Greek Language | Can They Understand Each Other? (Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey) 

Turkish - Japanese - Korean - Finnish - Hungarian meeting should be also done which would be definitely interesting.

Andrea saying "I feel motivated to learn Greek because I think I can be good" was me as a Spanish speaker 2 years ago. It's still a long way and I still struggle because greeks speak SO damn fast but I'm hanging in there. Τι όμοφρη γλώσσα και πολιτισμός 🤍💙

The word yoghurt is the original Turkish word.

Everytime I hear Turkish on here it feels so familiar, though I understand almost nothing. I guess that's because there are so many turkish people living in Germany and especially because my parents neighbours are turkish and I have been hearing them talking turkish in the garden right next to us all my life. I really like hearing it. It kinda feels a bit like home to me, which is kind of weird not understanding a word. 😅

Greek and Spain Spanish are extremely close phonetically. The Greeks I’ve heard speak Spanish have a perfect accent

0:40 Greek does not come from Latin. Common knowledge lol. If anything, Greek posed a great influence on the creation of Latin languages

Etymologically, "yoğurt" is a Turkish word where "harita" is Greek :-)

As a Bulgarian 🇧🇬 I understood Greek and Turkish perfectly. (I just have been learning these languages for years. 😅😅 Our languages aren't really mutually intelligible even tho we use many Turkish words in Bulgarian and there are Greek words in all world languages.) But I think the participants did a great job. They understood more than I expected. I'm really glad you included 2 of my most favourite languages in the world! 🇬🇷🇹🇷 Btw I don't agree that Turks don't conjugate the verbs. 🤔 I don't want to pretend that I know more than a native speaker but let's take the verb "gitmek" as an example: Ben gidiyorum - I'm going Sen gidiyorsun - You're going O gidiyor - He/she/it is going Biz gidiyoruz - We're going Siz gidiyorsunuz - You're going Onlar gidiyor(lar) - They're going Obviously, the Turkish verbs are being conjugated. I think Oliviane got confused because Turkish is an agglutinative language and if there is more than one verb in the sentence usually only one of them will be conjugated and the other verbs will be in infinitive or something else. Like for example: I want to go. - Gitmek istiyorum. - Only the verb "istemek" (to want) is being conjugated while "gitmek" (to go) is used in infinitive. But still that doesn't mean that verbs in Turkish aren't being conjugated at all! Anywaysssssss. Great video. My inner language geek needed to explain all of this. 😅

andrea mentioned that turkish sounds fast, but oliviane was actually speaking slowly 😂

Do all Turkic languages or Turan! It would be soooo interesting for example Turkish,Uzbek,Kazakh,Kyirgiys,Azerbaijan and other

Lol the face of the Turkish girl when the German girls said yogurt is a german word.😅😅😅

01:57 Her face says it all! 😂 Are they kidding me? The first word "Yoghurt" is of Turkish origin and you ask a Turkish girl how it’s spelled? It should be spelled in the only correct and original Turkish way all over the world…😉

Turkish girl is so pretty and her voice is so soft 😫❤❤❤❤❤

Andrea has a point, actually. For whatever reason, Greek sounds like someone speaking Gibberish in Spanish (Spain Spanish in particular). I once heard Greek people speaking at an airport, and I thought they were speaking Spanish until I got closer and realised I didn’t understand a thing lol. I’m sure it’s the same for Greeks when hearing Spain Spanish too. Lots of “th” sounds too.

Turkish deserves one video , it had been before , but was among Arabic and it's totally different from arabic for me , since it's a not from the same family , i'm surprised with Greece 😊

Andrea nows catalan , In catalan blue is blau. I don’t know if is because of the series but I love Turkish. Sounds beautiful.

Among this group , especially these languages i only noticed similarities between Spanish and Italian , the other are totally different , good see Greece 🇬🇷 back but especially Andrea from Spain 🇪🇸

The Greek girl talked very slowly and clearly, good job!

As a Greek speaker, Greek is quite different from every European language,since it is not a part of any Germanic, Slavic, or romance language family. Thus the grammar and vocabulary are not similar to any other European language. So no matter what your mother tongue is, you will find Greek a bit challenging to learn because of that. It does sound like Spanish, but it is just because of all the long ee's, and heavy amount of vowels that Greek uses, and not because of any Spanish influence.

I want to see Turkish with Azerbaijani, Özbek, Kazak, Kirgiz, Uygur, Tatar, Türkmen. All from the same Turkic language family.

Funnily, yoğurt is a Turkish loanword in all those other languages including Greek. The reaction was funny 😅

Greek language is one of the most beautiful language in the world. I love it (from Italy)

We need a comparison in between Turkic languages. Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Azerbaijani.

This is a very nice grouping. Starting to feel like I wouldn't be totally lost in Italy. The spelling is what would totally throw us off in the West with Greek, you can't get any kind of a hint off of that. What was really funny for me was when Andrea's word was "crema", I knew it was cream, but I was thinking of it spelled "creme", like Germans spell it. It's that French phrase "Creme de la creme.", for the best of the best. You will see it spelled both ways in the US.

Χαιρετίσματα στη Μαίρη! Ελπίζω να σας δούμε περισσότερα εδώ🤗🇬🇷❤️ Greetings to Mary! Hope to see you more here!🤗❤️🇬🇷

Ποντίκι (Pontíki) it's the mouse and rat is Αρουραίους (Arourèos). ❤🇬🇷

It's interesting to see all the different types of languages differences! These ladies are a great roster for this type of content.

The greek girl spoke slowly on purpose. If she had to speak normally like greeks do in a conversation they wouldn't understant a single word. Probably not even philology 😄

We want more Greek and Turkish.

you guys should do an episode for turkic/altaic languages because turkey always seems to odd one out in the middle eastern or european ones haha

Such a fun video! Especially Lilly going „KATZE 😈“ was hilarious 😂😂 Hope to see her more often in future videos.

Yoğurt is accepted as very old Turkish oriented word wordwide. Yoğurt is 6000 year old food.

im super happy that you guys listened to the tips i gave you about the turkish language. including turkish improved so much now and it feels like a better fit.

Bravo girls, many congrats for the friendly and nice communication you developed. Ive said it before, i can say it again... Women should rule this world!❤

Awesome video...Congrats !!!

Would love to see a video like this but with turkic languages !

1:40 Actually, in Turkish we do conjugate the verbs by adding suffixes. In fact, for each subject conjugation changes. For exemple, "Koşmak" (to run) is conjugated like this : Ben koşarım. ( I run.) Sen koşarsın. (You run.) O koşar. (She/He/It runs) Biz koşarız. (We run.) Siz koşarsınız. (You run.) Onlar koşarlar. (They run.)

El yogurt es turco.

Andrea being a Spaniard expectantly finds Greek sounds familiar because both languages share some and rather uncommon, at least among European languages, consonants. Plus, both Greek and Spanish have just five, virtually identical, vowel sounds. Finally, both languages lack some quite common consonants, as for instance they have just a single 's' sound.

Hi. as i turkish guy, i didn't understand hell of a thing about european words. It's totally different for us. It might be common words betwen Turkish and Greek but it is still hard to understand daily speaking structure. I wonder if a Fin a Swedish a Norvegian a Korean a Japan a Mongol and A turk gets together and play this game. It might be interesting. :D Love

Greek and Turkish girls are beautiful.

Spanish and Greek have different words, but a lot of the same sounds. I can understand why Andrea feels that Greek would be an easy language to "imitate" for a Spaniard.

I don’t know why, but Greek language 🇬🇷 pronunciation has always sounded similar to Spanish language pronunciation 🇪🇸 to me 😅😅; btw, I ❤ Greece 🇬🇷!! 🤗

The Greek girl who represents us is really clever actually and she said everything correct

This group had a really nice dynamic. :) I do no really understand the video title though. There was one Greek language in there and the other ones were completely different languages.

linguistics is such an interesting thing and i love seeing their reactions

Μπλε (bleh) unfortunately is the word now commonly used for 'blue' in Greek but is hardly Greek in derivation nor even pronunciation. Γαλανο (galano) or even κυανο (kyano) are far more preferable in my opinion and so much prettier and ... Greek. Incidentally the Greek word for rat is αρουραιος (arouraeos); ποντικι (pontiki) is actually mouse. BTW - in Greek cat is generally η γατα (in feminine gender) but we can also use ο γατος (masculine gender). Turkish is a little out of place here amongst Indo-European languages. Another episode with Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish (and Estonian) would be more logical.

Sophia is back, welcome to the greek lady, very nice.

Great video! Would love to see more videos like this. Beautiful countries with cool languages.

The Turkish girl is so gorgeous

My favorite Turkish phrase that I've learned to say is I love you! Seni seviorym...it just sounds very beautiful to me🥰

12:30 I laughed when she found her speaking fast. Because she spoke it very slowy like x0.5 speed video.

More greek n turkish plzzzz

The Turkish girl is so pretty and elegant

Greek is the oldest living language on the planet and such a huge grammar. Many words with greek roots are found in many languages ​​on the planet.(Among other things, the Greeks are also the inventors of Latin!).

This video just reminds me just big of a game changer the fact that English emerged as a universal lingua franca really is. Speakers of five different languages, and they can all communicate because of a separate language none of them are native speakers of.

As a Turkish most distance one is Greek to me. that’s my mother’s third language but as hell hard to me. Ayrıca en güzelleri de Ankaralı Oliviane 😎 🇹🇷

Μαίρη is so nice and polite. Good to see her represent greeks♡ Hope to see her again in the future

Bu ekibi çok sevdim sakin ve neşeliler ❤

Fun fact: yoghurt comes from turkish 😅

I was expecting the Turkish girl to explain where the word Yoghurt comes from. Maybe she doesn't know it's originally from Turkish.

I would love to see another one excatly the same as round 2

Interestingly, there's a shade or purple in french called "mauve". Wonder if that's the same etymology...

I love this channel, it's very interesting to watch videos where different kinds of languages are compared! :) One thing I noticed though, which as a Romanian I think is too bad, is that in all these videos of yours regarding European languages, no one has included the Romanian language. The same is valid for Bulgarian and the Baltic languages as well. It would be nice if these languages could be included in your videos too! Romanian, as a Romance language, could for instance be included in the Romance language comparison videos you make and Bulgarian, as a Slavic language, could for example be included in the Slavic language comparison videos. The Baltic languages could also be included in videos with various themes. Cheers! :)

I like this combination and for real oliviane spoke soo sloww 😂😂

Thanks for your vídeo. Spanish VS Dariya please

It evolved from the Old Turkish word yoġrut, “solidified milk product”. This word is derived from the Old Turkish verb yoġur- “to swell, to thicken” with the Old Turkish suffix +Ut.

In new Greek the mouse is pontiki (ποντίκι), in ancient greek it was mus or mous (μυς). That is maybe closer to the english mouse. Also in new greek the official word for mouse poisons, we call them muoktona (mouse-killer) So we still use the ancent work but in combined words.

Love Greece from Turkiye🇹🇷🇬🇷❤️

Andrea!!! siempre bueno verte!!

Loved it ❤

What a great group of pleasant girls, everyone is so authentic, no pose at all, just chilling and having fun.

The Spanish girl seems to have a really good style and character.

How could the Greek lady be so sweet? from Iran with love 😍

I like this a lot. German I understand sort of, they are my neighbours (I'm Dutch) and I am learning Greek, but I can read it better than talking, the hearing part is for me a big nope. My friend Katerina (from Crete) is trying to teach me and she even talks very slowly, but it is so difficult.

Their vibes are so different

Mediterranian brotherhood 🇪🇸🇮🇹🇬🇷🇹🇷

I'm Greek and I'm glad they added this language in the video!

There's a lot of greek origin words in Portuguese but I didn't understand a thing of what she said

all the girls seem very friendly and fun!

Turkish girl looks so pretty

Fun fact we do have specific word for Female cat and male cat in German as well: Katze for Female cat and Kater for male cat (however Kater can be used for hangover as well)

For the sake of olivianes loneliness you guys should do a turkic one kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan uzbekistan azerbaijan uyghur?

FINALLY YOU PUT A LITTLE BIT OF GREECE

Greek and Spanish languages are so similar beacause of the pronunciation of the letters such as theta (Θθ) "th", Delta (Δδ) "dh" (a soft D), and Hi (Χχ) hard deep "h" like joder (Hhhoder)

wouldnt it be great if all these women were heads of state and discussing the world's issues and they are all very respectful.

I'm from grecce and I love all. Countrys😊

"Crema" is a gender exception. It's from Greek "χρισμα", which is neuter, but it's feminine. Others are "diadema", "broma" (completely changed meaning, it meant "food" in Greek), and "coma" (the punctuation mark). "Μπλε" is borrowed from French. In Ancient Greek it would be "υακινθινος" or "κυανος".

the greek language is the mother of all other languages.and the most rich and difficult.the ancient stones have on greeks.and only the greek people can read these!!! 5 very beautifull women...🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Diğer videolarda Olivia’nın adı SudeNaz olarak geçiyordu???

Crazy the influence of the arabic language on many of the words and accents in this video.

Greek does not come from Latin

Turkish is different language than arab or europians its Turkic language in group with korea japan ,Stan countries hungary in europe . Grek is aslo very dificult different from euros

You should do one on Iranian languages or indo-iranian languages.

Re BTW - in Greek cat is generally η γατα (in feminine gender) but we can also use ο γατος (masculine gender). Cat in Ancient Greek is Ailouros , cat is derived from Africa

I understood philology 'cause lot's of scientific words, both human and natural sciences, has Greek roots, Greek origin. Like logos means word, and I think that philos means happiness, or love for or something. Like anteopos means human... Other than that, I might now how to say good morning and good afternoon, but that's about it. I speak Romance Languages (a part from English), which are basically Latin based languages, with some other Greek roots, but mostly Latin or mixed, which we would call in Spanish a "grecolatina" word. P.S.: I speak Catalan (my mother tongue), Spanish (native language too), English (obviously), Italian, Portuguese and French (still learning). Edit: I messed up some translations, but I'm not changing those, my memory failed and I'm keeping it as it is. The point has been made either way✌🏽

If anyone is curious about the bad word in Italy, katze has the similar sound of the word "cazzo" which means dick. 😅

Andrea was too good... ahhhhh that smile

Actually, by chance, most of the words that have been chosen, in Greek that is my native language, are loans. Yoghurt is a loan from the Turkish language and there is no alternative word. Gatta is also a loan from Venetian language, and we took it from Venetian merchants. Until then, the ancient Greek word was "Gali", with a soft g (Γαλή). Cream comes from the ancient Greek word "Chrisma" (χρήσμα), that had become crema in Italian, and we took it back as and anti-loan. "Ble" (μπλε) is a loan from French bleu. Originally, the Greek word was "cyanos" (κυανός), like the words cyanium. Turkish "harita" is coming from the ancient Greek "Harta" (χάρτα), and has the same root with card etc. Conoscere is very similar with the ancient Greek verb gignosco with the same meaning. Our Indo-European common past, I suppose. I also understood every part of Turkish, because I went to a school for Turkish for 2 years. Türkıye'yi çok seviyorum!

Charter, cartha and harita have the same Greek origin. χártis χάρτης means rolled paper or papirus i think.