American Teenager Guess 5 Germanic Languages!! (Netherlands, Swiss, Germany, Belgium, Austria) 

So refreshing to see an American who actually knows other cultures 👏

It's great to see an American that knows and cares about other cultures. Hard to find this depiction online.

This American girl is so sweet, kind and gentle!

Smartest American teenager I've seen on the internet all year

1:28 Actually the Kebab Döner was invented in Germany by a Turkish guy. He brought the Kebab Plate to germany and noticed his restaurant was empty. That's when he saw outside how german people were always in hurry and ate Hamburgers and Cheeseburgers while running. And he was like why don't I stuff everything inside a flatbread and make it to go? And that's how the Kebab Döner came to existence.

As a Dutchie who has lived very close to the border with Germany for most of his life, I would never have guessed that the Austrian girl was from Austria. Her accent was so neutral that I couldn’t possibly tell it apart from standard German from Germany.

The Dutch being called German is a timeless but infuriating fact.

Even Germany has many dialects and we germans don't understand each other sometimes 🤣

Fun fact even English is a Germanic language

Belgium was way too easy to guess, basically the best question to ask if someone is from Belgium 😂 , french fries is a big thing in Belgium...probably because it's from there

Yes, Switzerland has 4 national languages but they are regional so don't go thinking everyone speaks all four! As of 2022, 61.8% speak a Swiss German dialect as their first language, 22.8 % French, 7.8% Italian, 0.5% Romansh (it's endangered and all speakers are perfectly bilingual with Swiss German or Italian) and 23.4% speak a non-national language natively, the top ones being English, Portuguese and Albanian. All Swiss people have to learn at least one of the other national languages in school (not Romansh, the other three). But it's common knowledge that the German speakers don't like learning French and the French speakers don't like learning German and most people are pretty bad at it lol.

Huh, as a dutch person (The Netherlands) I understood the swiss girl. The swiss-german dialect sounds kind of like a dutch dialect. And the austrian girl was easier to understand than the german girl

I'm glad you bring relatively educated and well-traveled Americans on your show.

I really like this channel, but as an Austrian I have to say one thing - Austria is misrepresented in this video, because Austrian dialects are so different from high german, it´s not just pronounciation, we have many words that does not exist in high german and just like swiss german most germans won´t understand austrian dialects while austrians would understand germans perfectly. But even if all of that was covered in the video, you simply cannot define THE austrian dialect, because there are so many. Austrian german also is more of a spoken language, just like swiss german, there are no actual rules how to write the words, you just write them how you say /feel them, because of this you won´t find written austruan german in restaurants etc, with some exceptions, for example if you order a very regional product, there are chances that they still have the original name in that specific dialect.

Döner was invented by a German Turk in Berlin. So it wasn´t "brought" into our country how she said.

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Somebody from the USA on this channel in the leading role that knows a bit more of the world AND is better in languages. Nice!

As a german I understand swiss german really well😂❤

As an austrian i can understand swiss german but it just sounds off somehow but not in a bad way. Its just not what im used to

This is a really nice video. What is really cool is that Nessa is a quintessential American. She's adorable. Switzerland and Austria were tough. If they hadn't already had a German girl, I would have guessed German for the Austrian girl. She was probably being a little cautious about using her local dialect, wanting to avoid derogatory comments. The Swiss girl was like, "If I use my dialect, no one outside of West-Central Europe will guess where I'm from."

I also can't undestand german from Switzerland 😂, i'm used to hear from Germany, the original, and also Austrian German, but Switzerland is always a hard time, Belgium is so easy to guess

Chosen the smartest American they could find to do this video hahaha. She actually knows her stuff!

So we have a german speaker, a german speaker, a german speaker, a dutch speaker and a dutch speaker, yes ofcourse those are 5 languages

She is great. Very knowleable person.

背景白色だと視聴者に目にわるい。眩しい。

The Swiss girl thinks she's special for having cherry blossoms 😂 Literally every European country that l've ever been to has them on every street 😂😂

The Austrian girl spoke very german austrian like with an accend but not a dialect

GREETINGS From Switzerland love the videos

The Swiss girl is a floating torso...

The Swiss language sounded to me as dutch. I'm dutch and I could understand. Had the same type of Grammer too

Belgium speaks Dutch, French and German. After WW1 there were few German towns on the Belgian side. It has remained that way to this day.

Good to see an American teenager who is smart and interested by other countries, their cultures and languages! Others must take an example!

I am from the netherlands and finally an american that knows our little country Thank you :)

German lady sooo cute😍

1:25 The Döner as most people know it, is actually an invention made in *Berlin* , Germany. Even tho the Döner Kebab is turkish, the Döner in bread (in German: Doner Bag = Dönertasche) His name was _Kadir Nurman_ He was 26 when he came to germany. He came to that idea, thx to his customers. They asked for a more "mobile"-variant, to eat on the go... So Mr. Nurman just put everything from the plate in a pide-bread.

6:22 technically we have 3 languages in Belgium. But given that the German speaking Oostkantons only have 80K inhabitants, I can understand not having heard that

Very nice video. The American girl was super charismatic and the subject was very entertaining. 😊🎉

Funfact: English is germanic language too..

Belgium is no languages.....and Belgium has official 3 Languages. Flemish ( Netherlands with an accent) , France, and German

The Austrian girl was speaking High German. Why would you do that as an Austrian? If you're not an actor working in Germany there is no point in doing that.

I am Hessian and I understood everything she said in her Swiss German dialect. Austria has in fact only two dialect groups, Bavarian and Alemannic (Vorarlberg), Germany has multiple different dialect groups, so many more than Austria.

I am amazed on the american girl. Way above expectations. Smart woman.

As a Swiss from Zurich I can say that she has a strong accent

I'm surprised! That was actually really good!

That girl has friends all over the world😂

Wow!! Im from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and my name is Jara 😮❤

It’s a shame we didn’t hear the accent of the Austrian girl!

What a lovely young lady(the American), I like her demeanor. She's very open to learning as this video shows, she's a smart girl. Warm greetings from the Netherlands. 😊🌷

She did better than I initially thought.

I think people from southern Germany (especially from Baden-Württemberg) can understand the swiss-german dialect very well because its an allemanic-german dialect & near the borders the germans speak a kind of allemanic-swabian or allemanic-baden dialect. The same goes for Austria and Bavaria -many Germans from the north have difficulties to understand the southern dialects and sometimes confuse bavarian dialect with austrian dialect, because they sound kinda similar (and they arge neighbours too).

There used to be many different dialects in the Netherlands too, but everything is going back to a more Randstad (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht) dialect, so the others are kind of dying. Like in my Dutch friend's birthplace, the dialect would often be so heavy and unrecognisable that if her parents were to speak it in any other city, they would not be understood, but if she tried it, it would be some hybrid of Randstad dialect and her local dialect

It's surprising how she didn't knew people in Austria speak German. When I was her age I knew it bcz Austrian painter's native language was German and just like him most Austrian people spoke German.

She looks so NICE!

Actually, in Belgium they speak three languages : Dutch, French and German. They speak Dutch in the northern part of Belgium, French is spoken in the south and in the East a small number of Belgian speak German, close to the German border.

13:17 There are definitely more different accents in Germany than in Austria. Some oft them are actually are whole language of it's own like Low German or the Frisian languages. I can understand that she thinks Austria has more, because in the whole south of Germany there is only East Franconian German like in Austria and Swabian German .

10:40 my family (on my moms side) is from Basel Switzerland !! 🇨🇭🇨🇭they speak fluent Swiss German

Who is from the Nederland’s? 👇

Sorry but there are also totally different dialects in Germany. I'm from upper Bavaria and I don't understand people from lower Bavaria, Baden and Swabia and that's just the Southern part. And of course I have trouble understanding people from Austria and Switzerland too

Missed the opportunity to really confuse her by bringing the german, swiss and austrian girl out together and let them say the same thing ;D

I'm used to stumbling upon random videos like this that are usually from months or years ago, so when I was done and checked I was so surprised to see it only came out 1 day ago lmao

1. I WAS RIGHT 2. I WAS SUPER RIGHT 3. HOW WOULD I NOT BE RIGHT I LIVE IN BELGIUM ALSO I DO NOT MEAN I WAS NOT RIGHT CUZ I WAS RIGHT 4. I WAS RIGHT AGAIN 5. ALL RIGHT

English is also a Germanic language so it is sometimes easier to guess all these other ones

My favourite language "Belgian"... also Austrian and Swiss are just different dialects to German, the same way as Plattdeutsch would be...

Americans dip their fries in mayo all the time but we just combine it with ketchup. Called Fry Sauce in some places as well

Döner was invented in Berlin. It's a commom misconception because it was invented by a man with a turkish immigration background

Belgium actually has three official languages. 0,7 per cent of Belgians that live on the border to Germany (German Speaking Community) are native soeakers of German. That's why it's made official. Bearing in mind that in reality it's a tiny part of the population (increased by Germans living in Belgium), it's not that relevant on the whole. The Arabic speaking population is higher and possibly from other countries, too.

They technically all speak a germanic language.

This girl alone restored more of my faith in the US than they destroyed by themselves over the last decades lol. That being said, love this channel, love to learn, love the concept of a universal language being depicted on this channel all the time, cool video, greetings from northern Germany!

Wow, ich kann spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. Ich verstehe die Deutsche, und Österreichische, aber Ich verstehe nicht die Schweizer Frau. Eigentlich ich weis nicht es war Deutsch.

Great video. The only thing is, the background music is very distracting, especially when trying to hear the different languages.

Funny how the austrian didn’t speak her dialect and the Swiss did

shes incredible for an american

It would have been more interesting to feature a variety of European nationalities. This is simply the same group of people from the other video, all from the same part of Europe. Also, the title doesn't make any sense and doesn't match the content of the video.

7:47 Round 4 was so weird to me. I understood most of it and I was like, is this a weird dialect of Dutch?

belgium has three main languages (german, dutch, french) and speaks/learn four ( german, dutch, french and english)

Team Belgium,Belgique 👇

yo she is smart.

For Jara, mijn naam is ook Jara maar met een y dus Yara

They didn't even mention how the Dutch girl had a southern accent! Usually they can tell by the g-sound where we're from, maybe they picked a southern person on purpose.

I am 3/4 netherlands (Brabants), but I am 1/4 Belgisch

More of this, please!!!!! 🇳🇱🇩🇪

Another special thing about Swiss German is that it is a mix of all kinds of languages (especially German, French, Italian and English). What I find strange is that some English words that are used in exactly the same way in Swiss German are further removed from English in standard German. Here some examples (left is German, middle is English, right is Swissgerman) Alle - all - all Sommer - summer - Summer Unter - under - under Aufzug - Lift - Lift

Its great they know my dutch culture.

1:07 Immediately heard the german

I am also Austrian. Our language is different in each federal state, but we also speak standard German at school, in church and at some modern events. However, among the family and also in the home environment we speak in the respective country and homeland dialects. I, for example, am currently practicing old Austrian German again. some young people don't even know one anymore (Paradeiser = tomato).

I was super impressed by the American, she is obviously well traveled and knows a lot.

WHERE ARE MY DUTCHIES 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

Very good! The girl has guessed well.

People thought I was Dutch once, just speaking my Saarland dialect in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. They couldn’t understand me. So the Austria dialect thing isn’t specific to Austria alone.

I'm from belguim but I can speak English so I understand you

The first guess by looking does not make any sense when they do not look like the inhabitants looked 50 years ago. The girl from Belgium has her ancestors in Vietnam and the girl from Switzerland also has obviously ancestors from elsewhere.

Bro Germany swiss and austia all speek german and the netherlands an belgium both speak dutch And dutch and german look a lot like eachther

Never saw an young american knowing so much about other countries. Impressive!

7:48 it sounds like the Swiss girl is speaking Afrikaans!!

I from Belgium 🇧🇪 I

Ik ben nederlands ook it means i am netherlands (dutch) to

Team Belgium ❤❤❤ I'm from Belgium ❤❤❤

Germany and Austria have a long history together. From the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. The emperor even ruled in Vienna between the 15th and 19th centuries. Even if this empire (it was sonorously called the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation") was in reality very, very decentralized, and it actually consisted of many individual small and micro states. This changed in the 19th century. In 1806, this empire dissolved and was partly ruled by Napoleon. After the victory over Napoleon, the defunct Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was replaced by the German Confederation after the Congress of Vienna. This German Confederation consisted of a good 30 individual German states, which were only loosely connected to each other. This alliance was dominated by two great powers: Austria and Prussia. In 1866, a war broke out between these two great powers, which had competed with each other in Germany for 100 years, and Prussia won this war. after that, the German Confederation was dissolved and Austria and Germany separated from each other and went their separate ways from then on. In 1871, as a result of the war against France and under Prussian direction, a modern German nation state was founded for the first time. The German Reich. However, this German Empire was now dominated by Prussia and the Prussian King became German Emperor in the capital Berlin. Germany and Austria remain partners. But due to the rivalry between the monarchs in Prussia and Austria, German unification could not succeed together with Austria in the 19th century. Only after the end of the monarchy in 1918 would there have been a new chance, but the victors of the First World War forbade the reunification of Germany and Austria. This ban was broken by Adolf Hitler (who was Austrian and wanted a Greater German Reich together with Austria) in 1938 when he blackmailed the Austrian government and then invaded Vienna. After the Second World War and the German defeats, the victorious powers Germany and Austria separated again. AND they also divided BOTH states into 4 occupation zones each. BUT in Austria, the victors of the war were of the opinion that the dispute was not worthwhile here, because Austria has only a tenth of the population of Germany. That's why Austria quickly became its own free country again and was not divided, like Germany in 1949. In 1990 came the German reunification of the FRG and GDR. But hardly any people on either side of the border are interested in unification with Austria. It's just been too long since Austria and Germany have belonged together (since 1866). But of course you can still see it in the common language (even if despite different dialects) today. By the way, the Netherlands and Switzerland also have a common history with Germany! - Only here the paths parted earlier: Switzerland and the Netherlands became independent as early as 1648.

this girl is so knowledgable.

Swiss German sounds more Dutch than German, but that could be because she was speaking in a dialect