In actual terms, we become alien to our own culture.

@Vijay Surya but, what he says is right......you do become alien to your own culture, i'm an asian-american and it's hard to speak my native tongue to my grandmother and family, i don't even know family traditions because i was born in America going to American schools and learning about American ways, you're rambling on about Americans in different countries but Americans really don't have their own culture, it's really just borrowed from different places of the world, and i don't see why a country WOULDN'T allow another tradition other than their own inside the country

@Vijay Surya Vijay Surya my elders were forced here, it's not like they had a choice, war in their home countries forced them out, i'd absolutely love to go to my home country to connect with my people and learn my tradition, you don't have to mention anything about you being attacked because that's not the topic here, comforts and freedom are not in every corner of America, just like i've never been to Inida, you've never been to America, you don't know a thing about it, it's only the textbooks and articles online you read that inform you, but only your own two eyes can tell the truth other than words from another person

And gain a piece of other cultures. The fact is, cultures doesn't matter.

@Gleb B. / Глеб Б. Are you sure? Because, hundreds years ago, the culture and the tradition was hunting witches, enslave African american and killing heathens. And that disappeared, through time. We forget our culture, to create a new one. Even the culture isn't the same inside a lot of families. (e.g. religious parents and emo-gotics sons). So, in fact, it doesn't even matter what kind of culture do you have. You are you, no matter what.

Me with English and Vietnamese. Dear lord I understand like 90% of what they are saying in Vietnamese but my response sounds much better in my head than when I try to actually say it and I just end up getting slightly frustrated and defeated and just answer in English. Makes me really sad but trying to keep up my learning of my language

+DonutLe Sameee, like I understand the language, it's just when I have to say something, my mind blanks

+DonutLe SAME! I'm Vietnamese American and I struggle with the same thing. I end up understanding than just speaking. It sucks.

+Lois v actually, knowing more than one language means you're more likely to experience the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon. you're not alone :p

+Silviegold same. i try and learn a word a day lol

In her KZfaq she speaks it.

@@IvanPlayStation4LiFe wait...what?

IvanPlayStation4LiFe Where?

@@ralphcarino5672 her youtube is Michelle Khare

AnnaBananaLovesPuppies 123 I know, I mean which video.

Potato ·_· same but I’m russian

幸亏我的母亲也是, 不然我就会像我那几位朋友一样, 完全不懂得说普通话

me too but for serbian

you really are... i can barely speak hindi but i completely understand if someone talks to me in it..

我的中文很不好 haha, 可是我很喜欢中文 :). Trying to learn it every day :D

Probably raised in an Americanized community. They also probably didn't speak the language with the parents because they might have not taught them or some other reason

It's easy to forget your native language if you aren't constantly surrounded by it.

english is not their native becuz (ugh i cant describe it but i know what it is...)

+Teenage thinker ok well think of a reason before you comment

+Teenage thinker its their native language

Same ;(

me too

Me too

What how... If you understand the words can't you form a sentence with them?

+Katrine Jensen ohhh alright, so can you read your language?

Bts

@@ralteh3390 yes bts😂😂

Fully agree with you❤️❤️

Agreed ^_^

Agreed ^_^

@Vanarkc watch indian movies and listen music . you will never forget your own language

@@vishaldairan6100 i don't watch movies at all indian music is very great but i don't sing at all with language if you dont speak you forget faster and one day i will forget every thing for sure :( but it is what it is

@@user-yp6wm1qq2p why no movies tho ??, They've been getting better lately, much, more than "boy- girl- romance -fighting" stuff

I am trying to learn Japanese Maybe we can help each other I'll help you Learn Hindi and you help me with Japanese!?

तुम्हे यह कमेंट हिंदी में लिखना चाहिए था, अब्भ्यास के लिये।। 😄😅

@The Internet yes it does make sense. If people start forgetting their native languages through generations it will become obsolete and replaced by for example, only English

I know my native language Spanish plus I also know English I can translate and speak and write both langagues perfectly fluently.

@@IvanPlayStation4LiFethat's great!

I wish I had people in my family speak their Native language :( They all speak English with accents

I hate my language

Yeah, must be hard though with time already gone when she could have used the language if some of her family members passed away.

+Negus_Nark she can talk to them in heaven now! 😇

Well she did go to Dartmouth which is an Ivy League school

it sounded like fake crying

+Madeline b her grandfather died recently and she went to India for his funeral, so thinking about not knowing his native language is probably what has her tearing up.

OMG YAH!! I speak Hindi and I understand EVERYTHING but cant speak it :(

sAmE

For me I sound like the same 11 year old. Idk enough to have conversations on serious subjects, usually just day to day stuff!

I see your name is 박지민, I understand my native language(Korean)... It was my mother tongue even tho I was not born in Korea.... Hope you learn it as well

@@firstnamelastname1773 I'm also korean (my name is an idol's name since I'm not comfortable sharing my native name), how did you end up staying consistent in learning korean? I have a hard time trying to balance it out as I have more English speakers in my family (at least to who I talk to) and also korean friends who only speak english to me?

I would probably do that too. Just kidding. But i would never accept that my kids don't want to learn their mother tongue. I just can't

Hi army :) 💜💜💜

@@LaLa-ig5jf hi💜

@@ishratjahan2999 SKKS..I WOULD TOO IF I GOT MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN I MEAN

Mine too. More like we wouldn't be able to talk. Lucky both my parents spoke to me in their native languages

TheonlyHoneyBadger It's the primary language in Mumbai. It's called "Marathi".

+Talin Antarkar good for you!!!!!!

XShadowshot thanks!!!!!!

good for you. Sometimes I feel like I'm too hard for keeping our language but I hope they some day will appreciate it

you are amazing!

Fatima Tariq it is, but you have to 'practice' every day or they forget LIEK ME... I understand Telugu though so and can say some basic words

Fatima Tariq+ You are right, My Parents are from Pakistan and India (Father from India and my mom from Pakistan) I can speek both languages fluently ya and i know Hindi and Urdu are almost the same. I can also speak little bit Marathi.

Sana Khan that's cool dude

There's only so much a parent can teach you when nobody around you speaks the language

I agree and it's not that their bad parents, it's just something they overlook as not important.

Thanks 😭

Define "Native Language"

Dont worry dude it's the same issue with me.Trust me many people face this problem too

And I am an Indian born and raised in Nepal and I know both the languages fluently..😁 thanks to Bollywood and Indian television

Hi army :) 💜💜💜💜

@@LaLa-ig5jf hlo fellow ARMY 💜💜💜

You should learn nepali never forget you culture, your language your tradition for anything.

They probably want their kids to speak English well because they tried so hard to speak it properly and get the opportunities that comes with that

I know for my friend (mom is off the boat Italian, dad is polish) her mother didn't teach her Italian because she didn't want her father to feel left out or isolated because the children knew Italian and he didn't, so she never taught them. Sad

me too, it's sad

+Gabbi S ya

+Bridget Carta i love italians and polish omg that's cool

same

+Dianna Kensington what same?

+Lily Lawrence we were all wrong ._.

+gabriellatful BAHAHAHAH

Same here

Yes. i wanna know who she is

@@MrZeGrave Michelle Khare

yeh I am billungual

In most of the non western world it's extremely common.

*if you live in America

Blackmesh and isn’t an immigrant

@@BlackM3sh If an American is monolingual is by choice. Some elementary schools have bilingual options. It is just Spanish, but still. So many language classes here and we have access to free content these days. I learned French in high school. Most high schools offer language classes and universities. I got lucky that my French teacher was so good at teaching us. I took Japanese classes before and doing self study now. Will take Korean classes next year. I found out that they teach them at this university tuition free to everyone. Just 40 dollars registration fee. So it is all up to the individual if they want to stay monolingual. And the library is a good resource. I get my Japanese books there to practice my reading :)

Jacky Tang self hating Asians?

Yes their parents have taught them to become submissive to the country and culture they have arrived to. Very sad, and weak if u ask me🤣

People who can speak another language don't usually care what others around them are thinking. I think they are ashamed because they can't pronounce the words, so then just say the language that they can say, which is English. How many times have we heard young people attempt their parents' language, stutter and mispronounce, then just use English? This is why I think people, not just young people, are afraid to use a foreign language.

u worded that weirdly "will look down on them especially people from the third world countries"

BlueMoonLightDreams sorry that you only speak one language

Larisse Amany I'm really confused I live in the UK and I have never heard of Englandish

lmao xD you crossed a line.... in this case.... a country 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Please tell me this is a joke.

UltraMarioLegendz it is lmfao.

Mad Movie Maker yeah, wierd right?😂

Right.

I can't agree more.

Exactly

Yep

Okay so I don’t think it’s that deep but you’re right

+Zazsuran Hoshuko ftw!

My mum forced me to go through shoo-gakkou and chuu-gakkou at my Japanese Saturday school, I hated that, but now that I've graduated, I feel like I should have paid more attention in writing classes, and I shouldn't have taking it all for granted 😅

I wish I had Japanese classes before because I'll be visiting my grandparents in Japan on November, unfortunately I can barely speak Japanese.

+RW it will definitely be worth it in the long run! I'm not going to lie, my mother and I often got into arguments [but what teen doesn't argue with their parents once in a while?] but I'm in my 30s and very few of my friends can speak/read/write. It's definitely the reason I have a pretty strong bond with my mother :)

Omg I go to Japanese school on the weekends as well! I have it tomorrow ^_^

Cider your Summer🌌 i see an indian once?!💛

Chanyoel’s toes, Nope I'm French-Korean :)

Cider your Summer🌌 I’m Arab/Russian/Korean

Cider your Summer🌌I'm Moroccan/Persian/Mongolian

Hindi and Urdu words are so similar.

Haha and British too XD btw hi army :) 💜💜

Lol for a second I actually thought you could speak 4 languages

I can speak 3 languages Odia,Hindi and English

i. can speak english american australian canadian british ......😂 then malayalam tamil and hindi..

Jungkook Kookie I speak BRITISH and New Zelandi

I thought that means “Hope your day goes good”

@@killrate3432 well yeah that is also true

@@killrate3432 It should've been "hope your day goes *well" but that still sounds awkward in English. Literal, word by word translations don't work all the time, even more when the two languages are barely related. "Have a nice day" would be the closest translation.

@@vivy-kun3510 agreed

Hindi

It usually results in trying too hard "to fit in."

that's amazing

exactly

Sometimes its the environment. Everybody's talking in English there so who are these people going to practice with? Especially that Laos guy.

Stewie Griffin Me too!!!

ye

+Jayvee Robrigado Well, if ancestors means only two generations ago, sure. But these people grew up with parents and grandparents who did speak the language and didn't pass it on.

+Jayvee Robrigado Yes, well, my father's grandparents spoke 4 different mother tongues and then there my mother's side.....These are pretty close to me but this means I am the only one who was raised in English and my "ancestors" from 14 different European nations (I know my family tree quite well) spoke too many languages that I can dream to learn. I am bilingual only in English and French and can get along in German or Italian but this is about it. No real knowledge of Russian or Greek or Gaelic (Scotland) or Serbo-Croatian or Romanian......and I have no clue whatsoever in Bulgarian, Breton, Welsh, Yiddish or Norwegian.........

I learnt that americans are really tied to their ancestry, for example the fact fhat most of them say that they are Italian, Irish, Japanese etc. while here in Europe (at least for my personal experience) we tend not to do that even if we have migrant ancestors, so I think that saying "native" can be accepted in this case

+山崎六郎 they should have passed down the language and culture , one should not forget their even if they are not born there.

What if u got 5,000 likes?

@@user-ez5bl6ii8j no u r wrong every state has a different mother tongue

Hindi English Urdu Bengali Sanskrit 😊

How strong is your Spanish?

Not all Indians in India know Hindi.

Wow way to go, you're amazing! Love your determination! Lots of love from India:))

watch my video on the same topic (How china people speak english ) very funny video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qa6FnKajp7HLj6s.html watch my website for more updates: www.faaltu.in

And still to this very day, Natalie Steel is weeping.

Natalie Steel the last chick was a horrible actor 😒

They're not actors though O-o

lmfao i ment i was cryin then when i wrote the comment im dead asf

Hey I speak Bosnian too!! Are you from there? :)

+AnaBanana no I'm not but my mum is, however I learnt it by living there for approx a year

+Amalija Schofield Cool. I have a question. Can Bosnians understand Serbians? Are there any similarities like in Portuguese and Spanish.

I speak Arabic :D

+-KiwiGaming- where u from? ;3

@@lialia2263 Lol no. It's not.

I can speak Hindi, English, a lil Japanese. I used to speak Bengali too but after 7 years I forgot

It’s not ‘an Indian thing’ lol like that’s ridiculous. Half the world is multilingual lol. I know you guys are proud of being Indian and that’s fine by me just don’t make stuff up.

@@steviedavidson5130 it's that's fine "with" me

@Ashwini M P lol 😂

You rejected your mother religion, but you speak a language which was spoken by them. Bengali is derived from Prakrit which was derived from sanskrit which was derived vedic sanskrit which was used to write vedas. "Vedas" means knowledge. The book of knowledge. Have you ever read it ?

@@justrandomhuman3781 go preach your religion in the religious section guruji. Also a name doesn’t indicate someone's religion. I have a cousins named Miara, rayn, nora and sooha and yanli. These names come from different origins. My ancestors shed blood for my mother tongue so you have no right to look down upon me because the origin of my faith is different.

@@ishratjahan2999 Sorry! Chill. I didn't mean to offend you. Calm down.

@@ishratjahan2999 you should focus on arabic or urdu

@@rakeshsinghbisht3623 she's Bangladeshi Her mother tongue is Bengali why should she? Religion has nothing to do with language bro

*because

Same here with my mom. She makes me go to Chinese school every Sunday to learn how to speak, write and read Mandarin. I use to find it annoying but I'm more open/willing to learn more of the language now that I took an interest in learning a different language; Korean! I find the language very interesting and because of my interest in Hangul, I've realised it's important to have your native language at heart since it is part of your heritage in which you should embrace it. I know Mandarin, Cantonese and my real native language and wish to further enhance them. Fortunately I'm still young and there's still many more things to learn. Hopefully I'll continue to learn more languages.

Languages are actually easier for adults than kids to learn but whatever

Yup. For a child, learning language is part of their brain chemistry. They are literally built to absorb information; they do this in an unconscious state of mind, like they’re learning and they don’t even know it. They are live sponges, soaking up information. Adults and older children, on the other hand, have to consciously learn the information which makes it harder because when we learn that way, information sometimes gets lost or disassociated. And for kids, they're not afraid to mispronounce things and they learn from their mistakes.

Korean? Im learning to speak it...its pretty hard😅

+*insert username* Yes, I do know what that's like. I, too, am Indian-American and never spoke anything other than English. This definitely was overdramatic.

+*insert username* yeah i know how that feels like actually. Well i was never feeling ''guilt-ridden'' though.

+bigp132 When I said "through their experiences" I also meant their personal experiences - we don't know what the language barriers meant for them. My brother went through the same thing and he hated it. And, while it may be okay for you, it's not for them.

+bigp132 It means more to them than it does to you. That's all that says

+Uchiha Hohua Thank you.

Wow someone that actually thinks Indian girl is nice?? Damn. Usually they get all the hate lol

@@ruggsparch2787 IKR!!!!!!!!!!!! Most people think that we are ABCD's. I'm not confused. I'm confident. Besides that, I can fluently speak Bangla, and am learning to write and read it.

YES SHE IS

@@anandisarkar8549 did you learn it or it’s your first language ?

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

진짜? 나도 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

I understand you at a spiritual level......

Same

You know that feeling, where have to say a word from your native language, and then you had to switch back to English to explain what it meant, but because you switched to fast, you said it with an inarticulate accent? I once had to explain what "stupid" meant, and when I switched back to English, I spoke in English-Carabao... English-Carabao is English, but it's very inarticulate, and wrong grammar... Yee ;-;

I agree lol... i was wondering who else felt this way.. and im an indian american too

+PigToots idk, you can't really say that if you don't understand their situation.

+Emily Mack I mean, she chose not to learn it, she was acting as if her family was too underprivileged to learn the language.

why are y'all being so hateful lol

+Ejay Reyes We are just saying, She was too Dramatic

This, exactly. I'm not crying. Not at all, this is rain on my face right now.

Ashish Pradhan Common in Yankee documentaries.

😂😂😂

Lol idk why that girl was crying. My parents never taught me their native languages (spanish/Armenian) and while it sucks it’s not that crazy

DXmaryoOD well, it’s different for everyone. i get sad sometimes because my grandmother only speaks twi (ghanian language) and i don’t understand, and it sucks to translate. it’s embarrassing (to me)

Exactly. I personally find this video offensive because it implies that any ethnic person in america has to have some ties to their "roots" or whatever. I'm african american and like most other african americans, we have no idea where we came from in africa and have been here since the slavery days so does this mean we're "frauds" for not knowing whatever our supposed "native" language even is? I was born in america so english is my native language.

@@thelonercoder5816 this video really isn’t about you guys though. it’s about people who’s parents come from a different country , but being a child up in the united states. so yeah, they still have a right to their culture and it can be sad when they don’t know how to speak the language because if such continues, then their culture will be lost

same...

yea...I can feel ya. Writing and understanding is easy but then for speaking, there like a weird slang in it

It's called a tone

I feel you sometimes but I find that it's okay, try practising. I also occasionally pronounce words wrongly though but I do correct myself after.

Xavi Xiang I totally understand...

I live in Germany and my parents are Vietnamese and we talk in German most of the time, because when I was younger my dad had a hard time finding a job in his department with his broken German, so he liked to practise it with his family. As a result my parent's German is pretty good and the rest of my extended family in Vietnam thinks I'm a disgrace for not speaking Vietnamese very well. lol

Aber für eine Vitnamnesin siehst du sehr hübsch und attraktiv für meine Befürfnisse als junger Typ. :P Falls du das auf deinem Profil wirklich sein solltest.

Danke :'D ist ein seehr altes Foto

+Laura that happens to a lot of vietnamese families here in London

Laura Ich weiß ja nicht ob es dir aufgefallen ist, aber in Düsseldorf und Frankfurt gibt es die meisten Vitnamnesinen, Japaner, Koreaner, und Chinesin. Wusstest du das ?

it's not their native language, it's their ancestral language. your native language is the language you grew up speaking in, like english.

I'm 18 and I speak and I'm learning french as my 5th Spanish (my native tongue) English Italian Portuguese

I'm 16 and I can speak English Hindi Tamil (my dad) Kannada (my mom) Korean (learnt) French (learnt) Almost finishing my courses in 2 languages : Chinese Spanish I'm sorry if anyone found it offensive or as if I'm showing off i wanna be a lauguage interpreter so I'm learning with interest 😄

@@sensorcato I'm sorry,is that supposed to be funny?

@@khione07 u can actually speak so much of them? Thats cool man 👍

@@shailesh5514 Thank you so much ❤️😭 , I've always been interested in learning languages , I'm thinking of opening a channel to teach or give tips on languages ...

+Kaiser William -maybe the same reason my family doesn't speak Polish or Celtic? i mean, the last 2 generations born in the US and therefore speak English in everyday life. i don't know... just a guess. but if you were born in the US, the likelihood of needing to know a language other than (maybe) Spanish is pretty low.

+Stephanie B well i am indian. Commonly in my state people speak marathi or Hindi. My mother tongue is a dialect of Konkani spoken by about only 50000 ppl. Among many of my friends one parent speaks konkani and other doesnt but they still speak it quite fluently. Even if u live in a state where ur native language isnt the main language people still speak their mothertongue at home irrespective of where they live.

Half of my family has stayed in Washington DC for over 3 generations now- They still speak Odiya (A 5000 year old language spoken by only 3% of India's population in the state of Odisha), They speak American English, Little tidbits of India's most spoken language- Hindi. As for my family- We have never stayed in the state of Odisha in India- We stayed in Mumbai where the official language is Marathi and English. Yet I ended up learning Odiya,Marathi,Hindi,English,Japanese,Mandarin,Korean and several local Indian languages. It's not a big deal.

+Sagar Mahapatra 👏👏👏

Thank you for expressing this, I agree it's not funny. My grandmother's health has turned for the worst and I cannot communicate with her, it makes it really awkward and I feel disappointed in myself. I wish I had worked harder at learning Vietnamese when I had the chance.

Abh Ghu non genuine.

she has been on buzzfeed for such a long time now, how can you even think what she said was genuine 😂

저 한국에서왔어요

don't worry, we have lots people over here to keep culture alive. NRI(non resident of India) always get over dramatic about India when they are in other country. At instant they land here start complain about own country.

Abh Ghu proud that though she's an invader, she has not been influenced beyond repair by her occupied territory? You have to go back.

uhmm ok??

Hiiii!!

I can speak 6 languages

Me: Trylingual (actually my parents and grandparents were born in Australia, I’m trying to speak the language of my wife)

@@Anonymous-qg8nn same

+cmiller8492 Not true. I have a friend from greece, born in greece, with two greek parents, who no longer speaks greek. When you move to a different country and you only speak this new language, you no longer are actively using that other language, and you slowly forget how to speak it because you don't use it. Another friend I have was adopted from a russian orphanage, at the age of two, was brought to america. Both are still natives, both was still born in in another country and still is considered an immigrant. Both no longer speak the language they learned as a child. This isn't just them, many people who move to foreign countries lose their native language. There's a youtuber who was canadian who as an adult moved to japan. After living there for 10 years, she now has trouble speaking english because she doesn't need to know it. So in an attempt to practice and keep herself fluent in her native language she used youtube as a space to retain that side of her. If you don't use it, you lose it. Same with anything that is learned. Like how parents look at their child's algebra homework and can't remember how to solve the problem even though when they took the same class. When you get out of school, algebra isn't used in everyday life, so it's forgotten about. It's not even just language. When people move, even across the united states, accents and dialects slowly rub off on the travelers and they will start talking in the dialect of where they're currently located. It's part of the way our bodies adapt to our surroundings for survival. No one really knows exactly why this happens in speech as well, but it's been proven to happen consistently to travelers. It's part of absorbing other cultures. These people could of easily spoken their native language until kindergarten, and they had to adapt to the culture they were thrown into. You could do your own research as well.

cmiller8492 I tend to use heritage language for cases where it's immediate family that speaks it. They're only one generation displaced; to me at least, 'ancestral language' implies that it stopped being spoken several generations before.

Asians can't help tht there brown or yellow right? No matter how u put it we would feel comfortable speaking our own native languages thts a fact Unless u have no sense of discomfort living in a white society what's so ever

+Jaclyn Lizzi thank you Jaclyn, finally someone with a sound answer.

+Michelle Tabisz Well said!

dude... you learn 3 different language... me gusta senorita. lol jk but seriously... teach me how to have parents with diff country. I want to learn other language too..

Shafwan Dito That's the sad part, it's all luck :( *****​ Dzieki, ale nie ma co podziwiac- to wszystko szczescie! Lepiej podziwiac tych co sie sami nauczyli :)

Coffee The Bunny That's a really cool combination! How did that work? Both my parents are pure nationalities

raziell​ I'm currently studying Korea and learning the language :) 

I speak Uranese, I'm from Uranus.

I can be your filipino friend who speaks tagalog ;))) Bilingual ako rin pero mas dominant ako sa English kasi pinanganak ako sa abroad huehue

Sana talaga may isang maimpuwensya na tao sa Pilipinas tulad ng Pangulo na maging daan upang magsalita tayo ng tuwid na Tagalog dahil ang sagwa talaga pakinggan kapag inihahalo ito sa wikang Ingles na animo ay nagsasalitang banyaga.

Arent Israelis asian though

@@ericktellez7632 Not culturally or racially. Maybe geographically

i love your username. if there's a chogiwill, there's chogiway :v

Chogiwa x ikr even tho im not korean

dude!!! same!!!

im not sure if i should be proud of it though lmao

Earth Is Not Flat yea it wasn’t that deep

it wasnt deep at all. they're just buzzfeed cucks

I’ve cried before for not being able to speak Tagalog. As an American who has never been to the Philippines and never got to have a relation with my relatives there.. I wish I could speak Tagalog. As my Filipino family keeps passing away before I get to meet them.. it’s tough. Tagalog would bring me so much closer to my ancestors and heritage. It’s just a missing part of me and these people too.

+Deeco Draven criiiinge. you sound like a 12 year old lol

Earth Is Not Flat I saw you somewhere else on youtube

You should at least learn one of your native language. I think you should learn assamese first.

When you are an Indian there are layers of tradition, languages, custom, rituals.

Sorry for my english I m indian half punjabi and half hindi speaking with a local area language ,😊😊😊😊

Lol i live in Mumbai in 5 languages its common in Mumbai fr ppl to speak 3-4 languages

+samana1fromsomalia awwww thats nice

I came to America when I wasn't even born

Yeah Somalia

zingzong4067 it's not like anyone is dying to meet you in Mogadishu.

Charles Bronson Who said I'm Somali?

ffion williams same and then it ended up being a sob story lol

same here..

Allister N That is so sad. Oh my God. :*-(

Why did you think this was doing to be funny?

Ikr damn

haha😄. જ્યાં જ્યાં વસે એક ગુજરાતી ત્યાં ત્યાં સદાકાળ ગુજરાત ✌️. Greetings 💙

@Pooja Patel lol same

That's same with me & my sister but in Bengali lol

You guys are toxic. Glad I don't know any of you

+Claire B actually, it's because some, if not most, of them chose to not learn it when they were young. I have cousins who can no longer understand or speak our native tongue because they were ashamed to even speak our native tongue when we were little. Now they are ridden with guilt and regrets because they could hardly communicate with our dying grandparents. And how could one even claim to be of a certain ethnic descent when one cannot even speak, least understand, the language? They brought it upon themselves..

+Phil Lux Some of them did, yes - and that's why they feel so guilty in the video.

+Phil Lux um... I didn't choose to not learn, my mother did. She never taught me and I resent her for it because now I can't communicate with a majority of my family.

Yup I agree

+Phil Lux I just feel you can be part of that ethnicity even if you weren't able to learn the language. As long as you respect where you come from and not insult it. I think we shouldn't hate or think of them less for not knowing the language of their ancestors...

Atleast you're multilingual and many of your countrymen are not! It's always better to have a broad look at things. :)

Elena JK I'm proud of you! I started studying in France last year. I don't see any people who act against Asian people because I and they came of age already and are University student. I understand what you experienced and I don't expect I can get over that situation if I was you. But you kept learning your mother tongue. That's not easy. Super.

Elena JK I'm black and me and my parents visited South Korea for BTS and when we was walking on the street people will just stop and stare at us like we were outsiders or something

Elena JK 20 and already masterd 3 languages... Arigatou for the inspiration!

oml same here, serious langauge barriers between my parents so i grew up without knowing languages as a child and now i'm trying to learn to reach out to my family

reclaim your heritage language like Native Americans do with their heritage languages!

Miyah Rose I'm exactly like you but with kabyle (berbère) and I feel bad for that :c

I'm sure muscle memory will kick in and help you learn quicker

Miyah Rose hai

depending on where you live in the US, there is a chance you can connect with other Japanese-Americans. But Japanese is definitely spoken in the US, albeit not by everyone! maybe when you ask and look around you can connect with young people in a similar situation who also want to connect with their native tongue again. good luck! and if anything else fails, you could still check Japanese classes for beginners at your high school/college, I'm sure you'll beat all those non-Japanese people learning it as an entirely new language to them.

If you live on the west coast or Hawaii, you can find Japanese people to talk with. It's really nice for me here in Hawaii, and even though I'm in a "white school" 14 out of 20 kids are Japanese, the rest are Chinese and white

lalisa in your area well, if u go to an English speaking school, FULL of pple speaking English at a young age, then when ur older, you will start to forget ur mother tongue. u learn best in languages when ur young, once u get older, it may be too late n more difficult. don't blame anyone. u saying it is making them feel more guilt.

The parents are sort of to blame I guess...

Tracy Aung that's exactly what happened to me

They do so for better “assimilation.” Especially if you live in suburbia, maybe the South, or far from a heavily populated US city there’s more discrimination against minorities. My parents moved us to predominantly white preppy areas and always saw it as necessary to have a strong command of English to be taken seriously. They even took speech classes to improve upon their accents. It’s a hard life. My parents fought so hard in their highly competitive careers battling and competing against discrimination in the workplace. Unfortunately there are many Asian-American people like me who became brainwashed to think that our ethnic background deemed us “inferior.” Now as a twenty-something and trying to understand myself and where I come from, I find it so important to have pride in my heritage. Filipinos are some of the most nurturing and welcoming in culture and are not lesser people. Also, English is my native language. Tagalog and Bisaya are not native to me, but native to my parents. I speak English. The title is very incorrect.

Speaking as an Asian-American and observing other families like mine, most if not all immigrant parents will continue speaking to their children in their native languages. That doesn't automatically mean their child will grow up *speaking* the language, they'll only be able to understand it. It's up to the child *themselves* to show interest in their native cultures and learn the language of their parents, which thankfully, I chose to do. I can't imagine not being bilingual and having a language barrier that could've easily been avoided.

Englishero

Makes absolute perfect sense, though shouldn't there have been a fifth language on your list? I think you forgot one. =D

i thought Irish spoke english!!

Doge I lost in the west of Ireland and thankfully where I live Irish is still pretty widely spoken. it's a language I love an a language I'll teach my children ❤

Same. I'm Irish and I really hope the language would get more attention

I love celtic languages so im trying to learn irish

C K N Ireland's primary language now is English. For majority of us our first language is English, we learn through English. Irish is taught in our schools yes but just the basics and even then it's not taught well because I learned how to speak it was through my grandparents...unless you're speaking it every day then it's very hard to speak it fluently. Aswell as that Irish is a very old and very difficult language to grasp so unless it's being spoken in someone's every day language I wouldn't judge someone for not knowing it. Whether they were Irish or otherwise

tae tae and his tea 👀

I believe it too, he cant understand easy words like "you" in laos LOL that's pretty sad. I mean at least he should know how to say "you" "me" in laos. he didn't even recognize it LOL

j j , because he didn't learn the language. i don't think its something to laugh about tbh

xiusthetic oh I'm not laughing at him, he just did a fake laugh

i didn't say it to you, i replied to j j who said that its pretty sad that he doesn't even know "you" in laos and he didn't even recognize it. i mean, how could he if he never learned the language?

Burmese - That's Mexican isn't it?

Burmese - Then what i should say being a Colombian kiubo parcero 😂

Me 😂😂😂

+Jonghyun's Trash 가비 me too haha

Me

Me too

LMFAO that's why I was scrolling through the comments

Yvonne Myers no. I can understand mandarin dialects but I dont speak it.

Saaame

ayyy ghana

same here... i can understand my mom's borneo language but i can't speak it... 😂😂

Yvonne Myers no

that's sad.

:/

That's more in the north in the south not knowing your mother tongue is a huge taboo

+ranga bharadwaj That's only cause the government isn't even putting Punjabi as the main language to learn their replacing it with Hindi and English

Yup even a little while ago i hated my native language and focused on talking in English and having a good accent in tht but there is nothing so special in having a good accent we make up our own accent or pick it up. Who give a f about our accent as long as we can speak a foreign language properly it is all well.

exactly lol

I hate it when people don't learn their native language... You can learn English incredibly easily once you go to school.

I learnt my home language at 16. It's possible. I wish they wouldn't make their lives seem so difficult and instead make some effort to pick up the language. It can be done.

Exactly. There is a simple solution to all this: learn the language.

+Sophie K maybe some people don't feel the need to. Why is that so bad?

TAEYONGIEEEE!!!! ❤❤❤

+Jiminiex ♥ chim chim

JIMIN!!

+jiminiepabo Hi Jimins 😂

+Amitha Alex same...

weeaboo

merc - Weaboo is someone who thinks they are Japanese but they are not. OP just likes anime and this doesn't make him/her a weaboo at all

I was thinking all she has to do is just watch anime and she'll learn her language.

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Found the weeb, they are so proud on the Internet

I cant read or right either.

aw, that's sad... I am Nepali too, but my parents only ever replied to me when I talked in Nepali, so I had no choice but to speak it, and I am still fluent. I hope you can learn how to speak it, if not read and write.

loveamazingstuff12 thx for the suport it really motivates me i have been taking classes with my nepali friends

You really shouldn't be so hard on yourself. As kids, we'd always want to be more social and like our friends, so it's really understandable that you're not fluent, given that you've grown up with English-speaking surroundings. It's good to hear you're currently taking classes to improve that, so don't feel like a disgrace. In fact, think of it as earning your language. That's what I'm currently doing with one of my native languages too, so as a kindred spirit, I wish you luck!

That's the exact same with me about nepali

What is her name??

Michelle Khare most probably.

seriously. like if you want to learn, then learn. nothing is holding you back but yourself.

Je parle français, espangol, et anglais. Je sui un américain de parents pérouvien et espangol. Et oui, Apprendre idiomes différents C'est très important

Mes parents sont anglais et americainne, donc j’ai été élevé seulement parlent 1 langue. J’essaie apprendre le français, l’arabe etc maintenant mais il est plus difficile. Si tu as les parents qui ne parle pas anglais, apprend d’ils. c’est util pour toi

You know..indians breaks down easily, very sensitive 😂😂😂

Angie H English is probably one of the easiest languages to learn.

Dreamer Girl I guess thats how it would seem for someone who knows english

XxBySNiPxX ikr it sounds easy but its actually not

Angie H Yup.I mean i see many people struggling with English

XxBySNiPxX that's true and I'm one

I don't even know why lol, I'm half chinese and it's not even that bad not being able to communicate to other chinese ppl! WE HAVE GOOGLE TRANSLATE

+Emily Rocks maybe these people want to actually retain knowledge about the language instead of just communicating through a robotic voice that doesn't carry as much meaning as human intonation and pronounciation???

Eric Wright Why would I want attention from random people on the internet who don't know me? Think before you type.

+Eric Wright ahaha yes

Eric Wright Eric you make no sense, please explain why I want attention from online strangers?