I actually used the peacekeeper phrasebook (with cultural notes and dialogues! ) for south Sahara and atlas mountains to kickstart my learning of basic tamazight, and it was genuinely the most effortless beginner experience which yielded the fastest returns* in my adult language learning experience (I can't really include English since I had begun learning it as a toddler who only spoke very basic Polish kek). *this financial term is imo very good for gauging the efficiency of one's learning process
10:00 Kind of an ironic choice, since it actually was a French colony until the 1950s, but I think you're right that few Cambodian's speak French anymore, especially not people young enough to be soldiers, and the Khmer Rouge purging of foreigners and intellectuals can't have improved that number (even if their leaders definitely did speak French).
@@TheMusicalKnokcers and I doubt that the people who know French are very numerous even today since they are all older or have died in recent years, and the locals speak in mostly Cambodian
@@Jobi. my gramp was a teacher in cambodia untill the dictature arrived and you could get by using only french back then and he definitely didn't teach his college students in cambodian. But as first commenter said 1/3rd of the population and most of the elites were killed soooo totally right, no one speak french now.
I'm Brazilian, in terms of the forces we send to peacekeeping missions, usually the field forces are mostly special forces personnel, our guys speak several different languages.
@@rafaelasabchucalovato9439 Consider that "peacekeeping" isn't specifically about smiling at the locals, there are a lot of terrorist factions to deal with, you'll see putrefying bodies all over the streets, people dying of starvation, rape and a lot of shit to deal with, send in the best guys to deal with it or not have "peacekeeping".
UN: We've arrived the battle field! Time to get help the people here! Country unfamiliar with UN: Aw crap, a second invading faction. Prepare the artillery!
Really enjoyed this video. I went through language training at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and can relate to a lot of the video. We also lived in Turkey for a few years. My daughter played with the Turkish kids who didn't speak English when we got there in the early 80's. Unfortunately, her capability and mine is almost totally gone.😀😀
Thanks for the video. Just as a clarification South Sudan was never a French colony/they don't really use French there, so the note at 8:06 was inaccurate.
He also said Arabic was spoken in Afghanistan. The major languages of Afghanistan are Dari and Pashto, Arabic is only present there as a liturgical language and relatively few people would be able to speak it fluently. Don't think he really researched those ones.
I live in Lithuania (moving back to Netherlands soon), and the UN Troops are casual and chill. I even met one for myself and he even told me about a peacekeeping mission he went on in 1992 to Mozambique.
There is a great film called "Quo Vadis, Aida?" about an interpreter working at a UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia before the Srebrenica massacre happened. It's a fascinating film that captures all the emotional difficulties an interpreter can face in such disastrous circumstances. Highly recommended!
As an Indonesian, i'm a bit happy that indonesian peace keeper always have good relations with the locals where they deployed. This because indonesian peace keeper always learn local language for months before deployed In alot of news, the locals even feel sad when indonesian troops leave that country
Namanya peacekeeper semua negara juga menjalin hubungan yang baik dengan orang lokal. Lagi, sebelum ditugaskan, semua peacekeeper dari seluruh negara juga dilatih bahasa asing.
@@Capres_menyeh gak semua negara anggota peacekeeper bisa punya hubungan baik dengan warga lokal. Beberapa negara anggota peacekeeper bahkan tidak disukai oleh warga lokal, bahkan dimusuhi
@@Capres_menyeh ditambah, meski mereka belajar bahasa lokal, berdasarkan keterangan yang aku tau, banyak dari peacekeeper ini jarang berkomunikasi dengan warga lokal. Mereka seolah terpisah jurang dengan warga lokal. Kontak dengan warga lokal sangat minim
i was part of minustah in 2008-2009. we have interpreters, local people who worked for the UN and we were able to speak in Spanish and English,- it is not only about the local language but also about the multinational force, with a lot of soldiers with different backgrounds, usually, police were better at languages (UN has some official languages i thinlk 5 or 6)
@@johanmetreus1268 no, they are given "permission" by the UN, buy if you read the reports of human rights violations by the blue helmets, then you realise there is not much difference at all
8:00 South Sudan isn't a Francophone country. ?! I guess it borders Francophone countries, though, and I know languages don't exactly stay withing their borders, especially in Africa.
@@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger It is the second most common language for USAmericans to know, though, and not all countries are the same. Just because languages follow borders more closely in one part of the world doesn't mean they do in others. My point was not that French clearly does make sense for South Sudan, just that I couldn't definitively claim he was wrong to claim it did, since it would be plausible for it to.
@@MercuryTheVexilliologyNerdYes, definitely! Dari, the most commonly spoken language in Afghanistan, is a variation of the Persian language alongside Farsi and Tajik
@@MercuryTheVexilliologyNerd Now, let's talk about the Ukrainian oppression of Poles in Lwów, and Wołyń or their oppression of Hungarians in Rusyn areas
You could try first doing what the Jesuits did first with the Guaranis in South America, approach them with beautiful music, a universal language that can be used to prove your own intentions towards them.
A trick you can use is to use powerful magnets to crash the drones and airplanes they send at you and I’m not sure but they might also be able to deviate rocket trajectories
@@croutons9590 cant speak about it sorry. you gotta be there yourself. if you're gonna enter the area though Just make sure you survive to ESCAPE from tarkov
@@andezong9565 What About Camboda. Or, Jugoslavia. In that 2nd case all UN troops that abandoned that people in Srebrenica should at least face charges on desertion.
The blue helmets are not there to protect innocents, but to enforce the interests of larger powers without being labelled an occupying force. And on occasions, war is just bad for business.
Well, with the lastest add-ons one can now speak French with Chat GPT no problem. I mean, no hands mom. My question is: does such practice essentially break one's will and wish to suspend output? Or does conversing only with humans constitute true outputting?
Why do you write it like that? I'm assuming you aren't a native English speaker, because output is really not a good substitute for words like speech or conversation
Let's remember the 1957 Peace Nobel Price awarded to Lester B. Pearson for his role as Canadian diplomat in the Suez Crisis and his role in the establishment of the UN Peacekeeping forces, the Blue Helmets (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_B._Pearson). I also remember a guy, maybe 10 years onler than I, from a village near where I was born who was killed in Cyprus while serving as peace keeper. And this: th-cam.com/video/-xGV3s6suh4/w-d-xo.html
In the thumbnail of your video there is a Brazilian U.N. peacekeeper walking with Haitian children during a patrol in Cite Soleil. As a Brazilian, I say that in my country we are ashamed of the shameful role that the Brazilian Armed Forces played in Haiti, they committed war crimes against haitian women and men that until today causes us problems.
@TicoMakonha O moleque, está na hora de você criar vergonha na cara e ficar quieto, porque é UNÂNIME entre brasileiros que o exército cometeu crimes contra a humanidade no conflito do Haiti. Isso aconteceu e ponto final. Não se intrometa num assunto adulto. Ninguém liga para a sua opinião, que não é baseada em fatos nem evidências, e sim em fake news e desinformação.
@@P.rivate fico na dúvida de onde vieram tais informações, poderia manda um acesso para o caso e número de processo?. A propósito, "isso ocorreu e ponto final"? Não ser um bom argumento
As a person that most likely has dyslexia, having people misunderstand you just because you used the wrong word is a very frequent thing. Having autism certainly doesn't help. I've been into many fights just because I was "rude" or "insensitive" even though I never did such thing. I am from Greece and what I've described above has happened many times to me both IRl and online. E.g. for me, interest and curiosity have the same meaning, but my mother got really really angry at me when I described her interest in where I was going (trip) as curiosity. I'd say a lot of people just try to find a hidden meaning behind everything someone says. My mom thought that I considered her interest as being nosey, when in fact I just used the wrong word 'cause for me it has the same meaning (as interest). If that happens with "civilized" people, then it can only be worse for "uncivilized" people. PS: I didn't call anyone uncivilized, the comment I'm replying to did, so I replied hypothetically.
Ever use your language skills to save the day? 👉🏼 th-cam.com/video/XXMlHqwVmQw/w-d-xo.html
I live in a UN buffer zone. The UN guys are pretty chill, ngl
lemme guess, Cyprus?
cyprus?
probably cyprus
Cyprus?
Cyprus.
I actually used the peacekeeper phrasebook (with cultural notes and dialogues! ) for south Sahara and atlas mountains to kickstart my learning of basic tamazight, and it was genuinely the most effortless beginner experience which yielded the fastest returns* in my adult language learning experience (I can't really include English since I had begun learning it as a toddler who only spoke very basic Polish kek).
*this financial term is imo very good for gauging the efficiency of one's learning process
That's a really good endorsement, especially for such a rare language! How did you find the book?
@@wasnt.here.3853yeah I'd love to know as well
10:00 Kind of an ironic choice, since it actually was a French colony until the 1950s, but I think you're right that few Cambodian's speak French anymore, especially not people young enough to be soldiers, and the Khmer Rouge purging of foreigners and intellectuals can't have improved that number (even if their leaders definitely did speak French).
when cambodia was a colony, most regular people didnt speak french. heck some didnt even know how to read or write
@@nathanjones411 they were kept out of schools so only the elite spoke french
@@TheMusicalKnokcers and I doubt that the people who know French are very numerous even today since they are all older or have died in recent years, and the locals speak in mostly Cambodian
@@Jobi. my gramp was a teacher in cambodia untill the dictature arrived and you could get by using only french back then and he definitely didn't teach his college students in cambodian. But as first commenter said 1/3rd of the population and most of the elites were killed soooo totally right, no one speak french now.
@@Jobi. Khmer. Cambodia's language is Called Khmer. Not Cambodian.
In Lebanon 🇱🇧 we have UN peacekeepers
However the Lebanese people do speak English and French quite well :)
So no problem here
I'm Brazilian, in terms of the forces we send to peacekeeping missions, usually the field forces are mostly special forces personnel, our guys speak several different languages.
We only send personnel for peacekeeping 🤣😂
@@rafaelasabchucalovato9439 Consider that "peacekeeping" isn't specifically about smiling at the locals, there are a lot of terrorist factions to deal with, you'll see putrefying bodies all over the streets, people dying of starvation, rape and a lot of shit to deal with, send in the best guys to deal with it or not have "peacekeeping".
@@rafaelasabchucalovato9439 Haiti e timor leste não representam manter a paz ao todo, da uma olhada com detalhes sobre
not always... soldiers usually no... police and profesionals yes
The best part is seeing my country flag i. The arm of the soldier, even tough we are going through dark times over here, i still love my country
UN: We've arrived the battle field! Time to get help the people here!
Country unfamiliar with UN: Aw crap, a second invading faction. Prepare the artillery!
the un is rubbish and is not suitable for acting in war scenarios.
Tourist soldiers
@@a.r.4707 Lmao
As someone who has worn the blue helmet, I concur.
I’m pretty sure this is what some Bosnian troops/militia thought
The Dutch “peacekeepers” in Bosnia, 1995. Shaking hands and exchanging gifts with Mladić.
Mladić is a nice dude, never did anything wrong
@@etruskovy He is Sratko instead of ratko.
The Dutch were too afraid of Sratko mladić and his bandits....
Nordic peacekeepers on the other hand......
Communism has never worked, lmao.
Really enjoyed this video. I went through language training at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and can relate to a lot of the video. We also lived in Turkey for a few years. My daughter played with the Turkish kids who didn't speak English when we got there in the early 80's. Unfortunately, her capability and mine is almost totally gone.😀😀
You can also work in the UN if you speak Spanish and English. It mostly depends on your base location
Thanks for the video. Just as a clarification South Sudan was never a French colony/they don't really use French there, so the note at 8:06 was inaccurate.
He also said Arabic was spoken in Afghanistan. The major languages of Afghanistan are Dari and Pashto, Arabic is only present there as a liturgical language and relatively few people would be able to speak it fluently. Don't think he really researched those ones.
@@rmcewan10 Yes, very true.
@@rmcewan10 I think they probably have some phrases in Dari and Pashto for that
As Bangladeshi im proud of my soldiers.
Fantastic video. Loved the part with the Ghanaians teaching Lebanese kids English! Love to Ghana from the US. Hope to visit one day!
The Scottish guys in the video. Not even the English understand them LOL.
Nobody understands them
@@stevedavenport1202obody needs a medal then
heh heh
i doubt scottish people can understand each other
@@xdarin_ 🤣
@@xdarin_ im scottish and you just need to start speaking like us, its the best way😂
I live in Lithuania (moving back to Netherlands soon), and the UN Troops are casual and chill. I even met one for myself and he even told me about a peacekeeping mission he went on in 1992 to Mozambique.
NAH, When I opened the video, an advertisement for learning new languages appeared 💀
“Peacekeepers are not technically soldiers!”
The pile of blue helmets in my front yard:
XnskyjahahajahajahajayhahHksnsbahahahajahahHajyhahahajsha.
Sorry for being rude, mate.👍
Tourist soldiers just enjoying their time mostly and afterwards they can bring the tax free car to their home country.
There is a great film called "Quo Vadis, Aida?" about an interpreter working at a UN peacekeeping mission in Bosnia before the Srebrenica massacre happened. It's a fascinating film that captures all the emotional difficulties an interpreter can face in such disastrous circumstances. Highly recommended!
Being french immigrated to canada I am perfect for this.
As an Indonesian, i'm a bit happy that indonesian peace keeper always have good relations with the locals where they deployed. This because indonesian peace keeper always learn local language for months before deployed
In alot of news, the locals even feel sad when indonesian troops leave that country
Namanya peacekeeper semua negara juga menjalin hubungan yang baik dengan orang lokal. Lagi, sebelum ditugaskan, semua peacekeeper dari seluruh negara juga dilatih bahasa asing.
@@Capres_menyeh gak semua negara anggota peacekeeper bisa punya hubungan baik dengan warga lokal. Beberapa negara anggota peacekeeper bahkan tidak disukai oleh warga lokal, bahkan dimusuhi
@@Capres_menyeh ditambah, meski mereka belajar bahasa lokal, berdasarkan keterangan yang aku tau, banyak dari peacekeeper ini jarang berkomunikasi dengan warga lokal. Mereka seolah terpisah jurang dengan warga lokal. Kontak dengan warga lokal sangat minim
I don’t think the Papuans would be sad if Indonesians peacekeepers left West Papua. Same thing for Timor Leste.
@@Zacharoni4085 you think so. I recommended to get another bubbles, not just one.
Irish Peacekeepers are some of the best 👍
Are the Irish even smart enough to learn another language?
@@huguesdepayens807 yeah, also smart enough not to give kids firearms and let them off into school lol
@@rebel4029 What dose that have to do with anything? You let migrants run rampant in your country killing and taking your women.
Different accents have never been difficult for me to understand 😂
i was part of minustah in 2008-2009. we have interpreters, local people who worked for the UN and we were able to speak in Spanish and English,- it is not only about the local language but also about the multinational force, with a lot of soldiers with different backgrounds, usually, police were better at languages (UN has some official languages i thinlk 5 or 6)
Are you planning to do a course for Hebrew and Greek?
ngl this video encourages me to do my lessons in Duolingo 😂😂😂
The Nobel Peace Prize always goes to an unlikely recipient if you look at the list with hindsight.
Ah yes "peacekeeprs" is a much nice word than "occupying forces"
Mostly because peacekeepers aren't occupying,
@@johanmetreus1268 no, they are given "permission" by the UN, buy if you read the reports of human rights violations by the blue helmets, then you realise there is not much difference at all
@@EduardoFlores-bt4fo And the UN in turn gets permission from the belligerents involved.
@@johanmetreus1268 I didn't know the different countries gave permission to rape women and kill civilians on the streets of their territories.
Blue helmets more like
Invaders but trying to look good killing unarmed "terrorists"
Proud Canadian, we invented modern peacekeeping!
Let's hope we can begin peacekeeping properly again. It's sad knowing we barely have any peacekeeper personnel anymore.
Lmao
@@toasterkolin9951 agreed. We definitely need to be more active in peacekeeping operations, no one does it quite like us aha.
Indian accent is by far the funniest and ludicrous ! It makes me laughing out loud every time ,just like Kawhi Leonard !
8:00 South Sudan isn't a Francophone country. ?! I guess it borders Francophone countries, though, and I know languages don't exactly stay withing their borders, especially in Africa.
I mean the US borders Mexico but you can’t assume an American knows Spanish
@@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger It is the second most common language for USAmericans to know, though, and not all countries are the same. Just because languages follow borders more closely in one part of the world doesn't mean they do in others. My point was not that French clearly does make sense for South Sudan, just that I couldn't definitively claim he was wrong to claim it did, since it would be plausible for it to.
I visited lebanon and there are alot of un trucks
I think that Arabic won't get you far in Afghanistan.
would Persian/Farsi?
@@MercuryTheVexilliologyNerdYes, definitely!
Dari, the most commonly spoken language in Afghanistan, is a variation of the Persian language alongside Farsi and Tajik
@@tobib6885 oh thats cool! thanks for telling me!
@@MercuryTheVexilliologyNerd Now, let's talk about the Ukrainian oppression of Poles in Lwów, and Wołyń or their oppression of Hungarians in Rusyn areas
@@etruskovy what?
what does this have to do with Arabic in Afghanistan?
Do not be surprised, I just watch video knowing 1% of English
Wait, the UN sent People who don't parle Francais to a former French colony in Africa?
I love this video❤❤
You could try first doing what the Jesuits did first with the Guaranis in South America, approach them with beautiful music, a universal language that can be used to prove your own intentions towards them.
Cant way to defend my home from the blue helmets(un peacekeepers) with the hundreds of claymores and IEDs I hid in the surrounding forest.
Oh come on the invaders brought allies
Large scale blue helmet tomfoolery
Don't forget cluster mines, Juggernauts from Tarkov, and also Gulag.
A trick you can use is to use powerful magnets to crash the drones and airplanes they send at you and I’m not sure but they might also be able to deviate rocket trajectories
Its funny how you need less of a African language but more of a foreign colonial languages like Arabic, English and French.
Lingua franca
Nice work Peacekeeper’s, respect 👍🏾
Please, speak about Espeanto 😊
"peace keepers"
Good Video 👍
You forgot the 13th Peacekeeping Mission
Tarkov.
What happened there? I can’t seem to find anything about it on google
@@croutons9590 i know right. The U.N has been silencing the Area since the entire conflict began, but luckily i know a lot of what happened
@@coconutcarl28 so what happened
@@croutons9590 cant speak about it sorry. you gotta be there yourself. if you're gonna enter the area though Just make sure you survive to ESCAPE from tarkov
@@coconutcarl28 37th USM marine HQTC here; yeah that place is deadly, i saw ■■■■■■■ unit's wearing heavy rifle rated body armor.
In Israel language isn’t really an issue since almost everyone speaks English
Obviously when half of them are probably U.S citizens, you probably hear more English there than Hebrew.
Uninvolved in peace.
Uninvolved In Pace
nice
The ratio views/comments says that someone is deleting the comments in here.
10:02 Cambodian soldiers learned French
14:55 Peacekeepers teach language in schools
Wow! You don't even know how it's working.
Wait, did UN ever got into any warzone? Did they really saved any life?
The UN fought in the Korean War to help defend South Korea from the North so…
@@andezong9565 What About Camboda.
Or, Jugoslavia.
In that 2nd case all UN troops that abandoned that people in Srebrenica should at least face charges on desertion.
The blue helmets are not there to protect innocents, but to enforce the interests of larger powers without being labelled an occupying force. And on occasions, war is just bad for business.
So called peacekeepers lmao
Bangladesh 🇧🇩😘🇧🇩
Well, with the lastest add-ons one can now speak French with Chat GPT no problem. I mean, no hands mom.
My question is: does such practice essentially break one's will and wish to suspend output? Or does conversing only with humans constitute true outputting?
Bro your question did not make any sense? Output? What are you talking about?
Why do you write it like that? I'm assuming you aren't a native English speaker, because output is really not a good substitute for words like speech or conversation
You could do it before with Google Translate. But that doesn’t eliminate the utility of knowing the language by heart.
The UN standa for unhelpfull
8:50 Ah yes South sudan speaks french!
Drink the corn syrup
Yummy yummy corn syrup
Lowers your IQ just right!
Something happens
Un peacekeepers:adios
Can we talk about the Peacekeeper sex scandal?
Well, at least the UN is effective at something....
Ask Srebrenica males their thoughts about UN peacekeeping forces and they won’t reply
Yeah the Dutch officers were too scared of Sratko m. and his bandits unfortunately.
Let's remember the 1957 Peace Nobel Price awarded to Lester B. Pearson for his role as Canadian diplomat in the Suez Crisis and his role in the establishment of the UN Peacekeeping forces, the Blue Helmets (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_B._Pearson).
I also remember a guy, maybe 10 years onler than I, from a village near where I was born who was killed in Cyprus while serving as peace keeper.
And this: th-cam.com/video/-xGV3s6suh4/w-d-xo.html
Wikipedia = not a source
@@theking-og4oe do you know any other readily accessible sources?
why dey got guns if dey peace keepin
no French in South Sudan!
@Maximilian v I interpreted that as a patriotic comment.
34K views, not even 200 comments. Sus.
Afghanistan don't speak arabic🤦
Isn't Arabic used by most Muslims as a language for Religion?
blue helmets outside my house
Why would they use Arabic in Afghanistan?
Because they are all the same, the Arabs, Iranians, Afghans, Pakistanese, Kurds etc.😁😆
In the thumbnail of your video there is a Brazilian U.N. peacekeeper walking with Haitian children during a patrol in Cite Soleil. As a Brazilian, I say that in my country we are ashamed of the shameful role that the Brazilian Armed Forces played in Haiti, they committed war crimes against haitian women and men that until today causes us problems.
@TicoMakonha O moleque, está na hora de você criar vergonha na cara e ficar quieto, porque é UNÂNIME entre brasileiros que o exército cometeu crimes contra a humanidade no conflito do Haiti. Isso aconteceu e ponto final. Não se intrometa num assunto adulto. Ninguém liga para a sua opinião, que não é baseada em fatos nem evidências, e sim em fake news e desinformação.
sua mãe não te ensinou que Mentir é feio?
@@P.rivate fico na dúvida de onde vieram tais informações, poderia manda um acesso para o caso e número de processo?.
A propósito, "isso ocorreu e ponto final"? Não ser um bom argumento
Fake News. You are a NATO propagandist defaming the Brazilian Armed Forces because they dream of plundering Brazil even more.
Crime de guerra nunca ouvi falar nisso de onde tirou essa informação
ngl I would love to be a UN peacekeeper
Wow
never forget haiti
Hati was a failed experiment.
Peacepeepers?
yes, you are right... that's bullshit
Anti christ
Yes. Unlike Russia attacking Ukraine right now.
@@nekopop8159 Ukraine attacked Poland in 1943
@@etruskovy Russia killed innocent Ukrainians.
China killed and put Uyghurs in camps.
Oil
No, that's the Americans
@@JohnSmith-yz7zn No it's not, where did you get that from?
I wish these African parents would keep an eye on their children.
🤨?!
Un Peacekeepers still exist?
O
They're cowards.
says the coward that wont even go anywhere near a warzone in the first place.
@@waterlord6936 Well said. It's obviously a troll or narcissist/sociopath.
Said the guy who will be scared by a guy with PM.
"Peacekeepers"... lol. Right.
What did they do?
🇧🇷💪
Ew
"peacekeepers" lol
wat a laught
Using the wrong word is "dangerous"? Then don't deal with wild savages then...
As a person that most likely has dyslexia, having people misunderstand you just because you used the wrong word is a very frequent thing.
Having autism certainly doesn't help.
I've been into many fights just because I was "rude" or "insensitive" even though I never did such thing.
I am from Greece and what I've described above has happened many times to me both IRl and online.
E.g. for me, interest and curiosity have the same meaning, but my mother got really really angry at me when I described her interest in where I was going (trip) as curiosity.
I'd say a lot of people just try to find a hidden meaning behind everything someone says. My mom thought that I considered her interest as being nosey, when in fact I just used the wrong word 'cause for me it has the same meaning (as interest).
If that happens with "civilized" people, then it can only be worse for "uncivilized" people.
PS: I didn't call anyone uncivilized, the comment I'm replying to did, so I replied hypothetically.
Wow what an absolutely horrible comment
Literally Racism
It is their job to deal with them, that's the whole point
Please change and be a better person