Guess the Language w/ STEVE KAUFMANN (Dream Come True)

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Steve Kaufmann is literally my idol. I have religiously watched him for years, and I can firmly say that he inspired me to make this KZbin channel and to become a polyglot. So collabing with him was a dream come true. If 2019 Language Simp binge watching Steve's videos could see that in 2023, he would make a video with Steve himself, he would probably break down crying. So yea, this video means a lot to me, and I hope y'all enjoy it too. (:

[@RorinoTheGreat]

Wow! The two men I have framed photos of hanging above my bed are finally making a video together! Thank you!

[@Bruhh221]

:3

[@yohaanipe7415]

@@Bruhh221 UwU

[@-danR]

Kaufmann's former language office was less than two blocks from my home. By the time I discovered it, it was closed, unfortunately. Would have been interesting to drop by and wish him a Guten Tag.

[@RorinoTheGreat]

@@-danRwould’ve been a gigachad move to memorize 30 different greetings and hop by. Oh well, you couldn’t have known earlier

[@Ryz3n_o]

Ты самый красивый мужик которого я виДел❤ шучу ты не добавил субтитрЫ к этому виДео😢 ыддыдыдыдыдыддыддыдыььььььььььъъъъдвдвдв

[@tsakeboya]

Hearing Steve Kaufman say "I am a hyperpolyglot alpha male gigachad" has completed my life

[@user-cn6jt6vv4e]

And it's 100% true

[@zevelgamer.]

It has completed mine too😊

[@SeBBoX]

Yeah, I felt that

[@Alonoda]

Ultimate satisfaction

[@SukunaIsHim]

Facts

[@ivanthaboi]

Finally, the best polyglot of all time gets to meet Steve Kauffman

[@dirtydirtyshisno7284]

Steve got to meet him*

[@jqa16]

best polyglot of all time died 2-3 years ago. Moses Laoshu

[@A1lexander]

​@@dirtydirtyshisno7284bro didn't get the joke

[@eriktoth1137]

Here's your 420th like

[@imaadhaq540]

​@@A1lexander I think you didnt get his. he rearranged it to make it seem like it was an honor for steve to meet mr simp

[@siejaiz]

Steve can't speak American, he's speaking Canadian... glad you guys were able to understand each other

[@tbountybay3080]

😂😂

[@beans00001]

American and Canadian are mutually intelligible, both languages have over 80% lexical overlap, with pronunciation and grammatical differences.

[@togekiss09]

​@@beans00001🗿

[@canberkpesman1604]

@@beans00001 Hi, can you translate that to Canadian pls i dont understand

[@TranslinkLover_YT]

@@canberkpesman1604 Burger land and Canadian understand each other (we don’t) and both languages barely have any pronunciation and grammar differences. (we have tons)

[@Supreme_Chad]

Bro I'm a native German and didn't understand anything in the third one. This goes to show how diverse our dialects are.

[@Euroeater]

Ne, die labern einfach Scheisse

[@skylimitua]

More like, how audacious Germans are at calling other languages dialects of German

[@hendrikhans3729]

I've heard Badisch ever since my childhood and the pronunciation wasn't really good. I did not recognize the dialect so it wasn't a very good depiction (Nothing against the guy of course)

[@pierreabbat6157]

I recognized the tonguetwister, not the dialect. I've made up tonguetwisters in several languages, including German, which is my first non-native language. Der Zahnarzt zieht Zähne mit Zahnarztzange im Zahnarztzimmer. Mit Zange muss er Zunge ziehen nie und Zähne ziehen immer!

[@uhhhbingus]

@@hendrikhans3729 where at in baden?

[@juan_salvador_gaviota]

My wife is going into labor but I’m skipping it to watch this instead.

[@squishtomar1676]

God bless

[@Duffy87]

Spoken like a true hyperpolyglot alpha male gigachad

[@tiagolacerdamuller4719]

brasil campeão do mundo

[@edinonjunio]

@@tiagolacerdamuller4719 BRASIL NÚMERO 1 CAMPEÃO PENTA ☝🥇🏆🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@daxx238]

Now legally name your child Language Simp

[@inglescomshane5798]

as a monolingual American that speaks English FLUENTLY I really do have to say that you both have excellent accents when in your English forms.

[@emrekazanlar1461]

I agree

[@brittlediamond]

As a trilingual Brazilian who speaks English as my third language, I have to say, your typing-words-in-English skills are really good, keep it up!

[@inglescomshane5798]

@@brittlediamond valeu, meu rei!! Um beijão na nuca 😘

[@Frietoe]

As someone who doesn’t speak any language and communicates solely through the power of telepathic memes I do have to commend you on your exquisite use of the letter a.

[@GuilhermeMichel]

In America you speak american!

[@Regzillaaa]

The Spanish guy cracked me up.. I was almost convinced it wasn't Spanish.. so much conviction

[@pluviophile1988]

The nerve lol

[@dersteppenwolf5458]

And the guy is also using a peruvian accent from Lima 😅

[@helixsapiensis5078]

I am German and I understood more of the Icelandic than of the German. Edit: my guess would also have been Maltese Arabic.

[@bananenmusli2769]

Bin Franke und hab bisschen was verstanden aber hauptsächlich weil ich den Zungenbrecher kenne

[@louisaufyt7255]

Was sagt er genau? @@bananenmusli2769

[@Sinthoras155]

@@bananenmusli2769 ich komme aus der gegend und habe kein wort verstanden, habe es ausm gleichen grund wie du erkannt. schade dass die dialekte aussterben

[@leirex_1]

Same. But I am very sure it's because of the tongue twister. Normal badisch shouldn't be this comprehensible.

[@jonas9]

Hab kein Wort verstanden...

[@benthesodaman6582]

I am only 17 seconds into the video and had to pause. I am overwhelmed to tears. This is beautiful.

[@flashgordon6510]

I hope ancient Albanian sign language is one of them!

[@arnaubasulto4448]

Your wishes have been fulfilled

[@flashgordon6510]

@@arnaubasulto4448 Steve's AASL accent is really thick!

[@RigoVids]

Your prayers have been answered

[@circa902]

*Foreshadowing*

[@LazarOrthodox04]

Ancient turkish*

[@canchero724]

I couldn't believe Steve's first words. Absolutely smashed this video😂😂

[@Awkward7176]

Lmao, even as a native polish speaker I didn't recognize the swedish accent guy at first (at 2x speed), that was very well done

[@Cypekeh]

I did recognize it except for the first two, three words But I wasn't sure if it's some Kashubian or something at first

[@pseu9098]

When he started speaking my brain froze

[@TonyLang1984]

I heard a few Polish words, so I was guessing Kashubski!

[@TonyLang1984]

@@Cypekeh same here!

[@janstozek4850]

At the first attempt I recognized only a few words, but thought it was Russian. Only during a retry, I recognized my mother tongue. And still have an impression that it was actually recorded backwards.

[@alfonsmyrvold7487]

As a Swedish speaker, I got very confused when I heard someone speaking what sounded like Swedish, but I couldn’t understand anything

[@jakubgumowski8230]

As a Pole I had to listen this part again to realise that IT was Polish. Even then it was hard to understand😂

[@blakewood2755]

That was the weirdest polish ever. The dude was trolling I guess.

[@Overlycomplicatedswede]

Samma trodde jag

[@greenLimeila]

@@blakewood2755 he took people with a strong accent from a language speaking a different one to spice the challenge up! the guy speaking French also had a strong foreign accent *and* was almost only using slang, it was very well done to trip Steve up on one language he's very proficient in. As he said, knowing what to expect is very important in communication. If he had been told beforehands it was French, he could have picked up most of the meaning for sure!

[@sebastian3217]

I'm from a region of Germany close to Baden and I have NEVER heard german like that ever!

[@christopherstein2024]

"Schelle schellt irgendwas bla Schelle schellt"

[@uhhhbingus]

​@@christopherstein2024 schelle sie net an sellere schell, selle schell schellt net, schelle sie lieber an sellere schell denn selle schell schellt

[@ro.kn.2665]

war es nicht irgendwas mit Sellerie schälen?@@christopherstein2024

[@josephobonyo2]

This is the most interesting interview with Steve that I've seen. You can just tell he was loving it.

[@kostindonk]

Congrats on the minor milestone on your big journey to meeting Дора!

[@stupiditiusmaximus]

nah dora gonna kidnap him

[@ToastedSeagul]

@@stupiditiusmaximusNot if Duo gets him first.

[@samuelwaller4924]

"I gave up learning Hebrew because it was just so much easier to speak one of 5 other languages" Such a relatable problem, polyglot struggles

[@saturahman7510]

Try to learn finnish.. !

[@gabrielbatista4650]

0:21 He knows AASL in cursive, what a chad

[@The_Engineerr]

This comment deserves more

[@pewp_tickalar]

I love Steve's apathy toward conlangs and anime

[@benharmonics]

Me too 😂

[@ChosenOne-CursedOne-AshenOne]

Hes GigaChad he does not watch cringey japanese cartoon

[@PC_Simo]

So do I. Conlangs have no culture behind them (or, associated with them); and anime (🤢🤮) degenerates the youth.

[@PC_Simo]

@@ChosenOne-CursedOne-AshenOne Exactly 💪🏻.

[@estrafalario5612]

Esperanto COULD have been a big thing, something really useful at least in many cities of the world...but it never woke up back after the effects of the two World Wars. It's a pitty, but It's what it is.

[@ggbaranga2575]

As a member of Kauffmanism I totally agree

[@prajwalavhad7059]

For the first time I've seen him smiling and laughing 😅

[@uhhhbingus]

a smiling steve kaufman is a gift to this world 🙏

[@scintillam_dei]

Becasue he fears that Zoolensky's racist Yuckrainan regime will fall at any moment.

[@dg6645]

Is incredible how sometimes he guesses wrong, but he basically understood the sentence.

[@orrknaan5459]

What Steve said about not understanding something if you aren’t anticipating it is sooo true. When I heard my native language it took me a few words to recognize it

[@Speechbound]

I'm a native German and that first German tongue twister is such a heavy dialect that it only faintly resembles high German, very cheeky haha!

[@peterfireflylund]

I think I caught one word the third time I tried: “lieber”.

[@WirtualneSpaceryPawelTomalka]

I am Polish native speaker and I didnt understand the Polish with a Sweedish accent. I had to go back and listen again to understeand it. I think it was too hard even for Steve!

[@ArtemijSmyslovskij]

I speak Russian and could understand the entire sentence. Since Kaufmann speaks it too, that must've been fair enough

[@4Roman204]

@@ArtemijSmyslovskijAnother Russian speaker here. Same for me! I also recognized the language as Polish even though I've never learned it (maybe that's exactly why)

[@BartShinn]

apart from his accent, the strange intonation of his voice made it difficult to understand him at first

[@urbanistgod]

Yeah, I was like: Which Slavic language is that? Is there a Slavic language that resembles Polish even more than anything I’ve ever heard before?

[@workgd3083]

Same here im Polish and i didn't recognize it. Apart from "ciekawy" but i thought it was dialect

[@shadowcatgamer2521]

As someone learning Japanese, the translation of "hontou ni" as "no cap" has me on the fucking floor. Because...it isn’t *wrong*...but....

[@downey2294]

that's what its like in my anki deck what else is it supposed to be.

[@RadenWA]

It is nothing new to Japanese that one word can mean 10 different things and I’m not even talking about the homophones

[@Rationalific]

@@RadenWA But "hontou ni" means "really" or "truly". "No cap" is something that I don't even know in English, but even if it means that, it's wrong as a translation (except for just entertainment value) due to its very different formality. Just like "dope", "cool", and "exquisite" are separate words for a reason, you can't translate one word into another that has a totally different tone and formality. (I should also mention that the Japanese spoken in this video was made to be difficult to pick up on purpose, and the voice is of someone who is almost definitely not a Japanese person, or if she is, has been heavily "foreign-ized", i.e. grew up in another country and does not have Japanese speech patterns or mannerisms.)

[@Ace_Of_Bass8]

​@@Rationalificマジで is a much better translation due to the colloquialism

[@Rationalific]

@@Ace_Of_Bass8 I agree that マジで is slang, while 本当に would not be considered slang at all and should not be translated to English as such (in any serious translation, at least).

[@owenpalmer8242]

I love how he always understands what they're saying but fails to guess what language it is 😂

[@pluviophile1988]

He only understood a few

[@nightbreaker3187]

I couldn't stop laughing at the last sentence the Lebanese guy said. I also loved how half the answers were Arabic

[@enle2002]

It didn't surprise me that Steve took Hebrew as Arabic since both are semitic languages with quite similarities between each other.

[@DrWoofOfficial]

😂😂

[@NonsensicalFactual]

Fellow lebanese language simp fan?

[@nightbreaker3187]

@@NonsensicalFactual Yessirrrr

[@yourmum69_420]

@@nightbreaker3187 Is ca va legitimately a part of Lebanese Arabic now, borrowed from French, or was the speaker just mixing some French into there?

[@rabomarc]

As a Polish native speaker with some knowledge of Swedish, the sound of Polish with very heavy Swedish accent was really surprising.

[@kuulalaak3ri]

I truly thought I was witnessing some sort of ancient north germanic-slavic pidgin

[@maxduewel54]

As a native speaker I doubt that was german lol

[@gewitteroma6966]

same

[@christianbrunner1740]

That is because it's Badish German using words that do not appear in Standard German and a tongue twister.

[@reedy_9619]

Yeah the french one was rough imo. It’s my native language and i didnt recognise it at first.

[@ldelgg]

As a German learner who stayed for 5 months in a tiny village in Rhineland-Palatinate in a student exchange program, i am impressed by how unrecognizable Badish is, even when compard to the local Rhineland Palatinate Dialect. The only thing it shared with the Middle Franconian dialect from my host father was the "nit" instead of "nicht".

[@babarasul680]

it's interesting that he thought Hebrew was Arabic because Hebrew was actually a dead language for sometime then it was revived using Arabic as a scaffolding. Really awesome video!

[@larrydzemorsky1777]

6:16 great bait, I was like: yeee some Scandinavian language. It took me 10 seconds and a rewind to realise that's my native language 😂

[@kirkgoddard7198]

I also speak some Polish and didn’t understand it until I listened again

[@tamastasi428]

​@@kirkgoddard7198for me the interesuję się gave it away instantly

[@alfredberggren5985]

I’m from Sweden and I thought it was russian with a heavy swedish accent

[@Zestieee]

6:16 this shit got me laughing so hard It reeeally sounded like Swedish but then he said "to prawda?" and I was like hold on a second then I listened again and I heard "jest ciekawe" and other very Polish stuff. language trolling. honestly good job on that, i loved it.

[@PC_Simo]

My thoughts, exactly 😅.

[@cito2820]

"may your god bury me" at 3:40 actually made me laugh audibly

[@JohnSmith-me4ik]

Classic Lebanese lmao

[@eragons1894]

6:14 I'm LITERALLY Polish and i didn't guess that one. I knew it was Slavic, but dude's accent was so strong, that i didn't catch it was Polish. Of course when i rewatched that part, it all made sense. He was in fact speaking Polish. Kudos for that dude for making me not understand my own Native language 🤣

[@hayyanalmemsani805]

Bro. Can't believe this collab happened! You guys had great energy together. Congrats, language simp❤

[@dropview7013]

Big Up Steve Kaufmann for being a great sport and for being so humble. If it wasn’t for him, I would hardly know about any of you other polyglots. Look forward to checking out the Language Simps back catalogue of videos here on KZbin 👍🏾

[@Mtioo1]

As someone who speaks German I must say WHY THE HELL DOES BADISH EXIST and I thought bavarian was hard😂

[@circa902]

Maybe that's where they got the Demonym from

[@adlovett9831]

Me being proud of attaining fluency in German, only to encounter Badisch and guess that it's Arabic.🤣

[@Mtioo1]

@@adlovett9831 Same

[@rndjulez]

ich kann badisch und es hört sich in wahrheit nicht so komisch an hahha

[@MiuraZx10r]

Alter, ich wohne hier an der Grenze zu BW und hab kein Wort verstanden :D

[@sharemyjoys]

Awesome! And great advice from Steve at the very end

[@LPintendo]

This was honestly amazingly adorable from both of you ❤

[@gamalielbontilao3679]

4:03 never fails to crack me up

[@ObamaBinLaden525]

The joy on Simp's face just shows how it really was a dream come true for him.

[@CouchPolyglot]

The collab we did not know we needed, awesome! 😂❤

[@FirstLast-wg1gs]

Fluent/native Polish speaker here and between the "unnatural" way the Polish words were inflected and pronounced... I did not guess that it was my language. The last sentence did stick out to me though because I recognized every word. It didn't sound like any other Slavic languages I knew either. Maybe I would have guessed it if it was played for me a second time lol these were pretty hard!

[@lolinator.]

Same for french. I am a native French speaker and the accent was just terrible and the slang was so overused you could barely make out the sentence

[@nightspicer]

well, it did have a strong swedish accent

[@whatsup9159]

Same with Japanese, although it was clear what they were trying to say some words had bad pronunciation and a word was straight up wrong too unfortunately...

[@Jedittee]

Fluent Polish here. I could understand this Polish with swedish accent.

[@PC_Simo]

@@lolinator. So, it’s like the Helsinki slang, in Finnish. The whole ”””dialect””” is a slang, and hard to sometimes understand, even for native Finns, who don’t live, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. On top of which, the degree of _”juppeuma”_ (= the contamination/pollution by youth/popular ”””culture”””) is just downright infuriating, for me, as a _”Rahvas”_ Conservative Nationalist.

[@jk-pz1cx]

This is the crossover i needed!!!!!!😭❣️

[@nestoratilioromeodemarchi3809]

Hi there!!! Steve is an amazing man. He's an example for all of us. Great interview 👍

[@unczi5404]

I was here at this historical moment

[@BonBonWasHere111]

OMG! I’m so glad you have this collab 😂

[@egemendenizdoganer1250]

7:55 Simply based

[@noamflorin4554]

German is my native language, but when I heard that badish tongue twister, I was convinced it was a distantly related language that had barely any similarities to German, the dialects are truly astonishing

[@capslocked7274]

this has been the best video in a while

[@erikouwehand]

In the beginning' God created Steve Kaufmann, and Steve gave every language its name.

[@Rose_at_a_Store]

Hearing steve say “I am a hyper polyglot gigachad” made me cry

[@jimmey123XD]

You look so genuinely happy, that's adorable ❤😅

[@camil3368]

this video brightened my day :,) ty

[@panic007]

ALL PRAISE KAUFMANN

[@louiserocks1]

I haven't seen the answer yet, but that has got to be polish with a extremely strong Swedish accent , that's absolutely hilarious I'm dying, well done to whoever did that, that's real talent lol.

[@louiserocks1]

I can speak russian with a strong scottish/glaswegian accent, and with a strong Finnish accent, since I spent a lot of time in those places. And I can do a perfect australian accent and various roadman/cockney/London accents in english, but I can't for the life of me transfer those accents to russian, it's hard haha

[@somehowy]

we need more of colabs like this.

[@IlluminatiReign]

This one of the interviews of all time… Had me dyin’.

[@hector_sh3861]

El cierre de Steve fue magnífico, aprender un idioma es una carrera de Resistencia, hay que ser persistente y disfrutar el camino. Me encantó el video.

[@estrafalario5612]

Ey ¿En qué idioma es tu comentario? Supongo que no es Español, pero se le parece... Ha sido muy divertido

[@josephbaker6804]

Fascinating that a thick accent or use of slang could throw someone off so much, but it seems you only know what material you've trained yourself with. As someone trying to study a second language for the first time, its encouraging to see a successful linguist like Steve be so humble about making mistakes. He clearly loves learning and has the right mental approach. Thanks for the video.

[@andyman301]

This is truly one of the collabs of all time

[@DominikGuzowski]

The fact i had to relisten to the Polish with a swedish accent after you said what it is, because i thought it was swedish, and I am fluent in Polish 💀. That was really good

[@Ouddaamin]

I hope you both go down New York City and shock people in different languages , hope you both success and happiness 🤍

[@xmatias9]

What an amazing colab !!! I'm doing backflips while I'm watching !!! 🔥🔥🔥💪

[@johnfordon7200]

I was so proud that I got both Toki Pona and Polish with a Swedish accent. Am I a polyglot gigachad alphamale now?

[@moaydDrawing1]

I've never thought this would actually happen holy shit

[@alexvoloza1207]

Steve is a legend.

[@bananabangers8132]

I never thought I would here Steve Kaufmann say those words. Changed my life

[@josuaerick9670]

This video is so wholesome

[@julbombning4204]

Cool! Finally I can hear how Swedish actually sounds!

[@Wazkaty]

Haha the strong accent in French had me too, I was surprised ! With all these twists it was a hard exercise

[@wadebredin7795]

This was truly the colab of the century.

[@DeeCee1984]

Steve is such a good sport! Makes me feel better about not being fluent in my one and only 2nd language, Spanish.

[@BrynHr]

Congrats Mr Simp, very happy for you

[@Thinkingman69]

3:13 I'm from a German speaking country and I also speak a Frankish dialect but I could not ever have guessed that that was German if my life depended on it. You found a voice sample where someone spoke in an extremely heavy and mumbling way, it was incomprehensible so I totally give Steve a pass for that one lol.

[@archaon593]

Hey man, i rrally aporeciate bkw, despite all the satire, you are indeed very serious and super strict on yourself about your peoficinecy (just wayched the tier list from about a ywar ago). All praise Gigachad Steve. And incidentallt, Merry Christmas!

[@vicstoron]

my god the collab we've always wanted.

[@gusteau8433]

Миф встретил Легенду! Спасибо за ваши труды,Стивен!

[@andresantiago8344]

protect this man at all costs

[@uhhhbingus]

he is truly an asset to the world, I would die for him

[@pablovaz275]

big shout out to this man for making our deepest dream come true

[@VeljkoF]

The long awaited video is finally here :D

[@fab006]

I didn’t understand the Badisch until you said what it was 😂 (Closely related to my native Swiss German.)

[@user-qe9lh4vk5v]

We love you Steve Kaufman (and Language Simp).

[@emiliobrentani7456]

you had light in your eyes man, it was clear that you've waited this moment for a long time

[@georgios_5342]

Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!

[@gorba939]

Im from Germany. Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart to be exact, so I live in the same State from where the "Badenser" (as we call them) come from. I understand our local swabian dialect. When the "badisch" toungetwister came up I literally didn't understand anything and was so fucking surprised when he said its German lol.

[@tigrafale4610]

Lol nice to see him playing along.

[@James-vx2wm]

A collaboration for the ages!

[@LisaMo3434]

What a legendary introduction

[@benverret7968]

We actually don't say "wesh" in Quebec. I think Steve is very familiar with Canadian French.

[@yotamchaimmoshe8013]

This really is harder than it looks. I didn't realize the hebrew one till the middle even though I'm a native speaker.

[@askarufus7939]

6:20 OMG that is sooo great. Literally the last time I was in the toilet I was wondering how polish with a swedish accent would sound like, thank you ❤

[@zlapon5728]

dreams come true what can i say you truly deserve it

[@kauamirandakm]

"no estoy hablando español" genial

[@jan_kisan]

6:20 umieram ze śmiechu, ten akcent.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alfredberggren5985]

Swedish accent is funny 😂

[@exercisethoughtsanddiscussions]

Y’all should do more of these shows together!! 👍👍😬

[@Dapsypher]

LMAOOOOOOOOO this is the best video ever 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I’ve dreamt of this day

[@no1fanofthepals]

oh my god he finally met his idol Language Simp