What Learning Multiple Languages Did to My Brain

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EVISBEATS - Desperado
Cullah - Dueling Duality
Nujabes - Feather
Undertale OST - Bonetrousle
Naruto OST - Kakashi's Theme
Naruto OST - Bad situation
MF DOOM - Nightcrawler
Robot Orchestra - I Wonder Why
MF DOOM - Books of War
EVISBEATS - The Star Borne
Naruto OST - Afternoon in Konoha
glue70 - Casin
0:00 Intro
0:25 Brain's Default Language
1:50 On the tip of my tongue
4:10 Maintaining a Language
4:50 Imposter words & grammar

[@janicelaurin7263]

Your English sounds so natural. When I first started watching you a few years ago I honestly thought you were from southern California. I thought you were a skater boy! Your language skills are amazing. My sister is fluent in English and French. She lived in France for several years. She is learning Spanish and now she finds when she is speaking Spanish she slips in French words! I admire your love for languages and learning in general.

[@FortniteGuy-vs4hg]

Glaze

[@Mobik_]

I have the same "issue"... my mother tongue is Spanish (here in Argentina) but my "default" language has become English... now that I'm learning Japanese I like how Japanese has so many expressions that I use all the time. I also forget MANY words in Spanish but I fully know the meaning... but only comes out in English. FUNNY thing it happened to me: I had a surgery with full anesthesia and I woke up speaking English only 💀 I was able to understand Spanish but I couldn't speak it because "I" forgot Spanish for 2 hours while the anesthesia was going out of my body.

[@tereza8074]

Ahhh, I feel you so much! Czech is my mother tongue too and I just feel like I can no longer speak Czech properly. I am even losing my English and other languages are lost for good. I guess this is really a struggle of almost every multilingual or bilingual person haha, thanks for this video. I see so many multilingual people around me and I am so envious but it's good to remind ourselves that we all are still human and we make mistakes and forget stuff hehe

[@kimoldugumbenihicalakadare7897]

i love it when you talk about languages like this. i could listen to you speaking forever

[@Magdalena-eb9mn]

Rafi’s content is a breath of fresh air. Also it’s nice to finally understand why I get caught up with my words a lot. I’m fluent in English and Spanish and constantly switch between the two to find out what I need to say. Btw your Spanish is great! Your annunciations are spot on.

[@SilverRPGs334]

I can both speak italian (mother tongue) and english fluently, and I thought that having words on the tip of my tongue very often was just a skill issue. I'm kinda relieved to know that other multi-linguals have this problem too. Also, I related so much when you said that you were trying to say something in your mother tongue, but only the english grammatical form came to your mind but it didn't exist in czech. It always happends to me too

[@iremoden8253]

Your editing matches with your vibe quite a lot! Love to see it hehe. After watching your video I felt like it's been centuries since I haven't seen you for some reason lol. Last but not least I like your energy so much! Such a mood booster:))

[@hannafranco7699]

RAFI I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS 💜 Mi lengua nativa es español, pero actualmente estoy estudiando inglés; mi nivel de inglés es aproximadamente B2. (y estudio inglés por mi cuenta) Algo que me pasa a mí y a mi hermana muuuucho, es de que tratamos de decir una palabra en español mientras hablamos, que simplemente no sabemos como se dice, pero sabemos cómo se dice en inglés. Simplemente se borra de nuestras mentes, después de un buen rato la recordamos xc My native language is spanish but, currently i'm self studying english; my english level is around B2. Something that happens to me and my sister a lot is, that while we are speaking spanish we try to say a word, but we just don't get how to say it, we know how to say it in english, but no in spanish. It just disappears of our minds, after a long time we get to remember it. xc P. D.: As I said, english is not my first language, if you notice any mistake let me know :3

[@Draveance]

I Always Like It When Rafi Did Language Content Like This! It Feel Like We Learning Together!

[@Dr-zd9eu]

I miss words ending in 感 in other languages like 清潔感、達成感 etc. They're so snappy and useful in Japanese, but their translations sound clumsy/awkward. When somebody asks you a negative question like "So you aren't coming today, right?" answering "No." would be ambiguous because it's not clear whether you meant "No, I'm not." or "No, I actually am.", but in German you can say "Doch!" which always means the latter, which is pretty nifty. Lastly, few languages have a collection of swear words as diverse as Croatian. It's hard to translate them especially into Japanese, which has next to none.

[@Gabrieli404]

I frequently forget the word "estrangeiro", in Portuguese, and instead, the first thing that comes to my mind is "外人" (gaijin), in Japanese, and then, "foreigner", in English. It's kainda crazy because Portuguese is my first language.

[@hanadulsayrom3485]

I'm a native English speaker and am learning Korean (2nd strongest language after English sometime feels like a default lol), Chinese, Russian, and Spanish (re-learning it after several years of abandoning it). Totally know exactly what you mean with all those points 🙃😂🤣

[@atagami.654]

Wild mix!! 👍

[@jyoti5274]

Rafiii!! Thank you for existing!!! Your videos make my day not matter what problems I'm going through, watching these gives me strength!

[@pierceenglund]

the imposter words and grammar gets is so real. Im currently living in korea and therefore learning Korean but when I go back to speaking either english or spanish with hometown friends random korean words pop into my sentences. I also subconsciously use the "A therefore B" grammar with spanish now which makes no sense at all

[@smiritisubba5423]

Rafi u sound so calm n it feels great to hear u🥺

[@Little3Pigs]

I think is amazing that you can keep up with so many languages. Thanks for sharing your experience, most people would think that we have to be 100% fluent to have a good level of understanding, but in reality we often use a certain amount of words we are used to. I'm learning japanese, I hope I can get to a level of comprehenssion similar to my english eventually, especially with reading.

[@chileanguy6461]

2:35 Dude once i was in a language class (I’m from chile so Spanish) and i had to complete a sentence with the word “granja” and i just couldn’t remember it in Spanish, so i started asking my classmates how to say “farm” in Spanish xd

[@leafyclass]

I missed these type of video's but im glad they're back :)

[@TheAlbaBoy]

Damn true! I know Albanian, English and Italian and sometimes I can't speak neither of them 💀

[@bigbob5103]

Missed the vids a lot! This was entertaining af. Also here’s a language moment. I study Korean and I’m not even good at it yet, but whenever I hear something in English I will like scan my brain to see if I know the word in korean. And one time my friends and I were talking and the word “grapes” came into the convo and I just randomly said out loud “포도!”. It was so embarrassing but I think it’s a good way to help learn a language while speaking your native tongue

[@hemant07]

I can clearly say that you are an amazing KZbinr ❤

[@martinfous3573]

It is weird, because my mother tongue is czech too. But now I find it hard to translate some english word to Czech but I know the meaning of the word in english and can't pronounce it in czech :D so I can relate :D

[@cxapelo]

Genial, buen video. Tenía tiempo que no te veía.

[@koiiiy]

you speaking portuguese is sooo pretty!! and the things that you say in this video is soooo true something i just forget or a just confuse things

[@matheusdealmeida8261]

Yesterday I said to my mom "Do you know why you really believe that I speak fluent english? Because you have no idea what I'm saying at all" haha So that's it, you can say anything in any language, right or wrong, at the end the most important is to understand and be understood, the rest is vanity of our minds maybe. Greetings from Brasil!!!

[@remy2718]

For me, the fact that I'm forgetting words in my native language is more apparent when it comes to "literary vocab" (by which I mean mostly descriptive words that you rarely see/use outside of books). I haven't read any book in German in years; I'm either reading in English or in one of my target languages. I'm used to having people around me who at least understand a decent amount of English, so I often end up using a mix of German and English. But the other day, I was running a game of DnD where some of the players didn't understand English all that well. Since English has become my default language, I also do session prep in English so I had to translate my notes into German. I didn't off the cuff cause I figured "I understand what all of these English words mean. German is my native language so it'll be fine". Yeah, no. It went something like this: "So as you take a closer look, you notice there's something... En...engraved? On the... Uh... What's the word for the part of the sword where you hold it?"

[@matheusbenevides8450]

Eu sabia que você tinha morado aqui no Brasil por um tempo quando era mais novo mas não sabia que seu minor era em português, que legal! Faço faculdade aqui no Rio de Janeiro e meu major é em japonês e português! Espero que tu venha visitar a gente de novo algum dia

[@laracassen1328]

I'm from Brazil and I am trying to improve my English while watching series or reading in English, but I have to say that the most difficult part is to speak, even though I understand everything they're saying, I still struggle to find the right words and sentences. Theses past 2 years, discord has been an important place where I tried to talk and don't be too shy. However doing voice calls it's the most difficult action, you know, that kind of fear to make a mistake😅 but I'm trying, so fighting!! Hope everything turns out well. Also I enjoy your channel a lot, congratulations for this awesome content :)

[@starswnames]

ooi vc poderia me dizer onde vc conseguiu achar canais no discord pra praticar o inglês?

[@wtfdarklord]

Lol can relate with the default language even when i don't know alot of languages, it transitioned to English without me even realising and one day i was like, why tf am i thinking in English from the last hour xD

[@shahlazia57]

I understand you perfectly 🤣🤣 actually i don't have mother tongue, i mean i was born in japan but i moved to iran when i was 7, so literally we can say that the language i use more is persian, but my mother speaks with me in Portuguese (Brazil) and sometimes i switch the language 🤣

[@shahlazia57]

For instance instead of asking in persian that what time is it, i asked in Portuguese 😅 sometimes i switch Portuguese to Italian. The interesting thing that happened to me is that when i want to pick a word in some language, immediately i know the word in all languages instead of the language that i want 😅 have you ever been to this situation?🤣

[@ShockyCz]

My experience is not different -))) pěkný vid!

[@josevegasaguinaga1159]

Eres una inspiración Rafi un fuerte abrazo desde Perú

[@krish2451]

We got 4 language subjects in school🥲. Mother tongue National language International language Kinda Ancient language. And then anime came into my life.

[@idgniros]

Ahhh so that's what it is I speak English Hindi Assamese But my Mother language is Dimasa I remembered once I Went grocery shopping and i couldn't find chillies there so I asked help from a person there but the problem was he only speak Hindi/Assamese. And my brain just couldn't remember what it's(chilli) called in Hindi . My mind knew what it was called in English and Dimasa but couldn't remember it. Later after stressing for a while I remembered what it was again and I was pretty shocked with what happened.

[@dreamsword6413]

Same goes for American Sign Language being my first language which doesn’t necessarily have structure considerably it’s fluid and more visually imaginative based however learning English at the same time, all the sudden I hear English and see signs in my head formed in English structure. I definitely can relate to words on the tip of my tongue like I’ll know the word to say but can’t remember to sign it or know the sign for that word but can’t remember what word was it for.

[@atagami.654]

Wahhh amazing it works with sign language the same!! Is it right that sign languages vary even in the same region, like dialects?

[@dreamsword6413]

@@atagami.654 Well depending on what region you mean, if you mean like within United States then there are “accents” as in the same word may be signed differently in one state than another yet still means the same thing. If you mean North America then it very much vary considering sign language isn’t universal like you might think since like there’s every difference language then also different sign language like there’s Mexican sign language for Mexico and Quebec sign language for Quebec in Canada.

[@krisztoth8475]

Oooh man thise impasta words I'm actually at the point where I pretty much use Englisb more than my mother tongue and it just happens soooooo many times...

[@adilarahma3677]

Hi, how are you ? You make my day brighter 💞

[@kytiladdy]

i can relate to all of it though i only speak english, hungarian (native) and french but i also plan to learn portugais and japanese yay. it's odd when i talk to my hungarian friends or family members in english because that topic is easier for me to explain in english lol

[@arthurrosa940]

I don't have any specific thing to say, just that I love your content, and im kinda so proud you speak my native language. Thanks for that I think hahaha

[@sami_moudni223]

Keep it up

[@BarknoorZ]

Rafiii puffff

[@study3523]

English is my native language, but I speak Spanish and I’m learning Mandarin. My brain has already started to corrupt English and Spanish since I use them both so much, and while speaking Mandarin, I’ll unintentionally say things like “我觉得que他…” or when I’ll add “y” in between my thoughts . For a while it was cool, but now I’m just sick and tired of it and I think people think I do it on purpose :,) To be honest, all I really want to do is get better at my native language again. It concerns me how much I’ve changed

[@liamellodub]

Hahaha! I loved so much when you said the things about polyglots who forget words in every language they know, including their mother language. Before, I felt sad, now, I feel included hahah

[@synthesis6458]

English also became my default language. I now struggle to speak, read, and write my own native language.

[@viamaisya]

I feel you

[@kevenizaias9952]

Que bom q vc Fala português tbm Irmão, Estou aprendendo inglês. estou na Jornada de me tornar Poliglota tbm. Parabéns pelas línguas adquiridas.

[@LiterallyEly]

I speak 3 languages fluetntly and have been my whole life because of growing up in a bilingual family (+ learned English from the internet, nows its sort of become my default language even if i still live in the country of my mother tounge)! Im also growing up in a small country in Europe so having more language skills will help me since not a lot of things outside my country are available in that language. Theres a lot of russians here but funny enough i have almost no idea how to speak it, i have only picked up some words and slang. So my next languages im targetting are Turkish, Russian and maybe Japanese for fun since i dont think i'll need it. Unfortunetly school has been getting in the way of my free time so i have to wait...

[@calm512]

I can relate so much. I'm currently studying in Taiwan and my skills in my native language (czech) are getting worse and worse. I feel like I can't speak properly in any language rn

[@teasaki]

The same happens to me! So I'm pretty normal. Gosh (Raf), Thanks! (CZ, EN, IT)

[@alexuqt]

so interestinggg

[@ahmed1a313]

Will you ever go to Seattle?

[@tinda111]

I don't rly have a default language I always switch trough different languages randomly sometimes I don't even notice that I'm not thinking in Italian

[@TheOfficialLD]

my brain is so messed up my default language is mixed of all the languages I know lmao anyways, sick video once again!

[@omedgardi5341]

‌😍😍😍love u

[@vertici]

LETS GOOOOO

[@marvincordeta31]

I think I got my accent from you that everyone would like to hear hehe.

[@larissahuang4304]

That outro just reminded me of your vlogs took in China. 🥺Any plan going to China this year?

[@rafipuff]

Not this year but probably next year yes!

[@krisztoth8475]

One thing that I do a lot which wasn't in the video. I'll be in the middle of talking to someone in English, text or speech.(doesn't really matter). Someone in real life says something to me and I just end up brabbling to them in a different language

[@tatalyss]

yeeees, my first language is portuguese, but sometimes i just can't remember some words in pt, but i can remember in english it's so weird

[@felixches]

i often speak mixed like chinglish or thailish or sometimes even worse thaichinese 🙂

[@Sin98]

I often has this problems with my Nepali and hindi language however I don't have this problems with Bengali and English language though

[@EricTGK]

i remember when i was in elementary, I would try to speak french and some russian words would slip in there because my family speaks russian (my main language has always been english, but my family speaks some russian, and I live in quebec so I'm meant to speak french, i still can't speak french too well, but I've been trying to learn some more lately) when i would try to speak french, i guess my brain just went "these are words that aren't english, USE THEM.." and then the russian words slip into my french sentence

[@user-nn8ro1uv2m]

This video somehow gives me some motivation to keep learning Russian since I've been a little bit tired recently :)

[@buba148]

好羡慕你，如此年轻就明白这么多语音：）

[@fitzzcrys3471]

4:35 I’m fluent in both English in Spanish but before I got my job where I speak Spanish more I would stutter my words in Spanish and often know what they r saying n would freeze. I’ve had my Spanish job for over a year and I’ve noticed a huge change on how I speak now,, I sound wayyy more fluent and even gained a odd accent from Columbia even tho I’ve never been since I’m surrounded by Columbias lmao

[@ismailfelbal5462]

My dog eat my homework 🤣🤣🤣 what a legendary lie it was

[@SpennyBoi]

In French class I said si instead of oui… I don’t even speak Spanish

[@farrelardra3599]

the text in the background 💀

[@aku_mado]

more videos like this

[@lenochodtriprsty6206]

Teďka se učím svůj 2 jazyk a učím se Španělsky a chci se zeptat jestli nemáš nějaký rady nebo nějaké chyby na které si dát pozor moc bych si toho vážil děkuju

[@-jackoup2916]

rafi...no more twitch streams🥺

[@jully6528]

6:59 it's so Beijing hahaha

[@Mobik_]

(the sign paper in the back) "mas-turb @ tion is a sin" LMAO💀

[@viktorievanickova970]

My problem is that sometimes I can’t remember the Czech version of a word but the English/Japanese or even Korean version pops up. That makes me so confused

[@kingjulian1202]

I don't know why, but japanese always tries to get into my Spanish... Also, when I have to hastily start writing a word, and that word happens to start with a syllable that exists in hiragana, my brain just thinks "oh, why don't I just use the muscle memory for that hiragana", and then I have to cross it through and continue with latin script...

[@felipe_marra]

não esqueça o português, obrigado

[@cattleya7]

Did you ever try to learn two languages at the time and it messed it up even more?😇

[@xxlorddragonforcexx1664]

wsg

[@kristian4931]

Im also Czech

[@faby1105]

7:34 Completely irrelevant: You kinda look like leafy now that I think about it. And when you played this song while you were giving the outro gave me the biggest deja vu

[@jishkabob213]

Honestly sometimes I have just found myself speaking a little bit of Japanese without thinking that hard. It kinda just came second nature to me I guess

[@TangyCheeto]

Ur alive??

[@samuelcolorado6136]

Sorry all you guys that doesn't speak spanish. Rafi, perdón por escribir esto en español, (sé que solo deberían haber comentarios en inglés en tus videos) pero al ver que hace tanto que no hablas español, me gustaría saber si te resulta aunque sea un poco difícil leer un comentario en dicho idioma. Así que eso, si es que te pareció difícil hacerlo, me gustaría que escribieras las palabras que quizá no llegaste a reconocer fácilmente. Nuevamente, perdón. Saludos desde Colombia.

[@larchoylar]

Just sharing my experience: there's a word in my mothertongue, Cebuano which means Confused but if you mispronounced it, it can mean that you are horny in Filipino/Tagalog 😂

[@rafipuff]

😂😂

[@leonardmuaklek3312]

Pag sure ba. Nalibog na noun ko. Hahaha

[@ahaadhussein3490]

very understandable, now try to imagine the embarrasement when you mix arabic with english-

[@thejeffe258reaction]

Which VPN that are you using now? Lol

[@rafipuff]

There's no need for a VPN in Japan!

[@thejeffe258reaction]

@@rafipuff i have some huge problems .. I was studying Chinese for 4 months ago everything it was fine I had a good progress everything , but I quite for a bit and now I don't get concentrate anymore I don't feel anxiety to studying .. probably u can help me

[@thejeffe258reaction]

@@rafipuff tell one free VPN that u know .. lol

[@atagami.654]

As a bilingual, I'll just say:"You're right!!" Goddam mixing languages but pronouncing it in another language makes others feel I am stupid. They may think i am not able to pronounce a German word properly. Even though it's my mother language. But it sounds better with Bulgarian pronunciation, talking in bulgarish!! Does it make sense?? Am I the only one???

[@Typhonnyx]

ਵਧੀਆ

[@ilyasspik2885]

bro you're a robot hhhh

[@user-uk4gy2ni5y]

The meaning written on the back paper is masturbation is a sin.

[@ichoboi]

It fried your brain and rebooted it to Windows XP 😆

[@MabLab_]

come to brazil or brazil will come to you

[@Popsicleeater420]

Bro needs a haircut

[@rafipuff]

Yes!!!

[@kartikeykartikey8953]

bro you do it so well still your influence is going down and down i kinda dont like it, back then when i watched your life of a highschool student in japan was like the favourite video bcuz what i wasnted to seee was the beauty of japan and like well you somehow you just shown that

[@matsuyamaalex]

The person who's been living in Japan I'm not trying to be rude but you got to work on that accent when you try to speak Japanese

[@VitaliiThe]

I'm a russian native speaking person (because that language were used in family from childhood) but since 5 yo I'm learning Ukrainian and at 7 yo started learning English in school. A lot of content I'm consumed in English for last 20 years, and it was very funny then my brain starts switching. Few years ago I left russian language only for speaking with friends and family and go only Ukrainian in public places. And it was only 2 weeks switch. And even my first language is russian, right know a lot of reflections (in meaning inner voice and etc) is Ukrainian. After ruzzian invasion in Ukraine, I have started to learn other languages since April, and that was Spanish. Because google and youtube watching us, youtube starting propose me videos in Spanish... and guess what? - i could consume simple content even not switching my native inner voice. Since I started, I'm learning each day, at least 5-15 minutes in each mobile app I have (1-2 hours in total for all languages daily). I always was shocked how people in Amsterdam switched from any language to English, then to Dutch and then in one another language (maybe their Dutch MaryJane gave them some abilities, I don't know) - it was so motivating for me each time in Amsterdam. After six month of Spanish I added Catalan language, and the last in this trio is Portuguese (sorry Italian and French :)). Right now my language pairs like russian(Ukrainian)-Spanish/Catalan/Portuguese/Japanese, Spanish - Catalan/Portuguese/Japanese, English - Spanish/Portuguese/Japanese. I'm switching between them few times per day because using different apps - Duolingo, Busuu, Mondly Languages, DuoCards, Memorise, Babel, few more. Now I'm trying to learn Japanese , to switch to Korean after half a year if I will have success with Japanese languages. For current moment I'm very happy how my brain could switch and able to learn new languages despite of I was 20yo twenty years ago. Learning languages helps to be in clear mind in hard nowadays and gives some feeling of FRESH air and hope. I'm happy that I have motivational almost for 300days and didn't miss any day for learning, even it was 5 minutes. So don't waste your time, start today, because in current world tomorrow day may not start for you and those you know PS I don't mention C++, Java, Python, and other programming languages I'm used in my career :) but it's possible that I just not seen my abilities to learn real languages before, while spending my time learning Java to get better job.

[@chlorox01]

Lol, something that happens to me a lot is, when counting, I will often use numbers from random languages. I'm a native English speaker and am learning Japanese and Korean right now, so often I will be counting and go "one 둘 셋 넷 五 six seven 八 九 十 eleven twelve..."