Here's what Sona said translated into English: (My Armenian is a bit rusty, but this is the gist) 1:45: Sona's Mom: "What should I do Sona? What should I give the boys?" Sona: "Have they slept? Have they drank milk?" 3:52: Conan: "How are you today Sona?" Sona: "You are a very bad man. And I don't like working here anymore." Conan: "I wish to, sort of, sabotage the United States of America. Will you help me in my evil scheme?" Sona: "Yeah, your skin is very white. I've never seen anyone with skin so white before." Conan: "Yes, bad USA. We must bring down the bad United States. We must work within the United States to bring it down as secret spies. Don't you agree Sona?" Sona: "You're saying such foolish things now!" Conan: "Stop laughing spy! We're here to destroy America from within!" Sona: "No, no no. You're saying such foolish things. And I love America a lot. I really like living here." Conan: "Yes, I agree. Let's attack when they least expect it. In the night." 6:28: Conan: (In an Irish accent) "Oh gosh and begorrah, thank you Sona. Thanks for stopping by the podcast! It was nice having you here today. And how are you Sona? Have you anything to say to the fans before we slip over the rainbow and say goodnight?" Sona: "Yeah, I want to go home." Conan: "Ah, see? People from different cultures, CAN get along! Sona: "Yeah. You are a foolish man." Conan: "Have a tayto." Sona: "I don't want a potato. But thank you. I want to go home." Conan: "Oh no, I like America. No, I won't attack it." 7:39: Conan: (Still in an Irish accent) "Good night to all of ya! It was a wasted segment. Say goodnight Sona, in your own, special tongue! Sona: "Good night." Conan: (In muffled, broken Armenian) "Hello. How are you?"
I'm Armenian but I live in germany and I don't understand everything she said. Its a bit different then what I speak here with my family I can speak and Understand Armenian but her way she was talking and using the words was a bit different
Conan you appear blissfully unaware that your own ancesters spoke a non-English language.....called wait for it.....IRISH!......madra salach (translation....dirty dog.... a little Norm reference for you there!) What they never did was speak English in an "Irish" accent that has never been heard in Ireland......ie the one you used! So here's a word for you: Amadán (pronounced ammadawn).....which is a term that describes you perfectly.....now learn some bloidy Irish!
@@Coastfogsona sometimes puts him in tuff situations like saying things she shouldn't like when he said he respects Armenian culture and she says ok its like when i used to work construction my uncle was the boss and when it was just me and him we would talk smack back in forth we knew we were just kidding around but when the main people in charge of the whole job site showed up i would treat my uncle with respect i feel like she doesn't do that in public situations
I could watch these two interact all day. There is a real almost family dynamic, perhaps siblings the way they spar. I have always said that if someone breaks your stones in a comedic way, to me it is a term of endearment.
I'm fairly sure it's because Conan grew up in a large family of boys, in Boston, and this is how they express love and friendship. Next check out him and Timothy Olyphant, it's a similar vibe.
Agreed but there is also a limit. There are times when Sona seem to have zero respect for Conan who still her boss even though she is not his assistant anymore. She is very lucky to have Conan as a boss who are very lenient and very open minded but if she work anywhere else, she probably get fired right away. You should listen to an interview of her from Andy Richter of how she crosses the line several times and had to apologized. If its any other boss she would be fired along time ago.
Something throughout at least a decade of Conan taking his people with him is that they are all basically family by now. I'd lie, kill, and speak Armenian for an American/Irish friend like that. Beware, Leno, that family knows how to take out the trash.
@@epicwolf That's Conan's choice lol. If he really had an issue, he would've fired her. Obviously Sona brings something to the table in this work relationship.
I'll translate what Sona is saying Conan: How are you today Sona? Sona: You are a really bad person and I no longer like this job. Conan: Will you help me in my evil scheme? Sona: Your skin is sooooo white, I've never before seen skin so pale. Conan: Don't you agree Sona? Sona: You're saying really stupid things right now. Conan: We're here to destroy America from within. Sona: No, no, what you're saying is really stupid, I love America and I love living here.
I vouche for Sona's translations into English of everything she said in Armenian ..she speaks a dialect called Western Armenian..its one of the major Armenian dialects today... and her dialogue is actually a very simple conversational one ..nothing complex
Does she have an accent when she speaks Armenian? Or does she sound like someone who grew up in the region of Armenia you say her dialect is from? I have a friend who was born in the USA but learned Vietnamese from his parents growing up. He told me a long time ago though that he has such a heavy accent when speaking Vietnamese that only his parents understand him well, but family members from Vietnam who never left there can barely understand him.
@@johnsilcox8 I've been in L.A. for a long time and if you don't have an Armenian friend you are missing out. Their language is like a softer, sexier, version of Persian Farsi or something. Who cares?
@@johnsilcox8 Sona has a heavy US English accent bro ..the thing is even if she learned it from her parents she mentioned her parents were native to Turkey and pretty much all Armenians who speak any dialects outside of Armenia speak the western dialect with that country's accent... could be a turkish Arabic French Italian Spanish etc etc accent .. in the middle east only Iranian Armenians speak the Eastern dialect but with a heavy Farsi accent..same with Armenians living in Armenia and Russia (eastern dialect) there are a lot of Russian words and phrases mixed into the conversational and the slang of the Eastern dialect spoken in Armenia not the literary ...the jargon or the slang..the funniest accent is when Russian Armenians try to speak Armenian ..see there are certain sounds that dont exist in the Russian alphabet ..and its just frieking hillarious watching them try to pronounce Armenian words in a russian manner ..like say for example the word interesting "Hetaqerqeer"... they say "Getakerkeer" lol
Conan: "How are you today, Sona?" Sona: "You are a very bad man, and I don't like this job." Conan: "I wish to sabotage the US, etc." Sona: "Yeah, your skin is so white. I've never seen skin so white as yours." Conan: "Yes, bad USA. Yes, we must bring down the bad United States...don't you agree?" Sona: "You're saying such stupid/idiotic things now." Conan: "Stop laughing, spy. We're here to destroy America from within." Sona: "No. You're saying such stupid things. I love America very much, and I love being here."
Sona replied by saying" This man is a crazy man. I don't like working here. I'd like to go home now. I have not seen a crazy man like him. You keep saying bad things. I love America..." Just an FYI to Sona, Armenians from Iran don't speak Arabic. They speak Farsi and Armenian with a different dialog or accent than Armenians from Armenia.
Yup. She speaks different Armenian dialog than ppl from Armenia. Like when she said "you have white skin" she used the word Morti, which is animal fur not human skin. Her Armenian is difficult to understand but never the less it's such a pleasure to watch her on the show
I intend no offense, but there's a seemingly more accurate 1-to-1 translation if you scroll very far down. Nothing wrong with this one either, just pointing out because it has fallen to the bottom, thanks to youtube's smart algorithm. People who want to follow along might be interested.
its actually called a DIALECT guys ... and yes Iranian Armenians, Armenians in Armenia and Russia speak Eastern Armenian ...Sona, and actually majority of diasporan Armenians speak the Western dialect (lke from Syria Lebanon other Arabic countries Turkey etc) ..plus there are over 60 different dialects of Armenian in Armenia and Atsakh alone besides the two major (western and eastern) dialects ..then there is the Grapar which is the ancient Armenian Conan probably heard the priests speaking in church during Sona's kids christening ...its like the Latin of all Armenian dialects spoken, read and written by clergy (and yes they do teach it in Armenian schools)
@@armancho76 I'm just enjoying seeing all the Armenians in the comment section talking about this. I've always been fascinated by languages and different cultures around the world, traveling and meeting people from different places. Thank you for sharing this with us.
For anyone else curious about what language Armenian is closest to, I looked it up and it's actually considered its own branch of the Indo-European language family! Linguistic historians still aren't sure when it split off from other neighboring languages, but the best theory right now is that it was the middle sibling between "Proto-Greek" and "Proto-Indo-Iranian". So arguably it's closest to Greek or Farsi, but even then only as a distant cousin. It's kind of its own thing (though not as much of its own thing as their neighbors in Georgia... Good god)
Going to see Conan live on his show was a bucket list venture ever since I was 8 and took an interest in late night shows and talk show hosts. There are few late night shows/talk shows that I watch for the host and not for the guest and Conan O'Brien is #1 on that list. I hope to see you on a live tour or something of the sort in the future. As a matter of fact, please just come to Michigan for any reason at all😂
Imagine if before doing this bit Conan had looked up and memorized a really advanced sentence in Armenian and just casually said it to Sona in response to whatever she said, how shocked she would be...
No one probably sees this, but Armenians from Iran do not speak Arabic. In fact, only the southern part of Iran does. Most Iranians speak Farsi (Persian), but the Armenians in the Azerbaijan part of Iran speak Azeri, and Armenians in Jolfa of Isfahan speak Farsi. Just to let you know. Not that I would expect any foreigner to know these facts about Iran. All love.
Been married to a Belgian who speaks Dutch, French, German, Spanish, and English. When we were first married, her talking to her family on the phone always freaked me out a little…especially when I heard my name. You get used to it.
@@falsemcnuggethope As a native Dutchman, I agree but our swear words, especially compound ones, are pretty great though. I also would like to note that we too perceive German as a "shouting/yelling" language and in relation to Dutch, I typically find my own language to be way more rough etc., whereas German can sound both really sophisticated like French and soft like Polish if you get what I mean
Thank you Sona for being someone Armenian in the entertainment industry that doesn't make the rest of us cringe. Also, please make Conan speak more Armenian on the podcast 🙏🇦🇲
If I were Conan I'd try to learn Irish Gaelic to counter the Armenian. By the way, Armenian is an Indo-European language, a group on its own within that family. It's not much closer to Russian than it is to Farsi/Iranian, to Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and other Indian languages or to English, Spanish or Irish Gaelic. They're all distant relatives with a common ancestor.
@@jacobeavery462 sorry, I never saw this comment, but yeah, the one a few comments later translates it perfectly. I can say what she said at the end: "I want to go home; you're a stupid man, I don't want to eat a potato, but thank you, i want to go home" and then she says "good night" at the last bit
So one of Conan's remotes came up in my recommendations (teaching one of his employees to drive). I loved it and clicked on this channel and this was the first clip of the podcast I've watched. The rest is history.
Conan's dryness is so obviously facetiousness, and it's wonderful how subtle but strangely obvious it is that he's doing a bit. A notable amount of Don Rickles in his demeanor. Like a calm Don Rickles, pointing fun at racists by showing how stupid (and funny) it sounds.
i'm surprised there are 0 comments about Conan speaking Aremenian at the end. he definitely learned "barev" in his Armenia segment, I don't know about the second word but still lol great way to end his anti-Armenian stance LOL
A few years back I worked with a guy who was originally from Norway. One day we were the only two people in the office, working in different rooms, when he got a phone call and started speaking...I'm going to assume it was Norwegian. After a couple of minutes I thought to myself, "No F'in way! That's not a real language. He's messing with me." But after a half hour he was still at it and I finally had to admit: That Anders really knows how to commit to a bit!
Hehe, I feel you - just recently I watched a Norwegian crime series (Wisting) with the original sound, and was truly amazed how weird it sounded, like some Scandinavian version of French, with the nasality and shortening everything, so that a sentence with five words tends to sound like only two etc.
Matt, take it from another dad: Don't leave your baby alone, even for just a second. Especially since he seems to be drunk from the power of owning his own building.
I am in tears and can hardly breathe, Mr Conan O’Brien, m’boyo. And I do think you had better learn Gaelic. And French. And Italian. And Armenian. And Hindi. And Chinese...and...and...
Aww, I was hoping everything Sona said was going to be subtitled! 😭 Ironic Conan asks what language Armenian is closest to, when Armenian is one of the few outside the European language families.
@@Hoganply Armenian language isn't really close to any other language, it's indoeuropean but it's distinctively separate from any of the other indoeuropean languages. You might claim that it's closest to Greek but these languages separated from each other about 4000 years ago. The Celtic and Italian languages separated about that time as well, so by that definition the Welsh and Italian are as close to Greek and Armenian.
This is a great example of how Conan can conjure up entertaining content out of absolutely nothing. He's always on, always looking for angles and gags. He's so comedically resourceful.
What’s funny is if you understand a different language and not tell anybody about it. I’m American but I was born in Germany and Ive spoken both English and German from a very early age. When I would travel back to Germany I would catch some people speaking to others in German about me because they didn’t think I understood the language. I would let them dig their hole deeper before letting them know I understood everything they were saying. I’ve never seen somebody apologize so quickly before 😂
I grew up in the US but also speak German and had a great experience at Epcot in the Germany exhibit where two girls working there started making fun of my hair in German (I was a punk teenager at the time) and I got to chime in. They were mortified.
Would 100% watch even more of Team Coco podcasts if Sona only ever replied to Conan in Armenian and we got English subtitles so we could know what terrible things she was saying about him. Lol
5:25 To answer Conan's question the language closest to Armernian is Greek. Conan should learn Irish Gaelic so he can blather in a foreign language nobody around him will understand
Closest, but not close. There are words that share the same root (same as all the indoeuropean languages), but a Greek listening to Armenian would be as much at loss than Italian listening to Welsh.
@@tapio_m6861 Hence why I used the word closest. There are Greek loan words shared with Armenian but as you say Armenian has more in common with Ancient Greek than modern greek. Armenian was also influenced by Iranian languages
@@TheUrbanEpicure I live in Germany but my native tongue is English and while my own children don't have a German accent in English, I have met lots of children here who do, even those who have one native English-speaking parent.
@@TheUrbanEpicure Somebody hasn't met many bilingual people. I've met many people raised bilingual (their native tongue + English) who can speak English perfectly fluently, just with an accent. Why shouldn't it be possible the other way?
I think I had the same experience Conan is talking about. I once shared an office with a guy. This particular guy was of chinese descent, but he spoke english like a native, so I presumed he grew up here. One day he got a call from his mother and he started speaking perfect chinese, and because I didn't know he could, and never had heard him do it before, I was momentarily stunned as I tried to understand the words he was saying as English, before I realized he was speaking in Chinese. It was a weird sort of blown brain-fuse moment.
Conan is joking, but enforcing an English only rule violates federal (EEOC) anti discrimination laws (Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act) and many states’ equivalent laws as well. You’d need a very strong specific reason for mandating such a rule for limited contexts only, and certainly not generally or in the context of employees speaking to one another in another language. I’m sure Conan’s HR or legal people would tell him that.
lol why? This is a funny bit and Sona is an adult who speaks fluent English, and probably her parents are fairly elderly so they are more comfortable speaking their native language with their daughter. In school though, when you're 12, if you want to learn English it's best to be immersed in it, so the English only rule makes sense. Or else you're just isolating into your own silo, not interacting with the school body at large and your English progress would likely have been much slower. A lot of workplaces and schools have rules around the working language. If your English was way worse now, you'd probably be saying the opposite, wishing your teachers enforced the English only rule better.
So, after this, I think Conan needs to secretly learn Armenian for a year, then bait Sona to do this bit again…
I don't know if one year would be enough for him to understand Armenian
Great idea but it’d never work as Sona would just say words he doesn’t know
GOOGLE TRANSLATE WOULD B EASIER 😆
I’m on your side!
@@Buckets50 Seeing him immediately be foiled would be funny af too though.
"you're jealous, you wish you could speak another language and be cool like me" Sona clearly is Conan's sister.
big time
Conan is bilingual. He is fluent in Spanish.
@@zoperxplex Yyyyyeah, "fluent" is being used kinda liberally there. Haha.
Conando!
@@zoperxplex his father was born in Spain. He's a matador. 😅
Conan is definitely jealous. If Conan could speak Gaelic he would in a heartbeat and let you know at every opportunity that he speaks it.
He’s just mad that we Irish are cowards and gave up our foreign tongue
Conan can speak Boston though?
@@Buckets50 Duolingo my friend. Go get it.
@@coyoboyo its different if you learn it through duolingo as an adult though.
He would just do his lucky charms impression, except in Gaelic instead.
Here's what Sona said translated into English: (My Armenian is a bit rusty, but this is the gist)
1:45: Sona's Mom: "What should I do Sona? What should I give the boys?"
Sona: "Have they slept? Have they drank milk?"
3:52: Conan: "How are you today Sona?"
Sona: "You are a very bad man. And I don't like working here anymore."
Conan: "I wish to, sort of, sabotage the United States of America. Will you help me in my evil scheme?"
Sona: "Yeah, your skin is very white. I've never seen anyone with skin so white before."
Conan: "Yes, bad USA. We must bring down the bad United States. We must work within the United States to bring it down as secret spies. Don't you agree Sona?"
Sona: "You're saying such foolish things now!"
Conan: "Stop laughing spy! We're here to destroy America from within!"
Sona: "No, no no. You're saying such foolish things. And I love America a lot. I really like living here."
Conan: "Yes, I agree. Let's attack when they least expect it. In the night."
6:28: Conan: (In an Irish accent) "Oh gosh and begorrah, thank you Sona. Thanks for stopping by the podcast! It was nice having you here today. And how are you Sona? Have you anything to say to the fans before we slip over the rainbow and say goodnight?"
Sona: "Yeah, I want to go home."
Conan: "Ah, see? People from different cultures, CAN get along!
Sona: "Yeah. You are a foolish man."
Conan: "Have a tayto."
Sona: "I don't want a potato. But thank you. I want to go home."
Conan: "Oh no, I like America. No, I won't attack it."
7:39: Conan: (Still in an Irish accent) "Good night to all of ya! It was a wasted segment. Say goodnight Sona, in your own, special tongue!
Sona: "Good night."
Conan: (In muffled, broken Armenian) "Hello. How are you?"
Lol, it really sounds like nefarious deeds are being discussed in Armenian.
Thank You!!
You’re a gem ❤
Killing it bro 💕
Conan cracks me up
Sona looks like a lovely girl and its been so nice of Conan to help her learn to deal with little children by letting her work for him.
😄😄
😂😂😂
As an Armenian watching this and understanding what she's saying, I'm loving it lol. Conan is such a good sport, huge huge fan for years!
what was she saying?
Shat lava, ha? ❤️ Cirum em Sona , she's so amazing!
I'm Armenian but I live in germany and I don't understand everything she said. Its a bit different then what I speak here with my family
I can speak and Understand Armenian but her way she was talking and using the words was a bit different
I love the many ways Sona uses the word “Okay”.
To quote Boondock Saints: "well, it certainly illustrates the diversity of the word"
Right?!
Conan you appear blissfully unaware that your own ancesters spoke a non-English language.....called wait for it.....IRISH!......madra salach (translation....dirty dog.... a little Norm reference for you there!)
What they never did was speak English in an "Irish" accent that has never been heard in Ireland......ie the one you used!
So here's a word for you:
Amadán (pronounced ammadawn).....which is a term that describes you perfectly.....now learn some bloidy Irish!
Like a samurai with a sword
it has a very wide range.
every time when Sona says “this is stupid”, we know this is good
And the different tones of her “okay” 😅😅😅
@@alno2554 yes. and all her different little “oh”
Sona "you call it mish mish"
Conan "no I don't"😂😂😂
And why would he!? It would be very insensitive.
@@Coastfogsona sometimes puts him in tuff situations like saying things she shouldn't like when he said he respects Armenian culture and she says ok its like when i used to work construction my uncle was the boss and when it was just me and him we would talk smack back in forth we knew we were just kidding around but when the main people in charge of the whole job site showed up i would treat my uncle with respect i feel like she doesn't do that in public situations
I could watch these two interact all day. There is a real almost family dynamic, perhaps siblings the way they spar. I have always said that if someone breaks your stones in a comedic way, to me it is a term of endearment.
I'm fairly sure it's because Conan grew up in a large family of boys, in Boston, and this is how they express love and friendship. Next check out him and Timothy Olyphant, it's a similar vibe.
Agreed but there is also a limit. There are times when Sona seem to have zero respect for Conan who still her boss even though she is not his assistant anymore. She is very lucky to have Conan as a boss who are very lenient and very open minded but if she work anywhere else, she probably get fired right away. You should listen to an interview of her from Andy Richter of how she crosses the line several times and had to apologized. If its any other boss she would be fired along time ago.
Something throughout at least a decade of Conan taking his people with him is that they are all basically family by now. I'd lie, kill, and speak Armenian for an American/Irish friend like that. Beware, Leno, that family knows how to take out the trash.
@@epicwolf That's Conan's choice lol. If he really had an issue, he would've fired her. Obviously Sona brings something to the table in this work relationship.
@@epicwolf And yet she wasn't. Cry more
I'll translate what Sona is saying
Conan: How are you today Sona?
Sona: You are a really bad person and I no longer like this job.
Conan: Will you help me in my evil scheme?
Sona: Your skin is sooooo white, I've never before seen skin so pale.
Conan: Don't you agree Sona?
Sona: You're saying really stupid things right now.
Conan: We're here to destroy America from within.
Sona: No, no, what you're saying is really stupid, I love America and I love living here.
You the real MVP!
Starts at 3:50 for those following along 😀
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Thanks for the translation
I looked up how to say "thank you" in Armenian to post here, and it's the longest word I've ever seen LOL.
Wow thanks I was hoping someone would translate.
laughing and laughing and laughing again. THIS IS NOT A WASTE OF ANYTHING. It's a wonderful gift. Keep 'em coming.
Conan prepared her very well to take care of toddlers :))) love them
I vouche for Sona's translations into English of everything she said in Armenian ..she speaks a dialect called Western Armenian..its one of the major Armenian dialects today... and her dialogue is actually a very simple conversational one ..nothing complex
Maybe it's Southern Californian but if you haven't learned a little Armenian by now you are missing out.
Does she have an accent when she speaks Armenian? Or does she sound like someone who grew up in the region of Armenia you say her dialect is from?
I have a friend who was born in the USA but learned Vietnamese from his parents growing up. He told me a long time ago though that he has such a heavy accent when speaking Vietnamese that only his parents understand him well, but family members from Vietnam who never left there can barely understand him.
@@johnsilcox8 I've been in L.A. for a long time and if you don't have an Armenian friend you are missing out. Their language is like a softer, sexier, version of Persian Farsi or something. Who cares?
@@coyoboyo It's purely out of curiosity. I don't care if she does or doesn't have an accent, I was wondering from a linguistic perspective.
@@johnsilcox8 Sona has a heavy US English accent bro ..the thing is even if she learned it from her parents she mentioned her parents were native to Turkey and pretty much all Armenians who speak any dialects outside of Armenia speak the western dialect with that country's accent... could be a turkish Arabic French Italian Spanish etc etc accent .. in the middle east only Iranian Armenians speak the Eastern dialect but with a heavy Farsi accent..same with Armenians living in Armenia and Russia (eastern dialect) there are a lot of Russian words and phrases mixed into the conversational and the slang of the Eastern dialect spoken in Armenia not the literary ...the jargon or the slang..the funniest accent is when Russian Armenians try to speak Armenian ..see there are certain sounds that dont exist in the Russian alphabet ..and its just frieking hillarious watching them try to pronounce Armenian words in a russian manner ..like say for example the word interesting "Hetaqerqeer"... they say "Getakerkeer" lol
I imagine when Sona says "this is stupid" etc she is 70% honest and 30% doing it for the comedy to go on.
Yes, I always wonder about exactly this percentage - it clearly is not either or.
Conan is a comedic genius. I was not expecting him to bust out the Irish accent but man was that hilarious
As an armenian, this is way too funny.
It must be awesome having someone in hollywood speaking a language your language that is so rarely spoken.
@@just1it1moko whenever they go for Dutch in Hollywood they end up doing German......would be cool yea xD
@@transformerstuff7029 how did you know I was Dutch? :D
@@just1it1moko hahaha taalopbouw.
@@just1it1moko do you mean Hollywood as in 'the industry'? Cause LA has a huge Armenian population
So disappointed that the Subtitles only translated into Armenian not Armenian into English...so most of us are left wondering what Sona was saying.
Most of the time she said that Conan is stupid and so on, in the end she said good night
Conan: "How are you today, Sona?"
Sona: "You are a very bad man, and I don't like this job."
Conan: "I wish to sabotage the US, etc."
Sona: "Yeah, your skin is so white. I've never seen skin so white as yours."
Conan: "Yes, bad USA. Yes, we must bring down the bad United States...don't you agree?"
Sona: "You're saying such stupid/idiotic things now."
Conan: "Stop laughing, spy. We're here to destroy America from within."
Sona: "No. You're saying such stupid things. I love America very much, and I love being here."
This is extra funny when you actually understand Armenian.
Sona replied by saying" This man is a crazy man. I don't like working here. I'd like to go home now. I have not seen a crazy man like him. You keep saying bad things. I love America..." Just an FYI to Sona, Armenians from Iran don't speak Arabic. They speak Farsi and Armenian with a different dialog or accent than Armenians from Armenia.
Yup. She speaks different Armenian dialog than ppl from Armenia. Like when she said "you have white skin" she used the word Morti, which is animal fur not human skin. Her Armenian is difficult to understand but never the less it's such a pleasure to watch her on the show
I intend no offense, but there's a seemingly more accurate 1-to-1 translation if you scroll very far down. Nothing wrong with this one either, just pointing out because it has fallen to the bottom, thanks to youtube's smart algorithm. People who want to follow along might be interested.
its actually called a DIALECT guys ... and yes Iranian Armenians, Armenians in Armenia and Russia speak Eastern Armenian ...Sona, and actually majority of diasporan Armenians speak the Western dialect (lke from Syria Lebanon other Arabic countries Turkey etc) ..plus there are over 60 different dialects of Armenian in Armenia and Atsakh alone besides the two major (western and eastern) dialects ..then there is the Grapar which is the ancient Armenian Conan probably heard the priests speaking in church during Sona's kids christening ...its like the Latin of all Armenian dialects spoken, read and written by clergy (and yes they do teach it in Armenian schools)
@@armancho76 I'm just enjoying seeing all the Armenians in the comment section talking about this. I've always been fascinated by languages and different cultures around the world, traveling and meeting people from different places. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I love how he still makes her laugh.
I love this. I could listen/watch them talk for days about nothing in particular. So funny!
Slightly disappointed with the lack of subtitles for Sona's native tongue
It would be even more fun if they did that!
I hate it when they just add: (Speaking Armenian)
it's like Dexter when they spoke spanish, no subs, just funny for the people who know it ahah
And reveal the full plan of attack? She's smart enough to prevent that from happening.
Now you know how Conan feels
Love the Sona and Conan dynamic! Always great
Matt, we know you're humble and we love you for it but we need an epsiode of "Just Matt"
And of course "Just Sona"
And the dreaded "Just Coney"
For anyone else curious about what language Armenian is closest to, I looked it up and it's actually considered its own branch of the Indo-European language family! Linguistic historians still aren't sure when it split off from other neighboring languages, but the best theory right now is that it was the middle sibling between "Proto-Greek" and "Proto-Indo-Iranian". So arguably it's closest to Greek or Farsi, but even then only as a distant cousin. It's kind of its own thing (though not as much of its own thing as their neighbors in Georgia... Good god)
Love all of you. Sona, just keep being you! Love how you give Conan such a difficult time.
Going to see Conan live on his show was a bucket list venture ever since I was 8 and took an interest in late night shows and talk show hosts. There are few late night shows/talk shows that I watch for the host and not for the guest and Conan O'Brien is #1 on that list. I hope to see you on a live tour or something of the sort in the future. As a matter of fact, please just come to Michigan for any reason at all😂
Imagine if before doing this bit Conan had looked up and memorized a really advanced sentence in Armenian and just casually said it to Sona in response to whatever she said, how shocked she would be...
SHHHH
I love this pod cast. It's amazing. Sona and you have such a great energy. Excellent
No one probably sees this, but Armenians from Iran do not speak Arabic. In fact, only the southern part of Iran does. Most Iranians speak Farsi (Persian), but the Armenians in the Azerbaijan part of Iran speak Azeri, and Armenians in Jolfa of Isfahan speak Farsi. Just to let you know. Not that I would expect any foreigner to know these facts about Iran. All love.
I'm confused, why would Iranians speak Arabic?
I absolutely love and adore their relationship. I could watch these for hours. Love Sona, she's really beautiful too.
Been married to a Belgian who speaks Dutch, French, German, Spanish, and English. When we were first married, her talking to her family on the phone always freaked me out a little…especially when I heard my name. You get used to it.
Wait all I got from this was that you never heard her talk to her family BEFORE you were married? 😂 I guess she kept you a secret from her family? 😂
Also because Dutch sounds terrible
That's amazing.
@@TheMickaelD The Dutch have superior cities, I guess they needed to be punished with that language.
@@falsemcnuggethope As a native Dutchman, I agree but our swear words, especially compound ones, are pretty great though. I also would like to note that we too perceive German as a "shouting/yelling" language and in relation to Dutch, I typically find my own language to be way more rough etc., whereas German can sound both really sophisticated like French and soft like Polish if you get what I mean
Thank you Sona for being someone Armenian in the entertainment industry that doesn't make the rest of us cringe. Also, please make Conan speak more Armenian on the podcast 🙏🇦🇲
I dunno, I think System of a Down is pretty cool.
@@knifeforkandaspoon You're right, they are pretty great, and do their heritage proud
Who's Armenian that makes you cringe
Dan Bilzerian, all of the Kardashians
@@knifeforkandaspoon SOAD is Armenian??
I like that sona was probably calling conan names, and all conan could say in response was 'potaytow' 😂
She kept calling him an idiot pale man 😂 and towards the end kept repeating that she wants to go home lmao
"I'm the bit captain and I'm in the bit business for a long time." I love this. Totally true.
Ohh… I missed you guys. Keep up with these video feeds 🙂
I kinda wish Sona had helped the coco team to make subtitles for this video version ahaha
"ENGLISH ONLY!"
"Why are you saying it with an accent?" 🤣
I just listened to this, so glad it's on video!
I like when Sona pretends she doesn't know what Conan is trying to do 🤣
I like her laugh, it's infectious
If I were Conan I'd try to learn Irish Gaelic to counter the Armenian. By the way, Armenian is an Indo-European language, a group on its own within that family. It's not much closer to Russian than it is to Farsi/Iranian, to Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and other Indian languages or to English, Spanish or Irish Gaelic. They're all distant relatives with a common ancestor.
as an Armenian speaker, Sona's Armenian just sounds even better spoken to Conan XD I love them
Would it be possible you could tell me some of the things she was saying about him? If not I still hope you have an awesome day!!
@@jacobeavery462 There's already another commenter who has done it
@@jacobeavery462 sorry, I never saw this comment, but yeah, the one a few comments later translates it perfectly. I can say what she said at the end: "I want to go home; you're a stupid man, I don't want to eat a potato, but thank you, i want to go home" and then she says "good night" at the last bit
So one of Conan's remotes came up in my recommendations (teaching one of his employees to drive). I loved it and clicked on this channel and this was the first clip of the podcast I've watched. The rest is history.
The bit is "lovable bigot." Love Conan and Sona together
Conan's dryness is so obviously facetiousness, and it's wonderful how subtle but strangely obvious it is that he's doing a bit. A notable amount of Don Rickles in his demeanor. Like a calm Don Rickles, pointing fun at racists by showing how stupid (and funny) it sounds.
Holey smackers, Sona speaks with the minority dialect of Armenian, in LA of all places. I NEVER expected that. I feel a litter bigger today.
Much love from Brazil, Sona! Keep on speaking Armenian randomly during the podcast intros...LOL
When Sona speaks armenian it sounds like she's casting a spell
Դու ուղղակի Հայերեն չես հասկանում խոստովանիր։
I'm half Irish and I married an Armenian and this is an accurate representation of my life shad khuntalik sona
i'm surprised there are 0 comments about Conan speaking Aremenian at the end. he definitely learned "barev" in his Armenia segment, I don't know about the second word but still lol great way to end his anti-Armenian stance LOL
He said Barev, Inchpesek, Lav, aka hello how r u, good lol typical first words non Armenians learn to say
@@moonstruck562 awesome thanks for clarifying! Typical first words for any language it seems (that's all I know in Greek 😂)
@@EK-lp3ti yup. That and the curse words right lol.
And np
name: conan o'brien
job title: bit captain
line of work: bit business
🤣🤣🤣
Literally just have to give these two microphones and point a camera at them. 😂 😂 🤣
What I'm wondering is why Sona's mom is asking Sona how to feed a baby. Sona turned out alright.
Different time, different measures. Sona probably told her mom that her twins are on a special diet, unlike when she was their age.
A few years back I worked with a guy who was originally from Norway. One day we were the only two people in the office, working in different rooms, when he got a phone call and started speaking...I'm going to assume it was Norwegian. After a couple of minutes I thought to myself, "No F'in way! That's not a real language. He's messing with me."
But after a half hour he was still at it and I finally had to admit: That Anders really knows how to commit to a bit!
Hehe, I feel you - just recently I watched a Norwegian crime series (Wisting) with the original sound, and was truly amazed how weird it sounded, like some Scandinavian version of French, with the nasality and shortening everything, so that a sentence with five words tends to sound like only two etc.
Sona quotes Conan.."what is that mish-mish?"
Conan lies: No I would never say that... thats insensitive
Sona's reaction to Conan as the bit captain in the bit business. Priceless.
She said in one article that he once heard her talking to her family and said "She sounded like she was arguing with Dracula"
Sona is Conan's perpetual pinch hitter.
Matt, take it from another dad: Don't leave your baby alone, even for just a second.
Especially since he seems to be drunk from the power of owning his own building.
I am in tears and can hardly breathe, Mr Conan O’Brien, m’boyo. And I do think you had better learn Gaelic. And French. And Italian. And Armenian. And Hindi. And Chinese...and...and...
Watching Sona and Conan is like watching an old married couple arguing LOL
Just wanna drop in to say Sona's new highlights rock.
I love it how in the very last scene he started speaking fluent Armenian while asking hello how are you doing today
Aww, I was hoping everything Sona said was going to be subtitled! 😭
Ironic Conan asks what language Armenian is closest to, when Armenian is one of the few outside the European language families.
Why do you assume he meant 'what EUROPEAN language is it closet to'? I thought he just meant 'What other language is it closest to?'
@@Hoganply Armenian language isn't really close to any other language, it's indoeuropean but it's distinctively separate from any of the other indoeuropean languages. You might claim that it's closest to Greek but these languages separated from each other about 4000 years ago. The Celtic and Italian languages separated about that time as well, so by that definition the Welsh and Italian are as close to Greek and Armenian.
@@tapio_m6861 Very interesting. Thank you.
@@tapio_m6861 I thought maybe it wasn't even Indo-European, but I'll bow to your superior knowledge.
@@tapio_m6861 It sounds closest to Turkish, to my ears. I speak neither, though.
Listened to this while driving and missed two exits because I was laughing so much. Tbh a common occurrence while listening to Conan podcasts.
This is a great example of how Conan can conjure up entertaining content out of absolutely nothing. He's always on, always looking for angles and gags. He's so comedically resourceful.
Conan is the funniest writer I've ever seen.
"Sona speaks Armenian" thanks youtube subtitles... very helpful.
Laugh-gasm! 😂 this is why I love Sona and Conan!
What’s funny is if you understand a different language and not tell anybody about it. I’m American but I was born in Germany and Ive spoken both English and German from a very early age. When I would travel back to Germany I would catch some people speaking to others in German about me because they didn’t think I understood the language. I would let them dig their hole deeper before letting them know I understood everything they were saying. I’ve never seen somebody apologize so quickly before 😂
I grew up in the US but also speak German and had a great experience at Epcot in the Germany exhibit where two girls working there started making fun of my hair in German (I was a punk teenager at the time) and I got to chime in. They were mortified.
Would 100% watch even more of Team Coco podcasts if Sona only ever replied to Conan in Armenian and we got English subtitles so we could know what terrible things she was saying about him. Lol
And Conan constantly complaining about his inability to enforce his English only rule in his "club house" with no laughing. =)
Watch the pawn shop segment they did
Yes, yeeeees, YEEEES!
👆👌
So she should just speak English ?
5:25 To answer Conan's question the language closest to Armernian is Greek. Conan should learn Irish Gaelic so he can blather in a foreign language nobody around him will understand
As a Greek speaker I didn't personally think it sounds too similar but then again nothing I've heard does
Closest, but not close. There are words that share the same root (same as all the indoeuropean languages), but a Greek listening to Armenian would be as much at loss than Italian listening to Welsh.
@@tapio_m6861 Hence why I used the word closest. There are Greek loan words shared with Armenian but as you say Armenian has more in common with Ancient Greek than modern greek. Armenian was also influenced by Iranian languages
But Armenian is a language isolate within Indo-European, so surely it’s equally as distant to all Indo-European languages?
@@TheAwesomeGingerGuy incorrect, as I said already, it has several greek loan words and was influenced by Iranian languages. Google it to learn more
Wow. The Armenian language is absolutely gorgeous.
conan just can't stand not being in on the joke! lol!
Conan loves making Sona laugh. I love it lol
Not really that hard she laughs at everything.
This podcast would be SO good if it were animated
LET ME BE CLEAR: it already IS amazing. It would just add another level
Bit was about Conan trying to make Sona sound like she is planning a attack on America!
I love sona's laugh 😂
I don't speak Armenian. English is a foreign language to me.
*Yet* I can clearly hear Sona's American accent when she speaks Armenian.
Yeah. She's American, so...
@@peachesandpoets Not the point. If you're raised bilingual, you don't have an accent.
@@TheUrbanEpicure I have an accent in my mother tongue after living abroad for so many years.
@@TheUrbanEpicure I live in Germany but my native tongue is English and while my own children don't have a German accent in English, I have met lots of children here who do, even those who have one native English-speaking parent.
@@TheUrbanEpicure Somebody hasn't met many bilingual people. I've met many people raised bilingual (their native tongue + English) who can speak English perfectly fluently, just with an accent. Why shouldn't it be possible the other way?
This is one of my favorite bits so far. This podcast is a gem.
I just love Conan with Sona always laugh my butt off
Sona, is amazingly hot! Personality actually counts.
The Irish accent made me laugh! - I'm Scottish, Glaswegian (from Glasgow)
I'm half English half Irish but grew up in Dublin and Conans Irish nonsense brings me more joy and laughs than I can bear sometimes 😂
I think I had the same experience Conan is talking about. I once shared an office with a guy. This particular guy was of chinese descent, but he spoke english like a native, so I presumed he grew up here. One day he got a call from his mother and he started speaking perfect chinese, and because I didn't know he could, and never had heard him do it before, I was momentarily stunned as I tried to understand the words he was saying as English, before I realized he was speaking in Chinese. It was a weird sort of blown brain-fuse moment.
I love their friendship 😆
At 5:38 she misspoke. Persian (not Arabic) is spoken in Iran.
Conan doing an Irish accent sounds like Mrs. Doubtfire 😂
Please release this with subtitles
Conan is joking, but enforcing an English only rule violates federal (EEOC) anti discrimination laws (Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act) and many states’ equivalent laws as well. You’d need a very strong specific reason for mandating such a rule for limited contexts only, and certainly not generally or in the context of employees speaking to one another in another language. I’m sure Conan’s HR or legal people would tell him that.
Classic! "What's the Bit?!?!" LOL!!
Sona is smart, funny, and beautiful.
"sona" means beautiful so it's a perfect name for her
LOL!! Love when you two bicker
I just want Conan to learn Armenian now, then just start randomly speaking it and see how long until Sona notices lol
😆hilarious conan and sona are awesome
i hate how ppl like conan dont get the recognition they deserve but the jimmys do?
Can i just say - that i wish i would have stood up against my 8th grade gym teacher who forbid us to speak Spanish….
Wow! That's horrible! I'm very sorry. I vote you cut yourself some slack cause you were just a kid being bullied by an adult. They suck.
He was right
lol why? This is a funny bit and Sona is an adult who speaks fluent English, and probably her parents are fairly elderly so they are more comfortable speaking their native language with their daughter.
In school though, when you're 12, if you want to learn English it's best to be immersed in it, so the English only rule makes sense. Or else you're just isolating into your own silo, not interacting with the school body at large and your English progress would likely have been much slower. A lot of workplaces and schools have rules around the working language.
If your English was way worse now, you'd probably be saying the opposite, wishing your teachers enforced the English only rule better.
SONA's physiology is 50% laughter
I love her hearty laugh
@@apseudonym it's her best feature. She's ALL the audience Coco needs. And Matt is the one heckler. Perfection
Conan managed to offend all people, everywhere. Well done! 😀