@For Sparta no, just because something has a charge doesn’t mean that it produces a current. The earth is not a magnet that attracts electricity, that sentence doesn’t even make sense. Electrons tend to spread out between the object and the earth and since the earth is so big in comparison they end up in the earth completely.
Especially when it comes to the metaphysical. I'm not going to lie, I'm learning Japanese mainly for pop culture, anime, manga video games,etc.On the other hand, I've also been reading up on magic, so if I get skilled enough, I might want to look into some of the mystic traditions within Shintoism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
@@Frankmaui67 on the opposite, it's smart. this kind of words are used andwidely known.. but his title made me watch the video (and I didn't regret it)
*"I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing at the wind. For in much wisdom, is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow."*
So Basically - It's nice To Know when People are Talking Sh!T in Differnt Languages about You, but Then itll Also Lower your Self Esteem Knowing people all over the World Truly Hate You cause you heard it come out of there own mouths
I'm only fluent in two languages. But I feel like the more languages you know, the more you realize how cynical this world is and that people are generally the same everywhere.
That realization, my friend, is mostly because you are growing older. Trust me, the legitimacy for cynicism gets a lot worse as you grow older. And a bit of advice flows from that. It is mentally much healthier to focus on something else that brings you joy and happiness, because the world will not become any nicer because you object to it being cruel or unfair. While your objection to the Universe's inherent cruelty is fair and commendible, your observation is nothing new or unique, so you might as well expend your energy somewhere else. Trust me, you will be a lot happier if you chose such a path.
yes indeed. i have been trying to get this across to anyone who might listen. while it seems like the whole world wants to emphasise difference, learning languages and meeting people from other walks of life just solidifies my sense of us all being generally the same.
I thought that I was the only one who think that way. Not like I'm the only one, but it's good to see people thinking like I use to think about. I'm currently fluent in two languages and afterwards I see the same. People are pretty the same, everywhere.
"Cultural schizophrenia" is such a good way of describing something that I've never had a word for before. I speak three languages and am in the process of learning a fourth. The more languages I learn, the more I want to learn, and I just don't have the time to immerse myself in them all to the level I want to. I also spent my early 20s traveling/living in various countries and immersing myself in their language and culture. The first time I moved to a foreign country, everyone warned me about culture shock. Nobody warned me that I would also feel it when moving back to my home country. And now, I find myself feeling homesick no matter where I am. My friends are all over the world. My favorite restaurant is across the globe. Sometimes I am just sitting in my home and I suddenly find myself strongly wishing to be back in a different country. I want so many different chapters of my life all at once.
Completely relate. I have never lived out of the country but I have moved around my whole life all over the US. And sometimes I will miss going to that restaurant every Friday. Or miss hanging with this person all the time. Or being able to walk across the street to the beach to get away. I wish I could merge different chapters of my life all the time, so glad you out it into words.
The vid is about languages and there’s a definite hierarchy in the usefulness, practicality, adaptability of languages. Not all languages are equal in describing reality (in essence digitizing an analogue reality to something communicable) and not all languages were designed to accommodate change in them. Only Greek has done that. I speak Greek, English and used to speak French and some Italian. The Greek language is richer and more adaptive, bar none.
@@anthonylopez5 The US was and IS a big deal. Lately there’s a political trend that produces comments such as yours which are greatly uninformed and unappreciative of the importance of the US culture for all humanity. Pity!
Which is quite logical, when one questions certain things which are structured in society and are based on something that happened quite some time ago. Or certain things which are just simply based on stories, historical texts and such. Often wondered and pondered about by Theodorius Ghandeli. Have you never had that thought about something you read, anywhere?
Knowing more ways about how people speak, lets you see more ways of speaking about the same thing. Knowing that there is more than one way to speak about things, means you will never put your faith into only one thing. When you can speak in more than one way, you will rarely speak meaninglessly, or make sense in only one way.
I want to create a hybrid between Japanese and Icelandic. Because I love drawing Japanese women and so on, the idea is to create a whole new language which can make it vastly harder for all but a few to interpret content in Japanese intelligence reports. I do not know if this language hybrid will ever become a reality, but if it does, it would be called Japicelandic.
People here saying that a lot of polyglots claim to be fluent while they still learning new vocab everyday and let me tell you that you are completely wrong .. even in my native language I still learn new things everyday! I don't know about you guys but as an Arabic speaker I actually have a LOT of words that I don't understand, like who's able to memorize more than 12 million word? Being fluent is the ability to think with that language and to have conversations with native speakers, that's all we need as a language learners. It's the ability to write a comment that you can understand even if there's some mistakes.
YES!!! Thank you so much for writing this! Everyone should read this comment because there are way too many people who claim that one is fluent only when they speak a language on a very advanced level or that it’s necessary to have a C1 or C2 diploma to be fluent. I was one of those people, but man was I wrong. This also makes me think that fluency is something subjective. Like, if I feel like I’m fluent in a language then that means that I can communicate without problems, and if that isn’t quite accurate yet, I feel like I still need more practice and that’s okay! I mean, no one really cares if you make a lot of mistakes as long as you make yourself understandable!
@@Marmar0404 also, I can't talk at a C2 level in a rocket science class (in any of my languages), does that mean I'm not fluent? No! Because you're not "fluent" or "beginner", it's a spectrum! You can be more or less fluent, and that can change day to day, subject to subject, and even depending on whom you're talking to!
I've been thinking of this before. There's not an actual way to know every single word in a language. Even natives speakers don't know everything about their languages, because languages can change and have various words depending on the region that you're living. I am a native Portuguese speaker and in my country (and the country that colonized my country) there are words that I can't simply understand or just don't get it. "Gajo", "Guria" a lot of words can change depending on the region that you're living. I don't think that the languages that I know (Portuguese, English) that I am studying (Gaelic, Russian) and that I can understand (italian) are different from mine.
Youre right. One, languages are not composed of "words," they are composed of words, expressions or idioms that express something. In one country, "asparagus" might be made of a three "word" combination and be super uncommon because nobody in the country or regions ever eat asparagus. In another country it may be a two letter word and be said everyday cause they eat it in every meal. And two, as a native English speaker I literally have to ask people what they mean to say at least a few times a day, and that's not counting the times I just get distracted, don't hear them clearly, they aren't speaking in an easily understandable way. Those few times a day are when I literally don't know the word or expression. There are new slangs people not in high school don't know, and there are words I have heard my whole life from time to time but it isn't used much by my family and friends so I never really got the meaning. When I once went though a time hanging out with Irishmen visiting my city on vacation, we literally had to ask for clarification for half of what the other person said. Ironically there were also a couple grammatical phrases I use in my variety of southernese (southern US speak) that they used too, but that people from the north look at me crazy when I say (I be workin' alot, I'm fixin to get goin', etc.) I have the same experience with languages I know fluently. I tend to be around people from and immersed in the variety of one region or country, and so you put me with a person from elsewhere, I may speak Chinese like a native from Beijing, but not like a Taiwanese. I may speak Spanish like a Spanyard but not like... any other country. The funny thing is that Chinese will love you if you are a total noob and have a thick american accent. Spanish speakers outside Spain will only give you an ounce of respect and talk to you in Spanish if you speak their specific variety so well they think you are a native and you don't tell them you aren't. All in all theres zero point to care what people think. If some American says "well I only speak English but I watched a kung fu hong kong movie once and your chinese is bad imo" well okay, think what you want, I'll consider the source. If someone from El Paso says "well my parents are from Mexico and I'm also a fluent speaker and you talk funnny" well okay, I don't learn the language to talk to people who have inferiority complexes and no manners anyway, so bye. When a real native critiques you, it is usually an actual correction or whatnot. Even other Americans sometimes say something like "its barely, not verily" or "it's spelled 'there' not 'they're' " to other Americans. This is normal and helpful. And if you don't care about talking all proper and crap, then just be like "oh okay, gotcha, 'preciate it bro," and keep saying it how you do.
One of the most beautiful and profound videos i've had the privilege of watching. Watching this again after I watched it for the first time years back, as I'm on the journey of relearning my native tongue.
No. His life is over. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand what he's saying. Maybe when you speak 9 languages you'll get there but you'll probably be dead by then too.
No. His life is over. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand what he's saying. Maybe when you speak 9 languages you'll get there but you'll probably be dead by then too.
i would like too, if i had the courage😂 nothing can be better than seeking a quiet place, reading books, having a cup of coffee, while it's raining outside
When you read about other cultures through your language, it's like hearing a rumor about them. But when you speak their language, it's like becoming part of their royal court, thinking and feeling just like them.
Are you basically implying that individuals who are neurotypical need to completely learn a foreign language in order to experience empathy for the people that language belongs to??
If I'm not mistaken that line of thought was first said by a portuguese poet called Fernando Pessoa: "My homeland is the portuguese language". In "The book of disquiet". Originally "O livro do desassossego"
Multiple language mastery can create a linguistic schyzopherenia - most elaborate point made in this video. Just like you talk differently with your grandparents, at work and on a night out with your friends, so too does your way of expression change in different languages. Some are quiet, some are loud, some are pointient some are more expressive. Holding several linguistic networks and backgrounds in your head can make you feel like you are switiching between different people based on the language you are currently using.
This is true. I became more isolated knowing several languages as my accent started to change when I was young. Parents used to get pissed that I would use vocabulary that is not part of their dialect. At school, the American teachers and Americans used to think I was making fun of them as I started to sound a bit British or German in accent. Others used to think that I was making fun of people as I became more receptive of different accents, phonemes from different languages or I was just pretentious or a foreigner. It is painful indeed. In the US, this will be more the case as Americans have this toxicity culture of "English only" or American sounding English only.
I found years ago that reading novels and stories written by authors of other nationalities, even in translation opens your eyes not only to different ways of living but to different ways of story telling.
@@brendaaniwe1212 Maybe? Doesn’t it depend on a lot of things? Why should there be a simple “answer” assigned to it to decide the judgement of its value?
I'm not interested in reading but for most of my life I've been exposed to english movies, cartoons and video games, basically just american and british entertainments. This has took a big toll on me, most of the times even my internal monologue is in English, meaning i talk to myself in English which is strange considering that I rarely get to verbally interact with other people in this language. I'm assuming it's not unusual
Its not learning other languages that hurts us, its the general broadening of our knowledge. Languages was just the vehicle you used. I found the same studying history, international relations, philosophy - its a humbing experience that isolates you from friends and family. Apparently a conscious effort to be 'in the world', and not 'of the world', combined with a habit of practicing gratitude helps to counter the burden of knowledge.
@TheAncientColossus No, just find a balance that suits you. I've had to learn to take time each week to do things I enjoy that are not related to the heavy topics. Also, good sleep and exercise make a massive difference to improve mental health if you are determined to keep studying your areas of focus.
It broadens our knowledge in the sense of actively feeling emotional empathy vs cognitive empathy. I guess for some people who are more neurotypical it takes learning a language or immersing themselves in a different culture to feel empathy for others.
@@TenaciousTentacruel if a sign says that the path that it sits upon said to brings you to a place but ends up at another, wouldn't that be misleading?
I think people who think languages are just communication tools really undermine their true effects on society. It affects the culture, the mindset, the traditions, relationships between people. You kind of feel that when you learn and get good in a language, you start feeling the connection to this language and all what it represents. My French teacher used to say, "learning and utilizing another language is like living more than once"
For me learning a foreign language Is an indescribably important considering the effects on my life. It helps me to give a sense to my solitude 🤍🤌🏽 I like languages like I like literature and the world around us❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍🩷🩵🩶
It's called emotional empathy, the "feeling" that you're experiencing from having to have learned said language is emotional empathy. Not to be confused with cognitive empathy which is just knowing how they feel and not feeling how they feel.
This resonated so much with me, in my studies of foreign languages. When you study a language, you aren't just acquiring a tool for communicating with other people living in a different region of the world - you are acquiring a new way of seeing the world, of confronting biases, of building mutual understanding. Appreciating the uniqueness of each language and culture - equally - contributes to a more balanced world view that we all need in this age of polarization.
@Charming Billy U jelly? Lol I wasn’t speaking about myself but about polyglots in general. I never claimed to have achieved any of those things, only that foreign language study facilitates their achievement. I personally still have biases that I’m conscious of, but being conscious of them reminds me to not pass judgment on something that I don’t completely understand.
The one of the worst things about learning languages is the ‘transition’ or when you stuck in a limbo when you understand both but can’t speak or process it when necessary.
I experienced this on the Satanic International website. So what I did was, I tried to behave like an idiot there so they would suspend the account and it worked.
Code switching. What a lot of people fail to realize is this happens with math types as well, as Algebra/Calculus. It gets better with practicing code switching, but I still get those moments where I feel like a fuse has shorted out lol
This is a very natural stage of learning a new language. It will, eventually, melt away. One very interesting aspect though, is to read the same book in its original vs translation in different languages. This will really show you how this world works, and it won't stop shocking you every single time 🤯🤯🤯
This is a huge philosophical topic: why struggle so much just to discover that at the end of the day, we're at the same time, so similar and so unique? That's the beautiful pain of our world.
@Noob master I think Amjan's point was a point i very much agree with. Think about the word "just". Its exclusive. It reduces to a singular. It throws away every conceivable thing minus what follows it. It simply isn't the case. You don't learn a language "just" to see that we're all the same. There must be much more. I mean, did we not watch the same video?
Spoiler: Learning languages did not ruin his life. He spends the entire video talking about the awesome benefits of learning language and the unbearable pain and burden of knowledge, in the most unctuous way possible. .
@@mllesamedi84 Danke, wie nett! Der "Panthersprung nach Agadir" ist eine Bezeichnung für eine politische Krise zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland im Jahr 1911.
That's true in one aspect. But, realizing one's finite time alive is what makes life so precious; and perhaps, might lead to using the time that we have left - more wisely.
finally i find sameone mention feeling like me i'm 22 and i'm general medicine student i can understand and speak in 5 languages but 2 of them not like native i'm so remorseful because in the past i had more time and possibility to learn more
As Iranian (Persian) I’m so honored that my language Farsi is known for poetry, and I am grateful for your nice presentation 👌🏻 Edit: I’m really thankful for your likes ❤️
Would love to learn Farsi! I find it fascinating that it is part of the Indo-European language family, like a distant cousins of French, English or German.
Dont forget your culture dude. Persia has one of most beautiful cultures in the world. Dont let it disappear what has happened before Islamization of the Persian soil.
@@edenhazard2751 I would guess that you never say the similar thing to a French or an Englishman. You never said to them, "Don't forget your culture dude. Don't let it disappear because of the Liberalization."
"History is written by whom and for whom" is the key here. If you watch the news from the other side you realize that you never had the full picture until that time.
Though honestly they don't either. There is no evil side. Both sides assume they have moral authority. Both have assumptions and distort facts to make themselves look good. Part of the problem seems to be assuming one side is completely right. They are both usually a little wrong.
He’s making reference to a very imbecile quote that seems to resonate more and more nowadays: “History is written by the winners” despite the fact that I hold a great deal of respect for Mr. Winston Churchill and his influence during WW2, i doubt it would have ended optimistically if not for him; but in this quote I staunchly disagree and it seems like the guy in the vid was furthering it’s due discourse, as in bringing its idea into question
Knowing 4 languages has made my life so much more interesting. Being able to laugh at comedy from 4 cultures just makes life that much richer, and let's me know we all have more in common than we are different.
Me too ….I enjoy Netflix….I’m fluent in English, Hindi , Telugu …I can speak & understand Tamil cannot write it… I can understand some Korean words ….I’m trying to learn French & Ukranian (for my Babushka,my dad is Ukranian ,my mom is Indian ,both met & married in Kyiv after becoming doctors.I used to speak Russian & Ukranian as a child but not anymore !
I'm from the Philippines and I've been studying Japanese for so many years. I feel like I'm more updated with Japanese news than that of my own country. The more languages you learn, the more you break the wall you're born in. Edit: I'm still updated with our local news. It's just that I'm more focused on anything that can improve my Japanese skills. Also, I'm not a weeb because I'm not obsessed with anime culture. It's their language that I'm enamored of.
yunglorde i agree with that. It doesn’t sound cool at all. I guess her culture always have this thing called crab mentality. It is always better to be aware of things within your proximity. It makes you knowledgeable in general aspect.
oohhh i am filipino and have been learning the language as well. i hope youll stay updated though in spite of the kapalmuks/corrupt politicians and the fanaticism with most of the filipinos god du30. only with awareness and education can we seek accountability from these buwaya politicians. hehe anyway, i hope you are doing well with your language learning!
@@yunglorde8691 everything's a mess apparently. most reeks of privilige, others are just blind. with poor education system, anyone with their meaningless and illogical words can make a person blind from reality. i hope we get to care and be kind more with others, at least understand and be more aware of the suffering of those who are greatly affected (anti terror bill, jeepney drivers asking for alms, killings and planting of drugs, attack in both academic and press freedom, poor decision making, the list goes on)
I'm Italian and I have the same problem with English. I consume every media I can in English, including the news. I like politics and stuff so I stay up to date on world news, but I certainly know more about American politics than Italian politics.
Interesting. I've never felt this. The only time I have a sense of not belonging somewhere is when I don't know the language or words to communicate, because the silence between you and other people is isolating. Before I learned other languages (German and Russian), the UK was the only place that felt like home to me. Now it's as if home is whenever I can speak with people and be understood, and so far I've been very lucky, everyone has welcomed me with open arms ❤
Unless you're talking about a europ3an language, anyone can become European apparently and if anyone says no then they are racist meanwhile every other culture is allowed to protect itself to the pointnof actual violence and systemic discrimination
I speak 3 languages, and broadly understand a 4th, I feel no pain or frustration because im not trying to belong to another culture. i'm too proud of being who i am and belonging to my own group.
Yep! Same here.. here’s the verse: Ecclesiastes 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes 1:18 *For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.*
I speak 6 different languages, all from varying cultures and let me tell you, this one hit home for me. It's like someone made a video about my existential crisis as a man trying to come to grips with my identity. The more you learn, the more ephemeral your old identity becomes. Now I dream in different languages and when I wake up, I cannot describe them quite right in English anymore. To be honest, I'm afraid I will eventually lose my ability to really speak articulately in English. But that is a fear I will face head on as I add more languages under my belt.
I know four languages, but the one I've got a higher level is in English. Once I dreamed in English and I woke up so happy that even now I can remember almost everything that happened in that dream. It just has happened to me once, and I'm expecting it occurs again but with the other languages when I'm better at them 😊
True. I am having the same issue. Sometimes I mix thoughts in different languages, or speak in a random language when I get emotional. Even emotions are conflicted with each other based on which language I am using. It is a bless but the price is quite heavy, I wish I didn't know any of them.
As someone working on their PhD who constantly feels unknowledgeable on the things I've spent years learning, this line has stuck with me. I come and rewatch this video just to hear it again.
@@Frank_Castle_1 sometimes I feel stupid because I don’t know how to do something. But the only reason I feel this way is because I have studied enough to get to this question. Someone that hasn’t put the same effort in to understanding the topic never faces this question.
This hit hard as a multi-lingual person. Learning languages comes with learning culture and immersion into a new perspective. They go hand in hand and it really does mess with you. You can feel like you're floating in between all these communities, but not really having a place to call your home.
I feel you but this eases when you know the truth, by that I mean the objective truth then taking sides is easier. Better yet the truth will put you in the rightful community or rightful side. Very few understand this matter. The stage of floating "in between" is the stage before the stage I am talking about.
"Learning languages comes with learning culture and immersion into a new perspective." Ehh... Kinda a vastly overstated generalization. I'll showcase why: When you learn French as someone that's French Canadian - how well do you understand French culture just by virtue of knowing the language? I'd argue not that well. I'll showcase this even further: If you learn English - which culture are you learning about? Australian culture? American culture? Both have their own unique dialects and slang that neither really interact with. I took multiple years of Spanish in middle school and high school. I learned absolutely nothing about the culture of Spain. We never talked about Spain, we never conversed with anyone from Spain. Did I somehow absorb by some linguistic osmosis some cultural insight on Spain because I studied their language? ...No. Could I perhaps converse in simple short sentences with them? Yeah, sure. That doesn't mean I understand them or their culture or have greater knowledge of it just because we both know the same words. The reason why bilingual people or polyglots tend to know about the culture of the place where the language they are learning is from is because they are also interested in their culture. I could sit down and academically memorize through mindnumbing rote the Japanese language to the point where it would mentally break me (hell, Japanese almost did and attempting to learn it was so mentally scarring that I have now just given up learning other languages because life is too short to be that frustrated at something for that long). This wouldn't make me know more about Japanese culture. Ironically, I learned more about Japanese culture by reading English-translated Japanese works than I ever did attempting to just learn the language. Again: because I was interested in the culture and people. The learning of the language itself did nothing to broaden my understanding.
The idea that you become a tribe of each language you learn is absolutely profound, and so true that it's almost uncanny to an experience I have felt yet not been able to qualify
It can be very overwhelming, to a perfectionist they want to keep learning so they can conquer the knowledge only to be met with more and more unknown. Then you forget how much you have learnt and it’s enough, and you can keep going at your own pace. Pretty pessimistic view haha but it’s how I feel now when I’m finishing up my undergrad.
Same and combined it with my interest in history and anthropology just make me go like "Hey what even the point of discrimination? We're basically the same thing with different box" it makes me appreciate how similar we are in this world. It's truly fascinating, if only we could stick together imagine the world if it's like that
I speak 3 languages fluently and there's nothing like the feeling that You can comunicate with people and understand different cultures, there's absolutely no pain in that!
Yeah, I also found I couldn't learn a language without getting fully absorbed into the culture. I learn their mannerisms, insecurities, joys, history and misunderstandings. It's like this whole other world comes into light. It's incredible.
@@rachelsmith3230 It was just a thought as I was listening. It occurred to me how powerful silence can be. I know silence has hurt me more than the harshest of words. It says more than any painful words. On the other side, when you remain silent , allowing yourself to truly listen,without planning in your head what you are going to say next while someone is still speaking to you, the silent engagement of communication becomes an authentic understanding.
Finally. A mini-documentary translating the thoughts I have had flying and smashing against the inside of my skull for years, played out in a simple four minute video. Nearly brought a tear to my eye
@@phoenixhou4486 Yea, what really resonated with me was when you brough up poetry from different civilizations through time, and how their messages can trancend just one...
Cultures and languages are just different forms of expression of our humanity, at the end of the day knowing multiple languages is just about expanding the reach of your communication capacities with different types of people, the benefits of this obviously extend way further out than just getting better job opportunities. Learning a new language is like discovering a whole new universe outside of your own cultural bubble. If this somehow makes you lose your sense of identity then perhaps the problem is not with the losing of said identity but the fact you had it in the first place.
Yes! Or because he already had an identity crisis/complex and that is why he's drawn to other cultures and languages. And his identity questions then surfaced from the subconscious to the conscious. We can be happy with our native country but still can't relate to being just a "one country's citizen." We are cultural nomads of sort. Cultural cameleons. Being a citizen of the world is not a cliché affirmation. It's our truth.
Maybe the problem isn't HAVING an identity, but being attached to it to the point of considering it to be inherently "better" than other ones. Paradoxically, the two things I like the most about studying cultures are learning how similar humans (and other species) are and how different we can be. This makes me feel closer to literally every living being on the planet, while making me more aware of the uniqueness of my own experience. Feeling like that gives me feelings I can barely describe with words 🤩
Excuse me, but who's the artist of your profile picture? I used to use that as a screensaver of mine about 10 years ago and could never find it afterwards and would love to find it again.
I'm Italian, struggling to learn Korean as an autodidact. I really believe that studying languages opens your mind because it makes you get in touch with the whole culture, not only with the way of speaking
exactly, there is often a vision of life linked to a language, I also learn Korean myself and just the origins behind the alphabet or sometime the way verbs are constructed translate so much about how the ancestors thought to make the language
I'm teaching myself Korean as well and seeing their culture unfold as I dive deeper is absolutely amazing! The history and experience of a people is wrapped up in their language ❤ It's a struggle but it's definitely worth it! Elisa 화팅! 🇰🇷
The pain you feel has nothing to do with languages. I speak 4 and have lived and work in several countries, which is relatively few compared with many. Knowledge and wisdom are different. Yes, you won't gain inner peace by increasing and identifying with knowledge but by understanding why these emotions arise and not trying to cover them with more facts. We are all deeply interrelated and that is beautiful.
Damn 4 is a lot! I'm at 3, the first was from parents and the two others I learned were at primary school due to moving, so now it's much harder to learn another language for me, but I think I'll learn French next when I'm done with stuff like post-secondary education and driving license since they are currently on my priority.
Along with becoming aware of all the things we don't really want to see, may it help us really appreciate everything good that we do have in our own lives. From people we like to flush toilets! Serious!
Oh, found someone who feels the same. But, only ever learn 1 language at a time. Otherwise your mind will become a zoo with no cages. I made that mistake in the beginning, started loosing the I already had while trying to learn 2 others at a time.
Learning a language is one thing, living in one is another. The problem is not the language itself. It’s the sense of “homelessness “ . You don’t belong to here or there. You are an outsider no matter where you are and how perfectly you speak that language. There are always some parts of you can never fit in. And yet you can’t go back where you came from either because you are no longer who you used to be.
I definitely feel this kind of insecurity that you're describing! Already felt it with two languages growing up, adding a third one to my life definitely didn't help.
This is the motivation I needed to study my target language today. It's been hard these past few weeks with school, but I feel so much better after focusing on my language goals. The hardest part is starting.
"Cultural schizophrenia" - wow. What a way to put it. I totally agree with you. I have been having the same ideas in the past few months, and you are the first person on TH-cam to express almost exactly the same thoughts I have. Besides my native language (Hungarian) I speak 7 languages fluently but I promised myself to stop learning new languages because the more I learn the more disconnected I get from the languages I already speak because I have to make room for the new ones. If I learn a new language, I get attached to its culture inadvertently, and then I realize it's a vicious circle. So, instead of learning new languages, I will master and hone the ones I already know. I don't want my mind and soul fall apart.
I don't consider as pain but what I already learn gave me pleasure and salvation through my live, I knew nothing about languages, I got to know people after, I am a completely introvert and after learning the language I became someone different, more powerful, I don't keep words I want to say.
7 languages is already impressive, ppl want to learn as much as they can, but at certain point they stop cause of various reasons, could be time or no longer have the energy...or whatever. What matters is to do what brings you joy.
7? Holy lord. I just wish I was at least able to speak english and japanese. I mean, I can use english to save my life, for sure, but I'm not fluent at all (I'm brazilian, never could pay for english classes). Japanese is too much. I almost had a breakdown trying to study it, because after you learn hiragana and katakana no one knows how to guide you (if you're not paying a teacher, and I can't do this). "Oh, learn Kanji. No, don't learn kanji alone, learn with sentences. No, first you need to lean grammar. No, avoid grammar, just read japanese books." And then I get in a loop where I can't read a book because I don't know kanjis nor grammar, I can't lean grammar because I can't read kanjis, I can't learn kanjis because you "need to use them in sentences to actually learn them" and I can't understand the sentences because I don't have grammar nor kanjis. So, if a SINGLE language almost drove me crazy, I can't even imagine how it is to learn 7. Makes me feel sad, tho, since I actually love the idea of being able to speak several languages. Books and news can teach you a lot, but nothing compares to being able to sit down and listen to a native talking about their life/country. Its the real human interaction that I really wish I could have, even if not fluent, but enough to understand the ideas and feelings.
2:23 “Because you see, after learning a language, if you care enough, part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs.” So beautifully said 💜✨
As a white European dude who speaks fluent Korean, and 3 other languages, you exactly explain what I couldn't put into words for years. It is painful, the cultural confusion of knowing too much of too many cultures - and in the end, you no longer truly relate with any culture or any people.
@@AbrasiousProductions dont be stupid mate there is a vast difference between learning one language and 4+ And one is hard enough more than that is your desicion if you like it but is like everything it has it good points and bads i only know spanish and english and i havent had any problems but i do know and believe the cultural issues or etc of learning more
Да я например знаю Английский язык ( Британский вариант ), но не знаю Корейского, но Корейцы КазаКстана и России ( юг Дальнего Востока ) знают Русский язык, например Корейцы Приморья беженцы в Российскую Империю аж с 19 века как.
For me it’s the opposite, learning makes me realize people around the world are not that different and we all lead similar lives, gives me hope for more reconciliation and more compatible future.
One of the most rewarding things a human can do is learn to speak other languages and make bonds with individuals and their culture creating pure and humane relations expanding the boundary of your mind.
I always wanted to learn different languages . It started when I attended an International dinner at The Overbrook school for the blind.I had three new friends one from Nepal, a friend from vietnam and one another friend from Germany , at that time two of my friends became my roommates at Hellen Diller camp for the blind. We were able to connect and became good friends. Studying languages helps you see the world through different lenses. Learning several languages for me was always fun and challenging.
Depends. I'm a doctor, HAM radio operator, biker, paragliding pilot, amateur lead guitarist and national level competitive rifle shooter. I also write poetry. At the moment, I'm learning boxing from an online course very patiently and diligently. Next? I'll learn cooking and camping. Edit: I'm 40 years old. And I forgot to add I know Morse Code (8-10 words per minute) and I'm learning electronics, soldering stuff and blowing things up. I also took an online course and brewed 10 litres of delicious craft beer at home. I'm hoping to get more insane as I grow older and one day I'll die with gangsta sunglasses on and a joint in my mouth. Cheers!!
@@user-gv5hm8po6b How do you know they have their entire life ahead of them? What does "all your life" even mean? For some people that's can only be a decade, for some it can be a few decades. And you don't even know what burdens they have in their life? What if they work a hell of a lot and just don't have the time to sit and learn and entire language?
"The true pain is the confusion" . This is what I have been facing wrt travelling and living in different countries and understanding different cultures for a long time. I couldn't really understand or articulate it till I came across this video . Its so profound .Thank you !!
I speak three languages fluently, and your words resonated with me so deeply. I have always tried to explain that when you reach a certain level of proficiency with a certain language, you may start noticing several changes in the way you communicate. Way past the obvious use of a different language, but your mannerisms, inflection, and even your own moral compass. You truly expand the scope of your original tribe where you were born into, reaching an “in-between-worlds” state that is as exciting as scary.
I have noticed this too. Sometimes you have code switching malfunctions and you use a certain phrase in another language and it might seem wrong to others while it's fine for you.
@@jackkraken3888 very often when talking to my mother I say the English saying I'm thinking of that fits the situation, then explain what it means to her to teach her some English at the same time as well as keep talking. Mom and her friends give me little bits of Russian when I ask. The metaphors may even have equivalents in the other languages, which is when we both learn!
@@kentario1610 dont understand the saying in Englisch. but i have encoutered these exchanges in france where i teach them something german or english and demand equivalents. Demand a word used just now came into my head before ask even tho it doesnt fit as well because of french.
Despite not being impressive, just learning "hello" or "good day" in another language can set off this curious feeling when speaking to someone who learned your language. I took French in high school, I am by no means fluent, but I know enough basic french to get around. One day at my job, two guys with obvious accents walking in and I noticed one of them spome french to the other. When they came to talk to me about something, they said "hello", I responded "Salut" (french improper/for friends hello). They spoke in some french to me, to which I responded in kind. They livened up more after speaking in french, despite my fumblings with tense conjugation, and I would speak to them in French and they, to I, in English. Similarly, a man, born in Poland, and his son, born US, came in. They had almost no accent, but when I heard his son's name I knew they were in some way Polish. I, being a teenager, asked the man if, by chance, they were Polish. He was taken aback slightly and said "yes, how did you know?". I told him how I was learning to be able to transliterate other languages and I had just started on the Polish language. He, like the french gentlemen before, became more lively at that fact. It is truly a remarkable experience to be able to access another language in some way and express what you know to others who were born/grew up with it. Maybe it is a symbol that they of different language/nationality are not alone elsewhere, maybe they all thought it was funny some American was trying to talk about their culture (by means of language). All I know is learning a foreign language is a curse to me, but maybe a blessing to others.
I had a similar experience with foreigners who were learning my language, it was so nice,even though I didn't understand them fully, but The joy on their faces when they were speaking to me,they were so happy because someone finally understand them! it was priceless!
Yeah, the small amount of effort it takes to learn a couple of key words in a language are always going to be worth it imo. After that it's up to the person and their situation if it's a sensible investment of time or not.
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. It you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
I am a syrian living and studying in Germany. I spent my junior and highschool days in Syria and Germany is more like my second home country. After leaving Syria and traveling to Germany, I had to get along with the living standards and culture here, but I have never questioned my own culture. It was only when I started to learn Korean, that I started to question my arab culture and the things we have learned in Syria and I noticed, how my family and a lot of Syrians portray their culture as the finest one and how they put themselves over other cultures, which made me sad. I realised, that our arab culture is just one of many and for everything we think is specal about our culture, there is something as great in any other culture. I'm very grateful for my experiences learning Korean, because it made me realise a lot about the world, a lot of GOOD and BAD things about my own culture and question many things in my life and I feel much better and confident in myself now. My experiences learning the language made me also want to connect more with the people from around the world and travel, which was never something, I intented to do a couple of years ago. I really feel like it allowed me to see something, I didn't see by that time.
@@user_curiosity thanks for your comment. I have learned a lot of Korean at uni, but I still consider myself a beginner and I only managed to understand your comment through my tandem partner haha, but I will keep learning! :) 한국어로 써서 정말 감사합니다!
@@amwazdraws6890 As you probably can see from my username I am also interested in learning Korean. Though I really ain't far in my studies. I am a German native and my username is an attempt at writing some German in 한글. You may have a guess if you feel like it. I have also been starting to learn basic Chinese which has a different character (and a multitude of characters iykwim) all together and it's really interesting how easy the grammar actually is compared to German. I also need to improve my French and other Romance languages and get over the fact that learning Dutch should be easy for me knowing English, German and some Frisian/Platt alongside local dialects, so I really could commence if I find the time. I assume your German is decent enough to get along here, but the older generations in particular as well as certain personalities can be really judgmental when encountering a foreigner (mostly determined by looks and non-native behavior) that on top only speaks broken German after years of living here. Ich wünsche dir auf jeden Fall alles Gute und viel Glück weiterhin beim lernen. Meintest du eigentlich du lernst Koreanisch nebenher zur Uni oder als Kurs, weil aktuell ist ja eh alles ein bisschen durcheinander mit Covid-19 und so? Lass dich nicht unterkriegen von "Ausländer raus" und ähnlichem! Natürlich auch beste Wünsche für dein Heimatland. Pardon me if you didn't fully understand the proceeding German passage.
Te agradezco mucho por este video. Esa forma de ver el aprendizaje de idiomas es algo fascinante y algo muy profundo de cierta forma. Uno de los videos más interesantes que he visto en mi vida probablemente, gracias.
“After learning a language, a part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs to” Yea absolutely agree I found myself in history class being more biased towards the country my parents are from, although I was born in the U.S. Also makes me realize how language's in someway does indeed affect our way of thinking. (Self notes)
No, you just become a parrot ... language is an expression of the essence of a ethnicity, the essence is an expression of genetics ... well, you don't change, what you are ... not your genes ... by learning a language. A foreign language ... thus always remains something unnatural ... if you don't have a genetic connection.
@@Hinterfrage humans don't need a genetic connection to create or rebuild a language. American English and Esperanto being learned by ethnics whose ancestors' mother tongue was probably not even in the same language group, modern British English being heavily affected by Romans show us that language is an expression of culture, and that cultural and linguistical changes always go hand in hand. Though culture itself, of course, is tied with ethnics to some extent.
@@Solaire_au_Frohmage One finds more of his self in the language of his ancestors... than in a foreign language ... a European can learn Japanese ... but in this language he doesn't find a correspondence to what he is, because his nature is different.The greater the differences to the nature of another ethnic group ... the less you find of yourself in this language ...
@@Hinterfrage That is true, but only when you are born on the land of your ancestors and integrate into a society of people speaking that same ancestral language and are sharing the culture of those ancestors. A friend of mine is living near a Tatar ethnic majority region, and himself is born into a Tatar family. Yet he considers himself to be Russian (mostly ironically though), knows only Russian language and is very defendant of Russian culture. He found more of himself in a language quite different from his ancestors' language. Also worth noting that all of humanity share a common ancestor, and that ancestor was probably communicating in some sort of "language" that has been long lost due to lack of writing system or its primitivity. I do not believe we would be able to find more of our selves in that language, even though it belonged to our distant ancestry.
@@Hinterfrage My ex had a kid from.previous marriage. I met him when he was 3 in Denmark. Now he talks Greek,like greek food,sings greek songs and always call me Dad in Greek. I do not have any genetic connection with him but he is my firstborn. When my second son was born i didnt feel wow or a tug because i already had that with my first son. Now both boys are in my lap and sing play and laugh. Two brothers one father no biology involved just language, culture under the umbrella of love. Maybe you should reconsider your thesis and opinions.
I feel like the benefits of learning a language outweigh the drawbacks. Learning a new language is like seeing the world through new eyes for me. It's fascinating to see how different cultures interpret different aspects of life. When I notice similar things in different languages, it makes me happy. I don't believe we need to feel unique all of the time in order to be happy. I feel better knowing that, while each person is unique in their own way, we all share something in common. That gives me a sense of belonging. I'm currently learning my 5th language, and even though it's hard to keep up with it because I'm a high school student, the satisfaction i get from making people happy and comfortable when i speak their language is enough to keep me going. I remember how i met an old Tibetan lady and when i spoke to her in Tibetan, the amazement in her eyes and the familiarity I felt is worth all the hours i spent learning.
Wise move, my friend! And of course it's totally worth it! Learning a new different language means that you also pick up more on that culture's knowledge, history, customs, and traditions, ect. Therefore, you'll just naturally become more and more wiser/intelligent in the due process. Having more knowledge and wisdom over others in this world, is a PRIVILEGE... What more could you possibly want? 🤔
This video caught my attention again, in some ways. I watched your video several years ago and have watched it a couple of times since then. Today, I want to leave a comment to simply say thank you. Your video inspired me a lot. Not just about language learning, but also about knowledge in general. I remember when I was in my early 18 years old, the first time I walked into the largest library in my city. I was surprised to see so many people there. They were of different ages and came from different countries. The library was always bustling with people but remained remarkably quiet. They were all focused on their studies. That was the moment I vowed to myself that I would never stop learning, no matter what.
The more you know, the more you wish you didn't know. They say ignorance is bliss, because the more things you understand, the more you have to be cautious or aware about, than someone that doesn't know any better. Also, the more you know, the more alone you will feel, because you'll have less and less things in common with those around you, that don't care about any of that stuff you learned.
True, but as the old Internet meme goes: It's lonely at the top, but the view is excellent. Ignorance may be bliss, but there is a more fundamental happiness based on something more objective and tangible if you can harness all of that knowledge at your disposal and still craft it into something meaningful. If happiness is based upon lesser fruits, you will inherently be dissatisfied with the meaning behind that happiness because of its weak foundations. The only thing I would add vis a vis the video is that while individual languages, cultures, and histories may share many of the same traits and events and norms, you will also find certain things that venture outside of that Venn Diagram and don't overlap quite as cleanly. Those are the aspects of a different culture that accentuate your knowledge and understanding of your own, without any sense of exoticism or objectification of a culture necessary to appreciate its "otherness." Words in a foreign language too frequently have 20% added or overlapping semantics with something else in your language, which gives you an opportunity to triangulate your own understanding of a concept.
Wrong. Only the weak or stupid think that. The more you know, the more you can appreciate. The more you know, the more you can understand more about what you like. Don't be a coward. Stop being a cynic. Knowledge doesn't make you happy or sad. It just means you know more.
regardless of more or less things you know, the World stay the same! Knowing more brings Advantages, like Science, is how you use it ;) , if Science was never used, now we gonna be in caves
ignorance is the Minimization of your System of Reference also there are 7 billions people, there are people that enjoy how "nerdie" and not "ignorant piece of shit against yourself" you can be :), and even if they weren't , it is their problem to remain in the shit of not knowing
I just embarked into a new language learning odyssey weeks ago and this video was so perfectly timed, so on point. I needed these words to feel brave and be aware of the challenge I just summoned into my life. I will do this not just for personal gain but to expand myself and be able to help and understand how humanity has evolved and self-destructed at the same time. Thank you.
I am learning another language to enable me to speak, read etc. but I ended up learning about history, religion, customs, art, and attitudes. I feel like I've travelled even though I've never been there. I feel some kinship with people I'll never likely meet. Even while learning Latin, I feel like a time traveler.
Yeah same here brother. This is information age. Internet changed the world I know so much about the world from history of humans to history of science and in long readings about E.g. Sociology/Anthropology/History/Economy/Technical Science setc. I get big hits of understanding about this planet and animals on it.
Einstein said something like this: “As the diameter of our circle of knowledge grows larger, so too does the circumference of that which is not understood.” Hopefully doubt and discovery go on forever, it would be something to do at least.
I've noticed this even on a basic level. All it takes it high school level sciences to realise how little you know about how any of the appliances you take for granted each day actually work.
I wondered why circumference was specifically used. And I think if the last couple words of the quote is changed to « what we think we don’t understand « , it would convey the meaning that what we know is clear, but we can only infer what we don’t know from the small edges of our circle, meaning that even the largeness of the counter space to our circle is unknown. And somehow this conveys clearly how someone who doesn’t know much can think they know a lot, because their circumference is very small.
The pain for bilingual or multilingual is when you speak with someone but then you accidentally slip two or three words of another language... and when you try to translate it so the person you spoken to is understand, you end up just staring at the ceiling trying to remember the words but your brain just doesn't work
It is not regularly that I watch something which resonates with me to such a great extent. This was moving, and probably life-changing for someone whose whole aim in life has been the pursuit of knowledge. The urge of reading Tolstoy's ramblings about history in russian, of reading the Gita in sanskrit, reading Caesar's memoirs about his conquests in the original Latin. There is something truly special about it all. The east asian languages are too complex, but people probably say the same stuff about my language (hindi), I can give it a try, it has to be worthwhile. There is so much to do but this life feels too short, I have already wasted two decades on this planet and I'm only now learning to learn. Thank you for this video, I'll save it and watch it again after a while. All these hours wasted on this website become worthwhile when something like this shows up out of the blue :')
When you are fluent in more than one language you can tell the slightly different personalities that you use when speaking different language. It has been confirmed by scientific researches. It makes one realize that so-called personality is so fluid and you don’t have to be confined in any of it.
Absolutely I speak, fluently two languages and learning another. I don't like using my native language because I feel uptight almost immediately 🤷. When I use English, I'm open minded and calm 🤷🌺
@@poczytamci3389 Yeah speaking English feels really good, I really want to learn Polish because my mother is Polish and I love the way she and my aunts have conversations, it's so energetic and fast paced, but we already visit our family in Poland in three months so not much time to learn a lot but I really want to hold tiny conversations and I already understand like 15% of what they are saying in conversations, man I just wish my mom properly taught me as a child. I hope I also have a similar feeling when speaking Polish one day as with English.
@@cannedcan9788 yeah,moms sometimes just don't understand what a missed opportunity it is,when they don't teach their children their own native language... Especially when they use it anyway, but nothing lost on you,15% understanding is a lot and if you persevere you'll surely succeed. My husband is learning Polish and I admire anyone who tries to... Kudos to you for giving it a go 🌺🌺
Learning to speak foreign languages has made me realize that I've become worse at speaking my own native language. The more languages I learned the longer it took me to remember even simple words. The words will pop into my head immediately in 3-4 languages but it feels like it was never the language that I needed in that moment. This causes me to mix in foreign words into my sentences which annoys me immensely, especially if the person I'm talking to speaks only one language. Makes me feel like a complete moron and regret that I bothered learning other languages.
Throw in the accent. I mix up accents, and gets easily confused depending on who I talk with. I sometimes get weird accents when speaking English even though I did not have it before.
I know the feeling far too well. English is my third language, and I speak it better (but not fluently) compared to my native and second languages. What makes matters worse is, I'm one of the few remaining reproductive-age L1 speakers of my language in my country, but I don't sound like it. Not when I now struggle to form sentences entirely in my native language and keep borrowing from the second or third languages. How can I hope to preserve my language and culture if I'm already losing it?
This is true though, knowing more than one language is awesome but at the same time you begin to lose your sense of identity because all these cultures have so much to offer and you don’t know which to embrace
@@KeroZ25Z maybe, & maybe not. Language in itself, if we learn them, is constantly evolving. The history of language itself is a journey full of wonder. Languages adapt as time went on. However, Culture, as we observe, are slowly turning stagnant. Any slight improvisation in Culture done by the youths will easily be marked as "losing our identity." These cultures are the very reason why the language barrier started to build up, *IMO.* Thus, the more diverse the languages you know, the more open minded you are to adaptation, but if there's no one to share it with, you'll soon feel how lonely it is. Culture is already made rigid by communities, so you never really going to fit well anywhere with your newfound concoction of adaptation. You can't conform to ignorance with that much knowledge, it hurts.
I watched this video during quarantine and have always wanted to be where he was in life; smart yet not arrogant. Now I’m in Seattle, I’ve visited magus books. Now I get that he was in me from the beginning, I didn’t have to go where he was and be where he was. His wisdom is within us wherever we are
I am a native English speaker who learnt Spanish to a decent level of fluency. I can't really agree that it brought me pain, but it did change my life. Learning a language is inherently tangled up with learning a different culture and different attitudes. It changed me as a person. I actually feel different when I speak in Spanish instead of English.
I am a native Spanish speaker, and I had the same experience after dominating English. It's like I became enlightened. I changed as a person, my values changed, my mannerisms, and so many other aspects of my life that I probably don't even realize. I don't want to say that it made me smarter. Learning a new language just opened my mind and made space for new ideas, goals, and new problem solving strategies. It's amazing how that works. I would not be 10% of the person I am today if I only knew one languages. Can't imagine what it's like to know more than two languages.
@@zualapips1638 By learning English that made you 90% of the person you are today? I don’t buy that at all….Also, I’m struggling to understand how learning English gave you values…Can you give some examples please?
I want to learn to read, write and speak Arabic and also Mandarin. These two languages I want to learn at some stage. I have very entry level French under my belt, so I can always return to that and learn it properly if i need to. Besides that, I can speak a bit of Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu but cannot read or write in any of those three languages. My late grandfather was fluent in Farsi and Urdu and masterful in English too.
@@chrismacleod9326 Because you absorb a significant chunk of the culture(s) that that language belongs to. You're no longer "trapped" in just one culture and way of thinking and seeing the world. If I wasn't bilingual, I wouldn't live where I live today, I would've never been able to meet some of my friends, I wouldn't know the things I know, I wouldn't have the opportunities that I have now, etc. You know how in some games the map is locked and you can only get access to those parts after you level up or finish a certain amount of quests? Imagine that in the real world. Imagine getting access to parts of the world that were previously locked. You even get access to huge parts of the internet that were "encrypted" before. And that's only with two languages. Imagine all the things that could open up if one learns Mandarin.
@@chrismacleod9326 who do people hate or say smartass comments like this one, if you don’t agree with it scroll past it. Nobody has to prove anything to you, you’re not that important
My anthropology professor told us something in class this semester that really contextualised this. He was saying that language is how we interpret the world, so when you learn another language, you change everything about how you understand things around you. I always wondered why people thought I spoke with weird phrasing, or sometimes people wouldn't understand my jokes, but he said this happens often to multilingual people. I started learning french when I was 10. I became commpletely comfortable with many french words before I even learned some of the english words I use in everyday converation. It's interesting to think that my outlook on life might be different than others just because I was invested in learning the language as a kid.
It’s honestly not just different languages. I was really into the idea of chivalry as a kid and was also very into history stuff. It caused my speech pattern to be a bit off..... in certain situations I almost sound British, or just from a completely different time period. Using old English grammar, mixed with a variety of slang and language specific words. Often times people won’t understand what I’m saying because I jump back and forth. For instance there’s a difference between saying,” you like cats, therefore....” and saying “I mean if you like cats then...” I see a difference you being specific in one and general in the other.
I had the same experience. My parents were in university and thus spoke differently to the people surrounding us. Plus we were 'home', but neither parent grew up with the local dialect, for different reasons. When I was 8, I decided to learn English. The few people around us, who were bilingual, spoke Russian as their second language. And I loved reading. Especially indigenous experiences. I never went into ethnology, but I still love it. I am fluent only in English and my native language, but speak some in 8 others. Plus I am a grammar and script nerd.
Lol i thought his life got destroyed cause he finally understood that there were people who talked about him behind his back and now he knows their language
He's more aware now. The more you know what's really going on around you, the more it disturbs you mentally. A feeling of lostness, feeling like you don't belong where you are, wanting to "return" to your tribe.. I think it can drive anybody insane and ruin your life
I think he is implying that learning languages ruined his life because it destroyed his original identity. At first he belonged to one language and culture, but as he continued to learn more languages, he started to lose his point of origin and it turned him into someone who just belongs to all the cultures he has learnt. Now his life no longer belongs to one culture, but rather it belongs it to the whole world in which we live in.
@@zanepalino3026 "Now his life no longer belongs to one culture, but rather it belongs it to the whole world in which we live in." In a sense, it makes you a family member of all, not just the one's who you grew up and lived with. In that sort of perception, one could identify as an Earthling, Planetarian, or simply a human being. All things that had once separated us, would fade. So in other words, unity.
I speak 11 different languages. I lived and worked in 34 different countries. Now, I am 61 years old. I have become a hermit. I have a couple of friends. I talk only when needed. Just a few sentences. With knowledge comes wisdom, and with wisdom comes solitude. I feel very happy. I socialize only when required. I am a global guy. I feel like I belong to many different Places. Thanks for reading.
"... If you care enough, part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs," is exactly how it's been for me learning Finnish. I'm not sure I have any Finnish ancestry, but Finland is like my second home now. I love languages and learning of the similarities and how people communicate.
I'm learning Finnish as well and hope to move there once borders are open again and that's exactly how I feel. The Finnish language and culture feels so much more like home than my native English, it's a strange phenomenon.
@@AZ-ty7ub I don't think I can ever permanently leave Canada, because I love it here too, but I definitely want to eventually find a way to live in both countries. I started learning Finnish because of one of my favourite bands, and I remember the first time I visited that I felt a strong connection just seeing it out the window of the plane before we even touched down.
I was very surprised to see Finnish mentioned here. I'm honestly amazed that people think so highly of the Finnish language and culture! I apologize if this sounds inconsiderate but I just think it's so cool. I wish you good luck ✨ Languages are awesome!
@@kuurakeinen where I come from, people regard Suomi as a highly developed and admirable country. I was lucky enough to study Finnish in Helsinki during a summer a few years ago, and had an unforgettable and life-changing experience. Beautiful language and culture, gorgeous nature and amazing people 🇫🇮❤️
I know English and Spanish. I lived almost 20 years in South America. Koreans moved into my neighborhood, so I began learning Korean. Germans opened an institute, so I did two levels of German. And later, bits and pieces of other languages became my language "snacks". Yes, every language I learned changed me. I accepted points of view from other tribes. Your video gave me tiny tears at the end. Well done.
I think knowing 2 to 3 languages of separate roots is fine, but knowing more starts to make you feel this. It is painfully lonely because almost no one would understand your language jokes, contextual puns, and cross-culture wordplays, even if you explain, nobody would feel and relate to it, there is always a side of yourself that cannot be understood by groups of people of different cultural backgrounds. Finding a friend that knows exactly the same languages as you know is such a valuable treasure.😢
I only know 3 and already feel this pain, when I have this joke in mind, but avoid saying it cause I know that by having to explain it would lose its purpose...
I guarantee you can feel this with just one foreign language too. A Polish guy traversing solely polish part of the internet has completely no grasp of memes and concepts present in "just" English part of it. Let alone content available in less popular tongues.
This is why my friend and I are learning languages together rather than on our own. We’re both in high school and currently learning /taking French. In the summer, we plan to learn Japanese together, which might be a bit difficult without a teacher like in French, but at least we aren’t alone. Best of wishes to you and have a lovely day
Not even three, knowing two languages makes me appear like a different breed, feels like I didn't belong in any group of friends around. Yep, it's freaking lonely. While you're immersed in your own world you'd find yourself longing for interactions and that's depressing sometimes. I feel ya. And I still haven't found another 'different breed' like myself. I think it's extremely rare, bcs I'm learning English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Arabic (also Thai for addition) at once. Finding a local friend with one of those is hard enough, let alone 😪 Wondering how my head isn't about to explode yet
I already feel like this by just knowing English and my native language, because where I live barely anyone knows English and there isn't much of a point for them to know. As a result I don't interact with my fellow countrymen online as much as I do with folks from other countries.
The more you learn, the more you realise how many things you don't know.
@For Sparta 😐
Lol true, I was thinking this; why do electrons want to go to the ground, what's dark matter, is there extraterrestrial life?
@For Sparta no, just because something has a charge doesn’t mean that it produces a current. The earth is not a magnet that attracts electricity, that sentence doesn’t even make sense. Electrons tend to spread out between the object and the earth and since the earth is so big in comparison they end up in the earth completely.
@For Sparta I understand that you didn’t learn basic human decency at school but please at least take Electricity and Magnetism before you talk😔😔
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"The bigger the circle of the known, the larger the contact with the unknown". Thank you.
Great video, but after hearing this, I just had to to subscribe
That's awesome
Xackly.
Especially when it comes to the metaphysical. I'm not going to lie, I'm learning Japanese mainly for pop culture, anime, manga video games,etc.On the other hand, I've also been reading up on magic, so if I get skilled enough, I might want to look into some of the mystic traditions within Shintoism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
This was so beautiful!
He said “ruined his life” because it destroyed his past identify. It destroyed “his life”. What he thought was his life.
Good thing. Cause identity just for society not knowledge
Nah, pretty sure hes dead
That's a stupid way to put it
he should say it expanded his horizons or changed his attitude and outlook on life in a better way
@@Frankmaui67 that's not very eye-catching
@@Frankmaui67 on the opposite, it's smart.
this kind of words are used andwidely known.. but his title made me watch the video (and I didn't regret it)
"The pursuit of knowledge is almost by definition a sort of masochism."
That's pretty spot on.
*"I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing at the wind. For in much wisdom, is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow."*
@randominternetuser2599 Qoheleth! What are you doing here ol' buddy
Uh, no
Indeed
“After learning a language, a part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs to”
Identify with this on so many levels
So wisdom phase
I somehow learnt a language I'm writing in right now and I don't think it's necessarilly true.
@@yuliazni4006 LoL
He also said, in that same sentence, "if you care enough",...which to Theodorius Ghandeli, is a very important part.
@@Zeewman about, a part of oneself becoming a member of that tribe, the language belongs to?
"Another language, another soul".
Yes, Carthaginian would like to persuade you to speak Phoenicians . So they can justify prolicide.
I always call it having another personality and not a soul.
@@sundial655 Huh?
Another way of seeing the world.
Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales?
This video was like
*"I've won, at what cost..."*
What did it cost you?
Everything
I've won, but at what cost- I think that's the proper version
So Basically - It's nice To Know when People are Talking Sh!T in Differnt Languages about You, but Then itll Also Lower your Self Esteem Knowing people all over the World Truly Hate You cause you heard it come out of there own mouths
You've missed the point by miiiiles
Captain !
Help wanda in west view
I'm only fluent in two languages. But I feel like the more languages you know, the more you realize how cynical this world is and that people are generally the same everywhere.
That realization, my friend, is mostly because you are growing older. Trust me, the legitimacy for cynicism gets a lot worse as you grow older. And a bit of advice flows from that. It is mentally much healthier to focus on something else that brings you joy and happiness, because the world will not become any nicer because you object to it being cruel or unfair. While your objection to the Universe's inherent cruelty is fair and commendible, your observation is nothing new or unique, so you might as well expend your energy somewhere else. Trust me, you will be a lot happier if you chose such a path.
@@Disappointed739 Thank you for your words of wisdom. And I know what you mean about life's cruelty. I learned that lesson as a teenager.
yes indeed. i have been trying to get this across to anyone who might listen. while it seems like the whole world wants to emphasise difference, learning languages and meeting people from other walks of life just solidifies my sense of us all being generally the same.
I thought that I was the only one who think that way. Not like I'm the only one, but it's good to see people thinking like I use to think about. I'm currently fluent in two languages and afterwards I see the same. People are pretty the same, everywhere.
Maybe I’m too optimistic but to me that’s ok
"Cultural schizophrenia" is such a good way of describing something that I've never had a word for before. I speak three languages and am in the process of learning a fourth. The more languages I learn, the more I want to learn, and I just don't have the time to immerse myself in them all to the level I want to. I also spent my early 20s traveling/living in various countries and immersing myself in their language and culture. The first time I moved to a foreign country, everyone warned me about culture shock. Nobody warned me that I would also feel it when moving back to my home country. And now, I find myself feeling homesick no matter where I am. My friends are all over the world. My favorite restaurant is across the globe. Sometimes I am just sitting in my home and I suddenly find myself strongly wishing to be back in a different country. I want so many different chapters of my life all at once.
I lived overseas for five years and it took me about that long to finally feel at home again in the U.S.
Completely relate. I have never lived out of the country but I have moved around my whole life all over the US. And sometimes I will miss going to that restaurant every Friday. Or miss hanging with this person all the time. Or being able to walk across the street to the beach to get away. I wish I could merge different chapters of my life all the time, so glad you out it into words.
You described it so well!
Jesus Christ this comment defines me so well!
That's a really good explanation
Morale of the story, your country is not the center of the universe.
No - but it *is* the center of YOUR universe. And, contrary to what some may think, that's not always a bad thing.
@@dm8057bk Absolutely. :)
The vid is about languages and there’s a definite hierarchy in the usefulness, practicality, adaptability of languages. Not all languages are equal in describing reality (in essence digitizing an analogue reality to something communicable) and not all languages were designed to accommodate change in them. Only Greek has done that. I speak Greek, English and used to speak French and some Italian. The Greek language is richer and more adaptive, bar none.
@@anthonylopez5 The US was and IS a big deal. Lately there’s a political trend that produces comments such as yours which are greatly uninformed and unappreciative of the importance of the US culture for all humanity. Pity!
Who said Miles Morales?
“History written by whom, and for whom”
Damn, that is powerful.
Struck my heart
Which is quite logical, when one questions certain things which are structured in society and are based on something that happened quite some time ago. Or certain things which are just simply based on stories, historical texts and such.
Often wondered and pondered about by Theodorius Ghandeli.
Have you never had that thought about something you read, anywhere?
Agreed!
The best part
History is written by Us and for Us
I got a duolingo ad directly after this
Algorithms 🤣🤣
I got this after using Duolingo 😂
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Speaking different languages may make you smarter, but...
“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”
Knowing more ways about how people speak, lets you see more ways of speaking about the same thing.
Knowing that there is more than one way to speak about things, means you will never put your faith into only one thing.
When you can speak in more than one way, you will rarely speak meaninglessly, or make sense in only one way.
Qui-Gon Jinn was truly the wisest jedi.
I want to create a hybrid between Japanese and Icelandic. Because I love drawing Japanese women and so on, the idea is to create a whole new language which can make it vastly harder for all but a few to interpret content in Japanese intelligence reports. I do not know if this language hybrid will ever become a reality, but if it does, it would be called Japicelandic.
@@Yatukih_001 "I love drawing Japanese women" hmmmmmm
@@Yatukih_001 I'm gonna check back here in a year to start learning Japicelandic...
People here saying that a lot of polyglots claim to be fluent while they still learning new vocab everyday and let me tell you that you are completely wrong .. even in my native language I still learn new things everyday! I don't know about you guys but as an Arabic speaker I actually have a LOT of words that I don't understand, like who's able to memorize more than 12 million word?
Being fluent is the ability to think with that language and to have conversations with native speakers, that's all we need as a language learners. It's the ability to write a comment that you can understand even if there's some mistakes.
YES!!! Thank you so much for writing this! Everyone should read this comment because there are way too many people who claim that one is fluent only when they speak a language on a very advanced level or that it’s necessary to have a C1 or C2 diploma to be fluent. I was one of those people, but man was I wrong. This also makes me think that fluency is something subjective. Like, if I feel like I’m fluent in a language then that means that I can communicate without problems, and if that isn’t quite accurate yet, I feel like I still need more practice and that’s okay!
I mean, no one really cares if you make a lot of mistakes as long as you make yourself understandable!
@@Marmar0404 also, I can't talk at a C2 level in a rocket science class (in any of my languages), does that mean I'm not fluent? No! Because you're not "fluent" or "beginner", it's a spectrum! You can be more or less fluent, and that can change day to day, subject to subject, and even depending on whom you're talking to!
Couldn’t agree more.
I've been thinking of this before. There's not an actual way to know every single word in a language. Even natives speakers don't know everything about their languages, because languages can change and have various words depending on the region that you're living. I am a native Portuguese speaker and in my country (and the country that colonized my country) there are words that I can't simply understand or just don't get it. "Gajo", "Guria" a lot of words can change depending on the region that you're living. I don't think that the languages that I know (Portuguese, English) that I am studying (Gaelic, Russian) and that I can understand (italian) are different from mine.
Youre right. One, languages are not composed of "words," they are composed of words, expressions or idioms that express something. In one country, "asparagus" might be made of a three "word" combination and be super uncommon because nobody in the country or regions ever eat asparagus. In another country it may be a two letter word and be said everyday cause they eat it in every meal.
And two, as a native English speaker I literally have to ask people what they mean to say at least a few times a day, and that's not counting the times I just get distracted, don't hear them clearly, they aren't speaking in an easily understandable way. Those few times a day are when I literally don't know the word or expression. There are new slangs people not in high school don't know, and there are words I have heard my whole life from time to time but it isn't used much by my family and friends so I never really got the meaning.
When I once went though a time hanging out with Irishmen visiting my city on vacation, we literally had to ask for clarification for half of what the other person said. Ironically there were also a couple grammatical phrases I use in my variety of southernese (southern US speak) that they used too, but that people from the north look at me crazy when I say (I be workin' alot, I'm fixin to get goin', etc.)
I have the same experience with languages I know fluently. I tend to be around people from and immersed in the variety of one region or country, and so you put me with a person from elsewhere, I may speak Chinese like a native from Beijing, but not like a Taiwanese. I may speak Spanish like a Spanyard but not like... any other country. The funny thing is that Chinese will love you if you are a total noob and have a thick american accent. Spanish speakers outside Spain will only give you an ounce of respect and talk to you in Spanish if you speak their specific variety so well they think you are a native and you don't tell them you aren't.
All in all theres zero point to care what people think. If some American says "well I only speak English but I watched a kung fu hong kong movie once and your chinese is bad imo" well okay, think what you want, I'll consider the source. If someone from El Paso says "well my parents are from Mexico and I'm also a fluent speaker and you talk funnny" well okay, I don't learn the language to talk to people who have inferiority complexes and no manners anyway, so bye. When a real native critiques you, it is usually an actual correction or whatnot. Even other Americans sometimes say something like "its barely, not verily" or "it's spelled 'there' not 'they're' " to other Americans. This is normal and helpful. And if you don't care about talking all proper and crap, then just be like "oh okay, gotcha, 'preciate it bro," and keep saying it how you do.
2:25 Excellent point, beautifully articulated.
Thank you!
Interesting seeing y’all here haha
I'm the 1k like
食物
Tf u doin here
One of the most beautiful and profound videos i've had the privilege of watching. Watching this again after I watched it for the first time years back, as I'm on the journey of relearning my native tongue.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
We have no choice. It's called homo sapiens.
“After learning a language, if you care enough, part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs.”
I'd rather spend my time getting chicks! The language of love is the ONLY other language I need.
@@bocawilliams9200 definitely a virgin
@@bocawilliams9200 love? That’s not love. That’s just horniness.
this is very true, and was well expressed
@@TheIrishEgyptian PLZZZZZ I get more a$$ than a toilet seat!
Sounds like his life isn’t ruined at all
@Alejandro Rauber me too
No. His life is over. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand what he's saying. Maybe when you speak 9 languages you'll get there but you'll probably be dead by then too.
No. His life is over. You guys just aren't smart enough to understand what he's saying. Maybe when you speak 9 languages you'll get there but you'll probably be dead by then too.
@@bw4348 so is better not to learn anymore languages then?🥺
@@greenfairy549 Yes pretty lady. You can stop now that you're able to talk to me.
No one gonna talk about this guy going to the bookstore at 3 am
Nothing beats browsing books in the peace and quiet 😂
bruh
😆😆😆
i would like too, if i had the courage😂 nothing can be better than seeking a quiet place, reading books, having a cup of coffee, while it's raining outside
i wish the bookstore near me was open that late
When you read about other cultures through your language, it's like hearing a rumor about them. But when you speak their language, it's like becoming part of their royal court, thinking and feeling just like them.
exactly THRU
Are you basically implying that individuals who are neurotypical need to completely learn a foreign language in order to experience empathy for the people that language belongs to??
@@carmenwomack it doesn't say its a prerequisite for empathy, but that it enhances it
"It is no nation we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native tongue is our true fatherland." - Emil Cioran
My mannnnn , thats exactly the same thought I was thinking when seeing this video.
En español : “No es una nación la que habitamos, sino un lenguaje.” - Emil Cioran
“No se habita un país, se habita una lengua.Una patria es eso y nada más.”
But what about Belgium?
If I'm not mistaken that line of thought was first said by a portuguese poet called Fernando Pessoa: "My homeland is the portuguese language". In "The book of disquiet". Originally "O livro do desassossego"
Multiple language mastery can create a linguistic schyzopherenia - most elaborate point made in this video. Just like you talk differently with your grandparents, at work and on a night out with your friends, so too does your way of expression change in different languages. Some are quiet, some are loud, some are pointient some are more expressive. Holding several linguistic networks and backgrounds in your head can make you feel like you are switiching between different people based on the language you are currently using.
And i thought that was normal :v
Yeah i know that feeling
I'm polyglot since my teenagers
But i experience it since my childhood because i'm natively tri-lingual
This is true. I became more isolated knowing several languages as my accent started to change when I was young. Parents used to get pissed that I would use vocabulary that is not part of their dialect. At school, the American teachers and Americans used to think I was making fun of them as I started to sound a bit British or German in accent. Others used to think that I was making fun of people as I became more receptive of different accents, phonemes from different languages or I was just pretentious or a foreigner. It is painful indeed. In the US, this will be more the case as Americans have this toxicity culture of "English only" or American sounding English only.
Yeah this is true, i'm bilingual (hungarian and english)
Being multilingual, I can relate to this. I thought this was normal!
I found years ago that reading novels and stories written by authors of other nationalities, even in translation opens your eyes not only to different ways of living but to different ways of story telling.
@@brendaaniwe1212
Maybe? Doesn’t it depend on a lot of things? Why should there be a simple “answer” assigned to it to decide the judgement of its value?
@@brendaaniwe1212 how would it not be good?
I'm not interested in reading but for most of my life I've been exposed to english movies, cartoons and video games, basically just american and british entertainments. This has took a big toll on me, most of the times even my internal monologue is in English, meaning i talk to myself in English which is strange considering that I rarely get to verbally interact with other people in this language. I'm assuming it's not unusual
@@phatlewt2932 let me guess, Filipino?
@@cry9438 no
Its not learning other languages that hurts us, its the general broadening of our knowledge. Languages was just the vehicle you used. I found the same studying history, international relations, philosophy - its a humbing experience that isolates you from friends and family.
Apparently a conscious effort to be 'in the world', and not 'of the world', combined with a habit of practicing gratitude helps to counter the burden of knowledge.
Do I stop?
@TheAncientColossus No, just find a balance that suits you. I've had to learn to take time each week to do things I enjoy that are not related to the heavy topics. Also, good sleep and exercise make a massive difference to improve mental health if you are determined to keep studying your areas of focus.
@@m3tamonk3y4 wow I had the same with physics, psychology
It's a pity it is true. But we can say so about any intellectual activity which requires to be alone many time.
It broadens our knowledge in the sense of actively feeling emotional empathy vs cognitive empathy. I guess for some people who are more neurotypical it takes learning a language or immersing themselves in a different culture to feel empathy for others.
"Yes to advance your career in a globalized world"
Me learning Japanese so I dont need subs.
I am learning japanese just to listen some hentai dlsite asmr works :) I NEED TO KNOW THE PLOT IN THOSE NTR WORKS
@@arigatameiwaku I see you are a man of culture
@@arigatameiwaku bruhhh
@@haise1356 they even have PDFs inside with script so its easier to learn new words :D
I'm learning japonese to understand vtuber
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
― Albert Einstein
*The more you know, the more you realize you don't know*
--- Aristotle
"I know one thing:that i know nothing"
-your boy Socrates
Know everything about nothing (getting specialized into a field,etc) or knowing nothing about everything
"1 kidney 1 iPhone, 2 kidney 3 iPhone. Bumper offer"
- Michael Jackson
@@anandjj5077 🤣🤣🤣
Let’s be honest, we all knew the title was completely misleading.
The video provided great insight, but I do think the title went a bit overboard. It feels quite exaggerated.
If a trail twists and turns on the way towards the destination, is that path misleading?
Is it though?
@@TenaciousTentacruel if a sign says that the path that it sits upon said to brings you to a place but ends up at another, wouldn't that be misleading?
@@magicalcapi9148 his life is not ruined by learning languages, therefore, he is a liar.
I think people who think languages are just communication tools really undermine their true effects on society. It affects the culture, the mindset, the traditions, relationships between people. You kind of feel that when you learn and get good in a language, you start feeling the connection to this language and all what it represents. My French teacher used to say, "learning and utilizing another language is like living more than once"
I'll come out and say that I'm one of those people, I'll try to change that mindset.
For me learning a foreign language Is an indescribably important considering the effects on my life. It helps me to give a sense to my solitude 🤍🤌🏽 I like languages like I like literature and the world around us❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍🩷🩵🩶
Big respect to you for saying they publicly. Hope you've noticed some change in the past few months @@beegbeeg9871
It's called emotional empathy, the "feeling" that you're experiencing from having to have learned said language is emotional empathy. Not to be confused with cognitive empathy which is just knowing how they feel and not feeling how they feel.
This resonated so much with me, in my studies of foreign languages. When you study a language, you aren't just acquiring a tool for communicating with other people living in a different region of the world - you are acquiring a new way of seeing the world, of confronting biases, of building mutual understanding. Appreciating the uniqueness of each language and culture - equally - contributes to a more balanced world view that we all need in this age of polarization.
Yes! Exactly!
Wow nice
It doesn't matter. All will perish in the face of the Monolith and will speak one language
So you're more woke and a gooder person than those who haven't. Got it.
@Charming Billy U jelly? Lol I wasn’t speaking about myself but about polyglots in general. I never claimed to have achieved any of those things, only that foreign language study facilitates their achievement. I personally still have biases that I’m conscious of, but being conscious of them reminds me to not pass judgment on something that I don’t completely understand.
The one of the worst things about learning languages is the ‘transition’ or when you stuck in a limbo when you understand both but can’t speak or process it when necessary.
I experienced this on the Satanic International website. So what I did was, I tried to behave like an idiot there so they would suspend the account and it worked.
Same happens to me between hindi and english.
You are right, its sad 😒
Code switching. What a lot of people fail to realize is this happens with math types as well, as Algebra/Calculus. It gets better with practicing code switching, but I still get those moments where I feel like a fuse has shorted out lol
This is a very natural stage of learning a new language. It will, eventually, melt away. One very interesting aspect though, is to read the same book in its original vs translation in different languages. This will really show you how this world works, and it won't stop shocking you every single time 🤯🤯🤯
This is a huge philosophical topic: why struggle so much just to discover that at the end of the day, we're at the same time, so similar and so unique? That's the beautiful pain of our world.
The word "just" is stupid in your statement.
It’s called anthropology
@@amjan why
@Noob master I think Amjan's point was a point i very much agree with. Think about the word "just". Its exclusive. It reduces to a singular. It throws away every conceivable thing minus what follows it. It simply isn't the case. You don't learn a language "just" to see that we're all the same. There must be much more. I mean, did we not watch the same video?
Im doing a Language Studies degree and in my modules we discuss culture a lot. There is a lot of differences than meets the eye
Misleading title. But his message seems to be that learning multiple languages is still a net benefit to society, despite the pain.
Spoiler: Learning languages did not ruin his life. He spends the entire video talking about the awesome benefits of learning language and the unbearable pain and burden of knowledge, in the most unctuous way possible. .
Nailed it. The most apt comment on this thread.
Thanks masked rider
Thanks for saving our time.
@@BatsAwesomeIn2030 , That's what I'm here for; wasting my time watching meaningless videos so I can save others from the same fate.
@@maskedmarvyl4774 may god bless your soul
if you think learning vocabulary is painful, maybe you haven't stepped on enough legos yet
Haha one day I’ll have a kid and proudly claim to have done so!
Was für ein schöner Profilname!
Ich lerne keine Vokabeln - mich schmerzt mein Unwissen...
@@mllesamedi84 Danke, wie nett! Der "Panthersprung nach Agadir" ist eine Bezeichnung für eine politische Krise zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland im Jahr 1911.
@@panthersprung5161 Davon hab ich noch nie gehört! Diese Bildungslücke werde ich baldestmöglich schließen. Danke für die Aufklärung 🙂
I used to step on legos now i stumble over the logos
the more you learn, you realise you dont have enough time on this earth
this kills me the most
That's true in one aspect. But, realizing one's finite time alive is what makes life so precious;
and perhaps, might lead to using the time that we have left - more wisely.
Weltschmerz
Still have time to comment on youtube
Yet you are here clicking on click baity videos and listening to a beta
finally i find sameone mention feeling like me
i'm 22 and i'm general medicine student
i can understand and speak in 5 languages but 2 of them not like native
i'm so remorseful because in the past i had more time and possibility to learn more
As Iranian (Persian) I’m so honored that my language Farsi is known for poetry, and I am grateful for your nice presentation 👌🏻
Edit: I’m really thankful for your likes ❤️
Bro it has the best rhymes fr
Would love to learn Farsi! I find it fascinating that it is part of the Indo-European language family, like a distant cousins of French, English or German.
Dont forget your culture dude. Persia has one of most beautiful cultures in the world. Dont let it disappear what has happened before Islamization of the Persian soil.
persians were different .. not the converted ones like u
@@edenhazard2751 I would guess that you never say the similar thing to a French or an Englishman. You never said to them, "Don't forget your culture dude. Don't let it disappear because of the Liberalization."
"History is written by whom and for whom" is the key here. If you watch the news from the other side you realize that you never had the full picture until that time.
Though honestly they don't either. There is no evil side. Both sides assume they have moral authority. Both have assumptions and distort facts to make themselves look good. Part of the problem seems to be assuming one side is completely right. They are both usually a little wrong.
So true...
@@meow5670
I feel an attack on titan reference
What does 'History written by whom, for whom' interpret to? I don't quite get it.
He’s making reference to a very imbecile quote that seems to resonate more and more nowadays: “History is written by the winners” despite the fact that I hold a great deal of respect for Mr. Winston Churchill and his influence during WW2, i doubt it would have ended optimistically if not for him; but in this quote I staunchly disagree and it seems like the guy in the vid was furthering it’s due discourse, as in bringing its idea into question
Knowing 4 languages has made my life so much more interesting. Being able to laugh at comedy from 4 cultures just makes life that much richer, and let's me know we all have more in common than we are different.
Just curious did you learn any of said languages as an adult or did you learn all them in childhood?
@@RyanAmero 1 mother tongue, 2 between the age of 10 to 16, 1 in my early 20s.
@Mark Mowadeeb Knowledge doesn’t make one’s life better or worse, personal choices do.
bro can learning language helps in creating more wealth if applied in tourism and other sectors?
Me too ….I enjoy Netflix….I’m fluent in English, Hindi , Telugu …I can speak & understand Tamil cannot write it… I can understand some Korean words ….I’m trying to learn French & Ukranian (for my Babushka,my dad is Ukranian ,my mom is Indian ,both met & married in Kyiv after becoming doctors.I used to speak Russian & Ukranian as a child but not anymore !
I'm from the Philippines and I've been studying Japanese for so many years. I feel like I'm more updated with Japanese news than that of my own country. The more languages you learn, the more you break the wall you're born in.
Edit: I'm still updated with our local news. It's just that I'm more focused on anything that can improve my Japanese skills. Also, I'm not a weeb because I'm not obsessed with anime culture. It's their language that I'm enamored of.
It kinda sounds like you’re not interested with your local news in the first place.
yunglorde i agree with that. It doesn’t sound cool at all. I guess her culture always have this thing called crab mentality. It is always better to be aware of things within your proximity. It makes you knowledgeable in general aspect.
oohhh i am filipino and have been learning the language as well. i hope youll stay updated though in spite of the kapalmuks/corrupt politicians and the fanaticism with most of the filipinos god du30. only with awareness and education can we seek accountability from these buwaya politicians. hehe anyway, i hope you are doing well with your language learning!
@@yunglorde8691 everything's a mess apparently. most reeks of privilige, others are just blind. with poor education system, anyone with their meaningless and illogical words can make a person blind from reality. i hope we get to care and be kind more with others, at least understand and be more aware of the suffering of those who are greatly affected (anti terror bill, jeepney drivers asking for alms, killings and planting of drugs, attack in both academic and press freedom, poor decision making, the list goes on)
I'm Italian and I have the same problem with English. I consume every media I can in English, including the news. I like politics and stuff so I stay up to date on world news, but I certainly know more about American politics than Italian politics.
Oh my god, fiquei emocionada. It's like getting hit in the heart with a deep revelation. Meu muito obrigada!
The most painful part of language learning is feeling like you have become a part of a culture that you know you will never truly belong to.
Yes. That’s the hardest part to assimilate into other country’s culture.
Interesting. I've never felt this. The only time I have a sense of not belonging somewhere is when I don't know the language or words to communicate, because the silence between you and other people is isolating. Before I learned other languages (German and Russian), the UK was the only place that felt like home to me. Now it's as if home is whenever I can speak with people and be understood, and so far I've been very lucky, everyone has welcomed me with open arms ❤
This this this this this. It feels lonely.
Unless you're talking about a europ3an language, anyone can become European apparently and if anyone says no then they are racist meanwhile every other culture is allowed to protect itself to the pointnof actual violence and systemic discrimination
I speak 3 languages, and broadly understand a 4th, I feel no pain or frustration because im not trying to belong to another culture. i'm too proud of being who i am and belonging to my own group.
All growth is painful. Solomon wrote: "Whoever increases knowledge increases pain." Ecclesiastes 1:18.
I remembered the same verse while watching this video!
Yep! Same here.. here’s the verse:
Ecclesiastes 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 *For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.*
Damn, so that's where the Assassin's Creed 1 quote by "Al Mualim" comes from. Mind blown!
@@buntice Ecclesiastes 1:9 “there’s nothing new under the sun”
Such is the burden of Responsibility
I speak 6 different languages, all from varying cultures and let me tell you, this one hit home for me. It's like someone made a video about my existential crisis as a man trying to come to grips with my identity. The more you learn, the more ephemeral your old identity becomes. Now I dream in different languages and when I wake up, I cannot describe them quite right in English anymore. To be honest, I'm afraid I will eventually lose my ability to really speak articulately in English. But that is a fear I will face head on as I add more languages under my belt.
Coming in terms with your identity.....Learn and learn so you can become free of any identity but just inclusiveness
That's awesome
I know four languages, but the one I've got a higher level is in English. Once I dreamed in English and I woke up so happy that even now I can remember almost everything that happened in that dream. It just has happened to me once, and I'm expecting it occurs again but with the other languages when I'm better at them 😊
True. I am having the same issue. Sometimes I mix thoughts in different languages, or speak in a random language when I get emotional. Even emotions are conflicted with each other based on which language I am using. It is a bless but the price is quite heavy, I wish I didn't know any of them.
Oh, my days. Same.
Thanks Phoenix, it was very thought provoking.
His pronunciation is spot on. His respect for other languages and the cultures behind them is admirable
aaaa...no...no it's not.
@@nowvoyagerNE yes.... yes it is
Well, he pronounced "masochist" and "masochism" wrong.
Ahh, ja, ja, es ist gut.
His pronunciation...... is it a sarcasm or compliment. Asian shouldn't pronounce like that?
“The bigger the circle of the known, the greater the contact with the unknown”
That hit home hard
Bars🔥
As someone working on their PhD who constantly feels unknowledgeable on the things I've spent years learning, this line has stuck with me. I come and rewatch this video just to hear it again.
@@chammy2812 can you please explain this sentence to me in simple words?
@@Frank_Castle_1 sometimes I feel stupid because I don’t know how to do something. But the only reason I feel this way is because I have studied enough to get to this question. Someone that hasn’t put the same effort in to understanding the topic never faces this question.
@@chammy2812 ok understandable have a nice day.
This hit hard as a multi-lingual person. Learning languages comes with learning culture and immersion into a new perspective. They go hand in hand and it really does mess with you. You can feel like you're floating in between all these communities, but not really having a place to call your home.
You can do that even if you only know one language, ideologies and religion has far greater impact in reality.
This is rly spot on, it feels satisfying to see this comment cause I always tought I was weird for thinking that way.
I feel you but this eases when you know the truth, by that I mean the objective truth then taking sides is easier. Better yet the truth will put you in the rightful community or rightful side. Very few understand this matter. The stage of floating "in between" is the stage before the stage I am talking about.
@@0wninguplz many ways to call it, only one way to peace
"Learning languages comes with learning culture and immersion into a new perspective."
Ehh... Kinda a vastly overstated generalization. I'll showcase why: When you learn French as someone that's French Canadian - how well do you understand French culture just by virtue of knowing the language? I'd argue not that well. I'll showcase this even further: If you learn English - which culture are you learning about? Australian culture? American culture? Both have their own unique dialects and slang that neither really interact with. I took multiple years of Spanish in middle school and high school. I learned absolutely nothing about the culture of Spain. We never talked about Spain, we never conversed with anyone from Spain. Did I somehow absorb by some linguistic osmosis some cultural insight on Spain because I studied their language? ...No. Could I perhaps converse in simple short sentences with them? Yeah, sure. That doesn't mean I understand them or their culture or have greater knowledge of it just because we both know the same words.
The reason why bilingual people or polyglots tend to know about the culture of the place where the language they are learning is from is because they are also interested in their culture. I could sit down and academically memorize through mindnumbing rote the Japanese language to the point where it would mentally break me (hell, Japanese almost did and attempting to learn it was so mentally scarring that I have now just given up learning other languages because life is too short to be that frustrated at something for that long). This wouldn't make me know more about Japanese culture. Ironically, I learned more about Japanese culture by reading English-translated Japanese works than I ever did attempting to just learn the language. Again: because I was interested in the culture and people. The learning of the language itself did nothing to broaden my understanding.
The idea that you become a tribe of each language you learn is absolutely profound, and so true that it's almost uncanny to an experience I have felt yet not been able to qualify
I actually perceived this so called pain as relief when I finally started to see how similar everyone is
I agree. Also view it just as awe and just get inspired to keep digging into the constant growing circle of unknown.
Yeah, I find it uplifting. It's strange to me he see this as painful.
It can be very overwhelming, to a perfectionist they want to keep learning so they can conquer the knowledge only to be met with more and more unknown. Then you forget how much you have learnt and it’s enough, and you can keep going at your own pace. Pretty pessimistic view haha but it’s how I feel now when I’m finishing up my undergrad.
I can relate bruh like i dont feel pain at all. Its satisfying tbh
Same and combined it with my interest in history and anthropology just make me go like "Hey what even the point of discrimination? We're basically the same thing with different box" it makes me appreciate how similar we are in this world. It's truly fascinating, if only we could stick together imagine the world if it's like that
He speaks with such kindness, and then you realize it's a combination of clarity, knowledge, and feeling. Bless.
I speak 3 languages fluently and there's nothing like the feeling that You can comunicate with people and understand different cultures, there's absolutely no pain in that!
Me too! I’m learning a 4th language because of school now though.
Now when people curse at you in 4 languages, you understand them. That's a pain.
@@fairfeatherfiend just learn a fifth one hahaha
I dont even speak "fluently" my own language so I just become more chaotic as time goes by after learning other languages. Which is, kinda fun.
@@minhao2571 dude that's how I feel, maybe my brain is getting overloaded with words lol
He spoke beautifully and I was impressed on that moment.
You're cool.
Yeah, I also found I couldn't learn a language without getting fully absorbed into the culture. I learn their mannerisms, insecurities, joys, history and misunderstandings. It's like this whole other world comes into light. It's incredible.
The most profound language I have ever spoken is silence.
"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain
@@therose1277 I’ve never heard that particular quote, I love it. Thank you.
Is this your thought/quote, or is it borrowed? Either way, thank you for sharing it. It’s lovely.
@@rachelsmith3230 It was just a thought as I was listening. It occurred to me how powerful silence can be. I know silence has hurt me more than the harshest of words. It says more than any painful words.
On the other side, when you remain silent , allowing yourself to truly listen,without planning in your head what you are going to say next while someone is still speaking to you, the silent engagement of communication becomes an authentic understanding.
@@rachelsmith3230 Thank you for your kind words.
Finally. A mini-documentary translating the thoughts I have had flying and smashing against the inside of my skull for years, played out in a simple four minute video. Nearly brought a tear to my eye
Thank you! I’m glad to find people with similar experiences and feelings on this platform. Means a lot to me.
@@phoenixhou4486 Yea, what really resonated with me was when you brough up poetry from different civilizations through time, and how their messages can trancend just one...
When the algorithm READS MY BRAIN lmao
That is why ignorance is a bliss. Knowledge brings pain and responibility. And stupidity is ruling the world. Sad to say, but true.
Same
我一年前看您这个视频的时候，很感动，因为讲出了我无法表达出来的东西。今天一早我又看了一遍，依然很感动，我感觉你的这些话成了我坚持学习语言的一部分动力，谢谢你。
一起加油💪🏼
He forgot to say “sorry for my english” at the end.
Sorry for my English
Este joven oriental tal vez pronuncie mejor que tú.
@@enriquegranados5179 it was a joke
@@matthieuschmitter6676 ¡Get the hell!
Sorry for my English.
@@enriquegranados5179 not understand joke mistah. Or irony
Cultures and languages are just different forms of expression of our humanity, at the end of the day knowing multiple languages is just about expanding the reach of your communication capacities with different types of people, the benefits of this obviously extend way further out than just getting better job opportunities. Learning a new language is like discovering a whole new universe outside of your own cultural bubble. If this somehow makes you lose your sense of identity then perhaps the problem is not with the losing of said identity but the fact you had it in the first place.
Yes! Or because he already had an identity crisis/complex and that is why he's drawn to other cultures and languages. And his identity questions then surfaced from the subconscious to the conscious.
We can be happy with our native country but still can't relate to being just a "one country's citizen." We are cultural nomads of sort. Cultural cameleons. Being a citizen of the world is not a cliché affirmation. It's our truth.
" Being a citizen of the world is not a cliché affirmation. It's our truth."
Is worth framing. Beautiful.
Maybe the problem isn't HAVING an identity, but being attached to it to the point of considering it to be inherently "better" than other ones.
Paradoxically, the two things I like the most about studying cultures are learning how similar humans (and other species) are and how different we can be. This makes me feel closer to literally every living being on the planet, while making me more aware of the uniqueness of my own experience. Feeling like that gives me feelings I can barely describe with words 🤩
So one culture = bad.
More cultures = more bad = good.
I'll never understand the logic of the globalisation-ideology.
Excuse me, but who's the artist of your profile picture? I used to use that as a screensaver of mine about 10 years ago and could never find it afterwards and would love to find it again.
I'm Italian, struggling to learn Korean as an autodidact. I really believe that studying languages opens your mind because it makes you get in touch with the whole culture, not only with the way of speaking
exactly, there is often a vision of life linked to a language, I also learn Korean myself and just the origins behind the alphabet or sometime the way verbs are constructed translate so much about how the ancestors thought to make the language
I'm teaching myself Korean as well and seeing their culture unfold as I dive deeper is absolutely amazing! The history and experience of a people is wrapped up in their language ❤
It's a struggle but it's definitely worth it!
Elisa 화팅! 🇰🇷
힘내요!
@Milo thanks! And good luck with your Japanese
@@taki1255 감사합니다, pal 🤗
The pain you feel has nothing to do with languages. I speak 4 and have lived and work in several countries, which is relatively few compared with many. Knowledge and wisdom are different. Yes, you won't gain inner peace by increasing and identifying with knowledge but by understanding why these emotions arise and not trying to cover them with more facts. We are all deeply interrelated and that is beautiful.
Damn 4 is a lot! I'm at 3, the first was from parents and the two others I learned were at primary school due to moving, so now it's much harder to learn another language for me, but I think I'll learn French next when I'm done with stuff like post-secondary education and driving license since they are currently on my priority.
@@shroomer3867which languages do you know?
@@e.5693 Russian, Spanish and English
@@shroomer3867 i guess you are russian, once i tried to learn spanish but didnt continue :( i love spanish
"The pursuit of knowledge is almost, by definition, a sort of masochism." Damn, that hits hard.
Came here for this comment, thanks. Yeah, that one caught me
Just @ me
Along with becoming aware of all the things we don't really want to see, may it help us really appreciate everything good that we do have in our own lives. From people we like to flush toilets! Serious!
There's no learning/growing without some sort of suffering or obstacle to overcome
youre not a thinker
And then there's me who just studies a bunch of languages cause craving vocabulary and grammar makes me happy oop
Samesies.
same
And then there's me who has nothing better to do
I always get this like short phase every few years where I just want to learn languages and then next second I hate it
Oh, found someone who feels the same. But, only ever learn 1 language at a time. Otherwise your mind will become a zoo with no cages.
I made that mistake in the beginning, started loosing the I already had while trying to learn 2 others at a time.
Learning a language is one thing, living in one is another. The problem is not the language itself. It’s the sense of “homelessness “ . You don’t belong to here or there. You are an outsider no matter where you are and how perfectly you speak that language. There are always some parts of you can never fit in. And yet you can’t go back where you came from either because you are no longer who you used to be.
I don't feel this loneliness. I am certain of which is my tribe, and speaking foreign languages doesn't separate me from my motherland, au contraire
I definitely feel this kind of insecurity that you're describing! Already felt it with two languages growing up, adding a third one to my life definitely didn't help.
@@JohnWalterGates Just had to flex that French, didn't you
@@coldblackice I've never heard a french person say au contraire.
@@JohnWalterGates I think you missed what Sean was getting at. Even with knowing one language, one can feel this.
This is the motivation I needed to study my target language today. It's been hard these past few weeks with school, but I feel so much better after focusing on my language goals. The hardest part is starting.
"Cultural schizophrenia" - wow. What a way to put it. I totally agree with you. I have been having the same ideas in the past few months, and you are the first person on TH-cam to express almost exactly the same thoughts I have. Besides my native language (Hungarian) I speak 7 languages fluently but I promised myself to stop learning new languages because the more I learn the more disconnected I get from the languages I already speak because I have to make room for the new ones. If I learn a new language, I get attached to its culture inadvertently, and then I realize it's a vicious circle. So, instead of learning new languages, I will master and hone the ones I already know. I don't want my mind and soul fall apart.
I don't consider as pain but what I already learn gave me pleasure and salvation through my live, I knew nothing about languages, I got to know people after, I am a completely introvert and after learning the language I became someone different, more powerful, I don't keep words I want to say.
7 languages is already impressive, ppl want to learn as much as they can, but at certain point they stop cause of various reasons, could be time or no longer have the energy...or whatever. What matters is to do what brings you joy.
Ok but what best tips can that can help a lot for people who wants to learn n be fluent to a new language
Magyar!! :D
7? Holy lord. I just wish I was at least able to speak english and japanese. I mean, I can use english to save my life, for sure, but I'm not fluent at all (I'm brazilian, never could pay for english classes). Japanese is too much. I almost had a breakdown trying to study it, because after you learn hiragana and katakana no one knows how to guide you (if you're not paying a teacher, and I can't do this). "Oh, learn Kanji. No, don't learn kanji alone, learn with sentences. No, first you need to lean grammar. No, avoid grammar, just read japanese books." And then I get in a loop where I can't read a book because I don't know kanjis nor grammar, I can't lean grammar because I can't read kanjis, I can't learn kanjis because you "need to use them in sentences to actually learn them" and I can't understand the sentences because I don't have grammar nor kanjis.
So, if a SINGLE language almost drove me crazy, I can't even imagine how it is to learn 7. Makes me feel sad, tho, since I actually love the idea of being able to speak several languages. Books and news can teach you a lot, but nothing compares to being able to sit down and listen to a native talking about their life/country. Its the real human interaction that I really wish I could have, even if not fluent, but enough to understand the ideas and feelings.
2:23 “Because you see, after learning a language, if you care enough, part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs.” So beautifully said 💜✨
As a white European dude who speaks fluent Korean, and 3 other languages, you exactly explain what I couldn't put into words for years. It is painful, the cultural confusion of knowing too much of too many cultures - and in the end, you no longer truly relate with any culture or any people.
@@AbrasiousProductions dont be stupid mate there is a vast difference between learning one language and 4+
And one is hard enough more than that is your desicion if you like it but is like everything it has it good points and bads i only know spanish and english and i havent had any problems but i do know and believe the cultural issues or etc of learning more
@@AbrasiousProductions that could be the reason of different cultures
Да я например знаю Английский язык ( Британский вариант ), но не знаю Корейского, но Корейцы КазаКстана и России ( юг Дальнего Востока ) знают Русский язык, например Корейцы Приморья беженцы в Российскую Империю аж с 19 века как.
Lol cringe
That's good u are unique why would you want to release to one or particular culture when you can be many and none at all at the same time 😂
I love how you still read the comments of this video. Even if there are some rude ones. You don't deserve them :) ♡
Thank you!
For me it’s the opposite, learning makes me realize people around the world are not that different and we all lead similar lives, gives me hope for more reconciliation and more compatible future.
Yesss. Contrary to what Social Media or the News peddle most people around the globe are more similar than not.
@@aai343 absolutely
The phase of understanding through expanding your horizons.
Agreed. Learning (languages) is to me less painful than simply avoiding it.
The only illusion of the world is the illusion of separation
One of the most rewarding things a human can do is learn to speak other languages and make bonds with individuals and their culture creating pure and humane relations expanding the boundary of your mind.
Definitely
I always wanted to learn different languages . It started when I attended an International dinner at The Overbrook school for the blind.I had three new friends one from Nepal, a friend from vietnam and one another friend from Germany , at that time two of my friends became my roommates at Hellen Diller camp for the blind. We were able to connect and became good friends. Studying languages helps you see the world through different lenses. Learning several languages for me was always fun and challenging.
I know three languages and have zero friends :D
Yes, this is definitely the most rewarding part :)
@@ceoofthen-word8849 I can be your friend. What languages do you speak
There just isn’t enough time in my life to learn everything that I want to. It’s heartbreaking.
bruh you have all your life in front of you and you already say you don't have enough time lmfao
Depends.
I'm a doctor, HAM radio operator, biker, paragliding pilot, amateur lead guitarist and national level competitive rifle shooter. I also write poetry.
At the moment, I'm learning boxing from an online course very patiently and diligently.
Next?
I'll learn cooking and camping.
Edit: I'm 40 years old.
And I forgot to add I know Morse Code (8-10 words per minute) and I'm learning electronics, soldering stuff and blowing things up. I also took an online course and brewed 10 litres of delicious craft beer at home.
I'm hoping to get more insane as I grow older and one day I'll die with gangsta sunglasses on and a joint in my mouth.
Cheers!!
@@drankurbaruah wow 😲. Inspiring
@@srilakshmidevanathan8334
Learning new things keeps me alive and helps keep depression at bay.
@@user-gv5hm8po6b How do you know they have their entire life ahead of them? What does "all your life" even mean? For some people that's can only be a decade, for some it can be a few decades. And you don't even know what burdens they have in their life? What if they work a hell of a lot and just don't have the time to sit and learn and entire language?
"The true pain is the confusion" . This is what I have been facing wrt travelling and living in different countries and understanding different cultures for a long time. I couldn't really understand or articulate it till I came across this video . Its so profound .Thank you !!
I speak three languages fluently, and your words resonated with me so deeply.
I have always tried to explain that when you reach a certain level of proficiency with a certain language, you may start noticing several changes in the way you communicate. Way past the obvious use of a different language, but your mannerisms, inflection, and even your own moral compass. You truly expand the scope of your original tribe where you were born into, reaching an “in-between-worlds” state that is as exciting as scary.
I completely agree with you. Beautifully said!
I have noticed this too. Sometimes you have code switching malfunctions and you use a certain phrase in another language and it might seem wrong to others while it's fine for you.
@@jackkraken3888 very often when talking to my mother I say the English saying I'm thinking of that fits the situation, then explain what it means to her to teach her some English at the same time as well as keep talking. Mom and her friends give me little bits of Russian when I ask. The metaphors may even have equivalents in the other languages, which is when we both learn!
@@kentario1610 dont understand the saying in Englisch. but i have encoutered these exchanges in france where i teach them something german or english and demand equivalents. Demand a word used just now came into my head before ask even tho it doesnt fit as well because of french.
You only language by having to sell in the language. Try that on!!!
Despite not being impressive, just learning "hello" or "good day" in another language can set off this curious feeling when speaking to someone who learned your language. I took French in high school, I am by no means fluent, but I know enough basic french to get around.
One day at my job, two guys with obvious accents walking in and I noticed one of them spome french to the other. When they came to talk to me about something, they said "hello", I responded "Salut" (french improper/for friends hello). They spoke in some french to me, to which I responded in kind. They livened up more after speaking in french, despite my fumblings with tense conjugation, and I would speak to them in French and they, to I, in English.
Similarly, a man, born in Poland, and his son, born US, came in. They had almost no accent, but when I heard his son's name I knew they were in some way Polish. I, being a teenager, asked the man if, by chance, they were Polish. He was taken aback slightly and said "yes, how did you know?". I told him how I was learning to be able to transliterate other languages and I had just started on the Polish language. He, like the french gentlemen before, became more lively at that fact.
It is truly a remarkable experience to be able to access another language in some way and express what you know to others who were born/grew up with it. Maybe it is a symbol that they of different language/nationality are not alone elsewhere, maybe they all thought it was funny some American was trying to talk about their culture (by means of language).
All I know is learning a foreign language is a curse to me, but maybe a blessing to others.
I had a similar experience with foreigners who were learning my language, it was so nice,even though I didn't understand them fully, but The joy on their faces when they were speaking to me,they were so happy because someone finally understand them!
it was priceless!
Please, this is beautiful! Learning languages isn't just about widening your knowledge, it's about connecting with humanity.
Yeah, the small amount of effort it takes to learn a couple of key words in a language are always going to be worth it imo. After that it's up to the person and their situation if it's a sensible investment of time or not.
Mucho texto
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. It you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
I am a syrian living and studying in Germany. I spent my junior and highschool days in Syria and Germany is more like my second home country. After leaving Syria and traveling to Germany, I had to get along with the living standards and culture here, but I have never questioned my own culture. It was only when I started to learn Korean, that I started to question my arab culture and the things we have learned in Syria and I noticed, how my family and a lot of Syrians portray their culture as the finest one and how they put themselves over other cultures, which made me sad. I realised, that our arab culture is just one of many and for everything we think is specal about our culture, there is something as great in any other culture.
I'm very grateful for my experiences learning Korean, because it made me realise a lot about the world, a lot of GOOD and BAD things about my own culture and question many things in my life and I feel much better and confident in myself now. My experiences learning the language made me also want to connect more with the people from around the world and travel, which was never something, I intented to do a couple of years ago. I really feel like it allowed me to see something, I didn't see by that time.
Wow, you have achieved great value from your studies!
glad to have you here in germany
정말 많은 깨달음과 지혜를 얻으신 것 같아 기뻐요. 한국어를 배우신다니 한국어를 써봤어요!! ^^
@@user_curiosity thanks for your comment. I have learned a lot of Korean at uni, but I still consider myself a beginner and I only managed to understand your comment through my tandem partner haha, but I will keep learning! :) 한국어로 써서 정말 감사합니다!
@@amwazdraws6890 As you probably can see from my username I am also interested in learning Korean. Though I really ain't far in my studies. I am a German native and my username is an attempt at writing some German in 한글. You may have a guess if you feel like it. I have also been starting to learn basic Chinese which has a different character (and a multitude of characters iykwim) all together and it's really interesting how easy the grammar actually is compared to German. I also need to improve my French and other Romance languages and get over the fact that learning Dutch should be easy for me knowing English, German and some Frisian/Platt alongside local dialects, so I really could commence if I find the time.
I assume your German is decent enough to get along here, but the older generations in particular as well as certain personalities can be really judgmental when encountering a foreigner (mostly determined by looks and non-native behavior) that on top only speaks broken German after years of living here.
Ich wünsche dir auf jeden Fall alles Gute und viel Glück weiterhin beim lernen. Meintest du eigentlich du lernst Koreanisch nebenher zur Uni oder als Kurs, weil aktuell ist ja eh alles ein bisschen durcheinander mit Covid-19 und so? Lass dich nicht unterkriegen von "Ausländer raus" und ähnlichem! Natürlich auch beste Wünsche für dein Heimatland.
Pardon me if you didn't fully understand the proceeding German passage.
Te agradezco mucho por este video. Esa forma de ver el aprendizaje de idiomas es algo fascinante y algo muy profundo de cierta forma. Uno de los videos más interesantes que he visto en mi vida probablemente, gracias.
“After learning a language, a part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs to”
Yea absolutely agree I found myself in history class being more biased towards the country my parents are from, although I was born in the U.S. Also makes me realize how language's in someway does indeed affect our way of thinking. (Self notes)
No, you just become a parrot ... language is an expression of the essence of a ethnicity, the essence is an expression of genetics ... well, you don't change, what you are ... not your genes ... by learning a language. A foreign language ... thus always remains something unnatural ... if you don't have a genetic connection.
@@Hinterfrage humans don't need a genetic connection to create or rebuild a language. American English and Esperanto being learned by ethnics whose ancestors' mother tongue was probably not even in the same language group, modern British English being heavily affected by Romans show us that language is an expression of culture, and that cultural and linguistical changes always go hand in hand. Though culture itself, of course, is tied with ethnics to some extent.
@@Solaire_au_Frohmage One finds more of his self in the language of his ancestors... than in a foreign language ... a European can learn Japanese ... but in this language he doesn't find a correspondence to what he is, because his nature is different.The greater the differences to the nature of another ethnic group ... the less you find of yourself in this language ...
@@Hinterfrage That is true, but only when you are born on the land of your ancestors and integrate into a society of people speaking that same ancestral language and are sharing the culture of those ancestors.
A friend of mine is living near a Tatar ethnic majority region, and himself is born into a Tatar family. Yet he considers himself to be Russian (mostly ironically though), knows only Russian language and is very defendant of Russian culture. He found more of himself in a language quite different from his ancestors' language.
Also worth noting that all of humanity share a common ancestor, and that ancestor was probably communicating in some sort of "language" that has been long lost due to lack of writing system or its primitivity. I do not believe we would be able to find more of our selves in that language, even though it belonged to our distant ancestry.
@@Hinterfrage My ex had a kid from.previous marriage. I met him when he was 3 in Denmark. Now he talks Greek,like greek food,sings greek songs and always call me Dad in Greek. I do not have any genetic connection with him but he is my firstborn. When my second son was born i didnt feel wow or a tug because i already had that with my first son. Now both boys are in my lap and sing play and laugh. Two brothers one father no biology involved just language, culture under the umbrella of love. Maybe you should reconsider your thesis and opinions.
I feel like the benefits of learning a language outweigh the drawbacks. Learning a new language is like seeing the world through new eyes for me. It's fascinating to see how different cultures interpret different aspects of life. When I notice similar things in different languages, it makes me happy. I don't believe we need to feel unique all of the time in order to be happy. I feel better knowing that, while each person is unique in their own way, we all share something in common.
That gives me a sense of belonging. I'm currently learning my 5th language, and even though it's hard to keep up with it because I'm a high school student, the satisfaction i get from making people happy and comfortable when i speak their language is enough to keep me going. I remember how i met an old Tibetan lady and when i spoke to her in Tibetan, the amazement in her eyes and the familiarity I felt is worth all the hours i spent learning.
You go!! 🙌 Way to go 💪 I like your attitude and experience.
Wise move, my friend! And of course it's totally worth it! Learning a new different language means that you also pick up more on that culture's knowledge, history, customs, and traditions, ect. Therefore, you'll just naturally become more and more wiser/intelligent in the due process. Having more knowledge and wisdom over others in this world, is a PRIVILEGE... What more could you possibly want? 🤔
totally agree with you!!! I love learning languages too!
I completely agree with you. Learning a new language gives you a completely new perspective about other cultures.
Wow. Amazing. I relate that. And also appreciate it.
This video caught my attention again, in some ways. I watched your video several years ago and have watched it a couple of times since then. Today, I want to leave a comment to simply say thank you. Your video inspired me a lot. Not just about language learning, but also about knowledge in general.
I remember when I was in my early 18 years old, the first time I walked into the largest library in my city. I was surprised to see so many people there. They were of different ages and came from different countries. The library was always bustling with people but remained remarkably quiet. They were all focused on their studies. That was the moment I vowed to myself that I would never stop learning, no matter what.
Don’t try be intelligent and just enjoy learning languages.
hahahha
No quiero >:P
literally not that hard your life shouldn’t be getting ruined over that shit lol
you can also do both
@@Liqoh it’s called boredom privilege
Omg. You've just narrated to me my existential crisis.
Same
Yess
Same
felt that
How ?!? Please 🙃?
The more you know, the more you wish you didn't know. They say ignorance is bliss, because the more things you understand, the more you have to be cautious or aware about, than someone that doesn't know any better. Also, the more you know, the more alone you will feel, because you'll have less and less things in common with those around you, that don't care about any of that stuff you learned.
True, but as the old Internet meme goes: It's lonely at the top, but the view is excellent. Ignorance may be bliss, but there is a more fundamental happiness based on something more objective and tangible if you can harness all of that knowledge at your disposal and still craft it into something meaningful. If happiness is based upon lesser fruits, you will inherently be dissatisfied with the meaning behind that happiness because of its weak foundations.
The only thing I would add vis a vis the video is that while individual languages, cultures, and histories may share many of the same traits and events and norms, you will also find certain things that venture outside of that Venn Diagram and don't overlap quite as cleanly. Those are the aspects of a different culture that accentuate your knowledge and understanding of your own, without any sense of exoticism or objectification of a culture necessary to appreciate its "otherness." Words in a foreign language too frequently have 20% added or overlapping semantics with something else in your language, which gives you an opportunity to triangulate your own understanding of a concept.
Wrong. Only the weak or stupid think that. The more you know, the more you can appreciate. The more you know, the more you can understand more about what you like.
Don't be a coward. Stop being a cynic. Knowledge doesn't make you happy or sad. It just means you know more.
regardless of more or less things you know, the World stay the same! Knowing more brings Advantages, like Science, is how you use it ;) , if Science was never used, now we gonna be in caves
ignorance is the Minimization of your System of Reference
also there are 7 billions people, there are people that enjoy how "nerdie" and not "ignorant piece of shit against yourself" you can be :), and even if they weren't , it is their problem to remain in the shit of not knowing
Learning Never Exhaust the mind - Leonardo da Vinci ;)
I just embarked into a new language learning odyssey weeks ago and this video was so perfectly timed, so on point. I needed these words to feel brave and be aware of the challenge I just summoned into my life. I will do this not just for personal gain but to expand myself and be able to help and understand how humanity has evolved and self-destructed at the same time. Thank you.
I am learning another language to enable me to speak, read etc. but I ended up learning about history, religion, customs, art, and attitudes. I feel like I've travelled even though I've never been there. I feel some kinship with people I'll never likely meet. Even while learning Latin, I feel like a time traveler.
Yeah same here brother.
This is information age. Internet changed the world I know so much about the world from history of humans to history of science and in long readings about E.g. Sociology/Anthropology/History/Economy/Technical Science setc.
I get big hits of understanding about this planet and animals on it.
What language is that? That can make me feel like a traveler apart from Latin?
This is so me!! I’m glad that I’m not the crazy one here!
@@le4864 One most powerful language in the world English. Language of Business,Education,Science,Popular culture...
Einstein said something like this:
“As the diameter of our circle of knowledge grows larger, so too does the circumference of that which is not understood.”
Hopefully doubt and discovery go on forever, it would be something to do at least.
I've noticed this even on a basic level. All it takes it high school level sciences to realise how little you know about how any of the appliances you take for granted each day actually work.
I wondered why circumference was specifically used. And I think if the last couple words of the quote is changed to « what we think we don’t understand « , it would convey the meaning that what we know is clear, but we can only infer what we don’t know from the small edges of our circle, meaning that even the largeness of the counter space to our circle is unknown. And somehow this conveys clearly how someone who doesn’t know much can think they know a lot, because their circumference is very small.
Hopefully not
It seems like Einstein understood that circles were hexagons
With my like you are one thumb up away from the sacred 666 number
The pain for bilingual or multilingual is when you speak with someone but then you accidentally slip two or three words of another language... and when you try to translate it so the person you spoken to is understand, you end up just staring at the ceiling trying to remember the words but your brain just doesn't work
as someone who speaks three languages....IFKRRRRRR
Yes , that happens to me :'c
*holds container* "Where is...hat?"
Very true. So hard😂
Me too!!
It is not regularly that I watch something which resonates with me to such a great extent. This was moving, and probably life-changing for someone whose whole aim in life has been the pursuit of knowledge. The urge of reading Tolstoy's ramblings about history in russian, of reading the Gita in sanskrit, reading Caesar's memoirs about his conquests in the original Latin. There is something truly special about it all. The east asian languages are too complex, but people probably say the same stuff about my language (hindi), I can give it a try, it has to be worthwhile. There is so much to do but this life feels too short, I have already wasted two decades on this planet and I'm only now learning to learn. Thank you for this video, I'll save it and watch it again after a while. All these hours wasted on this website become worthwhile when something like this shows up out of the blue :')
When you are fluent in more than one language you can tell the slightly different personalities that you use when speaking different language. It has been confirmed by scientific researches. It makes one realize that so-called personality is so fluid and you don’t have to be confined in any of it.
Absolutely
I speak, fluently two languages and learning another.
I don't like using my native language because I feel uptight almost immediately 🤷. When I use English, I'm open minded and calm 🤷🌺
@@poczytamci3389 Yeah speaking English feels really good, I really want to learn Polish because my mother is Polish and I love the way she and my aunts have conversations, it's so energetic and fast paced, but we already visit our family in Poland in three months so not much time to learn a lot but I really want to hold tiny conversations and I already understand like 15% of what they are saying in conversations, man I just wish my mom properly taught me as a child. I hope I also have a similar feeling when speaking Polish one day as with English.
Its as fluid as air and water my friend. As fluid as everything.
@Poczytam Ci oh wow it’s the opposite for me. I feel free in Chinese but restricted in English
@@cannedcan9788 yeah,moms sometimes just don't understand what a missed opportunity it is,when they don't teach their children their own native language... Especially when they use it anyway, but nothing lost on you,15% understanding is a lot and if you persevere you'll surely succeed.
My husband is learning Polish and I admire anyone who tries to... Kudos to you for giving it a go 🌺🌺
Learning to speak foreign languages has made me realize that I've become worse at speaking my own native language. The more languages I learned the longer it took me to remember even simple words. The words will pop into my head immediately in 3-4 languages but it feels like it was never the language that I needed in that moment. This causes me to mix in foreign words into my sentences which annoys me immensely, especially if the person I'm talking to speaks only one language. Makes me feel like a complete moron and regret that I bothered learning other languages.
Throw in the accent. I mix up accents, and gets easily confused depending on who I talk with. I sometimes get weird accents when speaking English even though I did not have it before.
Same here.
I know the feeling far too well. English is my third language, and I speak it better (but not fluently) compared to my native and second languages. What makes matters worse is, I'm one of the few remaining reproductive-age L1 speakers of my language in my country, but I don't sound like it. Not when I now struggle to form sentences entirely in my native language and keep borrowing from the second or third languages. How can I hope to preserve my language and culture if I'm already losing it?
In morocco we mostly speak 3-4 languages and understand many different dialects, we carry this painful experience to mix foreign words every time.
totally me with my french, english and my native language.
This is true though, knowing more than one language is awesome but at the same time you begin to lose your sense of identity because all these cultures have so much to offer and you don’t know which to embrace
Sounds like an excuse to me.
@@KeroZ25Z maybe, & maybe not. Language in itself, if we learn them, is constantly evolving. The history of language itself is a journey full of wonder. Languages adapt as time went on.
However, Culture, as we observe, are slowly turning stagnant. Any slight improvisation in Culture done by the youths will easily be marked as "losing our identity." These cultures are the very reason why the language barrier started to build up, *IMO.*
Thus, the more diverse the languages you know, the more open minded you are to adaptation, but if there's no one to share it with, you'll soon feel how lonely it is. Culture is already made rigid by communities, so you never really going to fit well anywhere with your newfound concoction of adaptation. You can't conform to ignorance with that much knowledge, it hurts.
I watched this video during quarantine and have always wanted to be where he was in life; smart yet not arrogant. Now I’m in Seattle, I’ve visited magus books. Now I get that he was in me from the beginning, I didn’t have to go where he was and be where he was. His wisdom is within us wherever we are
I am a native English speaker who learnt Spanish to a decent level of fluency. I can't really agree that it brought me pain, but it did change my life. Learning a language is inherently tangled up with learning a different culture and different attitudes. It changed me as a person. I actually feel different when I speak in Spanish instead of English.
I am a native Spanish speaker, and I had the same experience after dominating English. It's like I became enlightened. I changed as a person, my values changed, my mannerisms, and so many other aspects of my life that I probably don't even realize.
I don't want to say that it made me smarter. Learning a new language just opened my mind and made space for new ideas, goals, and new problem solving strategies.
It's amazing how that works. I would not be 10% of the person I am today if I only knew one languages. Can't imagine what it's like to know more than two languages.
@@zualapips1638 By learning English that made you 90% of the person you are today? I don’t buy that at all….Also, I’m struggling to understand how learning English gave you values…Can you give some examples please?
I want to learn to read, write and speak Arabic and also Mandarin. These two languages I want to learn at some stage. I have very entry level French under my belt, so I can always return to that and learn it properly if i need to. Besides that, I can speak a bit of Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu but cannot read or write in any of those three languages. My late grandfather was fluent in Farsi and Urdu and masterful in English too.
@@chrismacleod9326 Because you absorb a significant chunk of the culture(s) that that language belongs to. You're no longer "trapped" in just one culture and way of thinking and seeing the world.
If I wasn't bilingual, I wouldn't live where I live today, I would've never been able to meet some of my friends, I wouldn't know the things I know, I wouldn't have the opportunities that I have now, etc.
You know how in some games the map is locked and you can only get access to those parts after you level up or finish a certain amount of quests? Imagine that in the real world. Imagine getting access to parts of the world that were previously locked. You even get access to huge parts of the internet that were "encrypted" before.
And that's only with two languages. Imagine all the things that could open up if one learns Mandarin.
@@chrismacleod9326 who do people hate or say smartass comments like this one, if you don’t agree with it scroll past it. Nobody has to prove anything to you, you’re not that important
My anthropology professor told us something in class this semester that really contextualised this. He was saying that language is how we interpret the world, so when you learn another language, you change everything about how you understand things around you. I always wondered why people thought I spoke with weird phrasing, or sometimes people wouldn't understand my jokes, but he said this happens often to multilingual people. I started learning french when I was 10. I became commpletely comfortable with many french words before I even learned some of the english words I use in everyday converation. It's interesting to think that my outlook on life might be different than others just because I was invested in learning the language as a kid.
True
Super interesting thought
It’s honestly not just different languages. I was really into the idea of chivalry as a kid and was also very into history stuff. It caused my speech pattern to be a bit off..... in certain situations I almost sound British, or just from a completely different time period. Using old English grammar, mixed with a variety of slang and language specific words.
Often times people won’t understand what I’m saying because I jump back and forth. For instance there’s a difference between saying,” you like cats, therefore....” and saying “I mean if you like cats then...”
I see a difference you being specific in one and general in the other.
I had the same experience.
My parents were in university and thus spoke differently to the people surrounding us. Plus we were 'home', but neither parent grew up with the local dialect, for different reasons.
When I was 8, I decided to learn English. The few people around us, who were bilingual, spoke Russian as their second language.
And I loved reading. Especially indigenous experiences. I never went into ethnology, but I still love it. I am fluent only in English and my native language, but speak some in 8 others. Plus I am a grammar and script nerd.
bah ouais mec... un délire hein ... mdr
Lol i thought his life got destroyed cause he finally understood that there were people who talked about him behind his back and now he knows their language
This comment made my day 😂
SAME
I thought this video was just a joke
I respect the Ougi pfp
Dog whistle (spoken by hell hounds!). Flex. Stay strong 💪🏽.
I really appreciate this video. Many of us in the comments are united by a love of languages, and it is wonderful to see.
But he didn’t really explain how learning these different languages ruined his life
He's more aware now. The more you know what's really going on around you, the more it disturbs you mentally. A feeling of lostness, feeling like you don't belong where you are, wanting to "return" to your tribe.. I think it can drive anybody insane and ruin your life
I think he is implying that learning languages ruined his life because it destroyed his original identity. At first he belonged to one language and culture, but as he continued to learn more languages, he started to lose his point of origin and it turned him into someone who just belongs to all the cultures he has learnt. Now his life no longer belongs to one culture, but rather it belongs it to the whole world in which we live in.
@@sg-ds6qg I guess I can kinda see that, so he is also hinting at the fact that learning multiple languages is a bad idea.
@@zanepalino3026 I think I understand now, I still want to learn other languages though, just for the benefits he mentioned in the video.
@@zanepalino3026 "Now his life no longer belongs to one culture, but rather it belongs it to the whole world in which we live in."
In a sense, it makes you a family member of all, not just the one's who you grew up and lived with. In that sort of perception, one could identify as an Earthling, Planetarian, or simply a human being. All things that had once separated us, would fade. So in other words, unity.
I speak 11 different languages. I lived and worked in 34 different countries. Now, I am 61 years old. I have become a hermit. I have a couple of friends. I talk only when needed. Just a few sentences. With knowledge comes wisdom, and with wisdom comes solitude.
I feel very happy. I socialize only when required.
I am a global guy. I feel like I belong to many different Places.
Thanks for reading.
Could you please list down the languages ?
Es muy cierto lo que dices. Ahora sé, y entiendo las vulnerabilidades de aferrarse al conocimiento.
You are the type of person deserve living longer.
厉害了
Gracias por escribir🌷
"... If you care enough, part of you becomes a member of the tribe to which the language belongs," is exactly how it's been for me learning Finnish. I'm not sure I have any Finnish ancestry, but Finland is like my second home now. I love languages and learning of the similarities and how people communicate.
I'm learning Finnish as well and hope to move there once borders are open again and that's exactly how I feel. The Finnish language and culture feels so much more like home than my native English, it's a strange phenomenon.
@@AZ-ty7ub I don't think I can ever permanently leave Canada, because I love it here too, but I definitely want to eventually find a way to live in both countries. I started learning Finnish because of one of my favourite bands, and I remember the first time I visited that I felt a strong connection just seeing it out the window of the plane before we even touched down.
I was very surprised to see Finnish mentioned here. I'm honestly amazed that people think so highly of the Finnish language and culture! I apologize if this sounds inconsiderate but I just think it's so cool. I wish you good luck ✨ Languages are awesome!
@@kuurakeinen where I come from, people regard Suomi as a highly developed and admirable country. I was lucky enough to study Finnish in Helsinki during a summer a few years ago, and had an unforgettable and life-changing experience. Beautiful language and culture, gorgeous nature and amazing people 🇫🇮❤️
kinda me with german. even though i'm 100% sure i'm purely asian, i have some weird connection with germany. it's like a part of my soul belongs there
I know English and Spanish. I lived almost 20 years in South America. Koreans moved into my neighborhood, so I began learning Korean. Germans opened an institute, so I did two levels of German. And later, bits and pieces of other languages became my language "snacks". Yes, every language I learned changed me. I accepted points of view from other tribes. Your video gave me tiny tears at the end. Well done.
I think knowing 2 to 3 languages of separate roots is fine, but knowing more starts to make you feel this. It is painfully lonely because almost no one would understand your language jokes, contextual puns, and cross-culture wordplays, even if you explain, nobody would feel and relate to it, there is always a side of yourself that cannot be understood by groups of people of different cultural backgrounds. Finding a friend that knows exactly the same languages as you know is such a valuable treasure.😢
I only know 3 and already feel this pain, when I have this joke in mind, but avoid saying it cause I know that by having to explain it would lose its purpose...
I guarantee you can feel this with just one foreign language too. A Polish guy traversing solely polish part of the internet has completely no grasp of memes and concepts present in "just" English part of it. Let alone content available in less popular tongues.
This is why my friend and I are learning languages together rather than on our own. We’re both in high school and currently learning /taking French. In the summer, we plan to learn Japanese together, which might be a bit difficult without a teacher like in French, but at least we aren’t alone.
Best of wishes to you and have a lovely day
Not even three, knowing two languages makes me appear like a different breed, feels like I didn't belong in any group of friends around. Yep, it's freaking lonely. While you're immersed in your own world you'd find yourself longing for interactions and that's depressing sometimes. I feel ya.
And I still haven't found another 'different breed' like myself. I think it's extremely rare, bcs I'm learning English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Arabic (also Thai for addition) at once. Finding a local friend with one of those is hard enough, let alone 😪 Wondering how my head isn't about to explode yet
I already feel like this by just knowing English and my native language, because where I live barely anyone knows English and there isn't much of a point for them to know.
As a result I don't interact with my fellow countrymen online as much as I do with folks from other countries.