“Italy was DECENT”, “I HAVEN’T CONSIDERED visiting Spain”, in France there is “CHEAP WINE”. Italy is the country with most UNESCO places, Spain the second most visited nation and France has one of the best wines in the world. She has offended all those countries where it hurts the most for them 🤣
@@n3493 But this girl has neither education. If someone from USA or any other nation ask me about his country I would say I like it a lot, it has magnific places, food, climate, etc but not with this arrogancy of minuspreciating our culture, products, etc
heheheeh I believe native english speakers which does not speak other language can not figure out a mispronunciation.. I believe they do not have the skill of "guessing" in terms of speaking, something in english you want to say something really really obvious even when it is in front of them and they do not help... it is like... waiting for the SUPER CORRECT pronunciation, then they do not know other language and can not pronounce other sounds.. they always come back as a reference to english.. it is super wire for english learners, I learned first German, and they understand me when I talk even when I make 100 mispronunciation and grammar mistakes per minute.
American girl: "I like the French word, because it's similar to English." Also American girl: Can't pronounce the "E" or the "U" or the "R", because it's so different from English 😂
@Neoxide yes, I agree and understand the feeling, but if we're talking about the similarity of two languages we have to take the oral aspect. French is a perfect example of how the languages develop orally; the written version of a language is a mere convention. So they can share some words but they're not so similar for what concerns grammar, morphology etc. as italian and spanish (and french, or any other latin language) do.
Did the american girl really just give a whole speech about how many different accents there are in the us? In Italy there are about 25 different LANGUAGES, not accents or dialects, completly different languages. The same goes for most big european countries.
There are literally over 100 languages spoken in America maybe more. She was referring to how difficult it is to understand specifically English, in some states because we have so many different dialects and accents that sounds so different. Some of them literally sound like different languages. That is she was talking about if you listen. I’m sure in your country is well. I am sure Your country also has different accents and dialects of your primary language which makes it harder for you to understand your primary language in different areas depending on where you live.
@@drloydinkorea I think you misunderstood me. There are many different dialects in the US, in Italy it’s literally completely different languages. Someone from Louisiana might speak a different dialect then someone from Oregon, but both dialects derived from english. In Italy it’s not like that. Venetian or Sicilian for example didn’t derive from today’s Italian, they already existed before. By the way I’m just taking Italy as an example but the same goes for many other European countries.
Crazy how no one reacted when she talked about the US having so much linguistic variety (apparently) that they're used to understanding other languages/accents. She said this to Europeans 🤣. We literally have so many different languages and dialects. USA strikes again. Lol
Or the fact that she is saying that in a room where three out of four people have very alive dialects (and France is only half an exception with Breton, Alsacian or Corsican being very much alive) and all four have different accents from natives inside their very own country ! Like France is very different in the north and the south of the country, and same for Italian. You can literally have people who are born 300km apart and have different accents and yet American is supposed to be the land of diversity...
Yes exactly! I was just saying that because she used the example of the US being multilingual due to many foreigners coming there and having many dialects which yes is the case but those other languages and dialects are exactly all present throughout the world anyway. I think the richest dialectal diversity in the US would have been indegenous but we all know how they’ve been/are still treated and how that affected the loss of a lot of diversity the US territory could have had. If you think non indegenous, yes there is a huge hispanic community, there is Louisiana french etc… but it doesn’t compare to the rest of the world. But I think she was talking more about migration and when you look at the most cosmopolitan cities in the world the US doesn’t have that many (I think only New York in top 10). She was saying this to europeans who have a few in the top 10, and Europe has an insane linguistic diversity into each of their countries. Which of course is the case in South America, Africa, Asia as well. It’s just that she was talking to Europeans in the video but I would’ve said the same thing if it were anyone else. It just once again shows the lack of knowledge from Americans lol.
Andrea and Stefania showed how people from Italy can understand Spanish more easier than the other way around , but of course , as both are Latin languages there're many words similar , sounds as well
The asymmetry is even bigger with French and Spanish or French and Italian. A francophone can understand a lot of Spanish and Italian with very minimum training, while the other way around they will get next to nothing of what is said in French.
As I've heard from an Italian friend It's usually easier for Italian speakers to understand Spanish than the other way around due to Spanish using words that exist in Italian, even tho they are not commonly used since they sound like old words. In Spanish the Italian words that are used nowadays may not exist on the other hand.
Besides the "Italy was decent" and "I liked the cheap wine", that I'm still trying to cope with- she lived in England and didn't even considered visiting Spain, one of the most visited countries in the world? Also it's the way she says it, if felt condescending to me. As in "why would i think of going there". She could have said "I didn't get to visit many countries" or "I wasnt't able to visit Spain". But no, she managed to be offensive,¡. Although, considering the way she talked about a gorgeous country like our brother Italy, maybe it's a blessing. Cannot fathom what she would say about Spain. The sangría was OK?
Bro she doesn't even know that Spain and the UK are close to each other. Americans don't have a world map in their head. They just get into a plane and wonder where they get off.
This American girl is not the brightest marble in the jar right? She is mocking other's words and all, but she is the only one in the room that talks just one language. The other guys speak AT LEAST two, and most probably 3 or 4 languages.
As a Swiss person, I can understand all of them, lol. French, German and Italian because they are national languages in Switzerland, English because (almost) everyone learns it, and Spanish because it's so similar to Italian.
As a Spanish, I can comfirm that it is true that Italians and Portuguese understand Spanish almost perfectly, but Spanish find it a little more difficult for them😂😂
It's because we just have A, E, I, O, U. Other languages can make (and distinguish) other vocal sounds. So we struggle to know what they are saying because many times their words don't sound as strong as ours, we can't put a finger on what was that word, what were the letters they said
@@valerial5837 That's *NOT* true at all. For example, the C in ciao sounds as "ch", but letter CH in chimico sounds as "k". Letter Z sometimes is "ds" and other times is "ts". G before e or i sounds like "y" and you need to insert H to sound like a real G. Combination GLI is pronounced as spanish LL. SC sounds as "sh"... too many exceptions.
@@qrsx66 Because those five are the main ones in their respected countries, every other romance language is small and often similar enough to one of the main 5 romance languages. You wouldnt want everyone repeating the same word, instead of comparing languages, it would turn into comparing accents. There are 38 other romance languages besides the main 5, too many to include.
In Italian usually people say "computer" but in the IT manuals there is often written "calcolatore" or "elaboratore". Anyway computer, like almost all the scientific/technologic English words, is derived from Latin. In Italy nobody say "cartier" with a strong r at the end, but "cartiè" without the r.
@@MN-vz8qm well as a Latin word, I honestly prefer "calcolatore" (calculator, calculareur etc...) to "computatore" (computer) and "elaboratore" is even better. Anyway I often listened people in the IT call it "macchina" (machine).
I'm Australian and I went to the US I asked for water they didn't know what I meant and told me to pronounce the "American way" this was in LA and NYC. I disagree even if they have a lot of different accents within the US they are not used to "world" accents😂
Yeah, I'm talking to different people in the world and my accent is not great. Still most of the time people can understand me, unless it's an American, they have a really hard time understanding.
yeah they have a tendency of doing that, was ordering a subway near niagara falls in the outlet & told the lady to put capsicum in my sub, said its called bell pepper i was like bitch just put it in
I'm from NYC and I would've understood you because I have a fascination with accents from around the world. But I have a hard time telling the Aussie and Kiwi accents apart though lol.
As a German living abroad I really felt with Nele in the beginning, when every language except German was mentioned positively. I can't count how many times I was told by people from other countries that German sounds ugly, that German is too harsh, that they never would want to learn German. I also happen to speak Italian and I get so different reactions about Italian. Even if I can understand why people don't like the sound of German, it just doesn't feel nice when your mother tongue is so openly treated as something unpleasant. Because our identity is also based on our language. What I always found interesting is that, when I don't speak standard German, but Bavarian, which is a variation of German threatened of extinction, I get far more positive reactions to the sound, except from people from the north of Germany.
Ich bin Amerikaner und die Deutsche Sprache gefällt mir sehr. Meine Meinung nach, Deutsch klingt schoener als Spanish oder Italienisch. Ich bin ja die Ausnahme.
I think it depends on where you live abroad. In Thailand people told me they like german a lot more than the french one because of history. For me this show that a sound of a language often is associated with something positive oder negative
Whenever I hear someone speaking German it reminds me of hiking in the Dolomites (especially in the northern part), I love hearing it. I actually overheard some German speaking tourist at the beach the other day and I thought about that. It's not harsh at all!
9:35 that's a huge misconception on her part. Maybe it would be a good idea to have Americans react to dialect variety within European languages as I can see how she came to her conclusion following her logic, however there are in actuality a lot more dialects with a way greater variety within European languages precisely because we didn't have a lot of migration, e.g. bigger cities like cologne even have multiple different dialects and some like e.g. Swabian are only about 40% intelligible for other native German speakers, whereas Americans mostly just have slightly different accents and not really dialects (just compare the differences between an Irish and an English dialect to any two American ones and you will see the difference in divergence)
What’s so interesting about this video is the self-composure and interpersonal nuance. Simply watching the woman from the USA and her body language was so very different than those from across the pond!
The word "Soccer" comes from a shortening of the phrase "Associational Football," specifically the "soc" in "associational." Ironically, this term comes from England as it's a common shortening in England to add an -er (ex. 5 and 10 pound notes are fivers and tenners). Just like the imperial system of measurements, England invented the term, passed it to the US, then changed their terms to be in line with the rest of the world, presumably to join in on the teasing at our expense. Love the video! Greetings from Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸
Thanks World Friends for having us 😊 We are quite amateurs and being in front of a camera can be so impressive! It was my first time and had a blast recording this. I’m glad to read the language exchange and word backgrounds in the comment section. Everyone was so nice and all the participants were really patient, affectionate and each of us tried to represent the best that we could our native countries. Special mention to Ashleigh who had the main role in this, again, this is not easy to do but she nailed it ! Was so friendly and a genuinely nice person !
How did you sign up for something like this? Did they reach out to you at random? Did you sign up somewhere? I'm really curious because these look *very* fun.
En regardant la vidéo, j'ai vraiment le sentiment que l'Espagnole ne t'aime pas du tout... Elle ne sourit jamais quand tu prends la parole et te regarde vraiment d'une manière très antipathique. Quel est ton ressenti à ce sujet??? 🤔🤔🤔
@@J0HN_D03je pense que ce n’est qu’une impression, tout le monde était très sympa, Mikka y compris ☺️ Je pense que c’est difficile de retranscrire la vraie ambiance derrière la caméra. On est tous un peu impressionné par le tournage.
The sport Football is from UK , the most popular sport in the world , soccer is most used in places where this sport isn't the most popular , like USA or Australia
@@BlackHoleSpain Yes she's tanned, but not to a level a white person couldn't be tanned to. It could be a natural or a fake tan, regardless, white people with that skin color are not uncommon at all, especially in Southern Europe. Look at her facial features. She doesn't look Native American or black mixed, which is what someone who you might identify as Colombian likely has.
@@omiluna7362 californian wine is quite good; I tasted it a few times and I liked it. A bit overpriced compared to an Italian wine but maybe it can depends on the import costs.
Actually, interesting fact is spanish people that also speak catalan can understand italian pretty well too, we have a lot of similar words and it's pretty fascinating to hear. My favorite similar phrase is 'La dona menja formatje a la finestra' learned it with some italian guys and kinda shocked me
I'm pretty sure that most of the spanish people can understand whole phrases or even speeches in italian...just the spanish girl on the video seemed to be not so smart 😂
I loved to see how Italians understand what Spanish people say. We Brazilian Portuguese speakers can also understand Spanish speakers without having learned it before, but they cannot understand us very well. Written italian is also very easy to understand
French people I know that also know another Latin language (Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian) can get everything when someone speaks Italian. But those who can only speak French, understand written Italian but don't get oral Italian at all... So I guess it really depends on the background of said french speaker :)
@@charles1413 I mean I'm French and when I was younger I had the opportunity to work in a fancy hotel where there were newspapers from different countries all around the world. Italian ones were rather easy to understand, whereas I could barely understand 10-15% of spoken Italian. It's not only an urban legend, it really does work like that!
@@Sir77Hill I don't disagree. We can read it but understand it orally? Nahhh ;) Notre langue a des sonorités tellement diffrentes que c'est pas étonnant
I’m Japanese. I have been learning English and French. So, I understood English and French words. My mother can speak these languages. She said « Italian end Spanish are very similar like sister. » Actually, when comparing, these languages are really, I think.
Actually, written Italian is probably closer to written French, but yeah the prononciation differs widely (probably the germanic influence in France), so it makes sense Spanish is closer in that regard.
@@jandron94 I am Italian from Piedmont and I can tell you that in my region we speak Piedmontese, Franco- provençal and Arpitan which have many similarities with French language. In Aosta Valley people have French and Arpitan (if I remember correctly) are official languages along with Italian. In the city of Parma many people pronounce the "r" like in French but many other Italians have this problem, it is quite common. If you listen to Ethan the drummer of Måneskin, an Italian band, you can hear him having problems rolling the r.
Did you know that the word for bread ( pan ) is the same in Japanese, Spanish and old Portuguese? Portuguese navigators took it to Japan and there you adapted it, and Spanish and Portuguese, having the same origin from Latin, have similar words, so that's the reason. Regards from Spain.
Love how people from the US will introduce themselves as "from America" as if the US are the only country not only on North America but South America as well 🙄
It's the only country in the world with the word "America" in their name. Literally. Yeah they're still very ignorant, but not on that part. Any other country in central, North or South America don't refer to themselves as from a continent but from their particular country. You don't hear a Colombian tell a Mexican "I'm from America and you?", and then the Mexican way "I'm from America". Doesn't make any sense
For everyone offended about the “cheap” wine comment-USAmericans use “cheap” and “inexpensive” interchangeably, a lot of the time. She meant you can get inexpensive wine in other countries, not that it’s always poor quality.
In video games, by micro chat, all the Anglo-Saxons speak Spanish to the Italians, they think that Spanish and Italian are almost the same language and it makes me laugh, it's funny that the fact is a reality that Italian and Spanish are brother languages 🇮🇹🇪🇦♥️
Me: You either chose ignorance, did not to clean the wax out of your ears or you don’t speak/understand English fluently. What you quoted was not what she said. She said she used to live in the UK which is not mainland Europe. She didn’t say she hadn’t been to mainland Europe.
@@anndeecosita3586 I read the subtitles and so they say. It's up to me their fault? Vogliamo vedere che se io ti parlassi in italiano, anche standard e corretto, scandito e lento, non capiresti un cazzo? Non è colpa mia se voi americani parlate persino la vostra lingua di merda. Non si capisce un cazzo. Vi mangiate le parole. You eat your own letters and words. So it's a bit difficult to undestand you: too bad and fast pronounced
@@anndeecosita3586 and, by the way, the main part in my comment was about "so you chose death" cause she dare to say "italy is decent" No. Decent is average, isn't it? Italy is not decent. Italy is one of the most wonderful countries in the world for history (I dare to remember you even the most fucked up town in italy is more ancient then whole Us), arts, culture, science and also, even it's a lot urbanised, landscapes. The entire "western" culture has gone through the Boot and most part of it was made by us italians directly. You know you write with italian letters and count with italian numbers, don't you? Moreover, you can't understand my humor. Of course the "you chose death" was a joke, a mock. Half to american ignorance and half upon italian anger about foreigners opinion about Italy
America is not a country. Amrica is the name of an entire continent. For example chilians and colombians are americans as well. Usa is the name of country.
Madre mia, Balompié en Frances es foneticamente : Ballon-Pied, lo que significa litteralmente Foot-ball. Fuera extrano si callemos Football en Francia asi
In american "football" they basically use more the hands than their foot and they use a egg shape "ball" instead of a normal shape ball, basically Rugby
It's good that finally also a man is included ^^ And the Spanish girl is absolutely hilarious, please invite her more often! 10:36 "Today....blabla...The bus....blabla...The city..." 😂
Caro Marco, il rugby e il football americano sono due sport distinti e addirittura il pallone ha forma e dimensioni diverse. Ah, gli italiani pronunciano "Cartier" senza la R finale, alla francese appunto. Buona continuazione.
The German girl also mispronounced it like someone who has no idea, on purpose. I've only ever heard "Ca-Tié" here in Germany (with no R at all). Absolutely nobody says "Ca-Tyeah", but I think the production team tells them to pronounce it as if you have no idea.
@@saxon..falkenhayn2908 not the same, there are many different words from different origins in both languages but the sound in the overall language is similar
There are words that are similiar and other words that are very different, for example: English: home/house > spanish: casa - italian: casa English: love> spanish: amor - italian: amore English: book > spanish: libro - italian: libro But there are also many words that are different, because they are different languages There are also some fake friends, spanish words that are very similiar to italian ones but have different meanings: In italian there is the word imbarazzata (embarrassed/awkward) In spanish there is the word embarazada, but it means "pregnant"😂 (in italian: incinta 🤰)
Catalans can definitely understand Italian better than only Spanish speakers. I learnt Italian by living in Rome for a couple of months years ago. And for me, being a Catalan speaker made the difference. Catalan and Italian share lots of words, like: "finestra" (window), "manca" (lacks), "mai" (never), "porta" (door)... and then others that are quite similar like: "amic (cat)/amico (it)" (friend), "aixugar (cat)/ asciugare (it)" (to dry), "família (cat)/famiglia (it)" (family)... Those words might look a bit different on writing, but the pronunciation is almost the same. Another thing that helped to learn Italian was English. Like you saw in this video they say "computer", and they use other words like "weekend" as well. So, that helped. I also learnt portugese later on, when I lived in Lisbon for a couple of months as well, this time by studying the language in a Barcelona's language academy during one month prior to the stay. Which really helped a lot, when I went to Rome the language course was online and during the stay, so I struggled a bit, it took me a month to become a fluent speaker. With the Portuguese course and such, it took me about two weeks to get fluent. Now I'm learning French, let's see what it takes me, I guess is gonna take me a while, both Italian and Portuguese are quite similar to both Catalan (my mother tongue) and Spanish, so it was easier to pick them up. I could understand the languages from the beginning. I can also understand some French, but it's a bit harder. Occitan though is a completely different thing, I could have a full conversation with someone that speaks Occitan (from South-France, North-Western Catalonia or North-Western Italy, any dialect really) and me speaking Catalan. Catalan is derived from Occitan, so the similarities are huge between one and other. In fact, yes in Catalan is "Sí", but in Old-Catalan it used to be "Oc" which is precisely how you say yes in Occitan. Anyway, going back to the Spanish/Italian mutual comprehension. I don't know why she didn't understand "Metroponitana" (subway/underground), since we called it "Metro" in both Catalan and Spanish, which is the short for "Metropolitano (sp) / metropolità (cat)", where the only difference is the gender, we use the masculine and Italians use the feminine. However, I can understand why she said "city" instead. Because city in Greek, or at least in Ancient Greek, is "polis" which is the root we use to call things like the surrounding of a city: "àrea metropilitana (cat)/ "area metropolitana (sp)" (metropolitan area), and a big city is also called "metropolis", so makes sense. The subway is called "metropolitan" because it's a"city train". English focuses on the fact that goes underground on in a subway, but; romance languages focus on the fact that is a train that only travels around the city and the surrounding area of the city. So it's interesting to see difference of perspective between the languages don't you think? And well, that's it. Sorry for the length of this comment, I hope you reach the end 'cause I think I made some points that can be conversation starters. Having said that, the only thing left to say is: Nice video and best regards from Barcelona!
It's quite curious. The Italian guy resembles Franco Battiato and the Spanish girl looks like a Latin American reggaeton artist. It seems the cast was made to match certain American stereotypes after all 🤔
@cjkim2147 All the peoples of the world with Latin language and culture are Latins ("latinos" in Spanish/Portoguese language)... stop this disinformation about Latinity and serch "Latin Union" and "Latin Europe". I'm Italian and I'm LATINO, or "Latin" in English (same meaning but in different language), an autochthonous Latin, moreover. Greetings from Italy, ciao!
We Americans literally say we are from America all the time. Do not even act dumb and try to say that is not true ! Other countries call the US (America) Ashleigh did not say North America which is the actual name for the continent , if you want be to completely correct. I always say I am from America or I live in the US. People all over the world know what both mean. ( except maybe the two people above). America Home of the Free Land of the Brave.
@@marydavis5234 it seems like "six" words were to hard that needed to be edit, plus the consent is wrong (N America Is a continent not a country) if we start being more cultured and educated people would have a better positive impression of US
As a French I feel like we understand Italian like 90% when they speak it looks like a sophisticated french to me but when it comes to try to speak Italian it's the worst I can manage to form phrases in Spanish and Portuguese but not in Italian
@@kaderbueno6823 Je pense que ton impression vient surtout du fait que les mots que tu arrives à comprendre te permettent de saisir le sens d'une phrase même si tu n'en as pas la moitié.
I have no idea why "football countries" have no idea where the term soccer comes from. The rules of football (or soccer) as it is played today were codified in England. Modern soccer is an English game (probably something else "football countries" don't realize). The common version of football originated as Association Rules Football (as opposed to Rugby Rules Football, American Football, Gaelic Football, ...). The english slang for Association Football back in the day was Soccer. I believe the term was commonly used in England through the 1950's. Soccer continued to stick in American and Australian english. The bottom line is that the term is not American.
I personally knew that. But that's because I'm a fan of this sport. It's not hard to understand that other people might not know this. Also, the only "football" countries in here were Spain and France. Italy and Germany have their own words for it
in other words it was always football, just like you say "pc" everytime but you wouldn't say the word "computer" didn't exist because of that. Its cool that most countries evolved.
Why would people in France or Spain know the story of UK or football? Do you think everybody in those countries is interested in England or football history to the point of researching its history? You're either entitled or just stereotyping. Get a live.
I would claim most know that it originated in England, like the imperial measurement system. But people are confused why the US keeps using those super outdated things
Poland: Niemiec :) which has pretty funny origin. "Niemy" is a adjective for a person who can't talk. So our ancestors couldn't understand Germans and they called them "Niemcy".
@@lissandrafreljord7913 no, alemán comes from a German tribe living in the south west of Germany known for being good people and French and Spanish extended that Word for the whole Germany
italian could be considered as a sort of link that connects french and spanish. Indeed italians are able to understand both french and spanish, but if you ask a french to understand spanish or the other way around they would find more difficulty to do it.
well actually amarican football is rugby thats why it's called footbal. they first brought rugby to america then called it football and then changed it to no longer use feet.
" I've been to Italy, it was decent"... Ok continua a mangiare la pizza con l'ananas va
3 per volta, fra l"altro... 😁
Pizza with 🍍 is the best
@@girouarddolivier2049 cagarella fulminante is better
@@girouarddolivier2049 Giampiero passami il fucile
@@antisgamozero 😂
“Italy was DECENT”, “I HAVEN’T CONSIDERED visiting Spain”, in France there is “CHEAP WINE”. Italy is the country with most UNESCO places, Spain the second most visited nation and France has one of the best wines in the world. She has offended all those countries where it hurts the most for them 🤣
She just spouted some stereotypes and showed how Americans are so narrow minded, while being the country with the modt obesity
@@Pepecigar Basically
Nobody in the usa has good taste what do you expect.
@@n3493 But this girl has neither education. If someone from USA or any other nation ask me about his country I would say I like it a lot, it has magnific places, food, climate, etc but not with this arrogancy of minuspreciating our culture, products, etc
This girl has clearly not good social skills.
I've been to Italy.... it was decent...
Damn two seconds and she is just proved how american she is lol 🤣.
as an italian that "decent" broke my heart just a lil ...ahaha
Lol I thought the same thing! She saying that and saying “I’m from America” bitch please.
@@crazyg2982 ahahaha, ho pensato esattamente la stessa cosa
@@crazyg2982 I'm French, and I love Italy, It's waaaay more than decent haha
Decent is so diminutive..
She's the most American person to ever set foot on that studio... the way in which she just offended every single country in the first minute lol
heheheeh I believe native english speakers which does not speak other language can not figure out a mispronunciation.. I believe they do not have the skill of "guessing" in terms of speaking, something in english you want to say something really really obvious even when it is in front of them and they do not help... it is like... waiting for the SUPER CORRECT pronunciation, then they do not know other language and can not pronounce other sounds.. they always come back as a reference to english.. it is super wire for english learners, I learned first German, and they understand me when I talk even when I make 100 mispronunciation and grammar mistakes per minute.
I don’t know any American who would do that. It’s like they picked the dumbest person in the world to be on this video.
American girl: "I like the French word, because it's similar to English."
Also American girl: Can't pronounce the "E" or the "U" or the "R", because it's so different from English 😂
Well, a big part of English words come from French
@@Charles25192 yes 25 000 words
@@Charles25192 yes but it doesn't actually mean they're similar. Words come from french but the phonetic is completely different
@Neoxide yes, I agree and understand the feeling, but if we're talking about the similarity of two languages we have to take the oral aspect.
French is a perfect example of how the languages develop orally; the written version of a language is a mere convention.
So they can share some words but they're not so similar for what concerns grammar, morphology etc. as italian and spanish (and french, or any other latin language) do.
@@Charles25192 Come from the old French, more likely a vulgar Latin, very different from modern French
Did the american girl really just give a whole speech about how many different accents there are in the us? In Italy there are about 25 different LANGUAGES, not accents or dialects, completly different languages. The same goes for most big european countries.
There are literally over 100 languages spoken in America maybe more. She was referring to how difficult it is to understand specifically English, in some states because we have so many different dialects and accents that sounds so different. Some of them literally sound like different languages. That is she was talking about if you listen. I’m sure in your country is well. I am sure Your country also has different accents and dialects of your primary language which makes it harder for you to understand your primary language in different areas depending on where you live.
Si ma che c'entra scusa, stava parlando con la francese ahahah
@@carboluka si ma anche in Francia ogni regione a accenti molto molto diversi. Il nord e il sud sembrano lingue diverse.
@@drloydinkorea I think you misunderstood me. There are many different dialects in the US, in Italy it’s literally completely different languages. Someone from Louisiana might speak a different dialect then someone from Oregon, but both dialects derived from english. In Italy it’s not like that. Venetian or Sicilian for example didn’t derive from today’s Italian, they already existed before. By the way I’m just taking Italy as an example but the same goes for many other European countries.
@@carboluka centra che è ridicolo fare un discorso del genere a qualunque europeo
I will always love how similar italian and spanish , my favorite languages , are to each other
as a basis they have Latin, for which they sometimes seem similar
Yes I feel from writing the french fits too since the latin roots
Spanish people usually have problemas to understand others, even portuguese, maybe because phonetic is very simple in Spanish
@@axwleurope9519 That's true.
True 🧡🧡🧡
Crazy how no one reacted when she talked about the US having so much linguistic variety (apparently) that they're used to understanding other languages/accents. She said this to Europeans 🤣. We literally have so many different languages and dialects. USA strikes again. Lol
Exactly!!! Seriously so funny she had the audacity lol
Or the fact that she is saying that in a room where three out of four people have very alive dialects (and France is only half an exception with Breton, Alsacian or Corsican being very much alive) and all four have different accents from natives inside their very own country ! Like France is very different in the north and the south of the country, and same for Italian. You can literally have people who are born 300km apart and have different accents and yet American is supposed to be the land of diversity...
I think every country has a lot of dialects
Yes exactly! I was just saying that because she used the example of the US being multilingual due to many foreigners coming there and having many dialects which yes is the case but those other languages and dialects are exactly all present throughout the world anyway. I think the richest dialectal diversity in the US would have been indegenous but we all know how they’ve been/are still treated and how that affected the loss of a lot of diversity the US territory could have had. If you think non indegenous, yes there is a huge hispanic community, there is Louisiana french etc… but it doesn’t compare to the rest of the world. But I think she was talking more about migration and when you look at the most cosmopolitan cities in the world the US doesn’t have that many (I think only New York in top 10). She was saying this to europeans who have a few in the top 10, and Europe has an insane linguistic diversity into each of their countries. Which of course is the case in South America, Africa, Asia as well. It’s just that she was talking to Europeans in the video but I would’ve said the same thing if it were anyone else. It just once again shows the lack of knowledge from Americans lol.
Andrea and Stefania showed how people from Italy can understand Spanish more easier than the other way around , but of course , as both are Latin languages there're many words similar , sounds as well
To be fair that sentence the Italian guy said would be understood by 95% of Spaniards, i've no idea how she didn't get it lol
The asymmetry is even bigger with French and Spanish or French and Italian. A francophone can understand a lot of Spanish and Italian with very minimum training, while the other way around they will get next to nothing of what is said in French.
As I've heard from an Italian friend It's usually easier for Italian speakers to understand Spanish than the other way around due to Spanish using words that exist in Italian, even tho they are not commonly used since they sound like old words. In Spanish the Italian words that are used nowadays may not exist on the other hand.
@@JP-en7cc there are words in Spanish from other origins different then Latin. Also un portuguese
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Besides the "Italy was decent" and "I liked the cheap wine", that I'm still trying to cope with- she lived in England and didn't even considered visiting Spain, one of the most visited countries in the world? Also it's the way she says it, if felt condescending to me. As in "why would i think of going there". She could have said "I didn't get to visit many countries" or "I wasnt't able to visit Spain". But no, she managed to be offensive,¡. Although, considering the way she talked about a gorgeous country like our brother Italy, maybe it's a blessing. Cannot fathom what she would say about Spain. The sangría was OK?
What can you expect from an overweighed USA girl used to donuts and sandwiches ?
She is the stereotypical ignorant American
Ok Karen
Americans...
Bro she doesn't even know that Spain and the UK are close to each other. Americans don't have a world map in their head. They just get into a plane and wonder where they get off.
This American girl is not the brightest marble in the jar right? She is mocking other's words and all, but she is the only one in the room that talks just one language. The other guys speak AT LEAST two, and most probably 3 or 4 languages.
She is Literally the living American stereotype
As a Swiss person, I can understand all of them, lol. French, German and Italian because they are national languages in Switzerland, English because (almost) everyone learns it, and Spanish because it's so similar to Italian.
yeah...CH is like a EU in miniature.
Swiss are OP
Which part of Switzerland are you from?
@@gadsdenflag5218 The French speaking part, in a bilingual French/German canton, close to the French and Italian border.
Don't worry, the dumb American girl will laugh at you anyway, of course in English, her only language. :)
As a Spanish, I can comfirm that it is true that Italians and Portuguese understand Spanish almost perfectly, but Spanish find it a little more difficult for them😂😂
Because the Spanish phonetic is very simple
@@axwleurope9519 Exactly, we pronounce the words as they are written😂😂
@@sergiosanchez1365 in Italian we also pronounce the words as are written
It's because we just have A, E, I, O, U. Other languages can make (and distinguish) other vocal sounds. So we struggle to know what they are saying because many times their words don't sound as strong as ours, we can't put a finger on what was that word, what were the letters they said
@@valerial5837 That's *NOT* true at all. For example, the C in ciao sounds as "ch", but letter CH in chimico sounds as "k". Letter Z sometimes is "ds" and other times is "ts". G before e or i sounds like "y" and you need to insert H to sound like a real G. Combination GLI is pronounced as spanish LL. SC sounds as "sh"... too many exceptions.
I'm still waiting for the latin languages video with French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian
Catalan and galician
@@Dreamyu_mia Exactly, no one thinks of those !
@@qrsx66 Because those five are the main ones in their respected countries, every other romance language is small and often similar enough to one of the main 5 romance languages. You wouldnt want everyone repeating the same word, instead of comparing languages, it would turn into comparing accents. There are 38 other romance languages besides the main 5, too many to include.
it would be so dope to get such a meet !!
@@glucosepouches wdym? Every romance language is similar to others. LANGUAGES not dialects. You are talking about those.
In Italian usually people say "computer" but in the IT manuals there is often written "calcolatore" or "elaboratore".
Anyway computer, like almost all the scientific/technologic English words, is derived from Latin.
In Italy nobody say "cartier" with a strong r at the end, but "cartiè" without the r.
Calculateur was used in France at first, and is still used for supercomputers
Finalmente qualcuno che conosce la sua lingua
@@MN-vz8qm well as a Latin word, I honestly prefer "calcolatore" (calculator, calculareur etc...) to "computatore" (computer) and "elaboratore" is even better. Anyway I often listened people in the IT call it "macchina" (machine).
Never heard any Italian say CartieR ahah when he said it I was confused
Fuori dagli ambienti accademici è raro sentire "calcolatore"
🇪🇸🤝🇮🇹 somos hermanos para siempre que no se os olvide
Si fratellloooo
the Spanish Girl is a Superstar
I'm Australian and I went to the US I asked for water they didn't know what I meant and told me to pronounce the "American way" this was in LA and NYC. I disagree even if they have a lot of different accents within the US they are not used to "world" accents😂
Yeah, I'm talking to different people in the world and my accent is not great. Still most of the time people can understand me, unless it's an American, they have a really hard time understanding.
British person: Can I have a bo'oh'o'wa'er?
In NYC it's:
Wada
yeah they have a tendency of doing that, was ordering a subway near niagara falls in the outlet & told the lady to put capsicum in my sub, said its called bell pepper i was like bitch just put it in
I'm from NYC and I would've understood you because I have a fascination with accents from around the world. But I have a hard time telling the Aussie and Kiwi accents apart though lol.
The German girl is my kind of girl 😂😂😂 hahahahhaa. So you basically like everything except German 😂 This is what I thought 😂😂
As a German living abroad I really felt with Nele in the beginning, when every language except German was mentioned positively.
I can't count how many times I was told by people from other countries that German sounds ugly, that German is too harsh, that they never would want to learn German. I also happen to speak Italian and I get so different reactions about Italian.
Even if I can understand why people don't like the sound of German, it just doesn't feel nice when your mother tongue is so openly treated as something unpleasant. Because our identity is also based on our language.
What I always found interesting is that, when I don't speak standard German, but Bavarian, which is a variation of German threatened of extinction, I get far more positive reactions to the sound, except from people from the north of Germany.
Ich bin Amerikaner und die Deutsche Sprache gefällt mir sehr. Meine Meinung nach, Deutsch klingt schoener als Spanish oder Italienisch. Ich bin ja die Ausnahme.
It sounds harsh and has long words with a lot of consonants together. But that doesnt mean is bad language or something negative.
I think it depends on where you live abroad.
In Thailand people told me they like german a lot more than the french one because of history.
For me this show that a sound of a language often is associated with something positive oder negative
Whenever I hear someone speaking German it reminds me of hiking in the Dolomites (especially in the northern part), I love hearing it. I actually overheard some German speaking tourist at the beach the other day and I thought about that. It's not harsh at all!
@@lavatoconpirlana your nick is fantastic 😂😂😂 are you from Lombardia?
9:35 that's a huge misconception on her part. Maybe it would be a good idea to have Americans react to dialect variety within European languages as I can see how she came to her conclusion following her logic, however there are in actuality a lot more dialects with a way greater variety within European languages precisely because we didn't have a lot of migration, e.g. bigger cities like cologne even have multiple different dialects and some like e.g. Swabian are only about 40% intelligible for other native German speakers, whereas Americans mostly just have slightly different accents and not really dialects
(just compare the differences between an Irish and an English dialect to any two American ones and you will see the difference in divergence)
So if Italy is just decent because it has cheap wine, imagine how an american sees the rest of the world
I've been to Italy and it was decent, and my favourite thing was "cheap wine". Americans... XD
Did the American girl just step out the shower & 4get to dry her hair?
What’s so interesting about this video is the self-composure and interpersonal nuance.
Simply watching the woman from the USA and her body language was so very different than those from across the pond!
French and italian are so beautiful
"It was decent" wtf, who are you?
The word "Soccer" comes from a shortening of the phrase "Associational Football," specifically the "soc" in "associational."
Ironically, this term comes from England as it's a common shortening in England to add an -er (ex. 5 and 10 pound notes are fivers and tenners).
Just like the imperial system of measurements, England invented the term, passed it to the US, then changed their terms to be in line with the rest of the world, presumably to join in on the teasing at our expense.
Love the video! Greetings from Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸
As an English man I had no idea of that origin, as a kid I think I just started associating it with the slang verb to sock (someone or something).
9:23 did she just said that US has more accents than Europe?
"it was decent" the audacity right before the 15 seconds mark.
Italy, with 80% of world heritage was "decent".
She starts talking about the countries as the stereotype of the standard American. "O yeah, Spain. I liked Money Heist"
Thanks World Friends for having us 😊
We are quite amateurs and being in front of a camera can be so impressive!
It was my first time and had a blast recording this. I’m glad to read the language exchange and word backgrounds in the comment section.
Everyone was so nice and all the participants were really patient, affectionate and each of us tried to represent the best that we could our native countries.
Special mention to Ashleigh who had the main role in this, again, this is not easy to do but she nailed it ! Was so friendly and a genuinely nice person !
How did you sign up for something like this? Did they reach out to you at random? Did you sign up somewhere? I'm really curious because these look *very* fun.
En regardant la vidéo, j'ai vraiment le sentiment que l'Espagnole ne t'aime pas du tout... Elle ne sourit jamais quand tu prends la parole et te regarde vraiment d'une manière très antipathique. Quel est ton ressenti à ce sujet??? 🤔🤔🤔
@@J0HN_D03je pense que ce n’est qu’une impression, tout le monde était très sympa, Mikka y compris ☺️ Je pense que c’est difficile de retranscrire la vraie ambiance derrière la caméra. On est tous un peu impressionné par le tournage.
@@pandamilkshakeyeah it was kinda random, in Korea the foreigner community is not that big.
@@LcjvLucile D'accord. Restons positifs alors ✌🏻😇
She is so American 😂
If you notice, at one point the American girl says "like"
She's likely to like to be like that.
The sport Football is from UK , the most popular sport in the world , soccer is most used in places where this sport isn't the most popular , like USA or Australia
Most sports were created by the British. Rugby, cricket, football, even baseball
@@saxon..falkenhayn2908 Basaball is from USA , created in 1839 , New York
@@Noah_ol11 Lol
@@Noah_ol11 baseball was created by British.. they called it rounders
@@saxon..falkenhayn2908 totally wrong , where did get this from ? Note even the guy who created was from UK , Abner Doubleday was from USA
Just realized Spain also uses cachorro. I know that word is used in Portuguese.
So Italy was decent. Ok…
Like like like like
I feel like…
It is like…
This is like…
Why does she have the worst English there?
Good lord are all Spanish girls so perfect?
She isn't a stereotype of spaniard girl... she has latin american roots.
@@Juanjo-pp9gh but she’s white so her Latin American roots are probably Spanish roots either way
@@bre_me White? Not at all, she's quite tanned. I might be wrong, but she has Colombian vibes.
@@BlackHoleSpain Yes she's tanned, but not to a level a white person couldn't be tanned to. It could be a natural or a fake tan, regardless, white people with that skin color are not uncommon at all, especially in Southern Europe. Look at her facial features. She doesn't look Native American or black mixed, which is what someone who you might identify as Colombian likely has.
With money, anyone can look perfect.
DECENT ?!!! let me reminind you that you are talking about the most beautiful country in the world 🌎,🇮🇹
I'm italian i've been in America for 2 weeks and it wasn't even decent xD
Poi saremmo noi i provinciali...
"Cheap wine" in Italy? Barolo and Brunello di Montalcino leaves the chat!😆
Scommetto che entrava nei supermercati e comprava cartoni di tavernello.
YANKEES have no wine at all except in Napa Valley, California.
@@omiluna7362 californian wine is quite good; I tasted it a few times and I liked it. A bit overpriced compared to an Italian wine but maybe it can depends on the import costs.
Americans should do a statistic about how much time every years they waste saying the word "like"
Hello Spain :)
Actually, interesting fact is spanish people that also speak catalan can understand italian pretty well too, we have a lot of similar words and it's pretty fascinating to hear. My favorite similar phrase is 'La dona menja formatje a la finestra' learned it with some italian guys and kinda shocked me
¿Por qué la forma escrita del catalán se parece al francés aprende el asturiano sin los sustratos vascos y la falsa influencia celta? 😂😂😂
I'm pretty sure that most of the spanish people can understand whole phrases or even speeches in italian...just the spanish girl on the video seemed to be not so smart 😂
FORMATGE....amb G
I loved to see how Italians understand what Spanish people say. We Brazilian Portuguese speakers can also understand Spanish speakers without having learned it before, but they cannot understand us very well. Written italian is also very easy to understand
Most French people I know understand both Italian and Spanish. It's quite amazing actually.
I speak Spanish and I could understand some Italian, Portuguese and even some Romanian words but I don't get french AT ALL lol.
French people I know that also know another Latin language (Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian) can get everything when someone speaks Italian. But those who can only speak French, understand written Italian but don't get oral Italian at all... So I guess it really depends on the background of said french speaker :)
We must don't know the same French peeps. And I'm French!
@@charles1413 I mean I'm French and when I was younger I had the opportunity to work in a fancy hotel where there were newspapers from different countries all around the world. Italian ones were rather easy to understand, whereas I could barely understand 10-15% of spoken Italian. It's not only an urban legend, it really does work like that!
@@Sir77Hill I don't disagree. We can read it but understand it orally? Nahhh ;)
Notre langue a des sonorités tellement diffrentes que c'est pas étonnant
In italiano Cartier si pronuncia Cartie...il ragazzo non lo sa?
In Spain it used to be balonpie for football. Soccer comes from association football
nadie dice balompie
@@babosa3532 ya lo sé. He dicho " used to be" pasado
Ni balonpie ni balompie. Se dice "balompié" y es una palabra estupenda. Lástima que no se use.
That's interesting. Balompie sounds the direct translation of football in french ballon (ball) pied (foot)
@@Miafreeher We also have "balonvolea" for volleyball. Sadly nobody uses that either.
American football actually is derived from rugby.
I’m Japanese.
I have been learning English and French. So, I understood English and French words.
My mother can speak these languages.
She said « Italian end Spanish are very similar like sister. »
Actually, when comparing, these languages are really, I think.
Actually, written Italian is probably closer to written French, but yeah the prononciation differs widely (probably the germanic influence in France), so it makes sense Spanish is closer in that regard.
@D Anemon That's a bit weird : to French ears those Italians sound like French people talking Italian with a French accent. What a strange feeling.
@D Anemon vous avez idée de quelles régions ou villes d'Italie ils venaient ?
@@jandron94 I am Italian from Piedmont and I can tell you that in my region we speak Piedmontese, Franco- provençal and Arpitan which have many similarities with French language. In Aosta Valley people have French and Arpitan (if I remember correctly) are official languages along with Italian.
In the city of Parma many people pronounce the "r" like in French but many other Italians have this problem, it is quite common. If you listen to Ethan the drummer of Måneskin, an Italian band, you can hear him having problems rolling the r.
Did you know that the word for bread ( pan ) is the same in Japanese, Spanish and old Portuguese?
Portuguese navigators took it to Japan and there you adapted it, and Spanish and Portuguese, having the same origin from Latin, have similar words, so that's the reason.
Regards from Spain.
"Cartier" è un cognome; in italiano si dice "cartiè", alla francese. No "cartier", proprio no.
I'm still trying to understand if this format is inherently bad for Americans or if they actually are this annoying.
Love how people from the US will introduce themselves as "from America" as if the US are the only country not only on North America but South America as well 🙄
They are.
It's the only country in the world with the word "America" in their name. Literally. Yeah they're still very ignorant, but not on that part. Any other country in central, North or South America don't refer to themselves as from a continent but from their particular country. You don't hear a Colombian tell a Mexican "I'm from America and you?", and then the Mexican way "I'm from America". Doesn't make any sense
For everyone offended about the “cheap” wine comment-USAmericans use “cheap” and “inexpensive” interchangeably, a lot of the time. She meant you can get inexpensive wine in other countries, not that it’s always poor quality.
Everyone is from a country, except Ashley, who is from a continent…
Actually we all live on continents do we not? We live in countries on continents. Just saying.
Mika es una reina yo pienso
“I’ve been to Italy it was decent?”
Yeah sure it’s bad not having guns at supermarket for 200 euros and pay 2000 euros for an ambulance!
What a shame
In video games, by micro chat, all the Anglo-Saxons speak Spanish to the Italians, they think that Spanish and Italian are almost the same language and it makes me laugh, it's funny that the fact is a reality that Italian and Spanish are brother languages 🇮🇹🇪🇦♥️
Ashley: "I have never been to mainland europe. I have been to Italy: decent place"
Me: so you have choosen ignorance. And death
Me: You either chose ignorance, did not to clean the wax out of your ears or you don’t speak/understand English fluently.
What you quoted was not what she said. She said she used to live in the UK which is not mainland Europe. She didn’t say she hadn’t been to mainland Europe.
@@anndeecosita3586 I read the subtitles and so they say. It's up to me their fault?
Vogliamo vedere che se io ti parlassi in italiano, anche standard e corretto, scandito e lento, non capiresti un cazzo?
Non è colpa mia se voi americani parlate persino la vostra lingua di merda. Non si capisce un cazzo. Vi mangiate le parole. You eat your own letters and words. So it's a bit difficult to undestand you: too bad and fast pronounced
@@anndeecosita3586 and, by the way, the main part in my comment was about "so you chose death" cause she dare to say "italy is decent"
No. Decent is average, isn't it?
Italy is not decent. Italy is one of the most wonderful countries in the world for history (I dare to remember you even the most fucked up town in italy is more ancient then whole Us), arts, culture, science and also, even it's a lot urbanised, landscapes.
The entire "western" culture has gone through the Boot and most part of it was made by us italians directly. You know you write with italian letters and count with italian numbers, don't you?
Moreover, you can't understand my humor. Of course the "you chose death" was a joke, a mock. Half to american ignorance and half upon italian anger about foreigners opinion about Italy
You're mad because she say that Italy is just a decent place.
@@anndeecosita3586 Me: you are so triggered you mixed the point XD
America is not a country. Amrica is the name of an entire continent. For example chilians and colombians are americans as well. Usa is the name of country.
En español se puede decir balompié y fútbol
En Frances se podria decir "balle au pied"...
Madre mia, Balompié en Frances es foneticamente : Ballon-Pied, lo que significa litteralmente Foot-ball. Fuera extrano si callemos Football en Francia asi
In american "football" they basically use more the hands than their foot and they use a egg shape "ball" instead of a normal shape ball, basically Rugby
It's good that finally also a man is included ^^ And the Spanish girl is absolutely hilarious, please invite her more often! 10:36 "Today....blabla...The bus....blabla...The city..." 😂
The Spanish girl is definetively NOT spaniard. She lives in Spain, but she speaks like Colombian or Venezuelan. But she is hilarious.
@@backgroundnoiserelax526 I am from Spain and she's 100% spanish.
@@backgroundnoiserelax526 Hahahha nope.
The Spanish girl is definitely Latina , she even said she has family in Latin America so she’s at least half Latin American
@@egofvckshoes7252 she doesn’t have hispanic American accent.
Caro Marco, il rugby e il football americano sono due sport distinti e addirittura il pallone ha forma e dimensioni diverse. Ah, gli italiani pronunciano "Cartier" senza la R finale, alla francese appunto. Buona continuazione.
ovviamente noi italiani sappiamo che è un brand francese quindi cerchiamo per lo meno di dirlo alla francese magari non perfettamente
The German girl also mispronounced it like someone who has no idea, on purpose. I've only ever heard "Ca-Tié" here in Germany (with no R at all). Absolutely nobody says "Ca-Tyeah", but I think the production team tells them to pronounce it as if you have no idea.
I'm italian and since when I was a child I could understand some spanish sentences even though I didn't study Spanish till University (now I'm 21)
because your both the same
@@saxon..falkenhayn2908 not the same, there are many different words from different origins in both languages but the sound in the overall language is similar
There are words that are similiar and other words that are very different, for example:
English: home/house > spanish: casa - italian: casa
English: love> spanish: amor - italian: amore
English: book > spanish: libro - italian: libro
But there are also many words that are different, because they are different languages
There are also some fake friends, spanish words that are very similiar to italian ones but have different meanings:
In italian there is the word imbarazzata (embarrassed/awkward)
In spanish there is the word embarazada, but it means "pregnant"😂 (in italian: incinta 🤰)
@@giorgiadesanctis1883 that's right . but you could also say "encinta" in spanish, same meaning as "pregnant" 😅
Oh thank u 😂
Did you know? Italian and French are more similar than Spanish and Italian
Only in terms of vocabulary, the phonetics of Spanish and Italian are far more similar than French.
@@andredharo yes
I think Italian people can understand Spanish more easily
That Italian guy is cool, they should have him back
Catalans can definitely understand Italian better than only Spanish speakers. I learnt Italian by living in Rome for a couple of months years ago. And for me, being a Catalan speaker made the difference. Catalan and Italian share lots of words, like: "finestra" (window), "manca" (lacks), "mai" (never), "porta" (door)... and then others that are quite similar like: "amic (cat)/amico (it)" (friend), "aixugar (cat)/ asciugare (it)" (to dry), "família (cat)/famiglia (it)" (family)... Those words might look a bit different on writing, but the pronunciation is almost the same.
Another thing that helped to learn Italian was English. Like you saw in this video they say "computer", and they use other words like "weekend" as well. So, that helped.
I also learnt portugese later on, when I lived in Lisbon for a couple of months as well, this time by studying the language in a Barcelona's language academy during one month prior to the stay. Which really helped a lot, when I went to Rome the language course was online and during the stay, so I struggled a bit, it took me a month to become a fluent speaker. With the Portuguese course and such, it took me about two weeks to get fluent. Now I'm learning French, let's see what it takes me, I guess is gonna take me a while, both Italian and Portuguese are quite similar to both Catalan (my mother tongue) and Spanish, so it was easier to pick them up. I could understand the languages from the beginning. I can also understand some French, but it's a bit harder. Occitan though is a completely different thing, I could have a full conversation with someone that speaks Occitan (from South-France, North-Western Catalonia or North-Western Italy, any dialect really) and me speaking Catalan. Catalan is derived from Occitan, so the similarities are huge between one and other. In fact, yes in Catalan is "Sí", but in Old-Catalan it used to be "Oc" which is precisely how you say yes in Occitan.
Anyway, going back to the Spanish/Italian mutual comprehension. I don't know why she didn't understand "Metroponitana" (subway/underground), since we called it "Metro" in both Catalan and Spanish, which is the short for "Metropolitano (sp) / metropolità (cat)", where the only difference is the gender, we use the masculine and Italians use the feminine. However, I can understand why she said "city" instead. Because city in Greek, or at least in Ancient Greek, is "polis" which is the root we use to call things like the surrounding of a city: "àrea metropilitana (cat)/ "area metropolitana (sp)" (metropolitan area), and a big city is also called "metropolis", so makes sense. The subway is called "metropolitan" because it's a"city train". English focuses on the fact that goes underground on in a subway, but; romance languages focus on the fact that is a train that only travels around the city and the surrounding area of the city. So it's interesting to see difference of perspective between the languages don't you think?
And well, that's it. Sorry for the length of this comment, I hope you reach the end 'cause I think I made some points that can be conversation starters.
Having said that, the only thing left to say is:
Nice video and best regards from Barcelona!
Yes also German and Chinese bc everyone knows catalan is similar to all the other languages in the world and they invented everything. 🤣
Ja, però els catalans parlem tots el espanyol, també som hispanoparlants XD
Also the word itself ‘Metropoli’ literally means a big city in Italian
@@elgaston2981 Yes, but it's a greek word originally though.
Los españoles entendemos perfectamente el italiano aunque no sepamos catalán, son palabras que vienen del latín y las entendemos al 100%
4:20 In Spanish is «portátil».
It's quite curious. The Italian guy resembles Franco Battiato and the Spanish girl looks like a Latin American reggaeton artist. It seems the cast was made to match certain American stereotypes after all 🤔
Mika is not completely correct - most Spanish speaking Latin Americans say “piña” for pineapple like people in Spain, but Argentines say “ananá”
Understandable if she only saw an Argentinan as a latino.
@cjkim2147 All the peoples of the world with Latin language and culture are Latins ("latinos" in Spanish/Portoguese language)... stop this disinformation about Latinity and serch "Latin Union" and "Latin Europe".
I'm Italian and I'm LATINO, or "Latin" in English (same meaning but in different language), an autochthonous Latin, moreover.
Greetings from Italy, ciao!
Italian used too technical wording to test the Spanish girl.
So….. to avoid any confusion, she is Ashley from the USA not America, so not every person from the States is that dumb just her for now
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USA aka United States of AMERICA.
We Americans literally say we are from America all the time. Do not even act dumb and try to say that is not true ! Other countries call the US (America) Ashleigh did not say North America which is the actual name for the continent , if you want be to completely correct. I always say I am from America or I live in the US. People all over the world know what both mean. ( except maybe the two people above). America Home of the Free Land of the Brave.
@@marydavis5234 it seems like "six" words were to hard that needed to be edit, plus the consent is wrong (N America Is a continent not a country) if we start being more cultured and educated people would have a better positive impression of US
We Spanish also can understand quite a lot of Italian but Mika was not very fine today
Mikaela looks like the reincarnation of Denise Richards 😂
After the adjustments? 😅
Oh, she died?
🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 beautiful languages and beautiful accents...🙄
Love that when the German woman pronounced 'Europe' in French, it was the best, because the French r and German r are practically the same.
As a German who had a French neighbor with a stubborn dog as a child, yes! I can curse very well in French now lol
As a French I feel like we understand Italian like 90% when they speak it looks like a sophisticated french to me but when it comes to try to speak Italian it's the worst I can manage to form phrases in Spanish and Portuguese but not in Italian
on comprends max 15% d'une discussion en italien mais clairement pas 90
@@carilaeeduardo3055 je te jure que je comprends beaucoup plus que 15% peut être pas 90... Mais en étant à l'écoute ça y ressemble plus que tu le dis
@@kaderbueno6823 Je pense que ton impression vient surtout du fait que les mots que tu arrives à comprendre te permettent de saisir le sens d'une phrase même si tu n'en as pas la moitié.
Sarà bello il Wisconsin
O l'Oklahoma, o l'Idaho 🤣
I love how german sounds, or maybe it's just how Nele talks but for me it seems so faeric
Really ?
To me, it sounds like the noise of the construction work, next to my appartment window. 🤔
@@goofygrandlouis6296 yeah but nobody asked you how you feel
faeric?
OMG, I love the Spanish girl. I need more of her on this channel.
I have no idea why "football countries" have no idea where the term soccer comes from. The rules of football (or soccer) as it is played today were codified in England. Modern soccer is an English game (probably something else "football countries" don't realize). The common version of football originated as Association Rules Football (as opposed to Rugby Rules Football, American Football, Gaelic Football, ...). The english slang for Association Football back in the day was Soccer. I believe the term was commonly used in England through the 1950's. Soccer continued to stick in American and Australian english. The bottom line is that the term is not American.
I personally knew that. But that's because I'm a fan of this sport. It's not hard to understand that other people might not know this.
Also, the only "football" countries in here were Spain and France. Italy and Germany have their own words for it
Of course they wouldn’t know, it was the uk who started this soccer word
in other words it was always football, just like you say "pc" everytime but you wouldn't say the word "computer" didn't exist because of that.
Its cool that most countries evolved.
Why would people in France or Spain know the story of UK or football? Do you think everybody in those countries is interested in England or football history to the point of researching its history? You're either entitled or just stereotyping. Get a live.
I would claim most know that it originated in England, like the imperial measurement system. But people are confused why the US keeps using those super outdated things
I completely agree with the Italian guy about Football, like it does make sense and is totally logical with foot
The American keeps talking that way « like.. I was like… like… it was like… » 😂
She is likely to like to be like that!
How about the word for German.
Germany: Deutsch
France: Allemand
Spain: Alemán
Italy: Tedesco
Poland: Niemiec :) which has pretty funny origin. "Niemy" is a adjective for a person who can't talk. So our ancestors couldn't understand Germans and they called them "Niemcy".
In Spanish it was tudesco, but it took the French word alemán in 18th century.
Tedesco and Deutsch are related to the English words Teuton/Teutonic and Dutch. Allemand and Aleman are also related to the phrase All Man.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 I heard it was just that there were different tribes in Germany and people picked different tribes to name the country after.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 no, alemán comes from a German tribe living in the south west of Germany known for being good people and French and Spanish extended that Word for the whole Germany
italian could be considered as a sort of link that connects french and spanish. Indeed italians are able to understand both french and spanish, but if you ask a french to understand spanish or the other way around they would find more difficulty to do it.
Well, we got invaded by both in the past so it's natural I think...
No, we italians don't understand French. Tbh, Portuguese is easier than French
« When I talk to people about going to France » No no just say going to Paris please. Paris is not FRANCE FFS
in chile we say piña also
The English word for female dog is also kind of a bad word, just like in Italian.
well actually amarican football is rugby thats why it's called footbal. they first brought rugby to america then called it football and then changed it to no longer use feet.
So what, Europe is an conglomerat of many voices, and cultures.
WE like it that way, Thank You.
German numbers sound so cool..😮
Das ist richtig 😊😊😊
wait till you realize that 11 is literally "elf"
And she used the right finger for one.
@@deutschmitpurple2918 ya, das İst sehr shön
English speakers will probably be even more amused by our wors for 6
shows a picture of a monitor and she says "computer"
A bit correction the word anana is only used in argentina to reffer to pineapple in the rest of latin america it's like spanis Piña.
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Hi, sorry but you have to remember that The U. S. IS NOT AMERICA Is the United States of America. America is A CONTINENT with 35 countries.
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Me gusta mucho el nombre Amparo. Creo que es un nombre andaluz.
@@JosephOccenoBFH Gracias Joseph, soy colombiana,¿de donde eres?
Tienes razón!
It is the North American Continent that has 35 countries;
españoles los mas guapos como no!!!