How many languages do you speak? - Tallinn, Estonia
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- I went to Tallinn, my home capital to ask strangers how many languages they could speak. I must say even I was pretty surprised by the younger population...
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English and a bit of German
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Mine are 2, English and Filipino, but I would like to learn Spanish someday.
Русский и инглиш
3.00000001577652785 languages English, Arabic and itsby bit of Español and French and I hope to learn more like Chinook Wawa (the interesting language I learned), Italian, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Fresian (since Fresian and English are sisters) Turkish, Indonesian Korean, Vietnamese, Welsh and other languages before I dies of 105 years old in 2110 CE.
I notice the answer to this question depends sometimes on the personality of the people. Some people are shy and modest and some people are confident. Some people would not say they 'spoke' a language unless they were really confident in that language and others would happily tell you they 'speak' that language just because they'd done a bit of DuoLingo and/or could say a few phrases.
Yeah, had a similar thought during this video. If I only counted native level, I could say 2 but if I thought like some US Americans seem to, I could (wrongly imo) say 7 ^^
tldr - dunning kruger :D
that boy who said he spoke portuguese doesnt, he took like 3 or 4 classes in duolingo and didnt even retain the information in them, he said "Eu karl" wich doesnt mean "im karl" but yes "I Karl" and he also said português wrong, he ignored the ^
I am Estonian. I will say I speak a language when I can freely manage in that language. Whatever I wanted to manage: a conversation, also a more complicated one, understand a movie etc. So I know 4 languages. I have also learned 4 others but I would not really count them.
I wish Estonians all forgot Russian. Just woke up one day and not remember it. That would be cool. That would also bring a lot of changes in the society because the reason so many Russians can afford to just know Russian is that Estonians will switch very easily to whatever foreign language. If we just forgot Russian (which eventually will happen anyway) those 300 000 people would have to start making an actual effort and start integrating. Or leaving.
I am upper advanced level in Dutch and advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper intermediate level in Norse and German and upper beginner level in Gothic and Faroese and Danish and Slovene and Hungarian and Latin and a few others and mid intermediate level in Welsh and Swedish and Portuguese and Italian and French and beginner level in most other target languages, plus I am writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish which are my first two languages that I’ve been learning passively since childhood, and I only started learning languages on my own a bit over one year ago, like sixteen or seventeen months ago, though I didn’t learn anything for three months during those months, because I took three one-month breaks, but I am learning most of my target languages at the same time, and I have over fifty target languages, even though I’ve been focusing on Norse languages and modern Celtic languages the most because they are the prettiest languages ever that are as pretty as English, so I can already understand almost everything in many types of sentences, even in related languages that I haven’t focused so much on, so in a few years I’ll be fluent in multiple languages that I’ve been prioritizing a lot and intermediate or advanced level in multiple other target languages, as I am a full-time language learner, so I spend all day or all night learning new words and constantly revising previously learnt words, as each word must be seen and heard and revised at least thirty times over a longer period of time for each word to become automatic and permanent!
Norse and Icelandic and Gothic are also the most alpha languages ever and some of the languages that are the most fun to learn and speak, plus they have super easy pronunciation like English, so they are a must-know for all learners, but all other Norse / Germanic / Celtic languages are also very pretty, so they are all great options, and I am learning them all!
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish etc fluently as they are way too pretty not to know and are the most poetic and the most heavenly and the most refined languages with the best letter combinations and the prettiest word endings and the coolest sound patterns and sounds and pronunciation rules that are so modern and amazing, and Middle English and Forn Svenska and Óld English are also super gorgeous, plus they are all easy category 1 languages with words that are naturally very easy to memorize, so one can learn many of them at the same time, and Hungarian is also a pretty language with mostly pretty words and is a category 2 language, and Latin / Galician / Catalan / Gallo / Occitan / Portuguese are some of the prettiest Latin languages, and Slovene and Latvian are the prettiest Slavic languages, which are very easy like Germanic languages and Hungarian, so they are way better options than Russian and other Slavic languages, so I recommend learning the prettiest and pretty languages 2gether, instead of languages such as Chinese languages and Japanese which are impossible category 10 languages that have mostly non-pretty words and most other languages and languages such as Russian (category 5) and Arabic (which is category 9 as all other Arabic languages) which are also very overrated and just avrg because they don’t have mostly pretty words and mostly pretty word endings and only have a few pretty words and a few pretty word endings!
I speak Russian as native, Polish fluently and a bit of English. I'm Russian myself and surprised how many languages a lot of Estonians know. That's cool, respect.
вот это да русский говорит по русски, в африканских джунглях родится дети наши один хер будут по-русски говорить
Russian - это не этнос, это национальность. Московские узбеки формально тоже russians, но по-русски многие из них не говорят или говорят посредственно. Так что это был душный доёб школьника, я считаю.@@TheOleegee
As native english speaker, for 'a bit' of english, your grammar is quite good. Using 'I'm Russian myself' instead of 'I'm Russian' is pretty advanced for non-native speakers. Fair play mate
Thanks, pal! I really appreciate the compliment. Many of educated young Russians below 30 yo have at least B2. It's gettin' normal to have English as L2 even in post-soviet countries.@@treywood5805
Small nations have always been good at languages. Because, as opposed to big nations who think they own or should own the world and everyone will speak their language, small nations have no desire to own the world. So they will cherish their own language first and foremost, while learning a lot of other languages because life is just richer that way. Russian, however, has been forced on us,. and still is. Because, even though it is not a compulsory foreign language in schools anymore (it is just compulsory to learn 3 foreign languages at school, which ones, is a student"s own choice) but we have a big number of Russian teachers from soviet times and they still work in schools (you cannot fire them simply because they know the unpopular language) and schools still offer Russian as an option. And some schools do not offer anything other that English and Russian, so there might not be much of a choice. Or it might be hard to fit the language offered by the school in the time table if the Spanish teacher only comes twice a week at a certain time and time would not fit you.
But this generation will eventually retire and there definitely will not be a huge number of Russian teachers coming from universities anymore, and Russian will soon be taken over by other foreign languages. French and Spanish are popular, Scandinavian languages also. And wierdly Asian languages like Japanese and Chinese. It beats me, why ..
What an interesting country! I'd love to visit Estonia, seems lovely.
I absolutely agree. Beautiful, interesting and intelligent people.
It looks like West Europe. I wouldnt have told it is Estonia. It is beautiful
unlike west europe estonia is fairly safe@@zoltanszego5059
You thought Estonia would be ugly? An eastern, ex-soviet country? Yes, a lot of people have this preconception of us but we re very different from it. We are a nice, clean, safe, free and well-to-do-country living the best time in our entire history right now.
A fun fact: there are 49 languages in the world (out of 10 000 languages) that functions as literary languages, languages of administration, higher education, culture and science. Only 49. And Estonian is one of them. So, even though we are so tiny, we are one of the healthiest cultures in the world. And it is our language that has given us a very strong sense of identity which became a basis of everything else, that eventually resulted in independence that we have also managed to maintain. And always will. We have always been very beautiful, in terms of everything. Now we simply have it all to ourselves.@@zoltanszego5059
I live in Estonia. Nice country!
Interesting seeing kids learning languages just out of interest! Duolingo may not be enough to make you fluent, but it´s great that it makes people get into language learning.
I am fluent in Russian (my mother tongue) and English (have lived in the USA and studied/worked for many years using it exclusively). I have intermediate German (because I live in a German-speaking location now) and understand a lot of Spanish (that's the family language of my husband) and a bit of Catalan (my husband is bilingual and I hear this language a lot as well, also we go to Catalonia often). I can understand pretty well Ukrainians and Belarusian but I cannot speak (my family is a mix of Russian/Ukranian/Belarusian folks). Currently I am working on my German (did my B1 exam, but it is a hard language). I would love to learn more of Spanish, because of my family and I love Spanish music. I would love to be able to read Spanish classic literature.
What's cool about Slavic languages is if you learn one you can pick out words and phrases from others.
German guy here, Estonia and especially Tallinn always seem so beautiful to me, I'd really love to visit once maybe. Looks like you're really gonna get along quite well with english in Estonia, and even German doesn't seem that uncommon! Being able to speak multiple languages is really cool and always a huge plus :)
Sauberkeit lässt sich grundsätzlich zweifelsohne beobachten
I'm fluent in English and Russian, and now I'm trying to learn Polish, which is not that hard because it's quite similar to Russian
Tallinn seems like a nice place to just walk around for a while.
Tallinn has some of the most beautiful old town in Europe in my opinoin( and I have travelled all over Europe) but Tallinns old town is just soo magical...especially in wintertime
i live in estonia and i can confirm the old town is very lovely at winter.(i have traveled a lot so i know other places too but estonia is the best)
You can’t imagine how it is🙏💙
It is
Awesome video! Need more videos like this! Next time you could ask people which countries they have been to and which they liked more.
I speak Komi (native), Russian, English. Can hold a conversation in Udmurt language, but never learned it properly. Also I know basics of Estonian and Finnish.
Living in Tartu btw.
respect for keeping the finnic languages alive!
Wow, what a beautiful country Estonia is. And there is such beautiful people, I would love to visit. Greetings from your brothers in the south, Macedonia 🇲🇰🧡🇪🇪
thx :))
@@petrograd_pelmeni of course 😁
@andrejspasvelk233 beautiful until the racial mixing starts 😏
I send you much love from Estonia 🇪🇪. 👋
Macedonia is located in Greece
Imagine a soldier asking you questions about language while holding a camera.
yes
@@Zimbaxyou don't really need to imagine you can look just in a mirror
in the US they would point a gun at you instead
Dont get that comment.
@@williamkeitaro8910 and then ask for a gay parade😂😂
I'm pretty happy to see so many Estonians interested in learning Spanish! I would really like to visit Estonia one day, greetins from Spain :) 🇪🇦
thx tho!
@@petrograd_pelmeni :))
No surprises, Spain occupied whole Central and South America
@@Timka5 bro thinks i don’t know history
@@Timka5 it doesn’t matter
In Sovyet times many people in Tallinn and northern parts of Estonia could receive also Finnish tv-signal. and that's why older people speak Finnish well. For many years after gaining back the independence, we could get service in Finnish when visiring Tallinn. Now the young speak English instead. Sad for us Finns but good that they can choose whoch language to learn.
They still have free access to YLE TV channels
As a citizen of Singapore it is quite shocking to see the people of my country visiting estonia. I would also like to visit estonia in the future because it is really beautiful:))) I can speak english , chinese, japanese, french, german , abit of spanish and learning russian. Ma armastan Eestit!! :))
You are more than welcome mate 🇪🇪 . 👋
Great video - aitäh! I loved Estonia when I visited - I was amazed at the fact virtually everyone could speak fluent English (even out in the countryside and on the islands), but as a farmer told me on Saaremaa, the Estonians have always had to use other languages to communicate with the outside world as so few people speak their language. But I am particularly impressed with the kids in your video, many of whom seem to be learning a language on Duolingo as well as learning others at school!
I myself can only speak English fluently - as is the case for most English people - but I do speak a little German and Dutch, and I understand a little French. I wish I was more like the people in your video!
Thank you for such insightful comment
Estonians speak a lot of languages. We have three compulsory foreign languages at school: A, B and C. One starts in 1/2 grade, the second in 6 grade and third in 10 grade. These are just the compulsory languages, one can choose to learn more. What these languages are, is up to the student and the school (as to what teachers they have on their pay-roll. Usually they have English teachers and also Russian teachers, because of the Soviet times when Russian was compulsory) The students choose their own languages, but there has to be at least three. Most learn English. That is followed probably by Russian because it is still easily available and therefore the easy way to take, easier to fit into timetables and such, or German. So the either Russian or German being the B or C language. Sometimes also French, Swedish, Finnish.
All small nations speak foreign languages. The Danes and Scandinavians in general etc. Because we have to. Unless we want to limit all of our lives to just a million people. Don't get me wrong, we have a lot in our language: literature, science, entertainment .... But we still want more, so we have to know languages. Foreign languages have always been very important in our education system, belonging to the so-called core-subjects (with Math and Estonian), although the concept of any subject being more important than some other is against our education-philosophy, but a lot of people still categories them like this.
People over 50 or so in Estonia do not speak English that well
Как же прекрасно, когда языки объединяют людей с разных уголков этого необъятного мира❤
Tha cànanan brèagha
❤🏴
Well, we definitely don't want your language in our country!
It's very nice to hear people still want to learn Russian. I am from Russia myself, but also have relatives in Estonia (they live not far from Tallinn, in the city called Kehra). Besides other Finno-Ugric languages I would love to learn Estonian too ❤ It is a lovely language.
I hope to visit this country one day. Unfortunately, my trip in 2020 was cancelled due to the covid, and I still haven't had any chance to go there.
Лучше финский
You are not allowed to visit Estonia. And perhaps you will never be. Because of russophobia I guess
@@Badass_gunslinger I personally don't care about nazis' opinion. There are always a certain % of bad people in all countries.
@@krosh970 финский тоже рассматриваю, и у меня в Финляндии тоже родственники есть 😅 Думаю, как закончу с немецким (хотя бы на уровне В2), то начну потихоньку финский.
@@paulm6529 лучше английский
Bulgarian, Russian, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, English, Arabic and Macedonian
Interesting fact. There are more Pakistanis in this video than I have seen in real life in the last 35 years😅 Hello from Tallinn))
As a Pakistan myself, i'm shellshocked at the amount of Pakistanis in Estonia, i've never heard of us even visiting Estonia let alone living there, greetings from Karachi))
I love Estonia and Finland , and is good to see that people in Tallin are interested in spanish language , i visited Estonia and Finland in 2009 and was amazed how friendly the people is , Tallin is becoming the technological capital of Europe so people master the english language very well , I m a newbie in finnish language but I also want to know some estonian , good video , greetings from Spain.
Estonian is a very beautiful language to listen to :)
Sending a lot of Love from Ukraine.
beatiful languages are that songs sound nice...to be true-estonian,finn,norwegian,polish,german and a lot of sounds not so nice ..its not for symphaty or antiphaty...just it is...
Приятные люди, красивый город, мечтаю когда-нибудь посетить Таллин, но видимо не в этой жизни.
Что так? помирать собрались?
Войны и конфликты заканчиваются. Будет возможность- приезжайте! У нас очень красиво и в Таллинне, и в Эстонии вообще😉
@@alexeysemenov9762 после всего что произошло мне будет стыдно что не остановил, хотя и возможностей у меня не было, я сраный провинциал
Будучи в Тайланде (Koh Phangan) кстати познакомился с ребятами из Таллина, близкая моему существу компания, привет вам если прочитаете) Вы спасли моё сознание в тот день, точнее утро. Тёплые приветы из холодной Сибири)
@@mixat86 🤡
@@mixat86, ну если вы лично принимали решение о начале сво, то может быть вам и есть чего стыдится. А пока вам можно постыдится только своего скудоумия :/
I speak Russian and English fluently, I understand Tatar speech (I live in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia), but speaking it is difficult for me.I’ve also been learning Swedish for a long time, and recently started learning German❤
Нечасто встретишь людей которые разговаривают на шведском русском. Bra för dig jag pratar också svenska, kämpa på!
@@egorbro6288 pratar du bara svenska eller bor i Sverige ?
I speak Danish (native), Estonian (I have been living half of my life in Estonia), English, Italian, French, German, Swedish (very similar to Danish) and some Russian. Of course I also understand Norwegian which is even more similar to Danish and I read some Latvian.
Kristus det er sgu mange sprog
@@theshitposterandthebanana Sentences like these are simple enough for most Finnish people to understand, even though I was an inch from failing Swedish throughout middle school
@@horsma2064Isn't that Norwegian?
@@_nurmi06 Yes!
Quand quelqu'un dit qu'il parle français je veux dire à quel point il est capable de communiquer dans cette langue. Aucune jour ne se passe sans que je ne l'étudie et pourtant j'admets qu'il est toujours de la merde et je dirais pas que je le parle. Arrêtes de nous prendre pour des cons.
I can speak Hindi, English, Bengali, A little bit of Dutch and also learning Russian without even finishing Dutch course😅....
I love learning language and it resulted in the only exceptional thing to do on my bad days. No matter how i will feel i will never stop learning language. It is just fun to know the cultures after learning their language i guess....
hoi, ik leer nederlands ook, leert je van duolingo? want ik doe
Veel succes met Nederlands! Het is een lastige taal.
@@ratlab1741 Nee, ik nederlands geleert van youtube.
Даже не знал, что в Эстонии столько русскоговорящих 👍🏻
Эстония очень красивая
yes because estonia was part of the soviet union
@@aries.- Fortunately, it was, and will never become again.
В Таллине у 30+ % населения русский родной, в Риге у 50+%
@marit3079ну посмотрим, ватник😂
@marit3079поскорее бы. Не хочу чтобы вы говорили на русском 🤮
Russian natively, English fluently, German passively, European Portuguese _very_ passively, and couple-three more languages Duolingually 😁
@@godakuncaitiene7247 bless your little heart, missy
@@godakuncaitiene7247 в чем вообще смысл твоего комментария?
@@Wowegable Девушко троллит.
@@godakuncaitiene7247удали этот кринж бл
As a Japanese it astonished me so much how Estonian people could speak many languages😮 If you interview in Japan it would be sooo boring one and nobody speak more than two languages… I love a place where everyone are multilingual❤
Anime/manga is very popular in Estonia so a lot of us understand/speak Japanese too :)
Let it be the languages, I'm well familiar with:
- Russian;
- English;
- German;
- Korean;
- Italian;
- Turkish;
- Ukranian,
Nice to know that Estonias speak many different languages and they keep learning Russian. Props to them for that!
@marit3079 the video you post your comment under proves just the opposite. Get a life, dude!
@marit3079 because?>
@marit3079 It’s not for you to decide who is useless and who is not
@marit3079 I don't know how your Russian is but your English definitely needs more practicing as to what you've texted here so far.
@marit3079 as for being 'useful', you're definitely doing a 'huge' job trying to cancel one of the 6 official languages of the UN writing your own bs history but you'll never succeed.
Любимый Таллинн! Как приятно и грустно видеть знакомые улицы. Были много раз, и всегда красиво и интересно! Замечательные люди! Надеюсь, что еще удастся снова там побывать!
Native: Russian, Tatar/Uyghur
B2-C1: English
A2: Spanish
A1: French
It's interesting how multi-lingual people in Europe are. You would have a hard time finding anyone who speaks more than just English where i'm from in rural Ontario, Canada.
The same happens here in Brazil, the vast majority of Brazilians, especially from the interior, only speak Portuguese.
OILERZ TILL I DIE 118 Balkan Connection
Я очень удивлен, что так много людей в Эстонии знают немецкий! Фантастика! И очень, кстати, приятные люди. Хотел бы посетить Эстонию.
Эстония всю свою историю находится под влиянием России и Германии
испанский тоже очень популарный здесь среди эсотнистов
I turned 13 today and I can speak Spanish, catalan, English, french and italian. Love you from Barcelona Zimbax❤❤❤
I am only fluent in two languages. German and English. I would like to learn Spanish with duolingo but I struggle to find the time to do so. Love from Germany
If I may offer some advice: the best way to really learn a language is to just immerse yourself in it, i.e. read Spanish books, watch Spanish shows (or these things in Spanish, I should say) as soon as possible. Duolingo may give you some starting point but I'm not sure it gets you all that far. At least if it's still the same as when I tried it out some years ago. I feel like something like the University of Reykjavik's free Icelandic beginner course online would be a great starting point to then learn by immersion after. But I have no idea if sth like that exists for Spanish (free of charge, I mean).
@@MellonVegan I actually started using duolingo recently and I plan on maybe watching spanish TH-cam videos. I was thinking of something like Kurzgesagt in a nutshell or something. I guess shows or books are good ideas too. Thanks 👍
I can speak 3 languages fluently. They are: Armenian, Russian and English of course.
I think that’s enough to travel and communicate with people from whole over the world:)
Te falta el español
@@melmartinez3575Spanish are useless
Only about 200 million speak the other 2 though, so that would mean the entire world speaks English, which they don't of course
I’m going to Estonia next summer I can’t wait! 🇪🇪💪🏻
Its amazing how almost everyone knows at least 2 or 3 languages. Here in North America theres not really a point of learning a 2nd one but Europes so diverse that would be surprisingly useful.
I am a native of the US. There is always reason to learn another language. I love speaking to others in languages other than English, I really hate the stereotype that we only speak one language. I grew up w/ German Grandparents and have a lot of Spanish speaking friends thankfully.
@@Arthur5260 its always annoying when people are speaking other languages around me tho
@@Duckyosis I get that.
As a Brazilian, I think it's because Europe has many small states and people move so much from one country to another, making it easier to learn several languages.
Nas americanas isto não acontece muito, a maior parte dos EUA e o Canadá fala-se inglês e francês, já no resto da América Latina o que domina é o espanhol e o português 🤷
Very inspiring. I speak German, a bit of Spanish and am a native English speaker. I would love to learn Estonian.
Ma räägin minu emakeel - Portugali keelt, Inglise, Prantsuse, Hispaania, Saksa ja natuke Eesti keelt.
Ma elan Tallinnas 😄
We need more videos on this topic! what languages do you speak, Zimbax?
Estonian, spanish, english
Estonians are very smart people! I'm inspired after watching this video, a lot of people speak so many languages. I'm from Russia and I want to leave my home country... I started learning English 8 months ago, and I see my very good results. Also I know a bit of Norwegian and when I heard the guy who speaks Swedish said "I love Tallin" I understood that because Norwegian and Swedish are similar languages
How quite easy is to understand Estonian if I know Finnish 😃🔥
The language of my ancestors was Karelian but unfortunately I don't speak it. So Estonians are like "relatives" to me ❤
Let's hope Karelia will be free one day :)
Swedish, Finnish and English fluently. I have studied German for 5 years and understand it very well, but I haven't had many opportunities to practice speaking it lately, so I'm a bit rusty with that. I studied a bit of Spanish as a kid and that stuck way better than the French I picked up in uni 😅 I understand spoken and written Norwegian and written Dutch and Danish. I have picked up a phrase or two in Russian as well, but I can't hold a conversation in Russian.
äijä oikeesti kuunteli ruotsin tunneilla... smh
@@jes3d Ei se niin vaikeeta oo, varsinkin jos osaat englantii :D
@JUMALATION1 ik spreek een beetje Zweeds, ik kan Noors en Duits redelijk goed verstaan, en mijn Engels is bijna zo goed als mijn Nederlands 😉
@@DouweBuruma I'm happy that I understood everything you wrote. But don't ask me to pronounce it in Dutch though 🤣
Mulle englanti o helppo ja puhun sitä melkei joka päivä mut ruotsist ei tuu mitää 😂@@JUMALATION1
I am learning French and hope to learn German in the future. I love your videos! 😃✨💖
My languages are the following:
- Italian - native language
- English - second language
- Japanese - a hobby that I have but I'm nowhere as good to have a casual conversation.
- French, Spanish, Portuguese - I didn't really study, but I can manage them (being all similar to Italian)
- plus various bits from German, Dutch, Polish
Oh yeah, that's another thought I had as well. If you speak enough similar languages, you start understanding a lot more of them without speaking them, so the answer for basic comprehension is very different than it is for being able to actively speak it. E.g. I have no real trouble understanding (certain dialects of) Frisian or Low German/Saxon without any exposure but also no idea how to speak them properly. Yiddish, too. Also once met an Italian who spoke French (but no English) and I spoke Spanish (but no Italian). It kinda worked. And you can communicate with most Romance speakers using Medieval Latin (although my Latin is atrocious, thank you German school system). So anyways, it's complicated.
as a portuguese speaker i also understand some basic things in italian and french, maybe even romanian, but with spanish its pretty much as if they were speaking portuguese, 90% of the things being said in spanish portuguese ppl will understand, wich is pretty much all u need to understand fully what someone is saying, but i heard a bunch of times that it doesnt go the other way, spanish people have a harder time understanding portuguese speakers, mostly Portugal portuguese
I speak Urdu as my native language, I also speak English fluently and I am currently learning French. On Duolingo ofcourse
Urdu is a beautiful language.
Polish (native), English (mostly fluent), learning Spanish and Estonian.
I can speak four languages:
-German, because I live here,
-Russian, because my family is mostly from Belarus,
-English because of school and social media,
-and a bit of spanish from school.
Btw love your channel zimbax, keep up the good work💪
Privet, Bulba!
@@godakuncaitiene7247 ❤🇧🇾
It is immeasurably sad that there's no Belarusian in the list considering the roots of the family.
@@rollerknobster Because Belarusians in most cases do not speak Belarusian, it is an endangered language
Estonian, English, Russian, less fluent in German, Polish and Ukrainian.
Would love to see more vids like this!
Love hearing the Estonian language. Stayed in the old town for two weeks many years ago and found it very hard to find anyone who spoke Estonian.
When a Dane sees a clickbait with the Danish flag he has to watch it
Marathi - 100% (mothertongue)
Hindi - 100% (National languege)
English - 95% (i watch almost half of the content on youtube in eng.)
Urdu - 50%(i cant write urdu but i can understand and speak it very well)
Spanish - 50% (i learned on duolingo but never watched content in it)
And i barely understand Langueges like Gujrati , Panjabi , konkani .
Мои друзья и родственники из Латвии, Эстонии, Украины, Финляндии и Узбекистана:
отлично знают свой родной язык, русский лучше некоторых носителей и бегло говорят по-английски. Это минимум! 😎
Я, освоивший только один язык в своей жизни(родной), и тот не до конца: Ы 😁👍🏻👍🏻
Ukrainian beggar
Клёвая фамилия, кстати! ))))@semensemenov9400
@semensemenov9400хрюк
Доброго времени суток! А почему не до конца и что Вам мешает исправить эту ситуацию? Учиться не когда не поздно я в свои 47 начала учить английский почему бы и нет Удачи Вам! Рига Латвия
@semensemenov9400poor sema
Удивлен, как много людей говорят на русском, учитывая наши отвратительные отношения.
@marit3079 достаточно примитивная и жалкая попытка оскорбить на корявом английском, указывающая лишь на недостаток интеллекта человекообразной особи. Продолжаем наблюдения.
Русский язык это прежде всего язык межнационального общения. Так уж вышло, он не принадлежит путину.
Думаю это всё только потомки этнических русских-украинцев-белорусов, которые там оказались со времён СССР
@@deniromanovskaya8103 он не принадлежит путину и не принадлежит соевым релокантам вроде тебя, успокойся. Ты вообще никто и ничто.
@@Myname-pn3xk дружище, ты бы вместо написания бесполезных комментов, открыл хотя бы википедию. Эстония по большей своей части была в составе России 300 лет. Это по сути уникальный исторический отрезок для этих территорий, когда там отменяют и делают малопривлекательным русский язык.
I can speak Hungarian, English, Swedish and Afrikaans:) Can also speak some Finnish.
But I also like learning other languages for fun :))
Estonia might be a wonderful country, I hope one day visit it and be a little bit fluent in in Estonian that day. Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽🫂🇪🇪
Oh, new format! ❤
I am a local Estonian, like others I speak daily Estonian, but of course like others I speak English too. But since I am from multilingual family, I do speak Russian almost as well as English. I understand a bit Finnish and German (learned at school but don’t use much). I watch Korean dramas, so some sentences and words are familiar, but I do like also French, and wouldn’t mind to learn more Swedish.
I remember about 8 years ago i was in Italy with my husband and in the smaller store workers (not elders) couldn’t help us, since they didn’t understand english 😅.
A big " Ola' ,amigo "| for that kid that is learning Portuguese .
Duolingo só ensina brasileiro 😕
German (Native). Very good English. A little bit of French (from school).
I want to learn Estonian!
Your Estonian Voice sounds completly different from your English voice wow!
Help Duolingo add Estonia PLEASE!
YES! Please add Estonian language Duolingo.
PETITION TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Please help me. @@Arthur5260
Duolingo is not a good resource to learn a new language from, especially not a language like Estonian which has complex grammar. Read free Estonian learning books online instead.
@@tsoii Well, Duolingo already has Hungarian… I mean, how harder can it get?
@@dvv18And Finnish, which is much closer to Estonian than Hungarian
Hi Zimbax, I'm first time in Tallinn. This city beautiful. Tomorrow we are going to the middle of the city. You are the best geography TH-camr. I speak Slovak, Spanish and English
amazing! good luck!
Are you a native Slovak
@@Sceptonic Yes
I speak three. I'm from the UK so my native language is English. I've also taught myself Polish, my wife is Polish and we speak mainly Polish at home. We also live in Norway and are both conversational in Norwegian. I was learning Finnish for a while, and can hear the similarities when I hear Estonian, especially the numbers. Now I'm learning French and Arabic, mainly on duolingo.
That's cool you learned polish not many foreigners bother to learn it so thanks
I can speak Russian (native), English (fluent), Polish (fluent), Serbian/Croatian (almost fluent).
Used to learn Finnish and German.
Great video! Hope to see more un the future!
I'm an italian mother tongue who can fluently speak english and feels comfortable in cursing and swearing in spanish and french.
I'm fluent in Estonian and English. In school I studied Russian but wasn't very motivated to learn at the time and didn't really study or immerse myself in the language during my free time so I quickly forgot most of what I had learned after graduating. Been currently learning Danish for a few years and I'm close to a B1 level at that. Still having a hard time understanding what's being said during conversations and forgetting words when I panic so the talking side is holding me back a bit.
Love the video my Fathers Family are all from Estonia as my Grandparents were both born there, thanks for sharing bits of Estonia
Languages I speak fluently: Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, English. Languages I speak well: Norwegian, German, languages I speak less well, but can hold a conversation in: French, Spanish, Dutch. Languages I can read and understand but not real have conversations in, but can use basic courtesy chats and shopping: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Arabic. Currently studying Finnish, Polish and Ukrainian
Доброго времени суток! Вау браво Вы большой молодец удачи Вам в изучении языков и старайтесь не забывать остальные браво!!! Рига Латвия
Now I want to visit Estonia, what a beautiful place 😍
Wow🎉
I can only speak 2 languages fluently (German and English), but I'm also currently learning Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Estonian and Latvian
As an Estonian young boy i can speak: fluently- Estonian, English/little bit- Russian, Finnish, French learnt all by myself. So 5 languages in total.
Native: Portuguese
C1: English
B2: German, Spanish
B1: French, Catalan
A2: Swedish, Dutch
I am from tamilnadu! The region in india in which we speak Tamil. I speak tamil, English, Hindi and learning Spanish
Fluently: Dutch and English (American)
Less fluent: French and German
Learning (Basics): Finnish and Norwegian
I can Finnish, English, Swedish, German and Italian well, but probably Portguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian and Estonian maybe somehow.
I as an Swede is pleastly surprised there are still Swedish speakers in Estonia. Sweden had Estonia for about 100 years but the ruskies took that away and most Swedish speakers fled when the soviets came to Estonia. I speak 2 fluently and Yo Estudio español en el collegio.
I learn Swedish.
@@JustOneGirl81 Very cool!
I’m Canadian but speak Finnish cause my parents are from there and I’m learning Swedish, it’s an awesome language!
Actually quite a lot of Estonians have some Swedish ancestry, especially in Western and Northern Estonia. Most coastal areas were bilingual Estonian and Swedish for a long time, so it's not surprising. By the way, some Estonian Swedes were able to stay here despite of everything.
I am Swedish from my mother side from 1600. My long long time grandfather was a Swedish knight. :D (I live in Tallinn)
I was born in Tallinn, lived in a town nearby called Kehra. Will always love this country and its native people. Even though I don't speak Estonian very well.
I’ve been trying so hard as an American to find a way to learn Estonian, any online courses you could recommend me? Love to Estonia 💙
Also I know Russian and English, (and some Spanish)
Come here
@@Zimbax Hong Kong to Tallinn is quite a distance...
I speak Spanish, English and French and I'm fluent in all of them. I started learning Euskara (the language of the Basque country) but I had to stop attending these classes because I was really busy.
I speak Danish, English and Norwegian.
I am pretty good at swedish
and I'm curently trying to learn German and Finnish
I am amazed that so many people know more than 2-3 languages. Duolingo is quite popular as i noticed :)
Greetings to Estonia, streets looks lovely. I'd love to visit one day.
I speak 6 languages
It is complicated, cause I have 2 native languages (I was born in Poland and live here, but I was raised in a Lithuanian family), so
Native Lithuanian and Polish
Fluent in English
Communicative French, Ukrainian and Russian
Would that make you... Polish-Lithuanian?
@@RohitKulan nah, thats Lithuanian-Polish. Polish-Lithuanian is a person of Polish origins living in Lithuania
@@romxpl4885 I was trying to make a reference to the Polish Lithuanian Empire, but that's good to know
I can speak ukrainian, russian, english and little bit of polish. How languages do you speak, Zimbax?
3
@@Zimbax and what languages can u speak?
Living in Estonia all my life, so:
Estonian - Since state language
English - Basically internet
Russian - Cause I am Russian..
A little bit know in other languages, but mostly one, two or some sentences. If we count how many words from different languages I know words then 3+6.
Tervist Tartust.
I can speak English, Slovak, Czech and Hungarian. And to be honest some Estonian words are similar to Hungarian.
I'm Finnish and I would like to learn some Estonian at some point. Much love to our southern neighbours❤ I speak three languages right now, Finnish, English and Swedish. I also studied French at school but I'm not very good at it, just basics really.
I can speak Estonian and English fluently, and a little bit of Russian, Chinese and German.
Так приятно видеть родные улочки Таллина, и в принципе приятно осознавать что видео из Эстонии попадают в рекомендации ❤️
I can speak romanian(native), english(fluent), german(not bad, not great), a bit italian, a bit spanish, a bit more french. Mostly 3, I guess.
Love from Romania!!
Edit: Îmi place Estonia!("I like Estonia" in romanian)
I am a Tatar (Republic of Tatarstan in Russia) and speak only two languages - Tatar and Russian, both are native
I can speak 4 or 5 languages
German, Swiss German (depending on if you want to count that as a language or not) and Japanese. I grew up with all of them as thats what my parents speak. English because of course, the internet and French from school but this one is way worse than my other languages :(
Also know some basic Chinese but wouldn't count that
Hello, I'm from in a Kazakhstan, I speak in Russian, English and a Kazakh languages, something in Ukrainian languages)
It’s cute that Estonians and Finns call German “saksa“ when it’s actually only just a region in Germany.😄
Jesus christ how much estonian sounds like finnish, i can honestly say almost understood everything with no problem like u were speaking finnish
I honestly didn't expected for children to know russian... I heard that younger generation in Baltic countries don't know russian well (but im not sure)
And... Is it what happening with russian embassy? 6:35
I thought the same.
Most younger generations speak Estonian and English fluently. Some can speak Russian too, but usually they are the ones whose one parent or grandparent(s) are Russian.
I assure you, they do not know Russian at all unless at least one of the parents is Russian. In this video, it seemed many messed up knowing and learning (or trying to learn). Children can choose to learn it in school, but I have seen closely how difficult and hopeless case it is. Those who choose Germany instead are much more successful.
As a german i am impressed that many estonians can speak german. Huge Respect 🇩🇪❤🇪🇪
Ничего удивительного, почитайте историю
I'm Finnish and the Estonian language sounds very funny to me. I am suprised how much I understand. Love from Finland❤
No, Finnish is funny. Like a really drunk Estonian trying to speak
@@HelenGolovina-y9h😂😂😂
I can speak Bulgarian (native) and English at a really high level; I also know some very basic German which I've already started forgetting since I stopped practicing it after graduating high school