Greek Language | Can They Understand Each Other? (Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey)

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Do you think all European languages are influenced by Greek language?

Then, can they understand each other?

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[mnktb]

Turkish - Japanese - Korean - Finnish - Hungarian meeting should be also done which would be definitely interesting.

[sarumadaki]

0:40 Greek does not come from Latin. Common knowledge lol. If anything, Greek posed a great influence on the creation of Latin languages

[S.Yucel]

The word yoghurt is the original Turkish word.

[bre_me]

Greek and Spain Spanish are extremely close phonetically. The Greeks I’ve heard speak Spanish have a perfect accent

[nevermind]

Everytime I hear Turkish on here it feels so familiar, though I understand almost nothing. I guess that's because there are so many turkish people living in Germany and especially because my parents neighbours are turkish and I have been hearing them talking turkish in the garden right next to us all my life. I really like hearing it. It kinda feels a bit like home to me, which is kind of weird not understanding a word. 😅

[_marz]

Andrea saying "I feel motivated to learn Greek because I think I can be good" was me as a Spanish speaker 2 years ago. It's still a long way and I still struggle because greeks speak SO damn fast but I'm hanging in there. Τι όμοφρη γλώσσα και πολιτισμός 🤍💙

[loraivanova]

As a Bulgarian 🇧🇬 I understood Greek and Turkish perfectly. (I just have been learning these languages for years. 😅😅 Our languages aren't really mutually intelligible even tho we use many Turkish words in Bulgarian and there are Greek words in all world languages.) But I think the participants did a great job. They understood more than I expected. I'm really glad you included 2 of my most favourite languages in the world! 🇬🇷🇹🇷

Btw I don't agree that Turks don't conjugate the verbs. 🤔 I don't want to pretend that I know more than a native speaker but let's take the verb "gitmek" as an example:

Ben gidiyorum - I'm going
Sen gidiyorsun - You're going
O gidiyor - He/she/it is going
Biz gidiyoruz - We're going
Siz gidiyorsunuz - You're going
Onlar gidiyor(lar) - They're going

Obviously, the Turkish verbs are being conjugated. I think Oliviane got confused because Turkish is an agglutinative language and if there is more than one verb in the sentence usually only one of them will be conjugated and the other verbs will be in infinitive or something else. Like for example: I want to go. - Gitmek istiyorum. - Only the verb "istemek" (to want) is being conjugated while "gitmek" (to go) is used in infinitive. But still that doesn't mean that verbs in Turkish aren't being conjugated at all! Great video. My inner language geek needed to explain all of this. 😅

[OgedayKaan]

Etymologically, "yoğurt" is a Turkish word where "harita" is Greek :-)

[kullaniciadi]

andrea mentioned that turkish sounds fast, but oliviane was actually speaking slowly 😂

[zeynepceyhan]

Lol the face of the Turkish girl when the German girls said yogurt is a german word.😅😅😅

[MeSafiiyya]

Do all Turkic languages or Turan! It would be soooo interesting for example Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyirgiys, Azerbaijan and other

[JessieDubois]

Andrea has a point, actually. For whatever reason, Greek sounds like someone speaking Gibberish in Spanish (Spain Spanish in particular). I once heard Greek people speaking at an airport, and I thought they were speaking Spanish until I got closer and realised I didn’t understand a thing lol. I’m sure it’s the same for Greeks when hearing Spain Spanish too. Lots of “th” sounds too.

[Charl_es]

Turkish deserves one video, it had been before, but was among Arabic and it's totally different from arabic for me, since it's a not from the same family, i'm surprised with Greece 😊

[bwusee]

Turkish girl is so pretty and her voice is so soft 😫❤❤❤❤❤

[henri]

Among this group, especially these languages i only noticed similarities between Spanish and Italian, the other are totally different, good see Greece 🇬🇷 back but especially Andrea from Spain 🇪🇸

[FuatMas]

01:57 Her face says it all! 😂

Are they kidding me? The first word "Yoghurt" is of Turkish origin and you ask a Turkish girl how it’s spelled? It should be spelled in the only correct and original Turkish way all over the world…😉

[itamarcoroma]

Greek language is one of the most beautiful language in the world. I love it (from Italy)

[wesleyoverton]

As a Greek speaker, Greek is quite different from every European language, since it is not a part of any Germanic, Slavic, or romance language family. Thus the grammar and vocabulary are not similar to any other European language. So no matter what your mother tongue is, you will find Greek a bit challenging to learn because of that. It does sound like Spanish, but it is just because of all the long ee's, and heavy amount of vowels that Greek uses, and not because of any Spanish influence.

[angyliv]

Andrea nows catalan, In catalan blue is blau. I don’t know if is because of the series but I love Turkish. Sounds beautiful.

[burakcetav]

I want to see Turkish with Azerbaijani, Özbek, Kazak, Kirgiz, Uygur, Tatar, Türkmen. All from the same Turkic language family.