Languages NOT in the same family that SOUND ALIKE? (living in, Vietnamese)

[Ethereal]

Turkish and Persian. They have similar way of pronouncing their vowels and "ch" sounds, even though one is a Turkic language and the other is Indo-European.

Hebrew sounds like Scottish Gaelic and Dutch. They all have guttural consonants.

Can you list others?

[theunbrainwashed]

Spanish and Japanese, except Spanish has more random order of consonants than Japanese

[strad]

Russian and Continental Portuguese have very similar sounds to me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCcPvXdXxZk

[Dry Heat]

Iberian Spanish and Greek sound remarkably alike: they have basically the same sound inventory and similar prosody.

[Marmel]

Yeah, I also wanted to say Spanish and Greek

[Max96]

Chinese and Vietnamese.

[Smtchll]

Spanish (from Spain) and Greek, definitely. Greek really sounds like it belongs in the Romance family, but it's only distantly related

Portuguese (Portugal) and Russian

Maori and Japanese

Thai and Vietnamese

[tarzan_taborda]

Russian-european portuguese and greek-spanish, indeed.


There's some ukrainians and moldovans immigrants in Portugal, and if they have been living in the country for more than 5/10 years, some of them have the exact same accent as the natives, the same never happens for anyone else, even spaniards or brazilians.

[Chava61]

I believe French and Romanian from what I have been told.

[Rams_Lord]

Originally Posted by Chava61

I believe French and Romanian from what I have been told.

They are in the same language family, both Indo-European and both are Romance languages, along with Spanish, Italian and several others