Guess What Language I'm Speaking | Lineup | Cut

[@simonisenberg4516]

We could watch hours of Matthew figuring out languages.

[@emilymarshall8992]

Absolutely!

[@DJdopaminCZ]

Yeah, it's so interesting, my most favorite video for a long time. And mostly because of Mathhew.

[@angelachu73]

No doubt!

[@MatthewBofenkamp]

As long as I get a water/snack break in the middle I am okay with this

[@sometimesising1016]

​@@MatthewBofenkamp😂😂😂the legend is here!

[@officiallyshadon8937]

At this point give Matthew his own segment, so he can figure out languages and then give us fun facts about this music/culture cause I’m curious and want to learn about these artist.

[@jennydogg2813]

omg this please

[@TH-xq1iy]

Yes! I could listen to him all day

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Yea, but they should not include non-pretty languages such as these, they should only include the pretty languages like the Germanic / Nordic languages and the 6 modern Celtic languages and the Latin languages and Hungarian and Slovene which are the languages that are truly fun to guess and hear and see - and such hørrific śæcrílegíuous bæd words should never be included in videos, pfff, what ns!

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

The gorgeous languages like Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Faroese / Danish / Norwegian Bokmål / Gothic / Welsh / Breton / Irish / Manx / Cornish / Scottish Gaelic / Hungarian / Galician / Catalan / Portuguese / Gallo / Italian / German / Swedish / Luxembourgish / Aranese / Spanish / Guernsey / Limburgish / Walloon / Latin / Occitan / Slovene / Elfdalian / Sardinian / East Norse / Norwegian Nynorsk / Greenlandic Norse etc and the other languages based on Norwegian / French / German / Dutch / Italian etc are the languages that should be included the most - especially the magical languages like Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton etc which are as gorgeous as English, and all should know and learn these pretty languages, they are just too pretty not to know!

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Re music, the Dutch and Norse and English and Norwegian and Icelandic and Faroese and German and Danish and Swedish etc languages have the best music ever, even the folk songs are usually gorgeous in these languages - and it is also the fact that the languages themselves are gorgeous, because a song will not sound good if the language it’s sung in isn’t a pretty language with mostly or almost only pretty words and a pretty and refined and poetic sound, so it makes sense that Germanic songs are always the best because Germanic languages are the prettiest and most refined and most poetic languages, and also because almost all the singers with higher voices and lighter tone and a pretty and refined timbre are from Germanic countries, and many of the songwriters from Germanic countries also have natural talent, so they tend to make pretty songs with pretty melodies, especially when it comes to Disney songs and folk songs and symphonic metal songs and techno and dubstep etc, and I highly recommend listening to the Skáld songs and the Icelandic and Norwegian and Dutch and Swedish and Danish etc versions of those Disney songs such as the original Little Mermaid songs and the Frozen / Ik Ben Vaiana / Brave etc songs and the Dutch songs about the hunchback from Notre Dame and Nightmare Before Christmas, they are so pretty and poetic and refined, and Finland also has lots of great songs such as the Nightwish songs like Amaranth / Song Of Myself / Escapist etc!

[@adria-ana-mariailonca4980]

I’ve never heard someone speak Romanian with such a strong American accent.. I am not surprised no one figured it out.

[@JanneBernards]

I was thinking one of the Slavic Balkan languages, but that American accent came through really strong.

[@DJdopaminCZ]

He was death sexy tho 🥵

[@jisookim1452]

i like guessing with the people in these videos and literally thought “i cant tell if this is how this language is supposed to sound or if he just has an american accent” 😭😭

[@ihatehandles111]

I don't know Romanian at all and could tell instantly that his American accent was THICK

[@babyboom5641]

That’s what I was thinking. After he something plecat I knew but damn it was hard😂😂😂

[@Blufishii]

"Its giving asian" made laugh so much

[@brandoncollier4381]

Mary needs her own show…she had me cackling the whole time! 🤣😂🤣😂 She was here to find love, ok!? lmao

[@pennsylvanien2]

Mary and Matthew were my favorites... he came with knowledge and she came with personality and to me they had the spirit of it down

[@elimarburger1659]

Guessing the dubai perfume is honestly just as impressive as guessing the languages

[@robin.watermelon]

Agreed lmao

[@l.i.i.l0]

Such a funny detail 🤩

[@lester44444]

Make a guess the smell vid for her 😭😂

[@WaaDoku]

I was about to say. That's another type of skill to pick something like that up

[@user-pf3vz3rd9h]

Yea but "dubai" is neither a language nor ethnicity nor country. Arabic is the language, Emarati/khaleeji arab is the ethnicity and United Arab Emirates is the country

[@rkivelover]

I love how the short woman was way off with every guess except for the single one she got spot on 😭

[@way9883]

she's funny tbh she flirts with like three people there especially the romanian guy lmao

[@fatehbousseniou3217]

she s giving americans real representation

[@asterismos5451]

And it was a HARD one too......wild stuff

[@yohannaberaki6773]

she has an east african friend for sureee

[@4mana_sama]

She def has a somali friend 😆

[@K9_Jay]

Matthew is an incredibly talented linguist, the ability to identify languages like this is actually unreal, and the region too, the dialects, awesome.

[@piggywiggy4990]

Well said

[@Finn959]

Is it though? Are you in the field?

[@pumpkinkoot865]

​@@Finn959 did you get them all right? Yeah it was impressive.. He was basing it off of his music knowledge. Even the girl in the sweater wasn't getting _all_ of the languages that were right near her region.. The way that he figured them each out was definitely impressive.

[@socalbarbie1040]

@@pumpkinkoot865wym? She legit guessed and answered in Lao

[@pumpkinkoot865]

@@socalbarbie1040 did she get _every_ one right exactly? The language sure, the _exact_ dialect or region though? You obviously didn't really think about what my comment meant and got butt hurt about me saying that she didn't get them all right... My whole had to do with how incredible it is for a super white American guy to be so in tune with music and general linguistics that he picked up a few words and remembered them from a piece of music and then was able to recall the information regarding the language, dialect, region, etc based on his Non-asian background. That's a hell of a lot more impressive because he's educationally not culturally related to the languages.

[@indiraconnolly2889]

Wow. Matthew’s knowledge of languages is jawdroppingly, scarily good, OMG. I am blown away. I get the impression that the Romanian speaker had a very strong AM-EN accent which understandably threw Matthew off, but his reason for choosing Malay over Indonesian was completely, 100% on point and incredibly observant. The Indonesian speaker also sounded like they were a heritage speaker as opposed to someone whose current first language is Indonesian.

[@dizzy_ddigital]

Yeah, imma be honest kinda disappointed that the Indonesian didn't even try to sing childhood songs. So many easy ones. Just sing the rainy, balloon, or stars song. Wish there was more Indo words spoken, cuz the actual language and how the people use it (slangs n all) are soo different haha. But the swears r funny too lol.

[@pm2886]

Yes, the Indonesian speaker had a very muted accent, so she sounded Malay. Romania was actually fairly obvious, I thought. Eastern European, but latin roots. Can only be one language!

[@MelindaSilaghi]

I speak Romanian, and took me a while to understand him because of his thick American accent

[@assleepyassayu4619]

the first one is shanghainese I nearly cried. finally getting the recognition and repping wu chinese and the beauty of all the phonetics y'all

[@assleepyassayu4619]

also she has the accent of bendihua I think, can't really pinpoint which branch but it is very rare now amongst youngsters. Maybe chongming or pudong?

[@assleepyassayu4619]

also there's a tv series by a very famous director that's all the rage in china at the minute and all the actors in it speak shanghainese which made shanghainese a hot topic in china as well

[@arwenshistorycorner]

the language was so beautiful easily one of the prettiest sounding ones I've ever heard!

[@kstanofficial]

Purple pants guy killed it every time (almost)! His knowledge was CRAZY

[@abdelwahedothman8290]

Mathew was great!

[@Xoxolexilexx]

Yesss super impressive

[@maybeitsasecret]

hes also a lesson that listening to music is a GREAT way to learn languages

[@bbbusterr]

7/8 with a romanian who spoke with the thickest american accent - he did amazing

[@rachel12127]

Wow for real

[@melikeor6593]

As a Romanian I need to say that the Romanian guy was speaking the most broken Romanian ever so it was impossible to guess correctly. He sounded more American than the others. Also I totally agreet CAT MUSIC NEEDS TO STEP UP.

[@Ahmed-pf3lg]

It's so broken that even I, an Arab, could easily tell his Romanian was broken with almost 0 knowledge of Romanian.. something was so off about it.. you could tell it sounds weird/fake.

[@serenityq26]

I said the same thing. His accent was american and wasnt speaking ONLY romanian

[@spaghetti_9811]

@@Ahmed-pf3lg I'm from Scotland and I could also tell it sounded off and I've barely ever heard Romanian💀

[@andreeamargineanu5026]

Haha I came here to say the same. As a romanian, i couldn’t even understood all the things he said.

[@cescafranci3809]

Yeesssss hahaha

[@dianeanton9320]

As a Romanian, hearing that guy speak it genuinely confused me. He had such a strong American accent it would be almost impossible for someone that isnt familiar to the language to figure it out. But yes, Cat music needs to step it up

[@elimarburger1659]

Lmao

[@eo0-g9j]

but he fineeee

[@rhsmx9655]

I don’t even speak Romanian and could tell he had SUCH a strong American accent

[@opirayaa]

@@eo0-g9j right likeeee

[@smsmsm33434]

I’m Romanian too and I just sat here staring at my screen in disbelief. I thought maybe he was speaking Aromanian.

[@monaa7277]

as someone who escaped Myanmar and has been living in the U.S. for a little over a year, having the Burmese guy talk about Myanmar and the situation going on really touched my heart ❤ glad to see more people shed light on the injustice we’re experiencing

[@The-Mediator]

Glad to hear, plus I like the yuna pfp ❤

[@tadesubaru1383]

The romanian guy sounds EXACTLY like the sims talking simlish XD

[@VeryBerrySweet]

My thoughts exactly 😭

[@xevexfn4675]

@@VeryBerrySweet bro was the worst example for romanian🤣

[@stealthis]

​@@xevexfn4675but he was so hot

[@zeroo.]

mamaliga

[@emilyx33x]

pentru sarmale 🇺🇸 darrrr

[@FoxNimbus]

1. We need more of Matthew. 2. All of them are so bubbly respectful, I love it.

[@scareglare]

Ngl I think the short woman with purple blindfold used a LOT of generalizations

[@acediaethos4469]

​​​​@@scareglare yeah she was bugging me a little from the start edit: "it just sounds like part of an anime almost"????? girl come on

[@The-Mediator]

“Romanian speaker” guy was not respectful tho 💀

[@hakanstorsater5090]

@@The-Mediator I think they were told by the staff to come up with insults and curses, though.

[@lisagriffin8221]

Matthew is a delight to watch because he makes knowledgeable guesses and is respectful. I'd love to have him guess my native tongue, Kalenjin, to see how he would work it out (tribal language in Kenya)

[@MatthewBofenkamp]

Hi there, thank you so much! I'm afraid I don't know anything about Kalenjin, but I'd love to learn about it! Do you have any music recommendations in Kalenjin?

[@thebonniewong]

Look at Matthew here already studying ahead for his next challenge!! Love you. You're awesome.

[@gedeonlewis7318]

Wakale🤦‍♂️😂😂

[@gedeonlewis7318]

​@@MatthewBofenkampkalenjins are actually know for marathon excellence in the world

[@cjjcss]

agreed! i’d like to see him guess my language chamorro, from guam which not many people know

[@melekioa8127]

Mary is so funny 😭 She wasn't even here to guess, she was here to have a good time 🤣🤣🤣

[@way9883]

she's flirting with like three people so she was indeed pretty happy i bet 😂

[@pixelzebra8440]

@way9883 Nah she was flirting with all of them without even knowing what they’re saying or even what they look like 💀

[@way9883]

@@pixelzebra8440 you got a point 🤣 but she's most attracted to three of them the most so i guess that's why i said that weeks ago 😂

[@saywhatondat]

Love her!!! 🤣

[@angelapasturan]

😆💯

[@nalurodriigues]

the one guessing nationalities by their food/perfume/how close it was to the languages she spoke was a straight SLAY

[@ElectricPansies]

Matthew is super impressive, but Toey (I don’t know how to spell it) guessing that the person was from Dubai based on their perfume, and then discovering that their perfume was actually from Dubai, was wild!

[@Grace-fm9cv]

honestly hilarious that she guessed the dubai perfume correctly

[@way9883]

that part sending me so bad 😂

[@pempo8342]

right?? that's also a skill

[@eddie-roo]

@@pempo8342guessing people’s nationality based on their perfume, when?

[@julijepp]

​@@eddie-roo guessing where a purfume came from, dont be dense

[@evelynd.4706]

The guy speaking romanian has a heavy american accent in my opinion, as someone who grew up with this language I had to hear very closely to understand, it did make it impossible to guess it properly for the guessers. It is a challenging language to learn though, especially pronounciation if you are not familiar with it

[@karan_karan_karan]

someone find his @... for research purposes

[@robert7567]

@@karan_karan_karanfor real. 13:07 I was, “sure, happily” 😂😂😂😊😊😊😊

[@val_val_]

Its kinda stupid that cut couldn't find a better Romanian speaker. Better leave it out before doing it like this

[@anacarolinab1780]

@@karan_karan_karanfrrrr

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Why would anyone want to learn such hærríble-sounding / hærrible-looking language that’s got to be the most uncouth language I’ve ever heard or seen, the words are so embarrassingly funny, I am amazed that ppl continue to use them, instead of learning and switching to a pretty language - I highly recommend learning the most gorgeous languages ever such as Dutch and Norse + Icelandic and Norwegian which are just as pretty and poetic and refined as English and too pretty not to know, and also Welsh and Breton and Galician etc, technically all Nordic / Germanic languages are a true work of art, they are so artistic and poetic and have almost only pretty and gorgeous words that bring true joy to the eye / ear, one should always choose languages based on their prettiness / pretty words, pretty languages are naturally fun to learn and use etc, and they are the languages that should always be included, as all ppl should know about the pretty languages, and I have over 50 pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!

[@mattmurry8481]

Yay!! So glad Matthew was brought back. He was cool.

[@DJdopaminCZ]

Please on what other video he was?

[@fey9915]

​@@DJdopaminCZhes been in few, but also other guessing languages

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

Honestly, should be moved to World Friends instead because there are many pretty languages included there, and no bæd / śæcrílegíuous words are included in World Friends videos, as far as I know, so they are usually fun to watch, and it would be more entertaining if there were more dudes that know a lot about languages and that can actually guess most of the languages - these videos, on the other hand, are ruíned every time by including such efd words and by including only or almost only non-pretty languages such as these that aren’t fun to guess or hear or see etc, and not even one Germanic languages, pfff, Germanic languages should always be the most included languages as they are the prettiest and most refined languages that are always fun to guess and hear and see!

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

The gorgeous languages like Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Faroese / Danish / Norwegian Bokmål / Gothic / Welsh / Breton / Irish / Manx / Cornish / Scottish Gaelic / Hungarian / Galician / Catalan / Portuguese / Gallo / Italian / German / Swedish / Luxembourgish / Aranese / Spanish / Guernsey / Limburgish / Walloon / Latin / Occitan / Slovene / Elfdalian / Sardinian / East Norse / Norwegian Nynorsk / Greenlandic Norse etc and the other languages based on Norwegian / French / German / Dutch / Italian etc are the languages that should be included the most, especially the magical languages like Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton etc which are as gorgeous as English, and all should know and learn these pretty languages, they are just too pretty not to know - they should not include non-pretty languages such as these, they should only include the pretty languages like the Germanic / Nordic languages and the 6 modern Celtic languages and the Latin languages and Hungarian and Slovene which are the languages that are truly fun to guess and hear and see!

[@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038]

By the way, my current levels are... - writer level in English - native speaker level in Spanish - advanced level in Dutch - upper intermediate (close to advanced) level in Norwegian - intermediate level in German / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian - upper beginner (close to intermediate) level in Old Norse / Icelandic / Welsh - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc)

[@LotsOfLove4Music]

12:02 LMFAOO mary's a vibe

[@earthscorcher]

Mary is a freaking gem, and Matthew is just straight up impressive 😂

[@mesharimj5190]

This Mathew is so freaking incredibly smart at what he’s doing. You guys literally chose 8 of the most difficult languages and dialects and he somehow managed to guess each and everyone of them. Even the once he failed at guessing he was too close. His knowledge is actually scary 😂

[@TheMatschkind]

Except for the Romanian, that one seemed to be tough to recognise from the speaker 😄

[@whapwhob3820]

@@TheMatschkindmost romainians re saying his accent was very American and not really romanian

[@ram_n_music]

​@@whapwhob3820cuz it was an American accent, no one in Romania speaks like that. Maybe the guy was born and raised in the US and learned English as his first language

[@becky-whispers]

“It’s a beautiful country - used to be.” This broke my heart. One day I’d love to visit Myanmar.

[@user-jt3sg3jf2e]

I would love to see Matthew’s Spotify wrapped

[@MatthewBofenkamp]

My top artists were Anaïs Mitchell, Andrew Prahlow, Mpho Sebina, Al-Qasar, and Meskerem Mees. Top songs were “Bright Star” by Anaïs Mitchell, “Rupsa Ra Moti” by DigV ft. Sparsh Agrawal (Kumaoni language, North India), “Kutidhieng” by Liza Aulia (Acehnese language, northwestern Indonesia), “Tirineni Tsïtsïki” by Lila Downs (Purépecha language, indigenous language of Mexico), and “Brooklyn Bridge” by Anaïs Mitchell. Top genres were indie folk, Georgian alternative, Arab alternative, afropop, and Pakistani pop. My sound city was Tbilisi, Georgia. Thanks for asking! What was yours like?

[@madelynstorms4609]

@@MatthewBofenkamphow many different genres did you have?

[@MatthewBofenkamp]

@@madelynstorms4609 55 I think was the number? But also I made a second account to listen to random genres so that it wouldn’t affect my recommendations, so there’s probably more on that one 😅

[@adindavw]

@@MatthewBofenkampwow Bofenkamp, are you Dutch?

[@Pranav_Bhamidipati]

@@adindavw He did say in a previous video that he is Norwegian.

[@Raynergy]

The “Romanian Speaker “ definitely lied on his resume.. 10:53 that’s the most ill-mannered Moldovan I’ve ever seen 😂

[@ram_n_music]

There's no such thing as "Moldovan" language, it's still Romanian, but this guy is speaking Romanian with a pretty heavy American accent, maybe he was born in the US from Romanian parents

[@FellDownTheCornHole]

@@ram_n_musicthe weird thing is that he has a Romanian accent when speaking English.

[@MemoryFlower2]

@@FellDownTheCornHoleno he doesn’t

[@Aephxa]

Moldovans don’t speak Romanian with an American accent, but a Russian one. I’m ready to bet he’s a native English speaker and learnt Romanian on the side

[@thomasina_ndlovu]

The ladies are so bubbly. Love them!

[@smochinaverde]

To be fair, the Romanian guy has a very strong accent. It’s obviously not his first language. That’s probably what threw Matthew off.

[@matheusrofficial]

I listen a lot of romanian music but that accent was unintelligible

[@aguacateadosmilpesitos]

Yeah, i'm sure if they had brought someone who could speak it correctly, he would've guessed it so easily ;(

[@coral8164]

​@@matheusrofficialPlease don't tell me you listen to manele, other songs can be bangers tho

[@ettinakitten5047]

Yeah, I feel like he was a few generations removed from immigrant ancestors and trying to reclaim his ancestral tongue - kinda like me with Flemish.

[@smsmsm33434]

I am Romanian and had no idea what the hell was going on for a good 10 seconds. Romanian can only be mistaken for another Romance language (usually Italian) or a Slavic language depending on the accent of the person speaking. Meanwhile he had these people thinking he was Indian.

[@gabrielasandu687]

As a romanian,I can tell you that our language doesn’t sound like that,His american accent was really coming thru,making our language not sound how it should.But it was fun to see a romanian there.

[@PHlophe]

his dark skin is mood.

[@danielvanr.8681]

Nu sunt român (sunt danez), dar locuiesc in România de sapte ani. Chiar si urechile mele proaste de imigrant au putut auzi ca tipul îl macelarea. :D Sorry about the missing diacritics, btw .. I only have circumflex on this device. Salutari din sectorul 6 Bucurestiului ! :)

[@coral8164]

​​@@danielvanr.8681 adevărat, nu am auzit un accent atât de râu în viața mea. Dar română ta este foarte bun pentru un immigrant😂 scuzați mea pentru romana mea, nu este atât de bun.

[@smsmsm33434]

⁠@@danielvanr.8681felicitări, vorbești foarte bine. Chiar mă întreb de ce are accentul ăsta, cunosc români născuți în Canada și cu toate că fac mici greșeli, nu au halul ăsta de accent.

[@szablori9161]

💀

[@Tyrone-v2r]

As everyone else is saying, Matthew needs his own videos on this, because he's so incredible and so entertaining. The knowledge and ability to analyze what they're saying and connect not just to the language itself but the exact region and local culture is absolutely amazing.

[@josephnewtown8930]

I love you that you actually brought people competent in guessing languages.

[@duneeaaasha]

My goodness the guy speaking Romanian has the thickest American accent I’ve ever heard- He told Matthew it’s embarrassing that he didn’t guess it, he’s the one who should be embarrassed 💀

[@carobubulinaplays5355]

ik like im originally Romanian but i mostly speak english with my friends and siblings but i do speak romanian with other people and grandparents and i feel like i dont speak it good but when i saw that like - i felt a lot better (BUT THE PROBLEM WITH MY VOICE IS THAT ITS RLY HIGH PITCHED IN ROMANIAN AND DEEPER IN ENGLISH)💀

[@larvini]

​@@carobubulinaplays5355 it's so interesting that you mentioned how you have a higher pitch in romanian, cause everyone I know besides the chinese is practically squeaking in english in comparison with their voices in their native languages, including me

[@lepeotmit]

@@carobubulinaplays5355 Funny.. I know a few romanian people. They all do have the same tone in german, english and romanian speaking voice.. But this guy in the video did not roll thr 'R' at first which gave me some kinda weird feeling :D

[@JessicaVanderhoff]

​@@larvini We probably speak in a deeper voice in the language we're most confident it. It tends to connote authority and self assurance.

[@DrWolverine]

Yeah, that Romanian is not real pronunciation. I could say it’s Italian not Romanian with that accent. Even if we have different dialects around Romania, this guy is far from speaking perfect Romanian.

[@chelseapatrick4026]

Her empathy at 21:10 is everything.

[@steadyboost7]

Matt's class was probably crazy fun. Anyone in the comments have a syllabus from one of his classes? Would love to see what he assigned as honework.

[@zawooX]

Same - want to see it!!

[@adindavw]

Or sign me up for a class!

[@lightinthefield]

@@adindavw Sadly, he said he "used to" teach, so I doubt that's possible 😢

[@tasmintheuws242]

That would be so fun!

[@moisesalmonte2516]

kzbin.info/aero/PL-ClEBppfwRjAUJhVHH1Xar7zGWglMaEj&si=ZRiHJ7m4_uQy-Ixi Not a syllabus but a link to the youtube playlist he made with all the music he uses to associate it with the language (in the description there's also a link to the spotify playlist and a spreadsheet with the name of each song and language)

[@uWucian6684]

As the Romanian that used to live with Matthew I physically cringed at the accent that guy had...

[@MatthewBofenkamp]

it's true we truly did used to live together

[@aaran2329]

Yeah, I've not lived in Romania or spoken Romanian much for 13 years but the person in the video had a very strong American accent and it didn't sound much like Romanian. So don't worry about not guessing it correctly!

[@nielsgoingback8091]

I'd say nothing was giving Romanian there, not even the word choice (except for the very beginning, which kind of led me to the correct region).

[@PHlophe]

@@MatthewBofenkamp at this point you should become a honorary Mateis Bofenkampanu

[@nushious]

​@@MatthewBofenkampthis is the cutest KZbin comment section exchange I have ever read

[@balasavenedintulashabalbeoriwe]

Matthew did so well it was extremely impressive

[@maximuscraig8222]

Matthew was so knowledgeable, it made me so happy to watch!

[@phyusin9993]

OMG BURMESE!!! I’m so glad to see Myanmar being represented and I’m glad he talked about the civil war and seeking asylum and everything. Good job everyone!!!

[@pixeloliver6779]

so true ^^^ ❤️

[@hewpack5407]

Me too. Hearing him talk about his country (how it used to be) and then talk about not having been there in 13 years. It was heartbreaking.

[@abigail_ruth]

I was looking for a comment about Myanmar! For most of my childhood me and my family were full time missionaries to the huge Burmese refugee community in Kansas City, KS. I did not have a white friend till I was like 11. Those were some of my best memories and it was such an amazing experience! We would do lots of different events with them. We would have a VBS in the summer and through the rest of the year we would have weekly ESL classes and citizenship classes. We also would go to their houses and teach them how to cook american food and like how to clean their house with different cleaning products. We would go to their church in Kansas City every week and I made some of my best friends at their church. I loved our Burmese friends. As soon as I heard Mingalaba I got so excited!!!

[@hilalkarappan9951]

Matthew just proved that music is the universal language

[@MsBlushing24]

Gotta hand it to Matthew. It sounds like he knows more than just the language characteristics, but also the culture of each country and how their language accommodates it.

[@heijuli18]

Please make more of these language ones! These are so interesting to watch

[@Toroklav]

matthew is so intellegent and rare to find like him

[@incoherentlogic228]

These are my favorite Cut episodes! Please turn this into a more regular series (would love more Matthews too lol, watching him reason his way through is super fun)

[@riverofmolecules]

I appreciate Matthew calling Shanghainese a "language" rather than a "dialect" like many of the other guessers. Shanghainese is not even the same language family as Mandarin but people think all Chinese languages are just variants on the national Mandarin (which was most based on the Beijing dialect).

[@catinabox3048]

It IS in the same language family. They are languages spoken by the Han Chinese, that are linguistically and lexically related. Any Mandarin speaker will be able to guess that it comes from China after asking her three questions and listening to her answers. We may not be able to understand what she's saying, but to say it's not in the same language family is just incorrect. I would liken its similarities to Spanish and Portuguese-which are different languages but are both Romance languages derived from Latin, and it doesn't take much for a speaker of one to understand the other. They're not mutually comprehensible, but they're super related to the extent that the grammar is maybe 90% similar and the words are mostly etymologically related. All you need to do is master the pronunciation and the remaining 10% of the grammar for basic comprehension. There ARE Chinese languages that aren't part of the same language family as Mandarin. For example, Uyghur, Tibetan, Manchu, and Hmong are not related to the Han Chinese languages. But Hakka (including Taiwanese), Wu (including Shanghainese), and Yue (including Cantonese) are all Han Chinese languages and thus very related to Mandarin. To be fair, some people do refer to each of these categories as "families" because they each contain multiple varieties, but varieties within each of these categories are mutually comprehensible, so I would hardly consider those to be different languages. So Cantonese, for example, should linguistically be considered the same language as all other Yue varieties while Shanghainese should be considered the same language as all other Wu varieties. Yue and Wu are two languages that, along with Mandarin, make up the Han Chinese languages which all belong to the Sinitic language family.

[@Jyoo609]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@PersonX-fr2meas a Shanghainese, 上海閒話 is not based on Mandarin. Especially since mandarin is a younger language compared to the Wu dialects. Shanghainese/ wu is a dialect based on a social political standpoint but a language based on linguistic standpoint. Linguists note that while there is some vocab overlap, there is only 29% lexical similarity between Shanghainese and Mandarin. Compared to English and German which have a lexical similar of 60% yet are considered different languages. We speak both so we can easily detect the similarities, but speakers of one or the other will struggle. It’s more than just an accent change.

[@eddie-roo]

@@catinabox3048they are in the same family and language continuum, but they’re on widely different branches. Think dogs and foxes. They’re both canines, but they are more like cousins than siblings.

[@eddie-roo]

@@catinabox3048also, Tibetan and the Sinitic languages are related, what are you talking about? Like, Manchu, Yi, Hmong, Uyghur and Mongolian aren’t related to the Sinitic languages, but Tibetan is, the language family is quite literally called Sino-Tibetan. Saying they’re not related is like saying Spanish and Farsi aren’t related or that otters and bears aren’t related, like yeah, they’re quite a bit distant, but they’re both indoeuropean languages or carnivorans respectively.

[@youmayu]

@@Jyoo609 Exactly. People often forget that new languages sound like gibberish when you start learning them. The people I know that only speak mandarin can rarely understand anything in Shanghainese other than a few words here and there, unless they’ve had previous encounters with it, it’s pure gibberish to them.

[@kilanspeaks]

Oh Matthew is really good, he recognizes Austronesian languages and our shared vocabulary like “lima” or the number five 😊 And he’s right, 17:17 “eight” is “lapan” in Malay and “delapan” in Indonesian because the latter came from an older Austronesian root, but that’s not enough because we often shortened the way we say our numbers in everyday life. One of the things he could’ve done to tell the difference between the two without knowing the vocabulary is to notice whether they roll their Rs or not, because rolling their Rs is a sure tell that someone is Indonesian. Of course there are other ways to figure this out, but it would require some knowledge in both languages or the culture, including the food.

[@way9883]

exactly my thought, the way he immediately knew the indonesian person speak a language of austronesian family is very much a plus point.

[@pupszs]

16:00 BRO WAS READY TO ROAST 😭😭

[@allaboutmika]

HEARING THAT AS AN INDONESIAN MADE ME CACKLE SO MUCH 😂😂😂

[@monabee5044]

I absolutely love and appreciate Matthews knowledge and respect for the different dialect.

[@abdelwahedothman8290]

That guy getting flustered when he was flirted with was so funny

[@yesyeahyes1]

So endearing! I loved seeing that interaction

[@malcolm5514]

high key me 🤣🤣 Anyone have the Afghan woman's @? 👀

[@tej9027]

I was looking for this comment for 3 minutes 😅 Ikr he was so cute 🥺 i love when we men get shy. We're just so adorable

[@allaboutmika]

@@malcolm5514LMAOOO she not gonna let u hit bruh

[@Horac3]

Matthew is sooo good🤟🏾Mary just want everybody to flirt with her🤣😂and the woman who spoke Dari is FIIINE😅

[@way9883]

she's such a mood tbh

[@way9883]

16:55 "you hear how lima was five? that's how you know it's austronesian" he's the greatest language guesser in cut's history tbh

[@kapitankrunch3]

all these guessers are excellent. the language aficionado guessing everything, woman in the blue and yellow who got so many based on word and tone relations, and the woman who only knows english, but was super enthusiastic about talking to people. love this video!

[@hux2000]

22:34 - She got everyone to say the female version of "Thank You" in Thai. :)

[@megannwalsh]

Matthew is so talented at hearing tones in languages and being able to pinpoint them. It’s so impressive!

[@coffeee-1840]

In all fairness i don't blame them for not guessing Romania, the dude clearly didn't live in Romania as he didn't have the correct accent and i could barely understand what he was saying. IT sounded like he is a foreigner which learned Romanian

[@roselynmarie4019]

Matthew should make his own podcast listening to music from around the world and talking about the music industry in countries! I would listen to that in a heartbeat!

[@mrs.camilliajones3560]

I really like Mary she's such a character 😂 I knew that would be her reaction when she saw the Romanian guy.

[@artbyrei3640]

15:46 he was indeed blushing 😂 cutie

[@RecklessADHD]

Very cute 😂 I was looking for a comment that pointed this out

[@linnear9872]

Te guy in the grey shirt has a STRONG american accent in his language, so I'm guessing he is second or third generation. Still, kudos for taking the time to learn!

[@chaosgoblin89167]

LOVE seeing Matthew here again!! Could watch him do this for EONS!

[@DJdopaminCZ]

In which other video he was please?

[@JeremyMYG]

Matthew is a special person. It’s incredible how much he knows. I bet he was/is a great professor!

[@dhsk2075]

I noticed, guy with black t-shirt 20:09 on his t-shirt Georgian🇬🇪(country)alphabet is written. This is my country and i'm very happy i saw this❤

[@RN-bl1ol]

Matthew is the kind or person I would subscribe to if he had a KZbin channel. I love how informed he is.

[@siluriantides]

I don't know if you've figured this out by now, but he does. its @MatthewBofenkamp

[@siluriantides]

KZbin keeps deleting my comments, but he does :(( I just subbed to him

[@jonaswolterstorff3460]

Matthew killing it again. Why aren’t you a prof anymore?! Give us an update!

[@MatthewBofenkamp]

My time as a prof was always made to be temporary; Carnegie Mellon University, where I taught, likes to do a lot of courses on very niche topics that are only taught once. Usually I’m just a software engineer professionally makin’ those video games :)

[@Thatll_Do_Pig_]

​@@MatthewBofenkamp your class sounds so interesting. please please post your syllabus or songs-by country list somewhere!

[@uglyn6a]

​@@MatthewBofenkampyou're genius level intelligent

[@bbchurch7978]

@@MatthewBofenkamp do you retain the right to teach that same course or something similar elsewhere, like as a visiting professor or a Masterclass type thing?

[@costealucia5357]

@@MatthewBofenkamp Where you saying to your students same things you said to the Romanian guy about their country?

[@arinaromanov5883]

The guy who spoke Romanian has the heaviest american accent, I couldn’t even understand it was Romanian in the first sentence and I speak it.

[@nov3mbrr]

Fellow Laotian American here. This was a well composed video that did a great job in representation of languages I have not heard before. There is definitely different accents when speaking Lao and it was so interesting to hear compared to how I’m used to sounding spoken within my family. Nice video ^-^

[@turn45up23]

Yes! As another fellow Lao American there’s a lot of different dialects. I could tell the lady in the video spoke a different dialect than what my parents speak

[@silver5866]

Matthew is amazing at picking out languages. Also, that Romanian guy was legitimately beautiful. 😅

[@seesawww3347]

I was kind of playing along with them, listening without watching and boy was I surprised to hear my own language. He also seems like he has an amazing energy, bless him. Big up Somalia 🇸🇴 !!

[@sergioagreda9553]

Person Speaking Native Language: *Breathes* Matthew : “Oh I know this language from a pop band from the country”

[@MinasaintheUS]

Matthew is wearing a t shirt with Georgian alphabet 🇬🇪🫶🏼 omg, that was so unexpected! I have been watching CUT language episodes forever and was hoping Georgian would be mentioned at some point. Thank you, Matthew for representation and good job killing the game! 👏🏼 მადლობა 🫶🏼

[@theweirdberry9279]

for real i saw his shirt and thought i was tripping

[@adelasgar]

I also got excited to see one of the alphabets of Sakartvelo ❤️

[@MinasaintheUS]

You guys! ♥️ many people don't even know that Georgia is called Sakartvelo (საქართველო) in our native language and always mix it with the state of Georgia in the United States. Thanks everybody for representation!

[@rahuldhargalkar]

Hopefully in the next set we get some of the Caucasian languages, including Georgian. I'm excited already!

[@MinasaintheUS]

@@rahuldhargalkar omg me too! I would be happy to participate hahaa 😂 but I live on the east coast ://

[@Wherestalia]

Matthew needs a whole series of his own. He’s the coolest

[@sanchari.c]

I love these videos so much. Matthew is a treat, love the passion he has for world music. Everyone was great in this one! And I'm guessing all these people are now based in US, which makes US so so very interesting.

[@moonegalactica]

OMG SHANGHAINESE THANK YOU MUCH FOR INCLUDING SHANGHAINESE I ALMOST CRIED WHEN I HEARD IT THANK YOU 我也是上海人啊!!!!

[@Tyrone-v2r]

The woman who was guessing was cute and just a ray of light. She seemed very knowledgeable and culturally aware. I'd love to see her back for some other videos because she'd make any video better!

[@penguin-tc1cx]

err there were two women guessing... which one are you referring to?

[@johanahuerta947]

^ right 😅 I loved both of them!

[@FranzFerdinand55]

she qas quite dumb and acted all ghetto

[@petalchild]

​@@penguin-tc1cx blue sweater and green pants, obviously lol

[@hanschenklein8124]

​@@penguin-tc1cx Mary, of course

[@brimmed]

We're going to need a Spotify playlist from Matthew ASAP.

[@claraabai7065]

As a syrian i feel my brother from myanmar.. i have been in exile for 12 years because of my government, and it can be so hard. Lots of love to him ❤

[@Yvessaintclaude]

I think the girl at 13:04 had a better Romanian pronunciation the Romanian-american guy

[@lilachodan4941]

3:37 I like this guy. He is asking questions. He is genuinely interested.

[@way9883]

16:31 YUPPP austronesian Matthew is ALWAYS on point

[@stephh1228]

I literally clapped every time Matthew got his guesses right. He’s so impressive and love watching him in these vids

[@Yiyliyou]

Matthew wearing GEORGIANN ALPHABET T-SHIRT damn as a georgian iam proud.

[@MatthewBofenkamp]

Gamarjoba! I listen to so much Georgian music that Georgian Alternative was my #2 genre on spotify wrapped and Tbilisi was my sound city. I love Bedford Falls, Kahaberi & Khanums, Tamada, 4D Monster Lobsters, Killages, George Ergemlidze, Vaqo, Mgzavrebi, so much good stuff there.

[@Yiyliyou]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@MatthewBofenkampomfgg yees gamarjobaaa 🫶🫶yes all of them are so good bands its really rare to actually see someone enjoying our little countrys stuff . Iam foreal got chillss vifsav

[@jahdai_abdiel]

The Georgian alphabet is very cool!

[@vmjxriel4956]

13:55 same ma'am

[@camilaflordantas2426]

"You did your homework" "I GAVE THE HOMEWORK"

[@_phiaa]

12:03 "this man's fiinee~" PREACH

[@moanhi]

Ahhhhh as a massive Eurovision fan, Matthew is on point with his comment on Romanian music industry. Romania has so many talented artists but the music industry lacks any kind of vision or direction and many Eurovision fans are afraid Romania might be the next country to drop out of Eurovision because there's no interest in ESC. This year Theodor showed Europe how talented he is and his live vocals were superb but the lackluster song, choreography and styling buried all that and made the performance very unremarkable. Comparing to their neighbour Moldova, which is often one of my favourites, they are the real wild card of ESC.

[@Lara.c603]

TVR really did him dirty. If only he had the proper funding and was supported by them.

[@C3SIL3Y]

Matthew is so sweet and really enjoyable to watch, so we need to see him more. He definitely puts a spin on BDE.

[@saanestly_]

mary cracks me tf up, she’s js there for the video HAHAHA 🤣

[@TheAmadeusXperience]

Toei's reaction to recognizing Lao was so cute

[@Ceerads]

So interesting. And I loved how the two women bowed to each other.

[@saddhazaw]

Hearing Burmese took me by surprise!! So glad this guy spoke up about the military coup in Myanmar too 👏

[@nope3290]

wow music rly is a connector of all. The music teacher did awesome!!!

[@Mumbler100]

19:34 Shes hungry in every way possible 😂😂

[@eddiedoezit6751]

The one girl is just flirting with everyone!!!

[@Honeydoyou]

Damn the way she guessed his perfume was from Dubai was impressive

[@davidcalin3743]

I am Romanian and I could barely understand what he was saying. Even the swearing was rough and that is the easiest part of our language 😂

[@PHlophe]

that explains why i couldn't tell . i work with a few Romani so i am used to the language and i pick up words here and there. As a non native, on print the language looks very close to Latin unless i am mistaken. if that bloke had been short like most Romani i would have guessed

[@davidcalin3743]

@@PHlophe You are right, the Romanian language is the closest language to latin. Closer than Italian and Spanish. We have Slavic and Dacic influences as well :)

[@vogelvogeltje]

He was passive aggressive too. Like he was too cool for Matthew 😂

[@jrrlls]

mary has THE BEST energy, please bring her back!!!!

[@SaintYaronimo]

That girl that spoke Dari is really pretty!

[@holagirl7144]

I love mustard pants so much (toey?) so bubbly and the smd part was so cute lmao