As a catalan speaker I find that Catalan is really easy to understand.

@meritxellcarceller7488

4 жыл бұрын

@@joret9814 Jo estic sorpresa d'entendre'm i tot! XD

@eduardobouzas1266

4 жыл бұрын

No fucking way

@xavierpatinyo

4 жыл бұрын

same

@1702Felip

4 жыл бұрын

LoL

@meritxellcarceller7488

4 жыл бұрын

@Dean Martin Aleshores ens entendrem :)

As a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, Catalan sounds to me like a crossbreed between French and Spanish, but spoken with the Portuguese accent of Portugal.

@elkrim8936

3 жыл бұрын

in fact, Italian language according to linguistics it's even closer to Catalan than French, Portugyese or castellano/Spanish. As to pronounce refers Portuguese its clearly very similar since in Catalan we have almost the same sounds (the J of João but NOT the J of Juan) and we akso use the letter ç (França as in Portuguese). But there is still one language that is even closer to Catalan than Italian which is Occitan (a language spoken in the south half of France and in Valle d'Aosta in Italy (also spoken in a small county in the Catalan Pyrinees called Val d'Aran)

@fernandyprima6728

2 жыл бұрын

I do not speak any of the languages but I have heard of Spanish, French (my friend speaks French) and Portuguese spoken before and I have the same idea as you

@rafillo01

2 жыл бұрын

@@fernandyprima6728 It´s weird, but with time you kinda get used to it.

@rorychivers8769

2 жыл бұрын

I did the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian courses on Duolingo when it was still pretty new, I was also using the equivalent Pimsleur courses for each language. This was after travelling through the Carribean, Panama, Ecuador and French Polynesia and realising how dumb it was that I hadn't put more effort to understand the languages before setting out, so I was maybe overcompensating. Anyway when Duolingo said they were going to come out with Catalan as well, I really thought 'well, maybe this is superfluous...., but in for a penny, I'll try it if they ever finish it' It took a long time to develop that course, however when it finally appeared it felt at at the same time like a language I already met but had never encountered before. It really feels like some sort of magical hidden 'keystone' language that holds the bridge between them all together. How can it be that it can seem like a dialect of Spanish, a dialect of Italian, and even a dialect of French simultaneously? No other Romance can claim all to be all three. It honestly baffles me how it ends up treated like an unwanted stepchild, when it should be marvelled at and studied and promoted to anyone who will listen.

@LobyDobster

2 жыл бұрын

@@rorychivers8769 Well, it is a separate language and culture. In fact, Spain is a very "forced" country in that it has many cultures and languages that the world doesn't really know about because of the dominance of Castilian Spanish. There used to be several kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula and they were all but one (Portugal) included in Spain through a series of conquests and diplomatic actions. I don't know enough about it but I certainly know there are many romance languages should be treated as separate, though they follow a certain continuum between Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.

I am a native English speaker with Spanish as a second language. I am constantly surprised by how much I can understand of the romance languages. I love these videos! Keep on producing them.

@carylmoore7505

Жыл бұрын

I am also an English speaker with French and Spanish as second languages and it was interesting how much I understood. Catalan is a fascinating language.

@emilstorgaard9642

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Yea because you see it written and with a lot of repetitions.

@lunainezdelamancha3368

5 ай бұрын

I speak Italian, English, and Spanish and I agree with you 💯. Languages are fun!!

@itchyPoncho

17 күн бұрын

@@emilstorgaard9642 you make a great point tbh I have maybe a a2/b1 level in French as a native English speaker (French is my my only other language) but without the text it would take me MANY listens to actually understand what she is saying

@emilstorgaard9642

17 күн бұрын

@@itchyPoncho Yes exactly, in real life, it would be much harder

Part of me wonders if Isidro realizes that she’s literally from Spain so she also knows how to speak Spanish

@joelrodriguezorth305

3 жыл бұрын

Of course she realizes that xd, but the fun thing is to watch the Mexican man trying to understand catalan

@Eva-co5zh

3 жыл бұрын

I doesn't really matter, he's not only speaking to her but also to the canadian guy and the future viewers, who might not speak either spanish or catalonian

@kylekinneer1116

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eva-co5zh I see your point. I felt like he was directing the question to her more so, which had confused me because I was like it's literally in the Spanish constitution that all Spanish citizens know how to speak Spanish and it seemed like he thought she only spoke Catalan. Anyway no harm, no foul.

@Sphere723

3 жыл бұрын

She obviously knows French as well.

@staciestudies4177

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylekinneer1116 how tf is he suppose to know that???

Catalan: Cullera French Guy: Ohhh! Mexicano: JAJAJAJAJA

@carloschairez534

4 жыл бұрын

No pude contener la risa 🤣

@jonpetter8921

4 жыл бұрын

Note French, french canadian

@juanme555

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonpetter8921 Quebecoise is what French would sound if spoken all over the American continent , deal with it.

@fs400ion

4 жыл бұрын

@@juanme555 Just like English mostly is American English. But this fact doesn't imply that there are no other English accent beside the american one

@miogs4825

3 жыл бұрын

Mas gracias medios cuando no le dijo que era esperma!

It's so funny to hear people speak three different languages and still understand each other. Is this how it sounds when scandinavians meet? :-)

@knutinho2001

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@element4element4

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pretty much. Except sometimes the swedes look a bit confused until the danes talk slowly.

@juliusfog9587

3 жыл бұрын

I'd say that the Scandinavian languages are a lot more closely related being a speaker of both Danish and French. I watched the video and had a rough idea of what the Catalan girl was saying due to common key words, but a lot went over my head. I had maybe say around 60% of comprehension with the aid of subtitles. I understood about 40% of what the Mexican guy was saying. Comparatively I understand about 95% of written Norwegian (bokmål) and about 80-90% of "standard" Olso Norwegian. Swedish is more like 80% when written and 60-70% when spoken, and it's not uncommon for Danes and Swedes to just switch to English when faced with difficulties in understanding one another.

@henrys3138

3 жыл бұрын

Sort of but sometimes they joke not even the Danes understand each other.

@DavitosanX

3 жыл бұрын

I suppose the mexican guy speaks some french, but actually most spanish speakers wouldn't be able to understand spoken french.

As a French speaker, I don't think I would have gotten very far without the subtitles, but when reading it was pretty easy to understand Catalan.

I'm italian from the south, in Puglia, and when she says "L'utilizem per manjar" I laughed becouse it's the same sound in my dialect!

@Alan-xe4st

3 жыл бұрын

How is it spelt in your dialect (language)?

@gu3sswh075

2 жыл бұрын

Similar to Sicilian

@rookiemaster4318

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alan-xe4st FIY in italian it’s spelled “Lo utilizziamo per mangiare” You normally don’t “write” in dialect, you just speak dialect, works similar to the british dialects as well, at the end they all write in english even though a Birmingham citizen wouldn’t understand a word of what a Liverpool citizen is saying.

@Alan-xe4st

2 жыл бұрын

@@rookiemaster4318 thank for your answer

I am Italian and I find Catalan extremely easy to understand. The phonetics (pronunciation) system is not that far from the Italian one, so it's quite intelligible and the Italian vocabulary is also much closer to Catalan than to Spanish. Here are some examples: Molt (catalan) molto (italian) muy (Spanish) Fer (Catalan) fare (Italian) hacer (Spanish) Joc (Catalan) Gioco (read: joko; Italian) Juego (Spanish) Paraula (Cat.) Parola (Ita) Palabra (Esp) Parlar (Cat.) Parlare (Ita) Hablar (Esp) Començar (Cat) Cominciare (Ita) Empezar (Esp) Menjar (Cat.) Mangiare (read: Manjare; Ita) Comer (Esp) Perxò (Cat) Perciò (read: Perchò; Ita) por eso (Esp) Anar (Cat) Andare (in some italian dialects It exists: Annare; Ita) Ir (Esp) Escoltar (Cat.) Ascoltare (Ita) Escuchar (Esp)

@aliffirfan9267

4 жыл бұрын

I think "molto" in Italian cognates to "mucho" in Spanish

@letiziac5492

4 жыл бұрын

@sHaDoW HuNtER yes of course, but "Molto" is still more similar to "molt" than to "Mucho". In italian we use "molto" for both "mucho" and "muy": for example, in the video, the girl says: "molt bè" which in italian would be: "molto bene" and in spanish : "muy bien" or the sentence "It's very cold" in catalan is "Fa molt de fred"; in italian: "Fa molto freddo"; in spanish "Hace mucho frio"

@Benimore

4 жыл бұрын

It would be great to see a video with Occitan, Catalan and Italian speakers. The Occitan speaker could be from the Languedoc or Provence regions, which I figure are the ones with a stronger connection to both Italian and Catalan languages (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

@kodekadkodekad4380

4 жыл бұрын

No you're absolutely right, but the problem is that it would be a nightmare to find a young fluent native speaker of Occitan in France!

@letiziac5492

4 жыл бұрын

​@@kodekadkodekad4380 Occitan is also spoken by a community of 180,000 people in northern Italy, but yes, I don't think young people speak it fluently. Unfortunately, this language is disappearing

Like si ets català o el parles

@learnhistory748

3 жыл бұрын

Mayorquí

@arnaucalvache1913

3 жыл бұрын

Jo si :)

@yerayjosediazexposito3815

3 жыл бұрын

Valencià, una mica diferent, però son la mateixa llengua després de tot.

@chinyereemmanuelnwoye1721

3 жыл бұрын

Som-hi! 🙂

@kozmickarmakoala3526

3 жыл бұрын

lluc...Si el parlo , una vegada quan era a Barcelona fent turisme a l´Eixample, encara no parlava bé com ara i he anat a la farmácia de Passeig de Grácia , raconada de la Casa Milá , tenia mal de gola i el dependent em va fer que demanés el antibiotíc en catalá ! Sóc NEOYORQUí , BLANC ,DE PARES CUBANS DE ABANS EL COMUNISME i parlo castellá perfecte !!! Doncs vaig fer bé demanant peró ell era un covard a darrere de quatre barres de ferro :Era de nit.Aixó no és fa a ningú !!! Vaig dir "un dia me la pagarás" . No saps quanta felicitat vaig sentir per aquell fill de puta FEIXISTA DE MERDA quan vau perdere el referendum. La Unió EUROPEA DEIA PAS !!! VISCA CATALUNYA !!! VISCA ESPANYA !!! MIRA QUANT ESTIMO EL CATALÁ !!!

Catalan is the most beautiful language in the world! A mix of French and Spanish. There's no over politeness nor delicate way to speak it. What a shame it's not spoken outside of Catalunya. Saludos desde Brisbane Australia.

@gracecarpinter8623

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Catalan is spoken outside of Catalunya - it is also spoken in Valencia and the Balearic Islands and, outside of Spain, in the tiny country of Andorra (sandwiched between France and Spain in the Pyrenees) and there is also a dialect in part of Sardinia (Italy). I agree that it is an interesting language and should be better-known.

@The_InfantMalePollockFrancis

Жыл бұрын

Too bad the catalans are super impolite lol

@_blank-_

11 ай бұрын

In France, there is Catalan's sister language: Occitan. Unfortunately, it's disappearing due to France's single language policy...

@cacogenicist

10 ай бұрын

Interesting. I do not find the phonology pleasant. Sounds like someone took a cleaver to words and hacked the ends off. And the affricates are harsh.

@sthenotheG

9 ай бұрын

@@gracecarpinter8623 And in Italy (Alguer), Aragón (Franja de Ponent) and Múrcia (el Carxe). I'm from the Franja de Ponent, so I would know. Don't forget that Greeks still remember the Catalan invasions, so...

Being able to speak a romance language is truly a blessing

The mexican guy's face when repeating "Cullera" He wants to say it but he knows he shouldn't!

@leolanguages7830

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@eddiex009

3 жыл бұрын

You can say that someone is a culero" or a "culera" when they are assholes, is ofensive but not as much as you can think, there are words way more ofensive in the spanish vocabulary, also if you doesnt want to sound rude, you can said that he/she is "culey" like my sister when she took my soda from the fridge

@paranoidrodent

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, I recognized that expression. Linguistic drift and new meanings can lead to hilarious differences. It's the one French Canadians get when French guys talk about their "gosses", particularly if they offer to show photos. In France, that means his kids. In Canada, that's a vulgar term for his testes. Canadians also use it as a verb to crudely describe having tried various things to get something working again, typically some sort of device (akin to "I screwed around with the gadget until I got it working"). Both uses are very informal words. Clearly the word has some etymological root pertaining to reproduction but it diverged rather amusingly sometime after 1760. It's also the same look every English Canadian school kid gets when they are first taught to word for "seal" (the marine animal) in French class (phoque - sounds like the English F word with a French accent). My aunt taught French out in BC and that one just exasperated her.

@gabelilyrose00

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing 😂😂

@theultrawarrior7448

3 жыл бұрын

Just like in Tagalog (in the Philippines) "puto" is a rice pastry 🙊 🙉 🙈 🤣

When the Catalan woman and the Mexican guy were talking to each other, everything was ok. Then the Canadian guy started speaking, and I was like: "Nooo, please, I don't understand youu" ahahahahaahaha

@Epopteya

3 жыл бұрын

Catalan woman is bilingual as everyone in Catalonia. Is not a fair play

@vasskolomiets41

3 жыл бұрын

For me, the situation was au''contrairy... Perhaps it is because am Russian, who's living in Montreal for twenty years...

@hoosomio

3 жыл бұрын

Who wants to learn Catalan? Being able to learn Spanish is spoken by 600 million people. Who knows Spanish understands Catalan. It is very similar. .. It's true

@Rebrutez

3 жыл бұрын

Because the catalan language is from Spain, so that meand the girl must understand spanish Source: i am catalan

@meyu1468

3 жыл бұрын

Pepe the Frog just a reminder there’s a different between using ‘French’ as an adjective for nationality/ethnicity and as an adjective for language-speaking. They were most likely just referring to him as ‘the French-speaking guy’ but in a shortened, more colloquial way

I did French from childhood to Freshman year (9th grade), Spanish in Sophomore and Junior (10th and 11th) and Ancient Greek and Latin in university. Listening to this is a serious mind trip, so much Latin influence.

This is sooo cool. Three people speaking 3 different languages but they understand each other!!! We’re all one race at the end of the day, the human race ❤️

@Diosvaporti

2 жыл бұрын

No, what this shows is that the three ones are Roman.

@NeiR

2 жыл бұрын

Put an Arabic person doing the quiz to a Japanese and a Thai ones.

@wordart_guian

2 жыл бұрын

@@Diosvaporti *Romance

@sedraopamp

2 жыл бұрын

They're sibling languages. Every region has its match language with others. For instance, as far as I know, Sweden language has a lot of english words.

@mikhaelvaillancourt8623

2 жыл бұрын

Add a German and it's over 😂

As a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker I understood: Spanish: 100% Catalan: 75% French: 40% (60% when written)

@cibelleprado4602

3 жыл бұрын

Como estou estudando francês deu pra entender praticamente tudo, incrível

@Lovelypao88

3 жыл бұрын

Same here native Spanish speaker

@bommunyaka_koyaryaka

3 жыл бұрын

As russian, i understand 0% of these languages

@hanzgolden

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@dannyboy5086

3 жыл бұрын

As a native English speaker in Texas who took a few Spanish classes: Spanish: 40% (95% when written) Catalan: 2% French: -500%

I'm Italian and I understood almost everything everyone said, but, admittedly, Catalan and French would have been much harder to understand without subtitles

@judna1

4 жыл бұрын

Da vero? Io sono catalana, ma imparei italiano tempo fa. Perchè feci un tirocinio in Roma in 2016 per due mesi. Adesso ho dimenticato tante cose, especialmente dopo di imparare il portoghese, ma ancora posso parlare la lingua. Ecco, quello que io voleva dire é che imparai più semplicemente il italiano perchè parlavo già il catalano. Queste lingue c'è l'hanno parechie parole uguali o somiglianti, come: finestra, mai e manca que sono esatamente uguali oppure parole come asciuguare/aixugar, pesce/peix che hanno la stessa radice e suonano quasi uguali...

@letiziac5492

4 жыл бұрын

@@judna1 Ciao, io sono italiana e posso dirti che in Catalano è probabilmente più difficile la pronuncia però, sì, le parole catalane sono più simili a quelle italiane. Ecco alcuni esempi del video: Molt (catalan) molto (italian) muy (Spanish) Fer (Catalan) fare (Italian) hacer (Spanish) Joc (Catalan) Gioco (read: joko; Italian) Juego (Spanish) Paraula (Cat.) Parola (Ita) Palabra (Esp) Parlar (Cat.) Parlare (Ita) Hablar (Esp) Començar (Cat) Cominciare (Ita) Empezar (Esp) Menjar (Cat.) Mangiare (Ita) Comer (Esp) Perxò (Cat) Perciò (Ita) por eso (Esp) Anar (Cat) Andare (in some italian dialects It exists: Annare; Ita) Ir (Esp) Escoltar (Cat.) Ascoltare (Ita) Escuchar (Esp)

@judna1

4 жыл бұрын

@@letiziac5492 A lingua che aiutò di più quando imaparai il italiano fu il catalano😊

@lissandrafreljord7913

4 жыл бұрын

@@letiziac5492 In Spanish we do have the words Comenzar and Andar.

@neyouxddd2371

4 жыл бұрын

@@letiziac5492 Comenzar is in spanish and andar are also cognates

What’s crazy is, I know French, I’m learning Spanish, and Catalan actually sounds like a little cousin of the two. Like, there were a great deal of words the woman was using that I didn’t understand or even partly recognize, BUT, through context I understood her

@calebf3655

3 жыл бұрын

Catalan and French are both Gallo-Romamce languages so that makes sense

Saludos de un Salvadoreño: Yo entendí Catalán: 70% Francés: 20%

As a French speaker, with the subtitles I understand like 90% of what she says. That’s crazy how similar to French it is when you can READ (without subtitle I would struggle).

@CestSG

3 жыл бұрын

bgdan1010 Me, too. Catalan is very similar to French.

@loitadoranonimo6811

3 жыл бұрын

As diferenzas máis importantes entre o francés e o resto de linguas latinas son sobre todo na fonoloxía (Galicien pour: "Les differences les plus importants parmis le français et les autres langues latines sont surtout à la phonologie")

@ferpinguG

3 жыл бұрын

@@CestSG Its also similar to Spanish. In fact, Catalán Speackers understand 100% Spanish

@maria-luciaraffinatore

3 жыл бұрын

I was going to say it sounds like Occitan, the language in which the Troubadours would write their song in the medieval France

@arturramirez7640

3 жыл бұрын

@@maria-luciaraffinatore It literally is the closest language to catalan, it's its closest "relative"

I'm French. Fluent in Spanish. And I understood 80%. It sometimes sounds more similar to French than to Spanish in my opinion. I love catalan so much.

@numols

4 жыл бұрын

I understand a little bit of occitan... Which obviously must help me.

@adrianaalsinaescabosa3396

4 жыл бұрын

manu hildeberg Actually, Catalan is a variation from Occitan and probably that is what you kind of hear here: back in the day it was the same political region (a thousand years ago almost) and we shared the language with the south of France, but that shared language was Occitan, not French. The thing is the Pyrenees (Pirineus for us^^) were in the middle of that region and that is why the accent started to evolve in a different pronunciation on the two sides of the mountains and with time Catalan became a thing ‘per se’ till nowadays. Here we are all 100% fluent in Spanish too due to politics, but if you live outside Barcelona, our lives happen completely in Catalan: we study everything - kindergarden to university - using Catalan (try to do math in a language than isn’t your mother tongue... impossible!), we use it at work, friends, family, to go shopping, order online, etc. Also, many of us speak English or French, English for obvious reasons, French for the proximity with the country. Thanks for the appreciation of our language! We love it so deeply because it has been banned many times and we have resist every time even when it was about to disappear, that’s why we consider it our most valuable asset in our specific Catalan culture... and every time somebody says they like it, our heart melts a bit in happiness!

@numols

4 жыл бұрын

@@adrianaalsinaescabosa3396 estoy siempre sorprendido por el super buen nivel de frances que hablais en Catalunia. Habeis salvado y conservado vuestro idioma à pesar de Madrid à pesar de franco y es increible. Para nosotros... Es otra historia... El puto estado centralizador jacobin creado por la révolucion logro su trabajo de destruccion total de Los particularismos culturales. Y de lo que in fine hacia la riqueza, la profundidad, y El Alma de este Pais.. Por 2 factores muy potentes : el ejercito y la escuela. Mi abuela murio hace 2 meses y Ella y Los de su généracion llevan la lengua occitan a sus tumbas... Se me podrian venir la lagrimas pensando en esto...tinc 30 anys...es la generacion de mi madre que dejo la lengua.. Hoy ya no es mas que algo folclorico...dicen las paradas en el métro de Toulouse en occitan... Y poco mas..ya ves tu.. La intento aprender pero la verdad es que es un combate vano. Visca El catalan y Visca la lengua d'oc lengua de l'amor y dels troubadors.

@adrianaalsinaescabosa3396

4 жыл бұрын

manu hildeberg Siento mucho escuchar eso... toda lengua es un patrimonio cultural sin fronteras ni estados ni política de ningún tipo, solo es eso, cultura! Pero hay muchos estados que entienden las diferencias entre sus ciudadanos como algo que temer, como una forma de no controlar a todos, y ciertamente Francia es un estado muy centralista en ese aspecto (aquí tampoco nos quedamos atrás, pero creo que vosotros lo habeis sufrido incluso más). A veces no entiendo muy bien como el Catalán ha logrado sobrevivir, y en parte creo que es por la eficacia con la que el ejército francés ha pisado vuestra lengua y cultura regional, haciendo que una generación entera piense que hablar occitano es de “pueblo” y no es culto... además las dos guerras mundiales afectaron mucho esa zona y aquí fué diferente en ese aspecto. Tampoco soy ninguna experta sobre el tema, simplemente me parece triste que no se haya mantenido (lo mismo con el Gaélico en Escocia, y mil ejemplos que ni siquiera conozco). Si nunca quieres practicar catalán (aunque no es Occitano, lo siento!) por mi genial, siempre va bién poder repasar francés!^^ Tu nivel de castellano también es muy bueno, felicidades! I si, visca el català, l’occità i la llengua d’Oc, llengua d’amor i trobadors!

@BeachBabyxo

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds more similar to French than Spanish? If I heard her talk I would had automatically thought she was speaking fluently Spanish

As someone who doesn't speak any of these languages, I was amazed how much I could understand from very, very, very little knowledge of Spanish and French, and from being fluent in English.

@sylamy7457

3 жыл бұрын

@Apollo Is Back Eh, that is true, but everyday language is primarily Germanic. The top 500 most used words in English are like 95% Germanic.

@theultrawarrior7448

3 жыл бұрын

67% of the English language is of romance language. Wow almost 3 ¹/⁴ Blessings

@theultrawarrior7448

3 жыл бұрын

@@sylamy7457 Only 23% of English is of Germanic origin While 67% is of Romance languages And only 7% is of Greek The last 3% is of unknown. Wrong, I can prove there are a lot of basic Spanish/Romance languages terms are used in English, e.g: Color/color Sofa/sofa Refrigerator/refrigerador Excellent/excelente Super/super Virus/virus Pandemia/pandemia Doctor/doctor Medic/medico Hospital/hospital President/president Medicine/medicina Television/television Cellular/celular Telephone/teléfono Radio/radio Perfect/perfecto Plant/plants Similar/similar List/lista music/música Secret/secreto Politic/politico Etc Not to mention the French terms 😅 Blessings

@galgrunfeld9954

2 жыл бұрын

@@monotrema7162 because you're wrong. There is no such thing as " *a* German language. There are *dialects* of THE German language (Standard German) and Germanian language - which are a different thing. And English is much more than a Germanian language. LangFocus has a great video about it.

As a valenciano native speaker I found Catalan very easy to understand almost 100% I am fully surprised for that discovery

@alexandrejuve1305

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Lool

@victorvictor7089

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jajajajaja

Catalan sounds like a mix of spanish, portuguese, french and italian. Sounds good, sounds smooth to my ears. I liked it!

@Velkan1396

4 жыл бұрын

May I ask where are you from?

@Thedemonlord66

4 жыл бұрын

yeah until you go to Catalunya and you hear them speak at real speed while eating a lot of letters lol. Believe me, I'm studying in Girona and even when I speak French and Spanish, Catalan is quite a pain in the ass XD

@Velkan1396

4 жыл бұрын

@@Thedemonlord66 ask us to speak slower m8.

@XavierCucurella

4 жыл бұрын

For us, catalans, spanish sounds like a mix of portuguese, french and italian; italian sounds like a mix of spanish, french anb portuguese; portuguese sounds like a mix of french, spanish and italian... and so on xD

@bv3893

4 жыл бұрын

@@XavierCucurella pero... ustedes hablan Español, no sé porqué decís que es una mezcla de esos idiomas

as a Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I may say: I could understand Catalan more than I thought I would. Beautiful language!

@jonathanizeppato6250

4 жыл бұрын

Tbm entendi muita coisa, tem palavras muito parecidas... tem muitas palavras próximas do italiano tbm...

@yan.f.s8266

4 жыл бұрын

É uma mistura doida de espanhol, francês e italiano. E esses idiomas já tem haver com o português então... hahaha Também gostei.

@viniciusbrito3132

4 жыл бұрын

Um poliglota brasileiro do KZread listou o catalão como a língua mais fácil de aprender, avô que é Gabriel poliglota o canal dele

@yan.f.s8266

4 жыл бұрын

@@viniciusbrito3132 Esse cara é engraçado até. Acho ele bacana mas (pra quem sabe um pouco de inglês pelo menos) eu prefiro mais os vídeos do Ikenna, ele tem um bom conteúdo.

@viniciusbrito3132

4 жыл бұрын

@@yan.f.s8266 maior namorador interlinguistico da internet kkkkk ele parece ser gente boa, assisto pouco ele

English is my first language but I have a pretty good grasp of Spanish and I understood all three of these without subtitles and I am super proud of myself

All three participants were very kind in speaking in a adequate speed so that the rest of us could understand. Pati, you are in the right profession; your teeth are perfect!

Sou falante nativo de português. Entendi: Espanol-100% Catalá- 85% Français- 40%. Cumprimentos pelo belo vídeo.

@SNM34

4 жыл бұрын

As a French speaker, Portuguese is usually the language I understand the least when compared to Spanish or Italian (and Catalan in this video). Interesting to see it's the same for you, I guess Portuguese and French diverted more from Latin than the other ones.

@HamzadesUS

4 жыл бұрын

Samuel M yeah same here I’m french I understand everything in Catalan Italian and Spanish but Portuguese is so different from the others

@fs400ion

4 жыл бұрын

I cant believe you can understand 100% Spanish without having any basics of it. You must be exaggerating

@TheSaltube

4 жыл бұрын

@@fs400ion Entendí 100% del que dijo el mexicano del vídeo, no dijo que entiendo 100% espanol. "Do you understood now "? 🤔It's sample. Todavia, se hablan rápido el espanol, no entiendo nada, o casi nada. Si, yo aprendi un básico de espanol y italiano. Abrazos de Brasil.

@TheSaltube

4 жыл бұрын

@@SNM34 I agree with you. But for me, french becomes more understandable in It's written form.

The mexican guy is really cute when he explains her how the things are said in Spanish. As if the girl wasn’t a spanish native speaker LOL

@joelpeterson6051

4 жыл бұрын

But he also had to explain for the Canadian guy.

@paticubellsricart5961

4 жыл бұрын

She speaks fluent french and spanish, she already knew everything the two colleagues were telling her. The goal of this video, as the title says, was understanding her, not viceversa

@Hanstopo4455

4 жыл бұрын

@@paticubellsricart5961 You mean yourself haha. M'ha agradat molt!

@qabella669

4 жыл бұрын

Loool, exactly what I thought! I was kind of surprised that she didnt Mark when he asked if it was a candle. Because the french guy hasnt understood it yet. I cant stop myself to think that she'd like the french guy to understand Catalan quicker and more than the Spanish guy...

@paticubellsricart5961

4 жыл бұрын

Quinna Marie Abella do you know what “em sentiu?...ho torno a repetir” means? Even more when this goes with a frozen image?

Born in the US with Mexican parents but spoke Spanglish growing up. Somehow I can understand Catalan but spelling it is something else 😁 love the Catalan language. I’m learning it more everyday.

@georgeftw95

Жыл бұрын

bro a spoon is called culera lmfaoo

I'm a native English speaker with Colombian Spanish as my 2nd language plus having studied several years of Euro-French, I understood about 80% of the Catalan and Canadian French. Having the words onscreen definitely helped.

She sounds like she is speaking to a 3 year old to us native Catalans, here is why, she explains it perfectly at the end, we catalans speak really fast, and we tend to naturally eat quite a lot of letters while speaking

@MssBeccaSpain

4 жыл бұрын

Estava pensant el mateix xd

@paulacarbonellg

4 жыл бұрын

I thought exactly the same! It's funny how people in the comments say it's easy to understand considering people talk way faster in real life. Also I think if she was from someplace else in Catalonia it'd be harder, too. Vull dir d'una comarca d'interior per exemple, on hi ha moltes paraules que es pronuncien amb la vocal neutra i l'accent és més tancat (no sé com definir-lo)

@adromio

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulacarbonellg yup she has a very open accent from the city, Barcelona, but Catalan has also a very rich quantity of dialects, and some are very distinct from the others, I myself i am from Osona a region, with history that dates back ti the reconquista and the foundation of Catalonia, which has a unique deep low accent, specially among farmers, but that It is also is the place of birth of many caregiving thinkers, writters, philosophers, teologists and musicians of the catalan language, amongst them, the greatest catalan poet of all times, and to me of all times alone in the world; mossèn Jacint Verdaguer. Therefore so following your comment i Will explain This which you surely know but to our fellow non-catalans; there is variety inside Catalonia itself but also all the way from the French part of Catalonia, to the Valencian Country (from North to South of the so-called 'Catalan Countries' even though I don't really like this concept), where they call Catalan "Valencian", and to Alguer in Sardegna (Italy) where Catalan is also spoken (but it is already dying in there).

@paulacarbonellg

4 жыл бұрын

Adrià Međina-Altarriba I mean I really could not have worded this sort of explanation better than you already have. To be honest, I don't have anything else to add except for the fact that I am also from Osona. Nice coincidence! I find it ironic to talk to someone in one language when I could be doing so in another one, but I guess there's some sort of beauty in it, too. I hope a lot of people read your comment and learn more about Catalan

@lbriganti514

4 жыл бұрын

Adrià Međina-Altarriba you forgot the Balearic Islands! Hi there, I’m from Menorca :D

As an Italian speaker, Catalan is very easy to understand, more so than Spanish. I got all the words after only a few seconds of her explaining. Never realised it was so close! - -would love to see a video with Catalan and Italian and Romanian

@MisterExciting

2 жыл бұрын

It's funny, because as a Catalan myself I spoke few times with italian tourists here in Barcelona and we understand each other talking in our respective languages. The same with portugese. With french it happen at a minor level tho.

@dylantero-yu1631

2 жыл бұрын

Sí el Catalan y Italiano se parecen demasiado

@nursultanissayev6644

2 жыл бұрын

Не пи*ди тут😂😂😂😂😂😂

@simonepunzo4890

2 жыл бұрын

Io sono italiano e non ho capito quasi niente del catalano. Anzi il catalano e il francese si somigliano moltissimo

@simonepunzo4890

2 жыл бұрын

@@dylantero-yu1631 catalano e francese sono troppo simili. Io italiano non ho capito niente

How relaxing catalán is! I'm learning Spanish at the moment and the sound of the Spanish "j" is strange for me, as if it's from German or Russian. But Catalan pronounces the j like in French. This is easier

@FelipeCarreiro

2 жыл бұрын

The Portuguese J aiso sounds like French or Catalan.

@pheeku6996

2 жыл бұрын

@@FelipeCarreiro this is good!

As a French, Catalan is very easy to understand !

Vi la cara del mexicano luego de escuchar “Cullera” 🤣🤣🤣 the magic of languages!!! 🤘🤘🤘

@jaycorwin1625

4 жыл бұрын

I laughed too---it's hilarious.

@igorjee

4 жыл бұрын

Culera, jajaja.

@jordillach3222

4 жыл бұрын

Lo que pasa es que él oyó /culera/. Pero eso no es lo que la chica dijo. La pronunciación de la ll en catalán es como la pronunciación tradicional de la ll en castellano que lamentablemente pocas personas dicen ahora, la mayoría de los hispanohablantes se hizo yeísta. Ese sonido se parece al italiano _gli_ o el portugués _lh._ En el alfabeto IPA la pronunciación de _cullera_ es [ku'ʎerə]. Como el chico mexicano no está habituado al sonido ʎ, no lo percibió correctamente y lo asimiló a lo más cercano que conoce, la ele.

@maritzamartinez5376

4 жыл бұрын

Jajaj me muerooo😂😂

@FelipeCarreiro

4 жыл бұрын

@@jordillach3222 Exacto! En portugués, se dice colher.

The Catalan language is so charming! Ever since I watched Merli I wish to speak it

@azizmaatoug8535

3 жыл бұрын

Are u spanish ?

@rinnotkagamine11037

3 жыл бұрын

Catalan is really good for insulting people XD sooo u should learn it to insult your friends in a funny way

@firulaisgonzalez2008

3 жыл бұрын

Exemple d’ insult en català: torrecollons

@arnaucalvache1913

3 жыл бұрын

@@rinnotkagamine11037 es veritat jajaj

@jordivallesmonfort457

3 жыл бұрын

I strongly recommend you to learn Catalan. Is a very beautiful lenguage

Merli makes me want to learn Catalan. As a Spanish speaker from Ecuador who knows some Brazilian Portuguese, sometimes it’s easy to understand her, sometimes it’s tricky. It’s like Italian, Portuguese and Spanish combined with a hint of French.

M'ha encantat aquest vídeo! Sóc estudiant de català però la meva llengua materna és l'espanyol, així que he intentat endevinar recordant les paraules en tots dos idiomes. Em fa molt feliç veure la representació del català en aquests vídeos, és una llengua molt bonica!

When catalans talk to foreginers: Nosaltres anem a comprar el pa (We go to buy bread) Catalans talking to each other: Naltresnemacomprálpá

@paticubellsricart5961

4 жыл бұрын

so true!

@mickybcn7453

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaa tant junt no ho dic jo, jo dic , "nosaltres anem a cumprá el pa"

@dreov9865

4 жыл бұрын

@@mickybcn7453 jo ho dic com "nuzaltrazanemacumpralpa"

@mikicerise6250

4 жыл бұрын

nemcompraixó ;)

@mundoloco5418

4 жыл бұрын

Jo tenia un amic francés al que li parlava en valencià i sempre me dia lo mateix, que ells no compren pa. Pos ja me diràs com se mengen es ous fregits...

Se me hizo más fácil entender el catalán que el francés. Fue muy interesante este experimento lingüístico.

@GioGio14412

3 жыл бұрын

Normal, Cataluña es una región de España

@LuisFlores-tx4ee

3 жыл бұрын

Cualquier idioma es más fácil entender que el francés xd

@bielft1633

3 жыл бұрын

@@GioGio14412 no tiene mucho que ver, aparte que se habla en otros paises

@alex_lopez_iglesias

2 жыл бұрын

@@GioGio14412 No tiene nada que ver. Seguro que entiendes mejor el francés que el euskera, por ejemplo, y de la misma forma, seguramente entiendas mejor el portugués que el catalán, ya que se parece más al español.

@GioGio14412

2 жыл бұрын

@@alex_lopez_iglesias el euskera es un caso a parte. Y te puedo asegurar que se parecen mucho porque hablo tanto catalán como español

I've spent a lot of time in Catalunya and also Valencia where Valencian language is basically same as Catalan, but this is the first time to hear it spoken slowly and clearly so that non-Catalans can listen to it. I really enjoyed this experience because I found it surprisingly easy to understand everything she says. Of the major romance languages Catalan is the most beautiful to my ears, and I would love to have more opportunities to hear it spoken like she does in this video to better accustomate my ears and develop better listening comprehension for Catalan. It'd be wonderful to comprehend Catalan at natural speed eventually so when the pandemic is over and we can travel again I will be able to understand people much better in Catalunya, Valencia, Andorra and the Illes Balears the next time I visit!

I'm a french speaker who learnt Spanish at school, and it feels like Catalan is closer to Spanish, but there's also many similar words to French, so by knowing both languages, Catalan becomes pretty easy to understand.

@Lutefisk_Fettuccini

8 ай бұрын

Occitan is spoken in about 1/3 of the southern provinces in France, and that language was once considered one and the same with Catalan. A large part of the lexicon is shared between Occitan and Catalan, and written words are for the most part mutually intelligible. I’ve always been fascinated with the Romance languages in particular and wonder as a French speaker, have you ever heard Occitan spoken?

@ruskasielu6261

8 ай бұрын

@@Lutefisk_Fettuccini yes I actually have. As you mentioned the written words are quite close to French/spanish/Italian, but when spoken, the accent make it quite hard to understand. I think it'd be slightly easier for people from the south of France (I'm from the North) to understand, because of the accent and some dialects words that might be a bit more close to Occitan than standard french.

@Lutefisk_Fettuccini

8 ай бұрын

@@ruskasielu6261 It seems the French speaker had more trouble understanding langue d’oc, whereas the Catalan and Italian speaker had an easier time. I noticed right away the similarities between Occitan and Catalan, as the woman who spoke Catalan mentioned they’d be able to speak their respective languages and understand each other. My father is Norwegian and he said Norsk and Svensk (Norwegian and Swedish) are very similar spoken languages, and he’s able to understand Svensk. English, however, is the red headed stepchild in the Germanic family of languages. Are you able to understand Canadian French?

@ruskasielu6261

8 ай бұрын

@@Lutefisk_Fettuccini yeah I agree with what you said. As for Canadian french yes definitely, it's basically french with a different accent and some dialect words and expressions, so unless the person has a very strong accent it'd be easy to understand. Some french people might struggle, but it's just a matter of getting used to the accent. I've lived in Canada, and I never had any troubles understanding people there.

@ruskasielu6261

8 ай бұрын

Having studied a little Norwegian (bokmal), it seems to me Norway has dialects that are way more different than french and Canadian french

I’m a West African Francophone who speaks fluent Spanish and I understood everything everyone said which is crazy! Catalán is wayyy more beautiful than I expected and has more similarities to French and Portuguese than I would have anticipated

@loitadoranonimo6811

3 жыл бұрын

Si vous parlez espagnol et français.... Bon, le Catalan ne sera pas compliqué!

as italian, wathing this video, i can say that catalan is really understable by us too, mabye even more than spanish or french

@adamelhawari166

3 жыл бұрын

As a native catalan speaker I back up what you're saying, both Italian and French are closer to catalan than to spanish. I feel like I could have a conversation with an Italian perfectly and we would get to understand each other quite easily.

@ferMADify

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamelhawari166 cool! as a non-native speaker I always thought that Catalan sounds very close to both French and Italian.. thanks for confirming xD (By non-native I mean I'm not from a "roman language" speaking country)

@vicentantonbastazo6273

3 жыл бұрын

As a italo-catalan-spaniard I think the same. Mostly sure the closest lenguage is occitane and, then, italian.

@GustavoMaiaBrito

3 жыл бұрын

The same as me, Brazilian.

@feynman6625

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamelhawari166 No. You are a separatist...and that explains your words. I am from Zaragoza... saludos compatriota español. Sigue soñando con tu Cataluña independiente. Perderéis Barcelona, que se separará de los paletos nacionalistas.

I found it fascinating that despite me being a native English speaker and heritage Spanish speaker, who had been learning French as an adult, the Catalan was completely intelligible to me. I feel like I basically new everything she was saying.

Moltes gràcies per aquest vídeo👌👍

As Russian only one word: el cafe.

@ludwig4029

3 жыл бұрын

Ravil Bukhareev lmao

@rickhunter8216

3 жыл бұрын

RUSSIAN MUST USE OCCIDENTAL ALPHABET, AND ALL THE PEOPLE COULD LEARN EASIER RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.

@gustavosworld1

3 жыл бұрын

nochi+noche

@themobstar58

3 жыл бұрын

@tpszzz00 that's a silly reason, you can learn the alphabet in one day, just try to transliterate a full text

@kekeke8988

3 жыл бұрын

@@rickhunter8216 The Cyrillic alphabet is the easiest thing about Russian. It takes 1 hour to learn.

As a french speaker I understand Catalan: 95% Spanish:90%

@marioalenjandroh4485

3 жыл бұрын

Spanish speaker: Catalan: 85% French: 20%

@natpongprapai

2 жыл бұрын

Just by listening or by reading subtitle?

@nic12344

2 жыл бұрын

Same, but I took a Spanish class in high school, so I might be cheating...

@19ars92

2 жыл бұрын

As a Mexican I like Tacos: 100% Tortas: 80% Tamales 70%

@witchdark28

2 жыл бұрын

@@19ars92 x2

Hmm Catalan is such a cool language. It’s like French and Spanish combined which is pretty cool.

This was so much fun! I would like to see more episodes like this

Oh my God : Catalan sometimes sounds like Portuguese with some words in French here and there.

@cec8169

3 жыл бұрын

And for me Catalan sounds like Spanish + French with some words in Italian

@ScottJB

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. As a European Portuguese speaker and Spanish/Castellano speaker, for me it sounds more like some Italian dialects.

@cobracommander8133

3 жыл бұрын

To me it sounds to mostly like Italian with some Portuguese thrown in.

@stateless4255

3 жыл бұрын

@GustavusAdolphus1 I don't think so. Basque sentence structure is so different of romance languages, vocabulary has nothing to do with spanish, catalan or french. Really a different language. Spanish is in reality Castillan and it was born in the center of spain, at about 150 km from North of Madrid; Far from basque country.

@arturramirez7640

3 жыл бұрын

@@stateless4255 Maybe his comment was more aimed at phonetics, which is what makes a language sound like it does, even when you don't understand it.

I'm from North East Italy and Catalan is surprisingly understandable, even without subtitles

@MM-kq6fe

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Valencia and I signed for Italian classes only to discover I never needed them lol If you know both Spanish and Catalan you already know 80% of Italian.

@gigieinaudi24

3 жыл бұрын

Tieni conto che lei parla molto lento e nitido. Però hai senz’altro ragione il catalano è veronese parlato da uno di Lodi ;)

@lucarinaldichini324

3 жыл бұрын

Da bravo Torinese ho sempre trovato il catalano molto simile a tanti dialetti del nord

@gigieinaudi24

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucarinaldichini324 eh credo che tu abbia ragione perché il torinese è diciamo cugino delle lingue occitane che sono sostanzialmente l’alter ego orientale del catalano. Purtroppo in Francia la lingua d’oc è stata macellata da quelli di Parigi ma ancor oggi ne resta la eredità dalle valli alpine piemontesi ai Pirenei. Tegn dür mola mia :)

@makeupyourmind2019

3 жыл бұрын

Same

Knowing more than one Romance language makes Catalan really intelligible. I know Portuguese and Spanish and I was surprised with how much I was able to grasp.

What an amazing video, really refreshing to see this kind of content.

As a native French speaker I find that Catalan is really easy to understand when reading for me

@judna1

4 жыл бұрын

Same. I don't speak french, but I do speak: Catalan (my mother tongue), Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. And I can manage to understand a bit of French, but, I understand it better when I'm reading it.

@alovioanidio9770

4 жыл бұрын

What about portuguese? The francophones specially struggled a lot to understand in the last video

@fs400ion

4 жыл бұрын

@@judna1 You should learn French then! It's gonna be very useful and knowing all these similar to French languages, it will be really easy.

@TAKEmeTOtheMORGUE

4 жыл бұрын

As a native French speaker who also knows Spanish, I'd say Catalan is pretty intelligible to me.

@avaheih

4 жыл бұрын

So gentlemen, where are our "beloved" native Russian speakers who will now write comments about how they perfectly understood all 3 languages? ))) How do they usually do it, under all Norbert’s videos with Slavic languages))) At the same time, not understanding at 90% of Belarusian and Ukrainian))) Well, well))) 🤣🤣🤣 False, insidious, wild, worthless, cynical, feigned, Russian (Finno-Ugric) bastards!

as a French speaker, I can understand most of the Catalan it's true (but it's really slow and written as well, that helps)

@dangerous5953

4 жыл бұрын

same, reading it is quite easy but i wouldn't be able to understand just by hearing it.

@EgoJinpachi_

4 жыл бұрын

can u understand canadian french ?

@gostavoadolfos2023

4 жыл бұрын

The dude from canada is so slow, French is my 3rd language (English is 4th) and if was easy for me to understand her. He doesn't even know the difference between Canard and Canari in his own native language.

@karim2480

4 жыл бұрын

@@EgoJinpachi_ As a native french speaker of France we can understand Canadian French they just got an accent and some words change but it's French

@frops7698

4 жыл бұрын

@@EgoJinpachi_ of course, that's the same language, even though they have a different accent and some wieeeerd expressions :p

Yo creí que el catalán no era tan diferente al español perooo siii, es súper diferente, que bonitos son los idiomas

@danielsanabria6770

2 жыл бұрын

Como cuanto porcentaje entendiste?

I appreciated this so much!

Visca Catalunya! Vive le Québec! ¡Viva México! Um abraço de um falante do português do Brasil.

@littlewishy6432

3 жыл бұрын

*Visqui

@juanflores2882

3 жыл бұрын

Obrigado!

@mrfiestaloluntipoquecoment4521

3 жыл бұрын

Gracias bro aquí también los queremos

@range3383

3 жыл бұрын

Un abrazo para Brasil también un hermoso idiomas que tienen.

@canarioyespanol6446

3 жыл бұрын

Visca España, viva la hispanidad

Catalan girl: * is from Spain, where the Canary Islands are a region of it* Mexican guy: "Do you know canary birds?" Catalan girl: "...dude"

@paticubellsricart5961

3 жыл бұрын

not really

@NoName-hv7xn

3 жыл бұрын

@@guilhermemelo1307 It belongs to spain though.

@Ilianitadecamelot

3 жыл бұрын

XD A mi me hizo mucha gracia, ya que los catalanes hablamos Castellano perfectamente y sí, Canarias es de España

@nfmonteiro

3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, the Canary Islands ("Islas Canarias") aren't named after the birds, its name comes from Latin "Canariae Insulae", or "Islands of the Dogs". Further fun fact, the birds are, in fact, named after the islands. Dog birds :-)

@marilia0607

3 жыл бұрын

@Krifeto yeah but he wasn't speaking only to the girl, he was speaking to the viewers and the french guy aswell

I love that different people of different languages talk together, its beautiful! Hello from Spain

As a mexican who also speaks french it was really interesting to see that I could understand everything she said, like it is a combination of both

I am an Italian speaker and I understand 96% of what she said and I have no knowledge of spanish whatsoever

@gaipa2006

4 жыл бұрын

So is Italain a strong langauge? So if I learn italian will I be able to understand Spanish and Portuguese? Yes or No?

@pwnageshow2549

4 жыл бұрын

Atem Yak all the west mediteranian latin languages have strong ressemblance. Cause its latin + they interacted a looooot beetween echothers But french is the less compatible because its based on Paris version of latin. And not south of france version latin which was a now dead language named occitan Italian. Portuguese. Spanish. South french interacted a loot beetween echothers through trade. Commerce. War. Political issues etc. Which help the language not distance themselves too much

@kubadugosz5168

4 жыл бұрын

Hi I speak catalonian ,spanish and polish fluently.And it is the same when we speak with italian tourists ,we do not speak to them in spanish normally because we know that they would understand better in catalonian.Norbert ,mógł byś zrobić : Italian-Catalonian comparison ,jestem ciekawy,bo naprawde dużo słów jest bardzo podobnych w tych dwóch językach.

@cristianlicea6350

4 жыл бұрын

@@gaipa2006 if you learn Italian you will be able to understand most of Spanish and a little less Portuguese.

@cristianlicea6350

4 жыл бұрын

@@gaipa2006 when I went to Italy I only used Spanish and people understood fairly well.

I got to know Catalan because of an amazing series on Netflix, Merlí. fell in love with the series and the language

@judna1

4 жыл бұрын

Merlí🙌🏽

@camil6294

4 жыл бұрын

Such a good series!

@lingux_yt

4 жыл бұрын

@@ojrivas6843 in Brazil we had all three seasons! maybe you can use VPN

@mrfronzen

4 жыл бұрын

@@lingux_yt They recently made a spinoff that's not in Netflix about the life of one of the students (Pol) in university

@lingux_yt

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrfronzen yes! Sapere Aude

THIS IS SO EPIC THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS

I'm learning Catalan right now as my 2nd language (I only speak English) and this video felt really useful. I need more content like this. What she said near the end is so true. Catalans talk really fast and full of slang and even when I feel like I'm progressing with the language I visit Barcelona again and it's like my friends there aren't even speaking the language I've been learning...

@peperodriguezalcaraz2609

10 ай бұрын

All in all, Catalan might not have been the best idea for a language since its only spoken on the east of Spain and Andorra - and even then, most people will communicate using a mix of Spanish and Catalan/Valencian.

@arnaul_de_lapras5853

7 ай бұрын

I'm sorry for your friends not speaking you in catalan. Els catalans tenim aquesta mala costum, canviem al castellà en el moment en el que algú té la mínima dificultat per parlar la nostra llengua, no ho hem de fer, hem d'ajudar-hos a aprendre'l

@diabl2master

7 ай бұрын

@@peperodriguezalcaraz2609 You presume to know my desires and motivations? Don't tell me what language is best for me to learn. You don't know me.

Dude I can't believe you managed to put this together, you're making my dreams come true! Catalan is a hidden gem in the romance language family. If somebody speaks Spanish, it is a great gateway (in terms of vocabulary) to the languages further east of Spain such as Italian and French. The little bit of western Catalan I learned as a youngster visiting places like Lleida helped me learn Italian much faster than if I only spoke some Spanish no doubt. It is a great language with a very rich history.

@Ecolinguist

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :D I'm glad to hear that!

@ObvsCam93

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ecolinguist I know I'm asking for too much but if you could get an Italian speaker with a Catalan speaker it would make my year haha

@octaviantimisoreanu5810

4 жыл бұрын

seGuritas direct I’m interested in your language. It sounds beautiful. I will be moving to Valencia once this pandemic is over. So I’m excited to learn valencian/Catalan. Greetings from Canada. 🇨🇦 🇪🇸

@ObvsCam93

4 жыл бұрын

@@marinasj no problem! The western variant is my favourite and I need to learn more!

@nixxxon18

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad spaniards always attack and despise our language. They dont like any other language other than castillian. Unevolved hicks and primitives. No wonder so many of us catalans want independence!

As a Northern Italian I understand Catalan better than both French and Spanish. I literally understood 80+% of what she said.

@Glossologia

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, if one had to choose the most 'neutral' Romance language, Catalan would be a pretty solid contender, especially if you used Valencian as the basis since its phonology is even more straightforward for other romance language speakers.

@joelrodriguezorth305

3 жыл бұрын

I undersand Italian very well too (I am catalan). They are very similar languages

@kevinmartin93

3 жыл бұрын

My dad is italian, my mom catalan. They are always saying that both languages are very similar !

@adriasagues7265

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm catalan and I'm currently learning italian, and even though it's my first year I can already understand very well a person speaking it

@gu3sswh075

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmartin93 can they understand each other when they speak in their own language?

As a South African speaking Afrikaans, English, some Spanish and a tiny bit of Portuguese, I was weirdly able to understand a lot of this video, how interesting!

Ecolinguist, you're going an exceptional job. Keep going, please.

I found it interesting how, as a Spanish speaker myself, I thought that the sentence grammar was super similar to Spanish and the accent sounded Spanish like, but the words that were guessed were so much more similar to french. Languages are so fascinating ❤️

@user-lh6yb3tq6t

3 жыл бұрын

La gramática y ortografía son muy diferentes en la escritura

@jael.0610

3 жыл бұрын

Lo mismo pensé es genial

@paquitaelmaestro1576

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the writing is similar to French. for exemple paraules in French paroles, bougie, l’utilizem in French l’utiliser.

@TechnoForever21

3 жыл бұрын

What I found fascinating was that this language is between Spanish and French grammar wise and words are also similar to French, while also having a lot of Portuguese influence for the pronunciation.

@breechan671

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I found a lot of word completely opposite of Mexican Spanish as I speak Spanish Mexican and I only understand a part of what she said the French is way more close to her language than ours

This was my first exposure to Catalan as a native spanish speaker from the Caribbean and it was so fascinating! Loved this video and gained an instant sub.

@Ecolinguist

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

@jdhabdsudcbld

4 жыл бұрын

Heyyyy also Caribbean here

@maximilianopena

4 жыл бұрын

Heard Catalan for the first time while watching Merlí (which is a really good series btw) and it always amaze me how much romance languages relate to each other, to the point you can understand other people without speaking it.

As someone who understands French, European Portuguese, and Spanish, I can understand almost 80% of what she is saying! I honestly love languages so much.

This is such a helpful video and way of learning new languages. The pronouncing of certain words and the comprehension side of learning. I have been studying Spanish. I’ve also tried learning some French. Catalan is so intriguing to me because it mixes the two.

I love how us the romance language speakers can understand each other easily 😎

@QuentinWolffMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Expect Romanian, they speak with such a slave accent it's almost impossible to get it

@GROENAASMusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuentinWolffMusic Careful now. It's slav. Not "slave". 🤣

@guywithalltheanswers6942

Жыл бұрын

@@GROENAASMusic Slav e with a latin accent.

@GROENAASMusic

Жыл бұрын

@@guywithalltheanswers6942 Huh...?

@valentin.cuber.polyglot

Жыл бұрын

@@GROENAASMusic 😂😂😂

In the island of Sardegna in Italy, there's a city called l'Alguer and the people of this city speak catalan

@miguelpinto5239

4 жыл бұрын

Went there last summer, one of the best cities in sardegna

@Naxafa

4 жыл бұрын

Has estat?

@Darkar037

4 жыл бұрын

I knew that in a part of west Sardegna people speak Catalan, they speak it too in Andorra, Valencia and Balearic Islands as an official language, but in Toulouse, some parts of Murcia and east Aragon speak it too

@simfonik6725

4 жыл бұрын

yes, so pretty to visit

@faddflex5823

4 жыл бұрын

True but they speak a kind of medieval form of catalan

Amazing video!! Really good concept

This was loads of fun listening to the three-way convo; I know Spanish well, a bit of Catalan, and very little Quebec French. It helped greatly that there was captioning and I loved seeing the similarities and differences between each set of languages. Thanks for an entertaining video!

I wish Duolingo would release Catalan for English speakers I need to learn Catalan

@MrSnomtn

3 жыл бұрын

Catalan is definitely easier to learn with a Spanish background, but I wouldn't recommend Duolinguo. I used their Catalan course as a starting point but it doesn't do a great job actually teaching the language beyond vocab. I found it much more useful to look at it and realise what duolinguo wasn't teaching me and go find that information on my own, plus just looking for articles in Catalan to read. Its a fascinating language definitely worth checking out

@KizCat

3 жыл бұрын

in some universities all around the world they are doing catalan courses. maybe you have one close to you.

@allanbaal2743

3 жыл бұрын

Learn castillian, the language of the gods, and then you can learn catalan in duolingo.

@jdbrad2302

3 жыл бұрын

@@KizCat Yeah Sydney has 2 universities that offer Catalan

@anni2539

3 жыл бұрын

well, I reccomend knowing Spanish too if you're gonna learn Catalan. it's a good base, and viceversa

Catalan sometimes looks like Portuges, sometimes like Italian and occasionally like French from what I'm seeing. That was fascinating for myself speaking a lot of French and Spanish -- ( and a little Portuguese).

@radishmiri3137

2 жыл бұрын

@Henry of Monmouth I agree with the Italian part. I'm Catalan myself and I've made an Italian friend and I can understand almost everything she says because it sounds similar to catalan words but with another accent

@ABELINOOFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

Eu falo português, sou brasileiro, é impressionante como os idiomas italiano, espanhol, francês, catalão são similares eu consigo entender se eu me concentrar bem, principalmente o italiano e o catalão, o espanhol é 99% de similaridade eu entendo muito nem preciso me esforçar, já o francês eu ainda demoro um pouco, enfim línguas latinas

@rhuanfidelis755

2 жыл бұрын

Eu falo o Português falado no Brasil e pude entender muita coisa

@rhuanfidelis755

2 жыл бұрын

@@ABELINOOFICIAL francês eu tbm acho a mais diferente das latinas mano, talvez a língua é um pouco diferente por conta da proximidade da França com a Alemanha.

@ABELINOOFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

@@rhuanfidelis755 eu também achava até ouvir uma pessoa falar romeno, mds o desespero que me deu, pq romeno é misturado com língua slava tipo o russo por exemplo, agora imagina só, o francês que já é bem diferente por causa da influencia germânica, imagina o romeno kkkkk ouve pra tu ver o desespero que dá 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣

Eu acho o catalão um misto de todas as línguas românticas, é muito louco. Como eu tenho uma base de italiano, junto com meu conhecimento de espanhol e, claro, português, é muito incrível como consegui entender várias coisas. E como se um brasileiro tivesse falando um portunhol e, ao mesmo tempo, lançando umas palavras em italiano no meio da frase, kkkkkk. Muito louco (e lindo)!

@Xamurai13k

2 жыл бұрын

"romance languages" traduzido não se diz "línguas românticas" mas sim "línguas romanas" ou "línguas latinas" simplesmente. Porém, a palavra "romance" em inglês pode ser traduzida para "romance" em Português com o sentido de algo romântico xD.

@leticiafariasl

2 жыл бұрын

@@Xamurai13k ai, é verdade 😂😂 jurava que era assim, mas não pela tradução, é que eu lembrava de alguém de ter me falado desse jeito 😅 enfim, valeu! ❤️

@Xamurai13k

2 жыл бұрын

@@leticiafariasl é, traduzido literalmente é ahahah, de nada :)

@IWontTellYouMyNameHehe

2 жыл бұрын

Yo, sin saber portugués, he entendido casi perfectamente todo lo que has dicho. Es muy extraño como se puede entender una lengua que nunca has estudiado tan solo por las similitudes que tiene con nuestro idioma nativo😅

@Xamurai13k

2 жыл бұрын

@@IWontTellYouMyNameHehe muy extraño no? ahah. Saludos de Portugal :)

Great iniciative. There are similarities among the languages. I really like the blog. Congrats

I think it would be really cool to do some sort of Germanic languages comparison. Like with English, Dutch, Frisian, German for example or the 3 main Nordic languages.

@550077

4 жыл бұрын

Probably won’t work or won’t be fair, because English is spoken and understood by pretty much everyone in Germanic speeking countries.

@louisvictor3473

4 жыл бұрын

With the caveat that Scotts speakers also speak English, Scotts and English could be interesting. Maybe how different English speakers (e.g. US, British, C2 Second Language speaker) understand the sibling language *cough* Nordic languages are just dialects of a single continuum but with politics and a potato in Danish throats *cough*

@ilijamitrevski1210

4 жыл бұрын

@@louisvictor3473 *cough* Scots also forms a dialect continuum with English *cough* I haven't studied any of the north Germanic languages but they can't be more similar than English and Scots, right?

@ktdoty9921

4 жыл бұрын

@@550077 all catalan speakers speak French or Spanish, so Dutch With English and some other Germanic languages.

@derpauleglot9772

4 жыл бұрын

English isn´t a (real) German language anyway. Even the most basic vocabulary has been partially replaced by non-Germanic words. I saw a statistic saying that half the German population doesn´t speak English btw, the percentage being higher in the east and lower in the west. It should be even easier to find an English speaker who doesn´t speak any other Germanic language. I also saw that German is understood by 49% of Dutch people and 34% of Danes. I think there´s plenty of combinations as long as German and especially English speakers stay relatively passive (like the Mexican and the Canadian in this video) I speak German, English and a little Swedish and I can hardly understand any spoken Icelandic, Frisian, Danish or even Dutch. Vit, the Czech guy, also speaks fluent Russian and he´s still participating, so I guess only knowing one language in the family has never been a requirement.

Catalan is so cool, the bridge between Spanish and French in many ways. At the same time it has its own clearly distinct qualities. If I read it I can understand 95%of it. When spoken, no more than 20%. Great video as always!

@Ecolinguist

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

@warnerbf

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ecolinguist I would very much like to participate in one of your experiments some day. Should you ever need a Spanish speaker from Central America, count me in! Best regards.

@judna1

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! I'm catalan. And yes, Catalan might be some sort of a bridge between Spanish and French, but there a language that is even closer to Catalan than those two, and this one is Occitan, it is even spoken in a region of the North-east Catalonia, in the Lleida's Pyrenees.

@kodekadkodekad4380

4 жыл бұрын

Until recently Occitan used to be spoken over the major part of Southern part of France, but unfortunately, it's a dying language there. But if you have knowledge of Occitan, Catalan speach is really easy to follow!

@paticubellsricart5961

4 жыл бұрын

@@kodekadkodekad4380 llengües llemosines bessones

I feel like thanks to these videos about riddles between different languages and dialects I am suprisingly increasingly better at understanding even languages I've never heard of. I am Czech so it was fun to understand the Rusyn language. I teach English and learnt some Old English so it was fun to follow the Old English and Old Norse videos. But I have not mastered my French yet and I've learnt only the basics of Spanish so I am positively surprised taht I can actually understand Catalan! Thank you for the incredible content!

I'm Costa Rican/American. I speak castellano, Italian, and English of course. I started to like catalan a lot. Lo encuentro muy facil de comprender.

I found her accent surprisingly easy to understand as a Romanian

@judna1

4 жыл бұрын

Did you? Nice! I bet I couldn't understand yours. Or well, maybe I could a bit. Cause I speak Catalan (my mother tongue), Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. And I saw a video where two Americans were trying to guess European languages. One of them was Romanian, and I could understand some stuff, thanks to Italian basically, but also cause of the Catalan.

@3dwardcullen69

4 жыл бұрын

@@judna1 I'm Romanian and I was able to understand her too. She spoke slowly and enunciated every syllable.

@vommir.

4 жыл бұрын

I had a Romanian co-worker and he would understand pretty much everything I would tell him in french haha!

@elsvideosdendidac8957

4 жыл бұрын

that woman as she said in the end spoke like a "modern standard Catalan", majority of people don't speak like that

@Chronomatrix

4 жыл бұрын

Catalan and Romanian sound very similar, after all they are both romance languages.

I am from Barcelona and I have to say she has a beautiful catalan accent, I don't speak that good catalan although it is my first language tbh haha

@joelrodriguezorth305

3 жыл бұрын

el chava? 😂 Jo soc de la Garrotxa i tinc un accent molt tancat (es podría dir que campestre) però especificament jo, parlo molt """pijo""" per ser originari de la Garrotxa

@lakinniedetweek08

3 жыл бұрын

Jo sóc mallorquina-catalana, la mama és catalana i el papa és mallorquí

@joelcompta8512

3 жыл бұрын

@@joelrodriguezorth305 hostia jo també sóc de la Garrotxa

@joelrodriguezorth305

3 жыл бұрын

@@joelcompta8512 oleeeee

@ainagarcia6085

3 жыл бұрын

jo tembé soc CATALANA

I wish this interaction among people from all over the world could be possible forever, as long as we’re alive

Love their conversation and glad to see a French Canadian share his knowledge with them ..

I'm from Canada, so I've studied French since I was a child. A few years ago I decided to learn Spanish, and now I've been learning Catalan for the past few months. It's so cool that I can understand all three without looking too much at the subtitles! Je suis du Canada, donc j'étudie le français depuis mon enfance. Il y a quelques ans j'ai décidé d'apprendre l'espagnol, et maintenant ça fait quelques mois que j'étudie le catalan. C'est fantastique que je puisse comprendre toutes ces trois langues au même temps, sans trop regarder les sous-titres! Soy de Canadá, así que estudio el francés desde niño. Hace unos años decidí aprender el español, y ahora llevo unos meses aprendiendo el catalán. ¡Es estupendo que pueda entender todos los tres idiomas a la vez, sin mirar demasiado los subtítulos! Sóc del Canada, així que aprenc el francès des de petit. Fa uns anys vaig decidir aprendre castellà, i ara porto uns mesos aprenent el català. És molt maravellós poder entendre totes les tres llengües al mateix temps, sense mirar massa les transcripcions!

@alexandrabaicu8904

4 жыл бұрын

Seria: És fantàstic o és genial poder entendre... Quina passada!!!

@paubonco5653

4 жыл бұрын

Impresionant! Tens un bon nivell de català, segueix així!

@GaleMarie

4 жыл бұрын

me encanta! parlez-vous d'atures langues? es tan interesante to find gente comme moi !!

@vommir.

4 жыл бұрын

Chapeau!

@aegrant100

4 жыл бұрын

Same. I’m Canadian and speak French and Spanish (Latin American) but no Catalan. I understood about 80-90% of what she and close to 100% if I looked at the script. I find I can read 🇮🇹 and 🇵🇹 pretty well too. I’d be interested to learn Catalan, but my latest language endeavour has been Danish 🇩🇰 so a decidedly different direction. (I speak German 🇩🇪 very well so that’s my gateway to Danish 😉).

I can speak Spanish and Italian and when she explains how in Catalan they contract words, she cites an example which, in it's proper form, seems closer to Spanish, but when contracted it's almost identical to Italian: per aixó (por eso) -> perxó (perciò) ☺ I probably wouldn't be able to understand spoken Catalan out of context. If I knew what the topic of conversation was, I probably would be able to tune in. That's how I'm able to understand my Brazilian fiancé even though I never studied or spoke Portuguese. When I know what the topic is, I expect certain vocabulary to come up in conversation, and the vocabulary within the Romance language family is similar. What usually differs are connectors, fillers and of course individual words here and there, but then I can ask for clarification if I don't pick up the meaning from the context.

@ciaoprando412

4 жыл бұрын

È avvantaggiata dato che in catalonia lo spagnolo è comunque parlato 😂

@takoreamexicangrill

4 жыл бұрын

Me robaste el comentario broder porque estoy en el mismo caso. Casi no entendi el frances, pero catalan si porque tambien hablo italo. Asi que mi comentario es sesgado.

@letiziac5492

4 жыл бұрын

Comunque anche in italiano esiste “per questo” (por eso), “ciò” è un sinonimo di “questo”

@Jormunn

4 жыл бұрын

+Letizia C. Eso significa quello XD

@Estuardino71

4 жыл бұрын

I was in Barcelona and everybody spoke Spanish to me, Pati understood everything that Isidor said.

Loved it. Thanks.

Thanks to the subtitles I was able to get ~50% of the conversation for each speaker. I'd never heard Catalan before (that I'm aware of) so this was really interesting to watch.

Cullera, cuillère, cuchara. In my german head: *Löffel* lul

@blueeyedbaer

3 жыл бұрын

@@medora2499 Det är "sked" på svenska. En gaffel är en annan sak.

@tickrob991

3 жыл бұрын

Und colher auf Portugiesisch :)

@SofiaBerruxSubs

3 жыл бұрын

Can you understand Old English?

@Jeffrey-uw8un

3 жыл бұрын

What's going on here amk

@joelrodriguezorth305

3 жыл бұрын

Ich spreche Katalanisch, also spreche ich auch Spanisch (es ist in Spanien). Meine Mutter ist Deutsche, also spreche ich auch Deutsch (und ich kann sehr gut Englisch sprechen) xd (vier Sprachen)

Es la primera vez que escucho una chica hablando catalán. Comprendí muchas cosas que ella dijo. Tus videos son excelentes. Te felicito!

@primitivochapa7837

4 жыл бұрын

Tambien compredi muchas cosas.. Suena como espanol y frances juntos

This video helped inspire me to start learning Catalan :)

Love this videos. Thanks