When she said “øtëgærûqžčmnœ” I felt that

@umbrellastation25

4 жыл бұрын

Ok ese

@lordvoldemort5725

4 жыл бұрын

umbrellastation25 What?

@umbrellastation25

4 жыл бұрын

Lord Voldemort just making fun of the Chicano about his inability to comprehend Germanic languages. Why?

@lordvoldemort5725

4 жыл бұрын

umbrellastation25 Oh okay. Why what?

@gorgar6059

4 жыл бұрын

Did you say Fluggegecheimen?

I didn’t hear the Icelandic because I was distracted by the legendary footage of Boris Johnson tackling Japanese children

@Threezi04

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was him!

@mariogonzalez4928

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@OnlyGrafting

4 жыл бұрын

Next it'll be an array of european children.

@mateusalbuquerque2582

4 жыл бұрын

@@OnlyGrafting But only blonde ones, to remind him of the good old Home Counties

@chitreshmahendran7401

4 жыл бұрын

Uh dont you mean FUCKING SLAM HIM INTO THE GROUND SO HARD HE SENT HIM TO THE 7TH DIMENSION

As someone from Brazil, I understand: Dutch: 0% Danish: 0% English: 0% Afrikaans: 0% German: 0% Yiddish: 0% Norwegian: 0% Swedish: 0% Luxembourgish: 0% Faroese: 0% Icelandic: 0% I am deaf...

@pattypixel5851

10 ай бұрын

underrated comment

@gabrielgoes5357

10 ай бұрын

Lol

@sbug65

9 ай бұрын

yes officer, I found the best comment

@helloworld0911

8 ай бұрын

...written in English

@Wahrheit_

8 ай бұрын

​@@helloworld0911he's deaf

As an English-speaker, Dutch is like the uncanny valley of languages

@rugiiman8917

9 ай бұрын

Irish is worse. They speak it with an English accent but all the phonemes except for /x/ are kind of the same. It’s a mess.

@humbrix-allaboutthebuildin7891

9 ай бұрын

Try Scouse its not even legal tender

@slyasleep

9 ай бұрын

@@humbrix-allaboutthebuildin7891 Hey, I love my high-pitched brethren!

@MatiasDypala

9 ай бұрын

@@rugiiman8917 Irish is not a Germanic language, is Celtic.

@WarriorofSunlight

9 ай бұрын

Wait until you discover Frisian.

danish sounds like a german trying really hard to learn chinese but they just can’t

@danielled108

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

@Kayloow

4 жыл бұрын

@@Drikkerbadevand omg I found u here again

@LCNfootsoldier

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck you beat me to it

@Paxicology

4 жыл бұрын

omgg

@Nightshadow12

4 жыл бұрын

As a German I agree

Dutch sounds like they're speaking backwards

@marvellara-4084

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahah why?

@robertvillena6164

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahhaha

@LandelRey

5 жыл бұрын

It does sound like a bunch of gibberish edit: nau 😭 I posted this way back when I was still on my cringe phase. I don't dislike Dutch, I love Ajax 😍

@canuck21

5 жыл бұрын

@Lara It sounds like when you're rewinding a video with speaking parts.

@trentbacker9562

5 жыл бұрын

They sound like they have a mouth full of wall nuts.

It’s weird that as a German speaker, I understand Afrikaans better than I could understand Dutch despite the fact that Dutch is so similar to German.

@chemicallifeblog

Жыл бұрын

Nachvollziehbar 😂 die niederländische Schriftsprache versteht man aber ganz gut, finde ich.

@The_uglybastard

Жыл бұрын

Afrikaans is older Dutch so thats why

@Laksamdotcomspecial

11 ай бұрын

Im afrikaans and i understand dutch but i dont inderstand a word german

@arolemaprarath6615

10 ай бұрын

On nac, di kon osspionerto in da palas in hogplas de konagland-rik vin Frankrik and Doshlandrik. Der, ereen fond a svart kat, ereen bang. Ereen atalefall, ten, nin, ottach, sefn, six, fif, vour, tri, to, on, ereen lep vegi.

@willek1335

10 ай бұрын

I think it's similar in Scandinavia, where every country, including Iceland, understand Norwegian, but they often struggle to understand one another.

As a Swede i understood: 1: 100 % Swedish & Enlish 3: 95% Norweigian 4: 25% German 5: 5% Icelandic / Farsoe 6: 5% Dutch 7: 4% Yiddish / Luxemburg / Africaans 8: 0% Danish

@user-zr9fw4nv2s

9 ай бұрын

"As a Swede i understood: 8: 0% Danish" Вы смайлик забыли поставить. ;)

@dorte3791

9 ай бұрын

I’m Danish and i can hardly understand her she’s talking super fast and is kinda mumbling Norwegian is much easier

@tobiasa9071

9 ай бұрын

​@@dorte3791I swear the Swedish chef in the muppets is actually speaking danish

@slyasleep

9 ай бұрын

😏

@alistairt7544

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Swedish sounds like the speaker is surprised to find a particular syllable there about every third word, but just continues speaking.

@Brakvash

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair she sounds surprised even to Swedes. She uses the "should it be like this?" tone of voice. It might be more pronounced in Swedish.

@AslanW

4 жыл бұрын

As a swede, I can tell you we don't talk like that normally, just like brits don't talk like BBC news anchors. The cadence and tonality is very exaggerated.

@carolinaklint9004

4 жыл бұрын

That's just how a lot of news reporters talk. It's not how swedish usually sounds

@Slobber88

4 жыл бұрын

@@AslanW That's too bad. I think Swedish is the most beautiful of the Germanic languages, especially because of that uppity cadence.

@emilfalk561

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah swedish newsreporters has a very special candence when speaking

To me as a German, Luxembourgish sounds like a really really drunk Grandma.

@aliasDonaldDuck

4 жыл бұрын

In der Tat

@Liproqq

4 жыл бұрын

Zu viel Kölsch

@joshina4497

4 жыл бұрын

To me as a german with a father living in Luxemburg, it sounds like... Home ♡

@mxrsExe

4 жыл бұрын

Random Comment Karin ritter haha

@Sorstalan

4 жыл бұрын

Afrikaans was like Dutch on downers.

As an Afrikaans & English speaker - I find Dutch similar to a way a modern English speaker hearing Shakespeare for the first time. I understand the words, but the pronunciation of it and the way it is used in a sentence sounds like someone saying "Alas, I shalt be venturing off thine vicinity to proceed to mine humble abode" instead of saying "I'm going home" lol

@Baker92849

2 ай бұрын

That exaclty the opposite how Afrikaans sounds to Dutch natives. It sounds like simplified Dutch with less internationalised words. And some words in Afrikaans are not Dutch, but Low Saksen.

@TheFearlessDave

2 ай бұрын

That's so cool - I just went to check it out and understood a lot of what the guy in the vid said. Thanks for the info

As a Dutch person, the only language that sounded really foreign and unknown was Faroese. To me it sounds nothing like other Nordic/Scandinavian languages, but actually closer to a Celtic family language.

@Olole

10 ай бұрын

That's interesting you would say that, seeing that celtic monks inhabited the islands before the norse and lived somewhat side by side for a while. Celtic ancestry is very present and even some of the words are of celtic origin, such as "dunna" which is duck. In the other nordic languages it is and or anka. Some of the islands even retained the celtic names such as the two dímun islands. Very sharply noticed.

@haraldsigurdsson1232

9 ай бұрын

Im Norwegian and to me it sounded like Norwegian that i should be able to understand but still cant understand anything. It has the same tone and flow as Norwegian. Its strange because i have heard Faroese spoken before and then i understood like 95% of a 5 minute long conversation but i couldnt understand a single word this woman was saying. Maby its a diffrent dialect or something.

@Zapper1993

9 ай бұрын

@@haraldsigurdsson1232 Yeah, it was like hearing someone nearby speak Norwegian. You can recognize it from the tone, but you are too far away to make out the words.

@jarl8815

7 ай бұрын

@@haraldsigurdsson1232 Yeah, as a swede I could understand some words. It's hard but not that different.

@weepingscorpion8739

7 ай бұрын

@@OloleThe Celtic (specifically Goidelic) influence on Faroese is a bit overstated but it is true, there is some influence there. The word 'dunna' is under dispute these days but other words which are definitely from Goidelic, i.e. Old or Middle Irish are: tarvur, grúkur, drunnur, ærgi, and some personal names like Kjartan and Njál(ur).

it sounds like English left the Germanic nest a long time ago and flew far far away

@elbowache

4 жыл бұрын

Some linguists even think it's a creole of French. It's a lonely little language, no siblings to play with. So, it went out into the world and made everyone else speak it!

@EbrunV

4 жыл бұрын

yes it did, English was influenced by various languages, espacially French, this is why English has this spelling: you write it that way but read it another way and it doesn't have rules how it is read

@ammalyrical5646

4 жыл бұрын

It came originally from Old-Frisian (which is Germanic, Ostfriesish is still spoken in Germany). But it has with the Angels, Saxons, Kelts, and then a while later French just partly took it over. I'd no longer call it Germanic,

@noelsamson876

4 жыл бұрын

@ ammalyrical @ebrun thanks for your insights! it's interesting, too that French and English both have gaelic/Celtic and German elements

@noelsamson876

4 жыл бұрын

@elbowache it's interesting how that developed. English is fond of borrowing from other language and very open to outside influence and it ended up being almost the lingua franca of the world right now

As a Afrikaans speaker, Dutch is how i imagine a doctor's handwriting would sound

@viii7258

3 жыл бұрын

As a dutch speaker, afrikaans is incorrect broken dutch

@demanofall

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, if dutch is what a doctors handwriting sounds like, than Afrikaans is what babies speak.

@_nycollee

3 жыл бұрын

Afrikaans seems like flemish

@viii7258

3 жыл бұрын

@@_nycollee flemish speak dutch with a baguette in their mouth

@VRBLNSLT

3 жыл бұрын

Afrikaans is old Zeeuws, thats why it sounds somewhat between Flamish and South Hollandish.. its one of the most fun and easy dialects to speak as a Dutch tho... when your drunk

Shout-out to retired news reader, Riaan Cruywagen (Afrikaans). What a legend. Everyone in South Africa recognizes him.

As an English-speaker the German language sounds the best out of all of them. I don't know what it is it just sounds great 👍👍

@marcelbork92

6 ай бұрын

Yes. And that is perhaps because, inspite of some sound changes, its overal character remained nearest to (Proto-)Germanic.

@sdf6508

3 ай бұрын

No German sounds the worst to me. So choppy and annoying.

@mr.coolmug3181

3 ай бұрын

@@sdf6508 it just sounds more distinct. It doesn't possess the softness of the other Germanic languages.

@ndie8075

3 ай бұрын

Anglosaxon

@ndie8075

2 ай бұрын

@@sdf6508 sorry for that....😩what can we do...🇩🇪perhaps you love russian...more?

Romance languages speakers about themselves : *Lmao I can understand what this guy’s saying* Germanic languages speakers about themselves: *U sound like a “insert nationality” trying to speak “insert language” with “insert accent” and also drunk*

@willrichardson519

3 жыл бұрын

Alcohol is a feature in higher latitude countries :-)

@DeVocthcKa

3 жыл бұрын

Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Galician speakers talking to each other cheerfully Catulunians enter the chat: "I'm sorry what?" French enter the chat: "I'm sorry WHAT?" Occitania enter the chat: "I'M SORRY WHAT" Romansch enter the chat: "Now that's just German" Romanians enter the chat: "..."

@captainbarbossa5325

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck yea. No brotherhood among Germanic peoples. Each one is just a bigger bastard than the other 😂

@andreaw2053

3 жыл бұрын

... I... I literally said exactly that to my boyfriend like a minute ago...

@lepeangel3700

3 жыл бұрын

Andrea W what do u speak and what does he speak

As an English speaker Luxembourg’s sounds like someone speaking German and French at the same time while not being very good at either.

@leea8706

3 жыл бұрын

Local host yeah I suppose that is true, it’s just harder to hear it that way when you speak the language.

@MarkDDG

3 жыл бұрын

That's just what I thought 😂

@wietzevanderwijk3169

3 жыл бұрын

As an German and French speaker too

@jorbennoten9536

3 жыл бұрын

I don't hear french

@joelt.7493

3 жыл бұрын

As a Luxembourger, yes.

As a native Afrikaans speaker fluent in English and Swedish and studied German at University for 4 years I can safely say that Danish is the most unintelligible of all the Germanic languages (even for native Swedish and Norwegian speakers). Not sure if most Danes understand each other to be quite honest...

@antohein.

4 ай бұрын

We don't. My family is from Køge (Zealand) and last time I was in Aalborg (Jutland) I thought I was in a different country for a while. 😂 Took a bit to get used to the way they speak.

As a German I can only understand Yiddish very well. I'm very confused how Faroese sounds so different from other Scandinavian languages. Sounds so smooth like farsi.

@FrozenMermaid666

Жыл бұрын

What ns - Faroese sounds smooth like the other Germanic languages, not Farsi, pfff! Unless Frisian was misspelled because the name also starts with an F! Do hum’ns even understand what smooth means LMAO! Farsi is an Arabic language! Arabic languages and Chinese / Korean / Japanise and Turkish / other similar languages and most languages spoken in Africa etc and most languages are just so unrefined and unpleasant-sounding and have mostly non-pretty and funny / ridiculously funny words with repetition of the same syllable aka poorIy-constructed words, and are the exact opposite of smooth!

@FrozenMermaid666

Жыл бұрын

Norwegian is a truly smooth language, even smoother than Faroese, without the TH sounds - almost as perfect and refined as Dutch & English (despite the TH sounds, which should be pronounced like a normal D and T etc) which are the best languages ever! Modern Dutch & Modern English (and then Modern Norwegian) are the most refined and the most poetic and the prettiest languages ever, with the most logical patterns and rules qua word construction and letter combinations and pronunciation and grammar etc, which give words that perfect flow and harmony! And, one should read the actual words, instead of judging the language based on a video that doesn’t use a speaker that can actually enunciate and pronounce the words clearly and not speak fast / too fast etc, and should try finding videos with speakers that speak properly and clearly and not fast and that have a good-sounding voice, as it’s always the speakers’ fauIt, not the language’s fauIt!

@FrozenMermaid666

Жыл бұрын

Dutch sounds so epic - it’s a perfect language, like English, and is perfect for lyrics and poetry and songs, for example, the Flemish / Dutch versions of the songs that have the hunchback from Notre-Dame in the title, and the versions of the Frozen songs and Vaiana songs etc, Boos Op De Wereld etc! And Norwegian also! There are Norwegian versions for most of those songs as well, which show how refined and smooth Norwegian is - one should never judge the language by the tone of the voice of news ppl selected for such videos, instead of selecting the right vocal samples that have a good-sounding tone and a soft and warm and high voice with a clear sound! Do hum’ns even realise that it’s the speaks’ fauIt if it doesn’t sound ‘smooth’ or whatever, not the language’s fauIt!

@FrozenMermaid666

Жыл бұрын

And most voices aren’t a pretty voice with a soft and smooth sound, so one has to try finding vocal samples that are actually good-sounding, as the vocal samples selected in such videos just don’t do it justice, and if one’s voice has a non-pretty tone or intonation or speaks too fast and mumbles etc, most are going to think it’s the language that doesn’t sound good, because most know nada about pretty words and pretty languages and pretty sounds or great and logical pronunciation rules and good letter combinations, and most don’t bother reading the actual words and trying to find proper vocal samples that show how pretty Germanic languages are!

@FrozenMermaid666

Жыл бұрын

We waren in Eden . . . We vallen naar beneden . . . Een eindeloze vrijeval door de lucht . . . Daar heerste de regen . . . Zoals de eerste dag van lente . . . We wachten af voor hoelang hij duurst . . .

When she said “Arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering” I felt that

@derkateramabend

4 жыл бұрын

Livebullshity Gamer Isn’t this Dutch for “Work-related carelessness insurance”? I’m German, and I recognized some words

@livebullshitygamer5468

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Walter yes

@blacat2168

4 жыл бұрын

Jiaxu Yu Or in German "Arbeitsungeschicktheitsversicherung" (word by word of course) They are really similar for real!

@e.abrahamovich8981

4 жыл бұрын

😭😭🤣

@beluwuga2573

4 жыл бұрын

Arrbeisongschiktheidsverrzekering

As a german native speaker I understand german quite well!

@HeroManNick132

Жыл бұрын

The floor is made out of floor lol

@jovanfisher3072

Жыл бұрын

Water is made out of water OMG

@KnocksSchiller

Жыл бұрын

BLASPHEMIE!

@user-qy3vl2rb6n

Жыл бұрын

As a Dutch native speaker i understand dutch very well!

@jo_240B

Жыл бұрын

See, this is why I fucking love Germans.

One of my Yiddish teachers, the late, great Pesach Fiszman, was also a wonderful storyteller. He would tell us students about his speaking engagements in Germany, where he would entertain German-speaking audiences with his stories, speaking to them only in Yiddish. He said the Germans had no trouble understanding him. I've alway wondered, though, if he consciously tried to avoid the element of Yiddish vocabulary derived from Hebrew and Aramaic, which would be unintelligible to German speakers.

@matthewl6700

7 ай бұрын

He would've had to avoid them if they understood him. The beautiful thing about Yiddish is that there are both Germanic and Hebrew/Aramaic words for most things (though a Germanic term might be much more commonly used than a Semitic term and vice versa). So depending on how much a Yiddish speaker wants or doesn't want a German speaker to understand what they are saying, they can adjust their vocabulary accordingly. Yiddish can range from a 10% Semitic vocabulary to 50% depending on what the speaker wants.

@chinesespeakwelsh

2 ай бұрын

My teacher told me there are Yiddish speakers who prefer to use more Germanic words and grammar. Fraynd instead of khaver for instance

As an English speaker, I was able to pick out some of what the Dutch and Yiddish speakers were talking about but was pretty well lost with the rest. It would have been interesting to include Frisian, which I think is the closest Germanic language to English, although not spoken by many people.

As a French who learnt a bit of German, Luxemburgish sounds like a French student putting random words in French in his German sentence because he didn't remember his vocabulary

@blanco7726

4 жыл бұрын

C’est marrant pcq au lux on fait ca mais avec le luxembourgeois. Si t’oublies un mot en luxembourgeois tu le dis en francais, allemand, anglais, portugais meme dans certains groupes. Du coup on commence souvent des phrases en lux et termine en francais ou l’inverse.

@janbruggemann5636

4 жыл бұрын

Why did I read this with a french accent

@martindouge1947

4 жыл бұрын

@@janbruggemann5636 Probably because I would say it with a French accent myself ? :)

@ddt77ta

4 жыл бұрын

Tip top

@svenakkessen4690

4 жыл бұрын

Perfect description!

You really found some of the most depressing news clips for Swedish and Norwegian, both are about different violent terror attacks.

@kristinnfreyr4931

4 жыл бұрын

the icelandic one was about a guy that got trapped under ice and died.

@rohitchaoji

4 жыл бұрын

Also one about the plane crash near Moscow.

@pretty_gay

4 жыл бұрын

They had to take some depressing clips, they could have chosen anything else but they chose some depressing stuff.. *Well isn't that just great!*

@matildas3177

4 жыл бұрын

@Herr Wolf not here it isn't

@deivisony

4 жыл бұрын

@@kristinnfreyr4931 I love that little cross you guys have above that D thingy! I have a Icelandic friend that everytime she says thor or R ahe spits in everyone's face. Do all icelandics have this difficult with R?

I wanted to go to bed one hour before, but I checked the commentary section.😂👍

Dutch sounds like a guy having a stroke while making fun of Germans.

For me, as a German, everything just sounds like german with a wierd accent.

@Argos_RB

3 жыл бұрын

Well, it’s surprising I know, but they are called, Germanic languages, they all pretty much stem from one very old language, and grammatically it seems German or Dutch is closest to the original, being someone who can speak a fair amount of these, It seems like German is the base, and other Germanic languages have taken different parts of German, and left out others, like English turned “der, die and das” into “the” but another language like Danish just left that out entirely

@Magnus_Loov

3 жыл бұрын

@@Argos_RB Not sure if German would be a better candidate than other Germanic languages besides it is actually called "German". They all, including German, come from a common proto-Germanic "ancestor" and split up into different branches (Northern, Western and Eastern Germanic). Over the years the different "Branches" on that language tree have changed a lot. If anything, the language that has change the least is actually Icelandic that have changed much less the last 1000 years than other germanic languages and that could probably mean it could be closer to the old Proto-Germanic language than modern german.

@drakevevo3710

3 жыл бұрын

@@Argos_RB no they all stem from old norse, in which case north germanic languages like danish norwegian and swedish are closer, icelandic being the closest. the western germanic languages, english dutch and german are slightly different, although english has the same sentence structure as northern germanic but dutch and german have their own.

@Alexander_01

3 жыл бұрын

@@Magnus_Loov The German language and the country Germany is only called "German" (from the word "germanic") in the English language. In Germany our language is called "Deutsch", which is basically the same word as "tysk", I guess how you would call it. The English word for it would be "dutch". This is pretty interesting, because you can see the similarity between Dutch and German there. I think German is quiet an interesting language in the Germanic branch. It sits somewhere between English and Dutch on the other side and Scandinavian on the other side. Luxemburgian and Yiddish are basically just German dialects btw

@Magnus_Loov

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alexander_01 Gernan as a language is called"Tyska" in Swedish. A german is called "Tysk". On the other hand we have a name for the collective folk group that historically existed in the whereabouts of what is now Germany and that is "Germaner" (where one person from it is actually called "German"). And we and many others call the whole language group "Germansk" . So there still is the fact that "German language group" is derived from the word "German" for the people who lived in the area which became Germany later on. When it comes to where the German language place in the "family tree" of languages it is made harder to judge by the fact that for different periods of time a lot of loan words were introduced into the different languages. Sweden was very influenced during the Hansa period and the Luther bible period. But later on we were influenced by French and even later English. England were influenced a lot by Danish invaders at that time. To me English feels closer to Swedish in grammar and also some basic words. Dutch also feels closer to Swedish were many very basic words are spelled closer to Swedish. But it is much easier to understand spoken German than Dutch which sounds to slurry. But, yeah, strictly speaking German, Dutch is part of the west Germanic stem. Swedish is part of the North Germanic. So in theory they SHOULD be more closely related. In practice though I am not sure. I mean the same is said for Swedish and Danish in the northern Germanic language group which are said to be more closely related (east Nordic) compared to Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroes, which are west Nordic languages. In practice now in modern time these languages have evolved (or not in the case of Icelandic which have changed the least) so much that Swedish and Norwegian are much more closely related and Icelandic and Norwegian are far, far apart.

Danish sounds like she is stopping in the middle of each word.

@MSETTER98

4 жыл бұрын

(Danish person here) she actually kinda is. There's this specific way that news reporters usually talks, and it kinda sounds like she hasn't quite figured it out yet and therefore there's weird breaks between the words. I think it's frustrating to listen to

@juliancowell8485

4 жыл бұрын

Lord Taemin Francesco Thanks for clearing that up.

@AlxzAlec

4 жыл бұрын

Dalongabonk im Danish and i wanna say even to me her voice is pissing me off and her Zealand accent is pissing me off so yes the news people always try to look professional and They Sound like They lag

@paulbeach8181

4 жыл бұрын

That's how it seemed to me too, and I know no Danish at all.

@hopesy12u4

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlxzAlec lmao, "they sound like they lag" so true

As an English and German speaker I got a bit of the Dutch and almost all of Yiddish and Luxembourgish. Yiddish sounds more German than Bavarian and Swiss German does 😆😂 also understood a little bit of Faroese and Swedish but Gods above is Danish in a league of its own

I'm actually learning Dutch! I can understand a super tiny amount of it. A lot of the comments I agree with, it sounds a bit like english but backwards

As a German speaker, I can make out the content of Germanic languages if I can SEE the words.

@Hyblup

3 жыл бұрын

Ich auch

@luminousmiu

3 жыл бұрын

YEAH SAME

@zacurragazzo9432

3 жыл бұрын

Ja ich auch

@freezing5

3 жыл бұрын

Funny how I find it easier to understand Afrikaans than I do Afrikaaners speaking English. Or maybe it is this speaker's exceptional clarity and rhythm?

@kulturfreund6631

3 жыл бұрын

@@forgotsomething4995 Danish and Norwegian are way closer to Swedish, than German is.

I’m Dutch and when I heard Afrikaans i was like: WAIT! I understand this! Before quickly realizing Afrikaans is basically old Dutch.

@pancake_ghosty

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting 🤔🤔

@francofouche8639

3 жыл бұрын

Well Afrikaans is descended from Dutch and a few other languages so it's understandable

@bramsteenhoek2674

3 жыл бұрын

@@barrage1308 neen broeder

@barrage1308

3 жыл бұрын

@@bramsteenhoek2674 nee sorry ik bedoelde dat ik zelf ook zo er over denk

@DutchMolenaar

3 жыл бұрын

It is not old Dutch but old Zeelandish.

Native Afrikaans speaker here, I can understand Dutch one hundred percent and German 40 percent

@babyyoda1898

11 ай бұрын

Me a native german speaker. I can understand Africaans actually better

Dankie dat jy Afrikaans ingesluit het. Ek is half Afrikaans half Grieks en ek het in Suid Afrika grootgeword. Dit is nie baie dat ek my taal kan hoor nie.

Natürlich hat der Hsv verloren, hätte mich auch gewundert

@lovemore7050

4 жыл бұрын

Oh nein die ewigen Verlierer haha

@giuliolocke

4 жыл бұрын

Klassiker

@richardgreer459

4 жыл бұрын

Lol but of course! Aber hier sitze ich als Dortmund Fan und es scheint zu sein dass wir einen Sieg sogar nicht kaufen kann 😭

@scfog90

4 жыл бұрын

2. Liga ole

@tonijelecevic4332

4 жыл бұрын

Großer Klub bei dem es gerade nicht so läuft

dutch is what english sounds like when you’re distracted

@emjk77

2 жыл бұрын

Nonsense!

@SpeedBird6780

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, English is what Dutch sounds like when you're distracted by the French.

@sprachen7122

2 жыл бұрын

Dutch is what an english tv show sounds like when you start playing on your phone lmao

@emjk77

2 жыл бұрын

@@sprachen7122 You don't know what you are talking about.

@twosunies

2 жыл бұрын

@@sprachen7122 nah it sounds more like german i don't hear the english

i only speak swedish and english fluently but i can read some dutch and german sentences, and yes other scandinavian languages too (more than german and dutch)

For me as a native German speaker the ranking is: German, English, Norwegian (have lived there for some time), Swedish, Yiddish, Danish and the rest just gibberish 😄 But once, after having travelled through the Netherlands for 3 weeks, I remember that I was able to understand quite a lot.

@dragonslayer10000

Ай бұрын

you haven't heard real gibberish if u haven't heard frisian

@MarcLeonbacher-lb2oe

3 күн бұрын

Wie bitte, die nächsten Verwandten der deutschen Sprache sollen unverständlich sein?

Dutch sounds like a German doing an impression of a Sims character

@julianmalipaard2498

3 жыл бұрын

Stfu Dutch is superior🔥🔥 jk obviously

@gamingwithpluis1963

3 жыл бұрын

German sounds like Dutchmen doing an impression of a sims character

@amosamwig8394

3 жыл бұрын

@@gamingwithpluis1963 Dutch sounds like a german with lots of nicotine in his lungs and a heavy voice talking in sims language

@emilianopaz3805

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@lilhotepjesusgrift6669

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha fuck you😂😂

Yiddish sounds like a german movie when your‘re not paying attention lol

@derpderpington7159

4 жыл бұрын

@Ignatz Rosenbaum Oy vey!

@transformersloverjon

4 жыл бұрын

It's literally impossible to steal a language. Nobody has "ownership" over a bloody *language.*

@coolbean9880

4 жыл бұрын

@TheCrazyKid1381 the name literally originated from the german word for "jewish"

@zaashtill1542

4 жыл бұрын

@@coolbean9880 no it didn't. were do you think the supposed german word "yid' came from. the word origin is from the biblical name judah. And while that may seem far fetched, remember that the "y" sound was switched to the "J" sound. so really the name should be pronounced yudah. It's not a german word that's how the jews called themselves for centuries. Heck jews were the ones who names the language.

@zaashtill1542

4 жыл бұрын

@TheCrazyKid1381 Where not even talking about converts here. originally the Jews just spoke old German. but as time went by the languages diverted a little bit from each other. also you wouldn't believe how much Hebrew there is in Yiddish. so while it isn't semetic it does have a lot of semetic influence.

Native English speaker - When the clip transitioned from English to German, I genuinely thought I was still listening to English as I understood “after the first conference in Munich (something something) outland/abroad” at which point I then realised it was German. I find Dutch in a Flemish accent easier to understand than the regular Dutch accent for some reason.

@DrWhom

8 ай бұрын

the flemish generally enunciate better

Crumbs, i was not expecting to see Boris' infamous rugby game on Icelandic news XD

YIDDISH sound like when a drunken russian boy tries to speak german Edit :OMG I NEVER GET SO MUCH LIKES THANKS FOR THAT

@bilalthefighter829

4 жыл бұрын

@Simon Eminger thats interesting

@tonijelecevic4332

4 жыл бұрын

Mainly central and eastern Europe

@Menxo

4 жыл бұрын

@Simon Eminger i know

@eeaotly

4 жыл бұрын

Menxo Yydish and Afrikaas are the least German...

@Menxo

4 жыл бұрын

@@eeaotly I know because the colony in southafrica

Why does Swedish sound like 📈📉📈📈📉📉📈📈📈📉📈📉📈

@davidhildebrandt7812

3 жыл бұрын

Because it uses tonal stress marking

@Neophema

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidhildebrandt7812 So does Norwegian. :) The other Germanic languages don't.

@zenith8417

3 жыл бұрын

Different pronunciations mean different things. It's kinda like how the English use tonal changes to show emphasis or sarcasm, but with the pronunciation of the word making the definition entirely different.

@haitike

3 жыл бұрын

It is called "pitch accent" if you are interested in looking at it on internet. It is used in Norwegian and Swedish but not in other Germanic languages. It is used in Japanese too.

@itzminka

3 жыл бұрын

i so love that about swedish

I'm from Ulster, I'm encouraged by how well I can understand the English

@Celisar1

11 ай бұрын

Congrats, your parents must be so proud 😄

@tariqkhader6196

11 ай бұрын

@Celisar1 I don't think it's possible for anyone to be proud once they've been cremated

As a Finn who speaks fluent English and Swedish and some German, I understood: English 100% (it’s everywhere) German 95% (studied it) Dutch 10-20% (German helps) Swedish 95% (studied it) Afrikaans 10% (German helps) Danish 10% (like a weird, unclear mix of German and Swedish) Yiddish 10-20% (German helps) Luxembourgish 40-50% (sounds almost like a German dialect) Norwegian 60%(Swedish helps) Icelandic 5% (same here but…) Faroese …0% 😅

@crsorsmth9951

8 ай бұрын

you have studied every language under the sun xD

@flav2689

8 ай бұрын

@@crsorsmth9951 Haha! Well…I know people who have studied and can fluently speak 10 languages so I’d say my repertoire is not actually so large after all 😅 (Four foreign languages - French is lacking from the list above…or five if you count a couple of courses of Italian but that I’ve mostly forgotten🤔)

@adolfmauser6582

7 ай бұрын

Luxemburgish is a German dialect

@milomsen

7 ай бұрын

Luxembourgish sounds like a dialect because it technically is.

@ThatManFromGermany

6 ай бұрын

If you take out most of the French loanwords then yeah, it's basically a very strong Franconian dialect spoken around the Lux.-German border

Luxembourgish sounds like German spoken by a French person.

@xryeau_1760

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder why..

@eddiepoole

3 жыл бұрын

for me it's the sexiest germanic language.

@lisadedeus6235

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah fannen zwar net mee bon

@areyoutheregoditsmedave

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! That’s what I thought

@jakobf6165

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's the other way round

As a German I understand: German: 100% English: 100% Yiddish: 80% Luxemburgish: 60% Dutch: 30% Afrikaans: 20% Rest: 0-5% Danish: -100%

@angelogaudino3500

3 жыл бұрын

Ahahahaha Danish is so difficult

@perthrockskinda2946

3 жыл бұрын

Well, since you are writing in English, I will presume that English is a second Language of yours.

@euivets2892

3 жыл бұрын

Du verstehst Englisch 100% nur weil du es mal gelernt hast.

@larslars8393

3 жыл бұрын

@@euivets2892 das stimmt

@ore_red1684

3 жыл бұрын

Nah its not

Люблю немецкий язык, красивый, с удивительной интонацией, произношением t, r.... Очень мелодичный... На слух, фонетически понравился норвежский и исландский.

Considering there are hundreds of unique-sounding dialects in Norway, it would be fascinating to include multiple examples of Norwegian, just to see which dialects are better understood by which people.

@jannetteberends8730

7 ай бұрын

That would be interesting. I know the dialect spoken in Limburg, The Netherlands is wel understood by people from Alsace. While I have problems to understand it.

@annominous826

7 ай бұрын

There are actually two on display. The man to the left speaks very textbook Norwegian, and the woman on the right has more of a Western accent. That said, her dialect is pretty mild. In school, we had to have subtitles on some Norwegian movies because some of the dialects were incomprehensible. (Dales, I'm looking at you here.)

@Starkardur

2 ай бұрын

I once heard a Norwegian dialect and thought they were speaking Icelandic with a foreign accent.

I finally understand what Swedes and Norwegians mean when they talk about Danish people now

@bodiller9422

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like everyone of these clips should not say how people talk because in denmark you have very different ways of speaking danish, the way the danish girl said was more like she didnt understand the words and was stopping after each word. They should come up with more exsaples.

@boahkeinbockmehr

4 жыл бұрын

@@bodiller9422 where were there words in that?! That was just unstructured sounds! Like you begin a word but can't be bothered to say more than a syllable of it

@bodiller9422

4 жыл бұрын

@@boahkeinbockmehr Man even tho im danish, this laungauge sucks ass. To understand danish you have to learn it of course haha

@paramaaz

4 жыл бұрын

Bodiller I don’t completely agree trat Danish sucks, but I kinda wish we spoke Danish the way we did 75-100 years ago. There is a clear difference in the way words are pronounced.

@bodiller9422

4 жыл бұрын

@@paramaaz yeah... i think its called evolution

It’s so odd hearing Afrikaans when you speak Dutch. It’s like a drunk farmer trying to speak Dutch, and they mess up the emphasis on the syllables and all. Very uncanny.

@Cassxowary

4 жыл бұрын

Aedificanus yes, because it comes from Dutch. But it’s evolved slightly differently due to influences from things like german and native South African languages.

@noahgrxcx6097

4 жыл бұрын

in afrikaans we also have a lot of loan words and vocabulary similarities to vastly different languages like persian, indonesian etc

@noahgrxcx6097

4 жыл бұрын

Fat Earther portuguese is another! I'm not 100% fluent but my mom's family is and between them and my intro linguistics professor i've heard a long list of languages involved with Afrikaans (please don't call it kitchen dutch lol). It's because of the huge presence of a diverse immigrant population to South Africa for a multitude of reasons spanning from the arrival of the Dutch to migrant workers, economic interests, war refugees etc etc. Just a side note, I'm not ethnically Afrikaner, my mom's family ended up there from russia and iran for a few reasons.

@aryslav9239

4 жыл бұрын

@Fat Earther don't call it kitchen dutch, please... Its cringe...

@user-bg7ef4ns4v

4 жыл бұрын

Even as German, I’m hearing the different emphasis.

Germann native speaker. 100% German 100% English 90% Yiddish (easy to understand) 70% Luxembourgish (To me it sounds like a heavy Kölsch dialect mixed with Dutch and a bit French) 60% Afrikaans (how I think Dutch sounds like) 30% Dutch (how Dutch sounds like) 20% Swedish 0% Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faorese

As a Dutch speaker I understood: - English: 100% - German: 100% (I had German as my second foreign language in school) - Afrikaans: 90% - Yiddish: 80% - Luxembourgish: 50% - Swedish: 15% - Danish/Faroese/Norwegian: 2-3% - Icelandic: 0%

@marcelbork92

4 ай бұрын

Surprising that Swedish is easier to you than Norwegian.

@nyb2.027

4 ай бұрын

@@marcelbork92Idk why, it’s just easier for me to figure what they’re saying.

Dutch sounds like english with a lot of “ghrrh”, “arghhg” and gutteral “uuhh” put in

@7211_

4 жыл бұрын

there’s a lot of loanwords, the grammar is pretty similar in some ways and compared to other languages the pronounciation is too! if you can speak German and English you’re already like 50% of the way to knowing Dutch. but yes, we have a lot of those ‘gggg’ sounds

@ChrisM-bn5vr

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Dutch is definitely the most similar language to English. I like to imagine that when I hear Dutch it's what a non English speaker hears when they hear someone speak English, without the guttural sounds.

@tyvamakes5226

4 жыл бұрын

Dutch is the King of England exporting english to the Lowland region via Hanover

@Wiatr2000

4 жыл бұрын

English is the same family. Created in the end when vikings came to island. So that why for You English sound 50% as German. There so many French and local language 🙂

@Wiatr2000

4 жыл бұрын

@@ushijimawakatoshi1675 Not realy. I thought that before but now i like it 😁🙂

- its uncanny - - Dutch sounds like German with an American accent

@arvedludwig3584

5 жыл бұрын

Plattdeutsch is closer to Dutch than high German, although it's spoken along the coast of the north sea in Germany.

@karleppo9043

5 жыл бұрын

How is that "uncanny"? Dutch is just a German accent

@arvedludwig3584

5 жыл бұрын

@Balder Geffen, van having ancestors from the lower Rhein region i can see similarities with your sentence. Dat is het niet = Das ist es nicht = Dat isset nit (Dialekt vom Niederrhein).

@aarondaniel1342

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm 🤔 vind ik niet...

@gabrielseaborn257

5 жыл бұрын

To a native English speaker, it sounds like they’re speaking the language with a distorted Irish accent

This is a good comparison. I just wish similar languages like Dutch/Afrikaans were next to each other so it would be easier to compare smaller differences.

i think swedish language is the most beautiful in the world and portuguese from brazil

it's wierd but when I'm stoned I think I can understand Swedish

@edvins8863

5 жыл бұрын

Im swedish and i understand danish better when im drunk 😂

@LivBD

5 жыл бұрын

@@edvins8863 I am Norwegian. I can understand Swedish drunk or sober. Danish however is impossible to understand, no matter how much I drink!

@edvins8863

5 жыл бұрын

LivBD you need to drink danish beverages like carlsberg to make it work

@LivBD

5 жыл бұрын

@Onesie fan ツ Does it work?

@faithhaddad7650

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I always think that if I listen a little harder, i will be able to understand. Same with Norwegian and Dutch.

Dutch sounds like the Sims language lmao

@jacqueskibu

4 жыл бұрын

Carter W. It is.

@fuwafuwamoth

4 жыл бұрын

Stefan Jacques no its not lmfao

@PrayashLand

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO TRUE

@mot5919

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on 😂

@pyropig5369

4 жыл бұрын

Listen to Gaelic... It's spot on Sims

As an English speaker I could understand literally nothing and I have been living in the USA my whole life. But! What’s funny is that there is a Slavic language version of this video, and as a native Russian speaker I understood a lot of the languages to at least a certain degree. (Czech was the one that really surprised me, I didn’t expect to understand it so well!). It’s funny how Slavic languages are closer together then some Germanic languages are lol.

Funny the afrikaanse dude said 'die werkers houden voet bij stuk', something like the workers stand their ground. In dutch its exactly the same, but maybe we would have said werknemers (work takers). Also 'nieuwe minimumloon' is exactly the same. Kan tot groot financiele last wezen, en kan tot grote werkverliezen leiden. It's kind of a literal version of dutch.

People: omigod that dutch sounds so rough and guttural Me ( a native dutch speaker): would you believe me if I told you she was actually speaking quite gently

@MinscS2

4 жыл бұрын

The man sounds like he's trying to hit on someone in The Sims.

@RedFighterNL

3 жыл бұрын

@@MinscS2 They always talk like that on RTL Nieuws / RTL News 😂

@wolfhound1452

3 жыл бұрын

Noa Emanuels I am a Dutch speaker, but I learned the dialect of Limburg first. The people of Limburg cannot pronounce that guttural Dutch g. You can always pick us out.

@anonb4632

3 жыл бұрын

Swiss German is more guttural. But neither compare to the gurglings, hiccups and glottal stops of Arabic, the new lingua Franca of Europe thanks to neoliberal capitalism.

@wolfy9979

3 жыл бұрын

Daarom is vlaams veel beter :) geen GGGGGG

Faroese sounds like someone who is perfectly capable of speaking swedish but has forgetten every single word and tries to improvise

@MsJeli9

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! I was thinking the exact same thing.

@alex25377

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually the closest to icelandic, for me as an icelander i understand most but it's like a person with problems speaking haha

@TheHarashi

3 жыл бұрын

I’m Faroese! Currently living in Sweden and can speak Swedish. Most swedes think I’m from Western Norway when I speak Swedish, though😅

@sigridrp

3 жыл бұрын

Just what my dad said after his trip to Føroyar: «I didn’t really understand what they said, but I could tell they were all westerners!» (we’re Norwegian...)

@jonebjrheim3148

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHarashi : Det har blitt sagt i Norge at både islendinger og færøyinger lærer dansk på skolen, men når de snakker dansk, da høres det ut som veldig nøytralt norsk.

I found all of these languages interesting, but for some reason, Swedish made me smile. It was very melodic and comforting. She could have been having a rant about something or other, but it still would have made me smile.

When I turn subtitles on, it make sense now.

Damn, I knew Yiddish was a Germanic language too, but as a German, I understood a lot more of it that I would've expected.

@Der.Preusse

4 жыл бұрын

The language is essentially German but with a Hebrew accent. There are probably some other differences as well but in general that's what it is.

@roodborstkalf9664

4 жыл бұрын

It's the language of Jews from the Rhineland who were kicked out of Western-Europe in the Middle Ages

@hashar9593

4 жыл бұрын

@@Der.Preusse actually 40% of it derived from polish and russian so yeah

@Der.Preusse

4 жыл бұрын

@@hashar9593 where do you get that number? To me as a German it doesn't sound much more different than just another dialect. Swiss German is arguably harder to understand for me.

@emiratesawesome

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of the vocabulary also comes from Biblical Hebrew (Lashon Hakodesh) and Aramaic. For example, in the video the word for Egypt is מצרים which comes from Biblical Hebrew. Or, there are three ways to say question in Yiddish, one way comes from German, one Hebrew, and one Aramaic. Shayla, (Hebrew), kashyeh, (Aramaic), and frageh, (German). I do believe that about 70% of Yiddish is Germanic, as is the grammar and sentence structure.

Danish is so frustrating.... I am able to understand about 50% reading it. However, when they start to speak I am completely lost!

@DieAlteistwiederda

5 жыл бұрын

I have a similar issue. I can read Dutch and understand basically everything because I can understand about 80% of the words because they look a lot like German but depending on the dialect I can't understand anything when someone talks to me. I can read all the other Germanic languages other than Islandic and Faroese and understand what is going on but Dutch and Africaans are definitely the easiest to understand. I can understand more spoken Africaans than Dutch sometimes.

@niko3688

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@lucifer4263

5 жыл бұрын

MarvelousSandstone true. I had no problems understanding 71 döda i flygkrasch (though it‘s probably not the most difficult phrase) but it was way harder to understand what she was saying.

@cesarsojo243

5 жыл бұрын

Don't worry. Once you hear it more frequently and get use to differentiating similar sounding words it's a piece of cake

@floris.927

5 жыл бұрын

mathmusic Same about Spanish and Portuguese, and Chinese and Japanese I guess.

Considering how broken my quite limited German is, I understood quite well. While perhaps not everything, I got the broad sweeps of what was being said. At least in the first part. My main issue other than not knowing many words was just the shear rapidity of the speech.

I'm Australian and was studying Russian so I know a little bit and will get back to it, but I love Norweigan, sure German is cool and I want to learn it too but something about Norweigan just takes my fancy!

"Germanic languages" German: *Halte mein Bier.*

@tyvamakes5226

4 жыл бұрын

Danish: hold min øl Swedish: båda borde hålla min öl Dutch: Houden jullie eens mijn gouden bieren in Vlaanderen

@lorcansnow2111

4 жыл бұрын

Öl is 'beer' in Danish and Swedish as you said (and quite a few other languages), similarly 'to drink' and 'bottle of beer' in Irish (and all Gaelic languages) is ól. Also, drunk is ólta. Interesting because of the sheer distance. Must be a word as old as the Vikings. A lot came to our country centuries ago, only time I can think of it would've transferred. Our word for whiskey is best in the world: uisce beatha (water of life). Update: I googled it. Beer in old Norse was öl around the time of the Vikings.

@CatMC_1

4 жыл бұрын

Öl? What..? It means "oil" in German Imagine someone saying "I'm drinking oil"

@lorcansnow2111

4 жыл бұрын

@Gay Thağğ0t CockThrobber There's quite a difference in spelling and pronunciation there though, but yeah it definitely derived from öl as well. The distinction that's interesting I found though is that Gaelic languages which were very influenced by Norsemen didn't change the spelling or pronounciation, whereas Brythonic peoples (British, Breton, basque) whom had less contact with Norsemen have since changed it either slightly or altogether. The countries surrounding these such as Spain, Portugal, France have no word relative to öl at all, so it's clear the term migrated along with the vikings, and stayed unchanged where they had most influence. I'm aware of a few others such as 'trosc' for 'cod' coming from Thorskr. Ispín meaning sausage coming íspen. Long meaning ship coming from lang.

@dolphinbeta514

4 жыл бұрын

Not funny

Dutch really out here speaking Simlish like it’s nothing

@SapientEudaimonia

4 жыл бұрын

Simlish?

@anglicothemonkey3496

4 жыл бұрын

for the LAST TIME dutch doesn't sound like simlish, English is waaaay more similar.

@erectustesticulus3191

4 жыл бұрын

Drunk sounding

@asaasa7900

4 жыл бұрын

AnglicoTheMonkey It sort of does. It's closer to English, no doubt, but it sounds like Dutch to many English speakers

@CapitalLuke

4 жыл бұрын

@R. DB as a dutch I can agree our language sounds like simlish.

I'm an arab, I have nothing related to these languages, but just from listening, the Swidish sounds the most beautiful

so toll ❤

Dutch sound like speaking english and german at once tbh.

@Leo-uu8du

4 жыл бұрын

Then, what does Austrian sound like? Here is an example kzread.info/dash/bejne/onWHzteSp92XZNY.html

@xxmemestar69xx82

4 жыл бұрын

WhatTheFact what an original comment

@kevinpagel2527

4 жыл бұрын

@@Leo-uu8du Austrian is not a Language, it is a dialekt of German, like bavarian for example. If you want to have an example, take low-german, this is an own language.

@Leo-uu8du

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevinpagel2527 Actually Austro-Bavarian is as much of a language as Low-Saxon (that's the real name). The only difference is that Low-Saxon was made an offical language, because of its recognition in the Netherlands, a lot of propaganda and the resulting political pressure of the low-saxon federal state. On the other hand, there is a lot of counter-propaganda to prevent the same scenario in the south and you are the perfect example that it works...

@illasra

4 жыл бұрын

how

Dutch is like a drunken Brit who tries to speak german or reversed

@triplex2912

5 жыл бұрын

What the hell is a 'Brit'!? English, Welsh and Scottish live on an island called Britain! Got it!? Verstehen Sie!?

@CataciousAmogusevic

4 жыл бұрын

@@triplex2912 u ok?

@twisted9285

4 жыл бұрын

Triplex 29 what’s your problem?

@nurailidepaepe2783

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao not in my accent trust me

@Brooklyn-Manhattan

4 жыл бұрын

@@twisted9285 Triplex 29 doesn't have a problem.

I am surprised that Nordic languages sound so different to German, but it seems Danish is somewhat simmilar to Dutch. I can read Dutch quite easily as Austrian☺... Groetjes Also the Dutch spoken eg. in Amsterdam is more difficult, but Flemish/Belgian Dutch is easier to understand

As a native Dutch speaker, Danish sounds like someone only saying one half of each word

@pietro3963

Жыл бұрын

or like someone who is speaking gibberish before having a stroke

@ElectroIsMyReligion

11 ай бұрын

- And as a Dane I can say that is my exact same experience regarding Dutch 😂

@mandibiedermann2246

16 күн бұрын

@@ElectroIsMyReligion 😆

@ninobrown8332

14 күн бұрын

@@ElectroIsMyReligion Word! Dutch is the weirdest language of the lot

What I understood (I’m Swedish) 100% Swedish 90% Norwegian 0% danish

@mytwocents7464

5 жыл бұрын

How about Dutch and German?

@rerolledDK

5 жыл бұрын

@M Norwegians and Swedes love making jokes about Danish pronunciation being impossible to understand. If you would like to research this subject more, just paste Kamelåså into the youtube search bar.

@eemmaa

5 жыл бұрын

Alter Ego I do actually study German in school and could therefore understand a little bit. A few words here and there you know but Dutch. Nope. Didn’t understand anything

@Marie-du8vy

5 жыл бұрын

ಠ_ಠ It was a joke man

@adammessina6182

5 жыл бұрын

Emma Carlsson no danish really didn’t know it was that different

Norwegian and Swedish sounds like someone is trying to sing and speak at the same time

@elli1327

4 жыл бұрын

the dude 42 hahahahahahah great way to express it

@TTaiiLs

3 жыл бұрын

ITS because the langusges have tones

@Centurion101B3C

3 жыл бұрын

What a nice way of putting that.

@Rose-xe4ct

3 жыл бұрын

the dude 42 That’s a really beautiful way to describe our language. Thank you :)

@ysteinfjr7529

3 жыл бұрын

We are not trying! That's what we do! Greetings from Norway :D

rating how much i understand as a native German speaker: English: 100% (bilingual) Dutch: 20% (surprisingly little even though I'm currently learning dutch 😫) Swedish: 1% (a few words) Afrikaans: 90% (i understand the context and almost all the words) Danish: 40% (i understand more than dutch which surprised me) Norwegian: 2% (a few more words more than swedish) Yiddish: 95% (only missing a few words 🤝🏻) Luxembourgish: 40% (this one shocked me) Icelandic: 0% (yea I'm out lol sounds cool tho) Faroese: 0%

@HeroManNick132

11 ай бұрын

Icelandic is the most archaic and isolated one so not surprisingly. I mean Icelandic barely even changed for the last 1000 years so makes sense why you didn't understand it.

@arolemaprarath6615

10 ай бұрын

On nac, di kon osspionerto in da palas in hogplas de konagland-rik vin Frankrik and Doshlandrik. Der, ereen fond a svart kat, ereen bang. Ereen atalefall, ten, nin, ottach, sefn, six, fif, vour, tri, to, on, ereen lep vegi.

@Exgrmbl

8 ай бұрын

luxembourgish is very close to german but it sounds very different. It's like they are applying the intonation and flow of french on german.

Dutch sounds so interestingly strange and I like it. I also like Icelandic but then you have Finnish, their close neighbor, who is like the quiet one in the corner; surly and straightforward, that no one else in the group can understand.

@Starkardur

2 ай бұрын

Finnish, their close neighbor? Finnish isn't a Germanic language, it isn't even and Indo-European language and Finland is close to Iceland. Last time I checked Finland is between Russia and Sweden.

@kalevala29

2 ай бұрын

@@Starkardur I know that silly. I also know that it's a Finno-Ugric language.

I can’t tell if Afrikaans sounds beautiful or if that dude is just a really good speaker.

@harryturnbull963

4 жыл бұрын

Both! Riaan Cruywagen is an Afrikaans cultural icon, an almost mythical figure of pristine character and etiquette. The national news anchor since the invention of the television, for nearly half a century, hardly looking a day older than when he began. A living SA legend. He is THE benchmark for refined Afrikaans language and character. Not every speaker aspires to this refinement, but name a language where that isn't the case...

@FedoraNation

4 жыл бұрын

Both

@MissMoontree

4 жыл бұрын

To me it sounds like a lazy version of Dutch; softer and missing a couple of letters, but still comprehensible.

@Calv-tb1bx

4 жыл бұрын

Hello from south africa

@thebergbok8279

3 жыл бұрын

@@harryturnbull963 For modern, urban, commercial Afrikaans usage listen to Ryk van Niekerk on Finansie"le Focus program, RSG radio, Mon-Fri, 6 to7pm local time (SA). A good update .Charl van Heyningen for refined enunciation without an attitude.His background Radio theatre & opera.

I love how everyone in this comment section is a linguist.

@volund6280

4 жыл бұрын

Wikipedia

@sonoftheway3528

4 жыл бұрын

to be fair, the comments section of a video about languages will have a higher percentage of linguists than the total population

Regardless of whether I understood or not, each language has its own charm

Icelandic, Norwegian, Dutch and German are probably my favorites. Especially Icelandic.

Everyone is commenting about being Dutch, English, German, etc meanwhile I am here a South Asian who has no idea how I got here......

@DogDogGodFog

3 жыл бұрын

Dude I'm a Slav. Welcome to the outsiders gang!

@rossellaerre695

3 жыл бұрын

I'm italian, I don't know why I'm here...

@manuba_

3 жыл бұрын

I'm brazilian I don't know what I'm doing here either..

@elsieboo7653

3 жыл бұрын

Manu.u é incrivel como br ta até em um video de linguas germanicas KKKKKKKKK

@biggboii2595

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Germanic languages. All are welcome here.

I imagine Frisians are pretty mad you left them out of this

@joaoreis1648

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the Flemmish

@user-dq6hs4ry6z

3 жыл бұрын

@@joaoreis1648 flemmish is literally just a dutch dialect

@joaoreis1648

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-dq6hs4ry6z hmmm, but isn't Frisian a Dutch dialect as well? They seem pretty similar

@user-dq6hs4ry6z

3 жыл бұрын

@@joaoreis1648 no, they are actually not nearly as similar as you would think. The frisians are actually a different folk than the dutch and germans rather than just a regional dialect. They been around since before the roman expansion

@joaoreis1648

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-dq6hs4ry6z My bad, I only speak Romance languages ( apart from English) which might explain why I couldn't see that from a pronouciation standpoint... if only I had looked at the grammar. Thanks for the insight!

Is the Afrikaans reporter talking about minimum wage, financial situations and woman?? I'm swedish and I think I kind of got that if that's right 😮

@fredswanepoel2425

2 ай бұрын

Yes

as a german, I can understand yiddish almost perfectly, even better than luxembourgish. also weirdly afrikaans is understandably spoken

Yiddish sounds like a german grandpa off his meds.

@ottovonbismarckboi9112

4 жыл бұрын

Sofia Permjakova why not

@cosmosDiv

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't mean to disrespect the language, just friendly joking.

@Oongaboongabigfatdoggy

4 жыл бұрын

Ya yem chlen

@cosmosDiv

4 жыл бұрын

@@Oongaboongabigfatdoggy моя? 😏

@tijmen1557

4 жыл бұрын

and louxemburgish like grandma off her meds

Being a Japanese who totally isn’t of European origin, I felt almost all of Germanic languages had the same tone! Interesting.

@Ambar42

3 жыл бұрын

A classic phenomenon. As a German who speaks English fluently both languages sound extremely different to each other and the rest of the Germanic languages (with a few sounding more close to German and a few further away). The other ones sound far more the same to me. The better you know them the more you recognize how different they all are.

@Libroblanco456

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ambar42 Ah I mean, of course every language sounds very differently, but apart from the pronunciation, it seems Germanic languages have a similar intonation when spoken.

@Ambar42

3 жыл бұрын

@@Libroblanco456 True. We have a strong emphasis on certain syllables and express some sentences in the same way no matter the language.

@melvinjansen2338

3 жыл бұрын

@@Libroblanco456 えええ本とに

@luxborealis

3 жыл бұрын

It is because they are all from the same root. It’s much like Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean all sound like they have similar tones, as does most Turkic languages in Central Asia. As an island language, Japanese have a more unique tone compared to other Asian languages due to its isolation, really only Ryukyuan which is similar.

As an English speaker I found Afrikaans and Yiddish the most similar to our language in terms of general rhythm, cadence and phonology, even if I could barely make anything out from either

@ShannonTubeYou

Жыл бұрын

Don't tell this to the ardent Boers, but due to the fact that Afrikaans is in fact more closely related to Frisian than Dutch, that makes their language 'very' closely related to English. Although you wouldn't say so..

@christoduplessis8177

9 ай бұрын

As one of those "Boers" who has traveled the low countries extensively, Flemish is far and away our closest language sibling. Durch and Frisian too but I think Frisian relates just because of the German influence on both. We have a lot of English influence in South Africa due to iur Commonwealth history and it makes sense that the tempo of Afrikaans has slowed compared to Dutch to match English more over the centuries.

Fun fact: In Poland there's a little village where they speak a language that poles call Wilamowski (Vilamovsky) and it's a Germnaic langauge

The Luxembourgian lady sounds like a pre-recorded lufthansa message.

@iloveharrypotterda2831

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@adrian-lq4xc

5 жыл бұрын

luxembourgois or luxembourgish***

@satan1189

5 жыл бұрын

ädriän luxemburgois is french. Its luxemburgish or on luxemburgish "lëtzebuergesch"

@lovisa5579

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Satan.

@aniinnrchoque1861

4 жыл бұрын

Des erste mal wo ich wen aus Luxemburg getroffen habe dachte ich die Person wäre aus Berlin Marzahn vom Klang.. ^^,

Dutch is like trying to speak German while gargling mouthwash

@Nordisk11

5 жыл бұрын

It sounds pleasant to me

@MeidoInHebun

5 жыл бұрын

I heard a German guy say that it sounds like 'cute' German

@Tflexxx02

5 жыл бұрын

A drunk Englishman trying to speak German.

@tomosprice8136

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tflexxx02 Enshuldeegung mate, speken zie Inglish

@tomosprice8136

5 жыл бұрын

@@arunadegroot8974 he's probably just a sad 13 year old 😉

Voor mij is het nederlands een van de mooiste talen ter wereld. Mijn moedertaal is het spaans en ik heb het nederlands al een jaar gestudeerd. Wat kan ik zeggen? Ik houd ervan

@Sphinxgamingworld9942

Ай бұрын

Que bien me da gusto que te guste el holandés como idioma. A mí me gustan ciertas canciones en holandés y la verdad no me explico por qué muchos lo consideran un idioma cutre.

@victorcb6795

Ай бұрын

@@Sphinxgamingworld9942 mi hipótesis es que la gente es medio ignorante. Y al estar rodeado de idiomas como el alemán, francés e inglés, desdeñan esta preciosa lengua. En fin, es difícil aumentar mi nivel porque aquí hay escaso material para estudiar la gramática (sí, yo soy de esos enamorados de la gramática) pero bueno, diario leo o escucho vídeos y ahí la llevo.

As a Slovakian I understand: 100% English 10% German 0% Dutch 5% Swedish 0% Afrikaans 0% Danish 0% Norwegian 2% Yiddish 0% Luxembourgish 0% Icelandic 1% Faroese