I know Arabic,Turkish, English and Spanish and I learn Russian, Chinese , Japanese and German I hope to get a time to learn Hindi and Swahili. As you said actually these languages are opening up a whole world to us you get understand people better. I love languages, cultures, literature and poetry so languages are combining them
@@haniyeh-hfp for me the dialect of gulf states especially Saudi Arabia is the most understandable and similar to the standard Arabic(Fusha)because pure Arabic is actually in that region.
Thank you sir for all videos. I'am from Indonesia and 33 years old. For now I learning english since September 2023. I hope my english will be better in this year.
Thanks for making this video on gateway languages. I know many are confused sometimes where to start. Myself included. With this video there is a direction and these languages do have the largest amount of resources available if anybody is interested delving deeper into the families mentioned in the video.
Hello, polyglot army ❤ I have self learning languages like Mandarin, Turkish,Urdu, Korean, Japanese and a little bit of Spanish and French and Italian and It feels so awesome. Being bilingual from a younger age now I know about 12 to 13 languages Including my mother tongue Bengali and Hindi and English, I am also working on an ancient language like Sanskrit.
Recently learning languages became my hobby so I just started to learn Spanish first to move to Spain one day, then I'll learn all the major languages first and then we'll see. Good luck to everyone who're learning foreign languages, I know you can do it guys🤝
Dziękuję for your inspiring videos! Every time I think of quitting to learn "po polsku", because I cannot wrap my brain around it as a German, I watch one of your videos and keep on. The start is easy, then grammar almost kills you, but once you start speaking it gets better.
Thank you for sharing this video. It's very useful. I am learning Japanese now. I am really thankful to you that your videos keeps me motivated to learning languages. Your videos are amazing.
This list is absolutely amazing and I fully agree with it! I speak German and English, but decided learning Spanish and Turkish a few months ago, its an amazing journey. Also dabbled in Japanese and Swahili, but that will have to wait
I have learned German, because I moved to Germany. If you learn German you have access to free tuition German taught courses in universities which I think are very valuable for being free. This year I focused on Spanish through Pimsleur and Dreamingspanish, and Portuguese through Pimsleur and FSI. This new year I am going to start a slavic language through Russian. Parallely I will be focusing on German because I want to reach native level.
Thank you for another great video Tim. I''ve studied all of those except Japanese. I've found Spanish, Mandarin and Russian to be very useful. I really struggle with Arabic - I'm off to Morocco in two days time and know that my MSR will not be understood but luckily I can speak French 😂.
@@polyglotdreams I totally agree I'm Moroccan and our dialect is a little bit difficult cause we have french words and Spanish words also due to colonization I think foreigners learn Egyptian Arabic maybe it's the easiest for them also Moroccan people can understand all the other dialect but others found some difficulties to understand ours so obviously it difficult for foreigners as well
My family speaks Mennonite Low German, and I've been learning High German on and off since I was about 15. For the last nine years, though, my focus has been Finnish. Next year I'm hoping to refresh and improve my French, specifically Québécois French, but mostly because I feel obligated as a Canadian to know at least some. I'd love to properly learn Spanish, too, and I'd also be interested in Swedish, and maybe Dutch.
The one drawback to learning Hindi is, oddly enough, that English is the main business language in India, and is becoming used increasingly in daily life such that "Hinglish" is what is referred to as what many people speak in Northern regions of India nowadays, particularly amongst the younger generations.
I am also a big Hermann Hesse fan. I will put japanese maybe on my list for next year because my teenage daughter thinks about learning it and then I follow along a bit.
Your videos are awesome. I have started to learn Japanese....my 7-old year old son came up with such an idea, because he likes games from Japan. Starting is hard but step by step it will be a.nice adventure.
Obrigado por fazer esse vídeo. Eu gostei muito. Especialmente a ideia dos "Gateway languages" porque quero aprender muitos idiomas! Também foi bem legal ter na lista uma língua de cada família. Eu gostaria de entender o maior número possível de línguas e a sua lista me ajuda decidir por onde começar.
Tim Keeley I challenge you to take the Clozemaster 10 languages 10 questions each challenge. Try 10 languages in 10 questions each in whichever languages you either are and or are not familiar with video it and inspire us. Set the question limit to 10 questions each and turn the audio vocals on. Whenever you make the thumbnail and the title be sure to include the 10 flags of each of them. This video could possibly go viral if you choose to include language tags to the countries which you are respectively quizzing in. It will be both fun and inspiring! Buenas suerte Carpa diem שלום עליכם
Consider including Interlengua or Esperanto in the challenge for all the conlangers to be inspired and because global recognition. Because there's just not enough people who know about Interlengua and Interslavic.
@@polyglotdreams They would probably love to do a sponsored video with you. I'm hoping that Dr Jones (language jones) will take the challenges also. I could see this becoming a trending thing where everyone (and or polyglots) videos themselves taking the Clozemaster 10 languages 10 questions challenge. And then that would become a file of its own of people just taking the challenge. I plan on taking the challenge and posting the results as soon as I get a good enough camera and stand. When I initially took the challenge I was very surprised at how I scored a 10 out of 10 in Turkish Indonesian and Russian although I don't speak any of those and have studied only very little through TH-cam. One of the hacks that I did was to pick the shortest answer when I was not sure intuitively what would be the right answer of multiple choice.
My native language is Armenian and I've been studying English and Russian for a long time. Now, I guess, it's time for a new language. So excited that can't choose between Spanish, German and French. Can't choose in the objective perspective: which is more beneficial career wise.😁
Hi, this is a brilliant work done here. I can't imagine the research time taken to accomplish this. Just a quick note, for Spanish you need to add also the country of Guinea Equatorial, the only african country that speaks Spanish. Thanks.
I've studied english for a long time, but I can't say a single word. I can understand many words but I can't understand spoken english. Now I think I can't be fluent in english 😅 I can even understand economics, philosophy lecture in english. Nowadays I want to learn japanese and chinese - close to my native language. And malay-indonesian. Btw your video is very informative and useful. Thx
Alot to unpack ( as the modern saying goes). There's many ways to look at this ( Sir, I think you encapsulated many). There's Pro.Arguelle's 6 languages one could consider. Which sector you're working/ interested in, e.g, horology- French & German ; fashion- french & Italian but now Mandarin ( English is always in this question) for that market? The British Council lists , for the UK , French, Spanish, German, Arabic & Mandarin although Dutch, & Italian coukd be advantageous & lesser spoken for important markets.
I agree with everything you said. But you didn't mentioned something I christened to "Language Sacrifice". You said what worth to learn but I have an another point of view as well. If you are near the polygloth level(4-5 languages) you can make a Language learning Sacrifice and learn languages which from you maybe won't profit. 1st Type - Languages which are too small and/or Endangered. I choose Hawai'i. 2nd Type - Dead languages . I choose Latin, Egyptian and Babylonian. 3rd Type - Artificial and/or Fantasy languages, like Esperanto, Elvish, Volapük,Toki Pona,High Valyrian and so on. I choose Esperanto. You don't have to learn any of these languages, but if you are that much into languages you can sacrifice your time in languages you may never use,never profit from. Saving an endangered Language from extinction could be a mission to any language fan.That's why I learn Hawai'i. (2000 native speaker). Some says I should be writing books instead,but still I left lot of things unsaid. 😊
I fear this video needs a warning “Not suitable for French people: side effects may include raised blood pressure, palpitations and shortness of breath”. I understand why you listed Spanish rather than French, presumably due to South America, and it is also easier for English speakers to learn, with regular gender. And yet French is such a beautiful language, and a definite must for British people, assuming they weren’t frightened away from language learning at school. Ten languages to learn, wow! I speak French and I am learning German. English and French are so similar, they are almost dialects. And yet despite English being classed as a West German language, English and German are so different. German idioms are so weird, and the way they use all those little words like doch, mal, schon, mehr etc is utterly bizarre. But it can sound nice, contrary to stereotypes.
I have found French really useful, not just when in France, but I meet a lot of people from DRV and Cameroon who I enjoy speaking French with. I'm going to Morocco in two days time and know that I'll be speaking mostly French.
French is an official language in 27 countries and is spoken across all continents. French is also one of the most geographically widespread languages in the world, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. Most of these countries are members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the community of 54 member states which share the official use or teaching of French. French is also one of six official languages used in the United Nations. In 2015, approximately 40% of the francophone population (including L2 and partial speakers) lived in Europe, 36% in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean, 15% in North Africa and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas, and 1% in Asia and Oceania. French is the second-most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. Of Europeans who speak other languages natively, approximately one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language. French is the second-most taught foreign language in the EU. All institutions of the EU use French as a working language along with English and German; in certain institutions, French is the sole working language (e.g. at the Court of Justice of the European Union). French is also the 16th most natively spoken language in the world, fifth most spoken language by total number of speakers and is on the top five of the most studied languages worldwide (with about 120 million learners as of 2017).As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, French was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Most second-language speakers reside in Francophone Africa, particularly Gabon, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritius, Senegal and Ivory Coast. French is estimated to have about 76 million native speakers; about 235 million daily, fluent speakers and another 77-110 million secondary speakers who speak it as a second language to varying degrees of proficiency, mainly in Africa. According to the OIF, approximately 321 million people worldwide are "able to speak the language", without specifying the criteria for this estimation or whom it encompasses. According to a demographic projection led by the Université Laval and the Réseau Démographie de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, the total number of French speakers will reach approximately 500 million in 2025 and 650 million by 2050.[17] OIF estimates 700 million by 2050, 80% of whom will be in Africa. French has a long history as an international language of literature and scientific standards and is a primary or second language of many international organisations including the United Nations, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the World Trade Organization, the International Olympic Committee, the General Conference on Weights and Measures, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked French the third most useful language for business, after English and Standard Mandarin Chinese.
Pour info, J'ai trouvé toutes ces informations concernant la langue française sur Wikipedia. Personnellement, j'aurais également ajouter le portugais et le bahassa Indonesia à votre Liste. Bonne journée à vous tous !
Learning gateway languages is like gateway drugs. Once you start, you are hooked and you can't stop. Yes, language learning is a drug...just look at my library! 🤦🏼♂
An extra criteria could be the countries english literacy level. Norwegian is an enticing language until you go there and discover they speak better English than natives.
I can't help the fact that less important languages atract me more 😂. I'm Polish but I speak also English (luckily sth useful 😂), Norwegian (I was working there for some time), Bulgarian (because of my ancestors). Other languages that I want to learn are Hungarian, Romanian and maybe Italian. After all I might end up as fluent behind the iron curtain. 😅
Bulgarian is the reason why all Slavic Languages have an alphabet. Ukraine or Poland were the first to speak Slavic, even though Poland is slavic, but you use the Latin one
Saluton ! Kiel vi fartas ? Quite a choisir une L.A.I.C je pense que l'interlingua est une bien meilleur option que l'Esperanto car bien qu'elle ne soit parlée que par quelques centaines d'individus elle a le mérite de pouvoir être comprise facilement par des centaines de millions de locuteurs de langues romanes. Même chose pour l'interslavic
Oublier la langue française dans les dix premières langues du monde est complètement dingue. Cela montre un parti-pris incroyable ainsi qu'un manque de culture historique et littéraire.
Learn Dutch, German, English and some French and Scandinavian.. If you live in the Americans, learn Spanish and some basic English... Learn Indonesian, and Hindi, and maybe Chinese..
My languages for 2024 are Japanese and Ukrainian. Japanese because I like the melody of the language, I want to pass JLPT N2 in the future and read among others Haruki Murakami in the original language. Ukrainian because I would like to help Ukrainian refugees with translations in the future.
Hi mate, Im from De la india 🇮🇳 i speak Hindi bengali telugu and fluent español as a traditional guy i love spanish too much. You must also learn some indian languages like bangla hindi..
My 2024 pick is German. Being fluent in several latin languages and speaking Serbo-Croatian and Russian to a conversational level, I had considered starting Romanian this year, but I felt like I should challenge myself with something radically different. Not an easy one, though. Anyway, this concept of "Gateway Language" is actually very important (and rarely pointed out). Thanks for the video!
My list of 10 is Spanish, French , Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Indonesian and Turkish. The reason I chose Dutch over German was because Dutch gives you the capability to later learn Indonesian and Afrikaans so it is a gateway language and once you learn your Indonesian it will take you to Tagalog because it has cognates and Loan words with Arabic Hindi and Dutch. In addition to these languages I would say a good move for you next would be to include Interlingua and Interslavic as they can round out all of Europes and the Slavic languages greatly improving your capability with languages that you otherwise would have lesser experience in. Turkish is kind of a Gateway language because combined with Russian Cyrillic alphabet it can give you a foot in the door on Mongolian.
I like the enthusiasm about Dutch, but as a fluent speaker of indonesian, I can tell you that learning Dutch just gives you a little bit of vocabulary. It is true that interslavic is widely understood by most slavic speakers. But very few people actually speak it, and if you only know Interslavic, it won't be easy to understand quite a few of islamic languages.
The so-called Russian language is an artificial language. It is used only in the former territories of the non-existent “union”. Although interest in an artificial language can only be within the framework of “you need to know the enemy’s language.”
Agreed with most of what you said except that Japanese can serve as a gateway language to Chinese and Vietnamese. IMHO Japanese can only serve as a gateway language to Korean since the two share a very similar grammar; both are SOV, both lack tones, and both are agglutinative, to name just a few of their commonalities. Whereas with Chinese and Vietnamese the differences are too huge and too many when compared to Japanese.
The Sino vocabulary in Japanese helps with learning nothing Vietnamese and Chinese.... and the head last structure of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese is the same. Please watch my video on the East Asian Cultural Sphere 🙏
Very good presentation. I guess that language learning for most isn't worth it, too much effort for little compensation. So what you call "subjective factors" shokld dominate.
I wonder you put Japanese in top 10 languages Mystery.....howabout replacing her alternatively BAHASA INDONESIA. Japanese is exclusively used in Japan, further more Japanese can not be regarded as a Gateway language. Japan is geographically isolated island, no chance to stay connected with other bothering countries. Swahili can be in some sense acceptable though....wa i forgot you had a Japanese citizenship.... I respect your Subjectivity though!!! Thank you.
I am dumbfounded that French is nowhere on this list. French used to be the second most important language after English 50 years ago. French sure has lost ground
Its actually on an international language different English 1, French 2, Spanish 3, Arabian 4, Russian 5, Chinese 6, German 7, Japanese 8, Portugese 9... Suaheli is nice but not importan
Thanks for video. It is the most objective video about global languages I have seen, free from passions. Obvious dominion of English as lingua franca. Saludos desde España. 😊😊
@@polyglotdreamsyou already had English yet still included german I understand that german isn't mutually understandable with English, but the same is true for french french is hard for other romance speakers to understand, so learning spanish will help you speak with portuguese, catalan, italian speakers but not french speakers
Thanks Sir, but you don't really need to explain the number 1, as if we don't know this number 1 language, we would simply have no way to understand what you are talking about 😅
Nice video BUT the most important aspect, the elephant in the room, is learning a language for earning more money, thus having a better lifestyle. Let's be honest: we need it more than we want it. So it would be much appreciated to talk about what language is better to learn especially in Europe, job related, for 2024.
Don't forget, guys; English isn't the easiest language in the world, the easiest language in the world will depend on what language is your mothertongue. For a Spanish native, italian is easier than English. For a Russian native, Bielorrusia and other slavic languages are easier than English. That thing of English being the easiest language is pure propaganda. 😉
French seams like it should be in the top 10. Presumably it was left it off to not have 2 romance languages, but he has 2 west germanic languages in English and German.
I've always said the main reasons for people studying languages are the "Four L's: love, labor, literature, or leisure".
Excellent observation
😂😂
I would add a fifth L: Linguistics.
3:00 German
3:54 Japanese
4:51 Turkish
5:28 Swahili
6:07 Hindi
7:03 Russian
7:49 Arabic
8:49 Spanish
9:34 Mandarin
10:29 English
@@eventhorizon1082 thanks
I know Arabic,Turkish, English and Spanish and I learn Russian, Chinese , Japanese and German I hope to get a time to learn Hindi and Swahili.
As you said actually these languages are opening up a whole world to us you get understand people better.
I love languages, cultures, literature and poetry so languages are combining them
Awesome, we think alike.
سلام علیکم! By learning the Arabic of which country can I learn comprehensive Arabic? Because there are differences
@@haniyeh-hfp for me the dialect of gulf states especially Saudi Arabia is the most understandable and similar to the standard Arabic(Fusha)because pure Arabic is actually in that region.
@@shrouuuq
Thank you, may I ask which country are you from?
Thank you sir for all videos. I'am from Indonesia and 33 years old. For now I learning english since September 2023. I hope my english will be better in this year.
Terima kasih... I wish you all the best in your studies.
You got this!
Thanks for making this video on gateway languages. I know many are confused sometimes where to start. Myself included.
With this video there is a direction and these languages do have the largest amount of resources available if anybody is interested delving deeper into the families mentioned in the video.
Thanks for the input.
Hello, polyglot army ❤
I have self learning languages like Mandarin, Turkish,Urdu, Korean, Japanese and a little bit of Spanish and French and Italian and It feels so awesome. Being bilingual from a younger age now I know about 12 to 13 languages Including my mother tongue Bengali and Hindi and English, I am also working on an ancient language like Sanskrit.
That's fascinating... I love the Sanskrit based languages
Me too from Kolkata
Recently learning languages became my hobby so I just started to learn Spanish first to move to Spain one day, then I'll learn all the major languages first and then we'll see. Good luck to everyone who're learning foreign languages, I know you can do it guys🤝
Great hobby!
So glad Swahili is on this list! I will be learning this after im at a good level with Spanish :)
Hope you enjoy it!
Dziękuję for your inspiring videos! Every time I think of quitting to learn "po polsku", because I cannot wrap my brain around it as a German, I watch one of your videos and keep on. The start is easy, then grammar almost kills you, but once you start speaking it gets better.
Thanks for sharing that.
Thank you for sharing this video. It's very useful. I am learning Japanese now. I am really thankful to you that your videos keeps me motivated to learning languages. Your videos are amazing.
That's so encouraging 👏 thanks
That was very inspiring! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
I agree!! And I loved his final comment about language learning being well worth the effort.
thank you very much for another awesome video, Tim!
Glad you like them! Thanks so much 🙏
This list is absolutely amazing and I fully agree with it! I speak German and English, but decided learning Spanish and Turkish a few months ago, its an amazing journey. Also dabbled in Japanese and Swahili, but that will have to wait
Great efforts... keep it up
2023 i learned German, this year i'm learning French and Russian 💪i will also try Madarin and Arabic in the future. 😊
Great! I wish you all the best in your studies.
I have learned German, because I moved to Germany. If you learn German you have access to free tuition German taught courses in universities which I think are very valuable for being free.
This year I focused on Spanish through Pimsleur and Dreamingspanish, and Portuguese through Pimsleur and FSI.
This new year I am going to start a slavic language through Russian.
Parallely I will be focusing on German because I want to reach native level.
Thank you for another great video Tim.
I''ve studied all of those except Japanese. I've found Spanish, Mandarin and Russian to be very useful. I really struggle with Arabic - I'm off to Morocco in two days time and know that my MSR will not be understood but luckily I can speak French 😂.
Morocco is a very difficult place to try to understand Arabic. As you know, thank you so much for the kind comments.
@@polyglotdreams
I totally agree I'm Moroccan and our dialect is a little bit difficult cause we have french words and Spanish words also due to colonization I think foreigners learn Egyptian Arabic maybe it's the easiest for them also Moroccan people can understand all the other dialect but others found some difficulties to understand ours so obviously it difficult for foreigners as well
Very practical list of 10 languages. thank you
I am so pleased that you found it useful.
Great list sir!! Mine would include French and Indonesian.
I already had Spanish, so according to my criteria, I couldn't add French.
My family speaks Mennonite Low German, and I've been learning High German on and off since I was about 15. For the last nine years, though, my focus has been Finnish. Next year I'm hoping to refresh and improve my French, specifically Québécois French, but mostly because I feel obligated as a Canadian to know at least some. I'd love to properly learn Spanish, too, and I'd also be interested in Swedish, and maybe Dutch.
This is brilliant. Thank you for posting it.
My pleasure! Thank you!
The one drawback to learning Hindi is, oddly enough, that English is the main business language in India, and is becoming used increasingly in daily life such that "Hinglish" is what is referred to as what many people speak in Northern regions of India nowadays, particularly amongst the younger generations.
@jamesm.9285 yes... I consider that unfortunate
I am also a big Hermann Hesse fan. I will put japanese maybe on my list for next year because my teenage daughter thinks about learning it and then I follow along a bit.
Great idea... so which is your favorite Hesse novel?
Demian most likely, or Glasperlenspiel. I also like the collection of poems books. Its hard to decide.
Your videos are awesome. I have started to learn Japanese....my 7-old year old son came up with such an idea, because he likes games from Japan. Starting is hard but step by step it will be a.nice adventure.
Thanks... all the best to you in your studies.
you are the most competent person in terms of languagees
Thank you very much. I really appreciate that.
Obrigado por fazer esse vídeo. Eu gostei muito. Especialmente a ideia dos "Gateway languages" porque quero aprender muitos idiomas!
Também foi bem legal ter na lista uma língua de cada família. Eu gostaria de entender o maior número possível de línguas e a sua lista me ajuda decidir por onde começar.
Obrigado... Boa sorte!
Tim Keeley I challenge you to take the Clozemaster 10 languages 10 questions each challenge.
Try 10 languages in 10 questions each in whichever languages you either are and or are not familiar with video it and inspire us.
Set the question limit to 10 questions each and turn the audio vocals on.
Whenever you make the thumbnail and the title be sure to include the 10 flags of each of them. This video could possibly go viral if you choose to include language tags to the countries which you are respectively quizzing in. It will be both fun and inspiring!
Buenas suerte
Carpa diem
שלום עליכם
Consider including Interlengua or Esperanto in the challenge for all the conlangers to be inspired and because global recognition. Because there's just not enough people who know about Interlengua and Interslavic.
Thanks for the suggestion
@@polyglotdreams They would probably love to do a sponsored video with you. I'm hoping that Dr Jones (language jones) will take the challenges also.
I could see this becoming a trending thing where everyone (and or polyglots) videos themselves taking the Clozemaster 10 languages 10 questions challenge.
And then that would become a file of its own of people just taking the challenge. I plan on taking the challenge and posting the results as soon as I get a good enough camera and stand. When I initially took the challenge I was very surprised at how I scored a 10 out of 10 in Turkish Indonesian and Russian although I don't speak any of those and have studied only very little through TH-cam. One of the hacks that I did was to pick the shortest answer when I was not sure intuitively what would be the right answer of multiple choice.
in this video, I easily realized you have worked hard. Because information is very good and detailed. Especially I read happily.
Yes, thank you very much. I do put a lot of effort into it.
you give me all the beautiful energy. Thank you very much for your effort and I wish you the best in life! 😊
Thank you so much for the encouragement 😊 ☺️ 🙏
My native language is Armenian and I've been studying English and Russian for a long time. Now, I guess, it's time for a new language. So excited that can't choose between Spanish, German and French. Can't choose in the objective perspective: which is more beneficial career wise.😁
Thanks... I visited your country in 1982.
Nice list!! thank you!!
In the Spanish-speaking countries map, you need to add Guinea Ecuatorial in Africa.
Yes... that was not my map... just borrowed it... thanks for pointing that out.
Hi, this is a brilliant work done here. I can't imagine the research time taken to accomplish this. Just a quick note, for Spanish you need to add also the country of Guinea Equatorial, the only african country that speaks Spanish. Thanks.
Yes... thanks
Hope to someday be able to return to Japanese and Russian. Very cool and informative video, thank you for sharing
Thanks... start again little by little.. best not to wait too long.
I've studied english for a long time, but I can't say a single word. I can understand many words but I can't understand spoken english.
Now I think I can't be fluent in english 😅 I can even understand economics, philosophy lecture in english.
Nowadays I want to learn japanese and chinese - close to my native language. And malay-indonesian.
Btw your video is very informative and useful. Thx
All the best to you in your studies.
Alot to unpack ( as the modern saying goes).
There's many ways to look at this ( Sir, I think you encapsulated many).
There's Pro.Arguelle's 6 languages one could consider.
Which sector you're working/ interested in, e.g, horology- French & German ; fashion- french & Italian but now Mandarin ( English is always in this question) for that market?
The British Council lists , for the UK , French, Spanish, German, Arabic & Mandarin although Dutch, & Italian coukd be advantageous & lesser spoken for important markets.
Yes, there are many other possible combinations, but I was seeking to have just one language per language family.
I would choose:
English Spanish French German Russian Mandarin Arabic Turkish Indonesian and Hindi.
Good choices.
On January 1st - I chose Spanish.
It will be my 3rd language.
Great choice!
One of my issues is theres so many languages i want to learn, for different reasons. I always feel drawn back to German though, every time :)
I’m learning French! 🇫🇷❤️
Great
I agree with everything you said. But you didn't mentioned something I christened to "Language Sacrifice". You said what worth to learn but I have an another point of view as well. If you are near the polygloth level(4-5 languages) you can make a Language learning Sacrifice and learn languages which from you maybe won't profit. 1st Type - Languages which are too small and/or Endangered. I choose Hawai'i. 2nd Type - Dead languages . I choose Latin, Egyptian and Babylonian. 3rd Type - Artificial and/or Fantasy languages, like Esperanto, Elvish, Volapük,Toki Pona,High Valyrian and so on. I choose Esperanto. You don't have to learn any of these languages, but if you are that much into languages you can sacrifice your time in languages you may never use,never profit from. Saving an endangered Language from extinction could be a mission to any language fan.That's why I learn Hawai'i. (2000 native speaker). Some says I should be writing books instead,but still I left lot of things unsaid. 😊
Thanks for sharing!!
I fear this video needs a warning “Not suitable for French people: side effects may include raised blood pressure, palpitations and shortness of breath”. I understand why you listed Spanish rather than French, presumably due to South America, and it is also easier for English speakers to learn, with regular gender. And yet French is such a beautiful language, and a definite must for British people, assuming they weren’t frightened away from language learning at school. Ten languages to learn, wow! I speak French and I am learning German. English and French are so similar, they are almost dialects. And yet despite English being classed as a West German language, English and German are so different. German idioms are so weird, and the way they use all those little words like doch, mal, schon, mehr etc is utterly bizarre. But it can sound nice, contrary to stereotypes.
I love your comment ❤️
I have found French really useful, not just when in France, but I meet a lot of people from DRV and Cameroon who I enjoy speaking French with. I'm going to Morocco in two days time and know that I'll be speaking mostly French.
French is an official language in 27 countries and is spoken across all continents. French is also one of the most geographically widespread languages in the world, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. Most of these countries are members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the community of 54 member states which share the official use or teaching of French. French is also one of six official languages used in the United Nations.
In 2015, approximately 40% of the francophone population (including L2 and partial speakers) lived in Europe, 36% in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean, 15% in North Africa and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas, and 1% in Asia and Oceania. French is the second-most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. Of Europeans who speak other languages natively, approximately one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language. French is the second-most taught foreign language in the EU. All institutions of the EU use French as a working language along with English and German; in certain institutions, French is the sole working language (e.g. at the Court of Justice of the European Union). French is also the 16th most natively spoken language in the world, fifth most spoken language by total number of speakers and is on the top five of the most studied languages worldwide (with about 120 million learners as of 2017).As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, French was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Most second-language speakers reside in Francophone Africa, particularly Gabon, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritius, Senegal and Ivory Coast.
French is estimated to have about 76 million native speakers; about 235 million daily, fluent speakers and another 77-110 million secondary speakers who speak it as a second language to varying degrees of proficiency, mainly in Africa. According to the OIF, approximately 321 million people worldwide are "able to speak the language", without specifying the criteria for this estimation or whom it encompasses. According to a demographic projection led by the Université Laval and the Réseau Démographie de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, the total number of French speakers will reach approximately 500 million in 2025 and 650 million by 2050.[17] OIF estimates 700 million by 2050, 80% of whom will be in Africa.
French has a long history as an international language of literature and scientific standards and is a primary or second language of many international organisations including the United Nations, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the World Trade Organization, the International Olympic Committee, the General Conference on Weights and Measures, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked French the third most useful language for business, after English and Standard Mandarin Chinese.
Pour info, J'ai trouvé toutes ces informations concernant la langue française sur Wikipedia. Personnellement, j'aurais également ajouter le portugais et le bahassa Indonesia à votre Liste. Bonne journée à vous tous !
😅😂😂 Agree!
love that sir, thanks
Thank you!
💥Cool Video❗Thanks👍
I appreciate that 🙏
My top 10 are English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Arabic, Italian, Portuguese and Korean.
The second 10 are Russian, Hindi, Dutch, Turkish, Indonesian, Bengali, Polish, Swedish, Thai, Persian.
You mean those are the ones you prefer?
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
Lovely! ❤
Thank you! 😊
A great video for sure except for the fact that French and Portuguese have been left out! Nevertheless, I am a new and happy subscriber!
Thanks.. that's because I limited the choice to 1 language per family.
I want to learn in order
1. English
2. Spanish
3. French
4. Japanese
5. Italian
6. Chinese
7. Portuguese
8. Arabic
9. German
10. Russian
Start and finish
Sorry... what do you mean?
@@polyglotdreams it's a remark for myself
Learning gateway languages is like gateway drugs. Once you start, you are hooked and you can't stop. Yes, language learning is a drug...just look at my library! 🤦🏼♂
I like that comparison 😆 🤣
Very informative video
Thanks
An extra criteria could be the countries english literacy level. Norwegian is an enticing language until you go there and discover they speak better English than natives.
I can't help the fact that less important languages atract me more 😂. I'm Polish but I speak also English (luckily sth useful 😂), Norwegian (I was working there for some time), Bulgarian (because of my ancestors). Other languages that I want to learn are Hungarian, Romanian and maybe Italian.
After all I might end up as fluent behind the iron curtain. 😅
That's great!
Thank you Ms Dieu Nguyen introduce for me your channel ❤
She has a great channel and helps with this one.
🌈🌈🌈I am learning Swahili, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch And Modern Standard Arabic.🌈🌈🌈
That's great! Excellent choices
Bulgarian is the reason why all Slavic Languages have an alphabet. Ukraine or Poland were the first to speak Slavic, even though Poland is slavic, but you use the Latin one
Why?
You are really great and you look very good considering your age ! I mean your Mindset etc.👏👏👏But what about ESPERANTO ?
I like to focus on natural languages. Thank you for the compliments.
What about volapuk, globassa, interlingua, toki pona et klingon ?
Saluton ! Kiel vi fartas ? Quite a choisir une L.A.I.C je pense que l'interlingua est une bien meilleur option que l'Esperanto car bien qu'elle ne soit parlée que par quelques centaines d'individus elle a le mérite de pouvoir être comprise facilement par des centaines de millions de locuteurs de langues romanes. Même chose pour l'interslavic
Oublier la langue française dans les dix premières langues du monde est complètement dingue. Cela montre un parti-pris incroyable ainsi qu'un manque de culture historique et littéraire.
Yes, but he said it's his experience, not a rule for everyone
C'est un choix… il propose 10 langues en fonction de critères personnels et objectifs.
Cette réponse ne pourrait pas être plus française
@@evangelion045Touché
Monsieur il n'est peut pas mette plus que un langue d’un famille
Il a mettre espagne à langue romanes
Désolé pour mon mauvais français 😢
Learn Dutch, German, English and some French and Scandinavian.. If you live in the Americans, learn Spanish and some basic English... Learn Indonesian, and Hindi, and maybe Chinese..
It is his perception and experience. It doesn't mean that his opinion is the final and it is unquestionable.
My languages for 2024 are Japanese and Ukrainian. Japanese because I like the melody of the language, I want to pass JLPT N2 in the future and read among others Haruki Murakami in the original language. Ukrainian because I would like to help Ukrainian refugees with translations in the future.
Thank you🇺🇦
@@Marina-dq8qw My pleasure! Ukrainian will be easy for me because I am from Bulgaria and speak some Slavic languages.
Great motivation 👏
@@Marina-dq8qw Thanks!
@@Helga2408❤❤
Hi mate, Im from De la india 🇮🇳 i speak Hindi bengali telugu and fluent español as a traditional guy i love spanish too much. You must also learn some indian languages like bangla hindi..
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御世話になりました
@@polyglotdreams はい
My 2024 pick is German. Being fluent in several latin languages and speaking Serbo-Croatian and Russian to a conversational level, I had considered starting Romanian this year, but I felt like I should challenge myself with something radically different. Not an easy one, though.
Anyway, this concept of "Gateway Language" is actually very important (and rarely pointed out). Thanks for the video!
Thanks all the best with your study of German.
My list of 10 is Spanish, French , Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Indonesian and Turkish. The reason I chose Dutch over German was because Dutch gives you the capability to later learn Indonesian and Afrikaans so it is a gateway language and once you learn your Indonesian it will take you to Tagalog because it has cognates and Loan words with Arabic Hindi and Dutch.
In addition to these languages I would say a good move for you next would be to include Interlingua and Interslavic as they can round out all of Europes and the Slavic languages greatly improving your capability with languages that you otherwise would have lesser experience in.
Turkish is kind of a Gateway language because combined with Russian Cyrillic alphabet it can give you a foot in the door on Mongolian.
I like the enthusiasm about Dutch, but as a fluent speaker of indonesian, I can tell you that learning Dutch just gives you a little bit of vocabulary. It is true that interslavic is widely understood by most slavic speakers. But very few people actually speak it, and if you only know Interslavic, it won't be easy to understand quite a few of islamic languages.
The so-called Russian language is an artificial language. It is used only in the former territories of the non-existent “union”. Although interest in an artificial language can only be within the framework of “you need to know the enemy’s language.”
@@mrs185And what is your proof??
Nice video but what about French? 🤔
Only one language from each family and Spanish won out.
That sounds fair, but isn't English in the same language family as German?
The most difficult languages are chinese and arabic. Chinese because of the writing system. Arabic because of the grammar. But I like both.
thank you so much
Please add Guinea Equatorial, the only afeican country that speaks Spanish
Thanks
Agreed with most of what you said except that Japanese can serve as a gateway language to Chinese and Vietnamese. IMHO Japanese can only serve as a gateway language to Korean since the two share a very similar grammar; both are SOV, both lack tones, and both are agglutinative, to name just a few of their commonalities. Whereas with Chinese and Vietnamese the differences are too huge and too many when compared to Japanese.
The Sino vocabulary in Japanese helps with learning nothing Vietnamese and Chinese.... and the head last structure of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese is the same. Please watch my video on the East Asian Cultural Sphere 🙏
Sir please make Japanese language learning course
That is a big challenge, but I can make a video about how to study Japanese.
@@polyglotdreams Thank sir
Very good presentation. I guess that language learning for most isn't worth it, too much effort for little compensation. So what you call "subjective factors" shokld dominate.
Were does Persian/Dari/Farsi fit in do you think? Number 11?
How about French? Do you have any personal hate feeling against French?
the background is Pattaya beach, isnt it?
what is the hardest and easiest language for you
The hardest is Hungarian, and the easiest is Spanish for me.
I wonder you put Japanese in top 10 languages Mystery.....howabout replacing her alternatively BAHASA INDONESIA. Japanese is exclusively used in Japan, further more Japanese can not be regarded as a Gateway language. Japan is geographically isolated island, no chance to stay connected with other bothering countries. Swahili can be in some sense acceptable though....wa i forgot you had a Japanese citizenship....
I respect your Subjectivity though!!!
Thank you.
Lol yes ...but still Japanese combined with Chinese helps greatly with Korean and Vietnamese.
In my opinion:
1. English
2. Mandarin Chinese
3. Spanish
4. French
5. Arabic
6. Hindi
7. Russian
8. Japanese
9. German
10. Portuguese
But I wanted only one Romance language
@@polyglotdreams aight
Was kind of hoping no. 1 would be Canadian.
😆 🤣
I am dumbfounded that French is nowhere on this list. French used to be the second most important language after English 50 years ago. French sure has lost ground
I chose Spanish over French, besides English only one language per sub family
I think you forgot portuguese, but it's ok. It's literally only spoken in Brazil and Portugal.
And Angola, Mozambique, cap vert, Sao tome et principe, Macau...
And also Guinée bisau, goa , east Timor...
Its actually on an international language different English 1, French 2, Spanish 3, Arabian 4, Russian 5, Chinese 6, German 7, Japanese 8, Portugese 9... Suaheli is nice but not importan
I want only these factors
Population
Difficulty
Politeness
And internet presence
Thanks for video. It is the most objective video about global languages I have seen, free from passions. Obvious dominion of English as lingua franca. Saludos desde España. 😊😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
What are your favourite languages?
Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Thai, Greek, Nepali...
what about french ?!?
Already had a Romance language... Spanish
@@polyglotdreamsyou already had English yet still included german
I understand that german isn't mutually understandable with English, but the same is true for french
french is hard for other romance speakers to understand, so learning spanish will help you speak with portuguese, catalan, italian speakers but not french speakers
Portuguese? Italian?
I only chose one language from each language family
CHINESE LANGUAGE, OF COURSE！
AFTER YOU LEARNED THE CHINESE LANGUAGE, YOU WOULD FIND OTHERS EAST ASIAN LANGUAGE ARE SO EASY
👍
Thanks
❤
Thanks
I thought learning five was herculean enough. Sheesh.
Thanks Sir, but you don't really need to explain the number 1, as if we don't know this number 1 language, we would simply have no way to understand what you are talking about 😅
Lol true but I followed the same pattern.
French?
I only chose one language from each language family and Spanish has a stronger argument
Nice video BUT the most important aspect, the elephant in the room, is learning a language for earning more money, thus having a better lifestyle. Let's be honest: we need it more than we want it. So it would be much appreciated to talk about what language is better to learn especially in Europe, job related, for 2024.
But, I did mention that aspect. The difficulty is that, to a great extent, it depends on your profession and where you want to work.
French is not on the list 😢
Only one from each language family...
@@polyglotdreams I know it got beaten out by Spanish.
La langue anglaise n'existe pas. C'est du français mal prononcé.
@@karlmiller5009 la langue Francaise n'existe pas. C'est du latin mal prononcé 😎
@@gaminginfrench fair enough
Don't forget, guys; English isn't the easiest language in the world, the easiest language in the world will depend on what language is your mothertongue. For a Spanish native, italian is easier than English. For a Russian native, Bielorrusia and other slavic languages are easier than English.
That thing of English being the easiest language is pure propaganda. 😉
French Japanese
No french?
French seams like it should be in the top 10. Presumably it was left it off to not have 2 romance languages, but he has 2 west germanic languages in English and German.
Yes, as you say.
"Mandarin is the second most used language on the internet" - is that the real internet, or the walled off sandbox that China is forced to play in?