What your language says about you
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The benefits of being bilingual are shocking! Here's what it does to your brain.
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Every person watching this from a non english-speaking country: Damn am I a superhero?
i, as an indian, am getting a free ego-boost rn
What if you are tri-lingual (linguwel if you're from Canada evidently).
@@pyotrtchaikovsky1840 Indians are tri-lingual usually, they have a regional language and two standard languages (Urdu/Hindi and English).
@@L.I.T.H.I.U.MAren't these two languages basically the same
@@blueman-z1m Regional language is the first one, Urdu/Hindi the second and English the third.
I speak both English and Spanish. The English side of my brain is helping me learn German, while the Spanish side of my brain is helping with Italian.
Man English helps with German when it comes to vocab but from personal experience Arabic which is far from Germanic actually resembles English much more than German grammatically. There's a huge learning curve for English speaker with German grammar it is just massively different and straight up absurd at points
I speak English and am learning German. the English side doesn't do anything, I just try to think of the stupidest way to construct a sentence, it works a lot of the time.
I speak Spanish and English. I'm currently learning German and both help me a lot.
@87fio It does, especially since German uses masculine and feminine pronouns like Spanish for words like "mein" and "meine."
german is actually considered English's sister language.
If you speak two languages, you're bilingual
If you speak more than two, you're a polyglot
If only speak one language, you're american
Erm, if you speak 3 languages you’re actually trilingual 🤓
😂
Or a young child.
To be called a polygot you have to speak 6+ languages
@@aristarchos5342 poly means many so if you speak more than three you are a polyglot. Stop spreading bullshite
"Duolingo prepares you for real conversations"
The cat cutting my hair:
Duolingo is a bit of a joke in the language-learning community.
I am a few days shy of a 900 day streak, and I still cannot hold even a simple conversation… One that would make sense to another person ;)
The one that threw me for a loop was すみません、私はりんごです。 That translates to “Excuse me, I am an apple.” HUH???
@@AlphaGeekgirl I've been really enjoying Anki flashcards (free on android and desktop) using the deck "Japanese course based on Tae Kim's grammar guide & anime"
@@spadaacca: It's only ajoke to those who do not understand the purpose of Duolingo. It's not to prepare you for a conversation. It's to actually learn a language and thus you have to learn the grammatical structure of the language. You'll learn that faster and easier with silly sentences.
never heard bilingual pronounced in 4 syllables
Yeah I've never heard anyone butcher the word like that.
It's really distracting.
Both /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/ and /baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/ seem to be accepted as pronunciations so it's totally fine
@ianmooney5495 it seems to be the Canadian standard ://
Me either. Came here to see if I've been saying it wrong my entire life.
My mom taught my siblings and I Spanish. She had no English speaking rule unless it was for school work or watching a show. She wanted us to be bilingual because we would go to Mexico every week to visit family. I'm so glad she taught us.
my siblings and _me_
I only speak English, but I am darned good at it.
@@JiveDadson is this sarcasm? The way that the original poster used is seen as the correct way usually.
@@davidmella1174no, he's right it should be "me"
@@bobstr6224 is it because "my mom" is the subject?
@@davidmella1174 yes, and "me" is the object pronoun which is correct in this case
"Bilingyuell"
Forgive him he’s Canadian
Spanish speakers are never gonna know what he's saying lmao
Nails on a chalkboard
@@janicelindegard6615 No shit, I stopped watching a little after a minute in
This is the comment I came for.
The way I see it, if you speak/understand more than 1 language you have superpowers. I am a norweigan, we learn english in primary school. I was speaking english before third grade tho cause I had family in Canada who would teach me. I speak some German, I understand a lot of spanish even tho I quit taking it 6 months into my second year of high school, and I also have a facination for fictional languages (Elvish, Dothraki, Klingon, that sort of thing). The more languages you are able to or willing to learn, the more you will understand languages you DONT speak. It's a weird thing, but it's true.
Belgians be like: dutch, french, english, german.
Swiss be like: german, french, italian, english, romansh
In the Netherlands, they are obligatory too, just with less focus on French and more on German and especially English.
In Wallonia, the French speaking part of Belgium, Dutch and German are not obligatory. "C'est une choise de les élèves." To cite the responsible minister.
@@Treinbouwer Une choise? In the metrople it is un choix
@@Treinbouwer »un choix des élèves. » But to be very honest with you I strongly agree with that. I don’t think Dutch is going to help anyone that tries to leave Belgium to find work overseas. As a French speaker I’d rather learn another language such as Spanish or Mandarin.
@@knorki5268But they don't speak them all, it depends on in which part of Switzerland they live
My multilingYOUalism helped me focus on the video and not let his pronunciation bother me.
Well clearly it did cause you commented on it. 😅
@@Lion1010NT clearly. 😊
What’s wrong with his prononciation…?
Okay genuinely how do you pronounce it?! There are so many comments talking about it ‘being weird’ but it’s totally normal here in Canada.
The only alt pronunciation that I can rationalise is “bi,ling’yall”; how do you pronounce similar words like ‘spiritual’ or ‘sexual’?
@@whizzerbrown1349 I can not imagine sexual pronounced like « bi,ling’yall »… It would be weird for sure…
I think Duolingo is great for taking a fist step into the new language but then you quickly need to get different inputs, films, books, and real speaking praktice. The max niveau to reach is quite low.
Being Korean,
speaking Chinese,
learning Spanish in English,
getting help from Spanish with learning Italian
+help from English with German
and I got my ego boost with this video
Noticing lots of Koreans learn Chinese
@@hayabusa1329 yeah since japan, Korea, and china are all under Chinese alphabet culture, it’s easy to learn Japanese and Chinese
I read the title as: Is bisexualism a superpower?
YES
It is tho
So if I am bisexual and billiangual I'm a have a godlike superpower kkkkkk
it is
@@macjynxs si!
I love how half the comments are about how he pronounces BILINGYUAL lol
Yeah, though I cringe at how it may make other people with non native accents feel.
Oh how I wish I could lose mine.
The way he says bilingual reminds me of Marcia Brady saying SKEWL
This did exactly what I needed after a really rough day 😂
I don't see a problem tbh I feel you people are exaggerating and I am INDIAN! I don't even know what Canadian accent sounds like only American and Bri'ish
@@EspeonMistress00 ye thats just natives, we that need to actually learn other languages dont really see a problem with it
SKYOO-ell
India have more than 18 languages and anyone who live in a state speaks atleast 2 languages even if they are illiterate. Education comprises of 3 languages minimum. Those who live at border of 3 states speak 3 languages
It can be 4 languages if you are a tribal from northeast
@@o0...957 yeah, but 3 as minimum for any Indian. Well most of the Indians. States like UP and UK might use Hindi and English (very basic)
@@ayubshaik2907 UK as in United Kingdom or Uttarakhand?
@@o0...957 uttarakhand
@@ayubshaik2907 Oh ok
I study languages, and I have found that practicing shorthand scripts also gets my brain stimulated in a similar way.
Anyone else flustered by how he says bilingual?
I'm not a native English speaker, so I thought I was the one mispronouncing the word
I literally couldn't watch this video because of it
@@taiadiJesus... I hope your pettiness doesn't prevent your ability to enjoy other things
@@kirbylover37 I am equally annoyed but I will hate watch (I'm more annoyed by the duolingo sponsor)
@@taiadiYeah, same. It’s hard to put much stock in a video about language where the speaker is using language incorrectly right from the start.
duolingo is like the least efficient way to learn a language and anyone who knows anything about languages(or has tried alternatives) will agree
No
It’s certainly not the best resource out there but it can be a good starting point for a lot of people, especially those who don’t have access to a lot of other resources. However I would definitely recommend supplementing it with other resources shortly after starting with duolingo and eventually transitioning to different resources as your language skills continue to develop
For romance languages it's alright. Anything higher, especially Arabic, Korean, japanese, mandarin, it's only useful as a side tool
@@xatime2833 I have only tried the german and the swahili courses and i learned more in 20 min of reading a textbook than 100 days streak on duolingo that goes for both languages
I cant say for other languages but everyone I know that has tried have had similar results in other languages
@@xatime2833I speak arabic and thats so true it kinda sucks when trying to learn arabic idk if they made it better now tho
Someone get this man a dipthong!
I've tried learning a couple of different human languages, but only seem successful in coding languages.
Yeah, his pronunciation of bilingual is something I haven't heard before.
I've bascially given up on french and resign myself to be a robot
Code is probably very good for your brain, and I'm envious, even if I speak a couple non-native languages. Those are hard skills which give you many options, jobwise
On a side note: you mean diphthong
@@prufrock1977 I knew that looked wrong. And I even searched for it. 🤦🏽♂️
Speaking from personal experience, I find the human brain's ability to distinguish languages incredible. Even if I can't understand a single word of a language, I can usually tell what language it is. And I think this is true for most people as well. Pattern recognition is a hell of a thing 😀
As a Malaysian ethnic Chinese (Uncle Roger, Nigel Ng, Michael Yeoh, Ronny Chieng also), we often learnt at least 4 languages since we're in kindergarten, English, Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin, and at least 1 other Chinese language (Hokkien, Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew, Hokchew, etc).
We are all multilingual since youth, and I speak 6 languages, can't imagine the life of monolingual 😂 English, Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Japanese.
My best friend is Malay / HK and she's able to speak English, Canto, Mando, Hakka, Hokkien, Korean, and I think one more. Meanwhile, I never fully picked up on Canto as the second language in my household. I understand a lot and have the processing from growing up in a bilingual household,,,, except actually speaking it
Na ja, you were almost my superset (Japanese & English), but German came into rescue:)
Russian and spanish on the way, hopefully I'll be able to speak 5 languages by the end of the decade
Same too in India
@@jacquelynchin5513 then start speak it hahaha, nothing and no one is stopping you, the choice is at your mouth, taking the first step and continue doing so are the most important
honestly same, as a British South Asian all of us are bilingual, if not trilingual, we always make fun of people who are monolingual telling them they should start learning Urdu or Hindi or Punjabi (I speak English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Persian)
Bilingyoual
Its all i can hear😅
Bro can’t even speak one language 💀
In most civilised countries, speaking three or four languages total is considered normal. Except, as usual, in the UK and the USA.
Not true, in the whole of the Americas (both North and South), if you know English and Spanish you can communicate with just about anyone. Yes yes I know Brazil is Portuguese and there are pockets of French in some places, but for the most part 2 languages and you are good. So are you saying the whole of the Western Hemisphere is not civilized?
@@jeervin there is a difference between learning and needing.
I'd argue this is more the case in the developing world (India, most of Africa, China, etc).
I’d say it’s mostly Europe. North America makes it works with 1 or 2 languages. Most native English speakers who don’t have a cultural background with another culture (like being part of a diaspora) only speak English. While Canada has 2 official languages (English and French), most Canadians only speak one of the two, English, with a few French communities spread throughout the country and one province who made French their official language (Québec). Mexico would favour Spanish, obviously. I can’t say for Central and South America, but I suspect Spanish would be your go-to (apart from Brazil). So yeah, being more than bilingual in the Americas isn’t as frequent as one would think, at least in the sense of having multiple common languages between a mass of individuals.
@@GamyeonLike being part of a diaspora... that wasn't genocided before their ancestors came to the United States.
Now here's the fun question, do programming languages count as bilingual, and if so to what extent?
JavaScript has different Syntax to Java, but a lot of the concepts are the same lol.
I think yes, is like also music notation, it's like learning a different language, structure, syntaxis, rules... You have to reshape your way of thinking, so it's also a mental effort
So nice to see a US citizen invested in learning a second language! I'm proud of you! Keep up!
Joke's on you he lives in Guelph, Ontario, Canada 😂.
he is Canadian 🇨🇦
@@tunisian_stats that's great! So he also speaks French, I believe.
@@otaviopalanca No. Only Canadians from Montreal speak French
50% of all people are smarter than average, otherwise average would not be average. So your chances to be smarter than average are 50%.
Ah, except language learning may be one of the things to actually push your iq up a few points.
I'm on my fourth language this year(Russian) which happily after 7 months of studying every day and consuming Russian content everyday, I can now read write speak and understand a conversation 😁
English Spanish French Russian 👌
Hi ,I am learning Russian as well and I can speak and understand a bit of it but I am a bit fluent in French and English 😊
I am blessed to have been born in the Montreal area to an anglophone father and a francophone mother. It is extremely common to find a Montrealer who speaks both English and French (like me), and also not uncommon to find new immigrants to Canada who speak English, French and whatever language or languages are from their originating country.
I speak English fluently and started learning Japanese when I was 14, I’m now 20. Learning it from such an early age I was able to cement fundamental grammar into my brain, which is nice seeing as Japanese and English are polar opposites in how they express information.
Japanese is the hardest language to learn for English speakers. Can you speak Japanese fluently now?
Learning Spanish: 😊
Learning French: 😬
Learning German: 😠
Learning Polish: 😱
Learning Finnish: 💀
🗿: Arabic Learning
Dutch is the most English like
.cibarA gninraeL :eb dluoW
I am Polish, so I don't have to learn it to speak the language fluently 💅
@@ldubt4494 dias lleW
Down the board with little to no exception, playing video games confers ALL OF THE SAME BENEFITS. The only difference is that you won't know additional languages. Suggesting that none of this has anything to do with actually learning a new language and everything to do with exercising your brain. Period.
You are not a better person then anyone else for learning additional languages or playing an instrument, which also confers these same benefits. Lmao.
Bye-ling-you-als
Duolingo seems good on paper but so so bad for any useful way of learning a language.
I know 5 languages, 2 of them fluently, the other three i'm still working on my fluency. I hope this keeps my brain strong!
My superpower is seeing how things change. Like the title of the video changing from "Is Bilingualism a Superpower?" to "How learning a new language transforms your brain" to "The benefits of a bilingual brain" to " This image can determine how smart you are" to "What your language says about you". (The thumbnail changed twice too...)
and now... "This image can determine how smart you are" ;)
@@AlphaGeekgirl It's not as much being smart, but more about magic.
That it's more about: "Have you been exposed to both ways of seeing it?"
When you know there's 2 different images, and how to see them, you see them with ease.
You know where to look to see either image of the illusion.
I say this is "magic" because you "see behind the trick". Magic plays with our illusions until you see how the illusion is done.
@@AlphaGeekgirl I didn't see the title changed again, because it was the 3rd one still in my Subscriptions. I thought you were referring to the image of the video, in my last comment.
In Veritasium's video, "Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective", he says why the thumbnail and title will change for more engagement/views. (I'm almost positive the title of that video changed too.)
2:37 I can only speak arabic and it's the only language i can speak since i was a kid, and oh my god it's like I couldn't even hear what he was saying
native spanish speaker here, C2 english self-taught throughout the years, learning german with duolingo, last week i started french. i find it amazing how one can see the similarities and relations between what at first are smilingly very different sounding languages and how context is everything. i really hope my brain to stay healthy until my time comes
Im on a 432 day streak rn. What's crazy is that my gf is on 1k+
Amazing video, it motivated me to go learn some more Japanese ❤
2:49 all those english listening Comprehensions have paid off i see
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
Isn't the "correlation/causation" fallacy (I don't know the official name) commited like a million times in this video? Like it is possible that those people who are less susceptible to Alzheimer's are more likely to take on a language lesson.
Perhaps, but how likely is it that ALL of these relatonships are the result of mere chance?
@@thomasakagi7545 That is not the point. There could be reasons causing positive correlations. And causality is just one of the possible ones.
It could be something like, people who are more active later in life are more likely to learn a second language and also less susceptible to Alzheimer. It doesn't seem like it would be something completely random though. Why would two groups who never learned a second language, just randomly diverge and one gets Alzheimer earlier than the other? Seems like there is some connection there.
To get more practice and fluency when learning a language, try to watch movies. First dubbed, so you learn the plot, then subtitled to your language, so you learn to listen the foreign language, then subtitled to that language - preferably in a full version (the ones for deaf people). Rinse and repeat. Later, practice watching news; the anchors usually speak in a neutral and clear way.
Good luck!
Making my best progress ever with “dreaming Spanish”. Deleted Duolingo yesterday
Serious question: is that how Canadians pronounce "lingual"?
No it's not, as a Canadian myself I have no idea where he got that from.
Bilingual has three syllables.
lmao i was looking for someone else that noticed
Same with multilingYOUals 😅
I count four 😅 Are you referring to the way he says it?
@@NicholasPellegrino In English syllables are phonetic, so if you're not a native you may find it hard to count syllables in English. People seem to be freaking out because of Mitch's pronunciation of bilingual, but I've always pronounced it like that 😅 (I'm a non-native fluent English speaker)
Love this video! (Perfect for all language teachers to demonstrate the value of learning languages! 🤭) Growing up with three languages didn’t make me feel any smarter 😅, but I really enjoy learning languages, especially when I can use them in real life to connect with people and cultures. That’s what keeps me motivated. Thanks again for this great video!
Anybody else cringe at every pronounciation of 'ual'?
Sure is unusual. 😜
No, it sounds normal
I feel like a lot of this could also be for those who game. Quick reaction timing, telling the color from the word, tuning out certain sounds. It's interesting to see that despite this being about bilingualism, also being a gamer could assist in these types of tests
How many times are the title and thumbnail gonna change
Many time to get views for the revenue
Learning English was a challenge for me but now I can speak it pretty much as good as native speaker (in UK) and it helped a lot
Love the video ! Really motivates to learn more languages !
Correlation is not causation. This might well be a selection bias - at least in older people.
I speak 7 languages: Sindhi, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, English and German 😊
Are you fluent in all them?
@@osmancanales4644 I'm fluent in Sindhi, Gujarati, Hindi, English and German
They're all dialects
@@hayabusa1329 romance languages (spanish, french, portuguese) can be considered dialects too if we're going in that direction
1:57 if you are bilingual and your second language is english try to say words and colors in your mother tongue. It's even harder 😅
I am Dutch, and learned English through interacting with the internet and gaming around 16. The school version was just really bad since it started at like year 4 and had focus on few super specific things, which is useless without an base. And even if it was in order the books where just bad on top of that. I can read and listen to English super fast now, but never learned how to speak and write (proper). Also one thing with learning it via internet is that i get exposed to an mix of UK and American English
I see first an bunny, then an duck and then i can't unsee the duck anymore
You should be using "a" instead of "an" in your comment. "a base", "a mix", "a bunny", "a duck". "an" is/was used before words beginning with the letter "h" like "an historical..." or beginning with a vowel like "an ancient...". These are examples of how to properly use the articles "an" and "a".
@@hollylewis5302 I struggle with a and an. Also to and too. But not with things like your and you're, or there and their
I started learning Castilian Spanish in 2018 and now have reached level C1 (the second highest level in the European standard) and since I was living in Barcelona also ended up learning Catalan (A2; I can only have basic conversations) so with hard work and dedication you can learn infinite languages 👏🏻 but also living in a country where the language you want to learn is primarily spoken is a crucial moment in your language learning journey. I now live in Spain and love that I can speak Spanish/catalán at work and with my friends but also with in English with my family back home with no problems 🙌🏻
Felicitats!
@@jaimemorenoruizdesign merci!!
¡Me encanta que hayas decidido aprender castellano!
Soy de España 🇪🇦, y sí, hablo inglés. (I practice my English everyday. I really love this language and its pronunciation!)
Yo no hablo catalán, pero entiendo la mayoría al ser hablante nativo de castellano, ya que ambos idiomas son bastante similares.
Enhorabuena, yo soy Gallega, así que hablo castellano y galego. Además de que he estado aprendiendo portugués por ser muy similar, tengo B2 de inglés (y probablemente llegue al C1, pero no seguí haciendo exámenes) y estuve en Irlanda estudiando por 4 meses. También estoy tratando de aprender italiano, pero no me lo tomo tan en serio como hize con el portugués
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If you want to really be good at a language start watching tiktok and youtube in that language with no subtitles even if you don't understand anything you'll start picking up words and soon be able to form some complex phrases
Weirdest pronunciation of bilingual ever
I'm from Gujarat,India and i know four languages.
My mother tongue Gujarati, Sanskrit, English and Hindi.
Those four are actually tought in schools.
I'm on a 1231 day streak.
Nobody cares
How is your progress?
@@armanadalyan4815 @spadaacca does. So yeey.
I have finished the entire Swedish thingy.
And now I've started Turkish
@@SanneBerkhuizen well I know 5 languages without duolingo but I'm not here bragging about sone stupid streak cause I have the self confidence of a snail.
@@SanneBerkhuizen I wonder how much swedish you know, since you don't even have a proper english vocabulary and use the word thingy instead of course.
As a Canadian, you are not learning French? 😢
as a trilingual, it definitely is a superpower bc i am a superhero fr (aka: Indian)
5:32 It’s nit hard to learn a language. English schooling systems just need to push that more and everyone with sufficient education is bilingual.
I’m French so French is my native language. I’m currently pregnant and I plan to speak English to my baby even though I def don’t have enough vocab or expressions. I hope it’ll help them :)
My mother tongue is Spanish, I learned English in Kindergarten and German when I moved to Austria 🇦🇹 10 years ago as an adult. I speak fluently the 3 of them. But should explain how a dyslexic people are able to learn languages by processing sounds instead of written words. Cause as a dyslexia my writing skills are never at the same level as my speaking comprehension. I am proud of myself for being able to speak 3 languages.
I know that the two guys from AsapSCIENCE are Canadian, so is that how they pronounce bilingual??
I'm Canadian, no it is not... but then again I"m bilingYOUal so what do I know...
Yup, that's the only way I have heard it pronounced where I'm from in Canada
@@RudeAlert What province are you in? Maybe regional variation
@@hannahj9700 I'm in Quebec, near Montreal where all the English and bilingYOUal people live in this province.
as a dutch and english speaker who is also trying to learn japanese i can say that tuning out noise is way more difficult with different sounds from different directions then from a single source like in this video
PLEASE STOP SAYING BILINGYEULL
I speak Spanish as my first language and bc of my mom’s side, Cantonese because of my father’s side, I learnt English because everyone has to, and I can now speak mandarin because of where I’m living and working. I can relate with everything this video says 🎉
I speak three languages: Arabic, English, and Persian, and I've recently started learning Japanese.
I speak 5 languages: Russian, Ukrainian, German, French , English and I have recently started learning Chinese 😊
@Flamefairyhearts362 Oh wow, that's really impressive! How old are you? I'm 14.
@@Fatimamaaniyeh thank you, I am 12 😊
@@Flamefairyhearts362 How did you manage to learn so many languages?
@@Fatimamaaniyeh I learned using Google translate
I don't know if memory is correlated with intelligence, but anyone learning a language later in life is going to be smarter than your average cookie so there may be some selection bias happening here.
Presenting a study that fits the sponsor looks a bit conflicted, dont you think?
While it can definitely look that way, I don't think there is anyone who is actually going to bother learning a new language just because of some possible health benefit. I would also suggest people not try to learn languages for that, because it is a huge waste of time if you don't actually have an interest in learning the language.
My native language is Spanish. I learned French since kindergarten and I speak it fluently, then I learned English in high school. I’d like to learn Norwegian or Italian
Has anyone here, heard anyone else pronounce it that way? I never have, where is it coming from?
In America, from my experience, speaking real American English, how our eldest of elders speak it, can get you into trouble.
In America, from my experience, speaking real American English - how our eldest of elders speak it, can get you into trouble. | now, after internalizing both, or maybe before, teach yourself some Greek - the ancient stuff.
Every Indian person rn: I guess I have a super power
(And yes I did like my own comment)
Nobody noticed you liked your own comment potus.
I think all of us Indians do that, for some reason.
shame on your country for flooding bangladesh and spreading lies
Great video! I was in French Immersion in school and loved knowing a second language. After high school, I didn't have much chance to use my French and I started to lose it. Duolingo has been awesome for helping me get back my French skills. I'm also working on German because my brother and I were born there and I've always wanted to learn it. I tried books and other programs and never made much progress. I recently added Scots Gaelic. Haven't made much progress there, but it's fun.
"sadly I only speak zero languages because I can't pronounce bilingual properly"
I can speak 6 languages.
I'm portuguese, so Spanish was a bit of a gimme. English is a no-brainer of course especially since we don't dub movies so I learned a lot through media (plus school). I had French lessons with a family teacher for a 5 years, so I learned French. Then I studied in Italy for 6 months and where I picked up Italian (which is very realistic if you are a Portuguese native and speak Spanish and French). 10 years ago I moved to Austria, where I had to learn German (learn, not "pick up" - I had intensive courses in the uni). So that's 6 languages.
Funny thing is, at my work English is completely enough and yeah German is a bonus but not a must. Everything else is a neat party trick but that's about it.
Kinda dissappointing seeing you guys endorse Duolingo after they fired a bunch of their translators to cut down costs via AI. Not saying this is a major news headline thing but would have expected you guys to do a little research on the company :/
So they should pay employees they don't need? You have never run a business, you just go to work for 8 hours and let others create and take risk.
kinda disappointing to see a video that's 8 minutes, and boils down just a long commercial.
@@DiogenestheGreekCompanies should be collectively owned by workers. This case and your attitude are proof of why that needs to happen. You worship oligarchs as “creators” and “risk takers”, and refuse to support workers’ rights.
True. AI translations can be bad and unnatural sounding rather than real local speaker who knows their thing. But that's why you don't only do one method when learning languages. Be it going to the country that speaks it or talking to people that grew up there. Or the simple songs, movies, news, books, vlogs and much more. And/Or having multiples learning apps.
Y'all have to be kidding
I wonder if bilingualism masks symptoms of ADHD due to the natural buff to focus and code switching?
I see a random raven... 0:34
As someone who's been bilingual his whole life (Spanish and English), has become fluently trilingual (added Italian), and has also studied and continues to study other languages as well, I can simply say from experience that I feel smarter and more capable just overall as a person with every language I study. I recently finished the full Dutch course on Duolingo (not good enough yet to add that as my 4th language of fluency) and have now started studying Japanese in the last month! It's a blast and I love learning about the cultures and people of the languages I'm studying. Not to mention all the insights I get into certain ways of phrasing things and representing things verbally by having so many different grammars and worse orderings kicking around in my brain. All in all I highly recommend studying any language that remotely piques your interest! If you can turn it into a habit, you won't go back
Bi-ling-YOU-als
In Denmark 95.7% of the population is bilingual or multilingual. Cause we have English at school since 1st grade
Omg... why do you have to pronounce *bilingual* like that
Why are you so pressed. Relax
I can speak English, German, Dutch and (West) Frisian. I would say that I am starting to get decent at reading the Old-English language but I understand it better when spoken. I also have a very basic understanding (so understanding some basic sentences and sometimes being able to follow along with conversations) of Danish, French, Japanese and Greek. In the future I might pick up Spanish.
i genuinely thought everyone in the world spoke at least 2 languages. imagine the shock when i found out monolinguals exist.
I speak Spanish and English, and now I'm learning Dutch 🧡 their history shaped their language in a way that both Spanish and English help me on my journey to learn it.
Muy bien, veel succes! 👍🏻
@@abxorb Dank je wel mijn vriend 😉👍🏼
Hey, if this is a superpower, many others things can also be a superpower 🤨
Always loved languages. I hope to be fluent in several one day.
I think that regarding math as a language would explain a lot of the links between being bilingual and finding math easier.
I already knew French as a second language growing up, but didn’t take it so seriously because it was just a thing I was expected to do. In my adult life, I’ve now been learning Japanese and a little bit of German and it’s been really cool as you almost feel like your reach in a language improves. I’m at the point now where I watch some Japanese entertainment without any subtitles and it feels awesome to get most of what’s going on (granted there are still visuals to draw from but planning to try listening to podcasts soon).
I am native Spanish and Catalan speaker. I also had the luck to live in a touristic place where I grew up hearing different languages. Learned English both in school and work and then Italian during my Erasmus (I'm not agile writing Italian but I can read with no problem and I have passed both my Erasmus exams and a few job interviews in Italian). Now I'm learning French for which I use Duolingo and engage in conversation with french coworkers often, and I can confidently say it's still stimulating and even fun, plus really useful and a beautiful CV line.
Well, those are my credentials and now I'll share just one thing that I've learned which has been invaluable for me: keep in mind a language is a tool! That's it! Studying is of course important as reading the instruction manual of a tool is, but you learn with practise. Don't be shy and use it!!
I’m working on French right now, ya hablo español pero vivo en la parte de Louisiana en lo que se habla francés 💪🏽
Bon courage dans ton apprentissage 😊 le français n'est pas toujours logique ni facile haha
Ce qu'ils parlent en Louisiane n'a rien à voir avec le français qu'on parle en France où ailleurs - j'espère que tu fais pas l'erreur d'apprendre le français louisianais. 🤣
I'm fluent in portuguese and english, and now I am learning japanese. Definitely harder to learn a new language now that I'm older, but it's always a fun challenge, specially japanese, since it's such a differente language from what I'm used to.
Nice video.
I speak czech, so I can understand Slovakian language pretty well. I can speak english, and I'm learning german now. Nice to see that it has these hidden effects on me
Same,I am learning German as well 😊
Is it a Canadian thing to pronounce the "u" in "bilingual"?
No it is not.
Good luck, Mitch! Spanish my second learned language from high school and I remember quite a bit of it still! Currently I'm 811 days strong on Duolingo and have been studying Japanese for the past 2 and half years or so. It's been a bumpy ride learning a completely different character system, I'll tell you, but I absolutely love it. My goal is to become a polyglot someday!