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Відео

How Different Are DUTCH Dutch and *Flemish*?
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How Different Are DUTCH Dutch and *Flemish*?
The Spoken Arabic of *EGYPT* and What Makes it DISTINCT
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The Spoken Arabic of *EGYPT* and What Makes it DISTINCT
A.I. - The END of Language Learning?
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A.I. - The END of Language Learning?
Puerto Rican Spanish! (aka *BORICUA* Spanish)
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Puerto Rican Spanish! (aka *BORICUA* Spanish)
IRISH English and What Makes it Different
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IRISH English and What Makes it Different
NEAPOLITAN - A Language of Southern ITALY
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NEAPOLITAN - A Language of Southern ITALY
How Similar Are Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic?
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How Similar Are Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic?
French vs Portuguese (How Similar Are They?!)
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French vs Portuguese (How Similar Are They?!)
Is This the EASIEST Language in the World? (ESPERANTO)
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Is This the EASIEST Language in the World? (ESPERANTO)
TURKISH - A Language Profile | (TÜRKÇE)
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TURKISH - A Language Profile | (TÜRKÇE)
ARGENTINIAN Spanish & What Makes it So DIFFERENT
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ARGENTINIAN Spanish & What Makes it So DIFFERENT
The BALTIC Languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, and Beyond)
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The BALTIC Languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, and Beyond)
LEBANON and its Arabic Dialect
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LEBANON and its Arabic Dialect
How Similar Are ROMANIAN and ITALIAN?
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How Similar Are ROMANIAN and ITALIAN?
YORUBA - A Language of NIGERIA (and the WORLD)
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YORUBA - A Language of NIGERIA (and the WORLD)
The Bulgarian Language - Slavic but DIFFERENT
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The Bulgarian Language - Slavic but DIFFERENT
The ARMENIAN Language
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The ARMENIAN Language
The Enigmatic ICELANDIC Language
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The Enigmatic ICELANDIC Language
Luxembourgish - A Dialect of German? Or Separate Language?
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Luxembourgish - A Dialect of German? Or Separate Language?
Nahuatl - An Indigenous Language of Mexico
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Nahuatl - An Indigenous Language of Mexico
Turkish vs Azerbaijani (How SIMILAR are they?)
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Turkish vs Azerbaijani (How SIMILAR are they?)
Papiamento (IS THIS PORTUGUESE?!)
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Papiamento (IS THIS PORTUGUESE?!)
CHILEAN Spanish and What Makes it Unique!
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CHILEAN Spanish and What Makes it Unique!
The Guarani Language
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The Guarani Language
The Vietnamese Language
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The Vietnamese Language
How Different are Swiss German and Standard German?
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How Different are Swiss German and Standard German?
Confused Canadian Investigates KIWI ENGLISH
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Confused Canadian Investigates KIWI ENGLISH
Māori (The REAL Language of New Zealand)
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Māori (The REAL Language of New Zealand)
Arabic and its Huge Impact on Indonesian & Malay!
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Arabic and its Huge Impact on Indonesian & Malay!

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @weiareinboud6990
    @weiareinboud6990 23 години тому

    Near-native pronunciation for me is more or less easy. Like a parrot, sounding OK, but without understanding ;-) The idea that helps most is that you must realise that most likely not any sound remains the same. So all vowels shift, all consonants are a bit different, the melody of sentences can be very different. And even the sounds you make when searching for words can be very different 'uh uh uh'. Your 'British' was, in my eyes (ears), for a too high percentage the same as your Canadian. Give all sounds a kick. And enjoy.

  • @user-kx3us8vp7y
    @user-kx3us8vp7y День тому

    أنا أريد تعلم لغه النواتل و يوكاتان مايا لكن للأسف ما اعرف من وين أتعلمها

  • @friendryan
    @friendryan День тому

    Indonesian is by far far the easiest no bs pronunciation no verb conjugations no plurals

  • @Carlosinabottle
    @Carlosinabottle День тому

    I'm from the US and I'm interested in learning Indonesian and Malay! I think BI and BM are different standards of the same language. Each with their dialects that are derived from each standard. While there are some differences, they are mutually intelligible, just like Spanish and Portuguese. I'm really interested in these languages, countries, and cultures, so I have a good opinion of them!

  • @KaijuEdits875
    @KaijuEdits875 День тому

    Greater Polish and Lesser Polish are very similar

  • @daraygona7058
    @daraygona7058 День тому

    The dutch language is comparable to a slavic language in the sense that the belgian variant is vastly different. We can understand eachother but we got a large vocabulary difference.

  • @EllaGreenn
    @EllaGreenn День тому

    Hupla, weeral iets bijgeleerd vandaag.

  • @zoltanhalkovics
    @zoltanhalkovics День тому

    Soviel ich weiss in Griechenland besteht dieselbe Situazion: das Nebeneinander von 2 gleichrangigen Varianten derselben Mutterprache.

  • @user-ct5dm8pw7j
    @user-ct5dm8pw7j День тому

    Hello, It's great to see a new video. Would you make a comparison video of German and French and know more of regional dialects where the two countries border? I'm learning both languages at my own pace. Your comparison videos are brilliant and I could use your input. Ty

  • @crouserm
    @crouserm День тому

    I live in Southeastern Ohio, and have met persons who know some of the Shawnee language. I am grateful that you speak on behalf of these people, and so many others.

  • @chriscrilly8807
    @chriscrilly8807 День тому

    A tiny thing, but a dead give away nonetheless: ACCENT is pronounced with the "e" as a Schwa, or throw away vowel. More AKS'NT than AKSENT. AKSENT will ring a bell right away. I too (Canadian that I am) thought your own accent was perhaps Ukrainian Canadian.

  • @celalergun
    @celalergun День тому

    I speak a few languages including Russian. I can understand most of the examples here just by comparing to other languages I know. I don't know Polish but it seems I already know most of the concepts of it's grammar. Greetings from Estonia.

  • @TunaSampaio
    @TunaSampaio День тому

    As a Hawaiian I hope our brothers in New Zealand keep their language to.

  • @CaracaGrande
    @CaracaGrande День тому

    I'm from Aruba (Dutch Caribbean), we don't use Dutch as the main language, its Papiamento (as u mentioned in the Dutch language video). But when we speak Dutch, we're pretty good at it. When we speak Dutch you can hear a Portuguese cadence/flow in our Dutch due to Papiamento being Portuguese-based. We also loan words from Papiamento into our Dutch as well. Although Dutch is declining in Aruba in favor for Papiamento and English, its still taught in schools and there are communities of Dutch speakers (mostly in the Noord region of Aruba). But most people nowadays including the Dutch in Aruba use Papiamento for communication. Just wanted to leave a Dutch language comparison between us and mainland NL. Great video btw 👍.

  • @navyvet05
    @navyvet05 День тому

    I have no idea what the hell you were talking about in this video, but im sure everything you said was right.

  • @cheesejuice_
    @cheesejuice_ День тому

    idk they are wannabe nazis. literally

  • @zorandjuric3408
    @zorandjuric3408 День тому

    We been eating Chicken wangs with some cool aid u ain gots to axe

  • @rinusmarkusse2499
    @rinusmarkusse2499 День тому

    Very interesting.

  • @joaopedrodamasio9833
    @joaopedrodamasio9833 День тому

    As a Brazilian, this language is so so important, as it shaped Brazilian culture heavily.

  • @jolinteo
    @jolinteo День тому

    According to Bashar, they are the sole remaining descendants of Lyrian ( from Lyra to earth and lived on earth for some periods in the ancient times). That's why they have their unique language that has zero connection with any other languages on earth.

  • @mirshadman602
    @mirshadman602 День тому

    Wow 🎉I got perfectly ❤thanks.

  • @BasBrandon
    @BasBrandon День тому

    Love this video. I'm Aussie with Maltese heritage. I uploaded a quick video about what the term Semitic means cos so many people throw around terms they don't even fully understand. Hebrews are not the only Semites. Love from Aus 🇦🇺

  • @nuhaakram2765
    @nuhaakram2765 День тому

    ❤Shlama elokho❤ As a native Christian Chaldean from Mesopotamia ( 🇮🇶 Iraq) We speak Neo_Aramaic . Unfortunately, Arabic affects our generation ,but you can hear it rightly in the church. My grandfather had his Bible written in Aramaic. He used to read his bible every day so we would learn the dialect properly . I'm struggling to teach my children (12,7,4) y.o because we immigrants to Australia and now english is becoming their standard language . Marya embarkhlokhen kolokhen 😊

  • @dralupovski
    @dralupovski День тому

    About the history of the language, it is indeed based on the language of Saints Cyril and Methodius, but it's important to note that Saints Cyril and Methodius never lived nor worked in and/or for the first bulgarian empire which at the time uses the original bulgar language as noted in this video. Nor the bulgar's state was in Macedonia at the time or before. The saints worked for the Byzantine empire and this state sent them in a mission in Moravia. Thus it's historically and factually incorrect to call old church slavonic as old bulgarian. It adoption by the bulgars state doesn't make it bulgarian. The saints never called it bulgarian but simply slavic.

  • @seanmcnally6658
    @seanmcnally6658 День тому

    Great video! I have been learning Irish for two months and the rules while initially confusing are less confusing than English. I just know the English ones intuitively because it was my first language.

  • @AdhamhMacConchurain
    @AdhamhMacConchurain День тому

    I was on the bus one day and I heard a woman speaking some form of middle eastern language that may have been Arabic, I found it hard to tell whether she was Arab or just had a thick Ulster accent

  • @djz.p.e.6260
    @djz.p.e.6260 День тому

    Southern aboriginal ptamerican is rather old Norse,but I am a sakk.

  • @djz.p.e.6260
    @djz.p.e.6260 День тому

    Youse twose is jokin righ¡!👋🏾🤣👏🏽

  • @rhezisanpreset
    @rhezisanpreset День тому

    Ini mah bahasa persatuan eropa anyg😂

  • @Boomersknowstuff
    @Boomersknowstuff День тому

    Nederlands, not "Dutch." And Deutsch, not "German " Educating Anglophones is a hopeless endeavour. As they never will learn.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus День тому

      If by “learn” you mean speaking English your way, you’re right. We speak English the way it’s spoken, not the way random non-native speakers think we *should* speak it. The video is narrated in English, so I used English words, obviously.

  • @andrewbrown464
    @andrewbrown464 День тому

    In answer to your questions, 1) yes, dozens of them, I've been doing it since I was a kid, 2) no, I only ever do it for fun, I'm too nervous to do it for real in case it offends a local 3) Yes, in a few languages, I'm getting close to native pronunciation in French and Portuguese, mostly from massively overdoing it, as in laying on a thick caricature accent, which then means I can dial it back, but helps me to physically lock in the sounds. And I second some of the remarks here - you sounded like a native German with excellent English, partly due to staccato rhythms, partly due to the hints of transatlantic inflections. Swedes tend to give themselves away with an inability to remember to use voiced fricatives, especially /z/, the Dutch always sound a little bit American. Germans, perhaps in an attempt to overcompensate or due to native language interference, have strange and to our ears unnatural sentence stress, so for instance they would pronounce the previous clauses like this: in__ an___ attempt du ofercombunzate or duedo naduv lenguich induhfeaunts. Not quite that much, but even hints of it are jarring. I couldn't be bothered to use IPA symbols here, I'm tired. And also yes, the English are obsessed with class.

  • @SkellyOfJudgment
    @SkellyOfJudgment День тому

    Esperanto should definitely be the political language for Europe, and probably the Americas, but nothing in Asia and most of the African countries (Australia and New Zealand could also have Esperanto)

  • @markelmore66
    @markelmore66 2 дні тому

    I studied both (Biblical Hebrew first and modern Arabic second). The “Benyanim” of Hebrew was invaluable to helping me understand the Arabic verb measure system. I am also amazed at how many overlapping roots there are.

  • @paulohagan3309
    @paulohagan3309 2 дні тому

    In my opinion, the EU should consider making it the official language of the EU. Neutral and easy to learn for Europeans.

  • @seegurke-bd3yr
    @seegurke-bd3yr 2 дні тому

    OK so tree is Baum in German...how does this connect ?

  • @Yallah-2023
    @Yallah-2023 2 дні тому

    6:08 I honestly died lmaoo

  • @ramseldifoberges8837
    @ramseldifoberges8837 2 дні тому

    Dominican Republic is much better both in culture,language, religion and in economy than Haiti. Where are the people who prefer DR more than Haiti ❤❤❤❤. 🇩🇴

  • @vivianeadenauer9816
    @vivianeadenauer9816 2 дні тому

    Gratuliere für die hervorragende Erklärung !!!! As a native German speaker, for me, at the beginning, it was almost impossible to catch a single word. After more than two years in Switzerland, I am just starting to understand 20% of it. But it is probably because I use telepathy. Sincerely, I had to deal with Dutch (Holland) people, when I was living in Spain and I could understand 50% of what they spoke. But in Switzerland they even don't understand the challenge that means for German native speakers and also students to even understand a simple sentence : phonetically and grammatically it is so far away and they have NO WRITTEN RULES, that I will learn Russian or Chinese easier than Berndeutsch (it is even stranger than Zürcher Deutsch)....

  • @ulrikhgsbro6833
    @ulrikhgsbro6833 2 дні тому

    I'm a Dane and I can easily adjust my Danish enough to communicate with Norwegians. I probably could with Swedes , too, but I dont want to.

  • @AllLoudNation365
    @AllLoudNation365 2 дні тому

    こんにちは! 안녕하세요!

  • @ulrikhgsbro6833
    @ulrikhgsbro6833 2 дні тому

    Sixty isn't treds. It's tres.

  • @dennisthemenace191
    @dennisthemenace191 2 дні тому

    Great video!!! I work with a Glaswegian for years- try fooling a Scotsman with a fake Glaswegian. Could be a lot of fun.

  • @narina_languages
    @narina_languages 2 дні тому

    I'm Kurdish. And i speak Kurmanci but i can understand like sixty percent of Sorani. But i can't understand any Zaza or Gorani.

  • @gosugosu1280
    @gosugosu1280 2 дні тому

    If Standard German is like driving normally, dialects are like drifting.

  • @CyberOrganic
    @CyberOrganic 2 дні тому

    Castellano is horrible. Try watching a movie or a tv show in castellano, It is rough. Their slang and lingo make it even worse. It hurts my ears.

  • @bkosimi
    @bkosimi 2 дні тому

    Excellent behtarin! Not sure though if you made it sound easy for non-native speakers 😂 trying to explain in general makes things complicated, so probably best advice is to visit and get immersive practical experience 👍

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus День тому

      Yes, these videos are just meant to be interesting and give people an idea of how the language works, but don’t help people learn the language as a beginner. A lot of people tell me they are good reference material once they already know the basics, though.

    • @bkosimi
      @bkosimi День тому

      @@Langfocus for sure 👍 very interesting and valuable work you do, so keep it going, bud. Many thanks!

  • @bkosimi
    @bkosimi 2 дні тому

    Very good and accurate as usual. Thank you! Bo sipos, barodari giromi 😆

  • @ThePrince7711
    @ThePrince7711 2 дні тому

    I'm portuguese from Portugal, but I live in France now for more than 10years. When I lived in Portugal I had some brazilian friends and I remember I had to speak really slow for them to understand me, I got what they were saying just fine though and even learned some different words they use. Here in France I noticed if someone learns or speaks portuguese it's the brazilian one and I do agree for foreign people it's way easier to learn that one cuz it's the easiest to understand, we portugal folks cut too much of what we speaking, even tho I prefer my portuguese of course, but its hard for ppl to understand xD

  • @Raptorrena
    @Raptorrena 2 дні тому

    Who else is here from Cyberpunk? 💀

  • @Labroidas
    @Labroidas 2 дні тому

    As a Bavarian speaker from the Alps, my brain is used to dialectal changes in grammar and pronunciation, and Luxembourgish is really easy to understand for me (at least the examples shown here). I know from experience though that people who only know modern standard German and no dialect are less flexible and probably would have a lot more trouble.