Why Does Greek Sound Like Spanish?!

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Sources of information for this video include:
Greek Phonetics: The State of the Art. Amalia Arvaniti.
Phonetic Variability of the Greek Rhotic Sound. Mary Baltazani.
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Celdrán, Eugenio & Planas, Ana Maria & Carrera-Sabaté, Josefina. (2003). Castilian Spanish. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 33. 255-259. 10.1017/S0025100303001373.
Spanish Words From Greek Ending in '-ma' Often Masculine. Gerald Erichsen.
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Durational Variability in Speech and the Rhythm Class Hypothesis. Esther Grabe. University of Cambridge.
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[@nandooldschool]

Soy mexicano y el griego sono mas como portugues brasileño

[@josejesusfelixencinas424]

Hey Paul. I would like to know what is your favorite language?

[@juancubillas3985]

Langfocus: Cataluña tiene un problema: está llena de catalanes. Ah, no hablo inglés, No he entendido ni papa de lo que has dicho

[@juancubillas3985]

@@nandooldschool Que Dios te conserve el oído. He ido muchas veces a Portugal y también he oído hablar a brasileños y no suenan como el griego. Soy andaluz y he tenido que aprender el castellano de Castilla, que vosotros llamáis español de España y este si suena como el griego, los fonemas son los mismos. Cuando un griego habla en castellano no se le nota ningún acento. Ah, ya que estamos: el andaluz también es español de España, y el canario, y el murciano, y el extremeño, y el leonés, y el aragonés, y etc. etc.........

[@estrellasboxisticas6360]

Eres mexicano y tienes el trompetas de los Tigres del Norte en el oido.El griogo suena exactamente como el Español,pero que carajo vas a saber de consonantes y vocales.

[@eurasianlynx7]

I speak Spanish and when the Greek came on I was shook because I understood nothing but felt like I should.

[@braxinton]

Same yo

[@jasonvillatoro8776]

I also speak Spanish 100%, tho i see/hear it I think that it sounds just a LITTLE more like Italian

[@AlexiGreco]

Being Greek I agree

[@taintedtaylor2586]

I am a native Mexican Spanish speaker and still Greek surprises me on how similar It is to Spanish (phonetically), I can’t think of many other languages that only pronounce 5 vowels.

[@erasmoalvarenga5339]

Same

[@issith7340]

I’m Greek, learning Spanish. A week after starting, I could read a text in Spanish, without understanding not even one word, but Spanish people would tell me: excellent! You speak perfect castellano!!

[@DarioAcebales]

@@issith7340 Αα, ευχαριστώ!

[@mayhu3282]

Yes, I'm Spanish & I've made that experience many times with Greek friends: we'd give them a newspaper to read aloud like if they were a news anchor; they'd read it with an amazing accent, the would ask us what they'd just said, since they hadn't understood a single word, lol

[@issith7340]

@@mayhu3282 😂😂

[@aksiiska9470]

is semaforo more from ancient greek?

[@mayhu3282]

@@aksiiska9470 Not sure of that, but it's definitely a word we use in Spain nowadays

[@movius1dc505]

I'm Spanish living in Bulgaria and I often get asked if I'm Greek. I guess it makes now sense since Greece is a neighbour country to them and both languages sounds so similar to foreigners.

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

Lol

[@sofiafofia0]

I'm Greek living in Bulgaria and sometimes I get asked if I'm Spanish hahah we're just out there confusing people

[@mariancuenca7114]

I've heard Greek spoken in Madrid and it confused me terribly: how could I not understand it when it sounded like Spanish? Then I realized it was Greek. My brain struggled with it since the sounds are incredibly similar. It's a funny feeling every single time. Also, Greeks can speak impeccable Spanish whenever they learn it, it's amazing. I might learn Greek sometime 😊 By the way, beautiful country and wonderful, friendly people.

[@mikelfrago3899]

❤

[@dirtybits]

As a Greek who took a Spanish class I never had to learn the accent

[@charliecurilan4110]

Best comment!

[@paulc1844]

I speak both cuz am half spanish half cypriot so this kinda weird

[@vizen4831]

i really want to learn greek any tips?

[@threemonkgaming]

@Έφηβος Σαρπέλίδης dose b soun like beta?

[@Maria-fr9cn]

@@threemonkgaming beta (β) sounds exactly like the english v

[@helekin2000]

I'm Greek, and studied in UK. Many times, when I heard Spanish people on the street talking, I confused them for Greek until I realize I cannot understand what they are saying. My Spanish friends told me that they had the same problem with Greeks.

[@lvpb13]

It has also happened to me so many times!!!

[@Tu_Di0s]

Españoles en Reino unido???

[@helekin2000]

@@Tu_Di0s Si

[@samuelmarquez77]

Are them from Spain, cause honestly the spanish accents vary across the american continent.

[@lvpb13]

@@samuelmarquez77 yes from Spain . This does not happen with American Spanish speakers. Only European ones.

[@mdkooter]

I once had a Greek woman from the island of Kos read a page from a Spanish book for me. She only spoke Greek and English, but her pronunciation of the Spanish was so good it sounded like she was 99% native (after explaining the basic LL = Y, V=B ). It was really a shock to me that someone without any prior exposure to a language can read that language out loud and sound virtually indistinguishable from native. I have since then (2004) been telling everyone and their mother how similar these two languages are, phonetically. And Today I finally see your video as a proof of why! Hurray!

[@theknowledgeseeker2906]

😊😅

[@susanmargaretwills6432]

Greek to me sounds like Rumanian

[@vickvickson4273]

​@@susanmargaretwills6432 Well, that certainly says more about YOU than about Greek😅...

[@tojoisathomeinthisfunben9364]

Thats the cool think about Spanish, if you know basic Latin letter rules you can sound out the words. It's more or less that pronunciation. I was only taught spoke Spanish growing up. My grandmother taught me how to read Spanish by basically telling me to read it like English but with the mexican accent and the two rules you mentioned.

[@Brauljo]

"v" doesn't even have to sound like [b], i grew up with both english and castilian and i figured "v" was pronounced [v] in castilian as well, i was never misunderstood and was never corrected either. and because castilian also has [β], i guess i never really noticed an inconsistency. some online guides even say "v" is always [β]. castilian speakers in at least the place where i lived also called "b": "b labial"; tho i don't remember hearing anyone call "v": "v dental" or "v labiodental". even in english "v" isn't always pronounced as [v] and sometimes seems be [ʋ]. and yeah some dialects of castilian do seem to have a range with "v". the dictionary "word reference" seems to have an argentinian pronunciation that consistently pronounces "v" as [v] or at least [ʋ]. also "ll" in castilian is traditionally [ʎ] and greek also has this sound represented by "λ"

[@donnar4261]

I'm spanish, I visited Greece some years ago. I learned how to greet in greek, so I used to say "kalimera" or "kalispera" as entering a shop or a restaurant. Sometimes they answered back speaking in greek and got surprised when I said in english "sorry, I don't speak greek", "but you sound greek!" they said 😁 By the way, greek sounds to me as the accent from Galicia (north west Spain)

[@kioskoindautxu]

Total, tienen esa caída del tono al final de las frases "como triste" XD

[@AunSiro]

Vine a los comentarios a buscar si alguien comentaba el acento gallego XD

[@forelectricstring8833]

Joroña que joroña.

[@georgenikolopoulos3047]

When Greeks and Spaniards speak English, they have the same accent.

[@andresmigueloteromarquez3929]

i say what it is for vowels in our language.... we have no short or long sounds from these

[@Lydia.94]

Εμ, όχι ακριβώς την ίδια, αλλά μπορώ να πω παρόμοια προφορά..

[@selladoscontorazon9763]

TRUEE! I didn't know, I wasn't sure and I just went to a youtube video to check so and YES!!!! they do speak like us!!! Amazing!!

[@STnAiTan]

¡I have to see that, I'm going to fin out!.

[@1985LISS]

yes I noticed that, but not the latinos too much Spaniards accent is very similar.

[@elenapantelivocalcoach]

The thing is, in the video, we Greeks, do not speak that slowly! Our language sounds similar to spanish because we also talk at a quick pace. The woman that was used for the greek examples in the video spoke way to slowly for Greek people.

[@lord_dragultrioninnozenz3167]

έχεις δίκιο!

[@stesan60]

Exactly! Greek is my second language and when I hear Greeks or Italians or Spanish Speaking people chattering quickly with each other, I instantly stop carefully to listen to see if I can understand them because of the speed of their speech. If I understand, it's Greek! If I do not understand, it's Italian or Spanish! :) However, there is also another giveaway of which language they are speaking. The signals with their hands as they are speaking! That's another topic but goes down the same road.

[@lord_dragultrioninnozenz3167]

@@stesan60 but italian sounds different to me, than greek and spanish, many similarities, but not the most similar phonology

[@IvelinaDobreva]

That's true! My sister's husband is Greek and he speaks quite fast in Greek.

[@donquijotedegranada]

also the guy speaking spanish talks soooooooo slowly, not with the normal rythm

[@hombrequemiralaluna]

I'm a Spanish speaker living in an English-speaking country. A couple of times I've met people speaking English with an accent I'd swear was Spanish (from Spain). Turns out they were Greek. Weird. Languages are very different, but the accent and intonation is almost identical.

[@doloresmartinezarredondo5667]

A mí también me pasó un montón de veces cuando vivía en UK

[@gerardocaceres3905]

I'm from Peru, my mother tongue is Spanish, and I'm learning Greek on my own as a foreign language (I love Greek mythology), and I noticed that the pronunciation and the grammar of the Greek language is the same as in Spanish. Yes, I believe that could make learning the language a bit easy.

[@myrtokatsarou5804]

I'm greek and i first listened to Spanish at la casa de papel, and I was like "wait a minute, they speak greek but they don't speak greek at the same time"

[@eldesconocido5734]

lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@v4leri4E]

Lol im from Latinoamerica and i speak spanish. And once i listened to greek, it happened the same to me lol

[@arielclairewarren]

@@v4leri4E 😂 Must be weird?

[@v4leri4E]

@@arielclairewarren kind of hahaha

[@arielclairewarren]

@@v4leri4E 😂

[@kostaskonstantinos4345]

For 22 years, I work as a bartender in Creta and i ve seen thousands of tourists. Only the spanish people can pronounce every greek word, as accurate as it gets.

[@littlemonstermonster154]

Kostas Konstantinos I am from Spain and I am studying Greek (ancient) at secondary school but our teacher teach us the modern pronunciation and it is really easy for me to pronounce Greek words. I love Greek ( I actually got a A+) and I love Greece 🇬🇷. I would love to learn modern Greek and visit your country, it must be a beautiful place.

[@aprendegriegoconolga4189]

It's true. I am a Greek native speaker and a teacher of Modern Greek as a foreign language and my Spanish students are the ones who pronounce it the best.

[@user-fy3ee3vu4x]

@@littlemonstermonster154 Are you studying Koine Greek (the Greek of the New Testament) or Homer's Greek (Greek of Ilyada and Odyseya)

[@sergius9571]

@@littlemonstermonster154 Yo también estoy estudiando griego clásico y tambien latin

[@littlemonstermonster154]

Победа We have translated some myths which are part of the Odyssey so I guess Homer’s Greek. Although this myths could have been rewritten later.

[@user-fy7pc3jj9h]

11:10 It should be noted that before the arrival of the Romans the Greeks had already established cities on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, therefore many Greek words had already been introduced into the Iberian vocabulary since pre-Roman times. In addition, for a long time it has been customary that when it is necessary to create new words in Spanish, this is done based on Greek vocabulary.

[@brendangordon2168]

During Golden Age Spain, the Spaniards hired a lot of sailors from countries that had more locals with nautical skills than Spain had available, which included many Greeks.

[@user-fy7pc3jj9h]

@@brendangordon2168 (1) While there are not historical records highlighting the hiring of Greek sailors in large numbers, it's plausible that individuals from various European regions, including Greece, could have been part of the crews on Spanish ships during the golden age, however, the influence of Greek. (2) It's important to note that any Greek influence on Spanish is generally more indirect than the influence of Latin, Arabic, or other languages with which Spanish has had more direct contact throughout its history. The impact of Greek on Spanish is primarily seen in specialized domains and cultural aspects influenced by classical Greek civilization rather than in the everyday language spoken by the general population.

[@ivancuenca2209]

Cuando era adolescente mis padres me llevaron a Grecia de vacaciones y también me impresionó que 'no tenían acento', que sonaba como si fueran españoles pero hablando incoherencias... Ahora sé que no eran imaginaciones mías, gracias! Jajajaja No puedo dejar de agradecerte que tu magnífico canal esté subtitulado al Español, se agradece muchísimo el detalle. Mucha suerte! Google-translated (Sorry!) When I was a teenager my parents took me to Greece on vacation and I was also impressed that they 'didn't have an accent', that they sounded like they were Spanish but speaking incoherently... Now I know it wasn't my imagination, thank you! Hahaha I cannot stop thanking you for the fact that your magnificent channel is subtitled in Spanish, the detail is greatly appreciated. Good luck!

[@dacilp1293]

A mi me da la impresión de que el griego suena como si un español estuviera hablando gallego, ruso, y español a la vez ASDFGHJKL

[@Xerfing]

Jajaja

[@user-xz3bp6lp2p]

I had a friend who was spanish.She came to Greece for an erasmus program and within a year she was speaking greek like it was her mother tongue.

[@tonivoul1971]

From what school you are you ?

[@user-xz3bp6lp2p]

@@tonivoul1971 Athens school of fine Arts!❤❤❤

[@antimimoniakos]

Η ικανότητα να μαθαίνει κανείς ξένες γλώσσες είναι μέρος της νοημοσύνης. Προφανώς έχει υψηλό γλωσσολογικό iq

[@chriskm1728]

Wow , και ο ινιακη στο τικ τοκ μιλάει τέλεια και είναι Ισπανός

[@user-go1og1ei1p]

i live at Rhodos but im 9 years old

[@user-mb2ef8fh3k]

I am Greek and I cant forget that time 4 years ago when I was in London ... I walked through a park and suddenly a girl stopped an she started speaking to me in very fluently greek . The problem was that I didn't understand a word ... Then i just realize that she is Spanish and when I asked her why did she speak to me in Spanish she said that she listened to me talking to phone and she want to ask me something ( she thought that I was Spanish to ).😂😂😂

[@Zwillinge26]

Κλαίρη Παπαβασιλείου πωωωωωαχχαχαχαχχα

[@m.awvtwi0]

Wtfff????? No entendí

[@LuanOliveira-pu1rw]

xaxaxaxaxaxa

[@betelgeuse7322]

@@m.awvtwi0 creo que se confundió al principio y quiso decir que la chica empezó a hablarle en español en vez de en griego.

[@m.awvtwi0]

Betelgeuse supongo, lei como 3 veces y me cansé😂

[@just_depie]

Para los Griegos aprender Español es muy fácil. Μοιάζουν τόσο πολύ οι γλώσσες μας 🇬🇷❤️🇪🇸

[@nagenfolk2438]

Para nosotros aprender griego no tanto, por las declinaciones...

[@otobustutkusu303]

The Greek writing system is fascinating, one of my favourites =) Number one is Japanese' Hiragana,Katakana and Kanji =)

[@bellevie.b]

Yes, the Greek pronunciation sounds similar to the Iberian Spanish pronunciation. It has a slightly different melody to Iberian Spanish but they are very close. As a Spanish speaker (Latin America) I cannot understand Greek, only a few words. This is what makes listening to Greeks speaking so enjoyable for me. I really like the sound of it.

[@kennytrcka7085]

The Greek melody or intonation you mentioned sounded to me more like the Czech intonation.

[@elpidakourk356]

@baronam I'm a native Greek speaker and I enjoy the melody of spanish but mostly latin american. Amazing!

[@pablodraco3411]

Laughs in greek: χαχαχαχαχαχα Laughs in spanish: jajajajajajajaja Laughs in english: hahahahahaha Let's gather here "laughing" in all languages 😄🤭

[@faizi_99]

In Portuguese: kkkkkkkk

[@pablodraco3411]

@@faizi_99 jajaja, that's good to know😊 entonces...kkkkkkkk!

[@bilbohob7179]

@@faizi_99 curious the English sound "h" dont exist in Portuguese theoretically, but they changed the "k" sound like "h".... Well and "r" sound too...

[@xrouagial]

u remember me lineage 2

[@ricoandra3311]

@@bilbohob7179 it's made up don't listen to him, the letter K doesn't exist in the Portuguese alphabet, it is used now do to other languages ( English) But we don't have any words with K because we have other letters that make up the sound of K (QUE) In Portuguese you can find "Hahahaha" where the H is still silent or some people use "rsrsrsrs" meaning risos ( laughing in English) Only kids born after the 2000's use kkkkkkk just because its it's easier and faster to type And if there are older people using it to it's because they jumped on the band wagon

[@miguel.m.digitalart]

I'm portuguese and always told my friends: "If you don't realize why you don't understand what a spanish is talking... chances are you're actually listening to a greek..." LOL

[@corsarfabian8961]

Spanish sounds like a Greek Portuguese sounds like Russian Romanians sounds like Italian with Polish accent Italian sounds like Latin Catalan sounds like Spanish :)

[@veganjotaro]

Lol.

[@Alexlalpaca]

Mariton Show if you say Catalan sounds like Spanish, you probably haven’t heard neither.

[@chrisivas9849]

ahahahahahahaha

[@miguel.m.digitalart]

@@LOLquendoTV Yes they do, and there's many different accents throughout mainland Portugal and Azores too!

[@EL-pc8fb]

Bagno was originally an Ancient Greek word which was then adopted by and shortened in other languages : Βαλανειον. Then it reentered modern Greek in its abbreviated form. This is the case with millions of words . Ancient Greek is an unparalleled linguistic treasure for those who know.

[@nektar21rag35]

❤💯

[@Theodoros.K.Mouchtaris]

Βαλανείον, to be precise.

[@carlesmicro]

Great video! I have Catalan as native language, and also Castilian Spanish. I travel every year to Greece. Is astonishing how greek people think that we are greek many times. If I learn a sentence in greek and pronounce it, they act as if I was greek. They start to speak normally, and I understand nothing, because I only know some greek words. Once, I asked for the cost of a bottle of water. The answer was too complicated for me to understand. And the women in the cashier looked oddly at me and searched for the correct coins in my hand, as if I was unable to calculate. In her mind she thought I was a greek idiot, not a foreigner! Another factor is gestuality when we speak, which is similar in both countries. Lastly, there is a sound in greek that does not exist in spanish, but it does in catalan, represented by the greek letter “ζ”, which is the same as the “z” in the english word “lazy”

[@joeb5080]

As a Greek person, I have the same exact experience in Spain. My Castilian is very limited, but because my accent is perfect, Spaniards think I'm fluent, and respond to me at a million words a minute.

[@ExternalMedia]

Greeks are the only foreighners who can speak Spanish (when they learn the language) exactly with a perfect native accent.

[@abelnicolae]

add romanians first, pal..

[@bretlir]

I’d add the Croatian accent is pretty mild when speaking Spanish as well. But if I go to Greece, I sometimes confuse the locals with Spanish tourists who happen to be speaking words I don’t understand.

[@petegrusky2715]

It's a bull shit . When heard from English speaking person , about a foreign languages , they don't get it . Spanish is most comparable to Italian and then Portuguese , everybody knows it . So stop brainwashing people . You , English speaking folks , don't know shit about tongues .

[@ExternalMedia]

@@dibujodecroquis1684my wife is greek and none notice it, is absolutely like a native Spanish (even she is in Spain for less than 2 years)

[@ExternalMedia]

@@dibujodecroquis1684 indeed Greek has the same accent as Spanish (from Castile) so not a big deal... mainly in the grammar

[@kristinavorkapits2864]

First of all, no Greek person speaks that slowly.. 😄 Second, as a Greek speaker living abroad for many years, I’ve often thought I heard Greek on the tube/train/bus only to realise the people actually spoke Spanish.

[@kirstenmuller4536]

Natives always speak fast when talking to other natives 😅 I'm sure the speaker was asked to speak slowly for the recording.

[@gerardocarrillo8834]

Kristina: Learning Greek. Like no one to speak with in Texas USA cause mostly English and Spanish. Does Koine Greek sound like Spanish?

[@kristinavorkapits2864]

@@gerardocarrillo8834 I'm not sure to be honest... It's got quite different phonology rules which I'm not familiar with.. I have the impression that it didn't sound as "soft" as modern spanish, and that it might have been more comparable to modern italian, if that makes sense.. But then again, I'm not very familiar with that dialect.. :)

[@gerardocarrillo8834]

@@kristinavorkapits2864 Hola Kristina. Been reading Bible in Koine Greek but hard to pronounce caz no accents. In spanish usually accent in 2nd to last syllable. What version of Bible in modern Greek you recommend?

[@danieldebelen1995]

Hello Kristina, no native of spanish speaks that slow either, both were asked to speak slow, and a fun fact is that Spanish along with Japanese are the fastest languages in speech

[@rous6665]

As a Greek Native speaker i 100% agree with the video. 1st. We share a common phonology system, cause not only we have the almost unique ''δ'', 'γ΄΄, and ''θ'' sounds, but also, we use them a lot. 2nd we share a lot of common word ''endings'' ''os'', ''as'', ''es',. 3rd the spanish n^ is almost identical to the Greek ''νι + vowel'', and 4th we share a lot of common vocabulary. These are among the reasons i love studying Spanish.

[@JorgeSchz2004]

I'm a native spanish speaker and I agree with you. Btw I'm gonna learn greek language as well, because is beautiful. Greetings to Hellas 🇬🇷

[@felipealejandroreyes2144]

And i love studing Greek 🇬🇷☦️❤️‍🔥 Both modern and ancient Greek

[@eduardofalcao9426]

as a brazilian, I understood everything in spanish, but the greek I felt like I was a gringo listening to spanish for the first time

[@argykecha3689]

I'm Greek living in Spain. Everyone thinks that I'm Spanish just because my accent sounds so Spanish.

[@vassontinou9648]

Same happened to me living in Spain the 5 months of erasmus. Easy language for us. The accent is the same.

[@jorgemorenogelos4998]

Jroña que jroña ...

[@llynnie888]

I had the same experience studying in Spain. I was also asked if I was of Spanish descent and I did notice the similarities in appearance between Greeks and Spaniards.

[@cominus]

@@llynnie888 the Spanish(Iberians) are a Greek-Phoenician hybrid people, soooo you're cousins.

[@1985LISS]

Well they didn't know what to make of me in Greece. They said bravo you speak Greek, i said re esi, I'm 100% Greek I was just born outside, they said I looked Russian, then i also looked Spanish, where are you from ? I said I'm a Greek salad. my family comes from Mani, Volos and Asia Minor but my looks pass for many things and because I learned to speak and use some Russian and even a little Arabic, they couldnt figure out my accent because it was not American even though I am born and raised in the USA but was gifted to learn more and whatever I practice I use to learn more so maybe that is what threw them off. Linguistics is my favorite subject but America really messed me up. Too bad I was not brought up in finland where everyone learns more languages and more things than Americans. American children fall back and yet always tested and tested and programed lol and they only learn ENglish and some of them even that is a chore

[@isabel6981]

I’m from Madrid and studied Ancient Greek for two years and our Greek teacher (who is also spanish) was mistaken for a native Greek speaker because she barely had an accent. I made my family listen to some Greek rap and everyone was astonished with how similar it sounds they literally said it was just like spanish! All my love to Greece and the Greek people 💖

[@phoule76]

Ancient Greek rap is so old school

[@cynical_op]

I hadn't realised the similarity until I made a trip with friends to Hungary and everyone hearing us, thought we were Spanish.

[@sieg0215]

Y por que coño estas hablando en puto ingles

[@Cafelito]

Greek rap?? Pasa link me interesa xD

[@seal9502]

@@Cafelito search' logos timis' , capital music(this one uh..Good,some are trash) , NOE ,12os pithikos( these are a few) ,Mad clip

[@dimitristripakis7364]

As a Greek, when there is a Spanish show on TV and I'm in the next room, it is like "Greek but I can not hear clearly"

[@vasilyp]

I am Greek and I actually enjoy how fast I am learning and understanding Spanish (compared to Dutch or German), because of the pronunciation, conjugation and word position and grammar similarities. I always thought that those two languages sound alike due to how easily words are pronounced and how clear their pronunciation sounds. But after watching this video I came to realize the deeper reasons of phonology behind their similarities! Thank you!

[@onestage8571]

Come on u are not Italian or Portuguese. Greek is a completely different language and has nothing to do with Romance languages. The only thing both languages ​​have in common is the (th). Romanian and Albanian are more like Spanish than Greek. 😅

[@vasilyp]

@@onestage8571 Please DO tell me more about which country I was born in and what my mother tongue is. I would also like you to elaborate on what MY opinion is about MY experience of learning Spanish in comparison to my mother tongue 🤔 I don't know about Romanian and Albanian and their relation to Spanish, as I don't speak them and they are also irrelevant to this video and my experience 🤷‍♂️ So I would appreciate it if you f-ed off and took your non-helpful comments with you.

[@FormerPessitheRobberfan]

​@@onestage8571idiot who didn't watch the video. Greek "sounds" like Spanish. Obviously they aren't from the same language family. No one said they were idiot.

[@SR-kh6yq]

I'm an Italian native speaker and I've always thought Greek sounded like Spanish. The difference is that I can understand 90% of what a Spanish speaker says even if I've never studied the language, while I only understand 5% of a Greek. As someone wrote in the comments, Greek does sound like an encrypted version of Spanish to me

[@mimmiblu6138]

Absolutely ... I was in line to get the tickets to visit the Parthenon sandwiched between a Spanish and a Greek family.... that was fun even though extremely confusing... they seemed to be speaking the same language, only that one family was having me on and making words up so that I could not eavesdrop!

[@silasmaurer7835]

@@mimmiblu6138 hahaha

[@alyctus]

How do Greeks sound to you when they speak Italian?

[@SR-kh6yq]

@@alyctus The last time I heard a Greek speaking Italian in person was a long time ago, but from what I can remember, the impression to my ears wasn't that different from a Spaniard speaking Italian. In both cases their pronunciation of Italian is usually very good and natural

[@oneguy7202]

Try Portuguese very similar to Italians.

[@user-bx5kb9zt5b]

I am a Spanish teacher and Greek students are the best in terms of pronunciation by far. Could barely tell they're not native speakers.

[@catholicspaniard8796]

Grande!

[@ethanmatisse9480]

Exactly what my Spanish teacher told me when I learnt it in University in Australia.

[@georgiod.3555]

v_rêve13 Indeed im Greek and your language is easy for me to pronounce

[@sofianemesis5234]

So true 😊😊

[@BoboDeTurno]

I'm Spanish and you described perfectly how Greek sounds for me. I usually say that it's like overhearing a distant conversation that you cannot grasp to understand.

[@thanosk4566]

I am a native Greek speaker and I remember we were once hearing a documentary in Spanish on TV, but we were having a conversation, and before we stopped talking and listened to it, we all thought it was in Greek.

[@manuelcorrea2365]

Well, as a native Spanish speaker from Colombia, Greek really sounds like Spanish from Spain to me with the only but very important difference that I do not understand a thing when they talk 😅. Furthermore, the times I have communicated in English with people from Greece, I usually tend to think that they might be from Spain given their accent when they speak English and I only to come to the realization that they are from Greece once I ask them where they are from. I remember this particular time that I asked this waitress from a café I used to go a lot when I was living in Sydney, Australia where her accent was from and her response was *_"it's Greek, not Italian, not Spanish"_* which I found hilarious since basically she was telling me that people used to confuse her the whole time with someone from Italy or Spain and I was actually thinking that she was from Spain so my intention with that question was to see if we could rather use Spanish to communicate instead of broken English... 😆

[@ale.macias647]

As a Spanish speaker (from Latin America), I once heard a couple in an airport speaking what I thought was European Spanish. After a few seconds of not understanding anything, I wondered whether they were speaking one of the regional languages of Spain, only to realize that they were actually speaking Greek.

[@torrezno1990]

@@Viktoria_Selene No me digas.

[@Viktoria_Selene]

@@torrezno1990 so european spanish isn't just "spanish", as that is a name given to a much larger group of variants which, in fact, do not sound the same.

[@eva-dz5lv]

As a Greek, the same thing has happened to me with Spanish speaking folks! How cool

[@elef951]

😂😂😂😂

[@alfonsoherguetagomez1821]

It's a well known thing. Not so well known, I had the same sensation in the Budapest subway. Although hungaryan is a totally different language, the phonetic is quite similar.

[@CorgiFisher]

As a Spanish speaker i have noticed this before, people always looked at me like i was crazy when mentioning this. Glad to see i'm not the only one who thought Greek sounded similar to Spanish!

[@Jiwpgakis]

CorgiFisher as a Greek speaker , I can tell you, I often mistake Spanish people (e.g. passing by in the streets) for Greeks.

[@Dragoncam13]

@@Jiwpgakis That's because Iberians and greeks have Arab blood to some extent and Spainiards and Greeks don't look that similar to me

[@Dragoncam13]

@ildg 007 southern Greeks are darker

[@Dragoncam13]

@footballcoreano Wtf,that doesn't make any sense

[@fluxurieaccount1446]

A friend of mine and I were sitting in a Cafe talking in greek when a man from one the tables next to us approached us and said he usually would understand Spanish but he wouldn’t understand a word of what we were talking and he asked us what dialect this was. He was very surprised when we were telling him we were talking in Greek.

[@LukaMagic7714]

You can notice this even more when a greek person is talking in english, it sounds the same as if it were being spoken by a native spanish speaker.

[@sulo7870]

I am greek and as was child hearing spanish the first time in radio, i was like "what greek dialect is this?"

[@trakuraul5370]

galic

[@Mitsouarou]

@@trakuraul5370 true

[@dondeestaCarter]

iberian greek

[@mrdi8279]

Καμιά σχέση απλά μοιάζουν στην χρήση κάποιων γραμμάτων. Όπως :ΝΔΣΧΛ

[@mrdi8279]

Ξέχασα και το Θ.

[@orthodoxladies]

I’m Greek speaker and I also speak Spanish and I have a perfect accent cause I speak Spanish with a Greek accent ! Hahaha

[@rollon613]

Ha ha. I liked your comment.

[@Shirowho]

Even though i am greek i hate using my greek accent when im speaking other languages so ill probably suck at Spanish

[@orthodoxladies]

Marilyn Shiro It only works with Spanish because our accent is really almost the same. I am studying languages and I know it

[@orthodoxladies]

Marylin Shiro βασικά μπορώ να σου μιλήσω κι ελληνικά χαχα και κάποιες λέξεις στα ισπανικά επίσης μοιάζουν με τα ελληνικά, όλοι ξέρουν πως από τα ελληνικά προέρχονται όλα ούτως η άλλος χαχα

[@orthodoxladies]

Roly Senpai NEKO 猫 la verdad es que el acento de México se parece más al griego pero puedes confundir un griego con cualquier hispanohablante es lo que me pasaba cuando aún no hablaba español jaja

[@Eliasdbr]

I recently watched a KZbinr who speaks in English. I first thought he was natively Spanish by his accent, but later I figured out he's Greek. Now that I watched this video, it makes so much sense

[@paulamarina04]

i visited greece with my family years ago. we had no knowledge of the language whatsoever, but we did learn just a few words, including "kalimera" ("hello"). you would not believe how often we were mistaken for native speakers by the locals just after hearing our pronunciation of that word

[@nataliatherion9886]

actually the meaning of the word "kalimera" is "good morning" or "good day". to say "hello" you can use the following phrases: "yassou" for talking to one person, "yassas" for more or "herete" for both one or more people :)

[@paulamarina04]

@@nataliatherion9886 oh neat, thanks!!!

[@6020e3]

I overheard two guys speaking in Greek once and I was trying to make out what language was that and at some point I thought they were speaking Portuguese but then I heard "malaka" and I realized it was actually Greek that they were speaking.

[@giannis413]

We use Spanish words like salta and taratsa in Greece

[@pavlos1048]

Lol

[@EfiMprinia]

@@giannis413 η λέξη ταράτσα δεν είναι ισπανική. Πρέπει να είναι σλάβικη.

[@Wee-Snaw]

I learned Malaka through Assassin's creed Odyssey

[@giannis413]

@@pavlos1048 terrasa nomizo th lene oi ispanoi an 8umamai kala

[@clauwasaki4548]

I am spanish speaker and I really love Greece, culture, language and everything about it, I would love to have a greek friend!

[@depymall7480]

That's so sweet. I can be your friend. Love from Greece

[@clauwasaki4548]

@@depymall7480 great! Send me a way to contact you

[@piedras9663]

I am Spanish too, and I also love Greece. When I was in Athens and Hydra this summer, the Greeks seemed to me the best people in Europe and without a doubt, they have a special place now in my heart

[@cassie8844]

No trust me you don't

[@piedras9663]

Why not?

[@franconstanza]

In 1978, studying at university on France, I overheard some people speaking "Spanish". Since I'm a native Spanish speaker (Costa Rican), I immediately stopped and turned to the crowd. I asked them if they were Spanish, but they happed to be Greeks and Cypriots. Since then I have been awed at how Greek and Castilian Spanish sound alike.

[@ajdjwoaa]

I love greek!!! I’m argentinian, and i’m taking greek lessons currently, and i noticed that is way easier for me if i pretend to have a spanish accent than my native one

[@chaos4395]

Love you both mediterranean brothers from Italy! Una faccia una razza! 🇪🇸❤🇮🇹❤🇬🇷

[@nightknight2032]

Aye! Χαῖρε (:=the same as "ave" from latin) from Greece, dear neighbour!

[@pedrod6768]

The peninsula-Mediterranean brothers. I love it. 😍😍😍. Un saludo amoroso desde España. 😂😂😂 🇪🇸❤️ 🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷

[@emmaviolincovers9547]

Mediterranean the best culture🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸

[@juansehernandez4504]

Hispania siempre fiel a Roma y a la magna Grecia Semper fidelis Hispania atque Romam et Magna Graecia

[@anna-if8fi]

Best culture and relationship in the world ❤️ Love you Greece 🇬🇷 and Italy 🇮🇹 from España 🇪🇸

[@aza9washz]

I´m spanish and I remember the first time I heard somebody speaking in greek, at first my brain didn't know what was hapening, because it felt like I should be able to understand but I couldn't, very confusing for a moment! Thanks for the video!

[@_g4m3r_]

Hahaha

[@KisKano5]

This happened to me when I heard Finns talk for first time and my brain was like that's hungarian, but some weird made up words! :D

[@Evi_D.]

Hahaha

[@larrysulky7614]

This happened to me (a native English speaker) when I first heard Dutch. Strangely, Spanish and Greek don't sound much alike to me, maybe because Latin American Spanish is my second language and I don't speak a word of Greek.

[@MariaMusicTube]

Same happened to me when I heard Spanish for the first time . I was in Barcelona and I thought everyone was Greek

[@Maria_loves_water]

I am greek and I just started spanish lessons, didnt spend a single minute learning the accent i just started reading it once i learned how each letter is pronounced.

[@i-therx3805]

I am Spanish. I think they sound pretty similar. Spanish, by the way, comes from languages such as Greek, Latin, Arabic, Phoenician...

[@angelikikotidi]

When I was in Rome and I was speaking Greek on the street with my friends, a tour guide came to us and said in Spanish: ¿Quieres ayuda? ¿No eres español? 😂

[@metalupyourass9114]

What does it mean?

[@robch.2901]

@@metalupyourass9114 it means "do you need any help?" "are you Spaniard?"

[@xreniuksus]

when you in rome. parakalo milate romeika. its real glossa for romeos.

[@Adhjie]

@@xreniuksus when in rome bang caligula-cyanide, sovietwomble?

[@alejobuc50]

Arquimedes, roma, peloponeso 😂

[@paulsmit6304]

The similarities are striking. As a former Spanish teacher, I have taught the language to people of quite a few languages. It is striking how Greek speakers have nearly perfect pronunciation from their first lesson.

[@nicoallison9228]

That was me back in school! I’m American but my mom is from Greece so I grew up speaking Greek even before I spoke English. I took Spanish all throughout school and my teachers were always so impressed at my accent and that I would always pronounce things perfectly. It was super easy because of how similar the accents are, but it always felt really cool

[@Merry19ss]

El idioma Español tiene también cosas de la lengua Griega porque los griegos estuvieron antes en la península Ibérica,hasta construyeron Ciudades ❤

[@carlesmicro]

@@nicoallison9228awesome!

[@Notmanypeople]

I realized about this since my first trip to Greece in 2021. I've been there twice because is my favorite country on earth. I noticed the similarly is mainly in the constant pronunciation of the Ssss .. The language itself is beautiful 🇬🇷

[@rulo1791]

I would like to add that the sound of c (like lisp) in spanish is not only used in iberian spanish, is also used in Equatorial Guinea spanish. Thanks for this curious video

[@RutiYT]

I have never heard anyone speaking Greek until today and I'm from Spain... that was a mind trip. This really makes me want to learn Greek.

[@psid9907]

Shouldn't be too hard for you, after you get accustomed to the alphabet and the cases.

[@charadradam9985]

it would be easy for u ..as for the greeks the easier languages to learn are italian and spanish ..similar phonology and grammar are basic things for it..

[@nicoleraheem1195]

Same. Only I'm American and took two years of Spanish 15 years ago, so I'm familiar with the sounds of it

[@eriettapaltsanitidou5241]

Too😂

[@androideno1624]

@FunHarry_Potter _ El griego es un idioma muy bello. ☺️

[@antoniong1449]

I am Spanish from Castille and I have always found it incredible that Italian sounds so different but is so easy to understand and learn for me, and on the other hand Greek sounds so similar but is impossible to understand and difficult to learn. In fact, if I don't pay much attention to a Greek speaker I think I am hearing Spanish, which would never happen with an Italian or a Portuguese one. Vowels, intonation and most consonants are so similar. Something really funny that I have always heard form my Iberoamerican-Spanish speaker friends is that in Spain (middle and northern overall) we speak Spanish with German intonation, and I don't think they are wrong at all. Melody, pronunciation and language itself are completely different and independent subjects from one country or region to another.

[@SchmulKrieger]

Probably a Basque influence why it sounds like German intonation. But I think German intonation is quite unique along the other European languages except for Bretons.

[@testingsomething5280]

Isaac, and Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac is seen as a foreshadowing of Jesus

[@testingsomething5280]

@@SchmulKrieger No readins lot of eber and stregn EverEverEverEverEvverrEveryh

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@SchmulKrieger - Meh. Basque has clear influence on Castilian but the Basque accent is characteristically different when marked. I can't quite describe it but one feature is that words do not have one stress but two and that makes everything sound very different. Spaniards always ask: is "it Aberásturi or Aberásturi" and in actual Basque it's both at the same time: Abérásturi (tildes shown for enphasis as in Spanish usage, not actually written). Another difference is that Basques tend to scramble the grammar all around (fuck SOV order, emphasis is what matters and context comes before action, not the other way around) but that is not really important for the accent, it's just playing around with the rigid Spanish grammar and making it more Basque-like at whim (with limitations, because Spanish grammar is not flexible enough: you can't use prepositions as postpositions/declensions without sounding weird). The main characteristic of Spanish/Greek intonation to me is "flatness", lack of intonation itself, unlike Italian, French or the American dialects of Spanish, which are quite "musical", each in its own way. Basque is not too "musical" but it has some peculiarities to it like stretching the last syllable: etxekoaaak, los de casaaa, familyyy. In this it approaches much more to Aragonese and the Aragonese dialect of Castilian but it's also a bit more subtle, less exagerated than these.

[@clasicradiolover]

I was new at Spanish, in my first year as a matter of fact, I heard two girls speaking and asked when they learned Spanish. "No we speaking Italian." One of them told me. So I told her what they were talking about. She turned to her friend and said that they should be more careful.

[@ireneporteladelrey2359]

I'm Spanish and in my first day in Athens I though that people in the background were talking in Spanish, and they were all Greek. The entonation it's really similar too, and we are generally noisy. Now that I'm working in Corfu I'm noticing that more, and that for us difficult words in Greek are easier to pronounce than other nationalities🤔

[@marioklk5100]

Im Spanish and I can confirm that Greek sounds like Spanish. I felt that when I watched a football retransmission.

[@desiredmanga]

As spanish native, this is so true. What amazes me about greek people speaking spanish is that they don't have any accent at all to be recognizable when speaking spanish. Almost every people living in Spain have an "accent" , so you sometimes can know where they're from just by their way to speak. When I hear greeks speaking spanish I'm somewhat confused, like "wowowow wait, where do you live in Spain? Your spanish is flawless, it doesn't have any accent I've heard. " It's almost if they were voice actors for a spanish learning book! XD

[@Felix-mp2vj]

I think that phenomenon happens to me when I speak English, because even though I'm an Italian guy, I always try to speak standard English by avoiding to imitate any English dialect and the influence of my mother tongue...

[@user-ls1fo9wk8v]

¡Hola querrido amigo!...soy griego de atenes...¿cómo se parece mi pronunción?...jajajaja!!!

[@newreast3904]

actually that's were you dont mix a greek and a spaniard. the voice actor to be used in a spanish learnig book would carry a voice that a greek would never have. that deep booming voice, sounding ultra serious n shit. banderas style and over.thats all yours.

[@Trikipum]

@@newreast3904 banderas is from south spain, and people there dont sound like greeks at all.. not even remotely close.. what the video talks about only works for people in the center of spain for the most...

[@costasathens2893]

Apart form the pronunciation, it is the easiest language for a Greek to learn. Even I had never studied Spanish, I can understand most part of a text.

[@deinokyrnos1]

When my sister(modern Greek Lang. professor) visited the Canary Islands in the 90s.She was eating in a restaurant with two of her Spanish colleagues, and were chatting loudly in greek. Customers approached them and asked them what language they were speaking because they were going mad. The language sounded very familiar, but they could not understand a thing.

[@JuanCarlos49086]

Well, I had the same feeling the first time I heard Greek. It was a radio program and my mind had a hard time because it sounded so familiar, yet I was not understanding what they were saying. The more I listened, the more similar it sounded. And it sounded even more similar to the Spanish spoken in Spain, although it sounded like Spanish in general, because of the phonemes and rhythm. After some minutes, I came to the realization it was Greek the language I was listening to. I was 16 at the time.

[@pawekasprowicz2543]

In the past I was sure that the word "kudos" was borrowed from Spanish. It shocked me when I found out that it's borrowed from Greek. 😅

[@mariaperero9986]

I am Spanish, and when young visiting Greece some Greeks thought I was a Greek who was speaking English just to pretend I was a foreigner. They told me that my accent when speaking English was obviously Greek, and that I couldn't make fun of them. Surprise when I showed my passport.

[@SocialPrime]

A friend mentioned the same but for a group of his Greek friends who were ordering in English in a restaurant in Spain. The waiter was like "Come on guys, stop messing around, order in Spanish".

[@lvpb13]

Omg I visited Gran Canaria recently and that was my fear. That the locals would think I was some posh kid from Madrid who was making fun of them 😅😅 I can so relate to that!

[@dorianmichelarmenterossanc668]

Thats the same case for me but in Spanish. The accent from a greek speaker and Spanish speaker look very similar to me the first time i heard it.

[@vickyvasilioy7437]

😄👍

[@fselva5222]

Saludos griego 😂

[@noemee]

Me, an Italian speaker Listens to Spanish: understands everything Listens to Greek: ?????

[@andrzejdobrowolski9523]

What about French and Romanian?

[@noemee]

I understand most words

[@andrzejdobrowolski9523]

@@noemee What is weird for me as a Slav is that Romance languages (not including French) sound in fonology familiar to me. Is clasical Latin more difficult for you to understand than vulgar Latin?

[@noemee]

Actually, it’s the same. Vulgar Latin is closer to modern Italian than Classical Latin, but I study Classical Latin in school.

[@andrzejdobrowolski9523]

@@noemeeI hope your country will be doing well soon in this difficult situation Greetings and respect for you :) Your language sounds melodic :)

[@tmdepot6167]

Hi, ıt was just what I’ve lived on a tram in Istanbul. There were a family speaking spanish I thought in the beginning. I can speak a very limited amount Spanish only. So I asked them whether they are from Spain in English. They said “No, we are from Greece”. I was very astonished and embarrassed not to figure out this. Two languages really resemble each other , Although I have no clue about what they ever talk about.

[@cacapichi8564]

I’m in Greece right now. I’m a native Spanish speaker. I’m not from Spain, but is really crazy how everyone sounds like a person with a Madrid accent speaking an intelligible language. I had to look this video up to check I wasn’t insane 😂 To make matters worse I think I look Greek. People talk to me in Greek. One person recently asked me something that really sounded as Spanish. I was a bit distracted, so I answered in Spanish without giving it much thought. The other guy was like “bro, wtf are you saying”?

[@alvarosobrinopiazza]

I'm a Spanish speaker and I noticed that similarity not from the sound of Greek, but from that of Greek people speaking English. I often can't tell the difference between a Spanish and a Greek person speaking in English.

[@askandarkon]

exactly what i was going to say and i am from greece.When i hear a person from Spain speaking english i always think they are Greek lol

[@compulsivecommenter990]

@danae husak No, they don't I know some icelanders.

[@compulsivecommenter990]

@Κωσταντινα Παπαμιχαλη what song?

[@facundocorradini]

Once I was at an international event and find myself speaking English with someone that had a very distinct, strong Spanish accent. So I decided to cut the middle man and simply speak Spanish with him. Turned out he was Greek.

[@mariabou7178]

lol how did he respond

[@lissandrafreljord7913]

Are you Argentinean?

[@facundocorradini]

@@lissandrafreljord7913 yup

[@1888joel]

-¿Qué onda, che? ¿Vos también hablás español? -Τι?

[@bestiaman]

That happened to me with a turkish, sounds just like spanish

[@lukas-lr6zt]

I speak Spanish and I thought about this some weeks ago, when I met a Greek artist in Germany, I was sure he was from Spain by his accent, great was my surprise when I asked him and he told me he was from Greece. Nice video👍

[@danijetman]

I am Spanish, and most of Greeks get very impressed when I pronounce some words or sentences in Greek. They say that I sound like a native Greek. It's interesting that many of them didn't ever notice our languages sound very alike.

[@alavastwr]

Im a Greek living in Germany, and always they think I'm Spanish or I think I hear Greek people speak and they are Spanish, it's funny

[@dimitrissimitzis6944]

το προφιλ σου 😂

[@dimitrissimitzis6944]

@Stelios Class που ξερεις αμα γεννήθηκε εκεί ή αμα πηγε

[@babisparis3532]

Can i have a cup of tea μη χεσω αντε 100 φορες το εχω πει

[@dimitrissimitzis6944]

@@babisparis3532 😂

[@dimitrissimitzis6944]

@Kaiser Wilhelm II search Eleni Rantou in Google

[@alejandroalba2525]

I love your videos. You put a lot of work and effort on them. Very much appreciated.

[@Langfocus]

You're very welcome!

[@sandroabate]

The first time I heard greek being spoken I had no idea it was Greek. I had this mind breaking feeling that it was Spanish, because it had the same sounds as spoken Spanish, but I couldn't understand anything. It felt like I should be able to understand it but I couldn't and my mind was struggling to understand what was happening. My brain kept struggling to make sense out of these sounds but couldn't process them. I was in a grocery store and by looking at the items on the selves I recognized the greek alphabet. Only then did I realize that It wasn't Spanish that I was hearing, it was greek instead. I felt a great sense of relief that I wasn't going insane.

[@Johan_t]

European and mediterranean brothers!! 💪 🇪🇸 ❤ 🇬🇷

[@Chris-xb7gm]

Euromed people-greetings from Greece

[@angeloi4746]

Our language's are very similar and Spanish is very beautiful language! love from Greece

[@lorenzonunnari2304]

And then there's me in Italy, wich dominated each countries time ago 🤗

[@leojgp0433]

@@lorenzonunnari2304 and Spain had almost all of america

[@lorenzonunnari2304]

@@leojgp0433 I know i know, infact I love all states(but not france) of the world, and I also know that spain dominated southern Italy in the past, I went to spain three times and it was great, Love world from Italy

[@mariaperero9986]

I am Spanish and I've been several times to Greece, and when I'm there I have the feeling that everybody is speaking Spanish. And I have a Greek friend who has come several times to Spain and when she is here she says she has the feeling that everybody is speaking Greek.

[@belfonsecaa1801]

qué cool!!

[@asterhs4772]

I am from greek i will say if you meet with your greek friend say to him "Malaka" and pliz say its from me :)

[@mariaperero9986]

@@asterhs4772 Λυπάμαι, εγώ δεν προσβάλλω τους φίλους μου 😠

[@asterhs4772]

@@mariaperero9986 haha

[@nicolep.6516]

@@mariaperero9986 haha, it's not really that offensive here, it's kind of... An everyday thing. I bet if you actually said it, she'd probably laugh 😅. ( in a good way though.) I know I would 🤷‍♀️.

[@jeffersonwright6249]

Remember once seeing a group of Greeks talking to each other in a hotel lobby. Their body language, their gestures and their whole aura all told me they were Spanish, (I live in Madrid where my wife is from) yet I kinda freaked cu I couldn’t understand a word they were saying. So I asked the concierge who told me they were from Athens. So then it all made sense

[@ponzi_bunny]

Wow. Never knew Greek was anything close to Spanish. Definitely my next language to learn 🙂

[@cucayo]

I was this summer in Greece (I'm Spanish) and I feel that people say words with no sense everywhere!! Also we learn some words in a few days and people thought that we were Greeks because we pronounced like them, but we can't have a conversation, it was funny and people its really lovely. I enjoyed very much that trip. Thanks Greek people!!

[@Zacharis_]

We also love you.. personally i am half Spanish and half Greek and i think i am very lucky

[@Zetariba]

Awwww thxx❤️❤️

[@leo2a6hel16]

Errrr yes you know why ??? Cause you don't know Greek if i went to Spain neither me couldn't understand what are you saying and with that you wrote looks like you mean i can understand all languages but not Greek cause is very difficult btw i love Spain!!!

[@ryanwincester719]

El vídeo no afirma que sean idiomas similares en su estructura, sino que la cadencia sílabica suena de forma parecida. Realmente es cierto, pues el italiano, de gramática muy familiar, suena por el contrario muy distinto

[@angelorizzieri3696]

im half italian and half greek

[@100wangyirenbiased2]

I'm from Korea I don't know why I'm here I love Greek language so much..I'm learning now..I know few words and phrases..Γειά είμαι η Kim Jiyun😂

[@andrem1403]

Πολύ ωραία μπράβο Κίμ Τζιγιούν

[@thimitrakipreou6692]

Thank you😊

[@celseac8107]

Lots of Greeks are learning Korean because of k-pop. My sister is learning and she loves the language! Greetings!

[@mars_06]

Good job! I am Greek and I want to learn Korean 😅

[@100wangyirenbiased2]

Thank you guys Greek people are so good I love Greece so much..And I love kpop too..I mean okay all the people in Korea love Kpop because its Korean but..😂 Nevermind By the way I didnt know that Greek people know and listening korean music so cool🙏 Κορεα/Κινα αγαπα Ελλαδα💕 _If anyone know Korean👇_ 한국 사람들은 그리스를 좋아합니다. 그리고 많은 아시아 인. 나는 어느 날 그리스 여행을 할 수 있기를 바랍니다 Btw for kpop lovers If you want to learn guys korean its easy language..The only difficult is that many words sounds the same but its different..But the letters, the grammar and the words are simple Τα Ελληνικα μου προσπαθω να βελτιωνω αυτα αλλα αυτα εχουν δυσκολη γραμματικη. Προσπαθω να μεταφραζω απο αγγλικα σε ελληνικα λεξη και λεξη. Im right or I will be confused?😂

[@fpostolache]

I realised that similarity in sound in between the 2 languages a long time ago. Now I'm glad it was confirmed. Very informative post. Thanks for it !

[@CiRdy34]

I’m from Latin America and never thought about how similar they sounded, mainly because I never heard the greek language that much to be honest, but after watching this video it’s pretty interesting.

[@arieltineo1605]

I am a native Spanish and I learn Greek by myself I love the Greek language Greetings from Dominican Republic

[@excellenceinrecycling4093]

Μπράβων !

[@zeus756]

Thank u 🙏 brother . THE GREEK LANGUAGE IS THE RICHEST AND OLDEST IN EUROPE ALL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES USE GREEK WORDS

[@Paellera_Sdl]

​@@zeus756 It's true! I speak spanish and we have words like Geografía (γεωγραφία), Mecánica (μηχανικός), Asma (ἄσθμα) and all of them comes from greek :D

[@LuisFlores-tx4ee]

@@Paellera_Sdl lol like 30% of the vocabulary in Spanish has a Greek origin, specially the specialized/formal/scientific language

[@necromancer9829]

@@Paellera_Sdl How interesting! I did not know that before

[@TheAlcaparro]

Im a spanish native speaker, and they REALLY sound alike! Anyway, love greek, Greece and all greek brothers!

[@user-ug3uw5lu7v]

🇪🇸🤝🇬🇷

[@unknown-cl2hy]

much love to you too greetings from Greece

[@elenagalanaki2116]

Kisses!!

[@vassilikischina7335]

TheAlcaparro we love you too

[@A_n00b_15]

As spaniard, ive been some time in Crete, doing volunteer work and i felt like home, i didnt unserstand most of the words but some of them sound quite familiar for me. And also studing science makes you understand that most of the spanish tecnical words are based on greek, at least partially. Great explanation and thank you for sharing it with us!

[@greennapple8]

Greek speaker and spanish student here, I think just the flow of the words and the verb forms and vowel endings really make me confused to which language I'm speaking sometimes..

[@CS-sr5nt]

Oh, hi, Italian passing by Una faccia una razza! 🇮🇹🇪🇸🇬🇷

[@edstar83]

La razza Aryan.

[@cloudstrife7566]

edstar83 noooo si scherza mi dissocio

[@edstar83]

@@cloudstrife7566 The Romans and Hellenes used the Swastika. All Native Europeans descend from the Ancient Aryans.

[@nikosrakos957]

😂😂😂 Να

[@giovanniconte7905]

@@cloudstrife7566 Ovviamente sempre in maniera goliardica, si fa per ridere

[@carlosgarciahernandez7239]

I went to Athens a couple years ago and at first I constantly thought I was hearing Spanish in the train or streets. When I paid close attention I realised I couldn't understand a word. I find this so interesting. We speak very different languages with the same accent!

[@spirogiannaki]

You need vocal teacher and clearing your ears .

[@ferrari8131]

Oye carlos, seguro que nuestros idiomas no son tan diferentes, como pienses. Sin embargo el espanol es un idioma muuy muy hermoso y me encanto estudiarlo. El accento era el parte mas facil por nosotros Griegos. Mucho amor de Grecia amigo

[@jgappy5643]

@@spirogiannaki you need a joint and chill out..

[@xreniuksus]

it was in 14 century,? athens is a part of katalonia in 14 century/

[@bigmesquitemurph8901]

You should hear the Antarctic Greek dialect, spoken by only about 45 people. It sounds like a completely alien language.

[@laughingvampire7555]

I'm native Spanish speaker and tried to learn Greek, because Saint Seiya, but I loved how easily was to pronounce and understand the words, I can easily pick up all the syllables, just like in Japanese.

[@xoxolokomarron7860]

I am half Spanish and half Greek and i really appreciate this video. I study in the Netherlands where there is a vast quantity of people from both countries, and I find myself struggling sometimes to differenciate the two languages (and also italian from either) while other people conversate. I always wondered why, as they are radically different languages. I always thought it was because both countries were at some point of their history occupied by Muslim empires, but yet again Ottoman Turkish and Arabic are also extreme different languages.

[@lexis_Axt]

Si

[@prince223681]

As a Latin American Spanish speaker Greek sounds like an unintelligible dialect from Spain. Very interesting 🧐

[@gary8662]

Concuerdo

[@chalkios7782]

@Wexastria That is historically incorrect. The Greeks, were peoples way before Turks, or Albanians were even a thing, in the Middle East, Asia Minor, and the Balkans, from 1500 B.C.

[@laurae8149]

Concuerdo

[@chalkios7782]

@Wexastria You see, you seem to be confusing many different ethinicities with each another, considering, due to an investigation in 2010, fron an American University, proving that the Greek's DNA, is unique, by 99.5%, that means, that modern day Greeks, are the progenitors of ancient Greeks, and if you refuse to accept such fact, you're going against science, and it's a battle you cannot win, buddy.

[@chalkios7782]

@Wexastria Your DNA is unique, because you belong to a peoples whose DNA is unique. The Greeks did not stop existing when Constantinople fall, they just were not an official and recognized country for 365 years and were enslaved, the Greeks have never ceased to exist, don't be foolish and learn the basics.

[@vicvictoria3031]

I'm a Spanish native speaker and Greek learner and this is 100% accurate. Greeks sound very natural when speaking Spanish and viceversa. Amazing!

[@blackbird7048]

Try Italian. You'll be amazed further.

[@Kamarov]

@@blackbird7048 what about Portuguese? Or French?

[@neoromanempire]

@@Kamarov as someone who speaks French, Portuguese and Spanish. They have nothing in common

[@DarkWarrior0175]

It is because the 3 come from Latin

[@mogambo2445]

@@neoromanempire portuguese and spanish share a lot of words, but their pronunciation is really different. And french and portuguese dont have many common words but their pronunciation is closer. Im spanish and i can understand written portuguese much easier than french, even if i have studied french. But if a portuguese speaks quickly i wont get a single word.

[@alexandrostatsidis3945]

Me and my wife are native Greek speakers and we were dining at a restaurant in England while talking to each other. At some point the waiter came to us and asked us if we were Spanish. We were quite surprised and told him no, we are Greeks. He then said that we sounded like Spanish people.

[@caracallacz]

I am a Spanish speaker, and when I visited Athens and Crete for the first time I immediately noticed that. For me, they speak with a Castilian accent. I think the point is that Greeks also use what we call seseo, which is pronouncing C,S,Z differently. Not all Spanish speakers talk that way, Spanish-Americans, Caribbean Spanish, Canary Islands, and people from Andalucia do not use it at all.

[@putinrereloaded5279]

El seseo es pronunciar la s y la z igual con sonido s, el ceceo es pronunciar ambas con sonido z. El problema es que para un hispanoamericano ceceo y seseo se dice igual, así que no se puede saber de cual estáis hablando. Para vosotros es lo mismo cocer que coser, cazar que casar, abrazar que abrasar, etc. porque seseáis mientras que los españoles conservamos ambos sonidos s o z según la palabra de que se trate.

[@caracallacz]

@@putinrereloaded5279 Tienes parcialmente razón. Pero conservamos, quiénes? No todos los españoles hablan de esa manera. Los canarios y los andaluces tienen un acento muy similar al acento hispano americano. Esto no es de extrañar, pues la conquista de las Canarias fue previa a la americana y muchos de los primeros colonos que llegaron a la América hispana eran canarios o andaluces.

[@bernaldelcastillo1768]

I've been to Greece and Spain and there is very little difference in sounds and culture. Both are loud and happy people

[@RMPT6]

thats true but trust me italian people are louder!

[@giannisb2721]

@@RMPT6 Greeks and Spanish are just "more quite" and "relaxed" versions of Italians ;D

[@petegrusky2715]

That's because you know shit about history and culture , as typical Brit , ignorant of other people .

[@vanillaicecream9026]

And hot women

[@ryanwincester719]

@@vanillaicecream9026 I'm spaniard and trust me, Hot Hot men too

[@tsimpera]

I'm Greek and I studied in UK for 5 years, 90% of new people I met or hearing me talk asked If I was Spanish. It's not only our languages sound the same its also we look the same, I'll throw Italians here as well.

[@akuroatomostointernet3577]

Lol yes, i went to Florence for, like, 3 days and more than 5 times someone stopped us and asked us if we were Spanish. Even a spanish waiter whom we talked to in english, asked us if we were spanish bc of how we pronunced words

[@vercas.1664]

That's so true

[@RunningFreeWithYou]

I also live in Serbia for a few months now and when somebody listens to me talk in Greek they always have a look on their faces and tell me "Oh my God, Greek sounds so much like Spanish". I really hadn't noticed that before this year though 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@fionageorgakis699]

Tell me about it. I am %100 Greek Grew up in Lefkada Greece. I moved to Chicago because I got married in Chicago. Lots of people I meet on a daily basis think I am Spanish by my looks and not by language. Here is the bonus information...I recently started to learn Spanish and most words do sound Greek and the meaning of a certain word is based on Greek Language. 🙂

[@raegitano6345]

100% right!

[@ethermod307]

I'm a Greek expat in the Netherlands (a neutral country) where a lot of Greek and Spanish people live. I often think that I hear Greek on the street but when I focus better it turns out to be Spanish people talking. It's not only the sound of the languages but also the Mediterranean culture that has a lot of similarities like the warm and passionate temperament that is also reflected in the language and how people talk. Thnx for the video, it was very informative!

[@rafaelortega1376]

I am Spanish and work with a Greek colleague and we both think our languages sound similar

[@kitkatavie7020]

Dude, as a Spanish speaker, this completely shocked me, I never thought Greek would sound so familiar

[@edgarescalera3096]

Es verdad

[@edgarescalera3096]

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