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heheheeh I believe native english speakers which does not speak other language can not figure out a mispronunciation.. I believe they do not have the skill of "guessing" in terms of speaking, something in english you want to say something really really obvious even when it is in front of them and they do not help... it is like... waiting for the SUPER CORRECT pronunciation, then they do not know other language and can not pronounce other sounds.. they always come back as a reference to english.. it is super wire for english learners, I learned first German, and they understand me when I talk even when I make 100 mispronunciation and grammar mistakes per minute.
“Italy was DECENT”, “I HAVEN’T CONSIDERED visiting Spain”, in France there is “CHEAP WINE”. Italy is the country with most UNESCO places, Spain the second most visited nation and France has one of the best wines in the world. She has offended all those countries where it hurts the most for them 🤣
@@n3493 But this girl has neither education. If someone from USA or any other nation ask me about his country I would say I like it a lot, it has magnific places, food, climate, etc but not with this arrogancy of minuspreciating our culture, products, etc
Andrea and Stefania showed how people from Italy can understand Spanish more easier than the other way around , but of course , as both are Latin languages there're many words similar , sounds as well
The asymmetry is even bigger with French and Spanish or French and Italian. A francophone can understand a lot of Spanish and Italian with very minimum training, while the other way around they will get next to nothing of what is said in French.
As I've heard from an Italian friend It's usually easier for Italian speakers to understand Spanish than the other way around due to Spanish using words that exist in Italian, even tho they are not commonly used since they sound like old words. In Spanish the Italian words that are used nowadays may not exist on the other hand.
Did the american girl really just give a whole speech about how many different accents there are in the us? In Italy there are about 25 different LANGUAGES, not accents or dialects, completly different languages. The same goes for most big european countries.
There are literally over 100 languages spoken in America maybe more. She was referring to how difficult it is to understand specifically English, in some states because we have so many different dialects and accents that sounds so different. Some of them literally sound like different languages. That is she was talking about if you listen. I’m sure in your country is well. I am sure Your country also has different accents and dialects of your primary language which makes it harder for you to understand your primary language in different areas depending on where you live.
@@drloydinkorea I think you misunderstood me. There are many different dialects in the US, in Italy it’s literally completely different languages. Someone from Louisiana might speak a different dialect then someone from Oregon, but both dialects derived from english. In Italy it’s not like that. Venetian or Sicilian for example didn’t derive from today’s Italian, they already existed before. By the way I’m just taking Italy as an example but the same goes for many other European countries.
American girl: "I like the French word, because it's similar to English." Also American girl: Can't pronounce the "E" or the "U" or the "R", because it's so different from English 😂
@Neoxide yes, I agree and understand the feeling, but if we're talking about the similarity of two languages we have to take the oral aspect. French is a perfect example of how the languages develop orally; the written version of a language is a mere convention. So they can share some words but they're not so similar for what concerns grammar, morphology etc. as italian and spanish (and french, or any other latin language) do.
Besides the "Italy was decent" and "I liked the cheap wine", that I'm still trying to cope with- she lived in England and didn't even considered visiting Spain, one of the most visited countries in the world? Also it's the way she says it, if felt condescending to me. As in "why would i think of going there". She could have said "I didn't get to visit many countries" or "I wasnt't able to visit Spain". But no, she managed to be offensive,¡. Although, considering the way she talked about a gorgeous country like our brother Italy, maybe it's a blessing. Cannot fathom what she would say about Spain. The sangría was OK?
Bro she doesn't even know that Spain and the UK are close to each other. Americans don't have a world map in their head. They just get into a plane and wonder where they get off.
Crazy how no one reacted when she talked about the US having so much linguistic variety (apparently) that they're used to understanding other languages/accents. She said this to Europeans 🤣. We literally have so many different languages and dialects. USA strikes again. Lol
Or the fact that she is saying that in a room where three out of four people have very alive dialects (and France is only half an exception with Breton, Alsacian or Corsican being very much alive) and all four have different accents from natives inside their very own country ! Like France is very different in the north and the south of the country, and same for Italian. You can literally have people who are born 300km apart and have different accents and yet American is supposed to be the land of diversity...
Yes exactly! I was just saying that because she used the example of the US being multilingual due to many foreigners coming there and having many dialects which yes is the case but those other languages and dialects are exactly all present throughout the world anyway. I think the richest dialectal diversity in the US would have been indegenous but we all know how they’ve been/are still treated and how that affected the loss of a lot of diversity the US territory could have had. If you think non indegenous, yes there is a huge hispanic community, there is Louisiana french etc… but it doesn’t compare to the rest of the world. But I think she was talking more about migration and when you look at the most cosmopolitan cities in the world the US doesn’t have that many (I think only New York in top 10). She was saying this to europeans who have a few in the top 10, and Europe has an insane linguistic diversity into each of their countries. Which of course is the case in South America, Africa, Asia as well. It’s just that she was talking to Europeans in the video but I would’ve said the same thing if it were anyone else. It just once again shows the lack of knowledge from Americans lol.
This American girl is not the brightest marble in the jar right? She is mocking other's words and all, but she is the only one in the room that talks just one language. The other guys speak AT LEAST two, and most probably 3 or 4 languages.
As a Swiss person, I can understand all of them, lol. French, German and Italian because they are national languages in Switzerland, English because (almost) everyone learns it, and Spanish because it's so similar to Italian.
In Italian usually people say "computer" but in the IT manuals there is often written "calcolatore" or "elaboratore". Anyway computer, like almost all the scientific/technologic English words, is derived from Latin. In Italy nobody say "cartier" with a strong r at the end, but "cartiè" without the r.
@@MN-vz8qm well as a Latin word, I honestly prefer "calcolatore" (calculator, calculareur etc...) to "computatore" (computer) and "elaboratore" is even better. Anyway I often listened people in the IT call it "macchina" (machine).
What’s so interesting about this video is the self-composure and interpersonal nuance. Simply watching the woman from the USA and her body language was so very different than those from across the pond!
As a German living abroad I really felt with Nele in the beginning, when every language except German was mentioned positively. I can't count how many times I was told by people from other countries that German sounds ugly, that German is too harsh, that they never would want to learn German. I also happen to speak Italian and I get so different reactions about Italian. Even if I can understand why people don't like the sound of German, it just doesn't feel nice when your mother tongue is so openly treated as something unpleasant. Because our identity is also based on our language. What I always found interesting is that, when I don't speak standard German, but Bavarian, which is a variation of German threatened of extinction, I get far more positive reactions to the sound, except from people from the north of Germany.
Ich bin Amerikaner und die Deutsche Sprache gefällt mir sehr. Meine Meinung nach, Deutsch klingt schoener als Spanish oder Italienisch. Ich bin ja die Ausnahme.
I think it depends on where you live abroad. In Thailand people told me they like german a lot more than the french one because of history. For me this show that a sound of a language often is associated with something positive oder negative
Whenever I hear someone speaking German it reminds me of hiking in the Dolomites (especially in the northern part), I love hearing it. I actually overheard some German speaking tourist at the beach the other day and I thought about that. It's not harsh at all!
I'm Australian and I went to the US I asked for water they didn't know what I meant and told me to pronounce the "American way" this was in LA and NYC. I disagree even if they have a lot of different accents within the US they are not used to "world" accents😂
Yeah, I'm talking to different people in the world and my accent is not great. Still most of the time people can understand me, unless it's an American, they have a really hard time understanding.
yeah they have a tendency of doing that, was ordering a subway near niagara falls in the outlet & told the lady to put capsicum in my sub, said its called bell pepper i was like bitch just put it in
I'm from NYC and I would've understood you because I have a fascination with accents from around the world. But I have a hard time telling the Aussie and Kiwi accents apart though lol.
@@qrsx66 Because those five are the main ones in their respected countries, every other romance language is small and often similar enough to one of the main 5 romance languages. You wouldnt want everyone repeating the same word, instead of comparing languages, it would turn into comparing accents. There are 38 other romance languages besides the main 5, too many to include.
9:35 that's a huge misconception on her part. Maybe it would be a good idea to have Americans react to dialect variety within European languages as I can see how she came to her conclusion following her logic, however there are in actuality a lot more dialects with a way greater variety within European languages precisely because we didn't have a lot of migration, e.g. bigger cities like cologne even have multiple different dialects and some like e.g. Swabian are only about 40% intelligible for other native German speakers, whereas Americans mostly just have slightly different accents and not really dialects (just compare the differences between an Irish and an English dialect to any two American ones and you will see the difference in divergence)
Thanks World Friends for having us 😊 We are quite amateurs and being in front of a camera can be so impressive! It was my first time and had a blast recording this. I’m glad to read the language exchange and word backgrounds in the comment section. Everyone was so nice and all the participants were really patient, affectionate and each of us tried to represent the best that we could our native countries. Special mention to Ashleigh who had the main role in this, again, this is not easy to do but she nailed it ! Was so friendly and a genuinely nice person !
How did you sign up for something like this? Did they reach out to you at random? Did you sign up somewhere? I'm really curious because these look *very* fun.
En regardant la vidéo, j'ai vraiment le sentiment que l'Espagnole ne t'aime pas du tout... Elle ne sourit jamais quand tu prends la parole et te regarde vraiment d'une manière très antipathique. Quel est ton ressenti à ce sujet??? 🤔🤔🤔
@@J0HN_D03je pense que ce n’est qu’une impression, tout le monde était très sympa, Mikka y compris ☺️ Je pense que c’est difficile de retranscrire la vraie ambiance derrière la caméra. On est tous un peu impressionné par le tournage.
The word "Soccer" comes from a shortening of the phrase "Associational Football," specifically the "soc" in "associational." Ironically, this term comes from England as it's a common shortening in England to add an -er (ex. 5 and 10 pound notes are fivers and tenners). Just like the imperial system of measurements, England invented the term, passed it to the US, then changed their terms to be in line with the rest of the world, presumably to join in on the teasing at our expense. Love the video! Greetings from Texas 🇨🇱🇺🇸
I loved to see how Italians understand what Spanish people say. We Brazilian Portuguese speakers can also understand Spanish speakers without having learned it before, but they cannot understand us very well. Written italian is also very easy to understand
The sport Football is from UK , the most popular sport in the world , soccer is most used in places where this sport isn't the most popular , like USA or Australia
Actually, interesting fact is spanish people that also speak catalan can understand italian pretty well too, we have a lot of similar words and it's pretty fascinating to hear. My favorite similar phrase is 'La dona menja formatje a la finestra' learned it with some italian guys and kinda shocked me
I'm pretty sure that most of the spanish people can understand whole phrases or even speeches in italian...just the spanish girl on the video seemed to be not so smart 😂
In video games, by micro chat, all the Anglo-Saxons speak Spanish to the Italians, they think that Spanish and Italian are almost the same language and it makes me laugh, it's funny that the fact is a reality that Italian and Spanish are brother languages 🇮🇹🇪🇦♥️
I’m Japanese. I have been learning English and French. So, I understood English and French words. My mother can speak these languages. She said « Italian end Spanish are very similar like sister. » Actually, when comparing, these languages are really, I think.
Actually, written Italian is probably closer to written French, but yeah the prononciation differs widely (probably the germanic influence in France), so it makes sense Spanish is closer in that regard.
@@jandron94 I am Italian from Piedmont and I can tell you that in my region we speak Piedmontese, Franco- provençal and Arpitan which have many similarities with French language. In Aosta Valley people have French and Arpitan (if I remember correctly) are official languages along with Italian. In the city of Parma many people pronounce the "r" like in French but many other Italians have this problem, it is quite common. If you listen to Ethan the drummer of Måneskin, an Italian band, you can hear him having problems rolling the r.
Did you know that the word for bread ( pan ) is the same in Japanese, Spanish and old Portuguese? Portuguese navigators took it to Japan and there you adapted it, and Spanish and Portuguese, having the same origin from Latin, have similar words, so that's the reason. Regards from Spain.
@@omiluna7362 californian wine is quite good; I tasted it a few times and I liked it. A bit overpriced compared to an Italian wine but maybe it can depends on the import costs.
@@BlackHoleSpain Yes she's tanned, but not to a level a white person couldn't be tanned to. It could be a natural or a fake tan, regardless, white people with that skin color are not uncommon at all, especially in Southern Europe. Look at her facial features. She doesn't look Native American or black mixed, which is what someone who you might identify as Colombian likely has.
For everyone offended about the “cheap” wine comment-USAmericans use “cheap” and “inexpensive” interchangeably, a lot of the time. She meant you can get inexpensive wine in other countries, not that it’s always poor quality.
Catalans can definitely understand Italian better than only Spanish speakers. I learnt Italian by living in Rome for a couple of months years ago. And for me, being a Catalan speaker made the difference. Catalan and Italian share lots of words, like: "finestra" (window), "manca" (lacks), "mai" (never), "porta" (door)... and then others that are quite similar like: "amic (cat)/amico (it)" (friend), "aixugar (cat)/ asciugare (it)" (to dry), "família (cat)/famiglia (it)" (family)... Those words might look a bit different on writing, but the pronunciation is almost the same. Another thing that helped to learn Italian was English. Like you saw in this video they say "computer", and they use other words like "weekend" as well. So, that helped. I also learnt portugese later on, when I lived in Lisbon for a couple of months as well, this time by studying the language in a Barcelona's language academy during one month prior to the stay. Which really helped a lot, when I went to Rome the language course was online and during the stay, so I struggled a bit, it took me a month to become a fluent speaker. With the Portuguese course and such, it took me about two weeks to get fluent. Now I'm learning French, let's see what it takes me, I guess is gonna take me a while, both Italian and Portuguese are quite similar to both Catalan (my mother tongue) and Spanish, so it was easier to pick them up. I could understand the languages from the beginning. I can also understand some French, but it's a bit harder. Occitan though is a completely different thing, I could have a full conversation with someone that speaks Occitan (from South-France, North-Western Catalonia or North-Western Italy, any dialect really) and me speaking Catalan. Catalan is derived from Occitan, so the similarities are huge between one and other. In fact, yes in Catalan is "Sí", but in Old-Catalan it used to be "Oc" which is precisely how you say yes in Occitan. Anyway, going back to the Spanish/Italian mutual comprehension. I don't know why she didn't understand "Metroponitana" (subway/underground), since we called it "Metro" in both Catalan and Spanish, which is the short for "Metropolitano (sp) / metropolità (cat)", where the only difference is the gender, we use the masculine and Italians use the feminine. However, I can understand why she said "city" instead. Because city in Greek, or at least in Ancient Greek, is "polis" which is the root we use to call things like the surrounding of a city: "àrea metropilitana (cat)/ "area metropolitana (sp)" (metropolitan area), and a big city is also called "metropolis", so makes sense. The subway is called "metropolitan" because it's a"city train". English focuses on the fact that goes underground on in a subway, but; romance languages focus on the fact that is a train that only travels around the city and the surrounding area of the city. So it's interesting to see difference of perspective between the languages don't you think? And well, that's it. Sorry for the length of this comment, I hope you reach the end 'cause I think I made some points that can be conversation starters. Having said that, the only thing left to say is: Nice video and best regards from Barcelona!
In american "football" they basically use more the hands than their foot and they use a egg shape "ball" instead of a normal shape ball, basically Rugby
It's good that finally also a man is included ^^ And the Spanish girl is absolutely hilarious, please invite her more often! 10:36 "Today....blabla...The bus....blabla...The city..." 😂
Me: You either chose ignorance, did not to clean the wax out of your ears or you don’t speak/understand English fluently. What you quoted was not what she said. She said she used to live in the UK which is not mainland Europe. She didn’t say she hadn’t been to mainland Europe.
@@anndeecosita3586 I read the subtitles and so they say. It's up to me their fault? Vogliamo vedere che se io ti parlassi in italiano, anche standard e corretto, scandito e lento, non capiresti un cazzo? Non è colpa mia se voi americani parlate persino la vostra lingua di merda. Non si capisce un cazzo. Vi mangiate le parole. You eat your own letters and words. So it's a bit difficult to undestand you: too bad and fast pronounced
@@anndeecosita3586 and, by the way, the main part in my comment was about "so you chose death" cause she dare to say "italy is decent" No. Decent is average, isn't it? Italy is not decent. Italy is one of the most wonderful countries in the world for history (I dare to remember you even the most fucked up town in italy is more ancient then whole Us), arts, culture, science and also, even it's a lot urbanised, landscapes. The entire "western" culture has gone through the Boot and most part of it was made by us italians directly. You know you write with italian letters and count with italian numbers, don't you? Moreover, you can't understand my humor. Of course the "you chose death" was a joke, a mock. Half to american ignorance and half upon italian anger about foreigners opinion about Italy
Nelle is so beautiful shes my World friends crush. I cant get enough of listening to her talking German. And shes also rocking the Berling black fashion !! 🇩🇪
10:30 As a spanish from Spain I understood: "Today I went ... with the bus, the city" (I thought metropolitan was city and not the metro) I think he said: Italiano: Oggi sono venuto qui in studio con l'autobus e la metropolitana" Spanish: Hoy he venido aquí al estudio con el autobús y el metro" Note: I've never estudiado italiano.
I have no idea why "football countries" have no idea where the term soccer comes from. The rules of football (or soccer) as it is played today were codified in England. Modern soccer is an English game (probably something else "football countries" don't realize). The common version of football originated as Association Rules Football (as opposed to Rugby Rules Football, American Football, Gaelic Football, ...). The english slang for Association Football back in the day was Soccer. I believe the term was commonly used in England through the 1950's. Soccer continued to stick in American and Australian english. The bottom line is that the term is not American.
I personally knew that. But that's because I'm a fan of this sport. It's not hard to understand that other people might not know this. Also, the only "football" countries in here were Spain and France. Italy and Germany have their own words for it
in other words it was always football, just like you say "pc" everytime but you wouldn't say the word "computer" didn't exist because of that. Its cool that most countries evolved.
Why would people in France or Spain know the story of UK or football? Do you think everybody in those countries is interested in England or football history to the point of researching its history? You're either entitled or just stereotyping. Get a live.
I would claim most know that it originated in England, like the imperial measurement system. But people are confused why the US keeps using those super outdated things
italian could be considered as a sort of link that connects french and spanish. Indeed italians are able to understand both french and spanish, but if you ask a french to understand spanish or the other way around they would find more difficulty to do it.
Madre mia, Balompié en Frances es foneticamente : Ballon-Pied, lo que significa litteralmente Foot-ball. Fuera extrano si callemos Football en Francia asi
Caro Marco, il rugby e il football americano sono due sport distinti e addirittura il pallone ha forma e dimensioni diverse. Ah, gli italiani pronunciano "Cartier" senza la R finale, alla francese appunto. Buona continuazione.
The German girl also mispronounced it like someone who has no idea, on purpose. I've only ever heard "Ca-Tié" here in Germany (with no R at all). Absolutely nobody says "Ca-Tyeah", but I think the production team tells them to pronounce it as if you have no idea.
Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance,which you can only use if your W-LAN (Wireless Local Area Network) complies with the regulations of the Wi-Fi Alliance. In many countries Wi-Fi is just used as a general term for all W-LAN's. The term W-LAN is not at all only used in Germany. Also the german original word for "computer" would be "Rechner", which literally translates to "calculator/computer". But most of the germans, especially the younger ones, use the word "Computer".
In Singapore 🇸🇬 we say : 1. Europe : Eropah 🇪🇺 2. Computer : PC 🖥️ 3. Laptop : PC 💻 4. Dog : Anjing 🐶 5. Soccer : Football or Bola Sepak ⚽ 6. Wifi : Wifi 📟 7. Cartier : Cartier 8. Satu, Dua, Tiga, Empat, Lima 9. Pineapple : Nenas🍍
@cjkim2147 All the peoples of the world with Latin language and culture are Latins ("latinos" in Spanish/Portoguese language)... stop this disinformation about Latinity and serch "Latin Union" and "Latin Europe". I'm Italian and I'm LATINO, or "Latin" in English (same meaning but in different language), an autochthonous Latin, moreover. Greetings from Italy, ciao!
It's quite curious. The Italian guy resembles Franco Battiato and the Spanish girl looks like a Latin American reggaeton artist. It seems the cast was made to match certain American stereotypes after all 🤔
well actually amarican football is rugby thats why it's called footbal. they first brought rugby to america then called it football and then changed it to no longer use feet.
it's true that Italians can understand Spanish a lot more than Spanish people can understand Italian. I never studied Spanish, but I can understand a Spanish movie or TV show ALMOST without CC.
As french It’s funny because when we go to Italy we can have a conversation where we speak french and the other speaks Italian and we can understand each other Happened to me sometimes
Italian and French are pretty similar. Perhaps the closest languages in Europe. What makes the Spanish sounds more similar to the Italian is the accent, because the French accent changed a lot from the original Latin and the old French over time
America is not a country. Amrica is the name of an entire continent. For example chilians and colombians are americans as well. Usa is the name of country.
In spanish we also say balonpié to the football. Balonpié is the real spanish word, literally, it's the translation of football, fútbol is an anglicism, but it's the most used, so we usually translate football as fútbol.
Traditionally, the sport has been mainly referred to as soccer in Australia. This is primarily due to Australian rules football taking precedence of the name in conversation due to its greater cultural prominence and popularity - similarly to North America and gridiron football. However, in 2005, the Australia Soccer Association changed its name to Football Federation Australia, and it now encourages the use of "football" to describe the association code in line with international practice. All state organisations, many clubs, and most media outlets have followed its example. The Macquarie Dictionary observed, writing prior to 2010: "While it is still the case that, in general use, soccer is the preferred term in Australia for what most of the world calls football, the fact that the peak body in Australia has officially adopted the term football for this sport will undoubtedly cause a shift in usage." This was highlighted shortly afterwards when the Australian prime minister, speaking in Melbourne, referred to the sport as football, emphasising her choice when questioned. The Australian men's team is still known by its long-standing nickname, the Socceroos and "soccer" is still the most popular term for the sport in Australia.
football is a class thing the upper class could afford horse's polo ect the lower couldn't so every game played with a ball not on a horse is football, rounders soccer rugby tennis etc
As a French I feel like we understand Italian like 90% when they speak it looks like a sophisticated french to me but when it comes to try to speak Italian it's the worst I can manage to form phrases in Spanish and Portuguese but not in Italian
@@kaderbueno6823 Je pense que ton impression vient surtout du fait que les mots que tu arrives à comprendre te permettent de saisir le sens d'une phrase même si tu n'en as pas la moitié.
I just watched to see Lucile. What was the video about? 🤣 I´m kidding. Great content! I like see the differences about culture and languages! Thanks, World Friends!
