Abla şimdi şu japonca da hiragana katakana kolay lakin şu kanjileri nasıl ogrenebiliriz Kanjilerin hepsini ezberlemek mi gerekir . Bi de bunları yazmak için eğitim gerekir mi , yoksa bakıp aynısını çizerek yapmaya çalışırsak Kanji' leri öğrenmemiz kolay olur mu? Abla biliyosan bi yardım ediver Japoncaya hakim olmak istiyorum . Bu arada Türkçem biraz zayıf 'dır. Bazan güzel ve düzgün konuşamıyorum Türkçe mi:)
I agree. Then again, I do think there are some languages which are EASIER for a certain population (: for example I struggled with English a lot, however, Italian was a breeze as a native Spanish speaker.
@@ruriohama Can't agree more. My mother tongue is English but I find learning Bisaya and Filipino hard to learn and it's just like the past 6 years for me to be comfortable with Bisaya and just past 2 years ago for my Filipino. Learning Spanish also became a bit easier when I understood Filipino and Bisaya too.
@@goshu7009 Wait what's your definition of dialect and language? Going by that logic, then is Bisaya a dialect to Filipino? Portuguese and Spanish? Irish and English?
@@ja4309 Why would you think there are ,,Germanic group of languages", Latin (Romanic) group of Languages, Slavic (Bulgarian) Group of languages? Because during the process of identify as a nation, they became languages, but they were dialects in the past. The Tree is German, the branches are English and many more. Latin - the Tree - Spanish, Portugese, Italian - branches. Bulgarian - Tree : Serbian, Croatian, Russian - branches. We just call them languages today out of respect, but in reality - its dialects.
Repetition!!! When i started learning languages my mistake was always trying to consume new things all the time. Made the learning journey longer. I realized if i just read the same books/materials/movies/music albums multiple times, instead of constantly looking looking for new things, it sticks better.
@@krasty3073 I guess it depends on the person if they're able to still have fun or tolerate consuming the same thing. It all really depends if you're having fun immersing in the content, otherwise learning the language would just become a task.
I would say "easy" languages could be tricky. As native Russian speaker, I started to learn Czech (both are slavic, which means similarity on the level of 70-85%). That was sooooo easy to start understand and speak Czech, but when it comes to accuracy and B1+ levels. Your native language starts to interfer and that's annoying. There is a lot of stuff which is a bit different from one language to another and you need not to learn, but relearn things. Btw, the easiest language for me to learn is Japanese, I don't know why, but it was SOOOOO easy
@ترانسي تيوب I think that it is caused by a lot of different dialects in the Arab countries which are not mutually intelligible, for the example Moroccan Arabic vs Iraqi Arabic.
@@royyannewsted8909 You are right. Every Arab country has its own slang, but it shares the mother tongue Arabic. The difference in slang does not mean not understanding it, but rather the difficulty of speaking it a little, as we all understand each other We are all brothers ❤️
She says: 'There are no hard languages.' I usually say: 'All languages are hard.' It's such a long proces and I really admire people taking the time to learn a 2nd or 3th
@@LazyBearTO Not really, since it is still practiced in Vatican. Also there is scientific history behind the Latin. Name of the bones are are latin just like some legal concepts are latin.
Norwegian is the easiest language in the world to learn. I became conversational in 1 minute! Sure, my native language is Swedish, but don't worry about that.
@@_my_insomnia_blink562 I think that's the joke😂 Swedish is nearly 100% mutually intelligable with Norwegian, so if Swedish is someone's native language and they want to formally learn Norwegian, they have a huuuge advantage.
Polyglot myself. Fluency in 9 languages. But let’s be real, there are plenty of languages that are objectively hard. And there are plenty of people who find even their own languages extremely difficult. Russians struggle with their extremely complex grammar. Chinese have a miserable time writing their own characters and so on. But you do make some very good points.
That's true, but at that point, whatever level the average Russian or Chinese gets to... _is_ the standard for fluency. So it doesn't matter if every Turk only learned "half" of Turkish, that would be the real Turkish language, then. So that factor shouldn't be considered when ranking how hard a language is, since if even native speakers can't get it right, nobody will be expecting you too, either. I think what she meant was that 'hard' has more to do with your own proximity to the language. A Wenzhouneze will certainly have an easier time with Mandarin than an Australian. And a Russian will find Bulgarian easier than a Nigerian.
Chinese characters would be considered separate from the language itself. The mental/verbal language IS the language, with writing used to represent it.
@@chickenfeed6272That's not really true, written language is also part of language. It just depends on your definition but most language skill tests will rank your speaking, reading & writing and listening skills. If you claim yourself to be able to speak Chinese that does include being proficient in the writing system as well... or else you need you say I can speak it but can't read or write it well.
Writing in Chinese is a real hassle, especially when you're trying to write Traditional Chinese, they just have so much more strokes and lines in general, and sometimes a little writing mistake can change the meaning of the word entirely.
@@bodo887 The norm in human history has been language without a writing system, thus I would say that writing systems are an add-on. However, it's true that it depends on your definition and I shouldn't suggest mine is objective. I do think some writing systems, like for Mandarin, unnecessarily make learning the language more difficult.
I speak three languages and I can feel the difference in thinking when switching. Also, it's amazing to talk to a person who speaks two languages and switching them on the fly, it's one of the most interesting experiences for multilingual people.
I'm honestly so happy to be able to speak multiple languages. Due to my parents' work I've spent my entire life moving from one country to another (inside of europe) and learning a language is just amazing. My native languages are English and Turkish as I'm half Irish and Turkish, but I've also lived in Spain, Germany and Switzerland so I know German and Spanish. Also I can translate Latin texts bc it's mandatory at the schools I've so far studied at. It's amazing to be able to help others, I just love it when I'm helping a tourist or sum and just talk in their mother tongue and their entire face lights up.
@flower lady 🤍 Hey🤍Love that! English is an amazing language, I'm hoping to study it one day in university to get a degree as a professional translator, you can do it!
@flower lady 🤍 Bir şey değil, ben insanları motive etmeği çok seviyorum😂Btw, your English is pretty good already, with enough practice you'll be able to speak the language completely fluently in no time. Which level are you at the moment? (A2, B1, etc?)
@flower lady 🤍 Damn from what I've read so far, your vocabulary and grammar are perfect! Hope you can get to C1/2 level soon, even though it takes a lot of work, but you just got to work and study hard! Ben şuan Almanya'da yaşiyorum (Berlin'de) çünkü babam'ın işi burada, ama lise'den sonra yeniden İsviçre'de yada İrlanda'da okumak çok isterim. I think you thought I was living in either Ireland or Turkey because my initial comment was phrased in a way that's suggests I don't live in Germany any more😂Sorry about that!
@flower lady 🤍 Seninle arkadaş olmak benim içinde güzeldi! Sen hangi ülkelerde yaşamak istersin mesela? I'm in 10th grade rn so I think it's lise 2 in Turkey. But I'm not sure as I've only lived in Turkey for two years when I was younger.
Bravo Ohama. seni takdir ediyorum. İnsanlara dil öğrenmelerini teşvik etmek güzel birşey. Kendi yaşadığını insanlara aktararak bizlere güven veriyorsun teşekkür ederim.
As a Tunisian who speaks both Arabic and French (thanks to our educational system - All subjects are taught in french), I find it very easy for me to learn English, French, Spanish, Italian and this group of languages, right now I am living in Czech Republic, and I am finding lot of troubles to speak Czech, Slavik languages are kinda hard for arabs like me to learn maybe because my native language and Slavik languages are quite different in terms of prononciation and even from cultural side
My friend, please look for "Не Учите Русскую Грамматику!" video. It's about 5 minutes, and i can approve that as russian. You can easily start speak with just huge vocabulare, because word order is free and every russian-speaker will understand you. And then polish rules, declension, and so on.
In my opinion once you can speak, read and listen easily at B2 level, you're OK. There is no need to be god level in every language. There simply is not enough time.
agree!!! i want to be c1 or c2 in korean, i just have a strong desire to communicate deeply and learn about korean history in the language, but for spanish, b1 or b2 would be amazing. i am also interested in vietnamese, chinese, greek, and german, and would probably also be satisfied at b1 for any of those. there are some languages i would just like to be familiar with, not necessarily fluent in. it’s more to do with the culture and the fact that i feel like i’m missing out on something without knowing them.
No it depends on your goals. Some people just want a basic level in a language with a bad accent and others want to be really competent before they are satisfied.
I agree with what another commentor has said. If I take my time to learn a language, I want to commit myself to it. It's easy to think you're "good" when you are at B1-B2 level when in truth you are clearly not. Only after that point it starts to get interesting as you learn to understand all of the nuances, etc. Until that point, it's like learning maths to me. You just know words and sentence structures and how to combine them.
I do think English is the easiest language to learn because of how easy it is to get yourself subjected to the language through music, movies, games and other types of media. It’s hard not to get subjected to English. I turn on the radio BOOM new Beyoncé song, I turn on the tv BOOM a British antiques show, I open TH-cam BOOM English speaking channels like this one. You get what I mean. E.g. if I wanted to listen to something that is in Italian, I would have to deliberately search for it
idk, as a russian, before I started engaging in english content deliberately, I've never stumbled upon anything out of my comfortable zone, all the recommendation algorithms were shoving russian content down my throat all the time. My guess is that algorithms are based of off your geolocation and what people from your country watch. Usually russians are incredibly monolingual, I think I've only met one person my age with decent english proficiency, even though english is a very demanded language. So if you're from russia algorithms wouldn't show you much non-russian stuff; I could imagine that in some other countries like Netherlands, where almost everyone speaks english, algorithms would naturally recommend you more english content. Now, I have no desire to engage with russian content whatsoever, it is still a problem, even after creating a completely new account, setting region to the US and never watching anything russian, I still come across russian content much much more than content of any other non-english language
I'm trilingual (japanese, English, and tagalog) and I totally have different personalities when I speak! My Japanese sounds shy and curious, my English sounds proud and confident, and my tagalog sounds sarcastic.
English is highly analytic(surprisingly much similar to Mandarin structurally) whereas Japanese and Turkish are highly infusional languages. Switching from a SVO mindset to a SOV sometimes even VVO or VOV mindset can pose some challenges. As a natively bilingual dude who's been learning Japanese for 10+ years I can relate!
@@Jibe111111111 because is not infusional? Because the English language have almost no declensions, if you said: the cat is chasing the ball you know because of the word order who is chasing what not because of the declensions, in the English language only the pronouns and the genitive case are to some degree still present, the other cases are not. In other languages the word ball could have an inflection following the accusative case considering the ball is the direct object of the phrase. Like in English, when you say mother's that "s" means that something belongs to someone, that would be an example of the genitive case, depending on the language there are many more.
Hey, Ruri! Started watching you recently. Your video about why one can't speak fluent while understanding is magnificent. I've learned basics of English language not alone, but improved and practiced just like you. With TH-cam and mirror, lol. When you just said that when you change language your personality a little bit shifts, I realized that I'm not going nuts and it's normal. Thank you for your content, Ruri! You're great! Keep on!
getting many languages to B2 level is so much easier than getting 2 languages to C2 level. C2 level means that you can basically read all difficult literature at college levels.
Which let's be honest- plenty if not most native speakers can't even do that in their mother language. C2 is truly a feat and not one every language learner should necessarily strive towards.
I agree! There are just too many variables to count. For me, as long as the language feels FUN to learn-no matter how "hard" it supposedly is, I'd have an easier time with it anyway. At the moment I'm trying to build back the fun in German so I can speak as comfortably and fluently as you!! 😁
I hated German in HS because of my teacher's way of teaching, although I chose for it. Then I learned it again due to circumstances since many of my friends were Germans from Lower Saxony. I still can understand a bit German passively, but can't speak it well.
Hey Ruri, I'm Gabriel from Brazil 🇧🇷 I've been learning English for the past three years, my current lvl of English is (C1) i have a good speaking/writing/reading/listening Which means I can speak the language fluently and confidently, but i still felt a massive lack of vocabulary, then I've been watching to a lot of videos about (Essential Phrases, Phrasal verbs, Daily Phrases) I've also downloaded some apps of (Phrasal verbs) trying to expand my vocabulary, And it has been helping me a lot, now i feel that I can talk to an native speaker or a non-native english speaker (Like us) without crashing or mentally translating, btw you've helped me a lot as well, thank you Ruri 💕⭐💫
I'd point out that difficulty in langauge learning, in my experience, is largely a product of mental flexibility and the ability to understand systems "outside of oneself." I would characterise language learning not dramatically different from philosophy. I think that's the most useful skill in learning a language, because both philosophy require a person to break down ideas and create a sort of ... flexible cognition. That ability to take something you "know" and turn it over in your mind until you can understand all of its possibilities. I speak... enough languages, and one thing I really find fulfilling is learning Germanic languages. Because it lets me see words that exist across a number of languages that have slightly different meanings and it really gives a robust understanding of the concept behind them as you trace the route it took to have a crystallised meaning. That gives language a tremendous flexibility and a mastery concepts. It's really the same breaking down into the essential components and really LISTENING to what is actually being said instead of the short-hand we give it, to increase funcationality. Too often we try to graph a priori understanding onto a language and it causes difficulty. Like when people try to understand は particle. So many people try to understand it as "is" because they are unable to unshackle their brain an perceive the possibility of non-latin grammar. They see the world so rigidly that they place themselves under rules that actually have no sway over them or what they are capable of; it's like the story of the elephant and the stake. A young elephant held in place by a wooden stake will, as an adult, never challenge the wooden stake, having learned as a child that it can't pull it out of the ground.
How? I''m learning Kurdish, and there's definitely times where I've realized a word or phrase has no translation, but I have to sort of feel the sentence or try to understand it without words, but it's so difficult and doing it for an entire language instead of a few words seems impossible for me.
The thing with chinese, japanese is that the writing system probably takes up a lot of time to learn, and maybe getting to a good level without fully dominating writing by hand (which I think is the most difficoult), Identifying a 漢字 is not that difficoult, but knowing exactly which character to write is. Thats why I would mostly focus on reading and being able to write on a computer.
I don’t plan on writing a lot of Japanese. Tho I might have to, I want to move to Japan when I’m older and you kinda have to write in Japanese. I probably will mostly use my phone to write Japanese which is much easier to do than writing in Japanese. The thing that scares me is all the sounds 1 kanji can make. I don’t have that big of a brain to remember all those sounds 😭 I’ll figure it out.
@@Karmynnd It is very similar to memorizing the spellings of words in english, I'd recomend learning words and how to write/read them rather than memorizing all the readings a kanji can have. There are no actual rules to which exact sound to use in each case and you will end up memorizing which reading of each character is used in each word anyway. This vocabulary aproach is far more natural and easy. Japanese kids start knowing every word and then they are taught how to write them, it is not like they have to figure out how a word sounds (most of the time)
@@Karmynnd in fact even you make all the sounds wrong, it doesnt affect communication. we can understand what you say from the context , unless you only speak one word with the wrong tones.
if you want to learn Chinese perfect and speak like a native speaker, you should pay more attention to tones. speaking in wrong tones just like an accent to us. just like you can also understand Indian English although they pronounce strangely.
You don't need to learn how to write Japanese until later on once you've inputted enough Japanese into your mind through immersion. All you need to do with the alphabet in the beginning is to learn how to read, since you have to know that for the purposes of searching up and remembering vocabulary. Learning how to read is EXTREMELY easy, don't worry about speed aswell since it'll come later. Edit: This doesn't account for Kanji, learning Kanji is a different thing to learning the Kanas lol. But imo even if Kanji is more difficult to learn, it's not as hard as people say since it's basically for the most part synonymous with learning vocabulary as you immerse in native content.
If you're literally talking about love, then yes If you're talking about French, then maybe a bit more biased on the difficult side Either way yeah this hits the jackpot
I do not really agree with "self-learning is twice longer", because sometimes in school (in France in my case) we learn some useless vocabulary we'll never use later, even if some students don't know useful basics of english But at home if we can learn as we want it can be a lot more efficient
For the first period in Japan, as an English teacher, you're basically used as a human tape recorder - before they bring in the real tape recorder, and as a rule, you're never allowed alone with the class (juinor high school). They prefer native speakers, though. Anyways, I hated school all my life, I think, except here and there. They actually berated me as a child for reading my own books. How crazy is that? The pensum in Norway is three pages long until upper seconday school.
I would say "easy" languages could be tricky. As native Russian speaker, I started to learn Czech (both are slavic, which means similarity on the level of 70-85%). That was sooooo easy to start understand and speak Czech, but when it comes to accuracy and B1+ levels. Your native language starts to interfer and that's annoying. There is a lot of stuff which is a bit different from one language to another and you need not to learn, but relearn things. Btw, the easiest language for me to learn is Japanese, I don't know why, but it was SOOOOO easy
japanese have similar pronunciation to russian so for russian native speakers can find it easier to understand and learn. basically hiragana and katakana sounds are pronounce almost identical to russian alphabet except for R line (that pronounce something between R and L but it may change in different situations) and last line that include わ (wa), を(wo), ん(n) since they pronounce slightly different from characters that russian alphabet has but still it's not very hard to understand how to pronounce them.
@@shi_yuki in the speaking level it is true, but I think in grammar level it is different story. Atrough Russian grammar is a huge pain in the ass even for natives, it is lend very wide spectre of possibilities to make sentence. Even if this sentence will occupy whole A4 list. And this is not joke, we like to use absurdely long sentences
@@PyromaN93 yeah, i can relate. for me russian is native language because i speak on it my whole life but sometimes grammar causes some difficulties since i never were able to learn it with all rules
Learning New languages is my newly discovered hobby! I'm learning Russian right now cause it's My favourite language and I'm planning to study and live in Russia! I'm only a week in studying the Russian language and already know the Alphabet and some words and phrases! It's really easy! Right now, two languages I speak fluently are English and Spanish! I'm from Belize, english is my native language!
*Every language is hard, in that you have to learn it to know it* *If there's any language you can know without having to learn it, then such a language is easy.* *So it's the learning that's hard, not the language*
Every day I watch your TH-cam videos to improve my listening comprehension. Recently I’ve been trying to do it in x1.2 speed and I manage to understand what you say because actually your English is easier for me to listen to than native speakers😊
When I speak German I'm also shy / inverted, but when I start speaking English my personality also changes, but that depends on the accent, for example: British is similar to German and in American I'm a bit more energetic. My other languages are more like German, but you can see the differences. (I'm german btw)
@@s.t.a.r.d.u.s.t.8 as a person with adhd, doing the things that you love isn’t easy. However, you do what you can no matter if it’s 10 minutes or an hour.
Speaking Japanese is really easy for me even as a native English speaker, but reading and writing it is what take so so long to study. I know how to say way more things than I can read, and can write even less. Typing makes things a little easier since I don't have to know every stroke order of every kanji.
I'm learning Japanese by myself and isn't difficult, the English is my second language that I'm still learning so... for me learn these language is a hobby! :)
I think the same! I’m a Portuguese native speaker and the sound in Portugueses and Japanese are pretty much the same like 97% of the time. People got scared about Japanese due the written system they have. But I learned hiragana and katakana in 1 week LOL . Things start to get harder when it comes to kanjis and phrase structure, maybe particles too
I learned recently that Finnish language (my mother language) and Japanese language are coincidentally similiar. strongest similarities are founded in phonology, particularly in phonemic quantity. Also some Finnish names sound like Japanese. Its weird but also quite encouraging to me to learn Japanese not just for anime but also academic purposes.
Ben şahsen 6 dil biliyorum, 4,5 dilde akıcı konuşmak çok zor bir şey değil bence, boş zamanlarında hobi olarak da yeni bir dil öğrenebilirsin. Tıp gibi zor bir bölümde okumama rağmen yeni bir dil daha öğrenmeye başladım. 😊😊
I've just started trying to learn Korean so this video was helpful to see that it's definitely possible. I've become pretty much fluent in Spanish so it's a big step up in difficulty compared to learning that but I think I can do it
so funny! i’m conversational in Korean and just started learning Spanish and i feel so intimidated by Spanish! trust me you can do it, the verb tenses are so much easier lol
I believe how fast you learn is also drive by your passion for that target language and why you want to learn it. I only speak two languages (English and Thai); my wife is Thai so I have a genuine interest in the language, culture, and so forth, so it's easy to saturate myself in the language daily. So it goes back to having your 'why.' If you're just learning another language to 'check the box' or for the sake of learning another language, you may find it takes you longer (that's just my experience, anyway)
@@yamkelamajikela1915 I understand that Thai, which is my mother tongue, is transliterated from a neighboring country. And transliteration is only difficult in languages such as Indian (Sanskrit) and Chinese (Teochew) and Khmer.
getting many languages to B2 level is so much easier than getting 2 languages to C2 level. C2 level means that you can basically read all difficult literature at college levels.
American here. I'm currently 11 months into a major deep dive into my first foreign language.... Russian. The alphabet is super easy... Но русская грамматика очень трудно! Я рада что изучаю это. У меня болит голова. :D
As a native russian speaker I would love to hear what in particularly is hard about russian grammar. After watching several videos of foreigners trying to speak russian, I'd say the main struggle, that separates all of them from sounding nearly natural (other than the pronunciation of course), is the use of gendered words. If you could just fix that single mistake, you could be easily mistaken for a native russian speaker who just lived in another country for far too long.
@@DamnedVik The noun declensions are very difficult for me. The flexible word order is quite different too. Verb conjugations are pretty easy. I don't think it's that's hard to remember a noun's gender, but maybe that's just me.
"русская грамматика *- это* очень трудно" или "русская грамматика *трудна"* (звучит криво - скорее вызывает затруднения/трудности, или сложнА, или тяжелА, или плохо даётся). "Я рада, что изучаю *её"* - требуется противопоставление типа "Тем не менее я рада...", иначе звучит словно радость тебе доставляет именно факт трудностей. "У меня болит голова" звучит как на приёме у врача, обычно говорят проще: "голова болит" (понятно что своя, чужая болеть не может). Ну и для связи с предыдущим можно использовать частицу - *"Аж* голова болит". Всё это по сути мелочи, которые сами придут при достаточной практике. Не знаю какой смысл в изучении языка, если ты не используешь его на работе или в повседневной жизни. Разве что художественную литературу читать приятней на русском (субъективно), чем на английском
Yo hablo Español como lengua materna y estoy aprendiendo a hablar Ingles, se me hizo un poco difícil pero creo que ya lo empiezo a entender cuando lo escucho. Cuando veo tus videos hablando ingles puedo entenderte mejor que cuando escucho a un nativo ingles. (Primer comentario en Español jejeje...) Saludos!!!
Hola estoy aprendiendo espanol con Ingles como mi lengua materna! Puedo entender todo lo que escribiste pero me cuesta esuchar a otras personas hablando en espanol, particularmente las personas con acentos. Quiero mejorar mi hablar e escuchar y por eso trato de ver pelis en espanol. Gracias por leer todo esto
Learning primarily Japanese right now and also Russian, I always had a perspective that these were very hard languages. I feel that causes sort of a demotivation, you opened my eyes about "hard languages" it's completely subjective and all depends on your goal of fluency. From now on I'm going to grind both and just let it all flow smoothly without doubting myself, thank you!
Sebagai orang yang juga mempelajari dan juga berbicara banyak bahasa, saya setuju bahwa sebenarnya tidak ada bahasa yang sulit secara umum. Yang membuat bahasa itu dianggap sulit oleh banyak orang adalah kompleksitas dan juga durasi untuk mempelajari bahasa itu sendiri. Selain itu daerah asal dan juga bahasa utama yang digunakan sejak lahir oleh seseorang juga dapat mempengaruhi usaha yang dibutuhkan untuk mempelajari bahasa asing. Bahasa utama saya adalah Bahasa Indonesia dan Bahasa Jawa, kemudian Inggris dan Arab sebagai bahasa kedua. Sekarang saya juga mempelajari bahasa Jerman, Jepang, Rusia dan Korea. Semuanya memiliki kompleksitas masing-masing dan butuh waktu yang tidak sedikit untuk mempelajarinya.
@@terbentur2943 Tetap semangat belajarnya! Semoga bisa berkunjung ke Indonesia suatu saat nanti. Ich lerne Deutsch auch und ich hoffe ich kann nach Deutschland gehen.
Certainly a person’s mother tongue plays a huge role in what will be “difficult” for them in another language. As a Turkish speaker, Uzbek will practically be a game for you, (even if you need to learn more Persian vocabulary and more subtle shades of relationship with information reported than the Turkish -mış). Japanese, though unrelated, will still feel fairly familiar in structure. An Indo European speaker will have to work harder to get their heads around it. But I think there’s another layer that is frequently overlooked in these discussions. Beyond structure, there is the “density“, the amount of information that is encoded in the language and its structure. For example, in a language like Vietnamese, grammar is relatively simple but you have many choices of pronouns to learn, which speak volumes about your and another person‘s status. In English, that simply isn’t a feature. Even Turkish, where there are informal and formal verb conjugations, and some older ways of showing deference, has nothing to compare with that. Beyond merely learning words, you also have to learn a big chunk of culture to gain a native sense of what word to use for whom, in what situation. Another example: If you are a speaker of Turkish, or any into European language, or most Asian language is even, there are distinct words for verbs of motion like “go“ and “come;” “take“ and “bring.“ Contrast that with an Athabascan language like Navajo: A verb of motion must necessarily include specific information about that movement. From close to me to close to you? From 1 Distant Pl. to another distant place? From a distant visible place to another place out of sight? And if we’re talking about bringing or taking something, what is the characteristic of that thing. Is it soft, like cotton? Is it a single living object like a baby? Is it inanimate, like a rock? Is it tied together in a bundle, like sticks? Or perhaps it’s something that flows but it’s dry, like sand? All of that must necessarily be included in the verb construct. You could probably get along and be understood if you omitted a lot of that, but it would be likely be “Tarzan-ese” to native speakers. So while native speakers do of course learn it naturally, for any non-native, it is a lot more to learn than simply learning the difference between “calm“ and “go,“ or “bring“ and “take,” and non-natives very rarely achieve fluency. If you speak another Athabascan language as your mother tongue, it will definitely be easier, but I think it’s fair to call that a “more difficult“ language, and not from a merely Eurocentric view.
The reason, I think, why western people think eastern languages are difficult is because most of the western languages are related to one another from a common language/languages spoken long ago but eastern languages evolved in a completely different kind of culture with completely different geography making the words sound much more foreign.
I think the reason why western people think asian languages are so difficult (ex. Chinese, japanese) is because those languages don't use the alphabet. And actually some of Asia countries share the words. Of course they have different character. But in terms of pronunciation. Teacher is [sensei] in japanese, and [sunsang] in korean. Idk if the people will consider those are similar, but in asian perspective, there's a lots of similar point. Also the amount of time that you have to spend when you learn the foreign language, which is easily founded in the Internet, is researched by someone who speaks English as a first language. So what I wanted to say is that I think the difficulty really depends on their own first language Lol I don't even know why I'm writing this
Ruri San, Thanks for sharing such a wonderful video regarding learning languages!! I deeply thought learning other languages is esoteric, but this video blew away my anxiety. I try to learn and speak other languages enthusiastically!☺
I disagree regarding 2200 class hours being 4400 self study hours. Classroom hours aren't very effective. I met a bunch of people who got pretty fluent in japanese after a year and a half (passing N1 ) by just immersing in comprehensive input+anki for 3~hrs a day on average
@@ishaalimtiaz6715 not sure N1 is close to fluency but it's definitely a very nice level to have, if you're very very efficient you might reach that level in 1600hrs or so (reading). As for speaking, probably not, and listening, well, depends. Listening skills take quite a long time to develop for some reason
There is a clear difference between classes (at school) and language courses with actual experts. I don't think classes contribute much to someone learning a language after they've reached like B1 level in that language. Before that, they are a good resource.
@@DoubleOpposite I heard Japanese the "fastest" spoken languages, so maybe extra hard to listen and parse everything unless someone is speaking very slowly or simply
@@mishm299 Speed comes with experience. The hardest parts are undoubtedly the very different vocab, the notorious kanji and THEIR READINGS , and grammar a bit
@@DoubleOpposite There are also some important points depending of family which target language belongs to. For example, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Finnish are from same language family "Ural-Altay". Some of european language like spanish, french, italian and portugese are also so similar in terms of grammar and cognate of their word. Difficulty issues change according to your native language and target language to learn.
Personally, Mandarin is the language I've had the easiest time learning. It's interesting, the experience I had before starting it has helped me a lot, and the aspects I've found most difficult in other languages are simpler.
As a Asian and use Madarin as a second Lunguage, I will recommend you to learn Mandarin with Taiwanese people ,Not Chinese people, Taiwan accent is more comfortable, and the Beijing accent is so Noisy and Unnatural, they can understand each other just different accent , hope for helping 😉
As a spanish native speaker, English was the hardest for me, Portuguese was soooo easy, now Chinese its a little more challenging, its awesome to communicate with people in their languages, cheers from México.
Everyone considers Russian to be a hard language but so far I’ve found Russian pretty easy. In less than two years into learning and already conversationally fluent. Although I do spend on average 6 hours a day WITH the language. Speaking everyday always helps. Some days I speak badly but that’s how we learn right?
I started learning Russian this year and so far it doesn't look too hard. However, I'm still learning the basics 😅 (like greetings/expressions and verbs). Also I find learning the pronunciation of some words quite difficult.
I think there's a general understanding that the "hardest language" is subjective to the language the article is written in or is being explaimed in. As for native English speakers, Mandarin Chinese is generally the most difficult for them because of the many differences between Indo-European languages vs the Sinitic languages.
I'm glad I was born in the US. I can't imagine the horrors of having to learn English even though I'm a native. Also I like challenges. So there is no HARD language for me only fun challenges to overcome. Testing ones limits can be fun.
Damn why did you write it and if you else didn't know I'm that bad person who's not from us or UK and I'm giving my whole time for this fucking language, I mean about English, but honestly I like this fucking language :))) at least I can understand everything what you actually wrote *
I agree that there's no hard language but speaking from the perspective of a polyglot (Spanish, (Swiss)German, English, Turkish + being able to translate Latin completely) English grammar isn't too bad in comparison to other languages. I'm a native English speaker born in Ireland but let's be honest it's much cooler to be born in a non-English speaking country and learn English as your second language from early on (through school) like most people, which makes you a bilingual with enough practice.
@@niamhharikasen7848 I agree with u. English grammar is really easy. My first language is Turkish. And I think ours is the hardest grammar in the world. Despite this, Turks cannot learn English. I both understand and dont understand them. Turkish and English are in different language families so it is difficult for both languages to understand each other. But English grammar is too simple compared to Turkish. That's why I'm glad that my first language is not English. because I could not learn Turkish. but now i can speak english as a second language
@@niamhharikasen7848 English is well-structured too! That’s what I like about it. All you have to do is remember the sentence structures and grammar to get by - coming from a person who only spoke Spanish before learning English.
Just wanted to let you know this is an interesting video and as a Japanese learner Busuu is a new tool I am now using because of you. I am sure it will be helpful, as someone who needs a structured approach it will be super helpful!
I'm Thai. I want to share my language learning experience. I learned English in school for 12 years. My teacher teaches English to a student in Thai. So students have to remember the meaning of the English word in Thai. When they listen to English, they try to translate it in mind, this is a mistake to learn a new language. When I learned Japanese at a Japanese institute just for 3 months. The teacher teaches me all in Japanese, without English or Thai, but uses pictures and non-verbal communication. I felt this learning method is like a baby learning their language. It's the easier way to learn a new language.
How difficult a language depends on many factors (which are personal to each individual), but I can say from experience that certain languages are objectively more difficult to learn AND master than others such as Korean and Japanese due to the complexity in grammar. I am a native speaker of a Southeast Asian language so phonemes in Japanese are pretty easy to imitate, but the writing systems and grammar rules such as syntax are still super challenging. I'm more familiar with western languages since I learned and became fluent in English at a very young age; I can easily build my learning strategy from there. However, it gets confusing to learn these western languages visually -- how you pronounce the Roman alphabet (including vows) vary and mispronunciation happens.
Bence çoook fazla yabancı dizi ve film izlemelisin ben öyle öğrendim ve geçen babamın Amerika’dan gelen arkadaşı amerikada yaşamış olduğumu falan düşündü
5-6 dil kullanmak cok da zor degil. Sadece beynin cumle dizilimini anlamasi gerekiyor. Ve beynin dillere karsilik vermeye programlanmasi lazim . Bunu nasil mi yapabilirsiniz: Bol bol hedef dilde izleyin- dinleyin- taklit edin. Ruri nin ingilizcesi %100 sosyal taklit. Kendisini alkisliyorum 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Yabanci dili kelistirmek icin bile beyninizi iyi gelistirmeniz gerek. Muhtemelen matematik bilgisi de iyidir Ruri nin cunku birkac dil konusabilmek beynin Cok bilinmeyenli denklemleri cozmesi gibi bir durum. Cumleleri taklitle ogrendigi cok belli. Bir cumlede yaptigi vurguyu diger cumlede degistiriyor. Yani cumle cumle taklit yapiyor. Kelimelerin kullanimi da karisik bazen bir Ingiliz bazen bir Amerikali gibi kelime kullanimi yapiyor. Hatta Canada Avustralya- Yeni Zellanda aksani bile var. Bu vidyolari izliyorsaniz siz de 7-8 dil konusabilirsiniz. Ben de birkac dil konusabiliyorum. Ve yabanci dil ogrenmenin asiri kolay oldugunu soyleyebilirim. Sevgiler Ruri cok zeki birisin 💕💕💕🧿🧿🧿
i love your Turkish. If you were to write it using Arabic letters I would be saying i love your Uyghur. if you speak Turkish you can speak to Uyghurs, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmen, and Kyrgyz because their language is similar. If you can read Arabic you can read Farsi, Urdu, Uyghur, and Mongolians. The Mongolian Script is simply Arabic written up and down instead of Right to left.
@@boyar1978 You should add Crimean Tatar and Gagauz to this list.For example I understand Azerbaijani language 95%, I understand Crimean Tatar 99%. I didn't know that Mongolian was written with Arabic letters. Thanks for the info.
I did my 5th year medical placement in Germany and learnt the language in about a year. I started output asap and the rest of my free time I was watching German series and films
Im Austrian speaking english on b2 and right now im learning Japanese on my own with TH-cam and Apps and i love making progress! Languages were my all time favorite in school
Omg finally I encounter someone that thinks same as me about the language certificates!! I also believe they are technically “useless”, because in another case scenario: you might speak fluent English now, but you get a job interview 10 years later and your English level may not be the same… so, in my opinion it’s also better to just know the language, and not just try to achieve a certificate.
Bu gün fark ettim sanırım ilk senin videolarını izlediğim zaman ki bu yaklaşık 6-8 ay kadar önceydi telafuzunu daha çok amerikan aksanına benzetirdim ama şimdi bunu fark ediyorum ki biraz İngiliz aksanına kaymış aksanın sadece söylemek istedim böyle küçük ayrıntı veya değişimleri fark edince mutlu oluyorum hskcjsk
I have not watched the video since I'm at work but the difficulty is not in the language but in oneself. It always will depend on the time you invest getting along with your target language, spending time with it, surrounding yourself in media and other resources, along with learning and relearning the basics and understanding the most advanced grammar as you go. The rest is just your brain making all the connections. Learning a new language as an adult isn't impossible, but it is challenging.The main difference between learning another language as a child/teen is the fact that at that age you don't have as many things to worry about as an adult does, and you have more free time which allows you to spend more time with the language you're learning. I began learning English since I was 11, and to this day (17 years since I began learning now!) still learning new things because of my job as an interpreter! So to you who's trying to learn a new language, don't give up, even if you only have one or two hours a day three days a week to learn something of that language, do it, commit those few hours only to that, and if you notice you forget something relearn it and keep relearning as much as you need, it'll stick soon enough. And also don't pressure/be too hard on yourself if you aren't learning at the speed you'd like to learn, everyone is different and everyone goes at their own pace with the method they choose.
That's accurate! I am brazilian I learned english and german, but now I'm working with french and I feel a lot more comfortable, due to the Latin origins, even though I have been learning by myself.
I am a native German speaker, and I feel the shyness too. But then in English I also feel more confident in expressing myself. I really like it to hear that it is not just me. And I am working on my third language "Korean" at the moment. And The first thing you said, that the language learning process seems hard, because of the time you have schedule to learn the language. I get it now. Because I want to be invested in Korean, but I have to do Soo many other things throughout the day, that it is hard to find time to sit down for at least 30 minutes of 60 tops. But I am so invested in it, I want nothing else for Christmas, than Korean study books. And I understand the structure of the language pretty fast and I find it easy when I find the time to study it.
Ps: Türkisch sollte dir nicht allzuschwer fallen weil es zusammen mit Koreanisch in der Altai-Sprachen Gruppe angesehen wird😊 Aber schön, dass du dir so viel Mühe gibst Koreanisch zu lernen, wie läufts denn so?
I'm a native Spanish speaker and I'm polishing my English. Besides that, I know Haitian Creole and I'm learning Catalan. But I feel I arrived at a moment where I don't know what to do. I'm learning languages because I like them, but I don't have people to talk to.
Very interesting how personality changes with language. I recommend learning Spanish as it has lots of cognates with English and it is probably the best route into the Romance languages.
Hello Ruri! I've been watching your videos for a longgg time, you're doing so well on TH-cam and I really wonder your parents. In a time that your parents available can you make a video with them, I swear that would be amazing. Hope you can see this. Love u 🥺❤️ (Btw your British accent is hella adorable lol)
i am a Polyglot myself and yeah it's true when i learned spanish for several months and switched to French it was way easier because of the language group having some words in common also makes a difference i am self taught with my own method good luck everyone! :)))
Türkiye de ki okullarda ingilizceyi bence yanlış biçimde öğretiyorlar o yüzden zor geliyor yoksa kolay bir dil karantinaya girdiğimden beri ruri yi izlediğimden beri ingilizcem de gelişme oldu teşekkür ederim ruri :)
No placement test for Japanese :'( Thanks for the resource though! I love having a study plan, an estimated "graduation date" and the ability to get certifications. It helps me to better understand my progress and how far I've come to reaching my goal. Very exciting!
been learning spanish for about a year and I'm finally to the point where i can feel comfortable with most things but still struggle conversationally I'm still studying but I'm adding another language this year and this video was very helpful i think I'm going to go with mandarin but I'm also feeling japanese the main push is mandarin seems easier and i like Chinese food lol
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Abla şimdi şu japonca da hiragana katakana kolay lakin şu kanjileri nasıl ogrenebiliriz
Kanjilerin hepsini ezberlemek mi gerekir .
Bi de bunları yazmak için eğitim gerekir mi , yoksa bakıp aynısını çizerek yapmaya çalışırsak Kanji' leri öğrenmemiz kolay olur mu?
Abla biliyosan bi yardım ediver
Japoncaya hakim olmak istiyorum .
Bu arada Türkçem biraz zayıf 'dır. Bazan güzel ve düzgün konuşamıyorum Türkçe mi:)
You speak Russian?
there is no need to identify your sexuality because it is implied that you like men because you are a women? if so, then nice, i salute you girl.
I agree. Then again, I do think there are some languages which are EASIER for a certain population (: for example I struggled with English a lot, however, Italian was a breeze as a native Spanish speaker.
yeah that’s exactly what I’m talking about. Difficulty depends on your mother tongue. therefore we can’t simply say that language is hard.
@@ruriohama Can't agree more. My mother tongue is English but I find learning Bisaya and Filipino hard to learn and it's just like the past 6 years for me to be comfortable with Bisaya and just past 2 years ago for my Filipino. Learning Spanish also became a bit easier when I understood Filipino and Bisaya too.
English is anything else but hard, being a German Dialect.
Also SPanish and Italian are the same language, different dialects.
@@goshu7009 Wait what's your definition of dialect and language? Going by that logic, then is Bisaya a dialect to Filipino? Portuguese and Spanish? Irish and English?
@@ja4309 Why would you think there are ,,Germanic group of languages", Latin (Romanic) group of Languages, Slavic (Bulgarian) Group of languages?
Because during the process of identify as a nation, they became languages, but they were dialects in the past.
The Tree is German, the branches are English and many more.
Latin - the Tree - Spanish, Portugese, Italian - branches.
Bulgarian - Tree : Serbian, Croatian, Russian - branches.
We just call them languages today out of respect, but in reality - its dialects.
Repetition!!!
When i started learning languages my mistake was always trying to consume new things all the time. Made the learning journey longer. I realized if i just read the same books/materials/movies/music albums multiple times, instead of constantly looking looking for new things, it sticks better.
Thats what im trying to do
Thats true too much information makes you remember nothing
It helps to catch those common words everyone uses.
not sure about that, wouldn't you get bored
@@krasty3073 I guess it depends on the person if they're able to still have fun or tolerate consuming the same thing. It all really depends if you're having fun immersing in the content, otherwise learning the language would just become a task.
I would say "easy" languages could be tricky. As native Russian speaker, I started to learn Czech (both are slavic, which means similarity on the level of 70-85%). That was sooooo easy to start understand and speak Czech, but when it comes to accuracy and B1+ levels. Your native language starts to interfer and that's annoying. There is a lot of stuff which is a bit different from one language to another and you need not to learn, but relearn things. Btw, the easiest language for me to learn is Japanese, I don't know why, but it was SOOOOO easy
I love how she mixes American and British accent, just like I do
So … you love your own accent. 😑
I think because she speaks german cuz she kinda have a german accent
Transatlantic accent?
@@hmhbanal no that’s a very specific accent- this is not that.
@@hmhbanal No, dude. This doesn’t sound transatlantic at all.
When I learned that Arabic is the most difficult language in the world, I was afraid and terrified☹️, then realized that I was an Arab 👍🙂
Damn!!! 😂😂😂 This really got me.
@@almasa.5040 Number 2 after Mandarin, you know you can search not listen 😉
@@almasa.5040 what is the top 3?
@ترانسي تيوب
I think that it is caused by a lot of different dialects in the Arab countries which are not mutually intelligible, for the example Moroccan Arabic vs Iraqi Arabic.
@@royyannewsted8909 You are right. Every Arab country has its own slang, but it shares the mother tongue Arabic. The difference in slang does not mean not understanding it, but rather the difficulty of speaking it a little, as we all understand each other We are all brothers ❤️
She says: 'There are no hard languages.' I usually say: 'All languages are hard.' It's such a long proces and I really admire people taking the time to learn a 2nd or 3th
Latin is hard beacuse it is dead.
@@LazyBearTO Not really, since it is still practiced in Vatican. Also there is scientific history behind the Latin. Name of the bones are are latin just like some legal concepts are latin.
Here in Finland we are obligated to learn Swedish and English besides Finnish. As dyslexic I find it incredibly hard to learn many languages.
This "B" just don't understand language isn't only sound and words
Norwegian is the easiest language in the world to learn. I became conversational in 1 minute!
Sure, my native language is Swedish, but don't worry about that.
Tbh, Norwegian and Swedish have many similarities. I started Norwegian and I think I will reach my wanted level in 2-3 years.
@@_my_insomnia_blink562 They are really similar.. It's like I tell you Serbian language is so easy and I am a Macedonian.
Truth!
No way dude
Indonesian languange is the easiet language in the world✌️
@@_my_insomnia_blink562 I think that's the joke😂 Swedish is nearly 100% mutually intelligable with Norwegian, so if Swedish is someone's native language and they want to formally learn Norwegian, they have a huuuge advantage.
Polyglot myself. Fluency in 9 languages. But let’s be real, there are plenty of languages that are objectively hard. And there are plenty of people who find even their own languages extremely difficult. Russians struggle with their extremely complex grammar. Chinese have a miserable time writing their own characters and so on. But you do make some very good points.
That's true, but at that point, whatever level the average Russian or Chinese gets to... _is_ the standard for fluency.
So it doesn't matter if every Turk only learned "half" of Turkish, that would be the real Turkish language, then.
So that factor shouldn't be considered when ranking how hard a language is, since if even native speakers can't get it right, nobody will be expecting you too, either.
I think what she meant was that 'hard' has more to do with your own proximity to the language.
A Wenzhouneze will certainly have an easier time with Mandarin than an Australian.
And a Russian will find Bulgarian easier than a Nigerian.
Chinese characters would be considered separate from the language itself. The mental/verbal language IS the language, with writing used to represent it.
@@chickenfeed6272That's not really true, written language is also part of language. It just depends on your definition but most language skill tests will rank your speaking, reading & writing and listening skills. If you claim yourself to be able to speak Chinese that does include being proficient in the writing system as well... or else you need you say I can speak it but can't read or write it well.
Writing in Chinese is a real hassle, especially when you're trying to write Traditional Chinese, they just have so much more strokes and lines in general, and sometimes a little writing mistake can change the meaning of the word entirely.
@@bodo887 The norm in human history has been language without a writing system, thus I would say that writing systems are an add-on. However, it's true that it depends on your definition and I shouldn't suggest mine is objective. I do think some writing systems, like for Mandarin, unnecessarily make learning the language more difficult.
I speak three languages and I can feel the difference in thinking when switching. Also, it's amazing to talk to a person who speaks two languages and switching them on the fly, it's one of the most interesting experiences for multilingual people.
I'm honestly so happy to be able to speak multiple languages. Due to my parents' work I've spent my entire life moving from one country to another (inside of europe) and learning a language is just amazing. My native languages are English and Turkish as I'm half Irish and Turkish, but I've also lived in Spain, Germany and Switzerland so I know German and Spanish. Also I can translate Latin texts bc it's mandatory at the schools I've so far studied at. It's amazing to be able to help others, I just love it when I'm helping a tourist or sum and just talk in their mother tongue and their entire face lights up.
@flower lady 🤍 Hey🤍Love that! English is an amazing language, I'm hoping to study it one day in university to get a degree as a professional translator, you can do it!
@@luuyy1 Teşekkür ederim!
@flower lady 🤍 Bir şey değil, ben insanları motive etmeği çok seviyorum😂Btw, your English is pretty good already, with enough practice you'll be able to speak the language completely fluently in no time. Which level are you at the moment? (A2, B1, etc?)
@flower lady 🤍 Damn from what I've read so far, your vocabulary and grammar are perfect! Hope you can get to C1/2 level soon, even though it takes a lot of work, but you just got to work and study hard! Ben şuan Almanya'da yaşiyorum (Berlin'de) çünkü babam'ın işi burada, ama lise'den sonra yeniden İsviçre'de yada İrlanda'da okumak çok isterim. I think you thought I was living in either Ireland or Turkey because my initial comment was phrased in a way that's suggests I don't live in Germany any more😂Sorry about that!
@flower lady 🤍 Seninle arkadaş olmak benim içinde güzeldi! Sen hangi ülkelerde yaşamak istersin mesela? I'm in 10th grade rn so I think it's lise 2 in Turkey. But I'm not sure as I've only lived in Turkey for two years when I was younger.
Bravo Ohama. seni takdir ediyorum. İnsanlara dil öğrenmelerini teşvik etmek güzel birşey. Kendi yaşadığını insanlara aktararak bizlere güven veriyorsun teşekkür ederim.
I read "Barack Obama"
@@mikereisert2803 lmfao I did too I thought it was Barack Obama then a bunch of jibberish for a second
@realBRAINIAC its Turkish
Selam/Merhaba! I am learning Turkish 🇹🇷 but its a little bit hard 💖🥵.
@@monarchyofjackalliancesind3937 yes, it is a structurally different language than English. Just like japanese. English is difficult for us.
As a Tunisian who speaks both Arabic and French (thanks to our educational system - All subjects are taught in french), I find it very easy for me to learn English, French, Spanish, Italian and this group of languages, right now I am living in Czech Republic, and I am finding lot of troubles to speak Czech, Slavik languages are kinda hard for arabs like me to learn maybe because my native language and Slavik languages are quite different in terms of prononciation and even from cultural side
I live in Japan and learning Russian language myself for a year, your this video made me more be motivated for learning passion no doubt😆
My friend, please look for "Не Учите Русскую Грамматику!" video. It's about 5 minutes, and i can approve that as russian. You can easily start speak with just huge vocabulare, because word order is free and every russian-speaker will understand you. And then polish rules, declension, and so on.
use everywhere блять or та сууууукаааааааа and ur russian would be perfect
(live in Ukraine and learning japanese myself xD)
Сочувствую. Это круто! Сравнивая английский и русский радуешься что не надо его (русский) учить. ;)
As a Russian native speaker I can prove that it's kinda difficult, so keep your head up! If you need any practice, i can help
@@tadanasi6398 Ха-ха -ха очень смешно)))
In my opinion once you can speak, read and listen easily at B2 level, you're OK. There is no need to be god level in every language. There simply is not enough time.
i think so
I think B1 is enough if you want to just travel, talk to people, watch movies and content on TH-cam.
agree!!! i want to be c1 or c2 in korean, i just have a strong desire to communicate deeply and learn about korean history in the language, but for spanish, b1 or b2 would be amazing. i am also interested in vietnamese, chinese, greek, and german, and would probably also be satisfied at b1 for any of those. there are some languages i would just like to be familiar with, not necessarily fluent in. it’s more to do with the culture and the fact that i feel like i’m missing out on something without knowing them.
No it depends on your goals. Some people just want a basic level in a language with a bad accent and others want to be really competent before they are satisfied.
I agree with what another commentor has said. If I take my time to learn a language, I want to commit myself to it. It's easy to think you're "good" when you are at B1-B2 level when in truth you are clearly not. Only after that point it starts to get interesting as you learn to understand all of the nuances, etc. Until that point, it's like learning maths to me. You just know words and sentence structures and how to combine them.
I do think English is the easiest language to learn because of how easy it is to get yourself subjected to the language through music, movies, games and other types of media. It’s hard not to get subjected to English. I turn on the radio BOOM new Beyoncé song, I turn on the tv BOOM a British antiques show, I open TH-cam BOOM English speaking channels like this one. You get what I mean. E.g. if I wanted to listen to something that is in Italian, I would have to deliberately search for it
This is so true.
idk, as a russian, before I started engaging in english content deliberately, I've never stumbled upon anything out of my comfortable zone, all the recommendation algorithms were shoving russian content down my throat all the time.
My guess is that algorithms are based of off your geolocation and what people from your country watch. Usually russians are incredibly monolingual, I think I've only met one person my age with decent english proficiency, even though english is a very demanded language. So if you're from russia algorithms wouldn't show you much non-russian stuff; I could imagine that in some other countries like Netherlands, where almost everyone speaks english, algorithms
would naturally recommend you more english content.
Now, I have no desire to engage with russian content whatsoever, it is still a problem, even after creating a completely new account, setting region to the US and never watching anything russian, I still come across russian content much much more than content of any other non-english language
I'm trilingual (japanese, English, and tagalog) and I totally have different personalities when I speak! My Japanese sounds shy and curious, my English sounds proud and confident, and my tagalog sounds sarcastic.
How did you learn English?
@@fseenamber7901 From school cause I was born in the US
@@Yesnog05 ha ha ha ha
@@fseenamber7901 I don't see what's so funny
@@Yesnog05 i thought you would tell me the strategy...
English is highly analytic(surprisingly much similar to Mandarin structurally) whereas Japanese and Turkish are highly infusional languages. Switching from a SVO mindset to a SOV sometimes even VVO or VOV mindset can pose some challenges. As a natively bilingual dude who's been learning Japanese for 10+ years I can relate!
Why do you think English is analytic?
@@Jibe111111111 because is not infusional? Because the English language have almost no declensions, if you said: the cat is chasing the ball you know because of the word order who is chasing what not because of the declensions, in the English language only the pronouns and the genitive case are to some degree still present, the other cases are not. In other languages the word ball could have an inflection following the accusative case considering the ball is the direct object of the phrase. Like in English, when you say mother's that "s" means that something belongs to someone, that would be an example of the genitive case, depending on the language there are many more.
@@jablanovicmilos so basically all the languages that don't have declinations are analytical
@@Jibe111111111 yeah pretty much.
@@jablanovicmilos My native language is (Swiss) German. This means I shouldn't have much trouble with that aspect of Japanese?
Hey, Ruri! Started watching you recently. Your video about why one can't speak fluent while understanding is magnificent. I've learned basics of English language not alone, but improved and practiced just like you. With TH-cam and mirror, lol. When you just said that when you change language your personality a little bit shifts, I realized that I'm not going nuts and it's normal. Thank you for your content, Ruri! You're great! Keep on!
getting many languages to B2 level is so much easier than getting 2 languages to C2 level. C2 level means that you can basically read all difficult literature at college levels.
Which let's be honest- plenty if not most native speakers can't even do that in their mother language. C2 is truly a feat and not one every language learner should necessarily strive towards.
so TRUE. except i’m a weirdo nerdo who wants to get to c2 so damn bad for no other reason than some weird desire to take on the challenge hahaha
@@SparklesNJazz I want to get my French and german to c2 too. I wanna read philosophy book in French and german.
@@dannysze8183 Me too, I want to get a C2 level in English, French, and German mostly because of the literature and philosophy.
@@dannysze8183 nitzche?
I agree! There are just too many variables to count. For me, as long as the language feels FUN to learn-no matter how "hard" it supposedly is, I'd have an easier time with it anyway.
At the moment I'm trying to build back the fun in German so I can speak as comfortably and fluently as you!! 😁
Exactly! The language itself is not hard :D
Keep going!
I hated German in HS because of my teacher's way of teaching, although I chose for it.
Then I learned it again due to circumstances since many of my friends were Germans from Lower Saxony. I still can understand a bit German passively, but can't speak it well.
woah, there's zahid here..
u guys have same niche on yt
Hi Zahid
Wah ada bang Zahid
Hey Ruri, I'm Gabriel from Brazil 🇧🇷
I've been learning English for the past three years, my current lvl of English is (C1) i have a good speaking/writing/reading/listening
Which means I can speak the language fluently and confidently, but i still felt a massive lack of vocabulary, then I've been watching to a lot of videos about (Essential Phrases, Phrasal verbs, Daily Phrases) I've also downloaded some apps of (Phrasal verbs) trying to expand my vocabulary, And it has been helping me a lot, now i feel that I can talk to an native speaker or a non-native english speaker (Like us) without crashing or mentally translating, btw you've helped me a lot as well, thank you Ruri 💕⭐💫
Shinra tensei!
I'd point out that difficulty in langauge learning, in my experience, is largely a product of mental flexibility and the ability to understand systems "outside of oneself." I would characterise language learning not dramatically different from philosophy. I think that's the most useful skill in learning a language, because both philosophy require a person to break down ideas and create a sort of ... flexible cognition. That ability to take something you "know" and turn it over in your mind until you can understand all of its possibilities. I speak... enough languages, and one thing I really find fulfilling is learning Germanic languages. Because it lets me see words that exist across a number of languages that have slightly different meanings and it really gives a robust understanding of the concept behind them as you trace the route it took to have a crystallised meaning. That gives language a tremendous flexibility and a mastery concepts. It's really the same breaking down into the essential components and really LISTENING to what is actually being said instead of the short-hand we give it, to increase funcationality. Too often we try to graph a priori understanding onto a language and it causes difficulty. Like when people try to understand は particle. So many people try to understand it as "is" because they are unable to unshackle their brain an perceive the possibility of non-latin grammar. They see the world so rigidly that they place themselves under rules that actually have no sway over them or what they are capable of; it's like the story of the elephant and the stake. A young elephant held in place by a wooden stake will, as an adult, never challenge the wooden stake, having learned as a child that it can't pull it out of the ground.
How? I''m learning Kurdish, and there's definitely times where I've realized a word or phrase has no translation, but I have to sort of feel the sentence or try to understand it without words, but it's so difficult and doing it for an entire language instead of a few words seems impossible for me.
Very insightful comment, gonna screenshot this
The thing with chinese, japanese is that the writing system probably takes up a lot of time to learn, and maybe getting to a good level without fully dominating writing by hand (which I think is the most difficoult), Identifying a 漢字 is not that difficoult, but knowing exactly which character to write is.
Thats why I would mostly focus on reading and being able to write on a computer.
I don’t plan on writing a lot of Japanese. Tho I might have to, I want to move to Japan when I’m older and you kinda have to write in Japanese. I probably will mostly use my phone to write Japanese which is much easier to do than writing in Japanese. The thing that scares me is all the sounds 1 kanji can make. I don’t have that big of a brain to remember all those sounds 😭 I’ll figure it out.
@@Karmynnd It is very similar to memorizing the spellings of words in english, I'd recomend learning words and how to write/read them rather than memorizing all the readings a kanji can have. There are no actual rules to which exact sound to use in each case and you will end up memorizing which reading of each character is used in each word anyway.
This vocabulary aproach is far more natural and easy.
Japanese kids start knowing every word and then they are taught how to write them, it is not like they have to figure out how a word sounds (most of the time)
@@Karmynnd in fact even you make all the sounds wrong, it doesnt affect communication. we can understand what you say from the context , unless you only speak one word with the wrong tones.
if you want to learn Chinese perfect and speak like a native speaker, you should pay more attention to tones. speaking in wrong tones just like an accent to us. just like you can also understand Indian English although they pronounce strangely.
You don't need to learn how to write Japanese until later on once you've inputted enough Japanese into your mind through immersion. All you need to do with the alphabet in the beginning is to learn how to read, since you have to know that for the purposes of searching up and remembering vocabulary. Learning how to read is EXTREMELY easy, don't worry about speed aswell since it'll come later.
Edit: This doesn't account for Kanji, learning Kanji is a different thing to learning the Kanas lol. But imo even if Kanji is more difficult to learn, it's not as hard as people say since it's basically for the most part synonymous with learning vocabulary as you immerse in native content.
The "you do you do" at the end cracked me up hahaha. Great video
The easiest and most difficult language to learn is "LANGUAGE OF LOVE" ;)
If you're literally talking about love, then yes
If you're talking about French, then maybe a bit more biased on the difficult side
Either way yeah this hits the jackpot
Ylvis learned me the language of love
The Language of Love is not difficult to learn but to master.
Fluency is difficult..
what about coding
I do not really agree with "self-learning is twice longer", because sometimes in school (in France in my case) we learn some useless vocabulary we'll never use later, even if some students don't know useful basics of english
But at home if we can learn as we want it can be a lot more efficient
At least you don't spend entire semesters just on grammar
@@gu3sswh075 Are you referring to the U.S. linguistic system? If so, I agree, and this is why it is unsuccessful in actually teaching kids a language.
For the first period in Japan, as an English teacher, you're basically used as a human tape recorder - before they bring in the real tape recorder, and as a rule, you're never allowed alone with the class (juinor high school). They prefer native speakers, though.
Anyways, I hated school all my life, I think, except here and there. They actually berated me as a child for reading my own books. How crazy is that? The pensum in Norway is three pages long until upper seconday school.
@@7Soldier_of_God7 I guess but going through a school/university is what makes it inefficient
確かに
Very true
英語圏の方だと思ったら日本人なの！！あまりにも流暢で感動しました。英語学習の励みにもなりました！尊敬です！
I would say "easy" languages could be tricky. As native Russian speaker, I started to learn Czech (both are slavic, which means similarity on the level of 70-85%). That was sooooo easy to start understand and speak Czech, but when it comes to accuracy and B1+ levels. Your native language starts to interfer and that's annoying. There is a lot of stuff which is a bit different from one language to another and you need not to learn, but relearn things. Btw, the easiest language for me to learn is Japanese, I don't know why, but it was SOOOOO easy
japanese have similar pronunciation to russian so for russian native speakers can find it easier to understand and learn. basically hiragana and katakana sounds are pronounce almost identical to russian alphabet except for R line (that pronounce something between R and L but it may change in different situations) and last line that include わ (wa), を(wo), ん(n) since they pronounce slightly different from characters that russian alphabet has but still it's not very hard to understand how to pronounce them.
@@shi_yuki in the speaking level it is true, but I think in grammar level it is different story. Atrough Russian grammar is a huge pain in the ass even for natives, it is lend very wide spectre of possibilities to make sentence. Even if this sentence will occupy whole A4 list. And this is not joke, we like to use absurdely long sentences
@@PyromaN93 yeah, i can relate. for me russian is native language because i speak on it my whole life but sometimes grammar causes some difficulties since i never were able to learn it with all rules
日語對於中國人來說也是最筒單的語言文日語
日語大多文字是從中國唐朝宋朝時傳過去本土化改進的所以中國人不會日語但看日本新聞也是能知道什麼意思的
在中國有人最快四個月就能全方面的學會日語
Phrase: *"Not to flex ..."*
Meaning: *"I'm gonna flex my ability real hard here ..."* 😁😁
😂😂😂😂
@@ruriohama and i Love you :D
@@haseebali499 I love you bro
She kinda earned that privilege tho haha
@@cigh7445 thank you men God bless you :)
Learning New languages is my newly discovered hobby! I'm learning Russian right now cause it's My favourite language and I'm planning to study and live in Russia! I'm only a week in studying the Russian language and already know the Alphabet and some words and phrases! It's really easy! Right now, two languages I speak fluently are English and Spanish! I'm from Belize, english is my native language!
Удачи!
@@vorstrimov cпасибо :)
терпения тебе в этом
@@timon1816 Ну, да! Это довольно просто, и мне нравится этому учиться
Почему ты хочешь в Россию? Сейчас там плохо
*Every language is hard, in that you have to learn it to know it*
*If there's any language you can know without having to learn it, then such a language is easy.* *So it's the learning that's hard, not the language*
Every day I watch your TH-cam videos to improve my listening comprehension. Recently I’ve been trying to do it in x1.2 speed and I manage to understand what you say because actually your English is easier for me to listen to than native speakers😊
When I speak German I'm also shy / inverted, but when I start speaking English my personality also changes, but that depends on the accent, for example: British is similar to German and in American I'm a bit more energetic. My other languages are more like German, but you can see the differences. (I'm german btw)
I’m totally agree. I think to be able to learn a new language you need 3 things “Love that language, Make time for it, Work on it regularly”🌿
And all 3 of these things aren't easy :(
@@sodinc life is hard man, nothing is easy))) if we want smt, we need to put everything we have on a table for it
@@s.t.a.r.d.u.s.t.8 as a person with adhd, doing the things that you love isn’t easy. However, you do what you can no matter if it’s 10 minutes or an hour.
También se necesitan recursos y herramientas
Thank you for everything you've given us.
Hey ... Just kidding but ur cmt like this is last Ruri's video 😬😬😬
Learning a language is like opening a new door for our life, and many more opportunities come to us!
Speaking Japanese is really easy for me even as a native English speaker, but reading and writing it is what take so so long to study. I know how to say way more things than I can read, and can write even less. Typing makes things a little easier since I don't have to know every stroke order of every kanji.
I'm learning Japanese by myself and isn't difficult, the English is my second language that I'm still learning so... for me learn these language is a hobby! :)
I think the same! I’m a Portuguese native speaker and the sound in Portugueses and Japanese are pretty much the same like 97% of the time. People got scared about Japanese due the written system they have. But I learned hiragana and katakana in 1 week LOL . Things start to get harder when it comes to kanjis and phrase structure, maybe particles too
@Iuri Pires am also studying Japanese!😍I've been learning for 3 weeks and learned hiragana and katakana in 2 weeks but had a break☺
でも大体外国の方の日本語はカタコトだよね
近頃は驚くほど日本語が堪能な人が増えたよ。ちなみに世界中で最も話されている英語は殆どカトコトですよ。
@@萩原草太郎 そういう規模感の話ではなく「日本語意外と簡単だよ😅」とかいいつつ接続詞もめちゃくちゃでカタコトな外国人って多いよなって話
I learned recently that Finnish language (my mother language) and Japanese language are coincidentally similiar. strongest similarities are founded in phonology, particularly in phonemic quantity. Also some Finnish names sound like Japanese. Its weird but also quite encouraging to me to learn Japanese not just for anime but also academic purposes.
I LITERALLY ADORE YOU
Ben şahsen 6 dil biliyorum, 4,5 dilde akıcı konuşmak çok zor bir şey değil bence, boş zamanlarında hobi olarak da yeni bir dil öğrenebilirsin. Tıp gibi zor bir bölümde okumama rağmen yeni bir dil daha öğrenmeye başladım. 😊😊
Better editing skills ✅
More Obvious British Accent ✅
Perfect tips ✅
Perfect sponsorship (lolll) ✅
More true pronouncation ✅
Girl , this video is 😌👌🏻
+ still cannot pronounce the word 'purpose'
@@aykut2606 but she pronounces “ foreign” correctly now 👍🏻
What British accent? Nah.
@@stoptheuyghurgenocide3445 at least she is trying to learn it’s not %100 good but OK tho .. and she’ll improve
@@cherrycookie3573 yea we can't expect her to do exactly the same but by the hardwork she will improve.
Ruri, you're great!)) Thanks for the video! :)))
I've just started trying to learn Korean so this video was helpful to see that it's definitely possible. I've become pretty much fluent in Spanish so it's a big step up in difficulty compared to learning that but I think I can do it
For how many days r u learning Korean?
so funny! i’m conversational in Korean and just started learning Spanish and i feel so intimidated by Spanish! trust me you can do it, the verb tenses are so much easier lol
I believe how fast you learn is also drive by your passion for that target language and why you want to learn it. I only speak two languages (English and Thai); my wife is Thai so I have a genuine interest in the language, culture, and so forth, so it's easy to saturate myself in the language daily. So it goes back to having your 'why.'
If you're just learning another language to 'check the box' or for the sake of learning another language, you may find it takes you longer (that's just my experience, anyway)
Thai is the most difficult language I've ever learnt 😭❤️😹but it's really a beautiful language
@@yamkelamajikela1915 I understand that Thai, which is my mother tongue, is transliterated from a neighboring country. And transliteration is only difficult in languages such as Indian (Sanskrit) and Chinese (Teochew) and Khmer.
getting many languages to B2 level is so much easier than getting 2 languages to C2 level. C2 level means that you can basically read all difficult literature at college levels.
Ooff ben de birçok dil konusabilmek istiyorum bence çok güzel bir şey farkli insanlarla iletisimde bulunmak... Idolumsûn Ruri seni seviyorum 🥰💅💁🏻♀️
There's no hard language. There's just not enough time.
It depends on your schedule.
@@michaelgardner8080 Too packed!
@@realkk I feel ya. For me personally, I find myself wasting a lot of time but if I managed my time better I could learn so much more.
@@michaelgardner8080 That's true. My schedule is too packed with wasteful endeavors. Hahahhaha
or motivation
Your words are optimistic. Thank you!
Senin konuşmanla beraber öğrenme isteğim dahada arttı:) Ayrıca aksan'ın aşırı hoş
American here. I'm currently 11 months into a major deep dive into my first foreign language.... Russian. The alphabet is super easy... Но русская грамматика очень трудно! Я рада что изучаю это. У меня болит голова. :D
Желаю удачи. У меня болела голова от английского, благо уже 5 лет прошло и я вполне себе освоился.
As a native russian speaker I would love to hear what in particularly is hard about russian grammar. After watching several videos of foreigners trying to speak russian, I'd say the main struggle, that separates all of them from sounding nearly natural (other than the pronunciation of course), is the use of gendered words. If you could just fix that single mistake, you could be easily mistaken for a native russian speaker who just lived in another country for far too long.
@@DamnedVik The noun declensions are very difficult for me. The flexible word order is quite different too. Verb conjugations are pretty easy. I don't think it's that's hard to remember a noun's gender, but maybe that's just me.
"русская грамматика *- это* очень трудно" или "русская грамматика *трудна"* (звучит криво - скорее вызывает затруднения/трудности, или сложнА, или тяжелА, или плохо даётся). "Я рада, что изучаю *её"* - требуется противопоставление типа "Тем не менее я рада...", иначе звучит словно радость тебе доставляет именно факт трудностей. "У меня болит голова" звучит как на приёме у врача, обычно говорят проще: "голова болит" (понятно что своя, чужая болеть не может). Ну и для связи с предыдущим можно использовать частицу - *"Аж* голова болит". Всё это по сути мелочи, которые сами придут при достаточной практике.
Не знаю какой смысл в изучении языка, если ты не используешь его на работе или в повседневной жизни. Разве что художественную литературу читать приятней на русском (субъективно), чем на английском
Solo entendí "yo" y "ruso" xd
you are beautiful teacher and lady! thanks for video
Yo hablo Español como lengua materna y estoy aprendiendo a hablar Ingles, se me hizo un poco difícil pero creo que ya lo empiezo a entender cuando lo escucho. Cuando veo tus videos hablando ingles puedo entenderte mejor que cuando escucho a un nativo ingles. (Primer comentario en Español jejeje...) Saludos!!!
Saludos del Brazil amigo😎🇧🇷🇧🇷
Hola estoy aprendiendo espanol con Ingles como mi lengua materna! Puedo entender todo lo que escribiste pero me cuesta esuchar a otras personas hablando en espanol, particularmente las personas con acentos. Quiero mejorar mi hablar e escuchar y por eso trato de ver pelis en espanol. Gracias por leer todo esto
@@roardinoson7 Saludos y mucho éxito con el español.
@@roardinoson7 Se entiende lo que dices perfectamente, vas bien con el idioma.
Saludos y suerte.
Qué significa las siglas "pdta"?
Learning primarily Japanese right now and also Russian, I always had a perspective that these were very hard languages. I feel that causes sort of a demotivation, you opened my eyes about "hard languages" it's completely subjective and all depends on your goal of fluency. From now on I'm going to grind both and just let it all flow smoothly without doubting myself, thank you!
Здорово, и как продвигается изучение русского языка!?
@@alexordov9052 Боюсь, из-за ситуации на Украине он забросил изучать русский🤣
Даже тут политический срач😄
@Fabienne L удачи тебе! (Good luck to you!)
@Fabienne L не сдавайся, оно того стоит💪
Sebagai orang yang juga mempelajari dan juga berbicara banyak bahasa, saya setuju bahwa sebenarnya tidak ada bahasa yang sulit secara umum. Yang membuat bahasa itu dianggap sulit oleh banyak orang adalah kompleksitas dan juga durasi untuk mempelajari bahasa itu sendiri. Selain itu daerah asal dan juga bahasa utama yang digunakan sejak lahir oleh seseorang juga dapat mempengaruhi usaha yang dibutuhkan untuk mempelajari bahasa asing. Bahasa utama saya adalah Bahasa Indonesia dan Bahasa Jawa, kemudian Inggris dan Arab sebagai bahasa kedua. Sekarang saya juga mempelajari bahasa Jerman, Jepang, Rusia dan Korea. Semuanya memiliki kompleksitas masing-masing dan butuh waktu yang tidak sedikit untuk mempelajarinya.
Saya orang jerman yang belajar bahasa Indonesia.
@@terbentur2943 Tetap semangat belajarnya! Semoga bisa berkunjung ke Indonesia suatu saat nanti. Ich lerne Deutsch auch und ich hoffe ich kann nach Deutschland gehen.
Certainly a person’s mother tongue plays a huge role in what will be “difficult” for them in another language. As a Turkish speaker, Uzbek will practically be a game for you, (even if you need to learn more Persian vocabulary and more subtle shades of relationship with information reported than the Turkish -mış). Japanese, though unrelated, will still feel fairly familiar in structure. An Indo European speaker will have to work harder to get their heads around it.
But I think there’s another layer that is frequently overlooked in these discussions. Beyond structure, there is the “density“, the amount of information that is encoded in the language and its structure. For example, in a language like Vietnamese, grammar is relatively simple but you have many choices of pronouns to learn, which speak volumes about your and another person‘s status. In English, that simply isn’t a feature. Even Turkish, where there are informal and formal verb conjugations, and some older ways of showing deference, has nothing to compare with that. Beyond merely learning words, you also have to learn a big chunk of culture to gain a native sense of what word to use for whom, in what situation.
Another example: If you are a speaker of Turkish, or any into European language, or most Asian language is even, there are distinct words for verbs of motion like “go“ and “come;” “take“ and “bring.“
Contrast that with an Athabascan language like Navajo: A verb of motion must necessarily include specific information about that movement. From close to me to close to you? From 1 Distant Pl. to another distant place? From a distant visible place to another place out of sight? And if we’re talking about bringing or taking something, what is the characteristic of that thing. Is it soft, like cotton? Is it a single living object like a baby? Is it inanimate, like a rock? Is it tied together in a bundle, like sticks? Or perhaps it’s something that flows but it’s dry, like sand? All of that must necessarily be included in the verb construct. You could probably get along and be understood if you omitted a lot of that, but it would be likely be “Tarzan-ese” to native speakers.
So while native speakers do of course learn it naturally, for any non-native, it is a lot more to learn than simply learning the difference between “calm“ and “go,“ or “bring“ and “take,” and non-natives very rarely achieve fluency. If you speak another Athabascan language as your mother tongue, it will definitely be easier, but I think it’s fair to call that a “more difficult“ language, and not from a merely Eurocentric view.
@sazji
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Buyur vatSApda konuşalız
@@rezagrans1296 Aynı fikirde olmayabilirsin tabii. Fakat sırf aşağılamak yerine hangi fikirlerime itiraz ettiğini söyle, buyurun.
The reason, I think, why western people think eastern languages are difficult is because most of the western languages are related to one another from a common language/languages spoken long ago but eastern languages evolved in a completely different kind of culture with completely different geography making the words sound much more foreign.
What the horse does « _"eastern"_ languages » even mean anyway?
@@quidam_surprise Anything that isn't a European language.
I think the reason why western people think asian languages are so difficult (ex. Chinese, japanese) is because those languages don't use the alphabet. And actually some of Asia countries share the words. Of course they have different character. But in terms of pronunciation. Teacher is [sensei] in japanese, and [sunsang] in korean. Idk if the people will consider those are similar, but in asian perspective, there's a lots of similar point.
Also the amount of time that you have to spend when you learn the foreign language, which is easily founded in the Internet, is researched by someone who speaks English as a first language.
So what I wanted to say is that I think the difficulty really depends on their own first language
Lol I don't even know why I'm writing this
Ruri San,
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful video regarding learning languages!! I deeply thought learning other languages is esoteric, but this video blew away my anxiety. I try to learn and speak other languages enthusiastically!☺
I disagree regarding 2200 class hours being 4400 self study hours.
Classroom hours aren't very effective. I met a bunch of people who got pretty fluent in japanese after a year and a half (passing N1 ) by just immersing in comprehensive input+anki for 3~hrs a day on average
@@ishaalimtiaz6715 not sure N1 is close to fluency but it's definitely a very nice level to have, if you're very very efficient you might reach that level in 1600hrs or so (reading). As for speaking, probably not, and listening, well, depends. Listening skills take quite a long time to develop for some reason
There is a clear difference between classes (at school) and language courses with actual experts. I don't think classes contribute much to someone learning a language after they've reached like B1 level in that language. Before that, they are a good resource.
@@DoubleOpposite I heard Japanese the "fastest" spoken languages, so maybe extra hard to listen and parse everything unless someone is speaking very slowly or simply
@@mishm299 Speed comes with experience.
The hardest parts are undoubtedly the very different vocab, the notorious kanji and THEIR READINGS , and grammar a bit
@@DoubleOpposite There are also some important points depending of family which target language belongs to. For example, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Finnish are from same language family "Ural-Altay". Some of european language like spanish, french, italian and portugese are also so similar in terms of grammar and cognate of their word. Difficulty issues change according to your native language and target language to learn.
Personally, Mandarin is the language I've had the easiest time learning. It's interesting, the experience I had before starting it has helped me a lot, and the aspects I've found most difficult in other languages are simpler.
what’s your mother tongue?
@@kashyaptandel4678 English
As a Asian and use Madarin as a second Lunguage, I will recommend you to learn Mandarin with Taiwanese people ,Not Chinese people, Taiwan accent is more comfortable, and the Beijing accent is so Noisy and Unnatural, they can understand each other just different accent , hope for helping 😉
@@悲鳴奴隸ラフタリア I like the Beijing accent! It's boisterous and has so much personality, and it comes so easily.
@@悲鳴奴隸ラフタリア Soon Taiwan will cease to be an American puppet and will return to China. And hopefully there will be a divine Chinese accent.
THANK YOU 🙏🙏🙏 FOR ALL YOUR EXCELENT EXPLANATIONS👏👏👏
As a spanish native speaker, English was the hardest for me, Portuguese was soooo easy, now Chinese its a little more challenging, its awesome to communicate with people in their languages, cheers from México.
Practice with natives its the key, thank you for share your experiences with the idioms.
Everyone considers Russian to be a hard language but so far I’ve found Russian pretty easy. In less than two years into learning and already conversationally fluent. Although I do spend on average 6 hours a day WITH the language. Speaking everyday always helps. Some days I speak badly but that’s how we learn right?
Это так мило что вы учите наш язык! Желаю вам успехов 😌❤️
@@mhr21 : Спасибо вам большое. :)
I started learning Russian this year and so far it doesn't look too hard. However, I'm still learning the basics 😅 (like greetings/expressions and verbs). Also I find learning the pronunciation of some words quite difficult.
@@kiaratouzett9910 успехов
@@ariin.. спасибо 😁
I think there's a general understanding that the "hardest language" is subjective to the language the article is written in or is being explaimed in. As for native English speakers, Mandarin Chinese is generally the most difficult for them because of the many differences between Indo-European languages vs the Sinitic languages.
I'm glad I was born in the US. I can't imagine the horrors of having to learn English even though I'm a native.
Also I like challenges. So there is no HARD language for me only fun challenges to overcome. Testing ones limits can be fun.
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Damn why did you write it and if you else didn't know I'm that bad person who's not from us or UK and I'm giving my whole time for this fucking language, I mean about English, but honestly I like this fucking language :))) at least I can understand everything what you actually wrote *
I agree that there's no hard language but speaking from the perspective of a polyglot (Spanish, (Swiss)German, English, Turkish + being able to translate Latin completely) English grammar isn't too bad in comparison to other languages. I'm a native English speaker born in Ireland but let's be honest it's much cooler to be born in a non-English speaking country and learn English as your second language from early on (through school) like most people, which makes you a bilingual with enough practice.
@@niamhharikasen7848 I agree with u. English grammar is really easy. My first language is Turkish. And I think ours is the hardest grammar in the world. Despite this, Turks cannot learn English. I both understand and dont understand them. Turkish and English are in different language families so it is difficult for both languages to understand each other. But English grammar is too simple compared to Turkish. That's why I'm glad that my first language is not English. because I could not learn Turkish. but now i can speak english as a second language
@@niamhharikasen7848 English is well-structured too! That’s what I like about it. All you have to do is remember the sentence structures and grammar to get by - coming from a person who only spoke Spanish before learning English.
Just wanted to let you know this is an interesting video and as a Japanese learner Busuu is a new tool I am now using because of you. I am sure it will be helpful, as someone who needs a structured approach it will be super helpful!
I'm Thai. I want to share my language learning experience.
I learned English in school for 12 years. My teacher teaches English to a student in Thai. So students have to remember the meaning of the English word in Thai. When they listen to English, they try to translate it in mind, this is a mistake to learn a new language.
When I learned Japanese at a Japanese institute just for 3 months. The teacher teaches me all in Japanese, without English or Thai, but uses pictures and
non-verbal communication. I felt this learning method is like a baby learning their language. It's the easier way to learn a new language.
tam da senin dil videolarını izleyip dil öğrenmeyi düşünürken bu konuda video atman
How difficult a language depends on many factors (which are personal to each individual), but I can say from experience that certain languages are objectively more difficult to learn AND master than others such as Korean and Japanese due to the complexity in grammar. I am a native speaker of a Southeast Asian language so phonemes in Japanese are pretty easy to imitate, but the writing systems and grammar rules such as syntax are still super challenging. I'm more familiar with western languages since I learned and became fluent in English at a very young age; I can easily build my learning strategy from there. However, it gets confusing to learn these western languages visually -- how you pronounce the Roman alphabet (including vows) vary and mispronunciation happens.
WOW! This video helped a lot to improve my English level
İngilizce öğrenmek için çok uğraşıyorum ve bence en önemlisi devamlı ve planlı olmak. Ve İngilizce bilen kişilerin tavsiyelerine uymak.👍🏻
Zaten devamlı ve planlı artı sana göre verimli olacak bir yöntem seçmek sıradan sözler ama yapılması gerekenler
Bence çoook fazla yabancı dizi ve film izlemelisin ben öyle öğrendim ve geçen babamın Amerika’dan gelen arkadaşı amerikada yaşamış olduğumu falan düşündü
@@selincell3404 Aynen çünkü onların aksanlarına alışıyoruz bu şekilde
Watch a lot of movies and TV series, that's how I became fluent, I even got a decent British accent without ever setting foot in England lmao
5-6 dil kullanmak cok da zor degil. Sadece beynin cumle dizilimini anlamasi gerekiyor. Ve beynin dillere karsilik vermeye programlanmasi lazim . Bunu nasil mi yapabilirsiniz: Bol bol hedef dilde izleyin- dinleyin- taklit edin. Ruri nin ingilizcesi %100 sosyal taklit. Kendisini alkisliyorum 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Yabanci dili kelistirmek icin bile beyninizi iyi gelistirmeniz gerek. Muhtemelen matematik bilgisi de iyidir Ruri nin cunku birkac dil konusabilmek beynin Cok bilinmeyenli denklemleri cozmesi gibi bir durum. Cumleleri taklitle ogrendigi cok belli. Bir cumlede yaptigi vurguyu diger cumlede degistiriyor. Yani cumle cumle taklit yapiyor. Kelimelerin kullanimi da karisik bazen bir Ingiliz bazen bir Amerikali gibi kelime kullanimi yapiyor. Hatta Canada Avustralya- Yeni Zellanda aksani bile var. Bu vidyolari izliyorsaniz siz de 7-8 dil konusabilirsiniz. Ben de birkac dil konusabiliyorum. Ve yabanci dil ogrenmenin asiri kolay oldugunu soyleyebilirim. Sevgiler Ruri cok zeki birisin 💕💕💕🧿🧿🧿
Yazının ana düşüncesi: Fake it til you make it.
i love your Turkish. If you were to write it using Arabic letters I would be saying i love your Uyghur. if you speak Turkish you can speak to Uyghurs, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmen, and Kyrgyz because their language is similar. If you can read Arabic you can read Farsi, Urdu, Uyghur, and Mongolians. The Mongolian Script is simply Arabic written up and down instead of Right to left.
@@boyar1978 You should add Crimean Tatar and Gagauz to this list.For example I understand Azerbaijani language 95%, I understand Crimean Tatar 99%. I didn't know that Mongolian was written with Arabic letters. Thanks for the info.
what an eye opening video. if it wasn't for you I'd never know there is no hard language.
僕は中国で生まれたモンゴル人であって、100％中国語100％モンゴル語です。昨年二十歳、日本へ行って日本語がどんどん分かるようになりました。新聞が読めるけどドラマとか映画とか全然わからない。いつ分かるかなって思ってる。喜欢你的频道。
I did my 5th year medical placement in Germany and learnt the language in about a year. I started output asap and the rest of my free time I was watching German series and films
German series and Films? Mein Beileid! 😬
Im Austrian speaking english on b2 and right now im learning Japanese on my own with TH-cam and Apps and i love making progress!
Languages were my all time favorite in school
Rurii ❤özlettin kendini
Omg finally I encounter someone that thinks same as me about the language certificates!! I also believe they are technically “useless”, because in another case scenario: you might speak fluent English now, but you get a job interview 10 years later and your English level may not be the same… so, in my opinion it’s also better to just know the language, and not just try to achieve a certificate.
When I learned chinese I was honestly surprised at how easy it was lmao it’s not as difficult or impossible as people make it seem honestly
Bu gün fark ettim sanırım ilk senin videolarını izlediğim zaman ki bu yaklaşık 6-8 ay kadar önceydi telafuzunu daha çok amerikan aksanına benzetirdim ama şimdi bunu fark ediyorum ki biraz İngiliz aksanına kaymış aksanın sadece söylemek istedim böyle küçük ayrıntı veya değişimleri fark edince mutlu oluyorum hskcjsk
iam from Somalia ,i want to say you "thanks for giving me confident"
Confidence*
I have not watched the video since I'm at work but the difficulty is not in the language but in oneself. It always will depend on the time you invest getting along with your target language, spending time with it, surrounding yourself in media and other resources, along with learning and relearning the basics and understanding the most advanced grammar as you go. The rest is just your brain making all the connections.
Learning a new language as an adult isn't impossible, but it is challenging.The main difference between learning another language as a child/teen is the fact that at that age you don't have as many things to worry about as an adult does, and you have more free time which allows you to spend more time with the language you're learning. I began learning English since I was 11, and to this day (17 years since I began learning now!) still learning new things because of my job as an interpreter!
So to you who's trying to learn a new language, don't give up, even if you only have one or two hours a day three days a week to learn something of that language, do it, commit those few hours only to that, and if you notice you forget something relearn it and keep relearning as much as you need, it'll stick soon enough. And also don't pressure/be too hard on yourself if you aren't learning at the speed you'd like to learn, everyone is different and everyone goes at their own pace with the method they choose.
2000+ hours for Japanese…hell that ain’t gonna stop me from learning the language and it shouldn’t stop you either 😎
I learned N2 Japanese with about 500 hours of study, you dont need 2000h in my opinion
@@danniefmr that’s impressive…sorry to bother you but could you lend me some pointers to minimize hour time?
I wish it would be just 2000 hours to be completely fluent, maybe if you are chinese or korean.
Liliana?
@@senrabetrollin a cultured man I see 😎
That's accurate! I am brazilian I learned english and german, but now I'm working with french and I feel a lot more comfortable, due to the Latin origins, even though I have been learning by myself.
Seni gerçekten çok seviyorum anlatımını çok seviyorum ve sadece sen bu konuları anlatırken anlıyorum 😊
I am a native German speaker, and I feel the shyness too. But then in English I also feel more confident in expressing myself. I really like it to hear that it is not just me. And I am working on my third language "Korean" at the moment. And The first thing you said, that the language learning process seems hard, because of the time you have schedule to learn the language. I get it now. Because I want to be invested in Korean, but I have to do Soo many other things throughout the day, that it is hard to find time to sit down for at least 30 minutes of 60 tops. But I am so invested in it, I want nothing else for Christmas, than Korean study books. And I understand the structure of the language pretty fast and I find it easy when I find the time to study it.
Ps: Türkisch sollte dir nicht allzuschwer fallen weil es zusammen mit Koreanisch in der Altai-Sprachen Gruppe angesehen wird😊 Aber schön, dass du dir so viel Mühe gibst Koreanisch zu lernen, wie läufts denn so?
@@s3cidlp kann mich immernoch nicht zwischen dürüm und gimbap entscheiden
@@MoreAThanI Hahaaha wieso
I love your content. Keep going 👏🏻
My wife talks to our cat in Italian. I don't think our cat understands any of it.
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I talk to stray cats in Japanese....
@@ruriohama "Ereeeeen" gibi mi ;D
Cats actually understands us as well as dogs do. They just care less.
Cause Italian is in group 3 of hardness for a native cat speaking
@@algeria_online_fair 😼
I'm a native Spanish speaker and I'm polishing my English. Besides that, I know Haitian Creole and I'm learning Catalan. But I feel I arrived at a moment where I don't know what to do. I'm learning languages because I like them, but I don't have people to talk to.
and she's a smart on top of the world language master OMAYYYY IT HURTS
Very interesting how personality changes with language.
I recommend learning Spanish as it has lots of cognates with English and it is probably the best route into the Romance languages.
Hello Ruri! I've been watching your videos for a longgg time, you're doing so well on TH-cam and I really wonder your parents. In a time that your parents available can you make a video with them, I swear that would be amazing. Hope you can see this. Love u 🥺❤️ (Btw your British accent is hella adorable lol)
難易度の高い言語って、文法のルールが状況によって変化するとか、使用する文字の数が多いっていうのもあるけど、
それ以上に似たようなニュアンスの単語やフレーズの数が圧倒的に多いっていうのもあると思う。
普通に英語話せるし、よく論文を読むから普段よく触れる機会のある分野の単語はすぐに出てくるけど、
政治とかそれ以外の分野になってくると、やはり日本語の方がより正確に考えを伝えられるなと思う。
i am a Polyglot myself and yeah it's true
when i learned spanish for several months and switched to French it was way easier because of the language group having some words in common also makes a difference i am self taught with my own method good luck everyone! :)))
I’m learning both Spanish and Portuguese at the same time I feel like it helps to do both for me.
What makes language difficult? Well, the answer is intention to learn it.
Thanks for introducing Busuu that I just subscribed it.
Will see how it works well.
Türkiye de ki okullarda ingilizceyi bence yanlış biçimde öğretiyorlar o yüzden zor geliyor yoksa kolay bir dil karantinaya girdiğimden beri ruri yi izlediğimden beri ingilizcem de gelişme oldu teşekkür ederim ruri :)
No placement test for Japanese :'(
Thanks for the resource though! I love having a study plan, an estimated "graduation date" and the ability to get certifications. It helps me to better understand my progress and how far I've come to reaching my goal.
Very exciting!
been learning spanish for about a year and I'm finally to the point where i can feel comfortable with most things but still struggle conversationally I'm still studying but I'm adding another language this year and this video was very helpful i think I'm going to go with mandarin but I'm also feeling japanese the main push is mandarin seems easier and i like Chinese food lol
Иронично, что Ютуб порекомендовал мне видео, где девушка на языке, которым я не владею, рассказывает про то, что учить языки не сложно.
Жиза
блин русский язык очень сложно