Guessing Different Languages Just By Listening Challenge

Let's see if I can correctly guess multiple languages by listening and reading. Which country best suits my personality? • WHICH COUNTRY BEST FIT...
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[@nen4147]

Title: "Deutsche" Drew: it doesn't sound like German

[@ArtinJ]

Was looking for this comment uWu

[@nickcosmic3037]

The Estonian one also had Eesti in the title which is Estonia in Estonian (just look for countryball shorts, they usually say that)

[@XochiCh]

Another big hint was Köln which is Cologne. He should know that, its one of the most famous electors in Eu4.

[@MiraPacku]

in his defense it wasn't a very clean and instead very dialectively spoken german

[@jonahgraham157]

* epic bruh moment*

[@gonopoly2762]

3:00 title: Deutsche in Hollywood Drew: I don’t know, it doesn’t sound very German

[@abian36]

The second one said Eesti, which means Estonia. I am not even Estonian and I know it

[@shikami107]

In the German one it was also written Köln who is a city in germany

[@jonathanh.4405]

@@shikami107 köln mean Cologne,right?

[@belisarius6949]

@@jonathanh.4405 Yup.

[@jonathanh.4405]

@@belisarius6949 k, thanks

[@alwinpriven2400]

title: has the word "eesti" drew: could be swedish

[@chipsinsideajar1372]

Title: uses Georgian alphabet Drew: Urdu

[@zainchandia7355]

Darth Plageus the Wise how is he supposed to know the difference between the Georgian and Urdu alphabet?

[@theviniso]

@@zainchandia7355 You're right, but then again, that video surely wasn't filmed in Pakistan.

[@steamyhat]

@@zainchandia7355 georgian and armenian alphabets both look like spaghetti.

[@PRKLGaming]

Eesti de tabarnak

[@pabloalonso4331]

"They are talking about something" - Drew Durnil 2019

[@TooHandsome]

he is not wrong lol

[@negrito4646]

best quotation of 2019

[@jonahgraham157]

"Best quote of 2019" -negrito

[@somerandomcommenter7949]

“Best Quote Of 2019 -negrito” - Jonah Graham

[@treding3675]

"Best Quote Of 2019 -negrito - Jonah Graham" - Trippa Mazing

[@adrianzickel8365]

Title : guessing languages JUST BY LISTENING Drew: gimme the hints!

[@Nugcon]

bruh

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

[@primsco1367]

"is this south africa?"... a country with 11 official languages, good job Drew

[@herr_culas9408]

Was actually surprised to see so much South African languages

[@equilintogo5378]

It's like his "this is from South Asia" earlier in the vid

[@kolerick]

as a Swiss (and French), let me tell you, Switzerland does have 4 official languages... then, for each German speaking canton (17), there are about 2 dialects that are different enough that many dialect speaker don't understand those speaking another dialect... so when I saw the question with the option Swiss German, I was like: which one?

[@welwitschia3756]

India has 23+ official languages

[@deltoroperdedor3166]

@@welwitschia3756 and plenty more with an unofficial or limited (to a certain small part of state) status. The second most spoken language has like 100M native speakers, just to make it even more clear

[@frankdupa3989]

When drew confused french with polish: [angry winged hussar noises]

[@augth]

Angry enlightened philosopher noises

[@edwardbrown3721]

It's not even hard, I have heard Only one polish person in my life and could get the difference

[@nicolas4601]

Marie Curie says hello. 😉😁

[@ertyertyloide5778]

(angry légion étrangère noises)

[@EinFelsbrocken]

*flustered baguette sounds*

[@yoink6830]

as a human having general perception of the idea of speech i feel personally offended.

[@libyanmapping5408]

I feel attacked. I need a consultant now, I just... I just dunno anymore.

[@funiyoutubeuser32]

yep

[@theArab__]

Libyan Mapping wrong Libyan flag

[@libyanmapping5408]

@I'MDEprEssEdaNDqUIrkY Ya biladi!!

[@libyanmapping5408]

@@theArab__ The green one is no more :/

[@deer4927]

>Deutsche in Hollywood Drew: Is this Dutch?

[@historystories5990]

He said that because Dutch and German are similar. He didn't really look at the title...

[@deer4927]

@@historystories5990 I know, just found it funny how he missed a bit of an obvious tell, heh.

[@MrHankeyable]

Deutsch and dutch are closer than deutsch and german.

[@joshual4513]

@@MrHankeyable, and "Nederlands" isn't close to the word "Dutch".

[@davolol11]

@@joshual4513 but diets is more like dutch, not that it matters

[@kacperwoch4368]

Almost every video had a hint what the language was: 0:30 Script if that helps 1:30 ''Eesti'' looks like Estonian 2:27 Literally ''Deutsche in Hollywood'' title 3:05 BBC Persian 4:04 I think he says ''Kartuli'' which means Georgian and there is a unique script 5:02 Only Chinese characters 5:50 No click sounds, not Xhosa I love how he notices in 6:45 a nasal sound in the word ''są'' and thinks it is French. Btw Polish ''są'' and French ''sont'' both mean the same thing.

[@ayyazkhan1917]

For 3:50 if you know the Arabic script it says faarsi in the totle

[@Glkorded]

Zulu has 4 ckicks in borrowed lexicon

[@robinfood74]

@@ayyazkhan1917 I am Arab and I would have got it right if HE DINT SKIP

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E‎

[@MrNicePotato]

Of course there are hints but these are only hints if you have at least some knowledge of these languages involved, which is the point of the quiz in the first place.

[@arthurjacobs4722]

1:27 fun fact - the video's title actually has the word Estonia in Estonian.

[@silverabp]

Saw that too, annoyed me when Drew got it wrong

[@user-db1cd3ry3t]

It’s okay he’s gotta-go-to-McDonald’s-and-then-do-skateboarding-and-produce-a-movian, people of his nationality isn’t very developed yet

[@theviniso]

Yeah, that was my only hint

[@Geegs]

Compound it with the fact that it's followed by "Keel," which means it says "Estonian language." Humiliating.

[@gabrielbruno7122]

@@user-db1cd3ry3t As if everyone knows a difficult language with only 1 million speakers in a small and unimportant country in the geopolitical context

[@teadur]

I'm Estonian lol The title means: The Estonian language is idiotic when translated.

[@killerqueen1501]

🤣🤣

[@Woodpeckerslol]

I’m not Estonian I’m finish but my cousins live in Estonia and barely speak Finnish so I was laughing at him when he said finish.

[@Randomz-jk4hk]

There seems to be irony slightly sprinkled over this comment

[@Plnwals]

Lol I have a Estonian friend and I usually have to translate for my stupid English friends and at one point I was not there so they used google translate....

[@gagex6345]

I'm from Finland, and estonian is very similiar to Finnish. Tere

[@shep7544]

i laughed when you guessed Estonian with Finnish. There is an old saying: A drunk Finnish man sounds like he is speaking Estonian A drunk Estonian man sounds like he is speaking Finnish

[@Amghannam]

Same like Dutch and German comparison, lol.

[@Ricky911_]

I don't speak either language but honestly, it's quite easy to tell. I knew it was Estonian because it sounds way softer and has much longer diphthongs than Finnish. Anyway, I've heard that saying before lol

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

Like a drunk portuguese sounds spanish trying to speak portuguese

[@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261]

@@Amghannam The joke is: "Dutch sounds like an American trying to speak German"

[@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261]

@@Ricky911_ Not to mention that it sounded like Hungarian a little bit and Estonian is the only Baltic language related to Hungarian.

[@Kurshweis]

"I know Polish" says Drew after mixing it up with French in the audio test

[@Torch....]

ik i litterly am polish that was weird

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

5:36 literally said the name of the language

[@prod.Sp0tSid3]

wait... how does Polish sound similar to French to you? lmao

[@buubb3178]

I don't know why it is but in rare cases both sound similar. I'm polish myself but recently I've realized couple in train weren't speaking Polish but French after like 5 minutes of listening. That was strange.

[@peterpetrovic4502]

They didn’t say kurwa

[@prod.Sp0tSid3]

@@peterpetrovic4502 ohhh true, true

[@ertyertyloide5778]

As a french, i died.

[@prod.Sp0tSid3]

@The Nova renaissance i mean, i think everyone should be able to tell them apart since French is so... Unique? Guess that's the right word. As u said the accent is just so characteristic. But that might be because im Polish so its kinda obvious

[@vegancheeseburger8001]

See's video title: hopes Estonia is finally in a Drew video 90 seconds later: life goal fullfilled

[@comrade7921]

Eesti...

[@davefred]

And then he goes with finnish cuz "their population's bigger"...

[@harold1795]

Eesti!!

[@andreasveide]

@@davefred typical american

[@madcrusader123]

Estonian population should be 5 million at least

[@Weraptor]

The Geogian was very, very obvious just from the text alone.

[@giorgi2702]

Right? Like Urdu looks nothing and sounds nothing like Georgian. Apart from some similar sounding letters.

[@Torch....]

uhm... not for me

[@supthee1725]

My Georgian friend speaks Georgian and It's easy to guess but hard to talk

[@liamnacinovich8232]

The most Slavic sounding language Drew: It must be French! When I said most Slavic sounding I meant compared to all other language groups

[@lauti2172]

Tbh, as a Spanish speaker I also thought it was French.

[@wiktorweinreb-osiecki8870]

@@lauti2172 man you obviously never heard french or polish before in your life then

[@lauti2172]

@@wiktorweinreb-osiecki8870 I've never heard Polish, you're right, but I've heard French and I really think it sounded really similar.

[@wiktorweinreb-osiecki8870]

@@lauti2172 fair enough man, its probably because that guy has a lisp

[@MeinungMann]

How is Polish most slavic sounding language?

[@janruckert1211]

As a German, the choice with german was so funny

[@flo-theo]

Kaya Yanar is not funny, so what was funny about it?

[@JXMTL]

Because it says "German" and "Cologne" in the title Edit: how tf did i get 16 likes on a reply?

[@MartijnTV]

@@JXMTL Wait holy crap. I never realised cologne was Köln lol.

[@pranavkumar236]

I thought there won't be stand up comedians in germany. good for you

[@lekanske3816]

@@JXMTL But it's drew so what do you expect?

[@goldminer754]

*says he knows spanish a little* - defenitely not spanish is being spoken - "yes it has to be spanish"

[@Florian-yn3ur]

@kr tu el español se originó en castilla wn

[@Torch....]

what do you expect its drew

[@arandompharaoh5549]

Drew: getting Arabic wrong every time Me: *taking headache pills*

[@tacomuncher]

witcherz Assassin20 J speak Arabic and that was so frustrating lol

[@Gunz1234]

@@tacomuncher abnay kalb

[@paidscissors6499]

I think he doesn't know anything about Arabic

[@imcloud305]

If the arabs said "Habibi" then he would instantly click Arabic

[@GoZombies]

Drew: Gets a question wrong on Polish and says he wouldn’t have got it anyway Also Drew *”I know Polish’*

[@Torch....]

i am polish and is irritate

[@jgp7414]

8:15 Mayan: "kiche kiche" Drew: it's arabic

[@JoshuaKallenberg]

I don't think drew has ever heard French judging by this video.

[@chloeomg3021]

4:09 me sitting in maths class

[@singhanmolpreet5935]

Hahaha

[@eriks5643]

Lmao

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

A KZbinr named "Laoshu50500" can stomp this quiz, then literally speak each of the languages in the multiple choices

[@TheDarkendstar]

A part of me wonders how much youtube you watch my dude.

[@brus6919]

Wtf are you doing here?

[@vicatew6725]

He had played a similar game earlier kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5OtmIuNm8Snjbs

[@SeeraFinis]

J-Jellal!

[@Torch....]

wow i also wanna speak many languages i can speaks english and polish

[@danielkjm]

*PLZ DO MORE THIS WAS PERFECT*

[@ilyaskir1601]

9:30 "I know Polish" 6:43 *picks French instead of Polish*

[@sharavy6851]

To be fair, our consonat clusters are pretty characteriatic, so I think he'd get it had he been presented with actual text instead of a voice sample.

[@BlackOtaku22]

well the results were honestly expected considering what we've gone through before

[@nikodemdobrenko3680]

esperanto was a language made by a polish guy and it was a language meant to be spoken by everyone. it is a pretty easy language to learn being a combination of some european languages.

[@FPSGamer48]

This is exactly what I expected out of you, Drew

[@rperm834]

0:33 telugu is my mother tongue😊 They are talking about two political parties

[@antonramil2408]

1:30 Title: "Eesti ... " Him: It sounds swedish, or finish 🙄 Eesti means Estonia in Estonian, and I am not even Estonian.

[@tacomuncher]

Audio: *Rolling their Rs* Drew: *FRENCH*

[@heymensen832]

The last one (aanval is de beste verdediging) is dutch for “attack is the best defense” btw if someone wanted to know.

[@kimmern999]

Language family wise, Urdu is actually closer to Serbo-Croatian and Greek than Georgian is. Those three belong to the Indo-European language family, while Georgian isn't related to any other language family.

[@ame754]

Overall, Urdu is Indo Aryan language with Farsi script. Just writing system is different while grammatical system, most vocabularies and whatever makes it a language is just like Hindi. Simply, Hindi and Urdu are like purple and violet, lemon and lime, etc. Almost same

[@smuu1996]

Swiss German is not a language, but a crime against humanity.

[@RicebeheaderPat]

Grüezi alle mitenand!

[@smuu1996]

@@RicebeheaderPat Sa'mal bist du deppert? Das ist doch Ösi-Deutsch, oder? Bin mir da selbst eher unsicher, auch wenn ich im Schwabenland groß geworden bin. Immerhin keine Bayern...

[@RicebeheaderPat]

@@smuu1996 Nein, ist Schwitzer-Dütsch. Bei den Ösis sagt man so viel ich weiß "Grüß Gott". Und das weiß ich als kleiner schäbiger Luxemburger.

[@RicebeheaderPat]

@@smuu1996 Ach du meinst "bist du deppert" ? Ja das sagen die Ösis auf jeden Fall, aber die Bayern glaub ich auch. Da gibt es einige Überschneidungen.

[@smuu1996]

@@RicebeheaderPat Waren die nicht irgendwie früher das gleiche? Selbst wenn, weder Österreich noch Bayern sollten Teil von Deutschland sein. Italien könnte ganz Tirol und halt Bayern haben, dann verlernen vllt. mal bayrisch.

[@aamj0050]

Did that last test use “non, je ne regrette rien” for French. Great now this song is stuck in my head

[@kingbookser]

how to see the differents between chinese, japanese and korean? Korean has in all word 2 or more circle! Japanese is simple like this: また and chinese is more complecated! Sorry for my bad english!

[@something3395]

kingbookser That is interesting

[@equilintogo5378]

I will add that Japanese will have a mix of simple characters and complex characters compared to moonrune chinese

[@equilintogo5378]

@Hernando Malinche 少しだけ

[@equilintogo5378]

@Hernando Malinche なんで知りたいなの?

[@thomasschulz8477]

You're gonna make a lot of people angry haha

[@mewosh_]

6:38 I would never have thought that French is similar to the Polish. 😂

[@SOS_JA]

Doesn't Frence have regional dialects likes Spain and China?

[@elliotwoods789]

I actually speak Gaelic and hearing it in your video well I wasn't expecting it to say the least 😂😂 And I live next to the castle in the picture for the Scots wtf 😂😂😂

[@132saisankeerthpakala2]

Looking Drew at 4:08 is the same face where ur teacher keeps talking but u fall asleep 😂😂😂

[@sandrosulkhanishvili1201]

4:23 they literally say Georgian in English, shame on you from Georgia.

[@goldminer754]

Also the letters in the video are defenitely not Greek, Cyrillic or Latin, so it had to be Georgian as Urdu would be pretty easy to tell for anyone who knows vaguely what Hindi or even Indian accent sounds like

[@theviniso]

I knew it was Georgian because of those letters, I think they're only used in Georgia

[@sandrosulkhanishvili1201]

@@theviniso true

[@sandrosulkhanishvili1201]

@uncripted ბოულინგი არ ვიცი ძმაო მარა ბილიარდი მოვცხოთ თუ გინდა

[@nicholaskvaratskhelia2779]

მეც ქართველივარ

[@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719]

I like how drew got the one that had the title saying "deutche" and "in köln" wrong.

[@jackin_it]

How do I always miss Drew’s videos?!?!

[@TheGrimReaper54321]

4:20 Papa Stalin is rolling in his grave

[@goodman9585]

That guy speaking in K'iche' Mayan: literally says the word "K'ICHE'" while speaking. Drew: It's Arabic.

[@Torch....]

LOL

[@k3ntry335]

how can someone be so attached to maps, yet doesn't know anything about culture... XDD

[@kreon7472]

I was really waiting for polishand theface of drew makes me realize how hard polish is

[@kugelschotchen1867]

Anybody: Köln, Deutschland Drew: doesn‘t sound very German to me

[@sergejmiladinovic1181]

You've seriously never heard of Esperanto before?

[@And-lj5gb]

1:30 was easy. There was "Eesti" in video title as well as "Eesti" wrote with capital letter in that white writing during the video.

[@uwuyeehaw6152]

Drew: Thinks that Estonia is Finland. Every finnish person: how dare you!

[@atesanacak8268]

I like howthey put good phrases in other languages and the put "like father like son" to turkish

[@feliks7359]

6:45 - thank you Drew for making me laugh

[@cope2830]

2:24 Köln comedy Drew: sWiSs GeRmAn

[@lonestarbadger9093]

Drew is part of syndicalist commune

[@joanignasi91]

Some people consider it a language, wikipedia says it's halfway between Dutch and bordering German dialects

[@Annoying_Dragons]

2 of 8 & 2 of 8 in picking 1 of 4, good job Drew!

[@joonasillanpaa3853]

2:00 drew:i think it's finnish Me:bruh

[@ninimoqia4027]

*Drew guesses the Georgian language wrong* Me: is my language a joke to u..?

[@ethanepstein6972]

do more of these this was funny

[@swedish_chief1228]

2:08 Swedish? Da frick

[@gagex6345]

Yea that's not Swedeish. If somebody sounds like they are drunk while choking that must be Swedish

[@kub5615]

6:40 im polish and im proud that you compare my language to french

[@Barolec]

4:06 its Georgian alphabet

[@xavierbegin9998]

6:40 Drew : does not recognize any words Also Drew : Is that french?

[@agoodname3250]

4:45 easy its chinese i just read the title 6:45 polish i know a bit of polish 6:59 scottish gaelic i just know the other languages 7:21 afrikaans 7:35 zulu 8:00 urdu 8:19 k'iche' mayan 8:37 swiss german 8:57 spanish *edit: i didnt cheated

[@tommyvercetti9434]

8:55 Hears something like _fácil_ and _practicar_ Drew: Spanish!

[@makakaraulashvili8338]

Your face at 4:02 😂😂😂

[@dymo7438]

As a Mexican in the last part of the second test, it was hilarious as hell watching you mistaken the Esperanto as Spanish

[@uriulrich4918]

The Video Title: EESTI Drew: I have no Idea what it could be

[@soyjoyy]

Man, just by looking at a title I knew it was either Finnish or Estonian (they are very closely related), but absolutely not Swedish.

[@haydenellis8484]

The German one literally had a German city in the title, Köln

[@enterfil]

The only time my language comes up the video isn’t available

[@KrislLeon]

1:25 video comes up with Eesti Keel (Estonian in Estonian) as the first word in the title. Drew: Swedish?

[@niqvevo7808]

Hey I’m from Georgia 🇬🇪 thank you for paying attention man! Big fan from Tbilisi

[@awfulzed]

no views, no likes, no dislikes, no comments MY TIME HAS COME, DREW, PIN ME I’M FIRST

[@davidxavier1199]

Can't beleive it. But this was even harder to watch than the Geography quizzes ...

[@eren5164]

Paintbrush Drew is bacc

[@stenoolhorst7712]

Limburgisch isn, 't a language it is a province in the Netherlands

[@ilyaskir1601]

No it said Luxembourgs and thats the langue of the country Luxembourg

[@Dutchwheelchair]

Limburgisch is a thing

[@flo2314]

I like how he wants to check the architecture in the zulu one to check if it's South Africa even tho all of those languages are spoken in South Africa

[@juansjoberg6496]

hello Drew, what mod in civ 6 do you use to make all AI's battle? could you please link it in the description in ur next civ video?

[@giorgiiobidze351]

3:53 huh didnt expect my language to be on here

[@Virsho]

არც მე

[@eduardochiscuet3146]

2:10 knew it was estonian from lifeofboris 😂

[@eguineldo]

Drew should do a history lesson about Esperanto

[@renatocamara6552]

Says he has knowledge in kpop and anime, proceeds to take forever to guess it's chinese (by ruling the others out)

[@dylanojonker3098]

2:49 if literally stand there "Deutsche" is German in German😂

[@norbertkocsis5945]

I will poco your loco

[@tomminator6014]

Well Limburgish is a dialect spoken by som of the people in Limburg (Netherlands and Belgium) The province was split between them

[@Magnus_Ducatus_Chineva]

1:50 vid title: has eesti (estonia) Drew: its finnish

[@SuperWolfman9]

"Deutsche in Hollywood" AND "Koln" - How did he not get it was German?!

[@Leenapanther]

To be fair Köln is called Cologne in English

[@Reece_Hart]

4:36 since when has "Chinese" been a spoken language? Nearly 300 languages are spoken in different parts of China, the 2 main of which people think of being Mandarin or Cantonese

[@SOS_JA]

China kind of kinda has a north south like the US, Between the Mandarin North and Cantonese South. And then there's western China which we don't talk about(The region with Xinjiang/East Turkestan And Tibet)

[@Wintertidal]

Yo Drew! You should post the links to all these quizzes you do in your description. Would be toight. k, bye.

[@Tapanitseini]

Drew Durnil 😂😂 "language genius" 🤣🤣🤣 yes, what else, cows can fly 🤣🤣💀💀💀

[@newphonewhodis5484]

I am so proud of myself for getting swahili right 😂

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

4:35 You can tell by the characters in the title that it’s not Korean

[@ItsLuminusity]

ok

[@haxor6372]

Please don’t kill him he’s a dumbass please spare him

[@bydlaq]

That polish was so bad quality that there was no way to tell what is it. French lol

[@ygfrds_083]

9:32 this is a french song that was played in the movie "inception" I read it singing lol

[@tuub1281]

Limburgish is my native language, it basically sounds like a weird German dialect. It's spoken in the Dutch province of Limburg, the Belgian province of Limburg and some border areas in Germany.