Just to clear up any confusion, Romanian is not the same as Romani, I talk a lot about Romani people on here but Romani people are a completely different group from Romanian people. Romani is an Indian language while Romanian is a Latin language, Romani people are not Romanians and vice versa however Romania does have a large Romani minority which is why there are many people who are both Romani and Romanian (like me!) but in this video I’m talking about the Latin Romanian language, not Romani.
@@Bobaluvscoffeeno because the context isn't used well. When You Say ,,fac eu", it means that u ll do a job which is someone elses job. Like your mother says that she's going to Cook, and needs to peel potatoes, and when She starts peeling the potatoes, You ll Say I ll do it(fac eu). Which means that You volunteer to do the job.
@iLovepoland_polskamapping912in english, it means mom. In romanian it means you (usually reffered towards a boy, saying it towards a bigger, older guy could be considered disrespectfull)
the term "well, yeah" in spanish is "pues si" which if you say fast enough, as spanish speakers tend to do, it sounds like you're saying "pussy" Gotten one too many odd looks from others to decide to look for alt words 😅
Puertorrican here, never thought of that one The one that does make me laugh is that black in Spanish is negro, and in the US that's considered a slur. But when I'm hanging out with my friends and our black friend gets lost, we just ask "Where did Black go?" translated "¿A donde se fue'el Negro?" And if an Asian looking person becomes your friend in school, there's a 300% chance he's gonna be nicknamed "Chino" which is literally "Chinese" And the thing is we don't mean it as an offensive insult. That's just Puertorricans being friendly. I get called "flaca" which means skinny or "jincha" which is "pale" mispronounced.
In german "Fagott" is an instrument (bassoon in english). However unless you're into classical music this won't ever really lead to weird situations, meanwhile "i'll do it" is much more an everyday phrase lmao
As a korean person, the word "you". Not all words are english, and you can't call me racist for saying something in a different language that means something completely different!!
we’re so tired of y’all continuously bringing it up. we KNOW y’all aren’t saying the nword. but you can’t blame black people for thinking it when it sounds like it.
In Polish “To be” (Być) sounds actually like “B*tch” or imagine this you’re a kid telling your parents “to die” but actually said “give me” (Daj) in Polish
@@radoslavl921 Ho, now that's interesting: both Bulgarian and Russian are Slavic languages but literally the same word is meaning completely reverse things.
@@rankingresearchdata what makes you say not Urdu ? Did you look through Urdu "Lughat" and didn't find it? I hope you know the meaning of "Lughat". Did you do proper research to reach this conclusion?
it’s so funny because for me it was the other way around 😭 i would go to supermarkets with my romanian grandmother a lot, and in order to teach me romanian she would speak fluently to me. i was trying to grab a box or something up from a high shelf, only for her to start telling me “fac eu fac eu” and rushing towards me bc it was too high for me to reach. pan over to the concerned white lady in the same isle and she’s just staring at me, and i’m just so confused as to why. it’s a funny story to think back on once you’re older.
Swedish has the word "Fack" which is pronounced exactly like "Fuck". It means a pocket or compartment. Like if you want someone to get something out of your bag you might tell them to look in the outer "fack"
@kittencohort1766 That’s wrong, “the cook” is actually “kock-en” except no dash. “Cook” in this context is “kock” and is what you would call the person who is cooking / making the food. The version you learned is actually “cooks” as in multiple people cooking food which is; “kock-ar” (no dash, that’s just to separate the base word from the extension) And yeah it does sound kinda like “cock” but there’s a small difference between the pronunciations, it’s not pronounced “caw-k” it’s more of a “k-oh-k” where the “oh” contains a short “o” and the h is silent it’s not “k-oh-k” as in “coke”
In Danish the word for nodding in pronounced exactly like the N-word. But spelled with a double k instead of g. And the word castle is pronounced exactly like sl*t, but spelled slot, whereas "end" is spelled like it, but not pronounced like it. And of course chef, is pronounced like c*ck.
i've seen other chinese speakers mention this one before, but it really is true😞 the word for 'that' in chinese is 那個 (Nàgè) it's said like 'nuhguh' when pronounced casually, which can sound really similar to the N word. it's also a filler word similar to 'um', so it comes up a lot. once i was on the phone with my dad and i wanted him to bring some object or another but forgot what it was called. i said something like 'i need that...that, that, that, thing...' and all my friends looked horrified lmao
I was looking for this comment… This happened to me when I was child. My mom said multiple people came up to her to tell her that that’s not appropriate and that she’s a bad mother lmfao
@@AManOfMusic most of ppl won't understand how to read these letters. Leave transcriptions or just similarly sounding combinations of English letters neraby
In Japanese, the word for bitter is "nigai" (苦い). However, in conversations, a lot of words gets shorten so often yelling "nigai" becomes "niga!" (苦！).💀
@@Midnight.Creepypastas yep. That's them. Yea, I've noticed a trend. Huk have their headquarters in Coburg. And I don't remember others from the top of my head.
I knew this before and as a native spanish speaker I find it sooo funny😭😭. the other day while watching youtube shorts a video of a filipina girl came across me w the caption "eating puto after dinner" and i was like eating WHAAAAAAAT 😧😧😧
In Serbian, if you're telling someone to give you a book, you say "daj kniga", which sounds like "die n-word".. that's a horrible misunderstanding in the making
In Hungarian, "Puszi" means "Kisses" and is usually used as a farewell between family members. I'll give you a guess as to how it's pronounced and why I can never say goodbye on call w my family in public lmao
I once had a lady yell at me cause I said the word Negro, which is the color black in Spanish, she thought I was saying it as a slur, I had to explain and she walked away embarrassed realizing I was simply talking about a color
It's the same thing in Filipino when talking about skin color or the color of wall for example, Guess who scolded just saying "Ang maganda sa mga negra"
Coming form a black person I honestly don’t see the word Negro as a slur but it is a little outdated of a term. I don’t think that lady should have gotten mad at you
I met a foreign student from england who's last name was "Gast" and i burst out laughing uncontrollably without meaning to and then had to explain to him it means "Whore" in my language.
What about a word that has different meaning in the same country Traditional oven Last name Name of a toen Curse word for female genetalia Like Dick in the US
Recently, I learned that puto is a filipino bread, and I am Mexican American. When I saw a video of a young woman explaining this to her biracial daughter, it left me shocked. For those who are not Hispanic the word puto or puta in Spanish is a swear word meaning bitch. This is a translation. I am not trying to curse others. 🙏 please don't hate me.
Depending on the country, puto and puta also means whore in Spanish, not necessarily bitch. In Puerto Rico, for example, a male prostitute would be a puto. Somehow even more inappropriate than “bitch” 😅.
@@florvaquera7145 Jaja the process of becoming multicultural is super hazardous sometimes. For example if you ever speak Spanish with Puerto Ricans: to them, a bicho is NOT an insect or child… 😬 🍆
Very interesting. For me, I was doing a Spanish class in college, and one of the words I learned was "molestar," or to bother. An English speaker who doesn't know Spanish hearing that could misunderstand it to mean sexual violence.
@@RavenSutcliffe "내가" and "니가" is just saying "I" and "you" and a lot of people think that we are saying the n-word there are haters that uses this to make more and more hate so we need to stop this somehow
When i studied in Romania, my Brazilian exchange student friends jumped out the window of our school to skip class (it wasn't far from the ground). One of them was on the sidewalk yelling at the other one to jump in Portuguese - "Pula! Pula!" Imagine the Romanian onlookers faces who had no idea they were speaking Portuguese 🤣
In Thai, the word blessing is called “Porn”. This word tend to be in our names / last name. And yes it is spelled exactly that way. Every time the foreign teachers read our name, they flinch and make an impression of “tf is this”.
A relative runs a software company that sells internationally, and one of her more amusing customers literally has porn in his name. We got a few laughs out of it and googled it to find exactly this.
I knew Romanian was also a Romance language but I didn’t realize how similar it was to Portuguese! The verb for “to do” is fazer, and the word for “I” is eu, so “I do” is “eu faço”. Very similar to “fac eu”!
ah yes I remember when someone in my class asked siri what seal in french is and it sounded like it said "f*ck" 😭😭 Worst thing Is the whole class heard it and the teacher thought they were tryna make siri swear
Ooooooomg, that explains the hotel in this movie I like starring Queen Latifah. She goes on holiday to the "Hotel Pup" and there's a whole scene with her trying to explain it to her neighbor kid
This remindes me of puszi! Which translates to kisses and is usually said at the end of a phone call to friends and family since you aren’t physically there to say bye with kisses on the cheeks. In English puszi however sounds exactly like pussi…
In hungarian, "Puszi" means "kisses" and it's something you usually say to family members or loved ones over the phone. For example:"Oké oké, akkor szia. Puszi." (Okay okay, bye-bye. Kisses.)
Ty for sharing this information. My grandparents (now passed) are Hungarian and it's my surname (irl. My username isn't my actual name). I don't know a lot so I'm always happy to come across more information.
In Finland we say "kippis" when we raise glasses for a toast. My mother lived in Netherlands for a while when she was young, and she told that when she took part in a party for the first time and they were raising glasses she automatically cried "kippis". It made everyone else look rather incredulous and they burst out laughing because in Dutch kip means chicken and pis is of course piss, so she had cried "chicken piss!"
In Italian, to say "come on" we say "dai" which sounds a lot like die in English. Whenever I used that word as an exclamation and my mother (who is American) was close enough to hear it, she would scold me since it sounds like I was telling others to go and die. It took some time for her to loosen up about it, but imagine hearing your child telling people to die so nonchalantly. Now that I live in America, I do have to be mindful of certain words but sometimes I don't realize it until I've shouted "Dai!" 😅
I also have story about this phrase. About 6 years ago when I was running in Year 8 cross country, we had an Italian teacher who was on some sort of exchange program from Italy who was part of the group of teachers supervising us on the day. I was studying Italian at the time so I knew what she was saying but let’s just say there were some very confused 13/14 year olds wondering why this otherwise very sweet teacher was yelling “dai” very enthusiastically while we were running past her.
"Dai" also means "give" in Bulgarian. I've never thought about it sounding like die in English but lmao, it would lead to some very confusing situations
Swedish isn't my first language, but I'm learning it and I think the funniest misunderstanding I've had with an English speaker was when I was talking to my girlfriend in Swedish and I said the word "end" (I don't remember why tbh) and so I just yelled out "SLUT" really really loud and a woman looked at us (we were in the UK) and just said "you guys aren't from here, innit?" And we both started to laugh so hard. It was pretty funny
My grandma told me about a similar accident she had when visiting her Swedish friend. We have a Czech word "Kuk" that we tell babies after suddenly looking at them, similar to "Peek a boo" in English - which in Swedish (you might already know where I'm going with this story 🙈), as my lovely poor nan found out, means male private part and is not something you'd want to teach a baby, haha
In Russian “give me” sounds EXACTLY like “die” in English I went to acting courses which were held in Russian and we once were asked to say “give me” (die) to each other. My American classmate who didn’t know much Russian at that time was REALLY confused why we were wishing each other death 💀💀
It’s even worse in Thai where they will say dai or godai which very clearly sounds like go die. It’s frequently used but still unsettling to hear vendors or customers casually telling each other go die.
As someone who is learning some Latin, it’s interesting how I understood how “fac eu” is related “facit” is the Latin for “does”, surely related “Eu” seems to derive from the Latin “Ego”, both meaning “I”
In Finnish, the common word for a plastic bag is "pussi". Also, "pus pus", while somewhat rarely used, is a term of farewell, similar to saying "kisses". Derived from the word "pusu", meaning a quick kiss. In Swedish, "fan" (pronounced like the English "fun") is a curse word, and means "the devil/fiend".
Yeah there was meme going around internet cos one of Finnish chips had "mega pussi" written on it, to say it's mega sized bag. It's now days called "mega bag" in English instead. Also if you say word "wagon", vankkuri, with "English pronunciation" it might sound like wank*r
I need an answer to a question that is burning me like a bad std I can't shake. Is Ville pronounced villi like the things in your intestines or Vai Lee like Steve Vai and Geddy Lee?😊
@@wendyokoopa7048 Finnish is super consistent in sounding letters out. Letter pronunciation is _always_ the same, and there's no silent letters. V = like in English i = like the i in "interest" l = like in English. Note that two letters repeating makes a long sound, and for el it's kinda like the el-sound you'd pronounce for "pull-lane". e = like the e in "fell"
In Chinese (more common for mandarin speakers) there’s multiple instances where you would say “nega” like “nay ga”. It’s pretty common to hear someone repeating nega as a thinking buffer like how we use “um” or “er”
Retard in French means late, but whenever I speak to one of my fellow French speaking friends about being late for something, I have to make sure nobody is looking at me.
i mean, 'Late' means slow to show up, and the insult means someone who's slow to learn or have late mental development. And I'm sure the word origin, like many other english word, is French
I hate when we do presentations in Denmark and search for "ending slide" cause it's spelled "slutside" and the computer always think we mean it in english 😭💀
Same in Sweden.... "End" is Slut. Slutstation Slutsida Slutsats Slut Sluttning Slutkläm (literal translation to Kläm = Squeeze) & My not yet bilingual butt had no idea the looks we got when I as a Toddler whas yelling out in Swedish "Fart, Fart!" (Fast, Fast!) to my mother sounded like to the americans at the playground... 😅
Fun fact, the reason for this is because Romanian is one of the closest languages to Latin, and in Latin "I'll do it" or "I'm doing it" is facio. One kid in my class got in trouble for practicing her pronunciation at home bc her parents thought she was cussing
In Cantonese, the word “flower bridge” is translated to “花橋”, which is pronounced as “fa ku”. Edit: In Cantonese, the word “flower bridge” is translated to “花橋” which is pronounced as “faa kiu” or as most of you know, the f bomb. Thx to everyone who liked, and special thanks to @noobster172 for reminding me about the correct way of pronouncing it
In Hungarian „Puszi" is a word like this. It's pronounced similar to the „😺" but it mean kiss I mean not a romantical kiss but the one you give to your friends or your children. We have a separate word for the romantical one. Or kisses when you say goodbye to someone.
Korean. 네가(naega) = you did/are in sentences. But people use the southeastern dialect form 니가(niga) more often mainly bc it helps differentiate 내가(naega) = I did and 네가.
One time when I was like 3 (I didn’t know English at the time) we went into the store and pineapples were on sale, so being the Spanish kid I was a started going around and saying “busca las piñas!” And my mom looked so concerned for my mental state 😅
in Russian, the way you say “book” is “книга” (kniga). so, I’m pretty scared to talk to my mom about books in public😅 (there is another version of the word, “книжка” (kniszka) but it’s mainly used for smaller books, so it doesn’t always work)
not russian but my native language is very similar unless you don't pronounce the "к" you should be fine And for щит, щ is pronounced шт so unless you miss the t sound it's fine
I know a Russian dad who took his kids to the pool once. And there was a lady sitting in the hot tub and reading a book. Russian word for book is "kniga" with every letter readable (so k is not silent). so one of the kids started splashing around in the same tub and the dad tried to calm him down, by warning him that the lady has "the book". poor lady happened to be black and was so confused, so the dad had to explain everything, while feeling absolutely embarrassed 😭💀
In Romanian the word for nothing is "nimica" and sometimes people shorten it and say "nica". And whenever some other Romanian asks "ce faci?"(what are you doing), I sometimes respond with "nica" and everybody around me would start death staring at me...
Here in the Philippines, it's probably "Madapa ka" which roughly translates to "Be careful not to fall/trip" which parents usually says to warn their children to be careful while playing around.
I’m Romanian, my uncles were thrown out of a McDonald’s for this exact reason in the early 90s! I’ve been telling this story my whole life. My uncles are very loud and energetic, they barely spoke any English and were thrown out while deciding what they want and deciding who will place the order. 😅
Crowd of people: "How do you say the word seal in French?" French Kid: "You may not like this but in French, you call a seal phoque" The crowd: "What did you say?"
I once yelled the meme "I smell pennies" in public, completely forgetting that pennies sounds like penis in my language. My mom was mortified and I was super confused until it sunk in
A friend from South America here went to the UK and discovered that, with accent challenges between the region, it's much safer to use "cannot" instead of "can't" to avoid shocked looks and laughs.
In Chinese, a popular one is: 那个, which is pronounced as “na ge” or “nei ge” in some dialects. It means “that”. The “ge” is pronounced “guh”. Similiar to the n word. I’ve gotten in trouble so many times because of saying that 🤷♀️
@@dragongirl3148I mean, could also be the fact that slurs were used so much that it just feels so wrong to hear words that sound the same. You can't really blame them when there were tons of racists in this world.
In English, condo is short for condominium (type of housing unit). The word "condo" in my native language, Nepali, means "ass" or "butt." So when you say, "There's shit everywhere in my condo, " to a Nepali speaking person, they will giggle or may respond by saying,"Do you not wipe?"
My cousins and uncle are all fluent in Hebrew. If you start teasing my little cousins, they’ll yell “stop, stop, stop!” except to all English speakers, it just sounds like, “die, die, die!”
In Dutch the word for 'that one' is written as 'die' (although it sounds like 'dee') so a Dutch billboard with 'die die die mama!' found its way to English online spaces ;P
In Italian the word "dai", which is the second person singular of the verb "to give" and it's used frequently with the same meaning of the phrase "come on" in conversation, it sound exactly like "die" XD
Us Filipinos have this rice cake like thing called “puto” and when we offer it to someone for example, a Latino or Hispanic they’re always like “tf you called me?” So here me out, if you see a Filipino with these rice cake thingys then don’t get the wrong thing when we say, “want some puto?”😅
When i was a kid i did the same thing (i was in London) and then they asked my mom why am i saying bad words and she said : oh no you got it all wrong in romania il do it is Fac eu (they didnt belived us we got banned 🥲)
I'm korean and I was having a conversation with my other korean friend on the phone in a subway. If you don't know "you" in korean sounds like a slur in english. Right as I said "you" in korean to my friend on the phone and staring into space, a black man entered, and I made direct eye contact while I said that. He looked angry, but then I apologized right away as I explained that I was speaking in my native language. He understood, but I still got side eyes from other white passengers 😅
I positive think that is not only japanese sign language... I seen sign language in other language using middle finger as 'brother' as well (correct me if I wrong)
@@boredbrocc Amusingly, it has even more connection to the word brother As in, Friend: Hey make sure to tell my sister I said hi(sister is being annoying) Me: *laughs and quick finger as I walk away* (meaning oh brother! don't remind me)
i'm romanian and a similar thing happened to me, there was a small foreign tourist group in the alba iulia fortress, and i was with my little cousin at the same souvenir stand. as we were looking around, his sholeace unfolded and i bent down to tie it back, but he wanted to do it and just started yelling at me "nu, fac eu! fac eu! they stared at us and i was so embarrased 😭👍
In Czech there's an phrase "fakt, jo!?" pronounced "fucked yo". I remember it being popular for most of my childhood. It means "for real!?" Literally "fact yeah!?" 😅 I have to admit it was fun to observe exchange students from US to kind of freeze and look around for a teacher.
In portuguese, knife is called "faca"( fah kah ), so it is comum in hotel's restaurants to only use the english version in order to prevent any misunderstanding 😭
@@bandidocavalier there are alot of words that look like that they are Just maden up but they actually exists in another language even with the same meaning
In afrikaans, if you are playing a sport and need to run along the field, your parents start shouting "vok op," which means follow-up but sounds a lot f up
My Spanish speaking co-worker was asked how she got so many sales by the owner of our company. She said in a very thick accent “you just have to focus” which sounded exactly like “you just have to f@ck us”, The owner said “I see”. 😳
This is derived from Latin, fun fact: Romanian is one of the closest extant languages to Classical Latin! The verb for “I do/make” is “facio” pronounced the same way as the Romanian. Always gets a giggle out of the Latin 1s. Also the single imperative (do/ make!) is just “fac”.
Actually, there are various norms of pronunciation in Latin, and even though there are some which make more sense linguistically, we can only try to restore how it was pronounced. The letter C in that case is extremely debatable, actually. In my country the standard we learn would make facio be pronounced with a "ts" sound (an affricate sound, not ts like two sounds), but in other countries there are different standards and that's another fun fact for everyone
In Spanish, the word "negar" means "deny" which is normal to use among hispanics, (like 'no puedo negar') but to others, it sounds like you're saying the hard r.
