How Many Languages Do I Speak?
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2023
- I've been traveling around the world for more than three decades. So have I learned any other languages? Filmed in Gangtok, the capital of the state of Sikkim in the Himalayas of northeast India.
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Gabriel is a world traveler and travel writer who has been adventuring around the world off and on since his first trip to Europe in the summer of 1990 when he was 18 years old. He is author of "Gabe's Guide to Budget Travel", "Following My Thumb" and several other books available on Amazon.com and elsewhere.
Thanks a lot for watching and safe journeys!
It's fun just meandering the streets wherever Gabriel is.
Walk on, brother!
That looks more like a lockdown than a strike.
Too bad you can't the mountains . Hope it clears up for you.
You are already an amazing You tube traveler. If you're able to communicate with the locals in the places you go to.....now, this will make you even a greater You Tube traveler.
Great video, thank you so much. Leaving in 4 days till October and I’m so exited. Blessings👽🖖🏽🌈🌱✨
Awesome. Where in India are you going?
I am from Greece and i am really happy that you know to speak some words and that you have come in the country 9 times, I am a fan of your great tour :) Namaste :) καλησπέρα!
Efharisto. 😊
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@@GabrielTravelerVideos parakalo
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In Europe a person can get by speaking English along with most of Asia but Latin America it's tough.
Nice trip to Rumtek, that is considered the highest of hi monasteries. Thanks for the tour. Blessings.
Those two kids at the end of video is phenomenal! I enjoyed always their surprise minds ! They have interests watching a white color tourist with camera in hand and continuous self-talking !!!!
quiet streets
nice conversation with the local resident
nice
Love this video. Like to see you soon back in greece. Kali mera.
Pretty amazing all those words that you can say in different languages, muy bueno 👌
I traveled off and on from 1987 to 2001 in 70+ countries and had very much the same experience with language as you. I always tried to learn as many of the necessary words in the local language as I could but found that if you can only speak one language, thank goodness it was English. One thing you didn't mention in this video is non-verbal communication. I found that I became extremely good at reading people's expressions, gestures and body language and also became skillful at getting my point across without using words. I even got pretty good at understanding the Indian head-wobble which totally perplexed me at first since it can mean virtually anything.
i second that. i too have traveled extensively, and have done the same thing: got really really good at reading body language and using non verbal cues and gesture.
Missing my hometown 😭😭 watching from Jerusalem. Enjoy your holiday. 🙏🙏
Beautiful, I speak English, Português, Español, and French, a bit of Italian and Turkish, and currently I am learning German , and in future maybe Danish 😊😊 Love your travel video Gabriel.
Du har måske mødt en dansk kvinde? 😉
@@sebastianwurtz5294 ahh, kann Ich nicht diese worte, zu verstehen, in Danisch, aber Ich mag diese sprache 😊😊
Not just a bit of italian but over 80% of it as thats how similar they are
@@veefernaodias4134 Vielleicht kannst du google übersetz verwenden?
Ok, Ich werde überprüfen 😊😊
I travelled to Sikkim on a motorbike in 2017. The little "knobs" in the road seem to be very unique to this area. The road in the hills are covered with literally millions of them, stretching for many kilometers. They provide good grip, but crashing the bike would have been catastrophic. One day I passed a construction site. The workers were breaking down rocks with hammers and placing every single stone by hand, one at a time. Couldn't believe my eyes
Hi Gabe: Interesting topic. I love learning new languages. I speak 4 Indian languages almost fluently and understand 3 more. I also have a smattering of French, Spanish & German. A lot of Indians Indians speak 3 languages (Hindi, English and their regional language).
Great 👍 video thanks
I’ve done the same. I speak English fluently and French pretty advanced but I’ve picked up the basics in Romanian, Russian, Hungarian, and Spanish.
Gabriel. I am obsessed with travel vids. I've watched many different youtubers but I have never seen anybody do a good one on the giant trees. I know you know where I mean. Hope you have been to the Samoa cookhouse.
I went to the Samoa Cookhouse a few times when I was a kid. The breakfast there was epic, I remember eating something like a dozen sausages. I've made a few videos up there: www.youtube.com/@gabejedmo/search?query=redwoods
I remember Gabe, while travelling India, how peoples eyes and smiles would light up when I would confindently, with good pronounciation, say to the Chia dude, " Ek kap Chaay, mit Cheenee aur doodh", also at the Paan stand, a lovely concoction of tabacco, lime paste, beelt nut ( a mild narcotic!) wrapped in a green leaf. "Meeta Paan". Hope you tried the Paan, these are the magical things that leave an endelible mark on your memory, to be retrived whern we reach the rocking chair time of life, at 140 year or so. LOL!
English is my native language and while I agree with you Gabe, that you can generally get by with just English, learning another language opens you up to so many more experiences, helps you understand cultures better, and obviously helps you communicate better with locals. It's absolutely worth the effort. It is difficult to learn another language unless you immerse yourself in it. I speak Spanish and learned it in Spain, I'm currently trying to learn Italian but without being immersed in it, it's difficult to make it stick.
Would you happen to know Spanish for banana plantation? 😎🍄
But italian should be easy for you. Same with portuguese even though italian pronunciation is easier. Reading is fine in both. If you learn spanish then these two come as a bonus. They are way too similar (over 80%) wheras learning latvian, norwegian, japanese, russian, greek, czech, arabic or many others would be a real challenge for you as they are so different
@@JBwhattodo you trying to trigger my ptsd? 🤣🤣
@@dreamthedream8929 it should come easily, which is exactly why I'm trying to learn it. It's hard not being immersed in it. Right now I know more French and Portuguese than Italian. Totally agree that other languages that aren't considered part of the romance family would be much more difficult
@@no_soy_rubio probably there are so many other italian words that you would recognize too but havent seen yet. Priest is the same in spanish and italian for example. This is the case with speakers of these languages. They know more the other one than they realize at first
Im learning english by your videos, Gabriel, thank you. Hi from Ukraine
Excellent. Stay safe.
Your Hindi is quite impressive. I lived in south India for five years and never learnt the local languages, partly due to laziness of mine but mostly due to the fact that nowadays in the cities of India nearly everybody understands and speaks English. SAme thing with Dutch in the Netherlands, everybody speaks English.
Krasí means wine in Greek. Thank you for showing that there's good krasí in Sikkim too. Must go there one day. 😎
Gotta be honest Gabe, not the most impressive language resume after 20 yrs of travel. I think I know more just living/working with similar immigrants in America lol. Love your vids, keep up the good work!!
Κalispera from Greece Gabe...your videos einai - are perfect - telia - mou aressi - i love - the atmosphere- atmosphaira, krasi=wine, a glass of wine = ena potiri krassi parakalo...i beleive that the most important words in every part of the world and in every language are "thank you", "i'm sorry" "you welcome", which in greek are "efharisto"-" sygnomi"-"parakalo".💖✌✨☺
Krasi is wine, not glass, good to know. I had the association with wine but got it wrong.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos you know what hartopetseta is though. LOL.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Hi Gabe, just to help you a little with the greek numbers, I'm currently studying Greek:
1 = ena
2 = dio
3 = tria (think of triangle)
4 = tessera
5 = pende (think of pentagon, pende gonia = 5 angles)
6 = exi (think of hexagon, 6 angles)
7 = efta
8 = ochto (octopus, ochtapodi = 8 legs)
9 = ennea
10= deka (think of decathlon)
@@davygabriels7971 There we go, thanks.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos You're welcome. Most people don't realize they use a lot of Greek words in daily life when speaking English, Dutch etc...
Try visiting Bhutan as well. It's expensive to visit Bhutan due to their sustainability taxes but totally worth it.
"Knobs on the Road" are the stone pieces embedded in the surface. This kind of road surface is called "Mastic Asphalt".
Knowledge of many languages is an important skill for a travel youtuber. That is what set big travel and food travel youtubers like Bald n Bankrupt, Harald Baldr, Chris Lewis, Max McFarlin, Mark Wiens, Trevor James, Xiomanyc etc apart - they are very skilled with multiple languages and actually interact with locals in their videos. It definitely adds a level of sophistication to their channels because it takes a lot of intelligence and practice to be able to speak multiple languages. It also creates magic in their videos because you can see them connect with the locals and the pure joy that it creates for them by surprise.
Check out Sabbatical, he's the OG of youtube polyglots
One just need to know the basic street terms to get by in any language, when you travel.... you don't need to be fluent in any language...just enough to survive....‼⁉️
@@no_soy_rubio Yes, Sabbatical seems to have an astonishing capacity to learn languages (as I don't speak most of the languages he claims to I can't honestly assess how well he does), but the videos make it seem that he can chat with people everywhere.
I think Xiomanyc shouldn't make in the list. He's just keep parroting and messing with a lot of simple sentences. But I agree with other people. They use every sentence perfectly despite not knowing the languages at fluent level.
But coming to the language learners or polyglots, I think Kazu languages takes the cake.. he is Japanese UA-camr and can't believe how quickly he's learning and progressing in the language. People actually notice his levels increasing. Compared to xiomanyc he is legit.
@@goostrey4210 same, I only speak Spanish and he speaks with an amusing (to me) hybrid Argentinian/New Yorker accent, and his vocabulary is very good
To be fair, aside from English (which people learn at school from a young age), it’s rare for people to speak another language well unless they immersed themselves by living in whichever country for a period of time.
That is not entirely correct. I know quite a few Europeans who speak 2 or 3 languages very well without having ever lived in other countries. A lot of Indians speak 2 or more languages. They have learned these by living in different parts of India. it is mainly Americans who have a problem with learning new languages. A vast majority of Americans speak only English because they see no need to learn any other language as English is spoken widely around the world.
I was always thinking of going to that area
1) To me, speaking a language means speaking it at least well (and preferably) fluently.
Although, I always recommend learning a few words on any languages (which are official) in the countries to which you (meaning anyone) plan to travel.
Gabriel, I have never heard you speak any other language, fluently or well, other than English. Nothing wrong with that, of course.
But learning a few words in other languages ("please", "thank you", "hello", "goodbye", "I'm sorry" at least) is highly recommended.
2) I have heard that Hindi is a lot like Russian, and Tibetan. A librarian I know, who IS Russian, learnt Hindi in all of SIX MONTHS, which I think is a spectacular feat.
My great, great Grandfather (on my Mother's side) spoke Sanskrit and and Tibetan. He studied The Hittite languages at Yale. Not sure why, but ... he did.
3) Doggie tricks: Take a long stick to handle wilder dogs, to potentially beat 'em off.
4) Spanish language is one of the easier foreign languages to learn. Its tenses are tricky though or ... so I hear, anyway. Someone told me that Spanish has 18 tenses. English has 16. Yikes ...
Please consider releasing another video by tonight if you can as mentioned in the comments.
I forget which video, but I remember Ben from Bald and Bankrupt mentioning in one of his videos that the police in India are very curious with asking where you are going and saying not to go to places or that you need to turn around and go back. It's interesting that there's this in your video too. It seems very important to them that you not walk around exploring their town since their public transit employees are on strike 🤔
English may be the international language but it often failed me in all of Latin America. Travel there often requires Spanish.
You took a restricted day and made an interesting video
Gabe need to make teaching language video now 😃👍
This looks much better , how I wish it was always like this in Gangtok and have been there several times obviously since I'm Indian so it's a hop , skip and a jump , basically an overnight train journey from Kolkata followed by a4 hour road journey by private car
Gabe new video yes
Bravo bravo my friend unbelievably good....
Dog advice from a veteran of several wild dog attacks: raise your arms, shout as loud as you can, and move TOWARDS them boldly. It works on cows etc too. If I'd bent down to pick up rocks they would have eaten my face.
I have seen lots of cows in my life. they never attack. only bulls do in some rare cases.
@@mangomate1623 not true at all, a man was killed by cows here recently, it's surprisingly common! 32 people have been killed by cows in the last 4 years in the UK. Government figures.
Inspiring I pick up words but not languages good to know it works for you too
Noticed the nobs on the road. Rather intriguing
My mother tongue is Slovenian and I speak fluently English, German and Serbian-Croatian as foreign languages, also succeeded and ended beginner and advanced language courses in French and Russian. So languages from Germanic, Romance and Slavic groups. They are really good to know in Europe as many other are related to them and you can understand those other languages by some context and in some particular scenes. Russian and Serbian are good for cyrillic writings.
On the other hand, I don't understand Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Greek, so in that countries is also in Europe for me very similar than in Egypt as all is understood mainly only in English there (and not necessarily from older generation, only young can speak it good). I can't imagine how it would be in Japan or China for me where I also can't read their script. There would surely help to learn some language and script prior visiting them.
If you had gone a little far from that stream in the end u would have come across a small monastery but you turned around.
Hi Gabriel, interesting topic because as you know there are translators on smartphones as well as free apps like Duolingo so there are always ways of picking up certain phrases and words and expressions. So, when you're traveling you do feel a more engaged and better understanding of what's going on. Your Spanish is good and certain things are universal and much is common sense and a good mind to use it.
Duoling is kinda cool if one is total noob in a language, but it wont have phrases to pick up at demand, those phrases comes a long learning a language. For picking phrases I would recommended to google about some other app
@@_____J______ it's a start for putting words together.
You as a Spanish speaker also can understand most of italian and portuguese
May Be interesting to hear about Sikkim being "All Organic"--which is one of the main reasons to visit Sikkim ++ OrganicTea Shops to taste test & pickup one to travel with.
staying in a Bungalow, on a Tea Plantation tends to be excellent, especially when the kitchen is right there/ nearby.
"you have come a long way baby!" 🎶🎵
i speak english, bengali, hindi, and a little bit of chinese and french as well
I speak Dutch fluent and English and German almost fluent, from some other European languages I know some words. By the Latin ones, a little bit more curtainly if it's French or Spanish
Wow, I remember being grounded in Italy during on and off train strikes that were on and off for a month but in India they shut down entire regions of a strike? That’s an interesting difference in social culture. Any more information on that?
That is a football or hockey stadium. Cricket stadiums are usually circular.
Not a strike day for the dogs it seems 🤣🐾
Great videos
I love watching them all 😊
You mentioned English is the international language. I think money is the first international language and then English 😅😂😂😂😂
How is the weather in Gangtok? It looks like a cool city. More peaceful than most in India.
Ein guter Pilger sagt mit seinem Herzen was er nicht mit seinem Kopf in Worte fassen kann.
Un buen peregrino dice con su corazón lo que no puede poner en palabras con su cabeza.
A good pilgrim says with his heart what he is not capable to put in words with his head.
I know Hinid Curse Words. . . . . . . . .which I use when I get those SCAM phone calls !! 😂😂😂😂
Good enough. 🤣🤣
Me too lol. Ben Chode!
Thank you
The topic of languages is always an interesting one. The Indian Central government uses English and Hindi as its official languages, but the Constitution recognises 22 regional languages. Upto 18 languages can be seen on Indian currency notes. Most people in India can speak at least 2 languages and in my case, I can manage up to 7, including German and French, thanks in part to my multilingual upbringing. You might want to use Hindi sparingly when you travel around India. Many Indians don't understand it and less commonly, some others are offended if they are spoken to in Hindi instead of the regional language.
i have been trying to learn Hindi for years and still only know about 7 words which i always forget! but it's a long time since i was there
Spoken Hindi is pretty simple to learn. I learned the language in 6 months when I moved from South India to the North.
I'm learning English thanks to your videos
Cool. 👍
10:26 decimal number system was invented in India.
Hindi words were welcomed in Northern India but less so the further South I travelled in lndia.
Are you saying that if there's a general strike in India, people have to stay in their hotel rooms like in Covid times? Why? I've never heard such a thing. I'd love you to explain.
In India, I am more careful about being around the small Monkeys more than wild Dogs.
Looks like you made some friends Gabriel 😀 very curious.
Interesting commentary on 'wala'.
When you went to the monastery yesterday, did you mention the price for your driver to wait for you there while you explored and ate Thukpa? He must have been waiting for you for at least a few hours? Thanks, I'm really enjoying these videos from the Himalayas (I will be in the Himalayas (Leh, Ladahk) in August) . . . Namaste!!
P.S. I've been trying to learn Hindi on Duolingo, and I know a few words myself.
P.P.S. Once I called a woman making Chai a Chai Wallah, and she promptly corrected me to Chai WALLEE . . . I won't make that mistake again . . . :)
It was 1,600 rupees or $22 for the round trip taxi ride. I was only at the monastery for an hour or so.
Those kids were following you. 😄
I try to learn as many of the common words in the local language....but I am not "linguistically-inclined" either!
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Bonjour Monsieur, bonne journée! 🌞
I can speak English, Nepali & Hindi fluently. Know few more regional languages like Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Maithali, etc - but not counting, since they ain't national language. Also know some words & sentences in Spanish & Russian - but they're very limited and can't converse in real life situation, hence not counting them either. So just 3!
Gotta say I'm surprised you haven't picked up better Spanish from all your time in Latin America. Still love you though!
Learning languages are easy now, but before you have to carry a dictionary. when you are a teen or below 20 is easier to remember words. I'm a Bengali and I can talk both in Urdu and Hindi(easier) and many of the root words are the same(Sanskrit). Many Arabic and Persian(a lot) in Hindi Urdu Bengali and other similar language of India. when I went to the USSR and studied Engineering in the Russian language first year in Zaporozhia and later 12 years in st. Petersburg. English learning in primary(a little bit) and high school, there was an Arabic course for 3 years at high school, but don't remember much, but can read and write. When I came to Montreal, I went to French language school(evening time and weekend) and was fluent a little bit. I could understand news, movies, etc, but the French language is hard and its grammar is similar to the Russian one. subject object, adverb, and verb all change with the A personal pronoun is a short word we use as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person. Each of the English personal pronouns shows us the grammatical person, gender, number, and case of the noun it replaces. I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them are all personal pronouns. Most Slavic languages are very similar to russian, so there will be no problem traveling to east Europe.( traveled a long time ago)
Love from Nagaland 🥰😍❤
Well done Gabe. How r u eating there right there?
Cue everyone showing off with how many different languages they speak🤪
Hey Gabriel, I really like your videos and adventures, I watch every single one of them, starting from a few years ago. Amazing really. But what I would like to know is, since I saw that video of yours a few days back with you sitting with your laptop and editing videos, what are the specs of your laptop that you use on your travels ?
Not sure exactly but it's a Lenovo Yoga I got in 2020. It works pretty well but is slowing day, there's a lag now when trying to watch videos sometimes.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Thanks for answering man ! If it's the Lenovo Yoga C940 from 2020, thats a pretty good laptop, fast too. But you might want to clean Windows 10 a bit just to make it fast again. Anyways man, keep it up with the videos and travels and stay safe !.
@@alext3159 Yeah a cleaning is definitely in order. I have CCleaner and Avast Cleanup which I use regularly but something else needs to happen. Any idea on how to give it a deeper cleaning? Should I take it to a computer specialist? And any thoughts on upgrading to Windows 11? It's been offered but I'm skeptical about whether all my programs will work properly if I upgrade.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos If I were you I would back up all of your files onto an external hard drive, and make sure you have the installation source for all the software you use then do a "factory reset" of the computer. It will get your computer back to running the way it was the day you bought it. You will lose anything on the main computer C: hard drive that you don't back up, but it's the most efficient way to completely clean your system.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos I Would not take it to a specialist, just take it to a friend who knows what he is doing, or do it yourself. Or a specialist you know and trust. Regarding the cleanup, the programs you mentioned are fine but basic. I find that the builtin Windows Anti virus is quite good, just update it daily. You can do a reset like it is said above but that can take quite some time, unless you do a quick reset. Of course you have to choose the option then to keep all your files. But the problem with that is that it will install everything again, making Windows bloated and slow again. Some tips: always use Firefox with private mode, configure it to always delete cookies when closed. Disable these services: Workstation and Server services, they are enabled by default in all Windows because they are mostly being used in companies but that is like sleeping in a house with all doors wide open. Change your DNS servers to the fastest ones around now: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. And lastly, just stay with Windows 10 for now. While W11 is not bad, it has its issues and is very bloated, meaning that it comes with ALOT of programs you will never use. Also a tip: go to the settings page , apps and delete everything you do not use. Keep it light and fast. Let me know if you have questions, I can tell you step by step how to achieve these things if you want to.
hi Gabriel. Please tell me, what is the brand your brown jacket? It looks nice.
It's a fake Mammut brand I got in Kathmandu, Nepal.
I think one.
You need to visit North Sikkim
English might get you bye for travel purposes, living somewhere long term is a different matter !
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Sorry, but i laughed very hard.. When pack of wild dogs crossed you.. 😆😆🤣🤣. And u changed track behind cars.
Cool.
I speak 3 languages fluently, 5 others helpfully and of course I know a lot of words and expressions in other random languages.
ΚΑΛΗΜΕΡΑ ΓΑΒΡΙΗΛ! ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΛΗ ΔΟΥΛΕΙΆ!
Do you know what the strike is about and why you're not allowed on the street during the strike?
11:55 Freaking landslide, dude!!!!
I wanna say that too - but in Urdu. Bengali, Punjabi yes! These too. So many speak these languages. I have to ask myself: just how many conversations do I want to be cut out of, anyway? Languages learning and playing music - these are the things that maintain your neurological plasticity into your 90's! Start using your noggin folks! 🌲😎🌲 It's time we started to make it work better & make it last2.
I'd like to live like Gabriel😄😄
Along with Hindi, you can try to capture a bit of our Bengali language, the world's most sweetest language, which is also recognized by UNESCO.
@GO BLOOD Not really, some sound like nails on a chalkboard!😂
Romance languages > everything else
Because Bengali doesn't have harsh sounding phones
I speak English, Spanish, German and Belizean Creole
Nice. 👍
When are you coming to Europe again?
Do you wear a mic while filming these videos?
Or is it a mic atop the camera?
How is the audio so amazing?
It's just the mic in the camera. I turn up the audio by 150% during editing. Glad it's sounding good.
Hey Gabriel try to visit Gurudondmar lake
From South Korea, Since English is an international language, native English speakers don't need to learn a foreign language. Speaking of which have you ever learned Korean language?
The children who talked to u are so chill n open... the protestors are actually quite considerate. They end the strike at 6pm. X
Seems more like a lockdown then a strike?
Don't dis Portland every city in the USA has taken a fall because of dump, I live here and still love ut.
Could you tell what the strike was about? Thanks for the videos.
A government official declared that the Nepali-speaking people in Sikkim were foreign immigrants. So they were protesting against that. Apparently because of the strikes the official removed that language, so mission accomplished. Something along those lines.
It's usually about some political controversy. Years ago I was in Kerala for a strike that occurred bc a government official had been found taking bribes from a pro liquor lobby. I think in most cases the police aren't enforcing the strike, so much as trying to ensure there's no violence by "encouraging" people to stay in. From what I have seen it's the protesters (in my case the opposing political group) who commit vandalism or violence against those who violate the strike by being outside or opening their businesses.