What do 28 broadcast languages sound like?

RFE/RL broadcasts news programs in 28 languages to 20 countries that are struggling for a free press.

Wonder what all these languages sound like? Here's your chance to find out:

We asked our colleagues to translate a sentence from an old RFE/RL leaflet into all 28 of our current broadcast languages.

The leaflet was part of a campaign in the early 1950s, when RFE used balloons to float millions of them over the Iron Curtain. The leaflets contained news, criticism and satire of the Communist regimes as well as inspirational messages of solidarity from the Western world.

(No worries, we'll give you the English translation at the end.)

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Tags:

• language
• radio free europe
• radio liberty
• rfe
• rfe/rl
• russian
• farsi
• pashto
• dari
• arabic
• kazakh
• uzbek
• kyrgyz
• turkmen
• tajik
• tatar
• bashkir
• armenian
• georgian
• azerbaijani
• avar
• chechen
• circassian
• ukrainian
• belarusian
• romanian
• moldovan
• serbian
• bosnian
• croatian
• montenegrin
• albanian
• macedonian

[lakadirsk]

Serbain, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Bosnian is EXACTLY the same...

[eskorbutin89]

@EnvyAbomination well, some of the languages are related, most of them are either slavic, turkic, iranian, or caucasian.

[Borovi4kin]

This is not true Bashklir!!! Rim Gilfanov is faking it at 1:22.

Why to fake a language? Clearly for political reasons.

RFERL doesn't actually broadcast in Bashkir. NO more deception!

[LongshotCOD78]

I love languages. I'm romanian, but got adopted. I'm learning romanian, and I love this saying, "Nu există nici o temnita suficient de adânc pentru a ascunde adevărul, Nu suficient de ridicat pentru a ţine departe mesajul de libertate de perete."

[Iberokolxi]

"არ არსებობს ისეთი სიღრმის დილეგი, სიმართლეს რომ დამალავდეს,

არ არსებობს ისეთი სიმაღლის კედელი, თავისუფლებაზე სიტყვას რომ შეაკავებდეს"

Georgian

[Autumnkittykitty]

I'm a huge fan of languages and this is really interesting to me. But I also think they do all sound extremely similar.

I want to learn Russian one day.

[ireylo]

I became sea sick after watching this video :S

[alleya619]

3:32 wooo pashto!!! :D

[Meztellab]

I don't know the organization but I like the message!

In Hungarian:

"Nincs börtön ami elég mély az igazságot elrejteni,

Nincs fal ami elég magas hogy kizárja a szabadság üzenetét."

[EnvyAbomination]

they all sound the same to me o.o