i will master linguistics in a single thursday evening to spite you

> hates on phonetics > proceeds to stream for hours constantly mispronouncing ы as уй

Skill issue. Only real chads can handle both linguistics and language learning

guys, he's telling you to roast his physical appearance, AND wearing a my chemical romance shirt? He's clearly depressed

Man I had it all backwards. I learned every language to learn IPA for my phonetics class this semester :/

As a linguist major and a nerd, I agree and disagree at the same time. Learning linguistics to learn language is like learning physics to play basketball. If you want to have fun and prank La gente in the Taco Bell - you don’t need it. If you want to teach someone a language on a professional level and become Nerd the Final boss - then it’s for you.

There's nothing scientific about ordering orange chicken in flawless Chinese, but there's definitely a ton of science in studying how Chinese speakers order their orange chicken.

Linguistics is kind of like biology, its just for extreme accuracy but you dont need to be a biologist to know how to breath or the fact that drinking water keeps you alive

Where are my linguistics and grammar charts enjoyers at? Bring it in 🖐️

Wait, you're telling me that an academic discipline that was never intended to have an application to language learning does indeed have no application to learning languages? Who would have thought?

This is probably LanguageSimp's most serious video

I respect anyone of this opinion :3 I couldn't disagree more tho :3 My language teachers at school made learning way too hard by never talking about linguistics at all, solely relying on "absorbing". Once I got my hands on a German book that contained grammatical explanations, it all suddenly made sense and I finally knew how to speak correctly

I’ve been drinking in the IPA for years and it hasn’t harmed me yet

Learning phonetics is like learning the names of colors. Sure it helps to pick up the basics, but it's not the end of the world if you don't know the difference between magenta and fuscia.

Linguistics and actual language learning are often just two different things. Both may be fun but shouldn't get mixed up IMAO

You only need to learn IPA symbols relevant to your target language not the whole of it

I’ve always run into the opposite problem where I only ever run into people who want to rehearse dialogue. It’s kinda lonely. I wanna learn a language and talk about phonetics. 😢

Language Jones not gonna be happy with that one 😮

Can't spell linguisticks without ick 🔥😍

I like learning linguistics things, especially when it tells me about the history of my language and how languages develop and differentiate between themselves. Learning that William is the same name as Guilherme, João is Ruan, and that kind of thing is really cool for me. Realizing the influence of other languages on my mother language (Portuguese), knowing that "Dona", to refer to a woman because it came from Italian, or that "garçom" is a term that came from the French, but that remained only in the context of a restaurant to refer to the boy who works serving customers and that instead of using "fille", which is the equivalent term for a girl that serves customers in a restaurant, we use the French feminine declension in the context of restaurants in Brazil in the term "garçom", so, instead of "fille" to refer for this waiter, we use "garçonette". I really like learning these things, I understand better my country, my culture and that stuff

Linguistics is not something that someone says you must study to learn a language. Who studies linguistics sometimes know just one or two languages, it is not connected with language learning. Obviusly if you know linguistics you could have less problems while learning a language and viceversa, but nobody wants you to learn "linguistics" in order to learn a language.

Did somebody call my name? Now I have to make a "Why I Love Linguistics"

3:53 You forgot to use the voiced dental or alveolar plosive at the end of the word "And" so your are clearly not an English speaker.

The problem with learning pronunciation only by ear is that many people's ears aren't that well tuned to picking up sounds in foreign languages. Learning phonetics and phonology can be of great help to improve your ears' tuning. It's not just theory. It has certainly helped me a lot, especially when listening for sound differences (phonemes) that don't exist in my native Norwegian, but are crucial in a target language. For instance, I could quickly be aware of the differences between open and closed e and o in Italian and how the various Polish fricatives work. Instead of spending ages not being aware of that and being misunderstood because of the confusion I caused, I could move on to learning vocabulary and other parts of the language, being confident that my pronunciation was at least OK. It's odd to see how awful pronunciation many polyglots have. That includes Language Simp's pronunciation of the Russian ы, which ... leaves a lot to be desired. Good pronunciation isn't just about showing off, it's about getting understood easily. In the worst case, bad pronunciation will cause misunderstandings. Phonetics isn't that difficult to learn, and well worth the effort, because you can apply what you know to any language.

"I hate natural sciences, it didn't help me at my holiday trip in Thailand at all"

youtubers try not to be anti intellectual challenge (impossible)

I thought your legal name was Language Simp?! Who the frick is Earl?

So I agree that Linguistics is not for everyone. But it took me 3 hours one night to learn the whole IPA, and now approaching new languages comes easy for me, since I can just quickly learn the sounds and be on my way. It’s supposed to be a resource not a hindrance. But not all resources will help everyone.

Hi, the feeling is mutual. We actual linguists hate polyglots. Hate the player and the game. Every time I tell someone I study linguists they ask "How many languages do you know?" as if I need to be a polyglot to be a linguist. You don't need to study linguistics to be a polyglot and vice versa. The answer is 4 btw, none fluent.

Okay but I refuse to believe that your name is Earl

For the most part you're pretty much right, but it's kind of like being right when you say night is darker than day. It's basically a non-statement, because that's like the defining feature of night. My extra pedantic corrections are in a response to this comment, it's already long enough. So the thing is not 1 single actual linguist will tell you you need to memorize the entire ipa chart, vowels or no, except when you're taking a college or higher phonetics class. Most of us don't memorize the whole thing and even fewer can say all the different sounds. Mind you, ipa is flawed, but it's been created for a specific purpose, and it more or less gets the job done. It's like seeing a woodworker with a highly specific jig and getting upset at him because the jig isn't used for your table or chair or what have you, even though he never told you to use it for a table or chair or what have you. Also, it is a very valuable thing to know the names of the verb tenses if you're learning in a group or with an instructor. It enables the meta-language that can be used to talk about mistakes being made. For self study it's also useful if you're working out of a book or something, but otherwise you should be fine without it. I have no idea what your complaint regarding case was, so I can't really address it, but I feel like you were wrong.

As a SL English speaker, IPA helped me a lot after I could understand most conversational material with ease, because it made it easier to distinguish sounds absent in my native language, as well as having confirmation that phones that sounded identical to those in my native language were indeed the same. But when starting to learn French, being too neurotic about pronunciation has slowed me down and hampered my motivation. My advice would be to study some linguistic concepts by the measure of your own curiosity only after you feel comfortable with the language. Even more so if you're already acquainted with linguistic jargon, it'll be a lot easier after you've built an intuition for how the language behaves. Beyond language learning, linguistics is just a ton of fun too.

You are pronouncing "нет" like "ньет". Stop it.

I can’t give up the IPA 😭😭😭 It’s too precious. My precious. Ash schwa durbatulûk, ash schwa gimbatul, ash schwa thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

i really like the IPA. i wouldn't bother studying it but i like it to look up proper pronounciation occasionally. sure, a language is not exactly defined by its pronounciation but people will get different ideas about you depending on your pronounciation and i enjoy switching between fluent native and foreigner with accent at will

Why is no one talking about how he kept saying earl and not language simp 😭

It's the opposite for me, linguistics is what got me interested in learning languages and it makes learning easier and more interesting for me. But yeah anyone who trys to claim that phonetics are important to learning languages is absolutely fucking with you

6:10 "Wesh la street monsieur bonsoir" as a frenchman this is incredibly funny xD

“I don’t know what is morphology and semantics” *gets an ad*

We need to see Language Simp learning Assembly and speaking it to us 🗣️

Sure, but the IPA helped me in finally pronouncing ع correctly, as well as ص ض ط ظ

Learning a new language like a: Native speaker: 😃 Linguist: 💀

Thank you so so much for making this video! I completely agree. I’ve fallen way too deep down the linguistics rabbit hole. And I think it’s gonna take me much time to save myself and climb out. Trying to fit natural language which is infinitely nuanced into neat and tidy analytical categories is highly impractical. I appreciate you immensely for spreading this soteriological doctrine of language learning!!

I needed this, thank you

My little child just said "uyi" for the first time блять.

One of your best and funniest videos. A gem for both linguists and aspiring polyglots!

I just discovered this channel and immediately subbed, I'm only getting now into language learning and when you said you know 50 languages my inspiration levels got to 100, I have a long way to go

tbf learning the basics of ipa and using anki to memorise the most important parts takes at most a day. From there you can apply it to every language. You just type in the word you want to know the transcription for into wiktionary and it likely gives you it back. You then read it aloud and you get a pretty decent approximation👍

2:59 as somebody who has memorized the ipa because i have no friends this gave me at least 3.5 cardiovascular diseases, thanks

I usually just watch a lot of content in the language I want to learn, but I find it helpful to know at least the basic terms so I can look up details if I'm confused about something.

Loved this language review! ❤You should do Danish next :D

If you were serious about language learning you'd know IPA well by heart so you could learn a new language's phonology way faster

Honestly I disagree with this video for two reasons: I’m a massive pretentious wanker but more importantly I always want (need?) to understand WHY something is to actually get my head around a concept. It’s just how I work and it makes me feel much more confident manipulating things than what feels like trying to use a massive list of memorised phrases (I know that’s not really what you’re doing but it feels like that to me). Your point is completely valid and considering you are far better at speaking and learning languages than me you’re probably more correct but that’s just how I work. I also like technical things and science so maybe that helps.

My deepest thanks to you for this video👍👍👍

I appreciate this level of memery. Same as with your last video. Thanks.

О, мне нравится лингвистика, я даже и не знала про IPA, теперь ознакомлюсь!

So cool that you have a shirt written "My Chemical BROmance!" Who is the lucky man?

As a previous linguistic student who is now a postgrad in translation studies, I agree with every single word you utter in this video with passion

A foto com a bandeiro do Brasil ficou sensacional e eu também acho incrível quando você fala minha língua (português). Parabens pelo trabalho, irmão 😂

"dive into the language!" - *proceeds to show a wiki page on George Bush in Russian* ah, a true language conossuer

5:23 historically inaccurate representation of an IPA nerd, a true IPA nerd would know not to aspirate his k there!

As a fellow linguistics student I have to say I am very much dissapointet in you Mr. L. Simp. Linguistics is about being descriptive and not prescriptive so if you encounter someone who corrects you while learning a language that person is not welcomed in the secret organization of Linguistic S-Tier Males. And sorry to say but I love learning a language in itself and all about it AT THE SAME TIME that's how Alpha we are. I guess there's a reason your name contains an L 😔

Hello man! I learn English and I absolutely agree with your point of view😂 I wait for you in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

I think you meant "Why I hate *studying* linguistics". If you hated linguistics as a whole then you would also hate acquiring new languages, since language acquisition falls under the category of linguistics.

4:10 I saw a video of Steve talking about this, how impressive it is to see someone that has a strong accent, speaking perfect english After that moment I stopped caring so much about my accent in english

True that learning linguistics is a distraction from actually learning a language, but it does actually help tbh.

idk man, this video could have been a useful way to give new language learners a heads up that the linguistics rabbithole is an easy one to fall down, but instead it was just a mildly annoying rant about a discipline you personally don't find interesting

I just had an amazing time explaining to a streamer on twitch what the Russian word 'Внимание' means. She was playing an old video game where every NPC speaks Russian and she was wondering what it meant, so I saved the day. You're welcome, Kate, it was fun chatting with you in my broken English

Lol there was an ad for a language learning app before this vid

every day i wait for a new language simp video to drop

it's been 6 years

I may be linguist but never an esperantist that’s too far

So ive taken what you said and i have been not focusing on the all the grammar stuff and let that come naturally by just practicing and just exposong myself to as much russian tv/entertainment and hirribly attempted conversations. But my question right now is would watching shows with subtitles be a waste of time ? Should i just turn them off and attempt to read the room? Plz halp

I find IPA so useful. The confidence I had in my French pronunciation before really delving deep into grammar and vocabulary building really made me more confident when I finally got to the speaking part. And that shouldn’t be underestimated. Same with Spanish. People think Spanish is totally phonetic. But there are a lot of consonant sounds that make distinctly different sounds depending on the context, and without ipa, zeroing in on which adjustments to make in my pronunciation would have been more tedious. Finally, some languages are more phonetically complex. And forgoing ipa and phonetics study could genuinely hamper your intelligibility to native speakers. There are many ways to do this in French. And a magnitude more in Chinese. One should not be speaking a tonal language without a little bit of IPA.

aɪ ˈfʌkɪŋ heɪt lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks

I love learning languages and also linguistics, but I don't use linguistics to learn the language lol

Fun fact about the vowel chart: it's obsolete and really has always been. A good analysis would use the newer weirder triangular chart.

Just curious about your guys' experiences: what is the method you use to learn a language. I personally use the method called "Languages by playlists" by Alexander Bebris.

His roasts sounded like he is Lowkey asking us the be linguists.

3:57 абракадабра аляказам блять

not the first time i've disagreed with you. good video! I agree that beginners shouldn't care about pronunciation/IPA at all, but I love to improve my accent once I've mastered a language which is exactly what i'm doing right now with english

I get this video, and yesterday my Spanish teacher was suggesting I take up a similar job, I swear, there are no coincidences

As someone with a Master's degree in Linguistics (with Honors), I'd say you're spot on. I only speak 6 languages and about all the others, I only know tons of "fun facts" that nobody actually wants to hear. It sucks. Only point of criticism on your video is that the step after communism in the linguistics pipeline is actually getting a job and paying to follow a language course to finally learn Spanish (a real language). By the way - most linguists are not into phonetics. That's because phonetics really isn't much more than the first impression you get when you hear a language but don't understand anything yet. Enthusiast amateur nerds and undergraduate linguistics students tend to hyperfixate on this superficial part of language, because they're they're irrationally insecure about their pronunciation and also often either just too lazy, too unmotivated or too dumb to do the in-depth real hard work of actually learning the language. (jk nobody is too dumb; languages are so easy that even babies can learn them) Sorry for my bad English, it's my third language

Mostly agree! One exception is to refine things. Once I was already mostly fluent in Spanish, I noticed certain words and sounds were still messing me up and looked up the IPA for just those specific sounds and stopped getting tongue tied

That's true, linguistics itself might not be an efficient way to learn a language, but it can be helpful tho. When I was learning English, seeing phonetic symbols in Google Translate helped me realize there were sounds that I didn't know, seeing them in several words made me recognize them and their sound. So you don't have to focus on learning the whole phonetic alphabet but having some phonetic symbols alongside the word can be useful.

3:31 RIP _Дд_ 😢

who speaks more than 3 languages 👇

Funny enough, linguistics was something I got into AFTER having learned a couple of foreign languages. At first I was just looking up etymologies of words and started noticing that a lot of words from the languages that I've learned turned out to have the same origin, and I don't mean just some random international loanwords - I'm talking about thousands of years of separate histories that finally converge at some distant point in the past because the languages themselves are related. Also, trying to improve my pronounciation I started reading a lot about phonetics and was surprised to learn that many features in my pronunciation of a foreign language already exist in native speaker. At some point those two interests themselves converged together in studying Historical Linguistics and then Linguistics in general. Now it's one of my favorite hobbies. So yeah, linguistics is something you enjoy once you have some background in a number of languages, not vice versa. Although I must say it wouldn't hurt to talka bit more the scientific side of languages, e.g. not to drill "correct" pronunciations of words into kids as if when you make a mistake in your own language it means you have a Down syndrome or something. Like for real, if I got a penny everytime people say I must be poorly educated because I pronounce a word "incorrectly" in a casual conversation, I'd be rich. This has to stop, and a bit of learning what linguistics REALLY is might help with that.

I really agree with you man!

my two tips for learning: watching movies or tv with subtitles of your target language and playing video games in your target language

Чётко. Но всё-таки, Майкл Джордан или Майкл Джексон?

Can you give me some tips for learning german . Where can i lear it ?

I have a passing interest in linguistics alongside my interest in learning languages. Mostly historical linguistics, which is the study of what languages are related to each other, how closely, and what their common ancestor was like. For example, English, Swedish, and Hindi are all related to each other, but English and Swedish are only 2,000 years apart, whereas English and Hindi are more like 6,000 years apart.

Grammar YES SOMEONE EXACTLY LIKE ME

It’s so interesting because language is so many hobbies at once. I love linguistics because it gives me insight into how the human brain organizes its thoughts and presents them to other humans. I have a rough idea of why Basque grammar is so different to grammar in other language families and I love that and think it’s so cool to learn about, but I don’t know a single Basque word. I love learning dead languages and about how languages evolved and continue to evolve because it gives me perspective on people who have lived in so many time periods whose lives were just as real and interesting as my own. I have it on my bucked list to try to learn as much Sumerian as a person could learn from what we have because it’s from a people who were completely unique who have no living relatives and yet we can still know about their real human experience. The past and the way things work can be just as interesting for some people as actually speaking to other humans is to others.

I agree for the most part, but I acknowledge that some people are simply wedded to theory instead of practice. I've found some value in the IPA when studying several related languages at a time, to understand how the particulars differ from one another. I found it especially helpful with the Crow language.

The IPA is kinda annoying because all languages don’t match up to IPA but sometimes its useful to show sounds

I disagree with pretty much everything. Learning phonetics has helped me distinguish all the different sounds in the languages I’m learning, and so, has improved my listening comprehension immensely. This in turn has boosted my language acquisition significantly. Knowing that tones are not pitches but specific throat movements and positions has made tonal languages appear no more difficult than non-tonal ones. I’m not listening for pitch, I’m listening for sound quality. Learning about sound shifts has pretty much supercharged my vocabulary acquisition in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean-and even in Thai! I can quite accurately guess the On-readings and Sino-Korean counterparts for any given word in Chinese, but also do the reverse, allowing me to learn new words without having to look them up. I also get a much more extensive web of connections for each word from the get-go. Would you have known that เงิน [ŋɤn] (Romanised: ngən) and 銀 [yín] share the same root? To me it was immediately obvious. And I find that so amazing! And if Asian languages aren’t your jam, consider the usefulness of being able to recognise Latin roots in any given Romance language and the sound shift differences between them, essentially allowing you to acquire multiple languages simultaneously without much extra effort. But to get back to the Asian languages, learning about the composition and development of Chinese characters has helped me learn them much more effectively and efficiently. Knowing which forms might’ve fused together or transformed in certain ways allows me to recognise the components much faster and learn the histories of the characters just by looking at them, integrating newly learned characters firmly into my memory. Understanding the basics of Brahmic scripts and how the characters map so beautiful onto a phonetic grid can also help you learn any such script, including Thai, Khmer, Burmese, Devanagari, and Tamil, and even see the connections to the Korean 한글 (Romanised: Hangul). And I definitely take offence to both “useless” and “communist”. (Also, I’m not defending linguistics as a linguist myself but purely as a hobbyist language learner.)

😡 roasting the opinion and roasting your hat!!!!

This is my favorite video ever