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That is a very interesting point. I’m quite confident in swedish now but i was hoping to start another scandavian language and was thinking about learning norwegian but your point has swayed me towards danish

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@@idkwhattonamemyself1730 haven’t really got into any other scandanavian language i just focused on german because i used to study that back in school so i went back to studying that.

Yes, indeed. I've heard Sanskrit (Pali) is rooted in about 40% of the Thai language. I would also like to see just how related Sanskrit is to Lithuanian which has conserved a lot of the old forms. So fascinating! This would form a bridge from Thailand all the way to North-East Europe!

@@takforalt Ha I mentioned Lithuaninan in the Discord channel last night when Stu mentioned Sanskrit. Obviously all Indo-European languages are related but when I was in Lithuania just before covid people kept telling me about this Sanskrit thing and I was finally shown some actually impressive word pairs. I would also hope to see Prakrit and Khmer in such a video. I've actually wondered if Stu has dabbled in Lithuanian because it has fare more complex tone stuff going on than other languages with pitch accent such as Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Latvian, and Slovenian.

@@andrewdunbar828 Wow! What an excellent comment. I hope Stu touches on this topic.

​@@takforalt ขอบคุณครับ!

@@andrewdunbar828 ingenting å takke for

Hi! I'm thinking of learning swedish too, what resources did you use?

a vocal affliction of the dansk kind

having spoken Danish first, I found that I understand most vocab from Swedish and Norwegian ..and even Nynorsk, but when it comes to SAYING it, the muscles just struggle going there

as far as getting an etymological foundation, Cantonese is wonderful and will serve very well . As for functionality in business, Mandarin of course as you can do business in China and many other countries.

The usual explanations for this are that the south was traditionally the cultural centre of China and that Mandarin has changed more than other kinds of Chinese due to conquests from the north with Mongolians and Manchurians adopting Chinese when they ran the empire.

Learn Mandarin

I notice you didn't mention Portuguese but do mention Spanish in this video.

Yeah I recently suggested Swedish on Quora or Reddit where someone was asking. Danish has the hardest sounds and Norwegian has lots of dialects too. I was actually recommending out of all the Germanic languages though. I also said German has the hardest grammar and for Dutch it's hard just to get somebody to not talk to you in English. But there's a lot to be said for starting with something hard and then the others will seem easy (-:

Norwegian is a good bet!

@@StuartJayRaj Actually, I’m learning both because I love attractive landscape of Norway and Swedish folk music (Triakel band). Norwegian sounds smooth while Swedish sounds clear and straightforward, for example ending “d” is mute in Norwegian but appears in Swedish, e.g. 🇳🇴 brød /brøː/vs. 🇸🇪 “bröd” /brøːd/. I notice Swedish has some unique phonetical feature I can’t explain what it’s called. It occurs in front vowels as in “fyra” “nio” “tio”. Could you tell me what it’s called? ขอบคุณครับ 🙏🏻

But as you point out yourself, your point about Norwegian only really works for native Norwegians, and won't really be relevant for someone going into learning Norwegian. In fact, if anything, the huge dialect diaspora is probably more of a hindrance for learners than anything, since you'll have to learn two written standards, a hundred spelling variations and a thousand pronunciation differences. Swedish and Danish are not as extreme when it comes to any of this.

Danish has proved too strong a force for my throat! It's hard to not pull everything into the throat

The 'soft D' (the pronunciation of D when it's between vowels or at the end of a syllable) U, Y and Ø can be tricky for English speakers. The weak E ending (schwa) as well as the -et ending are also frequently mispronounced by English speakers. And of course the R.

อีสานแน่นอนอยู่แล้ว ซึ่งก็ไม่ต่างจาก ลาวใต้ ส่วนลาวเวียงจันทร์ almost 70% of formal or official vocabulary are adopted from Thai (sanskrit derived). This doesn't mean both adopt same sanskrit word for the same meaning naturally or coincidently but pasa laos choose to follow thai adoption/adaptation of pronunciation of those words. Khmer in Thai ( Surin, Buriram, Srisaket) they said somehow are different and more promitive than Phnompen Khmer.

Khmer is totally different but shares a lot of vocab. I love its unique sound. Lao I think you can just pick up once you know Thai. To me Thai and Lao seem closer than Spanish and Italian for instance. I learned a bit of Lao before any Thai and still sometimes use a Lao word or pronunciation because I failed to notice one of the differences.

@@andrewdunbar828 thanks. Very interesting. Thanks for the comment. I’m surprised how different all of the written forms of the languages are in Southeast Asia. For instance, I have learned the Thai script but Burmese just looks like gibberish to me. But, the Romance languages use most of the same alphabet.

@@randalllankford1450 There is great variety in the Indic scripts, even in India. Thai and Lao are quite simplified in that Thai no longer has any subscript forms while Lao has just one left. In Laos occasionally I think you'll still see one of the older ones on an old building. Now that I've jogged my brain I think the usual one is the "hl" with the "l" subscript below the "h" and the uncommon ones are the "l" below any other consonant. In other Southeast Asian scripts including Lanna used for Northern Thai and a couple of minority regional languages there's a lot more stacking of consonants. Much like in Tibetan script actually. In Khmer you have to learn the subscript form of each letter. Often they're just a squished version of the full letter but a few are very different. Devanagari has this too and it's usually called "conjunct characters" if memory serves. The script used for Burmese is one I haven't learned but in same ways it's a bit like a simplified Lanna script. It also has a couple of special shapes for when certain letters come together as well as having subscript (and superscript?) forms. It's also used for Shan, which is spoken in Myanmar and is related to Thai, not as close as Lao, probably a bit further away than Northern Thai. It's also used for Mon, also spoken in Myanmar but related to Khmer and Vietnamese. Unlike the Kra-Dai languages which mostly seem quite closely related, Khmer, Mon, and Vietnamese have converged so far apart that sometimes it feels like only linguists still believe they are related (-: It's a shame about the situation in Myanmar now. I didn't manage to visit when I was in the area. I didn't want to fly in and I didn't want just a day trip across the Thai border, and travelling overland starting from the border seemed to be a convoluted process. There's also a ton of fascinating other minority languages in the area, some related to big national languages and some not. Hmong is probably the best known tonal language of the area that is not a national language and is not related to one.

BTW, you can only learn Isaan in spkoen form. ภาาษาอีสาน ไม่มีตัวเขียนแบบปัจจุบัน

A completely different Uralic language

I agree. I can't win either way. I call it a language (which it is), I get slammed by mainlanders and mainland supporters. I call it a dialect I get slammed by everyone else. Lose lose

Hi, i did hear him mention that he speaks Sanskrit and Hindi in Steve Kauffman's channel but didn't hear anything about Dravidian languages. Nice to hear that you have studied Telugu and Kanada, and good luck with Assamese.By the way, If you wish practice Tamil with someone, feel free to pm me. Cheers and best wishes.

@@pranavsubramanian3242 Stu has spoken the occasional sentence in Hindi on KZfaq and he definitely talks about Sanskrit because it's so important for history and origin of words in Thai and southeast Asian languages. Not sure if he speaks it. I learned a few words of Tamil to practice with shopkeepers in Malaysia but I was surprised not to meet any friendly ones there )-: Now I only remember "nandri" for thank you.

Hahaha. I hope you're joking. Stu Ray Raj is the man

@@paulreymer6439 I'm referring to the former US bad man

@@MiltonJava oh you mean President Donald J. Trump, who helped the US economy, US jobs, foreign relations, and was the first president since Reagan not to start a war? That guy?

@@paulreymer6439 No, I am talking about the racist Trump who put kids in cages and the one who is responsible for thousands and thousands of Covid deaths due to his telling people the pandemic is a hoax and that they should just inject themselves with bleach and it will all be OK. And, I am talking about the Donald Trump who called people from Africa people from 'shithole countries" and the man who said Mexicans are murders and rapists.

@@paulreymer6439 Oh, and the same Donald Trump who so worried his generals with his crazy ass behavior that they had to call other countries to make sure they knew we weren't going to start a war. And, the same man who urged his supports to commit treason with their attack on the capitol where police officers were killed.