World Friends Facebook 👉 / 100090310914821 Can West Germanic languages speaking countries guess their nationality? See how they did! Also, please follow our pannels! 🇿🇦 Zeno @zeno_ish 🇩🇪 Svea @sveawedis 🇳🇱 Rosa @beaglecheoreom
Loved the blue hair of the lady from The Netherlands , the guy from South Africa is really polite and kind introducing himself to them in the beginning
Edit out the misused big superiority terms lady and love and the words les and char and kind and the number, all wøm’n are the exact opposite of lady / other superiority terms - I am THE only Lady / Princess / Queen / Goddess / Star etc and the only lovable / loved being!
Thank you so much for having me! I had a wonderful time and I can't believe I missed the South African accent!! Ps. Thank you for all the sweet comments here as well
South African is one of the least well known English accents, I didn't get it either even tho I'm a World Friends junkie. Svea didn't get it either and she's a regular.
this was interesting. However for a language comparison you need a standard Afrikaans speaker, as it is more archaic like dutch and German and follows similar grammar and vocabulary. Capetonian dialects use a lot of English and the grammar is much more progressive and fluid. (And I like it of course a lot, but it is difficult to understand for dutch and germans).
I’m from SA, which was colonized by both the UK and Netherlands settlers. So it probably was gonna be hard because we sound British, Dutch and African at the same time.
Good point but when we talk about nationalities with germanic languages there is also Switzerland & Belgium with multiple official ones, also Maori is an official language in NZ.
@@andyx6827 I meant official language, because otherwise you can almost name any country, but even with official languages there are more... however welsh, cornish, scots, scottish gaelic nor irish gaelic are official languages of the UK as far as I know. In Germany we also have Platt, frisian, sorbian,...
I got the Dutch accent right away. The dude from South Africa was tough for me. He was chilled as an Australian and as well his appearance, but his accent wasn't Australian to me.
@@thomas17375 videos would lose a great amount of klicks because most people klick it because the flags show your own country is in it & most people want to compare their language to others or learn the translations from their langauge to the other ones like myself i wouldn't watch that kind of comparison videos if german isn't in there
I guess based on Zeno's accent he was from South Africa, also Svea being from Germany because I have been there many times. Finally that Rosa was from the Netherlands based on her description of the country and also I've been there once.
I knew that Svea is from Germany, but I'm quite surprised that I guessed the other two. Rosa really has such a free and nice vibe so I thought it's either UK or Netherlands, and "water" definitely was a hint, the moment she said it I knew it's Netherlands. With Zeno I was really confused, it didn't seem like he's from Europe so I thought about Australia at first but then South Africa came to my mind, and that was it.
Lol, they've never seen any fashion or hair styles from the bigger cities in the US. Like NY, LA, San Francisco, Seattle.. Americans definitely have colorful hair like that. And can dress.. in that sense. Fashionably
Would be nice to see a discussion with a Dutchman, Fleming, South African. Surinamese and a person from one of the Dutch Caribbean islands. And then a German who has to guess everything that is said.
I likely would have guessed NZ for Zeno. But I'm lucky an actually had a family member from South Africa. His face though when they first guessed NZ. The smirk, like.. they're wrong and I can't say anything. I'm pretty sure the SA accent is most often guessed to be a NZ accent. I also guessed Germany, but never would have guessed the Netherlands.
I had no idea where to place Zeno. When he said that it would a 100% give away his country when he'd say the local word for barbecue, I for sure thought he meant "barby". It didn't even cross my mind that he was talking about a word the dutch woman would get immediately. Honestly Zeno didn't have any kind of australian accent either and the whole BBQ thing made me tunnel vision. Idk how diverse accents can get in australia in a way that they can become so "neutral" like Zeno was actually talking like. Lucky me I'm dumb in geography and flags so the thumbnail didn't give anything away. Then again, I wonder how these guessing videos in particular would do if the flags were blurred out or censored, so that the viewers can actually guess alongside them. As a viewer it's boring to already know 2 out of 3 because of the thumbnail by accident :(
Actually Levi’s was published by a German immigrant levi Strauss was his name. He migrated in the year 1848 to US but was born and lived until a younger adult in Germany
It could be because I was drinking pilsner and Jezynowka shots at our horseshoe banquet last night, but Svea is looking especially gorgeous today. On second thought, I think it's just because she's that good looking.
The fact that they guessed Australia wasn't that bad of a guess. They got the southern hemisphere and the UK colonisation correct, they just forgot to consider South Africa over New Zealand and Australia.
Hey fellow South African.....I definitely knew you were from our lovely country......would have been a dead give-a-way if you had said "braai". Lovely video, totally enjoyed it
Technically the two ladies were on track guessing both UK and considering other Germanic Languages for Zeno seeing that South Africa 🇿🇦 was colonised by the Dutch and the British which heavily influenced language/pronunciation.
I love that you got a South African with a heavy coloured accent to really throw a spanner in the works of what they would imagine a typical saffa to sound like😂
@@jimbell122 we have quite a lot of accents in SA and most of our accents are based around race rather than what part of the country you live in. As a white native english speaker, my accent probably sounds a lot similar to what a british person sounds like but still quite different. When most foreigners usually imagine a "South African accent" they imagine a white afrikaaner accent which is a pretty small part of the population
@@GenericUsername1388thats interesting, ive only really ever heard white south african accents yet i was able to tell right away the guy's accent was south african
@@princessdaya5781 a lot of Coloured intonation stems from Afrikaans. One distinction of coloured accent I've noticed is that they draw our their vowels or add vowels to random consonants. Like "e" becomes "ea", "l" becomes "eal" and their intonation reminds me of how Brazilians speak in that they start a word from a high point then dip and come back up.
@@GenericUsername1388accents are based on regions In South Africa not race "black" people literally have about six different languages that are official and many more than aren't And there's a South African accent it's usually sound like British Australian accent sort of A perfect example will be Trevor Noah of what South African accent usually sounds like
I worked internationally with various countries with various ppl, and w/o hint of Adidas I'd say Svea is Flemish or Dutch, I'd say Rosa is also Flemish or Dutch w/o hint of water management, Zeno with the BBQ hint would fit anywhere in the world except US, where his accent doesn't fit. He didn't sound Aussie or Kiwi to me, but I doubt I could pinpoint SA (though I had SA colleagues before, as well.) He could have been any dark complexion fellow studied in the UK..
Although I'm brazilian, I was able to identify them all, except for the african guy, for sure. He's got these "chicano" american style, but with a "dry, soft accent", which made me a bit confused. Loved the experience, and the dutch girl outfit is just awesome!
As soon as the guy opened his mouth I could hear where he's from. Telling Kiwi's and Aussies apart is really difficult for me, but even though those two sound similar to South Africans, the South African English pronunciation sounds a bit more guttural, or "deep", less flowing than Aussie or Kiwi English.
South africans are difficult to rule out i think the most common accent you can associate with us is the fourways/joburg accent the one most confused with the aussies
I have a couple of Turkish-German friends. One is named Sedef who I met in Spain and another one named Bülent who was my dorm mate in college in the US. Germany is just so diverse that there is no more "pure German." Same with Swea, who is an Albanian-German.
Yes the same goes with the Dutch there are many etnicities there but also the 'native Dutch" vary from most dark blondes and in the south people tend to have more brown shades of hair colors. I am sure that if (Svea) her hair would be dark brown they would not guess her german stereotypical wise very interesting.
Hm kinda have to disagree with that one. While we are already a quite diverse people on our own and have gotten a lot of immigrants within the last 70 years, we are not a melting pot like the us. So people usually live in "parallel" societies rarely touching eachother, so the Turkish usually live in their own streets/ districts, the Russians and Wolga-Germans in their respective and people like the Polish, while far better integrated, are concentrated in specific regions (especially the mining area of the Ruhrpott). It's still very easy to tell a German apart from an immigrant, and it's even more often than not possible to tell which area/ tribe another German is from, especially in the countryside. Mixed marriages are still pretty rare and only have began to occur on a wider scale within the last decade (besides the before mentioned social and location based barriers there is also the aspect of our school system, which separates students after 4 years into 3 types of school types, with most Germans going on to the top two, while most immigrants are put into the bottom due to their lack of German. Hence e.g. I didn't have a single Turk at my school (and only 1 Chinese as the only immigrant in my class)
Zenos accent actually snitched it for me, he has that dutch accent with proper english and he doesnt sound like Rosa, Rosa has that typical typical dutch english accent
I think that the thumbnails always give it away. You show the flags over the persons heads, and before we even click on the video we know who is who. Is it possible not to show the flags in the thumbnails, or scramble them?
that german girl does NOT have like a usual german english accent. I think she leaves in america or used to leave there . Her accent is mixed between american and something else
Wow the German girl gives off Taylor Swift vibes, the blue-haired Dutch woman could pass as Paramore's long lost twin sister, and the south african dude gives off the weeknd vibes with that afro looking hairstyle
Finally we got a video without the token American or Brit. No shade on those guys, I love them all, but sometimes I just wonder why they were in the video. This was a fun video, but the thumbnail shouldn't have the flags under each person, that way we can all play along too 😃👍
😅 we don't just Braai on a Friday, we Braai, when , we are happy, sad, for our birthdays, for Christmas, for new year on any given day we wil Braai just for fun or when we watch sport, we will light a fire just to see it burn, then we will probably Braai cause the fire is lit 😂😂😂😂😂
Polish? Really, for me scandinavian? The german girl is more like what I know & think of east european girls to me (as a german) & she is actually of albanian decendent.
The Dutch girl had some interesting views on Scandinavians. I've never heard the stereotype that we're not relaxed people before. Also about the make-up, but I'm a guy so I can't say I've noticed a specific make-up style based on nationality.
I knew Netherlands is adept at dealing with water, being one of the low countries it gets flooded a lot, but somehow I didn't really think of it until Svea mentioned it, I was so set on Rosa being Nordic or Baltic because of how white she is and how angular and wiry her features are, to me she looks like she's from further north than the Netherlands.
As a Norwegian I don't think there's much of a difference in skin colour between northern Europeans. Dutch people can have just as light skin as us Nordic folk.
I don't recognize what you're saying. I'm born and have lived up North in NL and her features you can see everywhere, at most you could assume her heritage is probably very, very north-west European. If I were to hazard a guess she's either Frisian or has frisian legacy.
I wonder how is it possible 20 million people to live in Netherlands, considering they are small and fight with the sea barrier problem. Insane, but truth. Yet I've read somewhere their birth rate is one of the greatest in Europe! 👀
The birth rate in the Netherlands is low, just like in the surrounding countries. The Dutch birth rate is 1.5 per woman. The death rate is 1. The Netherlands is growing strongly due to (Muslim) migrants who have an average of four children or more.
The person supposedly from Germany doesn't look Germanic at all , she doesn't even look European, she is either from Balkan or the Middle east but maybe was born in Germany,the Girl from the Netherlands looks very much European I'd say Denmark or Sweden, the guy I'd never ever guess his nationality but he does look south American or Mexican.
Svea said she's (part) Albanian, so you're right. Yea I was thinking the same thing, Rosa looks more Nordic, or Baltic than Dutch, and Zeno looks Latino, but I guess he's part White part Native South African.
@@levent.a.7280 What? The Balkans are literally in Europe. Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Montengero, Croatia, North Macedonia and Serbia are all in Europe.
I'm from South Africa n love watching documentaries. When lady in the middle talked about country that knows how to deal with water, I thought of the Netherlands too🙌🎊🙌
The only south African restaurant I ever been to was Braal Republic in pyeongtaek korea near camp humphreys. It's very unique experince, owned by two south Africans that lived in korea a long time. Zeno mentioned there. "Part time cooks" are rap duo in Korea. One of them big moss, is a South African that lives in Korea.