Can Americans Identify These European Languages?

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[@sarabintereza2022]

*_"sounds Spanish, but we're talking about Europe, so it's Portugal"_*

[@purplechimy4204]

Sara Binte Reza *me currently living in Madrid*

[@oc3607]

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

[@sumayasaid3715]

Americans are a different breed of human

[@justanotherpersonxo]

I swear i died laughing when she said that. I mean come on people 😂😂😂😂

[@juliana8374]

*born in barcelona*

[@bogi3082]

Every European in the comments: *triggered*

[@Amghannam]

Nah, not triggered, makes us feel superior than we know more languages Just kidding..

[@harrystylesmylove7570]

We are not triggered. If you say that Spanish is not an European country, honey you should go back to school

[@noii1524]

Czechoslovakia man, CZECHOSLOVAKIA

[@stansb1951]

Europe is better than america i would say

[@victorlupas4875]

bogi i’m European myself and i didn’t even recognize the Italian lol. his accent was different

[@hypergayism]

I know that that woman didn't just say "Czechoslovakia" to the Portugese girl. I'm Czech and I was on the verge of crying.

[@jabub1257]

Yh lol same

[@uhhtiky6694]

I'm portuguese I got sad too

[@Sugar_n_Salt]

český brat

[@Sophia_Regina]

I was waiting for Slovak or Czech 😩 currently visiting family in the Czech Republic :)

[@dailysamira]

bro are all czech people clingy?

[@zyzzenjoyer7825]

I love how the woman in the right said that she would get Italian right and then managed to get it wrong

[@giuliacatalena9409]

I always thought Italian was a pretty distinctive language, but I guess it’s not? As a native Italian, maybe it’s just that I grew up speaking Italian

[@zyzzenjoyer7825]

@@giuliacatalena9409 beh può sembrare spagnolo ma se sai un minimo minimo capisci subito che è italiano😂

[@zyzzenjoyer7825]

E gli americani non sono conosciuti per essere bravi in geografia… e storia… lingue.. e tante altre cose

[@dominos6576]

That one was tricky for me; I almost mistook it for Spanish.

[@marcelluswallace4076]

SHE SAID SHE SPEAKS SPANISH AND GUESSED ITALIAN AS SPANISH

[@alicesampietro8657]

European person: * speaks * American person: "sounds like Spanish!"

[@brawnylilyspark]

Alice Sampietro as a Spanish speaker I was saying it the whole time 😂

[@rose.6022]

YASSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@saffron3113]

They only did romance languages and swedish and aside from english spanish is the language we're most familiar with 😂🤔

[@gone9890]

So true, a lot of people I know (not just Americans) have mistaken Slavic languages for Spanish

[@arlyn6310]

Because it does

[@akiakinie7338]

THE PORTUGUESE WOMAN SAID SHE IS FROM PORTUGAL AND THE AMERICANS STILL DONT KNOW WHAT LANGUAGE IS SHE SPEAKING

[@noemie1526]

Aki Akinie i know right i was like 🤯😂😂

[@jhbf]

im from southeast asia and i still thought it was spanish. so what? why are most of the comments coming of so nationalistic? chill.

[@helenanunes2802]

Harvey F. it’s because every time someone speaks portuguese everyone thinks that is spanish, it’s not nationalistic I am not even portuguese, i am brazilian

[@veratichnich]

To be fair, I tried it at the same time and turned my phone on the back so I couldn't get what they said and I thought it is not Portuguese because she said it 3 times and thought it was a false hint.. And I went 0-4 and I'm from Europe so don't be so harsh on them 😂

[@jemals2209]

Aki Akinie Hahaha and she said it twice 😂😂

[@dsm_796]

The Portuguese girl literally said “I am from Portugal” when she was starting to speak Portuguese and they were still arguing which language she was speaking! 😂😅

[@souumbosta666]

a gaja xibou-se toda... não gostei , achei péssimo , e devia ter sido um homem a representar, ela literalmente disse que era de portugal, que sentido tem isto?

[@paperkevlar9933]

I literally screamed when they described Swedish as Polish. It is beyond me to comprehend how could you mess up two languages that have NOTHING in common

[@mauramcchicken7554]

Not being surrounded by the languages probably has an effect.

[@mushymass9716]

I know nothing of either and I thought they were pretty similar. I know another language and read about languages for fun, so I was able to pick up the phonology of the Germanic language and see that it wasn't Slavic that way, but it's totally reasonable for a native English speaker to think they sound similar.

[@herramirtsaaja9032]

@@mushymass9716 english is a germanic language, so no its not English speaker should be able to recognize many similiarities in swedish, compared to polish

[@mushymass9716]

​@@herramirtsaaja9032 As I'm sure you know, the origins of the language have little to do with whether or not the phonology of the language is similar. In this video, the ability to place the languages from just the sound of the language is being tested. The similarities would be relevant if they were studying and comparing things like vocabulary, grammar, syntax, etc.

[@herramirtsaaja9032]

@@mushymass9716 there are multiple recognizable words in swedish compared to polish Also there are lots of different s sh ch sounds in polish while swedish is more similiar in the sounds

[@joebaer8942]

"sounds like spanish but we are talking europe" that hurt.

[@Schyte921]

Ikr

[@Summit-gj6hp]

Viva españa

[@Summit-gj6hp]

So Spain is not Europe?

[@nataschaliebtdasleben2035]

joebaer I was soo confused

[@KaatuWaves]

americans be like yes Spanish that language which is spoken in Puerto Rico and Mexico but there's not an actual country called Spania or something like that where the language comes from

[@ethanquirk28]

“It kind of sound Spanishy but we’re talking Europe so Portgual” Hold up...

[@Amber-gl9xv]

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@PearlPaisley]

Yup we all know Europe= Spain + Portugal 🤣

[@tberger077]

I guess their knowledge of countries are limited to spanish languages = south america.

[@sumalx]

Ah ah Most Americans think Spanish is from Mexico.

[@suhailaembalo7555]

@@sumalx they do think/eles pensam mesmo

[@pltc71]

Bottom line, the only language they guessed was the one where the girl said where she was from (5:13).

[@florecitadelcampo13]

But only one girl😂

[@amandanil3811]

thank you, next

[@blossom9565]

But, they didn’t get that one either!

[@AvarageYakuzaEnjoyer]

"Sounds like spanish but this is Europe so its probably Portugal." - An american

[@cal9112]

Only americans say that sort of stupidity

[@odettee5322]

Hello everyone i’m from Portugal Americans : Spanish

[@cathypeck]

sAmE tHINg

[@foreverLu13]

It's just horrifying, for real

[@jesjrg3]

😂😂😂 or czech, czech... 😂😂

[@YourFavPurpRock]

Hello fellow tuga.

[@odettee5322]

Diogo Damázio actually i’m half brazilian but i’m a disgrace since i can’t speak Portuguese 💀

[@DDAlexelA]

European: *speaks fluent Swedish* Americans: “Sorry I don’t speak Italian”

[@laurikaunisto7403]

I knew instantly from the intro that he's Nordic.

[@marybrown2723]

Lauri Kaunisto that’s probably because you’ve read the subtitles 😁

[@laurikaunisto7403]

@@marybrown2723 I mean before he started even talking

[@redteeth4890]

@@laurikaunisto7403 I thought he was finnish lol

[@axivalidator7885]

I was going for Norwegian but then I heard the way he spoke "jag" instead of "jeg"

[@al1x.]

As a Greek person,them saying almost every time that the language sounds like Greek is ridiculous to me

[@sencond]

Bet thats because you were stealing words from other languages people keep getting it mixed up

[@bantuandproud8456]

No is not, You know I speak French, Spanish, English, Italian and a bit German and Greek but when I started learning Greek lemme tell you for someone who speaks Latin languages Greek sounds like one of them .

[@blueshadow331]

Actually greek sounds like a mixture of Italian and Turkish

[@bantuandproud8456]

@Alocin 😅😅 Turkish? You might be right because one part of Greece was Turkish land

[@tml184]

@@blueshadow331 Greek is not similar to Italian at all. No words in common at all.

[@gerulais]

As a Romanian it was funny to see how they don't get it at all. 🤣🤣It's an obscure language for Americans, but I liked that they got the Spanish and French vibes in our language as it's very closely related to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French.

[@madthing5738]

The worst was that they didn't even understand it was from the same root language, they just said "Its got a bit of French, a bit of Spanish" and its just...no.

[@alladeenmdfkr2255]

For me personally it sounds the most like italian,at least when you read it

[@azthek31511]

God that Romanian woman is fantastic 😍

[@zvxoxo]

“Spanishy but we’re talking Europe” GORL- THEY SPEAK SPANISH IN SPAIN-

[@mcdaniyarbob9692]

After every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa.

[@erenjaeger9902]

@@mcdaniyarbob9692 *Together we can stop this !*

[@mcdaniyarbob9692]

@@erenjaeger9902 How? Lets do this.

[@mickeyrube6623]

Also why do they guess Spain? That’s a country, not a language! Do they mean Spanish? Because there are many native languages from Spain...

[@murderboytje]

@@mickeyrube6623 Thats not so weird. They just mean that the guy is from Spain, i can get that. And are you seriously going to talk about Catalan? (and the others). Sure, but then you got millions of languages. Obviously they make Spain-Spanish, UK-English, Netherlands-Dutch, Germany-German and not all other smaller languages there.

[@elenadelviso695]

Portuguese: *says Portugal* Americans: maybe she's Spanish

[@jevon246]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@uchikattana]

To be fair, Portugese and Spanish sound very similar to foreigners

[@vanesanoja4889]

Owlynx Kathi not at all i myself am from switzerland and portuguese sounds like a mixture of various diffrent languages to me and many people i know but not really much like spanish

[@uchikattana]

@@vanesanoja4889 Ja nice, bin Deutsche und finde, dass es sich sehr Spanisch anhört (sind ja auch in derselben Gegend). Ist vielleicht sehr subjektiv?

[@elenadelviso695]

@@uchikattana what I mean is that she said Portugal/Portuguese several times, and they still said Spanish

[@Peter_1986]

Finnish is extremely easy to recognise when you have heard it a few times; there is something about the general melody of that language that is very tenacious, so it gets stuck in your head. It also sounds really nice, so it is quite pleasant to listen to.

[@severihelin7310]

perkele :)

[@spookyscaryskeleton2211]

Im a finn and this is the first time in my life i hear somebody say finnish sounds pleasant 🥲 usually ive heard people say it sounds either awful or too harsh. Thank you for apprisiating our odd language ❤️

[@victorsamsung2921]

True. Jari Litmanen as an example.

[@Peter_1986]

​@@spookyscaryskeleton2211 It might just be bad luck, then. Most people I know think that Finnish sounds cool and pleasant (I am from Sweden, by the way). Also, Finnish was actually a very strong inspiration for Tolkien's invented language Quenya, and that language is pretty much meant to be as beautiful as possible.

[@Peter_1986]

​@@victorsamsung2921 Yeah, another example is also the guy on the KZbin channel "Hydraulic Press Channel". That guy has an extremely strong Finnish accent, and I am not sure if it is his natural accent or if he emphasises it a bit extra, but he sounds pretty badass.

[@dorinevanoomstrong7313]

I guessed the Romanian ! I had Romanian colleagues and I heard them talking. They literally understand every Latin language it’s amazing.

[@Ibrariemovic]

"some obscure country, like Croatia" is such an American thing to say.

[@dejanhajdukovic2209]

Haha at least they've heard of it, that's above average for them

[@caterinagregori3587]

Croatia is litteraly such a beautiful language I really want to go back there

[@ecija689]

Cate lmao, as a croatian, you really don’t wanna live there

[@TeatheThea]

@@milanzivanov963 jealous serbs whenever someone mentions Croatia🙄

[@milanzivanov963]

@@TeatheThea плачемоооо ☹️☹️☹️

[@lizzierational8375]

How in hell does Swedish sound Russian? They are nothing alike.

[@WhatEver-mv6qi]

Alcohol was the hint🤷🏻‍♀️😂

[@KP-sn8rx]

I thought the Swedish guy was speaking Norwegian. 🙈

[@Zaavvee]

Swedish do not sound like russians!!! We can't even under one word of the russians😂

[@AndyPrg13]

Haha yeah i was wondering why they would say Russian

[@katten7]

@@KP-sn8rx I did not I thought wow svenska

[@lillyko5611]

I could listen to the Lady from Romania all day. What a beautiful voice. All of the people that participated were kind. And the two lady's guessing did a great job, they're interested and kind. KZbin comments section is just horrible.

[@malloryg4251]

Agreed, but this is literally every Buzzfeed comment section. People watch the videos so that they can say hateful things, because it makes them feel better. I enjoyed the video! True...the ladies guessing weren't the best, but they were respectful, which is more than I can say about the majority of people commenting!!!

[@victorsamsung2921]

Portuguese too!

[@Stormchantress]

Was kinda fun to follow and try guessing on my own (had to minimize my browser not to read the subtitles!). Kinda embarrassing to say as a European with a degree in languages but I only regognized two: Italian, because I've been there twice, and, oddly enough, Romanian which I've never heard before and only knew it was the only Eastern Romance language in existance. Pity you didn't include more sampled, I'd love to play along :)

[@m.molina5735]

“it kinda sounds like Spanish, but we are talking about Europe” excuse me where is Spain supposed to be? lol

[@ps2progamer814]

In mexico xd

[@RoxanaAni]

Spain is from Asia. Literally I almost had an heart attack with this woman (im spanish)

[@mani-gf4lk]

HumanaGames YT what??? Spain belongs to Europe. What school taught you that it is an Asian country?? Spain belongs to the continent Europe

[@mapleshade2913]

@@mani-gf4lk r/wooosh

[@anorwayer97]

Oh you didn’t hear? We had a meeting and Portugal and France feel really uncomfortable about being around Spain, so we’ve temporarily made it part of Africa

[@paula-chan561]

So...one of the girls think Spain is outside of Europe.... Are there schools in USA or something??

[@deedeelpz]

paula-chan apparently not

[@irene1024]

you mean the shooting ranges?

[@dawnpage8899]

No it’s just that they are in Los Angeles and we first associate Spanish with Mexico and South America. I’m sure they are having a cringe because they know Spain is in Europe.

[@davidmikayelyan3132]

@@irene1024 😆😆😆

[@BitterSweetCream]

You forget about Russia being in Europe

[@namiswan2830]

Romanian probably IS the trickiest language in Europe, has a lot of influences and sounds like it could belong to multiple language groups. But what she said was kinda accurate it does sound like a mix between russian and french or Spanish (especially accent). It also depends on where in Romania you’re from, this woman spoke with a very standard Romanian accent, but take someone from moldova and all that “french vibe” is out 😂

[@ilieraluca2424]

Only the accent is different depending on the area. Also, the accent differences are extremely small if we are talking about big cities, but from different areas!

[@Aadrian7]

It might be just me, but Romanian is far from the most tricky ones, it's very clear that it's not Italian or Spanish and definitely doesn't sound slavic. The trickiest language would have to be any ex-yugoslav language (seriously they swear their languages are different, but you have to know the vocab to notice) or, like Czech and Slovak.

[@namiswan2830]

@@Aadrian7 i mean “tricky” in terms of “what language group does it belong to”. All the languages you’ve mentioned sound typically slavic and the vocab has nothing in common with any Latin language (with some exceptions of course) so even for someone who doesn’t speak any slavic language they are obviously slavic. I’m not even talking about “what language is it exactly” cause ofc for someone who doesn’t know the vocab it will be hard to differentiate those languages.. but with Romanian, people don’t even know where to start because they do hear the words and might recognise the similarity to other Latin languages, but they still get confused by the accent, which to someone who doesn’t speak Romanian or any slavic language, it does sound rather “eastern European”.

[@evaraiara]

it doesn't sound like any of the languages you mentioned and there's nothing tricky ab it. it's a latin language with significant slavic influences, period.

[@namiswan2830]

@@evaraiara try and ask ANYONE who doesn’t speak any latin or slavic language.

[@susanneplays1545]

Lmao I’m Norwegian and I got everyone right. But I did see some of the subtitles so Portugal and Romania I could have guessed wrong on with blindfolds like that. Would love to see a version where Europeans from different countries guess languages. I feel like Europeans in general would be a lot better with this

[@lydiamichaels1976]

same im english and i got all right

[@alladeenmdfkr2255]

Even we Europeans would mess up,i think most people would just only know the languages that come from the same family as their own language and some of the most known languages in Europe.I would be clueless on the nordic languages,hell,i would even mess up a lot of the slavic languages even though i speak one of them

[@andreasferenczi7613]

@@alladeenmdfkr2255 Yeah, but still, most Europeans would maybe get only one or two wrong out of ten. Many will have had contact with a lot more languages than your average American. In Switzerland I had classmates from Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, France, Ireland, Germany, Turkey, Czechia, Slovakia, Denmark, Russia, Serbia and Spain and I myself am Hungarian. I heard all of those languages at some point growing up and most I could positively identify. There are of course some European languages that are virtually identical and nobody, who doesn't really speak them will be able to tell them apart (say Slovak and Czech for example).

[@alladeenmdfkr2255]

@@andreasferenczi7613 Well said

[@nataliaobuchowicz4273]

7:04 girl: "I am feeling like Czechoslovakia" *Czechoslovakia not existing since 1993*

[@user-ob5il7cy8o]

I died

[@reddtea1602]

Thank you for writing this comment. I thought I was the only one who noticed.

[@scriptedorian]

SOME PEOPLE REALLY KNOW THAT?

[@KatharinaEwers]

Americans 😂

[@oliver6195]

Exactly lmao

[@nixon4867]

put each slavic language in a video and watch the Americans say 'Russian' for all of them

[@LandgraabIV]

Just like they said Italian, Portuguese and Romanian were "Spanish-y"

[@nixon4867]

@@LandgraabIV that has the same energy as 'Australian'

[@Blasto2x]

@@LandgraabIV didn't the Romanian girl confirm it is kind of Spanishy because all the languages are related?

[@polinakovbenko]

@@Blasto2x yeah sure but it doesn't change anything. If they are related doesn't mean they sound exactly the same. I was shocked when one of them said that Italian sounded like French...like what

[@Blasto2x]

@@polinakovbenko Italian and French are linguistically related as well. And some words in some of these romance languages are the same, and are pronounced the same, but sound a bit different due to the accent. It's not hard to understand why someone can't determine what language Romanian is especially when ones ear isn't used to hearing it spoken often if at all. English is known and spoken worldwide. Romanian? Not so much. Hell, a British person would have trouble understanding what someone from Louisiana is saying although they're speaking the same language. Linguistics is complicated.

[@darjandimovski7289]

Its so funny because everytime they reveal the language at the end they’re like ohhh like they knew it 😂

[@jaykelly5161]

Ah! When Ana started talking there was a bit of nostalgia that blew up in me! I am a air force brat and my dad was stationed in the Azores. This was when I was in preschool so I don't remember too much of that time but her speaking reminded me of a teacher I had and other people around the base. 💚

[@nicolettao.3346]

To americans EVERY language outside english "sounds like spanish" lol

[@marittas1609]

That's so true! My friend went to the US (she spoke dutch there, because she's from the netherlands) and the americans thought she was speaking spanish LMAAOOO, Dutch doesn't sound like spanish AT ALL

[@eldangster1616]

As a Spanish speaking Mexican American, I can confirm

[@hotrodjones74]

It's the only language other than English most Americans are familiar with. It's literally on all of the cans and stuff at the supermarket there. Language education in American public schools is awful and they start so late. Kids start learning English from the beginning of their education in Europe and Russia too. They've got a ways to go in order to catch up now.

[@nickk.689]

In some video an American confused Chinese with Spanish so yeah..

[@hisokamorow3611]

@@nickk.689 hahaha how is that even possible?

[@teomussalo]

If Swedish sounds like Russian, then I'm Jesus.

[@grrwoofarfbark3331]

he looks so done with them

[@laoisefarrell8675]

My dad worked in Sweden for years and honestly it’s not at all like Russian. But she guess Polish but polish is faster

[@agatameble721]

Swedish sounds nothing like polish, russian or czech. 🤔

[@michaela9967]

As a Czech I'm actually surprised she knew there is czech and slovak language.

[@schnitzelberry]

@@laoisefarrell8675 I'm an American, and I thought it was Icelandic.

[@SamSalutee]

As a French guy with an Italian friend when the girl said "It sounds spanishy, but we're talking about Europe so Portugal" I wanted to cry En tant que français avec un ami italien a dit, Quand la fille dit "C'est espagnol, mais nous parlons d'Europe, donc du Portugal", j'avais envie de pleurer

[@itried174]

as someone trying to learn romanian, i got super exited when i heard the last girl speaking it and i could make out some of the words she was saying and knew immediately that it was Romanian 😃

[@behindthecloud]

Portuguese girl: I'm from Portugal. Oops, wasn't supposed to say that. Americans: Czechoslovakia???

[@osky8020]

Its not CZECHOSLOVAKIA!

[@Michal-by2nt]

And it's even better, because Czechoslovakia doesn't exist for like at least 20 years xD

[@renatahonorato6895]

She said 2 times and how they couldn't now that !

[@swedishbloke]

Michal 1848 more like 70 years...

[@Michal-by2nt]

@@swedishbloke yeah, I wasn't sure for how many so I jist went with at least 20 because I'm sure of that

[@TheAngellina90]

Americans: Europe in their head - Russia, Spain, Italy and Germany. The end.

[@elenavs8703]

Angelika Ch that’s the clever ones. The others think Spain is close to Mexico hahaha they know nothing about geography haha

[@GuiXapado]

France too

[@TheAngellina90]

Ahhh yes so true lol

[@brknsh6689]

@@TheAngellina90 germany is not germany for them germany is like "Nazi" or "Mercedes"or " BMW"

[@Alex-fv2qs]

Nah, there's also the mythical almost unknown lands of Croatia and ... Slovakia

[@SaharaColeman]

Italian sounded like Portuguese. When he said his name, that’s when the Italian came out. Lmfao her reaction when he said “Maximilliano”, that’s one of them strong Italian names but then you just shorten it to Max.

[@Skorrigan]

Why are they blindfolded. When you hear someone speaking, is watching them considered cheating? WTF?

[@marlowename3713]

1 question: why do Americans talk about Europe like it’s 1 country. Thanks for all the likes and I’ve probably set like 50 different arguments off but oh well

[@nelsonricardo3729]

The EU and euro don't help.

[@hodahalh]

they do the same for Africa

[@philipe1502]

Well if you ask an American where they are from they'll say their state, which makes no sense whatsoever in an international context.

[@marlowename3713]

eden lol

[@konstantinosprionokordelis8655]

@@philipe1502 it makes sense because USA is a big country and in order to travel from one state to an other is like travelling from Germany to England. And that's a small distances. I am from Greece and I understand why you say that. Also you have to consider that every state has lots of cities

[@stephaniebarcan7808]

"It sounds like Russian but also Spanish" Yup. That's Romanian.

[@marinasandu3872]

Glad i saw this comment ✌🏼

[@Iantorchwood94]

Romanian is a Roman langage with huge slavic influence, she was close without even knowing it ! Her logic was good though !

[@issesound9289]

I kind of think prtuguese sounds like a mix of spanish and russian.

[@avivapeltz6063]

I know it's Romanian if I recognise 50‰ of it being Italian and the other 50% I have no idea

[@andreeafulga8682]

Stephanie Barcan 🇷🇴

[@gorgidimov9032]

Why do you need blindfolds when your hearing the languages

[@hansnotig5852]

Hello my name is Massimiliano Murican: ohh Mäsilmiljanooou

[@orangecavalier]

“sounds spanish but we’re talking europe so portugal” i hate

[@enderdrow8844]

I too

[@nervengewitter]

The funny thing is that Portuguese doesn't even sound "Spanish"...

[@mid5503]

@@nervengewitter Wrong, portuguese and spanish shares a lots of words but the prounouncation is different.

[@nervengewitter]

@@mid5503 Exactly? That's why it doesn't sound as alike as people might think. When written it looks very similar to Spanish but when spoken it doesn't.

[@sofiacorreia206]

Ikr I’m Portuguese and I’m dying like whaaat like were RIGHT NEXT to Spain lmaooo

[@IriniMando]

Only someone who has never heard ANY of these languages would confuse Swedish with Greek and Russian.

[@rasmusjensen291]

To be honest I easily confuse Swedish with Norwegian and I'm Danish.

[@arthursales2369]

I thought it was Finnish

[@JayzsMr]

@@rasmusjensen291 I don't and I don't speak these languages at all. The accent is quite distinct

[@wootkennziz6914]

@@rasmusjensen291 I am SWEDISH and I am confusing some dialects of Norwegian to Swedish quite often if I don't listen too closely :)

[@homla8116]

@@wootkennziz6914 Honest mistake. In Narvik the dialect is a mix of northern Norwegian and Swedish 😅

[@19Edurne]

And those were not even among the most "exotic" European languages... Imagine Basque, Hungarian or Welsh. Although, to most US people, any language other than English is exotic.

[@tomrkba4685]

You all really need to travel to Romania! It's a really fun place with tons of stuff to do from culinary to outdoor activities. You can go to Vlad Tepesh's castle too!

[@Oscar-Green]

"I can speak a tiny bit of French" basically means I can say Bonjour and Oui.

[@MRUchuyoutaite]

Eheh, c'est clair ! :P

[@valeriedupain830]

Oui.

[@vadfoot]

I can't, but sah quel plaisir

[@valeriedupain830]

@@vadfoot Bien vu

[@alschn7620]

oui c'est un tres parfait description pour cette situation, also no, french is not my first language so spare me your correction.

[@bea-le2rw]

they thought swedish was greek. can we discuss this

[@juwenarmando5760]

bea we should talk about this , geographically not even close

[@bea-le2rw]

Juwen Armando im clearly very baffled about this whole situation

[@katharinadembach3716]

Honestly I just kinda wanna forget about it...

[@bea-le2rw]

Katharina Dembach let’s all do that. im here for you

[@marjattakolari521]

yess ! watching it from finland? hum? it would make more sense if they say its norwegian or danish (obviously not these two cuz they didnt sound like potato in my mouth or tunes going up when they finish a sentence...)

[@YourSuzerain]

the girl that straight up says hi im from portugal 🤣🤣

[@durchfallgurgler07]

As a european, I had no Idea that was Portuguese, it sounded like Czech to me too. Sounded nothing like I expected

[@BobBobOnYouTube]

I wonder if they know that English is a European language.

[@slavenrasic2204]

Its american, not english!1!1

[@jjkembo8810]

Slaven Rašić No, English are originally from Britain and that happened to be in Europe. Sorry to break it to you but the language you speak in America is just a cheap ripoff.

[@hira6481]

@@jjkembo8810 woooosh

[@hira6481]

​@@jjkembo8810 lmao i can't believe i have to explain this but like.. nobody uses "!!!1!!111" unironically and they're obviously not american themselves, judging by the name they're probably serbocroatian

[@hira6481]

@@jjkembo8810 lmao that seems like your own issue

[@MikaelMurstam]

OMG the left woman saying: "It sounded Spanish, but we are talking Europe so maybe Portugal" sums up the education system in the US.

[@yurenchu]

Uh... what exactly does it tell you about US education system? That they don't teach what every foreign/European language sounds like? Do they teach that in the "European" education systems? At 2:02 , Destiny says: "It kind of sounds a little, like, _spanish-y_ , but we're talking Europe so I was thinking, like, Portugal" She wasn't saying that Spain isn't in Europe. What she meant is that contrary to America, in Europe Spanish is spoken in only one country, so she feels free to go with a different guess than Spanish. Note that at 2:17 , both women give their answer as "Spain", so obviously they know Spain is a European country. Furthermore, even before the first European speaker appeared, they were discussing Spanish, French and Italian as possible languages that they might be asked to guess, so obviously they were aware that Spanish is a European language.

[@reyinterlude]

@@yurenchu really wrote a whole paragraph 😭

[@Rico-oz4ct]

@@yurenchu you are completely right

[@skyef1854]

@@yurenchu They meant Geography it is a basic of all school systems, no?

[@piefaceapl1210]

@@yurenchu in Europe Portuguese is spoken by one country like spanish

[@kaden4418]

Alternative title: How bad that are Americans are at geography.

[@K3r0pp1i]

Love this video! The girl who was so proud about knowing Croatia made me laugh 😂

[@afonsovasconcellos715]

"Hello i'm Ana, i'm from Portugal" Americans: kinda spanish or east

[@jammedgaminghq6048]

Well she did say portugal fast and they didnt know wbat she said and couldnt have been sure if she said portugal or something that sounds like it.

[@bobibear85]

That one made me embarrassed for them 😩

[@alexandre_pt]

Ahahah But 'Portugal' pronounced in Portuguese sounds very different from English.

[@afande8184]

Portuguese does sound like Russian

[@mgparis]

@@afande8184 True - but Brazilian Portuguese more so than Continental :)

[@noii1524]

*any of slavic language" Americans: IT'S RUSSIAN

[@andrewhall7930]

Not me buddy, I got all of them. I hear you though.

[@melaniazihlavska4578]

Literally.

[@Stalinlover-jx1jy]

Slavic is the hardest for me. The only ones i can guess easy is polish, czech and slovakian, because they are very different. Russia, belarus and ukraine has basically the same language, allthough i might get the difference if it's written

[@sweesh9190]

Even Swedish... Americans: **IT’S RUSSIAN**

[@Vlad_-_-_]

@@Stalinlover-jx1jy You could say nothing more wrong than ukranian , russian and bielorussians having the same language.I dare you to look any russian / ukranian and tell them that.Each has its own language despite the similarities and every one of these peoples are proud of their own language.

[@princessdaya5781]

i could listen to this swedish guy talk all day lol

[@bobthejedi]

If she hadn’t said Portugal I’d have still guessed that as I have been learning Spanish (I’m not very good) and the only word I understood from her was hola

[@ellevasc]

I think that would be a guess tbh, Portuguese and Spanish are very similar “¿Hola, cómo estás?” - Spanish “Olá, como estás?” - Portuguese

[@SkurtavusGrodolfus]

American: *Says Swedish sounds like Russian* Swedes: "Say sike right now or I'm taking back the furniture."

[@tonit4233]

* Carolus Rex intensifies *

[@annmariebusu9924]

Skurtavus Grodolfus I use the IKEA guy as reference but he speaks English 😂

[@DeIirium1]

Underrated lmao

[@francescovolpini]

@@DeIirium1 yeah, so underrated

[@zdvxr]

Pewdiepie is disappointed

[@razvanivascu1303]

"Sound a little Spanishy, but we're talking about Europe, so is Portugal" Me: **Visible confusion**

[@white2495]

this

[@gilbertknight1488]

😂

[@pedropeixoto4829]

I'm Portuguese, so i'm triggered af

[@Moonchild99]

@@vicenfdez Lol no

[@klaris7779]

when she said romanian sounds like russian it really triggered me dont know why tho

[@diegopozas1694]

"sounds Spanish but we're talking Europe so I'm thinking Portugal" wtf?

[@tirzhagielen3424]

That Portugese girl literally said it like 2 times🤣🤣

[@martinadalbon8802]

Why do most Americans give me the impression of feeling like they're the center of the world?

[@destinynicholee3507]

_Martina_ due to the lack of good education, lots of us are very uneducated and uncultured

[@johncavaliere7062]

it’s cuz America is the most important country in the world, so most americans don’t rly care ab the rest

[@potiadicta2120]

Because they do think it

[@potiadicta2120]

@@johncavaliere7062 jajajajajajjajajajajahah hahahhahahahahahshshahahahahaha oh my GOSH!!!! America is not even a country darling

[@johncavaliere7062]

Lula cuarenta the full name is United States of AMERICA, we just call it America cuz it’s a little shorter yf

[@beanekorancova659]

Americans: Czechoslovakia Czechs and Slovaks: *angry noises*

[@gachaaloy7961]

Yah true

[@smaliaamalia]

Yes

[@everydaydreamer1]

Yep Yep

[@davidbobek4933]

Tak tomu ver

[@dorotheamildova9833]

To mě neuvěřitelně trigruje

[@danipetric5416]

One of the reasons they don't recognize foreign languages is that in the USA foreign movies are always dubbed.

[@eolobrontolo9117]

In Italy they are dubbed as well. 😉

[@danipetric5416]

@@eolobrontolo9117 In my opinion only children's cartoons should be dubbed. I can't imagine Sophia Loren speaking Croatian. 🤣

[@eolobrontolo9117]

@@danipetric5416 Hi, thank you for your reply. During the fascist period, the governement imposed the dubbing of the foreign movies. Today everyone is used to dubbed movies, so am i. Film theorists argue that a dubbed movie is a different work than the original language movie. After all, dubbing is an art and voice actors are artists ( e.g. Tina Lattanzi, Gigi Proietti and other ) Today there is no shortage of means to see a movie in the original language. Thank you again and good night. 🙂

[@danipetric5416]

@@eolobrontolo9117 Thank you for this interesting information. 👍

[@eolobrontolo9117]

@@danipetric5416 My pleasure. 😄

[@emmasoles2909]

I shouldn’t be too judgy considering I’m fluent in French, have had a lot of exposure to Spanish and am learning Italian and actively watch foreign content, but come onnnnn. Those were not that hard 😫

[@juliawrona4751]

Yes there are only two languages in Europe: Spanish and Russian

[@allthingaialf]

The two languages of Europe

[@bloodytamp0n]

Siema

[@alexanderalex1608]

German is the most spoken language in Europe, but come on, what can we expect from them 😂

[@shush4151]

@@alexanderalex1608 english is the most spoken I europe ahah

[@Gamer-uf1kl]

And of course english originated in america

[@Notfinethanks]

Americans hear a foreign language: “ is it spanish?”

[@miraakprinceofapocrypha7998]

@@arolemaprarath6615 ??

[@miraakprinceofapocrypha7998]

@@arolemaprarath6615 Why are you trying to "educate" me on things im already educated on? English is foreign to North America not United States of America. Europeans didnt enslave the Africans they were already enslaved by the African kings that sold them.

[@miraakprinceofapocrypha7998]

@@arolemaprarath6615 You are a crazy person. Do you realize that we were talking about English language? Why are you talking about Natives and Black slaves. English is foreign to North America but not to the United States of America.

[@bloopbloop2019]

@@arolemaprarath6615 Why do people always forget about Hawaii, they took our land too. 😭

[@bloopbloop2019]

@@arolemaprarath6615 okay thanks

[@UK-Government]

English is a European language...

[@mistahcow]

this video really hurt my european heart

[@vitorfilipe21]

Everybody: “guess where i’m from” Portuguese girl: “hi, i’m from Portugal *facepalm*” xD

[@NorzkenolZn]

Ye that was.. Just bad

[@michaelc2551]

And they still didn't guess Portuguese. Like you clearly can HEAR the cognate

[@GabrielShahab]

Yeeeaas!!!🇵🇹🤣🤓🤔

[@papaiano9139]

PORTUGAL CARALHO

[@schurik5851]

But she’s hot

[@stepoutskz]

“Sounds Spanish but we are talking about Europe” Me a Spanish: WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK IS SPAIN LOCATED?!

[@glowiedetector]

south america 🙂

[@niallsomething3469]

Antarctica

[@laurr5014]

In México

[@alix.s.j.allard7856]

I once had to explain to an English-speaking Canadian that actually, French came from France, not Québec, and he wouldn't believe me. It was super awkward.

[@strike2495]

❤❤❤❤🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@manibun727]

Can someone kindly tell me what dialect was Maximilliano (Italian person) was speaking? I've heard Italian before but this sounded very different.

[@riccardoc1430]

He speaks with a strong Roman accent and he was being silly there so he exaggerated some sounds.

[@user-Wojciech]

She's studied Spanish... but now thinks Italian is Spanish. They should have sent someone British to speak in front of them.

[@egoizm4070]

Slavic country: exist Americans: OH THAT’S OBVIOUSLY RUSSIA

[@alex.lokhman]

egoizm I think they just don’t know the term “Slavic”, so every Slavic language they call “Russian”. It has nothing to do with Russia as a country.

[@alexsimion7190]

Romanians are latins not slavic. We had our first words and phrases waaaay before others surrounding us.

[@Terter1551]

@@alexsimion7190 well, not exactly. The Slavs had their own language way before they migrated south, so you can't really say that your language is older than Serbian, Bulgarian and so on.

[@tortellinifettuccine]

@@Terter1551 it is, well dacian is

[@Terter1551]

@@tortellinifettuccine the Dacian language was in one family with Thracian. Today's Romanians don't speak Dacian. Their language was later romanised and even more romanised after the middle ages.

[@arsi3419]

video title: “can americans identify these european languages?” me before watching the video: no

[@the_illuminati_official6654]

Ikr- before the video even started i was like "they're American, why would they know how to do that"😅

[@petitiontoburndownmnet9862]

Hi, my fellow MyDay I was literally thinking the same thing

[@arsi3419]

stan talent

[@petitiontoburndownmnet9862]

@@arsi3419 yes, stan talent

[@Sailor92]

trueee

[@alanpotter8680]

Romanian is really the most mixed language in Europe.. There's not only romance influence there but also Greek, Slavic and probably Ottoman.

[@LBeditz07]

Știu și mulți nu înțeleg asta și cred că ie așa de simplă🤣

[@Soup-iz9ye]

By ottoman, you mean Turkish, right the Ottoman empires exist anymore lol Bosnia and Turkish people are all that’s left it

[@danieleulisse5064]

I think italian is the most relaxing and romantic language of all

[@tstone1874]

She studied Spanish but she thought Italian was Spanish....great

[@brtz1460]

Americans

[@weirdk_9256]

@@brtz1460 ikr

[@weirdk_9256]

When i said i live in asia to an american he said "wait... are u from korea,japan,china,? And when i said no, he didnt talk to me anymore, why do westerners think just because im asian it means im from korea or china?

[@SamSphinx]

@@weirdk_9256 honestly i'd be like "i'm running out of places here, Russia?"

[@SamSphinx]

It's high school, though.

[@jojibot9193]

“If it’s Italian I’ll get it easily” *wild italiano appears* “ArE yOu FrOm SpAin?”

[@CaptainH.]

I actually thought it was Portuguese, and I'm european🙈

[@rayatateo8094]

I was so triggered cause I'm italian

[@numaru7]

@@CaptainH. Portuguese sounds like a drunk Spanish person to me

[@alissa4673]

@@rayatateo8094 same

[@kyurei4478]

From another country, italian and spanish sound very similar.

[@locallyhated5664]

HAHAHAHHA super o super tills man svimmar, perfekt definition på Sverige😂😂😂

[@tomyk9233]

i was skipping through the parts where they say what language they're speaking, and I actually got romanian right by hearing a heavy slavic accent in a latin language for some reason xddd ...romania being the only latin-language-speaking country influenced by slavic countries that i can think of

[@silva7077]

Language: *exists* Americans: *Is that spanish?*

[@seansilence2697]

"Mexican", "Middle Eastern", and "Chinese" are the only foreign languages that we know about in 'murica. (I really, really hate living in this country sometimes. Feel free to judge us. We deserve it.)

[@franksinatra334]

Sean Silence Speak for yourself.

[@izyreadsbooks5735]

Sean Silence honestly they used to teach all different kinds of languages but now we are only allowed to learn Spanish or French in school! At least that’s my school

[@seansilence2697]

@@izyreadsbooks5735 I love other languages. It's just a shame that so many people here get really up in arms if someone isn't speaking English

[@sana6445]

Izabella Ash I’m in UK and a student who came from Australia said her school taught her Japanese (I think it’s because they’re so close to the country I’m not sure)

[@SaudiaTate]

what… their guesses were so farrr off. I’m American but I def got the Italian, Swedish, and Portuguese, and thought the last was Ukrainian or something

[@angelal1607]

American here. I got Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian, but can’t easily differentiate Norwegian and Swedish, so I wasn’t sure with that one.

[@josipamesin9990]

Italian-1:13 Swedish- 2:41 Portuguese-5:06 Romanian-7:37

[@bart1528]

portuguese girl : *talks portuguese* american: it sounds like spanish portuguese people: so you chose death

[@thecrazyeagle9674]

It does sound like spanish to people that don’t speak spanish or portuguese

[@bart1528]

@@thecrazyeagle9674 yhea but to us portugueses People os very ofensive

[@eduardoevaristo4749]

@@bart1528 fr, as a Brazilian I understand you

[@aaronvalero3217]

For Americans every latin language sounds spanish lol

[@UnusualPete]

@@bart1528 Eu sou português e não acho ofensivo. Se te picas com coisas sem importância... _good luck with life_

[@edulopez9043]

Woman in blue: I'm getting Portuguese vibes Portuguese woman: *literally says "Portugal" and "Portuguese" several times*

[@hellavik]

And the one in the dress, still got it wrong

[@avatar1820]

Right?! 🤣 I was just like - ladies, are you deaf or what??

[@J-KCs]

I teared half of my hair out trying to watch it.

[@raresr9698]

"Romania is the only eastern country that has the romance language" *moldova left the chat crying*

[@shshsshshsh6947]

the ignorance in this video is unbearable...

[@bazil7573]

shshs shshsh precisely why they picked them. The video wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining if they picked informed people

[@seoluniverse5417]

There is nothing ignorant about this. People arent taught different languages. It's like asking you to tell which country in Africa someone is from by language. I bet most of the people calling thses people ignorant can never guess it like 3 would guess most correctly. They are not ignorant for not knowing this.

[@shshsshshsh6947]

@@seoluniverse5417 of course they do not have to know the every single detail about those languages but there is a difference between detailed knowledge and general knowledge. Living in a country that is surrounded by different languages and cultures and not being able to distinguish EXTREMELY different languages is just absurd. I mean, it takes just a little bit of geography knowledge and a little bit of experience. Ignorance doesn't just come from not having school education but also from not improving yourself. Same goes for Asian, African and Oceanian languages as well. This is ignorance and it shouldn't be justified.

[@madiseen5376]

shshs shshsh eh just cause they live in America doesn’t mean they’re surrounded by different languages just saying people generally stick with their groups

[@shshsshshsh6947]

@@madiseen5376 it still doesn't change the fact that it is ignorant not being able to distiguish languages and countries around the world and it's such a shame that it's being justified. I'm not trying to target these people or "americans" in general. It includes everyone within this position. Though I hope this type of videos encourage people to learn or acquire more

[@georgiana1147]

European:*speaks a language* American:,,iS tHAT rusSiAn???"

[@LouisaKloe]

Lovely huh

[@BlueSwampyCraft]

jimin's tighs or Spanish 😂

[@georgiana1147]

@@BlueSwampyCraft lol,yeah:)))

[@crazy4kpop910]

lmaooo

[@georgiana1147]

@@greetingsearth387 lemme guess,you are American,right??:////

[@Guerillalilla]

I got it’s Romania when she said â sound and “si” in stead of “ehm”. Swedish first I thought it was some Slavic or Ugrofinnic language but I’m concertated and I guessed. Italian is my first language. Portuguese so easy cuz she said I’m from Portugal

[@kaieclacher-chopra2257]

Any language The woman on the left: speeeeanish?

[@imwillixm]

"I was thinking Spanishy, but we're talking Europe, so Portugal" That is the biggest bruh moment ever caught on camera.

[@kalaallisut9232]

Bruh

[@Morkoo]

If you want to show the world how ignorant you are thats the way to do it.

[@funnnehdude]

I am from Spain and i was kinda mad a bit

[@soulovelee_2433]

Right 🤣

[@SEbdeViaje]

@fabrizio lora I wonder if they know English is a European language...

[@zio4590]

The two languages of Europe, according to Americans: Spanish and Russian.

[@PizaaCiao]

And the queen land

[@rgp1289]

Also French and German

[@JPT_2007]

Actually I disagree most Americans think Spanish is from Mexico and Puerto Rico

[@plaguedoctorfynn3474]

Ikr xD

[@republiquedujeu818]

Yes there is mostly ignorant people in America but it’s not the entire damn country

[@velocassini]

5:11 Rare footage of european portuguese being spoken on KZbin

[@JJJRRRJJJ]

Portuguese always sounds so Slavic

[@coolsrollin4340]

"I know the big ones like Italy..." Proceeds to confuse italian with spanish

[@nicholastropea9230]

Well i'm italian, just to say, italian and spanish are really similar, a lot of spanish words are the same as italian ones but with an s at the end and cause of it they are soo similar

[@coolsrollin4340]

@@nicholastropea9230 For me it was really obvious that it was italian

[@sueme1954]

@@coolsrollin4340 All she had to request was for him to say thank you.

[@nvpk7672]

Well they have the same root so most European languages sou the same specially spanish, english, italian, french, german, and dutch so I can actually understand them a bit on that.

[@aiko8321]

Italian is really obvious