I'm German and my husband is Norwegian. Thank you for helping me find out that both of our native languages are completely unnecessary, so I will do my best to unlearn them and learn American instead. ^_^
Your husband is Norwegian for he was already rejected by a lot of Norwegian woman. Ask him; those women are really selective and they only like chads. I am not saying your husband is a sub5 or normie, he might me a model... But in Peru, Brazil, Spain. Gutte nacht, ikke!
@@jeffersonaraujoelcristianoreally? Lol my fiancé is 22 y.o Norwegian, he is soon to be doctor, super smart, and he is very selective on girls instead. He doesn't date norwegian girls cus they mostly smoke, drink, party and they dont fit his criteria, too picky cus he is traditional one. Oh not to mention, he is super attractive with really good height ... i think what you said is not valid and silly. You are so bitter hahaha . Most of men who say this just jealous and physically unattractive. Well i'm typical attractive woman as people say and educated based in Indonesia, soon fly to Germany for Uni ❤
If you eat a lot of McDonalds, drink a Coke every day, and give your car a few whacks with a sledgehammer for that true beat-up appearance, it will greatly facilitate your American learnings :)
I made a video where I went to Canada and tried to surprise the natives by speaking their language. It turned out that they all knew American as well as Canadian, so I left dissapointed.
bro from the beginning when he says you can understand spanish if you learn portuguese was too much already xD, and then he went to france and says they all speak american and arabic i was dead, cuz its true btw xD
@@leepisin8211 Bro, you can actually understand spanish if you know portuguese tho, not perfectly ofc but it's enough to get the context most of the time People here in Brazil used to play videogames in spanish back when games didn't have portugues translations, I'm also following some spanish vtubers and I can understand them well with a bit of focus.
As a Dutch person, we're all half-fish and we communicate mostly underwater. But because soundwaves suck at travelling through water, we needed a sound strong enough to fix that. That's where the Dutch G comes in. But we're also half human, so we just drown every time we make that sound, so that's why it sounds like that. Also, Dutch isn't completely useless, you can always learn it to laugh at Flemish people for their accent.
I know you're trolling, but your comment about Chinese is true. I spent four years trying to master Chinese only to realize that the only people that would consider me for a job based on my Chinese ability were government agencies that want to spy on China. And even then, I didn't get the job.
You should learn Australian first, that way you can understand both English and American Otherwise it’s just too hard to understand Australian if you learn English or American first
Lol, it’s great joke about Russian language. But as Ukrainian living in Russia I tell you what: rather you should buy Russian text book, or just learn this phrase “ne streliaite! Ya bolshe be budu niesti huiniu”
As for languages that sound beautiful my vote is for Swahili. For me Italian is a close second. My favorite to learn is German which I struggle with daily. While German may not sound great to most people the word pictures are beautiful. Things like Schildkröte- toad with a shield for turtle. There are lots of examples.
I started learning English at the age of 9 then I switched to American after a few months then I moved to Canada I was shocked when I found out people in Canada understood American very well turns out their language is very similar to American so I managed to learn Canadian too after staying there for like 5 seconds
The American pronunciation comes more naturally for me, as a Finn. For starters, American uses a lot more [æ], where English just has [ɑ]. Pack those front vowels up 👍🏻!
Americans speak English much the same way the English speak French. Sure, all the right-thinking folk spoke French in 1066 but over time it got changed.
Russian is the second biggest language spoken on the internet. When the USSR fell apart, large groups of Russian speaking people in those countries, kept speaking Russian.
As a Norwegian, i died when you praised Danish. Practically everyone in Norway and Sweden make fun of it because it's "impossible to understand" and sound a bit funny
I'm Irish but I'm learning Norwegian and definitely find Danish alot harder to understand than Norwegian or Swedish personally Norwegian and Swedish are better
Out of all these languages, Dutch is the only one that I’ve actually had native speakers discourage me from learning. To the point that when I was there and trying to learn, people frequently asked, “Why are you learning Dutch? It’s a completely useless language.” “If I were you, I’d just speak English.” I like your language, get over it already. 😅
lmao yeah i see many dutch people complaining about their own language and that even some of them find it easier to speak English. Luckily I've a Dutch friend who's very enthusiastic about a foreigner trying to learn dutch... not that I will tho hahahaha
If you want to feel more encouraged, i can recommend the northen provinces of the netherlands. They might be a bit rougher on the edges, but they at least try to help you with dutch if they notice you are trying to learn it or practice it
I'm Japanese and feel proud of getting Number 1 Spot. I don't think it's useless to learn Japanese. But it's definitely a ridiculous idea to learn Japanese in order to watch anime without subtitles.
@@morisoba2550 Nah fam I certainly know it's useful to learn your language just in case your fella went extinct, someone has to preserve the language . In case you're wondering I'm just kidding. But there's truth to it, I really want to know more about Japan. I know already a lot like my country and Japan had a trade relation that existed around 100 year, dunno about the era name because there's no official known to it. Some who knows both English and Japanese would certainly be of help in translation in a lot of Japanese media.
@@pauloazuela8488 Are you Brazilian by any chance? Unless you want to read Japanese literature, you wouldn't need to learn Japanese language because you can get many enough information about Japan in English.
For real!! What got me was the thing about the “g’s” in Dutch. It is so true. I am actually traveling through the Netherlands right now and I got to hear it again lol q
As a Chinese people, I can say the writing system is the most complicated and it affects Japanese writing system. Besides of that, grammar and vocabulary is easier than English. About 100 years ago, they wanted to cancel the writing system but fail. Now I can say Vietnamese and Korean successfully decline the Han writing system. By the other hands, China main land and Japan modified their Hanzi/Kanji become simplified. Nowadays some people want to turn Chinese into phonetics alphabets, but it fail due to their culture.
Hi Language Simp! Your video on the top 10 most useless languages to learn is quite interesting! While I appreciate your unique perspective, I believe that language learning is subjective and varies based on individual interests, goals and circumstances. As a language learner myself, I've found that every language has value, whether it's for cultural enrichment, career opportunities or personal connections. While some languages may seem less practical in certain contexts, they still offer valuable insights into different cultures and ways of thinking. Ultimately, I believe there's no such thing as a useless language to learn. Every language opens doors to new experiences and perspectives. It's really well worth to respect the diversity of languages and appreciate their importance in our interconnected world. Thank you for opening this conversation!
INTERPRETATION: In case there is anyone struggling to make sense of this video, the languages you SHOULD learn are: Spanish, German, Chinese, Swedish/Norwegian, French, Esperanto, Dutch, Russian, English, Japanese. I think his picks are pretty good. Loved the humour and irony. Nice!
@@Jess-737 The only ones who think Esperanto is useless are those who have never tried learning it or never got past level A1. Their opinion hardly matters, I would think. Anyone can say, 'I think language X is useless', but how do they know if they don't speak the language?
"They were shocked that I spoke X language" (X = whatever the native language is) is a theme of some UA-cam polygots that just make me despise them, and quite frankly, not believe they can even speak the language beyond Duolingo level. In fact, I watched one such person do the placement test, and while passed, he was struggling and made a couple of mistakes. When you consider that Duolingo goes barely above CERF A2 level (maybe up to C1 in more popular languages like Spanish) and the test does only not cover the whole of the language course, it is clear to me that their language ability is less than "fluent", another word they often use. One such guy took a test in Spanish, which happens is a language I'm learning right now: I could understand most of the test and could guess 65% - 70% of the answers despite only having passsed the first checkpoint and having no prior knowledge of Spanish or any closely related language, shows how relatively easy the test was! (I've also watched native speakers of taking the test and still be recommended to study with Duo, only skipping the first checkpoints). I'm think it's great to be able to speak a foreign language even a beginner level - and much maligned Duolingo can get you there if you use it correctly - my friend is a proof of that and I would be very happy if I could understand Duo's podcasts. What annoys me are naysayers who pretend otherwise: bashing any X app (they all livr to hate Duolingo because it's actually a pretty good compared to many) and then go on promoting equally useless app they happen to like and often get revenue from as an influencer. THERE IS NO ONE APP that can teach you a language to a fluent level! Each has their strengths and shortcomings, including classroom learning, but you still have to work a lot outside the app/ class if you want to become fluent and even then, it takes a long time to achieve true fluency. (As you can see, I'm not there with my English despite using it every day at work and in private life.)
@@oakstrong1 Definitely. If you're aiming for any sort of high level in any language, you should never rely on one source. 'Fluency' requires thousands of hours of being immersed in the language, whether it be watching native content, reading books, or interacting with natives. Apps such as duolingo or textbooks serve to bring you to a very basic level where it won't be as painful to start immersing in the language, and whether you continue or not after that is on you. At the end of the day, there is no one "method" that can get you to fluency. Anyone that sells people on the idea that you will be fluent you take [certain course] is being disingenuous. (By the way, your English is amazing for a non-native) :)
@@oakstrong1 interestingly, xiaoma passed Duolingo in one sitting on live stream. But it's obvious that his level in most other languages are limited conversational level plus things he normally interacts with ("where did you study" "how did you learn this so fast" "why do you like this place") :: In theory, you could stage everything so you didn't have to get surprised by new phrases. Duolingo is pretty weird too. I've only paid attention to 2 language polyglot tubers, but is the Duolingo guy and xiaoma the same person?
There is other polyglot world which doesn't focus on English speaking audience. And that is people speaking Indian languages especially Hindi, there is a Japanese women "Mayo Japan" and a dude, "Kohei" getting millions of views on "shocking Indians" videos. There is also another Korean dude, who has become native level fluent.. in Hindi.
I know this video was made in jest but I swear six years ago, that was the exact same logic I used when I chose to seriously study languages again, I chose Portuguese over Spanish. LMAO!! I thought from a professional standpoint, Spanish would be useless because all of the professional Spanish speakers speak English and they will always have a leg up on me. Plus, Portuguese has more complex sounds and it has all of Spanish sounds so in a way I was picking up two languages, at least from a written and listening perspective. Speaking the language is a different story. I think I stand out more as a Portuguese speaker and here in South Florida, the language is far from useless. I enjoy Spanish too. I've taken Spanish classes all through high school and college. I've listened to some podcasts and read a couple of books in Spanish. I wouldn't say that I'm a strong Spanish speaker though. However, I can get around in Spanish and I speak it in restaurants.
The Portuguese language may have some sounds that are more complicated than Spanish, but Spanish has a much more extensive grammar than Portuguese. This makes it richer as a language. Furthermore, Spanish is spoken in 21 countries, while Portuguese is only spoken in 9. Lastly, it's worth noting that Spanish is increasingly spreading in the USA every day, not to mention that Puerto Rico is a completely Spanish-speaking state.
Really good. I'm a fluent Portuguese speaker. I can speak, read and write in Portuguese. Plus, I've traveled through and around Brazil a few times and I will be heading back later this year. I've also traveled to Portugal last year.@@JennieLemons
I agree with Spanish. It took me awhile to understand Portuguese and I understand it only because I practiced Capoeira for a time being. But I can speak to the Brazilians in Spanish and they understand me most of the time. Also, learning Spanish for a profession, well unless you already have the job and then it requires you learn it later on, native speakers will take the job
As someone who speaks english as a second language, I laughed my ass off when a buddy of mine tried to pretend to speak another language in a text chat with natives by using solely google translate.
This is so funny I now realise I am a polyglot, not only do I know English and French but I also know American, and probaly Australian and South African too.
Man, everytime you speak Portuguese I break. i just can't handle how funny it is. And your argument for learning Portuguese instead of Spanish actually makes some sense, lol
@Abina Àine Well, I don't know if it will work for you, because I'm a native speaker so I can't really measure how much Portuguese you need to know to understand Spanish. What I do know is that people who are more educated on Portuguese (people with good grammar etc) tend to understand Spanish a lot better that common elderly people with lower levels os education. Both languages are super similar tho. I believe Spanish and Portuguese are closer to each other than Standard German and most dialects of Swiss German for example. My advice is: learn whatever you really want to. If you're not interested in the language itself, the whole process will become unfeasible. But if you just want to raise your language count, or if you are interested in both of them, than Portuguese first
@Abina Àine well, we here in Portugal can kinda understand the Spanish, especially if it is a person from the regions near Portugal, which talk Spanish dialectics more similar to portuguese, like Galician.
@Catarina lol so se já aprendeu algo da língua, em alguns contextos é impossível entender ainda que seja 30% do que os hispânicos falam. Texto é bem mais simples, mas entender é impossível assistir um filme em espanhol e entender 90% sem nunca ter estudado. Mesmo estudando ainda leva um tempo para entender 90% imagina sem estudar
I am a huge language nerd and cant even count how many languages I know. And as a polyglot, German is very useful, because you can go to a university for free only if you are a b1 in german. Very useful language, recommend.
well probably for everyone in the us, spanish was required for all kids until at least middle school like me, and i stopped taking them once it wasnt forced, only remember the day we learned vocab for different clothes. senior year my school offered mandarin chinese as a new course so a friend of mine decided to take it with me,.... even though shes fluent in spanish by hertiage and enligh cuz usa and taking on french at school. she wanted to be a translator whereas i just felt like it hahahaha. now i forgot everything except the work for friend and hello. since then to now id dabble temporarily in french, swedish, korean, japanese, italian. most recently italian. but again..... why am i learning these if i won't be physically using it with anyone? hahaha so this video about big deal languages being useless might be accurate! then again usa specifically doesn't force a bilingual mindset even though spanish is just as common here a senglish, like other places that require english as a second language for the enirety of school
Being a Brazillian who used to travel a lot to the Netherlands, yes, it is useless to learn dutch. I head from foreigners dutch learners that the locals will switch to English as soon as they notice you are not a native speaker, not giving you a chance to practice it. And the good thing is that everybody there speaks good english - even the bus driver.
1:45 for you guys who doesn't speak portuguese, he said: "hey, good morning, I hope you have a very very very very nice day." It is a very common sentence to use with your family and friends, but it is more used to talk with strangers. Hope i helped you guys understand
I am a language learning nerd. Started many, gave them up and learned none. Now I am relearning a language which I strangely enjoy very much. LATIN! Its usefulness or not is of no concern to me. It is an addiction similar to trying to solve a puzzle. I imagine many crossword enthousiasts would be able to relate to this.
I feel you so much here, I love learning everything about languages too and when I think of learning something like Hungarian or Finnish I get excited, currently learning Mandarin
I’m Swedish, and I know English almost as good. I broke the rule of not combining British English and American, nowadays I think I am 85 % American speaker. I fell for Spanish, I know it’s a very common language but still I love it, and I’m also studying latin, which many see as useless to learn since it’s mostly a dead language
This is really great advice. I'm going to try to unlearn French via electroshock therapy with a car battery and some jumper cables. My brain should be primed for something more useful like Danish. As an added bonus, I will only be able to make guttural hacking sounds.
I was thinking about learning French as well, but I am having second thoughts. If you like the language enough, I dont see no reason why you should not learn it even if there are a lot of people that speak it.
@@foreignlanguagesisfun8143 I agree 100%, the issue I've found is that native speakers will usually treat you like a child until you start speaking the language like an adult, so I've decided to only learn to speak a couple languages and understand a multitude of languages.
I'm from Poland and I was forced to learn German as my second foreign language at 7th and 8th grade. Thankfully when I started going to highschool we were able to choose German, Spanish or Italian so I've chosen Spanish.
Американский самый бесполезный язык из всех, которые я учила. За всю жизнь в моем уральском городе я встретила только двух американцев и оба говорили по-русски лучше меня. Другое дело английский. Очень полезный язык, чтобы смотреть "Доктор Кто".
Japanese is really useful if you go to Japan and got arrested and interrogated for days, as it usually happens to Americans who want to have some fun there (instead of quietly looking around as they are supposed to do).
Took me a while but after the Netherlands thing I was sure you were joking. You’re not wrong on the Scandinavian languages tho, but of course it all depends on what your motivation for learning a language is. If you want to move to Sweden/Norway, learn the language! If you want to visit, maybe? But honestly you’re better of speaking English in that case. Learn danish if you want to but idk if I’d recommend it. While you may understand Swedish/Norwegian I can Assure you most Swedish people, including me, won’t understand much (if anything at all) of what you’re saying. So what I got from this video: don’t listen to people who seem like experienced experts. It depends on what you want to do in your life and what languages speak to you.. (but speak to people, not the languages themselves 😅😂)
@@moon_wolfk7456 not at all, or at least not that I'm aware. But Bokmaal is essentially spoken in Oslo, otherwise it's just that - "book language". Everybody has their own dialect. It starts with wildly different pronouns.
It depends on living place. For example in central asian countries russian play so significant role and if ones want to enter some jobs in many companies russian always become in the requirement
You should learn Swiss. It sounds like a different language in 4 regions, but it's all in your head. Some even say it is 4 distinct languages, but they have no idea. If you understand Swiss, you can converse with 3 quarters of the European population easily.
"Pretty much every German speaks American now" that's the best joke I've ever heard. Actually, it's the one about Dutch sounding beautiful. My housemate compared the Dutch 'g' to choking in a dentist's chair and I have yet to hear a more accurate description
@@krushiler398 most cities you'll be fine, small towns is where people don't really use it. I'm from Frankfurt which is the most international big city in the whole country (yes before Berlin) and people really expect you to be able to speak English at least to a degree where you can communicate. Doesn't need to be perfect, but you do need some skill.
I heard that people in the Netherlands and Germany speak very good English in general compare to in France and Russia. Idk how much of it is true or just stereotypical
my native language is portuguese, so spanish is quite easy to me as you said. However, when I was like four years old, my mother made me learn american, english, australian, canadian, south africanan, new zeelandand, antiguan and barbudan, grenadan, guyanan, jamaican, trinidad and tobagosan, irelandand, and maltan. A rough time indeed, but hey at least i'm a polyglot now
Spanish which is the second biggest native language spoken in the world with 486 million people speaking it as first language and around 100 million as a second language and it's spoken in 20 countries and you say it's useless to learn? 🤣🤣🤣🤣, that's the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my entire life, 🤣🤣🤣
6:58 " I don't know much about history, but I'm pretty sure that england stole our language changed the pronunciation of wait a little and slapped a new name on it"
You should remove Dutch from the list of the most useless languages: when The Netherlands disappear under water, we'll always have Surinam, in South America, whose official language is Dutch. Don't forget it 😉
I don't know what I should think about what he said about my native language... I love it and I'm proud of being German! But I love learning languages, so I learn English, French and Spanish at school, and Irish and Danish in my free time. I tried to learn Navajo and Italian, but I hadn't the motivation to do it until the end. So I speak German, English, French, Spanish, Irish and a bit Danish. I would say that Irish is kinda useless, because in Ireland, the people mostly speak English. But it's fun to learn😅
That's actually a legit reason to learn Portuguese. Pro-tip: Learn European Portuguese, specifically one of the island dialects. No one else will understand you, but you'll understand everyone, thus proving yourself as an alpha.
The thing is the dub version is a totally different story. If you're into listening to regular anime, it ain't the same story and many of them do not end well. Attend to keep with the dub but they use it in fanfiction and that is a good way to learn Japanese at least clothing, honorifics family phrases and uncle Mom dad stuff like that.
German with its noun capitalization reminds us that English used to do it, too. Ben Franklin himself decried the fact that noun capitalization was dying out during his time. As for Esperanto, I deliberately studied it for a lark and was my first language I could understand without translating it in my head. So I guess I need to fight the Language Simp. I've already learned to speak German, and my next language will be Spanish. After that, French.
French, German, Russian, Chinese and English are the languages in which some of the greatest text of human thinking are written so we can see Mr Simp's values towards reading and education.
Absolutely agree with you man. I can tell as a native russian speaker and well-educated person, that wide education are extremely important, and also cultural education ofcourse.
I lost it when he said Danish was the most beautiful language. There’s trolling and there’s saying Swedish and Norwegian are beneath Danish. Hadn’t laughed like this in a while. Thanks man
I really liked this video for its perspective from a utilitarian POV. Basically if we speak American English we're already pretty much set. So I guess picking a language is truly a unique a tailored thing to each individual. UNESCO deemed my parents' mother tongue to be endangered and rapidly on the decline, but with the lack of movies, literature, & pop culture it's been even more challenging to get into it.
@@szurmatpl since we know exactly that Ukrainians want no other land than theirs, the war is sad indeed, and the analysis is funny after seeing ru and foreign putinist propaganda online 🥲
@@moicestlapoussiere777 ya well ukraine was only invented 30 years ago. since kiev has spent the last 8 years attempting to genocide its russian speaking citizens, the Russian Federation had every right to enter to protect them.
I think that English, Irish, and Australian are actually WORSE than useless, since it can give the American language a bad name and confuse non-native speakers. Really, their only use is for lazy Hollywood types to create stock characters. Like English is only used in American language films to denote cartoonish evil geniuses, and Romans in period pieces. C'mon Hollywood, stop being lazy, and just develop your characters instead of simply having them speak English. On a side note, speaking Indian is ok because it is funny as hell and you can still kind of understand it. Cheers maties!
as a hong konger who can speak cantonese fluently and know a level of mandarin (small conversations). I will try to forget my language and learn english ^^
As a native Dutch speaker even I’ve got goosebumps when you gave the most chilling example of how to pronounce those G/CH! As we say in Dutch: Goed gesproken! 😂
eh, some old people in indonesia still pronounce "g" as "ch", instead of teknologi, they pronounce it as tekhnolochi, I wonder where they come from, after reading your comment I think their pronounciation is influenced by dutch hehe
"The only real reason to learn chinese is to make a lot of money by memorizing a few phrases and then recording yourself impressing people in Chinatown." I see what you did here. hahahahaha
Before this video I was learning Japanese to watch anime because reading subtitles made it hard to multitask and lift weights like the giga-chad I am. Now that I know there are faithful dubs in American, I'm stopping a two year journey to learn a language that is basically useless. Instead, I'm going to learn a cool/important language like Ukrainian or Portuguese. I can't wait to watch original Ukrainian and Portuguese anime while I do my 30th rep of bicep curls.
@@asfakazi3156 Yeah bro. Do you have any good recommendations for Ukrainian or Portuguese Anime? I've only been watching Japanese Anime. American Anime is pretty lame recently, so I'm hoping Portuguese and Ukrainian Anime are better than the crap that Illumination and Disney have been churning out. It's like these movies are made for children or something.
@@Okloma Thanks Bro! I really appreciate these recommendations. I guess I have to do some reading before I'm ready to watch Ukrainian Anime on my phone while doing squats. It's usually too far away to read while churning out high intensity reps. I'll have to fit the reading in while I'm on the peloton. Maybe once I learn the Cyrillic alphabet, they'll have some quality Ukrainian Anime produced. I've also heard there are some sick comedies that I can watch.
6:08 BUT I NEED TO LEARN RUSSIAN, TO BECOME AN ASTRONAUT, MY PARENTS WANT ME TO BE AN ASTRONAUT IN RUSSIA AND SLAVIC LANGUAGE FAMILY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR GREEKS LIKE ME.
I had never stopped to think about the importance of Portuguese, in addition to the language being more beautiful, you gain double communication power and you gain more phonetic knowledge, you can understand more Italian, among other languages, and it still serves as a basis for learning other romantic languages
This is by far the funniest video I have seen in a hot minute. From one language lover to another, the humor is right on the money and I can't honestly tell you how how hard I laughed. Thank you for saying how I truly feel. Keep up the great work!🤣👍
Nice I’m glad I can know that! I really agree with you because other than Greek. And Swedish. And American.. I also decided to learn Indian Guinean, British, Irish, Canadian, Australian, Japanese American, and South African for some reason as a kid. Kind of a waste of time
I must agree. Since I started learning Brazilian Portuguese this year my Spanish has come along leaps and bounds. I wonder if learning Catalan would have the same effect.
Catalan or Occitan are the key to all Western Romance language. When you learn Catalan (or Occitan) you get a lot of knowledge of the rest, it is like a bridge between Iberian peninsule, France and Italy.
wasnt 100% sure if this was satire until the scandinavian part. Ive taken some norwegian lessons but switched to danish for school, and you had me cracking up with that.
Here in the UK we have been learning the American language since the advent of TV and film, which is probably why the whole universe is listening to see when we actually shut -up, at which point they out there will know that the world powers have nuked the whole place and they can come along and take over. The one possible chance the world has of survival is to take up the language of the Welsh, as indeed we in this backwater of a country are being forced to use. Confusing the enemy is a great idea but it doesn't do much to improve the tourist trade. Hwyl fawr. (figure that out !!!! )
As a Dane, I never considered for 1 single second, that this could be comedy. That just shows, you are less critical, if someone says something nice about you. “You must be very intelligent” - Who has ever questioned the validity of that statement? !
I am a huge language nerd. That's why besides English, I also know American, Canadian, Irish and Australian.
I've dabbled in those, as well as South African
Ohh, how did you learn Irish ?
But do you know Strine ? That would be a feat. (Hi down there!)
Hey, on top of that, I also am able to speak Floridian
Wow, Irish is pretty hard. Níl sé éasca.
The amount of people who still don"t understand that this is comedy is scary.
nah bro he's 100% serious.
they don't speak sarcasm
@@jqydxn8941 🤣
I hope it’s sarcasm, or else he will fight me (My first language I am studying is Esperanto….)
@@_perza haha
I'm German and my husband is Norwegian. Thank you for helping me find out that both of our native languages are completely unnecessary, so I will do my best to unlearn them and learn American instead. ^_^
Your husband is Norwegian for he was already rejected by a lot of Norwegian woman. Ask him; those women are really selective and they only like chads. I am not saying your husband is a sub5 or normie, he might me a model... But in Peru, Brazil, Spain. Gutte nacht, ikke!
LoL
@@jeffersonaraujoelcristianoreally? Lol my fiancé is 22 y.o Norwegian, he is soon to be doctor, super smart, and he is very selective on girls instead. He doesn't date norwegian girls cus they mostly smoke, drink, party and they dont fit his criteria, too picky cus he is traditional one. Oh not to mention, he is super attractive with really good height ... i think what you said is not valid and silly. You are so bitter hahaha .
Most of men who say this just jealous and physically unattractive. Well i'm typical attractive woman as people say and educated based in Indonesia, soon fly to Germany for Uni ❤
Most Americans can barely speak English now.
If you eat a lot of McDonalds, drink a Coke every day, and give your car a few whacks with a sledgehammer for that true beat-up appearance, it will greatly facilitate your American learnings :)
I made a video where I went to Canada and tried to surprise the natives by speaking their language. It turned out that they all knew American as well as Canadian, so I left dissapointed.
That's hilarious
@@ssimms8995 *NORBERT MOSES NORBERT MOSES*
LMAO
You should have shown your skill to Steven koffman
Canadian langage exists..?
The simple fact that his sarcasm can not be understood by people from various countries is itself a wonderful sarcasm to him...
bro from the beginning when he says you can understand spanish if you learn portuguese was too much already xD, and then he went to france and says they all speak american and arabic i was dead, cuz its true btw xD
I get the sarcasm, but I interpret it more as a bad attitude and bad taste.
@@leepisin8211 Bro, you can actually understand spanish if you know portuguese tho, not perfectly ofc but it's enough to get the context most of the time
People here in Brazil used to play videogames in spanish back when games didn't have portugues translations, I'm also following some spanish vtubers and I can understand them well with a bit of focus.
@@Darkness_Fuchsia i understand both spanish and portuguese, never took courses just from social medias and some youtube (i am native french speaker)
@@2bit661 it's the inconsistency for me. It's difficult to take somebody seriously when they just seem flippant most of the time.
i'll never understand how he can make these videos with a straight face 😭
As a Dutch person, we're all half-fish and we communicate mostly underwater. But because soundwaves suck at travelling through water, we needed a sound strong enough to fix that. That's where the Dutch G comes in. But we're also half human, so we just drown every time we make that sound, so that's why it sounds like that. Also, Dutch isn't completely useless, you can always learn it to laugh at Flemish people for their accent.
Thanks, I learned something useful today!
@@andyarken7906 You're welcome!
I'm forced to learn your language 😃
@@shelleclipse WHY
@@skilxx__ You know curaçao right? I'm basically a part of your country
I know you're trolling, but your comment about Chinese is true. I spent four years trying to master Chinese only to realize that the only people that would consider me for a job based on my Chinese ability were government agencies that want to spy on China. And even then, I didn't get the job.
That's why you should do the ultra giga chad move and learn Cantonese instead.
@@jamesyeung3286
>claim to speak Chinese
>show up to interview
>speak exclusively in Fuzhou Dialect
>refuse to elaborate further
@@jamesyeung3286 我學緊廣東話呀
@@jamesyeung3286 true that on Cantonese. A lot of Cantonese speakers in the United States.
Why _wouldn't_ you want to spy on China?
You should learn Australian first, that way you can understand both English and American
Otherwise it’s just too hard to understand Australian if you learn English or American first
Australian is a useless language. Learn Yolngu instead
I learned Australian to understand Dundee. He's not a thing any more though. Waste of time.
LOL
Beta males
I learned New Zealandish
@@SomeGuyFromMalta I thought people called it Kiwish damm
Lol, it’s great joke about Russian language. But as Ukrainian living in Russia I tell you what: rather you should buy Russian text book, or just learn this phrase “ne streliaite! Ya bolshe be budu niesti huiniu”
xaxaxa
Thank you! Laughed so hard there were tears 😂. Japanese 101 in college I surveyed my classmates. 50% were there for anime. Learn American. So funny!
After watching this video I entirely decided to quit speaking.
Same!
I’ve decided to never again watch his videos. He’s obnoxious.
@@Ceerads you do realise that this video is satire and is intentionally obnoxious right?
@@fakhrulayser2404 I kinda did, but who knows? There are many assholes posting videos.
@@Ceerads 😶
“The only reason to learn Japanese is to watch anime”
That’s not true, you also need it to read erotic Doujinshi comics
Fun fact: I improved drastically my English just in order to read Doujin , because English sites have far more content and better search features.
Touch grass
@@creativepop8196 nah , it's full of bugs and dirt .
Well would be a different story if we have an indoor grass like in a little pot or vase
んーそだよね
“No language is safe. And neither are you” lol
Чел этот блогер говорит что украина у которой нету ядерок выиграет у россии у самой большой ядерной державой
@@user-vz1ss3ru9q Nuclear weapon hates Ukraine, that's why they would not go there .
As for languages that sound beautiful my vote is for Swahili. For me Italian is a close second. My favorite to learn is German which I struggle with daily. While German may not sound great to most people the word pictures are beautiful. Things like Schildkröte- toad with a shield for turtle. There are lots of examples.
toad with a shield for turtle is so funny lmao, it kinda makes me want to learn german
Ndiyo, ni kweli kabisa, lugha ya Kiswahili ni tamu mtupu. Nakipenda Kiswahili na ninajifunza lugha hii. Kila la heri kwako!
I started learning English at the age of 9 then I switched to American after a few months then I moved to Canada I was shocked when I found out people in Canada understood American very well turns out their language is very similar to American so I managed to learn Canadian too after staying there for like 5 seconds
Canadian and American aren't languages
@@kellopfan they are!!!
@@kellopfan No shit, Sherlock.
@@tutigsegITS CALLED ENGLISH NOT AMERICAN YOU SICKO
@@bobwashington226 nah, really? It’s not like it’s a joke or anything
This man is so serious that I don't even know if he is joking about the "American" language, and I'm all for it
The American pronunciation comes more naturally for me, as a Finn. For starters, American uses a lot more [æ], where English just has [ɑ]. Pack those front vowels up 👍🏻!
He is not at all serious.
Americans speak English much the same way the English speak French.
Sure, all the right-thinking folk spoke French in 1066 but over time it got changed.
@@creativefreedom9143 he better not be. I’m an American and proud of it, but as a linguist I’d literally have a hernia.
@@timbuktu8069 So not at all then. Considering you can create a whole speech in English without using any Norman French roots.
Thanks, homes. I needed that. I was so fixated on learning another language that I didn't realize that I already know the best one.
Russian is the second biggest language spoken on the internet. When the USSR fell apart, large groups of Russian speaking people in those countries, kept speaking Russian.
As a Norwegian, i died when you praised Danish. Practically everyone in Norway and Sweden make fun of it because it's "impossible to understand" and sound a bit funny
"If you speak Danish, you will understand Norwegian and Swedish!"
Meanwhile, in Denmark:
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@@per6605 holy sh!te. i watched that video. no wonder people say Dansk is difficult
norwegian is so DIFFICULT TO LISTEN TO, dansk er meget bedre
I'm a Swede, and I died a bit as well. Hilarious. 😄
I'm Irish but I'm learning Norwegian and definitely find Danish alot harder to understand than Norwegian or Swedish personally Norwegian and Swedish are better
Out of all these languages, Dutch is the only one that I’ve actually had native speakers discourage me from learning. To the point that when I was there and trying to learn, people frequently asked, “Why are you learning Dutch? It’s a completely useless language.” “If I were you, I’d just speak English.” I like your language, get over it already. 😅
lmao yeah i see many dutch people complaining about their own language and that even some of them find it easier to speak English.
Luckily I've a Dutch friend who's very enthusiastic about a foreigner trying to learn dutch... not that I will tho hahahaha
If you want to feel more encouraged, i can recommend the northen provinces of the netherlands. They might be a bit rougher on the edges, but they at least try to help you with dutch if they notice you are trying to learn it or practice it
@@damrod I found that the people in Venlo We’re also happy to speak with me. And I like that southern dialect also. :-)
doe het nou niet maat
precies
As an Iraqi, I can confirm that's how our accent sounds like
The title of this video should have been "How to keep a straight face while trolling" ... cant imagine how this guy pulled it off🤣🤣🤣
I'm Japanese and feel proud of getting Number 1 Spot. I don't think it's useless to learn Japanese.
But it's definitely a ridiculous idea to learn Japanese in order to watch anime without subtitles.
He's just kidding lol
@@PedroFranco922 I'm kidding too.
@@morisoba2550 Nah fam I certainly know it's useful to learn your language just in case your fella went extinct, someone has to preserve the language . In case you're wondering I'm just kidding. But there's truth to it, I really want to know more about Japan. I know already a lot like my country and Japan had a trade relation that existed around 100 year, dunno about the era name because there's no official known to it. Some who knows both English and Japanese would certainly be of help in translation in a lot of Japanese media.
@@pauloazuela8488 Are you Brazilian by any chance? Unless you want to read Japanese literature, you wouldn't need to learn Japanese language because you can get many enough information about Japan in English.
@@morisoba2550 Just a fellow Asian, I do certainly read ones in English. Just wanted to go there too in Japan
Amazing how you «trolled» out those languages, delicately combining jokes, irony and real linguistic facts. That's the highest level!
For real!! What got me was the thing about the “g’s” in Dutch. It is so true. I am actually traveling through the Netherlands right now and I got to hear it again lol q
Well, why he didn't mention that we, esperantrists, have a kind of cult?
Hey vsauce, MichaelleahciM here
@@AfroLinguo haha another linguistic fact is that in the past the Dutch G was way softer. It still is in my dialect in the south. Same in Belgium.
@@AfroLinguo also mirror the g -> h transition in west slavic languages
As a Chinese people, I can say the writing system is the most complicated and it affects Japanese writing system. Besides of that, grammar and vocabulary is easier than English. About 100 years ago, they wanted to cancel the writing system but fail. Now I can say Vietnamese and Korean successfully decline the Han writing system. By the other hands, China main land and Japan modified their Hanzi/Kanji become simplified.
Nowadays some people want to turn Chinese into phonetics alphabets, but it fail due to their culture.
Keep learning English.
Hi Language Simp! Your video on the top 10 most useless languages to learn is quite interesting! While I appreciate your unique perspective, I believe that language learning is subjective and varies based on individual interests, goals and circumstances.
As a language learner myself, I've found that every language has value, whether it's for cultural enrichment, career opportunities or personal connections. While some languages may seem less practical in certain contexts, they still offer valuable insights into different cultures and ways of thinking.
Ultimately, I believe there's no such thing as a useless language to learn. Every language opens doors to new experiences and perspectives. It's really well worth to respect the diversity of languages and appreciate their importance in our interconnected world.
Thank you for opening this conversation!
INTERPRETATION: In case there is anyone struggling to make sense of this video, the languages you SHOULD learn are: Spanish, German, Chinese, Swedish/Norwegian, French, Esperanto, Dutch, Russian, English, Japanese. I think his picks are pretty good. Loved the humour and irony. Nice!
Arriba España
From what I've read, Dutch is a language not worth learning
@@bda529 Well it's basically just a goofy version of german that a lot less people speak and that has a lot less relevance in general
@@Jess-737 The only ones who think Esperanto is useless are those who have never tried learning it or never got past level A1. Their opinion hardly matters, I would think. Anyone can say, 'I think language X is useless', but how do they know if they don't speak the language?
@@Jess-737 as do i
"Memorising a few phrases, then recording yourself impressing people in chinatown" was literally my first impression of Xiaomanyc
"They were shocked that I spoke X language" (X = whatever the native language is) is a theme of some UA-cam polygots that just make me despise them, and quite frankly, not believe they can even speak the language beyond Duolingo level. In fact, I watched one such person do the placement test, and while passed, he was struggling and made a couple of mistakes. When you consider that Duolingo goes barely above CERF A2 level (maybe up to C1 in more popular languages like Spanish) and the test does only not cover the whole of the language course, it is clear to me that their language ability is less than "fluent", another word they often use. One such guy took a test in Spanish, which happens is a language I'm learning right now: I could understand most of the test and could guess 65% - 70% of the answers despite only having passsed the first checkpoint and having no prior knowledge of Spanish or any closely related language, shows how relatively easy the test was!
(I've also watched native speakers of taking the test and still be recommended to study with Duo, only skipping the first checkpoints).
I'm think it's great to be able to speak a foreign language even a beginner level - and much maligned Duolingo can get you there if you use it correctly - my friend is a proof of that and I would be very happy if I could understand Duo's podcasts.
What annoys me are naysayers who pretend otherwise: bashing any X app (they all livr to hate Duolingo because it's actually a pretty good compared to many) and then go on promoting equally useless app they happen to like and often get revenue from as an influencer.
THERE IS NO ONE APP that can teach you a language to a fluent level! Each has their strengths and shortcomings, including classroom learning, but you still have to work a lot outside the app/ class if you want to become fluent and even then, it takes a long time to achieve true fluency. (As you can see, I'm not there with my English despite using it every day at work and in private life.)
@@oakstrong1 Definitely. If you're aiming for any sort of high level in any language, you should never rely on one source. 'Fluency' requires thousands of hours of being immersed in the language, whether it be watching native content, reading books, or interacting with natives. Apps such as duolingo or textbooks serve to bring you to a very basic level where it won't be as painful to start immersing in the language, and whether you continue or not after that is on you.
At the end of the day, there is no one "method" that can get you to fluency. Anyone that sells people on the idea that you will be fluent you take [certain course] is being disingenuous.
(By the way, your English is amazing for a non-native) :)
@@oakstrong1 interestingly, xiaoma passed Duolingo in one sitting on live stream. But it's obvious that his level in most other languages are limited conversational level plus things he normally interacts with ("where did you study" "how did you learn this so fast" "why do you like this place")
:: In theory, you could stage everything so you didn't have to get surprised by new phrases.
Duolingo is pretty weird too.
I've only paid attention to 2 language polyglot tubers, but is the Duolingo guy and xiaoma the same person?
I'm pretty sure he really is fluent in Chinese, still a bit cringe.
There is other polyglot world which doesn't focus on English speaking audience. And that is people speaking Indian languages especially Hindi, there is a Japanese women "Mayo Japan" and a dude, "Kohei" getting millions of views on "shocking Indians" videos. There is also another Korean dude, who has become native level fluent.. in Hindi.
I know this video was made in jest but I swear six years ago, that was the exact same logic I used when I chose to seriously study languages again, I chose Portuguese over Spanish. LMAO!! I thought from a professional standpoint, Spanish would be useless because all of the professional Spanish speakers speak English and they will always have a leg up on me. Plus, Portuguese has more complex sounds and it has all of Spanish sounds so in a way I was picking up two languages, at least from a written and listening perspective. Speaking the language is a different story. I think I stand out more as a Portuguese speaker and here in South Florida, the language is far from useless. I enjoy Spanish too. I've taken Spanish classes all through high school and college. I've listened to some podcasts and read a couple of books in Spanish. I wouldn't say that I'm a strong Spanish speaker though. However, I can get around in Spanish and I speak it in restaurants.
How's your progress now?
The Portuguese language may have some sounds that are more complicated than Spanish, but Spanish has a much more extensive grammar than Portuguese. This makes it richer as a language. Furthermore, Spanish is spoken in 21 countries, while Portuguese is only spoken in 9. Lastly, it's worth noting that Spanish is increasingly spreading in the USA every day, not to mention that Puerto Rico is a completely Spanish-speaking state.
Really good. I'm a fluent Portuguese speaker. I can speak, read and write in Portuguese. Plus, I've traveled through and around Brazil a few times and I will be heading back later this year. I've also traveled to Portugal last year.@@JennieLemons
I agree with Spanish. It took me awhile to understand Portuguese and I understand it only because I practiced Capoeira for a time being.
But I can speak to the Brazilians in Spanish and they understand me most of the time.
Also, learning Spanish for a profession, well unless you already have the job and then it requires you learn it later on, native speakers will take the job
Quem fala português compreende completamente espanhol, mas quem fala espanhol fica confuso quando ouve português
my native language is candian and i didn’t even realize you were speaking american until you said so! so cool how they’re so similar
stop watching ytb and fix the FIA plz
r/whoosh
@@rb026 Dude, really??
@@user-io1do3fl7v yes really did watch the last race dude ?
@@Icymiiii there's no joke, american and canadian are similar languages!!
You just mentioned each language that I thought was really cool and everybody wants to learn😂
"Bolsonaro é muito muito muito muito muito goxtoso"
As a Brazilian, I broke🤣🤣
“No language is safe and neither are you” 💀
As someone who speaks english as a second language, I laughed my ass off when a buddy of mine tried to pretend to speak another language in a text chat with natives by using solely google translate.
Brasileiro?
Tropa dos Br, fi
Slk🗿🍷
may I ask how you found natives to speak/text with?
@@Shmoopyn jogo
Kurwa 🗿
Bro offended me by roasting my favourite languages 💀
Esperanto?
This is so funny I now realise I am a polyglot, not only do I know English and French but I also know American, and probaly Australian and South African too.
How to offend half of the world in less than 10 minutes 101 by prof. Gigachad.
well this is literally more than half of the world, english, chinese , russian, french, all the major languages were included
As a brazillian, i wasn't offended in this at all
This actually made me more happier /hj
You would actually just say “this actually made me happier”. We get what you’re saying, though.
Man, everytime you speak Portuguese I break. i just can't handle how funny it is.
And your argument for learning Portuguese instead of Spanish actually makes some sense, lol
@Abina Àine Well, I don't know if it will work for you, because I'm a native speaker so I can't really measure how much Portuguese you need to know to understand Spanish. What I do know is that people who are more educated on Portuguese (people with good grammar etc) tend to understand Spanish a lot better that common elderly people with lower levels os education.
Both languages are super similar tho. I believe Spanish and Portuguese are closer to each other than Standard German and most dialects of Swiss German for example.
My advice is: learn whatever you really want to. If you're not interested in the language itself, the whole process will become unfeasible. But if you just want to raise your language count, or if you are interested in both of them, than Portuguese first
I'm Brazilian and there is hardly anything I can't understand when reading Spanish, and the same applies if they speak slowly.
@Abina Àine well, we here in Portugal can kinda understand the Spanish, especially if it is a person from the regions near Portugal, which talk Spanish dialectics more similar to portuguese, like Galician.
@Abina Àine no, but if you learn Galician you will understand both Portuguese and Spanish
@Catarina lol so se já aprendeu algo da língua, em alguns contextos é impossível entender ainda que seja 30% do que os hispânicos falam. Texto é bem mais simples, mas entender é impossível assistir um filme em espanhol e entender 90% sem nunca ter estudado. Mesmo estudando ainda leva um tempo para entender 90% imagina sem estudar
I am a huge language nerd and cant even count how many languages I know. And as a polyglot, German is very useful, because you can go to a university for free only if you are a b1 in german. Very useful language, recommend.
well probably for everyone in the us, spanish was required for all kids until at least middle school like me, and i stopped taking them once it wasnt forced, only remember the day we learned vocab for different clothes.
senior year my school offered mandarin chinese as a new course so a friend of mine decided to take it with me,.... even though shes fluent in spanish by hertiage and enligh cuz usa and taking on french at school. she wanted to be a translator whereas i just felt like it hahahaha. now i forgot everything except the work for friend and hello. since then to now id dabble temporarily in french, swedish, korean, japanese, italian. most recently italian. but again..... why am i learning these if i won't be physically using it with anyone? hahaha
so this video about big deal languages being useless might be accurate! then again usa specifically doesn't force a bilingual mindset even though spanish is just as common here a senglish, like other places that require english as a second language for the enirety of school
Being a Brazillian who used to travel a lot to the Netherlands, yes, it is useless to learn dutch. I head from foreigners dutch learners that the locals will switch to English as soon as they notice you are not a native speaker, not giving you a chance to practice it. And the good thing is that everybody there speaks good english - even the bus driver.
90% of the Dutch can hold an conversation in English. It’s amazing.
No, they actually speak Canadian
@@rapperj-den1083 The languages are related.
"Even the bus driver".
Elitism.
😅😅😅
1:45 for you guys who doesn't speak portuguese, he said: "hey, good morning, I hope you have a very very very very nice day." It is a very common sentence to use with your family and friends, but it is more used to talk with strangers. Hope i helped you guys understand
Mt obrigado, não posso esperar pra dize-la
Nada a ver
@@takashix4i20 essa é a graça
@@joseangelojunior8640 entendo kkkk
Não disse posso sonar muito muito muito gostoso?
I am a language learning nerd. Started many, gave them up and learned none. Now I am relearning a language which I strangely enjoy very much. LATIN! Its usefulness or not is of no concern to me. It is an addiction similar to trying to solve a puzzle. I imagine many crossword enthousiasts would be able to relate to this.
I feel you so much here, I love learning everything about languages too and when I think of learning something like Hungarian or Finnish I get excited, currently learning Mandarin
I’m Swedish, and I know English almost as good. I broke the rule of not combining British English and American, nowadays I think I am 85 % American speaker. I fell for Spanish, I know it’s a very common language but still I love it, and I’m also studying latin, which many see as useless to learn since it’s mostly a dead language
This is really great advice. I'm going to try to unlearn French via electroshock therapy with a car battery and some jumper cables. My brain should be primed for something more useful like Danish. As an added bonus, I will only be able to make guttural hacking sounds.
You could re-vector to Haitian Creole, that should be more useful.
I was thinking about learning French as well, but I am having second thoughts. If you like the language enough, I dont see no reason why you should not learn it even if there are a lot of people that speak it.
@@foreignlanguagesisfun8143 I agree 100%, the issue I've found is that native speakers will usually treat you like a child until you start speaking the language like an adult, so I've decided to only learn to speak a couple languages and understand a multitude of languages.
I think electric chair is a better option
Learn arabic insted
“We were this close to be forced to learn german”
Me who is Danish. And forced to learn german in school
Icelanders also forced to learn Danish at school so deserved.
I like eating rødgrød mc fløöd
@@rikkithinn7258 You poor people. Couldn't imagine learning Danish
German is nice, cool and usefull. Just my opinion.
I'm from Poland and I was forced to learn German as my second foreign language at 7th and 8th grade. Thankfully when I started going to highschool we were able to choose German, Spanish or Italian so I've chosen Spanish.
I love how it starts off reasonable but slowly gets more and more dumb as it goes on
Американский самый бесполезный язык из всех, которые я учила. За всю жизнь в моем уральском городе я встретила только двух американцев и оба говорили по-русски лучше меня.
Другое дело английский. Очень полезный язык, чтобы смотреть "Доктор Кто".
“Portuguese is just spanish with much less straightforward pronunciation”
As a brazilian, I have to agree with you. This is incredibly accurate.
As a Venezuelan also agree with you 💀
@@RoaValdjamong É a mais pura verdade💀
eu nao aguento mais estudar espanhol na escola se eu ja sei português aaaaaa
As a Brazilian. It is true
I learned Portuguese first and now I'm learning Spanish. Honestly, I find Portuguese easier for some reason.
Is it the first time he said Putin instead of Vladdy Daddy?
Oh my, could it be something is happening to him? We gotta call 911. Now.
EXCUSE ME WHATT
You're right, as a Spanish speaker is a little hard to understand Portuguese. However both are so useful, but Portuguese definitely is much better
Thanks to this list, I will no longer be taking French classes. Thank you man!
Japanese is really useful if you go to Japan and got arrested and interrogated for days, as it usually happens to Americans who want to have some fun there (instead of quietly looking around as they are supposed to do).
Americans just shouldn't go
Who are U paul McCartney
did you have tattoos.
I’m American, and I don’t know what “have some fun” refers to. Shooting guns?
Was that a reference to Fast and furious in Tokyo?
10- Spanish
9- German
8- Chinese
7- Swedish & Norwegian
6- French
5- Esperanto
4- Dutch
3- Russian
2- English (Not American)
1- Japanese
As a norwegian learner i agree but i still like the language and norway
@@nyelvbabycakes its sarcistic lol and Swedish and Norwegian is mutch more beutiful then Danish!
@@nyelvbabycakes yup me too currently learning Norwegian and what he say doesn't made me lose motivation and it actually motivate me further
@@gojo6418 thats nice
it didnt affect me in any way
@@nyelvbabycakes yup I just take it as a joke
Took me a while but after the Netherlands thing I was sure you were joking. You’re not wrong on the Scandinavian languages tho, but of course it all depends on what your motivation for learning a language is. If you want to move to Sweden/Norway, learn the language! If you want to visit, maybe? But honestly you’re better of speaking English in that case.
Learn danish if you want to but idk if I’d recommend it. While you may understand Swedish/Norwegian I can Assure you most Swedish people, including me, won’t understand much (if anything at all) of what you’re saying.
So what I got from this video: don’t listen to people who seem like experienced experts. It depends on what you want to do in your life and what languages speak to you.. (but speak to people, not the languages themselves 😅😂)
Norwegian is a nice language, but the problem with it is that nobody speaks it. Including the Norwegians.
You mean that they’re anti-social? I haven’t met that many norwegians so I wouldn't know, Swedish people are pretty known for that too tho.
@@moon_wolfk7456 not at all, or at least not that I'm aware. But Bokmaal is essentially spoken in Oslo, otherwise it's just that - "book language". Everybody has their own dialect. It starts with wildly different pronouns.
It depends on living place. For example in central asian countries russian play so significant role and if ones want to enter some jobs in many companies russian always become in the requirement
Чел не видит росми не проиграет у нас в союзниках Индия и китай и россии это самая большая ядерная держава
You should learn Swiss. It sounds like a different language in 4 regions, but it's all in your head. Some even say it is 4 distinct languages, but they have no idea. If you understand Swiss, you can converse with 3 quarters of the European population easily.
I'd rather learn Romansch.
@@gringo3002 swiss
You can also do Danish, it's not like the pronouncing is weird sounding
"Pretty much every German speaks American now" that's the best joke I've ever heard. Actually, it's the one about Dutch sounding beautiful. My housemate compared the Dutch 'g' to choking in a dentist's chair and I have yet to hear a more accurate description
YES. From Russian programmers who moved to Germany (Germany has big IT hubs) I heard, that you can't live without German not in Berlin
@@krushiler398 right
Only academics are really efficient in English but other than that it's only basics to no english
@@krushiler398 most cities you'll be fine, small towns is where people don't really use it. I'm from Frankfurt which is the most international big city in the whole country (yes before Berlin) and people really expect you to be able to speak English at least to a degree where you can communicate. Doesn't need to be perfect, but you do need some skill.
Great comment
I heard that people in the Netherlands and Germany speak very good English in general compare to in France and Russia. Idk how much of it is true or just stereotypical
"Who wants to read while watching a show" *Me : litteraly reading the subtitles in my native language when he says that*
bro added japan to this list, but also put it in his language of the future
"Most people in France either speak Arabic or American already" True
"Polish eye doctor" lol
Arabs are minority in France
al-eærakq is my favorite language it's my native language and it's beautiful, espacially when cussing someone out. Not to mention how romantic it is.
He is russian eye doctor from Russian Empire.
@@mihailrf7139 He was a Polish Jew from the part of Poland occupied by Russia since the end of 18. through the beginning of the 20. century.
@@mihailrf7139 what is a russia
my native language is portuguese, so spanish is quite easy to me as you said. However, when I was like four years old, my mother made me learn american, english, australian, canadian, south africanan, new zeelandand, antiguan and barbudan, grenadan, guyanan, jamaican, trinidad and tobagosan, irelandand, and maltan. A rough time indeed, but hey at least i'm a polyglot now
Nice work 😂
Zeelandand 😭
(Sorry I just find it a little funny)
No French 😂
As a Amerifan speaker I'm currently learning Asian, British, and Mexican
@@TheWeirdestArtist Amerifa
Spanish which is the second biggest native language spoken in the world with 486 million people speaking it as first language and around 100 million as a second language and it's spoken in 20 countries and you say it's useless to learn? 🤣🤣🤣🤣, that's the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my entire life, 🤣🤣🤣
Spanish is just broken Portuguese
6:58 " I don't know much about history, but I'm pretty sure that england stole our language changed the pronunciation of wait a little and slapped a new name on it"
1:45 : for those who don’t speak Portuguese he’s saying “hi, good morning, Bolsonaro is very very very hot”
🤣🤣
i love him
Who
You should remove Dutch from the list of the most useless languages: when The Netherlands disappear under water, we'll always have Surinam, in South America, whose official language is Dutch. Don't forget it 😉
Yeah but Suriname is also not safe from the rising sea level. We are currently losing ground because of it even if the process is slow.
@@jaydendc1545 then move to South Africa, where a great deal of the population speaks Afrikaans, a language derived from Dutch.
@@theephraimite 😁😁😁
@@theephraimite Yeah but that's still not Dutch, it's Afrikaans. A different language. So Dutch is still useless 👍
@@nduduzoblose4355 No language is useless
so many years stuggling with kanjis and now i watch this, thank you again Language Simp
I don't know what I should think about what he said about my native language...
I love it and I'm proud of being German!
But I love learning languages, so I learn English, French and Spanish at school, and Irish and Danish in my free time.
I tried to learn Navajo and Italian, but I hadn't the motivation to do it until the end.
So I speak German, English, French, Spanish, Irish and a bit Danish.
I would say that Irish is kinda useless, because in Ireland, the people mostly speak English. But it's fun to learn😅
have you considered learning uzbek?? would be really cool. not sure if you've mentioned it before
I see you're a man of culture
Ha men.
Chunki Uzbek foydali )
I can speak uzbek.
@@dk9251 i see you are Uzbek(im not from Uzbeckistan)
That's actually a legit reason to learn Portuguese.
Pro-tip: Learn European Portuguese, specifically one of the island dialects. No one else will understand you, but you'll understand everyone, thus proving yourself as an alpha.
i am learning brazillian portuguese and can understand european portuguese as well as spanish
that's fucking hilarious lol
good luck understanding island dudes...you'll think they speak hebrew, arabic and mandarin at the same time @@db_2408
Azores: Portuguese level hard
The thing is the dub version is a totally different story. If you're into listening to regular anime, it ain't the same story and many of them do not end well. Attend to keep with the dub but they use it in fanfiction and that is a good way to learn Japanese at least clothing, honorifics family phrases and uncle Mom dad stuff like that.
German with its noun capitalization reminds us that English used to do it, too. Ben Franklin himself decried the fact that noun capitalization was dying out during his time.
As for Esperanto, I deliberately studied it for a lark and was my first language I could understand without translating it in my head. So I guess I need to fight the Language Simp.
I've already learned to speak German, and my next language will be Spanish. After that, French.
French, German, Russian, Chinese and English are the languages in which some of the greatest text of human thinking are written so we can see Mr Simp's values towards reading and education.
Absolutely agree with you man. I can tell as a native russian speaker and well-educated person, that wide education are extremely important, and also cultural education ofcourse.
@@ilyasmolentsev8210 хуй ❤
@@mityaoreh эээ?
@@ilyasmolentsev8210 ю из фром раша, айм фром раша, хуй ❤️ май диар мультилингуал френд
Useless languague lmao
I lost it when he said Danish was the most beautiful language. There’s trolling and there’s saying Swedish and Norwegian are beneath Danish. Hadn’t laughed like this in a while. Thanks man
Danish be like: GGGGCHSHHCHHGCHGH
Danish is Gigachad language, but swedish and Norwegian is ultra beta male language
@@dud8738 this is a true statement and i support it.
I'm telling all of u. This foolz a comedian uHauahauaha
Same
I really liked this video for its perspective from a utilitarian POV. Basically if we speak American English we're already pretty much set. So I guess picking a language is truly a unique a tailored thing to each individual. UNESCO deemed my parents' mother tongue to be endangered and rapidly on the decline, but with the lack of movies, literature, & pop culture it's been even more challenging to get into it.
He is speaking from his perspective wtf but we love most of what he pointed out if not we at least i love 😅
I don’t know whether to trust this man or not
97% don't
I would
@Jenny Vaona Just a troll lol
@Jenny Vaona or indeed a Trold, we find, as he has just eradicated Norwegian ........
no dont
as a Russian-native, I immediately guessed the reason not to learn it and laughed my ass off 🤣 high quality analysis 🥵
Жиза.
Welp, how sad... the whole war & that "analysis"...
@@szurmatpl since we know exactly that Ukrainians want no other land than theirs, the war is sad indeed, and the analysis is funny after seeing ru and foreign putinist propaganda online 🥲
@@youtubeuser206 every country is invented
@@moicestlapoussiere777 ya well ukraine was only invented 30 years ago. since kiev has spent the last 8 years attempting to genocide its russian speaking citizens, the Russian Federation had every right to enter to protect them.
I think that English, Irish, and Australian are actually WORSE than useless, since it can give the American language a bad name and confuse non-native speakers. Really, their only use is for lazy Hollywood types to create stock characters. Like English is only used in American language films to denote cartoonish evil geniuses, and Romans in period pieces. C'mon Hollywood, stop being lazy, and just develop your characters instead of simply having them speak English. On a side note, speaking Indian is ok because it is funny as hell and you can still kind of understand it. Cheers maties!
as a hong konger who can speak cantonese fluently and know a level of mandarin (small conversations). I will try to forget my language and learn english ^^
english is #2 useless language!
try american😂😂
As a native Dutch speaker even I’ve got goosebumps when you gave the most chilling example of how to pronounce those G/CH!
As we say in Dutch: Goed gesproken! 😂
eh, some old people in indonesia still pronounce "g" as "ch",
instead of teknologi, they pronounce it as tekhnolochi, I wonder where they come from, after reading your comment I think their pronounciation is influenced by dutch hehe
Ja de g en ch zijn mooie klanken wij gebruiken gewoon een taal met harde duidelijke klanken en tonen
😅🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
Nu horen jullie van boven de rivieren eens een keertje van iemand anders dat die harde 'g' niet deugd.
Vergeet de unieke ui-klank niet.
Dutch part was the funniest 😂
I could understand point at the end of the video and loved the irony! lol ahahaha
"The only real reason to learn chinese is to make a lot of money by memorizing a few phrases and then recording yourself impressing people in Chinatown."
I see what you did here. hahahahaha
I dont get it?
@@rifqimujahid4907 there is a guy who pumps out 5 videos a week with click bait titles about speaking Chinese in Chinatown
@@probrickgamer who is he?
@@gabriel87629 Xiaomanyc I think
@@biggiecheese253 but he speaks chinese, doesn't he? lol
Before this video I was learning Japanese to watch anime because reading subtitles made it hard to multitask and lift weights like the giga-chad I am.
Now that I know there are faithful dubs in American, I'm stopping a two year journey to learn a language that is basically useless. Instead, I'm going to learn a cool/important language like Ukrainian or Portuguese.
I can't wait to watch original Ukrainian and Portuguese anime while I do my 30th rep of bicep curls.
Are you serious bro?
@@asfakazi3156 Yeah bro. Do you have any good recommendations for Ukrainian or Portuguese Anime?
I've only been watching Japanese Anime. American Anime is pretty lame recently, so I'm hoping Portuguese and Ukrainian Anime are better than the crap that Illumination and Disney have been churning out. It's like these movies are made for children or something.
@@Okloma Thanks Bro! I really appreciate these recommendations.
I guess I have to do some reading before I'm ready to watch Ukrainian Anime on my phone while doing squats. It's usually too far away to read while churning out high intensity reps. I'll have to fit the reading in while I'm on the peloton.
Maybe once I learn the Cyrillic alphabet, they'll have some quality Ukrainian Anime produced. I've also heard there are some sick comedies that I can watch.
*hears the dub* *ears internally combust*
LMFAO
6:08 BUT I NEED TO LEARN RUSSIAN, TO BECOME AN ASTRONAUT, MY PARENTS WANT ME TO BE AN ASTRONAUT IN RUSSIA AND SLAVIC LANGUAGE FAMILY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR GREEKS LIKE ME.
I just remembered there’s people who know how to speak latin. Talking about useless languages to learn…
I had never stopped to think about the importance of Portuguese, in addition to the language being more beautiful, you gain double communication power and you gain more phonetic knowledge, you can understand more Italian, among other languages, and it still serves as a basis for learning other romantic languages
@@Kamila-eb9pz I'm a Portuguese native speaker and I have the same feeling with Spanish 😂
@@Kamila-eb9pz the only good thing about Spanish is how they put question marks at the beginning of sentences
*Romance languages
I am learning Spanish but I will give try to purtagese too.
The thing i love about Spanish is the pronounciation,
Portuguese sounds like drunks speaking Spanish
This is by far the funniest video I have seen in a hot minute. From one language lover to another, the humor is right on the money and I can't honestly tell you how how hard I laughed. Thank you for saying how I truly feel. Keep up the great work!🤣👍
Some of things he said are quite facts if i think about it
He could be right about Japanese.
Nice I’m glad I can know that! I really agree with you because other than Greek. And Swedish. And American.. I also decided to learn Indian Guinean, British, Irish, Canadian, Australian, Japanese American, and South African for some reason as a kid. Kind of a waste of time
This guy's a real comedian
I’m Japanese and I speak French. I’m learning Swedish and Russian😂😂 I was to learn how to get a British accent🤣 Je faisais juste ce qui m’intéressait😂
Good luck with Swedish! Lycka till
@@keytokwangya Tack så mycket!
Lol I speak English and Russian, while studying French, Japanese, and Swedish. I hope we reach our goals, friend.
@@MissTasseled What a coincidence!
Не учите русский. Реально ж бесполезный язык.
I must agree. Since I started learning Brazilian Portuguese this year my Spanish has come along leaps and bounds.
I wonder if learning Catalan would have the same effect.
Catalan or Occitan are the key to all Western Romance language. When you learn Catalan (or Occitan) you get a lot of knowledge of the rest, it is like a bridge between Iberian peninsule, France and Italy.
@@robertobahamondeandrade ththtthhththtththththththth
I'm catalan and I can understand easily Portuguese, French and Italian so I guess yes. Our language is kinda a bridge between all this languages
@@robertobahamondeandrade between these two occitan is better, they have a ton of influence in Portuguese...
catalan is not a langueage .... is just spanish for dumbs
wasnt 100% sure if this was satire until the scandinavian part. Ive taken some norwegian lessons but switched to danish for school, and you had me cracking up with that.
Here in the UK we have been learning the American language since the advent of TV and film, which is probably why the whole universe is listening to see when we actually shut -up, at which point they out there will know that the world powers have nuked the whole place and they can come along and take over. The one possible chance the world has of survival is to take up the language of the Welsh, as indeed we in this backwater of a country are being forced to use. Confusing the enemy is a great idea but it doesn't do much to improve the tourist trade. Hwyl fawr. (figure that out !!!! )
It wasn't until you called Danish beautiful sounding that I realized this was 100% comedy 😄
As a Dane, I never considered for 1 single second, that this could be comedy.
That just shows, you are less critical, if someone says something nice about you.
“You must be very intelligent” - Who has ever questioned the validity of that statement? !
Honestly, it’s one of the ugliest sounding language. No offense to Danish people but it’s just not my jam.
Jesus ❤️ y'all
@@Jesus_loves_u7 Yeah, even the Danes ;)
"England stole our language, changed the pronunciation of it a little and slapped a new name on it"😂😂
Ah yes that makes total sense now that's why it's called americish and not English...
oh wait 🤔
^ another englishman pushing the big lie
I died laughing 😂 Thank you, sir, for this video!