Why Does Greek Sound Like Spanish?!

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I speak Spanish and when the Greek came on I was shook because I understood nothing but felt like I should.

I’m Greek, learning Spanish. A week after starting, I could read a text in Spanish, without understanding not even one word, but Spanish people would tell me: excellent! You speak perfect castellano!!

I'm Spanish living in Bulgaria and I often get asked if I'm Greek. I guess it makes now sense since Greece is a neighbour country to them and both languages sounds so similar to foreigners.

I once had a Greek woman from the island of Kos read a page from a Spanish book for me. She only spoke Greek and English, but her pronunciation of the Spanish was so good it sounded like she was 99% native (after explaining the basic LL = Y, V=B ). It was really a shock to me that someone without any prior exposure to a language can read that language out loud and sound virtually indistinguishable from native. I have since then (2004) been telling everyone and their mother how similar these two languages are, phonetically. And Today I finally see your video as a proof of why! Hurray!

When Greeks and Spaniards speak English, they have the same accent.

As a Greek who took a Spanish class I never had to learn the accent

I've heard Greek spoken in Madrid and it confused me terribly: how could I not understand it when it sounded like Spanish? Then I realized it was Greek. My brain struggled with it since the sounds are incredibly similar. It's a funny feeling every single time. Also, Greeks can speak impeccable Spanish whenever they learn it, it's amazing. I might learn Greek sometime 😊 By the way, beautiful country and wonderful, friendly people.

I'm spanish, I visited Greece some years ago. I learned how to greet in greek, so I used to say "kalimera" or "kalispera" as entering a shop or a restaurant. Sometimes they answered back speaking in greek and got surprised when I said in english "sorry, I don't speak greek", "but you sound greek!" they said 😁 By the way, greek sounds to me as the accent from Galicia (north west Spain)

I'm Greek, and studied in UK. Many times, when I heard Spanish people on the street talking, I confused them for Greek until I realize I cannot understand what they are saying. My Spanish friends told me that they had the same problem with Greeks.

For 22 years, I work as a bartender in Creta and i ve seen thousands of tourists. Only the spanish people can pronounce every greek word, as accurate as it gets.

I'm from Peru, my mother tongue is Spanish, and I'm learning Greek on my own as a foreign language (I love Greek mythology), and I noticed that the pronunciation and the grammar of the Greek language is the same as in Spanish. Yes, I believe that could make learning the language a bit easy.

I'm a Spanish speaker living in an English-speaking country. A couple of times I've met people speaking English with an accent I'd swear was Spanish (from Spain). Turns out they were Greek. Weird. Languages are very different, but the accent and intonation is almost identical.

The thing is, in the video, we Greeks, do not speak that slowly! Our language sounds similar to spanish because we also talk at a quick pace. The woman that was used for the greek examples in the video spoke way to slowly for Greek people.

I'm greek and i first listened to Spanish at la casa de papel, and I was like "wait a minute, they speak greek but they don't speak greek at the same time"

Cuando era adolescente mis padres me llevaron a Grecia de vacaciones y también me impresionó que 'no tenían acento', que sonaba como si fueran españoles pero hablando incoherencias... Ahora sé que no eran imaginaciones mías, gracias! Jajajaja No puedo dejar de agradecerte que tu magnífico canal esté subtitulado al Español, se agradece muchísimo el detalle. Mucha suerte! Google-translated (Sorry!) When I was a teenager my parents took me to Greece on vacation and I was also impressed that they 'didn't have an accent', that they sounded like they were Spanish but speaking incoherently... Now I know it wasn't my imagination, thank you! Hahaha I cannot stop thanking you for the fact that your magnificent channel is subtitled in Spanish, the detail is greatly appreciated. Good luck!

as a brazilian, I understood everything in spanish, but the greek I felt like I was a gringo listening to spanish for the first time

Greek sounds like a Spanish person speaking Russian.

I had a friend who was spanish.She came to Greece for an erasmus program and within a year she was speaking greek like it was her mother tongue.

Yes, the Greek pronunciation sounds similar to the Iberian Spanish pronunciation. It has a slightly different melody to Iberian Spanish but they are very close. As a Spanish speaker (Latin America) I cannot understand Greek, only a few words. This is what makes listening to Greeks speaking so enjoyable for me. I really like the sound of it.