Being bilingual is nice until you start forgetting words in both languages and then you stop functioning as a whole

My monolingual brain is just waiting for the dementia to set in 😭

As a bilingual you can swear in a different language depending on who's around, to be less offensive XD

Disadvantage: You forget how it's the word in Spanish but you remember how it's in English and the person you're talking to doesn't know what you want to say and yeah 😂

I think that the main advantage of been bilingual is that you have twice access to online content in this time when everything is globalized. Specially when you speak English and Spanish because you suddenly have covert a hole continent of languages(almost) in your super hero brain. But also makes you weird when you wanna say things that don`t have translation or when you mix grammars and stuff and then people won`t understand you c:

The only disadvantage I get for being bilingual is everyone comes to me when they need some translating, which I really hate doing since translating is really annoying and time consuming, like just because I can speak 2 languages doesn't mean I'm an interpreter who can translate instantly, since I never translate in my head when I'm speaking either language and most bilingual people I know don't do this either.

The advantage of pretending you don’t speak english when you want to get out of something😊😂

I CAN'T wait to start using this word to people I get frustrated with at work. "Ugh, monolingual's" lmao

When my grandmother got older she would switch between 4-5 different languages in a single sentence.

I've met people who speak 5 languages, and they are not the brightest crayon in the box. I for one, speak 3 languages, and as I became trilingual as an adult, I tend to forget how to say a word in one of the languages I speak (even my mother tongue) or sometimes I struggle to find the right word to express what I want to say in the language I'm speaking. Advantages, I can think in three different ways inside my head and I also dream in 3 languages, which is really cool.

Being bilingual does give you superpowers. You can understand people in another language. Also this is now my justification not to excercise

You can sound más inteligente in two languages (or more) or mas dumber 😂

One disadvantage is being told to "go home", because I speak Spanish too... Come on people! We have a bilingual brain!

Bilingual disadvantage: everyone wants you to translate cause “you speak Mexican right?”

I'm trilingual, so that means that I have 10 years of no dementia symptons? I don't know if it's a disadvantage but sometimes suddenly cambio entre idiomas y cuando me doy cuenta je me sens un peu idiot...

I am fluent Spanish, English, Mandarin, Japanese and French. I want to become conversationally fluent (being able to hold an extended conversation in a different language not having full language fluency) or fully fluent in as many languages as possible. I just like being able to talk to as many people as possible. Maybe make them laugh,smile or make their day just a little bit better.

Well, te advantage it's pretty obvious to me, being bilingual allows me to be a Mexican who can watch and enjoy your channel

I truly feel it does change the way you think!!!!!!

One of the many advantages I think I have for being bilingual is that I get to understand and learn from more cultures, being Spanish my native language I get to experience in different ways how people from different parts of Latin-America and Spain live their day-to-day lives, but now that I speak English I get to know how Americans, Brits, Australians and people from other English speaking countries do things or just the way they are. La desventaja es que a veces cuando estoy hablando español, por ejemplo, se me viene a la cabeza la palabra que quiero usar pero en inglés y muchas veces no recuerdo cual es la traducción lo cual es frustrante, lo mismo cuando hablo inglés. But overall I think is great to know more than just one language. Saludos desde Venezuela y felicitaciones por la boda.

This collab is amazing!! Love you both 💕

I hate it when I want to say a word in spanish but I can only remember the translation in english, which it's slightly worrying cause spanish is my first language

desventajas? olvidar las palabras en tu idioma materno

This is the first time I've ever heard anything compared to the New York Subway in a good way. I love my city, but the MTA is trash.

Disadvantage: People make fun because I switch from Spanish to English and back 74 times in a sentence! Advantage: I can fluently speak with more people. Disadvantage: I forget words in both my native Spanish and English (which I've been studying since I was 4, I'm 27 now) and look like an idiot. Advantage: I can go to a Broadway show and understand what they are saying without having to purchase the translation thingy. My mom had to do that during Wicked. She lost more than 30% of the show in translation.

I speak English and Portuguese. The disadvantage is that I can understand Spanish people whining and gossiping and cursing all the time while talking on the phone in the Boston subway.

The only disadvantage is that I am surrounded by monolingual people.

Other people: Spanglish Me, an Intellectual: Code switching.

I'm subscribed to both of her channels but I never imagined how much i needed this collab to happen

Yay a new rant!! Hope you enjoyed your honeymoon,you rock!!!

Pues, la primera ventaja que se me ocurre es que puedes hablar en otro idioma que los demás no entiendan 😝 pero en serio es muy útil porque hay cosas específicas de cada idioma que no pueden ser traducidas perfectamente y cosas como ésas hacen ampliar tu conocimiento en general. Las dendritas (conexiones entre neuronas) son muy útiles para evitar o retrasar los efectos de la demencia y el Alzheimer, dicen que hacer crucigramas y realizar tus actividades diarias de maneras diferentes ayuda a crear y fortalecerlas. Muy buen video, gracias!!

This is why I'm trying to become bilingual.

I can talk to parents of students that no other teachers can

Such a perfect timing!!! I am writing an article about how learning languages can effect your brain!! Thank you 😘👌🏻

I love your videos, Joanna!!!! You’re super funny, keep it up!!!

Oh my gosh! I love this collaboration! I loved watching you two before this but I love videos you make together!

My god, this was a collab made in heaven.

I'm not smarter but I have more connections? I can live with that☺️

I thought she was gonna say that one twin is good and the other was evil. You know? Like in a telenovela

This video was so great!! I loved Vanessa and her explanations, she seems really fun to be around and I would love to see her more so she can get a little more comfortable in Joanna Rants!

I just found your channel - the end broke me so much!

Braincraft brought me here OuO Thanks for helping Vanessa XD

ummm aren't you basically trilingual - spanish, english and Australian

A great benefit of having more than one language is being able to help those who are around you. Even people from a totally different culture. And you end up learning even more.

HYPE for this video

I guess I would never graduate from Joanna rants university because I like Kris

Wait if im trilingual is 10 yrs?

Omg when they were talking about executive functioning and the prefrontal cortex I was TOTALLY waiting for them so mention something about Joanna’s ADD. I feel like that’d be so interesting to delve into since she has the advantage of being bilingual while also having neurological differences.

I speak 4 languages and I have to tell you, each language of them gives me a different perspective of the world .. it's beautiful to isolate yourself totally every once in a while and expose yourself to one of the languages you speak .. and see how it feels like ... it feels like you are a totally different person Just try it! I have no idea how monolinguals could possibly survive .. English is my third language by the way My mother tongue is Arabic ,and I speak Spanish and German

te amo joanna with todo mi heart ok

This is the quality content I came for... Amen.

I have so much fun watching your videos. PLZ KEEP EM COMING!!! Greetings from Puerto Rico. Te amo Joanna, cállate Kris!! 😂

you should do more videos together. I love how different you are. it's refreshing

That moment when you don't remember the word in one language but you already know it in the other one

What about those who speak more than 2 languages on high level and every day?

Oh, nice! Joanna and Vanessa!

Does Chris edit the videos? Because this particular episode was taken to new heights of comedy just from the editing! The close up's... the thought bubbles... genius. 👍🏼

Advantage, being able to tell a story to someone in front of a monolingual someone whose business it is not... Like my bosses. It drives them crazy.

What if those two languages are really different (English and Japanese) or really similar (Portuguese and Spanish)? Is there a difference between languages similarities?

The zooming in is fantastic 😂

I’m a bilingual as well, but in the process of becoming a trilingual. I can’t really think of any disadvantage of speaking multiple languages besides people telling you how it’s a waste of time or when someone gives you a dirty look. In the contrary, there are so many benefits of being a bilingual. There’s the example that Vanessa and Joanna just shared, but my favorite one is being able to understand others different from you. I don’t just mean being able to understand and communicating with others verbally, but to acknowledge their culture as well. If you’re able to interact with someone, then you could also learn about them. In the US, xenophobia is a huge problem. We have people running around, hating on others for no real reason. Sometimes I think about it and I’m not sure wether to feel anger, frustration, or pity for those people. They grow up in an environment where they’re taught to hate others. They grow up without questioning their beliefs and sadly it continues to be passed down, becoming a gruesome cycle. I’m not just going to bash on others,because I’m not perfect either. In my culture, machismo was and could be seen as a normal lifestyle. I’m not going to lie about it, but now that I look back I can remember how this was a privilege that I was unaware of. I was given more freedom than my sister for the simply fact that I’m a male. How cruel! Fortunately, today’s modern women are not tolerating this crap anymore and I’m here to support them until the end! Now back to the topic. Meeting people for yourself can give you a better outlook than any news outlet will ever do. Stop others from painting your beautiful mind. Make a judgement for yourself. Give everyone a chance and don’t turn down a whole country for the fault of one person. I used to think Argentineans were shitty people, until I met my AP Spanish teacher. I now love Argentina!

When you're bilingual and start losing vocabulary in all the languages you speak in. Byelingual.

I'm BYE lingual

I think that language is a powerful lens to view the world through and when you use a different language it colours that view. Because some words don't have equivalents, or the translation does not convey exactly the same meaning, using a second, third, etc language provides cultural nuance and helps gain perspective on other's viewpoints. English is very good at incorporating words from other languages to the point where we have lots that have close to the same meaning, and might use them interchangeably. In some ways that might allow the choosing of the most apt word, but in many ways I think it makes us a bit careless about the finer details. Large, big, huge, enormous, gigantic, vast and so on, might on the surface seem like they have more or less the same meaning, but if you were to use the words they derive from in their original language, the subtlety of its meaning becomes more apparent. More so than the words themselves, I find the differences in syntax shape how I might think about something differently when I'm considering it in English, French, Welsh, Chinese or Turkish. Wordplay also varies, especially when comparing English to Chinese! Puns take on a whole new meaning in a tonal language based on characters rather than phonetic writing. Some humour is universal, but wordplay isn't so flexible. That is, however, what makes it so interesting to look at.

Speaking several languages is a whole roller coaster, I speak 5 and I can be a hot mess sometimes as I keep switching the words, ALL THE TIME. However I can definitely see the difference as the years pass by and I learn more languages how my capacity of problem solving and task manage have considerably improved (well, also if you go through shit you just gotta do it no? haha) so I'm definitely looking forward to learn more about this topic, thank you so much! you should bring more guests to your channel!

basically every Scandinavian is bilingual

*Sees title* ....then why am I stupid af?

Ahhh ily Joanna you’re hilarious! 😂😂😂❤️

Oh my God! I love your friend´s accent and she look´s so sweet like seems if you hug her hard you could feel rainbows in her

I'm bilingual, my native language is spanish, but I still almost failed my spanish class xD

Being Billingual is the best!

video just started & i already liked &commented

Your hair looked great !!

Joanna sounds more kiwi than Australian lol

Wow, got here when there was less than 1k views, love you Joanna

I LOVED her accent and also loved the way Johanna wanted to take advantage of the situation making fun of Chris, which is pretty much what I actually do all the time with my friends and colleagues, I will love if you rant about the IVR (which is the machine you hear when you call customer service for instance: UPS) have a good one, XOXO.

Your hair! I love it 😊

I wasn’t aware that Vanessa was Aussie, until almost halfway of the video I realised of her accent. Lovely!!!

Joanna es mi youtuber favorita haha me río demasiado con sus videos! Saludos de parte de una ecuatoriana en Francia. Ah! soy trilingüe *drops the mic*

Loved this video! LMAO

I find that learning a second language opens up my brain even in non-linguistic ways. My creativity is much more active, for instance.

There are plenty of advantages, but for me a disadvantage is when I can only think of the word I want to say in the language I'm not using when talking with a monolingual person, and having to pause to remember the translation. That's why I love code switching with other bilinguals. There are just fewer obstacles that way

Hey, this video came out on my birthday, thank you for the gift even tho I am late to open it

I love Joanna's videos and I love educational videos. But idk why this not her best video yet 🤔 Maybe she should rant more?

One advantage that noticed is that I can understand and learn a new language much more easily, since I speak spanish, it makes learn a new latin language easier and I can also communicate with some one who speaks either Portuguese or Italian since they are very closley related and similar in spelling of words and pronunciations

Joanna's back! :DD Cool collab! Maybe Physics Girl next??? :D? :D? :D?

Oh my god i never thought this collab would ever happen in the history of the universe and I'm very happy about this.

Joanna, you sound like a New Zealander! Sincerely, an Aussie fan :)

Joanna imitating her accent is just perfection. This is the type of quality content I come for.

Hello, welcome to morocco. here, we speak darija, learn arabic and french in primary school, then english in high school, and in the north some people speak a little spanish and the natives aka the amazigh speak chelhha/soussia/jblia (aka mountainy).

This used to happen more when I was little (rarely now) but I would switch from one language to another without realizing it. I would only realize when the person I'm talking to had a blank look on their face 😂

I am greatful for being bilingual (knowing English and American Sign Language. (ASL)). In 2015 I was hospitalized with encephalitis which left me unable to communicate, care for myself and even walk. The doctors were amazed at the speed of my recovery. They said that knowing a secondary Language helped my brain cause it had so many neural highways to reroute things like walking, talking, feeding myself even like how to tie a shoe. So I'm happy I know more than just one language.

Te amo muito Jenna! You crack me up so much !

I just found about this 5 minutes ago and it already has a new video

I didn't know any of that, I feel special (and a bit smarter) now. thanks

WHAT?! You’re friends with Braincraft? THIS IS THE GREATEST MOMENT

One advantage is hearing someone speak spanish in a public setting and get a feeling of comfort, knowing the are other people near you that share a connection with you. Maybe sometimes greet them in spanish as a friendly gesture.

I love Joanna's nail polish color on this video.

Did you guys know Johanna was in an episode of "Bill Nye" of his new series.?

1:10 “we don’t just have to pick on Chris...” Has Vanessa watched this show before? 😂 I’ve been following both of you for a long time but never knew you were buddies! Awesome.

A disadvantage is forgetting words randomly (the situation that makes people look at me and judge me like I am just trying to brag "I am a bilingual/polyglot/whatever") or even your own language completely... One time I was presenting some seminary at College... I was SO nervous speaking to everyone, then I saw ONE WORD in English... My brain did the switch and I couldn't think in Portuguese (that scared me, because I'm usually "good" switching back and forth from Portuguese to English). I just started sweating, either mixing words or saying them incorrectly in a weird "accent", and just... 어버버버 there for a solid 1~2 minutes... Finally my part was over and I could calm down and "switch back"... Almost had a heart attack tho...