The Hardest Thing About Each Language

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  • @themrzakid
    @themrzakid Рік тому +8466

    love how you tried triggering as many people as possible with the flags

    • @vogeline_
      @vogeline_ Рік тому +506

      The fact that he used an austrian Flag for German instead of a Germany flag made me really happy cause I'm austrian

    • @somerandomname7098
      @somerandomname7098 Рік тому +243

      It killed me when you used the Mexican flag for spain as a Spanish myself

    • @mz_zarate
      @mz_zarate Рік тому +380

      When he used the flag of Taiwan for Chinese lol

    • @deutschmitpurple2918
      @deutschmitpurple2918 Рік тому +9

      🤗❤️🤗❤️

    • @RyanBentz
      @RyanBentz Рік тому +22

      @@mz_zarate I died 💀

  • @Seracis207
    @Seracis207 Рік тому +5767

    You killed me with the selection of flags, especially for portuguese

  • @teabaggins7091
    @teabaggins7091 Рік тому +918

    As an arab, i'm really blown away by the fact that he can pronounce the letters " ع " " خ" and " ح " correctly ! like 99% of non-arabs can't pronounce them and instead they just use the sounds of "k" , "A or O " and " H " respectively

    • @droidbetter231
      @droidbetter231 Рік тому +35

      bro i need to learn 3 dialects. home (sudanese) quran (mandarin/saudi arabic) public(egyptian)

    • @teabaggins7091
      @teabaggins7091 Рік тому +55

      @@droidbetter231i suggest keeping Quran for last because it uses the most powerful and advanced forms of literature

    • @xryiz9354
      @xryiz9354 Рік тому +31

      I love that he said ح but the picture on the screen is خ

    • @AZ-fr3ht
      @AZ-fr3ht Рік тому +8

      maybe most but definitely not 99%, there are so many non-Arab qaris who can pronounce just fine

    • @alhmdulilah1
      @alhmdulilah1 Рік тому +6

      @@droidbetter231 good luck learning the quran i recommend practicing with one page everyday

  • @lockerain1517
    @lockerain1517 Рік тому +227

    Before getting into Korean I thought the alphabet was going to be really hard to grasp upon looking at it, but the fact is it's actually so easy and intuitive as it's completely phonetical (with some different pronunciation rules here and there). Basically after going through the alphabet for 30mins - an hour you're able to pretty much read Korean more or less.

    • @AlneCraft
      @AlneCraft Рік тому +43

      Yeah that's the joke.
      Korean is arguably the easiest alphabet to learn.

    • @lockerain1517
      @lockerain1517 Рік тому +17

      @@AlneCraft indeed, but korean grammar and the insane nuance with conjugations and particles makes up for it lol.

    • @ananyabasu4371
      @ananyabasu4371 10 місяців тому +8

      Hmm, it took me 2 weeks to fluently read instead of translating. I love the Korean alphabet, it's like math-if you know the rules, it's easy.

    • @mrdrippymandrippy4415
      @mrdrippymandrippy4415 5 місяців тому

      @@ananyabasu4371Are you fluent in Korean now?

    • @TheLonelyMoon
      @TheLonelyMoon 4 місяці тому

      ​@lockerain1517 "nah korean grammar ain't hard dude!" 5 minutes before actually explaining our grammar to someone 🥲

  • @likupkilo1245
    @likupkilo1245 Рік тому +4264

    As a Norwegian I’m speechless, offended, and my day is ruined.

    • @filcot
      @filcot Рік тому +390

      Silence treatment must've been worse than the Swedish slander I experienced

    • @kristian8962
      @kristian8962 Рік тому +216

      Norwegian is the best nordic language!!

    • @glock1975
      @glock1975 Рік тому +35

      @@kristian8962 that's what she said

    • @Future_69
      @Future_69 Рік тому +4

      @@glock1975 lol

    • @WitchVillager
      @WitchVillager Рік тому +39

      @@filcot of course your name is felix

  • @doraandora4078
    @doraandora4078 Рік тому +1613

    My man bought a waifu pillow just to throw it in the garbage. A fucking CHAD right there

    • @khalilahd.
      @khalilahd. Рік тому +7

      😂😂

    • @ikbintom
      @ikbintom Рік тому +143

      He probably has 10 more

    • @plotsky3325
      @plotsky3325 Рік тому +150

      He took it back out after the video. Thats for sure.

    • @weirdfairy
      @weirdfairy Рік тому +2

      Waifu dont know how to woah

    • @BarnabyJones07
      @BarnabyJones07 Рік тому +1

      It's most likely a waifu pillow he has had for a while now and was done cumming all over it, it was starting to get crusty and smelly, so he threw it out in his video.

  • @Maxime_K-G
    @Maxime_K-G 7 місяців тому +37

    I love Norwegian. Great to hear you agree. You seem to be speachless because of the simple greatness of this language.

  • @shafootodess
    @shafootodess Рік тому +31

    2:24 just stop resisting

    • @ChezRG-YT
      @ChezRG-YT 4 місяці тому +12

      May Allah guide him.

    • @Arnikaaa
      @Arnikaaa Місяць тому +4

      I’m not learning Arabic and it is still hard to resist

  • @gyattrizzV
    @gyattrizzV Рік тому +1033

    Japanese learners try not to be incredibly strange challenge (impossible)

    • @ntrg3248
      @ntrg3248 Рік тому +70

      I sometimes feel like I'm doing it wrong when I don't say cringe weeb stuff, even though I'm learning it. I guess I keep the weird stuff in my head and I sound normal to the naked eye.

    • @khalilahd.
      @khalilahd. Рік тому +49

      Me, a Japanese learner: 👁👄👁

    • @ntrg3248
      @ntrg3248 Рік тому +41

      @@khalilahd. I've seen you in a lot of comments about Japan and learning Japanese and stuff, I hope you're going well with Japanese!

    • @Sam_8585
      @Sam_8585 Рік тому +23

      @@ntrg3248 I am not even weeb but tbh Japanese sounds really cool

    • @ntrg3248
      @ntrg3248 Рік тому +44

      @@Sam_8585 it's a cool language even outside all the anime stuff, theres a lot of things about it you can't do in English. Although 90% of us started learning it because we were weebs including me lol.

  • @RedNK
    @RedNK Рік тому +294

    _"Italians really do talk like Mario and Luigi"_
    That is absolutely an exaggeration
    *_speaks like Mario and Luigi_*
    Nevermind, you're absolutely correct

    • @F_sniprs
      @F_sniprs Рік тому +15

      che poi alla fine non è vero che parliamo così

    • @christianmagon
      @christianmagon Рік тому

      ​@@F_sniprs ...

    • @amemocci3580
      @amemocci3580 Рік тому +7

      ​@@F_sniprs beh dire la verità alcune persone davvero parlano così ..

    • @tuluppampam
      @tuluppampam Рік тому +2

      ​@@F_sniprs dipende da dove ti trovi in Italia

    • @Seageass01
      @Seageass01 Рік тому +6

      @@amemocci3580 : Appunto,alcune persone,ma l'italiano vero e proprio non dovrebbe avere niente a che fare con i vari dialetti parlati nel nostro paese perciò cerchiamo di non ridicolizzare ulteriormente la nostra immagine all'estero....che siamo già un paese sull'orlo del collasso.

  • @elcanaldelucas6187
    @elcanaldelucas6187 7 місяців тому +5

    The worst part about any languaje is that sometimes every one of them express the exact same thing in a completely different way, all of which kind of make sense, and when you try to say something in a different way that also makes sense, suddenly, what you say doesn't make sense. Sometimes, it's different for every thing. For example, let's say someone wants to express that a thing makes them feel scared, depending on the languaje they could say it like this:
    I have fear
    I scared
    It scary
    I'm fearful
    I feel fear
    I am scared
    It scares me
    I am scared
    It scares
    It gives fear
    It put fear on me
    I put scare on it
    It is feared
    It is feared by me
    I fear it
    It calms not
    I calmed not
    I'm not calmed
    Fear it
    Scare me

  • @NV610-GeoFS
    @NV610-GeoFS 8 місяців тому +7

    5:45 "let me engage my Swedish accent real quick" causaliy chokes

  • @LanguageSimp
    @LanguageSimp  Рік тому +440

    Should I make a part 2? What languages should I include?

    • @sysyphenf8ewtfr603
      @sysyphenf8ewtfr603 Рік тому +44

      no

    • @2520WasTaken
      @2520WasTaken Рік тому +9

      2:50 The flag... Apparently it's Chinese before 1949. The Chinese writing system has been simplified after 1949, so it may be easier.

    • @Alexander-sr7qm
      @Alexander-sr7qm Рік тому +49

      @@2520WasTaken this full video is a joke

    • @keptarareach4810
      @keptarareach4810 Рік тому +3

      Yes

    • @Alexander-sr7qm
      @Alexander-sr7qm Рік тому +8

      @@2520WasTaken and it is flag of Republic of China (Taiwan) (real China)

  • @duckers3240
    @duckers3240 Рік тому +1976

    I understand that Polish has a lot of glitches but I am kindly to inform you that Polish is in the early access, currently at 0.69 update. Many Poles living in Poland are also upset about many of those bugs you mentioned, that's why you rarely see any Pole smiling. Our dev team is trying their hardest to chisel out those bugs and make the experience better. We are expecting full 1.0 release of Polish in 2067 but that's optimistic seeing. The pessimistic one is that Polish 1.0 will release in 2108

    • @Harikuu
      @Harikuu Рік тому +44

      ngl but the language Polish is full of borrowings from other languages, and more and more of these borrowings are found, so in fact the language is Polish in early access bruh (I am a native speaker). But the best thing is to compare words from Polish to Czech.

    • @TheQRec
      @TheQRec Рік тому +49

      It was prematurely released, like Cyberpunk 2077.

    • @rlypsk9737
      @rlypsk9737 Рік тому +42

      but as always full version probably wont be out before 2137

    • @Dread_2137
      @Dread_2137 Рік тому +17

      @@Harikuu which language is not full of borrowings from other languages? do you know how much polish is in belarusian and ukrainian? so much so that they are more similar to polish than russian despite their descent from east slav family of languages

    • @sharavy6851
      @sharavy6851 Рік тому +6

      @@Harikuu I'd like someone to make the same complaint for English.

  • @hirisen
    @hirisen Рік тому +82

    As someone that's been living in Sweden for a year your Swedish impression had me rolling on the floor in laughter for how accurate it was. They really do engage Stitch mode from Lilo and Stitch here.

    • @thebramstoker9525
      @thebramstoker9525 Рік тому +5

      i am a norwegian learning swedish and that weird back of the mouth sound has been so difficult 😂 i always switch back to fire instead of "fyra" because the sound is impossible for me

    • @gorgioarmanioso151
      @gorgioarmanioso151 3 місяці тому

      bro his swedish sucked

  • @gabriellashdiaz7007
    @gabriellashdiaz7007 Рік тому +35

    As a Puerto Rican language enthusiast I was dying of laughter from the Spanish section and the Dutch comment was pretty accurate too. My feelings are also exactly the same when it comes to Russian Mandarin Portuguese and Italian

    • @danielbenavides1906
      @danielbenavides1906 Рік тому

      Puerto Ricans really lack vocabulary. Cant say one sentence without throwing 5 English words for no reason at all.

    • @ivanovichdelfin8797
      @ivanovichdelfin8797 Рік тому +1

      No estoy de acuerdo con que los diferentes españoles/hispanos no podemos entendernos entre nosotros. De lo contrario, no tendría tanta fama que los de Hispanoamérica se mudaran a ESpaña. Decir que los españoles/hispanos no nos entendemos, es como decir que los angloparlantes no se entienden entre ellos.

    • @gabriellashdiaz7007
      @gabriellashdiaz7007 Рік тому

      Tiene razón. A veces hay diferentes acentos que no entiendo muy bien. Pero sobre toda hablamos el mismo idioma. Y se escribe exactamente igual

    • @ivanovichdelfin8797
      @ivanovichdelfin8797 Рік тому

      @@gabriellashdiaz7007 Sí que es cierto que algunos tienes que prestar más atención que otros para entender lo que dicen. Pero, por ejemplo, el español de Chile, yo creo que más que el acento es que simplemente no vocalizan mucho. Muchos están acostumbrados a no vocalizar.
      El inglés es mucho peor, aunque no te lo digan, siempre nos enfocamos en los mismos acentos: EStados Unidos, Canadá, Australia, Nueva Zelanda y Reino Unido. Pero, en realidad, hay dialectos ingleses que se entienden muy muy mal, como por ejemplo "El inglés roto" de Nigeria, la cual, es incluso peor que el español criollo de Filipinas.
      A diferencia del español, que estamos más en contacto entre nosotros, hay hablantes de inglés aislados que están haciendo que su dialecto no se entienda nada. ESto pasa sobre todo en Africa.

  • @septicop
    @septicop Рік тому +429

    6:31 The polish flag and the Indonesian flag being swapped was genius

  • @abigail3879
    @abigail3879 Рік тому +1407

    0:27 French 🇫🇷
    0:54 Latin
    1:16 Japanese 🇯🇵
    1:39 Russian 🇷🇺
    2:23 Arabic 🇸🇦
    2:48 Chinese 🇨🇳🇹🇼
    3:19 American 🇺🇸
    3:38 Spanish 🇪🇸
    4:17 Portuguese 🇵🇹
    4:37 Turkish 🇹🇷
    4:54 Italian 🇮🇹
    5:22 Danish 🇩🇰
    5:34 Swedish 🇸🇪
    6:00 Norwegian 🇳🇴
    6:07 Dutch 🇳🇱
    6:31 Polish 🇵🇱
    6:53 AASL 🇦🇱
    7:11 Korean 🇰🇵🇰🇷
    7:26 German 🇩🇪 (I love how he used 🇦🇹 instead lol)
    7:41 Tagalog 🇵🇭
    8:03 Esperanto

  • @dogajenner5687
    @dogajenner5687 7 місяців тому +5

    as a turk, yes, we do have long words actually. because there is always a suffix after suffix.. which never ends. and i think another one of the hardest things about turkish is that normally the verb is at the end of the sentence and you put the object between subject and the verb, which sometimes makes me forget what i was gonna say. the suffix the object takes changes according to the verb you're using, so you should already know what you're gonna say before you start forming the sentence. of course, it's flexible and we understand what you mean even if you use the wrong suffix

  • @NicoGamez
    @NicoGamez 8 місяців тому +3

    The part about german is actually true. Sometimes when I'm typing a long sentence like that, I legit forget what I wanted to actually say and then I end up with a sentence that's super long but doesn't actually contain any information

  • @binjalan6777
    @binjalan6777 Рік тому +1740

    As an arab, I think arabic grammer "إعراب" is the hardest thing in the language. We study Arabic for 12 yrs in school and we still make grammatical mistakes when we speak original arabic
    Edit: I'm famous now, *Hi MOM!*

    • @justaguy4656
      @justaguy4656 Рік тому +66

      It's standard Arabic not original.

    • @Alexander-sr7qm
      @Alexander-sr7qm Рік тому +10

      Ar*b

    • @plotsky3325
      @plotsky3325 Рік тому +189

      @@Alexander-sr7qm skill issue

    • @weirdfairy
      @weirdfairy Рік тому +3

      Well yup it is fr

    • @pleasurereport
      @pleasurereport Рік тому +88

      It's cause you don't use the language that often. I have seen children speak perfect Arabic just through watching cartoons all day

  • @Graphite2983
    @Graphite2983 Рік тому +560

    “They don’t speak Tagalog, they speak Taglish” 🤣 So true. You’ll have to go to the rural areas of Tagalog speaking areas to fully practice your Tagalog. By the way, modern Tagalog (the mix between Tagalog and Spanish) is technically called Filipino. Tagalog is the pure language.

    • @stella4913
      @stella4913 Рік тому +35

      modern filipino is the most confusing language ever cuz of the influence of english and also the different formalities. every time i say anything ive learned online in filipino, ppl say its too formal, but thats how it was taught??? how tf am i supposed to learn actual useful spoken filipino ??????

    • @ayszhang
      @ayszhang Рік тому +44

      ​@@stella4913 These languages come from a culture of broken identifies resulting from colonization. On the one hand they want to preserve the language but in reality their native users live in a culture that doesn't value preservation.

    • @Graphite2983
      @Graphite2983 Рік тому +3

      @@stella4913 How do you say your sentences? With a "po"? Do you say "yes" by saying "opo"? "Po" is a formal indicator, meaning that it turns sentences into formal and respectful speech (from my understanding). "Ho" is less formal, while none at all is informal, but you don't often hear those "po" and "ho" probably unless they're talking to seniors (as in those in the workplace or those of old age).
      I always disliked having to learn the language because the conjugations don't make sense to me, but I like that you don't have to use such big words to turn sentences into polite and respectful ones.

    • @stella4913
      @stella4913 Рік тому +1

      @@Graphite2983 i don’t use po and ive never even heard po. it’s the word order that ppl say is too formal. or of i say “magandang gabi” im told that its too formal and that ppl just say goodnight

    • @wudwoodwoody6795
      @wudwoodwoody6795 Рік тому +1

      This is true, mostly for the young people. I know me & my friends would probably get higher test scores on an english test rather than a filipino test.

  • @Whovianpancake
    @Whovianpancake Рік тому +1

    Loved this, was hoping you'd talk about Finnish as that's what I'm trying to learn at the moment. And yes you are right, there aren't a lot of good material online for it. It's exhausting.

  • @MarlonEnglemam
    @MarlonEnglemam Рік тому +7

    as a brazilian I can confirm that trying to speak spanish sometimes gets hard because my bran just stops working and I no longer know if I'm speaking portuguese or spanish (or maybe just randomly mixing both languages lol). Whenever I have the need to talk to someone whose language is Spanish I always ask if they can speak English because it's gonna be just easier to understand each other lol

  • @easy-russian
    @easy-russian Рік тому +2401

    I really hated cases when I started to learn German. I can't imagine how people feel when they learn Russian, hehe. I'm a native and never realized how difficult it is. I really admire those who mastered Russian grammar. You're just great!

    • @HEIKOON1
      @HEIKOON1 Рік тому +160

      I'm native German and currently learning Russian. I can tell that the grammar and cases in Russian are not easy. 🙈😅

    • @khalilahd.
      @khalilahd. Рік тому +20

      I haven’t attempted Russian yet but I’ve heard how difficult it is

    • @DefinitelyfromAsia
      @DefinitelyfromAsia Рік тому +19

      @@HEIKOON1 for Asians, I mean that Asians who were in USSR still easy speak russian

    • @rembrandttip4861
      @rembrandttip4861 Рік тому +109

      Изучение русского полностью изменило моё отнешение к немецкому языку (или, во всяком случае, к его грамматике). Раньше я также считал что немецкая грамматика сложна, а теперь, усвоив грамматику русского, грамматика немецкого мне стало намного понятнее. Жаль, однако, что по-одному придётся выучить к какому роду принадлежат сушествительные в немецком.
      (Я носитель голландского и хотя немецкий и голландский языки родственны, падежей нет в голландском с 1940-го года. Они и тогда уже не исползовались в повседневной жизни. В остальном же грамматика в обоих языках очень похожа)

    • @Hagelnot
      @Hagelnot Рік тому +14

      вот точно, грамматика ужасно учить) надо учится всю жизнь
      к счастю русский так круто^^

  • @portfolio1813
    @portfolio1813 Рік тому +461

    what you said about arabic is 100% TRUE,
    I studied arabic for 5 years and instead of becoming a fluent speaker I became an Islamic scholar and Now I give "Fatwas" to government leaders.

    • @elite7329
      @elite7329 Рік тому +35

      BASED

    • @DarkFuryKH
      @DarkFuryKH Рік тому +25

      You got us in the first half not gonna lie...

    • @sophieibrahim6730
      @sophieibrahim6730 Рік тому +8

      Tbh It isn’t I’m not even someone who studies Arabic, I am A christian Arab I never thought of turning into a Muslim, Maybe I just think differently.

    • @Nana-1412
      @Nana-1412 Рік тому

      I hope you’re safe

    • @stariyczedun
      @stariyczedun Рік тому +1

      Shia pride worldwide

  • @willow0.0
    @willow0.0 Рік тому +20

    3:31 my boy started speaking in simlish

  • @mainlander3920
    @mainlander3920 Рік тому +9

    As someone who studies German, those are exactly my feelings. I feel like I'm advancing at everything about the language but still, when I make a sentence, the urge to use the verb normally instead of dispatching it to the the very end of it is just irresistible.

  • @williamangliss5063
    @williamangliss5063 Рік тому +179

    "The hardest part of learning Japanese is resisting the temptation to base your entire personality off the fact that you study Japanese"
    That's funny shit right there I tell you hwat, I know too many people like this

    • @freezeYT-
      @freezeYT- Рік тому +8

      I learn Japanese and find it fascinating but rarely even mention anything about it to my closest friends to maintain being a normal person

    • @im_sorx
      @im_sorx Рік тому +6

      @@freezeYT- even my teachers at skl know im learning japanese ☠️

  • @maxtikhonov8300
    @maxtikhonov8300 Рік тому +592

    Here I thought that Language Simp has uploaded another joke video with biased statements about random languages, But to my surprise this video turned out to be very informative and objective. Now I know why I really should study Latin and why Danish is superior to Swedish. Also as a Japanese learner I do sympathize with the struggle you mentioned, been there.
    Cheers.

    • @pennygadget5243
      @pennygadget5243 Рік тому +4

      so can relate 🙄

    • @amirelkomos6457
      @amirelkomos6457 Рік тому +13

      So, what did you learn about Norwegian?

    • @maxtikhonov8300
      @maxtikhonov8300 Рік тому +38

      @@amirelkomos6457........

    • @patrickkirby6580
      @patrickkirby6580 Рік тому +1

      You sleep with waifu?

    • @AdamOwenBrowning
      @AdamOwenBrowning Рік тому +8

      as a Japanese learner I can confirm that my entire personality is me telling people that I am a Japanese learner, but instead of anime and body pillows, it's ancient swords and legendary battles between the great army of daimyo Hattori Hanzōfu Maikokku and the sixty nine Ronin

  • @entropy1484
    @entropy1484 Рік тому +3

    Greek: the fifty million different ways to make the ee sound

  • @nagygergely9618
    @nagygergely9618 Рік тому +9

    As a Hungarian I think the thing most people trying to recreationally learn the language mess up are the pronunciation of letters. The issue is, that we literally have an entirely phonetic alphabet and in order to have enough letters for all basic sounds there are a few double letters. This literally means that certain combinations of letters next to each other are treated as an entirely different letter. The topic where this comes up most often is how 'Budapest' is pronounced because 's' in and of itself is the same sound as the first letter of 'sure' while 'sz' (a double letter) is the way English pronunces 's' in the alphabet.
    Anyways, people often hear how we have a phonetic language and try to say the words but sound somewhat silly and very obviously foreign by misinterpreting what sound letters actually stand for.

    • @BenefitCounterbench
      @BenefitCounterbench 8 місяців тому +2

      But the Hungarian alphabet is 200 IQ. Combine 's' (English sh) with 'z', and say it fast > you get 'sz' (English s). Put 'c' (English tz / German z) + 's' = 'cs' (English ch).

    • @user-lr5jx5yw7n
      @user-lr5jx5yw7n 4 місяці тому

      Literally

  • @guenthersteiner9252
    @guenthersteiner9252 Рік тому +335

    I speak a few european languages and I can confirm:
    The hardest thing about french is the fact they only pronounce 1% of the word (like in Qu'est-ce que you only pronounce like the "qeceqe" part)
    The hardest thing about English is that they have 1 million different ways to pronounce a few letters like: Trough ("oo" sound)
    Though ("oh" shound)
    Touch ("o/u" sound)
    Tough ("off" sound)
    Etc.
    The gardest thing about German is that the article differs depending on gender/plural and context
    Like
    der Mann
    des Mannes
    dem Mann
    den Mann
    die Frau
    der Frau
    Hardest thing about Dutch is the number of exceptations in Dutch.
    Like
    "Jongen" (boy) allways is "De jongen" (gendered atricle)
    Unless its a small boy "Het jongentje" (neutral article)
    The past participle of a word allways ends on a D (like in "Ik heb gerend") unless the "stam" (verb without "en" of a word (like "gokken" becomes "gokk-")) ends on a t,k,f,s,c,h,p or x. Than it ends on a "t" (Ik heb Gegokt)

    • @arsenalboi
      @arsenalboi Рік тому

      Are u real guenther

    • @yourdreams2440
      @yourdreams2440 Рік тому +7

      trough is pronounced with the "pot" vowel and touch and tough is pronounced with the "cut" vowel.

    • @Ballykeith
      @Ballykeith Рік тому +1

      Trough is pronounced truff! Did you omit the h? Through is oo.

    • @yourdreams2440
      @yourdreams2440 Рік тому +15

      @@Ballykeith No, trough is pronounced like "troff"

    • @georgegkoumas5026
      @georgegkoumas5026 Рік тому +2

      Dativ vs Akkusativ be like

  • @Its_Maxie
    @Its_Maxie Рік тому +169

    As a dutch person I must say that the g used to hurt a lot when I was about 5 or 4 years old but my throat just reinforced itself throughout the years and now my throat is about as effective as wall as the great wall of china used to be in ancient china

    • @ghosthunter0950
      @ghosthunter0950 Рік тому +8

      It's relatively soft compared to Hebrew and Arabic so it's always been easy for me. the hardest part was finetuning how softly I do it to make it sound like a native's.

    • @Its_Maxie
      @Its_Maxie Рік тому +1

      @TheBiggerFish Yes.

    • @Its_Maxie
      @Its_Maxie Рік тому +3

      @@ghosthunter0950 Yhea thats kinda true yea natives dont say it as hard as like gggggggoedemorgggggen but it is more like choedemorchen usually if you sortof get what im saying and doesnt look like gibberish

    • @mmaa5109
      @mmaa5109 Рік тому +3

      The wall wasn't that effective... remember the Mongols?

    • @Its_Maxie
      @Its_Maxie Рік тому +3

      @@mmaa5109 Oh yeah I forgot about that lol...

  • @tedc9682
    @tedc9682 7 місяців тому +3

    English is hard because its writing is far from phonetic, especially for vowels (throw, toe, though, yo); there are more sounds than many languages; it has articles; many rules have exceptions; there are many different sentence structures. Learners from other languages are often surprised that English speakers "can say the same thing in 8 different ways".

  • @wiggedcourt
    @wiggedcourt 9 місяців тому +2

    If one filipino tried to talk 'tagalog', then the whole crowd would be shocked. Im a filipino and thats what i could imagine.

  • @oHeroCS
    @oHeroCS Рік тому +260

    As a Dane I laughed so hard when you compared Swedish to Danish

    • @yomilala8929
      @yomilala8929 Рік тому +2

      I thought they were the same

    • @-kingofsaiyannappa-9057
      @-kingofsaiyannappa-9057 Рік тому +7

      Can you say døde røde rødøjede rådne røgede ørreder

    • @oHeroCS
      @oHeroCS Рік тому +10

      @@-kingofsaiyannappa-9057 Selfølgelig. Men intet slår “jeg plukker frugt med en brugt frugt plukker”

    • @thomasjohnson4987
      @thomasjohnson4987 Рік тому +3

      @@yomilala8929 nah danes cant say r

    • @zoroasper9759
      @zoroasper9759 Рік тому +20

      I'm not scandinavian but I know enough swedish and danish people to know it was the best troll of the video

  • @markusmarkusson
    @markusmarkusson Рік тому +97

    I love how he started with a sentence half in Arabic and half in Russian.

  • @maroon5175
    @maroon5175 8 місяців тому +4

    5:18 will forever be the best thing recorded and said in human history. Change my mind.

  • @lucas_vermeire
    @lucas_vermeire Рік тому +17

    I love this video
    Also for people learning Dutch, (6:08)
    You don't have to put so much force onto the G
    Alot of ppl nowadays speak a softer G rather then
    the intense G we used to.
    Also if you have a rlly soft g ppl will just assume you're
    from Limburg every now and then so it isn't a big deal
    We are impressed enough if you manage to speak Dutch
    at all :)

    • @udontevenwannaknowbruv
      @udontevenwannaknowbruv Рік тому +1

      The majority of Dutch people still pronounce a hard G instead of a soft one but I’m pretty sure he was just exaggerating for comedic effect

  • @Realmariah510
    @Realmariah510 Рік тому +32

    5:32 that’s what she said

  • @AhmetSezginDuran
    @AhmetSezginDuran Рік тому +268

    No no no, Turkish is really really easy, just have look at this sentence:
    "Yabancılaştıramadıklarımızdansa Türkçeleştirebildiklerimizi öğrenebiliyormuşuzcasına konuşabiliyorduk."
    P.S. Do not try to translate this in Google Translate. Every time someone does, a server at Google screams in terror and melts down.

    • @MHD69420
      @MHD69420 Рік тому +27

      what the hell boi 💀

    • @TheMetalMarci
      @TheMetalMarci Рік тому +11

      Is that a proper sentence? Could you translate it?

    • @deryaisik21
      @deryaisik21 Рік тому +32

      @@TheMetalMarci
      We were able to speak as if we could learn what we could translate into Turkish rather than what we could not alienate. This is what google traslate does but don't worry no one speaks like that

    • @AhmetSezginDuran
      @AhmetSezginDuran Рік тому +63

      @@TheMetalMarci Grammatically it's correct but semantically it's just non-sense. As Derya pointed out, no one uses these kind of words/sentences.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Рік тому +7

      @@AhmetSezginDuran This is result of 1929 shenanigans

  • @yuhkapz
    @yuhkapz Рік тому +6

    AsATurkICanConfirmTheSpaceBarDoesntExist.

  • @maniacalkoala
    @maniacalkoala Рік тому +106

    Language Simp: *complains about the many grammatical cases in Russian and lack of spaces in Turkish words*
    Finnish and Hungarian: *eyes glowing, levitating off the ground*

  • @sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555
    @sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555 Рік тому +34

    6:01 my reaction to that information

  • @4RapidGod4
    @4RapidGod4 8 місяців тому +1

    As an Italian, I can confirm that your pronunciation is correct.

  • @autoingrement
    @autoingrement Рік тому +5

    I was FORCED to learn Swedish in school I demand reparations 😤

    • @jaybeanzx
      @jaybeanzx 5 місяців тому

      Ahshss xd my apologies from Sweden
      You Finnish?

  • @areloTET
    @areloTET Рік тому +87

    As a Finn, I was really hurt by the fact that you didn't include Finnish

    • @lumapools
      @lumapools Рік тому +20

      As a Hungarian, same :(

    • @stopmotiontacos
      @stopmotiontacos Рік тому

      Pt 2

    • @Turagrong
      @Turagrong Рік тому +8

      @@lumapools You are not relevant.

    • @scintillation1729
      @scintillation1729 Рік тому +12

      Obviously because Finnish is just superior

    • @ianlins2792
      @ianlins2792 Рік тому +5

      he should have added it in the end, to finnish the video.
      This must mean that there's a part 2 coming.

  • @Czar_Moss
    @Czar_Moss Рік тому +24

    6:39 the poles are just bees in human shape

  • @davidmazert4605
    @davidmazert4605 7 місяців тому

    Keep going brother you are a role model to me.👍⚡
    I'm a beginner polyglot I can speak.
    English and Arabic perfectly
    Italian and German and french so so but I still have to learn a lot. Good luck to me and everyone.

  • @Marissa_J
    @Marissa_J Рік тому

    just randomly found this channel and this video is hilarious 😂 subbing now!

  • @MrSnakeFilms
    @MrSnakeFilms Рік тому +72

    3:57 Calling Chileans “Chilies” 🤣

  • @aliop5452
    @aliop5452 Рік тому +22

    "Why is the D so soft?"
    - Polyglots in 2022

    • @Turagrong
      @Turagrong Рік тому

      I'm dead

    • @ikbintom
      @ikbintom Рік тому

      I'm passing away

    • @aliop5452
      @aliop5452 Рік тому +3

      People for some random reason: Dying in my replies section
      What I hear on my door 0.9 seconds after: *FBI OPEN UP!!!*

    • @Harikuu
      @Harikuu Рік тому

      lmao

  • @RaisonDetre96
    @RaisonDetre96 Рік тому

    Išmok lietuvių kalbą, jei iššūkio norėtumėt.
    I love your channel!

  • @ArduinoTurkBatu
    @ArduinoTurkBatu Рік тому +8

    4:43 As a Turkish speaker, i will answer your question.
    Turkish language is a language that you can add things to the end of the words.
    For example: ağaç (tree), ağaçlar (trees), ağaçlara (to trees)

  • @samuelhedenskog9980
    @samuelhedenskog9980 Рік тому +26

    5:50 That Swedish accent was horrendous 😄

    • @yoboyloc
      @yoboyloc Рік тому +6

      Sounds like stich

  • @CoolGuy-ix3wd
    @CoolGuy-ix3wd Рік тому +85

    You should definitely learn Persian. It's a beautiful language that has the same Alphabet as Arabic but with 4 more letters. It's grammer is a little bit complicated but you'll love it when you read the poems and understand the meaning.

    • @Tvoine
      @Tvoine Рік тому +3

      YES

    • @gkky-xx4mc
      @gkky-xx4mc Рік тому +14

      Persian grammar is much less complicated than Arabic and closer to European languages because it's part of the same language family (Indo-European), very underrated language

    • @wuxxy
      @wuxxy Рік тому +1

      @Whitesé¹ ¹ Afghan languages like Dari and Pashto are dialets of Farsi so no wonder you say that. I can speak Urdu and have Afghani co-workers who speak Pashto and Farsi and I cannot understand 90% of what they say

    • @deanal-jackson4593
      @deanal-jackson4593 8 місяців тому

      ​@@nlight2785
      More like Kurdish than turkish I'd say

    • @TakeyoTouda
      @TakeyoTouda 8 місяців тому +1

      Sindhi & Pashto have more letters than Farsi but both of them are the same language family

  • @Georgeopath
    @Georgeopath Рік тому +6

    1:30 As a Japanese and English learner, I laughed at your speech so much Ahaha

  • @zeraxianthplays
    @zeraxianthplays 8 місяців тому +1

    Greek: Trying tο accurately pronounce γ or δ or χ or double vowels. Using Γεια σου or Γεια σας can be difficult. or saying ευχαριστώ because if sometimes you use φ instead of χ. Or remembering ς is at the end of words ending with s instead of using σ. or remembering when to use η instead if ι.

  • @yoshihasascended
    @yoshihasascended Рік тому +143

    As a japanese learner i was a complete weeb but when i started learning japanese it actually did the opposite and now i cant stand being a weeb

    • @yoshihasascended
      @yoshihasascended Рік тому +35

      ok maybe i am kinda a weeb but not as much as bfr

    • @guywhoasked903
      @guywhoasked903 Рік тому +21

      bhahaha i find this relatable as a Japanese learner. I don't always go around tell people I learn it tho, afraid that they will associate me with "those" type of people LMAO

    • @weirdfairy
      @weirdfairy Рік тому +2

      As a person who wanted to learn japanese before, thanks god i learned russian instead.

    • @TrusteeNail
      @TrusteeNail Рік тому

      Pfp checks out

    • @zoroasper9759
      @zoroasper9759 Рік тому +4

      I never (willingly) watched an anime show in my entire life but I'm learning japanese
      When this thing comes out poeple are SHOCKED that I'm not into anime at all, like a couple of people were even somewhat upset about it

  • @chrismartinez5711
    @chrismartinez5711 Рік тому +30

    I find it incredibly challenging to not sound like Rammstein when i speak German.

    • @freezeYT-
      @freezeYT- Рік тому +6

      Common German learner W

  • @lupirite6373
    @lupirite6373 7 місяців тому +1

    Reverse testicular frigatives. I'm definitely gonna using that one 😂

  • @frikimanhd4087
    @frikimanhd4087 Рік тому +1

    bro talked in perfect spanish from Madrid. Dude almost started talking about how good the tap water is there

  • @Nurgalinchik
    @Nurgalinchik Рік тому +23

    I'm glad you recovered after the last stream ✊🏻

  • @YassinCetin
    @YassinCetin Рік тому +183

    Italian here, the word "Gli" doesn't really have any word that can sound similar in English, however it is similar to "yee", the letters "gl" when followed by an "i" are a digraph (namely two letters that represent a single sound), and are therfore pronounced "lyee" or "yee" as in the words "figli", "aglio" or "fogli" which are pronounced "feelyee", "alyeeo" and "foyee" however I want to point out how the "g" isn't almost pronounced at all, even though "gl" when followed by any other vowel is pronounced just as in English "glass", "glow", "glum", etc... btw at 6:32 is that done on purpose?

    • @craftah
      @craftah Рік тому

      Soft L

    • @Turagrong
      @Turagrong Рік тому

      Degli kurva spinachi kurva, thanks for kurva explanation kurva 🙏

    • @craftah
      @craftah Рік тому +1

      @@Turagrong what?

    • @YassinCetin
      @YassinCetin Рік тому

      @@Turagrong 1- I speak Polish, 2- the spelling is Spinaci not spinachi....

    • @sandorrclegane2307
      @sandorrclegane2307 Рік тому +4

      @@YassinCetin yeah, he's just making fun of polish. In another video he said pretty much the same thing, some buzzing and talking about consonants. Swoją drogą cześć, też mówię po polsku.

  • @breaky73
    @breaky73 Рік тому +3

    As a Dutch person living abroad, (and thus not speaking Dutch daily anymore), I can honestly say that I now indeed get pain in my throat when I do speak Dutch at length. Spot on!

  • @-graycreature7248
    @-graycreature7248 8 місяців тому +3

    as a portuguese speaker who's currently learning spanish just because it's extremely similar to portuguese, I see this as an absolute win

  • @Aakkosti
    @Aakkosti Рік тому +55

    The hard part about British American is the gendered national anthem: you must be aware of the gender of the reigning monarch at all times, or you’ll mess up the anthem by the fourth word. If you’re learning British American to be a soccer hooligan, that mistake is really bad.

  • @jaredbush1866
    @jaredbush1866 Рік тому +497

    I know I'm going to regret it, but I'd surely like to have your opinion on "American Southern" and "American Northern" dialects.
    Since American is obviously the best language, I'm curious how you subdivide the two dialects. Thank you Language Simp; You inspire us all.

    • @notabigdealthough8616
      @notabigdealthough8616 Рік тому +6

      Lol you actaully believe they exist
      Did it fly over everyones feeble head

    • @Humaidan.
      @Humaidan. Рік тому +41

      @@notabigdealthough8616 💀

    • @angelelelelalalalalelae
      @angelelelelalalalalelae Рік тому +15

      @@notabigdealthough8616 r/woosh :)

    • @fathaar
      @fathaar Рік тому +1

      Agreed

    • @Gubbe51
      @Gubbe51 Рік тому +13

      Who told you that American is the best language? Another American, I bet.

  • @PC_Simo
    @PC_Simo 11 місяців тому +6

    6:20 I think that’s the reason, why Dutch people switch to English so easily: They will take every excuse to switch to English, just to give their throat a rest. 😅🇳🇱

  • @hjag-is-also-ourplebop
    @hjag-is-also-ourplebop Рік тому +2

    I used to have to do Duolingo in school.
    I was doing Russian at first, then I got bored and tried giving Arabic a shot.
    And then this video comes along and shows Russian and Arabic consecutively.

  • @idontsimpforkuroneko8090
    @idontsimpforkuroneko8090 Рік тому +39

    China - Taiwan, Spain - Mexico, Portugal - Mozambique, South/North Korea - North Korea, Germany - Austria
    seems legit.

    • @mikeone1185
      @mikeone1185 Рік тому +13

      Indonesia - Poland, Belarus- Russia

    • @higork.1256
      @higork.1256 Рік тому

      Brazil - Mozambique (Since his accent is brazilian portuguese)

    • @mikeone1185
      @mikeone1185 Рік тому

      @@oldpersonalaccount, i aint sure actually

  • @pennygadget5243
    @pennygadget5243 Рік тому +20

    the silence he made for norwegian 😂
    im learning it rn and tbh it rly is easy, the only thing hard abt it is the dialects, like everytime im tryna find a vid tat teaches in norwegian in the dialect tat im learning i end up finding another dialect, but tats its only complication lol

    • @arieltineo7392
      @arieltineo7392 Рік тому +1

      You must learn how to write correctly in order for us to understand you (don't cut off words)

    • @janembo96
      @janembo96 Рік тому

      Yhea... we kinda do be having 19 different dialects... its a problem....

    • @JhoferGamer
      @JhoferGamer Рік тому

      @@janembo96 We have way more than 19 dialects, probably more than a 1000 considering basically every small town speak a little different from the next. But perhaps if you don't care about being accurate you could majorly boil it down to 19, I guess

    • @ChristianNorge
      @ChristianNorge Рік тому

      Norwegian today is almost English, kids will write "estimere" instead of the Norwegian word "anslå"

  • @mars.martian_
    @mars.martian_ Рік тому +6

    in South Africa, we have 11 official languages! one of them is Afrikaans, which is very easy to learn. It actually is like easy dutch. It would be interesting if you tried learning it!

  • @qwerkiangoita7148
    @qwerkiangoita7148 Рік тому +2

    5:11 grazie per avermi fatto ridere, ci sono però dei piccoli problemi ad esempio il fatto che nn hai usato i pronomi possessivi ( non LO parlo molto bene) , lo so che è uno scherzo quindi nn parlerò del fatto che nn abbiamo una voce così acuta

  • @johnorsomeone4609
    @johnorsomeone4609 Рік тому +8

    Some of the words from your home village in Pennsylvania jumped out at me because they’re the same words that you used in the video about levels of fluency in American. “Tim lupen mezzerchop Moser mitchen camp man nortfurt probel any sanfel…”. I doing an independent study of your language so if you could guide me towards any other resources I’d be really mezzerchop.

  • @davidschannel6418
    @davidschannel6418 Рік тому +18

    7:27 The Austrian flag.

  • @zn1ppp
    @zn1ppp 7 місяців тому

    i got so unmotivated learning norwegian that i stopped and started learning french 💀 i wanna pick up norwegian again but im in a spot where i know too much for beginner courses but too little for advanced

  • @ComFomeDeGiro
    @ComFomeDeGiro 9 місяців тому +2

    I have been speaking Spanish all my life and the hardest parts about Spanish are the cases. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve been corrected on one word alone.

  • @2256-Infiniteintelligence
    @2256-Infiniteintelligence Рік тому +29

    2:33 AAIIN aAAIIN FOCD OF

  • @phs125
    @phs125 Рік тому +3

    Not a single indian language mentioned.
    I'm refusing to watch this channel until he learns atleast 5 indian languages...

  • @Gingergent07
    @Gingergent07 8 місяців тому +1

    I'm learning Greek and I have a hard time with not sounding drunk. The soft δ sound always makes me sound like I'm slurring

  • @thelingualmo
    @thelingualmo Рік тому +1

    “if someone invented the space bar in Turkey, they would be rich 🤑” that’s hilarious

  • @belalismail2058
    @belalismail2058 Рік тому +8

    جلست على بث ١٠ ساعات كاملة تتعلم الحروف العربية وبالآخر تحط حرف خ بدل حرف ح 💀، يا حبيبي ركّز شوي 😂

    • @seeyouchump
      @seeyouchump Рік тому +1

      حاسس إنو حطو معتمدا. ممكن نكتة. مستحيل الهوبر بوليغلت غيغا شاد ألفا رجل الذي يعتبر جذابي لكل إمرأة.....و رجل يسوي خطأ زي هيك

    • @MajdFreiji
      @MajdFreiji Рік тому

      @@seeyouchump والله ضحكتني جازاك الله خيرا

  • @salihcan5946
    @salihcan5946 Рік тому +15

    4:41 believe me it's my first language but i dont understand this word at all. I mean in Turkish, words that you use everyday are not that long. Someone just tried to do the longest word with the suffixes (you add some attachment at the end of the word in Turkish) in this language and they were so successful

    • @salihcan5946
      @salihcan5946 Рік тому +3

      @@curat.Tenebrae sağol tavsiye için

  • @3hutp
    @3hutp Рік тому +8

    The worst thing about Russian is not the cases. It's the stress patterns. If you start learning Russian you have to learn the stress patterns of the first 100-200 words (and on as you keep learning) to be able to speak.

    • @_Jy2_
      @_Jy2_ 9 місяців тому +1

      Yeah grammar/cases are hard but you get accustomed to them with practice. Ударение is something even natives struggle with sometimes.

  • @realityDUBSTEP
    @realityDUBSTEP 5 місяців тому

    Besides the hard parts of Japanese that you mentioned like spending your entire life savings on body pillows and figurines, pitch accent can be pretty hard too.

  • @praha924
    @praha924 Рік тому +63

    french 0:28
    latin 0:55
    japanese 1:16
    russian 1:39
    arabic 2:23
    chinese 2:48
    american (english) 3:18
    spanish 3:38
    portuguese 4:17
    turkish 4:37
    italian 4:55
    danish 5:22
    swedish 5:33
    norwegian 6:01
    dutch 6:06
    polish 6:30
    AASL (albanian) 6:52
    korean 7:11
    german 7:26
    tagalog 7:41
    esperanto 8:01

  • @freealter
    @freealter Рік тому +52

    I like the implication that there’s nothing difficult about learning Norwegian

    • @mercenaryforhire3453
      @mercenaryforhire3453 Рік тому +6

      tbf I find Norwegian quite easy to learn, if you stick to bokmål or nynorsk at least, getting to know about the two might be the difficult part. Unfortunately life has forced me to learn German instead.

    • @iCrimzon
      @iCrimzon Рік тому +3

      Norwegian is quite literally just QuIrkY Danish, there wasnt much to say about it

    • @NDSVM
      @NDSVM Рік тому +3

      @@mercenaryforhire3453 If there weren't Bokmål and Nynorsk.

    • @canadajones9635
      @canadajones9635 Рік тому +3

      @@mercenaryforhire3453 Actually, those two are not spoken forms, but written forms. You can't speak Bokmål, as it has no official pronunciation. You can use their vocabularies, but you can't speak them, per se.

    • @mercenaryforhire3453
      @mercenaryforhire3453 Рік тому

      @@canadajones9635 "you can't speak bokmål", well it's still a way of writing the language that you have to learn. My point was that if you get interested in learning the many dialectal differences that exist within the norwegian language you're maybe gonna have a hard time but if you stick to one Norwegian is imo not that difficult to learn, especially if you already speak english (and a bit of german in my case).

  • @Jack-fh3wm
    @Jack-fh3wm 10 місяців тому +3

    As a half Puerto Rican, I can confirm we do not communicate, all we do is make random sounds

  • @kreamy_karym
    @kreamy_karym Рік тому

    I need to pause your video time to time just to laugh man LMAO. Love ur vids

  • @the_demon149
    @the_demon149 5 місяців тому +2

    Imo, the hardest part of German is the cases and the declensions and stuff like that. Every time I say “Er hilft mich” or “Die kleine Leute” and get it wrong on Duolingo I want to cry for so many reasons.

  • @pannocska
    @pannocska Рік тому +13

    I’m learning Hungarian now and the hardest thing is the lexicon because the grammar seems pretty logical but you can’t remember many words with the associations with another European languages so you only have to learn them by heart

  • @dominik6375
    @dominik6375 Рік тому +5

    Lived in Lille and have to say it’s mostly the elderly or the rural areas where you can face accent differences but even then communication is not at all an issue, yes they sometimes have other words for things but most of them won’t speak in dialect to a foreigner who obviously is not a native

  • @richmorales6726
    @richmorales6726 Рік тому

    Thank you for this incredibly informative video mr simp. After watching this, I am now discouraged from learning Polish despite living in Poland for my whole life. There's just too many challenges and I even thought Polish flag looks completely different. This whole country's just a glitch.

  • @aimeucuzinho
    @aimeucuzinho Рік тому +1

    I didn't expect the "até logo" sign-off there, lol.
    Bro, the fact that you *chose* to learn the Castilian dialect/accent in Spanish kinda blows my mind. I attended a pt-br/es-es high school and that's where I learned Spanish, but every time I would interact with any Latin Americans in Spanish, they would just rip on me for sounding like a fucking Spaniard, lmao. I've since been able to better assimilate a more generic Latin American accent through interactions with Venezuelans and Peruvians at work and in my personal life.
    But yeah, gigachad though you may be, that Castilian accent sounds pretentious af coming outta you as an American, ngl, RIP, sorry. But I love your videos! :D

  • @ensarsivasl47
    @ensarsivasl47 Рік тому +10

    4:49 as a turkish we forgot space bars and this word exist but we can say it so it stayed like that and I can say it fast

  • @krekkerman7540
    @krekkerman7540 Рік тому +13

    6:07 ooohhh en het is zo waar 💀
    Dutch people kind of wanna show off their English when speaking to a foreigner

  • @um_internacionalista
    @um_internacionalista Рік тому +34

    Two things: I am Brazilian and I absolutely LOVE the fact you chose the Mozambique flag. Your voice is so deep chad and all but in Portuguese it sounds so cute I can't explain just feel

    • @swthlili
      @swthlili 6 місяців тому +1

      SIM, a voz dele em português é fofíssima

  • @harasen_haras5
    @harasen_haras5 Рік тому +1

    Let me take a moment to appreciate how well you pronounced the soft D. Also, what you said about Dutch people switching language when you make a mistake would probably apply to us Danes too.