Hahaha

why do you precise your nationality ?? italian is not latin, it's just normal that you can't understand if you didn't learn latin , i'm french and i don't understand latin

@@anriettecooper6935 italian is a tuscan dialect of latin

@@goatsun1300 Italian and French are languages from Latin ( and Spanish and Portuguese too)

​@@anriettecooper6935 what a stupid comment, I am italian and can understand spanish without having studied it for example. italian is the closest living language to latin, for an italian speaker latin is intelligible at some extents in written form btw

no they did speak the queens English

"Thwoah him to the gwound!"

@@user-zl3se4qj8m ?

@@Konoronn Monty Python reference

@@user-zl3se4qj8m "Say that again." "BIGGUS DICKUS"

It wasn't a superiority complex. Romans were superior under any aspects compared to those barbarians.

@@Filippo-hp3uk so, what happened in Teutoburg forest? Where was Roman Germania?

@@Unknown-bi7wf teutoburg was only one battle, whole central europe was conquered and kept under roman's control for several centuries... dont be as stupid and ignorant as those barbarians lol.

@@call993 Right. Is that why there are so many romance speakers in Germany?

@@Unknown-bi7wf, bro, the Romans never wanted to conquer the Germanic lands, they considered the barbarians too uncivilized to be part of the Roman Empire ... when too many Roman citizenships were given to too many barbarians, there were internal revolts in the Roman Empire, in particular in its main province, the Italian one ... and it is no coincidence that the Western Roman Empire collapsed (the one with the most barbarians inside it) but not the Eastern one

Yo soy avocado

@@Iron_Arnie Yo soy sauce.

@@Iron_Arnie Yo soy pollo pastrami.

*I have several questions*

C a z z o

Same 😂

im italian and i felt that...

An intelectual****

Lol

Ahahahahahh grande

@Gastalion Iglorien LOL

@Gastalion Iglorien you know what she is called?

Biggus Dickus, aka. Germanicus. That will come in season 2.

Hahaha

@druss999 I thought that was Longus Dongus?

America is New Rome. It is propaganda to make the Germanies break their Wall Street shackles. Send in the 101st. They are plotting rebellion.

The fact that Varus has just been appointed as the governor of germanía means that this scene most likely took place in or around 7 AD, right?

@@estheay3611 Yeah

I like the guy with the tiger pelt

@@condor237me too

the weird thing is they go realism on the latin and then make the Germanic tribe speak modern German.

@@johannesschmitz6370 Proto Germanic is so archaic and a lot of it is lost to time. It would be so hard, and would still be inaccurate even after all the effort

Vikings does archaic french or some variation of frankish

Vikings does

@@ekerilaz723 What do you mean? its Proto Germanic we are talking about, not proto Altaic. It wouldn't matter minor inaccuracies

Based

*> posts green text on yt*

@@jlitodelcid326 > thinks green text doesn't belong YT > is ok with dead meme speech kek

@waitasecond *gets genocided by Germanicus*

@@aureliusrex7827 Based on what?

Dick Eatrum. Nice.

@@spraj5962 Sukhdeep Khant. Indians have the funniest names

The most beautiful language is Spanish as you sound and it is the most complete language in words for all things el español el idioma más hermoso y el más hablado de los idiomas de origen latin

Well i mean, such beautiful languages like the romance languages must come from somewhere right? 🇷🇴🇵🇹🇲🇫🇪🇦🇮🇹=SPQR

Latin is literally the Romanian language

F those empty nationalists. Latin is unique. Romanian or any other European language can't compete with such a beautiful language.

There is a reason the Roman Catholic Church only did latin masses for so long. Rome is an eternal thought in the minds of the Gods.

Was that a reference to inglorious bastards. If it was great if not you'll still have my like.

Yes! they learned nothing from inglorious basterds...

@@crimson6906 its a reference but also Truth, as an italian i noticed immediatly the mistake

Actually I think he is an Italian actor.

DREI GLÄSER

@Phrnch Mdl Not really true

@Phrnch Mdl are you tripping on acid? "They had only orgies and buttrammings so they stopped having children" is one of the insanest shit i've ever read

@Phrnch Mdl Hahahahaha where people like this crawl from?

@Phrnch Mdl You think that a few Germanic tribes can replace more than 6 million Romans in the Italian peninsula? The most populous place in Europe at the time? Stop spitting bullshit.

@Phrnch Mdl no, they mixed all together but 90 % of today Italians are direct descendants of the ancient italics tribes, it was genetically verified.

Because they are Italian 👍🏽

They’re speaking a Sicilian dialect on top of Latin

The channel Polymathy did a review of the Latin in Barbarians. It's one of the best uses of the language in modern shows but there are pronunciation errors by mostly Italian actors. The German actors seem to do a better job.

lucius martianus

If romans speak latin, the barvarian should speak proto-germanic (old german)

In Peru the word Greengo is synonym of admiration, is not an offence word, and we say Greengo to Holland people, to Spanish people, to Australians, etc not only to north American people, the big question is do you feel identified with the Romans?, is that, the Romans were greengoes too ....

@@fallinginthed33p He also says Italian bring authenticity and some word and no mistake but colloquial

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Underrated comment right here

I took it as us, the audience, watching the program.

I speak spanish, and I understand part of what they are saying

in Italy we still use many Latin words. the rest are very similar

jim, you should join a latin speaking club or organization to further learn classical latin because your 3 years of learning sure didnt go to waste. all the best.

Godam, Jimbo, memory like a steel trap. That's awesome.

Aye, you've got the memory of an Elephant there, friend.

Aww! You are a great testimony to all those moms out there (like me) doing homeschool Latin (Memoria Press) My daughter will be going to school eventually in a year, but I’m still going to learn alongside her, at home. 🤍

Yeah thanks to the captions at the bottom

Thanks man 😊

Thank you!

Thank you ❤

In Italian: "Augusto, Cesare della santa urbe di Roma, mise in Germania come nuovo legato il senatore Publio Quintilio Varo." "Fottuti, ste belve non capiscono proprio nulla." "Da adesso, Roma non rinunzierà più ai vostri tributi." "Varo esige da ogni tribù il prezzo di venti buoi o cinquanta quintali di frumento." "Che? Dillo di nuovo" "Il vostro tempo è di tre dì."

Salve Domine, grazie

Latin was an Ancient "English" for a lot longer than English is right now :D

it's so nice to see how they punish those barbarians

I dont understand the logic there, but kay.

@@KillerLettuce in a lot of old tv show or movie, the Romans mostly speak latin but with a very thick British accent. One of the best example is probably "The life of Brian" movie

@@zee446 I was speaking more to what they said about speaking Latin makes them a whole other level of "badass." Just not sure how the language someone speaks is the qualifier for what makes one badass. I'm giving them a hard time because badass is an overused word and has lost all meaning.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

bwhahaha

True, the subtle change in the "Uehehehe" and the intonation of the "Hieee" means different things nowadays smh

_"Whinnyes maximus!"_

Get my angry like, you madlad

Something these Germanics will never understand in a million years

Well, I have all these things around me without hearing a contemptuous voice all the time.

That the sound... Of civilization.

@@user-et8xw7dj7v Nope, it's the sound of soldiery capable of committing al kinds of inhuman barbarities themselves. If you want to hear the sound of civilization, you should listen to one of the readings of Cicero or Seneca that are available online for free. They were civilized, humane people. Let's not be naive though: what we see in this video is not the civilized face of ancient Rome, but that of the brutal conqueror. The legions did not come in peace and had no scruples about stealing, raping, or murdering those whom they conquered. Vae victis!

"When the Legion is in town, strength speaks Latin."

🤩

Good luck teaching modern day english actors to speak old english

@@AverageAlien They thought an Italian here to speak Latin so I don't see the issue. Wagner Moura didn't even speak Spanish when he played Escobar in Narcos.

@@las1147 Actually modern Spanish is the modern language closest in pronunciation to Latina Classica. Modern Italians actually have surprising difficulty in pronouncing Latin correctly and even Slavic speakers find it easier to pronounce Latin correctly although its mainly Poles who are most likely to quote in Latin.

Absolutely. And The Last Kingdom was a great show.

That attitude is the same with all dominant powers.

on the other side. The German dialect, those Barbarians speak is unacurate for this century. As a Sough-German i can approve that.

@@Aldiraider arent they just speaking normal german?

@@andrewjennings7306 They are speaking standard German (Hochdeutsch), which didn't exist back in these days.

@Harald Harster you can assess that from the marvelous deeds of Roman diplomacy, which 9 times out of 10 consisted of the Romans diplomats barging into the talks, demanding whatever they needed on the grounds of, well, being Roman, going into a tantrum after being rejected and resorting to the force approach. Then again, they had every reason to be arrogant.

@@daarksideyt Varus isn't in this scene

@@daarksideyt Neither is armenius in this scene lol.

@@daarksideyt r you high mate

Hold on what movie or series is this ?

they killed him out of the series, big mistake.

I think it was more to show his sword, but who knows?

Well, shit, look at them. Wouldn't you? That doesn't seem terribly offbrand for the roman empire :p

I suppose the translator is still learning.

Now i am afraid of translator. Since anytime 2 languages cross each other, not only some people may not translated words correctly or the entire sentences but just the short & simpleflip version, it could unintentionally twist the meaning into somethings rather strange, confuseing or funny at best ... or offending, terrified & hostile at worst. We never know what will happened after that too. Oh, imagine if that was more than just 2 very diffirent Languages. We should also beware of keeping the sentences long enough & informed. The longer it is the harder for translating them, with high chances of misleading it too.

@@blugaledoh2669 he did on purpose in the show it is revealed that he is a traitor

He's actually the interpreter but no one cares... "🥴THERE'S A DIFFERENCE???" Yeah but no one cares.

But actually the Roman dialect have nothing to do with Latin, if I remind well, the Sardinian dialect is the one more similar to the original Latin

@@FedoReds88 I heard the most similar existing, to the original Latin is Romanian. :D

@@FedoReds88 current Italian is too “vulgar” to be considered traditional Latin XD.

@@overlord5068 well no shit. It’s been 2000 years

@@overlord5068 Romans weren't pure Italics. By the time Rome took over the Italian peninsula there at least 4 different groups: Italic tribes, Celts (in the North), Etruscans (in present Tuscany) and Greeks (in the South). So by the time Romans started to conquer the rest of Europe, Romans were already mixed.

Still is. We are the prettiest people in the World.

​​@@cleess2836 And the best at wasting all the EU money.

@@radioreactivity3561 but we look damn good doing it, though... with great food and awesome wine to boot.

@@cleess2836Nah, the prettiest are the northern Europeans, the Germanics. Just look at them. White skin, blue/green/gray eyes, blond hair. I guess thats why they call themselves as the “Master Race”

@@jigokutensei71 blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin suit women. Nordic women are, indeed, quite pretty. But that's also why northern european men look effeminate, even when tall and with a beard. For a northern european to have a "not so feminine" look, he needs to either a) have dark hair, b) be bald or c) be slightly overweight.

Yeah, pretty amazing.

I'd say Titus Pullo from Rome was quite intimidating, but, yeah, I get your point...

It didn't last very long unfortunately

Also life of brian did a very good job

It probably has a lot to do with what's behind them. Could you kill a squad of veteran legionnaires? Probably not, but let's imagine you did. What happens next is that a whole legion delete's your little village. They're not just scary because they're tough warriors, they're scary because they represent a power you cannot hope to beat.

Wanna know a fun fact about that time they did that? The first city they sacked believing it was Rome was in fact Luni, seeing all the marble and being the architecture so far from what they were used to see in their eyes all that luxury it must have been the capital

@@OskarCremonesi wasnt it the viking Bjorn Ironside who invaded Luni thinking it was Rome?

@@HFDailyFeed Well, they weren't the brightest.

@@HFDailyFeed Yeah it was him!

LOL

ubi est probationem?!

@@movienerd202 Adest hoc, autem Latina mea non magna est, lol.

@@FelisRomanus Valde bonus amicus meus!

I assuming you already bought your time machine? cause I cant think of a reason why it would be useful

@wargames and to communicate with fellow brothers when the inevitable happens...

It's interesting how "cinquenta", the modern spanish word for the number fifty, just sounds like a simplified version of the Latin "quinquagentum"

​​@@estheay3611It's spelled 'cincuenta'. And yes, it's basically a simplified 'quinquagentum'. Essentially, the sound /g/ between vowels tended to fade out, such as in 'viginti' > 'veinte' (twenty) or 'legere' > 'leer' (to read).

Latin was linguafranca in Europe and north Africa and the near east. Persian was the linguafranca in central Asia and the middle east. While Chinese became the linguafranca of east and south east Asia. Old hunnic was the linguafranca in Siberia amongst the finnougric,Turkic,mongolic,tungusic,yeneseian and pleosiberian people. Sanskrit and pali in South Asia. While In Subsaharan Africa they beat-box and click to communicate.

also his impressions, his body language. This clip really made me check this show.

@@Billswiftgti true indeed. I was also committed after seing this majestic scene. However the show-although really good- was somehow not as advertised with said scene. I guess my expectations were just too high

@@maelb2868 well, it is a movie literally someone behind the scenes told the actor to say the phrase like this and he probably practiced it, the troops of the Roman legions did not speak (obviously) like that, but rather the art of oratory was alien to They and reserved for the people of the Senate, I mean e people of letters, what the troops of the legions really spoke was a vulgar Latin that spread throughout the rest of Europe that Rome conquered, from this are born for example the Romance languages ( Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, French, etc).

That actor is italian, that's why He's that good. His name is Valerio Morigi.

@@anyeoca9157 when he spoke to the other romans he did use vulgar latin. the reason the reast of his speach is so proper is because it was a directive from Rome or on Rome's authority and so was probably written by a bureaucrat

yes, I was half expecting him to demand that they welease woger.

I read wery impressive

Like the Russians.

@@racketman2u That's hilarious 😂

@@tash_g wery impressiw

Same with the Americans these days. It's costing them dearly!

You're the best

Except Cyrodiil provides grain _to_ Skyrim, not the other way around.

​@@AndrewReed420 Yet the commenters like to forget that the Aldmeri Dominion withdrew from Hammerfell entirely even when the Empire abandoned it's province

@@Manchevo Yet the commenters like to forget that the General Decanus of the Empire,while ordered to abandon the province, left the Redguards with his veteran troops, who went on to train the army of hammerfell amd coordinated the war effort... What the commenters like to forget is that the Empire drained Dominions of resources,they would need to pacify Hammerfell at the Red Ring...

@@Manchevo What the commenters like to forget, is that it is easier to wage a war of attrition in a desert than fertile farmland.

Would be The other way around, Germanic is more BadAss then Latin I am a Portuguese speaker, and understand most of Latin, and I think some Languages that came From Latin are Very silly, like Spanish, or Portugal Portuguese

@@Kravenrogue oque é silly mano?

@@niet2367 algo tipo "bobinho", "besta", "engraçado" Tipo vc já ouviu a dublagem do Dragon Ball de Portugal ou da Espanha? O Bang é engraçado demais kkkkkkkkkkkk Eu não consigo levar a sério Português de Portugal ou Espanhol kkkkkkkkkkkk

@@Kravenrogue Eu também não consigo levar a sério.

He says the NCR won't go quietly, the Legion can count on that

Yes,and the french to speak of love,the english to bisnes,the spanish to talk with god,and the german to order the dogs.😮

@@Carlos-uq8if I'd say rather that Spanish is for love, French if you wanna sound like an arrogant pr!ck

Which makes me thing of how mistakes in translation can and did escalate/aggravate situations.

When you dont hear or properly understand the or it becomes a comma We want 20 cows, 50 units of grain Wich is to say. I get that the translator simplified the demands either out of laziness or because he didnt understand the whole sentence

@Hernando Malinche i see. What a weasel

@@gewuerzwanze5627 I don't think accurare translation would help much. 20 cows or, if I'm reading right, 5000 grain is abusrd in the span of three days seems absurd. These people would've had to not be paying for years for them to be able to meet their demands.

@MeChupaUnHuevon I dont't remember that scene, but as it is in this scene, he says exactly what the romans said. The romans said, they want the value of 20 cows, or 50 hundredweights grain. The key word is "value". They don't care if they get 20 cows, 50 hundredweights of grain, or 10 cows and 25 hundredweights of grain, just give them the same value as they asked for. Segestes says, they want livestock and grains, he doesn't mean that they need to pay both 20 cows AND 50 hundredweights of grain, just that they want a certain amount of these.

The actor is Italian, and from Rome, you can't get any closer than that

@@andreabianchi6156 Cough Sardinian

@@tylerellis9097 well sure, if you mean on a linguistic standpoint

​@@tylerellis9097 definitely

I think people don’t get the irony of your comment...Latin was not a spoken language other than on the outskirts of Rome.

Yes translation mistakes kill , even today

Its not a mistake. The romans meant that they accept cows and grains. As if they can pay in 20 cows, or they can pay 50 hundredweight of grains, but if they paid it in 10 cows and 25 hundredweight of grain they dont care. It's the same value. Now, if Segestes said that romans want 20 cows, AND 50 hundredweight of grains, that would be different. He just merely said, that this is the 2 things romans accept.

well you are a roman

Took me by surprise 😅

Ah ! Mais je comprends mieux les Romains que les Germains...bon, je suis français et d'origine italienne...

Well said, this was probably an Art Direction choice indeed.

It's ok for me since I do not know any German. It is easy to pretend that they are speaking proto German! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Some people lack a sense of irony

@@DomenicoScarlatti895 What is 'I surrender' in French, and does it come from Latin ?

100% agree.

I Much rather have this then that everyone speaks English. Hey maybe I learn a word of 2.

There are some small issues with the pronunciation and the word “fuck” isnt what the Romans would have said (they would have said something like “By Jupiter”) it’s overall very good.

Yeah but they shouldn't be speaking 100% latin in a Hollywood movie, especially if the Romans are the "protagonists". That would be just horrible.

@@gandalfthegrey2592 not for me, but it is subjective in the end.

Bad news about the counterattack...

Wenck army is waiting.

"Steiner didn't have enough force. The attack didn't take place.."

@@user-hb8fv3yw8s *removes glasses...* "The following stay here. Berulf, Segestes, Folkwin... and Thusnelda."

@@eelcoblaauw6689 "THAT WAS AN ORDER! STEINER'S ATTACK WAS AN ORDER!!!"

Also a fun added detail: the translator is translating wrong, and the words he’s messing up are such basic ones it creates the impression he is doing it on purpose. Which given what happened next historically, is probably exactly what they’re conveying.

Did you see the conditions they were living on, he could of been the best off in the village it's just that the bar is too low to notice.

yeah comfortable, until you are sent as an envoy.

Actually watched the show, he speaks the language because he's a collaborator with the Roman's. The entire village hates him, him speaking latin so well plays into that idea

@@luxborealis What happened afterwards?

Actually there is plenty of evidence that claccial latin sounded nothing like Italian. We know from commonly misspelled words in graffiti (which were written phonetically). For example, classical Latin Caesar was pronounced Kai-sar, not See-zar or Seh-sarre. Still the dedication to actually speak Latin is more than I could ask for, it sounds amazing and brings this scene from a 6/10 to a 9/10.

@@faijro9260 wait so fallout nv was right?

@@Willie6785 Jep, though it should be noted it is an entire field of study and I am no expert in it. But I was taught the Kais-ar pronounciation.

@@faijro9260 very cool. wonder if the game's devs knew about that lol

What about the Romanians?

Same here. But there were also some inaccurate points, which spoiled the vibe of the whole picture unfortunately...

Let me tell you about Classical Latin: the latin alphabet has only 5 vowels. so if they had a sound like _ë_ or _ö_ , linguists can't tell. another example: the city of Brixium is today spelled Brescia in italian, which in english orthography would be Breshia. The nail on the coffin is that Latin culture emulated Greek culture, like the Francophonie of 1800 - everybody just loved French, dei was saying "nation, revolution, reunion, direction, administration, Napolion" and "directeur, liberateur, provocateur, terminateur, influenceur". But the people don't say "nation", dei say "nay-schuhn", dei don't say "revolution", dei say "revuh-liu-schuhn". Imagine some doofus 2000 years from now, trying to speak English judging by the orthography only: I am God. English orthography is retarded.

​@@justanotherbaptistjew5659 well how do you pronounce the letter 'I' from an English text, if you donno how the English pronounce the letter 'I'? Nobody knows how Classical Latin sounded like. Classic Latin writing was clearly influenced by Ancient Greek writing. But neither do we know how the Ancient Greek orthography was pronounced. don't worry about "I am God" it's just a sentence.

Also the "r". English and especially American English "r" is like I'm listening someone with the tongue paralysis.

I studied latin...long ago :) it's not a "W" but a "U" , we pronounce it in a different way; we say "U" not "IU".

The authenticity of the first season was ok (horrible military camp layout, end of 1st C. roman gear while playing in the early 1st C., absolutely dogshit equipment of the germanic people, romans not using slings but bows instead, romans beeing constantly shown as the bad guys...) . The 2nd season was so bad, that it made the historical advisors quit. I spoke to one of the advisors, as I am doing living history myself and the stories he told me about the producer really made me angry. Basically it all boiled down to the sentiment, that the authentic stuff restricted the director`s creativity. How about not making a fucking historic drama but instead a fantasy show if you don´t plan on following the history???

@deliverence nah man obese doesn't necessarily mean eating too much. It can also mean you're eating bad, in this case they consume too much wheat. Look for pictures of Venezuela people, a lot of them are obese and not exactly for eating like kings

@deliverence what? What are you talking about

@deliverence Does everything have to come down to brainwashing and liberals for you Americans? The show is German for fuck sake

@deliverence I love when one of you gets let out into the wild and stumbles around like someone’s drunk uncle spewing incoherent bullshit about subjects they know nothing about. You think you’re landing zingers when you actually just look insane and stupid. It’s hilarious.

@deliverence why would they walk endless miles everyday? Do you think they’re hunter gatherers?

I don't understand why are you all complaining about Romans speaking English. If the actors are English, I really don't want them to speak another language, because in 99% of the time, they absolutely butcher the pronunciation if they haven't actually studied that language.

@@henryviii2091 You do realise nobody speaks Latin anymore? So english actors or not, they will butcher it regardless unless properly taught

@@AverageAlien Latin has still been spoken for all this time by some people, it is still thought in school in Romance speaking countries. And yeah, probably the pronunciation we have today is not 100% correct, but we know that it was a phonetic language, and since all the modern Romance languages are pronounced similarly, except for different influences, we can assume how Latin would have sounded like, and we are not that far off from the real thing. Also, there actually are many other ways that helped linguists throughout the time to figure out what Latin sounded like, like some actual manuals, or ways that Romans described how their language is superior to others, and more. You have to do the research on your own. The point is that the pronunciation of English is so different from other languages, that a native speaker has a very difficult time, pronouncing a different language

@@henryviii2091 Nah, a northern english accent is just nicer to hear than the entire Latin language tbh.

how fucking original

Wow didnt know about that peice of trivia. Personally, I learned to ride bareback so stirrups sometimes just feel in the way. Plus I saw a nasty accident where a horse rolled over on someone when their foot was stuck in a stirrup. So I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of skepticism regarding stirrups when they first got introduced. Ultimately though, makes long rides far more comfortable and was an excellent invention.

The stirrup was a technology invented by the Mongols...that is what made the tribes of the Asian Steppes so imposing and feared by all Europeans they encountered.

I wonder why an open stirrup (more like a bicycle pedal) was never developed. Could support weight without trapping the rider's foot. I guess the trick would be it would be much more involved to manufacture, since a stirrup is just a loop of leather, but this would need some serious iron reinforcement.

@@jessegutierrez6923 Lmao your phrase makes no sense whatsoever. The mongols never invaded european countries (and europe was never, and still isn't, a country). The mongols at most invades and pillaged central/west asian countries. Like modern day Kazakhstan, iran, iraq. They never even stepped foot in what you'd consider "european countries" today.

@@Mantorok12 because you also need to pull up on the stirrup as well as pull down. It also moves around a lot and doesn't doesn't in a fixed place like a bicycle pedal

That one shirtless guy could have been in a traveling show as the Fattest Man in Germania

Big boy ate all the cows and grain that's why they don't have any

😅😂😂

That’s all beer

@@bitrexgm He's just hiding the cows there

Yeah, I wondered what was up, haha

@Glorious Wolf Why are you mad he just made a comment.

@Glorious Wolf based

@@sockburner4041 how is that based

I hop you'll get thousands of likes. You deserved em :)

It felt like you were living in the territories of the Roman Republic/Empire 🦅. Real Latin. Heck had it been Spanish, French, Italian or portuguese, I can almost buy it. Since they’re the Romance languages themselves. But Latin. Thats authenticity.

In a movie made by English speakers, for an English speaking audience, it makes sense for the protagonists to speak in contemporary modern English. If those characters are, for example, ancient Romans, there is an implicit understanding that while the actors are literally speaking English, the characters they are portraying are not - that their speech is, in effect, being “translated” for our benefit. It’s even commonly called “the translation convention”. The makers of “Barbarians”, who are German, have done exactly the same thing with the speech of their protagonists - the Germanians - who are played by actors speaking contemporary, modern High German. The Romans speak Latin because (a) their scenes are far fewer in number, (b) they are not the protagonists, and (c) the fact that the two populations cannot understand each other’s language is narratively important. You simply couldn’t tell that story if the actors playing Romans were speaking the same language as those playing Germanians. Once you accept that the characters’ dialogue is being translated into your language, for your benefit, quibbles about the “accuracy” of whatever accent the actor delivers those lines in becomes completely nonsensical. It’s already the “wrong” language, so what the hell does the accent matter? In effect, it’s not the character’s voice you’re hearing, it’s the actor acting as a translator so that you can understand what’s going on.

Wait when did the romans ever get an American accent?

@@unclejoeoakland Plenty of old Hollywood sword and sandal epics.

@@fromchomleystreet ok good point. But even then they always seem to be affecting british accents. And furthermore the brits do seem to do it better, in fairness.

You dont have subtitles when in a theater

@@PRubin-rh4sr there are tho, not that hard to do with filming usually taking months, if not years of production and the script being amongst the first complete "film props".

Hey now Latin isn’t dead, we just call it Spanish or Italian! Or French or Romanian or Portuguese... lol

@@tlaloqq it's dead

The people complaining about the spoken German are oxygen thieves

@@tlaloqq classical Latin is dead

so? there were spoken forms of latin

Ow doo

Woz he sed, man? He sez he wants us cows un som weetabix like. Ar’ yes fookin’ blind o what, mate?!

man i miss I,Claudius

in 40 years BBC is going to dub this and gives the Romans Prophet Muhammad's Arabic and the Germans Peshawar dialect.

When Netflix already dubbed it? I kinda doubt it.

Do you know what "exuberant" means? Are you sure you didn't mean exhorbitant?

Yeah. I was shocked when I heard the barbarians' response. Quite recognizable. They must have learned it from the same book I did.

It would have been better is they actually spoke Proto-Germanic. But this might be much more difficult to reconstruct because of the lesser amount of available written text. But nevertheless, the fact that they speak German is better than if they spoke English.

@@GlennMulderij 👏👏👏👏👏

These people would not have spoken proto-Germanic. By the time that this takes place in 1st century the once common proto-Germanic had already started branching and developing into various different Germanic language groups as Germanic people had spread over a wide area. Cherusci - the people in the video - were part of the greater Suebi tribal entity and what they spoke was the primary root of the coming High Germanic languages, which contains what is Standard German of today. Obviously they would not have spoken modern Standard German, but what they spoke has not been sufficiently reconstructed for it to be fully spoken in a production like this and in this regard having German actors speaking modern Standard German is easy to explain.

@@NikoChristianWallenberg This is the kind of flex I was looking for.

@Stxr KillerX protogermanic

exactly my thoughts. they made efforts to have correct latin but not germanic edit: it makes sense if it's a german show

The germanians are the protagonists in this series. If everyone would've spoken the old way, the whole thing would've had to be subbed which would be a terrible experience and too much work for nothing.

@@xInsaneGames Finally, someone with common sense.

@@Sealdrop Probably similar to Swiss German.

And Romans attacked New York

😂😂😂

Actually, Romans did not speak English. They spoke classical Latin. The English language as we know it today did not yet exist.

@@michaelerickson985 I'm 99.99% that was supposed to be a joke, because in American or British productions the Romans usually speak English, and so does everyone else, so there's no language barrier even though there often should be. The same goes for aliens in science fiction movies.

@@michaelerickson985 You missed the joke entirely. Don't ever watch Stargate, you'll have an aneurysm wondering how all the species know English.

@Keys & Locks of course we can't, that's the closest we'll ever get thought

@Keys & Locks what are you talking about? Latin? Greek?

Can I ask why they are not pronouncing the letter s at the end of names in Latin.

ahahahahah your studies are shitty as hell since they spoke aulic latin and not plebes one.

@Keys & Locks No, those ending with m are nasalised vowels, and neither is the s pronounced as the way modern day English speaking people would.

well because english is a germanic language with heavy romance language influence

English has approximately 30%(correct me if i am wrong) words directly or indirectly borrowed from Latin, but its structure and grammar is purely Germanic..it just has very heavy Latin influence on its vocabulary.

Cap I can’t understand shit without subtitles. Stop making this about yourself lol dude really said 5% like his a mathematician. Let the actual Latin decedents enjoy this and stay out.

@@c.i.a8359 >non Latin-understanders BTFO

Modern English derives ultimately from Old English (which was basically a dialect of Old Frankish) blended later with Old Norse and then Old Norman French (itself a blend of Old Frankish and Gallo-Latin) which led into Middle English (which sounded much like Modern Dutch) plus more borrowings from Latina Nova in the early Renaissance in the 16th century leading to the early modern English of Shakespeare and this evolved into today's various forms of modern English including the International English which seems to derive mainly from northeastern and midwestern American English which itself originates in east Anglia in the British Isles.

Based and legionpilled. True to Caesar.

0:25 "kaesar"

@@cesargonzalez4782 ah

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it supposed to be closer to Kye-sur rather than Kye-sar.

@@onehope6448 Nope, the pronouncination here is correct

@@onehope6448 no it is Kye sar

What series is this?

@@anisalawal4598 Barbarians, it says in the title haha

Watched it twice : )

But how was it!?

Same here! I've got to look it up now, though I doubt I'll watch it all because the battle gore will probably force me to quit watching it. I can't handle all that.

Yeah it did not end well...

A dog that can foresee the future? BURN AT THE STAKE!

Rip Varus’ legions.

@@olakarlsson7496 push your luck ? Rome avenged that in badly. They obliterated every opponent for centuries.

@@antuan9325 but they never crossed the Rhine

What? So because apparently you can understand 4 languages it's just shocking that there's a language out there in the world you don't know? I don't know if this is egotistical, delusional, or plain stupid...

@@MrShitthead it's not shocking it all. The sensation is just strange because Spanish, French, and Italian, are derivatives of Latin. So the way Latin sounds to my ear when pronounced perfectly like in this clip makes it sound like I should understand it, even though I don't. Does that make sense? If not I can help explain it even more just let me know how you go :)

+M Anderson how do you not know that those languages he listed are descended from Latin? Some of the words are practically the same and you can kind of cross-communicate with some.

@@MrShitthead your arrogance is hilarious, tell me this is bait

inoltre 0:40 "Futue te (ipsum)" ( fuck (yourself)) somiglia molto anche al rumeno :)

Latinos are just in Europe

I thought he said "seven days".

“He said he’s gonna bum you to death in seven days.”

only in your dream

Wasn't that quote from The Simpsons?

@@samvs1259 yeah

But i think at times he softened his accent makimg it a bit more medieval latin, but overall it was really good

@@lewycraft can you explain? I'm genuinely curious. I remember in my Ancient Roman history class in college my professor told us that modern pronunciation of Latin is wrong and v's sound like w's etc etc. It blew my mind lol ever since I've been very interested in what the Latin of antiquity sounded like.

Nerd

@@manifestdestiny1191 Pronouncing Latin is surprisingly easy to learn. You can teach yourself online to hear it, though you won't have the accent. None of us will.

Waurgasm

Verdade irmão, tem também o galego e o romeno

It's partly because they're all Romance languages, which began as dialects of Vulgar Latin

it's the opposite, Latin is the mother of those languages.

Why would it be crazy, the Roman Empire influenced many other nations and cultures in Europe and our languages have many words with Latin origins.

The Portuguese language is a Romance (neo-Latin) language derived from Latin. It developed in the region that is now Portugal and spread to other parts of the world, including Brazil, through Portuguese maritime explorations and colonizations. The language shares many linguistic roots with other Romance languages such as Spanish, French and Italian, all of which are descendants of Classical Latin. This connection with Latin is evident in the grammatical structure, vocabulary and phonetics. It is fascinating to observe how languages evolve and transform over time, carrying with them a rich cultural and linguistic history.

The show was made with help by Roman reenactors consulting from Legio XXI Rapax and a Hungarian auxillia cohort.

yeah, and then they had the germannics speak modern german, Aaah! svona móðgun

@Jean Sanchez Actually we have a fairly good idea, reconstructed from modern and extinct dialects

@Jean Sanchez wrong. they spoke an ancient form of norse. the language still spoken today, that is closest to ancient germannic is icelandic. additionally linguists have reconstructed the language spoken by ancient germannic tribes as well.

I just found out about this show and am excited to watch!

I found the subtitled version one of those Roman army songs. I think this is the correct version... ukposts.info/have/v-deo/iGeTn6CdiaumuKs.html

@@roufamagga4453 Oh no i got "Romanized"

LOL

I'm downvoting this on behalf of Lindybeige.

@@stephenderry9488 oh what the hell i literally just saw his video about boarding school