This is a criminally undersubscribed channel. I really hope it grows Dave, you thoroughly deserve it. Thanks.

@ManteIIo

9 ай бұрын

youtube's algorithm creators need to get fired

This whole channel is a gift

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ManteIIo

9 ай бұрын

This whole channel is most underrated in the whole youtube.

very underrated channel

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for saying so. Grateful for any shares you’d like to give it.

I'm not sure exactly why your channel suddenly appeared in my suggested views last night, but I'm glad it did, as this is content that definitely deserves many more views per year. I'm not sure if it's a bit of a nitch subject, as the American viewers would say, but I think many more people could be entertained by this channel. I can do many of the British accents and the French, but I am now suddenly inspired to set about learning to do a passable Russian accent, there's probably many You Tube videos on exactly that subject.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

10 ай бұрын

Yes, it suddenly took off about a month ago. Weird how the algorithm works! I might do something on Russian accents one day, but that might have to wait till Putin is out of the picture.

I got excited when you said you're flying to California, because after hearing you do a hundred other languages and accents in so many videos, I'm dying to hear you do MY accent (Nothern California)

I was waiting and waiting for you to relate the Welsh ll with isiZulu hl and you did! Yay!!

Very funny and instructive...I'll fly to space with you if I can wear my Vulcan ears...

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Rest assured, we do not discriminate on the basis of ear shape.

The craziest consonant clusters are in Georgian ! They're downright surreal !

this is my first time watch your channel and ilove it, I am interesting in learning african right now, me myself speak indonesian(as my mother language), english, sundanese, javanese, arabic, french , well thank you dave, ure inspiring me to continue my learning..

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Best of luck!

@Sqk.

9 ай бұрын

african…?

Mongolian has a voiceless lateral fricative that sounds much like the Welsh you demonstrated here. And your Chinese was pretty good too!!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was interested to see it in Mongolian too. And thanks for your comment about my Chinese.

Love it

Got some life-extending laughs out of this video, love your channel. Though i was disappointed that you didn't mention Icelandic in your list of languages having the "voiceless L" , their volcanoes all seem to have it in their names...😂

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

10 ай бұрын

Ah, but there’s a slight difference between voiceless l̥ like in Icelandic, and voiceless fricative ɬ like in Welsh, Navajo and Mongolian.

@Schnolle

10 ай бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages Addmitedly I suspected as much, but after comparing up the IPA symbol in Wikipedia's article with the one in the video I jumped to the conclusion. So it seems either you, I, or Wikipedia is wrong - which is it?

I think i bought the same Welsh book!

He is so funny and amazing

The Zulu for house is very similar to the Greenlandic word for house. It's Indlu

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating coincidence.

2:08 He doesn't know about Georgian _gvprtskvni,_ though that's more than 1 syllable (unlike the Russian word).

gefeliciteerd met je nieuwe saldo! zeg, ik zit effe krap, zal ik je mijn IBAN nummer even geven?

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Dank je wel en het doet me plezier je bankgegevens aan te nemen!

@fukpoeslaw3613

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages ha ha ha, had eerst helemaal niet door dat ik was overgegaan op engels. (ik schrijf mijn KZread comments bijna altijd in 't engels, voor een internationaal publiek.)

Interesting body language at 7:06 onwards.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Giles. That’s a interesting observation. What do you think is going on?

@StuartNunn-sk9ol

9 ай бұрын

He is using repetitive hand gestures to emphasise his points and express determination and passion. Very interesting.

The initial part of the chinese sound is exactly like the russian ы right?

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kamil. That’s a very interesting point and I can see what you mean. I think Russian Ы /ɨ/ is further forward in the mouth.

@gibbssampler

2 жыл бұрын

The Russian ы is very similar to the Estonian õ but I could never put my finger on the slight difference. Today I learned there is an exact match for õ in Chinese instead. Interesting stuff!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

@@gibbssampler Yes, it does seem the Estonian sound is ɤ too. And Estonian has so many diphthongs! Scary!

@interparoloj

2 жыл бұрын

It is similar, but at the same time sounds so recognizably foreign and Chinese for my Russian ears.

@kamilkarwacki9590

2 жыл бұрын

@@interparoloj right but I only mean the first half of the chinese sound, after that i can also really feel that it is a very,.. chinese sound :D

Chinese speaking skills are so well 👏

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

谢谢！

ɬ is the most horrible sound in the world. It makes you spit saliva, which is rather dangerous nowadays. My favorite sound is the ejective k as in "k'argad" in Georgian or "k'wank'wa" in Amharic. It is a rather rare sound, as it only occurs in four languages. Then we have the Czech ř, which is exclusive to that language and is said to be the last sound Czech kids master. It can be voiceless, as in "přítel" or voiced, as in "Jiří".

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Poor old /ɬ/, you will hurt its feelings! As to saliva and contagion, I would have thought /θ/ was more of a danger. Bilabial rolls [ʙ] and especially [ʙ̥] are particularly hazardous, but are thankfully quite rare. I do agree with you on ejectives - wonderful sounds. They aren’t as rare as you say, though. Many languages in African and North America have them - Navajo even has /ɬ’/! - and some accents in northern England use them word finally. Czech ř is indeed cool too.

@ManteIIo

9 ай бұрын

Lmao, he actually made reference to this comment in his next video called "Polyglot on a talk show"