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"Incorrect ways that became correct because too many people were saying it wrong."
Congratulations, Paws, on defining the entire field of linguistic evolution.
Fair enough 😅
Well that also happen in America. When newspapers started to dropping things like "colour" to "color" to save on prints. And basically America went "yeah whatever" and added it to dictionary.
@@zerlichr426tbf that came about before the standardisation of spelling due to the Industrial Revolution.
and then you have some rare instances where they'll remove a way a word is allowed to be said, so the way you said a word yesterday is now considered grammatically wrong
@@NewYorxer or completly change the way word is interpreted by common use. well mostly known one is Flinstone one.
Romanian is the proof that anything feminine has to be extra complicated for whatever reason.
That's because in the eyes of romanian men, women are complicated. ❤
I think we know the reason
@@MindbenderTTV In the eyes of any man, women are complicated. Romanians appear to have quantified it.
So like all women?
@@Ryaurezh no its because in patriarchal cultures men and maleness are seen as the default and women are seen as “others” but aight whatever you like to think (yes i am romanian)
As a romanian I suggest you not try learning romanian because you will question your existence (jokes aside, you will have a hard time with gramatics and literature :)....... but if you want to learn it so bad....... Good luck!
It can't be harder than Ukrainian or Polish... right? Please tell me it's not.
Is it that hard? 🤔
@AlexAguilar-ol3qo If you just want to understand basic words and stuff it is not that hard but if you want to get deeper, then it will get hard.
I think i will stay with speaking polish
@@therealshadow8811 ah ok then 👍
Learning French is easy. Getting the French to admit that they can in fact understand you is not.
Oh no that is easy. If they refuse to speak french or english with you just speak german. Works every time
@@cantinadudesBest story I heard was a US diplomat who pretended to speak French with a thick Swedish accent. Suddenly, the French people he spoke to knew English!
So, a uni guy told me about his pal who was learning Chinese. Pal walked up to Chinese exchange students abd said a few words, they did not understand. He repeated, they did not understand. He wrote it and finally they said "Ah! You meant this!" I still can't recall whether dude's pronunciation was off (possible) or whether he spoke in "mainstream Chinese" to ppl who spoke a particular regional variant. Btw the French boonies super regional dialects are often not understood by 99% of the population. At most some words trickle down into mainstream French of the region where the dialect is spoken.
French, if spoken with an Italian accent is considered comedy. They'll assume you are a clown. Spoken with an English English accent it is considered an annoyance. Spoken with an American English accent it is considered both annoying and loud, you will be assured to be both deaf and brain damaged. Spoken with a German accent it is assumed to be an order.
learning french isn't easy, and we can understand you even with a heavy accent, we have tons of regional accents (marseillais, hood accent, chti accent, belgian accent, foreign accents, dialectal accents from old origins and regions etc) and we're (for the most part) happy that other people struggles to learn our language even if it is quite complicated (women in general find it cute too)
This might sound strange,but most romanians dont even know the rules,they just know from memory to use them
That's how most slavic languages work
That works for every native speaker of any language. Finnish is the hardest language on earth, but to a native Finn, it's as easy as breathing. Because they understand the rules intuitively from birth.
This is how I learned English. Instead of sitting down and learning grammatical rules from textbooks, I just read a lot of visual novels and watched youtube videos and from them I deducted the rules.
I wanted to unalive myself every time we started doing grammar in school
@@tiborklein5349 i learned most of my english from minecraft,i swear school was almost usless for me
Congrats on being the vtuber that represents our country! No pressure
Hey, that's Romania-chan. She's doing a great job, wouldn't dream to steal it from her 🥰
@@pawsvtuberwait... Is that a thing!?
@@Fuxy22 Not officially recognized or endorsed by the country, but yes, there is a vtuber creator going by the name of Romania-chan. She's an artist and pretty cool person from what I can tell 👍
Also there's that Vee guy, but he's more politics as well as being a trollvtuber
@@pawsvtubergotta subscribe to her. It's an blood obligation
I took latin classes in high school. I don't remember a damn thing about it, but I do remember one thing the teacher said about French.
He said "French is basically Latin... If you threw it in a blender with a bunch of extra letters."
Now, I can't confirm if this is true, but I can say I think it's funny lol
I can confirm the blender bit at least, I failed French when I was a kid and I grew up in Romania...
Nah, more like Latin was thrown into a blender, and then they tried to get a drunk English to pretend to be Latin so nobody would notice...
it is true, french is latin with spanish in a blender and they tried and then failed to remove the spanish
I had latin in school at that was already quite challenging, then i had a year of french and i begged to have latin back
I never got latin back
@@cantinadudes oh Latin is easy if you know Romanian it is just tricky because sometimes the words mean different things even though they are similar to the Romanian ones...
I acknowledge that Romanian is a difficult language to learn, but that just makes me want to persevere and learn it anyway. 👍
It's a fun language, good luck in your studies!
The only confusing thing about Romanian is the regionals. You want to get a watermelon and you find yourself with the words: "pepene roșu", "harbuz" , "lubeniță" and "zlămos"😅
Huh, we have гарбуз (gharbuz) in Ukrainian for watermelon
Edit: I'm debil, it's for pumpkins😅 i grew up with both Ukrainian and Russian around me so I sometimes mix words up, cuz in Russian арбуз (arbuz) is watermelon😂 fun
You'll get by with only pepene rosu, regardless of where you go in Romania. For one i've never heard of "zlămos" or "harbuz"
If you’re in northern Italy you’ll ask for an anguria. If you’re anywhere else, especially near Rome, you’ll be looking for a cocomero. I feel ya 😂
@@Spaxder2 Se spune în regiunea moldovenească
Hey, we have lubenica in Serbian. I guess it's a word for watermelon in Banat?
I _thought_ I recognized your accent. My mother's side of the family moved from Bucharest to the United States during the Cold War. I'm US born and raised, but the history of Romania was something that was always of interest to me. I _used_ to be able to hold a conversation in Romanian when I was in my teens since I grew up around Romanian-speaking sitters. These days, I can only speak a handful of words.
Heck, I even have some Romanians as neighbors in Arizona.
Arizona? Interesting.
To my knowledge, there's a significant population of ethnic Romanians in the Rust Belt in the U.S.
Well you my friend should come back and visit your Motherland because it is good to see your roots, politics aside Romania is pretty cool tbh
@@Shiftinggers The majority of first-generation immigrants I've met from Romania have been in Chicago, when I was a child in the 1990s. It didn't occur to me I'd find others in the Southwestern US.
@@NewTypeDilemma01 Sounds about right. For some reason the vast majority of immigrants from Eastern Europe flocked to the Midwest
I wanna learn. Primarily because my father was Romanian, and after he died i just.. wanna know. Just to feel closer to him.
Good luck buddy, for an English-speaking person is insane. Is hard even for Italians, which are the closest to us. I guess is easier than Chinese? There's that...
Nah , I disagree I knew a Canadian that learned Romanian to gain citizenship and be an EU citizen, he proceeded to move to Danemark for college still talked Romania
Anyways there is the option of learning the language and then there is going on vacation in Romania to see the castles
good luck man
any language is good to know , ANY ! , dumb people will say not to learn it. Jut go for it !
making fun of romanian's word for sheep for being completely different singular vs plural when english's word for sheep doesn't even change is lowkey kinda hilarious
Yeah, well, one HUMAN -> many PEOPLE.
@@Mortablunt Human -> Humans
@@Mortablunt Isn't it one PERSON -> many PEOPLE?
@@tiborklein5349 It is, but my variant works for illustration.
Just remind them of the litany of irregular verbs in english :)
31:29 skill issue innit. If you die from Mona you're not worthy of her!
As a Romanian I am shocked to see we actually have vtubers from here. Not my cup of tea, but I respect everyone who tries to make a living.
Technically the channel Romanian TVee has a Vtubber character as well
We have two actually. Paws is bigger because she does it in english. But we have “Romania-chan” sadly she isn’t as recognized but she is a great artist and person
Bro's being spiteful. So he decided to go in blazing to anger every romanian ever
Yeah, as a Romanian I give him a pass. I know how hard it is to learn another language...
Look, he got to keep it entertaining for the romaines
I mean can't blame him
he is a hungarian so it fits perfectly
@@stariyczedun wait. He's hungarian? I always thought he's from Serbia
Romania isn't the capital of Italy, but it IS the capital of great food and music . . .
Good food? Probably true, though it might also depend on the region, good music ? *Repeatedly pressing X to doubt* Manele and Lautareasca i do not classify it as music, populară/folclor that's a different story all together,it is it's own thing.
@@darklordkageryuu As a Romanian I agree. (I hate "Manele" with a passion, it isn't real music.)
@@ELEC7ROyeah fr. I really don't know how to classify manele it's it's own thing really 😂
@@darklordkageryuu amen! F manele with a rusty fork !
@@darklordkageryuu nah, theres some insanely good music. Its just a shame that shitty music is extremly popular
No Hungary, you don't have squatter's rights over Transylvania!
just because Romania stole it on paper, the hungarians living there haven't vanished, just for you to know
@@Carmisoas a hungarian i would like to thank you for reminding him
@@Carmiso I don't think you understand what a 'squatter' means... except the owners where still home when Hungary did it.
@@Carmiso"""stole""" yes i put It in my bag and i stole It lmao, what and enormous amount of copium
Transylvania for vampires!
Me, watching this video, remembering that I was able to learn english grammar faster than I learned romanian grammar :))
bro that is so relatable
Romanian 4th graders > rest of this Godless world
the most frustrating one for me has to be that
Romanian "chi" is pronounced like English "ki"
and English "chi" is pronounced like Romanian "ci"
That's the easiest part though, compared to other stuff like grammar it doesn't event compare, you just memorize 2 pronunciations.
I'm french, and we have something even worse than words that you cannot gender easily : we have words that change gender depending on context or plurality :D
edit : wait, you have them too ? neat ! :D
Yes, Romanian neuter is basically masculine for singular and feminine for plural.
This is why I’m failing my French class
,,cocalari,, those who listen manele at max volume no matter where they are :))
Soft wiggly ears ❤
Paws... I know I'm a monolingual peasant, but I am attempting to comprehend your native language via this summary and- to reference Bloodbourne- I can FEEL eyes growing in the folds of my brain.
Your language is a hedge maze made of pixie dust, headaches, and gutural lovecraftian utterances that makes my spinal collumn twist itself into eldritch runes... or maybe furthark. It depends on the alignment of the constellations.
What in the name of sweet baby jesus is this language?!
Mad respect for being thenfirst person I know that's fluent in the tongue of Cthulhu. :P
Oh! you could play this up with a lovecraftian horror model you occasionally slip into lovecra- I mean Romanian tongue with.
It's not THAT bad 🤣
Oh yeah. To be honest I don't really understand my language either I just know how to speak it 😂
When you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes back , when you turn your sight away the abyss remains within you.
With enough practice of speaking tongues, even fools can speak it fluently.
And you might wanna recategorize the language, as while we have the Black Sea Cthulhu isn't as influential as the people held to the mountains so you could say it's the language of Zamolxis where battle dragons had the head of a wolf and body of a snake the sword was a reverse katana or a hand sickle and was of iron
@fbiman9643 in all fairness, English is like that too, but part of that is because English is a linguistic bandit mugging other languages for their vocabulary, which leads to an obscene number of exceptions to the rules English purports to have.
*_Throws Polish at you_*
14:19 OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
15:20 To be fair, stealing copper wires from your neighbor IS an ancient gypsy tradition.
As a fellow Romanian, i can confirm 7th grade Latin is easy as shit because you don't do shit in Latin class xD like when you get to actually learning Latin it's a lot more complicated but 7th grade Romanian Latin class is a fucking joke.
Lmao we had the same teacher for latin and romanian so guess what we did instead of latin
We either did romanian or maths 😂 or anything that’s not latin 😂
We actually had to study grammar, but it was in 10th or 11th grade 😅
im literally learning Romanian as we speak lol
Good luck 🥳
Good luck bro, welcome to The darkest pit of The grammatical hell!
@@krauss025at least it isn’t Hungarian…
Good luck my guy
My search is finally over, i finally found a Romanian vtuber, another bucket list task done 😂
as a romanian i must say i never knew we had fukin vtubers......
We have Romania-chan too...
@@fortificationenjoyer1919 Vine cu tuica autentica ?
@@AnnubiSFTW dar eu vroiam pălincă:(
When he said Transilvania said should go to Hungary I was like "I want to impale him" as how Vlad Tepes did to ottomans, aka Dracula
I'm Romanian and I learnt English at 8 almost perfectly and now I am 13 and still don't know my f****** language as good as I do English when I was 8
That's crazy bro 😮
Lmao true its gotten to the point where is sometimes translate from english to romanian. For example, instead of saying "Țin un discurs" i sometimes say " Dau un discurs"(giving a speech)
8:25 That cat picture caught me so offguard, was a perfect face with that syllable.
11:39 as a finnish speaker with this newfound knowledge, this is pretty amusing. In finnish "pula" is essentially "trouble", most often used in a form like "olen pulassa", "I'm in trouble".
Edit, man those noun cases are nuts, pretty cool though. We only have 15 different cases, 16 in some dialects, and those are pretty easily demonstrated with a word like "talo" in singular form.
Talo, a house
Taloa, (pointing at) a house
Talon, house's
Talon, (chose) a house
Talossa, (in) a house
Talosta, (from inside) a house
Taloon, (into) a house
Talolla, (at) a house
Talolta, (from outside) a house
Talolle, (to) a house
Talona, (as) a house
Taloksi, (turned into) a house
Talotta, (without) a house
Taloin (pl.), (by using) houses
Taloine (pl.), (along with) houses
As a person who is also a Finnish speaker the nouns are the easy part of Finnish language. The worst parts that I see people struggle with other than pronounciation is stem changing and words/sentences that are context driven. The most infamous case having become a meme with kuusi palaa.
Oh I forgot also affixes because Finnish is considered a heavily synthetic language and not analytical. But not quite enough to be a polysynthetic language so it makes sense.
4:57 Unless my untrained ears just didn't hear the sounds correctly, German has pretty much all of those.
And regarding Americans, I'm actually gonna defend them a bit and say that they probably struggle more with their English trained brains adapting to more phonetic spelling systems. They carry their Anglo instinct to reconstruct the pronunciation of a written word by guessing the sounds for the letters.
In German, they tend to struggle understanding umlaute, but it's not because they can't say the sounds. If you her them say "Merkel" or "Dirk" or "early", they can clearly say "Ö" for example, they just aren't used to having a consistent way to spell that. It makes them seem worse than they actually are, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was similar when they learn Romanian.
I could be wrong though since I don't speak a single word of it.
WAIT! That's so funny.
In Albanian, we commonly use two genders (female and male), but there are cases where two other forms are also used. So technically, Albanian now has four forms! 😂😂
In Albanian "Mal" which is mountain takes female characteristics in plural even though it is a male noun. [Male të larta] adjective for female.
A state of being like when you have [The cold]. In Albanian you may use "Të ftohtët" wich is referred as being [Neither side] noun. 😂😂
So you are the source of the gender multiplication, you are patient zero, tell the Americans the secret of stopping they are gonna end up with two unique genders for each person at this rate
And here's why you should learn Romanian and why I did "learn" Romanian. Back in the Garena days, Romanian Warcraft 3 server was the only one that didn't allow bot hosted maps, allowing you to actually find maps different than Dota, Legion TD, Battle ships and whatever else people spammed at that time. I got to the point where I was able to go through all of the pre-game chat fully in romanian, and only if they asked me something not about basic Warcraft stuff I needed to clarify that I do not actual;ly speak Romanian ^^ (sadly, all of that already flew out of by brain... If memory serves me right salut was a common greeting)
Yea we took it from French, but it is very common now
@@pasaniucdaniel4112 please censor fr*nch
I'm a Greek watching this vid and, whoo, this is hilarious!
Yes, in Greek we have a LOT of the same things, particularly the cases (and we have different ones depending on gender, yay!). As a Greek, it just 'makes sense' as to which gender I'll assign, but I can understand why someone else might look at it and go "you guys are either neurotic or just trolling". By which point, I'd show them ancient and "clean" Greek and go "haha, no, our ancestors were both neurotic and trolling us".
I will say, it made learning English (or any other language) that much easier. When you get used to the WTF-ery of languages like this, English seems easy. It's how I've learned English, French, German, Russian and now learning Japanese for a challenge (and even then, the only thing I find hard are kanji, the rest is hilariously easy).
I passed my French classes because I was the quiet kid, I don't know anything.
Me to
I grew up talking spanish and more or less downloaded english into my brain by reading video game magazines in the 90s, this is confusing the living hell out of me. I'm having more luck with interpreting Japanese from context at this point. All that said, languages are fascinating!
I agree that is why I'm learning blood, Navajo, nauatl and other indigenous American languages.
I can only imagine what the language of the great Paws will sound like combined with my southern Virginia accent.
We could pick easier or better sounding.
We picked better sounding.
Slovenian here:
It's super simple for us. For example, most singular feminine words end in "a" and none differ depending on number.
So, "Stol" (chair) and "okno" (window) are masculine, "miza" (table) and "miška" (mouse) are feminine.
Exceptions like the non diminutive "miš" (not as small, living mouse) are also feminine.
Gender is fine, no, instead we decided to add complexity to our counting.
We have singular, *dual* and plural, meaning there's a separate way to communicate exactly 2 of something
"Miška, miški, miške" or "stol, stola, stoli". There are some pretty consistent rules, at least.
Gonna be honest, when I first saw his video I thought that Romanian sounded pretty cool, and its psycho grammar is pretty appealing. I wonder if it will be easier (or harder) for me to learn it than him since I am a native Spanish speaker.
Anyway, funny reaction Paws. Once I saw that you made a video on it I knew I had to watch your take.
you will become very aware of how much of Spanish is Arabic, and how much of Romanian is Slavic. Not much in grammar, but very visible in the lexicon
@@pasaniucdaniel4112 I see. I have a question, since I am learning Russian before I get to Romanian, would that be of any help?
@@birddispensernot really. Under communism, Russian was taught in schools. But only the older generations kinda learned it. The younger ones speak mostly English as a second language. We’ve borrowed a few basic words from Russian (da = yes) but that’s about it. If I were to guess, we use more germanic words than russian ones (don’t quote me on this though).
For what it’s worth, a lot of the difficulty in learning Romanian is front loaded. That’s where the “vibe” thing in the video comes from. Romanians learn the language through experience and learn the rules in school later. By then we know most of the forms of words or at least have a feeling for them. Non-native speakers don’t have the years of exposure to the language, so learning all the rules at once has a steep learning curve. But after the initial period, things like sentence structure are not that strict.
@@birddispenser Not at all, I understand 0% whenever I hear Russian. But learning Romanian should not be that hard for you, there are plenty of Spanish natives that moved to Romania and speak Romanian almost without any accent. After a few years, of course.
@@RaduRadonys Oh, I see. I was just wondering since Daniel mentioned that it was more Slavic.
I am sure I will be fine, but the only thing that I think might stump me at first is the neuter gender. In Russian it seems pretty easy, just an extra one in addition to the 2 I am used to, not so bad. But having it just switch gender depending on singular or plural? I know for sure that I will get confused haha. At least my silly mistakes will hopefully make my teacher laugh.
I wanted to learn Romanian once... I think I might power through the pronunciation for singing (the diacritis are confusing me though, I can't figure out the hat, the upside down hat and the rounded upside down hat) but I'll probably give up on the rest. The only friend of mine who speaks romanian doesn't want to speak it with me anyway. So it would be hard to practice.
And as a native German speaker I have to say, Latin is a clusterfuck of grammar and I hated every second of the 4 years I had to study it.
Also, the funny gentleman made a mistake in the video. The Romanian neuter gender is not entirely unique to Romanian among the Romance languages. While it is the only one to give it the name of neuter gender, Italian has this phenomenon as well (the other languages, I'm not sure). Italians just don't call them neutral words. They slam them in with masculine & feminine words and will just teach you at some point "oh yeah, all these words, mostly body parts, are masculine in singular and feminine in plural." And yes, in Italian, unless a word ends in -e in singular, you can in at least 90% of cases immediately see what gender a word is. Words ending in -o are very likely masculine and words ending in -a are very likely feminine. Of course, there are exceptions, tho lol. Anyway, back to mixed gender words: arm in singular is il braccio and in plural it's le braccia. Eyelash: il ciglio becomes le ciglia. And so on.
German is a clusterfuck too in my opinion. Instead of having no rules and everything being random german has a rule for fucking everything. You'll have to add a -en to a noun because its fucking 16:45 on friday
@@tudytudy3316 😂😂😂 at least you have definitive rules to abide by xD well, unless it's determining the article of a word, then most of the time you have no way of knowing, you just have to memorize it. Which is why I'm glad I didn't have to learn German as a second language.
The diacritics are just different letters, don't think of them as diacritics, just new symbols for new sounds
Ă/ă is just the "uhhhh" sound in english
â/Î/î is a rarer sound, but it's like the sound in that trend: ew, brother ewww (â and î are the same sound but î is used at the beginning and end of the word and â is used in the middle, hence why capital  does not exist)
Ș/ș is just sh
Ț/ț is tz, or like the z in Pizza
Damn, and I thought Bulgarian was hard for foreigners... Are you OK, BRomania?
If you speak Russian, you're probably fine in the vocabulary department... When it comes to verbs however, you're fucked.
Hot take: it's not that Bulgarian or Romanian are hard for foreigners, it's just literally everything is hard for poor little English speakers
Funnily enough the Slavic influence in Romanian is mostly (but not exclusively) Bulgarian, so some things might sound similar, but we mostly took random words, and not much of the grammar.
@@pasaniucdaniel4112technically speaking, we do share grammar with bulgarians, romanian is part of the balkan sprachbund, meaning it shares a lot more than vocabulary with the other balkan languages, the article ending thing is shared with bulgarian and albanian, the să participle has equivalents in bulgarian, greek and colloquial serbian, and when it comes to syntax, you could take a sentence in any language and just swap the words and get an understandable sentence in the other language, with the minor exception of greek, because greek puts the article before the word like english, instead of at the end like romanian, bulgarian and albanian, or omitting it completly like serbo-croatian
Fun fact there is a romanian youtuber called “Bromania”
Fun fact: the living language closest to Latin is Sardinian, and it's pretty much for the same reason Icelandic is the closest to Old Norse.
WE GOT ROMANIAN VTUBERS???
As a romanian, we can all agree that we have the juiciest swears. 😂
da ba
20:12 because the conjunctive differs from the indicative only at the 3rd person and Janosz would have prefered it entirely identical...
12:21 ......That settles it. Romanian is the Futa-language! ^^'
As a romanian I can say that our language is so hard that even we can't speak or write it correctly
As a Moldavian, and considering that we have basically the same grammar, even I find some phrases shortening of Romanians confusing (to be fair mine too for them sound strange)
Maybe I forgot my school days, but when I first saw his video, for a good chunk of it I was looking like "why is this confusing" 😂
Btw, one of my foreign friends, when trying to learn Romanian, come with an interesting strategy "fell the sound, if it don't sound right then it's not from here. If it does sounds right, then even if it's wrong, people will understand u" witch is just hilarious to me)
fell the sound, no i get what you mean
36:33 live moment of an Romanian not escaping the thief stereotype XD.
As a romanian I will never studii again romanian after highschool
Paws: He hasn't even gotten to the COMPLICATED part of Romanian yet!
The rest of us, at this point utterly baffled: 😅😅😅😅
"N'are poza cu femeie, bihoreanul sa nu beie!" some comediants made a song about spirit mona, "if it does not have a label with a woman, the people from Bihor, don't drink it".
He also made a video about why you shouldn't learn Hungarian if you're interested.
I tried to learn Romanian btw, because I live 30 minutes away from the border. It was f***ing impossible. I struggled to pronounce the most basic words.
This reminds me of that scene in Life of Brian when the centurion is correcting Brian's latin grafiti... only with somehow even more complication as well as letters that don't exist in the roman alphabet.
Paws, one day you need to do a collab stream with our boy Vee, he's also a Romanian and has his own VTuber avatar of a troll. It would be an excellent and big brain conversation. Sort of.
23:30 Paws, as Janosz said earlier Romanian is the most powerfull of the romance languages (including Latin itsself)
and you have the priviledge of having Romanian as your native language that's why Latin seemed easy to you, but that's not the case for Janosz...
40 min of cute romanian cat girl giggling? Yes please
I mean, odd duck just means the odd one out, which fits with the fact that Romanian is disconnected from the other Romance languages and surrounded by Slavic languages.
Also, as an American who's only fluent in English, I find Asian, Germanic, and even Slavic languages easier than Romance languages. I mean, I passed French 1 in high school only because I'm good at mimicking pronunciation and because my mom was one of her favorite students ever (she was one of the oldest teachers in the district). She had retired by the time I got to French 2, and since they only offered French and Spanish at my high school, I ended up failing French 2 and Spanish 1 so many times that they let me graduate with only one of the two required foreign language credits.
I have to say, this guy's imitation of a Romanian accent sounds straight-up Italian when he's speaking English with it.
Ok, so looking up cocolar/cocalar, what I'm getting is that they're the Romanian equivalent of Russian gopniks or British chavs.
NO SHOT! Paws is a conational?! I never would've guessed ANY romanian human would ever be cultured enough to be an en vtuber. Yes I'm going to 100% make 'Ma duc sa-mi yaw gyatele' a thing.
Fun fact, he is Serbian. He knows all of this shit, but in another way, for an example we can Gender words based on how they sound while Romanian changes genders more than an influencer trying to use pronouns to chase clout
You're Romanian?! I have for the past 3 months of watching you, tried to crack the Da Vinci code that is your accent. I just find your voice to be so calming. Would love to get to know you better.
Yeah, I pegged her for Swedish or something similar...
Lol, so creepy
@@gabrielfrancisco4280 Yeah, like everything was fine until that last sentence.
@@izukamidoriya5514 yup, like wtf shes not gonna be your friend shes an entertainer
Buddy she is an entertainer not your fcking friend
I do find it interesting when he says an english speaker wouldn't get cases. we have them but it usually does not matter in everyday speech because nobody in america speaks english in completely proper grammar anyways. funny enough cases also are not too important in english writing unless you're writing an english dissertation. I had a highschool english teacher that was super strict about cases in writing. My college professor literally just said, "write in a way that does not make you sound like an idiot," and just hated word conjugations. TLDR: english cases exist but no one gives a shit.
Yeah they do exist but they have exactly the same form, that's why people don't care about them. For example: the man, of the man, to the man, man! etc, so it's always man.... While in Romanian it's "om, omului, omul, omule!" etc
I always enjoy watching your videos and streams Paws, glad you had fun with this video.
Captain Alcohol here: some people drink rubbing alcohol (Mona) because it's cheap, strong and most importantly, it's ethanol, the type of alcohol which is drinkable; see your average vodka which is made from ethanol and diluted with water to reach 40%. The problems might be the other ingredients or Bachus protect us: methanol which is the no-no type of alcohol
As a Brazilian, now I'm learning Romanian just for the lols
you just got another subscriber by me learning the fact that u are from Romania .. mult succes cu channel - ul in continuare
As a hungarian whos family got stuck here in transylvania after war, romanian is the hardest thing ive ever learned. I mean to be honest i still am a very beginner and my romanian teacher still hates me but its good. I also noticed people have different accents around romania and it scared me so bad when i went to constanta this summer and understood nothing. i thought i forgot all of my romanian and went down to kindergarten level again LOL
Kitartás
To be honest, the situation is pretty much the same for me but reversed. As a Romanian who has attempted to learn Hungarian, that language is hell on earth, no way someone can actually learn that abomination. LOL :))
If you tryna learn romanian just give up, this is some GOD-TIER level. There are other languages there bruh 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I love how much this video made you laugh.
At least we have 2 romanian vtubers. I am glad that someone represents our country in the vtubing community 😂 I hope you get 1 million subs
Croatian here. This makes prefect sense
Also wait till he sees croatian noun senses
Like we have one for with who are you using the noun and one for oi (yes like a dwarf yelling at you) (I have spoken this language for my whole life I don't think I have ever used it in a conversation)
23:30 linguistic proximity. I'm Polish and I had Russian in school and it was easy af, but that's bc Polish and Russian are both slavic languages. In comparison Spanish was torture 😭
I went to romania on a 9 month long work trip and boy was it memorable. A gypsy tried to pick pocket me and i broke his nose.
Over 80% of the romanians don't speak romanian properly
I wouldn’t say 80% more like 50%
20:56 As a romanian myself,I find it funny that he has put "cocolarii" instead of "cocalarii" lmao
and here i was thinking that having four variations of the word "why" in brazilians was fucked up
poor guy got to A1 after a year and a half. he's gonna start drinking a bit of palinca then he'll speak it better then he's gonna be like "ohhhh so this was the secret all this time"
Slovaks have Okena (a window cleaner with alcohol, about 40%, looks like a car coolant, so yeah, people died bcs of it) and Alpa (a medicinal spiritus for wound cleaning, 60% or more alcohol content, served with mint and sugar mixed in).
Eastern European countries truly seem like someone getting a "Slavic" template and doing copy+paste and tweaking it afterwards.
Love seeing your reactions to Living Ironically!
23:33 exactly
It was so easy because of how similar things were to Romanian
To other people, both Romanian and Latin look abysmal because of the gendered everything, all the conjugations, etc
Kinda how like Icelandic gives an advantage to learning [pretend I inserted the name of the language Icelandic evolved from, I'm having a total brainfart]. Icelandic also retains a lot of stuff from the language it evolved from
Damn, Romanian has as many versions of the words "this" and "that" as Polish has for all of it's words be default. 😂
" Our people thought that the devil, being a man, could not be evil enough. And then the romanians created the mother of the devil ! "
Nicolae Iorga - the national historian of Romania .
Learning Romanian is just like learning quantum physics, the further you go the more random and perplexive it becomes.
Anyways, I like your reactions on Romanian/Balkan content, and I'd appreciate more ❤️
That fact that you are you are also romanian was unexpected to me
I like to think the CIA marking Romanian as easily learnable is how they lured Andrew Tate here >:3 (glumesc)
Romanian being my first language, i don't recommend learning the language.
I dont need to explain further.
Lol
Just died of laughter to THIS one. Credits for both of 'em for effort.
Bun venit în România
Welcome to Romania
as an american this is far to confusing to me. but then i realized most-if not all of my confusion towards pronunciation in the romanian language is the exact same as non north-americans confusion towards our grammer/spelling. i mean its a literal competition over here (spelling bees)
To clarify the cocalars are the equivalent of those alpha guys with an overinflated ego, usually blasting loud obnoxious music and driving recklessly with fancy cars. You can spot those cocalars by their general looks, with unbuttoned shirts to show everyone their hair chest, tight gay jeans with their ankles showing, imitations of overly priced shoes, and a strong odor of sweat and clone
Her speaking romanian sounds so damn cute.
23:12
"Notoriously nightmare-inducing grammar"?
Where was this guy from again? Latin is clear and simple compared to most larger languages used in this day and age...
As a Canadian, we know French is a language! Especially in Quebec where French is a mandated language!
Learning Romanian so that you have the basis for others is like going through the pain of 100%ing a souls game so that you have every build possibility in Ng+
French isn't a language. "Oiseaux" means "Birds" but is pronounced the exact same way as the singular "oiseau", which is "Wazo". Not only does the word have every vowel and use none of them it adds an x for the plural form and doesn't use it either.
yep, tbh i do think french is more bullshit
In Middle French they pronounced every single letter, it was closer to the Latin roots.
aint gonna lie thought you were from somewhere else, rarely you see romanian vtubers, respect 💝💝💘