Billionaire polyglot's succession of favorite speech sounds

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  • Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024

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  • @Glee0k
    @Glee0k 2 года назад +32

    This whole channel is a gift

  • @RyanKeane9
    @RyanKeane9 Год назад +13

    This is a criminally undersubscribed channel. I really hope it grows Dave, you thoroughly deserve it. Thanks.

    • @ManteIIo
      @ManteIIo Год назад

      youtube's algorithm creators need to get fired

  • @dannyd0g
    @dannyd0g Год назад +8

    I'm not sure exactly why your channel suddenly appeared in my suggested views last night, but I'm glad it did, as this is content that definitely deserves many more views per year. I'm not sure if it's a bit of a nitch subject, as the American viewers would say, but I think many more people could be entertained by this channel. I can do many of the British accents and the French, but I am now suddenly inspired to set about learning to do a passable Russian accent, there's probably many You Tube videos on exactly that subject.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Год назад +4

      Yes, it suddenly took off about a month ago. Weird how the algorithm works! I might do something on Russian accents one day, but that might have to wait till Putin is out of the picture.

  • @7DYNAMIN
    @7DYNAMIN 2 года назад +8

    very underrated channel

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  2 года назад

      Thanks for saying so. Grateful for any shares you’d like to give it.

  • @BenDiscoe
    @BenDiscoe Год назад +2

    I got excited when you said you're flying to California, because after hearing you do a hundred other languages and accents in so many videos, I'm dying to hear you do MY accent (Nothern California)

  • @rodaguirre1016
    @rodaguirre1016 2 года назад +4

    Very funny and instructive...I'll fly to space with you if I can wear my Vulcan ears...

  • @lmc4355
    @lmc4355 2 года назад +3

    The Zulu for house is very similar to the Greenlandic word for house. It's Indlu

  • @charseraph9175
    @charseraph9175 День назад

    Oh this is a fun and exciting video. Love the relentless back to back video in the Russian sample.

  • @gabor6259
    @gabor6259 6 месяцев назад

    2:08 He doesn't know about Georgian _gvprtskvni,_ though that's more than 1 syllable (unlike the Russian word).

  • @jeffreyschweitzer8289
    @jeffreyschweitzer8289 2 года назад +3

    Mongolian has a voiceless lateral fricative that sounds much like the Welsh you demonstrated here. And your Chinese was pretty good too!!

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  2 года назад +1

      Yes, I was interested to see it in Mongolian too. And thanks for your comment about my Chinese.

  • @Schnolle
    @Schnolle Год назад +3

    Got some life-extending laughs out of this video, love your channel. Though i was disappointed that you didn't mention Icelandic in your list of languages having the "voiceless L" , their volcanoes all seem to have it in their names...😂

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  Год назад +1

      Ah, but there’s a slight difference between voiceless l̥ like in Icelandic, and voiceless fricative ɬ like in Welsh, Navajo and Mongolian.

    • @Schnolle
      @Schnolle Год назад

      @@DaveHuxtableLanguages Addmitedly I suspected as much, but after comparing up the IPA symbol in Wikipedia's article with the one in the video I jumped to the conclusion. So it seems either you, I, or Wikipedia is wrong - which is it?

  • @merudansorawillhelpyou168
    @merudansorawillhelpyou168 2 года назад +2

    this is my first time watch your channel and ilove it, I am interesting in learning african right now, me myself speak indonesian(as my mother language), english, sundanese, javanese, arabic, french , well thank you dave, ure inspiring me to continue my learning..

  • @brendonlepage5576
    @brendonlepage5576 Год назад

    I was waiting and waiting for you to relate the Welsh ll with isiZulu hl and you did! Yay!!

  • @Manonthemoon777
    @Manonthemoon777 10 месяцев назад

    He is so funny and amazing

  • @theatisgr
    @theatisgr 2 года назад +1

    ɬ is the most horrible sound in the world. It makes you spit saliva, which is rather dangerous nowadays. My favorite sound is the ejective k as in "k'argad" in Georgian or "k'wank'wa" in Amharic. It is a rather rare sound, as it only occurs in four languages. Then we have the Czech ř, which is exclusive to that language and is said to be the last sound Czech kids master. It can be voiceless, as in "přítel" or voiced, as in "Jiří".

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  2 года назад +2

      Poor old /ɬ/, you will hurt its feelings! As to saliva and contagion, I would have thought /θ/ was more of a danger. Bilabial rolls [ʙ] and especially [ʙ̥] are particularly hazardous, but are thankfully quite rare.
      I do agree with you on ejectives - wonderful sounds. They aren’t as rare as you say, though. Many languages in African and North America have them - Navajo even has /ɬ’/! - and some accents in northern England use them word finally. Czech ř is indeed cool too.

    • @ManteIIo
      @ManteIIo Год назад

      Lmao, he actually made reference to this comment in his next video called "Polyglot on a talk show"

  • @brucequinn
    @brucequinn 8 месяцев назад

    Love it

  • @DadgeCity
    @DadgeCity Год назад

    I think i bought the same Welsh book!

  • @robertberger4203
    @robertberger4203 Год назад

    The craziest consonant clusters are in Georgian ! They're downright surreal !

  • @sudeshkumar-kv8ry
    @sudeshkumar-kv8ry 2 года назад +1

    Chinese speaking skills are so well 👏

  • @gilesfarmer5953
    @gilesfarmer5953 2 года назад

    Interesting body language at 7:06 onwards.

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  2 года назад

      Hi Giles. That’s a interesting observation. What do you think is going on?

    • @StuartNunn-sk9ol
      @StuartNunn-sk9ol Год назад +1

      He is using repetitive hand gestures to emphasise his points and express determination and passion. Very interesting.

  • @kamilkarwacki9590
    @kamilkarwacki9590 2 года назад

    The initial part of the chinese sound is exactly like the russian ы right?

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  2 года назад +2

      Hi Kamil. That’s a very interesting point and I can see what you mean. I think Russian Ы /ɨ/ is further forward in the mouth.

    • @gibbssampler
      @gibbssampler 2 года назад +2

      The Russian ы is very similar to the Estonian õ but I could never put my finger on the slight difference. Today I learned there is an exact match for õ in Chinese instead. Interesting stuff!

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  2 года назад

      @@gibbssampler Yes, it does seem the Estonian sound is ɤ too. And Estonian has so many diphthongs! Scary!

    • @interparoloj
      @interparoloj 2 года назад

      It is similar, but at the same time sounds so recognizably foreign and Chinese for my Russian ears.

    • @kamilkarwacki9590
      @kamilkarwacki9590 2 года назад

      @@interparoloj right but I only mean the first half of the chinese sound, after that i can also really feel that it is a very,.. chinese sound :D

  • @fukpoeslaw3613
    @fukpoeslaw3613 2 года назад +1

    gefeliciteerd met je nieuwe saldo!
    zeg, ik zit effe krap, zal ik je mijn IBAN nummer even geven?

    • @DaveHuxtableLanguages
      @DaveHuxtableLanguages  2 года назад +1

      Dank je wel en het doet me plezier je bankgegevens aan te nemen!

    • @fukpoeslaw3613
      @fukpoeslaw3613 2 года назад

      @@DaveHuxtableLanguages ha ha ha, had eerst helemaal niet door dat ik was overgegaan op engels.
      (ik schrijf mijn RUclips comments bijna altijd in 't engels, voor een internationaal publiek.)