HMMM almost like this site that you are watching this said video is collecting every bit of our information in order to use it in their algorithms and exploit our flawed human attention ... But what do I know! I'm just some goof in the internet that forgot their mother tounge and had english replace it like a usurper !
Everytime someone asks me how did I suddenly became good at english, I just say "Idk, it just happened Ig." Now, thanks to this video I have something to say about it yipeeeeee
@@LordGeneralOHara this is so true though- like i can speak but when it comes to songs in my native language i always struggle. i pretty much just know the words that my family speaks within us and they merge english and bangla A LOT
for real whenever my friends ask me how i learned english i literally say the same thing get immersed in language and you will learn it just as how you learned your own native language, by immersing yourself in it ,taking it in to yourself as much as possible
I'm now trying acquire French. It's really hard to find media in my target language to "study" from. Considering how English has become de facto native tongue of the internet.
I have the same problem while learning Norwegian the amount of Norwegian content is nowhere near as much as English ones tell me if you find a solution for it
as a french person, you should maybe try watching the "big" french youtubers like squeezie, amixem, inoxtag or like fuze III if you like minecraft content, hope this helps!
I'm having the same issue when trying to acquire Russian, but something I've been doing is changing the language of a page/game to Russian. Hope that helps ^-^
I remember the moment when I was reading some text in a Robin Hood game as a kid and noticed that I don't translate it to Polish in my head, just take it as it is in English and understand it
I’m a native English speaker and it’s my only language so I don’t think I’m the audience for this video but this is very useful info for trying to learn other languages. Love the aesthetics too!
I’m Chinese and grew up in Hong Kong where I became fluent in English, drawback is that my Chinese sucks but both just kinda spawned in my head. Chinese first (at 1 years old because I lived in the mainland back then), then English at 3 (half a year after I enrolled at a kindergarten in Hong Kong). Though I didn’t use my Chinese a lot and now I’m suffering the consequences XD
I am German, and I had English language classes since 1st grade. Up until 5th grade I knew the basics, but not that much. In 5th grade, when I started playing video games and going on the internet, English literally spawned in my head. There are still some words I acquire day by day, but I am confident speaking it; even more than my mother tongue of Polish.
@@FreePalestine07462 people can be mixed like that. Or it's because parents from Poland and whole life in Germany instead so therefore 2 main languages
Bro literary just guessed my whole entire language. And I Llllove it when she said "Bad translating but you feel the words". I EXACTLY DO THAT. For when the teacher asks to translate I just: aa- ugh- "*very non-understandable blabbering*" but I feel them, I understand what that means like I can just tell somebody that with knowing 100% what I am saying.
English spawned in a random Tuesday on my head and the realization that I just knew and could watch or read anything in English makes you feel so powerful Came from TikTok, I hope you video gets more views it’s pretty simple but straight forward and engaging
This is just exactly how i learned English. I am a Turkish speaking person,and it just,spawned in my head. Exactly like explained here. I cannot pinpoint the exact translation and neither do i know perfect grammar. Yet i just learned it good enough to be able to write THIS COMMENT in English. I’d start by reading English stuff on the internet,and watching vids,and playing games in English until it just kinda connected the dots in my head and formed a fluent English.
@@whitekingcat5118 In Turkish punctuation you also need to put space after commas (I don't think there are many languages that do not have this rule), so the problem is not about learning English for them.
@@whitekingcat5118 Why aren't you using periods after your sentences? Why aren't you starting the sentence with a capital letter? And how does not using a space between commas relate to not knowing english? We're online. Some people can't use their keyboards well, and some keyboards auto do it. And you're over here acting like a mighty know-it-all because you have better punctuation online. Congratulations! I can guarantee you they use spaces when it comes to writing in real life. We're in youtube comments, not a formal classroom. Get over yourself.
This is extremely true I never learned English, I aquired it. I just know english like my base language. (I even call it my seconary mother tongue) And honestly, I am quite fluent in it, and even though I'm french, most things I do are in English. I literally think constantly in English, because I work faster in English. I write faster, I talk faster, I think faster, I do math faster and I even become more creative, all of that, in English. I'm kinda denying using French, because it's taking me the extra step of translating my brain into french. Which is one of the craziest thing you'll hear a frenchman say. Yes, as a native, originating, full blooded french speaker, I find it easier to live in an English bubble world, rather than using my native language. How crazy is that?
As a Brazilian guy who's unable to explain how I'm capable of semi-fluent English, absolutely great video, you explained it so well. In my personal case, it's probably because I started experiencing English very early as a kid, mainly through videogames (there weren't many translated games in my childhood).
É incrível mesmo, lembro que quando eu era criança eu estudava inglês mas não aprendia nada. Depois de desistir do inglês (eu simplesmente não tinha nenhum interesse) eu percebi que eu passava a maior parte do tempo jogando jogos e conversando com outros na internet em inglês, eu não sabia o inglês, mas eu entendia sem mesmo traduzir; é como aprender a ler, você não analisa cada letra e tenta "transformar" em uma palavra, você só olha e vê uma palavra. Quem dera as escolas entendessem isso.
@@InserirNomeDeUsuariopois é. Às vezes me pedem pra traduzir uma música, eu não consigo fazer isso instantaneamente, mas entendo o que está falando. Aí vem aquilo de quem não entende nada de inglês vir falar que a gente não sabe também kkkkk.
As a Brazilian, I'm on the same boat. I cannot exactly explain how this happened; it just did. I "acquired" english through watching videos and playing video games, jammering the "patterns" together in my head until they were cohesive and made sense to me. I never learned the laws and rules of the language because they just came-in naturally. And I feel like this is the best way to learn any language because schools generally don't do a great job at teaching you these languages being either due to the students not having interest on it, or the teaching just being lackluster.
this is SOOO TRUE everyone in my class is blown away by how I finish English exercises or tests in less then 5 min, thinking that I hired tutors or studied really hard, when I didn't do anything, great video, keep this up 👍👍
As a czech, I'm very young (not revealing my age) But about 5 year old i started to be affected by English and eventually it became second nature to know it. I sometimes need to translate one word to my Native language but i can't remember the meaning at that moment. I know it in English but not in Czech. This happens to me quite often during English classes. ...
I know this is random to say as a native english speaker, but I've so badly wanted to learn a new language. Mainly because it just interests me, and I've tried before with two. Spanish (Which I was forced to take and hated), and German (which I was interested in but dropped it due to it being difficult) lately I've been studying french, but occasionally I watch kid shows in french because I enjoy them. I'm gonna try to 'acquire' the language by consuming more french media, thank you so much for this video! It's given me a new tool to learn something I've always wanted to!
I am not a native english speaker, but since age 6 i consumed English speaking media, and it sort of became like a second native Language, i didn't even try to learn it consciously. I just tried to understand it and it all fell into place like puzzle pieces. And boom. Now i even think in english.
i barely listen to english in class, bc i know it too much, its like i have the best english in the class, no matter how much you study, its never like that
@explosivetolgagunpowder I'd also say I know English best in my class, with just talking I'd even go as far as to say that I'm rivaling teacher because she doesn't know this gen z slang Wich in reality is English (I'm now in highschool and the events Ive stated were in primary school) but my grammar is ass and when I have to do tests I basically gamble with my grades, half the time I get A or B other half C or D and rarely I miss everything and get F. But talking wise English might as well be my first language
I was learning English for few years with a teacher, but then... VIDEOGAMES! And some more internet after. TH-cam helps. Now i understand most of english-speaking TH-cam. English evolved to the point i call it "common language".
A few years ago, I had to use a browser extension to translate the selected text, but after some time, I didn't need it anymore and I started to understand spoken english without subtitles too. But I was far from being able to write sentences and complete phrases. In fact, I think I managed to learn how to do it just some months ago.
Finally, a video I can send to anyone asking me how I "learnt English". In fact, it's been only 2 years since I started to actually "learn", as in study, the language, and boy I'm discovering a lotsa words. Edit: Wait, if people ask me how I learnt English, this implies that their English isn't good, so how'd they understand this video...
OH MY GOD This has to be the best TH-cam video I ever watched Literally every single thing said in this video is TRUE Thanks for explaining this it's been such a weird thing to me whenever people ask me how I learnt English I just say " idk " or " I just did " Thanks for creating this video
I think this video is the answer to how did i even learn english because it literally felt just like it "spawned" in my head and it's crazy to know that i actually learned it like the way i did with my main lenguage
When i was 12 or 11 I wanted to check out „Stranger things” because everyone was talking about it. After watching 2 episodes i realised i never turned the subtitles on. And that’s when it hit me that im fluent in English.
It is 4am here right now, about to perish, must upload the video as two parts to TikTok (because it currently doesn't let me load it as one), but still proud despite everything. Let's see how this TH-cam channel dream of mine will work out. I hope I can make little me proud :)
@@g.adrian. I totally get what you mean, I'll try to make the reading a little faster on the following videos. Sadly, audio quality gets ruined so quickly on CapCut so I can barely manipulate the audio files to my liking. But I can promise this won't be an issue if I manage to switch to my actual voice. Thanks for advising!
@@rudeburger284 I would love to! I'm currently on a tight budget and the prices here are... not the best, I need some time to find a microphone that is both good quality and won't cost too much. I actually audio-recorded this video before but the quality of my computer's microphone was just straight-up traumatizing lol. So, yeah, I will be working on that. If things go smoothly, I will switch to my voice by the beginning of January!
when i was still young my parents would send me to a kindergarten that spoke and learned kids english, i was never taught anything and at some point i simply understood what the aunties were saying i was a child with unrestricted internet access, so all of that lead to me being one of the first kids in my preschool class to be able to read, and that fluently! im still super proud of this even if child me didnt realize it was a big deal at the time!
I would like to think that english is the easiest language to "acquire" since there's so much popular media surrounding it. As a person that "acquierd" english and is currently studying russian and german, i improve much quicker in german even though i put a lot less effort in it compared to russian, some of that comes from the fact that german and english are very much alike and some of it comes from there being a lot more media and that medai being easily accesible. Music helps a lot for your vocab and it might be helpful for pronounciation too.
English just spawned on my head while i was arguing with people on TH-cam, i probably spelled a lot of "warmmar" crimes, but looking to the other side, i can write giantic pieces of text in english now
English developed from me thanks to the video games my dad brought me from USA, my interest on them sparked the flame for learning this language, I'm still far from being completely fluent but at least I have some archaic understanding of it.
thank you for the explanation! for me its a mixture of both - while english lesons have helped me understand grammar and vocab, social media made me more confident in my pronounsiation and overall understanding of the language. now with french ive tried to follow many french accounts on social media and try to listen to french music, even listen to french podcasts. for some reason i havent gotten used to it yet but thats definetly a step into the right direction for learning the language.
also i wanted to mention the fact that the poeple saying english has spawned into their head kinda pisses me off as someone who has spent 5 years (and counting) learning it. yes, you have basic understanding of the language but no idea of the concept of grammar and appropriate vocab, tenses etc. i also thought at first that i know everything because it sounds right but with time learned that english is much more complicated than that. it all came very natural to me now and for the past lets say 2 years. i really wish to achieve the same results with other of my targeted languages. this was a ted talk, no?
I don't think it just "spawned" in my head. I learned the basics like dog, horse, cat, "the wheels on the bus go round and round" in kindergarten, kept learning in school and got in contact with english speaking people online. Somewhere along the way it just got really easy and I was able to read and speak it. People who kinda grew up with it might just forget how it was to learn it
During my study for the next video, I noticed that before starting the "acquiring" part entirely, it is a good idea to make a preparation beforehand, like the one you said (learning basic words and listening to educational music). So I will definitely mention this portion of language learning too. Thanks for the comment!
4:34 as someone who is passionate about chemistry and synthesised contact explosives while unsupervised i can say that you don't have to be bad at chemistry to be a danger to the entire country /j. But seriously, mixing ammonia and iodine crystals results in a black precipitate called Nitrogen triiodine. Which when dries is a very unstable contact explosive. Also don't worry, the amount i synthesised was less than a few grams and i made it go boom immediately (breaking a glass rod in the process) Anyways because i participate in school chemistry competitions (mostly theoretical exams, rarely they also have experimental exams) i am not banned from the lab (which is mostly used by me and a few other students because it's not used by any teacher) and have done multiple shenanigans, from this explosive, to making sulphydric acid (a gas which smells like rotten eggs) and dissolving things in strong sulphuric acid for fun. But i have mostly used the lab for preparations for the experimental exams by going in the lab with another student and preparing eachother a subject from a previous year. Anyways, i had to say this. Also someone bad at chemistry could probably not make anything extremely dangerous, but they could put their life in danger if they do stupid things (like consuming dangerous substances). Also don't ever smell ammonia directly, it stings your nose and you won't get rid of the smell for a few hours (experienced this the hard way)
I was playing a Inglish game some years ago (1 or 2 years) And some months after play I thought 100% the game was in my native language,when I started to play I searched in the settings and I realized,I played a 100% inglish game for 2-3 hour and understood 100%!!!
I can't believe how true this is! Same thing happened to me a while back and now I try to integrate English into my life to improve further. Just like what you said, I exposed myself to the language without realizing, and now I'm reading novels, watching movies and use my electronic devices in English to get better.
What a goldmine of a video! I wish you find great success! X) I've got a slightly different story related to acquiring a language that might seem fake but it's infact true I assure, so here we go: I'm from Greece, obviously here we speak Greek, both of my parents are 100% Greek with no question, yet in school, I was the outcast, completely alone, so when we got out first family computer (and wouldn't you know it the default language, and infact the majority of the material was in English, I got hooked to every single one of it, using it as a form of escapism from my difficult school-life. Skipping years forward, I'm now completely fluent in English! And due to how much I was an outcast in school, I seem to have better knowledge in English than my mother tongue.. it is the best gift god could ever have given me but also depressing, as I have comparably less enrichened vocabulary in Greek, and might struggle in expressing myself, although while simultaneously having enough knowledge to converse in daily life without any difficulty.. it is a very weird situation, I feel alienated from my Greek peers.. but the best people I have ever met in my life are anglophones, so maybe it's for the better.
I am sure you are going to have a blast in the future, your comment feels so friendly and relatable! As a former outcast myself, I totally get what you mean and wish the best for you. Stay strong, you got this!
As a latin speaker with more than 10 years speaking english, I do agree that hearing music and watching videos in english has helped me a lot in learning this language. It's also the fact that English is a worldwide language, making it easier and accesible to learn from. My mom has always wondered if I've forgotten the language due to the fact that she hasn't heard me speak it often, little does she know how much I use it in roleplay games while giving my characters a voice o.o
I learnt English before my mother tongue because I watched lots of cartoons and TH-camrs speak it, it was also a necessity because I was living in a foreign country where English was the Franca lingua. When my parents got worried that I was unable to speak my mother tongue, they forcibly started speaking it around me and I eventually, somehow “gripped” it and was able to speak it fluently afterwords, idioms and all. Exposure is key to understanding a language.
The production of this video is soo good .I’m astonished and can’t fathom how you only have 617 subs?? Your channel is so underrated and I can’t wait for more vids like these in the future !!
I can speak English more fluently than my native language. It all is just logical and makes sense(Even those things that I didn't learn, such as new words), Croatian on the other hand...yeah I almost failed that class lol
@@qwerte6948 Nije tuga. Iskreno hrvatski kao jezik nije najbolje staliziran i engleski je bolji.Općenito hrvatska je loša zemlja i ne planiram živjeti ovdje vopće. Ako ću ići u Kanadu onda vjerojatno mi neće ikada trebati hrvatski. Biti ću sretna osoba kada zaboravim ga do kraja.
I always compare this phenomenon to trees/plants that are intertwined, meaning that at beginning I had to connect native language with English. Acquiring English feels like two plants disconnecting and growing on their own, which explains why I'm not so good at translating English to my mom
The reason why we all learned English so easily is because it has a profound media presence, something any other language simply doesn't have. 90% of information online is in English. Naturally, the easiest way to "acquire" other languages is to either spend a lot of time in online communities with people who speak it (that might be difficult because there's simply not a lot of people to choose from) or by living in a country that speaks it for a while. English is so easy because you don't have to do any of that to immerse yourself in it, it's literally everywhere. Basically, it's _lingua franca_ of Humanity.
Same thing happened to me with french I had to read through some documents that were only on french to get really specific info about tuning an engine and now I can read it at around a 80%
This video brought me enlightenment as to how I was a perfect English speaker since 12. Earned a sub and a like from me. Whenever someone asks how I'm so good at it, I'll just show them this video from now, thank you.
this just appeared in my feed, an your aesthetic with the tiktok voice made me be like "wtf?" but this is honestly so true, im an spanish native and the way I learned english was through translating and detranslating fanfictions, seeing youtube subtitles until i didnt need them, and as you said, words, phrases, and media in the gaming community that is in english. Of course my coursework helped greatly, but theres a reason many people like me started studying french in high schools and dont actually learn it in the end.
@IL0UHV_SF omg I didn't know this, it always confused me but it makes sense, if you use "a" before a word with a vowel the words are going to mesh, thank you!
It must've been around 4th-5th grade for me. I always described the feeling and sensation of it like all the details of the language was pushing against some kind of cork until the pressure of it was enough to push through it and suddenly I was basically fluent with the language.
It was a 2023 noon, i installed an app i found fun, and it was fully in english! And i said: nada en español acá? And one and a half year later i finaly aquired it fully!
OMG YESSS!!!! The people in our school ask me “how did you learn grammar” or “how did you learn English” and I’d have no idea how to explain it! I didn’t even know it my self! We’re now learning the exact meaning of the word in our language because of a important exam that’ll happen in the end of the year, and even though I’m good at English I CANT DO THEM ToT This video literally made a spark in my brain, thank you!!!
@@AleynRhine Did you use AI or TTS for the video? (not from bad, just curious) Because the voice sounds exactly like one of the hypnosis related channels that i tend to watch. 👀
@@tovarishchfeixiao Great catch, yes, I certainly use text-to-speech for my videos. Until I get a microphone (which looks like it can take a while) I will continue to do so, but I am determined not to keep the AI voicing permanent :)
As an ESL teacher and someone whose first language isn't English, this is the most relatable comment section I've seen in ages. When people ask me how did I learn, I could think about endless language learning resources and yeah, that helped, but then there's this "idk, it just popped in my brain one day" feeling that is just impossible to describe to others.
This actually happened to me!! Of course school helped part of this but I would be lying if I didn't learn most of it through videos. For years I was thinking in English, dreaming in English... It helped me with so many things in life like meeting new people I cherish deeply or find interests and communities I enjoy being in :)
Thank you, this was very helpful now I know how English just spawned in my head and why I can't learn Russian just like English Edit: okay ik English is one of the easiest languages to learn but I'm trying to learn Russian for ALMOST 1 year and I can't even speak a sentence properly
God, yes, you said it so well. When it comes to writing, I dont know anything about grammar rules and just go by "yeah, this feels right". Thanks for the video!
I was bad in English for most of my life, I wasn't the sharpest tools in the shed, but then in high school I watched memes on Instagram and boom, I could speak English.
I also acquired English out of nowhere. I was not that good at speaking though, mostly because of how different my mother tongue is compared to english. I found an english speaking online friend though and I pretty much ironed that part of my skill too within a year or continuous talking. I did it with German too btw! As long as you want it, you can acquire it!
Now that's the way. I acquired english through minecraft, youtube and minecraft parodies alongside that i had a tutor but i don't remember for how long i had lessons with her, maybe for a month each week once, or for 2 months, it was quite short and i don't remember anything that i was learning with her except for seasons of the year
@@explosivetolgagunpowder a tutor is like a private teacher, he teaches you after school. The difference would be that a tutor works with only you, because you pay for his lessons and schedule your lessons with him yourself. Something like this, consider him a mercenary teacher, a guide to help you understand something better but for money. Or just look up the meaning of the word on Google
So,you're telling me that my russian ass learned English by watching vanossgaming when i was 12? Well fuck. The funniest thing is that actually makes total sense with the explanation you gave. Thanks
Bro i remember having grammar homework for english where we had to finish past tense(? words by using the last part of the (unfinished word) and following gramatical rules on the chalkboard and you know i was folloeing the rules a lil bit but then i got bored and just went on a guessing sprer by thinking the finished word and just putting the one that "sounded the best" i don't know if i aced it or missed one but i clearly remember the feeling of "how the fuck do i know english"
I used to play Roblox a lot in my childhood. Over time, the moment I reached 13 years old, a realization struck. People were telling me you have a really good English. I managed to acquire a good amount of knowledge by playing a game.
Since then, I kept doing it. And now I'm 18 years old person that can speak English fluently and proud. While English has been a thing that I was learning, it helped me in many certain stuff rather than having to deal with it by only one language.
this is me at school. like i speak Romanian but when i was young i only watched English videos because i didn't like the Romanian youtuber humour. and when i have English class i can easily speak it and know what it means, but when they say "translate it" its like they give me Chinese text and tell me to say what it mean.
Literally English just developed for me and didn't know how to describe it so this is a perfect way to encapsulated
Same bro
I learnt English from watch cartoons💀
I learnt english because roblox's
same
Can relate
"The moment you see a word you're unfamiliar with"
**Shows "Happy"**
real shi
what is "happy"?
@@lunarknight3597 good question, I wouldn't know the answer to that
@@lunarknight3597it means gay
@@BarbarianXD I never knew that thank you so much 🤯
this video just spawned in my life the same way English had
like what deh heck WHY IS THIS VIDEO SO ACCURATE
HMMM almost like this site that you are watching this said video is collecting every bit of our information in order to use it in their algorithms and exploit our flawed human attention ...
But what do I know! I'm just some goof in the internet that forgot their mother tounge and had english replace it like a usurper !
True that
True eeeee
same
Honestly same I have never watched any video about any languages and I never saw this channel before like what is happening
Everytime someone asks me how did I suddenly became good at english, I just say "Idk, it just happened Ig."
Now, thanks to this video I have something to say about it yipeeeeee
same
And then you struggle with your native language
@@LordGeneralOHara Me who studied and used it more often :*Five parallel universes ahead of u*
@@LordGeneralOHara this is so true though- like i can speak but when it comes to songs in my native language i always struggle. i pretty much just know the words that my family speaks within us and they merge english and bangla A LOT
same bro
Rare time where a low view count on a small channel ends up being one hell of a treat, I'm glad I always am on the lookout for diamonds in the rough!
Hahhheah
real!!! wild to think this is the first video on this persons channel, so good!
6yr old me clicking on a Minecraft video oblivious to the fact that he is about to doom himself to unrestricted access to the internet:
Real
I feel like the only con to this kind of learning is vocabulary
@@randomhooman1952 Very true, everything else is traumatising.
for real whenever my friends ask me how i learned english i literally say the same thing get immersed in language and you will learn it just as how you learned your own native language, by immersing yourself in it ,taking it in to yourself as much as possible
Exactly!
Yup
Yeah same, but they never try it, they just immediately dismess it and say it won't work
@@SmashTheAdam yeah they say I just don't understand it but thats how you start by not understanding
@@SmashTheAdam I finished Edgerunners a week ago and I wanna do what your login says so bad
I'm now trying acquire French. It's really hard to find media in my target language to "study" from. Considering how English has become de facto native tongue of the internet.
Proportionally there's more anglophone than francophone content.
I have the same problem while learning Norwegian the amount of Norwegian content is nowhere near as much as English ones tell me if you find a solution for it
@@ruzbeh.b936 yes for small country the TH-cam are bad cause even if a fourth of the country Watch they might not have the biggest budget
as a french person, you should maybe try watching the "big" french youtubers like squeezie, amixem, inoxtag or like fuze III if you like minecraft content, hope this helps!
I'm having the same issue when trying to acquire Russian, but something I've been doing is changing the language of a page/game to Russian. Hope that helps ^-^
this is how we learn our native language and it works really well
I'm Filipino and I'm English
I remember the moment when I was reading some text in a Robin Hood game as a kid and noticed that I don't translate it to Polish in my head, just take it as it is in English and understand it
POLSKA!!! YEAAAH!! POLSKA GUROM
what's @@updog9567?
Holy shit same, sometimes i just sit there and think "how am i just understanding this?" it feels so natural sometimes
I’m a native English speaker and it’s my only language so I don’t think I’m the audience for this video but this is very useful info for trying to learn other languages. Love the aesthetics too!
As an Asian I grew up with "ABC's & English cartoons" which I am grateful for because I know how hard it is to learn English.
yoo same
Same but i'm from Brazil
I’m Indian,I just watched a bunch of videos as a kid,English just spawned in.
I’m Chinese and grew up in Hong Kong where I became fluent in English, drawback is that my Chinese sucks but both just kinda spawned in my head. Chinese first (at 1 years old because I lived in the mainland back then), then English at 3 (half a year after I enrolled at a kindergarten in Hong Kong). Though I didn’t use my Chinese a lot and now I’m suffering the consequences XD
@elisabethsun7059 Relatable
I am German, and I had English language classes since 1st grade. Up until 5th grade I knew the basics, but not that much. In 5th grade, when I started playing video games and going on the internet, English literally spawned in my head. There are still some words I acquire day by day, but I am confident speaking it; even more than my mother tongue of Polish.
So your mother tongue is polish and you are German? I’m confused
@@FreePalestine07462 Born in Germany from immigrant parents
@@FreePalestine07462 people can be mixed like that. Or it's because parents from Poland and whole life in Germany instead so therefore 2 main languages
@ makes sense
@@FreePalestine07462Irrelevant, POLSKA GUROM
I finally have a name for this phenomenon, now whenever i struggle to explain how I know English I'll just share this video :D
Niko!
Langsopawn. Unconcious Language Learning or ULL.
so real! (niko from oneshot btw)
Hello
5:06 the song is called "asgore"
Bro literary just guessed my whole entire language. And I Llllove it when she said "Bad translating but you feel the words". I EXACTLY DO THAT. For when the teacher asks to translate I just: aa- ugh- "*very non-understandable blabbering*" but I feel them, I understand what that means like I can just tell somebody that with knowing 100% what I am saying.
English spawned in a random Tuesday on my head and the realization that I just knew and could watch or read anything in English makes you feel so powerful
Came from TikTok, I hope you video gets more views it’s pretty simple but straight forward and engaging
This video felt like a dream, like your subconcious tells you thoughts that you cant form conciously, and it feels weirdly personal for some reason
This is just exactly how i learned English.
I am a Turkish speaking person,and it just,spawned in my head. Exactly like explained here.
I cannot pinpoint the exact translation and neither do i know perfect grammar. Yet i just learned it good enough to be able to write THIS COMMENT in English. I’d start by reading English stuff on the internet,and watching vids,and playing games in English until it just kinda connected the dots in my head and formed a fluent English.
nah you don't know it, cause why the hell are you not using spaces between the commas? It is substantially annoying
@@whitekingcat5118 In Turkish punctuation you also need to put space after commas (I don't think there are many languages that do not have this rule), so the problem is not about learning English for them.
@@whitekingcat5118 Why aren't you using periods after your sentences? Why aren't you starting the sentence with a capital letter? And how does not using a space between commas relate to not knowing english? We're online. Some people can't use their keyboards well, and some keyboards auto do it. And you're over here acting like a mighty know-it-all because you have better punctuation online. Congratulations! I can guarantee you they use spaces when it comes to writing in real life. We're in youtube comments, not a formal classroom. Get over yourself.
This
is extremely true
I never learned English, I aquired it. I just know english like my base language.
(I even call it my seconary mother tongue)
And honestly, I am quite fluent in it, and even though I'm french, most things I do are in English. I literally think constantly in English, because I work faster in English.
I write faster, I talk faster, I think faster, I do math faster and I even become more creative, all of that, in English.
I'm kinda denying using French, because it's taking me the extra step of translating my brain into french. Which is one of the craziest thing you'll hear a frenchman say.
Yes, as a native, originating, full blooded french speaker, I find it easier to live in an English bubble world, rather than using my native language.
How crazy is that?
So relatable like i'm brazillian and i speak portuguese but i somehow aquired english with youtube videos and a little bit of school
GET OUT OF MY MIND
@@Cardensmii1 Nah uh.
*locks in*
french? *THE SPY IS IN OUR BASE-*
@@Kreshura-tm5rb It's already too late, Kreshura. Turn around, kiddo.
you read my brain like an open book and translate what I half heartedly knew, thank you
As a Brazilian guy who's unable to explain how I'm capable of semi-fluent English, absolutely great video, you explained it so well. In my personal case, it's probably because I started experiencing English very early as a kid, mainly through videogames (there weren't many translated games in my childhood).
É incrível mesmo, lembro que quando eu era criança eu estudava inglês mas não aprendia nada. Depois de desistir do inglês (eu simplesmente não tinha nenhum interesse) eu percebi que eu passava a maior parte do tempo jogando jogos e conversando com outros na internet em inglês, eu não sabia o inglês, mas eu entendia sem mesmo traduzir; é como aprender a ler, você não analisa cada letra e tenta "transformar" em uma palavra, você só olha e vê uma palavra.
Quem dera as escolas entendessem isso.
@@InserirNomeDeUsuariopois é. Às vezes me pedem pra traduzir uma música, eu não consigo fazer isso instantaneamente, mas entendo o que está falando. Aí vem aquilo de quem não entende nada de inglês vir falar que a gente não sabe também kkkkk.
As a Brazilian, I'm on the same boat. I cannot exactly explain how this happened; it just did. I "acquired" english through watching videos and playing video games, jammering the "patterns" together in my head until they were cohesive and made sense to me. I never learned the laws and rules of the language because they just came-in naturally. And I feel like this is the best way to learn any language because schools generally don't do a great job at teaching you these languages being either due to the students not having interest on it, or the teaching just being lackluster.
Same
this is SOOO TRUE
everyone in my class is blown away by how I finish English exercises or tests in less then 5 min, thinking that I hired tutors or studied really hard, when I didn't do anything, great video, keep this up
👍👍
As a czech, I'm very young (not revealing my age)
But about 5 year old i started to be affected by English and eventually it became second nature to know it. I sometimes need to translate one word to my Native language but i can't remember the meaning at that moment. I know it in English but not in Czech. This happens to me quite often during English classes.
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I know this is random to say as a native english speaker, but I've so badly wanted to learn a new language. Mainly because it just interests me, and I've tried before with two. Spanish (Which I was forced to take and hated), and German (which I was interested in but dropped it due to it being difficult) lately I've been studying french, but occasionally I watch kid shows in french because I enjoy them. I'm gonna try to 'acquire' the language by consuming more french media, thank you so much for this video! It's given me a new tool to learn something I've always wanted to!
清学习中文，百金不失。
I am not a native english speaker, but since age 6 i consumed English speaking media, and it sort of became like a second native Language, i didn't even try to learn it consciously. I just tried to understand it and it all fell into place like puzzle pieces. And boom. Now i even think in english.
Our teacher didn't know our first language so we had to speak English first few grades, i learned do much from it
i barely listen to english in class, bc i know it too much, its like i have the best english in the class, no matter how much you study, its never like that
@explosivetolgagunpowder I'd also say I know English best in my class, with just talking I'd even go as far as to say that I'm rivaling teacher because she doesn't know this gen z slang Wich in reality is English (I'm now in highschool and the events Ive stated were in primary school) but my grammar is ass and when I have to do tests I basically gamble with my grades, half the time I get A or B other half C or D and rarely I miss everything and get F. But talking wise English might as well be my first language
@@P_I_G_G_A yeah i humble in english everytime
I was learning English for few years with a teacher, but then... VIDEOGAMES!
And some more internet after. TH-cam helps. Now i understand most of english-speaking TH-cam. English evolved to the point i call it "common language".
A few years ago, I had to use a browser extension to translate the selected text, but after some time, I didn't need it anymore and I started to understand spoken english without subtitles too. But I was far from being able to write sentences and complete phrases. In fact, I think I managed to learn how to do it just some months ago.
9 years of watching youtube 8 hours straight per day made me fluent in english
low bar lmao
literally me lmao. Im able to understand english from watching pewdiepie gameplay videos when i was little
Finally, a video I can send to anyone asking me how I "learnt English". In fact, it's been only 2 years since I started to actually "learn", as in study, the language, and boy I'm discovering a lotsa words.
Edit: Wait, if people ask me how I learnt English, this implies that their English isn't good, so how'd they understand this video...
maybe using google translate, idk
lmaooo
Maybe they are fluent and were just curious?
OH MY GOD
This has to be the best TH-cam video I ever watched
Literally every single thing said in this video is TRUE
Thanks for explaining this it's been such a weird thing to me whenever people ask me how I learnt English I just say " idk " or " I just did "
Thanks for creating this video
I think this video is the answer to how did i even learn english because it literally felt just like it "spawned" in my head and it's crazy to know that i actually learned it like the way i did with my main lenguage
What the heck??? This is so well made and funny. A gem yt algorithm brought 😭
Thank you for the effort of you makibg this video! I will treasure❤
When i was 12 or 11 I wanted to check out „Stranger things” because everyone was talking about it. After watching 2 episodes i realised i never turned the subtitles on. And that’s when it hit me that im fluent in English.
No one has ever complimented me so much just for instinctively knowing English (or having it spawned in my head), thank you.
Yet, if you learn and acquire, you will be miles ahead of anyone
It is 4am here right now, about to perish, must upload the video as two parts to TikTok (because it currently doesn't let me load it as one), but still proud despite everything. Let's see how this TH-cam channel dream of mine will work out. I hope I can make little me proud :)
Please, please use your own voice
you can cut it and speed it up a bit. The speaking was a little slow, and that might be on purpose tho, so i dont know if this is valuable advice.
@@g.adrian. I totally get what you mean, I'll try to make the reading a little faster on the following videos. Sadly, audio quality gets ruined so quickly on CapCut so I can barely manipulate the audio files to my liking. But I can promise this won't be an issue if I manage to switch to my actual voice. Thanks for advising!
@@rudeburger284 I would love to! I'm currently on a tight budget and the prices here are... not the best, I need some time to find a microphone that is both good quality and won't cost too much. I actually audio-recorded this video before but the quality of my computer's microphone was just straight-up traumatizing lol. So, yeah, I will be working on that. If things go smoothly, I will switch to my voice by the beginning of January!
2:07 damn this leaking TV pic is so cool
when i was still young my parents would send me to a kindergarten that spoke and learned kids english, i was never taught anything and at some point i simply understood what the aunties were saying
i was a child with unrestricted internet access, so all of that lead to me being one of the first kids in my preschool class to be able to read, and that fluently! im still super proud of this even if child me didnt realize it was a big deal at the time!
I would like to think that english is the easiest language to "acquire" since there's so much popular media surrounding it. As a person that "acquierd" english and is currently studying russian and german, i improve much quicker in german even though i put a lot less effort in it compared to russian, some of that comes from the fact that german and english are very much alike and some of it comes from there being a lot more media and that medai being easily accesible. Music helps a lot for your vocab and it might be helpful for pronounciation too.
I totally agree with you! The more interesting content there is to consume, the easier it is to experience full immersion.
I love the usage of skeleton images and gifs sm
English just spawned on my head while i was arguing with people on TH-cam, i probably spelled a lot of "warmmar" crimes, but looking to the other side, i can write giantic pieces of text in english now
Can write*
@superidol238 ups, is the remanent of the original sentence "i wrote giantic..."
That mistake also happens on my mother tongue
This describes exactly what I experienced, I'm glad I can now explain it more easily!
Legendary youtube recommendation pull
English developed from me thanks to the video games my dad brought me from USA, my interest on them sparked the flame for learning this language, I'm still far from being completely fluent but at least I have some archaic understanding of it.
thank you for the explanation! for me its a mixture of both - while english lesons have helped me understand grammar and vocab, social media made me more confident in my pronounsiation and overall understanding of the language. now with french ive tried to follow many french accounts on social media and try to listen to french music, even listen to french podcasts. for some reason i havent gotten used to it yet but thats definetly a step into the right direction for learning the language.
also i wanted to mention the fact that the poeple saying english has spawned into their head kinda pisses me off as someone who has spent 5 years (and counting) learning it. yes, you have basic understanding of the language but no idea of the concept of grammar and appropriate vocab, tenses etc. i also thought at first that i know everything because it sounds right but with time learned that english is much more complicated than that. it all came very natural to me now and for the past lets say 2 years. i really wish to achieve the same results with other of my targeted languages. this was a ted talk, no?
3:03 HOW TF DID YOU KNOW 😭
FR I FROZE 💀
@@CatoTato REAL 😭😭
I commonly engage in AI chatbots and they use a lot of complex words
but HOW DID THEY KNOW
Nahh y'all are crazy😭😭😭
Is this just a coincidence or is TH-cam actually getting more helpful and solving some of the greatest mysteries of my life
I don't think it just "spawned" in my head. I learned the basics like dog, horse, cat, "the wheels on the bus go round and round" in kindergarten, kept learning in school and got in contact with english speaking people online. Somewhere along the way it just got really easy and I was able to read and speak it. People who kinda grew up with it might just forget how it was to learn it
During my study for the next video, I noticed that before starting the "acquiring" part entirely, it is a good idea to make a preparation beforehand, like the one you said (learning basic words and listening to educational music). So I will definitely mention this portion of language learning too. Thanks for the comment!
@@AleynRhine Glad I could help. It truly is a good start for learning any language
4:34 as someone who is passionate about chemistry and synthesised contact explosives while unsupervised i can say that you don't have to be bad at chemistry to be a danger to the entire country /j.
But seriously, mixing ammonia and iodine crystals results in a black precipitate called Nitrogen triiodine. Which when dries is a very unstable contact explosive.
Also don't worry, the amount i synthesised was less than a few grams and i made it go boom immediately (breaking a glass rod in the process)
Anyways because i participate in school chemistry competitions (mostly theoretical exams, rarely they also have experimental exams) i am not banned from the lab (which is mostly used by me and a few other students because it's not used by any teacher) and have done multiple shenanigans, from this explosive, to making sulphydric acid (a gas which smells like rotten eggs) and dissolving things in strong sulphuric acid for fun.
But i have mostly used the lab for preparations for the experimental exams by going in the lab with another student and preparing eachother a subject from a previous year.
Anyways, i had to say this. Also someone bad at chemistry could probably not make anything extremely dangerous, but they could put their life in danger if they do stupid things (like consuming dangerous substances).
Also don't ever smell ammonia directly, it stings your nose and you won't get rid of the smell for a few hours (experienced this the hard way)
I am not a huge fan of chemistry but your comment made it sound fun. Maybe it is fun.
That's a lot of interesting insight, thanks for sharing! Stay safe out there :D
I was playing a Inglish game some years ago (1 or 2 years)
And some months after play I thought 100% the game was in my native language,when I started to play I searched in the settings and I realized,I played a 100% inglish game for 2-3 hour and understood 100%!!!
I can't believe how true this is! Same thing happened to me a while back and now I try to integrate English into my life to improve further. Just like what you said, I exposed myself to the language without realizing, and now I'm reading novels, watching movies and use my electronic devices in English to get better.
It’s like how you meet your best friend, they just spawn in your life, you son’t know how or why but you don’t really question it.
What a goldmine of a video! I wish you find great success! X)
I've got a slightly different story related to acquiring a language that might seem fake but it's infact true I assure, so here we go:
I'm from Greece, obviously here we speak Greek, both of my parents are 100% Greek with no question, yet in school, I was the outcast, completely alone, so when we got out first family computer (and wouldn't you know it the default language, and infact the majority of the material was in English, I got hooked to every single one of it, using it as a form of escapism from my difficult school-life. Skipping years forward, I'm now completely fluent in English! And due to how much I was an outcast in school, I seem to have better knowledge in English than my mother tongue.. it is the best gift god could ever have given me but also depressing, as I have comparably less enrichened vocabulary in Greek, and might struggle in expressing myself, although while simultaneously having enough knowledge to converse in daily life without any difficulty.. it is a very weird situation, I feel alienated from my Greek peers.. but the best people I have ever met in my life are anglophones, so maybe it's for the better.
Same story lmao just different mother tongues
@@ProximaCentauri55 stay strong my friend, I mean it 🫂
I am sure you are going to have a blast in the future, your comment feels so friendly and relatable! As a former outcast myself, I totally get what you mean and wish the best for you. Stay strong, you got this!
@@AleynRhine thanks a lot for the nice words, I wish you the same!
I'm glad I'm here to witness the start of this channel!!!
As a latin speaker with more than 10 years speaking english, I do agree that hearing music and watching videos in english has helped me a lot in learning this language. It's also the fact that English is a worldwide language, making it easier and accesible to learn from. My mom has always wondered if I've forgotten the language due to the fact that she hasn't heard me speak it often, little does she know how much I use it in roleplay games while giving my characters a voice o.o
I learnt English before my mother tongue because I watched lots of cartoons and TH-camrs speak it, it was also a necessity because I was living in a foreign country where English was the Franca lingua. When my parents got worried that I was unable to speak my mother tongue, they forcibly started speaking it around me and I eventually, somehow “gripped” it and was able to speak it fluently afterwords, idioms and all. Exposure is key to understanding a language.
Exactly what i said a month ago when my friends asked me why my accent is so good
The production of this video is soo good .I’m astonished and can’t fathom how you only have 617 subs?? Your channel is so underrated and I can’t wait for more vids like these in the future !!
I can speak English more fluently than my native language. It all is just logical and makes sense(Even those things that I didn't learn, such as new words), Croatian on the other hand...yeah I almost failed that class lol
Izgleda nece biti naseg jezika ako se ovakve stvari u mladima nastave... tuga i zalost da zaboravis svoj materni jezik...
@@qwerte6948 Nije tuga. Iskreno hrvatski kao jezik nije najbolje staliziran i engleski je bolji.Općenito hrvatska je loša zemlja i ne planiram živjeti ovdje vopće. Ako ću ići u Kanadu onda vjerojatno mi neće ikada trebati hrvatski. Biti ću sretna osoba kada zaboravim ga do kraja.
This was great, not only did i learn something new which made me feel good about myself, but now i feel very motivated.
I always compare this phenomenon to trees/plants that are intertwined, meaning that at beginning I had to connect native language with English. Acquiring English feels like two plants disconnecting and growing on their own, which explains why I'm not so good at translating English to my mom
The reason why we all learned English so easily is because it has a profound media presence, something any other language simply doesn't have.
90% of information online is in English.
Naturally, the easiest way to "acquire" other languages is to either spend a lot of time in online communities with people who speak it (that might be difficult because there's simply not a lot of people to choose from) or by living in a country that speaks it for a while.
English is so easy because you don't have to do any of that to immerse yourself in it, it's literally everywhere. Basically, it's _lingua franca_ of Humanity.
Now this.
This is relatable on a spiritual level.
Brother, You are so underrated. Rooting for you
Same thing happened to me with french
I had to read through some documents that were only on french to get really specific info about tuning an engine and now I can read it at around a 80%
This video brought me enlightenment as to how I was a perfect English speaker since 12. Earned a sub and a like from me. Whenever someone asks how I'm so good at it, I'll just show them this video from now, thank you.
this just appeared in my feed, an your aesthetic with the tiktok voice made me be like "wtf?" but this is honestly so true, im an spanish native and the way I learned english was through translating and detranslating fanfictions, seeing youtube subtitles until i didnt need them, and as you said, words, phrases, and media in the gaming community that is in english. Of course my coursework helped greatly, but theres a reason many people like me started studying french in high schools and dont actually learn it in the end.
Hey, just saying, you only usually use “an” if a word begins with either a, e, i, o, or u!
@IL0UHV_SF omg I didn't know this, it always confused me but it makes sense, if you use "a" before a word with a vowel the words are going to mesh, thank you!
@@Njirimara no problem :)!!
I have never seen someone talk about it. Let alone sum it up so well.
It must've been around 4th-5th grade for me. I always described the feeling and sensation of it like all the details of the language was pushing against some kind of cork until the pressure of it was enough to push through it and suddenly I was basically fluent with the language.
It was a 2023 noon, i installed an app i found fun, and it was fully in english! And i said: nada en español acá? And one and a half year later i finaly aquired it fully!
automatic language growth my beloved
OMG YESSS!!!!
The people in our school ask me “how did you learn grammar” or “how did you learn English” and I’d have no idea how to explain it! I didn’t even know it my self!
We’re now learning the exact meaning of the word in our language because of a important exam that’ll happen in the end of the year, and even though I’m good at English I CANT DO THEM ToT
This video literally made a spark in my brain, thank you!!!
u won
you WON A SUBSCRIBER WHO LOVES THESE TYPE OF VIDEOS
Then you won a channel to watch because THERE ARE MORE ON THE WAY
@@AleynRhine Did you use AI or TTS for the video? (not from bad, just curious)
Because the voice sounds exactly like one of the hypnosis related channels that i tend to watch. 👀
@@tovarishchfeixiao Great catch, yes, I certainly use text-to-speech for my videos. Until I get a microphone (which looks like it can take a while) I will continue to do so, but I am determined not to keep the AI voicing permanent :)
@@AleynRhine LESGOOOOOOOOOOO
As an ESL teacher and someone whose first language isn't English, this is the most relatable comment section I've seen in ages. When people ask me how did I learn, I could think about endless language learning resources and yeah, that helped, but then there's this "idk, it just popped in my brain one day" feeling that is just impossible to describe to others.
This actually happened to me!! Of course school helped part of this but I would be lying if I didn't learn most of it through videos. For years I was thinking in English, dreaming in English... It helped me with so many things in life like meeting new people I cherish deeply or find interests and communities I enjoy being in :)
Australlium quality video
Thank you, this was very helpful now I know how English just spawned in my head and why I can't learn Russian just like English
Edit: okay ik English is one of the easiest languages to learn but I'm trying to learn Russian for ALMOST 1 year and I can't even speak a sentence properly
I'm so glad I helped! ^^
That's because English is the easiest language
@@pguser
Well not really, there's easier languages, but English is simple enough to learn easily this way, unlike... Russian... :/
@@Slugcat-with-a-GUN A slavic speaker finds learning Russian easier. And most other languages just find it easy to learn English
@@pguser provda li to.
As a Spanish speaker....
This information worths millions...
This makes so much sense thank you
I can't wait for the next video
I liked this video a lot, is a rare diamond in a colossal cave, not easy to find but really valuable
God, yes, you said it so well. When it comes to writing, I dont know anything about grammar rules and just go by "yeah, this feels right". Thanks for the video!
So well explained, i will stay tunned for more videos!
English, the language that breaks barriers!
this is amazing content...
Damn just realised this is your first video, i thought I was watching a TH-cam with millions of subs!
Great content keep it up❤
I was bad in English for most of my life, I wasn't the sharpest tools in the shed, but then in high school I watched memes on Instagram and boom, I could speak English.
I also acquired English out of nowhere. I was not that good at speaking though, mostly because of how different my mother tongue is compared to english. I found an english speaking online friend though and I pretty much ironed that part of my skill too within a year or continuous talking.
I did it with German too btw! As long as you want it, you can acquire it!
Now that's the way. I acquired english through minecraft, youtube and minecraft parodies alongside that i had a tutor but i don't remember for how long i had lessons with her, maybe for a month each week once, or for 2 months, it was quite short and i don't remember anything that i was learning with her except for seasons of the year
english through minecraft is the key for me
also who is "she"? i assume its your teacher
@explosivetolgagunpowder it was my tutor, i wrote it in the comment
@germanempire8678 i dont know what tutor means, i assume its like a tutorial, maker? applier? idk you know what i meant
@@explosivetolgagunpowder a tutor is like a private teacher, he teaches you after school. The difference would be that a tutor works with only you, because you pay for his lessons and schedule your lessons with him yourself. Something like this, consider him a mercenary teacher, a guide to help you understand something better but for money. Or just look up the meaning of the word on Google
@germanempire8678 thank you, i know them but not the english meaning you know
you are absolutely correct
So,you're telling me that my russian ass learned English by watching vanossgaming when i was 12? Well fuck. The funniest thing is that actually makes total sense with the explanation you gave. Thanks
The internet has contributed to english fluency all around the world.
Finally, the video that we, not native english speakers needed!
Bro i remember having grammar homework for english where we had to finish past tense(? words by using the last part of the (unfinished word) and following gramatical rules on the chalkboard and you know i was folloeing the rules a lil bit but then i got bored and just went on a guessing sprer by thinking the finished word and just putting the one that "sounded the best" i don't know if i aced it or missed one but i clearly remember the feeling of "how the fuck do i know english"
I used to play Roblox a lot in my childhood. Over time, the moment I reached 13 years old, a realization struck. People were telling me you have a really good English. I managed to acquire a good amount of knowledge by playing a game.
Since then, I kept doing it. And now I'm 18 years old person that can speak English fluently and proud. While English has been a thing that I was learning, it helped me in many certain stuff rather than having to deal with it by only one language.
this is me at school. like i speak Romanian but when i was young i only watched English videos because i didn't like the Romanian youtuber humour. and when i have English class i can easily speak it and know what it means, but when they say "translate it" its like they give me Chinese text and tell me to say what it mean.
翻译之在你的母语，不用翻译器。
在古代中，孔夫子曰：“己所不欲，勿施于人。“
This is exactly how it happened to me, this video covers it all. Thank you.
Splendid!
English is an overall pretty language to speak and write, it's quite easy to sing too. 10/10