Absolutely!

Yeah, it's so interesting, my most favorite video for a long time. And mostly because of Mathhew.

No doubt!

As long as I get a water/snack break in the middle I am okay with this

​@@MatthewBofenkamp😂😂😂the legend is here!

omg this please

Yes! I could listen to him all day

Yea, but they should not include non-pretty languages such as these, they should only include the pretty languages like the Germanic / Nordic languages and the 6 modern Celtic languages and the Latin languages and Hungarian and Slovene which are the languages that are truly fun to guess and hear and see - and such hørrific śæcrílegíuous bæd words should never be included in videos, pfff, what ns!

The gorgeous languages like Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Faroese / Danish / Norwegian Bokmål / Gothic / Welsh / Breton / Irish / Manx / Cornish / Scottish Gaelic / Hungarian / Galician / Catalan / Portuguese / Gallo / Italian / German / Swedish / Luxembourgish / Aranese / Spanish / Guernsey / Limburgish / Walloon / Latin / Occitan / Slovene / Elfdalian / Sardinian / East Norse / Norwegian Nynorsk / Greenlandic Norse etc and the other languages based on Norwegian / French / German / Dutch / Italian etc are the languages that should be included the most - especially the magical languages like Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton etc which are as gorgeous as English, and all should know and learn these pretty languages, they are just too pretty not to know!

Re music, the Dutch and Norse and English and Norwegian and Icelandic and Faroese and German and Danish and Swedish etc languages have the best music ever, even the folk songs are usually gorgeous in these languages - and it is also the fact that the languages themselves are gorgeous, because a song will not sound good if the language it’s sung in isn’t a pretty language with mostly or almost only pretty words and a pretty and refined and poetic sound, so it makes sense that Germanic songs are always the best because Germanic languages are the prettiest and most refined and most poetic languages, and also because almost all the singers with higher voices and lighter tone and a pretty and refined timbre are from Germanic countries, and many of the songwriters from Germanic countries also have natural talent, so they tend to make pretty songs with pretty melodies, especially when it comes to Disney songs and folk songs and symphonic metal songs and techno and dubstep etc, and I highly recommend listening to the Skáld songs and the Icelandic and Norwegian and Dutch and Swedish and Danish etc versions of those Disney songs such as the original Little Mermaid songs and the Frozen / Ik Ben Vaiana / Brave etc songs and the Dutch songs about the hunchback from Notre Dame and Nightmare Before Christmas, they are so pretty and poetic and refined, and Finland also has lots of great songs such as the Nightwish songs like Amaranth / Song Of Myself / Escapist etc!

she's flirting with like three people so she was indeed pretty happy i bet 😂

@way9883 Nah she was flirting with all of them without even knowing what they’re saying or even what they look like 💀

@@pixelzebra8440 you got a point 🤣 but she's most attracted to three of them the most so i guess that's why i said that weeks ago 😂

Love her!!! 🤣

😆💯

My thoughts exactly 😭

@@VeryBerrySweet bro was the worst example for romanian🤣

​@@xevexfn4675but he was so hot

Agreed lmao

Such a funny detail 🤩

Make a guess the smell vid for her 😭😂

I was about to say. That's another type of skill to pick something like that up

Yea but "dubai" is neither a language nor ethnicity nor country. Arabic is the language, Emarati/khaleeji arab is the ethnicity and United Arab Emirates is the country

I was thinking one of the Slavic Balkan languages, but that American accent came through really strong.

He was death sexy tho 🥵

i like guessing with the people in these videos and literally thought “i cant tell if this is how this language is supposed to sound or if he just has an american accent” 😭😭

I don't know Romanian at all and could tell instantly that his American accent was THICK

That’s what I was thinking. After he something plecat I knew but damn it was hard😂😂😂

ik like im originally Romanian but i mostly speak english with my friends and siblings but i do speak romanian with other people and grandparents and i feel like i dont speak it good but when i saw that like - i felt a lot better (BUT THE PROBLEM WITH MY VOICE IS THAT ITS RLY HIGH PITCHED IN ROMANIAN AND DEEPER IN ENGLISH)💀

​@@carobubulinaplays5355 it's so interesting that you mentioned how you have a higher pitch in romanian, cause everyone I know besides the chinese is practically squeaking in english in comparison with their voices in their native languages, including me

@@carobubulinaplays5355 Funny.. I know a few romanian people. They all do have the same tone in german, english and romanian speaking voice.. But this guy in the video did not roll thr 'R' at first which gave me some kinda weird feeling :D

Yeah, imma be honest kinda disappointed that the Indonesian didn't even try to sing childhood songs. So many easy ones. Just sing the rainy, balloon, or stars song. Wish there was more Indo words spoken, cuz the actual language and how the people use it (slangs n all) are soo different haha. But the swears r funny too lol.

Well said

Is it though? Are you in the field?

she's funny tbh she flirts with like three people there especially the romanian guy lmao

she s giving americans real representation

And it was a HARD one too......wild stuff

she has an east african friend for sureee

She def has a somali friend 😆

It's so broken that even I, an Arab, could easily tell his Romanian was broken with almost 0 knowledge of Romanian.. something was so off about it.. you could tell it sounds weird/fake.

I said the same thing. His accent was american and wasnt speaking ONLY romanian

@@Ahmed-pf3lg I'm from Scotland and I could also tell it sounded off and I've barely ever heard Romanian💀

Haha I came here to say the same. As a romanian, i couldn’t even understood all the things he said.

Yeesssss hahaha

Mathew was great!

Yesss super impressive

hes also a lesson that listening to music is a GREAT way to learn languages

7/8 with a romanian who spoke with the thickest american accent - he did amazing

Wow for real

Glad to hear, plus I like the yuna pfp ❤

Ngl I think the short woman with purple blindfold used a LOT of generalizations

​​​​@@scareglare yeah she was bugging me a little from the start edit: "it just sounds like part of an anime almost"????? girl come on

“Romanian speaker” guy was not respectful tho 💀

@@The-Mediator I think they were told by the staff to come up with insults and curses, though.

that part sending me so bad 😂

right?? that's also a skill

@@pempo8342guessing people’s nationality based on their perfume, when?

​@@eddie-roo guessing where a purfume came from, dont be dense

also she has the accent of bendihua I think, can't really pinpoint which branch but it is very rare now amongst youngsters. Maybe chongming or pudong?

also there's a tv series by a very famous director that's all the rage in china at the minute and all the actors in it speak shanghainese which made shanghainese a hot topic in china as well

Hi there, thank you so much! I'm afraid I don't know anything about Kalenjin, but I'd love to learn about it! Do you have any music recommendations in Kalenjin?

Look at Matthew here already studying ahead for his next challenge!! Love you. You're awesome.

Wakale🤦‍♂️😂😂

​@@MatthewBofenkampkalenjins are actually know for marathon excellence in the world

agreed! i’d like to see him guess my language chamorro, from guam which not many people know

Lmao

but he fineeee

I don’t even speak Romanian and could tell he had SUCH a strong American accent

@@lllllllllllllllll905 right likeeee

I’m Romanian too and I just sat here staring at my screen in disbelief. I thought maybe he was speaking Aromanian.

Yes! As another fellow Lao American there’s a lot of different dialects. I could tell the lady in the video spoke a different dialect than what my parents speak

someone find his @... for research purposes

@@karan_karan_karanfor real. 13:07 I was, “sure, happily” 😂😂😂😊😊😊😊

Its kinda stupid that cut couldn't find a better Romanian speaker. Better leave it out before doing it like this

@@karan_karan_karanfrrrr

Why would anyone want to learn such hærríble-sounding / hærrible-looking language that’s got to be the most uncouth language I’ve ever heard or seen, the words are so embarrassingly funny, I am amazed that ppl continue to use them, instead of learning and switching to a pretty language - I highly recommend learning the most gorgeous languages ever such as Dutch and Norse + Icelandic and Norwegian which are just as pretty and poetic and refined as English and too pretty not to know, and also Welsh and Breton and Galician etc, technically all Nordic / Germanic languages are a true work of art, they are so artistic and poetic and have almost only pretty and gorgeous words that bring true joy to the eye / ear, one should always choose languages based on their prettiness / pretty words, pretty languages are naturally fun to learn and use etc, and they are the languages that should always be included, as all ppl should know about the pretty languages, and I have over 50 pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!

Except for the Romanian, that one seemed to be tough to recognise from the speaker 😄

@@TheMatschkindmost romainians re saying his accent was very American and not really romanian

​@@whapwhob3820cuz it was an American accent, no one in Romania speaks like that. Maybe the guy was born and raised in the US and learned English as his first language

Please on what other video he was?

​@@danielcz6882hes been in few, but also other guessing languages

Honestly, should be moved to World Friends instead because there are many pretty languages included there, and no bæd / śæcrílegíuous words are included in World Friends videos, as far as I know, so they are usually fun to watch, and it would be more entertaining if there were more dudes that know a lot about languages and that can actually guess most of the languages - these videos, on the other hand, are ruíned every time by including such efd words and by including only or almost only non-pretty languages such as these that aren’t fun to guess or hear or see etc, and not even one Germanic languages, pfff, Germanic languages should always be the most included languages as they are the prettiest and most refined languages that are always fun to guess and hear and see!

The gorgeous languages like Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Faroese / Danish / Norwegian Bokmål / Gothic / Welsh / Breton / Irish / Manx / Cornish / Scottish Gaelic / Hungarian / Galician / Catalan / Portuguese / Gallo / Italian / German / Swedish / Luxembourgish / Aranese / Spanish / Guernsey / Limburgish / Walloon / Latin / Occitan / Slovene / Elfdalian / Sardinian / East Norse / Norwegian Nynorsk / Greenlandic Norse etc and the other languages based on Norwegian / French / German / Dutch / Italian etc are the languages that should be included the most, especially the magical languages like Icelandic / Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton etc which are as gorgeous as English, and all should know and learn these pretty languages, they are just too pretty not to know - they should not include non-pretty languages such as these, they should only include the pretty languages like the Germanic / Nordic languages and the 6 modern Celtic languages and the Latin languages and Hungarian and Slovene which are the languages that are truly fun to guess and hear and see!

By the way, my current levels are... - writer level in English - native speaker level in Spanish - advanced level in Dutch - upper intermediate (close to advanced) level in Norwegian - intermediate level in German / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian - upper beginner (close to intermediate) level in Old Norse / Icelandic / Welsh - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc)

I listen a lot of romanian music but that accent was unintelligible

Yeah, i'm sure if they had brought someone who could speak it correctly, he would've guessed it so easily ;(

​@@matheusrofficialPlease don't tell me you listen to manele, other songs can be bangers tho

Yeah, I feel like he was a few generations removed from immigrant ancestors and trying to reclaim his ancestral tongue - kinda like me with Flemish.

I am Romanian and had no idea what the hell was going on for a good 10 seconds. Romanian can only be mistaken for another Romance language (usually Italian) or a Slavic language depending on the accent of the person speaking. Meanwhile he had these people thinking he was Indian.

My top artists were Anaïs Mitchell, Andrew Prahlow, Mpho Sebina, Al-Qasar, and Meskerem Mees. Top songs were “Bright Star” by Anaïs Mitchell, “Rupsa Ra Moti” by DigV ft. Sparsh Agrawal (Kumaoni language, North India), “Kutidhieng” by Liza Aulia (Acehnese language, northwestern Indonesia), “Tirineni Tsïtsïki” by Lila Downs (Purépecha language, indigenous language of Mexico), and “Brooklyn Bridge” by Anaïs Mitchell. Top genres were indie folk, Georgian alternative, Arab alternative, afropop, and Pakistani pop. My sound city was Tbilisi, Georgia. Thanks for asking! What was yours like?

@@MatthewBofenkamphow many different genres did you have?

@@madelynstorms4609 55 I think was the number? But also I made a second account to listen to random genres so that it wouldn’t affect my recommendations, so there’s probably more on that one 😅

@@MatthewBofenkampwow Bofenkamp, are you Dutch?

@@adindavw He did say in a previous video that he is Norwegian.

There's no such thing as "Moldovan" language, it's still Romanian, but this guy is speaking Romanian with a pretty heavy American accent, maybe he was born in the US from Romanian parents

@@ram_n_musicthe weird thing is that he has a Romanian accent when speaking English.

it's true we truly did used to live together

Yeah, I've not lived in Romania or spoken Romanian much for 13 years but the person in the video had a very strong American accent and it didn't sound much like Romanian. So don't worry about not guessing it correctly!

I'd say nothing was giving Romanian there, not even the word choice (except for the very beginning, which kind of led me to the correct region).

@@MatthewBofenkamp at this point you should become a honorary Mateis Bofenkampanu

​@@MatthewBofenkampthis is the cutest KZfaq comment section exchange I have ever read

his dark skin is mood.

Nu sunt român (sunt danez), dar locuiesc in România de sapte ani. Chiar si urechile mele proaste de imigrant au putut auzi ca tipul îl macelarea. :D Sorry about the missing diacritics, btw .. I only have circumflex on this device. Salutari din sectorul 6 Bucurestiului ! :)

​​@@danielvanr.8681 adevărat, nu am auzit un accent atât de râu în viața mea. Dar română ta este foarte bun pentru un immigrant😂 scuzați mea pentru romana mea, nu este atât de bun.

⁠@@danielvanr.8681felicitări, vorbești foarte bine. Chiar mă întreb de ce are accentul ăsta, cunosc români născuți în Canada și cu toate că fac mici greșeli, nu au halul ăsta de accent.

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because malaysian isn't indonesian

^ and he almost got the dari girl but he changed his guess to farsi

Linguistically speaking, Dari and Farsi (as well as Tajik) are both different standardised versions of the same language (Persian). This is similar to what happens with Hindi/Urdu, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Macedonian, Turkish/Azerbaijani, and (arguably) Norwegian/Danish/Swedish. Honestly it should have counted. I don't know too much about the relationship between Malay and Indonesian, but I've heard that people do sometimes consider the two to also be the same language with different standard versions and there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two

@@lardgedarkrooster6371I’ve been learning Persian, mostly from Iranians, and I could tell that she was speaking Persian, and I agree that it should’ve counted.

@@Klabsy @lobotomizer90 yeah but he was so close and mentioned them both by name but was thrown off by details that were misleading. it doesn't' "fully" count but when they said be nice, they should definitely have raised their hands or like acknowledged more how close he was, I feel

Same - want to see it!!

Or sign me up for a class!

@@adindavw Sadly, he said he "used to" teach, so I doubt that's possible 😢

That would be so fun!

kzfaq.info/sun/PL-ClEBppfwRjAUJhVHH1Xar7zGWglMaEj&si=ZRiHJ7m4_uQy-Ixi Not a syllabus but a link to the youtube playlist he made with all the music he uses to associate it with the language (in the description there's also a link to the spotify playlist and a spreadsheet with the name of each song and language)

It IS in the same language family. They are languages spoken by the Han Chinese, that are linguistically and lexically related. Any Mandarin speaker will be able to guess that it comes from China after asking her three questions and listening to her answers. We may not be able to understand what she's saying, but to say it's not in the same language family is just incorrect. I would liken its similarities to Spanish and Portuguese-which are different languages but are both Romance languages derived from Latin, and it doesn't take much for a speaker of one to understand the other. They're not mutually comprehensible, but they're super related to the extent that the grammar is maybe 90% similar and the words are mostly etymologically related. All you need to do is master the pronunciation and the remaining 10% of the grammar for basic comprehension. There ARE Chinese languages that aren't part of the same language family as Mandarin. For example, Uyghur, Tibetan, Manchu, and Hmong are not related to the Han Chinese languages. But Hakka (including Taiwanese), Wu (including Shanghainese), and Yue (including Cantonese) are all Han Chinese languages and thus very related to Mandarin. To be fair, some people do refer to each of these categories as "families" because they each contain multiple varieties, but varieties within each of these categories are mutually comprehensible, so I would hardly consider those to be different languages. So Cantonese, for example, should linguistically be considered the same language as all other Yue varieties while Shanghainese should be considered the same language as all other Wu varieties. Yue and Wu are two languages that, along with Mandarin, make up the Han Chinese languages which all belong to the Sinitic language family.

I am a native Shanghainese speaker and if you ask anyone from Shanghai, they will say its a dialect. Why? Because many of its words are the same as in mandarin but with different accent (it is somewhat based on mandarin).

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@PersonZinrooas a Shanghainese, 上海閒話 is not based on Mandarin. Especially since mandarin is a younger language compared to the Wu dialects. Shanghainese/ wu is a dialect based on a social political standpoint but a language based on linguistic standpoint. Linguists note that while there is some vocab overlap, there is only 29% lexical similarity between Shanghainese and Mandarin. Compared to English and German which have a lexical similar of 60% yet are considered different languages. We speak both so we can easily detect the similarities, but speakers of one or the other will struggle. It’s more than just an accent change.

@@catinabox3048they are in the same family and language continuum, but they’re on widely different branches. Think dogs and foxes. They’re both canines, but they are more like cousins than siblings.

@@catinabox3048also, Tibetan and the Sinitic languages are related, what are you talking about? Like, Manchu, Yi, Hmong, Uyghur and Mongolian aren’t related to the Sinitic languages, but Tibetan is, the language family is quite literally called Sino-Tibetan. Saying they’re not related is like saying Spanish and Farsi aren’t related or that otters and bears aren’t related, like yeah, they’re quite a bit distant, but they’re both indoeuropean languages or carnivorans respectively.

she's such a mood tbh

so true ^^^ ❤️

Me too. Hearing him talk about his country (how it used to be) and then talk about not having been there in 13 years. It was heartbreaking.

So endearing! I loved seeing that interaction

high key me 🤣🤣 Anyone have the Afghan woman's @? 👀

I was looking for this comment for 3 minutes 😅 Ikr he was so cute 🥺 i love when we men get shy. We're just so adorable

for real i saw his shirt and thought i was tripping

I also got excited to see one of the alphabets of Sakartvelo ❤️

You guys! ♥️ many people don't even know that Georgia is called Sakartvelo (საქართველო) in our native language and always mix it with the state of Georgia in the United States. Thanks everybody for representation!

Hopefully in the next set we get some of the Caucasian languages, including Georgian. I'm excited already!

@@rahuldhargalkar omg me too! I would be happy to participate hahaa 😂 but I live on the east coast ://

exactly my thought, the way he immediately knew the indonesian person speak a language of austronesian family is very much a plus point.

My time as a prof was always made to be temporary; Carnegie Mellon University, where I taught, likes to do a lot of courses on very niche topics that are only taught once. Usually I’m just a software engineer professionally makin’ those video games :)

​@@MatthewBofenkamp your class sounds so interesting. please please post your syllabus or songs-by country list somewhere!

​@@MatthewBofenkampyou're genius level intelligent

@@MatthewBofenkamp do you retain the right to teach that same course or something similar elsewhere, like as a visiting professor or a Masterclass type thing?

@@MatthewBofenkamp Where you saying to your students same things you said to the Romanian guy about their country?

err there were two women guessing... which one are you referring to?

^ right 😅 I loved both of them!

she qas quite dumb and acted all ghetto

​@@penguin-tc1cx blue sweater and green pants, obviously lol

​@@penguin-tc1cx Mary, of course

In which other video he was please?

that explains why i couldn't tell . i work with a few Romani so i am used to the language and i pick up words here and there. As a non native, on print the language looks very close to Latin unless i am mistaken. if that bloke had been short like most Romani i would have guessed

@@PHlophe You are right, the Romanian language is the closest language to latin. Closer than Italian and Spanish. We have Slavic and Dacic influences as well :)

He was passive aggressive too. Like he was too cool for Matthew 😂

Gamarjoba! I listen to so much Georgian music that Georgian Alternative was my #2 genre on spotify wrapped and Tbilisi was my sound city. I love Bedford Falls, Kahaberi & Khanums, Tamada, 4D Monster Lobsters, Killages, George Ergemlidze, Vaqo, Mgzavrebi, so much good stuff there.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@MatthewBofenkampomfgg yees gamarjobaaa 🫶🫶yes all of them are so good bands its really rare to actually see someone enjoying our little countrys stuff . Iam foreal got chillss vifsav

The Georgian alphabet is very cool!

TVR really did him dirty. If only he had the proper funding and was supported by them.

… 💀💀💀

It really is the worst musically in all honesty.

​@@MZA890depends on if you consider artists such as carla's dreams, subcarpati, specii and irina rimes romanian or moldovian, because they do have some good music

Doesn’t everyone know cat music from Eurovision Ilinca?

@@JimmiAlli i don't even know who ilinca is and i'm romanian :))