Romansh vs Romanian vs Italian vs French | Can they understand each other?

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The Romansh language is one of four national languages of Switzerland, among German, Italian and French. In this video we test mutual intelligibility of Romansh and other Romance languages. Romansh is sometimes grouped by linguists with Ladin and Friulian as the Rhaeto-Romance languages, though this is disputed. What's your impression? How much were you able to understand?
The dialect that Leander represents is Sursilvan. It's s a group of dialects of the Romansh language spoken in the Swiss district of Surselva. It is the most widely spoken variety of Romansh. The most closely related variety is Sutsilvan, which is spoken in the area located to the east of the district.
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Romansh vs Romanian vs Italian vs French | Can they understand each other?
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@Ecolinguist 2 года назад

🤓 Arpitan Language | Can French, Catalan and Ligurian speakers understand it? → ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y95rSiMp2nQ.html

@luisdestefano6056 Год назад

I live in Argentina, and Speak Spanish. Also fluent French, Italian and Portuguese. In written form I understand Catalan maybe two thirds, when spoken maybe one.half. Gallego on the other hand is almost identical to Portuguese, I easily understand most of it.

@ARUchannel1 Год назад

in spanish I understood the insight of every word very useful to see our romance language family

@jordillach3222 8 месяцев назад

I just commented before I read your question. My comment was as follows: _"My mother tongues are Spanish and Catalan and I guessed them all! I'm so proud! 😁"_

@jordicm 7 месяцев назад

As a catalan speaker I can understand some words but it's very different from my language.

@janteo1 3 года назад

This language sound like a roman legionaire got lost in the german woods for 30 years

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

That's an interesting origin story for a language!

@fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад

@@Ecolinguist and after he got crazy...

@FernandoFlores-gr4gc 3 года назад

@TheSaltube 3 года назад

I agree.

@hnguyen5656 3 года назад

Though there is heavy German influence on Rumantsch, the inhabitants of the area spoke Rhaetic (now extinct) and Celtic languages, when the Romans came in. The Germanic tribes and Romans gradually squeezed out the Celtic languages which once dominated France and central Europe, which are now only spoken in the UK, Ireland, and part of France.l

@niklask8753 3 года назад

Roman family reunion 1500 years after the fall of the empire be like:

@bramantyoprahoro7284 3 года назад

More like a great reunion...

@noam_segal 2 года назад

Beat me to it

@DZRESPECT 2 года назад

well they are all celts or germanic invaded by the romans haha

@niklask8753 2 года назад

@@DZRESPECT yeah and the romans you mean probably are romanized etruscans and italics. there was no roman people. being roman was the same as being american today. the only real romans probably were the early patricians. the rest were all romanized foreigners

@noam_segal 2 года назад

@@wolfruhn byzantine empire doesn't count, those languages aren't eastern

@uby54ty06 3 года назад

Romanian: "I am the hardest romance language" Romansh: "I'm gonna end this man's whole career"

@philomelodia 3 года назад

Yeah that was a rough one. Romanian is not so bad. Once you get used to the UL at the end of the words and the Slavic vowels. The only one in the romance language series from Norbert that comes close in difficulty for me is Neapolitan.

@RyanCarterVonArad 3 года назад

or * ''woman's career''....

@zorronegro229 3 года назад

Is it really difficult to learn it?

@italixgaming915 2 года назад

@@philomelodia There are other Italian regional languages that are quite close to Neapolitan, like Sicilian for instance.

@arasev_hd1524 2 года назад

Chau, native Romansch speaker here. There are 5 diffrent Romansch dialects. The dude in the video talks the ugliest Rumantsch xd 😂🇨🇭

@SuperJNG18 2 года назад

Romansch-speaker: This animal is often associated with Transylvania French and Italian: Ah, OK! Romanian: *Unimpressed.*

@RaduB. 2 года назад

Hi! Yes, because we don't really agree with this myth... Let's say that it appeared against our will. 🙂

@SuperJNG18 2 года назад

@@RaduB. Oh, I don’t blame you. I wouldn’t want my country associated with a blood-sucking vampire either…then again, after the last four years, it’s hard for people not to…

@BlueSwampyCraft 2 года назад

@@RaduB. I don’t have anything against it. And I think most Romanians don’t mind it either. We had a lot of popular myths about strigoi before Dracula anyway

@RaduB. 2 года назад

@@BlueSwampyCraft A "strigoi" is indeed a vampire but Dracula is another name for Vlad Țepeș, which definitely was not a vampire. Bram Stoker's name choice for his character really is unfortunate.

@BlueSwampyCraft 2 года назад

@@RaduB. I’m Romanian don’t need to explain. It’s a LEGENG, it was inspired by Vlad for obvious reason - the blood theme. I don’t see anything wrong with that. If anything foreigners became more interested in the region and in Vlad himself as a historical figure. And they discovered on this occasion the true beauty and culture of Transylvania.

@fedem14 3 года назад

omg i've never heard spoken romansh before

@pigeonarmstrong 3 года назад

Same

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

Now you have!

@fedem14 3 года назад

@@Ecolinguist also not as hard as i thought really

@fedem14 3 года назад

@Dovyeon maybe being an italian native speaker, having studied latin and knowing some german? i didn't understand a lot but still like 40%

@fedem14 3 года назад

@Dovyeon i don't speak a celtic language so i doubt it, also i probably would have understood a lot less without reading

@binema5797 3 года назад

As a Romanian the Romansh language is much more harder than i tought 😳 The other Latin languages seem easier now 😅

@wyqtor 3 года назад

It's mostly because you are used to the others. Also, the guy's dialect appeared to be a bit non-standard to my ear (i.e., it was a dialect from one of their valleys, not the standardized Rumantsch Grischun). I was able to understand more than 50% of what was said on Rumantsch radio while on my trip to Switzerland as a Romanian native speaker with a good knowledge of Italian and Spanish.

@stefangeorge8876 3 года назад

Sunt de acord și eu. Nu am înțeles absolut nimic. :))

@stephanobarbosa5805 3 года назад

da, roman !

@mlsterlous 3 года назад

You are right. I lived in Moldova many years, and i don't understand 90% of Romansh in this video :)

@flrazvan 3 года назад

Yeah the same for me too, and i could say i have basic knowledge of French and Italian ( more Italian). I perceived it more like a german language than the Latin language.

@Zdamaneta 3 года назад

As a romanian speaker I barely understood a few words. It sounds like a mix of latin and german and the accent sounds german.

@arthur_p_dent 3 года назад

As a German, I'd say the accent sounds Swiss-German, and unmistakably so.

@antonovvski 3 года назад

I think it is a mix of german and another language i wouldn't say Latin though. Since it was spoken in Switzerland you expect some accent influences and maybe some vocabulary influence too. I've seen that he used "Genau" which means "Exactly" in both Romansch and German

@Oluinneachain 2 года назад

Marcus do you think a photo of Hitler as your avatar is appropriate?

@citizenz4640 2 года назад

@@Oluinneachain I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not :)) But I think it s his face lol

@felicepompa1702 2 года назад

@Marius Imholz also in many italian dialects asparagus can be called 'sparagi which is similar to the romansch

@L-mo 3 года назад

Romansh vs Romanian vs Italian vs French | Can they understand each other? NO.

@nickcohen4900 3 года назад

First of all , the apellation Romanian is wrong ! Our language is called valahica . We are valahi . Romania and romanian language is a fraud invented by Vatican .

@daciaromana2396 3 года назад

Nick Cohen 😂 😂 😂. Also, Romanian is an alien language that comes from Mars. 😂

@neroma 3 года назад

As a Romanian I understand Italian , but my guess is the italians cannot understand romanians

@ilariabrunetti317 3 года назад

@@neroma I'm Italian. I find spoken Romanian hard but with the subtitles, I understood most of it.

@L-mo 3 года назад

@@neroma true, but I think Romanians are probably exposed to more Italian language (e.g. via the TV) than vice versa, so this might not be intrinsic to the languages' unequal mutual intelligibility.

@Fl1mper 3 года назад

As a Swiss who speaks German, Italian and French, I still couldn't understand most of it.

@ruejr 3 года назад

These three languages seem closest to Romansh yet they only help a bit with this one.

@Ryosuke1208 3 года назад

Spanish, english and french and still nothing.

@marcaubrun2954 3 года назад

lura es ti betg in bun Svizer. Jeu sun Franzos e discur l'unica lingua specifica alla Svizra. Jeu discur anc ils trais auters idioms dalla Svizra.

@BigButtPaperWings 3 года назад

sie verstönd sich ja amig underenand nöd mal ;)

@heloisaestevo9836 3 года назад

Portuguese, french and english, still couldn't understand much too

@toxicbee990 2 года назад

Romansh sounds like an italian after having lived for 20 years in Germany tries to speak french

@MrMikkyn 2 года назад

It kind of reminds me of Catalan with some German words thrown in there pronounced in a Swiss Accent.

@hamburger9157 2 года назад

While his drunk.

@liliana6003 2 года назад

😀😀😀

@refreshh5 7 месяцев назад

To me it sounds like a mix of french and portuguese with a german accent

@HuGo031191 3 года назад

As a portuguese native speaker I could understand; 40% Romansh 50% Romanian 70% Italian 40% French

@samaaaa_ 2 года назад

respect

@leonebicchierai9460 2 года назад

Para de mentir cara kkkkkkkk

@brunosoares2827 2 года назад

O unico que posso concordar contigo é o Italiano, de resto são poucas palavras compreendida quando eles falam, mas a legenda deixa um pouco mais tranquilo para entender!!! po

@HuGo031191 2 года назад

Entender ou não um idioma é algo pessoal. Não tem que concordar comigo. Eu costumo consumir muito conteúdo de poliglotas. Brasileiro no geral não tem esse interesse por idiomas estrangeiros visto que somente 5% da nossa população entende o inglês que é um dos idiomas mais populares do mundo.

@KeillaSellay 2 года назад

Romanian joke for the Portuguese: Cu carne de vaca nu se moare de foame. I am sure that Portuguese speakers or Galician speakers will understand 100% all the words.

@kaderbueno6823 3 года назад

As a French guy it's the first time in this series of video I was lost... All latin languages have their difficulties but this one killed me

@poseidonoceanstorm7396 3 года назад

J'suis d'accord avec toi, je n'ai rien compris. C'est trop allemand pour moi haha

@Tiqerboy 3 года назад

Very true. I can get the idea in Italian, Catalan and Occitan, but Romansch was pretty much incomprehensible to me. I've been told it is closest to Latin and when they have brought the Latin speaker, I found him most difficult to understand in the group. I think the Latin guy would understand Romansch the best.

@kaderbueno6823 3 года назад

@@poseidonoceanstorm7396 le pire c'est que j'ai des notions d'allemand mais c'est la première fois que j'écoute une langue qui a des influences et latines et germaniques c'est très bizarre ça me donne l'impression qu'il parle très vite dans 2 langues différentes et que mon cerveau doit faire le lien

@poseidonoceanstorm7396 3 года назад

@@kaderbueno6823 ouai je crois qu'il est à cheval entre les deux. Mais je crois que c'est l'influence du suisse allemand je crois

@kaderbueno6823 3 года назад

@@jaredwilliams6853 interesting thanks def got to check that out

@stefangeorge8876 3 года назад

More romanian please! 🇷🇴💕

@Cezar4ik 2 года назад

Yeah 🇷🇴🇲🇩💕💞💓💗

@ObvsCam93 3 года назад

I don't know about everybody else, but Romansh is the hardest romance language for me to understand on this channel so far. I've never heard it spoken before and it actually helped not reading the script but my knowledge of italian (and a little French) meant I only understood the context of each sentence. Thanks to everyone who made this video possible, it was fascinating!

@johaquila 3 года назад

I have occasionally heard Romansh on Swiss radio, where I found it quite easy to understand. But there it came with a much stronger Swiss German accent, so presumably it wasn't as pure. And I must agree, as a native speaker of German with a reasonably good passive command of French, Italian and Spanish, I find this to be at least as hard to understand as Portuguese. Even with the written text it's probably harder for me than Catalan without it (which is also quite tough).

@fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад

Written Romansh is more or less readable for romance language speakers. There are 5 (or 7. Even more!) idioms of Romansh, each one with its written standard, and a koine language called Romauntsch Grischun. The later one anybody can see on Swiss franc banknotes and federal official documents. RG is artificial and nobody has it as mother language.

@johaquila 3 года назад

@@robjj4769 I have never heard of that claim, can't find any evidence for it anywhere, and severely doubt it given that (to my knowledge) no Slavic languages are or were spoken near to the region in question. Are you mixing up Romansh with Romanian? These are completely different languages. The only thing they have in common is that they are both Romance languages and have similar names deriving from that.

@renatomsoborghi 3 года назад

I agree! As a brazilian who also speaks fluent spanish (having lived 9 years in Argentina), and a little bit of french, this was by far the most difficult romance language to unterstand, from those we saw on this channel. Even Sardinian or Neapolitan were a lot easier (I found Occitanian quite easy once I understood some weird pronounciaton differences).

@johaquila 3 года назад

I wonder where the difficulty comes from. Maybe the German influence? Even as a native German speaker I only noticed the very German use of "also", which I actually found irritating rather than helpful, coming so unexpected in a Romance language. Or could there be a lot of Rhaetian traces left? We know that this language was spoken in the region before it was Romanized. Rhaetian is hypothesized to be related to Etruscan.

@RippleMks 3 года назад

As a French speaker it was fascinating to hear, most difficult Latin language ever... When the Romanian girl was starting to talk I was thinking "finally someone I understand in some extent" 😂 hopefully I am fluent in German, it helped me with many small words (aber, genau, also, schon...), but it wasn't sufficient to grasp the meaning of what he was saying.

@alexj9603 3 года назад

@VFM #7634 Definitely. But the meaning of the word has changed quite a bit between these languages. I immediately recognized the cognate as well, but I couldn't make a sense out of it.

@danu1608 3 года назад

❤🤣🇷🇴🇪🇺❤❤🇨🇵

@katherineamelia98 Год назад

i think you meant ‘luckily, i am fluent in german,’ the word hopefully is used in situations that haven’t happened yet!

@Oliver-eh6hc 3 года назад

I never thought that romanian would help me to understand another Latin language :D amazing language, sounds so ancient! i was lost so many times!

@isissophieandandreea Год назад

Latin is a Romanian language.

@tbirdparis 3 года назад

As a native Italian and French speaker (and also some basic German), that was still really hard. I guessed all the words correctly, but I think it was only because I could see what he was saying written on the screen.

@luancardoso3060 3 года назад

As a portuguese speaker, it was harder than romanian

@spinjitzustudios780 3 года назад

69th like

@thelegend3163 3 года назад

I'm a portuguese speaker and I speak french as well. I was totally lost when the guy was speaking. Romanian looks easy compared to romansh lol

@ronnyalvarado8116 3 года назад

Extremely tough, but extremely fun too! Romanian is the next language on the list after seeing this :)

@vnietov 3 года назад

By far this is the hardest romance language to understand for me. I'm a native speaker of spanish.

@stephanobarbosa5805 3 года назад

más que rumano

@vnietov 3 года назад

@@stephanobarbosa5805 Sí, mucho mas complicado que el Rumano, definitivamente.

@Pakiu1306 3 года назад

@@vnietov hablo inglés (como idioma segundo/primero? No sé. Yo hablo 4 idiomas en totales [no sé exactamente como lo dice en español pero yo soy un Malasio. Todo el mundo acá aprende malayo, inglés y su lingua materna cuando ellos se aproxima 4 años]) y la francés es más fácil para entender. I’d say that it’s easier than Spanish, even. “Marron” -> “maroon” animal->animal etcétera.

@giselarigone666 3 года назад

I agree!

@vnietov 3 года назад

@@Pakiu1306 Are malay and indonesian considered the same language?

@PauloVictor-vu2bt 3 года назад

I've never heard Romansch before, it sounds like a German trying to speak Romanian 😅

@arasev_hd1524 2 года назад

Well, there are 5 different dialects. His Rumansch is nearer to German than the Romansch I speak. He speaks Sursilvan and the Rumantsch I speak is nearer to Italian. So I speak Rumantsch Vallader

@sl2547 2 года назад

@Irina Popa I think he means in term of how the language sounds - I speak French and German, and some of the Romansch words do sound quite Germanic

@ismt9390 2 года назад

I speak German and Romanian and i still didn't understand anything :))

@schurch1569 2 года назад

It's reaaaally strange to Swiss German speakers, because phonetically it's very much like the Swiss German dialect of the canton of Graubünden, but you just dont understand a word…

@davethewastelander8326 2 года назад

@@arasev_hd1524 I think the most similar language is Lombardian, indeed i come from Lombardy, and I gotta say I understood him more because I understand Lombardian than anything else

@sasepatrutreipedos 3 года назад

Could you do a video in this same format with Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian and Megleno-romanian? It would be interesting to see how different such languages are compared to one another. It might be difficult to find speakers of the latter two since less than 5500 people speak them combined. I hope you consider my idea. As always great video.

@empyrionin 3 года назад

Where do you find meglenites and especially Istrian vlachs nowadays? I think they might even be extinct. An Aromanian though, that would be awesome. Farsherot.

@mihaiisvoranu 2 года назад

@@empyrionin there are plenty of megleno-romanians living in macedonia. as for istrians, yeah, they are probably less than 100.

@chrisicu4236 3 года назад

So fascinating. My grandfather, who died before I was born, spoke Romansh. I’ve never heard it before and enjoyed hearing this episode. Thank you.

@SniaVillagePunk 3 года назад

Madly hard, and I'm a lombard native speaker. He reminds me of a german trying to speaking lombard and mixmatching random words from french

@darkkestrel1 3 года назад

So happy this has come out. As a Romand Swiss (francophone/western Swiss) I'm glad the Romansh speakers have been able to keep their language alive. I wish it were the same for us with arpitan/francoprovençal, which is spoken in Switzerland by very few people mainly in the Valais

@stephanobarbosa5805 3 года назад

suisse romande?? 70 80 90... septante huitante nonante...

@BobbyBermuda1986 3 года назад

@@stephanobarbosa5805 Arpitan/Francoprovencal would be a great one to do in this series, I agree.

@darkkestrel1 3 года назад

@@stephanobarbosa5805 yes, that's how we count (well my canton uses quatre-vingt but whatever) octante for eighty is also used but rarely

@lukasdutli3473 3 года назад

it is more widely spoken in the Aosta Valley ( Val d'Oûta in Arpitan)

@stephanobarbosa5805 3 года назад

@@darkkestrel1 your canton uses 4x20?? very sad!! ... pardon me... but i hate 60+10, 4x20, 4x20+10....

@mandarinesalon1937 3 года назад

In romanian, two words came out for eagle: *vultur* and *acvilă* . The cognates of *vultur* are: _Vulture_ (english), _vautour_ (french), _avvoltoio_ (italian) The cognates of *acvilă* are: _Eagle_ (english), _aigle_ (french), _aquila_ (italian), .... _evla_ (romansh) In romanian, *vultur* may be used either to refer to a _vulture_ or to an _eagle_ In romanian, *acvilă* is used to refer unambigously to an _eagle_ . I don't speak at all romansh, but when the romanian girl came with _vultur_ , the romasch speaker seems to worry about the alimentation of the bird: dead ( _vulture_ ) or live prey ( _eagle_ ). I don't know to which extend the word is used, but according to some dictionnaries, _elva_ may also be used for _eagle_ in romansh.

@Unbrutal_Rawr 3 года назад

The word *acvilă* doesn't really belong here as it's a loan from Italian (if not from Latin). The inherited word exists as *aceră/aciră,* which seems to normally mean "hawk", and "eagle" only dialectally.

@daciaromana2396 3 года назад

As far as I know, "acvila" is a specific type of eagle: the golden eagle, while "vultur" is used to mean any generic eagle or vulture.

@JCMH 2 года назад

The Spanish cognates are, respectively, _buitre_ and _águila._

@gcsgcs1 2 года назад

Vulturul este numele comun dat mai multor păsări răpitoare diurne, mari, din familia accipitridae, ordinul falconiformes, cu ciocul lung, ascuțit și coroiat, cu aripi lungi și cu picioare puternice, cu gheare tari, care se hrănesc cu pradă vie și, uneori, cu stârvuri. În această categorie se pot aminti: genul Pithecophaga cu specia. Pithecophaga jeffery genul Aquila cu 12 specii (ex. Aquila chrysaetos) genul Spizastur genul Ichthyophaga genul Hieraaetus cu 6 specii genul Spizaetus genul Oroaetus genul Polemaetus cu 1 specie genul Stephanoaetus cu 1 specie genul Ictinaetus genul Harpyopsis genul Lophaetus genul Haliaeetus genul Morphnus Vulturul pescar (Circaetus gallicus) face parte din familia Pandionidae

@phillipsiebold8351 2 года назад

Just running the Romansch word, the closest phonological word I find is the Apache word "ch'ishoogi" and Navajo "Jeeshoo". Doesn't sound like it comes from Celtic as nothing from the Celtic languages have anything close.

@explorerpigeon8462 3 года назад

For me I think the romansch pronunciation was the hardest to understand more than the words themselves. P.s I speak Romanian, Italian, french, Portuguese and Spanish as for the romance languages

@mihaifox359 2 года назад

Ba esti nebun

@IM_AYKHARAAD 3 года назад

As a French native (who speaks Spanish and a bit of Italian), I’m surprised that I could understand Casiana (the Romanian girl) at about 90 % without listening again and again what she said. I used to understand around 25-40 % of Romanian as I never studied it but with the subtitles and the context, I almost understood everything she said. And I feel like Romansh is a mix of Occitan, Italian and German (kind of), but I am curious to know if the accent is the authentic or if Leander speaks Romansh with a German accent. I would like to know, but anyway that sounds pretty nice. Very interesting!

@thebauci1167 3 года назад

I‘d say it‘s the language and not him having an accent. Source- I‘m romansh

@richlisola1 3 года назад

It’s authentic

@IM_AYKHARAAD 3 года назад

@@richlisola1 OK thanks. 😊

@IM_AYKHARAAD 3 года назад

@@thebauci1167 Now I know. Thank you.

@sergioamayajr.5868 Год назад

I recently learned, by watching Italian futbol games that Italian speakers cannot understand the Portuguese language.

@angelaurelio7907 3 года назад

¡Me perdí! Ni siquiera con subtítulos lograba entender; me ayudaron los otros participantes. ¡Geniales!

@GarfieldRex 3 года назад

@migkocando 3 года назад

Me ha pasado igual

@guidoylosfreaks 3 года назад

Murciélago y grava son cognados. Las demás no. Nada, ni cerca.

@alce3197 3 года назад

I thought the hardest latin language to understand was Romanian, I was wrong

@pedromenchik1961 3 года назад

Português: morcego, pedra, águia, violino, aspirador de pó. For me, Romansh was the hardest Latin language to understand so far.

@diogorodrigues747 3 года назад

Parece alemão, não é? Até mesmo na pronúncia... O romanche claramente teve bastante influência do alemão suíço.

@sportm1lgrau550 3 года назад

@@diogorodrigues747 parece o alemão suíço com meia dúzia de palavras latinas hahaha.

@bumble.bee22 3 года назад

@@sportm1lgrau550 pk

@danielbarrantes7751 3 года назад

Murciélago, piedra o roca, águila, violín y aspiradora en español latinoamericano. Saudações amigo lusófono, muito bonito o idioma português em todas as variedades.

@desanipt 3 года назад

That's interesting, bat is "chauve souris" (bald mouse) in French, "miezmur e miezutsch" (half-mouse and half-bird) in Romansh and "morcego" (blind mouse) in Portuguese ("mor" doesn't really mean "mouse" in modern Portuguese but it does come from the Latin word for mouse that also gave "mur" in Romansh)

@65fhd4d6h5 3 года назад

You just blew my mind. Murciélago in Spanish, but I didn't know it meant any of those things because in Spanish blind mouse would be "ratón ciego", and neither "mur" is similar to "ratón" nor I had thought of the possibility that "ciélago" came from "ciego". 😂

@65fhd4d6h5 3 года назад

E tampouco sei porque respondi no teu comentário em inglês.🤦‍♂️

@desanipt 3 года назад

@@65fhd4d6h5 Eu também só soube agora 😂😂 Com o vídeo perguntei-me de onde viria a palavra "morcego" em português e fui ver a etimologia. "Cego" é mais evidente em português, contudo "mor" também é muito diferente 😅 O mais perto que temos é "murganho" (que é um nome bem formal para "rato doméstico"). "Rato" é a palavra mais comum em português, sem dúvida.

@arthur_p_dent 3 года назад

In German, a bat is literally a "feathered mouse". EDIT: no it's not, as several users have pointed out. "Fluttering mouse", more like.

@michele3900 3 года назад

Indeed, lots of them use the Latin root for mouse, mus (genitive muris) cognate with English mouse and German Maus. Interestingly Italian takes the direct Latin word for bat, vespertilio (from vesper, evening, as that's when they become active), and corrupts it into pipistrello.

@maxmansi 3 года назад

Arranca con un "Bien" tan en castellano que maréa. Las palabras clave se entienden. Es increible que cuanto más difícil es la difícil menos difícil parece la anterior. O sea, el rumano y el francés parecen portugués para un hispanohablante al lado del romansh.

@carlosliboriocurreri7030 3 года назад

Sin duda el rumano es fácil delante de este

@adamelhawari166 3 года назад

Sisi, a mi me ha sonado a japonés más de la mitad y mira que además de castellano también hablo catalán. Parece ser que está muy influenciado por el alemán

@miguelgomezmora155 3 года назад

Yo estoy aprendiendo alemán y creo que entendí más el romansh por ese lado que por el propio español, por ejemplo genau es exacto.

@guidoylosfreaks 3 года назад

La chica rumana te daba todas las claves. Ella entendía primero y lo hacía más fácil... en rumano.

@andri5040 2 года назад

Hey, sorry for interrupting your catalan conversation but i‘ve got a funny storytime: when i went to Barcelona with my family (and we speak rumansh together), my father who is not the best spanish speaker started to order food in rumansh and it worked perfectly! That was the moment we realized that catalan is probably the most resemblant still existing language to rumansh! And switzerland isn‘t even close to Catalunya...

@bordoraux9537 3 года назад

Soy de España y escuchar Leandre saying « BIEN » made me feel good haha

@danielbarrantes7751 3 года назад

Basta y casas también jajaja

@alexandra9944 3 года назад

Romansh sounds very German. Romanian sounds beautiful

@bramantyoprahoro7284 3 года назад

Romanian sounds so beautiful, soft and stern respectively. Italian is similar but expressive (with lots of hand gestures).

@Cezar4ik 2 года назад

Thank you Romainian Does Sounds Beautiful

@bramantyoprahoro7284 2 года назад

@@Cezar4ik Merci.

@radiantsun8493 2 года назад

@@bramantyoprahoro7284 hand gestures aren't part of the language.

@bramantyoprahoro7284 2 года назад

@@radiantsun8493 But I saw some Italians with hand gestures in some YT videos.

@DoraEmon-xf8br 3 года назад

I speak native French and Occitan and somewhat Italian but I really struggle to understand Romansh when spoken. It’s a litter easier when I read the text but still, it’s really hard to even get a grasp.

@user-uz7gb7gb4v 3 года назад

The most fascinating part for me was how every once in a while he’d break out like “genau”, “schon“, “also”, etc.

@thomastschetchkovic5726 3 года назад

Yeah, but sadly, that didn't make it any more easy to understand for me (native German speaker) because these words are just fillers and don't actually add any context

@dan_leo 3 года назад

This is the hardest romance language to understand for me. I am Italian (I studied French) and I couldn’t grasp almost anything 😅 but I refrained from activating the English subtitles 😉 Romanian is way more understandable. Very interesting video as usual 😉

@sho8556 3 года назад

I think it's because romanian has a more Slavic approach which for me it's easier to understand while romansch has an German approach which I feel it harder to understand

@fabiandanesti1497 3 года назад

@@sho8556 idk about "slavic" words bro 77% of Romanian is complete Classical Latin , 5% German and 5% hungarian and just 13% is slavic , its weird to hear anytime that slavic and slavic

@contecristian686 2 года назад

Italian is the closest language to Latin, followed by Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese, and the most divergent being French. Romanian and Italian are 77% alike. The closest language to Romanian is Italian. The closest to Italian is Spanish. Face sens.

@tincaionut4111 2 года назад

@@fabiandanesti1497 nu știu ce slavona aud ăștia,de zici că români vorbesc ca Moldovenii de peste Prut

@tincaionut4111 2 года назад

@@contecristian686 You are bad informed, Romanian is the closest language to latin. Read more.

@jrthiker9908 3 года назад

As an English speaker who also speaks French and Italian, I was on a train across Switzerland on my first trip there years ago and when 4 teenagers get on speaking Swiss German. They immediately switched to Romansh so that the other Swiss around them couldn't understand them. I saw everyone sort of look perplexed, and I couldn't understand a word but then quickly realized it was Romansh, which I was eager to hear. It was pretty cool.

@FernandoFlores-gr4gc 3 года назад

Este video logró que el rumano y el francés me resulten fáciles de entender xD.

@pablomeza987 3 года назад

@frms7571 3 года назад

@leilagreen7 3 года назад

Fernando Flores, rumana, vivo en Suiza, hablo frances y italiano ( tambien espanol😉), pero romantsch language is very hard to understand!🙋‍♀️🙈

@juanjacobomoracerecero6604 3 года назад

@marcoprado187 3 года назад

Igualmente amigo 😅

@Meridianux 3 года назад

Eu sunt din Romania! Felicitari! Toate limbile latine sunt sensibil apropiate intre ele! Limba romana e mai aproape de italiana!

@cius96 2 года назад

Only the romanian girl actually guessed the third word: "tschéss" means "vulture" not "eagle", so the correct terms would be "avvoltoio" in Italian and "vautour" in french ("aquila" and "aigle" mean "eagle", while in romanian "vulture" is used for both "eagle" and "vulture"; acvilă exists but isn't used that often). Finally, the romansch word for "eagle" is "evla". Norbert, if you'll ever see this comment and if you have the possibility to do so, please let the guests know about the misunderstanding.

@HinnStormur 2 года назад

But he meant a bird of prey eating living animals, not corpses, so "avvoltoio" in Italian would be wrong. There are other terms like falco, gipeto, poiana, gheppio... falco is the more general word together with aquila. I mean, he clearly reacted negatively to vultur, so it's not "vulture". A Romanian-Italian dictionary gives "aquila" for vultur, so again no, there was no misunderstanding.

@imhalida 3 года назад

Love that Lionel is in here. He's always fun to watch 😄 The Romansh language sounds mostly similar to German, with Italian and French sounds here and there. (At least to me, who don't speak any European languages other than English.) At first I thought there should have been Luke here but then having seen the guests struggling to understand Leander, I guess a Latin speaker would fare no better.

3 года назад

Merci beaucoup ! ;-)

@katarinawikholm5873 3 года назад

It sounded like a romance language w Swiss German intonation, I tried listening to it again from a distance and the singsong and consonants came through the strongest.

@imhalida 3 года назад

@@katarinawikholm5873 Ah, that's interesting. I'm not familiar with Swiss-German. I just heard the German R and automatically thought "German" 😅

@cartswhat8177 3 года назад

As a Romanian, It was sometimes easy to understand, and other times I had no idea what he was talkinga about. Amazing job!

@annakaraivanova6936 3 года назад

Wow as a French speaker the Romansch was very difficult. I could understand the Italian very well, the Romanian as well, and then the Romansch I could get some stuff from the written text but otherwise not so much. It sounds so much like German even Latin words are being said

@alexj9603 3 года назад

Among the different dialects of Romansh, the Sursilvan dialect presented here has the most phonetic similarities with German. Especially due to the r sound. Other dialects sound closer to Italian.

@simonebattistini6701 2 года назад

"french Is the most germanized latin language" romansch: hold my beer

@emburez 2 года назад

yeah pretty much that xD

@jml732 2 года назад

Welschgerman is the German transition to romance and Romansch vise versa.

@davi99ful 3 года назад

This was by far the hardest latin language challenge on this channel, I still managed to get the words correctly because of the others helping but I'm pretty sure if I didn't have Italian, French and Romanian in the conversation I would be lost. Interesting though, a lot of vowels and consonants pronunciation in Romansch sounds very similar to portuguese, and the use of the word "BASTA" caught up my attention because it sounds exactly like some portuguese accents and I think it means the same thing.

@diegochipres1681 Год назад

I'm a Spanish speaker and I understood: French: 95% (I have been learning it for a few years) Italian: 90% ( Without previous knowledge) Romanian: 30% (Sounds a lot like Latin to me, it is pretty hard) Romansch: 10% (Sounds like a strange combination of a German speaking person trying to speak Latin. I have studied German for a few years too but still I didn't get almost anything of what he was saying, just identified a few cognates, both with German and romance languages)

@fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад

The Italian girl and French guy were kind of translators for others romance language speakers. Even Cassiana was more understandable for me as a Portuguese language speaker.

@diogorodrigues747 3 года назад

I am from Portugal and I feel the same thing. Strange, isn't it?!

@fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад

@@diogorodrigues747o romanche teve muita influência do alemão. Para os italianos é bastante compreensível. Um forte abraço do Brasil!

@geocazan2218 3 года назад

Portuguese is the most close romance language to romanian.

@diogorodrigues747 3 года назад

@@geocazan2218 What? No, it's not...

@fabiolimadasilva3398 3 года назад

@@geocazan2218 estão em extremos opostos do contínuo dialetal românico. Sua afirmação é descabida.

@magnajota4341 3 года назад

Romansh sounds like a German trying to speak French, but only knows Spanish and Italian

@salimrahal1811 3 года назад

I also noticed some German words in Romansh such as "genau" (exactly) and schon ( already) and Geigia stems probably from "Geige" which is violin.

@evelynn08 2 года назад

And schuber from sauber

@zbigib.5762 2 года назад

Also "also" 😃😊

@isissophieandandreea 2 года назад

In Romanian we have an old type of violin with horn, used only in Bihor county, that we call “higheghe”, exactly as Romansh, but with a “hi” before it.

@AlefSousa017 Год назад

Wow, I'm brazilian, I speak portuguese and a bit of french. I first got interested in the romansh language after my brother moved to Switzerland. When I see it written, it really looks like a total mix of all of the other native languages in Switzerland (french, german and italian), but when spoken, it sounds really unique, a bit like german, but to me it doesn't sound as the mix of languages I was expecting it to sound! I usually watch these videos without subtitles and often can understand most romance languages pretty well, even if I'm not that familiar with said language, like italian or romenian for me, but I basically couldn't understand much at all of the romansh language, and even though I KNOW it's similar to other languages I'm a bit familiar, it just sounds SO different from anything I've heard! I had to turn subtitles on for this video lol. Loved the video, as always, by the way!

@stanisawsosenko3952 3 года назад

One of "Swiss" languages, WOW ;) Does this bring us any closer to the long-waited Germanic languages comparison? :D

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

A bit closer! yes. ;)

@clotildedecasaantici8065 3 года назад

Germanic languages, English included?

@tchakamaura3850 3 года назад

@@Ecolinguist I am here for that! Let's see 'Scandinavian dialects' in action (supposed to be intelligible) as well as some West vs North Germanic comparisons if that's feasible for them and the Nor-Den-Swe trio against Icelandic, and the languages Dutch vs Frisian vs Afrikaans, as well as any dialects you can find that are not any of these but are rumored to not be intelligible with them.

@tchakamaura3850 3 года назад

@@clotildedecasaantici8065 Ah but English has so much other vocabulary! I don't know many Germanic words. I am watching Bron|Broen and I find cognates everywhere but only cognates and they are jumping out from a soup of unintelligibility.

@jonathanemslander6896 3 года назад

I hope! Ik hoop! Ich hoffe!

@alexito23avp 3 года назад

What a strange language, it's a good mix of Italian and German language, Norbert you are the BEST , I never heard Romansch

@REOGURU 2 года назад

As a German and Spanish speaker I found this extremely fascinating, in particular the sprinkling of Germanic words in Romansch. Although I found the Romansh nearly incomprehensible compared to the other languages, there were enough key words in it for me to eek out the meaning.

@TheRealWALLABI 3 года назад

This sounded very obscure, unlike other romance languages I have listened to (as a native french speaker), perhaps for lack of exposure.

@oleksijm 3 года назад

His phonology is essentially German. If he rolled his Rs and had a more Romance prosody, he would be understandable on par with languages like Piedmontese and Ladin (North Italy), though those are not crystal clear sounding either.

@nicolaramoso3286 3 года назад

@@oleksijm Yeah for example if I try to watch the regional Ladin newscast my understanding highly depends from the accent of the reporter: if they have a Venetian accent it's super easy otherwise if they come from South-Tyrol it's much harder to grasp the words.

@podlasian65 3 года назад

Norbert, you're doing a great job bringing people (and peoples) together! Hats off!

@fluffypancakes7626 3 года назад

In the German part of Switzerland, we have the evening news in Romansh once a week because Graubünden contains the Romansh minority. Half the time, I feel I can understand it because my French is decent, but then it quickly goes off the rails lol. I've never heard Romanian before. It surprisingly sounds a lot like Portuguese! A bit off-topic, the romanian speaker is also really pretty

@michelefrau6072 3 года назад

In sardinian: Spoiler Bat There is not a single word, in sardinia there are a lot of geo-synonyms for the flora and fauna, and the bat it's the animal with the highest number of local names, there are almost 180 names arrata pinnada or ratapignata (from catalan, feathered rat) alaepedde (wings of leather) sorighe pinnadu ( feathered mouse) or sorighe pedde (leathered mouse) And there are tirrìolu, satzamureddu, tzurrundeddu, and so on ... Stone Petra, Pedra / Perda (lat. Petra) Eagle Abbila / achili (lat. Aquila) Violin Biolinu Vacuum cleaner Boca•proine / boga•pruini (Literally: dust remover)

@Tore1960 3 года назад

Niente da precisare su quasi tutto. Al limite su Stone/Pietra (in italiano) potrei aggiungere anche Preda. Sull'aspirapolvere però mi sono perso. Mai sentito il termine Boca proine/ bogapruini. Il quale oltretutto mi pare che sia una traduzione che calca il termine italiano. Potrei anche azzardare l'ipotesi che sia un termine inesistente o magari facente parte della Limba Sarda Comuna e quindi un termine che nessun parlante 'normale' sardo usa. In ogni caso si usa come 'polvere' anche il termine 'prughere' /'pruere'.

@michelefrau6072 3 года назад

@@Tore1960 aspirapolvere stavo per non metterlo poi ho cercato su internet e l'ho trovato, ma giusto per completare la lista 😉 Su preda hai ragione ma visto che anche per il pipistrello ho scelto qualcuno dei tanti anche per pietra non ho inserito tutte le varianti, ho scelto arbitrariamente quelle che secondo me sono più frequenti

@bogdancristea9270 3 года назад

Oh wow! I did not expect Romansh to be so difficult. I think I'm quite confident with Latin and I can speak French, Romanian, Italian and Spanish fluently but I still struggle with this one. You've got me into it now.

@dia5981 3 года назад

When they were talking about rocks I couldn't help but think of this: Capra neagra-n piatra calca, Cum o calca-n patru crapa! Crape capu caprii-n patru Cum a crapat piatra-n patru! Capra neagra calca-n clinci, Crape capu caprii-n cinci Cum a calcat capra-n clinci. Capra paste langa casa Capu caprii crape-n sase! Capra noastra n-are lapte Crapa-i-ar coarnele-n sapte! Capra-n piatra a calcat Piatra-n patru a crapat Povestea s-a terminat! (am luat-o de pe net nush daca ii fix asa dar mno am zis ca las sa fie)

@juanitojuanjo565 3 года назад

Nice and when you think that all the words are of Latin origin! Lots of people don't even realize that!

@mirkomirkinger8716 2 года назад

As a Romanian minority in eastern Serbia we speak a Romanian dialect, and I know this rime like this: A calcat capra pe piatra, a spart piatra'n patru. Crapi capra crapi, c'ai spart piatra'n patru!🤣

@florin-mihailuca8124 2 года назад

@@mirkomirkinger8716 you are aromanian ?

@mirkomirkinger8716 2 года назад

@@florin-mihailuca8124 Yes, of course I am! Yugoslavia tried to assimilate us. We didn't even ever learn to write our spoken mother language. Since generations we teach our Romanian language only by oral traditions to our children. Since some years ago it's different. We qre recognized as a minority and have our rights. Greetings!

@itellyouforfree7238 2 года назад

Sopra la panca la capra campa, sotto la panca la capra crepa. (On the bench the goat lives, under the bench the goat dies)

@jeanpauljh 3 года назад

As a student of Rumantsch, I am so happy to see this language on your channel, Ecolinguist! Grazia fitg ^__^

@user-ic4ce8xb5v 3 года назад

I love this. Also, it was hilarious when the French man laughed when he realized how hard this was going to be love from the US

@yesid17 3 года назад

i will never get enough of this channel this video was so good, thank you, keep it up!!

@BurstWalkthroughs 3 года назад

Wow. This was very hard. More Romanian please

@wyqtor 3 года назад

Would be a nice idea to do a Romanian video with the speaker intentionally using Romance vocabulary, and later a different video that would mostly use Romanian words of Slavic origin, in which Slavic language speakers get to guess!

@BurstWalkthroughs 3 года назад

@@wyqtor that would be nice

@ioanaturcan356 3 года назад

YES!

@danascully6698 3 месяца назад

@@wyqtor That's not possible . The Romanian language cannot be spoken only from words of Slavic origin, they have a weight in the sentence between 0 and 10%, let's say a maximum of 20%! But that would be the maximum and they are not even identical to those in Slavic. But in order to know this, you must be a native Romanian speaker or at least know the Romanian language, not give your opinion just from hearsay!

@danascully6698 3 месяца назад

@@ioanaturcan356 Adica cum yes? Poti vorbi romana din cuvinte slavone? Nu. Reprezinta doar in jur de 10% din ponderea cuvintelor dintr-o propozitie.

@CouchPolyglot 3 года назад

Que interessant, sempre havia volgut sentir el romanx. La veritat és que sense mirar els subtítols no és gens fàcil! Mirant els subtítols sí que s'entén bastant tot. Moltes gràcies! 👏👏👏

@irondasgr 3 года назад

Is this catalan???

@CouchPolyglot 3 года назад

@@irondasgr sí :)

@Tiqerboy 3 года назад

It's interesting, I lived in Switzerland 1982-83 in the French part (Valais) as a kid and I remember these TV spots which featured a common saying in the four official languages of Switzerland. A cartoon with animals speaking the languages in random order so that each had a fair chance of coming first (when the spots featured only German, French and Italian, it was always in that order). The bear spoke German, the dog French, a cat for Italian and finally a beaver for Romansch. The phrases would be something simple like "Can I enter?" or "where is the station?" or "I am hungry". With that, the Romansch sounded pretty straightforward and I was thinking "that's not too bad". It's a good thing they didn't try to use the word for vacuum cleaner! Does anyone here remember these? I used a tape recorder to get a lot of them!

@rodsol5612 3 года назад

Thank you very much for this video. I knew Romantsch, but only in internet pappers, this is the fist time I hear how it sounds, it's soooo beautiful! Thank you! Well done, it's a really nice video!

@haraldtoepfer233 3 года назад

SO interesting, thank you! And you helped each other very well 😊 greetings from Switzerland.

@judna1 3 года назад

I got the first one when he said Transilvania, I understood that it was an animal that eats insects but until he said Transilvania I had my doubts. Bat in Catalan is "ratpenat" or "ratapinyada". The second one, stone/rock in Catalan is "pedra" or "roca". The third one is an special one for me, is one of my favourite animals, if I were an animagus I would be a black eagle , "àguila" in Catalan. The fourth one, the violin in Catalan is called "violí". The last one quite difficult, I knew the word once he said it suctions the air. In Catalan is quite similar to the others, it is called "Aspirador", though the "r" isn't pronounced. And well, this one have been the toughest of them all, I understood Romanian even better. I got the words thanks to some coments from others. This video was interesting! Best regards from Barcelona!

@ilregulator Год назад

As a Swiss who doesn't speak Romansh I never know if they purposely speak with such a swiss accent or if this is just how the language sounds

@MarynaRGurzuf 3 года назад

What an interesting language! Surprisingly understandable. Thank you for the video! 😊

@jabrown 4 месяца назад

Fascinating. I am a native speaker of Dutch who speaks a little French, Spanish and Portuguese, but almost no Italian and no Romanian at all, and with the subtitles I could sometimes understand the Romansh a little bit, but then other times not at all. I think without subtitles it would've been completely incomprehensible.

@astralp4292 3 года назад

En provençau es : 1 : Rata-penada 2 : Pèira 3 : Aigla 4 : Violon 5 : Aspirator Important de se rementar que la o se prononcia [u]

@Werner_pol 3 года назад

En català: 1: ratapinyada/ratpenat 2:pedra 3:àguila\àliga 4:violí 5:aspirador

@sam00374 3 года назад

An piemontèis: -ratavuloira -preja -àquila -violin -aspirapoér o=u u=ü

@subitopresto2572 3 года назад

I LOVE YOU!!!! you have the most interesting channel on RU-vid. A vzhledem k tomu, že mluvíš i česky, tak ti to napíšu česky. Opravdu klobouk dolů za to, co děláš. Moc rád se dívám na tvoje videa. Mají neuvěřitelný přesah a dokonale ukazuješ spojitosti a provázanosti, které panují mezi jednotlivými jazyky, kulturami, jazyky, národy...lidmi. Bravo, bravo, bravo!!!

@Ecolinguist 3 года назад

Dzięki!

@norbertohess4477 11 месяцев назад

Interessantíssimo essa apresentação. Muito obrigado. Até a próxima! Norberto do Brasil 🇧🇷

@vicmaxabc 3 года назад

Such an amazing video! Thanks!!

@conjurer8341 3 года назад

So we've had a lot of these videos on Romance languages, Slavic languages and Germanic languages. I would love to see a video on Semitic languages next (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Amharic, etc...). Please Ecolinguist make that a reality!

@wyqtor 3 года назад

And between Arabic and Chinese 'dialects' (which are actually more like their own distinct languages)

@GutoKowalski70 3 года назад

It would be great!

@RedHair651 3 года назад

Amharic isn’t Semitic, it’s Ethiopic

@conjurer8341 3 года назад

@@RedHair651 Amharic is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgroup of Semitic languages

@RedHair651 3 года назад

@@conjurer8341 true, my bad, I thought Ethiopic was a different branch of Afroasiatic

@TheMikeOrganist 3 года назад

For me as a German (and Austrian dialect) speaker, who learned some Italian and Latin in school, this (and also the sister language Ladin) sounds soo strange. Because on one side I can understand some similar words from Italian and Latin, and also some Germanisms, like "aber", "also", "genau", "sain" (= sein), "eis schon" (= ist schon), but on the other side, the sometimes strange pronunciation of Romansh and Ladin is so different from Italian, that, for me, makes it very difficult to understand whole sentences (especially if speaking faster and with no subtitles). It sounds like if French and Italian were combined with the Allemanic and ancient Rhaetic and Celtic dialects of the region. Very funny. In any case.. Grüeß in'd Schwiiz us Eschtriich and lep pozdrav Poljski! ;)

@mauriziocosta8416 3 года назад

L'inflenza reto-etrusca è presente anche nel ladino.

@thebauci1167 3 года назад

Just to mention. „Also“ and „aber“ are no romansh words. But many people are heavily influenced by the german language and use these expressions instead of the real romansh words. „Aber“ would be „denton“ in romansh. And „also“ would most likely be „schelu“

@davidetoffoletto9981 3 года назад

The german accent is because after several years the german dialects took space in the Grisuns Cantun instead of Romansch and Italian (remember, Grisuns are the only tri-lingual Cantun of Switzerland) before the mass migration of Bavarian-Tiroler immigrants in this part of Switzerland during middle ages, before that the whole population was Romansh or Italian speaking.

@alessio4761 3 года назад

Romansh only understandable if you have subtitles for me

@frankparis9408 3 года назад

This one is the most extreme by the distance it lays with the other Romance languages, also super interesting! Bravo. Another nice surprise.

@rouxcool1227 3 года назад

I agree with the French (I am too) I could understand more well Roumanian than others language.

@alexanderstefan7192 2 года назад

What forgot Cassiana to say is that we say in romanian also "acvilă" which is synonim to "vultur" and "pajură". It is mostly in poetry used and actually it is a general name given to the familly of eagles. The same is for the word "piatră" (Rock) and approximately for all romanian words which have at least one synonim and in many cases that synonim looks like the word from another language.

@MrLydius 8 месяцев назад

Romanian guy here. Excelent clip! felt like trying to understand a distant relative by asking for help from a sister (Italian) and a cousin (French). good job!

@lm9685 26 дней назад

Great format!

@caseyrogers573 3 года назад

It’s very interesting watching everyone acclimate to the language and slowly being able to understand more and more.

@alexanderfroebelzehl3825 3 года назад

My grandma is from the lower engadine valley in Switzerland, and grew up speaking romansh. I visited once, it was a while ago, but I remember the local variety sounding a lot softer, closer to Italian and with less German influence, not sure if that is right though. I sent her the video asking for her thoughts. She said "I don't know what this language is but it is not the rumantsch ladino (which is these days called valader) we speak in the lower Engadina." So it would seem there is quite a difference between the different dialects of romansh

@vornamenachname8381 2 года назад

Yes, the romansh in the video was sursilvan.

@user-qv5fb1gb8q 3 года назад

Какой необычный язык! Спасибо за видео, Норберт!

@victorcornea3393 3 года назад

Super mișto idee!Fiecare vorbește în limba lui dupa ce i se adresează o intrebare într-o altă limbă pe care nu o cunoaște niciunul din cei trei.Fain!!!Bravo!

@benmariusc2845 3 года назад

Bun-venit pe canalul Ecolinguist!

@gsmgsa 3 года назад

Romansch "coulmi" - Romanian : culmi (some sort of hill slopes) - it's practically the same old word! I am amazed.

@Lara-jp4xk 2 года назад

"Culme" (Ro)="top" (Eng), not "slope" (Eng)

@gsmgsa 2 года назад

@@Lara-jp4xk Right! Usually it's about the top of a hill. So when someone says " Casa lor e pe culme" usually it doesn't always mean the house is situated exactly on top or on flat ground, but more likely on a slight slope close to the top.

@nicoladc89 2 года назад

@@gsmgsa In Italian is "culmine" or in some cases "colmo" both from Latin culmen that means summit, peak, the top of.

@haminatmiyaxwen 3 года назад

I really enjoyed this video! I hope Leander thinks about making a RU-vid channel teaching Romansh or becomes a iTalki teacher, I would love to learn!

@12341430 3 года назад

That's a good idea.

@MountainMitch 3 года назад

Another fantastic video! Of the romance language series, this was the most difficult to understand... and the most enjoyable!

@ruthhorak5423 Год назад

Great video - really fascinating! Based on German and my knowledge of a few Romance languages, I was able to guess quite a lot. You can immediately tell that Lionel is a second language teacher - I love the way he tries to illustrate the meaning of words through gestures and facial expression. (I used to teach Danish as a 2nd language.)

@792x33 3 года назад

Leander, the Romansh speaker's accent influenced by Swiss German was instantly recognizable, however I didn't understand much of it. I did hear a bit of similarity with Occitan/Catalan, though. I'm fascinated by Romanian but Casiana spoke a bit too fast. The Italian speaker, Jessica, was easiest to understand correctly, and I understand a lot of what the French speaker said because I have seen Lionel in your other videos and he speaks clearly although I have little experience with French. I speak English, German and Spanish and am learning Italian on the side. Great job, keep them coming!

@bordoraux9537 3 года назад

Me encantaría que los subtítulos de Romancho aparecieran en la parte inferior de la pantalla, para poder compararlos con los subtítulos ingleses de RU-vid y ver hasta qué punto son similares las dos lenguas. Como siempre digo, me encanta que ustedes estén dando tanta visibilidad a los idiomas minoritarios. Gracias

@luisdestefano6056 Год назад

I speak 6 languages fluently (besides English, German, from which many Romanch words are derived), plus French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. I did find out all correct answers quicker than the panelists, but I think that was in good measure by having subtitles available. I went to St. Moritz for many years, where I got a limited exposure to Romanch. Although I can half guess the Swiss dialect I had great difficulty with Rumanian with which I have no experience. Interesting video!

@sikViduser 3 года назад

As a Spanish speaker I started strong understanding the first three words well enough, but the last two had me at a bit of a loss for a bit, but thankfully between all the questions from the other speakers I was able to piece together all of them eventually. A lot of fun, Thanks for sharing!

@juanvm5992 3 года назад

El. Rumano y el italiano son próximos así como el portugués y el español ( en semántica) o el italiano y el español en pronunciación, el francés es lejano del español, más aún el rumano, pero está lengua de Suiza mucho más difícil. Solo entendí pocas palabras.

@paranoidrodent 3 года назад

As a French/English native speaker with a bit of Spanish and Latin and very fragmentary German and Italian, this one was even more challenging than Sardinian. The Romanian and Italian were so much easier to understand. Fascinating language but I found it harder to pick out cognates than in previous Romance language videos. I was able to guess the words but without the transcription, I think I would have been quite lost. The phonology of Romansh feels like it alternates back and forth from Latin to something Germanic or something else, with hints of Italian and French. Someone else in the comments made a remark about it sounding like a Roman legionary who got lost in Germania for a few decades and yeah... there's some truth to that. Still, it's really cool to hear the less common Romance languages in spoken form.

@daciaromana2396 3 года назад

Upon closer inspection of Romansch, I did find a lot of similarities with Romanian and Spanish, it's just that I really had to try hard to understand how the words are formed because I never heard Romansch before and it sounds very different. But I watched the video again and once I got a little more used to the phonology, I could understand it a bit better. What would really help is if the digraphs and trigraphs in Romansch used Spanish/Italian/Romanian phonetics as opposed to German phonetics. For example if "tschitschar" was written as "chichar", maybe a Spaniard would guess that it actually is cognate with "chupar". With most Romance languages, it's just a matter of breaking down the phonetics. But I agree. without the transcript, I wouldn't understand much. Romansch is a very interesting form of Latin.