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Alexander Arguelles presents a series of video reviews and demonstrations of those foreign language learning series that he has found most useful in his own studies. For further information about the series, please refer to www.foreignlang...

[@cujagu]

If this dude had gone into medicine instead of linguistics there would be a cure for cancer by now.

[@Big-guy1981]

He's a humanities guy. I doubt he could work in STEMS.

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

@@Big-guy1981 Medicine isn't a stem field

[@chicoti3]

@@archdukefranzferdinand567 I think it's a joke on stem cells

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@vodkatonyq]

And I have officially learned them all. In the last seven years: German, French and Italian. Easiest: Italian. Hardest: German. I already spoke Spanish. Next in line: Latin and Russian.

[@lucagioviale]

Congrats Tony

[@ProfASAr]

Good luck in your continued studies!

[@iberius9937]

Sehr gut! Molto bene! Tres bien! Optime! Очень хорошо!

[@J87-k4c]

Hi 👋 Can you share some methods for Spanish ?

[@benzvd]

I agree. The more languages we learn, the easier the next language become. I am now at my 11th languages. I also found language learning an enjoyable thing to do. Actually learning language is to me not just to learn how to communicate, but rather it trains up my intellectual cognitive ability. Also, as I am learning foreign languages, I feel as if I am taking a tour! Visiting a country of where I don't speak the language makes me feel like I have not really immersed in the place.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@transformersloverjon]

This guy's cadence is endlessly entertaining.

[@MyTheolog]

transformersloverjon LOL....ROFL

[@majav15mg]

Or perhaps... You meant.. That... This guy's... cadences... Are in fact... Endlessly... Entertaining?

[@TwelfthRoot2]

Rivaled only by Christopher Walken.

[@NicolaiCzempin]

William... Shatner?

[@Helvetseld]

I love his voice honestly. I could listen to it forever

[@ArphenMaethor]

I am always amazed how people perceive languages...some say you cant learn more than 3 languages in total, despise the fact that medieval scholars usually spoke 4 languages fluently (native, latin, greek and depending on living area french, german or english additional) that diplomats and ofc translators all around the world usually speak at LEAST 4 different languages and some schools teach up to 5 different languages (austrian gymnasium teaches german, latin,, greek, english, french and spanis

[@ProfASAr]

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[@ZiGGyMaidEN]

Do to our the political situation under (partial?) danish rule, faroese people speak fluent danish by default and english as well as faroese. Quite a few also learn german for up to 6 years in elementary school and high school. I believe that being multilingual has its benefits both in communication and understanding different cultures. Faroeans can easily understand and (at least pretend to) speak Norwegian, Swedish and to some extent Icelandic, which is quite unique compared to how the other nordic speakers understand each other.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@NewarkWilder]

Fantastic video, thanks for sharing your information on this subject. I'm learning both Spanish and German and videos like this are a great source of inspiration.

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@retr0pedr0]

I discovered the linguaphone course and grammar book for icelandic some weeks ago and I can only agree. The method is different and appears to be more systematical. Anyhow, your point of view on learning foreign languages is really inspiring and I can agree with you completly.

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@thelinguistblogger]

I've accepted your challenge! I am already fluent in Spanish and Portuguese but only have a basic knowledge of French, Italian and German. I just went to E-bay and bought a Berlitz Self-Teacher book of German, Italian and French. I'm anxious to get started! Thank you for your recommendation.

[@ProfASAr]

I just found this comment 13 years later! If you get this response: how did the challenge go? Please try to respond before 2035!

[@ryanboothe9205]

@@ProfASAr To be blunt, not terribly well. I didn't find the Berlitz books to be particularly helpful. I think they were a very small piece of the puzzle. Aber ich kann wohl sagen, dass mein Deutsch viel besser ist. Ich kann es nicht so fließend, wie ich möchte, aber ich kann sagen, dass ich Deutsch kann. En novembre, j’ai eu la chance de parler avec un universitaire de Cameron en français. C’est été difficile, mais bonne au même temps. Ho la impressione che potrebbe parlare l’italiano molto meglio se avessi l’opportunità di parlarlo ogni giorno, ma capisco molto e anche posso leggere molto. I found your suggestion to do something in the language every day to be much more helpful. That was a game changer for me.

[@lucienne66]

Hello Professor, would you consider doing an updated video on this topic with modern recommended materials that are in print?

[@ProfASAr]

Request noted!

[@Patrick-sheen]

What a resource. Thank you for your tips. I wonder if Portuguese could be added to this list or if the same material exists for that language?

[@sdstacey46]

IMHO here’s my recommended path in that case: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and then German. Portuguese has an 89% lexical similarity with Spanish, 75% with French, and about 80% with Italian. Portuguese phonology has many nasal sounds like French does (Spanish and Italian don’t). Source: language nerd who knows French, Spanish, some Italian, a bit of Portuguese, and took two years of Russian as an undergrad.

[@ProfASAr]

Unfortunately, they did not make this for Portuguese.

[@MaricaAmbrosius]

I kind of love you right now. I find it amazing that people, when told they are too old to learn more, will simply believe that.

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@snakelemon]

they are also germanic languages like swedish, danish, dutch, norwegian, finnish, icelandic, flemish, irish, afrikaan, gohic, scotch, faroese, groningan, limburgish, west frisian and low saxon

[@ProfASAr]

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[@1671PdC]

Arquelles Sensei, in this video you talk about keeping Spanish and Italian separated (by French in this case) in order not to get them muddled. Currently I am learning Japanese. I am now at the intermediate level. Years ago my Spanish and French were at the advanced level. Recently however, when I speak them, Japanese bleeds into my conversation. So my question is, how do you keep multiple languages separated whilst speaking?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@daliadieu]

I'm norwegian and have studied french for a few years. I really want to take on german next and then move on to spanish and italian, in that order. Norwegian is a germanic language and therefore I think learning german will not be as difficult for me as for somone who has not a substantial background in studying germanic languages. Not quite sure yet, though... Anyway, this guy is my hero!

[@ProfASAr]

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[@FinnishPractice]

You´re an inspiration for me sir. I study a lot of Languages, it is my biggest passion. I´m doing my best, studying several Languages with different studying methodologies.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@euphonies]

With French, German, English, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, and simply dabbling in a few others, I'm 'only' multilingual. However, watching a few of your videos has really inspired me to learn more. Although you rightly point out that it takes work and dedication, it's absolutely addictive! On another note, in one of your videos you refer to your children. How have you chosen to introduce them to languages? Are they enjoying the process?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@J87-k4c]

Are you on social media? Let's link up😊

[@baigandinel7956]

@kiurbarra I have been investigating this issue quite a lot, and at a minimum you also have a strong French influence upon English as to spelling and to a lesser extent upon pronunciation. You also have wholesale adoption of some French prefixes and suffixes such as 're' and 'able' paired with countless Germanic roots. You also have hybrid words.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@Smitty532]

I am certainly interested in using your suggested method for studying these languages. Very sound advice, indeed. However, I would like to ask, is it possible, or rather, is it appropriate to begin this challenge while you are already learning another language? I'm studying Japanese, at the moment, so would it be wise to study the first language of this set while continuing Japanese? Or is it best to wait until I've attained a decent proficiency first?

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@3APNHA]

I went to subscribe but I was already subscribed, I must've found your channel a long time ago! Fantastic video

[@ProfASAr]

Wonderful news - thank you!

[@mochaos91]

This is because English had a very strong French influence, although being Germanic. VERY strong. As an example, I'll list some words in English, then French and then German so you can compare and contrast: paper, papier, Papier possible, possible, möglich replaceable, remplaçable, austauschbare ferment, fermenter, Gärung What Im trying to get at is that English sounds French, but is structured like German, the very broad scope of things.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@thundernuts0]

Well, I didn't know about this video but I study german now, (mother tounge is English) and these are the exact languages I want to learn. 5 years is excellent though. Kind of hard if your a college student but I want to make this happen.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@sheepthing]

I happen to speak French, Spanish, and a some German (as well as Portuguese), and am taking up some italian too. I adore your philosophy towards learning languages! it's all too true that people mistakenly believe that they just *can't* learn a language for some reason or another, particularly more than one. Thankfully that's not true!

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@J87-k4c]

Spanish and Portuguese. Can you share methods? Are you on social media?

[@TheDarkPan]

I am not content with my current knowledge of German and French and have been looking at the new Teach Yourself Quick Fix (language) Grammar series. They actually seem pretty useful to the "grammatical index" -oriented learner and to pack more punch than some (if not most) of the "renovated" post-2000 versions of TY language books. For those who at least know the pronunciation, Teach Yourself Spanish Verbs also workably surpasses the current norm w/ its goodies, verb grammar +idiomatic examples.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@inkstersco]

@ProfASAr I was inspired to learn Spanish merely because it seemed accessable to me, having learned Latin. I looked at it for a minute and realised it was just skewed Latin.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@1671PdC]

先生, thank you for the quick feedback. I will revisit the memory palaces of Mateo Ricci et al, Dominus tecum!

[@ProfASAr]

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[@Idolsofwood]

God I respect this man.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@3APNHA]

Thank you for adding the key concepts

[@ProfASAr]

You are very welcome.

[@jimmyutley2375]

Would you still recommend an approach using the materials you mentioned in this video (vintage Linguaphone, Berlitz, etc.) or would Assimil be better?

[@ProfASAr]

For all four, yes. For any one individually, probably current Assimil.

[@jimmyutley2375]

@@ProfASAr Thank you for your reply, professor. You’ve been an inspiration to me for years.

[@eljuarma]

@twihok he says those languages are the dominant languages in western civilization. Russian is one of the eastern dominant languages. Their influences areas are different.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@robgillon]

I read an article a number of years ago in which you were quoted as saying that a person could (and possibly should, if they wanted) attain an excellent level in six languages. I would like to ask if you still believe in this, and you are just giving these above four languages as an example of the attainability of learning the most commonly studied ones.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@rahulmitra5121]

Dear Dr Arguelles I am interested in ancient languages .such books are unfortunately not available in my country.But are available as e books .So can one learn ancient languages from e books downloaded on phone.

[@ProfASAr]

One can try one's best.

[@Smitty532]

Thank you for your reply, Professor. Your help is very much appreciated. I'm now trying to find the materials to begin studying Spanish but it's quite difficult to find them at the moment. Can you recommend some stores or auction sites that may provide them? I suppose, just to try out studying two languages at the same time, I thought about going through the Spanish Assimil course. Would this be a good book to use for shadowing? Or for transcribing?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@walterpira]

Creo que alguien no puede confundirse al hablar Francés o Italiano, y tener como lengua madre el Español, es más probable confundirse al hablar Portugués ya que estos dos son muy parecidos, a tal punto de hablar el conocido "Portuñol".

[@milafalcao11]

Verdade Concordo plenamente

[@ProfASAr]

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[@Funk2Funky]

I saw in some other comment that you can write in Portuguese, but I haven't heard you speaking it yet, it would be nice hearing you speaking it. Also... I speak Portuguese in as my native language, and I speak English an Spanish, I'm not sure which if I learn French or German, which one would you recommend me? Thanks

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@Funk2Funky]

@@ProfASAr I love thet fact that you replied to a 12yo comment

[@amythestgemini1902]

Can someone with a mild learning disability learn multiple language? I's there any online textbooks in foreign languages for fee? Became I don't look like I have a disability it's not mental and physical and yet when I go to the library they and get a book out in thwg language book they look at me as like I'm stupid and I can't do it, and always doubt me. Like my dad for instance oh I welsh and irish is closest to me seen as I'm a native English speaker from Scotland UK. I don't know whether or not to start with French and the 4 stated on the title or continue on with Irish and welsh. Because I allso would like to learn them all ad many as I can, and start at the base languages in order to let me learn Slovakian language's and Chinese in time.

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@jphobp]

Must have a look at Italian and German some time. I speak the other three pretty well (English being my mother tongue) and it would probably be beneficial to be proficient in German and Italian, too.

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@barefootfiona]

I think English wasn't mentioned because he was speaking in English to a largely English forum, and so the statement that these four languages were the most commonly used was meant in addition to English. In regards to your suggestion, German is still spoken by many peopel in business and most other sectors, but particularily finance. Italian, perhaps, is not as crucial, but is certainly more different to Spanish than Portuguese, so is not as mutually intelligible.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@jceja87]

Colloquial is good too. In the third lesson on of the character talks about his son going to war! Thanks prof.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@German1184]

I recently decided to learn German. After watching your videos, I am really motivated to follow the program that you suggested. I am trying to choose *very careful* the material, so in the future, after studying the German language, I can start acquire the others in a systematic fashion. Unfortunately, besides the *Berlitz Self-Teacher* and the *Made Simple* series, it’s impossible to find the material you mentioned. Could you suggest a program using still-in-print material?

[@jennifera4369]

German, were you able to locate the materials? I saw some vintage sets of Linguaphone on eBay, but many were incomplete, and I'm not sure if the sets from the 80s or even the 70s are too new? I would be interested in knowing exactly what year the content diverged, so I don't buy the wrong ones. The newer Made Simple series are different across languages. I will likely go ahead and do the challenge without buying any new materials, except for French, as I have purchased many German, Spanish, and Italian books and audio already. I did, however, like the idea of studying these parallel tracks, and agree with Dr. Arguelles that using similar content across languages would accelerate the learning process.

[@ProfASAr]

Thanks for commenting.

[@jerrybennett2218]

Can you be a little more specific in materials than should be used and how you would employ them?

[@ProfASAr]

Please watch some of my more recent videos for this

[@priestpilot]

My mother tongue is French and I have been learning and using English since the 3rd grade, so I have a good base in Romance and Germanic languages. I am trying to learn Spanish, and maybe later on Swedish. Spanish is easy as it is similar to French.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@Wawixi]

@ZachForgives You're right... I'm a native spanish speaker.. and portuguese is quite similar.. Anyway.. I think french is a really important language... I'm studying it.. as well as japanese and italian.. Portuguese of course will be quite easy for me.. (because of my first language) and I will study it as soon as I can... greetings!

[@ProfASAr]

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[@WolftheWidowmaker]

@johnspeech Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language and not related to the Indo-European languages or the Slavic ones. That being said, Finnish does contain a lot of loan words, mostly Swedish and some Russian ones, for historic reasons. Finland (geographically) was a part of Sweden from ca 1200 to the 1809 and annexed by Russia for the next 108 years. The Russian loan words are mostly used informally and especially among the youth of the capital.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@thundernuts0]

professor, i know english and spanish, and i want to learn italian because its relative to spanish, and german, because its relative to english, and iv been looking everywhere for programs and such but cant figure which i should spend money on, and the thing is to be honest i will get bored with just learning by reading, i needa program thats more intresting. help?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@johnspeech]

@followyourideas I've always had that doubt! Is it a caucasian/ slavic language? May you clear that up?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@deegonz06]

Profasar, What do you think of the Rosetta Stone program, would you recomend it? Also, out of curiosity, what nationality are you?

[@jennifera4369]

He is American, and I doubt he recommends Rosetta Stone. No polyglot I know uses RS. Like Dr. Arguelles, many are fans of Assimil.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@denis5555]

@Viruzpmrgnogueira : Why do you say "Portuguese from Portugal"? You could say Portuguese in general. Actually Brazilian Portuguese is closer to Spanish or Italian. Ex.: Those small differences prove that. 1) Gerund: Eu estou cantando [Brazil] Eu estou a cantar [Portugal] Yo estoy cantando [Spanish] Io sto cantando [Italian] =I am singing 2) Placement of pronouns: Eu me chamo Denis [Br] Eu chamo-me Denis [Pt] Yo me llamo Denis [Sp] Io mi chiamo Denis [It] = My name is Denis =

[@ProfASAr]

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[@inkstersco]

If these materials go out of production might it then become lawful to distribute it freely online?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@Hraunfossar]

Confusing? Irregular grammar? This is a question from the position, I´m German and I haven´t a problem with the grammar.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@ASDAPIX]

Profasar are sanskrit and lithuanian very similar, for example like 50 percent or more, or slightly similar, like 1 percent?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@Valvallaria]

I have a question - do you know any good ways to learn welsh (cymraeg)? I googled for an assimil course for it, but I did not find any. I'd love to teach that language myself - preferrably online, but books ect are also very welcome.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@ASDAPIX]

Is it confusing or ok to learn two foreign languages at the same time? The two i want to learn are hindi and spanish.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@inkstersco]

Is there not a danger of getting Spanish and Italian mixed up?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@dreaminjosh]

(A mon avis, les elements de francais, espagnol, et italien sont tres similaires avec leurs verbes, mots [un verbe n'est pas un mot?] et la pluspart de grammaire aussi) Peut-et' c'est ce que vous vouliez dire-

[@ProfASAr]

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[@pythonbyte]

No just an affiliate company in Hong Kong.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@davr746]

Professor,i have a question:well my native language is Spanish,and i speak English fluently,i learned to pronounce it correctly by learning the IPA,and also i have studied the phonology of other languages all by myself,i wanna learn French,Italian,Portuguese,and German,maybe Russian,i have little knowledge of these languages,so i wonder how long do you think it'd take for me to learn these languages and have a wide vocabulary,considering the fact that i already speak Spanish and English?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@ujery]

what about learning spanish and then german from a spanish leraning book, then french from a german book and so on?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@greenghost2008]

so how many langauges do u know now?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@cmmndrblu]

Yup!! There's a good reason for this. English is a creole- the love child of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French. Our day to day words largely come from German. T/D T/S G/Y V/B (giVe/geBen, LiVe/Leben) broT (breaD) TaG (DaY) eSSen (eaT) Trinken (Drink), but the more formal the language the more french it starts to sound. The German heritage words in our language are very different from their cousins today.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@SCAlex_Musician]

Is it safe to go about learning Spanish and French simultaneously and study them for, let's say, the next 2 years? I had French lessons in middle school,and i'm learning (self-taught) Spanish for 3 months. And then what is the best way to handle this process? Thank you!

[@ProfASAr]

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[@hglundahl]

@ProfASAr- I had the benefit of looking at my ma's schoolbooks, lots of them. Her book in German was a story when one had gotten sufficiently far, about a Swedish girl visiting Munich. It was really inspiring, I read it through for fun, but I already knew German. Thus, I was not in a position to test its efficacy. She used it, then went to Lausanne to study French, then got a Swiss accent on her German (slightly), so I do not know how much of her proficiency in German was due to the book and how much was due to the visit in Lausanne.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@hglundahl]

@@ProfASAr Thank _you_ for the video!

[@telemarker93]

so far know english and German and working on Spanish! polyglotism is cool

[@ProfASAr]

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[@followyourideas]

Spanish , italian and portuguese are extremely similar, french is a little bit different, speacily in matters of pronunciation..

[@ProfASAr]

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[@roland96ism]

can you make a clip by doing you speak all languages do you know ?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@greenghost2008]

i was also wondering is it normal for english speakers to think japanesse sounds nicer then manderan and that protugesse sounds very very odd.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@timoc90]

Oye, este, solo me habia quedado la duda, (que en tanto de la manera que expresaste en ese video) del estudiar en forma del juxtopostion. One would think that such a rigid enforcment of the parallels is the antipode de étudier les petit différence k les distingue comme autre langue. tout a fait, Relatively,.. they are "同文". 可是 task orianted-ness of En-De, is not the same as the Sp-It"processed bassed" or Fr "attribute" bassed. ou c k vx n'dit pas d ça même façon? (synthétique, pour dire)

[@ProfASAr]

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[@PrinsTan]

a scholar just published a thesis (forgot his name) and which he showed that there was Latin and Old Italian in 200 AD and that Latin was already becoming obsolete. His great finding is that Old Italian gave us French and Italian, not Latin (should find his name). Anyway it was a great read

[@ProfASAr]

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[@mrlanguageguy]

@cricio93 how?? it's fairly regular and phonetics are extremely simple

[@ProfASAr]

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[@akukukaka]

@rishtar145 french is easy if your native language is spanish or italian

[@baronmeduse]

Why do so many Spaniards not speak French then?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@cmmndrblu]

Interesting, I heard that Italian is not the closest language to classical Latin. That prize goes to Romanian. Spanish French and Italian are from the less formal Latin, so there are definite similarities. Portuguese and Spanish are really really close, (it's very easy to read one if you know the other).

[@ProfASAr]

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[@barefootfiona]

I do understand that it can be frustrating, but I think that he is aiming this at students with a high level of familiarity with linguistic terminology, so don't worry about it too much. Language learning is such a personal development anyway. :) I don't know why so many people have thums-downed you. Maybe you came across a bit demanding? Anyway, good luck!

[@ProfASAr]

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[@DaveFilms]

@russellziske where did you get that idea from?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@germanberserk]

where can i get the all he names of this books ?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@TehCacti]

Can I have one of your books please?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@bonuccicris]

@0989aiko You probably meant "can you find me a job"? Not "a work".

[@ProfASAr]

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[@latesniloticus]

To me, Japanese, many European languages seem to be very close, even if they were romance or germanic. I am now learning Spanish, and I feel it so strong. When I started to learn English, every single word was new to me! Apart from words, I believe Asian ppl will never be able to acquire a proper usage of definete/indefinite articles.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@juanpablo-rdm]

Hola Professor Después de tres largos años sigo aprendiendo italiano, portugués, alemán y francés. Cada tanto redescubro algo interesante sobre el inglés o el español. Grazie; Obrigado; Danke; Merci pour cette vidéo ! N 🇦🇷 es C 🇺🇾 es B 🇬🇧 en A 🇮🇹 it 🇧🇷 pt 🇩🇪 de 🇫🇷 fr Ελληνικό αλφάβητο 🇬🇷 ελ Русская азбука 🇷🇺 ру

[@ProfASAr]

Gracias por tu comentario.

[@Valvallaria]

Thank you! I will check them out!

[@alamut8563]

How is it going after 10 years?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@LANJASGAL]

oh !! i love your sweater!! seriously, good vid...por cierto tu apellido es de origen asturiano

[@ProfASAr]

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[@kronos77]

What?! You don't recommend Assimil?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@platano214]

@cmmndrblu A Portuguese speaker will fine it easier to learn Spanish than the other way..But nevertheless it is possible due to the fact that they are closely related Romance languages like you yourself has stated...:-)

[@ProfASAr]

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[@darthvaderyoda]

If Spanish and Italian are phoenetic then why is French in between them

[@ProfASAr]

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[@nathanheightz]

It looks like its hard for him to speak because he is using a high level of vocabulary in which he might not be fully comfortable. :) I liked the video!

[@ProfASAr]

Not sure what you mean?

[@BulgarianShadow]

yeah this dude is badass ... 15 min of talking without a rest ....

[@ProfASAr]

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[@efisgpr]

college texts, fsi materials, etc.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@Viruzpmrgnogueira]

@Leadman1989 hey, if you learn Portuguese from Portugal, you can easly speack spanish, a big part of italian, and a bit o french. ( i know that because i'm from Portugal and i understand spanish italian and a bit of french without studying them) It's a dificult language but it's worth it!

[@ProfASAr]

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[@indiced]

the Challenge is Polish, thanks god you will have great problems with learning it

[@ProfASAr]

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[@gizmo928]

professor, i want to learn so many languages when i grow up, that is called a linguistic right? and also would i have to go to the army or UN (united nation) for them to provide that for me? i hear that they can teach people and also theyll send you to countries as well. but also i dont really want to be a translator. i know the government needs them but i feel as if theyre being used in some way but i know they get paid alot. im confused , please help :/

[@ProfASAr]

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[@pinkfloyd111291]

Increible, awosme, thank you for this video, I know English and Spanish which is mi mother tongue, and I want to learn all of them: GErman italian, french actually I'm learning French, Greetings from México and congratulations dudes.

[@ProfASAr]

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[@Yzmo]

Two done, two more to go :)

[@kevinhayden9030]

Which two?

[@ProfASAr]

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[@kiurbarra]

@cmmndrblu English is not a Creole. The transmission of the language was never broken. A loss of inflection and lots of loan words does not a creole make. Why do you think English preserves the strong verbs? Nor does English come from German! (I presume you mean High German.)

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[@bergulometro]

not German (it's not a romance language).. but of course learning German will be easier than learning, for instance, Chinese (which is not even indo-european)

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[@NorseRonin]

danke, for this challenge, i'm learning Deutsch right now, i started a couple of weeks ago and it's going sehr gut :) i'll go for Spanish after this, then French and Italian after. Auf Wiedersehen.

[@uamdbro]

Can you speak all those languages now?

[@NorseRonin]

@@uamdbro I have been keeping up with German and have started Spanish not too long ago. thanks for asking. I did take a break for a couple of years from German, but have since been consistent. I did not know it would take me over 10 years to be semi-proficient in another language, but I would recommend everyone to start learning.

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[@kieronhoswell2722]

At 12.22 he says this could be done in 5 years.

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[@Jimjamatic]

i luv learning german, hopefully learning italian and spanish in the near future :3 btw, nice russian books in the background (i can tell from the symbols)

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[@homousios]

Thank you! You are very Inspiring. VivcerO!

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[@cmmndrblu]

yeah but they're classified as west germanic, in the germanic family of languages.

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[@irishmangoeswild]

The company Linguaphone announced its liquidisation the day after this video was made...

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[@Leadman1989]

i want to learn french, italian, and german spanish and italian are pretty close so not gonna go through the trouble

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