Languages - Eddie Izzard

[Dilandau3000]

What was the conclusion!?

[LoverofLiszt]

I speak english and swedish as well as some french, german, spanish, danish and chinese.

[XFALLENSAVIORX]

American isn't a language -_-'

[rasey077]

It's funny, because people forget that the only language that matters is American. All the rest, just kinda suck...

[ahtartersauce101]

We dont want any of his Douchie-Markies.

[ahtartersauce101]

Did anyone else know that Britain and America were two countries separated by the Atlantic Ocean?

[jecis1990]

If everbodies bragging, than I can speak Dutch russian english and latvian. The only thing that gives me the opportunity to claim that I have a brain.

[HyruleScout]

I don't speak french but I'm proud of how much I understood of what he was saying. :D

[HolandaChiquita]

I speak Dutch, English, a little bit French a little bit Spanish and some German

[SilentNightmarePro]

you say "Ello" we say "Hello" because there is a fucking H in it!!!

[ihavekankles]

@SilentNightmarePro

I don't anyone who says "'ello".

[SilentNightmarePro]

@ihavekankles- 1. It was meant to be funny.

2. You must live no where near me, it bugs me though!

[pigpig252]

ye that is a bit weird though, why is theres a g and h in through lol

[pigpig252]

"-because theres a fucking H in it" hahahaha brilliant XD

[11mkroneid]

omg check me out

[zexykun1]

You know what's sad? Ever since I was little I said herb, with the h in it. And people would get mad at me because they would say it's ERB.

Well HAH. The Brits are on my side bitches!

[bluemoonrising26]

@zexykun1

Welcome to the Dark Side.

[charlyinthespace91]

I speak English, Spanish and French :)

[ahtartersauce101]

Le sange es su la branch. idk french at all. ah wii... travesty... executive XD

[blingblang1234]

Yeah, the fucking H is important. I'd be Honoured to listen to you for Hours. J/K He's a good guy

[bellbonne]

Hi! English, French, Spanish, Yiddish--who says Americans are monolingual???????

[xDejahx]

English, Spanish, Japanese, and Italian in that order lol

[mchammer401]

Who spells through with just a U? I am from the United States. The only time you see that spelling is at the McDonald's 'drive thru' and it's fucking McD's that spells it that way because they are dumb.

[OmgItzNay]

English and French.

[Naitomango666]

French, German, English, Frisian (yes, that's a language), Dutch and Japanese :3

[SabinaStitches]

I am SO happy I took french in high school XD

[TranslatorCarminum]

My repertoire: American English, neutral Spanish, neutral French, neutral Italian, classical Latin (there's one that probably hasn't popped up yet), some German, and some Ancient Greek.

[animefreakhacker897]

Japanese, American (3 accents), English, Spanish.

[Siemoontjuh]

yeah 4 !! French, German, English and Dutch :D

[superbrainification]

Me, English, French, Tagalog and Visaya. And soon Mandarin too.

[aaron9099]

I can speak English, American, Australian, Canadian, Spanish, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Peruvian, Chilean, Bolivian, Mexican, El Salvadorian (Wow, that's actually how you say it), Cuban, Colombian, Uruguayan and Porto Rican. 

[EricAlveal18]

@aaron9099 so only 2 languages then

[aaron9099]

@EricAlveal18 eeerrrr.....mebe..

[fishman017]

Izzard is outstanding and this is a great show.

[mohab18]

Man I love Eddie to death, he is just too good. Saw him in Treasure Island, he totally carried that movie =) .

[leeslampie]

Proud to be Dutch!

[Speakersoxx]

I'm dutch and I find this national stereotyping of us all being on drugs very.. ehm.. oh look a squirell !

[Matsparco]

Is french is PERFECT! bien joue mec! tu gere la langue de Moliere ;)

[sk8tradam]

Haha so glad I can speak French

[TheAmuletSaga]

I wanna learn French.

[2490debrick]

French is an Archaic Language the Europeans shouldn't waste their time with redundant languages and Learn either English, Indian or Chinese!

[ser132]

@2490debrick which Chinese language should they learn, although come to think of it, they're all older than English.

[2490debrick]

@ser132 How about the most well spoken of the languages which I belive to be Han ok good enough for you?

[kaorutheimpaler]

@2490debrick i thought the most well spoken was mandarin?

[2490debrick]

@kaorutheimpaler You could be right but nether-the-less but you get the point?

[kaorutheimpaler]

@2490debrick that I do man, that I do

[ser132]

@2490debrick yeah, I think that would work just fine.

[Asswizard27]

funny as hell

[LaPetiteNyctale]

I went to Paris in August. I was hanging out in the lobby of the hotel I was staying at and waiting to use the computer when I happened to see a mouse run under a table.

I thought of this skit.

[acekiller121]

Super funny if you like hetalia :D

[queentwilight14]

after 5:30 you can forget about understanding stuff unless you speak french

[PopeKurt]

I understood most of that. god if i didnt that be sad with 4.5 years of french under my belt. cant speak it worth shit though. Im fucking American. cant fucking do it lol.

[mother2bach]

Eddie Izzard is one of my favourite people on the planet. A hero...utterly unique.

[piglatin123]

Oh man I wish I spoke French. I did get a bit of that, though. The "Do you have a room?"

"Of course we have a room, we are a hotel."

..."Are you a transvestite?"

"Yes, but not a typical transvestite. I'm an executive transvestite."

[writerlily1]

"They say Bas-ILL We say BAHsil They say 'Erb we say HERB cause there's a fucking H in it," Love that part lol

[101Miacat]

i did french for 3 years at school and still got an E ... now i =m trying to learn italian and im doing a bit better  ^^

[FredericRobinson]

I had that line "Two languages in one head? No one can live at that speed!" in my head for months before I realized that it is referring to the british reaction to the first trains. genius how he still makes you laugh even when you know every joke by heart..

[star13r1te]

I'm happy that I understand enough French to be able to laugh at his jokes. =D

[CoffeeBeatsTea]

lol funnily enough I could only understand the funny french parts.

[kirbyrox100]

je suis une transvestie executif!!!!

[gyqz]

GENIUS!!

[FlameFeathers]

I CAN live at that speed and I'm british. It's very lay-zure-rye-lee

[deathheadmoth21]

The look Eddie has on his face after he says " Because there's a fucking H in it" could not be more smolderingly sexy if he tried :-)

[Emovampqueen92]

so in conclusions ladies and jelly spoons xD

[Unolai]

I speak English just as well as Dutch. I'm not very good with German and French though. ^^

[AnastasiaofBohemia]

I think Eddie loves Scrabble. He brings it up all the time!

[Shadoezzz]

I am proud to say I was able to follow the whole act. Cracking up the whole time :3

My little accomplishment of the day, don't mind me.

[NottinghamForest22]

I can speak four languages: English, American, Canadian, Australian.

[CDragnetti]

@NottinghamForest22 Fair dinkum?



[MattyMarshun]

@NottinghamForest22 I doubt you can speak Australian. Unless you were born and raised an aussie.

[NottinghamForest22]

@MattyMarshun lol I think I would know the basics...

[MattyMarshun]

@NottinghamForest22 no. no you wouldn't.

[IPlayTehGtar]

@NottinghamForest22 New Zealand?

[NottinghamForest22]

@IPlayTehGtar make it 5 lol

[NottinghamForest22]

*speaks German*

"Just fuck off will you mate" lmao

[stinker579]

People here say it is imorotant to speak multiple languages because it "makes people less ignorant"... What a load of ribbish... I speak afrikaans, dutch and english and i can tell you now, im ignorant. Language has nothing to do with it, its because i have been brought up in australia, and australia is full of ignorant people. My point is, It has nothing to do with language, but more on the lines of where you grew up. Fucking idiots.

[madmanatrakzi]

46 americans watched this video.

[AahhCheezIt]

@madmanatrakzi lol I'm American and i didn't dislike this

[madmanatrakzi]

@AahhCheezIt its a joke, if you look, there are 46 dislikes.

[AahhCheezIt]

@madmanatrakzi I know it was...and i made the connection with the dislikes

[madmanatrakzi]

@AahhCheezIt oh i see. :D. sorry if I gave the impression that i thought you were stupid

[MrJackass541]

Tbh... the spellings of most words are fucking ridiculous!

[gaspandsaywhat]

American's use "through" as well. "thru" is just a simplified informal version used on most fast food restaurants.

[moonlitshadow27]

im american and truth is i go to england, pick up an english newspaper and have no f'ing clue what they're talking about. my mom and i spent twenty minutes trying to discern a story about owls. never could figure it out.

[MrSongmaster5]

you say caterpillar, and we say caterpillar.

[bstewfreek]

Why the hell did I take Spanish .

[ianw98]

I got 67 to 74% of that. Not bad for someone who has never written in that language and spoken only in it a tiny bit. And I never studied french. Two, "American" is a simplified version of the original English.

[mysticgrave1993]

that was one crazy bus

[wolfaspa]

the president of berundi has a weird way of travelling 0_o and why did the monkey need a bus if he had a bicycle? im confused >.>

[bookofthedead]

@wolfaspa Maybe the monkey was tired? There are buses that let you put your bike on a rack in the front...

[Catchphrase12]

0:53

[thexheroxhero]

lol i got the french part cuz of the coffee skit hahah

[GrinnellHStv]

Turn on the subtitles. It makes it 10x more funny.

[BandGeek11011]

@GrinnellHStv How do I do that????

[grot666666]

@GrinnellHStv "locator wedding scrambled eggs for more than eighty points" xD laughed my ass off

[xXxDeviousAngelxXx]

i actually got 75% of that...finally 2 years of Frnech paying off...ha!

[piglatin123]

"Are you a transvestite?"

"No, I'm not a typical transvestite... I'm an executive transvestite." xD

[SorakuFett]

'"But the Dutch speak 4 languages and smoke Marijuana!"

"...Yes, but they're cheating!..."

[Kossimer]

Why the hell do all British people seem convinced that Americans spell through as "thru"? That's just text-message-quicky-abbreviati­on spelling! No one actually spells it that way here in a book or an essay.

[Kooh]

@Kossimer it's actually an accepted informal spelling of the word. typically though it's only used in cases where brevity is needed, like road signs. or like "drive-thru". This show was recorded in 2000 or 2001, I don't think txt-speak was widespread at that point :)

[XiamwatchingyouX]

I'm from Ontario, and I understood about 75% of what he was saying; and I did shit in French class. XD

[eyegrinder94]

i wonder how many people in the audience actually understood what he was saying...

[nekohikarihikaru]

Hehe I was thinking about hetalia xD

[mh6761]

if you like british comedians, watch lee evans!

[Salafrance]

Bill Baily!

[mh6761]

@Salafrance his combine harvester (german version) is hilarious

[wahinesurfergirl]

@Salafrance ...who?

[billtangney]

I like the outfit very much (for myself not my wife). Great comedian. Thanks for the post.

[winterwebkinz5]

lol please put this on telivition on the lol news!

[phoenixhart17]

We Anericans messed up English, just for the lulz. Sorry Iggy.

[Caramaram]

I've watched this many times (here and on dvd) and I've only just noticed ( and someone correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I did french) that he gets put in room 42 when he's talking about the hotel. I wonder if that's significant.

[lotoreo]

English:

I'm Dutch and he's absolutly right about us.

French:

Je suis Hollandais et il dit la vérité à propos de nous .

German:

Ich bin Niederlandisch und Er spricht die Wahrheit über Uns.

Dutch:

Mag ik je aansteker lenen?

[9zreed]

@lotoreo haha that is inspirational

[belgianwolfie]

@lotoreo Now hold on :) Only a few of you speak French :)

I'm not too big a fan of my own country , but the Dutch certainly don't win when it comes to our languages. Belgians do. It's maybe because we speak 3 languages in our country alone.

[GiniTHEman]

@lotoreo Awesome xD

[rock3tcat]

@lotoreo

Holy crappers, the Dutch version only has 5 words?!?!?!

[matju2]

@rock3tcat : the dutch version would be about the same length if it said the same thing, use a translation website to understand his joke.

[billnyethe1742]

@lotoreo HAAHHA LOOOOOL

[piglatin123]

@lotoreo xD That was great.

[underdogg20]

How brave it is to spend 5 minutes of your stand-up in front of an American audience literally speaking French. Izzard is a true European!

[blondieraccoon66]

Lol someone used this in a hetalia amv!!

[dazpatreg]

Haha 'Pipe'!

[midiem961]

i'm dutch and my German is f-ing BAD

but stil he's funny

[koen3456]

@lybre Yes I'm Dutch ;) my German isn't fluent but good enough to carry a nice conversation. I don't think it would help ;P Doesn't your brain become all fuzzy like when you smoke it?

[sf49ersrule]

what's the word he's talking about at 1:00?

[stillfir3]

@sf49ersrule

"Through" or "Thru." Whichever you prefer.

[Gravelyn13]

You say erbs and we say herbs because there's a fuckin' H in it

And we say Hello because there's a fuckin' h in it.

[wolvesreinsurpreme]

....i said Herb since i was little

[CherryMentos]

I need to know fucking french

[LunaBlade88]

2 language in a single brain!? THAT's impossible!

[spidermaster14]

Why can't English speakers be bilingual? Because our language take all the other languages into the alley, beats them up, and steals their pocket vocab!

[Sheffylu]

@spidermaster14 Your comment cracked me the fuck up! Awesome!

[hetsainte]

We don't want any of his deutish markies!

[cold197]

in conclusion, ladies and jelly spoons...

[edwardmc45]

PURE GENIUS THE GUY IS A LEGEND. (americans take a hint... speak properly!!)

[thurley707]

@edwardmc45 okay. fuck you. :)

[neilnachum1]

Want an easy language? Even Brits and Americans can use it.

EnglishTeachersforEsperanto.bl­ogspot.com

EsperantoFriensd.blogspot.com

[youronlinesniper]

The top comments ruined it. Spoiler allert, motherfuckers?

[animelover5076]

i love learning other languages. i think its a great thing to do, it help us all show understanding of other cultures. i speak frence and at the moment i am starting German. i think its so important for us to study others. (and if you are nevous about speeking a different language in a different country, dont worry about getting stuff wrong, its better for you to at least try and talk their language than just talk your own. understands others is the best way to stop ignorance.)

[Morrbyd]

and sean connery who is playing the part of eddie izzard for the movie:

"you say herbs, and we say herbs, because there's a fucking H in it."

[Columba795]

You do know that knowing two or more languages helps to combat Alsizmers( bad spelling I know). And you can't go anywhere and speak English, not all people know our language. Eddie is awesome and we should learn other languages, because it helps promote cultural awareness, and it helps ignorant people become not so ignorant!

[LordReserei01]

Yeah, without those languages or at least their old forms - the English language wouldn't exist.

You don't need to have some sort of degree in linguistics to know that - just basic knowledge of Great Britain's history. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects then later Old Norse and at the time of Roman invasions - Latin was incorporated. Old French too and many, many other languages.

Then, there's the USA's history to take into account.

[Salafrance]

@LordReserei01 yup - I've been picking up a smattering of German from watching German films, listening to Industrial, and playing games on a Berlin server, and at times, German *feels* like heavily accented, archaic English.

Dir, Du, Deine - Thee, thou, thine, for example.

[AzeCluzt]

"You say erb we say herbs. Cuz theres a fucking h in it."

Tranlated for Hetalia fans:

"Normal people say 'italia' we say 'hetalia' CUZ THERES A FUCKING H IN IT"

[IgirisuFan]

@AzeCluzt Omg hetalia fans are everywhere!!! XD

[kogarocks12]

@IgirisuFan yes. yes we are.

[HerefordMadMan]

@AzeCluzt hetalia? what's that?

[kuaispeed]

@HerefordMadMan It's a popular webcomic-turned-manga-turned anime about personified countries. "The series presents an allegorical interpretation of political and historic events, particularly of the World War II era, in which the various countries are represented by stereotyped anthropomorphic characters." <- Quote Wikipedia

[HerefordMadMan]

@kuaispeed oh right I see, thanks for responding :D

[AzeCluzt]

@HerefordMadMan It's an anime about personified Countries, and we fangirls love Eddie Izard <3

[melmo112083]

@BlackCat006660

just search eddie izzard - learning french (with subtitles)

it's those bits with the translation :)

[oyasuminasaix]

@BlackCat006660 yes, I really like coffee, black coffee, very strong and very hot, with a spoon inside... ahh the curvature of the spoon, ahh the curvature of the breasts, I put the spoon in my mouth..." (weird) Then he imitates another guy going 'I am the president of Burundi" He replies "Ah yes, Burundi, I know it well, near to Mozambique. No -Tanzanie! Yes I learned about them when I had 'le pox de poulet' (frenglish for 'chicken pox') I have to go now as my gran is burning'

[Ty13rlikespie]

o and throw an H in there ya n h just incase some HERBS come along

[UberNoodleX]

@karg11 lots ov peeple spell it that wey. I doo, for eggzampel, but I prefer too spell it 'throo'. Its mor lojickal.

[jacksawild]

@mysteriousanimatorx That is a ridiculous comment. French, Spanish, German and English evolved side by side. English is somewhat unique because we take grammar from many different languages and apply it at times which are hard to define. This is why you Americans find it so tricky to get right.

[thexev]

@mysteriousanimatorx uh, you realise english is made up of a bunch of other languages, ie: french and german that were around long before nazis and the idea of pansies existed.

[McIvant1]

chuffed cos I understood all the french :)

[morvarid69]

"but the dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana" LOL

[edwardwright296]

@Songokuogvegeta You say leisure, we say laizuraiey

[maras0609]

centrifugal

[cizzam21]

You say leesure And we say liezuriay.

[DoctorineKureha]

"Je ne suis pas un travesti typical...je suis un travesti executif"

Bloody funny Eddie!!

I saw his show in Paris...and since i'm asking myself how come we the French people think our (living) comedians are funny?

George Carlin, Eddie Izzard, Pierre Desproges (sorry^^) best comedians ever!

[superhamzah85]

There's also a fuckin R in herbs.

I'm Scottish, we're the only ones who pronounce every letter haha :P

[superhamzah85]

We do however say 'honest' with a silent H. How did the Americans silece the H in herbs?

[fambestera]

i piss my pants each time at the scrabble-part

[koen3456]

French, English Dutch and German ;P

[lybre]

@koen3456: And you're Dutch? I'm Flemish and my German is really bad, I "only" speak those three other languages fluently. Maybe smoking marihuana would help? ^^