If I Don't Guess Your Language I'll Buy You A Drink
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2023
- I went to a club in Valencia, Spain and tried guessing people's native languages. Each time I failed they got a free drink. Here's what happened.
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I love that the American trolling a little threw him for a complete loop.
He werent really trolling, just genuinely stupid
The Chinese guy was right when he said a dialect is a language. The Argentine guy absolutely was not.
Right. It is a different dialect from modern standard Spanish but there hasn’t been enough time for the Argentinian dialect to fully diverge from MSS. Maybe in about 300 years they will be different enough from each other but not rn. If you’re fluent in MSS and you listen carefully you can understand the Argentinian dialect ok
@@C_In_Outlaw3817 it's like saying Hiberno English and British English are different, or US English. English was introduced to Argentina at the same time as North America, it was introduced to Ireland about 800 years ago. Man just wanted a drink hahahaha but you have to appreciate the hustle
@@TheAnthraxBiology I mean, there was a lot of talking about the "language" of Argentinians, in the 1900's-1930's particularly, all of this started with "El idioma de los argentinos" by "Lucien Abeille" A french autor, and then was followed by argentinian writers known at the time as Robert Arlt and Jorge Luis Borges with writings with the same title as the book of Abeille. A very interesting topic because of the waves of inmigrants argentina got in 1900's which affected all the vocabulary with lunfardo, cocoliche and many dialects that were born from the heterogenic culture of that time.
Especially since "standard language" is a dialect itself. Usually the dialect that's spoken by the political elite in a given coutry, but dialect nevertheless.
Expecting drunk people to read a sign is like expecting politicians to be honest.
The dude speaking english was hilarious man
The troll was great
Hey @Lingualizer, for future reference, Chinese "dialects" are actually completely separate languages. Chinese and Cantonese are about as close as Spanish and Italian. The Chinese words for "dialect" can also bleed into the English word for "language"
Source: I'm a Chinese speaker in the USA
He walks around as this big language-knowledge person but then drops the ball on something so simple like not realizing all the "dialects" in China are considered different languages cause we can't understand each other at all! Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish people can more or less understand each other (same with Russians and Polish if they speak very slowly) but they're still considered separate "languages". But Chinese dialects are so wide and extreme it's really evolved over the centuries. Take the Wenzhounese language for example, that's said to be the most difficult Chinese 'dialect', parts of it sound like Mandarin/Cantonese/Japanese but none of those 3 speakers would understand a single thing the Wenzhounese speaker is saying.
@@dynamo116 I think you mean Swedish/Norwegian/Danish. They can understand each other relatively well. Finnish, however, is completely different.
@@StianF sorry yes :), I was just thinking of Scandinavia and got caught up in the moment cause that whole segment just pissed me the hell off and I went on a tangential rant 😂. Finnish is most closely related to Estonian right?
Just like how all Turkic languages are different Chinese "dialects" also are different languages.
@@dynamo116 Yes finnish is only quite close with estonian language. But still very different.
Lingualizer's patience was really tested in this one...
😅
argentinian guy killed me :D :D
You should've given the money to the Chinese guy. What the Chinese call "dialects" are in fact different languages, and especially since you responded "Mandarin" (a specific Chinese language) instead of "Chinese" (the whole language family), he clearly won the game
Yeah they’re different languages that all adopted the same written “language”
yeah how doesn't he know that..?
This is correct. When he said mandarin he shot himself in the foot.
And Btw, that guy was impressive he was able to speak so many languages
I agree.
@@amoxl114 it’s not a “dialect” of mandarin which lingualiser thought it was. It’s another language entirely. What the guy should have done was specified which language he was speaking at the end cuz I’m curious lol
The Chinese guy should've won the money. Dialects in China are in fact languages and are so different from each other.
That intro killed me as a Slovak. She said you have greasy hair, a booger in your nose and hairy ears :D
As a Pole, I understood everything except what is in his nose 😉 What is it in Slovak? What did she say?
@@anuskas9244 šušeň, like in Czech
@@Asdasxel thanks
konečne bol dakto uprimny
He doesn't understand the Spanish of the Uruguayan girl, because she only swear very fast and with a strong "Rioplatense" accent. Good strategy LOL
Concha de tu madre was such an obvious one even with her accent, I guess Lingualizer was having an off day, I was stunned that she walked away with the drink.😂
As a native slovak speaker,i appreciate how honest the start was ☠
She said "you have oily hair,booger in your nose and hairy ears"
💀
she straight up abused him
Lingualizer expects so much from drunk people! He expects them to read a sign, know the difference between a dialect and "an actual language." (I agree with the Chinese guy though that dialects are really their own language) He's freaking giving people who speak Spanish with different accents free drinks, but still nothing for the Chinese guy!
Well he guessed Romanian for the Spanish lady from Uruguay (she didn't even have that much of a strong accent), she deserved to win.
@@broccoli9308 I guess. Maybe that one guy from Colombia shouldn't have won. I don't actually know if he was speaking a different language from Colombia because I too couldn't hear him.
@@ursatzotschew7541 The guy "from Colombia" was a drunk argentinian cheating (it was completely made-up) 😅
The amount of languages you can have whole arguments in (apparently Serbocroatian/adjacent, Italian, Spanish, Bulgarian, German, English and perhaps French) is quite impressive
He did not recognize Macedonian 😂😅😂
@@intel386DXbecause those are all essentially the same language
@@RobotWithHumanHair. it is so funny for a bulgarian polyglot not to recognize macedonian :D and it is not the same like bulgarian, or serbo-croatian
The Greek girl said: "Έλα, πιστεύω ότι δε θα το βρεις ποτέ. Είμαι από μια χώρα υπέροχη με πάρα πολύ ήλιο, πάρα πολλή θάλασσα. Βρες το τώρα." Which means: "I believe you will never guess it. I'm from a wonderful country with a lot of sunlight and seas. Guess it now."
I was screaming: "NOOOOO STOP! IT'S GREEK! GREEK!". Unfortunately he didn't listen to me... 😒😅
Greetings from a Bulgarian speaking Greek... 👋🏻🇧🇬🇬🇷🖤
The θ-sounds were a dead giveaway!
@@martelkapo I always get surprised when people don't recognize Greek but actually many people say that Spanish and Greek sound the same way even tho they have nothing in common. I even have heard a Spanish native speaker to claim that haha. 😅 It's probably because both languages are melodic, spoken fast and with a tongue between the teeth haha...
@@loraivanova8635 Yeah, the intonation & pronunciation of Greek and Castilian Spanish can sound very similar to my ears, despite the fact that their only "genetic" connection is that they're both Indo-European languages. They both have the same five vowels /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/, the dental fricative /θ/, and even a similar "retracted" s-sound, [s̪] or [s̠]. LangFocus made a video about it a while ago!
As an Arabic speaker, I would definitely argue that Moroccan dialect (Darija) should be considered another language, as the Moroccan guy in the video said. It is not really mutually intelligble with most other Arab dialects. I'd argue that Norwegian and Swedish are closer to eachother than Moroccan Arabic is to most other Arabic dialects.
Fun video anyways!
This is correct. Darija sounds totally different
I think so too. Plenty of dialects are so different from the official language they're supposedly a part of that they might as well be languages. And there's also technicalities like Cantonese still being classified as a dialect of Han Chinese language. Same from Neapolitan Italian, which I think is even recognized by some institutions as a language.
Hey Anthropology major here, just wanted to say the line between language and dialect has very little to do with verbal communication. We have a saying in linguistic anthro "The difference between a dialect and a language, is a language has an army and a navy demanding its a language."
In reality Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Arabian Arabic... etc, all should be there own languages, whereas Nordic Languages should be dialects, but a long time ago, Nordic nations made a huge fuss for nationalistic pride, about there dialects so they are languages now.
Just a little Window into how arbitrary the language/dialect line is
@@necrolich9169 Danish and Finnish are quite different to Swedish & Norwegian, tho.
The people who could only speak a couple phrases in a challenge about “talking in your native language” were just straight up cheating. Especially that girl at 2:58, she admitted it wasn’t her native language and got the money anyway.
They probably misunderstood and interpreted it as language from the native people of the country.
And even so, native speaker doesn’t necessarily mean fluent.
@@rodrigoantolinez7068 maybe so. I just found it a bit unfair that they took advantage of an indigenous language since it’d be extremely difficult to guess it unless you’re from the country where it’s spoken
Xiaomanyc taught us that Cantonese, Mandarin and Fuzhounese are as similar as French, Italian and Spanish, so he really was not wrong
Lignualizer at 7:32 : You're very close to my face.
Also Lignualizer: 7:41
He's honestly a jerk lol
8:05 the way she swore to you and u didnt notice lol
Polish and Slovak are very similar. As a Pole, I understood everything the girl from Slovakia said, so no wonder you confused the two languages. I also thought at first that she spoke Polish 😉
@Funny story. Yes, we can communicate without any problems in our languages. Poles will understand both Slovak and Czech. Some time ago I worked in Norway. Norwegians, Danes, Lithuanians and one boy from the Czech Republic, Viktor, worked with me. Viktor and I talked in Polish, he in Czech and the rest of our co-workers thought we spoke the same language 😉 Then I found out that in our languages there are some words that sound the same and mean something else, also called "false friends" . Once I said to him that I look for him all day, in Polish "Ja szukam cię cały dzień ", "szukać" in Polish means to look for, and in Czech šukat sound the same and means... fu**k 😉
How the... Polish is also my native language, but what she spoke it sounded like arrabic or something akin and tbh I couldn't understand a thing.
@@BlekDimonnI’m leaning Polish and I couldn’t understand a word. I knew it definitely wasn’t Polish.
@@fivestarplaying35538:32 at this point I thought she was speaking Polish, not at the beginning of the video. I don't know why but I understood everything she said, the only thing I had trouble with was the word to describe what he has on his nose
native slovak here
i appreciated the girls honesty
I would really love to learn German and I love your accent! I know a little but not the best with the cases and grammar and especially speaking. Do you do any courses? I wouldn’t mind paying! If you don’t please consider it because I feel you would be perfect tutoring with your patience and being so friendly!
Teochew is a regional language of China. It's a dialect of Min. Teochew to Mandarin is like Bavarian German to English.
For future reference, Italian and Chinese "dialects" are in practise classified as languages linguistically even though people commonly refer to them as dialects. There are however some outliers - Tuscan and Romanesco dialects are definitively dialects as they are extremely similar to standard Italian and pretty much every Italian can understand them; for Chinese it is more difficult but Sichuanese is the only debatable major Chinese "dialect" that can be classified as a dialect
Castilian is just the more precise way of saying Spanish lol.
Ese man de Argentina está loco!
3:45 he was obviously speaking american, you did not guess that though
In reality some dialects are officially recognized as languages such as Sardinian (a specific form) and Venetian (not all the Venetian dialect but only the Venetian lagoon dialect). In fact, even though I am from Veneto from Treviso, if a Venetian speaks the strict dialect I understand little because it is different from mine despite living less than 50 km away)
La uruguaya porfin le enseñó q es lo q es aprender español
8:06 the girl in this minute was telling him like rude words and slangs and he was like listening attentively ,I can’t 😂😂it was so funny
Just like in China, most "dialects" in Italy are actual languages, seperate from the official italian language. Both Italian and Neapolitan are italic languages, guy got scammed.
I'd say 2:40 is wrong. That was Limburgs, not Dutch, which is a minority language in the Netherlands.
Hold up! In Valencia they do language exchange meet-ups at nightclubs? 😂😂
I’ve been waiting sooo long for someone to speak Macedonian ❤
И јас, се изненадив кога слушнав некој накрај да почне и на македонски да зборува во овој канал, беше очигледно уште од "Не ме разбираш" дека не е српски, туку македонски, но сепак најбитното е да се веселиме сите независно од јазикот или државата.
Поздрав од еден бугарин кој учи македонски
🇧🇬🧡🇲🇰 🙂🙂
Heey, you're in Valencia! I wish I see you around, I want to participate for sure!
Fantastic channel.
Congratulations on reaching 2M subscribers 🥳🥳
I sooo wanna see someone actually spreak tamazight just to know if he can guess it correctly 😭 seeing how he guessed berber for a malian girl, it didn’t go well
I thought the one speaking the indigenous Mexican language was speaking a Berber language(Due to the way they aspirate certain sounds or words) was totally off base there lol 😂
Днес го видях за първи път на живо в София, България! Страхотен си! ❤❤❤
"Yeah, ok, fair enough" hahahahahhaha
Why you give the money to the one that speak made up language but not to the Neapolitan and the Chinese one (it's probably one of Min languages)
What a mess half these people were drunk af lul
I like the confidence of the American guy 😂
Greek sounded so much like spanish
Yeah, they basically have the same phoneme inventory.
8:30 “Yea ok fair enough” the man looked so disappointed 😂
El argentino 😭😭😭
The fact that he thought Greek was similar to Basque or that Basque was in the same ball park as "Gaelic" (which is a language group like Romance or Germanic) shows how bad he is at doing this. Gaelic languages are incredibly distinct and Basque is incredibly unique
That's why people have chances to win money :)
Bahahah le “t’as les cramptés” jpp
I had so much fun that I wanted the video never to end :)))
9:28 wrong my man, neapolitan is in fact a language recognized by the italian government. That guy should have won the money
Yea this is plausible. this kind of goes into the debate on what’s the difference between a dialect and a language and there rly isn’t one that someone has defined. But if it’s an official govt language then I guess you’d be correct technically
Not true, our government recognises only Sardinian, Friulian and Ladin. UNESCO recognised Neapolitan and Sicilian as well, but UNESCO has no legal power
@@thebabbons1554 a quick google search said that Neapolitan is now a recognised language but I could have looked in the wrong place. what you’re saying might be true
I think it should be made apparent That Chinese "Dialects", Arabic "Dialects", Italian "Dialects", etc are actually separate languages, they're just called Dialects to erase the local heritage and nature of the languages, as well as unify the different peoples (though unify is a strong word here). The Kingdom of Naples/Two Sicilies was not a unique region of the Italian Peninsula since the 1200s, just to be told its language is just an Italian DIALECT. Speaking Neapolitan or Lombard or Venetian are not mutually intelligible.
Love your videos
2:50 Two things. First, I being born from a Peruvian Parent, have always known "Quichua" as "Quechua", and have just learned from this portion that it was also known as "Quichua".
Second, I neither speak, nor understand the language, so when She Mentioned the language, I didn't understand the name right away, but then she said it was indigenous to Ecuador, it took a while for me to clock it.
I'm So Happy I got to Hear Quechua/Quichua again for the first time in a while. Much Love from the US ❤ 🇵🇪 🇪🇨 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇦🇷 🇨🇱
Something similar to this scenario would be fun if it would happen:
Question for a European: name all countries that are part of the Caribbean Region.
European: “Dominica, Bahamas, Cuba, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominican Republic, St. Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago. Ooh, I can’t think of the last one, I’m so f*cking dumb!”
Question for a USA resident: name a country outside of the USA.
USA Resident: “California”
Lingualizer: “That’s a US state”.
USA Resident: “Paris”
Lingualizer: “That’s a city”.
USA Resident: “Africa”
Lingualizer: “That’s a continent. Do you know where in Europe a war is going on?”
USA Resident: “Europe, that’s a country right?”
Lingualizer: “NO. Ever heard of Ukraine?”
USA Resident: “Yeah, of course"
Lingualizer: "Now THAT'S a country"
USA Resident: "So I know a country. I’m so f*cking smart!”
Bruh I’m an American yet I know almost every countries in the world
@@cheetahjammerplaysaj591 Nice! Unfortunately, most Americans don't know a lot
2:02 It’s obviously than that girl is not from Morocco.
The Urugaian girl 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 what a menace
6:00 I don't think he speak Nahuatl he didn't even pronounce the name of the language correctly
To me it looks like he at least knows some words from that language, now, the Argentinian guy from minute 7:23 claimed to speak some language from Colombia, I'm Colombian and I had never heard that language. Lingualizer should have used his phone to verify whether such language indeed exists.
You owe the Chinese guy a drink
0:45 Skåunepåug!!! 😊😊😊😊
(The dude is from Scania (Skåne), the southernmost part of Sweden.)
1:13 bro let me give you a piece of advice! If the language sounds like Spanish, but you don't understand a word of it, it means it's Greek! At least that's how I see it as a Romanian😂
In from Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and I’ve watched for 4 1/2 years
Умрях, като не позна македонският 😅😂 😅😂😅😂
The Greek one was so easy, how did you not get it
The best moment is when a person kicks the light out 😂
im actually suprised that I hoped czech or slovak language would be in this video and i just saw first 3 seconds, now im happy
nice videos bro but where in valencia is this place|?
As others have said, you should've given money to the Chinese guy. The Chinese for example call Cantonese a dialect, when it's actually a different language from Mandarin. Mandarin and Cantonese are much more different than the Scandinavian languages for example
I think duolingo helped me understand something like "vandaag is een mooie dag".
love it the bg flag on your tshirt :)|)
Actually, neapolitan has been recognized as a language, in Italy there are many dialec,t but neapolitan and sardo (language from Sardinia) are actually languages! (Sorry for my english)
Man is getting drunk everyday i swear
The pa pa.po girl has a sense of humor😂😂
as a greek person, i leteraly died of laughter when he started swearing in greek. It was too good too be true 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ask them to sing a song in their language and guess it🎉
Italian guy has a nice smile😊
9:25 "oh is italian" proceed to speak spanish for some reason
I don't know much about languages, but instantly knew it was kichwa whe she said "achachay" and "atatay" (which mean "Ow its cold!" and "Ow its hot!") and I'm kinda proud I knew that :D
Neapolitan is a full language. The naming issue between language and dialect is purely political and has no linguistic grounds.
This
Sicilian is a separate language too.
Chinese dialects are languages that have the same writing as mandarim but are spoken differently
source: I remember watching a video about it like 6 years ago but I might be wrong
actually even the writing is different too, and some "dialects" don't even have standardised writing systems, that's how different they are
@@dingus42 that's pretty cool!! As I said I had a false memory from an old video, china is a really big country and there's more diversity than most people think
~Light fucking dies~
"Oh shit"
there are many good arguments to be made for whether or not a dialect is a different language because the arab world man
what's your favorutie language?
Está en Valencià?
I have one for you Peter, do you know why Brazil was the only country in South America colonized by Portugal and not by Spain?
0:10 the woman said “you have buttery hair (or idk how to say it ) and hairy ears” she also said something about the nose but I couldn’t really make out what she was saying 😂
the american guy really trolled you 😂😂😂😂
edit: wtf that guy with the colombian flag and speaking some wierd Chinese dialect xd
Che, la Uruguaya en 8:05 te dijo solo insultos uno atrás del otro.
I also understand Spanish but 8:35 threw me so off!! I thought it was portugués 💀😂 can someone explain?
Ok but does he have les cramptés ?
9:45 if you're from vienna , why you have the bulgarian flag 🇧🇬 on your shirt ?
The question with the Chinese guy is, does a “language” that sounds _vaguely_ similar to another language, but uses the exact same written script, count as an actual language? Do chinese dialects like Minnan, shanghainese, cantonese, wenzhounese, Fujianese etc count as “languages”??
I think is a little bit presumptuous for you to expect drunk people to read hahahaha
I mean could you guess this: Glab nd dast du ds so guad kaust dast ds entzifferst (warat wüd wal a wiana suiat di stuasteira kinnan)
Uff kommt der gute einfach aus Wien 🎉🎉
The Chinese person is speaking a dialect from shantou, where my hometown is :D
"Users don't read" ist doch die erste Regel des Internets und des Lebens an sich.
Heh, I knew you would miss Macedonian. Wish I was the one that said that to you. :)
Хахахах 😅😂😅😂 да!
ahahahaha the first french girl ahahaha
Ripped my ass when he guessed the gibberish was Finnish 🤣🇫🇮
8:05 Jajajaja la uruguaya qué bien la hizo
7.07 Nope 🥲
How can you claim to love languages but not know any outside of Europe?? like how do you mix up Korean and a Chinese language (Teochew) 💀
Well, has he ever been outside of Europe? I don't even think he has been to the U.S..
@@Dah42 true 💀 buddy talks a lot of smack on Americans for never having been there