Learning Many Languages Simultaneously? Memory Optimization? Language Choice

[@lukasniebuhr6870]

I'm from Denmark, and i find it more frequent for me to forget the word in Danish, but remember the word in English. Don't know if that's good or bad, but i guess that's the result of me spending more time reading and writing in English than in Danish.

[@chudywyze54]

Lukas Niebuhr I have exactly same problem.

[@lukasniebuhr6870]

And when I speak in English i can't remember any difficult words, that i normally would use when I'm writing in English.

[@abielticas1693]

It happens the same to me, except that my native language is Spanish. There are many things that I know what they mean in English, but I have difficulty to translate to Spanish, mostly talking about concrete, real world things and grammatical words and structures (like the excessive use of the word "do" in English). Yeah, buddies, the bilingual brain is WEIRD as the weirdest ever schoolmate/friend/shy crush you have ever had (even if that WEIRD imaginary schoolmate/friend was you) 😱😖😲😂

[@josephus416]

Same here... But in Spanish.

[@-._A2._-]

I have the same thing with German and English although I am still bad at german, and I'm 4 years late lol

[@Yotanido]

I speak German and English fluently. Yet, when someone asks me to translate something, I still get flustered. Not because I might not understand, but rather because I might not be able to express it in the other language. The direction of translation doesn't even matter. If I read something in English, I have trouble expressing the same in German and vice versa.

[@Yotanido]

Thinking about it, I think I know why this happens: When I read something and want to translate it, I try to make it as close to the original as possible. This is not always a good idea, though, since a certain structure might not exist in the other language. For example, I like to stick "though" at the end of a sentence in English. In German, you cannot do that, you'd have to use "but". This is still an easy replacement, though. (I do like doing this, don't I...) There are others, which I can't think of right now, that are a bit more tricky. Nuances are also annoying. A certain nuance in one language might not exist in the other.

[@Hwyadylaw]

@Yndostrui This is why there are professional translators and why global localisation is a huge problem.

[@dariollanos]

that happens because you need to read more books.

[@Yotanido]

@McDucky: Yes, that's why there are professional translators. No clue what global localisation is. @Dario Llanos: I buy a new book about every week. I think I'm doing pretty well in that regard. Though, granted, they are almost exclusively in English. (My mother tongue is German, though) Books only really help you with comprehension, they don't improve your ability to express yourself very much. Plus, often, I can't even translate things that I can express just fine in another context. My mind just gets 'polluted' by the other language.

[@marcoursi6062]

Also people need to remember to translate concepts, not just words....sometimes in some languages you have to say something very different to portray the same concept. Need to think outside the box a bit and be creative too...my opinion, anyway.....

[@yiannisroubos8846]

I prefer your linguistic videos!

[@thomasking1490]

Yep - they're great, would love to see; memorising tones in Mandarin, ways of practising grammar (although I suppose this and the diary video from a while back work for that), maybe a series on teaching. Also how best to use time in the country of your chosen language. Many things.

[@Fillkarre]

if you're interested in watching lingustic videos i highly recommend Langfocus.

[@ЛукаСтанар]

Wao I watch both.NativLang is also an excellent channel!

[@grnd_ctrl8387]

I do too. I love linguistics and history a ton but his language videos always catch my attention more

[@iberius9937]

I wish he would make more!!

[@waderutherford9083]

You should do a video series on your journey of learning a new language, that way we can see your technique in use and your progress.

[@noldocelu3326]

SilentHunterSan Maybe he could emulate/show us how he would do it rather than just try to explain it.

[@Hwyadylaw]

There's two main pieces of advice that applies (one or both of them) to nearly everyone struggling to learn a language: 1. It takes effort. You have to keep studying and working for it. There are no magic shortcuts (except for the one below, if you consider it a shortcut) 2. You have to talk to native speakers. Moving to a place where the language is spoken and being socially active while keeping up studies will cause you to inevitably reach very good conversational skills within just months and fluency very very quickly. The more you do this, the less my first advice applies.

[@cptbob100]

J'aime bien tes vidéos linguistiques, ils sont très informatives et ils méritent beaucoup plus de vues. J'espère que tu fasses plus de vidéos en autres langues, comme français, latin, et italien. Merci. I've been greatly inspired by your accomplishments with languages and I can especially relate to the point you made in this video, that it is a good idea to learn one new language first, before attempting multiple at once. I learned French over a number of years before starting Latin and Italian recently, and having the background in French makes them extremely fun to learn.

[@mamushi72sai]

I love this guy so much. he's a nerd, he loves language learning and speaks the languages that I am interested in and additionally he is a history/roman maniac.　多くの動画をアップしてくれて誠にありがとうございます. 応援しています！

[@AlexSchleder]

I know currently brazillian portuguese as my native language and english as my second language. I learned english just by playing videogames, watching videos on the internet, or reading. I never formally studied it, just in high school but it didn't actually taught me anything, i learned everything by myself... i'm learning japanese now, and i will try this naming method. After 40 days i'll tell you how much my japanese has improved.

[@sethr.c1065]

I recommend learning Latin to anyone. I learned basic Ecclesiastic Latin as a young child, and it continues to benefit me to this day. Understanding nearly a third of all romantic language roots will give you a huge head start in comprehending written word, and therefore in learning fluency.

[@TheDustyForest]

Just as I was beginning to run out of steam in my language studying, there comes another wild Metatron linguistics video to motivate me back into action! Thank you my friend!

[@Jkw211]

EXCELLENT vid… very helpful! thank you so much

[@Emielio1]

Great vid :) I'm a student of African Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and one of the prime objectives of this study is to learn Swahili fluently. Next year, if everything goes according to plan, I'll be spending 3 months at Kenyatta University in Kenya studying Kikuyu, and practising my Swahili in real life, of course. Aside from that, I've been in love with Scottish Gaelic for quite a few years now, and I still want to learn it. Other languages on my "to learn" list are Northern Sami (a language I fell in love with fairly recently), Italian (I know the basics, nothing more, and I've always loved it), Malagasy (spoken on Madagascar), another African language (either a variant of Nubian, or a language spoken by one of the pygmy groups, and/or Oshindonga, which is spoken in Namibia), and perhaps Finnish, Arabic and the basics of Russian... I also want to improve my French :P The languages I already speak are Dutch (native), English (fluent), French (I can understand it pretty well, but speaking/writing it myself is a disaster), and German (same as with French). I will certainly try to apply the advice that you give in this video, since I reckon it will make everything quite a bit easier :) I will focus on the most important ones (Gaelic and Sami) one at a time, but I'll probably combine the other ones and use the techniques you described.

[@ceomyr]

My secret language trick is to skip all the boring stuff and just learn how to curse and insult people. Linguists hate me.

[@Milkeri]

kurwa

[@marks3301]

finnish for ...

[@Hwyadylaw]

Why would linguists hate you?

[@jort93z]

thats a joke. (scam) ads sometimes say "Doctors hate him. man invented pill that makes woman lose 20 pounds in a week" or something similar.

[@reversedmusic1661]

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[@Nacho-ke6ru]

ay metatron just wanna say that your content is great. keep it up!

[@metatronyt]

Thank you!

[@Interabderian]

I've learnt languages for ten years without much success - this sounds like the best advice I've heard.

[@JariSatta]

" A word is only learnt when it's there and it's ready. Someone asks you how do you say this and you're like... [snaps his fingers] ...like that." ( 5:52 ) -Metatron Truth! Thank you very much!

[@emoeketaubinger2395]

I am from Hungary but I live in Austria since 20 years, my husband is Austrian. For us, Hungarian people is very difficult to learn foreign languages because of the grammar and the different vocabulary. I speak German very well. German was my second language what I learned at the school. The first was Russian. But I never need this, so I can not speak Russian. I learned English in Hungary for a short time maybe 1 year and Italien for 5 years in Austria. For me is very helpful to have KZbin and duolingo. Every day I look something in English and Italian. I do some exercises with duolingo, I want to improve my Italian (but in English because there is no in German). Thank you for your interesting video! It helps a lot!

[@mamushi72sai]

I have a weird technique which takes a while to be effective but the efficiency becomes exponential after time. After you have learned some basics of the language structure and grammar you spend a while every day recording every word you don't understand in a list. When you find the words more than once you take them and raise them to the top of the list. As you continue to collect words you pull a certain number (I recommend 4-7) from the top and memorize them with something similar to anki. Control your daily reviews sop they don't get out of control. after your vocab reaches a certain point (ex: 1000,2000,3000 words or 10 months/1 year) passes you can refocus on certain points of grammar. This worked wonders for me when I was learning Japanese and I'm using it now for mandarin and spanish. I should note that you want to talk to native speakers ,read write and listen as much as you can BUT RECORD THE WORDS YOU DONT UNDERSTAND!

[@seeker093]

Great suggestions, they make a lot of sense. Repetition is the key to so many things. Breaking it down in this fashion somehow makes it less daunting :)

[@100dfrost]

Signore, When younger I was stationed in Germany. I was single, and in trying to make acquaintances with young ladies, I learned a good bit of German quickly. Later in my military career I was for some time in countries where Arabic was spoken. When learning any Arabic at all, I found myself translating what I wished to say, in my mind, into German, and thence into Arabic. I never learned another language to the extent that you did, I just never understood why my mind took this twist. Thank-you. Dante.

[@noldocelu3326]

100dfrost I find myself doing the same thing with english. Perhaps we are trying to compare the languages in search for meaning?

[@100dfrost]

Perhaps so my friend. Dante.

[@imposterseal3574]

Your tip on implementing categorized lists is very brilliant advice. It is closer to actual immersion and therefore more effective than 60-120 minute study sessions every day. Nouns, verbs, and adjectives, the holy trinity, can be learned effectively. Unfortunately grammar can't be picked up with this, so that's when studying or speaking with a teacher will be needed. Thank you, Metatron! You're a lifesaver.

[@Foundingfatherfuzzy]

I love the way you think! I've studied spanish for years and never untill now, did it dawn on me to use the life around me to reinforce my learning! You've got me considering (at least as far as is practical) using a label maker to label every item in my home in many different languages. Fantastic video! Thank you!

[@benduston]

Great great great video! I will definitely use this method (the naming things places and actions). Thanks Raph! I'll comment again in a month or so to let you know how I'm doing

[@rameyzamora1018]

These concepts are so natural that one wonders why all teachers don't use them! I'm starting today with Spanish. Thanks, Metatron.

[@chrislaurette6778]

A famous Gong Fu master was my friend's next door neighbour in small town Ontario Canada. When asked how he ended up living in our community he explained (with a strong Chinese accent) that when he first moved to Canada he lived in Toronto but found that it was too easy to live in Toronto and get by without ever having to speak English. So he moved to our community (a couple hours drive from Toronto) so that he would have no option but to learn how to speak English.

[@MrB16M4C]

I completely agree. although I was born in England I spent the first 14 years of my life in Wales, the first language is English in Wales. but it's compulsory to learn Welsh (Cymreag), we were being taught Spanish in primary school, bit french in high school. where as I could speak Cymreag pretty well, I was more interested in learning German than Spanish and French. so I was teaching myself at home. my family and ancestry comes from Ireland so I have a passion for the culture and history of Ireland. so I was learning Irish Gaelic (Gaelige). it confused me quite alot. I can speak Cymreag and Gaelige pretty well now. but French, Spanish and German, I struggled with because I think I tried to take in too much. great video, love watching your language videos

[@moongazer13]

I used to try to translate every thought that came into my head. It helped a lot, not only with learning the language but also with slowing my thoughts down. I am an English speaker learning French and Spanish.

[@zyphar7323]

I recently changed the language of skyrim to spanish, and ive picked up a few words, Pluma, Espada, Oro, Sangre, as a couple examples. Would recommend this to people as it improves your listening, and reading skills in a fun way.

[@frankied2640]

Nice to see more language videos coming in. Great advice. Keep up the good work!

[@TheBold1994]

Your content is impeccable! Thank you so much! You are such a magnificently talented teacher! It would of been an honor to have you as a teacher in school! You inspire us all to continue educating ourselves!

[@katakrapicz3730]

Hi, My second/third language is english. I've been studying it for 3yrs at school. I'm pretty good in it. My "true second" language is german. I've been studying it for 8yrs. I'm awful in it. And YOU englightened my why this contrary is possible. Because I love english history, culture and language. I watch videos in english all the time. But german...i must learn it in school. The german grammar is more logical than english grammar, to me. But I still not love it...in 2yrs I have to take a GSCE exam in german language. I'm really afraid of it. I just can't remember the german words. But I'll try your method that you've mentioned in the video. And I bet, after 30days...I'll comment here again. Thanks for your videos, love you, from Hungary!!!

[@rafa14500]

this is one of the best explenation on how to learn a language, it is simple and quick but as you say, we need disipline!, thanks for this great advice!

[@360djl]

I'm glad that I encountered you. You are interesting and very knowledgeable! Hope you continue on.

[@GinomoVlad666]

I already did this method without watching this video haha I'm learning Italian at the moment, that's why I found your videos. I'm Portuguese native speaker, with fluency in English, intermediary level in French and I'm leaning Italian. Also know a thing or another in German, Russian and Japanese. I'll try your method to that with German at the same time as in Italian, gonna see how it goes... Thanks a lot and keep the good work.

[@GinomoVlad666]

By the way, I do your method trying to speak in the language I'm learning with myself. Some people think I'm crazy, but everybody I knows says that I have a great accent in each of the languages.

[@christopherellis2663]

In High School, I had Latin and French in the first year, thereafter French. When I retired, I learnt Castilian, later, Serbo-Croat, then Romanian, where I now live. Do much for the conjecture that old age language learning is difficult

[@gliuto]

Sempre mitico. Proverò a farglielo capire ai miei studenti che la lingua la devono USARE altrimenti non impareranno o non ricorderanno mai una ceppa. Peccato che non abbia la versione in italiano di questo video, glielo farei vedere e rivedere per un'intera giornata, allacciati alle sedie e con degli stecchini a tenergli aperte le palpebre ahahah... (sono stanco anch'io e sparo qualche baggianata ;-) hehe). Grazie, as always.

[@mehmetcelal5358]

I have done what you said, it is a bit mind raping but in the end of 2 weeks I started to memorize so many words and speak more in my target languages. many thanks for the tips

[@Parmesana]

you are correct about a little each day.. I have just begun to try to say day to day things...like what shall I have for lunch? I will eat..... you can label your cupboards with your language/learning language.. plates/piatti glasses/bicchieri

[@salvatoresalgari9751]

cool video as always, remember blood donation is important and cost nothing

[@metatronyt]

What?

[@salvatoresalgari9751]

i just want convince someone to donate blood, sorry if offende you

[@Fillkarre]

HAHAHAH, i don't know why i found this so hilarious XD

[@salvatoresalgari9751]

i know from the outside is strange, from the inside is just a good remainder

[@alexsaavedra644]

Awesome video! I feel like I really need to integrate the languages I want to learn more into my life and find some native speakers to converse with!

[@Skywalker96214]

Totally agree with you. Learning a new language demands both passion and discipline. I'm currently learning Japanese because I live here, I like the Japanese culture, and my best friend is getting married to an Okinawa local :) I promised him I will call him one day and only speak in Japanese, and he better be able to talk to me lol

[@Skywalker96214]

my language studies? I got hiragana and katakana down, I can read kanji too. Slowly building up my vocab currently, doing pretty well! How do you do?

[@Skywalker96214]

I grew up in China before moving to the US, I know Chinese characters and they share similarities with Kanji. For Hiragana and Katakana you will just have to memorize. As for vocab, I find it easier learning frequent used words by category. For example, one day I would memorize vocab of common items in the bedroom, then I will memorize items in the kitchen, then food related words, etc. And the key to make the words stick is to use them frequently, and always revisit them. I would be chilling in my room and name the items in my room, bed, pillow, mirror, lamp, etc. Do this all the time, naming items in Japanese will become your second nature. I struggle with grammar though :(

[@PointerMusician]

I usually first just learn how to conjugate verbs and how to make phrases negative, passed, imperative, imperfect, future, and etc. It's how I learned French. I started off with grammar and then I really started figuring out vocabulary. You can only really remember vocabulary and stuff when you know where andd how to use them and so on.

[@Matt_Volk]

If you are interested in east Asian languages and already know Japanese and/or Mandarin, consider Cantonese. Canto is the second most widely used "dialect" of Chinese and, interestingly, it has preserved more of the old phonetics from middle Chinese. This means that knowing the Canto reading for kanji/hanzi will help you to see the connections between the other east Asian languages. E.g. "country" in Canto = gwok, Mandarin = guó, Korean = guk, and Japanese = goku. The /k/ final becomes apparent from the Cantonese.

[@ZarlanTheGreen]

"eagle, hawk..." I initially misheard that as "eagle, orc...", went back and was disappointed to hear that it was actually hawk ;)

[@grassyclimer6853]

sometimes when talking to other people about technology the language barriers can go down alot because all the trade names are the same in every language

[@carolinamartell4306]

This is the 4th video I've seen on your channel and I have to say I absolutely love them and I agree with you. The more you learn languages the more gets easier to learn a new one. I love learning languages, in fact one of my secret dreams is become a spanish teacher (my mother tongue) because I have discovered that many native speakers use it in the wrong way and have an awful orthography :/ By the way, challenge accepted: 30 days from now, (german and french) Wish me luck :D

[@thewarhammer6606]

Metatron I am learning 3 different languages right now. It's not easy, I look up to you.

[@thewarhammer6606]

Mario Revuelta Italian, Latin and Japanese

[@radicalatheist6798]

Japanese alone is hard enough lol, I'm studying it while trying to keep my second language(english) intact, it's fucking hard to get along with japanese

[@thewarhammer6606]

Radical Atheist amen

[@The8thblock]

dunno if it would help for you, but when i tried learning languages, i didn't mix base languages, like romance and Slavic based languages. i only tried learning romance based languages at one time, and when i felt comfortable with them then i started dabbling in Slavic, or Germanic based languages.

[@MsDjessa]

Because when talking or reading about certain subjects like science or military history I usually use English instead of my first language, it sometimes happens I can't remember a word in my first language but only in English. So the usage is definitely a thing. :'D One way I have found useful is watching English language movies and TV series on DVD with subtitles turned to a language I want to learn. One of course has to know how to read these languages but I have learned most of my Spanish and German this way. But watching foreign language media in general is also good idea. It can also peak and interest to a whole new language, for example I really want to learn Korean because I enjoy South-Korean war movies so much. I was surprised how quickly I learned to read Hangul. Far from perfect yet but quite well already.

[@lisadioguardi5742]

I failed at a second language because the first time I tried, I picked Spanish since I live in an area with a lot of people from Mexico and English/Spanish speakers usually get paid more. Turns out, money doesn't motivate me. When I started thinking of all the French authors I would like to read and switched to French, I succeeded. My third is American Sign Language. And enough Turkish and Chinese to be friendly, I may add Amharic if I can stop working 80+ hour weeks. Programming languages are similar, the first one takes the most effort but when you understand how they work, the second and third are much easier.

[@Titanic_Tuna]

I just wanted to add that when learning two languages it is beneficial if the two languages in question have linguistic and/or cultural similarities, this allows for stronger points of comparison to be drawn between the two making it easier to associate one with the other without relying on whatever language you already know (don't get me wrong you should still proof check afterwards) so that you can really push yourself that extra mile.

[@JktuUekmw]

9:27 "Okay, you wake up in the morning! What do you do? Name the things you've got around you. Alarm clock, night table (or bed-side table), blanket, bat shit, pillows...." I think you just gave away that you're Batman. I'm not too surprised though.

[@CJ-rx5fi]

The Italian word for "stretching" sounds infinitely cooler than "stretching." Thanks again for your hard work and entertaining videos! Xoxoxo

[@callumwilcox4761]

Im busy learning Korean, and since at school I have to Learn Afrikaans which im getting good at, it helps with the mentality of," If i can do that then i can definitely learn this as well now!" Thank you Metatron you are the one person who has actually inspired me to learn languages and makes me want to be able to speak them well! :) 정말 감사합니다! 안녕!

[@callumwilcox4761]

Day 1 of 30 starts now...

[@OsegueraJA]

I use Quizlet to make my vocabulary's flashcards. It's a very useful tool to learn languages. Sorry for my english.

[@geoffcarpenter6129]

I accept your challenge, Metatron! I already speak an ok amount of Russian, but in 30 days' time I'll be back and with a ton of new vocab in Japanese and German! Grazie!

[@Epiphany_Beats]

Geoff Carpenter So how did it go?

[@andreakevin8685]

Sean Haughey He quite lol

[@umarmiller412]

When I studied my second Language (Arabic ) I was in an immersion atmosphere which helped greatly. Like you suggest it has to be something you use everyday. My next language goals are Ottoman Turkish and Persian as they are like languages. Great pump up video.

[@sebastianfaber3754]

I disagree. I'm able to forget the meaning of some words in my primary language. So the part about not knowing words isn't true. At least for me. Anyway great video!

[@leevibyman9399]

Me gusto los videos con consejo para aprender los lenguajes. Son muy util para yo. What I am trying to say is: I like the videos with advise for learning languages. I find them very useful. And yes (all you Spanish speakers), I know I left out all the accents. If you hadn't guessed already, I am learning Spanish, and these videos on learning languages really help me out.

[@mannen659]

I salute you sir! I get so much motivation for my language learning. Keep up the good work.

[@Cochu]

When you were talking about the viewer being a native Spanish speaker that knows English, that can perfectly understand the video and that can make translations, I was like o oo oo o that me!!!

[@KamikazeKatze666]

Pro tip: Make your children take Latin at school. Even though they probably will hate it they will be able to learn other foreign languages much more easily later on.

[@yagirlsheila7705]

You are right, etymology is such a life saver.

[@iberius9937]

Latin should be learned as the beautiful living language it is, not some puzzle full of tables you have to memorize.

[@iberius9937]

@@yagirlsheila7705 Etymology is something that fascinates me more than any other field in linguistics.

[@yagirlsheila7705]

@@iberius9937 it fascinates me too. As a Spanish speaker, whenever I found a complicated word, you could infer the meaning via Latin.

[@francoisjohannson1458]

you can learn french, italian and spanish in the time you need to learn latin.

[@guishodan]

hi I'm from Argentina. I've learned english my whole life and I'm using it everyday. Now I'm learning french , but still I dont feel confident enough. I'll apply your method, because I'm sure it will work. Let's hope my next comment will be in french.

[@amplifymysound]

Everyone needs to learn this method. Metatron your the best.

[@HebaruSan]

Are you planning to learn more languages? If so, which ones?

[@tomurg]

HebaruSan French perhaps and some of the Scandinavian languages

[@callumwilcox4761]

Agter korean i will learn Danish

[@MasterOfManyMuffins]

Why would you learn Danish?

[@Fillkarre]

You would get more out of learning Norwegian since then you can understand Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. So if you're really hellbent on learning a Scandinavian language (which in itself is kind of pointless since >85% of the population can speak fluent English) i would go for Norwegian. Because Danish and Swedish can be mutually intelligble although you'll have problem understanding Swedish as a dane. Source: i'm Swedish.

[@noldocelu3326]

Wao I am Norwegian, and I agree that there may be more difficult for Danes and Swedish to understand each other. Historically Norway has always been sort of between the two countries and therefore our language has developed thereafter. But once you learn to understand one, it's not that much of a stretch to learn one of the others. Although many refugees have stated that they would rather go for Swedish or Norwegian because danish sounds complicated. (no offense Denmark, but even my teacher said danes got a potato stuck in their throat)

[@Elektron_]

God knows how much FarmVille helped me with names of animals, crops, trees, garden tools, types of buildings and much more

[@glatres]

I speak fluently Spanish, Catalan and English and not that fluently French. Now I'm studying Classical Latin and Ancient Greek since I'm studying Classical Philology. Don't give up, noble ones!

[@rey6024]

Metatron you are great with Inspiration, Thanks!

[@leebotticelli9832]

Sempre al top meta, keep going mate

[@SuperRand13]

Love this. If I dedicate 5 years per language and live an average length life then i'll still know a fuck ton more languages than I do now.

[@Metalrain989]

Norwegian language is one of the world's most difficult language to learn, that's what i have heard.. Thanks for upload Metatron.

[@cbrtdgh4210]

If you can't go live in the country where the language is spoken, trying using an app like Hellotalk or website like Italki to chat to native speakers. It will really get the engine running so to speak, maybe for the first several days you'll need to use Google translate a lot but pretty soon you'll be rolling. Of course, it wont improve pronunciation so much but it's how I really took off when I was learning Portuguese.

[@Scuppetta1998IT]

I thank you very much for your advises compatriot 😊

[@hh-ck6ko]

Thank you! Although I lack discipline, I will try my best.

[@villiamo3861]

How'd it go?

[@medicalofficermedkip8141]

4:47 Thank you for not calling every writing system an alphabet like most people tend to do. It irritates me sometimes when people say "the Japanese alphabet" or "Chinese alphabet."

[@donrinyu5837]

@Metatron, I highly doubt anyone is perfect in their first language let alone their 2nd, 3rd, and so on. The fact that you can speak, read, and understand freaking 7 languages is incredible. My hat's off to you man. Also I do have a question for you if you end up reading my comment. What are your thoughts on the Rosetta Stone programs.

[@mlynn9361]

i like that you say to learn something you like, even just the sound of... there are a few i'd like to learn just for fun,because i think its pretty, but are pretty much useless in my life, and i sometimes feel like i shouldnt bother when i'll probably never be fluent and would only be good if i travel (tagalog for example)

[@alqdsemper221]

I am to write my exams in five weeks time, three languages. (French, Spanish, English). I'm a go and see how thirty days of doing that walk-about-talk-about thingie will help. Maybe I should buy headphones with a microphone so I can do it outside too without looking like the nutjob I actually am. :D See you on the other side, sir!

[@Hopeofmen]

I was going to learn Portuguese for my girlfriend from Brazil while also sharpening my German, but now I think I'll stick to German for now. Danke schön! ^^

[@Lord_Epsilon]

I want to learn German too, Good luck!

[@cleberrodriguez2459]

Hey man. I'm a Brazilian (native) always here for linguistics videos from Metetron. I can help you with Portuguese if you want any advices.

[@joshua7885]

love the language videos maybe you could do specific videos for a language for example what materials and methods to learn Japanese/Chinese maybe a review of pimsluer

[@Al4beef]

You guys should watch Moses McCormick aka Laoshu. this guy literally know 50 languages

[@bonthos]

Thanks!! Keep up the good work!

[@hudsonbakke8836]

My native language is English, my second language is Spanish which I started learning fairly early and I am working on increasing my fluency and just getting closer to a native-lever comprehension, I am a beginner in Russian, which is what I'm trying (but not necessarily succeeding) to put most of my actual learning effort into, I have been learning French off and on for a while, although French I find is particularly easy and low-effort because I already know Spanish, same with japanese, except that Japanese is quite a bit harder than French and I still haven't completely learned how to read kana and I only know a few basic Kanji

[@mpc7440]

Native Spanish and English speaker. Learning German :) May try learning French as well.

[@junkfoodvegan6198]

funny with streching, in german we have germanized it. We say strechen at the beginning we use the english pronounciation but the en at the end is german :-) ( This word is very simillar to its german counterpart strecken).

[@katarinatibai8396]

Metatron is not only a 1A teacher - he's also a great motivation trainer ❣ 😘👋

[@Boatenng]

When you have learned a second language, the third language you are studying is gonna be easier because you know the process for learning a language. I speak English as a second language and now I am learning Japanese as a third language. I have realized that I am learning Japanese faster than English when I used to studied it as a second language.

[@KunTaoRuiDian]

Great advice, thank you so much.

[@memyself9999]

Metatron, may I point out a key aspect you may have overlooked concerning how many languages you already know: It may be different for people whom were raised with two languages than those whom activity learned a new language. Example: I am a Hispanic-American. My first language is English, and I am fluent in Español. However, based on your video I believe I should still start with only one language for my first learning endeavor.

[@JariSatta]

I saw you play the piano, so... Cmaj13#11#15 by Jacob Collier, transcribed by J.Lee. What do you think? And Super-Ultra-Hyper-Mega-Meta Lydian ?

[@famvirious]

It also helps if the one teaching you the language is good at the job. A bad teacher can make it more difficult than it needs to be

[@Nando-zr2wv]

love your linguistic video!

[@heathergillette1790]

Really inspiring and useful. I want to try it with Italian.

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

I feel lucky to be a native English speaker

[@mr.osamabingaming2633]

Same.

[@noldocelu3326]

I'm trying to learn japanese, and I like your suggestions. I guess i should put up notes with Japanese words. I came across a game on steam called "learn japanese to survive: Hiragana battle", which focus on making learning japanese grammar fun. It works like old adventure jrpg games. there's also katakana battle which is a "sequal" i guess. For ppl looking for a different approach it might be worth a look.

[@LuxisAlukard]

Metatron, I have few questions: 1. Would you suggest learning two similar languages at the same time (like Italian and Spanish) or two different (Italian and Russian)? Of course, if one already speaks two languages at least, as you advised. 2. Also, if someone wants to learn all Romanic languages - which one is best to start with? Which one has more connections to other ones? You said that Italian and Spanish can understand each other to some degree, but what about French and Portuguese? 3. No Slavic languages? =D If you decide to choose one, I think that newly formed Interslavic will be best solution 4. And I really like this language videos, they are great! As are all your videos =)

[@julianadeau7494]

I took French AND Latin at the same time in High School. I was able to retain both fairly well, though my Latin teacher, Magistra Roeber, would make fun of me for speaking Latin with a French accent. :p

[@GaragebornGrey]

Metatron, you've said in past videos that you like people to help correct pronunication, so it's very picky but I'll do it anyway. You said surgeon like surg-ee-on, but I think people tend to pronounce it more like surgun, where the 'un' sounds like the second syllable of London. And also people will tend to say fishmunger instead of fishmonger...nowadays anyway. I'm going off an east anglian accent.

[@metatronyt]

Thank you very much for that!

[@joycarter757]

You'll probably not see this comment... but I didn't know you're a language teacher until this video came up in 2023🥰 I love your language learning videos!

[@TheJavaMonkey]

Alas, the languages I want to learn the most are dead (or mostly dead) languages. The absolute top of my list is Takelma, the language of my ancestors, of which there are no remaining native speakers and sparse texts on the subject.

[@Jvictorbas]

Love your videos about Linguistics, Raff! It's surely a wonderful topic. I'm curious, what are your difficulties with learning german, exactly? If I remember correctly, you did say you had some trouble with it.

[@hehhaehieaaih]

Will be good to see a video about German, I want to learn it too (And Japanese :v)

[@maartenderooij2376]

Well i don't get to chose which language i learn. In the Netherlands they just say: here are your books your second grade you have bad english for 3 years here you go. Dutch german France and english and if you want you can also learn Spanish.