This is just a temporary burn-out. We all go through them. I burned out too when I was your age. Three years from now, you'll be back to normal and learning languages with a passion.
@@mahya_polyglot Actually, I've thought deeper on the subject and now I'm thinking that maybe a very long extended hiatus from language learning might be a good idea. I took a 10 year break from language learning and it was a very good decision. I think you'll find that those languages that you have spoken frequently after 10 years they will still be there. That one language however that you refused to name where you only got to speak it once every two years, well, sadly, after a 5 year break, it might be gone. I was fluent in 5 languages when I took my 10 year break from languages and when I started studying them again, it only took about 2 months to get them back. By using your amazing mind to learn about new topics I think you'll find will make you very happy and it will be really eye-opening. I studied philosophy and was very astonished by what I found and I have feeling that something similar would happen in your case.
Real we be Speedruning them languages so much that we burn out ( we can't help speed running as we're so into finally speaking and consuming the language we learning)
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / Dutch / English / Danish / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as these languages are way too pretty not to know and they are the most enjoyable / fun to learn, plus there are so many great folk songs in these languages, which makes the learning process even more fun, and, the prettiest languages are automatically the easiest, as one naturally remembers the prettiest words fastest, and, pretty languages are almost always category 1 languages, including all Germanic languages and most Celtic languages, except for a few languages like Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian, which are category 2, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic, which have a category 3 spelling, though most words are easy to memorize - however, the language learning process is not going to be enjoyable if one chooses non-pretty languages such as Japanese or Chinese languages that are unnecessarily complicated category 10 languages with impossible writing systems that use characters instead of normal alphabets or even avrg languages such as Russian and Turkish which only have some pretty words and mostly words that aren’t pretty, so one should only choose pretty languages aka languages that have mostly pretty words, and one should choose Hungarian instead of Turkish, and Slovene and Latvian instead of Russian etc, and, I highly recommend prioritizing the most and learning fluently the prettiest languages ever created, and, Galician / Portuguese / Gallo / Latin / Venetian are also good options as they are some of the easiest and prettiest Latin languages and can be learnt on the side! (By the way, I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and Danish and Swedish and German and Portuguese and mid intermediate level in Welsh and French and Italian and native speaker level in Spanish and writer level in English and beginner level in Gothic and Cornish and Faroese and Breton and Latin and Hungarian and Latvian and Slovene and in most of my other target languages, as I have almost 100 target languages, though I am focusing the most on the prettiest ones and learning about 30 languages at the moment, but I also take short breaks regularly, whenever I feel like my hern needs a break from active learning, though I still watch every video with Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian etc subtitles tho, so I still get to learn and revise words more passively, even when I am not actively memorizing words or studying grammar etc, which is also a great way to reduce the feeling of stress and to not feel too overwhelmed, so, short breaks regularly are a better option than completely giving up on learning new languages, because language learning is one of the best hobbies and it can also be turned into a career, plus there are many great lyrics in Norse / Germanic / Celtic languages and some other languages that one really wouldn’t want to not be able to understand and enjoy, so one can even learn these gorgeous languages for their artistic value alone, to understand lyrics and poetry and even to write lyrics and poetry in these languages, as pretty languages are a work of art, and the prettiest languages are some of the greatest works of art ever, this also being a great motivation to learn them fluently, and, it’s also important to know that pretty words are naturally easier to memorize and remember as the hern naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster, so the prettier words need less repetitions to become permanent and automatic than non-pretty words, therefore choosing to learn only pretty words and only the languages with mostly pretty words also makes the learning process easier and faster, and, if one has already learnt some languages that aren’t with mostly pretty words or even some languages that aren’t with mostly pretty words one can use that knowledge to find a good job, for example, one can be a translator or a subtitle reviser or an interpreter, and one can even teach those languages to others, which are some of the best jobs!)
Some fun sentences in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are... Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse) Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse) Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse) Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic) Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch) Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc! (The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Faroese and Danish and English and Norwegian and FornSvenska and Welsh and Breton and Cornish!)
I speak 6 languages and what I do is enjoy reading, watching videos, listening to music, speaking and teaching for a living. I have spent 22 years on it without pressuring myself, Just trying to enjoy the process.
You know Mahya, you don’t have to please your teenage 14 year old self because of her idealistic unreal standards. You are 24 now, an adult and much better at decision making. You don’t trust a 14 year old with their life changing thoughts right now do you? Don’t let a memory from past avoid you to make decisions for Now.
Why do you think that people will judge us when we don't know certain word or don't understand what somebody said? The mere fact that you speak 8 languages is super impressive and billions of people don't even know one foreign language on fluent level.
I'm a polyglot also and can relate to this sort of perfectionist attitude towards language maintenance. But you are absolutely right. Why should we focus on saying everything 100% right all of the time when even native speakers make mistakes in their own mother tongues. Another thing you made a good point about, even just knowing multiple languages at high levels, is already a great feat!
@@LuggageLife We should not be paranoic about language maintenance at all. When you stop learning and using particular language for certain poriod of time for example 1 year or 5 years, you will not lose your progress and hard work that you put in the past is not wasted, you simply need to train for 2 weeks and you will remember everything again because languages are stored in our permanent memory and when we don't use them for longer periods of time they are still there, but we have less access to this, and when we train again for 2 weeks we get everything back. I am also polyglot and for 10 months I quit learning and using french and spanish and also felt kinda awkward and shy when needed to speak but I needed literally a few days to remind myself everything, because forgetting is natural but the more you remind yourself what you forget, you remember it deeper and can access it faster :D
Not really, because if one learns each word automatically it’s impossible to forget it, even if one wants to, so if one learns the languages fluently and automatically by seeing and hearing and saying each word many times over a longer period of time, one doesn’t have to maintain them, as the words become part of one’s active vocabulary, which is permanent - however, the language learning process is not going to be enjoyable if one chooses non-pretty languages such as Japanese or Chinese languages that are unnecessarily complicated category 10 languages or even avrg languages such as Russian and Turkish which only have some pretty words and mostly words that aren’t pretty, so one should only choose pretty languages aka languages that have mostly pretty words, and one should choose Hungarian instead of Turkish, and Slovene and Latvian instead of Russian etc, and, I highly recommend prioritizing the most and learning fluently the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / Dutch / English / Danish / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as these languages are way too pretty not to know and they are the most enjoyable / fun to learn, plus there are so many great folk songs in these languages, which makes the learning process even more fun, and, Galician / Portuguese / Gallo / Latin / Venetian are also good options as they are some of the easiest and prettiest Latin languages and can be learnt on the side! (By the way, I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and Danish and Swedish and German and Portuguese and mid intermediate level in Welsh and French and Italian and native speaker level in Spanish and writer level in English and beginner level in Gothic and Cornish and Faroese and Breton and Latin and Hungarian and Latvian and Slovene and in most of my other target languages, as I have almost 100 target languages, though I am focusing the most on the prettiest ones and learning about 30 languages at the moment, but I also take short breaks regularly, whenever I feel like my hern needs a break from active learning, though I still watch every video with Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian etc subtitles tho, so I still get to learn and revise words more passively, even when I am not actively memorizing words or studying grammar etc, which is also a great way to reduce the feeling of stress and to not feel too overwhelmed, so, short breaks regularly are a better option than completely giving up on learning new languages, because language learning is one of the best hobbies and it can also be turned into a career, plus there are many great lyrics in Norse / Germanic / Celtic languages and some other languages that one really wouldn’t want to not be able to understand and enjoy, so one can even learn these gorgeous languages for their artistic value alone, to understand lyrics and poetry and even to write lyrics and poetry in these languages, as pretty languages are a work of art, and the prettiest languages are some of the greatest works of art ever, this also being a great motivation to learn them fluently, and, it’s also important to know that pretty words are naturally easier to memorize and remember as the hern naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster, so the prettier words need less repetitions to become permanent and automatic than non-pretty words, therefore choosing to learn only pretty words and only the languages with mostly pretty words also makes the learning process easier and faster, and, if one has already learnt some languages that aren’t with mostly pretty words or even some languages that aren’t with mostly pretty words one can use that knowledge to find a good job, for example, one can be a translator or a subtitle reviser or an interpreter, and one can even teach those languages to others, which are some of the best jobs!)
Some fun sentences in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are... Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse) Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse) Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse) Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic) Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch) Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc! (The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Faroese and Danish and English and Norwegian and FornSvenska and Welsh and Breton and Cornish!)
By the way, the reason why one must always keep learning new words is, because there are just so many tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of words as well as tons of idioms and slang and phrases etc in most languages, so if one wants to be writer level and understand almost every word one reads or hears or sees, one must keep learning new words and keep reading all sorts of different texts in the target languages regularly, to expand both the passive vocabulary and the active vocabulary, and, one always learns new words even in one’s first language, even though one doesn’t notice that because one learns them passively and doesn’t think about it, but this is a good thing, because it’s good to have a really wide vocabulary and to be able to understand more and more words, and, if one feels like one can deal with something more extreme, one can even try to actively learn almost all the words or all the words from a language (at least the ones that aren’t a very rarely used technical term or a name of a less known chemical etc) by actively going through the full dictionary multiple times over time, and trying to memorize as many words as possible, and also trying to get the other words to become part of the passive memory at least, so that one can at least understand those words if one ever sees them when reading text in that language, which is something I’m planning to do in some of my target languages, as I have some target languages in which I want to know every word, or at least almost every word! However, one shouldn’t worry about words that one knows automatically that one has seen and heard and said many times and that one has typed or used a lot, as those words are permanent and cannot be forgotten, for example, the words I know automatically that I can instantly process in my hern are impossible to forget, so I remember them automatically and I can use them automatically without having to think about them, even if I don’t see or hear or say them in months or years, so I recommend learning as many words as possible automatically by regularly revising them over a longer period of time, until each word can be instantly processed, so, when the word can be instantly processed without the need to translate it into English or one’s native language inside the hern it means that the word has become part of the permanent and automatic memory! If one starts learning a new language, and learns words for a few months, and then takes a longer break, it only feels like one has forgotten most words because most of those words haven’t become automatic yet, so in this case, one just has to revise them more times over a longer period of time, and eventually they will become automatic, and, it’s also important to know that different words become automatic at different times, for example, words like house and food and drink etc that one uses the most tend to become automatic faster, while words that refer to a concept or rare terms that one doesn’t use a lot tend to require more repetitions to become automatic, so, in pretty languages, for example, it can take from 1 to 30 spaced repetitions for a word to become automatic, depending on the word, so, I noticed that certain words I can immediately remember automatically after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, while other words I have to repeat 6 times or 10 times or 30 times to finally be able to use and process them automatically without the need to translate them into English in my mind or to think about them for a few seconds, so it all depends on the word, but if one sees the words multiple times over a longer period of time, they do become automatic, so one shouldn’t worry about that!
You should read Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner. He's a polyglot and he goes over something called the curve of forgetting and how you can keep more of what you learn when you can't spend as much time on them in certain seasons of life.
I think the best way to retain languages is finding ways to incorporate them into one's daily routine. Such as watching shows, listening to podcasts, reading books or newspapers. Talking to friends online etc.
I am a Brazilian polyglot (Portuguese, French, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Esperanto) I totally agree with what you said in the video, I wasted so much time/money trying to learn new languages that I felt overwhelmed, but I never stopped, even without receiving the recognition or money I needed to continue. People think I am crazy smart, but being a polyglot makes it very difficult to keep all languages in my head at the same time, but this is a phenomenon that sets us apart from others. We are people who love languages and we need to do our best to practice and use them, otherwise we will forget them. It is a difficult and sometimes undervalued path, especially now with AI translation, we need to do it for the love, not for money or recognition. Anyway, thank you for this amazing video when I was watching it, I was thinking about my life as a language learner, I cried but I lauged because those languages battles that I choose and the time wasted made me who I am now.
Wow. I want to learn russian to, i only speak german turkish and english 😊 im now just beginning to learn the alphabet.. it helps to know turkish because some letters can be easy to understand bcs there are same Sounding letters in turkish (like ш -ş, ы - ı, ч - ç). Can I ask you what the rules are regarding the o that we read as an "A" like in спасибо (spasiba)? And the usage of ь ъ ? Do you have an easy explanation? Greetings from germany
Que lindo que seas honesta , es muy impresionante cuando vez a personas que se han esforzado tanto para aprender varios idiomas . Gracias por inspirar a gente como yo:)
French polyglot and long-time follower here. Just want to express to you my admiration for your language learning journey. Yes it is difficult as you said, and yes it requires a constant dedication that maybe makes you feel overwhelmed at last. But if I may add a positive feature you didn’t mention, it would be the desire you put in each of your viewers to join you in this journey. As for myself, my eagerness to learn Persian couldn’t have remained as strong without people like you on the other side of the screen. Here lies the beauty of our journey, solitary for many aspects, but aimed at connecting with people across the world in the end. In this international configuration, you’ve already succeeded and the role you play is priceless.
No, no. Keep talking. I finally feel like someone understands me. I'm so happy I came across your video. By the way, now I know what I need to do. Focusing on one language brings me good results but I start to decline in the others. I'm so glad to hear you talk about this. Also, I've been learning Russian for 21 years and I get frustrated when I don't know something or can't express myself. It's so true. It never ends. You are such an inspiration !!!❤
Omg. 21 years of learning Russian language! So impressive❤ what country are you originally from? Do you use Russian for your job? And as a native Russian speaker, I should say Russian is one of the hardest languages to learn! So you should be proud of yourself instead of being frustrated:)
Нет легких путей, на любом выбранном пути будут сложности. Вы - большая молодец и достойны уважения. Языки учить и поддерживать очень трудно. Согласна с каждым вашим словом! Успехов вам!!!
I am a polyglot, i speak four languages in my case, but relax we all go through it. Learning Language is like going to the gym, it never end. Just find a fun way to keep them. Thank you for sharing your experience, it means that we are not alone 😇
I understand the struggles you've faced because I encounter them regularly too. I thought you might give up on your journey, but I'm so glad to see you're persevering with your language learning!
Wow, I never thought something that seems like such a boon could ever hinder, your story helps us know to pace ourselves and not let our ambitions overwhelm us
I have learned many languages, I don’t regret the time I spent and I don’t try to maintain some languages like Japanese, hindi, amharic and somali. I have started forgetting them, I don’t care, I learning new languages which are relevant for me now.
@@geetikasharma6611 it is so normal because our brain is not created to memorize everything and never forget. It feels bad to forget what we have learned before, but we have to accept because we are just human beings
You've accomplished so much already! Since the moment you expressed the most satisfaction in your language learning was when you said that speaking to a native speaker in their mother tongue brings you great joy, Why not focus on languages you know you will use the most and let the other languages rest a little? If you ever need them, you will be able to revive them with some work. I think you put so much pressure on yourself that you are losing the joy. I'm 63 and still actively polishing my intermediate-level Spanish and Mandarin. I stopped studying Italian years ago, since I almost never meet anyone I can speak it with. I learned some American Sign Language when I was teaching a Deaf student one year, and I really enjoyed it, but since I"m not using it, I've let that slide, too. Life is short, especially at my age, so I want to spend my time on languages I will really use in my everyday life. You don't have to prove anything to the world.
هوّني عليكِ، تعلّم اللّغات هي رحلة لمدى الحياة، فلا تضغطي على نفسك واستمتعي بالرّحلة. وتذكّري أنّ القدرة على فهم لغات عدّة هي لوحدِها نِعمَةٌ عظيمة نشكُرُ المنّان عليها، فما بالك بالمقدرة على التّحدُّثِ بها.
We have to prioritize our life, time is always limited and we can't do everything we want. What you just did is great, but I think it's time for a smart girl your age to choose a more practical path. I had a friend who studied 3 different majors in college and didn't get a chance to work in any of them, I used to tell him if you had focused on one major and then went deeper into it like getting a master's or a doctorate it would have been much better for you. I wish you good luck and a beautiful life ahead, I think you will end up keeping Arabic, Chinese, English and maybe Spanish from today onwards in addition to Persian for sure.
My mother tongue is Arabic, I speak English and Russian, I live in Portugal currently learning Portuguese, and I have been suffering for years from acquiring Spanish, German, French and Italian. I feel for you because I am stubborn like you and I have suffered like you, but you have shown people every word I want to say, even your decision to stop learning and the decision to return to learning again is completely similar to me, and despite the emergence of artificial intelligence that will destroy years of effort, perseverance, trying, striving and insistence, you, I and all people obsessed with acquiring languages have not and will not lose.
I know currently 4 languages and I still learn, thank you for sharing content about learning languages. Listening to polyglots makes me motivated, to study. Especially in Arabic, I know so much, but it’s still so hard to utter anything. Good luck for you and your sister, I’m really impressed.
I never cared about maintaining languages. When a language comes to me i learn it, when it goes i let it go. I originally spent about three years trying to self-study Japanese but i could never go past the beginner level. Then i left it for many years and studied Chinese and Tibetan. Then at one point my friend asked me to help with a Japanese text, and i was able to understand of basic meaning due to lexical similarity with Chinese. Then i decided to reclaim my Japanese so that those three years were not in vain, so i spent about one more year communicating with Japanese and reading an unabridged novel slowly to improve my vocab. And after that i went to an intermediate level such that i could watch educational videos on TH-cam and participate in a reading club in Japanese. Later my Japanese again became rusty due to lack of use, but i am sure when it comes back i’ll be able to restore it to my highest proficiency in only a month or two. You never really forget languages, they simply get deactivated in your brain.
Finally someone says that language cannot be completely mastered. That’s something I’ve been always aware of. What surprised me and to what I partially agree is that your language competence is expected to be higher than the average native speakers‘. I freely speak three languages plus two more which I don’t practice for the same reason which Mahya has mentioned here. Practice really makes perfection. Thank you, Mahya, there’s a lot of sense in what you are saying.
I love language learning😊 I'm not a polyglot like you, I only know Persian and English and some Chinese but I'm going through the same things you said! It can easily be forgotten and life is hard! I can't study all the time.. but I'll go back to learning it again!! Yeah Please tell us your plan too, it can help me somehow plan my own routine
Thanks for sharing your experience! Just to add, I also think learning lesser known languages is not always about speaking or practicing with natives, but you have access to all of their literature and media in the original language which may not be translated. I started learning Italian, not to speak with others but primarily to read the poetry of Dante
You are so young. I'm 36 now and I've just started learning Italian. Maybe i will be fluent one day, or maybe not, but my goal is to have fun to speaking, watching videos, listening music etc. After Italian I am planning another languages. Ok, it would be easier to start when I was young, but there was no opportunity. Now nothing will stop me. Even now, when I try speaking italian, there are sone French words in my head. It will be 10 years when i dont speak french. Your gap year in Learning is not sth bad, but sth helpful to not get crazy. You will get enjoy again, best wishes
I really liked the fact that you spoke about the negative side of this and that you were very honest thank you so much I am a new follower who is on the same journey as you and please make a video about how AI will influence our world “polyglots”
I love language learning! 🥰🧡 Thanks for sharing your honest opinions, it really helps people such as myself, stay motivated. Wishing you all the best! ❤
Well, I did watch it till the end. Thank you for sharing ! As a Cuban I also ran through hoops to be able to learn a little bit of English, and yet when I came to live in the States I wasn't fluent and had trouble understanding others. That's how big a lack or resources we had in Cuba and in general the government there never encourage people to learn English. I was however able to attend La Alliançe Française and came to Miami area with more knowledge of French than English. 20 years later I'm again bit by the language bug and I'm trying to learn to fluency my wife's language ( Russian) and took an interest in Arabic Levantine and Portugue's and trying somehow to maintain French. Your recount of your journey is very interesting to me how in a close society like Iran you pulled off what you did ! Still trying to figure what language is that you can't find speakers to use it with ( Italian maybe ??, hope is not Arabic !).
this video is pretty inspiring for me. especially because i can exactly understand how you feel as a tehran citizen. your routine was crazy dudeee i wish you the best xd
Mahya, a someone who loves learning languages, i feel the same way I know Urdu, Arabic, some German, and learning Turkish atm, yet i also should have learned Spanish as its the 2nd most spoken language in the United States. My best advice to memorize grammar and vocabulary efficiently for you is make sentences as an exercise. Make sure the sentences you are constructing relate to you and you only personally, like what you did, are doing, and what you will do in your life, as well as making sentences according to your sentiments and things you value, like political opinions, culture, religion, and family. As someone who is learning Turkish, given how challenging the verbs are, it has become so helpful Take a rest and when ready, continue with slow steps ❤❤
Mahya, Вы очень красивая и умная девушка! Из всех способов получения удовольствия, доступных любому человеку на нашей планете, Вы выбрали один из лучших: познание других культур и их языков. Все усилия, приложенные Вами на этом пути, не напрасны. Результаты Вашей работы, глубокое знакомство минимум с девятью различными культурами и языками будут питать Ваш мозг "здоровым" дофамином всю Вашу жизнь. Кроме того, Вы им делитесь с другими людьми. Я тоже получил свою порцию после просмотра Вашего видео😀. Спасибо за это. Продолжайте, пожалуйста!
As someone fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German, the key for me in all these choices (aside from English, my mother-tongue) is attraction to the culture/country. I’d find it _extremely_ difficult to find the motivation to randomly learn a language if: 1. I wasn’t particularly attracted to the culture/country. 2. I wasn’t going to have any real chance to actually use the language. If you’re being a polyglot for being a polyglot’s sake then, IME, unless you are supremely self-motivated and/or financially rewarded for it, this is extremely difficult to do. My key advice to _anyone_ thinking of being multilingual from scratch: 1. Be attracted to the place(s)/culture(s) that use the given language, otherwise the motivation to continue will drop off very quickly. 2. Try to ensure you pick languages that you will have the chance to use on a regular basis. In my case, I visit France, Spain (South America), Italy and Germany regularly so am constantly getting the opportunity to actually _use_ the languages and keep them ‘topped up’ in the real world. 3. Enjoy it! If it’s a chore, stop. It isn’t worth it. Shakespeare said: _No profit grows where no pleasure ta'en: in brief, sir, study what you most affect._ He is saying that nothing useful comes from work without _enjoyment!_
I started learning Mandarin a long time ago because of a martial arts movies that I went to see 5 times in theaters. 😆 I grew up loving martial arts series and movies but never cared to learn before that. Your motivation can be about songs and the sounds of a language too not just cultural stuff in my opinion.
I also became interested in learning Spanish after watching an SNL skit titled La Policia Mexicana. It was so funny and I liked the pronunciation and sounds of Spanish. I also have loved the song Mas Alla by Gloria Estefan for a long time so I started practicing singing it and learning pronunciation and meanings of some words. I mean I go slowly and I likely won't get to use it. But it's just for fun and to satisfy my curiosity.
@@titteryenot4524 Just a different viewpoint based on my personal experience. I thought someone that is interested in different languages and cultures would be more open-minded. Boy how wrong I was. Someone can love languages for phonetics and sounds too. True songs are part of a culture but as in the case of Spanish for me I have no idea about Spanish or Latin culture. I just like the sounds and pronunciation.
I love language learning🥰 محیا جان مطالبی که گفتی برای من خیلی مفید بود چون منم عاشق یادگیری زبان های مختلف هستم و امیدوارم روزی سطح زبانم مثل تو عالی بشه❤ You are amazing, you just need some rest to come back stronger than before✨️👊
I'm not really a polyglot but I absolutely understand everything you said. I love languages and I find learning them very enjoyable, but it definitely comes with many struggles. The most important one for me is that when you don't have the opportunity to travel a lot or live abroad and you don't have any acquaintances who are native speakers of other languages you can't learn them or practice them naturally, and it takes a lot of effort and time of actively studying them to get to a decent level, and most likely you will need to take classes which are expensive. Even in English and Italian which I have studied for many years now and I think I know quite well, I feel I'm embarrassing myself when I speak them, especially with native speakers, due to the lack of practice. And definitely, if you don't keep having some sort of contact with a language, you'll quickly ferget it, I tried learning French and Russian years ago and now even though I can recognise some words or phrases if I read them, I can't speak them at all, not even simple sentences. I've been wanting to learn Arabic, particularly Egyptian arabic for a while now, cause I find it really beautiful and interesting, but not only it will be extremely challenging as a Spanish speaker living in Spain and I won't find many resources, it will be completely "useless" unless I get to visit Egypt someday which probably won't be for more than a week anyway. I just take it easy and I don't aim to fluency when learning languages other than English, often I just see it as a hobby, that makes it way easier and enjoyable imo.
I love language learning too (yes, I listened to the whole video), and I totally second all your points, though I have been a much less dedicated learner than you have, and have therefore cried less. I have studied English (which I now teach), Russian for five years (all lost), ancient Greek for five years (all lost, then regained, then lost again, but I'm currently relearning it), Latin for two years (more or less maintained at an intermediate level), Sanskrit for one year (all lost), Chinese for one year (all lost), Japanese for two years (all lost), and currently learning Hebrew (both Biblical and modern) and Finnish. I think I need to focus on the languages that really matter to me, but unlike you, for me, it's not how many native speakers I have the opportunity to speak to or what job opportunities open to me, but what I can read in those languages. So ancient Greek, Latin and Finnish are my priorities.
Thank you for sharing 💗 Sending hugs from FL. I love learning languages when I can and you're such an inspiration girl. We go through highs and lows sometimes 🫶
Dear Mahya, my mother was a piano teacher, and she always told us "Learning takes place between practice sessions." In the next few years, you will start moving into the practical application of your language skills in the world. Eventually every language gets its own set of activities, people, and things you do ... We will not be William Shakespeare in every language we learn, and that's alright! There are many other things we can bring to the world with our skills.
This resonates a lot with me, I don't know as much languages as you know (3 fluent including my mother tongue, 1 upper intermediate and 3 lower intermediate) but yeah sometimes I feel overwhelmed especially since I began vet med school and same as you I can't see myself giving up so sometimes it's a bit hard, I feel that I don't use them as much as I'd like but 一起加油, we will get through this, you inspire me a lot in this journey, take care ! ♥
It was one of the best videos you have made so far. You were transparent, raw, and understandable. This is the kind of blogger people look for and look up to. So thank you. Keep up the good work. You're doing well.🔥
Very insightful! I sort of have a dream to speak several languages, but maybe a few less after watching this 😅 Anyway, you are a true inspiration. May Allah bring you endless success 🙌
I was really surprised to see that title from you! But I like the video and your being honest about it. I had often wondered how you could be so good at languages, but now I know it's because you really put in the effort. By now, I think you've realized that you don't have to work that hard in order to maintain languages once you are beyond a certain level. You might get a bit rusty, but not really forget them any more. Two things I do differently: one, I don't spend money on language learning; there is so much free content in the internet. When I was young, there was no internet, so the only thing I bought was books. So I never have to regret the money spent on languages. The other thing is that I do language learning only for having fun, for enjoying it. There isn't much practical use in knowing more than four languages. But if I enjoy learning, if I enjoy talking to people, if I enjoy reading in a foreign language, I don't have to worry about AI. AI can do a lot, but not take away my hobby. So studying many languages CAN cause burn-out, depression, etc, but not necessarily. It can as well be a source of enjoyment. And of course it can change one's life, as in your case. Just keep on going, but be kind to yourself and enjoy your languages!
I live in Poland, i dont meet foreigners. It doesnt disturb me. But! I can understand videos, music, read social media in forein languages and that is really great!
where in Poland do you live? If you live in the west or silesia/east prussia, then i doubt that you yet dont got overrun by german tourists 😂. my experience
German is not the language that i am learning so German people are not the foreigners that i need ;) they dont speak any foreing language. They even dont have to, because in people can speak german in Polish restaurants in big cities ;)
I will add this comment too, I laughed when you mention robot ai😂. We are humans, our place can't be replaced, always will be needed. I saw your videos in China, interacting with elders and kids, beautiful. This is the humanity not roboty.
I think that you should enjoy and take advantage for the opportunity that you have. People that don't have nothing to eat or where to live can't learn nothing just to survive. But you won't understand that because you were born with a lot of opportunities. Enjoy your life instead of complaining ❤
Hello Mahya, I am Labib, from Indonesia. Thank you for sharing your sharing about being polyglot to speak 9 languages. Currently I learn five languages simultaneously. But I can not say that I am fluently those languages. Because I have been learning Chinese, Korean and Japanese for a year and I am doing it by myself. But I have been learning Arabic and English since I am teenager. So I can say English is quite good then Arabic is a bit good. But for three languages that I mentioned, I am still beginner. I like learning those languages. I choose to limit not learning more than 5 languages, even though I have learned a bit Turkish, Spanish and Thailand, because I don't want to pressure my mental and mind. I only choose languages that having more opportunity to get job or communicate with native, which is five languages that I am learning is so important based on cooperation in my country to those countries, including relations between people to people. I agree to many your statements regarding to learn languages, maintaining languages is difficult and ther is never ends to learn languages. Because languages is the art and bridging to communicate with people around the world either by written in the books or by oral. So they are always developing, including my own mother tongue. For AI that taken for speaking languages, Jack Ma, former of owner of Alibaba said, "even though there is AI to translate languages to the others, but they can never change for person who can speak the languages. Because learning languages for human, it means we are also learning their culture and we will be respected". I got a bit of those experiences, when I speak with Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean natives through online. They will be surprised and giving appreciation for me that desire to learn their languages. For your information, I am learning languages during I am struggling of some of disabilities and one illness, the disability is hip fracture and anxiety disorders then the ilnesss is chronic gallbladder. So for me, learning languages is one way for me to recover my illness and dealing with my disabilities. When I am learning languages and practicing by writing, speaking or listening, I will be happy. So it decreases my overwhelming about my disabilities and illness. So I know it is difficult to learn languages even for maintaining, you are next level for me, so I am learning from you how to speak many languages. But as long as we do it with having fun and managing the time is so well, I am pretty sure, it doesn't pressure for us. Don't take it seriously to people say about some mistakes or not understanding yet about some vocabularies or sentences those languages. Because we are ourselves that we have own our shoes that people never know how struggle about learning languages. Perfectionist is good, but if it is over perfectionist, it will destroy the mentally. So focusing your own purposes and happiness what you do, also do relaxing to calmness your mind about learning languages, so I think those are several ways to maintain of mental health and will impact for still good to learn and practice to languages. Keep it up!
Wow I've just read your comment & I just wanted to let you know that😅 BTW,I hope your health status will become better & better. Good luck with multilinguism❤
Bravo for this video Mahya! I see your determination and I am sure you will find the right balance to keep going. BTW congratulations for your scholarship in China!!
I want you to know that languages don't vanish out of your brain when it feels like you are forgetting; they only rust. You can dust off that rust at any point in your lifetime so it's okay to put them on the shelf and pick up again in the future. 💜
سلام محیای عزیزم. این مطلب که گفتی یادگرفتن زبان برای بعضی ها واقعا اعتیاد آور هست رو کاملا درک میکنم. برعکس شما، من به جز چند ترم عربی، برای هیچ زبانی کلاس به خصوصی نرفتم، و البته به اندازهٔ شما روی همه زبان هایی که بلدم مسلط نیستم، ولی خب فکر میکنم به اندازه ای که احتیاج دارم، کافیه! من درک میکنم که فکر کردن به بیرون اومدن از این مسیر، چقدر میتونه احساس شکست و تلف کردنِ عمر به آدم بده، خصوصا برای تو که بیشتر هزینه ها رو در دوره ای کردی که استقلال مالی نداشتی و یک جورایی خودت رو مدیون و بدهکار میدونی نسبت به والدینت، اما بیا کمی بیرحم باشیم و از این زاویه به موضوع نگاه کنیم، که ما هرچقدر بزرگتر میشیم، با موقعیت های جدیدی رو به رو میشیم که برای اینکه از پس چالشهامون بربیایم احتیاج به مهارتهایی داریم! آینده قابل پیش بینی نیست و بنابراین مهارتهایی هم که در آینده نیاز داریم لزوما قابل پیش بینی نیست، در این دنیایی که اینقدر عدم قطعیت داره، با وجود انسانیِ خودمون که تا سن بالایی از عمر مدام در هر حال امتحان کردن و اشتیاق و علاقه و عدم علاقه هست، تغییر دادنِ مسیر اصلا شرم آور نیست. من احساسی مشابه تو رو داشتم وقتی چند کنکور ناموفق رو پشت سر گذاشتم و مادر و پدرم برای من در اون سالها خیلی هزینه کرده بودند، اما یک جا آدم باید شجاعت به خرج بده و تصمیم های جدید بگیره و حتی در حین گرفتنِ همین تصمیم های جدید خودش رو آماده کنه برای این پذیرش که «ممکنه چند سال بعد، همین تصمیم رو هم عوض کنم و از این مسیر هم خارج بشم» من یا باید به افسردگی ناشی از شکست ها و شرم ها ادامه میدادم یا باید مسیرم رو عوض میکردم با تمام عواقبش! و بذار بهت این مژده رو بدم که شجاعت داشتن، آنچنان قدرتی به آدم میده که حسش، از حس افتخارِ چند زبانه بودن قوی تره! رها بودن باعث میشه استرس های جانبی از بین بره و به خلاقیت اجازهٔ بروز میده، خودت رو جای کسی تصور کن که برای قبولی پزشکی بسیار تلاش کرده و حالا داره فشار های دروس سنگین پزشکی رو هم تحمل میکنه، این آدم اگر در پس ذهنش مطمئن باشه که اونقدر شجاع هست که اگر روزی تصمیم بگیره پشت پا بزنه به همهٔ این تلاش ها و هزینه ها و رشتهش رو عوض کنه، این تصمیم رو اجرایی میکنه!... به این جرئت استثنایی فکر کن و حالا مقایسهش کن با اغلب دانشجو های پزشکی که وقتی میبینن از همه طرف فشار وجود داره و این رشته اون بهشتی که تصور میکردن نیست، جرئتِ بیرون اومدن ندارن چون برای رسیدن به اینجا خیلی تلاش کردن. افسردگی رو تصور کن. احساس شکست رو تصور کن... همین مثال دربارهٔ افرادی که مهاجرت میکنن و میفهمن که اشتباه کردن ولی جرئت برگشت ندارن صدق میکنه، میتونی با هر شرایطی منطبق کنی و به این فکر کن که همهٔ این آدمها در 70 سالگی تایید میکنن که اگر لحظه ای که فهمیدن جای اشتباه قرار دارن، برمیگشتن، کمتر هزینه میدادن تا اینکه بمونن و زندگی رو برای خودشون جهنم کنن... نمیگم شرایط تو میتونه به جهنم کردنِ زندگی منجر بشه، بلکه فکر میکنم فارغ شدنِ از این دغدغه میتونه بخشی از پتانسیل هایی که در تو وجود دارن و الان دارن سرکوب میشن رو آزاد کنه. دربارهٔ این موضوع میتونم بیشتر حرف بزنم چون خودم باهاش دست و پنجه نرم کردم اما فکر کنم کافی باشه، در پایان ازت میخوام که سری ویدئو های «تقصیر تو نبود» در کانال مجتبی شکوری با موضوع شرم رو ببینی. اون کتاب تونست به من دید وسیع تری بده دربارهٔ مشکلم. موفق باشی عزیزم❤
Girl I am almost 40 , I know 4 languages and learning 2 more, yes it is a full commitment to maintain. I am so proud of you Plese please don't be so hard on yourself. Being a perfectionist and being tooooo ambitious can be self-destructive. So I hope you will just enjoy what you already learned and used it in the best way without the pressure to always want more and more.
Hola, soy de China. Hablo cuatro idiomas: chino, inglés, ruso y español. Hace dos años intenté aprender persa por mi cuenta porque, en mi opinión, el persa es el segundo idioma más bonito del mundo, pero debo admitir que me rendí muy pronto debido a la dificultad del sistema de escritura en su idioma (al escribir en persa, se omiten tres vocales cortas en los textos). Por último, quiero decir que amo al pueblo iraní. Espero que un día en el futuro no haya represiones contra las mujeres iraníes y que las mujeres iraníes puedan vivir en un país libre. Zan. Zendegi. Azadi.
Hello, I am an Iranian girl and I am happy that I live in my country Iran and I am proud to be Iranian, but Iran is not as you say, it is not that you think there is violence against women in Iran. In fact, every country has its own rules and our country is Islamic, so a series of rules must be followed, which does not mean violence. With a little research, you will find that Iranian women have no restrictions in various fields of science, sports, politics, etc. Unfortunately, many foreign media attacks on Iran have made many people in the world think that Iran is a dangerous country, while in reality it is not. Finally, I will be happy if you travel to Iran one day and see Iran as it really is.❤
I started learning English two years ago, and I agree that maintaining the language is the hardest part of the journey. However, I can't deny that it's fun once you recognize your progress. Now, I can watch your videos with much less effort than the first time, and that makes me happy.
If I can give one piece of advice: it’s not a duty to maintain all your languages at all times! It’s perfectly ok to let one or the other rest for a while. Yes, you will forget things in the meantime, but it will be much easier to relearn the second time if and when you decide to focus on that language again!
As-Salaamu Aleikum Mahya! I understand your arguments very well. I speak 2 languages fluently (English and German). English is my mother tongue, German I've acquired while living here in Germany for 30+ years. I study Spanish, Arabic, French, Italian and occasionally Mandarin. I don't intend to "master" them all. I don't intend to reach "fluency" in all. Practicality is an important key! Exercising the brain also key. 🙂 Don't despair Mahya! All will be good.
I would advise you to take a break on a few of your languages that you don't use much. I had to learn German and French in school and stopped learning those after a few years in school. I was bad at learning those languages and didn't enjoy it at all. I recently picked learning them up again (over 3 decades later). I speak Dutch and English fluently, but I never study those. I don't need to because I still use both frequently. Stop studying and just occasionally watch some videos in the different languages you speak. You might lose a little bit of the fluency, but it comes back very fast if you use the language more again.
Ist Deutsch für dich wirklich so schwer, wenn du Niederländisch sprichst? Habe eigentlich nur positives gehört, wenn man vom Niederländischen aus Deutsch lernt und umgekehrt.
@@edelweiss- Nein, es ist nicht sehr schwer. It's relatively easy to understand German when you speak Dutch already. German however has different grammar. I was just a poor language learner. I was bad at learning those languages in school compared to the other children in my class. Perhaps I'm still not great at learning languages. But since I can already understand German, I can learn it relatively easily through exposure, which as a student I never did. I mostly need to learn to write and speak it.
Hey 🎉 As a Iranian guy in my 26 I started learning English seriously, in 27 I started learning French and in 28 last year Chinese. I thought I was too old to learn them but the fact is I used up my dead time to learn them just 45 minutes every day for each one, but I didn't give up and I want to reap the benefits in my 35 years old... My goal is working as a self employee... I'm tired to be working for others... Being employee... Thanks for sharing and I think you achieved the best skills in the best time... You are too young to have a lot opportunities ahead of yourself...🎉🎉
Amazing, I don't know how you managed to maintain 9 languages. But it is very impressive, and you should be proud of yourself you are doing an excellent job. I just pray to be able to at least speak 4 languages only. I am kind of late to the game of language learning. I speak only English and Spanish. Started learning 3 months earlier Italian and a couple of days ago began learning Germany so I can find a new job using German. My end goal is to keep these 4 languages within a range of a B2 - C1 level. I hope this is possible. Thanks for sharing your amazing story.
What a relatable video. So impressive. Everything you said is the same for me too. Cantonese, Croatian, French, Spanish, German, English, Russian is expensive and time consuming. Big burn out on learning new languages with constant maintenance requirements.
Your 14 yo self needed you to say that it is HARD and she will be proud of you whether you maintain them or not. The time was never wasted, the effort made you grow. Isn’t it better than looking back and regretting what you never attempted to do? This growth alone will help you through struggles for the rest of your life.
Bet your 14 year old self would be wonderfully proud, I've been informally studying outside of school on and off again since I've been 10 years old I'm 26 and I'm a lower intermediate in Chinese and an upper intermediate in Spanish. I remember wanting to learn every language in the world when I was 10 or as many as I could and wasted so much time doing the beginning of every langauge on Byki. All that accomplished was being able to recognize which language was what by the writing and a fun puzzle. I have stuck to Chinese and Spanish because I want to have the highest reach for reading and exploring stuff humanly possible and because Spanish is the second language here in America and Chinese is the third most common so I can run into their cultures accidentally in big cities for fun sometimes . Don't be so hard on yourself, you could study less languages you don't have to be monolingual. Your English sounds amazing!
I am not a hyperpolyglot and it is not my goal either. I really love learning languages, but so far I am happy about learning 2 foreign languages. My goal is to be able to read books in those languages and be able to communicate if I need to. I am quite demanding when it comes to English and I want to be as good as I can at using it. Spanish is the second foreign language and I'd love to reach advanced level as well. I think I would like to learn one language more in the future, but it si still open which one... I prefer quality to quantity...And I realise how time-consuming it is to learn foreign language and I don' t want to spend all my free time studying. I want to do other things as well ... And I agree it is a whole life journey
Why regret? It was your passion. Concentrate on one or two languages now and start teaching them in some academic setting or be a translator. Do not think about other languages. Let them be forgotten. School children learn many subjects but in their post graduate study, they have to choose only one. Take it that way.
I speak Hebrew and English fluently, some Italian, and currently trying to learn Japanese as a hobby. It's always fun (at least for me) to learn new cool fun facts about languages, and using all you've learned in the certain language in the country that use that language, Tolkien said that learning a new language is like trying a new drink at a bar.
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This is just a temporary burn-out. We all go through them. I burned out too when I was your age. Three years from now, you'll be back to normal and learning languages with a passion.
Thank you for the kind words
@@mahya_polyglot Actually, I've thought deeper on the subject and now I'm thinking that maybe a very long extended hiatus from language learning might be a good idea. I took a 10 year break from language learning and it was a very good decision. I think you'll find that those languages that you have spoken frequently after 10 years they will still be there. That one language however that you refused to name where you only got to speak it once every two years, well, sadly, after a 5 year break, it might be gone. I was fluent in 5 languages when I took my 10 year break from languages and when I started studying them again, it only took about 2 months to get them back. By using your amazing mind to learn about new topics I think you'll find will make you very happy and it will be really eye-opening. I studied philosophy and was very astonished by what I found and I have feeling that something similar would happen in your case.
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The amount of times I've burnt out like this, dog XD
Real we be Speedruning them languages so much that we burn out ( we can't help speed running as we're so into finally speaking and consuming the language we learning)
I think the hardest thing about language learning is to want to be or to wish can speak like native speaker
Literally!
I can’t lie it’s the worst feeling in the world lmao truth😆
Yes the biggest mistake...
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / Dutch / English / Danish / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as these languages are way too pretty not to know and they are the most enjoyable / fun to learn, plus there are so many great folk songs in these languages, which makes the learning process even more fun, and, the prettiest languages are automatically the easiest, as one naturally remembers the prettiest words fastest, and, pretty languages are almost always category 1 languages, including all Germanic languages and most Celtic languages, except for a few languages like Hungarian and Latvian and Finnish and Estonian, which are category 2, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic, which have a category 3 spelling, though most words are easy to memorize - however, the language learning process is not going to be enjoyable if one chooses non-pretty languages such as Japanese or Chinese languages that are unnecessarily complicated category 10 languages with impossible writing systems that use characters instead of normal alphabets or even avrg languages such as Russian and Turkish which only have some pretty words and mostly words that aren’t pretty, so one should only choose pretty languages aka languages that have mostly pretty words, and one should choose Hungarian instead of Turkish, and Slovene and Latvian instead of Russian etc, and, I highly recommend prioritizing the most and learning fluently the prettiest languages ever created, and, Galician / Portuguese / Gallo / Latin / Venetian are also good options as they are some of the easiest and prettiest Latin languages and can be learnt on the side! (By the way, I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and Danish and Swedish and German and Portuguese and mid intermediate level in Welsh and French and Italian and native speaker level in Spanish and writer level in English and beginner level in Gothic and Cornish and Faroese and Breton and Latin and Hungarian and Latvian and Slovene and in most of my other target languages, as I have almost 100 target languages, though I am focusing the most on the prettiest ones and learning about 30 languages at the moment, but I also take short breaks regularly, whenever I feel like my hern needs a break from active learning, though I still watch every video with Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian etc subtitles tho, so I still get to learn and revise words more passively, even when I am not actively memorizing words or studying grammar etc, which is also a great way to reduce the feeling of stress and to not feel too overwhelmed, so, short breaks regularly are a better option than completely giving up on learning new languages, because language learning is one of the best hobbies and it can also be turned into a career, plus there are many great lyrics in Norse / Germanic / Celtic languages and some other languages that one really wouldn’t want to not be able to understand and enjoy, so one can even learn these gorgeous languages for their artistic value alone, to understand lyrics and poetry and even to write lyrics and poetry in these languages, as pretty languages are a work of art, and the prettiest languages are some of the greatest works of art ever, this also being a great motivation to learn them fluently, and, it’s also important to know that pretty words are naturally easier to memorize and remember as the hern naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster, so the prettier words need less repetitions to become permanent and automatic than non-pretty words, therefore choosing to learn only pretty words and only the languages with mostly pretty words also makes the learning process easier and faster, and, if one has already learnt some languages that aren’t with mostly pretty words or even some languages that aren’t with mostly pretty words one can use that knowledge to find a good job, for example, one can be a translator or a subtitle reviser or an interpreter, and one can even teach those languages to others, which are some of the best jobs!)
Some fun sentences in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are...
Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse)
Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse)
Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse)
Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára!
En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu!
Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim!
Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska!
Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin!
Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana...
Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic)
Hvíslaðu að svaninum!
En ertu frá hinum hlutanum?
Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi?
Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch)
Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc!
(The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Faroese and Danish and English and Norwegian and FornSvenska and Welsh and Breton and Cornish!)
I speak 6 languages and what I do is enjoy reading, watching videos, listening to music, speaking and teaching for a living. I have spent 22 years on it without pressuring myself, Just trying to enjoy the process.
😊Thanks for sharing!
What is your languages?😊
@@AlexandraDesign-ig8bu Portuguese, spanish, italian, English, Latin and Ancient Greek.
@@passoapassodaredacao602 how do you learn ancient Greek language
@@paint_098. I had classes many years ago. In addition, by reading easy sentences, studying books like Athenaze and teaching. I was seminarist.
You know Mahya, you don’t have to please your teenage 14 year old self because of her idealistic unreal standards.
You are 24 now, an adult and much better at decision making.
You don’t trust a 14 year old with their life changing thoughts right now do you?
Don’t let a memory from past avoid you to make decisions for Now.
you're so real for this
Why do you think that people will judge us when we don't know certain word or don't understand what somebody said? The mere fact that you speak 8 languages is super impressive and billions of people don't even know one foreign language on fluent level.
Thanks 🙏🏼 you are right!
I'm a polyglot also and can relate to this sort of perfectionist attitude towards language maintenance. But you are absolutely right. Why should we focus on saying everything 100% right all of the time when even native speakers make mistakes in their own mother tongues. Another thing you made a good point about, even just knowing multiple languages at high levels, is already a great feat!
@@LuggageLife We should not be paranoic about language maintenance at all. When you stop learning and using particular language for certain poriod of time for example 1 year or 5 years, you will not lose your progress and hard work that you put in the past is not wasted, you simply need to train for 2 weeks and you will remember everything again because languages are stored in our permanent memory and when we don't use them for longer periods of time they are still there, but we have less access to this, and when we train again for 2 weeks we get everything back. I am also polyglot and for 10 months I quit learning and using french and spanish and also felt kinda awkward and shy when needed to speak but I needed literally a few days to remind myself everything, because forgetting is natural but the more you remind yourself what you forget, you remember it deeper and can access it faster :D
@ourdan14 Yes! I Definitely agree with everything you said 🙌🏻
WHAT A pretty sentence!!!!!!!!! learning a language is not hard!!! maintaining it is hard!!!
Thanks for your kind comment
Not really, because if one learns each word automatically it’s impossible to forget it, even if one wants to, so if one learns the languages fluently and automatically by seeing and hearing and saying each word many times over a longer period of time, one doesn’t have to maintain them, as the words become part of one’s active vocabulary, which is permanent - however, the language learning process is not going to be enjoyable if one chooses non-pretty languages such as Japanese or Chinese languages that are unnecessarily complicated category 10 languages or even avrg languages such as Russian and Turkish which only have some pretty words and mostly words that aren’t pretty, so one should only choose pretty languages aka languages that have mostly pretty words, and one should choose Hungarian instead of Turkish, and Slovene and Latvian instead of Russian etc, and, I highly recommend prioritizing the most and learning fluently the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / Dutch / English / Danish / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as these languages are way too pretty not to know and they are the most enjoyable / fun to learn, plus there are so many great folk songs in these languages, which makes the learning process even more fun, and, Galician / Portuguese / Gallo / Latin / Venetian are also good options as they are some of the easiest and prettiest Latin languages and can be learnt on the side! (By the way, I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and Danish and Swedish and German and Portuguese and mid intermediate level in Welsh and French and Italian and native speaker level in Spanish and writer level in English and beginner level in Gothic and Cornish and Faroese and Breton and Latin and Hungarian and Latvian and Slovene and in most of my other target languages, as I have almost 100 target languages, though I am focusing the most on the prettiest ones and learning about 30 languages at the moment, but I also take short breaks regularly, whenever I feel like my hern needs a break from active learning, though I still watch every video with Icelandic / Dutch / Norwegian etc subtitles tho, so I still get to learn and revise words more passively, even when I am not actively memorizing words or studying grammar etc, which is also a great way to reduce the feeling of stress and to not feel too overwhelmed, so, short breaks regularly are a better option than completely giving up on learning new languages, because language learning is one of the best hobbies and it can also be turned into a career, plus there are many great lyrics in Norse / Germanic / Celtic languages and some other languages that one really wouldn’t want to not be able to understand and enjoy, so one can even learn these gorgeous languages for their artistic value alone, to understand lyrics and poetry and even to write lyrics and poetry in these languages, as pretty languages are a work of art, and the prettiest languages are some of the greatest works of art ever, this also being a great motivation to learn them fluently, and, it’s also important to know that pretty words are naturally easier to memorize and remember as the hern naturally remembers the prettier and more distinctive words faster, so the prettier words need less repetitions to become permanent and automatic than non-pretty words, therefore choosing to learn only pretty words and only the languages with mostly pretty words also makes the learning process easier and faster, and, if one has already learnt some languages that aren’t with mostly pretty words or even some languages that aren’t with mostly pretty words one can use that knowledge to find a good job, for example, one can be a translator or a subtitle reviser or an interpreter, and one can even teach those languages to others, which are some of the best jobs!)
Some fun sentences in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are...
Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse)
Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse)
Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse)
Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára!
En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu!
Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim!
Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska!
Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin!
Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana...
Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic)
Hvíslaðu að svaninum!
En ertu frá hinum hlutanum?
Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi?
Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch)
Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc!
(The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Faroese and Danish and English and Norwegian and FornSvenska and Welsh and Breton and Cornish!)
By the way, the reason why one must always keep learning new words is, because there are just so many tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of words as well as tons of idioms and slang and phrases etc in most languages, so if one wants to be writer level and understand almost every word one reads or hears or sees, one must keep learning new words and keep reading all sorts of different texts in the target languages regularly, to expand both the passive vocabulary and the active vocabulary, and, one always learns new words even in one’s first language, even though one doesn’t notice that because one learns them passively and doesn’t think about it, but this is a good thing, because it’s good to have a really wide vocabulary and to be able to understand more and more words, and, if one feels like one can deal with something more extreme, one can even try to actively learn almost all the words or all the words from a language (at least the ones that aren’t a very rarely used technical term or a name of a less known chemical etc) by actively going through the full dictionary multiple times over time, and trying to memorize as many words as possible, and also trying to get the other words to become part of the passive memory at least, so that one can at least understand those words if one ever sees them when reading text in that language, which is something I’m planning to do in some of my target languages, as I have some target languages in which I want to know every word, or at least almost every word!
However, one shouldn’t worry about words that one knows automatically that one has seen and heard and said many times and that one has typed or used a lot, as those words are permanent and cannot be forgotten, for example, the words I know automatically that I can instantly process in my hern are impossible to forget, so I remember them automatically and I can use them automatically without having to think about them, even if I don’t see or hear or say them in months or years, so I recommend learning as many words as possible automatically by regularly revising them over a longer period of time, until each word can be instantly processed, so, when the word can be instantly processed without the need to translate it into English or one’s native language inside the hern it means that the word has become part of the permanent and automatic memory!
If one starts learning a new language, and learns words for a few months, and then takes a longer break, it only feels like one has forgotten most words because most of those words haven’t become automatic yet, so in this case, one just has to revise them more times over a longer period of time, and eventually they will become automatic, and, it’s also important to know that different words become automatic at different times, for example, words like house and food and drink etc that one uses the most tend to become automatic faster, while words that refer to a concept or rare terms that one doesn’t use a lot tend to require more repetitions to become automatic, so, in pretty languages, for example, it can take from 1 to 30 spaced repetitions for a word to become automatic, depending on the word, so, I noticed that certain words I can immediately remember automatically after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, while other words I have to repeat 6 times or 10 times or 30 times to finally be able to use and process them automatically without the need to translate them into English in my mind or to think about them for a few seconds, so it all depends on the word, but if one sees the words multiple times over a longer period of time, they do become automatic, so one shouldn’t worry about that!
@@mahya_polyglot باو زبان رو ولش... پشامم چقدر لایک گرفتم دختر😅😅😅😅😅😅
I love this kinda real-talk content on social media
You should read Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner. He's a polyglot and he goes over something called the curve of forgetting and how you can keep more of what you learn when you can't spend as much time on them in certain seasons of life.
Muchas gracias por tu recomendación 🪲
I think the best way to retain languages is finding ways to incorporate them into one's daily routine. Such as watching shows, listening to podcasts, reading books or newspapers. Talking to friends online etc.
I am a Brazilian polyglot (Portuguese, French, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Esperanto) I totally agree with what you said in the video, I wasted so much time/money trying to learn new languages that I felt overwhelmed, but I never stopped, even without receiving the recognition or money I needed to continue.
People think I am crazy smart, but being a polyglot makes it very difficult to keep all languages in my head at the same time, but this is a phenomenon that sets us apart from others. We are people who love languages and we need to do our best to practice and use them, otherwise we will forget them.
It is a difficult and sometimes undervalued path, especially now with AI translation, we need to do it for the love, not for money or recognition.
Anyway, thank you for this amazing video when I was watching it, I was thinking about my life as a language learner, I cried but I lauged because those languages battles that I choose and the time wasted made me who I am now.
Thanks a lot. Polyglots understand each other very well.😊
и кем ты стал?
@@Ролтун с человеком должно что-то случиттся от изучения чего-то?
Wow. I want to learn russian to, i only speak german turkish and english 😊 im now just beginning to learn the alphabet.. it helps to know turkish because some letters can be easy to understand bcs there are same Sounding letters in turkish (like ш -ş, ы - ı, ч - ç). Can I ask you what the rules are regarding the o that we read as an "A" like in спасибо (spasiba)? And the usage of ь ъ ? Do you have an easy explanation? Greetings from germany
@@lestut9557 В заголовке видео случилось. Не увидели контекст вопроса?
proud of u sister, I start learning Arabic, German and Turkish
You fought well محيا it’s time to get rest , we proud of you 👏 you did your best
Que lindo que seas honesta , es muy impresionante cuando vez a personas que se han esforzado tanto para aprender varios idiomas . Gracias por inspirar a gente como yo:)
French polyglot and long-time follower here. Just want to express to you my admiration for your language learning journey. Yes it is difficult as you said, and yes it requires a constant dedication that maybe makes you feel overwhelmed at last.
But if I may add a positive feature you didn’t mention, it would be the desire you put in each of your viewers to join you in this journey. As for myself, my eagerness to learn Persian couldn’t have remained as strong without people like you on the other side of the screen.
Here lies the beauty of our journey, solitary for many aspects, but aimed at connecting with people across the world in the end. In this international configuration, you’ve already succeeded and the role you play is priceless.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
No, no. Keep talking. I finally feel like someone understands me. I'm so happy I came across your video. By the way, now I know what I need to do. Focusing on one language brings me good results but I start to decline in the others. I'm so glad to hear you talk about this. Also, I've been learning Russian for 21 years and I get frustrated when I don't know something or can't express myself. It's so true. It never ends. You are such an inspiration !!!❤
You got this!
Omg. 21 years of learning Russian language! So impressive❤ what country are you originally from? Do you use Russian for your job?
And as a native Russian speaker, I should say Russian is one of the hardest languages to learn! So you should be proud of yourself instead of being frustrated:)
@@SuperMilagro777 Thank you so much! I'm from the US. I have videos on my TH-cam channel in Russian.
@SuperMilagro777 By the way, no I don't use Russian for my job. I am a truck driver😁
@@chahailus Wow, 21 years is quite impressive! Would you like to be my speaking buddy? I’m Russian learning English 😅
i admire your energy and insistence
Нет легких путей, на любом выбранном пути будут сложности. Вы - большая молодец и достойны уважения. Языки учить и поддерживать очень трудно. Согласна с каждым вашим словом! Успехов вам!!!
Girl , you're like a super hero of languages❤❤ you must be proud of what you have achieved ..Mashallah Allahuma barik 🎉❤
Thank you so much 😊
I am a polyglot, i speak four languages in my case, but relax we all go through it. Learning Language is like going to the gym, it never end. Just find a fun way to keep them.
Thank you for sharing your experience, it means that we are not alone 😇
Thanks for sharing!
GYM. Very good example 👏
I understand the struggles you've faced because I encounter them regularly too. I thought you might give up on your journey, but I'm so glad to see you're persevering with your language learning!
Wow, I never thought something that seems like such a boon could ever hinder, your story helps us know to pace ourselves and not let our ambitions overwhelm us
Gurl u are such a role model for me
Love from Egypt 🇪🇬🫶🏼
م وين هي !؟
I have learned many languages, I don’t regret the time I spent and I don’t try to maintain some languages like Japanese, hindi, amharic and somali. I have started forgetting them, I don’t care, I learning new languages which are relevant for me now.
I am from India, this thing is also with me, I also start learning new languages but some time if Im not maintening the language I forgetting all them
How did you learn Amharic?? Can't find any ressources ):
@@dianamorad6334there is a book called “colloquial amharic” , also I asked a friend to teach me when I was living in Ethiopia.
@@geetikasharma6611 it is so normal because our brain is not created to memorize everything and never forget. It feels bad to forget what we have learned before, but we have to accept because we are just human beings
@@qingqinzhou1653 yes ! It's true 😅
انتي رائعه استمري 🙏🏼✨✨🇮🇶 you're Doing great KEEP GOING
You've accomplished so much already! Since the moment you expressed the most satisfaction in your language learning was when you said that speaking to a native speaker in their mother tongue brings you great joy, Why not focus on languages you know you will use the most and let the other languages rest a little? If you ever need them, you will be able to revive them with some work. I think you put so much pressure on yourself that you are losing the joy. I'm 63 and still actively polishing my intermediate-level Spanish and Mandarin. I stopped studying Italian years ago, since I almost never meet anyone I can speak it with. I learned some American Sign Language when I was teaching a Deaf student one year, and I really enjoyed it, but since I"m not using it, I've let that slide, too. Life is short, especially at my age, so I want to spend my time on languages I will really use in my everyday life. You don't have to prove anything to the world.
Thanks for your valuable comment
هوّني عليكِ، تعلّم اللّغات هي رحلة لمدى الحياة، فلا تضغطي على نفسك واستمتعي بالرّحلة. وتذكّري أنّ القدرة على فهم لغات عدّة هي لوحدِها نِعمَةٌ عظيمة نشكُرُ المنّان عليها، فما بالك بالمقدرة على التّحدُّثِ بها.
شکرا و بارک الله فیک
تغلم اللغات ليس لكسب الرزق بل تعلم اللغات للرافاهية وزيادة العلوم اما كسب الرزق افضله ان يكون من مصدر اخر وليس تعليم اللغات مثلا
أحترم رأيك، ربما يوجد أشياء تعطي دخلاً أكبر من تعلم اللغات وتعلم اللغات تجعله شيء ثانوي أو من هواياتك وليس أساس حياتك@@Haithemenglish
@@AbdulrahmanAbdulrahman-w1y هذا الذي احب اقولو افضل مداخيل اخرى على اللغات فالغات اجعلها كهواية بالنسبة لي وكل واحد وراي ووضعيتو
Arabic make someone crazy wait for the mounsoun
We have to prioritize our life, time is always limited and we can't do everything we want. What you just did is great, but I think it's time for a smart girl your age to choose a more practical path. I had a friend who studied 3 different majors in college and didn't get a chance to work in any of them, I used to tell him if you had focused on one major and then went deeper into it like getting a master's or a doctorate it would have been much better for you. I wish you good luck and a beautiful life ahead, I think you will end up keeping Arabic, Chinese, English and maybe Spanish from today onwards in addition to Persian for sure.
My mother tongue is Arabic, I speak English and Russian, I live in Portugal currently learning Portuguese, and I have been suffering for years from acquiring Spanish, German, French and Italian. I feel for you because I am stubborn like you and I have suffered like you, but you have shown people every word I want to say, even your decision to stop learning and the decision to return to learning again is completely similar to me, and despite the emergence of artificial intelligence that will destroy years of effort, perseverance, trying, striving and insistence, you, I and all people obsessed with acquiring languages have not and will not lose.
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I know currently 4 languages and I still learn, thank you for sharing content about learning languages. Listening to polyglots makes me motivated, to study. Especially in Arabic, I know so much, but it’s still so hard to utter anything. Good luck for you and your sister, I’m really impressed.
I never cared about maintaining languages. When a language comes to me i learn it, when it goes i let it go. I originally spent about three years trying to self-study Japanese but i could never go past the beginner level. Then i left it for many years and studied Chinese and Tibetan. Then at one point my friend asked me to help with a Japanese text, and i was able to understand of basic meaning due to lexical similarity with Chinese. Then i decided to reclaim my Japanese so that those three years were not in vain, so i spent about one more year communicating with Japanese and reading an unabridged novel slowly to improve my vocab. And after that i went to an intermediate level such that i could watch educational videos on TH-cam and participate in a reading club in Japanese. Later my Japanese again became rusty due to lack of use, but i am sure when it comes back i’ll be able to restore it to my highest proficiency in only a month or two. You never really forget languages, they simply get deactivated in your brain.
Thanks for sharing your valuable views 👍
I share your opinion. Our brain makes a good job. But I think that perfectionism can be really stressful for a whole life.
Thank you for this honest video! You're so right about learning languages being a never-ending process and everything else.
😊Absolutely!!
Finally someone says that language cannot be completely mastered. That’s something I’ve been always aware of. What surprised me and to what I partially agree is that your language competence is expected to be higher than the average native speakers‘. I freely speak three languages plus two more which I don’t practice for the same reason which Mahya has mentioned here. Practice really makes perfection. Thank you, Mahya, there’s a lot of sense in what you are saying.
Thanks for sharing your valuable views 👍 😀
Hope you follow the best path for you always❤ Allah is with us
I love language learning! I'm so proud of you for sharing your journey. Sending much ❤ and 🙏.
Thank you so much!!
Very smooth movement and calling the shots at the same time. This is mastery, wow!
ویدیویی که منتظرش بودم 💆🏼♀️ میشه جزئی ترش هم درست کنی؟ مثلا با هر زبان چه چالش هایی داشتی؟ چطوری حلشون کردی و...
Negharan nabosh. Learning a language has a price, but knowledge always It 's the best wealth!
Khoda kheiret bede, enshallah.
Khoda bozorghe 😉
I love language learning😊
I'm not a polyglot like you, I only know Persian and English and some Chinese but I'm going through the same things you said! It can easily be forgotten and life is hard! I can't study all the time.. but I'll go back to learning it again!! Yeah
Please tell us your plan too, it can help me somehow plan my own routine
Omg you’re such inspiration❤ and I’m so proud of you.
Always do what you love. Feeling the need to learn something to the point of burnout is bad.
Lütfen bırakma ve devam et Mahya seni çok seviyoruz❤
Woow gorlll i really needed this video thanks ❤
You're so welcome!
I LOVE LANGUAGE LEARNING.
I watched till the end.
don't give up Mahya.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Just to add, I also think learning lesser known languages is not always about speaking or practicing with natives, but you have access to all of their literature and media in the original language which may not be translated. I started learning Italian, not to speak with others but primarily to read the poetry of Dante
Very true!
You are so young. I'm 36 now and I've just started learning Italian. Maybe i will be fluent one day, or maybe not, but my goal is to have fun to speaking, watching videos, listening music etc. After Italian I am planning another languages. Ok, it would be easier to start when I was young, but there was no opportunity. Now nothing will stop me. Even now, when I try speaking italian, there are sone French words in my head. It will be 10 years when i dont speak french. Your gap year in Learning is not sth bad, but sth helpful to not get crazy. You will get enjoy again, best wishes
I really liked the fact that you spoke about the negative side of this and that you were very honest thank you so much I am a new follower who is on the same journey as you and please make a video about how AI will influence our world “polyglots”
Thanks a million 😊 🙏
I love language learning! 🥰🧡 Thanks for sharing your honest opinions, it really helps people such as myself, stay motivated. Wishing you all the best! ❤
😊You're so welcome!
Well, I did watch it till the end. Thank you for sharing ! As a Cuban I also ran through hoops to be able to learn a little bit of English, and yet when I came to live in the States I wasn't fluent and had trouble understanding others. That's how big a lack or resources we had in Cuba and in general the government there never encourage people to learn English. I was however able to attend La Alliançe Française and came to Miami area with more knowledge of French than English. 20 years later I'm again bit by the language bug and I'm trying to learn to fluency my wife's language ( Russian) and took an interest in Arabic Levantine and Portugue's and trying somehow to maintain French. Your recount of your journey is very interesting to me how in a close society like Iran you pulled off what you did ! Still trying to figure what language is that you can't find speakers to use it with ( Italian maybe ??, hope is not Arabic !).
You can be proud of your achievements! Thanks for sharing
Thank you too!
Yeah I do love language learning
Thanks for sharing with us❤️
My pleasure 😊
this video is pretty inspiring for me. especially because i can exactly understand how you feel as a tehran citizen. your routine was crazy dudeee
i wish you the best xd
You might get rusty but you never really lose a language once you are good at it.
I love language-learning!
Mahya, a someone who loves learning languages, i feel the same way
I know Urdu, Arabic, some German, and learning Turkish atm, yet i also should have learned Spanish as its the 2nd most spoken language in the United States.
My best advice to memorize grammar and vocabulary efficiently for you is make sentences as an exercise. Make sure the sentences you are constructing relate to you and you only personally, like what you did, are doing, and what you will do in your life, as well as making sentences according to your sentiments and things you value, like political opinions, culture, religion, and family.
As someone who is learning Turkish, given how challenging the verbs are, it has become so helpful
Take a rest and when ready, continue with slow steps
❤❤
You are amazing person! It's too hard learning so many languages. But you have nailed! I'm learning languages too. Be happy, don't be disappointed ❤
Thank you! You too!😊
Mahya, Вы очень красивая и умная девушка! Из всех способов получения удовольствия, доступных любому человеку на нашей планете, Вы выбрали один из лучших: познание других культур и их языков. Все усилия, приложенные Вами на этом пути, не напрасны. Результаты Вашей работы, глубокое знакомство минимум с девятью различными культурами и языками будут питать Ваш мозг "здоровым" дофамином всю Вашу жизнь. Кроме того, Вы им делитесь с другими людьми. Я тоже получил свою порцию после просмотра Вашего видео😀. Спасибо за это. Продолжайте, пожалуйста!
Thanks 😊a lot
As someone fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and German, the key for me in all these choices (aside from English, my mother-tongue) is attraction to the culture/country. I’d find it _extremely_ difficult to find the motivation to randomly learn a language if: 1. I wasn’t particularly attracted to the culture/country. 2. I wasn’t going to have any real chance to actually use the language. If you’re being a polyglot for being a polyglot’s sake then, IME, unless you are supremely self-motivated and/or financially rewarded for it, this is extremely difficult to do. My key advice to _anyone_ thinking of being multilingual from scratch: 1. Be attracted to the place(s)/culture(s) that use the given language, otherwise the motivation to continue will drop off very quickly. 2. Try to ensure you pick languages that you will have the chance to use on a regular basis. In my case, I visit France, Spain (South America), Italy and Germany regularly so am constantly getting the opportunity to actually _use_ the languages and keep them ‘topped up’ in the real world. 3. Enjoy it! If it’s a chore, stop. It isn’t worth it. Shakespeare said: _No profit grows where no pleasure ta'en: in brief, sir, study what you most affect._ He is saying that nothing useful comes from work without _enjoyment!_
Thanks a lot. For me apart from culture which is very important, I prefer to learn a language with millions of speakers all over the world 🌎
@@mahya_polyglot👍
I started learning Mandarin a long time ago because of a martial arts movies that I went to see 5 times in theaters. 😆 I grew up loving martial arts series and movies but never cared to learn before that. Your motivation can be about songs and the sounds of a language too not just cultural stuff in my opinion.
I also became interested in learning Spanish after watching an SNL skit titled La Policia Mexicana. It was so funny and I liked the pronunciation and sounds of Spanish. I also have loved the song Mas Alla by Gloria Estefan for a long time so I started practicing singing it and learning pronunciation and meanings of some words. I mean I go slowly and I likely won't get to use it. But it's just for fun and to satisfy my curiosity.
@@titteryenot4524 Just a different viewpoint based on my personal experience. I thought someone that is interested in different languages and cultures would be more open-minded. Boy how wrong I was. Someone can love languages for phonetics and sounds too. True songs are part of a culture but as in the case of Spanish for me I have no idea about Spanish or Latin culture. I just like the sounds and pronunciation.
I love language learning❤
This is my first time here but I'm definately subscribing❤
Thanks for your support 🙏
I love language learning🥰
محیا جان مطالبی که گفتی برای من خیلی مفید بود چون منم عاشق یادگیری زبان های مختلف هستم و امیدوارم روزی سطح زبانم مثل تو عالی بشه❤
You are amazing, you just need some rest to come back stronger than before✨️👊
I'm not really a polyglot but I absolutely understand everything you said. I love languages and I find learning them very enjoyable, but it definitely comes with many struggles. The most important one for me is that when you don't have the opportunity to travel a lot or live abroad and you don't have any acquaintances who are native speakers of other languages you can't learn them or practice them naturally, and it takes a lot of effort and time of actively studying them to get to a decent level, and most likely you will need to take classes which are expensive. Even in English and Italian which I have studied for many years now and I think I know quite well, I feel I'm embarrassing myself when I speak them, especially with native speakers, due to the lack of practice. And definitely, if you don't keep having some sort of contact with a language, you'll quickly ferget it, I tried learning French and Russian years ago and now even though I can recognise some words or phrases if I read them, I can't speak them at all, not even simple sentences. I've been wanting to learn Arabic, particularly Egyptian arabic for a while now, cause I find it really beautiful and interesting, but not only it will be extremely challenging as a Spanish speaker living in Spain and I won't find many resources, it will be completely "useless" unless I get to visit Egypt someday which probably won't be for more than a week anyway. I just take it easy and I don't aim to fluency when learning languages other than English, often I just see it as a hobby, that makes it way easier and enjoyable imo.
Exactly I agree with you 💯 👍
I love language learning.
And I'm really really thankful because of Sharing this to us.
Always be happy and proud of yourself my love❤
I love language learning too (yes, I listened to the whole video), and I totally second all your points, though I have been a much less dedicated learner than you have, and have therefore cried less. I have studied English (which I now teach), Russian for five years (all lost), ancient Greek for five years (all lost, then regained, then lost again, but I'm currently relearning it), Latin for two years (more or less maintained at an intermediate level), Sanskrit for one year (all lost), Chinese for one year (all lost), Japanese for two years (all lost), and currently learning Hebrew (both Biblical and modern) and Finnish. I think I need to focus on the languages that really matter to me, but unlike you, for me, it's not how many native speakers I have the opportunity to speak to or what job opportunities open to me, but what I can read in those languages. So ancient Greek, Latin and Finnish are my priorities.
📚 READING. Good point . Thanks 😊 😊
Thank you for sharing 💗 Sending hugs from FL. I love learning languages when I can and you're such an inspiration girl. We go through highs and lows sometimes 🫶
Thank you so much!!
Thank you very much for sharing so meaningful things of your life experience.
😊My pleasure!
Dear Mahya, my mother was a piano teacher, and she always told us "Learning takes place between practice sessions." In the next few years, you will start moving into the practical application of your language skills in the world. Eventually every language gets its own set of activities, people, and things you do ... We will not be William Shakespeare in every language we learn, and that's alright! There are many other things we can bring to the world with our skills.
This resonates a lot with me, I don't know as much languages as you know (3 fluent including my mother tongue, 1 upper intermediate and 3 lower intermediate) but yeah sometimes I feel overwhelmed especially since I began vet med school and same as you I can't see myself giving up so sometimes it's a bit hard, I feel that I don't use them as much as I'd like but 一起加油, we will get through this, you inspire me a lot in this journey, take care ! ♥
It was one of the best videos you have made so far. You were transparent, raw, and understandable. This is the kind of blogger people look for and look up to. So thank you. Keep up the good work. You're doing well.🔥
Very insightful! I sort of have a dream to speak several languages, but maybe a few less after watching this 😅 Anyway, you are a true inspiration. May Allah bring you endless success 🙌
Thank you! 😃
I was really surprised to see that title from you! But I like the video and your being honest about it. I had often wondered how you could be so good at languages, but now I know it's because you really put in the effort. By now, I think you've realized that you don't have to work that hard in order to maintain languages once you are beyond a certain level. You might get a bit rusty, but not really forget them any more. Two things I do differently: one, I don't spend money on language learning; there is so much free content in the internet. When I was young, there was no internet, so the only thing I bought was books. So I never have to regret the money spent on languages. The other thing is that I do language learning only for having fun, for enjoying it. There isn't much practical use in knowing more than four languages. But if I enjoy learning, if I enjoy talking to people, if I enjoy reading in a foreign language, I don't have to worry about AI. AI can do a lot, but not take away my hobby. So studying many languages CAN cause burn-out, depression, etc, but not necessarily. It can as well be a source of enjoyment. And of course it can change one's life, as in your case. Just keep on going, but be kind to yourself and enjoy your languages!
Thanks for your wise comments.
I live in Poland, i dont meet foreigners. It doesnt disturb me. But! I can understand videos, music, read social media in forein languages and that is really great!
That's my situation too ;) I also don't regret it because I enjoy reading and listening more than speaking. I love language learning :)
where in Poland do you live? If you live in the west or silesia/east prussia, then i doubt that you yet dont got overrun by german tourists 😂. my experience
German is not the language that i am learning so German people are not the foreigners that i need ;) they dont speak any foreing language. They even dont have to, because in people can speak german in Polish restaurants in big cities ;)
@@falkowskaaga1 that sounds nice :)
It’s great that you made such an honest video. I think you’re an amazing young woman. Please don’t be so hard on yourself! 🤗💖
😊Thank you so much!
تو واقعا سخت کوش و الگوی خوبی هستی
محیا تو عالی و فوق العاده ای
ادامه بده و مثل همیشه بدرخش
I will add this comment too, I laughed when you mention robot ai😂. We are humans, our place can't be replaced, always will be needed. I saw your videos in China, interacting with elders and kids, beautiful. This is the humanity not roboty.
@@Jonida1 yea sure🌸
Please stop using bulger sound like that... 0:12
Why?
It's annoying@@rihablouiza639
It's good tho
I think that you should enjoy and take advantage for the opportunity that you have. People that don't have nothing to eat or where to live can't learn nothing just to survive. But you won't understand that because you were born with a lot of opportunities. Enjoy your life instead of complaining ❤
Hello Mahya, I am Labib, from Indonesia. Thank you for sharing your sharing about being polyglot to speak 9 languages. Currently I learn five languages simultaneously. But I can not say that I am fluently those languages. Because I have been learning Chinese, Korean and Japanese for a year and I am doing it by myself. But I have been learning Arabic and English since I am teenager. So I can say English is quite good then Arabic is a bit good. But for three languages that I mentioned, I am still beginner. I like learning those languages. I choose to limit not learning more than 5 languages, even though I have learned a bit Turkish, Spanish and Thailand, because I don't want to pressure my mental and mind. I only choose languages that having more opportunity to get job or communicate with native, which is five languages that I am learning is so important based on cooperation in my country to those countries, including relations between people to people. I agree to many your statements regarding to learn languages, maintaining languages is difficult and ther is never ends to learn languages. Because languages is the art and bridging to communicate with people around the world either by written in the books or by oral. So they are always developing, including my own mother tongue. For AI that taken for speaking languages, Jack Ma, former of owner of Alibaba said, "even though there is AI to translate languages to the others, but they can never change for person who can speak the languages. Because learning languages for human, it means we are also learning their culture and we will be respected". I got a bit of those experiences, when I speak with Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean natives through online. They will be surprised and giving appreciation for me that desire to learn their languages. For your information, I am learning languages during I am struggling of some of disabilities and one illness, the disability is hip fracture and anxiety disorders then the ilnesss is chronic gallbladder. So for me, learning languages is one way for me to recover my illness and dealing with my disabilities. When I am learning languages and practicing by writing, speaking or listening, I will be happy. So it decreases my overwhelming about my disabilities and illness. So I know it is difficult to learn languages even for maintaining, you are next level for me, so I am learning from you how to speak many languages. But as long as we do it with having fun and managing the time is so well, I am pretty sure, it doesn't pressure for us. Don't take it seriously to people say about some mistakes or not understanding yet about some vocabularies or sentences those languages. Because we are ourselves that we have own our shoes that people never know how struggle about learning languages. Perfectionist is good, but if it is over perfectionist, it will destroy the mentally. So focusing your own purposes and happiness what you do, also do relaxing to calmness your mind about learning languages, so I think those are several ways to maintain of mental health and will impact for still good to learn and practice to languages. Keep it up!
Thanks for sharing your valuable experience 👍
Wow
I've just read your comment & I just wanted to let you know that😅
BTW,I hope your health status will become better & better.
Good luck with multilinguism❤
Bravo for this video Mahya! I see your determination and I am sure you will find the right balance to keep going. BTW congratulations for your scholarship in China!!
Thank you so much!!
I love language learning ❤
Me too!!!
Can we talk about how her facial expressions are just so cute ( i love language learning
I want you to know that languages don't vanish out of your brain when it feels like you are forgetting; they only rust. You can dust off that rust at any point in your lifetime so it's okay to put them on the shelf and pick up again in the future. 💜
💯
Thanks for the inspiration💜💜
سلام محیای عزیزم. این مطلب که گفتی یادگرفتن زبان برای بعضی ها واقعا اعتیاد آور هست رو کاملا درک میکنم. برعکس شما، من به جز چند ترم عربی، برای هیچ زبانی کلاس به خصوصی نرفتم، و البته به اندازهٔ شما روی همه زبان هایی که بلدم مسلط نیستم، ولی خب فکر میکنم به اندازه ای که احتیاج دارم، کافیه!
من درک میکنم که فکر کردن به بیرون اومدن از این مسیر، چقدر میتونه احساس شکست و تلف کردنِ عمر به آدم بده، خصوصا برای تو که بیشتر هزینه ها رو در دوره ای کردی که استقلال مالی نداشتی و یک جورایی خودت رو مدیون و بدهکار میدونی نسبت به والدینت،
اما بیا کمی بیرحم باشیم و از این زاویه به موضوع نگاه کنیم،
که ما هرچقدر بزرگتر میشیم، با موقعیت های جدیدی رو به رو میشیم که برای اینکه از پس چالشهامون بربیایم احتیاج به مهارتهایی داریم!
آینده قابل پیش بینی نیست و بنابراین مهارتهایی هم که در آینده نیاز داریم لزوما قابل پیش بینی نیست،
در این دنیایی که اینقدر عدم قطعیت داره، با وجود انسانیِ خودمون که تا سن بالایی از عمر مدام در هر حال امتحان کردن و اشتیاق و علاقه و عدم علاقه هست،
تغییر دادنِ مسیر اصلا شرم آور نیست.
من احساسی مشابه تو رو داشتم وقتی چند کنکور ناموفق رو پشت سر گذاشتم و مادر و پدرم برای من در اون سالها خیلی هزینه کرده بودند،
اما یک جا آدم باید شجاعت به خرج بده و تصمیم های جدید بگیره و حتی در حین گرفتنِ همین تصمیم های جدید خودش رو آماده کنه برای این پذیرش که «ممکنه چند سال بعد، همین تصمیم رو هم عوض کنم و از این مسیر هم خارج بشم»
من یا باید به افسردگی ناشی از شکست ها و شرم ها ادامه میدادم یا باید مسیرم رو عوض میکردم با تمام عواقبش!
و بذار بهت این مژده رو بدم که شجاعت داشتن، آنچنان قدرتی به آدم میده که حسش، از حس افتخارِ چند زبانه بودن قوی تره!
رها بودن باعث میشه استرس های جانبی از بین بره و به خلاقیت اجازهٔ بروز میده،
خودت رو جای کسی تصور کن که برای قبولی پزشکی بسیار تلاش کرده و حالا داره فشار های دروس سنگین پزشکی رو هم تحمل میکنه،
این آدم اگر در پس ذهنش مطمئن باشه که اونقدر شجاع هست که اگر روزی تصمیم بگیره پشت پا بزنه به همهٔ این تلاش ها و هزینه ها و رشتهش رو عوض کنه، این تصمیم رو اجرایی میکنه!...
به این جرئت استثنایی فکر کن و حالا مقایسهش کن با اغلب دانشجو های پزشکی که وقتی میبینن از همه طرف فشار وجود داره و این رشته اون بهشتی که تصور میکردن نیست، جرئتِ بیرون اومدن ندارن چون برای رسیدن به اینجا خیلی تلاش کردن. افسردگی رو تصور کن. احساس شکست رو تصور کن...
همین مثال دربارهٔ افرادی که مهاجرت میکنن و میفهمن که اشتباه کردن ولی جرئت برگشت ندارن صدق میکنه،
میتونی با هر شرایطی منطبق کنی
و به این فکر کن که همهٔ این آدمها در 70 سالگی تایید میکنن که اگر لحظه ای که فهمیدن جای اشتباه قرار دارن، برمیگشتن، کمتر هزینه میدادن تا اینکه بمونن و زندگی رو برای خودشون جهنم کنن...
نمیگم شرایط تو میتونه به جهنم کردنِ زندگی منجر بشه،
بلکه فکر میکنم فارغ شدنِ از این دغدغه میتونه بخشی از پتانسیل هایی که در تو وجود دارن و الان دارن سرکوب میشن رو آزاد کنه.
دربارهٔ این موضوع میتونم بیشتر حرف بزنم چون خودم باهاش دست و پنجه نرم کردم اما فکر کنم کافی باشه،
در پایان ازت میخوام که سری ویدئو های «تقصیر تو نبود» در کانال مجتبی شکوری با موضوع شرم رو ببینی. اون کتاب تونست به من دید وسیع تری بده دربارهٔ مشکلم.
موفق باشی عزیزم❤
ممنون و متشکر از نظرات عالمانه و زیبای شما. 😊
Wow...!🤌🏻✨
Girl I am almost 40 , I know 4 languages and learning 2 more, yes it is a full commitment to maintain. I am so proud of you Plese please don't be so hard on yourself. Being a perfectionist and being tooooo ambitious can be self-destructive. So I hope you will just enjoy what you already learned and used it in the best way without the pressure to always want more and more.
Hola, soy de China. Hablo cuatro idiomas: chino, inglés, ruso y español. Hace dos años intenté aprender persa por mi cuenta porque, en mi opinión, el persa es el segundo idioma más bonito del mundo, pero debo admitir que me rendí muy pronto debido a la dificultad del sistema de escritura en su idioma (al escribir en persa, se omiten tres vocales cortas en los textos). Por último, quiero decir que amo al pueblo iraní. Espero que un día en el futuro no haya represiones contra las mujeres iraníes y que las mujeres iraníes puedan vivir en un país libre. Zan. Zendegi. Azadi.
Hello, I am an Iranian girl and I am happy that I live in my country Iran and I am proud to be Iranian, but Iran is not as you say, it is not that you think there is violence against women in Iran.
In fact, every country has its own rules and our country is Islamic, so a series of rules must be followed, which does not mean violence.
With a little research, you will find that Iranian women have no restrictions in various fields of science, sports, politics, etc.
Unfortunately, many foreign media attacks on Iran have made many people in the world think that Iran is a dangerous country, while in reality it is not.
Finally, I will be happy if you travel to Iran one day and see Iran as it really is.❤
@@Maryamheydarpoorstop lying lol. I'm an Iranian polyglot and there are a lot of violence and laws against women in our country
Tienes un perfecto español!
Mis respetos para todos los políglotas 👏🏻
@@janethbahena0011 Grazie Mille
How did you learn Spanish this well? Can you give me some tips?
I started learning English two years ago, and I agree that maintaining the language is the hardest part of the journey. However, I can't deny that it's fun once you recognize your progress. Now, I can watch your videos with much less effort than the first time, and that makes me happy.
Well said!😊
If I can give one piece of advice: it’s not a duty to maintain all your languages at all times! It’s perfectly ok to let one or the other rest for a while.
Yes, you will forget things in the meantime, but it will be much easier to relearn the second time if and when you decide to focus on that language again!
As-Salaamu Aleikum Mahya! I understand your arguments very well. I speak 2 languages fluently (English and German). English is my mother tongue, German I've acquired while living here in Germany for 30+ years. I study Spanish, Arabic, French, Italian and occasionally Mandarin. I don't intend to "master" them all. I don't intend to reach "fluency" in all. Practicality is an important key! Exercising the brain also key. 🙂 Don't despair Mahya! All will be good.
Thanks 😊 a lot.
I would advise you to take a break on a few of your languages that you don't use much. I had to learn German and French in school and stopped learning those after a few years in school. I was bad at learning those languages and didn't enjoy it at all. I recently picked learning them up again (over 3 decades later). I speak Dutch and English fluently, but I never study those. I don't need to because I still use both frequently. Stop studying and just occasionally watch some videos in the different languages you speak. You might lose a little bit of the fluency, but it comes back very fast if you use the language more again.
Thanks a lot 🙏
Ist Deutsch für dich wirklich so schwer, wenn du Niederländisch sprichst? Habe eigentlich nur positives gehört, wenn man vom Niederländischen aus Deutsch lernt und umgekehrt.
@@edelweiss- Nein, es ist nicht sehr schwer. It's relatively easy to understand German when you speak Dutch already. German however has different grammar. I was just a poor language learner. I was bad at learning those languages in school compared to the other children in my class. Perhaps I'm still not great at learning languages. But since I can already understand German, I can learn it relatively easily through exposure, which as a student I never did. I mostly need to learn to write and speak it.
Hey 🎉
As a Iranian guy in my 26 I started learning English seriously, in 27 I started learning French and in 28 last year Chinese.
I thought I was too old to learn them but the fact is I used up my dead time to learn them just 45 minutes every day for each one, but I didn't give up and I want to reap the benefits in my 35 years old... My goal is working as a self employee...
I'm tired to be working for others... Being employee...
Thanks for sharing and I think you achieved the best skills in the best time... You are too young to have a lot opportunities ahead of yourself...🎉🎉
Thanks a lot. It is never late till learn languages. Age is just a number and should not be an obstacle.
So true
Mucho ánimo 💪💪💪
I am from Bangladesh and a muslim. I like your style of speaking
Thanks a lot.😊
Amazing, I don't know how you managed to maintain 9 languages. But it is very impressive, and you should be proud of yourself you are doing an excellent job. I just pray to be able to at least speak 4 languages only. I am kind of late to the game of language learning. I speak only English and Spanish. Started learning 3 months earlier Italian and a couple of days ago began learning Germany so I can find a new job using German. My end goal is to keep these 4 languages within a range of a B2 - C1 level. I hope this is possible. Thanks for sharing your amazing story.
Yes it is possible and you can even go beyond 😊
@mahya_polyglot thank you
What a relatable video. So impressive. Everything you said is the same for me too. Cantonese, Croatian, French, Spanish, German, English, Russian is expensive and time consuming. Big burn out on learning new languages with constant maintenance requirements.
Your 14 yo self needed you to say that it is HARD and she will be proud of you whether you maintain them or not. The time was never wasted, the effort made you grow. Isn’t it better than looking back and regretting what you never attempted to do?
This growth alone will help you through struggles for the rest of your life.
Bet your 14 year old self would be wonderfully proud, I've been informally studying outside of school on and off again since I've been 10 years old I'm 26 and I'm a lower intermediate in Chinese and an upper intermediate in Spanish. I remember wanting to learn every language in the world when I was 10 or as many as I could and wasted so much time doing the beginning of every langauge on Byki. All that accomplished was being able to recognize which language was what by the writing and a fun puzzle. I have stuck to Chinese and Spanish because I want to have the highest reach for reading and exploring stuff humanly possible and because Spanish is the second language here in America and Chinese is the third most common so I can run into their cultures accidentally in big cities for fun sometimes . Don't be so hard on yourself, you could study less languages you don't have to be monolingual. Your English sounds amazing!
Thanks for sharing your valuable views 👍 😊
I am not a hyperpolyglot and it is not my goal either. I really love learning languages, but so far I am happy about learning 2 foreign languages. My goal is to be able to read books in those languages and be able to communicate if I need to. I am quite demanding when it comes to English and I want to be as good as I can at using it. Spanish is the second foreign language and I'd love to reach advanced level as well. I think I would like to learn one language more in the future, but it si still open which one... I prefer quality to quantity...And I realise how time-consuming it is to learn foreign language and I don' t want to spend all my free time studying. I want to do other things as well ... And I agree it is a whole life journey
Yes it a whole life journey 😊
Ho guardato tutto il video. Sei una persona splendida. ❤
Thanks a lot 🙏
The problem in learning languages is that yoh have to use them dailky so you dont forget them and continue to learn.
Why regret? It was your passion. Concentrate on one or two languages now and start teaching them in some academic setting or be a translator. Do not think about other languages. Let them be forgotten. School children learn many subjects but in their post graduate study, they have to choose only one. Take it that way.
I speak Hebrew and English fluently, some Italian, and currently trying to learn Japanese as a hobby.
It's always fun (at least for me) to learn new cool fun facts about languages, and using all you've learned in the certain language in the country that use that language, Tolkien said that learning a new language is like trying a new drink at a bar.