"Jack, learn the capital cities of the world!"
"Jack - avoiding learning capital cities"
"Learn all the capital cities!"
[MANY SIMILAR REMARKS OVERLAPPING]
Alright, fine!
I'll learn all the capital cities of the world, starting with Europe.
Here we go.
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To begin with, let's find out how many capital cities I already know.
"Enter the capital of Andorra?"
I don't know that!
I feel like it's the word 'Andorra' with, like, two other words next to it.
But, I don't know.
Okay, I don't know!
I really don't wanna do this!
Let's just keep going.
I don't know Montenegro.
Portugal I do know.
It's Lisbon.
One! Thank you!
Turkey - I think is, like, is it called, like,
'Ankra?' 'Anakra?'
Something like that?
It's like that, isn't it?
'Annakra?' What is it?
I don't know!
Okay, I guess we don't know that one.
Malta? I don't know.
Russia? Yes! Finally! Moscow.
There we go!
Yay! That's two of 47...!
Now, I know it doesn't look like it,
but, by the end of this video,
I will have learned every single capital.
So, just stay with me.
Alright, capital of the Vatican...
I assume is maybe just the Vatican or is it just Vatican City?
Yeah.
Okay. Cool.
Lithuania...
I do not know.
Cyprus. I do not know.
Finland I think is Helsinki?
Is that right?
Yes...
Moldova... Nope.
Hungary... is it, like, Budapest?
[SLOWLY] Budapest.
Let's try that one.
It is!
Belgium... I don't know, unfortunately.
Croatia... I think might be Zagreb.
Let's try that.
Yes!
'Za-geeb', 'Za-greb' - something like that.
Sweden is Stockholm.
Right. We're bringing it back. There we go.
Monaco... I don't know.
I might just try Monaco again.
And Liechtenstein or 'Lick-ten-stein'.
I think I've been mispronouncing that for a very long time.
I'm hoping it's just Liechtenstein.
Okay. It is not. That's cool.
North Macedonia... no.
Austria... Ooh...
I should know that one.
It's a place British people like to go on holiday.
It's not Zegreb. It's not Budapest.
Is it Bucharest?
I don't know how to pronounce it. Uh...
I'm gonna type it in.
I'm allowed a bit of cheating on this first attempt.
Alright. That's actually Romanian capital but that's how it's spelt.
Okay, I don't know it then, I guess.
San Marino... I also don't know.
I'm gonna try San Marino, though, seeing as it is a microstate.
That worked.
Estonia... I don't know!
Denmark... I don't know...!
Netherlands... I know that one.
Amsterdam. I think anyway... Yeah.
Poland is... Oslo?
Is that how it's pronounced?
No?
Warsaw! Not Oslo. Oslo's Norway, isn't it?
War...saw...haw...
I don't know how to spell it.
Okay. If I know it, but I can't spell it, for round one,
I'm allowed to find out.
Alright, it's Warsaw with A's. Right.
Warsaw rather than Worsaw.
Italy is... uh...
I know this! It's just escaped my brain temporarily!
Rome! Obviously.
Obviously.
Oh, my God.
Germany is a Berlin.
Latvia, I don't know.
Switzerland... I don't know.
Bosnia... I don't know.
Iceland is...
How do you spell Reykjavik?!
Rek...ee...aa...vik
We'll try that. Nope.
Let's see how close we were.
D'you know what? We weren't far away.
I think I just missed a Y.
Alright, ready?
Yes...!
France is obviously Paris.
Spain is Madrid.
Slovenia, I don't know.
United Kingdom is London.
Serbia I don't know.
Czechia... hmm...
I should know Czechia.
It's embarrassing that I don't.
Ireland is... Dublin.
Bulgaria... I don't know.
Kosovo, I don't know.
Albania, I don't know.
[MUFFLED] Slovakia, I don't know.
So many of these will ring a bell once I try.
Oslo. Yep.
And then... Greece is...
It's Athens!
It's Athens...
Luxembourg I think is Luxembourg City...?
I'm gonna try that.
Yeah, it's just Luxembourg. Okay.
Romania is Bucharest.
Do we remember how to spell it?
No.
Bu...cha...rest.
Okay. Bu...cha...rest.
Ukraine is... Kyiv.
But, I don't know how exactly how to spell it.
Oh! We got there.
Belarus... I don't know.
Andorra... I don't know.
And, that's them all.
So, so far, we know 23 of 47
which, d'you know what?
Isn't actually too bad.
Obviously, remember,
I'm planning to learn every continent over the next few months.
So, when we do African capitals,
at the minute, I probably know, like, three.
But, obviously, with me being European, I've just naturally
picked up a few of these over the last few years,
so, that's 23 out of 47.
Okay. Let's 'give up'. See what we were missing.
Copenhagen I should have got.
That's pretty obvious, isn't it?
And Brussels I should have got as well!
And Prague!
Ah...! Come on, Prague!
Andorra la Vella.
I knew it was, like, Andorra and then, two little words afterwards.
There's Ankara,
which we were very close to for Turkey,
but I just couldn't quite remember it.
Vienna for Austria. Ah...!
Of course I should know Vienna
'cause I'm learning German Vienna is 'Wein'
and, the amount of times I have had to say,
[SPEAKING GERMAN INCLUDING 'WEIN']
And, Sarajevo for Bosnia. I've heard that one as well.
So, Sofia for Bulgaria.
Minsk, Belarus!
Okay, okay, okay.
Keep in your head, Jack.
Let's do it. Let's do it.
Right. It wants Germany to begin with.
Alright, Berlin.
Moldova...
[...]
[MUFFLED MONOTONE] I don't remember it. I don't remember it. I don't remember it.
Madrid.
This isn't the most ideal way of learning it, is it?
Lithuania...
Can't remember. I'm not sure.
Andorra. Okay!
[SAYING AS TYPING] Andorra la Vella.
Austria is... Vienna!
Come on, Jack!
[SAYING AS TYPING] Vienna.
There we go.
Albania I can't remember.
Slovenia... hmm...
It's all falling apart, again.
Latvia was something like 'rinus' or 'tinas' or something like that.
'tina', 'tino'... Awh... I don't know.
Czechia is Prague!
Come on, Prague. There we go.
Lichtenstein was... I think it was Vaduz?
Did I read that correctly?
I did.
Ah... I spelled it wrong.
There's a J in it. There's a j in it.
There we go.
Switzerland, I think...
Is it Bern?
Although, apparently, according to the comments on my previous video,
Bern isn't technically a capital city, but,
it's still kinda classed as a capital city on this.
Alright, Portugal, we know was Lisbon.
Estonia I can't remember.
Netherlands, we know is Amsterdam.
Okay. Bulgaria- Oh! It was Sofia, wasn't it?
Just randomly come back to me.
Moscow. Ha ha!
Vatican City.
There we go.
Oslo! Athens!
Okay, we're beating our score.
Hungary's Budapest.
[SAYING AS TYPING] Budapest.
Ukraine is Kyiv.
Ireland is Dublin.
Luxembourg is Luxembourg.
Denmark. We remember this one, now.
Co...open...ha...gan... Uh...
How do I spell it?
Is there a H in it or something?
Oh, God. I don't know.
Awh...! I was really close.
It's just an E on the end.
[SAYING AS TYPING] Copenhagen.
Like that.
Romania was... Aah...
Isn't it Bu...ca...rest?
There we go.
Bosnia was...
I know it. I know it. I know it.
I can get it to come to me.
Sarajevo!
Like that. Yeah...! There we go.
Cyprus... I can't remember.
UK is London.
Serbia I don't know.
Italy is Rome.
So, I think this is about the score that we got last time,
and, I've still got quite a few to do.
Warsaw with an A.
Finland is Hel...sinki.
Can't believe we're finally here.
Belarus was Minsk, wasn't it?
Yes...!
Schweden is Stockholm.
Croatia is... 'zegreb'.
Zagreb, go on.
Yep.
Monaco... can't remember.
North Macedonia... I don't know.
Malta... it was, erm...
I don't know.
Belgium's Brussels, isn't it?
Turkey was 'anakra'.
Ankara. It's Ankara, isn't it?
[SAYING AS TYPING] Ankara.
No!
I'm gonna get the spelling.
Ankara. Okay, okay.
That should be fine.
Ankara.
There we go.
Moldova, I don't know.
San Marino... I... do not know.
And, I think... all of these other ones I don't remember.
So, that's 32 on our second attempt.
So, that's an improvement of, like, seven or something.
So, let's 'give up' and see what we're missing this time.
Right. Nicosia in Cyprus.
Right. Nicosia was in my last maps I find cool video, wasn't it?
It was the round city.
Monaco is just Monaco.
And, San Marino's just San Marino.
They were a couple of freebies I threw away.
What was I thinking?
I'm pretty sure I got them in the first on, didn't I?
Alright. North Macedonia is Skopje.
Right, okay...
Okay. So, I'm gonna pause doing this map for now,
and, instead, we're going to try and see if we can fill in this board
where the capital cities are in front of us and we have to name the corresponding country,
but before I do that,
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Belgrade for example.
I think we just learned was Serbia.
Yeah.
Podgorica?
I don't know where that is!
Let's skip it for now.
Nicosia... that was Cyprus, wasn't it? If I remember.
Yes. Berlin is, obviously, Deutsch.
Warsaw is... Poland.
Dublin is Ireland.
Vilnius...! I saw that one.
It was up towards the Baltic's, wasn't it?
Estonia... Latvia-
I'm gonna try Lithuania.
Yes...!
Oslo is Norway.
Okay. Amsterdam is, obviously, the Netherlands.
And then, Rome is, obviously, Italy.
Skopje. We saw that. It's down the bottom, isn't it? In the Balkans.
It was Montenegro.
[SAYING AS TYPING] Montenegro.
No, it's not!
North Macedonia. It's North Macedonia.
[SAYING AS TYPING] Macedonia.
Bern is... Swi...tzerland.
Paris is France.
Ankara is Turkey.
The Vatican City is just Vatican.
Stockholm is... Sweden.
Sarajevo is...
Don't tell me. It's down in Balkans as well,
but I just can't remember.
Is it Romania?
What is it?!
Why don't I remember?
Is it Albania? It's bloody Alban-
It's- What is it?!
Right. I'm cheating.
I don't even care.
It's Bosnia Herzegovina. Okay.
[SAYING AS TYPING] Bosnia and Herzegovina.
There we go.
Vienna was... Austria.
Zagreb was... Croatia?
Yes.
Andorra la Vella is Andorra.
Andorra la Vella sounds cool, doesn't it?
Chișinău...
I have absolutely no idea.
I'm gonna just skip for now.
I've never even read that before.
Sophia was Bulgaria, I think, was it?
Yes, it was.
Luxembourg is just Luxembourg.
Madrid is Spain.
Bratislava. I don't think I've really read that one, either.
With a name of Bratislava, you'd think it would be somewhere, like, Serbia,
but, it is not.
I'll try Moldova.
No. D'you know what?
I should just find out because it just gonna get in my head the wrong way.
Oh. It's Slovakia.
Alright. 'slava', Slovakia.
Should be able to remember that.
Slovakia.
Helsinki was Finland.
Ljubljana... I don't- I have no idea how to pronounce that one.
I'll skip for now.
Reykjavik was Iceland.
Moscow is Russia.
Vaduz was...
It was Liechtenstein, wasn't it?
Was it Liechtenstein?
It was!
San Marino is San Marino.
Prague's Czechia.
Bucharest is Romania.
Kyiv is Ukraine.
Budapest is...
Pff...
♪ My house in Budapest, my My hidden treasure chest ♪
I'll skip it for now.
Stupid thing.
UK.
Portugal.
Go on. Give me some easy ones so I can finish this in the next fourty seconds.
Minsk was Belarus.
Valletta. Ah... I don't know.
Monaco is Monaco.
Copenhagen is Denmark.
Riga was... was it Estonia?
No. Was it Latvia?
Yes.
Tirana was...
Can't remember.
Pristina I don't know.
Brussels is Belgium.
Tallinn was somewhere down the bottom.
Podgorica I don't know.
I've skipped all the hard ones
apart from Budapest, which, for some reason,
it's just not in my head right now.
I can't remember!
Hungary, obviously.
Well, look. That's 39 of 47.
So, that's not bad.
Right. I am struggling to get the next level of this.
So, you can see why I've been avoiding it for so long.
So, I think, in order for all these new words to actually start sticking in my head,
we're just gonna have to keep doing this a bunch of times and I'll keep cheating,
typing in the answers, and eventually, it'll all stick in.
So, timelapse time.
[RELAXING MUSIC]
Riga? Yeah...!
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
[SINGINGLY] Budapest. Bu...da...pest.
Awh....
Two hours later.
Right. Okay.
I've come up with a couple of tricks.
Let's see if I can do it without Googling anything, alright?
Here we go.
Capital of Iceland.
That is... uh... 'rey-ka-vik'
'Rek-ke-vik', it's pronounced. Reykjavik it's spelled.
Estonia... How do I remember this one?
So, when I think of Estonia, I think of stones,
and, when I think of stones,
I'm putting the stones on top of each other
creating a really tall tower.
So, capital of Estonia is...
Tallinn?
Yes...!
Belarus is Minsk.
That one's locked in now.
Athens is locked in.
London is easy.
Bosnia is... Sarajevo.
Pyh... No, is it not?
Sarajevo...
Yeah, there we go. Spelled correctly.
Weirdly, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia:
even though they're quite easy,
they do not stick in my head,
but Bulgaria is Sofia, I think, isn't it?
San Marino is San Marino.
So far, so good.
Luxembourg is Luxembourg.
All of these freebies.
Warsaw we know now.
Warsaw...
Uh... Netherlands is Amsterdam.
Turkey is Ankara.
Finally, I've learnt the spelling.
I've just separated it to 'an-kara'
and I visualise a Turkey that's called Kara.
Okay.
Croatia is Zagreb.
There we go.
Portugal is Lisbon.
I've known Lisbon since my parents went on a cruise there, like, ten years ago.
Ukraine is Kyiv.
This is going well.
See, I don't know why Czechia just didn't stay in my head,
but, I started remembering:
'Pray that I remember what the capital of Czechia is'
and, from 'pray', I get to Prague.
Prague. There we go.
Slovenia...
This is a dreadful one.
This is the hardest to spell.
It's something, like, 'ledge-boo-la-loo' or something like that.
It goes 'le-je-bub' like that.
And then, I think there's another J and then,
an 'ana'?
'le-buja-lana'
I'm just not gonna be able to spell that one.
It's really difficult.
Okay, we'll skip it for now and hopefully it's the only one.
Ireland is Dublin.
Lithuania is...
Hang on. Hang on...
Riga?
Is it Riga?
No, it's Vilnius, isn't it? Vilnius.
Yes.
One of the others is Riga.
Lichtenstein is Vaduz.
I don't know why I remember that one.
France is Paris.
Moldova is... erm...
Ah... no...
I'm gonna skip it.
I'm going to skip it but I'll come back to it.
I reckon I can get it.
Russia's Moscow.
Kosovo... Here we go. You ready for this?
So, Kosovo, I think of, like, a pretty religious country, okay?
So, I'm imagine a priest, and the priest is called... Tina.
Pristina Kosovo.
There we go.
Romania we know as Bucharest.
There we go.
Andorra is Andorra la Vella. Fantastic.
Germany is Berlin.
Switzerland is Bern.
Norway is Oslo.
Slovakia is... Bratislava!
There we go.
[SAYING AS TYPING] Bratislava.
Awh! What an improvement!
Ah... I've not got it.
Bratislava is it, maybe?
Bratislava, yeah, there we go.
Malta. Okay.
So, Malta, I think of a dog moulting,
so, I need to take them to the mall in order to get their hair cut,
and, if you change 'mall' to a V, that's Valletta!
Serbia is kinda shaped like a bell, but not really.
So, it's Belgrade. There we go.
North Macedonia.
This one I really couldn't keep in my head, but, I have decided,
I really like the flag of North Macedonia.
My name starts with J.
It's Skopje with a J.
There we go.
Italy is Rome.
Albania. I'm not sure.
But, can we now point out I've got 32 without cheating, okay?
Albania...
Something that got quite a few A's in it, but I can't remember.
I'll skip it.
Denmark is Copenhagen
but, for some reason, I have a real hard time spelling this one.
Co...pen...hey...gan...
There we go.
We're okay that time.
Montenegro... Awh, God.
Montenegro 'tirinus?'
Something like that?
'tirranus?'
I'm gonna have to skip it.
Awh... it's all falling apart.
Brussels.
Austria is Vienna.
Vatican City is Vatican City.
Hungary is... Budapest.
Here we go.
Finally remembering that.
Helsinki. There we go.
Spain is Madrid.
Cyprus. Can we remember Cyprus?
Yes, we can.
It's Nicosia.
Alright. Monaco is Monaco.
So, that's 41.
Oh, hold on... i-it continues.
Stockholm.
And... Latvia is Riga.
And Slovenia is the 'le-je-ba-lub' one.
So, that's 43 out of 47 without any cheats!
We've learnt 43 out of 47. That's pretty good.
So, let's try and work these out.
One of them begins with T, but, I can't remember what it is.
Let's give up. Okay.
Yeah, there is it.
Tirana for Albania.
Alright. Remember that 'a-n' in Albania
and remember the 'a-n' Tirana.
Tirana Albania.
Moldova's Chisinau,
which I'm just never gonna remember.
Montenegro is Podgorica
and I wanna try and remember that 'cause I want to think of Montenegro as, like,
being shaped like a little pod.
And then, Slovenia, no matter how hard I try,
I just cannot spell 'le-jub-le-j-na'.
How are we meant to pronounce that, by the way?
Let's find out.
Robot: 'loo-bee-aa-nuh'
I need to keep pronouncing it 'la-jub-le-j-na'
until I've learnt how to spell it, because 'loo-bee-aa-nuh'
is never gonna stay in my head.
Robot: 'loo-bee-aa-nuh'
'le-jub-le-j-na'
One more time, anyone? Here we go.
Okay. Lithuania was Vil...ni...us,
wasn't it?
Yes.
Estonia was 'tall...ta...leta?'
Oh, God. I've forgotten it.
'Talletta?'
No?
Tallinn! It's Tallinn!
Aah!! Restart, restart.
Alright, Vilnius to begin with.
Monaco is Monaco.
Slovakia is... Brat...is...lava.
Yes!
Kosovo... Pristina...?
Is that right?
Yes.
Slovenia.
Okay. 'le-jub-bill-le-ana'
'Le-jub-bill-ana'
'b-lana' 'b-lana'
'jana'
'le-jub...-le-jana'
Why have I not got this right, yet?!
Come on!
Oh! I got it.
'le-jub-le-jana'
Okay.
Belgium - Brussels.
So far, not cheating at all on this run.
Cyprus is Nico...sia.
Malta? What was Malta?
Valletta.
Croatia's Zegreb.
I knew that. I knew that.
Here's Czechia. That is... Prague.
Yes, good.
[SOFT BACKGROUND MUSIC]
Ooh... Moldova...
Chis...in...au
[INHALE]
Oh, my God. Incredible.
Bosnia is Sarajevo.
There we go.
North Macedonia. Skopje.
Yep.
Okay, here's Albania.
It's 'tir-ra-na'.
Tirana! Tirana!
Okay.
Okay. We've got the final eight now.
Denmark: Copenhagen.
Estonia.
Tall- Pff, pff...
'Tallenn?'
Tallinn?
Yes.
Tallinn. Okay.
Montenegro is... Podgorica.
Yes!
There we go.
Luxembourg is just Luxembourg.
There we go.
Germany is just Berlin.
Nearly there.
Vatican City...
Taking all the freebies right now.
Hungary is Budapest.
Belarus is Minsk...!
We did it!
We did all the capital cities without any cheating!
Now, obviously, it was still hard.
I need to get to a stage where I can, just, instantly answer any
capital city in Europe,
but, for now,
I've named all the capital cities without cheating.
Thank God.
That was really difficult.
Thanks so much for watching.
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