- I think it's one of the ones
that I don't know.
I knew it, when I heard the name, I knew it!
- Okay. - Got it.
- Give me a minute, give me a minute.
- Hi, I'm Farryn.
- Hi, I'm Destiny.
And today, we're gonna be trying
to identify European languages.
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Hmm. - Ooh,
I feel 50:50 on this.
Like, I think I can get the big ones,
but if you're throwin' some like obscure country at me,
then I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do it.
Like, someone from Croatia, like,
I don't know what that sounds like.
If you do Italy, Spain, France?
I think I can get those.
- I speak like a, like, when I say
teeny tiny teeny, like a couple words of French,
but that's really good.
Like, so small.
- I don't speak any other languages,
I took Spanish in high school,
and then I immediately forgot Spanish
once I left high school, so that's a no for me.
- I have never been to Europe,
so I'm really excited to go on a sensory journey today
and hear these languages and see if maybe
I can pick up something before I go.
- I guess we're gonna put on blindfolds
to heighten our senses.
- All right, let's do it.
- Here we go.
My sense are already heightened.
- Yeah.
- I can hear them already outside the door.
- I'm ready, bring 'im out.
- Or her. - Or her.
Or them!
- This is equal opportunity right here.
(pizzicato string music)
(speaking Italian)
- Mm.
(angelic harp music)
(speaking Italian)
- I'm thinking somewhere like around Spain or Portugal?
- At first, I couldn't tell, there was lots of like
Zs in there, and I'm like okay, where we goin'?
But then it kind of was like rollin' off the tongue,
so it was like it kind of sounds a little like Spanishy
but we're talkin' Europe, so I was thinking like Portugal.
- Destiny, this will really help us.
Can you say no in your language?
- No.
(laughs)
- Destiny, you got it?
- (snaps) Ready, got it. (claps)
- All right, cool.
- (claps) Let's hear it.
- My answer is Spain.
- I will also say Spain.
- Hello! - Hello.
- Hello! - Hi!
- How's it going? - Good!
- My name is Maximilliano.
- Maximilli-- - Oh no!
- And I am from Spain, just kidding, I'm from Italy!
- No, I knew it, I knew it! - Oh!
- When I heard the name, I knew it.
- Well, it was a pleasure.
- Thank you for coming. - Thank you.
- And we should go to Spain, Spain is nice, though.
But Italy's better.
(laughing)
(warm synth music)
(speaking Swedish)
(angelic harp music)
(speaking Swedish)
- That was a lot of words.
And sounds.
I have some ideas, I have some ideas,
but I am not, I am not sure.
At first, I was kind of like, Greek-ish?
But then I was like, maybe like Czech?
Or like Russian?
I don't really,
I cannot tell.
- I don't know what it is.
(laughs)
I think it's one of the ones that I don't know.
I'm being honest with yoU.
Which all of them.
Did you say underberg at one point?
(speaking Swedish)
- Oh, that's not right.
- [Destiny] Did you say alcohol?
- Mmhmm.
- M'kay.
- Alcohol.
- Okay, it's all the same.
Okay, I think I have a guess.
- You're gonna go with, you're gonna go with Greek?
- No, no, I'm gonna go with Russian.
- [Farryn] Russian?
(exhaling)
- Actually, wait, wait, wait, no.
- Can you say, like, my name is?
(speaking Swedish)
- Oh, that didn't help me at all.
(laughing)
- Could be Croatian, I don't know.
- Frick, frick. - Look, go back.
- Frick, frick, do I have to make a guess?
I don't know, Polish?
I don't know.
- I said Slovak?
- That was Swedish.
(groaning) (laughing)
- Ahh, wow. - Hey!
- Well, oh for two, folks.
(laughs) - Wow.
- Oh for two.
- I didn't really know Swedish sounded like that,
is that really what it?
I mean, I-- - Say something again?
(speaking Swedish)
- Yeah, okay, when I take the blindfold off, he's right.
THat's right.
- Wow, that is, wow, great.
- Well, all right, we tried.
- It's okay, I forgive you both.
- Thank you. - Thank you. (laughs)
- It's not like anyone else ever guesses that correctly.
My best friends think I'm making it up
on the spot when I speak it.
(European guitar music)
(speaking Portuguese)
- Some of what she was saying kind of sounded
a little like some, could be similar to Spanish
a little bit?
But also not, so I'm still trying to piece together
what she just said.
- I'm gonna just say Portugal
'cause I'm really feelin' that--
- Yeah. - I think that's,
I think that's what I'm getting here.
Can you say like, I eat fish?
(speaking Portuguese)
- Mmhmm, I'm stickin' with it.
- Well, now that Farryn said that, now I'm kinda like, yeah,
but also, can you say I went to school today?
(speaking Portuguese)
(laughs)
- Damn.
(laughing)
Portuguese sounds like, now that,
I mean, I don't like what it sounds like,
but now that Farryn has said that, I'm like leaning into it.
But I also like--
- It also sounds like it could east,
something on the east side? - Yeah, that's what I'm like--
- You, you pick that, we'll split the difference,
so you take one over there,
and I'll take Portugal and we'll just call it even
and if one of us are right--
- Okay, wait, one more sentence.
Say I like dogs.
(speaking Portuguese)
- Oh no, never mind, hold on.
- I'm feeling like, like Czech.
- Hold on. - Czech, Czech,
Czechoslovakia, is that where is that,
that's all what that is?
That's what I'm feeling, something around that area.
- Well, I don't know because that I like dogs,
I like dogs is like, that threw me a little bit,
that's not what I was expecting.
I'm just gonna stick with it, I'm oh for three already.
Or oh for two two already, and let's just go oh for three,
I'm gonna lock it in, final answer, Portugal.
- Hi!
- Hi! - Hey.
- Yes, I am from Portugal.
(crowd cheering) (laughing)
- Hey, goal!
- Great job! - Thank you.
- Great job. - I tried.
- I know you did. (laughing)
You both did great.
Goodbye! - Thank you.
(European folk music)
(speaking Romanian)
- I'm thinking like, initially, I wanna say like
Russian or something like that?
But I also don't know.
- I don't know either!
It also kinda has like a Spanishy sound to it.
But honestly, her cadence is like very smooth
but it kind of sounds like a little bit
like French a little bit?
Like, I'm getting some French vibes, but I don't know.
The French that like, I was taught,
like doesn't sound like that.
(laughing)
But like, some of the words she's saying, I'm like, wait.
- Can you say, like, my name is?
(speaking Romanian)
- Oh, oh boy!
- Oh, this is hard.
- This is so hard, you guys!
(speaking Romanian)
- Oh yeah, okay.
Mmhmm, that makes sense. (laughs)
(speaking Romanian)
- Okay, got it, got it. - Okay, give me a minute,
give me a minute. - Got it.
Destiny, I'll let you have the floor first.
- Wait, no, wait, I just need like a second.
Let me think through, I'm like looking at a map in my head.
It sounds kind of-- - Hey, you should go
with Greek, you know? - Greek! (claps)
Honestly, I've been holding out to say Croatian,
so maybe I'll just use that now.
Say, yes, I am hungry.
(speaking Romanian)
- (sighs) Didn't, never mind.
- I'm gonna stay Russian.
- I'm gonna just (claps) jump right on in
and say like Finnish.
- Hello ladies. - Hi!
- Hello!
- So, it's Romanian.
(groaning)
But you were both close
because Romania is part of the five Romance languages,
so it's French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.
It's the only eastern European country
that has the Romance language.
So, you can feel a little bit of Russian,
but also, the Latin roots.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- So, yeah, 'cause we have da,
but we have dadada dada, dadada dadada, it's like, mm.
- Like music! - Yeah, yeah.
- That was tricky!
This was a tricky one.
I have never heard Romanian before.
- I think I have heard Romanian before.
I'd have never thought any of it, so that's crazy.
- Probably in vampires movies,
there's always a lady or the bad guy,
the vampire like the alpha vampire
that says something cool, (speaking Romanian)
and blah blah blah or something.
- Ooh, that's Romanian! - Yeah, yeah.
- Oh my goodness!
- The da really threw me, so I was like,
Russian, boom, done.
- Bye! - Thank you!
- Thank you so much. (speaking Romanian)
- And thank you! (laughing)
- So while I clearly did not do well at all,
that was, it's really hard because I feel like
a lot of languages are like, have pieces of other,
like, you know what I mean, like?
- Yeah. - There's, it's just,
it was really hard, that was like--
- Yeah, like especially with the last one,
where she was like, I snuck a little of Spanish
and a little bit of French and a little bit of this
and a little bit of that,
and so when we were listening,
we were picking up on all of these things,
but it was really hard to pinpoint
sort of like which direction that it was learning.
I learned I'm terrible at languages.
- Yeah, I learned I need to go to Europe,
so I can learn these languages.
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