Word Differences Between 7 Asian Languages! l Why Malay and Tagalog are so Similar?

[00:00:01]Hello. Here we are almost same can communicate even without any translation. She speaks her own language, I speak mine, but we still understand each other.

[00:00:11]>> Really?

[00:00:11]>> How does that happen? There's like similar words or >> everything is similar.

[00:00:15]>> It's different I think.

[00:00:17]>> But I realized like you know like uh Malaysian word it's kind of like similar to like um Filipinos like Tagalog word in some way because of the Spanish origins.

[00:00:27]>> Yes.

[00:00:28]>> Oh my gosh. Yeah.

[00:00:29]>> Wow. I only thought Indonesia has common thing with Tagalogu because of the Austronesian.

[00:00:36]>> Wow.

[00:00:36]>> Very similar to Indonesia as well.

[00:00:38]>> Wow.

[00:00:39]>> Since Singapore, our working language is English. The only difference was probably our pronunciation.

[00:00:45]>> Ah, yeah. I think China will be very different. I think will be the most different. And yeah, we have some similar maybe Philippines, some conglish maybe. [laughter] We have checklist too.

[00:01:01]>> Hello. [laughter] Hello.

[00:01:05]>> Hello.

[00:01:10]And hi English. [laughter] >> Thank you. Thank you.

[00:01:20]And you said >> yeah it's >> yeah it's actually we can also use it for to say thank you like for us no I think for us only for saying hello but we would understand that it's a good thing [laughter] that's a nice thing that you're saying like a greeting yeah like a greeting okay bye >> we say as well but we say like um like good morning salamat malam salat pagi means >> um good Morning.

[00:01:48]>> Oh, rice. Rice.

[00:01:51]>> Nasi.

[00:01:52]>> Uncooked rice is big. Cooked rice is canin bread.

[00:02:00]>> Bread.

[00:02:00]>> Roti.

[00:02:02]Nan.

[00:02:03]>> Naan.

[00:02:06]>> Bang is like French like right.

[00:02:08][laughter] >> In Malaysia. Naan and roti is also um more used in like Indian cuisine.

[00:02:15]>> Yeah. Yeah. Indian cuisine has naan, right? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:18]>> So, roti as well. So, it's kind of interesting.

[00:02:21]>> I think in some parts of China, we have naan, too.

[00:02:24]>> Really?

[00:02:24]>> Yeah. It's like the the bread you make like really pli.

[00:02:27]>> Yeah, we have that too. N.

[00:02:29]>> So, if you say, can you give me some naan? Could you like could people understand?

[00:02:34]>> Yeah. But it's like not the normal bread. It's like special made that shape of [music] bread. N >> not not the plain one.

[00:02:39]>> Yeah. It's not like in every parts of China some part they have n >> noodle. Noodle >> me >> noodles or pensit?

[00:02:47]>> How do you say noodle? [laughter] >> So we have two types of noodles. The one that we use in our traditional dish uh which is called bisharmak. We use like a big square type of a noodle. So I think you could see it in some European countries cuisine. I'm not sure about that. But you we call it kamur. But if it's like a thin noodle then we would call it lman. No lag. But lagman is a dishes name. But at the same time when you're buying the noodles for lagman, it's called lagman. But we also have other dishes like apart from lagman. Do we all say kamaris?

[00:03:22]>> Kiss probably is more like this one like the the long noodles and ham is mostly for the square one.

[00:03:29]>> In Kazak we say ja or lman a lot. In China, I would say >> Korean noodle is ku and just noodle is subway.

[00:03:40]>> MRT, which stands for mass rapid train.

[00:03:43]In Malaysia, we have like different kind of like um public transportation [music] that is like in that category. But I don't think we have specifically subway.

[00:03:52]We have like KTM which is like railway, MRT, RRT, monor rail, like some is like just like um on top and yeah like different kind of system but not literally subway.

[00:04:03]>> In the Philippines it's the same. We don't have subways or metros but we do have LRTs and MRTs.

[00:04:09]>> Yeah, we just say metro. In Kazakhstan it's the same metro.

[00:04:12]>> So in China most of the metro if it's down it's called subway. If it's up the ground they call [music] chinu. Ah down called dtier. We say the food.

[00:04:22]>> So in Singapore, if a tourist ask you, "Oh, where's the Subway?" and then you search for the Subway sandwich store and direct them to it. [laughter] >> In Kazakhstan, I don't think there are Subway restaurants. So, as far as I know, but I've been here for 6 years, so it might have changed. [laughter] It might have changed, but uh I don't think anyone could understand you if you say, "Where is the subway?" Unless they speak English.

[00:04:46]>> We actually call it train, [laughter] >> but I do take the train.

[00:04:50]>> Take the train. Yeah.

[00:04:51]>> Yeah. I know. I know that a lot of countries they would say different things like the metro or Yeah. Subway, train. It really depends. Also in the US, we also call it different depending on where you live. Like I come from Massachusetts. In Boston, we just call it the T. That's like kind of slang.

[00:05:11]Just train. Yeah. Cell phone or phone.

[00:05:14]>> Headphone.

[00:05:14]>> So in Malay language, like in like a more formal way, we call it telephone bimbe. But uh sometimes we just say headphone.

[00:05:23]>> In the Philippines, we call it cell phone or cell phone.

[00:05:26]>> Inan we say telephone. In Kazakhstan we would say telephone. In China we say it means like the machine on your hand.

[00:05:32]>> In Korea we say.

[00:05:34]>> Wow. Same. [laughter] >> I think um Singaporeans who don't know Korean, they would understand when a Korean says because it sounds really similar.

[00:05:44]>> Yeah. When I first came to Korea, when I heard hen phone hip, um >> conglish.

[00:05:51]>> Yeah. Yeah. Kind of like conglish. So, I could kind of get it, but it still sounded a bit like really different, you know.

[00:05:58]>> In the US, we never hear that. Yeah. So, quite different. Elevator.

[00:06:03]>> Lift.

[00:06:03]>> Lift.

[00:06:04]>> Elevator. Lift. Lift. We call >> elevator or just elever >> for Yeah. British origin, English.

[00:06:15]That's why at least >> I think in Singapore if you say elevator, some people will confuse it with the escalator.

[00:06:23]>> Yeah, we use Yeah. use the Chinese word tinti. It's called electrical slider.

[00:06:29]Yeah. It means we would say bathroom or restroom.

[00:06:33]>> Toilet.

[00:06:34]>> Toilet or tandoor cr.

[00:06:40]say mostly in Kazakhstan, we would use the Russian word or which is the Cathic word.

[00:06:47]>> In China, we use it means the place to wash your hand.

[00:06:50]>> In Korea, we say [laughter] to makeup, >> place that doesn't mean the makeup.

[00:06:59]>> It's different. It's different meaning.

[00:07:01]>> Apartment >> in Singapore usually call it condominium.

[00:07:04]>> I think in Malaysia, we also call it apartment.

[00:07:07]>> In the Philippines, apartment. In Kyrgyzstan, we have um which is Russian word. We have batir which is kurish word and we can also just say same thing with Kazakhstan. I would say we could use most of the times but people who want to speak like pure Kazak would say or in China we call it's like it means like the house you share with other people.

[00:07:30]>> In Korea we say a >> yeah and there are roses apatu.

[00:07:37]We also have the game apatu.

[00:07:39]>> There are different kinds of housing in Singapore where um it's a tall building with many people living in it. So for condominiums [music] they are private housing whereas for flats they are public housing. So flats are also known as HDB um in Singapore which is where most of the population live whereas um apartment is considered more high class.

[00:08:02]So there's a differentiation in Singapore over there. They have tear.

[00:08:07]If you live in condo, they will be like, "Wow." If you live in landed, they will be like, "Yeah." So, so landed would be um like bungalows.

[00:08:16]>> And can I correct like just now?

[00:08:18]Actually, for Malay language itself, apartment is actually pangapuri. Water [laughter] >> British I it's like air. The same spelling >> too big. You say, we say, >> we say, >> we say, >> but Korean knows the Chinese character.

[00:08:36]>> Yeah, >> yeah, because I speak Korean. So, when I started learning Korean, I was surprised and I felt like, okay, so I could use soo if I don't remember m sometimes.

[00:08:47]Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't think that could could they understand? Probably.

[00:08:52]Probably.

[00:08:52]>> Tea.

[00:08:53]>> Tea. If you want English tea, te. If you want the kind that you get in a coffee shop, >> we call it day. But I think like in Malaysia language is also like similar like Singapore where we actually mix like different like local cultures like maybe Chinese dialects and everything.

[00:09:07]And it's like shared with like other languages like Malay. So we use in Malay as well.

[00:09:13]>> For China we call cha but there's a difference. If we call it's like green tea. Yeah. Butcha actually in Chinese means ripe tea. But in English, I think they say like black tea. We say right tea and they say black tea.

[00:09:27]>> We say >> Yeah. It's like a green tea, right?

[00:09:32]>> Yeah.

[00:09:33]>> Family.

[00:09:33]>> Family.

[00:09:35]>> Familia.

[00:09:36]>> For us for us or >> we say or sometimes in Kazakhstan we could use mama or >> in China if you say like normal way called ma. If you say like a cute way, mama >> in Korea is [laughter] >> dad, dad, papa, tat orai.

[00:10:03]>> We say ata, but I think we also use uh common words like mama, papa for both parents.

[00:10:08]>> Same thing for us, but there is a kazak word a and we could use Russian word which is papa. Also, same here. It's like the common way ba and the cute way papa >> in Korea. Papa >> sounds like the the m the in the same.

[00:10:23][laughter] >> One, two, three, four, five.

[00:10:26]>> One, two, three, four, five.

[00:10:33]>> Oh >> yeah. I think we can even sing together.

[00:10:36][laughter] And the gesture is from E.

[00:10:47]I think there's like a lot of difference for the gesture from six. There's like six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

[00:10:55]>> There's a lot of difference. We use one hand, not two hands.

[00:11:00]>> No, but but but it makes sense because um they also have Indonesian like the Austronesian root is within. So yeah, and this is even the capital of Peru. So I was like thinking is it from Spain or from what? Yeah.

[00:11:13]>> Interesting.

[00:11:14]>> Yeah.

[00:11:15]>> Child or kid? the same child or kid.

[00:11:18]>> Anak anak or ba?

[00:11:20]>> We say balam.

[00:11:21]>> For us, we would say bala. Bala can be used for both girls and boys. But if you want to like divide it into girls and boys, balam kum like that. Kazum is for girls.

[00:11:31]>> But it means both for like your child or others child. But we different letter has my child and neither has your child.

[00:11:38]>> We say me.

[00:11:41]>> It depends on like uh the formulary and the relationship with like the other person. So it's kind of like situation based. So you say >> wow. Actually say is happy for us.

[00:11:55]>> We say men for us we would say men too but if it depends like if we're talking in a sentence like for me and to me or with me like that. So we add some suffixes into it. First is >> we say [laughter] >> black black.

[00:12:18]>> We are almost door >> pinto.

[00:12:23]Wow. [laughter] >> Another one.

[00:12:26]>> We say [music] we say >> we say moon.

[00:12:28]>> Wow. We say moon. Now the similarities are coming out.

[00:12:32]>> Salt. Salt.

[00:12:35]>> Tenum.

[00:12:37]Garlic. Garlic.

[00:12:40]Oh, [laughter] >> we say we say too or chisn for Russian word.

[00:12:47]>> Yeah, we say we say manu. Korean really love manu.

[00:12:53]>> Yeah, every dish >> freedom. Freedom.

[00:12:58]We say we say we say >> it's the same.

[00:13:04]>> Yeah, freedom. Government in proper English is government but a lot of Singaporeans say oral we say we say we say >> we say similar >> wow timeas we say another one >> wow >> surprisingly there's a lot of >> words I know with Indonesia But with Malay too. Wow.

[00:13:37]>> Yeah. I think that was the most surprising for me.

[00:13:40]>> Yeah.

[00:13:40]>> For us, it's not surprising anymore because [laughter] I mean we can have a whole conversation in our own languages.

[00:13:47]>> No, because it was it was so funny because we were like, "What was that word?" And she was like and I was say they were like, "All right."

[00:13:52]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:13:53]>> If we forget, we can remind each other.

[00:13:55]Yeah. To that point, we're very similar.

[00:13:57]>> And for us, I think there's a lot of similar words. That's why for Chinese, it's like more easier than others to learn Korean. Yeah. Cuz there are similar words. And the pronunciation.

[00:14:06]>> Yeah, cuz we both also based on Chinese character, right?

[00:14:10]>> Yeah. Ha. Oh, similar. That's interesting.

[00:14:14]>> Bye.