to me it sounds like a cross between American and British English as if you were hearing it for the first time as a baby or something and couldn't decipher what people are saying LOL

To me Dutch sounds like the marriage of Swiss German and English…

As an English person who grew up in Germany, I completely agree! Dutch always makes me laugh for that very reason.

dutch sounds like drunken german😂

Virtuoso80 because Dutch is a combination of English, german and a bit French

+Laura Halliday, Brazilian Portuguese sounds very different from that. I'd say European Portuguese sounds more like a drunken Frenchman trying to speak Russian or Polish, because in Portugal they don't pronounce most unstressed vowels, making the language appear to have more consonants than vowels, as in Slavic languages. In Brazil, all vowels are clearly pronounced and that makes it sound closer to Italian (although grammar and vocabulary are much closer to Spanish).

By the way Slovenia borders Italy)))

In Slovenia there are a bunch of accents, you should try listening to those in ''Prekmurje'' or ''over Mur'' if directly translated, a region separated from the rest of the country by the river Mur.

Laura Halliday well Romanian is a roman language like Italian but I bordered almost completely but slavic counties. Slovienian is a Slavic language like Russian but is more western cause of where the country sits. And Portuguese Spanish and French are all from the same language family. So there's those mysteries solved.

I'm familiar with the family relationships and historical influences.

sounds like broken german

I'm a native speaker and I agree, I don't have the native accent myself because I don't live in Sweden but it really does sound like it's spoken backwards.

same about finnish

That segment wasn't actually news, but a parody show. Talking about the Christmas gift of the year being an experience. Which experience isn't clear, but judging by the price, probably poverty.

Kira It's also a bit exaggerated since it's from a comedy show and not an actual news broadcast.

for you Portuguese it's easier to understand Romanian than Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish etc)

Mediaflashmob I'm also Brazilian and I couldn't understand a word in Polish or Bulgarian.

Goytá F. Villela Jr. Nu există limba moldovenească. Există două țări: România și Moldova care vorbesc limba română. Ele sunt despărțite printr-o graniță deoarece Rusia se opune unirii.

@ I think Spanish is easy for you

The only 2 really mutually intelligible Romance languages are Portuguese and Spanish 89% identical in vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure. Then comes either Portuguese and Spanish with Italian at 82% intelligibility. And Italian is of all of the Romance languages the closest to French at 89% identical vocabulary, grammar and structure. For the Romanians Italian would be the most intelligible, but for the Italians to understand Romanian would be very hard work.

Elie de Melo Romanian language is one of the 5 latin languages. Maybe that's why...

Georgian I know Romanian is a Latin language, but I never expected it to be THAT understandable. See, French is also a Latin language, but I was not capable of understanding more than a few phrases and isolated words until I studied it. So it was surprising.

Elie de Melo French pronunciation is largely Germanic, it's pretty much a bunch of Franks trying to pronounce Latin back in the day and majorly failing at it, lol, that's why it sounds so different from the rest of the Latin languages. It's like English is 70% Latin in terms of vocabulary but the way we pronounce those Latin words is not recognizable.

Well, even I (I'm Dutch) could understand a little bit of Romanian xd

Elie de Melo our grandfather Latin Elie ;) for example if I try to write your comment in different neo-latin languages I bet you can easily understand... ROMANIAN: " În momentul ciudat atunci când un realizeaza brazilian ar putea înțelege un pic din ceea ce românii și moldovenii vorbesc " ESPANOL: " El momento extraño cuando un brasileño se da cuenta que podían entender un poco de lo que los rumanos y moldavos hablan " ITALIANO: " Il momento strano quando un brasiliano si rende conto che ha potuto comprendere un po' di quello che i rumeni e i moldavi dicono " FRANCAIS : " Le moment bizarre quand un brésiliens rèalise il pourrait comprendre un peu de ce que les Roumains et Moldaves parlent ".. Latino faz milagre, sautade da Italia ;)

+me700gnomes and sexy

Omelette du fromage.

me700gnomes It sounds like Danish

me700gnomes zut

French have a nice pace. Like Danish and Dutch. They have distinctive pronunciations.

No Slovakian

richie Rochford she's romanian.

Slovakian girl is the best looking tho

For real the Romanian girl was stunningly beautiful...

From a Romanian perspective... the Polish lady was more pretty than our pretty presenter! :)

+Angela Carlsson It is a very weird coincidence but standard (Castilian) Spanish and modern Greek have exactly the same sounds. This is almost unheard-of for two languages to have the same sounds -- good call!

+Angela Carlsson something about the way greek is spoken sounds latin to non greek or latin speakers

Greek is like the grand parent of spainsh

MainstreamPoPsucks3 latin has a very strong influence of greek and spanish was created out of latin with mixes and local influences

First of all Greek is an older language than Spanish. So you can't say that Greek sounds like Spanish.... Spanish sounds like Greek. Thats the way it is. And yes by the way they are quite similar because both of them are based of Latin.

Don't you guys ever watch any Portugal-made shows or movies in Brazil? I mean I know the Portuguese you speak is remarkably different and that most Portuguese people are familiar with it seeing as they receive a good chunk of your movies and literature, but doesn't it work the other way as well? Kind of like UK-US cultural exchange I mean?

yarpen26, Well Brazil and Portugal speak the same language with different accents, just like UK-USA. The thing is that Portugal has a globalization spirit so they are exposed to the culture of other Portuguese speaking countries, hence they are very accustomed to their accents. Brazil is culturally closed to other Portuguese speaking countries, with a more nationalistic spirit, so many Brazilians never listened to Portuguese accents from outside Brazil. It's funny that a bit of that also happens with UK-USA, with British people more accustomed to the American accent than the other way around.

I was flabbergasted. I didn't know Portuguese in Portugal sounds slavic, since I'm accustomed to Brasilian Portuguese - which might be a surprise since I live in Europe...

Language is very fascinating.

pyccoķï

Мени је баш ружан румунски

❤❤❤love you serbians❤❤❤. Us a romanian i prefer serbia😂❤

Irish,even though unrelated to English, developed in close proximity with English, so a lot of its sounds are similar due to a lot of sound influences in the past. So it ends up sounding like English that is jig-sawed up.

Is teanga an-difriúil é.

peronkop xD

Sean Freeman Languages are feminine.

Jaron W what does 'eastern european' look like to you tho? Cause a lot of Irish people don't fit the stereotype of Irish.. also they could maybe of been speaking another Celtic language, maybe Welsh or Scots Gaelic ?

The actual laguage is Romanian

then u understood romanian too cause is the same language...

Because is a latin language

Yes they are but it's a very little difference in speaking. After 1940 when Soviet Union took Bessarabia from Rumania they began to "disturb their national identity". They were actually Rumanians but the Soviets told them that they are Moldovan and their language isn't Rumanian but it's Moldovan,which is totally false. But yes it is the same language.

Yep :]]

+Judge Claude Frollo there's no such thing as 'moldavian'. Moldovans speak romanian language.

Yes

Same how there's no such thing as Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian or Montenegrin, they're all one language called Serbo-Croatian, before nationalism happened

yesss

Its the same language

Because Romanian is also a Romance language.

Romanian sounds slavic

And Portuguese sounds like slavic

I had never heard it before, but it really does!!

kathy peralta. 😂😂😂

Am I the only who thinks that sounds like a mix of Italian Spanish and Portuguese 😂

I'm portuguese and I agree that it sounds like Spanish because of the strong vowels and the R sound, but I don't understand a single thing.

I think you should rephrase that. Spanish sounds like Greek gibberish. Greek is a much older language.

Because estonia is baltic country and they have baltic accent

+Abiodun92 So they're like Wolf Blitzer?

And of course the Estonian news piece is about an event in Finland :)

But generally is it easier to get Estonian for Finns than Swedish, Danish, Norwegian?

Don´t worry. Finnish sound very funny for Estonians too ;) End there´s no word like "Raiskata" in our language. To waste something means "Raisata".

Just Romania one thanks

❤❤❤❤

Romanian woman is prettier.

​@@adr1899g stop racist

Thank you from an Icelander. I have visited your BEAUTIFUL country and learned a little bit of the language, it is so charming with the "ch" and "sh" endings.

Thx, i'm Dutch, and you're one of the few people saying that Dutch is an awesome language. Danish sounds nice too. By the way, Is Danish the same as Norwegian?

Written it's almost the same, because we forced the Norwegians to make their language more Danish, when they were under Danish rule. But spoken it sounds very different and we have some different words aswell. Maybe the relationship is a bit like Flemish and Dutch, but I'm not an expert on that.

Nikolaj Vølver Well, In Flanders they use different words than in The Netherlands too. For example: in The Netherlands, when people say 'agent' (police officer in Ducth), they say in Flanders 'flik' (simular to 'flikker', what 'fagot' means), 'lolly' ('lolly pop') in The Netherlands, is 'likstok' (stick to lick on) in Flanders, and a sentence in The Netherlands (for example: ik ga even hard/luid schreeuwen/gillen, 'i'm going to scream very loud'), is 'ik ga efkes geweldig roepen (translated literally: 'i'm going to shout very awesome') in Flanders. So, Flemish and Dutch are kind of different if you compare them with eachother.

That's like Japanese!

Nikolaj Vølver it is english and german XD

INTJ-Skorpyo7 No, moldavian is a fake language. Actually in Moldova the people are speaking the romanian language.

lol and I'm romanian and I understand a bit of italian

@@claudialiviaalexandramihal5111 a bit? are you deaf? are u even romanian? 90% of the words that she (the caster) said are exactly the same with a bit of a different prononciation: *[it] - [ro]* secondo - secunda (a doua) tempo - timp contro ucraina - contra ucrainei campo - camp (teren) confermata - confirmat commissione disciplinare - comisia disciplinara (de disciplina) della - de la fifa - fifa squalifica - descalifica di - de un - un offensive - ofensiva recupera - recupera risonanza magnetica - rezonanta magnetica difficile - dificil ecografia - ecografie che - ce espulso leri - espulzat ieri italia - italia australia - australia materassi - materassi alessandro nesta - alessandro nesta italia australia - italia australia *how can u not understand all of a that?* lmao

Romanian =Moldovan.

you understood moldavian more than romanian? they are the same language except that the romanian spoken in Moldova has a stronger slavic accent and more slavic words in its vocabulary

Paola Nasta There is no Moldovan language actually, It's Romanian. They are like American and British English

"moldavian" 😂😂😂😂

Bosnian languange doesn't exist its just other dialect of Serbian and Croatian.

Cris no, we understand each other perfectly fine, some words are slightly different and that's about it. 99% similar languages

Cris actually Serbian language has 3 dialects, ijekavica (knjizevni (meaning - most correct variation of serbian, speaked by Serbs in Bosnia, some serbs in Serbia) ekavica (few decads ago accepted, speaks in Serbia) and ikavica (speaks in Croatia with few variations). Its all štokavski, which is Slavic serbian language. There was a original čakavski back in a day of the original Croatians, but the tribes speaking čakavski dissapeared. In Bosnia muslims speak Serbian language with few words of Turks, and different accent. They dont wanna accept the facts that its the same language because they were losing civil war and under the protection of outside agrresors ( germany and USA) (with their own interests) they got the right to says its Bosnian and so on....

Marko Jay I have a Latin-Serbo-Crotian dictionary from 1936. So yeah. Its not an artificial language. It existed even before the socialists.

Nirad802 Socialists have nothing to do with Serbo-Croatian. Efforts to create a Serbo-Croatian language started in 19th century, so yes, it was artificial. No writer before has ever referred to his language as Serbo-Croatian. The reason why the three are the same language is because they are all based on the Eastern Herzegovinian Dialect which is a subdialect of the Eastern Shtokavian dialects historically spoken by Serbs. Croatians historically never spoke any of the Eastern Shtokavian dialects although the Croatian standard language today has an Eastern Shtokavian base. Croatians in Slavonia, Bosnia, Usora, Western Herzegovina and Dubrovnik used to speak Western Shtokavian dialects. These dialects have basically become extinct as people were brainwashed that the dialects they spoke were "backward" and "incorrect". People in those areas had different "languages" and they all represented a dialect continuum from Kranj until Varna. If Croatians had adopted the old Slavonian dialect (see Kanižlić) or old Dubrovnik dialect, intelligibility would be lower than it is today. Traditional Croatian and Serbian dialects are different, however the official standard languages are (almost) the same.

cristina mihaela I am amazed that you got as many as you did. Good luck tracking down an Occitan or Alsatian news reader :)

Where do you speak Manx? and is there a newschannel with manx reporters? there are only couple of 100 people left who speak manx...

I don't think Manx has their own broadcasters and the French would not allow Breton or Alsatian. There is a regular BBC Wales broadcast (S4C) and this should be added. Also did not see Flemish (Belgium) or Letzgeburgisch. Great collection though. Kudos

You can add also Kashubian (North Poland) and 2 lusatien (Sorbien) languages in East Germany, bordered with Czech and Poland

They are not missing because the uploader did not claim that it was a complete list. 😀

Serbo-Croatian is one language, made up of different dialects, depending on the region. Croatian dialect has more "je" sounds instead of "e". (So it sounds more like Russian and Serbian sounds more like Greek or something) Croatian and Serbian also have regionalisms. And it make sense, they have a different religion and were under different cultural influence. Same with Standard Romanian and its regional dialects like Moldavian. The reporter from Moldova spoke Standard Romanian, but common people in Moldova have more iotated "e" sounds (je or even ji) and some regionalisms taken from Russian, Ukrainian or other foreign languages. There are dialects that use some words from Turkish and Hungarian too. Did you know there are 3 ways of saying "is" in Romanian? "este" - clearly from Romance languages, the formal "is" "e" (pronounced "ye") - clearly from Serbian "je" "îi" - which is shortened to "-i", examples: "Ana îi mare" to "Ana-i mare" ("Anne is big") "îi" can also mean "to him" (dative) Generally, everyone can understand Standard Romanian. Most of the 19th Century writings are full of regionalisms or archaisms though. Not everyone understands regionalisms here though.

The same languages , minor russian loanwords in Moldova The only diference is that Romanian has a little bit more of an italian touch and in Moldova , the girl in the video , show's just a little , but people there speak with veavy Russian accent

Andrew, let me guess where you are from... Moldovan Russian speaker?

Bosnian 1st dictionary published in 1643 but 1st Serbian dictionary in 1818.

Yep. As of 2023, Romanian is the official language in Moldova.

SuperPatchy Greek and Spanish are completely different languages. It's amazing how you can't tell the difference between the two languages.

George Macpherson He said that they sound similar. Of course they are totally different languages.

George Macpherson I am from Spain and I agree that Spanish people and Greek people sound very similar. On the other hand, Latin Americans (from the Spanish speaking countries) sound very very different to Greeks.

Pyccoķï! Cõtrėste u graz kleķ

I laughed too much! Swedish is similar to the sims language

Cecilia Castro She is Monica Dascalu, romanian, 08:44

Monica Dascălu her name ❤

Juutube989 because you don't understand it.

+Yany Amitai You mean portuguese spoken in Portugal

Along with Greek & Armenian it has its own branch in indo - european tree, i agree too its very unique

Kristijana 3 Agree. Armenian sounds amazing.

It goes back in time ilirian tribes from Thracia

Pyccoķï

@@DSTV10 all of them from proto-europian language. Very ancient and very cool. Also Basque I also forgot😅 🇦🇱🇦🇲🇬🇷

nice

Yes, seems impossible to learn because isn't a indo-european language. But anyway, it's a nice language.

Try to learn Kazakh language 😂

many yes

lucky I don't have to learn :D it's just natural as a hungarian lol, and if u think hungarian is hard, look at chinese, japanese and arabic :D

john doe me neither lol

Only european portuguese sounds like Russian

Brazilian Portuguese doesnt sound slavic at all, looks more spanish than portuguese rofl

They are related, not that closely

Depends on the speaker. I am Portuguese and I really dislike her accent which is not too typical to be honest. Well spoken European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese are a joy to listen to.The Portuguese from Portugal lends itself well for poetry, and the Brazilian variety for music. Portuguese is 89% identical to Spanish in vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure. Portuguese and Spanish speakers can actually have a pretty fluid conversation with one another about anything, but not so between Italian with either one of those. Peoples that Italian and Spanish share a close accent, but there are literally a million different Italian accents so this is a very subjective comparison. The Iberian speakers speak the same way, the sentence constructs are quite literally the same word for word. The same hold true between French and Italian except for the accent. The point is that Portuguese and Spanish speakers can communicate with one another effortlessly without either one having tolerant the language of the other so similar they are. This has been borne out by extensive linguistic research and scholarship.

***** French are freakin awful

Mediterranean languages

Spanish sound like Greek

@@gingin3919 Both! 😑

Irish sounds like English???

Yes, they're mostly Slavic. Lady from Ireland was speaking Irish Gaelic.

Irish, which is a Gaelic language of the Celtic branch of Indo-European.

It will be strangely,but don't think that it was in 1995.

What was she saying about Slovakia?

Valentina Anna Mihely about economic of Slovakia,that 1 euro is very expencive.

Onks oikeesti?

Only part of it is from 1995, the parts where the woman is speaking is from 2011.

Obrigado

Eleazar Ortiz sounds like serbian to me

Eleazar Ortiz I prefer Portuguese from Brazil, sounds like music all the time when they start to talking

I really love portugal but I don't like the portuguese from there. Brazil portuguese it's my favorite language.

@@whitetv3589 yes because you're brazillian lmao

cennet tuffi what

Irish and Scottish-Gaelic , also Manx, are called “The Pirate Lanuages”

French was heavily influenced by the Celtic languages that used to be spoken there

I study Irish and French. Déanaim staidéar ar an nGaeilge agus an bhFraincis. J'étudie la Gaélique et le Fran¸cais.

Cicero Not really actually the only words that remain from Gallic in French are sheep​ and throat (mouton & gosier) I don't think this can be counted as a heavy influence.

Ruairí Másún táim ag foghlaim iad freisin

Yes, Portuguese do sound a bit Slavic/ Russian. Very different from the other Romance languages. Although the language that is most similar in sound to Portuguese is Catalan.

I could understand almost everything of what the Moldovian presenter said. I'm Italian :)

^ this.

I perfectly understand Croatian, I hardly understand Slovene.

Carsten N nooo croatian and serbian are same languages we understand all monte negroshish and bosnian too We all using same words buut croatians have some gay sounds

SRB SLAV:-D typical serb ^^

+youandwhosearmy? Yes Bergenish dialect is very strong. The worst for me. This is why I dislike TV2. NRK I like much better.

Lithuanian too

DMK- I speak Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese is easier for me to understand. I also think it sounds nicer.

Ivan- Both languages originated from Vulgar Latin. And they are very similar in that 89% if the words have a cognate, or equivalent word, in the other language.

Do you really have to write in every single comment from this video that Brazilian Portuguese is better? it's better for YOU. I find European Portuguese a lot more fascinating, it's a lot richer in sounds than the simplified Brazilian version. Polish abd German are fascinating too, as is Armenian, which was sadly overlooked in this video.

Aleksandar Kan Croatian Bosnian Serbian are exactly the same however macedonian is similar to them

And also Croatia and Bosnia

yes I am a bosnian Croat

Aleksandar Kan also it's called FYROM

Do you know why Macedonian and Bulgarian are almost identical? Because there is not such thing as Macedonian.

Well, my ten-minute Google investigation proved fruitful (and give me some props for that, I don't even speak damn Bulgarian). Apparently, she's Виктория Петрова, or Victoria Petrova from bTV News. Judging by the fact that she seems to be dating one of the current government's ministers, I expect her to be a model of journalist impartiality.

Petya Dikova

Yes, they are both Uralic, but their "family" relationship is at a very high level - just like English and Greek are both Indo-European, but they are still very different. It takes a trained linguist to find the common traits of Hungarian and Finnish, because they are not obvious and a speaker of one of them can't understand a word of the other, either written or spoken.

I'm Finnish and I think Hungarian sounds like English in really thick Finnish accent

Rachel Popa I think Finnish sounds more like Estonian than like Hungarian. The three of them has the same background, though.

Especially if you carefully select from that little pool of words the denotations of which were a common concern and relevant to the lives of those people some thousands of years ago in the Uralic forests. Hungarian: Négy hal a kezemben - Finnish: Neljä kalaa käsissäni or Hungarian: Két hold megy éjjel. - Finnish: kaksi kuua menevät yöllä. ...If you type them in google translate, you can also listen to them pronounced, and the similarity will become striking. :) By the way the first one means four fish in my hand and the second one means two moons go at night; a little artificial, I acknowledge, but this is the best I could come up with.

Yes. But they are not mutually intelligible.

A little over 1,000,000 people can speak Irish to some degree. 80,000 people use it as their day to day language and another 100,000 speak it weekly.

Irish only survived in the most remote areas as a first language, Irish speakers in more urban areas might not find another Irish speaker or might be speaking English to each other some time before they realise they both speak Irish. Irish language immersion schools are getting very popular and produce better grades than your average schools in other subjects too. Overall it's not widely used but Irish speakers are moving into suburbia more and more so who knows where it might pop up in the future.

It’s making a comeback but at a very slow pace. Then again, a small improvement is still an improvement

Irish is an official language of the EU and Astronaut Chris Hadfield used it on International Space Station.