"How Many Languages Do You Speak?" - Q&A and Patreon Announcement

[@x2x3456]

very modest, respect.

[@memehi5483]

Nathanial Arias e

[@billyguns6975]

Thought the same

[@YourFriendtheGeek]

"I don't think of myself as a language master or a language guru or anything." Proceeds to list about 15 languages he's learned.

[@TV-bu7hc]

same thing I thought😂👌

[@leobourdon55]

Well that's a silly comment. He did say 'I studied language X' to answer the question about which languages he was exposed to. But if you have ever learned foreign languages, you know that studying doesn't mean speaking fluently. I actually like that he doesn't pretend to speak 25 languages while he does his videos.

[@YourFriendtheGeek]

Yes, I know you aren't fluent the minute you start studying, but you are loads more fluent than someone who hasn't had any exposure to said language.

[@leobourdon55]

Well, he is doing a KZbin channel on languages. I'm sure that being modest about it is better than some channels that I've seen where someone will say: oh, I speak 15 languages and then you could tell they are making a number of mistakes in the languages that I speak fluently...

[@absurdist5134]

I was just about to make the same comment,

[@jackdavids2723]

You are an inspiration

[@Langfocus]

+Jack Davids Thank you, Jack!

[@k999ford]

+Jack Davids True

[@fabinhoMANO1]

Agreed

[@XiaoKerr]

Your students are so lucky to have such a great and interesting teacher. Love your videos!

[@Langfocus]

Thanks Tirion!

[@NicoYorugua]

I'm a native spanish speaker, I'm 16 and I've learnt english by myself. It's pretty cool to learn a new language because I feel like another person and It's really cool.

[@grimmjowjeaguerjaquez5065]

Maxime Lamadeleine i’ve been living in US for a couple months (im a native spanish speaker) so i think that our spanish education system puts more effort into our knowledge of english and how to speak it correctly. Whereas in the US spanish isnt taken seriously so thats why not so many americans speak it correctly

[@TavartDukod]

I think most people that can actually speak English (whereas it's not their mother tongue) have leant it by themselves. I live in Ukraine and the majority of my English speaking acquaintances have done it playing videogames, watching KZbin or reading articles (or maybe books). It's nearly impossible to learn a language if you are only studying in classes.

[@ashleytaylor994]

UruguayoRandomTV if you can learn another language then you can learn anything like math, history, science, politics. It's all the same

[@paveljair]

Wow me too!! I can't belive, where are you from? I'm from mexico:)

[@rsoldier7829]

same except that im 13 and im a native albanian speaker

[@georgewang2947]

Paul: "I wouldn't consider myself a language master" Also Paul: "Here are a few of the languages I've studied" [names all the languages in the world]

[@aDm219]

George Wang well he didnt name mine so its not all

[@JudithKiwi10]

Yep, lots missing. Even within Europe - German, Finnish, Danish, Hungarian, .... Let alone Mandarin or Cantonese (possible candidates for the next World Language).

[@samitcouldbe1681]

I felt bad reading the replies lol. Some people are just no good at picking up sarcasm it seems

[@simonixio]

George Wang you can speak a lot of languages, however that doesnt necessarily mean you can speak them perfectly

[@sousaoliveira7841]

Até me perdi nas contas

[@SLFootballFTT]

I speak English (Australian) English (USA) English (New Zealand) English (UK) English (South Africa) English (Canadian) Standard English

[@AimonsL_oignon]

Smack Parkour that's almost same

[@marktom6740]

I can also speak English(Canadian)

[@elhermeneutico]

Smack Parkour Not Irish or Indian?

[@thefremddingeguy6058]

Congrats you speak 7 languages *cough* dialects

[@TomKellyXY]

To be a master you need English (Pirate) :-)

[@Moniiii148]

This is my favorite KZbin Channel. You're awesome Paul!

[@Langfocus]

+Monica1478 Thanks Monica! :) You're awesome too!

[@caocao_art2play]

so go ahead marry him :))

[@musregda3108]

lol . maybe if he can't marry her . I'm here Monica . I just speak 6 languages

[@mr.jinjie3749]

+Langfocus I speak 10 languages and I am 12 привет

[@mr.jinjie3749]

+Langfocus Io sono Italiano

[@Ruthlessleader]

Hello guys my name is Abdulmalek Im 16 years old syrian-citizen, I can speak Arabic (my native language) English (probably B1-B2 level) and I'm currently studying German because Im planning to go to Germany oneday.

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

Oh! I learned English as a second language and German as a third language too. Since you’re in Highschool taking an exchange program is a great option (I took one school year exchange program in Germany). Immersing yourself in the environment is the best way to pickup a language. Also don’t worry, most exchange programs test your English proficiency before entering anyway, not the official language of your country of destination. I wish you luck in your language learning journey 😉

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

Also, any suggestions on which Middle Eastern languages to learn? I find the region and culture interesting ☺️

[@vivipadman]

@@prapanthebachelorette6803 I mean, the only real major ones are Arabic and Hebrew. Farsi too arguably although it isn't semitic.

[@carterrissmiller2510]

Your English is great for where you’re at, Saying this as a Native English speaker.

[@freezombie]

I think the real question here might be: "How many languages can you have a casual conversation with a taxi driver in?"

[@MusicForKidsWorld]

You are a GREAT person Paul! Keep up the great content!

[@Langfocus]

+Kolosis Thank you, man!

[@mujtabakamran8887]

Langfocus What if it's a woman? dun dUn DUUUUUNNNNNN

[@mustafeabdirahman2167]

+Langfocus try to put it somali language if u can please

[@mustafeabdirahman2167]

+Langfocus try to put it somali language if u can please

[@neues3691]

I speak German, Spanish and English fluently. I have good enough knowledge of French to hold basic conversation. At the moment I am also learning the basics in Dutch and Russian. It is kind of a hobby

[@quekbridget5988]

hallo wie geht's?

[@blizzard1329]

I am learning Spanish right now, and after I’m done, I will learn German.

[@diegom6053]

YetiBlizzard Good luck with that...

[@davidescobar6300]

SuperAtomicFusion I speak spanish :D is the most beautiful language in the world :D

[@cristh16channel]

Can you help me with German ?

[@joshuamitchell5530]

When he said he doesn't consider himself a language guru I thought he was going say he speaks about 2 or 3 language. But then he lists like 50 that he can speak 😂 You're the best!

[@KnucklesEchidna5]

So you at least speak some Hebrew, Arabic, Indonesian, Japanese, Tagalog, Esperanto, and French. I'd say you're somewhat of a Paul-yglot 😂😂😂

[@elsie10]

haha clever

[@the_fifth_letter]

Wow lol

[@mikedoron02]

I heard him speak Hebrew and he is much better than just speaking "some Hebrew"

[@pdfbanana]

@@mikedoron02 he's proficient (note that i didn't say fluent) in hebrew, japanese, and french. he seems to also have some decent knowledge of a couple of the others, but the rest are likely just very basic conversational proficiency. not really a "polyglot," but VERY impressive nonetheless

[@BinaryRex18]

While i respect him for his wide knowledge, he didn't really answer the question properly. We don't know how many languages he speaks fluently. I assume he is fluent in english, french, japanese but beyond that idk

[@JacobChardBRA]

English native.. português 2nd and living in Brasil :)

[@Riyoshi000]

Need help with Portuguese ? I can help ya

[@JacobChardBRA]

im pretty close to fluent now :D well maybe not fluent but im pretty good.. what part of brasil you are in? Im in the north

[@piadas804]

Legal

[@Gab8riel]

It would be so cool if you made a video with your students at the university.

[@Langfocus]

+Gabriel Rodriguez I'm not sure if I'm allowed to film at the university. If I am, I would need to get official permission and have all the students sign something (Japan=rules).

[@Gab8riel]

Langfocus I am sure (not really, actually) that if you tell them it's for educational purposes they will allow it after a bunch of bureaucracy, of course.

[@andreamoscoso4065]

Gabriel Rodriguez Yes it would!!!

[@WilliamLau]

Gabriel Rodriguez 戈

[@bennyfermin7873]

@@Langfocus :0 wow!

[@catdanny100]

Spanish (native), English (very fluent), Italian (kinda fluent), studied french half a year, L5 of Japanese, and currently would like to learn German or Portuguese.

[@Elegantsoirees]

Cool I think Portuguese is e realy nice language so as German but is you live in America Portuguese is more important but I'd you live in Europe or elsewhere u can study German . But it's all your opinion . Kurdish(native) English(fluent) korean(learning recently) German(learning after I master Korean) I think I'll just do 5 or 6 languages . Because I don't need more

[@md6498]

Prefering German . Native turkish , Kind fluent english and German . A Bit of spanish and french

[@Rickys4568]

Wow, pooper poliglota. Mis respetos

[@piadas804]

Venha ao Brasil!

[@georgewhitfield503]

@??? wrong

[@BwantleyBoo]

Dang I wish I had enough money to use Patreon for all my KZbin channels I love

[@bluetannery1527]

agrEED

[@Randomsae]

^when KZbin is an actual job, it can be a way of getting money to pour directly into KZbin without losing money or to gain enough that a normal job would pay. Just googling Patreon, it's main focus seems to be just that: to help creators get a sustainable income while doing what they love. If by begging, you mean "asking to support me so that I am able to continue to do what I love" then yes, it will always be begging. At the other end of the spectrum, you may have people who make a ton of money already (those are rare and far between) that ask for support. At this point, they won't need to "beg" (in the traditional sense of the word), because they make enough money not to need people to individually support them. I think there's a difference between asking and begging. There are lots of people out there that would love to financially support creatives doing what they love other than buying their products, watching their videos, going to their events. Patreon is a site for THOSE people. It's not for those that don't want to pay extra. Also, often times, there are special rewards creatives can give back to those that put in extra to support them. Some people may beg to support them, but I think that's pretty rare. The people that can benefit the most from begging don't want to and those that don't need the extra money don't need to beg.

[@LoyaFrostwind]

It feels more like a PBS pledge drive, but where you can choose which programs you want to support.

[@JamieComey]

My favourite guy on youtube. I spoke two languages when I first encountered you and going on my journey to learning a third language alongside researching linguistics and anthropology whilst exploring your videos has been amazing... thankyou!!!

[@joshuadanielspencer]

Paul, I think you're inspiring. I'm a huge language fan (both modern and ancient) and I love binge watching these videos.

[@paconofficial8826]

Watching your channel for like a half year or more and never knew you lived in japan :D

[@Langfocus]

+Paconofficial! “Paconofficial!” Yeah, I don't make typical "gaijin" vlog videos. lol To me it's no longer a big deal that I live in Japan. I hardly think about it anymore.

[@thefremddingeguy6058]

"I don't think I'm a language master" *Proceeds to say he's studied 10 languages* Hebrew, Aramaic, Old English, Arabic, Japanese, Indonesian, French, Tagalog, Esperanto, and Italian And then just tack on English at the end and now voilà you have 11 languages That is amazing!

[@Langfocus]

+The Fremd Dinge Guy But that doesn't mean I'm really good at all of them, or that I could instantly use all of them without taking some time to review.

[@jbjaguar2717]

I've studied ten languages: French, Italian, German, Bengali, Russian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Latin and Ancient Greek. Only my French is fluent though, and some of them I am so rusty I couldn't really have a conversation. The reasons are as follows: French and German: studied in school, and will be living in Germany next year. Latin/Greek: studied at school then university. Bengali: family language, although I never acquired full fluency or reading/writing knowledge, so am relearning it from a book. Not an easy language so I'm very far from fluent as yet. Russian: Studied at uni as a minor (was rather strange when I had Greek, Latin and Russian classes on the same day: three classes, three different alphabets I had to write in! I don't usually get mixed up between languages but for about a year afterwards I kept accidentally writing a terminal sigma * whenever an English word ended in an S.) Italian: Used to go on holiday there a lot and also had an Italian flatmate, so I just kind of picked it up with the help of a phrasebook. Subsequently worked on Medieval Italian texts as part of my degree and read some Italian secondary sources with the help of Google Translate and picked up all the free Italian newspapers you get lying around London. Gaelic: in reality Scottish and Irish Gaelic are basically the same language and I only recently started studying them, so they don't really count. *The letter S in Greek, called sigma, has two different forms depending on where it comes in the word, so you have to be careful of that.

[@Abdulbasit.official]

make a video on pashto/pakhto language

[@Abdulbasit.official]

paul please make video on Pashto language . which is spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan

[@TheFiestyhick]

Nah. If he can't speak with fluency, it's not much of an accomplishment. Don't confuse "i studied" with "i can fluently speak". Two, completely different worlds. ANYBODY can say "i studied". Not bashing, Paul. He's not misleading anyone. It's funny to see the viewers ASSUME he can speak them all.....lol....

[@alokinrainborn]

Hello, Im Nikola, from Serbia. I speak English, French, Bulgarian and Russian, on a A2 level, lets say. Ive also studied Italian, Greek and Hebrew but since I dont really use them, I forgot them. Im a linguist, French as major and Latin as second language. Id like to learn Hebrew and improve my Russian. Greetings from Belgrade

[@pedromendesrbd]

you can practice italian by listening to it, there's a lot of things on the internet like music and tv shows that you can watch, don't give up

[@ronaldotakhashi7767]

What specifically are you studying in linguistics? (besides French and Latin) i.e. articulatory phonetics, morpho-syntactic alignment, etc.

[@alokinrainborn]

Ronaldo Takhashi nothing that specific, our education system is like bits and pieces of everything but nothing in detail. For masters degree, one studies, for example, glossodidactics, phonetics etc ( French ofc )

[@wtc5198]

Pozdrav, Bgd too here :)

[@juwleeyang]

I really appreciate your videos. It's inspiring me to keep learning and studying new languages. I'm an ESL teacher in Brazil and I'm passionate about world history and everything related, so this channel is a hole different point of view about everything I've been studying and researching. Again, thank you for your invested time in showing us all your knowledge. Muito obrigado!!

[@CalCapone3]

Give yourself more credit dude. You speak so many languages and know so much about so many more. The fact you've been able to manage this means there is an absolutely huge value in you helping share knowledge about how you managed to get to that point, in addition to you just talking about languages as well. Plus being that studied on something is fucking awesome.

[@Langfocus]

Thanks! Well, I know what you mean. But you know how it goes - I'm being seen publicly and I don't want to give anyone the impression that I'm trying to be the language "master" or "guru" because there will be people who say "Prove it!" or "Show me your skills. Show me that you can speak all those languages right now on camera" etc. and I'd rather not even play that game. I want to enjoy languages and not really worry about having to live up to the image of a "master" or something. With that said, I think people can see that I'm generally not talking out of my ass. :)

[@NicoLReino]

Klingon is my native language and I can speak English, Elvish, Dothraki and Namek to some extent. Just kidding, Galician and Spanish are my native languages, I can speak almost perfectly Portuguese and English and I have been learning Modern Greek and I can speak it to a certain extent. I can translate with the help of a dictionary Latin, because I now the grammar as well as I enjoy doing so.

[@anastasia13579]

+Niko L. Reino Greek?? wow good luck :) it's not very common to find a person learning modern greek, most people are interested in ancient only. I'm greek by the way.

[@NicoLReino]

Anastasia L.​ Ναι γιατί ήμουν εράςμους φοιτητής στην Λευκωσία στην Κύπρο. Και ξέρω ότι οι Κύπριοι μιλάνε διαφορετικές χαχαχαχα Αλλά έχω μάθει στο πανεπιστήμιο με μια Ελληνίδα δασκάλα :) Αλλά δεν έχω πολύ λεξιλόγιο και μονο μπορώ να κάνω το 'conjugation' στο 'present', το 'future' και το 'present perfect' (βλέπεις; Δεν ξέρω πολλές λέξεις :Ρ) Αλλά μου αρέσει πάρα πολύ και θέλω να μάθω περισσότερα!

[@ILOVEGREECE423]

+Niko L. Reino Πολύ καλή ορθογραφία. Συνέχισε είσαι καλός. Κάνεις πολύ λίγα συντακτικά λάθη.

[@NicoLReino]

tenma sama Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ ρε! ;)

[@belkyhernandez8281]

Some people do speak sci fi languages. I saw a job advertisement for a hospital seeking someone who spoke Klingon because the patient would not speak an earthly language. lol. I am guessing it was a mental facility. 🤷

[@carolchen2320]

You are Canadian??? That’s amazing! I am super happy we have some representation here and especially the area I am interested in!!

[@Heavy-metaaal]

I speak just two languages: Portuguese and English.

[@gamaliel5584]

obrigado

[@clockman5472]

Flávio Viana Gomide I speak three. English (most fluently) Irish (pretty good, but not excellently) and French (pretty bad, but I can understand it and have a basic conversation)

[@canaljkt]

Me too, and a little french.

[@gil_7038]

Flávio Viana Gomide I speak english and portuguese as well. Hue hue brbr🙋

[@anglosass7302]

Flávio Viana Gomide Me too!

[@blindhydra]

What a humble personality. Cheers from México! You inspire me to continue studding swedish. I currently only talk spanish and english. Keep the hard work.

[@Ingenting]

This is by far the greatest channel of them all. Keep up the good work, Paul!

[@dontlookatender9282]

thanks langfoucus for talking about duolingo, ive always wanted to learn german. and i would of never found it if it werent for you. Danke

[@anoitedfighter]

You are a cool guy Paul. Keep up making good videos!

[@Langfocus]

+anoitedfighter Thanks, AF! I will keep going for sure!

[@heyspitshineme1927]

Langfocus Dear Paul, I'd love to learn a few languages and is it possible for you to teach me? You are by far the best teacher I've come across.

[@AL-xu6lp]

Cool. I like how modest you are. I'm still on the progress of learning languages. I'm very fluent in Bahasa Malaysia (first language) and Indonesian, Somewhat okay in English and been learning it for almost 16 years ( english is the second language in my country and it is one of the requirement for my university courses), Little bit of german that i learnt during my university semesters, and i knew how to read Arabic but never reach the speaking part yet. And currently learning Japanese. Your videos really inspired me to learn languages passionately. Previously, i had also learnt Spanish and french but i was never motivated enough so i already forgotten most of it.

[@deeplydark]

I love watching your videos. There is no arrogance about you whatsoever as is true with a lot of the multilinguals on here. I have learned quite a bit from you, Paul. Thank you ❤

[@kiryu2000]

That's really cool! Throughout my life, I've studied Spanish, Russian, German, Portuguese, Old Norse (fan of Viking culture), and Polish and was raised with spoken Mandarin and I'm a native English speaker. Of the languages listed, I kind of chose what worked for me/ what I would find most universal. So in regards to investing a ton of time, I am actively studying Russian, German, Portuguese (I often crosstrain this with Spanish because of similarities), spoken Mandarin (I think it would be wise for me to begin the process of learning to write), and I may even pick up Afrikaans as I've heard it is the easiest to learn as an Anglophone. I think the main trouble with language learning is finding people that can practice with you.

[@noname89636]

English (N), Arabic (C1), Polish (B2), Mandarin (B2)....those are my core three target languages that I will continue to develop to "native" fluency...all others just passive tourist knowledge for travel purposes.

[@user-rx9zl7iz4d]

Arabic C1? cool! what dialect fo you speak? MSA? or did you learn MSA first then learn a dialect? are you able to understand other arabic dialects with no issue

[@richman2601]

I think i'm not that into languages myself but I love history as a hobby. This means that many of your videos where you explain the history and similatities of languages I get weirdly hooked ha. I only know Swedish as my mother toungue, english as secondary because i'm from the nordic (no shite lol) and small bits of french (unfortuantly forgots lots :( ) that I studied for some time in elementary. But lately by only watching your videos and by speaking with guys from Germany through teamspeak, I eventually want to learn german at the side of everything I do in life. Waow, I just became really serious and in-depht about it all but it's really beautiful when you explore such gems like your channel on KZbin, so keep making videos man!

[@sniffrat3646]

I speak English (native) and Spanish (advanced). Languages are awesome

[@rastamon5403]

+sniff rat Are you American?

[@sniffrat3646]

+Rasta Mon I'm English. Hi to Canada

[@rastamon5403]

How'd you know I'm Canadian?

[@rastamon5403]

+Shueib Dahir How!?!?!

[@sniffrat3646]

+Rasta Mon Your profile says "...inna Canada"

[@rahmasaidaa]

Hi Paul! My name is Rahma. I found your channel and I just love every single video you make. I have been watching your videos only for almost 3 or 4 days non-stop. I am also glad to know that you are very interested in learning Bahasa Indonesia. I am from Indonesia but now studying in India. I am also learning French and Italian and I hope I could be as fluent as you do in any language. Anyway, you've done great Paul ;)

[@aardmanestories5942]

Hi, I'm Immanuel from Nigeria 🇳🇬🇳🇬. I'm really passionate about languages and I love speaking other languages. I'm fluent in English and Igbo (my native language), and I'm currently learning Mandarin (the one I'm most fluent in on my language learning list), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, French, Romanian, Xhosa, Swahili, Romanian, Yoruba and Tamil.

[@renatofigueiredo603]

Six. I speak 6 languages. Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, Esperanto and Papiamento. Also studying Catalan, French, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Romanian, Albanian, Indonesian and German

[@pol...]

Duolingo too much? :D

[@renatofigueiredo603]

I don't like duolingo.

[@pol...]

Oh, I just assumed it haha but no problem, I was just joking anyway

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

Renato Figueiredo I speak English as my native language. I'm learning Spanish, both in school and with free time, mostly because I need at least 50xp each week adding up every week on DuoLingo, I think the number is 300 by the end of the week now. I'm also learning Swedish, German and Welsh. I want to learn Japanese, Norwegian, Danish, Italian and Korean.

[@renatofigueiredo603]

Don't give up your dream. If internet, as we have today, existed in '70's. For sure I would had learned much more. I'm running against time, 'cause I'm already over 50's

[@katherineanasmith8414]

lol all this time I thought you were that German pitch perfect actor

[@jdnd.6604]

He actually does look like him 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jdnd.6604]

Lol

[@MichaelRGB]

+NickJohnssenItaly The actor's name is Flula, and he actually does a bunch of comedy stuff on KZbin. (I thought the same thing when I saw this guy.)

[@bluetannery1527]

+MichaelRGB FLUUUULLLAAAA

[@mmmmmmm3931]

omg I thought he is Flula hahah

[@kthornbladh]

Thank you for demonstrating Duolingo. I am on my way to fluency in Swedish. The time I used to spend on Panda Pop I now devote to Duolingo.

[@edbengtson6989]

Thank you Paul for the introduction & back ground... Amazed at your ability to grasp languages and very well... Your a great teacher obviously....

[@Balipio]

Hi Paul. I enjoy watching these videos. Thanks for making them. I don't normally comment on you tube channels, but these videos are very informative, interesting, and provide a nice small break from language learning. A little about myself - I am an original monolingual older gentleman (Texas) whose hobby and passion has been learning languages on my own for many many years, dating back to the short wave radio listening of the 1970s. 16 languages studied total over several years. I'm currently maintaining about 10 of them. My main goal now is polyliteracy in reading. Speaking is a different "ball game", requiring other people's time and interaction, and I've noticed that in speaking with the same exchange partner over a long period, you tend to keep talking about the same things. I find the fun in learning and juggling so many languages is the continuous refinement of your own process for faster vocabulary acquisition and long term memory retention. While there are so many ways and good programs to use, the three basic rules I go by is (1) consistency and in short sessions (2) a system to recall new material from last session and (3) an imagination to stay passionate. I believe language learning is infinite. You'll never get bored, as there is always something new to learn.

[@aliadat3124]

I speak Arabic and Hindustani both are native. I also speak English ( fluent). Swahili Intermediate mostly speaking. My favorite is CHINESE ^_^ almost fluent but still working on it..... I also speak 2 of my ancestors language which are Kutchee and Gujarati (India).......

[@pawelpawel8892]

1.Polish(Native) 2.English(good) 3.French(beggining) 4.Russian(few words,dont know is it even countable here)

[@bobbymidha3901]

I speak a few phrases of about 10 languages

[@anandadaquino3604]

@@bobbymidha3901 HAHAHAH same!

[@stephottey9535]

But you could call yourself Polyglot Paul.

[@CarlosCastilloproactivos]

Thanks Paul for answering questions that sparked my curiosity even though I never asked you directly. Your video in some way also explains what motivates you to constantly create newer KZbin content.

[@lizs004]

It's incredible that you know so many languages, kudos to you, Paul. I know how to speak well Portuguese (native), English, Spanish, Catalan. I understand written French (It's a language you study at school but no one actually uses). I've been trying to learn Dutch and Esperanto.

[@79s130]

Natively, I’m a Russian speaker, and I learned English when I was around 13 because it’s a very largely spoken and written language. My second language was Spanish, because moving to America it was another largely spoken language with English. And my third and probably my last language i learned and will ever lear n was Arabic.

[@Daniel-mq7wi]

I'm a native English speaker. I've studied Spanish, German, and French to an extent.

[@TerribleStormer]

I'm fluent in Russian and German. I've also studied French for some time. It'd be possible for me to do some basic to mediocre conversations but that's it. A few years ago I wanted to learn Japanese but I gave up because of the Kanji. Still, I may be able to do some easy sentances if absolutly necessary. Now I'm learning traditional Arabic, wish me luck. But actuatlly I'm more interested in scripts than in languages. I know following writing systems fluently: Cyrillic, Greek, Hiragana, Katakana, Hangul, Hebrew, Cree (best script of all time) and Phonecian. Now I'm learning Arabic aswell. People always tell me that it's dumb to learn a writng system if you're not willing to study the whole language but I just like to know a decent amount of different alphabets etc.

[@bigchiefbc]

Big fan of yours Paul. I'm just a boring English-speaking American, but I took 2 years of German in college to prepare for a semester I studied at TUD in Darmstadt. I'm now in the process of trying to reactivate my German fluency, which is how I found your channel. Keep making awesome videos! (I also took 4 years of Latin in high school, so although I don't speak any Romance languages, but I can pretty much figure out Spanish, Italian and French while reading.

[@giovannigentile6744]

You are very culturate but yet so humble, really appreciate this, keep going on your works are great

[@ronaldo53603]

you rock man, greetings from Brazil

[@eliasaraujo9957]

Hey! I'm Brazilian. I have portuguese as my native language and I'm currently studying english. I love your channel. keep it!

[@vinyziks323]

É nois

[@fabinhoMANO1]

Aqui estamos nós brazukas

[@geovanetertuliano9378]

brasileirooo poha

[@essennagerry]

Well you're obviously doing pretty well in English! :P ;)

[@waterdragon2012]

What you mean to say is: "Keep it going!" Or: "keep it up!" Just some friendly constructive feedback. Your English is really good, keep it up! ;-)

[@patax144]

Spanish is an amazing language

[@elisei01]

+Maria Ximena Otalora Cordoba shitty !

[@patax144]

akkaunt what do you mean?

[@elisei01]

Maria Ximena Otalora Cordoba merda

[@BernardoPatino]

+akkaunt okei

[@BernardoPatino]

+akkaunt Siecarajo

[@belagarcia984]

so far I can speak English, Spanish, American sign language, korean, and I'm learning Japanese currently. I'm still in highschool and only recently discovered my love for learning languages. I've been binge watching all of your videos and I enjoy them a lot!

[@Elias-xh8xm]

First of, i absolutely adore your channel and the work you put in. I'm a native German/Moroccan, i grew up learning Classic Arabic and French in school, I learnt German at home when growing up and i also speak Moroccan Darija obviously. So basically i speak, German, Darija, Arabic, English, French and i learned Spanish in the past two years.

[@wypimentel]

Very nice, very humble, we like you! :D Cheers man

[@Langfocus]

+Wesley Pimentel Thanks, Wesley! :)

[@vuurniacsquarewave5091]

Hey, you've recently put up a video about Finnish, so my question would be if you're considering to talk about Hungarian any time in the future. I'd be eager to help out by giving you demonstrative clips or whatever else you might need.

[@CalCapone3]

I would also very much be interested in a video about Hungarian. It just came out for Duolingo so I've been playing around with it a bit and from what I've seen already it's definitely like nothing else on Earth.

[@vuurniacsquarewave5091]

Charles Cal Exactly. If you bump into something familiar it's because of the effect the neighboring slavic languages had on it, as well as German. Like the modal "muszáj" (must) apparently came from the German "muss sein" (must be) and so on.

[@aleksandrnestrato]

za909returns Wow, Hungarian! The language that has 26 cases and doesn't have prepositions. :-) I'm very interested in getting acquainted with its structure and grammar, but I don't have time to really learn it.

[@vuurniacsquarewave5091]

***** That's one of the common misconceptions, a lot of these "cases" are equivalents of prepositions, like "-ban/-ben" are "in", "-ba/-be" are "into", "-hoz/-hez/-höz" are "to"... the difficult thing is that almost all suffixes have more than one form, and you need to pick the right one based on "vowel harmony". So "in car" can only be "autóban", and never "autóben". Also, there are post-positions, like "alatt" (under) which FOLLOW the word they are connected to, unlike in indo-european languages. "Az asztal alatt" -> literally: "The table under"

[@rekaehreth2912]

I'd really love to see a video about the Hungarian language! (According to my literature teacher, it's the 42nd most commonly spoken language in the world which I can hardly believe) +Langfocus If you'll ever going to make a video about it, I'd also be happy to help with anything!

[@kubakrupinski9533]

Polish and English native, German nearly fluent and currently studying Spanish.

[@angelodeavila]

I speak spanish and Italian. Just now i'm studing English. I didn't study portuguese but i'm able to understand the 40/50% of the worlds (because it's very similar to the spanish). I'll want to learn german or french in the future, maybe the next year i'll beginning. Thanks for your videos i'm really glad with those! Your work is excellent.

[@shanehorsfall1337]

I speak ..... English -Fluently ( C2) German - Fluenty ( C2) Italian - Beginner Intermediate ( B1) French - Intermediate ( B2) Russian - Beginner ( A2) Polish - Beginner ( A2) I am currently in Ukraine practising my Polish and Russian skills with a Polish family living in Lviv

[@MrBarclonista]

now i feel bad for using adblocker

[@samguy7654]

ajr13 Then just donate on Pantreon and you can keep your adblocker without any conscience issues lol.

[@starhoshibyul_oldaccount]

My first language is Malay and we all learn English as our second/third language at school. I took Arabic classes for 3 years as an additional language, but gave up when it came to super long essay lmao. Then I learned Japanese because I started to watch anime (poor excuse but it was a start lol). After that I took language classes (Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Thai) in college (I even extended my sem because I simply love languages ;p). But… I’ll never claim myself to be fluent in any of those languages, especially when we only have 3 levels to complete each language course so there is only so much we could learn in 1 ½ years (& as you can see my English is kinda bad for someone who learned it from school haha) & but at least I can say it was not a waste of time or anything... I do found it useful at times, like IDK, when I listen to foreign languages songs, watching foreign language shows without subtitles, or travelling or… well, googling stuff in foreign languages, you know, like stuff that your college/company or even your country might block if you googled it in your first language/English… hahaa j/k.. - but I’m serious it worked ok lol. So yeah, I may not know much, but I’ll manage… After all I learned them just for fun. Like, I just love how I can compare the differences/similarities between each languages that I learned while learning another new language, or the ability to write/read something in a script other than the Latin one, it just gave me this weird satisfaction, so. :)

[@gabriellazavul3490]

eruaru- Your English is actually very good! :D

[@clockman5472]

eruaru Your English is as good as a native speaker's English,

[@rapidfart9579]

eruaru wahh,teruskan usaha!

[@abbyh6909]

your English is great! I actually forgot you said it wasnt your native language because you have perfect grammar and structure and spelling and all that. good job!

[@aldiandalan763]

Well, I'm Indonesian. I speak Bahasa Indonesia, English, and Sundanese (a local language in West Java Province which has Bandung as its provincial capital city and it is a city that held an Asian African Summit). I understand Malay if I interact with Malaysian people or watch them in local television. I studied Japanese at High School. I studied to read or recite Quran verses in Arabic, However, Arabic is still a really hard language to learn, we just taught to recite Quran verses. I am studying Turkish a little bit because of their colossal series Magnificent Century and Magnificent Century Kosem.... LOL.... Despite that, in Indonesia some High school can teach another foreign language beside Japanese. There are some High school which taught Arabic(not just Quran Recital), French, Deutsch, and Chinese. Since elementary school till high school, we studied language such as Sundanese( It depends on what province that you live, if you live in east and central java, or Yogyakarta special region, maybe you need to studied Javanese in school) but in if you studied in Jakarta maybe you don't study any local languages. I love your channel. I'm sorry for this long comment. Thank you

[@gilangp2011]

Wow, we live in the same city.. I can speak Sundanese, Indonesian, English, and Arabic too. سلام، دخرجت من الجمعة محندس بندنج :)

[@76rjackson]

I speak English. I started studying French at age 12 and continued for 8 years. I studied Spanish for 6 years. I studied Latin, Portuguese, Italian and Tagalog for 1 year each but I have forgotten most of the Tagolog. I will say that I had a coworker from outside Manila who conversed with me in his dialect, Chavacano, and told me that I was pretty fluent in it since it is a creole Tagolog Spanish hybrid. I did short courses in Russian and Greek, Arabic, Korean and Japanese but wouldn't say that I can speak them. Self taught a bit of German but again I would not say that I can speak it. In my 40s I studied Cantonese for 3 years and followed up with 3 years of Mandarin in my 50's. Now I'm pushing sixty and need to learn Thai! 2 years in and I have focused primarily on speaking. Still need to learn to read and write. I am not talented at this, it had just always interested me and I never worked in a field where language was my primary source of income except a stint in Texas when I taught ESL in a little private school on the Mexican border in the early 80's. My ears are going deaf and I have a good case of CRS. Almost all the Chinese characters I learned to write have evaporated from my memory. Ditto Hangul, Katakana and Hiragana. Being a language lover is definitely an uphill battle and what you don't use you lose. it's very disconcerting to stare at a menu in Chinatown and KNOW that you used to be able to read it! But the full meaning is flitting around the shadows of your memory like the algebra and calculus formulas from decades ago. The good news is that studying languages will forestall the development of dementia if you have any propensity to develop that condition. And like anything, what you do for a long time, you will eventually get very good at. I am a dilettante. In reality, though, studying language and culture for a lifetime has taught me how much we are all alike. A lot of mistrust arises from the inability we have to communicate with one another. Reach across the linguistic divide with a few friendly words and you will quickly build a bridge of trust. Gens una sumus.

[@loose_leaf_lofi]

I speak German, Tamazight, French, English and Spanish fluently, understand Dutch, Portuguese, Arabic and Italian to an extent and am currently learning Japanese. Love your channel!

[@shreeshak6598]

I am from India. I can speak Kannada( Mother tongue- A south Indian language), Malayalam, Tulu (South Indian languages) , Hindi, Sanskrit and English.

[@sahinoudiengo816]

Is sanskrit dead language or not?

[@shreeshak6598]

@@sahinoudiengo816 It is not. There are still people who speak Sanskrit as their mother tongue in India. Other Indian languages use many words which have been directly borrowed from Sanskrit.

[@vvakos]

You should make a video about the hungarian language Paul.

[@SantiagoG18]

He did it recently.

[@franchufranchu119]

This is the best Patreon announcement ever

[@FalkeNarwal]

I am from the French speaking part of Belgium and I study German and English at university. I also took Spanish courses for two years but had to stop to finish my thesis (in linguitics ;-D). I've been learning Swedish for four months with Duolingo as well. Just like you, I am a "language enthusiast" and you totally convey your passion in your videos and this is awesome! You have a really great channel and I always learn new things watching your videos. Keep up the good work!

[@MrTacoeater999]

With your humble attitude and your other cool videos you have earned my respect, you have a new Subscriber. Saludos desde España!

[@Langfocus]

+Guillermo Muela Thanks Guillermo! I'm glad to have you as a subscriber!

[@jechudosantos69]

What can I say, Love you channel man !

[@Langfocus]

Thank you!

[@mohammedrahim436]

I know how to speak 4 languages or know them very well. Those are Bengali (Mother Tongue), English (1st Language outside home), Urdu/Hindi and Farsi. When I am at home I mostly(99.9%) speak Bengali. Although my mind speaks English. English is used everyday whenever I go outside. Urdu/Hindi, I learnt it through internet and media (Bollywood and Indian/Pakistani Soap Operas). It is not a surprise for people from my country to know Urdu/Hindi because most people from my country watch Bollywood and Hindi Soap Operas than local ones. I know how to read both script, more better with Urdu because it is hard to recognise some words in Devanagari Script. Urdu is much easier to read because I know how to read Arabic script since I read the Quran. I mostly speak with my friends from India and Pakistan. Sometimes I speak it with myself to improve. But I would not really say I am fluent but I will be in the future. Farsi, the dialect I learnt is Dari Farsi because of my love for Afghanistan. On of my forefathers do come from there. It was difficult at first because I was practicing writing. That does not work. I watched a video of how to master many languages quickly in few months, I thought it was bulls. I only watched half because it was very long. The methods were not hard and it worked. Again I still say I am not fluent, I just know and understand it well. I also know how to read it and write it especially with Nastaliq script. I used to be bad at it but now I can write it well. I pass my time doing Nastaliq calligraphy. I never speak this language daily with anyone but myself same case with Urdu/Hindi. However I have spoke it to few Afghans but I used only phrases because at that time I did not know it well. Language that I know a bit well are Pashto (read and write), Punjabi(Shahmukhi Script) and Assamese(Just Understand only because it is close to Bengali)

[@stubvdrlkjhgfdsy9614]

ما شاء الله

[@jopeteus]

1. Finnish (Native) 2. English (Fluent) 3. German (Fluent) 4. Japanese (Fluent but can't read) 5. Spanish (I know enough to order food in restaurants) 6. Chinese (I just started)

[@cassandra2968]

That's awesome!!!!! If you go to Japan you can ask people for help since you can't read it right? :)

[@d.viajes3882]

Fuerza!!

[@matu88ma]

1. Estonian (native) 2. English (fluent) 3. Russian (forced to learn, but haven't learnt a thing from these stupid russian teachers) 4. Finnish (since I'm estonian I do undestand bits)

[@gabvmon]

1. Spanish (native) 2. English (fluent) 3. Portuguese (I can understand a lot because it's very similar to Spanish) 4. Japanese (I can read but I need to learn more grammar and vocabulary) 5. German (I think I'm on a A2 level idk)

[@uchuuseijin]

If only you could read Chinese would be so easy for you haha

[@joanginsberg9604]

Always been fascinated by languages and dialect. Got a degree in Spanish, with some Portuguese, Sort of kept up my French--enough to hold proper conversations, brushed up my school Latin recently --love it now but hated the teachers in school. Had a love affair with Arabic--and will continue once I retire. Speak Welsh fluently---first language with my kids (had to learn it though--and it's hard using a language other than your mother tongue with your kids. --pulled it off reasonably well)Can understand some Irish conversations and can read with varying success in the language--only speak bits and bobs. Learning German at the moment--and finding it a slap in the face--although I love it. I don't know whether it's a good or a bad thing to be a butterfly with languages--looks like there's a lot of us though--not least the wonderful Paul. Thanks for your great videos!

[@yonlaycabrera4431]

Paul, I've got impressed that you live in Japan I follow your channel because I am living in Japan right now and I your explanation about japanese was very important for me, in order to make some sense of my first six months of studing thank you so much for your videos, I will support you in all the ways I can, you can count with it.

[@aarian57]

Persian (my mother tongue) English ( my field of study) Arabic these 3 I am good at, I can speak, read & write, understand them & I am fluent. Turkish, Azeri I am familiar with, and of course a Persian dialect as my 1st language, I like studying languages, I am good at learning lgs.

[@iraqigamer2407]

Hmm. Where are you exactly from?

[@shaderagario9967]

I think Iran.

[@markhenley3097]

Either Iran or Afghanistan.

[@buminkagan8895]

Danial Arian if you are talking about the language in Azerbaijan then it's called Azerbaijani Turkish* not Azeri. Azerbaijani Turks there will get mad at u (if u call then Azeri instead of Azerbaijani Turk, too.)

[@aarian57]

+IraqI GaMer I am Persian, living in Europe

[@junior.santana]

Now I'm way more curious. I didn't get how many languages you speak fluently. Besides, your students are lucky! I wonder what would an English class of yours be like. (PS: corrections are aprecciated)

[@Langfocus]

"Fluent" is such an unclear word that I don't even think about which languages I'm "fluent" in. I don't like to think about my level at all, to be honest, because then languages aren't fun anymore, it becomes all about proving something. In any case, I don't want people to think I'm some amazing polyglot. I'm really not. I just find languages and linguistics very interesting.

[@junior.santana]

Langfocus Thanks for answer me. I see. I agree, fluency has not a definitive meaning, actually I wanted to ask about which languages do you have contact in a daily basis. But, maybe, it's all about our goals with the language we are learning, isn't?! Keep up with this good work 👍

[@mariaioakeim8749]

Native: Greek and Cypriot Greek, Learned: English, Learned by my own: Spanish

[@ioguapin]

+Maria Ioakeim Cool.

[@MrMattpnk]

That's awesome. My native language is Spanish and I've studied Greek. Do you want some help or practice with your Spanish?

[@mariaioakeim8749]

+MrMattpnk actually I have learned Spanish from telenovelas and series that I watch.... ☺ I hear and write on Google translator in order what does a specific word means.... 😉

[@ioguapin]

Maria Ioakeim Ì am very good at spanish, you can ask me anything you want related to spanish, ad of course it would be cool if I could learn your language.

[@mariaioakeim8749]

+emanuel Guti Muchísimas gracias!!!!! 😊 Yo estoy aquí si necesitas ayuda en griego..... 😉

[@明李-v7m]

Thank you Paul, as a language enthusiast also, I really enjoy watching your videos. Love from China.

[@waynehowell431]

thank you Paul, just discovered the channel, and think you are amazing! I literally can't stop watching. You have answered questions I have had for my whole life. (64) old man now. Much appreciated my friend.

[@elhermeneutico]

Spanish, English, German, and I also studied Portuguese, but I am far from fluent in the latter.

[@ahmedrisha]

respect for you...

[@asdewrt]

German (native), English (fluent), French (meh), Spanish (meh but still learning)

[@jcawly1]

English (native), German (fluent), Dutch (read), Spanish (passive)

[@Naglfar83]

🇩🇪 German - Mother tongue 🇬🇧 English - Fluent as I learned it in school starting from the 5th grade. 🇱🇺 Dutch - Can read it almost effortlessly. Speaking is a bit tricky for me, though. Basic conversation should be possible if it‘s not too fast. 🇩🇰 Danish - See Dutch. Having a conversation is something I never got to try, but I think it would be very hard for me. 🇳🇴 Norwegian - See Danish. Unfortunately my vocabulary is a bit weak here. 🇸🇪 Swedish - Had a course in university and always confuse Swedish words with Norwegian words. 🇫🇮 Finnish - Learned some stuff like basic phrases and counting 14 years ago out of interest. 🇨🇳 Chinese - I know a few phrases and recognizes a hundred characters or so, that‘s all. As you can see, I really like languages. Unfortunately I‘m not very good at „mastering“ a language.

[@MichaelMillaralamomme]

Thanks for the Patreon mention. Well-deserved support for all your research and recording time; as a longtime student of languages, I'm in!

[@stunnaman9696]

love ur channel!

[@Langfocus]

Thanks, Madi!

[@izzyisozaki]

Continua con l'italiano!! E grande hai fatto anche Storia delle religioni

[@mohammadhanafy9413]

we love you!

[@Langfocus]

Thank you! I love you guys too.

[@leonardoalegria6046]

I'm 17 years old and I speak Spanish as my native language, but I'm fluent in English, Portuguese, Italian and Esperanto, currently I'm learning German and Russian! I wish everyone good luck in the path of learning a new language, it's such an astonishing experience!

[@TheMaru666]

I speak spanish, galician ( related to portugueese) and prophicent enough in English to hold a conversation , but I, m gettig better by day thanks to channels like yours that help me to practice my listening skills .

[@shelookstome8727]

Native English speaker. I studied German in high school but only for a year! I know bits and pieces of Turkish, Uzbek, Hindi and German. I couldn't hold a conversation in any of these though. :) I'm fascinated by other languages but I'm too fickle to focus on just one! :(

[@euanthiakoures5341]

+areyousatisfied I want to master one foreign language and not be okay at many.

[@shelookstome8727]

+Euanthia Koures Yeah, I'd love that too. I'm too fickle though, and I'm very much a 'jill-of-all-trades' so they say! :)

[@keegster7167]

+areyousatisfied I want to master Latin, but it's dead. :(. Also, I'm very fickle as well; I've studied Old English and Italian, and now Inupiaq.

[@ayseissevet4362]

areyousatisfied Native Turkish speaker here. Turkish is pretty hard because it's aglunative that you will have to get ready for it and there are lits od verbs that means much different things like ''sözünden çıkmak''. If you translate it into english it may say '' getting out of the word'' but it actually means '' not to obey what you are told''

[@noracloudy1896]

Merhabalar!

[@dania7124]

You are great. Keep it up :)

[@baloung7622]

Pour ma part, j'adorerais vraiment pouvoir étudier le français d'un point de vue linguistique en France, mais je sais même pas si ça existe. Et c'est vrai, c'est vachement sympa l'esperanto et le vieil anglo-saxon. Sinon le français, c'est pas mal, aussi... :p Puisque tu parles français, connais-tu la chaine KZbin de Linguisticae ? Ses vidéos sont vraiment géniales, tu le regretteras pas, surtout qu'elle traite d'expressions françaises en plus de linguistique, alors ça peut être pas mal pour un francisant ;)

[@halfthefiber]

To answer the question: My mother tongue is English. I'm a high-intermediate French speaker and I have working knowledge of Italian. Currently, I'm studying Japanese and German. I took a semester of Mandarin many years ago (but have pretty much forgotten it). I do have a Filipino roommate and he has taught me a few things here and there, but nothing to the degree of formally learning the language.

[@OmegaTaishu]

I'm also quite passionate about languages in general, so people is always asking things like "How many languages you speak?", "WHY do you study XYZ instead of ABC!?", etc... Well, I study languages and learn about their background just for fun, and your channel has been helping me a lot in this hobbie of mine. So, canadian guy that speaks 25 languages, thank you for all the hard work.