Indonesian Polyglots and People React to What 6 Languages Sounds Like to Foreigners!! 

I’ve always wondered what Indonesian sounds like to foreigners! 😆 It was also really interesting to describe the feel of these languages without going into actual vocab or grammar ❤

Indonesian languages is very simple, for example "where do you live?" You can place any word for the first, second etc in conversation (not for the grammar), "you live where?" "where you live?" "Live where you?" "live you where?".

As an Indonesian, many people say German is the language of Hitler, but my president said German is the language of Schiller, Goethe, Beethoven and Mozart.

This episode they manage to cast lots of good ppl, they're very communicative. They connect to each other naturally and the flow is very good. A bunch of smart extrovert ig. Except japan and Chinese girl, who seemed like introvert among this girls 😂

I adore this group of girls so much. Not only they are attractive and stylish, but quite highly educated and very well-mannered.

Thanks to Genesia, Indonesia can be more well known.. The Indonesian Ministry of Tourism should pay her for her engagement here in International community.. 😂😂

I’m from Calamba City, Laguna in the Philippines and I’m currently learned Bahasa Indonesia on my own since March 2023 using my language application, Duolingo(developed by Luis Von Ahn) and a RU-vid Channel, IndonesianPod101 and because I’m starting typing Bahasa Indonesia on RU-vid in some Indonesia-related videos, like beauty pageants, etc., my birthday wish by September is I want to study more Bahasa Indonesia in Metro Manila, especially various language schools in Alabang or anywhere and Indonesian Embassy in Makati City, where free Indonesian Language classes there rather than in Calamba City, because the city dosen’t have single language classes 😊😊 I hope to practice Bahasa Indonesia well because Indonesia is my favorite country and I like to meet Indonesian people as friends including pageant lovers and many others and my Indonesian Celebrity Crush was Lyodra and Tiara Andini(both are singers) so with all my heart, I hope to see you in Wonderful Indonesia next year and I will be waiting for you 😊😊 Love from Calamba City, Laguna in the Philippines 🇵🇭💕🇮🇩

Whenever I hear Indonesian all I can think of is the R rolling and the only type of Indonesian entertainment that I can think of are The Raid films.

2:25 English 4:59 German 9:16 Korean 12:13 Chinese 16:04 Japanese 19:03 Indonesia

Why do Indonesians say Indonesian is the easiest language to learn? because on average 90% of Indonesian people are born with a local language as their first language, when they are 5 years old they start learning Indonesian, this is a normal thing in Indonesia because Indonesia has many local languages, and that is the reason why people Indonesia says Indonesian is easy to learn, not only because we were born in Indonesia and we say Indonesian is the easiest language to learn, but that's the reality.

20.09 "Terus kalian sekarang kaya bingung semua kan aku ngomong apa? Nggak ada yang ngerti." 😅😅

Note that the languages featured in the video come from different language families, except for English and German, which are both Germanic. So when the American says that German sounds like an older, more sophisticated English, she's not entirely wrong. Although Chinese, Japanese, and Korean all use Chinese characters, they originate from different language families and have distinct characteristics. I understand why Genesia feels a bit defensive about Indonesian being perceived as similar to Thai. These languages don't even belong to the same language family. Judging them to be similar just because both are from Southeast Asia can come across as quite ignorant. If someone said Indonesian sounded like Tagalog, it would be more understandable since both languages belong to the Austronesian family. Stereotypes exist for a reason, but ultimately, how a language sounds depends on the speaker. A Japanese warlord and a kawaii girl from a maid café in Akihabara would sound completely different. Although I’m not a big fan, I do think Xiaomanyc’s impressions accurately reflect how foreigners perceive different languages. Genesia, as a polyglot, speaks all the languages featured in this video. If I were her, I’d be an insufferable show-off, so I’m thankful for her positive representation of Indonesia 😁

I'm Indonesian, and while it's true that the lack of tenses, genders, conjugations make Indonesian seem like a very easy to learn language, we have a lot of prefixes and suffixes to change the meaning of a word. Remembering when to use it and how to put it might be challenging for most people 🤣

Semoga *Bahasa Indonesia* suatu saat jadi Bahasa Universal setara dengan Bahasa Jepang Korea Mandarin saat ini banyak diminati untuk belajar. karena kita tau Bahasa Indonesia punya potensi besar dan tersebar ke beberapa negara yang penggunanya diaspora warganegara Indonesia Serta Fakultas Jurusan Bahasa Indonesia di beberapa negara. 😊

Indonesian is big country. You need learn Indonesia language to travel deep more. If you just speak english, maybe you just can go to Bali or Jakarta. Same as like china there Cantonese, Hakka and other dialect. Indonesia language is lingua franca. Many of them dont speak english.

I am so sick of this stereotype that German is an angry language. Scream and every language sounds aggressive.

so back when i studied in korea in 2008, i had a relationship with a german woman and i could tell you it's a smooth and calming language.

Plz invite them together again this is very educational

Besides just the tones themselves, Chinese is often spoken very expressively (Cantonese even more than Mandarin). Especially when the drinks are flowing, everything sounds 10x more dramatic than any other language. LOL I love it though.

9:12 interesting as a German I get the same feeling when listening to Nordic languages. The words sound familiar but have that little bit of lost magic to them that out language lacks.

Many stereotypes of the Chinese language came from Hong Kong movies, since it was very popular in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. So, the Chinese that the foreigners usually heard are Cantonese. Cantonese are loud, crude, and exaggerated. But the most spoken language in China is Mandarin. It sounds more soft, calm, and refined.

Indonesian is a beautiful and cool language. In 2023, Indonesian will become the official language of the 10th UNESCO general assembly or conference.

The Japanese girl sounds indeed super super cute. The soft spoken high pitch sound, irresistible!!!

Indonesian language should be the official world language because its easy to learn, you can communicate in few months of learning it. In 3 months staying in Bali i can communicate and understand the locals with basic bahasa Indonesia. This language is beautiful.

I loved this episode. Specially learning about Indonesian

Older, rich brother of English xD I can totally see that personification

In what world was the guy in the first english video speaking in a uk accent? It was incredibly obviously an American accent.

I'm a German living in Spain married to a Spaniard. At our wedding celebration my Soanish family said about German that it sounded as if were always angry. My German family said about my Spanish family that it seemes they were always shouting at each other.. In one case it was for the sound of the language, in the other for the way of interacting. The outcome: the same.

Actually the ones who creating those stereotypes about German language they are German themselves. As far as I know those guys in the video who were comparing languages all of them are German.

I can guarantee that the man in the video is not speaking Mandarin, but Cantonese. Although I can't speak Cantonese, I can still hear it. To be honest, Cantonese is more suitable for singing because it rhymes, but it is very stiff and not soft when spoken normally.

The craziest thing is, one person can speak to all of their languages, but they are cant talk her language, so she can be a spy among of them 😅

3:12..... What?? That didn't sound like a UK accent??? It was clearly American English. Did y'all watch a different video than what we saw?

the way Bahasa Indonesia is fast flowing and really simple rule wise came from the way it originated being both based on a market language/dialect version of malay and being a designed uniting language so it's made to be easy to understand

I like the US girl's way of describing a language, and also the Indonesian one but probably I'm a bit bias as an Indonesian.

If I can say Bahasa Indonesia don't have any characteristic accent. That's why, if you don't understand any word in Bahasa Indonesia, you cannot imitate or stereotyping the language

17:04 how did her arm merge with the TV?

Indonesian,,❤

Udah mulai jago ngasih judul sama thumbnail, channel ini tahu apa yang harus dilakukan.

The reason mandarin sound different to other tonal languages like cantonese and vietnamese is because it lost the characteristic short stuccuto sound from middle chinese(1000 yrs ago) so 独lonely is pronouced as du instead of duk(Cantonese). Japanese for example got their Chinese words when mandarin(northern Chinese) still had it. so the word for lonely is prounced(doku) they added a vowel to the end of the k

I'm from Germany and I'm not a big fan of our language, BUT it's not that aggressive at all. My favorite languages are Korean, Japanese and Mandarin. I just love them. Especially Korean and Japanese. ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

22:06 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻; ◽1 Butterfly : 1 Kupu-kupu ◽1 Spider : 1 Laba-laba ◽1 Firefly : 1 Kunang-kunang ◽1 Tortoise : 1 Kura-kura ◽1 Sheep : 1 Biri-biri ◽1 Dolphin : 1 Lumba-lumba ◽1 Otter : 1 Berang-berang ◽1 Squid : 1 Cumi-cumi ◽1 Falcon : 1 Alap-alap, etc If the animals above are plural, then; ◽2 Butterflies : 2 Kupu-kupu ◽2 Tortoises : 2 Kura-kura, etc If you ask how to differentiate between exceptions, then the answer is "I don't know".. wkwkwk 😂 🤣 🤭 The solution is that you have to specifically ask a native Indonesian about the word you mean.. We will tell you whether it is an exception or not..

1:53 - I totally ship this !

thank you for invited a good women have better knowlage about indonesian languange, not like past time

Favorite group in world friends 😊😊

Bahasa Indonesia is easy. The problem is when you learn the bahasa in one place or one city, you'll learn it with its culture or its slang or its dialect and the mix with its local language. And when you move to another place, then you will know what you have learned from previous place is kinda different with your current place. I'm from bandung and now I'm working in bekasi (90 minutes away from bandung), even after 5 years working in bekasi, i still don't get much of bekasi's dialect or its local slang

There is a video from around 12 years ago called "How English sounds to non-English speakers" and it was mostly nonsense sounds with a few basic words and swears being actual English.

Ngakak banget liat muka“ mereka fokus dan bingung gitu pas orang Indonesianya langsung ngomong pake bahasa indonesia 😂😂

I kinda hate when they say german (and russian) sounds aggressive, when it isnt right, it only sound loud if you say it this way Coming from a german/ russian

I speak Indonesian, English, and Japanese for fast language or not. From my experience, it is depend on people but women usually do speak faster than men no matter what language it is my teacher also said "yeah we (women) need to speak fast to save time"

Great episode

Yeaa I love it ❤ Post anothers pleasee

I hope we get a part 2 of this video with different countries ❤

07:38 I love when Indonesian girl trying to speak it xD

Explaining that a bit like chinese and french made sense. Because Indonesia does get influenced by it's asian influence plus european influence

Fact is that every language sounds aggressive when you shout😂

I think the Indonesian accent sounds like a Spanish accent.

She said the guys peaking English random words had a UK ACCENT? WTF- it was very clearly and obviously a standard american accent.

This group very great

This is full of positive vibe yoo

indonesian talk in similar way as spanish speaker, really fast.. that's because there are so many syllables in just one word, their normal speed sounds really fast to other people.

just wait till indonesia becomes 4th biggest economy in the world, and people are gonna learn Indonesian language and it becomes popular

12:00 Kotoha dozing off thinking about she talk very slow in Korean but the others says it was her cute point 😂😂

Make Indonesia better known to the world

Genesia explained Bahasa Indonesia very well x)))

German may be the harshest European language, but Chinese is the harshest Asian language. Chinese words and sentences are concise and punctuated, so it's very punchy/choppy. It's also a tonal language, so the tones are all over the place, up-down, up-down, ironically making it atonal, dissonant. It sounds very aggressive and overbearing, there's no flow to it. Many of the consonants too are quite shrill. I don't know why the Korean finds Chinese sexy, to me Japanese is a much sexier language and Korean too sounds much nicer than Chinese. That being said, I love me some dim sum, stir fry and Peking duck. 😊

Indonesian still similar to Dutch in the way pronouncing word, but Indonesian doesnt use throat vocal. Indonesian Alphabet adopt from Dutch Spelling, except G,J,R,U,Y.

joana looks really soft

Where I'm from in California, people don't talk like that. 😂

Indonesian language has suposed to be easy though, cause there's so many different languages and accent in every island in there....

Indonesian laguange is easy, yes, but in daily life, people in Indonesia speak their local/regional laguange more than Indonesia languange, because we have a lot of ethnicities, there are different accents even when we speak Indonesian languange. So nobody speaks proper Indonesian like the book taught 😁👍

I dare anyone in the comments to pronounce “Rindfleischettiketierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz” (a word for a German law about beef).

That english was NOT in an english accent that was 100% american 😭😭

Setuju banget kalo bahasa Indonesia itu mudah buat dipelajarin. Tinggal buang grammar, buang gender. Simpel. Thats informal form of Bahasa Indonesia you guys found hard to learn. Wichis depend from what region it come, it might be sounds diferent. In formal Bahasa Indonesia : Saya setuju sekali bahwa belajar bahasa Indonesia itu mudah. Tidak perlu menggunakan kata penunjuk waktu, tidak perlu menggunakan kata penunjuk kelamin. Sesederhana itu. Thats was the type of Bahasa Indonesia you guys can easily learn or mostly tought.

For me Chinese is something like "................wan- 😊" 😂😂😂

Indonesian language is mixed melayu dutch and japan. How i know from history before 1945

I'm from Austria. No R in the back of the throat for me. Just speak the more relaxed Austrian German. 😄

Please invite your friends to visit Indonesia☺

20:10 As a french person i can say it does NOT sounds like french 😭 it sounds more like italian

20:07 entah apa yang lucu di part ini tapi bikin ketawa 😆😆😆😆

Genesia!👍🏻

7:35 as a german i really hate this video by now. Literally EVERY video that talks about language differences use this sketch as an example, which obviously is a bad choice for that.

Sebenernya genesia termasuk orang yg ngomong bahasa indonesianya cepet.

There are many german words with no english translation which are very useful. Weltschmerz, Ohrwurm, verschlimmbessern, gemütlich, Zugzwang.

What was Kotoha's dialect? Okinawan?🤔

"Hah!"nya realistik banget 😭😭

I hate strotype because not accurate, but it's how human learning

Korean is a beautiful sounding language. If women speak it my heart melts.

Kakaknya dr indonesia ngomongnya emang tipe cepet 😂😂😂😂😂 makanya dianggep seperti machine gun

The Korean Kkch sound lol I only make that sound if I have something super bitter or sour xD

to be honest the woman from germany is cute and attractive, only her who is different from other woman

Kelihatan mau cari penonton 😂 dari Indonesia 😜, kelihatan dari tumbnail dan judul 😜😝😂

"Japanese sounds so cute" WW2 Japanese Imperial Army General crying at the corner. 😂

I have a chinese friend and he said that Indonesian language sounds very fast like "tretetetet tretetetet" 😂😅

10:17 That didn't sound russian to me at all xD

Lol Indonesian is just there to gather views 😂 Go Indonesian! Bahahaha

English was spoken in a North American accent, not British.

Hello bro; How are you' So I'm your go' Oke good 🙂😍🙏🤝✌️👍💞🌟🌎🇮🇩

8:28 I AM ALSO FROM BONN

20:14 doesn't sound french at all more like russian sound

I'm Indonesian. *I think Indonesia accent sound like US English.* Kalian setuju gak ?