A little explanation: Russian, Belarusian and 1 "foreign" languages are part of the compulsory school curriculum for any child in the country. So at the end of the school, anyone speaks 3 languages (of course, in varying degrees of quality). The most common foreign language is English, but there are schools in which German, French, Spanish, etc. are also studied.
@@judew.5872 and I don't understand why in the USA you know only one and not even brits English? How comes? Maybe because you have a large country (from the sun to the snow) and of course you pretend everyone knows american. Yes grammatically at least very easy and this is good. Mhhhhh now? I would be interested to learn 3 languages or mhhh 2?
@@tamo3041 I do find it sad as an American that our school system doesn’t care about foreign languages that much. I will say that we all understand British English just fine so why waste time learning it. I remember that my middle school cut out Spanish from the curriculum so we had no foreign language. Needless to say, I was excited to take German in high school and am studying Russian on my own, although I am horrible at it. As you said, America is such a large country that many of US don’t feel the need to go abroad. I would love to go abroad but it’s still expensive. There’s less motivation for us to learn languages unfortunately because most people aren’t anywhere near the border with Mexico, the only neighbor of ours that doesn’t speak English. Europeans tend to not travel as far in order to encounter another language so there is more motivation there.
@@auspiciousman you are right by you it is really a fact of school. In others coutries .....it is different, smaller so there are borders or English music and much more. I didn't learn at school to much but yes example french it gave me the basis. And immagine as teen it was more difficout to understand (yes in real life not in school) french instead of English. (Mother language is Italian)
5:43 - What a pleasant surprise for Bulgarian! :) I had a totally unexpected opportunity to work with Belarussians while I was in Spain before the pandemic for a pilot, online IT-related project. I was stunned how easy and smart people they are. The group consisted of only 5 people but ALL of them were very intelligent. I can only say good things about them. Amazing 2,5 year experience! Special greets from a Bulgarian.
@@poher822 само лексикално обаче. Всъщност по същия параметът, белоруският език е по-близък с българския отколкото българският е с руския. Интересно нали?
You're right. There were far fewer native speakers of the Czech language. And they saved him. To save the Belarusian language, it is necessary to change the regime to pro-Belarusian. To make available public services and higher education in Belarusian, to provide an opportunity for a social lift for Belarusian speakers. There are fewer Estonian speakers now, but this language is not threatened with extinction, because the authorities are on the side of the people and culture
@@Kniazhnami The thing is, Russian lang is native to a lot of those people. Many of them were born in the USSR, some have close ties with Russians. I'm from RU and both me & my friends from BR would like to see a more liberal and democratic govt here, but I hope they won't suddenly make all education and documentation on Belarussian and prohibit guys with Russian origin to have any places in the parliament or police/army of the state, isolating Russians and not giving them any opportunities, like your respectable country did. Bc if after any democratic change in Eastern Europe Russian minority would suffer and be given a grey passport again and again, I guess Putin's support will grow larger and larger among them.
@@AntonPavlovich2000Are you sure a European government forbade people with Russian origin to be part of the government? Or are only people with not a passport of the country allowed to join the government
@@sollte1239 Guys who work for the state in Estonia have Estonian roots. If you are Ivan Petrov, you won't work on state jobs (even before Feb 24). That's mainly about "you may be a Russian agent of influence or smth else" and they are paranoid about it. Even their cringey pro-Russian KOOS party is led by an Estonian. Though there is around 22% of ethnic Russians in the country. (30+% before). In Latvia it's the same, Lithuania has a more balanced approach.
The last guy said - it's too late for him to start studying foreign language. Last year I engaged in German studies as my elder son urged me while I was in hospital ("any way you have nothing to do there"). This year I'll turn 67 and I'm far from thinking that it is too late for me. Beside my native Lithuanian I am (of course) fluent in Russian, my English is also pretty good as it is my business language for 30 years or even more now. Apart from these 3 I know Polish (on the conversational level) and some Latvian which I wish to improve. Also, due to the recent circumstances, I can understand Ukrainian quite well, together with Belorussian because these two are very similar and knowing both Russian and Polish they are not difficult to understand.
Ahaha, its always good to study up on multiple languages, in honesty it took me around 8 years in total to master English as being born in the UK! However when you've mastered your own native tongue and writing, your able to achive much more in life, I know French, German, Spanish, bit of Italian and Japanese while studying on the Russian Language. Your never too old or young to understand a language when others are there to help build it up, again though foreign languages shouldn't stop you from communication, the primary way humans communicate is through body language, glad to see people from Europe understands each other.
Nice to see so many people declaring knowledge of Polish! In fact Belarussian and Polish are of course related to each other, so it's easy for us to learn and understand neighbouring languages.
Belarus and Poland are much more similar than they seem to be. I moved to Poland at the age of 14 and the course of history is almost the same in both countries. The only difference is that a lot of people who are considered to be Belarusian in Belarus(Emilia Plater, Konstanty Kalinowski, Kościuszko, Adam Mickiewicz, Damejko) are for some reason written as Poles in Polish history books. I guess we should just agree somehow that it’s our shared history.
@@_MinskBelarus This is why I wrote "maybe", as a Ukrainian I understand Polish very little, and Ukrainian and Belarussian languages are 86% similar, hence that Belarusians understand almost as well as Ukrainians, it is certainly far from the conversational level, but it is guaranteed to understand some words from the conversation.
@@flintstudios I would say Belorussian is 90-95% similar to Russian when Ukrainian is about 70-75% (to Russian). The only thing that different is pronunciation (especial in Ukrainian). Russians need a week of practice to almost fully understand Belorussian and about a month to understand Ukrainian.
@@freek1zsz427 Ну я был как то в РФ в гостях у родственников и они попросили что то на украинском сказать,я сказал им простейшое предложение и они ничего не поняли
As a Turk who speaks Russian and who lived in Russia and Ukraine for a while,I really cannot understand Ukrainian.Of course,I can get the point,but an effective reading or listening is really impossible for me.
@@Wisco_sin because some of them were hidden by TH-cam due to some curse words in them or something like that. But probably you can see them among your notifications.
Is so limiting in what sense? As far as I’m aware, a person who speaks English can communicate almost anywhere. I do agree that knowing a different language (I’m fluent in 2 and OK in a third) is helpful if one spends a lot of time in a place where the other language is spoken.
English is a very useful language, but it's great to learn another language, too. The process of learning a language is such an interesting and satisfying journey, and it's not a race as you have the rest of your life to continue improving.
As a ukrainian I speak Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, English and understand (but can't speak as well for now) Belarussian, Czech, a little Bulgarian and Serbian Thats because all slavic languages are very similar to each other and its very easy to learn to slavic people (you just need to know some basic from this languages, like pronunciation of letters and it will go very easy)
@@bremsshadow8722 belorussian and ukranian in fact it is dialects of russian, practicly no difference. I Russian and i can understand poland and serbian, but i never learn this languages. Just slavic languages real very close.
Wow, so impressive! I am guessing people in Europe as a whole speak multiple languages, where in Canada and the US only certain areas speak multiple languages, aside from the immigrants from other countries.
Don't take it to seriously. Most of us basically know a couple of phrases and claim that we know the language. In fact most of us cant hold a proper conversation in another language even though we learn a foreign language in school. And if you know Russian, Ukrainian or Belarussian you will understand any of these language at 95%. It means they can't talk but completely understand the languages in question.
Well cause you guys speak English and second language is not essential for you :) it's nice to have but nothing more. Imagine if I only knew Polish... I wouldn't be able to work in a well paid occupation (mostly international environment and clients) and I wouldn't be able to travel. It's not like all people here are fluent in English but most of them can at least communicate without major issues. It's a necessity.
Very sympathetic people. Interesting that hardly anyone speaks only Belarusian. As a German, I think it's very cool that a few people there speak German 👍
That is what colonization does. The natives get overrun by their masters and forced to pick up the new language. Those that only speak Russian are eighter from colonizing russian families, or they completly assimilated to their overlords. Sad regardless.
@@TroenderTass so what’s the problem to stop speak it? Is someone forcing them? No. They choose Russian because its the most used language on the internet after English. A lot of scientific articles and books are written in this language or translated into this language. What kind of colonisation are you even talking about. Don’t actually answer. I’m not interested in your opinion
@@Yggdrasil2140 Since you aren't interested in their opinion allow me to answer instead. During the period between 1945-1991 many people from East Germany to Russia were indeed forced to learn Russian. Also, you are correct in that when they gained independence many younger people chose not to learn Russian, as they were no longer forced to.
Let's see. While sailing on the Baltic, I've gotten to use Swedish, German, Estonian and Russian along with my native Finnish. Sadly, in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, I've had to resort to English, and in Denmark, to Swedish. (Disclaimer: I've never sailed to Russia, Lithuania or Poland; I've traveled to Lithuania and Poland by ferry and train, but never visited Russia. I did visit the USSR though, once, went to Riga via Tallinn with my grandparents in 1988. First the ferry Georg Ots to Tallinn, then an Aeroflot Tupolev to Riga. The pilot made some impressive turns when we were nearing Riga.) Should probably learn those languages too. Would be cool to be able to sail all around the Baltic and speak to locals in their own language in all the countries. (Although I don't really know when it'd make sense to sail to Russia.) (Something I've never considered before - the Baltic Sea is almost a European Union inland sea these days, with the exception of Kaliningrad and the Russian coastline in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland.)
And immagine i live in a place for now where a dialect differs also in a space of one km. Ok it is understandable anyway but immagine if they have to change some words and I ask a professor why: he told me competition and fear. Fear of what I don't know.....maybe because everyone lies? Ok I have to make a phone call and search a piece of bread mhhhh where? Maybe luga they hate me less.
Belarusians are a lovely people! Had the pleasure to make many friends there in 2021, despite the shit government they have. They were all very clear how much they hate it, but some were more careful before talking about it. I truly hope they will get the democracy and freedom they dream of sooner rather than later.
Can't see the flag on small screen but if you're Serbian, drop that idiotic "panslavism". We won't be friendlier towards you just because you're Slavic - you need to stop whining about NATO 1999, and stop kissing Russia's ass. I mean, Kusturica was my hero, now he speaks on Russian TV, that's a complete disgrace.
I’am so happy that a girl was wishing to learn Portuguese, my native language! All young people will be warmly welcome in Portugal. Weather is warm and food is good, so… why not?
@@evertonmv1217 it’s a sad story., but in the end justice was made: his wife received a 800.000,00€ compensation from the Portuguese Government and the 3 persons involved are in jail.
I came to rest in Lisbon and Porto. Beautiful and open people. I really enjoyed the live music and Portuguese songs. They touch the strings of the Belarusian soul
"pretending" is it a correct word? I'm not a native english speaker, so i'm a little confused. I thought to pretend means to behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not (synonim to lie).
I speak English only (I live in Canada on the west coast) but I wish I knew five or more languages. French is compulsory but when I went to school, you could opt out after 3 years of French if you chose to go to a technical college after school. Our French teacher was Scottish and it was difficult as it was to understand his English as he had a very thick Scottish accent. His French was almost impossible to undestand which is why I opted out. My friend is Japanese and married a Canadian guy. She was actually born in South America as a number of S American countries have large Japanese populations. Their daughter grew up learning to speak English (her first language), Japanese and Spanish since her mother also spoke it. She went to a French immersion school (where the school curriculum is taught almost entirely in French). She is now completely fluent in 4 languages but she is the exception since most children only grow up speaking English with an elementary grasp of French even if it is also an official language of Canada.
wow it's great that you have a friend who is from South America, what country does he live in? I am also from South America, from Chile, although I understand that there is a large Japanese community in Peru.
@@larsbender3862 No, actually four good friends who WERE originally from South America but are Canadians now and have been living here for many years. The one I wrote about is originally from Argentina. She moved to Canada and moved her mother here too about two decades ago. Her mother speaks Spanish and Japanese with very basic English. The other three are: one from Chile (where you live now) who was escaping the regime then (speaks Spanish, of course and excellent English but still has his accent 😊); one from Brazil, married to a Canadian guy (speaks Portuguese and excellent English with a strong accent); and lastly, a *very* good friend from Colombia who moved from Canada to Colombia as a young child with her parents. She married a sweet guy from Colombia and they ended up moving back to Canada and had four wonderful kids here. She speaks both English and Spanish with no accents.
Should practice up German, Spanish or even Russian, I've practed on those mainly since our French teacher was also from Scotland, her accent was easy to understand, just not when she was also studying up French since it was a teacher paid extra so the school could save funds on not hiring someone experienced :( Ever since then, met a German friend, French friend and even a Spanish friend, each taught me bit by bit and in return they started speaking English, so we both helped eachother to achive new languages and it felt amazing to do! Its easy too, just repetition, never leave a word unread and keep at it, one day you'll speak the words your reading.
as a Ukrainian, I was very surprised at how few Belarusians speak Ukrainian, because Ukrainian and Belarusian are very similar (84 percent of the total vocabulary).
Understanding is significantly easier than speaking. I can understand Ukrainian speech reasonably well after learning most of the common unknown words, but I can't speak it. I wouldn't claim any kind of Ukrainian language proficiency, because I will be surely making a lot of mistakes even with the most basic phrases. But I know that some Belarusians started speaking Ukrainian after moving to Ukraine.
Беларусу не патрэбна вучыць украінскую, таму што ён яе і так збольшага ведае. Навогул, мы можам размаўляць кожны на сваёй мове і выдатна адно аднаго разумець.
@@ceasarby1033 а я би повчив беларускую мову. Мені подобається звучання - воно видається якимось архаїчно-величним. Мабуть через більш тверду вимову приголосних. Але вже після війни, адже наразі не дуже доречно.
I am Belarusian, I live in the city of Brest, on the border with Poland, and therefore I understand the Polish language well (at one time we were in the Polish state.) And plus Polish television is not far away. I know a little English and as a child I was taught German for one year. I understand the Ukrainian language well. But I speak Russian. My mother spoke only Belarusian. I didn't know Russian. But I grew up in an orphanage where everyone spoke Russian. In the cities they speak Russian, in the villages somewhere in Belarusian, somewhere in Ukrainian. Russian language prevails.
Native russian speaker here, I know english and have been studying german, spanish and japanese. I thinks it's fun thing to do but I actually don't believe I'd ever have a necessity to talk in these languages, so I'm okay with only knowing english as foreign language
@@Marszall4 зачем вообще говорить в Беларуси что ты знаешь белорусский? Это тоже самое, что у лягушки спросить она квакнет в ответ, мол что еще ожидать от нее
@@Mercury12-i8r Потому что многие на мое удивление в беларуси всё таки не знают беларусского. Я не могу себе даже в мысли предположить что у меня в Украине кто то скажет что не знает украинского, или "знает, но чуть чуть". Для меня это просто нонсенс. Но я понимаю почему в Беларуси это происходит, и это правда очень печально.
это можно просто кидать всем ватанам и ябатькам которые чето пиздят что в беларуси родной язык не понимают мне немного мерзко от того что в беларуси насаждают наш язык как государственный и ущемляют родной, это только больше оттолкнет беларусов в будущем, когда в обоих наших странах будут нормальные президенты вместо двух свихнувшихся дедов была в минске года 4 назад, беларуский шикарно звучит и его легко читать, видя надписи на нем по городу~
I feel like a failure only knowing one language. Kudos to all these people. Much respect. I regret not learning a language when I was young. (I’m an old man now. Like the last guy said, About time to kick the bucket)
I'm learning other languages as a precaution and for better opportunities. In my country I feel that business is getting worse and taxes are rising. The worst are the laws that make my business difficult. I guess you didn't learn another language because you didn't really need to. If you really need to learn another language, it's easy on the internet. For those who speak English, I believe that French or German is easier. For me who speak Portuguese, it was easy to learn Spanish.
You don't need to. I have taken classes in English, German, Russian, and Spanish. I can count on one hand circumstances where the last three have actually been useful to me. Language is a tool for communication. That's it.
Я хз, может это какое открытие, но я зная только русский и английский - прекрасно понимаю белорусский/украинский и даже польский. Не понятно только зачем их учить, что то на уровне того, чтобы учить албанский
@@Антонфикалис-п1л прекрасно понимать язык это понимать все или почти все. если вы не из беларуси и не из украины, даже не из польши, не жили в одной из этих стран, не учили язык, не читали, не слушали новостей, не смотрели фильмов, т.д. на этих языках, но без проблем понимаете, то это удивительно. попробуйте послушать другие языки - возможно, будут новые "открытия".
@@TranslatePlease мы так или иначе способны понимать даже чужие языки, просто потому что у нас весь язык состоит из заимствованных слов. Даже слово "царь", например, это от слова caesar. А уж учитывая, что в славянских языках полно совпадений, то это вообще без проблем даётся. Слышал про общеславянский язык? Как думаешь, каким чудом все славяне его понимают то?
Nobody speaks belarusian in Belarus, only a few of them know Belarusian at a conversational level in a whole country. Knowing a couple of basic phrases thanks to 11 years of school is called knowing a couple of phrases in Belarusian. It's a strange thing that no one speaks Belarusian in Belarus, but in the census almost half of the population indicates it as their native language.
Это результат политики россии в течение двух веков. ,,Что не доделал русский штык доделает русский поп и русский учитель " сказал губернатор окупированой Беларуси муравьёв - вешатель. Большевики продолжили уничтожать беларусов, которые пытались сформировать Народ Беларуси. И для лукашенко беларуская мова враг. Поэтому так.
I'm Belarussian and I know and speak Belarussian very well, on the same level as Russian or English, and I don't really understand why Belarussian is so hard for my classmates and school in general. The rules are similar for Russian, exept for some letters which cannot used according to the same rules as in Russian. When it comes to writing a test in Belarussian some students may strugle and even mistake basic words and sentences. I love Belarussian language so I have almost no strugle with this. I wish that Belarussian students would not be so frivolous about Belarusian language. It's a part of our history. Also when you know Belarussian you can easily learn other similar languages like Polish or Czech.
@@EUGEN093 because it is often ethnic Belarusians who don’t speak their own language as opposed to American colonisers who just landed in what is today the US and kept their language, they aren’t ethnic Native Americans
@@beingm8531 Im from Belarus. Po lotsk. Literature Belarussian is artificial like any other literature language. The actual language of our ancestors is trosyanka. In Vitebsk region its closer to Russian with Belorussian phonetic. The farther you go to the west the more discrepancies there are between Russian and Belarussian
will be more (like on the entire planet) in the future as english is kind of the new native language of the planet among the many local language. its also due to a demographical shift: planetwide youngsters are better with English while the older generations with none or less English speakers are dying year by year. this represents also the difference between the 20. century (ppl lived more isolated or rather with the immediate neighbors - among local dominating languages vs. in the 21. century there is now a much more global impact and fluctuation and mixing. 30 years ago English was for most kind of 'School English' without much practice because no need. This changed now, you need it all the time ...
Just checked on wikipedia and indeed, 70% of Belarusians speak Russian at home, only 23% speak Belarusian at home, crazy. edit: i speak French and English fluently, and some Dutch and Portuguese, though i'm a beginner in both languages.
@@wild_reader Well, it's all about patriotism. A lot of Belarusians basically lied during census about their "native language". They would like to speak Belarusian all the time and see more Belarusian language in public life, education, art, etc, but there are a lot of reasons why that's not happening right now. It will take decades to fully revive it.
Such multi-lingual people. Impressive. Seems more people in Belarus speak English than Belarusian. I find it hard to understand how that is. There's a a whole world out there that I have no idea. Thanx for the insight. Interesting, even if baffling.
*I find it hard to understand how that is.* It's not hard, it's called repression from Lukashenko/Putin. I'm actually surprised to see that a lot of people still can speak Belarusian - I thought it was less.
There's a dark truth behind it: only a fifth of Belarusians speak their language, the rest speaks Russian. It's much worse than in Ukraine, where in the west only 2% speak Russian.
In the 90s belarusian was the only official language, but Putin's and Lukashenko agreed in adding Russian as well in the 2000s Also the partial isolation the country has from the West due to its regime made it closer to Russia than any other ex soviet country (Latvia was almost 45% Russian at one Point, but the narrow majority, of Latvians, after the collapses of the Ussr, heavily disencouraged Russian to save and revive the Latvian Nation. Now around 23% Latvians are Russians and 35% speak Russian at home. In Belarus the opposite happened since it was already majority Russian by 1991, Russian was encouraged and Belarusian repressed
My family escaped from land close to later Latvian border from bolsheviks, I have even Belarusian family name. I'm polish, but due to our common heritage I am very interested in Belarusian history. Watching Belsat I can understand 70%, without knowing Belarusian . Żywie independent Belarus.
While I was in college, a fellow student at the apartment house was fluent in six languages. From a very young age, his parents and each of his two older siblings spoke one language each in his presence, thus he knew four languages before he graduated high school. He later learned two additional languages. For spare money he translated and typed foreign technical journals, so apparently he was quite fluent in them. As I recall they were English, French, Russian, Spanish, Swedish (?), and German. Alex, I hope the intervening years have been good to you. It was a pleasure knowing you.
ага. как в анекдоте. приходит дед к сексопатологу и говорит "мой сосед говорит, что дерет жену по 5 раз в день, а ему 70 лет, помогите, хочу так же". доктор "ну, так и вы говорите"
Some people were so funny , love the sense of humor. I only wonder what they understand under "knowing a language". For me that is make at least a normal conversation with someone , not just know some words or phrases.
It depends greatly on the person, as it is a subjective matter, in my humble opinion. Take me, for example. Besides my native Hungarian, I speak English fluently (not at a native level of course, but I'm content with my English skills), and I can also understand and speak Russian, however I'm far from being fluent in that language, but I definetly know a lot more than some odd words and phrases. I could easily order a beer in Russian, or ask for directions in Russian, which implies a certain level of the ability to speak and understand a language, but not fluency.
I'm European living in Venezuela. Spanish is my 5th language. In Venezuela everybody is monoglot and they think they are better than me since I don't speak Spanish as good as they do. I have had youngsters laughing in my face "You don't speak Spanish?". When you visit Venezuela you could speak all the languages in the World, but if your Spanish (Castellano) is not excellent....Venezuelan monoglot will let you know you are underneath him/her.
lol. They come from a sh...y South American country. You should ask them what it's like being Brazil's neighbor and how most of the world can't even locate Venezuela on a map.
As a Polish, I'm surprised how many Belarusians speak my language. Nice! I know literally no Polish people speaking Belarusian. I know a lot that speak Russian, but most of them because Russian was obligatory in Poland at some point, even before I was born. But the amount of young Poles speaking Russian/Ukrainian increases nowadays, mainly because we have a lot of Ukrainians in Poland now.
@@TG_Dina1773 Italian I’ve learned to speak in my early teens when I lived in Italy but English I started to learn at 16 and it took me 3 years plus minus to be able to express my self and truly I became fluent later and I’ve stated to have dreams in English and then I knew I was fluent in it. Best way is to surround your self with English speaking people if this is the language you trying to learn. Good luck 🤞
Я беларус, и я говорю на русском, отлично знаю белорусский, но из-за отсутствия практики не могу говорить на нем так же свободно как и на русском, хотя очень хотелось бы. Кроме этого, отлично понимаю украинский, но плохо на нем говорю, знаю английский на базовом уровне, благодаря чему могу объяснить на английском что угодно, но с кучей грамматических ошибок, а так же на минимальном уровне понимаю польский
- Сколько языков знаете? - 5. Русский, английский, итальянский, испанский и французский. - Скажите что-нибудь на английском. - Katze. -Это же кошка на немецком. - О, я еще и немецкий знаю....
Thank you all for speaking English it helps us lazy English by not having to learn a different language , but the guy 1.31 will never learn English by being a Newcastle united supporter
@@LMB222 Not ‘legible’? Sorry, genius, ‘legibility’ applies to writing, not typing, which, of course, is what people do on the internet. So much for ‘proper’ English - what a moron!😂
In UK many of us have remains of school French, German or Spanish to a low level convenient for ordering drinks or being polite. Meanwhile on holiday abroad waiters and other hotel staff can speak an impressive number of languages. In UK again a number can also speak Gaelic or Welsh.
That's a revelation, people who work in hotels and speak with tourists from different places all day every day have a good knowledge of many different languages.
@@heybabycometobutthead So? It’s almost a given when we travel abroad. How often will you come across that degree of linguistic expertise in UK hotels and restaurants. Do you imagine staff just pick it up by telepathy? They learn languages.
as an American I can speak some english, but I can curse fluently in mexican(spanish, its really not the same), german, french, italian and a little bit of Ukrainian & russian(recent war videos help).
@@encycl07pedia- All the people who responded to these questions meant to say they speak ‘American’, then. So do you! Thus the spelling of ‘encyclopedia’.😂
@@Dread_2137 In our country, the Russian language replaced the Belarusian language back in the 50s - 80s, under the USSR. The Belarusian language, as a language of communication, is sometimes used only in villages. To understand how this happened, we can give the example of the Irish language, which is used by fewer and fewer people. However, ALL Belarusians understand the Belarusian language and 30-50% can speak it.
I am Ukrainian, but I have been living in Russia for a very long time. Therefore, I know Russian, English and not much Ukrainian with French. A few years ago I studied Spanish, but now I don’t remember anything😅
@@rockmusicman21 Quite normal. You will be treated well if you do not tell everyone that you are against the war. But there were a couple of disputes and discussions when I talked about my position to the "wrong people"
@@izio9747 у меня три вопросы для вас (никакая провокация, просто хочу знать что люди Донбасса думают и делаю эти вопросы людям оттуда); 1- В Донбассе действительно есть многие про-русские люди? А: Да, очень много. B: Нет, это пропаганда из России. C: ну....50%-50%. 2- Украинская армия бомбила/бомбит Донбасс? A: Да, очень жестоко. Украинцы не жалели/жалеют нас. B: ни как нет, всё это пропаганда. C: бомбили, но украинцы хотели попасть на вооруженных сепаратистов (сепаратистов или героев Донбасса, кто как понимает) а не на мирных жителей. 3- Донбасс это: 1- Украина 2- Россия 3- Украина, но большой автономии (так как Каталония в Испании).
@@SlavBoss-sn5cv 1. До 2014 скорее 50/50 Сейчас там остались одни про-российские люди и в основном это пенсионеры или женщины с детьми. Мужчин, даже инвалидов и пенсионеров почти всех мобилизировали и они буквально прячутся. 2. Очень сложно сказать, обстрелы и нападения были с обеих сторон. Были даже рассказы от родственников моих что проукраинские ребята скоординировали на сброс бомбы в пункт выдачи воды где помимо нескольких военных так же было много мирного населения естественно. Так что скорее С, но предполагаю что особо не было жалости, так как к тому времени остались только пророссийские жители. 3.Украина и Россия. Не надо забывать что часть Донбасского бассейна находится на территории России) Но вот на счёт Крыма так сказать не могу, там действительно большинство хотели присоединения к России, так как там было слабое развитие инфраструктуры.
Whats the problem in the learning some language in the era of Internet? On TH-cam, it is easy to find lessons on any language -- even the most exotic ones...
@@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е Nothing wrong with learning different languages via the Internet, TH-cam or whatever, I do this as well. My comments geared towards the older ones who learned these languages organically through movement, and what interesting story they may have as to what caused the movements. Like the gentleman that speaks Moldovan, Azerbaijan, Belarusian and Russian.
interesting - but ditch the music! I would like to see how much Russian I can understand but I can't hear them speak clearly. But thanks for the video. But, pleasantly surprised by how many people could speak Belarusian - I know Lukashenka has done almost nothing to support and normalise the language and there is still some stigma that it's the language of the "uneducated" and "peasants" or "old people". Glad to see so many (well, more than I expected) speak it in Minsk. All strength to Belarusian language.
I'm surprised to see some of them don't know (?) their local language. I knew that they also speak Russian in Belarusia but didn't know it was more common than their native language. Thanks for the video!
@@sollte1239 Не понятно откуда взялась Россия во времена СССР... Коммунисты скорее больше хотели унифицировать союз и дать людям образование, чем выводить из оборота отдельные десятки или сотни языков. Ради этого из русского языка даже убрали много правил и 3 буквы.
I apologize in advance for the google translation. As a Russian, I must admit that in Russia only 5% of the population speaks English confidently. And these 5% mainly live in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Almost no one speaks Belarusian and Ukrainian. But these languages are very understandable when read and heard. Polish, for example, is much more difficult for us than for Belarusians and Ukrainians.
польский и русский это два славянских языка но они очень разные, мы можем понять только 20% не зная языка. Мы, поляки, чехов можем понять на 80%. Славянские языки делятся на три группы - восточные, западные и южные. это страны легендарных братьев Леха, Чеха и Руса.
If you compare video from russia and Belorussia (no matter the subject)I see huge difference between people. Belorussian looks much more open and shiny than russian. As lithuanian I’m glad that my neighbours are so positive people …
I’m an American who can only speak English and a smattering of French. I’m very impressed with these people’s language skills. Much more English than I would have guessed.
they say they can speak all those languages, but how they speak it is a different story, i bet many of them say they speak a language even though they only know how to say hi how are you in it
To do this, you need to ask them something in English. You don't know how things really are. My English speaking friends had no problem talking to local young people on the street to ask for the right way and advice on local restaurants
I really wish Belarusian took over Russian as the main communicational language in Belarus. It's such a beautiful language!... Don't let your own language die out! Especially given the fact that Belarusian is more helpful if you want to communicate with Poles, Ukrainians, Rusyns, Slovaks and Czechs.
@@ГеоргийТагирьянов Маеце рацыю паважаныя ўсходнія сябры. Кожны расеец выдатна разумее беларускую мову. Наўпрост на 99 адсоткаў, як тут у каментах кажуць некаторыя вашы суайчыннікі! Беларусам не трэба клапаціцца, каб вам было зручна. Адказваць па-беларуску расейцам не выкліча ніякага непаразумення і гэта павінен пачаць рабіць кожны беларус.
@Александр Григоренко Belarusian is the native language of Belarus. With a bit of support from the government, it can eventually become the main communication language. And by supporting Belarusian I don't mean any violence or discrimination of Russian speakers in Belarus.
@@SiarheiSiamashka native language is a first language of a person. To be honest first language of Belarusians nowadays is Russian. People know Belarusian at a very low level.
@@SiarheiSiamashka абсалютна дакладна. будучы рускім мне не склала працы зразумець што вы напісалі... з дапамогай гугл перакладчыка. 💪😂😂 На самом деле практически всё понятно без переводчика, но не на лету, приходится вчитываться чтобы понять смысл привет беларусам из Татарстана, люблю вас
We would like it. But the occupation administration thinks otherwise ((. Those who went abroad make their TH-cam channels in Belarusian, unite families to open Belarusian classes for children in the countries where they live
I'm Belarusian and can guarantee you that it's impossible to speak Belarusian without being glanced at, although most people would have respect for you, especially if you are a youngster. People don't get to practise communicating in Belarusian with each other, hence they tend to forget some of their vocab over time.
Русский - мой родной язык, но я знаю английский C1 и базу испанского, для начала хочу выучить испанский как минимум до класса C1-C2, а так хочу учить арабский на египетском диалекте. Чёрт, арабский ну реально очень красивый язык! Мне предлагали учить остальные языки СНГ, но я об этом ещё думаю. Моя мама русская, но она всё детство прожила в Казахстане и знаете что? Чёрт, она на казахском шпарит порой лучше коренных жителей. Когда у неё спрашивают, "эй, а какой твой родной язык?" она всегда впадает в ступор 😄
Что для тебя являлось главным инструментов благоприятно влияющим на изучения иностранных языков? Моральная сторона важнее физической? Я имею в виду что большего прогресса ты достигла благодаря упорству и желанию или благодаря изучению с помощью курсов, приложений, препода?
@@dianadegtyar7533 тут если у тебя самого желания нет, то ничто ты и не выучишь, надо найти мотивацию чтобы начать, я например выучил англ. чтобы смотреть фильмы только в оригинале и также слушать песни, а вот если ты окажешься в среде где говорят этот язык, еще лучше
acho que nunca vi alguem a querer aprender português!😱eu ando a aprender russo, e fiquei mesmo surpreendido quando ela disse que queria aprender português hahahahha
English is the language of the world, everyone should learn it so that all humans can communicate with each other, wouldn’t that be great? Here in India, there are so many languages but all the road signs are in English.
Belarusians have no negative sentiments towards English language. And it will be only more popular in the future thanks to Internet. It's interesting to encounter an Indian who looks at English language in a positive way. Many Indians, that I communicated with, could not get over their grudges about their colonial past in one way or another.
@@Сегодняшняяреальность I don’t know why English is most spoken, maybe it is the easiest ? I do not think people should be forced to learn English though
@@vozism322 Haha. No, that is not the reason (although it is indeed an easy language - I speak as an English person with several languages). Explanation: the largest empire in the world was administered from London for about 150 years. After that another English-speaking country, USA, assumed the role of linguistic superpower. For decades there were huge parts of the world where despite this no-one really needed to know English. But that all changed with the Internet, and also the adoption by international business and also the EU of English as their lingua franca. It's all over now. Neither Spanish nor Chinese even come close. I hope there will be enough love for other languages to live. For example, one language which I know is Irish. Irish people have quite a funny attitude towards the language (which is very difficult). Most people have affection for it but they find it daunting to actually speak because, for many historical reasons, the society went beyond the point of using it frequently. It's hard to get back from there, very hard.
Нет, это не здорово, английский просто подавляет языковое разнообразие других стран. Сейчас легко можно встретить эмигранта, который за годы жизни в другой стране и двух слов не выучил, потому что «ну все же говорят на английском» :|
Почему так много иностранцев в комментариях.... Жалко, что так мало беларусов говорят на белорусском, очень красивый язык. Я из рф, говорю на русском (неожиданно), украинском, английском понимаю польский и белорусский, раньше учила итальянский, но уже забыла все
такие порядки в государстве, практически все документы написаны на русском языке, с беларуским встречаешься в метро и в автобусах, когда объявляют остановки)) найти человека, который говорит исключительно на беларуском крайне тяжело
I speak Spanish (native), English (intermediate/ conversations with friends) AND started learning russian 2 months ago (beautiful language but rather hard to learn)
Thank you all for your positive comments, i'll do my best to learn hahaha, but i must admit that with russian verb conjugation i'm starting to panic😰. I guess depending on your native language it can become more or less difficult to learn
I kinda wish I was able to speak 2 languages fluently but in the west that is just not needed in their country they seem to have very good language skills.
@@kenster8270 Those are good comparisons but I must say I was pleasantly surprised by nearly 3/4 of the sample having at least some Belarusian - it means the language is salvageable. The Basque language was brought back from much worse
@@kenster8270 And me being the grandson of four Japanese, I don't speak Japanese. I speak Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English, but I don't speak Japanese.
Would that be because soviets migrated many russians into Belarus? The russians still do this to many areas they invade (Crimea/Georgia/Donbas in Ukraine etc).
@@miceinoz1181 but also because they are closely related languages. The percentage of Russian speking migrants to Latvia was higher but it didn't pose a problem for Latvian since it's not even a Slavic language and it also had high status (unlike Belarussian)
@@Dr_Flex16 парень ты серьезно? мы сейчас о государственном языке. Уничтожение родной культуры начинается с языка и отмены национальной культуры. Пойди о смысле учения родного языка скажи армянам, азербайджанцам, грузим, другим кавказским народам, получишь в момент по голове.
Results of many yeas of persistent russification: only 23% speak Belarusian at home. Russians occupied Poland for 123 years, until 1918. We went through brutal Russification, thanks God however Poles were able to retain their culture, language, and nationality.
@@swe1733 we ARE victims. Poles didn't try to deprive Ukrainians of their culture for more then century, by uprooting locals and deporting them to Siberia. Russia did it to any country they conquered.
@@kubuspuchatek3609 Was Poland a victim when it captured Vilnius from the Lithuanians in 1920? Was Poland a victim when it occupied part of the lands of the Czechs and Slovaks in 1938 together with Germany? The Volyn massacre of 1943 showed how Ukrainians really treated Poles.
@@swe1733 Poland captured Vilnius from RED ARMY, after their failed 1920 attack on Poland. Soviets already took over Lithuania at that time. Poland didn't occupy anything TOGETHER with Germany. Are you a failed product of Swedish education system, or rather a 🇷🇺 troll ?
Well as most of people said in comments we study Russian and Belarussian languages as well as one additional. Also fun fact . In fact we can speak Belarusian we can understand and speak polish and ukrainian languages. Also we have a lot of different languages at our schools. On my own I can speak around 8: Russian, Belarusian , Polish, Ukrainian, English, French, Deutsch, Hebrew.
I speak 3 languages completely: Armenian, Russian, English. I can support the dialogue in: Serbian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Japanese (a new language that I am learning now). And the explanation why I can speak Belarusian, Ukrainian and Serbian is very simple - there are many neighbors of non-Russian nationality.
A little explanation: Russian, Belarusian and 1 "foreign" languages are part of the compulsory school curriculum for any child in the country. So at the end of the school, anyone speaks 3 languages (of course, in varying degrees of quality). The most common foreign language is English, but there are schools in which German, French, Spanish, etc. are also studied.
Thank you for adding that fact. I was honestly surprised at how many people could speak 2 -3 languages. Now I understand why.
@@judew.5872 and I don't understand why in the USA you know only one and not even brits English? How comes? Maybe because you have a large country (from the sun to the snow) and of course you pretend everyone knows american. Yes grammatically at least very easy and this is good.
Mhhhhh now? I would be interested to learn 3 languages or mhhh 2?
У нас нет белорусского 😂
@@tamo3041 I do find it sad as an American that our school system doesn’t care about foreign languages that much. I will say that we all understand British English just fine so why waste time learning it. I remember that my middle school cut out Spanish from the curriculum so we had no foreign language. Needless to say, I was excited to take German in high school and am studying Russian on my own, although I am horrible at it. As you said, America is such a large country that many of US don’t feel the need to go abroad. I would love to go abroad but it’s still expensive. There’s less motivation for us to learn languages unfortunately because most people aren’t anywhere near the border with Mexico, the only neighbor of ours that doesn’t speak English. Europeans tend to not travel as far in order to encounter another language so there is more motivation there.
@@auspiciousman you are right by you it is really a fact of school. In others coutries .....it is different, smaller so there are borders or English music and much more. I didn't learn at school to much but yes example french it gave me the basis. And immagine as teen it was more difficout to understand (yes in real life not in school) french instead of English. (Mother language is Italian)
These people are amazingly cheerful, even standing there in the overcast and rain!
5:43 - What a pleasant surprise for Bulgarian! :) I had a totally unexpected opportunity to work with Belarussians while I was in Spain before the pandemic for a pilot, online IT-related project. I was stunned how easy and smart people they are. The group consisted of only 5 people but ALL of them were very intelligent. I can only say good things about them. Amazing 2,5 year experience! Special greets from a Bulgarian.
Български ни е близък език. Живях три месеца в София, красив град! Аз разбирам български добре, но говоря ужасно. Greetings from Minsk :D
Веднъж и за нас да се каже нещо в тоя канал 😃
@@dannyrivera559 Много ми е приятно да го чуя, Дани. Беларуският език е доста близък до полският доколкото ми беше обяснено. Вие сте страхотен народ!
@@kosmicheskiprah ,а еще русский схож с болгарским на 74%
@@poher822 само лексикално обаче. Всъщност по същия параметът, белоруският език е по-близък с българския отколкото българският е с руския. Интересно нали?
Belarusian language is in danger, it’s good seeing that still some people speaking it.
You're right. There were far fewer native speakers of the Czech language. And they saved him. To save the Belarusian language, it is necessary to change the regime to pro-Belarusian. To make available public services and higher education in Belarusian, to provide an opportunity for a social lift for Belarusian speakers. There are fewer Estonian speakers now, but this language is not threatened with extinction, because the authorities are on the side of the people and culture
@@Kniazhnami The thing is, Russian lang is native to a lot of those people. Many of them were born in the USSR, some have close ties with Russians. I'm from RU and both me & my friends from BR would like to see a more liberal and democratic govt here, but I hope they won't suddenly make all education and documentation on Belarussian and prohibit guys with Russian origin to have any places in the parliament or police/army of the state, isolating Russians and not giving them any opportunities, like your respectable country did.
Bc if after any democratic change in Eastern Europe Russian minority would suffer and be given a grey passport again and again, I guess Putin's support will grow larger and larger among them.
@@Kniazhnami all public services, education and so on in two languages, since the official languages of Belarus are Belarusian and Russian
@@AntonPavlovich2000Are you sure a European government forbade people with Russian origin to be part of the government? Or are only people with not a passport of the country allowed to join the government
@@sollte1239 Guys who work for the state in Estonia have Estonian roots. If you are Ivan Petrov, you won't work on state jobs (even before Feb 24). That's mainly about "you may be a Russian agent of influence or smth else" and they are paranoid about it.
Even their cringey pro-Russian KOOS party is led by an Estonian. Though there is around 22% of ethnic Russians in the country. (30+% before). In Latvia it's the same, Lithuania has a more balanced approach.
The last guy said - it's too late for him to start studying foreign language. Last year I engaged in German studies as my elder son urged me while I was in hospital ("any way you have nothing to do there"). This year I'll turn 67 and I'm far from thinking that it is too late for me. Beside my native Lithuanian I am (of course) fluent in Russian, my English is also pretty good as it is my business language for 30 years or even more now. Apart from these 3 I know Polish (on the conversational level) and some Latvian which I wish to improve. Also, due to the recent circumstances, I can understand Ukrainian quite well, together with Belorussian because these two are very similar and knowing both Russian and Polish they are not difficult to understand.
Ahaha, its always good to study up on multiple languages, in honesty it took me around 8 years in total to master English as being born in the UK!
However when you've mastered your own native tongue and writing, your able to achive much more in life, I know French, German, Spanish, bit of Italian and Japanese while studying on the Russian Language.
Your never too old or young to understand a language when others are there to help build it up, again though foreign languages shouldn't stop you from communication, the primary way humans communicate is through body language, glad to see people from Europe understands each other.
@@capastianluna8896 Wow, an impressive list of languages!
Nice to see so many people declaring knowledge of Polish! In fact Belarussian and Polish are of course related to each other, so it's easy for us to learn and understand neighbouring languages.
Grodno region of Belarus is still ethnically 25% polish and in some regions it’s up to 80% so it makes sense that they have some knowledge of polish
@@solce809Maybe you should polish your Polish
@@odszczepciesie5128🫢
Belarus and Poland are much more similar than they seem to be. I moved to Poland at the age of 14 and the course of history is almost the same in both countries. The only difference is that a lot of people who are considered to be Belarusian in Belarus(Emilia Plater, Konstanty Kalinowski, Kościuszko, Adam Mickiewicz, Damejko) are for some reason written as Poles in Polish history books. I guess we should just agree somehow that it’s our shared history.
How far/similar ar those 2 languages...?
Anyone??
in fact, if you know Belarusian, then you will definitely understand Ukrainian and possibly Polish
Even if you know Belorussian, you will NOT understand Polish almost at all. Checked it many times.
@@_MinskBelarus This is why I wrote "maybe", as a Ukrainian I understand Polish very little, and Ukrainian and Belarussian languages are 86% similar, hence that Belarusians understand almost as well as Ukrainians, it is certainly far from the conversational level, but it is guaranteed to understand some words from the conversation.
@@_MinskBelarus although it's probably a translation error, I wrote "maybe".
@@flintstudios I would say Belorussian is 90-95% similar to Russian when Ukrainian is about 70-75% (to Russian). The only thing that different is pronunciation (especial in Ukrainian). Russians need a week of practice to almost fully understand Belorussian and about a month to understand Ukrainian.
@@_MinskBelarus really? how did you count it?
The amount of times I’ve heard the exact words “russkiy belorusskiy” in this one video is crazy 💀
ruskii-bilaruskii
Belarussia!
Sad. There must be "bielaruskij anglijski" instead of that nonsense
Why belorussain are not as beauty as russain and ukraiain
@@Biełaruski_nacystГрустно, что ты указываешь, что хорошо, а что плохо
Respect to the girl who said Portuguese 🇵🇹🇧🇾 ❤❤
I bet she dreams of warm weather and beaches.
I would love to learn Spanish (Castilian). I live in California and it’s as a second language.
Truly the very first response in the video.
Ukraine is alive.
Wrong flag, though. This is the correct language flag : 🇧🇷
Ukrainian and Belarusian languages are very similar. We can communicate in our languages understanding each other perfectly )
Так. Я дуже добре розумію на слух і читаю білоруською, але із правописом є проблеми. Ці мови надзвичайно схожі. Білоруська, як мед для вух.
Ukrainian, Belarusian languages are the closest to RUSSIAN, whether you like it or not)
@@Маргарита-н5ж4в хорошо, что украинский для русских тоже понимаем на слух, но хотелось бы выучить-прикольно звучит, еще и мама украинка сама
@@freek1zsz427 Ну я был как то в РФ в гостях у родственников и они попросили что то на украинском сказать,я сказал им простейшое предложение и они ничего не поняли
As a Turk who speaks Russian and who lived in Russia and Ukraine for a while,I really cannot understand Ukrainian.Of course,I can get the point,but an effective reading or listening is really impossible for me.
I’ve been learning Russian for a year now. Your videos are great!
GENOCIDE LANGUAGE
Why can’t I see comments?
@@Wisco_sin because some of them were hidden by TH-cam due to some curse words in them or something like that.
But probably you can see them among your notifications.
Hmm 🤔
And I've been studying English for a year now.
'Ruski belaruski' sounds like a drink at the pub
Learning a new language is one of the most satisfying things you can do. And knowing only one language, even English, is so limiting.
Is so limiting in what sense? As far as I’m aware, a person who speaks English can communicate almost anywhere. I do agree that knowing a different language (I’m fluent in 2 and OK in a third) is helpful if one spends a lot of time in a place where the other language is spoken.
English is a very useful language, but it's great to learn another language, too. The process of learning a language is such an interesting and satisfying journey, and it's not a race as you have the rest of your life to continue improving.
It not only satisfied. With the global eco .The more you speak fluently in a language ,the more money you earn.
English is the most dominating language, its also the most difficult at times to understand as its dictionary is the biggest!!
4:13 дед говорит на русском языке "Я только на одном разговариваю", автор гений спрашивает "на каком ?" 😂😂
As a ukrainian I speak Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, English and understand (but can't speak as well for now) Belarussian, Czech, a little Bulgarian and Serbian
Thats because all slavic languages are very similar to each other and its very easy to learn to slavic people (you just need to know some basic from this languages, like pronunciation of letters and it will go very easy)
тру сіґма
there's even a special language created not so long ago that every slav person could understand. I believe it's called "panslavic language"
@@rozmai.lisoviy труъ сигма
@@itdobelikedattho8112 настоящий добрый молодец
@@bremsshadow8722 belorussian and ukranian in fact it is dialects of russian, practicly no difference. I Russian and i can understand poland and serbian, but i never learn this languages. Just slavic languages real very close.
Belarusians seem really chill! Would like to visit their country 🇧🇾 👌🏻
Я тоже!
Wow, so impressive! I am guessing people in Europe as a whole speak multiple languages, where in Canada and the US only certain areas speak multiple languages, aside from the immigrants from other countries.
Most ppl from the UK will only speak English but a lot of mainland Europe are pretty proficient at English
Don't take it to seriously. Most of us basically know a couple of phrases and claim that we know the language. In fact most of us cant hold a proper conversation in another language even though we learn a foreign language in school.
And if you know Russian, Ukrainian or Belarussian you will understand any of these language at 95%. It means they can't talk but completely understand the languages in question.
Well, my mother tongue is German and my second language so to speak is English (officially at B1).
I'm learning Spanish at A2, which isn't great but would enable me to understand a large chunk of the world
Well cause you guys speak English and second language is not essential for you :) it's nice to have but nothing more. Imagine if I only knew Polish... I wouldn't be able to work in a well paid occupation (mostly international environment and clients) and I wouldn't be able to travel. It's not like all people here are fluent in English but most of them can at least communicate without major issues. It's a necessity.
Very sympathetic people. Interesting that hardly anyone speaks only Belarusian. As a German, I think it's very cool that a few people there speak German 👍
That is what colonization does. The natives get overrun by their masters and forced to pick up the new language. Those that only speak Russian are eighter from colonizing russian families, or they completly assimilated to their overlords. Sad regardless.
Deutsch ist sehr wichtig in Mittel- und Osteuropa, in Polen (besodners in Schlesien) ist das ein obligatorisches Fach.
@@TroenderTass so what’s the problem to stop speak it? Is someone forcing them? No. They choose Russian because its the most used language on the internet after English. A lot of scientific articles and books are written in this language or translated into this language. What kind of colonisation are you even talking about. Don’t actually answer. I’m not interested in your opinion
@@Yggdrasil2140 Since you aren't interested in their opinion allow me to answer instead. During the period between 1945-1991 many people from East Germany to Russia were indeed forced to learn Russian. Also, you are correct in that when they gained independence many younger people chose not to learn Russian, as they were no longer forced to.
Because they are Russians Orcs, you can't be native Belarusian without the language.
Nice to have these more lighthearted videos in contrast with the political topics. Keep it up!
Dude had a newcastle United beanie on at the beginning. He speaks to the geordie hearts, whether he only learnt German in primary school 😊
i spotted that too, the Geordies have England's best accent but he would struggle to understand them
I can speak 3 languages. Fine, coarse and medium...all in danish 😁
Great video as always, 1420 👌
🤣🤣🤣 Hälsningar från Sverige.😊
@@andersgrassman6583 Tack så mycket, kompis 😁🇸🇪🇩🇰
Let's see. While sailing on the Baltic, I've gotten to use Swedish, German, Estonian and Russian along with my native Finnish. Sadly, in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, I've had to resort to English, and in Denmark, to Swedish. (Disclaimer: I've never sailed to Russia, Lithuania or Poland; I've traveled to Lithuania and Poland by ferry and train, but never visited Russia. I did visit the USSR though, once, went to Riga via Tallinn with my grandparents in 1988. First the ferry Georg Ots to Tallinn, then an Aeroflot Tupolev to Riga. The pilot made some impressive turns when we were nearing Riga.) Should probably learn those languages too. Would be cool to be able to sail all around the Baltic and speak to locals in their own language in all the countries. (Although I don't really know when it'd make sense to sail to Russia.) (Something I've never considered before - the Baltic Sea is almost a European Union inland sea these days, with the exception of Kaliningrad and the Russian coastline in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland.)
And immagine i live in a place for now where a dialect differs also in a space of one km. Ok it is understandable anyway but immagine if they have to change some words and I ask a professor why: he told me competition and fear. Fear of what I don't know.....maybe because everyone lies? Ok I have to make a phone call and search a piece of bread mhhhh where? Maybe luga they hate me less.
Hopefully, we wouldn't have to wait too long for the sailing to Russia is make sense. Greetings from Saint-Petersburg🙂
Как вы умудрились, живя в Финляндии, не побывать в Санкт-Петербурге? Привет из Таллинна.
@@jevgenisved1419 редкий финн доезжает дальше Выборга.
0:21 it's nice to know that someone wants to learn to speak Portuguese, I'm glad that someone wants to learn my native language 🇧🇷
Mesmo
Belarusians are a lovely people! Had the pleasure to make many friends there in 2021, despite the shit government they have. They were all very clear how much they hate it, but some were more careful before talking about it. I truly hope they will get the democracy and freedom they dream of sooner rather than later.
They seem so nice people. My favourite East Slavic nation. Greetings, brothers, hope you will solve your problems🇷🇸❤️❤️🇧🇾
because the ones who are not nice did not allow him to record the interview
Hope you solve yours too) Воли србију♥️
Can't see the flag on small screen but if you're Serbian, drop that idiotic "panslavism".
We won't be friendlier towards you just because you're Slavic - you need to stop whining about NATO 1999, and stop kissing Russia's ass. I mean, Kusturica was my hero, now he speaks on Russian TV, that's a complete disgrace.
I’am so happy that a girl was wishing to learn Portuguese, my native language! All young people will be warmly welcome in Portugal. Weather is warm and food is good, so… why not?
Because they don't want to end like Ihor Homeniuk.
@@evertonmv1217 it’s a sad story., but in the end justice was made: his wife received a 800.000,00€ compensation from the Portuguese Government and the 3 persons involved are in jail.
I came to rest in Lisbon and Porto. Beautiful and open people. I really enjoyed the live music and Portuguese songs. They touch the strings of the Belarusian soul
Pretending? lol. Either your English could use a lot of work or you think that being fake is endearing.
"pretending" is it a correct word?
I'm not a native english speaker, so i'm a little confused. I thought to pretend means to behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not (synonim to lie).
Najbardziej śmieszą mnie ludzie którzy uważają że jest już dla nich „za późno” i za życia czekają i patrzą w stronę cmentarza. Przykro mi
I speak English only (I live in Canada on the west coast) but I wish I knew five or more languages. French is compulsory but when I went to school, you could opt out after 3 years of French if you chose to go to a technical college after school. Our French teacher was Scottish and it was difficult as it was to understand his English as he had a very thick Scottish accent. His French was almost impossible to undestand which is why I opted out.
My friend is Japanese and married a Canadian guy. She was actually born in South America as a number of S American countries have large Japanese populations. Their daughter grew up learning to speak English (her first language), Japanese and Spanish since her mother also spoke it. She went to a French immersion school (where the school curriculum is taught almost entirely in French). She is now completely fluent in 4 languages but she is the exception since most children only grow up speaking English with an elementary grasp of French even if it is also an official language of Canada.
wow it's great that you have a friend who is from South America, what country does he live in? I am also from South America, from Chile, although I understand that there is a large Japanese community in Peru.
@@larsbender3862 No, actually four good friends who WERE originally from South America but are Canadians now and have been living here for many years. The one I wrote about is originally from Argentina. She moved to Canada and moved her mother here too about two decades ago. Her mother speaks Spanish and Japanese with very basic English.
The other three are: one from Chile (where you live now) who was escaping the regime then (speaks Spanish, of course and excellent English but still has his accent 😊); one from Brazil, married to a Canadian guy (speaks Portuguese and excellent English with a strong accent); and lastly, a *very* good friend from Colombia who moved from Canada to Colombia as a young child with her parents. She married a sweet guy from Colombia and they ended up moving back to Canada and had four wonderful kids here. She speaks both English and Spanish with no accents.
Should practice up German, Spanish or even Russian, I've practed on those mainly since our French teacher was also from Scotland, her accent was easy to understand, just not when she was also studying up French since it was a teacher paid extra so the school could save funds on not hiring someone experienced :(
Ever since then, met a German friend, French friend and even a Spanish friend, each taught me bit by bit and in return they started speaking English, so we both helped eachother to achive new languages and it felt amazing to do!
Its easy too, just repetition, never leave a word unread and keep at it, one day you'll speak the words your reading.
Practiced*
as a Ukrainian, I was very surprised at how few Belarusians speak Ukrainian, because Ukrainian and Belarusian are very similar (84 percent of the total vocabulary).
Understanding is significantly easier than speaking. I can understand Ukrainian speech reasonably well after learning most of the common unknown words, but I can't speak it. I wouldn't claim any kind of Ukrainian language proficiency, because I will be surely making a lot of mistakes even with the most basic phrases. But I know that some Belarusians started speaking Ukrainian after moving to Ukraine.
It takes a lot of practice to speak Ukrainian without using Belarusian phonetics. They mix together in your head so much it's unreal
Беларусу не патрэбна вучыць украінскую, таму што ён яе і так збольшага ведае. Навогул, мы можам размаўляць кожны на сваёй мове і выдатна адно аднаго разумець.
@@ceasarby1033 а я би повчив беларускую мову. Мені подобається звучання - воно видається якимось архаїчно-величним. Мабуть через більш тверду вимову приголосних. Але вже після війни, адже наразі не дуже доречно.
@@ceasarby1033 пачиму беларусский такой смэшной я ни магу
Love your Videos. Much love from Germany
I am Belarusian, I live in the city of Brest, on the border with Poland, and therefore I understand the Polish language well (at one time we were in the Polish state.) And plus Polish television is not far away. I know a little English and as a child I was taught German for one year. I understand the Ukrainian language well. But I speak Russian. My mother spoke only Belarusian. I didn't know Russian. But I grew up in an orphanage where everyone spoke Russian. In the cities they speak Russian, in the villages somewhere in Belarusian, somewhere in Ukrainian. Russian language prevails.
Ви говорить по-английский и это хорошо!
Уп, сваі 😁
Нечакана
Вы говорите по-английский очень хорошо!
sad to hear that even in far west Belarus, russian is killing the belarus language.
Ці ёсць парады, каб я вывучаў беларускую?
I want to learn Belarusian, such a beautiful and elegant language.
Native russian speaker here, I know english and have been studying german, spanish and japanese. I thinks it's fun thing to do but I actually don't believe I'd ever have a necessity to talk in these languages, so I'm okay with only knowing english as foreign language
Всем похуй
Учишь японский, анимешник пон.
@@No_Game-No_Life Мне было 16, не осуждай
@@Andreus9733 Судя по его нику, он скорее поддержал бы))
So Belarusian is doing better than I thought.
вааау, я так рада, что наконец практически все называют беларуский 💔
удивлён, что не все его называют. Разве это не часть школьной программы?
@@Marszall4 зачем вообще говорить в Беларуси что ты знаешь белорусский? Это тоже самое, что у лягушки спросить она квакнет в ответ, мол что еще ожидать от нее
@@Mercury12-i8r судя по ответам не все "лягушки" могут квакать
@@Mercury12-i8r Потому что многие на мое удивление в беларуси всё таки не знают беларусского. Я не могу себе даже в мысли предположить что у меня в Украине кто то скажет что не знает украинского, или "знает, но чуть чуть". Для меня это просто нонсенс.
Но я понимаю почему в Беларуси это происходит, и это правда очень печально.
это можно просто кидать всем ватанам и ябатькам которые чето пиздят что в беларуси родной язык не понимают
мне немного мерзко от того что в беларуси насаждают наш язык как государственный и ущемляют родной, это только больше оттолкнет беларусов в будущем, когда в обоих наших странах будут нормальные президенты вместо двух свихнувшихся дедов
была в минске года 4 назад, беларуский шикарно звучит и его легко читать, видя надписи на нем по городу~
I feel like a failure only knowing one language. Kudos to all these people. Much respect. I regret not learning a language when I was young. (I’m an old man now. Like the last guy said, About time to kick the bucket)
I know the menu from Taco Bell, so I technically know Spanish.
Don't regret it. Learn it
I'm learning other languages as a precaution and for better opportunities.
In my country I feel that business is getting worse and taxes are rising. The worst are the laws that make my business difficult.
I guess you didn't learn another language because you didn't really need to.
If you really need to learn another language, it's easy on the internet. For those who speak English, I believe that French or German is easier.
For me who speak Portuguese, it was easy to learn Spanish.
You still can, it's always better to know the basics than nothing
You don't need to. I have taken classes in English, German, Russian, and Spanish. I can count on one hand circumstances where the last three have actually been useful to me.
Language is a tool for communication. That's it.
Я вучу сваю родную мову - беларускую.
Дзякуючы гэтаму я дастаткова добра разумею ўкраінскую мову)
ми розуміємо беларуську дуже добре, все або майже все, що чуємо з ваших ЗМІ
Я хз, может это какое открытие, но я зная только русский и английский - прекрасно понимаю белорусский/украинский и даже польский. Не понятно только зачем их учить, что то на уровне того, чтобы учить албанский
@@Антонфикалис-п1л прекрасно понимать язык это понимать все или почти все. если вы не из беларуси и не из украины, даже не из польши, не жили в одной из этих стран, не учили язык, не читали, не слушали новостей, не смотрели фильмов, т.д. на этих языках, но без проблем понимаете, то это удивительно. попробуйте послушать другие языки - возможно, будут новые "открытия".
@@TranslatePlease мы так или иначе способны понимать даже чужие языки, просто потому что у нас весь язык состоит из заимствованных слов. Даже слово "царь", например, это от слова caesar. А уж учитывая, что в славянских языках полно совпадений, то это вообще без проблем даётся. Слышал про общеславянский язык? Как думаешь, каким чудом все славяне его понимают то?
Понимаю украинский после просмотра шоу на ютубе и песен 😅
Nobody speaks belarusian in Belarus, only a few of them know Belarusian at a conversational level in a whole country. Knowing a couple of basic phrases thanks to 11 years of school is called knowing a couple of phrases in Belarusian. It's a strange thing that no one speaks Belarusian in Belarus, but in the census almost half of the population indicates it as their native language.
Это результат политики россии в течение двух веков. ,,Что не доделал русский штык доделает русский поп и русский учитель " сказал губернатор окупированой Беларуси муравьёв - вешатель. Большевики продолжили уничтожать беларусов, которые пытались сформировать Народ Беларуси. И для лукашенко беларуская мова враг. Поэтому так.
Why is it strange? Do Americans speak native Americans' languages?
I'm Belarussian and I know and speak Belarussian very well, on the same level as Russian or English, and I don't really understand why Belarussian is so hard for my classmates and school in general. The rules are similar for Russian, exept for some letters which cannot used according to the same rules as in Russian. When it comes to writing a test in Belarussian some students may strugle and even mistake basic words and sentences. I love Belarussian language so I have almost no strugle with this. I wish that Belarussian students would not be so frivolous about Belarusian language. It's a part of our history. Also when you know Belarussian you can easily learn other similar languages like Polish or Czech.
@@EUGEN093 because it is often ethnic Belarusians who don’t speak their own language as opposed to American colonisers who just landed in what is today the US and kept their language, they aren’t ethnic Native Americans
@@beingm8531 Im from Belarus. Po lotsk. Literature Belarussian is artificial like any other literature language. The actual language of our ancestors is trosyanka. In Vitebsk region its closer to Russian with Belorussian phonetic. The farther you go to the west the more discrepancies there are between Russian and Belarussian
Good to see so many young people understand English.
will be more (like on the entire planet) in the future as english is kind of the new native language of the planet among the many local language. its also due to a demographical shift: planetwide youngsters are better with English while the older generations with none or less English speakers are dying year by year. this represents also the difference between the 20. century (ppl lived more isolated or rather with the immediate neighbors - among local dominating languages vs. in the 21. century there is now a much more global impact and fluctuation and mixing. 30 years ago English was for most kind of 'School English' without much practice because no need. This changed now, you need it all the time ...
0:21 Teve uma entrevistada que fala português, que legal! Saudações do Brasil!
Just checked on wikipedia and indeed, 70% of Belarusians speak Russian at home, only 23% speak Belarusian at home, crazy.
edit: i speak French and English fluently, and some Dutch and Portuguese, though i'm a beginner in both languages.
Belarusian suffered the same fate as Occitan.
Gabriel Pettier, I am sure 23% is too exaggerated
@@wild_reader Well, it's all about patriotism. A lot of Belarusians basically lied during census about their "native language". They would like to speak Belarusian all the time and see more Belarusian language in public life, education, art, etc, but there are a lot of reasons why that's not happening right now. It will take decades to fully revive it.
@@hekonororo5417 , it is more likely the census results are falsified.
As a Belarusian I don't know any single person who speak Belarusian lng at home 😅
Such multi-lingual people. Impressive. Seems more people in Belarus speak English than Belarusian. I find it hard to understand how that is.
There's a a whole world out there that I have no idea. Thanx for the insight. Interesting, even if baffling.
*I find it hard to understand how that is.*
It's not hard, it's called repression from Lukashenko/Putin. I'm actually surprised to see that a lot of people still can speak Belarusian - I thought it was less.
There's a dark truth behind it: only a fifth of Belarusians speak their language, the rest speaks Russian.
It's much worse than in Ukraine, where in the west only 2% speak Russian.
@@LMB222 1/5 don't speak on Belarusian. They say that they know, like English. But not use in usual live
In the 90s belarusian was the only official language, but Putin's and Lukashenko agreed in adding Russian as well in the 2000s
Also the partial isolation the country has from the West due to its regime made it closer to Russia than any other ex soviet country
(Latvia was almost 45% Russian at one Point, but the narrow majority, of Latvians, after the collapses of the Ussr, heavily disencouraged Russian to save and revive the Latvian Nation. Now around 23% Latvians are Russians and 35% speak Russian at home. In Belarus the opposite happened since it was already majority Russian by 1991, Russian was encouraged and Belarusian repressed
@@felicepompa938 Only half of Latvian citizens know Latvian. The population is in sharp decline 1991 (2.6 mln) to 2022 (1.9 mln)
My family escaped from land close to later Latvian border from bolsheviks, I have even Belarusian family name. I'm polish, but due to our common heritage I am very interested in Belarusian history. Watching Belsat I can understand 70%, without knowing Belarusian . Żywie independent Belarus.
While I was in college, a fellow student at the apartment house was fluent in six languages.
From a very young age, his parents and each of his two older siblings spoke one language each in his presence, thus he knew four languages before he graduated high school. He later learned two additional languages.
For spare money he translated and typed foreign technical journals, so apparently he was quite fluent in them.
As I recall they were English, French, Russian, Spanish, Swedish (?), and German.
Alex, I hope the intervening years have been good to you. It was a pleasure knowing you.
I speak Guatemalan, Bolivian, Mexican, Venezuelan, Colombian, Peruvian, Cuban. and English
graduated from* high school.
@@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla бро,ты говоришь на испанском и английском 😂
That's quite normal here in Luxembourg btw.
@@encycl07pedia- Actually, I'm not sure that it is called high school as I am not familiar with the European school system.
5:36 my man speaks a language that doesn't even exist. Impressive.
Молодцы братья белорусы, почти все знают английский
Дело в том, что их английский на уровне "лондон ис кэпитал оф грейт британ", особенно у совков.
ага. как в анекдоте.
приходит дед к сексопатологу и говорит "мой сосед говорит, что дерет жену по 5 раз в день, а ему 70 лет, помогите, хочу так же". доктор "ну, так и вы говорите"
Some people were so funny , love the sense of humor.
I only wonder what they understand under "knowing a language". For me that is make at least a normal conversation with someone , not just know some words or phrases.
It depends greatly on the person, as it is a subjective matter, in my humble opinion.
Take me, for example. Besides my native Hungarian, I speak English fluently (not at a native level of course, but I'm content with my English skills), and I can also understand and speak Russian, however I'm far from being fluent in that language, but I definetly know a lot more than some odd words and phrases. I could easily order a beer in Russian, or ask for directions in Russian, which implies a certain level of the ability to speak and understand a language, but not fluency.
I'm European living in Venezuela. Spanish is my 5th language. In Venezuela everybody is monoglot and they think they are better than me since I don't speak Spanish as good as they do. I have had youngsters laughing in my face "You don't speak Spanish?". When you visit Venezuela you could speak all the languages in the World, but if your Spanish (Castellano) is not excellent....Venezuelan monoglot will let you know you are underneath him/her.
lol. They come from a sh...y South American country. You should ask them what it's like being Brazil's neighbor and how most of the world can't even locate Venezuela on a map.
@3:22 -- "trasyanka" is more like Belarussian mixed with Polish. It is harder to understand to Russian speakers than "pure" Belarussian for sure!
As a Polish, I'm surprised how many Belarusians speak my language. Nice! I know literally no Polish people speaking Belarusian. I know a lot that speak Russian, but most of them because Russian was obligatory in Poland at some point, even before I was born. But the amount of young Poles speaking Russian/Ukrainian increases nowadays, mainly because we have a lot of Ukrainians in Poland now.
I’m Ukrainian and I speak 4 fluently, Ukrainian, Italian, Russian and English.
P.S. now learning filipino-Bisaya.
How do you long study Italian and English?
Just I’m also study English but so bad. Maybe can you some advice?
Sorry for my mistakes
@@TG_Dina1773 Italian I’ve learned to speak in my early teens when I lived in Italy but English I started to learn at 16 and it took me 3 years plus minus to be able to express my self and truly I became fluent later and I’ve stated to have dreams in English and then I knew I was fluent in it. Best way is to surround your self with English speaking people if this is the language you trying to learn.
Good luck 🤞
Привіт, мені цікавлять навіщо тобі філіппинська мова? якщо не секрет. Я з філіппин. Мабуть через філіппінська дівчина так?
Я також носітель Bisaya мовєї але це Bisaya регіону Ромблона. Ви случайно на філіппінах були?
@araber araber Bisaya це одна з багатьох мов говориться в Філіппнінах. Навіть Bisaya сам має багааааааааато варіантів, залежачи від регіону.
Я беларус, и я говорю на русском, отлично знаю белорусский, но из-за отсутствия практики не могу говорить на нем так же свободно как и на русском, хотя очень хотелось бы. Кроме этого, отлично понимаю украинский, но плохо на нем говорю, знаю английский на базовом уровне, благодаря чему могу объяснить на английском что угодно, но с кучей грамматических ошибок, а так же на минимальном уровне понимаю польский
- Сколько языков знаете? - 5. Русский, английский, итальянский, испанский и французский. - Скажите что-нибудь на английском. - Katze. -Это же кошка на немецком. - О, я еще и немецкий знаю....
I live in Belarus and i know English,Polish, Russian, Belarusian and now i learning Germany language ^^
🤣 That last guy. “It’s about time to kick the bucket 🪣 “
Sounds like a perfect country for international trade.
Thank you all for speaking English it helps us lazy English by not having to learn a different language , but the guy 1.31 will never learn English by being a Newcastle united supporter
They speak and write proper English. It's not much of a problem for the UK, but what Americans write is sometimes not legible.
@@Moscow_Will_Burn can you english speakers understand what Scottish people are saying? Because for me it's pain to understand
@@LMB222 Not ‘legible’? Sorry, genius, ‘legibility’ applies to writing, not typing, which, of course, is what people do on the internet. So much for ‘proper’ English - what a moron!😂
Don't present that Batshka because he will get a heartattack that some people speak Polish in Minsk, not only in Brest and Grodno🤭😂
I know two Poles who have learned the Belarusian language. This is very cute and sounds good
Im from Witebsk and Im learning Polish. Fuck "batshka"
For Westerners: Bachka = the infamous tractor driver Lukaszenka
And some people speaking Polish in Moscow, and even somewhere in Siberia.
So?
@@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е Because Lukashenko has phobia about Poland.
Polish in Siberia is more possible than Moscow.
in belarus there is a small % of people who really speak english, mostly they have book knowledge and communication with native speakers is difficult
In UK many of us have remains of school French, German or Spanish to a low level convenient for ordering drinks or being polite. Meanwhile on holiday abroad waiters and other hotel staff can speak an impressive number of languages. In UK again a number can also speak Gaelic or Welsh.
That's a revelation, people who work in hotels and speak with tourists from different places all day every day have a good knowledge of many different languages.
@@heybabycometobutthead So? It’s almost a given when we travel abroad. How often will you come across that degree of linguistic expertise in UK hotels and restaurants. Do you imagine staff just pick it up by telepathy? They learn languages.
as an American I can speak some english, but I can curse fluently in mexican(spanish, its really not the same), german, french, italian and a little bit of Ukrainian & russian(recent war videos help).
That's how to properly start learning any language , curse words .
Don't mistake minor regional variations of languages as separate. Otherwise you don't speak English, only American.
Some insults remain the same in all spanish versions for example: p u t @. That's my favourite lol
@@encycl07pedia- All the people who responded to these questions meant to say they speak ‘American’, then. So do you! Thus the spelling of ‘encyclopedia’.😂
@@pacmanc8103 American English is still English. Mexican Spanish is still Spanish.
As a Belarusian, I confirm that any Belarusian:
- Knows Russian
- Knows Belarusian (not so much fluent)
- Understands Ukrainian (almost completely)
For me it's weird that Belarusians are not fluent in Belarusian.
@@Dread_2137 In our country, the Russian language replaced the Belarusian language back in the 50s - 80s, under the USSR. The Belarusian language, as a language of communication, is sometimes used only in villages. To understand how this happened, we can give the example of the Irish language, which is used by fewer and fewer people. However, ALL Belarusians understand the Belarusian language and 30-50% can speak it.
I am Ukrainian, but I have been living in Russia for a very long time. Therefore, I know Russian, English and not much Ukrainian with French. A few years ago I studied Spanish, but now I don’t remember anything😅
How does it feel to be a Ukrainian living in Russia?
@@rockmusicman21 Quite normal. You will be treated well if you do not tell everyone that you are against the war. But there were a couple of disputes and discussions when I talked about my position to the "wrong people"
@Ivan Petrov да. Я сам с Луганской области, но то что происходит сейчас это куда хуже чем события 2014-2015 годов
@@izio9747 у меня три вопросы для вас (никакая провокация, просто хочу знать что люди Донбасса думают и делаю эти вопросы людям оттуда);
1- В Донбассе действительно есть многие про-русские люди?
А: Да, очень много.
B: Нет, это пропаганда из России.
C: ну....50%-50%.
2- Украинская армия бомбила/бомбит Донбасс?
A: Да, очень жестоко. Украинцы не жалели/жалеют нас.
B: ни как нет, всё это пропаганда.
C: бомбили, но украинцы хотели попасть на вооруженных сепаратистов (сепаратистов или героев Донбасса, кто как понимает) а не на мирных жителей.
3- Донбасс это:
1- Украина
2- Россия
3- Украина, но большой автономии (так как Каталония в Испании).
@@SlavBoss-sn5cv 1. До 2014 скорее 50/50 Сейчас там остались одни про-российские люди и в основном это пенсионеры или женщины с детьми. Мужчин, даже инвалидов и пенсионеров почти всех мобилизировали и они буквально прячутся.
2. Очень сложно сказать, обстрелы и нападения были с обеих сторон. Были даже рассказы от родственников моих что проукраинские ребята скоординировали на сброс бомбы в пункт выдачи воды где помимо нескольких военных так же было много мирного населения естественно. Так что скорее С, но предполагаю что особо не было жалости, так как к тому времени остались только пророссийские жители.
3.Украина и Россия. Не надо забывать что часть Донбасского бассейна находится на территории России) Но вот на счёт Крыма так сказать не могу, там действительно большинство хотели присоединения к России, так как там было слабое развитие инфраструктуры.
Would be interesting to know the story of a few of these people and how they acquired the languages.
Whats the problem in the learning some language in the era of Internet?
On TH-cam, it is easy to find lessons on any language -- even the most exotic ones...
@@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е Nothing wrong with learning different languages via the Internet, TH-cam or whatever, I do this as well.
My comments geared towards the older ones who learned these languages organically through movement, and what interesting story they may have as to what caused the movements. Like the gentleman that speaks Moldovan, Azerbaijan, Belarusian and Russian.
interesting - but ditch the music! I would like to see how much Russian I can understand but I can't hear them speak clearly. But thanks for the video. But, pleasantly surprised by how many people could speak Belarusian - I know Lukashenka has done almost nothing to support and normalise the language and there is still some stigma that it's the language of the "uneducated" and "peasants" or "old people". Glad to see so many (well, more than I expected) speak it in Minsk. All strength to Belarusian language.
It's not a stigma very few people in the cities speak Belarusian it's mostly spoken in the countryside heavily mixed with Russian
I'm surprised to see some of them don't know (?) their local language. I knew that they also speak Russian in Belarusia but didn't know it was more common than their native language. Thanks for the video!
The Belarusian language is available only in school lessons, on TV and on the radio. It doesn't exist in life at all.
@@fatalebuddha oohh i see it makes sense now thank you for explaining :)
Russia most likely nearly extinguished it during UDSSR times.....
@@sollte1239 Не понятно откуда взялась Россия во времена СССР... Коммунисты скорее больше хотели унифицировать союз и дать людям образование, чем выводить из оборота отдельные десятки или сотни языков. Ради этого из русского языка даже убрали много правил и 3 буквы.
@@sudeozcan6247 Fun fact it's extremely endangered as only 1/6 of belarusians use it at home regularly. It could probably die out in 3 generations
I apologize in advance for the google translation. As a Russian, I must admit that in Russia only 5% of the population speaks English confidently. And these 5% mainly live in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Almost no one speaks Belarusian and Ukrainian. But these languages are very understandable when read and heard. Polish, for example, is much more difficult for us than for Belarusians and Ukrainians.
польский и русский это два славянских языка но они очень разные, мы можем понять только 20% не зная языка. Мы, поляки, чехов можем понять на 80%. Славянские языки делятся на три группы - восточные, западные и южные. это страны легендарных братьев Леха, Чеха и Руса.
на украинском довольно много говорят в ставрополье и на Кубани в сёлах
ну не на украинском, а на суржике
Польский не такой трудный, как кажется, особенно письменный.
Откуда такая статистика? Среди моих знакомых гораздо больше говорят. Спб.
@@КириллМакеев-я1эЭто Южнорусский диалект
If you compare video from russia and Belorussia (no matter the subject)I see huge difference between people. Belorussian looks much more open and shiny than russian. As lithuanian I’m glad that my neighbours are so positive people …
Lietuva priėmė represuotų baltarusių šeimas. Esame jums labai dėkingi
Ахаххахахах 😂Когда ты хочешь что-то увидеть,ты это и увидишь.Напомню тебе,что Литва одна из самых серых стран в Европе)
You’re just a racist.
@@Za-hi2fo Сам ты серы раб!
@@Adelle-h4g Литва всегда брала на клык у русских,а теперь берет на клык у американцев)Ваша судьба быть под сапогом)
I’m an American who can only speak English and a smattering of French. I’m very impressed with these people’s language skills. Much more English than I would have guessed.
they say they can speak all those languages, but how they speak it is a different story, i bet many of them say they speak a language even though they only know how to say hi how are you in it
I live in UK. Funny thing, when people from outside said that they known English its end's on "Yes, No"
To do this, you need to ask them something in English. You don't know how things really are. My English speaking friends had no problem talking to local young people on the street to ask for the right way and advice on local restaurants
I really wish Belarusian took over Russian as the main communicational language in Belarus. It's such a beautiful language!... Don't let your own language die out! Especially given the fact that Belarusian is more helpful if you want to communicate with Poles, Ukrainians, Rusyns, Slovaks and Czechs.
белорусский русский и украинский это диалекты одного единого языка
@@ГеоргийТагирьянов Маеце рацыю паважаныя ўсходнія сябры. Кожны расеец выдатна разумее беларускую мову. Наўпрост на 99 адсоткаў, як тут у каментах кажуць некаторыя вашы суайчыннікі! Беларусам не трэба клапаціцца, каб вам было зручна. Адказваць па-беларуску расейцам не выкліча ніякага непаразумення і гэта павінен пачаць рабіць кожны беларус.
@Александр Григоренко Belarusian is the native language of Belarus. With a bit of support from the government, it can eventually become the main communication language. And by supporting Belarusian I don't mean any violence or discrimination of Russian speakers in Belarus.
@@SiarheiSiamashka native language is a first language of a person. To be honest first language of Belarusians nowadays is Russian. People know Belarusian at a very low level.
@@SiarheiSiamashka абсалютна дакладна. будучы рускім мне не склала працы зразумець што вы напісалі... з дапамогай гугл перакладчыка. 💪😂😂
На самом деле практически всё понятно без переводчика, но не на лету, приходится вчитываться чтобы понять смысл привет беларусам из Татарстана, люблю вас
All the same, Belarusians must first know their language. And then learn other languages. Because language is a key factor in determining a nation.
We would like it. But the occupation administration thinks otherwise ((. Those who went abroad make their TH-cam channels in Belarusian, unite families to open Belarusian classes for children in the countries where they live
I'm Belarusian and can guarantee you that it's impossible to speak Belarusian without being glanced at, although most people would have respect for you, especially if you are a youngster.
People don't get to practise communicating in Belarusian with each other, hence they tend to forget some of their vocab over time.
Русский - мой родной язык, но я знаю английский C1 и базу испанского, для начала хочу выучить испанский как минимум до класса C1-C2, а так хочу учить арабский на египетском диалекте. Чёрт, арабский ну реально очень красивый язык! Мне предлагали учить остальные языки СНГ, но я об этом ещё думаю. Моя мама русская, но она всё детство прожила в Казахстане и знаете что? Чёрт, она на казахском шпарит порой лучше коренных жителей. Когда у неё спрашивают, "эй, а какой твой родной язык?" она всегда впадает в ступор 😄
вот это понимаю уровень
Что для тебя являлось главным инструментов благоприятно влияющим на изучения иностранных языков? Моральная сторона важнее физической? Я имею в виду что большего прогресса ты достигла благодаря упорству и желанию или благодаря изучению с помощью курсов, приложений, препода?
@@dianadegtyar7533 тут если у тебя самого желания нет, то ничто ты и не выучишь, надо найти мотивацию чтобы начать, я например выучил англ. чтобы смотреть фильмы только в оригинале и также слушать песни, а вот если ты окажешься в среде где говорят этот язык, еще лучше
Музыка должна быть чуть-чуть тище, речь иногда чуть не слушается, а вооюще ваши ролики классны! Спасибо!
acho que nunca vi alguem a querer aprender português!😱eu ando a aprender russo, e fiquei mesmo surpreendido quando ela disse que queria aprender português hahahahha
Eu estudo portugues) gosto muito de Portugal
@@НадеждаВ-ю4о я изучаю русский, потому что мне очень нравится русский язык)
English is the language of the world, everyone should learn it so that all humans can communicate with each other, wouldn’t that be great? Here in India, there are so many languages but all the road signs are in English.
А ты знаешь по какой причине английский мировой язык?
Belarusians have no negative sentiments towards English language. And it will be only more popular in the future thanks to Internet. It's interesting to encounter an Indian who looks at English language in a positive way. Many Indians, that I communicated with, could not get over their grudges about their colonial past in one way or another.
@@Сегодняшняяреальность I don’t know why English is most spoken, maybe it is the easiest ? I do not think people should be forced to learn English though
@@vozism322 Haha. No, that is not the reason (although it is indeed an easy language - I speak as an English person with several languages).
Explanation: the largest empire in the world was administered from London for about 150 years. After that another English-speaking country, USA, assumed the role of linguistic superpower. For decades there were huge parts of the world where despite this no-one really needed to know English. But that all changed with the Internet, and also the adoption by international business and also the EU of English as their lingua franca. It's all over now. Neither Spanish nor Chinese even come close.
I hope there will be enough love for other languages to live. For example, one language which I know is Irish. Irish people have quite a funny attitude towards the language (which is very difficult). Most people have affection for it but they find it daunting to actually speak because, for many historical reasons, the society went beyond the point of using it frequently. It's hard to get back from there, very hard.
Нет, это не здорово, английский просто подавляет языковое разнообразие других стран. Сейчас легко можно встретить эмигранта, который за годы жизни в другой стране и двух слов не выучил, потому что «ну все же говорят на английском» :|
Почему так много иностранцев в комментариях....
Жалко, что так мало беларусов говорят на белорусском, очень красивый язык. Я из рф, говорю на русском (неожиданно), украинском, английском понимаю польский и белорусский, раньше учила итальянский, но уже забыла все
Ви чудесна
@@rusnipizda228 почему
@@grey7865 начитана
@@rusnipizda228не вижу в этом ничего необычного, но оч приятно
такие порядки в государстве, практически все документы написаны на русском языке, с беларуским встречаешься в метро и в автобусах, когда объявляют остановки)) найти человека, который говорит исключительно на беларуском крайне тяжело
Many familiar faces, great video as usual!
Один вопрос, когда девушка на 0:35 сказала Арабский, флаг какой страны был использован? Не узнаю ни один.
Объединенные Арабские Эмираты
It's crazy English language so well known around the world. 🇬🇧
Surprised by that one dude knowing Swedish.
I speak Spanish (native), English (intermediate/ conversations with friends) AND started learning russian 2 months ago (beautiful language but rather hard to learn)
You chose the second hardest language, it's only easier then chinese, I admire your courage
After learning Russian, you will open the door to another civilization. It's like flying to another planet
@@Andreus9733 The russian language is not so hard as many thought. Other languages are harder.
Thank you all for your positive comments, i'll do my best to learn hahaha, but i must admit that with russian verb conjugation i'm starting to panic😰. I guess depending on your native language it can become more or less difficult to learn
@@IvanScriptsEverything how did you learn your spanish? I mean online courses, youtube lessons or university?
Belarusians are cute as. I speak english spanish and I can understand french
I kinda wish I was able to speak 2 languages fluently but in the west that is just not needed in their country they seem to have very good language skills.
I feel sorry for you
You should have tested them. The results would have been.. different 😁
It is sad that so many Belarusians do not know the Belarusian language and speak only Russian
Yeah. I guess comparable to the Irish or Maori being mostly Anglophone.
@@kenster8270 Those are good comparisons but I must say I was pleasantly surprised by nearly 3/4 of the sample having at least some Belarusian - it means the language is salvageable. The Basque language was brought back from much worse
@@kenster8270 And me being the grandson of four Japanese, I don't speak Japanese. I speak Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English, but I don't speak Japanese.
Would that be because soviets migrated many russians into Belarus? The russians still do this to many areas they invade (Crimea/Georgia/Donbas in Ukraine etc).
@@miceinoz1181 but also because they are closely related languages. The percentage of Russian speking migrants to Latvia was higher but it didn't pose a problem for Latvian since it's not even a Slavic language and it also had high status (unlike Belarussian)
Did FSB forced you guys to only interview 'soft' topics recently (like foreign language, personal relations...)?
1:05 An incredibly likable girl. ❤Greet from Czechia.
Nothing to see but, the girl on the right is so cute at 1:34. His eyes are piercing. 💙💙💙
I speak two, English and Gibberish🤐
😅Self-deprecation....You must be a fellow Brit. Gibberish! Great word!
Белорусы, украинцы, как можно не знать своих родных языков, совка 30 лет нет, нам же в школах преподавали наши государственные языки.🤔
Нет надобности учить язык, на котором разговаривает меньшество
@@Dr_Flex16 парень ты серьезно? мы сейчас о государственном языке. Уничтожение родной культуры начинается с языка и отмены национальной культуры. Пойди о смысле учения родного языка скажи армянам, азербайджанцам, грузим, другим кавказским народам, получишь в момент по голове.
@@Drukht разве традиции и нация это то, ради чего люди живут?
Results of many yeas of persistent russification: only 23% speak Belarusian at home.
Russians occupied Poland for 123 years, until 1918. We went through brutal Russification, thanks God however Poles were able to retain their culture, language, and nationality.
Also, religion.
Poles did the same in the western lands of Rus (Belarus, Ukraine, partly Russia). No need to pretend to be victims, please.
@@swe1733 we ARE victims.
Poles didn't try to deprive Ukrainians of their culture for more then century, by uprooting locals and deporting them to Siberia.
Russia did it to any country they conquered.
@@kubuspuchatek3609 Was Poland a victim when it captured Vilnius from the Lithuanians in 1920? Was Poland a victim when it occupied part of the lands of the Czechs and Slovaks in 1938 together with Germany? The Volyn massacre of 1943 showed how Ukrainians really treated Poles.
@@swe1733 Poland captured Vilnius from RED ARMY, after their failed 1920 attack on Poland. Soviets already took over Lithuania at that time.
Poland didn't occupy anything TOGETHER with Germany.
Are you a failed product of Swedish education system, or rather a 🇷🇺 troll ?
Well as most of people said in comments we study Russian and Belarussian languages as well as one additional. Also fun fact . In fact we can speak Belarusian we can understand and speak polish and ukrainian languages. Also we have a lot of different languages at our schools. On my own I can speak around 8: Russian, Belarusian , Polish, Ukrainian, English, French, Deutsch, Hebrew.
Эрудированный человек, однако
I speak 3 languages completely: Armenian, Russian, English. I can support the dialogue in: Serbian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Japanese (a new language that I am learning now). And the explanation why I can speak Belarusian, Ukrainian and Serbian is very simple - there are many neighbors of non-Russian nationality.
Yes, English will get you around the world.
Without knowledge of English, they are not hired for a high-paying job😢
guy looking in his 40s: "it's about time to hit the bucket"
okaaaay…
people in the CIS are always positive)
As an American, fluent in English, plus some Spanish, German, Italian, and Japanese.
Miles away from ordinary American.
Most of them forget to mention Russian as foreign language because use it like native one.
As a Fleming I speak Flemish Dutch, Limburgish, German, French, English fluently as well as bits of Spanish, Russian and Irish.
"I don't speak any language"
So what you're speaking? 😂