Learning Languages Ruined My Life
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Foreign language teacher: why didn’t you do your homework?
Me:
😂😂😂
"It was just too painful, teacher... to know that not all the beautiful poetry... is written in my mother tongue. And then my dog ate it."
this made my night lol
I'm gonna use this with my teacher lmao
Lol
This video was like
*"I've won, at what cost..."*
What did it cost you?
Everything
I've won, but at what cost- I think that's the proper version
So Basically - It's nice To Know when People are Talking Sh!T in Differnt Languages about You, but Then itll Also Lower your Self Esteem Knowing people all over the World Truly Hate You cause you heard it come out of there own mouths
You've missed the point by miiiiles
Captain !
Help wanda in west view
"The pursuit of knowledge is almost by definition a sort of masochism."
That's pretty spot on.
*"I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing at the wind. For in much wisdom, is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.*
@randominternetuser2599 Qoheleth! What are you doing here ol' buddy
Uh, no
Indeed
I'm only fluent in two languages. But I feel like the more languages you know, the more you realize how cynical this world is and that people are generally the same everywhere.
That realization, my friend, is mostly because you are growing older. Trust me, the legitimacy for cynicism gets a lot worse as you grow older. And a bit of advice flows from that. It is mentally much healthier to focus on something else that brings you joy and happiness, because the world will not become any nicer because you object to it being cruel or unfair. While your objection to the Universe's inherent cruelty is fair and commendible, your observation is nothing new or unique, so you might as well expend your energy somewhere else. Trust me, you will be a lot happier if you chose such a path.
@@Disappointed739 Thank you for your words of wisdom. And I know what you mean about life's cruelty. I learned that lesson as a teenager.
yes indeed. i have been trying to get this across to anyone who might listen. while it seems like the whole world wants to emphasise difference, learning languages and meeting people from other walks of life just solidifies my sense of us all being generally the same.
I thought that I was the only one who think that way. Not like I'm the only one, but it's good to see people thinking like I use to think about. I'm currently fluent in two languages and afterwards I see the same. People are pretty the same, everywhere.
Maybe I’m too optimistic but to me that’s ok
The more you learn, the more you realise how many things you don't know.
@For Sparta 😐
Lol true, I was thinking this; why do electrons want to go to the ground, what's dark matter, is there extraterrestrial life?
@For Sparta no, just because something has a charge doesn’t mean that it produces a current. The earth is not a magnet that attracts electricity, that sentence doesn’t even make sense. Electrons tend to spread out between the object and the earth and since the earth is so big in comparison they end up in the earth completely.
@For Sparta I understand that you didn’t learn basic human decency at school but please at least take Electricity and Magnetism before you talk😔😔
ye
"Another language, another soul".
Yes, Carthaginian would like to persuade you to speak Phoenicians . So they can justify prolicide.
I always call it having another personality and not a soul.
@@sundial655 Huh?
Another way of seeing the world.
Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales?
I got a duolingo ad directly after this
Algorithms 🤣🤣
"Cultural schizophrenia" is such a good way of describing something that I've never had a word for before. I speak three languages and am in the process of learning a fourth. The more languages I learn, the more I want to learn, and I just don't have the time to immerse myself in them all to the level I want to. I also spent my early 20s traveling/living in various countries and immersing myself in their language and culture. The first time I moved to a foreign country, everyone warned me about culture shock. Nobody warned me that I would also feel it when moving back to my home country. And now, I find myself feeling homesick no matter where I am. My friends are all over the world. My favorite restaurant is across the globe. Sometimes I am just sitting in my home and I suddenly find myself strongly wishing to be back in a different country. I want so many different chapters of my life all at once.
I lived overseas for five years and it took me about that long to finally feel at home again in the U.S.
Completely relate. I have never lived out of the country but I have moved around my whole life all over the US. And sometimes I will miss going to that restaurant every Friday. Or miss hanging with this person all the time. Or being able to walk across the street to the beach to get away. I wish I could merge different chapters of my life all the time, so glad you out it into words.
You described it so well!
Jesus Christ this comment defines me so well!
That's a really good explanation
Sounds like his life isn’t ruined at all
@Alejandro Rauber me too
No. His life is over. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand what he's saying. Maybe when you speak 9 languages you'll get there but you'll probably be dead by then too.
No. His life is over. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand what he's saying. Maybe when you speak 9 languages you'll get there but you'll probably be dead by then too.
@@bw4348 so is better not to learn anymore languages then?🥺
@@greenfairy549 Yes pretty lady. You can stop now that you're able to talk to me.
When you read about other cultures through your language, it's like hearing a rumor about them. But when you speak their language, it's like becoming part of their royal court, thinking and feeling just like them.
exactly THRU
Are you basically implying that individuals who are neurotypical need to completely learn a foreign language in order to experience empathy for the people that language belongs to??
@@carmenwomack it doesn't say its a prerequisite for empathy, but that it enhances it
One of the most beautiful and profound videos i've had the privilege of watching. Watching this again after I watched it for the first time years back, as I'm on the journey of relearning my native tongue.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
He said “ruined his life” because it destroyed his past identify. It destroyed “his life”. What he thought was his life.
Good thing. Cause identity just for society not knowledge
Nah, pretty sure hes dead
That's a stupid way to put it
he should say it expanded his horizons or changed his attitude and outlook on life in a better way
@@Frankmaui67 that's not very eye-catching
@@Frankmaui67 on the opposite, it's smart.
this kind of words are used andwidely known.. but his title made me watch the video (and I didn't regret it)
“After learning a language, a part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs to”
Identify with this on so many levels
So wisdom phase
I somehow learnt a language I'm writing in right now and I don't think it's necessarilly true.
@@yuliazni4006 LoL
He also said, in that same sentence, "if you care enough",...which to Theodorius Ghandeli, is a very important part.
@@Zeewman about, a part of oneself becoming a member of that tribe, the language belongs to?
"If you care enough, part of you becomes part of the tribe whose language you learned belongs to. And that cultural multitude of personalities can be excruciating."
Powerful quote.
why excruciating ?
powerful but usless
Thanks for saving me typing. Exactly what I was going to say.
As Iranian (Persian) I’m so honored that my language Farsi is known for poetry, and I am grateful for your nice presentation 👌🏻
Edit: I’m really thankful for your likes ❤️
Bro it has the best rhymes fr
Would love to learn Farsi! I find it fascinating that it is part of the Indo-European language family, like a distant cousins of French, English or German.
Dont forget your culture dude. Persia has one of most beautiful cultures in the world. Dont let it disappear what has happened before Islamization of the Persian soil.
persians were different .. not the converted ones like u
@@edenhazard2751 I would guess that you never say the similar thing to a French or an Englishman. You never said to them, "Don't forget your culture dude. Don't let it disappear because of the Liberalization."
"The bigger the circle of the known, the larger the contact with the unknown". Thank you.
Great video, but after hearing this, I just had to to subscribe
That's awesome
Xackly.
Especially when it comes to the metaphysical. I'm not going to lie, I'm learning Japanese mainly for pop culture, anime, manga video games,etc.On the other hand, I've also been reading up on magic, so if I get skilled enough, I might want to look into some of the mystic traditions within Shintoism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
This was so beautiful!
“History written by whom, and for whom”
Damn, that is powerful.
Struck my heart
Which is quite logical, when one questions certain things which are structured in society and are based on something that happened quite some time ago. Or certain things which are just simply based on stories, historical texts and such.
Often wondered and pondered about by Theodorius Ghandeli.
Have you never had that thought about something you read, anywhere?
Agreed!
The best part
History is written by Us and for Us
Its not learning other languages that hurts us, its the general broadening of our knowledge. Languages was just the vehicle you used. I found the same studying history, international relations, philosophy - its a humbing experience that isolates you from friends and family.
Apparently a conscious effort to be 'in the world', and not 'of the world', combined with a habit of practicing gratitude helps to counter the burden of knowledge.
Do I stop?
@TheAncientColossus No, just find a balance that suits you. I've had to learn to take time each week to do things I enjoy that are not related to the heavy topics. Also, good sleep and exercise make a massive difference to improve mental health if you are determined to keep studying your areas of focus.
@@m3tamonk3y4 wow I had the same with physics, psychology
It's a pity it is true. But we can say so about any intellectual activity which requires to be alone many time.
It broadens our knowledge in the sense of actively feeling emotional empathy vs cognitive empathy. I guess for some people who are more neurotypical it takes learning a language or immersing themselves in a different culture to feel empathy for others.
I think people who think languages are just communication tools really undermine their true effects on society. It affects the culture, the mindset, the traditions, relationships between people. You kind of feel that when you learn and get good in a language, you start feeling the connection to this language and all what it represents. My French teacher used to say, "learning and utilizing another language is like living more than once"
I'll come out and say that I'm one of those people, I'll try to change that mindset.
For me learning a foreign language Is an indescribably important considering the effects on my life. It helps me to give a sense to my solitude 🤍🤌🏽 I like languages like I like literature and the world around us❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍🩷🩵🩶
Big respect to you for saying they publicly. Hope you've noticed some change in the past few months @@beegbeeg9871
It's called emotional empathy, the "feeling" that you're experiencing from having to have learned said language is emotional empathy. Not to be confused with cognitive empathy which is just knowing how they feel and not feeling how they feel.
"Yes to advance your career in a globalized world"
Me learning Japanese so I dont need subs.
I am learning japanese just to listen some hentai dlsite asmr works :) I NEED TO KNOW THE PLOT IN THOSE NTR WORKS
@@arigatameiwaku I see you are a man of culture
@@arigatameiwaku bruhhh
@@haise1356 they even have PDFs inside with script so its easier to learn new words :D
I'm learning japonese to understand vtuber
Speaking different languages may make you smarter, but...
“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”
Knowing more ways about how people speak, lets you see more ways of speaking about the same thing.
Knowing that there is more than one way to speak about things, means you will never put your faith into only one thing.
When you can speak in more than one way, you will rarely speak meaninglessly, or make sense in only one way.
Qui-Gon Jinn was truly the wisest jedi.
I want to create a hybrid between Japanese and Icelandic. Because I love drawing Japanese women and so on, the idea is to create a whole new language which can make it vastly harder for all but a few to interpret content in Japanese intelligence reports. I do not know if this language hybrid will ever become a reality, but if it does, it would be called Japicelandic.
@@Yatukih_001 "I love drawing Japanese women" hmmmmmm
@@Yatukih_001 I'm gonna check back here in a year to start learning Japicelandic...
The pain you feel has nothing to do with languages. I speak 4 and have lived and work in several countries, which is relatively few compared with many. Knowledge and wisdom are different. Yes, you won't gain inner peace by increasing and identifying with knowledge but by understanding why these emotions arise and not trying to cover them with more facts. We are all deeply interrelated and that is beautiful.
Damn 4 is a lot! I'm at 3, the first was from parents and the two others I learned were at primary school due to moving, so now it's much harder to learn another language for me, but I think I'll learn French next when I'm done with stuff like post-secondary education and driving license since they are currently on my priority.
@@shroomer3867which languages do you know?
@@e.5693 Russian, Spanish and English
@@shroomer3867 i guess you are russian, once i tried to learn spanish but didnt continue :( i love spanish
This is the motivation I needed to study my target language today. It's been hard these past few weeks with school, but I feel so much better after focusing on my language goals. The hardest part is starting.
Morale of the story, your country is not the center of the universe.
No - but it *is* the center of YOUR universe. And, contrary to what some may think, that's not always a bad thing.
@@dm8057bk Absolutely. :)
The vid is about languages and there’s a definite hierarchy in the usefulness, practicality, adaptability of languages. Not all languages are equal in describing reality (in essence digitizing an analogue reality to something communicable) and not all languages were designed to accommodate change in them. Only Greek has done that. I speak Greek, English and used to speak French and some Italian. The Greek language is richer and more adaptive, bar none.
@@anthonylopez5 The US was and IS a big deal. Lately there’s a political trend that produces comments such as yours which are greatly uninformed and unappreciative of the importance of the US culture for all humanity. Pity!
Who said Miles Morales?
Spoiler: Learning languages did not ruin his life. He spends the entire video talking about the awesome benefits of learning language and the unbearable pain and burden of knowledge, in the most unctuous way possible. .
Nailed it. The most apt comment on this thread.
Thanks masked rider
Thanks for saving our time.
@@fahadmubeen6272 , That's what I'm here for; wasting my time watching meaningless videos so I can save others from the same fate.
@@maskedmarvyl4774 may god bless your soul
Wow, I didn‘t expect that! Thank you very much for your enlightening and encouraging words!
"The true pain is the confusion" . This is what I have been facing wrt travelling and living in different countries and understanding different cultures for a long time. I couldn't really understand or articulate it till I came across this video . Its so profound .Thank you !!
People here saying that a lot of polyglots claim to be fluent while they still learning new vocab everyday and let me tell you that you are completely wrong .. even in my native language I still learn new things everyday! I don't know about you guys but as an Arabic speaker I actually have a LOT of words that I don't understand, like who's able to memorize more than 12 million word?
Being fluent is the ability to think with that language and to have conversations with native speakers, that's all we need as a language learners. It's the ability to write a comment that you can understand even if there's some mistakes.
YES!!! Thank you so much for writing this! Everyone should read this comment because there are way too many people who claim that one is fluent only when they speak a language on a very advanced level or that it’s necessary to have a C1 or C2 diploma to be fluent. I was one of those people, but man was I wrong. This also makes me think that fluency is something subjective. Like, if I feel like I’m fluent in a language then that means that I can communicate without problems, and if that isn’t quite accurate yet, I feel like I still need more practice and that’s okay!
I mean, no one really cares if you make a lot of mistakes as long as you make yourself understandable!
@@Marmar0404 also, I can't talk at a C2 level in a rocket science class (in any of my languages), does that mean I'm not fluent? No! Because you're not "fluent" or "beginner", it's a spectrum! You can be more or less fluent, and that can change day to day, subject to subject, and even depending on whom you're talking to!
Couldn’t agree more.
I've been thinking of this before. There's not an actual way to know every single word in a language. Even natives speakers don't know everything about their languages, because languages can change and have various words depending on the region that you're living. I am a native Portuguese speaker and in my country (and the country that colonized my country) there are words that I can't simply understand or just don't get it. "Gajo", "Guria" a lot of words can change depending on the region that you're living. I don't think that the languages that I know (Portuguese, English) that I am studying (Gaelic, Russian) and that I can understand (italian) are different from mine.
Youre right. One, languages are not composed of "words," they are composed of words, expressions or idioms that express something. In one country, "asparagus" might be made of a three "word" combination and be super uncommon because nobody in the country or regions ever eat asparagus. In another country it may be a two letter word and be said everyday cause they eat it in every meal.
And two, as a native English speaker I literally have to ask people what they mean to say at least a few times a day, and that's not counting the times I just get distracted, don't hear them clearly, they aren't speaking in an easily understandable way. Those few times a day are when I literally don't know the word or expression. There are new slangs people not in high school don't know, and there are words I have heard my whole life from time to time but it isn't used much by my family and friends so I never really got the meaning.
When I once went though a time hanging out with Irishmen visiting my city on vacation, we literally had to ask for clarification for half of what the other person said. Ironically there were also a couple grammatical phrases I use in my variety of southernese (southern US speak) that they used too, but that people from the north look at me crazy when I say (I be workin' alot, I'm fixin to get goin', etc.)
I have the same experience with languages I know fluently. I tend to be around people from and immersed in the variety of one region or country, and so you put me with a person from elsewhere, I may speak Chinese like a native from Beijing, but not like a Taiwanese. I may speak Spanish like a Spanyard but not like... any other country. The funny thing is that Chinese will love you if you are a total noob and have a thick american accent. Spanish speakers outside Spain will only give you an ounce of respect and talk to you in Spanish if you speak their specific variety so well they think you are a native and you don't tell them you aren't.
All in all theres zero point to care what people think. If some American says "well I only speak English but I watched a kung fu hong kong movie once and your chinese is bad imo" well okay, think what you want, I'll consider the source. If someone from El Paso says "well my parents are from Mexico and I'm also a fluent speaker and you talk funnny" well okay, I don't learn the language to talk to people who have inferiority complexes and no manners anyway, so bye. When a real native critiques you, it is usually an actual correction or whatnot. Even other Americans sometimes say something like "its barely, not verily" or "it's spelled 'there' not 'they're' " to other Americans. This is normal and helpful. And if you don't care about talking all proper and crap, then just be like "oh okay, gotcha, 'preciate it bro," and keep saying it how you do.
if you think learning vocabulary is painful, maybe you haven't stepped on enough legos yet
Haha one day I’ll have a kid and proudly claim to have done so!
Was für ein schöner Profilname!
Ich lerne keine Vokabeln - mich schmerzt mein Unwissen...
@@mllesamedi84 Danke, wie nett! Der "Panthersprung nach Agadir" ist eine Bezeichnung für eine politische Krise zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland im Jahr 1911.
@@panthersprung5161 Davon hab ich noch nie gehört! Diese Bildungslücke werde ich baldestmöglich schließen. Danke für die Aufklärung 🙂
I used to step on legos now i stumble over the logos
this has been sitting in my list for i don't know how long. but just on a random night it popped on my page and this time i was lucky to watch it. all the long lost passion of mine -which has deeply hurt me with its absence- has now been recalled by this speech. and it was a speech to my soul: i knew the words even before they came out of your mouth. so thank you my friend, hope we can break-down and build-up what needs to be. with love and love only...
Te agradezco mucho por este video. Esa forma de ver el aprendizaje de idiomas es algo fascinante y algo muy profundo de cierta forma. Uno de los videos más interesantes que he visto en mi vida probablemente, gracias.
Let’s be honest, we all knew the title was completely misleading.
The video provided great insight, but I do think the title went a bit overboard. It feels quite exaggerated.
If a trail twists and turns on the way towards the destination, is that path misleading?
Is it though?
@@TenaciousTentacruel if a sign says that the path that it sits upon said to brings you to a place but ends up at another, wouldn't that be misleading?
@@magicalcapi9148 his life is not ruined by learning languages, therefore, he is a liar.
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
― Albert Einstein
*The more you know, the more you realize you don't know*
--- Aristotle
"I know one thing:that i know nothing"
-your boy Socrates
Know everything about nothing (getting specialized into a field,etc) or knowing nothing about everything
"1 kidney 1 iPhone, 2 kidney 3 iPhone. Bumper offer"
- Michael Jackson
@@anandjj5077 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Phoenix, it was very thought provoking.
2:23 "After learning a language, a part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs."
It makes sense to me, and and I do feel the pain because of this...
But that's ok if you already got the tribal blood in you, like if you are Russian learning Russian, for example, or in my case, part Russian learning Russian. Why would it not be? Who begs to differ?
No one gonna talk about this guy going to the bookstore at 3 am
Nothing beats browsing books in the peace and quiet 😂
bruh
😆😆😆
i would like too, if i had the courage😂 nothing can be better than seeking a quiet place, reading books, having a cup of coffee, while it's raining outside
i wish the bookstore near me was open that late
"It is no nation we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native tongue is our true fatherland." - Emil Cioran
My mannnnn , thats exactly the same thought I was thinking when seeing this video.
En español : “No es una nación la que habitamos, sino un lenguaje.” - Emil Cioran
“No se habita un país, se habita una lengua.Una patria es eso y nada más.”
But what about Belgium?
If I'm not mistaken that line of thought was first said by a portuguese poet called Fernando Pessoa: "My homeland is the portuguese language". In "The book of disquiet". Originally "O livro do desassossego"
I love how you still read the comments of this video. Even if there are some rude ones. You don't deserve them :) ♡
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this. You managed to summarize in a few minutes my own struggles after having lived in 3 different countries and learned 4 foreign languages. My curiosity has led to the very confusion and pain you described. It’s refreshing to feel understood.
I found years ago that reading novels and stories written by authors of other nationalities, even in translation opens your eyes not only to different ways of living but to different ways of story telling.
@@brendaaniwe1212
Maybe? Doesn’t it depend on a lot of things? Why should there be a simple “answer” assigned to it to decide the judgement of its value?
@@brendaaniwe1212 how would it not be good?
I'm not interested in reading but for most of my life I've been exposed to english movies, cartoons and video games, basically just american and british entertainments. This has took a big toll on me, most of the times even my internal monologue is in English, meaning i talk to myself in English which is strange considering that I rarely get to verbally interact with other people in this language. I'm assuming it's not unusual
@@phatlewt2932 let me guess, Filipino?
@@cry9438 no
The most profound language I have ever spoken is silence.
"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain
@@therose1277 I’ve never heard that particular quote, I love it. Thank you.
Is this your thought/quote, or is it borrowed? Either way, thank you for sharing it. It’s lovely.
@@rachelsmith3230 It was just a thought as I was listening. It occurred to me how powerful silence can be. I know silence has hurt me more than the harshest of words. It says more than any painful words.
On the other side, when you remain silent , allowing yourself to truly listen,without planning in your head what you are going to say next while someone is still speaking to you, the silent engagement of communication becomes an authentic understanding.
@@rachelsmith3230 Thank you for your kind words.
Seems like this is rooted in personal problems that learning languages brought to the surface. But they weren't caused by learning languages itself.
Language is a powerful tool, for the individual to seek information that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to, it makes you wiser. Plus, talking to people are always fun.
The one of the worst things about learning languages is the ‘transition’ or when you stuck in a limbo when you understand both but can’t speak or process it when necessary.
I experienced this on the Satanic International website. So what I did was, I tried to behave like an idiot there so they would suspend the account and it worked.
Same happens to me between hindi and english.
You are right, its sad 😒
Code switching. What a lot of people fail to realize is this happens with math types as well, as Algebra/Calculus. It gets better with practicing code switching, but I still get those moments where I feel like a fuse has shorted out lol
This is a very natural stage of learning a new language. It will, eventually, melt away. One very interesting aspect though, is to read the same book in its original vs translation in different languages. This will really show you how this world works, and it won't stop shocking you every single time 🤯🤯🤯
This is a huge philosophical topic: why struggle so much just to discover that at the end of the day, we're at the same time, so similar and so unique? That's the beautiful pain of our world.
The word "just" is stupid in your statement.
It’s called anthropology
@@amjan why
@Noob master I think Amjan's point was a point i very much agree with. Think about the word "just". Its exclusive. It reduces to a singular. It throws away every conceivable thing minus what follows it. It simply isn't the case. You don't learn a language "just" to see that we're all the same. There must be much more. I mean, did we not watch the same video?
Im doing a Language Studies degree and in my modules we discuss culture a lot. There is a lot of differences than meets the eye
The exact same thing could be said about music, at least that's what I learned from it. I got to know people from all kinds of different cultures and felt an instant connection without even really knowing them in many cases. Feeling this connection to people that might live thousands of miles away normally but on the other hand feeling foreign to people living next door and seeing how peacefully the world could be also caused this pain inside me.
That one reel bought me here
“After learning a language, if you care enough, part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs.”
I'd rather spend my time getting chicks! The language of love is the ONLY other language I need.
@@bocawilliams9200 definitely a virgin
@@bocawilliams9200 love? That’s not love. That’s just horniness.
this is very true, and was well expressed
@@TheIrishEgyptian PLZZZZZ I get more a$$ than a toilet seat!
2:25 Excellent point, beautifully articulated.
Thank you!
Interesting seeing y’all here haha
I'm the 1k like
食物
Tf u doin here
YT recommended me to watch this all of sudden. Watched it, and I agree with you. Thank you for reminding me to be a down to earth person.
It is not regularly that I watch something which resonates with me to such a great extent. This was moving, and probably life-changing for someone whose whole aim in life has been the pursuit of knowledge. The urge of reading Tolstoy's ramblings about history in russian, of reading the Gita in sanskrit, reading Caesar's memoirs about his conquests in the original Latin. There is something truly special about it all. The east asian languages are too complex, but people probably say the same stuff about my language (hindi), I can give it a try, it has to be worthwhile. There is so much to do but this life feels too short, I have already wasted two decades on this planet and I'm only now learning to learn. Thank you for this video, I'll save it and watch it again after a while. All these hours wasted on this website become worthwhile when something like this shows up out of the blue :')
Multiple language mastery can create a linguistic schyzopherenia - most elaborate point made in this video. Just like you talk differently with your grandparents, at work and on a night out with your friends, so too does your way of expression change in different languages. Some are quiet, some are loud, some are pointient some are more expressive. Holding several linguistic networks and backgrounds in your head can make you feel like you are switiching between different people based on the language you are currently using.
And i thought that was normal :v
Yeah i know that feeling
I'm polyglot since my teenagers
But i experience it since my childhood because i'm natively tri-lingual
This is true. I became more isolated knowing several languages as my accent started to change when I was young. Parents used to get pissed that I would use vocabulary that is not part of their dialect. At school, the American teachers and Americans used to think I was making fun of them as I started to sound a bit British or German in accent. Others used to think that I was making fun of people as I became more receptive of different accents, phonemes from different languages or I was just pretentious or a foreigner. It is painful indeed. In the US, this will be more the case as Americans have this toxicity culture of "English only" or American sounding English only.
Yeah this is true, i'm bilingual (hungarian and english)
Being multilingual, I can relate to this. I thought this was normal!
I'm from the Philippines and I've been studying Japanese for so many years. I feel like I'm more updated with Japanese news than that of my own country. The more languages you learn, the more you break the wall you're born in.
Edit: I'm still updated with our local news. It's just that I'm more focused on anything that can improve my Japanese skills. Also, I'm not a weeb because I'm not obsessed with anime culture. It's their language that I'm enamored of.
It kinda sounds like you’re not interested with your local news in the first place.
yunglorde i agree with that. It doesn’t sound cool at all. I guess her culture always have this thing called crab mentality. It is always better to be aware of things within your proximity. It makes you knowledgeable in general aspect.
oohhh i am filipino and have been learning the language as well. i hope youll stay updated though in spite of the kapalmuks/corrupt politicians and the fanaticism with most of the filipinos god du30. only with awareness and education can we seek accountability from these buwaya politicians. hehe anyway, i hope you are doing well with your language learning!
@@yunglorde8691 everything's a mess apparently. most reeks of privilige, others are just blind. with poor education system, anyone with their meaningless and illogical words can make a person blind from reality. i hope we get to care and be kind more with others, at least understand and be more aware of the suffering of those who are greatly affected (anti terror bill, jeepney drivers asking for alms, killings and planting of drugs, attack in both academic and press freedom, poor decision making, the list goes on)
I'm Italian and I have the same problem with English. I consume every media I can in English, including the news. I like politics and stuff so I stay up to date on world news, but I certainly know more about American politics than Italian politics.
This video kept popping on my recommended and only now I decided to watch it. Really needed it, thank you.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
INSPIRING!!!
revisiting your talk after almost 2 years.
the more you learn, you realise you dont have enough time on this earth
this kills me the most
That's true in one aspect. But, realizing one's finite time alive is what makes life so precious;
and perhaps, might lead to using the time that we have left - more wisely.
Weltschmerz
Still have time to comment on youtube
Yet you are here clicking on click baity videos and listening to a beta
finally i find sameone mention feeling like me
i'm 22 and i'm general medicine student
i can understand and speak in 5 languages but 2 of them not like native
i'm so remorseful because in the past i had more time and possibility to learn more
"History is written by whom and for whom" is the key here. If you watch the news from the other side you realize that you never had the full picture until that time.
Though honestly they don't either. There is no evil side. Both sides assume they have moral authority. Both have assumptions and distort facts to make themselves look good. Part of the problem seems to be assuming one side is completely right. They are both usually a little wrong.
So true...
@@meow5670
I feel an attack on titan reference
What does 'History written by whom, for whom' interpret to? I don't quite get it.
He’s making reference to a very imbecile quote that seems to resonate more and more nowadays: “History is written by the winners” despite the fact that I hold a great deal of respect for Mr. Winston Churchill and his influence during WW2, i doubt it would have ended optimistically if not for him; but in this quote I staunchly disagree and it seems like the guy in the vid was furthering it’s due discourse, as in bringing its idea into question
awesome video. i think the pain you describe is more about needing to recreate your representation of the world and your role while engaging with more information and therefore learning. The newly gained knowledge might also make you question decitions you have done earlier in life wich can also be painful. Its a voulnerability you need to offer in order to gain new insight about you and the world
I love you, and needed to hear this, at this exact moment
All growth is painful. Solomon wrote: "Whoever increases knowledge increases pain." Ecclesiastes 1:18.
I remembered the same verse while watching this video!
Yep! Same here.. here’s the verse:
Ecclesiastes 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 *For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.*
Damn, so that's where the Assassin's Creed 1 quote by "Al Mualim" comes from. Mind blown!
@@buntice Ecclesiastes 1:9 “there’s nothing new under the sun”
Such is the burden of Responsibility
Knowing 4 languages has made my life so much more interesting. Being able to laugh at comedy from 4 cultures just makes life that much richer, and let's me know we all have more in common than we are different.
Just curious did you learn any of said languages as an adult or did you learn all them in childhood?
@@RyanAmero 1 mother tongue, 2 between the age of 10 to 16, 1 in my early 20s.
@Mark Mowadeeb Knowledge doesn’t make one’s life better or worse, personal choices do.
bro can learning language helps in creating more wealth if applied in tourism and other sectors?
Me too ….I enjoy Netflix….I’m fluent in English, Hindi , Telugu …I can speak & understand Tamil cannot write it… I can understand some Korean words ….I’m trying to learn French & Ukranian (for my Babushka,my dad is Ukranian ,my mom is Indian ,both met & married in Kyiv after becoming doctors.I used to speak Russian & Ukranian as a child but not anymore !
(What i'm going to write down is my own experience.. and -to be honest- i'm trying my language too)
I am learning 3 foreign languages, one of them is english of course, and for me it's like having a new strong weapon, it helps me opening my eyes on an new unknown world, more than that loving my history, culture and relegion!
For someone doesn't know her culture like she should do, it's refreshing after a long time of chasing other cultures and history to comeback and re-read my own culture and history, just to discover that there is nothing more precious than that!
I really appreciate this video. Many of us in the comments are united by a love of languages, and it is wonderful to see.
“The bigger the circle of the known, the greater the contact with the unknown”
That hit home hard
Bars🔥
As someone working on their PhD who constantly feels unknowledgeable on the things I've spent years learning, this line has stuck with me. I come and rewatch this video just to hear it again.
@@chammy2812 can you please explain this sentence to me in simple words?
@@Frank_Castle_1 sometimes I feel stupid because I don’t know how to do something. But the only reason I feel this way is because I have studied enough to get to this question. Someone that hasn’t put the same effort in to understanding the topic never faces this question.
@@chammy2812 ok understandable have a nice day.
I actually perceived this so called pain as relief when I finally started to see how similar everyone is
I agree. Also view it just as awe and just get inspired to keep digging into the constant growing circle of unknown.
Yeah, I find it uplifting. It's strange to me he see this as painful.
It can be very overwhelming, to a perfectionist they want to keep learning so they can conquer the knowledge only to be met with more and more unknown. Then you forget how much you have learnt and it’s enough, and you can keep going at your own pace. Pretty pessimistic view haha but it’s how I feel now when I’m finishing up my undergrad.
I can relate bruh like i dont feel pain at all. Its satisfying tbh
Same and combined it with my interest in history and anthropology just make me go like "Hey what even the point of discrimination? We're basically the same thing with different box" it makes me appreciate how similar we are in this world. It's truly fascinating, if only we could stick together imagine the world if it's like that
Wow, your thinking of the different culture and form see or Understand is very cool :).
One of my favorite phrases: You don't know what you don't know.
Many will avoid even thinking about the meaning and they take it for a self explanatory saying but in actuality it's something many if not most will die without ever realizing that it means you are unaware of your ignorance, and how can you be? You must learn what you don't know in order to decide what you want to understand and learn about.
Thank you so much for explaining this to me. Its an eye opener.
But its very difficult to actually figure out life on your own. And if we do, we will be there alone mostly. As I have experienced myself.
This resonated so much with me, in my studies of foreign languages. When you study a language, you aren't just acquiring a tool for communicating with other people living in a different region of the world - you are acquiring a new way of seeing the world, of confronting biases, of building mutual understanding. Appreciating the uniqueness of each language and culture - equally - contributes to a more balanced world view that we all need in this age of polarization.
Yes! Exactly!
Wow nice
It doesn't matter. All will perish in the face of the Monolith and will speak one language
So you're more woke and a gooder person than those who haven't. Got it.
@Charming Billy U jelly? Lol I wasn’t speaking about myself but about polyglots in general. I never claimed to have achieved any of those things, only that foreign language study facilitates their achievement. I personally still have biases that I’m conscious of, but being conscious of them reminds me to not pass judgment on something that I don’t completely understand.
The most painful part of language learning is feeling like you have become a part of a culture that you know you will never truly belong to.
Yes. That’s the hardest part to assimilate into other country’s culture.
Interesting. I've never felt this. The only time I have a sense of not belonging somewhere is when I don't know the language or words to communicate, because the silence between you and other people is isolating. Before I learned other languages (German and Russian), the UK was the only place that felt like home to me. Now it's as if home is whenever I can speak with people and be understood, and so far I've been very lucky, everyone has welcomed me with open arms ❤
This this this this this. It feels lonely.
Unless you're talking about a europ3an language, anyone can become European apparently and if anyone says no then they are racist meanwhile every other culture is allowed to protect itself to the pointnof actual violence and systemic discrimination
I speak 3 languages, and broadly understand a 4th, I feel no pain or frustration because im not trying to belong to another culture. i'm too proud of being who i am and belonging to my own group.
I watched this video during quarantine and have always wanted to be where he was in life; smart yet not arrogant. Now I’m in Seattle, I’ve visited magus books. Now I get that he was in me from the beginning, I didn’t have to go where he was and be where he was. His wisdom is within us wherever we are
A lot of wisdom right there,can’t be more agree!
Thank for sharing.
💐👏🏼
Thank you! Glad you liked it
His pronunciation is spot on. His respect for other languages and the cultures behind them is admirable
aaaa...no...no it's not.
@@nowvoyagerNE yes.... yes it is
Well, he pronounced "masochist" and "masochism" wrong.
Ahh, ja, ja, es ist gut.
His pronunciation...... is it a sarcasm or compliment. Asian shouldn't pronounce like that?
I speak 6 different languages, all from varying cultures and let me tell you, this one hit home for me. It's like someone made a video about my existential crisis as a man trying to come to grips with my identity. The more you learn, the more ephemeral your old identity becomes. Now I dream in different languages and when I wake up, I cannot describe them quite right in English anymore. To be honest, I'm afraid I will eventually lose my ability to really speak articulately in English. But that is a fear I will face head on as I add more languages under my belt.
Coming in terms with your identity.....Learn and learn so you can become free of any identity but just inclusiveness
That's awesome
I know four languages, but the one I've got a higher level is in English. Once I dreamed in English and I woke up so happy that even now I can remember almost everything that happened in that dream. It just has happened to me once, and I'm expecting it occurs again but with the other languages when I'm better at them 😊
True. I am having the same issue. Sometimes I mix thoughts in different languages, or speak in a random language when I get emotional. Even emotions are conflicted with each other based on which language I am using. It is a bless but the price is quite heavy, I wish I didn't know any of them.
Oh, my days. Same.
Would love to hear the book titles you recommend in these languages to learn those beautiful facts. And poems too!
One of the most eloquent expressions I have heard in a long time. Your narration is impeccable. While I was hearing the script was flowing in my head; the words were in rapture!!
He forgot to say “sorry for my english” at the end.
Sorry for my English
Este joven oriental tal vez pronuncie mejor que tú.
@@enriquegranados5179 it was a joke
@@matthieuschmitter6676 ¡Get the hell!
Sorry for my English.
@@enriquegranados5179 not understand joke mistah. Or irony
Don’t try be intelligent and just enjoy learning languages.
hahahha
No quiero >:P
literally not that hard your life shouldn’t be getting ruined over that shit lol
you can also do both
@@Liqoh it’s called boredom privilege
I was avoiding this video because of the title, but I'm glad I finally watched it. Yep, I agree with some of the points you talked about, maybe not as passionately as you put it, but yeah.
I give a standing ovation! best talk I've heard about languages and cultures!
Thank you!
Yeah, I also found I couldn't learn a language without getting fully absorbed into the culture. I learn their mannerisms, insecurities, joys, history and misunderstandings. It's like this whole other world comes into light. It's incredible.
And then there's me who just studies a bunch of languages cause craving vocabulary and grammar makes me happy oop
Samesies.
same
And then there's me who has nothing better to do
I always get this like short phase every few years where I just want to learn languages and then next second I hate it
Oh, found someone who feels the same. But, only ever learn 1 language at a time. Otherwise your mind will become a zoo with no cages.
I made that mistake in the beginning, started loosing the I already had while trying to learn 2 others at a time.
⚠️ The happiest person in the world is the one who was born in ignorance, grew up doing only pleasant things without worrying about understanding, and die suddenly. Ignorance is a blessing ( if you can understand ). 🎉❤❤
Being Irish, brought up with the English language and learning gaeilge has been the opposite for me. I’m far more connected with my culture than I have ever been.
all that wars for nowadays Irish only speak English
Clover hat
Learning a language is one thing, living in one is another. The problem is not the language itself. It’s the sense of “homelessness “ . You don’t belong to here or there. You are an outsider no matter where you are and how perfectly you speak that language. There are always some parts of you can never fit in. And yet you can’t go back where you came from either because you are no longer who you used to be.
I don't feel this loneliness. I am certain of which is my tribe, and speaking foreign languages doesn't separate me from my motherland, au contraire
I definitely feel this kind of insecurity that you're describing! Already felt it with two languages growing up, adding a third one to my life definitely didn't help.
@@JohnWalterGates Just had to flex that French, didn't you
@@coldblackice I've never heard a french person say au contraire.
@@JohnWalterGates I think you missed what Sean was getting at. Even with knowing one language, one can feel this.
This hit hard as a multi-lingual person. Learning languages comes with learning culture and immersion into a new perspective. They go hand in hand and it really does mess with you. You can feel like you're floating in between all these communities, but not really having a place to call your home.
You can do that even if you only know one language, ideologies and religion has far greater impact in reality.
This is rly spot on, it feels satisfying to see this comment cause I always tought I was weird for thinking that way.
I feel you but this eases when you know the truth, by that I mean the objective truth then taking sides is easier. Better yet the truth will put you in the rightful community or rightful side. Very few understand this matter. The stage of floating "in between" is the stage before the stage I am talking about.
@@0wninguplz many ways to call it, only one way to peace
"Learning languages comes with learning culture and immersion into a new perspective."
Ehh... Kinda a vastly overstated generalization. I'll showcase why: When you learn French as someone that's French Canadian - how well do you understand French culture just by virtue of knowing the language? I'd argue not that well. I'll showcase this even further: If you learn English - which culture are you learning about? Australian culture? American culture? Both have their own unique dialects and slang that neither really interact with. I took multiple years of Spanish in middle school and high school. I learned absolutely nothing about the culture of Spain. We never talked about Spain, we never conversed with anyone from Spain. Did I somehow absorb by some linguistic osmosis some cultural insight on Spain because I studied their language? ...No. Could I perhaps converse in simple short sentences with them? Yeah, sure. That doesn't mean I understand them or their culture or have greater knowledge of it just because we both know the same words.
The reason why bilingual people or polyglots tend to know about the culture of the place where the language they are learning is from is because they are also interested in their culture. I could sit down and academically memorize through mindnumbing rote the Japanese language to the point where it would mentally break me (hell, Japanese almost did and attempting to learn it was so mentally scarring that I have now just given up learning other languages because life is too short to be that frustrated at something for that long). This wouldn't make me know more about Japanese culture. Ironically, I learned more about Japanese culture by reading English-translated Japanese works than I ever did attempting to just learn the language. Again: because I was interested in the culture and people. The learning of the language itself did nothing to broaden my understanding.
i believe this is one of the best videos i’ve watched on youtube. While i’ve been casually learning german, i’ve realized how many things in the world were not only changed, but inspired by. Thank you :D
Thank you!
Deep and Sincere. a very thoughtful video
"The pursuit of knowledge is almost, by definition, a sort of masochism." Damn, that hits hard.
Came here for this comment, thanks. Yeah, that one caught me
Just @ me
Along with becoming aware of all the things we don't really want to see, may it help us really appreciate everything good that we do have in our own lives. From people we like to flush toilets! Serious!
There's no learning/growing without some sort of suffering or obstacle to overcome
youre not a thinker
He speaks with such kindness, and then you realize it's a combination of clarity, knowledge, and feeling. Bless.
I'm Brazillian, and I speak English fluently. Now, learning Mandarin (Chinese).
Ideed, the massive diversity of culture makes you an "not belong" feeling of any culture.
But it goes around, you deal with it. you start to understand more yourself and the world.
Languages and the history behind them makes the complicated path suportable to keep movin on.
At the end of the day, I feel proud of my self that I'm doing this (at least this).
I speak 4,5 languages, have lived in 4 countries and there are only positives in learning other cultures. It is like adding extra eyes around your head. The world gets far less complicated.
Gee, you mean knowing those other languages isn't the "most painful" thing you've done? /s I admire you for expanding your horizons; it sounds like you're not a pretentious arse like the guy in the video.
Hmm I disagree, personally after being in the UK for 10 years I feel I'm not as fluent in speaking my mother tongue (Spanish), I've lost vocabulary and sometimes I say things grammatically incorrect. Not to speak about when to use accents and so. Also I can speak English ofc, but I won't ever speak it as well as a native does.
@@asr59 But speaking a language fluently doesn't mean speaking it without committing mistakes. Most native speakers of a given language commit several mistakes, by the force of habit. Usually, these mistakes are different from those committed by non-native speakers or by people in the process of learning that language.
That is your adaption phase, I had it as well. No worries, you have not forgotten it!
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Eae tricolor
Finally. A mini-documentary translating the thoughts I have had flying and smashing against the inside of my skull for years, played out in a simple four minute video. Nearly brought a tear to my eye
Thank you! I’m glad to find people with similar experiences and feelings on this platform. Means a lot to me.
@@phoenixhou4486 Yea, what really resonated with me was when you brough up poetry from different civilizations through time, and how their messages can trancend just one...
When the algorithm READS MY BRAIN lmao
That is why ignorance is a bliss. Knowledge brings pain and responibility. And stupidity is ruling the world. Sad to say, but true.
Same
I speak 3 languages fluently and there's nothing like the feeling that You can comunicate with people and understand different cultures, there's absolutely no pain in that!
Me too! I’m learning a 4th language because of school now though.
Now when people curse at you in 4 languages, you understand them. That's a pain.
@@fairfeatherfiend just learn a fifth one hahaha
I dont even speak "fluently" my own language so I just become more chaotic as time goes by after learning other languages. Which is, kinda fun.
@@minhao2571 dude that's how I feel, maybe my brain is getting overloaded with words lol
I think this is less about language learning and more about the perspective of different intelligence and having greater sensitivity to the world around you than others. The more advanced and individualized you become the more out of place you feel but also accept the limitations of your situations and others and do your best to appreciate what exists in its own way.
Hey! I enjoyed your video and I’ve been interested in exactly what you speak about - language, culture, and history. I’m currently a senior in highschool and am struggling in choosing my future career, so I’m curious, what have you done or studied?
Omg. You've just narrated to me my existential crisis.
Same
Yess
Same
felt that
How ?!? Please 🙃?
"Cultural schizophrenia" - wow. What a way to put it. I totally agree with you. I have been having the same ideas in the past few months, and you are the first person on UA-cam to express almost exactly the same thoughts I have. Besides my native language (Hungarian) I speak 7 languages fluently but I promised myself to stop learning new languages because the more I learn the more disconnected I get from the languages I already speak because I have to make room for the new ones. If I learn a new language, I get attached to its culture inadvertently, and then I realize it's a vicious circle. So, instead of learning new languages, I will master and hone the ones I already know. I don't want my mind and soul fall apart.
I don't consider as pain but what I already learn gave me pleasure and salvation through my live, I knew nothing about languages, I got to know people after, I am a completely introvert and after learning the language I became someone different, more powerful, I don't keep words I want to say.
7 languages is already impressive, ppl want to learn as much as they can, but at certain point they stop cause of various reasons, could be time or no longer have the energy...or whatever. What matters is to do what brings you joy.
Ok but what best tips can that can help a lot for people who wants to learn n be fluent to a new language
Magyar!! :D
7? Holy lord. I just wish I was at least able to speak english and japanese. I mean, I can use english to save my life, for sure, but I'm not fluent at all (I'm brazilian, never could pay for english classes). Japanese is too much. I almost had a breakdown trying to study it, because after you learn hiragana and katakana no one knows how to guide you (if you're not paying a teacher, and I can't do this). "Oh, learn Kanji. No, don't learn kanji alone, learn with sentences. No, first you need to lean grammar. No, avoid grammar, just read japanese books." And then I get in a loop where I can't read a book because I don't know kanjis nor grammar, I can't lean grammar because I can't read kanjis, I can't learn kanjis because you "need to use them in sentences to actually learn them" and I can't understand the sentences because I don't have grammar nor kanjis.
So, if a SINGLE language almost drove me crazy, I can't even imagine how it is to learn 7. Makes me feel sad, tho, since I actually love the idea of being able to speak several languages. Books and news can teach you a lot, but nothing compares to being able to sit down and listen to a native talking about their life/country. Its the real human interaction that I really wish I could have, even if not fluent, but enough to understand the ideas and feelings.
Whenever this video pops up on my UA-cam feed, I watch it.
I have no words to describe how much I love it. ❤
Good Talk! You know theres this quote: "No pain, no gain..." Also id like to quote Terry Pratchett: "Wisdom my lad, is never cheap..." 👍
Despite not being impressive, just learning "hello" or "good day" in another language can set off this curious feeling when speaking to someone who learned your language. I took French in high school, I am by no means fluent, but I know enough basic french to get around.
One day at my job, two guys with obvious accents walking in and I noticed one of them spome french to the other. When they came to talk to me about something, they said "hello", I responded "Salut" (french improper/for friends hello). They spoke in some french to me, to which I responded in kind. They livened up more after speaking in french, despite my fumblings with tense conjugation, and I would speak to them in French and they, to I, in English.
Similarly, a man, born in Poland, and his son, born US, came in. They had almost no accent, but when I heard his son's name I knew they were in some way Polish. I, being a teenager, asked the man if, by chance, they were Polish. He was taken aback slightly and said "yes, how did you know?". I told him how I was learning to be able to transliterate other languages and I had just started on the Polish language. He, like the french gentlemen before, became more lively at that fact.
It is truly a remarkable experience to be able to access another language in some way and express what you know to others who were born/grew up with it. Maybe it is a symbol that they of different language/nationality are not alone elsewhere, maybe they all thought it was funny some American was trying to talk about their culture (by means of language).
All I know is learning a foreign language is a curse to me, but maybe a blessing to others.
I had a similar experience with foreigners who were learning my language, it was so nice,even though I didn't understand them fully, but The joy on their faces when they were speaking to me,they were so happy because someone finally understand them!
it was priceless!
Please, this is beautiful! Learning languages isn't just about widening your knowledge, it's about connecting with humanity.
Yeah, the small amount of effort it takes to learn a couple of key words in a language are always going to be worth it imo. After that it's up to the person and their situation if it's a sensible investment of time or not.
Mucho texto
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. It you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela