Do Animals Speak Different Languages?

Do American dogs bark the same way as French Dogs?
Let’s look into it!
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[@LLuckyB]

The main question remains the same: „What Does the Fox Say?“ 😆

[@tobieburn]

In the nicest possible way to poor Mr Fox., the only noise you ever make is the most unpleasant bloody "NARr... NARr.... NAARr..." (especially at 3am) Auf die netteste Art und Weise für den armen Mr. Fox: Das einzige Geräusch, das Sie jemals machen, ist das unangenehmste verdammte „NARr... NARr... NAARr...“ (besonders um 3 Uhr morgens) De la manière la plus gentille possible envers le pauvre M. Fox., le seul bruit que vous faites est le sanglant le plus désagréable "NARr... NARr.... NAARr..." (surtout à 3h du matin) De la manera más amable posible para el pobre Sr. Fox, el único ruido que hace es el más desagradable sangriento "NARr... NARr... NAARr..." (especialmente a las 3 de la madrugada).

[@antoinegonnet7639]

​@@tobieburn??

[@FoxSlyme]

​@@tobieburn nah nah there are more different sounds to hear from a fox

[@marcos.e.herlein1986]

Here in Argentina we use to say that foxes say "JUAN!" like if they are calling somebody named that way..

[@Lukey-D]

In the nicest way possible, you are not funny.

[@TheBexi]

I always wondered about this. We're Americans in Italy and adopted a dog previously raised by an Italian. The first time I spoke Italian to her she got very excited like, "you speak my language?!"

[@Belliger1991]

More like "you make the sounds i am allready familiar with" ;) Reteaching the command "sound" to the one your language expects is suprisingly easy so... Have fun :)

[@VixLeu]

There's a youtube short I've seen about a southern man with the "I thought my dog was deaf until..." and then he starts speaking in southern drawl Spanish words and the dog got all excited. So yeah, totally can see that happening.

[@suorastas1]

In Finnish a rooster says Kukkokiekuu which directly translates to Rooster is crowing. Finnish roosters are all fancy referring to themselves in the third person

[@mellie4174]

😂

[@heidi_mcheidiface]

A woman I know was telling a story about a cat who had lived for several years in a household where only Spanish was spoken, then was moved to this woman's English speaking household. The cat got up on the sofa and the woman told it "No!", and the cat jumped down. She said she was impressed how quickly the cat had learned English. Nobody had the heart to tell her... 😂

[@bernardinelermite1133]

😄👍🏼

[@sharkiebae]

What does that sound mean in Spanish?

[@Barak43]

@ebae same as english, same word, same sound, same meaning 🤣

[@Kamiyu97]

She said the one word that's the same in both languages lol, what were the chances?!

[@sharkiebae]

@@Barak43 😂😂😂

[@Die_WG]

Orcas and other dolphins speak different dialects - each pod has an unique dialect they use to communicate. In captivity, aggression between tankmates is common because the pods are artificial and the animals just don't understand each other.

[@VixLeu]

West Side Story all over again. I have heard that, it's fascinating to understand these things in the wild.... sad in practice in captivity.

[@patax144]

Orcas and toothed whales in general are what I thought of seeing the title

[@onclebob2178]

@@VixLeu👍🏻😂👌🏻

[@VixLeu]

I used to have a cat and she'd make a sound 'nyao? (now)' for asking when she was getting fed if I went into the kitchen. One time, the conversation she and I had went thus: Cat - Nyao? Me - No, not now. Cat - Vrrren? Me o.o ...... did you just say 'when'?! Cat >, > .... No? I side-eyed her the rest of the day while she pretended to ignore my existence. So much sus.

[@user-ws3cl3my1v]

My daughter and I went to a safari park and were told that a new elephant had arrived from Berlin . So we started to call to her in German and couldn’t believe it when she turned and came straight towards us ! The other three elephants completely ignored us. 😅😅😅

[@namaking3993]

The language of animals make cats truly unique, because they actually tailor their language to their people. Two cats even from the same litter can make very different vocalizations based upon their humans reaction to the particular cat. I see this a lot with my 2 cats presently, litter mates and twins, and both are massive "talkers" but their meows are very different when wanting to play, begging for treats, greeting us ect....one will cry mournfully when we come home like "hooow could we abandon him!" And his brother will make almost a barking sound... like a merf to welcome us home.

[@ttrev007]

i heard that cats don't make a lot of vocal noise when not around humans. Sounds like they vocalize for our benefit

[@namaking3993]

@ttrev007 That's indeed the rumor lol. Which is all the more remarkable they can make over 100 vocalizations just to manipulate us to do their bidding... I mean communicate 😉. And their sounds are unique enough that when owners were tested in a study, they not only recognized their cat's meow but even what the meows were in reference to, food, let me out, play with me, ect.... one of my cats even learned to use his "I found a snake mom!" sound to wake me up if I oversleep for breakfast time... complete with miming he's chasing a snake through the covers. Rudest of the rude awakenings let me tell ya, and thankfully so far it has just been a mimic when I'm in bed, he has brought snakes in though when I'm awake.

[@TheRealMrsPowell]

I was REALLY hoping to hear more animal sounds in French and Spanish.

[@andresguevara1695]

To satisfy your curiousity I can provide some animal sounds in Spanish: Dogs "guau guau" - Wolf "auuu" - Cow "muuu" - Sheep "beeee" - Rooster "quiquiriquí" - Hen "co corocó" - Pig "oinc oinc" - Chick "pío pío " - Owl "u u" - Cricket "cri cri" - Cat "miau" or "rrrrrrr" if it's purring

[@booonooom]

@@andresguevara1695 Most are pretty much the same in French, except for dogs (wouf wouf) and hen (pok pok). Our cows' "Meuuu" sounds the same as your "muu", our owl "hou hou" similar to yours "u u"' and so on. The funny one though is our pig, as it cannot really be written with words (it's more like snorting twice with your nose and throat mixed with some French Rrrrr's), if I'd have to write it I'd maybe go : h'rrr'oing h'rrr'oi ng ?

[@toraneeko]

"All cats make a miao sound" Japanese cat: nya!

[@isegard2957]

vietnamese cats make meo sound

[@Criseteno]

OK, real story here. My husband and I moved to Rennes, France, in 2013. He is Norwegian, I'm Dutch, and we speak English at home, but I learned French pretty fast, as opposed to my husband who had more trouble with it. Anyway, at some point, we were hosting a couple of my friends from work, who had 3 children : a baby who basically snored through the visit, and 2 older kids, whom I was making animal sounds with. And we were discussing Little Loïc's favourite vocalization : "cockadoodledoo". So my husband said : no, a rooster does not say cockadoodledoo, it says "kykkeliky". The father of the 3 kids was very perturbed. His conclusion was: "Well, maybe in Norway roosters are very cold so they only manage a kykkeliky, but French roosters are not so cold and shivery, so they say Cocorico".

[@iamtheomnimonkey]

Just a note. Studies with rats, dolphins, and whales have demonstrated that their upbringing has a lot to do with how they communicate. As an example, a pod of orcas will speak using language that a second pod can not recognize, but if they spend enough time together they will both eventually use language that is a blend of the 2 until they separate and then each pod will revert to their previous dialect. With rats, they have been observed giving each other designations very similar to what humans call a name. And then when you mix adult rats from different mischiefs or colonies, they don't know what to call each other, and they get frustrated. Also, if you take rats from 1 mischief or colony and introduce them to rats from a 2nd mischief or colony, it takes them anywhere from a few hours to a few days to understand each other. P.S. Mischief is a small group of rats like a family, and a colony is made up of multiple mischiefs.

[@clemente3966]

Though, if you train your dog to sit by saying it in one language and pointing your finger to the geound, you could always switch languages but still point to th eground and it could work. Case in point: My sister's dog learn 'assis' (sit in French) like that, and one time she still pointe the finger down but said 'sitzen' (sit in german) instead. The dog still sat down. So maybe, by associating the same command to different languages through another signal, we could in the end make dogs understand, for example, english as a second language they would then translate back to French which woyld be their native language. (Swap the languages from that example as you will)

[@danikim235]

It's very useful to teach dogs both verbal and gesture commands. Like when you lose your voice and they just keep staring at you while you desperately try to verbalise anything even remotely similar to a command :P

[@DanielCrist]

Dogs are very flexible when it comes to interpreting our commands. As my dog was going deaf, I switched to gesture commands, then, as he was losing the clarity of his vision, especially in the dark, I changed his commands to flashlight signals. Neither change was very difficult to make and both were picked up fast.

[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

I know that French dogs say, « ouaf, ouaf ». Not woof, woof.

[@brianparkhurst1019]

Our last dog was actually born in Mexico and we adopted her from the owner in the northeast US. He was moving, had to give her up, we got to love her for 6 years. Anyway, she always liked when we had Spanish/ Mexican/ tacos for dinner. I mean it was noticeable. She was a great dog.

[@Mosasaure974]

3:40 hilarant cette partie !😂

[@mariuszdullak1399]

No no no, let me stop you here 2:48. Polish cats go: miau not mião. It is definitely a "miau".

[@danikim235]

Miał to masz w piwnicy, polskie koty mówią "miau" tak samo jak niemieckie :P (Polish cats say "miau", the same as German)

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

Miau is for me miau. (German.) 😅 But how does mião sound?

[@DekeSouldier]

Same thing in Spain, Spanish cats definitely say miau. We don't even have the ā in Spanish.

[@ateabag8410]

Your long videos are wonderful ! They're funny and educational at the same time. I'm glad you took a step further from the shorts ground 2 months ago. Thank you ❤

[@priyodit]

Your hard work shows here in this video. As a person working in Natural Language Processing, I find your findings very interesting

[@-_altex_-4632]

"I hungry" "Food fridge" "Cool"

[@louiseperry1603]

I speak to my pets in French so I won't forget how to say things in French (or German, it depends). They are great to practice eith because they don't judge my accent or if I use the wrong verb tense, making adjectives agree, etc. It's fun, the cat especially is very forgiving 😺

[@se7enofnein]

Am I the only one who thought about the Arrested Development characters’ various chicken imitations?

[@AliCatGtz]

I loved this, commenting for the algorithm, much love ❤️

[@UnimatrixOne]

Cats can also understand over 1000 words, but they choose to ignore them!

[@UnimatrixOne]

😋

[@tiadoran]

I saw the thumbnail, laughed, and kept saying "Le Woof" over and over to myself so I decided I should just click the video.

[@AdeleiTeillana]

I adopted three cats while living in China. One day when I was bringing one home from the vet, a man saw us on the elevator and thought she was cute (a little white kitten). He started to talk to her but then stopped and in all seriousness asked me if she could speak Chinese. I paused for a second, my eyes were probably a little wide, not quite sure how to politely answer that, and then he realized what he just asked. He was embarrassed but it was funny! 😂 I just told him I normally spoke English to her.

[@joshcp1223]

I never knew I needed this information in my life so thank you Loic.

[@cmolodiets]

Like big Loic, little Loic can carry on singing proudly with his feet in his 5h1t

[@frank-waltervondervogelwar4909]

Thanks for your video. As always fun and pleasure to watch. I beleive that there should be distinguished two forms of interaction be : conditioning and "true" communication: Conditionning means you have a being get used to sounds or gestures or things and react in a certain way. It works with humans as well as with animals and even plants are able to learn to react on certain stimuli. What I find more interesting is animal-communication. It is based on what science would call "telepathy". With this the thing we call language (transmission of accoustically coded contents) becomes a mere vehicle. Depending on the aptitude of the animal-communicator he gets transmitted pictures, feelings, moods or even thoughts which may be translated into words in our language. May that be english, french, german or whatever (I - being german - once "spoke" to a french cat on behalf of a french person of course French was the language we used on the human level). So a meow is somehow the trigger cats use to adress us humans like we would say "hey!". Although I beleive strongly in human intelligence, in this case our reaction to beleive meowing back leads to a communication is assez con: Just meowing back and forth is like "hey!" -"hey!" -"hey!" -"hey!" -"hey!" -"hey!" ... with one of us saying "hey!" in a presumably very bad accent. :) We may get incredible but often reproducible results if we close our eyes, wipe out all our own contents filling our minds, focus on the animal to communicate with and open up for what comes then. But as every communication this must be trained very carefully and no one is safe from misunderstandings.

[@BeatrixTomomizu]

I'm still amazed that crows have regional dialects. I'm just generally amazed by crows and wish I could have a pet crow who comes over to spend some time and then go off doing whatever they want... But that won't happen xD And I love the "nya" for cats in japanese xD And the "ribbit" in english for frogs. In german they make "quak" like ducks. But if you think about it, we just use diffrent moments when frogs make sounds and that's kinda funny~ And a rooster makes definetly "Kikeriki"!

[@juniorcj82]

0:44, I recognize and appreciate your use of the Baltimore Oriole.

[@lannifincoris6482]

Ich wollte nur eben ein "Kikerirkii!" einwerfen.... 🐓

[@user-gn1cl9ix7p]

That spinning "ballerina" had no clothes on.

[@jenniferhanses]

In regards to talking animals, I take it you haven't been watching all the button animals? My favorites are Billi Speaks, Todd Talks, and CatmanJohn. I think Bunny is the prime one for the dog world, though Stella was the first talking dog/button animal.

[@Mydogsnameisbarney]

Finally I know how to pronounce your name. It's not like Lois or Lo-is. It's Loik, but written with a "c". Merci.😊

[@angeliegrigs1972]

I love this channel

[@frankcl1]

I'm surprised you didn't mention parrots, they're very smart and can understand simple sentences

[@e-billy1855]

I Heard that orcas or dolfins have different langages so it's difficult to separate families and put them with different orcas because they don't understand themselves. In captivity of course.

[@ileana5593]

A sheperd told me that he raised his dogs with different words so he can easily ask only one dog to do something and have a better efficiency in his work. Fun fact : one dog use Gilets Jaunes french strike inspired words, such as "Garde à vue" (detention) for "go to your bed".

[@simonapascariu2243]

Great, thx🙂

[@gabrielecauda9659]

Actually there is a type of animal that can speak different languages: parrots 🦜 Especially African Greys which can reproduce a huge variety of sounds

[@stormbear7330]

my dog understands , English, French and Spanish, I live in 🇨🇭

[@ilghiz]

As far as i know, birds of the same species sing different songs if they live far apart.

[@diesel4338]

We would understand "Hungry" "Food fridge" 😂😂😂

[@amidaobscura]

Saw a Joe Rogan video recently, with Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin. They briefly mention how along the coast of Norway, a group of false killer whales, with their own language, meet a group of dolphins, with their own language, then merge into a big pod for hunting and use a third language as a common language.

[@tauviasiemens3800]

I was gonna argue that “eunuch” starts with ‘eu’, but then I realized that’s more of a “you” sound.

[@ramonvanderben8120]

In Dutch a rooster makes the sound Kukeleku, which in French would probably be written as Q'uh-que le cuh!!!

[@damyankuzmic5605]

Hi greet and bless

[@dotista2008]

reviens sur le format short, tu faisais clairement plus de vues. j'ai pleins de chaines qui font de longues vidéos, du coup je ne cliques plus sur les tiennes car je prévilégie d'autres chaines lorsque j'ai 15 min de temps libre.

[@anonym6132]

6:39 is exactly how Korean feels like when your native language is German; haha

[@aryaweak6479]

In Germany the roosters make Kikeriki. 😅

[@TomJohnson67]

"Cock-a-doodle-doo" is actually such a ridiculous way of describing the rooster's sound. I have never really thought about it until now.

[@victorbuyakov610]

My English friend who live in France has a dog who speaks two languages:)

[@anzelmasmatutis2500]

Ours say "Ka-ka-rie-kų"

[@Escviitash]

It is scientifically proven that dogs rather be kicked to the moon than have a steak. You can try it yourself. Say in an aggressive tone: "Do you want a steak?" and the dog wanders away. Now say in a soft tone: "Do you want a tremendous kick in the behind?" and the dog looks oh so happy.

[@caballeroarepa9223]

XD If I give my dog a threat with a bad tone, she'll be upset and think it's a medicine or a backlash

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@caballeroarepa9223 I think you misspelled, you wrote "threat" intead of "treat". Which kinda change the meaning of the phrase XD

[@maccurtis730]

I was teaching my dog to go by Soph because she would run faster than I said: "Sophie"!!

[@bogdanpopa268]

When I was a kid there was this weird trend, where non-german people would train their dogs in german language, so the commands would sound more aggressive 😂 I remember RAUS meant "out"

[@zoorenard1101]

They do. My cat speaks english, but my dog only understand French

[@cherokeeflyer9669]

There seems to be something wrong with the sound. There’s a bunch of noise in the background that makes it hard to hear.

[@limalicious]

Interesting that you chose the extremely distinct Baltimore Oriole to represent feathery friends.

[@Natoha_CR]

Je pense qu'ul devrait faire ses vidéos en anglais et français

[@c0mpu73rguy]

Actually, I don’t speak English, I’m just randomly typing letters and by sheer luck, it means something usually.

[@MrDarkFreyr]

Interestingly working dogs (police, guide dogs for the blind, ...) are often trained with commands in foreign languages as to get them to ignore random people shouting "sit", "couché" and so on in public settings to mess with the dog.

[@carultch]

Is couche the French command for "lay down"?

[@MrDarkFreyr]

@@carultch usually, yes

[@ShannonJacobs0]

Japanese cat says "nyan". Lots of other differences.

[@forestswaras]

"Cocorico" sounds similar to what the rooster says in Tamil - "kokkarakkō kō"

[@670839245]

as far as my video game knowledge goes, animals do speak different languages. (in Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door, an item makes a frog sound. However the frog sound comes from a Japanese frog species and a westerner can't quite get it's a frog, so the English localization instead called a cricket sound.)

[@thegoldendragonstavern4756]

Speak? No. Respond, yes. Former owner of an American dog trained in German. Had to retrain in English.

[@joaolagoa338]

I am really entertained by you videos. Keep it up! If you want to further your curiosity on this subject check the vocalisation patterns of dolphins and whales, specifically orcas, they have kind of regional dialects.

[@HERE.AND.QUEER.]

Your dog is so cute 🥰!

[@Avgeek-ml4rd]

I like how in mandarin pigs say whirly-whirly ( say while breathing in )

[@Nathan-fj9pb]

If you're bored of Little Louis, I can recommend to you a delicious Coq au vin

[@Leenapanther]

It is known that birds have different dialects. I even noticed this with my canaries.

[@alteria2714]

The only real exception is the few species where they are legit smart enough to have slightly different language 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@megagame]

Many years ago, my Aunt's dog(danish) was barking at some german friends of her as they where leaving, she then toll it, that they dont understand it because their are german, it change it bark so it was closer to the bark sound the german saids a dog does. The dog had only hear the german bark word from the german people a few times.

[@themuffinman3601]

0:17 yes

[@henningbartels6245]

I have a Finnish friend who has a well trained dog. Even I tried to use her Finnish commands the dog does not listen to me - and I'm afraid the reason being that as s German have difficulties imitating a Finnish rolling "R" and apparently her dog can hear the difference.

[@fatkat727]

La meilleure onomatopée pour un cri d'animal, c'est celle de la grenouille en anglais : "ribbit ribbit". Beaucoup plus ressemblant que sa version française "coa coa" !

[@coltwing6661]

What i got from this; Our cat overlords want to ensure all humans will understand them regardless of where they are....

[@jennymurray2873]

Eulogy starts with eu!!

[@NickLavic]

Japanese cats go nya instead of meow.

[@familhagaudir8561]

I unironically have people "educate" me that I should train animals in English "because animals understand it better. It's clearer." Never had a problem teaching a command to a dog, or parrot, in thick Quebec French dialect.

[@giovannacasadio9600]

In Italian it is" ki ki ri ki" spelt chichirichi for the roster.

[@Moses_VII]

Orcas definitely do.

[@JeanPierreDelaitre-gv6mq]

Ce dont je suis sûr, c'est que les animaux font la différence entre les langues. J ai laissé mon chat (francophone) dans un hôtel. chez une amie au Brésil pendant 6 mois, il se cachait toute la journée et n allait que vers les gens qui parlaient français.

[@Chaguerrand]

You better hope Diego doesn't understand everything you say. I sure do !! Dobby would shit in my bed if he did 🤣🤣

[@GlobeMartin]

dans un contexte familier, la langue indonésienne peut se parler exactement comme sans syntaxe ni grammaire en alignant les radicaux des mots comme des concepts à agencer avec le minimum d'efforts, comme à la fin de cette vidéo ! In a familiar context, the Indonesian language can be spoken exactly as without syntax or grammar by aligning the stems of words as concepts to be arranged with the minimum of effort, like at the end of this video!

[@AdianAntilles]

Nono. Dolittle works. Transponation to other vocalization organs and lack of education in some regards, with the effective block of humans that the possibility of animal speech is, is enough.

[@luchafonseca2653]

Here in Brazil is co co ri có, aussi for rooster 😂

[@Halikatti]

I speak finnish, english, swedish and german but I watch this video to look at your face. Or maybe even particularly your fine eyes. Sorry! 🤭 But I also listen😌

[@cayden_kolsnes]

English word thats starts with the "eu"-sound (ø): Early

[@cayden_kolsnes]

Also "Earn"

[@LoganJones88]

i believe animals speak different my friends dogs only understands in french my dog only understands in greek, he doesnt know what i say in english

[@henriqueschefflermarczewski556]

In Brazillian is cocoricó too

[@madalinagolub3240]

Why you talk of macaques then show us a Macaw?😂

[@antibash691]

Le lion de mer et le phoque ne sont pas les mêmes animaux. Pourquoi ne pas avoir utilisé le mot "Seal" pour la blague ? P.S. Votre chien est vraiment mignon.

[@mellie4174]

Because foque sounds like a swear word

[@antibash691]

@@mellie4174 J'avais compris. 🙂Justement Seal est la vrai traduction de phoque. Je pense que ça serait donc plus logique de l'utiliser dans ce contexte.

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

I watch your videos to look at your jacket! Obviously!

[@bozoldier]

Songbirds have within species dialect...

[@bozoldier]

Lookup finches (house, bengal, zebra ... )

[@cecile6069]

Le plus intéressant c'est qu entendent / disent les personnes qui sont bilingue

[@danyasharma26]

First comment 🎉❤❤ love your videosssss❤❤❤

[@NotLucidDreams]

You are second

[@FelicjaTymbarska]

In Polish it's ku-ku-ryku

[@utilisateurlambda7983]

Ce qui est valable pour le macaques est aussi valable pour les humains, très certainement! D'où les incompréhensions et les difficultés de la mixité.

[@pukishow]

Hi :)