Romanian Language | Can Spanish and French speakers understand it?

[@andrealorinczi4812]

So I live in England,London,in a shared house...I share house with a Italian, Spanish and French...I am Romanian.And it is sooo funny when we don't know a word in English we say it in our own language and one out of the 4 will defo understand it.We always laugh at it.But yeah is true these 4 languages are indeed similar.

[@leliavoinea1942]

This is realy funny. You need a portuguese in the house and you will have the main five languages togather.😂😁😀 Sărutări din România!

[@lovesender159]

Same thing you can do with Hungarian or Polish. Nothing unusual.

[@mirboy9570]

Heeellll yeah!! I lived in London with a portuguese and a polish and I was the perfect bridge between them. English was only the string beteew us talking in our languages to each other. So.. Traiasca tara in care ne-am nascut.

[@alexandralupu2665]

@@lovesender159, what about Russian or Slovakian?

[@DIYyourlife365]

@@lovesender159 you forgot about Slovakians and cechs

[@sandothemando8924]

I love the energy of the Romanian guy. He's so enthusiastic!

[@robertoaguiar8082]

Sando the Mando yeah! And he seems to be quite nice.

[@superdave354]

The light in his eyes and his smiles

[@thewanderingwastelander6814]

That’s our undying Romanian spirit

[@oXSamuXo98]

Da da da

[@davidgaming4013]

His channel name is waxen if you want to see more of his videos

[@Kropotkin2000]

The Romanian is having the time of his life.

[@TheArmchairrocker]

He doesn't get to talk to "day walkers" very often.

[@User-p9o6r]

he has his own chanel and this is his vibe, very fun guy

[@darthratzinger193]

@@User-p9o6r I can only imagine how many calories he is burning just by talking...

[@alexsandramurphy3006]

Lol I love his vibe.

[@carolasandrakaty]

Her life, feminin. Limba/lingua is a feminin noun.

[@frijolito7ful]

Just take a moment to appreaciate How they can keep up a conversation with each other in three languages

[@fernandoaburto7040]

Being a Spanish speaker, I can't believe I understand Romanian much better than French

[@burisha2351]

You know we French people have also sometimes a hard time understanding people from Quebec (very strong accent...)

[@samyrandome425]

The Quebec accent is wild though lol

[@sebastianfost_er]

Lo mismo hahaha!

[@cornneliu]

A los españoles les cuesta aprender rumano pero los rumanos aprenden fácilmente español.

[@dmarie44]

Me too!!

[@LuisMoreno-sd3ld]

All the Latin's sons -Are you Okay Romanian? (Many centuries after...) -Da!

[@tiny5741]

-are you slavic, Slovenia? -ja!

[@LuisMoreno-sd3ld]

@@tiny5741 hahahahaha

[@danielnour191]

Stupido! The romanian Da Comes from the Latin Ida, means yes!

[@kevingutierrez9273]

The gulag life is strong in this one.

[@francesca_415]

@@danielnour191 it’s “Ita” not “Ida” i studied latin

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

1. Garlic- "Usturoi" comes from Latin "Ustulare" which means "to scorch or to singe" 2. Song - "Cântec" comes from Latin "Canticum" 3. Candy- "Bomboana" comes from French "Bonbon" 4. Painting- "Tablou" comes from French "Tableau" 5. Dog - "Câine" comes from Latin "Canis" Romanian borrowed a lot from French in the 19th century.

[@colinafobe2152]

salutati din Banatul Sarbesc. Love romanian language it has a lot in common with latin indeed plus many words which are same as in serbian.

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

​@@colinafobe2152 Thanks for your comment. You live close to where I was born, I have some Serbian friends who still live in Timisoara. Pace si sanatate!

[@maladetts]

We didn't really witness "a lot of borrowings from French" in this guy's speech in this video, and the whole idea of borrowing such a common word as "painting' seems very far-fetched, won't you say?

[@prolitcom]

​@@maladetts, Romanians did this to get rid of the Slavic influence. For example, this guy could say "amic al omului" instead of "prieten al omului", the other dudes would understand him faster. The word "prieten" is of Slavic origin.

[@xaverlustig3581]

2. French "chanson" also comes from Latin "canticum", 5. French "chien" also comes from Latin "canis", but the pronunciations are so different that they failed to recognize the connection.

[@Maya-iu8ki]

This is so funny because I’m Mexican (with Romanian roots) and living in Quebec, which means I speak Spanish and French, and understand some Romanian. This video was a blast for me!

[@la4826]

Native spanish speaker here. When I first knew romanian was a romance language I felt I was officially 5% vampire

[@benmariusc2845]

😂😂😂😂

[@eeaotly]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@squickcs]

@@pinzariumariusandrei9451 What?

[@LM-hj6ti]

@@pinzariumariusandrei9451 wtf bro

[@G4bzZmusic]

@@pinzariumariusandrei9451 gipsyes are everywhere, not just in Romania! They have indian origins!

[@josepablorendongarza7172]

I am a Spanish native speaker and it was very difficult to understand the Romanian guy. By the way, the mexican guy was very clever guessing the words. Keep making these videos are very interesting

[@sagiezov3969]

Same. I could only pick up the "international words": animal, persona, tradicional, doméstico...

[@RafaelCaver]

José Pablo Rendón Gárza if you watch the other videos the Mexican always guesses the words 😅

[@arexismorau8770]

Yes, but he has Norbert as backup :DDD

[@BG-up3ss]

Romanian is Latin mixed with Turkish and Slavic.

[@Zdamaneta]

Góral PL Romanian is like 80% latin, and the rest is mostly slavic with few hungarian and turkish words.

[@zapiekanka161]

I really enjoyed the way how the Romanian guy described everything hahaha

[@AmstradExin]

And me myself understanding it all hehe. :D

[@puntakinte2049]

Yes, he was very at describing and using different words to get them to understand.

[@CaptainNoch]

I learned French and I can tell you, Romanian does sound very foreign. There are cognates but even these words sound and look different. While French has different phonology, French words often remain similar in spelling. Romanian seem to have more divergent spellings. Like the Spanish speaker said, there are some words that can be understood but the majority are foreign. If they didn't have the video, I can assure you that the conversation would probably go no where!

[@keptins]

I guess he had to .. as he did not say the romanian words so he had to decribe them unlike in other clips.

[@prettymuchfitness3674]

@@CaptainNoch Who are you kidding, French sounds way more foreign than Romanian. French does not sound like a romance language at all. The majority of Romanian is Latin and the reason you don't understand Romanian is because you don't understand Latin.

[@visulino]

I have taught Spanish to Romanians (In NYC). Let me tell you that the Romanian phonetic system contains all sounds of Latin American Spanish. They can speak Spanish with no accent. Unlike Italians, French, Brazilians, my Romanian students ended up learning Spanish extremely quickly, and with virtually no accent. Which probably means that Romanian intonation is very neutral. They don't "sing" like other Romance languages. // I forgot to mention that when you teach Spanish to Romanians and Italians, you end up learning Romanian and Italian. So I could understand the Romanian guy like 90%. La fel, usturoi, ceva, spate, apa, de obicei, ce face, capul, ma doare capul, merge la scoala, I'm sure I'm wrong, but all these words came to me after 10 years of not listening to them. Liftul, frumoasa (hermosa in Spanish, doesn't exist in Italian) very interesting video, thanks. // I forgot that my KZbin name, Visulino, came as a joke because one Rumanian student of mine called himself Visul, because he said he is very handsome. (He called himself The Dream) so I was making fun of him so I chose Visulino. LOL.

[@cnb2889]

Drăguţ comentariul tau! Me ha gustado mucho

[@sweepy90]

all the Romanian words you enumerated where correct.

[@universauniversisveritas]

It's true, Romanian intonation is neutral. I learned Italian as a kid in some 3 months, down to a t, and no accent. Many of us do. Also our phonetic system and letters allow sounds like ă, â, ş, ț, which are sounded in many indoeuropean languages, so a good base for learning I feel.

[@universauniversisveritas]

Also Romanian ties with the other far off romance languages through pre-vulgar latin: shoulder - omro in spanish, umăr in romanian, but spalla in italian, which is super cool because reading Dante in high school I could understand old Italian easier than the italian kids. So call me biased😅, but I think Romanian is a fun, personally useful and intriguing language. There's also a nice thesaurus of pre-indoeuropean words, like brad - pine, or christmas tree

[@mrzukunft]

El italiano tiene la palabra "hermoso". Teniendo en mente que "hermoso" y "frumos" provienen del latín "formosus" (que tiene buena forma), el italiano posee la palabra "formoso", aunque no significa exactamente "bello" 😊

[@musicAle77]

As an Italian i understood quite a lot Romanian sounds like Latin and Italian

[@cristinamintas3462]

Because it has about 60% latin originated words

[@larisa1070]

Ikr

[@prettymuchfitness3674]

Cristina Mintas more like 78%

[@ErickTosar]

In spanish we sometimes call dogs: "can" or "canes" for plural!

[@rezzEE897]

yeah, that was from the Roman and Daci wars. It was a moment of peace tough, and in that time, Romans lived with Dacii, got married, and at that time they got used to latin

[@smarandascortariu5739]

There are regions in Romania where "usturoi" is also called "ai". ;)

[@nicolaiholonca3308]

allium=usturoi

[@valdo4902]

da , la noi in Ardeal cred ca i se mai zice "ai"

[@smarandascortariu5739]

@@nicolaiholonca3308 Allium sativum= usturoi. Allium fiind genul nu specia. Deci...ceapa,usturoi, sarlote, etc toate apartin genului Allium.

[@adigheju7921]

Si in Banat usturoiului i se spune "ai"

[@alexywolf2051]

Nu vreau să fiu rea, dar țin minte că făcea tata o glumă cu denumirea de "ai" a usturoiului "Bă băiete, puț a ai"

[@kaizentrader8735]

I am Brazilian, and to me the Romanian seemed to speak a mixture of Italian, French, Spanish, and Ukrainian, as I speak Russian and Portuguese, my Latin and Slavic part made me FULLY understand what was spoken by the Romanian.

[@bkm55]

Man I'm also Brazilian and I could understand nearly 5% of what he said hahahhaha

[@EnviROmaniac]

Our language is romance language, but we speak it with slavic accent in general. So for us is easy to learn other romance languages, but for our bothers is difficult because of the accents. It's not uncommon for romanians to go in countries like Spain or Italy and to learn the laguage pretty fast. For me portuguese language is hard to get to, but i have friends that learned the language in like 1 year, not perfect but pretty good.

[@LinoDiaz-ek7nz]

Eu sou Brasileiro e nao entendi nada do Romeno 😂😂😂

[@commitdiebro5235]

maybe it's because I'm from Romania and I've been speaking Romanian since I knew myself ... but I don't think Romanian resembles French , or Ukraine

[@AloBert0roua]

It damn right

[@SLFK_]

Romanian is such a diverse language, and I think that's what makes it beautiful and unique.

[@thavrisco1632]

And yet they don’t separate the concept of gloves and mittens, and shadow and shade

[@bodi3793]

@@thavrisco1632 it's all in the context, romanian language uses alot of accents on letters for example and when people text each other they usually don't use accent letters, and there are words that look the same but mean something completely different if you don't put accents on respective letters, so romanians pretty much know how to differentiate words simply by the context.

[@euphorbia1581]

​@@thavrisco1632You must be fun at parties

[@andrescabreraf]

Native Spanish speaker here. I love how Romanian sounds, It seems like a mix between romance languages and Slavic languages.

[@putereaunuiintrovert]

This is exactly what it is. Add some Turkish too😀

[@andreipop5805]

@@putereaunuiintrovert not really. Only 0.73% of the vocabulary ia Turkish while Old Church Slavonic, Bulgarian and Russian borrowings combined make about 12.88% of the words in Romanian.

[@unfortunate6808]

It's vocabulary is 80% just that. The grammar has thracian origins, but who cares.

[@v5984]

Exactly what it is. It’s a Balkan Romance language 👌🏼

[@lilmanq7746]

@@Ge0rGi. fax

[@Hikaeme-od3zq]

He sounds like an italian trying to do a russian impression xD

[@alinbarba1418]

Usually people say its like a Russian trying to speak Italian, but your take is much more accurate haha. But the first one still stands if you go to Moldova.

[@envycrusader8063]

@@alinbarba1418 avem noi cuvinte rusesti care le folosim da vorbim romana

[@bisocdelia8267]

He doesn't. He is just trying to pronouce it perfectly so the others can understand. Romanians can talk really fast sometimes using short forms of the verbs and so on. Romanian language, for foreigners, it sounds like russian. Also the romanian language is so similar to the italian language.

[@roxybeauty6538]

I’m italian and we don’t sound like that

[@doubled7302]

I’m not sure why people are offended by your comment. I’m Romanian and that is how I would describe the language in a nutshell! It is fully a romance language, very close to Italian and Latin, but with Slavic intonations and some Slavic and other loan words from neighboring countries (Romanian has many Turkish and even German words). In certain regions, the words used and the pronunciation are even more Slavic sounding. This guy has a standard accent, maybe from Bucharest? If you’d hear a rural person from say Moldova or even Banat, they would sound more Russian or maybe even Portuguese.

[@markmd9]

In next video bring all five: Italian, Romanian, French, Spanish and Portuguese

[@cagada]

Make that six with Catalan

[@Werner_pol]

també inclou-hi el català

[@loitadoranonimo6811]

Como galego síntome profundamente ofendido por este comentario

[@brolin96]

Honestly, I'm getting tired of this inferiority complex some people have. Galicians and Catalans understand Spanish, so they could still enjoy the video if they didn't have prejudices. Besides, it could be a bit chaotic to have a video call with a native speaker from every single Romance language. They shouldn't be offended by that, they could either, enjoy the video with the Spanish part they can fully understand or just ignore it. Another option would be to learn another romance language out of the big five if Spanish bothers them that much.

[@adrianopereira5675]

@@brolin96 I think the galician guy said in sarcastic way

[@mugurelparaschiv8662]

In some regions of Romania, garlic is also called "ai" as in Latin or Spanish. En algunas regiones de Rumania, el ajo también se llama "ai" como en latín o español.

[@elbogotano4162]

En español se dice "ajo", no "ai"

[@fitnesswellbeing9719]

"ai" is more like FRench Aill

[@miguelfalabosta4483]

Here in Brazil it's called "alho". But some people say "ai" in a dialectical way, either because it is customary to say "ai" instead of "alho" even though they know that "alho" is correct, or simply because they are not well educated and don't know that "alho" is correct.

[@dibuz100]

In what regiona is it called like that?

[@danascully6698]

@@dibuz100 Transilvania.

[@abacaxi.maldoso]

Romenian sounds as close to latin as italian. For me as a portuguese speaker, i got more words from romenian than i did with french.

[@fs400ion]

That's not normal. I mean there is no way French is that hard.

[@mister_grizzlee5105]

@@fs400ion well it kinda is strange since it has all of this "rounded" sounds and accents. Romanian is simpler because we have few "special sounds" and its more direct.

[@dannaarde8541]

I agree with you, as a native Portuguese speaker, Romanian language has more similar words to Portuguese than French.

[@rodriados]

As a native Portuguese speaker, I too find it easier to understand Romenian when comparing it to French. It's not by a large margin, though. And probably reading it helped a lot too, whereas French is almost unreadable.

[@isabellaaragaoaraujo]

I'm portuguese speaker and I found Romanian easier than French to understand

[@macdaniele3389]

I'm Italian, I live in Sicily...I can understand a little this wonderful language. I love Romanian people and their culture...

[@valentin4017]

I'm Romanian and I learn Italian at school and yes, Romanian language havr very much words in common with Italian.

[@adte5835]

same here! i‘m romanian living in switzerland and i‘m learning italian in school bcs i really like the language 🤗 cheers to latin languages

[@ale_alexandra21]

@@valentin4017 de unde ești ca se învață italiana? La mine e ori germana ori franceza

[@alinamirancea620]

I am glad to hear that 🥰 i used to learn italian in middle school as a third language

[@divelea]

I'm Romanian, I visited Italy two years ago and fell in love with this country. I was asking people to please preserve your beautiful places 😅 I spoke half English half Spanish and they understood me. I have been learning Italian ever since, because when I return, I want to be able to speak with people in their language. I have never felt drawn back to a country like so, I think I should verify my ancestry hahah.

[@boomerdosertao]

I'm a portuguese speaker and only understand 1 or 2 words in each sentence.

[@mmm19981]

As a spanish speaker, i understand 90% of portuguese but... I understood almost nothing in rumanian

[@SukMadik-papu]

Vinícius Reis Tambien para mí , hablo espñol

[@harmonizer87261]

Spanish speaker here. It was really tough to understand. I got the first couple of words (garlic, song). But when he was saying "a friend of a human" (prieten al omului) I was like wtf is that? lol completely lost at that point!

[@Liviahel]

Fiquei perdidona acho que entendi umas 10 palavras que ele falou, mesmo assim lendo a legenda.

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

Harmonizer87261 it’s because he said “prieten” instead of the synonym “amic” to purposefully make it more difficult. He even said he doesn’t want to make it too easy in the video. So it would have been “un amic al omului” which means “un amigo del hombre” “a friend of man”. This would have probably been more intelligible.

[@aurivanoliveira6788]

For those who speak Portuguese like me, Spanish is almost the same language, but I can understand a lot of Italian, Catalan, Galician and Romanian, but French is the most different among these Latin languages.

[@eileencampos5680]

There is a lot of phonetic sounds among French and Portuguese. I have studied it for 10 years and I am Portuguese American. French is a very unique Latin language. It does exist a lot with Portuguese especially in writing looks identical at times.

[@WaXeN]

This was one of my favourite videos to ever make! I loved this experience and I hope you all guys will love it as much as we did when we made it!

[@mauricio2981]

Gracias por el video, Waxen!!

[@WaXeN]

@@mauricio2981

[@gsppfll]

I am Italian and I could understand most of them (I could understand most of the words we had to guess, not most of what he said!)

[@Imdisappointed]

me too but for me the written part helped a lot :)

[@connormccloy9399]

To me it sounded like a mix between Italian and French. Plus "da" of course. I don't have much experience with either Italian or French but I do speak a little Castilian.

[@leonidych]

No wonder. In XIX they purified the language by getting rid of slavisms and adding a lot of _Italian_ stems.

[@Dallallero]

Meh, io parlo 6 lingue, ma se non fosse che c'è il testo scritto, non avrei capito mezza parola... 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@dianapan6447]

@Mario Its not something mutated stop speaking nonsense

[@vommir.]

Thank you, I had a great time participating to this video! C'était super fun! Je dois dire Il était très bon pour expliquer et nous mettre en contexte. J'espère que vous avez apprécié l'effort d'un québécois qui n'a jamais entendu parler un roumain hahah.

[@Ecolinguist]

I definitely appreciate your effort. 🤓💪🏼🥳

[@alovioanidio9770]

Vommir, I have a question. In Quebec, how often people pronounce the letter R like in Spanish? Mostly old people or rural people?

[@AmstradExin]

Maybe be a bit more forward? I don't know about french, but in the case of Romanian, if you know some phrases, you can 'hang onto them' despite not knowing the individual words.

[@vommir.]

​@@alovioanidio9770 Hi Alovio, I would say it actually comes down on where in Quebec you are from. There are distinctive accents from different places in Quebec. If you were born around Montreal you're not really likely to use the rolling Rs like in Spanish.. The only moment my friends or I do so is if we want to impersonate an old person or someone with a different Quebec Accent (not necessarily to mock them but can be a funny difference). For some it's more natural.

[@FoufouBe]

@@vommir. when i heard you say "ça fait du sens" i was like that's very strange to my ear (french from Europe) because it reminded me "it makes sens" lol. By the way, even for european french speaker it was difficult to understand him

[@kjergens1]

These videos are so addictive. Thank you for making them.

[@fuinhaamiguinha8932]

The romanian boy is so excited

[@wyqtor]

He is almost Italian in temperament :)

[@livics610]

He's hot as well 😁

[@evanweaver3152]

wyqtor I was thinking that! 😂

[@alinbarba1418]

He's probably excited cause Romanian is the most overlooked romance language.

[@prettymuchfitness3674]

liv ics Most Romanians are 😝

[@paulojose5631]

As a Brazilian, I thought Romanian far more comprehensive than French

[@semprequevoceleroscomentar6717]

After I've studied french for about 2 months, It get way more easy to understand French Btw, I've been really study English for about 6 months, so I'm still struggling in it

[@edward_albergaria]

eu entendi nada do que os caras falavam nem em frances nem em romeno

[@timoteostation]

O romeno dá de pegar uma coisa no ar pelo vocabulário e por algumas flexões comuns de idiomas latinos, o que confunde são as influências eslavas. Já o francês tem tanta influência germânica que é difícil pra qualquer outra língua latina associar uma coisa ou outra, tem que ter muito costume com o francês pra pegar uma coisa ou outra no ar.

[@ismt9390]

As a Romanian, i thought Romanian was mkre comperhensive than French too. Jokes aside, without the subtitles i would have barely understood a few words from the french guy. My French is terrible, but i studied it for 4 years at school and this French was even worse than regular French XD. I understood almost everything the Mexican dude was saying though.

[@semprequevoceleroscomentar6717]

@Bean_Can _D4n Thanks What is your native language?

[@alylopez5924]

I was as lost as the Mexican guy. I am mexican too, native language is spanish, i am studying and learning italian. A few words here and there but not enough to follow what he was saying. Would have loved to see the italian and portuguese speakers and have their input.

[@exmilitaramigo]

Seria o mesmo do mexicano. Falo português do Brasil e não entendi quase nada. Alguma palavra ou outra.

[@josuegabriel8066]

Tim_Maia morando em Teegarden B acho que em Português seria um pouco melhor. Essa última palavra “Caine” o mexicano não entendeu, eu entendi de boa como “cão”. outra palavra por exemplo, Omni= homem...

[@carlosignacio8062]

I would have loved to see a Russian in there and an Italian speaker as Romanian has some Slavic influence as well

[@ktdoty9921]

Romanian is much more similar to catalan and Italian

[@matteo4661]

Soy italiano y no entendì casi nada tan como el chaval mexicano y el frances 😅

[@phatshah7377]

Hah this guy is great! Such good energy

[@missvioletbeauregard]

I'm Italian and I understood quite a lot what the romanian and the spanish guy were saying, not so much the french guy.

[@leliavoinea1942]

As a Romanian I can anderstand Italian because I studied in university but I am not good at speaking. I am good at Spanish. To me Spanish is the most easy among the latin language, followed by Italian, then Portuguese and French. The harder latin language to study in my opinion is Romanian because we have a grammer from hell. 😂 Sometimes I am realy surprised haw forigners have the patience to learn Romanian and manage to get a decent level as well. I realy respect their work. 😂

[@mickaeldonizalski7834]

He has a Canadian accent so maybe it is more difficult for foreign people i dont know ...

[@arturovencessilva9601]

Is mexican guy, he doesn't spanish...

[@benskyddd]

Arturo Vences Silva it’s still spanish, you could say mexican spanish but it’s still the same language. same for canadian french and standard french, and brazilian portuguese and standard portuguese

[@ionutbejan884]

Moldavian not is latin people

[@andrewbollard5701]

Native anglophone here, fluent in French and have basic Spanish. Romanian is extremely interesting to listen to, couldn't understand much of it but sounds similar to Italian at times. I think the Romanian speaker could've slowed down a bit but otherwise he's a great addition! Love his energy and happiness at sharing his native language with others. I love this channel and how it brings speakers of different languages together, keep up the good work Norbert!

[@benjicz1463]

it is the same as Czech and Russian ?

[@alexanderpalecha9997]

Romanian is a bit like Italian, because the ancestors of modern Romanians - Dacians moved from the territory of modern Italy

[@axvyrall2793]

@@benjicz1463 it is at base Latin, Slavic influenced

[@benjicz1463]

​@@alexanderpalecha9997 why is so little understable between romance language it's me interesting ?

[@001islandprincess]

Andrew Bollard I too am a native anglophone and I would say I speak conversational French, Spanish and Italian. I used to be fluent in Spanish and I can read French and Spanish at an intermediate level. A few weeks ago I came across a KZbin video and at first I thought it was Italian but then I realized it was Romanian. Yes, it sounds like Italian a lot. There were Romanian captions in the video and I was able to understand more by just reading it. I think if anyone has a strong familiarity of any Romance Language (particularly Spanish and Italian), Romanian will be easier to read or understand.

[@gioiarusso5703]

I'm italian and i can understand spanish quite well... I understood: Romanian: 65% Spanish: 99% French: 10%

[@荒野行動のフレンチうさぎ]

Sei italiano e puoi capire solo il 10% del Francese?? Dai!

[@gioiarusso5703]

@@荒野行動のフレンチうさぎ ma non si capisce quasi niente del francese e non l'ho mai studiato quindi...

[@chibiromano5631]

Central Mexican here. I could understand European Spanish at 95% Mexican Spanish (Isodors Edo-Mex dialect) 99% ? Spanish from Andalusia ,Cuba and Argentina are different beasts and very unclear , maybe about 75-79%. Edo-Mex Spanish sounds like Italian. I could understand italian with like 82-84% comprehension. French- Comprehension is at 10% ; I will not dispute tha French is not really a romance language. French is more of its own category with English. Celt languages influenced by Latin & Germanic. Anybody debating me is clearly deaf or in denial or a pan francoist nationalist. Bear in mind this is European spoken French, when you get into West Afri French then elements of Congonese and west afri starts to mix in and the comprehension drops down to about 5% .. I could only understand that its french when I hear Le and Lei , but after that its L' mi Beh bee buh boh sa .. Merci . Jeh le vu buh boh sa .

[@gioiarusso5703]

@@chibiromano5631 actually both, I talk Spanish almost as well as Italian

[@visca7]

@@chibiromano5631 French is yes a romanic language, I am Català and I can understand more French than Romanian, and understand almost everything of italian

[@karakirkus272]

I love this!! I’m a French teacher and I teach in the target language, so this helps me understand my students’ point of view a bit better, haha! but this is interesting to think about in terms of some of my classes that have heritage speakers of both spanish and Romanian…I wonder what their different interpretations and takeaways would be!

[@alexdinu9841]

Why does nobody talk about that perfect "bună ziua" at the beginning? BTW, great video and can't wait for some more videos with Vlad.

[@marino8157]

Romanian sounds more related to Italian than other Romance languages to me

[@MikeTheArtistX]

where are you guys from?

[@matthewhemmings2464]

Marino It is, if we look at the dialect continuum they are in a similar sub-type of Eastern Romance. The Spezia line, in Italy is considered where both divide. Before the 1800s, when Romance languages where not standardized You could travel from Paris to Lisbon and never meet a clear linguistic division. For example, as a French speaker I can understand 80% of Provensal, 60% of Catalan, and maybe 40 % of Castillan without previous study of these languages.

[@solorock28]

wrong, in fact, italian and romanian share 77% of the words, spanish and italian share 82%, french and italian 89%, but spanish having almost the same sounds makes it more similar to italian.

[@themapleleafforever1526]

LizardKing Yet Romanian is closest to Latin in terms of grammar. Nominative, accustative genitive, dative and vocative forms still exist in Romanian.

[@ThePinkMadcap]

Well, to give you and idea, for us Romanians, Italian is the easiest language to learn - if you really study it, in about 6 months you can learn it at a conversational level. And in about 2 years you will master it pretty much and read literature and stuff like that.

[@alcapitan67]

As a Romanian, I understood 100% of Romanian 90% of Spanish 85% of French

[@ilyaiakoub1469]

I mean, that's probably untrue unless you had contacts with french and spanish... I speak french and spanish (and russian) and i probably only understood about 30-40% of what the romanian guy said...

[@redguard128]

Romanians understand very well Italian, then Spanish and lastly French. The French is hard because of all the contractions like qu'on or t'as or y'a that alter the sense of a sentence just a tiny bit but enough to throw one completely off of its intended meaning. On the other hand Russian is completely non intelligible for a Romanian speaker even though if learned one would realize a lot of similar words there as well. Like liubit' - a iubi (to love) or chitat' - a citi for "to read".

[@iuliusconstantcornelio2018]

@@ilyaiakoub1469 Look, dude, you're russian, romanians are not. End of the story. Romanians understand all romance language better than any slavic person ever will !

[@merkelvanneinderman9562]

Iulius Constant Cornelio clar! E corect.

[@ilyaiakoub1469]

@@iuliusconstantcornelio2018 You seem to completely misunderstsnd my point. First of all, why did you assume I am russian? I'm born and raised in Montreal. I'm French Canadian and French is my mother tongue, even though I do speak Russian fluently because my parents speak russian. Like I said, I speak French and Spanish which means I do know what I'm talking about. I am not arguing that Romanian is somehow related to a slavic language, I am only saying that Romanian is the most unintelligible romance language to a french speaker, like me. Romanian inherited features from latin that are long gone in western romance languages, like the case system, which exists in latin and Romanian but not for example in french, spanish or italian. The Romanian language was also under influence of Turkish, Hungarian, German and Slavic languages, which was not the case for Western romance languages, which makes it harder to understand. Finally the way Romanian people speak is very different from most Romance languages, it has a lot more intonations than for example French. One could say in this way it is similar to Portugese.

[@georgesfeydeaufeydeau4226]

As a Spanish speaker, I am amazed at how much I actually understood what the Romanian speaker was saying. I thought it would be far more difficult, even though I knew that Romanian and Spanish have many similarities.

[@n.c.37]

I'm a French guy from France. Romanian language is very interesting because they use lot of words with Latin roots but we don't use these words anymore in France but it can be easy to understand if you have good etymological knowledge about Latin language. The other main difficulty (it's only my opinion) but it seems Romanian people have a strong Slavic accent and it hinders understanding for us. Well it was very interesting, thanks guy!

[@adrian.farcas]

That is exactly the case! Romanian has 2000-2500 words inherited from Latin, but only some 500 of those are pan-Romance words (encountered in all the other Romance languages). In common speech, depending on the context, they often make as much as 80-90% of the words, but maybe only 1/3 of these have direct correspondences in another Romance language. The rest need explaining from Latin and sometimes the explanation is quite convoluted. On top of this, the pronunciation/accent often does not help and the grammar is also quite distinct.

[@ThePinkMadcap]

It depends about the accent really... Standardized Romanian (which is spoken in the capital of Bucharest and the whole south of the country) does have indeed a south-Slavic accent. In the east, in Moldova (do not confuse this province that belongs to Romania with the independent state of The Republic of Moldova; which is a whole other story) people have a soft Russian accent (as opposed to the strong Russian accent from the Republic of Moldova). Lastly, there is Transylvania, where people pretty much speak very very very very slowly and have a soft Hungarian accent, due to historical reasons. All in all, for a Romanian; Italian comes first in terms of easiness (you can learn it at a conversational level in about 6 months). Then comes Spanish (also really easy to learn). French is the wild card. Similar words, it generally "feels" like Romanian, yet really hard grammar and the way that the actual French speak it (very very very very very fast) it's a turn off for most of us. Oh and Portuguese... forget about it, we don't know what the hell they are saying (other than some obvious similar words). Yet they seem, oddly enough, to understand Romanian pretty easily.

[@redguard128]

There are a lot of words in current French that sound archaic in Romanian. Also a lot of words that are exactly the same have different meanings in Romanian. Like locație which is emplacement in French, and location in French means 'to rent'. Even in English we have location - place but the French language said no, location is some place one rents, not a generic place one goes to.

[@frking100]

It is much easier for me to understand by reading than by listening. Many of the words are used by their archaic or Latin meanings. Kind of like old german and English

[@ilincaleca9947]

@@redguard128 True, another example of words that sound similar, but have different meanings: "entendre" in French means "to hear" or "understand", while "întinde" in Romanian means "to stretch out".

[@lafequese4084]

In Romanian we also have the word ,,dulciuri” as a collective for everything sweet.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

Like in italian "dolciumi"

[@liliana6003]

Avem dulciuri pt caramele, bomboane și ciocolată. Prăjiturile intră în categoria grea. 😊

[@alexpichardo1065]

En Español es ( Dulzura, Dulce.)

[@TheArmchairrocker]

In English we also use the word "sweets" as a synonym for "candy."

[@LeDuddu]

I was literallly jumping at the screen saying that as he said „Nu, dulce e gust”.

[@ksyushakostyuk8449]

Fantastic. Do one with portugese , italian and romanian

[@TheSaltube]

I want too.👏👏

[@judna1]

Adding Catalan to the mix would be interesting as well

[@Forlfir]

I can tell you that Portuguese speakers won't understand anything

[@spanishandvos6997]

@@Forlfir Portugues and Romanian are probably the most distant languages of latin, two extremes, Italian is the closest language to Romanian (of the most spoken latin languages).

[@guilherminhookkk]

@@spanishandvos6997 It might be true, but i'm a portuguese speaker and i understood only 30% besides that i speak french, so... idk if a portuguese speaker would guess

[@foreverraining1522]

I LOVE VIDEOS LIKE THIS!!!!!

[@gabrieldinicu1924]

In Transilvania in rural areas the word for garlic (usturoi) is “ai”. Similar with the French word. There is even a food with garlic called “aitura“

[@predyaxc]

I never knew that and im romanian.

[@RobinVesper]

De unde le scoateți ma? :))

[@jackkerouak]

In rural areas of Brazil is the same, even though the formal word is "Alho", they pronounce it like "Ai"

[@RobinVesper]

@cafta 260126 Oltenia

[@cristianmihalache6263]

ai dreptate, dar nu doar in transilvania, si in muntenia in zonele mai izolate , cu mai multe regionalisme in limbaj, batranii spun la usturoi tot "ai".

[@arturbianchini3019]

I am a big fan of Romance languages and among them, I speak fluent 5 (Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Veneto), but I also studied Ladino and Latin. I believe that, without looking at the subtitles, I could understand 90% the context of the conversation and about 40% of the vocabulary. I got 4/5 words right and this video motivated me to learn Romanian. it seemed to me a language very faithful to Latin (grammar) and with a Slavic fascination. Thank you.

[@TA-wx1fc]

As a native french speaker with knowledge of Italian, Romanian was really easy to pick up when i worked there. I'm not exceptional at learning languages but i managed to use it conversationally after 3 weeks in country. Compared to when i worked in Tirana, Albania. I loved Albania but the language? Maaaan!

[@mirceadraga7421]

Cum să spui că usturoiul este ”un fel de mâncare”?! Te-ai emoționat! :) Este o legumă, este o plantă... Apropo, în română usturoiul mai este numit și ”ai”. Și avem ”biscuit”, nu ”biscuite”! La tablou puteai să specifici că avem și noi cuvântul ”cadru” care specifica o ramă, poate fi rama tabloului. Dacă în loc de ”prieten” ziceai ”amic” înțelegeau repede, cuvântul îl au și ei asemănător. Per total, mi-a plăcut, felicitări pentru toți trei! :)

[@Oleg250]

Why not include Italian in this? I think Italian speaker will understand Romanian much better than others

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

yep

[@TheRealWALLABI]

Italian shares the most lexical similarity with French, and the French-speaking guy clearly had trouble understanding Romanian. I don't really think an Italian would understand it any better.

[@davidenocita5046]

@@TheRealWALLABI I'm italian and I can assure you that if the romanian speaker speaks slowly you can understand pretty well. For example the phrase "with a litre of wine and a kilogram of meat you don't die of thirst nor of hunger" is basically identical in the two languages; plus, the pronounciation of romanian is very similar to italian and feminine, masculine and plural and singular forms are created in the same way (in italian you put an A at the end of the feminine words, like in romanian, example "Doamna" in romanian and "donna" in italian, which means woman, and an I at the end of masculine plural words, like in romanian, example: "Oameni" in romanian and "Uomini" in italian, which mean Men)

[@And-lj5gb]

@@TheRealWALLABI - French might be the closest language to Italian lexically but it doesn't change the fact that Italian is closer to Romanian than French is to Romanian. Both lexically and especially in terms of phonetics.

[@eluemina2366]

True... 🤔

[@MarioAndIrimescu]

As a romanian I understood: 100% romanian 70% Spanish 5% french

[@Kapa115]

As a Hungarian who speaks a bit Spanish I understood: 40% Romanian 70% Spanish 20% French

[@adrianopereira5675]

Nobody understand french. Watch the vídeo with spanish, portuguese and italian speakers... the french guy is alone... LOL

[@comanmircea8195]

with french try think romanian but cut out the last 2-3 letters

[@floppyD]

It's impressive how no one that speaks romance languages can understand french, apart from themselves obviously lol

[@MapsCharts]

@@Kapa115 Én francia vagyok és tudom egy kicsit magyar, de csak, van-e nem nehéz, mások nyelvek tanulniért? Mert ez olyan különböző...

[@themadmanwithapen]

You should get an Italian and Portuguese speaker to see if they understand Romanian.

[@WaldirPimenta]

@Octavian not sure about that! I'm Portuguese and to me Romanian sounded even harder to understand than Latin in the Latin vs Romance languages videos (which kinda makes sense, since Portuguese and Romanian diverged from Latin in very different directions). But I think part of it was because the Romanian guy didn't make sure to enunciate the words carefully and slowly, as for example the Catalan speaker did in her video.

[@heleneoldeide2303]

@Octavian I'm also not so sure. I really should understand this, as someone who's had some Latin at school, speaks Portuguese and lives in a Slavic country, but even for me this was difficult. I got 3/5 correct. Maybe I just suck, that's a very likely possibility, but I still don't think this will be easy for a Portuguese speaker, especially not a Brazilian.

[@Pier-wy6dd]

The level of mutual intellegibility between languages is dictated from three main factors: 1. Phonological change. Time to time, a language may shift from one sound to another. 2. Semantic. An original word might be used in different context. Its use is now extended. 3. History. Some people went in contact with others, whilst sister languages weren't. The same it happened between dialects of the same language. To see people speaking similar languages, it is fine. However, it will be caution not to jump at the conclusion with no basics in Linguistics.

[@荒野行動のフレンチうさぎ]

@Octavian Roman Portuguese people will not understand better, but Italian people yes

[@skylight0656]

@@荒野行動のフレンチうさぎ no

[@melaniamarinescu5619]

I love this video! The idea is cool. I'm Romanian and I study French in school but I'm not so good at this subject. Anyways, I understood more Spanish than French and this is incredible for me, because I didn't learn this language yet! I also love reading comments with other people talking about my native language, saying their opinions. Greetings from Romania! DA!

[@pettermct]

I am Portuguese. Romanian sounds like a mix of italien, catalan and russsian.

[@sliverhalo9286]

The language is a Romance language but it had some slavic influence due to the Balkan states

[@erigo91]

and turkish

[@siversalih9917]

@@erigo91 Not even 1% is Turkish. But there's a couple of words.

[@ballsxan]

To me it sounds like a mix of italian, martian, martian and martian.

[@francesca_415]

@@ballsxan 😂

[@jemts5586]

His enthusiastic "Da!"s just warm my heart!! I speak French and struggled to understand, but I'm curious to learn more about Romanian now :)

[@allblacklatinmusic9453]

As an Italian speaker I think it's the best video ever 🙂 really intetesting! Looking forward to watching new videos about romance languages

[@Ecolinguist]

Thank you! 😃

[@guilherminhookkk]

@@sonicps9056 As a portuguese speaker, i don't understand a single word in latin, it seems i'm listening russian

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

@@sonicps9056 It probably means "son". I'm basing this off of the Romanian word "fiu" which means the same thing.

[@flavvius]

@@sonicps9056 Filius és "Hijos", Filhos en portugués.

[@gracefultimes]

Surprisingly really enjoyed this! 😁 I'm a native Spanish speaker and Romanian was easier to decifer for me, especially reading it.

[@jpcampbell]

For someone like me who is learning Romanian and speaks Spanish, this would be a fantastic series to follow. I would love to see many of these videos made. I learned a lot listening to the Romanian guy.

[@eufrosinpoteca9545]

The Romanian guy in this video doesn't speak Romanian properly.

[@gabi4205]

@@eufrosinpoteca9545 what are you talking about, yes, he does. It is impossible for a native speaker to speak their language incorrectly. If you're a native speaker of a language, the way you naturally speak it is correct.

[@lucianboar3489]

@@eufrosinpoteca9545 what the hell do you mean properly? :))

[@tortellinifettuccine]

​@@eufrosinpoteca9545 yes he does lol

[@Nachomiya]

@@eufrosinpoteca9545 Yes he does lmao, I'm Moldovan and can confirm, he's literally a native he can not speak it incorrectly.

[@alovioanidio9770]

In Portuguese a female dog is "cadela", same root of the romanian word "cațea"

[@LeOrtacud]

we have a lot of similarities! eu and meu are the same in romanian and portuguese for example

[@vevecata]

yes, the root is the Latin word "catella"

[@adriancioban9517]

câine (doesnt have a feminine) Cațel (m) - cațea (f) Regionalism = câne. ( very close to the accepted latin pronunciation)

[@flavvius]

Dog in Portuguese: Male: "Cão" or "Cachorro" Female: "Cadela" or "Cachorra"

[@TheSpanishNotebook]

I'm bilingual speaker of Spanish and Galician. In Galician, male dog is "can" and female is "cadela". I believe exactly like in Portuguese? Galicia was part of Portugal once, after all, and we they used to speak the same language. :) In Spanish there is the word "can" for dog too, apart from the common "perro". However, it's not really used at this point.

[@gustavalbericchidurocher9764]

Romania! their language is surely something. it's concreteness reminds me of my mother tongue (portuguese) while it has something as poetic as french and bits less rounde, like italian has. cool language! very cool language.

[@razvanmarinescu3707]

Glad to know that Romania isn't that bad at all

[@RaduRadonys]

@@razvanmarinescu3707 Wtf, who said Romania is bad???

[@razvanmarinescu3707]

@@RaduRadonys romanians 😐

[@ericjohnson6634]

@Răzvan Marinescu I think it's pretty common for people with some knowledge of linguistics and interest in language-learning to find Romanian fascinating. It's like discovering a living alternate reality in which vulgar Latin took a completely different path.

[@florinbeblea1050]

If you will learn romanian language you will definitely see how expressive is..like a poem...

[@roccodh30]

I spent two weeks in Romania and i speak Mexican Spanish. I understood Romanians very well.

[@yosh1907]

As a Frenchie : French - 100% Spanish - 95% Romanian - 70% Loved it!! So easy to understand when you can speak both French and Spanish! It makes me want to learn Romanian^^

[@unfortunate6808]

Good luck, the base grammar of the language isn't even Latin, though much of its vocabulary is. Even romanians have a hard time with their own language.

[@oanamaria6688]

WOW

[@Kannot2023]

@@unfortunate6808 why are you are saying that the base of romanian grammar is not latin ? French has a similar grammar?

[@tadm123]

French understand Spanish most better than the other way around lol

[@думатьиначе]

Ça c’est bien parce que tu parles espagnol, perso je comprends 2-3 mots par ci par là du Roumain, genre pratiquement rien du tou, et espagnol beaucoup plus mais ça reste dans l’ordre des 30-40%

[@warnerbf]

This video was a lot of fun. My mother language is Spanish and I also speak French. I have learned the basics of the Romanian language along the way. Romania and its culture are absolutely fascinating for me. Romanian shares a few striking similarities with Spanish in basic vocabulary (ascunde for esconder, masă for mesa, perete for pared, pierde for perder, all the days of the week are almost the same in both languages) but on the whole it's a profoundly different language. In my humble opinion, in general they are not that close.

[@portishphonic]

I've learned Spanish by watching some Latin American novelas when I was a kid and for me it was very instinctive. I didn't have a teacher, or a book, I didn't even know what Spanish looked like, but even then I understood it instinctively and could easily translate into Romanian without reading subtitles. That's how a lot of Romanians learned Spanish btw, just by ear.

[@EquuleusPictor]

In Romanian garlic can also be called "ai". It's archaic today, but it exists in the dictionary.

[@hipocresia]

It's archaic in Romanian but so popular in Catalan... Curious

[@ioanpreda10]

Yeah, in Romania you kind of never hear “ai” It’s “usturoi” all the way😂😂

[@mundoloco5418]

And that is exactly how we call it in Catalan. It spells "all", but it's pronounced as "ai".

[@lucgonzo]

@@mundoloco5418 diuem "ail" a frança :p ( we say "ail" in france^^ )

[@EquuleusPictor]

@@hipocresia Garlic is very popular in Romania. But we no longer use the word "ai" but instead we use two words: "usturoi" (cognate to the word urticate, meaning to sting) or "mujdei" (from the French "mousse d'ail") - which contains garlic and oil.

[@grottordrynor4546]

I love see how Vlad is so excited when Isidor or Marc realize something.

[@boryanaarg846]

As a Slav who knows Romanian I feel like a spy here 😄

[@trustme3676]

haha Slav from where and how did you learn Romanian?

[@ihavenoidea2736]

Same here but I'm Hungarian😂😂

[@loitadoranonimo6811]

Slavs know a couple of things about spying

[@antoniorecio7894]

Eu,ca bulgar,pot zice,limba română este 90 и% bulgărești,zic bulgărești ,nu slavica,sau slav,nu știu cum se zice,nu,rusește. Diferența între Bulgărești și resturi de limbi slavica e 100 %, dacă vorbim despre gramatică.

[@lalohernandez7484]

Buna frumoasă ! Saludos desde Mexic !!!

[@anke761]

We're literally so happy every time someone acknowledges our culture. Thanks for showing our good light, Vlad!

[@daniel89ph]

Tu vorbiti foarte repede cu ei! Sunt Slovac care iubesc limba Romana si sunt autodidact. Limba Romana este foarte usor pentru meu. Si frumos!

[@SoulofDivinity]

Respect pentru faptul că înveți singur, mai ales că nu este deloc o limbă uşoară! De asemenea corect ar fi: Tu vorbeşti foarte repede cu ei! Sunt slovac, care iubește/și iubesc limba română și sunt autodidact. Limba română este foarte ușoară pentru mine și frumoasă!

[@ioana31527]

Ca nativ care are prieteni străini(vorbitori de limbă română), sunt impresionată.

[@alinbarba1418]

Ca sa apreciati ce limba frumoasa avem: Si cand o vorbesti stalcit, iti iese poezie oricum. Nu degeaba aia de peste Prut au zis " ne place atat de mult uăi ca desprea ea ne facem imnu", daca nu ma insel e singura tara din lume care are imnul despre limba ei.

[@leliavoinea1942]

@Olivia Samoilă bine spus. Avem și o gramatică grea care să dureri de cap.😂😁😀 Dar sunt mândră de limba noastră frumoasă.

[@toads8748]

@@leliavoinea1942 așa este, chiar si unii romani nu stăpânesc gramatica pe deplin

[@angelavonhalle5144]

As a portuguese speaker and dabbling in other romance languages and dialects. I have wanted to learn Ramanian for many years, after I found out that learning to read and understand it was "manageable". This video confirms the mutual intelligibility, but the convolulted communications between the languages to reach this was remarkable. Understanding romanians at the porter's lodge was possible. If you communicate about simple things, letters, has it come, etc. the probabily rises that a portuguese speaker can understand romanian. I think the immersion method for a portuguese speaker, with a little bit of reading, would work quite well. Maybe in future...

[@barbarosozhan8137]

I think *Italian* is the closest language to *Romanian* among modern languages.

[@RealShrigmaMale]

Sicilian. But Italian is the closest out of the top 5 most spoken Romance languages.

[@mrandrews3303]

Barbaros, as an Italian, I don't agree!

[@Qwerty1637i]

@@RealShrigmaMale nope, the closest is Sardinian by a far margin having 87% of shared vocabulary and basically the same grammar.

[@luminitaconstantingoloman9307]

Yes and no! The Valencian language is the closest one. At least 5000 words are writed and spoked exactly the same. Ex: "A fugit un bou en pantalons curts/ A fugit un bou în pantaloni scurți"

[@mrandrews3303]

@@luminitaconstantingoloman9307 Oh that's an interesting one! Are we talking about an ox escaping in his short pants/trousers?? XD

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

Nice... Never heard Romanian proper but it sounds Slavic mixed with Italian. Very nice sounding, though. 👌

[@vxern2443]

Około 20% rumuńskich słów pochodzi z języków słowiańskich. Ale nawet w takim zdaniu jak "Iubesc pe prietenii mei dragi" słychać cały czas fundamenty języka czyli łacinę, nawet jeżeli "iubesc" - kocham (lubię) , "prietenii" - przyjaciel i "dragi" - drodzy to są wszystkie słowiańskie słowa.

[@mareksicinski3726]

It has slavic loanwords only mainly

[@Vlad_-_-_]

Thanks man, as a romanian slavic languages sound very pleasent to me, especially polish and russian.Really beautifull languages.

[@KasiaB]

Smintina Vlad Printre limbile romanice, franceza și româna sunt limbile mele preferate :) Salutări din Polonia!

[@polskiszlachcic3648]

@@vxern2443 Wiem, ale chodzi mi o wymowę. Jednak rumuński zachował przypadki z łaciny, które inne romańskie języki już nie mają.

[@prettymuchfitness3674]

Half the comments are Spanish people complaining that the Mexican guy didn't say the word "can" for dog. The other half are Romanian people complaining that the Romanian guy didn't say the word "ai" for garlic. LOL

[@Edgar.Cantú432]

that's right, but CAN or CANINO is more generic, no necessary call your pet a can, but dog (perro/perra)

[@ringo2473]

Also, in Spain, "bomboana" translates to "Bombón", so it was actually pretty similar to Romanian and French.

[@desintoxicado3742]

En general un BOMBÓN es un chocolate fino o un dulce pequeño, para comer de un solo bocado. Pero al parecer en México el término BOMBÓN tiene un sentido más reducido, el de un malvavisco o marshmallow.

[@alxndrgrnds]

Pretty Much Fitness I am complaining because the Mexican guy didn’t use the word bombón.

[@Risperanto]

****Spanish speakers

[@foreverraining1522]

OMG I LOVVVVE THIS!!!!!

[@robertofranciscomonsalvesp8080]

Gracias, Norbert! Limba româna este foarte interesanta si necunoscuta pentru noi, dar este si sora noastra! This is amazing, though it was a little tougher for Spanish and Quebec French speakers they could manage to get the core bits of the Romanian language. Great content as usual. Dziękuję Ci bardzo!

[@itz_rosse4566]

O. O do you speak Romanian? (that was perfect. O. O if so 👏👏claps)

[@ProstyChlopiec]

Very positive guys tonight, especially Romanian one! Looking forward for new videos from Ecolinguist.

[@rebeccaalessia]

Please do a comparison of Romanian and Italian!! LOVE THESE!!😍😍😍😍💕💕💕💕💕

[@troykanotz626]

As an American observing from the outside, I must say that I very much like Romanian being spoken, it has a certain beauty to it!

[@dyawr]

Thank you! 😊👍

[@shake1971gold]

I love how Romanian sounds, to me sounds like a mixture of Italian and Russian, beautiful language 😍

[@yurie1975]

Not russian, but bulgarian and serbian!

[@sashajolie8995]

Yorga Lescu it sounds Italian and Russian to me too

[@otavioabuchaim-falandodeau9406]

Scott Navarro nah

[@flrazvan]

More Italian than Russian. If you ask a Romanian to recognize something from spoken Russian, i don't know if he will understand 10%, but instead, from an Italian speaker, he will be able to understand 50%+ easily, depending on the level of education.

[@sashajolie8995]

Razvan Florescu thats true. My friend speaks Romanian and I speak Italian and we understand each other most of the time. Russian isn’t a Latin language so it’s not like Romanian

[@chaging1]

This is the coolest thing, I have ever watched, in the internet... I have watched this video like ten thousand times... I just love it...

[@HarryPotterBR]

As a brazilian. I understood: 95% Spannish 70% Romanian 50% French

[@crySallyn]

Também só que eu foi: 100% Spanish 8% Romanian 85% French

[@_JOJ_]

As a Romanian i understand the Brazilian Portuguese better than the european Portuguese.

[@tudor9751]

As a romanian. I understood 100%romanian 80%spanish 60-70%french

[@crySallyn]

@@_JOJ_ how can you understand Portuguese if I can't understand Romanian 😵 my brain.

[@GWebcob]

For me as a Brazilian: 95% spanish 20% romanian 10% french

[@Mrcarvalher]

DUUUUUDEE! I'm Portuguese and I was able to understand! It's even more easier for me to understand If I read the words. Awesome

[@ilincaleca9947]

Garlic is called "ai" in some parts of Romania, though.

[@sebtaz31]

Nu am auzit niciodata de varianta asta. Pe unde se vorbeste?

[@ilincaleca9947]

@@sebtaz31 Cred ca-n Transilvania

[@runto83]

@@ilincaleca9947 Corect

[@aguacateadosmilpesitos]

I UNDERSTOOD WHAT THIS CONVERSATION WAS ABOUT, I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF (I'm a native spanish speaker)

[@teodoraraileanu7975]

@@aguacateadosmilpesitos congratulations 👏👍^^

[@СергейСергеевич-д6с5е]

I am Russian and I understand "da" (same in Russian), vedem (videt' in Russian), prieten (priyatel') and some other words, because Russian and English have some borrowings from Latin.

[@prettymuchfitness3674]

Vedem comes from Latin “videre” though. It’s possible Russian also has this word either through Latin or proto indo-European

[@piratassarajevo4293]

В руманском есть пруд пруди слов от славянских языков🤔

[@darkblaze99]

The romanian word "prieten" which means "friend" is coming from slavic influence. Romanian is around 75% latin, 20% slavic, 5% greek, german, turkish, hungarian words.

[@igeneleux3019]

@@darkblaze99 you forgot dacian. For as much as i know there are 300+ words in dacian ( which are tied to gardening)

[@strictlyunreal]

I'm pretty sure Russian "videt" isn't borrowed from Latin, but the words are related as both languages are derived from Proto-Indo-European. The same as the words for brother, brat and frater.

[@Chronomatrix]

To me romanian sounds a lot like a mix of many romance languages, specially italian, catalan and french with hints of germanic and slavic. Really cool language.

[@003mohamud]

Yep. Their orthography is very similar to Italian, their lack of o and a ending reminds me of Catalan, and words like prieten add a Slavic sprinkle. It is as if some Italians and Catalans migrated to eastern Europe, and decided to stay there.

[@thebenis3157]

As an Italian who's heard many Romanians, I would say that there are 2 types of Romanians: those who sound like Italians speaking Russian and those who sound like Russians speaking Italian

[@tibork9668]

@aliman Rudaqi se refera probabil la moldoveni, accentul lor e mult mai slavicizat decat in restul tarii.

[@TheRomanTribune]

Hints? As an Italian and Spanish speaker it sounds straight Slavic with a hint of latin words that I'm able to read.

[@desiree2401]

@@TheRomanTribune That's hilarious. As a native romanian speaker, it doesn't sound slavic to me at all 😭

[@dianeblitzer1498]

I am so loving these videos! I have a lot of interest in languages, and a bit of experience trying on new ones during visits abroad. But an additional treat is experiencing the lively intelligence of the participants, and the extent to which that intelligence lights up their faces.

[@SZdzieb]

I'm native Polish speaker but I'm also fluent in both Spanish and French, and I found it suprisingly easy to understand him speaking Romanian. Languages are amazing riddle :)

[@ZupTepi]

Wow, some words are just like Sardinian: este=is, limba=language. Some others are completeley different. Very good job!

[@timg.5400]

Even more interesting is that is word is in Serbian / Croatian: jeste (yeste), Polish: jest (yest),… so very similar to este…

[@StrzelbaStian]

​@@timg.5400 It's because a lot of languages share a common ancestor - Proto-Indo-European, in which the imperfective verb 'to be' was '*h₁ésti'

[@timg.5400]

@@StrzelbaStian Yes I know, for instance also word for “they are” is similar in some Romance languages and some Slavic languages. For example in Spanish “ellos son”, this “son” is similar to Slovenian “so”, Czech “jsou” and so on…

[@allesindwillkommen]

@@timg.5400 You can literally make hundreds of volumes of books listing all examples of similarities between Indo-European languages. ;)

[@Jormone]

+ZupTepi Tu sei sardo giusto?XD(pure io)

[@dragosdrg2882]

DAMN, Finally, love and peace to the latin gang❤🇷🇴🇲🇫🇮🇹🇪🇦🇵🇹❤

[@TheRealWALLABI]

@@servantofaeie1569 bruh that's the flag of the city state of the Vatican. Though their official language is Latin, they mostly just speak Italian in most occasions and for most daily matters. Find me a flag of the SPQR and then we're talking :p

[@Jose.J316]

Te equivocaste de bandera camarada. Si, es español, pero es español mexicano el qué participa en éste ejercicio. Entonces sería... 🇲🇽🇫🇷🇵🇹🇷🇴🇮🇹 ¡Para que pinte más bonito! 😍

[@arianam9977]

@@Jose.J316 ¿Más bonito de qué? Lol. Él está hablando de las lenguas romances en general, así que tiene sentido que ponga la bandera de España, si no no hubiera puesto también la de Italia y Portugal. Y por cierto, el "francés" tampoco es de Francia, sino de Canadá ;)

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

Ariana M Yep. I’m Canadian and it would look weird if French was represented by Canadian flag, despite the French speaker being a fellow Canadian.

[@morganminaud1215]

LATIN GANG 👍🏻💪🏻

[@hajnalkabogdan5206]

Foarte tare! Amuzant! Distractiv! Util! Un mod plăcut de a învăța limbi!

[@lalogreiner]

I found it amazing how much Romanian resembles Latin!

[@razvanmarinescu3707]

Ik

[@bonsaimoldova]

Mulțumesc, man! În sfîrșit acest vidoe mult așteptat

[@KapsLocke]

I found Romanian very beautiful, a very syllabic pronunciation like my Brazilian Portuguese although at the same time completely different even though they share the same origin.

[@enzieme69]

This is fantastic! I can't believe this works! Bravo, frate!

[@Abrimaal]

Romanian sounds the closest to Latin. As Italian language became very melodic with elongated accents, Romanian and Spanish retained the pronunciation and rhythmics of Latin language.

[@Forlfir]

Romanian sounds more like a slavic language although they have some Latin-looking words

[@ppn194]

@@Forlfir Sardinian sounds closest to Latin. All Romance languages have sounds that have never been in Latin. Portuguese with ou, sh, j (French j) sounds much more closer to Slavic than Romanian.

[@trustme3676]

@@Forlfir "some latin-looking words", like 70% ?

[@mister_grizzlee5105]

@@Forlfir you good there m8? We inhereted more latin words than slavic ones.

[@gilbertcoserea]

@Trust Me maybe like 80-85%

[@aleksinatetka]

Guys, you're the best! Vlad, you did a good job and you are so enthousiastic, you tried your best and you did it ! Merci Marc, gracias Isidro, multumesc Vlad and last but never the least, dzięki Norbert! :)

[@Ecolinguist]

Thank you! 😃

[@roatskm2337]

I love the Romanian language! With my languages Bulgarian have a lot of common words! Greetings to my neighbours and every one else! Awesome video again Norbert! :)

[@Vercixx]

Romanian has 15%-20% of the common words borrowed from (old) Bulgarian. But most of the Romanians don't know this because the dictionary says the source is Slavonic.

[@mister_grizzlee5105]

@@Vercixx make it 12-14%, its more accurate

[@andreimaciuc2007]

Love you Bulgaria too ❤

[@roatskm2337]

@@andreimaciuc2007 :)

[@roatskm2337]

@@Vercixx Actually it's 12-15% of the Romanian vocabulary, and this includes all Slavic loanwords, not only from Bulgarian, there are Russian, Serbian and Slovak as well! :)

[@harrygiannini9583]

13:06 In Italian we say “cane” for say “dog” in fact came directly from Latin and is similar to “caine” in Romanian. “Cane” is the masculine form and “cagna” is the feminine form

[@aroma13]

Because that is where we,,inspired our word from" ,pretty much after romanians found out about their latin heratige, the latinisation process began where we would take words from other romance languages,find their latin root,and then take them through the changes that might have happened as latin evolved in the balkans

[@lucasribeiro7534]

In Portuguese, it's "cão" (masculine)/"cadela" (feminine).

[@asinglebraincell6584]

@@aroma13 I had no idea there was a latinisation process in Romanian ? Either way it's definitely one of the coolest languages imo

[@higochumbo8932]

I'm Spanish and I had actually never noticed how much like Italian Romanian actually sounds. Though it feels like Italian being spoken by someone from Portugal.

[@portishphonic]

Hit the nail on the head. Romanian is pretty much a Portuguese speaking Italian, while also adding a Slavic accent just for fun.

[@nerd893]

As an Italian i don't understand a word of what the romanian said 😅...But maybe the accent of some word sound like Italian. I think portuguese of Portugal sound much more similar.

[@Jormone]

@Nerd 89 Fra sei nei commenti spammando tue sporadiche opinioni negative su una lingua che dimostra il 77% di affinità lessicale con la nostra...perché lo fai? La gente si demotiva in questa maniera :/ E poi stai palesemente esagerando, voglio dire magari una frase o l'altra è complicata da comprendere, ma uscirtene con"non capisco niente"MADDAI...

[@nerd893]

@@Jormone Beh oddio, opinioni negative 😅 dico solo che non ho capito nulla e tutti qui a dire che assomiglia all'italiano...Boh forse assomiglia a qualche dialetto del sud visto che a quanto pare capiscono solo loro...Io non ho capito una parola...

[@SciDiFuoco13]

​@@nerd893 Leggendo i sottotitoli si nota la somiglianza di molte parole e un italiano dovrebbe riuscire a comprendere abbastanza il discorso, ma se ti limiti solo ad ascoltare allora concordo che è difficile capire qualcosa. Quindi non è che un italiano possa andare in Romania e comunicare senza conoscere il romeno e/o usare una lingua comune come l'inglese. Qualche anno fa ho fatto un viaggio in Romania e senza inglese non sarei riuscito a comunicare nulla.

[@SunsetLover89]

1. "Usturoi" is also called "Ai" in Romanian, which is very similar with both French and Spanish. 2. "Cântec" is also called "Cântare", which again is more similar with French and Spanish. 3. "Dulciuri" we use for sweets in general (The plural form of "Dulce", which is the sweet taste). 4. In Romanian we have "Cadru", similar to Spanish, which means frame. 5. The Romanian guy could have used "amic" instead of "prieten" in order to help them. It means the same thing: friend.

[@The_Gallowglass]

Cantrec, Cantare, Cancion are related to enchanted, which we use in English, or in the word recanted. We have words with dulce also in English, although they're not common parlance. Table or board we would use more for something that the painting or picture is on, or a square with information and media. I figured priaten was related to priatel in Russian, Polish, and Serbian for friend, but I wasn't sure that the French and Spanish speakers would get it. We might not say amic, but we have words like amicable and amiable in English of course.

[@razumikhim]

Ok but who the hell says "ai" instead of usturoi? Pe romaneste Cine dracu spune ai în loc de usturoi? Nu am auzit în viata mea sinonimul asta

[@SunsetLover89]

@@razumikhim Dar de mujdei ai auzit? Pentru că dacă da, atunci ai auzit și de ai. Mujdei = must de ai.

[@denisasujdea911]

SunsetLover89 eu am auzit de mujdei, sunt din Moldova, dar de "ai" niciodată

[@ovidiugraur8591]

@@razumikhim de ''ciorba aita'' ai auzit ? era mult mai folosit in trecut, si mai este si acum dar mai mult in zona rurala, literar s-a incetatenit usturoiul...dar nu de f multa vreme. :)

[@cosmarurifericite8815]

Isn't amazing how people can understand each other without speaking the same language?

[@amjan]

yes

[@ProstyChlopiec]

2000 years ago, their ancestors spoke the same language.

[@cuhpimp8084]

@@ProstyChlopiec yeah

[@CHARK941131]

Genial!! En español al "perro" (como raza en general) se le llama "can" en singular o "canes" en plural, también existe la opción "canino" y "caninos". Muy parecido a la palabra en Romano.

[@PopescuSorin]

yes, the romanian word "caine" comes from the latin world "canis". we also have "canin" meaning something about dogs, related to dogs

[@Ch-xk5tv]

el rumano me parece la lengua romanica más diferente de los demás. Hubo un gran influencia por los idiomas eslavas, pero también han preservado ciertos rasgos gramaticales que los lenguas romances del sur y oeste de europa han perdido