Romanian vs Latin Speakers | Can they understand it?

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Romanian vs Latin Speakers - In this episode, we will have a look at the similarities between the Romanian language and Classical Latin. We test mutual intelligibility between Romanian and Latin by playing a language game. This is yet another video in the Romance Languages comparison series. Can you understand Romanian or Latin? 🤓
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@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

🇷🇴🇲🇽🇨🇦Romanian Language | Can Spanish and French speakers understand it? → ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xmpibOOz1qA.html

@stefanniecundiff1554 3 года назад

You're the BEST, Norbert! My fave channel by far 💯🤯🤗

@LevraiMerovingien 3 года назад

Je suis français et j ai compris les définitions en roumain écrit c est plus simple !

@GutoKowalski70 3 года назад

Norbert, keep up the great work! I love these sort of videos. They're really addictive. Greetings from Brazil.

@florinalfonse4163 3 года назад

@Super Satanski ,,stoiana'(ro)- place plan on a mountain

@florinalfonse4163 3 года назад

@Super Satanski E dacic,,nu latin. Tu crezi ca totul a fost latinizat? Stoica (stoicus lat) coexista ca nume.Stoian, Stoica, Stoican...Stoenescu,Stoicescu...

@michaelfaraday8971 3 года назад

-Romanian , you are a romance language, right? -Da.

@MrCr00wn 3 года назад

yeah :D I ask romanian how to say yes and my mind was blown away

@florinalfonse4163 3 года назад

ita- ida-da !

@wallachia4797 3 года назад

ita in latin

@adrianpop6978 3 года назад

The borrowed words/ influence doesn't define a language, same as spanish is not an arabic language or french a germanic one.

@michaelfaraday8971 3 года назад

Adrian Pop chill, it’s just a joke

@ivybluecarter1975 3 года назад

As a Spanish speaker The coolest thing I found about this language (Romanian) is that, it is spoken as it is written.

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 3 года назад

Yep, it's almost entirely phonetic.

@criztu 3 года назад

@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 except for 'ghe, ghi, che, chi, ce, ci, ge, gi, ț, ș, j, ă, â, î, h, x' Spanish would be 'gue, gui, que, qui, che, chi, no ge, no gi, no ț, no ș, no j, no ă, no â, no î, no ge, no gi, no x' eg. in Classical Latin the word 'Dacia' is pronounced 'Dakia' - in Romanian ortography 'Dachia'; 'x' would be 'hsh' as in english 'mosh' eg. in Latin the letter 'h' would be as in Spanish 'h' which is a muted vowel. This 'h' would be the Greek 'h' - pronounced 'eh' as in Helios aka Elios

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 3 года назад

criztu well that’s exactly why Romanian is phonetic. It’s pronounced almost exactly the way it sounds. In Romanian there are only three exceptions to this: 1. the way some words are accented like “acele” (those) versus “acele” (the needles) where in the former example the stressed vowel is the “a”, but this isn’t indicated in writing. 2. The letter “i” at the end of most words is whispered like “Oferi” versus “a oferi” where the “i” in the former is whispered while in the latter it is fully pronounced. 3. Some common verbs and pronouns are pronounced with an “i” at the beginning but written without one “el este”, “ei sunt” is actually pronounced “iel ieste” “iei sunt”. Aside from these three inconsistencies, Romanian is written exactly as it sounds.

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 3 года назад

criztu Also Neither Spanish nor Romanian inherited the Latin “h”. In fact, the pronunciation of the Latin “H” fell out of use in all Romance languages; which is why the “h” in Spanish is completely silent. However, Romanian does indeed have an “h” sound but this was reintroduced into the language either by Greek or Slavic influence. This is why the Latin word “historia” is pronounced without an “h” in Romanian “istoria”, whereas Greek or Slavic borrowings like “harta” or “duh” has the “h” sound. In Spanish the word “historia” may be written with an “h” but the word is actually pronounced exactly the way it is in Romanian “istoria”.

@criztu 3 года назад

@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 I tried to show to you that 'ghe', 'gi', is not phonetical orthography. If Romanian 'ghe' is phonetical, then so is Spanish 'gue'.

@christianfolk 2 года назад

We romanians say that our language is a treasure. Knowing that it's the only "Romance language" in the Eastern Europe, it's definitely a treasure ; )

@bartoszwojciechowski2270 2 года назад

Well, there are also other Eastern Romance dialects, such as Aromanian in Greece, but yes, Romanian sounds beautiful, and I love that it has many interesting borrowings from the surrounding Slavic languages (e.g. "gasit"), Hungarian ("oras"), Turkish ("haide"), and even some old Greek and Albanian here and there. But perhaps the most intriguing are the borrowings from the unknown substratum language(s), maybe it was Thracian or Dacian but who knows for sure?

@marioironside5830 2 года назад

romania stupid country with alien language

@bartoszwojciechowski2270 2 года назад

@@marioironside5830 Was it supposed to be funny or is your grasp of English really that awful?

@sanderorav9043 2 года назад

@@marioironside5830 if you don't have anything smart to say, then keep one half of your mouth closed - the other half will stay closed itself.

@ACEXYZ02 2 года назад

I stronly believe it's unique in this world as well. And it's only 500 years old, but it always stands out. And the fact that it's phonetic is hands down an amazaing feature that I couldn't find in other languages and I don't understand why there aren't any like my language.

@Turguthoca_rumence 2 года назад

Eu sunt cetățean turc, care vorbește limba voastră de 4 ani. Și eu predau limba română turcilor care vin în România. Eu le spun studenților mei întotdeauna că limba română este o ușă care se deschide la limbile europene, mai ales cele latine. M-aș bucura foarte mult dacă am putea să ne cunoaștem cumva ca să vă povestesc când și cum a început aventura mea cu limba română.

@q-sup9108 2 года назад

Felicitări! 😁

@Dani-qw8yc Год назад

As dori sa va aud aventura dumneavoastră cu limba romană, eu iubesc limba turca și unele dintre limbi pe care le-as învață ❤️ çok teşekkürler arkadaşim

@haberini Год назад

Transilvania..., trans-silva.. dincolo de padure, sau așa ceva

@rohanofelvenpower5566 Год назад

Turgut, de ce nu ne zici si invers, cu ce este similara limba Turca si ce porti deschide?

@irenemontero4678 11 месяцев назад

@@rohanofelvenpower5566Die Sprache einer Diktatur ist nicht übermäßig interessant.

@gottlos7 3 года назад

well, at least Romanian sounds way more Latin than French lol

@mannygutierrez7654 3 года назад

So true 😂

@clotildedecasaantici8065 3 года назад

No!!

@oana-mariauliu5828 3 года назад

@@clotildedecasaantici8065 It does. It's just the fact that Gia also uses words such as "okay", "fain", "mersi", which are not really Romanian. In terms of phonetics and grammar, Romanian is more similar to Latin than French. Even a lot of its vocabulary - it's true there are strong Slavic, Turkish and Greek influences, but I can show you hundreds of Romanian words that are very similar to Latin words. Much more so than French. The fact that Romanian also has lots of words of French origin is something entirely different because it's a relatively recent phenomenon. In the late XIXth - early XXth century, French was "in fashion" in Romania. In many middle and upper class families it was spoken just as we often speak English nowadays. They sent their children to French universities, it was all the rage - even the houses built in that period were following the French style. Bucharest is also known as "little Paris" because a lot of its architecture imitates French architecture. That's why many Romanians still use "mersi" (merci) instead of "mulțumesc" and many new words came from French. Older words, however, look very much like Catalan, Castillian or Italian words, sometimes with phonetic peculiarities due to Slavic influences.

@WrulfWroar 3 года назад

A theory says that French doesn't sound like Latin because they adopted elder Latin within Gallic sounds, which was a Germanic branch, in fact. That would explain how exotic is French (and Occitan) phonology(-ies).

@wallachia4797 3 года назад

@@oana-mariauliu5828 how is "mersi" not romanian? It is one of the most used words in daily life. I use "fain" a lot too.

@Taubenschmied 3 года назад

How do those Romans look so young after so many centuries?

@vanillaicecream9026 3 года назад

Lol

@fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад

I am proud that my native language is a descendent from Latin ;)

@user-ws6bo8tp2l 3 года назад

The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

@stefanr.3495 3 года назад

It's our diet. Regards, Vlad.

@Dankschon 3 года назад

@@user-ws6bo8tp2l Is it possible to learn this power?

@andreasghb8074 2 года назад

As a Spanish speaker, I was surprised that I could follow along with both Latin and Romanian, although I had an easier time with Romanian.

@robertcristian9511 2 года назад

Honestly, spanish people suck at speaking romanian or other languages in general. Like, you can't even pronounce a letter like " ț ". I'm sorry, but I've been here for a while and it's impossible to teach you guys anything in romanian lol

@miguelsanchez3346 2 года назад

@@robertcristian9511 Eu sunt spaniol și învăț română. Iubită mea esta româncă și știu să pronunția "ț" și "î".

@insanejarviimeanredspot7491 2 года назад

@@miguelsanchez3346 you should cut that "să" out otherwise it was fine

@miguelsanchez3346 2 года назад

@@insanejarviimeanredspot7491 merci

@danymann95 2 года назад

@@robertcristian9511 you realize Spanish is not only spoken in Spain but also in more than half of the American continent right?

@danielsvn Год назад

As portuguese speaker I'm really impressed how I could understand what they are talking. I could answer almost all the words correctly! This is really amazing!

@GuilhermeOliveira-bq7si Год назад

Also me. I didn't activate the subtitles and I understood almost everything. Latin Languages are all close

@pri8037 Год назад

Qual

@lakedaemon 3 года назад

- Three Roman Quaestors having a conversation with the Dacian Governor - 175 AD

@GholaTleilaxu 3 года назад

"Ita, ut aurum quod defecit eripere..."

@__Man__ 3 года назад

*colorised

@mariusvil 3 года назад

It is said that Trajan actually negotiated in 101-102 AD with Decebal the king of Dacia (old name of Romania) without translators. Pretty much like they are doing here.

@mojewjewjew4420 3 года назад

@@mariusvil I heard that too but there isnt any proof of that?

@macin2264 3 года назад

@@mojewjewjew4420 No. Romanian fantasies !

@georgianalarisa6167 3 года назад

As a romanian, I'm impressed that people are actually interested in our language

@alexcookie9620 3 года назад

BRO- I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING 😂🤧

@NickyRikki 3 года назад

@@alexcookie9620 same who the hell ever wanted to learn romanian hahahaha

@Oleksa-Derevianchenko 3 года назад

Well, you've got a lot if neighbors, a rusing economy, an interesting culture, plus an awesome national anthem. So why not?) I am Ukrainian,🇺🇦 and I am quite interested in learning Romanian. I guess it will be possible to learn it together with Moldavian. Love and keep safe ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇪🇺

@florentinmatea1924 3 года назад

@@Oleksa-Derevianchenko Romanian is the same language with Moldavian. Moldavian is actually a dialect of Romanian language . In Moldavia the official language is Romanian!!!

@Oleksa-Derevianchenko 3 года назад

@@florentinmatea1924 I know of this position, but I have also seen positions that Moldavian is a separate language. I an incompetent in questions of linguistic typology so I will hold a position as careful as possible.

@juliamuntean9597 3 года назад

I had Latin in school but I’m quite shocked to actually hear people speak Latin so “fluent” .. (btw I’m Romanian too :P)

@dragomirada5873 2 года назад

It's fascinating

@UnshavenStatue 2 года назад

Even setting aside the Romanian, I'm impressed by the quality of Classical Latin on display here. All three of these "contestants" seem to be quite proficient in Classical Latin, even to the point of holding *fluent conversations* with each other with little difficulty of accent or vocabulary. I'm shocked. It's as miraculous as them understanding the Romanian as well lol. Also, shoutout to the captioning work, especially getting the vowel length markings on the Latin. In the old days they never bothered to write them but of course vowel length was absolutely critical back in the day so it's wonderful to see the attention to detail in the captions, in addition to the skill of the speakers. Stunning video all around, well done all.

@fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад

Sometimes Romanian helps me understanding Latin. Sometimes Latin helps me understanding Romanian... :P

@doce7678 3 года назад

💙💛❤️

@LevisH21 3 года назад

as a native Romanian, Romanian always helps me understand Italian or Spanish a lot. but maybe I should start learning both languages at some point. I just don't have the motivation yet. I can only speak English, German and Romanian. I used to take French in school and be very good at it but I have forgotten everything at this point.

@judgeclaudefrollo8042 3 года назад

I'm from Italia and I understand more romanian than Latin :)

@riab4852 3 года назад

Same here. I'm french and I understand more the romanian language than Latin.

@daviddias5495 3 года назад

Same. I'm Brazilian and I understand more the Romanian

@DeannaSt 3 года назад

David Dias I’m Romanian and I understand Italian without ever learning Italian. 😀 When I was a child I was listening to the radio, there was a lot of Italian music then on every radio station in Europe and this is how I learned Italian without any teaching, I don’t know how but I did. I cannot write that language correctly but I can speak (a bit incorrectly of course) but if it’s printed I can read it without any problems and I read it quite correctly as far as pronunciation goes, if somebody talks to me in Italian I understand everything, I hardly miss the meaning of some words if they are in dialect or stuff like that. I think the fact that I learnt French at school and I was a native Romanian speaker helped me with the Italian because certain words have common roots coming from Latin and of they changed in Romanian through the passing of time , then in French didn’t as much or vice-versa so combining my knowledge of French and Romanian I guess that’s why I was able to learn Italian by myself, just listening to the songs. I also cann read the newspaper in Spanish and understand what’s all about I’m an article even if I don’t understand few words here or there, I get the gist of the article without any difficulty. I love my romance languages, all of them, I find them very beautiful. I also find English very interesting and to my ear, Danish and Dutch seem really similar to English, I don’t know why, because the people speaking those languages contradict me all the time but to me they sound quite similar.

@simonlow0210 3 года назад

@@DeannaSt When I was very young, that was when I just started to learn English. One day the Tv broadcasted a German cartoon (Die Sendung mit der Maus), back then I thought either my English was bad and couldn't understand, or the show was speaking gibberish English. XD

@DomingosCJM 3 года назад

@@DeannaSt Also interesting, is that I think Romanians are more like Italians than Spaniards or Portuguese. As a Brazilian, it seems to me easier to understand spoken Romanian than written.

@Spitfirator 2 года назад

That’s crazy. I speak French and never realized how easy it was to understand romanian

@Greksallad Год назад

Romanian is my absolute #1 favorite language ever. I love the Romance base with hints of Slavic, it's just the perfect mix. I'm surprised at how well the Romanian speaker understood Latin too.

@catalin77ursu 11 месяцев назад

For romanian is very easy to understand latin language because we have a lot of words wich are almost the same and in adittion, in primary school we study this language for one year!

@Greksallad 11 месяцев назад

@@catalin77ursu Yes I am aware but I asked my Romanian friend how well she understands it and she said she understands basically nothing. Which also surprised me tbh lol

@ItsDoneWithMirrors 11 месяцев назад

@@Greksallad context is important a bit, because being separate from the rest, some words might now mean things related to the initial latin meaning, but not identical. for example, our word for 'dirt', 'earth' is pamant, which is from latin 'pavimentum' which means (go figure) pavement. Rest of the latins would have a variation of 'terre', so might not be immediately obvious. We do however have any other word referring to land, dirt, etc, use the root 'ter'. EG: teren means field, aterizare means landing, subterestru means subteranian etc, and we also have the word 'paviment' meaning pavement. I went to to talk to chatgpt in romanian and he'd reply in latin and it's much easier to udnerstand it like that than listening, easier than understanding french, even, which ig makes sense.

@ROMANABSOLUT 10 месяцев назад

@Grek - our language is 80 % of Latin origin.

@tiagomota4734 10 месяцев назад

@@ROMANABSOLUT Nu prea cred , prietenas, cel mult 70 la sula, dar in realitate este undeva pe la 50 % , tu nu cred ca intelegi ce inseamna 80%!

@cerka27 3 года назад

As a Spanish speaker, I thought Romanian was way out there as far as Romance languages. I was surprised to see how much I could follow. I feel like French is now the one that’s way out there. 😂

@alovioanidio9770 3 года назад

French is "way out" because of its phonology, it is much more similar to spanish in vocabulary and grammar.

@razvanandreiantonescurogoz4236 3 года назад

@@alovioanidio9770 You're exaggerating with your use of "much" in that sentence. Are you even familiar with Romanian vocabulary and grammar ?

@marcelofg1119 3 года назад

It's a commom ground among us Romance language speakers when it comes to spoken French, but the written form I can understand almost 100%. I'm a Portoghese speaker and also speak Italian and Spanish.

@TheZenytram 3 года назад

@@marcelofg1119 cuz you already speak 3 romance language and has some familiarity with france, for me as a Portuguese speaker whom are just learning italian in the past month and have no familiarity to french, spoken french is completely alien to me and wrote french i get sorta 30%. I can understand much more from Romanian then french.

@jonaramire 3 года назад

As a french and spanish speaker, I agree

@luann.l 3 года назад

As a Portuguese speaker, I'm shocked to know that I can understand Romanian!

@VSP4591 3 года назад

Romanians too are shocked to see that they could understand Portuguese language.

@salazarway 3 года назад

Verdade, fiquei parvo como consegui entender 30/40%

@johanncmelo 3 года назад

Sim, muito legal a gente entender italiano, espanhol, romeno, português, latim.. francês menos, eu acho

@Argoon1981 3 года назад

O mesmo para mim, foi uma surpresa total. The same, was a total surprise to me.

@KlavierMenn 3 года назад

It's a bit weird, yes. Wanna know a weirder fact? Both russians and portuguese speakers can understand romenian AND speak easily. Also, due to phonetics, Russian ends up being easy to speak for portuguese and romenian speakers, and the inverse is also true!

@godwrote01 2 года назад

romanian language is beautiful ! Love it from germany !

@onyssima 2 года назад

As a Romanian speaker, it’s scary that I understood everything they said in Latin 😳, I guess I should thank my high school Latin teacher that I still remember the vocabulary and the grammar after all these years. 🙏

@danascully6698 11 месяцев назад

Nu. Ar trebui sa-i multumesti lui maica-ta si lui taica-to care te-au invatat limba romana!

@AP-qp2mo 10 месяцев назад

Romanian language it's the begining of latin language 1700 years ago

@ROMANABSOLUT 10 месяцев назад

@@AP-qp2mo - slow down, man, hold your horses, it's NOT like that. Latin language existed far before the Romanian language. What you do not know, you just heard something you didn't understand and that is : when the Thracian city of Troy was destroyed by the Greeks in c. 1250 BC, some Trojans led by Aeneas fled to Southern Italy where they settled down and founded together with the locals what was to become Latium. That's why some new linguists (see also the Vatican man) say our language is older than Latin, but our language is NOTtoday what used to be 3270 years ago or even 2000 years ago. It was a LOOOOOONG process having at origin Thracian and Southern Italy dialect also mixed with Old Greek since the Greeks traveled and settled down over there too. Now you KNOW how Latin and Romanian languages STARTED.

@auralplex 7 месяцев назад

I understand too, and I never took Latin, just speak Romanian.

@aleksanderales5153 3 года назад

Salut !! Ma numesc Alex sunt din Argentina si am invatat limba romana pe internet. Imi place foarte mult limba romana ..dar limba mea materna este spaniola. As Dori sa vorbesc in romana Mai bine in fiecare zi ;) Multimesc !

@calcanbogdan3951 3 года назад

De ce ai invatat romana?

@portishphonic 3 года назад

No te equivocaste nada, felicitari!

@aleksanderales5153 3 года назад

@@calcanbogdan3951Bună! Am invatat limba română pentru ca imi plac limbile latine dar română e putin diferita...Română are un pic de slavă si in pic de alte culturi... De adevărat este o limba foarte interesanta

@aleksanderales5153 3 года назад

@@portishphonicMultumesc !! Am început in 2017 cu romana...Dar stiu ca limba nu e asa puternică ca inainte ;(

@RycoWW2 3 года назад

Vorbești mult mai bine decât 50% din români. 😳

@vladandrei09 3 года назад

We want more Romanian

@winner1likes 3 года назад

Yeah,fully agree🇷🇴💯🇷🇴

@andrewmathiasromania6449 3 года назад

DE ACORD! 😁

@Ion_el 3 года назад

@@andrewmathiasromania6449 they don't understand

@andrewmathiasromania6449 3 года назад

@@Ion_el ei nu înțeleg ce?

@Ion_el 3 года назад

@@andrewmathiasromania6449 nu mai contează, credeam că e alt clip

@ericwood3709 2 года назад

Salut! Romanian is my favorite Romance language. So happy there is an Ecolinguist video featuring it!

@vannymurillo9141 3 года назад

Watching this as a native Spanish speaker, no subtitles and being able to understand (sometimes most, sometimes ALL of it) is so fascinating. I love Romance languages and I love having the fortune of speaking one as a native. I didn’t know I could understand Romanian and Latin this well until now. WOW.

@alessbritish228 3 года назад

Ok boomer.

@screambeyond 4 месяца назад

@@alessbritish228 Oh, here we have a weeping self-conscious millennial...

@mr_max_carneiro7090 3 года назад

Omg i can understand Romanian bether than French, I am shocked. Actually, the Romanian phonology sounds to me closer to portuguese than French, or even spanish. 🇧🇷🇧🇷

@saulolacerda8181 3 года назад

Só a fonologia mesmo porque eu não entendi quase nada dessaa linguas todas. Por incrível que pareça, latim foi o mais fácil pra mim.

@dark3rthanshadows 3 года назад

the thing is that french has a lot of mix from other dialects. but the backbone is the old latin. if u search olf french the similarities with latin are even bigger, and the whole structure has a "gendered langugage" all these are similarities between the romance languages. i know that cause i speak spanish,french and portuguese.

@VanessaRibeiro-dr1uf 3 года назад

@@saulolacerda8181 Verdade.

@hsanid 3 года назад

The "trick" is we have a lot of words that have synonyms because there were a lot of influences from the neighbors over the centuries (Slavic languages mostly but also Turkish and Hungarian). Some of the words that are spoken usually may not be very familiar to another Latin language speaker (Spanish, Italian etc.) but may be recognized by a Russian or Serbian speaker and viceversa. For example she is trying to explain that a forest is made of trees and she says "copaci" pl. (sg. is "copac") which originates from Slavic but they don't understand so she switches to "arbori" pl. (arbore sg.) which is a synonym that is a lot less used in common Romanian but it's almost the same as the Latin arbor. Another example is "prieten" which comes from Slavic which is a lot more used than the synonym "amic" that's a lot closer to Spanish "amigo", French "amie" and Italian "amico". So we can actually sound more Latin or more Slavic depending on who we are trying to talk to but when we talk to eachother is a whole mix of everything plus all the cool new main stream English words from media politics etc.

@kentix417 3 года назад

And in the U.S. we have Arbor Day, dedicated to the planting, care and appreciation of trees, so even as a non-speaker of Latin and Romanian I still knew she was talking about trees. (Of course, having studied Spanish, I know the word from that angle, too. árbol)

@filipporubino4163 3 года назад

There are so many romanians in my country, Italy, but this is the first time I've listened to some SLOW Romanian, and therefore I was able to understand more than I thought.

@_o..o_1871 3 года назад

Filippo Rubino She’s also tried her best to use as many Romance words as she could so that the others could understand what she’s saying.

@valt1337 3 года назад

@@_o..o_1871 that's not true at all, she just spoke normal and for example she said 'prieten' (which is slavic) but she could've used 'amic' (which is a romance word) or instead of "inseamna" she could've easily said "semnifica" and many more so you're wrong

@_o..o_1871 3 года назад

V ALT She repeated some sentences and she also emphasized certain words. I’m Romanian and nobody speaks like that...unless that Romanian is a Transylvanian. They speak slightly slower. But I highly doubt that she’s from Transylvania cause she doesn’t have their accent.

@valt1337 3 года назад

@@_o..o_1871 1. I am romanian and I speak exactly like her so what are you even talking about? 2. she repeated some sentences because she's a romanian teacher, have you even checked her channel? she does it ALL the time to give time to her viewers to repeat after her 3. just because someone doesnt speak like you that doesnt mean everyone else does

@_o..o_1871 3 года назад

V ALT Yes! She’s repeating something SO THAT the others can understand what she’s saying. Thanks for emphasizing what I said!

@mravalik Год назад

I went to school with a guy who was Romanian, and would hear him converse with his parents in it, but because of the slight slavic influence on the accent, I couldn't tell what it was 🤣 Nonetheless, he inspired me to learn some and see if he could understand me, and watching this, although I knew (from hearing) that Romanian is the language that retains much of the ancient Latin vocabulary and grammar structure, but damn I didn't know that it was a mirrored language with the smallest nuances that shows how beautiful the language was and continues to be.

@diegoreckholder945 2 года назад

I am still amazed, after this video, how easily I could understand the main idea of *almost* every sentence. Being a native Spanish speaker, knowing the very basics of italian, french, and a little bit of romanian, I could understand around 60% of what was being said in Latin or Romanian. Sometimes from the sound of the word, and sometimes from the spelling of the word. Simply AMAZING! 😁 I reaaaally love this channel!!!!

@davidparraserna6651 2 года назад

Yo también atiné cual eran todas las palabras menos albahaca,yo pensé que era cilantro🤭

@vatravlahilor492 2 года назад

Same I speak romanian, spanish and french and this was so easy to understand

@alejandracruzado6124 2 года назад

I only know Spanish and i could understand a looott🙃

@jessica5497 3 года назад

As a portuguese speaker i undestand more romanian than french hahah

@cs-rj8ru 3 года назад

Interesting you mention it. My wife is Romanian and I've pointed out that (to my ears) Romanian most resembles Portuguese. Never really well received though. I've been told Portuguese is Romanian through a Gypsie's mouth........

@L2Xenta 2 года назад

@@cs-rj8ru dunno what you mean by that but gypsies here have their own language, and significant number still speak it. It sounds nothing like Romanian.

@BebbellaChaves1 2 года назад

I'm Brazilian and I don't even understand 15% I understand French a thousand times, sometimes it seems Arabic to me

@andreioancea2659 2 года назад

We also understand verry well your matern language with honor from România Dacia, we are all from the same familly from danube and carpathian parts

@wadson990 2 года назад

Idem, Jessica :D

@dunzek943 3 года назад

Holy shit, the Roman Senate is here lmfao

@leilagreen7 3 года назад

Yes! 🤣😂😇

@hugbearsx4 2 года назад

What were you expecting, the Spanish Inquisition? NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!!! :)

@ClodiusP 2 года назад

Even to non-Latin speakers these senators make more sense than our own in D.C.

@alexschaeller8881 2 года назад

They should wear roman costumes it will be awesome (and also roman background, some columns, grapes, statues...)

@Pete_Finch Год назад

I'm staggered at how much Romanian I can understand just from knowing some Latin. Also, how easy Latin is to make into a conversational language again (which we see in all Romance languages to this day). This is one of the most amazing language videos I've ever watched.

@AlexanderChilds Год назад

I watched this video about a year and a half ago, when I became interested in learning Romanian. I understand enough of the latin languages I decided I'd play along. I picked-out enough of the descriptions that I got the English words for each, which was really cool. I keep coming back to this video as I study to see how much of the Romanian I can actually understand. It's still awesome that this is here. That said, today, I decided to dig further. For those wondering (I apologize if I have not seen the comment concerning this, there are quite a few comments), "pădure" has some root in the late Latin "padūlem" (swamp) and is cognate with Albanian "pyll" (forest). Also, as mentioned in the video, "silvă" is a synonym for "pădure" which I found pretty cool. I love this channel.

@BananLord 11 месяцев назад

We use "silva/silvic" when talking about forest related stuff, mostly specialist domains, but they're not common use words.

@TheZombaslaya 3 года назад

Romanian is surprisingly close to Italian too.

@sebastianterra9191 3 года назад

You would have known that if u paid some attention in the history class..

@johnsmith361 3 года назад

@CristianoxPlays It's harder for an italian to understand romanian than the other way around. That's because romanian has both slavic and latin variants for some words, that are used interchangeably. So an italian will not understand a word that is not latin in origin, but a romanian will be able to pick up on more italian words because most of them are still present in romanian in some form.

@proges 3 года назад

Italian here, I understand both Romanian and Spanish, but in my opinion Romanian sounds closer to Spanish

@oliverevilboo 3 года назад

I am Italian and i can speak romanian because I lived there for one year. it is quite easy for us to learn it and it sound almost like a dialect to me.

@Ariom76 3 года назад

I'm Italian and I understand very well Romanian. I think it's because there are some words similar to sardininan and to catalan and I know a little bit both languages. And, of course, I studied latin in the High School.

@conbracchiassai 3 года назад

This was so much fun! It's not every day you get to hear three Latin speakers discussing the etymology of a Romanian word. Good job by all the participants!

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

Thanks!

@fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад

@@ScorpioMartianus My familly name is Lima (`limes` in Latin) and Silva. Also my given name is of Latin origin (Fábio, from gens `Fabii`). I am proud for that. Greetings from Brazil!

@aviaxis6261 Год назад

it is quite amazing people can have full conversations in Latin... I thought it wasn't even possible since some words were lost or appeared at a later time... but to see American, Polish and Italian people understanding each other in Latin is truly mind blowing... not to mention to understand Romanian because they speak Latin!!

@andreeaalexandru7811 9 месяцев назад

Not to mention romanians understand quite a lot of latin even without learning it. I don't know if she speaks latin but deffinitelly she understood most of it. I know I did and I learned latin only for a year 1hour/week at school almost 30 years ago.

@chromiumbook-marx4417 7 месяцев назад

what do you mean, we have several full books completely in Latin, including contemporary guides on how to properly speak it. Into the 20th century catholic mass was in Latin as well. It's a perfectly usable language as long as you make the big effort to learn it

@mountainair 7 месяцев назад

I still can't fathom how I can understand 90% of spoken Romanian, but can't form a sentence. Must surely be different parts of the brain

@aviaxis6261 7 месяцев назад

@@chromiumbook-marx4417 Romanian grammar is very complicated... it's probably not intuitive for you how the phrases are formed

@chromiumbook-marx4417 7 месяцев назад

@@aviaxis6261 sure? Not related to what I said

@pieman3141 5 месяцев назад

Word #2 was easy, since English uses so much Laitn for its scientific vocabulary.

@angeles5664 3 года назад

As a Spanish speaker I must say that I understand more Romanian than French. A curiosity the word pulmones is exactly the same in Spanish.

@alejuarez8932 3 года назад

It's exactly like Latin, not Romanian! But yes!

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

Sí!

@gio_toro856 3 года назад

Yo igual entendi maa rumano

@gravastelo1498 3 года назад

Em português -> Pulmão

@M_SC 3 года назад

Lungs haven’t changed much since Roman times

@paulkaveney1913 3 года назад

I love Romanian! Definitely an under-appreciated Romance language and perhaps my favorite. 😍❤

@DomingosCJM 3 года назад

When I was young I didn't even knew that Romanian was a Latin language.

@alexcookie9620 3 года назад

❤❤❤

@bobocgabrielcatalin9557 2 года назад

Noi Români🇷🇴🇷🇴 avem o limbă latină înconjurată de limba slavă :)))

@GabrielaLtc 2 года назад

@@DomingosCJM no surprise there, a Romanian professor taught at a university in France in early 80s and students in philology didn't know either. Wonder why they fail/avoid mentioning it among the Romance languages....

@MrLydius 8 месяцев назад

a very interesting clip! as a Romanian, hearing spoken latin seems like talking to some great-grandparents and this gives me goosebumps. well done!

@neartothewildheart 4 месяца назад

I am Romanian and I want to say that I appreciate everyone who has been saying nice things about our language in the comments :) I am really proud of my language and my culture, thanks for appreciating this beautiful language ❤

@Winter-Alpha-Omega Месяц назад

What do you think about Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French and Italian? How does it feel to be the only Latins in Eastern Europe?

@andresmora5192 3 года назад

I'm Mexican 🇲🇽 and a Spanish speaker. I know that Romanian is a Romance language. But when I listen to the Romanian language I feel that I listen to Latin, Romanian is very identical to Latin, despite being a territorially isolated language from the other Romance languages

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 3 года назад

It shares a lot with Latin: vocabulary, grammar and morphology, moods. However if we're being honest, like all Romance languages, Romanian has changed quite a bit and has its own identity now.

@georgetello1247 3 года назад

I agree with you man. Its tone is much more similar to Latin.

@xen.x6437 3 года назад

The accent is one ofthe most conservated.

@TraysonMartin 3 года назад

@Angelina4027 I would say it's geographical isolation from other Romance speaking languages helped with it preserving most of the pronunciations and the similarities in the words.

@k7u5r8t4 3 года назад

@Angelina4027 The same with Icelandic!! It is the closest to ancient Nordic. Exactly because it has been more "isolated" from Scandinavia. I am from Denmark, and I do not understand Icelandic!

@adamknopp6631 3 года назад

Somehow, my Polish Dad who learnt Latin at school, in WW2 met Some Romanian soldiers. Being Interested in languages , he asked them to say something in Romanian. At the end, my dad was able to almost translate verbatim from Romanian to Latin and into German ( the only common language between them) the story of Romulus and Remus and the founding of Rome. 😎

@makpazon11 3 года назад

The interesting part about your Polish dad is that his last name sounds German.

@adamknopp6631 3 года назад

leira its a common name in Germany. My dad’s ancestors were in Poland for 300 years. I have traced them before then to the Plzen region of Bohemia which is on the german border , so it’s highly likely that there was some inter breeding.

@secula1234 3 года назад

amazing !

@polskiszlachcic3648 3 года назад

@@makpazon11 some have German surnames because we had German settlers in Poland. Mine also had a German surname.

@piatra1277 3 года назад

niceee

@LeugimDRK 2 года назад

I never miss a video with Romanian language since I love it, it also helps me to acquire some vocabulary, the word I can't forget is Usturoi from a previous video and now I won't forget Plămâni

@LeugimDRK 2 года назад

Forgot to mention, Norbert your channel is the best, thank you for all your efforts to do more videos like these

@vladmirbittencourt8270 2 года назад

I love it. I'm originally from Brazil but I live in the USA, where I learned fluent Spanish and some French and very little Italian. I'm impressed I was able to understand what you guys were talking about. I got all 6 questions right. I'm actually impressed I was able to.

@robb5828 Год назад

Next time you sit down for a beer with your french,romanian,italian,spanish and portuguese friends,you'll be able to understand each other

@erikamota2882 3 года назад

Surprisingly, I found romanian much easier to understand than I expected. Sounds very romance, it’s a beautiful language. (Native portuguese speaker here, with some knoledge of spanish and french.)

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

Sim! E tem muitas coisas em comum com português.

@LC00547 3 года назад

@Lucas Xavier vai dizer que não entedeu quando ela falou "un organ intern... ajuta la respiratie". Tem muitas semelhanças.

@themapleleafforever1526 3 года назад

@Lucas Xavier "fumati? unde ca romana e facila? Inteleg nimic. Influenta slava e f#%." Nu sunt deacord cu ultima ta propozitie.

@migueljimenez8710 3 года назад

Well, the Romanian girl was speaking extremely slow in comparison to a real conversation.

@abruemmer77 3 года назад

I had the impression that romanian sound a bit like portuguese sometimes, maybe because it sounds soft.

@leonardofonseca4598 3 года назад

Romanian sounds like italian, spanish and french, there are some portuguese words in the romanian, i would love to learn this language, romanian sounds really beautiful.

@giuvannicammora2821 3 года назад

Eu Meu :)

@AngeSoul4Ever 3 года назад

Because latin languange comes froms old romanian language!

@nestingherit7012 2 года назад

Leonardo Did you know that word ,claw' is similar only in Romanian Spanish and Portuguese? Gheara'( romanian) garra'( spanish/ portuguese) Also ,a zgaria' ( scratch) is related to , gheara' But there is something interesting " The man scratches his head"( Omul isi scarpina capul) "The cat scratches the couch"( Pisica zgarie' fotoliul) Is not found in ani italic languages, latin or french.

@leonardofonseca4598 2 года назад

@@nestingherit7012 interesting.

@AngeSoul4Ever 2 года назад

@Emiliano no!i mean what i meant!

@canko15 3 года назад

Romanian nasal vowels give the language such an elegant touch.. I don't know, they fit in greatly

@NickyRikki 3 года назад

We have an entire sentence made just of vowels hahahaha.....

@RazvanMaioru 2 года назад

If you're wondering what such a vowel-only sentence could be, here's an example: "Eu iau oaia aia a ei" meaning "I take that sheep of hers"

@mariusstefan7214 2 года назад

Salutare la toti fratii nostrii latini din partea unui roman. 🇷🇴

@lucastakeoyc 3 года назад

Salut! Brazilian, here! I'm very happy and proud to share the same language's origin (the latin) with people very far from me! how not to love Romanian culture?! Abraços do Brasil :)

@brav0wing 3 года назад

Obrigado, meu amigo. Or in Romanian: Mersi (or 'multumesc'), amicul meu.

@cristinadamian9942 3 года назад

As a Romanian I think the same way about Brazil (and all the other amazing countries who speak romance languages)

@yurifechine5688 2 года назад

Estou impressionado como eu entendi!! quero aprender agora!

@cheeveka3 3 года назад

Portuguese, Latin, Romanian, Catalan would be an amazing video. 😍

@makemefamousfornoreason8402 3 года назад

don't forget about Sardu

@cheeveka3 3 года назад

Make Me Famous For No Reason I mentioned it in older video lol 👍

@toltecarlos Год назад

It blew my mind! Hearing the Latin language from modern common people and spoken in the context of any other current language, awesome.

@marciocoutinhodeoliveira1764 2 года назад

As a Portuguese speaker, didn't know I'd understand so much of it, but I was definitely wrong, Romanian has lots of similarities I just wasn't aware about.

@tziuriky86 3 года назад

I speak Sardinian and Italian and I understood everything. I've answered every question correctly immediately without hesitation, faster than the partecipants :-P

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

Bravo!

@Isfean 3 года назад

Im romanian and i lived in italy for a while as a child, in the first years everybody tought that i was from sardegna because of my accent! I find it so wonderful that two isolated regions of latin speakers changed in the same dirrection over such a long time period!

@asamicat8323 3 года назад

Non capisco come tu abbia fatto perché io avrò capito si e no il 30% del rumeno

@pannady 3 года назад

Ok, când ai emigrat din Romania?😂

@ElrondMcBong113 3 года назад

Same here :D. Spanish and some basic Italian tho. I did have Latin for many years in school. Spanish and Italian were much more useful in understanding her

@snowy3896 3 года назад

Regarding the word for forest - "padure" comes from the Latin "padule" which meant something like a swamp. In Romanian we also use "forestier" when talking about something foresty, which also comes from the Latin "foris" meaning outside. So a forest is "padure", but a path through a forest is "drum forestier". Also, we have a governmental agency called "Directia Silvica" which does stuff concerning forests and things as such. I think it's really interesting how we have 3 words concerning forest related stuff, and they all happen to come from Latin - padure/padule, forestier/foris, silvic/silva. Also, fun fact: "Transylvania" literally means "Over the forest" :)

@pattedechat2457 3 года назад

Isn't "forestier" a borrowing from French ? We have this word in French, too, with the same meaning, and the suffix -ier is very french-like (mobilier, carnassier, escalier, meunier, fermier, janvier, février, etc).

@gaykid80 3 года назад

In Italian “palude” means swamp, marsh, swampland.

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

Yes! We discovered that the ultimate origin in Latin "palūs," "palūdis" meaning a swamp or marsh. The r came from l, and the l and d were underwent metathesis.

@snowy3896 3 года назад

@Darth Brino From what I could find, "gata" comes from Albanian "gat", but I haven't find much information.

@andreipop5805 3 года назад

The word "pădure" was inhereted from Latin. That is why it has more sound shifts. "Silvic" and "forestier" are 19th century borrowings. The first one from Latin, the second one from French.

@Blackstarrkhalis Год назад

Spanish, French, and Creole speaker here who also understands some portuguese. I guessed all correctly, even the bonus. I mostly used subtitles but I looked away to type this comment and I could still understand some of the spoken Romanian. Amo a Romania

@karenchiavazzo2091 3 года назад

OH MY GOD, this is soo awesome. I’ve studied two years of Latin and this is the first time I’ve heard people actually speaking it fluently like that. * total shock* . We usually would translate stories from Latin to Italian. Never the other way around.

@BurstWalkthroughs 3 года назад

More Romanian please.

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

More to come!

@BurstWalkthroughs 3 года назад

@@ScorpioMartianus nice

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

This was so much fun! Thank you, Gia; after doing this video with you, I have decided to learn Romanian to become fluent one day. Your channel is wonderful! Mulțumesc mult! Iubesc limba română și România! 🇷🇴 Grātiāsque summās agō meīs collēgīs atque amīcīs Īrēnae et Mārtīnō, ō faustī Quirītēs! 🕊

@ascelusacubens2715 3 года назад

You rock!!!😎

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

@Paul Navarro Aw thanks!

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

@@ascelusacubens2715 grātiās!

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

@Cassie Carr Grātiam tibi habeō, Cassandra!

@RomanianWithGia 3 года назад

Grātiās, Luke! This was great, I haven't had someone speaking to me in Latin in more than 10 years, I missed it!

@transitusfurmanus678 2 года назад

Rumuński przepiękny język, zawsze powtarzam ludziom

@Ktos-uo8kk Год назад

Dla mnie język polski jest przepięknym, rekomenduję jego i ukraiński dla tych, które chcą uczyć się słowiański języki🇺🇦❤️🇵🇱

@nejou Год назад

@Хтось | Ktoś Skor by som pvedal, ked ovladas Slovensky jazyk ,rychlo sa naucis: Polsky, Ukrajinsky a rusky Rusky jazyk. Kľúčom "slovanských jazykov" , je Slovenský jazyk.

@Ktos-uo8kk Год назад

@@nejou No tak, ale po prostu dla mnie polski i ukraiński są piękne, a także horwacki, lecz masz rację o języku słowackiego jako podstawą dla tego, żeby uczyć się

@rafalkaminski6389 9 месяцев назад

Jak taki piękny, to się go naucz 😅

@senbonzakurakageyoshi662 Год назад

J'ai touvé cette vidéo très intéressante! J'ai appris beaucoup sur le roumain et j'ai aussi compris beaucoup plus du latin que ce que j'ai cru au départ. Merci à tous!

@gaykid80 3 года назад

As an Italian native speaker I understood the sense of everything that was being discussed. I’m surprised to realise that Latin and Romanian make much more sense than I thought as I could easily understand 70-80% of the words. Thank you for the interesting video. I very much enjoyed it!

@Moldovanul_ 3 года назад

@Super Satanski here, take this tinfoil hat

@manoleanicholas2052 3 года назад

Super Satanski Ok... lets just asume that my language is a fake and ~1500 of language modification and influences and a ton of writen proofs about a romance language in the carpato-danubian-pontic area doesnt exist. I understand many secret society teorists, but saying that a language is a “vatican fabrication” is stupid or something what a hungarian would have said :)))

@nicolaramoso3286 3 года назад

@@manoleanicholas2052 Oh shit, here we go. Sit down folks, an argument between Hungarians and Romanians is incoming.

@serbanbuzduga378 3 года назад

@Super Satanski 😂😂😂😂

@gaykid80 3 года назад

Super Satanski Fooled by what? I’m Italian and I could not care less about the Vatican as well as your stupid comment.

@Nostalgia-pc6hb 3 года назад

I love this Gia. I am from Brazil and learnt a lot of Romanian with her. I speak my mother tongue Portuguese, Spanish, French , Italian and now I am learning Romanian to know all the official Romance languages!

@dand7763 3 года назад

if you know italian very well, it's easy then to learn romanian the closest language for romanian is italian language

@briantravelman 2 года назад

WOW! I must admit, I was debating whether or not to watch this video, as I like to play along. But that was the first time I had listened to a full conversation in Romanian, and I was surprised how much I understood. I took 3 years of Spanish, but understood the Romanian girl better than Spanish speakers. I even managed to guess 3 of the words, which is 3 more than I thought I would guess😂. Romanian to me sounds like a mix between Spanish and Italian, and I'm sure if I brushed up on my Spanish a bit, I could understand even more. I had no idea they were so closely related. They also seemed to understand HER better than she understood them. I could also barely comprehend the Latin. I might have some trouble if I ended up in an Ancient Rome, but I think if I got lost in Romania, I would survive. 😂

@NickyRikki 2 года назад

As a native Romanian myself I would say closest to our language is Italian. Spanish obviously not that far off but I think most Romanians would agree that Italian to us is the closest and we understand it instantly. After all we are a colonized nation of ancient Romans with Dacians. But most people don’t know where Romania is on a map and nobody ever guesses we are Latin nation either . The Forgotten Romance language

@andresvizgarra6092 Год назад

El latin es un hueso duro ...

@yourmum69_420 Год назад

same, I speak only a very very limited amount of Spanish and no other romance languages and I was surprised how much I could understand by reading the Romanian subtitles

@Lilulalilulu 4 месяца назад

@@user-op4tx6wg4z it looks like bulgarian because it is probably written with the slavic alphabet. In the past, Romanian texts were commonly written with slavic alphabet.

@brianroberts5048 7 месяцев назад

Being Welsh I love this as the Welsh were the only British nation truly integrated into the Roman Empire. The Welsh language is a mix of Celtic and Latin influences. At Welsh football matches the fans sing Yma o Hyd (We are still here) which references Magnus Maximus (Macsen Wledig). One to Ten in Welsh - Un, dau, tri, pedwar, pymp, chwech, saith, wyth, nau, deg. Monday to Friday - Dydd Llun, Dydd Mawrth, Dydd Mercher. Dydd Iau, Dydd Gwener. Lovely to be able to understand so much of this.

@Bluesky-th9xg 6 месяцев назад

Monday to Friday. Luni - Marți - Miercuri - Joi - Vineri

@bya22666 3 года назад

As a Romanian I'm getting flashbacks from my 5 years of latin in middle & high school

@reconquista98 2 года назад

esti flocoasa ?:)

@iervo3899 2 года назад

Ahahah same as an Italian

@Edgar_Cantu432 3 года назад

As a speaker of Mexican Spanish I could understand 60% of everything they spoke without the help of subtitles, it is incredible how the Romanian and Latin language can be so understandable to me, more than French for example.

@VSP4591 3 года назад

Spanish and Romanian are Romance languages. That means they have a common root which is Latin.

@lucianoperrotat5170 3 года назад

Sin subtitulos no entendia mucho

@vianjelos 3 года назад

Yea the subtitled helped because the word is simmilar to spanish but the pronunciation is very different. So reading the words helps a lot.

@biancaverdeschi880 2 года назад

I'm Italian and I understood everything 🤣. Their Latin is so lit and fluent 🔥🏺🪔. Here ladies and gentlemen is a fluid back-and-forth conversation in Latin and Romanian as if nothing was strange and me listening casually and understanding 💁🏻‍♀️

@nevco8774 9 месяцев назад

Grandmother Latin is an amazing language: 1500 years after the collapse of the state promoting it especially in military, Ancient Rome, it is still usable and influential via grand doughters Romance languages, via vocabulary in science, technology . It is the most alive language from the dead ones. Besides it gave its script to so many other languages wordwide, most of them unrelated to it.

@ShiviRo 3 года назад

As a romanian I understood latin, I understand italian perfectly, Spanish (speaking too) , Portuguese and french (without studying any of them) . Easy to learn them too.

@Nissardpertugiu Год назад

E pensò che capissi autri itallici idiomi liguri e piemonteis , ma aissi coma vautre , mieu lenga nissarda. Archaica. Buòna giornada

@prettymuchfitness3674 3 года назад

Romanian is so beautiful. How do you build a UNESCO world heritage site around a language?

@prettymuchfitness3674 3 года назад

Russian lad get away from the mirror then.

@prettymuchfitness3674 3 года назад

@Russian lad Cringe af. There is still time to delete your comment.

@manuens1398 3 года назад

@Russian lad cringe bro

@manuens1398 3 года назад

@Russian lad wtf?

@cplusplusdude8189 3 года назад

@Russian lad Mahala is a gypsy girl name, right?

@Doomsday69644 3 года назад

Salutări de la un vlah din Bulgaria🇧🇬❤🇷🇴Nici nu știam că înțeleg limbă latina😆😀🙂🤘🏻

@florinalfonse4163 3 года назад

Cum te chema inainte de slavizare, omule?

@Doomsday69644 3 года назад

@@florinalfonse4163 Ascultă frate, eu sunt un Bulgar de origine Valahă și sunt mândru de asta!... Și dacă vreți să știți, numele meu este Dicho Steliyanov Banchev Stanevu Raytchevitch pentru că, în afară de bulgar și valah, am origini rusești și un pic Kazakh...😁😆😉

@user-um8zt8xs4i 3 года назад

@@florinalfonse4163 can u ask Romanians who pretend to be latins and have so much Sloven ...Anyway my first name is Alexander and look me! I am Alexander the Great

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 3 года назад

@@user-um8zt8xs4i We have been calling ourselves Romans since the Romans settled this land. There is nothing to pretend. Troll somewhere else.

@puffyish 3 года назад

Алек сандър You moved Romans in your land...ridiculous. The whole balkans was populated before of the arrival of Slavs and Bulgars with Latin speaking people,Romanians,Vlachs,Aromanians (Latinized Dacians,Tracians)and so on. Miss us with your bullshit.

@binabina4445 6 месяцев назад

The food for feeding animals is called Lucerne (loo-surn) in English. I live in Lucerne valley where they used to grow a lot of it.

@CobraKaiNoMercy 3 года назад

Coño! Yo soy de 🇵🇷 y me quede bobo de lo fácil que fue entender a la Rumana! Estas fueron mis respuestas! 1. Escritor 2. Pulmones 3. Dije linterna (🔦) al principio. Pero cuando ella dijo que fue "static" cambie mi respuesta a una *Lámpara* 4. Bosque 5. Albahaca 5/5 🎇 La verdad es que el Rumano si se puede entender si eres hispanohablante!!! 🙂

@katjageos3857 2 года назад

Scriptor = shqiptus , spjegus , shkrimtare, pulmon = mushkri., = open. Borzilok ,

@koimackan1287 3 года назад

I like how the “Ah” uttered by the Romanian girl is written as “Ăăă” :D Fun fact: “Ă” along with “Â” not only exist but also sound the same in my native language, which is Vietnamese

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 3 года назад

Yeah, I noticed that many Asian languages also have this sound "Â", including mandarin.

@Ion_el 3 года назад

Â is spelling like "Î" and Ă is more like spelling A in English

@saassoossoossaas7869 3 года назад

@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 pretty sure mandarin doesnt have this one

@Cris-hd1wb 3 года назад

I was surprised about this too when I tried learning Vietnamese! Ă in Romanian sounds like Â/Ơ in Vietnamese, and Â/î sounds like Ư. Greetings 🇷🇴🇻🇳💕

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 3 года назад

@@saassoossoossaas7869 I definitely hear the sound "Î" in Mandarin, Russian and Portuguese for that matter.

@anticapitalist1917 3 года назад

OMG, this romanian girl is so charming!

@m7ray 3 года назад

Yes. A lot of Romanian women are like that/

@wallachia4797 3 года назад

Yea, we love our women

@combatantezoteric2965 3 года назад

I cringed so hard when she asked them if they are ready: "suntem gata". Nobody outside those who know romanian and albanians would goes what this word means, as it has a thracian/Illyrian origin. I think an italian/spanish speaker's first guess is that she's asking if "am I a cat"

@LC00547 3 года назад

@@combatantezoteric2965 in brazilian portuguese "gata" is also a slang for beautiful, attractive... So when she asked "suntem gata" I replied "yes, you are" lol

@podlasian65 3 года назад

@@combatantezoteric2965 In Polish "ready" is "gotowy", in Russian "gotov". So the Slavs can guess the meaning.

@kagomekirari25 2 года назад

I've never spoken Latin, or heard it aloud very often, but I did take it for 8 years, and was surprised how much Romanian I could understand. This was a very cool video!

@dianapulido1807 Год назад

As a person who at eight years of age spoke four of the five modern Romance, I found this video very interesting. I also found that I understood quite well what what everyone was saying.

@dinohunter7176 3 года назад

I'm impressed by how latin teachers have not much struggle to understand romanian.

@Badolado384 2 года назад

It's bcuz Romania was cut away from the rest of latin influence and it mantain a lot of Archaic Latin

@DrWhom 2 года назад

you has much struggle to speaka de English

@deutschesmaedchen 2 года назад

They didn’t understand that much of it though.

@UlpianHeritor 2 года назад

@@deutschesmaedchen That’s why they got all the words correct…

@MrWaffle- 2 года назад

@FIFA07Pro Acutally, italian Is the closest to latinm

@jeandeboishault6380 3 года назад

Great video ! The etymology of romanian "pădure" is usually the following one : from latin "paludem" with a metathesis (palude(m) => padule(m)/padure(m)" -in Romanian the intervocalic latin L becomes R : caelus => cer (sky), salis => sare (salt), melus => măr (apple), filum => fir (thread), and so on.

@CaramidaDeCasa 3 года назад

but you didn't explain why the latin L becomes R, all other romance languages still have L like latin

@jeandeboishault6380 3 года назад

@@CaramidaDeCasa You are right. This is only a description of a phonetic change. I don't know its origin. Densusianu in "Histoire de la langue roumaine" Ed. Grai și Suflet, Bucharest, 1997, p. 56 says that is due to "illyrian" origin : "Au point de vue phonétique, l'origine illyrienne a été admise pour les phénomènes suivants : (...) le passage de l' l intervocalique à r (cf. Kopitar, Kleinere Schriften, 239 ; Miklosich, 7)". (Translation : "From a phonetic point of view, the Illyrian origin has been admitted for the following phenomena : (...) the passage from intervocalic l to r").

@carlosrebelo6007 3 года назад

@@CaramidaDeCasa the interchange between l and r is a phonetic universal, it is due to similarity of articulation point. It happens in other languages. There is a northeastern accent of Brazilian Portuguese very well known for doing the same, though it only happens with l at the end of syllable (calma = carma). On a different phonetic context check the following Spanish and Portuguese words (esclavo/escravo;blanco/branco;plato/prato). Its proximity in audio perception has coined them as liquid consonants.

@folyglot7806 3 года назад

@@CaramidaDeCasa Also, in a lot of Caribbean Spanish varieties there's tons of crossover between 'L' and 'R'. For example, some DR and PR speakers have 'L' instead of 'R' at the end of syllables and some DR speakers have the exact opposite phenomenon! So you might hear 'peldón' or 'hablal' for 'perdón' and 'hablar'; or you might hear 'Miguer' instead of 'Migel', depending where the speaker is from. 'L' and 'R' are very close in place of articulation and both considered "liquid consonants". So it's a pretty common change. (some more examples if you want to go down an etymology rabbit hole: colonel, mele kalikimahu, pilgrim; not to mention the variety of sound that we perceive as being an 'R', etc.)

@folyglot7806 3 года назад

@CipiRipi00 That may be true! But that kind of semantic shift isn't that big a leap. You should look up "semantic change" or "semantic drift" for more.

@alex-eucmad.7133 Год назад

As a Spaniard I've listened to Romanian quite a few times in my life and never understood a word. But now that I see it in its written form I'm realising that it is easier to understand that what I previously thought 😮

@MrRubikraft Год назад

As a French speaker, I got all the words super fast (not looking at the text). Interesting surprise! It was (a lot) easier to understand than Spanish, for me! (Maybe also because she chose easy words.)

@DexM47 3 года назад

As a French speaker, I was surprised how much I could understand of Romanian.

@raph_9063 3 года назад

Wow a french aren't you suposed to say that we are gypsies?

@DexM47 3 года назад

@@raph_9063 I wouldn't, but also I'm actually not French, I'm from the French-speaking part of Switzerland ;)

@napillnik 3 года назад

As a Romanian native speaker, I don't understand a thing in spoken French, but I could read better than any other foreign language that I don't know.

@Kelbourg 3 года назад

@@napillnik Thats very interesting indeed! Its probably coming from the fact that spoken french and written french are two different things. Most of the time, written language is evolving by how people are speaking it, but in french one is changing far more than the other. Written french is very conservative and regulated while spoken french has way more freedom, shapes and forms that does not commonly impact its written side. We're not writting it the way we're speaking it. We're also altering vocabulary and "tone", in a way that spoken french is so dissociated from its written form that translated into letters and words, it can be considered too familiar or informal. So we're making adjustments and we're respecting different rules depending if we're speaking or writting. One of the reason that a lot of people are saying that french is not so much close to latin is this one. By reading french we can clearly see how close it is. Also, french does not have that much emphasis on vowels compared to spanish or italian, and people are mostly comparing the spelling and prononciation of said spelling by those, which is over simplifying the subject.

@luxemag4347 3 года назад

@@Kelbourg Native Romanian here. I failed miserably at A.1.1 French and didn't pursue it further. I can read it though, and have an informed idea of its meaning, maybe 40-50%. I was quite frustrated I couldn't pick it up, I found becoming fully fluent in English easier, whereas with French I couldn't get past the ropes. Again, my first language is Romanian, and I can read Italian and Spanish upwards to 80% comprehension, with no training. Weirdly, I think I understand spoken Portuguese better, though I cannot read it.

@clementeperez2870 3 года назад

This was fantastic! I've never heard Romanian longer that some seconds and I thought it was far from other romance languages. I'm from Spain and I could understand a lot. Sometimes the accent sounds in my ears like Catalan.

@scienceafterall2935 3 года назад

You got the point, from all Romance languages Romanian is most approached to Catalan.

@davida7153 3 года назад

Sí, incluso palabras iguales como tot o mic

@adrianmatei2668 3 года назад

Armata romana era în posesia de regimente Catalane și Siciliene când a invadat Dacia... Generalul Traian (Trajano) era de origine Spaniola

@adrianmatei2668 3 года назад

Mi comentarii es în rumano

@ppn194 3 года назад

@@scienceafterall2935 No way. To Italian, more exactly to southern Italian dialects, south of the line Rimini - La Spezia.

@beepst 3 года назад

Why is that latin has the coolest looking/sounding words? You could say literally anything and still sound intellectual.

@MrMelo Год назад

É ótimo saber que temos conteúdos em romeno. Esse canal me incentiva muito a ser poliglota!

@IlincaLirael 3 года назад

Padure is derived from Vulgar Latin *padūlem (“swamp”) because a lot of forest-areas in south of Romania were originally swamps

@Viviendoishaphanim 2 года назад

In italian, the word for swamp is palude. And in Spanish we have the word "paludismo", a desease that was common in swampy areas (before we destroyed almost all of them for agriculture)

@IlincaLirael 2 года назад

@@Viviendoishaphanim very interesting, thank you for the info!

@powerdriller4124 2 года назад

Right. And it is related to the English word "puddle" (and "pool") of Germanic origin. It may be a cognate of Latin "palude" from Indoeuropean.

@pureluck8882 2 года назад

Padure is rather a new term, the most used form to describe forests in the old books are "Codru or Codrii" which in Latin I think it's "quodrum" or in some areas was used as "crâng" which is related to "crengi" that means twigs, I believe the word "Padure" is native/original to Romanian language, I was not able to find anything close to it in any of the languages we borrowed most of the words from.

@romulusbuta9318 2 года назад

@@Viviendoishaphanim " destroyed" ??? Eat less and restore swamps again 😄😄😄😄😄😄 !

@M_SC 3 года назад

Her teaching skills are amazing, anyone could have guessed just from her gestures and systematic way of describing items.

@ioanvioreldragoslav9928 3 года назад

=))

@gabrielafernandes1705 3 года назад

As a brazilian, I am amazed that romanian language is more intelligible to me than french. It sounds like a mix of italian and spanish, which are much more comprehensive languages for portuguese speakers than french.

@S3baman1988 2 года назад

French people struggle the most to understand Romanian even though we took most of our words from them. The pronounciation of each sound is pretty much just like in Latin (which is also the case for Italian) unlike French which distorted the sounds a lot. However, spoken Portuguese is the hardest language for us to understand (I speak French at native level and I can follow rather well an Italian and Spanish discussion). Portuguese is easier in written form though as the particularities of the pronounciation are lost

@addyourname5570 2 года назад

I know French and Spanish and understood the Romanian much to my surprise. Seeing it written was a huge help.

@cassiazaharia4776 3 года назад

This is why the Internet and RU-vid were invented! This is legendary!

@chrissfloren2041 3 года назад

Wow Romanian sounds beautiful and the way Gia spoke was perfect! Easy to follow along and I had so much fun watching this experience!!!

@aren00dlezzpurpl34 3 года назад

I'm glad people find our language beautiful. I often see that Romania isn't that noticed on the internet. It's nice to see foreigners (if you are one) having a positive opinion over our language :)

@Hels_Angels 3 года назад

@@aren00dlezzpurpl34 Romanian is very beautiful to read and to listen to, I agree 🎵💖👍🏼

@anka6356 3 года назад

Imagine being a native speaker and not speaking perfectly (as in fluently) your language. Of course her Romanian was perfect. Her accent was typical "neutral, southern" accent you'd hear in the capital city. She also spoke like a teacher would speak to students so it is easier to follow by non-natives. :)

@AdamSlatopolsky Год назад

Spanish: 1- Escritor 2- Pulmones 3- Lámpara 4- Bosque / Selva 5- Albahaca 6- Bicicleta

@OneOfTheFirstToWatchStarTrek Год назад

One of the most fascinating and educational episodes, and I enjoy everything on this channel!

@gavindoyle692 3 года назад

I’m Irish, but I speak fluent French, German, Italian and Spanish, and I studied Latin for six years in school, so I loved this video. It is amazing how similar Romanian reads to Latin. It sounds like Latin with a Russian twist, but sounds closer to Latin than French does. We need more of this! I believe Sardinian is the closest modern language to Classical Latin. Videos like these make me want to dust off my old books of Latin grammar. Bonus, bona, bonum ...

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

@Mario Franz Correct!

@BigSoul29 3 года назад

The closest modern romance language to Latin. Is actually Romanian contrary to popular belief. Both syntactically and grammatically. So many words are shared an example that came up all the time in this very video is " sunt" plural of to be. This is commonly.known that Romanian is the closest to Latin.

@themapleleafforever1526 3 года назад

Christina V Mario Pei calculates Romanian as 4th closest to Latin after Sardinian, Italian, and Spanish. Although Spanish is only closer to Latin by 3.5%. So Romanian and Spanish are pretty much on par when it comes to overall proximity to Latin.

@david_contente 3 года назад

@Mario Franz 4) Romanian 5) Portuguese 6) French

@VSP4591 3 года назад

@@BigSoul29 As well Romanian is the only Romance language that has so many Slavic and Turk words in it. The closest language to Latin is Sardinian language. It is a score of how close is a Romance language to Latin. Sardinian suffered less influences being isolated.

@xboxnube 3 года назад

I understood more Romanian than I thought I would. But then I'm learning Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Latin. So I think I may have an advantage. Maybe.

@shaungordon9737 3 года назад

Just a small advantage.....

@aryyancarman705 3 года назад

@@shaungordon9737 very miniscule

@ScorpioMartianus 3 года назад

Yeah!

@M_SC 3 года назад

Why have you excluded Romanian? Rude

@octaviantimisoreanu5810 3 года назад

You're learning all of those at once? My brain would fry.

@IPlayWithFire135 Год назад

Her Romanian has a very Portuguese like cadence and pronunciation. I wondered why everyone always jokes how Portuguese sounds Slavic. Here’s a Romance language with ties with the Slavic world that sounds very much like how Portuguese does.

@Plata-ori-plumbu Год назад

We also have the closed vowel system that Portuguese has.

@capeverdeanprincess4444 11 месяцев назад

This does not sound Portuguese, it sounds like Italian. Cap 🧢.

@airtondomingues865 Год назад

Sou brasileiro e falo português, fiquei impressionado quando percebi que estava entendendo quase tudo.

@marie-lorenlefevre3067 3 года назад

OMG I understand Romanian. That's coool. I'm french and I speak Spanish italian portuguese English catalan and german

@ubuntuposix 3 года назад

Posibil ca te ajuta faptul ca esti femeie. (its possible that being a woman helps you). Intelegi mult din gesticulatia Giei (You understand a lot from Gia's gestures. "Giei"= genitive for "of/belonging to Gia"). (i used the term woman, also to show that you can pick up different Romanian words from different Romance Languages. "ca" is actually written with a diacritics: că and pronounced like in french "que") Romanian "accepted" the use of vowels like ă (pronounced like the vowel in "the" or french "que" as i mentioned) and â (pronounced like the portuguese word lâmina). These vowels sound foreign to westerners, and also gave a lot of possible combination of sylables to form a multitude of words. (there are almost 100 words describing the concept of "this/these, that/those", from all sorts of degrees of politeness to short alternatives to differentiating between "this (fem.)" = "această" and "this one (fem.)" = "aceasta". And since it used these diacritics, the writing tried to be more logical and phonetic, by adding letters like ș for the specific sound of "sh" (as in "shape"). And ț for "ts" / "tz". That's why Romanian can sometimes seem strange even in written form. (if written with diacritics)

@stefanalexandru2107 3 года назад

now you can add Romanian on your list :)

@bogdancondicaru7848 3 года назад

Tres bien mademoiselle

@cesarvidelac 3 года назад

Interesting, I'm a native Spanish speaker adn don't speak nor Latin nor Romanian, but the sound and many words sounded familiar to the point of understanding phrases from Romanian mainly. This was really funny and educational, thanks for sharing!

@DomingosCJM 3 года назад

As a portuguese(br) speaker I think I could understand Romanian better too. Kind of odd...

@Fjord_ 3 года назад

we Romanians have the same feeling hearing especially Italian, Spanish -sometimes the meaning of words is so obvious.

@vanilla_mon7907 2 года назад

I'm Romanian and I'm learning Spanish, and some words are similar

@Mrktn4 2 года назад

As a Spanish speaker i am AMAZED that i understood almost everything said in this video. Romanian is way easier to understand than I thought. Even more than Latin. The only problem I had was with the word number 5. Since the beginning I knew I was gonna suck in that. Do not talk me about plants 💀