The Greek girl is literally called Greece, thats such a rare name! Awesome! She also sounds like she has a strong Cypriot accent, maybe her parents are from Cyprus.
@@jothesmellycat μεγάλε είσαι 100 Έλληνας,μια μικρή διόρθωση και οι Κύπριοι Έλληνες είναι απλώς τους Έλληνες της μητέρα Ελλάδας τους αποκαλούν Ελαδιτες!
The Greek girl sounds a lot like she's from Cyprus, but if I remember correctly the accent from Rhodes is very similar to Cypriot so she might be from there 😊
@@-vk1qr το όνομα Ελλάδα υπάρχει, αν και σπάνια, και στην Ελλάδα. Παραδοσιακά δινόταν κυρίως σε κοπέλες που ζούσαν σε τουρκοκρατούμενες περιοχές, αλλά επίσης και γενικότερα σε άλλες χώρες, όπως πχ στη Ρωσία (και Ουκρανία), στην Αλβανία (Βόρειο Ήπειρο), στην Αμερική κτλ
@@-vk1qr Το νομα μου είναι Ελλάδα .Ποντιακής καταγωγής και γεννήθηκα στην Γεωργία. Εμείς οι( Ρωσοπόντιοι όπως μας λέτε εδω στην Ελλαδα ) έχουμε το όνομα Ελλαδα , όχι μόνο στην Κύπρο.
hahaha as a native spanish speaker I would say that yeah the italian n' spanish sounds pretty similar, as well the pronunciation of the words are pretty similar the difference are the words.
Idk I mean I can speak both, but I feel like Italian sounds a lot different. Yeah the words are the same, but the way they sound make them a lot different
But Spanish is spoken in 20 countries , the intonations and accents change for every country . Argentinian and Uruguayan Spanish has a very similar intonation to Italian
As a Greek, I feel Ellada has literally the strongest Cypriot accent. Maybe she's half Greek and hald Cypriot or she is just Cypriot! For anyone that doesn't know, Cypriot people's main language are Greek and English.
Ρε Παναγιώτα (συνονόματη) είσαι από Ελλάδα και νομίζεις ότι οι κύριες γλώσσες που μιλάμε στη Κύπρο είναι τα ελληνικά και αγγλικά; Τα αγγλικά από που και ως που, θα ήθελα να ξερα; Επειδη τα χρησιμοποιούμε/ μαθαίνουμε δε σημαίνει ότι είναι κύρια γλώσσα μας. Και απλά για να γνωρίζεις στο μέλλον, οι επίσημες γλώσσες της Κύπρου είναι τα Ελληνικά και (δυστυχώς) τα Τουρκικά - Αν και στην ελεύθερη Κύπρο δεν ξέρει σχεδόν κανένας Τουρκικά.
What was also strange is that "German" was her first guess when she was listening to Dutch (the girl from Belgium) but it did not even cross her mind when she listened to actual German.
Greek has the same sounds and accent as Iberian Spanish, and is also to hear when they speak English (with the greek accent) Spanish has some greek loanwords but thats it for the rest a totally different languages 😅
@@davideva8640 Well, the phonemes in both languages are exactly the same. And Spanish has 15% of words from Greek, through Latin. Mainly roots, prefixes and suffixes.
I’m Greek too! My name is also rare I believe, it’s Ellinika/Ελληνικά . Somewhat similar to her name since she’s named after the country and I’m named after the word “Greek”.
I'm a Bulgarian who has been learning Greek for like 7-8 years and I don't understand why so many people find her accent weird... I understood every word. But sure Greeks know better than me. I will be glad to find more videos that include Greek (or other Balkan languages).
no no, her accent was super clear. I mean, she didn't say something wrong/ difficult to understand. but she didn't have the basic greek accent. that's why they said she may be from Cyprus or Rhodes
If you pay attention you will see that she said “I’m Ellada and I am from Ellàda” She has the name of our country! The correct name of our country! The terms Graecia, GreeceC Greek were given to us by the Romans, we never called our like that! Also, if Christina payed more attention I think it could be pretty obvious where she’s from! The words Olympiakoi agones (Olympic games) and souvlaki, moussaka are the most stereotypical examples of the “tourists language”
@@rical800 you’ve got a point there but I said see because people would not understand the term Hellas/Ellada because they are used to greece. Its written with the subtitles so that’s why I said see!
@@gphsjsh3593 we never called our entire nation graekus! Γραικοί / Grekoi were a small Hellenic tribe near the area of Δωδώνη/Dodoni. The Hellenic nations consisted of many Hellenic tribes and Grekoi were one of them. Calling all the Hellenes Grekoi is like calling all of us Cretans or Thessalians… It’s wrong!
@@Kolious_Thrace yeah I know That's why I said our people and not our nation At some point though during the 18th and 19th century, it was common for Greeks to refer themselves as grekous or romious
a fun fact: in greek our country is Ellada(Ελλαδα), but in ancient times it was called Hellas(Ελλας). That's why we shout Hellas when our country plays.
The pizza totally gave it away , but of course the similarities between Italian and Spanish are hard to guess , portuguese has also its similarities with both , languages from Latin are my favorites
Watched first few, then closed my eyes and listened. Germany - got it from Autobahn and counting. Spain - got it from general language sounds and Gaudi was a confirmation. Greek - got it from mousakka :)
the greek girl sounds either like she is from cyprus but has good greek pronunciation or either she lived in other countries for a lot of time i think kinda or i could be wrong, bcs the prununciation was a bit less vocaly open when she was finishing the setences xD , also i guessed them all correct except the belgium one ( and i am from greece btw XDD)
As a foreigner living in Athens for 6 years, I could not even understand what was her age, cause the subs said 23 and she pronounced something closer to Eikosi-dio
I had no problem guessing the languages right. The tricky part is getting the country right since several of these languages are not only spoken but official languages in more than one country. Dutch is official in both the Netherlands and Belgium, German is official in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium and Lichtenstein, Italian in Italy and Switzerland, and Greek in both Greece and Cyprus. As someone who doesn’t speak either of those languages, it’s hard for me to distinguish between accents that could be clues to nationality.
You did good. Greece was a tough one. I think the key with Germanic languages is to ask them to count, and if that doesn't work, I'd ask them what their favorite beer is. It works for me, of course that may or may not work for you.
You should! Can you read the alphabet? If not, that’s where I would start (I tried learning Russian before learning the alphabet... I remember words by spelling them out in my head so I couldn’t remember a single thing until I decided to go for the alphabet first.)
Hi ! I'm Miki from Spain :) It was really fun and interesting to film this video, I hope everyone enjoyed it and thank you World Friends for having me 😎🫶🏽💕
The fun fact is that Portuguese actually had a lot of influence from the greek language, we even have a few words in common - like "tie" = gravata (pt) / γραβάτα (ελ). I am Brazilian and the greek language has always amazed me.
yes, but actually cravat is derived from Croatian originally, as I heard. I guess. the French started to use the term for the tie which was similar to the tie of the Croatians.
I guessed all of them: 1) I'm Italian 2 and 3) I have relatives in northen Germany, South Netherlands and Belgium so it wasn't hard for me to guess Belgium and Germany 4) I'm Italian, Spanish is so easy to understand 5) I guessed greece only because of Historìa, I studied Greek in school and it popped
Spanish ranks as the second most spoken language in the U.S., and despite Christina having taken Spanish classes in high school, It took the mention of the word "pizza" for her to realize that Giulia wasn't Spanish. I don't understand why they bother to teach other languages if the retention level is so low.
This is absolutely true. You would expect her to get something right with some of the major languages, at least. Dont get me wrong i believe she is a nice person, but she seems to be absolutely clueless to the point you have to ask yourself what actually the point is
@@wonderlandian8465 even so, she would have never been able to talk with that accent so she's probaby half-Cypriot half-Ukrainian and she simply said that she's from Greece bc why whould an average American know about Cyprus right?
I have taken classes in Spanish and Italian and I get the two mixed up all the time. 3 years of Spanish in high school and one semester of Italian in college. Since most of the words are of the same origin, when guessing I rely on the accent which makes it hard because both languages have many accents. I'm learning German right now so that one was easy for me. I picked out the Dutch easily because it sounds like German but with that "j" sound and more nasally vowels, but I couldn't narrow it down between Belgium and the Netherlands until she named her country's famous foods. The only one I did not get right was Greece, I have so little exposure to it that I had no idea what to listen for (other than "helle"). All of my education in Greek and Roman history used Latinized terms for everything, especially because so much of it was in Latin class.
At this point the show has to make it clear to the guesser if we're guessing just the language or the nationality. Because in Europe, there are a good number of countries with multiple official languages while some just share the same national language. Like a person speaking French might not be from France, a person speaking Dutch might not be from the Netherlands etc. Countries like Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg definitely make the guessing much harder 😂. Of course the European natives may argue that there are different dialects, regional accents, different pronunciation of words or choice of vocab that they can pick up and use to distinguish the different countries. But for a complete beginner to the language, or for a foreigner, we definitely struggle to identity the language itself let's not talk about accents. 🤣
Except americans have no excuse except for ignorance why they wouldn't catch nearly every european language. Just the national crossovers can throw you off. Not knowing which general language family you're hearing is embarrassing.
I believe she found it difficult to guess Greece because of the slight accent of the girl . He was saying everything correctly, don’t get me wrong , but she had a slight accent which made it sound a bit different than usual
Judging by the fact that it took for the Italian girl to mention "pizza" to finally get it (let alone the German fiasco), I dont think the accent was the problem here.
Plus Belgium can be a trickster as they have 3 official languages (Dutch, German, French), but one thing that makes it different to Dutch to me is that Belgians pronounce 'g' a lot softer than those from the Netherlands
the last one would have basically been just a big WTF from me. i mean she has an accent(as some in comments pointed out). usually Greek can be spotted by the fact that it sounds Spanish but the words are in no way similar to other European languages. the rest were easy enough. it took me suprisingly long(ok, 2 scentences) to spot German. i mean Spanish can be a bit confusing since there are languages in Spain that sound like Spanish but aren't Spanish and a whole lot of country in South America that also speak Spanish.
I will correct you in the phrase you say "no way similar to other European Languages". Greek, Latin, Slavic, and Germanic are the predominant European branches that created the Languages. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and some French come from Latin, for example. But all languages, including English, have a bunch of Greek words in their vocabulary, and some of them are not only for academic purposes. I believe that if she was speaking with a typical Greek accent, you would understand her immediately.
@@gecko3890 Greek is its own language family and while some words in English do come from Greek(since they basically invented some of the things they describe), far more words in English come from Romance languages like Spanish(and maybe French). so an English speaker would recognise more words in a Spanish scentence than they would in a Greek scentence.
Finally after two thousand hundred years, they have a Greek represent from Greece, what a beautiful language and country!. 😍 Η Ελλάδα είναι όμορφη και έχει καλό φαγητό!
The producers threw a curveball with Greece. She has a very unique accent, from Cyprus. Most foreigners would not guess that she is speaking Greek. Fun fact: The Cypriot dialect is much closer to ancient Greek than regular Greek from Greece is. Same goes for Pontic Greek (now Turkey) and Griko/Greco (now Italy).
Many US citizens are used to the accent of Latino-American countries, they have never heard proper Castillian speakers with their specific sounds that don't exist in Mexico or other places like these.
Counties where people are so proud, full of pride, they have difficulties to integrate the other languages especially US. She said she is familiar with german she could recognize eins, zwei and drei ? But it is normal she tries at least
New members, cool! But please, can you do more countries? I have actually learned spanish "hola, me llamo ... " and if someone randomly speaks this to me, I would find this out within a second. Do more countries which haven't been explored yet or have participated in videos very little. Like Basque, Turkish, Irish, Icelandic, Slovenian, Hungarian, Albanian, Maltese, Belarussian, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian, Georgian or other non european nations such as Malaysian, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Persian, Arab, Kazakh, Sri Lankan language (idk how it is called) and so on...
Good tries, Christina! You’d think she’d recognise Greek and I guess Italian as a lot of English comes from Greek as well as Latin… the rest are all common ones lol
Since the video is about nationality and not ethnicity, the girl speaking Greek is definitely not Greek, but Cypriot. Her accent is 100% Cypriot, as well as her name. Ellada is very popular in Cyprus but I've never met anyone in Greece with this name.
My friend for us the brothers of Cyprus are Greeks also like the others places in Greece have their accent,of course is different state but the same nation
@@ΒαγγεληςΝοτης The title says guess the nationality. In the English language nationality is different from ethnicity. Nationality has to do with your citizenship, the sovereign state's passport you carry. Greeks and Greek Cypriots, share the same ethnicity but not the same nationality. Read my comment carefully, it starts with "since the video is about nationality and not ethnicity", which means that I know that Greeks and Greek-Cypriots belong in the same ethnic group.
Ellada is also a very common Pontian name, she herself said she's from Greece so I would assume she's proably not Cypriot. She might be of Pontian refugee heritage, which would explain the accent.
@@katerinaO_o I am Pontian myself from both parents, Ellada is not a common pontian name and her accent is not pontian at all. I'm fluent in pontic Greek dialect, I grew up with two grandmas that had no Greek schooling because they were born in Russia and spoke only pure pontic Greek. This is a Cypriot accent and Ellada is a common name in Cyprus. The only accent that is similar to that is the accent of Archangelos village on Rhodes, but there are no Elladas in Rhodes as well. It is pretty obvious that they said Greece because there was almost 0 chance that an American would know what Cyprus is. I am just stating the obvious, that the girl is Cypriot. No matter how proud and nationalistic a Cypriot can be, still their nationality is not Greek. The video is about nationality and not ethnicity. Is it so difficult for people to understand what I said?
"Cosa c'è di famoso nel tuo paese?" "Il cibo". Abbiamo il 70% del patrimonio artistico mondiale e siamo al primo posto per siti UNESCO e siamo famosi per il cibo?
I'm amazed by the ignorance of this American girl. She didn't know where pasta and pizza come from not to mention that she initially claimed familiarity with the German and French languages and had no idea what the German girl was saying. Utter failure of the American public educational system. The only thing that confused me was the Flemish language of the Belgian girl. Many speak French there, perhaps half or more of the population.
As a Norwegian, I find it puzzling how Dutch could be mistaken for Norwegian. I also find it puzzling how Swedish could be mistaken for German, but less so.
I think the key part of your statement is "As a Norwegian". Of course you know the difference between northern European/Germanic languages. For an American whose interest is clearly in Asia, not Europe, it's not puzzling at all. Europeans can be so...Eurocentric.
as a greek human i think that the girl from Greece is Cyprus? But she is really good at it!! Για αυτο καλό βράδυ πρωί η μεσημέρι και να περάσετε καλά♥️♥️
El famosísimo Gaudí pintor. Si, es cierto, tiene algunos cuadros en el Louvre y otros en la National Gallery, El Prado, El Hermitage.... Es que habiendo pintado tanto...
I gave myself half a point on the first one because I couldn't decide Italian vs. Portuguese, having not heard them spoken enough, but I narrowed it down to those two with confidence it was one or the other. Otherwise I identified all languages correctly, though it felt a little unfair that a North American was supposed to guess Belgium instead of Netherlands from a girl speaking Dutch by somehow knowing its regional accent.
How is the first girl a guess? She literally answered the most famous food from her country question = pasta, pizza. The American woman had no clue before she answered that.
Since your move over to Facebook, I was in 2 minds if I should watch this through there or here! Christina is definitely very good at guessing European languages! It’s great to see Micah again on World Friends, she comes up on many YT channels and the Italian girl looks familiar to me, maybe the video with Shannon comparing US and Italian style pizza? All participants did great!
belgium? but i would say norwegian or danish, belgium accents sounds like norwegian or danish, i speak portuguese but understand a little bite europe northern languages
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The Greek girl is literally called Greece, thats such a rare name! Awesome! She also sounds like she has a strong Cypriot accent, maybe her parents are from Cyprus.
yeah she indeed sounded like she was cypriot, btw im half cypriot and half greek
@@jothesmellycat Nice 🙂👍. Half Cypriot half Elladitis 🤣🤣🤣
she is but ok...
@@jothesmellycat if I am right that means you are 100% Greek
@@jothesmellycat μεγάλε είσαι 100 Έλληνας,μια μικρή διόρθωση και οι Κύπριοι Έλληνες είναι απλώς τους Έλληνες της μητέρα Ελλάδας τους αποκαλούν Ελαδιτες!
The Greek girl sounds a lot like she's from Cyprus, but if I remember correctly the accent from Rhodes is very similar to Cypriot so she might be from there 😊
εμενα μου φαινεται οτι ειναι κοπελα που γεννηιηκε και ζει στο εξωτερο, φαινεται οτι εχει λιγο ξενικη προφορα
@@giannisvellichor5632 ναι βασικα ειναι κυπριακη η προφορατης, και αν δεν κανω λαθος, μονο στην κυπρο υπαρχει το ονομα Ελλαδα
Yeah she has mentioned in another video that she's half-Ukrainian half-Greek, so that's where the accent comes from.
@@-vk1qr το όνομα Ελλάδα υπάρχει, αν και σπάνια, και στην Ελλάδα. Παραδοσιακά δινόταν κυρίως σε κοπέλες που ζούσαν σε τουρκοκρατούμενες περιοχές, αλλά επίσης και γενικότερα σε άλλες χώρες, όπως πχ στη Ρωσία (και Ουκρανία), στην Αλβανία (Βόρειο Ήπειρο), στην Αμερική κτλ
@@-vk1qr Το νομα μου είναι Ελλάδα .Ποντιακής καταγωγής και γεννήθηκα στην Γεωργία.
Εμείς οι( Ρωσοπόντιοι όπως μας λέτε εδω στην Ελλαδα ) έχουμε το όνομα Ελλαδα , όχι μόνο στην Κύπρο.
The difficult for Americans to separate Italian and Spanish make me laugh ever
hahaha as a native spanish speaker I would say that yeah the italian n' spanish sounds pretty similar, as well the pronunciation of the words are pretty similar the difference are the words.
Idk I mean I can speak both, but I feel like Italian sounds a lot different. Yeah the words are the same, but the way they sound make them a lot different
But Spanish is spoken in 20 countries , the intonations and accents change for every country . Argentinian and Uruguayan Spanish has a very similar intonation to Italian
@@jeandelgadeshion8396Spanish has a chronic lisp, which Italian doesn't have.
not the best food though the best would be greek .
Beautiful video, I can actually speak 3 of these languages🇬🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹.
Btw, the girl from Greece had a Cypriot accent.
Well, that explains why her accent confused me. I've never heard a Cypriot speak so slowly in my life.
@@dreamystoneActually same,they always speak so fast
I'm from greece if you can speak Greece how its hi?
@@lilo8181 its για/για σου
@@nikoskampourakis4613 γεια/γεια σου*
As a greek, i unironically laughed my butt off 😂
EDIT: Οχ θεε μου μαζεμα ολους τους ελληνες/ελληνιδες-
Bro agreed😭Μπορεί όμως η κοπέλα να έχει συνηθίσει άλλη γλώσσα για αυτό να μιλάει έτσι 😂
ειναι απο την κυπρο ρε μλκα
@@labros3121 αυτά δεν ήταν κυπρια αυτά ήταν αλαμπουρνεζικα
Same lmao :')
@@julikoroveshi600 ναι αλλά στην Κύπρο έχουν λίγο ποιο παράξενη προφορά ιδικά αν εμένα εξωτερικό και είχε συνηθίσει σε κάτι άλλο
As a Greek, I feel Ellada has literally the strongest Cypriot accent. Maybe she's half Greek and hald Cypriot or she is just Cypriot! For anyone that doesn't know, Cypriot people's main language are Greek and English.
είναι μισή ελληνίδα μισή από ουκρανία και ζει στην κύπρο τα τελευταία 20 χρονια
As a full Cypriot I disagree she had no cyprus accent I don't know where you hear it from
Ρε Παναγιώτα (συνονόματη) είσαι από Ελλάδα και νομίζεις ότι οι κύριες γλώσσες που μιλάμε στη Κύπρο είναι τα ελληνικά και αγγλικά; Τα αγγλικά από που και ως που, θα ήθελα να ξερα; Επειδη τα χρησιμοποιούμε/ μαθαίνουμε δε σημαίνει ότι είναι κύρια γλώσσα μας. Και απλά για να γνωρίζεις στο μέλλον, οι επίσημες γλώσσες της Κύπρου είναι τα Ελληνικά και (δυστυχώς) τα Τουρκικά - Αν και στην ελεύθερη Κύπρο δεν ξέρει σχεδόν κανένας Τουρκικά.
@@jinsoulsbetta που το ξερεις ειναι μια εντελως ακυρη 😭
@@shrek3012 i watch quite a few cypriot youtubers thats why😭😭
How can she NOT recognize Italian or German?!
These are like the simplest languages to guess, wtf.
What was also strange is that "German" was her first guess when she was listening to Dutch (the girl from Belgium) but it did not even cross her mind when she listened to actual German.
Absolutely dumbfounding...
@@stratvar i bet the dutch threw her off, thinking she guessed wrong for saying dutch to german.
American. It makes sense.
@@SimpleManSweden lol
Good see Christina again , she has been on the channel for so long that she is probably used to many languages , good see someone from Greece 😊
actually, the Greek is really interesting, It sounds very similarly to Spanish. But, the words are very different.
It has nothing in common but some typical Greek words but sounds similar for foreigners
She is kinda speaking like broken Greek or cyprian
Greek has the same sounds and accent as Iberian Spanish, and is also to hear when they speak English (with the greek accent) Spanish has some greek loanwords but thats it for the rest a totally different languages 😅
@@davideva8640 Well, the phonemes in both languages are exactly the same. And Spanish has 15% of words from Greek, through Latin. Mainly roots, prefixes and suffixes.
@@Ama94947 actually historically almost all the European languages come from the same ancestor
As a greek person ... HER NAME IS SO FREAKING RARE !!!!! I LOVE IT !!!! 💕💕💕✨✨✨😃😃😃😃
IKR!!!
Thank you!🤍
I'm Greece and my name is alkis
I’m Greek too! My name is also rare I believe, it’s Ellinika/Ελληνικά . Somewhat similar to her name since she’s named after the country and I’m named after the word “Greek”.
@@alkispappas6801ΑΛΚΙΣ- ΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΦΙΛΗΣ ΜΟΥ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΛΚΗ- Τοσο ηδιο ✨
I'm a Bulgarian who has been learning Greek for like 7-8 years and I don't understand why so many people find her accent weird... I understood every word. But sure Greeks know better than me. I will be glad to find more videos that include Greek (or other Balkan languages).
no no, her accent was super clear. I mean, she didn't say something wrong/ difficult to understand. but she didn't have the basic greek accent. that's why they said she may be from Cyprus or Rhodes
Her accent is clear but she has a different dialect. That's all.
If you pay attention you will see that she said “I’m Ellada and I am from Ellàda”
She has the name of our country!
The correct name of our country!
The terms Graecia, GreeceC Greek were given to us by the Romans, we never called our like that!
Also, if Christina payed more attention I think it could be pretty obvious where she’s from!
The words Olympiakoi agones (Olympic games) and souvlaki, moussaka are the most stereotypical examples of the “tourists language”
You mean "hear" not "see"
@@rical800 you’ve got a point there but I said see because people would not understand the term Hellas/Ellada because they are used to greece.
Its written with the subtitles so that’s why I said see!
We called our people grekous (γρεκους) .That's where greece comes from
@@gphsjsh3593 we never called our entire nation graekus!
Γραικοί / Grekoi were a small Hellenic tribe near the area of Δωδώνη/Dodoni.
The Hellenic nations consisted of many Hellenic tribes and Grekoi were one of them.
Calling all the Hellenes Grekoi is like calling all of us Cretans or Thessalians…
It’s wrong!
@@Kolious_Thrace yeah I know
That's why I said our people and not our nation
At some point though during the 18th and 19th century, it was common for Greeks to refer themselves as grekous or romious
She is a Greek Cypriot, she speaks a greek idiom, and the accent it's very melodic. The standard greek doesn't sound that melodic.
cypriot melodic?
Arkithkia tis moulas
a fun fact: in greek our country is Ellada(Ελλαδα), but in ancient times it was called Hellas(Ελλας). That's why we shout Hellas when our country plays.
Christina hearing Greek🇬🇷: "difficult"
Me: "too easy" 😂
PS How she could fail with German😳😳
She is American 😀
@@tomstanko905 Ok😂But most of them don't 've difficulties of distinguishing German on this chanel🤔
Well no shit Armenian is the closest language to Greek lmao
@@ImJustRandom-z it is because america know nothink 😀
@@tomstanko905 yeah that’s also correct lmao
The pizza totally gave it away , but of course the similarities between Italian and Spanish are hard to guess , portuguese has also its similarities with both , languages from Latin are my favorites
I thought the Italian language was universally known well enough to tell it apart from Spanish. Similar languages but not that similar.
French is nervously watching.
@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826 As French. I would say that makes piss me off that we're considered not like Latin European language
Actually we are
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 I know! Je suis francophone et je connais la sensation😂. Mais c est ça qui fait charme du français 😉!
@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826Tout a fait. Notre Langue Française est la plus romantique de tout façon...et pour toujours
Watched first few, then closed my eyes and listened. Germany - got it from Autobahn and counting. Spain - got it from general language sounds and Gaudi was a confirmation. Greek - got it from mousakka :)
the greek girl sounds either like she is from cyprus but has good greek pronunciation or either she lived in other countries for a lot of time i think kinda or i could be wrong, bcs the prununciation was a bit less vocaly open when she was finishing the setences xD , also i guessed them all correct except the belgium one ( and i am from greece btw XDD)
She is half Ukrainian
As a foreigner living in Athens for 6 years, I could not even understand what was her age, cause the subs said 23 and she pronounced something closer to Eikosi-dio
Thanks for putting greece!!🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Had a lot of fun guessing European languages! How many did you get right?😄 -Christina 🇺🇸
It's good see you back , hope see you more 😁
I had no problem guessing the languages right. The tricky part is getting the country right since several of these languages are not only spoken but official languages in more than one country. Dutch is official in both the Netherlands and Belgium, German is official in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium and Lichtenstein, Italian in Italy and Switzerland, and Greek in both Greece and Cyprus. As someone who doesn’t speak either of those languages, it’s hard for me to distinguish between accents that could be clues to nationality.
I get it some them. Afterall they are European Neighbor's countries
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I was sure about German, thought Spanish first for Italian then recognized it, Spanish was easy later, hard guessed Belgian, had no idea about Greek.
You did good. Greece was a tough one. I think the key with Germanic languages is to ask them to count, and if that doesn't work, I'd ask them what their favorite beer is. It works for me, of course that may or may not work for you.
I want to learn Greek.
Fun fact it's greek with a Cypriot accent
you really should! Greek is a difficult language but it’s very fun to learn trust me!
Ok . Good for you.
I will give you the first and most important greek word you need to learn first.
Μαλάκα - malàka .
You should! Can you read the alphabet? If not, that’s where I would start (I tried learning Russian before learning the alphabet... I remember words by spelling them out in my head so I couldn’t remember a single thing until I decided to go for the alphabet first.)
Im greek
As a Greek.....THIS WAS SO FUNNY OMG WHY DID THEY NAMED HER GREECE!? 😂😂😂😂
Den tim onomasan greece ellda tin onomasan kai sto exoteriko an paei tha pei hello my name is ellada
As another Greek, I love her name 🇬🇷
Καλύτερο από πολλά άλλα ονόματα .
More of Giulia please...
She's my favourite too.
"I'm familiar with German"
*German girl introduces herself*
"Are you Swedish?"
It was because her accent was not obvious (as a Swede I thought it was danish)
Hi ! I'm Miki from Spain :) It was really fun and interesting to film this video, I hope everyone enjoyed it and thank you World Friends for having me 😎🫶🏽💕
You look black not spanish
¡Hola! me gustaria volver a verte por aqui🤗🇪🇸
@Francis Mancuso she's african not spanish
@@corymiller536 probably Dominican or a mix of Spanish + something else
@@corymiller536 Tampoco necesitas atacarla de esa manera.
the painter gaudí… girl, he was an architect
The fun fact is that Portuguese actually had a lot of influence from the greek language, we even have a few words in common - like "tie" = gravata (pt) / γραβάτα (ελ). I am Brazilian and the greek language has always amazed me.
gravata = cravat in English, so Greek had quite an influence in various languages
yes, but actually cravat is derived from Croatian originally, as I heard. I guess. the French started to use the term for the tie which was similar to the tie of the Croatians.
More like Portuguese and Greek share a common ancestor (French, in this case) for certain words.
Most Western languages had a lot of influence from Greek
In Arabic we call tie as “Carafetta”
I think we took it from French or Italian.
Греческий очень красивый, хотелось бы выучить его.
As a greek i think that greek is one of the hardest languages to learn if you are from another country
I disagree , try to learning CHINESE OR ARABICS .
I guessed all of them:
1) I'm Italian
2 and 3) I have relatives in northen Germany, South Netherlands and Belgium so it wasn't hard for me to guess Belgium and Germany
4) I'm Italian, Spanish is so easy to understand
5) I guessed greece only because of Historìa, I studied Greek in school and it popped
If you're Italian, shouldn't your name be Carlo and not Carlos, which is Spanish?
@@lissandrafreljord7913 yeah, the fact is my name is not even carlos, it's just Roberto, I put it there just because it sounded cool 🤣
@@lissandrafreljord7913 Roberto Carlos is a Brazilian football player, clearly, it isn't his real name.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 A lot of italians have spanish names and vice versa
You are Italian and you don't know that greece is called Ellada between greeks?
Spanish ranks as the second most spoken language in the U.S., and despite Christina having taken Spanish classes in high school, It took the mention of the word "pizza" for her to realize that Giulia wasn't Spanish. I don't understand why they bother to teach other languages if the retention level is so low.
This is absolutely true. You would expect her to get something right with some of the major languages, at least. Dont get me wrong i believe she is a nice person, but she seems to be absolutely clueless to the point you have to ask yourself what actually the point is
The Cypriot girl's pronunciation was so melodic. As a Greek most of the times we don't talk like that LOL
You don’t?
Actually the girl from greece sounds that she is cypriot
She is apparently half Greek and half Ukrainian , probably raised outside of Greece thus her accent when speaking greek.
@@wonderlandian8465 even so, she would have never been able to talk with that accent so she's probaby half-Cypriot half-Ukrainian and she simply said that she's from Greece bc why whould an average American know about Cyprus right?
@@wonderlandian8465She's Cypriot.Cypriot accent,Cypriot name.Period.
As a Greek person her name is so rare and Adorable ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much girlll❤❤
I have taken classes in Spanish and Italian and I get the two mixed up all the time. 3 years of Spanish in high school and one semester of Italian in college. Since most of the words are of the same origin, when guessing I rely on the accent which makes it hard because both languages have many accents. I'm learning German right now so that one was easy for me. I picked out the Dutch easily because it sounds like German but with that "j" sound and more nasally vowels, but I couldn't narrow it down between Belgium and the Netherlands until she named her country's famous foods. The only one I did not get right was Greece, I have so little exposure to it that I had no idea what to listen for (other than "helle"). All of my education in Greek and Roman history used Latinized terms for everything, especially because so much of it was in Latin class.
I’m from Greece and this video was amazing!I enjoyed watching it!
At this point the show has to make it clear to the guesser if we're guessing just the language or the nationality. Because in Europe, there are a good number of countries with multiple official languages while some just share the same national language. Like a person speaking French might not be from France, a person speaking Dutch might not be from the Netherlands etc. Countries like Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg definitely make the guessing much harder 😂. Of course the European natives may argue that there are different dialects, regional accents, different pronunciation of words or choice of vocab that they can pick up and use to distinguish the different countries. But for a complete beginner to the language, or for a foreigner, we definitely struggle to identity the language itself let's not talk about accents. 🤣
Except americans have no excuse except for ignorance why they wouldn't catch nearly every european language. Just the national crossovers can throw you off. Not knowing which general language family you're hearing is embarrassing.
Dutch isn't owned by the Netherlands. Dutch isn't a language from Netherlands.
I believe she found it difficult to guess Greece because of the slight accent of the girl . He was saying everything correctly, don’t get me wrong , but she had a slight accent which made it sound a bit different than usual
She’s probably Cypriot.
Judging by the fact that it took for the Italian girl to mention "pizza" to finally get it (let alone the German fiasco), I dont think the accent was the problem here.
She literally didn't know about mousaka or pastitsio so I don't think the pronunciation was the problem really
Italy girl ❤️❤️❤️🇮🇹
I'm from Greece and I'm so proud
🙏🤍
Please =παρακαλώ
I'm totally in love with your channel as I love languages and different cultures ❤
"Moussaka" was some huge hint ... ^_^
Giulia is very elegant and sweet!❤
After the video i'm 100% of sure , Belgium is for sure , at least in Europe , the hardest to guess , no one in the channel ever guessed Belgium 😂
Americans don't even know what language is spoken there😂
the show has Belgian people with a very clean accent imo, it's surprising to me how hard it is to guess (for me being a Belgian too).
@@xxstormxx56 I'm American, and we have Belgian immigrants. It really just depends on the person. I've known Belgian people.
I guessed belgium
Plus Belgium can be a trickster as they have 3 official languages (Dutch, German, French), but one thing that makes it different to Dutch to me is that Belgians pronounce 'g' a lot softer than those from the Netherlands
the last one would have basically been just a big WTF from me. i mean she has an accent(as some in comments pointed out). usually Greek can be spotted by the fact that it sounds Spanish but the words are in no way similar to other European languages. the rest were easy enough. it took me suprisingly long(ok, 2 scentences) to spot German. i mean Spanish can be a bit confusing since there are languages in Spain that sound like Spanish but aren't Spanish and a whole lot of country in South America that also speak Spanish.
I will correct you in the phrase you say "no way similar to other European Languages". Greek, Latin, Slavic, and Germanic are the predominant European branches that created the Languages. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and some French come from Latin, for example. But all languages, including English, have a bunch of Greek words in their vocabulary, and some of them are not only for academic purposes.
I believe that if she was speaking with a typical Greek accent, you would understand her immediately.
@@gecko3890 Greek is its own language family and while some words in English do come from Greek(since they basically invented some of the things they describe), far more words in English come from Romance languages like Spanish(and maybe French). so an English speaker would recognise more words in a Spanish scentence than they would in a Greek scentence.
She said Ellada 20 times, brother, I wonder what country can it be? ROFL
I'm from Greece!!!🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 Καλημέρα Ελλάδα!!!
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Next time you can make it with very similar languages such as Spanish and then Catalan, for example.
they did it with dutch, german and flemish(belgian dutch)
Catalan sounds less sexy than Spanish but they are quite similar
I've been learning English for a couple years and now I learn German. I just found this channel and it's really, really nice. Congratulations
Finally after two thousand hundred years, they have a Greek represent from Greece, what a beautiful language and country!. 😍
Η Ελλάδα είναι όμορφη και έχει καλό φαγητό!
I understand only greek because im from Greece😌😀
The producers threw a curveball with Greece. She has a very unique accent, from Cyprus. Most foreigners would not guess that she is speaking Greek.
Fun fact: The Cypriot dialect is much closer to ancient Greek than regular Greek from Greece is.
Same goes for Pontic Greek (now Turkey) and Griko/Greco (now Italy).
She couldn't understand Italian, UNREAL!
Judging from her accent, Ellada is probably from Cyprus (δεν θα το πιστευα ποτε οτι μια τετοια προταση θα έβγαζε νόημα)
I recognise Greek amongst other languages. The phonetic is similar to Spanish from Spain
Xmmmmm, sthn kupro dinoun tetoio onoma? Den to hksera
Ή κύπρια ή δεύτερης γενιάς. Τύπου μεγάλωσε αμερική από έλληνες γονείς. Μιλάει αργά και δεν μπορώ να καταλάβω.
Greek has the closest phonology to Spanish, and Japanese comes right after.
Ούτε εγώ, τι φαση; 😂
The girl who speaks greek is definitely Cypriot.. Defo Defo..
The Greek girl is Cypriot
I'm Greek and i don't know a single person named Greece
It took Pizza for her to realize where she is from......Geeeeeeez
Man I wish I was on this show as a bit of a polyglot I would have been able to respond in German, Spanish, and Italian. Lol.
If they say European and then the person comes up and speaks SPANISH and you don't IMMEDIATELY know then you are beyond help
Right 😂
Many US citizens are used to the accent of Latino-American countries, they have never heard proper Castillian speakers with their specific sounds that don't exist in Mexico or other places like these.
@@antoniousai1989 okay but that still leaves only one option.
@@tonyg1011 Yes, but my point is that they don't understand it is Spanish
Η Ελλάδα από την Ελλάδα;;; Mind blown 🤯
Greek gang here 😊
As a construction worker, I can guess almost all countries langs. We have so much people around the world from this type of work. xD
Χαιρετίσματα στην Ελλάδα! Ελπίζω να σας δούμε περισσότερα σε μελλοντικά βίντεο! 🇬🇷❤🤗
Greetings to Ellada! Hope to see you more in future videos!🇬🇷❤🤗
Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ ❤ Thank you a lot!! ❤😊🥳
@@elladast8 Παρακαλώ!😇❤
The fact that Ellada is from Greece and her name is Greece.
Ellada=Ελλάδα=Greece
Counties where people are so proud, full of pride, they have difficulties to integrate the other languages especially US. She said she is familiar with german she could recognize eins, zwei and drei ? But it is normal she tries at least
She said she was more used to German and when the German spoke the language, she didn’t get it!
Last girl was from Cyprus…. 😌
New members, cool! But please, can you do more countries? I have actually learned spanish "hola, me llamo ... " and if someone randomly speaks this to me, I would find this out within a second. Do more countries which haven't been explored yet or have participated in videos very little. Like Basque, Turkish, Irish, Icelandic, Slovenian, Hungarian, Albanian, Maltese, Belarussian, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian, Georgian or other non european nations such as Malaysian, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Persian, Arab, Kazakh, Sri Lankan language (idk how it is called) and so on...
Good tries, Christina!
You’d think she’d recognise Greek and I guess Italian as a lot of English comes from Greek as well as Latin… the rest are all common ones lol
the last girl is from Cyprus🇨🇾
* as a greek, this was actually really funny
Since the video is about nationality and not ethnicity, the girl speaking Greek is definitely not Greek, but Cypriot. Her accent is 100% Cypriot, as well as her name. Ellada is very popular in Cyprus but I've never met anyone in Greece with this name.
My friend for us the brothers of Cyprus are Greeks also like the others places in Greece have their accent,of course is different state but the same nation
@@ΒαγγεληςΝοτης The title says guess the nationality. In the English language nationality is different from ethnicity. Nationality has to do with your citizenship, the sovereign state's passport you carry. Greeks and Greek Cypriots, share the same ethnicity but not the same nationality. Read my comment carefully, it starts with "since the video is about nationality and not ethnicity", which means that I know that Greeks and Greek-Cypriots belong in the same ethnic group.
Ellada is also a very common Pontian name, she herself said she's from Greece so I would assume she's proably not Cypriot. She might be of Pontian refugee heritage, which would explain the accent.
@@katerinaO_o I am Pontian myself from both parents, Ellada is not a common pontian name and her accent is not pontian at all. I'm fluent in pontic Greek dialect, I grew up with two grandmas that had no Greek schooling because they were born in Russia and spoke only pure pontic Greek. This is a Cypriot accent and Ellada is a common name in Cyprus. The only accent that is similar to that is the accent of Archangelos village on Rhodes, but there are no Elladas in Rhodes as well. It is pretty obvious that they said Greece because there was almost 0 chance that an American would know what Cyprus is. I am just stating the obvious, that the girl is Cypriot. No matter how proud and nationalistic a Cypriot can be, still their nationality is not Greek. The video is about nationality and not ethnicity. Is it so difficult for people to understand what I said?
"Cosa c'è di famoso nel tuo paese?" "Il cibo". Abbiamo il 70% del patrimonio artistico mondiale e siamo al primo posto per siti UNESCO e siamo famosi per il cibo?
I think the Greek girl is from Cyprus
The Greek girl has a heavy accent, i guess she grow up abroad and not in Greece, her Greek are fine though.
As a greek person i am shocked from the greek girl's name..😮🤔🇬🇷
What a coincidence my name is Ellada too
Americans literally hear Spanish since birth and learn it at school just to confuse it afterward with every other romance language 😂
Always baffling to see Americans struggle to differ between the roman languages, while a European can do that easily.
I'm amazed by the ignorance of this American girl. She didn't know where pasta and pizza come from not to mention that she initially claimed familiarity with the German and French languages and had no idea what the German girl was saying. Utter failure of the American public educational system. The only thing that confused me was the Flemish language of the Belgian girl. Many speak French there, perhaps half or more of the population.
As a Norwegian, I find it puzzling how Dutch could be mistaken for Norwegian. I also find it puzzling how Swedish could be mistaken for German, but less so.
Didn't get your last sentence:)
How German can be mistaken for German?? I think you mean Swedish.
Yes, especially since she said she recognises German.
I think the key part of your statement is "As a Norwegian". Of course you know the difference between northern European/Germanic languages.
For an American whose interest is clearly in Asia, not Europe, it's not puzzling at all.
Europeans can be so...Eurocentric.
@@Ivan-fm4eh Who's being Eurocentric? Don't come here with your inferiority complex
@@MW_Asura I'm European myself 🤷🏼♂
Hello, So nice to watch this,
Giulia nice to see ya again.
Have wonderful day fam
you star, im waiting for next video with giulia
@@Ikhsan2707 More of Giulia!
The American and Italian are extremely beautiful.
The girl from Spain kinda looks like JENNA ORTEGA !
I thought Christina and Giulia were friends already?
Amo a esta tia yo intentando aprender idomas soy igual la reacción 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ellatha the Greek girl has a Cypriot accent
I am from greece and yall when she said souvlaki am like omg my fav food
I am from 🇬🇷😅
as a greek human i think that the girl from Greece is Cyprus? But she is really good at it!! Για αυτο καλό βράδυ πρωί η μεσημέρι και να περάσετε καλά♥️♥️
Thank you🙏 Καλή συνέχεια 😊🫶🏻
the Greek girl has a clear Cypriot accent and the name Ellada is more common in Cyprus, anyway
she sounds a bit Cypriot , the Greek one
As a greek, γύρος and λούξ are the best!
El famosísimo Gaudí pintor. Si, es cierto, tiene algunos cuadros en el Louvre y otros en la National Gallery, El Prado, El Hermitage....
Es que habiendo pintado tanto...
😂
Picasso es más famoso
@@鬱鬱-e2w La cuestión es que Gaudí era arquitecto, no pintor.
Pero a Gaudí se le conoce como arquitecto, no como pintor, y ésta chica era española?.
the greek girl doesnt sound a lot like she's from greece cause of her accent she maybe is from cyprus
(im greek so i said that about the accent)
I gave myself half a point on the first one because I couldn't decide Italian vs. Portuguese, having not heard them spoken enough, but I narrowed it down to those two with confidence it was one or the other. Otherwise I identified all languages correctly, though it felt a little unfair that a North American was supposed to guess Belgium instead of Netherlands from a girl speaking Dutch by somehow knowing its regional accent.
humans are so cute. :) they can tell where someones from just by how they sound.. humans are just so fascinating
How is the first girl a guess? She literally answered the most famous food from her country question = pasta, pizza. The American woman had no clue before she answered that.
Since your move over to Facebook, I was in 2 minds if I should watch this through there or here! Christina is definitely very good at guessing European languages! It’s great to see Micah again on World Friends, she comes up on many YT channels and the Italian girl looks familiar to me, maybe the video with Shannon comparing US and Italian style pizza? All participants did great!
belgium? but i would say norwegian or danish, belgium accents sounds like norwegian or danish, i speak portuguese but understand a little bite europe northern languages