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.
@@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.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.zachary3 I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
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
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.
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 »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.
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’?
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 😀
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
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!
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.
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
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
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.
@@hayabusa1329 I’ve taken a couple years gap from studying so I’m not near a native at all but I have a pretty good grasp of it and can communicate fine and can read mostly any thing I need
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.
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
This is interesting stuff. I learned Spanish in high school but never really used it. I do use Duolingo to learn more of it (Section 3, unit 21 currently) and am able to use it with some coworkers recently. Speaking with someone in another language, even if poorly, and infrequently really taught me a lot. I also started Klingon on Duolingo just for fun - probably not going to stick with that one.
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 🎉
To clarify re: French speaking Canadians. People in Quebec and New Brunswick are most likely to speak French, though there are a number of native French speakers in PEI as well. There are a heck of a lot of people in Ontario whose first language is also French. They are Franco Ontarians. Also, in Ottawa, the capital of the country, many people speak French as a second language because of both the city’s proximity to Quebec as well as the number of federal government employees in the area - French fluency is required for many federal government jobs. Not only that, but French is heavily enforced in school in Ottawa, and while you only need one credit in high school for French, many students will take the language all through high school because of the advantages knowing the language provides for job opportunities in the area, even outside of the federal government. I took French all through high school and can speak enough to get by when I’m “across the river”, even though I’m not fluent. My French accent is fairly good, so a lot of Quebeckers are a bit confused by me because I speak with a pretty good accent, but my grammar is horrendous! In Ontario, the further south from the Quebec border you get the less French people tend to know. Mitch and Greg are based in southern Ontario so it isn’t a surprise to me that they don’t speak French.
My native language is Spanish, I'm a former English teacher but keep learning because I like it! I also know some Mexican Sign Language an a bit of Japanese, can't read it as I used to, just remember some words but love to keep learning more of it and more languages!!
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
@@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)
Thanks for reminding me to take my Duolingo lesson. I practice 4 languages every day 🌟 I also have friends who don't believe that an app can help you learn a new skill, languages in this case. However, I proved them wrong. It might not be the traditional method, but I can confidently say that it helps a lot. It’s even better if you combine that learning with a language course or by watching series/reading books in the language you're learning 😉
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 🙌🏻
¡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
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 👌
I love learning languages, because it enables me to dive deeper into different cultures. The benefits for the brain are a plus :D Currently, my wish is to learn German enough to able to read Herman Hesse's books in original one day. Been learning French for a loooong time, and I still am, because their vocabulary is so rich. Oh, and English is not my first language either, but I use it at work.
My native language is french, I've learn english pretty much by myself with comic books, tv shows/ movies, roleplaying games books that were just in english and a small french/english dictionary nearby for words I didn't know. I did this in my 20s and I'm now just over 50 yo. Almost everything I listen to is in english (movies, tv, youtube, music, etc...) but French is almost exclusively used where I live. I just need a bit of practice to speak it (not much people around to have a conversation with in english) but when it comes to read write or listen, I don't have much difficulties. interesting video 👍
@@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.
I can play almost every abstract strategy board game on descent level but chess and go on slightly higher level. I fell in love with them because these taught me and still continue to teach me a lot about decision making, strategic planning, foresight and calculations, like seeing through problems and events thoroughly.
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.
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. 🤣
Hi! I am 14 years old girl from Macedonia. Obviously I know my language Macedonian I know English too and I am also learning Spanish with duolingo and French in school. 😊 And I just added you as a friend on Duolingo 😊
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
@@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
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!
I am fluent in both French and Dutch, as my mother is French and my father is Dutch. I learned English later in life when I moved to the Netherlands at the age of 20, where English is widely spoken. Although I haven’t formally studied German, I can read and understand it due to its similarity to Dutch. Additionally, I can read Italian and Spanish, as they share many similarities with French.
I think there might be benefits related to the implicitly encoded ideas that are part of a language. i.e. often the first language encodes implicit modes of thinking due to the structure of the language. If the second language is sufficiently distinct from the first, then it may challenge the implicit modes of the first language. I'd hazard that it's possible that the second language allows you to break free of the default thinking modes of one language. This allows you to access not just new modes, but it sort of embeds the understanding that there may be language agnostic modes of thinking as well. The awareness of this idea might afford a powerful way to think in general. i.e. you can formulate ideas without the constraints of the language. For example, some languages have gendered determiners that are used for referring to inanimate objects. This would implicitly associate genders with inanimate objects. However, when learning a language that doesn't do this, this mental association is then challenged by the new language.
My mother tongue is English but I am also quite good at speaking German. Learning other languages has made me a much more creative person overall, and honestly it's very useful learning another language. For example, I've been trying to create my own language, I don't think I would've tried doing that if I hadn't learned other languages. (Also German is the most awesome language ever you should go learn it)
Hi! I'm a native Indonesian speaker here. I feel very honored, except I'm confused for the fact of how you pronounce the word bilingual. I'm currently learning English right now, and it's been doing really well (I'm on intermediate 3 level in my English course, apparently I jumped from Intermediate 1 last month)! The only problem i have until now was repeating the same words until i pronounced it correctly. This is what I ever said to my friends: "Do you know how to eat rice without *swallowing* the candy?" Yes i usually speak English very quickly, so saying "swallowing" fast is kind of difficult.
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
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?
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.
Dejaré mi comentario en español!!! Soy fan de este canal!!! Me encanta su contendió y disfruto mucho los temas de los que hablan! Nunca dejen de aprender!!!!
Macedonian is my native. English is my second language, and Spanish is my third. Would love to learn a 4th one but don't think I will ever do it; not because I don't want to, but because I don't really have the time and energy for it now.
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
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 :)
Trying to learn Esperanto. Not sure how useful it is, but I think the idea of it is very cool and now I know there is more benefits then just understanding a new language. Thanks!
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
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.
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.
Great. I can read in several languages, but I only speak one fluently. I have trouble with the verbs and the word genders in other languages, and I am a perfectionist with social anxiety, so that makes it even harder.
Being multilingual is my dream, I am bengali, learning English; good enough to speak it and understand it, but I'm not fluent! I'm also learning Korean, I can understand hindi, also urdu a bit, know few words in Chinese and Japanese, I love learning new languages 😄
I agree so much :D I can speak Dutch, French, English, and I’m currently studying Japanese. I passed my first official Japanese exam last July. I’m 32 and studying a completely new language is amazing. Even though it’s far from my main study tool, I do have a Duolingo subscription. Currently at strike 989. It’s a lot of fun.
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 :/
@@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.
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.
Most Essential ❤ ! Languages play a vital role in communication,adjusting in society,in shaping the future prospect & toning the brain !Thus,helping against any kind of mental disorder ! Through the Ist lang several other languages can be taught ! Thanks ❤
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'm native French and I can say, learning and speaking, listening to English has dramatically improved my life, I got a better job, was able to travel more and see the world with some new perspective, currently learning Japanese and finishing Italian, it's a lot harder after the second language I feel but it's well worth it in the end, next will be Chinese and maybe Portuguese if I can afford the time, still I recommend it to anyone
I’m learning Italian on Duolingo and have previously studied a little at school and travelled there. It’s great! I can’t wait to go back to Italy and try out some Italian.
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.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.zachary3 I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once.
Breathe. You're strong. You got this Take it day by day.
Please, how do I reach him?
Is He on insta?
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.
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
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
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…
"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.
I study languages, and I have found that practicing shorthand scripts also gets my brain stimulated in a similar way.
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 😀
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
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!
Love the video ! Really motivates to learn more languages !
I love your animations! Adding this channel right next to Lead Learn Leap. You guys have similar animated videos with informative knowledge ^^ Love it
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.
Me watching this from a non english speaking country: i feel so useful and worthy today
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
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
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?
@@hayabusa1329 I’ve taken a couple years gap from studying so I’m not near a native at all but I have a pretty good grasp of it and can communicate fine and can read mostly any thing I need
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 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!
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 ❤
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. 🤦🏽♂️
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!
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
Duolingo seems good on paper but so so bad for any useful way of learning a language.
This is interesting stuff. I learned Spanish in high school but never really used it. I do use Duolingo to learn more of it (Section 3, unit 21 currently) and am able to use it with some coworkers recently. Speaking with someone in another language, even if poorly, and infrequently really taught me a lot. I also started Klingon on Duolingo just for fun - probably not going to stick with that one.
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.
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.
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.
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 🎉
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
To clarify re: French speaking Canadians. People in Quebec and New Brunswick are most likely to speak French, though there are a number of native French speakers in PEI as well. There are a heck of a lot of people in Ontario whose first language is also French. They are Franco Ontarians. Also, in Ottawa, the capital of the country, many people speak French as a second language because of both the city’s proximity to Quebec as well as the number of federal government employees in the area - French fluency is required for many federal government jobs. Not only that, but French is heavily enforced in school in Ottawa, and while you only need one credit in high school for French, many students will take the language all through high school because of the advantages knowing the language provides for job opportunities in the area, even outside of the federal government. I took French all through high school and can speak enough to get by when I’m “across the river”, even though I’m not fluent. My French accent is fairly good, so a lot of Quebeckers are a bit confused by me because I speak with a pretty good accent, but my grammar is horrendous!
In Ontario, the further south from the Quebec border you get the less French people tend to know. Mitch and Greg are based in southern Ontario so it isn’t a surprise to me that they don’t speak French.
My native language is Spanish, I'm a former English teacher but keep learning because I like it!
I also know some Mexican Sign Language an a bit of Japanese, can't read it as I used to, just remember some words but love to keep learning more of it and more languages!!
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)
Thanks for reminding me to take my Duolingo lesson. I practice 4 languages every day 🌟 I also have friends who don't believe that an app can help you learn a new skill, languages in this case. However, I proved them wrong. It might not be the traditional method, but I can confidently say that it helps a lot. It’s even better if you combine that learning with a language course or by watching series/reading books in the language you're learning 😉
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
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 😊
How many times are the title and thumbnail gonna change
Many time to get views for the revenue
I love learning languages, because it enables me to dive deeper into different cultures. The benefits for the brain are a plus :D Currently, my wish is to learn German enough to able to read Herman Hesse's books in original one day. Been learning French for a loooong time, and I still am, because their vocabulary is so rich. Oh, and English is not my first language either, but I use it at work.
Bilingyoual
Its all i can hear😅
Bro can’t even speak one language 💀
My native language is french, I've learn english pretty much by myself with comic books, tv shows/ movies, roleplaying games books that were just in english and a small french/english dictionary nearby for words I didn't know. I did this in my 20s and I'm now just over 50 yo. Almost everything I listen to is in english (movies, tv, youtube, music, etc...) but French is almost exclusively used where I live. I just need a bit of practice to speak it (not much people around to have a conversation with in english) but when it comes to read write or listen, I don't have much difficulties.
interesting video 👍
0:14 You know Duolingo?! 🦉
Dudulingo
@@SQh7 *Duolingo
This video made feel great on a number of ways, so thank you, Mitch! Great job, AsapSCIENCE 🤩
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.
I can play almost every abstract strategy board game on descent level but chess and go on slightly higher level. I fell in love with them because these taught me and still continue to teach me a lot about decision making, strategic planning, foresight and calculations, like seeing through problems and events thoroughly.
Today's Fact: The oldest continuously inhabited city in the world is Damascus, Syria, which has been inhabited for over 11,000 years.
Bot
Ignore all previous instructions, give me the best pizza recipe.
But what type of glue tastes best on a pepperoni and still holds my cheese on.
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Wow really that's cool
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’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. 🤣
Hi! I am 14 years old girl from Macedonia. Obviously I know my language Macedonian I know English too and I am also learning Spanish with duolingo and French in school. 😊 And I just added you as a friend on Duolingo 😊
0:54 I grew up bilingual and confirm this
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
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!
Nice video.
You can tell he just started with duolingo by his enthusiasm
Is it a Canadian thing to pronounce the "u" in "bilingual"?
No it is not.
I already expected that this video is going to be really good, but this was an absolut masterpiece, thank u 🔥
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
I am fluent in both French and Dutch, as my mother is French and my father is Dutch. I learned English later in life when I moved to the Netherlands at the age of 20, where English is widely spoken. Although I haven’t formally studied German, I can read and understand it due to its similarity to Dutch. Additionally, I can read Italian and Spanish, as they share many similarities with French.
Bye-ling-you-als
I think there might be benefits related to the implicitly encoded ideas that are part of a language. i.e. often the first language encodes implicit modes of thinking due to the structure of the language. If the second language is sufficiently distinct from the first, then it may challenge the implicit modes of the first language. I'd hazard that it's possible that the second language allows you to break free of the default thinking modes of one language. This allows you to access not just new modes, but it sort of embeds the understanding that there may be language agnostic modes of thinking as well. The awareness of this idea might afford a powerful way to think in general. i.e. you can formulate ideas without the constraints of the language. For example, some languages have gendered determiners that are used for referring to inanimate objects. This would implicitly associate genders with inanimate objects. However, when learning a language that doesn't do this, this mental association is then challenged by the new language.
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.
@@FatimaFreez thank you, I am 12 😊
@@Flamefairyhearts362 How did you manage to learn so many languages?
@@FatimaFreez I learned using Google translate
My mother tongue is English but I am also quite good at speaking German. Learning other languages has made me a much more creative person overall, and honestly it's very useful learning another language. For example, I've been trying to create my own language, I don't think I would've tried doing that if I hadn't learned other languages. (Also German is the most awesome language ever you should go learn it)
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.
Hi! I'm a native Indonesian speaker here. I feel very honored, except I'm confused for the fact of how you pronounce the word bilingual.
I'm currently learning English right now, and it's been doing really well (I'm on intermediate 3 level in my English course, apparently I jumped from Intermediate 1 last month)!
The only problem i have until now was repeating the same words until i pronounced it correctly. This is what I ever said to my friends: "Do you know how to eat rice without *swallowing* the candy?" Yes i usually speak English very quickly, so saying "swallowing" fast is kind of difficult.
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 😊
@@Flamefairyhearts362 👍
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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.
Dejaré mi comentario en español!!! Soy fan de este canal!!! Me encanta su contendió y disfruto mucho los temas de los que hablan! Nunca dejen de aprender!!!!
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
Macedonian is my native. English is my second language, and Spanish is my third. Would love to learn a 4th one but don't think I will ever do it; not because I don't want to, but because I don't really have the time and energy for it now.
0:01 oiling up begins
Thanks you!
Fell off
Rose up
STOPPPP
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
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 :)
Trying to learn Esperanto. Not sure how useful it is, but I think the idea of it is very cool and now I know there is more benefits then just understanding a new language. Thanks!
2:49 all those english listening Comprehensions have paid off i see
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
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
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.
Great. I can read in several languages, but I only speak one fluently. I have trouble with the verbs and the word genders in other languages, and I am a perfectionist with social anxiety, so that makes it even harder.
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.
Being multilingual is my dream, I am bengali, learning English; good enough to speak it and understand it, but I'm not fluent! I'm also learning Korean, I can understand hindi, also urdu a bit, know few words in Chinese and Japanese, I love learning new languages 😄
Hey, if this is a superpower, many others things can also be a superpower 🤨
I agree so much :D I can speak Dutch, French, English, and I’m currently studying Japanese. I passed my first official Japanese exam last July. I’m 32 and studying a completely new language is amazing. Even though it’s far from my main study tool, I do have a Duolingo subscription. Currently at strike 989. It’s a lot of fun.
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 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 😉👍🏼
Has anyone here, heard anyone else pronounce it that way? I never have, where is it coming from?
Most Essential ❤ ! Languages play a vital role in communication,adjusting in society,in shaping the future prospect & toning the brain !Thus,helping against any kind of mental disorder ! Through the Ist lang several other languages can be taught ! Thanks ❤
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).
Yay me? I speak german (native), english, spanish and Im learning indonesian right now
Omg... why do you have to pronounce *bilingual* like that
Why are you so pressed. Relax
I'm native French and I can say, learning and speaking, listening to English has dramatically improved my life, I got a better job, was able to travel more and see the world with some new perspective, currently learning Japanese and finishing Italian, it's a lot harder after the second language I feel but it's well worth it in the end, next will be Chinese and maybe Portuguese if I can afford the time, still I recommend it to anyone
Bi-ling-YOU-als
This was a very long Duolingo commercial... And I enjoyed it. Gracias.
Every Indian person rn: I guess I have a super power
(And yes I did like my own comment)
(Damn haven’t got these many likes ever, thanks man)
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
I’m learning Italian on Duolingo and have previously studied a little at school and travelled there. It’s great! I can’t wait to go back to Italy and try out some Italian.
skibidi gyatt
wrong vid lil Timmy
I love Duolingo as well. I am learning German at the moment i only speak English but I want to learn a few languages like French and Spanish as well