I don't understand how could anyone think the Hebrew alphabet looks like the Arabic alphabet. I mean, the letters don't connect, that should be a pretty strong clue.
they didnt say that though... they thought it was arabic based on what it sounded. as a hebrew speaker, i can gurantee thats not true, but at the end of it were both semitic languages so it makes sense. hebrew is a very guttoral language, a lot of the pronounciation takes place in the back of the mouth, while arabic is more like in the throat....you know what im talking about. Greetings from israel
i am sorry but hebrew and arabic do connect. in some instances you can see hebrew as the print style of the cursive writing that is arabic. observe shalom and salaam and compare them, one is like the cursive version of the other. سلام שלום
More like German. Hungarian is too feminine sounding and doesn't have that French/German R nor the Ch sound. A better one would be in between Arabic and German.
I know my language (swedish) isn't very well known or widely spoken but wooow so many of them said swedish. They have obviously never heard swedish before.
Dågge L they've heard the Swedish chef! So anything that's gibberish sounding is like the Swedish chef!: ua-cam.com/video/MyLTknMEiR4/v-deo.html (Fun fact, Swedish chef's uncle is Jewish actor (coincidence): Danny Kaye who used to sing in Hebrew: ua-cam.com/video/t_L1RAVm4js/v-deo.html
Dude i am trying to teach myself swedish on duolingo but I'm slacking. You would think as a german it wouldn't be too damn hard. My language retention isn't what it used to be
haha hilarious, the hebrew bit you're playing is talking about Milstone ceramic tiles, and that's my brothers tile factory, so funny to run into this by accident! :D
NO, it was the other way around. Yiddish was influenced by German, Russian and other eastern European languages and Ancient Hebrew. There used to be about a dozen Jewish Languages influenced by Hebrew band the local Language. Judeo-Spanish is Ladino, Judeo-Tat was spoken in the Caucasus Mountains. Ancient Hebrew had a vocabulary of about 7,000 words, but had to be modified to reflect changes in technology and life. Now there are abut 75,000 words or compound words that were also influenced by Aramaic, Arabic and English.
David Cohen, truth be told we don't know how many words comprised what is referred to as ancient Hebrew. Basically the only basis we have is Scripture. But it could very well be that there are words that are not mentioned in Scripture which have been lost to us over time.
Tom sanders 'Cause most of history is based on shrewdness and greed; just like all politicians are total liars, maybe that's why. Tell me a politican who is very honest and tell a civilization who has 'never' fought a war/ invaded anywhere in history. Non-objectiveness is worse than all wars and liar politicians to me.
Hannah M Honey, I don't know what they sell you but I don't think you know a thing about Judaism. Really..you're ridiculous. We're the nicest people you could meet😎
MrLifeBr Wow, no. lol. It's when you are asked a question and you don't know the exact answer for it but you're offered some choices. You know that some of the choices are wrong so you "eliminate" them, take them away from the choices set, and then you have fewer choices and guess one or you have one choice left so you choose it, that's the elimination process. It could work as a holocaust joke tho lol XD
Honestly as a Hebrew speaker I dont see how Arabic and Hebrew look and sound similar, just like Chinese , Korean , and Japanese.. They all sound different to me 🤔
You gotta realize that pronouncing the Ḥet letter correctly even once registers as a dead giveaway to Westerners unfamiliar with Hebrew, who mistake this for Arabic.
Honestly as a Hebrew and a Arabic i can see why it's similar, maybe the accent is different , but a lot of words are the same/similar in Hebrew and Arabic
@Adva nakar Someone who diligently studied both languages managed to quantify the words common to both, concluding it is 35%. This is certainly a big minority.
Hebrew does not sound like Arabic for me at all, (my first language is Russian), and does not sound like German. Hebrew sound like Hebrew , and I like how Hebrew sound, very beautiful language.(why are they think about Swedish, German languages? Swedish, German, and English , it's Germanic languages)
That's because of the harsh sounds. Dutch has many of those, but no freaking clue why they'd guess for swedish and anything nordic, those are by contrast very light and sing-songy languages. ANd well, hebrew is in the same language group as arabic, so I guess there are similarities, but yeah, it's not quite that similair.
I've been learning German for about three months and I am a lousy student, so it is very funny to me when they say German, because with very little contact to the language it becomes so obvious of how different that is and how that is NOT German! German sounds a lot "softer", while Hebrew sounds more guttural
hebrew and arbic are Aramaic famliy when most of the world is latin famliy so it's really difficult to them to speak that language when u know hebrew cuz it's a throat voice it's much easier to learn other languages and if u know yidish it will be like every thing is easy to speak XDDDD
to me it sounds european and im arabic and its really mostly european and im talking about the current modern hebrew ancient hebrew would prop sound more like arabic than european
The difference is that the Hebrew you've heard was coming from Ashkenazi jews , which contributes only 30% of the Jews in Israel .. When you'll listen to Sephardic or Mizrahi jews talking Hebrew , it will sound very much like Arabic , as they speak much slower , and with much more breathing in each word . You know what , just type Rabbi amnon Itzhak , he is a yemmanite jew , and it sounds complitely different
@@FinallyIamAshark Your words are Bullshit ... You don't know the Statistics in Israel , so you just watch UA-cam , and think that all the jews in Israel are Ashekenazi , meaning that you are either a big ignorant , or maybe even a liar ... 70% of the jews in Israel are Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews from Yemen , Ethiopia , Lebanon , Iraq , Syria , Morocco , Algeria , Libya , Egypt , Iran , Turkey , Azerbaijan , the Republic of Georgia , Spain , india , and Afghanistan .... The Ashkenazi have control of the money , but are the minority in numbers... Only 2 cities have an Ashkenazi majority , which are Tel aviv and Bat yam ,,, all the rest look like if you are in an Arab country ... Arabs are a mixed race also , as your forefathers have conquered so many places in the Islamic Conquest , where Arab men , have taken foreign women as their wife's , from Spain to Russia , and from youguslavia to Mongolia .. So arabs are filled with Ashekenazi blood , which Ashkenaz by the way was a human , and a Decendent of Japheth , son of Noah , so many Arabs are not even Semites from Shem ... Truth hurts...
Sarah Al-Suleihi I've never heard an Arabic dialect that sounds smoother than Hebrew. With that in mind, as many Israeli Jews are from Arabic origins (Jews who came from Arabic countries) their Hebrew doesn't sound so nice on the ear too , to me anyway.
as i started learning Hebrew and listening to the texts and the songs, I realized it sounds like the mix of Spanish and German. That makes even more sense considering both Ashkenazim and Sephardim have influenced the modern Hebrew
Actually most Sepharadim lived in Arabic speaking countries. But Hebrew surely sounds more similar to Spanish than to some other languages people confuse it with. Notably French (?!)
The choice of a video clip about tiles (?!) is so random! :) It's hilarious and a very sweet token. Thank you, and we wish you Shanah Tovah (Happy new year) too!
I find it very weird that they thought it's a Germanic language. Most of the people I met in Europe told me Hebrew sounds like French to them and it does. Maybe because they are Canadian so they all have basic French knowledge.
unitrvl I agree it sounds french to me sometimes. Except less throaty sounds. I use to think it sounded more French but I started watching more French and Israeli films and could start telling the difference.
If you have any basic french knowledge you would know for sure that is not french. I had french in highschool 15 yrs ago and i would have known thats not french. If they're canadian shame on them
I also encountered people who confused Hebrew for French. They say it's because of the pronounciation of R. OK, but the vowels in both languages are soooo different. I don't get it.
I was in Israel last january, and because I speak Dutch but live in Brazil, I have my ears ''trained'' for de tipical ''g'' or ''ch'' [exactly the same as hebrew] sound of Dutch. The first days I constantly was serching for dutch people in Israel but they were jews... :-)
I speak Hebrew, but I don't pronounce the ח like most Israelis do since it makes the language sound too gutteral, like they said phlegm, rather I pronounce it like the Arabic ح which is a much softer sound. It's also the right way to pronounce the ח anyway and gives the language a more diverse range of sounds.
Hi! Im here in Israel. Hebrew is very special and unique and the sound none of them could make is the letter h'eit (ח). I had a good time anderstending what the video sed. That was hilarious. Thank you for that!
@Jason Voorheese that's only the syntax the vocabulary are not even close to european languages and herebew has alot features that european languages don't have like the inflected proposition
@Jason Voorheese cuz people don't really know what they say, yes i can agree with that hebrew sounds sometimes arabic cuz there from one language family for example: Eng- Sun that shines on the earth Ger- Sonne, die auf die Erde scheint Frc- Soleil qui brille sur la terre Arb- al-shamsh alty tushariq ealaa al'ard Heb- Ha'shemesh asher zorakhat 'al pney kadur ha'arets
I speak both arabic and hebrew, and theyr'e very close, but the only way I can think of that hebrew is close to a european language is the h'. It is funny to watch people's reactions to the language...
I'm a bit confused by the whole "foreign sounding" part because in terms of phonology, Hebrew *did* share many sounds with Arabic and those sounds would be very unfamiliar to English speakers, but ever since it was revived a lot of the old pronunciation kinda went away as the language was again spoken and therefore underwent change (and also, Jews from Europe who learned Hebrew as a second language after it was revived ignored a lot of the unfamiliar sounds and just gave their best approximate, which got passed down). So I'm kinda confused by the "look at all those weird sounds". Unless it's a Mizrahi/Yemeni accent, the only two sounds that aren't in English are /x/ (latinized as "ch", isn't in English but is in most other European languages such as Spanish, German and Russian, a.k.a. "the kh sound") and /t͡s/ which is basically just t and s but at the same time rather than in short sequence, can be latinized as "tz" as well, and the Arabic equivalent is the back s (ص). So like, I get that there's like 2 unfamiliar sounds but it's strange to me how much that gets noticed when there's Arabic chilling there with at least 7 of them
Guess those two sounds (especially the "kh" one) are the strongest ones, and are enough to associate Hebrew with Arabic somehow. As a Hebrew speaker, and a person familiar with Arabic, it's hard for me to understand, but I suppose that's how it works for them.
The "kh" sound in hebrew is nothing like "kh" in European languages becaue in these languages it's very soft and not as down in the throat as it is in hebrew . the hebrew kh actually sound exactly the same as the arabic kh خ , in both languages this sound sounds like someone is trying to spit and it's very noticeable to foreigners
@@akd7576 "Trying to spit" is a very nice description xD As far as i'm aware though, Arabic خ *isn't* usually transcribed as "kh", because خ is the same sound as Ashkenazi Hebrew כ,ח and Mizrahi כ. The خ is the same sound as Russian х or the "ch" in "Loch Ness", so *not* the other "kh" that only got preserved (within Semitic languages, of course) in Arabic and Yemeni (and Mizrahi?) Hebrew. That other one, which is different and probably fits the "trying to spit" description better, is Arabic ح (without the dot!) and Yemeni Hebrew ח. This is the one that got lost from all other dialects of Hebrew in the revival process, doesn't appear in languages like Scottish Gaelic or Russian (at least not regularly, not as a letter), and the same one that's consistently transcribed as "kh". IPA for the first one (خ) is "x" or "χ". while for the second one (ح) it's sometimes argued upon but normally "ħ". Hopefully this cleared some stuff up, I could bring example words from both languages if something still isn't clear but note that I speak Ashkenazi Hebrew so I don't pronounce the 2nd at all in daily speech :P
@Eliad654 The arabic خ is always transcribed as kh , i've never seen different transcription to this sound ح is a different sound and can't be transcribed as kh. while ح sounds foreign , it doesn't sound as guttural as the خ kh sound in arabic and hebrew . come to think of the "Trying to spit" description to this sound ,i think it does make sense beacue when people try to spit they make the sound خ , not ح And especially that arabs and israelis tend to pronounce this sound from the very back of the throat it makes it sound like that in these languages
as a hebrew speaker i can tell you hebrew sounds nothing like arabic. expect grammer rules modern hebrew and arabic don't share common nothing! actually as an israeli, when you hear hebrew, you can notice in a second if you speak with an arab or with a jew. they different accent that change every thing, they don't have the letters we have such as "P" , they can't pronounce it. from what i heard around the world hebrew sounds to people german and french.
My mother tongue is Dutch which is closely related to English, but there is no native English speaker who would say Dutch and English sound alike. There are many sounds native English speakers can't pronounce (or which are at least very difficult). Hebrew and Arabic are closely related, there is no denying in that.
Secret5964 i have never deny it, i said the share common grammer which make the from the same family but this guy in the vid try to direft them to the middle east and to the arab language based on what they hear, which is wrong to my opinion cuz based on hearing there is nothing alike between hebrew and arabic! the words are different and the accent is just like black and white! itws like saying dutch sounds like english cuz they share grammer rules!
rotem scho I don't think native speakers of any language think another language sound like their language. The perception of how a language sound for a native speaker is totally different from people who do not speak it. For example, it is almost impossible for you or anyone to mimic your own language in away that might sound right or even remotely close for you , but I think most people can mimic a language they do not speak in a way that you think sound like the language you are are trying to mimic. Also many languages might sound alike to people who do not speak it but sound totally different for their native speakers. One of the purpose of these pointless video is to offer people a chance to hear how their language is perceived by people who do not speak the language.Which I admit is uncomfortable to do because it will never sound right, the same is true when you do the same for other languages.
Troy Heron I agree that Dutch is very close to English (only Frisian is closer). But many native speakers think it sounds very different. But that is simply because we can speak our native language fluently, and differences in languages are easier to spot for native speakers than similarities. It amuses me that many English speakers think of Dutch as an ugly sounding language, although they are pretty much the same. It is true that Dutch from the Netherlands has a very gutteral 'g', but Flemish has a much softer 'g'. Flemish probably sounds a lot more like English than Dutch from the Netherlands.
***** Can you recommend a clip I could use as the sample for a video on Serbian? something most Serbians would consider to be an accurate representation of how Serbians speak.
we need to remember that israel includes people from over 50 countries in the world and people have different accent from city to city. So it's very hard to identify the language for foreign speakers
I am here because I am watching the strain right now as we speak, and the actor I am trying to find out if he is speaking in Hebrew or not.Since I am not a Jew at all, I don't have a clue.
From all the texts in the world, this one?????
מה איבדנו עם אריחים???
חחחחחחחח נתקעו על קובי מחט ואריחים
זה בגלל שהם רצו קטע עם הרבה ח'
כן תאמת שאפילו לי שאני יודע עברית היה קצת קשה להבין מה הם אמרו
Shalev?
@@finalscore101 "אחראית על ייצור אריחים מיוחדים"
2:57
haha as a hebrew speaker - this is hilarious.
othfan44 I know I was sitting here screaming "it's hebrew!!!"
this is hilarious but sooooo heartwarming
זה כזה מצחיק :)
As a non hebrew speaker - it is hilarious as well.
Saaaaame, also was caught up in trying to listen to the videos
I don't understand how could anyone think the Hebrew alphabet looks like the Arabic alphabet. I mean, the letters don't connect, that should be a pretty strong clue.
@@ZviJ1 yeah. כן חביבי.
אמריקאים באמת דבילים. איי-קו של 0
those are canadians jeez
hebrew looks nothing like Arabic though
they didnt say that though... they thought it was arabic based on what it sounded. as a hebrew speaker, i can gurantee thats not true, but at the end of it were both semitic languages so it makes sense. hebrew is a very guttoral language, a lot of the pronounciation takes place in the back of the mouth, while arabic is more like in the throat....you know what im talking about.
Greetings from israel
i am sorry but hebrew and arabic do connect. in some instances you can see hebrew as the print style of the cursive writing that is arabic. observe shalom and salaam and compare them, one is like the cursive version of the other. سلام שלום
As a Hebrew speaker, that was some good comedy!
yeah like they sayed
שנה תחובה
הפאדיחות xD
נכון לול
מסכימה על זה.
@@madpesetprinter1397 *said*
אני יודע
"between hungarian and arabic"
thats a pretty good one
I thought so too :)
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Sure 😅
More like German. Hungarian is too feminine sounding and doesn't have that French/German R nor the Ch sound.
A better one would be in between Arabic and German.
@@ahmedmahrotos2335 I always felt it's more between french and dutch.
I know my language (swedish) isn't very well known or widely spoken but wooow so many of them said swedish. They have obviously never heard swedish before.
how much swedish is difference from danish? (btw as far as i know there's some kind of rivalry between the spookers..)
Dågge L they've heard the Swedish chef! So anything that's gibberish sounding is like the Swedish chef!: ua-cam.com/video/MyLTknMEiR4/v-deo.html (Fun fact, Swedish chef's uncle is Jewish actor (coincidence): Danny Kaye who used to sing in Hebrew: ua-cam.com/video/t_L1RAVm4js/v-deo.html
Dude i am trying to teach myself swedish on duolingo but I'm slacking. You would think as a german it wouldn't be too damn hard. My language retention isn't what it used to be
Dågge L I mean I don’t even know it’s a language it’s only because the “ח״ I think I’m German it’s w
@@ZviJ1 but aren't they Canadians?
"Because i recognize Hebrew" what a savage
Oof
@@merkavamkivm5156 ביג אוף XD
אבל
למה
מדברים
על אריחים?
נכון
חחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחח
כל פעם שאני רואה חחחחחחחח אני שומע פשוט את האות ח עוד פעם ועוד פעם בלי שום ניקוד.
+LordOfCombat אתה מדבר עברית ? אני לומדת עברית :) זה מעולה
Fannie Goldberg כן אני מדבר עברית ולא חשבתי שמישהו מדבר עברית באינטרנט עם זו לא שפת האם שלו.
וואו זה ממש מגניב שאת לומדת עברית. אני ישראלית ורמעניין אותי לדעת איך את עושה את זה (בית ספה, מורהפרטי, בבית)?
+Tamar Kfir אני לומדת עברית בעצמי :) אני למדתי עברית במשך 3 וחצי שנים ואני עדיין לומדת חחח , אני מנסה לשפר את הקול שלי . אני אמריקאית :)
"Arabic is close"
"Persian?"
This could warrant a death sentence in some places
Holy shit i just found a israeli metalhead
nice to meat you.
Yes, in those countries that are either Isreal, Arabic or Persian.
Yep😂😅
haha hilarious, the hebrew bit you're playing is talking about Milstone ceramic tiles, and that's my brothers tile factory, so funny to run into this by accident! :D
What's with all the people thinking it's German? ...oh it's foreign and has a "strong" tongue; must be German!
+Leer Wesen Well the "ch"-sounds can sound a bit like the German voiceless velar fricative. °w°"
+Leer Wesen Israeli Hebrew phonology was heavily influenced by Yiddish.
NO, it was the other way around. Yiddish was influenced by German, Russian and other eastern European languages and Ancient Hebrew. There used to be about a dozen Jewish Languages influenced by Hebrew band the local Language. Judeo-Spanish is Ladino, Judeo-Tat was spoken in the Caucasus Mountains. Ancient Hebrew had a vocabulary of about 7,000 words, but had to be modified to reflect changes in technology and life. Now there are abut 75,000 words or compound words that were also influenced by Aramaic, Arabic and English.
David Cohen, truth be told we don't know how many words comprised what is referred to as ancient Hebrew. Basically the only basis we have is Scripture. But it could very well be that there are words that are not mentioned in Scripture which have been lost to us over time.
Point being it does NOT sound like german. Or swedish. Those people are just clueless
Oder auf gut deutsch: vollidioten. Einfach trottel.
גדול! אהבתי
riiight!! OMG I died laughing
@@Cup_of_tea424 לא הבנתי מהההההההההההה?
יניר עטון היא אומרת שהיא מתה מצחוק
Abe Rosenfeld הההההההההההההה הבנתי תודה
יניר עטון נכון
2:04 "Turkish isn't even a language, is it ?" ..... The amount of ignorant people is too damn high..
Yeah that was weird! it sounds too ignorant to be real...
Turkish is cool too! I have to Protect it. although most of Turks are Bustards. Due to History and Politics.
Tom sanders
'Cause most of history is based on shrewdness and greed; just like all politicians are total liars, maybe that's why. Tell me a politican who is very honest and tell a civilization who has 'never' fought a war/ invaded anywhere in history.
Non-objectiveness is worse than
all wars and liar politicians to me.
Mert Topçuoğlu Turkish is so beautiful I love your culture
By the way, there is no throat letter in turkish. And turkish have no connect with hebrew. I love turkish.
Hebrew sounds so beautiful! I learned it only for six months but still for me unmistakable
i can help u learn if u want lol
חחחחחחחחח...
ולא ככתיבה של צחוק.
oh my god😂😂 this is how we sound when we're talking😳😂😂😂
+seraj oman yeah yeah we stole everything from you.. Put your thoughts in your ass no one cares
+seraj oman You're right we stole a language that came later than us...
+seraj If anything the Arabs pretty much stole the Jewish religion added some stuff to it and called it Islam
+seral😂😂how ironic😏
Hannah M Honey, I don't know what they sell you but I don't think you know a thing about Judaism. Really..you're ridiculous. We're the nicest people you could meet😎
"Process of elimination" :D works every time XD
MrLifeBr Wow, no. lol. It's when you are asked a question and you don't know the exact answer for it but you're offered some choices. You know that some of the choices are wrong so you "eliminate" them, take them away from the choices set, and then you have fewer choices and guess one or you have one choice left so you choose it, that's the elimination process.
It could work as a holocaust joke tho lol XD
i know, i think it's funny :D although only if you are into dark humor P.S i'm drunk at the moment
MrLifeBr lol, I am, and I'm a muslim so I take alot of dark humor about islam as well lol
Especially when you use it as a final solution
He eliminated 200 languages at once
Shana tova!
gahm lekha :)
toda raba
שנה טובה Happy New Year
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haha the hebrew audio, they're speaking about tiles and it is sooo funny
yap xD
Honestly as a Hebrew speaker I dont see how Arabic and Hebrew look and sound similar, just like Chinese , Korean , and Japanese.. They all sound different to me 🤔
Yeahbut they sound more alike than hebrew and english or hindi or mandarine.
They are close languages...
Both Hebrew and Arabic have sounds that come from the throat, such as: ain, het, tet, koof etc...
You gotta realize that pronouncing the Ḥet letter correctly even once registers as a dead giveaway to Westerners unfamiliar with Hebrew, who mistake this for Arabic.
Honestly as a Hebrew and a Arabic i can see why it's similar, maybe the accent is different , but a lot of words are the same/similar in Hebrew and Arabic
@Adva nakar Someone who diligently studied both languages managed to quantify the words common to both, concluding it is 35%. This is certainly a big minority.
-"How did you recognize Hebrew?"
-"Because i recognize.. Hebrew.."
lol
Hebrew does not sound like Arabic for me at all, (my first language is Russian), and does not sound like German. Hebrew sound like Hebrew , and I like how Hebrew sound, very beautiful language.(why are they think about Swedish, German languages? Swedish, German, and English , it's Germanic languages)
That's because of the harsh sounds. Dutch has many of those, but no freaking clue why they'd guess for swedish and anything nordic, those are by contrast very light and sing-songy languages. ANd well, hebrew is in the same language group as arabic, so I guess there are similarities, but yeah, it's not quite that similair.
I've been learning German for about three months and I am a lousy student, so it is very funny to me when they say German, because with very little contact to the language it becomes so obvious of how different that is and how that is NOT German! German sounds a lot "softer", while Hebrew sounds more guttural
hebrew and arbic are Aramaic famliy
when most of the world is latin famliy so it's really difficult to them to speak that language
when u know hebrew cuz it's a throat voice it's much easier to learn other languages
and if u know yidish it will be like every thing is easy to speak XDDDD
to me it sounds european and im arabic
and its really mostly european and im talking about the current modern hebrew
ancient hebrew would prop sound more like arabic than european
HeroOrGod Hebrew and Arabic are SEMETIC languages. Aramic is another language.. (though also from the semetic languages)
As an Arabic speaker, Modern Hebrew sounds very different than Arabic, it always gives me German-Russian vibes
The difference is that the Hebrew you've heard was coming from Ashkenazi jews , which contributes only 30% of the Jews in Israel ..
When you'll listen to Sephardic or Mizrahi jews talking Hebrew , it will sound very much like Arabic , as they speak much slower , and with much more breathing in each word .
You know what , just type Rabbi amnon Itzhak , he is a yemmanite jew , and it sounds complitely different
@@DJ_A.K_GOLD only 30%? that's fucking bullshit.
@@FinallyIamAshark Your words are Bullshit ...
You don't know the Statistics in Israel , so you just watch UA-cam , and think that all the jews in Israel are Ashekenazi , meaning that you are either a big ignorant , or maybe even a liar ...
70% of the jews in Israel are Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews from Yemen , Ethiopia , Lebanon , Iraq , Syria , Morocco , Algeria , Libya , Egypt , Iran , Turkey , Azerbaijan , the Republic of Georgia , Spain , india , and Afghanistan ....
The Ashkenazi have control of the money , but are the minority in numbers...
Only 2 cities have an Ashkenazi majority , which are Tel aviv and Bat yam ,,, all the rest look like if you are in an Arab country ...
Arabs are a mixed race also , as your forefathers have conquered so many places in the Islamic Conquest , where Arab men , have taken foreign women as their wife's , from Spain to Russia , and from youguslavia to Mongolia ..
So arabs are filled with Ashekenazi blood , which Ashkenaz by the way was a human , and a Decendent of Japheth , son of Noah , so many Arabs are not even Semites from Shem ...
Truth hurts...
There are borrowed words from German Yiddish and Slavic languages in modern Hebrew.
@@Robespierre-lI No , you are completely wrong ...
There are borrowed Hebrew words in Idish , and not the Contrary
yo, mate hebrew does not sound like arabic, as a hebrew speaker
Yeah Arabic very smooth but hebrew very strong
I think its the opposite.. Arabic is very hard on the ear.
depends on which Arabic dialect whether it's smoother or harsher than Hebrew
Sarah Al-Suleihi I've never heard an Arabic dialect that sounds smoother than Hebrew. With that in mind, as many Israeli Jews are from Arabic origins (Jews who came from Arabic countries) their Hebrew doesn't sound so nice on the ear too , to me anyway.
VanTahatV1 Arabic and Hebrew are Semitic languages you can't ignore that
They talk about Ceramic Tiles. Where did he get that from lol
This content is amazing for hebrew speaker
I’m a Hebrew speaker and it’s so hilarious😂
as i started learning Hebrew and listening to the texts and the songs, I realized it sounds like the mix of Spanish and German. That makes even more sense considering both Ashkenazim and Sephardim have influenced the modern Hebrew
Actually most Sepharadim lived in Arabic speaking countries. But Hebrew surely sounds more similar to Spanish than to some other languages people confuse it with. Notably French (?!)
2:02 "Turkish isn't even a language, is it?" oh dear...
When he said that, I was like " ohh ok, you will get the appropriate answer from turkish people 😂
LOL
😂😂😂😂 I can't stop laughing (I'm a Hebrew speaker and Israeli)
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The choice of a video clip about tiles (?!) is so random! :)
It's hilarious and a very sweet token.
Thank you, and we wish you Shanah Tovah (Happy new year) too!
As someone who learnt Hebrew from scratch at the age of 12, this is exactly how it sounds to an unfamiliar ear - lots of clearing the throat :)
This is so funny! Like from Israel! This may be kind of late but better late then never - Shana Tova! Happy new year to you to (:
they were like "Swidish!"
and I was like:
חחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחחח 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i'm a Hebrew speaker and this was so hilarious
❤
I was laughing so hard...
that was my big wonder- how does my language sound to others...thanx
לא ממש, זה הראה בעיקר שאנשים לא מכירים הרבה שפות.
They're talking about TILES. Actual floor tiles. That's one of an interesting video. Did you choose it for the Js that are in it?
If anyone's wondering, the recording is of a news article about tiles
omg i just laughed so hard
I speak Hebrew and it doesn't sound like that at all :D
and it was - taharihim - and not - haharihim
MakeupByHelenD this os What it sounds like to foreignerd
They are talking about אריחים, as in 'tiles'.
Like, the ones that go on a floor.
I find it very weird that they thought it's a Germanic language.
Most of the people I met in Europe told me Hebrew sounds like French to them and it does.
Maybe because they are Canadian so they all have basic French knowledge.
There is no connect with french..
unitrvl I agree it sounds french to me sometimes. Except less throaty sounds. I use to think it sounded more French but I started watching more French and Israeli films and could start telling the difference.
If you have any basic french knowledge you would know for sure that is not french. I had french in highschool 15 yrs ago and i would have known thats not french. If they're canadian shame on them
I also encountered people who confused Hebrew for French. They say it's because of the pronounciation of R.
OK, but the vowels in both languages are soooo different. I don't get it.
I was in Israel last january, and because I speak Dutch but live in Brazil, I have my ears ''trained'' for de tipical ''g'' or ''ch'' [exactly the same as hebrew] sound of Dutch. The first days I constantly was serching for dutch people in Israel but they were jews... :-)
3:08 It's funmy he caught 'Hetzi' from 'lahathil' (start), as Hetzi (half) isalso a word...
As a Hebrew speaker I can tell you that the blonde guy's accent wasn't so bad
3:07 שאתה שיכור מאוד ומנסה להתחיל עם בחורה בבר.
lol I speak hebrew and it's nice to know it doesn't sound like anything else
The whole audio is about tile making omg
love from israel !! i very enjoy to see this ..it's was really fanny 😂hope u doing more videos like this one ..toda raba ..tenx u so much !!!
I speak Hebrew, but I don't pronounce the ח like most Israelis do since it makes the language sound too gutteral, like they said phlegm, rather I pronounce it like the Arabic ح which is a much softer sound. It's also the right way to pronounce the ח anyway and gives the language a more diverse range of sounds.
uhhhhhh im a hebrew speaker and wtf was their talking about in the video lol
about tiles who care about that
The guy at 1:46 is wearing a university of Alberta hoodie, so I'm assuming this was filmed in Edmonton Alberta Canada .
שנה טובה גם לכם
so interesting seeing people's perceptions :) Thanks for making this!
Girl1: As a Hebrew speaker I gotta say it was funny lmao
Girl 2: אין על אריחים
As a Hebrew speaker this was obvious but I can understand why they say “Swedish” or “German” it makes sense
He said "Turkish isn't even a language" ?! WHAT THE HECK? Turkish is one of the oldest languages in the world... What an earth you living in dude?
Turkish is not the oldest language
@@roni4551 הוא אצר שטורקית זה לא שה לא שעברית זה טורקית
Lol turkish is a very recent languages (oldest form of turkiC is from 7th AD to 13 AD, and it was developed in some shithole in Mongolia
@@roni4551 you made a great error writing like english is a phoenetic(=is written how is spoken and vice versa) language
Turkish isn’t an old language... it’s actually very new lol. Wtf are YOU saying.
To foreigners Hebrew sounds something like this "khashkhash kha kha khkhkh shshkha"
Lol this is really funny :D I am native Hebrew speaker btw..
As just another Israeli out here, I cannot help but wonder why so many Israelis are effing attention whores..
@@ZviJ1 צודק ^^^^^^
Harov shekan medabrim ivrit
@@ZviJ1 תתמרמר בשקט
@Mr Buba תכניס מוצץ בפה שלך ולך לישון
people assume it's sounds like arabic especially because the letter ח which global reconize with the arabic language
אז זה לא מפתיע בכלל..
אמלה בוכה😂 מי פה ישראלי???
שלום מירושלים. עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱💪
Hi! Im here in Israel. Hebrew is very special and unique and the sound none of them could make is the letter h'eit (ח). I had a good time anderstending what the video sed. That was hilarious. Thank you for that!
?Why in the earth they chose to talk about tiels
בשביל ה"ח"
Israeli here: 3:05 guy you basically speak Hebrew congratulations
I know how to read Hebrew and speak some Hebrew and this was funny to hear people try to say some words
I actually buried my face in my hands and laughed! Had to put my phone down for a minute and wipe my eyes from laughing so hard. My gut hurts, now.
3:27 חה חה חה חה חה
in hebrew, the hae hae hae is the way we laugh, so when I saw taht... hae hae hae hae!!!!
פשוט כותבים ״חחחח״
@@connversefangirl2798 ואם הוא לא רוצה לצחוק כמו עילג?
If you speak Hebrew you realize that the news are very random🤣
This is the most 2006 video ever.
אחלה סרטון, כל הכבוד, אחולה שחל
סבא-בא :D :))))
"oh my gosh it could be anythiiing" it really couldn't😂😂
Nice Video! I am Jewish so its easy to understand for me. Have a good year
i liked it better than the old one .
Thank you!
Hi, I am planning another video about Hebrew. Do you think this one would be alright as a sample?
ua-cam.com/video/xtcHnsabhjE/v-deo.html
Hahahaha “a process of elimination” :D that was awesome hahahha
I think it sounds way closer to German than Arabic?
Lol.
no it dont
@Jason Voorheese that's only the syntax the vocabulary are not even close to european languages and herebew has alot features that european languages don't have like the inflected proposition
@Jason Voorheese cuz people don't really know what they say, yes i can agree with that hebrew sounds sometimes arabic cuz there from one language family for example: Eng- Sun that shines on the earth
Ger- Sonne, die auf die Erde scheint
Frc- Soleil qui brille sur la terre
Arb- al-shamsh alty tushariq ealaa al'ard
Heb- Ha'shemesh asher zorakhat 'al pney kadur ha'arets
Actually yes, when you're a native speaker it’s sounds much more closer to German than Arabic, and doesn't sounds like Arabic at all...
I speak both arabic and hebrew, and theyr'e very close, but the only way I can think of that hebrew is close to a european language is the h'. It is funny to watch people's reactions to the language...
מגניב שהם לא זיהו. אני דובר עברית.
אתה לא
אשכרה
החלק השני מיותר לדעתי
bro as a hebrew speaker i love this
I'm a bit confused by the whole "foreign sounding" part because in terms of phonology, Hebrew *did* share many sounds with Arabic and those sounds would be very unfamiliar to English speakers, but ever since it was revived a lot of the old pronunciation kinda went away as the language was again spoken and therefore underwent change (and also, Jews from Europe who learned Hebrew as a second language after it was revived ignored a lot of the unfamiliar sounds and just gave their best approximate, which got passed down). So I'm kinda confused by the "look at all those weird sounds". Unless it's a Mizrahi/Yemeni accent, the only two sounds that aren't in English are /x/ (latinized as "ch", isn't in English but is in most other European languages such as Spanish, German and Russian, a.k.a. "the kh sound") and /t͡s/ which is basically just t and s but at the same time rather than in short sequence, can be latinized as "tz" as well, and the Arabic equivalent is the back s (ص).
So like, I get that there's like 2 unfamiliar sounds but it's strange to me how much that gets noticed when there's Arabic chilling there with at least 7 of them
Guess those two sounds (especially the "kh" one) are the strongest ones, and are enough to associate Hebrew with Arabic somehow. As a Hebrew speaker, and a person familiar with Arabic, it's hard for me to understand, but I suppose that's how it works for them.
The "kh" sound in hebrew is nothing like "kh" in European languages becaue in these languages it's very soft and not as down in the throat as it is in hebrew .
the hebrew kh actually sound exactly the same as the arabic kh خ , in both languages this sound sounds like someone is trying to spit and it's very noticeable to foreigners
@@akd7576 "Trying to spit" is a very nice description xD
As far as i'm aware though, Arabic خ *isn't* usually transcribed as "kh", because خ is the same sound as Ashkenazi Hebrew כ,ח and Mizrahi כ. The خ is the same sound as Russian х or the "ch" in "Loch Ness", so *not* the other "kh" that only got preserved (within Semitic languages, of course) in Arabic and Yemeni (and Mizrahi?) Hebrew. That other one, which is different and probably fits the "trying to spit" description better, is Arabic ح (without the dot!) and Yemeni Hebrew ח. This is the one that got lost from all other dialects of Hebrew in the revival process, doesn't appear in languages like Scottish Gaelic or Russian (at least not regularly, not as a letter), and the same one that's consistently transcribed as "kh".
IPA for the first one (خ) is "x" or "χ". while for the second one (ح) it's sometimes argued upon but normally "ħ".
Hopefully this cleared some stuff up, I could bring example words from both languages if something still isn't clear but note that I speak Ashkenazi Hebrew so I don't pronounce the 2nd at all in daily speech :P
@Eliad654 The arabic خ is always transcribed as kh , i've never seen different transcription to this sound
ح is a different sound and can't be transcribed as kh.
while ح sounds foreign , it doesn't sound
as guttural as the خ kh sound in arabic and hebrew .
come to think of the "Trying to spit" description to this sound ,i think it does make sense beacue when people try to spit they make the sound خ , not ح
And especially that arabs and israelis tend to pronounce this sound from the very back of the throat it makes it sound like that in these languages
The video you chose is so random, I think it's a commercial for a company that creates floor tiles or something 😂
as a hebrew speaker i can tell you hebrew sounds nothing like arabic. expect grammer rules modern hebrew and arabic don't share common nothing! actually as an israeli, when you hear hebrew, you can notice in a second if you speak with an arab or with a jew. they different accent that change every thing, they don't have the letters we have such as "P" , they can't pronounce it. from what i heard around the world hebrew sounds to people german and french.
My mother tongue is Dutch which is closely related to English, but there is no native English speaker who would say Dutch and English sound alike. There are many sounds native English speakers can't pronounce (or which are at least very difficult).
Hebrew and Arabic are closely related, there is no denying in that.
Secret5964 i have never deny it, i said the share common grammer which make the from the same family but this guy in the vid try to direft them to the middle east and to the arab language based on what they hear, which is wrong to my opinion cuz based on hearing there is nothing alike between hebrew and arabic! the words are different and the accent is just like black and white! itws like saying dutch sounds like english cuz they share grammer rules!
rotem scho I don't think native speakers of any language think another language sound like their language.
The perception of how a language sound for a native speaker is totally different from people who do not speak it. For example, it is almost impossible for you or anyone to mimic your own language in away that might sound right or even remotely close for you , but I think most people can mimic a language they do not speak in a way that you think sound like the language you are are trying to mimic. Also many languages might sound alike to people who do not speak it but sound totally different for their native speakers.
One of the purpose of these pointless video is to offer people a chance to hear how their language is perceived by people who do not speak the language.Which I admit is uncomfortable to do because it will never sound right, the same is true when you do the same for other languages.
Troy Heron I agree that Dutch is very close to English (only Frisian is closer). But many native speakers think it sounds very different. But that is simply because we can speak our native language fluently, and differences in languages are easier to spot for native speakers than similarities.
It amuses me that many English speakers think of Dutch as an ugly sounding language, although they are pretty much the same. It is true that Dutch from the Netherlands has a very gutteral 'g', but Flemish has a much softer 'g'. Flemish probably sounds a lot more like English than Dutch from the Netherlands.
actually, Hebrew and Arabic are sister languages, and even have a lot of the same words. its just the pronounceation that is the biggest difference.
As a Hebrew speaker, this was really sweet
How does jew make tea?
Hebrew it😂😂
People really spoke well when trying to imitate!
"Turkish isn't even a language, is it?" What? I mean Ne??
No I’ve been to turkey, can confirm it doesn’t exist.
Amerika'da çok aptal insanlar var 😂😂😂😂
2:35
PHLEM
I'm dying of laughter here
(I speak Hebrew, and I found this very interesting)
Hebrew was a dead language that was revived by (mainly) Yiddish and Russian speakers. That's why it has European qualities to it's pronunciation.
2:04 umm sir excuse me?? Native turkish speaker here lol
Honestly Day to Day Arabic is nothing like Day to Day Hebrew
But to people who hear neither on a regular basis they can sound pretty similar
for those who ask why are they saying European languages
Hebrew of today took some from European languages but it's still mainly the old Hebrew
You did not take into account the weight of Ashkenazic pronunciation, which is a huge factor in this.
@negro bsr The way modern Hebrew is usually talked is a mixture of Sephardic vowelization and Ashkenazic pronunciation of the consonants.
3:19 ChEcHeChE lmao
Do people really now know what Hebrew letters look like... every time someone said German I laughed
Can you guys make a video on Serbian?
***** Sure will! I don't know when though
Thank you! I'm a native Serbian speaker, and I've always been wondering what it sounds like to foreigners. :-)
***** Can you recommend a clip I could use as the sample for a video on Serbian? something most Serbians would consider to be an accurate representation of how Serbians speak.
Heritage Inmoshun Would you like a clip from a radio podcast, TV show, or could you give me an other example?
***** allows?
The Hebrew speaker says "Boker Tov," (good morning) and "ha'Beit" (the house), and the girl repeated "ha'Beit" pretty good. It was cute. :)
we need to remember that israel includes people from over 50 countries in the world and people have different accent from city to city. So it's very hard to identify the language for foreign speakers
arabic and hebrew are really close. they both sound lovely
"It's close to Arabic"
"Farsi?"
Some people in this world are so ignorant is hurt a little
No one heard of you u little bugs
Lol great video!
How does Hebrew sound to foreigners? SEXY! Beautiful!
I am here because I am watching the strain right now as we speak, and the actor I am trying to find out if he is speaking in Hebrew or not.Since I am not a Jew at all, I don't have a clue.
I believe Hebrew is very holy language though I can't learn this except shalom boi hena or shabad shalom
Hemlata Sharma shabat*
Great vid! As a Hebrew speaker I liked it a lot :D