new language reveal!

[@peace4ever2112]

The gasp I gusped when you said Salaam! So excited for you as a Persian-American. I plan to learn the language myself when I get to a good place in Spanish but I hope you enjoy the journey however long it may be 🇮🇷

[@elyssedavega]

amazingggg!! thanks for the well wishes

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I am so obsessed with Icelandic and Norse right now, they are the most alpha languages ever and they are real fun to learn / speak / hear / see etc, plus the Icelandic accent is so easy to imitate, and they have easy category 1 pronunciation like English and Dutch, and they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic / magical / perfect / cool etc as English / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, and Welsh / Breton / Cornish etc are also super gorgeous, so I highly recommend learning these magical languages, as they are way too pretty not to know, and memorizing all the lyrics to all the Skáld songs is a great way to start learning the Norse / Germanic / Nordic languages, as Skáld has lyrics in many of them, and the melodies are super pretty and áddìctive, so it’s easy to listen to them over and over and learn the lyrics! In addition, I recommend learning Hungarian instead of Turkish, as Hungarian has all the pretty sounds and letter combinations found in Turkish, minus the non-pretty ones, and most Hungarian words are real pretty like nyelv / tíz / minden / hét / lány etc, and it’s way easier to read and learn etc, and pretty words are naturally easier to learn and naturally motivating, and, I also recommend learning the 6 modern Celtic languages instead of Arabic, as languages such as Irish and Scottish Gaelic remind a bit of Arabic sound patterns and they are way easier, and almost every modern Celtic word is super pretty like Germanic words, and one can learn 5 or 10 or even 15 pretty and easy category 1 / category 2 languages and two category 3 languages like Irish and Scottish Gaelic at the same time, which is way more efficient than only learning one impossibly hard category 9 or category 10 language, as choosing wisely is key to being a successful polyglot! I am learning words in over thirty languages, having over 50 target languages, and prioritizing more fifteen to twenty of them, and prioritizing the most the prettiest languages ever Icelandic and Norse (upper intermediate level) as well as Dutch (upper advanced level) and Norwegian (advanced level) and Gothic (beginner level) etc, and also Welsh and Breton and Danish!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

By the way, my current levels are... - upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail... Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá! Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (The words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)

[@christopherburnett1745]

I literally jumped out of bed when you said "salaam"!! I'm learning Persian/Farsi too! I'm also in a relationship with an Iranian, but was learning the language before we met! lol! All the things I immediately wanted to tell you ended up in the video! The music and poetry for sure, and definitely Chai and Conversation and their bootcamps!! Leyla is THE BEST!! You're gonna love her! This reminds me that I've fallen behind and need to get to work if I want to learn dar golestané in time!! Good luck, Elysse!! 😄

[@nedamansouri8432]

Hiii, As a Farsi speaker living in Iran I was always waiting for this video(so happy when I saw the story where you were speaking Persian in a language exchange). I'm a 17 year old language learner who speaks English, Spanish, and German and I have been following you for 2 years now. You're not sure whether you will stick to it or not but I'm pretty sure that you will, because I've never seen anybody able to forget about his/her Farsi learning experience. For me, there hasn't been a language chain yet because I started learning languages to experience other lives and other forms of thinking as we have difficulties traveling to foreign countries in Iran. SOOOOOOO happy for you🥰

[@eliata1512]

I’m so interested in learning new languages. I’ve been considering myself aware of how languages around the world sounded like but Farsi has been like a revelation to me as I always thought Arabic was spoken in Iran then I got confused and decided to listen to this language and I was shocked of how it sounded so different from Arabic. This language amazed me and made me know more about Iran like the mosques that are absolutely stunning and we’re like never hearing anything about them.

[@josstudydiary]

I’m looking forward to seeing more of your learning journey with Farsi! Best of luck!! My language goal this year primarily is to take the TOPIK II exam for Korean and get some certification level, I’m hoping for at least a 4, so around B2. In the last quarter of last year I started learning Swedish and Latin pretty seriously instead of just dabbling and I’m really excited to see where my learning goes with them this year! I have long term goals for learning both languages, but since I’m only beginning I’m not setting any hard and fast goals, and just letting myself enjoy learning and taking in. In terms of language chain, Ive been interested in learning Mandarin for so long because of how much Korean vocabulary has stemmed from Chinese, and I started to learn it a bit last year, but I’m struggling with it a lot, the memorisation of the characters is killing me a bit. I can remember which tones are needed when but actually pronouncing them correctly is another thing entirely. So I’m hoping to keep it up and improve a bit this year but we’ll see how that one goes!

[@bellabernadette6787]

I agreeee that it’s easier to learn language when you have cultural interest ❤

[@izabelalukic7744]

I can't wait to see more about Farsi. The first foreign language I started studying was German and I got Goethe diploma couple of years ago (hate the grammar...), then I learned english in middle school and italian in high school, and got more interested in dutch. In uni I got the chance to learn chinese for a year and now am starting a new journey with greek since im going on an Erasmus in Athens.😊 I totaly understand the struggle with juggling learning multiple languages. Btw my mother language is croatian.

[@barborajezkova8393]

i'm czech and i find it hilarious how some words that mean normal things in croatian or for example polish sound SO vulgar in czech😂😂😂 those comparisons between slavic languages make the best jokes

[@m3talhe4d72]

my language chain goes french>spanish>italian>latin>romanian>ukrainian 🎉

[@elyssedavega]

epic

[@anires1195]

what made you choose all romance languages and then throw in a slavic? Any interest or just politics.

[@Thatboymeher]

@@samfann1768but it is…politics😂 like actually, no matter what your view is on the situation, you know what, REGARDLESS of anyone’s view, war is literally politics…so yea

[@ЛобоваЮля-т8щ]

​​@@Thatboymeher I can say you more: our life is politics in some sense. Because taxes that you pay is about politics. Food that you can buy in store is also a part of politics. It's not only about war.

[@syscylla]

I'm Ukrainian, so happy to see somebody learning my native language :) успіхів!

[@asalmohammadesmaeil151]

I can’t believe it😍 I am a huge fan of you and all the time watch your videos to get motivated in my language journey🥹 I am from Iran and my mother tongue is farsi. Estoy tan feliz de que hayas decidido aprender mi idioma.

[@Histoireetturcologie-qm4ti]

My chronically ordered language learning chain : French - modern Greek - English - Swahili - Spanish - Breton - Italian - Japanese - Norwegian - Islandic - French Sign Language - Portuguese - German - Persian - Arabic - Turkish 🙃 Also, I’d recommend you to include the diacritics in your notes when studying Farsi at first, it’ll help you memorize the prononciation if you forget a word (it happens to all of us).

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I am so obsessed with Icelandic and Norse right now, they are the most alpha languages ever and they are real fun to learn / speak / hear / see etc, plus the Icelandic accent is so easy to imitate, and they have easy category 1 pronunciation like English and Dutch, and they are as gorgeous / refined / poetic / magical / perfect / cool etc as English / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish, and Welsh / Breton / Cornish etc are also super gorgeous, so I highly recommend learning these magical languages, as they are way too pretty not to know, and memorizing all the lyrics to all the Skáld songs is a great way to start learning the Norse / Germanic / Nordic languages, as Skáld has lyrics in many of them, and the melodies are super pretty and áddìctive, so it’s easy to listen to them over and over and learn the lyrics! In addition, I recommend learning Hungarian instead of Turkish, as Hungarian has all the pretty sounds and letter combinations found in Turkish, minus the non-pretty ones, and most Hungarian words are real pretty like nyelv / tíz / minden / hét / lány etc, and it’s way easier to read and learn etc, and pretty words are naturally easier to learn and naturally motivating, and, I also recommend learning the 6 modern Celtic languages instead of Arabic, as languages such as Irish and Scottish Gaelic remind a bit of Arabic sound patterns and they are way easier, and almost every modern Celtic word is super pretty like Germanic words, and one can learn 5 or 10 or even 15 pretty and easy category 1 / category 2 languages and two category 3 languages like Irish and Scottish Gaelic at the same time, which is way more efficient than only learning one impossibly hard category 9 or category 10 language, as choosing wisely is key to being a successful polyglot! I am learning words in over thirty languages, having over 50 target languages, and prioritizing more fifteen to twenty of them, and prioritizing the most the prettiest languages ever Icelandic and Norse (upper intermediate level) as well as Dutch (upper advanced level) and Norwegian (advanced level) and Gothic (beginner level) etc, and also Welsh and Breton and Danish!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

By the way, my current levels are... - upper intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / German - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian / Welsh - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / Urkers / Hunsrik / East Norse / Ruhrpöttisch / Alemannic / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Pälzische Deutsch / Austrian German / Waddisch / Palatine German / Westföälsk Sassisk / Austro-Bavarian / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / Sognamål / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail... Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá! Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (The words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)

[@Histoireetturcologie-qm4ti]

@vgan1s674 Sim, mas não falo português há oito anos. Aprendi português quando morei em Lisboa.

[@Kurdedunaysiri]

How can you practice your speaking guys

[@inalexkingstonshair]

It's so cool how German lead you to Turkish. I'm learning German and I can feel myself wanting to learn Turkish because of the sheer amount of Turkish I hear in Germany (I also live in the UK, and Turkish is a big language here too. However I started Japanese a couple months ago so I can't learn a new language just yet! My 2024 goals are to reach B2 in German and become more comfortable speaking in German, particularly with my partner and her friends, and to stick with Japanese as long as I can. Japanese is purely a challenge atm, as I wanted to learn a language that doesn't use the Latin alphabet. Just to prove that I can. :) Viel Glück beim Lernen!

[@ArielBaloy]

I just started learning German by myself this week. I will do my best and see how far I can go and maybe in the future get in course. I speak Spanish (main) and English. Te deseo lo mejor!

[@fashionchoudhary]

Hey! Can you suggest me any yt channel, app Or any free sources to learn Spanish?

[@Kamy199]

Hey Elysse, so cool to hear you officially anncounce you're learning Persian! I'm half-Iranian myself and after feeling a bit more confident in my German have been trying here and there to get to grips with it 😅 I knew you were learning Farsi!! And I swear somehow my intuition told me you had an iranian guy in your life too don't ask me how 🔮 LOVE the shoutout for Chai and Conversation those guys are real ones, I've learned with them before too 🇮🇷 Would love to keep hearing about what resources you use (as there's so much less high quality stuff than in like Spanish or German 🙄) and how your farsi journey evolves, and it's always so exciting for us when people take an interest in our language and culture!! Also you're right the music slaps haha - Movaffagh Bashi!! 🎉

[@SarahM-lw2gd]

I think we are gonna have the same language chain! I started with German because it looked cool, then I was looking for a German language partner and met a Turk learning German, so now I'm learning Turkish. Then, I was looking for the traditional Turkish food he was telling me about, when I found a local store selling some, that is owned by a Persian family. Now I hear Farsi every week, and I want to learn it! I need to do Spanish first, but it's so tempting!

[@aliaa1355]

Farsi is so beautiful. Can't wait to finally do my B2 german exam so that i can have more time for farsi again

[@elyssedavega]

epic!! good luck with everything

[@sungalaxia]

Ooooooh! I've been learning Dari Persian off and on since 2022. It's been a low-key introduction/dabble language, since I'm still trying to reach B1 in Polish, but recently I've really started to feel like I have a grasp on it. I'll be looking forward to your progress, and hopefully I'll have my own progress to report! :D

[@elyssedavega]

i should research more about dari!

[@sungalaxia]

@@elyssedavega It's the official standard of Persian in Afghanistan! It has some pronunciation and vocabulary differences, but for the most part you can think of the difference between Iranian Persian and Afghan (Dari) Persian in a similar way as the difference between British and American English. Not exactly the same, but still the same language!

[@yass_does_photography]

I love that jooneh khodet dance you did and your voice ughh ❤❤❤❤ im learning spanish and german and your the best motivation i could ever have

[@aryanr3054]

Mashala azizz!!!!!! Chai and conversation is such a good resource for learning from scratch and even learning more farsi if you grew up speaking, but not reading/writing. Leila's resources are insanely helpful! Cool to see this progress though! Great work!

[@Neandertaleslanguageadventures]

Yes and Podgap as well! It's on Spotify for example

[@blankb.2277]

Farsi is a great choice! I wish you good luck. Also the needing a cultural connection thing really resonated with me. My first language I studied for 3 years and it ignited my love for language learning. I loved how it sounded and how it looked. But I couldn't build a connection with the country's culture for the life of me. I would only watch dubbed and translated American content and I couldn't be consistent at all, and I've since suspended my engagement with it. But I have not had that problem with Spanish or Russian. I think just thinking the language "sounds cool" isn't enough for most people to stick with it for the long haul.

[@delightedmaryam]

The way you are motivated learning Farsi, is so nice. Also, your Farsi handwriting is very cute. I feel jealous you are mastering your Arabic. It is a hard but beautiful one.

[@elyssedavega]

i don’t know any arabic! just letters and a few words hahaha

[@ryanlotfey]

Loved the video! 👏🏼 Good luck with your relationship and good job with learning Persian! ✌🏻✌🏻

[@ilaydasoysal9594]

OMG ELYSSE İNANAMIYORUM. farsça’ya gönülden bir bağlantım var ve 1.5 yıldır öğrenmeye çalışıyorum araya boşluklar girmiş olsa da. senin de öğrendiğini bilmek aşırı hoşuma gitti. pls keep sharing your resources ❤

[@hira6481]

The language chain theory kinda makes sense. I've gotten close to forming one many times but my fear of commitment shuts it off immediately💀Learning Spanish and travelling to Barcelona got me interested in Catalan to the point that I'd do everything relating to Catalan BUT study Catalan cause i'd be like "I haven't even reached intermediate level in Spanish I couldn't do this to myself". Learning Bulgarian while living there turned to me researching about the entire slavic language family and considered learning Slovenian several times (the most recent of which was just a month ago). Now I'm learning Swedish after dabbling in Norwegian for a few years so who knows what'll happen next

[@MTimWeaver]

My language chain was German (self-taught as a teen because I didn't want to take what was offered in jr/sr high schoo)>Russian>German>Spanish>Japanese>Italian>Swedish. The only language I can truly converse in is Spanish. :) Good luck with your Farsi!

[@christophermichael5764]

I have to step my language game up. All of the polygots that live in Elysse's comment section (and Elysse) have inspired me.

[@elyssedavega]

we are all with you friend !!!

[@rmf5395]

Persian poetry is a world of its own, since you live poetry i think your really gonna enjoy this journey

[@melaniegrace7707]

I’m taking the B1 in German this week (I’m probably at a higher level but have no idea what to expect and am terrible with standardized tests) and flew from FL to NY just for the test but thankfully grew up here so have a place to stay. With that said (and here’s where it’s relevant to what you said in your video) I thought the pressure would make me study sooner… nope… other than the comprehensible input I already regularly do I didn’t do anything to study for this exam until yesterday 😭 I swear if I fail this I’m going to be so mad at myself but in all honesty even if I can mostly understand the language and hold a conversation it doesn’t mean I’ll get right what they ask of me in the moment. Plz wish me luck. Also have an amazing time with Farsi!!!

[@nargesk6718]

I recently find you Elysse . I love how You keep your continuity . I have some procrastination problems 😅 but i need to work on my english more . I love learning languages. I hope i can keep my routine like you ❤ i am also Persian, hope you have a good journey in our culture and language

[@laraskyler3639]

As an Iranian, I'm so glad you're giving it a try.❤ Be sure to try the food. Persian cuisine is THE best!

[@christopherburnett1745]

Yes!! I honestly just made fesenjoon this evening to enjoy tomorrow... with freshly made berenj ba tahdig of course!! 😋😄

[@laraskyler3639]

@@christopherburnett1745 I hope you enjoyed it! Or as we say in farsi, "Nooshe joon"!

[@CappuccinoCoffeeCat]

My chain is: Fiji-Hindi (when I was born) -> English (I live in NZ soo) -> Te Reo -> Korean -> Chinese -> Chinese + French -> Chinese + French + Te Reo

[@williamlee3572]

My modern language learning journey started with French, then went to Spanish and German before dabbling into Italian, and now I am studying Japanese. I studied Latin for part of my degree and would like to study Ancient Greek, but resources for Ancient Greek are a nightmare. I am LOVING Japanese though 👌. The writing system, grammar, and history are so fascinating.

[@Manays]

Cheers to a multilingual 2024! I personally want to get a C1 in french and get up to b2 in Chinese and B1 in russian

[@elyssedavega]

audacious!! love it!!

[@testingsomething5280]

​@@elyssedavegaHey Elysse, I know you've mentioned it in one of your vlogs, but have you tried reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid in German? It did a lot for my Spanish I think. Also watching youtube shorts with subtitles help me to learn and analyze grammar constructions that I didn't know of before

[@Wazkaty]

Très intéressant, j'espère que ton "voyage linguistique" se passe bien depuis que tu as posté cette vidéo ! La poésie, c'est sûr, c'est un objectif de pouvoir l'apprécier

[@sheeliekittie9298]

Yay you are back! Whaaat when were you in Jordan i was there up until last September! i like that place so much. But you must be on the same wavelength as me, farsi is my goal language this year and im at the point in my life, not sure i will learn or add any more new languages after this one. I rather improve the languages i already started. But i absolutely agree. I speak hindi, arabic at a 1 or 2, and turkish maybe A1/2 and wow it makes Farsi so much easier! Im excited to hear about your journey. It will inspire me.

[@nono-fo5ls]

farsi is definitely a very dramatic and poetic language yes. this is a motivation for me to learn that too :)

[@elyssedavega]

i love languages like that hehehe

[@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt]

I hope to be fluent in Spanish further along in French and get Hebrew and Arabic basics under my wing maybe I'll get through each one of these decks of flashcards

[@kimmyevans2364]

Nice choice, Elysse! One of my goals is to begin "exploring" Farsi with Pimsleur this year and learn the script. My big ones though are passing C1 German (I agree, Goethe-Institut is extortionately priced, but German is my language baby, so what can I do 🤷‍♀) and achieve A2 in Spanish which is massive because I've been putting off learning Spanish for over a decade. Fingers crossed this year goes well 😂

[@elyssedavega]

definitely check out chai and conversation too!

[@elenaekanathapetrova2282]

For me learning any language doable if I have content to consume on this language. Something that I really enjoy or curious to know. if it hooks my attention i'm in a learning journey.

[@quietlyconfident]

Chai and conversation is the best ❤ And yes, keep your relationship separate! It’s for the best, TRUST me. Also, yes Iranian music is fantastic.

[@altralinguamusica]

So, I wanted to understand my heritage language better (Cypriot Greek) and I noticed all the bits I couldn't understand were Turkish loanwords, so I started to learn that. Then, like you, I ended up dabbling in Farsi and then Arabic because, well, basically I like old books and wanted to be able to read Ottoman Turkish but I really struggled with the script... so, I went straight to the source!

[@Kurdedunaysiri]

Someone needs to make Cypriot Greek courses on KZbin. If you speak it please do it. I wanna learn 😁

[@Isaiah_Rude0925]

Just have to say this as a fellow French L2 speaker. Yeah, those two years of intense study are brutal. They could happen at the beginning, the end, or anything in-between. I love to compare being "almost fluent" in French to straight-up pergatory. With so many things left to learn, how is it that I understand almost everything?? Lol and what is this new freaking verb conjugation? Thought I was done with those. Very much a hard time. French is the most grammatically trojan horse-like language I've ever encountered. Glad I got it out of the way.

[@lifeofafrenchy]

That’s so nice that you have the C1 level in French and that you are learning Arabic , I am doing my vlogs in Arabic

[@cavtae]

I've been trying to learn three language at the same time (english, spanish and mandarin) and it is so fun and craziness. As a Portugues speaker, Spanish is easier for me, because sounds similar, but english and mandarin doesn't sound closer than spanish. But i enjoying that experience! >_

[@ducciwucci]

that's the most chicago exposed brick wall ever (affectionate), be careful sometimes they crumble a little bit

[@nono-fo5ls]

Learning Persian seems cool :) it seemed always interesting to me that Turkish have borrowed a lot of words from arabic and persian but they are not mutually intelligible at all :D many important and frequent words are common like hello, thank you and so on. but all three languages are from completely different language families so there is no common grammar, inflection, pronounciation so i won't understand even one sentence of both Persian and Arabic lol

[@elyssedavega]

i understand that 🤭 i just said they have words in common, that doesn’t mean mutually intelligible.

[@marvina.-vn3ze]

@@elyssedavega and the OP didn't say you said that?

[@nono-fo5ls]

@Eli_Muwahhid i never said she said so either 🤷‍♀

[@SD-ft5xj]

@@elyssedavega i think people really don’t like this because for example french and English have a lot of words “in common” via latin and because french was really influential back in the day but it’s more like those words have a common ancestry rather then both of the exact same word existing in both languages. Because persians borrowed a lot of words through arabic invasion of iran and because turks were persophiles when they conquered Iran, there are a lot of Turkish words that actually come from arabic but it is pronounced very differently. During ottoman rule turkish was mostly forgetten about by the elite and had a very dark time because of persian and arbix influence and saving Turkish from getting lost is one of our republics biggest accomplishments so its not hard to understand why people feel so proud of this accomplishment and get mad when someone insists on the opposite. Turkish has around 95k words of which around 6k is of arabic origin and 2k is of farsi origin, most of which only used in very specific disciplines like law, so it is not “that” many common words anyways..

[@معاذالسعداوي-ك4ث]

@@elyssedavega I am a native Arab speaker, and I also study Persian, and I learn some Turkish here and there as I'd move there. Despite being bullish on Turkish (spoiler alert: Ottoman connection). Turkish borrowed so much as Turkic peoples had the attitude of assimilating and being impressed by Persian culture and also adapting Islam to justify themselves to Arabs. Persian without Arabic words is dysfunctional, you cannot string one phrase without Arabic. While in Arabic, remove every foreign word, and you'd get to speak normally with few odd words or sounding formal a bit.

[@zubairgul7137]

I am currently learning my own language Urdu, and now I want to learn Arabic and Farsi. The three languages have many similarities, and so are beautiful

[@florentgallois7634]

Yes I have exactly the same chain. I started with german and now I spent 2 months in Istanbul to learn turkish :)

[@dylanlondonoo555]

Hi Elysse, This is Danilo I’ve been following you since 2017 If not wrong I started following you when I began with my english then with portuguese and so on There’s a doubt that seems not to be clear I love the way you learn languages in addition to some of the tips you shared with us that I have put in practice, a couple days ago I watched a video of polyglots speaking in different languages at the same time… So I thought about you and wanting to ask you if have you ever thought on making a video speaking the languages you know talking about I don’t know ( sei la ) anything such as what what’s exactly the differences that help you to reach fluency level in those languages in a video it can be a really good one ❤ beijos Dan

[@pauliericher8504]

as a native, I recommend Slovak language next :D

[@0VELVETVOICE0]

Slovak is such a nice language. I started learning polish and there are so many similarities, but Slovakian sounds easier to ne.

[@PumpkinMozie]

“Is a meal included?” 😂😂😂 for real tho…

[@MichaelAsmari]

This year i am strating to getting back to Albanian ( self-study ) i hope that i can get to B1 level at the end of this year. Also French which i enrolled in class dedicated to french, so those will be in the year 2024 as a whole but in June - September i am going to really focus on georgian ( and some modern Greek and modern Hebrew ).

[@AlejandroTobon-xy2wi]

my language-chain Español

[@emmasol523]

Ohh I was going to say, it would be slightly easy for you since Turkish and Farsi has bunch of common words you apologized before saying the same exact thing :D I think the reason why Turkish people get defensive is many foreigners ask 'oh so you speak Arabic then' when we say we're Turkish. Thanks to internet this is not a common thing anymore but yeah many stories has been told. But I remember saying to my friends 'the languages are different buttt we have many common words' more than once. Anyways, good luck on your journey!

[@Axew3872]

I love your videos

[@elyssedavega]

thanks so much!!

[@Axew3872]

Holy crap you replied 😭 You're an inspiration for all language learners!

[@Thatboymeher]

Just going of your notes, let me give you a little tip (as a native), if you’re going to be talking to someone with “to - تو” then don’t say “to ahle kojayee - تو اهل کجایی,” NO BODY SAYS THAT, if you address someone with “to” then you know them fairly well, and just switch to informal, so ask them in an informal way, کجایی - kojayee, but obviously if you’re addressing someone with “shoma - شما” then yea “shoma ahle kojayeed” would be the best way to say it. Overall it’s an incredible language, just like Arabic, spoken is WAY different than written, so do your research on that, and pro tip, search up first garde Farsi literature book, and start there (کتاب فارسی سال اول دبستان), as an Armenian-Iranian it’s such a beautiful language, you’ll love it and ببینیم که چی میشه :)❤

[@sao5698]

This year I will continue learning Korean as well as English, and start doing more spanish reading and writing since I don't want to get rusty in my native language :")

[@melika3519]

As a native Iranian I highly recommend Forough Farrokhzad's poetry :)

[@LaViajeraGringa]

I do the same thing with “Resumen” 😂 it just makes more sense hahah

[@spanish-en-contexto]

I think I'd just like to get my Polish together and maybe if the stars align just go all in on German. This is a second language chain, detached from a simultaneous Spanish - French - Italian language chain.

[@yorgunsamuray]

When I started learning Indonesian for work, I stumbled upon the knowledge that the Chinese-Indonesians speak Hokkien, so I started Taiwanese Hokkien on Glossika (one of the free languages in it) - hey, the two can't be that different! Though that plan failed. A significant other is a good motivation for language learning. A KZbin polyglot was studying Tagalog because she was dating a Filipino, this is not rare. I think they broke up fast though. Even though it wasn't that big of an influence, I had a Japanese crush when I was 15 and I think it had an effect on me learning Japanese. Of course it was more from anime, a Samurai TV series, but mainly being a kid of the 80's hearing about "the Japanese miracle" all the time, thus the prospective career opportunities. Even though I kinda wish I had learned Mandarin or Korean instead, I don't regret studying Japanese. My resolutions: I'll focus on my already existing studies of Russian and Indonesian. I started Finnish in Duolingo, but I don't know if I'd continue.

[@pelinokutan]

Looked at the comments but could not find. We have a saying jn Turkish “Dil dile değmeden dil öğrenilmez” hahah hope it will help in your C1 exam and good luck on your Farsi journey ❤

[@bremexperience]

Have a close to B1 level in portuguese and german. However I'm leaving for a trip to Turkey in 2 weeks. I've been trying to learn the basics, but oh boy oh boy.

[@Erika-pq7ip]

Me doing my korean journaling throughout the video

[@adrianchiam6773]

Hello, Elysse. I am Adrian and I am from Malaysia. Mother tongue: Mandarin Chinese Malaysian: Malay Global language: English Language chain: Mandarin > Japanese, Malay > German > Dutch

[@mymodernrenaissance]

My chain is kind of English (native) + German (random interest) = I’m gonna try Dutch which led to “what else is in this lang family? (Germanic)” Swedish. Let’s do that. Where does it come from? Old Norse? Closest living language to that one is Icelandic. I haven’t actually learnt much Icelandic (resources, where are you?) I’m also interested in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (triggered by briefly dating a Moroccan LOL, but still interested in the language because it’s fun) now I’m interested in Hindi…I’m sure we can guess why at this point 🤷🏼‍♀️ fun how we’re like “that’s not why I’m gonna learn it” but then we end up curious and just get hooked to their language as well hahaha

[@mousealish21]

When Black Cats came on I screamed a scrumpt!!!

[@o08O80o]

Nooooo, I dabbled in Farsi for ages and even did it at university but like three years ago I dropped it to focus on other languages…. but now it’s gonna be really difficult to resist picking it back up 😣

[@quit-rt4vz]

I havent learnt any expect for german yet but this is the languages i want to learn/ the language chain; German>Old English>Norwegian> Frisian

[@omerciftci4673]

2:20 “is a meal included? $h1t” 😄

[@benty3640]

Finallyy!!!!!!!

[@skorpi09irl]

My chain of “serious relationships” is Serbo~Croatian > Turkish > Punjabi > Persian This does not include the many flings in between. I don’t count those because even though I may have held a mini conversation or few in them, I did not spend enough time with them to really form a good base. I had actually tried learning Persian several years ago but I didn’t get anywhere. I was still in a relationship with Turkish. Later I got with Punjabi and only recently, as of the last week of December 2023, I went back to Persian. Turkish has a lot of words from Persian, yes, but Punjabi has a whole lot more and between that and Turkish, a lot of Persian words are familiar to me. I decided I like the Afghani and Tojiki accents better so I focus more on listening to mostly Afghani stuff now. I’ve been using LingQ and KZbin for learning. I just find native speakers to listen to on KZbin. I can say I’m progressing quite quickly. I have an Afghani friend here in USA that I met when he came 2 years ago and I can have some text conversations and audio message conversations…but I’m still slow at speaking on-demand. I still have a long way to go before I’ll reach an “adult” speaking level 😅 I’m also still with Punjabi too though because I’m at a plateau and that’s actually why I brought Persian into the picture. I feel like it helps me with my past languages when I bring on a new one.

[@kovaxim]

I don't really have a language chain, I learned English to a certain degree when I was a kid, then I started watching cartoons in German so that's how I learned German, but my English sucked so while I was ridiculed on the internet for my poor English and slow typing, I naturally had to get good and now I'm quite confident in my English skills, though there is always room for improvement. Among the German cartoons were anime in German, so I naturally got curious about that and even started watching anime in Japanese so that's how I learned some words, expressions and got acquainted with the writing system. I'm not even a proper A1 in Japanese and have for the past 10 years or so tried learning it here and there without much success. While I personally am not that interested in Turkish, Arabic or Farsi, I still think that you learning those languages is commendable and that you should try to go as far as you can. I did try to learn Hungarian, but was more in awe of its complexity than actually trying to learn it properly. Currently trying to pass German B1 to a higher level (it's the 8th level, after which would be the 9th and then it's B2 time), but after not using the language for many years and never properly learning to write it, I have difficulties with it. I usually passed everything due to my ability to speak it at a decent level.

[@SD-ft5xj]

Turkish has a very similar grammar to hungarian and also they sound very similar too.

[@metalsabatico]

Farsi is great. At some point you should make a video on how you learn it. There aren't as many resources for it, so Iitd be interesting to see how you approach it.

[@christopherburnett1745]

She talked about Chai and Conversation. That's a great place to start, imo

[@romanr.301]

Yes, the language chain is real! My language chains (yes, plural lol) were: Spanish > French > Portuguese > Italian French > Swedish (very briefly) > German > Turkish > Arabic > Hebrew (yes, French has its own little sub-chain, lol) Chinese > Japanese > Korean > Vietnamese > Tagalog

[@masihasalehian5735]

Persian is a beautiful language indeed❤❤

[@languagejones]

What are you going to do with the remaining 10 months? 😂 honestly, I’m excited for you! Drop in on my Sunday Farsi livestreams!

[@elyssedavega]

hahaha i’m just talking about Q1 here! i mostly divide my language studies by quarter since i can be pretty capricious. and oooooo will do!

[@fal8_]

Mine is Persian too 🥹🥹💕❤️💕, lets start this journey together🕺🏼🕺🏼

[@inarticulateutterlymonolingual]

While studying Finnish, I kept thinking I was seeing German loanwords in the language. Every time I investigated the etymology, it turned out to be a Swedish loanword--so my language chain is Finnish to Swedish.

[@mondrella627]

My language chain is : MSA>Spanish>French>Korean

[@RamtinHG]

8:16 well generally Persian doesn't have gender specifics for pronouns so it's the same but we usually call Iran Mother or sometime lady Iran In return maybe sometimes we consider the King as Father like Iranians consider Cyrus the great as the father of Iranians 😅

[@jsigns5899]

Language chains for me go Slovenian>Serbo-Croatian>Russian And Norsk Bokmål>Nynorsk>Swedish>German I had an aversion to learning German before Swedish 😅 very interesting where connections will take us. Good studies everyone!

[@juserodriguez2034]

My language chain Arabic > English > Turkish > Farsi > Hebrew I would like to learn Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and German in the future 😊

[@Eizaburo.Meto99]

I was dead after "Is there a meal included?" haha

[@yatojehochu]

Me learning russian-a bit of chinese-english-korean-indonesian-spanish 🫨🫨

[@sezginyuceboy8890]

I'm from Istanbul, I will coming to Brazil,to learning Portuguese and long time to living ❤

[@HosseinAbg]

since when having a language learning chain became a new norm in this world ?!? it looks like a dead end to me being stuck in stupid german so far 😢 6:36

[@Lucy-on6us]

Yep, learning Arabic and now looking at Turkish and Farsi, I cannot help it! 😁

[@frasenp8411]

I think mine is like (just travelled East) 😂 Spanish > Arabic > Persian > Hindi > Sanskrit

[@iRosati]

Yep they're making a new C1 exam and it will be ready this month I think

[@dammitesme4547]

Oh yeah, native English and Spanish speaker, then i learned French and now im beginning Italian.

[@evelic]

What does this girl do for a living? How does she have time to learn all these languages and travel around the world. Is she rich or something?

[@LaViajeraGringa]

Omg! I thought about learning Farsi!!

[@Meg.A.DarkAlienWriter]

Wow this is a sign for me to stop being intimidated by Farsi lol. I ran across a beginners study work book at the bookstore end of last year and I bought it because I've heard of it but I love its writing because its similar to Arabic (which I'm very intimidated by 🫠). So I listened to it and loved how the poetry sounded as well but I put it to the side because I'm like where do I begin and then you posted this lol. Thank you so much for your content I love your videos.

[@Meg.A.DarkAlienWriter]

@Eli_Muwahhid oh really? That’s been the biggest intimidating thing for me with this language as well as Arabic.

[@elyssedavega]

thanks so much for watching ❤️ and don’t let the script intimidate you, just learn it with a free trial to Chai and Conversation! she should be hosting another free bootcamp around Nowrooz time in march .

[@Meg.A.DarkAlienWriter]

Thank you so much ❤ Also what advice would you give to someone thats starting to learn German 🇩🇪🤗 @@elyssedavega

[@mustafayigitklnc752]

There's a really interesting history to Turkish, Arabic and Farsi sharing vocab. That's bc Farsi was the language of diplomacy in the region and Arabic was the language of science. As a Turk even with Urdu(my flatmates speak it) I find thousands of words that are the same through Farsi and Arabic. It is actually quite intriguing.

[@מאיגפני]

i have a quastion: do you choose what adds your videos will have do you get paid from them? or is it just random and every person sees a different ad?

[@georgrohrmoser]

Hallo, ich schreibe auf Deutsch, weil du das ja auch beherrscht. Ich bin total fasziniert - hin und weg- wie wir sagen, über Deine sprachlichen Fähigkeiten, ich empfinde grenzenlose Bewunderung für Dich, teilweise auch etwas Neid. Ich selbst würde mich nicht als polyglott bezeichnen, obwohl ich Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch und Spanisch ganz gut beherrsche, aber natürlich nicht so fließend sprechen kann wie Du. Vor einigen Jahren habe ich mit Russisch und Arabisch begonnen, wegen des Krieges in der Ukraine und meines fortgeschrittenen Alters (75) und der zunichte gewordenen Möglichkeit, Russland zu bereisen das Erlernen der russischen Sprache beendet und durch Kroatisch- Bosnisch- Serbisch ersetzt, denn dahin, wo das gesprochen wird, kann ich in wenigen Stunden mit dem Auto hinfahren oder dort Urlaub machen. Bei Arabisch habe ich mich für Levantinisch entschieden, die Sprache die man im Libanon, in Palästina und in Jordanien spricht. Das sprachliche Niveau, das Du hast, werde ich wohl in meinem Leben nicht mehr erreichen können. Es tut mir jetzt aufrichtig leid, dass ich deine Nasen- piercings kritisiert habe! Sie gefallen mir immer noch nicht, aber ich versuche eben, über sie hinweg zu sehen. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Du das verstehen könntest und mir deswegen nicht böse wärst. Ich schaue täglich einige Deiner Videos an, meist auf Spanisch. Danke nochmals und liebe Grüße aus Österreich!!

[@allthelanguages7945]

My Language chain French>italian>greek>>turkish>farsi

[@lhucya12]

É muito difícil aprender inglês, parece que eu nunca saio do lugar!.

[@geovannicosta7963]

É só continuar estudando, uma hora você vai absorver a lingua e entende-la com se fosse português.

[@esl-wm6zk]

my language chain goes like, english-spanish-italian-french-korean.

[@Yorecore]

I SAID IT ON YOUR INSTAGRAM REEL THAT IT WAS FARSI HAHAHAHAHA I KNEW ITTTTT

[@elyssedavega]

I WASNT GONNA CONFIRM HAHAHA