Multilingual Q&A Session (part 2) - Answering your questions in 11 languages!

Hello language people! Ready for almost 30 mins of pure multi-language immersion?
It's finally time for PART 2 of our multilingual Q&A session, made possible by your wonderful questions in a bunch of different languages!
In the meantime, we hit 10k subscribers - how cool is that??? :D THANK YOUUU!!!!
Here's a list of the languages used in this video:
00:42 French
02:00 Georgian
03:37 Finnish
05:38 Portuguese
08:41 Italian
12:34 Georgian (again!)
13:48 English
16:00 Mandarin Chinese / English
19:03 German / Finnish (again!)
20:41 Icelandic
22:07 Spanish
24:52 Romanian
Congrats if you made it until the end! :D
Special thanks to all those who submitted their question(s)!
NEXT VIDEOS COMING UP:
- Update video on my current level in Romanian
- Update video on my progress in Georgian + fun Georgian vocab associations
- NEW full video in Finnish about unique aspects of this language
- What makes Italian unique even within the Romance language family?
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#languagelearning #polyglot #multilingual

[@aiziszizis2536]

Your Romanian accent is almost perfect! I'm very impressed!

[@linguaEpassione]

Thank you SO much! :)

[@aiziszizis2536]

@@linguaEpassione Thank YOU for your videos! Awesome work!

[@velicanmaria7772]

@@linguaEpassione i have an aunt that has been living in Italy for a couple decades and eventually got an accent so i really thought you were a romanian dude. you sound great btw :)))

[@linguaEpassione]

@@velicanmaria7772 OMG thank you that's really kind of you to share! :)

[@jacks9292]

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you Stefano. 🙏👍

[@pazuzu126]

I always look forward to a new video from you. Please keep them coming!

[@linguaEpassione]

Thanks man, that's so nice of you! I'm gonna do my best :)

[@rosebarbaro461]

You have done great Stefano and Congratulations for the 5K Thank you.

[@linguaEpassione]

Thank you Rose!

[@luketruman3033]

Congrats on 10k subs Stefeno!

[@linguaEpassione]

Thanks Luke, we still have to have a chat if I'm not mistaken - would be cool to set it up soon :)

[@luketruman3033]

@@linguaEpassioneOf course, would love to!

[@MannyWalks]

I was waiting this video for a very looong time 😁 Thanks so much for answering my question Stefano! I've to say that there were tons of interesting questions in this big Q&A 🤔🔥

[@linguaEpassione]

A pleasure :) Thank you for submitting it - come va con il trasloco? ;D

[@MannyWalks]

@@linguaEpassione oramai siamo alle battute finali! Un sogno che si realizza 🔥 Bello che te ne sei ricordato però, totally unexpected 😬

[@vio3366]

thanks for always inspiring us! I'm 17 and learning Mandarin on my own. I am already an intermediate learner and even though I love the language but i'm not motivated as I used to be :/ You should post more videos too

[@linguaEpassione]

You can surely speak Mandarin way better than me, keep it up! 加油！

[@solea59]

100% honesty in one video , brilliant ! Considering the part where you were undecided about Norwegian , life is like a lot of train tracks all crossing each other. Something somewhere influences the points and you can be sent off in a totally different direction from what you anticipated. Life is like that and we must embrace it, not fight it.

[@laligagua9550]

You are brilliant human, thank you for videos about my country Georgia

[@linguaEpassione]

დიდი მადლობა, ლალი!!

[@teoteo2089]

Grazie per aver risposto alle mie due domande, Stefano. Sei 🔝, continua così!!!

[@linguaEpassione]

Ciao Teo, figurati, è un piacere! Grazie mille a te e speriamo a presto :)

[@teoteo2089]

@@linguaEpassione a presto, aspettando tuoi nuovi fantastici video 😁🔝💪

[@tidesox2828]

Tu sei un'ispirazione. Grazie mille.

[@dadep85]

Grazie Stefano, seguo sempre i tuoi video con grande interesse. Sei un'ispirazione e uno stimolo per fare meglio. Saluti poliglotti dall'Italia!

[@linguaEpassione]

Grazie a te per la visione e per il commento gentilissimo! Salutami il Bel Paese :)

[@corradoleoni9503]

Olà Stefano, agradeço-te imenso por fazeres videos tão interessantes! Gosto muito deles, és uma inspiração para mim embora não perceba nada de japonês, finês e outros idiomas :-)Em breve hei-de começar a aprender georgiano, é uma lingua muito bonita e já comprei o mesmo livro que apresentaste num dos teus videos para o estudar. Em particular, agradam-me as lìnguas complicadas do ponto de vista gramatical.Fico à espera do próximo video. Obrigado

[@rosebarbaro461]

I love to watch more, and I have a question tomorrow.

[@johngrant4218]

Hello! Can you make a video about Icelandic phonology, please? It would very helpful Cheers!

[@ceci.lia543]

Hi!! I'm just now starting to learn another language (Portuguese) other than the two I've always spoken (italian and english), do you have any advice for someone completely new to learning?

[@linguaEpassione]

Ciao Cecilia, first of all congrats on starting a language project! Your question is a bit too generic for me to answer effectively, but one thing many people get wrong is often to use too many resources right from the start. Try focusing on only a few: one textbook for written dialogues (with audio of course!!!), one podcast to listen to while doing other stuff, one or two YT channels to watch a video every now and then. That's it! Build your foundations and only later expand on the resources :)

[@vodkatonyq]

@@linguaEpassione That's pretty much what I've done to learn Italian (current active learning) and what I've done to learn every language thus far. After reaching a high level I start reading as well to maintain the language and to reach an even higher level.

[@valivali5466]

Hi, i'm from Romania and i like your videos! My question is how you get pass over the intermediate level (plateau) ? I recently started to read Tom Jones in english to enrich my vocabulary and to progress in my journey. It is a good method?

[@linguaEpassione]

Hey Vali, thank you for your comment! You need a lot of consistence and patience to get over the intermediate plateau, but reading and listening to material that is directed to native speakers is probably the best way to enrich your vocabulary as you rightly said, provided that you do something to keep the new vocabulary fresh in your memory by either using a SRS tool or by trying to actively use it in your conversations. Hope this helps (a full video on the topic is coming up probably at the beginning of next year by the way ;D )

[@valivali5466]

@@linguaEpassione Mulțumesc! Aștept cu nerăbdare video-ul. 😁🇷🇴

[@deepblue188]

We can only learn a foreign language by using it regularly. Well said!

[@alien5481]

მადლობა სტეფანო ❤️ კარგი ვიდეო იყო 💜 ძალიან კარგად გამოგდის , განსაკუთრებით სიტყვების წარმოთქმა ❤️ keep up the good work 😀😻

[@Flauschbally]

Ein tolles Video. Vielen Dank. Es ist echt eine unglaubliche Leistung, wie viele Sprachen Du sprichst und noch am Lernen bist. Super. Ich lerne meine 4. Sprache (kroatisch) und ich kämpfe schon sehr damit 🤣 Aber Menschen wie Du geben unglaublich viel Motivation. Danke dafür und mach weiter so. Respekt. Grüße aus Wien. 🇦🇹

[@paoloangeletti1226]

E' un vero piacere ascoltarti, un vero spasso. Due cose: invidio ferocemente il tuo tedesco e mi sono convinto che sei sposato con una finlandese.

[@linguaEpassione]

@Flauschball Hallo Yvi, vielen lieben Dank für Deinen superlieben Kommentar! Danke auch dafür, dass Du meinen Kanal seit langer Zeit verfolgst, ich weiß das zu schätzen :) Ich wünsche Dir weiterhin viel Spaß und Erfolg (Letzteres kommt aus meiner Sicht fast automatisch durch Ersteres) mit Kroatisch!

[@linguaEpassione]

@@paoloangeletti1226 Ciao Paolo, sono felice che il video ti sia piaciuto nonostante la lunghezza :D Riguardo al resto sì, hai azzeccato :)

[@tobiasv.b.8761]

Man kann dir nur großen Respekt aussprechen. Ich persönlich interessiere mich auch ein wenig für Sprache. Neben Deutsch und Englisch spreche ich ein wenig Niederländisch und lerne Finnisch. Ich überlege, wenn mein Finnisch ein gutes Niveau erreicht hat, eine weitere Sprache zu lernen. Deine Videos geben mir zusätzliche Motivation. Danke dafür 👍🏻

[@jorgeandreslinaresguerra6452]

He visto todo el vídeo cuando se supone que debería estar durmiendo. Perché devo lavorare domani. Inoltre, sono le tre del mattino. Thanks for your videos. You’re such a source of inspiration. If you can speak Finnish at that level, I feel I can take my polish level there too.

[@linguaEpassione]

Yes you can :) Patience and consistency are going to be your best friends! Thank you so much for watching even though it was so late at night :D

[@anamchedliani1029]

Wow თქვენც ძალიან კარგად საუბრობთ ქართულად! ❤ ძალიან მიხარია რომ დაინტერესდით ჩვენი ენით. წარმატებები თქვენ ❣❣❣

[@tomiekaira7986]

გამარჯობა მე ვარ ანასტასია ძალიან მიხარია რომ ქართულ ენაზე დებ ვიდეობს :) ❤

[@Meridianux]

@linguaEpassione - Salutari din Romania! Cum se aud sunete pentru tine din romana? Cum pot fi asociate in procente? Exemplu: 50 % accentul sunetelor italiana, 30% portugheza, 25 % catalana, 20 % spaniola....cum stau lucrurile!? Cum percepi tu sunetele? Mersi frumos!!!

[@adrian.farcas]

Un articol stiintific despre asemanarile dintre limbile italiana si romana, vazute din perspectiva unui vorbitor de italiana: "Italian’s long-lost sister: the Romanian language and why Italianists should know about it" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02614340.2010.11917476

[@luketruman3033]

加油!

[@paoloangeletti1226]

Ciao Stefano, non vorrei guastare la festa ma bisognerebbe parlare anche delle lingue e dialetti che si dimenticano. Radicalmente. Ne vanto tre ed e' per me una vera perdita. La prima mi e' mancata 7 anni, la seconda a 22, la terza a 52. C'e' un antidoto?

[@linguaEpassione]

Ciao Paolo, nel senso di dialetti o lingue dimenticati? È un fenomeno che tocca anche me direttamente, visto che io sono l'anello debole della catena del milanese nella mia famiglia. La mia generazione è quella che lo capisce ma non lo parla, e quindi non lo passerà a quelle successive. Una perdita, senz'altro. D'altra parte sono centinaia e centinaia le lingue che stanno lentamente morendo in tutto il mondo. Molti si stanno adoperando per mantenerle vive o almeno conservarne la memoria, ma la maggior parte degli esperti è certa che siano destinate a scomparire per sempre.

[@paoloangeletti1226]

@@linguaEpassione La mia generazione precede la tua, quindi capisce e parla il dialetto se necessario, purtuttavia neanch'io sono riuscito a trasmetterlo ai figli. Peccato davvero, il genovese e' un dialetto splendido e un'ottima base per il portoghese e il francese

[@chadb7694]

Very nice! You live in Brussels, right? Bon niveau de francais. Je suis bilingue. If so, try Flemish.

[@linguaEpassione]

Mersi Chad! Yes, I live in Brussels, but with Flemish it just hasn't clicked yet - but I know it's going to happen one day xD

[@Siuninen]

Mä en kestä että kuinka hyvä sä oot puhumaan suomea🙏

[@linguaEpassione]

heheh kiitoksia Siiri! No kun se on niin kaunis kieli, oli melkein pakko oppia se xD

[@datosheveli2523]

good

[@Gummi1984]

Hi Stefano! Are you interested in going to either The Edinburgh Language Event in Scotland in February 2020, or The Polyglot Conference in Cholula, Mexico in October 2020? I'm strongly thinking about attending one or both of them!

[@linguaEpassione]

Sæll Gummi! If I could I definitely would but as far as I can tell right now, I won't be able to make it to neither event. But my participation in the Gathering - near Warsaw next year in May/June - is pretty much 100% sure :) Kemurðu ekki til Póllands? ;D

[@Gummi1984]

@@linguaEpassione Haha, ég skal hugsa málið 🙂

[@liisalehto9453]

Ciao!

[@linguaEpassione]

Ciao Liisa!!!

[@davide4459]

Yare yare daze.... sei incredibile :)

[@linguaEpassione]

Hora hora? :D

[@davide4459]

@@linguaEpassione Hora più... Hora meno 😁

[@anunnaki9493]

Hola. La motivación que yo en lo personal tengo para aprender idiomas es por mero gusto, por placer, por darle un poco de ejercicio a mi viejo cerebro pues tengo 54 años y si tengo la oportunidad de aplicar mi aprendizaje de idiomas algún día ¡pues qué bien!. It's very weird that a polyglot person as you don't teach languages that you speak to your childrens but It's okay.

[@corradoleoni9503]

Pues, si tienes 54 años no eres tan viejo, cuando tengas 78 qué vas a hacer? :-) Además se dice que aprender idiomas de mayores és un buen ejercicio para el cerebro.

[@izzardclips9350]

Tuleeko sinulle koskaan hetkiä, jolloin käännät fraasin tai idiomin sanasta sanaan jostain toisesta kielestä, kun puhut jotain muuta vierasta kieltä? Esimerkiksi niin, että sanoisit paistinpannulta tuleen kun taas suomalainen sanoisi ojasta allikkoon, tai vastaavaa? Tuli vaan mieleen, kun joskus sanonnat eivät ole natiivipuhujallekaan itsestäänselviä merkitykseltään ja niiden merkitys on vain opittu ulkoa. I suppose I'll try to be bilingual myself.. to a degree. I was asking if Stefano ever directly translates a phrase or a saying from one language to another, when the language he's speaking at the moment would have a different saying for the same meaning. (I'm fascinated by his ability to speak so many languages fluently.) For example, Finnish has the saying "tehdä kärpäsestä härkänen" (to make an ox out of a fly), an English speaker would say "to make a mountain out of a molehill).

[@linguaEpassione]

Morjens! Tosi hyvä kysymys, kiitos - Semmosia hetkiä kyllä tulee, mutta tavallisesti mä yritän väistää sen, että sanon vaan fraasin suoraan, vaan ensi kysyn että onko teillä (vaikka suomeksi tai millä muulla kielellä tahansa) myös tällainen idiomi kuin esim. italiaksi "xyz"? Tämä on kuitenkin aina todella mielenkiintoinen aihe =)

[@ubuntuposix]

Respect. btw, i had a strange feeling when listening to this video in vlach/aromanian kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmrTnYafYtx8fKM . it sounds like traveling back in time 2000 years ago. something between greek and latin/italian, very strange. it has archaic words from old romanian, and i understand ~80% of it.

[@flaviu777]

Are logica raspunsul tau,dar parerea mea este ca e mult mai mult de atat!

[@linguaEpassione]

Bună Flaviu, spune-mi te rog care este punctul tău de vedere, mă interesează - mersi încă o dată pentru vizionare!

[@flaviu777]

​@@linguaEpassione Parea mea nu are legatura cu lingvistica si poate parea banala dar are logica! Toate tarile care dubleaza filmele in televiziune ingradesc (in special copiilor )contactul cu o limba noua .Tinand cont ca limbile latine ,germanice si engleza au foarte multe cuvinte asemanatoare intre ele (sau aceeasi radacina semantica) majoritatea copiilor sau adultilor italieni pornesc cu un handicap in invatarea unei limbi straine.De exemplu copiii din ungaria, pana la adolescenta, majoritatea dintre ei cred ca toate filmele sunt unguresti (nu e gluma).La unguri ,de exemplu ,jean paul bellmondo e ianos poli sep villag iar copiii il asociaza cu unul de al lor.( alt efect al dublarii filmelor).Am vazut si eu stan si bran dublat in italiana, o bataie de joc din toate punctele de vedere! Farmecul unui personaj e alcatuit si din timbrul vocal si limba proprie! Unde este logica punctului meu de vedere? Doar doua exemple: Eu am invatat limba italiana de pe italia 1 si canale5, cantareate INNA vorbeste(si canta) spaniola pe care a invatato din serialele spaniole difuzate in romania.Concluzia: foarte multi romani care vorbesc limbi straine au avut ca punct de plecare(implicit un avantaj) si filmele vizionate in engleza,franceza, spaniola......majoritatea italienilor in schimb nu au beneficiat si de aceasta ,,facilitate''!

[@gabytrifoy7012]

linguaEpassione Salut sunt român nativ și pentru mine cred că cea mai apropiată de limba română este italiana fără glumă sună foarte apropiat multe cuvinte de exemplu dacă vorbește un italian către un român fără să studieze limba sau să o fi auzit vreodată românul înțelege 35%45% la sută din propoziție își dă seama la ce se referă dar italianu nu înțelege nimic când vorbește românul limba italiană pentru românii este foarte familiară multe cuvinte sunt foarte apropiate la lingua italiana per me e una lingua piu bella de-l mondo🙂 te salut îmi place cuvântul italian nesunno cred că la m repetat de 100 de ori:)) numai bine

[@ubuntuposix]

26:44 is that a drawing of our ego?

[@linguaEpassione]

Hahah would you say so? :) Naah, just vocabulary! XD

[@gheorghitaalsunculitei9146]

Sfatul meu,nu te grăbi când vorbești româna. Româna spre deosebire de alte limbii neolatine se vorbește mai lent. Noi în Romania ne mirăm cum italienii și spaniolii pot să vorbească atât de repede. Succes în continuare!

[@linguaEpassione]

Mulțumesc pentru sfat! E interesant că ai scris asta pentru că nu credeam că vorbeam așa de repede... O să pun mai multă atenție la cât de repede vorbesc în viitor :)

[@adrian.farcas]

@@linguaEpassione Nu vorbesti repede deloc, poate Gheorghita e moldovean si de aceea se mira... :) In Oltenia, unde din anumite puncte de vedere limba vorbita are mai multe caracteristici mostenite din Latina, se vorbeste la fel de repede ca in Italia :D

[@Don_Puparo]

@@adrian.farcas nici mie nu mi se pare ca vorbeste “prea repede”. Si sunt moldovean( Galati-Braila).

[@andreeas.2362]

@@linguaEpassione Here some dialect of Romanian - Oltenian (it has the closest Latin verb declinations). YOu might find it interesting. It's a comic sketch from the 1980. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zqa3mZRmeLykgrc