The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli

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It’s obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier - like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged.
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[@Ranong_]

first comment:)

[@bigbangbigbang1065]

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[@Alex-sn9gl]

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[@centrummedycznebaranowscy3976]

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[@bart869]

Lets be honest. One of the greatest advantages of being bilingual is getting YT videos praising you😂

[@red10tus]

Bartek Rybakowski are you one of them?

[@user-xk9hs1cz9c]

True doe I wanted them to praise me lol

[@andrefourier]

Yes 😎😎😎 it makes me feel special for a moment and that helps me filling the emptiness of my existence and life

[@jameslee7126]

sorry for interrupting. but what is YT videos?

[@user-xk9hs1cz9c]

James Lee KZbin videos

[@emily-ei9yd]

the worst part is when people ask you to translate stuff and you forget what it means and then you start panicking because you forgot :/

[@nyanayayansh6464]

You just are like “look, I know what it means, but I can’t tell you in words” we just kinda feel the language jaja

[@leticiaokane3036]

Man I hate it, in my school we’re forced to translate in the tests and I always forget how to do it lol

[@emily-ei9yd]

Letícia Okane yeah ikr

[@dama5682]

Wait till your college ask you to translate letter and your vocabulary only bad word😂

[@ihavealotofhusbies8470]

I hate it the most

[@user-xj8pf3kl6m]

as a person, who knows 3 languages (and English isn't my first language) I can say that when I started to learn languages as a hobbie it changed my life a lot now, when I angry or sad I just start to think in English or French. it really helps to relax and think more clearly

[@yakovlevskiy]

hi. tell me, if you don't mind in a nutshell, how would you rate learning French, for example, in comparison with English. Do you find this language difficult to remember. I don't know... Stacking in the head or something like that. Naturally we are talking about a person who already speaks English

[@farihariti2553]

Heyyy me tooo!!!

[@baxtercol]

I'm a native English speaker who also is fluent in Spanish and French. I have found that languages with the same roots, i.e the romance languages are easier to learn than something like Arabic which isn't related. I also wonder if it gets easier as you begin to learn more languages. My nephew's girlfriend is Brazilian so I'm making a concerted effort to really learn Portuguese. Years ago when I was getting my master's degree in Spanish literature, we had to take a couple of courses in Portuguese but everybody wrote his finals in Spanish because nobody could write Portuguese. I've also dabbled with Italian and as a Catholic singer had more than my share of Latin chants. When I first read your comment before I read the replies, I was going to tell you that hobby is spelled with a y😊

[@sabuba47913]

Apparently your English is bad cause you wrote "when I angry" 💀

[@farihariti2553]

@@sabuba47913 There's a thing called "typing mistake"💀

[@culturapopeespiritualidade6566]

As an English Teacher, I can honestly say that learning a second language can help the learner in so many ways. Many students have reported to me that improving their second language has also improved his native one.

[@toygarersoy2840]

it is the opposite for me xd i literally forgot how to speak my NL as i immersed myself in english

[@luciminho]

I suppose learning a second language, we regularly make comparisons between the two languages, so, this lead us make an additional research in the first language.

[@xixijames]

​@@toygarersoy2840make balance between them ,maybe you don't know that much about ur tongue language but u just born with it(routinely words&basic)so its need some development

[@nonotrongnguyn]

​@@luciminho😅

[@artugert]

* teacher (not Teacher) * their native one (not his native one)

[@shadesofblue6982]

The worst thing is sometimes, people think that you’re showing off but actually you just forget the word in the language your speaking

[@ShashaStudios]

shadesofblue I’ve forgotten a word in both languages

[@CBRONXY]

a major issue really :(

[@Tomos_J-J]

@@its4672 Beat them up, fearing intelligence and using violence against it is a humongously big sign of low IQ.

[@itsalex7229]

I know right..

[@chris7563]

It's so true!

[@Segio.Ramirez]

Things that bilinguals do: Forget the word they trying to say in one language so they say it in another expecting that the other person understand.

[@hannahg8439]

Actually that often works for French and English😂

[@claudiaciganova2633]

I always forget the word i want to say in slovak (my native language) but i know the english word. 😂😂

[@milliecabrera9355]

Meeee

[@user_9697]

Yeah it's code-switching

[@Yenimatics]

thats meeeeeeee

[@kanoko_]

My first language is Japanese and I started learning English when I was 15. Even though it's been more than 3 years, I have no idea how bilingual people could speak as fast and as smooth as native English speakers.

[@gifariii]

I think it's normal for not speak as native speakers because sometimes the accent from our mother language affect the way we speak, just like me, my Javanese accent still carries away when i speak English

[@breadcrumbb3182]

@@gifariii interesting, the way i started out learning english was through tv shows when i was 4, so i got used to american and british accents i hear from them and adapted those to my own speech. i've never carried an indonesian or javanese accent when i talk eng 🥲

[@7loslocos]

ステーキはレアなのね

[@bookwormd8627]

レアのステーキメッチャ不味いんだけど。 Also did you attend a local school? If so, then they do teach English there since first grade, even though it is pretty useless

[@dakk3]

It's a matter of practice. If you'd suddenly talk 10 hours a day in English for years, you could eventually talk as fast as natives. Smoothness can be improved as well.

[@MonaHermosura]

My parents are both from Mexico and only speak Spanish, growing up the main language I knew was Spanish until I started school, I’m so lucky my school had bilingual classes and I was in them until 3rd grade. Which helped with not forgetting my Spanish, but at the same time I have no choice because I still have to speak Spanish to my parents since they can’t understand English. One thing I struggle with is not knowing how to translate very professional complicated English forms and Spanish forms. ☹️ which sucks because I can’t help my parents with translating letter in the mail for them 😭 A funny thing for me in knowing two languages is how some things I can only understand in Spanish and other things I can only understand in English 🤣

[@charenny7797]

same with me, my parents are Chinese and when I need to translate documents for them, I struggle to do so because it’s so formal. I have no problem reading and writing formal sentences in English but idk how to speak or write formally in Chinese 😭

[@InssiAjaton]

My language education (during my school years) was totally based on translation. That between my native language and three others. Yes, three! But that also means that I have a hard time translating between any language pair of which neither one is my native one. Also, I never adopted the sanctioned "Oxford English" and due to just a month long interaction with an American, quickly decided the American way was way better for me. That despite the fact that "I'll go to my grave with my odd accent". Meaning that my pronunciation sucks, and keeps doing so after my decades in the US.

[@ihsannurmizan6128]

Maybe, this what we call "think english, or think arabic". Cuz sometimes we could find the relation of both meanings of languages, but we always fail to find word explains

[@davidbouvier8895]

@@ihsannurmizan6128 One of the benefits of knowing at least one other language than your mother tongue is that sooner or later you will encounter a concept that can be precisely expressed by one word in language A but has to be paraphrased in language B, and vice versa. This demonstrates the cultural relativity of all languages. It's not just grammar and syntax, it's the way people think and experience the world in a particular language. That realization is mind expanding.

[@DaviFigueiraChavez]

I'm from Brazil, my dad is brazilian and my mother is bolivian, so I grew up being bilingual speaking both Portuguese in day life and spanish with my family. I learned English in schools since it's a mandatory subject in Brazil and now I am trilingual. I have some relatives in the US and in Bolivia and when I can I translate some things for them. But I also struggle to translate formal forms, I just learned day life English, not professional one. Spanish I have the same problem, I just learned simple Spanish. Portuguese I can understand more formally since it's my first language and I've been taught in school since childhood. But there are moments that I suffer to comprehend even some formal articles in Portuguese, imagine understanding Spanish or English.

[@isabelaareas9766]

The point is: you feel satisfied of understanding another language without translation

[@imd123]

Isabela Fiusa indeed

[@jofx4051]

Imagine hazzle using translator

[@kiki-lv4ut]

Yes

[@growupwithmay1207]

And sometimes you know that something means more than what the subs are saying yet there is no way to say it in your native language and you can only let it go😂

[@ellastevenson7510]

Yes

[@milesmaxine5740]

the benefit of a bilingual brain is to understand different *memes* in different languages

[@allaboutsboyzz4737]

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[@majad9898]

*Yeah, this is big brain time* Being bilingual since age 3 I have never thought of it in this way XD I have wasted my ability by not reading Polish memes XD

[@annadang5811]

But some memes in other languages require for you to understand the cultural/socio-economical background as well. 🤔

[@BlockWorks]

O bom de ser bi-lingui é que você pode entender memes em várias línguas

[@Juxtaroberto]

And realizing that different languages even have unique styles of meme that wouldn't work in another one.

[@rustinwilde]

I live in Azerbaijan. Here it's a common thing to know 4 languages. Most people (usually the young generation) know Azerbaijani as their native language, Turkish because it has some similarity with our language, Russian, because the country was a part of the USSR, and English as must known language (because of its internationality). Being bilingual is great and helps to absorb Information from different sources.

[@singhmilikumari4]

Yes in India too many people commonly know 4 languages- Hind urdu english and their native one. I can speak in 7 languages fluently (hindi urdi english bengali marathi odia & haryanvi) and understand 9 languages(+bhojpuri and gujrati) its really helpful when travelling from state to state and some of the languages lyk odia and marathi i learned from my friends in school tym and gradually were able to speak with as fluency as them.

[@yszhnd]

The craziest thing is when you start to see dreams in the new language

[@preay8111]

yszhnd ' I don’t think that’s ever happened to me. But maybe I didn’t notice it😂

[@yuh4946]

I was so happy when i saw a dream in English lol

[@khanhhuyenpham8150]

My friend said that I talked when I was sleeping in another language :))

[@rectangleartemis7953]

YEEES EXACTLY!!!

[@giulietta-1555]

yszhnd ' wow hhaha

[@adamharris9733]

Me:*Bilingual* Also me:Still reads subtitles

[@hazimmuzhaffarsuherman4372]

sometimes when u remember a word in ur 2nd language u become unsure of it.

[@adamharris9733]

@@hazimmuzhaffarsuherman4372 This dose'nt really happen to me since i'm profficient in english which is my first language even though i'm asian and i'm not very good at my mother tongue.

[@studytimelapse597]

It’s like a distraction! Even though u don’t need it, it’s just there so u read it anyway, sometimes it’s even a struggle trying not to read it because it just so distracting

[@zomblyacopalypse6469]

Ah! I feel you!!

[@yoannr1054]

Because of the accents, yeah

[@raulvaldesriveras3033]

Very interesting! My native language is Spanish, and I think I'm not bilingual yet but I'm learning every day. It's cool to know that learning a new language has social benefits but also physical or specifically brains benefits. I would like to have a childhood like Gabriela and to have a compund bilingual, but I am like Gabriela's parents and I am doing subordinate bilingual, for me it is a challenge and I am learning much more and beter than when I was younger. It is crazy that there is technology that shows the physical differences of a bilingual brain with other that is not, and it is crazier than before some scientists said learn two lenguages at the same time is bad for the kids

[@sircaspeedy5972]

Estoy orgullosa de que estes mirando videos en ingles y que puedas escribir tan bien. Sigue aprendiendo! Y yo haré lo mismo con el español 😜

[@joody289]

If you wrote all of this I’m pretty sure you are bilingual

[@orlandobonney8847]

You have a very good grasp of the language! You would definitely be considered bilingual.

[@ssiao3140]

You alr bilingual fr

[@bookwormd8627]

I lived in Singapore so I had a massive advantage. Local schools offer 4 different language classes: Mandarin, Malay, Tamil and Hindi while classes are in English. If you don’t pick any of those, you have to take an additional language outside of school. Singapore is also very multicultural and most people speak 3 language normally so you get a lot of practice outside of school too. I now live in japan and speak Japanese with my mom, take Chinese at school while other classes are in English, and learn Korean via zoom.

[@dasdasasdasd9335]

you get to learn tamil in singapore? wow i'm proud of my language... ik it's a very cliche thing for indians/srilankans to say that they're proud but i don't often say this

[@bookwormd8627]

@@helehelexx____5924 lmao I’m half Japanese half Korean, I’ve been speaking Japanese since my literal birth cuz I’m from there, never watched anime in my life

[@arimsong]

Yooo I’m Korean, living in Korea right now, but i lived in Singapore for 6 years until I moved back this year July. I used to go to a Korean international school, and I had to learn Korean English and Chinese…. Not a fun experience.

[@bookwormd8627]

@@arimsong wait no way I live in korea now lmao. I moved like 6 months after commenting this, I also go to a korean international school now. I learn Chinese at school (AP Chinese), everything else in English, and then Japanese at home and korean in public when I go out. Its a lot but it better than just speaking one language!

[@maxmust-dw1mu]

Not true. Most people in Singapore do not speak 3 languages, they speak usually 2. And one of them usually not very good and mixing up a lot. Specially the younger generation, lots of them only speak „proper“ english.

[@SuperSas89]

YOU watched this video while English isn't your first language... good job.

[@poughkeepsie8516]

Thank you, English is my third language btw. French my fourth and Latin being my fifth. Ask me now if I have a life 😂

[@paraamisss1331]

hehe thanks english is my third language actually my native language is farsi and my second language is portuguese and im currently learning turkish at school

[@poughkeepsie8516]

@@paraamisss1331 Turkish! Hey this is my second! I am German but my surrogate family is of Turkish origin, growing up I learned their language 😍 Then English, Latin and French at school 😂

[@sevdenuraksit5913]

@@paraamisss1331 what country is it? I am just asking cause I am just curious native turkish speaker

[@zhraaashraf3131]

@@paraamisss1331 wow I was just thinking about learning farsi, arabic is my first language I thought it would make it easier

[@kaidayui]

My favorite: "Look, I know what it means, but I can't tell u in words" I just kinda feel the meaning🤣

[@minka0705]

And when you go and say that to your language teacher, you've completely nailed it 🤣

[@myeongsukchoi5180]

oooh this always happen to mee 🤣 🤣

[@caro5320]

Meee

[@akkoucheimen9556]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that makes sense

[@moonchild5769]

Yep i feel it

[@braziltokyoschool]

I'm multilingual 😁 I was born in a family which speaks English, Portuguese and Italian. And during my life I've learnt 6 languages more. I love to meet new people from different cultures and learn their languages My son is 5 years old and I constantly put him to face listening to Portuguese, English and Italian as well. I think it'll be good to him!

[@kev_x1]

Wow you are a good dad, my parents didn't do this!

[@piyushsinghal9518]

Well, I grew up in India, where I simultaneously learned English and hindi at the same time, and I don't have any issues switching between languages. I think it's important to note that if you've learned two languages at the same time, it's going to be way easier and almost an everyday function to switch between those languages.

[@davidtorres718]

When you are learning a language and someone asks you to say something in that language, but you forgot EVERY word of the language so you’re like .__.

[@ucantgetuson]

IT'S TRUE

[@Sandwichscoot]

I hate that! Sometimes, when I tell people that I'm learning Latin in school, they'll ask me to say something, or give me a Latin sentence to translate, and my mind just goes blank. I wonder why that happens. 🤔😑

[@margotwillocq2262]

It basically means you’re not bilingual

[@mariac525]

@@margotwillocq2262 I was thinking the same, lol. I mean, you may get blocked SOMEtime... but always or most of the times...? mmm, that just means you still don't have knowledge enough in that language. Just a little more time :)

[@issavibe3123]

Omg relatable

[@tonatalaki]

Being multilingual means: More music More films More series More memes More books More everything. I wonder why some people don't even try to take up a language.

[@weirdface3838]

Hmmm.... I think I'm satisfied with Filipino and English 😂

[@earljohnsanchez2493]

@@weirdface3838 me too plus filipino has many dialects too

[@SamekySantos]

Exactly!

[@daddysasageyo9263]

Indomitus you couldn’t have been more wrong

[@daddysasageyo9263]

Indomitus that’s interesting. while I agree that many english memes are translated into my native language as well, I see a lot of ‘original’ (not adapted from a english) meme formats too. If you don’t mind me asking, what is your native language?

[@cleliaalbano2184]

That's great! My native language is Italian and my second one is English. I speak also a bit of Greek, Russian, French and Spanish. What I find amazing of bilingualism and multilingualism is the semantic richness one acquires and the ability of developing a deeper connection between language and creativity.

[@enzonavarro8550]

Sorry for bothering, but do you know if the dialect that is spoken in Venice is considered "the italian"? Thank you!

[@ryobutterbutter3375]

@@enzonavarro8550 it’s considered the venetian dialect. But you should remember that every Italian speaks the standard Italian, and is also able to speak their own dialect.

[@Amora5503]

I think the emotional connection you have with your native language and other you learned later as an L2 that was mentioned in the video is indeed real. I can easily say "I love you" but I can barely say "eu amo-te". English feels more emotionally detached whilst portuguese comes off as very personal and strong

[@waltermessines5181]

You can say " I love..." about almost anything, it means little to nothing in real life. Amo-te is a whole different ball game; it includes all of her or his family, and is basically a commitment for life. You can't say " Amo Coca-Cola" ; it makes no sense. You can say : "Gosto (de) Coca-Cola" I like... 1on1 translation is rarely accurate.

[@JabaTheFrog]

Same

[@santamonica4995]

I noticed that too with Turkish and spanish. I dont like to say ‘i love you’ in English. It doesn’t feel the same.

[@hendriyanar1465]

Sometimes l suddenly forgot a word in my native language but l know it in English or another language lol

[@kokos1209]

Same lol

[@davix994]

Same

[@jollyp8550]

Damn right .... At times I get confused to talk in which language while travelling

[@marcoscleberdeoliveiraroch1542]

I thought I was the only one hahahah

[@kimmielee8395]

Same haha

[@sososaby2133]

The downside of being multilingual: when you can't remember a word in a certain language. It's horrible when you're taking an exam or having a conversation with someone that doesn't know the language that you actually remember the word in.

[@kateemma22]

+Soso Saby And then you end up doing that awkward 'insert first language equivalent and pray it makes sense' moment or 'explain the word in the right language while the other person tries not to laugh because you forgot something so basic' disaster and it's just a damn mess.

[@sososaby2133]

kateemma22 Yes!!!

[@Ybalrid]

+kateemma22 Something really strange that happend to me fairly regulary is that I can't remember a word in French because it comes out of my brain in English. I'm a French native speaker, living in France. But spending all my time in front of a computer, and using English. I think I'm rewireing my brain backwards now xD

[@sososaby2133]

Ybalrid I know!!! One of my two main languages is French but I'm an internet addict so I can't speak but one language: frenglish.

[@Ybalrid]

And for me, the fact that I'm a student in computer science engineering doesn't help : I speak French with English words in it all the time xD

[@cayo3056]

I am Brazilian and I've been learning English since 2021, now I'm 20 and getting better little by little. Learning a language in schools here (mostly English) in Brazil are not good enough in general. We spend almost a decade studying it but we finish high school knowing not even the basics. But I've made my mind in 2021 and it's been great and I'm proud of myself to start to learn it and I am also proud of anyone who decided to leave your own bubble and started to learn new languages, you rock!

[@gabrieeuluzumaki6155]

Hey, I’m Brazilian too, I speak Portuguese and English fluently, and I agree with you when you say that Brazilian language learning schools aren’t that good, in fact, they don’t care about teaching you pronunciations, idioms, phrasal verbs, what they only care about is teaching grammar which isn’t that of important when you’re a beginner, you shouldn’t start learning English by trying to memorize grammatical rules, you should start learning it by training your pronunciation and accent, and then you can go to the next level which is Grammar, but unfortunately this unhelpful, bogus system isn’t gonna fall that fast 😢

[@lufeitosa9744]

The crazy thing is there are so many fun ways to learn English, but we are stuck on this system that only wants you to be a robot, not an actual person. Grammar is surely good to learn, specially with a more formal English, but it's not completely necessary.

[@MariaFernanda-qk2kn]

Keep going. I'm also Brazilian. You'll achieve fluency!

[@renitapuspitasari762]

Why don't you take english course? I learned english for the 1st time when I was in junior high, and I started to take english course when I was on 2nd grade of junior high. In english course the teachers will encourage you to speak and listen (have conversation) in english. At school the teachers just stuff you with theories. But the theories are important, too.

[@papelzuado]

Eu sou brasileiro também, aprendi inglês quando eu parei de ir à escola

[@chuteorphee3489]

Honestly learning a second language is like traveling to another world. Love it ❤

[@anagabriela9625]

i was scared when she said Gabriela from Peru because that's literally me.

[@CanalPanendithas]

lol

[@MegaMaxclan]

😂😂😂😂

[@ilghiz]

Ese momento when you start pensar en dos idiomas at the same tiempo! :))

[@Horaxus]

jajajaja or should I say hahahahaha xD

[@samuel-cm1fx]

lol

[@rushfudge62]

As a student, one of the greatest benefits of being a bilingual is just translating the english essay for your essay on your native language subject.

[@septbelleza1935]

What? you can do that? I’m not even fluent in either 😩😂

[@veenarani5413]

Yeah. I can't even count how many times I've done that. My proficiency in English is better than my proficiency in my native language (quite sad, I know) so sometimes I first write the essay in English and then translate it.

[@dizzylimes2099]

jealous.... Italian isnt studied at my school so I have no chance 😓

[@xuxu3703]

EXACTLY!

[@yuh4946]

I always copy essays in English from Google and translate them to kazakh and Russian lol

[@ktzuwai]

I really felt so fine after seeing this video ! I'm also a multilingual but never felt this special or anything good, i never realized that. Thanks again!

[@williamvictal5021]

I'm from Brazil and this is my first time watching this channel, so nice

[@kysuneh]

Bilingual/Multilingual Problem: When someone asks you to translate something, you might suddenly forget how to accurately word it in the other language of your choice. You can comprehend the sentence, but the translation is at the tip of your tongue. It's like, "I understand what that sentence means, but I just can't remember the phrase for it in ." Dunno if that made sense, but it happens to me a lot lol.

[@noemierollindedebeaumont1130]

Yeah, it happens to me constantly. It has gotten to the point where i need to research the translation in my native language... and what makes it even harder is when there is no translation ! Help ?😅

[@BigBy221]

happens to me ALOOOOOT

[@fishasaurus159]

Omg yesss and it gets annoying when people start to think you don’t actually speak another language

[@janniegarcia3181]

Or sometimes, you understand the language but can't translate it real quick. It happens to me a lot too.

[@chesca9670]

I FELT THIS.

[@alicemacias13]

when bilinguals starts to lose vocabulary in both languages BYE LINGUAL

[@governorhunter734]

Also known as ageing and memory loss

[@anonimousshipper8512]

Oh god I am not lonely here

[@perfectlyadequate783]

😂😂😂

[@j.m.b5441]

Funny

[@fulladoubt]

🤣🤣🤣

[@alarmlessRifleman]

As a wise man once said, "if you know just one language, you know none". I'm a Russian man who speaks Russian, English, German and Esperanto (also I study Latin right now), and I'm fascinated by how many small things in your language you only start to notice when you learn another one. There are grammatical and lexical structures that can only be said in one language and can't be fully translated to another - as in, it's not like they cannot be translated at all, it's a misconception, but they are translated using different methods. As a Russian, I find it easier to think in English. It strips down all unnecessary grammatical elements. In English, there are no genders, no cases, no endings that change throughout the sentence every time you change the case. English is a clean, reliable language. I love it. Latin is a mess. As in, it's not really *that* messy, it has structure (no duh, all languages have a structure). But learning it is the same thing as learning Russian for the first time. Too many grammatical categories, too many things to keep track of. German is a perfect balance between simplicity and capacity. I don't know what else to say, German is my absolutely favourite language. I think my life would've been easier if German was the language I think in. If there are Germans who read this, know that I bow before you and your language that shows enough flexibility to convey all sorts of thoughts but doesn't have too many unnecessary details sewn to every single word.

[@graffity_x6624]

not german, but Austrian. Thank you, bro :3

[@codysmith8639]

Latin makes me cry. All the messy-ish things like Ablative, Accusative, Dative, and Genitive forms. Don’t even get me started on conjugating and declining.

[@bookwormd8627]

Who the fck said that? Murray Bauman?

[@f666j7]

i am also russian speaker, but i can only speak two languages. im so proud and jealous of youuu

[@user-tq9dv6yy8o]

I wonder if you spend a lot of time memorizing words when learning a new language? For me, memorizing words is really boring.

[@jyim9836]

My two children can speak Japanese and English quite fluently and they are Korean. . While I paid much attention to their acquiring English, I had no idea that they could speak Japanese quite well until recently. They said they come to acquire Japanese through early exposure to the language from the media. In fact, I am a big fan of Detective Conan and have watched the anime since I was single. . Didn't expect this to happen.. I was busy reading subtitles while they were acquiring the language.

[@princessalice8322]

Came here being very proudof knowing two languages .. *reads comments* Welp looks like everyone speaks 8+ languages here *self esteem -100

[@ninaplatell7855]

So same🙁

[@pcbingemaster]

or they know how to use google translator to impress people

[@leak.9822]

i 'only' speak 2 languages either. but damn, i dont care, im fluent and that's enough xD even tho it's kinda annoying when u actually think in two languages but whatever

[@GL-tm3zt]

princess Alice omg sammeee

[@marymorgan6081]

Quantity doesn’t really matter - quality matters so that’s ok if you are just hot on two languages or even one imho

[@wheresrome3633]

Cons of being bilingual : You forget how to say a word in one language but not the other. You mix up words and create a new language

[@neptuneconsus4992]

Where's Rome that's true.

[@neptuneconsus4992]

Where's Rome and After doing this mistakes monolinguals say you to learn to speak lol

[@copinman]

True that mierda

[@neptuneconsus4992]

Yes porque I think that ç'est vraie

[@neptuneconsus4992]

FUUUUU xD I don't consider myself as an english speaker, just Basque French and Spanish. Im learning english at school : )

[@curltway]

I'd say I understand 7 languages. I actively speak Indonesian (native language), English, and Spanish on a daily basis, followed by 4 languages that I can understand but passively use it: Sundanese, Javanese, Japanese (I can read and write), and Catalan. By learning Spanish, it opens more opportunities for me to learn and understand a bit of Italian, Portuguese, and French (I'm currently learning Italian). Using and thinking in those languages is such a great exercise for my brain, and it does help to improve my memory. I'm so glad that I have the ability to learn various languages. Hopefully, I still can understand and speak all of them when I'm older.

[@alenyi1]

It's very interesting that about the bilingual brain, because I only want to speak english, but I didn't see before that I'm changing my brain learning new words in another language, ways to showing my ideas or ways for descripting anything. Speak english It's hard for me, but I'm trying to speak with other people with my same language but in a second language and I'm not alone in this.

[@cagdas_demir_albayrak]

Problem is... Sometimes i forget how to talk grammarly correct in my native language because i am also thinking in the second language... Struggle is real...

[@9Rezerk]

Give yourself time to be completely surrounded by that language only, for a bit. Then change again, until you develop both. I mean listening, reading, and especially speaking. It's achievable, just don't give up.

[@bennyrodriguez8788]

Çağdaş you need to watch Noam Chomsky on language. If you interested I give you the link.

[@TurnipBoy666]

SPANISH GRAMMER SUCKS!

[@ANONYMOUS-pr1zj]

I can relate sometimes it takes me so long to respond or words come out in a weird order because I’m thinking in a different language

[@somerjohnson7876]

I felt that 😂🥺

[@leonardosouza6680]

The biggest benefit of being bilingual is crying in different languages, right now I'm crying in Spanish

[@zahranulila]

This made my day😂

[@elliewalker1894]

HAHA aw

[@lamiah.2938]

Really? I usually cry in **BrOkE**

[@lamiah.2938]

@deoumipotatoes yes LOL ARMYyyy!! 💜💜👍

[@quynhhoa664]

@deoumipotatoes sorry but it's actually annyeonghaseyo

[@zairanayeligomez1032]

I also believe that being bilingual enriches you with other cultures. I have studied English for a long time and I had not seen progress but now that I started with another language I feel that I am making more progress in both languages, I suppose it is due to the theory that the brain is more active

[@saalbefleur]

This video makes me think about my experience as a bilingual person and how learning English unconsciously helped me think more complexly and strengthened my rationality and brain activity when using it.

[@phoopwint5139]

The moment you get confused with your own language, you become fluent in the language you're studying.

[@ritarostiawati7027]

I agree

[@travelermalori1080]

Like fr💀

[@ravysaini127]

I couldnt find some of the words when I started learning French and Im slowly forgeting.

[@pedrosso0]

Also known as: Bye-Lengual or Try-lengual or Qwhat-lengual

[@lisar9800]

That! My native language is German, but I have been learning English since early childhood. Sometimes I think in English and I am like: "Now, what was that in German?" And I randomly throw in English words without even noticing 😅

[@thwartshroom2946]

Who else watched this video for self-gratification?

[@chinenyenwachukwu8321]

Thwart Shroom I'm guilty of that

[@multifantentacultist2027]

im guilty 😂

[@abhinavparajuli8016]

I think more than half of the people watched it for self gratification

[@jose-gr7jg]

Im a smart boi

[@alejandrootero8894]

soy culpable

[@user-xl5bb9hb8b]

I’m an aspiring polyglot and i found this vid very interesting i love this channel so much. Don’t give up guys everything takes time, you can do it, find what’s best for you and helps you improve :’)

[@Krzysiek1118]

I started learning english in kindergarten, then I studied it at school as one of the subjects. I've discovered more of it thanks to extra classes and now I'm about to (hopefully) get accepted to a bilingual class in high school. I usually speak English in the internet and mostly use Polish in real life, but for some reason I'm just as likely to think in english as I am to think in my native language! Great video 😎

[@sazu4238]

O, wreszcie ktoś z Polski :>

[@ilovememes2238]

On the internet* not being rude, just trying to help. I’m bilingual too:D

[@sazu4238]

@@ilovememes2238 That's kinda funny, cause in Poland when we say,, na internecie" (on the Interne) it's an actual mistake. However,, w internecie" (in the Internet) is correct, so that's exactly opposite in English. To make this even more complicated, we also copy lots of stuff from English and make that,, na internecie" mistake, so our teachers get mad lmao. I like spotting those differences, so I don't make little mistakes (and also cause I'm a weirdo probably). That was my fun fact, have a nice day :>

[@ilovememes2238]

@@sazu4238 lol thanks, ur from Poland?

[@sazu4238]

@@ilovememes2238 Yeah

[@andreipop5805]

Am I the only one who thinks both in a foreign and in his native languege ? And sometimes knows how to express himself in his 2nd languege better than in his 1st one ?

[@queenb7209]

@@OM-td2on me too and it sucks sometimes

[@Malaima]

I think in Spanish and French, and bits of English! IT IS A MESS when you have to write something in either one of each and you have to leave out all the expressions that present themselves in one of the languages, because they feel more accurate for what you're trying to say!!

[@vicentesanmartin307]

No estas solo hermano

[@MS-pe2vt]

I hate it when i dont remember a word in my native language (spanish) and i have to say it in english, because it seems like im trying to show off :(

[@honeyjar2970]

Wait where are you from?

[@nicolezacarias7215]

I believe that Mia's position, to teach and present the importance of knowing another language, through the development of new active skills such as speaking and writing and passive skills such as listening and reading can open the way to endless adventures both emotionally and At a cerebral level, why is it more entertaining than being able to speak and understand another language that is not your native language? for me now it is the most fun

[@nicolezacarias7215]

I still think the same about video and I also add the importance of new technologies and applications to have a bilingual brain for example music on spotify practice on duolingo or watch series on netflix

[@rvalperez]

Speaking 4 languages here. In the Philippines, we learn English and Filipino in school. And for every local region, there is a specific language we all use, which is completely different with the national language, Filipino. Then, I was fortunate enough to work in a a Japanese company, so we had to learn Nihongo as well. Sometimes all the languages get mixed up when you're drunk! 😂

[@chenniekim2992]

Me: speaks more than 2 languages Also me: not fluent in any of those

[@user-ze8fr9wq1t]

Story of my life lmao even though some are my native languages 🙃

[@jemeilleure]

omg istg everyones flexing in the comment section, glad I found a relatable comment 😭😭

[@e6026]

Omg yesss

[@yourubehours]

this comment makes me feel better lmao, cheers m8

[@lemplatinum]

Same same

[@devriana]

Benefit of being bilingual: You have more various options of KZbin videos bcs you can watch videos that are not in your native language, which means you can get more information 👍

[@afreshavocadohere]

EXACTLY!

[@edsondapaz4907]

Yesssss

[@piavodusek3868]

i don't watch videos in my native language becuase my country is so small so there's barely anybody from it that creates this kind of content lmaoo and the few youtubers that we do have are all cringey

[@kenzie9648]

@@piavodusek3868 same , i watch american or european youtubers

[@sindok93]

That is so true. I have learned a lot of things more than my school did; through many youtube videos.

[@user-cv7op7lz6r]

As a Mauritian, I feel so grateful that such videos have been made. People from other countries usually get confused about how we speak so many languages. My first main language was French, but also English. Both languages were introduced to me as a toddler. By the age of 5 I was completely fluent in them. I started learning hindi and Spanish in which I am also fluent. And since I as a little child, I was hearing creole everywhere and I am fluent in it too. Fun fact:our national written language is basically English but we speak French and creole. The school system is different, they explain in French n the books r in English BUT IT'S ACTUALLY EASIER FOR US TO UNDERSTAND 💀

[@it9s]

Are you from Mauritania?

[@mariaeduardadias3935]

My mother language is Portuguese, which help me to understand a few words in spanish too (actually, since I was younger, I love to watch TV series from Argentina and Mexico, so it brought some familiarity also). I started to learn English at school when I was fourteen; however it was just the basic one's. During the outbreak, I become more close to the idiom and right now I'm capable of understanding, reading, speaking, and writing english (I'm trying to improve the last two of those). It is incredible to see how the bilingual brain works, such an interesting video!

[@iution4668]

Benefit of being a bilingual: -Speak more than one language

[@hopeworld729]

I AM A BILINGUAL BUT STILL JUST NOD WHEN JENNY OR NAMJOON SPEAK KOREAN😂

[@iution4668]

@HOBI’S ENTERTAINMENT who’s jenny?

[@jenini7574]

yes

[@osfnzusjwnnoudisn7601]

Army and blink?

[@iution4668]

@stuff yes :)

[@johnemmanuel3090]

I’m bilingual and I understand my native language but when I’m asked to translate it my brain stops working :/

[@adrianagrace2294]

LOL Same !

[@ichbinhier355]

because translation is a skill that has to be developed, so if you speak your target language well it doesn't mean that you can translate it accurately...

[@antiopikoukouli5407]

Me too 🤯

[@girloffaith8389]

Luna Va Solovāy grandma*

[@VK-pk8uz]

Intersting. I can translate English to Dutch or the other way around out loud to someone else *as I'm reading it*.

[@user-xy8ml3jx7w]

Great video! It motivate me to continue to learn English as a second language. Thank you.

[@St4rr.Kygo4]

My first language is Portuguese, for some reason, I started learning English when I was like 7, and I can assure that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me, I learned it all by myself though, which the age probably explains why I learned so fast

[@pengarae]

me after understanding what’s going on in an anime after looking away for a second:

[@thedivyanshii]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmPJenyPhr6tlac ..

[@justarat_ontheinternet737]

@@thedivyanshii y tho?

[@crusty6748]

That's not being bilingual

[@gibson8926]

Ultra instinct

[@mdahsenmirza2536]

@@crusty6748 r/whoosh

[@mahamed6137]

Comments be like: I speak 1748 languages😏

[@galaxy9379]

Yeah :c I feel jelous 😢

[@jamaton]

C'est vrais, hay muchos aqui bragging about their languages,

[@eezhan2579]

Then there’s me procrastinating learning Korean

[@noonyno7257]

@@eezhan2579 same ;-; and all my cousins speak Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese. ;-; have you started? 😊🌈

[@eezhan2579]

Minki Rawr I’ve started learning Hangul but I have a short-term memory so I keep forgetting and I keep saying, “I’ll do it” but my brains like *NAWWW*

[@mayraceciliags]

Very interesting information! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

[@DrTHC]

Every year for my birthday, I give myself two gifts: I drop a bad habit and learn a new skill. I've been speaking Spanish now for about seven years and I love the language so much. But what has surprised me most is how many other languages I can correctly guess now that I am intimate with two instead of just one. I can now look at Italian, Portuguese, French and do pretty well. And I can hear the similarities in other languages, like Arabic and Chinese. I've found myself fascinated with language, and it is a skill that has opened up new ways of seeing everything around me. ~THC

[@maddie2132]

Anyone else feel like they have a different personality when speaking another language 😂

[@hughjazz4936]

I tend to swear a lot more when I'm spreaking English or French. My native language is German where swearing isn't nearly as satisfying!

[@organicenglishlangson8946]

That happens with every single person.

[@emilia6500]

yeah definitely jdjsjsjdsh i literally switch personality even in one single conversation if i switch languages

[@salmonella6051]

YES. YES. YES.

[@marinettegranger3169]

Yasss

[@andersonsousa7091]

I realized that my mind was becoming bilingual when I forgot a word in my native language but knew it in English

[@cinniemon]

same lmao

[@Stefan-om3ht]

Same but in 3 different languages fml

[@shizukagozen777]

For me it was more when I started thinking and dreaming in another language. ^^'

[@badalohelicoptero8586]

Relatable

[@Jojo-hz6rk]

shizukagozen777 same!!

[@clauzacariasr]

Being bilingual is very beneficial for our brain and self esteem. I found it very interesting that is also helps delay certain diseases. And you can also trasfer you knowledge to your family and help their brain too. I really liked the video and it is very educational. thanks!!!

[@paulinaaltamirano6256]

I find this information very interesting, since it touches on very important topics, thank you for sharing it

[@nqrtzy8765]

What people think being bilingual is like: Fully understanding both languages What being bilingual actually is like: How do I translate this other language to my native language

[@strawtifulbonnie9363]

That's my whole life in a few words...

[@anapaulapedro7025]

nlolhere Let’s not forget the moment when you forget a word

[@strawtifulbonnie9363]

@@anapaulapedro7025 oh yesss so trueeee *Bilingual sighs...

[@rockstardee]

oh fr

[@strawtifulbonnie9363]

@مكافحة الشحاذين الايكات السريه LOL, how you manage to remember that particular word again?

[@user-fp7cb6jk1b]

cons of being multilingual: *people automatically assume you will be their translator*

[@SleepyPanda-co3iy]

exactly

[@norukamo]

Hey I recognize the kanji compound in your name! I think it means "depression"?

[@limpidity-0000]

@@norukamo true

[@lottaplettinx3831]

The fun thing about this though is that you can totally mess with people by giving a rong or slightly rong answer so they are confused i do this all the time when people ask for a translation of some word... for instance they ask for tree and you give them the translation of bush.

[@bryangiron1960]

My life in a nutshell

[@languageman5253]

Thank you four this excellent episode. merci.

[@hyeilooza]

It started at pandemic, I got really bored so I learned another language which is French then I liked it it was fun for me so I thought "why not learn multiple languages?" next language I learned is Korean/Hangul, I learned how to write and read Hangul in just a very short time, that's when I realized God gifted me a talent, now I'm currently learning Mandarin,Japanese,Spanish,and German.

[@chenniekim2992]

That time when someone asks you to translate a word but there is no exact translation of that word...... *Cries in 4 languages

[@jaehee7196]

Lmao that’s so true

[@sudecolak5844]

YES! Like I’m a kpop fan and I cannot say “I got bias wrecked” or like you cannot explanation it why!?

[@minyoongisleftear1854]

@@sudecolak5844 yesss like how tf do you say someone is your "bias" in Spanish? It's supposed to be my first language but I'm better at English 😭

[@sudecolak5844]

@@minyoongisleftear1854 Yes like you just can’t say it! BTW whı’s your bias?😊😅

[@BBQhenry]

you only need to describe that word and it's the listener's duty to find the right word

[@lahami2000]

I'm fluent in English thanks to youtube ;)

[@ichibannotakaramono0]

same

[@flurpurr]

same

[@crybabykermit8651]

Are you guys sure ???

[@flurpurr]

Yeah, i am sure.

[@burchinveysal]

Saaame

[@jaime7555]

I didn't know the benefits of being bilingual; that's so great. I'm currently studying English, and the video motivates me to learn more. Besides, I think being bilingual gives us other types of benefits, not only in the brain but also in our environment, such as hobbies, relationships, and job opportunities.

[@_cloudy5939]

I'm a Korean, and I learned English since I was really young. Now, I'm twelve years old, and managed to perfectly read, write, and speak in two languages! It's really great when I watch netflix lol

[@ulNag]

I feel so proud of myself until the narator say "So while bilingualism may not necessarily make you smarter," Noooooooooooooo

[@lemuelygusquiza8117]

ulNag 😂😂 me too

[@hectorpalacios5527]

Not smarter, but certainly more capable, be proud.

[@lecobra418]

I wouldn't say more capable, it's a matter of will not capacities. Anybody can learn a new language but it's not everyone who's willing to do so.

[@hectorpalacios5527]

But learning language make your brain more capable of learning, memorizing, reasoning, etc. Maybe you want to say that everyone has the potential to get there, and I would agree, but not because of the will, but the environment of every person, the kind of ideas they are exposed to.

[@justinfung4351]

*felt *narrator *said *, *.

[@_wheat856]

If you forget a word don’t say “I forgot what that word is” Instead say “I forgot the English word for it” that way you seem smarter

[@mayconneves6585]

Gracias mi amigo!

[@gotchagamingl.1563]

Zair gut

[@justyoureverydayravenpuff833]

I once forgot the word "Old-fashioned" in both English and Greek (my mother language) I was screaming 'AlTmOdIsCh' in German until my friends got it

[@Milo-wh8dh]

Until they ask you to just describe it

[@yattschannel1449]

What's the difference?

[@ranimcalister5026]

That is absolutely fascinating. I am currently learning Hindi, and, the more I practice and listen to content in Hindi, the more I find myself naturally thinking and speaking it, sometimes, unintentionally.

[@angieowo9278]

My mom immigrated form Uzbekistan when my sister was 3. She Learned English from songs, and work because she was a hair stlyist and needed to communicate with others. On the other hand, my sister finished school in America so she speaks perfect English and no accent. My mom has a accent still, but it is much better then it was. Being a bilingual (English and Russian) is great for me as it allows me to speak to my grandma and non english family.

[@blue-guymaster5121]

Cons: You don’t just forget words in one language, but both. More like byelingual

[@SandraStefanova]

And suddenly you don’t look as smart 🤣🤣🤣I hate it when it happens!

[@bluezitrone9731]

That's what my 3rd and 4th languages are for 😉👉

[@blue-guymaster5121]

@@bluezitrone9731 😂😂

[@kyungminnam]

this is so accurate

[@Mark778.]

Haha usually when i forget in one language, i can still remember how it is in the other language, then i just have to "translate" inside my own mind and voilà, the word suddenly reapears. **except for the times when there isn't a translation for that especific word, then i have to google it

[@chungkrixx1279]

Me: Bilingual Also me: reads subtitles because It feels relaxing and more understanding

[@rodrigomanuelalvesfonseca4846]

I also read them but, damn, dont i get upset when they're wrong...

[@maryocecilyo3372]

I read to make sure about my listening

[@stefanicalderon7077]

Jajaa totalll

[@piavodusek3868]

@@rodrigomanuelalvesfonseca4846 i'd rather have the subtitles off than have them be written wrong or shortened.. pisses me tf out

[@piavodusek3868]

@@Madhattersinjeans I am not talking about subtitles used for translation, because then of course any subtitle is much better than none, and I appreciate them. I was talking about having English subtitles on while watching something in English. If the subtitles are different to what is being said, and you understand both, it is very distracting. That is what I find annoying. But I really have nothing against the people that do the subtitles, it's just a personal pet peeve of mine.

[@zwan8299]

English is a compulsory course for primary and high school students in China, some of us may choose to study abroad in universities in the future, like me. I always thought being a non-native speaker is nothing but a disadvantage, thank you for letting me know that there are so much benifits! You made me feel more confident.

[@andreamanrique3243]

I loved the video, it is very interesting and has a very necessary information that generates awareness and motivation to learn other languages.

[@greensquid_]

Sometime ago i learned english on my own, but not because i had to move somewhere else, Because I didn't know how to change language in Minecraft

[@one1ratax1a9]

GreenSquid dude that’s amazing 😂

[@eisque]

The reason is so silly lol, but at least you learned a language.

[@jianyuhua]

GreenSquid totally

[@jianyuhua]

eis que just joking, dude 😂

[@marinamorandi8347]

The same happened to me ;-;

[@-dn-sdrawberiee253]

Y'all, knowing to say a couple of sentences in 4+ languages doesn't count as being multilingual. Fluency matters.

[@eatrocks6704]

-DN- Sdrawberiee ik

[@jenini7574]

very

[@julysunrush4483]

-DN- Sdrawberiee YES OMG!!! I hate when people say for example in kpop that ”this idol can speak 6 languages” when in reality they can only introduce themselves in those languages. like no, they aren’t fluent they can’t _speak_ that language

[@maurizstoddard3204]

FACTS i hate it when people in my French class (outside of class) say they speak French and understand the struggles of being bilingual. Like shut up I speak three and I don’t count French bc we know damn well we’re not fluent. And u don’t know the struggles cuz u don’t get bullied for ur accent or when u mix ur grammar.

[@camillag5871]

@@maurizstoddard3204 Then you're a French learner ? 😁 So glad to know it ! Hope you enjoy our language, even if it's ( uselessly ) too difficult 😂 and hope our culture may interest some overseas students in the whole world 😄 Merci beaucoup !

[@hannahjq9131]

Hearing about all the types of multilingual gives me this view of how we all learn and acquire a language, and what are the situations that led us to it, and how our brain changes when we learn a language, i found really Interesting the way this video explains the way our emotions and how we see the world gets affected by the time we learn other language

[@valerieyang8697]

As a native Mandarin speaker using English and Japanese on daily basis, I would say it exposes me to lots and lots of new stuff and definitely shapes my personality. And the best part of it is you get to date people from different backgrounds and it’s amazing:)

[@meghanakarkadasuresh351]

*Laughs in multilingual*

[@Jan-kw1qr]

Meghana Karkada Suresh I admire people who are multilingual!! It’s so fascinating and I hope one day I get there!🤩

[@adinab478]

Can relate:))

[@nethravasuki8843]

INDIAN right???

[@mousaha2606]

Even I'm multilingual

[@sweetaener]

aren’t all of us indians at least bilingual? love it

[@murderhornets1166]

What do you call a person who only speaks 1 language?? - An American.

[@emilyb4812]

shaniqua johnson so true! I'm American and speak English, French, and a little Spanish, but most American don't focus on learning new languages because English is largely used.

[@jmangini9191]

Yeah most don’t want to learn a foreign language, they just expect everyone to know English, i try to be different by learning another (Russian)

[@hannahg8439]

@@emilyb4812 true, but this also means there just isn't big of a use to learn another language when you already speak English.

[@hannahg8439]

@@jmangini9191 and there's nothing wrong in expecting that most people speak English since it's the world language. I say this as a German.

[@mildav4051]

wth.. americans know a lot of languages.. like american, english, austraian, canadian(ik a part of canada has french as its native language.. and i know i am gonna get on r/iamverysmart)

[@snertkriebels]

I'm fluently trilingual, and using all three languages on a daily basis and while it's a huge blessing to be able to talk in three languages, it's also always such a mess in my brain i feel like. I will often get words in another language in my head while talking in one language and it's so hard sometimes to translate on the spot. Or sometimes there just simply aren't any words for the one that i'm thinking of in the other language. Happy to know that it at least contributes to brain health because yeah, it really is brain gymnastics haha.

[@TrihDiep]

The part with 3 languages made me fall in love with it❤❤

[@prodigyx1089]

A wise man once said: "If a person speaks in a horrible accent, prejudice will get you no where because they are the ones that know 2 languages and not you, don't mock them dummy" Edit: Grammar! Good luck in your language learning, and don't forget to always smile!

[@Archangel-Anonymous]

I love killua XD

[@indigofenrir7236]

A wise man once said, "Bananas float in water." However, they don't. His point was that not everyone will give you a styrofoam banana and that eating paper is actually good for your health.

[@animationspace8550]

I love how you just made hundreds of people get triggered and then realizing they are jerks by saying "I wise man" instead of "A wise man"

[@prodigyx1089]

@@animationspace8550 haha, I try not to edit comments, but ok I'll fix that :p

[@Ray2311us]

Prodigy Enigma how old are you 6? Cause thats how you sound when I read this

[@momoland270]

Saying an english word in your accent because you forgot the word

[@MWBlueNoodles]

I do this all the time with words like 'so' or 'just' aha.

[@CupoChinoMusic]

i feel you man

[@liveyourbest]

Hahahah true

[@alexz3t899]

Lmao true

[@honeydewbliss4072]

The facts omg yes😭😭

[@qtastically5747]

I'm finnish, but started learning English in the 3rd grade, Swedish in the 4th and German in the 8th. Despite 10 years of studying English I actually learned most of it online. Which is also why I still have very limited skills in the other two. I just never started using those languages outside the classroom, it's a shame. Though it was pretty cool to finish the best in my school in the English finals. These days I pretty much just use Finnish in real life and English online. I'm pretty proud of it, since the two are so very different too. Lol I'm even pretty sure I write faster in English most of the time

[@user-sh6iy3km4w]

Can you teach me English and I teach you Arabic?

[@MJkuwaitHub]

My first language is Ilonggo, dialect from one provonce in Philippines. At 6 I have to learn Tagalog our national language and juggle it with English curriculum at school. By the age of 11 I can converse mainly in Tagalog, write nicely in English and speak my native language while in my house. Now I love my 3 languages and I am always grateful for this blessing. KANAMI LANG NGA KABALO KA MAG HAMBAL SANG IBAN NGA LINGWAHE. (Hiligaynon) MASARAP SA PAKIRAMDAM NA MARAMI KANG ALAM NA IBA’T IBANG SALITA. (Tagalog) IT’S AMAZING TO THINK THAT YOU CAN SPEAK IN THREE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES . (English)

[@moochikyuu]

The thing is that, if you know a lot of languages. Your personality can change and the way you speak too

[@MalharetasLair]

Ooooh, yes! It's so annoying sometimes! And it's not even conscious so you don't notice it until someone speaking the same languages you do, points it out to you... And then you can't un-notice it.

[@moochikyuu]

@@MalharetasLair if i switch to the language that I speak with my friends that uses the language. I tend to curse more😂

[@MalharetasLair]

@@moochikyuu for me it's more the timbre of my voice than anything. Like, I record my voice sometimes and you wouldn't believe how different it sounds in different languages! It's trippy.

[@moochikyuu]

@@MalharetasLair oH right right. Your voice either gets deep or high

[@user_9697]

@glossysunmin I feel you! It's like I have different identities as I speak different languages

[@kirashepard5942]

My first language is spanish, and I must say that it surprises me how naturally I understand videos in English without reading any subtitles. It's like my mind automagically traduces it and I understand everything as if it were in spanish

[@Valerio_the_wandering_sprite]

You probably started learning English very early in your life. Most of my peers (as well as myself) first learned basic English upon enrolling at the elementary school.

[@AndreSkipper]

Yo empece a aprender inglés más por mi cuenta que en el colegio, cuando tenía 11 años, ahora tengo 13 y entiendo perfectamente como se siente eso de "mi mente lo traduce automaticamente" yo tambien lo siento como si lo oyese en español. Este año estoy trabajando la pronunciación y algunos modismos con amigos angloparlantes en discord

[@taquochung8974]

Speaking Skill is more difficult

[@more2195]

@@AndreSkipper me puedo sumar?

[@AndreSkipper]

@@more2195 No, el server antes era publico pero ahora es privado, la creadora tuvo problemas con su canal de KZbin.

[@pablo506]

I speak Galician, Spanish and Im learning some English!! I think I dominate speaking, reading and writting, but listening is getting complicated. This kind of videos are really helping me to improve that skill.

[@JotaceLIVE]

My problem is that I have developed my English so much that in a normal conversation with my family (In Spanish) sometimes I don't know the Spanish word for something that I do know in English, so I spend the next few minutes explaining what the "thing" is until they tell me the word in Spanish.

[@user-xu6jl9zo3m]

Yea happens to me sometimes 🙄 and i’m like uhhhhh i’ll just shut up (even tho that’s impossible)

[@lorelei887]

Same for me! I’m French and I’ve learnt English, Spanish and a bit of German and Italian. And sometimes I’m trying very hard to explain or translate a sentence in my own language but I can’t, and it really drives me mad because my family thinks that if I can’t find the word in French it’s because I don’t know what it means. No, it’s just because sometimes I think in five different languages and it can be really complicated to get back to French, especially if I’ve spent the whole day watching videos or reading stories in another language.

[@selfish.machines]

I have the same problem and it really sucks when I don't know the word and I end up trying to explain what it is to my family...

[@kccd17dlt]

Same 😂

[@lexpendragon7935]

Happens to me as well, except that it's in French...

[@D0wNhiLL]

Sometimes I forget whether I watched a movie in my native language or in English 😃

[@benedictemarding6237]

I never really know what language the subtitles are in unless I focus on the subtitles

[@prinkidoodles]

YES, ME TOO!

[@prinkidoodles]

@@benedictemarding6237 often I am watching something while drawing, I look at the screen from time to time, sometimes while drawing i just think, in which language are the subtitles, and I have to read for a while until I remember the language 🤣

[@veromas436]

omg same

[@zilasgregersen2956]

So true!