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- Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes some of the most famous "constructed languages" in movie and television history. Which real-life languages inspired "conlangs" like Klingon and Dothraki?
Select video samples used courtesy of wikitongues.org/
Check out more from Erik here: www.eriksinger.com/
Languages Covered: Na’vi, Dothraki, Klingon, Sindarin, Parseltongue, Ewokese, Shyriiwook, Divine Language, Mork Speak, Groot Speak, Malkovich, Furbish, Heptapod.
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Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV | WIRED
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This dude has a better understanding of fictional languages than I have of English.
Hey, you nailed both punctuation and capitalization, two things that 90% of the YT audience is completely unaware of....
@@teamredshirt Near-flawless execution, but an ellipsis typically contains only three periods, not four, and there really should be an em dash in place of the second comma, e.g. "you nailed both punctuation and capitalization-two things that..." Otherwise, amazing performance.
CandidateZero, The dash is one I struggle with, if only because is been a decade since high school. The ellipsis I’m blaming on my cracked screen, which causes an occasional double button press that autocorrect usually deals with for me. Until I started double tapping space to end a sentence, it often caused sentences to end with “..” which correction software doesn’t care about one bit.
@@candidatezero4703 An ellipsis at the end of a sentence should still have a period after it, for four total. Or, if you use the ellipsis character (glyph), it would be "…."
@@Melds What? No. There is no such rule.
When you casually crack a pitch perfect yoda just to make a point.
Yup
we just going to ignore the spot on Yoda he pulled while talking about Star Trek...
every time eric would be like "hear that sound?" i'd be like "uh huh definitely" while in reality i heard basically none of it and only followed like 5% of the conversation
am I supposed to reply with a copy&paste as well?
It's easy.
"american has a really weird 'r' sound"
It feels so cathartic to hear someone address it
Also I'm so goddamned thrilled that my obscure language got a mention in this video (minangkabau) I kept replaying that part
Yeah as a Russuan I feel like r basically doesn't exist in English
@Stevie P eA
@@joshuamaze4210 games
Whenever I speak in English, I inevitably "trip" over the r sound at some point. It's really difficult to locate it, almost feels like a vowel at times. Though the French r is even worse.
Imagine meeting this guy and you sneeze and hes just like "ooh thats one of my favourite sounds the atycillal sutrux"
It’s amazing
I thought it was a velo-pharyngeal affricate?
But seriously, good job on the pseudo-phonetic words. They sound really genuine! 😁
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@augustguerra2550 eyy memento mori
clearly it's an alveo-nasal plosive
Can we trust this guy? He speaks parseltounge.
He doesn't "speak" Parseltounge, he "understands" Parseltounge, like Dumbledore.
Mr.Heller r/whooosh
Konner Dent gotta be able to understand the snakes to stop them
@@Mr.Heller wait wait wait..did Dumbledore understand the language? It's been so long since I read the books..
@@alvinlepik5265 yeh, he can understand it but not speak it lol
"I can't comment 'cause I am not a heptapod" EXACTLY what a heptapod would say.
Ladies and gentleman.. we got him..
lol you made me snort laugh
sus indeed
Um actually it should be pronounced
Ì̴͍͈ ̷̢̍̔̈́̽̂͝ĉ̸̨̛̥̬̣͕̤̻̉͠á̵̠̱̇̓͆n̸͉̠̙͙̥͇̰͌͂̿͊̏̂͒'̶̣̝́̑͝t̴͎̟̣̮͐͋̒͘͝ ̶͎̮̜̥̩̬̠̳͋̂̄c̶̻͐͜ǫ̸̟̬̟̫̙̬̉̓̈́̾̈́͋m̶̛̟̳̖̳͌͐͗̋̈́͝m̵̧̛̛͔̼̬͉͗̈́͛͂̉̂ę̵̣͍͖̲͚̻̅͜n̴̖͕̠̊͛̉̎̊͘͠t̷͇̹̫̙͚͚̬̹̊͗̒͐̿ ̵̲̳̼̌̐͑̓b̷͕͍̟̄͒̈́̽́͛͝e̸̥͎̮̖͈͓͇̓̒̕͝c̴̯̣͐ā̴͚͝ư̶̫̰̺͉̻̮͉͋̃̆̆̋̆s̵̡̳̭̋ȩ̵̠̯̬̥̀̈́̈́̄͋̌ ̴͎͕̪̰͎̆̌́̉̈́̌̕̚Į̸͓̪̠̖͐͑̿̿̏̔͝'̸͎̎̓̃m̴̥̠͋̍͐̅͆͆̎͋ ̵̣͓̯̞̭̟̯̋͒̈ṇ̶̝͈̦͔̰̞̫͆̈́̊̑͋o̷͉̿͆̈́̀̾̄̓̒t̸̩̰͈̤̰̟̄ ̸̛͓̂͊͘a̶̛͎̜̭̰͈͌̽́̌ͅ ̵̲̼̒̾͒̕͘͘͝ḩ̶͕̘̦̼̝̳̄ͅe̷̛̛̥̻̱̳̔̎̄̌͆̄ͅp̵̡͈͇͈̟̉̀̚t̶̘͔̼̊͗͋̎̚ä̷̱́̽̑̏͒̎͑̓p̸̱̗̹̫̹̪̚ȱ̵̲͗͛d̵̰̲̞̪̟͚͇̓
@@matthewtaylor6829 did you mean “i diemn jodpoe93ld xjeofd i hsmrx jsoekd s jhepetod”
Nothing makes me more happy that hearing someone call it "Sindarin" instead of elvish
The Ewoks also say some phrases in Tagalog. I remember watching Star Wars as a kid with my family. It surprised the heck out of us Filipinos. (In a good way.)
there are several "elvish dialects" and only Tolkienheads know it! XD
@@RafaelaMartinelli Well, yeah. Quenya is a strong contender here ;)
There are three Elvish languages in LoTR/Silmarilion lore right? (At least three) Calling any of them just Elviah would be like saying, "Oh do you speak Indo-European?"
Same, im learning it and everyones like: So hows youR ELVISH going
Let’s appreciate Emilia Clarke. She surely nailed a fictional language perfectly
Can we also appreciate Zoe Saldaña that she nailed at least two fictional languages, in Avatar and Star Trek
It's kinda crazy that she was able to show a progression in her speaking ability. I also love the clear distinction between Drogo as a native speaker and Dany as a non native speaker in season 1. Big credit to his friend Jan for that.
@@johat1219 We can and we should.
Dothraki AND High Valerian!
She even makes an unintentional mistake in the sale of the Unsullied that makes her pronunciation sound even more Astapori, where she says “iskos” instead of “iksos” as it would be in what Eric calls proper Valyrian. Over time ps and ks sounds switched to sp and sk
does this man just know every language?
Well... That's his job as a linguist
@@BlkSDX A lot of people really suck at their job. This guy is just good at it.
Or he researched for 4 weeks before doing this video.
@@flee4342 He likely does speak most of the languages that aren't a minority language though. Enough that a casual conversation would never be an issue anyways.
@@dwalters98 What do you consider a minority language? Cause there are hundreds of widespread languages that millions of people can speak. He can be educated on languages without actually being able to speak them, definitely not in a "casual conversation" type of way. I'd place my bets that he knows up to ten.
"I can't comment, I'm not a heptapod" hmm. sounds like something a heptapod would say
Matthew Calder what the... I read that RIGHT as he said it!! *Twilight Zone music*
0:55 Parseltongue (Harry Potter)
2:20 Klingon (Star Trek)
6:40 High Valyrian (Game of Thrones)
8:11 Dothraki (Game of Thrones)
11:36 Na'vi (Avatar)
12:58 Sindarin (J.R.R. Tolkien's works)
15:17 honorable mentions
I came here for Tolkien
Who else came here for Tolkien?
@@destbar6610 Me
I came here for Tolkien too!
in case anyone was curious, High Valyrian and Klingon are both on Duolingo.
((Im silently hoping they add Sindarin but i kinda doubt it))
Kinda strange when you think about it 🤔
They also have Navajo??! What. That's kind of upsetting for me ngl
@@fierysunset3261 navajo is a real language tho what are you upset abt lol
Haha I didn’t know! I have a lifetime membership to do a lingo for the pandemic.
@@devanbrowne8706 because it’s a language only for us.
Impressive that Zoe Saldana speaks Klingon, Na'avi, English, and Spanish
Isabelle Sacks But not Viggo Mortensen who speaks 7?
I wasn't saying that to detract from the impressiveness of how many Viggo Mortenson speaks, but rather to highlight that I thought it was outstanding that Zoe Saldana speaks TWO fictionalised languages.
She should join Game of Thrones.
So true
*Na'vi
every time eric would be like "hear that sound?" i'd be like "uh huh definitely" while in reality i heard basically none of it and only followed like 5% of the conversation
Me when dating 😅
Me and my brother are language nerds so I was able to hear them pretty well. Once you study the sound system of two or three languages it's easier to pick up on those kinds of things.
It goes sooo fast but I’ve watched all of these videos in a row and it’s getting a bit easier. I know I’ll forget all of it by tomorrow
Listening takes practice and being multi-lingual helps a lot.
I speak Tibetan, and I watched The Return of the Jedi with a native Tibetan speaker -- and she was floored, because they actually borrowed individual Tibetan words and phrases for the Ewoks (and used them correctly!). She started listening very carefully, but it was just here and there.
I love how Mr. Singer finds something intelligent to say about everything they throw at him. A true professional.
we just going to ignore the spot on Yoda he pulled while talking about Star Trek...
Nick Zagas THANK YOU!!!! I was stuck like, did he really just put that out there perfectly like that and NOBODY said anything???!!!
@@cuoredolce29 It's too perfect! Maybe it was a voice over??
Ikr? Dude is true to his career lol
Thats his profession...
Best part
There are more fluent speakers of Klingon than some native American languages. Which is both impressive and depressing.
Still doing better than some. Cornish is dead.
Kinda upset he didn’t mention that the Tl sound is also in Nahuatl (Aztec language) and has 1.8m speakers, making it the largest spoken Native American language
How is that depressing?
You unintelligent to enjoy Star Trek hmm? I understand.
Most people are.
@@nexxusty I'm saying it's impressive how developed star trek has become. I like star trek. I'm saying how it's depressing how many of the native American cultures and languages have faded and been lost. I'm not insulting star trek.
@@nexxusty You insult someone's intelligence while simultaneously butchering the language. Do you have any idea about the real languages and histories and peoples who've been lost? I love Star Trek, but honestly as someone who's at least in some part Seminole, I have to say I agree with Lincoln. It's sad indeed.
all of us at midnight choking on our tongue to make a d sound
Not me though. I am Indian😆
Hahahahaha or as we laugh in spanish: Jajajajajajaja
Tolkien is a freakin genius. Im always surprised at how detailed he made his world. Its a linguistics goldmine.
I'm personally offended that Simlish wasn't included in this
I was thinking that too, but the title of the video does specify film and TV. That being said, I'd love to hear his take on it. Maybe he can do another video on video game languages.
Jabu jimi hish jabu
Septecimia simlish isn't a real conlang, it's more like that Star Wars language with the little bear things because it's a haphazard arrangement of a number of different languages
oh feebee lay!
Lol yea!
I could listen to this guy all day. Please give him his own show
I would watch way too much of that
I third this
I agree he’s awesome, very knowledgeable
I think that is a dwarvish alphabet, not Sindarin at 13:12
@@itsmyroadbiatch1884 why?
I love him
I love his seriousness
I love his humor
I love his knowledge
I love his enthusiasm
I love his hand gestures
The guy is just great
someone fell in love
@@yyaaa3434 Lmao
Should have covered the Black speech of Mordor. One of the coolest sounding languages ever
agreed
wish he'd also cover quenya, since that's much more developed than sindarin even though there's more sindarin in the book
and out of curiosity, do u know the ring verse in black specs by heart?
I could listen to this guy speaking for 12 hours straight and I wouldn't complain at all
@@svenlimaLima lol! profound!!!
I want him to read me a bedtime story 😂
I agree and wanted to help you reach 1K likes :)
Big Bodda BOOM! Orange haired girl in fifth element!
Did u know Klingon is on Duolingo but they refuse to put Latin on
E P my best guess to why that is is that Latin is so widely argued on the pronunciation that Duolingo didn’t want bad reviews for the speaking part of learning your language. Klingon on the other hand is short, and pronunciation is considerably easy
@@JeremiahWatkins-zv8bn Huh that's a good point. I never thought of it like that. There are two latin teachers at my school and even they pronounce words differently.
E P yes, since Latin wasn’t preserved well over the centuries, the pronunciation is widely varied, and hotly debated amongst experts. I think it’s a really interesting topic to dive into. My native language is French and even inside our own language, there is so much variation. Sometimes to the point you can barely understand one another. I guess this is the same with English, but I don’t feel it’s as extreme.
I don't know what's the issue with the Latin. I mean, yeah, there are two types of pronunciation, a classical and an ecclesiastical pronunciation. Just choose the classic one and it's done. Latin is a very beautiful language, the father of most occidental language, except english and german, dutch and some others.
Tu trouves qu’en France on peut avoir du mal à se comprendre ? À part au Québec je trouve qu’on n’a vraiment pas d’accents si différents que ça
I've been working for over two years on a conlang called Eka'ane. It's so time consuming, but so worth it when I can step back and say a paragraph or two in my language! I hope to eventually get to use it in a novel :)
Fun fact, the "American R " sound that he mentioned was really wierd is a sound frequently used in Tamil, one of the most ancient languages of the world. In fact, even the word 'Tamil' is actually supposed to be pronounced with that american R at the end but since most native English speakers don't get it, they often just pronounce as 'l'
Huh....interesting 🤔
American English for the win!
@@BigBoss-sm9xj actually the sentiment was more "Tamil for the win!" But whatever floats your boat 😂👍
@@himamouli5047American english and Tamirrr for the win!! Lol tamil can also be a winner
@@BigBoss-sm9xj True ❤️😀
i'm just realizing all the weird sounds i can do all have names
Jo Giesler I studied English at Uni for a little time and had linguistics in it and had to learn most of these words.
Best part is mumbling things to yourself when taking the exam.
I know, right :D
"Is this fortis or lenis? t ... d ... t ... d ... t ... d"
The way he got all excited everytime he was about to tell a fun fact made my day
Just about to say that 🤣🤣🤣
especially 12:42
For those curious about the English R bit - there are only a few other languages with a similar sound. They include Faroese, Albanian, Mandarin, and (southern) Vietnamese, as well as Dutch but in Dutch it's only pronounced that way when it is before a consonant or at the end of a word. However, none of these are exactly the same. In Faroese and Mandarin it approaches a fricative, in Albanian and Vietnamese it's inconsistent and there are several pronunciations (even though the Englishlike one is the most common), and the Dutch one is almost "more American than American English" in a way I can't describe - they pronounce it so intensely that it feels like it almost becomes its own syllable.
This was such a pleasure to get into! For the first time in my 51 years, I’ve discovered a group of people with the same fascination for language and language sounds, structure and content that I’ve had all my life, seemingly alone! Even to the interest in the makeup of constructed languages! God I wish I had known this was an area of study that was practical and not just academic-I think I would have been profoundly happy to have devoted my professional life to this. Thank you.
I didn't know I was hot for linguistics
*tl*
lingustics is wicked
Try out books like "Learning russian for travel purposes in 4 weeks" and alike without any listening comprehension whatsoever, i dare you :D Not wanting to unlearn learned mistakes, we wouldn't just settle for a gutfeeling of how the pronunciation has to sound like.
I am so glad i came upon this chanel ^^
@@bazingaburg8264 ты странный сударь
me neither!!!
Does anyone realize that they find people who speak too many languages hot or is it just this guy being hot with all his knowledge of languages?
Just a guy who's passionate about and knows a ton about a topic. Idk that so attractive to me
I don't think so, otherwise I'd be get a lot more action, then what I am rn
Yes. Yes he is.
*coughs* lookin’ at you, Viggo
Looks before books. He's hot, which is obviously the first thing people notice. And THEN he's interesting. Maybe. Still better be hot and dull than ugly and dull
The "Divine Language" was created out of Ancient Egyptian and a Polynesian dialect, and had about 400 words at the time of filming; it now has over 900 words.
Part of Mila's job was spending days speaking only DL while doing ordinary daily tasks, and she and the director would have full conversations on set, as well as with Ian Holm.
So... not actually gibberish, Eric.
Fascinating.
"I can't comment... I'm not a Heptapod."
ICONIC
Erik Singer: "... a very enthusiastic uvulur affricate"
Me: *blushes*
😂😂
It sounds a bit forward but feels so right ^^ Out in a minute, honeeey
I love your screen name😂😂
Marquise West thanks boo 😘😉
*uvular
Would love to see a breakdown of the Minion language
Yes me too! I think minion language uses a lot of malay words. I recognized one or two malay words like "terimah kasih" but i don't speak malay so I wouldn't know.
@@chongyunsimp2088 haha yeah, it definitely sounds like a mix of Austronesian + Greek + others
@@DrRiq It also sounded slightly Latin to me
@@newtonthenewt1400 yep, agree
Most of it is gibberish
The rewatchability of Erik's videos is insane. I would watch this man talk for hours about languages.
"Thu'um", the Language of the Dragons and the Dovahkiin is clearly missing here.
its called dovahzul. thu'um is a word in dovahzul
It's just an English relex, not really a proper conlang
@@girv98 actually, there is a dovahzul course.
@@alvindzaki6085 I didn't say there wasn't. The point is that it's a relex - a word for word copy of English grammar just with different words
@@girv98 Ah, I see your point.
This guy does for linguistics, what Vsauce did for science.
you should watch tom scott
You are to grammar what Albert Einstein was to grammar
And far less pandering and intellectually insulting then Vsause too! Bonus!
Vsauce ain't shit! More like Dsauce.
Infinite Loop indeed
That Yoda impression was unexpected and brilliant.
I love how they show Yoda shaking his head "no" after he said it
where was it again? (can you give me the time)
Anne 2:39
sorry it's not there...?
Anne try 3:02
The editing on this video is on point lmao
As someone who LOVES languages, THIS is absolutely AMAZING!!! And am I the only one who did not know that Viggo spoke 6 languages?!!
Many don't, it would be surprising if he didn't though. His name is completely Danish, as his father is Danish, and his mother is American. He have lived a lot of places, they did forget to include that he also can speak a bit Arabic and Russian.
Yeah.....Stolen Comment
Is this the professor that y/n always falls in love with? 😂
yep absolutely
I think so😂😂 cause he is cute asf
who is y/n
@@ghadaalkhalidi9733 Y/N is often known as "your name" in fanfics and self inserts on Tumblr and such
@@NO-bl4gm oh thanks:)
Fun fact: J.R.R Tolkien actually made many languages other than Sindarin in the world of middle-earth/Arda. Like Quenya, Dwarvish, Entish, Black Speech etc. And unlike many other languages here, he made these by his own accord or by himself. Yes, he was a legend.
JustAGuy Well black speech was never fully done, since it was barely used in the books and that Tolkien himself said that he kinda hated it since he felt it made him uneasy. Which kinda fit when you make a language that the enemy should speak
JustAGuy thank you, i was hoping there would be a comment paying J.R.R. Tolkien the fuckton of respect he deserves
Anime Gandalf true; Tolkien's languages are of various states of completion. Fun fact: Black speech is related to Valarin, the language spoke by the sort of gods. Another fun fact: Sindarin is considered weird by many, perhaps because it was subject to time more than the "proper" Elvish Quenya.
Fun fact: hot pockets are almost impossible to cook correctly.
Well it makes sense that Black Speech and Valarin are similar since the "magic" of middle earth is just that speech and song twisting the fabric of reality.
I think there’s enough conlangs to warrant a Part 2.
Point is I’m on a big kick as to why Marvel/Disney didn’t invest in creating a Sokovian language, it would added a lot to Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver’s relationship, or Zemo’s... just putting this into the aether
If you've never heard a Finnish speaker get excited, I highly recommend it. All those double k's and t's that interrupt the flow give the language a really interesting rhythm.
Viggo makes Elvish sound so natural, you could really believe he grew up with it.
Sarah Warren *because he is danish, which elvish was derived from*
SNEAKY BLISSKIN Old Norse is quite a different language than Danish, it's close to Icelandic, and closer to Norwegian than Danish - which has changed a lot, since those times. Danish sounds closer English than Old Norse, though of course it sounds quite different than English. So Old Norse is the great grandmother of those 3, there a couple of others as well, mainly Swedish. Icelandic sounds the closest to it, because it 'inherited the house where Old Norse used to live'.
Elvish is a whole language group, not 1 language. Here the language in question is Sindarin. There is also an Elvish language called Quenya in the movies and books. Those are the 2 most important Elvish languages, but there are many more Tolkien made. Quenya is mostly Latin and Finnish, Old Norse only giving some spice to it here and there. Sindarin - which they speak here - is mostly like Welsh and Irish, spiced with something else, like Old Norse.
I'm not sure, but sounds like Old Norse was more used in making of Sindarin, but it wasn't the major component in neither of those 2, that much I know. And I'm linguist myself. Well, not a teacher, but studied it in the university.
Who else doesn’t understand anything but thinks it’s really interesting.
Same, lol
Haha. Thanks for putting my thoughts into words. I'm captivated
Me here :)
✋
I do. Its cool to realize how if even small changes in the things weve always done unconciously could totally change how we sound.. That's pretty neat.
This helped me understand Parseltongue better. I need to learn it to be able to communicate with my friends.
Some guys be afraid to moan in their girls ear...
Erik Singer: Voiceless Alveolar Lateral Affricate
This man is the dream of heterosexual female linguists everywhere.
I seriously want to see a 30 minute video oh this guy doing his version of all the accents
HAHA my ocd is having a field day this comment has 666 likes
He literally teach you how to spell it right everytime he correcting
Easy, just take a hammer to your left temple
Awesome video!! It's amazing to see all this analysed in depth. So interesting, thank youu!
Please do another one of these, and include the dialects/accents in "The Expanse"! Thanks so much.
i could honestly listen to him break down languages forever.
"There is no word for thank you in Dothraki." - Jorah Mormont
"You know, that wasn't in the original script. They added that based on something I said in the original press release. ... I remembered the first time I saw that [Jorah says it] thinking, 'Wait a minute, I don't remember that...' Then it hit me, and I realized, 'Oh, hey. They picked that up from me!' Then I forgot it and created a word for "thank you,' anyway."
-David Peterson, Dothraki language designer
I thought he rephrased it with something like "I appreciate your work" or similar. Would have worked, too.
I had to scroll too far down for this!
I love that at 13:31 JFK's "ich bin ein Berliner" get its end cut so German speakers won't be able to talk joke that JFK literally said "I'm a donut".
How does one say “ I am a Berliner” in German?
omg es un berlín JAJAJJAHHAHAJ
Thank you for this video, I would appreciate a separate video about the high Valyrian ❤
He’s right. Viggo Mortensen really sounds like he’s been speaking Sindarin his whole life. I didn’t know he spoke six languages. That man is just impressive.
giving me a small heartattack with "he spoke"
I wish that I could speak Spanish
it sounds like he speaks Sinderion better than most of the elves...
and there was poor Figwit (aka Lindir) having helluva time tryna memorize one single sentence in sindarin... :D or two. Taenen bar-en-abed athar glaind, nevui penim miruvor. Manann ingadh namen i-darthatar? czcams.com/video/3vo0P3WG4zM/video.html around 5:00 -ish :)
@@dxce_ meh, who cares... grow up ;) btw in oldest manuscripts it's 616, if you love number of the beast :p
I was surprised not to see Sim language.
fullmetalfunk why would it be? This was languages from film and tv, which Sim speak is from neither.
True but they had the Furby at the end. That's not from a film or movie.
fullmetalfunk cause it was part of the random stuff section. And yes, while they could've had Sims there, all the other randoms were from tv or movies also, including the Furby because it's a tv commercial.
You're incredibly pedantic, but ok. I just figured it was one of the more well known made up languages in our culture and since it's just gibberish and not a real conlang it would have been funny to hear what he had to say about it in the random section is all.
fullmetalfunk I'm sorry I came off that way, maybe it'll come up in a future episode, I just wanted to be clear why it wasn't in this one.
I keep coming back to this video pls give us a part two
After watching a few of these, it must be nice to know your passion and being able to create a lifetime career of it.
Dothraki sounds so badass, and Momoa pulls it off brilliantly.
Bryn Jackson he’s the human representation of badass
Then you have Emilia Clarke who does nail it, but not without messing up. It's hilarious. Even when she speaks Valyrian.
looks like spanish to me
Supergirl Gamer I think she does it really well too, but she does it with her Valyrian/Westerosi accent since she's all high born and stuff, which definitely makes it sound less badass, but hey, Dany is pretty badass as it is so I give her a pass there lol
Maybe Khal Drogo just kills off anyone that speaks it better than him lol
are we NOT talking about his amazing Yoda impersonation!?
Right he is!
Yessss!
Book to him gave I
I feel like he could do a perfect impression of just about anyone or anything.
Comment Yoda did. His head he shook.
anyone can do a good yoda impression
I love listening to him put together all the sounds that make up a language... it's almost therapeutic to make the sound after he explains what it is
Beautyful, well explained! Thank you!
That Yoda impression was awesome
Though wrong sentencing :P
Yoda would never say "book to him gave I", but would say "book to him I gave", as if he pasted the beginning at the end.
"Patience you must have" "Ready are you" "consume you it will", stuff like that.
I'm not even into star wars, but I recall that easily as I found it hilarious ^^
13:32 JFK is a jelly donut confirmed
actually funny thing about Yoda's speech pattern is that it is IDENTICAL to Korean grammar, so when star wars was translated for a Korean audience Yoda sounded like your typical old dude
@Brett Dibble: That was a stupid mistake on the translator's part then, he should've translated it so it would have a different grammar so his speech would stick out just as it does in English. I guess the translator was not imaginative enough.
well, compared to everyone else (remember, yoda is the ONLY one with that specific speech pattern in the movies) yoda's speech would STILL stick out since i'm assumeing everyone else would sound....wonky. that is unless the translators REALLY got into the nitty gritty of things
These are ridiculously, addictively good.
He is right about the 'r' sound. I'm Spanish and learnt English in school. When we are speaking English we usually have to combine English and Castellano because some words do not have a translation or we say someone's name. This is kind of weird because of the different pronunciation and accent.
When he was addressing the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate, I’m surprised he used Tlingit and not Nahuatl as an example. Most people don’t even have Tlingit on their radars, lol
*edit*: corrected “they’re” to “their,” that was embarrassing
I immediately thought of Nahuatl
He missed the opportunity to describe how R2-D2 has 26 electronic sounds. One for each letter in the English alphabet. The noises actually spell out his dialogue.
Whaaaaat??? For real?
Wtttt so its just english?
very interesting. i've seen those movies a thousand times each and i never knew that.
Then that language would just be English no?
Did you know that Deadmau5 actually has *the* synthesiser board that was used to create R2-D2's "Language"?
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YES! Love these language/accent videos
Also the sims language next pls
Mina F Step one: Put marbles in mouth.
Step two: Pretend to speak French
Mina F Finally! Official name (Technique Critique)
what is your native language, guys?
Native Language is Dutch, but i also speak Englisch, French, German and a little bit of Spanish
10/10 loved this, just a bit confused about the last few seconds, I haven't finished Game of Thrones so maybe Denaris created one, but in season 1, they said there was no word for "thank you" in Dothraki.
This is so helpful for my novel writing. Thanks!!
Wow. This man is stupid intelligent.
kenza abdi I don't know what you mean. I was giving him a compliment.
It's a phrase used in America. Think of it like, "I got a new Ferarri. It's stupid fast."
kenza abdi “stupid” in this context is synonymous to “crazy” or “very”
Loving the oxymoron :)
'Stupid' here is an intensifier adverb. A typical Americanism. Kinda funny too, its intended comedic effect. Nothing to be bothered about.
Pp and poopoo
wow you just told all americans who struggle with the german "ch" how to easily pronounce it. props
8ay8ee Aawww now I can't correct a "ck" to a "ch" anymore :(
Yeeeeah it's close but not exactly the same. When saying "cute" I'm using a part of my tounge that's a teeny tiny bit further back when saying "Ich".
Source: am german. (Although the possibility stands that I'm pronouncing "cute" wrong, obviously.)
@Peter Pepper - From a native English speaker, you're correct. I know how to ( properly ) pronounce "Ich", and I think it has more to do with the vowel sound immediately next to the "ch". Your mouth is more open when you are saying "Ich" and the tongue is slightly more forward - open more because of how "i" is pronounced. In "cute", the vowel u requires your lips to be a different shape, and the tongue is juuuuuust slightly further back. You're probably just fine pronouncing "cute", so don't worry about it!
like we care
czech's say it right
Shoutout to Tolkien the king of fictional languages that deserves his own video
That was excellent, Erik. Thanks!
I kinda have a crush on this guy.
who's not :D
If we're being honest, this seems like a really well put together guy. I bet he lives in a really fucking awesome loft and buys quality goods.
LOL Sawyer. Too true
Same, a smart man talking about something he's passionate about makes my ovaries implode!
of course! he is five a star man!
I'm curious what he thinks of the 72+ ways that Hodor says "Hodor" on Game of Thrones.
I was waiting for Hodor too since he discussed GOT conlang already.
Hodor is perfectly cromulent.
As a foreigner who has been studying English for years this is a cool English lesson :) I love the English language and all the English accents.
Now I am studying French, Italian, Spanish and I started studying Arabic as I am very interested in the Persian culture as well.
I hope I can become fluent in 6 languages by the age of 60
"I started studying Arabic as I am very interested in the Persian culture as well" - wait a sec, then why aren't you studying Persian? These are completely unrelated languages, save for some loanwords?
Keep at it, and enjoy the people you meet along the way, what it's all about! 👍
I love these videos by Erik 👍 super interesting.
Okay but the editors were really nice for pausing his speech at fairly flattering points lol
The Ewoks also say some phrases in Tagalog. I remember watching Star Wars as a kid with my family. It surprised the heck out of us Filipinos. (In a good way.)
that’s so cool
Can we trust this guy? He speaks parseltounge.
"The walking carpet fuzzball"
This was fascinating-thanks!
I was expecting Simlish.
sims are a game, not TV or movie. So he could get away with not including it lol.
and Furby is a TV or a movie?
YES
I was looking for Simlish too!
Degdeg...
Oh no, I was going to make this comment, but you made it one year ago, so now I can't :(
Yooo it’s not often that I hear my tribe mentioned in a video (that isn’t about Alaska). Łingits have only about 1,000 fluent speakers, and enough sounds to make our language difficult
Wa sah iyatehte
Quite cool tho, make sure you keep your language alive! I know I would watch some beginners guides
I just adore this man. ;-;
I love linguistics and culture studies. I keep rewatching all of the videos he's in. He’s so excited to teach people about what he knows and it’s just so wonderful to see.
PLEASE KEEP BRINGING HIM ON!! (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
Anyone else make the sounds during the video??
White Chocolate Hahahaha I don't even know some of them but I am practicing them
White Chocolate Yeah it feels like French class or something :-P
but what about that language in Sims
DavenX4 Asking the important question
yeah!
pobble herby
Lol yes
simlish is actually gibberish
A couple of weeks ago I had a Linguistics exam at my university, this is so fascinating
Singer analysis is really amazing in every video
I hope there isn’t a test after this video because I am going to fail miserably.
Chris Sede hahahaha
I wish this guy would teach a course on how to speak Parseltongue. It'd be cool to scare people with.
Yup
Thanks. I was hoping you'd discuss 'I am Groot.' And you did. I love your analysis of all these languages.
I have watched no less than 6 of your videos over the past 18 hours. I am transfixed, and I hope, absorbing everything you are saying like a sponge. I wish I had the money to study with your for about 6 months! I'm kinda fan-boying over here. Thanks for these pieces you have done. I am so grateful.
I’m Navajo and I flipped out when I heard him mention our language!
same here but i speak Kalmyk (that ewoks thing) :D
black-white spagetti wow so cool! Same here when he mentioned Welsh :D
Navajos for the win! :)
Tlingit here, I also freaked out. Shout out to him for knowing bout indigenous languages.
@@CCGMASTER and not calling us Indians! Cause we're not! It's racist to say that we are!