I actually think I recognise who the Korean newscaster is at 3:39, it's a very familiar voice hehe Also at 3:59 the man actually did say Tokyo so you got baited hard Well done Peter
I immediately guessed Dutch (I’m advanced level in Dutch and know over 8.000 base words, and that was probably a dialect accent, but I understood the actual words) and Norwegian (I’m intermediate level in Norwegian and know over 3.500 words in Norwegian and also in Swedish) and I also guessed Spanish (I’m native speaker level in Spanish and know over 10.000 base words) and Italian and French and Catalan and Danish and probably a few others - most of the other ones were so difficult to guess, so I couldn’t have guessed them!
Anyways, it was actually really annoying that they mostly showed non-pretty languages that aren’t fun to guess and are so hard to guess, instead of showing mostly pretty languages like the Germanic and the Celtic languages and some of the Latin languages like Gallo / Occitan / Galician etc, and there should be an app where one can select to guess the Germanic languages, which would be so fun - I’m learning all the Germanic languages and Welsh and the other Celtic languages and also French / Occitan / Gallo / Catalan / Galician / Italian / Esperanto etc and improving my Portuguese, and I am native speaker level in Spanish, but also learning more new words, so I’m learning languages all the time, and recently started learning Icelandic seriously, so it would have been nice to see Icelandic and all other Nordic languages, and more Dutch, because Dutch is the prettiest and most refined language in the world with the most pretty and poetic words, just like English, so Dutch should be included the most!
Just for your knowledge, many of those languages are spoken in different states of India like Telugu - Andhra Pradesh Gujarati - Gujarat Bengali - West Bengal & Bangladesh Punjabi - Punjab & Haryana Tamil - Tamil Nadu Malayalam - Kerala All of these are names of states in india
I always find it crazy how a lot of countries have multiple languages spoken. How similar are they, could you understand someone who spoke the different language to you? Does it not make communication really difficult?
Yeah India is a country where more than 1500 languages are spoken and 22 are recognised languages. Mostly north Indian languages sound similar and South Indian languages sounds similar. So, if a person goes from North to South or vice versa then language barrier definitely comes into picture. Mostly I think the way out of this is to speak English which is spoken by people from throughout India.
@@OK-on1ze In most of India, except the Southern states, a vast majority of people understand and can speak Hindi, so we have a lingua franca of sorts, which helps in communication between different language speakers. Those who don't speak Hindi, especially in South India and North-East Indian states do understand English, though. The major problem arises in rural or tribal areas where people only speak or understand their mother tongue. Even in such cases, you'll likely meet someone who can act as an interpreter or translator. As for similarity in languages, there are three major language families here. Mutual intelligibility within each family also varies, but if you speak an Indo-Aryan language, you'll be able to pick out certain words or phrases in other Indo-Aryan that are similar to your own language. Similar for Dravidian or Sino-Tibetan languages.
22 Main languages recognized by govt. in India (1) Assamese, (2) Bengali, (3) Gujarati, (4) Hindi, (5) Kannada, (6) Kashmiri, (7) Konkani, (8) Malayalam, (9) Manipuri, (10) Marathi, (11) Nepali, (12) Oriya, (13) Punjabi, (14) Sanskrit, (15) Sindhi, (16) Tamil, (17) Telugu, (18) Urdu (19) Bodo, (20) Santhali, (21) Maithili and (22) Dogri.In this video there was mention of hindi,urdu,kannada,marathi,odia and some others .Even I cannot guess all of them even being from India.
Thanks for the video, this website was a lot of fun. With most fun to be had on the easy setting, obviously, where one can go on forever and feel pretty smart. Until you try the hard setting and get hit with stuff you have never heard or heard of before.
You can easily identify Thai by listening for "Krup" if a man is speaking or "Ka" if a woman is speaking. Just about every sentence will end with it if they're speaking at all formally.
Got to question 56 on easy and 21 on hard, really happy with it. Almost got fooled when a Chinese recording began with the words Benjamin Netanyahu, but luckily continued to listen for long enough to notice it definitely wasn't Hebrew.
you need to get past 21 next time so we can here the Faroese lets see if you get it correctly those alphabet was the hardest lol most of the alphabets dont even make sense to me even some languages was dialects of certain regions very hard good job
I really liked your expression when you heard Romanian for the first time, it was like "wtf is this" and then it went to "oh, it might be Romanian" 😂😂 just because it's my native language. Anyways, good content as always!
Wait im surprised that Minangkabau and Buginese are featured in this, both are local language in Indonesia and even here not everyone spoke those language, only people from certain area are
Geopeter actually you got lot of Indian languages there which I was sure is going to happen. India is a country with more than 1500 languages spoken and 22 are recognised ones. So, knowing little bit about languages of India definitely helps to eliminate options as in hard section, mostly they show the presence.
You probably confused Hindi for Arabic because Hindi has borrowings from Arabic by the way of Persian. Compared to Urdu, Hindi has shed a whole bunch of Perso-Arabic vocabulary, but some words still remain and depending on how they're pronounced, may or may not retain their "Arabic-ness".
I loved this! You did really well, P. I got 100% right. Ialso doubted for a moment when the Korean said something that sounded like Tokyo (maybe it was Tokyo, indeed), but it didn't sound Japanese to me, so I had to go with Korean.
its so weird hearing the languages you know ..they are talking about politics in one ,about a suicide case in another and a entree recipe in the hindi audio 😂😂 i guessed all the easy ones right and in the hard ones some hit and miss ..mostly miss lol
As for confusing between Malayalam and Korean, here's a fun fact - Dravidian languages of India share quite a bit of vocabulary with Japanese and Korean. I only recently found this out and it blew my mind.
I immediately guessed Dutch (I’m advanced level in Dutch and know over 8.000 base words, and that was probably a dialect accent, but I understood the actual words, plus Dutch has a very unique sound, like English) and Norwegian (I’m intermediate level in Norwegian and know over 3.500 words in Norwegian and also in Swedish) and I also guessed Spanish (I’m native speaker level in Spanish and know over 10.000 base words) and Italian and French and Catalan and Danish and probably a few others - most of the other ones were so difficult to guess, so I couldn’t have guessed them!
Anyways, it was actually really annoying that they mostly showed non-pretty languages that aren’t fun to guess and are so hard to guess, instead of showing mostly pretty languages like the Germanic and the Celtic languages and some of the Latin languages like Gallo / Occitan / Galician etc, and there should be an app where one can select to guess the Germanic languages, which would be so fun - I’m learning all the Germanic languages and Welsh and the other Celtic languages and also French / Occitan / Gallo / Catalan / Galician / Italian / Esperanto etc and improving my Portuguese, and I am native speaker level in Spanish, but also learning more new words, so I’m learning languages all the time, and recently started learning Icelandic seriously, so it would have been nice to see Icelandic and all other Nordic languages, and more Dutch, because Dutch is the prettiest and most refined language in the world with the most pretty and poetic words, just like English, so Dutch should be included the most!
Hahaha I literally have the opposite problem from Peter. I can tell all the Asian languages (as well as Arabic and Turkish) apart but not the European ones.
i have it the other way round (i can teel between like japanese and chinese or korean and vietnamese) but i find it easier for european languages as im from poland, however the czech and slovak one did get me, since even that they are both similar to polish they are REALLY hard to tell apart
@@silent_wxlf316 Zawsze, jak usłyszałem język polski, tak do jednej sekundy wiedziałem, co wybrać. Kiedy jest człowiek Słowianinem, z pewnością potrafi zgadnąć większość języków słowiańskich, szkoda, że nigdy nie potrafiłem znaleźć czeskiego w tej grze...jednak dla nas Czechów jest łatwe poznać słowacki, bo większość Czechów zna podstawowe różnice.
The most notable difference of Czech and Slovak is presence of "Ř" (a sibilant variety of R, like pronouncing R and Ž together) in Czech and its absence in Slovak. PS, this sound was also present in Polish, but later it degraded into an ordinary Ž.
I immediately guessed Dutch (I’m advanced level in Dutch and know over 8.000 base words, and that was probably a dialect accent, but I understood the actual words) and Norwegian (I’m intermediate level in Norwegian and know over 3.500 words in Norwegian and also in Swedish) and I also guessed Spanish (I’m native speaker level in Spanish and know over 10.000 base words) and Italian and French and Catalan and Danish and probably a few others - most of the other ones were so difficult to guess, so I couldn’t have guessed them!
Oooh a mistake by the game designers! In the alphabet section, the one you identified as Arabic was not! Mostly similar alphabet, but some letters that do not exist in Arabic.
The language isn't Arabic, but the script is the Arabic script. Same as how English, Finnish, Turkish, Lithuanian, Filipino, etc. are not Latin but use the Latin alphabet. That mode on the game isn't about identifying the languages, it's about identifying the writing systems.
Hey Peter! Is there a written language version of this? Would be VERY useful for Geoguessr. Cheers! EDIT: HA! Nevermind... I posted before I watched to the end.
I've studied a few languages in my lifetime, so easy was simple enough. Though I had a hard time telling apart Norwegian from Swedish. I mean, they sound the same to me. But hard tripped me up.
Here we go, try and guess my language: Bonzur! Ki manyer? Konman ou apele? Oli laboutik? 1.) Hello 2.) How are you? 3.) What is your name? 4.) Where is the shop?
Ahh, on easy I got 650 points first time, but 2 of the ones I got wrong was chosing Swedish instead of Finnish, and choosing Finnish instead of Norwegian. Third one I chose Korean instead of Thai. On hard my first choice, I chose Balinese but it was Javanese, like what? My second wrong I chose Tongan instead of Fijian on question 19, and question 23 I chose Burmese instead of Haitian Creole for a total of 1000 points. (I thought Haitian Creole would sound kinda like French, but I was so wrong). So well I did much better on hard than easy on first try lol. On the alphabet hard, question 3 I chose Kannada instead of Tibetan, Question 10 I chose Mongol instead of Cyrillic lol, I mean I thought Mongolian was Cyrillic, and the alphabet I saw has some strange letters, but yeah I searched it up and the actual Mongolian alphabet is completely different). Then finally question 12 I chose Javanese instead of Sinhala. Edit: Btw on your 21:14 this isn't Arabic, more like Farsi or Urdu or some language based on Arabic script (I speak Arabic and this isn't Arabic, there are strange characters that are not Arabic in it) 23:00 That's Amazigh (Neo-Tifinagh).
I really enjoyed how confused you looked almost all the time 😂
I actually think I recognise who the Korean newscaster is at 3:39, it's a very familiar voice hehe
Also at 3:59 the man actually did say Tokyo so you got baited hard
Well done Peter
I immediately guessed Dutch (I’m advanced level in Dutch and know over 8.000 base words, and that was probably a dialect accent, but I understood the actual words) and Norwegian (I’m intermediate level in Norwegian and know over 3.500 words in Norwegian and also in Swedish) and I also guessed Spanish (I’m native speaker level in Spanish and know over 10.000 base words) and Italian and French and Catalan and Danish and probably a few others - most of the other ones were so difficult to guess, so I couldn’t have guessed them!
Anyways, it was actually really annoying that they mostly showed non-pretty languages that aren’t fun to guess and are so hard to guess, instead of showing mostly pretty languages like the Germanic and the Celtic languages and some of the Latin languages like Gallo / Occitan / Galician etc, and there should be an app where one can select to guess the Germanic languages, which would be so fun - I’m learning all the Germanic languages and Welsh and the other Celtic languages and also French / Occitan / Gallo / Catalan / Galician / Italian / Esperanto etc and improving my Portuguese, and I am native speaker level in Spanish, but also learning more new words, so I’m learning languages all the time, and recently started learning Icelandic seriously, so it would have been nice to see Icelandic and all other Nordic languages, and more Dutch, because Dutch is the prettiest and most refined language in the world with the most pretty and poetic words, just like English, so Dutch should be included the most!
It’s interesting you consider Asian languages “non-pretty”. I think you should reconsider your choice of words.
Just for your knowledge, many of those languages are spoken in different states of India like
Telugu - Andhra Pradesh
Gujarati - Gujarat
Bengali - West Bengal & Bangladesh
Punjabi - Punjab & Haryana
Tamil - Tamil Nadu
Malayalam - Kerala
All of these are names of states in india
kannada - karnataka
marathi- maharashtra
Odia - Odisha
I always find it crazy how a lot of countries have multiple languages spoken. How similar are they, could you understand someone who spoke the different language to you? Does it not make communication really difficult?
Yeah India is a country where more than 1500 languages are spoken and 22 are recognised languages. Mostly north Indian languages sound similar and South Indian languages sounds similar. So, if a person goes from North to South or vice versa then language barrier definitely comes into picture. Mostly I think the way out of this is to speak English which is spoken by people from throughout India.
@@OK-on1ze In most of India, except the Southern states, a vast majority of people understand and can speak Hindi, so we have a lingua franca of sorts, which helps in communication between different language speakers. Those who don't speak Hindi, especially in South India and North-East Indian states do understand English, though. The major problem arises in rural or tribal areas where people only speak or understand their mother tongue. Even in such cases, you'll likely meet someone who can act as an interpreter or translator.
As for similarity in languages, there are three major language families here. Mutual intelligibility within each family also varies, but if you speak an Indo-Aryan language, you'll be able to pick out certain words or phrases in other Indo-Aryan that are similar to your own language. Similar for Dravidian or Sino-Tibetan languages.
22 Main languages recognized by govt. in India (1) Assamese, (2) Bengali, (3) Gujarati, (4) Hindi, (5) Kannada, (6) Kashmiri, (7)
Konkani, (8) Malayalam, (9) Manipuri, (10) Marathi, (11) Nepali, (12) Oriya, (13)
Punjabi, (14) Sanskrit, (15) Sindhi, (16) Tamil, (17) Telugu, (18) Urdu (19) Bodo,
(20) Santhali, (21) Maithili and (22) Dogri.In this video there was mention of hindi,urdu,kannada,marathi,odia and some others .Even I cannot guess all of them even being from India.
Thanks for the video, this website was a lot of fun. With most fun to be had on the easy setting, obviously, where one can go on forever and feel pretty smart. Until you try the hard setting and get hit with stuff you have never heard or heard of before.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Also I wanted to say that you kind of inspired me and I started to think about learning some new language, thanks!
You can easily identify Thai by listening for "Krup" if a man is speaking or "Ka" if a woman is speaking. Just about every sentence will end with it if they're speaking at all formally.
I’ve played this game a lot and it’s a lot of fun. Cool to see you play it!
I'd love to see you doing videos trying to speak other languages xD
Got to question 56 on easy and 21 on hard, really happy with it. Almost got fooled when a Chinese recording began with the words Benjamin Netanyahu, but luckily continued to listen for long enough to notice it definitely wasn't Hebrew.
you need to get past 21 next time so we can here the Faroese lets see if you get it correctly those alphabet was the hardest lol most of the alphabets dont even make sense to me even some languages was dialects of certain regions very hard good job
I really liked your expression when you heard Romanian for the first time, it was like "wtf is this" and then it went to "oh, it might be Romanian" 😂😂 just because it's my native language. Anyways, good content as always!
Lol, you're facial expressions were like WTF is this!? Such a good video! You need to do this again 😂😂😂
Nice representation of regional Indonesian languages there! The similarities to Bahasa Melayu are really noticeable
Wait im surprised that Minangkabau and Buginese are featured in this, both are local language in Indonesia and even here not everyone spoke those language, only people from certain area are
It also had Assyrian ! Super rare language here in Iraq .
The Canadian one was Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, most commonly associated with Inuktitut.
It's really weird, because when I heard the Spanish recordings they were from the goverment.
Nice video Peter!
i think most was government or radio ones
Geopeter actually you got lot of Indian languages there which I was sure is going to happen. India is a country with more than 1500 languages spoken and 22 are recognised ones. So, knowing little bit about languages of India definitely helps to eliminate options as in hard section, mostly they show the presence.
I'm surprised you didn't have Arabic in the audio quiz, think it was the only major language you didn't get
You probably confused Hindi for Arabic because Hindi has borrowings from Arabic by the way of Persian. Compared to Urdu, Hindi has shed a whole bunch of Perso-Arabic vocabulary, but some words still remain and depending on how they're pronounced, may or may not retain their "Arabic-ness".
I loved this! You did really well, P. I got 100% right. Ialso doubted for a moment when the Korean said something that sounded like Tokyo (maybe it was Tokyo, indeed), but it didn't sound Japanese to me, so I had to go with Korean.
Well done! ^^
3:10 yeah they were talking about turkey indeed
its so weird hearing the languages you know ..they are talking about politics in one ,about a suicide case in another and a entree recipe in the hindi audio 😂😂 i guessed all the easy ones right and in the hard ones some hit and miss ..mostly miss lol
As for confusing between Malayalam and Korean, here's a fun fact - Dravidian languages of India share quite a bit of vocabulary with Japanese and Korean. I only recently found this out and it blew my mind.
Really enjoyed this. Hope you play it again sometime!
Thanks! I might 😉
I immediately guessed Dutch (I’m advanced level in Dutch and know over 8.000 base words, and that was probably a dialect accent, but I understood the actual words, plus Dutch has a very unique sound, like English) and Norwegian (I’m intermediate level in Norwegian and know over 3.500 words in Norwegian and also in Swedish) and I also guessed Spanish (I’m native speaker level in Spanish and know over 10.000 base words) and Italian and French and Catalan and Danish and probably a few others - most of the other ones were so difficult to guess, so I couldn’t have guessed them!
Anyways, it was actually really annoying that they mostly showed non-pretty languages that aren’t fun to guess and are so hard to guess, instead of showing mostly pretty languages like the Germanic and the Celtic languages and some of the Latin languages like Gallo / Occitan / Galician etc, and there should be an app where one can select to guess the Germanic languages, which would be so fun - I’m learning all the Germanic languages and Welsh and the other Celtic languages and also French / Occitan / Gallo / Catalan / Galician / Italian / Esperanto etc and improving my Portuguese, and I am native speaker level in Spanish, but also learning more new words, so I’m learning languages all the time, and recently started learning Icelandic seriously, so it would have been nice to see Icelandic and all other Nordic languages, and more Dutch, because Dutch is the prettiest and most refined language in the world with the most pretty and poetic words, just like English, so Dutch should be included the most!
Hahaha I literally have the opposite problem from Peter. I can tell all the Asian languages (as well as Arabic and Turkish) apart but not the European ones.
Arabic and Turkish is already quite apart from each other. 😑
I just had "Acehnese" vs "Buginese" vs "Khmer" on my second ever try...
not a chance, even after looking up the regions. Could you tell them apart?
@@ishtenatus Think like Europeans, Japanese and other eastern Asian language are similar but actually they are totally different.
i have it the other way round (i can teel between like japanese and chinese or korean and vietnamese) but i find it easier for european languages as im from poland, however the czech and slovak one did get me, since even that they are both similar to polish they are REALLY hard to tell apart
@@silent_wxlf316 Zawsze, jak usłyszałem język polski, tak do jednej sekundy wiedziałem, co wybrać. Kiedy jest człowiek Słowianinem, z pewnością potrafi zgadnąć większość języków słowiańskich, szkoda, że nigdy nie potrafiłem znaleźć czeskiego w tej grze...jednak dla nas Czechów jest łatwe poznać słowacki, bo większość Czechów zna podstawowe różnice.
The most notable difference of Czech and Slovak is presence of "Ř" (a sibilant variety of R, like pronouncing R and Ž together) in Czech and its absence in Slovak.
PS, this sound was also present in Polish, but later it degraded into an ordinary Ž.
How can one pronounce a Z and R at the same time tho? I can’t produce such sound!
I immediately guessed Dutch (I’m advanced level in Dutch and know over 8.000 base words, and that was probably a dialect accent, but I understood the actual words) and Norwegian (I’m intermediate level in Norwegian and know over 3.500 words in Norwegian and also in Swedish) and I also guessed Spanish (I’m native speaker level in Spanish and know over 10.000 base words) and Italian and French and Catalan and Danish and probably a few others - most of the other ones were so difficult to guess, so I couldn’t have guessed them!
Listening is way harder than reading and geoguessing countries!
1550 points on begginer
1550 points on easy
450 points on medium
400 points on hard
Fun fact: Most of the clips are from reading the UDHR.
Oooh a mistake by the game designers! In the alphabet section, the one you identified as Arabic was not! Mostly similar alphabet, but some letters that do not exist in Arabic.
The language isn't Arabic, but the script is the Arabic script. Same as how English, Finnish, Turkish, Lithuanian, Filipino, etc. are not Latin but use the Latin alphabet. That mode on the game isn't about identifying the languages, it's about identifying the writing systems.
Hey Peter! Is there a written language version of this? Would be VERY useful for Geoguessr. Cheers! EDIT: HA! Nevermind... I posted before I watched to the end.
yes there is
What a fun challenge!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
What nationality are you?
I have no idea at all, can't recognize your accent. Latvian?
Yes, I am Latvian :)
I've studied a few languages in my lifetime, so easy was simple enough. Though I had a hard time telling apart Norwegian from Swedish. I mean, they sound the same to me. But hard tripped me up.
The difference is that Norwegian has a lot more O sound and Swedish is more ERRR and danish is AAA
The intonation is very different, when you get used to hearing them.
I'm new to learning both, so the way I tell the apart is that Norwegian sounds a little more "jolly" while Swedish sounds more "flat".
@@user-kx7ls8ds9j it’s because danish sounds like puking and Norwegians sounds like if you had a chunk of wood stuck in you throat and trying to talk
@@kulstap864 lol that certainly helps xD
I know it's Hindi as soon as I hear the -he suffix.
I barely even know half the hard ones by name
Wheres this guy from? new to channel
Latvia
MACEDONIAN WAS THERE AND YOU KNEW IT!!!!!
Are you from Macedonia?
@@jove3892 da
@@jove3892 you are the other Macedonian on his streams?
Hiella
Here we go, try and guess my language:
Bonzur! Ki manyer? Konman ou apele? Oli laboutik?
1.) Hello
2.) How are you?
3.) What is your name?
4.) Where is the shop?
French Creole. But no idea which Creole. Maybe Haitian?
@@Amghannam Correct! It is a French based creole. I’ll give you a clue...Indian Ocean.
@@sebastianedwards1826 Could be Reunion, Ile Maurice, or Mayotte.
@@Amghannam nope, north west of Madagascar
@@sebastianedwards1826 Ohh, cool
2:45 bharat is india in hindi
I got 600 points on alphabets :)
Sorry You are loosing on my Language 😅 “Malayalam”
jebaited by the korean tokyo
Thanks for the video, I got 2050 on easy 😉
I thought you know Russian, at least a little bit)
Ahh, on easy I got 650 points first time, but 2 of the ones I got wrong was chosing Swedish instead of Finnish, and choosing Finnish instead of Norwegian. Third one I chose Korean instead of Thai.
On hard my first choice, I chose Balinese but it was Javanese, like what? My second wrong I chose Tongan instead of Fijian on question 19, and question 23 I chose Burmese instead of Haitian Creole for a total of 1000 points. (I thought Haitian Creole would sound kinda like French, but I was so wrong). So well I did much better on hard than easy on first try lol.
On the alphabet hard, question 3 I chose Kannada instead of Tibetan, Question 10 I chose Mongol instead of Cyrillic lol, I mean I thought Mongolian was Cyrillic, and the alphabet I saw has some strange letters, but yeah I searched it up and the actual Mongolian alphabet is completely different). Then finally question 12 I chose Javanese instead of Sinhala.
Edit: Btw on your 21:14 this isn't Arabic, more like Farsi or Urdu or some language based on Arabic script (I speak Arabic and this isn't Arabic, there are strange characters that are not Arabic in it)
23:00 That's Amazigh (Neo-Tifinagh).