😂

You may also forget your cars, houses, and bank accounts, if you speak only one language.😂😂

How can you speak 6 languages? so amazing 😂 I’ve just studied English but never finished it

😂😂😂

That's ADHD :'v

True 😂

Eh, they are more or less the same to me.

​@@typingcatTrue bilinguals have the same response ! The chemical way defines if it's your native or not, that's why foreign languages are "lived"/perceived differently If you don't feel that way, maybe it's because you're more than fluent

@@typingcat what's your second and third language?

@@lukeecle117 Probably English and Japanese.

That sounds like a wonderful career. I love your story it is very beautiful.

Wow I'm fascinated

Absolutely. I also grew up bilingual. We spoke Hungarian at home and English with the outside world. Then I learned French to the level of my Hungarian. I'm a translator and interpreter. You misunderstand my meaning about simultaneous interpretation. It is the act of interpreting a speech in one language simultaneously into another. I was wondering what that does to the brain.

Which instrument?

What instrument do you play?

I learned English, and now I can't stop learning other languages 😂 send help

​@@marine_manga5800learn javanese.

I totally agree. Living abroad and learning the language changed my life!

and the world gets smaller and smaller with so much travel available

So true!

Nice one, good advice.

Yes and no! It also depends on what kind of learner your are and how you like to learn, not exactly what teachers or experts think is the best method. Above all, when you have already learned a second language later in life. I'm a Spanish speaker, my second language used to be English, which I started learning at 26. My third was French, which I started learning at 33. It took me around a year to be fully fluent in English and to write it properly, French took about 7 months and now both are at the same level. In my very particular way of learning, I did completely the opposite of what you describe in your comment. Always associate words with words, sentences with similiar ones in my mother tongue, always listening to people and translating at the same time, and finally never stick to formulaic and survival dialog, say it the way you want to say it, as long as it's properly done. Just my two cents!

@@ratonautonomo8963 That's because the three languages you speak are very closely related. Language learning is a peculiar learning process and your learning experience would definitely have been very different had you been learning, say, Korean.

You must be an aural type. I'm not. I have to see the words or I don't remember them from just listening. Pple are different.There are four different types of learners. Visuals are the majority.

i've been watching kdramas since 2017 to the point I can understand some sentences 100%. consuming korean content without the intention of learning the language truly did more than my two years of spanish duolingo.

Oh hell, yes!

Totally!!!

So true. Im Mexican, and when I speak English im very serious and professional. When I speak Spanish I can be wild and free. 😂😂 I love it.

Oh yep, when I speak Portuguese (my native language) my voice is quite deep. it's a bit higher in English.

Same here, yes!

Stupid? I doubt it!

​@@darrylrotrock7816I agree.

Why did you have so less esteem of yourself ? To be fair, you haven't explain what the other menbers of your family have done to be qualify better but even with that, you shouldn't continue the comparason because you are way bon beyond the average joe

@@Eldiran1 Absolutely right.

Hahaha

whats your second language?

@@chikabolong looks like english

Dementia and Death are surprised when reading this comment

The passage of time wants to have a word, as well as memory

Agreed! In the worst situations I've been through, English was there for me and it was the key to get past all of it

@@tomasvidovenec4616 Don't forget Stroke

I love the way you think. Well said.

Wow! Impressive 🎉

Tell me that the swearing words in Portuguese are not the best 😅

Wow! You go girl! 🎉😊

I use my mother tongue, English, whenever I curse really fast without thinking about it. I would never curse in German, that is my second language. 🙂

​​@@daveking3494 when it comes to cursing, I feel like it makes me more emotional and angry if I curse in my mother tongue, Uzbek, however using English that has nearly become a second language after 12 years of learning, I feel somehow less connected to whatever the problem but still be "expressing my opinion"

Since I learned two languages (German and Swedish) from day one of my life, I can not say one is more emotional than the other, but I can say that German (at least for me) gives me more precise words to describe something, especially in subjects such as music and art, Is that more emotional?

it's no-brainer, anyone with brain to ponder the subject would know that very early - if u thought it's a "crazy idea" then that tells a lot about your intelligence level

I had a same thing but over the years my emotional being is finally equalized

You cannot learn a language completely. It may sound like bad news but actually continuous learning is part of the magic of learning a language. You can't say that you know the complete Spanish, no? But if you want to learn them at a high level, I wish you good luck! :)

Where can I learn all these languages?

I don't give a f

​@@akIndia10Udemy, Coursera

​@@akIndia10w3schools

😂😂😂😂

Motivation is key

Well said

The easiest way is to live with a partner, I learned a lot of Japanese in two years from my girlfriend. And I learned German on the streets just by living here (in Germany, ) for a few years. Just talk to everybody.

@@daveking3494 exposure

Exactly, Captain Obvious!

That's dope

@@CamthaCupid thank you 😊

@@julia2k8 you're welcome

@@julia2k8 you got snap?

@@CamthaCupid no I don't have snap

That’s certainly nice, but I wouldn’t say it’s the BEST thing about learning languages…

Tell that to America

@@LinaArenas Or the UK, Australia, New Zealand for that matter. I speak multiple languages too but it's ridiculous how random KZfaq commenters will assign numerous virtues to it which are mostly untrue: personality development, dating, etc. The reality is that you're better off being monolingual but born in a country of economic opportunity than multilingual and struggling in Papua New Guinea or Syria.

And its fun too We europeans are lucky in some ways

Saludos desde Nicaragua 👍

​@@josephgoebbels2854خوش آمدید پاکستان سے

Gringo!

@@HCRAYERT. 🤔is that a good thing or…?

Gringo loco

As a native Spanish speaker, I agree. I've been learning English since a few time ago, and I constantly think that my mother tongue is too more expressive, even poetic language than English is. It is because the vast majority of literature, art works, love letters and some kind of stuff related I have read in my life was written in Spanish. English is so beautiful and emotional too, but I guess our brains are more emotionally configured with our native language.

But you write perfect English, so I doubt your English is as bad as you want to make us believe. I'm three months into learning French - third for me, English isn't my mother's tongue but I started learning it in school early. Never knew learning a language as an adult while not being immersed would be this much of an headache. The pursuit is fair game though.

As a brazilian and as a portuguese native speaker, after 20 years being in contact with the English language, I can tell that I'm still learning english every day: the vocabulary, idioms, slangs, grammar... for non natives like us, it's not easy, but that's the way it is. And for me, watching The Office paying attention to every line have been really good to improve my english lol

Not for me. My second language became my main language and is equal in terms of emotional response. I have now 3rd language and there I'm not closely as emotional.

​@@danilousuga410es una ventaja si vas a tomar una desición y quieres hacerlo con la mayor objetividad posible. Ya si la desición es más emocional o debe ser tomada rápido pues es mejor pensar en nuestro (si nuestro porque el español es mi lengua materna también) idioma principal.

Same here I'm a Brazilian and i learned English when I was 12, and now I'm 15 i know Japanese and Korean it's really interesting because It changes a lot how u see other cultures and the world it's pretty cool

​@@arthurdatori7893 How is your level in JP and KR

You consider 14 to be “later in life”?! 😂 😂 😂 I started learning my second language at age 32.

Mucha Suerte en tu aprendizaje

You think starting at 14 is “later in life” 😂 try your 30s

Interesting!!

​@@efisgprsame except dutch

The exact opposite happens to me

With knowledge of both English and German you could probably pick up Swedish quite easily.

@@7YBzzz4nbytebut is it worth it to learn swedish? according to google only 10 million people speak swedish.

I am at the beginning of this journey, and it's really very exciting!

It sounds better in english to phrase it as ‘it opened doors to a completely different world’ - you don’t say ‘it opened me a door’

That's great! I also want to learn a new language, Japanese or Arabic, and was wondering whether Duolingo is a great source. I'm only interested in understanding the language (able to read and listen, not talk and write). Is it better than paid courses? Thanks

Sorry, I can't agree with people who said they learned a language just by practicing with a app such as Duolingo. I've spent the last seven years of my life in contact with the English language, and I don't claim to even be good at it, let alone be fluent in it, though I NEVER took the time to read its grammar rules or memorize words, etc. Everything came naturally, as I was exposed to the language in my daily life. But I understand that to achieve fluency in a given language one must at least live with a group of native speakers of that language.

@@User-jr7vf you're right that to be fluent in a language, you really do need to be with people who are fluent in that language. However, I'm not interested in being fluent in Japanese or Arabic, I'm just interested in understanding it via text and listening/watching. So that's why I asked. ✌🏻

@@userMB1 I see. While I'm not the right person to answer your question (since I never learned English "on purpose"), I'd say that the best for you is to take a basic course to gain familiarity with the structure of the Japanese/Arabic language. After that, head over to KZfaq and start watching as many videos as possible in the language, also read a lot of texts. That will probably help more than using apps such as Duolingo.

I use Duolingo for the purpose of learning some language totally new to me but also to refresh one language I learned in school for several years. Duolingo is a great way to get started in my opinion. Because it's free and like a game. You can learn in small bits. But it will not be enough to fully learn a language. It doesn't teach you grammar for example. Which makes it sometimes frustrating when Duolingo expects you to know the grammar in some exercises. I bought grammar books to get some basics at least. I also recommend finding videos, podcasts, books etc in the target language to dive deeper. Of course the best way to learn a language is to speak to natives. But Duolingo gives you at least a good chance to get started.

Wow! That's great! Some people are really bad at languages just like some people are bad at math even though they are smart. I was wondering how you learned those languages? I want to learn Arabic or Japanese(I haven't decided yet) but not fluently, just understanding by reading and listening. Do you think learning via Duolingo is a good way to learn a language for this purpose or do you recommend taking classes? ✌🏻

Maths is not difficult. Everyone can learn it. The problem that some people have difficulty in learning maths is the fact that either they don't have good books or they're conditioned that maths is difficult. Students need good explanations to problems and solutions.

Russian, Turkish and English, what are the three others?

Ich hoffe es hat Ihnen hier gefallen!

Now try to learn Russian. There is a proved connection between Sanskrit and Russian. They both share the same words. Though no one yet solved the mystery how these two languages met.

sanskrit and russian lauguages are from one big family of languages-protoindieuropean family,it includes english,german,spanish and farsi if im not mistaken(and other languages).@@keithmeadchina

@@zhongxina9569 Genau das hab ich auch gedacht (und gehofft)....

That is absolutely truth lol. My mother language is Spanish and when speaking it im kind of an introvert, but for some reason when i speak english which is my second language i talk a lot more to people 😅

​@@romanguzman3427Interesting, I've always felt Spanish sounds like an extrovert language.

Terminology issue: I think most people use "first language" and "mother tongue" interchangeably

@@slomo4672 Yeah, I thought they are the same thing. What's his usage here, something like "the first language" being the language he uses most, like he is an immigrant to USA from China?

@@slomo4672 Yes and no in the case of Singapore. Here English is our first language in school, even at home for most parents and children these days, at work and in public places. Our 4 official langs are English, Chinese (Mandarin), Malay and Tamil. "Mother tongue" need not be those official langs i mentioned earlier for each ethnic groups. Eg. for some ethnic Chinese, Chinese Mandarin learn in schools can either be our First or 2nd lang, depending on our level of fluency. But at home, some may also speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien etc as their "mother tongue". Some don't differentiate, while others might.

Ditto. Same here 🤔

"people TEND to react MORE emotionally". Off course it is not black and white...

It's absolutely right. Although we can't prove such a thing

Cual es to Mother Dong ?

Ahh, but maybe having peace and love to give means a brain free from dementia... :)

DDuuuhhh

❤ Verdade 😊🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

❤ Verdade 😊🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

Wow. Really inspiring. I'm in the process of learning french. Hope I can understand french movie and music one day. I like the music by the pink Martini, I hope I can understand the meaning.

Finally a realistic comment that is not tinted with rosy-eyed glasses. Language teaching in school settings is indeed shite. In my country we are taught English and French from primary school yet most people fare very poorly in both. The ones who do master the languages to an appropriate level are those watching TV/movie content and reading stuff in those languages outside of school, which is only useful for teaching rules and grammar.

Learning another language definitely becomes a part of you 😊

Welsh?

@@wonderwoman5528 no I don’t speak Welsh

It’s a hard language if you want to test yourself :) @@Bambi-TheBunny

@@wonderwoman5528 cool! Maybe in the future 😃

I worked as a K-5 tutor in bilingual ed. while a senior in college. I became bilingual by 21 from living abroad off and on, but am now rather rusty in my 2nd language after 25+ years of little practice. The reason my old college job existed was because bilingual kids whose parents only speak their native tongue sometimes fell behind in English in school (reading, writing, etc.). That's the only negative I can think of in terms of being bilingual.

"It has never been seen as something bad for rich people" Countries with the highest number of millionaires: USA, China, France, Japan, Germany, UK, Canada, Italy, Australia, Italy, Korea. Most of these are heavily monolingual countries and cultures. So where does your theory of multilingualism leading to wealth come from??

I don't know, mixing languages can be fun. We spoke Italian and English at home, using whichever words came to mind first, reaching for French if neither English nor Italian delivered. I don't remember ever being confused about which language was which.

I will remember this saying - thank you! Best wishes from Germany.

Yes, somewhat disheartening for the rest of us!

Well that's because being bilingual is not learning a second language and become fluent in it, but speaking both languages as a native.

I speak 5 languages so I’m better than you, brainiac!

Hi,how come you use four languages every day? :) do you work with people, or what's your occupation? Just curious! I speak 3 - my native from my home country, English and the language of the country I live in

@@UlisUlis-ep1lj I am a teacher of Spanish and German in an American school (3), but my native language is Portuguese (+1), that makes 4.

​@@a-complished4406Você é de Portugal ou brasileiro? :) Muito interessante!

@@giovannavictoria_ brasileiro- mineiro

What you say makes me think about growing up being exposed to two languages at the same time ( English/ Spanish) When I’m asked what’s my native language, I have a hard time coming up with an answer. Another point is that i feel I have an accent when I speak either one language. What gives 🤷🏻‍♂️

Your situation is more difficult, requires more skill and I would say that makes you a linguist unlike the other situation

@@MtbEMS both are.

@@lenaamartin36 interesting. Thanks for your input 🙂

I think it depends on a lot of factors. Is your level of proficiency in all three languages perfectly equal? Probably not. Even for people who grew up bilingual from birth, their proficiency is the two languages will vary. Or they are better at talking about certain subjects in one language and some in the other. At what age did you learn the languages and what experiences have you had, what memories have you made living the language? Do you use all three equally? Since you learned as an adult, you won’t have childhood memories in those languages, which is a big difference. All your concepts of the meanings of words were formed in your adult brain, initially through the filter of your mother tongue. It also makes a huge difference whether or not you are culturally connected to your other two languages. Do you have family or friends who speak the languages? Do you live or often visit a place where people speak them? Oftentimes people who are bilingual from birth have family that speak both languages, so it forms a part of their identity. If you live in a country long enough, it can become a part of your identity, but it will never be the same as having that sense of identity from birth. As for me, I started learning Chinese at 32 (which is also when I got married), and now 6 years later, I speak it well enough that I can talk to my wife without using English. But I’m still far from being as proficient in it as English. My two year old son, on the other hand, is a native Chinese speaker. At some point his Chinese will be better than mine, and his English will be better than his mother’s. If I lived in a Chinese speaking country for 20 years and studied a lot, perhaps I could match my current English level. But even then, people would see me as a foreigner and part of another culture. I could never know what it truly feels like to be Chinese.

What are those languages??

Wow, I also speak four languages and am learning a fifth (the four are English, German, Swedish and Dutch, and I'm currently learning Italian).

There is a nonword, "edgelord", confusing an early sentence, above.

@@briseboy Ok bro, slangs exist.

Probably not but you could probably find it easy to pick up, say, Spanish by watching lectures in Spanish on how to program in Python. Try it@

That does not make you a cobra!!!

Not bilingual, but fork-tongued!

Probably still good but not to the same extent if the languages are too similar

A scarcity mindset for sure..

I couldn’t agree more.

Middle class Filipinos in the Philippines are also adopting this weird mindset, unfortunately.

😂

Ich spreche etwas deutsch. Ich komme aus Mithila (Bihar) und meine muttersprache ist Maithili. Jai Hind 🇮🇳

Viel Glück und Erfolg! Weiter so!

I speak English and Spanish and I am also poor 😂

Yep. Same here.

I speak 3 languages such as English, deutsch, Bangla but i am still poor🤔🤣

If you speak English, then come to Vietnam, you will soon be rich!

How do you do? Give me your secret

Did you achieve that through real estates, cryptos or stocks?

@@makaylalewis8011 I invest in cryptos. I have a portfolio manager doing all the work for me while I earn in passive income!

@@fannyhayden8427 How do I contact your portfolio manager please? I’m interested to be honest.

@@makaylalewis8011 *dave_moorefx* is his username. I do business with David Moore

@@fannyhayden8427 his I n s t a g r a m ?

Same

You speak German?

You speak German?

@@bentleyferguson2.1 Nein, aber ich lerne Deutsch