Can Europeans Answer Simple Geography Questions? #3

I was invited by the European Parliament to attend the Multilingualism Day (cdt.europa.eu/...) and ask Europeans geography questions. Here's how they did.
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[@teddytodorova]

That was a pure pleasure to watch

[@lingualizer]

Happy to hear that!

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

6:11 - Galician, not Gaelic. They're very different!

[@lingualizer]

yes, my bad!

[@sevilla1810]

We do have same cultural origin, but yes, it is Galician, not Gaelic.

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

@@sevilla1810 Galician is a Romance language, not a Gaelic language.

[@prplt]

yeah I was like WTF when did Gaelic become spoken in Spain 😂

[@SantomPh]

@@prplt well, Vigo and the region known as Galicia was originally Celtic, but was supplanted by Romance speakers very early on

[@lad4830]

I was watching too many videos asking US citizens in recent years and thought to myself I'm good. I can name and point every country and assign them their flags, but knowing all capitals, reconginizing national anthems, naming official languages? I know you are in EU parliament on a day of linguistic nerds. But WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE YOU INCLUDED. :D

[@aditisk99]

Yeah. These guys really into geography. 😅

[@rottenapple6340]

Common knowledge mate

[@feilkate5892]

​@@rottenapple6340how often and where do you listen to anthems of other countries?

[@giannux]

Ikr, these guys are above average.... What a pleasant video to watch...

[@lad4830]

Common knowledge can be described as something MOST people know and something that is to a degree useful. Knowing capital, flag, anthem or even a location of Samoa in neither useful, nor common to know. All of these guys are highly above average. I'm telling you, if you were to walk down a street, you would need to ask 10000 people in order to find one. @apple6340

[@melloran3281]

"Can Europeans answer these questions" Third person: From Ghana

[@IsabelJones69]

I also saw a morocco person.

[@motttta]

Pepe is "from" Brazil. But he is a Portuguese player.

[@eleddar]

That's likely their country of origin and they're naturalized europeans.

[@motttta]

@@eleddar You worded better than I did lol.

[@melloran3281]

@@eleddar yeah I think so too, it just amused me to see this in a geography-quiz context!

[@wasloos7475]

Lingualizer be like: Simple Geography Questions"... Lingualizer's also like: "What's the capital of Samoa?"

[@lingualizer]

Had to step it up a bit after I found out that he knew all capitals :D

[@jakubdutkiewicz5816]

meanwhile the question for americans: "name a country".

[@Unqualifiedtake]

​@@jakubdutkiewicz5816I think a random sample of Omegle would be at a disadvantage to people attending an event with relevant subject matter

[@brentlackey5787]

I'm blown away that guy knew that national anthem question

[@benjurqunov]

But why doesn't that support special homosexual rights ?

[@lisaistryingtolive]

simple geography question in Europe: name 2 countries that don't have any words in their national anthems simple geography questions in the US: name a country

[@kieranfarrugia7839]

when an Italian tells you the capital of Malta is St.Julians she probably meant Paceville (night club district) 🤣

[@lingualizer]

probably :D

[@crishaye]

Mela

[@Hugo_Mendez]

6:20 You confused Galician with Gaelic, wich sound similar (the word, not the language) and it will even make sense because the Galician people are also Celtic but their languages are completely different.

[@SantomPh]

9:12 well , Inner Mongolia is part of a China. And has more Mongolians in it than the actual Mongolia

[@Sklounst_Actual]

"It shouldn't be though" yoooo

[@bloemkoolendestreetgang450]

Speaking facts tho

[@aliiozturkk]

Classic gayreek

[@lukasytgamerk3596]

Thank you so much, it was amazing to meet you. I was wearing the Messi jersey 😅😃

[@icturner23]

I love how he corrected your ‘Gambia’ to ‘the Gambia’.

[@SantomPh]

The Gambia and The Bahamas are the only two "The" countries to be officially known as such in full.

[@icturner23]

@@SantomPh No.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

​@@SantomPh"The Kingdom of the Netherlands"

[@mrridikilis]

although there was historical Gaelic (Celtic) influences in the north of Spain, I don't know of any Gaelic languages still spoken, especially not as an official language. did he maybe think the Galician (Gallego) is a Gaelic language? (it is not; it's also a Romance language like Castilian or Portuguese)

[@ene5227]

I imagine that he wanted to say that the language belongs to the Celtic people, although it is a Romance language, in any case, Basque, Galician and Castilian were created in the north of Spain, therefore they are 3 languages ​​of the Celts and I repeat although they derive from a Roman language.

[@milanverhulst6578]

I'm so proud of my fellow Europeans

[@janniem8006]

Ghana, Canada and Colombia are my favorite European countries

[@Vape55]

meanwhile Americans: is Europe a country?

[@mixlllllll]

4:10 Just Washington is correct. DC is optional.

[@SantomPh]

most people call it DC , to be honest

[@mixlllllll]

@@SantomPh In my country people usually say Washington.

[@sledgehog1]

@@mixlllllll What's your country, btw?

[@mixlllllll]

@@sledgehog1 Finland

[@sledgehog1]

@@mixlllllll Alright, interesting(mandatory "Suomi, perkele!" moment).😂

[@ap4777]

What is it with Lingualizer always finding the prettiest Greek girls 😆

[@lingualizer]

hihi

[@helgaioannidis9365]

Greek girls simply are generally pretty 😁

[@kosmicheskiprah]

@@helgaioannidis9365Guys and girls, Greeks are a south and Mediterranean nation and just like in Spain find very handsome men and very beautiful women. In Bulgaria, think women are really beautiful, but the men not so attractive. Very curious.

[@ladinark1672]

Send me your sister and then ask her again about the man in Bulgaria LOL@@kosmicheskiprah

[@r.s.7899]

@@kosmicheskiprah bull shits

[@sshender3773]

What are you hiding from us? These are not random people, but geography buffs each and every one of them. I don't recall a single video that even came close to the level exhibited here.

[@allykid4720]

You can see "EU parliament" stand. I guess these were the students majoring in "International Relations", came to some sort of forum or exhibition.

[@homiekeen23]

It says in the description that it's some multilingualism event by the EU parliament 🤗

[@trcemalemretr]

3:30-3:34 - Dudeee , dat staree OMFG 😂😂😂

[@danhodson7187]

Europe: "The Ugandan Bush War of 1980 - 1986 resulted in Yoweri Museveni becoming the president of Uganda. But what was his wife's maiden name?" "...Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha?" "That's absolutely correct!" The United States: "Can you spell USA?" ".....Texas?" ".....🤨"

[@icturner23]

Galician is not a Gaelic language, nor even a Celtic one. Perhaps you were thinking of Breton but that’s also only Celtic but not Gaelic (instead being Brythonic).

[@bsdpowa]

ah yes Ghana, Europe

[@module79l28]

Ah yes Brazil, Europe Ah yes Colombia, Europe Ah yes Canada, Europe Ah yes Argentina, Europe Ah yes Morocco, Europe Ah yes Ivory Coast, Europe Ah yes Lebanon, Europe

[@areloTET]

These questions are really interesting and an absolute joy to answer. However, I miss some of your old videos "How to say ___ in different languages" and "If countries had WhatsApp". Nevertheless, this is still fantastic.

[@lingualizer]

I'm working on bringing old videos back!

[@anirudhbhardwaj1409]

These questions are tough but helpful too

[@Mishka7653]

I love this channel literally this guy can teach u the geography that schools failed to teach

[@BritishBeeMan]

If you were educated in Europe and UK schools didn't fail to teach it. Some may have failed to learn it... but this vid shows how good the education systems in Europe are. Watch his vids asking Americans 😂

[@Mishka7653]

@@BritishBeeMan I live in the US and in my opinion I feel the school in the UK and Europe care about the kids education

[@Mishka7653]

@@BritishBeeMan as an American I feel for those in my country who don’t know these simple questions I don’t even know most of these this shows how American schools failed us

[@lad4830]

"failed to teach" atleast you have someone to put the blame on right? I knew all countries of the world before I even went to school because I was fascinated by the topic. Nobody is keeping you from self education.

[@Mishka7653]

@@lad4830 that’s what I’ve been doing watching documentaries about our history and reading books I buy from libraries or barns n noble I think that’s how it’s spelled lol but schools really need to get their act together and teach their students

[@JDoors]

LOL, I expected this to be one of those popular "let's embarrass people" videos. I was WAY off! Kudos to everyone.

[@timheesterbeek4597]

Inner Mongolia actually is a region in China, so she's not wrong

[@liv0003]

The Chinese region's name is "Inner Mongolia" the nation is "Mongolia". So she is wrong because "Mongolia" is a country not a region.

[@SantomPh]

@@liv0003 she could be confused, because Inner Mongolia actually has more Mongolians than Mongolia

[@liv0003]

@@SantomPh oh yeah that's true 👍

[@klaaswijnsma122]

Gaelic a language in Spain? No, but Galician is. As a language it has nothing to with Gaelic in Scotland, although the names actually derive from the same word.

[@ladinark1672]

Bulgaria represented!

[@visserskarel]

Arguably, Romanian does use the Cyrillic alphabet, albeit only in Transnistria.

[@anbbha9864]

That's Moldova, not Romania.

[@visserskarel]

@@anbbha9864 The language is called Romanian.

[@aggieoggie1282]

Je pensais que j'avais un bon niveau avant de regarder cette vidéo 😂

[@natreeves1111]

New Zealand actually has 3 official languages! English, te reo Māori, and New Zealand Sign Language

[@HeatFlame1]

6:40 The language is called Macedonian, not north macedonian.

[@viquiben4919]

Not for a greek.

[@Kapanol97]

aka Bulgarian mixed with Serbian :-D

[@David-kn4hb]

The language is Bulgarian. North Macedonia should just join Bulgaria and it would get automatically to the EU just like East Germany

[@HeatFlame1]

@@David-kn4hb Why do you think the language is Bulgarian? And what makes you think this is an east Germany situation?

[@everybodyknowsme1504]

Stay classy Lingualizer comment section.

[@r-man3864]

Whats capital of USA? Americans: Canada?

[@gloserr]

Turks were living in Cyprus way before any military intervention. That greek girl didnt surprise me.

[@simonasraskauskas]

POV: average European.

[@oliver29731]

5:39 bless him 🥹

[@Peacefrogg]

Don’t ask a greek person to say turkish. They know it, they just can’t say it…

[@Solon7]

Ask a Turk to say Greek.They can say it without knowing.

[@chaoskaki]

sorrry for mongolia thou

[@lingualizer]

yeah :(

[@RatedArggg]

Ask an American what the capital of Vanuatu is, and they'll say "Vannoo-what?" (I'm an American, BTW.)

[@dominicjohn8954]

To be fair, these don't appear to be random people off the street as we see in most American versions of this game.

[@ginismoja2459]

To be fair, those are niche places.

[@trcemalemretr]

First guy's native language is 100% Turkish . He pronounced "Asghabat" so Turkish like "Aşkabat" 😂 There is no way he is actually from Italy .

[@peterfireflylund]

I thought he looked rather unusual for Italy…

[@michaelcullen5308]

Bit cheeky to correct the person who said Washington is the capital of the US by saying "no, that's a state". It's called DC to distinguish it from the state name. If you're asking for a capital city, then the DC isn't required :)

[@lingualizer]

believe it or not, there's quite a few people who don't know the difference between Washington and Washington D.C., that's why I wanted to make sure

[@SantomPh]

@@lingualizer most people don't realize the state of Washington exists

[@basti6643]

6:22 bro mixed up Galician and Gaelic and has a youtube channel about languages 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lingualizer]

bro is a human being and makes mistakes, imagine

[@basti6643]

@@lingualizer I don't know much about making mistakes but it's fair I guess

[@FirestormX9]

​@@basti6643 you also don't know much about learning, or, anything. Empty brains echo the loudest, but it's fair.

[@Hulra__06]

Why did you delete a lot of your shorts 😢?

[@lingualizer]

To push my main youtube videos towards the algorithm :) I opened up a new channel dedicated to Shorts! @lingualizertwo

[@Mendogology]

Nice!

[@kbboy101]

Try asking these questions to Americans

[@IllIlIllIlIlI]

Just a thought but maybe switch up your titles, this title reads exactly the same as your last videos' and I could barely tell the difference between the thumbnails. Just sticking a number on the end of the same video title isn't particularly gripping tbh. I wish you the best.

[@lingualizer]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@dec35]

and then you ask Americans to name a country outside of the US and they taken 10 minutes to answer just to say Africa

[@BohdanMelnychuk]

That DC shit is so annoying. One might also say that the capital of Canada is Ottawa, Ontario, not Ottawa.

[@marinadelaporta]

Imagine if he would make these questions to Americans 🙃

[@wahidALVY]

Can anyone clear me the question asked in 6:50 and the Answer

[@jashepoon]

3:30 8:30 arbitrary time stamps that have no meaning at all 👀

[@lingualizer]

lol

[@jashepoon]

@@lingualizer nach den US-Amerikanern auf omegle war dies eine richtige Erfrischung :)

[@ets2atstruckermartin527]

How many languages do you speak?

[@captainvanisher988]

3:29 based af. First, the illegal Turkish occupation of North Cyprus should end and secondly in Cyprus only 0.2% of the population speaks Turkish so it shouldn't be an official language.

[@igorjee]

Yes, but 100% speak Turkish on the Turkish side of the island.

[@captainvanisher988]

@@igorjee But the Turkish side of the island is illegally occupied by the Turkish government. So unless they remove the Turkish illegal immigrants (more than 50% of the population there are illegal immigrants from mainland Turkey) and remove their troops from there, Turkish shouldn't be an official language in the republic of Cyprus.

[@basakktk1562]

Oh that 0.2 is just for the southern part of the island :)

[@tantan-ce9lh]

@@captainvanisher988”illegally occupied 🤓” you should have thought of this before EOKA pricks massacred Turkish civilians.

[@sin79426]

Yo this is my first seeing my country brought up here 🇼🇸 #685todaworld

[@lad4830]

Which one? :)

[@sin79426]

@@lad4830Samoa 🇼🇸 the first one in the video

[@lad4830]

So it ws abbreviation of Samoa? Or what does that mean? @@sin79426

[@icturner23]

It’s always fifty-four African countries but there are so many ambiguous cases, such as Western Sahara, Spain, France, the U.K. and Italy. I actually witnessed someone answer that question accordingly when just such a video was being filmed in Leicester Square in London. But then she didn’t know how old someone born ten years ago was, just like the Americans.

[@EmaMalik]

I think 54 is just the UN recognized countries, but yes there are several unrecognized states like W. Sahara and Somaliland that could be counted

[@SantomPh]

54 independent, sovereign, UN recognized countries based completely in Africa or outlying islands. No colonial possessions like Mayotte or Ceuta, no islands that belong to European countries and no technicalities like Somaliland, Western Sahara or Bir Tawill.

[@icturner23]

@@SantomPh Western Sahara is not a ‘technicality’. It is a territory invaded by Morocco. Ceuta is not a colony - it has been Spanish territory since long before neighbouring Morocco even existed. The same for Melilla. It’s irrational, discriminatory and inconsistent to exclude countries with not all of their territory in Africa - by that logic Egypt is not an African country as it is partly in Asia. Even if you say that it is based on the majority of the country, that means saying that Russia is only an Asian and not a European country. Fixating on U.N. recognition in order to exclude Western Sahara means not classifying any of France’s territories as colonies, as that is the U.N. position on them. I wasn’t ignorant of the reasoning and didn’t need it ‘explaining’ to me. It’s just stupid.

[@icturner23]

@@EmaMalik It’s not just about places that are not recognized by the U.N. because it has let stronger countries invade them. It’s about all the countries that are partly in Africa and partly not, which includes Spain, Italy, Egypt and France.

[@marinadelaporta]

Κοπελιά από την Ελλάδα ❤

[@JW-uy2on]

The Moroccan guy is such a cutie ☺

[@Kittblue]

Simple? I didn't get one

[@kosmicheskiprah]

Много си добър и изобретателен. Забавно видео както винаги. На мен лично ми беше смешно особено с Гана и Самуа. О, Боже мой. Искам втори епизод отново от Брюксел, само без политическите зелки

[@falahihamid5411]

Is it a country? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@astridliliencron]

I knew right when I decided to look in the comments, half of them are crying about Cyprus. You both got fooled by the Brits now you are crying boo hoo. Anyways, great video. Could be longer. Stay safe.

[@littlebigplanet321]

Ouch must be panful to tell someone that their right answer is wrong

[@dinoman]

I thought Kazakhstan changed the name of their capital city?

[@o_s-24]

And then they changed it back

[@didrikmesicek4825]

They're fickle like that

[@SantomPh]

They changed it back because the former president caused trouble

[@xavier4542]

Yo we early

[@endfinity3521]

I am Indian. I have been through his channel and noticed he hasn't done linguistic content related to Indian Subcontinent 😤

[@lingualizer]

not yet!

[@FirestormX9]

I am an Indian too and it's way more entertaining and informative with the European content. He can do Indian content when he REALLY wants just a lot of views and negative engagement cause Indians become too racist the moment India is not shown as "number 1" for anything. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@bastbast6464]

What the hell, Greek girls are really from Heaven

[@willyferrer1750]

duh!! of course they can!! they are not americans....

[@MrDarcy-hf8hv]

you never tried : Can Africans answer these questions !!!

[@stoerenungeheuer543]

Yes, he should ask Elon Musk some of these questions.

[@kelsisco]

The Greek girl had me stupified

[@IbraNNB7]

BETTER THAN ANY USA PEOPLE

[@mtathos_]

why are the greeks always the prettiest, god bless my eu citizenship

[@lingualizer]

hahah

[@Henry48374]

russians are also beatiful as well as other slavic countries.

[@Wealth339]

Very beautiful especially their huge noses

[@msrcelline]

@@Wealth339 AHSHSHWJSBJSAHJAKWND

[@ginismoja2459]

It's extremely subjective. I don't find Greek people, especially males (I'm hetero so that's who I pay the most attention to) particularly pretty.

[@litswy5837]

greek girl just couldnt accept the facts bro:)

[@atnfn]

"simple questions"... what are the geography questions they ask Americans on youtube then? How many continents are there, Can you name 3 countries in the world. And they find someone dumb enough to answer "what is a country?". One of the very few of these "simple questions" I could have answered is the 7 countries in Africa. Cause there are so many of them so naming 7 isn't that hard.

[@francaisavecrodrigue]

I think they say 21 because of Puerto rico

[@lingualizer]

Puerto Rico is a US territory

[@francaisavecrodrigue]

@@lingualizer yes I know but I think it’s the reason why a lot of people say 21 instead of 20 even the Spanish speakers

[@SantomPh]

@@francaisavecrodrigue It's not an independent country so it doesn't count. People should know better.

[@francaisavecrodrigue]

@@SantomPh you're right

[@JustRollstuhlThings]

Support Comment :)

[@g3ek1337]

Ofc spain failed. No wonder podemos y Pedro wins 😂

[@viquiben4919]

No, Spain didn't.

[@xcchrist8161]

🤍🤍

[@SALx96]

the greek chick at 3:30 was face flirting

[@msrcelline]

BRO THE GREEK GIRL🤡🤡🤡

[@lingualizer]

lol

[@awonisgreat9708]

Linguarizzer and the Greek girls

[@msrcelline]

@@awonisgreat9708 i wrote that comment for the girl who says Cyprus should not speak Turkish:)

[@captainvanisher988]

based af. People cry about the illegal occupation of West Bank but never mention the illegal occupation of North Cyprus

[@msrcelline]

@@captainvanisher988 hi my greek friend just wanna say that everyone has different opinions on this case and most of the greeks i met are on the same opinion as me which is a territory for two nations because there was a lot of racism and murderers during 70s by the Greeks to Turks in Cyprus and my grandma was one of them. We stand for two different territories for two different nations because of the racism and peoples suffers. hope that makes sense

[@mariam.gustavsson2547]

3:36 I see racist person.

[@geluurs8235]

or just a patriot ..

[@peterfireflylund]

I saw a good person with a just soul. You, on the other hand…

[@darkolazic800]

First

[@basakktk1562]

3:40- why exactly?

[@lingualizer]

I'm guessing cause she's Greek

[@basakktk1562]

@@lingualizer so greek people can decide which language they should speak in cyprus?

[@Kapanol97]

@@basakktk1562 Do you even know the history of Cyprus?

[@fb55255]

Because Cyprus is in a sticky geopolitical situation contended between the Greek and the Turkish whith a small part of English speaking. All of this because of messed up british colonialism as usual :) Tbh credit should be given cus north Cyprus is not recognised internationally as a country.

[@basakktk1562]

@@Kapanol97 yes

[@Roxxek]

Elo kurwa co tam

[@Pan_Susel]

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