How did European Explorers Speak to Newly-discovered Natives? (Short Animated Documentary)
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Күн бұрынNormally when travelling to new lands, European explorers would use traders from states along the way to translate for them on their arrival. Yet when Columbus made his way to the Americas, there were no such people on the way. So how did Columbus communicate with Native Americans? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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@Swat_Dennis 2 жыл бұрын
The Chinese actually started talking Latin to the British in the 1700's because they thought that was the language still being used. Soooo, that's an interesting fact for you all
@tefky7964 2 жыл бұрын
Do you know how did they still know Latin? Did they have few translators able to speak Latin for centuries,always teaching new generation,to always have atleast some just in case?
@austinneece7853 2 жыл бұрын
as far as I am aware, the only reason they spoke to each other in Latin was because McCartney brought four Chinese Catholic priests as interpreters. who knew Latin and Chinese, but not English.
@mbern4530 2 жыл бұрын
@Hernando Malinche Wouldn't he be taken to the King of Portugal since they were the ones trading in Japan? Or was this during the 2 kingdoms, 1 crown period?
@Shuker8964 2 жыл бұрын
Chinese: Salve et grata ad te The brits: veni vidi vici
@hu3ll0 2 жыл бұрын
@@tefky7964 Mostly Christian missionaries, either Nestorians or Catholics. The Nestorians got there first in the 7th century, but eventually lost favour of the Chinese courts, especially after Catholics arrived in the 10th century, but didn't make a big dent until the 13th century.
@erzar.1730 2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the basics of communication : food shelter Jesus gold and boats.
@me-sm8fd 2 жыл бұрын
Finds new land , “ WANT SOME JESUS GET YOURS NOW TODAY , you will be murdered if you don’t get some
@TimoRutanen 2 жыл бұрын
@@me-sm8fd And give us your gold
@MasterMalrubius 2 жыл бұрын
@@me-sm8fd Yeah not like anyone cut out hearts to sacrifice to their god.
@madisonbrown8851 2 жыл бұрын
@@MasterMalrubius found the christian
@me-sm8fd 2 жыл бұрын
@@MasterMalrubius to me the most amazing part of that in history was that sometimes they would cook it , I know that’s quite violent but I’m just saying
@samuel61762 Жыл бұрын
As somebody currently learning another language, the concept of trying to learn a language with no previous translators hurts me on another level.
@anotherday-anotherslay 2 ай бұрын
well, political prisoners in other countries and babies do it all the time
@Oneforall86 2 ай бұрын
@@anotherday-anotherslaydo you want to be either of those for a few years?
@akotostotos9619 2 ай бұрын
As an Interrpreter , I'm really glad I came across this video !
@solarprogeny6736 2 ай бұрын
you did that exact thing early in your life, samuel, and in fact the lack of translators would actually expedite your learning, if anything! you'd be in complete immersion after all
@nas8318 2 ай бұрын
It's not so daunting if you already speak several languages. You realize that all languages share the same core structure subject-predicate-object
@arnaudj.5314 2 жыл бұрын
This is exactly the question that has been in my mind for 10 years that none of my History class teachers could precisely answer
@Hand-in-Shot_Productions Жыл бұрын
Well, then, this video was as interesting for you as it was for me... and I found it very interesting!
@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 2 ай бұрын
I learned Russian without a vocabulary list. In certain situations, certain things are said. I could initially parrot the sounds when the right situation arose without knowing exactly what it meant but had a general idea from context. A lot of these add up and eventually you start to think in the new language. It wasn't like taking a class where you memorise lists of words. Only after learning to think in Russian was I able to start learning the skill of translating.
@jfields3036 2 ай бұрын
Same here.
@pele914 2 ай бұрын
Bc the truth hurts...they would dock offshore, fire the cannons all night long(origins of fireworks display n also roots of shock n awe) and then take an away boat next morning armed to the teeth....THAT was how they communicated...violence, murder, rape was a big factor, n just overall intimidation...bc think...this is not a merchant expedition it was always military and they were operating as a small team "taking on" an entire nation
@YourSideHoe 2 ай бұрын
Lol me too
@Jan_Koopman 2 жыл бұрын
"They used the only language they knew always worked..." I was absolutely sure you were gonna say: "...violence"
@timoteubert7068 2 жыл бұрын
Well, they did. They kidnapped them
@gregmiller9710 2 жыл бұрын
..that was the backup lang....>
@pacoramon9468 2 жыл бұрын
They got slaved by the natives, hippies weren't a thing in the XV century.
@capncake8837 2 жыл бұрын
Same.
@l.s.11 2 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@tomerpilo5193 2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: when Hernan Cortez traveled to Tenochtitlan he brought with him 2 translators. A Mayan woman who could translate Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs) to Mayan and a Spanish sailor that got shipwrecked in the Yucatan peninsula and could translate Spanish to Mayan. So it was essentially a game of telephone.
@mappingshaman5280 2 жыл бұрын
Also the mayan woman became his concubine
@ericktellez7632 2 жыл бұрын
Not so fun when you learn that woman wasnt a woman but a child that was given to Cortez as price when he was in Yucatan and she would get raped by Cortez multiple times, he would marry her when she got pregnant and had his son who would became one of the first mestizos in the new world.
@jacklaurentius6130 2 жыл бұрын
@@ericktellez7632 historical revisionism
@daemonzap1481 2 жыл бұрын
@@ericktellez7632 Its crazy how the sins of our modern day will eventualy be a tiny blip in history and be forggotten by our descendants and revisioned accordingly.
@AnimatedStoriesWorldwide 2 жыл бұрын
@@daemonzap1481 If you this history forgives, you haven't read a lot of history.... Things that are perfectly normal today will be seen as monstrosity and perversion by the future generations who'll barely understand how we live day to day. "What.....they bought cheap tables built by workers paid less in poorer countries....? How could they sleep at night....?". We'll never run out of uneducated and judgmental people.
@swagmund_freud6669 2 жыл бұрын
There's a really interesting video of a demonstration of a linguistic technique used to learn an entirely unknown language, with Daniel Everett as the demonstrator. He used this method to learn the Piraha language of the Amazons. It's quite cool to see him do it.
@mariosilveirs7663 6 ай бұрын
Daniel.
@goomba008 4 ай бұрын
I read this as the Piranha language and was looking for info if the fish was named the same as the language because they both exist in the Amazon >_
@vig4259 Ай бұрын
Oh god, I read as Piranha lmao.
@jackcoleman5955 Жыл бұрын
I love that he included the “is/is not” Trinity explanation. Priceless.
@Honest_Question Ай бұрын
Sadly that doesn't make sense even in english 😂
@mitmeetsmadness 20 күн бұрын
@@Honest_Question Even though I'm atheist myself, I'd say it does make sense. Hegelian dialectics (and later marxian) magnificently include apparatus or theory of certain things being one thing and different things at the same time. E.g. production is also a consumption, because it takes raw materials, machines and people to operate. Vice versa, consumption is also a production, because it creates people.
@Honest_Question 20 күн бұрын
@@mitmeetsmadness That has nothing to do with it. Please tell me _anything_ where A=B and B=C but C≠A
@mitmeetsmadness 19 күн бұрын
@@Honest_Question It has a lot to do with it. Though one can not find such a case in the static of formal logic. It is to be found in a dynamic, changing system. Let's look into a person who once was thin slowly becoming really thick. Consequentive states of them are similar, yet extreme states at the beginning and the end are drastically different. A = B = C, yet A ≠ C. You can say, well, there's minor differenses along the way, and you would be right. But there's no things without at least minor difference. Electrons, which are the same in themselves, are located in different areas of spaces, so saying they are the same means abstracting, cutting off "unimportant" or "unessential" difference. And no single "cut-off" is authentic, but rather a system of such a cut-offs, which makes identity and difference of things relative. If things are identical in one cut-off, they could be different in another, and vice versa.
@Honest_Question 19 күн бұрын
@@mitmeetsmadness You literally disproved yourself. You said similar which by definition is ≠ not = The definition of the trinity is that The son = God The father = God The ghost = God But The father ≠ The son ≠ The ghost
@Will_the_Rose 2 жыл бұрын
We all thought the animation signs were just a shortcut. But in reality, everything has been building to this moment, and the real shortcut was the friends we made along the way.
@sadettinarslan5324 2 жыл бұрын
Lost reference?
@hugonegron3135 2 жыл бұрын
So true
@aratirao9007 2 жыл бұрын
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@kaliyuga1476 2 жыл бұрын
Cringe
@mwplaylist2890 2 жыл бұрын
@@sadettinarslan5324 The real reference was inside us all along.
@connorgolden4 2 жыл бұрын
History Matters always answers the questions we didn’t ask but needed to know.
@frorproductions5571 2 жыл бұрын
Actually I asked myself this question a few times before this video
@Saqux 2 жыл бұрын
he is good at making videos about things we have at some point thought about but were too lazy to google
@Cigmacica 2 жыл бұрын
Fror Productions me too
@garlkurzer 2 жыл бұрын
I asked
@flyingtomatosauce3528 2 жыл бұрын
he answers the questions we didnt need but the ones we deserve
@russs7574 2 жыл бұрын
An interesting follow-up to this would be a video on how Lewis and Clark were able to communicate with the Native Americans along their route, and how man people were involved in the chain of translation. And while they were able to communicate effectively, it must have looked like a Monty Python sketch while they were doing it.
@reynaldoflores4522 5 ай бұрын
They had with them Sacagawea, who could communicate in sign language.
@diegoflores9237 2 ай бұрын
That's different. By that time there were many people on both sides that knew different languages
@pele914 2 ай бұрын
York, the enslaved African the richer n older of the two's family owned....HE was the one that was the point man that was always the first to interact with the natives...the natives took a liking to him bc they associated his looks n stature(big dude) with being a great hunter. Bc of his exploits he was promised his freedom after the expedition but of course not. You can look this up but there is a reason his name doesn't get included in history books😕 Sacagewea negotiated procurement of supplies n particularly horse but that was actually with the tribe she was kidnapped from....for ALL the other tribes it was all York.
@pele914 2 ай бұрын
@@reynaldoflores4522 true but even more importantly, as written in memoirs not my opinion, was the presence of the enslaved African York. The natives ALL took a liking to him specifically.
@Daniel_RG 22 күн бұрын
Actually, there's a pretty good SNL sketch about them 😆
@michaeldresssing3057 2 жыл бұрын
Perfect video, short and straight to the point. Good job👌
@westwoods7675 2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, signs. Guess we should have seen this coming from this channel lol
@Will_the_Rose 2 жыл бұрын
All along, he was trying to how us a sign
@kennethnwebb 2 жыл бұрын
it's how he said boogie lee woogie lee without a snicker
@andrewjgrimm 2 жыл бұрын
And crude drawings!
@aratirao9007 2 жыл бұрын
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@sidarthsubramanian7480 2 жыл бұрын
And see that demonstrating actions meant murder
@colemancooper5226 2 жыл бұрын
James Bisonette obviously taught the Europeans how to speak to the natives
@DougBurgum4VP 2 жыл бұрын
Is there anyone more Chad than James bisonette!
@segmentsAndCurves 2 жыл бұрын
@@DougBurgum4VP Kelly Moneymaker
@inactivetitan8629 2 жыл бұрын
Kelly moneymaker bank rolled the whole thing
@AliDixon95 2 жыл бұрын
What about IZZY?
@mysterious7215 2 жыл бұрын
Obviously
@dylanbuchman8128 2 жыл бұрын
I love the animation on these videos so much, it's hilarious
@stefanschleps8758 23 күн бұрын
Thank you! We've watched every episode several times and this is still our favorite channel.
@homeokineticdude465 11 күн бұрын
Who we?
@awc6007 2 жыл бұрын
“What was Vietnam like after the Vietnam war?” would be a good future video idea. Love ur Channel.
@segmentsAndCurves 2 жыл бұрын
Wait, I see this recommendation before.
@mysterious7215 2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@tremedar 2 жыл бұрын
Pretty much like it was during the war, as not long after China invaded. Short, one month, extremely bloody but ultimately Vietnam *actually* won, unlike *the* Vietnam war, which a cease-fire was established, US and allied forces withdrew, NVA used the treaty as toilet paper and finished conquest of the south. How was Vietnam after the collapse of the USSR would be interesting, on the other hand.
@elijahgreybosh7882 2 жыл бұрын
A Chinese puppet state
@gnas1897 2 жыл бұрын
@@elijahgreybosh7882 fairly confident Vietnam sided with the Soviets more than china. Vietnam and china hate eachother
@TheMaplestrip 2 жыл бұрын
The thing I'm genuinely the most interested in is how missionaries were able to explain Christianity in mere days sometimes.
@MrBrock314 2 жыл бұрын
It's not that complicated of a story. God comes to Earth, dies for humanity's sins, resurrects, returns to heaven, coming back again. Story complete. If you skip the more specific things like whether the communion bread is the body of Christ or not, it saves a lot of time and still gets the important parts across.
@TheMaplestrip 2 жыл бұрын
@@MrBrock314 I suppose. There are a lot of abstract concepts there. I wouldn't know how to describe (a 15th century understanding of) sin to someone. And even just figuring out how to communicate "death" might be hard. Unless the European missionaries were really into miming XP
@robertwaguespack9414 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheMaplestrip actually the part about there being one God was understood when explained by Cortez. In 1531 there was the miracle of Guadalupe.
@TheMaplestrip 2 жыл бұрын
@@robertwaguespack9414 Of course it was understood. Central America rapidly turned into one of the most Catholic regions of the world. As the Spanish were learning languages like Nahuatl, I imagine things got relatively easy. By 1931, the Spanish had been active in that region for nearly 40 years. I'm particularly curious about first contact moments. For example, when the Magellan Expedition reached the Philippines (the first contact between Europe and the Philippines archipelago), Magellan had a strong interest in attempting to convert local groups to Christianity. This ended up leading to his death, but I'm really curious how those interactions played out, with the limited translation potential of his Malay slave.
@notmenotme614 2 жыл бұрын
Religion attracted people through magic tricks and gold bling. “If you worship me, you can have wealth and power too” That and persecuting other religions
@FilipeCardoso1 3 ай бұрын
Tu és o maior! Respondes a questões que eu já me pergunto à anos. Obrigado 💯
@YeshuaIsTheTruth 2 ай бұрын
This is awesome. Ive always wondered how they communicated and why thats rarely if ever discussed in history courses.
@rickypoon6406 2 жыл бұрын
Common translator trick: "They just made a joke that doesn't make sense for us. Just laugh."
@georgewright3949 2 жыл бұрын
Yea my french teacher used to get us chocolate with jokes on the back turns out humor translates incredibly bad
@IncaWarrior. 2 жыл бұрын
I love colloquial metaphors
@aratirao9007 2 жыл бұрын
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@enejidjsi5939 2 жыл бұрын
@@aratirao9007 no
@ggoddkkiller1342 2 жыл бұрын
Europeans shot first then asked the questions so it was quite easy ''speak'' to Natives actually...
@natethenoble909 2 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: The Yucatan Peninsula, which comprises Belize and a bit of Mexico, got its name due to troubles with communication. When the Spanish arrived, they asked the Mayans, (the natives that lived there) what was the name of the region. The Mayans responded with 'Yucatan', which meant in their tongue: 'I don't understand you'. The Spanish took this at face value, and began to identify the lands there with the name 'Yucatan'
@galantos30 2 жыл бұрын
It was the same with the Pima. The Spanish asked the Akimel O'odham or "River People" what they called themselves, and they responded "Pima" meaning "I don't know."
@juanmola2000 2 жыл бұрын
So you are telling me Latin America has multiple "Valley of Gold", "Silver River", and most importantly the land of "IDFK what you are talking about"
@SirAntoniousBlock 2 жыл бұрын
This story is repeated when the British asked Australian aborigines what that animal was, the reply was "I don't understand" or _kan garoo._ 😆
@johanrosenberg6342 2 жыл бұрын
I've been told that places called Nammatis- or variations thereof in Northern Sweden came about the same way. It means nameless in one or more of the sami languages.
@elias_xp95 2 жыл бұрын
@@SirAntoniousBlock I hate to shatter your dreams but that tale is actually a myth. Kangaroo comes from the Guugu Yimithirr word "gangurru" which roughly translates as black kangaroo.
@loszhor 2 жыл бұрын
Many questions answered, thank you!
@GhostGoneGhost 2 жыл бұрын
Straight to the point, amazing vid👍🏽
@Mr_M_History 2 жыл бұрын
Next time you feel frustrated about having to do compulsory Spanish 101, just remember at least you weren't forcibly shipped to the other side of the world to take it!
@JonatasAdoM 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, I'll take it. Take me to Europe to learn a new language and culture. Just... don't ship me back.
@fearlesspotato3429 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah because abandoning an underdeveloped mess for the most advanzed civilization on earth was definitely a terrible thing
@Sugoie 2 жыл бұрын
@@fearlesspotato3429 Yes and dying of scurvy and smallpox on a large canoe because you were kidnapped by some random pale skinned people was the peak of Mesoamerican existence.
@dusk6159 2 жыл бұрын
@@fearlesspotato3429 That was true but not until many years later, and definitely not by kidnapping (because one wouldn't survive it thanks to diseases).
@dusk6159 2 жыл бұрын
@@Sugoie There's still many successful "seminal" shipments (even of shipwrecked europeans living among the natives etc) examples throughout the many colonial histories that helped both parties, and that at least were historical (first amerindians to step into specific countries of Europe etc).
@kaustralishamal2054 2 жыл бұрын
"they used the only correct form of communication: they used signs". I died
@waldoman7 2 жыл бұрын
I don't get it
@chazzerine7650 2 жыл бұрын
@@waldoman7 I think signs are the main stereotype of this yt channel, and so, the narrator has a bias for them
@izzyxvibes 5 ай бұрын
I thought it was body language
@nik65stgt60 11 ай бұрын
Fascinating! Thank you!
@tannercarp 2 жыл бұрын
Very informative. Thanks.
@REEEPROGRAM 2 жыл бұрын
*Translator:* "They said they want to steal your heart sir" "awww" *Translator:* "No litteraly"
@ahmedsalek976 2 жыл бұрын
🤣
@juanmola2000 2 жыл бұрын
The fact there is a chance that the conversation happened in reality with the Aztecs is special indeed
@polygonalfortress 2 жыл бұрын
That comment has a huge meme potential.
@N330AA 2 жыл бұрын
*Magua:* Greybeard, before you die, know that I will put under the knife your children. So I will wipe your seed from the earth forever.
@aratirao9007 2 жыл бұрын
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@AverytheCubanAmerican 2 жыл бұрын
- the natives were kidnapped and forced to learn Spanish while in constant fear of death - the Duolingo Owl kidnaps your family and forces you to learn Spanish while in constant fear of death *Coincidence? I think NOT!*
@itisicountolaf.yournewguar6111 2 жыл бұрын
🙂
@ramonparada 2 жыл бұрын
Kidnaping and forcing them to learn Spanish is not exactly how it happened. Yes, Columbus forced some natives to return with him to Spain, but when he arrived Spain the guy that had just discovered the new world was not received with joy. He was arrested, booed by the people in the street and later punished for his lack of respect for the natives. He was also ordered to return the natives that wanted to to their homeland. Also the Kings decided that they shouldn't trust such important enterprise to be directed solely by Columbus, and split the job between a dozen of men. Conquistadores were difficult to control while they were in America but when they returned to Spain they had to be held accountable.
@goodaimshield1115 2 жыл бұрын
That actually never trully happened. On the contrary, in Spain it was compulsory to learn nahua or quechua for the priests who wanted to go to America. Learning Spanish was never compulsory. This is what happens when anglos think everybody else acts like them.
@goodaimshield1115 2 жыл бұрын
@@ramonparada There was literally no obligation to learn Spanish XD I guess they learnt it because they were enslaved and shipped to Spain, so it's only normal to learn the language, but "kidnappint natives and force them to learn Spanish in Spain" was not a thing, it sounds stupid as hell, more so when you are aware of Spain's policy regarding language and actually forcing Spqnish priests to take basic lessons in nahua and quechua if they wanted to ever go to America XD
@jerrynadler2883 2 жыл бұрын
The Duolingo Owl was directly responsible for the Septermber 11th terror attacks on New York City.
@shahinchoudhury8256 5 күн бұрын
i was having this question for such a long time. thanks.
@bennalexanderleyland9088 2 жыл бұрын
Sick video! Condense and told me as much as a 10 minute video would. Big up, bro.
@pepsdeps 2 жыл бұрын
In México the interpreters of Cortés are widely remembered. Jerónimo de Aguilar had become a slave to the Yucatec Maya and when found by Cortés, he became his first translator. Then when the king of Tabasco gifted them Mallintzin, aka la Malinche, she spoke maya and nahuatl, so it was a string from Malinche to Jerónimo and to Cortés (until she learned spanish and just cut Jerónimo off from the whole chain)
@jorgec.a3123 2 жыл бұрын
Malinche or Marina, Malinche is rather disrespectful
@pepsdeps 2 жыл бұрын
@@jorgec.a3123 It's not actually disrespectful, it was just the re-hispanization of the name Malintzin, which was the nahuatl version of Doña Marina, which was her baptized Spanish name, which in turn was similar-sounding to her (supposed) original name Mallinalli (meaning grass reeds, though this one is disputed). What I do find disrespectful is the use of "Malinchismo" as a term of betrayal of your own culture. She was a strong woman who was sold and given as property, but then made the most of her circumstances to become one of the most powerful women in Nueva España. She didn't betray no one, she just took an opportunity. She was very smart.
@jorgec.a3123 2 жыл бұрын
@@pepsdeps I know she didn't betray anyone that's why I don't think Malinche is appropriate, thanks for your clarification anyways
@Nenufort 2 жыл бұрын
@@pepsdeps I love that story! Especially the part where Cortés took her as his consort and had his first child and heir with her, a mestizo, thus truly symbolizing the birth of Mexico: a union between Spain and Meoamerica.
@pepsdeps 2 жыл бұрын
@@Nenufort It is a nice mythologized story for the birth of México (even though irl it is presumed that the child between Cortés and Doña Marina wasn't...completely consensual...). However, the first mestizo child of México was actually born of Gonzalo Guerrero, who was a companion to Jerónimo de Aguilar and ended up incorporating into Mayan culture instead of as a slave. There is a big plaza in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, in honor of the child.
@MikhailTabigay 2 жыл бұрын
That “Murder” sign when a Spanish arquebusier shot a native.
@willpickering5829 2 жыл бұрын
Peak dark humor
@danielhavrilla4380 2 жыл бұрын
Very dark humor indeed
@13Psycho13 2 жыл бұрын
Had me in stitches
@polygonalfortress 2 жыл бұрын
Quality content right there.
@marneus 2 жыл бұрын
Or when a native shot a Spaniard.
@punditgi 2 ай бұрын
Very nice video! 🎉😊
@gloriouspurpose3139 2 жыл бұрын
i always wondered aboit this matter... Thanks for saving the day
@ioan-ovidiucocolos9225 2 жыл бұрын
fun fact: James Bisonette's ancestors come from Tuscany, he's a direct descendant from a modest family called de' Medici
@german_doggy7314 2 жыл бұрын
How did you know this? Edit: nvm I get it now
@SakethCVES 2 жыл бұрын
@@german_doggy7314 r/woooosh
@VentingPoem 2 жыл бұрын
@@SakethCVES Shut.
@Void_Dweller7 2 жыл бұрын
I don’t get it.
@Hideyoshi1991 2 жыл бұрын
@@SakethCVES r/thatsnotveryfunnybruhpleaseconsiderbeingfunnynexttimeasthatwouldbeconsideratetothosearoundyou
@christiannordvall4021 2 жыл бұрын
It's also common to use children as translators, because they learn foreign languages significantly faster than adults. This can observed both among contemporary immigrant children in the West, and among the children of Western missionaries in other continents.
@nickrodriguez3850 Жыл бұрын
What age of the child?
@Brownie.- Жыл бұрын
@@nickrodriguez3850 over 5 at least.
@blockmasterscott 5 ай бұрын
This is true. I’m married to a Filipina, and visiting her family in the Philippines once a year, I’m always amazed at just how fast those kids learn English, and not only learn, but become REALLY good at it from watching kid shows on KZfaq. The parents are just in shock at how well they speak lol.
@jameshudkins2210 5 ай бұрын
Some Americans went to another Country to be Missionaries. The kids learned to be fluent in the local language. The littlest girl complained that bad boys in the local school taught her brother many very bad words in the other language. It's called "The Other Conquest." You come in with some angle to teach them and they teach you.
@iVerse2043 Жыл бұрын
I was wondering this yesterday and totally didn't search it up or mention it on this browser but somehow this video from 1 year ago popped up in the recommendations.
@CinemaDemocratica 5 ай бұрын
I should know this channel's sense of humour well enough by now that it doesn't catch me flat-footed, but still when the dude holds up the sign that says "murder" I just about choked to death on my coffee.
@MonsieurDean 2 жыл бұрын
I assumed it was through a number of clicks and hand gestures.
@afox9561 2 жыл бұрын
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@familygash7500 2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't expecting to see you here.
@humzahahmad2818 2 жыл бұрын
I thought it just went straight to kidnapping them and forcing them to learn it
@historyrhymes1701 2 жыл бұрын
Or used aliens as translators if history channel is to be believed.
@toade1583 2 жыл бұрын
@@humzahahmad2818 Well to be fair, it often was that.
@RyanAmparo-tl 2 жыл бұрын
This is so interesting to me, especially since I work as a translator. I've always wondered how Europeans communicated with pre-contact civilizations and this answered my question in a more fulfilling way that I expected. Thank you.
@afdalridwan3813 2 жыл бұрын
Kidnapped them and forced them to learn your languange Save your 1 decade research
@hullie7529 2 жыл бұрын
@@afdalridwan3813 Kidnapped is such a loaded word and it ignores the reality and complexity of the relations in those times. The natives that were taken to Spain were not restrained, and while you probably can't say that they went on their own free will you can't say that they were forced either. Through time many natives became steemed members of Spanish society thanks to their services to the Crown back in Europe.
@WomenCallYouMoid 2 жыл бұрын
@@hullie7529 "Kidnapped is _such_ a loaded word" You're embarrasing yourself.
@WomenCallYouMoid 2 жыл бұрын
Well, if you _always_ wondered, you were never really that adept at it to begin with.
@jacobpeters5458 2 жыл бұрын
I know Columbus made a friend/servant who learned Spanish
@nicklatino7157 2 жыл бұрын
Very well explained
@siraaron9303 2 жыл бұрын
thats a question i was asking my self for almost my whole life.. excited to learn about it =D
@MacTac141 2 жыл бұрын
Was rewatching “How did France get Nuclear Weapons” and saw this at the end in the suggested and realized I hadn’t seen it before. Probably because it came out 4 minutes ago
@german_doggy7314 2 жыл бұрын
When I see something new from this channel I click on it instantly
@mdakramhossain4470 2 жыл бұрын
So, literally Arabic was the international language that time. 🤣🤣
@friedrichi.dersoldatenkoni2896 2 жыл бұрын
1:02 that was dark...
@zackwal4616 4 ай бұрын
Dark but its real
@timsummers870 4 ай бұрын
EXCELLENT topic!
@nphax2008 6 ай бұрын
this is what keeps me up ta night
@alec0062 2 жыл бұрын
They counted on James Bissonette, he's very multilingual down to his name.
@jamesbissonette8002 2 жыл бұрын
Barely monolingual but appreciated nonetheless!
@alec0062 2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbissonette8002 Oh my God !!! I'm star struck!!! I've been answered by James Bissonette! The one and only! Thank you for making History Matters a reality.
@afdalridwan3813 2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbissonette8002 what a chad
@gromhellscream1624 2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbissonette8002 Dude you are such a bro like for real you should get more props. People are so salty nowadays online and irl too and can't josh around or make jokes. 4/5 people I know would get pissed or salty at all this mentioning and memeing but you aren't so cheers mate. It's all in good fun. If my bum ass wasn't poor I would donate more too.
@aagamjain1395 2 жыл бұрын
@@gromhellscream1624 Same for me. History matters and geography now my favourite channels.
@erzar.1730 2 жыл бұрын
Anything is achievable with funding from James bisonette.
@jamesbissonette8002 2 жыл бұрын
All you need is a Patreon account and a dream
@dw620 2 жыл бұрын
Whatever happened to pointing at something and S P E A K I N G V E R Y S L O W L Y in English (or Spanish?) Darn; we've been doing it wrong...? 😳😳
@KouNagai 2 жыл бұрын
İ am waiting for interstellar travel
@historyrhymes1701 2 жыл бұрын
The house of Bissonete is wealthier than Mansa Musa, The Habsburgs and Crassus combined.
@polygonalfortress 2 жыл бұрын
With James bissonnette's money we can colonize by then.
@bvillafuerte765 5 ай бұрын
Good video.
@loganknox7 2 жыл бұрын
This is such a good question that I’m kicking myself because it’s easily overlook able
@thebasketballhistorian3291 2 жыл бұрын
The "go away" sign had me dying. 🤣
@Minimanmax 2 жыл бұрын
My brain at 3am: Yes, this will definitely be helpful for my statistics test in a couple of hours
@user-iy4qn4kp6w 2 жыл бұрын
Same here, have a statistics exam in a day 😆😆
@dwpetterson 2 жыл бұрын
Good luck on the test!
@Admiral45-10 2 жыл бұрын
Isn't it like summer break right now?
@UltimateInnerSpirit 2 жыл бұрын
@@Admiral45-10 some people take summer classes
@Ben-ep1de 2 жыл бұрын
@@Admiral45-10 also, there is a southern hemisphere
@ShaniAce 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting, I had always wonderered about that!
@hatednyc 2 жыл бұрын
I’ve wondered this about ancient cultures as well especially considering all the spice, tea and silk trading.
@pele914 2 ай бұрын
Also gotta remember, you live in a world where travel is extremely faster than the era you are imagining...migration patterns were slow, foot based, animal based, or wind based.....sooooo different languages were more like gradually different dialects until a certain point of your voyage but that also means when you get where you are going people were familiar with the people you immediately left to get to them. So there was a common linguistic connector in that type of travel.
@bificommander 2 жыл бұрын
"When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool."
@HO-bndk 2 жыл бұрын
Yucatan is [allegedly] Mayan for "What are you saying?", which is what the natives [are said to have] replied when the Spaniards asked them the name of the place.
@jacobsxavier6082 2 жыл бұрын
Terry Pratchett's Discworld saga has left some traces ...
@jannegrey593 2 жыл бұрын
@@jacobsxavier6082 Indeed. Pratchett is fantastic read and frankly world would be a batter place if everyone read his books ;)
@jacobsxavier6082 2 жыл бұрын
@@jannegrey593 I couldn't agree more, his vision for urban police force is my favorite
@joshscores3360 2 жыл бұрын
@@HO-bndk Not sure if these are true, but I once read that kangaroo is "I don't know what you're saying" in an Australian indigenous language. Also, the llama's name was the result of Spaniards asking a Quechua "como se llama" or "what is that [animal] called" in reference to a llama, and the Quechua, not knowing Spanish, just repeated the last word, "llama."
@edu_pl 2 жыл бұрын
One member of my family, D. Juan de Baeza López de Fuenllana, was the first Castilian ever to be fluent in the Purepecha language (spoken in nowadays Mexico)
@aaronmarks9366 2 жыл бұрын
That's really interesting, did he live among them for a while to learn it?
@edu_pl 2 жыл бұрын
@@aaronmarks9366 Not sure, although I do not believe that they had such a relationship of trust with the Indians (because they killed the father-in-law of D. Juan, during the first years of the Conquest). Also, the stories that have been preserved have been transmitted by written records and compilations of deeds made throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, so I have not been able to find oral evidence of this particular event. However, it is a proven fact that D. Juan settled in that area of Mexico, at the beginning of the 16th century, since his grandchildren were large landowners and founders of towns, churches, and convents. Even today, the tombs of the two granddaughters (nuns) of D. Juan are preserved: Sor Francisca and Sor Isabel; in the Convent of Santa María de la Gracia in Guadalajara.
@jorgetovar3969 2 жыл бұрын
@@edu_pl A proven fact, indeed. He died in the city of Morelia (former Valladolid), where I live. One street in my neighborhood was named after him.
@chillaxboi2109 2 жыл бұрын
@@jorgetovar3969 This must be like seeing the grandson of Einstein in your class.
@KingKelechiMusic 2 жыл бұрын
thanks so much
@BillySnuggles 2 жыл бұрын
For some reason I couldn't sleep last night; my brain just kept asking this question over and over, but I was too tired to get up and research it. Thank you for giving me succor.
@mypetbeardedragon2186 2 жыл бұрын
Columbus was an art major. His drawings were so accurate the natives knew every European language just by looking at a cow.
@levitschetter5288 2 жыл бұрын
Caballo is horse...
@thedudeabides3138 2 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, that’s left field!
@magsaysayandres7078 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder what would happen if he failed art school
@mypetbeardedragon2186 2 жыл бұрын
@@magsaysayandres7078 I have no idea. There seems to be no historical precedent for such an occurrence!
@timbrown3666 2 жыл бұрын
@@mypetbeardedragon2186 Everybody is gangster until Columbus grows a silly mustache
@generaljohnnyree3349 2 жыл бұрын
The background effect you put behind the signs was hilarious lmao.
@moritzrossbroich 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for giving us the answer directly and not hiding it behind a 16 minutes video...
@marypalmer00 2 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry your illustrations are so adorable I can't stop laughing even though it's no laughing matter 😂😭
@VikingerOnYT 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder how the Vikings did it, so many years before Columbus.
@TheChaosfreak97 2 жыл бұрын
You tell me!
@jamesyandsonsoutdooradvent9394 2 жыл бұрын
Battle axes
@hhelminn 2 жыл бұрын
Considering they didn't settle there or didn't spend a lot time there I'm gonna guess they just used their hands and whatever worked to communicate
@michaelmaroldaiv2857 2 жыл бұрын
Most likely never got past simple signs in the short time they mightve seen SOME people
@armija 2 жыл бұрын
Dead people do not communicate...
@akshatpratapsingh6188 2 жыл бұрын
They spoke in the universal language of violence
@mysterious7215 2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@matpk 2 жыл бұрын
@@mysterious7215 Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist China IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO!!
@KingshukMonsur 2 жыл бұрын
Violence and violence Never changes
@aratirao9007 2 жыл бұрын
🔴 SERCH ADITYA RATHORE, HE ALSO MAKES INFOMATIVE CONTENT LIKE HISTORY MATTERS🔴
@russianpower4252 2 жыл бұрын
@@matpk USA in 2021 is more agressive
@nathanfrancis9411 Жыл бұрын
Omg that murder sign animation was so cold-blooded… funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet in a little😂
@Rey__Jan 2 жыл бұрын
“Why does the United States still own Guantanamo Bay?” could be a good video, similar to History Matter's video on why Russia owns Kaliningrad
@edgarryan8423 2 жыл бұрын
Answer is simple, America said so
@Weesee_I 2 жыл бұрын
@@edgarryan8423 Right but the context could be interesting, considering the US technically "leases" the land from Cuba, but Cuba doesn't accept their payment.
@natnew32 2 жыл бұрын
@@Weesee_I US leased land from American-backed Cuban government, Communist rebels overthrew said government and instituted a new one, US doesn't care that the government it made the deal with is gone and just keeps doing what it's been doing despite the new government's protests.
@Admiral45-10 2 жыл бұрын
Russia owns Kaliningrad, because neither Poland or Lithuania wanted to take it.
@Weesee_I 2 жыл бұрын
@@natnew32 Right, which is why they don't accept the US payment for the "lease," since they don't see it as legitimate.
@jonthehumann 2 жыл бұрын
This is one of my burning historical questions. Ever since I've started learning history, I just wondered how they communicated.
@jacobpeters5458 2 жыл бұрын
sent pigeons across the atlantic like Medieval google translator
@sarryuken8786 2 жыл бұрын
Columbus took 3 boats. There were two brothers who captained the 2 ships and they were the translators. MEaning, they travelled and communicated with the natives long before Columbus did. Columbus was jewish and Spain kicked out all the jews so he had to leave or be killed. Thats why the date he set sail, was the same day jews had to leave Spain!
@user-no2vw8tm2s 2 жыл бұрын
I think the biggest mistake in history teaching is to view past civilizations as primitive and underdeveloped. Some cultures had technology so advanced (with a lot of human suffering thrown at it) that people today can't even fathom how they did some things. For example the unfinished obelisk of Aswan, Egypt or the Easter Island statues. Modern civilizations discovering those cultures or remnants of them were actually so primitive that they could not think of any way to accomplish similar feats if they had to. I guess that's where all these "ancient aliens" conspiracy theories come from. People just cannot imagine the technology and complexity of past civilizations. Communication is another one. Obviously there were translators throughout history. People who learned another language through enslavement, kidnapping, shipwrecking or envoys sent to other kingdoms and empires. Obviously, learning a language was less voluntary back then than it is now.
@nunyabidness3429 2 жыл бұрын
answer: The same as any other two civilizations that didn't initially understand each other.
@mrkilo-g8794 Жыл бұрын
Sign language 😂
@HeidiLandRover 2 жыл бұрын
The "well" was brilliant! 😀
@ericlopez7120 2 жыл бұрын
I've always wondered this. Makes sense.
@aboudhh 2 жыл бұрын
With hernan cortes he had a shipwrecked spaniard that was living amongst natives for years and knew their language. However, when the spanish went deeper into central America, the languages changed. So , they found a woman who could speak the shipwrecked spaniards native language and could speak the aztecs language. So when cortes met Montezuma the Aztec king, he communicated through 2 translators, alot of information was lost and could not be translated that many times smoothly.
@aratirao9007 2 жыл бұрын
🟠 SERCH ADITYA RATHORE, HE ALSO MAKES INFOMATIVE CONTENT LIKE HISTORY MATTERS🟠
@projjwalray-6341 2 жыл бұрын
Narration: "acting something out.." Animation: "Shoots someone and then displays murder" 😂😂😂
@micheltanaka2420 2 жыл бұрын
That cracked me out SO hard, too! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@hugolafhugolaf 2 жыл бұрын
@@micheltanaka2420 The sound effect was perfect.
@zinkaghost6490 2 жыл бұрын
Truly a master of the comedic arts
@Wolf-hh4rv 5 ай бұрын
My grandfather started a farm in Rhodesia in 1916. Within 2 years he could speak 2 African languages as could my father. In the tribal areas it was initially the missionaries that learned African languages and taught the indigenous English. A schooling system was created that taught O and A levels resulting in a population that generally speaks good English.
@alexg1778 2 ай бұрын
As a Brit i just assumed we rocked up on a new shore, showed off our firepower, pointed to the spices and then pointed to our boats whilst nodding encouragingly.
@detroid89 Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@linaabusriwel1222 Ай бұрын
that would genuinely be scary a pale white ghost pointing at weird objects and pointing and nodding omg i cant imagine the fear
@zjzr08 2 жыл бұрын
The dialogue signs FINALLY have a significant role, in this video hehe
@scotandiamapping4549 2 жыл бұрын
This one has actually been in the back of my mind for a while now.
@DrVictorVasconcelos Жыл бұрын
A crucial correction: Sign languages are fully-fledged languages (it was right in the expression) with vocabulary, grammar, regional variations (dialects), etc. It requires both speakers to know it, and there's a sense of shared culture. There are different languages and they're not mutually intelligible, such as ASL and LIBRAS. That's absolutely different from gesticulating, which is just trying to make someone understand what you mean with some form of motion, usually with your hand alone, attempting to be acultural, so that your point gets across... hopefully. This distinction is actually important because there's still discrimination of deaf people (who are still called "deaf and dumb") because it makes it seems like they aren't able to understand language, which isn't true.
@Aostrele Жыл бұрын
who cares
@Aostrele Жыл бұрын
bruv 💀 sign language isn’t just for that. i don’t understand a single word in sign language yet I point every day. pointing is a sign, i’m using the point to communicate something, like a language. plus i don’t know a single person who thinks deaf people can’t communicate.
@FIVEBASKET 7 ай бұрын
He meant sign language as having a actual sign
@DrVictorVasconcelos 7 ай бұрын
@@FIVEBASKET These signs, by themselves, are not enough to create what linguists call a language. He may have meant something analogous to "love language", but "sign language" is an expression that has a specific meaning, so his use was innacurate--and I simply pointed that out. I'm not sure why people are getting sensitive over this.
@FIVEBASKET 7 ай бұрын
@@DrVictorVasconcelos ye k I apologize
@Damin-Danger-Ledford 2 жыл бұрын
Actually, I did enjoy this episode. Well done Mate.
@ComicalRealm 2 жыл бұрын
First UFO sighting in America. Unidentified Floating Object
@xxxBradTxxx 2 жыл бұрын
vikings were first to Newfoundland
@briangarcia7384 2 жыл бұрын
@@xxxBradTxxx technically greenland
@xxxBradTxxx 2 жыл бұрын
@@briangarcia7384 Lief Erikson made it all the way to Canada. But they didn't set up a colony.
@zimriel Ай бұрын
@@xxxBradTxxx He did. Anse Meadows. Almost certainly "Markland", and we even have a firm date (AD 1021, from tree-rings).
@alinalexandru2466 2 жыл бұрын
This covered the basics like food, shelter, *Jesus* , gold and boats.
@destubae3271 2 жыл бұрын
Cash, Clout, and Christ
@valentinr.dominguez2892 6 ай бұрын
As part of their effort to evangelize the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Catholic friars learned the various native languages and evangelized in those languages. These indigenous languages had alphabets that were more pictorial, like hieroglyphics. What the friars did what to apply the alphabet that we use to those languages. Thanks to that, the indigenous people for the first time were able to record this history in a detailed manner.
@sosleepy238 2 жыл бұрын
But how cute these animations be omg there lil eyes n smile
@MrShadowThief 2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: in the book Cronistas do Descobrimento (roughly translating to Chronists of the Discovery), which is a collection of reports of European explorers, settlers, and others, about colonial and pre-colonial Brazil, there is a report by a guy who went to visit a native tribe who was already friendly with europeans and had an european guy who could understand their language and help them communicate with other europeans. This guy went to a party in this tribe that was held to celebrate a military victory over another tribe and they were eating those they defeated. Since the guy couldn't speak their language, when a native offered a bit of human meat to him, he thought he was saying something like "you're next" and shat his pants (not literally but who knows).
@anti-dope9608 2 жыл бұрын
This video is not a whole one without spinning three plates.
@manuelmartins1967 2 жыл бұрын
Standing still 0 plates this time around
@ctam31ify 2 жыл бұрын
Spinning 3 plates is my fav.
@Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum 2 жыл бұрын
2:21 for anyone curious
@Psych0technic 2 жыл бұрын
Nor without Kelly moneymaker.
@scotandiamapping4549 2 жыл бұрын
*tries to find three plates in the kitchen* Oh wait you meant the patreon guy.
@hlibushok 2 жыл бұрын
The only time I actually had the question before History Matters answered it.
@AlToca38 25 күн бұрын
Hernán Cortés' wife was indigenous and learned Spanish, in this way she acted as an interpreter for the Spanish. Her name is La Malinche
@Danandria 2 жыл бұрын
At 0:35, the "Bad luck" sign, hilarious 😂
@lisakassandra4222 2 жыл бұрын
"Acting something out and then saying the word for it." *shoots someone while holding a sign that reads "Murder"* I'm glad I wasn't sipping at my coffee in that moment.
@despot2180 2 жыл бұрын
trash english Lisa.. learn sign language ;)
@ggoddkkiller1342 2 жыл бұрын
Europeans shot first then asked the questions so it was quite easy ''speak'' to Natives actually...
@Dankdalorde 2 жыл бұрын
Wow this was extremely academic and very important for me to understand the complexities of pointing at things.
@IsmaelSilva7 2 жыл бұрын
In Perú they actually started teaching spanish and having mixed marriages really fast so the first mixed generation (mestizos) was the ones who wrote the chronicles and spread knowledge.
@rl9217 2 жыл бұрын
Europeans: “Hello, do you understand me?” Natives: …???… Europeans: “….have you heard of James Bisonette?” Natives: “I understand perfectly“
@nilloc93 2 жыл бұрын
Went looking for someone who had made that joke. I'm glad i wasn't disappointed
@quincyquincy4764 2 жыл бұрын
Stop it! You had no right to be this funny!😂😂😂
@eduardogutierrez4698 2 жыл бұрын
He is the Ahmed Ziad Turk of History Matters.
@cloudynguyen6527 2 жыл бұрын
Later the Europeans find out the golden statue of James Bisonette
@tanm3yy 2 жыл бұрын
@@eduardogutierrez4698 Extra History?
@catjudo1 2 жыл бұрын
I love this channel! Fun factual tidbits with amusing illustrations to hammer the points home. Keep up the great work!
@dynamitedingo7720 Жыл бұрын
I always wondered this
@damxn7303 4 күн бұрын
This is a question I never thought about.. crazy
@christianwalton7080 2 жыл бұрын
I like how you used the doctrine of the Trinity as the complex concept right after mentioning Jesus. :)
@wrex509 2 жыл бұрын
Ive done demonstrations with students where I, without making a sound, direct them to do activities through signs and gestures. Its always a favorite and one that gets the most participation and interest.
@timoteubert7068 2 жыл бұрын
Although your students have the same culture, unlike native americans and europeans.
@wrex509 2 жыл бұрын
@@timoteubert7068 Would you stake your life on that assumption?
@timoteubert7068 2 жыл бұрын
@@wrex509 What a stupid, random question.
@wrex509 2 жыл бұрын
@@timoteubert7068 Its not a random question. Its specifically designed to point out that you are making a complete assumption without knowing anything more than a short statement by a random person on the internet.
@timoteubert7068 2 жыл бұрын
@@wrex509 I don't need to know anything about your students to know that their backgrounds won't be nearly as different as those of the Europeans and native Americans at that time. Because in today's day and age, people connect and influence each other worldwide. Back then they didn't, for thousands of years.
@TheSharkasmCrew 6 ай бұрын
There's a really interesting Canadian movie called "One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk" which is basically about this interesting game of telephone between settlers and natives and translators. The whole movie is essentially one dialogue between an Inuk man, his translator, and an English man sent by the Canadian government to convince them to give of their Inuit ways and join a modern settlement. Definitely worth a watch.
@botcontador3286 2 жыл бұрын
the patreon supporter names are as entertaining to listen to as the show itself
@yamarck101 2 жыл бұрын
My years long question is finally answered ! Thank you historymatters
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