How to learn any Romance language

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  • @Thelinguist
    @Thelinguist  День тому +3

    📲 The app I use to learn languages: tinyurl.com/2tjushcr
    🆓 My 10 FREE secrets to language learning: tinyurl.com/ympm4r22
    ❓Are you learning a Romance language? Tell me in the comments!

    • @horatiotodd8723
      @horatiotodd8723 18 годин тому

      French is definitely the easiest language for English speakers

    • @tombernard4612
      @tombernard4612 17 годин тому

      @@horatiotodd8723 definitely have to disagree with you there. There are so many silent letters in the French language it is absolutely NOT a phonetic language. There are so many exceptions to pronunciation and if you don't pronounce perfectly a French person won't understand you.. This is very contrary to Spanish and German ( both phonetic once you learn the alphabet what you see is what you get and what you hear, there are very, very few exceptions to the pronunciation in these languages) I am fluent in both German and Spanish so I speak from experience.

  • @MathAdam
    @MathAdam День тому +83

    Steve is the true hyper polyglot gigachad.

    • @RJ-ku2mh
      @RJ-ku2mh День тому +4

      The OG for sure

    • @laythadrian5705
      @laythadrian5705 День тому

      Attractive to every woman… and man on the planet

    • @jalillgamble7158
      @jalillgamble7158 День тому +3

      This comment is underrated!

    • @chrisbunka
      @chrisbunka 17 годин тому

      He runs a true linguistic rotation.

  • @tomasmills8258
    @tomasmills8258 День тому +10

    Thank you for re-enabling danish subtitles!

  • @tombernard4612
    @tombernard4612 День тому +23

    For any Anglophones wondering when you explain about different dialects and accents etc., just ask yourself , lets say you live in Vancouver you're a native English speaker, can you understand somebody from Scotland, Ireland or even Alabama when they speak? My answer for myself would be yes. Not every single word but I definitely get what they're saying so the same is with these cross continental languages.

    • @AtomikNY
      @AtomikNY День тому +2

      And the more exposure you get to those dialects, the easier it will be to understand when they use words and phrases and pronunciations particular to their region. Same goes for foreign languages. Even if you’re focusing on learning to speak a particular regional dialect, it’s still a good idea to get exposure to a variety of other dialects so you have a broader base of comprehension skills.

    • @emack2130
      @emack2130 День тому

      This. I used to only speak English, but I’ve now learned Spanish Portuguese and now am learning Italian. I agree completely with this comment . I learned mainly the European accent for Spanish and could understand that the best. For a while I couldn’t understand Dominican, Chilean and other accents but over time as I got better and through exposure I got used to them. The same thing happened with Portuguese. I learned Brazilian first and European seemed very tough to me but I eventually got through it. It’s literally the same thing that happens American vs Australian vs English accent etc.

    • @tombernard4612
      @tombernard4612 День тому

      @@emack2130 .. por cierto, "Chileano" no es español, para nada! jejejeje... Sólo un bromo :))

    • @wastingtimeop
      @wastingtimeop День тому +1

      I am an American, but have a ton of British friends, as well as Australian, South African etc. They make a big deal out of how different our languages are, but I never agree. I don't even consider them dialects. For an American English speaker, you just need to learn 20-30 words and get used to the accent and you are good to go. While some languages are actually dialects but called languages. Thoughts.

    • @tombernard4612
      @tombernard4612 День тому +1

      @@wastingtimeop so coincidentally one of my languages is German and I will use this as case and point when it comes to true dialects and differences within a language. For example if you're watching Swiss TV in Germany , Swiss German it is so different there will actually be High- German subtitles on the Swiss program so the German viewers in Germany can understand. . Now that's a pretty obvious example. Another example would be in Süd Tirol , in northern Italy on the Austrian border, this is another true dialect of German and to be honest I can hardly understand them at all. And then there are all the different micro dialects within Germany that are very very different. So as a native English speaker I don't really find as you say, a huge differences throughout the whole spectrum of the English language. Even from South Africa to Alabama and back to Scotland, it's just different accents and a few different words, by definition they are by no means different "dialects."

  • @IncredibleStan
    @IncredibleStan День тому +10

    Merci à vous M. kaufman. J'apprends le français depuis 3 ans. Vous êtes une motivation. !

    • @khush1894
      @khush1894 17 годин тому

      et moi depuis quelques mois. 🎉

  • @CiorbaDeConopidă
    @CiorbaDeConopidă День тому +2

    This was extremely interesting! Thank you! 😊

  • @ragsna1630
    @ragsna1630 День тому +15

    @3:58 there is a mistake: the word hand is also feminin in french: la main

  • @Tepes1448
    @Tepes1448 День тому +4

    I’m so glad for being born in Brazil. I’ve been studying English for 6 years now and my dream is to become fluent in a level that the native speakers would be amazed by.
    After achieving this, I’ll continue my French and Spanish to do the same thing.
    I also hope to become fluent in Russian or Romanian.
    Greetings Gigachad polyglot Steve 🇧🇷

    • @SR-jm9tz
      @SR-jm9tz День тому +1

      Greetings from Russia! I m also dreaming of being able to speak Brazilian Portuguese.

    • @Tepes1448
      @Tepes1448 22 години тому

      @@SR-jm9tz nice brother! If you ever need tips just let me know!

  • @tombernard4612
    @tombernard4612 День тому +18

    Motivation is absolutely key! I learned German 35 years ago living in Germany whenI met my would be first wife… Five years ago I started learning Spanish when I met my Colombian would be second wife… Now I'm learning Portuguese just for the passion of language learning but now my Colombian wife figures I must have a Brazilian mistress!!! True story ...jejejejje

    • @GuilhermeKendall
      @GuilhermeKendall День тому

      Haha, que maravilha. Espero que o seu aprendizado da língua portuguesa seja satisfatória!

    • @tombernard4612
      @tombernard4612 День тому

      @@GuilhermeKendall Obrigado! a verdade é que comecei literalmente há apenas duas semanas. mas como falo espanhol. o principal desafio que tenho com o português é o sotaque , não tanto a gramática.

  • @litozulueta6013
    @litozulueta6013 День тому +2

    Very helpful. Yes you’re right! One should be motivated.

  • @wowjef
    @wowjef День тому +2

    I'm a native English speaker who speaks fluent Spanish (I even used to teach it at university), I have B2 Italian (self-taught), and A2 French and Portuguese. I can confirm everything Steve has said. But moving from Spanish to Italian was so much harder than Spanish to Portuguese, contra Steve's experience. When I majored in Spanish at university, I found the transition from Spanish to Portuguese not so hard. With Italian, I thought I would just identify the "small differences" with Spanish and "slide on over" in 6 months 🤦‍♂ No way!

    • @LucasCzarnecki-PoliPsych
      @LucasCzarnecki-PoliPsych 16 годин тому +1

      Did you learn Italian before Portuguese? I am wondering if the latter was easier because you were a more experienced language learner.

    • @wowjef
      @wowjef 12 годин тому

      @@LucasCzarnecki-PoliPsych I learnt Portuguese as an elective subject while majoring in Spanish in the 1980s. I started Italian 4 years ago and found it challenging at first. I had to "park" my Spanish while learning Italian. My wife is Colombian (language teacher at university), but bilingual, so we just speak in English at the moment. My Portuguese is crap because I stopped learning it, but I know I can regenerate it if I devote time to it (which I shall do at some stage). I have B1 Finnish too. The best way to learn is to live in the country where they speak the language, but we can't all do that. Thanks for asking

  • @Thelma_7
    @Thelma_7 День тому +3

    My favorite Polyglot. You just mentioned another country where Portuguese is spoken. It always baffles me why almost everyone only ever mentions Portugal and Brazil.Ignoring the other four Portuguese speaking countries.
    I'm currently drowning in a sea of Spanish verb conjugation.Thanks for the tips.

    • @lxportugal9343
      @lxportugal9343 День тому

      It's oficial in 5 Africans and Timor-Leste and the region of Macau.
      Not all of them have native speakers but for instance there are more native speakers in Angola than in Portugal

    • @Thelma_7
      @Thelma_7 17 годин тому

      Oh, I only knew about 4 in Africa:
      Cape Verde
      Mozambique
      Angola
      Guinea Bissau.
      Which one is the 5th?

    • @lxportugal9343
      @lxportugal9343 17 годин тому

      ​@@Thelma_7São Tomé e Príncipe

    • @Thelma_7
      @Thelma_7 16 годин тому +1

      @@lxportugal9343 Thank you

  • @robertobahamondeandrade
    @robertobahamondeandrade День тому +4

    As a Spanish speaker, my advice for people who want to learn more than one Romance language is this: "Learn CATALAN!" It is in the middle, like an average Romance language.

    • @eddiegaudette4287
      @eddiegaudette4287 День тому +1

      I very much agree with you. But here’s what bothers me. On the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, they speak Sardinian and in the northwest corner of the island they speak Catalan. So how do they communicate with each other? In Italian. Many of the people in Catalonia, Spain speak Spanish, French and English. I love Venetian, Valencian, Catalan…but the numbers are going down in comparison to these other languages that are spoken internationally

    • @RogerRamos1993
      @RogerRamos1993 День тому

      The regional languages of Italy and France are endangered. Catalan on the other hand is alive, kicking and rocking.

    • @eddiegaudette4287
      @eddiegaudette4287 День тому +3

      @@RogerRamos1993 I live in Miami where Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian and French are spoken. Nobody speaks Catalan. :(

    • @Suhnik
      @Suhnik День тому +2

      Yeah but in Catalonia almost everybody does. I’ve seen many times in grocery stores that the food is even labelled in Catalan with a small secondary label in Spanish.
      The respect and kindness people show you when you bust out a few sentences in Catalan is always heartwarming.

  • @lugo_9969
    @lugo_9969 День тому

    Excellent work Steve. I would love to hear your thoughts on the difficulties and challenges of learning irish gaelic. The Celtic language family is yearning for polyglots to have a listen. 😂

  • @Reveur.lucide
    @Reveur.lucide 14 годин тому +1

    3:57 I just want to correct a mistake of gender. In French we say "la main" and not "le main" it's feminine not masculine so it's the same gender than in Italian

    • @Ballykeith
      @Ballykeith 12 годин тому

      Hand seems to be feminine across the board.

  • @pierreabbat6157
    @pierreabbat6157 23 години тому +1

    "Perra" does exist, meaning a female dog. However, one says "el miembro es una persona" regardless of the member's sex.
    I went to Portugal for two weeks, already knowing French and Spanish (I count both as native, though I was just an overhearer of Spanish). It took less than a week to break the sound barrier, and before I left I asked someone in Portuguese what "mordomia" means and understood the answer.
    I watch Curiosamente, Superholly, and Derivando, whose accents are different. Curiosamente's is like mine except that final -n is [n], not [ŋ]; Superholly's I can't put a finger on; and Derivando speaks with distinción, I have no trouble hearing or saying /θ/, it's just not part of my Spanish.
    La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

    • @Ballykeith
      @Ballykeith 18 годин тому

      @@pierreabbat6157 the last sentence is a great example 👌🏼

  • @AB-tn3jd
    @AB-tn3jd 17 годин тому

    I know French and have been taking up Italian for a while, in part because of familial reasons, but also just to get better. Indeed I'm glad the two languages are very similar in terms of vocabulary and structure, because it's been easier to understand and correlate words in Italian to their French counterparts and see the similarities. Of course the accent and speaking of the two is different, something I don't really have a problem with, but I can see how it's true of many Italians I know that they dislike learning French because of that. If they put their minds to it, sure they can pretty well read french text and understand it, but they'd rather not work hard on their speaking because it's quite the jump from the Italian accent and sounds.

  • @Poliglotovic
    @Poliglotovic День тому +1

    Romance languages are a huge romance ❤️‍🔥 of mine!

  • @Swedishfinnpolymath
    @Swedishfinnpolymath День тому +2

    By the way I just realise that you have a second channel. Since you are a former diplomat would you consider posting more on that channel on political stuff as there are lots of things going on right now in the world. It would be interesting to hear from a former diplomat/business man.

  • @vincenzovinciullo4666
    @vincenzovinciullo4666 20 годин тому

    Hello, I love Romance languages. I am thinking about learning French or Portuguese or Romanian languages. I dont know which one I have to choose one of them. I love all of them. What do you recommend me to learn one of them first? Thank you.

  • @Bamdad-k6b
    @Bamdad-k6b День тому +1

    Make like this for Germanic languages

  • @LanguageswithErman
    @LanguageswithErman День тому +2

    Gracias amigo...

  • @karfagenium
    @karfagenium 14 годин тому +1

    Do you have plans to learn Latin?

  • @karfagenium
    @karfagenium 14 годин тому +1

    Планируете ли Вы учить латинский язык?

  • @gabrielvieira9832
    @gabrielvieira9832 День тому

    Give us tips for japanese. What should we focus on

  • @thiagoxaviersoutricolor8260
    @thiagoxaviersoutricolor8260 11 годин тому

    Steve how's it's going? Great weekend Sir bye see you next.

  • @language.wanderer
    @language.wanderer День тому +2

    Portuguese is the easiest Romance language to learn. It doesn't matter how bad your pronunciation is, natives will always understand you. Spanish on the other hand if you don't pronounce words properly, they won't understand you. Gender in Portuguese is easier than Spanish as well. In terms of verb conjugation, the rules are not the same, but both are pretty consistent.

    • @robertobahamondeandrade
      @robertobahamondeandrade День тому +2

      I disagree. The easiest Romance language if you don't speak anyone of them is probably Italian (few vowels and consonants, straightforward orthography, not so much 'crazy' grammar). Portuguese and Spanish are almost twins in grammar, but Portuguese has 14? vowels and a less consistent orthography while Spanish has 5 vowels and a more consistent orthography. If you pronounce Spanish badly people will understand you and praise your effort.

    • @lxportugal9343
      @lxportugal9343 День тому

      ​@@robertobahamondeandradeItalian... straighforward orthography???
      I think I understand spoken Italian better than writen

    • @robertobahamondeandrade
      @robertobahamondeandrade 19 годин тому

      Really? In Italian every letter or combination of letters has one sound (excepting h is silent and e and o may be open or closed) and every sound has asigned one letter or combination of letters. The most straightforward orthography among Romance languages. Portuguese has around 14 vowels and 5 letters for them, Spanish has 18-20 consonants and 22 letters (b = v, je = ge, ce = se, que = ke, y = ll, x = s or j or ks or sh without rules), I won't talk about French "orthographic rules".

    • @mahatmaniggandhi2898
      @mahatmaniggandhi2898 19 годин тому

      ​@@robertobahamondeandrade well there is one small inconsistency in italian orthography, sometimes when the stress is unpredictable it is not shown with an accute accent. this also leads to some "cia"s being pronounced as "cha" and some as "chia"

  • @josegonzalez5211
    @josegonzalez5211 День тому +3

    The best

  • @Francis-uw3np
    @Francis-uw3np День тому +2

    Bonjour Steve

  • @nimrod4463
    @nimrod4463 20 годин тому +1

    5:26 not really true haha,
    I saw some french people who came here to Québéc who were having hard time understanding the french here, especially the contractions, informal language spoken and so forth.

  • @chiefpanda7040
    @chiefpanda7040 День тому

    hola Steve me encanta sus videos

  • @GuilhermeKendall
    @GuilhermeKendall День тому

    Cadê os falantes do português? E cadê os nossos irmãos falantes de línguas latinas? Um abraço e beijo para todos vocês!
    Ótimo vídeo Steve, amo o seu canal.

  • @satowa1621
    @satowa1621 День тому

    My favorite polyglot

  • @Kounomura
    @Kounomura День тому

    I want to learn Hungarian, I heard it is a very difficult language. How should I start, what would You recommend.

  • @kennethwdc
    @kennethwdc День тому

    You chose good graphics and maps but you just flashed them on the screen. I would have enjoyed looking at them longer while you were talking.

  • @nocheinhamster
    @nocheinhamster День тому +1

    0:24 - Why is Mongolia marked as English speaking?

  • @djaponezu63
    @djaponezu63 День тому

    Present tense conjugation of the verb love in Romanian has some errors, second person both singular and plural.

  • @gamingwithpurg3anarchy157
    @gamingwithpurg3anarchy157 День тому

    i think my Portuguese motivation is dwindling. my best friend is Brazilian but we never talk on the phone.. we write everyday.. although I feel like my writing is becoming worse and not better because I am finding myself using the translation more. haven't been studying vocabulary for 3 months so maybe that's a cause. I'll use LingQ after this video but I really want to have someone to talk to on the phone.. and I think this is a reason I'm getting worse.. I just WANT to talk on the phone to native Brazilians :')
    if Any Brazilian wants to practice English and also help me practice Portuguese please tell me. it has been 3 years and I'm nowhere near fluent or even where I want to be:')

    • @harrietwaninge637
      @harrietwaninge637 21 годину тому

      Try languatalk! It has a great ai function, it really helped me with my Italian speaking :) (lingq has helped my reading a lot, but I found the talking options too expensive)

  • @DBoone123
    @DBoone123 День тому +2

    Hola

  • @lynndocherty6743
    @lynndocherty6743 День тому

    Very interesting talk about these languages, and very encouraging about the learning process. Thank you.

  • @neurosp
    @neurosp 18 годин тому

    Don’t try to learn Spanish watching Spanish movies, and if you don’t get the genre right, don’t worry, the Spanish or Italians aren’t French.

  • @brentcole8464
    @brentcole8464 8 годин тому

    Il a un accent québécois:)

  • @tonttaana8930
    @tonttaana8930 День тому +4

    Spain is very confusing for example in english we have "was" that covers all!, but Spain you have fue , era , estuvo and estaba!!

    • @tombernard4612
      @tombernard4612 День тому +2

      Yes indeed the beauty of the different past tenses in Spanish it's a beautiful thing!! I'm not a polyglot but I do speak three languages and my advice would be when you're learning a language and you notice such a great difference between your native language , English in your case it's best to stop making comparisons back to your native language and just absorb what is... And believe me a native Spanish speaker can surely tell you a lot of confusing things about the English language!!

    • @parcerito9817
      @parcerito9817 День тому +1

      At the beginning yes indeed. But when you have studied 4-5 years it all starts to make sense.

    • @tonttaana8930
      @tonttaana8930 День тому

      @@tombernard4612 hah...actually im from Finland so finnish is my native langue not English!.vocabulary wise english is much better tool aproach spanish than a finnish!.

    • @tombernard4612
      @tombernard4612 День тому +2

      @@tonttaana8930 I have always been amazed by the Finish and Scandinavian people in general of their amazing ability to grasp and command the English language… I learned German very fluently when I lived in Germany years ago and I regret not learning a Scandinavian language when I was younger. I may attempt Norwegian after I'm done with Portuguese.....no doubt English is a better angle to attack Spanish from... Italian or Portuguese would even be a better angle of attack on the Spanish language as I'm sure you well know.. Mucha Suerte!

    • @tonttaana8930
      @tonttaana8930 День тому

      @@tombernard4612 here in finland english and swedish both are (language study)mandatory in our school system!!!, in addition to that english is everywhere with music, video games and many many other chanels. Particulary movies we don't dubbed like in france

  • @lxportugal9343
    @lxportugal9343 День тому

    *How to learn Romance languages?*
    Learn latin and you became Neo and master the matrix code

  • @guilelmusguilelmus8267
    @guilelmusguilelmus8267 23 години тому +1

    “Le” main? It’s feminin, “la” main, isn’t it?

  • @hafsamourabit9605
    @hafsamourabit9605 День тому

    wa zebi next time complet the moroccan map

    • @vjunaperoh
      @vjunaperoh День тому

      😂😂😂 zebbi wlh ghi mochkila ...

  • @Bruh-cg2fk
    @Bruh-cg2fk 14 годин тому

    greek

  • @ROMULOBENICIO
    @ROMULOBENICIO День тому

    It's ROMANCE languages or ROMANIC languages. It comes from ROMAN empire.

  • @felixarquer7732
    @felixarquer7732 19 годин тому

    The use of the adjective 'regional' languages is disparaging and scientifically meaningless. All languages, big or small, are equally deserving of respect, regardless of whether they happen to be spoken in a territory surrounded by a border or not (that random historical accident). It’s plain to see that, in a world carved up in just around 200 states, the vast majority of the roughly 6000 languages won’t have one to their name, independently of the number of speakers (which in many cases is larger than that of some state languages).

  • @lizzethmancilla5197
    @lizzethmancilla5197 День тому

    Me gustaría aprender Latín pero no hay mucho contenido de la lengua.

    • @zaqwsx23
      @zaqwsx23 12 годин тому

      El latín se debe estudiar con el curso "Familia Romana" de Hans H. Ørberg. Es el método ya utilizado a nivel mundial y funciona como si el idioma se aprendiera de manera natural, como un niño. En cuanto a los contenidos, la literatura latina es enorme y abarca muchos siglos.