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As an Italian I knew Kobe was quite proficient, his pronunciation is indistinguishable from that of a native speaker but I must say Colin Firth is the one that impressed me the most, he has a strong english accent but his mastery over grammar and vocabulary is absolutely good.

Kobe didn't set out to learn Italian. He learnt it naturally, as a child. When you learn it that way, the intonation and accent stays even if you lose some vocabulary through lack of use. I know, because it happens to me occasionally, too. :)

Viggo's first clip was so unexpected, not because he could speak italian, but because he knew "topo gigio" how the hell did Viggo Mortensen knew topo gigio!?

Fun fact: when Viggo did Lord of the Rings, he came to Italy to know his Italian dubber Pino Insegno, a very famous comic actor in Italy. They went for a walk through the streets of Rome when they met a group of fans who acclaimed Pino Insegno asking him to make a photo and ignoring Viggo. Pino felt a little embarrassed to see that they did not recognize a gigantic actor like Viggo but applauded him. So he went to them and say them "Oh, he is Viggo Mortensen... the lord of the rings, you know?" and them reply "We don't care if he's a goldsmith, we want a photo with you."

Hearing Kobe talking about his future projects about Italian basketball just makes me sad.

The one who impressed me the most is Colin Firth. He has an accent, yes, but he speaks very properly.

Kobe's sisters are fluent too. He said once in an interview that after the family came back to the US, he used to speak italian with his sisters as some sort of "secret code", to communicate without being understood by others.

As a native Italian speaker, my jaw hit the floor listening to Kobe. I had absolutely no idea he was so proficient in Italian and honestly I'm really honored that he chose our language to master that way. Edit: I appreciate a lot of you pointing out that he lived in Italy for a while and therefore had a bit of a leg up on this but guys my respect for him stands, I promise you don't need to keep telling me. (Thank you anyway!)

As an Italian native speaker I can tell you Kobe’s Italian is perfect! Beautiful voice and pronunciation. Sounds like from the north of Italy. It shows that getting the right musicality of the language and fluency totally compensates any grammar imperfections or lack of vocabulary which affect native speakers too. He’s the only one in these video-clips that really sounds like a native Italian. He has probably socialised a lot in Italy, apart from having a talent for languages. Penelope has a strong Spanish pronunciation, even when she say a word beginning with ‘s’ I hear ‘es’ instead. The first interviewer to Viggo sounds very fluent in both languages. Viggo’s Italian is very good, minimal foreign accent.

Kobe spoke fast and pronounced everything perfectly. His vocabulary was just a little rusty when that was filmed.

Viggo pronunciation is almost perfect, which for a nordic is a great achievement. Kobe lost some vocabulary but his pronunciation is very Italian, he has also a slight regional accent.

Kobe was in Italy since 6 until 14 years old, following his father, and he always kept a strong connection with italian culture, speaking frequently in italian with teammates and even with his daughters; everybody in Italy still mourn him and love him.

Colin Firth impressed me most. l’m Italian, and even if one can clearly hear an english accent in his speaking, it’s actually minimal. His grammar sounded perfect to me and he spoke completely naturally, quite evident that he speaks the language maybe daily. Kobe (RIP, champion, and thanks for everything you gave us) had the best pronounciation and also was using the language very naturally, instinctively.

As an Italian Kobe fan, I'll add my five cents on the way he spoke: 1) he used non English languages to communicate with his teammates in ways (Spanish with Pau Gasol, Italian with Sasha Vujacic). He also threw the occasional laughing vaffan** at refs😂😅 2) he used to talk in Spanish with his wife Vanessa at home 3) as you guessed, Kobe's thirst for knowledge and self improvement carried over to most, if not all, aspects of his life. The man was a student of the game of basketball like no other, his work ethic was legendary. Rest in peace 24❤

Kobe forever in Italian hearts ♥️ he was one of us. He said on the radio that he kept on speaking our language with his sisters. He also spoke Italian during matches not to be understood

Colin's been living in italy for years. He speaks an extraordinary Italian, even with a British accent.

Viggo surprised me. His voice is really close to his italian voice actor’s voice in LotR. This is magic for me

As an Italian I can assure that Colin Firth british accent is very noticeable when he's speaking Italian, but also it's such a delight to hear him speaking the language without doing mistakes with articles, verbs and grammar in general, which is a common mistake with people that learn the language starting from being mother tongue english speakers I was impressed the most by Jodie Foster, I didn't know at all that he knew Italian, she's very fluent and relaxed when talking

It's sad to hear someone with an Italian surname, talking 'proudly' about his roots, and not showing that pride by learning the language of 'his roots'. I'm a native Spanish speaker from Puerto Rico, fully bilingual in English, which I learned at an early age. It was my French ancestry (Lassalle = LaSalle) that motivated me to learn French, when someone asked me how come I didn't speak if I had a French last name. Years later I studied and learned Italian. I'm currently learning Portuguese.

Interesting to note how Penelope Cruz says “the spirit” in this clip. She combines the Spanish “el espíritu” with the Italian “lo spirito” and winds up with “el spirito.”

Melania is from Slovenia and in Slovenia a lot of people knows italian because the radio waves of the italian tv arrive there. Slovenia borders with Friuli and Slovenians born in the 70s/80S practically grew up watching italian tv so i guess the same goes for her.

Colin Firth really impressed me with this interview because of his very good Italian together with deeply articulated arguments which is very british. He has great ability to tell stories and describes situations, I could listen to him for hours without ever losing attention

As an italian language learner, I mostly admire Kobe, he is inspirational when learning the italian language, he's got the accent, melodic sound, and fits into the colloquial so fluently, I've watched all his videos when he spoke in Italian, he was brilliant and always at ease .... RIP Kobe

The John Travolta clip was hard to watch. I ,too, had a grin on my face Olly. Your reaction to John was priceless.

Another great one Olly! 🙌🏾 Kobe’s passing motivated me to become more serious on my language learning journey! I’ve always wanted to speak multiple languages and I noticed I’ve always admired people who do. I can’t waste the opportunity I’ve been given, now that Kobe’s no longer with us 🙏🏾 RIP

Travoltas lack of italian despite his italian roots does not suprise me at all as i see a similar thing here in Wales. Literally 1000s of people claim to be proud Welsh patriots and have so much love of the country they are from/live in, yet can't be bothered and sometimes are even hostile to learning the Welsh language.

As an italian I want to thank all these celebs for their effort to learn italian. Learning a new language is like paying a tribute to the country. I can still hear that they are foreigners but I have to say that most of them are quite good. The only thing I'd change is the clip from the movie. Speaking in a movie is not like speaking in real time. Worst italian I ever heard: Bradley Cooper in Limitless (great movie) in the restaurant scene. :D

They all impressed me! Well done to anyone who tries to learn, even a few words, of another language.

Virgo was actually very very good. he took his time but I would say that his phrasing and pronounciation was the best of them all (from an italian girl :-)) Also Jodie Foster and Colin Firth were very good

Love Kobe's use of his hands: VERY Italian

Vigo Mortensen speaks seven languages: English, Danish, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, and Arabic.

I find his analysis of Jodie Foster's Italian spot on. My native language is English, but I've studied French for about 10 years and have lived in France for 2 years, and I'm pretty much fluent at this point. I started learning Italian about a year ago, and because the grammar is so similar between Italian and French, my brain translates from French to Italian, not English to Italian.

From a native speaker's point of view, I love how Viggo's Italian sounds like. Is true that he somehow lacks in fluency, but he speaks in a correct grammar and most of all, with clean and very Italian sounding vowels.

Grande Olly, bel video! 😆

That was such fun Olly. Italian being my second language, it was fascinating to see these people. Colin Firth really surprised me, as did Viggo and of course Kobe - so relaxed with it. Btw, your French reader was a great help for my French.

Kobe uno di noi, sempre! It's amazing how good his italian is despite living in the US and, i assume, lacking the conversational practice needed in order to be updated on the vocabulary and how the Italians speak in general. Grazie caro, ci manchi!

Colin Firth Italian and vocabulary is impressive. Kobe was an Italian who moved back to America. He was a legend and his Italian pronunciation was the same of any Italians that grow up in Italy.

Viggo Mortensen's Italian pronunciation in the interview about "the Green book" was actually better than in the film itself, where he had to render the accent of a second generation immigrant (at least), whose Italian was most likely a local dialect (some are practically different languages). I am increasingly impressed by Viggo.

I think Viggo improved his Italian a lot: I remember older clips, where he sounded like he was just "adapting" Spanish

Kobe is always in my heart he grew up in Italy and he always loved to come back, but the one i am more impressed by are Viggo first and the quality of Penelope's grammar and confidence

Colin Firth is AMAZING. Grammar, choice of words... everything is spot on. I 'm sure he practices Italian with very well-educated people. He just has a strong English accent. Listening to Jody Foster speaking Italian with a jaunty and intriguing French accent, is something really unexpected!

I've always loved Kobe's Italian.

The best one is definitely Viggo, his grammar is perfect and the accent is not very noticeable. Only thing are the doubles ‘ss’ which he doesn’t really highlight too much. Except for that, the best for sure!

Caro Olly ciò che fa la differenza è la pronuncia, ho molti amici stranieri che parlano perfettamente italiano e le mamme che anche dopo anni ed anni hanno l'accento marcato della lingua di nascita. Infondo la cosa bellissima è poter comunicare, io fin da piccola non sopportavo l'idea che non mi si capisse, infatti parlo 5 lingue straniere. Complimenti davvero

As an Italian i can say that Viggo is dope! He doesn't have a full command of Italian vocabulary, but he's really smart on disguising this lack, and hhe sounds BRILLIANT... He has a disruptive expressiveness... that's the key!

Jodie Foster impressed me the most: very confident and she sounds Italian in the first part of her sentences and even though she says that she speaks with a French accent, the last word of every sentence sounds Spanish to me

Kobe lived for a very long time in Italy. He loved Italy and the italian language so much, he gave all his kids italian names. Italy loved him back, and we still miss him!!!

Mio Dio, Mr. Darcy parla italiano

Viggo is a total legend! Also big up to Kobe and his Italian. Wow. Rip

So true about Penelope. She’s speaks it well but almost more so with the rhythm of her mother tongue versus speaking in the rhythm and style that Italian is spoken in

When Jodie Foster said "americano" she pronunced it with a perfect italian accent , just as an italian person

My POV as italian: Colin Firth; Eccezionale, fluente quasi come un madrelingua, vocabolario più vasto anche di alcuni italiani, grammatica perfetta, leggerissimo accento inglese ma quasi impercettibile. Denota grande orecchio, intelligenza, capacità di riproduzione dei suoni e soprattutto, amore per la lingua e per lo studio. Melania Trump; Non classificabile. Evidentemente non sa assolutamente parlare italiano, si vede benissimo che ha imparato solo due frasi a memoria prima di farsi riprendere e sicuramente le avrà dimenticate due giorni dopo. Penelope Cruz; Molto brava. Italiano semplice ma efficace, molto comunicativa. Nel film l'accento spagnolo scompare ma nell'intervista è molto forte ma non fastidioso, si appoggia alla grammatica spagnola per comporre le frasi ma si vede che potrebbe vivere in italia senza nessun problema comunicativo. Viggo Mortensen; Non è C. Firth ma si avvicina. Il vocabolario è bello, l'accento inglese è un po' più forte (non troppo) perde un po' di fluentezza. E' evidente che gli importa dire le parole giuste per rispondere alle domande sul suo lavoro e quindi, ha bisogno di un po' di tempo per pensare. Ha studiato bene ed è sicuramente molto intelligente, con un po' di pratica sarebbe un altro ottimo. Christof Waltz; Impossibile esprimersi. E' una scena di un film dove interpreta un tedesco che sta imparando a parlare italiano. Prova d'attore 10 con lode, conoscenza dell'italiano: Non ne ho idea. Kobe Bryant R.i.P.; Spigliatissimo. E' l'esempio di un italiano imparato in strada. Non è molto corretto e la grammatica è difettosa ma lui è molto disinvolto, è molto confidente e sa di sapersi far capire. Ha un accento suo personale difficile da connotare, forse è una via di mezzo tra l'accento dialettale regionale del posto in cui ha vissuto è un residuo di inglese americano. Jodie Foster; Troppo corto per giudicare. Però dalle due parole direi che è una persona molto umile e simpatica e qualche base di italiano sicuramente la ha. John Travolta; Omg, It's a shame. ;) It's like somebody ask to me to say hello to an english crow and I go with: "Ehhhh.... Love, and... heee... Love, I'm... I'm... come si dice felice?" -"Happy" - "hemmm, I'm happy, hemm, I'm very happy, and , love... hemmm, thankyu, thenki, tankyu and love". C'mon John :) U can do better than this.

Kobe could be a real Italian. He even speaks with his hands just like us Italians do. God bless him.

Colin's italian is very good.I am italian and i have the feeling he is thinking in italian while speaking,because his italian is very fluent. He is relaxed and confident. Two thumbs up for him😊

Ratings from an Italian: 1) Firth: great vocabulary, has an accent, overall quite pleasant 2) Viggo: incredibly articulate, but heavy accent and the delivery feels quite strained 3) Melania: no contest, seems like she only learned basic greetings and can't use them accurately 4) Waltz: perfect grammar (his words are scripted, afterall) but cartoonishly inauthentic accent 5) Cruz: speaks Spanitalian - quite charming but not super-accurate 6) Foster: limited, but actually kind of has the best accent! 7) Kobe: broken due to lack of use, but some of the nativisms carried over from his youth still let it feel quite authentic - also has an accent now which he didn't have when he was young, he actually used to speak perfect Italian back then 8) Travolta: doesn't speak Italian 😂

Jodie Foster seems to be pretty sharp. She went to Yale.

When it came to Kobe, Olly seemed like he had an emotional reaction, like a real fan. And the fans know about Kobe’s “Mamba” mentality to excel at everything he did. That was nice:))

I love Colin, I am so proud of him ! He speaks really well , brava Livia !

As an Italian I think Viggo is the one that surprised me the most. I already knew that Kobe had an incredible accent so that doesn't count lol. Viggo, however, was thinking about what to say, which to me says he actually had to study the language and didn't pick it up along the way. But whenever he said something it was perfect in both pronunciation and grammar.

C'est tellement génial d'entendre Kobe parler italien. Et Jodie Foster est incroyable !

Italian immigrants in America (or Brazil, Argentina and so on) didn't speak italian at home but their dialect instead, and the most of them had a very limited command of the standard language unless they came from Tuscany or Rome. That's why italian americans couldn't have learnt italian from their parents: simply because their parents didn't know it too.

Kobe was loved in all Italy and today we still love him, we miss you Kobe

What a wonderful work you did in this video! congrats! not only acurate and complete comments, but also clever and with sensitivity.

Kobe learnt Italian as a first language, no doubt his accent was so perfect. Even better than many native Italians, I'd say.

Really nice entertaining video! I didn't know Jodie Foster and Colin Firth spoke Italian, it was a nice surprise! Funny how Travolta just rummaged in his memory for some random Italian words to say 😂😂😂

All of this is amazing! I did not know any of them could speak Italian!

Skin from the band Skunk Anansie is another celebrity who speaks Italian really well. She even was a judge in one season of the X Factor tv show there.

Hey Olly! I just recently stumbled across your channel and from all I've watched up till now, its really helped a lot with foreign language learning. Thank you so much! ☺

The thing that impressed me about Kobe asking for that word is that the second he hears the word he repeats it so perfectly, I thought. I can't even do that with English and an unfamiliar word! Definitely he's a person who has grown up with the language and just needed a hint for a rarely used piece of vocab.

One thing about Melania Trump, I actually expected her Italian to be a bit better because if I recall correctly she is Slovenian. Slovenia is a close neighbor of Italy and if I recall correctly I believe Italy is Slovenia's biggest trading partner.

Melania Trump lived in Italy from 1988 to 1996. So she probably could speak Italian, but may be a bit rusty by now. Also the German actor in Inglorious Bastard didn’t just learn those lines, he can speak a bit of Italian

I couldn’t understand a word Christophe Walz said. And I’m Italian born and raised 😀

Apparently, Christoph Waltz is not fluent in Italian. He speaks English and French, but his Wiki article says: "although his character in Inglourious Basterds also spoke Italian, Waltz said on the Adam Carolla Podcast that he is not fluent in Italian."

Italian here. Viggo Mortensen: heavy argentinian accent. Christoph Waltz: very, very unnatural, he's speaking quickly some memorized lines. He also uncorrectly said "me lo ripeti ancora?" instead of "me lo ripetE ancora?". Moreover the stressed words in the sentences are really weird. Kobe was in Reggio Emilia in that interview.

Hey, great content. I was watching this video last night and it made me think. As a native Italian speaker/researcher and writer who has always been interested in languages, this is what I think about the celebrities you listed. Colin Firth- “…lavorano in modo che, si può dire, sarebbe americano… sono inglesi… ma io non ho avuto un’istruzione ‘inglese’” The accent in this sentences is really spot on. Actually, Firth seems to have a very good grasp of what it means to speak Italian properly. Perhaps he needs a little practice, but I’m sure he could speak almost flawless Italian, if he wanted to. Compare to him, the other ones have to work more in order to achieve his level (apart from Mortensen). Firth only needs to work on his accent and on some minor grammatical mistakes. Compared to, say, Cruz or Foster, he is at a disadvantage in my opinion, because of his British origins. Foster studied French when she was young and that gives her an edge. Penelope Cruz - “io vedevo EL [instead of “lo”] spirito di Fellini, EL spirito di MastroiaNi [instead of MastroiaNNi] … Y dopo pensavo sono qui con Pedro ma…” Cruz can certainly express herself in Italian, but her accent is all over the place. For a native Spanish speaker who’s also an actress, that’s a little bit too much. Viggo Mortensen - “Questo è un film… questo è un invito a fare un viaggio, a ridere, a piangere SI [instead of SE] vuoi e forse a riflettere sui limiti delle prime impressioni, non è una lezione forzata, è una bella storia condivisa DEL passato” Mortensen was very impressive. This sentence is nuanced and profound. It seems like if he spent some time in Italy speaking with the natives and read a few good books he could totally nail it. Just like Firth. Christof Waltz - “gli amici della vedette, ammirata da tutti noi, questa gemma proprio della nostra cultura, saranno naturalmente accolti per la durata del loro soggiorno. Actually, this is really bad. I had to go search for the script for this! Waltz is unintelligible for an Italian speaker (I wrote down the other speeches almost simultaneously). I am still trying to figure out why did they write the lines the way they wrote them, because they really, hardly make any sense. Nobody in Italy would talk like that. It sounds like if somebody literally borrowed this sentence from a badly written novel from the 1800s. “Questa gemma proprio della nostra cultura” doesn’t make sense. Maybe they wanted to write “questa gemma PROPRIA della nostra cultura”, but still, it would have been awkward, anyway. The way Walts delivers the lines is also weird. His speech is rushed and his accent is hardly intelligible, as I wrote, plus the rhythm is way too tight. And to think that this was a take! He had all the time in the world to learn this the proper way. No wonder Pitt (as Aldo Raine) doesn’t understand a word he’s saying! Kobe Bryant - “Beh cominciamo con camps, clinics... eh... spero di un giorno crescerlo, come una scuola che insegna pallacanestro, però non solamente pallacanestro. Sono le cose di sport che anche importante perché sicuramente ci sono giocatori che vanno a giocare professionali però ci sono altri giocatori che non è possibile allora cosa fanno? E' importante che sanno le cose di business... eh... che girano il gioco: scrittura, marketing, business… tutte le cose così…” You can tell the late Kobe Bryant (R.I.P.) learned his Italian as a kid, while playing basketball. His accent is - at times - flawless, although you can hear some sort of mixed slang as if he spent some time with kids from Tuscany and Reggio Emilia. Grammatically speaking, though, it’s another story. Even the Italians themselves make plenty of mistakes, but they are of a different kind. Mistakes Italians makes usually have to do with verbs. Italians use simple past instead of conditional, for example. Kobe, however, is making different sort of mistake. He is thinking in American English and the same time he is translating the sentence he has in his mind directly into Italian, and so you get “spero di un giorno crescerlo” (one day I hope to make it grow). Let’s say Kobe was able to express himself in Italian quite easily. But that’s not really Italian, it’s more like translating his American English into Italian, so everybody can understand what you’re saying. It's like Google translate. One last thing: the interviewer got him wrong when Kobe was searching for that word “surround”, he suggested “girano” (which is incorrect, he should have suggested “che circondano” because he was talking about things that revolve around basketball such as marketing, etc.) . Jodie Foster - “Ma parlo con un accento francese orribile… è meglio che americano… ah, possibile”. Yes, Jodie’s accent is truly horrible and she knows it and the interviewer tried to flatter her to no avail when he said that hearing someone speaking Italian with a French accent is beautiful (I guess what he wanted to say was “please give it to me, please!”). But at least she hasn’t made any mistakes. Yes, she only spoke a few words, but still. It would be interesting to see if she, can actually speak Italian like Mortensen or Firth.

Kobe learned Italian as a child when he lived there, and as an Italian I'm just so honoured 🖤🐍

Kobe I think wins the most impressive Italian speaker. It is clear it is his second language. I was SUPER impressed with his Spanish however. I can detect an accent a mile away in Spanish and his was very impressive. His wife was Mexican-American so he got to really practice that everyday I suppose. I mean he was completely fluent. Kobe was a man of such HUGE intellect and talent in all respects what a genius. His life was too short and the world lost so much when he departed.

A lot of american italian doesn't care to learn italian language but they're also proud of their "roots". Like Stallone, Travolta, Pacino..

Someday I'd like to learn Italian. I learned Portuguese from Brazil fluently and a very high level(trying sound confident and not arrogant lol) but I'm learning Arabic right now for work reasons. And hoping to eventually learn some others. But i love the sound of Italian, i understand a lot and like you said i know how to say some things, but with Spanish and Italian i have trouble removing the Portuguese and sometimes it's hard to know what's different between Portuguese to the others.

Penelope, Viggo and Jodie they miss the double consonants. so cute!

I’ve always loved studying languages as a hobby and have seem many poly’s on YT. I’m subbing because of your simplicity and love of language study. Thank you for this video!!

Penelope Cruz impressed me with the great accuracy of her grammar. Well done!

Idc everytime someone speak italian, good or bad, im always impressed because italian is hard and just the fact they tried make me very happy.

i'm italian and in my opinion Viggo Mortensen speaks really relaxed and naturally our language as Jodie Foster. Kobe? The best one because inside him he was half italian...try to find the video of Kobe at Radio Deejay in Milan and you will hear a better prononce than this video. Colin Firth thinks like an italian but he has any english accent. Thank you anyway!

Viggo's second clip was amazing really. He's thinking as he's speaking but the little pauses he does don't feel "amateur like" because of the pronunciation he puts into the words. It's quite relaxing...almost snape-like

I was quite surprised by the kobe's italian skills, his accent and grammar are equal to native. RIP Kobe.

Viggo speaks 8 languages, if in the meantime he hasn't learned some others !!

Vigo grew up in Argentina , therefore speaking Spanish with a somehow Italian accent and slang

I'm from Catania and I can tell you, Adrian Brody's performance in Peaky Blinders as Luca Changretta is AMAZING! Kudos to his teacher

melania is slovenian and since slovenia is very close to italy she probably speaks and understands some bits cause of that

Non avrei mai pensato di poter sentire nella mia vita Viggo Mortensen dire 'topo Gigio', eppure....

Native Italian here. The journalist, in helping Kobe Bryant, didn't translate well the word "surround". The Italian verb for that is "Circondare". Saying "Girare INTORNO" would also have been correct though.

What was funny and impressing at the same time is that Colin Firth always has a tiny little English pronounciation underneath when speaking Italian, but then pronounces English names (Strassberg, ecc.) with an Italian accent. This is sweet 😊 His Italian is excellent, by the way.

Jodie Foster also acted in an italian comedy in 1977 when she was very young.

I knew about Kobe, he was one of us, then Jodie was really impressive for her confidence and good pronunciation

As a native spanish speaker, but with italian grandparents, I believe the biggest challenge for people that speak spanish when they try to speak italian is the pronunciation of the emphasis that must be done in the case of double consonants. For example, the words "attimo" , "nonna" or "follia"... spanish speakers will just say "atimo", ""nona" and "folia". You see that alot with Argentinian footballers that play in serie A.

Cruz, Mortesen, Firth, Bryant and Foster speak it very well

I'm Italian. Almost all of their talk in good Italian. Colin is extraordinary! Viggo talk about "topo gigio", That's the master. Doesn't care if the pronounces or vocabulary isn't perfect... He know "topo Gigio"! Kobe... Is Italian!! No question, he is definitely Italian!!

For everyone that wants to learn Italian and think their accent is an issue: it is not! As long as you apply yourself and understand a few basics (very irregular grammar, open vowels -what does that even mean?- and an overall musical flow to the language) you are already doing great! 🙌