What Are The 10 Most Used Languages On Youtube?

[@AlinefromToulouse]

The problem on KZbin is that as soon as you want to learn a less widely spoken language, even if it is not rare, they are not subtitled! I had this problem with Romanian.

[@teresamerkel7161]

I am heartened to hear that Portuguese the third on that list as that is what I'm focusing on learning. I do find a lot of videos to help with my goal in both European and Brazilian Portuguese including ones about the differences in the two. I am very early in my language journey.

[@geolan9640]

Fellow Portuguese learner here. It depends a lot on what content you enjoy, but there is an absolute *abundance* of Brazilian content online. I personally like watching Brazilian news, and listening to Brazilian radio. There are also Portuguese translations for the majority of the most well-known video games, movies, and books, which are easy to source.

[@teresamerkel7161]

@@geolan9640 thank you that is encouraging

[@10kcom25]

é dificil encontrar alguém principalmente que fala inglês falando que está aprendendo português

[@sr_leonardi]

Perhaps you should indeed consider trying to learn Portuguese. As for myself, I'm a Brazilian with Italian roots (my great-grandfather sought refuge from World War I by immigrating to Brazil). Here, the Italian community is one of the largest, right alongside the Portuguese and African descendant communities. Nonetheless, I'd recommend taking up the language only if you find it intriguing and enjoyable. It could be quite entertaining to hear an Italian (Sicilian) speaker attempting Portuguese. I can only imagine how fascinating the accent might be, especially if it's influenced by other languages as well.

[@themadmanwithapen]

Greek! I’ve been learning Greek for years, but Greek language content is difficult to find, especially in topics I’m interested in.

[@WeShallOvercome_]

My strategy has always been to learn Spanish as my first Romance language as it’s the easiest for an English speaker, it has the least complicated grammar and pronunciation, and it’s like the central Romance language in that from it we can more easily learn Italian and Portuguese. This I found to be true. I can read a Portuguese newspaper and understand over 70% despite little focused study. Where my strategy really paid off happened last year when KZbin started recommending videos in French to me. To my shock and surprise, I found that with my English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, I could understand basic spoken French! This surprise has now led me to learning French, using mainly audio courses. I learnt long ago that hearing the language is the most important place to start - and the French audio course I’m using is an absolute breeze. By way of comparison, another language I’m learning via an audio course is Egyptian Arabic and that takes a bit more effort, concentration, and repetition than French - which I pick up almost always first time. So learning languages which belong to the same group, in a certain order, can help speed up the learning process.

[@AlinefromToulouse]

A lot of content in the language of former countries of the USSR like Georgia has a huge number of possible comments and views from Russian speakers, so if Russian is not at the top of the list of content in the language on KZbin, it is supposed to be the second most used language after English according to some sources. As I'm interested in that part of the world, I have to learn Russian if I don't want to struggle using Google Translate, or even ChatGPT all the time. About French: it is not that present because French speakers make so much less content, it is losing ground in former colonies with the younger generations, French-speaking Canadians can make videos in English, and France itself is so late concerning social media...as a French person, I'm appalled!

[@mep6302]

I haven't found much content in Dutch and the Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish). Most of them prefer to make content in English. I understand English is the global language but they'd rather stop using their language and replace it with English. Even if you go to those countries, if they find out you're a foreigner, they'll start speaking English to you.

[@keithkannenberg7414]

KZbin videos that are specifically focused on learning a foreign language are very useful, especially when starting a language. But I find the more useful aspect of the platform for language learning is the availability of content made for native speakers. For popular languages it's relatively easy to find channels that cover topics that you find interesting, which makes for a seemingly endless amount of content to use as comprehensible input (obviously once one has reached a high enough level where native content is in fact comprehensible). I'm currently subscribed to channels that make videos about history in French, German and Italian. I find the topics interesting in and of them selves, aside from the language practice aspect, which means watching the videos isn't a language learning task or chore but rather something enjoyable.

[@glaucofavot9904]

A tier list of channels that can be used as material to learn Mandarin and Japanese would be excellent. Big Thumb up👍

[@monikalala3810]

Yes please learn Portuguese. I have been casually learning it on and off for 20 years now. I would love some Portuguese content from you.

[@hanarielgodlike9283]

Legaal... como ta indo ?

[@JaredaSohn]

I would absolutely love a video on the top ten KZbin channels for learning Japanese! Thanks for another great video Raf!

[@manueldejesusrojassandi3919]

I second this petition.

[@brandonveltri2825]

I learned a very small amount from Filthy Frank

[@AlexFeldstein]

You should definitely go for Portuguese (it will be easier for you, esp. Brazil). I am very fluent in Portuguese as my 3rd language. Am studying Italian as my 4th and found several excellent Italian teachers with KZbin Channels, plus channels on other topics (in Italian), such as Scripta Manent, an excellent Roman history channel. I am doing also French as my 5th and there are a couple of good channels I follow. (I can mention some if there is interest). I also follow Luke and Satura Lanx for Latin, and Paul's Langfocus for everything.

[@GabrielfoBR]

I'd love if you learned Portuguese. A little known fact is that Portuguese is the most spoken first language in the southern hemisphere.

[@bantorio6525]

... el hemisferio sur apenas tiene tierra ... es casi todo mar ... por eso .... jajajá ...

[@belstar1128]

Not a lot of people live in the southern hemisphere

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@belstar1128 South America (Brazil), Southern Africa (Angola & Mozambique), East Timor.

[@belstar1128]

@@faithlesshound5621 compared to the northern hemisphere

[@pauvermelho]

It's the 5/6 most spoken language in the world. So stop pretending it's not big deal

[@chrisgivestricks1810]

You should definitely learn Portuguese, it's an underrated language that deserves more love as a Spanish speaker myself from the U.S and I would personally recommend to learn the Brazilian Portuguese Accent but knowing that you like the challenge it would be interesting to see you try Portugal Portuguese.

[@Avram_Orozco]

Though I can be wrong, I reckon he would learn Portuguese from Portugal as he’s more familiar with Iberian Spanish. Raf has said many times before that he’s doesn’t learn languages for practicality alone.

[@cahallo5964]

​@@Avram_OrozcoBrasilian Portuguese is closer to Iberian Spanish than Portugal's Portuguese

[@Avram_Orozco]

@@cahallo5964Brazilian Portuguese is closer to Iberian Spanish only in that they’re both syllable timed, although Brazilian Portuguese has elements of both. Lusitania Portuguese is closer to Hispania Portuguese in terms of pronunciation and intonation.

[@cahallo5964]

@@Avram_Orozco No

[@Avram_Orozco]

@@cahallo5964 why is that?

[@MidwestArtMan]

One language I haven't encountered resources for, although I haven't looked much, is Hmong. I live near St. Paul, MN, and would estimate that over 50% of my coworkers speak Hmong, most of them as a native language. I don't know if there are many language learning tools for the language, even if I'm just learning some basic phrases. I could ask people, but most of them have shaky English, and my friend who was born in the US says she wouldn't consider herself fluent in Hmong and only really speaks it with her parents. Interestingly, I did hear one woman say recently that she speaks Hmong, but can't read it. I know they use the Roman alphabet, so I'm guessing it didn't originally have a writing system.

[@belstar1128]

There is content in hmong on youtube mostly news and audio stories and low budget movies. hmong uses the roman alphabet but its tricky since they have a silent letter at the end of each word that actually shows you what tone you need to use. since its a tonal language most tonal languages have their own writing system or use accent marks to mark tones .

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

Vietnamese also use the Latin Alphabet but the Latin Alphabet came from the French Occupation. Before that, the Vietnamese used Chinese characters. Considering Hmong are native to southern China, it's quite possible they originally used Chinese characters as well. But then again, Asia invented the most scripts I have ever seen in any other continent so they might have had their own or picked up another script from a different culture.

[@Yairoo06]

i'm currently learning portuguese . As a native Spanish speaker, it's shocking how easy it is to pick up. I imagine it is probably easier to learn than Spanish, except maybe the pronunciation. I'm sure it will be similar for an Italian speaker.

[@MatPete]

Studying a closely related language is more like „readjustment” than actually learning something completely new, I would also compare it to learning a peculiar dialect of your mother tongue (I know I’m exaggerating but I hope you get the point).

[@jan_kisan]

yes, most useful channels for learning different languages is a good idea for a video. i mean, i've got my own favourites, but i'd like to also hear your suggestions.

[@denisjp7154]

I think a tier list or top X about channels in different languages to help learn that language would be awesome! Perhaps literature too? Kind of like how I remember taking AP Spanish and reading Don Quijote, El Burlador de Sevilla, and Lazarillo de Tormes.

[@appleoxide4489]

for languages where it's very difficult to find youtube content, Swahili. it was my biggest roadblock in trying to study it. Thai language content is plentiful. even content for Finnish, a language with only 5 million speakers, isn't hard to find. but for Swahili, all i really got was music videos and christian children's content.

[@ivanovichdelfin8797]

Definitivamente tengo dificultades en encontrar contenido en francés, italiano y ruso. De inglés y español nunca he tenido dificultades, siempre he encontrado el contenido que estaba buscando, lo único que me he dado cuenta es que a veces cuando el contenido es muy específico, quizá solo encuentre uno o dos vídeos en español que trate el tema en cuestión, mientras que en inglés encontraría como 6 vídeos o algo similar. En portugués es algo intermedio, no llego a encontrar siempre el contenido que busco, pero definitivamente hay mucho más que en francés e italiano.

[@AlinefromToulouse]

I don't have the same impression concerning Russian: from Eastern Europe to Central Asia, all the sources on KZbin are in Russian, and most videos have automatic subtitles.

[@ivanovichdelfin8797]

@@AlinefromToulouse Muchas veces cuando busco un vídeo un ruso en relación a un contenido específico, no me sale ningún vídeo relacionado. Obvio que siempre está la opción de ver un vídeo en otro idioma con subtítulos en ruso

[@AlinefromToulouse]

@@ivanovichdelfin8797 I will check how it is with Russian for specific content, I have not done that yet because of my level. For the moment, I watch videos for native speakers only about the news.

[@MatPete]

Ese contenido tiene que ser muy específico si no lo encuentras en ruso. ¿Qué es lo que buscas?

[@ivanovichdelfin8797]

@@MatPete De todo en sí, xxd. Aunque la mayoría de cosas sí que encuentro

[@belstar1128]

With Hindi and many other languages from India and other Asian and African languages there is a lot of content online. but they will put the titles in English the comments are also often all in English so the video doesn't get counted as a Hindi video by the algorithms they use to scan youtube. they also sometimes write Hindi with the Latin script instead of using proper hindi because on a lot of older hardware the script is not supported. but the algorithms don't count it as Hindi in some African countries they will use French titles instead like in dr Congo or Madagascar 4:00 this could be good advice but it depends on the language and the culture of the people who speak it. like you will probably get more views making videos in Hungarian instead of Dutch despite Dutch having more speakers. because most Dutch speakers are fluent in English and have some kind of inferiority complex were they think a video in Dutch will be bad and will not even give it a chance. but Hungarians are less likely to know English and prefer content in their own language because its more relatable. some topics also make more sense to do in your native language than English. like when you are a political youtuber who is not just focussed on geopolitics. but if you are a gaming youtuber there is probably not much of a demand in smaller languages.

[@reverseboat]

I've been interested in learning Georgian for a while now but struggle with finding any good-quality resources whether that's youtube, online blogs, books, etc. I wish there were more native Georgians making language-related videos. At first I thought it was because the language is quite small (4 million natives), but I don't think that's the case. My native language, Danish, has around 5½ million natives, and there are lots of Danes creating content for Danish learners. If anyone here in the comment section is learning Georgian, please tell me if you know any good channels!

[@slovo_bozhe_shchetininy]

Learn Georgian with Roni is a good option.

[@BazookaLuca]

I am also interested in Georgian because I am half Georgian and would like to communicate with my family in Georgia

[@yukine5547]

I wish there were more videos in Latin apart from Scorpio Martianus and Magister Craft (They are great btw). That would be a good way for me to learn new vocabulary and to internalize the grammar during free time.

[@rogeriopenna9014]

I can't remember any Brazilian channel that produces content in English. Maybe Kiko Loureiro, from Megadeth, or Eloy Casagrande, from Sepultura. Because they have international audiences because of their bands.

[@patricialavery8270]

I have seen alot of Brazilians streaming games,probably Brazil is the reason for so much Portuguese.Listening to you has made me think Italian would be cool.I like the way it sounds.I found that the most Gaelic that I could hear was music videos.

[@Omouja]

Yeah, Brazil is the reason why portuguese is so widely spoken on the internet, not just because Brazil have a lot of population, all the portuguese speakers around the world consume brazilian content as well (countries like Angola, Mozambic, Portugal, etc)

[@FlagAnthem]

1:50 Indeed. South-east Asia did in fact brought me a quite sensitive amount of views (data in hand) Selamat Pagi! 😊

[@flavio-neri]

I really enjoyed your background. The Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 cartridges gave me some nostalgia. Backing to the video subject. Portuguese looks like an excellent choice to learn. Obrigado.

[@ChanyeolsHaneul]

I find it weird that korean is not in the lists considering the boom of kpop and kdramas. For languages that I wish existed more are Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Welsh and Asturian. I really wish I could learn those languages but there's practically nothing. 😊

[@Enno9]

Irish exsits on duolingo

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

Welsh too!

[@thexenoist3493]

I'm always up for more immersion content for Japanese. Although I would also like to see some channels the specifically focus on vocabulary.

[@crnel]

2:59 - I've noticed that a number of videos from India would bear titles in English but the language spoken in those videos are all in Hindi or some other Indian language. I find that oddly misguiding. It might mess up language statistics.

[@margueritelouw5790]

I would love to see a video where you go through Equalizer 3, it plays off in Italy. I was wondering if the Italian is done well or is it influenced by Hollywood. 😅 I am learning Italian, it started out well, but I realise it is going to take a lot of methodical work and that reading it vs using it as a language is 2 different things. 😅

[@aris1956]

I as an Italian and also as an Italian teacher who does not know English, I have to say that it is also two different things to understand something while someone is speaking and to say something by yourself in that language. You usually understand more than what you can say. PS: Here on KZbin I use a translator. 😊

[@theplasmaistplasma6613]

Casual Latin content would be awesome, although the pool of speakers is pretty small

[@musicalneptunian]

I agree. As a student of astrology/occult I wish that I knew Latin because so many historical sources are in Latin.

[@indrast5203]

I know the solution,we learn Latin.

[@pawel198812]

Alexius Cosanus makes short, mostly unscripted videos in Latin, using a restored pronunciation system. He is from Italy and teaches Latin in a school in the US

[@kanadajin-r5b]

One of the hard parts of learning Cantonese is that most natives know very little about the Cantonese tonal system, or the language in general. One example would be when it comes to transcribing the sounds. Most Mandarin speakers know either Pinyin or Zhuyin. You need to know at least one of them to use a modern Mandarin dictionary and figure out how to pronounce a character. Meanwhile, it's mostly Cantonese learners, not natives, who know Jyutping/Yale. I could be wrong, but I guess Cantonese natives just don't use dictionaries that much, if at all.

[@elenaekanathapetrova2282]

Yes! It would be interesting to know about good channels that helps to pick up vocabulary

[@ManicEightBall]

I'm curious why Arabic doesn't show up on these lists. It's spoken over a wide area, so it seems like it should be fairly common. Also, I've tried looking for material in Norwegian, but it's not very common, and some of it is pretty old.

[@rodrigoa5108]

Arabic countries, unfortunately, are poor and don't have so many internet users.

[@Kinotaurus]

Didn't the video say "around 3%" right after Russian?

[@ManicEightBall]

@@Kinotaurus Oh, I didn't catch that. Thanks.

[@ctam79]

If you're still doing Can an Italian understand videos, you could try Chavacano (from the Philippines) a mix of Spanish and Tagalog.

[@ivanovichdelfin8797]

En realidad, la mayor parte del tiempo el español chabacano es muy similar al español. El español chabacano mal hablado tiende a ser una mezcla entre español y tagalo porque hay muchos hablantes que no saben hablarlo bien, y mezclan ambos idiomas

[@victxbr]

You should definitely learn Brazilian Portuguese, is a language with a complex Grammar and really Melodic, it's a Beautiful language to know.

[@glaucofavot9904]

I would love to find more content on the Tube about Finnish and Mongolian. Both are fascinating languages.

[@cnervip]

I am of the idea that one should speak english, spanish, mandarin and maybe hindi to be able to communicate with most people in the world

[@AlinefromToulouse]

If you add Russian, you can. From Eastern Europe to Central Asia, you can't communicate that much in English with the general population, they all speak Russian, and you can use Russian to communicate with other Slavic language speakers. Hindi is not necessary because most Indians speak English. For those who speak French, French can compensate for Spanish and they can communicate with half part of Africa.

[@cnervip]

@@AlinefromToulouse I based my comment on number of native speakers plus second language only my dad knew french for me looks like a mix of spanish and english(I speak spanish (but from chile))

[@AlinefromToulouse]

@@cnervip that's why you can manage with Spanish speakers with French, plus directly communicate with French speakers in or from a lot of countries of Africa. French shares the family with Spanish so it is possible to communicate with one another. Concerning English, many words of Latin origin are from French. Spanish is a very widely spoken language, but if you know French, you still can communicate with a great part of the world.

[@cnervip]

@@AlinefromToulouse i know both are romance languages but it seems that spanish is easier for french speaker than french is for spanish speaker (the same goes for italian and the other way around for portuguese)

[@AlinefromToulouse]

@@cnervip I don't speak Portuguese, but the one from Portugal seems to be quite difficult to understand. I think you are right about Spanish and French. Definitely, for a French speaker, the less difficult Romance language is Italian, especially comprehension. When I hear clearly spoken Italian, I can understand a lot of words, which is not the case with Spanish.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

2:47 Malay 🇲🇾. I was in Singapore 🇸🇬 earlier this year. Malay and Indonesian 🇮🇩 are mutually intelligible. In addition to Malay/Indonesian, you may want to learn Tagalog and Chavacano, languages in The Philippines 🇵🇭. Tagalog has Indonesian loan words as well as loan words from Spanish, Nahuatl, English, Tamil, Farsi, Arabic and Fukien. I was in The Philippines 🇵🇭 last year, 2022. I noticed loads of code switching between Tagalog and English. Tagalog will help you become a better singer. 👨‍🎤 David Foster noticed this when he performed with Morissette Amon in March 2023.

[@Alistaire1985]

Well, considering that he is interested in Portuguese he should learn Malay and Indonesian since these are the languages that have many words from Portuguese since both Malaysia and Indonesia came into contact with Portugal. Tagalog of the Phillipines on the other hand is heavily influenced by Spanish.

[@FrancescoRossi-q4s]

Very good. Re India: I assume a lot of material is produced in English, but I would assume that Bollywood style Hindustani is also widely used on KZbin. This language is neither pure Hindi nor pure Urdu, but rather the shared spoken core of both languages. I also assume that some other Indo-Aryan languages like Bengali or Marathi, etc. would also have a large output. Many of these smaller languages have around 50 million speakers. Re Indonesian / Malay, as the languages are so close, (and apparently easy to learn), I assume they attract people from both Indonesia and Malaysia/Singapore and even other near-by countries. Re Thailand, I hesitate to think about the content. However, many if not all of the co-stars are foreign tourists. ;-)

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Metatron. I am English and was pretty decent in school learning French and German. About twenty years ago I worked for a company with HQ in Netherlands. I tried picking up Dutch watching RTL4 on old analogue satellite TV channels, but the accent defeated me, despite being able to read it a bit. Being English, I often fall into the trap of expecting an English version, though I do still try with the languages I Iearned.

[@crbgo9854]

You are literally the only channel i watch reruns of your the best

[@rubitracks]

I would like to hear more about channels that don’t have any spoken language at all, instead the video tells the story. There are a few on KZbin ( made in Sweden) as an example but it’s hard to find any information about that type of content.

[@PandaaArts]

Can you please make a video about Ligurian language?

[@falaai4705]

You should learn Portuguese, this is a pretty fun lenguage to learn and pick up plus it sounds lovely.

[@JMM33RanMA]

There are also Dialect Nationalists. I once had my application for an ESL job rejected because, "You are American and are not qualified to teach English." My native dialect is New England [a.k.a. Boston] English and I had not been given a speaking test, it was by a British bugger rejecting me solely by passport. IMHO, my speech is closer to British standard than either Geordie or Cockney. Working for an international language school in the US, the admin insisted on using British textbooks and audio. The students staged a strike because they thought that learning British English using England focused material was stupid and not what they wanted and needed in the US. I did not put them up to it, had, in fact, told them that it was not that bad and could be supplemented with local materials that I would be happy to produce.

[@Alec72HD]

Brits are ridiculous. Absolute majority of native English speakers speak American English. British is an obscure dialect of English language.

[@davidlericain]

I give a big thumbs up to any content about Mandarin. I'm learning it too.

[@Cameron.Hubberstey]

I definitely wish there was interesting content in Welsh. Even though I live in Cardiff now, it remains difficult to learn Welsh -- Partially due to lack of content, partially due to the lack of native speakers. I pretty much gave up due to the aforementioned factors

[@ibRebecca]

What kinda content would you find interesting to help learn Welsh? (I’m a Welsh speaker, so, curious )

[@galaxydeathskrill5607]

i'd love to learn of it too mainly because i read lotr, funny how it made me interested in linguistics lol

[@malic_zarith]

Could you do a video on the Assassin's Creed Ezio trilogy, and rate the Italian speech sections in the games? I'm wondering how accurate it is.

[@gj1234567899999]

What I often do I take a topic and run it through Google translate or wiki in another language and then using foreign words search for the video on KZbin. I’m able to see Japanese channels, Chinese channels to see their views on things. What I see are sometimes a lot less content compared to English but still get huge amount of views. What I take from that is there is a huge hunger for non English content but competition in non English speaking content is not as good.

[@CymaticEarth]

I wish Siksika(Blackfoot) was well known and had plenty of content, you have a chance to revive its memory, go for it 💪🏽🙏🏽

[@Kinotaurus]

I would find useful your recommendations on a top 10 list of Italian channels. I watch Teacher Stefano, Easy Italian and Podcast Italiano, but would welcome more suggestions.

[@JohnnyLynnLee]

Well, Vietnamese, which I've been learning for almost 3 years now. It's hard to immerse on KZbin and I'm always coming back to English and Japanese because of more interesting content. And then basically ALL languages I would want to learn next except before but now including Russian: Cantonese, as mentioned in the video, Thai, and Filipino/Tagalog (let's not even mention Cebuano) and maybe Burmese and Khmer. Indonesian/ Malay could be one, but since it's SOMEWHAT close to Filipino I'd go most likely to Filipino first. And, yeah, I'm totally in that sphere of Southeast Asia except for my interest in Russian. By the way, when I tried Korean for 3 months I also couldn't find things I liked EXCEPT movies. And on YOUTBE even Japanese isn't so good in content to my liking.

[@JohnnyLynnLee]

Ah, and HINDI (and maybe Bengali could be an option)

[@kevinbyrne4538]

What about news channels? The vocabulary is broad and the speakers enunciate clearly and their grammar is correct.

[@navisnau3140]

Where can I see those lists that you used. I’m also interested, pleases send me the links.

[@monikalala3810]

What about Japanese? I would love Japanese content from you. I have been learning Japanese for 7 months now . And I love it. But it is really hard to grasp the complex grammar.

[@musicalneptunian]

Yeah I sorta learnt to read German once. I am a chess player. I read through German chess magazines. I also have a scientific German dictionary on my shelf that was designed in the 1960s for British science degree students.

[@shirl6135]

I am Brit born and we must be one of the most monolingual countries in the world. We learn say French and German at school, leave school and forget it all. So at 54 I’m trying to break myself out of the mould and learn new languages

[@MatPete]

Honestly, at some point I finally understood why it is so difficult for you anglophones to learn a foreign language although you are intelligent people. It’s very hard to stay motivated if in fact all the world speaks your native language and furthermore INSISTS on using it once they realize you struggle with theirs - speakers of other languages can always pretend they don’t know enough English (that’s exactly what I do sometimes and wish them good luck with Polish 😆) and force the other person to patiently speak the target language even if it requires more effort. You can’t do the same and that’s what I find a serious problem.

[@shirl6135]

@@MatPete I totally agree, languages are not taken seriously at school Jo parla Catalan (a tiny bit) And Não sei bem o português

[@MatPete]

@@shirl6135 Interesting choice, I never expected someone would pick these two instead of Spanish.

[@yohanapereira1629]

Can you make a video about tonal languages; like Chinese, Cantonese, Thai, Vietnamese.

[@villageroma]

Brazilian Portuguese is the sexiest language of them all. As a native Italian I picked it up in 3 weeks. Works and sounds like an Italian dialect

[@Leonardo7772012]

Sim, claro que deves aprender o Português. Será muito fácil para ti! Mas haverá desafios em aprender os soms naaister ão, ãe, õe, en, em, in, on etc e os verbos são tão ou mais complicados que o italiano, mas há similaridades.

[@bensharenli1212]

Should you upload videos in two languages on the same channel? Or should you make another channel for that particular language?

[@Aknight292]

Definitely learn Portuguese. I'm american and my second language is Brazilian Portuguese (fluent) and speak in the Carioca accent. It's awesome

[@TabletopWargamer]

I'd like to hear your recommendations for Italian.

[@kane2734]

It'd be great if you were to be able to find Polish content that's for beginners as well as intermediate levels. Coming across such content has been proving quite difficult for me.

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

Navajo! It's a language spoken on the borders of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. It was spoken by the Native Americans who lived in the United States since time imonial (I don't know how to spell it) way before the European colonizers arrived. Even though it's second place for most common Native American languages, that's still only about 100,000 Native Speakers, and about 500,000 total speakers. That obviously makes it low on content from KZbin and thus I can't find any resources for learning it.

[@pedropontes2230]

You should definitely learn Portuguese. Kudos from a Brazilian fan.

[@davidp.7620]

Glad to see 20% of views split between speakers of the Western and Eastern dialects of Galician

[@dospulgasenunperro]

Do you know about Zazza el italiano? He's an italian guy from Udine who traveled Spain and opened a very succesful channel showing dangerous neighborhoods in spain and italy

[@MarcelGomesPan]

My ”problem” is probably that i am interested in languages that are ”smaller” in numbers of speakers relative to the ones mentioned. In my case Gaelic, Irish and Icelandic.

[@latinhero1818]

I’m not surprised that Portuguese made it so far, with MPB from Brazil and artists like Zizi Possi, Roberto Carlos, and the way that Xuxa and Chacrinha popularized so many of these artists.

[@FrancescoRossi-q4s]

My favourite is Paula Fernandes. ;-)

[@milobem4458]

Have you considered Persian? It's been on my list for years, but it's hard to find any decent material on it.

[@faithlesshound5621]

Just thinking of the community languages in the UK, I could list Mirpuri, Sylheti and Cantonese. There are materials for studying Urdu and Punjabi, but most Pakistanis in the UK are from Azad Kashmir, where Mirpuri is the main language but it is not taught in schools and so almost no one knows how to write it. Most Bangladeshis in the UK are from Sylhet. Sylheti is the language of "Indian" restaurants. Most of the Chinese in the UK came from Hong Kong, where they speak and write Cantonese, but British schools teach Mandarin. Most of our Greeks and Turks came from Cyprus, where the dialect differs from the mainland.

[@FrancescoRossi-q4s]

That's interesting. Here in Italy, the most spoken language from the Indian sub-continent is Punjabi, mostly spoken by Sikhs - Sat Sri akal! - but also by Moslem Punjabis from Pakistan. It would be followed here by Bengali (Bangla Desh) and Tamil and Sinhala (Sri Lanka).

[@dseanjackson1]

Che bella sorpresa di portoghese! Anche, come madrelingua in inglese, uso io Geopop e 'Podcast Italiano' per migliorare il mio italiano come tu facevi con VSauce

[@Altrantis]

It's expected that french would be pretty low, because most of its speakers are in Africa, and as a result are less likely to have the devices and internet connection to watch youtube.

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

I would love to see more videos in icelandic. a lot of interesting materials could be done.

[@ryanpangilinan5803]

Agreeing on wishing there was more Cantonese videos, but for me, I wish there was more content in Hokkien! There's a decent bit here and there, but not a lot! I wish there was more for other small languages too but I don't anticipate minority languages in general having too much content.

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

As a German, I was pretty disappointed that German only had 2%. Especially since our language is fast approaching becoming a global language. If you look around, you can find a lot of German videos and KZbinrs (Adhemar, Igor Welder, Dr. Ludwig, and others) which makes me very happy 😊 Hopefully as our language grows, so to does our influence on KZbin

[@alfonsmelenhorst9672]

For me the same. I found so many video in German about so many topics and of high quality. I can't believe only 2%.

[@castrogonzalez614]

Hätte auch gedacht, dass es mehr ist

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

@@alfonsmelenhorst9672 Exactly! We have lots of different genres of KZbinrs and I enjoy many of them! I'm trying to replace my English subscriptions with German ones just to help support and promote their growth, along with our language! I just hope that they'll expand more in the next few years as more and more people learn German.

[@DafniKem]

I'm learning German at the moment. I find it very hard, I study on my own, but it's my fourth language so I'm positive 😁 If you have any recommendations, I'm open to suggestions.

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

@@castrogonzalez614 Wir werden sehen, wie es in Zukunft weitergeht. Ich bin sicher, daß unser Anteil in ein paar Jahren von 2 % auf mindestens 5 % oder 10 % steigen wird

[@carlosanderson4479]

Anytime I'm watching a video on any topic it's always the Spanish speakers or the Portuguese speakers that come out of the woodwork, even for an English language video or say a Japanese video (anime/manga related). French is a third in my experience.

[@viniciusoliveira3027]

Ōlelo hawaii for sure, please ōlelo hawaii is the one that I would love to see a lot of good content on KZbin

[@azarishiba2559]

Mientras que puedo encontrar video en polaco para aprender, me parte el corazón de que no haya opción de subtítulos en polaco en KZbin 😢. Consideren que mi estilo de aprendizaje es altamente visual, y que tengo un problema para procesar sonidos, entonces a puro oído me va a costar... Hay un youtuber polaco que hace cosas chivísimas con LEGO, pero sin subtítulos aunque sea en polaco, me pierdo de casi todo lo que dice T___T Vamos, hasta en japonés hay opción de subtítulos, y si bien hay veces que me deja mirando para el ciprés, otras veces me ha sido utilísimo para entender alguna frase que mi oído no logra captar por más que lo intente.

[@Sphinxgamingworld9942]

¿De que KZbinr hablas?

[@Nayushe0]

Please make a video for good channel to learn Japanese (I'm really in struggle with grammar and vocabulary) in this period (I'm Italian like you)

[@lifigrugru6396]

I do not learn directly hungarian, its my mothertonge but on yt you find big part hunglish its mixtur of hungaryan and english. That do not mean the inhalt is bad, yust the people who used to do this videos are influnced from english and its cool to speak foreign world's becaus make you a higher scolar.

[@khelian613]

You should platinum the romance languages and be the ultimate successor of Rome o/

[@nzmike555]

I'm surprised Hindi wasn't on the list. How can there be more videos in Malay than in Hindi when there are 528 million Hindi speakers in India alone compared to just under 20 million Malay speakers in Malaysia?

[@Kinotaurus]

Malay, in a slightly different dialect and under a different name, is also spoken in Indonesia which has close to 200m people

[@yohanapereira1629]

English is one of the official language of India, so many people can understand it. So, I think they produce more videos in English than other Indian languages. Or maybe feel inferior of using their own language?

[@Ukitsu2]

I guess Malay and Indonesian are considered the same language (Bahasa Indonesia is a standarized version of Malay), and KZbin is BIG in Indonesia (300 million inhabitants with most of it's youth wanting to be youtubers as a job, VTubers are a especially big phenomenon over there) add the population of Malasia, Singapore, Surinam, etc... and I'm surprised Indo/Malay isn't even higher.

[@coolbrotherf127]

I do enjoy watching some Japanese youtube, but it's so small compared to the English side. While KZbin seems to be pretty popular with the youth of Japan, it lacks a lot more thoughtful and interesting intellectual content as things like crazy challenges, food videos, and jpop discussion seems to dominate the space. Of course there is the more thoughtful stuff too, but as there's less of an audience, it's harder to find and usually from very small creators.

[@FlanPoirot]

japan media production is still very traditional/corporate. if u want anything better produce it will almost always be produced by a company with exceptions being stuff like music. also japan has other video platforms besides youtube

[@granist]

Hello there my good sir, I would have to go with the Scandinavian languages such as Swedish, Icelandic, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian. I could also mention Vietnamese is another one that’s not easy to find content for, I could say Burmese, Cantonese, If i think of more I will add more to this list.

[@Alejandro.Tzimis]

I agree man Scandinavian languages are pretty rare on KZbin also a tiny correction Finnish is not a Scandinavian language it's In the Finno-Ugric language tree.

[@Mizar4]

​@@Alejandro.Tzimisyea

[@granist]

​@@Alejandro.TzimisYes and thank you for correcting me, I added Finnish because it's apart of the Scandinavian countries not languages.

[@Alejandro.Tzimis]

@granist aa yes that's sound reasoning I didn't really think that far 😅

[@yohanapereira1629]

​@@Alejandro.TzimisI think because they prefer to make videos in English

[@bensharenli1212]

5 minute cantonese seems like a good channel to learn cantonese.

[@ashleymarietv2]

I’d love for great resource recommendations for Spanish :)

[@AthanasiosJapan]

Not enough sources for Ainu language.

[@prince223681]

Yes do Cantonese. You'd be the only one doing it. The are so many Cantonese speakers that this doesn't make sense to me. Same with Vietnamese ,Azeri Turkish and Persian. I'm trying to learn it because there are so many speakers but little to no content. Google translate doesn't even have text to speech for it

[@alexvig2369]

As an Israeli, I think Hebrew KZbin is quite big. My KZbin feed consists of over 90% English videos and 10% in other languages. But whenever I look into feeds of Israeli friends of mine, I see that for them it's more than 80% Hebrew videos. I am fluent in Hebrew and see it as my 1st language, but the volume Hebrew content could never really satisfy me.

[@pattobyo]

I would be interested in more Japanese content videos ^^

[@gabriellawrence6598]

Metatron, paesano mio! Io sono brasiliano e sarebbe buonissimo si imparassi il portoghese! I definately didn't expect my language to be the top-3 on this list. I would like to see Cantonese promoted but it seems it's being eaten by Mandarin.

[@kilanspeaks]

1:51 isn’t this in Myanmar and not Thailand? Those structures look a lot like the row of shrines leading up to Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. And that man is obviously wearing a longyi. OK footage locations aside, I’m not convinced by the numbers. I mean, even a single island in Indonesia has a bigger population than the entire of France and Thailand combined, so how come we’re not up there? 🤔

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Never would have guess Portuguese I thought it would be Hindi guess we have to thank Brazil for making to 3rd

[@yohanapereira1629]

Indian prefer using English

[@grafinvonhohenembs]

Da molto tempo cerco disperatamente migliori video olandesi su KZbin. Video sull'arte, sulla storia, ecc. Canali che sono simili ai canali italiani come Scripta Manent, Nova Lectio, ZooSparkle, Evropantiqva, ElisaTrueCrime, Alessandro Barbero, Entropy For LIfe, Rick Dufer, ecc. C'è History Hustle Nederlands per esempio coi video di gran qualità, ma i video sono molto corti e il tema è di solito la guerra. Team Geschiedenis è anche fantastico Ci sono qualche altro canale piccolo, ma la qualità non è la migliore. Oppure trovo video fiamminghi. Fiammingo è anche fantastico, ma preferisco parlare olandese / con un accento olandese e per questo ho bisogno di più contenuti olandesi. Mi interessano anche canali simili in greco e finlandese.

[@Sphinxgamingworld9942]

Wow, I didn’t know there were this many Italian channels! I wonder if there are a lot of polish language content on KZbin though?

[@grafinvonhohenembs]

@@Sphinxgamingworld9942 I'm sure that there are plenty. Search key words in Polish like "history", "documentary", "art", etc., whatever interests you and you'll surely find something. Sometimes ist still takes a while to find the most enjoyabel / helpful ones, though. You can definitely find everythign in Italian.

[@martinsenoner8186]

I liked some more videos in ladin (gardeina, my 5. language, but i never rechead A2 Level)

[@sststr]

I've watched quite a few videos by Indians that are in English, but I would expect the overwhelming amount of content by Indians is Bollywood clips and commentary or parodies thereof, which would be in Hindi or other local languages. So as a percentage, I would anticipate the majority of content out of India to be in languages other than English. Whether Hindi forms the majority of those, or just a plurality, I can't even begin to guess, there are such a vast number of languages in India. But English and Hindi are probably the two most common, and I would guess Hindi probably beats out English.