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- Speaking 6 languages to tell my story about how I learned Finnish, German, English, Swedish, Japanese & Chinese. I love languages so I wanted to share my thoughts on how to learn languages and become multilingual. Ep 24⬇See more below⬇
Finnish language is my mother tongue. Finnish is so rare that one has to learn foreign languages to survive. :D German language is my first foreign language and I am learning German again after a long break, since I currently live in Berlin. Learning English has always been somewhat challenging for me, but after living abroad it has become easier. I have also learned a little Swedish, but the most passionate I am about Japanese language and Chinese language. After learning Japanese I thought it would be fun to learn Chinese as well. Nowadays, I can speak Chinese more fluently than Japanese. Learning Japanese and learning Chinese are quite different from how to learn English, but that’s what makes learning languages fun.
I don’t know if I could call myself a polyglot, but it would be great if one day I could become truly multilingual or a polyglot speaking multiple languages fluently.
I hope this video inspires you to learn languages, since learning languages is so much fun!
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Hi! I'm Kaisa, I'm originally from Helsinki, Finland but now I'm currently living and working in Berlin.☆ My channel is mainly lifestyle based. I love cooking, traveling and exploring new things, especially related to East Asia. I want to share my experiences and thoughts on living and working abroad as an expat in Germany.
Thanks for watching! ❤
First time making a video like this. 😀 What languages do you speak?
Cool languages! 😁👍
Spanish (native language), English and learning french. I'll like to learn German and Swedish
Wow すごい！Thanks for sharing your thoughts @Alith! Such an inspiring story. You are a really hardworking person and I admire your motivation to strive after learning languages on your own. I hope you have a chance to make a good use of your language skills either by traveling abroad or meeting foreigners in Japan! ☺️ ps. thx for correcting my Japanese 🙈
Your German is quite good but there are some grammatical issues that you need to work on
I speak Japanese, English and Spanish. Even I spent three years in American university, I still don't have confident with my English at all.....so I was really impressed with your language skills. 日本語をこんなに上手に話せるなら、他の言語も高いレベルなのでしょうね。びっくりしました。
Notice how her voice changes every time she changes the language especially chinese
мαуα єlмσѕαlαму I think that’s mainly because in different languages the pitch changers in a sentence are at different times and also she does the accent a bit
I don’t think it’s too uncommon to do this when I speak Japanese I pitch my voice a tiny bit up but not much haha
@@cheddarcheese2884 Saaamee and some people (non-japanese speaker) told me that my voice is strange when I speak Japanese🤣
It's possible that she's also mimicking the voice of the person she picks up the language from. For example, for her Chinese, it sounded a bit like the kind of animated way of speaking you see on shows, not the usual kind you hear on the street.
@@passingby1350 Melvin Harim naa. Its just because chinese is a tonal language. For example, "ma" can mean mother (mā), horse(mă), scold (mà) or hemp (má) depending on which of the 4 tones you use.
These polygots are always so confusing
It's like, "I was born in China but I grew up speaking english, then I moved to england and learned French in school, now I live in Finland, and here I learned German and Spanish."
Edit: k so, how did i get top comment? this is my first time. thanks for liking this dumb comment i made
😄
+SuperSaiyanPikachu A lot of polyglots don't even know how they learned languages, they go "I was born here, then moved there but i learned this instead, had a friend over there so i went there, moved back, then got a boyfriend, then moved to another place", it's all immersion.
And then there is me, a bilingual girl who haven't gone abroad in her entire life and wants to be a polyglot soooo bad.
@@rinnieunchanged Girl same
Just Songs ikr😂
when someone speaks finnish u know its their native language
You're not kidding. When I looked at the flags for the thumbnail of the video, I was like, "She's a Finn." Never mind the fact that she looks Finnish.
I like how when people change language their voice change a little too.
What is even more interesting is that the personality changes.
@@user-jd9sj1mq2b does it?
@@forloop7713 Without a doubt.
1 year in China and you got this level. You are amazing.
Thanks for your encouraging comment! ☺️
She learned Kanji by Japanese.
+BC BC She impressed and inspired me to learn Chinese, if she learned enough Chinese in one year...then i can do it to. Now i know this is possible. Chinese is the hardest language using tones and stuff.
DragonSwordMountain of course it is possible! But it really makes a difference in HOW you learn chinese (just like any language). She went to university and to start like this it is perfect cause she would just study for hours and hours every day. Just a real pitty she didn’t have a chinese roommate. But after innitially studying a lot with books you have to start watching shows and listen to music etc etc and eventually make chinese friends or get a languagr partner. At one point you won’t be able to get passed the intermediate plateau without thatbapproach
+Nino Circus Freak People say Chinese is hard...Kaisa A proved to me that it ain't that hard...it's all in the mind. Now i'm going to learn Chinese.
"Finnish are only 5.2M people so we are quite a small language group"
Iceland: hold my beer
@wav. רויז LOL
Lol, and I thought Latvia with 1,9M people is a tiny country. 😃
Chinese people can invite u for dinner 😂😂
Iceland is much smaller soo it’s make sense that they have less people that speak
Kat is Kute lmaooo
omg i'm japanese and lemme just say her japanese is pretty good
知っている
Her Japanese sounds kawaii 🤣
こんにちは
私の日本語は下手です。
I will go to japon the next year i am latin and i will get japanese girlfriend maybe :)
@@davichoreyes1 life is more than just relationships.
0:43 Finnish
1:22 German
3:00 English
4:38 Swedish
5:38 Japanese
7:02 Chinese
Nice, thanks! This is useful 😁👍
Thanks
Thank you for that
I speak three languages fluently 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺 and hopefully i’ll master my fourth language soon🇺🇸
Gnistan43 🇱🇷🇰🇪🇸🇴 hoping to learn more
😃😃
Hahaha
That too me a second 😂
Same
Anyone noticed how gorgeous her hair is? It's almost like pure gold.
I noticed her hair first lol
She is Finnish, and "Finn" means "blonde or light" in Finnish
It's called blond.
No we're blind.
@@rnewton2284 Oh, wow. According to your channel, you seem to be a Germanic linguist. Please tell me more.
Understood everything you said in Chinese. So you’ve already achieved communicating purpose of a language. As long as people understand what you say, that’s what matters. Awesome job!
Please watch this video and tell me if it’s useful for learning languages or no 🙏🏻
th-cam.com/video/yaqh8U1r7v0/w-d-xo.html
Me too. I understood much of the Japanese, most of the Chinese, and all of the English. I got lost with the other 3. Thanks!
True 👍👍
I am English and spent ten years learning Japanese and also two years German. Your Japanese is absolutely excellent. As a native English speaker, I find German absolutely easy and in two years, I can pretty much talk about anything and understand most stuff. Japanese is just plain hard. I don’t find learning language easy anyway, but Japanese has been very challenging, although I’m pretty much fluent now. I have never lived there and so I’m sure my Japanese is a bit rubbish really, but good enough! I found for myself, if you’re learning a second language, the best way to speed it up, is to start learning a third... if changes your brain and you start to understand “language in general” more. That’s just my thought anyway. Appreciate any tips or thoughts from others. Thank you! :)
I speak 3 languages, brazilian portuguese, swahili, english. I dont know about it gets easier. I do think if the languages are close to each other, it can be easier to learn in my opinion.
I love learning new languages
Wer ist hier auch nur wegen der Deutschen Sprache ?😂❤
Bin hier , weil ich Deutsch lerne, und jetzt auch Russisch😂
@@MoreTrenMoreMen69 welche Sprache sprichst du?
Habe random das videl gesehen war vorgeschlagen kann aber auch schon paar sprachen polnisch deutsch englisch und griechisch
Ich 😂😂
Immer die Deutschen... xD
The title of this video should be: WATCH ME SPEAK 6 languages
John Cox 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 sooo true
Huh? She explains with each language how she learnt it
@@ESCTom "How to learn languages and become multilingual?" so the implication is to learn languages you should do multiple exchange programs where you go to the country of origin and learn the language.
@@Chizypuff yea unfortunately in my experience as well, thats what you need to do.
Very impressive how good your japanese and english sounds. I can't judge your pronounciation in the other languages, but the fact that you have the ability of speaking six languages is impressive as well in my opinion.
If I just only listen to her Chinese without subtitles, sometimes I couldn’t tell the words rightly because of the tone..but as a foreigner, she speaks well.
Kristy Tsang she speaks very nasally. just my thoughts. at least it's understandable and not as bad as most foreigners.
I am Chinese and I am VERY impressed by your Chinese. I think that we have a lot in common since I speak English, Chinese and Spanish. I am also learning Swedish and Japanese but I am not fluent in them. Languages have always been fascinating for me! I really enjoy your video and I wish your channel to grow bigger!
Dear Pan Michelle, thank you so much for your encouraging and kind words! 😍❤️ sounds like we have a lot in common. Good luck with your language learning and I hope you enjoy my upcoming videos. Definitely more Chinese-related content coming up. 😉
加油
一起努力
Hola desde Luxemburgo!
Ich bin ein auslandische Student in Österreich, und ich finde mich sehr schwierig Deutsch zu lernen wie dich.
I showed it to my mom,she says its understandable and average at best.her accent and intonation is off for quite a few parts if you listen closely
Your English accent sounds like a mix of American and Australian.
I thought so too. I was waiting for her to say she lived for a time in AU
Wow really happy to hear that! I have never lived in English speaking country though. 😅
@@kaisaa4318 Mä katsoon videosi 2 kertaa. Kylä ääninne on vähän ihan samma australialaisia aksentti. Opin sumea itse. On hienoa nähdä suomalaisen tekemä video. Pliis, pliis, pliis tehdä lisää videoita suomen kielellä :-)
@Guy Withaname She's back with a new vid! And still has that hint of an AU accent.
I thought it sounded a bit Irish!
I regret letting go of my Finnish language. Sure my mom still speaks it to me but I mostly reply in Swedish. When she's gone my Finnish part goes with her.
It's becoming rare to meet a Finnish speaking person in Sweden today.
TL; DR: Kids! Keep your native language alive!
Nice video Kaisa. =)
Thanks @KaxLon! 😊 I could imagine many Finnish people who immigrated to Sweden years ago speak Swedish nowadays. But there are also some young people moving from Finland to Sweden and they still speak Finnish. A couple of my friends have moved to Sweden recently. Maybe you could join some local Finnish community there and meet other Finnish speaking people 😁
Ich find’s total super wie du “fließend” sagst. 😂🖤
Respect. Im on my way to learn my 5th languague now. I think the best way to learn language is to put your head phone on and watch tvs news in that language. Nonstop every day every time u have. It helps really fast
100% right and good luck
With subtitles? Also, I’m curious to know how this helps. Please let me know 👍🏼
I agree, watching tv in the language you are learning is very helpful. I have especially used this method in learning Chinese. In Chinese tv shows or news they luckily use Chinese subtitles most of the time which I find very useful. If you are at the very beginning of your language learning path, then I would probably recommend to use English subtitles or subtitles in any language you can understand.
+Michael Vu What is the average time you watched tv news? An hour, half an hour, two hours, three hours, six hours a day? When did you noticed you understood 50% of it? How many months did it take you to achieve fluency?
Thank you for sharing your tips
German in title: exists
German shenanigans: *OH MEIN GOTT WURDE EUCH DAS AUCH VORGESCHLAGEN?!*
Logisch
NEIN
You slept in your keyboard ? 😂
@@Emilia-zz7sc spielerei
@@cinnamonlu7355 is that some sort of sexual assault?
Den här videon fick mig att vilja lära mig fler språk. Fantastiskt förresten !!!
Amazing! You're definitely an inspiration. I though I was able to speak 4 languages and now you show how a polyglot looks like. Never give up!
Dein Deutsch klingt etwas abgehackt, aber abgesehen von ein paar wenigen kleinen Fehlern sprichst du wirklich sehr gut, auch wenn man die Zeit berücksichtigt, in der du nicht gesprochen hast^^
Deutsch ist aber auch eine sehr...melodische sprache, heißt wir haben mehr diesen Singsang den es im Englischen zum Beispiel gar nicht gibt, da werden sehr viele pausen zwischen den Wörtern gemacht
Lily S. Je nachdem in welchem Teil Deutschlands man lebt...
@@j.messler4566 das stimmt, ich wohne zum Beispiel im östlichen Thüringen, Hochdeutsch geht anders xD
Lily S. Ich komme aus dem Rheinland und habe für vier Jahre in der Nähe von Hamburg gelebt.. Dieser Unterschied zwischen den Dialekten ist einfach zu krass XD😅
@@j.messler4566 oha 😂 Rheinland und Hamburg...das ist echt nh Unterschied 😂👌 aber am schlimmsten finde Ich Schwäbisch und richtig tiefes Bayrisch und Sächsisch
It's like she has a different voice and personality for every language lol
And different faces too 😆
Facial expression and vocal intonation is crucial to language learning. For example, in German if I were to be very expressive and nod my head while speaking others would think I'm crazy, while if I weren't to do so in Korean those whom I speak to would think I am uninterested or not listening. When speaking English in India I would wobble my head to express excitement or pleasure, where as in Ireland I would be asked if I have Tourette's.
@@betsysmith9176 oh wow do you know Korean? I'm trying to study Korean, but it's so boring on my own
It shows that she really gets it.
@@betsysmith9176 lol dats not true haha we'll think you are crazy if you nod your head while u speak btws im korean
I’m Japanese and your Japanese is literally amazing! I was purely blown away, full of respect!
Do you think Japanese is the best sounding language from your perspective?
An amazing achievement, Kaisa, you made a thing that seems impossible, and that would definitely motivate endless people to challenge themself and jumping outside of their comfort zone. Great sharing.
dein deutsch ist ziemlich gut, nur deine satzstellung ist manchmal ein bisschen verkehrt. aber bravo! ( ◠‿◠ )
Ich bin Deutschlerner und würde nie behaupten, dass ich alles über die deutsche Sprache weiß. Aber es scheinte mir, dass ihre Aussprache nicht so gut war. Besonders die Aussprache von "au". Glaube wurde wie "glabe" ausgesprochen. Sie hat auch die Fälle verwechselt. Zum Beispiel, "Ich hatte Deutsch als meinem Abiturfach". Vielliecht habe ich Unrecht. Wie ich schon gesagt habe, ich bin kein Muttersprachler.
Jarah Fluxman Finde ihr Deutsch ziemlich gut, die paar Aussprachefehler fallen eigentlich überhaupt nicht auf
@@jarahfluxman20 du hast Recht. Ausserdem hat sie oft falsche Artikel verwendet, was wahrscheinlich der schwerste Teil der deutschen Sprache ist.
Du sprichst glaub ich deutlich besser Deutsch als sie.
@@jarahfluxman20 Du bist niemals Deutschlerner 😂😂😂😂😂
@@richischeffler150 😁😁😁😂😂😂
There must be really good teachers for languages in Finland:)))
juu :DD
Hah no
@Daria Batrin. No definitely not. The standard of language teachers are very very basic. You have to have the interest to learn outside the curriculum on your own to get any kind of acceptable language skills in Finland.
Lagertha Thorkildsdottir
Nah depends on your luck what school are you studying in and who your teacher is. I think i always had great English teachers although i feel like i learned most of my English by watching youtube almost daily since i was 13.
Daria Batrin all our language teachers must have a university degree and we do have to learn 2 languages that are not even related to Finnish. That’s the secret I guess but that being said, I’ve had some horrible experiences with Swedish teachers. So it doesn’t necessarily mean that every single teacher is great :)
It's so interesting how your voice changes so drastically when you changed languages. I jumped when you started speaking swedish because as a norwegian i understand swedish and it sounded like another person was suddenly speaking from somewhere else haha if that makes sense
Your mastery of Japanese and chinese is so good! Especially the tones and flow
She sounds so robotic when speaking Chinese and so anime while speaking Japanese
Tammy Kat You obviously don’t have a lot of experience with neither Japanese nor Chinese
María de Neira
XD
Give her a break. How many languages do you know
Because she doesn't have more chance to use Chinese or Janpanese now，which may let the fluency of these languages down.
Her german sounds robotic too, but she said that she did not speak german for a long time, that's why shes not that good. So I think the same is in japanese and chinese
And sorry fory bad english lmao
As a Chinese native speaker, I think that if she had picked up everything while she was in China for only a year, she is damn good. Tunes aren’t perfect, but definitely still amazing, especially considering for how long she lived in China.
tunes don't exist at all in her chinese, this is not really good, maybe she can be good in the other languages for sure, but about chinese, ok she is fluent.... but Chinese includes tunes as well...So if other twenty foreigners learn chinese fluent without respecting tunes, is it good to say that they are able to speak chinese well??
@@vitocozzolino84 do you expect her to sound like a native Chinese speaker considering she stayed in China for only 1 year and that her main focus is in germany? 😂she speaks 5 other languages. How many languages can you speak?
@@theguy6082 I speak totally 4 languages fluently and I studied other languages that I don't speak.. one of them is mandarin and when you start with it the firts thing they teach you is tune system; it is a base of the language,speaking chinese without using tunes is like speaking latin and russian without using case system
@@vitocozzolino84 Yeah, here's the news genius. Just because you can say the tones correctly doesn't mean youre gonna sound like a native speaker and you're always gonna have an accent just for the simple fact that it's not your native language. Hell, just being "fluent" doesnt even guarantee that you have no accent. It's petty to nitpick someone's chinese considering she spend barely any time in china and she speaks 5 other languages while working full time in germany.
Great job! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Wow, your Japanese is so good...
Even for we Japanese, learning Chinese is hard but many western language speakers acquire Chinese. That’s impressive...
+Naoto N What? For a Japanese learning Chinese is hard? Very interesting. I thought i was very easy, like Spanish learns Portuguese.
@@dragonswordmountain2908 unfortunately no, Japanese language is not easy for Chinese to learn either.
@@dragonswordmountain2908 More like Portuguese to Spanish. A lot of people that I have spoken to said that it's kind of hard for them to understand Portuguese, especially from Portugal as it's so heavy. A lot of people say it kind of sounds like Russian.
DragonSwordMountain u realize that’s becuz Portuguese and Spanish are similar. Japanese and Chinese are not
While Japanese and Chinese are unrelated as languages and thus very different in structure, Japan borrowed a lot of words and Chinese characters from China in the past which makes the two languages closer to each other.
No offense. She just say how many languages she can speak; but she did not tell us the tips of learning six languages.
well we can study it at school or via an app (if the app is actually accurate).
Isn't it obvious? By traveling around the world and visiting foreign countries, one just cannot leave itself blind to the opportunity of learning it's language culture and other daily basics.
In the video she told the story of her method and it was learning by living with it.
Actually this is the best and fastest method,!
Off/on: I try to learn Spanish as a third foreign language, but its extremly hard, due to the barriers of
1.living far from Spain
2.nobody speaks Spanish around me
3.At my workplace i have to communicate on mother tongue
3+1 Used foreign languages are English and German. (Or French...)
I'm currently trying to learn english as a second language but due to the barriers is kinda difficult because in my country the main language is spanish so It's kinda difficult find someone to speak with, the root of all problems when someone is trying to learn a language not to have someone to practice with
RodriFlow want to practice?
@@leonardoatuncar3634 sure why not?
It's amazing that you can also speak Japanese and Chinese since they are totally different from the languages that have spelling system.
So inspiring!! Thanks for posting. I was sad today and this made me feel so much better
すごい！I can't believe you studied Japanese only few months or years! I understood everything you spoke and your pronunciation is almost perfect! Keep going, talented girl !😉
As Japanese being my native language, I am really impressed by your Japanese skills!! Great job!!
I spent my teenage from 11 to19 yrs old in Germany, then another almost 14 yrs in Russia, so basically I speak 4 languages: eng, ger, rus & cn, as a native speaker of Chinese I’d say your language skill of my mother tongue has impressed me pretty much, well done and keep up the good work!)))
It is very impressive that you can speak these 6 languages fluently. My mother tongue is Cantonese and it took me 5 years to manage English though it is an official language in Hongkong. Then I learned Arabic and Spanish for work purpose and still not very fluent. Good for you!
In my country, the Netherlands, we learn four languages during highschool: Dutch, English, German and French (most schools also offer Spanish as an extra multi-year course). German and French we get for the first 3 years and then we choose one to specialize in (in my case German) for the last 3 years. So by the time you finish highschool you're basically fluent in three languages and have decent knowledge of at least one other.
Kun jij vloeiend Duits na je vwo?
@@sietsketegronde7822 vrijwel vloeiend ja, na ongeveer 2 maanden zelfstudie na vwo volledig vloeiend geworden.
Knap gedaan!
gek genoeg pikken we talen ook heel snel op omdat het Nederlands weer heel erg op Scandinavisch lijkt en vanuit het Frans zijn is het Spaans en Italiaans ook weer heel herkenbaar. Dus met een beetje moeite kun je als Nederlander zomaar Noors, Fins, Zweeds, Deens, Spaans, en Italiaans erbij leren.
Every time when I am in the Netherlands I have kind of difficulty. Besides my native language, which is Polish, I fluently speak English and German. I also know basics in Dutch. And there comes my struggles: I never know which language I am supposed to use and it usually has one ending: while speaking I am mixing up all these three into one. That must sound hilarious.
Wow your Japanese is so good! Honestly I wasn’t expecting much when I first saw the Japanese flag on the thumbnail, but I got so unexpectedly impressed!
+Shunnosuke Waki If she learned Japanese in less than a year, with that fluency...then i can do it to. I was impressed with that. What they say is true, when you are passionate about something, you learn really fast.
DragonSwordMountain she lived in Japan so yeah..I guess it helped a lot
@@dragonswordmountain2908 depends on your definition of fluency.
DragonSwordMountain Actually, her Japanese is not fluent at all but she's never mentioned that she can speak Japanese "fluently".
@@jgtmda1594 Well I guess it depends on the definition of fluent. She can surely speak in an acceptable speed, but she's for example constantly switching between colloquial (有った) and more formal (有りました) Japanese, which sounds rather awkward...
Geniusly executed. well done .I am impressed.!!
Hi Kaisa. I must say, your language skill is really really amazing. I am Chinese and living in Düsseldorf. I am also multilingual. I must say your Chinese and Japanese are really good. I am learming finnisch now. And the language is so cool. I hope if we could become friends and exchange our Experience for learning Foreign language.
I speak 8 languages fluently, 5 of which are African languages. I could speak 4 before I was 4 years old lol. Hard not to be multilingual with so many ethnic groups in one country. Hope to be fluent in Japanese one day !
I feel like those 4 languages are similar to each other.
I think those who can speak multiple languages which are not similar are amazing.
Your intonation for each language is very natural, and that's one of the hardest things to learn, is the cadence and intonations of each language. so cool :)
The naturality you changed form a language to another encourage me to proceed learning foreign languages. I'm a Braziian and can speak Spanish, English and French. Your video is quite a motivation for me. thanks.
Thanks for the video! I motivated by you that to start learning new language , you have been doing super big work 😍
Wow thats a lot of exchanges. You are very talented. Your speech is very smooth flowing.
Haha, indeed, exchanges are the best times of life so I did as many as possible 😆 Thanks a lot Preston Chandler for encouraging words ❤️
I'm so happy for you
I can speak 3 languages fluently (german, english, russian) and currently I’m learning chinese & korean (my korean pronunciation is actually pretty good but I still struggle a bit with the grammar.) You motivated me to stick with learning and improving these 2 languages~ thanks! 🌚 Although it’ll be hard- we should believe in ourselves and never give up!
Hi, how’s your Korean and Chinese studying going?
@@zmir01 same question here :)
You are so talent. I am proud of you
Thank you for sharing your story. It is truly amazing.
Thank you! ❤️
Your Japanese is really good 🇯🇵🇯🇵
It’s すごい to work in the office of Mr Aso!!
I’m Japanese and learning some foreign languages, your video gave me a motivation to keep learning them.
ありがとう、カイサさん！！
がんばってください
@@xpluke2 がんばれ!! p(^_^)q
@@seherling207 I am half Japanese btw
@@xpluke2 oh my - I wanted to reply to op and wish good luck for the learning process lol
Good luck to you too if you are learning a new language!
@@seherling207 thx I am lerning French right now
In Finnland ist es oft so das sie Deutsch lernen oder? Eine Freundin von mir die auch Kaisa heißt spricht auch Deutsch und Englisch. Sie hat es in Finnland gelernt und lebt mittlerweile bei uns in Köln.
Ja, es ist oft so dass man Deutsch in der Schule in Finnland lernt. Deutsch oder Französisch 😊
I think most European countries have German and French as the most commonly taught languages in school apart from English, and German is taught as a secondary language in almost all EU countries. There's some variation of course and some particular schools can have languages considered a bit more unusual, but French, English, German and Spanish are probably among the most internationally significant languages to learn. I believe Chinese is becoming more and more popular as well.
I am Swedish and I personally chose to learn German in school (grade 6-9 and first 2 years of high school) as I saw it as the most useful. I can't speak it all too well but thanks to my studies I had no trouble whatsoever understanding your comment. :)
~30% der Finnen haben Deutsch gelernt.
Kaisa, I only know English, but if you're as good in all the other languages that you demonstrated in your video as you are in English, then that's phenomenal!!
This is so inspirational! I majored in Spanish and got to use it constantly in California. I took two years of French in college, but have rarely had a chance to use it. I later studied Greek and Hebrew in seminary, but have rarely gotten to use them. I am taking way too many languages on Duolingo. I figure I’ll get some exposure to them all, and zero in on languages of countries to which I eventually travel.
You are so AMAZING!! I attempted to learn many languages but never really able to be fluent in them (other than my mother tongue, Malay and of course, English). My problem is I am not consistent and that is something I have to overcome. Keep on progressing!
Will you flip put if Peter Parker flips those pizzas?
Swedish is actually close to the low german dialect. It's quite funny.
True
All the Scandinavian languages were very influenced by the Hanseatic League traders from the 1400s to the 1800s, and they spoke Mittelniederdeutsch or Middle Low German. You can see it very easily in Norwegian words like "snakke"(to speak) or "forvandling"("transformation", similar to German Verwandlung) etc.
Ja
Meike Krüger ja veeet
Yeah, it's very annoying because Iearn German and Swedish at school so I always talk like "Ich är, I mean Jag bin, no I mean...."
Imponerande! Jag tycker att din svenska är ganska bra, det är några jättesmå fel här och där men man har ju inga problem alls att förstå dig. Själv talar jag också flera språk och har väldigt lätt för att lära språk och eftersom jag växte upp med 4 språk hemma så har det blivit naturligt för mig att vilja lära mig fler språk, mitt mål är att lära mig så många som möjligt i alla fall NÄSTAN flytande, the sky is the limit!
your brilliance is astounding! your mental beauty is as beautiful as your physical appearance. you are an absolute inspiration, Kaisa!
i like learning languages too. but the few languages i can converse in are far worse than your linguistic ability, but oh well, it's not about comparing ourselves to others. and i don't learn languages to compare myself to others. i learn what languages i learn because i enjoy them. thank you for your inspiration!!!
Haha, I am in the opposite case with you that my first language is Chinese(I am not Chinese) and Japanese, and then later started learning English at school by first the grade. I went to a Spanish and German course when I was in middle school, and Spanish was ceased after 2 years of learning because I wasn't mentally prepared for that. Still that Spanish knowledge helps me later learning Portugues, feeling ease and joy since this time I know what I am doing with such a beautiful language. Currently, I am planning to go study in Finnland(My favorite country on this planet), yet I haven't started learning the language since there are not many resources. One day I will be like you, Kaisa A, lol!
Mieletön talentti sulla! Kiina ja japani ei oo helpoimmasta päästä... 😍 Meikä puhuu suomea, englantia, ruotsia, espanjaa ja viroa. 😊
I speak 4 of the 6 you talk: Finnish, Swedish, English and German. You were spot on with a bit of accent in Swedish and German. Great job!
When you started talking in Japanese and Chinese you blew me away, holy cow how's that even possible 🤣!
I also speak Spanish and Norwegian and might do a video similar to this one to show em later. So impressed by your skills, Kaisa! Keep practicing because languages fade when unused.
Great video! You told us your story about how you learned all these beautiful foreign languages.Could you please make a video in which you tell and present us with an example the methods you used for learning and studying these languages?
That would be wonderful!!
你的中文真的挺棒的！your Chinese pronunciation is fairly good, especially for the amount of time you spent in China. I am currently studying German as my 3rd language after Mandarin (mother tongue) and English (fluent); hence this video is motivating :)
You're damned inspiring.
I'm a native English speaker who is proficient in Spanish and German, with a basic grasp of Japanese and I constantly feel like I'm stumbling blindly through my linguistic acquisition. I would love to find a better way to do language exchange for my lesser fluent languages.
I plan to look through some more of your videos. Cheers!
Wow, que increible video. Mi lengua materna es español, pero he estudiado ingles desde pequeña en el colegio y de forma particular, Felicitaciones por ser tan joven y manejar tan bien esos idiomas, me siento muy orgullosa de haberte entendido perfectamente en ingles, me parece que lo haces super! Y bueno, se ve el contraste de la excelente educación de Filandia.
Fantastiskt!
I speak, Swedish and English. Bilingual family. And as a kid I also learned Finnish. Afterwards our family moved to the middle east. There I learned French and Arabic. Moved back to Sweden. Then moved to Curacao. Learned to speak Spanish there at the ISC. As an adult. I have learned to speak Japanese and Irish (Gailgé) Currently studying intermediate level Japanese at the university of Dalarna. My next goal will be Mandarin. :-) And I also know Norse Sign Language.
Kiitos paljon kaikille.
I came here to check her japanese. I'm japanese. And it was Great
I speak Japanese, Chinese, English and Russian.
Your Japanese and Chinese is so cute!
結構キレキレな日本語で驚いた
你说的中文有点像日本人的中文哈哈
Im danish and i understood all of your swedish, even with the finnish accent, well done
Nice, thanks! 😊 I have to say I usually have a hard time understanding spoken Danish, but written Danish is a little bit easier to follow.
wow, i love it! hope one day i can speak English and Spanilish as well as you !!!
This is really inspiring, I'm from Sweden and I speak Swedish and English fluently. But I'm practicing Spanish and Hungarian and I feel like if I continue I'll be able to speak 4 languages
Hi Kaisa. Greetings from Brazil. I was really impressed with your language skills. You're amazing. I speak Portuguese, English, French, and a little bit of Korean. Thank you for the video. It was really inspiring. You got yourself a new subscriber. Romes
Thank you Romes for your lovely message, you made my day! 😍 Cool that you’re watching my video in Brazil! I wish I could travel there some day and learn a little Portuguese, it’s such a beautiful language. You also have impressive language skills, i hope you have many chances to make a good use of them! ☺️ ...and thanks for subscribing! 🙈
I love your English! Wowza! Great job! Amazing!
Oh thanks! 😍 I have never felt particularly good at English, so your comment made me very happy. 😊❤️
You should change the title into : "How I learnt 6 languages and became a multilingual." instead of this title, it really cause misunderstanding. I thought you'll show us the way how to learn languages but no, you just told your story.
so true, I wrote the same thing, it was click bate, she did not say anything about ,How to learn
1. Go to school with many language courses. Study.
2. Have money.
3. Choose University major that works internationally.
4. Use every opportunity to work, intern or study abroad.
5. Have money.
6. Don't be shy about using the little skills you have with the locals.
7. Don't stick with the other exchange students/expats.
She’s a typical privileged person who studied abroad to learn SO much quicker
I am sure if she were self study she wouldn’t progress as quick
I wrote the SAME EXACT THING!
You are amazing with speaking all these 6 languages! Well done! I am currently learning Icelandic and I also improving Norwegian. My dream is to be able to speak all Nordic languages fluently in the future. :-) 你的中文真得很棒！继续努力！加油！
Stefan Chang 请问你是中国人吗 why do you want to learn all the Nordic languages, just curious
@@ellenakerblad7157 Yes, I am from China. but I am half Han half Uyghur Chinese, I just simply love Nordic culture and languages, I feel like I belong there. Hjem er hvor min hjerte ligger på, det er Norden for meg. :-) Og hvor kommer du fra?
Stefan Chang oh I see. Jag kommer från Sverige, but am adopted from China so I’m slowly trying to learn Chinese.
@@ellenakerblad7157 That sounds cool! Chinese is surely not an easy language to learn, but with time you spend with, your Chinese will get better and better. I have only studied Swedish in 2015 for several months, I have been to Sweden couple of times, I loved it. Stockholm is my favourite city and also I love Lund very much.
Stefan Chang Stockholm is very beautiful, and so is Lund. Are you studying Norwegian right now? Which Nordic language is the most difficult in your opinion?
You just look so fluent in all these languages! Lol I'm impressed really, great job!
look?
I LOVE THIS VIDEO SO MUCH YOU ARE AMAZING!
Excellent about your language and your experience.
I am very impressed and you have motivated me to learn a new language. Slovakian is my mother language. I have lived in the UK my whole life so I am fluent in English. I can understand everything in Czech and Polish but I find it hard to communicate back. I can also understand Russian, Ukrainian and most other Slavic languages about 25%. Keep up the good work. Currently learning Spanish
Wow impressive! You have many languages under your belt. Good luck with Spanish studies! 😁👍
Привет!😍
What about Bosnian and Serbian
You have a real talent! I speak Chinese, English and Russian. I learnt German for two months but dropped afterward. Now I am learning Japanese a few hours a week. I think your pronunciation of Japanese and Chinese sounds good.
Love your Chinese! The pronunciation is great! I speak 4 languages, French, Chinese, English, and Spanish. Quite similar to your experience, I picked up my Spanish in an exchange in Colombia!
You are pretty good at the languages you speak. I'm impressed.
I speak English, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Norwegian. I know little bit of Hindi too, not very fluent. Knowing Norwegian, I understand a bit of Danish and Swedish too. I'm learning Lithuanian and Russian at the moment.
Wow awesome! I started learning Japanese again recently. I'm a language nerd as well. It was so nice watching your video😊
Thanks for your lovely comment! がんばってね！😉
Your English is amazing. I can understand you perfectly.
Oh your video inspired me, I'm learning English, Russian as korean, it is not easy but after i watched it, I gained confidence. thank you for your good video😀
Wow, very impressive. I speak English natively, and some Polish and Norwegian that I started to learn in my 20s. Now I'm trying Arabic and Swahili, but it's difficult because I don't have anybody to practice with. You are doing very well, and being able to live and work in various counteies is obviously an advantage.
I am a native Arabic speaker. I can help you with practicing if you want. my English is not that good 😅 so i guess by helping you, i would improve my English as well. 😄
Man... I wanna learn to speak Swedish, German, Japanese and Icelandic. I speak English and Dutch. I wish I had the patience to sit down and learn languages. Exchange programs don't sound like a bad idea, actually...
THO games I wanna learn German, Japanese, Swedish, Hebrew, and Spanish.
THO games je kan Duits binnen 6 maanden leren half uur per dag
THO games Ik wil Chinees en Koreaans leren
Swedish should not be very hard, if you know both English and Dutch. German and Icelandic would perhaps be a little tougher, but still nothing compared to Japanese :)
Wul Vershon hoe dan?
This is good! I love your video! I speak English, German, Bulgarian, Nyanja and Bemba!
I am german, and I can tell, if i didn't know that you're from Finnland i would've thought you're like from switzerland and live kn germany, so your german is surprisingly amazing! :3
Dein deutsch ist so extrem gut
juliaa. bskk is It weird that I understood exactly what your coment said??? I don't know nay Deutsch😂
@@weirdo6661 same
Alicia Rönnemyr same lmao
@@weirdo6661 i say her german is very good
@@nickfair2317 i say her german is very good
I always get the question “in what language do you think?” 😂
i actually dream bilingual, and thinki as well, which is kinda funny when thinking about it. when i lived in america i thought and dreamt more in english tho. now i dream and thing predominantly in german but not only.
The first time I got that question I didn't know how to answer, as I had never realized that I change languages when thinking😂
manuuuuela406 Many years ago when I lived in France someone told me that when I start dreaming in French that’s when you can tell I’m fluent haha. I hardly use French anymore though but as I speak 3 other languages on a daily I feel like my dreams have stopped being in a certain language 😅
Never Mind I was really perplexed about that question too the first time! 😂 But now I have gotten it so many times that I already know what to answer haha. I always say it depends on what language I am using the most at the moment. I speak 3 languages on a daily basis (I am a Swede who’s currently living in Colombia) and for example in the morning if I wake up with a text from my mom I will start thinking in Swedish. Then with my Colombian husband we often use English so after talking with him it’ll change to English. Then when I’m with my Colombian coworkers I will start thinking in Spanish. When I get home again and speak to my husband it’ll change back to English and if I talk to my family or friends from Sweden on the phone it’ll change to Swedish. So during the course of the day I’ll think in all three languages at least once
@@LinneAzalea that's interesting, your brain seems to be so organized. Mine is just a mess😂
I might start using your answer too xD It must be nice to be able to use three different languages on a daily basis, though.
i admire so muchhhh! im a chinese living in spain ,i speak english,spanish and chinese.im preparing erasmus program to france and i wanna learn french so bad!
Wow! It's incredible! You are sooooooo beautiful!!! Thank for sharing the experience and I'm pretty glad to hear you can speak mandarin Chinese like this! Very very nice viedo! My aunt lives in Helsinki and I've followed a Chinese TH-camr who lives there too. For me, Finland is looks like a world with snow and lovely stories! Hope to visit there soon!!! Loves from China!
Sehr beeindruckend dass du 6 Sprachen beherrscht 😀 Also ich finde dein Deutsch recht gut, für das dass du lange nicht mehr gesprochen hast. Irgendwann kannst du dann bestimmt fließend Deutsch sprechen! Mach weiter so 👍😀