Can Southeast Asian Understand Each Other? (Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam)

This video explores whether people in Southeast Asia can understand each other's languages. Four speakers, one each from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam, participate in an experiment. They describe themselves and their hobbies in their native languages, while the others try to guess what they are saying. Despite some similarities in sentence structure and a few shared words, the speakers mostly find it difficult to understand one another. They note some interesting connections between their languages, like the similarity of words for "eye" and "day," and how loanwords from other languages have influenced their vocabulary.