Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Welcome to another Glossika challenge.
I'm your host, Jonah.
I'm a Canadian, living in Taipei
studying Chinese.
I love learning languages.
And so do all of my friends here.
This is a group of polyglots
I've gathered
for the challenge
of seeing
whether they can
pronounce words from languages
that they don't know.
Thanks to their language learning ability.
How are you
guys feeling today?
Ready
Okay, all right.
Let's try with our first word.
Now, this is an Arabic word.
I'm going to show you
show you the text,
tell you the meaning,
and then see if you can pronounce it.
After that, I'll play the sound
and we can see how you guys did.
Here's our first word.
Okay.
Do we have any guesses
on the meaning of that word?
Seems like a city name.
I think it's a milkshake in star wars.
All right. So, I was correct in another case.
Just a bit of a difference in,
you know, when you emphasized.
But, the meaning of that word is ginger.
So, not a milkshake, not a city.
So, this is a Japanese word.
Here's the text.
Any guesses on the meaning of that word?
Can I see again?
Sure, yeah.
I'll show you the
because you can see the kanji.
So, since you know Chinese,
then you can
maybe tell what it means
and make a guess.
Say reason.
Reason? Okay.
Yeah, obviously.
So, I'm seeing two sorts.
And there must be some samurai clan.
So, this means I know Japanese,
and this means like a dish
or like a cooking.
Oh, perfect.
This is an Indonesian word.
And here.
Here's the text.
It's a sort of insect that you grow
near Jakarta.
And then use it to make perfume.
It's called
Okay.
It's great.
You should try it.
Wait, you know that?
Yeah.
Seriously?
Everybody knows.
How do you say, like,
would have been my guess?
It sounds more like a
I would think, as I can Aztec.
The Aztec.
Aztec word.
The text, you know, the spelling using
Latin letters is surprising.
Not what you would expect necessarily.
And, you know,
I think you were bluffing
on that one, my friends,
because it is not an insect
to grow near Jakarta to make perfume.
It is, in fact,
There you go.
This is a Greek word.
And here is the text in Roman letters.
I would say if
Okay.
Something for fishing.
The meaning is grateful.
Oh, yeah.
This is a Korean word.
And this one?
We don't have the Korean
syllabary, but, we do the Latin.
What? Some Korean.
So, again,
you know, I'd say the consonants and
and vowels.
Pretty much, right.
But, a bit of a different
emphasis and speech.
So, dish made with platypus,
kimchi fried rice.
Platypus.
Julian, what do you think?
Cold noodles.
It's funny how we all think food.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what in other K-dramas.
The meaning is actually smart,
you know,
smart,
smart like a group of smart.
Now, we're onto level two.
Yeah, it's harder.
Yeah, it's better get harder.
This is an English word, but,
a seldom used English word.
What do you think of this word?
A little bit of a posh accent.
And what do you think the meaning is?
Extremely clean.
Similar to Spanish
I was thinking of some
fancy weather forecast or some cloud.
And you got it.
You got it? Yeah.
Very nice.
Spanish is useful.
Yeah, yeah.
This is an example where,
you know,
it helps to learn languages
that are related because then you can,
you know, figure out the meaning of words
in different languages.
Especially, for the hardest words.
When you say it's
an English word and is seldom used.
I was like, I am gonna know,
because the hardest word in English.
Always comes from the Latin.
Oh, true.
Right.
Simple words come from German.
It means physical beauty,
somewhat related to what you were saying
the Spanish
This is another Indonesian word.
Yeah, there you go.
Now, I'd be more inclined to believe
you're right.
Not an ocean
The word
just a distorted version.
What do you think, Juli?
I was just saying very high mountains,
but, I was thinking,
does Indonesia have high mountain?
Of course.
And they would.
They still need to have a word for it.
I don't know.
I really don't know.
It's not the ocean.
It's not high mountains or what
you were saying.
No, it is the
the meaning is to get
or to have attended or have received.
Get attended, received.
Here is an Italian word.
Perfect, perfect.
I'm confident.
I see that you all watch
Glossika's other video
about learning Italian hand gestures.
Let's hear
how to pronounce this word,
and then we can guess the meaning,
how about that?
We're so close.
Which means totally cockroach.
Going very fast
and good at formula one car.
I go with the cockroach.
Or perhaps to chat.
Yeah, but, doesn't it capture the,
you know, the sound
and the sense
of chatting with the friends?
That's words, you know.
Now, we're on to level three.
Here is an English word,
but, it is an iconic
and very long English word.
Can you give it a bit of a Spanish
pronunciation?
Mary Poppins.
Okay, you're pretty close.
Pretty close as well, all right.
Mary Poppins
would say
even though the sound of it
is something quite atrocious.
If you say it loud enough,
that they always sound precocious
Mary Poppins game.
I'm so happy to know
that there's a Spanish version as well.
Yeah, that's great.
It means roughly extraordinarily good
but, that doesn't quite do justice
to it,
since in
Mary Poppins,
the whole point is that the
the sense of the word comes through
in how you say,
you know, in a burst of enthusiasm.
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Thanks, guys.
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Bye-bye.