How Did English "Spawn" In Your Head? - And Why It Is Better
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- How Did English "Spawn" In Your Head? - And Why It Is Better
Ever felt like English just “appeared” in your brain? Like, one day you’re watching videos and listening to songs, and then suddenly… you’re fluent! What kind of sorcery is that?!
In this channel's very first video, I explain why “learning” isn’t the same as “acquiring,” and why a passive, immersive approach can actually make language feel like second nature.
#LanguageLearning #EnglishFluency #LanguageAcquisition ##LearningLanguage #NaturalFluency #StudyTips
*Attention:* For those who are interested in how to "spawn another language" there is a new video. You may find some answers to your questions in the video "Art of Language - Practice Into Passion" on this channel! I will also provide the link right here.
I want to thank everyone for watching this video, giving me and my channel a chance, and stepping into the wonderful realm of language learning. You will see that only in four videos, there was a noticeable increase in the overall quality, richness of content, and deeper research process. With each experience and find, I promise to do my very first to contribute to knowledge and education, as this is the best way I can express my heartfelt gratitude. Let me humbly wish you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year!
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Thanks for explaining to me how english spawned in my head. Before the corona pandemic started, I was mediocre in english, barely knowing the basics and even having problems with the pronunciations of the alphabet. So, I guess acquiring is both easier and more favorable. I will watch your other video on how to acquire other languages this way too. Thanks :>
Great videos 🙏👍
I love how the skeleton help me understanding this video
You learn a lot through funny material (memes,posts,and more) that’s how I learned English most of us did tbh
Where did you find the "dancing skeletons" at 1:00?
"Doesnt know the exact translation, but know how it means and where to use it" Is so real
EXACTLY!!! Sometimes when I'm speaking in my native language I wanna say something but only remember the word in English and have to figure out what it is in my language xD
To be fair, I think that's not about language itself, but very chaotic process of thought. It's unpredictable, because you allowed it to be. You rarely had a thought why do you apply that one word, but not the synonym of it.
@@CapewearerHuh. I just meant that I sometimes use so much English that funny situations like this can happen when I know what I want to say in my mother tongue but it gets mixed up. It doesn't matter if it's a language thing or not. Now I'm kinda confused tbh.
YES
@@jvstJay WANDERERRRR
'You speak English because is the only language you know, I speak English because is the only language you know'
- Someone probably
I know the reference
Real.
"We re not the same"
- That Reddit guy
That’s me literaly.
bro stole it .. :(
I sometimes find myself knowing the meaning of an English word but struggle to find its counterpart in my native language. This video helps me understand why, thank you.
Same.
Sometimes my mom asks me what does "that" word mean and I'm like ummmmmmmm I know I just can't tell you xd
It is damn exasperating, I am with family and want to express something but my brain gives me the English word that would fit perfectly for my explanation, I try to translate it in my mind and ends up in a phrase rather a word and man... the joke is lost, kept them waiting for me to speak and if I tell them that I don't remember or know the word in Spanish I just know I will be mocked for it for days
Sometimes I partially forget what word means and I'm like 70% sure it means what I think it means
@@tomascornejo1806 Me tooo! I wrote an essay (under exam conditions) about sth I'm pretty much enthusiastic about, but the thing is, I acknowledged those in English, and I found myself wordless in my own native language. Those are very specific terms, and it's required so much energy just to translate them to the closest meaning of my native language. And whenever I have sth interesting and want to share it with my friends, I end up confusing them because I use too much English, and (some of them) think that I show off.
@@Aurbertha That's the worst part, no man I am not trying to show off, I am trying to communicate and failing miserably, please stop making my life harder, my ego is not that big to showoff a language people here doesn't even use
Fascinating.
The first time I 'thought' in English was very intense when I realized what I had just done.
Then I even dreamed in English.
Most of my thoughts that are actual sentences happen in english. It makes memorizing things a little harder cause thinking in my mother tongue feels weird XDX
At first i would always think in English because it would feel "safe" for some reason, but after i lost all the freetime and started to become busy everyday, i slowly lost the skill, now I don't think in English and probably forgotten over a thousand words
@@recepthesonvergibukucu765 i am busy aswell but thinking isnt a thing that requires you to sit and concentrate to perform. I can understand why you would maybe forget words and how to speak by not finding time to use the language. But you can, and do think during daily acts, why did you lose the skill to think in English because of having no spare time? Is it because you started being unable to communicate in your mother tongue and decided to go back to your mother tongue to think?
@@kajamaja7148 I've never heard a statement so relatable before
Dreaming in english and then realizing wtf just happened is the realest thing ever
"Too much skeletons, i got spooked" - IGN
Bruh
What is Scorpo doing here
When most normal day in Australia, if that one doesnt exist already haha
Bruhhh scorpo
too many*
you shouldʼve spent time studying grammar on the contrary to what video says
English turned out to be so useful too, like anyone who learned doesnt regret the amount of knowledge, resources and possibilities that come from the dominant language
I wouldn't know half the things I've learned without it
Yes they were. I searched for the video you were talking about and you were correct. @99ailime
Really learning any language is good… but yeah, Yk slowly we start learning more and more stuff from English, thus it is hard, I find myself constantly knowing words in English and not remembering whst is the word for it in my home language
English is everywhere, it will never be useless. With english, you can speak to almost anyone, as it is the most common language to learn. You can also read almost anything because it's all written in english as it's the "global language".
@@catenjoyer76That's a new phenomenon. Lingua francas change all the time. The time will come when English becomes obsolete, but likely not in our life time.
English "spawned" in my head, and most of my life i thought it was normal because i found it a very easy thing to understand. but then when i saw my classmates struggling with reading, grammar and speaking, the realization that it's not exactly "normal" hit me. I've been trying to understand that for how long and now i finally do!!!
Same thing happened for me. I always thought the reason is that I was usually selected as a participant in competitions between our schools and that's why I got a bit more extensive training than my classmates, but now I think it might have been other way, I was selected because I knew better, and that's why it was easier to explain something over the normal course to me. Or then both being a bit over the regular course and interacting with English enough so it spawns on its own just collided and worked together :D
omg same
Yeah same with me
They are stupid trying to understand grammers and others just talk and write no one cares about that
as a native brazilian portuguese speaker i feel the same way. in high school my classmates used to take a peak on my tests to cheat😂 and i didn’t know why was it so difficult to them to understand those silly questions asked on the english tests if for me it was something like very basic and almost intuitive to know
That's literally HOW I STARTED TO UNDERSTAND ENGLISH out of the blue, I have no idea, since when i could understand English so better, Very relatable video.
( Thanks for the likes guys , lol good to know we are alot of peoples )
and this how i accquire a new idioms : "out of the blue". quite funny
Frr, like one day I suddenly start to understand 😂
Yep, happened exactly the same way for me.
I was but an acquaintance to English. When in fifth grade I got access to what we call TH-cam and there the real journey began to how English became family to me. I have learnt but do not know how to use grammar or what to apply to which if I were to make a specific type of sentence, even though my english has if not perfect grammar.
@@electron1324 I feel you hahah, I also do not know much about grammar nor I think about grammar while using English , It is just like second nature to me now haha
Since I started teaching English to others, I've learned some new rules that explain some stuff I used but didn't know why it's used that way, it's nice. I think that's how it's supposed to be: you learn the basics, you go out in the (net) world, you acquire the language, you come back to brush up on some themes like complex sentence structures, gerund, conditionals and even more obscure stuff.
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💀
Edit: this got autocorrected to "watch" because of some typo and now everyone's saying I didn't learn English. I don't care but I'm still keeping the original sentence
I learnt english because roblox's
same
Can relate
thank you great human for explaining why i know 99.9% of english words for no reason.
real
You think you know until you realise that you don't know.
@@Silly_cat-_-0 also true
Fr, I tried to read an old English story and it was harder to understand it because lots of terms aren't even used that many today @@Silly_cat-_-0
@@Silly_cat-_-0 One time i did a vocabulary test and oh man i was ashamed of myself. Tho i can understand topics like politics, tech, chemistry, machinary etc etc (mostly at very amateur degree but still) my vocabulary appears to be so fucking little.
"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 🤯
primary school gave the very basics for english but being deep into pirated games i always ended up playing them on english so i think the constant exposure to them is what led me to learning and understanding english
Same, Skyrim single-handedly made me learn enough english in a year than I had been teached all my life. You're litteraly a baby in an open world, learning english by images, context, deduction and with fun, like a baby learning it's own native language.
Oh yeah, Visual Novels for me, the only translations are the Japanese-English ones, so I play all the visual novels I want in english, and the english just spawn in my head
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.
Was ist das?
Relatable
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.
Didn't consume much media in English until I was like 15 but I can relate. Definitely did really well in language. Maybe I should try Spanish? Would come in handy with fuckton of the Snoot Game memes being in Spanish.
I started acquiring it around 13 or 14 years old and didn’t stopped because the contents I watch are fun(but not in shallow way) and followed many TH-camrs and in Instagram too.
I love the English contents I follow and so thankful for it.
I think in english and now I can't go back help 😭
@@Ashashasha3.7same
Same! I used to watch a lot of minecraft videos on youtube and it sort of just clicked one day
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
@@ThatOneManWhoLaughsInBritish Me who studied and used it more often :*Five parallel universes ahead of u*
@@ThatOneManWhoLaughsInBritish 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
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 eeeee
same
Honestly same I have never watched any video about any languages and I never saw this channel before like what is happening
FRRR
Because of this phenomenon, I actually went on to get an honourable mention at the national stage of the English Olympiad in my country, all without studying for a minute. I showed up to the exam, wrote down what felt right, was (luckily) inspired by the essay prompts that were given out, and ended up with a 97 on the national stage exam. Thanks, English, for being so damn easy to learn.
to *acquire feels more correct actually
SAME!! I started watching minecraft videos and using the sims 2 forums at 8. Next thing you know I’m first place in the regional English Olympiad at 14, I get a full scholarship for a private highschool, 13 years later I work as an english teacher and earn the equivalent of 1000 USD per month which might not sound like a lot but in the third world is a VERY decent salary.
Being lonely and chronically online as a child changed my future.
where are you from 😭
@@kumiiz Romania my boy
School olympiads and its medals are literally useless, its the chocolate coin version of money, i have like 14 of them, 3 in English, and the other ones are on different subjects, i also had TWO PHD's, Physics & Math.
But guess what?, 99% of Managers, recruiters, consultants did not give a single sh!t about all of those Phd's and medals, the only reason all of these degrees exists, are for the checkmark on the recruiter's list, or for sky-high level of specific jobs - they dont even LOOK at the PHD's or medals, you can bring a blank one and they will not care, at ALL
this is how we learn our native language and it works really well
edit: please let this comment die already
I'm Filipino and I'm English
audiolingual method uh
Actually it’s interestingly yes but that’s the thing that we don’t know any languages at first… it just takes us some time to tinker with it and learn when a word is used
@@AidenRiano ok, Mr. English
@@William2573Ur not funny at all.
Watching youtube in elementary non-stop was the key rlly
Without even knowing what was going on 🙏
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
Fr its gotten to the point i think in english
@@idontknow55573 socialization. It's almost impossible for me to think in Chinese. It's uncommon worldwide
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!
We DO😂 NOT 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚 VECAUSE
Kiemi39 𝙄𝙎 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧
Sometimes you find it out of the blue, other times you gotta lock in to find it.
@@Shaunshahriar
I see what you did there 👀
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 Spanish, I have always sucked at English class but still was always told I had "potential". This summer I decided to get the B2 grade exam, but the dudes there told me they wanted to test higher level exams just to be sure of my level. They ended up convincing me of doing the C1, and when I did it, I was baffled to be told I had passed for C2, (If you get high enough they just give it to you) described by many as "Native level". This video has helped me understand why, and I will try the same with German. Bless!
No one has ever complimented me so much just for instinctively knowing English (or having it spawned in my head), thank you.
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 ^-^
0:11 that's exactly what happened to me 😭
SAME
Me too 😮
Me tooo
lmao yeah
I was surprised too when I found out there's a skeleton living inside of me.
Exactly, I am Egyptian ,I used to fail my English classes but I learnt it from TH-cam it popped in my head one day and can't forget that wonderful sensation❤❤
I am a native English speaker, and I'm incredibly grateful for social media in that its given so many non-English speaking people the opportunity to easily learn English and have the ability to communicate with more people like me.
Also as non native english speaker it just unlocks a whole new world to us especially on the internet where like 99% of the content is in english + billions more people to talk to especially if your native language isn't widely spoken.
the problem is that they learn shitty broken english
@@retrofizz727yeah a lot of books are in English
@@s1gma-_-522 it's not just the books, english is the most spoken language, it even owns the title of "international language"
One of the reason why i watched videos in english, was exactly because of the content that i liked was always in english, just some short amount was in my native language. (I trying to write myself instend of transleting the words, so some of them may be wrong.)
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
How does that even happen? This is voiced by an old-fashioned shitty toneless TTS, literally 0 emotion in it
How does that even happen? This is voiced by an old-fashioned shitty toneless TTS, literally 0 emotion in it
EXACTLYY
@@gabbyes how were you not able to form these thoughts consciously?
@@DaDa-ui3sw because I never thought too much about
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
@@nacl2246Same
Man, i remember forcing myself and pretend i understand what the people saying in videos on TH-cam. Now i actually understand it, like whaaaat??😮
@@nacl2246 Literally me, I remember when he was playing amnesia and picked up a broom and went "oh, broom!" I was like, holy shit, now know what "broom" means in English. It felt like magic...
Although i did take english courses throughout my life, i do think that most of what i learned from it was...not learned, but acquired. Constant contact with things like video games, the internet...it brought me into teaching myself how to read and speak the language. The courses i took mostly helped me to learn how to put my ideas in place, how to express myself properly, if you know what i mean. At school, or in said courses...i'd never study nor do anything out of class hours and could easily ace tests either way. It's weird. But nice.
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.
@@whitekingcat5118 bro got ratioed
That makes me feel cool in society like school, friend group or family. When they saw an english term or video, they immidiately ask me what it means. It's something to be proud of, in my opinion.
I've not heard or seen a more accurate description of how I found myself being able to understand and speak english before. Great video, straight to the point too. Much appreciated.
I've been trying to learn German for a few months now. This video alone inspired me to maybe try a different approach. Actual life changing advice I've randomly come across on the internet today. Thank you.
@@SortbyNameI am from Algeria where the education system forces learning French through all levels of education it's basically the second language after Arabic , I graduated college and I still suck at French whith basically every source material in Algerian college being all in french so it was a massive struggle, for me it was an emotional reason for I hated the French language since middle school, for some reason all our French teachers happen to always be pricks and strict to down right violent towards the students which made me shut off completely from ever wanting to learn it , I can understand French I can write pages of answers in French if forced too because of a final test but i cannot speak it or express myself in french , with English it was quite the opposite I was passionate about some 4 to 8 minute videos of stand up comedy from Eddie Griffin and Dave Chappell with Arabic subtitles, but I wanted more I kept looking up their material on TH-cam until I found the full stand up specials but of course with not Arabic subtitles , so I listened and listened until I started to understand the jokes and each time it gets funnier until I found myself understanding everything, and this was all within a few months , long story short it's about what you are passionate about of course you still need to learn a few rules but it's much easier when you are finding the experience enjoyable, unfortunately with french that ship has sailed, I couldn't find anything enjoyable within french culture ( especially being Algerian and all if you know the history) but I found a calling with Spanish lately I found a certain passion for South American culture , and I am starting to understand what they say in their media slowly, the point is to find a subject you are passionate about within a certain culture of the language you want to acquire.
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.
ooooh... I see now! That is why I was able to get 7.5 in IELTS with no prep at all!!! Hell YEAH!
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!
oh my god…. I was smiling so much throughout the video, you just described perfectly how I KNOW english!! friends have told me to teach them english but I’m always like “I don’t know how I just know it, it just feels right. I have never studied it, I have no clue about grammar rules, verbs or subjects 🥲” and now I feel like I can accurately explain them how I picked it up/acquired it. I feel so special now lmao
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
and here is why learning by using something daily is better for learning imo, rather than doing it all theorically and academically
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!
It's not my only language but it is my native one. I also don't think I'm the target audience😭
If you ever try learning Russian, then that's THE ONLY way to get it. I'm a native Russian and I know what I'm talking about😅
3:40 ok I actually felt like the main character alongside my millions of internet homies for a few seconds, like we are the chosen ones lmao
Thank you random philippine writer for posting your fanfic on wattpad so that i can read my favorite ship in english that probably started my "acquisition" of English language
*Edit:* The new video, "Emotions - The Other Side of Wisdom" has been published! Yey!
I am eternally grateful for the incredible support I received on such short notice! I can already see my childhood dream getting closer to reality. Each time I look at the numbers, a childish side of me screams. Trying to keep up with the university and preparing for the exams, I barely have any time to perform personal research and prepare videos, but I just want to let everyone know that although I am working slowly, I am actually working!
I don't want to speed up with research progress as there is always something new to discover. In fact, while I was working on the "How to Acquire a New Language" video, I accidentally discovered something else and figured I should publish what I figured out first since it will be a shorter video and can give some more idea of how language works in the brain. I things go right, I will publish one more video before the exams begin. We'll see how it will go in the future.
Thank you so much for understanding, I will keep doing my best
The first video you post ended up being a hit, you don't know how insane that is, keep up the good work and hope to see more in the future
thanks for the video and good luck with your exams!
shit is hard.
are you in your second year?
Yupp, im in university too
Good luck on your exams
I've always known English I'm an American
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
@@ecstaciticIsn't this basically called Comprehensive Input?
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
👍👍
So relatableee!
I'm Greek, and in this year's English exam i didn't even open the books or my notes to study once and i straight up got a 20.
Also when we're writing a test, while the teacher is explaining what to do in each exercise I'm usually already done with the 40% of the test.
The only reason why i don't give my tests first is because i like to check 10 times if my answers are correct.
same lol
I am an English language literature major and I had taken a class on acquiring a second language,your video definitely deserves to be put as a material for the aforementioned class.Precise and factual 👌🏻
the day I realized I can just watch movies, shows and youtube videos in English with subtitles and nobody could stop me changed my life fr
When i realized that english literally just spawned in my mind, a whole world of content, books, and videos has opened to me, and it was awesome
Scientifical or educational literature still demands high standards of vocabulary. It'll be your great testament to knowledge. As someone who experienced it through studying math I can confirm that works as way of development.
4:22 thanks! now i know the meaning of a new word, but only in english
😂
I love her voice. I can listen to whatever she tells me for hours.
Great topic, great storytelling. Thank you Alwyn!
Language is such a beautiful thing. You notice how we all here are just blabbing whatever comes into our mind, bad grammar and all, as long as it gets the point across. We don't technically learn the language, but nothing stops us from talking to each other and sharing messages all over the world. I think that's really beautiful. So awesome.
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.
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
Same
I learned English through sequential experiences, starting with terms from childhood games like Pet Society, Farmville, and Call of Duty. These terms later appeared in school, where I learned basic tenses. Over time, my vocabulary grew, and now, at 24, I can guess unfamiliar words based on sentence structure and context with about 80% accuracy. I've questioned my learning process, but I’m glad I found this video as it reflects my journey.
I(ESL) am currently trying to acquire Japanese, and I can absolutely confirm that it's how it works. Until I started to USE language all the time, becoming part of the language's ecosystem, my progress was almost nonexistent. Now I feel like I know it better each time I talk others, or watch content in it. At some point grammar points start to populate your hand without you even noticing. I didn't know before how I can explain this strange feeling, that I just... know... what these words are, and where I should put them. Now I know, thank you for this wonderful video, It's HUGE!
5:06 the song is called "asgore"
isnt it called Bergentrückung?
That's actually the opening sequence to the asgore battle lol@@Angelikatt
@@Angelikatt Bergentrückung is the first like 20s of the song, the rest is called asgore
@@Ayivir didn't know that, ty for the info!
Everything was telling me that you were a Brazilian as a gut feeling for the kind of stuff that you were saying, and 4:00 makes me actually wonder if you are
Do you know what song is that? during 4:03 I mean
Me too
@@AkaneEnjoyerpiano lindinho 2009
@@AkaneEnjoyer piano lindinho 2009
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Most noble creator, I do extend mine utmost gratitude for thy wisdom imparted upon us in the art of learning this fair tongue. Verily, thy teachings do shine as a beacon to those who seek mastery of English. May fortune and favor ever smile upon thee!
Legendary youtube recommendation pull
0:33 For me, since I use subtitles, I am still good at the grammar.
i think what they meant here is knowing how to write words and structure sentences, but not knowing the rules behind it. it's like when you know what tense to use in a sentence, but can't explain for the life of you why it's that one. i've been "learning" english for a little over ten years, but if you asked me when you're supposed to use past perfect continuous instead of present perfect continuous, i'd draw a blank lmao. not that there are many situations where you might need to know the answer to that, but still
@@shinisnotonfire Yeah, that's true
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.
Not 90%, but 52%, which is still HUGE.
Just for comparison, the second place, which is Spanish, sits at around 5%
@@umcaraqualquer364052% is the overall number when calculating everything that was/is on the internet
but if we apply some realism and add relevance, popularity, laziness (nobody scrolls to the page 230 on google) etc then we get that about 90% of "available info" is, in fact, in English
I wouldn't say so, i learned English from internet and now I'm learning German the same way. Of course English is much more popular language but it's not like other languages don't exist
disagree?? I feel like a lot of countries that have a majority of the population that doesn't speak english have their own side of the internet. For an example, I'm brazilian, and i know that a lot (if not the majority) of the brazilian population has never even seen a single english content on the internet in their lives, because they just consume content in portuguese, same goes for the hispanic countries, Russia, Japan and etc. I think China is the most extreme case, because not only the vast majority of their population doesn't speak english, but they have their own social medias, and 1.4 billion users makes up a good portion of the internet lol. So stating that "90% of the internet is in english" is a bit wild.
@@hazelsweenz Ele não está errado, na verdade. Só exagerou o número. Vide o meu comentário acima, e depois pesquise a estatística por si próprio.
Claro, se o usuário sentar numa bolha e jamais interagir com nada além do próprio país, jamais verá um comentário estrangeiro. Mas a afirmação em si de que é a língua com presença mais profunda nas formas de comunicação, e de que a imersão nela é extremamente fácil, é verdadeira.
This happened to me with Russian too, I have no clue how to write it but I definitely know how to talk or read it since is my mother language.
1:01 SANS! STOP SLEEPING AND HELP ME WITH MY SPAGHETTI!!!
hahahah❤
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。
Hi ! As a native french speaker I could recommend you some cool medias or youtubers if you need :)
Here are some French youtubers with a massive following if you want to learn more : Squeezie, Gotaga, Locklear, Wankil, Nawk, Nino, Amixem (he went viral from a meme on a mr.beast challenge), Mastu, Joyca, Rebeudeter, Amine, Gurky (french canadian/Quebec if you are interested on this side), Cyprien, LeGrandJD, Laupok, mcfly et carlito, Djilsi
Im sorry for not remembering more, I know there’s a lot of iconic french youtubers
Are kids shows easy to understand in another language? I'm also trying to learn a new language
1:35 Resoundingly audible gif.
Viva chile
I'm using the exact same method to learn Italian
Results have been successful so far
you read my brain like an open book and translate what I half heartedly knew, thank you
This explains so much why some of my classmates back in middle school did better than me on tests during lessons. Because they studied for the tests and learned it while I literally never studied for an English test in school. I just kind of used it on the internet, games or watching movies.
And I noticed that outside of school the classmates that did better during lessons than me actually had worse English than me in practice.
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?
12 y/o me watchin Food Battle X by smosh realized i started understanding them without translation. I perfected my language knowledge with school, but it was not the source of it. As a fellow teacher i thank you, i'd be trying to explain this concept forever but never had the chance to express it in a so polished way. Thx a LOT 🔥
I remember always being the best at English in my class as a kid. Everyone used to come to me for grammar homework or for the stuff they didnt get. I used to solve their queries, but when they asked me how I knew the right answer? I always replied"Cause this makes the most sense" because even I had zero idea about how I knew this stuff. But, now I know how an entire language spawned into my head, thankyou.
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
As an English learner I can admit binge watching videos on youtube till my eyes get completely dry and fall out my eye sockets is more entertaining and arguably more useful than studying grammar (tho knowing at least the basics of grammar and rules is vital I feel)
I remember when English spawned in my head when i was in elementary lol, the english they taught us at my school (how to write, the verbs, adverbs, the rules all that) was also of great help! Surprisingly learning to write a language and practicing it daily really improves how you speak it too! I'll always recommend to new speakers to not be shy to write! I practiced a lot of english while roleplaying!
Да.
Именно благодаря интернету я и узнал английский. И тут не о чем удивляться.
Но видео довольно интересное.
Thank you!
Почему не по английски😄
As a Russian, who acquired English just to play untranslated version of guacamelee and understand plot, i can say it was worth every sentence
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!
I sucked at english classes for my whole life and the second I got on social medias suddenly I knew how to speak it perfectly
i had the biggest ear to ear smile with those goofy ahh skeletons, great vid
2:33 exsactly, i dont know what they mean, why do i use them, and what is even their grammar yet it all "just feels correct"
EXACTLY!!! when someone ask me that kind of things my only answer is "its the one that sounds better"
"Just feels correct" is literally the reason for any of my answers in grammar (even tests and exams).
Frr
it happened so quickly too. I just started watching youtube in english around 2017 because i couldn't find subtitles for particular videos and boom. a year or so later i could have my first conversation in english with no practice. fascinating to me, how you're able to develop the ability to speak a different language just by listening to it enough
This video explained perfectly ALL my doubts about this myth..
“How is it possible that they can understand me but can’t answer me?” In my classroom my companions have no idea what I say when they hear me talk in English except a handful of them, but they don’t know how to answer. Just like how you said at 4:25 no practice gives little results.
Ps: FANTASTIC music choices
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".
I'm Spanish and I want to be an English teacher in my country, this is not helpful for me just to understand why am I naturally good at English but also to be aware of how does English internalizing process work and how can I improve this with my future students. Thank you very much
U don't need to be good in a language. U need to be a part of a language...
genial :D
Primero deberías aprender a hablar inglés bien, panoli.
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.
4 year old me watching playdough videos on my tablet not knowing i would be getting 10's on english tests without studying:
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.
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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Is this just a coincidence or is TH-cam actually getting more helpful and solving some of the greatest mysteries of my life
This is great content. I've sent links to everyone I know that might be interested. Thank you so much. You're gonna be an amazing teacher!
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
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
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.
That's exactly how I learned it, I never bothered with grammer or educational videos I just learned it from watching a lot of English speaking videos, movies, shows and of course video games, school did help me a bit with grammer though, now I even think in English
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.
As someone who had the spirit of the English language spawned in their heads one day, I can confirm practically everything said in the video is true. Also that there are at least 20% more skeletoings in this video than any other, very cool keep up the good work 👍
I love the usage of skeleton images and gifs sm
Learned the word "jargon" with this one, which is "jerga" in spanish. Amazing video, I don't normally give likes to content but this one deserved it, as you explain in such a simple way that really makes you understand the how and why of such a phenomenon.
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😭😭😭
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