Why Does Greek Sound Like Spanish?!
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Greek Phonetics: The State of the Art. Amalia Arvaniti.
Phonetic Variability of the Greek Rhotic Sound. Mary Baltazani.
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Celdrán, Eugenio & Planas, Ana Maria & Carrera-Sabaté, Josefina. (2003). Castilian Spanish. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 33. 255-259. 10.1017/S0025100303001373.
Spanish Words From Greek Ending in '-ma' Often Masculine. Gerald Erichsen.
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Durational Variability in Speech and the Rhythm Class Hypothesis. Esther Grabe. University of Cambridge.
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Soy mexicano y el griego sono mas como portugues brasileño
Hey Paul. I would like to know what is your favorite language?
Eres mexicano y tienes el trompetas de los Tigres del Norte en el oido.El griogo suena exactamente como el Español,pero que carajo vas a saber de consonantes y vocales.
Hay que ser muy tolete para no entender la explicación del video,pero lo que es peor es no darte cuenta que de oír una vez las palabras griegas las puedes mencionar,cosa que no pasa con el portugués aunque se entienda por culpa de los diferentes sonidos en las vocales.
Whenever I hear Spanish melody and don't understand anything it's Greek.
I speak Spanish and when the Greek came on I was shook because I understood nothing but felt like I should.
Same yo
I also speak Spanish 100%, tho i see/hear it I think that it sounds just a LITTLE more like Italian
Being Greek I agree
I am a native Mexican Spanish speaker and still Greek surprises me on how similar It is to Spanish (phonetically), I can’t think of many other languages that only pronounce 5 vowels.
Same
I'm Greek, and studied in UK. Many times, when I heard Spanish people on the street talking, I confused them for Greek until I realize I cannot understand what they are saying. My Spanish friends told me that they had the same problem with Greeks.
It has also happened to me so many times!!!
Españoles en Reino unido???
@@Tu_Di0s Si
Are them from Spain, cause honestly the spanish accents vary across the american continent.
@@samuelmarquez77 yes from Spain . This does not happen with American Spanish speakers. Only European ones.
I once had a Greek woman from the island of Kos read a page from a Spanish book for me. She only spoke Greek and English, but her pronunciation of the Spanish was so good it sounded like she was 99% native (after explaining the basic LL = Y, V=B ). It was really a shock to me that someone without any prior exposure to a language can read that language out loud and sound virtually indistinguishable from native. I have since then (2004) been telling everyone and their mother how similar these two languages are, phonetically. And Today I finally see your video as a proof of why! Hurray!
😊😅
Greek to me sounds like Rumanian
@@susanmargaretwills6432 Well, that certainly says more about YOU than about Greek😅...
Thats the cool think about Spanish, if you know basic Latin letter rules you can sound out the words. It's more or less that pronunciation. I was only taught spoke Spanish growing up. My grandmother taught me how to read Spanish by basically telling me to read it like English but with the mexican accent and the two rules you mentioned.
"v" doesn't even have to sound like [b], i grew up with both english and castilian and i figured "v" was pronounced [v] in castilian as well, i was never misunderstood and was never corrected either. and because castilian also has [β], i guess i never really noticed an inconsistency. some online guides even say "v" is always [β]. castilian speakers in at least the place where i lived also called "b": "b labial"; tho i don't remember hearing anyone call "v": "v dental" or "v labiodental". even in english "v" isn't always pronounced as [v] and sometimes seems be [ʋ]. and yeah some dialects of castilian do seem to have a range with "v". the dictionary "word reference" seems to have an argentinian pronunciation that consistently pronounces "v" as [v] or at least [ʋ]. also "ll" in castilian is traditionally [ʎ] and greek also has this sound represented by "λ"
I had a friend who was spanish.She came to Greece for an erasmus program and within a year she was speaking greek like it was her mother tongue.
From what school you are you ?
@@tonivoul1971 Athens school of fine Arts!❤❤❤
Η ικανότητα να μαθαίνει κανείς ξένες γλώσσες είναι μέρος της νοημοσύνης. Προφανώς έχει υψηλό γλωσσολογικό iq
Wow , και ο ινιακη στο τικ τοκ μιλάει τέλεια και είναι Ισπανός
i live at Rhodos but im 9 years old
For 22 years, I work as a bartender in Creta and i ve seen thousands of tourists. Only the spanish people can pronounce every greek word, as accurate as it gets.
Kostas Konstantinos I am from Spain and I am studying Greek (ancient) at secondary school but our teacher teach us the modern pronunciation and it is really easy for me to pronounce Greek words. I love Greek ( I actually got a A+) and I love Greece 🇬🇷. I would love to learn modern Greek and visit your country, it must be a beautiful place.
It's true. I am a Greek native speaker and a teacher of Modern Greek as a foreign language and my Spanish students are the ones who pronounce it the best.
@@littlemonstermonster154 Are you studying Koine Greek (the Greek of the New Testament) or Homer's Greek (Greek of Ilyada and Odyseya)
@@littlemonstermonster154 Yo también estoy estudiando griego clásico y tambien latin
Победа We have translated some myths which are part of the Odyssey so I guess Homer’s Greek. Although this myths could have been rewritten later.
I'm greek and i first listened to Spanish at la casa de papel, and I was like "wait a minute, they speak greek but they don't speak greek at the same time"
lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol im from Latinoamerica and i speak spanish. And once i listened to greek, it happened the same to me lol
@@v4leri4E 😂 Must be weird?
@@ariel_claire kind of hahaha
@@v4leri4E 😂
As a Greek who took a Spanish class I never had to learn the accent
Best comment!
I speak both cuz am half spanish half cypriot so this kinda weird
i really want to learn greek any tips?
@Έφηβος Σαρπέλίδης dose b soun like beta?
@@threemonkgaming beta (β) sounds exactly like the english v
I've heard Greek spoken in Madrid and it confused me terribly: how could I not understand it when it sounded like Spanish? Then I realized it was Greek. My brain struggled with it since the sounds are incredibly similar. It's a funny feeling every single time. Also, Greeks can speak impeccable Spanish whenever they learn it, it's amazing. I might learn Greek sometime 😊 By the way, beautiful country and wonderful, friendly people.
❤
Laughs in greek: χαχαχαχαχαχα
Laughs in spanish: jajajajajajajaja
Laughs in english: hahahahahaha
Let's gather here "laughing" in all languages 😄🤭
In Portuguese: kkkkkkkk
@@faizi_99 jajaja, that's good to know😊 entonces...kkkkkkkk!
@@faizi_99 curious the English sound "h" dont exist in Portuguese theoretically, but they changed the "k" sound like "h".... Well and "r" sound too...
u remember me lineage 2
@@bilbohob7179 it's made up don't listen to him, the letter K doesn't exist in the Portuguese alphabet, it is used now do to other languages ( English)
But we don't have any words with K because we have other letters that make up the sound of K (QUE)
In Portuguese you can find "Hahahaha" where the H is still silent or some people use "rsrsrsrs" meaning risos ( laughing in English)
Only kids born after the 2000's use kkkkkkk just because its it's easier and faster to type
And if there are older people using it to it's because they jumped on the band wagon
I am spanish speaker and I really love Greece, culture, language and everything about it, I would love to have a greek friend!
That's so sweet. I can be your friend.
Love from Greece
@@depymall7480 great! Send me a way to contact you
I am Spanish too, and I also love Greece. When I was in Athens and Hydra this summer, the Greeks seemed to me the best people in Europe and without a doubt, they have a special place now in my heart
No trust me you don't
Why not?
I´m spanish and I remember the first time I heard somebody speaking in greek, at first my brain didn't know what was hapening, because it felt like I should be able to understand but I couldn't, very confusing for a moment! Thanks for the video!
Hahaha
This happened to me when I heard Finns talk for first time and my brain was like that's hungarian, but some weird made up words! :D
Hahaha
This happened to me (a native English speaker) when I first heard Dutch. Strangely, Spanish and Greek don't sound much alike to me, maybe because Latin American Spanish is my second language and I don't speak a word of Greek.
Same happened to me when I heard Spanish for the first time . I was in Barcelona and I thought everyone was Greek
I'm a Spanish speaker living in an English-speaking country. A couple of times I've met people speaking English with an accent I'd swear was Spanish (from Spain). Turns out they were Greek. Weird. Languages are very different, but the accent and intonation is almost identical.
A mí también me pasó un montón de veces cuando vivía en UK
I’m from Madrid and studied Ancient Greek for two years and our Greek teacher (who is also spanish) was mistaken for a native Greek speaker because she barely had an accent. I made my family listen to some Greek rap and everyone was astonished with how similar it sounds they literally said it was just like spanish! All my love to Greece and the Greek people 💖
Ancient Greek rap is so old school
I hadn't realised the similarity until I made a trip with friends to Hungary and everyone hearing us, thought we were Spanish.
Y por que coño estas hablando en puto ingles
Greek rap?? Pasa link me interesa xD
@@Cafelito search' logos timis' , capital music(this one uh..Good,some are trash) , NOE ,12os pithikos( these are a few) ,Mad clip
I'm portuguese and always told my friends: "If you don't realize why you don't understand what a spanish is talking... chances are you're actually listening to a greek..." LOL
Spanish sounds like a Greek
Portuguese sounds like Russian
Romanians sounds like Italian with Polish accent
Italian sounds like Latin
Catalan sounds like Spanish :)
Lol.
Mariton Show if you say Catalan sounds like Spanish, you probably haven’t heard neither.
ahahahahahahaha
@@LOLquendoTV Yes they do, and there's many different accents throughout mainland Portugal and Azores too!
I'm an Italian native speaker and I've always thought Greek sounded like Spanish. The difference is that I can understand 90% of what a Spanish speaker says even if I've never studied the language, while I only understand 5% of a Greek. As someone wrote in the comments, Greek does sound like an encrypted version of Spanish to me
Absolutely ... I was in line to get the tickets to visit the Parthenon sandwiched between a Spanish and a Greek family.... that was fun even though extremely confusing... they seemed to be speaking the same language, only that one family was having me on and making words up so that I could not eavesdrop!
@@mimmiblu6138 hahaha
How do Greeks sound to you when they speak Italian?
@@alyctus The last time I heard a Greek speaking Italian in person was a long time ago, but from what I can remember, the impression to my ears wasn't that different from a Spaniard speaking Italian. In both cases their pronunciation of Italian is usually very good and natural
Try Portuguese very similar to Italians.
I'm Spanish living in Bulgaria and I often get asked if I'm Greek.
I guess it makes now sense since Greece is a neighbour country to them and both languages sounds so similar to foreigners.
Lol
I'm Greek living in Bulgaria and sometimes I get asked if I'm Spanish hahah we're just out there confusing people
I'm Mexican, I lived in USA. I tried to take a ESL course But my English Teacher Switched Me to GED cause He said my English was advanced Already. He was From Rumania. He didn't believe I Was Mexican. He said I sounded Italian
😂
The similarities are striking. As a former Spanish teacher, I have taught the language to people of quite a few languages. It is striking how Greek speakers have nearly perfect pronunciation from their first lesson.
That was me back in school! I’m American but my mom is from Greece so I grew up speaking Greek even before I spoke English. I took Spanish all throughout school and my teachers were always so impressed at my accent and that I would always pronounce things perfectly. It was super easy because of how similar the accents are, but it always felt really cool
El idioma Español tiene también cosas de la lengua Griega porque los griegos estuvieron antes en la península Ibérica,hasta construyeron Ciudades ❤
@@nicoallison9228awesome!
I am Spanish from Castille and I have always found it incredible that Italian sounds so different but is so easy to understand and learn for me, and on the other hand Greek sounds so similar but is impossible to understand and difficult to learn. In fact, if I don't pay much attention to a Greek speaker I think I am hearing Spanish, which would never happen with an Italian or a Portuguese one. Vowels, intonation and most consonants are so similar.
Something really funny that I have always heard form my Iberoamerican-Spanish speaker friends is that in Spain (middle and northern overall) we speak Spanish with German intonation, and I don't think they are wrong at all. Melody, pronunciation and language itself are completely different and independent subjects from one country or region to another.
Probably a Basque influence why it sounds like German intonation. But I think German intonation is quite unique along the other European languages except for Bretons.
Isaac, and Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac is seen as a foreshadowing of Jesus
@@SchmulKrieger No readins lot of eber and stregn EverEverEverEverEvverrEveryh
@@SchmulKrieger - Meh. Basque has clear influence on Castilian but the Basque accent is characteristically different when marked. I can't quite describe it but one feature is that words do not have one stress but two and that makes everything sound very different. Spaniards always ask: is "it Aberásturi or Aberásturi" and in actual Basque it's both at the same time: Abérásturi (tildes shown for enphasis as in Spanish usage, not actually written). Another difference is that Basques tend to scramble the grammar all around (fuck SOV order, emphasis is what matters and context comes before action, not the other way around) but that is not really important for the accent, it's just playing around with the rigid Spanish grammar and making it more Basque-like at whim (with limitations, because Spanish grammar is not flexible enough: you can't use prepositions as postpositions/declensions without sounding weird).
The main characteristic of Spanish/Greek intonation to me is "flatness", lack of intonation itself, unlike Italian, French or the American dialects of Spanish, which are quite "musical", each in its own way. Basque is not too "musical" but it has some peculiarities to it like stretching the last syllable: etxekoaaak, los de casaaa, familyyy. In this it approaches much more to Aragonese and the Aragonese dialect of Castilian but it's also a bit more subtle, less exagerated than these.
I was new at Spanish, in my first year as a matter of fact, I heard two girls speaking and asked when they learned Spanish. "No we speaking Italian." One of them told me. So I told her what they were talking about. She turned to her friend and said that they should be more careful.
Cuando era adolescente mis padres me llevaron a Grecia de vacaciones y también me impresionó que 'no tenían acento', que sonaba como si fueran españoles pero hablando incoherencias... Ahora sé que no eran imaginaciones mías, gracias! Jajajaja
No puedo dejar de agradecerte que tu magnífico canal esté subtitulado al Español, se agradece muchísimo el detalle. Mucha suerte!
Google-translated (Sorry!)
When I was a teenager my parents took me to Greece on vacation and I was also impressed that they 'didn't have an accent', that they sounded like they were Spanish but speaking incoherently... Now I know it wasn't my imagination, thank you! Hahaha
I cannot stop thanking you for the fact that your magnificent channel is subtitled in Spanish, the detail is greatly appreciated. Good luck!
A mi me da la impresión de que el griego suena como si un español estuviera hablando gallego, ruso, y español a la vez ASDFGHJKL
Jajaja
As a Spanish speaker (from Latin America), I once heard a couple in an airport speaking what I thought was European Spanish. After a few seconds of not understanding anything, I wondered whether they were speaking one of the regional languages of Spain, only to realize that they were actually speaking Greek.
@@Viktoria_Selene No me digas.
@@torrezno1990 so european spanish isn't just "spanish", as that is a name given to a much larger group of variants which, in fact, do not sound the same.
As a Greek, the same thing has happened to me with Spanish speaking folks! How cool
😂😂😂😂
It's a well known thing. Not so well known, I had the same sensation in the Budapest subway. Although hungaryan is a totally different language, the phonetic is quite similar.
As spanish native, this is so true. What amazes me about greek people speaking spanish is that they don't have any accent at all to be recognizable when speaking spanish. Almost every people living in Spain have an "accent" , so you sometimes can know where they're from just by their way to speak. When I hear greeks speaking spanish I'm somewhat confused, like "wowowow wait, where do you live in Spain? Your spanish is flawless, it doesn't have any accent I've heard. " It's almost if they were voice actors for a spanish learning book! XD
I think that phenomenon happens to me when I speak English, because even though I'm an Italian guy, I always try to speak standard English by avoiding to imitate any English dialect and the influence of my mother tongue...
¡Hola querrido amigo!...soy griego de atenes...¿cómo se parece mi pronunción?...jajajaja!!!
actually that's were you dont mix a greek and a spaniard.
the voice actor to be used in a spanish learnig book would carry a voice that a greek would never have.
that deep booming voice, sounding ultra serious n shit.
banderas style and over.thats all yours.
@@newreast3904 banderas is from south spain, and people there dont sound like greeks at all.. not even remotely close.. what the video talks about only works for people in the center of spain for the most...
Apart form the pronunciation, it is the easiest language for a Greek to learn. Even I had never studied Spanish, I can understand most part of a text.
When Greeks and Spaniards speak English, they have the same accent.
i say what it is for vowels in our language.... we have no short or long sounds from these
Εμ, όχι ακριβώς την ίδια, αλλά μπορώ να πω παρόμοια προφορά..
TRUEE! I didn't know, I wasn't sure and I just went to a youtube video to check so and YES!!!! they do speak like us!!! Amazing!!
¡I have to see that, I'm going to fin out!.
yes I noticed that, but not the latinos too much Spaniards accent is very similar.
I'm Greek living in Spain. Everyone thinks that I'm Spanish just because my accent sounds so Spanish.
Same happened to me living in Spain the 5 months of erasmus. Easy language for us. The accent is the same.
Jroña que jroña ...
I had the same experience studying in Spain. I was also asked if I was of Spanish descent and I did notice the similarities in appearance between Greeks and Spaniards.
@@llynnie888 the Spanish(Iberians) are a Greek-Phoenician hybrid people, soooo you're cousins.
Well they didn't know what to make of me in Greece. They said bravo you speak Greek, i said re esi, I'm 100% Greek I was just born outside, they said I looked Russian, then i also looked Spanish, where are you from ? I said I'm a Greek salad. my family comes from Mani, Volos and Asia Minor but my looks pass for many things and because I learned to speak and use some Russian and even a little Arabic, they couldnt figure out my accent because it was not American even though I am born and raised in the USA but was gifted to learn more and whatever I practice I use to learn more so maybe that is what threw them off. Linguistics is my favorite subject but America really messed me up. Too bad I was not brought up in finland where everyone learns more languages and more things than Americans. American children fall back and yet always tested and tested and programed lol and they only learn ENglish and some of them even that is a chore
I am Spanish and I've been several times to Greece, and when I'm there I have the feeling that everybody is speaking Spanish. And I have a Greek friend who has come several times to Spain and when she is here she says she has the feeling that everybody is speaking Greek.
qué cool!!
I am from greek i will say if you meet with your greek friend say to him "Malaka" and pliz say its from me :)
@@asterhs4772 Λυπάμαι, εγώ δεν προσβάλλω τους φίλους μου 😠
@@mariaperero9986 haha
@@mariaperero9986 haha, it's not really that offensive here, it's kind of... An everyday thing. I bet if you actually said it, she'd probably laugh 😅. ( in a good way though.) I know I would 🤷♀️.
I went to Athens a couple years ago and at first I constantly thought I was hearing Spanish in the train or streets. When I paid close attention I realised I couldn't understand a word. I find this so interesting. We speak very different languages with the same accent!
You need vocal teacher and clearing your ears .
Oye carlos, seguro que nuestros idiomas no son tan diferentes, como pienses. Sin embargo el espanol es un idioma muuy muy hermoso y me encanto estudiarlo. El accento era el parte mas facil por nosotros Griegos. Mucho amor de Grecia amigo
@@spirogiannaki you need a joint and chill out..
it was in 14 century,? athens is a part of katalonia in 14 century/
You should hear the Antarctic Greek dialect, spoken by only about 45 people. It sounds like a completely alien language.
Well, as a native Spanish speaker from Colombia, Greek really sounds like Spanish from Spain to me with the only but very important difference that I do not understand a thing when they talk 😅.
Furthermore, the times I have communicated in English with people from Greece, I usually tend to think that they might be from Spain given their accent when they speak English and I only to come to the realization that they are from Greece once I ask them where they are from. I remember this particular time that I asked this waitress from a café I used to go a lot when I was living in Sydney, Australia where her accent was from and her response was *_"it's Greek, not Italian, not Spanish"_* which I found hilarious since basically she was telling me that people used to confuse her the whole time with someone from Italy or Spain and I was actually thinking that she was from Spain so my intention with that question was to see if we could rather use Spanish to communicate instead of broken English... 😆
I am greek and as was child hearing spanish the first time in radio, i was like "what greek dialect is this?"
galic
@@trakuraul5370 true
iberian greek
Καμιά σχέση απλά μοιάζουν στην χρήση κάποιων γραμμάτων. Όπως :ΝΔΣΧΛ
Ξέχασα και το Θ.
When I was in Rome and I was speaking Greek on the street with my friends, a tour guide came to us and said in Spanish: ¿Quieres ayuda? ¿No eres español? 😂
What does it mean?
@@metalupyourass9114 it means "do you need any help?" "are you Spaniard?"
when you in rome. parakalo milate romeika. its real glossa for romeos.
@@xreniuksus when in rome bang caligula-cyanide, sovietwomble?
Arquimedes, roma, peloponeso 😂
I'm a Spanish speaker and I noticed that similarity not from the sound of Greek, but from that of Greek people speaking English. I often can't tell the difference between a Spanish and a Greek person speaking in English.
exactly what i was going to say and i am from greece.When i hear a person from Spain speaking english i always think they are Greek lol
@danae husak No, they don't I know some icelanders.
@Κωσταντινα Παπαμιχαλη what song?
I went on a vacation in Greece and the first two days I got a headache from trying to understand them. I simply couldn't stop my brain from trying.
I am a native Spanish and I learn Greek by myself
I love the Greek language
Greetings from Dominican Republic
Μπράβων !
Thank u 🙏 brother . THE GREEK LANGUAGE IS THE RICHEST AND OLDEST IN EUROPE ALL EUROPEAN LANGUAGES USE GREEK WORDS
@@zeus756 It's true! I speak spanish and we have words like Geografía (γεωγραφία), Mecánica (μηχανικός), Asma (ἄσθμα) and all of them comes from greek :D
@@Paellera_Sdl lol like 30% of the vocabulary in Spanish has a Greek origin, specially the specialized/formal/scientific language
@@Paellera_Sdl How interesting! I did not know that before
I am Spanish, and when young visiting Greece some Greeks thought I was a Greek who was speaking English just to pretend I was a foreigner. They told me that my accent when speaking English was obviously Greek, and that I couldn't make fun of them. Surprise when I showed my passport.
A friend mentioned the same but for a group of his Greek friends who were ordering in English in a restaurant in Spain. The waiter was like "Come on guys, stop messing around, order in Spanish".
Omg I visited Gran Canaria recently and that was my fear. That the locals would think I was some posh kid from Madrid who was making fun of them 😅😅 I can so relate to that!
Thats the same case for me but in Spanish. The accent from a greek speaker and Spanish speaker look very similar to me the first time i heard it.
😄👍
Saludos griego 😂
As a Latin American Spanish speaker
Greek sounds like an unintelligible dialect from Spain. Very interesting 🧐
Concuerdo
@Wexastria That is historically incorrect. The Greeks, were peoples way before Turks, or Albanians were even a thing, in the Middle East, Asia Minor, and the Balkans, from 1500 B.C.
Concuerdo
@Wexastria You see, you seem to be confusing many different ethinicities with each another, considering, due to an investigation in 2010, fron an American University, proving that the Greek's DNA, is unique, by 99.5%, that means, that modern day Greeks, are the progenitors of ancient Greeks, and if you refuse to accept such fact, you're going against science, and it's a battle you cannot win, buddy.
@Wexastria Your DNA is unique, because you belong to a peoples whose DNA is unique. The Greeks did not stop existing when Constantinople fall, they just were not an official and recognized country for 365 years and were enslaved, the Greeks have never ceased to exist, don't be foolish and learn the basics.
Yes, the Greek pronunciation sounds similar to the Iberian Spanish pronunciation. It has a slightly different melody to Iberian Spanish but they are very close. As a Spanish speaker (Latin America) I cannot understand Greek, only a few words. This is what makes listening to Greeks speaking so enjoyable for me. I really like the sound of it.
The Greek melody or intonation you mentioned sounded to me more like the Czech intonation.
@baronam I'm a native Greek speaker and I enjoy the melody of spanish but mostly latin american. Amazing!
I'm from Korea I don't know why I'm here I love Greek language so much..I'm learning now..I know few words and phrases..Γειά είμαι η Kim Jiyun😂
Πολύ ωραία μπράβο Κίμ Τζιγιούν
Thank you😊
Lots of Greeks are learning Korean because of k-pop. My sister is learning and she loves the language! Greetings!
Good job!
I am Greek and I want to learn Korean 😅
Thank you guys Greek people are so good I love Greece so much..And I love kpop too..I mean okay all the people in Korea love Kpop because its Korean but..😂 Nevermind
By the way I didnt know that Greek people know and listening korean music so cool🙏
Κορεα/Κινα αγαπα Ελλαδα💕
_If anyone know Korean👇_
한국 사람들은 그리스를 좋아합니다. 그리고 많은 아시아 인. 나는 어느 날 그리스 여행을 할 수 있기를 바랍니다
Btw for kpop lovers If you want to learn guys korean its easy language..The only difficult is that many words sounds the same but its different..But the letters, the grammar and the words are simple
Τα Ελληνικα μου προσπαθω να βελτιωνω αυτα αλλα αυτα εχουν δυσκολη γραμματικη. Προσπαθω να μεταφραζω απο αγγλικα σε ελληνικα λεξη και λεξη. Im right or I will be confused?😂
Once I was at an international event and find myself speaking English with someone that had a very distinct, strong Spanish accent. So I decided to cut the middle man and simply speak Spanish with him. Turned out he was Greek.
lol how did he respond
Are you Argentinean?
@@lissandrafreljord7913 yup
-¿Qué onda, che? ¿Vos también hablás español?
-Τι?
That happened to me with a turkish, sounds just like spanish
I'm a Greek expat in the Netherlands (a neutral country) where a lot of Greek and Spanish people live. I often think that I hear Greek on the street but when I focus better it turns out to be Spanish people talking. It's not only the sound of the languages but also the Mediterranean culture that has a lot of similarities like the warm and passionate temperament that is also reflected in the language and how people talk. Thnx for the video, it was very informative!
I'm a Spanish native speaker and Greek learner and this is 100% accurate. Greeks sound very natural when speaking Spanish and viceversa. Amazing!
Try Italian.
You'll be amazed further.
@@blackbird7048 what about Portuguese? Or French?
@@Kamarov as someone who speaks French, Portuguese and Spanish. They have nothing in common
It is because the 3 come from Latin
@@neoromanempire portuguese and spanish share a lot of words, but their pronunciation is really different. And french and portuguese dont have many common words but their pronunciation is closer.
Im spanish and i can understand written portuguese much easier than french, even if i have studied french. But if a portuguese speaks quickly i wont get a single word.
I learn Spanish at university and I`ve been learning Greek at school. Love them. Kindest greetings from Ukraine
Espero que aprendas perfectamente los dos idiomas, aunque el español es mas hablado alrededor del mundo
@@marco_millan Ou apenas aprender português, que é bem parecido e ajuda muito a entender :)
@@arthursalomao9042 que curso de portugués me recomiendas aquí en YT?
@@marco_millan marco mcmillan Me desculpe, mas não pesquiso muito sobre cursos de português(sou do Brasil e acho português uma lingua muito difícil até para os naivos hahaha) Boa sorte se for tentar aprender essa lingua, espero que tenha entendido :)
@@arthursalomao9042 bueno, no hay problema ya buscare, aunque si logro entenderte, el entendimiento es mutuo yo creo
I've been to Greece and Spain and there is very little difference in sounds and culture. Both are loud and happy people
thats true but trust me italian people are louder!
@@RMPT6 Greeks and Spanish are just "more quite" and "relaxed" versions of Italians ;D
That's because you know shit about history and culture , as typical Brit , ignorant of other people .
And hot women
@@vanillaicecream9026 I'm spaniard and trust me, Hot Hot men too
as a brazilian, I understood everything in spanish, but the greek I felt like I was a gringo listening to spanish for the first time
Im a Greek living in Germany, and always they think I'm Spanish or I think I hear Greek people speak and they are Spanish, it's funny
το προφιλ σου 😂
@Stelios Class που ξερεις αμα γεννήθηκε εκεί ή αμα πηγε
Can i have a cup of tea μη χεσω αντε 100 φορες το εχω πει
@@babisparis3532 😂
@Kaiser Wilhelm II search Eleni Rantou in Google
European and mediterranean brothers!! 💪
🇪🇸 ❤ 🇬🇷
Euromed people-greetings from Greece
Our language's are very similar and Spanish is very beautiful language! love from Greece
And then there's me in Italy, wich dominated each countries time ago 🤗
@@lorenzonunnari2304 and Spain had almost all of america
@@leojgp0433 I know i know, infact I love all states(but not france) of the world, and I also know that spain dominated southern Italy in the past, I went to spain three times and it was great,
Love world from Italy
When I was living in London I had a Greek friend who could say some basic senteneces in Spanish, like "How are you?" What's your name? But her pronuntiation was flawless so all Spanish speakers assumed she was a native speakers and were in shock when she couldn't continue the conversation! It was good fun
@Wexastria bruh can you shut up
@Wexastria what is your own nationality? What is your goal staying here provoking people under this video about Spanish and Greek languages?
@Wexastria so what?
@Wexastria where are you from? It seems like your mother tongue is French, since you wrote thérapy ...
Great video! I have Catalan as native language, and also Castilian Spanish. I travel every year to Greece. Is astonishing how greek people think that we are greek many times.
If I learn a sentence in greek and pronounce it, they act as if I was greek. They start to speak normally, and I understand nothing, because I only know some greek words. Once, I asked for the cost of a bottle of water. The answer was too complicated for me to understand. And the women in the cashier looked oddly at me and searched for the correct coins in my hand, as if I was unable to calculate. In her mind she thought I was a greek idiot, not a foreigner!
Another factor is gestuality when we speak, which is similar in both countries.
Lastly, there is a sound in greek that does not exist in spanish, but it does in catalan, represented by the greek letter “ζ”, which is the same as the “z” in the english word “lazy”
As a Greek person, I have the same exact experience in Spain. My Castilian is very limited, but because my accent is perfect, Spaniards think I'm fluent, and respond to me at a million words a minute.
Μια αγκαλιά στους Έλληνες αδελφούς από την Ισπανία !! Long live the Mediterranean brotherhood! The occidental world owes much to Greece, Thank you so much !!
It's fascinating that your normal everyday alphabets are associated with mathematics and Physics to us outsiders.
VIVA EL IMPERIO ESPAÑOL!
google translate elinas :3
Gracias amigo español! I'm greek and I love Spain! I've been 2 times and i want to come again! We really sound similar the two nations. Greetings!
@Good Morning 8=====D - - - - - x
I’m a native Greek speaker from the US (mom is Greek and I started speaking Greek before I even spoke English), and I think they sound super similar. I took Spanish all throughout school, and my teachers were always very impressed at my accent, but it was easy since the accents are nearly identical. Both are very beautiful languages
Hali (carpet) is Turkish 😅😅😅😅
Nico, sorry but, I searching the meaning of “Κεχαριτωμενι”.
Sorry for the inconvenience
@@theone9427And?
@@Dinosaur315 Nothing but love 💖💖💖
@@theone9427 A ok. Greetings neighbor 😁
Τι Μπαρθελονα τι Παρθενώνα 😂
😀😀😀
🤣🤣🤣
Xaxaxaxaxaxxaxaxaxxaa
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Χαχα
I'm Spanish and you described perfectly how Greek sounds for me. I usually say that it's like overhearing a distant conversation that you cannot grasp to understand.
I am a native Greek speaker and I remember we were once hearing a documentary in Spanish on TV, but we were having a conversation, and before we stopped talking and listened to it, we all thought it was in Greek.
Αυτή που μιλάει Ελληνικά ακούγεται σαν να την βρήκαν στο Google translate
Από google translate είναι
😂😂😂
Από εκεί τη βρήκε όπως και τον Ισπανό...😂😂
μα...Ετσι ειναι
Χαχαχχα😂😂😂😂
Dude, as a Spanish speaker, this completely shocked me, I never thought Greek would sound so familiar
Es verdad
Nunca lo pensé
I used to work as an over the phone interpreter for English-Spanish and one time I received a call that was supposedly a Spanish speaking customer so I could do the translation, and I was sure he was speaking Spanish and I didn’t know what was happening because I didn’t understand anything he was saying, I asked him “Señor, por favor repita” and I felt I was in the twilight zone or something 😂 then I asked him “Sir, do you speak Spanish” to which he replied “No, no Spanish, greek GREEK”.
I am Greek and I actually enjoy how fast I am learning and understanding Spanish (compared to Dutch or German), because of the pronunciation, conjugation and word position and grammar similarities. I always thought that those two languages sound alike due to how easily words are pronounced and how clear their pronunciation sounds. But after watching this video I came to realize the deeper reasons of phonology behind their similarities! Thank you!
Come on u are not Italian or Portuguese. Greek is a completely different language and has nothing to do with Romance languages. The only thing both languages have in common is the (th). Romanian and Albanian are more like Spanish than Greek. 😅
@@onestage8571 Please DO tell me more about which country I was born in and what my mother tongue is. I would also like you to elaborate on what MY opinion is about MY experience of learning Spanish in comparison to my mother tongue 🤔
I don't know about Romanian and Albanian and their relation to Spanish, as I don't speak them and they are also irrelevant to this video and my experience 🤷♂️
So I would appreciate it if you f-ed off and took your non-helpful comments with you.
@@onestage8571idiot who didn't watch the video. Greek "sounds" like Spanish. Obviously they aren't from the same language family. No one said they were idiot.
@@FormerPessitheRobberfanNo need to call him an idiot
So I’m Spanish teacher of Polish nationality and currently teaching Spanish to my Greek boyfriend and I’m jealous how perfect his pronunciation is from the very first class in comparison with mine after finishing Spanish Philology at University 🤬😭😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 I am spanish
Greek bf W
To be honest, a philology degree probably did not have native-like pronunciation as one of its main goals.
@@LordAus123I agree with you, although I would like to sound better after all this effort ☺️
If you listen to the Greek part at 1.25 or even 1.5 speed (that's so much closer to the natural speed of Greek speakers) you'll feel the similarity!
True
Yes, absolutely!
That's because she is reading the text. That makes you speak slower and with bigger gaps between words than talking.
the spanish one is also slow. In fact, Spanish is the second fastest language in the world, right after Japanese. Greek is not even in the top 10 for speed (syllables per sec). Just assume the machine pronounces slowly for clarity.
When I was in Greece (the last year) a Greek teacher said "congratulations" to me, because mi greek pronuntiation was correct. I'm from Mexico. Greetings from Rome!
cállate pinche mentirosa!
@Pedro Jiménez, no seas crío, anda.
Hi, ıt was just what I’ve lived on a tram in Istanbul. There were a family speaking spanish I thought in the beginning. I can speak a very limited amount Spanish only. So I asked them whether they are from Spain in English. They said “No, we are from Greece”. I was very astonished and embarrassed not to figure out this.
Two languages really resemble each other , Although I have no clue about what they ever talk about.
I'm Greek and I studied in UK for 5 years, 90% of new people I met or hearing me talk asked If I was Spanish. It's not only our languages sound the same its also we look the same, I'll throw Italians here as well.
Lol yes, i went to Florence for, like, 3 days and more than 5 times someone stopped us and asked us if we were Spanish. Even a spanish waiter whom we talked to in english, asked us if we were spanish bc of how we pronunced words
That's so true
I also live in Serbia for a few months now and when somebody listens to me talk in Greek they always have a look on their faces and tell me "Oh my God, Greek sounds so much like Spanish". I really hadn't noticed that before this year though 🤷🏻♀️
Tell me about it. I am %100 Greek Grew up in Lefkada Greece. I moved to Chicago because I got married in Chicago. Lots of people I meet on a daily basis think I am Spanish by my looks and not by language.
Here is the bonus information...I recently started to learn Spanish and most words do sound Greek and the meaning of a certain word is based on Greek Language. 🙂
100% right!
μια μύγα sounds like "mi amiga" but means "a fly" 😊😊😊
Καλά τα πες
Χαχαχ σωστοο 😂😂
ΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑΧΑ ΕΚΛΑΨΑ
But haces tus monos en videos
Xaxaxa
Me and my wife are native Greek speakers and we were dining at a restaurant in England while talking to each other. At some point the waiter came to us and asked us if we were Spanish. We were quite surprised and told him no, we are Greeks. He then said that we sounded like Spanish people.
When I talked with a Greek friend, I asked him why Greek sounds like Spanish, he couldn't answer me. Thank you, Lang focus, for clarifying my curiosity.
It's worth noting also that they did not always sound like each other. Modern Greek sounds markedly different from, say, the Attic dialect of Classical Greek, or Mycenaean Greek.
@@NB-qo4ds There still are different pronounciations from region to region. In some regions in Greece the pronounciation of the locals is still very archaic. And yes, it doesn't sound like Spanish.
Indeed, I love the sound of Tsakonian and what remains of the Greek-speakers in Anatolia.@@---1433
Spanish and greek: two languages which are very different in writing and reading form but which happen to sound very similar in spoken form.
Spanish and portuguese: two languages which are very similar in writing and reading form but which are quite different in pronunciation (spoken form).
Curious...
"two languages which are very similar in written and reading" Although Portuguese and Spanish are similar, it is easier for a Lusophone to understand a Hispanic than the other way around.
@@emonlevircni4617 Portugal accent is harder to understand. brazilian is much easier...
Also, Portuguese sounds Slavic while being surrounded by Spain. Greece sounds Spanish but is surrounded by Slavs
@@eugeneimbangyorteza Greek isnt surrounded by Slavs.Only the Bulgarians on the north in Bulgaria and > are slavic.Greek is influenced in pronouncation by the Turkish which was influenced by the Arabic just like the spanish .So the similarity may lie there .
@@steliosanagno1637 it is more likely that the five vowel system present in Spanish is a result of the language substratum in ancient Iberia prior to Roman invasion.
I'm a native Iberian Spanish speaker and I've always thought Greek sounded very similar to Spanish. A few years ago I met some people from Cyprus (native Greek speakers), I had them repeat complete phrases in Spanish (they had no idea what they were saying) and to my Spanish ears they sounded completely natural, without any hint of an accent.
Definitely. Cyprean Greek has its own very distinct phonetics. If people think our languages sound alike, they should listen to the Cyprean version. Personally, I'd say they're inditinguishable if you don't know vocabulary.
Cypriot here,i too think that Greek sounds like Spanish,not sure about our dialect though.We do have the ch as in chicken(mainlamd Greeks don't pronounce but i think that's the only similarity between Cypriot Greek and Spanish
Eratw Koromia how similar is Cypriot greek and greek from Greece?
@@zak.886 Well they're the same language,Cypriot though has sounds like ch,j,sh and zh(as in mea*su*re) and we have more loanwords from Turkish,French and Italian because we were ruled by these groups for centuries.Cypriot Greek is also closer to Ancient Greek in terms of vocabulary,grammar and syntax
@@zak.886 Oh and we also have kk(as in kite),tt,pp,ll,in other words more accentuated sounds.
As a Greek, when there is a Spanish show on TV and I'm in the next room, it is like "Greek but I can not hear clearly"
I once knew a girl whose prime motivation for starting studying Spanish was her love for the opera singer Maria Callas (weird I know). Needless to say she was pretty dumbfounded when I informed her that Maria Callas was Greek-American.
Here in Spain, when they teach us greek in school (in some branches), they just tell us to read the texts as if we were reading in spanish, because we can read it perfectly with our pronunciation
Para los Griegos aprender Español es muy fácil.
Μοιάζουν τόσο πολύ οι γλώσσες μας 🇬🇷❤️🇪🇸
Para nosotros aprender griego no tanto, por las declinaciones...
The Greek writing system is fascinating, one of my favourites =) Number one is Japanese' Hiragana,Katakana and Kanji =)
Hi, Native Greek here! 🇬🇷
I live in Italy and when I speak greek everybody thinks that I am a Spanish speaker.(they responded me even in spanish lol😝) Also they tell me that my pronounce in Italian looks like as if I am coming from Spain. So yes I will agree that sound alike in some ways. It is very easy for us to learn Spanish but not the opposite.
😍 we are brother ;)
@TF MS
So I immediately assume that you are Greek. Greeks can speak any language, absolutely any language. Spanish to them is like butter to a sharp knife: no
problem at all. We, the Spaniards, are thick headed, as far as languages are concerned.
Saludos.
Xristiana T Oh interesting. I often wondered how Greek accent sounded to Italians when we speak Italian xD
@TF MS, "There is no such thing as spaniard. That's insulting" I do not understand anything. What do you mean? And what is the name in English of an inhabitant of Spain? I am.
I am not Spaniard?
And what am I then?
I'd say its the opposite, Spanish phonetics are more complex, while greek is simpler.
I’m from Greece and I really loved spanish language when I was a child and so I learned Spanish and I have to admit that there are many similarities between these 2 languages❤️❤️ love from Greece 🇬🇷
Grecia es económicamente pobre realmente?
@@fromdepressiontoexpression y tú no eres español
My goodness, I thought I was only one that noticed that. I've never shared because I thought I'd be laughed at. I'm blown away by this video.
Never be afraid of saying what's on your mind, even if you got some laughs thrown at you, it doesn't matter, but share your thoughts. Now if the people that you surround yourself with bullies you for having ideas you should get new open minded friends.
No eres el unico!! yo tambien lo pienso, de hecho somos muchos los que lo pensamos
I noticed it too as I been to Greece. 😁
I thought so, too.
@Kor Kalom Hebrew sounds like arabic. The only common sound is the ''h'' (χ) but Hebrews are exaggerating it to the point that it sounds as if they are preparing to spit on someone
I recently watched a RUclipsr who speaks in English. I first thought he was natively Spanish by his accent, but later I figured out he's Greek.
Now that I watched this video, it makes so much sense
My bestfriend’s dad is half greek (Crete) and half Mexican. He can literally switch between the two languages and the accents are identical and unless know one of the languages, then you couldn’t tell he’s spoke two different language in the middle of the conversation
Half Cretan, half Mexican, wow. He eats like an emperor.
Half cretan half mexican you should never argue with him hahahahahaah
That's great!
I would like to meet ths guy xaxaxa!
Well Crete has a dialect in comparison to modern Greek so it’s easy for him
Well, I'm brazilian and I have the habit of watching old football matches sometimes.
Last year I've set to watch Euro 2004 Final match - Portugal 0 x 1 Greece.
When the game started I thought the narration was in Spanish, but after some minutes I realized I couldn't understand anything.
"Wow, he speaks really fast. I can't understand a single word..."
Then I was really disappointed as even if I'm not fluent in Spanish, I usually get 80-100% of it, even fastly spoken.
After paying more attention I've seen it was actually Greek. I thought I was retarded for mistaking Spanish with Greek until finding this video.
You are
@@dann_mrtins no
@@notaspider4084 what
@@dann_mrtins Si
@@burgeryoufoundbehindthegrill nein
I am Greek and I am literally in love with Spanish as language, Spain and Latin America in general. Next year I am taking Spanish lessons. I just live Spanish😍
@Я 屌丝 I don't know but I love hearing someone speaking Spanish in general. I find it such a beautiful language 😍
Just remember that in general Brazil is a separate case, they do not speak Spanish. Obviously.
Ay que lindo comentario 🥺
@@estoyacampandoenelcanaldes8308 aww muchas gracias❤️
@@estoyacampandoenelcanaldes8308 I am currently taking Spanish lessons😍
i'm greek and just started studying spanish a few weeks ago. The first time i noticed the phonetic similarities was while i was talking with a girl from Valencia. She tried to speak english and she sounded EXACTLY as a greek girl would sound trying to speak english. I was buffled for a sec XD
baffled*
Yeap we both have the same accents when we speak English Greeks and Spanish use the same intonations when we tell a joke, are mad, complain etc.
There is a VERY important study going onj about previous lives NOTHING wird just that.
A human will pass (Through DNA) characteristics of speech, mannerisms etc.
That is when we see kids and the mother says. He yawns just like his father.
When I went to Greece for my honeymoon, I noticed stray away that Greek was so similar to Spanish from mainland Spain, this video just confirmed it.
when I was in Athens like 2 centuries ago, I met some native greeks. I remember buying a spanish newspaper and letting them read it. My conclusion, their pronunciation was perfect but they didnt understand a word.
Es verdad. Nos resulta muy fácil pronunciar el español y también aprenderlo. Vosotros igualmente aprendéis el griego muy rapido.
You're more than 2 centuries year old?
I remember like 8 centuries ago when the Latins invaded we didn't understand you guys then either. We thought you were frens :'(
@@MikhalisBramouell oh, come on who needs comments like this on a video about cultural and language similarities. It's about friendship between the nations not eternal hostilities. I'm Greek too and I love how our languages sound so similar while we can't actually understand each other :P It's fascinating
@@lotusflowers5644 it's just an experience I had a long time ago.
I love greek!!! I’m argentinian, and i’m taking greek lessons currently, and i noticed that is way easier for me if i pretend to have a spanish accent than my native one
Both Greek and Spanish are fast-paced, too. :)
You have to hear us talk when we rush then😂
These were both slower than normal
@@evaskarlou4908 Agree
As a greek who speaks Spanish, I never had to practice the accent and my teacher who is a native Spanish speaker would always tell me that it's perfect
Yesterday, when I was explaining to my Colombian friend that greek and spanish sound similar, she didn't believe me. So I asked her to read "mu aresi poli i jora sas" like if it was spanish. And then, I told her "awesome !!! You can say "I really love your country" in greek ! And you pronounce it even better than me" (I'm French ahah 😂😂😂). She was really surprised when she realized that greek language is not as exotic as it seems 😉
The pronunciation is almost identical. That's why.
@@pierregrangier2731 eh, i mean we did have massive colonies in spain so it's not unexpected our formed vassals sound like us.
I'm half Spanish and half Greek. I speak both languages, and I agree 100%.
Moreover, the Spaniards that learn modern Greek, can talk almost like a native (i mean without accent).
only the rrrr will always give them away.
currrrades!
xaxaxa
@DENIS
WHO WOULD WANT TO LEARN GREEK ANYWAY?
It’s technically and practically a dead language with no use anywhere outside Greece.
@@londonathens1 Greek a dead language? LOL you use it every day and don't even know it.
@@londonathens1 a dead language?? Man you know that like 1.000.000+ words in English are exactly Greeks words? Your brain is dead not the language...🤦🤦
At Greeks schools kids also learn ancient Greek... You know why? Because it IS NOT dead
Denis Zt. Agree!!!
I realized about this since my first trip to Greece in 2021. I've been there twice because is my favorite country on earth. I noticed the similarly is mainly in the constant pronunciation of the Ssss .. The language itself is beautiful 🇬🇷
My Colombian wife and I were in a Greek restaurant in London and we immediately thought that the Greek families around us had Spanish accents. Fascinating to hear the explanation.
I am from Greece and i never thought that greek language sounds like Spanish!!! By the way i adore Spain 🇬🇷 🇪🇸
Im Albanian and i can see the similarity between you guys. 1 .Both talk fast 2. have the lerters S and TH very often in they words. 3.The change of intonation in the sentences. By the way both nationality have kind of same life style.
I never thought about it either till I heard a friend speaking it to his family (much faster than this lady, that sounds a little freaky) and my mind was blown!!! Love Greece too, I'd LOVE to visit it one day 🤗
Sherif Ubejde I’m from Greece and a lot of Albanians live here .I have many Albanian friends and I have to say that all of them are friendly , hospitable and sweetheart ❤️They have taught me some Albanian words , like Naten e mirë , Miremenjes , te dua , si je,mir,etc.I I think Greek people are close to Albanians too.
@@britneyspearsfangirl3991 δεν το νομίζω, μάλλον το αντίθετο έχει γίνει!!!
@@nazatsakellaropoulou7110 Latin comes from ancient greek...........it is an older language
I am Greek but I played a Spanish guy in a school play. The Spanish accent in English is very easy for me because it is like a Greek accent but just faster and without a few unique Greek sounds (ts or tz in place of ch or j). It was so convincing to some that they started speaking to me in Spanish, only to tell them I don't speak the language. Pronouncing the Spanish words is also extremely easy because it is just like saying them in Greek, and all the Spanish (Latin American and european) people that watched lauded my accent and pronunciation
when I travelled in Spain we sat in a restaurant and we were 4 Greeks so we started discussing what we should eat. then the garcon came to me and asked me what "Spanish idiom" language we were speaking. also when my Spanish friends visited me in Athens, they were completely thrilled with the language they could hear in the streets but they also told me how much alike Spanish and Greek people are in their daily behavior and tumor.
*"humor" maybe?
@Krzysztof Prusakowski nope. Greeks are Greeks, Spaniards are Visigoths
@@anastasiosanastasios5447 Χαλάρωσε, για κουλτούρα μιλάει ο άνθρωπος, όχι γονίδια.
@@anastasiosanastasios5447 well not really. Spaniards are a mix of many people that colonized our land. First the Iberians the original people, the Phoenicians, the Celts, The Visigoths, Vikings, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Moors Carthaginians,, Berbers, Gauls etc. So Spaniards have much Iberian Greek and Roman , Moorish and some Celtic and Germanic blood as a whole. If you look at many Spanish people vs Greek, they look alike. When you hear a Spaniard speaking English and a Greek speaking English its identical. Similar customs and lands. Check out the Costa Del Sol of Spain and tell me that the white washed towns do not look like Greece or Las Islas Baleares like Ibiza or Mallorca, or what about this. What about Altea or the other towns? www.pinterest.com/pin/162692605275055438/
@@anastasiosanastasios5447 * confused spartan face *
It's only the Spanish from Spain, but they do sound pretty similar. The first time I heard Greek people I thought they were spaniards. I'm from Spain 🇪🇸🇬🇷
Same
I'm a Spaniard and one day I just decided to listen to Greek songs but when they were singing I was like.. Duuude, this must be the feeling foreigners have when listening to Spanish.
True
lol
Same here!!! Same feeling when I listen to Albanian songs too 😁
thats true (from greece)
Just no
Great video! Support from Greece 🇬🇷 we love you Spanish brothers🇪🇸
The Italians are also Brothers. and The Catalans, also the Armenians. we are The Faccia Razza. The Faccism or Tribes of Atlantis.
The moment I realized how similar both languages sound was when, as a native Greek, heard a Spanish girl, talking Greek. Her pronunciation was not perfect of course, but in comparison to all the other ethnicities I have heard talking Greek by then, she was the closest and it sounded so effortless from her part.
A friend of mine and I were sitting in a Cafe talking in greek when a man from one the tables next to us approached us and said he usually would understand Spanish but he wouldn’t understand a word of what we were talking and he asked us what dialect this was. He was very surprised when we were telling him we were talking in Greek.
The languages are different, but the vocalisation and tonality/"musicality" is practically the same. Something similar happens with Portuguese and Slavic languages. Different languages, but similar vocalisation and sounds.
Interesting. I'm a native Polish speaker and Portuguese sounds for me completely unfamiliar and it doesn't sound as any Slavic language at all. And I don't mean I can recognize everyone. Maybe it depends on listener's native language. And what's yours?
@@aad12aad You must have heard *_Brazilian_* Portuguese, and no, the group of Portuguese dialects from South America do not tend to sound "Slavic" and thus sound more like Spanish (or Greek) than European Portuguese does there.
@Miguel S Certain South American Portuguese dialects (notably ones from certain parts of Brazil) sound much more like Spanish and Greek than Russian, Polish, etc. because of on how the Letter S is pronounced at the ends of words (as well as on whether vowels are pronounced or not pronounced at the ends of words).
@Miguel S My personal reception is that Russian and Portuguese (nor european neither brazillian) sound completly different for me. But Polish and Russian are quite similar in a way, maybe there's the reason.
@Miguel S Thnx :)
I am from Greece and I love Spain 🇪🇸🇬🇷
Anonymous girl
I’m from Spain and I love Greece🇪🇸💛
@@antolin2104 saame. Greece is super cool.
Χρηστος Αθανασιου wraios
@@metakis
Τραβα στον διαλο
Παρε και την μαλακο
Spaniard here, we love you greek people! Ps.: of course both languages sound similar, and that's pretty cool!!
No suenan para nada igual no te pases de listo muchacho esa mierda suena mas a latin con italiano.
@@NeoAH90 vale tío, pero ten cuidado con las pezuñas, no vaya a ser que arañes el teclado
@@llo4701 Si claro talvez castellano antiguo o medieval
@@theodoti Greek girl, As we love each other, would you like to exchange fluids with a spanish boy ?
jcgacio hispanic here
Im Spanish and I can confirm that Greek sounds like Spanish. I felt that when I watched a football retransmission.
I am greek and i learn spanish. Everyone says that i have perfect spanish pronounciation. It is easy for me because the pronounciation of this two languages are realy similar.
As Spaniard I know two languages having the same sound invetaries. Go ahead with Indonesian :) you will pronounce its words perfectely.
henhaooahneh really??? Paul should use this as the next topic!!!
@@henhaooahneh
I've had that experience too!
I'm a Greek living in Australia.
Indonesian isn't an uncommon foreign language to learn in school here, and when I tried my hand at reading it, I was surprised at the ease of it. My Indonesian learning friends were a bit taken aback :'D
We Greeks love Spain and all mediterranean People!
Mediterranean brothers!!
🇪🇸 ❤ 🇬🇷
We love you too! :D
Thanks!! Haha im spanish but not from the mediterranean haha i live in the Atlantic coast and close to the French Border with Aquitaine. So dont forget spain is not only a Mediterranean country as commonly believe hehe bit both!
@@Alejojojo6 Spaniard, not "Spanish". Spanish is our language and an adjective. It's a common mistake. ;)
Mediterranean culture rules.
I'm Spanish and in my first day in Athens I though that people in the background were talking in Spanish, and they were all Greek. The entonation it's really similar too, and we are generally noisy. Now that I'm working in Corfu I'm noticing that more, and that for us difficult words in Greek are easier to pronounce than other nationalities🤔
I am Greek and agree 100%. I have even mistaken Spanish speakers for Greek in buses or streets, when the noise prevented me from following the conversation.
Same pronunciation
Pues a mi me caen bien los griegos 👋
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@Kor Kalom hebrew has more guttural sounds. but it is similar
in moroccan Arabic dialect, kozina is also the kitchen and it's pronounced like greek hahaha