Americans Try To Pronounce Foreign Languages! | Try Not To Fail Challenge

[@akinwalephillips8301]

Jaxon's pronunciation for Japanese is so on point. Won't be surprised if he consumes a lot of Japanese media

[@Justaguythatcameby]

He does, he have said so in several episodes

[@chaosatemytoesagain]

Yeah I grew up in a Japanese and English speaking household and even my pronunciation is rocker then his lol

[@jfme8785]

You know the video is going to be great when jaxon and jayka are paired together!!!

[@buckwiild2101]

Them two together and any time Sharon is in the videos then ya know it's going to be a great vid!!

[@valentinoxv]

EXACTLY

[@KC-qi7gn]

@@buckwiild2101 YEP JAIR N DANNY TOO

[@jfme8785]

@@buckwiild2101 yes sh Sharon tooo

[@zantshade1500]

Do Afrikaans please

[@livinghoomanbean4803]

10:52 I’m Japanese and I am SHOOK that he actually does kind of sound like a native. Watching anime does pay off huh😂

[@Morgan2312]

Who

[@livinghoomanbean4803]

@@Morgan2312 jaxon

[@katelynnbowden2782]

Fun fact from someone who works in the Cherokee Nation - Cherokee actually is no longer a dying language, nor is it a foreign language (since Natives are the OG's)! Cherokee Nation is actually revitalizing their language through language immersion schools, CLMAP programs, as well as online classes. Wado!

[@RenataKaleah]

It was so cute when Jair and Benison were getting pumped over the Korean words

[@JonahGotStyl]

As a cherokee Indian I not only am happy that more people are learning abt our tribe but seeing them freak out about it is hilarious

[@kas-qt9cj]

a fellow native with luffy pfp

[@JonahGotStyl]

@@kas-qt9cj wolf clan on top 😎

[@BlackWinchester]

Jaxon's definitely proud that all the anime watching finally pays off!

[@Diamantaire_25]

Jaxon's Japanese pronunciation is pretty good. He knows not to stress the u in su and the i in shi

[@tonyfreejazz20]

Pleasantly surprised when I saw Māori come up. Loved Jaxons comment about our accent 🙂 - Ka pai te mahi!

[@HebahsRollercoaster]

Omg, I can’t believe I was featured in this!! 😮 Thank youu 🥰 I am the one pronouncing the dishes in Arabic 🤣😃

[@Ari-qn6kn]

that’s so cool! you are gorgeous btw 🫶 Mashalla

[@rumeysaozturk2220]

You should have chosen words of arabic origin. Baklava is not the arabic word.

[@JayDogg99]

That's crazy yall included Te Reo Māori, Im actually from Opotiki!! Its a small town on the East Coast of the North Island!

[@itsleilax]

jaxon`s japanese pronunciation is on point!!

[@LordLOC]

This was a terrific idea for a video. I really hope you guys do more of this one for sure. Not only is it fun and funny to watch, but it's educational as well which is always awesome.

[@introvert2023]

There Hindi was so perfect 😄 Namaste was perfectly said. Jackson watches anime confirmed😂

[@cecil3602]

Me too , Hindi and Japanese was kinda easy for me 😅 love anime tho

[@tonlomugdang]

Jaxon is soo good with Korean and Japanese. I bet he watches anime and k-dramas.

[@jaywalker17]

any time Jaxon & Jayka are together, it's worth watching.

[@eljinnieus_05]

JAXON'S JAPANESE THO!!! Amazing Job Jax

[@debb0r]

Jaxons pronunciation on the dowajuseyo was perfect!

[@krylesangerbeaver]

12:42 damn, Jaxon seemed real confident with Italian and Jayka got more than he did (at least from the totals they show here)

[@HHthebestshowever928]

Jaxon 100 percent watches his anime subbed

[@nekonoai]

As is right and proper. ;)

[@HHthebestshowever928]

@@nekonoai agreed 👍

[@jasoneyerly9171]

I love how they bleeped all the swears EXCEPT @9:13 they guy drops the F bomb lol not bleeped at all 🤣🤣🤣 kudos to the editor.

[@donnabreedlove6862]

I found Xhosa and Cherokee the most difficult. Xhosa was for the clicking sound. Great job to all, especially Jaxon and Benison!

[@sainjawoof3506]

I feel incredibly lucky and honoured to know a tiny bit of Xhosa. 🇿🇦 Xhosa is what Europeans used to call "The Click Language," bc they weren't able to produce the sounds. Everyone should look up "The Click Song," by Miriam Makeba 🎶

[@kristietaylor719]

The Cherokee has a written vocabulary that has been around for a very long time and is one of the first written Indigenous languages written for the preservation of the Cherokee history and world events around them. It is being actively taught in order to preserve the language. I really wish a language app would work with people who speak Cherokee and make it more available to those outside the Tribe can learn it. As so many out there who can and do claim an ancestor of Cherokee descent, so do I and would love to learn the language so I can strengthen the connection to my ancestry.

[@riyandidarmawanputra6373]

Dang Jaxon's spelling at Japanese is quite good

[@aznmochibunny]

Far as I remember, Jaxon watches anime so he probably tried imitating the natural accent.

[@なな-r4q4i]

As a Japanese, Jaxon’s Japanese is so good ! I’m so surprised 😮

[@aznmochibunny]

If I remember correctly, Jaxon is an anime fan, so he probably imitated the pronunciation of some of what he heard in anime. That's sort of how I learned before taking formal classes.

[@VineVitumEt5]

Next time do Hebrew, Armenian, Scottish, Malawian, Finnish, Latin, Romanian, Ethiopian, and Jamaican.

[@anthonyhansel9175]

I was thinking the same, throw in some Irish or Scottish. I'd be lights out.

[@FormigaFit]

Korean team with Jair, was dope Jaxon was beating himself up being Italian and not getting it right

[@Kaylee-eq2ml]

10:08 no one will convince me that wasn't hot lmao

[@janoiyamckenzie8347]

No one will convince me that im not in love with Jaxon

[@feridenurkaya4913]

4:07 Baklava has an Turkish origin and we read it like they did in the video before she read. I don't know where she is from and I get the reason why she read it like that but we say it like "baklava" in Turkish

[@Stella_-jj8bx]

Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say “baklewa” before… my family is from Syria, and we’ve always pronounced it “baklawa” or I know others who say “baklava”. It’s kinda cool that it’s pronounced a bit differently in Turkish and in Arabic lol

[@feridenurkaya4913]

@@Stella_-jj8bx Actually, I thought the reason is that "long elif" letter that we don't have in our alphabet now but again, it was surprising for me. By the way, I think the reason of reading differences of our languages are "vav" letter in Arabic is stronger than "v". If ı wrote the letters, sorry for that. I don't know how to write Arabic letters in English

[@Stella_-jj8bx]

@@feridenurkaya4913 nonono I understand what you put haha but yeah I think you’re right that makes sense

[@shahadjaber8882]

its not the usual arabic they used a bad example for the arabic one but i still love them

[@feridenurkaya4913]

@@shahadjaber8882 I personally think that it is kind of sad that they only put food names for Arabic because there are so many beautiful words but like you said I still love the React

[@annaschwirian7548]

I would love to see you do this again and do GA from Ghana Mikasuki- Seminole Indians Polish- Poland Hawaiian - Hawaii Nahuatl- the Aztec language whis is still spoken by the nahua people. Gaelic- Ireland Yucatan (if need be the easier Yucatan spanish) - Mexico Dhivehi- Maldives Mandarin Chinese- China Xhosa- South Africa Australian English- Australia Tuvaluan- Tuvalu

[@sarastanley2284]

When Jackson said “As long as it’s not Welsh” the whole time I was thinking of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (that’s a city name in Wales)

[@masonjayryder5988]

That's the exact same one I was thinking.

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I’m learning Welsh and Norwegian and French and Swedish and Portuguese and German and many other languages, and I learned Dutch (advanced level / over 8.000 base words) in a few months, and am beginner level in Welsh, and it’s not true that they don’t have vowels, and also, the Y and W are considered vowels as well and are pronounced the same way as in English, and most Welsh words don’t look like the long city names at all, for example afon (river) and helygen (willow tree) and blodyn (flower) etc, and it’s a bit similar to Dutch in certain ways, like intonation and the vibe it gives and the CH sound that’s also used in Dutch, so I memorized over 450 Welsh words so far, and it’s definitely the easiest Celtic languages, and Breton is also very easy and like a mix of Welsh & French - it gets way easier once one learns all the pronunciation rules and enough words to recognise verbs and nouns and adjectives with their different endings!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Also, the special name Sara only reflects me, and must be changed, and also Ley and color related words like tan cannot be in names either!

[@evefreyasyrenathegoddessev4016]

And I can pronounce that long city name - the easiest way to learn how to say it is by learning each word / name that it is made of separately and the pronunciation rules!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

It sounds like... Sanvayr - p

[@xxmata_antrax]

Jaxon was spitting when he said the “spain is the British form of Mexican Spanish” 7:46

[@PaulyWally30]

I didn't see him spit.

[@paky332]

Please do greek and brazilian portuguese next

[@mautsukuda]

Surprised they didn't do Brazilian Portuguese. That would've been cool. Jaxon's Japanese was awesome.

[@keseideh5821]

Bruh immediately i could tell Jaxon watches anime 😹😹

[@crystalcosmicreads]

As a no sabo Latina who's learning Japanese, I'm so happy I pronounced both 100% :)

[@minniewitdalocs]

😭😭. Am glad they did Xhosa!! 🇿🇦

[@zintlegcadinja]

Lol as a Xhosa person from South Africa, I wish that was done by a person who can pronounce the words and the clicks correctly. Enjoyed the video though, I was also trying out some languages. Fun!!!

[@Brianakk]

hahahha no bc i also literally believed everything Jair said. her pronunciations sounded so right

[@thatgirl9532]

This was so fun to watch 😁 and they all did a wonderful job. Now imagine if Sharon had to pronounce these words in these languages this video would be way funnier 😂 Also hope we get to see more of Benison he’s probably the favourite new reactor who always does his best.. P.S if REACT ever does a part 2 and the reactors had to pronounce words in the language of Khmer I know that they would struggle a lot and I’ll be here for it 🤣

[@georgechristianjr]

Jaxon looks great in glasses

[@melrhea12]

Jaxon is my fav and he’s so handsome!

[@carmeng101]

I just love jair and benison together lol they have a great friendship😂 💖

[@chrisspotato]

I love Jair and Beni’s vibeee! Good vibes! 🫶🏻

[@Capin-Crunch]

The way jaxon produced those Japanese words make me think he is a weeb or at has a good grasp of how to speak Japanese

[@Hgvmrsmeow]

Did Jaxon meant latinamerica for the mexican spanish? 😹 bc in latin america we all have different accents and words LOL typical gringo tho haha

[@Talia_M_Adams]

Tortilla, Salsa, and Paella? Those are the Spanish words?? lol could've been a little harder

[@Ot5klover727]

Right

[@declanfan30]

This was a fun challenge to watch (and play along with). I always love the foreign food episodes on People vs Food. And it’s cool that you did a foreign language challenge on this channel. You guys are awesome. Keep it up!

[@Loettl]

Arabic has so many different accents. Some words are pronounced differently among Arab countries. You can’t judge a person’s pronunciation by one single Tiktok video.

[@kleine.5438]

Will definitely be hoping for a part two cuz I would like to know more of these please

[@Goliath_702]

I LOVE THIS!!! Im Jamaican, Samoan and Bajan. could you guys try Samoan words plz? Much Love

[@landonhulett2119]

Jair sounds like she knows Japanese.

[@lymanwizardswand]

Really impressed with Jaxon.

[@Grimbago]

We need second video but now please include Slavic languages.

[@zephyrsky01]

Oh man I really want to see them try the different languages in the Philippines. That would be sooo fun.

[@jiafei_products7085]

THERE'S LITERALLY NOT A SINGLE WORD IN FILIPINO HERE

[@bautistacarlo4166]

Jaxon sounds so fluent in japanese

[@shnn_]

3:27 sounds similar to the filipino word "makina" which means engine, and sometimes sewing machine

[@shahadjaber8882]

same in arabic :) but in arabic insted of macenna its maceena

[@nocturneJOJO]

technically in italian "macchina" means "machine" so it can be used in many other context like "macchina da cucire" = sewing machine, "macchina da scrivere" = typewriter, or "macchina da caffè" = coffee machine, but used alone the word is more often used to refer to cars in general though we also use auto or automobile (which has a different pronunciation in italian), but colloquially macchina is the most common word. :)

[@justkevinthings8052]

It was really nice to see an indigenous language included 💜

[@rickyzee3154]

such a fun video, now we need to include scandinavian and eastern european languages too

[@PuRpLePoNcHo]

Māori language made it to a react episode, yas!!

[@thomasvangompel7211]

You are Māori

[@PuRpLePoNcHo]

@@thomasvangompel7211 Yes

[@thomasvangompel7211]

@@PuRpLePoNcHo which continent is Māori the language from

[@PuRpLePoNcHo]

@@thomasvangompel7211 Hawaii

[@thomasvangompel7211]

@@PuRpLePoNcHo beautiful

[@holistic.health]

Baklava depends on which country... because so many countries make it... it's not simply Arabic... if it's being spelled transliterated it is "baklaawa"... but in turkish baklava world be pronounced "baklawa"... not like Arabic at all.. in I'm sure there's a different way in Greece...

[@NZArchie]

Daniel's mispronunciation of Opotiki was spot on. We hear that pronunciation all the time. Even from out own people sometime. Can we get an "Americans Try to Pronounce Foreign Place Names"? like the New Zealand guy did with Opotiki and Taupo?

[@sayala909]

i love Jair and Beni together ! They are too funny

[@moonjunhui13]

i felt so proud when korean came up. i was like "it's my time to shine" like mark once said 😭😂 ive been learning for like 3 years

[@TheMrCC21]

Urdu (although if you know some Hindi, you might be able to get it), Georgian (considered one of the hardest languages in the world), Irish, Finnish (another hard language), Mandarin (apparently the hardest language), Cantonese, Icelandic (considered one of the hardest languages to learn), Hawaiian, Kurdish (one of the official languages of Iraq), Siberian Tatar, Greek, Slovenian, Welsh, Norwegian (apparently easy for English speakers), Samoan. Throwing out various languages.

[@yohanthoncruzrandydamnitfu1574]

Please do more on Polish, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian,

[@mayhuynh8524]

I’m a kiwi (New Zealander 🇳🇿) wasn’t expecting to see Māori (Te Reo) in this video.

[@juwen7908]

Hey I really missed german in that. They will it messed up so hard, I guess. Maybe next one? Greetings from Berlin 😎

[@edzsayson2694]

Part 2 of this! And please include deep tagalog words or other Filipino language like bisaya or cahavacano! That will be great!

[@liamvandervurst835]

i absolutely love daniel he is so funny. also like jaxn and jayka are ICONIC😌

[@Taomoshi]

I feel like Jaxon nailed the Japanese round because he watches anime

[@Emily-27]

Jayka and Jaxon slay

[@MrFrankhdgs]

THIS was both entertaining and educational! Yay, Jaxon!

[@nataliecole143]

Thanks!

[@ahuman1114]

If you could do Dutch, German and maybe some scandi languages, the next video would be a master piece.

[@oyisapakade482]

next time please do the Xhosa part from an actual Xhosa person from South Africa, that was horrible.

[@ashleighkay898]

I could not agree more, that was not it, I'm not even Xhosa and that still hurt me to the core

[@coyotecyprus1238]

That's because they don't know WHAT XHOSA IS!!!

[@DonaldHussainMusk]

You’re not saying it “wrong”, you’re just saying it Americanised. People in other countries also have their way of saying American names/things based on their accent derived from the language they speak

[@Night-Shade.]

Which is wrong genius

[@blaise4tsuhime903]

the only easier ones for me were Italian, Japanese and Korean hahahahha

[@pernilletornbjerg8232]

Try with the Nordic languages. I'm Danish and finde it funny to see people trying to pronounce Danish words.

[@R989D]

I’ve been learning Scottish Gaelic for almost a year. That could be a fun one for the next round!

[@babajideemmanuel9404]

Not me rooting for jaxon all through the game😅😅😅😅 And he killed the Korean and Japanese part

[@joshuawells835]

The last round reminded me of a series from the channel It's A Southern Thing, where the contestants had to guess place names from various Southern states. Ex. Bowie, Tx or Louisville.

[@Tarere2K]

Love the effort for Te Reo Māori🥰🥰🥰 It's the combined vowel sounds and the soft/hard "t" 😁😁

[@KatanA0108]

You can see Dani's exhaustion. He's sooo done and just in a hurry to finish the episode.

[@TheNZJester]

I just returned to home to my city on the Heretaunga plains passing through two of those cities mentioned on the way in a 6 hour drive.

[@_WhiteW0lf_]

Jaxon probably watch a lot of animes. He nailed those phrases the first try.

[@aznmochibunny]

Not probably. He does. He's mentioned it in multiple videos. In fact, I think he's in almost every video that has something to do with anime.

[@fjacoba]

Yes!! Cherokee! As an EBCI member it is great to see this in a video!

[@x0habiib0x]

Love seeing how much they love languages! Jaxon said “Anime saaaave me! 行きましょう！” 🤣 Those transliterations weren’t great though. shitsureishimasu. There should be an s in the tsu that’s why most of them got it wrong if they can’t read the hiragana for つ. And the Cherokee phonetics weren’t helping either. Did Y’all give them the transliterations for the Arabic? Cuz she just put the English version on screen. The و in baklava is a w in Arabic but a v in Persian. So the Arabic transliteration should be baqlaawa.

[@x0habiib0x]

Oh yeah and there shouldn’t be a u after masu or desu or an i in mashita if they’re actually trying to help people pronounce things because those vowels aren’t voiced here. Mas, des, and mashta. Shoulda done a French one too instead of Spanish cuz Americans are terrrrrrrible at French pronunciations 🤣

[@nbaer5050]

Now try Florida names. 🤣. Kissimmee, homosassa, Dunedin, Apalachicola, Micanopy, okeechobe, palatka, steinhatchee, Port St. Lucie, Valparaiso, Wausau, wewahitchka, weeki watchi, apopka.

[@MissSirenita]

Y’all, some of these were tough AF. Luckily, I’m learning Japanese so I aced that. Spanish was a breeze for me though. And I don’t know Spain Spanish tbh, but I do speak Latin America Spanish.

[@jonteguy]

They would butcher Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Danish so hard I bet.

[@PolskaChic666]

Do German, Polish, Welsh, Scottish or Gaelic

[@cherylyeo25]

brilliant brilliant Jaxon As always love the pairing of 2J - Jaxon and Jayka Nice to see the 2 D - Dani n Daniel Wow, Beni - cool

[@miimii7005]

there are so many languages, dying languages, and along with different dialects. for sure we'd all butcher them 😂😂😂 even being bilingual in the US is hard. i even have a hard time speaking hmong trying not to have an American accent when speaking. the last time i ever spoke fluently in hmong was a child ahaha

[@nocturneJOJO]

London! You know fish, chips, cuppa tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary Fuckin' Poppins, London! xD!

[@verucaboi]

I'd love to see the reactions on how to pronounce the NZ town Whakatane ...

[@adonaitdaniel]

They’re reaction is so wholesome ngl ❤

[@robinmorales-s1216]

I thoroughly enjoyed this!

[@hind293]

When the first korean word appeared i remembered Jackson's "AnNeyoHaseYooo"