Can American identify GERMANIC languages? (Austria, Germany, Swiss) ㅣ GUESS THE NATIONALITY

Can you distinguish different German languages?
Today we had our American pannel Von try to guess who is from Germany by listening to different Germanic languages
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[@MK-il5tk]

It's actually variations of the German language, not different Germanic languages 😊 Other Germanic languages are for example English, Swedish or Dutch

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Nice 🇫🇷😑😒

[@carlolsen5120]

When German speakers refer to the Swiss and Austrian flavors of their language, they usually call it "Swiss German" or "Austrian German".

[@carlolsen5120]

Yeah, that's not how "Germanic" is used in the language world. It's not an idle distinction, since most people don't even realize English is a Germanic language.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

Fun fact: from a linguistic point of view they differ so much from standard German that they actually qualify as distinctive languages. But for political reasons they are considered dialects.

[@sagittariusa9012]

​@@helgaioannidis9365 It is not because of politics. Technically alemannic is considered as its own language but it isn't officially a language because it has no grammar defined for it.

[@-Eisenfaust-]

Fun fact: The Austrian Girl (Denise) speaks a Vorarlberg dialect that originates from the Allemanic dialect. The Swiss-German dialects are also Allemanic, as are the German dialects in Baden (Southwest Germany) and in Liechtenstein. However, this dialect is only spoken in Austria in Vorarlberg, most Austrians have a dialect that comes from the Bavarian dialect and sounds different. Some Austrians even find it difficult to understand Vorarlbergers.

[@henningbartels6245]

I found Denise' accent not quite so what people stereotypically expext from Austria: maybe someone from Vienna or Styria would have added a distinct color.

[@Vrig19]

@@henningbartels6245 as a lower austrian resident, it sounds like a sub-dialect somewhere in switzerland. in the east we have also very different vocabulary

[@chanhehee7947]

as a swiss i was actually so perplexed at how similar her dialect was with swiss german… i‘ve only ever interacted with austrians with a bavarian accent. There were only a few differences f.e. counting, word for cow, the foods and some other minor differences which you can only clearly recognize if you’re a native german speaker or very familiar with the german language

[@namenlos40]

@@henningbartels6245 Österreicher sprechen typischerweise bairische Dialektvarianten. Die Vorarlberger sind eine Ausnahme.

[@cas7559]

That's right. Every Bundesland has a different dialect. I, for example have a viennese dialect but I could immediately tell that Denise is from Vorarlberg because her dialect is so different from the other ones is Austria.

[@yashraj8844]

They all are speaking German (different dialects) Germanic languages are the group of languages spoken in western and norther Europe which are German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, English, Norwegian, Luxembourgish, Afrikaans and frisian.

[@CinCee-]

Could these 3 girls hold a convo in each of their dialects & understand eachother?

[@helgaioannidis9365]

​@@CinCee- the Austrian and the Swiss yes. Someone who's from northern Germany will have difficulty understanding a conversation in "Austrian German" and most likely not understand anything in a conversation in "Swiss German".

[@CinCee-]

@@helgaioannidis9365 What about someone who speaks High German.. is it easier for them to speak to a Swiss or Austrian?

[@lissandrafreljord7913]

​@@CinCee- Arent Austrian and Swiss German forms of High German? The Austrian dialect is normally grouped with the Bavarian and South Tyrol (spoken in Italy) dialect under the Bavarian umbrella, while Swiss German is grouped with the Swabian, Liechtensteiner, Alsatian (spoken in France), and those dialects in the rest of Baden Wuttenberg under the Alemannic umbrella.

[@jon-partlee-sayne]

To people who speak Elfdalian, Scots, Faroese, Limburgish or Afrikaans: I'm sorry this guy didn't mention you.

[@MK-il5tk]

Denise's dialect is actually from the most western part of Austria (Vorarlberg) which is close to Switzerland. You can also hear some similarities to Swiss German 😊 Other Austrian dialects are quite different from the Vorarlberg dialect

[@kuessebrama]

Yeah i was really confused because i never heard a austrian dialect like that :D

[@Slithermotion]

This sounds nothing like vorarlberg dialect imo.

[@SN8808]

It‘s both allemanic

[@LauraMagdalena]

I was confused bc I thought it was swissgerman

[@Gsudi]

​@@Slithermotion the dialect was 100% on spot. I am not shure from which town though.

[@vanessablumentrath7568]

Hi its me Vanessa( the german one) I actually had so much fun while filming it! I think I have to work on my expressions! Hehe thank you for watching this video ❤️

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

Hi Vanessa !!! Great video !!! Hello from Canada !!!

[@EddieReischl]

It looked like you got caught off guard on the one question where Denise answered classical music (Mozart, Haydn, Schubert), as if you were going to say the same thing (on account of Bach or Beethoven). Are you from Bayern like the other Germans have been? I thought if you were, perhaps you spoke standard German or else Von would have no chance of distinguishing between the three of you. I'm American.

[@vanessablumentrath7568]

@@EddieReischlno actually I didnt know what to say 😂 I was like oh.. techno? Pretzel?

[@Kev13LP]

Sehr sympathisch im Video, und erst recht mit Mogry Avatar! 🙃😃

[@nomaam9077]

Das war schon ein wenig unfair, du warst die einzige, die keinen Dialekt gesprochen hat.

[@calum5975]

The title is a bit misleading, and a common mistake. "Germanic" languages refer to languages from Icelandic to English to German to Dutch to Swedish. They're far more diverse than Standard Low German, Austrian (High German) and Swiss German. These are all considered forms of simply one Germanic language - German. Hell, the American is SPEAKING a Germanic language. English is Germanic! German does not equal Germanic. German is to Germanic as French is to Romance. In fact, Germany contains many languages that are not German. In the North East some speak Franconian, which is considered either a sister language of Dutch or a dialect of Dutch. High German (spoken in Bavaria and Austria) is sometimes considered its own language, seperate from Low German which is spoken in the North. Surely getting an American to compare German, Swedish, Danish and maybe Icelandic would have been far fairer.

[@PPandaPete]

True, but pretty sure Franconian is being spoken in North Bavaria or Middle Germany not North Germany. In North Germany you spoke lower Saxon, which together with dutch is Low German.

[@calum5975]

@@PPandaPete "Franconian" in German refers to a specific dialect / language of the Franconian languages. In English "Franconian" refers to the language family that includes Dutch (where the Franks were mainly from). It's very confusing I know

[@TS29er]

@@calum5975 Didn't know that, thank you!

[@timokohler6631]

I think you confused Franconian with Low German. Or maybe Ripuarian, but Franconian is a huge group of Dialects most of which are unrelated to dutch.

[@timokohler6631]

@@calum5975 The Franks actually lived mostly in modern day Belgium and the Ruhr Area. However they spread all over Europe. What is nowadays considered Franconia in Germany is actually historically the southwest of Franconia. It's especially confusing because the dialects are divided into lower, middle and upper Franconian, while the bavarian region of franconia also has the same three separations, although the distinctions are unrelated and they are actually all upper franconian dialects.

[@TotalAced]

As a swede, I'll still don't understand the confusion between Swiss and Swedish and I guess I never will...XD

[@enriquegonzaga3865]

Slovaks and Slovenians agree with you

[@OLIV3R_YT]

As a Swiss I don't get it either 😂 But Sweden is great so I guess that's OK 🇸🇪 🇨🇭

[@etherealicer]

I used to install computers (Dell) with a pre-loaded OS (Win98). The default country was Switzerland (as I installed them in Switzerland) but the Keyboard was set to Swedish by default :D

[@hollo0o583]

Only looking at language the way Swiss German pronounces things, it’s vowel shifts compared to standard German are a lot darker and a lot more similar to Scandinavian languages. And If I remember correctly Swedish isn’t as melodic as Norwegian thus sounds more similar to Swiss German. Of course the vocabulary is completely different between I can’t even guestimate what you guys are saying up there but it always takes a second to realise if I hear it on a train for example that it isn’t swiss german but a north germanic language.

[@Flotter-Flo]

Take solace in the fact that some Americans even mix up Austria and Australia, simply because they sound the same. That's like confusing America and Armenia XD

[@bobtheplumber5816]

"Ok, who's the most famous person in your country?" Germany and Austria: *Painfully sweating*

[@FullHouseFanatic]

😂

[@hamzarahal4763]

They would say proudly: *HETLER*

[@dersteppenwolf5458]

Ha ha ha 😅 I was thinking about him too... Lol 😂

[@henriq19]

I've been waiting so long for a video with german language ( not just from Germany ) , lovely ladies 🇩🇪🇨🇭🇦🇹

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Not cool for us Latin European Languages and yet that hasn't been forthcoming When World Friends is gonna host us. 🟦⬜🟥🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇦🇵🇹😠

[@kehleaufgrossemstein]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Cry me a river

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

@@kehleaufgrossemstein I thought you were shutdown command

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

Me too 🤗🤗🤗

[@hr3178]

As a native German speaker I totally would have gotten the left girl wrong. I would have put both, the left and the right girl into Switzerland. But as the left girl is from Vorarlberg, which is very close to Switzerland, this might be the reason. She definitely has some more "swiss" in her accent than other Austrians.

[@Freezee]

As a swiss I can confirm that

[@marvin42thg34]

As a Swiss, from her introduction alone, she could very well be from one of the eastern cantons. It get's clearer later on though, lots of "oa" sounds we don't have at all, a clear "k" and other subtleties

[@wolfgangpreier9160]

Schwaben - Baden Würtemberger, Ksiberger - aka Vorarlberger and Schwyzer are the same folk. They just happen to live in different countries.

[@etherealicer]

Yeah, but the counting gave it away. And of course Mozart und Schwarzenegger vs. Chocolate and Federer.

[@wolfgangpreier9160]

@@etherealicer Its funny that Moart was actually not Austrian. He was born in Salzburg, which was not Austrian at that time and his father was German. Best you can say is Mozart was European living in Vienna most of the time. Yes, Chocolate is Swiss no question about it. I question Arnie. He is more Californian than Styrian.

[@juwen7908]

Funny that he thought, that swiss sounds most softly, because in Germany we would say swiss sounds harsh. Mostly because in Germany we have two ways to pronounce the 'ch'. At some words soft and at some not. But in swiss german its pronounced always harsh. That sounds a bit rough, at least to me as someone from the north of Germany. Greetings from Berlin 😎

[@andyx6827]

Yup, three reasons: 1) Swiss people trill every single "R" like in Russian, whereas Germans speak a soft "R" like in French (French is beautiful, right?) and most Rs aren't even pronounced at all. 2) Swiss people often pronounce a hard guttural raspy "Ch" where Germans pronounce a clean "Ch". 3) Swiss people often even turn the letter "K" into a "Ch" as well... So just based on phonetics, Swiss German is *objectively* harsher. Dilara does have a beautiful voice and friendly intonation though.

[@Vosgor_OW]

i agree with you! it's hard for me to do the soft "ch" but we learn and use it in school when talking "high german" greetings from st. gallen :)

[@feuerschlange6374]

​@@Vosgor_OW yeah, teachers really like to taunt you with this. At least mine did.

[@jaredtalbeaux8102]

Nahh swiss is way softer when you look at it overall. Just because the swiss say few letters harsher doesnt mean they talk harsher. The overall sounding in rhythmic from talking by germans are way harscher.

[@etherealicer]

Swiss has some syllables/pronounciations that sound harsh. While Germans speak like a machine gun, which makes all they say sound harsh. I think the two sound harsh for different reasons. Also, the way Swiss phrase things is more softly, while Germans will be more direct (or efficient/honest if you prefer): Chönnti bitte e Wurscht ha? (Könnte ich bitte eine Wurs haben?) vs Ich kriege eine Wurst!

[@texcolo5748]

They all speak in German language! Not in various Germanic languages!

[@MrGunnar69]

Not him, he speaks a Germanic language.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

They all speak German languages with some slight differences when it comes vocabularies

[@hy3na739]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 not just vocabulary.. Swiss German has different Grammar also... It should be considered a different language tbh...

[@timokohler6631]

@@hy3na739 Thats nonsense, every dialect violates the standard german grammar rules, doesn't make a new language.

[@heinwlod3895]

@@hy3na739 My dialect (Ripuarian) ticks all the boxes just as swiss German: it is not intelligible for people from other parts of Germany without intense prior exposure and it violates the rules of standard German. It still is no seperate language, just as Swiss German is no seperate language.

[@namenlos40]

The title should read whether he could identify German dialects. Because they speak the same language, namely German.

[@pascal2554]

No thats not true. They speak austrian german, swiss german and german. Most germans dont understand swissgerman

[@javu6645]

​@@pascal2554still the same language

[@maximoritzleo]

​@@pascal2554 yes, they speak High GERMAN, Austrian GERMAN and Swiss GERMAN, same language but different dialects.

[@pascal2554]

@@maximoritzleo do you consider portugese and spanish as the same language? Thats how close swiss german is to high german

[@nicomelgares]

@@pascal2554 thats not true! i'm half swiss, half spanish. portuguese and spanish are far more apart from each other than swissgerman and highgerman.

[@henriq19]

if the ladies spoke the name of the country in german , Österreich (Austria ) , Deutschland ( Germany ) and Schweiz ( Switzerland ) he probably wouldn't guess

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

All of 3 them and us French were part of the Frankish Empire of Emperor Charlemagne.⬛🟨 We 🇫🇷 were also part of the Germanic Tribe after Fallen Roman Empire 🟥🦅

[@Anglo-Saxon_familie]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 French people are Gallo-roman. Only normandie has Anglo-Saxon and Norse blood from history. But your culture is Latin with a Romance language. You are NOT Germanic. The true Franks came from the Netherlands, Luxemburg, the Rheinland.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

@@Anglo-Saxon_familieSomeone know our History which is complexe. We were Gallo Romans with Celtic culture. Normandie 🟥🦁 was part of England during the Hundred Years until we took it back 🟦⚜️. We are the real Franks We were Germanic for a short period of time.

[@n_other_1604]

She would have said Schwiz in swiss german which I think would have gave it away.

[@AixlaachenPax1801]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 I'm pretty sure England was a vassal to France exactly because Normandy was a vassal to France they never were separate entities Normandy was always a part of France. Yet England ceased to be part of the France Kingdom after the hundred years war when the Plantagenet the French family that ruled over England ceased to have claims over the entire Kingdom of France and had to be contempt with just England.

[@Hannah-cy7cn]

Their faces when he talks about German chocolate 😭

[@celinam.2513]

I mean Germany has nice Chocolate Brands too but in comparison to Switzerland we all suck when it comes to Chocolate😅

[@Moon_.flower]

Yeah as someone from switzerland I was like: 👁️👄👁️

[@ILikeNarrowOne_Teddybears_404]

Lind &Sprüngli is my favorite from all the different kinds that exist

[@ILikeNarrowOne_Teddybears_404]

I get it all from Migros

[@Dennis-xl7ei]

I think he means PANZERSCHOKOLADE!!!!

[@jaimetabilo2005]

I love the Swiss girl's accent. Sounds soft and elegant.

[@hy3na739]

Yes' her's is nice... But there are so many different one's... I wouldn't consider my own Swiss German dialect soft and elegant at all lol...

[@TS29er]

As a German, Swiss German is everthing but soft and elegant, no offense :) But that's something I hear a lot from foreigners like English native speakers and I wonder what's the reason for that. My first guess would be the different intonation and rhythm through the numerous abbreviations compared to standard German.

[@roesi1985]

I think that's her personality, most of all. Swiss German often sounds quite rough because of the "ch"-sound. People from other countries often say that it sounds as if we were fighting constantly.

[@TheMahlyenkidyavol]

​@@TS29er I wonder the same thing about Dutch.

[@nanamille8676]

I think it's just her voice and intonation. Not really her accent

[@chanhehee7947]

and of course switzerland was being confused as sweden… as a swiss person that gives me a huge headache, not because i don’t like sweden, but more like these are two VERY different countries! Switzerland is in the middle of europe and probably most known for that we are „neutral“, Sweden is way up north, has access to the sea and they have ABBA… THE ONLY thing we have in common is that our countries name starts with „SW“

[@cheman579]

Yeah because he thought smörgåsbord was Swiss when it's actually Swedish, which is what he was trying to get when he said cheese board with meat on it I was like how do you not know that the å vowel is almost only Swedish/Nordic and isn't in German, Austrian or Swiss

[@rogerschmid6860]

...starts with "Sw..."? No, thats only the english Translation. There is no country named Sweden or Switzerland

[@zaixai9441]

Sweden is known to be pretty neutral too tbh.

[@Kessra]

Fun fact, after WW1 Vorarlberg wanted to join Switzerland as they share almost the same language compared to the rest of Austria, but Switzerland feared that by Vorarlberg joining Switzerland it could lead to a shift from a more or less equal split among protestants/evangelists and katholics religions in favor of the latter as Vorarlberg is rather katholic dominated, like the rest of Austria.

[@10denise12]

Heya it's Denise from the Video, please remember we are all just people in the end so no need to comment rude things about anyone :)

[@EdgarRenje]

To be exactly right: there are even more dialects in each of those three countries. Germans from Germany (e.g. Bavaria) can sound like Austrian closer to the border. People from the North have similarities with Danish and Dutch, and people from West or East Germany sound different again. It's the same in Austria and Switzerland.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

The Germanic countries are almost similar. Just some slight differences

[@calum5975]

​@@christophermichaelclarence6003 The video title is a bit misleading. "Germanic" refers to all the various Germanic languages, which ranges from German to English to Swedish to Icelandic. This video is more accurately "The German Dialects". All of the languages in this video are dialects of German. Now, it's another argument altogether if Bavarian is it's own language, High German and Low German tend to be classed as two languages by linguists, but politically it's all just German.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

@@calum5975 Germany, Switzerland and Austria are the closest ones and where the Germanic Languages started before spreading out up like you mentionned like England, Denmark, Norway But not us French. But we were once of the Germanic Tribes for a short period time under Frankish Empire of Emperor Charlemagne 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇨🇭🇱🇺🇧🇪🇳🇱🇦🇹

[@calum5975]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 the Germanic languages started in Scandinavia, they spread south during the early iron age. German evolved out of proto Germanic dialects spoken around the North East of what is now Germany. English from the Dialects spoken around the North West and Danish borders. Dutch from Frankish etc. Icelandic is considered to be the "purest" Germanic language as it remained relatively isolated on the island. German, funnily enough, has been heavily influenced by Slavic and romance languages. It's far from the original Germanic language, which is why hearing 'german' and 'germanic' get used interchangeably is kinda ignorant

[@arthur_p_dent]

@@calum5975 actually Faroese is considered even "purer" than Icelandic, as the Faroese really avoid foreign terms, even terms that are very commonplace such as "telephone" or "internet", using originally Germanic words instead. As for German - well, our share of originally Germanic vocabulary is still far higher than that of English, where less than 50% are Germanic, the rest being mostly French or Latin.

[@juniatamc]

The Person from Austria is from course to the Swiss border. Her accent sounds quite similar to a Swiss accent to me.

[@ronin667]

For added difficulty, the person from Austria speaks a Vorarlberg dialect, which is very different from the dialects spoken in the rest of Austria, and a lot closer to Swiss dialects.

[@2dimitropolis370]

This was so eye opening. So different dialects

[@christopheran-traumer4377]

Please update the title of the video because it’s misleading and incorrect. The guy is guessing dialects of German (just one language), not guessing different Germanic languages such as Swedish, Dutch and German.

[@bremexperience]

American confuses Sweden with Switzerland, typical. :)

[@namenlos40]

At least he didn't confuse Austria with Australia :-)

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

@@namenlos40 Well, then. G'day mate !! 😆

[@sebastianpleil1677]

You guys definitely deserved a sub! Hätt mir nia denkt dass zmol a Vorarlbergerin kunnt - aber super gsi!

[@bannedcommander2932]

There are so many dialects in Switzerland that it's hard to describe one as representative of the rest. Some words will be pronounced differently or even completely change from one town to the next. Some dialects might sound like different languages to the uninitiated, but speakers will usually understand each other. Well, unless there is someone from Upper Valais. That will sound like a completely different language regardless. Oh, and about Swiss beer: Almost everyone drinks Feldschlosschen and then rants about how bad it is. Does that count as popular? Probably.

[@Donknowww]

I would say Quöllfrisch is equally popular and way way better. I drinke ke Feldgülle meh. 😂 Burgdorfer und Berner Müntschi isch o super.

[@namenlos40]

The Austrian doesn't speak a typical Austrian dialect. She is from western Austria and speaks an Alemannic dialect, which is only spoken there and more similar to the Alemannic Swiss dialect than to the Bavarian, which is spoken in the rest of Austria.

[@juwen7908]

Hey, you should do this with someone from Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg speaking german. Would be interesting 😉 Greetings from Berlin 😎

[@calum5975]

"who's the most famous person from your country" - Austrian sweats

[@tobyk.4911]

Ah, ok, thats why she said the "most famous person (still) *alive* "

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

There are a few: Mozart, Falco, Schwarzenegger, Freud .. Who else?

[@calum5975]

@@JosephOccenoBFH uhmmm... The most famous Austrian ever. Certain little Moustache man who failed art school.

[@rale09]

They’re referring to Hitler 😅

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

@@calum5975 Hail Fürher

[@user-bs4qu7tb2g]

While the video itself was interesting to watch, I think the presentation was a bit confusing, since we as an audience never knew what or who he was responding to. He kept saying "Oh, I think she is the one" or "I'll go with her over there, but I'm not sure" without anyone of us knowing what the question in that one moment even was, like as if it was cut out. Also he seemed to be a bit misled about the term "germanic language", since the video was more about different national varieties of the German language(s). Germanic is a way broader term, which might have led to him bringing Danish and Swedish into the mix.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Nice😑

[@pjschmid2251]

Please either reduce the volume of the music drastically or leave it out entirely. These women are so soft-spoken and the music is just drowning them out. Please ditch the music.

[@Nasengold]

The funny part is that the harsh and sharp German-German is the easiest to understand for everyone. It's like very defined and precise. It's also more academic in a sense. Even academics from Swiss and Austria try to sound more like that. And it's usually like this: the more remote and regional, the harder the people are to understand. German-German or Highgerman works everywhere tho. It's a very universal style of German but for someone who grew up speaking Highgerman it can be very difficult to understand the reagional dialects, whereas the people from that region have no trouble understanding Highgerman.

[@yasminesteinbauer8565]

All three spoke German and it was probably also their native language. It was also completely unclear what was actually the goal in the video.

[@--julian_]

I think it was about the accents, like the Spanish language videos they make

[@evothenew3333]

​@@--julian_ The title is inaccurate though. These are German dialects not Germanic languages.

[@arthur_p_dent]

@@--julian_ maybe. Of course, the Austrian girl spoke an Allemanic dialect which is very similar to the equally Alemannic dialect of the Swiss girl. Not to mention that Allemanic dialects are being spoken in parts of Germany, too. In fact, there is a far greater variety of dialects within Germany, than between these 3 speakers of German.

[@--julian_]

@@evothenew3333 I agree, but i cut them some slack because they are a Korean channel. they could use a spell and grammar check tho

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

@@--julian_ I just let it be .. What matters is the entertainment we get. WF is a Korean production.

[@hannekehartkoorn5987]

These people are all speaking GERMAN, not germanic, just different varieties or dialects (like there's English, and Australian, Indian or American as variety). Germanic languages are Dutch, Frysian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian. And English.

[@bufferl]

german, austrian and swiss can understand each other. It's only the dialect from different german languages to native german :)

[@Blanko1998]

hell no :D If a swiss person speaks fast I can understand nothing xD A few years ago I would have said the same about austrian german (I couldn't even understand bavarian back than) but I got better at understanding different dialetcs^^

[@jobgabriel1]

If that swiss person is from Kanton Wallis, it could be even harder for german people to understand 😅

[@Vosgor_OW]

even as a swiss person i have problems understanding somebody from kanton wallis lol

[@DarthClyan]

Germans have big trouble understanding swiss in the beginning

[@PsychedSushi43]

@@Vosgor_OW same

[@evothenew3333]

This title is confusing stuff. Germanic languages doesn't mean German dialects. These are 2 different things. All these people speak German which is one of the Germanic languages. The American guy also speak a Germanic language too. Languages like Dutch, Swedish, etc. Are Germanic too.

[@Ana_Al-Akbar]

Could you replace the "GERMANIC" in the title by "GERMAN"? Thank you.

[@EddieReischl]

I like how Von was trying to be sly in the beginning, but I think if Denise had answered Osterreich, I don't know if he'd have got much from that. A fun guessing game for me would be guessing where Vanessa is from, more specifically. I'll guess Brandenburg, cause her accent is starting to sound a little bit like the pretty Polish woman from a few videos ago. She used "hallo" instead of "servus", maybe she was trying to stick to standard German, but Bavarian would be "servus", I think. Germans, how far off am I? The Swiss also make wonderful wine, I can attest to that from sampling my Grandpa and Great-Grandpa Sohm's stash back in the day.

[@neschuaayari83]

I am German I couldn’t tell you where she is from. Servus is pretty much only used in the south. She is spoke standard German so she literally could be from anywhere

[@fionatasarek910]

@@neschuaayari83 but she might have said moin instead of hallo if she was from the coast so probably more like lower saxony, brandenburg…

[@andyx6827]

Oh god :D This video is so triggering on so many levels :D If you're talking about German, then please use the word "German", not "Germanic". English is also Germanic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Dutch, Luxembourgish are also Germanic. This video was specifically about German, so please use German. When comparing different types of Spanish, you didn't call it "Romanic" the whole time, did ya? Same thing. Also, all three of them are "native German" speakers. That's the whole point :D German German is not more "NaTiVe" than Austrian German or Swiss German. Also it's kinda weird that they chose someone from Vorarlberg for Austria. Vorarlberg has an allemannic dialect, just like Switzerland and the southwestern part of Germany. So she wasn't really representative of Austro-Bavarian, which is the most common in Austria. That being said, I enjoyed it, looking forward to more :)

[@mimamo]

Those are not different Germanic languages, but different German dialects. ;) Different Germanic language would be German, English and Dutch.

[@Robotecnica]

Most Americans don't even know where Austria, Germany and Switzerland are

[@mirkoklein4561]

I love how the Austrian Girl added: "alive" to the request of the most famous person from her country - good idea! Schwarzenegger was a good hint there. I was a little bit suprised, that he sayed he didn't know where any of the three are from.

[@danilopapais1464]

Didn't even hear the "alive" part, that's why I was confused by her answer.

[@HelmutQ]

@@danilopapais1464 Asking for the most famous Austrian is always very awkward to embarrassing.

[@fionatasarek910]

@@HelmutQ yeah but even she would´ve said Hitler he probably would´ve thought Germany

[@HelmutQ]

@@fionatasarek910 Perfect with me when foreigners take Hitler for a German, and Beethoven for an Austrian, I'm Austrian. Schrödinger was definitely an important Austrian and to some legal extent even Tesla.

[@etherealicer]

@@fionatasarek910 And because he was German too... (German citizenship / born in Austria, but renounced Austrian citizenship). So, Hitler is both Austrian and German.

[@Ch-xk5tv]

That austrian girl speaks an Allemanic Dialect, which is quite the same as Swiss German (obviously she comes from Vorarlberg, the westernmost province). Allemanic is not typical for the rest of Austria. 95% of Austria speak Bavarian dialects, Vienna, Salzburg or Tyrol for example. Additionally, the German girl didn't speak much dialect at all, it was Standard German (that could be heard in Switzerland or Austria too). Maybe people start to think that in Germany they don't have dialects and speak a pure Standard German, but that is not true. In Germany, there is a big variety of dialects spoken all across the country, I think that is the reason why it is impossible to figure out a typical german dialect of german

[@JohnStoneman100]

Yes, it's the same in Austria - the slang changes a bit always after about 150 km in any direction.

[@esrohm6460]

german chocolate is probably famous in the us. in te eu everyone knows that swiss and belgium chocolate is king but germany has milka and thats like the pure sweetness that fits right into the american marked.

[@gulliverthegullible6667]

There is more than Milka to German chocolate. Whatever you pick, it will certainly be a lot better than the American or Australian chocolate. But at the end of the day, who cares whether it is Swiss, German or Austrian? You can buy it all in Germany. National pride in products is pointless.

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

Toblerone is the best. 😋

[@esrohm6460]

@@philippvogel9547 well mondelez, the parent company, says it was founded in germany so i just went with that because i was not sure

[@gulliverthegullible6667]

@@philippvogel9547 true, and I forgot about that. My point is that it doesnt matter.

[@anndeecosita3586]

I’ve never heard anyone in the USA speak on German chocolate other than German Chocolate cake. But that’s me. Swiss chocolate is gets a lot of promotion here as the best to the point where when my friend and I had a layover in Zurich we intentionally looked for some to buy in the airport.

[@hollish196]

Liked this a lot!

[@Mokuu8]

Vorarlbergerisch und Schweizer-Deutsch hört sich halt fast gleich an, was ja auch klar is wenns direkte Nachbarn sind. Als Österreicher hörst da zwar schon unterschiede aber jemand der das nie gehört hat kann das schwer auseinander halten. Vorarlbergerisch and Swiss-German almost sound the same, they are direct neighbours. As an Austrian you hear differences, but someone who has never heard them can hardly tell them apart.

[@HansJuergBangerter]

In my part of Switzerland each town or village has a French and German name, Biel-Bienne, Twann-Tavannes, Ins-Anet, Ligerz-Germesse,Zihl-Thielle, Mundwyler-Montilier also I have seen 2 people having a long conversation one speaking French the other Swiss German. Mixing. French-German is rare for us in the Bilingual parts of Switzerland, sure we never knew the German words for Toilette, Trottoir, Trottinet, Tabouret, Cotellete, Cornet, Glacé,Cervelat, etc. also we had neighbours who only spoke French and as kids we spoke both.

[@lalainaramarivelo]

Voilà ;)

[@stevecody321]

Twann/Douanne, Tavannes/Dachsfelden, Ligerz/Gleresse Bitte gerne geschehen / Avec plaisir :)

[@japaris75]

Austrian German is native German.....from Austria (and also from Bavaria up to a point.....and Bavaria is in Germany). I just don't get why he thinks only Germany German is native German. We have German in Eastern Belgium as well and we know it is native German....with a lot of French words like Swiss German has

[@JulianGutie]

When they said the most famous persone for their country Ive gotten who was the German, the Austrian and the Swiss…this American man needs to know more about culture

[@karllogan8809]

But that would be unAmerican 😁

[@celinam.2513]

Especially Merkel. You don't have to know a lot about international politics to know her name😅🤦‍♀️

[@JohnStoneman100]

Great video! Well done!

[@eisenritter7805]

fix the title. there is only one germanic language here, german. they speak different variations of german.

[@BunterAlltag]

Great video, but there are actually just two Germanic languages in this video: English and German. Those lovely ladies just speak varieties or dialects of a Germanic language.

[@Ice_V]

Swiss German was the most specific and hardest for me to guess. I like how Denise's Austrian German sounds😍 5:02 Are you serious? About 90% 'll guess where are they from after that. It was a bad idea to name that famous people (But I was surprised that Von didn't know smn 🤣 Even Arnie🤯🤯)

[@Ch-xk5tv]

@@user-kq2we1ex3h It was in fact the same dialect. Denise obviously comes from Vorarlberg, the westernmost state of Austria. In Vorarlberg and Switzerland (of course the german speaking part) they speak the allemanic dialect. 95% of Austria speaks Bavarian. So it would be hard to encounter a person speaking like her in Vienna or Graz

[@etherealicer]

Phonetically the biggest giveaway was counting. At least to me.

[@MrLOLCraftLP1]

I think you guys should do this with german dialects like North Frisian or low german. Low german especially is complicated if you never heard it before, for example the word go out. In high german it is "ausgehen" and in low german "aufn Swutsch gehen" or "längs de Glitschen gohn". Low german is strange, even if you can speak it.

[@Frieza_88]

That was so funny, i dont speak german but the swiss girl had some italian and french accent there which are languages in switzerland. The austrian girl was easy because i know how to count to 10 and she said it differently so by default i got the german too.

[@daniiiiij6695]

O3:30 I was sure she'd say Fäldschlössli (Feldschlösschen). I could be wrong but I think it's the most popular beer in Switzerland. Or at least most common.

[@arty7926]

It is very common, but Quöllfrisch is popular too

[@audikool]

Most famous people gave it away. This guy doesn't know anything.

[@lucone2937]

Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Angela Merkel and Roger Federer.

[@momonatu4998]

Vorarlberg is next to Swissland so they speak in a very similar way. That's not representative of the Austrian German. You should have chosen people from the capitals of each country. That would have been more accurate.

[@allegradenifl984]

As someone from Vorarlberg I was so happy to see/hear her in this video haha😂

[@AT-rr2xw]

I must admit that I did a nervous snort when he asked who the most famous person from their country was and the Austrian had to go first with no prep time. I don't know if Swiss German accents are necessarily softer. I remember hearing some Swiss Germans and their speech was ROUGH...or maybe the German person speaking to them was softening her own accent to make theirs sound rougher in comparison; I don't know.

[@andyx6827]

Yeah, when asked for a famous person from her country, the Austrian girl even said: "Alive? Arnold Schwarzenegger" 😂 I wonder what she would've said if dead ones were allowed :D Mozart, right? RIGHT? 😅

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

@@andyx6827 Mozart, Freud, Falco among the non-living ones .. 😄😉

[@12tanuha21]

@@andyx6827 Kaiser Maximilian I

[@HelmutQ]

I'm afraid the most famous Austrian abroad is quite embarrassing.

[@IcequeenNarzissa]

As a german with a lot of bavarian family members I can understand Denise just fine, austrian dialects are okay, some of them are close to bavarian. Personally I speak standard german with a slight hessian dialect, not much tho, bcs I grew up there. But jfc, switzerdeutsch is haaard af, I legit need subtitles. also rip american education system, not knowing angela merkel is… pheww

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

Are we Franco German still ally after all those years since WW2 to these days I meant since the Treaty of Élysée 1963 signed by our French President Charles de Gaulle and your old Chancelor Adenauer Konrad 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪

[@EddieReischl]

I apologize on behalf of Americans everywhere, but yeah, if I were to start saying names like Helmut Schmidt und Helmut Kohl, 1 out of 1000 Americans would know who these people were.

[@Englishman-_-Mongolia2022]

​@@christophermichaelclarence6003 just stop. Not everything is about France

[@hy3na739]

As a Swiss person I can agree... Swiss German dialects are weird af... For example "Chäschueche em Chochichästli" with each "CH" being a hard one... xD

[@anndeecosita3586]

Knowing who Angela Merkel is has nothing to do with the American education system. I actually question your education system if you think a recent German chancellor is supposed to be a topic of discussion in an American classroom. When I was in school we didn’t discuss current or recent political leadership within classroom instruction other than names of our governor and president. We talked about people who were mostly dead and had long been out of office. Actually I think this is best because not everyone thinks a classroom is an appropriate setting to discuss current politics and some parents might think the school is trying to indoctrinate their children. Knowing who she is would be related to keeping up with current events. We discussed current events at my school as part of speech and debate which was an extracurricular activity. These conversations were among the students not with teachers. I also suspect that the way she said Angela Merkel’s name might have thrown him a bit because that’s not how an American English speaker would typically say it. I understood her though. Just like when foreigners pronounce the names of famous people from the USA, I don’t always immediately catch what they are saying because of their pronunciation. Also they mentioned Roger Federer and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Von had no idea where they were from. IMO Arnold is much more known worldwide than Angela and is the former governor of California. So I was more surprised Von didn’t know he was Austrian.

[@mbl1154]

Well you could do the same with 3 different Swiss German dialects. Like Wallis, Thurgau and maybe Graubünden or Zürich

[@etherealicer]

Glarnerland... they have some really odd pronounciations for certain words like ten :D However, just ask how they say "puddle/throwing and paper-bag"... very telling.

[@bahioTeixeira]

I think I'd get right because the Swiss one speaks indeed softer, so I'd think she has some french/Italian influence perhaps

[@mattiaberruti7288]

He does not know where Arnold and Roger come from. He is definetively from the US 😂

[@linelisbeth]

as an austrian: Denise is from the province with the strongest accent I'd say, the average austrian doesn't really have that dialect and if it weren't for the actual Swiss Woman I would've thought she was Swiss tbh haha

[@RustingPeace]

Die ist vom Voralberg, üblicherweise wird in Österreich der Bayrische Dialekt gesprochen nur nicht in Voralberg.

[@domi240295]

Als Schweizer sage ich es gerade ungekehrt, Vorarlberg hat am wenigsten Akzent

[@bambyce]

Knowing that there are other languages makes him overqualified to be referred to as American

[@Afterthefallout55660]

The Swiss is cute!!! I love the schocki part. It melts your heart like chocolate

[@Anglo-Saxon_familie]

Mein familie 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇦🇹

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

🇫🇷😒😔

[@andyx6827]

​@@christophermichaelclarence6003 How butthurt can you be?

[@namenlos40]

"...i like to play computer games" "...what do you like to do for fun?" :-)

[@alexb.7035]

The Austrian girl (Vorarlberg) has a Swiss accent. The Arlberg tongue is the Austrian dialect which is closest to Swiss German. Even Austrians and Vorarlberger agree that they are more Swiss than Austria. A real Austrian girl from Vienna or lower /upper Austria would sound quite different to number 1.

[@rafhadalto]

Living in Germany and working in a Swiss company.... it was interesting how the Swiss German stands out from the other 2....

[@anndeecosita3586]

I admit I wasn’t sure until they said famous people from their country. I’m surprised Von didn’t get it right then but maybe the accent pronunciation threw him off. Angela Merkel = Germany. Arnold Schwarzenegger = Austria. Roger Federer = Swiss Interesting story. My friend and I were dining at a fine dining restaurant in Madrid. We didn’t chose the restaurant. A tourism industry person did because my friend owns a travel companion and is supposed to try restaurants to see if her clients might like them. TBH I wasn’t happy with the food because it didn’t taste good, and we had to pay a lot for the meal. The waiter came over and told us Roger Federer was seated at the next table over. I told my friend “That does it. if Roger Federer can afford to eat here then we are definitely at the wrong place.” 😂😂😂

[@ProfSnusk]

Love it. Greetings from Switzerland🇨🇭

[@purplesatyr9049]

in austria there are so many different dialects the austrian girl is probably from vorarlberg in Vienna you speak extremly different

[@piastadler1558]

Sie kummt us Vorarlberg

[@DieBlutigeLynn]

As a German, these are really easy to distinguish. :)

[@JoysSchnitzel]

As a Swiss, I'm so surprised that Austrian German sounds so similar to Swiss German! The Austrians I heard so far sounded much more like German, I'm intrigued 😮

[@nage7438]

the reason for it to sound so similar is because Denise is from Vorarlberg which if you didn't know is the Bundesland that borders Switzerland. In Vorarlberg they speak an allemannic dialect which is really close to Swiss German. After the Second World War (maybe WW1 or in-between world wars, not sure) the Vorarlberger population actually wanted to join the Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft but the Swiss Government rejected that request otherwise Vorarlberg would be part of Switzerland today.

[@javeenzala5419]

Hesch rächt 😂

[@bvb_Dennis_1896]

eyy han imfall zersh fr denkt dass die links dÖssi ish.. has ersh später chekt hahaha

[@gracesgr8t]

After they said the names of the famous people from their countries, I knew which country they were all from

[@mimamo]

And I knew he was definitely American, because he had no idea who any of they were, lol. Especially not knowing Merkel or even Schwarzenegger, who was not just a famous athlete, movie star but also an American governor. Please educate yourself more, America. ;)

[@asdasasada722]

Contested number 2 should have spoken some dialect :D like bavarian or something, that would be interesting ;) Or the rhine dialect

[@hy3na739]

Döu lüt sääge Schwiizerdütsch sig ned e eignigi Sprooch ond aues woni doderzue cha sääge esch: Chäschueche em Chochichästli... Also, Präteritum? Never heard of it... Chame das ässe?

[@Sanzianabel]

there are dialects of german, not other Germanic languages…

[@inkubusarchitektde]

Swiss german, austrian german and standardgerman or highgerman are dialects of the german language tree like bavarian, swabian, pommeranien, northgerman, flattgerman, frankonian and so on, but the german language as a whole only is a part of the germanic language tree with norwegian, dannish, swedish, netherlandish, afrikaans, english, icelandish, faerorerish.

[@richardmangelmann4975]

Impressive that he was able to guess Swiss

[@AleaumeAnders]

Gosh, that WAS insulting to the poor swiss girl. German chocolate compares to swiss chocolate as american chocolate compares to german chocolate. Basically it comes down to swiss chocolate = marvelous, german chocolate = acceptable and american ... let's be polite and "no comment".

[@Freezee]

That‘s not germanic languages, that’s german dialects (variations of german). Please guys, if you‘re a language channel you should at least get the main thing right…

[@mimamo]

They don't seem to care AT ALL. Everybody has been telling them that for a week already.

[@Freezee]

@@mimamo I find it unbelievable that this channel is run by people who are apperently not interested in languages, cause if they were they‘d definetly care about their titles and how correct those are…

[@jeanginodoux828]

I am a Swiss guy whose mother tongue is French but I live in a town where many people also speak Swiss German. Sorry but in my opinion Swiss dialects are not sweet at all, unlike this guy considered in this video (especially Bernese and dialects from Wallis and some other alpine regions): they actually have a very harsh, guttural and throaty pronunciation. Let's just take the example of a cheeseboard at 5:39: it is "Käseplatte" in standard German, but it becomes "Rrrhäseplatte" with a very pronunced "R" in Swiss German 😅

[@robinkid9769]

This guy has a very good understanding of the sounding of the German language for somebody that does not speak German at all. I'm kind of baffled about it.

[@kecleonboi]

No hate on him but why not get someone who is a little more familiar with linguistics ?????

[@--julian_]

english is a germanic language too

[@arthur_p_dent]

the whole video isn't about languages anyway. Just about varieties of German. And poorly selected varieties at that.

[@wolfgangpreier9160]

We have different dialects in villages that are not more than 10km apart. Now imagine 100km difference! We have at least 5 different native languages in not more than 20 km around here. German, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian and Krowot - a early form of croatian., the earlier languages from the celts and pannonier have gone extinct.

[@user-dv7xd2pb6n]

The red head one is sooo beautiful...

[@its_tomtrn127]

those are German languages. they're Germanic but from the same Germanic language and not different

[@rungupuputherlambang6853]

It's not GERMANIC it's the German language, revise your title !!!

[@saschawertli9381]

Me, a Swiss, mentally preparing to here "Fäldschlössli" as a popular beer in switzerland and instead getting the national soft drink rivella...

[@MM-si4sw]

Imo, here we only here three different 'accents' of the same language (German). An accent is mainly the unique pronounciation of a language, as seen here, a dialect is a sub-category of a language that contains more unique features than just pronounciation, e.g. also grammatical differences, and usually people speaking different dialects of a language don't understand each other. Example would be Cantonese and Mandarin being Chinese dialects, but American English would just be an English accent. But of course, the word dialect in English is not used in such an adacemically consistent way.

[@janslavik5284]

I love how the Austrian German language jumps up and down, it's like a cute bird song 🥰

[@stingray5974]

A cute bird song?? German and its derivatives are the rudest languages in the world

[@janslavik5284]

@@stingray5974 The only one being rude is you. Every language is beautiful in it's own way, it's not up to you to decide.

[@saskian75]

Seuss accent soft ? Ils the hardest for me and totally not understandable 😅

[@andyx6827]

Yep, Dilara did a good job covering it thanks to her constant smile and nice voice :D

[@canbtw5041]

what is the swiss one talking about like there r so many different beers in switzerland the most popular r schützengarten and Appenzeller(Quöllfrisch)

[@glassarmshattering]

I'm amazed how little he knows about famous people nor food about the country. Currywurst is even a cosmopolitan reachout.

[@module79l28]

8:40 - Oh boy, US-american sterotype confirmed.