Slavic People speaking their language American people : Russia

it's pretty hilarious that she asked for numbers and colours - both of them are pretty much same in all same in all slavic langs :D

Finally , the slavic are back , i hope see of this new US lady too 😊

1. Ahoy does give it away, but could be Slovak or Czech 2. Borst is Ukranian. 3. Vodka and pierogi are Polish. 4. Tricky, it is East Slavic, but she mentions nature, so i think of Belarus, because it is way smaller than Russia, since Russia has more land diversity.

First member from Czech Republic / Czechia 🇨🇿 , someone from Slovakia 🇸🇰 would be great too ,

As a Belarusian I can say that I have a few questions in the last girl (Belarus). At the beginning she said "Pryvet" but it would be more correct to say "Pryvitańnie" or "pryvit" or just "vitaju", it would also be possible to say "Dobry dzień", Because there is no word "pryvet" in Belarusian, it is more like a mixture of Belarusian and Russian. Ukrainian will be closest to Belarusian, and Russian and Polish will be in second place, which are approximately equally close to Belarusian. The Belarusian language has its own history and vocabulary, which is larger than in Russian, the third statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was written on it, it used two alphabets: Latin and Cyrillic. But during the times of the Russian Empire and the USSR, Russification was carried out in Belarus, which caused great damage to the Belarusian culture and language. in 1933, the Soviet authorities carried out a reform of the Belarusian language in order to artificially bring it closer to Russian, as a result, there are now two variants of the Belarusian language: 1) Classic Belarusian (before the reform of 1933) 2) Official Belarusian (after the reform of 1933). Now the Belarusian language is not in the best condition, and the official Belarusian authorities are not interested in what state it is in. Russian Russian is mainly used by the authorities, and Belarusian is perceived as the language of the opposition, so it performs only a decorative function, and the president, once even resented the traffic sign in Belarusian, and said that it should be replaced with Russian. Therefore, the topic of language is very important to me and I am a little not pleased and sad that some Belarusians do not know Belarusian or mix it with Russian. In general, there are a couple more mistakes, for example, instead of the Belarusian "kava" she said "kafi", which is more like a strange mixture with the Russian "kofe".

Ukrainian lady speaks kind of mixture of Ukrainian and Russian! We call it "Surzhik"! I say that confidently because I am native speaker of Ukrainian. Polish and Belarus languages are the most understandable to me. Belarus girl speaks kind of "Trasyanka" which is mixture of Belarus (the language is almost dead) and Russian!

I'm sad, bcs people from Belarus don't know Belarusian language. I mean I live one year with girl from Belarus and she know only Russian and she couldn't say anything in Belarusian. And she told me that nowadays people know only Russian and maybe older people know Belarusian at least partially. So I wish they will use their mother language or at least know both Belarusian and Russian and not only Russian. Poland wasn't on map for 123 years and we still use Polish language, so it's sad for me that Belarusian is going to stop existing in future.

does this girl really only think of russia? borscht originated in ukraine, vodka in poland

Im surprised how Americans get affected by using “ wrong pronouns ” and not being ashamed to call Ukrainian people and national dishes- russian .

Borshch is a ukrainian national dish!

- Borsch. - OK, it's not Ukraine. Bruh... I'm not Ukrainian and I lowkey found this offensive. 😂

As a native Belarusian speaker I'd like to say, that girl's level is something between B1-B2. Though this is the same for many belarusians. She doesn't speak Russian in this video, but she speakes belarusian with mistakes and even some made up words😅 Also, the word "privet" or "pryvet" doesn't exist in Belarusian. I mean, it's not her fault, it's about the educational system. However I am very glad that Belarusian sounds here. Thank you Anastasia.

It might be just me, but i loved when polish girl kind of triggered when was about to say shes russian

Запрашваць дзяўчыну якая валодае акурат трасянкаю, а не моваю - то дрэнна. Выбачце, але шмат русыфікаваных словаў ад яе, што якраз паказвае які зараз ўплыў на беларусаў ад Расеі😊

Inviting Belarusians person who don’t speak the Belarusian language. World Friends ☕

As a Pole, Belarusian still remains the most intelligible to me out of this list, both semantically and phonetically, while Russian (and Bulgarian which is not here obviously) seems furthest from Polish, I tend to have a hard time understanding Russian in general.

Let's go Poland!!!!!!!!🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

As a Russian I feel a little awkward when someone confuses another Slavic language with Russian, because I hate it when it’s like Slavic=Russia I just want other Slavic cultures and languages to be more praised and receive more representation. Also vodka and borscht don’t mean Russia immediately. I mean borscht is definitely eastern Slavic , mostly Ukrainian.

OMG, she didn't know that vodka is the most famous polish invention! Outrageous! 😁😉

*Wow great! Slavic Languages here!* *East Slavic* : Belarus 🇧🇾, Ukraine 🇺🇦 *West Slavic* : Poland 🇵🇱, Czech 🇨🇿 *South Slavic ?* Slovene, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bulgaria

Wow when Czech girl says sweater (2.20) sounds 200% like polish !!

One issue for the channel: I know is hard to find someone from every country, but if you put Belarussian person, she or he must speak the native language. If the person doesn't speak it, Belarussian people will get mad at you.

This Ukrainian girl speaks Ukrainian with great difficulties. It seems she spoke Russian when she lived in Ukraine. Next time choose the Ukrainian-speaking girl.

To video: As a Czech I had this one a easier. First girl same language as me. The second and third girls I guessed correctly based simply on their facial structures alone. If it wasn't bellow, I wouldn't be able to differentiate from Belarussian and Russian. My experience: A online group I am part of had a meeting IRL. When we were guessing who is who, based on our speech in English, my Czech accent was confusing for most and they were guessing I am maybe one of the southern Germans. French guys had the most problems understanding me and to be honest I barely understood one from the north-west France. He had the most sterotypically Frenchiest-French accent one can speak in. Funnily, the rest of the French guys also barely understood him.

I’m Indonesian, our languages are worlds apart from Slavic languages but I was gobsmacked when I heard the numbers 😮 Due to Hindu-Buddhist influence, we’re also familiar with Sanskrit numerals on top our own, so I was amazed that they’re very similar with the numbers spoken in this video. The Proto-Indo-European language connections can be clearly observed here!

🇨🇿 Ahoooj Denisko !!!!!! I really enjoyed this video + nice expirace to hear Belarussian I have never listen this language (maybe once) but I'm really glad that I heard it 🇵🇱 Nice come back Monica - I remember her by her name 😅

"Guess nationality by language" challenge. *speaks Italian* "Nope, sorry, Switzerland." Seriously? That was a cheap shot.

As soon as Deni mentioned Švičkova, I knew that she was Czech.

Excuse me, but the Belarusian girl speaks Belarusian slightly incorrectly. We don't say "Pryvyet" and we don't say "Cafye". I think it would be more correct to say “Vitayu” or “Pryvitanne”, and the coffee would be “Cava”. In Belarusian, the sound “Ya” is used in the pre-stress position and “Menya” turns into “Myane”. We don’t have the word “Adzho”, she probably wanted to say “Duzhe smachnaya bul'ba.” And some other small mistakes. Once again, sorry for my bias towards the girl😅

Man, the languages are very different from my language Portuguese. You will explode my heart with these women! ❤🤯 All of them are very beautiful.

I never understand what English speakers mean when they say Slavic languages are "harsh". Do they mean lots of sibilants? (the sh, ch, tsch, zh, j, etc sounds?) I've even heard people say that Slavic languages are guttural. That's completely untrue. None of the Slavic languages have the throaty guttural sounds of French, German, Dutch, Modern Hebrew, and Spanish. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural#Examples_of_significant_usage

Polish sounds the best to my non-Slavic ears. I hope one day I can learn more about this language.

Czesi witają się "Ahoy" nie mając dostępu do morza, dlaczego też Polacy mówią sobie "Dzień dobry" skoro żaden dzień w tym kraju nie jest dobry? 😂

"dzień dobry" and "pierogi" are immediate giveaways for Polish.

The Belarusian girl is speaking poor Belarusian. Although people in Belarus speak 2 languages for the ‘purity’ of the linguistic guess experiment you should have found somebody speaking better Belarusian, it sounds like Polish and Ukrainian in vocab and pronunciation…

Самыя распаўсюджаныя вітанкі на беларускай мове гэта “Вітаю” і “Прывітанне”. “Прывет” у бел мове не існуе

It’s better not to invite Belarusians who don’t speak the Belarusian language, otherwise it’s cringe.

For everyone: Vodka came from Poland Borsch is a Ukrainian national food, Poland also has own borsh, but it's way more different. Pierogy from Poland, in Ukraine we call it Varenyky. It's almost the same dumplings(except some recipes or type of preparing (hot water or steam)). But Russia has its own super-power: "Cultural appropriation"

szkoda ,że ostatnia dziewczyna nie mówiła piękną Białoruską mową...

cheers Ukrainians returned to this channel, thank you

Its so weird watching this as a person from Poland. I guess all of them after like 5 words

I love beauty of belarusian girl! So pretty! Regards from Poland.

She said Chopin and Lewandowski and I was like, yeah thats it she's going to guess it right now but...🫥 How can you not know Chopin or Lewandowski, I thought they were pretty famous

Навошта запрашаць дзяўчо, у якой узровень беларускай мовы ніжэй сярэдняга? Яна ёй не карыстаецца ў штодзённым жыцьці, зачапіце каля сэрца ёй сьцяг іншай краіны. Навошта прыдумляць нейкія Прывет/прывіт, няма гэтых словаў у беларускай мове, ёсьць Вітаю/вітанкі/добры дзень/дабрыдзень. Кафі? Таксама стрэл у іншы бок. Кава. Якая ў яе бульба? Аджу (гэта якая мова?) смачная? Можа Вельмі/дужа/надта/занадта? Наиболее - зноў памылка - Найбольш. Яна не валодае беларускай мовай, зразумелі, але ёсьць перакладчыкі, слоўнікі, чаму нельга выправіць памылкі ў цітрах? Наапошку. Вымаўленьне Belarusian - гучыць як Беларусіэн (b ɛ l əˈ ɹ u ː s i . ə n). Судзячы па ўсім, з ангельскай мовай таксама ёсьць цяжкасьці.

why they keep thinking russia may be here? Russia is canceled everywhere, you won’t see a russian on this channel

The correct flag of Belarus is white-red-white defaced with the historical Pahonia coat of arms

my personal clues would be. polish, alot of L has shifted into kinda W sound (for ex. when she say "white") and don't forget the nassal tone, also the soft R sound ukrainian, alot of G sound has shifted more into deepthroat G (GH/KH). and vowel O is much clearer than russian O russian, alot of D sound has shifted more into J sound. some vowel O pronounce a bit like A (for ex. when she say "milk") czech, a lot of vowel skipped

I'm honestly impressed an American GenZer even knows these countries exist so she gets all the points from me.

finally there are no European countries like france, italy, germany, spain, usa , japan , vietnam and other👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Well, I have just watched the parts of Jane the Virgin and I can understand her confusion now: The actors are trying to speak Czech, but they have very heavy Russian accent. She should watch Stargate Atlantis with Mr. Zelenka instead.

Anastasia is actually a Greek name but it became very common in Slavic countries due to Orthodox Christianity.

How could she be so serious saying she’s not Ukrainian after girl mentioned bortsch…

She went with Russian on all 4 lol

1. The first woman literally started with "ahoj," that's a dead giveaway she's either Czech or Slovak. When she starts counting, she's immediately given away as Czech by the numbers 3 (tři), 4 (čtyři) and 5 (pět'). Compare the Slovak tri, štyri, and pät'. For a native English speaker of either language, the number 5 is the clearest giveaway: the Czechs pronounce it like "pyet" while the Slovaks almost like "peh-ch." 2. Again, the Ukrainian greeting доброго дня gave it away immediately, if not for the greeting itself then with the use of an English-sounding "h" sound, which Russian and Belarusian do not have (Russian has a stronger unvoiced fricative "ch" like in Scottish English "loch," while Belarusian has that *and* a voiced fricative that sounds sort of like if you tried to breathe through an English "g" sound - the latter has no equivalent in English phonology). 3. Dzień dobry is a standard greeting that occurs only in one language: Polish. If in doubt about what West Slavic language it is, "cześć" as a greeting would be the next dead giveaway. 4. The final language is much harder to establish as Belarusian, especially at the beginning. It sounds and has a very similar vocabulary to Russian (more similar than any of the other languages in this video), but it is (from a Russian perspective) excessively palatized - that is, there is a consonantal "y"-like sound that appears in places where a Russian speaker would find it intrusive or overused. There is also unusual intrusion of the ы vowel (again from a Russian-speaking perspective), which makes certain things sound more like Ukrainian. The use of кафе (kafe) instead of the Russian кофе (kofe) for "coffee" starts to give it up, as well as the phrase у нашай краіне for "in our country." The nail in the coffin is the phrase "...but the most famous one is draniki," which in Belarusian is "але [найболье?] папулярны з'яўляюцца дранікі." Compare the Russian (но самыe популярныe являются драники) and Ukrainian equivalents (але найпопулярнішими є драники), which are both quite different.

Czech sound so nice. Greetings from Slovenia

Zdravím Denisu! 🤗Finally smn from Česká republika😁Greetings to Denisa! Hope to see you more here❤🇨🇿

This experience proof of one thing, and one thing only Americans are so….. exactly🤣

🇨🇿 Czech Republic, you stole my heart! #travel #wanderlust

I've just checked that Jane the Virgin sequences and except for the woman in TV in the link bellow all of them have so thick foreign accent and sometimes incorrect inflection! So I understand why Brit didn't recognise the real czech language than! :D (On the other hand its undestandible what they are speaking about in the serie so I admire the effort. Czech language is quite hard to handle though even for other slavs usually since very evaluated grammar) ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kKeTlZ5_q3mb1ok.html

Я белорус. И для меня самые понятные языки- польский и украинский. Русский язык- самый непохожий из всех славянских языков

I m from Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Czech language is the easiest to understand for me

I can imagine this is hard for an American. It's like bringing 4 people from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and guessing who's who.

Her every time: "Not Russia"

Please, tell Belarussian girl, when there are two state languages, you must speak both. But not to choose.

I'm a Bulgarian which means recognizing and understanding Slavic languages is easier for me and still I feel like this challenge was difficult. I could easily distinguish East Slavic languages from West Slavic languages but nothing more. The American girl did a good job for somebody who isn't familiar with these languages.

In Belorussian Hello is "Вiтаю" (Witaju) and not Privet.

Słowianie teraz się pewnie podśmiewają, bo my wszyscy raczej prawidłowo rozpoznajemy swoje języki i często nawet je znamy i rozumiemy. Ale teraz wyobrażam sobie sam siebie, gdy trafiam w grupę ludzi z Norwegii (jak wiemy mają dwa języki), Danii, Islandii i Szwecji. Chyba też bym nie odróżnił. Pozdrawiam wszystkich :)

The unfortunate truth about why it is hard to distinguish Ukrainian and Russian, is because many of Ukrainians only recently started to switch to the Ukrainian fully. They have accents that make a melodic language sound harsher than it should. It is a tragedy, since the two languages are distinguishly /not/ alike.

Belarussian girl is very beautiful

The girl from Belarus made several mistakes during her turn, so it could have confused the contestant.

I understand her, i know not many things from other countries... I wouldn't even know what countries are slavics...

1st girl "ahoy" czech ;)

The slavic countries🗿🗿

Ok, I would like to change my mind from the other video featuring Ukrainian from this girl. It is obvious she has been speaking Russian before (and yes, they indicated that in the video), but she switched to Ukrainian nowadays, we all know why. Good job, Elizaveta! You have a way to go) I guess, you know already, but "depends" is "залежить", not "зависить". :)

Holy shit I didn't even thought that someone from my country (Czech Republic) would make it to World Friends :D

I know Ukrainian привіт мене звати Ярема це українська ім'я і мені 8 років click like if you understand me😊

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYY CZECH REPUBLIC FINALLY, IT ONLY TOOK LIKE 2 YEARS 🤣

Belarus! Belarus! blr

I think that the basic idea of this is pointless At the beginning she already mentioned that she speak only French and basic Korean Was anyone expecting that inexperienced in Slavic languages she will be able to sort out the right one from a group of closely related languages ? Not to mention that all of this countries share borders and regions where languages overlapp The same would happened if there were girls from Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Danmark

aaaaa, dlaczego flaga łukaszenki...

How many traditional attributes stereotypically are counted to russia, that actually isn't their. Hopefully such videos breaks such stereotypes

Настя нереально красивая девушка.

7:11 Truer words have never been spoken.

No offense at all. She's a sweet and cool American girl. But she thinks she did well after simply guessing everything wrong, although she's got so much hints. 🤪

niestety rusyfikacja na Białorusi się udała...

People, Slavic sounds are way different than English or other western European languages. Not being able to place the language has very to do with cultural literacy and more to do with no lingual similarity. The patterns of Slavic languages are completely alien to most Germanic or Romantic language speakers.

The differences are not the point of this video, this is about how similar we are. And there is no reason to yelling “no, it’s out!”, because a lot of things are just common 😊

Ukrainian, Belorushian and polish similar enough. Even for us, native speakers. For me, ukrainian, I easy can understand belirushian and get a half of word from polish. But if we want to speak other slavic languages, we must lean. And for me fast czech sound like language from other planet.

I felt a bit bad about the Ukrainian girl, considering current events, and the fact that borscht is internationally recognised as Ukrainian heritage. Similar with vodka and pierogi regarding Poland, given Poland's history. Both are originally Polish, and Poland has a very turbulent history with Russia.

yeah, the Czech in Jane the Virgin had very little to do with the actual Czech language... It was like the writers just google translated some sentences from English to Czech and went with it :D

6:22 that's her way of speaking partly if anything

When confidence is stupidity in disguise😂

The Polish girl used the word "polsk" (spelling?) so it was easy to guess after that. She also mention Chopin and vodka.

Pierogi 🥟🥟🥟🇵🇱 ukraine, that’s like saying Pizza… spanish 💀

судя по внешности и голосу - она крепко пьет...

I already knew without watching the video that the american girl would've said Russia for all of them

Finalllllyyyyyy Belaruuuussssss

She said its definitely not czech, but she was Polish, which sounds just like czech :D......is she without ears??

I'm belarussian and four girls were belarussians for me when they said the first words))) hahahah