I've gotten this comment before and I am definitely going to look into this!

Thanks!

Same here!

That would be interesting, but I've seen another youtuber do a comparison, so I don't want to recreate an already popular video. If more people would like it, then probably

Yup, cases I knew about. Loanwords was completely my fault. Thanks for the comment!

I don't speak Russian, so I apologize for the bad pronunciation, lol 😆. I'd have to research Polish more, maybe you'd like a video on the subject?

Soft signs make consonants soft in Russian

Does being from the Indo-European language family not count as having influence? I guess this could be subjective, but I believe so. They have a lot of cognates because their ancestor languages interacted.

@@PolyglotMouse Portuguese is a Romance language, while Russian is a Slavic language. Personally, I sometimes find that some Balkan languages, especially Montenegrin with its Balkan accent, sound similar to Italian. I often hear them in my country, and I don't know why, but when I hear them from far away, they sound like Italian. The same goes for Estonian, which sounds a lot like Spanish from Spain when heard from a distance. You can even check it out on KZbin; it's amazing how similar they can sound. However, while Portuguese and Russian might sound somewhat similar, they are not alike at all in terms of language structure; it's only the sound.

I believe he wanted to say that both Russian and Portuguese have shared vocabulary from indo-european roots, this is just one more reason for them to sound similar. Yet he gave bad examples, because this words did not entered Russian and Portuguese directly from Indo-european root, some of them are brand new words. Mãe, pai, regar (com água), tu (pronome), um, dois, etc. would be better examples of true indo-european words that made into nearly all european languages such as Russian, German, English, Latin and Portuguese. Pra mim que sou brasileiro, PT-PT parece um pouco com Russo. Certeza que é porque não estou acostumado com os sons, não tenho o ouvido treinado pra diferenciar. Obviamente entendo 99% do vocabulário lusitano, mas se escuto os sons separadamente não saberia dizer, isso é Russo, isso é Português. É como os espanhóis que não escutam a diferença entre avo, avô e avó. P

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they most certainly don't. yeah they're both a bit nasal but other than that they sound completely different.

I don't know if there are any that really sound like polish. but i’ve met a group of albanians and firstly thought that they were poles. maybe it's just the amount of sh-like sounds they've used.

Ooh, that's very interesting. I've always loved how Polish sounds. Let's see... Portuguese is the obvious first answer as well and possibly Lithuanian because of the nasal vowels

I think Georgian and Armenian

They don't sound alike to you because you speak both of them and can tell them apart very easily. I speak Portuguese natively and am on my first steps of learning Russian and I can differentiate them in a second as well, but to someone who isn't familiar with none of them, it's similar. If you listen someone speaking Portuguese really fast or in an environment where you can't clearly understand the exact words they're saying, then even you'll be able to tell how similar these languages may sound

how tf do u speak both

​@@FourLionsClips why is that weird? Haha I speak Russian and Italian natively, and also french and spanish

I'll add that to my very extensive list!

As a Spanish speaker, basically because the Romans took the Greek vowels and most consonants, then sent them to Hispannia. Greek lacks some specific consonants but has exactly the same vowels. robot says: Consonants in Greek but not in Spanish: Theta (θ): Represented by the letter Θ (theta), this is a voiceless dental fricative, similar to the "th" sound in English "think." /Note: Spanish does have that sound, but only in Spain. For both Z and C+e(ce), C+i(ci). Chi (χ): Represented by the letter Χ (chi), this is a voiceless velar fricative, similar to the "ch" in the German "Bach" or the Scottish "loch." /Note: Spanish does have that sound. Spain uses the same sound. Latin America has variations. Gamma (γ) before front vowels (e, i): Represented by the letter Γ (gamma), this is a voiced palatal fricative, similar to the "y" sound in English "yes" but more fricative. Consonants in Spanish but not in Greek: Palatal Nasal (ɲ): Represented by the letter ñ, this is a palatal nasal consonant, as in the word "niño" (child). Voiced Dental Fricative (ð): Represented by the letter "d" between vowels, this is similar to the "th" in English "this," found in words like "cada" (each). Voiceless Dental Fricative (θ): In Castilian Spanish, represented by the letter "z" and "c" before "e" or "i" (like in "zapato" or "cielo"). Note that this is the same sound as Greek "theta," but it is not present in all Spanish dialects (notably absent in Latin American Spanish).

The example I gave was COMPLETELY wrong. I don't even know how I let that slip through. A better example would've been "Está ele em casa?" or "Gosta ela de música?"

It must always be "ela está em casa?" or "ela gosta de música?"

Thanks for letting me know!

pensei o mesmo

​@@PolyglotMouseMesmo*

Obrigado :)

yeah thats what i also thought

@verletzt546 do you speak Russian btw? Because this is my native tongue

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@@verletzt546 ок

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Or it can sound like you're selling cat meat, as in "Não tenho porco(carne), mas tenho gato"("I don't have pork, but I have cat(meat)").

I'm Brazilian and "eu tenho gato" doesn't sound like something we'd say at all. That lack of indefinite article makes it sound so weird...

@@grimm2447 I see. I suppose it's one of the differences in our versions of the language.

1. Yup, I actually knew this but forgot to mention it 2. I always get those two phonemes confused, my fault 3. Interesting, I was told otherwise. Maybe a better example would've been "Ele é (um) médico" which shows a state of being instead of possession 4. I can't believe I spelled vais wrong. Looking at my script it was autocorrect. I mentioned this in another comment but there is word inversion, but the example I gave was weird. I was trying to get one that matched both languages. A better one would've been: "Está ele em casa?" or "Gosta ela de música?" I always love making these videos because I learn new things from native speakers in the comments! I hope you enjoyed it

@@PolyglotMouse the médico one would work yeah, as for the inversion thing... it still doesn't sound right ngl, I wouldn't change the order, I've heard it's viable in Spanish tho, I could be wrong

ok :)

Irl Japanese doesn't sound like anime

Could be the myriad of words with the /k/ sound. (Also saying Japanese sounds like anime is a hilarious thing to base its sound off of)

Japanese doesn't sound like anime if you know Japanese tbh

Does Basque have a pitch accent, vowel length and no consonant clusters?

Thanks for the thoughtful comment!

Very different. They are not related.

Thanks for letting me know!

I have always thought that Japanese sounds more similar to Russian (or the other Slavic languages like Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian) than it does to Korean.

@@cheerful_crop_circle Why? East and South Slavic languages have way more consonants than Japanese.

@@ronin667 The similarity is mostly in the vowels and certain phonetics, because they all have only 5 vowels and certain phonetics are similar

​@@cheerful_crop_circle The perception probably depends on what your native language is. When I hear Russians speaking German, I notice they tend to diphtongize a lot, like "ye" instead of "e", "uɐ" instead of "u" and "oa" instead of "o", something that Japanese speakers don't do. Also, slavic speakers tend to pronounce postalveolar fricatives way more in the back of the mouth than Koreans or Japanese.

@@ronin667 Russian people pronounce "e" like normal "e" without palatalization/sounding like "ye" or "i" like normal "i" without sounding like "yi". Russian speakers mostly palatalize and soften in their own language. When it comes to Russians speaking other languages, they dont palatalize and dont use mitigation at all. I dont know where you got that impression (it also depends on the individual accent). As for the the other thing you said , yes , you are right that Slavic speakers pronounce sounds more from the back of the throat/mouth compared to Korean and Japanese speakers

Thanks!