I am currently trying to learn Spanish, because I'll be visiting Argentina in about 6 month, and it is kicking my butt! It really has made me very empathetic towards Spanish speakers attempting to learn English as adults.
You're absolutely right! Learning languages does deconstruct you. I'm ethnic Chinese, born and raised in Malaysia, grew up speaking Chinese and English at home and Malay at school, now even more so, I'm learning Hebrew, sometimes I don't feel connected to my own racial identity at all, sometimes I feel more connected to Hebrew even though it's my newest addition of my language repertoire, but at the same time I'm also not Jewish, so yeah, it's kind of a limbo situation. I wish to be a language tutor on italki but I've often struggled with which is really my native language, Chinese may be my mother tongue but I'm better at English and Malay, but I'm also not a native speaker to those two, plus I don't really know all the up to date expressions in China to be considered "native", I'm not sure what people might be thinking if they found out that I'm not a native speaker to any of the languages that I speak, or maybe I'm overthinking it. However, knowing several languages is also a blessing as much as it can sometimes be a curse, I find myself adapting to different cultures pretty flexibly and I appreciate every one of them, knowing that mine isn't always the superior one. I guess my identity is as you've described, not belonging to any one, but at the same time belonging to all. I started to love watching your videos, the way you speak always makes me smile. Spanish was actually once upon a time the language I wanted to learn but dropped because there wasn't any teacher and it's not very popular in this part of the world, but now that the world is more connected, it's not a problem anymore. Perhaps someday.
I have learnt Spanish to a reasonable degree and live in the UK. I’m surrounded by people that only speak English and it often makes me feel frustrated. I sometimes think in Spanish and want to speak what I am thinking but I know that nobody is going to have a clue what I am talking about.
I can now have a conversation in Spanish (depends on the background of the person and their accent haha) and the next language I want to learn would actually be Arabic (because half of my family is from Tunisia) but I think I should go to an actual school for that so I'll maybe do Dutch or Indonesian since these languages seem easy.
Learning french is always been a challenge. From the inconsistencies between the spelling and the pronounciation to idiomatic like approach on using a certain word/vocabulary.
I am currently trying to learn Spanish, because I'll be visiting Argentina in about 6 month, and it is kicking my butt!
It really has made me very empathetic towards Spanish speakers attempting to learn English as adults.
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You're absolutely right! Learning languages does deconstruct you. I'm ethnic Chinese, born and raised in Malaysia, grew up speaking Chinese and English at home and Malay at school, now even more so, I'm learning Hebrew, sometimes I don't feel connected to my own racial identity at all, sometimes I feel more connected to Hebrew even though it's my newest addition of my language repertoire, but at the same time I'm also not Jewish, so yeah, it's kind of a limbo situation.
I wish to be a language tutor on italki but I've often struggled with which is really my native language, Chinese may be my mother tongue but I'm better at English and Malay, but I'm also not a native speaker to those two, plus I don't really know all the up to date expressions in China to be considered "native", I'm not sure what people might be thinking if they found out that I'm not a native speaker to any of the languages that I speak, or maybe I'm overthinking it.
However, knowing several languages is also a blessing as much as it can sometimes be a curse, I find myself adapting to different cultures pretty flexibly and I appreciate every one of them, knowing that mine isn't always the superior one. I guess my identity is as you've described, not belonging to any one, but at the same time belonging to all.
I started to love watching your videos, the way you speak always makes me smile. Spanish was actually once upon a time the language I wanted to learn but dropped because there wasn't any teacher and it's not very popular in this part of the world, but now that the world is more connected, it's not a problem anymore. Perhaps someday.
2:30 very relatable. The movie 'Ya No Estoy Aquí' makes a point of this, even without learning a second language - great movie!
I have learnt Spanish to a reasonable degree and live in the UK. I’m surrounded by people that only speak English and it often makes me feel frustrated. I sometimes think in Spanish and want to speak what I am thinking but I know that nobody is going to have a clue what I am talking about.
I can now have a conversation in Spanish (depends on the background of the person and their accent haha) and the next language I want to learn would actually be Arabic (because half of my family is from Tunisia) but I think I should go to an actual school for that so I'll maybe do Dutch or Indonesian since these languages seem easy.
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Learning french is always been a challenge. From the inconsistencies between the spelling and the pronounciation to idiomatic like approach on using a certain word/vocabulary.
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Amazing. I feel my identity did change a lot. Do you all feel the same?
Yeah, exactly. That's what happens. Tell us what language do you know or are you learning?
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Your video is very insightful!
Glad you enjoyed it. Do you share these experienced?