You're welcome and nice choices, Cristina! What is your native language? Keep at it!

Persian is very cool. Uzbek is an interesting choice! What prompted you to want to learn that?

@@RobbieKunz I’m applying for a scholarship in Uzbekistan! It’s great that if I get it, I’ll likely be able to use Persian, Uzbek, and Russian while there. There are a few cities that have lots of ethnic Tajiks, so you can speak Persian! I’ve also just graduated from Undergrad, and I’m interested in doing masters / PHD in either Linguistics or Comparative Literature, so if I learn Uzbek, I’ll have a whole world of very (relatively) unexplored Literary territory (at least in Western / English Language scholarship. It will also connect me possibly to Chagatai, which is an older, literary form of Uzbek / Uyghur, in which there are many religious and poetic texts! It’s very exciting. Only struggle is that there aren’t a ton of resources, but I’ll be starting with a tutor soon!

Very nice! Syriac is certainly an interesting choice. Also, Persian is great, too!

Alright! Great choices, check out my book on learning Swedish, Norwegian and Danish at the same time (link in description), you would probably enjoy it!

@@RobbieKunz You know, I am going to be honest that I was kind of skeptical about that book. What is your actual knowledge of those languages? Or, did you have someone help you with it? What, exactly?

@@hijackbyejack1729 Please watch my video on my channel for more information on the book!

Thanks for that, Rebecca! On the busy days, I like to think of it as playing "defense" and keeping the streak going so that when you get a good day, you can get some good studying in. Also, even if you study 5 minutes a day, over a year, that becomes 30 hours of study which is certainly something!

Dangme is so exotic, great choice! If you ever get interested in Norwegian and Danish in comparison to Swedish, check out my comparative grammar of the three languages (link in description).

Thank you, good luck with Arabic, a great language!

Thank you for that! Yes, Icelandic (and Faroese) are a bit more different than Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. However, I did make sure to include them in the final section of the book for comparison's sake. (If anyone else is interested in the book, see the description of this video for the Amazon link to my comparative grammar for learning Swedish, Norwegian and Danish at the same time). I'm very happy to hear that you are getting a lot out of it. That was my purpose for writing it.

Thank you, I will!

Irish is such a great choice! I was aware there were sequels to 夢をかなえるゾウ but didn't know there was a prequel, very nice! How do you study Irish?

Great language choices! Keep up the good work and yes, good luck to us!

Teochew or 潮州话. Spoken by about 15 million people. I found that I had several friends who spoke this language and so I took that as a hint to start learning it.

There is a big Teochew group, Gaginang, out of California. Mostly Vietnamese Chinese young people. Le hor boh?

Very interesting selection of languages, keep at it! Naijà is cool. Hope your studies go well this summer!

Yes, language learning is a lifelong process. If you stop, the language will begin to decay... even if it's your native language! Glad to see you agree with me. Enjoy the studying!

Penso que o teu ingles e muito bom! Italiano, frances e espanhol serao faceis para ti.

It can be hard to balance a lot of languages if you are busy in life. If you are pressed for time, even reviewing a language for 5 minutes in a day is enough to "touch" it and keep it alive. Also 5 minutes of study a day adds up to 30 hours over a year which is certainly something!

Yes, it's at yourteacher.ai - the accent is a little wonky. I last tried the Japanese when it was in beta and it had some problems with saying random words in English, etc. Perhaps they have fixed that by now. The best part of it is that it will correct your speech immediately every time. I think that's very useful for improving speaking ability. As far as the conversation goes, it does a good job at keeping the conversation going by asking questions but after the initial thrill of talking to an AI wears off, the personality is very predictable and, of course, it will never tell you stories about itself or give opinions like a real person would. Also there is no cultural nuance. The 50 year old German guy will give the same answers in the same way as the 22 year old Japanese girl, just in their respective languages. Also, the app is built on ChatGPT so you can just use ChatGPT to do the same thing. In fact, ChatGPT is better in some ways as ChatGPT's accent is flawless whereas yourteacher.ai's accent is not native (particularly problematic for Chinese when it gets the tones wrong). The main use I have for it is to improve my ability to make correct sentences in German as the word order is different. So the immediate corrections are quite helpful. I also use it recently for Swedish just to practice and learn more Swedish for fun.

​@@RobbieKunz Thanks for the detailed reply! I think it's cool that it can be set to correct your speech every time. However, the most disappointing thing is that "he 50 year old German guy will give the same answers in the same way as the 22 year old Japanese girl". So really, no cultural or personality nuances, it seems... The "all you can use" aspect is good, though... I'll have to do some more considering (and waiting) before either paying for ChatGPT (that would let me speak to it naturally) or paying for the YourTeacher service. (I've not had comments go through before due to putting in a URL, but yours appears to have worked.) Thanks for the info!

Those are all great languages to learn. By "14yrs", do you mean you are 14 years old? If so, wow, what a great time to start learning! Keep at it!

Yes, 8! Professor Arguelles at his language academy offered a class in self-study Arabic so I took the opportunity. We are learning Modern Standard Arabic but I hope to also learn some dialects, too!

@@RobbieKunz that's amazing! I'm currently learning Korean and I want to add German but I'm feeling hesitant as I find Korean a demanding language, but seeing your video and how easily you're joggling between 8 LANGUAGES !!! I thought why can't I learn just 2.

I study in 15 minute blocks of time. However, I might do a few blocks in a row but I will change the language or material each block.

Papiamentu is such a great language. You shouldn't have too much trouble with French, Italian and Portuguese then! I'm also interested in Japanese, Mandarin and Korean.

@@RobbieKunz Yes, I hope so too, even though I do notice how similar they are which makes me be more encouraged. German is similar to Dutch too, so I hope it’s alright. Good luck with your study journey!

Just a question out of curiosity: why do you want Ukrainian? It's a rare choice. I am Ukrainian native speaker and it suprises me a lot, when foreigners can speak or understand our language.

Thank you for your kind comment, I appreciate that. Yes, if you really want to learn the language, you may as well begin now!

Excellent choices! If you are learning Norwegian, you should check out my book on learning Swedish, Norwegian and Danish at the same time (link in description). I think you will find it very interesting!

Thanks! I may do a video on this. One type is cloze deletion cards where the vocabulary item is a blank space in the sentence on the front side with the definition and the actual word on the back side. The other type is created automatically from Migaku which is just the entire sentence in the foreign language with the word and definition on the back side.

I think it's possible. If you have never learned a language before, you may want to start with just one in order to learn the "meta skill" of language learning first. As for me, I started Arabic, Sanskrit, Italian, Swedish, Teochew and some others at around the same time and have made progress.

It's true beginners can't start with big books but if I were at a beginning level, I would be doing other activities like studying an Assimil manual or other beginner's materials. For example, I went through the 3 different versions of the German Assimil before I started reading native books.

Very nice, when I first started learning languages, these were the two I started with, too.

Gracias, enviame un mensaje en IG. Si tengo una pregunta, te envio un mensaje alli.

@@RobbieKunz Está bien 😹💚

I had the same problem with Teochew! Basically I had to make my own Teochew material to learn from. I created some dialogues I wanted to study then paid a translator to translate it to Teochew. I also found someone who spoke Teochew in my city (and on italki) to go over the language with me. I also studied Bengali a bit from a friend I worked with. I just know a few phrases like "kemon acho" and "bhalo achi" (probably spelled differently). So you can definitely learn Bengali, it's just not served on a platter to you like the other languages!

Vielen Dank!

How do you balance them? 2 min for each? :p

It’s unrealistic. How many languages can you speak with natives and read ? To learn Arabic if you are an English speaker, you need 2200 h with the Arabic.

@@OlivierStrohl-r5w Watch my video and find out for the details. I plan on reading in Spanish, German, French, Japanese and talking to native speakers in Chinese. I studied Arabic for about 300 hours which was mostly studying the two versions of Assimil (1975 and 2006). Now I am reading Arabic children's stories and summarizing what I read in Arabic.

That's cool you are learning Taiwanese Hokkien. I don't know a lot about that language but I have also heard that it is similar to Teochew in some ways. Yes, I agree it's definitely doable to learn 10 languages at once. Finnish is an interesting choice for a language to learn. Any particular reason for that one?

@@RobbieKunz There're some reasons that i wanted to learn Finnish. First, i have heard that Finnish grammar is somewhat similar to Turkish, even Japanese/Korean, so i was very curious about if it is ture. Second, i wanted to learn a language, which is quite different from the languages i know(including grammar and vocabulary). Third, i have heard that Finnish is one of the most difficult languages in the world, so i wanted to know how hard it is. Which language was hardest to learn so far for you?

Hi, I am a polyglot too. Can you tell me which languages do you know ?

@@dianahammoud1190 Hi, it depends on which level did you mean "know" 🤔 By the way, which languages do you know? 😁

Wow, two really intense languages to learn! I'm impressed. 😊

Very nice! Turkish and Arabic are certainly different from the Romance languages but if you're up for a challenge, go for them.

你好！努力学习！

Great choices! Once you get good at those, I'd also go for Italian and Portuguese, too.

All great languages... Well, it's too late, I have been studying Arabic and Sanskrit at the same time for more than a year now and still making good progress!

@@RobbieKunz That's very impressive!

I do!

Sorry it didn't work out for you! But for me I'm learning Thai, lao, Mandarin, Cambodian and Vietnamese ! A variety of languages keeps my passion fresh instead of having stale periods with just one.

Quando ho iniziato per la prima volta a imparare l'italiano, ero in Giappone. Ho letto il libro "Twilight" perche era facile. Pero, non ho letto un libro in italiano da allora. Hai qualche raccomandazione?

@@RobbieKunz Un romanzo che amo è " L ' isola di Arturo" di Elsa Morante. Ma non c è che l' imbarazzo della scelta 🙂📖📚

Isizulu is an interesting choice! Swahili is always great, too.

@@RobbieKunz if I may ask you a question. How important is reading a language you are learning to speak it well? I hope my question make sense 😂

@@eobardthawne7126 Generally if you just want to speak, you should practice speaking. Although it is also true that reading is a good way to build vocabulary that you can then use in speech.

@@RobbieKunz I appreciate you Robbie

Strongly disagree! Check out Steve Kaufman, he learned most of his languages after the age of 60, I believe. It is important to exercise both our physical bodies and our minds. You can still get benefit and enjoyment out of learning languages even at the age of 52.

Tell that to steve Kaufman. Learning can improve creating new connections in the brain and push away demencia etc

@@yuno555gasai5 no doubt about that, but at what cost. Body health and muscle preservation deserves priority after 50. Kaufman is not interested in muscular maintenance

You just do both 😉