Why Your Personality Changes When Speaking Another Language
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If you speak another language (or more than one), you've probably noticed that you feel different than you do when speaking your native language. This is actually a phenomenon shared by most language learners, and even by polyglots like Language Simp, plus a few of my own Spanish students. Here you can hear their perspectives on this personality shift and gain some knowledge about why this occurs when speaking a language other than your own. Thank you for watching, you're awesome :) New videos every Saturday.
👋 Hola, I'm Nate. I used to not know any Spanish at all, and I had no interest in learning the language. I thought learning Spanish would be boring, a waste of time, and would provide no value to my life. Then I started taking Spanish classes in high school and everything changed for me. I struggled with learning the language a lot at first, but thanks to my teachers and my Spanish speaking friends, they helped make the learning process fun. Within a few months, I had gotten to a conversational level, but more important, I had become a more confident person. The real win for me, though, was the friendships I made and strengthened. I discovered that not only did I have higher self esteem, but being out in the real world with people, whether old friends or new ones I met, made me feel more alive and connected with the world around me. Now it's my goal to create videos that make you smile and inspire you to learn Spanish or another language!
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0:00 Intro
0:33 - Language Simp!
0:50 - My Experience
2:00 - My Student's Perspective
2:20 - Friedrich Wilhelm
3:00 - Introverts vs. Extroverts
3:45 - Cultural Influence
5:50 - Linguistic Nuance
6:50 - Communication Styles
7:20 - Proficiency
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Nate I love you're trending on the use of 'oftentimes' but isn't 'often' just easier? I don't know why this is becoming such a trend now 🤦
The only reason you smile in Spanish is because you are thinking of her arse
When ever I speak Spanish with my family a notice that I am a more calm a quiet person but with my friends when I speak English I am impatient and loud. This is just something interest about life
what is your native language i am curious
Yess that is me so me
@@smalls5001 sorry for responding a little late but it is Spanish I am not from the USA I am from Mexico
@@destinyberg0903you are not me because I am Batman and there is only one Batman
For me it is the complete opposite
That's because you embraced the culture, bud!
What if I like the language, but i give a damn about the culture?
@@marco2771
Good question I like it
@marco2771 it's lame
One weird thing that happens to me is when I speak english, my voice pitch is significantly deeper compared to when I speak my mother tongue (portuguese) and I dont know why
same as a french
Listen to Nate, the same thing happens to him haha I think that depending on the language you use certain parts of your throat more or something
Because you subconsciously would prefer to have a deeper voice. When you learn to pronounce the sounds of a foreign language, you've got a blank slate to train your voice how you'd like it.
Hola, estoy aquí por Language Simp. 😊
I honestly feel the same person in both languages
And l certainly don't feel more romantic when speaking spanish
So I think that depends on how you perceive yourself.
I have this as a Dutch speaker with Japanese. I became more 'accurate' then I already was in my personality. When I studied 🇧🇷 Portuguese for a bit I became more open and was really enjoying speaking the language.
I'm B2 for Spanish and French. The people I'm around who speak Spanish are mainly Cuban. And maybe it's because we joke about stuff in English, it's funnier in Spanish. I learned a word off of Netflix and asked about it. It's. Running joke everytime I see them at my acupuncture appointment is for us to yell to each other que carajo haciendo aquí?! 🤣 And I've heard French people are very proper but I'm learning French so I can speak with locals in Sénégal, Benin and Togo. And their culture is still respect but way more outgoing and social. My music teacher was telling me stories about her travels there in college and how she was invited to people's homes and let in on so many things because she knew French and was genuinely interested.
I feel way more emotional when speaking Mandarin or listening to Chinese music.... I cry everytime I listen to 我好想好想你, a song about someone's significant other dying, my first time hearing this song was the day my stepmom died, and when I hear this song, all those feelings come up, and I cry everytime I hear it... I love this song. When I just need to let some tears out, I listen to it. I don't get like this with any other song in any other language. Also, the first things I learned in Chinese were 孤独的(lonly), 快乐(happy)哭(cry) and 爱(love) so because of this, this is my favorite language, Mandarin is also the language I go to when I'm going through a tough time.
Maestra lanz sounds incredible
She’s the greatest
Great topic! My native language is Russian, second I learned was English. But now I’m living in Serbia, so I started learning Serbian. Never been so extravert before, in any other language or in general. Because people around communicate that way, and even you don’t want, you obtain their traits, such as speaking loud and fast, smiling, in general being more relaxed. I suppose it’s because culture influences language, and you receive whole history of society, but the way people communicate. Or maybe because lots of significants events in life somewhat connected to new language I learn meantime. Truly magnificent topic you brought up, many thanks!
Wow! I had suspected that I had a different personality when I’m speaking Spanish but this confirmed it.
I’m 70 and I’ve been studying Spanish with Duolingo for around 8 years. ( I wouldn’t recommend it. You are not given a multiple choice test when you try to communicate with somebody)
However, I have visited the DR with friends whose native language is Spanish and I have made many friends there despite my poor language skills. ( none of my DR friends speak English or if they do it is as rudimentary as was my Spanish)
I think it’s because I lose my fear of being a fool because I have no other choice. I think I become a more fun person as a result .
This is such an interesting topic. I have an androgynous kinda high-pitched voice, and I feel more free to speak with my natural voice when I use my second language, which is English. Due to my life experiences, I've always associated English to queer/LGBT-friendly spaces, and I guess that's why I have this positive bias towards this language.
MAESTRA LANZ!. I also feel like I act different when I speak spanish.
i love the energy i feel when i speak (and listen) to spanish.
Saludos desde Aguascalientes!
Saludos desde Iowa en los Estados Unidos🇺🇸🤝🏻🇲🇽
I'm Russian, and I f***n happy to speak English!!!! I love English more than Russin. To your surprise, English is more emotional for me than Russian. Yes, no joke. And I feel myself super extravert person when I speaking English. ENGLIIIIIISH!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! GOD BLESS AMERICAN ACCENT
Love you brother !!😀😀😀
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Why do you feel yourself?
@@start9749 because for me it's a very emotional, very kind and warm language. U.S. people look much happier than others and more friendly. I'm sorry if I said not very politically correct thing, but I'm strongly sure in that. I want to be a part of that happy civilization
I'm a heterosexual man, but I find myself attracted to the gentleman at 0:31.
I dont think you are heterosexual
@@andrewoid4711 he clearly is. He just is enthralled by a hyperpolyglot gigachad.
me too
@@LanguageSimpYou too
😂
It's absolutly normal and logic behaviour. We mirror people and environment by nature. Fitting in is important to survive. Also every language has got an own vocab, which is not translatable and that is used automaticly changing our expression.
But what I really want to point out, intovert and extravert is not about being outgoing and it is not about being shy! It is about gathering energy. You feel energized by people or by being alone, that's it. And that does not change by language.
A reserved language, a reserved comunity or little language skills will make you act reserved. Outgoing environment, great understanding and a family like culture, ... of course we will be more outgoing. But we won't become an "extravert" by that.
Recently I read an article about how we percive the world depending on the language. They found out, that students learning several languages are more open minded. (Maybe that's why they signed up for several languages in the first place??) And that they descriped a picture different like "an elderly woman moving from a store to a parking" (native language) vs. "A woman walking" (foreign language). Maybe because they used simple speech and wouldn't know how to put it more specific??
That kind of research is damn usless. The better my language skills become, the better I will be able to express my opinion, because of more detailed information.
It is true, we do percive the world or a situration different depending on the language, but it works different than many people seem to believe, I would say.
*no native here btw
I always find English to be more romantic than my mother tongue, italian.
When I think about love in English, I think about R. Kelly (yeah, I know about his crimes, but still his music is iconic), Marvin Gay and so on.
It depends on the cultural stereotypes, I am native spanish speaker from peru and I travels to brazil and learn portiguesse. When you comprehend the cultural background of the locals it becomes easier to communicate and learn the language by the way. Now I am practicing english but as i am older my personality is more fixed but it helps me to understand the personality of americans to understand english. I read that 90% is non verbal communication but I think it depends on the academic level of the language fluency, as you know more vocabulary you can find the exact words to express yourself. What I really find difficult is pronunciation and listening bit it comes with practice as you need to get familiar with common phonemas
I totally agree with the concept of the changed personality while learning or speaking a language which is not our native language , Of course I feel different ( Free, Independent, more interactive , sociable , Last but not least Smart ) I'm so thankful for speaking another language and learning new cultures
It's like Buzz Lightyear and his Spanish mode ;)
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I’m not an A1 in Portuguese and I listen to the music and is studying in Brazil 🇧🇷. My perception has changed.
Great video. Concuerdo contigo.
Many people talk about this personality change, but I think I have never experienced that. I definitely think this is overrated but I agree it's a beautiful and perhaps motivating idea. If you live in another country you just adapt to the way people speak and live.
Definitely true!
I'm absolutely not funny at all in my native English language, but I am funny in Spanish even though I'm barely a B1 level.
My mother language is portuguese, but i am way more talktive when i speak english. ( and also i'd rather read a book in english than in portuguese)
goede video man, learning italian but found the whole social linguistical part interesting.
I definitely think there is some sustenance to this, the cultures we grow up in and choose to be around has an impact on our personalities. Anthropologists study the way we are influenced by the world around us, ive read some super interesting books about this
I noticed most of the things you mentioned in the vd too. For me , English is my second language and I have been learning it for almost two years now. I'm kinda quiet in my native language since I think about the emotional impact of each word I am using but in English I don't care about it that much. So I am way more talkative in English but as a result I became rambling and talking :/
Maestra Lanz 👏🏽
Spot On !!!
Excellent observation and well presented (I am about 80 fluent in Central-American Spanish... and always noted how I felt like I was and could be another person... mind you, I was living over there for 6_ years and avoiding most gringos, and living on the bones of my ass, so I guess my lifestyle and day to day 'me-ness' was different from when home in NZ anyway !!!
Muy muy interesante. Gracias por compartirlo!
PD: I can get away with certain behaviours too, which are just a bit more regular in Latino environments (being a bit more macho, not so new agey !!!! for eg!!)
PPS: I am quite sure there is an emotional, non-language component to this: As Spanish is not my native language, and only started learning in my 50s, I have NON of the emotional hooks and triggers which I have in English... so when someone calls me a hijo de puta.. pues, no me toca nada, jajaja !!!
I like that Selena shirt! Su música es muy bien!
ディスクレーマー: 私を見せびらかしだと誤解しないでください
Me:
Malay: awkward
English: loudass
日本語: ヤンキー or 関西弁
한국어: ???
Suomi: monotone
Svenska: ↗️↘️↗️↘️(sorry)
Русский: cs:go
Íslenska: why do I sound mysterious?
Norsk: ↘️↗️↘️↗️↘️↗️↘️↗️(sorry)
yeah I'm learning Swedish and I feel very shy when I try telling my friend a learned something new sense she's a native speaker. I feel often bashful to tell them, but I'm starting to come out of my shell and be a lil more open not only in Swedish but in English as well
I’m not even fluent in my target languages but I feel more carefree in Spanish, bold in Russian, and reserved in Chinese 🤔 Interesting that you also used the term carefree!
Maestra lanz best teacher frfr
I agree that it may not be the language so much as the culture that is tied to said language. Culture and language are both equally important and are often inseparable. Being a Mexican-American, I was raised to be “extroverted”, like greeting every person you see, etc., but as I learned English I noticed you cannot be so extroverted as is possible in Spanish.
💯 for the Selenaaas shirt my boy👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
MAESTRA LANZZZZ!!!!!🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
I’m more assertive and bossy in Spanish. I learned from my Latina wife. Makes sense
Omg this is so true…especially as a parent speaking to your kid
@@jezreel.chesedyes, 100%! Although I’ve never spoken to my kids in English, feels weird not to use Spanish.
I'm a C1 in the English language, and whenever i speak the language my voice gets low pitch but when i speak in my mother tounge(Turkish) i get a really high pitched voice
I’m completely different when I’m in “Spanish” mode lol this is so true. Rich vs Rico which one lol
Me gusta Rico lol
0:20 backstory i speak 3 languages and I do have different personality traits in each.
Edit: In my mothertongue I am extremely shy and never want to talk if possible. In english I'm quite bold and extroverted. In Japanese, well... I try to be as polite as possible which is difficult since this is a more recent endeavour (2 years into making only)
Idk i never really noticed this when switching languages, but there are a lot of differences with me.
I speak Portuguese calmly and slowly, 'cause I live my real life in it. But, since I only speak English virtually, and most of my learning was through memes and social media in general, I'm mega talkative in English, and I talk faster and louder. So, yes, I think environment is the main factor for this "personality change".
I feel it's more about the environment/people than the actual language too
I’ve switched between French English and Moroccan Arabic (Darija which is substantially different from standard Arabic. I barely understand standard Arabic) my entire life.
I’m completely schizophrenic I swear 😂
I feel like even my opinions can vary depending on which language is used (kinda)
I am loose when I speak Tagalog 🇵🇭 but more of a stiff when I speak German 🇩🇪. I am funnier 😅 when I speak Spanish 🇪🇸.
Some friends of mine mention how when I speak in English I sound very different than when I speak in my native language (Brazilian Portuguese).
La neta!
I feel more happy talk with other people with my language portuguese
Damn im an introvert in english and spanish
My personality never changes... I'm the same loser in every language
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я здесь для язык симп!
As a trilingual Indian I don't think my personality changes when I speak different languages.
My mother speaks 03 languages Tahitian marquesan and french. I don't. Feel ashamed of not being like her and many others like her in Polynesia. She doesn't in particular act differently depending on the language used. maybe I didn't notice it. I am not like her then I can't tell.
Chinese stopped sounding angry to me when I stopped accepting the stereotype that westerners have of Chinese people. We tend to associate our prejudices to how people sound to us.
El que expliques al video pot ser cert, però no crec que ho sigui per a tothom. Crec que estem influenciats per els estereotips culturals que tenim al lloc o pais on vivim, que aprenem des de petits per la tele, sèries o pelis. I doncs això, a tot arreu els estereotips d'un idioma canvien per la gent que hi viu.
A un italià potser l'anglès li semblarà un idioma més "formal", i a un suec o danés li semblarà simplement un idioma més.
Tot això no és per dir que el que dius no sigui cert, sinó que és cert per a la gent que primordialment és dels Estats Units, però sinó, no té perquè.
Bon video! Força interessant
code switching
fake, i speak 2 languages and my personality is the same
Literally my voice doesnt change one bit when i speak french 😂
He then ended up saying that your personality doesn’t change but the environment on where you’re at will change the way you sound at times.