Can Romance Language Speakers Understand Each Other?
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Today i got my friends from all over the world to see if we can all have a full on conversation! The only catch is that it has to be in their own language, but luckily we all speak a romance language, that should help right? French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish & Catalan all come from the Latin Language, we share the same common ancestor. I wanted to put it to the test, how similar are the romance langauges and can we truly have a conversation without hiccups?
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Spanish:🙂
Catalan:🙂
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Exacto
This is gold 😂
Exacto
Exactly 💯
french sounds so germanic
Romanian: I come for your blood
As an English speaker I understood the subtitles just fine.
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Damn, that's remarkable !!!
There’s debate if English should be included in the Romance language category. Although it comes from Germanic it’s evolved that the majority of its vocabulary is more Latin than Germanic by percentage. The debate is on going.
I love how when the French start speaking the mutual intelligibility of Latin languages falls apart
French is like the least mutual intelegitable and the most different of the romance languages.
@@Seven71987 that and European Portuguese!
@@randomworkings3600 Portuguese is near to Spain, goofball.
@@Seven71987 But they speak like you have to be speedrunning your conversation, for me it's super weird.
@@alldiceoficial That is a note that English is clearly a Germanic language.
As a Portuguese speaker i found french the hardest and Spanish the easiest.
@Honest Manchester United Fan what do you want to learn ?
Yes, it is the pronunciation
Pra ser honesta, ainda consigo entender algumas frases em francês
I speak Spanish and i'm sorry but Italian sounds the easiest 😭
Portuguese is easier to read for me though
yo también jaja
As an Italian native speaker I would say:
1. Spanish is of course the easiest one. Very similar to Italian
2. Catalan is pretty easy too
3. Portuguese is pretty hard, but i could understand some words
4. (spoken) French is impossible to understand unless you have attended some classes
Ho fatto francese per 4 anni ma non ho capito quasi niente...
As a Brazilian i say the same, but with italian in 3rd place.
Actually French is the most similar to Italian in terms of vocabulary. Its pronunciation makes it difficult to grasp but if you listen to it having subtitles in French your level of comprehension would increase a lot.
Italian sounds amazing 🇮🇹❤️
As an Argentinian:
1. I speak and write Portuguese almost perfectly without attend any class.
2. Catalan is almost understandable at 100%.
3. Italian is pretty different but I understand more than 50% of spoken phrases.
4. French ⚰️☠️
As a spanish speaker I understood
catalan 99%
French 15%
Portuguese 70%
Italian 50%
I am French and I feel that speakers of other Roman languages understand French better when it is written. I think it’s our very different way of pronouncing words with many mute letters that make it difficult to understand.
Il faut arrêter avec cette histoire de lettres muettes, elles ne sont pas muettes pour la plupart. Le français de part une très riche phonologie fonctionne fortement sur les combinaisons de lettres pour faire des sons. Notre langue descend aussi des langues franconiennes et une des particularités héritées c'est que l'on a des voyelles fermées et ouvertes. Si les français étaient un peu meilleurs à l'école et si les professeurs n'étaient pas aussi médiocres (bons derniers des pays de l'OCDE je rappelle) ils sauraient qu'une voyelle change de prononciation dépendant du fait qu'il y a une consonne ou pas après cette voyelle. Aussi, il ne fait pas oublier les liaisons ente les mots qui font que le français de par ces consonnes qui font la jonction (liaison) entre les mots sonne très doux.
Yes because the pronunciation is so different than the others but it is written similar
@@carthkaras6449 bien dit, la plupart des gens ne font pas les liaisons correctement à l'oral.
@@RagtimeDorianHenry en tout cas, je n'écrirai plus jamais une longue réponse avec mon gsm. J'ai fait deux fautes, ça la fout mal...
Agree
Romanian is such a underrated romance language
As a romanian i must say Amen to that 😂
I can never find a Romanian 😣 I would love to add them to the videos!
Well, next timec i'm coming to Mexico i'll call you😂😂
@@RaulCamarena3 🙂Do you speak or have you ever tried to learn greek?
@@Otny-lr4xg add me on IG! @raulcamarena_ keep in touch!
Imagine if Latin just walked in, now that's the real test 😂
It has been done. There's a guy from USA called Luke Rainieri, that speaks Latin, and has videos showing how much Latin can Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian speakers understand
@@joselassalle4958is it classical.
Listening to Latin for us is almost the same thing as listening to Old English for you.
It seems like a very old version of our languages. I can imagine a ghost speaking Latin.
@@Seven71987yes
As a French native speaker 🇫🇷, this is my ranking based on my level of intelligibility:
1) Italian 🇮🇹 (I almost didn't have to make any effort, it's just so clear and melodic to my ears)
2) Portuguese 🇧🇷 (I'm biased because I actually studied Portuguese for a semester - If it had been Portugal Portuguese, maybe I would've ranked it lower)
3) Catalan/Spanish 🇪🇸 (Sometimes I understood the Spanish speaker better than the Catalan one, and sometimes it was the other way around, so I give them the same rank.
However, I'd like to point out two things:
1) French may be harder to understand for other Romance language speakers, but when spoken slowly, I'm sure the level of intelligibility goes up.
The French guy spoke really fast at the beginning and was looking for his words, it's normal that the others didn't get anything. Then, he slowed down, and it seemed like the others understood him better.
2) Il n'est pas nécessaire de parler anglais entre nous, nous pouvons très bien nous comprendre dans nos langues respectives, avec quelques ajustements pour le français ! 😁 Cette vidéo en est la preuve ! Vive les langues romanes !
Sorry, but french is very hard for a portuguese native speaker Imao.
@@redrum3001 as an Italian I understood 95% of the comment, the lexical similarity is high between Italian and French, but when French is spoken I can't understand more than 30%
Holy moly as a portugese speaker I understood much more when it's slowed down and especially when I read in French
french is a hard language
You're right! I'm Italian and I understand French pretty well if I read it, but if I hear it I understand maybe like 60% of it
As a Spanish speaker I understand
Portuguese 80%
Italian 60%
Catalán 60%
French 20%
It's weird that you understand portuguse more than catalan .
@@karimslimani6423 maybe because I have more exposure with the Portuguese language specifically “Brazilian Portuguese”
@@luelzone7474 i asked the question because catalonia is situated in spain so it would be normaly undersood better than any other languague
@@karimslimani6423 but spanish is spoked in more countries than only in spain.
As a native french speaker, I’d say that Italian was the easiest to understand. Portuguese was definitely the hardest!
As a brazilian, I can understand french better when you guys speak slower. And I can read with minimum effort. But French is the most difficult among those presented.
@@LeonardoMenezes03 Have you tried Romanian, since it wasn't in the video. I listened to it on my own time and found it notably more difficult than French.
Portuguese don't like mute letters and words prounounced different of how it is written, that's why this language doesn't goes well with French XD
Yeah same for me i m algerian i speak french and english but among the other romance lguage i find italian the closest to understand i think its the closest to french ??
@@amrdel2730 I also have algerian origins. Born and raised in Belgium though.
o cara ficou pistola pq a brasileira disse q não gostou da comida mexicana e quis devolver falando de taxa de criminalidade do brasil KKKKKKKKKKKKK
De facto achei essa parte meio excessiva no contexto. Especialmente que sem dúvida México não é conhecido no mundo por ser o país da legalidade... então ele poderia ter dito mil coisas além disso.
@Big @ss Flower Pare de se meter onde não foi chamada pra falar de comida mexicana. O assunto não é esse.
E o irônico é que a taxa de criminalidade do Brasil é menor que a do México. Enfim, a hipocrisia.
@Big @ss Flower And what does it have to do with anything? Mexican criminality rates are just as welknown worldwide, so?
@Big @ss Flower Aggressive people? lol Brazil is known for their legendary soccer players, its unique nature, carnaval and music. Brazilians are known for being friendly and fun to be around. Brazil is indisputably the most relevant country in Latin America in every way, economically, politically, and geographically. The only relevance of Mexico is that it borders the US.
Im Italian-Canadian. 🙂 I speak English, Italian and French.
I understand Spanish more than Portuguese but some Portuguese words I get. Makes sense since they're all romance languages. 🙂
Awesome video! 🫶🏼💜
Everyone seems so sweet! 🥰
God bless everybody! 🙏🏻✌🏼❤️
Take care and be safe 🙂
Believe me, Romanian is as hard to understand for a Portuguese speaker as French is. And in the case of French, only the pronunciation is very different, when I read newspapers in French I can understand a lot. In the case of the Romanian, not even the words are known, almost nothing can be understood, neither listening nor reading.
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Interesting point of view!
Que interessante cara. Eu sou dos EUA mas meus pais são brasileiros então falou português, e eu acho que até da pra entender algumas palavras de romena. Mas só ler, escutar não consigo.
Hmm, I think that's a bit bs, sry... try this: ua-cam.com/video/FSwRoNtXdsE/v-deo.html
Maybe u read something weird. For myself, I definitely find Romanian closer to Latin in pronounciation (and understanding) than Portuguese or Catalan for example... and Romanian writing is *very* similar to Spanish imo.
I think its because romanian has a lot of slavic and latin based words that are synonyms, just maybe used for different context/small different meaning. So it depends on the text that you read. But as a brazillian i agree, italian and spanish are easy while french and romanian are harder (in different ways)
As a Dutch guy who studied latin I was surprised how many words I could pick up just by listening to romanian.
Reading brought me even further.
Romanian sounds archaïc and beautiful to my ears.
As a Spanish speaker (born and raised in California of Mexican parents). I understood the Italian speaker the best aside from Raul. This Italian speaker seems to have a more neutral way of pronouncing words. I would even argue his intonation appeared inflected by the neutral spoken Spanish in Mexico by living there so long.
I don't exactly know what you mean by neutral but he definitely has a remarkably southern accent, although I agree that he spoke generally quite slowly and clearly
California or Baja California?
@@HasufelyArod considering he said “of Mexican parents” I think he meant California, U.S.
It's because the phonetics/pronunciation of Italian is the closest to Spanish (with, maybe, the exception of Catalan, which I'm not familiar with). French pronunciation is the most complex, that's why it's so difficult to understand. I'm a native Spanish speaker from Puerto Rico (fully bilingual in English, which I learned at an early age) and I can tell you if you look at written Portuguese about 75% is intelligible with Spanish. Portuguese has a more complex pronunciation than Italian but if someone speaks slowly is intelligible for a Spanish speaker.
A me (sono italiano) sembra che abbia un accento meridionale (siciliano o calabrese)
as korean, im mesmerized by this video and yeah this video is so *UNDERRATED* 부럽다... although Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese have slight Chinese origin, we can't understand each other...
The closeness the languages you mentioned with Chinese are likely from the writing system Hanzi, Hanja, Kanji and Chữ Nôm. In addition Chinese loanwords into those languages.
The only one, that would be considered even related to each other is Korean and Japanese. Even with that they are distantly related, that they won't be mutually intelligible. While Chinese (Mandarin) and Vietnamese are not even in the same language family.
if you learn the phonological and some lexical differences of french and Portuguese as a spanish/italian speaker you'll also understand them pretty easily.
I think this applies to all of them, if you dedicate a couple of months studying each language you'll be able to catch most of the other languages pretty quickly.
Without studying , just listening to music and watching movies i understood Italian ! Super easy ! Good job Raul !
Thank you Stefan!!! That’s good bro!
🇲🇽Qual é a sua comida favorita do México?
🇧🇷-Nenhuma 😂😂😂
Creo que todos anduvimos un poco confundidos con el francés 😂 ¡un video muy bueno!
J'ai compris tous les autres , comment ca se fait que vous nous comprenez pas ? D:
Graças a deus aprendi francês e português, se eu tivesse estudado só português, com certeza não ia entender porra nenhuma do francês kkkkk
@@Lostouille Ça doit être à cause de la prononciation je pense, y'a quand même beaucoup de liaison, d'élision, de lettres muettes etc. alors que pour les autres langues la prononciation c'est un peu plus lié à l'orthographe. Et je sais qu'il y a aussi certains mots qui sont incompréhensibles si on sait pas qu'il faut utiliser un synonyme--même le mot "mot" ils vont pas comprendre, mais "parole" est beaucoup plus facile (techniquement le mot "palabre" existe aussi, mais y'a personne qui dit ça hein)
Haven’t watched the video yet but as a native English speaker with a slight background in Spanish who’s currently learning Spanish too my proudest moment was when I could understand Italian
9:18 COMO SE NO MÉXICO FOSSE SUPER SEGURO, NE QUERIDO?
pensei o mesmo, os cartéis mandam no governo de lá
Pois é, o cara claramente exagerou pacas. E eu fui pesquisar, o México tem uma taxa de homicídios maior do que o Brasil.
Dude this is such a freaking cool experimental video!!!!! So cool to see them all talking around. Such a good job 👏🏼👍🏼👐🏼
It’s crazy how similar they are huh!!
J'adore cette diversité des langues romaines 😍. Moi, je ne comprends que le français,, mais je peux comprendre un peu d'autres langues également, à mon avis, le portugais est le plus difficile.
Yeah, i am a portuguese speaker native, but i think the French is very hardest too.
je suis américain et tout des langues étaient difficiles.
aucun mots m'est arrivé en regardant cette vid , je encore doute mon bac
@@stupidvarietyhour Si sos un americano de Brasil entendés portugués y si sos un amerino de Quebec(Canadá) entendés francés y si sos un americano de hispanoamérica entendés español.
🤣🤣🤣
Crendeuspai
imagine a world where speakers of a romance language could just understand speakers of other romance languages without having to speak it ?? man that would be sick
Than it would be like we in Scandinavia. Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are like 95% mutually understandable.
@@johnnorthtribe interesting... 95% of comprehension is really huge !! as a french I don't understand much of italian, portuguese of romanian, tho I understand a bit of spanish because I studied it in school. In my comment I was implying that a bit of effort from every romance speaker would be necessary to make it work, but it's not the case...
@@CertifiedSlacker It is like in this video. An interview with the Norwegian singer Astrid S. In this interview she is interviewed by two Swedish hosts. Astrid speaks in Norwegian and the hosts in Swedish. They understand each other almost perfectly. :)
ua-cam.com/video/ew2UKC4xdbk/v-deo.html
That's called the Roman Empire
@@johnnorthtribe pretty right! I study Norwegian and somehow, I could understand Danes and Swedish automaticly 😂😂😂 amazing
I speak Spanish and I found Italian the easiest to understand, besides Spanish of course
i speak Italian and i can say the same about Spanish
I am Argentinian and Brazilian Portuguese Is the easiest to understand for me
as a portuguese speaker from easiest to hardest
Spanish I understand everything
Italian 80 - 90 %
Catalan 20 - 30 %
French 10%
To me, a Japanese native and English as second language speaker, it appears that all those guys can well understand each other, particularly about soccer. Very good video.
football*, only gringos say "soccer"
@@t4m4l-d3-dvlc3muricans not gringos
@@t4m4l-d3-dvlc3ever heard of variants and dialects? Both soccer and football are correct in English. This fact might be hard for you to accept but it is indisputable that not everyone speaks the same way, not even everyone speaks the same language/dialect
@@t4m4l-d3-dvlc3and for your information, Japanese education prefers American English to be taught at school
Hablar español, inglés e italiano definitivamente ayuda, pero el francés si difiere mucho! Un motivo para estudiarlo! Buen video
I think this group talk is cool because you try to give-and-take each time. Usually I find videos where there is one language speker who does the main talk while the other ones only focus on whether they can tell the words or something. I think I like this setting, it looks just like you are sitting at the cafe and talk to each other. It's not just one-way but two-way.
I'm italian and i live in France since more than 2 years. When i arrived here, I've passed the first 4 days in an big house-hostel full of differents people: brasilians, arabians, english, spanish, russians, allemands, and every evening we were united in the entry of this great house, some sitted on the sofa, some on the ground, trying to speak our story and stories about out countries, learning something new about the other languages, laughing a lot. It's been the best part of my french life, i loved so so much ❤ so thank you for these videos, in a world full of war and hate, there is nothing most beautiful and heartwarming than this 🌹
A musicalidade do italiano me encanta, sou apaixonado pelas línguas românicas, e acho fascinante o tanto de inteligibilidade que temos entre as nossas línguas irmãs!
Românicas *
Somos irmáos de lingua.
Vocé fala portugués?
estoy de acuerdo amigo
@@HasufelyArod Sim! Portugues Brasilieiro!
@@Oldp1e você podw falar con migo se vuoi.
Yes yes yes si si si oui oui oui
IT IS GREAT
I loved your spirit guys
The conversation was so fun I enjoyed it as if I was there with you I laughed and felt it
One of the Best thing in the world for me is THIS, human connection
Young People From diffrent parts of the world with varied cultures talk about many subjects, just feels perfect
❤️
I am italian, I can undestand very well Spanish and Catalan, Portuguese too, but the one of brasil; it is easier than the original, The problem of French is the pronunce, Anyway all these language, if written, are very easy to me, the romanian too.
Went better than I expected! They really already started to get used to it after the first five minutes
i really enjoyed this video!! and as a spanish speaker i also find french to be the most different/difficult among them all
Definitely
As someone who studied Italian for years why do i find Catalan easier and more understandable, like i literally understood most of her talk 🤯
As a brazilian I can understand spanish and catalan very well (and gallego even better) we are very similar, italian I can understand well but they have some different pronuciations that can change everything, and french I confess that in this video I didn't understand him the most of the time, but I'm learning now so, maybe next year I will know everything.
We brazilians think the same about mexico 😍
but one of them receives more tourists than the other, can you guess which one it is?😍😋
@@bonomomusic8701which is the richest? lmao!
@brasilianismo8810 It's Brazil a developed and a first world country as Canada or the United States? It's all his population that rich as Germans or swiss people?
@@bonomomusic8701We're talking about BR and MX.
@@brasilianismo8810 Brazil is not that different to mexico, much money but much poverty any way
As spanish speaker I recognize that the Italian it’s the easiest to understand because the pronunciation it’s really similar to Spanish, but as well Portuguese it’s more similar in writing to Spanish, so for the hearing Italian and for the writing Portuguese.
as spanish speaker I understood in this order : 1 _ Portuguese , 2 _ catalan 3_Italian 4 _ French (im from Argentina)
This channel is SO UNDERRATED
Hahah thank you :)
as a japanese speaker, i notice the 4 or more romance language speakers have possibility that their romance language will be recognized as one of the common languages on this planet if the romance language speakers start commonalizing the languages.
Interlingua
As a Spanish speaker (learning French + Portuguese) I found Portuguese the easiest just more fast paced and with some diff pronunciations and French was the hardest for me however because I find it hard to understand/communicate in French although I can read and write way better
9:17 Fala como se no México não tivesse milhares de homicídios por ano que piada 🤔🤣
I don't think it's polite in an informal conversation with colleagues to talk about violence and problems that exist in other countries. After all, Mexico has many problems with drug trafficking. For example, it would be very rude to talk about Catalan nationalism or Italy's far-right government. The interviewer was very rude to the Brazilian girl.
I didn't experience it like that at all!
Okay, Tom. So in the next initial meeting with colleagues try to make friends with Americans by talking about American imperialism and the deaths it caused. With Russian colleagues, try the subject War in Ukraine and so on... With white South African colleagues, your initial conversation might be about Apartheid... Then you tell me if you managed to make many new friends.
I think Catalan is difficult because we don't hear it very often. Spanish and Italian are quite familiar. And French... well... it's undoubtedly the most different, but it's a very important language and everyone knows some words and expressions. I'm from Brazil.
This came up on my feed, LOVED it !!!!!!! I speak english and Spanish, and im learning portuguese. French is the hardest to understand for me !!
Yes French is usually the most distant of the Romance languages but I would love to speak with a Romanian speaker! I heard Romanian is heard !
I would have loved to see a Romanian person here too. (I know they would be so hard to find!) Romanian has so many nearly identical sounding or spelt words to all the languages here, but it also haa a lot of difference!
That would’ve been nice. I watched a Romanian movie a long time ago, and to my ears (I’m Brazilian) it sounded like a mix of Italian and a Slavic language. Visually, after I did some research on the language, it looked like Latin, imo
Romanians would probably understand all languages but none would romanian
They all have differences between them. I don't think Romanian is more difficult to understand than Portuguese for example - but ppl are prob more familiar with Portuguese (they came in contact before), so that's why it may *appear* like Romanian stands out as more difficult/distant from the others.
When it's not, it's actually somewhere in the middle.
Spanish speaker here. It's crazy how different the french language is, it doesn't even sound like a romance language 💀
Maybe it's because of the close relationship between spanish speaking countries and Brazil/Portugal, but I feel like Portuguese is the closest to Spanish. It's very easy to understand for me. I understood a little of Catalán and Italian, but not as much as Portuguese
Como brasileiro, espanhol basicamente cresci entendendo. Muitos produtos (especialmente materiais escolares) têm rótulos em portugues e espanhol, e na escola as aulas de espanhol ajudaram bastante a entender essa língua tão similar. Claro que tem muitas diferenças entre o proprio espanhol mas em geral creio que entendo bem :)
Mas imaginei que catalán seria mais próximo de espanhol/castellano que português haah
As línguas de origem latina são consideradas as mais linda do mundo!
I’m Arab/Brazilian and I speak Portuguese and I can speak Spanish and Italian and I see there is great similarity between Spanish and Italian and Portuguese, And I find it difficult to understand French, but I think the accent is the reason, because I can understand French writin I also want to learn Catalan, which is very similar to Spanish
let me guess . you're lebanese by origin
@@7mad211 lebanese people are not arab
Awesome 👏 As a galician(french descendant) I can understand all of them, glad to have such a multicultural family.
I'm so happy for you!! Multilingualism practiced in the family is definitely good. Much better than books. 😄😊
As brazilian from the easiest to the hardest:
1) Spanish ☺️
2) Italian 😊
3) Catalan 🙂
3) French 😐
As an American who speaks Portuguese, my rank is
1. Portuguese: 100%
2. Spanish: 65%
4. Italian: 40%
3. Catalan: 30%
4. French 15%
As someone who has a passenger understanding of spanish, italian seems to follow a very similar way of speaking, aside from the vocab the way the two languages are spoke with the comas and breaks and inflections. It similar enough and there are enough words that kind of overlap if you squint that i can make out individual parts.
As a Portuguese speaker i can understand most of the things in Spanish, italian and french (french does have a different pronounce sometimes but i can understand as well cause we got same words) .
As a French speaker, French was the most difficult one to understand
as a braziian the order from easiest to the hardest one for me was portuguese (obviously), french (I live in france), spanish (very similar to portuguese), catalan (somewhat similar) and italian (not so similar but I still could grasp like 50%)
when I see (ão) at any word . I can easily figure it out the language or the name is portuguese LOL
I loved the sound of it.
I also find french easier than italian for example and I live in Brazil. I think the problem with french is the same that with portuguese. The sound and the way you write some words are quite different from the others. Portuguese have ão, nh, lh.... and french eau, oux, ö... Once you know to reconize those sounds french is way easier. Same with portuguese.
This is gold my friend!!! Enjoyed it immensely!
I’m happy you enjoyed it!!
"Brasil é muito perigoso"
Brasil para gringo = Rio de janeiro
Claro que vai ser perigoso.
E se você for ver o ranking das cidades mais perigosas do mundo, o México é o país que mais tem! Sem falar que a taxa de homicídio do México é mais alta que a do Brasil.
O Rio de Janeiro nem é uma das cidades mais perigosas do Brasil - por incrível que pareça. O que acontece é que o Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo são as cidades mais importantes do Brasil, em todos os sentidos, então sempre estão nos holofotes da mídia.
Sim, esse comentário foi totalmente fora de contexto. Acho que ficou com raiva por ela não gostar de comida mexicana...
@@janeyre82 Só pode. Muita grosseria a pessoa perguntar "o que você sabe do meu país?" e a pessoa só responder coisas extremamente negativas. Não tolero esse tipo de coisa de estrangeiros. Devolvo na mesma moeda.
@@julianasilva6946 também achei muito rude por parte do dono do canal
Ele pode ter se sentido ofendido pelo jeito que ela respondeu à pergunta sobre a comida mexicana. É o que parece.
Awesome dude! It's like watching a movie with ensemble stars. Exciting and insightful video. Great concept 👍👏🙌
Language avengers assemble 😉😎
Where's the Romanian? I speak Romanian and I can almost understand what they were saying
This was really interesting I’d love to see something like this with other language families as well to see the results
I want to see English speakers try to understand Swedish.
As an Asian, It's hard for me to distinguish Catalan, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. French is very different among these languages.
French sounds different bit still is very similar to other linguistically speaking
Because how you live in a Asian country that dont speak a romance language you couldnt understand what they was talking for me As a portuguese, spanish and english speaker I can understand really well even thought the French guy speak very hard
The intonation is VERY different, specially in Italian and portuguese.
I'm from also Asia and speak Portuguese, it's easy to differentiate
@@maryocecilyo3372 Where are u from?
No sé sí fue intencional, pero me gustó que estuvieron sentados al lenguaje más cercano, como el español al catalán y al portugués 👍
A la mejor si fue intencional;)
O francês é o mais difícil de entender desses cinco idiomas. Mesmo assim, eu quero aprendê-lo.
Oye eres Filipino de verdad?
@@luelzone7474 Sí, lo soy.
@@umcarafilipino yo también guau, todavía vives en Filipinas?
@@luelzone7474 Sí, sí.
@@umcarafilipino pero el nombre de tu canal esta en portugues
I'm an italian and I found from the easiest to the hardest to understand:
1- Spanish
2-Catalan
3-French
4-Portuguese
And french is third because I'm taking french classes, even though I still struggle a lot ahaha. I swear, I can't understand a single word of portuguese either
That's funny because Portuguese shares great similarities with Spanish. Way more than Italian, in fact.
Maybe it's the phonology, nasal vowels...
@@augustobarbosab.773 The nasal vowels, the palatalized t/d (“verdagi” for “verdade” for example) and it being lexically further away than French or Catalan
@@oliveranderson7264 I mean, the palatalized "t" and "d" (which are not present in all of Brazil's accents) follow a clear pattern, so it's pretty easy to notice.
Also, French level of divergence from Latin is bigger than Portuguese's.
@@augustobarbosab.773 Yes, they’re very predictable once you know what they correspond to in other languages but without prior exposure it’s hard to figure out and although French has evolved the most from Vulgar Latin it shares a higher lexical similarity with Italian than Portuguese does. Also, Portuguese grammar is in some ways more different, with it using the simple past (dormi) much more frequently as opposed to French and Italian (j’ai dormi vs he dormito)
As a Spanish speaker I found it easy to understand, Portugues, Catalan and French surprisingly. Italian was a little difficult.
Gosto muito do seu canal meu amigo, por favor traga mais vídeos assim, isso enriquece o seu canal e o nosso conhecimento, já estou ansioso pelo próximo video, um abraço do Brasil.
Eu gosto de a sua lingua. :)
Omg dude this videos is sick🔥🔥🔥I really liked the concept of the video,it was so cool haha I don't know but this video made me proud of being a portuguese speaker,a latin language because it's easier to learn these languages
For sure bro! We can pretty much communicate with other Romance languages 😎
A brasileira com certeza é descendente de japonês hehe amei ela a não saber nada sobre o messe kkk
Eu adoro a lingua lusitanica.
Por que nós descendentes de japoneses não sabemos quem seria o Messi? Ela é apenas uma pessoa que não gosta de futebol!
@@marcelohjsakura acho que ele não relacionou isto necessariamente
I've been told by a bilingual BR Portuguese and Italian speaker who was studying French (in France) that when reading French, he pretty much understood around 70 to 90% depending on the topic but when it came to spoken French, he could only understand around 30 to 50% mainly because of his Italian since French pronunciation is very different from the rest of the Romance languages.
for me the order of understanding the languages from easiest to hardest:
spanish
portuguese
catalan
italian
french
As a Portuguese speaker I understand Spanish very well, I understand Italian well and no French.
I can understand 90% of Portuguese and Italian as a Spanish speaker. But French, that language terrifies me. HOW DARE YOU BE DIFFERENT.
C'est comme ça , on est différents. L'Emo de la famille latine 😎
If fact based on grammar and lexical . French and italian are the closest . But the shift in phonetic makes french difficult. Just like you may look allike to your cousin than your own brother
As an English speaker I found the French language to be the most understandable then again English has a lot of loan words from French.
True !
@@TheMademoiselleV that is also because the French speaker spoke at a slower pace than the rest.
I was adopted from Peru and grew up 22 years in Chicago. Even I know you don't put pineapple in pizza it's an abomination. 😆 it's soo cool that they can understand each for the most part. Is it just me or does the Catalan language sound a lot like Spanish and Portuguese mixed up together?
Genius! A dream come true to witness this. Thank you! 😄
Portuguese from Portugal is not used because we would understand all of them for the most part. 😎 The comments about Brazil’s violence though…not cool. Must be a mexican deflecting thing because in The US you do not hear of Brazilian gang violence and such at all but Central America and Columbia…another story.
Dummies should’ve said soccer maybe they’re too young. Beautiful women…So it’s not all on you.
i love that when comes to food the Italian looks offended when Brazilian eats pizza with ketchup
Offended is too much to say... it's not that we're not used to hearing pizza being eaten in the weirdest ways around the world. He was just kidding
ITA and ESP: Guarda la Luna (ITA) :Dónde? Cómo? (ESP) 😂😂😂💞 (LOOK at the moon (ITA) :Where, How ? (ESP) [to look VS to save/keep) 😉
The Romanian language always gets left out forgotten.
The Romanian language is the only Romance language that developed in Eastern Europe.
I'm a brazilian portuguese speaker. I find italian harder than french. I think the problem with french is the same that with portuguese. The sound and the way you write some words are quite different from the others. Portuguese have ão, nh, lh.... and french eau, oux, ö... Once you know to reconize those sounds french is way easier. Same with portuguese.
Agora você me deu um nó na cabeça ,porque o italiano da para entender muitas coisas quando italiano fala.agora quando um francês fala não dá para entender nada.
What I like about this video is that the way each speaker reacts to the other languages is "accurate". Like how they all struggle with the French speaker, how Catalan *should* be similar to Spanish but is different enough to cause some confusion, and so on.
universal consensus that french is hardest;/
@@RaulCamarena3 French has this funny thing where its phonetics diverged so much from the other Romance languages that you only notice how "Latin" a word is when you _read_ it
The girl that speaks Catalan can obviously speak Spanish also. She has at least two Romance languages in her mental database.
A Corsican or Occitan speaker check if they can understand other Romance languages, when in fact they also would have French in addition, due to growing up in a country, that has it as their official language.
Occitan speaker are for the big majority of them french speaker as their native language.
Due to colonization
@@fablb9006 Which makes it odd for the Catalan speaker to see if she understands Spanish, because Catalan speakers are already bilingual with Spanish growing up.
She of course is going to understand Spanish 100%.
It would be like asking a speaker of Galician, Aragonese and Aranese if they can understand Spanish.
The Europeans all had 3+ years of English and 3+ years of at least one other language (likely French, Spanish, or German) in school. Not to mention they all border each other and would be exposed to each other’s movies, music, and other media.
The girl from Brazil would also have had several years of both English and Spanish in school since Spanish was made compulsory a couple decades ago.
None of that would make them fluent in all of those languages, but the exposure would help them understand the correlations between the languages at least.
@@mattchtx The Catalan speaker grew up learning Spanish. Not just from school. It isn't a question for her to understand Spanish, which is odd to consider in the video.
That would be like asking a Frisian speaker born and raised in the province of Friesland if they can understand Dutch.
As a spanish speaker who can speak portuguese, this was enjoyable
Soy Argentino y cómo acá en Argentina la mitad de nuestras palabras son italianas entendí casi todo y del portugués también (deber ser porque tenemos de vecino a brasil). El francés no le entiendo casi nada cuándo habla pero escrito lo entiendo bien
I'm Argentinian and here in Argentina we use a lot of italians word, i understood very well the italian, the same with the portuguese (maybe it's because we have to brasil as a neighbour). The french lenguague i don't understand almost nothing when he talks, but written i understand very well
no te pases, argentino, ya he platicado con muchos argentinos y no es para nada como dices. puede que una que otra palabrita, nada de especial.
I am a Native English Speaker who is bilingual in Spanish. For me to listen to the languages feels as follows.
Spanish 😁
Catalan 🙂
Italian 😐
Portuguese 🤨
French 🤬
Italian/Spanish/French/Portuguese 😁
Romanian 😔
You’d be welcome at my table 🤛
very interesting! I know some Italian and going soon to Brazil. I read Portuguese is most similar to Galician.
9:18 acho engraçado que a visão que você tem do Brasil é a mesma que todos os brasileiros tem do México kkkk Especialmente em Cancún e os cartéis do México.
Mas em geral, amamos os mexicanos por que nos presentearam com o Chaves do 8
E se você for olhar os dados mesmo, o Brasil é mais seguro que o México.
Sorry, that was uncalled for.
Vocé ter razáo.
todos os brasileiros uma vírgula
I'm a native speaker of Portuguese, I could understand Italian and Spanish very well, I understood just a little of Catalan, but I can't understand French at all.
As a Brazilian I can understand Italian and Spanish perfectly...
And Italian more than Spanish tbh...cuz Italian's rhythm sounds more similar to the one we have in Brazilian portuguese...
And Spanish sounds kinda "square" to me...
I'm italian and i understand spanish better lmao.
@@non.newtonianfluid Don't think of European portuguese...ours is nothing like that 😂
@@henry247 i was talking about this video. But most Italians agree. Spanish is easier to understand.
Pt is the coolest
Gran video Raúl, el idioma que entendí sin problemas fue el Italiano, ya que es del que tengo un mejor dominio.
Saludos!!
I'm a native Spanish speaker from Puerto Rico, bilingual in English, with three years of studying Italian, one year of French, and recently started studying Portuguese. I would say that the French pronunciation is the most complicated, with many nasal sounds. Italian and Spanish (and Catalan) pronunciation are the most similar.
Eu também achei difícil complicado a pronuncia do francês não entendi nada sorry kkkk
Excelente ideia para um vídeo. Por favor, faça mais.
Okay 😉
Tal vez el mejor video de este tipo que he visto, se debió a que todos los integrante tienen buena dicción, lenguaje neutro con pocos modismos (slang), buen nivel de conversación y fluida. El francés es el que tiene mayor dificultad para entenderse por la pronunciación gutural que lo caracteriza, el oído de personas hablantes de otras lenguas romances necesita habituarse a esa forma de pronunciar las palabras y al hacerlo, puede entenderlo al igual que los otros idiomas derivados del latín. Con gusto dejo mi like. Saludos