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The Romanian language belongs to the Romance language family and it has been significantly influenced by the surrounding Slavic languages. Can speakers of Quebec French and Mexican Spanish understand the Romanian language? Watch the video and let us know what you think in the comments. 🤓
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@fernandoaburto7040 3 года назад

Being a Spanish speaker, I can't believe I understand Romanian much better than French

@burisha2351 3 года назад

You know we French people have also sometimes a hard time understanding people from Quebec (very strong accent...)

@samyrandome425 3 года назад

The Quebec accent is wild though lol

@seb_foster 3 года назад

Lo mismo hahaha!

@cornneliu 3 года назад

A los españoles les cuesta aprender rumano pero los rumanos aprenden fácilmente español.

@dmarie44 3 года назад

Me too!!

@Kropotkin2000 3 года назад

The Romanian is having the time of his life.

@TheArmchairrocker 3 года назад

He doesn't get to talk to "day walkers" very often.

@MetalGoddesss 3 года назад

he has his own chanel and this is his vibe, very fun guy

@darthratzinger193 3 года назад

@@MetalGoddesss I can only imagine how many calories he is burning just by talking...

@alexsandramurphy3006 3 года назад

Lol I love his vibe.

@carolasandrakaty 3 года назад

Her life, feminin. Limba/lingua is a feminin noun.

@CobraKaiNoMercy 3 года назад

Spanish speaker here. 🇵🇷 Romanian is definitely easier to understand than French. For me Portuguese and Italians are like your cousins. 😎🤙🏽 Romanian is like a relative you haven't seen or knew existed. 🙂 And French is like that one member of your family you wonder how you're related to. 😄 Saludos a todos! 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇮🇹🇲🇫🇷🇴🇪🇦

@romanianpatriot4334 2 года назад

Salut la toți, in language Romanian

@laguardiawolfgang6736 2 года назад

@@romanianpatriot4334 Salut à tous ! In French

@LearnRomanianWithCorina 2 года назад

Maybe this is because we don't have nasal sounds

@gustavoloriano2221 2 года назад

Belarus flag?

@CobraKaiNoMercy Год назад

@@gustavoloriano2221 Fixed 😅

@gioiarusso5703 3 года назад

I'm italian and i can understand spanish quite well... I understood: Romanian: 65% Spanish: 99% French: 10%

@user-yo4us6ll8z 3 года назад

Sei italiano e puoi capire solo il 10% del Francese?? Dai!

@gioiarusso5703 3 года назад

@@user-yo4us6ll8z ma non si capisce quasi niente del francese e non l'ho mai studiato quindi...

@chibiromano5631 3 года назад

Central Mexican here. I could understand European Spanish at 95% Mexican Spanish (Isodors Edo-Mex dialect) 99% ? Spanish from Andalusia ,Cuba and Argentina are different beasts and very unclear , maybe about 75-79%. Edo-Mex Spanish sounds like Italian. I could understand italian with like 82-84% comprehension. French- Comprehension is at 10% ; I will not dispute tha French is not really a romance language. French is more of its own category with English. Celt languages influenced by Latin & Germanic. Anybody debating me is clearly deaf or in denial or a pan francoist nationalist. Bear in mind this is European spoken French, when you get into West Afri French then elements of Congonese and west afri starts to mix in and the comprehension drops down to about 5% .. I could only understand that its french when I hear Le and Lei , but after that its L' mi Beh bee buh boh sa .. Merci . Jeh le vu buh boh sa .

@gioiarusso5703 3 года назад

@@chibiromano5631 actually both, I talk Spanish almost as well as Italian

@visca7 2 года назад

@@chibiromano5631 French is yes a romanic language, I am Català and I can understand more French than Romanian, and understand almost everything of italian

@sandothemando8924 4 года назад

I love the energy of the Romanian guy. He's so enthusiastic!

@robertoaguiar8082 3 года назад

Sando the Mando yeah! And he seems to be quite nice.

@superdave354 3 года назад

The light in his eyes and his smiles

@thewanderingwastelander6814 3 года назад

That’s our undying Romanian spirit

@oXSamuXo98 3 года назад

Da da da

@davidgaming4013 3 года назад

His channel name is waxen if you want to see more of his videos

@la4826 4 года назад

Native spanish speaker here. When I first knew romanian was a romance language I felt I was officially 5% vampire

@benmariusc2845 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂

@eeaotly 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@squickcs 4 года назад

@@pinzariumariusandrei9451 What?

@LM-hj6ti 4 года назад

@@pinzariumariusandrei9451 wtf bro

@G4bzZmusic 4 года назад

@@pinzariumariusandrei9451 gipsyes are everywhere, not just in Romania! They have indian origins!

@frijolito7ful Год назад

Just take a moment to appreaciate How they can keep up a conversation with each other in three languages

@Maya-iu8ki 10 месяцев назад

This is so funny because I’m Mexican (with Romanian roots) and living in Quebec, which means I speak Spanish and French, and understand some Romanian. This video was a blast for me!

@andrealorinczi4812 4 года назад

So I live in England,London,in a shared house...I share house with a Italian, Spanish and French...I am Romanian.And it is sooo funny when we don't know a word in English we say it in our own language and one out of the 4 will defo understand it.We always laugh at it.But yeah is true these 4 languages are indeed similar.

@leliavoinea1942 4 года назад

This is realy funny. You need a portuguese in the house and you will have the main five languages togather.😂😁😀 Sărutări din România!

@lovesender159 4 года назад

Same thing you can do with Hungarian or Polish. Nothing unusual.

@mirboy9570 4 года назад

Heeellll yeah!! I lived in London with a portuguese and a polish and I was the perfect bridge between them. English was only the string beteew us talking in our languages to each other. So.. Traiasca tara in care ne-am nascut.

@alexandralupu2665 4 года назад

@@lovesender159, what about Russian or Slovakian?

@DIYyourlife365 4 года назад

@@lovesender159 you forgot about Slovakians and cechs

@LuisMoreno-sd3ld 3 года назад

All the Latin's sons -Are you Okay Romanian? (Many centuries after...) -Da!

@tiny5741 3 года назад

-are you slavic, Slovenia? -ja!

@LuisMoreno-sd3ld 3 года назад

@@tiny5741 hahahahaha

@danielnour191 3 года назад

Stupido! The romanian Da Comes from the Latin Ida, means yes!

@kevingutierrez9273 3 года назад

The gulag life is strong in this one.

@francesca_415 3 года назад

@@danielnour191 it’s “Ita” not “Ida” i studied latin

@visulino 3 года назад

I have taught Spanish to Romanians (In NYC). Let me tell you that the Romanian phonetic system contains all sounds of Latin American Spanish. They can speak Spanish with no accent. Unlike Italians, French, Brazilians, my Romanian students ended up learning Spanish extremely quickly, and with virtually no accent. Which probably means that Romanian intonation is very neutral. They don't "sing" like other Romance languages. // I forgot to mention that when you teach Spanish to Romanians and Italians, you end up learning Romanian and Italian. So I could understand the Romanian guy like 90%. La fel, usturoi, ceva, spate, apa, de obicei, ce face, capul, ma doare capul, merge la scoala, I'm sure I'm wrong, but all these words came to me after 10 years of not listening to them. Liftul, frumoasa (hermosa in Spanish, doesn't exist in Italian) very interesting video, thanks. // I forgot that my RU-vid name, Visulino, came as a joke because one Rumanian student of mine called himself Visul, because he said he is very handsome. (He called himself The Dream) so I was making fun of him so I chose Visulino. LOL.

@cnb2889 9 месяцев назад

Drăguţ comentariul tau! Me ha gustado mucho

@sweepy90 4 месяца назад

all the Romanian words you enumerated where correct.

@universauniversisveritas 4 месяца назад

It's true, Romanian intonation is neutral. I learned Italian as a kid in some 3 months, down to a t, and no accent. Many of us do. Also our phonetic system and letters allow sounds like ă, â, ş, ț, which are sounded in many indoeuropean languages, so a good base for learning I feel.

@universauniversisveritas 4 месяца назад

Also Romanian ties with the other far off romance languages through pre-vulgar latin: shoulder - omro in spanish, umăr in romanian, but spalla in italian, which is super cool because reading Dante in high school I could understand old Italian easier than the italian kids. So call me biased😅, but I think Romanian is a fun, personally useful and intriguing language. There's also a nice thesaurus of pre-indoeuropean words, like brad - pine, or christmas tree

@SLFK_ Год назад

Romanian is such a diverse language, and I think that's what makes it beautiful and unique.

@thavrisco1632 6 месяцев назад

And yet they don’t separate the concept of gloves and mittens, and shadow and shade

@bodi3793 11 дней назад

@@thavrisco1632 it's all in the context, romanian language uses alot of accents on letters for example and when people text each other they usually don't use accent letters, and there are words that look the same but mean something completely different if you don't put accents on respective letters, so romanians pretty much know how to differentiate words simply by the context.

@fuinhaamiguinha8932 4 года назад

The romanian boy is so excited

@wyqtor 4 года назад

He is almost Italian in temperament :)

@livics610 4 года назад

He's hot as well 😁

@evanweaver3152 4 года назад

wyqtor I was thinking that! 😂

@alinbarba1418 4 года назад

He's probably excited cause Romanian is the most overlooked romance language.

@prettymuchfitness3674 4 года назад

liv ics Most Romanians are 😝

@MarioAndIrimescu 3 года назад

As a romanian I understood: 100% romanian 70% Spanish 5% french

@Kapa115 3 года назад

As a Hungarian who speaks a bit Spanish I understood: 40% Romanian 70% Spanish 20% French

@adrianopereira5675 3 года назад

Nobody understand french. Watch the vídeo with spanish, portuguese and italian speakers... the french guy is alone... LOL

@comanmircea8195 3 года назад

with french try think romanian but cut out the last 2-3 letters

@floppyD 3 года назад

It's impressive how no one that speaks romance languages can understand french, apart from themselves obviously lol

@MapsCharts 3 года назад

@@Kapa115 Én francia vagyok és tudom egy kicsit magyar, de csak, van-e nem nehéz, mások nyelvek tanulniért? Mert ez olyan különböző...

@aurivanoliveira6788 2 года назад

For those who speak Portuguese like me, Spanish is almost the same language, but I can understand a lot of Italian, Catalan, Galician and Romanian, but French is the most different among these Latin languages.

@eileencampos5680 5 месяцев назад

There is a lot of phonetic sounds among French and Portuguese. I have studied it for 10 years and I am Portuguese American. French is a very unique Latin language. It does exist a lot with Portuguese especially in writing looks identical at times.

@mateusoliveira9426 3 года назад

As a portuguese speaker: Spanish: 90% French: 40% Romanian: 45% Yes in my opinion romanian was easier than french, it also was surprising for me.

@unfortunate6808 3 года назад

in romanian you can literally never use a subject in a sentence, but deduce it through the form of the verb or context. It's really hard to wrap your head around that, and I heard it's easier for portuguese people to get that?

@Koraxus 3 года назад

@@unfortunate6808 What do you mean by that? Could you show a sentence doing that? Because I think subject can be deduced by context and conjugation in Spanish/Portuguese too. Although it can be included it's optional. Yo fui a caminar un rato/Fui a caminar un rato Ella tomó el autobus/Tomó el autobus Nosotros iremos a ver las montañas/Iremos a ver las montañas etc...

@victordrumond4996 3 года назад

@@unfortunate6808 In portuguese it's optional to use the subjects. In spoken language, most of the times we don't use it for simple sentences. It's easier to understand Romanian as a Portuguese speaker because of the pronunciation. Like, the sound of the vowels in French are too different from Portuguese, while Romanian is kind of closer.

@ghicafilip3590 3 года назад

@@unfortunate6808 romanian is a really hard language gramar wise

@user-fm2ss9wd2m 3 года назад

@@ghicafilip3590 exactly, it has grammar cases, that doesn´t exists in modern romance languages, but, after all, it´s no that hardly to understand.

@Hikaeme-od3zq 4 года назад

He sounds like an italian trying to do a russian impression xD

@alinbarba1418 3 года назад

Usually people say its like a Russian trying to speak Italian, but your take is much more accurate haha. But the first one still stands if you go to Moldova.

@envycrusader8063 3 года назад

@@alinbarba1418 avem noi cuvinte rusesti care le folosim da vorbim romana

@bisocdelia8267 3 года назад

He doesn't. He is just trying to pronouce it perfectly so the others can understand. Romanians can talk really fast sometimes using short forms of the verbs and so on. Romanian language, for foreigners, it sounds like russian. Also the romanian language is so similar to the italian language.

@roxybeauty6538 3 года назад

I’m italian and we don’t sound like that

@doubled7302 3 года назад

I’m not sure why people are offended by your comment. I’m Romanian and that is how I would describe the language in a nutshell! It is fully a romance language, very close to Italian and Latin, but with Slavic intonations and some Slavic and other loan words from neighboring countries (Romanian has many Turkish and even German words). In certain regions, the words used and the pronunciation are even more Slavic sounding. This guy has a standard accent, maybe from Bucharest? If you’d hear a rural person from say Moldova or even Banat, they would sound more Russian or maybe even Portuguese.

@alcapitan67 4 года назад

As a Romanian, I understood 100% of Romanian 90% of Spanish 85% of French

@ilyaiakoub1469 4 года назад

I mean, that's probably untrue unless you had contacts with french and spanish... I speak french and spanish (and russian) and i probably only understood about 30-40% of what the romanian guy said...

@redguard128 4 года назад

Romanians understand very well Italian, then Spanish and lastly French. The French is hard because of all the contractions like qu'on or t'as or y'a that alter the sense of a sentence just a tiny bit but enough to throw one completely off of its intended meaning. On the other hand Russian is completely non intelligible for a Romanian speaker even though if learned one would realize a lot of similar words there as well. Like liubit' - a iubi (to love) or chitat' - a citi for "to read".

@iuliusconstantcornelio2018 4 года назад

@@ilyaiakoub1469 Look, dude, you're russian, romanians are not. End of the story. Romanians understand all romance language better than any slavic person ever will !

@merkelvanneinderman9562 4 года назад

Iulius Constant Cornelio clar! E corect.

@ilyaiakoub1469 4 года назад

@@iuliusconstantcornelio2018 You seem to completely misunderstsnd my point. First of all, why did you assume I am russian? I'm born and raised in Montreal. I'm French Canadian and French is my mother tongue, even though I do speak Russian fluently because my parents speak russian. Like I said, I speak French and Spanish which means I do know what I'm talking about. I am not arguing that Romanian is somehow related to a slavic language, I am only saying that Romanian is the most unintelligible romance language to a french speaker, like me. Romanian inherited features from latin that are long gone in western romance languages, like the case system, which exists in latin and Romanian but not for example in french, spanish or italian. The Romanian language was also under influence of Turkish, Hungarian, German and Slavic languages, which was not the case for Western romance languages, which makes it harder to understand. Finally the way Romanian people speak is very different from most Romance languages, it has a lot more intonations than for example French. One could say in this way it is similar to Portugese.

@georgesfeydeaufeydeau4226 3 года назад

As a Spanish speaker, I am amazed at how much I actually understood what the Romanian speaker was saying. I thought it would be far more difficult, even though I knew that Romanian and Spanish have many similarities.

@mugurelparaschiv8662 3 года назад

In some regions of Romania, garlic is also called "ai" as in Latin or Spanish. En algunas regiones de Rumania, el ajo también se llama "ai" como en latín o español.

@elbogotano4162 2 года назад

En español se dice "ajo", no "ai"

@fitnesswellbeing9719 2 года назад

"ai" is more like FRench Aill

@miguelfalabosta4483 2 года назад

Here in Brazil it's called "alho". But some people say "ai" in a dialectical way, either because it is customary to say "ai" instead of "alho" even though they know that "alho" is correct, or simply because they are not well educated and don't know that "alho" is correct.

@dibuz100 Год назад

In what regiona is it called like that?

@danascully6698 Год назад

@@dibuz100 Transilvania.

@josepablorendongarza7172 4 года назад

I am a Spanish native speaker and it was very difficult to understand the Romanian guy. By the way, the mexican guy was very clever guessing the words. Keep making these videos are very interesting

@sagiezov3969 4 года назад

Same. I could only pick up the "international words": animal, persona, tradicional, doméstico...

@RafaelCaver 4 года назад

José Pablo Rendón Gárza if you watch the other videos the Mexican always guesses the words 😅

@arexismorau8770 4 года назад

Yes, but he has Norbert as backup :DDD

@BG-up3ss 4 года назад

Romanian is Latin mixed with Turkish and Slavic.

@Zdamaneta 4 года назад

Góral PL Romanian is like 80% latin, and the rest is mostly slavic with few hungarian and turkish words.

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 года назад

1. Garlic- "Usturoi" comes from Latin "Ustulare" which means "to scorch or to singe" 2. Song - "Cântec" comes from Latin "Canticum" 3. Candy- "Bomboana" comes from French "Bonbon" 4. Painting- "Tablou" comes from French "Tableau" 5. Dog - "Câine" comes from Latin "Canis" Romanian borrowed a lot from French in the 19th century.

@colinafobe2152 4 года назад

salutati din Banatul Sarbesc. Love romanian language it has a lot in common with latin indeed plus many words which are same as in serbian.

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 года назад

@@colinafobe2152 Thanks for your comment. You live close to where I was born, I have some Serbian friends who still live in Timisoara. Pace si sanatate!

@maladetts 4 года назад

We didn't really witness "a lot of borrowings from French" in this guy's speech in this video, and the whole idea of borrowing such a common word as "painting' seems very far-fetched, won't you say?

@prolitcom 4 года назад

@@maladetts, Romanians did this to get rid of the Slavic influence. For example, this guy could say "amic al omului" instead of "prieten al omului", the other dudes would understand him faster. The word "prieten" is of Slavic origin.

@xaverlustig3581 4 года назад

2. French "chanson" also comes from Latin "canticum", 5. French "chien" also comes from Latin "canis", but the pronunciations are so different that they failed to recognize the connection.

@laubenitez2475 3 года назад

Soy hablante nativa del español y entendí mucho más en rumano que el francés 👌🇦🇷

@hansel1jensen 3 года назад

Ciertamente! Porque el rumano y el español son lenguas silábicas, mientras que el francés es acentual. Saludos.

@Skbrvrisjsbdvetjtrbejudb 2 года назад

Da, și noi înțelegem spaniola mai mult decât franceza

@19ars92 2 года назад

Jajajajaja🤣🤣🤣

@gabi4205 2 года назад

@@hansel1jensen that makes a lot of sense! I'm romanian btw and if a Spanish or Italian person speaks slowly I usually understand a lot.

@hansel1jensen 2 года назад

@@gabi4205 Interesting!

@Livingtree32 3 года назад

As half Italian half German who has learned Latin and French in school, I understood: 100% Spanish, 100% French and 60% Romanian 😂

@LevisH21 3 года назад

Du bist glücklich. Ich kann nur Rumänisch, Deutsch und Englisch sprechen. Vielleicht soll ich auch Italienisch und Spanisch lernen, aber kein Französisch. Persönlich finde ich die Französische Sprache nicht so wichtig.

@ryanbrimson8238 Год назад

I am half French half English and have studied Spanish, so I understood: 100% Spanish, 100% French, 40-50% aRomanian

@zapiekanka161 4 года назад

I really enjoyed the way how the Romanian guy described everything hahaha

@AmstradExin 4 года назад

And me myself understanding it all hehe. :D

@puntakinte2049 4 года назад

Yes, he was very at describing and using different words to get them to understand.

@CaptainNoch 4 года назад

I learned French and I can tell you, Romanian does sound very foreign. There are cognates but even these words sound and look different. While French has different phonology, French words often remain similar in spelling. Romanian seem to have more divergent spellings. Like the Spanish speaker said, there are some words that can be understood but the majority are foreign. If they didn't have the video, I can assure you that the conversation would probably go no where!

@keptins 4 года назад

I guess he had to .. as he did not say the romanian words so he had to decribe them unlike in other clips.

@prettymuchfitness3674 4 года назад

@@CaptainNoch Who are you kidding, French sounds way more foreign than Romanian. French does not sound like a romance language at all. The majority of Romanian is Latin and the reason you don't understand Romanian is because you don't understand Latin.

@paulojose5631 3 года назад

As a Brazilian, I thought Romanian far more comprehensive than French

@semprequevoceleroscomentar6717 2 года назад

After I've studied french for about 2 months, It get way more easy to understand French Btw, I've been really study English for about 6 months, so I'm still struggling in it

@edward_albergaria 2 года назад

eu entendi nada do que os caras falavam nem em frances nem em romeno

@timoteostation 2 года назад

O romeno dá de pegar uma coisa no ar pelo vocabulário e por algumas flexões comuns de idiomas latinos, o que confunde são as influências eslavas. Já o francês tem tanta influência germânica que é difícil pra qualquer outra língua latina associar uma coisa ou outra, tem que ter muito costume com o francês pra pegar uma coisa ou outra no ar.

@ismt9390 2 года назад

As a Romanian, i thought Romanian was mkre comperhensive than French too. Jokes aside, without the subtitles i would have barely understood a few words from the french guy. My French is terrible, but i studied it for 4 years at school and this French was even worse than regular French XD. I understood almost everything the Mexican dude was saying though.

@JoeAmerimuttGomez 2 года назад

@@semprequevoceleroscomentar6717 Keep going! You'll get it eventually.

@luisenriquevaldez5143 3 года назад

Wow, I can’t believe Romanian makes more sense than french😂

@topologyrob 2 года назад

C'est québécois!

@grottordrynor4546 3 года назад

I love see how Vlad is so excited when Isidor or Marc realize something.

@andrescabreraf 3 года назад

Native Spanish speaker here. I love how Romanian sounds, It seems like a mix between romance languages and Slavic languages.

@oanapaunaro 3 года назад

This is exactly what it is. Add some Turkish too😀

@andreipop5805 3 года назад

@@oanapaunaro not really. Only 0.73% of the vocabulary ia Turkish while Old Church Slavonic, Bulgarian and Russian borrowings combined make about 12.88% of the words in Romanian.

@unfortunate6808 3 года назад

It's vocabulary is 80% just that. The grammar has thracian origins, but who cares.

@v5984 3 года назад

Exactly what it is. It’s a Balkan Romance language 👌🏼

@lilmanq7746 2 года назад

@@Ge0rGi. fax

@ilcondottierocartografo6770 4 года назад

As an Italian i understood quite a lot Romanian sounds like Latin and Italian

@cristinamintas3462 4 года назад

Because it has about 60% latin originated words

@larisa1070 4 года назад

Ikr

@prettymuchfitness3674 4 года назад

Cristina Mintas more like 78%

@ErickTosar 4 года назад

In spanish we sometimes call dogs: "can" or "canes" for plural!

@rezzEE897 3 года назад

yeah, that was from the Roman and Daci wars. It was a moment of peace tough, and in that time, Romans lived with Dacii, got married, and at that time they got used to latin

@troykanotz626 3 года назад

As an American observing from the outside, I must say that I very much like Romanian being spoken, it has a certain beauty to it!

@dyawr Год назад

Thank you! 😊👍

@EM-wr9yy 2 года назад

The Romanian guy had the garlic next to his bed, this is dedication

@cheerful_crop_circle 26 дней назад

Wdym?

@EM-wr9yy 26 дней назад

@@cheerful_crop_circle I mean he was ready for it, he prepared even the garlic.

@markmd9 4 года назад

In next video bring all five: Italian, Romanian, French, Spanish and Portuguese

@cagada 3 года назад

Make that six with Catalan

@Werner_pol 3 года назад

també inclou-hi el català

@loitadoranonimo6811 3 года назад

Como galego síntome profundamente ofendido por este comentario

@brolin96 3 года назад

Honestly, I'm getting tired of this inferiority complex some people have. Galicians and Catalans understand Spanish, so they could still enjoy the video if they didn't have prejudices. Besides, it could be a bit chaotic to have a video call with a native speaker from every single Romance language. They shouldn't be offended by that, they could either, enjoy the video with the Spanish part they can fully understand or just ignore it. Another option would be to learn another romance language out of the big five if Spanish bothers them that much.

@adrianopereira5675 3 года назад

@@brolin96 I think the galician guy said in sarcastic way

@kaizentrader8735 4 года назад

I am Brazilian, and to me the Romanian seemed to speak a mixture of Italian, French, Spanish, and Ukrainian, as I speak Russian and Portuguese, my Latin and Slavic part made me FULLY understand what was spoken by the Romanian.

@bkm55 4 года назад

Man I'm also Brazilian and I could understand nearly 5% of what he said hahahhaha

@EnviROmaniac 4 года назад

Our language is romance language, but we speak it with slavic accent in general. So for us is easy to learn other romance languages, but for our bothers is difficult because of the accents. It's not uncommon for romanians to go in countries like Spain or Italy and to learn the laguage pretty fast. For me portuguese language is hard to get to, but i have friends that learned the language in like 1 year, not perfect but pretty good.

@LinoDiaz-ek7nz 4 года назад

Eu sou Brasileiro e nao entendi nada do Romeno 😂😂😂

@commitdiebro5235 4 года назад

maybe it's because I'm from Romania and I've been speaking Romanian since I knew myself ... but I don't think Romanian resembles French , or Ukraine

@albertiulianharasemiuc3386 4 года назад

It damn right

@roccodh30 3 года назад

I spent two weeks in Romania and i speak Mexican Spanish. I understood Romanians very well.

@foreverraining1522 Год назад

I LOVE VIDEOS LIKE THIS!!!!!

@HarryPotterBR 4 года назад

As a brazilian. I understood: 95% Spannish 70% Romanian 50% French

@crySallyn 4 года назад

Também só que eu foi: 100% Spanish 8% Romanian 85% French

@_JOJ_ 4 года назад

As a Romanian i understand the Brazilian Portuguese better than the european Portuguese.

@tudor9751 4 года назад

As a romanian. I understood 100%romanian 80%spanish 60-70%french

@crySallyn 4 года назад

@@_JOJ_ how can you understand Portuguese if I can't understand Romanian 😵 my brain.

@GWebcob 4 года назад

For me as a Brazilian: 95% spanish 20% romanian 10% french

@prettymuchfitness3674 4 года назад

Half the comments are Spanish people complaining that the Mexican guy didn't say the word "can" for dog. The other half are Romanian people complaining that the Romanian guy didn't say the word "ai" for garlic. LOL

@Edgar_Cantu432 4 года назад

that's right, but CAN or CANINO is more generic, no necessary call your pet a can, but dog (perro/perra)

@ringo2473 4 года назад

Also, in Spain, "bomboana" translates to "Bombón", so it was actually pretty similar to Romanian and French.

@desintoxicado3742 4 года назад

En general un BOMBÓN es un chocolate fino o un dulce pequeño, para comer de un solo bocado. Pero al parecer en México el término BOMBÓN tiene un sentido más reducido, el de un malvavisco o marshmallow.

@alxndrgrnds 4 года назад

Pretty Much Fitness I am complaining because the Mexican guy didn’t use the word bombón.

@Risperanto 4 года назад

****Spanish speakers

@angelavonhalle5144 Год назад

As a portuguese speaker and dabbling in other romance languages and dialects. I have wanted to learn Ramanian for many years, after I found out that learning to read and understand it was "manageable". This video confirms the mutual intelligibility, but the convolulted communications between the languages to reach this was remarkable. Understanding romanians at the porter's lodge was possible. If you communicate about simple things, letters, has it come, etc. the probabily rises that a portuguese speaker can understand romanian. I think the immersion method for a portuguese speaker, with a little bit of reading, would work quite well. Maybe in future...

@gracefultimes Год назад

Surprisingly really enjoyed this! 😁 I'm a native Spanish speaker and Romanian was easier to decifer for me, especially reading it.

@marino8157 4 года назад

Romanian sounds more related to Italian than other Romance languages to me

@MikeTheArtistX 4 года назад

where are you guys from?

@matthewhemmings2464 4 года назад

Marino It is, if we look at the dialect continuum they are in a similar sub-type of Eastern Romance. The Spezia line, in Italy is considered where both divide. Before the 1800s, when Romance languages where not standardized You could travel from Paris to Lisbon and never meet a clear linguistic division. For example, as a French speaker I can understand 80% of Provensal, 60% of Catalan, and maybe 40 % of Castillan without previous study of these languages.

@solorock28 4 года назад

wrong, in fact, italian and romanian share 77% of the words, spanish and italian share 82%, french and italian 89%, but spanish having almost the same sounds makes it more similar to italian.

@themapleleafforever1526 4 года назад

LizardKing Yet Romanian is closest to Latin in terms of grammar. Nominative, accustative genitive, dative and vocative forms still exist in Romanian.

@ThePinkMadcap 4 года назад

Well, to give you and idea, for us Romanians, Italian is the easiest language to learn - if you really study it, in about 6 months you can learn it at a conversational level. And in about 2 years you will master it pretty much and read literature and stuff like that.

@boryanaarg846 4 года назад

As a Slav who knows Romanian I feel like a spy here 😄

@trustme3676 3 года назад

haha Slav from where and how did you learn Romanian?

@ihavenoidea2736 3 года назад

Same here but I'm Hungarian😂😂

@loitadoranonimo6811 3 года назад

Slavs know a couple of things about spying

@antoniorecio7894 3 года назад

Eu,ca bulgar,pot zice,limba română este 90 и% bulgărești,zic bulgărești ,nu slavica,sau slav,nu știu cum se zice,nu,rusește. Diferența între Bulgărești și resturi de limbi slavica e 100 %, dacă vorbim despre gramatică.

@lalohernandez7484 3 года назад

Buna frumoasă ! Saludos desde Mexic !!!

@harrygiannini9583 3 года назад

13:06 In Italian we say “cane” for say “dog” in fact came directly from Latin and is similar to “caine” in Romanian. “Cane” is the masculine form and “cagna” is the feminine form

@aroma13 3 года назад

Because that is where we,,inspired our word from" ,pretty much after romanians found out about their latin heratige, the latinisation process began where we would take words from other romance languages,find their latin root,and then take them through the changes that might have happened as latin evolved in the balkans

@lucasribeiro7534 2 года назад

In Portuguese, it's "cão" (masculine)/"cadela" (feminine).

@asinglebraincell6584 2 года назад

@@aroma13 I had no idea there was a latinisation process in Romanian ? Either way it's definitely one of the coolest languages imo

@cerka27 3 года назад

I love the Romanian language. Especially this speaker. He’s so excited and positive.

@abacaxi.maldoso 4 года назад

Romenian sounds as close to latin as italian. For me as a portuguese speaker, i got more words from romenian than i did with french.

@fs400ion 4 года назад

That's not normal. I mean there is no way French is that hard.

@mister_grizzlee5105 4 года назад

@@fs400ion well it kinda is strange since it has all of this "rounded" sounds and accents. Romanian is simpler because we have few "special sounds" and its more direct.

@dannaarde8541 4 года назад

I agree with you, as a native Portuguese speaker, Romanian language has more similar words to Portuguese than French.

@rodriados 4 года назад

As a native Portuguese speaker, I too find it easier to understand Romenian when comparing it to French. It's not by a large margin, though. And probably reading it helped a lot too, whereas French is almost unreadable.

@isabellaaragaoaraujo 4 года назад

I'm portuguese speaker and I found Romanian easier than French to understand

@pettermct 3 года назад

I am Portuguese. Romanian sounds like a mix of italien, catalan and russsian.

@sliverhalo9286 3 года назад

The language is a Romance language but it had some slavic influence due to the Balkan states

@erigo91 3 года назад

and turkish

@siversalih9917 3 года назад

@@erigo91 Not even 1% is Turkish. But there's a couple of words.

@ballsxan 3 года назад

To me it sounds like a mix of italian, martian, martian and martian.

@francesca_415 3 года назад

@@ballsxan 😂

@kjergens1 2 года назад

These videos are so addictive. Thank you for making them.

@danieldoria5262 2 года назад

It’s almost pure LATIN!!! Um forte abraço aqui do 🇧🇷 para vocês

@ErikPT Год назад

Yep por eso saber Italiano ayuda entender la idioma. Saludos de Texas

@macdaniele3389 4 года назад

I'm Italian, I live in Sicily...I can understand a little this wonderful language. I love Romanian people and their culture...

@valentin4017 4 года назад

I'm Romanian and I learn Italian at school and yes, Romanian language havr very much words in common with Italian.

@adte5835 4 года назад

same here! i‘m romanian living in switzerland and i‘m learning italian in school bcs i really like the language 🤗 cheers to latin languages

@ale_alexandra21 4 года назад

@@valentin4017 de unde ești ca se învață italiana? La mine e ori germana ori franceza

@alinamirancea620 4 года назад

I am glad to hear that 🥰 i used to learn italian in middle school as a third language

@divelea 4 года назад

I'm Romanian, I visited Italy two years ago and fell in love with this country. I was asking people to please preserve your beautiful places 😅 I spoke half English half Spanish and they understood me. I have been learning Italian ever since, because when I return, I want to be able to speak with people in their language. I have never felt drawn back to a country like so, I think I should verify my ancestry hahah.

@dragosdrg2882 4 года назад

DAMN, Finally, love and peace to the latin gang❤🇷🇴🇲🇫🇮🇹🇪🇦🇵🇹❤

@TheRealWALLABI 4 года назад

@@servantofaeie1569 bruh that's the flag of the city state of the Vatican. Though their official language is Latin, they mostly just speak Italian in most occasions and for most daily matters. Find me a flag of the SPQR and then we're talking :p

@josejimenez3799 4 года назад

Te equivocaste de bandera camarada. Si, es español, pero es español mexicano el qué participa en éste ejercicio. Entonces sería... 🇲🇽🇫🇷🇵🇹🇷🇴🇮🇹 ¡Para que pinte más bonito! 😍

@arianam9977 4 года назад

@@josejimenez3799 ¿Más bonito de qué? Lol. Él está hablando de las lenguas romances en general, así que tiene sentido que ponga la bandera de España, si no no hubiera puesto también la de Italia y Portugal. Y por cierto, el "francés" tampoco es de Francia, sino de Canadá ;)

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 года назад

Ariana M Yep. I’m Canadian and it would look weird if French was represented by Canadian flag, despite the French speaker being a fellow Canadian.

@morganminaud1215 4 года назад

LATIN GANG 👍🏻💪🏻

@dianeblitzer1498 3 года назад

I am so loving these videos! I have a lot of interest in languages, and a bit of experience trying on new ones during visits abroad. But an additional treat is experiencing the lively intelligence of the participants, and the extent to which that intelligence lights up their faces.

@millap779 3 года назад

This is so much fun! Absolutely love it. I'm hooked :))

@WaXeN 4 года назад

This was one of my favourite videos to ever make! I loved this experience and I hope you all guys will love it as much as we did when we made it!

@mauricio2981 4 года назад

Gracias por el video, Waxen!!

@WaXeN 4 года назад

@@mauricio2981

@shake1971gold 4 года назад

I love how Romanian sounds, to me sounds like a mixture of Italian and Russian, beautiful language 😍

@yurie1975 4 года назад

Not russian, but bulgarian and serbian!

@sashajolie8995 4 года назад

Yorga Lescu it sounds Italian and Russian to me too

@otavioabuchaim-falandodeau9406 4 года назад

Scott Navarro nah

@flrazvan 4 года назад

More Italian than Russian. If you ask a Romanian to recognize something from spoken Russian, i don't know if he will understand 10%, but instead, from an Italian speaker, he will be able to understand 50%+ easily, depending on the level of education.

@sashajolie8995 4 года назад

Razvan Florescu thats true. My friend speaks Romanian and I speak Italian and we understand each other most of the time. Russian isn’t a Latin language so it’s not like Romanian

@OronOfMontreal Год назад

This video was FUN. In the mid-1980s, I spent a year in Miami. I grew up in Montreal, and my parents were Romanian. The young women in Miami were beautiful and friendly, but the language was a problem, until I realised one thing: If I spoke French with a Romanian accent, it came out Spanish! After all, Romanian has the Latin accent, and French and Spanish have almost identical vocabularies. This made flirting with those beauties in Miami much easier and more fun.

@CHARK941131 2 года назад

Genial!! En español al "perro" (como raza en general) se le llama "can" en singular o "canes" en plural, también existe la opción "canino" y "caninos". Muy parecido a la palabra en Romano.

@PopescuSorin 8 месяцев назад

yes, the romanian word "caine" comes from the latin world "canis". we also have "canin" meaning something about dogs, related to dogs

@Ch-xk5tv 8 месяцев назад

el rumano me parece la lengua romanica más diferente de los demás. Hubo un gran influencia por los idiomas eslavas, pero también han preservado ciertos rasgos gramaticales que los lenguas romances del sur y oeste de europa han perdido

@Oleg250 4 года назад

Why not include Italian in this? I think Italian speaker will understand Romanian much better than others

@stephanobarbosa5805 4 года назад

yep

@TheRealWALLABI 4 года назад

Italian shares the most lexical similarity with French, and the French-speaking guy clearly had trouble understanding Romanian. I don't really think an Italian would understand it any better.

@davidenocita5046 4 года назад

@@TheRealWALLABI I'm italian and I can assure you that if the romanian speaker speaks slowly you can understand pretty well. For example the phrase "with a litre of wine and a kilogram of meat you don't die of thirst nor of hunger" is basically identical in the two languages; plus, the pronounciation of romanian is very similar to italian and feminine, masculine and plural and singular forms are created in the same way (in italian you put an A at the end of the feminine words, like in romanian, example "Doamna" in romanian and "donna" in italian, which means woman, and an I at the end of masculine plural words, like in romanian, example: "Oameni" in romanian and "Uomini" in italian, which mean Men)

@And-lj5gb 4 года назад

@@TheRealWALLABI - French might be the closest language to Italian lexically but it doesn't change the fact that Italian is closer to Romanian than French is to Romanian. Both lexically and especially in terms of phonetics.

@eluemina2366 4 года назад

True... 🤔

@andrewbollard5701 4 года назад

Native anglophone here, fluent in French and have basic Spanish. Romanian is extremely interesting to listen to, couldn't understand much of it but sounds similar to Italian at times. I think the Romanian speaker could've slowed down a bit but otherwise he's a great addition! Love his energy and happiness at sharing his native language with others. I love this channel and how it brings speakers of different languages together, keep up the good work Norbert!

@benjicz1463 4 года назад

it is the same as Czech and Russian ?

@alexanderpalecha9997 4 года назад

Romanian is a bit like Italian, because the ancestors of modern Romanians - Dacians moved from the territory of modern Italy

@axvyrall2793 4 года назад

@@benjicz1463 it is at base Latin, Slavic influenced

@benjicz1463 4 года назад

@@alexanderpalecha9997 why is so little understable between romance language it's me interesting ?

@001islandprincess 4 года назад

Andrew Bollard I too am a native anglophone and I would say I speak conversational French, Spanish and Italian. I used to be fluent in Spanish and I can read French and Spanish at an intermediate level. A few weeks ago I came across a RU-vid video and at first I thought it was Italian but then I realized it was Romanian. Yes, it sounds like Italian a lot. There were Romanian captions in the video and I was able to understand more by just reading it. I think if anyone has a strong familiarity of any Romance Language (particularly Spanish and Italian), Romanian will be easier to read or understand.

@antyjohn8162 Год назад

Romanian is undoubtedly a Romance language. It is somewhat akin to Italian, but with some perceivable foreign influences, especially slavic ones. However, it’s still closer to Italian than Portuguese and French are closer to each other. It’s impressive how a language which evolver while being surrounded by languages stemming from other families and even other language trunks managed to remain a visible Romance one. The same thing didn’t happen to English, which diverted much from the other germanic languages and didn’t succeed in maintaining its roots.

@carlossievers710 2 года назад

It was my first time listening to Romanian. I am Brazilian and I could understand 20% the Romanian Language. Even so I managed to guess all the words just by listening, very interesting.

@barbarosozhan8137 3 года назад

I think *Italian* is the closest language to *Romanian* among modern languages.

@RealShrigmaMale 3 года назад

Sicilian. But Italian is the closest out of the top 5 most spoken Romance languages.

@mrandrews3303 3 года назад

Barbaros, as an Italian, I don't agree!

@dacian_1346 3 года назад

@@RealShrigmaMale nope, the closest is Sardinian by a far margin having 87% of shared vocabulary and basically the same grammar.

@luminitaconstantingoloman9307 3 года назад

Yes and no! The Valencian language is the closest one. At least 5000 words are writed and spoked exactly the same. Ex: "A fugit un bou en pantalons curts/ A fugit un bou în pantaloni scurți"

@mrandrews3303 3 года назад

@@luminitaconstantingoloman9307 Oh that's an interesting one! Are we talking about an ox escaping in his short pants/trousers?? XD

@gsppfll 4 года назад

I am Italian and I could understand most of them (I could understand most of the words we had to guess, not most of what he said!)

@Imdisappointed 4 года назад

me too but for me the written part helped a lot :)

@connormccloy9399 4 года назад

To me it sounded like a mix between Italian and French. Plus "da" of course. I don't have much experience with either Italian or French but I do speak a little Castilian.

@leonidych 4 года назад

No wonder. In XIX they purified the language by getting rid of slavisms and adding a lot of _Italian_ stems.

@Dallallero 4 года назад

Meh, io parlo 6 lingue, ma se non fosse che c'è il testo scritto, non avrei capito mezza parola... 🤷🏻‍♂️

@dianapan6447 4 года назад

@Mario Its not something mutated stop speaking nonsense

@karakirkus272 Год назад

I love this!! I’m a French teacher and I teach in the target language, so this helps me understand my students’ point of view a bit better, haha! but this is interesting to think about in terms of some of my classes that have heritage speakers of both spanish and Romanian…I wonder what their different interpretations and takeaways would be!

@enzieme69 3 года назад

This is fantastic! I can't believe this works! Bravo, frate!

@vinystaff 4 года назад

I'm a portuguese speaker and only understand 1 or 2 words in each sentence.

@mmm19981 4 года назад

As a spanish speaker, i understand 90% of portuguese but... I understood almost nothing in rumanian

@SukMadik-papu 4 года назад

Vinícius Reis Tambien para mí , hablo espñol

@harmonizer87261 4 года назад

Spanish speaker here. It was really tough to understand. I got the first couple of words (garlic, song). But when he was saying "a friend of a human" (prieten al omului) I was like wtf is that? lol completely lost at that point!

@Liviahel 4 года назад

Fiquei perdidona acho que entendi umas 10 palavras que ele falou, mesmo assim lendo a legenda.

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 года назад

Harmonizer87261 it’s because he said “prieten” instead of the synonym “amic” to purposefully make it more difficult. He even said he doesn’t want to make it too easy in the video. So it would have been “un amic al omului” which means “un amigo del hombre” “a friend of man”. This would have probably been more intelligible.

@smarandascortariu5739 3 года назад

There are regions in Romania where "usturoi" is also called "ai". ;)

@nicolaiholonca3308 3 года назад

allium=usturoi

@valdo4902 3 года назад

da , la noi in Ardeal cred ca i se mai zice "ai"

@smarandascortariu5739 3 года назад

@@nicolaiholonca3308 Allium sativum= usturoi. Allium fiind genul nu specia. Deci...ceapa,usturoi, sarlote, etc toate apartin genului Allium.

@adigheju7921 3 года назад

Si in Banat usturoiului i se spune "ai"

@alexywolf2051 2 года назад

Nu vreau să fiu rea, dar țin minte că făcea tata o glumă cu denumirea de "ai" a usturoiului "Bă băiete, puț a ai"

@ClassicGal 2 года назад

This is so cool! Thank you for sharing.

@lv6892 7 месяцев назад

I'm in Canada for a few months now and I started working at some romanian guy's garden with two mexicans. I asked the guy that owned the farm if the guys speak french or english. He said "No, only spanish." I was like "Do you speak spanish?" He said "No" I was like "How do you talk with them?" He said "I just don't" Anyway, I met the guys and I just started speaking in english. They looked at me confused not knowing what to say. So I just started speaking in romanian with them. They replied "Si, si!" enthusiastically. I couldn't believe it. They spoke spanish and I also understood it, even though I barely know 10 words in spanish. If you use words of latin origin and also gestures sometimes you're not gonna have a problem understanding each other. Worked with 2 other mexicans at a house, same story. Also talked with an italian couple at a church, same thing. One of the most incredible experiences I ever had in my life. Never would've thought people from other side of the planet could understand romanian.

@missvioletbeauregard 4 года назад

I'm Italian and I understood quite a lot what the romanian and the spanish guy were saying, not so much the french guy.

@leliavoinea1942 3 года назад

As a Romanian I can anderstand Italian because I studied in university but I am not good at speaking. I am good at Spanish. To me Spanish is the most easy among the latin language, followed by Italian, then Portuguese and French. The harder latin language to study in my opinion is Romanian because we have a grammer from hell. 😂 Sometimes I am realy surprised haw forigners have the patience to learn Romanian and manage to get a decent level as well. I realy respect their work. 😂

@mickaeldonizalski7834 3 года назад

He has a Canadian accent so maybe it is more difficult for foreign people i dont know ...

@arturovencessilva9601 3 года назад

Is mexican guy, he doesn't spanish...

@benskyddd 3 года назад

Arturo Vences Silva it’s still spanish, you could say mexican spanish but it’s still the same language. same for canadian french and standard french, and brazilian portuguese and standard portuguese

@ionutbejan884 3 года назад

Moldavian not is latin people

@themadmanwithapen 3 года назад

You should get an Italian and Portuguese speaker to see if they understand Romanian.

@WaldirPimenta 3 года назад

@Octavian not sure about that! I'm Portuguese and to me Romanian sounded even harder to understand than Latin in the Latin vs Romance languages videos (which kinda makes sense, since Portuguese and Romanian diverged from Latin in very different directions). But I think part of it was because the Romanian guy didn't make sure to enunciate the words carefully and slowly, as for example the Catalan speaker did in her video.

@heleneoldeide2303 3 года назад

@Octavian I'm also not so sure. I really should understand this, as someone who's had some Latin at school, speaks Portuguese and lives in a Slavic country, but even for me this was difficult. I got 3/5 correct. Maybe I just suck, that's a very likely possibility, but I still don't think this will be easy for a Portuguese speaker, especially not a Brazilian.

@Pier-wy6dd 3 года назад

The level of mutual intellegibility between languages is dictated from three main factors: 1. Phonological change. Time to time, a language may shift from one sound to another. 2. Semantic. An original word might be used in different context. Its use is now extended. 3. History. Some people went in contact with others, whilst sister languages weren't. The same it happened between dialects of the same language. To see people speaking similar languages, it is fine. However, it will be caution not to jump at the conclusion with no basics in Linguistics.

@user-yo4us6ll8z 3 года назад

@Octavian Roman Portuguese people will not understand better, but Italian people yes

@skylight0656 3 года назад

@@user-yo4us6ll8z no

@taylorcuch2480 3 года назад

Make more! Loved this.

@freelightway 2 года назад

Spanish from Mexico is most clear and neutral, also the speed helps a lot. Romanian sounds a times like an Slavic and old Latin mix specially when is spoken fast, while when is slow I can hear some italian sounding.

@ErikPT Год назад

Ironically the Spanish from Spain has the natural idioma. Kind of like learning British English v American English lol

@PopescuSorin 6 месяцев назад

@@ErikPThaha yeah, british English sounds fake to me

@yosh1907 3 года назад

As a Frenchie : French - 100% Spanish - 95% Romanian - 70% Loved it!! So easy to understand when you can speak both French and Spanish! It makes me want to learn Romanian^^

@unfortunate6808 3 года назад

Good luck, the base grammar of the language isn't even Latin, though much of its vocabulary is. Even romanians have a hard time with their own language.

@oanamaria6688 3 года назад

WOW

@Kannot2023 3 года назад

@@unfortunate6808 why are you are saying that the base of romanian grammar is not latin ? French has a similar grammar?

@tadm123 3 года назад

French understand Spanish most better than the other way around lol

@user-ez6qg8hg3k 3 года назад

Ça c’est bien parce que tu parles espagnol, perso je comprends 2-3 mots par ci par là du Roumain, genre pratiquement rien du tou, et espagnol beaucoup plus mais ça reste dans l’ordre des 30-40%

@n.c.37 4 года назад

I'm a French guy from France. Romanian language is very interesting because they use lot of words with Latin roots but we don't use these words anymore in France but it can be easy to understand if you have good etymological knowledge about Latin language. The other main difficulty (it's only my opinion) but it seems Romanian people have a strong Slavic accent and it hinders understanding for us. Well it was very interesting, thanks guy!

@adrian.farcas 4 года назад

That is exactly the case! Romanian has 2000-2500 words inherited from Latin, but only some 500 of those are pan-Romance words (encountered in all the other Romance languages). In common speech, depending on the context, they often make as much as 80-90% of the words, but maybe only 1/3 of these have direct correspondences in another Romance language. The rest need explaining from Latin and sometimes the explanation is quite convoluted. On top of this, the pronunciation/accent often does not help and the grammar is also quite distinct.

@ThePinkMadcap 4 года назад

It depends about the accent really... Standardized Romanian (which is spoken in the capital of Bucharest and the whole south of the country) does have indeed a south-Slavic accent. In the east, in Moldova (do not confuse this province that belongs to Romania with the independent state of The Republic of Moldova; which is a whole other story) people have a soft Russian accent (as opposed to the strong Russian accent from the Republic of Moldova). Lastly, there is Transylvania, where people pretty much speak very very very very slowly and have a soft Hungarian accent, due to historical reasons. All in all, for a Romanian; Italian comes first in terms of easiness (you can learn it at a conversational level in about 6 months). Then comes Spanish (also really easy to learn). French is the wild card. Similar words, it generally "feels" like Romanian, yet really hard grammar and the way that the actual French speak it (very very very very very fast) it's a turn off for most of us. Oh and Portuguese... forget about it, we don't know what the hell they are saying (other than some obvious similar words). Yet they seem, oddly enough, to understand Romanian pretty easily.

@redguard128 4 года назад

There are a lot of words in current French that sound archaic in Romanian. Also a lot of words that are exactly the same have different meanings in Romanian. Like locație which is emplacement in French, and location in French means 'to rent'. Even in English we have location - place but the French language said no, location is some place one rents, not a generic place one goes to.

@frking100 4 года назад

It is much easier for me to understand by reading than by listening. Many of the words are used by their archaic or Latin meanings. Kind of like old german and English

@ilincaleca9947 4 года назад

@@redguard128 True, another example of words that sound similar, but have different meanings: "entendre" in French means "to hear" or "understand", while "întinde" in Romanian means "to stretch out".

@christopherherman8994 2 года назад

English is my first language and Spanish my second language. My brother speaks Romanian and I'm trying to learn but it's very different from Spanish for me, but I'll keep trying. 🙂 Buna Ziua!

@PopescuSorin 6 месяцев назад

buna seara

@alfredoroldanmunoz4131 3 года назад

Precioso video, gracias amigo.

@cosmarurifericite8815 4 года назад

Isn't amazing how people can understand each other without speaking the same language?

@amjan 4 года назад

yes

@ProstyChlopiec 4 года назад

2000 years ago, their ancestors spoke the same language.

@cuhpimp8084 4 года назад

@@ProstyChlopiec yeah

@polskiszlachcic3648 4 года назад

Nice... Never heard Romanian proper but it sounds Slavic mixed with Italian. Very nice sounding, though. 👌

@vxern2443 4 года назад

Około 20% rumuńskich słów pochodzi z języków słowiańskich. Ale nawet w takim zdaniu jak "Iubesc pe prietenii mei dragi" słychać cały czas fundamenty języka czyli łacinę, nawet jeżeli "iubesc" - kocham (lubię) , "prietenii" - przyjaciel i "dragi" - drodzy to są wszystkie słowiańskie słowa.

@mareksicinski3726 4 года назад

It has slavic loanwords only mainly

@Vlad_-_-_ 4 года назад

Thanks man, as a romanian slavic languages sound very pleasent to me, especially polish and russian.Really beautifull languages.

@KasiaB 4 года назад

Smintina Vlad Printre limbile romanice, franceza și româna sunt limbile mele preferate :) Salutări din Polonia!

@polskiszlachcic3648 4 года назад

@@vxern2443 Wiem, ale chodzi mi o wymowę. Jednak rumuński zachował przypadki z łaciny, które inne romańskie języki już nie mają.

@cheogt00 3 года назад

As spanish speaker, i didn't know romanian was a romantic language, but now i now that i get more romanian than french. in spanish everywhere, bombon: rounded candy covered with chocolate in mexican spanish, bombon: marshmellow :S

@BltchErica 2 года назад

We also say "dulciuri" in Romanian, like they do in Spanish, from the word "dulce" and it means "sweet ones".

@alylopez5924 4 года назад

I was as lost as the Mexican guy. I am mexican too, native language is spanish, i am studying and learning italian. A few words here and there but not enough to follow what he was saying. Would have loved to see the italian and portuguese speakers and have their input.

@exmilitaramigo 4 года назад

Seria o mesmo do mexicano. Falo português do Brasil e não entendi quase nada. Alguma palavra ou outra.

@josuegabriel8066 4 года назад

Tim_Maia morando em Teegarden B acho que em Português seria um pouco melhor. Essa última palavra “Caine” o mexicano não entendeu, eu entendi de boa como “cão”. outra palavra por exemplo, Omni= homem...

@carlosignacio8062 4 года назад

I would have loved to see a Russian in there and an Italian speaker as Romanian has some Slavic influence as well

@ktdoty9921 4 года назад

Romanian is much more similar to catalan and Italian

@matteo4661 4 года назад

Soy italiano y no entendì casi nada tan como el chaval mexicano y el frances 😅

@lafequese4084 3 года назад

In Romanian we also have the word ,,dulciuri” as a collective for everything sweet.

@giorgiodifrancesco4590 3 года назад

Like in italian "dolciumi"

@liliana6003 3 года назад

Avem dulciuri pt caramele, bomboane și ciocolată. Prăjiturile intră în categoria grea. 😊

@alexpichardo1065 3 года назад

En Español es ( Dulzura, Dulce.)

@TheArmchairrocker 3 года назад

In English we also use the word "sweets" as a synonym for "candy."

@LeDuddu 3 года назад

I was literallly jumping at the screen saying that as he said „Nu, dulce e gust”.

@DEMON_ROMANIA Год назад

Unde sunt români mei și la mulți ani! 😎👌🏻🇷🇴🥳👑🔥

@americanescu Год назад

Aici! La multi ani!

@melaniamarinescu5619 3 года назад

I love this video! The idea is cool. I'm Romanian and I study French in school but I'm not so good at this subject. Anyways, I understood more Spanish than French and this is incredible for me, because I didn't learn this language yet! I also love reading comments with other people talking about my native language, saying their opinions. Greetings from Romania! DA!

@Chronomatrix 4 года назад

To me romanian sounds a lot like a mix of many romance languages, specially italian, catalan and french with hints of germanic and slavic. Really cool language.

@003mohamud 4 года назад

Yep. Their orthography is very similar to Italian, their lack of o and a ending reminds me of Catalan, and words like prieten add a Slavic sprinkle. It is as if some Italians and Catalans migrated to eastern Europe, and decided to stay there.

@thebenis3157 4 года назад

As an Italian who's heard many Romanians, I would say that there are 2 types of Romanians: those who sound like Italians speaking Russian and those who sound like Russians speaking Italian

@tibork9668 4 года назад

@aliman Rudaqi se refera probabil la moldoveni, accentul lor e mult mai slavicizat decat in restul tarii.

@OlympianGift 4 года назад

Hints? As an Italian and Spanish speaker it sounds straight Slavic with a hint of latin words that I'm able to read.

@desiree2401 4 года назад

@@OlympianGift That's hilarious. As a native romanian speaker, it doesn't sound slavic to me at all 😭

@EquuleusPictor 4 года назад

In Romanian garlic can also be called "ai". It's archaic today, but it exists in the dictionary.

@hipocresia 4 года назад

It's archaic in Romanian but so popular in Catalan... Curious

@ioanpreda9692 4 года назад

Yeah, in Romania you kind of never hear “ai” It’s “usturoi” all the way😂😂

@mundoloco5418 4 года назад

And that is exactly how we call it in Catalan. It spells "all", but it's pronounced as "ai".

@lucgonzo 4 года назад

@@mundoloco5418 diuem "ail" a frança :p ( we say "ail" in france^^ )

@EquuleusPictor 4 года назад

@@hipocresia Garlic is very popular in Romania. But we no longer use the word "ai" but instead we use two words: "usturoi" (cognate to the word urticate, meaning to sting) or "mujdei" (from the French "mousse d'ail") - which contains garlic and oil.

@batyledesma8260 3 года назад

This was incredibly interesting!

@phatshah7377 Год назад

Hah this guy is great! Such good energy

@TA-wx1fc 4 года назад

As a native french speaker with knowledge of Italian, Romanian was really easy to pick up when i worked there. I'm not exceptional at learning languages but i managed to use it conversationally after 3 weeks in country. Compared to when i worked in Tirana, Albania. I loved Albania but the language? Maaaan!

@laura.a 4 года назад

Il m'a tuée : - c'est un chien? Wouf wouf? 😂😂😂😂

@primitivochapa7837 4 года назад

Yes woof woof english has canine from latin. But dog is more popular

@GholaTleilaxu 4 года назад

C'est définitivement un chien. Miau miau!

@The_Gallowglass 4 года назад

Maybe we should just start calling dogs woof and woof woof in all the languages. :D:D:D

@danvasii9884 4 года назад

chien - câine; pain - pâine; demain -mâine. see the rule of transformation from Latin to Romanian and French?

@thiaramedeiros4153 3 года назад

gente! adorei esse canal

@hossfrombonanza 3 года назад

WTF? In spanish ‘bombón’ DO exist, man! And the same goes for ‘caine’: the spanish word ‘can’ means the same.

@alfredohumberto2222 3 года назад

El dijo que si existía bombón pero es un dulce en específico y no Dulces en general

@Mrktn4 3 года назад

Yo soy de Panamá y Bombón le decimos a un caramelo de chocolate, o a una paleta pequeñita (no sé cómo explicarlo xD).

@eufrosinpoteca9545 2 года назад

It's exactly the same with the Romanian word ''ai'' for ''garlic'', albeit it's only being used regionally. But these three guys were poor at linguistics which made the video even more fun.

@arturbianchini3019 4 года назад

I am a big fan of Romance languages and among them, I speak fluent 5 (Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Veneto), but I also studied Ladino and Latin. I believe that, without looking at the subtitles, I could understand 90% the context of the conversation and about 40% of the vocabulary. I got 4/5 words right and this video motivated me to learn Romanian. it seemed to me a language very faithful to Latin (grammar) and with a Slavic fascination. Thank you.

@pureshka 3 года назад

When he said "prieten al omului", I knew he was in trouble, because "prieten" is a word that has a Slavic origin 😂

@alexgranados8719 3 года назад

native spanish speaker...i thought prieten was black. Prieto in spanish it's another word for black.

@medora2499 3 года назад

@@alexgranados8719 E também em português, nossa palavra é "preto". Mas usamos "negro" mais frequentemente.

@pureshka 3 года назад

@BAD RAPOT Știu pentru că vorbesc rusa 😊 Dar și în DEX scrie că are origine bulgară/slavonă. Anyway, ideea era că nu au în franceză și spaniolă cuvânt echivalent cu aceeași rădăcină. Îmi pare totuși partenerul departe de prieten...

@pureshka 3 года назад

@BAD RAPOT Nu vreau să mă cert, nu studiez lingvistica, n-am găsit nicăieri o altă explicație a etimologiei cuvântului, decât cea slavonă. În ”rascolnik” rădăcina e ”rascol”, ”ras-” e prefixul, ”col” vine de la verbul ”coloti”. Rușii tot au multe cuvinte împrumutate, de la francezi, turci, etc. Totuși peste tot scrie că forma mai veche a cuvântului ”prieten” ar fi ”priiaten”, ce ar însemna ”plăcut” în rusă.

@MobileCanal 3 года назад

Italian... It seems like "prete"... In English priest

@nerner266 3 года назад

god i love the romanian guy hes so expressive and enthusiastic dfihdfih in spain we have bombón too but we use it for chocolate sweets only

@Mrcarvalher Год назад

DUUUUUDEE! I'm Portuguese and I was able to understand! It's even more easier for me to understand If I read the words. Awesome

@vommir. 4 года назад

Thank you, I had a great time participating to this video! C'était super fun! Je dois dire Il était très bon pour expliquer et nous mettre en contexte. J'espère que vous avez apprécié l'effort d'un québécois qui n'a jamais entendu parler un roumain hahah.

@Ecolinguist 4 года назад

I definitely appreciate your effort. 🤓💪🏼🥳

@alovioanidio9770 4 года назад

Vommir, I have a question. In Quebec, how often people pronounce the letter R like in Spanish? Mostly old people or rural people?

@AmstradExin 4 года назад

Maybe be a bit more forward? I don't know about french, but in the case of Romanian, if you know some phrases, you can 'hang onto them' despite not knowing the individual words.

@vommir. 4 года назад

@@alovioanidio9770 Hi Alovio, I would say it actually comes down on where in Quebec you are from. There are distinctive accents from different places in Quebec. If you were born around Montreal you're not really likely to use the rolling Rs like in Spanish.. The only moment my friends or I do so is if we want to impersonate an old person or someone with a different Quebec Accent (not necessarily to mock them but can be a funny difference). For some it's more natural.

@FoufouBe 4 года назад

@@vommir. when i heard you say "ça fait du sens" i was like that's very strange to my ear (french from Europe) because it reminded me "it makes sens" lol. By the way, even for european french speaker it was difficult to understand him

@alovioanidio9770 4 года назад

In Portuguese a female dog is "cadela", same root of the romanian word "cațea"

@LeOrtacud 4 года назад

we have a lot of similarities! eu and meu are the same in romanian and portuguese for example

@vevecata 4 года назад

yes, the root is the Latin word "catella"

@adriancioban9517 4 года назад

câine (doesnt have a feminine) Cațel (m) - cațea (f) Regionalism = câne. ( very close to the accepted latin pronunciation)

@flavvius 4 года назад

Dog in Portuguese: Male: "Cão" or "Cachorro" Female: "Cadela" or "Cachorra"

@TheSpanishNotebook 4 года назад

I'm bilingual speaker of Spanish and Galician. In Galician, male dog is "can" and female is "cadela". I believe exactly like in Portuguese? Galicia was part of Portugal once, after all, and we they used to speak the same language. :) In Spanish there is the word "can" for dog too, apart from the common "perro". However, it's not really used at this point.

@unioneitaliana7107 2 года назад

One day I was inside a discount selling foreign products. I bought a beer but the ingredients were written in some unknown languages (probably Hungarian and Baltics). Since I know italian, I could understand a good 50% of the Romanian writings, the only language pretty intelligible to me.