😂😂😂

"It was just too painful, teacher... to know that not all the beautiful poetry... is written in my mother tongue. And then my dog ate it."

this made my night lol

I'm gonna use this with my teacher lmao

Lol

Good thing. Cause identity just for society not knowledge

Nah, pretty sure hes dead

That's a stupid way to put it he should say it expanded his horizons or changed his attitude and outlook on life in a better way

@@Frankmaui67 that's not very eye-catching

@@Frankmaui67 on the opposite, it's smart. this kind of words are used andwidely known.. but his title made me watch the video (and I didn't regret it)

*"I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing at the wind. For in much wisdom, is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.*

@randominternetuser2599 Qoheleth! What are you doing here ol' buddy

Uh, no

That realization, my friend, is mostly because you are growing older. Trust me, the legitimacy for cynicism gets a lot worse as you grow older. And a bit of advice flows from that. It is mentally much healthier to focus on something else that brings you joy and happiness, because the world will not become any nicer because you object to it being cruel or unfair. While your objection to the Universe's inherent cruelty is fair and commendible, your observation is nothing new or unique, so you might as well expend your energy somewhere else. Trust me, you will be a lot happier if you chose such a path.

So true

@@Disappointed739 Thank you for your words of wisdom. And I know what you mean about life's cruelty. I learned that lesson as a teenager.

yes indeed. i have been trying to get this across to anyone who might listen. while it seems like the whole world wants to emphasise difference, learning languages and meeting people from other walks of life just solidifies my sense of us all being generally the same.

I thought that I was the only one who think that way. Not like I'm the only one, but it's good to see people thinking like I use to think about. I'm currently fluent in two languages and afterwards I see the same. People are pretty the same, everywhere.

@Alejandro Rauber me too

No. His life is over. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand what he's saying. Maybe when you speak 9 languages you'll get there but you'll probably be dead by then too.

No. His life is over. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand what he's saying. Maybe when you speak 9 languages you'll get there but you'll probably be dead by then too.

@@bw4348 so is better not to learn anymore languages then?🥺

@@greenfairy549 Yes pretty lady. You can stop now that you're able to talk to me.

Yes, Carthaginian would like to persuade you to speak Phoenicians . So they can justify prolicide.

I always call it having another personality and not a soul.

@@sundial655 Huh?

Another way of seeing the world.

Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales?

exactly THRU

Are you basically implying that individuals who are neurotypical need to completely learn a foreign language in order to experience empathy for the people that language belongs to??

@@carmenwomack it doesn't say its a prerequisite for empathy, but that it enhances it

The more i see the more I realize how much remains hidden

congrats you copied the top comment

The more you learn, the more you realise how many things you don't know.

You also learn how stupid other people are. Regardless of what 1 thing they know that you don’t. It’s always best to just surround yourself with good people you can stand to have a form of conversation with.

Wtf poor human being, copied the top comment. 😂😂😂 for what? Very very poor soul.

I am learning japanese just to listen some hentai dlsite asmr works :) I NEED TO KNOW THE PLOT IN THOSE NTR WORKS

@@arigatameiwaku I see you are a man of culture

@@arigatameiwaku bruhhh

@@haise1356 they even have PDFs inside with script so its easier to learn new words :D

I'm learning japonese to understand vtuber

What did it cost you? Everything

I've won, but at what cost- I think that's the proper version

So Basically - It's nice To Know when People are Talking Sh!T in Differnt Languages about You, but Then itll Also Lower your Self Esteem Knowing people all over the World Truly Hate You cause you heard it come out of there own mouths

You've missed the point by miiiiles

Captain ! Help wanda in west view

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Do I stop?

@TheAncientColossus No, just find a balance that suits you. I've had to learn to take time each week to do things I enjoy that are not related to the heavy topics. Also, good sleep and exercise make a massive difference to improve mental health if you are determined to keep studying your areas of focus.

@@m3tamonk3y4 wow I had the same with physics, psychology

It's a pity it is true. But we can say so about any intellectual activity which requires to be alone many time.

It broadens our knowledge in the sense of actively feeling emotional empathy vs cognitive empathy. I guess for some people who are more neurotypical it takes learning a language or immersing themselves in a different culture to feel empathy for others.

No - but it *is* the center of YOUR universe. And, contrary to what some may think, that's not always a bad thing.

@@dm8057bk Absolutely. :)

The vid is about languages and there’s a definite hierarchy in the usefulness, practicality, adaptability of languages. Not all languages are equal in describing reality (in essence digitizing an analogue reality to something communicable) and not all languages were designed to accommodate change in them. Only Greek has done that. I speak Greek, English and used to speak French and some Italian. The Greek language is richer and more adaptive, bar none.

@@anthonylopez5 The US was and IS a big deal. Lately there’s a political trend that produces comments such as yours which are greatly uninformed and unappreciative of the importance of the US culture for all humanity. Pity!

Who said Miles Morales?

I'll come out and say that I'm one of those people, I'll try to change that mindset.

For me learning a foreign language Is an indescribably important considering the effects on my life. It helps me to give a sense to my solitude 🤍🤌🏽 I like languages like I like literature and the world around us❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍🩷🩵🩶

Big respect to you for saying they publicly. Hope you've noticed some change in the past few months ​@@beegbeeg9871

It's called emotional empathy, the "feeling" that you're experiencing from having to have learned said language is emotional empathy. Not to be confused with cognitive empathy which is just knowing how they feel and not feeling how they feel.

Bro it has the best rhymes fr

Would love to learn Farsi! I find it fascinating that it is part of the Indo-European language family, like a distant cousins of French, English or German.

Dont forget your culture dude. Persia has one of most beautiful cultures in the world. Dont let it disappear what has happened before Islamization of the Persian soil.

persians were different .. not the converted ones like u

@@edenhazard2751 I would guess that you never say the similar thing to a French or an Englishman. You never said to them, "Don't forget your culture dude. Don't let it disappear because of the Liberalization."

So wisdom phase

I somehow learnt a language I'm writing in right now and I don't think it's necessarilly true.

@@yuliazni4006 LoL

He also said, in that same sentence, "if you care enough",...which to Theodorius Ghandeli, is a very important part.

@@Zeewman about, a part of oneself becoming a member of that tribe, the language belongs to?

Struck my heart

Which is quite logical, when one questions certain things which are structured in society and are based on something that happened quite some time ago. Or certain things which are just simply based on stories, historical texts and such. Often wondered and pondered about by Theodorius Ghandeli. Have you never had that thought about something you read, anywhere?

Agreed!

The best part

History is written by Us and for Us

Knowing more ways about how people speak, lets you see more ways of speaking about the same thing. Knowing that there is more than one way to speak about things, means you will never put your faith into only one thing. When you can speak in more than one way, you will rarely speak meaninglessly, or make sense in only one way.

Qui-Gon Jinn was truly the wisest jedi.

I want to create a hybrid between Japanese and Icelandic. Because I love drawing Japanese women and so on, the idea is to create a whole new language which can make it vastly harder for all but a few to interpret content in Japanese intelligence reports. I do not know if this language hybrid will ever become a reality, but if it does, it would be called Japicelandic.

@@Yatukih_001 "I love drawing Japanese women" hmmmmmm

@@Yatukih_001 I'm gonna check back here in a year to start learning Japicelandic...

The video provided great insight, but I do think the title went a bit overboard. It feels quite exaggerated.

If a trail twists and turns on the way towards the destination, is that path misleading?

Is it though?

@@TenaciousTentacruel if a sign says that the path that it sits upon said to brings you to a place but ends up at another, wouldn't that be misleading?

@@magicalcapi9148 his life is not ruined by learning languages, therefore, he is a liar.

Great video, but after hearing this, I just had to to subscribe

That's awesome

Xackly.

Especially when it comes to the metaphysical. I'm not going to lie, I'm learning Japanese mainly for pop culture, anime, manga video games,etc.On the other hand, I've also been reading up on magic, so if I get skilled enough, I might want to look into some of the mystic traditions within Shintoism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

This was so beautiful!

YES!!! Thank you so much for writing this! Everyone should read this comment because there are way too many people who claim that one is fluent only when they speak a language on a very advanced level or that it’s necessary to have a C1 or C2 diploma to be fluent. I was one of those people, but man was I wrong. This also makes me think that fluency is something subjective. Like, if I feel like I’m fluent in a language then that means that I can communicate without problems, and if that isn’t quite accurate yet, I feel like I still need more practice and that’s okay! I mean, no one really cares if you make a lot of mistakes as long as you make yourself understandable!

@@Marmar0404 also, I can't talk at a C2 level in a rocket science class (in any of my languages), does that mean I'm not fluent? No! Because you're not "fluent" or "beginner", it's a spectrum! You can be more or less fluent, and that can change day to day, subject to subject, and even depending on whom you're talking to!

Couldn’t agree more.

I've been thinking of this before. There's not an actual way to know every single word in a language. Even natives speakers don't know everything about their languages, because languages can change and have various words depending on the region that you're living. I am a native Portuguese speaker and in my country (and the country that colonized my country) there are words that I can't simply understand or just don't get it. "Gajo", "Guria" a lot of words can change depending on the region that you're living. I don't think that the languages that I know (Portuguese, English) that I am studying (Gaelic, Russian) and that I can understand (italian) are different from mine.

Youre right. One, languages are not composed of "words," they are composed of words, expressions or idioms that express something. In one country, "asparagus" might be made of a three "word" combination and be super uncommon because nobody in the country or regions ever eat asparagus. In another country it may be a two letter word and be said everyday cause they eat it in every meal. And two, as a native English speaker I literally have to ask people what they mean to say at least a few times a day, and that's not counting the times I just get distracted, don't hear them clearly, they aren't speaking in an easily understandable way. Those few times a day are when I literally don't know the word or expression. There are new slangs people not in high school don't know, and there are words I have heard my whole life from time to time but it isn't used much by my family and friends so I never really got the meaning. When I once went though a time hanging out with Irishmen visiting my city on vacation, we literally had to ask for clarification for half of what the other person said. Ironically there were also a couple grammatical phrases I use in my variety of southernese (southern US speak) that they used too, but that people from the north look at me crazy when I say (I be workin' alot, I'm fixin to get goin', etc.) I have the same experience with languages I know fluently. I tend to be around people from and immersed in the variety of one region or country, and so you put me with a person from elsewhere, I may speak Chinese like a native from Beijing, but not like a Taiwanese. I may speak Spanish like a Spanyard but not like... any other country. The funny thing is that Chinese will love you if you are a total noob and have a thick american accent. Spanish speakers outside Spain will only give you an ounce of respect and talk to you in Spanish if you speak their specific variety so well they think you are a native and you don't tell them you aren't. All in all theres zero point to care what people think. If some American says "well I only speak English but I watched a kung fu hong kong movie once and your chinese is bad imo" well okay, think what you want, I'll consider the source. If someone from El Paso says "well my parents are from Mexico and I'm also a fluent speaker and you talk funnny" well okay, I don't learn the language to talk to people who have inferiority complexes and no manners anyway, so bye. When a real native critiques you, it is usually an actual correction or whatnot. Even other Americans sometimes say something like "its barely, not verily" or "it's spelled 'there' not 'they're' " to other Americans. This is normal and helpful. And if you don't care about talking all proper and crap, then just be like "oh okay, gotcha, 'preciate it bro," and keep saying it how you do.

Thank you!

I lived overseas for five years and it took me about that long to finally feel at home again in the U.S.

Completely relate. I have never lived out of the country but I have moved around my whole life all over the US. And sometimes I will miss going to that restaurant every Friday. Or miss hanging with this person all the time. Or being able to walk across the street to the beach to get away. I wish I could merge different chapters of my life all the time, so glad you out it into words.

You described it so well!

Jesus Christ this comment defines me so well!

That's a really good explanation

Nailed it. The most apt comment on this thread.

Thanks masked rider

Thanks for saving our time.

@@fahadmubeen6272 , That's what I'm here for; wasting my time watching meaningless videos so I can save others from the same fate.

@@maskedmarvyl4774 may god bless your soul

why excruciating ?

My mannnnn , thats exactly the same thought I was thinking when seeing this video.

En español : “No es una nación la que habitamos, sino un lenguaje.” - Emil Cioran

“No se habita un país, se habita una lengua.Una patria es eso y nada más.”

But what about Belgium?

If I'm not mistaken that line of thought was first said by a portuguese poet called Fernando Pessoa: "My homeland is the portuguese language". In "The book of disquiet". Originally "O livro do desassossego"

*The more you know, the more you realize you don't know* --- Aristotle

"I know one thing:that i know nothing" -your boy Socrates

Know everything about nothing (getting specialized into a field,etc) or knowing nothing about everything

"1 kidney 1 iPhone, 2 kidney 3 iPhone. Bumper offer" - Michael Jackson

@@anandjj5077 🤣🤣🤣

谢谢！

Haha one day I’ll have a kid and proudly claim to have done so!

Was für ein schöner Profilname! Ich lerne keine Vokabeln - mich schmerzt mein Unwissen...

@@mllesamedi84 Danke, wie nett! Der "Panthersprung nach Agadir" ist eine Bezeichnung für eine politische Krise zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland im Jahr 1911.

@@panthersprung5161 Davon hab ich noch nie gehört! Diese Bildungslücke werde ich baldestmöglich schließen. Danke für die Aufklärung 🙂

I used to step on legos now i stumble over the logos

Nothing beats browsing books in the peace and quiet 😂

bruh

😆😆😆

i would like too, if i had the courage😂 nothing can be better than seeking a quiet place, reading books, having a cup of coffee, while it's raining outside

i wish the bookstore near me was open that late

And i thought that was normal :v

Yeah i know that feeling I'm polyglot since my teenagers But i experience it since my childhood because i'm natively tri-lingual

This is true. I became more isolated knowing several languages as my accent started to change when I was young. Parents used to get pissed that I would use vocabulary that is not part of their dialect. At school, the American teachers and Americans used to think I was making fun of them as I started to sound a bit British or German in accent. Others used to think that I was making fun of people as I became more receptive of different accents, phonemes from different languages or I was just pretentious or a foreigner. It is painful indeed. In the US, this will be more the case as Americans have this toxicity culture of "English only" or American sounding English only.

Yeah this is true, i'm bilingual (hungarian and english)

Being multilingual, I can relate to this. I thought this was normal!

I experienced this on the Satanic International website. So what I did was, I tried to behave like an idiot there so they would suspend the account and it worked.

Same happens to me between hindi and english.

You are right, its sad 😒

Code switching. What a lot of people fail to realize is this happens with math types as well, as Algebra/Calculus. It gets better with practicing code switching, but I still get those moments where I feel like a fuse has shorted out lol

This is a very natural stage of learning a new language. It will, eventually, melt away. One very interesting aspect though, is to read the same book in its original vs translation in different languages. This will really show you how this world works, and it won't stop shocking you every single time 🤯🤯🤯

一起加油💪🏼

@@brendaaniwe1212 Maybe? Doesn’t it depend on a lot of things? Why should there be a simple “answer” assigned to it to decide the judgement of its value?

@@brendaaniwe1212 how would it not be good?

I'm not interested in reading but for most of my life I've been exposed to english movies, cartoons and video games, basically just american and british entertainments. This has took a big toll on me, most of the times even my internal monologue is in English, meaning i talk to myself in English which is strange considering that I rarely get to verbally interact with other people in this language. I'm assuming it's not unusual

@@phatlewt2932 let me guess, Filipino?

@@cry9438 no

I'd rather spend my time getting chicks! The language of love is the ONLY other language I need.

@@bocawilliams9200 definitely a virgin

@@bocawilliams9200 love? That’s not love. That’s just horniness.

this is very true, and was well expressed

@@TheIrishEgyptian PLZZZZZ I get more a$$ than a toilet seat!

The word "just" is stupid in your statement.

It’s called anthropology

@@amjan why

@Noob master I think Amjan's point was a point i very much agree with. Think about the word "just". Its exclusive. It reduces to a singular. It throws away every conceivable thing minus what follows it. It simply isn't the case. You don't learn a language "just" to see that we're all the same. There must be much more. I mean, did we not watch the same video?

Im doing a Language Studies degree and in my modules we discuss culture a lot. There is a lot of differences than meets the eye

I remembered the same verse while watching this video!

Yep! Same here.. here’s the verse: Ecclesiastes 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes 1:18 *For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.*

Damn, so that's where the Assassin's Creed 1 quote by "Al Mualim" comes from. Mind blown!

@@buntice Ecclesiastes 1:9 “there’s nothing new under the sun”

Such is the burden of Responsibility

Thank you! Glad you liked it

Damn 4 is a lot! I'm at 3, the first was from parents and the two others I learned were at primary school due to moving, so now it's much harder to learn another language for me, but I think I'll learn French next when I'm done with stuff like post-secondary education and driving license since they are currently on my priority.

​@@shroomer3867which languages do you know?

@@e.5693 Russian, Spanish and English

@@shroomer3867 i guess you are russian, once i tried to learn spanish but didnt continue :( i love spanish

"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain

@@therose1277 I’ve never heard that particular quote, I love it. Thank you.

Is this your thought/quote, or is it borrowed? Either way, thank you for sharing it. It’s lovely.

@@rachelsmith3230 It was just a thought as I was listening. It occurred to me how powerful silence can be. I know silence has hurt me more than the harshest of words. It says more than any painful words. On the other side, when you remain silent , allowing yourself to truly listen,without planning in your head what you are going to say next while someone is still speaking to you, the silent engagement of communication becomes an authentic understanding.

@@rachelsmith3230 Thank you for your kind words.

That's true in one aspect. But, realizing one's finite time alive is what makes life so precious; and perhaps, might lead to using the time that we have left - more wisely.

Weltschmerz

Still have time to comment on youtube

Yet you are here clicking on click baity videos and listening to a beta

finally i find sameone mention feeling like me i'm 22 and i'm general medicine student i can understand and speak in 5 languages but 2 of them not like native i'm so remorseful because in the past i had more time and possibility to learn more

But that's ok if you already got the tribal blood in you, like if you are Russian learning Russian, for example, or in my case, part Russian learning Russian. Why would it not be? Who begs to differ?

hahahha

No quiero >:P

literally not that hard your life shouldn’t be getting ruined over that shit lol

you can also do both

@@Liqoh it’s called boredom privilege

Thank you!

Interesting seeing y’all here haha

I'm the 1k like

食物

Tf u doin here

Yes! Exactly!

Wow nice

It doesn't matter. All will perish in the face of the Monolith and will speak one language

So you're more woke and a gooder person than those who haven't. Got it.

@Charming Billy U jelly? Lol I wasn’t speaking about myself but about polyglots in general. I never claimed to have achieved any of those things, only that foreign language study facilitates their achievement. I personally still have biases that I’m conscious of, but being conscious of them reminds me to not pass judgment on something that I don’t completely understand.

It kinda sounds like you’re not interested with your local news in the first place.

yunglorde i agree with that. It doesn’t sound cool at all. I guess her culture always have this thing called crab mentality. It is always better to be aware of things within your proximity. It makes you knowledgeable in general aspect.

oohhh i am filipino and have been learning the language as well. i hope youll stay updated though in spite of the kapalmuks/corrupt politicians and the fanaticism with most of the filipinos god du30. only with awareness and education can we seek accountability from these buwaya politicians. hehe anyway, i hope you are doing well with your language learning!

@@yunglorde8691 everything's a mess apparently. most reeks of privilige, others are just blind. with poor education system, anyone with their meaningless and illogical words can make a person blind from reality. i hope we get to care and be kind more with others, at least understand and be more aware of the suffering of those who are greatly affected (anti terror bill, jeepney drivers asking for alms, killings and planting of drugs, attack in both academic and press freedom, poor decision making, the list goes on)

I'm Italian and I have the same problem with English. I consume every media I can in English, including the news. I like politics and stuff so I stay up to date on world news, but I certainly know more about American politics than Italian politics.

Though honestly they don't either. There is no evil side. Both sides assume they have moral authority. Both have assumptions and distort facts to make themselves look good. Part of the problem seems to be assuming one side is completely right. They are both usually a little wrong.

So true...

@@meow5670 I feel an attack on titan reference

What does 'History written by whom, for whom' interpret to? I don't quite get it.

He’s making reference to a very imbecile quote that seems to resonate more and more nowadays: “History is written by the winners” despite the fact that I hold a great deal of respect for Mr. Winston Churchill and his influence during WW2, i doubt it would have ended optimistically if not for him; but in this quote I staunchly disagree and it seems like the guy in the vid was furthering it’s due discourse, as in bringing its idea into question

Just curious did you learn any of said languages as an adult or did you learn all them in childhood?

@@RyanAmero 1 mother tongue, 2 between the age of 10 to 16, 1 in my early 20s.

@Mark Mowadeeb Knowledge doesn’t make one’s life better or worse, personal choices do.

bro can learning language helps in creating more wealth if applied in tourism and other sectors?

Me too ….I enjoy Netflix….I’m fluent in English, Hindi , Telugu …I can speak & understand Tamil cannot write it… I can understand some Korean words ….I’m trying to learn French & Ukranian (for my Babushka,my dad is Ukranian ,my mom is Indian ,both met & married in Kyiv after becoming doctors.I used to speak Russian & Ukranian as a child but not anymore !

Yes. That’s the hardest part to assimilate into other country’s culture.

Interesting. I've never felt this. The only time I have a sense of not belonging somewhere is when I don't know the language or words to communicate, because the silence between you and other people is isolating. Before I learned other languages (German and Russian), the UK was the only place that felt like home to me. Now it's as if home is whenever I can speak with people and be understood, and so far I've been very lucky, everyone has welcomed me with open arms ❤

This this this this this. It feels lonely.

Unless you're talking about a europ3an language, anyone can become European apparently and if anyone says no then they are racist meanwhile every other culture is allowed to protect itself to the pointnof actual violence and systemic discrimination

I speak 3 languages, and broadly understand a 4th, I feel no pain or frustration because im not trying to belong to another culture. i'm too proud of being who i am and belonging to my own group.

Bars🔥

As someone working on their PhD who constantly feels unknowledgeable on the things I've spent years learning, this line has stuck with me. I come and rewatch this video just to hear it again.

@@chammy2812 can you please explain this sentence to me in simple words?

@@Frank_Castle_1 sometimes I feel stupid because I don’t know how to do something. But the only reason I feel this way is because I have studied enough to get to this question. Someone that hasn’t put the same effort in to understanding the topic never faces this question.

@@chammy2812 ok understandable have a nice day.

aaaa...no...no it's not.

@@nowvoyagerNE yes.... yes it is

Well, he pronounced "masochist" and "masochism" wrong.

Ahh, ja, ja, es ist gut.

His pronunciation...... is it a sarcasm or compliment. Asian shouldn't pronounce like that?

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.

I agree. Also view it just as awe and just get inspired to keep digging into the constant growing circle of unknown.

Yeah, I find it uplifting. It's strange to me he see this as painful.

It can be very overwhelming, to a perfectionist they want to keep learning so they can conquer the knowledge only to be met with more and more unknown. Then you forget how much you have learnt and it’s enough, and you can keep going at your own pace. Pretty pessimistic view haha but it’s how I feel now when I’m finishing up my undergrad.

I can relate bruh like i dont feel pain at all. Its satisfying tbh

Same and combined it with my interest in history and anthropology just make me go like "Hey what even the point of discrimination? We're basically the same thing with different box" it makes me appreciate how similar we are in this world. It's truly fascinating, if only we could stick together imagine the world if it's like that

I don't consider as pain but what I already learn gave me pleasure and salvation through my live, I knew nothing about languages, I got to know people after, I am a completely introvert and after learning the language I became someone different, more powerful, I don't keep words I want to say.

7 languages is already impressive, ppl want to learn as much as they can, but at certain point they stop cause of various reasons, could be time or no longer have the energy...or whatever. What matters is to do what brings you joy.

Ok but what best tips can that can help a lot for people who wants to learn n be fluent to a new language

Magyar!! :D

7? Holy lord. I just wish I was at least able to speak english and japanese. I mean, I can use english to save my life, for sure, but I'm not fluent at all (I'm brazilian, never could pay for english classes). Japanese is too much. I almost had a breakdown trying to study it, because after you learn hiragana and katakana no one knows how to guide you (if you're not paying a teacher, and I can't do this). "Oh, learn Kanji. No, don't learn kanji alone, learn with sentences. No, first you need to lean grammar. No, avoid grammar, just read japanese books." And then I get in a loop where I can't read a book because I don't know kanjis nor grammar, I can't lean grammar because I can't read kanjis, I can't learn kanjis because you "need to use them in sentences to actually learn them" and I can't understand the sentences because I don't have grammar nor kanjis. So, if a SINGLE language almost drove me crazy, I can't even imagine how it is to learn 7. Makes me feel sad, tho, since I actually love the idea of being able to speak several languages. Books and news can teach you a lot, but nothing compares to being able to sit down and listen to a native talking about their life/country. Its the real human interaction that I really wish I could have, even if not fluent, but enough to understand the ideas and feelings.

Thank you!

Coming in terms with your identity.....Learn and learn so you can become free of any identity but just inclusiveness

That's awesome

I know four languages, but the one I've got a higher level is in English. Once I dreamed in English and I woke up so happy that even now I can remember almost everything that happened in that dream. It just has happened to me once, and I'm expecting it occurs again but with the other languages when I'm better at them 😊

True. I am having the same issue. Sometimes I mix thoughts in different languages, or speak in a random language when I get emotional. Even emotions are conflicted with each other based on which language I am using. It is a bless but the price is quite heavy, I wish I didn't know any of them.

Oh, my days. Same.

You can do that even if you only know one language, ideologies and religion has far greater impact in reality.

This is rly spot on, it feels satisfying to see this comment cause I always tought I was weird for thinking that way.

I feel you but this eases when you know the truth, by that I mean the objective truth then taking sides is easier. Better yet the truth will put you in the rightful community or rightful side. Very few understand this matter. The stage of floating "in between" is the stage before the stage I am talking about.

@@0wninguplz many ways to call it, only one way to peace

"Learning languages comes with learning culture and immersion into a new perspective." Ehh... Kinda a vastly overstated generalization. I'll showcase why: When you learn French as someone that's French Canadian - how well do you understand French culture just by virtue of knowing the language? I'd argue not that well. I'll showcase this even further: If you learn English - which culture are you learning about? Australian culture? American culture? Both have their own unique dialects and slang that neither really interact with. I took multiple years of Spanish in middle school and high school. I learned absolutely nothing about the culture of Spain. We never talked about Spain, we never conversed with anyone from Spain. Did I somehow absorb by some linguistic osmosis some cultural insight on Spain because I studied their language? ...No. Could I perhaps converse in simple short sentences with them? Yeah, sure. That doesn't mean I understand them or their culture or have greater knowledge of it just because we both know the same words. The reason why bilingual people or polyglots tend to know about the culture of the place where the language they are learning is from is because they are also interested in their culture. I could sit down and academically memorize through mindnumbing rote the Japanese language to the point where it would mentally break me (hell, Japanese almost did and attempting to learn it was so mentally scarring that I have now just given up learning other languages because life is too short to be that frustrated at something for that long). This wouldn't make me know more about Japanese culture. Ironically, I learned more about Japanese culture by reading English-translated Japanese works than I ever did attempting to just learn the language. Again: because I was interested in the culture and people. The learning of the language itself did nothing to broaden my understanding.

Came here for this comment, thanks. Yeah, that one caught me

Just @ me

Along with becoming aware of all the things we don't really want to see, may it help us really appreciate everything good that we do have in our own lives. From people we like to flush toilets! Serious!

There's no learning/growing without some sort of suffering or obstacle to overcome

youre not a thinker

I don't feel this loneliness. I am certain of which is my tribe, and speaking foreign languages doesn't separate me from my motherland, au contraire

I definitely feel this kind of insecurity that you're describing! Already felt it with two languages growing up, adding a third one to my life definitely didn't help.

@@TheCartooncompany Just had to flex that French, didn't you

@@coldblackice I've never heard a french person say au contraire.

@@TheCartooncompany I think you missed what Sean was getting at. Even with knowing one language, one can feel this.

Yes! Or because he already had an identity crisis/complex and that is why he's drawn to other cultures and languages. And his identity questions then surfaced from the subconscious to the conscious. We can be happy with our native country but still can't relate to being just a "one country's citizen." We are cultural nomads of sort. Cultural cameleons. Being a citizen of the world is not a cliché affirmation. It's our truth.

" Being a citizen of the world is not a cliché affirmation. It's our truth." Is worth framing. Beautiful.

Maybe the problem isn't HAVING an identity, but being attached to it to the point of considering it to be inherently "better" than other ones. Paradoxically, the two things I like the most about studying cultures are learning how similar humans (and other species) are and how different we can be. This makes me feel closer to literally every living being on the planet, while making me more aware of the uniqueness of my own experience. Feeling like that gives me feelings I can barely describe with words 🤩

So one culture = bad. More cultures = more bad = good. I'll never understand the logic of the globalisation-ideology.

Excuse me, but who's the artist of your profile picture? I used to use that as a screensaver of mine about 10 years ago and could never find it afterwards and would love to find it again.

Me too! I’m learning a 4th language because of school now though.

Now when people curse at you in 4 languages, you understand them. That's a pain.

@@fairfeatherfiend just learn a fifth one hahaha

I dont even speak "fluently" my own language so I just become more chaotic as time goes by after learning other languages. Which is, kinda fun.

@@minhao2571 dude that's how I feel, maybe my brain is getting overloaded with words lol

I had a similar experience with foreigners who were learning my language, it was so nice,even though I didn't understand them fully, but The joy on their faces when they were speaking to me,they were so happy because someone finally understand them! it was priceless!

Please, this is beautiful! Learning languages isn't just about widening your knowledge, it's about connecting with humanity.

Yeah, the small amount of effort it takes to learn a couple of key words in a language are always going to be worth it imo. After that it's up to the person and their situation if it's a sensible investment of time or not.

Mucho texto

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. It you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela

Samesies.

same

And then there's me who has nothing better to do

I always get this like short phase every few years where I just want to learn languages and then next second I hate it

Oh, found someone who feels the same. But, only ever learn 1 language at a time. Otherwise your mind will become a zoo with no cages. I made that mistake in the beginning, started loosing the I already had while trying to learn 2 others at a time.

exactly, there is often a vision of life linked to a language, I also learn Korean myself and just the origins behind the alphabet or sometime the way verbs are constructed translate so much about how the ancestors thought to make the language

I'm teaching myself Korean as well and seeing their culture unfold as I dive deeper is absolutely amazing! The history and experience of a people is wrapped up in their language ❤ It's a struggle but it's definitely worth it! Elisa 화팅! 🇰🇷

힘내요!

@Milo thanks! And good luck with your Japanese

@@taki1255 감사합니다, pal 🤗

Thank you! I’m glad to find people with similar experiences and feelings on this platform. Means a lot to me.

@@phoenixhou4486 Yea, what really resonated with me was when you brough up poetry from different civilizations through time, and how their messages can trancend just one...

When the algorithm READS MY BRAIN lmao

That is why ignorance is a bliss. Knowledge brings pain and responibility. And stupidity is ruling the world. Sad to say, but true.

Same