Yeah, personally I am into this stuff too and I would have definitely asked for the script on the 2nd language... for me, it could have been any one of the Dravidian languages!
@@wyqtor I guessed correctly for all the languages before the final answer but in the case of Irish, I needed his first comments. I study Zulu so that was easy. I have also studied some Danish and Tagalog. I was in Paraguay in 1976.
@Paleogloss is a professional linguist and has obviously had a very strong focus on phonetics and phonology in his studies. None of my PhD professors were as good as Raphael when it comes to general phonetics.
You did fantastic! Really enjoyed this. I also liked how you explained how you came up with your answers, that was very informative. You should do something like that on your channel. Pick a language, tell a little history of it and dissect it like you did here.
With how much knowledge you had of each language (history, which languages borrowed which, etc), that would be pretty cool to do on your channel if that becomes something you're interested in. Either way, you did fantastic and this was super enjoyable of an episode! Thanks for the lessons too, ha.
That's what a linguist does. Unlike a polyglot who speaks many languages, a linguist knows what languages are made of. Very professional, very articulate. Not just a pro but a good communicator.
You can be a polyglot and still possess a more in-depth knowledge of languages, but it's true that since that's not a requirement to be one, many polyglots don't care all that much about it. Here's an exception, though!
As a Paraguayan, I have to say that I was certainly not expecting to hear Guarani in this video. It was a very pleasant surprise :) Thank you! Or should I say "aguyje" ;) Also, hats off to Raphael! He wasn't lying when he said he likes languages! Very impressive knowledge indeed.
I see Guarani language covered a very big part of central S. America because the name of the state where my wife comes from, in Brasil, is a guarani name meaning "Long sea" (Pernambuco)
I got 3/6 (Tagalog, Irish, Zulu) I thought what Danish was, was like Luxemburgish or maybe Sami and the Paraguayan one I guessed was maybe a carribean language. Tamil seemed very foreign to me and I couldnt place it.
@@choonbox I got 4/6 Irish (the strong Irish accent that Irish people have when they speak English), Filipino (due to the vast amount of Romance vocabulary), Tamil (those weird "t"s, but it didn't sound Indo-European, so must be Dravidian), and Danish (sounded like German but also like Chinese, so obviously Danish; although I did initially think that it was something like Swiss German, which also sounds extremely weird). For Zulu, I was confident it was Xhosa, as it was the only click language that I knew of before now. And for Guarani, that sounded completely alien to me, and it might as well have been martian lol (if it wasn't for that "importante"). I was figuring it might be native to the Americas because of that Spanish-sounding "importante", but that was the only clue that I managed to derive from it.
Mee, too. I usually get perfect or near perfect scores in language recognition games so I consider myself very good at this but this guy is something else. I got 4/6 (Tagalog, Tamil, Zulu, Danish). As for Irish, I immediately recognized that it is a Celtic language but I couldn't tell which one. I've never even heard about Guaraní.
No kidding. I would have burned up all 3 lifelines in the first three languages alone. None I would have gotten on my own. I considered myself lucky just to get the right continent it came from.
This guy is a kick ass linguist. How he was able to distinguish these particular characteristics of the languages was awesome. The guy from episode one needed lots of help from Norbert and the languages were more common. Rafael was able to figure out these rarer languages which was really impressive. I wish him luck with what he's doing in school with dead language reconstruction, I believe that's what he said he was doing, because having tried a class like that once in university, it's incredibly difficult.
He had it on easy mode with Danish and Tamil . He would have lost if they gave him North American languages like Iriqouis or Sioux or Kuna or Mazahua and any of the Central Asian languages like Pashto, Uzbeck, Kazakh or even Tartar.
@@robroux5059 It depends on the north American language, but yes, those would have been tough. I'm pretty confident on my central Asian languages though - Turkic is maaaybe my favorite language family and I have some familiarity with Iranian languages ;-)
dead language reconstruction is an extremely difficult discipline that has a lot more to do with code decryption, that is a completely different skill from this (which is essentially a bunch of notions about phonemics). being able to recognize a language that is already known even you don't speak it is one thing, being able to reconstruct the grammar of one no one knows is another one.
This guy, Rafael is real Master of Languages! Fantastic game, incredible result. As for me I could guess only approximately like Indian, Celtic, Scandinavian, African🙂
Thanks for inviting me to take part in this series, Norbert! I had a lot of fun reading the comments! Apparently it's really hard to fly under the radar when speaking danish.....
As a South African, this gent hugely impressed me. I'm actually from Natal where Zulu is spoken, so well done for guessing Zulu! 👏 I almost instinctively guessed Zulu as I soon as I heard it because it instantly reminded me of home. And to help out about the pronunciation of Xhosa, it is completely fine to say "Khosa", but it is pronounced with a hard clicking sound as you start the word.
That’s because the speaker was almost certainly an L2 speaker whose native language is (Hiberno-)English. The Irish government forces everyone to learn Irish in school, but the problem is that there aren’t enough native Irish speakers to employ as language teachers across the entire country, and so proficient (or sometimes just semi-proficient) L2 speakers are hired to teach the language in school, which has resulted in a variety of Irish that has extensive English influence in its phonology and grammar. If you listen to an actual native speaker from one of the Gaeltacht regions you will find it sounds much more “exotic.”
That was a great lesson of humility for me, as it turned out I have a very vague idea about languages that aren't Slavic, Germanic or Romance! Had a lot of pleasure anyway! I'm absolutely in awe at Rafael's expertise and Norbert's talent at preparing these videos!
Speaking as a person who knows absolutely nothing about linguistics, I can proudly say I got 2/6 languages correct, 4/6 families correct, and 6/6 continents correct. Hooray for me!
Con seguridad tuve tagalo y danes, el irlandes tambien lo adivine, el tamil para mi podria ser desde arabe pakistani hasta hindu asi que el area si la tenia, el zulu lo ignoro por completo incluso viendo el mapa, en esa area solo ubico el afrikaans y el guarani tambien lo ignoro pero definitivamente suena nativa americana al igual solo con el dato la adivine.
Very impressive. Raphael showed well-structured deductive skills in his attempts at his final guesses. His comprehensive background knowledge of the phonological differences of the languages /language families is also apparent. Perfect ACADEMIC example for us. PS. (wondering the performance by a person with abundant practical exposures to different languages, maybe without as much professional grounds) Dzięki, Norbert.
Very impressive to see Rafael's thought process! As a speaker of a neighbouring language to the last one, I understood 95% of it and really enjoyed the message being said.
@@malolelei3937 I did not fully get the first part, but in general: It was about the value of fantasy, and what is different between animals and humans. Basically: In a bad situation, us humans can always imagine a better place/world/life due to the power of our fantasy and mind. And this is one of the few differences between animals and humans. Animals only live in the present, to cover their present needs, while humans are able to imagine a better future for themselves.
@@Supperrman Oh that's interesting. Such a positive message you wouldn't expect to hear in a language game. Anyways, thank you very much for the response. Have a nice time :)
@@Supperrman A very apt message, considering the recent developments of how the COVID virus mutated in minks farmed for their fur in Denmark; this mutated virus was passed back to humans and this resulting variant was found to be resistant to antibodies and potential vaccines. All minks in Denmark had to be killed to prevent such events from happening again.
I didn't rewind and guessed before his explanations (and after lifelines but before his explanations for some languages) and got: 1 - Tagalog ✅ 2 - Tamil ✅ 3 - Guarani ✅ 4 - Welsh ❌ 5 - Zulu ✅ 6 - Swedish ❌ I got a small cup yay :D
Wow, this guy Raphael is amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for bringing him to your channel, Norbert. ❤️ Didn’t get any satisfaction from my guesses (never heard of Tamil), but I’m happy I got 2 of them immediately: Guaraní and Danish. 😁 Love from Brazil. 🇧🇷
6 out of 6 grade of satisfaction, because it was like the classic expert in movies and series when no one has a clue: "yes, no problem, this is my thing and I'm going to explain wtf is this", so young people watching it would say "woaaaah, amaaaaazing, I wanna be that when I grow up!" 👍 Bring him again, or any other linguist who can be like that! It's very cool 😁
...to explain wtf this is* "WTF is this" is used in questions, but, in this case, "what this is" is the thing being explained. So, it's the object of the verb. Examples: I don't like knowing that they're here. I'd like to know when you're coming. We don't know what this means. She won't tell me what this is. Did she tell you when it's due?
What a beautiful message in Danish. Fantasy is a great enrichment in life. The contestant had a great way of showing how he was led to the conclusion of each language. I would love to be in one of these episodes.
What's clever about this channel is that he has game formats. That structures how I listen, and I think it helps me focus on information. Bravo! As a U.S. English speaker, I am not used to hearing so many languages. I like to refine my listening and hearing different tones and music. This guy was so knowledgeable and used it to identify the languages!
I haven't even heard of most these languages. The guest definitely knows his stuff. It was quite satisfying listening to him explain his thought process and share some highly technical knowledge.
love this series! i love the way he explained his thought process using actual knowledge of phonetics, intonations and origins, so the viewers actually learn something. i would love to see if anyone could guess maltese, even with lifelines.
This video was pretty cool, I loved the explanations that Raphael provided while trying to guess the languages. And he did great, he deserved that huge cup of satisfaction! I had no trouble identifying Tagalog and Danish, the others were not so easy. Maybe I'd guess Irish as well, but not the other 3. That's why these videos are always so interesting and fun to watch :)
Congratulations to Raphael, he is very good. I got my small cup of satisfaction, recognising Tagalog, Irish, Zulu and Danish. I am Romanian and I send you, Norbert my warmest and kindest greetings! It is a pleasure for me to watch your videos! I am myself a speaker of 6 languages with the ability of understanding some others to some degree. Thank you for the Latin VS Romanian ones, they were hugely inspiring! Keep on the great work, you’ve got all my support! Cześć bracie! P.S.: Please add some Germanic languages comparisons in the future, that would be very interesting! Bardzo dziękuje!
@@ykscalsan7240 This is just from google translate, but I think it should be pretty close to the message. "The imagination is the ultimate freedom, for no one can take it from you. No matter how bad your situation is, you can always imagine a better place, or a better everyday life, a better life actually. And it is also important, one of the few differences between animals and humans. Animals, they live in the present - they only need to cover their needs right now, while humans can imagine a better future and a completely different situation."
My guesses: 1. Tagalog 2. Telugu or Tamil 3. Quechua 4. Irish 5. Something of South Africa 6. Danish I'm pretty clueless about these languages apart from Irish and Danish which I instantly recognised (I'm Norwegian), but fascinating how surprisingly easy it was to get on the right track for the others. Still, this guy impressed.
It's not Quechua because there are no weird ejective consonants (a trait Quechua mysteriously shares with other languages spoken in the mountains, like Georgian)
@@wyqtor I wouldn't know. My guess was simply something in Spanish South America, and Quechua was the only non-European language there I knew the name of. The first was pretty much given away by the last word "Manila". The second was clearly something from the Indian subcontinent (retroflex consonants!), and it sounded Dravidian, but it didn't sound like Malayalam (which in my ears sounds like a machinegun of syllables), and some sounds seemed a bit strange for Kannada, and the list of south Indian languages I know the name of was getting shorter. I've spent a month in south India, travelling through a few states, but are generally clueless about the languages other than having heard them 25 years ago. I've also been to Peru, but I don't think I heard Quechua spoken.
I’m genuinely surprised at how many of us guessed Quechua. I was sure it was from South America and then just guessed that as a major indigenous language .
I'm sitting here, also from the US, in Copenhagen, where I've spent the last two years. I've now learned Danish and was a bit surprised to hear it pop up! I LOVED this contest and look forward to hearing more. The guest was so knowledgeable. :D
I got NOTHING right from this and was pretty shocked to be honest! Not that I was wrong, but just how diverse and yet "similar" languages can be, and also that he knew directly to the general region a language variant could come from. This guy's awesome!
Great video! You should make more of these. It's really satisfying to listen to someone who really knows a lot about languages. I've watched similar videos with people who know nothing about languages, hear a sample in Dutch and think it's Portuguese.
Wow, I'm in love with this guy, seriously. I have enough linguistic knowledge to understand what Raphael was talking about, but to be able to actually hear these subtle characteristics of sounds in a foreign language after listening to one short sample just once? He's a genius!
As a person who at times dabble with linguistics as a hobby once in a blue moon, the only language I am completely wrong is Guarani - before this very intelligent guy speak I was guessing African language(s)/Timorese lol Tagalog - very easy Tamil - knew its a Dravidian language but not too sure which one even though I'm Indian Irish - knew it was a Gaellic language and thanks to this guy I came to know of Manx. Danish - was guessing Faroe language, wrong but I knew it was a Nordic language. I'm Indian belonging to a small state of Meghalaya and I'm an ethnic Khasi person and Khasi language belongs to the Austro-Asiatic family and we're only around 1.5 million speakers which is very very small in a 1.4billion country. Love your channel. Keep doing and wish you well :)
Only got Tagalog, Irish and Danish correct. I had no idea about the others and I didn't even try to make guesses bc I frankly have never heard anything like those languages before, I was absolutely amazed by this guy's knowledge! And even slightly jealous 😂 that was very impressive!
I'm Malaysian so I am quite familiar with the sounds of Tagalog and Tamil. I knew the third language was Celtic but couldn't really figure out which one. The fourth one was definitely South African because of its click sound but I couldn't distinguish between Zulu and Xhosa. But when the map was shown it was obvious that it was the map of Kwazulu-Natal. The last language was quite easy for me because of Danish unique vowel sounds.
Congratulations Raphael !!! Great job !!! Dobra robota Norbercie - miło sie ogląda kiedy masz uczestnika który się interesuje językami w grze o językach :-)
@@nesser52 Swede here. I can totally understand how one can get the two mixed up. Firstly they are mutually intelligible and share a lot of vocabulary, although there are a lot of words that quickly give it away if you know which ones. The melody depends a lot on the dialect. There are Norwegian dialects whose melody is very similar to some Swedish dialects, whereas two Swedish dialects from different parts of the country may have very different melody (as well as Norwegian dialects from different parts of Norway).
@@THjelm Not Norwegian or Swedish here, but i once met a Swedish/Norwegian couple, they would simply speak their own language to each other and they would get everything, that's what they told me.
@@TheZcarekrow Oh yes. I have had plenty of conversations like that with Norwegians and Danes. No need to switch over to another language most of the time. I have even had a conversation with a Norwegian and a Dane at the same time, each in our own languages. You *will* stumble upon some words that are entirely different, though, so it helps to know a little bit about the vocabularies of the other languages.
Even though I only guessed Tagalog and Guaraní correctly, I got a lot of satisfaction watching this video. The variety in the language samples is very nice and I learned a lot from Raphael explaining his guesses. I'm looking forward to the next episode.
Bravo, Raphael - well done. I only got the small cup of satisfaction. I am Danish, and it is rare for someone to compliment Danish for its large vowel inventory - because you are absolutely right. Danes - on the other hand - usually really suck at pronouncing many familiar consonants in other languages (like rolling r). I have learned a Slavic language, for example - and they have a lot of stron consonants, and it was terribly hard to learn.
1 - Tagalog ✅ 2 - Had 0 idea ❌ 3 - I heard the romance influence in there with them saying 'importante', but could not guess it ❌ 4 - I heard old english, but I never selected a language ❌ 5 - Had 0 idea ❌ 6 - Danish ✅ I need more romance languages if I want to win even a small cup of satisfaction :(
Wow that was really impressive! Well done to Raphael! And it was fun to hear my own language in the end 🤓 I would say that us being able to imagine a better life is especially important in these times. Thanks for keeping us entertained and keep up the good work. All the best from Denmark.
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When I heard that Guaraní sample I IMMEDIATELY got teary-eyed... (I live in Brazil) Also, my guesses: 1 - Tagalog ✅ 2 - ??? ❌ 3 - Guarani ✅ 4 - Irish ✅ 5 - Zulu ✅ 6 - Danish ✅
wow this guy knows his shit very impressive-i got them all except Zulu i thought it was Xhosa (even the map didn't help which killed me a little inside lol), i know a little bit of all of the others in the challenge thanks to duolingo and other language learning apps and i know a little bit of swahili but sadly no other central or southern african language :( in any case great video as always norbert! keep up the great work! would love to be on your show some time :-)
@@smithryansmith A lot of non-Scottish really struggle with a Scottish accent, both understanding and reproducing (most of the time it ends up like Groundskeeper Willy, or a half Irish thing). If you can understand a thick Glasgow accent or Doric, for example, I'd say you're well qualified to be a linguist.
Wow! He's amazing! Thanks for the really interesting and educational explanations. I got 3: Tagalog, Irish Gaelic and Danish. My knowledge is very Euro-centric!
Wow, Raphael was really good! I sure got some satisfaction from this episode, but a purely subjective amount not to be measured by any cups. 😅 It was great to see someone sampling languages like a fine wine. Mmmm, I'm getting a hint of sandalwood and notes of nasal vowels... 😂
I have only become really interested in language learning in the last couple of years (learning Latin and Croatian currently). I love these videos. I guessed Tagalog, Irish, Zulu, and Danish. I am happy to take my virtual small cup of satisfaction.
Indeed! And in particular, I feel like usually when it's Swedish I usually don't confuse it with Norwegian, but sometimes listening to Norwegian I can't decide if it's Norwegian or Swedish lol. Of course to speakers of a north Germanic language there shouldn't be any confusion haha
I aimlessly wandered across this video - and am ever so glad I did!!! Surprisingly, I guessed four right (although possibly it's easier when you're not under the pressure of being filmed, and if you're wrong, no one else will know ;-): 1. Tagalog 2. Tamil 3. (Narrowed it down to a language native to South America with possible Portuguese influences due to the nasalised vowels (so pretty close), but am unfamiliar with the language families resident there) 4. Irish 5. (Xhosa) 6. Danish Thanks, Norbert, for a great idea, and certainly to Raphael for his linguistic prowess. Congratulations!
Uau, this man is amazing! This time, I got 0 questions right, it was very difficult for me! The only big satisfaction I got was watching the video :) Love your videos, keep it up with the excellent content !😉
I've laughed harder with the other guy, but I've learned so much more with this one! I think the satisfaction is not being right, but improving oneself. Its also fun how the only one I was immediately sure off, was the one he was initially least certain to guess: Guarani. I guess learning some dead classical Tupi wasn't worthless after all.
I got 1, 3 and 5 and 6 immediately. 2 and 4 I had a clue of langauge family and region. Number 2 I would've got by the script, but number 4 would've just been a guess. Raphael, on the other hand, could explain in a way I've never heard before, why he thought it wasn't "this" language, but "that" langauge, which was really cool. So I must give a lot of credit Raphael. He is very knowledgeable about the language families and differences between the regions within the language families. This was a really cool video! Dziękuję, Norbert!
This guy Raphael is certainly smart. What I (Muscovite) got: 1) Tagalog was easy: Sounds a bit like Malay, but with a Spanish influence. Philippines is what comes to mind. 2) I got that it is from India, but I'm completely not familiar with languages of India, so I took Hindi, and that was wrong 3) I got that it's an Amerindian language and has some Spanish influence, but it doesn't sound like Qeechua or Aymara, so I thought - maybe Guarani? I was right. 4) Got that it was Goidelic, but thought that is was Scottish Gaelic. Fail. 5) I got the region and the two languages, but I was convinced that it was Xhosa, but then I saw the map. Fail. 6) Danish was easy, a scandinavian language that stands off the family a bit due to phonetics. 3/6, but at two cases I was pretty close.
I got all of them but danish. That one gave me pause precisely for the reason Norbert gave. I about jumped out of my chair when I heard guarani. That was amazing. I recognize it instantly because I know people from Paraguay but, to hear it featured on this channel is amazingly cool.
Wow, Raphael is just a-ma-zing ! (I am thinking that he might read from this that I am german speaking , coming from the cologne area and originally from the Ruhrgebiet area, which is fine : there is no hiding from Raphael)
I'm extremely impressed by this! I could never have got those answers with so much accuracy! How I did, as a native English speaker who also speaks a bit of German: #1 I got it right, Tagalog, thanks to recognising Spanish influence. #2 I guessed wrong, I knew the general area of the language, the Indian subcontinent, but couldn't identify it, I guessed Bengali. #3 I guessed wrong, I also knew it was a native South American language but couldn't tell which even after the clue, so I guessed Quechua. #4 I got this one right, Irish, as I instantly recognised it was a Celtic language. From listening to the accent I could tell it wasn't Scottish Gaildhig, and I've been to Ireland before; I remember hearing announcements on trains in Irish and I recognised the intonation. #5 I got it right, Zulu, although up until seeing the map I thought it was Xhosa. To begin with I also recognised it as a Bantu language and instantly thought of Xhosa and Zulu. It was a 50/50 guess for me, but after seeing the map and remembering that there are more Xhosa speakers in the south-east of South Africa, I realised it was Zulu #6 I couldn't get this one. I knew it was a Germanic language and that it definitely wasn't a West Germanic language, but I probably would've needed to hear it again or to see the script to recognise that it was Danish. I actually feel pretty proud of myself right now, having never studied linguistics and either getting the answers right or getting a general area of where the language is spoken.
He is one of the most informed persons who has participated.
Yeah, personally I am into this stuff too and I would have definitely asked for the script on the 2nd language... for me, it could have been any one of the Dravidian languages!
@@wyqtor I guessed correctly for all the languages before the final answer but in the case of Irish, I needed his first comments. I study Zulu so that was easy. I have also studied some Danish and Tagalog. I was in Paraguay in 1976.
@Paleogloss is a professional linguist and has obviously had a very strong focus on phonetics and phonology in his studies. None of my PhD professors were as good as Raphael when it comes to general phonetics.
I like his funny words, magic man
Yeah exactly, the earlier one had no idea lol I scored better than him
Thank you so much for having me on Norbert, it was a pleasure! 😊
you were so good! nice job my dude!
You did fantastic! Really enjoyed this. I also liked how you explained how you came up with your answers, that was very informative. You should do something like that on your channel. Pick a language, tell a little history of it and dissect it like you did here.
You're amazing hats off
With how much knowledge you had of each language (history, which languages borrowed which, etc), that would be pretty cool to do on your channel if that becomes something you're interested in.
Either way, you did fantastic and this was super enjoyable of an episode! Thanks for the lessons too, ha.
That was super impressive! And this Dane was very pleased with how quickly you could determine that the last language was Danish :-)
That's what a linguist does. Unlike a polyglot who speaks many languages, a linguist knows what languages are made of.
Very professional, very articulate. Not just a pro but a good communicator.
You can be a polyglot and still possess a more in-depth knowledge of languages, but it's true that since that's not a requirement to be one, many polyglots don't care all that much about it. Here's an exception, though!
You don't have to be a polyglot to ignore what language is made of, most of us don't know our native language that much, yet we speak it
I knew just enough to almost understand what the heck he was talking about lol. He knows a LOT.
When you think you know languages than this guy appears...😳👏🏻
*then
As a Paraguayan, I have to say that I was certainly not expecting to hear Guarani in this video. It was a very pleasant surprise :) Thank you! Or should I say "aguyje" ;) Also, hats off to Raphael! He wasn't lying when he said he likes languages! Very impressive knowledge indeed.
*As a Brazilian...
Also.
I see Guarani language covered a very big part of central S. America because the name of the state where my wife comes from, in Brasil, is a guarani name meaning "Long sea" (Pernambuco)
It's a beautiful language :)
El guaraní es un idioma hermoso. Me gustaría aprenderlo algún día. Saludos de un argentino en Gringolandia :)
Everything is understandable when I go to Ciudad del Este for shopping... Then... You guys start speaking Guarani and I get like🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I too am a “self-proclaimed language lover”, but this guy just left me feeling so demoralized.
same. I got only Tamil, that too coz its spoken in my country too
I got 3/6 (Tagalog, Irish, Zulu)
I thought what Danish was, was like Luxemburgish or maybe Sami and the Paraguayan one I guessed was maybe a carribean language. Tamil seemed very foreign to me and I couldnt place it.
same here :) I am clueless when it comes to South East Asian or native American languages..
@@choonbox I got 4/6
Irish (the strong Irish accent that Irish people have when they speak English), Filipino (due to the vast amount of Romance vocabulary), Tamil (those weird "t"s, but it didn't sound Indo-European, so must be Dravidian), and Danish (sounded like German but also like Chinese, so obviously Danish; although I did initially think that it was something like Swiss German, which also sounds extremely weird).
For Zulu, I was confident it was Xhosa, as it was the only click language that I knew of before now.
And for Guarani, that sounded completely alien to me, and it might as well have been martian lol (if it wasn't for that "importante"). I was figuring it might be native to the Americas because of that Spanish-sounding "importante", but that was the only clue that I managed to derive from it.
Mee, too. I usually get perfect or near perfect scores in language recognition games so I consider myself very good at this but this guy is something else. I got 4/6 (Tagalog, Tamil, Zulu, Danish). As for Irish, I immediately recognized that it is a Celtic language but I couldn't tell which one. I've never even heard about Guaraní.
This guy is impressive.
That's very sweet of you :-)
@@Glossologia You're so good at it! Greetings from Russia)
@@Glossologia you did a fantastic job and thanks for the explanations!:)
No kidding. I would have burned up all 3 lifelines in the first three languages alone. None I would have gotten on my own. I considered myself lucky just to get the right continent it came from.
@@Glossologia Perfect analysis, well done Paleogloss! I really appreciate that thinking process.
This guy is a kick ass linguist. How he was able to distinguish these particular characteristics of the languages was awesome. The guy from episode one needed lots of help from Norbert and the languages were more common. Rafael was able to figure out these rarer languages which was really impressive. I wish him luck with what he's doing in school with dead language reconstruction, I believe that's what he said he was doing, because having tried a class like that once in university, it's incredibly difficult.
He had it on easy mode with Danish and Tamil . He would have lost if they gave him North American languages like Iriqouis or Sioux or Kuna or Mazahua and any of the Central Asian languages like Pashto, Uzbeck, Kazakh or even Tartar.
@@robroux5059 It depends on the north American language, but yes, those would have been tough. I'm pretty confident on my central Asian languages though - Turkic is maaaybe my favorite language family and I have some familiarity with Iranian languages ;-)
dead language reconstruction is an extremely difficult discipline that has a lot more to do with code decryption, that is a completely different skill from this (which is essentially a bunch of notions about phonemics). being able to recognize a language that is already known even you don't speak it is one thing, being able to reconstruct the grammar of one no one knows is another one.
I am speechless. What an intelligent, pleasant and yet modest guest!! Thanks for the video. I did get lots of satisfaction while watching it!!
3:50 apart from the Spanish words (imaginación), the giveaway was the word “Manila” right at the end of the clip.
This could easily be a joke, so ignore this if it was meant to be one haha. He says "kaalaman nila" = "their knowledge".
@@isabeltrinidadechavez4190 wow, I heard "Manila" too 😅
@@ksubota Yeah, I heard it too :))
@@isabeltrinidadechavez4190 oh I learned something today! I really thought they said Manila 😅
I heard Manila too. But for the spanish loanwords I thought it was Chavacano at first listening.
That was the most satisfying 20 minutes of my entire life! 🤩 Congrats to my frāterculō Raphael! Woooooooo!!!!!!! 🏆 🏆 🏆
That was 20 minutes?
LOL you said brotherbutt
Grātiās Lūcī mī
Raph's a beast!
Vir simplex sum; si ScorpioMartianum video, mihi placet.
Me: How many languages can you recognize ?
Raphael: Yes!
Wow. He guessed the languages which I didn't know existed
exactly!!!
I like how he explains his linguistic deductions.
This guy, Rafael is real Master of Languages! Fantastic game, incredible result. As for me I could guess only approximately like Indian, Celtic, Scandinavian, African🙂
Same thing, I could only guess Irish, the others only by their families or regions
Lol, just "African" 😆😆
Yo tambien, bueno, el filipino si, pero los demás solo por región.
@@EwigerSeptember I guessed Tagalog ( the first one ) but not any other
@@lumizu2091 I thought about Filipino, the logic was quite the same as Rafael had. But I had no idea of the names of the specific languages 😅
I like his logic and an amazingly broad knowledge.
Thanks for inviting me to take part in this series, Norbert! I had a lot of fun reading the comments! Apparently it's really hard to fly under the radar when speaking danish.....
Thank you for your contribution, Kris!!! 🤗
Indeed, but it's hardly a bad thing to stand out! :)
As a South African, this gent hugely impressed me. I'm actually from Natal where Zulu is spoken, so well done for guessing Zulu! 👏 I almost instinctively guessed Zulu as I soon as I heard it because it instantly reminded me of home.
And to help out about the pronunciation of Xhosa, it is completely fine to say "Khosa", but it is pronounced with a hard clicking sound as you start the word.
Haha yeah, I went and watched some tutorials on the pronunciation of Xhosa after the video so I think I have it down now. Thanks! :D
In this piece Raphael is playing a crucial part, his guesses not just because, but they always have linguistic basis. Great episode of game!
10:30 it is so interesting that the flow and the intonation of irish resembles the accent of Irish people when speaking english...
That’s because the speaker was almost certainly an L2 speaker whose native language is (Hiberno-)English. The Irish government forces everyone to learn Irish in school, but the problem is that there aren’t enough native Irish speakers to employ as language teachers across the entire country, and so proficient (or sometimes just semi-proficient) L2 speakers are hired to teach the language in school, which has resulted in a variety of Irish that has extensive English influence in its phonology and grammar. If you listen to an actual native speaker from one of the Gaeltacht regions you will find it sounds much more “exotic.”
It was in the Ulster dialect
That was a great lesson of humility for me, as it turned out I have a very vague idea about languages that aren't Slavic, Germanic or Romance! Had a lot of pleasure anyway! I'm absolutely in awe at Rafael's expertise and Norbert's talent at preparing these videos!
You said it.
Speaking as a person who knows absolutely nothing about linguistics, I can proudly say I got 2/6 languages correct, 4/6 families correct, and 6/6 continents correct. Hooray for me!
Con seguridad tuve tagalo y danes, el irlandes tambien lo adivine, el tamil para mi podria ser desde arabe pakistani hasta hindu asi que el area si la tenia, el zulu lo ignoro por completo incluso viendo el mapa, en esa area solo ubico el afrikaans y el guarani tambien lo ignoro pero definitivamente suena nativa americana al igual solo con el dato la adivine.
Same thing here! I got 2/6 languages (Tagalog and Guarani), probably 3/6 if I could get a lifeline for the Irish. 4/6 families, and 6/6 continents!
Very impressive. Raphael showed well-structured deductive skills in his attempts at his final guesses. His comprehensive background knowledge of the phonological differences of the languages /language families is also apparent. Perfect ACADEMIC example for us.
PS. (wondering the performance by a person with abundant practical exposures to different languages, maybe without as much professional grounds)
Dzięki, Norbert.
Very impressive to see Rafael's thought process!
As a speaker of a neighbouring language to the last one, I understood 95% of it and really enjoyed the message being said.
Could you please tell us what it was about?
@@malolelei3937 I did not fully get the first part, but in general:
It was about the value of fantasy, and what is different between animals and humans. Basically: In a bad situation, us humans can always imagine a better place/world/life due to the power of our fantasy and mind. And this is one of the few differences between animals and humans. Animals only live in the present, to cover their present needs, while humans are able to imagine a better future for themselves.
@@Supperrman Oh that's interesting. Such a positive message you wouldn't expect to hear in a language game. Anyways, thank you very much for the response. Have a nice time :)
@@Supperrman A very apt message, considering the recent developments of how the COVID virus mutated in minks farmed for their fur in Denmark; this mutated virus was passed back to humans and this resulting variant was found to be resistant to antibodies and potential vaccines. All minks in Denmark had to be killed to prevent such events from happening again.
I didn't rewind and guessed before his explanations (and after lifelines but before his explanations for some languages) and got:
1 - Tagalog ✅
2 - Tamil ✅
3 - Guarani ✅
4 - Welsh ❌
5 - Zulu ✅
6 - Swedish ❌
I got a small cup yay :D
Me too!
Yeap! The small cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳Congratulations!
Yep, small cup here. I didn't know Guarani, and I thought Danish was Frisian.
My guess was
1. Tagalog
2. Tamil
3. ???
4. Irish
5. Amharic
6. Danish
I thought number 4 was Welsh too!!
Wow, this guy Raphael is amazing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for bringing him to your channel, Norbert. ❤️
Didn’t get any satisfaction from my guesses (never heard of Tamil), but I’m happy I got 2 of them immediately: Guaraní and Danish. 😁
Love from Brazil. 🇧🇷
6 out of 6 grade of satisfaction, because it was like the classic expert in movies and series when no one has a clue: "yes, no problem, this is my thing and I'm going to explain wtf is this", so young people watching it would say "woaaaah, amaaaaazing, I wanna be that when I grow up!" 👍 Bring him again, or any other linguist who can be like that! It's very cool 😁
...to explain wtf this is*
"WTF is this" is used in questions, but, in this case, "what this is" is the thing being explained. So, it's the object of the verb.
Examples:
I don't like knowing that they're here.
I'd like to know when you're coming.
We don't know what this means.
She won't tell me what this is.
Did she tell you when it's due?
What a beautiful message in Danish. Fantasy is a great enrichment in life.
The contestant had a great way of showing how he was led to the conclusion of each language.
I would love to be in one of these episodes.
Me too!
Hvad var det? jeg kun laeser dansk
Why was he laughing in the Danish one?
WHAT DID THE DANISH GUY SAY!?!?! I AM STUPID ANGLOPHONE FROM THE US; PLEASE TELL ME!!!
It's such a pleasure ☺ to watch real linguistic professional. And you, Norbert, as awesome 👌 as usual 😀 👏, thank you.
Indeed
This was such a pleasure to listen to!
I absolutely love these types of challenges. More please. 🙏🏼😉👏🏼👍🏼
What's clever about this channel is that he has game formats. That structures how I listen, and I think it helps me focus on information. Bravo! As a U.S. English speaker, I am not used to hearing so many languages. I like to refine my listening and hearing different tones and music. This guy was so knowledgeable and used it to identify the languages!
Finally a new episode of this! This series is very good.
Yes! I wanna see more
I haven't even heard of most these languages. The guest definitely knows his stuff. It was quite satisfying listening to him explain his thought process and share some highly technical knowledge.
love this series! i love the way he explained his thought process using actual knowledge of phonetics, intonations and origins, so the viewers actually learn something. i would love to see if anyone could guess maltese, even with lifelines.
Thanks for watching! In my case I've been to Malta so I expect I'd have gotten it but it would definitely be fun to use in another episode hehe
This video was pretty cool, I loved the explanations that Raphael provided while trying to guess the languages. And he did great, he deserved that huge cup of satisfaction! I had no trouble identifying Tagalog and Danish, the others were not so easy. Maybe I'd guess Irish as well, but not the other 3. That's why these videos are always so interesting and fun to watch :)
Your face while he explains... priceless
Congratulations, Raphael. I am very impressed with your linguistic knowledge. You are very studious and charismatic.
Congratulations to Raphael, he is very good. I got my small cup of satisfaction, recognising Tagalog, Irish, Zulu and Danish. I am Romanian and I send you, Norbert my warmest and kindest greetings! It is a pleasure for me to watch your videos! I am myself a speaker of 6 languages with the ability of understanding some others to some degree. Thank you for the Latin VS Romanian ones, they were hugely inspiring! Keep on the great work, you’ve got all my support! Cześć bracie!
P.S.: Please add some Germanic languages comparisons in the future, that would be very interesting! Bardzo dziękuje!
I got so excited to hear Danish when it came up. And the message was quite nice too talking about human imagination
What was the message can you write it in English
@@ykscalsan7240 This is just from google translate, but I think it should be pretty close to the message.
"The imagination is the ultimate freedom, for no one can take it from you. No matter how bad your situation is, you can always imagine a better place, or a better everyday life, a better life actually. And it is also important, one of the few differences between animals and humans. Animals, they live in the present - they only need to cover their needs right now, while humans can imagine a better future and a completely different situation."
@@gerald02121 thank you that was exactly what i was curious about
My guesses:
1. Tagalog
2. Telugu or Tamil
3. Quechua
4. Irish
5. Something of South Africa
6. Danish
I'm pretty clueless about these languages apart from Irish and Danish which I instantly recognised (I'm Norwegian), but fascinating how surprisingly easy it was to get on the right track for the others. Still, this guy impressed.
I also guessed Quechua for the third one, lol
I thought it was Quechua too :(
It's not Quechua because there are no weird ejective consonants (a trait Quechua mysteriously shares with other languages spoken in the mountains, like Georgian)
@@wyqtor I wouldn't know. My guess was simply something in Spanish South America, and Quechua was the only non-European language there I knew the name of.
The first was pretty much given away by the last word "Manila".
The second was clearly something from the Indian subcontinent (retroflex consonants!), and it sounded Dravidian, but it didn't sound like Malayalam (which in my ears sounds like a machinegun of syllables), and some sounds seemed a bit strange for Kannada, and the list of south Indian languages I know the name of was getting shorter. I've spent a month in south India, travelling through a few states, but are generally clueless about the languages other than having heard them 25 years ago. I've also been to Peru, but I don't think I heard Quechua spoken.
I’m genuinely surprised at how many of us guessed Quechua. I was sure it was from South America and then just guessed that as a major indigenous language .
I'm sitting here, also from the US, in Copenhagen, where I've spent the last two years. I've now learned Danish and was a bit surprised to hear it pop up! I LOVED this contest and look forward to hearing more. The guest was so knowledgeable. :D
We are all as impressed as Norbert is with this guy
I got NOTHING right from this and was pretty shocked to be honest! Not that I was wrong, but just how diverse and yet "similar" languages can be, and also that he knew directly to the general region a language variant could come from. This guy's awesome!
I AM A HUGE FAN! Woooow Raphael is amaaaazing. Thanks Norbert for putting this together 🥰
This is fantastic Norbert. I've been into languages since the mid 1960's. I had some success, but am so impressed with your guest. Hats off to him!!!
Great video! You should make more of these. It's really satisfying to listen to someone who really knows a lot about languages. I've watched similar videos with people who know nothing about languages, hear a sample in Dutch and think it's Portuguese.
This guy really knows his stuff, impresive!👏🏽
Wow, I'm in love with this guy, seriously. I have enough linguistic knowledge to understand what Raphael was talking about, but to be able to actually hear these subtle characteristics of sounds in a foreign language after listening to one short sample just once? He's a genius!
This guy is so well studied! Really amazing. Danish was way too easy for someone that well educated. Very fun and informative episode!
Bravo Norbert. You have found another gem! This young man is very impressive.
As a person who at times dabble with linguistics as a hobby once in a blue moon, the only language I am completely wrong is Guarani - before this very intelligent guy speak I was guessing African language(s)/Timorese lol
Tagalog - very easy
Tamil - knew its a Dravidian language but not too sure which one even though I'm Indian
Irish - knew it was a Gaellic language and thanks to this guy I came to know of Manx.
Danish - was guessing Faroe language, wrong but I knew it was a Nordic language.
I'm Indian belonging to a small state of Meghalaya and I'm an ethnic Khasi person and Khasi language belongs to the Austro-Asiatic family and we're only around 1.5 million speakers which is very very small in a 1.4billion country.
Love your channel. Keep doing and wish you well :)
Only got Tagalog, Irish and Danish correct. I had no idea about the others and I didn't even try to make guesses bc I frankly have never heard anything like those languages before, I was absolutely amazed by this guy's knowledge! And even slightly jealous 😂 that was very impressive!
great series! raphael did amazingly, it's great to listen to someone who actually knows their stuff try their hand at this game!
It was great! Many thanks for both of you, guys! I've got a Big cup of pleasure listening you! 😊♥️🏆
Rafael, you rock!!!
I was able to identify only two, Tamil and Dansk, although I speak neither. Its the accent and tone.
I'm Malaysian so I am quite familiar with the sounds of Tagalog and Tamil. I knew the third language was Celtic but couldn't really figure out which one. The fourth one was definitely South African because of its click sound but I couldn't distinguish between Zulu and Xhosa. But when the map was shown it was obvious that it was the map of Kwazulu-Natal. The last language was quite easy for me because of Danish unique vowel sounds.
The participant is brilliant
Congratulations Raphael !!! Great job !!! Dobra robota Norbercie - miło sie ogląda kiedy masz uczestnika który się interesuje językami w grze o językach :-)
This was awesome! I learned a lot from listening to his reasons behind his guesses.
I'm learning swedish, and I tried watching some tv in swedish.
Until I figured out after several episodes it was actually in norwegian. XD
I think Swedish has a distinguished melody to it
@@nesser52 Swede here. I can totally understand how one can get the two mixed up. Firstly they are mutually intelligible and share a lot of vocabulary, although there are a lot of words that quickly give it away if you know which ones. The melody depends a lot on the dialect. There are Norwegian dialects whose melody is very similar to some Swedish dialects, whereas two Swedish dialects from different parts of the country may have very different melody (as well as Norwegian dialects from different parts of Norway).
@@THjelm Not Norwegian or Swedish here, but i once met a Swedish/Norwegian couple, they would simply speak their own language to each other and they would get everything, that's what they told me.
@@TheZcarekrow Oh yes. I have had plenty of conversations like that with Norwegians and Danes. No need to switch over to another language most of the time. I have even had a conversation with a Norwegian and a Dane at the same time, each in our own languages. You *will* stumble upon some words that are entirely different, though, so it helps to know a little bit about the vocabularies of the other languages.
i think the oslo dialect is actually closer to swedish than to other norwegian dialects. not totally sure tho
Even though I only guessed Tagalog and Guaraní correctly, I got a lot of satisfaction watching this video. The variety in the language samples is very nice and I learned a lot from Raphael explaining his guesses. I'm looking forward to the next episode.
This series is amazing! Please continue creating this great content, thank you Norbert 😍
Wow, just incredible, very intelligent young man. Thank you, very satisfaying content.
Oh my god! This guy is INCREDIBLE! What a knowledge of languages!
Bravo, Raphael - well done. I only got the small cup of satisfaction. I am Danish, and it is rare for someone to compliment Danish for its large vowel inventory - because you are absolutely right. Danes - on the other hand - usually really suck at pronouncing many familiar consonants in other languages (like rolling r). I have learned a Slavic language, for example - and they have a lot of stron consonants, and it was terribly hard to learn.
1 - Tagalog ✅
2 - Had 0 idea ❌
3 - I heard the romance influence in there with them saying 'importante', but could not guess it ❌
4 - I heard old english, but I never selected a language ❌
5 - Had 0 idea ❌
6 - Danish ✅
I need more romance languages if I want to win even a small cup of satisfaction :(
Wow that was really impressive! Well done to Raphael!
And it was fun to hear my own language in the end 🤓 I would say that us being able to imagine a better life is especially important in these times.
Thanks for keeping us entertained and keep up the good work.
All the best from Denmark.
When I heard that Guaraní sample I IMMEDIATELY got teary-eyed... (I live in Brazil)
Also, my guesses:
1 - Tagalog ✅
2 - ??? ❌
3 - Guarani ✅
4 - Irish ✅
5 - Zulu ✅
6 - Danish ✅
Hello fellow Raphael :-)
Congratulations! The medium cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳
That was so hard and Raphael was surprisingly good at the game, you can see that he knows his stuff and is passionate about languages
That was absolutely phenomenal! For me it was a pleasure (or maybe I should say “satisfaction”) simply to watch it! I’m stunned
wow this guy knows his shit very impressive-i got them all except Zulu i thought it was Xhosa (even the map didn't help which killed me a little inside lol), i know a little bit of all of the others in the challenge thanks to duolingo and other language learning apps and i know a little bit of swahili but sadly no other central or southern african language :(
in any case great video as always norbert! keep up the great work! would love to be on your show some time :-)
Congratulations! The medium cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳
Just so you know: the province shown in the map was KwaZulu-Natal, and the one right below that one is Eastern Cape, where Xhosa is mostly spoken
Thanks Norbert! I love this series.
Raphael is phenomenal!
I'm Scottish and I'm proud to have such a smart guy studying here
Edit: No cups for me, I banked on Xhosa instead of Zulu 😕
If he can understand a Scotsman speaking English, he can understand anything!
(Just taking the mickey:-)
I feel your pain. Who knew Zulu had so many clicks ? Not me. That one flummoxed me.
@@smithryansmith A lot of non-Scottish really struggle with a Scottish accent, both understanding and reproducing (most of the time it ends up like Groundskeeper Willy, or a half Irish thing). If you can understand a thick Glasgow accent or Doric, for example, I'd say you're well qualified to be a linguist.
yep, even I was for Xhosa, granted I have only heard Trevor Noah speak it. btw,is it Xulu or Xhosa featured in Black Panther?
@@udraj914 The one in Black Panther is isiXhosa
Wow! He's amazing! Thanks for the really interesting and educational explanations. I got 3: Tagalog, Irish Gaelic and Danish. My knowledge is very Euro-centric!
Wow, Raphael was really good! I sure got some satisfaction from this episode, but a purely subjective amount not to be measured by any cups. 😅 It was great to see someone sampling languages like a fine wine. Mmmm, I'm getting a hint of sandalwood and notes of nasal vowels... 😂
Well said! 😂
My favorite show so far. I'm impressed by how tremendously good the guy was at guessing everything! Wow!
I have only become really interested in language learning in the last couple of years (learning Latin and Croatian currently). I love these videos. I guessed Tagalog, Irish, Zulu, and Danish. I am happy to take my virtual small cup of satisfaction.
Congratulations! The small cup of satisfaction goes to you indeed! 🏆🤓🥳
Danish is actually easier to discriminate from Norwegian and Swedish than these two from one another :)
Indeed! And in particular, I feel like usually when it's Swedish I usually don't confuse it with Norwegian, but sometimes listening to Norwegian I can't decide if it's Norwegian or Swedish lol. Of course to speakers of a north Germanic language there shouldn't be any confusion haha
@@Glossologia haha same here!
But with time, I got to notice how "more melodic" Norwegian is.
@@Glossologia Anyway, good job! Your knowledge is impressive! :D
I could barely guess the continents haha (except for Danish).
Indeed, the guttural r gave it away
@@apmoy70 That, and I think it sounds so German too!
Sorry Danes!
Wow! That is all I can say about Raphael. Incredible knowledge!
Definitely 6/5 satisfaction. Very enjoyable to watch. Raphael is a linguistic legend.
Absolutely Amazing! Thank you to both of you for this very interesting insight into the language families x
So happy you included Guarani 💚💚💚
I aimlessly wandered across this video - and am ever so glad I did!!!
Surprisingly, I guessed four right (although possibly it's easier when you're not under the pressure of being filmed, and if you're wrong, no one else will know ;-):
1. Tagalog
2. Tamil
3. (Narrowed it down to a language native to South America with possible Portuguese influences due to the nasalised vowels (so pretty close), but am unfamiliar with the language families resident there)
4. Irish
5. (Xhosa)
6. Danish
Thanks, Norbert, for a great idea, and certainly to Raphael for his linguistic prowess. Congratulations!
Congratulations! The small cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳
Wow...i was going to watch just for a few minutes but watched the whole thing..incredible guy, congratulatios
One of the best episodes ever! Oglądam każdy odcinek tego show z zachwyceniem. Norbercie, rób to dalej!
The level of Raphael's expertise is absurd. Hats off to you, sir.
Uau, this man is amazing! This time, I got 0 questions right, it was very difficult for me! The only big satisfaction I got was watching the video :) Love your videos, keep it up with the excellent content !😉
I've laughed harder with the other guy, but I've learned so much more with this one! I think the satisfaction is not being right, but improving oneself. Its also fun how the only one I was immediately sure off, was the one he was initially least certain to guess: Guarani. I guess learning some dead classical Tupi wasn't worthless after all.
Classical Tupí is cool
6/6!!! This just made my day. All the satisfaction, lol. Please do more of these! So much fun :).
Congratulations! The big cup of satisfaction goes to you! 🏆🤓🥳
Rafael is incredible. Congrats!!!
I got 1, 3 and 5 and 6 immediately. 2 and 4 I had a clue of langauge family and region. Number 2 I would've got by the script, but number 4 would've just been a guess. Raphael, on the other hand, could explain in a way I've never heard before, why he thought it wasn't "this" language, but "that" langauge, which was really cool. So I must give a lot of credit Raphael. He is very knowledgeable about the language families and differences between the regions within the language families. This was a really cool video! Dziękuję, Norbert!
This guy Raphael is certainly smart.
What I (Muscovite) got:
1) Tagalog was easy: Sounds a bit like Malay, but with a Spanish influence. Philippines is what comes to mind.
2) I got that it is from India, but I'm completely not familiar with languages of India, so I took Hindi, and that was wrong
3) I got that it's an Amerindian language and has some Spanish influence, but it doesn't sound like Qeechua or Aymara, so I thought - maybe Guarani? I was right.
4) Got that it was Goidelic, but thought that is was Scottish Gaelic. Fail.
5) I got the region and the two languages, but I was convinced that it was Xhosa, but then I saw the map. Fail.
6) Danish was easy, a scandinavian language that stands off the family a bit due to phonetics.
3/6, but at two cases I was pretty close.
I looooove those videos. Raphael is very impressive, big respect. Thank you Nobert and all the contributors.
So happy they did Irish 🇮🇪
I got all of them but danish. That one gave me pause precisely for the reason Norbert gave. I about jumped out of my chair when I heard guarani. That was amazing. I recognize it instantly because I know people from Paraguay but, to hear it featured on this channel is amazingly cool.
Wow, Raphael is just a-ma-zing ! (I am thinking that he might read from this that I am german speaking , coming from the cologne area and originally from the Ruhrgebiet area, which is fine : there is no hiding from Raphael)
It made me so happy to hear Irish as part of one of these videos! I’ve been waiting for this day!😅🇮🇪
I'm extremely impressed by this! I could never have got those answers with so much accuracy!
How I did, as a native English speaker who also speaks a bit of German:
#1 I got it right, Tagalog, thanks to recognising Spanish influence.
#2 I guessed wrong, I knew the general area of the language, the Indian subcontinent, but couldn't identify it, I guessed Bengali.
#3 I guessed wrong, I also knew it was a native South American language but couldn't tell which even after the clue, so I guessed Quechua.
#4 I got this one right, Irish, as I instantly recognised it was a Celtic language. From listening to the accent I could tell it wasn't Scottish Gaildhig, and I've been to Ireland before; I remember hearing announcements on trains in Irish and I recognised the intonation.
#5 I got it right, Zulu, although up until seeing the map I thought it was Xhosa. To begin with I also recognised it as a Bantu language and instantly thought of Xhosa and Zulu. It was a 50/50 guess for me, but after seeing the map and remembering that there are more Xhosa speakers in the south-east of South Africa, I realised it was Zulu
#6 I couldn't get this one. I knew it was a Germanic language and that it definitely wasn't a West Germanic language, but I probably would've needed to hear it again or to see the script to recognise that it was Danish.
I actually feel pretty proud of myself right now, having never studied linguistics and either getting the answers right or getting a general area of where the language is spoken.
This is really phenomenal! Great video!