Wake Up Americans! A Rant Against Lazy Anglophones
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2015
- This video is a parody of angry rant videos, that used to be popular back when I originally published this. There is a lot in this video that you should not take seriously (ie. JOKES!) But at the core there is a serious and valid point: that it's worthwhile to learn a new language! :D
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Music: "Spin and Scratch" by JR Tundra (UA-cam Audio Library).
Outro music: "Otis McMusic" by Otis McDonald.
Hi, everyone! This video is a PARODY of angry rant videos (that used to be popular back when I originally published this). There is a lot in this video that you should not take seriously (ie. JOKES). If you find something in this video offensive, you probably don't need to. :) But at the core there is a serious and valid point in the video: that it's worthwhile to learn a new language! :D
No, it's completely true. Anyone who is monolingual should be completely ashamed. Only speaking one language demonstrates absolute ignorance and laziness, and it is a necessary requirement to learn a second language in today's society. Nothing is dumber than a monolingual person.
This feels too seriously true to be a joke. The only thing that I initially scrolled down to the comments for was to ask for sources on language-learning delaying the start of dementia.
@@vari1535 The joke is the tone of the video, not the content. And probably also the Canada = an American state thing.
Thank you for posting. You should make another one showing all the positives and benefits of learning a new language, especially for digital nomads, world travelers, international business, dating, etc.
Not to brag, but I speak three languages and it has been a plus, especially when someone is talking about me behind my back in another language because they don't think I understand them and when I turn around and reply they get so embraced, they want to dig a hole and burry themselves, lol.
@@PhenomUprising Not sure how much he is joking about the Canada=America thing. Sometimes the cultural border is very fuzzy. I call myself an American and I use that term in almost every comparison or listing, but I don't say American and Canadian. It is rather understood that Canadians are their own type of American. Not US-ian, but still American.
Paradoxically, learning another language also enhances the understanding of your own native language.
Same here, I'm originally from Serbia mais j'habite en Autriche. ce n'est pas loin d'allemand et de France juste au cas où vous ne connaissez pas cet état und ich bin trilingual aufgewachsen weswegen ich deutsch, English, française, srpski und die Österreichische Gebärdensprache beherrsche. Et au bout ja znam da pričam srpski ali moja gramatika je krajnje loša! Bref, on peut dire que je suis un polyglot :) est-ce que j'ai déjà mentionné que j'ai seulement dix-huit ans ? And due to my knowledge of those languages I can guarantee you that this knowledge helped me to foster my native language (German) especially my vocab
The class I learned the most about English in was Spanish! I finally understood phonics, verb tense, subject versus object, what the heck a preposition is, what an auxiliary verb is, and mostly why English is such a difficult language to learn.
@@sampaige9468
Well, I wouldn't consider English as a hard language to learn. There is a reason why English is a lingua franca
Canadien Français (where some of my english neighbours -just the next houses- sadly don't want/can't speak a single french word...) and I'm in the process learning a third one, and yes, it helps me to understand my own language. Totally agree with you Alberto!
I agree, until I started learning other languages, I never thought of the things I say, or think about English in the context of linguistics.
"Learning a second language makes you smarter. Do you want to be stupid?" You don't understand how much I laughed.
+Jay Williamsburg hipster Mission accomplished!
+Langfocus If you can I would love to see one on Russian. I've been slowly learning but it's so hard. Would love to get some history and what not.
+Randy .Makarov How's that cryllic going for yah?
хорошо товарищ. I can read and sound it out after a couple weeks. Now i'm trying to get faster typing, and understanding the letters that have similar sounds. ю у are both like a u, щ ш are both like sh, з ц are both z sounds but they are all slightly different. Don't get me started on how many Bs they have б ь в ы ъ, i know б is a B and в is a V, i think ь is for soft sounds and ы is a weird e sound. I can't remember Ъ. Why so many Bs.
Randy .Makarov well, best of luck to you.
English speakers automatically think that foreigners are talking shit about them if theyre not speaking english
Sensible, likely. If a shop clerk is speaking in another language while they should be helping you in English, you should be worried.
אני מדבר חרא על אנשים.
@@JustinMorgan105kg why cursing ?
apple's lover that was a joke in which I actually quoted the original post. So, why ask why I cursed, and not the original poster?
apple's lover *part of the joke of course was that I actually said it in Hebrew. Did you not follow that?
It's a rookie mistake native English speakers.
Travelled in Spain and got some free beer and food for using my awful Spanish.
Native Spanish speaker here. Love these stories!
@ꅏꍟꍏꌚꍟ꒒ muy bien hermano, mi nativo idioma es Bengali pero hablo poco Español
@ꅏꍟꍏꌚꍟ꒒ Sí sí
@ꅏꑀꁲꈜꑀ꒒ Gusto en conocerte hermano! Supongo que eres de la India, yo soy de Venezuela (un país en el que se habla español en Sudamérica) :)
Yet, many Spanish speakers travel to England and speak terrible English.
I am not English but I met a Columbian LIVING in Australia struggling to speak a word of English.
Holy shit you’re madder than Duolingo is when I lose my streak
@Hungarian Nationalist that depends on your language, level, and learning style
@Hungarian Nationalist Szerintem nem.
@Hungarian Nationalist ive actually have become a really good portuguese speaker with the help of that app
*32 day streak lost* as if it didn't say that yesterday
yeah, cus duolingo already kidnapped your family
When you learn a language, you unlock a piece of the world!
@I love Angelique are you learning latin?
When you learn languages like Spanish, you actually unlock a kinda big part of the world.
I agree with you
林 it is now!! Lol
That's true. We can learn things that most people can't.
"California with Igloos". Nice
I live in California. I could stop laughing 🤣
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PARA MAG-TIBAY, UMINOM NG BEAR BRAND
Alaska exists though
Hmm Canada, wanna be the 51st state?
@@jamesphillipshort what’s in it for us?
Americans: “You’re in America, speak English!!”
Also Americans: “I’m going to retire in Mexico and not learn a word of Spanish. I’m also going to scream at anybody who dares speak Spanish around me while I’m in THEIR country.”
Also, the same could be said when it comes to the British and Spain.
I'm from Spain when K moved to the US I learned englidh within that same year. It is true though, most spaniards are as ignorant as americans.
Pablo Moncion but the difference is that Spain has an official language, which is Spanish (and some regional languages). The United States has no official language and is supposed to protect freedom of speech. And many people forget that Spanish was the first European language spoken in most of what is now the United States.
@@jscorpio1987 language =/= freedom of speech
Too much caffeine?
Arolema Prarath yes. Very true!
Some americans go to other countries and get angry/frustrated when locals don't speak english; They're the same americans who will say things like 'This is America, speak English!!!' which is usually followed by some sort of xenophobic or racist slur. sigh
+Mariana I always speak to many americans in my native language many times, I don't care they cannot able to understand my conversation to them.
+wakeunisex i can understand why ,whats your first language ha
Chamorro is my first language. why?
The same Americans saying "learn English" typically also are horrible at English grammar and spelling. For the people that say that you need to learn English, I just want to tell them about how much more I've learned about English from studying other languages than I have in English class.
+The One Banana America doesn't have official language :)
I'm a French teenager, but I know English due to living in a America. When I'm in France, I always see Americans getting mad a us for not always speaking perfect English. So what do, is when some Anglophones are being rude and come up to me, I pretend I don't speak English, and when they curse me out for it, I start speaking English. The look on their faces is priceless. I don't do this to people who seem nice though.
Wow c'est du génie, c'est un peu méchant mais ça reste du génie X) !
Je connais une prof d'anglais qui fait ça mais elle ne parle pas Anglais à la fin haha enfin après ça dépend des régions, elle fait ça à des gens qui vivent en France sans parler français ...
/r/thathappened
T Chop you french people are the same you’re not learning another language. You expect everybody to speak french.
Sometimes I'm proud to be an American, other times I don't want people to know at all for reasons similar to what you have described. My fellow Americans can often be incredibly rude and ignorant, and I'm genuinely sorry if they act like jerks to you.
I wonder how it feels like to live in the world knowing only one language.
Its a world where you refuse to use metric and think your country is the center of the world.
boring
not great ;-;
can speak from experience and attempting to learn second language (native english)
@@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999 oh ghad...
"Speak in English!"
"What? "then" and "than" are different?"
Damn Antarticans
good.
"They all speak English..." yes, when they're speaking direct to YOU. The newspapers don't translate themselves into English. The local TV won''t speak English just for you. How anyone can stand living in a country with the local people constantly talking over your head I just cannot understand. But millions of Anglophone expats live this way even in places like Spain where the local language is easy peasy!
Fun fact, Singapore and the Philippine's Media, Newspaper, commercials, and the official languages are English.
Spanish isnt easy english is way easyer.
yeah exactly, I'm fully irish, lived in Ireland my whole life, but I've learnt a solid amount of estonian, and I'm moving to estonia by myself in the near future, Spanish is such an easy language.
@@denja964 Ireland has become too unlivable so your moving to Estonia? How about dont and let the estonians have Estonia and instead make Ireland livable for your fellow irishmen.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 I'm not moving to estonia because Ireland is unlivable, I just love estonia, I know a lot about the country, my girlfriend is Estonian.
I'm an Australian of German/Croatian ancestry.
Had been learning German for about five years.
Last time I went to Europe I visited my mothers' birthplace.
Was such a great feeling to be able to talk to the locals in German.
"Do you speak English?"
"No"
"Sprechen Sie deutsch?"
"Ja".
😀
Anglo-Celtic Mega Nationalist you can still use it on internet
@Anglo-Celtic Mega Nationalist, or he can have exchanges on skipe with people that speak German in order to improve his language skills. I do it to improve my French and my english.
Why isnt it "Sprecht Sie Deutsch?" isnt "sprechen" plural?
jeremy emilio For addressing a group it's actually "Sprecht Ihr deutsch?"
I have a similar situation with Netherlands.
"Spreekt u Engels"?
"A little bit"
"How do you.............."?
The Dutch person then Starts talking in perfect English and uses words even I don't understand.
It is too hard to learn Dutch because most of the time their English is always way better than your Dutch
Hint:
THE UK AND IRELAND!
damn that's a big hint
... meaning??
@@Sionnach1601 It's the equivalent of being hit in the head with a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick.
@@BertGrink Yes, very striking imagery, but what in goodness name is the CONTEXT?!?!!
Oh you know what, I don't give a fuck. If a guy makes an obscure glib statement that few, if any, can understand, then why should anyone bother?? Plenty, millions more comments and videos to consider
@@Sionnach1601 The point was that this wasn't a hint, but rather straight out telling you the answer to the question.
Some people like to describe uncomfortable facts thrown at their faces as physical objects causing pain. That's all you have missed.
And no, that statement was not obscure, just a bit exaggerated.
@@3st3st77 All he said was "THE UK AND IRELAND!" This means nothing on its own. It's arbitrary.
And you would rather show everyone what a big massive ding dong you have by trying to make someone else look small, than just explaining the context.
When he said "Do you want to be stupid?!", I felt that.
even though i'm still intermediate in my 2nd language i felt motivated to learn the third after that lol
You want to learn french Spanish, stop felling stupid and make it happened
Him : *showing light blue*
Me as Indonesian: oh, that's 'young blue'
Edit: I'm half Dutch-Indonesian,, and living in the Netherlands ,, that's why I set Dutch flag as my profile.
Me as Chinese: wait, we call light blue 'young' too.
Baby blue
Indonesian.
Dutch Flag.
*C o l o n i a l i s m m u c h ! ? ! ?*
@@cakeisyummy5755 gekoloniseerd
What? a colonizer?
Paul has just got himself exiled from Canada.
For what, being brutally honest?
@@disregardingsanity7005 Agreed. As a Canadian that lives in South-Western Canada, We don't act much different from the "American Stereotype". The East and the Far North are a slightly different story, but still.
Good thing he knows more than one language then!
Umm I guess that's why he lives in Japan now 😁
Thank you for watching and have a nice DAAAAAAAAAY!
The 51st state, I'm guessing many Canadians didn't like that.
Sure we don't like it. But It's true that outside Quebec and the Maritimes, we are culturally identical to Americans.
@@rampantmutt9119 You think so? I was in Canada for two months. I didn't consider them the same. Anymore then Australia is the same as the UK or New Zealand...the only thing i didn't understand was why Canada doesn't have films and tv identifiably "Canadian"!
Canadia, on the Fringe of America. 😆
Some of my UK friends say we're just Americans who don't carry guns and aren't so loud. Otherwise no diff.
Green Snail So anyone who does something you disagree with is insane? That’s mature.
Americans in America: You're in America! Speak English!
Americans outside of America: Uhmmm.... does anybody here speak English???
I mean, there are 330m+ Americans, so odds are most people don’t represent either of these
I lived in Poland for a few years (it's where my parents are from) but I was born and raised in the USA.
Here's a difference between schools in the USA and Poland.
Poland:
Starting from the 1st grade, you learn English. Than from the 4th grade, you learn another language, usually German, but some schools offer other European languages. This is mandatory.
United States:
Starting from the 6th grade, you learn Spanish. Than in the 9th grade, you are offered the option to switch to French or Italian. Except none of this is mandatory. You don't have to learn a language.
BEFORE ANYBODY GETS MAD, THIS WAS MY EXPERIENCE. It depends on the school and region. :)
in egypt . we study english before the primary school and unfortunately until now we pronouciate with our own accent (the egyptian english accent)
sankes for za helping . i have a friendis . what is zat? . i sink it's not za good idea
i think it is really funny! that's not bad.
Foreign language starting from 1st grade (age 6-7) and another language from 4th grade are very recent changes in Poland, following education systems in other European countries. For long time it was - all mandatory - first foreign language in 4th grade or even later, second foreign language in high school, and two more years at university (but can switch to other languages if you wish).
When I visited Poland last year, I was pleasantly surprised to find that almost everyone in Poland spoke English except for older people. More people speak English in Poland even compared to Germany or France.
In Singapore, even in preschool or kindergarten, we have to learn our respective mother tongue languages (Chinese, Malay, Tamil etc.) alongside the English language - which is to be our first language and medium of instruction for all the other subjects.
In secondary school (at around age 13), students are given the opportunity to learn a third language at the MOELC (Ministry of Education Learning Centre) - either French, German, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese (for non-Chinese students) and Malay (for non-Malay students).
Learning Spanish taught me more about my own language (English) than all of the (English) grammar lessons in school. When I started re-learning Spanish as an adult I complained I needed an English dictionary to understand all the extra grammatical terms (subjunctive, participle, cases, etc).
But it was great! There's so many cool "wow" moments learning languages. I think schools have a lot to answer for. They take the fun out of languages.
Yes school definitely make learning languages boring as hell. It took about 15 years for that to wear off for me and get back into it. One of the cool moments for me was I'd been studying little bit of German (it's all gone now), but one day walking around I realized that "kindergarten" is a totally German word. Like even spelled the German way. Was such a cool realization.
I made an angry rant about schools above. Despicable! Yes, a lot to answer for, like where did my tax dollars go and what did they do? I would've loved to have advanced in languages, specifically one of my choice, and mathematics! Unfortunately, these were only somewhat available to me by 9th grade: high school. Education actually means something other than going to school.
Yes. I'm Argentinian (my mother language is Spanish) and English classes were so boring at school. However, when I learned English by myself, it was cool and I realized how my mother language worked because as a child I had problems with Spanish grammar and some things they teach you at school. But now after learning English, I could finally know how works the grammar of my language. Now I'm learning English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese (not yet this one). Besides, I can access more information which isn't in Spanish. I'm happy because languages changed my life :)
Yeah, you're dead right. My sons learning German now, and his interest in his English lessons in school has increased TEN fold. We now regularly discuss similarities between older forms of English (e.g. Thou, thy, thine etc.) and (Dein, Deine, Deinen etc.) He's become fascinated!!
Well, yeah, not entirely but they clearly make it even annoying part of the time, the only reason I learnt English is because I found it interesting to spend time learning it in my spare time, otherwise if it were for my school, I would've never be even the half of capable to speak it as I do now.
American : OMG YOU CAN SPEAK TWO LANGUAGE?!
European, Asian : *Can speak more than 2 language*
I was shocked when I came to the internet and people act like being bilingual is hard and special.
Hahahaha 😅😂 the fact that you left Africa out is just disrespectful to Languages.
Africans: Bro, I'm on my fifth language and I haven't even left school.
@@Odinsday Me, an African but hasn’t learned their native language yet: P A N I C Edit: turns out i’m good at French
You clearly have never even been to Asia (East Asia especially)
Firstly I got a bit offended with this video, than I realised I do speak more than one language, and my mother tongue is not even English
Lamo
*then I realised
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Realise and realize are different spellings of the same word, and they can be used interchangeably. Both are common throughout the English-speaking world, though in different areas. Realize is preferred in American and Canadian English, while realise is preferred outside North America.
3:55 "Cyan! That's a Cyan!" - a press operator
+BestOniichanNA hahaha. I also thought this way. A former typesetter.
Turquoise!
For the light shade of blue, my first thought was also cyan, but for the darker one, I've fallen back to my mother tongue where we have a word for a deep, dark shade of blue :>
cyan comes from greek wgich means blue
lol printing industry
What do you call somebody who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call somebody who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call somebody who speaks one language? American.
What do you call somebody who has no need for other silly languages? Too busy being awesome to care.
So, some spanish speakers I know, who only speak Spanish, are American? xD
Good point, Mau Pr. I live in a city with a large number of Mexican immigrants. Many have been here for decades and still know very little English and avoid contact with natives. They even get upset if they meet someone with dark skin who doesn't speak Spanish, because they think they are simply being snobby Hispanics who don't want to speak Spanish to immigrants.
Yes. That's why most of american people are 笨蛋. Jadi bangsa pecundang.
@- Freneza
I'm all for nationalism!
Speaking as an American who at one point could hold basic conversations in 3 languages and now can only speak a bit of German, one of the huge obstacles is just being able to practice them. I grew up in Ohio and the ability to use French, German, or Spanish in real-world situations was just extremely limited without long-range travel. So it’s not just the incentives that are messed up. A lot of us do take languages in school, both in secondary school and college, but without the opportunity to use them we lose them pretty quickly. After a 30 year break on studying languages I’m learning Korean now and totally enjoying studying a language again. But I run into the same difficulties with just not having people to talk to.
As a Chinese undergraduate student learning Japanese at a university in America, I must acknowledge that learning languages broadens my horizon, takes myself out of my comfort zone. The difference of language sometimes does reflect cultural difference and diversity in the way of thinking. I agree with most of the content of this video, and thank you very much for making it!
I'm Chinese too. Mandarin is my native tongue, I speak Cantonese at near native level, and I'm in the process of learning first Korean, then Japanese.
Do you speak Mandarin and English currently?
Understanding other languages opens you a whole new world. Even if you think you will never travel outside your own home country, being able to read books, watch TV programs or movies or listen to radio in a foreign language gives you a whole new perspective in news, politics, science, arts, culture and entertainment. If the foreign programs or movies are translated to your own language (subtitled or dubbed), there are always some things lost in translation.
Europeans often think americans are ignorant. They are not ignorant by choice, because it seems to be just the monolingual english speaking people that seem to be most conservative, most complacent and most ignorant. Being able to follow a wider variety of foreign medias, even those whose viewpoint is different from yours, would help gaining a much wider knowledge and a more objective view of the world.
I feel privileged, having grown up in Finland, a small country, a very small language area, thus having to learn other languages at school to be able to communicate with rest of the world.
Learning at least 3 languages (2 domestic and one foreign) is compulsory in all finnish schools, but you can start learning 4th language at secondary school and fifth one in upper secondary (senior high) school if you so wish.
paanikki A good example for me is: Learns German, practices with Rammstein lyrics but also drink beer with Blind Guardian, hypothetically. Learns Norwegian, reads lyrics to black metal songs to see just how Satanic or Viking like the band is. Learns Japanese: I'm less of a weeaboo for starters...
K McAlpine Rammstein is a pretty good motivation to learn German.
Luis Irastorza Valera now a good motivation for Swedish, well if I ever meet PewDiePie I can surprise him with full conversations in Swedish. Plus I love the language and what I know of their culture. I also love the music that's there.
Many people around the world believe those in the USA are so privileged that we can do anything we want, but many, many people here can only afford an education that includes only the very basics we KNOW we will use on a daily basis in a profession/job. Education after public high school is very expensive here & is even considered to be a luxury for many in here the United States (many people won't gamble on taking classes they think they are unlikely to use)!
BTW; I myself love learning new things including languages and cultures. I took 2 yrs of Spanish at University & I'm also interested in the French, Russian & Ukrainian languages.
"California with igloos" amazing
thus explaining why many/most/maybe a few Hollywood movies and TV shows are shot (nice word) in Canada, the California Of The Great North!!
He literally said "California with penguins". Just that penguins live in Antarctica, not in the Northern Hemisphere. Wondering if it was a subtle joke-in-the-joke or a total slip on his part...
Amen, Brother Paul!!!! My favorite language joke:
Q1: What do you call someone who speaks several languages?
A1: Multilingual
Q2: What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
A2: Bilingual
Q3: What you call someone who speaks only one language?
A3: American (or Canadian, Australian, British, Irish, etc)
i cant speak for most of irish population, but i can speak spanish, irish and english ☘️ 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
In spanish we have a specific word for thos who speak more than 2 lenguages, it's "poliglotas" or "híperpoliglotas"
Anglophones are lazy but so what? It isn't our fault we're born in the most universal language. Take Eurovision as an example for this. Overtime people dropped their mother tongue and now virtually all the songs are either ENGLISH songs or mostly English with some with another language. Plus as for the case of americans, The US itself is like it's own monolingual subcontinent. The US is the equivilent of 50 developed rich english speaking countries.
@@valeuudiste4664 I get you. I've also worked hard to earn proficiency in a couple of European languages but, other than my wife and daughter, virtually none of my friends and family have. My immediate definitely is, and you probably are, the outliers, linguistically.
@@ashleyvelasco690 Me gusta mucho la distinccion entre estas dos palabras. Gracias!!!!!
There is a big difference between learning a second language based in the same proto language and learning a language from a different proto language.
Learn german then. Or swedish.
@@IceSpoon Yeah for real, genetic relationship says little about difficulty. If someone locked me in a room and said the only way to get out was to learn a 2nd language in a year, and they gave me the choice between Greek and Swahili...I'd pick Swahili without a second thought, I'd probably get out early. Japanese is also dead easy...spoken. You can pick up a getting-around level of the spoken language in 3 months from English. The problem there is the writing system.
German is in the Germanic writing system with English, but most English-speakers take years to learn it because of the 12 (technically 16 if you count plurals) article and adjective declensions, all of the gender ending exceptions, and the 1,000,001 dialects. Meanwhile Spanish is a Romance language, but Americans usually find it fairly easy to learn. True you won't find variation as extreme as that between English and Finnish, or between Navajo and Chinese, within the same family, but dissimilarity and learning difficulty aren't really the same thing. They correlate, but not perfectly.
@@mrubuntuking5257 There are exchange students who learn a B1-level of the language in only a year, it's all about how hard you try and if you immerse yourself in the culture and language. Of course, I won't deny that choosing a similar language to one you already speaks makes it 10x easier.
I don't speak italian, but since my native language is spanish, I already understand quite a bit and I have a feel of how grammar works in italian. Same with german: I don't speak it, but thanks to english and norwegian I have a starting point to move further. Now, swahili? Navajo? Sami? Euskera? Chinese? Not a single clue.
@@IceSpoon I think Dutch is a cool language and I've actually been able to kind of just understand some words that they say and its supposed to be the closest language to English but I don't think I will ever be able to use dutch so I tryed learning French but it ridiculously complicated probably because I am very good at English and my age which discourages me so I've just given up.
@@mrubuntuking5257 Spanish is not too hard for English speakers despite from different language family, although they are Indo-European. Even European speakers find Chinese grammar much easier than English
I think part of the problem is lack of practice. When learning English you generally don't have to make much effort to practice, indeed you're probably exposed to English daily on TV and the Internet without even trying. When most of TV and the Internet is in your native tongue, you have to make an effort to find places to practice.
True that. My son's studying German at the moment, and he cleverly decided to go the full hog and change his computer, phone and other devices into German.
It was challenging and a pain to him at the start, but he says he's really benefitting from it now. I'm proud of him for doing that.
Watch undubbed anime
Its pretty easy to find
But then u be a weeb🧐hard choice
with internet we can find free tv on foreign languages very easily. here on youtube for instance.
Actually japan is more monolingual than the USA. In USA 80% of people are monolingual in English but in japan 90% of people only speak Japanese.
@@dontsubscribetome3262 You will have to spend 5 or more years learning Japanese
I'm Native American and I speak 3 languages fluently (English, Navajo and Spanish) and now learning a forth and fifth (Japanese and Arabic). In the future I hope to learn French, German and Mandarin. Most of my family are bilingual.
Side note: In Navajo pink is a shade of red and light blue is a shade of blue. Blue, purple and green are types of blue.
Well don't let ur native language died, keep speaking it
@@Dibelchii300 Do young Navajos still speak the language?
@@spongebobsquarepants4137 Yes many do, most school districts on and off the reservation teach it. From K-12.
Japanese also have a tendency to separate colors just into warm shades and cool shades without getting too detailed, although they have names for all the "traditional" European color names. The only words in Japanese that uniquely express the meaning of a color are "ao" (blue or green) "aka" (red and other warm colors) and "ki" for yellow. Of course there is white and black if you call those colors. All other words for color are either words for something that has that color ("midori" for green actually means greenery, not the color itself), from English ("pinku" for pink, ...even the more traditional "momo-iro" means color of peach blossom), or rarely from Chinese ("enji" for maroon). For what it's worth.
"Wake the F**k up Americans" that just made me smile lol
@Trump Boss I just said it just made me smile
I feel out of place. I started learning Spanish and I realized I have a knack for language in general. I'm an American. I actually started watching your channel because language in general has come to fascinate me, in exactly how people communicate things differently. Once I have a better grasp I wanna pick up a non-romance language.
This is where people come to lose their language, in truth. My grandparents were from Puerto Rico, and two generations in and none of us speak it. But four months ago I spoke like a baby. Now I'm having conversations. It is such a surreal experience. And with modern technology and access to so many resources on the internet, it is easier than ever to attain a new language, no excuses.
As a student in America, taking a Spanish class, I can tell you that, sure, you might learn some stuff that could be useful for reading a sign or asking where the library is, but never go very deep enough to actually SPEAK and UNDERSTAND.
I had already been texting someone in Spanish for a while and realized how much there was to learn and how far behind we were. If I just sat in the classroom and kept up with the same pace as the other students I could NEVER attain my full potential.
So now I took my education in my own hands and I'm learning so much more. I watch videos and even bought a grammar book with 1,000+ exercises.
And although the class is boring now (mostly because I know how to do the things my teacher teaches already) I have to give credit to my teacher for helping me find my passion for learning another language.
A language class won't teach you the whole language,, it will reach you only the essential facts; and it's your responsibility to acquire, refine, and USE that essential knowledge to gain more experience in the language.
Differently from other subjects, languages can't just be learned, but they ought to be practiced .
Que bueno que aprendas la lengua española
Ánimo! Todo el que estudia el español con profundidad, acaba descubriendo un tesoro ;)
Did you have a problem with the sounds of the R?
You knew enough of Spanish to be able to make Texts to someone? I never gotten that far in my six years of French class. I had no idea how to create sentences. I could only translate from memory using sentences taught to me. Using the most basic of word bank replacements in simple phrases.
Creating a sentence from scratch? No chance. Word-for-word direct never works, but I couldn't understand concepts beyond single word translations.
My high school French teacher used to tell this joke:
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American.
I discovered a love of foreign languages in my freshman year of high school, and I'm proud to not be a member of the helplessly monolingual majority in my country (the USA). I now have a BA in Spanish and an MA in Linguistics. I also have at least a working knowledge of French, Italian, German, Latin, and classical Greek.
He who does not study a foreign language does not truly know his own.
Él que no estudia un idioma extranjero, no sabe verdaderamente el suyo propio.
Celui qui n'étude pas une langue étrangère ne sait pas vraiment la sienne.
Quello che non studia una lingua straniera, non sa davvero la sua propria.
Wer nicht eine Fremdsprache studiert, kennt ehrlich nicht die seine.
Is quī nōn lingam externam discit, nōn scit vērē suā ūtī.
Ὃς ἂν μὴ βάρβαρον γλώττην μανθάνῃ, οὐκ ὰληθῶς ταύτην αὐτοῦ οἶδεν.
I forget who originally said that at the moment, but just for the record, it wasn't me.
+TranslatorCarminum Whoops! I missed a letter in the French. It should've been "...n'étudie pas..."
"Colui (o chi) non studia una lingua straniera, non conosce davvero la propria." Bravo comunque
+TranslatorCarminum Attempt of a Danish version of your poetic line:
"Han der ikke studerer et fremmed sprog, (gør ikke sandt*) hans eget. (Direct translation) *makes no sense in Danish
"Den der ikke et fremmed sprog lærer, vil aldrig sit eget helt forstå". (Poetic Danish) English translation:
"The one who (do**) not a foreign language learn, will never it's own completely understand". **to do is very often implied in a Danish sentence.
+TranslatorCarminum "étude" is a noun, you should use "étudie".
For "savoir"=> "sait", it's correct but I'd rather use "connait" (connaitre) because your meaning is to know someone/something. The verb "savoir" is related to knowledge is is general, you technically know your own language because you can use it in an efficient way, but you don't know its history, how some words have been included and why,etc.
Thetrick with translation is that you should interpret the sentence so the native speakers of the other language get what you mean, if you use another word, it's still correct but it's gonna sound odd to french speaking people.
Merci pour les corrections! Je m'étais déjà rendu compte de l'erreur en "étude," mais je n'étais jamais sûr de "savoir" ou "connaitre" avec les langues.
Grazie per le correzioni! Mi ero già accorto dello sbaglio in "étude," ma non ero mai sicuro di "sapere" o "conoscere" con le lingue.
Also in Spanish that light blue is a different colour, called "celeste".
I'm Hunarian.
I can speak Hungarian and Spanish fluently and I learn English, Mandarin and Toki Pona too.
As a cultural anthropologist, I approve this message
@Anglo-Celtic Mega Nationalist Well, to be fair, that is entirely your choice NOT to avail of the benefits they present to you.
We won't mention the fact that here you are using English to communicate...
Or that you may well have used your French to communicate with other French speakers elsewhere...!!!
@Anglo-Celtic Mega Nationalist Bud you need to read what you wrote in your first post here. It will explain why you think I don't understand. Cheers
@Anglia Alba "There was absolutely no reason for me to learn French."
As for everybody : Read French Literature !
@Anglia Alba Like improving your English? Could *have* and "else wise"?
Hey, same!! (although I tend to gravitate more toward linguistic anthropology - but it's often difficult to separate the two haha)
Some native speakers from Japan told me that they don't understand why tourists expect them to learn English when they are the ones coming to THEIR country. They said: "Aren't they interested in the country and it's language if they're coming here? Can't they learn at least a few words?"
It's like coming to someone else's house and expecting to have some special kind of treatment. Tourists are more or less guests, but they are no sacred beings. They should show some respect to the host as well.
In Europe many schools force kids to learn a 2nd or event 3rd language.
In my case English was required and I could choose between German and Russian at first and was forced to learn French in high school. The last exam before entering the university consists of two language tests: one for the mother tongue and a second one for English. It's obligatory. No escape.
I believe that it is one of the reasons behind your complain. In America you're never forced to learn a second language.
You could also argue that colonialism had some input in today's linguistic situation.
On a side note... What I really hate hearing from native English speakers is: "I don't want to watch this movie. It's not dubbed. If I want to read I'll grab a book." Really...? You're missing out, bruh...
What really irritates me especially in the US is that some people (racist) will tell other people speaking a language other than English to "speak English, this is America" when the US has no official language and there is no law requiring them to speak it or to learn it🤷🏻♂️ some English speakers really think the world revolves around their language🙄 I rather learn other languages than speak English all the time, English can get really boring honestly, good thing I'm bilingual tho so it shouldn't be too hard to learn a 3rd or 4th language, I love my Spanish❤
Actually Americans are required to take a foreign language in university and offered foreign language in secondary schools and often primary. However it's very hard to gain competency in a language when there is nowhere to use it where you live, when you are amongst 330 million people around you who are speaking English and if you are one of the very many who wish to improve your language competence visiting a country as soon as your accent is detected the other person switches to English precisely because it is the common world language. Some people around the world find it very easy to be presumptive about what Americans think or do but it is actually more complex. As an example sometimes those voices saying this is America so talk English are speaking with a distinct Indian, Mexican or Japonese accent. Are they being beligerante Americans or as immigrants have they developed a surprising but kind of adorable pride in their new home? It's similar to when some decide from a far that America has no culture when every culture on the planet exists in America and is constantly interacting with others creating new culture daily. Everything everywhere is more complex than people presume.
Japanese is so infiltrated with English words, you can speak English slowly with a proper Japanese accent and get by. (I am joking, but not really.)
Haha yeah I do too
I know like roman, korean, a bit of japanese, cyrillics, and I'm studying Chinese XD
I thought I was the only one looking for a free movie by using another language besides English so I don't have to pay 😂
As part of my English classes at a Japanese university, I wrote a short article titled "Monolingualism in Japan and the United States: A Brief Comparison." It is followed by several discussion questions, and examines the differing reasons that most people in the two countries are monoglots, and has been quite successful for lessons in my speaking, reading and writing classes.
I love your videos, Paul. You are pedagogical, convincing, respectful and, above everything, you are a 100% right. Thank you very, very much.
I mean, I immediately thought "Turquoise".
But turquoise is a shade of blue?
I see it more like a mix of blue and green! Just like the sea :)
Hell yea
Cyan if you ask me!
All shade is à différente colour, if you dont think like that you ned to say All colour is only one, because you can go blue to réd and réd to yellow and yellow to green.
I didn't know you could be that savage. I love it.
Hey my fellow ace
Even if you'll never move out of your English Speaking country ever, learning to communicate in American Sign Language/British Sign Language [or whatever sign language your country uses] would be an excellent use of your time for communicating with people in your town/community that can't speak or are deaf
Death ☠️☠️
@@pingpong3311 its been fixed 😭
I write on paper. That is what I did this one time there was a deaf student in my classroom.
She did have a signer, though, assigned to her to assist her.
Soy estadounidense, y yo estoy aprendiendo español. Mi vocabulario es muy limidato pero estoy emocianado sobre hablando una idioma otra.
(I’m sure there are tons of mistakes in that, I’m still very new to Spanish so I apologize if it’s not very comprehensible)
Si te entiendo. Pero tampoco hablo bien el inglés.
Realmente vas muy bien, te deseo mucha suerte en tus estudios! Ojalá puedas venir pronto a visitarnos en Hispanoamérica :)
as a bilingual, i have to say you did pretty well
como un bilingüe, tengo que decir lo hiciste muy bien
Egualmente para mi. Tengo problemas con los verbos ser y estar (to be)(être) potrque dos? Asi es la idioma
@@benoitmatteau1255 Muy bueno que estés aprendiendo! Solo un tip, es el idioma, a pesar de que termina en a es masculino. Sobre ser y estar la regla general es que ser es para cosas por siempre y estar es para cosas temporales :)
I'm a Filipino. As of the moment, I know three languages. I am now learning French and after this, I plan to learn German and Japanese. I'd rather study languages than waste my time on my Facebook timeline.
Yeah exactly many of us filipinos always text and post on facebook my first language was english and I plan on learning tagalog
Very sad the Filipinos lost the spanish language.
Fernando Jimenez Sanchez there are many remnants of the spanish language in filipino
rittmeister spanish has many speakers, being the second most spoken (ignoring chinese)
rittmeister well i forgot about hindustani, but still if i refer to lamguages that are Most Spoken Throught The World, and not concentrated like hindustani and chinese, it’s really english and spanish, and maybe french for africa
The color remark really hit home, in Portuguese we must have 10 names to describe every shade of blue!
He's wrong though. In Britain, this colour is called turquoise
@@arturturkevych3816 In Spanish we would call that turquesa and I think that's wrong. Turquesa is a blue like greener than normal.
@@AnImperialGod I believe you are right. Just came to my mind that that's cyan colour!
@@arturturkevych3816 yea Im not sure what he means!, we have different names for all shades in English as well!!
@@nofood1 I guess he didn't know them or something?
This also applies to South Americans. They are also mostly monolingual, Spanish or Portuguese.
As a native spanish speaker, I've never seen (neither online nor in person) a US/Canadian citizen who can speak spanish properly, with only one exception, and she had spanish grandparents and aunts. However, I've seen a lot of them saying they can speak spanish fluently... The audacity.
there are millions of US citizens who are native speakers of Spanish
@@jenna_gia yeah, people with hispanic heritage are outliers in this data, for obvious reasons
Why do you feel the need for other people to speak Spanish when you are in their country?
@@Timesplitter888 i live in Spain, I'm talking about US people in Spain and online, what are ypu talking about?
@@Timesplitter888 I've never been to the US, however i can tell you that brittish people say they don't speak spanish yet their proficiency is higher than that of self proclaimed US spanish speakers
And the most important argument of all: it increases the number of potential girl/boy-friends! :D
hahahaha, yes!!! girl/boy friends from other cultures!!!
Anxious-preoccupied is the best adult attachment type!
I wonder how many people had this reaction:
"What color is this?" Dark Blue
"And what color is this?" Turquoise
+MrsXanatrix i said to my self cyan
Bitch please, it was aqua :D
the dark one I call navy blue, the light one I call cyan
Man, am I the only one who thought, "Teal"?
I'd have said sky blue.
Undoubtedly, one of your best videos Paul!
I have always said this same exact thing! And it is so true that since I've started learning other languages my interest in language in general has piqued. That's what first brought me to this channel!
I, an anglophone, have found that learning other languages has helped me with my own language, meaning knowing the higher-level of vocabulary which is derived from Latin (because I studied neo-Latin languages, such as Spanish and French), and, being able to write better prose, because I know the grammar of English better (from having compared it to that of other languages).
Q: What do you call someone who can speak two languages?
A: Bilingual.
Q: What do you call someone who can speak three langauges?
A: Trilingual.
Q: What do you call someone who can only speak one language?
A: An American.
Haha, that's a classic joke.
Le chat
Gracias.
+formerevolutionist Lol. Dat is zo hilarisch. Nederlands is de makkelijkste taal voor Engels sprekenden, dus ik zeggen dat Engels sprekenden moet echt Nederlands te leren.
+Langfocus Whast do u call a polyglot.
A Dutch Person.
LOL! :D
I discovered this channel just yesterday and maybe this is the right video to leave this comment here: Great work! Not only are the informations in it very interesting and very well researched (your videos about German are flawless!), you manage to provide a historical view and a view beyond one's own nose.
And to your subscribers: I never saw a channel with that much really great and often funny comments! :-)
Thumbs up!
Thanks! I’m glad you’re here!
And I’ll be releasing an interesting video about German in a few days!
@@Langfocus And I even got an answer :D Anyhow, I really like all your videos so far, no matter what languages they are about.
When you're on the phone speaking to someone in another language and your friend can't understand what you are saying:
Bravo 6 going dark
I love that
As a a black American who speaks Spanish, a lot of people will assume I'm Dominican, Colombian, or from some other Latino country with a noticeable black population. I was in a Spanish Immersion program in elementary school where you do Kindergarten in English but from 1st grade through 5th grade you're taught mainly in Spanish for 5 years. You learn the same material as the other kids, only it's presented in Spanish. Learning a second language at a younger age is much easier because the brain is still developing. Europeans are so much better at speaking other languages because they start in elementary school where most Americans don't start until middle school or high school. As someone who travels frequently, it's interesting to see reactions when going new places. People in México and Colombia are usually surprised at an American speaking English. It even saves me money when I travel because in Latin America English speaking tourists are often taken advantage of and charged higher prices because of the illusion that everyone in America is rich. Speaking Spanish helps me negotiate lower prices than a tourist who didn't speak Spanish. The only downside is that even though I pay less than other Americans a lot of times I still pay more than a native of that country.
Greg Thompson will you also learn Portuguese?
@@dennis771 Honestly not sure if I can handle another language. I tried to learn a little bit of French but sometimes I would get confused and answer in Spanish by accident.
Greg Thompson That tells you we don’t need to be multi lingual to be successful, inclusive or smart.
In truth, to be successful you only need English today.
Some Europeans...
Where I live a lot of people can speak both Spanish and Basque (not all) but most have a very rudimentary and rusty knowledge of the foreign language they were also taught at school (usually English): they don't really care, they are not interested and when they know you're fluent in English they look at you as some sort of freak. Much of the same happens in France, etc. and a lot has to do with the tradition of dubbing movies to the local language, which is not done in smaller countries like the Netherlands or Slovenia. It's the people of the smaller nations who are more proficient in various languages usually, all large nations are somewhat arrogant about their own language (but none as much as the USA probably).
@Richard Buse not impossible.my grandma and I(21) am learning German together and she's 85. Even though she probably will never use it,she says it keeps her occupied and her brain from rusting from idleness
Surprised there aren't angry Canadians about referring Canada as apart of the USA
They're angry, but they're silent because they know it's true! :)
+Langfocus Well, I'm livid, but it would be rude to post about it. ;)
+Jacob Wilson That is the most Canadian response ever!
+Lucy Hunt As a Canadian I have to admit it's true. Also we Canadians don't really get butthurt over little labels, we know our country and culture rocks, who cares what others think of it.
there are no angry Canadians. if there are, they keep it to themselves and apologize.
“Do you want to be stupid?” 😂 I’m glad you made this video Paul!
It is very difficult to a practice your knowledge of a foreign language in a foreign country when a majority of the people whom you encounter want to practice their English upon learning that you're a native English speaker.
@george fay Very true, the best thing to do here is say you're not from an English speaking country. For example, let's say a German native wants to speak English with me, I'll say I'm from Italy (my italian is nearly fluent) and that I don't know English. That way he has no choice but to speak German (or Italian if he so wishes). It is damn right lying but you end up practising the language far more, and plus even if you lie, you may never see them again.
So true. If you go to northern France and try speaking to them with your basic French they just reply in English.
Most people are not interested in helping you practice your language skills, they just want to serve you or whatever and get onto the next customer.
I know, it happened to me in Germany. My german knowledge was very basic however i still wanted to use the little german I knew but people would always reply in English. I tried the same in France and it actually worked because my level was much more advanced than with german. I'm mexican and after that experience I always reply in Spanish regardless of their level/proficiency :).
I had this in Spain, but only because I was a beginner and they were more fluent in English than I was in Spanish. I still persisted, though.
Yes and no. I studied German for several years and never achieved fluency but reached a reasonable level. Alas that was a long time ago and I've got out of practice since. However two years ago I went to Vienna for a few days and each time I spoke German they replied in it, only using English when I couldn't understand their replies. This shows that at least they appreciated my effort. I remain as convinced as I was 50 years ago that if you speak German with reasonable pronunciation and gramma,r most people will respect your attempts
The way the American education system teaches languages is so slow and useless. They don't even teach foreign languages until high school or late middle school. Languages should be taught as soon as you first set foot into pre-school. I started learning Spanish in the 7th grade on my own and in only a year I learned more than what my friends in Spanish 1 will learn when the year ends, and in two years I can predict I'll know more than the people in Spanish 4 do.
I don't understand why it's not standard at every public and private school in the U.S. for every single student to be taught to be fluent in both English and Spanish by the time they finish 4th grade. Especially here in Texas, you'd think that would be a no-brainer.
@@thegreatbutterfly I don't understand either. You'd think Spanish would be taken more seriously, then again the education system doesn't have a reputation for being good :/
Joms The Jom Theff In truth people only use spanish for marketing and customer service the US economy is 99% English
@@dennis771 Most of the people who live by me in my neighborhood speak better Spanish than English, and with at least two of them, we often have to use their children to translate for us in order to communicate properly. When I go to the grocery store, a good 20% of the people shopping there speak better Spanish than English. It's clear that Spanish is an absolutely essential part of a child's education in this area. Perhaps it's less common in your area, but if you really think Spanish only accounts for 1% of the US economy, you need to open your eyes and look.
I see it as a personal failure that I haven't learned a second language up until now. Spanish has never been the language of my passion, but methinks if I had started right after finishing school, I could have learned both Spanish and at least two languages of my interest by now.
But that's just the thing, isn't it? Why make people wait until they finish school and then do it on their own initiative? Isn't the whole point of the education system to teach people essential knowledge in things like math, science, art, and language?
thegreatbutterfly because these people are immigrants.
By 3rd generations most Hispanic don’t even speak Spanish.
When I mean the economy I means corporate America which makes up 80-90% of the economy.
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!! My friends think it’s dumb that I’m learning Mandarin, Russian, and Italian. I think it’s a good idea though!
You need new friends
Don't let them discourage you. Удачи!
Don't listen to them, forza amico, continua così!
Awesome video Paul! I love all your stuff, but this really hits at the heart of WHY we need to care about being multi lingual. As a native North American (5th generation Californian) I speak my native English and I am fairly fluent in Spanish and Indonesian. I am also working on learning Hawaiian and Javanese. As you said, each language you learn helps you appreciate the world from a different perspective, and find commonality with people in other cultures. Thanks again.
Your “wake the fuck up” in the beginning was my favorite thing you ever did. Hahaha
“English is the international language.”
Mi: “EsPeRaNtO eStAs La InTeRnAcIa LiNgVo.”
Esperanto isn't the "De Facto" international language, no matter how hard it was tried. With few exceptions, most of the world didn't paid it enough attention for this to work out.
monteparnas Why do you care? We Esperantists just enjoy language learning. We realize we aren’t popular now, but we still organize because we like to do stuff with Esperanto. The Esperanto community makes memes, has inside jokes, reads Esperanto literature, and has organizational structures. Esperantismo is an inclusive culture based on values and interests rather than ethnicity. It is a club anyone can join for free. Maybe international Esperanto is unlikely, but it is part of the cultural references and ideas that make Esperanto fun. This joke isn’t for you, but, if you’re willing to play along with it, it could be. The comment you made was taking a joke literally. If there is one lesson in all of this, it is don’t take jokes literally. Also, if you’re going to call someone out in the comments, know what you’re taking about first.
@@malachykinney1598 , as Meme McQueen said, it was merely an explanation. And since this is the comments section for a video about english, I don't know what else did you expected with your 'joke'.
That said, yours wasn't a healthy behavior on the internet. By getting it too personal and going for it with such aggressiveness you'll harm your health and the reputation of Esperantists.
@@monteparnas its just a joke, no need to shit on esperanto
@@soyderiverdeliverybeaver8941 I didn't.
The "laziness" of native English speakers has a lot to do with geography. Britain, Australia and New Zealand are all islands and thus have no borders that touch other languages. The USA has Canada on the north - no language barrier there - and only Mexico to the south. Canada has only the USA. So the necessity of speaking more than one language is largely absent.
Europeans are jammed together closely with a whole lot of languages right next to each other. If they don't learn more than one language in everyday life, they're going to be taught it in school, probably from a very young age. And unlike the English-speaking countries, the other language will probably be more useful in their daily lives, if not an economic necessity.
The spread of English worldwide was purely by chance. First, the British tendency to invade and rule other countries imposed it on millions; second,, the ascendancy of American pop culture in the 20th century made it appealing to learn so as to understand movies, songs, and TV shows. This chance set of circumstances has therefore given English speakers an unintended benefit and reduced or eliminated the need to speak anything else.
Preach!
You forgot Ireland.
And Mexico only have USA to the north, the little borders to the south are Guatemala (Spanish speaking) and Belize (most Mexicans don't even know it even exists). Even though most students here learn English at least since basic education, even when many would never use it, regardless Trump's delirium of Mexican invasion to the north. Most of us will never leave the country. I don't know if I will ever move to a non Spanish speaking country, even though I speak English fluently, French at a basic level and I'm learning Chinese and Portuguese. You English speakers have to stop figuring out pretexts and expecting others to learn for you, communication is a bilateral activity and geography, pop culture or economical benefits are not crucial when you think in the big picture about languages.
actually it has to do with the fact that learnig English is easy cause it's everywhere and it's the world's lingua franca nowadays. English speakers don't feel like they have to learn any other language
I beg to differ with you. I live in Mexico City, we are far from USA. Hardly ever do we use English language in our daily lives but, since we are really concerned about education, we take some years to learn English. So, do me a favour, do not give geagraphy as an excuse not to be bilingual. By the way, the colour was navy blue. Greetings from Mexico City.
Here in TX., I’m trying to learn Spanish. But the Spanish speakers get offended when I speak Spanish. They say “I speak English!”and the ones that aren’t offended always answer in English. I’m still trying. And I’m not going to stop.
Just keep trying until they give in
¿en serio pasa eso?
I always try to learn the basics when travelling to a foreign land. The locals really do appreciate it, even if it only gives them something to laugh at.
Geography is the main reason. If you never leave Canada or the US, there's no compelling or practical reason to learn a 2nd language. If I lived in Belgium, learning more than one language would be more practical.
Yeah, most people learn other languages for that or economic reasons.
Finally a sensible post. The main reason "Anglophones" don't speak other languages is because their countries are geographically isolated from others. It's as simple as that.
SuperMagnetizer I have agree, yet also disagree. The U.S. is one of the most diverse countries in the world, so there’s many people with different ethnic backgrounds who speak other languages besides English. For example, Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the U.S.. Of course, if you live somewhere in the mid-east, you’re less likely to run into a Spanish speaker than per say, California. However, I still don’t think it should stop anyone from learning a new language, but that’s up to the person’s decision.
So you can get the fuck out of Belgium? Smart move.
I would say it has to do with culture instead of geography.
The background. I thought this was a Paul Joseph Watson video lol
Anglophones are the work of the MAINSTREAM METEOR who NOINTY FOH PAHSENT of AMERICANS don't TROST.
CA-PI-TA-LI-SM Is the main LAN-GUAGE in the WORLD, you LEF-TIST FILTH
WEL IMAGEN MY SHOHCK!
THEH MEINSTREEM MEETIER?
It is, but with fewer cunts.
The frigging intro woke me up for sure and I'm all the way in SE Asia. Cracked me up no doubt 😆
My mother tongue is Spanish, and I learned English by living abroad. Studying another language and living abroad certainly enhances your brain. As said by someone, it even makes ya learning more about your own languages. Obviously you not only learn the language itself but the culture and the way of thinking, as you think in different paths depending on the language. Besides this I understand Valencian, Catalan and Gallego languages. Here in Spain we have several languages besides Spanish.
I am Brazilian, and here not everyone speaks a second language, today teenagers are more interested in learning English and Spanish for work, to some uninformed people, we speak portuguese, not spanish hahaha. :)
I already speak spanish and I am learning english, I would like to learn german too, why not?
Deutsch ist Schön! Ich lerne Es aber ich bin nicht gut.
I speak English and Chinese fluently but I’m still not brave enough to try German. German has got the reputation as one of the hardest European languages and even the idea of learning it sounds intimidating to me
Crl jesus
@Green Snail Humm, no, portuguese speakers understand more Spanish then vise-versa
@Green Snail I already speak German. I'm currently learning French with the sole purpose of having access to more resources to learn Russian. I'm quite aware of the difficulty of Slavic languages, but you know what's even more difficult than Slavic languages? Uralic languages.
4:24 "What color is this?" I know very well it's pink, but my silly brain thought of the series Red VS Blue where the character Donut is defending his armor's color: "It's not PINK! It's LIGHT RED!"
I mean honestly learning a language is not fun but the main thing is I'm dumb as fuck when it comes to foreign language. I can greatly respect people who know more than one language because I know they put in the grind and time to learn so big props to people that speak multiple languages
I just started watching my first anime through without subtitles. I now know enough Japanese where I don't insane from looking shit up and can usually just fill in the blanks and even learn new words when I don't understand.
In Italian, those are two different colours as well: "blu" and "azzurro".
we also have “celeste” and “acquamarina”! they are four different colours for us but Anglophones would call them all just: blue, light blue, sky blue, and green hahaha
We also use the word "cyan" to refer to the lighter, greenish blue, but pretty much almost no-one uses that term except when it comes to printer ink.
ARC the Clarinet Master
we also have the word ciano, and likewise it is mainly used in design or art contexts, but it’s yet another colour for us
I'm gonna go sit in a dark corner and eat 12 kilograms of poutine and wash it down with a bottle of maple syrup because you said we're the sane as Americans. Then when I'm over it maybe I'll ride my moose to Tim Horton's. And my free healthcare will take care of any problems caused by all that. Besides any of that, good points made.
You nailed that, Paul!
I am a native Bulgarian and speak English as a second language to a certain level.
Having English as the international language is great. I mean, todays world does need a common language.
However, nothing antagonises me more than an arrogant, narrow-minded native English speaker that demands speakers of other languages to understand them.
Non-native speakers' ability should be appreciated and seen as convenience by native ones (even when command is poor), as opposed to be taken as an obligation.
Note: This comment is referred to only a small number of native English speakers. Most are well-understanding and appreciative.
You are absolutely right!
English speaking countries do not teach foreign languages to young students.
This is why we need Esperanto
Never be ashamed to be monolingual.
I used to be bilingual, and different 2nd languages at different times, but am now firmly monolingual.
For those who learn multiple languages, either out of absolute survival necessity or by choice, good for you. Be proud. For those who find it too difficult to waste time learning more than your native language, you got NOTHING to be ashamed of. It's a personal choice that doesn't affect anybody else, doesn't stop anybody else from doing wtf THEY want to do. There is ZERO shame to stay in your comfort zone, as long as you don't physically hurt or burden others unfairly (i.e. more than they harm or burden you: e.g. eating animals when you can go vegan, arresting people for consensual homosexual sex) and don't shame THEM for staying in THEIR comfort zone.
Governments all over the world should just buy handheld translation devices for everybody.
I now find it pointless saying the same thing with different sounds and different squiggles on paper.
Even when bilingual, I was ONLY interested in reading and writing, because I could do that at my pace.
None of this instantaneous listening and speaking crap. Even when I took one semester of Chinese, and did well, earned an A, as well as four semesters of French (all As), and a decade of Russian,
I found writing exercises more enjoyable than speaking/listening.
For me, nothing can model the world like mathematics. There is no other language besides mathematics
that can model/describe ideas in math. That is why I devote my entire life to discovering and proving new theorems
in mathematics. A close family member of mine has zero interest in math, never had math beyond high school calculus, and he always hated learning non-math non-computer languages. He earned a D in German as a requirement for his doctorate in music. He rightly hates all the arbitrary illogical inconsistent rules of non-math non-computer languages. But he is absolutely FLUENT in Java, C++, Python, HTML... ALL computer languages. While I have done computer programming out of necessity for my chemical engineering degree and job and to aid in my math research, I really hate it now.
Great video Paul, this applies to all us native English speakers not just Americans. I learned French at school and when I turned 65 and retired I started learning it again for all the reasons you mention. But my French is still not that good, I found it difficult to learn at school and am not finding it easy now.
Even in third world countries like Mexico, where I come from, we learn another language (English). And in advanced countries like the Netherlands, where I live, students are given English, French and German. Americans catch up! Learning another language is great for the brain, it opens you a lot of possibilities in education and work, and it enriches you culturally;) you guys are the only advanced country where the only bilingual kids are immigrants... A bit of a shame tbh.
Don't bother trying to lure us into wasting our time. We're sensible and logical people. Those of us that will really benefit from learning another language have already done so or will do so in the future. The rest of us have no plans to visit a non-English speaking country or converse with non-English speaking people. We don't do things for no reason unless it's just to entertain ourselves.
de hecho es gente de tu pais los que saltan ese muro, los mexicanos se estan regresando :)
HeavenlyDismay: Thank you for giving us that detailed definition of moron.
Mexico is more like a 2nd world country, 3rd world is extreme
meuf d’or Actually, 2nd world countries, if I remember correctly, are aligned with communism. There are no 1st, 2nd, 3rd world countries, only Developed and Developing.
I tell most people that they should at least learn some common phrases if they visit another country. If they learn things like, "Hello", "Thank you" and "How much is it?", the people there will be much friendlier with them.
Yeah, I think that shows respect for the locals and their culture.
+Langfocus In Dutch there are 2 words for airport.
An airport with passenger planes is called a "Luchthaven" which means airport but a small airfield with no passenger planes is a "Vliegveld" litteraly Fly Field.
+POOP! HEAD! I am a native Dutch speaker and we now a days call both just "vliegveld", but "luchthaven" is still used sometimes.
+Glenn de Groot It could be a dialect thing. Luchthaven and Vleigveld basically mean the same thing.
+POOP! HEAD! Yea they do but luchthaven feels a little aged to me, not so many people use this word in just casual talk
My cousin´s husband (he is from England) has lived in Sweden for ten years, he hasn´t learned Swedish yet. We invited them for dinner the other week and everyone was speaking English, I seriously don´t get why he and his surrounding don´t put more pressure on him.
But swedish are too Nice!
How good is his Swedish? Is he trying to get better or does he struggle to say even the simplest of sentences?
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because they speak english in sweden. most conversations are in english or swedish even with each other
@@thedeutschman9905 he doesn't speak any Swedish, he has barely put any efforts in to learning it.
@@Purwapada Nope, swedes rarely speak english with each other (it does happen, but it's mostly youths who "try to be cool" or something like that)
I'm starting with intensive Frisian phonology, orthography and grammar while passively listening to and watching lots of Swedish stuff. It seems to be helping me ease into the idea of stretching my linguistic brain. Starting with Japanese and Spanish didn't really work for me. I had trouble learning my *first* language (learning disability and language delay), but by "stretching" to a nearby language (Frisian) and then making an even bigger, but less intensive "stretch" to a Nordic language, I was able to attend an event in Sweden that was entirely in Swedish and was able to get a "gist" of the entire lecture and all the different sections and transitions.
If someone like me can find a way to "stretch" even though i have issues with learning and language facility in general (my English has actually gotten better than my peers by my high school years because i ended up *over* compensating), anyone can build on skills if they really want to and find a strategy that works. Barring some type of structural brain abnormalities, of course. But i have some of those, too (autism), and there's ways to compensate.
I wish I could give this a million thumbs-up!!! Thanks, Paul, for speaking the truth.
I think the largest benefit of learning another language is that it gives such profound insight into another culture.
Great video. Well said! I find it sad for the unilingual anglophones sometimes...Speaking at least one other language is for sure an asset! But the saddest thing and sometimes frustrating for us French Canadians or Québecois for myself is: why anglo Canadians simply don't care or don't make any effort to speak the 2nd official language of this country? You learn it at school, you see it on all items you buy, etc. and still, when you encounter a French speaking Canadian, you will bien sûre, expect him to switch to English! Don't you find this weird that many English speaking Québécois can't even speak French? They live in a province where over 80% speak French, but still, they don't even bother saying a simple Bonjour! I don't get it! Voilà! bien dit et super vidéo! J'adore les langues et tes vidéos sont vraiment intéressants. Merci et je sais que tu parles français. Bravo!
Just to let you know, in Portuguese we have the word "Estadunidense" for those born in the US. Cheers to Canada!
Spanish too
But, no one use this word, we use americano (american), or here, in the Rio Grande do Sul we use: norte americano (North-american)
I only name them gringos
because they are dense.
Italian too
All of your videos are amazing, but this one takes the cake.
Just right on point.
When I was admitted in Junior High,the first 2 years I got french classes,the last 2.....english.This was back in the late 60's...Here in Brasil ..in a public school (ginásio).
What amazes me is the fact that most of english native speakers get angry when someone cannot speak their language fluently.They probably think the whole world have the obligation of doing so. They,themselves ,don't even consider to do anything to revert this picture.
Yes and No. If your in an English speaking country and have been living there for 2+ years. You deserve to be cursed at if you aren't able to at least hold a simple conversation. It's just a reflection of your laziness. The only time I expect an English speaker abroad is if it is in a place that is designated for foreigners. Airports, Hotels, etc should always have English speaking staff regardless of country.
@@Blaze6432 IF you move to a different country, you should not expect everyone to speak English to you, you should be learning the language there, because you shouldn't be moving if you are not willing to learn the local language. And it is polite to at least make an attempt to learn the local language when you are a tourist, most tourists I know make no such attempt and just get angry when the locals can't speak English.
I speak both Spanish and English and you are right it does increase my knowledge in thinking and exercise my brain as well
Rōzāts (pink) is acutally a word in our language now, but our word for blush is still nosarkt (downred) so to become redish since sārts is a word we have always had where as rōzā is a modern word.
I was born in the U.S. to a polish mother and a Mexican father and I'm extremely grateful and proud of it. Being fluent in English, Spanish, and Polish just opens up a whole new world. I can comunicate with so many people and have a better cultural experience.
Captain Clutch yup
Polish is very amazing
Very good, I've heard the Polish is a very challenging language and its hard
Cool.
My favorite class in junior high was foreign languages. Mrs. Hildebrant taught us Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. Those are my best memories of junior high.
Wow! You had one teacher for all those languages?! Kudos to her!
@@lotuskoko She was an estimable lady. ☺
Bravo Paul! I would give you three thumbs up if the buttons allowed for it! I speak multiple languages - three fluently (four if Québecois French is considered distinct from Int'l French) and I know a smattering of other languages well to get by. I always learn at least the basic greetings and a few phrases before travelling anywhere, and I travel fairly often for work. On a trip to Italy a number of years ago, I found that I was able to understand people speaking Italian, provided they spoke slowly. On subsequent trips to Italy, this time off the beaten path, I had no choice but to work with individuals who spoke only Italian, and often only the Neapolitan dialect of Italian. Learning another language is always a plus. It's a gateway to other cultures. Even learning just a smattering of another language is often a good entry into a workable relationship, as people living outside the anglosphere are always appreciative that someone from within the anglosphere took the effort to learn how to at least greet them and ask them how they are doing.
love your channel