Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV | WIRED 

Hey, you nailed both punctuation and capitalization, two things that 90% of the YT audience is completely unaware of....

@@teamredshirt Near-flawless execution, but an ellipsis typically contains only three periods, not four, and there really should be an em dash in place of the second comma, e.g. "you nailed both punctuation and capitalization-two things that..." Otherwise, amazing performance.

CandidateZero, The dash is one I struggle with, if only because is been a decade since high school. The ellipsis I’m blaming on my cracked screen, which causes an occasional double button press that autocorrect usually deals with for me. Until I started double tapping space to end a sentence, it often caused sentences to end with “..” which correction software doesn’t care about one bit.

@@candidatezero4703 An ellipsis at the end of a sentence should still have a period after it, for four total. Or, if you use the ellipsis character (glyph), it would be "…."

@@Melds What? No. There is no such rule.

He doesn't "speak" Parseltounge, he "understands" Parseltounge, like Dumbledore.

Mr.Heller r/whooosh

Konner Dent gotta be able to understand the snakes to stop them

@@Mr.Heller wait wait wait..did Dumbledore understand the language? It's been so long since I read the books..

@@alvinlepik5265 yeh, he can understand it but not speak it lol

Also I'm so goddamned thrilled that my obscure language got a mention in this video (minangkabau) I kept replaying that part

Yeah as a Russuan I feel like r basically doesn't exist in English

@Stevie P eA

@@joshuamaze4210 games

Whenever I speak in English, I inevitably "trip" over the r sound at some point. It's really difficult to locate it, almost feels like a vowel at times. Though the French r is even worse.

It’s amazing

I thought it was a velo-pharyngeal affricate? But seriously, good job on the pseudo-phonetic words. They sound really genuine! 😁

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@augustguerra2550 eyy memento mori

clearly it's an alveo-nasal plosive

Ladies and gentleman.. we got him..

lol you made me snort laugh

sus indeed

Um actually it should be pronounced Ì̴͍͈ ̷̢̍̔̈́̽̂͝ĉ̸̨̛̥̬̣͕̤̻̉͠á̵̠̱̇̓͆n̸͉̠̙͙̥͇̰͌͂̿͊̏̂͒'̶̣̝́̑͝t̴͎̟̣̮͐͋̒͘͝ ̶͎̮̜̥̩̬̠̳͋̂̄c̶̻͐͜ǫ̸̟̬̟̫̙̬̉̓̈́̾̈́͋m̶̛̟̳̖̳͌͐͗̋̈́͝m̵̧̛̛͔̼̬͉͗̈́͛͂̉̂ę̵̣͍͖̲͚̻̅͜n̴̖͕̠̊͛̉̎̊͘͠t̷͇̹̫̙͚͚̬̹̊͗̒͐̿ ̵̲̳̼̌̐͑̓b̷͕͍̟̄͒̈́̽́͛͝e̸̥͎̮̖͈͓͇̓̒̕͝c̴̯̣͐ā̴͚͝ư̶̫̰̺͉̻̮͉͋̃̆̆̋̆s̵̡̳̭̋ȩ̵̠̯̬̥̀̈́̈́̄͋̌ ̴͎͕̪̰͎̆̌́̉̈́̌̕̚Į̸͓̪̠̖͐͑̿̿̏̔͝'̸͎̎̓̃m̴̥̠͋̍͐̅͆͆̎͋ ̵̣͓̯̞̭̟̯̋͒̈ṇ̶̝͈̦͔̰̞̫͆̈́̊̑͋o̷͉̿͆̈́̀̾̄̓̒t̸̩̰͈̤̰̟̄ ̸̛͓̂͊͘a̶̛͎̜̭̰͈͌̽́̌ͅ ̵̲̼̒̾͒̕͘͘͝ḩ̶͕̘̦̼̝̳̄ͅe̷̛̛̥̻̱̳̔̎̄̌͆̄ͅp̵̡͈͇͈̟̉̀̚t̶̘͔̼̊͗͋̎̚ä̷̱́̽̑̏͒̎͑̓p̸̱̗̹̫̹̪̚ȱ̵̲͗͛d̵̰̲̞̪̟͚͇̓

@@matthewtaylor6829 did you mean “i diemn jodpoe93ld xjeofd i hsmrx jsoekd s jhepetod”

Yup

we just going to ignore the spot on Yoda he pulled while talking about Star Trek...

every time eric would be like "hear that sound?" i'd be like "uh huh definitely" while in reality i heard basically none of it and only followed like 5% of the conversation

am I supposed to reply with a copy&paste as well?

It's easy.

The Ewoks also say some phrases in Tagalog. I remember watching Star Wars as a kid with my family. It surprised the heck out of us Filipinos. (In a good way.)

there are several "elvish dialects" and only Tolkienheads know it! XD

@@RafaelaMartinelli Well, yeah. Quenya is a strong contender here ;)

There are three Elvish languages in LoTR/Silmarilion lore right? (At least three) Calling any of them just Elviah would be like saying, "Oh do you speak Indo-European?"

Same, im learning it and everyones like: So hows youR ELVISH going

Can we also appreciate Zoe Saldaña that she nailed at least two fictional languages, in Avatar and Star Trek

It's kinda crazy that she was able to show a progression in her speaking ability. I also love the clear distinction between Drogo as a native speaker and Dany as a non native speaker in season 1. Big credit to his friend Jan for that.

@@johat1219 We can and we should.

Dothraki AND High Valerian!

She even makes an unintentional mistake in the sale of the Unsullied that makes her pronunciation sound even more Astapori, where she says “iskos” instead of “iksos” as it would be in what Eric calls proper Valyrian. Over time ps and ks sounds switched to sp and sk

Well... That's his job as a linguist

@@BlkSDX A lot of people really suck at their job. This guy is just good at it.

Or he researched for 4 weeks before doing this video.

@@flee4342 He likely does speak most of the languages that aren't a minority language though. Enough that a casual conversation would never be an issue anyways.

​@@dwalters98 What do you consider a minority language? Cause there are hundreds of widespread languages that millions of people can speak. He can be educated on languages without actually being able to speak them, definitely not in a "casual conversation" type of way. I'd place my bets that he knows up to ten.

Isabelle Sacks But not Viggo Mortensen who speaks 7?

I wasn't saying that to detract from the impressiveness of how many Viggo Mortenson speaks, but rather to highlight that I thought it was outstanding that Zoe Saldana speaks TWO fictionalised languages.

She should join Game of Thrones.

So true

*Na'vi

I came here for Tolkien

Who else came here for Tolkien?

@@destbar6610 Me

I came here for Tolkien too!

Kinda strange when you think about it 🤔

They also have Navajo??! What. That's kind of upsetting for me ngl

@@fierysunset3261 navajo is a real language tho what are you upset abt lol

Haha I didn’t know! I have a lifetime membership to do a lingo for the pandemic.

@@devanbrowne8706 because it’s a language only for us.

I was thinking that too, but the title of the video does specify film and TV. That being said, I'd love to hear his take on it. Maybe he can do another video on video game languages.

Jabu jimi hish jabu

Septecimia simlish isn't a real conlang, it's more like that Star Wars language with the little bear things because it's a haphazard arrangement of a number of different languages

oh feebee lay!

Lol yea!

Me when dating 😅

Me and my brother are language nerds so I was able to hear them pretty well. Once you study the sound system of two or three languages it's easier to pick up on those kinds of things.

It goes sooo fast but I’ve watched all of these videos in a row and it’s getting a bit easier. I know I’ll forget all of it by tomorrow

Listening takes practice and being multi-lingual helps a lot.

E P my best guess to why that is is that Latin is so widely argued on the pronunciation that Duolingo didn’t want bad reviews for the speaking part of learning your language. Klingon on the other hand is short, and pronunciation is considerably easy

@@JeremiahWatkins-zv8bn Huh that's a good point. I never thought of it like that. There are two latin teachers at my school and even they pronounce words differently.

E P yes, since Latin wasn’t preserved well over the centuries, the pronunciation is widely varied, and hotly debated amongst experts. I think it’s a really interesting topic to dive into. My native language is French and even inside our own language, there is so much variation. Sometimes to the point you can barely understand one another. I guess this is the same with English, but I don’t feel it’s as extreme.

I don't know what's the issue with the Latin. I mean, yeah, there are two types of pronunciation, a classical and an ecclesiastical pronunciation. Just choose the classic one and it's done. Latin is a very beautiful language, the father of most occidental language, except english and german, dutch and some others.

Tu trouves qu’en France on peut avoir du mal à se comprendre ? À part au Québec je trouve qu’on n’a vraiment pas d’accents si différents que ça

Matthew Calder what the... I read that RIGHT as he said it!! *Twilight Zone music*

someone fell in love

@@yyaaa3434 Lmao

agreed wish he'd also cover quenya, since that's much more developed than sindarin even though there's more sindarin in the book and out of curiosity, do u know the ring verse in black specs by heart?

Nick Zagas THANK YOU!!!! I was stuck like, did he really just put that out there perfectly like that and NOBODY said anything???!!!

@@cuoredolce29 It's too perfect! Maybe it was a voice over??

Ikr? Dude is true to his career lol

Thats his profession...

Best part

Still doing better than some. Cornish is dead.

Kinda upset he didn’t mention that the Tl sound is also in Nahuatl (Aztec language) and has 1.8m speakers, making it the largest spoken Native American language

How is that depressing? You unintelligent to enjoy Star Trek hmm? I understand. Most people are.

@@nexxusty I'm saying it's impressive how developed star trek has become. I like star trek. I'm saying how it's depressing how many of the native American cultures and languages have faded and been lost. I'm not insulting star trek.

@@nexxusty You insult someone's intelligence while simultaneously butchering the language. Do you have any idea about the real languages and histories and peoples who've been lost? I love Star Trek, but honestly as someone who's at least in some part Seminole, I have to say I agree with Lincoln. It's sad indeed.

Not me though. I am Indian😆

Hahahahaha or as we laugh in spanish: Jajajajajajaja

I would watch way too much of that

I third this

I agree he’s awesome, very knowledgeable

I think that is a dwarvish alphabet, not Sindarin at 13:12

@@itsmyroadbiatch1884 why?

Just a guy who's passionate about and knows a ton about a topic. Idk that so attractive to me

I don't think so, otherwise I'd be get a lot more action, then what I am rn

Yes. Yes he is.

*coughs* lookin’ at you, Viggo

Looks before books. He's hot, which is obviously the first thing people notice. And THEN he's interesting. Maybe. Still better be hot and dull than ugly and dull

😂😂

It sounds a bit forward but feels so right ^^ Out in a minute, honeeey

I love your screen name😂😂

Marquise West thanks boo 😘😉

*uvular

*tl*

lingustics is wicked

Try out books like "Learning russian for travel purposes in 4 weeks" and alike without any listening comprehension whatsoever, i dare you :D Not wanting to unlearn learned mistakes, we wouldn't just settle for a gutfeeling of how the pronunciation has to sound like. I am so glad i came upon this chanel ^^

@@bazingaburg8264 ты странный сударь

me neither!!!

Huh....interesting 🤔

American English for the win!

@@BigBoss-sm9xj actually the sentiment was more "Tamil for the win!" But whatever floats your boat 😂👍

@@himamouli5047American english and Tamirrr for the win!! Lol tamil can also be a winner

@@BigBoss-sm9xj True ❤️😀

@@svenlimaLima lol! profound!!!

I want him to read me a bedtime story 😂

I agree and wanted to help you reach 1K likes :)

Big Bodda BOOM! Orange haired girl in fifth element!

you should watch tom scott

You are to grammar what Albert Einstein was to grammar

And far less pandering and intellectually insulting then Vsause too! Bonus!

Vsauce ain't shit! More like Dsauce.

Infinite Loop indeed

Fascinating.

Same, lol

Haha. Thanks for putting my thoughts into words. I'm captivated

Me here :)

✋

I do. Its cool to realize how if even small changes in the things weve always done unconciously could totally change how we sound.. That's pretty neat.

Yes me too! I think minion language uses a lot of malay words. I recognized one or two malay words like "terimah kasih" but i don't speak malay so I wouldn't know.

@@chongyunsimp2088 haha yeah, it definitely sounds like a mix of Austronesian + Greek + others

@@DrRiq It also sounded slightly Latin to me

@@newtonthenewt1400 yep, agree

Most of it is gibberish

Just about to say that 🤣🤣🤣

especially 12:42

Jo Giesler I studied English at Uni for a little time and had linguistics in it and had to learn most of these words. Best part is mumbling things to yourself when taking the exam.

I know, right :D "Is this fortis or lenis? t ... d ... t ... d ... t ... d"

Many don't, it would be surprising if he didn't though. His name is completely Danish, as his father is Danish, and his mother is American. He have lived a lot of places, they did forget to include that he also can speak a bit Arabic and Russian.

Yeah.....Stolen Comment

JustAGuy Well black speech was never fully done, since it was barely used in the books and that Tolkien himself said that he kinda hated it since he felt it made him uneasy. Which kinda fit when you make a language that the enemy should speak

JustAGuy thank you, i was hoping there would be a comment paying J.R.R. Tolkien the fuckton of respect he deserves

Anime Gandalf true; Tolkien's languages are of various states of completion. Fun fact: Black speech is related to Valarin, the language spoke by the sort of gods. Another fun fact: Sindarin is considered weird by many, perhaps because it was subject to time more than the "proper" Elvish Quenya.

Fun fact: hot pockets are almost impossible to cook correctly.

Well it makes sense that Black Speech and Valarin are similar since the "magic" of middle earth is just that speech and song twisting the fabric of reality.

yep absolutely

I think so😂😂 cause he is cute asf

who is y/n

@@ghadaalkhalidi9733 Y/N is often known as "your name" in fanfics and self inserts on Tumblr and such

@@NO-bl4gm oh thanks:)

I love how they show Yoda shaking his head "no" after he said it

where was it again? (can you give me the time)

Anne 2:39

sorry it's not there...?

Anne try 3:02

"You know, that wasn't in the original script. They added that based on something I said in the original press release. ... I remembered the first time I saw that [Jorah says it] thinking, 'Wait a minute, I don't remember that...' Then it hit me, and I realized, 'Oh, hey. They picked that up from me!' Then I forgot it and created a word for "thank you,' anyway." -David Peterson, Dothraki language designer

I thought he rephrased it with something like "I appreciate your work" or similar. Would have worked, too.

I had to scroll too far down for this!

Right he is! Yessss!

Book to him gave I

I feel like he could do a perfect impression of just about anyone or anything.

Comment Yoda did. His head he shook.

anyone can do a good yoda impression

giving me a small heartattack with "he spoke"

I wish that I could speak Spanish

it sounds like he speaks Sinderion better than most of the elves...

and there was poor Figwit (aka Lindir) having helluva time tryna memorize one single sentence in sindarin... :D or two. Taenen bar-en-abed athar glaind, nevui penim miruvor. Manann ingadh namen i-darthatar? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3vo0P3WG4zM.html around 5:00 -ish :)

@@dxce_ meh, who cares... grow up ;) btw in oldest manuscripts it's 616, if you love number of the beast :p

Sarah Warren *because he is danish, which elvish was derived from*

SNEAKY BLISSKIN Old Norse is quite a different language than Danish, it's close to Icelandic, and closer to Norwegian than Danish - which has changed a lot, since those times. Danish sounds closer English than Old Norse, though of course it sounds quite different than English. So Old Norse is the great grandmother of those 3, there a couple of others as well, mainly Swedish. Icelandic sounds the closest to it, because it 'inherited the house where Old Norse used to live'. Elvish is a whole language group, not 1 language. Here the language in question is Sindarin. There is also an Elvish language called Quenya in the movies and books. Those are the 2 most important Elvish languages, but there are many more Tolkien made. Quenya is mostly Latin and Finnish, Old Norse only giving some spice to it here and there. Sindarin - which they speak here - is mostly like Welsh and Irish, spiced with something else, like Old Norse. I'm not sure, but sounds like Old Norse was more used in making of Sindarin, but it wasn't the major component in neither of those 2, that much I know. And I'm linguist myself. Well, not a teacher, but studied it in the university.

fullmetalfunk why would it be? This was languages from film and tv, which Sim speak is from neither.

True but they had the Furby at the end. That's not from a film or movie.

fullmetalfunk cause it was part of the random stuff section. And yes, while they could've had Sims there, all the other randoms were from tv or movies also, including the Furby because it's a tv commercial.

You're incredibly pedantic, but ok. I just figured it was one of the more well known made up languages in our culture and since it's just gibberish and not a real conlang it would have been funny to hear what he had to say about it in the random section is all.

fullmetalfunk I'm sorry I came off that way, maybe it'll come up in a future episode, I just wanted to be clear why it wasn't in this one.

This man is the dream of heterosexual female linguists everywhere.

HAHA my ocd is having a field day this comment has 666 likes

He literally teach you how to spell it right everytime he correcting

Easy, just take a hammer to your left temple

Though wrong sentencing :P Yoda would never say "book to him gave I", but would say "book to him I gave", as if he pasted the beginning at the end. "Patience you must have" "Ready are you" "consume you it will", stuff like that. I'm not even into star wars, but I recall that easily as I found it hilarious ^^

13:32 JFK is a jelly donut confirmed

actually funny thing about Yoda's speech pattern is that it is IDENTICAL to Korean grammar, so when star wars was translated for a Korean audience Yoda sounded like your typical old dude

@Brett Dibble: That was a stupid mistake on the translator's part then, he should've translated it so it would have a different grammar so his speech would stick out just as it does in English. I guess the translator was not imaginative enough.

well, compared to everyone else (remember, yoda is the ONLY one with that specific speech pattern in the movies) yoda's speech would STILL stick out since i'm assumeing everyone else would sound....wonky. that is unless the translators REALLY got into the nitty gritty of things

Also the sims language next pls

Mina F Step one: Put marbles in mouth. Step two: Pretend to speak French

Mina F Finally! Official name (Technique Critique)

what is your native language, guys?

Native Language is Dutch, but i also speak Englisch, French, German and a little bit of Spanish

who's not :D

If we're being honest, this seems like a really well put together guy. I bet he lives in a really fucking awesome loft and buys quality goods.

LOL Sawyer. Too true

Same, a smart man talking about something he's passionate about makes my ovaries implode!

of course! he is five a star man!

Bryn Jackson he’s the human representation of badass

Then you have Emilia Clarke who does nail it, but not without messing up. It's hilarious. Even when she speaks Valyrian.

looks like spanish to me

Supergirl Gamer I think she does it really well too, but she does it with her Valyrian/Westerosi accent since she's all high born and stuff, which definitely makes it sound less badass, but hey, Dany is pretty badass as it is so I give her a pass there lol

Maybe Khal Drogo just kills off anyone that speaks it better than him lol

its called dovahzul. thu'um is a word in dovahzul

It's just an English relex, not really a proper conlang

@@girv98 actually, there is a dovahzul course.

@@alvindzaki6085 I didn't say there wasn't. The point is that it's a relex - a word for word copy of English grammar just with different words

@@girv98 Ah, I see your point.

Whaaaaat??? For real?

Wtttt so its just english?

very interesting. i've seen those movies a thousand times each and i never knew that.

Then that language would just be English no?

Did you know that Deadmau5 actually has *the* synthesiser board that was used to create R2-D2's "Language"? Source: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dBiqFNNfudA.html Timestamp: 5:25

kenza abdi I don't know what you mean. I was giving him a compliment. It's a phrase used in America. Think of it like, "I got a new Ferarri. It's stupid fast."

kenza abdi “stupid” in this context is synonymous to “crazy” or “very”

Loving the oxymoron :)

'Stupid' here is an intensifier adverb. A typical Americanism. Kinda funny too, its intended comedic effect. Nothing to be bothered about.

Pp and poopoo

only 20 minutes?

Nope. I watch over & over and share with friends. He's brilliant.

No, because he also did aliens.

Because it's super interesting

Cause he's fuckin hot

8ay8ee Aawww now I can't correct a "ck" to a "ch" anymore :(

Yeeeeah it's close but not exactly the same. When saying "cute" I'm using a part of my tounge that's a teeny tiny bit further back when saying "Ich". Source: am german. (Although the possibility stands that I'm pronouncing "cute" wrong, obviously.)

@Peter Pepper - From a native English speaker, you're correct. I know how to ( properly ) pronounce "Ich", and I think it has more to do with the vowel sound immediately next to the "ch". Your mouth is more open when you are saying "Ich" and the tongue is slightly more forward - open more because of how "i" is pronounced. In "cute", the vowel u requires your lips to be a different shape, and the tongue is juuuuuust slightly further back. You're probably just fine pronouncing "cute", so don't worry about it!

like we care

czech's say it right

I could listen to this guy break down language all day

SidV101 same. I came to make this comment

I just came.

SidV101 9

Please don't.

I was waiting for Hodor too since he discussed GOT conlang already.

Hodor is perfectly cromulent.

sims are a game, not TV or movie. So he could get away with not including it lol.

and Furby is a TV or a movie?

YES

I was looking for Simlish too! Degdeg...

Oh no, I was going to make this comment, but you made it one year ago, so now I can't :(

Chris Sede hahahaha

Wa sah iyatehte

Quite cool tho, make sure you keep your language alive! I know I would watch some beginners guides

Timestamp ?

@@dollykumo2959 About 18:54.

@@jellybeanslash thx ✨

"I started studying Arabic as I am very interested in the Persian culture as well" - wait a sec, then why aren't you studying Persian? These are completely unrelated languages, save for some loanwords?

Keep at it, and enjoy the people you meet along the way, what it's all about! 👍

Yup

Zoe Lang That's because it doesn't. They made a language of agreed-upon gibberish, there is no real grammatical basis to it, I think. They focused on the emotional impact every word had, but didn't worry about consistency. At least, it's what I heard.

^^^ This. Also, check mate in Simlish is literally "meck chate"

"yibz!"

Lmao I always thought it was in another language I didn't know but I never knew it wasn't any language at all... geez I feel dumb... I always wondered why they never spoke english im going to kill myself.

There is not no structure to Simlish, my friend and I met Portugal the Man after a concert of theirs and they have a song or tow in TS3, I asked about it and it is almost certainly just jibberish with some words that go together a bit.