Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6240 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish
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I often like listening to the sound of a language I myself don't know or don't come across too often. There are just languages we rarely ever hear, or those of whom we are not too sure what they sound like or if we'd even recognize them. That's why I "collect" clips in other languages/dialects on YouTube.
As this is a language forum and we are obviously all interested in languages, I thought I'd share my humble findings here.
Sri Lankan Tamil news
Armenian news
Funny Ukranian news clip
Slovak news clip
Czech news clip
Clip in Griko (dialect of Greek spoken in southern Italy)
Poetry in Griko
Khmer news
Urdu news
Indonesian news
Amazigh news
Funny clip in Barese (southern Italian dialect)
Another clip from the same movie (in Baresian)
News clip in Georgian
Story told in Tok Pisin
Clip about the Aromanian language in Macedonia (in Aromanian, but I might be wrong)
Poem in Wallonian
Clip in spoken Sanskrit
Short course in Oshiwambo
Short course in Khoekhoe
Irish Gaelic video log
Welsh language broadcast
Nuntii Latini (Latin news)
The Lord's Prayer in Old English
Frisian model Doutzen Kroes promoting the Frisian language in the Netherlands
Albanian comedy
Clip in Basque
Croatian spoof of "The Weakest Link"
News in Yiddish
Phua Chu Kang (series in Singlish)
Latin hexameter demonstrated
Short speech in Farsi
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Thought it was time for a little update...
Old Turkish news clip
Punjabi news clip
Gujarati news clip
Malayalam comedy
Burmese news
One of the clips from Salma, one of the many Hausa movies available on YouTube!
Movie clip dubbed into Tagalog
Clip of a pashto drama (series?)
Clip from one of the many Yoruba dramas available on YouTube
Sindhi comedy
More will follow, stay tuned...
Do you personally have any languages that are well-known, but of whom you have no idea what they sound like? What language have you never heard? Did you find a language that you never heard among these clips that you hadn't heard before? What was your impression of it?
Edited by Gilgamesh on 25 August 2009 at 9:14pm
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Ponape Pentaglot Groupie Spain Joined 5960 days ago 42 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Greek, Basque, Swahili, Tagalog, Arabic (classical), Quechua, Vietnamese, Turkish, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Hindi
| Message 2 of 27 22 August 2009 at 8:43pm | IP Logged |
Thank you for putting this together! For me, it was very curious to hear creole languages related to Spanish, such as Papiamento (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ogldoC-wc&feature=related) and Chabacano of Zamboanga (a Spanish TV report on Chabacano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-M4ML5SLg&feature=fvsr), thanks to YouTube.
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6434 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 27 22 August 2009 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
You should have NEVER EVER posted that!
Now I will want to learn more languages than ever! XD
Well, I didn't have time to see all the videos, but I love Irish and Welsh. They sound a bit mysterious and at the same time strangely Asian for me. Basque was also very awesome to hear and so was Georgian. I was a bit surprised that Yiddish sounded a LOT like German, and even Frisian sounds more similar to German than English, although it's supposed to be the closest language to English (well, if you don't count Scots as a language that is).
I'm pleasantly shocked to discover how Sanskrit sounds very similar to Hindi commercials I watched in Sri Lanka, and I could even spot some Sinhalese words in the speech. Like "mama" for I and "nama" for name. Albanian was also cool and so was Armenian. Croatian sounded so AMAZING and Mystical that I really want to study that language now (although I don't think I'll ever visit the region). I'm a bit disappointed that Farsi didn't sound very pleasant to my ear though.
So... Croatian, Yiddish, Irish, Welsh, Frisian and Basque.. to learn or not to learn, that is the question..
Edited by Jiwon on 22 August 2009 at 9:09pm
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hanni aka cordelia0507 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5602 days ago 69 posts - 92 votes Speaks: Dutch*
| Message 4 of 27 22 August 2009 at 9:16pm | IP Logged |
I wish I understood Georgian. Interesting events in the news studio.
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drfeelgood17 Bilingual Hexaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6447 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog*, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Latin, Arabic (Written)
| Message 5 of 27 22 August 2009 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
Thanks Gilgamesh for posting this list! What a great find, I also love listening to clips of languages I'm not familiar
with, especially the more obscure ones where there isn't a lot of material available.
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Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6240 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish
| Message 6 of 27 22 August 2009 at 10:13pm | IP Logged |
I'm really happy that you liked my posts and that it seems to have inspired people.
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Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6032 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds
| Message 7 of 27 22 August 2009 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
I like the Ukrainian clip ^_^
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Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6240 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes 14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish
| Message 8 of 27 22 August 2009 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
Sennin wrote:
I like the Ukrainian clip ^_^ |
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Also one of my favourites, I have to say. ;-)
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