Guess The Language Challenge | Get your cup of satisfaction today! | #3 feat.

In this new episode of the Guess The Language Challenge you have another chance to win a cup of satisfaction! 🏆🤓🥳 Can you guess any of these languages? 🤓
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🙏🏼Special thanks to Julie Maksimova for participating in the game:
🎥 Julie's channel about languages → ‪@JuLingo‬ Video about the Georgian language → • About the Georgian lan...
🙏🏼Special thanks to the following creators:
🎥 Lotta - Finnish Teacher ‪@finnished‬ also on Facebook.
🎥 Tom Ensing - Videographer, Photographer and Content Creator ‪@TomCatchesUp‬ also on Instagram
🎥 Shinegi Vietnam - Vietnamese teacher ‪@shinegivietnamlanguageteacher‬also on Instagram.
🎥 Jakhongir Ayupov - a creative soul on KZbin @Uzbek AJ and Instagram @uzbej_aj, link to his channel: • My first ever KZbin ...
🎥 Paulína - Slovak Teacher ‪@LearnSlovakwithStories‬
🎥 Nini & Maja - Geaorgian creators ‪@Gruzinskipopolsku‬
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🤓 For those who would like to learn more about the languages featured in this episode, I enclose the transcription of what was said in the audio samples for language comparison:
1. Kielitieteilijän, niinku biologin tai kasvitieteilijän, tehtävänä ei oo selittää, miten luonnon pitäis käyttäytyä tai miltä sen luomusten pitäis näyttää, vaan kuvata näitä luomuksia mahtavine vikoineen kaikkineen ja yrittää ymmärtää, mitä ne voi opettaa meille elämästä, maailmasta ja etenki kielitieteen kohdalla ihmismielen toiminnasta.
2. De taak van een taalkundige, net zoals die van een bioloog of botanicus, is niet om ons te vertellen hoe de natuur zich hoort te gedragen, of hoe zijn creaties eruit horen te zien, maar om die creaties in al hun verwarrende glorie te beschrijven, en uit te vinden wat ze ons kunnen leren over het leven, de wereld, en zeker in het geval van taalkunde, de werking van het brein.
3. Công việc của một nhà ngôn ngữ học, giống như nhà sinh vật học hay thực vật học, không phải là cho chúng ta biết thiên nhiên nên được đối xử thế nào, hay những tạo vật ấy trông ra nào, mà là mô tả những sáng tạo đó trong tất cả hỗn độn và hào quang của chúng để cố gắng tìm hiểu ra điều gì đó mà có thể dạy chúng ta về cuộc sống, về thế giới, và đặc biệt trong trường hợp ngôn ngữ học, đó là hoạt động của tâm trí con người.
4. Tilshunosning ishi kabi biologning yoki botanikning vazifasi tabiatning o'zini qanday tutishi yoki uning yaratgan narsalari qanday ko'rinishga ega bo'lishini aytib berish emas, u bizga ijodlarni o'zlarining shov-shuvli shon-sharaflari bilan tasvirlab berish va ular bizga hayot, dunyo, va ayniqsa tilshunoslik, inson ongining ishlashi o'rgatishni biz tushunishni harakat qilishimiza kerak.
5. Práca jazykovedkyne alebo jazykovedca nie je hovoriť, aký by jazyk mal byť. Naopak, práca jazykovedkyne je jazyk pozorovať a opisovať taký, aký je v skutočnosti - rozmanitý a dynamický.
6. ენათმეცნიერის, ისევე როგორც ბიოლოგის თუ ბოტანიკოსის მოვალეობა ის კი არ არის გადმოგვცეს, როგორი უნდა იყოს მისი ქმნილებები, არამედ აღწეროს ისინი მათ ქაოტურ სიდიადეში, ეცადოს გაარკვიოს რას გვასწავლიან ისინი ცხოვრების, სამყაროს და, ენათმეცნიერის შემთხვევაში, ადამიანის გონების მუშაობის შესახებ.
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🤗 Big hug to everyone reading my video descriptions! You rock! 🤓💪🏻

[@JuLingo]

That was so much fun, thanks for the experience!!! 😉

[@Ecolinguist]

My pleasure, Julia! Thank you for participating and your insights! I love what we managed to create together! 🤗

[@tcconnection]

I love how you listen to sounds, amazing effort

[@Cyclonus2377]

Я изучаю русский и украинский язык! И я тоже знаю испанский, итальянский, немецкий, и немного еврейский!

[@JaKamille]

Well done! Congratulations! :-)

[@Cyclonus2377]

@Dimitrij Fedorov Современный иврит. Но только немного. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@jlpack62]

This is like "Who Wants to be a Linguinnaire"

[@gwho]

For those of you that may not be familiar, a linguinnaire is a person who has a million or more (but not as many as a billion) sticks of linguini pasta

[@395leandro]

Satisfactionaire!

[@elenivoigt8994]

Julia's analyzing of these languages is amazing! Really enjoyed this video!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Being advanced level in Dutch, and knowing over 8.000 base words, I immediately recognized Dutch - it’s really awesome to see Dutch included, and hopefully they also include Norwegian and Welsh in other videos!

[@d0nutwaffle]

Norbert "There is one word that spread to other languages from Finnish" Me ... Perkele? Norbert "sauna" Me oh

[@loose_leaf_lofi]

I thought the exact same ahahah

[@omoikaneru]

No perkele in Russian but sauna is normal Russian word.

[@AlexxHO]

@@omoikaneru Perkele, comes from "Perkunas", "Перун". Christian tradition is to call all pagan gods the "devils".

[@omoikaneru]

@@AlexxHO But Perun isnt swear word in Russian.

[@michabach274]

Yeah, it's kind of sad that Perkele used to be the god of thunder, at least in the Baltic languages, but then he or she got demoted to devil.

[@hoangkimviet8545]

As a Vietnamese, thank you for adding Vietnamese in this game, Norbert. Translation of the script for someone who doesn't know what means: "The work of a linguist, as a biologist of a botanist, is not talking to us how nature should be treated, or how objects look like, but describing that creation in chaos and its halo to try to find something which could be taught us about life and world, and especially in the case of linguistics, that is the human mental activities."

[@digitalspecter]

Interesting.. Finnish script said pretty much the same :)

[@Hairysteed]

Apparently it was the same for everyone

[@landsgevaer]

Dutch was similar too.

[@mahatmaniggandhi2898]

@@Hairysteed yeah i realized botanicus in dutch yazik in slovak and multiple words in uzbek. but they weren't exactly the same

[@songbirdyy]

I wonder why the Slovak one was such a simplified version of this.

[@Yorgos2007]

This girl is really unbelievable how she immediately realized that that was a Turkic language and even before having seen the map she said Uzbeg

[@DonJohnSpain]

I had only 3 good, but Julia is really awesome! She told that she loves languages and she proved that she is very gifted. She is able to give an unknown language a geolocation and then via analysis eliminating so many possibilities that she's left with 2 options only. And then her intuition helped her to make the right choice. Bravo Julia.

[@pinchecookie]

I think this is a great improvement in the format man. Sharing the script and the interesting fact with the audience even if the person playing didn't ask for lifeline really adds value to the videos )

[@matthewheald8964]

Agreed. It would be really nice to see the map too though; when I just started off learning about languages I was kind of surprised to learn that Hindi was mostly just in northern India & stuff like that. It'd be great to see just how widespread some of these languages are, like in the first video when he mentioned that Hungarian leaked into western Romania a bit. All the same, loving the new format & thanks to Norbert for another great video!

[@danzo168]

I must say, these videos are really well made. Like just the layout of the video, the way the game is played, it's very easy for the viewer to play too. Well done!

[@Ecolinguist]

Thanks for the feedback! 🤗

[@medore13]

Some of them I found to be easy, others more difficult: 1) Finnish for sure. The finnish metal band Korpiklaani is one of my favourites😁 2) Dutch. Living close to the border in Germany. 3) Vietnamese. I have a Vietnamese wife😂 4) This one was hard. Sounded a bit like a mix of Arabic, Hebrew and Russian. The solution made somewhat sense for me though 5) This one very slavic, but not Russian. No clue what else to guess 6) Just no clue. Again I thought it has an Arabic touch, but it was so off. My best guess would be "somewhere near the -stans or near Kaukasus region". If I would have had the script tip before guessing, I would have guessed Georgia correctly, supposedly The first 3 gave me hope to have 100%, the second half destroyed it completely😂

[@Kasino80]

Same here, 4 I was sure was Hebrew.

[@Pathrissia]

Kopiklaani rocks

[@zachwalker9373]

@@Pathrissia yeah, I was definitely thinking some Semitic language, but not Hebrew or Arabic

[@anttihaapala4579]

Same 3 for me. 1st was not too hard since I learnt it at home and in kindergarten... 2nd Dutch or Afrikaans by very first words, picked Dutch 3rd pretty standard Northern by the book pronunciation. I've got a Vietnamese wife too :D Then umm... for the others 5th was Slavic of course, so one out of N chances getting it right; then puzzled at others but the script fact then confirmed she knew 6th right.

[@linkvos8151]

Same here, I am Dutch and I live very close to the border of Germany

[@vexillonerd]

Slovak is a Polish speaking person speaks Czech with Ukrainian accent.

[@wavi_DXM]

That's a nice comparison. 😁

[@mxMik]

Lol. But you are not exactly right. Czech sounds sooo funny for a Polish person (and there is plenty of stupid cabaret humor capitalizing on that), and if he try speak it with ukrainian accent, it would be absolutely hilarious,, but not close to Slovak.

[@Sk0lzky]

@@mxMik it's also easier for Polish speakers to understand slovak despite the language being a lot softer than Czech and Polish... But perhaps that's because I speak both polish and ukrainian?xD

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

@@mxMik If Czech or Slovak is funny to some Polish person, it usually means that this Polish person knows Polish only partially and onomatopeically like parrot and has a very childish sense of humour ;-)

[@mxMik]

@@Robertoslaw.Iksinski I assure you, it sounds funny even for highly educated Poles. And I said Czech, not Slovak. Slovak is neytral. And there is nothing childish, it is psychology of perception. For a russian person Ukrainian sounds hilarious. German sounds heavy, barking, for many other language speakers. Italian sounds melodic to many. (And Farsi sounds similar to Italian in melody to some; weird, isnt it?) And so on. Even dialects of English sound funny to each other. A typical example is hillbilly accent in some american standup comedians.

[@olexanderchepil9410]

Wow, it was very exciting, the most exciting episode by today. Congrats, Julia, a true language lover! I would not guess Uzbek (it doesn't sound Turkic for me for some reason), and I would not guess Georgian as well. Great job!

[@rimax82]

1. suomi! ✅ 2. dutch ✅ 3. cantonese ❌ 4. kazach ❌ 5. slovak ✅ 6. 🤷‍♂️

[@schmidth]

For next time you can remember Cantonese has a much different tone and flow

[@yvettetimmer3818]

@@schmidth i thought it was catonese too :( but i love the language tho

[@tadeoguerrero7892]

My guesses were very similar, except for the first one, I was about to say Estonian, but as it borders her country I thought she would recognize it better, than I switched to Finish.

[@chilliam00]

I'm Cantonese (but not a native speaker) and ngl, sometimes if I hear a Viet person speaking from far away I sometimes mistaken it for Canto but it has a different flow/tones and (no offence) more of a duck 🦆 like sound. My Vietnamese friends also told me some words are loaned from canto and up to 60% of the words come from middle Chinese! 🤯

[@Mike21Daisu]

1) Finnish, I love northern languages, a lot of metal bands that I love are Finnish, this was easy to guess. 2) Dutch, I have many Dutch friends, I hear this language a lot, didn't need to guess really. 3) I thought it was Fuzhounese initially, but Vietnamese would be my top 3 guesses of this language. 4) I knew around where I was gonna guess, but I did not know which language it was, and yes, it was around the same area where Uzbekistan is located. 5) My guesses were either Polish, Czech, or Slovak, I was leaning towards Czech, I could even understand it so it was either of the 3, it was basically a 1/3 chance for me. 6) People cannot guess this. I'm Georgian and I've spoken to thousands of foreigners, our language is not recognized in most countries, they just haven't heard or learned about it. In many school books we are still part of Soviet Union/Russia/whatever they teach there. I have asked about 300-500 people if they could guess where I was from. They can't, there's no info about it on the internet, people don't speak any Georgian outside of our own country, even though the language is so well structured and can adapt so well to the changes, because it's one of the oldest languages and it has gone through thousand changes and still survived and from time to time the language perfected itself and improved and evolved so much that you can twist the grammar in many ways and Georgian would still be Georgian and it would sound beautiful regardless of the changes it would go through. Not saying this with bias, it's just sad that the world doesn't know about it. It was a big shock when I heard my language in this video, it's like seeing a unicorn in a real world. Well I've definitely enjoyed this one, good job with the videos, they're really entertaining :)

[@yankabolkvadze7070]

As a Georgian speaker, I would like to note that you described the specifics of the Georgian language very well, I just wanted to add (for those. who doesn't know this) that despite all the evolution, we are still able to understand the language of Rustaveli (12th century) and even most of the Martyrdom of Saint Shushanik (5 century). This is an amazing phenomenon in my opinion. And a big thanks to Norbert for using the Georgian language sample!

[@admosjagashvili4184]

Here were my guesses, as an experienced linguist: 1. Finnish (correct). I got this in about 5 seconds, given that Finnish is one of my favourite languages sound-wise. "Kaikki", "yrittää", and "kieli" were just a few words I picked up from when I studied it. 2. Dutch (correct). Dutch has similar R sounds to English, and overall a very distinctive cadence. This one sounded a little weird though so I was tempted to say Frisian, but I went with my gut and went with Dutch. 3. Vietnamese (correct). Vietnamese sounds extremely unique. Notice the little glottal stops too, which is a feature of Northern Vietnamese. Also the dipthong "uoy". And who couldn't recognize that messy alphabet? 4. Uzbek (correct). I heard a lot of central asian sounds, like the plural marker "ler" and some other markings like "mesh", but it certainly wasn't Turkish. This was really really hard since all the central asian languages (except for Tajik) are pretty similar, so I just went with the most likely, it being the biggest country: Kazakhstan. I kind of agree with her when she says "Turkish with a Russian accent". She showed the map, and I know that's Uzbekistan though, so I got this one rather unfairly, I will admit. 5. Slovak (correct). Hearing "jazyk", I instantly narrowed it down to Slavic. I heard "ale" and instantly narrowed it down to West Slavic. Knowing that Ecolinguist has already done Czech and Polish before, I just went with the only language left: Slovak. 6. Georgian (correct). Georgian is absolutely one of my all-time favourite languages and I've studied it a ton. Not to mention I love how it sounds, so I've listened to it a lot. "Adamiani", "rogor", "misi", "c'eras" were just SOME of the words I was able to pick up. I'll take my big cup of satisfaction!

[@wolfieinu]

Got the first three right, was feeling pretty good, then it got mid-Eurasian and everything went to shit

[@skyhigh7773]

😂😂😂

[@XavierBartholome]

same for me!

[@iamtheiconoclast3]

Seeing a picture of the country helped a lot hehe. After that I was sure. :P

[@AmericanEnglishBrent]

I love these videos. Number 3, I think. I’m sure it takes a lot of time to prepare and edit, so thanks for putting them together. Nice work. I always get a big cup of satisfaction when I watch. 🏆 A small cup of satisfaction when I play. 😉

[@Ecolinguist]

🏆🏆🏆🤗

[@apmoy70]

1- Finnish ✔ 2- Dutch ✔ 3- Thai at first but when I saw the script, definitely Vietnamese ✔ 4- Turkic language (dunya gave it away), I guessed Kyrgysz initially but looking at the map, Uzbek ✔ 5- I thought of Czech, but I didn't hear of the distinctive Czech ř sound, so, Slovak ✔ 6- Armenian 🤦‍♂️ So, medium cup of satiscaction, again. Great game!

[@MrNicopa]

Dunya is actually an Arabic loan word. I thought she spotted the Turkic grammatical construction and heard the Russian sounding influence. It’s possible that the speaker was bilingual in Uzbek and Russian.

[@aysegulkara1752]

@@MrNicopa The word dunya is widely used in many Turkic languages. He didn't claim the origin is Turkic. He just knows that Turkic people use that word in their speech.

[@alexj9603]

My guesses: 1. Finnish! I immediately recognized the first word "kieli" (language). 2. Dutch! I grew up close enough to the Dutch border to recognize it. 3. A tonal language from Asia. Vietnamese was my first guess, but i was only sure after seeing the script. 4. Like Julia, I noticed some "Slavic" accent, but i couldn't recognize any words. I needed the lifeline here to identify the map of Uzbekistan. 5. My immediate thought: Czech or Slovak. Listening for the 2nd time, not only I didn't hear any ř sound, but also there were more clearly palatal consonants than in Czech . So: Slovak 6. At first, no clue at all. Definitely not Armenian, as I know a little about that language. Not sure if I would have guessed Georgian from the hint. "3 different scripts" made me think of Japanese (but it didn't sound like that at all), and I know several scripts that don't have capital letters (e.g. Korean, Arabic, various Indian languages, ...) I'm satisfied with the medium cup. This time it was harder for me than last time.

[@Ecolinguist]

Congratulations! The medium cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳

[@maxkho00]

Yeah, by far the biggest giveaway that it's Slovak is the number of palatal sounds and especially how soft they are. Czech sounds a lot harsher in comparison. For East and South Slavic speakers, another giveaway might be that you understand more than you'd expected.

[@dejanmarkovic3040]

Good job, but..the map helped you? Seems like the average person in this comment section is pretty educated...when I saw the map as a lifeline, I thought ''No thx, I can recognise italian'' :D

[@williamhogge5549]

Very similar to the way my mind worked through the answers...🤙

[@adolfoalbornoz3730]

hebrew doesn't have capital letters either

[@jasonwood3405]

These "guess the language" videos are so fun! They challenge my skills & give a comparison to other linguophiles.

[@marinak5112]

I'm truly amazed by how she identified languages 3 & 4! I didn't even come close to recognizing them. 1 & 2 were relatively easy even though I wasn't 100% sure. I don't know why I didn't think about language 3 even though I had visited this country only last year and even tried to pick up the language a little bit. Language 6 was the easiest for me because, well, my dad's from that country :D I even thought to myself, wouldn't it be funny if it was one of the mystery languages, and lo and behold! it was :)))

[@bobmckenna5511]

I recognize such a great concept. And I’m impressed, I’ve only seen two episodes, and both contestants had enormous worldly view and linguistic skill.

[@Алеся-я2б]

Юля - молодец!!)))

[@JuLingo]

спасибочки! ☺️

[@LetroScript]

@@JuLingo Я на Пятом вопросе я слушал что это звучит как чешский или словяцский они два языка похожи друг друга собой. Я думал что это чешский а там словяцский там языке долгата и там языкн долгата.

[@noxar8451]

*SPOILER ALERT* 1. Finnish? yes 2. German or Dutch - yes 3. Asian language, Chinese - No, Vietnamese 4. Lithuanian, prob not - Uzbek langauge 5. Slovak - I'm Czech, so a free point 6. Armenian? No, Georgian

[@mckernan603]

I thought maybe Basque for 6 (thought I heard “euskara” in there)

[@AlbertHardyJr]

Congratulations, Julie! Well done! I´m quite impressed by your knowledge of languages.👏

[@markszente]

I got a small cup of satisfaction, I'm so happy! :) Also, Norbert, thank you for showing the script and having a bit of an explanation about each language after the rounds, this made the video super informative! Please keep doing this series for many more episodes :)

[@blinski1]

As a Pole I have a privilege here, Slovak is just little bit easier to understand than Czech, but for me the things I immediately can tell apart one from another are: lots of long vowels in Czech, as you said 'ř' sound, but also 'ou' sound (similar to Polish 'ą', but less nasal) that Slovak don't use, and softened consonants like l and t in Slovak, that in standard Czech sound hard.

[@rafalkaminski6389]

Actually -ou appears also in slovak instrumental ending like ulicou but in general youre right :)

[@НатальяР-э5п]

It was great again! Julia is just a smart girl! (Юля, ты умница!!!) This time I quite easily identified the first five languages, but I did not recognize Georgian at all, although I heard it repeatedly. The characteristic sounds that Yulia named are heard only a couple of times, and they sounded not so obvious! In general the result surprised me. )) Norbert, many thanks for you as always!

[@Ecolinguist]

Congratulations! The medium cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳

[@JuLingo]

Спасибо большое! ☺️

[@perisemiotics3204]

"Finnished" is a great name haha... this was quite entertaining, I have watched some of your videos and followed Julie for a while now.

Great video! Just a side note on the Slovak sample, I don't think Slovaks share our "ř" sounds in any of their dialects (that's also the reason why they make fun of us), but they did borrow a few words from us that are not used in standard Slovak, like "ručnik" ("uterák" in Slovak) or "kopriva" ("žihľava") etc.

[@Land070696]

1) Romance language? No 2) Either Danish or Swedish? No 3) Vietnamese without script 4) Turkic but I didn't know exactly. So after the map it was so easy 5) Slovakian, the easiest take 6) No chance 2,5( Maybe I would use script, map and fact by another way and It will be better, idk

[@Taubenschmied]

I definitely had an easier time guessing the langues of Julia, compared to those of the last participant Rafael. Shouldn't take anything away from her performance though, brilliant job!! Thanks for the brilliant video, Norbert!

[@jasonpatterson8091]

It feels like he is trying to steer the contest toward the ability of the person in question. I'm in no way slighting either of the other two, but Rafael was terrifyingly good.

[@mxMik]

3rd I said vietnamese because it has very large numbrr of tones, notably heard.

[@Sk0lzky]

That and "ng" sound everywhere xD

[@NganNguyen-ft3ro]

I can say this is the nothern dialect which sound very melodic and beautiful, it will sound very different in the middle part dialect and southern dialect!!

[@dukeon]

Congratulations Julie! I watch your channel whenever you have a new video, so I was very happy to see you do so well.

[@antoineolivier1287]

She is so beautiful and talented. I just subscribed to her channel and I'm learning a lot.

[@stronglytyped]

1) Finnish... it's very obvious to me. I spent a lot of time around Finnish people when I lived in China. 2) Dutch? Flemish? It doesn't sound as harsh as Dutch, so I think it's Flemish. Another possibility is Faroese, but I don't know Faroese to me. Afrikaans is another possibility, but I don't know what it sounds like. 3) Vietnamese. I traveled through Vietnam. This sounds particularly like northern Vietnamese. It has a lot of /z/ sounds, tones, and the particular sounds of Vietnamese's vowels. I think the southern Vietnamese language has more /r/ sounds. 4) I thought I heard some nasal vowels like in polish, but to be honest, it didn't sound like a Slavic language. I have no idea what this language is. Julie's theory about it being a Turkic language of Central asia is very compelling. After looking at the map, my guess is Uzbek. 5) Sounds like a slavic language. But south western?? Slovenian? The accent sounds like it could have some Italian influence? Slovenian, final answer. Julie suggested Czech or Slovak... definitely not those................ WELP I WAS WRONG... it was Slovak. I guess I don't know anything about Slavic languages :D 6) No... idea.... sounds like it has some kind of arabic influence... maybe? after the fact was read, I think the dead giveaway was the "has no capital letters". I wouldn't have guessed this without the hints.

[@harriehausenman8623]

Really nice format, well hosted and keeping it on the friendly fun side (with a little help here and there) rather than making it competitive. Reminds me of Tom Scotts "disconnected" :-) Just a great way to relax, slow down and even learn a little about languages. I really would love to see more of your show and general of this edutainment concept on the tubes!

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

From Polish perspective it only takes a few words, to distinguish sentence: "Alebo v skutočnosti nie je taký" in Slovak from the same sentence: "Nebo v skutečnosti není takový" in Czech ;-)

[@saiien2]

Wow as a Czech I must confirm you are right. Good job.

[@tcconnection]

Wow!

[@maximgunnarson3291]

*ve skutečnosti not "v" ✌🏻🇨🇿

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

@@maximgunnarson3291 In these cases "v" or "ve" in Czech is a relative term, the same as "v" or "vo" in Slovak (and the same as "w" or "we" in Polish :)

[@Shareenear]

1. Finnish - I'm intermediate in Finnish, and, well, the speaker is saying Finnish words 2. Dutch - sounds like Afrikaans but harder to understand 3. Vietnamese - c'mon, only Vietnamese sounds like that. The implosives, the Chinese influence, a lot of tones, hard-to-pronounce vowels, crazy diphthongs and triphthongs, a lot of /z/... you name it 4. Uzbek - the /x/, the Tajik influence, no vowel harmony, and well, I speak some other Turkic languages, so I can understand it 5. Slovak - verb endings 6. Georgian - I've heard Georgian a lot and I can recognize it in a few seconds Ez

[@fartreta]

1. Finnish was easy peasy to recognise being Swedish. Finnish has been the most spoken minority language since forever being slightly surpassed by Arabic only a couple of years ago. I had like four classmates with Finnish parents every year in school growing up in an industrial small-town with a lot of Finnish labour immigrants. There are Finnish radio stations, TV news, children programmes etc. 2. Definitely Dutch. I think Afrikaans sounds a little tougher 3. At first I thought Mandarin Chinese, then something was off about it and I thought maybe it's Cantonese. The script gave it away that it was Vietnamese. 4. Some Turkic language but not Turkish. I thought there was some Persian element in the pronunciation rather than Russian. Then the map showed Uzbekistan... 5. Slavic, but I guessed Slovenian. 6. Didn't have any idea except that I somehow got some Semitic like vibe and thought, maybe it could be Aramaic because it's not Arabic or Hebrew. The fact about scripts didn't help me.

[@MrTubularBalls]

Obviously, Dutch and Afrikaans are closely related. But to me, they sound nothing alike. Pronunciation and melody are very different, I'm not even talking about the changed vowels in Afrikaans, different gramma,r morphology etc.

[@JorgeGarcia-lw7vc]

I gottem all right! Hurrah! I kinda got lucky because I have traveled to many of those areas, and speak CZ and ZA, and well, Finnish is very distinctive. Huge satisfaction with the video, Norbert! Kiitos!

[@costalafarge9403]

I'm a native Russian speaker and I've guessed thank God all these languages. The easiest was Georgian because I heard it too many times and there was a word "tskhovreba" which means "life". There were some doubts about Dutch or Afrikaans, Uzbek or Uigur. Pozdrowienia z Rosji, Northern Caucasus!!

[@Ecolinguist]

Congratulations! The big cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳

[@costalafarge9403]

@@Ecolinguist Huge thanks!!😁

[@bananko5062]

Really nice videos as usual.

[@GrubiBubi]

Will there be another video of this kind but with slavic languages again?

[@Robertoslaw.Iksinski]

Ja sam Poljak i takođe nedostaju mi slavenski jezici...

[@mamuka_ioannis]

Thank you for the video! I've been a follower of your channel for quite a long time. Listening to my mother tongue, Georgian, was so fun. Madloba = მადლობა = Thank you!

[@TheMarkus1308]

Finish actually reminded me of Hungarian at the beginning… That fascinates me since they are actually related :)

[@alicat1328]

She was so good. Interesting to hear her explain her thought process

[@J.o.s.h.u.a.]

1) Finnish (this was very easy for me because I've got a Finnish friend and I can spot their accent easily. As Julia said, they sound "colder" than Estonians and I'd say their language is also more rhythmic); 2) Dutch (the G sound was easily spottable); 3) Vietnamese (I've recently started learning this language, so I guessed it in seconds. It was a surprise to see it featured here); 4) My first thought on this was that it sounded like a mix of German, Arabic, Turkish and Russian which really confused me. Before Julia started to speak I could understand it was a Turkic language, but I really had no idea of which one. I failed this one; 5) That "hovorit'" made me think of Czech, but I really didn't think about the fact that I couldn't hear any ř. Failed this one, but it was really close; 6) I heard something like "oba" and made me think of Lithuanian for some reason, but I wasn't sure. After Julie said it could be a language from the Caucasus, I immediately guessed Georgian, so I didn't fail this, but I needed help to guess it. This was definitely fun. I'm also happy to see Julia on here, she's really a genius.

[@derwishrenegat743]

I can understand the Slovak language, but only when I read, and to learn the sound you need to live between them. But it is easy for me to read Slavic languages ​​close to Ukrainian, because I am Ukrainian. It is harder for me to guess Scandinavian languages, although I once studied German at school. I love such videos. You do it well.

[@polyMATHY_Luke]

Wonderful work! 😃

[@Ecolinguist]

Thank you, Luke! 😊

[@mobo8074]

Great show! Very well done Julie 😎 Brawo Norbercie ! Miło widzieć rozwój Twojego kanału i gry 😀

[@JuLingo]

Thanks so much!

[@fajn]

Norbert the opposite about Ř is true, there are or rather used to be dialects close to the border in the Czech Republic without Ř. Nowadays there is almost nobody in the Czech Republic who wouldn't use it, so it is practical for differentation for foreigners.

[@mckernan603]

This is a great concept, congratulations! Your format is awesome too

[@堃Kun]

Wow, the interesting thing was I managed to recognise a few words out of the Vietnamese audio: "Linguists" almost sure. When it came to the Slovak audio, as it's clearly and slowly pronounced, words like praca, język..., horovit' (говорить) ; even pozorovat' and opisovat' ( don't know the meaning but quite assured it being Slovak or Czech). IT SUDDENTLY OCCURRED to me that the contents in different languages are the SAME. I've never expected to be able to get a single piece of information from these two languages I've never studied. ( My study of the (Middle) Chinese language and months learning Polish made it possible) Thanks again, Norbert. Very informative.

[@alexr71]

Please do more of this format!! I would like it a lot!! I got a score about 90% in every episode, and as an Italian that only speaks 4 languages , it's a big result for me!! It's a challenge that I would like to experience at least every week...

[@frankrault3190]

I managed all but one. As a Dutchman hearing my own language was an easy point to take. Afrikaans usually is having a different pronunciation compared to Dutch. When written, both languages are mutually intelligible. If spoken, then only if the speakers talk slowly. Both languages have a slightly different grammar. I was totally wrong on Georgian, because the written text came twice with a word like "euskara", which made me assume it was Basque. After I heard about the 3 different scripts I got lost, knowing it wasn't Basque at all, and being totally ignorant about the languages of the Caucasus. The difference between Czech and Slovak was easier. Indeed the Czech use this _ř_, but also the typical _ou_, so that made it easy. Vietnamese obviously South-east Asia. Not Chinese because the typical almost American R was lacking. Some few words were ending with M, which, as far as I know is rare in Chinese, if there are any at all. Not 100% sure though. I was doubting between Uzbek and Kirgiz, hearing the Turkish "color" with a sometimes Russian pronunciation, like Julie said. The map helped me out. Very well done Julie!! Your last name obviously makes sense! ;-) Thanks a lot Norbert for this new version of "Guess the language". Most interesting !!!!

[@queky93]

Can confirm that there are exactly 0 words ending in -m in Standard Chinese

[@B0K1T0]

The Vietnamese sounded somewhat like reversed Mandarin to me :)

[@felixrezola9810]

What a clever girl! Just amazing her knowledge of languages.Certainly,the world of languages is fascinating!!

[@polyglotdreams]

Julie, you were very good at it. I subscribed to your channel.

[@JuLingo]

Aww thank you so much!!! ☺️

[@filiprozmanek6359]

5/6...couldn't figure out the last one :D great video! lifts the spirit in these times.

[@ApachePieman]

1. Finnish - very unique sounding and much higher/faster pitched than Estonian for me. In Russian there are jokes about Estonians being slow) 2. Dutch 3. Initial: Lao. After script: Vietnamese 4. Initial: Armenian - i thought i heard "hayat" in there at some point maybe related to hayer. After the map Uzbek of course 5. Slovak - If it sounds west slavic and reminds you of hutsuls sitting in the mountains, it's slovak definitely 6. Thought it was something in northern caucasus, after the fact: Georgian. Remembered the three different scripts they use

[@Ecolinguist]

Congratulations! The big cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳

[@ApachePieman]

@@Ecolinguist Thanks man)) Cool videos as usual

[@imokin86]

Hayot means life in Uzbek, if I remember rightly.

[@PaulVinonaama]

Funny. I am Finn, and to me Estonian sounds extremely fast.

[@hermisimon]

4. there is no standard (dictionary) word "hayat" in Armenian language. Though you can hear in some dialects using it for "front yard" but it comes from turkic language family.

[@danieldouglas3083]

I really love your channel man. Seriously.

[@franconicolasmendez339]

1. Finnish - Been hearing Tarja Turunen's voice for years so yes 2. Dutch or Afrikaans - Yes 3. I was between Mongolian or Vietnamese so yes 4. Uzbek - I did not guess it! 5. Slovak - Been hearing PPPeter for a while speaking like this and it was so familiar so yes 6. Georgian - I figured out completely with the "fact". Thanks for the video!! I can't decide what's my favourite section of your channel! Your whole material is just great.

[@Ecolinguist]

Thank you! :)

[@mileta_]

PPPeter! :D

[@xarastewartmusic]

I guessed them all! Except the Slovak I wasn't sure, but knew it was slavic :) I love your channel Julie! And yours Norbert! I was so happy when I saw this video!

[@Ecolinguist]

Thank you! 😃 And congratulations! The big cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳

[@xarastewartmusic]

@@Ecolinguist Thank you haha it's such a convenient prize!! :)

[@JuLingo]

Great job! And thank you so much!!! ☺️

[@user-lm3qv6wx9k]

My guesses: 1. Finnish 2. Dutch 3. No idea (Vietnamese with script) 4. Turkmen 5. Slovak 6. Georgian/Armenian

[@Livingtree32]

Funny, I had no idea for the last one, but Vietnamese was clear to me. And I also guessed Turkmen.

[@Urtica.Urtica]

Interesujący film. Nie było łatwo odgadnąć, z jakiego kraju pochodzą niektóre z przedstawionych języków, ale traktuję ten test jako ciekawe doświadczenie. Podpowiedzi przydatne. Gratuluję wygranego pucharu!

[@toocool563]

That music edit at the end is hilarious! Haha good shit

[@travelvideos]

1. Finnish 2. Dutch 3. Vietnamese 4. Turkish (?) 5. Slovak 6. Hungarian (?). I have heard Uzbek often, but I could not get it right. Sauna is known in colder regions, but people in warmer and tropical places never heard about it. Japan is exception, they know sauna.

[@aleksinatetka]

Julie did great, and I'll check her channel for sure. I must say that this time it was easier than in the previous video, here I knew for sure that the first was Finnish, and the second Dutch. As for Vietnamese, it was among my choices, but I only knew it wasn't Chinese, İ thought of Korean besides Vietnamese, and also Mongolian, I don't know why. Slovak I knew right away, Norbert, I find Slovak more similar to Polish than Czech is, and I even didn't think of the R (I don't find thé proper letter on my phone). I forgot Uzbek, I must say that I went for Azeri, it seemed too similar to Turkish. And Georgian I didn't know. My first thought was Greek, then I understood it wasn't, but I really had no idea. Thanks for the nice video!

[@marinak5112]

I thought of Korean too! I knew it wasn't Chinese, or Japanese, or Thai... I kinda forgot about Vietnamese, to be honest :DD

[@aleksinatetka]

@@marinak5112 It's good to read a similar review, especially from a next door neighbor, if I'm not mistaken :)

[@marinak5112]

@@aleksinatetka we are certainly next-door neighbours in terms of language, that's for sure! :D Not so much geographically, if I am correct in assuming that you are from Serbia. I guess my name must sound... Bulgarian? :) Where do you think I'm from? I'm curious now :)

[@aleksinatetka]

@@marinak5112 I thought you were Bułgarian, yes. :) As for myself, I like to say I am still Yugoslavian, I lived for a long time in Serbia, now I live in Montenegro. My turn to be curious. :)

[@marinak5112]

@@aleksinatetka oh yeah, Yugoslavia, right! I should’ve thought about it :) So you basically have three countries on your geographic resume! I’ve got only one :)) I’m Russian. I was born and have lived my whole life in Moscow :)

[@JoseAndresVEVO]

My guesses: 1. Finnish 2. Dutch 3. Vietnamese 4. Some Turkic language, maybe kazakh (When I saw the map, i thought it was turkmen) 5. Slovak 6. A language from the Caucasus, maybe Georgian. (When I heard the fact I was really sure it was Georgian)

[@KillaSilesia]

I love that game, keep them coming

[@bo8ick917]

Norbert, byłem na twoim kanale na samym początku, teraz nadrabiam zaległości. Wspaniale zobaczyć jak bardzo urósł ci kanał kanał w tym czasie! Osobiście mieszkam w Anglii od wielu lat i tutaj opanowałem swój angielski do perfekcji przy okazji mieszkania z Bułgarami trochę bułgarskiego odrobinę rumuńskiego. Wciąż pamiętam coś tam z Niemieckiego ze szkoły. To co robisz bardzo mi się podoba! Samych sukcesów ✌️❤️

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

Spoiler Alert 1. Finnish 2. Dutch 3. Mandarin (sorry Terrible at Asian languages) - *wrong* Vietnamese (after script) 4. No clue 56... Haven't got to them

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

Thank you, I don't usually fan boy, BUT I GOT SPOTTED BY SENPAI so what else am I supposed to do?

[@Nicolas_Rangel]

My guesses after 1 or 2 times I hear each part: 1 - Lithuanian | 2 - Dutch | 3 - Vietnamese | 4 - Azerbaijani | 5 - Serbian | 6 - Persian

[@Luboman411]

The most famous Dutch word in English--cookie! Also aardvark, schooner, aloof, yacht, stove, spook, snack, and so many more. Any large New York City neighborhood you can think of, like Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx, Staten Island, all of Dutch origin.

[@jaall7280]

I love your channel Julie! Congratulations!!!

[@JuLingo]

Thank you! ☺️

[@Waldlaeufer70]

1) My first thought was Finnish, but since I knew that Estonian is supposed to be very close, I finally decided it is Estonian (which I have never heard). 2) My first thought was Dutch, but then I thought it might be Africaans (which I can't remember I ever heard. So, I stuck with Dutch. 3) My first thought was that I had no clew, but then my mind focussed on an East-Asian country: Chinese, maybe, Korean, maybe, Japanese, no... when Julie mentioned Vietnamese, my thought was: Yes, that's exactly what I was searching for in my mind, this region! 4) My first thought was that it sounded a bit like Turkish, then my mind zoomed in on Tadjikistan, Kirgistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and I couldn't tell which one to take. For a moment I also thought of the region of Iran, Afghanistan or the Kurdish language. 5) My first thought was that it certainly must be a Slavic language (not Polish, not Russian). I guess there wasn't this r/sh sound, which would be typical for the Czech language. I didn't think of Bulgaria either (which I visited in 1989). 6) My first thought was Finnish or Arab, but none of them seemed to make sense, so I stumbled across Hungarian, which is another language that is quite unique in Europe. When Julie mentioned the Caucasus, I thought: well, that's another option! So, only one correct, but apart from the last one, not bad for somebody who speaks only Swiss-German, German, English, French and can understand a bit of Italian. Well, I have also studied quite a bit of Latin, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Hebrew nearly thirty years ago. A great and interesting video! :)

[@pol...]

I'm surprised that I wasn't subscribed yet! Another great video as usual :)

[@onemorelight9366]

I was so confused for a second when I heard my own language 😂

[@iunderscoream]

This was fun to watch! I wasn't expecting so many of them to be from Europe/Eurasia. I hope you'll include more African, American, and Oceanic languages in the future. That said, I would also love to see if someone could guess Basque.

[@andrefmartin]

I'm a big fan of Julie's language videos, and I'm glad to see her accepting this interesting challange in your channel. She well deserved the top cup and she identified those languages not by guessing but based on her knowledge

[@JuLingo]

Aww thanks a lot! ☺️

[@Czyszy]

Great channel! Here are my guesses: 1. Estonian 2. Dutch 3. Vietnamese 4. Georgian 5. Slovak 6. Punjabi

[@theobolt250]

This keeps me intrigued. Finnish wasn't hard to guess. I hear Finnish from time to time. Dutch... well, I am Dutch. 2 for 2 so far. Then the SE Asian one. I guessed Macao, because I thought I heard a typical Portuguese zje-sound. But it was Vietnamese. For Uzbek I guessed Kazach. And for Georgian I guessed Rumanian, but got my doubts very soon. Too bad I'm a total layman on these matters. But still Big Fun.

[@civfanatic8853]

So cool! Congrats there!!! I dont know if its a little directed/staged/regizat(regie), but so cool for slovakian(and not czechian) and also for georgian, not armenian. Anyway, when two languages are very close geographically, even if from 2 different language families, they influence each other to some degree, depending also on the good or bad relations of those 2 peoples, in general, so the cool and pretty latvian linguist here knew for sure what she meant, so kudos and congrats!!! :D

[@antoinesubitlescoups338]

I'm loving this guess the language series! I'm hungry for more!!!😍

[@topquark22]

Writing as I play along. My guesses: 1) Galician (wrong) 2) Dutch or Afrikaans 3) Lao, Burmese or Khmer (wrong) 4) Kazakh? Final answer (wrong) 5) Serbo-Croatian (wrong) 6) Portuguese? (totally wrong) This is fun.

[@maaritlarinen9056]

Another 6/6 for me! 1. Finnish - My mother tongue, so this was a no brainer xD 2. Dutch - I immediatly recognized it as either Dutch or Afrikaans, but didn't pick up any of the vowel qualities peculiar to Afrikaans. 3. Vietnamese. No doubt about it. 4. Okay, this is obviously a Turkic language, but I needed the map. I can't tell apart Uzbek from Kirgiz and Kazakh. 5. Slovak. Another easy one. 6. Georgian. Yeah, the ejectives gives it away.

[@cierna_voda]

Kocham tę serię

[@stevefallon8788]

This is the best thing on the internet! I am hooked lie forever!

[@madddog6790]

That was fun! Julie has a great ear. The first 3 were easy...3 of my favorite bands are Finnish, and one of them is fronted by a Dutchie haha. Research into those bands, and live appearances on various TV shows have helped with my ear for those. I've heard enough Vietnamese spoken through the years to be able to recognize it. The other 3 were hard, since we don't hear much of those languages here in the US, or I've never heard them to be able to register them.

[@OathKeeper95]

Nightwish 🤣

[@catuveitienunb1173]

My guesses: 1. Finnish 2. Dutch 3. Vietnamese 4. Kyrgyz (?) 5. Czech (?) 6. No clue bruh

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

You’re far better than me, like I studied Irish Gaelic and still thought Dutch was it

[@maxkho00]

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 Same, I have no idea why. I thought I'd heard a lot of Germanic vocabulary (like is, und, world, working, etc, however those are spelt), but I kinda assumed they were just false friends because of how Irish the sample sounded.

[@DKrusha]

Wow! I enjoy this show a lot! Keep up the good work! Great guests too!

[@jeandeboishault6380]

Congratulations Julie ! 1. Finnic language (but unable to guess which one) 2. Dutch 3. Somewhere in far-East, (South-)Asia ; => with the writing : ok, it's Vietnamese. 4. ....no idea but maybe in Caucasus => with the map, ok it's Uzbek 5. A slavic language 6. ...no idea... => with the fact : ok it could be Georgian

[@JuLingo]

Thank you ☺️ and good job 😉

[@NightOfCrystals]

Wow she is absolutely amazing. I got Finnish, Dutch, wasn’t sure on Vietnamese, thought the fifth one was Kazakh but really had no idea, no idea on the Slavic language and thought the last one was Maltese before the clue. Super impressive. It was also so cute how seriously she took the challenge 😊

[@bojanbojic9230]

Hola a Mexico, a nuestro Norbert! Finnish language sounded to me very like Hungarian, but without famous š, š, and š. Great job 👏

[@l.u.7834]

Interesting, I was sure it's Hungarian! But was wrong.

[@heikebastian3182]

Húngaro y finlandés son de la misma familia aunque los países están distantes.

[@fryktenogmennesket]

Suddenly I realized I use to watch videos from both of your channels but subscribed to neither one! Sorry for that, subscribed to both of you.

[@Ecolinguist]

Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@mikhaelm3211]

Интересное видео получилось! Мне очень понравилось. Я даже сам захотел поиграть в такую игру. ))

[@aolanikunisan]

Out of the two previous episodes, she seemed to be most satisfied with winning the satisfaction cup. Didn't know she collapsed with you and was surprised since I found the JuLingo channel last year and subscribed to her. Really nice to see this video.

[@uroboros4260]

OMG I thought I'm good at recognizing languages but this time I've got 0 out of 6, that's humiliating, though I was so damn close! Anyway, understood right there she's Russian by the accent :) My guesses were : 1. Estonian 2. Danish 3. Malasyan 4. Tajik 5. Bulgarian 6. Armenian

[@Ecolinguist]

You were close indeed. :)

[@JuLingo]

You got my native language right though 😉

[@uroboros4260]

@@JuLingo единственное, что угадал :D

[@Rollers123a]

This was good. Julie is a very good contestant. There was a bit of editing in the piece. Was there other information we should have known? I like to see how she would with the English variations in the UK Ireland, Australia Canada USA New Zealand, South Africa and other parts.

[@viictor1309]

1 Finnish 2 Swedish (sorry) 3 I would say Vietnamese or a sinic language that I couldn't tell precisely 4 I know it's a turkic language 5 Slavic... But again, can't tell 6 no idea

[@learnurduwithsara1068]

Such a fun challenge. Her knowledge is impeccable. I was only able to guess one.