World Friends Facebook 👉 / 100090310914821 Can West Germanic languages speaking countries guess their nationality? See how they did! Also, please follow our pannels! 🇿🇦 Zeno @zeno_ish 🇩🇪 Svea @sveawedis 🇳🇱 Rosa @beaglecheoreom
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@Noah_ol119 ай бұрын
Loved the blue hair of the lady from The Netherlands , the guy from South Africa is really polite and kind introducing himself to them in the beginning
@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc80389 ай бұрын
Edit out the misused big superiority terms lady and love and the words les and char and kind and the number, all wøm’n are the exact opposite of lady / other superiority terms - I am THE only Lady / Princess / Queen / Goddess / Star etc and the only lovable / loved being!
@kasheskobby239 ай бұрын
I’m from SA, which was colonized by both the UK and Netherlands settlers. So it probably was gonna be hard because we sound British, Dutch and African at the same time.
@Beaglecheoreom9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for having me! I had a wonderful time and I can't believe I missed the South African accent!! Ps. Thank you for all the sweet comments here as well
@Ice_V9 ай бұрын
Hi! You 're welcome!🤗
@karllogan88099 ай бұрын
South African is one of the least well known English accents, I didn't get it either even tho I'm a World Friends junkie. Svea didn't get it either and she's a regular.
@Beaglecheoreom9 ай бұрын
@@karllogan8809 All while it's a really nice accent to listen to!!
@dutchskyrimgamer.youtube27489 ай бұрын
@@karllogan8809Afrikaans is t English.
@dutchskyrimgamer.youtube27489 ай бұрын
Ek hoop jy gaan dalk n bietjie Afrikaans verstaan. Ik heb Afrikaans in een maandje geleerd.
@oliverfa089 ай бұрын
Finally someone from South Africa to compare afrikaans to dutch and german
@comartindale57269 ай бұрын
I came upon this channel just yesterday and was really wanting to see a video treating Dutch and Afrikaans. Had no clue it was just around the bend.
@Ama949479 ай бұрын
Yeahh I cant wait for the next video where they prolly will compare it more detailed lol
@sundaetheguitar9 ай бұрын
Yes
@panchovan6179 ай бұрын
this was interesting. However for a language comparison you need a standard Afrikaans speaker, as it is more archaic like dutch and German and follows similar grammar and vocabulary. Capetonian dialects use a lot of English and the grammar is much more progressive and fluid. (And I like it of course a lot, but it is difficult to understand for dutch and germans).
@bouli35769 ай бұрын
The main tip as to the nationality of Zeno is when he said "in my languageS", as there are quite a lot of official languages in South Africa.
@n_other_16049 ай бұрын
Good point but when we talk about nationalities with germanic languages there is also Switzerland & Belgium with multiple official ones, also Maori is an official language in NZ.
@andyx68279 ай бұрын
@@n_other_1604Luxembourg and the UK as well.
@n_other_16049 ай бұрын
@@andyx6827 I meant official language, because otherwise you can almost name any country, but even with official languages there are more... however welsh, cornish, scots, scottish gaelic nor irish gaelic are official languages of the UK as far as I know. In Germany we also have Platt, frisian, sorbian,...
@Ice_V9 ай бұрын
Greetings to Zeno! I liked this guy👍 Hope to see him more here🇿🇦
@thomas173759 ай бұрын
Idk how the Dutch and German girls didn't recognize eachothers accent... was a dead giveaway
@Jonas-tf3im9 ай бұрын
maybe they should play around
@somersault47629 ай бұрын
I got the Dutch accent right away. The dude from South Africa was tough for me. He was chilled as an Australian and as well his appearance, but his accent wasn't Australian to me.
@thomas173759 ай бұрын
@@somersault4762 it sucked that theirs flags are in the thumbnail... would've loved to guess myself, especially since I'm Dutch
@ledddaiuuuuuuuuuuuuu3 ай бұрын
@@thomas17375 videos would lose a great amount of klicks because most people klick it because the flags show your own country is in it & most people want to compare their language to others or learn the translations from their langauge to the other ones like myself i wouldn't watch that kind of comparison videos if german isn't in there
@sandraperlstein799 ай бұрын
I guess based on Zeno's accent he was from South Africa, also Svea being from Germany because I have been there many times. Finally that Rosa was from the Netherlands based on her description of the country and also I've been there once.
@GuranPurin9 ай бұрын
I'm seeing so many South Africans across the channels lately. You would think I would start to pick up on the accent by now, but I was clueless
@jimbell1229 ай бұрын
For me the guy has a strong South African accent
@TerrariumCartelАй бұрын
I’m South African and it’s so obvious
@natashasullivan45599 ай бұрын
Lol, they've never seen any fashion or hair styles from the bigger cities in the US. Like NY, LA, San Francisco, Seattle.. Americans definitely have colorful hair like that. And can dress.. in that sense. Fashionably
@lissandrafreljord79139 ай бұрын
Even in smaller cities like Portland, Maine, especially if they're a barista at a specialty coffee.
@noralee86419 ай бұрын
I knew that Svea is from Germany, but I'm quite surprised that I guessed the other two. Rosa really has such a free and nice vibe so I thought it's either UK or Netherlands, and "water" definitely was a hint, the moment she said it I knew it's Netherlands. With Zeno I was really confused, it didn't seem like he's from Europe so I thought about Australia at first but then South Africa came to my mind, and that was it.
@nereus2469 ай бұрын
It’s an American brand Levi’s also it was founded by a German in the 19th century 👍🏻
@irgendeinname92564 ай бұрын
So German pronunciation technically is right
@parmentier74579 ай бұрын
Would be nice to see a discussion with a Dutchman, Fleming, South African. Surinamese and a person from one of the Dutch Caribbean islands. And then a German who has to guess everything that is said.
@juandiegovalverde19829 ай бұрын
In Saut Afrika dei spik Afrikanse, not Doch.
@natashasullivan45599 ай бұрын
I likely would have guessed NZ for Zeno. But I'm lucky an actually had a family member from South Africa. His face though when they first guessed NZ. The smirk, like.. they're wrong and I can't say anything. I'm pretty sure the SA accent is most often guessed to be a NZ accent. I also guessed Germany, but never would have guessed the Netherlands.
@Ama949479 ай бұрын
The way the blonde/blue girl pronounced 3:44 'Thing" as TTing was obviously a Dutch accent which came out. but her english is very good over all!
@nereus2469 ай бұрын
Hallo from Germany 🇩🇪 🎉
@wonderfulfable9 ай бұрын
The return of Zeno, he used to be featured in the earlier World Friends videos.
@reineh34779 ай бұрын
He has? I have seen South Africans before but I'm not sure I've seen him.
@thato5968 ай бұрын
Yep i remember him
@Peter1999Videos9 ай бұрын
Svea ❤❤❤
@simon20836 ай бұрын
Actually Levi’s was published by a German immigrant levi Strauss was his name. He migrated in the year 1848 to US but was born and lived until a younger adult in Germany
@EddieReischl9 ай бұрын
It could be because I was drinking pilsner and Jezynowka shots at our horseshoe banquet last night, but Svea is looking especially gorgeous today. On second thought, I think it's just because she's that good looking.
@sveawedis9 ай бұрын
❤
@Tenseiken_9 ай бұрын
I had no idea where to place Zeno. When he said that it would a 100% give away his country when he'd say the local word for barbecue, I for sure thought he meant "barby". It didn't even cross my mind that he was talking about a word the dutch woman would get immediately. Honestly Zeno didn't have any kind of australian accent either and the whole BBQ thing made me tunnel vision. Idk how diverse accents can get in australia in a way that they can become so "neutral" like Zeno was actually talking like. Lucky me I'm dumb in geography and flags so the thumbnail didn't give anything away. Then again, I wonder how these guessing videos in particular would do if the flags were blurred out or censored, so that the viewers can actually guess alongside them. As a viewer it's boring to already know 2 out of 3 because of the thumbnail by accident :(
@benlee61589 ай бұрын
Svea is great! Love her subtle sarcasm and her looks.
@sveawedis9 ай бұрын
🥰
@nhd70305 ай бұрын
@@sveawediswas ? Wo seid ihr ? Korea?!
@surfboarding50584 ай бұрын
Eastern German vibes
@SeriousPlastiek3 ай бұрын
The fact that they guessed Australia wasn't that bad of a guess. They got the southern hemisphere and the UK colonisation correct, they just forgot to consider South Africa over New Zealand and Australia.
@Ssandayo9 ай бұрын
So tomorrow will be the comparison of Dutch language families 🎉
@IIIOOOUS9 ай бұрын
I saw it in the way rosa smiled, that she is from the Netherlands.
@MarcoJacob-xy5jr9 ай бұрын
First time to see someone from South Africa 👍
@dutchgamer8429 ай бұрын
He's been on more often
@zayjames76522 ай бұрын
Hey fellow South African.....I definitely knew you were from our lovely country......would have been a dead give-a-way if you had said "braai". Lovely video, totally enjoyed it
@user-lr6we6xl2s6 ай бұрын
awesome content super informitive. amazing people. WOW
@GenericUsername13889 ай бұрын
I love that you got a South African with a heavy coloured accent to really throw a spanner in the works of what they would imagine a typical saffa to sound like😂
@jimbell1229 ай бұрын
I’m British and for me he had a strong South African accent but I guess it wasn’t as clear for people that aren’t from English speaking countries
@GenericUsername13889 ай бұрын
@@jimbell122 we have quite a lot of accents in SA and most of our accents are based around race rather than what part of the country you live in. As a white native english speaker, my accent probably sounds a lot similar to what a british person sounds like but still quite different. When most foreigners usually imagine a "South African accent" they imagine a white afrikaaner accent which is a pretty small part of the population
@princessdaya57819 ай бұрын
@@GenericUsername1388thats interesting, ive only really ever heard white south african accents yet i was able to tell right away the guy's accent was south african
@GenericUsername13889 ай бұрын
@@princessdaya5781 a lot of Coloured intonation stems from Afrikaans. One distinction of coloured accent I've noticed is that they draw our their vowels or add vowels to random consonants. Like "e" becomes "ea", "l" becomes "eal" and their intonation reminds me of how Brazilians speak in that they start a word from a high point then dip and come back up.
@nondelaphalela41429 ай бұрын
@@GenericUsername1388accents are based on regions In South Africa not race "black" people literally have about six different languages that are official and many more than aren't And there's a South African accent it's usually sound like British Australian accent sort of A perfect example will be Trevor Noah of what South African accent usually sounds like
@Lampchuanungang6 ай бұрын
Total sense the video. Very fun 😊❤🎉
@RichardHoogstad9 ай бұрын
Thank you! I have been waiting for someone of the gentleman’s county to show up on the channel. I love his language
@surfboarding50584 ай бұрын
Svea gives those eastern German DDR vibes
@ibrahimal-qatami7419 ай бұрын
From his appearance, I'm guessing the South African guy is a part of the cape colored community.
@rowen420699 ай бұрын
yes
@LidiethArevalo9 ай бұрын
I usually try to avoid looking at the thumbnail covers to avoid spoilers but this one was too obvious and it spoiled the video for me. 😕
@nathancloete99329 ай бұрын
Technically the two ladies were on track guessing both UK and considering other Germanic Languages for Zeno seeing that South Africa 🇿🇦 was colonised by the Dutch and the British which heavily influenced language/pronunciation.
@kapel177Ай бұрын
Braai.... and more popular the first hart transplant!! Thank you Zeno for keeping our name semi high....
@santopino756Ай бұрын
The South African English sound has changed in the last 40 years
@developmenthub9663Ай бұрын
he's a cape town boy, you can tell by the accent......and Xhosa
@twenteeenАй бұрын
As soon as the guy opened his mouth I could hear where he's from. Telling Kiwi's and Aussies apart is really difficult for me, but even though those two sound similar to South Africans, the South African English pronunciation sounds a bit more guttural, or "deep", less flowing than Aussie or Kiwi English.
@thiagooliveira5839 ай бұрын
Svea gives the German vibes because in every other video she says she is from there LMAO
@oskich9 ай бұрын
And her eyebrows are painted in the colour of the German flag...
@UltimateSeduction6 ай бұрын
As a native Dutch it was a giveaway, even the slightest variations / English accents they use was just too easy.
@JosephOccenoBFH9 ай бұрын
I have a couple of Turkish-German friends. One is named Sedef who I met in Spain and another one named Bülent who was my dorm mate in college in the US. Germany is just so diverse that there is no more "pure German." Same with Swea, who is an Albanian-German.
@Ama949479 ай бұрын
Yes the same goes with the Dutch there are many etnicities there but also the 'native Dutch" vary from most dark blondes and in the south people tend to have more brown shades of hair colors. I am sure that if (Svea) her hair would be dark brown they would not guess her german stereotypical wise very interesting.
@JayEdgar04099 ай бұрын
@josephocceno4041 How do you know Svea is ethnically Albanian? Did she say in a previous video?
@JosephOccenoBFH9 ай бұрын
@@JayEdgar0409 Yes, in several videos. She even did a language comparison video for Albanian.
@hmvollbanane12599 ай бұрын
Hm kinda have to disagree with that one. While we are already a quite diverse people on our own and have gotten a lot of immigrants within the last 70 years, we are not a melting pot like the us. So people usually live in "parallel" societies rarely touching eachother, so the Turkish usually live in their own streets/ districts, the Russians and Wolga-Germans in their respective and people like the Polish, while far better integrated, are concentrated in specific regions (especially the mining area of the Ruhrpott). It's still very easy to tell a German apart from an immigrant, and it's even more often than not possible to tell which area/ tribe another German is from, especially in the countryside. Mixed marriages are still pretty rare and only have began to occur on a wider scale within the last decade (besides the before mentioned social and location based barriers there is also the aspect of our school system, which separates students after 4 years into 3 types of school types, with most Germans going on to the top two, while most immigrants are put into the bottom due to their lack of German. Hence e.g. I didn't have a single Turk at my school (and only 1 Chinese as the only immigrant in my class)
@lesegogaebeeyn4005Ай бұрын
I love the suspense before getting to the south African guy
@ounalan9 ай бұрын
I worked internationally with various countries with various ppl, and w/o hint of Adidas I'd say Svea is Flemish or Dutch, I'd say Rosa is also Flemish or Dutch w/o hint of water management, Zeno with the BBQ hint would fit anywhere in the world except US, where his accent doesn't fit. He didn't sound Aussie or Kiwi to me, but I doubt I could pinpoint SA (though I had SA colleagues before, as well.) He could have been any dark complexion fellow studied in the UK..
@Yostheou9 ай бұрын
Although I'm brazilian, I was able to identify them all, except for the african guy, for sure. He's got these "chicano" american style, but with a "dry, soft accent", which made me a bit confused. Loved the experience, and the dutch girl outfit is just awesome!
@ihatesnakeu.72389 ай бұрын
Zenos accent actually snitched it for me, he has that dutch accent with proper english and he doesnt sound like Rosa, Rosa has that typical typical dutch english accent
@ermirdestani9 ай бұрын
She is from Germany but she has a Balkanic mood. This is what i feel!
@surfboarding50589 ай бұрын
Eastern German
@ermirdestani9 ай бұрын
@@surfboarding5058 Eastern German and what? I live in East Germany myself and I can tell a Balkan person from a kilometer away by the body language.
@princessdaya57819 ай бұрын
i believe she's actually half albanian
@sveawedis9 ай бұрын
I’m half German half Albanian :)
@ermirdestani9 ай бұрын
@@sveawedis kete mendova edhe une 😉
@Sonicstillpoint8310 күн бұрын
That was extremely cool.
@patrickandries31179 ай бұрын
rekenaar in Afrikaans
@FaithPickles25 күн бұрын
Friday to Sunday Bro is Braai day... Any of those days or all of them depending on the weekend 😂
@keanancupidoАй бұрын
I think if Xeno said "rekenaar" instead of "computer" they might have caught it right away haha.
@yrslvy4 ай бұрын
I love Rosa's vibes!
@Faust_ZA9 ай бұрын
South africans are difficult to rule out i think the most common accent you can associate with us is the fourways/joburg accent the one most confused with the aussies
@sp48239 ай бұрын
I think that the thumbnails always give it away. You show the flags over the persons heads, and before we even click on the video we know who is who. Is it possible not to show the flags in the thumbnails, or scramble them?
@Serenity_Dee9 ай бұрын
Them guessing Australia was killing me. No L1 English speaker would guess Xeno is Australian 😂
@jimbell1226 ай бұрын
I’m British and for me he has a strong Afrikaans accent sounds like he grew up speaking Afrikaans more than English
@fiolilm7 ай бұрын
Wow the German girl gives off Taylor Swift vibes, the blue-haired Dutch woman could pass as Paramore's long lost twin sister, and the south african dude gives off the weeknd vibes with that afro looking hairstyle
@CHRISZIOMusic2 ай бұрын
The guy actually sounds a bit Dutch as well most of the times.
@MMF16749 ай бұрын
They should have a belgian flemish speaker too to compare dutch with afrikaans and flemish. 3 different versions of the same language
@thato5968 ай бұрын
that german girl does NOT have like a usual german english accent. I think she leaves in america or used to leave there . Her accent is mixed between american and something else
@nhd70305 ай бұрын
Truuuu dat
@KiWi_BoO9 ай бұрын
Hello
@utha26654 ай бұрын
Finally we got a video without the token American or Brit. No shade on those guys, I love them all, but sometimes I just wonder why they were in the video. This was a fun video, but the thumbnail shouldn't have the flags under each person, that way we can all play along too 😃👍
@phoenixrose1192Ай бұрын
Though English is a West Germanic language, so this actually would have been one of the few vids they wouldn’t have seemed out of place.
@katherineperry98762 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing! John 3:16; Romans 10:9 KJV
@williemacon30Ай бұрын
I was right on the guy's voice you can hear it in his voice he is from Africa I don't know how you guys got Australia from his voice
@spoenk74484 ай бұрын
Honestly I don't understand they didn't get SA from all that.
@riaanvanderwesthuizen9834Ай бұрын
😅 we don't just Braai on a Friday, we Braai, when , we are happy, sad, for our birthdays, for Christmas, for new year on any given day we wil Braai just for fun or when we watch sport, we will light a fire just to see it burn, then we will probably Braai cause the fire is lit 😂😂😂😂😂
@santopino756Ай бұрын
Ask them to say "can't"
@jacqueslandman8044Ай бұрын
The Afrikaans word for "computer" is "rekenaar"
@ManuelRuiz-xi7bt9 ай бұрын
The music is so loud you can hardly understand a word Xeno says. Might as well just post pictures of the participants on this language channel.
@griffinmaxwell7899 ай бұрын
Hearing a German person say "y'all" was very weird to me considering I'm from the southern US lol
@MW_Asura9 ай бұрын
Hearing a European say "y'all" is one of the weirdest things 😂and I'm European
@n_other_16049 ай бұрын
There is much american influence in Germany & we also learn english with a more american way of pronunciation.
@capeverdeanprincess44449 ай бұрын
It’s very strange when I hear Europeans say y’all 😂, it just don’t sound right. I think it’s pop culture like American music influence.
@surfboarding50589 ай бұрын
@@n_other_1604it’s just stupid stop copying American culture start being yourself
@sveawedis9 ай бұрын
I used to live in the States
@europeroads9 ай бұрын
❤❤
@thedeadman829889 ай бұрын
This channel is so fun and educational! I like the diversity or video content
@richlisola19 ай бұрын
How could they think he’s British? His accent screams South Africa! And no English accent sounds like his speech.
@MHzappy9 ай бұрын
The woman from netherlands look like polish or east europe and no levi's we speak out as lev-IES
@n_other_16049 ай бұрын
Polish? Really, for me scandinavian? The german girl is more like what I know & think of east european girls to me (as a german) & she is actually of albanian decendent.
@Populiervogel9 ай бұрын
Actually we say Lay-vies in the Netherlands, she pronounced it the American way.
@Ama949479 ай бұрын
@@Populiervogel Yess its true haha I never say it in the American way like she did now (im dutch)
@Yostheou9 ай бұрын
I wonder how is it possible 20 million people to live in Netherlands, considering they are small and fight with the sea barrier problem. Insane, but truth. Yet I've read somewhere their birth rate is one of the greatest in Europe! 👀
@parmentier74579 ай бұрын
The birth rate in the Netherlands is low, just like in the surrounding countries. The Dutch birth rate is 1.5 per woman. The death rate is 1. The Netherlands is growing strongly due to (Muslim) migrants who have an average of four children or more.
@Yostheou9 ай бұрын
@@parmentier7457 Interesting. Thanks for explaining.
@gabrielt.31819 ай бұрын
Definitely, the Dutch girl resembles someone from a Germanic language country. The bold alternative appearance doesn't lie
@RKM85067 ай бұрын
A computer in Afrikaans is a "rekenaar".
@Svendsor9 ай бұрын
Svea!? Svea was not your first clue????
@Onnarashi9 ай бұрын
The Dutch girl had some interesting views on Scandinavians. I've never heard the stereotype that we're not relaxed people before. Also about the make-up, but I'm a guy so I can't say I've noticed a specific make-up style based on nationality.
@FaithPickles25 күн бұрын
I'm from South Africa n love watching documentaries. When lady in the middle talked about country that knows how to deal with water, I thought of the Netherlands too🙌🎊🙌
@karllogan88099 ай бұрын
I knew Netherlands is adept at dealing with water, being one of the low countries it gets flooded a lot, but somehow I didn't really think of it until Svea mentioned it, I was so set on Rosa being Nordic or Baltic because of how white she is and how angular and wiry her features are, to me she looks like she's from further north than the Netherlands.
@Onnarashi9 ай бұрын
As a Norwegian I don't think there's much of a difference in skin colour between northern Europeans. Dutch people can have just as light skin as us Nordic folk.
@TheTekknician9 ай бұрын
I don't recognize what you're saying. I'm born and have lived up North in NL and her features you can see everywhere, at most you could assume her heritage is probably very, very north-west European. If I were to hazard a guess she's either Frisian or has frisian legacy.
@levent.a.72809 ай бұрын
The person supposedly from Germany doesn't look Germanic at all , she doesn't even look European, she is either from Balkan or the Middle east but maybe was born in Germany,the Girl from the Netherlands looks very much European I'd say Denmark or Sweden, the guy I'd never ever guess his nationality but he does look south American or Mexican.
@karllogan88099 ай бұрын
Svea said she's (part) Albanian, so you're right. Yea I was thinking the same thing, Rosa looks more Nordic, or Baltic than Dutch, and Zeno looks Latino, but I guess he's part White part Native South African.
@levent.a.72809 ай бұрын
@@karllogan8809 I knew it, Germans have a completely different look, demeanor and posture.
@Onnarashi9 ай бұрын
The Balkans are in Europe.
@levent.a.72809 ай бұрын
@@Onnarashi and the Philippines are in north America.
@Onnarashi9 ай бұрын
@@levent.a.7280 What? The Balkans are literally in Europe. Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Montengero, Croatia, North Macedonia and Serbia are all in Europe.
@LanguageswithErman9 ай бұрын
👏👏👏
@spaseether9 ай бұрын
What happense here guys😂😂😂😂?
@vaccinatedanti-vaxxer9 ай бұрын
The only south African restaurant I ever been to was Braal Republic in pyeongtaek korea near camp humphreys. It's very unique experince, owned by two south Africans that lived in korea a long time. Zeno mentioned there. "Part time cooks" are rap duo in Korea. One of them big moss, is a South African that lives in Korea.
@taehyung85119 ай бұрын
I love it so much ❤
@mungunuvul9 ай бұрын
mongolia
@daseteam9 ай бұрын
Yay! I guessed all three right!
@CinCee-9 ай бұрын
Svea has no hint of German in her english at all. I would have guessed she's American
@Ama949479 ай бұрын
very small things but her accent is Americanized like the Dutch girl
@riaanvanderwesthuizen9834Ай бұрын
In Afrikaans we call a computer "Rekenaar " this guy really can't speak proper Afrikaans
@jernelle039 ай бұрын
Pls pin me i am first
@Waltaere9 ай бұрын
World friendss 😃
@zabiafzali43888 ай бұрын
Lange lebe Deutschland 🇩🇪
@Infinty_in_Christ8 ай бұрын
I’m from the Netherlands 😉👍🏻🇳🇱
@nhd70305 ай бұрын
Mmmmhhh .... Dulli
@kallte98812 ай бұрын
why do young these two girls dress like scarecrow and act like one?? my iq level went down but the guy was ok