Failure and Falling Out of Love with Languages

[@Chtigga]

Great to see two real OG of the polyglot community talk to each other after all these years.

[@LucaLampariello]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@QuizmasterLaw]

any time and every time you "fail" you just go back at it and keep trying. even if it means you direct your attention elsewhere for a while so as to recover your willpower. Persistence pays!

[@suzannegabriel8521]

Great advice or suggestions to regroup and come back to where you left off. Persistence can be challenging, but if it is part of a routine with movies, songs, and games, it can be a fun way to begin again.

[@Tehui1974]

I've got a history at failing at things, but coming back later on and doing really well. LOL

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Re language learning, the secret to a truly enjoyable learning process is, only choosing pretty languages aka languages that have mostly pretty words or only pretty words and a pretty / refined sound, so, I would highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Gaelic as they are way too pretty not to know and the most fun to learn and speak, being among the greatest works of art of all time - most probably don't know that it is a natural response to lose interest fast if one is trying to learn languages that have mostly non-pretty / funny-sounding words aka languages that don’t have a good word-construction and that aren't well-balanced, while the pretty languages that have good or great word construction with pretty word endings as well as pretty sounds and good or great letter combinations (aka combinations of letters that were selected by the language creator according to logical patterns, as opposed to being selected at random, which create a nice harmony within the words) are naturally motivating languages that are a true joy to one’s eye / ear, as one naturally enjoys seeing pretty words and hearing pretty sounds, even when most don’t consciously realize it or don’t think about it, so pretty languages are usually the languages that learners successfully learn to true fluency, as one naturally wants to keep learning pretty and easy languages! (But anyways, I am the only Master(s) / Leader(s) etc and all other similar terms - ppl are not masters or any other similar terms, and such big superiority terms as master etc cannot be misused by ppl in any way!)

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Luckily, when compared to most other languages, almost all the pretty languages are naturally easy category 1 languages (including all the Norse / Germanic / Nordic languages like English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / East Norse / FornSvenska / Greenlandic Norse / Limburgish / West Frisian / German / North Frisian / Schwäbisch / East Frisian / Luxemburgish / Hunsrik / Afrikaans / Swedish etc and most Celtic languages like Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Gaulish and Slovene and the actual Latin languages Galician / Latin / Gallo / Catalan / Genoese / Occitan / Venetian / Sicilian / Pretarolo / Friulian / Corsican / Spanish / Italian / Portuguese / Ladin / Esperanto / Guernsey / Mirandese / French / Walloon and the Middle versions and Olð versions of these languages, and maybe Volapük as it also seems to be pretty tho I am not sure as I only saw a few words, which are all easy category 1 languages with very organized aspects and words that are naturally easy to learn, plus they are all written in the Latin alphabet, which is the easiest alphabet) and category 2 languages (including a few pretty languages such as Latvian / Hungarian / Latgalian and also Finnish / Estonian, which are all easy category 2 languages) and category 3 languages (including very few pretty languages such as Irish and Gaelic, which are category 3 only due to the spelling, though the words are very easy to memorize, and Yiddish, which could also be a category 3 language due to the fact that it has a different alphabet, tho the words are actually very easy to learn, as it’s a Germanic language, so, even though reading and typing these three languages isn’t as easy as reading and typing the previously listed languages, learning the words themselves is very easy, and pronunciation is also very easy, as these three languages and most of the previously listed languages have a category 1 word memorability and a category 1 pronunciation and an accent that’s easy to imitate like the English / Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / Italian etc accents) because the pretty and more distinctive words are naturally easier to memorize, and also because the pretty languages also have an organized aspect and a good balance between shorter words and medium words and words with many syllables etc, plus almost all of them use the Latin alphabet, which is naturally easy to read and use, and, maybe Russian could also be considered a category 3 language if one doesn’t consider the different alphabet because most Russian words are quite easy to learn and easy to pronounce tho reading and typing Cyrillic letters is not easy and the different alphabet would turn Russian into a category 5 language, so it's still on the easier side, but, most other languages that are category 6 to category 10 languages (that is, most of the seven thousand languages) are unnecessarily complicated and not easy to memorize, so I wouldn’t try to learn languages that are from those categories, except for a few words that are pretty maybe, as there are a few pretty words in every language, so, I have about one hundred target languages, most of which are category 1 languages, with the least easy language I'm learning being Russian, which I recently started learning because I came across some new songs with many pretty Russian words in the lyrics, even though I used to not try to learn Russian because it also has quite a lot of words that have some letter combinations that aren't good, but I noticed that those words can easily be modified and turned into a pretty word, so I decided to learn it together with Latvian and Slovene and Latgalian, and maybe I'm also going to learn some Lithuanian as well, as some Lithuanian words are very pretty, so I would learn at least the pretty words and other random pretty words that I see in other languages that I am not learning, and, because all the languages I am learning have mostly or only pretty words, I really enjoy the learning process, and I wouldn't give up on learning my target languages, plus I prioritize the prettiest languages the most!

[@vesnaspasic3530]

Mr. Kaufmann is so positive, I think he is right. Even only getting to know some new culture means a lot, enriches one's soul. Learning a language is a long path, which should be pleasurable, no matter if we have some difficulties during passing its obstacles or not. Also I agree that the level B 2 is very high.

[@Tehui1974]

A great answer by one of the language learning masters.

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Re language learning, the secret to a truly enjoyable learning process is, only choosing pretty languages aka languages that have mostly pretty words or only pretty words and a pretty / refined sound, so, I would highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Gaelic as they are way too pretty not to know and the most fun to learn and speak, being among the greatest works of art of all time - most probably don't know that it is a natural response to lose interest fast if one is trying to learn languages that have mostly non-pretty / funny-sounding words aka languages that don’t have a good word-construction and that aren't well-balanced, while the pretty languages that have good or great word construction with pretty word endings as well as pretty sounds and good or great letter combinations (aka combinations of letters that were selected by the language creator according to logical patterns, as opposed to being selected at random, which create a nice harmony within the words) are naturally motivating languages that are a true joy to one’s eye / ear, as one naturally enjoys seeing pretty words and hearing pretty sounds, even when most don’t consciously realize it or don’t think about it, so pretty languages are usually the languages that learners successfully learn to true fluency, as one naturally wants to keep learning pretty and easy languages! (But anyways, I am the only Master(s) / Leader(s) etc and all other similar terms - ppl are not masters or any other similar terms, and such big superiority terms as masters etc cannot be misused by ppl in any way!)

[@suzannegabriel8521]

Great and insightful interview with helpful perspectives. You both are accomplished and inspiring language learners.

[@jeanenviedapprendre]

The nuance between "falling out of love with languages" and "falling out of love with [a] language" is enormous.

[@lmusima3275]

I feel the same way about Greek language. I’m no where near level B. Since my relationship with the Greek boyfriend ended I haven’t recovered from that 😢

[@인도철학한잔]

I'm Korean. I agree that my language Korean is difficult. Even native speakers struggle a lot with Korean grammar incluning me.

[@allaboutenglish5706]

The Godfathers of language learning

[@suzannegabriel8521]

Luca have you ever interviewed Oriental Pearl, Anmin, who's on KZbin? She speaks many Asian languages, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc., or even another person, Chris Lewis who speaks Vietnamese, Chinese, and Thai (I think) they would be great guests with insight into learning Asian languages. Also Lindi Botes, another polyglot for a guest. Of course, Xiaomanyc, Arieh Smith, another polyglot and KZbinr who has traveled all over.

[@suzannegabriel8521]

I know that you have interviewed Albie and also Lucretzia.

[@Chtigga]

@@suzannegabriel8521 He already talked to Lindi Botes in the past.

[@suzannegabriel8521]

@@Chtigga thanks

[@orlandoacontreras]

Greetings from Venezuela. 🇻🇪👋

[@marieubiles1377]

I abandoned German after studying it for 2 years. I think I got to a weak B1 back then. I have tried (and stopped) learning French twice. I abandoned it the first time because I never clicked with the cultural aspects if it. I abandoned it the second time to study for the CILS C1 test. I decided this week to study Russian instead of French. So far, I'm liking Russian way more than French (or German).

[@Daniel-wi6sk]

Wow ! To abandon French for lack of interest in its cultural aspects... That hit hard ! I might be wrong, but I believe many people who learn French do it, at least partly, for its cultural interest ! Which I think is immense. But as you might have guessed, I may be biased... 😊

[@marieubiles1377]

@Daniel-wi6sk sorry that I didn't explain myself better. When I meant lack of interest in cultural aspects I meant that I didn't click with the people. France is obviously a country of great culture but I have a vision (maybe biased) that French people are less approachable than Italians and Russians.

[@aiziszizis2536]

@@marieubiles1377 But you have a French username or am I wrong?

[@marieubiles1377]

@aiziszizis2536 I'm Hispanic. My mother named me using the French spelling for María.

[@aiziszizis2536]

@@marieubiles1377 Oh, I see. Thank you!

[@grai]

I worked on Italian with total committment for four years but whenever Italians spoke to me I didn't understand **ANYTHING** I could speak terrible Italian which they SORT of understood but when they spoke it was just noise to me I really believe that **not everyone can learn languages** my brain just couldn't deliver the skills I needed to progress

[@celine9322]

💔

[@aiziszizis2536]

Interesting... I've just watched a few videos with Italians tourists who spoke Italian, of course, and I understood ~ 80% of what they were saying. I'm Romanian, maybe that helps. And the fact they didn't speak too fast and unclear and didn't use slang words, helped, I guess.

[@grai]

@@aiziszizis2536 that doesn't mean you speak Italian 😂

[@pierreabbat6157]

How well can you understand slow Italian? Do you speak any other Romance languages?

[@aiziszizis2536]

@@pierreabbat6157 It depends... if they use more familiar words, if they don't use slang words, if they don't speak in technical terms, but in common words, I understand more. I learned in school French, I still understand much of it, but I haven't used it for many years ad I can't speak French anymore because I used English. (I used to listen to Radio France International before and 10 years after 1990 and I understood pretty much, almost everything, of what they said).

[@ЛюдмилаКонстантинова-в2з]

Grazie mille per il video! Ora voglio imparare l'italiano con aiuta di suoi suggerimenti! Never give up and andaré avanti!❤

[@saszab]

Учи лучше румынский.

[@ЛюдмилаКонстантинова-в2з]

Почему румынский! Mi piace l'italiano di più. Vorrei imparare anche o português !

[@pierreabbat6157]

Native speakers of only English tend to have trouble with gender in Spanish, since the only thing that agrees in gender in English is pronouns. My second native language is French, so I handle gender well, tripping on a few words like "orden". Since you're a native speaker of Italian, you handle it well too. What features of other languages do you have trouble with?

[@francisL2001]

Hello! Idk if you had ever made a video about this, but could you make a video about how you could use your languages to make money? I've been a follower of your account since 2017 and had been learning my languages respectively. I honestly had lost hope of even continuing this journey at this point because I feel incompetent against like job requirements. C1 etc, certificates to get into entry level jobs. I was hoping if you could share your experience about this, and how you could get a job. with my languages i'm at best in the lower intermediate, and upper intermediate level but I honestly can't find a job despite learning languages for these long.

[@LucaLampariello]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@pedrosa9283]

Let's put things this way...unlike with BCMS, my relationship with Russian is NOT a love story, for some reason....

[@QuizmasterLaw]

it's coz you're trying to speak correctly, which will NEVER happen instead, focus on speaking like a literal gopnik. No one expects you to speak correctly! and many russians and not just gopniki speak incorrectly! I love Russian and Hate Putin!

[@Ballykeith]

tldr - No.

[@darasadmedia.8599]

If you want to be good in Arabic, learn the Qura'n first because it was made easy by Allah. There are many people with different languages who read one chapter in the Qura'n everyday when they are praying, and they have the basic understanding of the Arabic since they can pronounce and read the Qura'n verses.