - to run; gindi - penser - to think; citi - lire - to read). This type of exercise would be insanely more complex if they would be having a conversation (2 people in one language, 2 people in another language, trying to understand). If I would have to compare to italian, again, very many common words. But me (and not only me), without studying italian or latin, nor living/visiting Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brasil I will understand maybe 10% of the spoken italian on the street (on tv is easier, their pronunciation is clearer) and about 20-30% written Italian. If we will translate this type of exercise to French, a Romanian without studying French will not understand most of the spoken or written French. Maybe we would understand 1%?
Son accent n'est pas purement québécois. Je pense qu'elle est plutôt un francocanadienne, de l'Ontario ou du Nouveau-Brunswich peut-être. Ses sons nasillards (en, on, in, un) sont vraiment très prononcés, même pour des Québécois.
@@atchoummette exactement, elle a un accès très prononcé. et qui est étrange même pour quelqu'un du Québec....
Her Canadian French is giving him a real hard time :))
Not really, her "mær" o "mar" is closer to Romanian "mare" than France French "mer."
@Potica Alexandru-Daniel and still most can't speak it properly anyway
I was wondering why she was saying her en as in
She is definitely not from an urban area. Her accent was very thick. No one speaks like this in Montreal or other large cities. (I'm from Montreal so it was pretty easy to tell). He would have had a better time if she had a Montreal or Quebec city accent
@Mike Hagarty this sort of French is not spoken by French people though
French from Europe is even more similar to romanian in the pronunciation...
A little beat im roumanian because is latin language
My advice: next time use a French speaker from France just because it makes it very difficult for people to compare when the vowel sounds in Canadian French are so different!!
Canadian accents worth as much as those from France, dumb ass.
No one said it doesn't. It's just a geographical detail, for example...As a Spanish speaker I understand much more Portuguese spoken in Brazil than in Portugal, even when both count. You dumb ass.
I agree.
I'm French and I laughed at the way she pronounced her first word. I was even more confused than Andrei
OUR mdrrrrrrrrrrr, maybe in Quebec they say it this way idk XD
Romanian is an amazing language.
French is an incredible language.
Not for me because I speak it, but French is for me 100% art ! where you from? 😅😂
Croatia :)
Ban Tsar Wow I love Croatia so much ! I always wanted to visit Hrvatski ! You are almost like us but Slavic 😂😂😂 And Serbs are also like us, but Slavic and true sweethearts ❤
Aww, thanks! I hope you do one day! 😀
I know it's very hard to do but I would really like to see romanian and aromanian.
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I don't think there are lots of Aromanians..
@@Cris-hd1wb not a lot but enough. I think you can find them if you deeply search them in Greece
Dragos Popovici Yes, but I don't feel like they are the most developed people....
@@Cris-hd1wb balkans have never been developed so it's not only about them...
French and Romanian are really similar and share much vocabulary in common due to our common Latin origin and due to the 19th century when Romanian started being very influenced by French, latinizing again the language. Even Bucharest, the capital of Romania used to be called “the little Paris of the east” because of its impressive architecture that can still easily be seen everywhere in its downtown! J’adore la langue française! 🇫🇷 Ador limba franceză! 🇷🇴
Da. Foarte adevarat. In sec XIX sa facut relatinizarea limbii prin scoaterea din dictionar de cuvinte slave și adaugarea de cuvinte italiene si franceze. De aceea seama italiana atat de izbitor cu romana și franceza la fel. Multi nu cunosc lucrurile astea. Plus că mai este și baza latină pe langa imprumutul intens de cuvinte din limbile infratite asa sa ajuns să avem un aport de 77% de cuvinte similare cu limba italiana
@@alexsamu3478 Nu este doar asta explicația. Este doar o mică parte din explicație.
Adevărul este mult mai profund și complex. Limba latină își trage rădăcinile din limba veche română, care este atât de veche încât cuvintele care par a veni acum din alte limbi, în special din slavă, greacă, turcă, etc., sunt de fapt influențe ale vechii limbi "române" in toate celelalte limbi. Majoritatea influențelor "latine" din celelalte limbi, în special în limbile germanice, slavone, nu vin propriuzis din latină ci din precursoarea ei, limba "română" ancestrală. Populațiile vorbitoare a acestei limbi ancestrale au migrat de-a lungul malului nordic mediteranean precum și în multe alte direcții.
Iată deci, o posibilă explicație logică a asemănării dintre albaneză și română de exemplu. Sau a vorbitorilor de vallader in Elveția, care reprezintă o rămășiță a acestor populații de păstori valahi. Dealtfel în întreaga europă găsim rămășițe din aceste populații ce provin din păstorii valahi (valoni, welch, welches). Mai apoi limba a evoluat în direcții diferite, pe de o parte actuala limbă română si pe de altă parte latina și de aici franceza, italiana, spaniola, portugheza care sunt limbi latinice, foarte înrudite cu româna actuală și cea veche - bunicuța lor! Evoluția a fost asemănătoare cu multe intersecții, una fiind cea de acum 2000 de ani cu romanii iar alta e cea menționată de tine - care s-a petrecut în cunoștință de cauză a celor de atunci (istorici și lingviști care cunoșteau prea bine adevărul istoric).
@@travelinformationbyaxister8091 Exact, frumos explicat, o influenta minora, ci nu majora cum se mediatizează...a fost atunci când cei de la putere au vrut sa explice ca limba noastră a fost de fapt in mare parte influențata de limbi precum franceza, italiana, etc...A fost intentional, ca apoi sa se legitimeze precum ca limba noastră este o limba noua si fondata pe baza limbilor latine si slavice din jur...Daca luam in considerare si istoria mincinoasa scrisa tot de ei, putem vedea usor intentiile, numai ca istoria adevarata se poate gasi si azi in unele carti, la fel si adevarul despre limba noastra veche care de fapt a influentat toate limbile din Europe si nu numai...Cum Rușii au fost conduși de bolșevici...si noi am fost si încă suntem controlați de același grup de indivizi care nu au radacini romanesti... Acest grup de indivizi, sarlatani...se bucura imens când vad roadele "muncii" lor in timp...de exemplu, acest Rares...spălat pe creier...
Interessante, não sabia isso
E lefranse te bay nesans a lang'm ! Anpil ane yo apre...
French is different then other latin languages. The pronunciation is like the germanic language.
Read is easy, listen is hard
Well, if one speaks French, nothing is difficult...It is pretty difficult to learn, but when it is learnt, it is both spoken and understood perfectly.
It is easy if one speaks French, I speak it, so it is easy for me.
Listening is only hard because of the speed in which people speak and the slang they use. Listening to an audio book or material recorded for learners is ten times easier than reading it, at least for me. The spelling of that language is, if you aren't used to it, NUTS and makes reading considerably harder. Étais, était, étaient...all pronounced the same and like they should just be spelled étè.
French has a more Germanic R than say, Italian, but it's not like a Germanic language. I'd say German is ten times easier to read and write than French though it's much harder to speak. English spelling too is nuts, but I'm just used to it.
Indeed, French doesn't sound Latin, but Germanic...
You can blame the Normans... their pronunciation became the prestige way of speaking in northern France
This video is super interesting, I did not know Romanian was so close to French! However, please consider differentiating Canada’s French from France’s French. The latter is much closer to other romance languages (pronunciation-wise at least) than the former, that’s for sure... that girl’s pronunciation did not help him at all. The way she said « ours » and « vent » was very misleading (even for a native speaker). Keep it up :)
Romanian is one of the 5 romance languages. It shares similar words with the other 4.
@@unnemernic6936 5 MAJOR Romance Languages, there are abou 35 existing Romance Languages
@@papalupa cool, did not know that, literally first time I'm hearing about it. You live, you learn, I guess.
@@unnemernic6936 sorry I might have been read as condescending but it wasn't my intention, I learn things online too, glad to help.
Should've had European French speaker, not quebecois. It's off compared to European French and Romanian is European so it would be closer. For example when she's saying "vent" she says it like a European French speaker would say "vin" (whine). You notice how he immediatly picked up on it when it's spelled out and then the Romanian version "vânt" of the word wind is pronounced exactly like the European French pronunciation of "vent". Basically he would have it easier with European French, hearing her speak those French words even I, who can understand French fine, had to listen twice.
no, when she says VENT, it is on point. A lot of French speakers of France pronounce the sounds IN and EN almost as if it was the same sound....
Québécois is more accurate with its vowels. In France it’s all just en en en but in Québec we differentiate un in an en.
@@thatcherdonovan8138 I think in Quebec what you done with French is the same what US done with English, with different words you modify the language how you like it . In school how they teach you regarding IN and EN?
@@eleonorer.6861 you pronounce vent with an "ong" sound, and vin with a "a|n" sound... Idk where did this woman in the video learned her French lol
Ionuț-Claudiu Vasilescu that false, the french quebecois is just more similiar tho the Middle French, that why this is different
I'm american but family comes from Romania and took I French in high school. Such a cool video. Love Andrei 😍❤
Heeey, thank you so much for making a Romanian and French similarities, big love
I want to thank you for featuring Canadian French, as it is important for the world to realize that French-Canadians are also native French speakers. In fact, the Quebec of Canada is home to the second largest native French speakers in the entire world!! This is important for the global community to understand, because some people say French-Canadians aren't really speaking French or aren't native speakers because of their accent and the way they pronounce some words, but that's like someone from England saying a native English speaker from Canada or the United Sates isn't "really speaking English" or "isn't a native speaker". So thank you again and I hope the world recognizes this very important native French speaking community!
@Dunkirk United People from Québec sound nothing like an american trying to speak french. It's called an accent... Same way british, australian & american people have different accents, which are all valid. The way quebecers speak french doesn't make it any less french/valid.
@Dunkirk United And i'm from Montreal, Quebec so I definitely know what i'm talking about. You're just not familiar with the accent... In montreal our accent is less thick & more metropolitan than the rest of Quebec but nonetheless, they sounds nothing like an american trying to speak french.
@Dunkirk United Oh please, you're exaggerating! There are A LOT of frenchies(from France) in Montreal and we understand each other just fine. The same way that Brits, Aussies & American have significantly different accents and have different vocabulary words, so do we and we still understand each other.
As someone who isn't used to Québécoise, it just didn't sound like "native French". That doesn't make it any less valid, of course.
Actually I think Canadian French maintains some features of old French. Like pronunciation and using tu as a particle (If I'm not wrong, in old French, tu was ti and no, tu as a particle isn't the personal pronoun tu. When I started learning French, I thought it was xD)
Uploaded on my birthday; a great birthday present! Thank you as always.
Same as always the best video you have created, great job Baharor jan
Superb!!! Iar sfârșitul este extraordinar, cât de drăguț. Pupici.
Knowing Latin, this was stupid easy.
En español:
Oso // ro: Urs // fr: Ours
Mar // ro: Mare // fr: Mer
Cantar // ro: Cânta // fr: Chanter
Dormir // ro: Dormi // fr: Dormir
Plata // ro: Argint // fr: Argent
Lobo // ro: Lup // fr: Loup
Viento // ro: Vânt// fr: Vent
Luz // ro: Lumina // fr: Lumière
Lluvia // ro: Ploaie // fr: Pluie
Pesadilla // ro: Coșmar // fr: Cauchemar
Amigo // ro: Amic // fr: Ami
Todo // ro: Tot // fr: Tout
Hoy es martes // fr: Aujourd'hui ç'est mardi
Este árbol es verde // ro: Acest pom e verde
Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez // ro: Unu, doi, trei, patru, cinci, șase, șapte, opt, nouă, zece // fr: Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix
*aujourd'hui c'est mardi
In Romanian you could also say "Acest arbore e verde."
Este arbol es verde / fr: Cet arbre est vert ;)
Plata in romanian is used for "payment" and argint for "silver"
This goes around for a lot of other words, so basically if you speak one of the romance languages, with a bit if intuition or imagination, you can figure out basic sentences in the other languages.
@@roibu1160, in romanian it's PLATĂ, not PLATA. It's not the same thing. Just a coincidence.
Beautiful languages, great job Bahador 💙👍🏼
I've been waiting for ages for you to make this one. My language ( romanian) and my school language ( french ).
Great job Bahador!!
As a Romanian, I got everything because I saw it written. Except for chanter. It just didn’t come to mind that it could be cânta because it sounds so different. Everything else, though.
-Vlad- -tepeS- Cool. Pozdrav iz rumunije.
-Vlad- -tepeS- Здраво пријатељи!Свиђа ми се српски !
@@z0ranz0ran i ja isto,ali isto. Iz Srbije sam,u skoli sam ucila osam godina francuski,a rumunski naucila preko kablovske dok sam jos mala bila
@@thatboiryqn Bună din serbia!
You just have to switch (almost) every french word which comes with a sh- sound to k- sound, and you're on track !
Château = castel, etc.
Yaaay finally another Latin language
Romanian and French both came from latin languages, which means Romance languages. It is natural that these two are quite similar.
Yeeey!!! Thank you Bahador for this video :)
Elle prononce "vent" comme "vin" ou "vain", j'imagine que ça se prononce comme ça au Québec...
Yolson Son accent me stresse ils auraient dû préciser que c’est le français canadien et non pas le français de France mais tant pis
C'est l'accent acadien et non québécois. Il n'y a pas que le Québec qui parle français au Canada.
Ça ne ressemble pas l'accent québécois
I speak romanian and i fully understood what you just said
Salut. Eu stiu spaniola si ma descurz in romana si in franceza. Imi place limba franceza dar recunosc ca prefer limba romana. Desi nu stiu de ce. Romania este Romania pentru mine. O iubesc si iubesc limba, bineinteles. Dar nu ganditi rau. Nu urasc limba franceza. :D
Salut. Je suis espagnole, je parle espagnol et je me debrouille en francais et en roumain. J'aime le francais mais je reconnais et je dois reconnaitre que je prefere le roumain. Je ne sais pas pourquoi. Mais ne pensez pas mal. Je ne deteste pas le francais. :D
Peut-être parce que français est un peu difficile à prononcer. J’ai appris le français car ce sonne bien
Entendí todo que dijiste en rumano porque estudio tu idioma creo que para los rumanos les pasa lo mismo que para los hispanohablantes el francés cuesta entender si no te has expuesto mucho al idioma porque no es lo mismo como se escribe en francés que como se habla y eso dificulta mucho pero es un lindo idioma.
Please try and do a mashup of the Iberian romance languages (i.e. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, etc.) :) and maybe an outlier with them like Basque.
Catalan is not ibero romance is gallo romance
fantastic video as always!! keep up the great work and congrats on the happy and beautiful family
Thank you ❤❤
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Really cute video, genuine people.
French influenced Romanian a lot, especially thr literature.
I can understand French if I see it spelled but also because I speak Italian as my third language. I work in Italian and also studied some Portuguese too. ALSO tried a lot of Slavic languages thus I can say that Romanian is a unique mixture of influences from all the countries.
A MESSAGE TO MY ROMANIANS:
LIBERTÉ, FRATERNITÉ, MUIE PSD!
@@Cris-hd1wb Your name though....
Il rumeno che ama l'italiano My gosh no way 😅😅😅😅
@@Cris-hd1wb oh you little 🔝
What to say to a Romanian so you win his heart: "MUIE PSD". :))
@@Ben-ox6sk indeeed
In Romania we learn french in school,what would you have done if Andrei knew french? Invite other Romanian?
I know other Romanians who do speak French, so yes, I would have tried to find another person if Andrei spoke French, but he doesn't which makes him a great candidate!
I don't know a lot of persons that were able to speak French with the acknowledge from school! If you really want to learn a language you have to do it yourself, and so I did !
While the way schools teach languages is pretty ineffective, someone who had a few years of French lessons would likely have recognized some of these words. Even if he couldn't say more than "Bonjour".
Although a lot of people have complained about the girl's accent, I could understand what she was saying. I'm not a French native speaker, but someone who lived in France and has been speaking the language ever since. So, I couldn't understand why the guy was not able to realise the connection or even a slight similarity if he were (is) a native Romanian speaker. For me, they have to find another Romanian native speaker next time.
This video gave me such a warm fuzzy feeling seeing people with roots thousands of kilometers apart yet having casual conversation in 3 different languages. We truly live in the best time humanity has had.
not if you are romanian and the whole europe denys your identity and affiliates us with the gypses ( the largest minority in romania )
@@georgianageorgiana2575 The largest minority is Hungarian nevertheless, at 7%. Gypsies are 3%.
Romanian is just Beautiful 😍
👋🏻😂 thanks
@@da-eu what's the thanks for? do you have a personal contribution to any language? nationalism at its "best" (I'm Romanian)
@@useresu301 Of course she has a personal contribution to the languages she speaks. That's how languages appear, evolve and die - through the collective contributions of all those who speak them. (Also, she was just being nice, so no need to be a jerk).
Oh yeah this is the frustration with french. All those weird sounds that make no sense and words that sound 98% similar but mean different things.
The pronunciation of French maybe makes it a bit challenging for Andrei to catch the French words (Unless she spelled it), and with the silent letters, liaisons, etc. But the most challenging thing for me when learning French is the Verb conjugations, sometimes there is not any pattern at all, and you have to remember it all. Oui, Français est très difficile pour moi.
I’m french and I also have dificulties with the French conjugaison !
In fact her accent (canadian french i guess) made it a bit harder for Andrei, for example the first word "ours", the "s" should be pronounced. The other words were also pronounced quite differently from "standard" french pronounciation.
Her pronunciation makes it even harder. Quebec French speakers have a very thick accent, even as a native French speaker I sometimes have to make an effort to understand some things they say.
When she was just saying words thought it was a southern France accent (especially the word "vent" it sounded close to southern France accent yet a bit different), but when she said a whole sentence it looked like canadian french to me. And i can't think of other french speaking country with a white people majority (Switzerland and Belgium are so close to France's accent.) If you are from Quebec i think i should take your word for it but i'm still curious what accent is that.
After the simple present, the next few seemed simpler as they were based on it. Then came the conditional..then the subjunctive. Which HAUNTS me. My least favorite ones are the ones that sound the same but are spelled different. I'm looking at you, être in imparfait.
Awesome video! It really puts light on how phonetic the Romanian language is, which would explain why Andrei (Romanian speaker) was finding it a bit challenging to guess the words without seeing the actual word whilst Jackie (French speaker) wasn’t.
Again, love your videos guys and your baby is superrr cute. She looks a lot like Shahrzad!!! Alla ykhallia (~ God keeps her safe - in Lebanese arabic)
Nice video, make it longer next time, I cant have enough of languages 😆
Unu-Une
Doi-Deux
Trei-Trois
Patru-Quatre
Cinci-Cinq
Sase-Six
Sapte-Sept
Opt-Huit
Nouă-Neuf
Zece-Dix
You got the Nines wrong. It's the other way around.
@@moisepicard3417 You are right I will change it right now
Gheorghiță Al Sunculiței I thought ‘one’ is ‘un’ in French
Finn MickCool yes but in this case it’s an indefinite article like ‘a’ and ‘an’ in English
One is un in French, une is the feminine. In Romance Languages (at least the Western, I don't know much about Romanian) masculine is always standard.
Romanian again yeees!! Would love to see Romanian and Turkish!
I love these videos!
Should've been called "Similarities between Quebecois and Romanian" I was thrown off with "Ours" (Romanian Urs) because here in France, the s is pronounced. I thought I just didn't hear it properly, and then with mare/mer, I realized it was indeed North American French (Quebecois and Cajun) 'er' on a strong syllable is pronounced like ar is Spanish, or even more like in Catalan "mar" (which is also an older French spelling/pronunciation).
At the end they mentioned the words for "apple" and "tree". One mustn't forget that words narrow down on their meaning as synonyms take on the general meaning. French "pomme" is a word which used to mean "fruit" but the Latin word "fructus" took over the general meaning while pomme became apple. By the way the same thing happened with apple with the arrival of Norman French nobility/aristocracy in England during the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Norse already gave up their North Germanic tongue when settling in what became Normandy and weren't going to give up their adopted Language for North Sea West Germanic just because they relocated (they Imposed Norman on the court, and vocabulary penetrated the language of the commoners) at least not until their rivalry with the French Kings and need of the support of the English people to fight the French (previously latinized, though it took awhile, Germanic Franks under similar conditions).
FR "arbre" = RO "arbore"
RO "pom" similar to FR "palmier" which has a top called "palme", and the palm of the hand = paume pronounced almost like Romanian "pom", by the way the Romanian word for palm tree is the French word palmier.
TsalagiAgvnage very interesting! we also have the word “poame” which means fruit, but it is rarely used, you can find it in older texts, we use “fructe” for fruit
@TsalagiAgvnage loved seeing your username! (BlackCherokee
That was a very good video, proud to see some Romanians on the Internet.
Hello Bahador
I know it's not easy to organize such videos and i admire your channel but do you think that you could make a "similarities between Polish and Russian ?" It would be really interesting thank you take care of yourself you are doing great ! I never miss your videos
Thank you so much!! That's a great idea and I'd love to. I'm planning on doing more Polish and other Slavic videos, so hopefully I can organize a day and time to have Polish and Russian participants together! Have a great day!
Thank you for replying this fast and for your interest ! I am sorry to reply late but hopefully it is not a big deal. Thanks a lot. Take care
I love your channel, Bahador.
Thank you :)
I brought myself here after I realized how much I could very roughly “understand” from a favorite actor of mine speaking Romanian as a French student of (currently) 4 years. Fascinating! Though the French speaker had an interesting accent, not what I’m used to (I’m learning standard/Paris French) and might have changed the results slightly then. I could guess Lumina correctly because I also read over things about Rome/the Latin language too, so knowing the “grandfather” language is also helpful : > “Tot” was interesting though, I thought of it as the French world for “early” (tôt)
My mother tongue is Romanian and I really think that it is a beautiful language with Latin roots. If I read something in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese or French, I can understand the main idea of the text.
My native language + my second language = Beaucoup de bonheur pour moi ! Also the pronunciation makes it a little difficult, she understands easily, but for him it's harder. And people say Romanian is very weird 😂❤
Good video once again.
`Dormir` is also used in Portuguese and spanish.
🇫🇷French
🇷🇴Romanian
WHAT THE HECK IN RUSSIAN NIGHTMARE IS "КОШМАР" (CASHMAR)
Neur α
It is... Well, being surrounded by Slavs it makes sense...
french has 20% frank( german ) influence in the vocabulary and accent! even the Name of the langauge FRENCH IT MEENS FREE MAN IN FRANKISH!!!
Кошмар also in serbian mean nightmare.
It's borrowed from French (or so they say) but it goes deeper than French, all the way back to Proto-Indo-European.
@Maritha Svetlana Bella 99 ???
Thank you for turning into reality one of my humble requests from a previous video. I just subscribed to this cool channel.
By The way, I do not understand the reference to Albania from the description. Peace.
Thank you for watching! I try to make all requests a reality if I can, and try to prioritize the requests on Instagram since there are a lot of comments on CZcams so I can miss a lot of them. Oh and thank you for the correction, that was a typo in the description, I've fixed it! :)
I understood quite easily at the beginning, though some words were much closer to latin. I just got those words after thay said what it was, for example: Rain. We don't say like it , but when we say something about rain in geography it gets closer: Índice pluviométrico (rainfall index). Btw, I'm a portuguese speaker.
In Sicilian Lenguage:
1) "Ura" (Hour)
2) "Mari" (Sea)
3) "Cuntari" (Sing)
4) Dormiri (Sleep)
5) Zirru (Silver)
6) Lupu (Wolf)
7) Chioggia (Rain)
8) Cumpari (Friend)
9) Tutti (All)
World N.1:"Doppu luniri vegnu martiri".
World N.2:"Òi è martiri".
World N.3:"Un puma virdi e strinu".
Μου αρέσει τα βίντεό σας! Θέλω να δω περισσότερα ελληνικά ;) Ευχαριστώ
I am in love with Andrei, he's got such a positive personality
Very interesting video !
Could you please do the same video with a person of France'( exept the south of France) ?
Is this Canadian French?
Yes she is clearly a native French speaker from Quebec! Quebecois French is still French.
She sounds like someone who probably went to French immersion school in Canada but speaks more English than French.
@@mchobbit2951 Well, to me, she has a genuine Québécois accent, an English native speaker is easy to spot.
Maybe not necessarily an English native speaker but definitely someone who uses English more than French in her life now. You are generally right about them being easy to spot--usually by their r and e's, but some who have less obvious accents actually sound pretty close to her.
She is not a real french canadian, I think she is more "Anglophone" (in french). Because the french canadian is really different
In French, you pronounce ours with the "s", what's going on?
The girl is not French...
Great video, you should do this comparison for the Romanian and Serbian languages:)
Wtf we have no comparasion with serbian lmao now what romania have all comparasion from all the languece from world what a stupid guy
The S in Ours is pronounced in French, maybe she is from Quebec but in France it is oo-r-ss. EDIT: Just continued watching, she is definitely Canadian :)
Romanian/french x Portuguese
Romanian and Portuguese
Note how easily Andrei got it AFTER the word is spelled out. Thats what makes French such a departure from the other romance languages , with all the letters you don't pronounce - lol. I likewise find it easy to understand in written form but so difficult when spoken.
Good video! btw i wanted to mention that when i first watched a video including french, the girl speaks french-canadian, its hard to understand her xD french(france) is way easier to understand
Yes, she is speaking Québécois accent, and it's very cute. I wish the other French speakers would stop putting down Québécois!!
@@louisfisher614 im saying it's just hard to understand. Like when she said Ours, she had to pronounce the S. And when she said Vent. It sounded like va
What is wrong with making it more challenging by including Québécois accent? I think it is fascinating and not something you find anywhere else in the net
+@@Michelhyk I agree, I know French but given her pronounciation I would have had a hard time as well and I definitely wouldn´t have recognizied her "va" for "vent"
Ce tare... Sunt Român!
Bravo,cum ai descoperit? bine ca nu esti turc!..
@@alexalexy1809 ^_^
Next one Turkish and French please there are about 6200 common words(not joking)
I love that he compares many languages but, there is a visible ackwardness between them. Overall, good idea.
Gooood!
Similarities between hindi and arabic!
i just realised that comparing romanian to french is hilarious because the french drop half the letters, while in romanian every letter gets pronounced, e.g. the romanian word "ploaie" --> you actually say each of the vowels... the french would never ahaha
Well of course romanian is similar to Spanish because they are two real latin languages, Spanish is influenced by arabic
French for me it's the least latin of all romance languages, why? Because it differs a lot from the Latin common root, pronounciation is extremely different and it resembles Germanic languages such as German and English, so you can note the Germanic influence at least in the pronounciation
@Heyo German didn't influence French. French influenced French.
alejandro alex9990 Yes, it's different, but because of the Celtic origin! Us Romanians also have a Dacic-Thracian origin, but it disappeared in the language ! And actually French influenced German and English more, not the opposite! 27% of English is from French 🤦♂️
@@Cris-hd1wb well of course french influenced english but french has germanic influence as well
alejandro alex9990 Yes, Romanian also does ! I feel like Romanian has words from every language possible😅😅! We have from Slavic, German, Greek, Hungarian and Turkish, in this order :)
You don't know Romanian also
Romanian was influenced more by ”Balkan language area”-Old Thracian-Dacian, from Slavs came some words, basic grammar, vocabulary are Latin
When she forgot 6, i went back like 3 times because it went from cinq to sept and I was so confused
cute babyyyy at the end, congratz to the parents!
Please, French and Catalan or Romanian and Serbian/Croatian :)
Yay, it would be great ! A already know some words in common 😁
I want to watch a video with French and Catalan. People say they're very similar
@@mep6302 As I know they are part of the same group, right ?
Romanian and Serbian/Croatian please 👍👍
The two beautiful languages are so similar❤
I love Jackie! She's so cute and funny 😂
She speaks Canadian French, I feel like it would've been easier for him if she was actually French.
If you want to have good knowledge of French, you need to understand different accents. Yes it's Québécois and Québécois are the 2nd largest native French speakers, and it is a very beautiful accent. Why must other French speakers be so rude and arrogant to always put down Québécois accent?
@@louisfisher614 all I wanted to say is that France's accent might have been closer in pronunciation to Romanian than the Canadian one.
For example when she said "our" and he said "ours" these two words are literally the same in France's French.
Also I'm allowed to have preferences, Canadian French sounds a little bit odd to me. Still I respect all cultures equally.
lauren sacks
Ok, fair enough! I respect. But I think it is not nice when some people in Francophone tell oh you are Québécois oh get out that is not French
Yea because most of the word that she prounounced sounded not correct when she said " vent " I though that she was trying to say " vin " so... well I don't want to offence French canadian speakers, but your prounounciation is not the same with European which made this poor guy looking for hard what word could it be.
Ce tot aveti cu românii ??
Pom in Romanian specifically refers to trees that bear fruit, so the words "pom" and "pomme" are likely related.
You have to do this with a french speaker from France because the french of quebec is very different.
"La mar"? Why does this French speaker pronounce "a" instead of "e"? Is she from Quebec? In France they say "La mer".
+Dibujo de Croquis So I am not alone with this, I am a German who learned French at school ( le lycee ;-)) and I was surprised by her pronounciation of words like " la mer", "vent", "argent" - quite different from what I am used to when hearing French people speak
Canadian French.
But Jackie has a very strong accent ! I think she’s from canada, right ?
yes, but she seems to come from an english part of Canada.
Friend in Romanian is prieten. Amic is used not so widespread. Maybe in other Romanian regions but in the South we say all the time prieten. Amic is like a slang word.
As someone who is a native English speaker who is studying French, I am happy to say that I understood about 85% of both 💜💜
I never realised how similar French and Romanian are. Thank god i picked French for my gcse’s.
Latin power
I’m French and I’ve never heard "ours" being pronounced this way in my life. We do always pronounce the letter "s" at the end of the word
Also the sea one... It's "la mer" not "la mar" ...
@@Dobreasabina In the past we used to say « mare » to mean « sea » in french, because « mare » means « sea » in latin
How sweet in the end. This girl has lots of aunties n uncles from all ower the world. But the Romanian guy was freaked out by the baby. 🤣
Do Romania with Serbia/Croatia !!
Romanian and Turkish ? Please ? xD
Sure, I definitely plan on it! For any future suggestions, could you please reach us on Instagram. Thank you :)
There are a lot of similarities between French and Romanian, that’s pretty cool !!