The 5 Best Languages to Learn in 2023
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- 🥳 If you’re looking for a new language to learn in 2023, then buckle up, because I have five very exciting suggestions for you! And these are non-obvious suggestions too. Because, let’s be honest... No-one needs another video suggesting you learn Spanish and French!
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Learn why Latin is not nearly as DEAD as you think👉🏼 th-cam.com/video/Xf5Wp_zuLGo/w-d-xo.html
2nd largest language is tamil and telugu , then bengali , marathi. If only in north india then it's bengali. Top 2nd spot 2 Lang is from many country like srilanka malaysia, Singapore, America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and rest of the world.
I think russian will bring a bigger benefit if learned than ukranian, because a lot of ukranians speak russian or at least are able to speak russian. So with russian you can speak to more people
I'm German native speaker and I want to learn Japanese
@@hilemn401 Viel Glück! Kennste denn wen von da, oder jemanden der es schon kann?
Ne aber mag einfach das Land
I have a degree in classics (Latin) and honestly rather than coming out of it understanding Latin, what it really did was help me be able to understand English on an entirely different level. Also, from learning Latin I am able to read (not speak) Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and French at a basic level.
Great comment! I think it is a nice side effect of learning Latin or Italian. It also allows to generate smart Latin proverbs on the spot without need to memorize them ;)
It was the same with me. Four years of Latín studied exploded my knowledge, depths and understanding of English as never before - even as a native speaker. I blew through French French first, then Spanish. Now I'm moving on to Italian and Turkish after visiting their respective countries. Presently living in a Spanish-speaking country gets me lots of application practice, idioms and expressions to continue ever deeper into the language.
I am learning Spanish and French
It's such a relief you didn't say that thru learning Latin you understand and are able to speak very well Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and so on & so forth. People tend to say that they almost master those languages after reading 2 pages of some Latin book. Native speakers don't understand much of Latin. Those who are well-readed will understand a larger amount of words if they know how to break down scientific or field-related terms but they'll never reach the level of fluency of a non-native speaker 😆
@@Estebann800 oh yeah for sure. Just from learning Latin I could read through childrens books in a few romance languages, but I could never hold a conversation or anything.
#5 Indonesian
#4 Ukrainian
#3 Turkish
#2 Bengali
#1 Latin
Thanks for the summary
Hindi too, used in India and Hindi is spoken in pakistan (different script) and also used in few other middle eastern countries.
Man saved me 19 minutes of my life
@@nsevv Indian speaks English bro. We don't need to study their language, they will study English to communicate with us.
I already know Latin.
I'm learning Ukrainian and have interest in Indonesien and Turkish thanks to this video thanks Olly
Skrach that im now learning vietnamese instead of Indonesian
Ha, I already opted for "türkçe" in 2022. It is really an amazing language and culture. I have never learned any language that is similar to Turkish before. Any advices for this particular language from you Olly?
Türkçe kulağa nasıl geliyo
Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages . After learning languages with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
page 260 (264 in pdf).
there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
respect equal to a new root.
To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.
@@ecemm7573 ç ve ş harfleri çok kullanildigindan olduğundan japonca sana nasil geliyorsa benzer bi sekilde
@@puvv ç ve ş harfleri çok kullanılmıyor ki.
@@ecemm7573 turkce konusmayana cok kullaniliyor gibi geliyor işte
As an Indian whose native language is Bangla I feel so Proud that you added Bangla! Yes this is a very interesting language with all its richness in Literature, music, culture and history 😃😄
And India is already more populated than China because China lies and cheat their numbers.
Hey man, where can I find material to learn Bengla? I looking so hard for good content but I just get kids classes about alphabet and stuff.
Bengali is one of the 10 most spoken languages… partly because of india but mainly Bangladesh.
@@shankar2725 I am so happy to hear your interest about bangla.
Bengali is useless lol
What a fun video! I was happy to see Turkish on your list. I’ve been studying it for 3 months now🎉🎉we’re heading to Turkey for a few months next spring.
Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages . After learning languages with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
page 260 (264 in pdf).
there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
respect equal to a new root.
To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.
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Yessss thank you for including Indonesian! I've learning it for 2 years now and absolutely love it!
I'd love to learn Latin as well, and I actually started learning it (with my knowledge of Classical Arabic I was surprised to see that knowing a classical language really helped me learning another classical language). The thing that put me down though, was the hardship to find interesting books. I am a fervent reader, and reading stories and books in my languages is one of my major habbits...I struggled though in finding interesting Latin books. i found about seven books translated into Latin that really looked interesting. But what to do after that? Reread the same books for the coming 30 years? Unfortunately it broke my motivation entirely. It's such an amazing language.
A LOOOOOOT of stories and poems in the classical and medieval era of Europe were actually written in Latin originaly, there is also of course toms of plays and novels made by the Romans themselves. If you are into math or science, a lot of important discoveries week published in Latin. Like Newton's Principia Mathematica where he basically creates modern "classical" physics. Also, you could trade the Bible in Latin, the Vulgate, a very important document for Christians, which even as a non Christian, is a pretty interesting read due to the impact that book had in the western world.
Latin is one of the languages with the richest literally record. We don't really use it anymore (There are speakers, but you won't see the Latin dub of the next Netflix hit any time soon lol) so finding anything modern will be hard, but if you look back there is a lot of cool old things you can read no problem
there are a TON of books in Latin, you just need to know how to find them lol
latin was the lingua franca of Europe for centuries, do you really think there were just 7 interesting books published in latin?
I'm already learning Turkish and Indonesian in 2022:)
Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages . After learning languages with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
page 260 (264 in pdf).
there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
respect equal to a new root.
To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.
I'm currently learning Ukrainian. I've already learnt Russian and it's kinda funny because whenever I try speaking Ukrainian, I always use some sort of my own version of "SURZHYK"
Feedback appreciated
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Thank you very much! It is very pleasant and important for us❤
As Ukrainians too :)
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As an Indonesian, I'm glad that more and more people are noticing how easy our language is, and hopefully more people will learn it as well 😀👍🏻
If you include Malaysian with Indonesian, that's over 300 million speakers
ok but then you guys have Javanese and then we can't understand you.
Hi Olly, thank you for your contents and videos over the last year.... I really appreciate the improvements in the quality and it's way easier for me to follow the entire content. I also get tons of useful tips and inspiration from your newsletter and I have to admit, I love whatever language you talk about... Thank you a lot. Good luck with your future projects and keep going. You are an amazing human being, Simone
Thank you for including bengali yay!! It's like hindi but softer and such rich literature, also many films, TV shows. You're the best, Olly. :)
Always nice to see Ukrainian in this kind of list. I was thinking of brushing up my russian skills a year ago, but I decided to start learning Ukrainian instead. Now a year later, my Ukrainian skills are still basic but much better than my russian ones esp when speaking. Ukrainian is much more close phonetically and lexically to Bulgarian which definetely helped.
russian is much more useful, the majority of belorussian, ukrainian speaks russian better than their national languages
Learn Ukrainian for what? To ask a money?))
@@tasmaniantiger6952 Even polish is more useful in asking for money.
I took two years of Latin in high school and have been dying to get back into it! A book of comprehensible input would be fantastic !
I took Latin in high school and found it always useful in meaning of words and study of Spanish and French. S-African Senior.
Corpus librorum "Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata" lege 👌
Hi! I'm from Ukraine! And I'm really glad that you have also chosen my native language for the video🥰. I'm impessed how accurate you put the information about it and you even mentioned the university I'm studying at (Taras Shevchenko National Kyiv University). So thank you very much for raising awareness of Ukrainian language, we really appreciate that! Wish you all the best!
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It's a happy development indeed that more people get to learn a language "that doesn't exist" of a country "that doesn't exist."
It may be another way of participating in the fight against the war of extinction launched by Moscow.
I'm learning Ukrainian. It's very hard😢. But I'm not giving up💪
@@Estebann800 в тебе все вийде, друже! А після нашої перемоги запрошуємо відвідати Україну, в нас неймовірні люди і смачна їжа!
@@Estebann800 same!
I've been exposed to Latin because I've been singing in a choir for 15 years and we used to have repertoire in that language. Also, I'm keeping an eye on Indonesian and Turkish (I haven't made online turkish friends yet tho) :).
I know this weird but we can be friends. what about??
We lived in Jakarta from 2004-07. Bahasa Indonesia is an easy language to learn. One reason is that action verbs are not conjugated into present, past and future. The use of the adverb of time with the present indicative of the verb suffices to make it clear if you're talking about an action that has happened or will happen. It's really pretty easy. Another language that looks hard to learn when written is Norwegian, which is really a derivation of Danish. It looks hard because of the three extra letters in the alphabet, ø, å, and æ, but the reality is those are quickly learned and you don't even notice them. Even though it is a Germanic language, it's much easier than German.
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what made indonesia feel hard is talking with local speakers, because slank langauges and dialect can be very different, even myself and some of myfriends have different dialect....
Quick note on your suggestion for #4: it is true that most Ukrainians can understand Russian, but it is completely false vice versa. There is an impressive collection of proofs for this, including mistranslations like "powerful cotton" and "hellish flours", when Russians were trying to use Google translate, but slipped badly.
As of Polish and Belarusian- yes, we can have a conversation more or less freely using our mother tongues only. Not sure about Czech though, as I didn't have opportunity to talk to anyone and prove it.
Hellish flours ! We may have an explaination of why russia would think Ukraine is in need of desatanization.
I completely agree! I speak Russian and have Ukrainian friends who can understand me, but when they speak Ukrainian, the pronunciation is usually too different for me to comprehend. Usually if someone writes something in Ukrainian I can understand enough to get the main point, but spoken Ukrainian is not easily understood by Russian speakers. Still an incredible language though
@@qrsx66 Moreover, they somehow translated "half of the country" as "the floor of the country" and "power supply" as "electric EATING", like wtf 😆
@@darianlee5161 Тут все чуток сложнее. Тебя понимают не потому что украинцы просто так понимают русский, они его (русский) знают и на нем говорят, потому что фактически все украинцы билингвы.
Если бы украинцы не знали русский язык, они бы его ровно так же и понимали бы значительно хуже. Хотя общий смысл понимать все еще можно: даже будучи русским (если ты знаешь свой язык и его историю, а не просто говоришь по-русски), ты спокойно можешь понимать смысл украинского, белорусского и даже польского, насчет других не уверен, не пробовал (:
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I am now interested in learning Indonesian and am considering Bengali in the future. It's so nice to see growing languages to be the ones well to learn and not just the already most common languages. I have a goal to keep learning languages in 2023.
thank you for considering bengali! its such a sweet language and you should definately try visiting bangladesh and west bengal :)
Bahasa Indonesia is my newest one I am already learning. It is so interesting.
Lol on Latin. I learned Latin in school, and follow Polymathy on here!
Bahasa Indonesia is very similar to Malay too. Good job.
as an indonesian, thanks for learning our language mate! we appreciate it! loves from indonesia!
I've been searching for a language to learn since lockdown, to try to keep my old brain active. So far I've attempted:
Norwegian - too many genders and conjugations,
German - too many articles,
Japanese - too many writing systems and...Kanji,
Korean - love the writing system, but the pronunciation...
Finally discovered the joy of Scottish Gaelic - 18 letter alphabet, no indefinite article (but 8 definite articles!) VSO word order(?!) and unusual pronunciation, but despite all that I fell in love with it...and when you pronounce it correctly you sound like Sean Connery! 🙂
Is toil leam seo gu mòr.
Korean pronunciation is easy, what chu talkin' bout?
@@carriegould7560 Yeah, the ㄹ (r/l) is a real joy! 🙂
Norwegians quite easy, and the gender issue isnt much a problem considering you can just use the male gender for male and female
Cool but how are you supposed to learn it when there are almost no speakers. i tried it too but all i can do after i did it on Duolingo is read very short Wikipedia articles. and that does not really help because the words are pronounced very differently from how they are written so i am learning it the wrong way. when i do find a video i don't understand anything because it sounds so differently from how its written. and finding videos in the language only happens a few times a year anyway.
@@belstar1128 thought the same
the only issue with indonesian is when you learn it, you're learning formal indonesian language & no one actually speaks that way in the daily. the differences are mostly in the suffixes, prefixes, and as the girl in the video mentioned: how and when to say specific forms of no. otherwise it's really easy especially if you're immersed with the language, 1 year of living in indonesia will get you far.
Why not buy/read Colloquial indonesian? Just an idea
@@slimytoad1447 as in books? Might help a bit, but Indonesian informal/street language grows constantly at a very fast rate. It's still easier to learn those stuffs naturally by having native Indonesians around to speak with on a daily basis.
But learning the formal one is better. Because informal version might change as time goes by, but the formal wont.
I like javanese language and music and culture a lot, and I wish to learn javanese, but it seems like its pretty much impossible to learn without knowing Indonesian first, because all the language learning resources for javanese are in indonesian...
@@louiserocks1 yeah its good to learn indonesian and javanese both, so you can really be immersed with indonesian culture and people in indonesia
Great video! Thanks Olly.
For me Latin's really the most interesting one out of them all. I won't take up another language,tho,'cause perfecting my French and struggling with the Hungarian vocab is already filling quite a lot of space in my brain XD The one I also find super interesting is Lithuanian,but it seems even more intimidating than Hungarian tbh. One of the things about it I find fascinating is that to my Polish ears it almost sounds like a slavic language,but when I look at the spelling,the words are as alien as the Hungarian ones were at the beginning (and to a large extend are to this day) and it's just super cool
I eventually want to learn latin. I speak spanish and i'm trying to learn italian. Good luck on all of the languages you are trying to learn just remember even native speakers learn new things each day.
Latin is a very interesting language and I had been thinking about it, but I decided to learn Italian instead. I might learn Latin later, though. I think it is easier and less wasteful this way. I will have a functional language and could learn Latin in Italian to see differences and improve Italian by the way. I speak Polish, English and German. I think four languages should be manageable in long run.
I'm learning Indonesian and would love to see it added to your courses!
👋Hi, fellow Indonesian learner!😂 (though I’m not studying it nearly as much as Brazilian Portuguese). I started learning it because everyone said it’s supposed to be “so easy to learn”, but genuinely fell in love with it along the way
bisakahkamubacaini?
@@ake10Thousand Yeah I can read it, but why did you make it all one word?
@@Dhi_Bee i thought they allow you to glue all the word in one like the language "diapergikekamarmandiuntukmencarisabundibawahlantainyakamarmandi"
100% agree!! If Bahasa Indonesia is one of the 'best languages to learn in 2023' and also easy to learn then where is the StoryLearning course for it? Olly, we're waiting😀
A fascinating list.
I am pleasantly surprised to see Latin in this video. I began to learn Latin intensively three years ago and have now progressed to such a proficiency as allows me to read original classical texts. This pastime remains one of the greatest sources of joy in my life. Those who discourage others from learning Latin on account of its lack of speakers appear to espouse the prevailing view that language is intended only to facilitate spoken communication with one's contemporaries. I rejoin that the written word is equally important, and that the ability to hold in my hands, read, comprehend and savour the original, civilization-founding, literary products of mankind's greatest minds is a life-changing pleasure which far exceeds the thrill or perceived usefulness of the ability to purchase a croissant from a Frenchman in his native language.
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This dude is amazing such high quality content and you says Latin don’t think your in a cult 😂😂 bro that made my day 😂
Ukrainian ❤. I have been learning it this year, but it's been easy as I know polish. What about interslavic? I find interslavic hugely interesting.
Yes, Interslavic is indeed interesting, on the other hand, we Slavic people can usually understand each other with a little effort on both sides. Hello from Czechia!
Yeah, Interslavic is one of the best for me
good job
Me too. As Ukrainian, I understand interslavic fully, but I have a long road ahead to speak fluently. How's your Ukrainian?
I learned a bit of Latin when I took a few law classes in school and certain videos games but the first time I heard Latin was in the 90's when Sadness by Enigma used to play on Yes FM Radio. It kind of made me think of cult leaders in red robes lol.
Nice to see such a video having learned two of those before already and one more - right about being able to understand.😊"Yay, I`m trendy)"
thank you for including Ukrainian, as a native speaker i can say that it`s actually a sexy and cozy language at the same time, there are lots of words that sound exquisite and unique! fascinating fact, we have two rules for spelling some words because we want to return some vocabulary that was banned during the repressions by the Soviet Union
ukraines lost 20% of its land to Russia which will never ever and ever be regained by Ukraine. all this because of the clown zelensky
It would be so interesting to hear about sign language. Love the videos
Also if you learn Indonesian, you'll be able to binge watch Kureiji Ollie better ;)
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Am learning Latin language nowadays. So interesting video , Thank you
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Cheers for mentioning Ukrainian as an option to learn in 2023, hope this will hold true in following years. I speak the language from my early-school years as I was born in Ukraine - it's wonderful and mesmerizing to have many synonyms for different things and of course, the sound is warming your heart too.
Just wanna warn you all that even if you don't have friends from Ukraine or don't know expats you still can learn it as many Ukrainians are ready to reach out to foreigners and are usually open to communicate, so give it a try! By the way, now a major Ukrainian co-produced film called Pamfir is being released (March 2023 in Ukraine), it will likely be shown in many other countries as well, so that's also a way to pick up some basics of the language. It's a bit of a brute-force way like to watch an English version first and then map every line or word to its Ukrainian equivalent, but depends on you. Thanks everyone for reading ☺🔵🟡🔰
I used to think I was learning Ukrainian, now I’m learning Hebrew
ukraines lost 20% of its land to Russia which will never ever and ever be regained by Ukraine. all this because of the clown zelensky
I never expected to see Bengali (my native language) and Latin to be in this list. 😅😅
Thank you Olly for mentioning Bengali in this list.
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@@AlvinSeville1 হ্যাঁ। আপনি কি বাঙালি, না বাংলা শিখেছেন ?
I think it would be interesting to hear about constructed languages and the way they function in particular.:)
Great job with the video Olly! I currently live in Indonesia and I'm really enjoying studying the language so far. But actually the lady Jean in your video, is a Singaporean living in Bali 😶
Javanese?
@@AlvinSeville1 she's speaking Indonesian, but she isn't a native Indonesian
Ukrainian needs support to flourish. It is a beautiful sounding language. I hope Ukrainian citizens really give priority to it. This is very important for this language's survival!
As a native Bengali speaker, I will say Bengali is actually very hard for foreigners to learn.
Firstly, it doesn't use Latin or Perso-arabic script. It has distinct kind of script which might take time to memorise. And even worse, consonants often make complex forms mixing with each other. Such as, *ক* and *ষ* are two consonants in Bengali. They make a hybrid structure which looks like *ক্ষ* . Some ot the other consonant consonants are formed like-
জ + ঝ = জ্ঝ,
জ + ঞ = জ্ঞ,
ন + ধ + য = ন্ধ্য,
ষ + ণ = ষ্ণ,
ষ + ট = ষ্ট,
চ + ছ + ব = চ্ছ্ব,
ঞ + চ = ঞ্চ,
ঙ + ক = ঙ্ক.
I've seen many adult Bengali speakers being baffled to distinguish ক্ষ and হ্ম; ঈ and ঙ্গ; ও, ত্ত and ক্ত; ত্র and এ. The short form of vowels may confuse foreigners.
Secondly, reading Bengali is somewhat difficult because of it's strange spelling system. There are specific rules for spelling in Bengali (As a XI grade student I had to memorise them), but it is also true that exception to those rules are numerous. Besides, the aforementioned consonant conjunctions have specific rules for being used in word. Spelling is somewhat different for inherited Sanskrit words and indigenous and foreign words. For example, the three consonants স, ষ, শ in general sound like *S*, ণ and ন sound like *N* and র, ঢ়, and ড় sound like *R* . But ণ, ড়, ঢ় and ষ are never used in non-Sanskrit words. There are two whole topics in Bengali grammar called 'Nôtto Bidhan' and 'Shôtto Bidhan' which explains the two spelling system for Sanskrit and non Sanskrit words.
Thirdly, formal, specific and pure pronunciation is a bit difficult. But day to day spoken Bengali would be easy. Native speakers in Bangladesh avoid sharp edges and nasal sounds and pronounce it softly.
However, you will fortunately find Bengali speaking people super helpful if you start learning this language. Actually it's so nice for us to see foreigners speaking our language. Learning Bengali will expose you to it's rich literature and culture.
I’ve been looking into Indonesian a lot. Fairly simple, sounds cool. Not many people speak it and most Indonesians don’t speak English.
I feel knowing English, Spanish, and then Indonesian would be a great mix.
I agree with this whole list. Amazing research and work!!!! Liked and subscribed.
The Slavic language I've encountered that I had gender difficulty with is Czech. I rode a train to Praha hl.n. and guessed, correctly, that "hl." means "главный" (chief), but had no idea about "n.". It turned out to mean "hlavní nádraží", but then I had no idea what gender it is. Adjectives in "ní" don't show gender in the nominative, and the contraction obliterated the gender ending (the Slovak is "nádražie", which is clearly neuter).
You can go to Germany and find lots of Turks and Turkish food. It seems to be like finding Hispanics and their food in the USA.
It's actually better to use "stanica" (feminine) in Slovak than "nádražie". :)
The logic you have for given for learning Latin is also used for learning Sanskrit as majority of indo-aryan languages come from it. I guess I have to learn Sanskrit and Latin.
Would be great to see some Story Learning resources for Indonesian. For a language with so many speakers, from a country heaps of westerners travel travel to and that's easier than most to learn, there's a lot less quality learning resources than you'd expect
I am bangladeshi and I got so happy when you started talking about my mother tongue!
As a native ukrainian who knows also russian i can say that i can understand other slavic languages and i wish people around the world will study ukrainian more. language is an important part of culture and history of the country, ukrainian is not only about people or culture, we have a lot of synonyms to describe our feelings or beautiful nature!
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You don't need ukranian if you can speak Russian. Russian is a 7th most popular language people speaks from Europe to Asia including another countries like Kazachstan and Belarus. Why people should study Ukranian?
@@Artyom_K. because it’s not a language anymore, that’s why ppl learn Ukrainian
@@Artyom_K. Because it's a different culture and country, people choose to learn languages not only because of their popularity or usefulness, Ukrainian is 26th most spoken language still, and if someone is interested in Slavic culture, learning Ukrainian or Bulgarian is the best choice because they have similarities with all Slavic languages what we can't say about Russian which took some words from Turkic languages or Finno-Ugric. Learning language is not only about work or utility.
@@andriyos45 what are you talking about? Is it your private grudge? You're trying to mix language with politics. It's a lame. Go support the current thing.
Wish more people would learn Dutch. So fun, relatively easier for native English speakers, and spoken in incredibly diverse locales (Suriname, Curaçao, Aruba)
I've just started. It's so easy!
Ik nu leer Nederlands al zes maanden en vind ik dat het is hele mooi taal. En ook makkelijker als jij Engels ken, het is waar. Ik ben mezelf niet vloeiend Engels spreker (ik ben Oekraïens) , mar met Engels basis het is veel beter.
I learned how to pronounce Gouda cheese correctly and nobody at the supermarket deli knows what I am asking for.
Is it still useful in South Africa?
@@ericmeekey7886 Afrikaans is spoken in South Africa. A lot of overlap, but they’re distinct languages
First of all, I want to thank the author of the channel for making this beautiful and useful video for us! Many people are embarrassed to speak a foreign language if they have no speaking skills. People are afraid to hear criticism from others in their address. It all comes from having a psychological complex - to make a mistake. But, after all, he who does nothing is not wrong! In Yuriy Ivantsiv's workshop "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language" states that we need to talk as much as possible: with yourself, with the mirror, with inanimate objects, with children and with pets. Find an interlocutor in real life or online. Talk without shyness. People won't care how you speak. They understand that you are a foreigner, as long as they understand you. They may even acknowledge your progress in their language and compliment you. However, always be prepared for criticism of your speaking skills. If you have the will to speak, you will gain an interesting interlocutor to consolidate your knowledge. Everyone is strewn with mistakes - don't be afraid to learn from them. As the Latin wisdom says, "walk and thou shalt not go astray". In the book "Polyglot Notes" by Yuriy Ivantsiv an entire chapter is devoted to the development of spoken language. Here you will find many useful tips and each student can choose a technique that suits him or her best! I wish you all the best of luck in your language learning!
Wonderful video
I learned Latin in middle school. It's a beautiful language, so I always hated it when people said "Why are you learning a dead language?" (like why say that to a 12 year old anyway?) It's so lovely to hear that it's being learned more widely now.
Turkish is one of those languages that seem cool even though ik nothing of it. Also wasn’t Turkish similar in grammar to Japanese or Korean?
yea i heard they say it is similar but never searched about it myself
Yes it is
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Very cool that you are partnering with Luke Ranieri on Latin!
Thank you for putting Turkish (my native language) into the list. Turkish has really much more logical and easy grammar than many language and it has very less exceptions than English. You also won't need to learn the pronunciations of every word separately becuase it is phonetical. I also really want to learn Bengali but I can't find enough free resources on the internet to learn it. Can someone recommend me a place to learn Bengali on the internet for free?
Duolingo is the only app that comes to my mind. But, i recommend to not use the apps. You should learn the alphabets first and vocabulary. Our vocabulary is pretty straight forward. the common phrases can be easily found in youtube. And you do not need to learn any complicated grammar to communicate, we can easily understand if one uses the main words one says.
@@nafisarkar3679 if I know Hindi, will Bengali I hope not be so difficult?
@@sheeliekittie9298 yes, bengali will be extremely easy for you. Bangla and hindi have the exact same grammar and many words are same or similar sounding. Only the alphabet and accent might be confusing for you in the beginning since bangla and hindi alphabets look very similar.
And, i am Bangladeshi ,everyone i know, know and can speak hindi without learning it at all
@@nafisarkar3679 so glad to hear it =) Do you know of Sri Aurobindo or Tagore and their writings? that's my inspiration to learn for sure!
Was hoping to see Finnish on the list. 😅 Sorry for always talking about Finnish; I just feel like it's a very underrated language. It's wickedly complicated, and I'm not as fluent as I want to be yet, but it's been such a rewarding experience, at least for me.
That's a very hard language. Many folks never finish learning Finnish.
@@AlvinSeville1 todella
@@AlvinSeville1 It is hard. But it's definitely doable if you're motivated enough. I've been learning it for seven years now, and I love it.
Many fellas never finish learning Finnish, because Finnish finishes them first, haha ;)
I love Finnish. It is hard at first but not impossible and there are a surprising amount of materials available for learners. And best of all is Finland itself. One of my favourite places on earth.
Ich wirklich liebe deine videos Olly. Danke für erstaunlich arbeit.
Ollie, are you planning on creating a book for "Short stories in Latin"? It would be amazing!
There is a really nice course book called Lingva Latina per se Illvstrata. It is an outstanding source for learning Latin
I always wondered, why there are so few Latin courses. Rosetta had one basic, but not in the lifetime package. LingQ has it, but Babbel and many others not. And so many pupils and Students have to take Latin and would look for alternative ways…
I think I should be focusing on Chinese for the rest of the decade because of the world situation
Facts. Chinese or Russian that’s it 😂
yeah, probably a lot of job oportunities, but like, you know, thats something we all already know. so not really the focus of this video.
@@copiouscat russian lang only if you have enough ability and opportunity to make "grey trading" bypassing primary and secondary sanctions (for you). It's their main problem for next ten years (at least).
Any other directions won't be so perspective - their country may become a new Iran or even North Korea.
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Or if you want to develop your spy career path - who knows? 😎
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If I could go back, I'd learn Mandarin.
thank you, I was waiting for this one, just two weeks ago I had this 'craving' for an updated version of this video.
I would like to learn latin as the school I work at will likely be teaching in from next year. It's quite common to learn Latin in the type of school I teach at, a classical school.
I should point out that Ukrainian in duolingo only has enough material to get you to A2. They have less material to learn compared to Czech, Russian, and polish. One person managed to finish all the lessons in just two months on there, so he had to continue studying elsewhere.
I have been learning Russian off and on for years but would not mind trying Ukrainian in the future because it is part of my heritage along with Polish. However, the only thing I ever found easy about Polish was that the Latin alphabet is used that is it though. But at this point I am pretty used to the Russian Cyrillic Alphabet.
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Ukrainian Cyrillic is fairly different from russian (mostly the vowels and a different hard sign) so goodluck!
Polish is lovely and i am so in love with Krakow!!
If Ukrainian was in latin, it would be even easier than Polish
@@andriyos45y the way, idea of switching into latin alphabet is spoken by many people in Ukraine, but at my mind, Ukrainian will change in worse side if it gets latin letters, because with Cyrillic Ukrainian words have unique charm , and also only Cyrillic alphabet may contain letters "Ї" , "Є" and "Ґ" , which are very important for our language
I did try to learn Latin. Unfortunately, my timing wasn't quite right since I took up French simultaneously, and thus the basics became hard to differentiate. Nevertheless, once I get better at French I might try again.
I decide to learn languages then I go off then come back It’s a continuous cycle but now I’m going to stop that to learn German and Russian ;) Balancing language learning Into my life Is what needs to be dealt with and other languages In future.
I think I am going to learn Greek in 2023, it sounds cool.
I need to improve my Turkish and learn Indonesian. 🙂
where do u study turkish
@@wm9729 I learned it in my own
with book, watching series etc. or sth else, which way
@@wm9729 yes, basically like that. Course books, television, language exchanges and getting involved in the Turkish community.
that's amazing, congratulations!
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I think you need to look into learning Ancient Albanian Sign Language.
One of the most beautiful languages I’ve ever heard.
as a Ukrainian, I was very happy to see Ukrainian on the list. I 100% support learning the language, and believe you me, we are very very happy when a foreigner speaks in Ukrainians to us.
Be safe please
Big love from Poland
Long live Ukraine!
I completely confirm! We are very happy)
For Russia We Stand. ZOV!
It is really rare even when Ukrainians speak Ukrainian.
@@TheGrantourismo untrue. Ukrainian is more common in Western Ukraine than in eastern, but it's still very common everywhere in Ukraine (except maybe Crimea and Donbas), and has only been on the rise since 2022
Thank you for Ukrainian ❤
Also Latin is really cool and unconventional choice!
I'm interested in Quechua and Aymara. I've been to the Andes and if you think about it, they're used a lot there along with Spanish.
Guarani is pretty cool too. I was actually watching some introductory videos on Nahuatl the other day. Such a neat (pronounced) alphabet.
Oh, wow! As a Bolivian American I never see anyone other than people with full (or in my case) partial Andean/Incan ancestry want to learn them. The only thing with Quechua is it has 4 different dialects (which in my case I’d learn II-C since it’s the largest & spoken in all of Bolivia, southern Peru, & north Argentina). And Aymara is spoken all over western Bolivia. Anyhow, best of luck! I’m so glad people have interest in it
@@Dhi_Bee I used to know some sentences in Quechua but lost my memory of them. I'd love to learn both those beautiful languages. The people were nice and were willing to teach me some basics. 🙂
My grandma doesnt speak Italian, however she was jsut using latin there, and everyone was understanding her
Fact:in turkish we have 29 letter but we have more sound like soft k , ñ etc. And you can travel much country like balkans, Cyprus, and other turkic country
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Indonesian is a new language created in 1928, modified version of austonesian malay, more or less mixed with:
40% Dutch
30% Javanese
15% Arabian
10% Portuguese
5% various local tribe languages
Example of loanword in Indonesian:
Gorden, Kantor from Dutch (Gordijn, Kantoor) - (Curtain, Office)
Gede, Lengser from Javanese (Gedé, Léngsér) - (Huge, Fallen)
Kursi, Selasa from Arabian (كرسي/Kursiun, الثلاثاء/Thalatha) - (Chair, Tuesday)
Sepatu, Keju from Portuguese (Sapato, Queijo) - (Shoe, Cheese) .and many more.
Ah, I see. So, this is the dead give away for what language Lamont from Days of French ‘n’ Swedish will learn. Ahh, I see. I’ve cracked it.
I speak Kurdish (Sorani), English, Turkish, Russian and a little Arabic. I want to learn another language and I'm thinking about Pashto :)
Yayyy I'm so glad you mentioned Bangladesh and gave her appropriate credits 💖 I'm not meaning to offend or attack India but I'm just tired of seeing knowledgeable people giving credits to India for Bengali when the main country using the language EXISTS and is just beside her as well as spread out all over the world ;-; it's like we don't matter at all.
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Decided to go for something totally different this time - Mongolian. Unfortunately, there's also the issue with the availability of good learning material 😞
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Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages . After learning languages with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
page 260 (264 in pdf).
there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
respect equal to a new root.
To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.
Turkic language has 230 million speakers.
I came=English translation of the example sentence
An example of sound changes among some Turkic dialects.
Turkish =Geldim
Kyrgyz= Keldim
Azerbayjan=Geldim
Kazakh=Keldim
Uzbek =Keldim
Uyghur=Keldim
Türkmenistan=Geldim
Tatar =Kildem
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Q=K q=k same sound
y=ı, i same sound just alphabet difference
Long girl came=English translation of example sentence
Uzun kız geldi=Türkiye
uzun qız gəldi= Azerbayjan
uzın qız keldi= Kazakh
uzın qız keldi= Kyrgyz
uzun qiz keldi =Uzbek
uzyn gyz geldi=Türkmenistan
Uzun kiz geldi = Uyghur
ozyn kyz kilde = Tatar (Kypchak)
Short way to learn Kazakh Turkic is; (these rules are only for Turkish/Turkic orginal words. These rules are Not for foreign words such as Arabic, Persian loan words.
1.rule=
First Y letter of Turkish words turn into J in Kazakh.
Such as
Yol = Jol
Yok =jok
Yaz=jaz
Yat =jat
Yürek=jürek
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2. Rule=
Turkish Ç letter turns into Ş letter (in Kazakh)
İç =iş
Aç =aş
Uç=uş
--
3.Rule=
Turkish Ş letter turns into S (in Kazakh)
Aş=As
İş =İs
Baş=Bas
Başka= Baska
--
4. Rule=
First G letter (if its vowel is front vowel e i ö ü) of Turkish words turns into K in Kazakh.
Gel =Kel
Gerek= Kerek
Güç =Küş (ç also turns into ş as i told above)
--
5.Rule=
First D letter of Turkish words turns into T in Kazakh
Deniz =Teniz
Döşek =Tösek (ş turns into s as i told above)
Diş =Tis
--
6.Rule=
First V letter of Turkish words turns into B letter in Kazakh.
Var =Bar
Ver =Ber
Varlık = Barlıq
(K=Q they have same sounds but Kazakh alphabet shows it with Q letter).
--
7.Rule
This rule is for foreign loan words from Arabic.
First Ve, Va syllables turn into Ö,O in Kazakh.
Vatan =Otan
Vasiyet=Ösiyet
Vekil =Ökil
I'm not Indonesian and don't know anything about that language, but I'm quite sure that Indonesian is not as easy as it seems. For the main reasons that the country is huge and divided in many islands inhabited by many different cultures who probably mix formal Indonesian with their own languages or dialects and therefore, the foreigner who tries to learn Indonesian must often find himself quite confused when he goes to each island of this ginormous archipelago.
If an Indonesian person can give his/her opinion on the matter, that could be interesting.
I studied Malay and can communite easily with Indonesians.
you're right; even if you study indonesian to fluency, there's high chance you still won't understand everything we say since we mix the language with a local language (kind of like how english and spanish from different places may have different vocabulary, how brazillian and european portuguese exists, or how in Norway they mix nynorsk or bokmal with the local dialect as well) and this also applies with our neighbors in Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei who also do the mixing game (except with malay).
unless you go somewhere formal, in which everyone will definitely speak "pure" indonesian.
but i'm also sure most of us (definitely not all of us) will understand if someone isn't familiar with the casual mixed language and adapt accordingly by swapping to normal indonesian, and if you want to be extra sure, just study the Jakarta dialect (the "prestige" casual dialect that everyone in the urban parts of the archipelago knows because it originates from the capital) in addition to standard indonesian and you'll understand and be understood by 90% of everyone.
it kinda feels like people from different latin american / arab league countries getting together and talking in their own dialects; they can somewhat understand what the others are saying but not all of them. then when everyone switches to the "standard" dialect then suddenly everyone is mutually understandable.
It’s complicated, but the truth is probably 99% of us speak our national language, Bahasa Indonesia. There are many examples where expats living in Bali would pick up Bahasa Indonesia there and when they speak to Indonesians from other islands what happens is we’d notice their Balinese accent. That is if their Bahasa Indonesia is THAT good in the first place, but if you’re just run-of-the-mill Indonesian-speaking bule (foreigner) this is really nothing to be concerned about.
On my channel I have some examples Indonesians of different backgrounds speaking their ethnic languages, but one thing in common in all the videos is that EVERYONE struggled to maintain speaking in their native language without code-switching with Bahasa Indonesia. That’s how strong the influences of our national language is, for better or worse.
Tl;dr you shouldn’t worry about it, as most of us speak Bahasa Indonesia better than our native tongues
Bahasa Indonesia is not our mother language, we have 714 native/mother language..
Bahasa Indonesia is national language growing as mother language fast..
As Javanese we speak Java but all indonesian almost 97℅ able speak bahasa Indonesia perfectly..
In every Region you will understandeble normally..
No problem at all..
Mengikuti sejarah bahasa Melayu sudah digunakan sejak abad ke 4-6 AD dengan ditemukan prasasti di Sumatera peninggalan Kerajaan Sriwijaya, juga ditemukan prasasti di Jawa yang menggunakan bahasa Melayu kuno peninggalan abad ke 8 AD..
Jadi bisa disimpulkan bahasa Melayu digunakan secara terbatas di Jawa dan meluas di Sumatera, kerajaan Sriwijaya sendiri pernah menguasai jalur perdagangan dan memiliki kekuasaan yang membentang sampai selatan Thailand, semenanjung Malaya, selatan Philipina, Singapura, Brunei dan sebagian besar wilayah Indonesia sekarang..
Lalu ketika susunan kebahasaan di kukuh kan oleh Raja Ali Haji dari Kerajaan Riau Indonesia, maka bahasa Melayu diadopsi menjadi bahasa Indonesia sejak tahun 1928..itulah kenapa bahasa Melayu digunakan secara meluas di negara Asia Tenggara, orang Jawa adalah mayoritas tapi bukan tipikal orang yang egois hingga menerima bahasa Indonesia sebagai bahasa persatuan.. Ini berbeda dengan kasus beberapa negara seperti di Kanada atau india yang tidak bener-bener mampu membuat bahasa persatuan nya..
Orang tamil di selatan india tidak mau menggunakan bahasa hindi karena bukan bahasa ibundanya, dan masih banyak lagi daerah disana yang tidak mau menerima hindi sebagai bahasa nasional nya.. Jadi bisa disimpulkan bahasa nasional India adalah bahasa Inggris.. Fakta..
Begitu juga Kanada, yang terbagi karena asal mula penempatan permukiman nya..
Indonesia berhasil dengan bahasa nya karena masyarakatnya tidak egois dalam bermusyawarah, bayangkan 714 bahasa..!
Jadi orang Indonesia itu rata-rata bilingual, mampu membaca alfabet dan huruf Arab dan beberapa alfabet daerah seperti aksara Jawa yang ter influence dari Sansekerta..
Saat menonton TV nasional yang menggunakan bahasa Indonesia sering kali kami merespons dan berdebat dengan bahasa daerah.. 😅
Bahasa Indonesia is most easiest to learn..
Bahasa Indonesia has begun to be taught in schools as an options in Australia and Vietnam
Cheers
Actually we Indonesians are very magical😅 we understand our mother tongue (Indonesian) but we also understand our regional language, so yeah there is no obstacle for you to communicate with us.
Considered it done because my native language is Indonesian. But I'm trying to learn another language too.
Hey just want to encourage everyone who’s interested to learn Indonesian that the language is truly as easy as it seems, which is why all the other languages in the world are too difficult for us to comprehend 🥲 With some caveats that the Bahasa Indonesia spoken in different regions might differ with what they teach you at language schools. But don’t worry, as long as you have your foundations, you’ll be able to figure it out. And if it’s any consolation, we Indonesians struggle as well with the different varieties of our national languages spoken by people outside our immediate village/city/province 😂
If you’re curious about the different dialects and languages that we have in Indonesia, I have a few videos on my channel for you to glance at (yes, this is a plug). We Indonesians LOVE it when foreigners learn our language, so don’t hesitate to reach out to us! We’ll definitely help you, in halted English or whatever native language you speak in 🇮🇩❤🌏 Cheers! 🍻
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Thank you for including Ukrainian! Ukraine appreciate all the support, and we would love to hear more people in the world speaking our language, and of course visit our beautiful country after our victory!
Pimsleur's Ukrainian course is free until the end of December ( I think..).
Ukraine has already won! The little grown clown from the East came to destroy Ukraine, its population and culture.
Even with the tragic loss of many soldiers and regular citizens, Ukraine is known and supported in the world, probably more than ever before. True heroes.
But yes, the final victory on the battlefield has yet to come and takes its time. Can't wait for it.
All the love from Switzerland and shame to all these populists everywhere in the world, that still support that war criminal. Fortunately, a minority.
I hope so too!
@@nalayak862 is this supposed to be funny? Sorry, it isn’t.
@@sergebishyr my bad
I‘ve started to learn Ukrainian on September 2022 as a German and i must say, for me is the language really really difficult, but not for the obvious reasons.
Of course, there are: Cases, Verb-Aspects, Verbs-Of-Motion, etc. Who are all very hard to learn and i still struggle a lot with them, but this is not the problem.
The main problem and difficulty is the russian language.
Because of the fact, that you can say, every Ukrainian speaks russian perfectly, a lot of the Ukrainian media is in russian. Videos with spoken Ukrainian language, often only have russian subtitles.
The only really way to get access to Ukrainian language, is by searching „bla bla bla in Ukrainian language“. Otherwise you will only find russian content. The content can even be of a Ukrainian, but because of the dominance of russian, he/she speaks russian.
Additional, there are not nearly as many learning sources (apps) for Ukrainian, than there are for russian.
For the ones who are interested, my learning sources are: Duolingo, LingQ, Pimsleur and A LOT of internet/TH-cam research. Plus advices and tips of a Ukrainian friend i know by messenger.
For English, i‘ve learned everything above A1 level, just by watching thousands of English TH-cam videos of various topics over a time span of about 2-3 years.
Before i began to learn, i‘ve read a comment of someone, who faced the same problems i am having right now: "the biggest difficulty is russian". I underestimated that comment, but now i see that it was and still is absolutely true.
This is meant to be a quick overview of my experiences learning Ukrainian for 3 months every single day, so to show you what you can expect to see what lies ahead of you.
This comment should not demotivate anyone, i love the Ukrainian language (except for the Genitive Plural, seriously, Genitive Plural sucks), otherwise i would not have started to learn this beautiful language!))
If you‘re thinking about learning it? Learn it!!
And if this reads any other non-native English speaker, who thinks their English speaking skills are not sufficient for using it as a reference language, it is impossible for you to learn Ukrainian with the internet!!
Hi Everybody ! I am Ukrainian and I would love to share with you a lot of youtube channels ONLY in Ukrainian! Here they are:
my top 5: Ukraїner , імені Т.Г. Шевченка , УкрЮтюбПроєкт , черепаХА , Aleksey Durnev
ALL:
Aleksey Durnev, Dima Maleev, Keddr , Kolegi Studio! , LUKI , OmTV UA , RDeni , Svidomy , Taras Bilka , Ukraїner , WAS: Популярна історія , XGTV UA , Антон Птушкін , Загін Кіноманів , Маніфест, Однією Правою, Останній Капіталіст, Телебачення Торонто , УкрЮтюбПроєкт , імені Т.Г. Шевченка , черепаХА
@@romankotenko1773 Щиро дякуємо за допомогу! Я думаю, що ці TH-cam-канали допоможуть нам набагато краще і швидше вивчити Українську мову))
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as a Ukrainian native, I can help you with finding Ukrainian content, or if you have some questions. also, I learn german now
From the perspective of an English speaker who studied French or Spanish in school the Slavic languages have a few things that make them easier to learn....
- There's a LOT less of irregular anything
- Prefixes & suffixes keep the same meaning pretty much all the time
- Flexible word order lets you fix your sentence even if you're half way through saying it when you realized you made a mistake.
- Words and word pieces rarely have double or triple duty like in English.
Ex. Running water. I am running. Running is fun.
'-ing' has 3 different jobs! Adjective, continuous verb, & abstract noun
Slavic languages don't have much of that.....
Just some thoughts....
The flexible word order in Russian works in your favour when speaking, but understand and reading-wise, I’ve found myself scratching my head deciphering what was said.
How about Scottish and Irish languages? They are interesting too, aren't they.
Interesting fact: In terms of vocabulary, Belarusian is the closest to Ukrainian (84% of the common vocabulary), then Polish (70%), then Slovak with Serbian (68%), then Bulgarian (64%), then Czech with Russian (62%).
The closest to the Russian language is Bulgarian - 27% of excellent vocabulary, which means 73% of common vocabulary.
If we talk about phonetic and grammatical features, then Ukrainian has the most common features with Upper Lusatian and Belarusian (29 common features), Lower Lusatia (27 features), Czech and Slovak (23). There are only 11 such common features with the Russian language.
For example, according to their lexical composition, English and Dutch have 63% of common vocabulary, and Swedish and Norwegian have 84%.
A few more European languages.
Czech and Slovak - 85%.
Slovenian and Croatian - 85%.
Spanish and Portuguese - 75%.
German and Dutch - 75%.
Czech and Polish - 74%.
Serbian and Bulgarian - 74%.
French and Italian - 70%.
Czech and Croatian - 69%.
Spanish and Italian - 67%.
Belarusian and Slovak - 66%.
Portuguese and French - 61%.
German and Danish - 59%.
Finnish and Estonian - 55%.
German and English - 51%
Español y portugués 90% e italiano y español 82%, son mucho más parecidos
I started learning Czech to research my mother's mother's side of the family, because Duo didn't have Slovak, but then I realized I've relatives with their trees in Cyrillic, so I switched to Ukrainian, because it seems to be closer than Russian, plus well, invasion. I love the language and the insights into the culture from it.
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So, what's about the invasion?
"plus well, invasion" says a lot about you 🤡
@@I-Nex Yes, it says I'm sarcastic and understated. I realize without knowing me, that tone isn't coming through my text. But I've got family over there, even if I've never met them, and feel a connection to Ukraine that's far to complex to try and explain even in person.
I'm a Bulgarian who has been learning Turkish for years. It's a difficult but so sweet, beautiful and fun language. Definitely a great choice! Also I don't know WHO told you that the grammar is quite simple but... 😅😅
I wouldn't agree.
Most Bengali speakers now speak English too. It's a beautiful language, I'm a bengali. I don't know about the scope of it as a profitable language to learn in 2023
As a Turkish native speaker, the language is hard but Turks behave well to people trying to learn our language.Nice video!
kendim rusum, turkce de biliyorum, soyle soyleyeyim, turkce aslinda cok kolay, toplam 4 dil biliyorum ve turkce bildigim dillerden 2. en kolayi, turkceyi tam olarak 6 ayda ogrendim
@@Lehos_S 6 ay dil icin öğrenmesi normal bir süre
@@Lehos_S En kolayı İngilizce mi? İngilizce mi Türkçe mi daha kolay diye düşünüyordum.
@@Lehos_S Linguists' opinions on Turkish Grammar
Prof. David Cuthell : “I know many foreign languages. Among these languages, Turkish is such a different language that it is as if a hundred high mathematics professors came together to create Turkish. A dozen words are produced from one root. Turkish is such a language that it is a language of emotion, thought, logic and philosophy in itself.”
Max Müller :Even reading a Turkish grammar is a real pleasure, even if he hasn’t had the slightest desire to speak and write Turkish. Those who hear the skillful style in the mods, the compliance with the rules that dominate all the shots, the transparency seen throughout the productions, the marvelous power of the human intelligence that shines in the language will not fail to be amazed. This is such a grammar that we can watch the inner formations of thought in it, just as we can watch the formation of honeycombs in a crystal… The grammatical rules of the Turkish language are so orderly and flawless that a committee of linguists, an academy, approves this language. It is possible to think that it is a language made with consciousness.
Prof. Dr. Johan Vandewalle;,now I have learned about 50 languages . After learning languages with very different systems, the language that I still admire the most, the language that I find most logical and mathematical is Turkish.”
johan Vandewalle “…I think that a native Turkish speaker thinks in short sentences, and when speaking, he builds complex structures by connecting these short sentences in various ways. This "tendency to connect sentences" can be weak in some speakers, and strong in others, almost to the extent of a disease. The linguistic structures that emerged in this last situation reflect the superior possibilities of the human mind in the best way. Although I have studied many languages belonging to different language groups, I can say that I have never come across a structure that fascinates me as much as complex sentence structures in Turkish. If you let me be a little sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, “I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish when he was younger too…”. I'm sure then modern linguistics would have been shaped according to Turkish, not English”
Receiving the Babylonian World Award, Belgium's Ghent University Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures, Dr. Johann Van De Walle explains why he is interested in Turkish today: “Turkish can be learned in a very short time. The rules in chess are logical, simple and few in number. Even a seven-year-old can learn to play chess. Despite this convenience, the person playing chess does not get bored throughout his life. The game possibilities are endless. It is a very magical feature that the same situation exists in the Turkish grammar system. Turkish grammar is a language that has a regular and unexceptional character almost as much as mathematics.
Paul Roux: "Turkish is a mathematical language full of thought and intellect."
Moliere: "Turkish is language to be admired; you can express a great deal by a few words."
French Turcologist Jean Deny : "The Turkish language suggests that it was formed as a result of the consultation and discussion of an elite committee of scholars. Turkish verbs have such a peculiarity that they cannot be found in any of the Arian languages. This feature is the power to form new words with affixes”. Jean Deny
Herbert W. Duda:“Turkish, which expresses all thoughts and feelings in the most perfect way, has such a rich vocabulary that everyone admires this language and accepts it as the most perfect scientific language.'”.
Herbert Jansky: “Turkish language is an extremely rich and easy-to-understand, easy-to-learn scientific language in terms of vocabulary, phonetics, orthography, syntax and vocabulary.”
page 257 (261 in pdf) in book (The Science of Language by Max Müller in 1861)
It is a real pleasure to read a Turkish grammar, even though one may have no wish to acquire it practically. The ingenious manner in which the numerous grammatical forms are brought out, the regularity which pervades the system of declension and conjugation, the transparency and intelligibility of the whole structure, must strike all who have a sense of that wonderful power of the human mind which has displayed itself in language. Given so small a number of graphic and demonstrative roots as would hardly suffice to express the commonest wants of human beings, to produce an instrument that shall render the faintest shades of feeling and thought;-given a vague infinitive or a stern imperative, to derive from it such moods as an optative or subjunctive, and tenses as an aorist or paulo-post future;-given incoherent utterances, to arrange them into a system where all is uniform and regular, all combined and harmonious;-such is the work of the human mind which we see realized in “language.”
But in most languages nothing of this early process remains visible. They stand before us like solid rocks, and the microscope of the philologist alone can reveal the remains of organic life with which they are built up. In the grammar of the Turkic languages, on the contrary, we have before us a language of perfectly transparent structure, and a grammar the inner workings of which we can study, as if watching the building of cells in a crystal bee-hive. An eminent orientalist remarked “we might imagine Turkish to be the result of the deliberations of some eminent society of learned men;” but no such society could have devised what the mind of man produced, left to itself in the steppes , and guided only by its innate laws, or by an instinctive power as wonderful as any within the realm of nature.
page 260 (264 in pdf).
there is one feature so peculiar to the Turkish verb, that no analogy can be found in any of the Aryan languages-the power of producing new verbal bases by the mere addition of certain letters, which give to every verb a negative, or causative, or reflexive, or reciprocal meaning
Sev-mek, for instance, as a simple root, means to love. By adding in, we obtain a reflexive verb, sev-in-mek, which means
to love oneself, or rather, to rejoice, to be happy. This may now be conjugated through all moods and tenses, sevin being in every
respect equal to a new root.
To each of these three forms a causative sense may be imparted by the addition of the syllable dir. Thus,
I. sev-mek, to love, becomes IV. sev-dir-mek, to cause to love.
II. sev-in-mek, to rejoice, becomes V. sev-in-dir-mek, to cause to rejoice.
@@PimsleurTurkishLessons bro wtf
Arabic is on track to become the fastest growing language of the 21st century, so it's also worth consideration. It's also an official language in 22 countries and is partly spoken as a mother tongue in another 11 countries.
But to what extent is it one language ?
@@qrsx66 good question. There are arguments as to whether the varieties of Arabic should be considered "dialects" (a controversial term in linguistics because it has been used to privilege some varieties of a language over others as "more pure") or if they're just naturally occurring regional deviations not unlike the many varieties of Spanish or the Portuguese of the Iberian Peninsula compared to Brazilian Portuguese.
I haven't studied Arabic enough to make up my mind on it personally, but I think ultimately native Arabic speakers should be the ones to determine the answer to this question, or at the very least have a say in it.
@@DrustZapat If you state that it is the fastest growing language you have to be clear about it. How can dialects be considered one language when people who speak them can't always hold a conversation?
It's a completely different story than that of tomayto tomatow or gas and petrol station.
@@Estebann800 people who speak English from different parts of the world have a hard time understanding one another sometimes, too. This isn't a phenomenom unique to Arabic, actually. Ask a Mexican if they easily understand a Puerto Rican or a Dominican and you might find that many of them struggle, too. What you'll see in these cases, and in Arabic, is that some speakers can neutralize their accents or lessen their use of colloquialisms to communicate more effectively.
I got the statistic from my Translation Professor. I can ask her where she heard about it and post the link.
@@DrustZapat I'm from Cuba. My mother tongue is Spanish. All Spanish speakers can communicate with one another with ease. When chatting context gives away some hints to the meaning of a word we're not getting. And sometimes accent might be something of headache. It doesn't make conversations incomprehensible but it's odd. But it's not the same story with Arabic. How can it be considered one single language if even the word "what" can be different in each so-called dialect? In each Spanish, English and other languages speaking counrtries there might be different ways of saying words such as dumpdiver, hustler or fridge but they don't come up every two seconds wthin a conversation and apparently that's the case with Arabic dialects. Maybe all the videos, posts and many others resources I've come accross are just extra exaggerated and Arabic speakers don't usually put togethers all the diffnt words they have in their dialects, but that's the impression I have until now
I am gonna learn Spanish and improve my English. Good luck everyone♡
Was hoping to see Welsh on the list as a growing minority language that has moved from its endangerment to become quite fashionable on Duolingo and elsewhere (see Ryan Reynolds!)
Olly Richards: "This language is easy right until it isn't!" Lol!
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