Growing up non-English // STORYTIME

[@Yuunarii]

Hey, I kinda forgot to ask right after upload but.. To those who also grew up non-English, what were some of your experiences? And if you did grow up English, what is that like?

[@r-7498]

hello yuunarii, glad you asked. Here in Indonesia everytime you speak english or use english word in a sentence, people will clap their hands and cheer as if they've seen a god's revelation. If you speak arabic, people will upturn their palms and start saying amen, assuming you are praying or something. it may look like i'm joking but if you try it, it'll happen mostly. trust me XD

[@DrewPhillips0528]

Growing up English we don't notice how ridiculous our language is to learn. We think other languages are strange for how they conjugate verbs, say certain things backwards from English, and if there's a symbol that isn't one of the 26 main letters, it scares us for we do not know.

[@DrewPhillips0528]

Also English is hard to spell sometimes. Our rules don't get followed like "I is always before E, unless it's after a C" but sooooo many words don't follow that. There were 2 words in that last sentence that broke the rule.

[@scarletandciara]

Thing is. I Come from a country that we dont Speak english, but we learn it at school so early, and my dad talks english nearly everyday because of his work... So... I learned it at a young age.

[@devilishjester7718]

My situation was kind of like yours ( only taking English classes at 12 and having exposure to English as young) but instead of music i had games, browsing through rom sites was like hell, some puzzles were basically impossible, i didn't understand any of the story

[@jojo95DK]

As a non native English speaker myself, I know the feel, your English is great though!

[@jessezwolle2000]

"Great" as a non-native speaker you do not have amything to say about that.

[@divine6401]

@@jessezwolle2000 amything btw

[@admin.slayerenryu]

Same

[@Quadronnn]

@@jessezwolle2000 The fact that English is the de facto international language most people are forced to learn and communicate in when lacking a common native language, regardless of whether or not English happens to be their mother tongue, means that you don't have to be a native English speaker in order to judge whether someone's English is great or not. You don't have to like that (I certainly don't, English is a pretty shitty language), but that's the reality of living in a world where native English speakers conquered half the world and in doing so, pushed their ugly Germanic gibberish on the rest of us.

[@pineappleproductions1696]

Yeap

[@TopHatdudeman]

I think its perfectly respectable to not want to lose your accent. People should be proud of where they live, if you aren't then clearly you need to move to somewhere else. Good on you for liking where you live.

[@jayxfrost8987]

I'm not but can't afford to move somewhere else. So... I'm stuck. Yay.

[@NicoFye]

@@jayxfrost8987 We're in the same boat, man :) I hope I'll be able to move to the USA ASAP.

[@jayxfrost8987]

Nicofye Yeah. The UK is second option for me if the US doesn’t work out. And I’d want to get rid of my accent too.

[@dickiewongtk]

Not when it is an asian accent. You need to get rid of that shit real fast.

[@mintxcreme]

I can’t even remember when I still had my accent XD

[@wilma2317]

When you listen now on a song you "knew" when you were younger, and now hearing that "Wait, these words I sang was actually not real words? _This_ is what the song is about??"

[@M_Feitosa7]

Yeah totally, there are many songs that used to play everytime that when i check they are creepy as hell, like the Locked ou of heaven, the melody is holy but the lyrics are not lol

[@niggasgang8784]

21 piolets

[@XonokMe]

An anime character from the Netherlands? No, this can't be real... Love the sound of dutch.

[@Bored_Dionysus]

I had a Dutch transfer student in one of my classes and she once said “I can barely speak perfect Dutch what makes you think I can speak English good!?!?”

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

I think you have barely a non-native sounding accent at all. I wish my accent was even remotely like that. My accent is so thick you can cut it with a knife, to the point that it makes Louis van Gaal sound good by comparison. Though at least I don't make nearly as many grammatical errors or translate proverbs literally.

[@Grace-tv9xc]

And you have good vocabulary!

[@shortwaveradio923]

Dude, I am a native English speaker, but my accent is so goddamn thick, you can cut it up like a kilo of raw beef, cook it, and make it a taco, I'm Chicano, so yea. It makes most roughguff hardcore smokers sound like innocent girls, playing with barbie dolls, drinking grape juice in the park

[@gijsbrans2338]

Well that's a different biscuit

[@rijalmuzikers5698]

accents is nice actually

[@amara560]

As a Dutch person this YTer's accent is alright, but I wouldn't call it barely an accent.

[@gijsbrans2338]

"as fond as I might be of English, I'm still a Dutchie at heart." *WILHELMUS INTENSIFIES*

[@ringmaster1457]

Gewoon ja

[@marylight9700]

MAKE SURE TO TEACH THE YOUNGINS DUTCH!!! since they'll probably learn English anyways

[@hornkraft9438]

Yeah! Teach us all Dutch! :-)

[@justafan.5577]

You dont want to... It doesn’t make sense...

[@bdot2.tacttt]

Aggretsuko! 😁

[@augth]

I’m French, and the language is spoken a lot so all is translated. The feeling that everyone speaks French is even stronger. I don’t quite remember my first contact with English, but one of my friends in primary school had lived in Hong Kong and he knew a lot of words. At the time, an English class was learning the numbers and the colours.

[@manp112]

interesting, i didnt know that o.o In mi country French is pretty popular(to learn) but i thought it was high level in english (dont know why, cuz first world?). In latin america, where every country(Almost) speaks spanish we dont have that feeling, we need to learn english from young age

[@mistine4657]

Tu trouves ? Moi j’ai plutôt l’impression que personne le parle. Je dis ça personnellement, hein. Mais bon, c’est mieux que.. roumain ? XD

[@Heiwa_No_Shori]

Yeah, exactly, All my chilhood I thought things like bob l'éponge and shit like that were French, It blow my fucking mind when I realized it wasnt. "WTF, Springfield isnt a fucking french commune ? Disney is not from my country ??? All those shitty stuff are only made in America ?" Like, I think about it sometimes, but in my lifes when I was really young, because all cartoons were dubbed, I really thought France and the US were the exact same thing.... I think that's what killed our nationalism... French kid seeing only american stuff thinking its French. MFW I realize all my childhood was just an US propaganda.....

[@criptideancia]

​@@manp112 which country are you from?

[@manp112]

@@criptideancia Venezuela

[@StrikeOnDrifter]

Never lose the accent, it's cute.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

This Anglophone likes accented English!

[@burritoshake]

i wish i could speak at least another language, but alas, English is my only strong suit

[@potatogamer1877]

13th century english? Scots?

[@yukaii0]

Germans pretty easy.

[@tammykat9257]

Yeah I’m trying to learn filopeno, Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, and I will be forced to learn French. Huh guess I’m gonna grow up to be a human translator

[@storm683]

I only speak German and English

[@Renelle463]

Me too

[@robertderkinderen8928]

That WILHELMUS part made me proud

[@peppaminter]

Sameee

[@tageorder1354]

Same here

[@merijndeboer7441]

Same

[@henkdesteen8268]

Yep

[@Yuunarii]

*Dutch nationalism intensifies*

[@cecerats]

as a dutchie, i related to almost everything

[@rpicifica250]

The accent makes you so special. This is my first video of yours and I subscribed half-way through the video. I was laughing the entire time.💗

[@justsomenightowl7220]

2:54 me ((

[@aliceinwonderland8348]

Jajaja Me too...

[@djstapler]

@@aliceinwonderland8348 theres a meme about that. here we use H *JHJHJHJHJHJHJHJHJH*

[@gwaynebrouwn844]

Same!

[@marcy4946]

I was basically learning English from -minecraft- GAMES and youtube. And I'm Polish, hello.

[@aishikineko]

I learned English from games and KZbin too xd and I'm also a Pole and like Eleven x3

[@riri7270]

Same im also polish

[@MichMaslo]

ow hello there

[@nekko2645]

6 year old me was really curious to find out what all of that English text meant in Minecraft , fast forward 2 years of watching Minecraft on KZbin and I became pretty decent at it

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

I learned english from tobuscusses Minecraft let's plays, and later jacksepticeye and a bit of pewdiepie. I did watch a lot of other youtubers after that, but I understood the language by then.

[@MrL0LiTube]

I am German and i feel you with the dubbing although our dubbing industry is one of the best in the world (next to japan) it has some errors that were really weird to me as a kid

[@untitlednobody9009]

Guten Tag

[@ZodokiEsparda]

okey ja ..nein -.- stimmen passen nicht, die lippen bewegungen und übersetzungen sind im eher ehh bereich. oh und schöne grüße aus köln^^

[@untitlednobody9009]

@@ZodokiEsparda ich weiß noch diesen O I C / Oh I see Witz in The Big Bang Theorie der so garnicht funktioniert hat

[@Viva-qd2bo]

Owo I'm learning German!

[@Stabelgaplerx]

Manche Anime sind in deutsch richtig gut synchronisiert. Aber auch nur manche °^°

[@NicoFye]

2:06 very similar to the Russian swear word :) Glad I'm in headphones :)

[@bibobiii]

I’m from Estonia and speak English Finnish and French 🤑

[@etunimi1208]

Tosi mahtavaa et oot jaksanu opetella suomee! Onnittelut!

[@bibobiii]

Etu Nimi kiitos:)

[@backrolls9394]

Viro on kyl kaunis kieli😘

[@furrychan4627]

SUOMI PERKELE

[@backrolls9394]

@@furrychan4627 TORILLE!! No ei vaa tuun aina sika iloseks ku spottaan suomalaisen😄😂🇫🇮

[@YennieFer]

3:01 Awwww, hearing this is so cute!!! ;w;

[@Elmucho183]

Yennie Fer yea

[@highjinxxed116]

The lyrics are so inappropriate though wheeze-

[@a-dub6434]

Get chuggaa to top this

[@remynatero8617]

then it turns into a grown man singing it

[@sayvionwashington1939]

Help! My heart is melting!

[@highjinxxed116]

Aha! I fully relate to this, as I am also Dutch. I've learned myself English trough various youtubers, landing me an accent that's 2/3 part British and 1/3 Australian. Yeahhh I don't sound all that good. I personally dislike my accent and I'm working on removing it. But anyways! Even though I enjoyed this video, I do have slme critique. I don't think the tweening you use fits with your style, or this format of video in general. Moving the mouth and maybe blinking the eyes is probably the most movement you should have in these sprites, as I find the full movement of the hands looks too fluently and looks unnatural. The tweening also snapped or twisted weirdly around 1:15 , but that's just a small oversight and not really an issue. Loved the video! 🇳🇱

[@Strawberryfreak]

uhm ik vind dat met school geen eens een taal kunt leren lol. ik bedoel wel om normale dingen te spreken

[@highjinxxed116]

@@Strawberryfreak I did learn alot of grammar from school though

[@merijndeboer7441]

I am dutch to want dit filmpje is gewoon leuk

[@jaspertimmer183]

#Reletable

[@Strawberryfreak]

@@highjinxxed116 yes but i learnt 90% of the words and vocabulary from youtube and games lol. Like school is giving some random vocabulary that you never use and grammar...

[@DarkklawX]

Also a Dutchie here! I started learning English through playing Pokémon on the GameBoy, and later on RuneScape. Movies contributed a bunch too, etc. When it came to school, English classes mostly felt like a waste of time for me. The way English is taught in school really doesn't account for the different levels of experience the students have with the language. It always felt like I didn't gain anything from it, and getting assignments like "fill in the present perfect" just confused the crap out of me since I was used to just having a natural feeling for how things should be written, instead of having to think about specific tenses etc. At the same time, plenty of my classmates suffered the opposite problem, struggling because the level things were taught at was ahead of what they needed.

[@nekoni4414]

oh lord I get what you mean with 'fill this gap out'!. I made more mistakes through that, even in my native language (german) this happened. The second you have to think about something, especially when it comes already naturally, it gets confusing

[@DarkklawX]

@@nekoni4414 Exactly! Trying to think about something you just do naturally messes with your head. It's like how in Dutch I generally know something wrong if it "sounds stupid", without knowing the actual rule that makes it wrong.

[@ooglyboogliee6653]

Other than the accent, you sound like a fluent English speaker to me. Everything you say is in perfect English.

[@mistivia]

As a Chinese, I learnt English alphabet at age of 3 or 4, but it was 10 when I really started learning English. I think the hardest part is vocabulary. European languages share large amounts of words of Latin origin, but in Chinese, the name of almost everything is different from it in English.

[@yukaii0]

I started learning English when I was six but ofc i was an internet nerd so that forced me to learn faster than the kids with actual childhoods outside did. Im top of the class now haha. Im 13 now so that about 7 years of learning English and id say im pretty good at it but I still sometimes feel the shame of having to google translate a word haha. Also When I was still in Kindergarden all of my four older brothers were huge game nerds so they bought games regardless of language And thats how we got games like Doom, Duke Nuken,Halo 2 and Fable. Last one being my favorite I really loved playing it but it was really confusing with all the gibberish that the characters were talking.... I never even successfully beat the tutorial fight haha.

[@MrL0LiTube]

Its no shame at all to use tools like Google translate (or a Dictonary for that matter) since even speaking a second language at you age is a huge archievment. (i had quite the same experience with the intenet as you so i was pretty good at english pretty early too ;D)

[@yukaii0]

@Kidlink Omg yes, I cant even count on my two hands how many times I had to help my parents at the airport because everyone was talking in English (two of my older brothers unfortunately have families in Ireland so we travel there alot. That was also a huge help in learning English hehe) I remember one Iconic story of when we were getting off the plane and we had to get our passports checked to get thru and my parents were trying to answer the ladies questions with bad result haha and so i was just like "Ignore these goofs" And the lady behind the counter was like "Are these your grandparents little girl?" I just stood there for a second thinking "did she just say what i thing she said" and with tears of joy in my eyes i went "No, they are my parents lady" Iconic. I still laugh thinking about it. My parents were so oblivious ajkhdakjakdw.

[@rozaliaa_]

God were related to each other! I'm actualy from indonesia that learn english. It started when i was still 5 or 7. I used to watch many english cartoons like Disney and pixar, and i started to comunicated with people online when i was 8 on a game called Animal jam XDDDDD

[@McGeri]

lol, almost same i check google translate sometimes

[@PRINGZcomedy]

Beeing from Austria, and so speaking german, I had it a bit better with dubbed stuff in form of videogames, shows, etc. But I still had quite a lot contact to english because I played really old Sci Fi and StarTrek games on an old Macintosh my father provided for me. So i didn't understand anything what the buttons said or what was beeing said in those games. (thinking back to it i can remember that i even couldn't read at that time) But with that contact I had with english from the beginning of my life, I had it really easy to learn it. I even had a english native speaker in my kindergarden and I asked her all the time what this and that means. And with english beeing there since... ever? It was always there and something natural for me. Having a head start with english in contrast to my friends, I allways was really confident with it. And because of that it saddens me that I have the feeling that I'm not really good anymore in english. Yea of course I got better with the years. But I think with the age of 19... I should be alot better with it than I am right now. Whoops that got a little bit too long. But yea. My shortened story with english :3333

[@untitlednobody9009]

Hallo xD

[@theinfantmetroid]

YEet boi another Austrian person watching Yuu? I'm fucking amazed, hold my almdudler.

[@zacks_wack]

Brother,is it you? ich hätt nicht noch nen Österreicher erwartet

[@zacks_wack]

@@theinfantmetroid yeet boi that is one big chungus

[@PRINGZcomedy]

Ja Mann ein paar Österreicher scheint es wohl doch hier zu geben :D

[@Raph___A]

I love your art style,Yuu!It's so cute and detailed!

[@grey3247]

I am a native Spanish speaker in Latin America and I've been exposed to English all my life.

[@anneaunyme]

Your Aqua cover is one of the cutest things ever :) As a French I grew up speaking French and wasn't invested in the English lessons we had in school. At some point I was very fond of tv series (animated or live) and started to look for them on the Internet. At first I looked for French dubs, or French subtitles when dubs weren't available, but as I was watching them on shady pirate streams I sometimes had to do with subtitles in English. By pausing when it was necessary I was able to be follow most of the tv shows as long as I had subtitles. Then I noticed I started to get pissed because some French subtitles were not translated well enough to my taste, and that's how I figured I was getting better with this language. It would be cool to know more about Dutch.

[@maks_____]

OH MY GOD THE LIP SYNCH THING HAS ANNOYED ME SINCE THE START OF TIME

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

I was confused why Americans always where so annoyed at things that where lipsynced bad.

[@brutalbob842]

@@-gemberkoekje-5547 Well I mean take a move like Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla where the lip sync is real bad, it just looks really off to not see the voices match up with the lips when you are so used to seeing the voices and the lips sync up in an English movie or cartoon. Pretty good movie though.

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

@@brutalbob842 yes, I understand. But when I was younger I did not.

[@itsfinnickbitch63]

@@-gemberkoekje-5547 what does that have to do with being american? everyone hates bad lip sync

[@annikaong33]

It's Finnick Bitch!! Not everyone

[@Aprill264]

Yes please we need dutch lessons n your video’s, not that it would matter for me, as i have lived in the Netherlands all of my life, it’s still fun to watch

[@MechtMartio]

boerenkool squad

[@ewowa5014]

This video is so relatable. I saw some old Pokemon episodes from season 3 a couple of weeks ago and it was really weird to notice how I was able to enjoy this in Dutch. Nowadays I prefer the English version. Great btw. I've had a great 7 minutes watching this video.

[@raine_cloud2196]

Woah, I knew it! you used to make UTAU videos! I watched this video a few weeks ago and subbed to you (might've been on my other channel though) but didn't think much of it past that. I ended up going back to one of your old tutorials because I wiped my pc and needed to double check something when downloading UTAU and your voice sounded so familiar! Turns out, I used to watch your UTAU videos about three to four years ago and now I'm back for your story times. Good luck with your channel!

[@ProjectLethargic]

that little barbie girl performance reminded of the time I tried singing World is mine at 10

[@Justin_Joy]

I grew up as an epic gamer and the only language I spoke was gamer. But my step parents forced me to learn English because they reject the gamer blood within me.

[@MechtMartio]

rel8abl d00d

[@ZodokiEsparda]

...da fuq is wrong with your parents O.O

[@RedJacket4629]

Also yes do teach me Dutch

[@lord.shitpost698]

What words do you want to know?

[@bonopower1]

Also yes do teach me dutch? En ja kan je me Nederlands leren?

[@RedJacket4629]

The basics

[@bonopower1]

hi = hoi Bye= doei Hello= hallo Cheese= kaas Head= hoofd Dad= vader/papa Mom= moeder/mama Animal= dier Subscriber= abonnee Playing= spelen School= school Tomato= tomaat This are random Words lol

[@TheSadCatt]

BONOPOWER waarom kaas (-.-;)y-~~~

[@pempispork]

ik ga het gewoon doen G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@nsideddice]

Thank you for sharing! I always find it interesting to see the cultural experiences of others. In regard to your cutaway, a basic how to speak Dutch video would be cool.

[@criptideancia]

I had english classes for more than 4 years, but in the first 3 years I learned nothing at all - my classmates gave me lots of nicknames and they mocked me for liking MLP When I started crying every day before going to school, my mom realized something was wrong and she moved me to a private class, in 1 year I learned more than all those 3 together (and how ironic, one of the things that most helped me to learn english was watching MLP with subs and talk to other MLP artists) Now I'm learning russian by myself, it's really good learning another language This is the first videoof yours I watched, it's sooo well done

[@DrewPhillips0528]

That signing was so cute I died and came back to life. Also yeah I would love to learn Dutch. I played that same Tigger game too!

[@MrXandervm]

I'l help you learn the basics. "Doet mij maar een bakkie pleur" = excuse me, i'd love some coffee please. "wat sta jij mij nou aan te gapen, pannekoek?" = could you tell me where i can find central station? "Tief op, klootzak" = excuse me, kind sir, but could you please, if it won't trouble you, go somewhere else? "Ik heb schurft op mijn reet" = excuse me, can i ask you something? These are just some basic sentences, but you should really start with some basic verbs like pijpen ( to be ) and neuken ( to have ) so you can start constructing your own sentences. Glad i could help!

[@DrewPhillips0528]

@@MrXandervm Nice, thank you! Can you tell me how to say "Where is the bathroom?" and "Merry Christmas " I try to learn those in every language I can.

[@Junepaintstheveil]

@@DrewPhillips0528 My apologiesn but this person is providing you with incorrect information, he or she is in fact teaching you sexual/inappropriate language which has nothing to do with the translations they have given you.

[@Junepaintstheveil]

@@MrXandervm Waar is het toilet? = Where is the bathroom? Vrolijk kerstfeest = Merry Christmas

[@DrewPhillips0528]

@@Junepaintstheveil Thanks for letting me know!

[@falcongamer58]

Why is this animated in 60fps it looks so smoooooo o o o o o o o o oooooth!

[@ScatterbrainPete]

I'm Polish and I can very much relate to that. My earliest exposure to English was via watching Cartoon Network in English as a 5 or 6-year-old before the Polish version launched in September 1998. That and my sister (who was in high school at that time) was learning English and she taught me some too. I didn't officially start learning English until I was 8 years old and in 2nd grade. My mom was especially pushing me to learn foreign languages, so I took extra classes after school and that certainly helped along with my first exposure to the Internet in 2003 and later KZbin in 2006.

[@ScatterbrainPete]

@SonicGamer Like I said, I've been on KZbin since 2006. You might have at some point.

[@ScatterbrainPete]

@SonicGamer Could be.

[@mini7279]

Yaaaaaay!! A fellow “grew up speaking Dutch and now speaks English” person!

[@diam_eli696]

Yes I agree, reading in English when you are a non-native is so hard ! I usually don’t register what I’m reading if I don’t focus 😅

[@hardcoresimp4548]

**le gasp** ARTSTYLE CHANGE **takes deep breath** HOW DAAARE YOO

[@Yuunarii]

*takes deep breath* It has been changed since the previous video my child

[@chaoscommentz4582]

The reason for yuu's art style is just this, The one before it had eyes that could make tough kiddos cry.

[@DutchieAbroad]

You know what the weird thing is for me? I don't recall not knowing any English. Back in the day we didn't have Nicklelodeon, so I grew up watching unsubbed cartoons on Cartoon Network and Unsubbed German series on ZDF. I remember singing along to English songs, knowing what it meant, when I was like 8 and I played games like Pokemon without any problems when I was 10. Hell, I used to translate them for my friend who was a year older. But it's really fun to hear about other Dutchies experiences :) I am glad we don't dub everything like in Germany, after 6 o'clock our tv series are all subbed, even on the kids channels (cause they target teens instead of kids after 6, I guess). Anyway, great video!

[@Alias_Anybody]

Small children are very good at picking this up. Many German dialects for example differ heavily from the standard but basically nobody has issues dealing with it effortless. So why shouldn't it work with closely related languages as well?

[@KseRes]

Man... This made me think about myself and I must say I had quite different experience with truly learning English language. I mean I've studied it since second grade in grade school, but I've never actually used it, since my family didn't own a PC at the time. It was horrible, because being from Eastern European country such as Lithuania, everyone from older generations prefer to consume or watch media in Lithuanian and Russian, but not English. It was so weird and awkward at first when our family finally got a PC when I was already in fifth grade. Looking through the internet pages written in English wasn't a piece of cake. Except for Runescape. That game was my childhood xD. The true brake for me actually happened when the KZbin became a thing. It was so good to hear English natives talk in a language that I was learning all these years and not feel as if I was wasting my time trying to understand the intricate nuances. So all in all, learning the language takes time and dedication to make it your own. I won't say that I'm a master of the craft, but I'm atleast sufficient enough to know what I want to know and communicate my ideas through it. Man I'm getting rusty from not writing essays. XD

[@llladybird.]

5:58 THIS JUST BROUGHT BACK A LOST MEMORY, WHAT-

[@disgustof-riley]

Aww, what a nice video! I'm not familiar with all types of accents in English so I was really curious what yours was! I really like your voice in general, which may sound weird, but I found your channel through your UTAU tutorials and your AMAZING English voicebank for Fushi. It's also interesting hearing what it's like picking up a second language is at a young age, since I've never experienced it. My first language was Spanish, but I grew up in the United States and turned out to be really good at English, both with speaking it and the school Language Arts classes (like reading comphrehesion, essay writing, stuff like that) so I had very different experience from yours.

[@GFREE7th]

Yay I'm in your Patron list

[@evesword4270]

Please teach us some dutch, senseeiiiiii!!!

[@str.1988]

Dutch is hard. It takes time to learn because the vocabulary is so difficult.

[@thisismyname8621]

A large population of people in the US don’t speak English natively. It’s just s thing that everyone speaks their own language at home then English in public. English isn’t even the official language of the USA (there is no official language).

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

Exactly

[@dontsubscribetome3262]

I thought most got bullied out of speaking thier native language a long time ago

[@hornkraft9438]

@@dontsubscribetome3262: Those who came from Europe realized that they were coming to an English-speaking country and expected to have to learn it. They were bullied in their own countries and wanted the American Experience of freedom, independence, and opportunity. You couldn't buy land in some old countries, but like the Amish, you could begin farming here. You couldn't change your class in Britain or caste in India, but you could here. You may have been a peasant overseas, but your children could become wealthy and powerful over several generations. Becoming an American was a process of becoming Americanized through shared ideas, not a shared heritage or country of origin. Those who only brought their old country and their old flags to their new country were usually the ones who failed here. I asked a Polish woman in Chicago why she didn't speak more Polish and teach her grandchildren some. She replied, "We are in America. We speak English here." That sums up the typical immigrant experience for more than 200 years.

[@chickenbatnana4600]

That's still a native language, I think. You just end up having 2 native languages instead of one, and that's super cool imo! A native language is just a language you've learned in your very early childhood.

[@turnernator100]

So that's why people don't write it correctly, either through spelling or grammar.

[@dovalayn]

I just got back from Amsterdam and I had an amazing time! Everyone was so polite and spoke great English! Personally, I started learning it when I was 4 or so, in kindergarten. Greetings from Serbia 💖

[@rebekka8300]

This is so relatable! Chatting with others through the Internet has really helped me improve my English as well! Also, I actually thought I was the only one who got that 'national feeling' every time my country was mentioned in something haha. It's nice to know that it seems like every non-English get that feeling as well! Awesome video and I'm definitely subscribing! :) Lots of kudos from Denmark!

[@IN4RICH4NKakyoin]

I am from Indonesia and I spoke english since preschool. I’m now in 6th grade or year 7. I’m studying for USBN and I had to focus for it.

[@Freddantrain]

As a Newcomer to the Dutch laungage i would love to hear you teach us some Dutch. 🇳🇱❤🇸🇪

[@gwaynebrouwn844]

Just don't even try. Our language is like really fucked up. We don't even master the grammar. Our grammar is more than the fucking bible! And if you don't speak Dutch, if you learn it, you will destroy your throat because we have some noises..... THAT WILL KILL YOU!

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

@@gwaynebrouwn844 Why can’t they still learn?

[@revsnowfox5798]

I just wish native English speakers wouldn't assume everyone else online is a native English speaker just because they speak English. I'm Hungarian, duh.

[@turnernator100]

As an American, I wish smartphones weren’t invented.

[@HikikomoriFemcel]

I agree as a native English speaker.

[@cheekygoblin1944]

Holy Wow! Your art and animation have made leaps and bounds! congrats on the progress!!

[@thecyberninja2708]

Wow I knew you were Dutch but you actually confirmed it in the video and yes a lot of these are relatable

[@TheHipClip]

I was very fortunate to have most of my classes in English starting from the 5th grade. Every movie I watched, video game I played or book I have read in the last 10 years has been in English. The greatest compliment I got, was when a Canadian asked if I was from New York. My English teacher studied in L.A. and GB, so I don't know exactly how I picked up the accent, I guess it's because he taught us a mix of American and British English that mixed? For those wondering, I am from Germany and my school was a bit special in that it specialized in bilingual form of teaching with some students being able to choose wether to take subjects in German and English, if they had previously done a language proficiency test. I had an advanced English course and Biology, Geography, History and Politics all tought in English. We also had to learn a third foreign language in my case Latin. Furthermore you could learn a fourth language, so at the end of highscholl you would be a polyglot.

[@witchflower1716]

Sounds like the IB :)

[@liranpiade4499]

I'm a born and raised Israeli. Now that I live in Australia, every local can immediately recognise that I'm not from here, but everyone thinks that I'm from an English speaking country, with no idea which one. Some hesitantly say "Canadian?...". People describe my accent as an ambiguous native English Speaking accent. I'm pretty proud. My accent used to be completely American. Never Hebrew though (and I do speak it). Unless I'm speaking Hebrew, of course, then my accent is completely Hebrew.

[@Justin_Joy]

2:33 Whenever I see the word Aqua, I just think of the useless girl from Konosuba.

[@kiwii24]

a fellow man of culture, I see

[@АлександарМаран]

Help same

[@tinvahtaric8680]

I hope you are having as much fun as me watching JOJO golden wind nowdays

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

Hell yeah jojo

[@cassandralorenzo5417]

HAHAHAHA!! SAME BOI!!

[@almudenasouto3485]

Well, I'm spanish and I've been learning English in the school since I was six years old, that means that I've been learning it the half part of my life. (And as you're probably noticing my english still sucks). In fact I started going to an academy (four years ago) because the English we learn at school it's pretty bad. And now I'm learning German because in secundary we got to choose between German and French. And it's f*cking hard.

[@edcarlosworld7777]

2:55 This was so cute !! I miss your channel , I didn´t come to see your videos since the sonic drawings , and I love your new style ! I live in Brazil and here we have the same problems that you told ! Your accent is very sweet I hope you never lost it !

[@weavelcow9596]

Interesting perspective and really nice art style, I'll have to watch some more of your videos

[@symenstoel3941]

Im Dutch 2 100% of this video is true 🇳🇱

[@Daniel-lm6pj]

oh hey! you're dutch!! xD also i love that little cute recording

[@warbossgegguz679]

Growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of European immigrants, I had noticed that basically every foreigner I'd ever met (regardless of their level of english) knows the word fuck and uses it a lot more than native speakers, but it had never occurred to me why. This video made me realize that to people who don't understand English the severity of it doesn't really translate. Especially since a lot of other languages don't even have curses that are on that level. Plus, it really is just a nice, guttural, harsh, primal word.

[@Yuunarii]

I suppose fuck is around the same level of vulgarity as the Dutch word "kut". Both are pretty much concifered "the ultimate swear word", as they're very easy to use.

[@warbossgegguz679]

@@Yuunarii Good to know. Now I can curse in German and Dutch :-). But yeah, nice percussive curses tend to have some sort of universal appeal. Love your vids btw.

[@chaoscommentz4582]

There will be a Necro Beast that is a bug named Kut-N-Bug.

[@geyaneya1498]

@@warbossgegguz679 Everyone knows exactly what fuck means.

[@ninjakeks9326]

@@geyaneya1498 In German English become more and more untranslated used. And fuck is easy to say. In German we would translate it to “Fick“ what actually is a very old word (15th century) that descripe a fast moving back and forth. In Germany very old poeple may call you “fickrig“ when you can't sit down quietly '^^ (And british English was very influenced by German. I thing the German bring it to the Island and then... yeah... you know)

[@Joemama-mu2rz]

This video was relatable I can’t 💀💀

[@norwegian52]

Nice Video. I found you through one of my friends who were subed to you. I'm a south korean living in Canada. I'm also studying dutch at the moment because I love the language and culture, and also not very many people care to learn the language, so I decided to be that person to spread that arround. Hope to see more great content from you soon. Riley

[@The_alchemistress]

Ok I come from America and I remember when I grew up I thought that everyone in the world spoke English. It wasn’t til I was around age five that I finally found out that there were other languages. Mainly due to cartoons I would watch that would teach foreign languages.

[@colorbar.s]

I know someone who's got a brother who thought america was the entire world up until he was 10, and she herself thought Europe had states and that the UK owned it up until a year ago. Do you just not learn anything about the rest of the world in school?

[@tigerheaddude]

D D D D Dora!!

[@hanac5586]

@@colorbar.s Oh my, that's.... something. I mean there's news... and parents who can tell these things.

[@kathens7755]

Nihao Kylan

[@kathens7755]

I remember watching that show and being taught basics Chinese characters. Young me thought to myself "why are there so many characters, and why a character for each word, surely the entire language can't be like this!?". Oh boi was I wrong, friccen Chinese and its overly complicated writing system

[@iaminhere6022]

Why did I found your channel only now? Also, Schöne grüße aus Deutschland.

[@Viva-qd2bo]

Hallo aus USA!! xD Ich lerne Deutsch und es ist nicht einfach...

[@Alias_Anybody]

@Starfeather Pro-tip: "Hallo aus Amerika!" or "Hallo aus *den* USA!" USA -> United States of America -> plural! ;-)

[@Viva-qd2bo]

@@Alias_Anybody Haha, dankeschön!!!

[@kathens7755]

@@Viva-qd2bo ich auch... ganz schwierig

[@ninjakeks9326]

@@Viva-qd2bo Ich bin auch Deutsche... Ich würde meine Sprache nicht als Zweitsprache lernen wollen. Alleine Der, Die und Das müssen euch so kompliziert erscheinen... Und dann noch Kommasetzung...

[@aj7842]

Honestly I wish I was taught Spanish instead of just English while growing up (my mom is from Peru and while my dad did live in NYC, he was taught Spanish first cause his parents are from Puerto Rico)

[@spacemugmess3941]

I’m Italian, and I’ve learnt to speak english (at least decently) using the Internet. When I was 10, I used to spend all day playing games on the computer in English and watching videos. So yeah I learnt it that way. Everyone was shocked with how well I could keep a conversation in English when I was 13 (even though there still were lots of errors, like “I did drew”). Now you may say, “but you have studied English in school” - well, in middle school, our teacher wasn’t the best, let’s say, so I never made my homework nor paid attention in class. Now I’m 14 and I’m studying french, German and English in a “language high school” (I don’t really know how to call it in English, it’s basically a normal high school but you can study two more languages between Spanish, German and French).

[@gamerman0252]

This is the very first KZbin video I have ever watched from your channel and I literally just found you now. But my God you have killed me with cuteness! XD

[@squid98]

I take Japanese and the first time I heard it it was when I was 3 years old eating with my dad at a sushi place and someone screamed, BAKA!!!! and baka legit means, Idiot.......

[@Killertamagotchi]

It's always funny how Dutch sometimes sounds like broken German XD

[@Yuunarii]

I mean you're not wrong

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue, deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang 🍻

[@mariekevanhoof5785]

I'm Dutch and I can relate to this so much xD

[@runotje3023]

Same but I'm from Belgium

[@anipigs]

The recording was sooooo cuteeeee. The Dutch r is like one of the r sounds in Portuguese.

[@gachastarlightsgalaxy]

You are Dutch 😍 I am! Hoi ik vind je video’s leuk, er is nooit een animator die nederlands. Ik ben zo blij 😍

[@xxwolf_hunterxx3801]

you mentioned you were dutch and I just started think about the fact that I have third cousins in the Netherlands and Belgium but I don't know them and they don't know me and they probably don't know that they have third cousins in Australia but I know that they do because my Opa moved to Australia as a kid and I remember him telling me that he had an Uncle who lived in Belgium (who's probs dead by now) who's great grand kids would most likely not know about the fact that his brother moved to Australia with his family so it's like just weird, because again, I know that they exist but they probs don't know I exist

[@alexgrim5165]

Greetings from the U.K.!! 1 of my best friends is Finnish an' he had the same dilemma since Finland dubs shows from American English into Finnish (although they do keep the original names sometimes like in 'Digimon' everyone's names stayed Japanese in the Finnish dub). However, he also told me that a lot of shows in Finland are in American English with Finnish subtitles an' he ended up learning English pretty much by accident as a side-effect of that. *smirks in amusement* Which makes a lot of sense to me since I used to know basic Japanese & Spanish as a kid for the same reason (but instead of on T.V., I saw subtitled shows via the Internet). Hey uhh, random question; what are 5 tasty Dutch foods? I like both learning 'bout other cultures an' cooking sooo... What should I Google?

[@Siltha]

Random answer ^^ , 5 dutch food items that come to mind are: poffertjes(cute tiny pancakes), maatjes(herring), snert(pea soup), stroopwafels, drop (licorice)

[@alexgrim5165]

@@Siltha, Cool. Thanks for telling me!! *smiles*

[@wegwa8783]

well I'm french and I leaned english : ) *my teacher speaks to me only in english to see my level sometimes ; - ;*

[@holius1]

Mdr bonjour.

[@wegwa8783]

@@holius1 cOuCoU

[@holius1]

@@wegwa8783 ca va ? je crois que je me suis perdu sur KZbin lol. Je parle anglais aussi, pour être honnete, je suis doué.

[@wegwa8783]

@@holius1 c'est bien, c'est bien :^)

[@CetteSara]

I feel you. I'm a French speaker (Canada) and was exposed to English content on television quite young (~5y/o). But I began to understand it a bit by the age of 10 or so. Most of the kids/teens show we had were dubbed in France and, for a French Canadian, most of the references (USA and FR) went straight above my head. Most of the videogames I played, if not all, were in English. (I think I started seeing game in French by the time the Wii was commercialized. I would imagine companies thought Canadians spoke only English...) I learned that I needed to talk to every NPC and go everywhere because I couldn't understand what they were saying XD

[@sarahsongs4773]

This is so true! I'm also dutch and would love to see more english people learning dutch. I also try learning it to friends for awkward moments with strangers.

[@pursuitsoflife.6119]

Idk what's up with my country. We have like a hundred languages in which every region has one and the whole country had one. But wait, the schools were only taught in English so we picked up fairly quickly, and my parents spoke in the regional language so yeah .... And Hindi just came to me through TV and music...

[@ninjakeks9326]

And what is your county? :)

[@shara5309]

@@ninjakeks9326 I think it's India

[@mariannemesezold3314]

"I only really started being able to properly understand English by the time I was 10 or so?" That's pretty impressive. what if I told you I've learned English as an adult? :D

[@SynGirl32]

I don't know if it's a legit thing, or just our impressions, but back when I lived in the Netherlands (Limburg specifically), the average Dutch seemed quite uninclined to teach us how to speak Dutch. The average situation would be like this: Dutch: Asks us a question. We: Answered with whatever reply we'd picked up. Dutch: Immediately notices the fact that we are non-dutch and switches to english. Is it some kind of cultural stigma? Or do you guys just really don't like mispronounced words?

[@tibethatguy]

It's just that so many people in the Netherlands (around 93%) can speak English fluently, that they think people shouldn't really bother to learn Dutch anymore.

[@GenerationZ313]

On the topic of anime, a second English version of Dragon Ball Z dubbed in Canada was aired in the Netherlands with Dutch subtitles.

[@kakkskssksksk7965]

5:00 ZO HERKENBAAR! Ik wordt helemaal hyper als in een Amerikaanse film/serie Nederland word genoemd!!!

[@marsupialmole3926]

"William of Orange wants to know your location"

[@zainehhatamleh6760]

@@eendjesman9723 r/whoosh

[@Siebje]

Stille willem dat is welliswaar mijn eerste naam

[@noone-iw4kw]

I'm filipino but I speak more english than tagalog....

[@tricky5725]

Same

[@andrejpaskalov3398]

don't let your language die out...reading comments like these makes me sad...

[@chidori7234]

Темужин Чингис Хан Don't worry man, we still speak our native language everyday. We have an "English speaking policy" at school but it doesn't really matter because ppl speak Tagalog most of the time as if the rule never happened, and that's all right IMO because we have the right to speak the language we want, the reason why the school had such a policy in the first place is to "teach ppl to speak English" but IMO it doesn't matter because in this day and age ppl are exposed to it, regardless of grammar or whatever. And they say that Filipinos are fluent in English, so yeah, our language isn't dying out. Hell, even foreigners pick up our language when they visit, they pick up some words when they try our food, etc.

[@fandemanga3378]

@@andrejpaskalov3398 i don't even know my ethnic language, makes me sad everytime i am with my grandmother and we can't communicate normaly, only des word and sentences......we have many ethnic language but the country language is french, so everyone speak french, and neither my father or mother really talked to my in their respectiv language ;_;

[@starforce9740]

Being that English is the lingua franca of communication worldwide, it is very difficult to avoid learning it. You can thank the British Empire and the US’ rise to becoming a global superpower for that. I already have several friends who do not have English as their first language, and my girlfriend lived half her life in a non-English speaking country despite being born in the US. Either way, I find it a very helpful video. Amazing job, yet again! 😄😄😄 (By the way, I now cannot unhear that one part of the video I saw when you were working on it in that one stream. It’s just hilarious!)

[@starforce9740]

SonicGamer Yep. Because over half the time the voice goes super low due to the sound being rendered in After Effects. It’s the best thing I’ve heard on her streams. 😂

[@minsqi]

i learned english pretty early on, since i have family all over europe, and most of them don’t speak my language, and i don’t speak theirs either, so english was a must. i learned english trough tv and music. i would watch stuff like “baby channels” which were really basic and were made for teaching babies to talk. i learned a ton of words there. school wise, i started when i was 6-7 in preschool, but again those really basic things. i would speak english with mom because i wanted to learn it so bad, and since she loves english as well, she never minded. when i was 11-12 i started watching youtube and that’s when i really mastered understanding english.

[@mikloshujber1452]

Damn, that footage of Tigger's Honey Hunt really takes me back.

[@Marz_B4rz]

2:36 I lost it when her face turned into a Barbie 😂

[@whydoievenhavesubs3317]

Not trying to brag but i fricking speak 5 languages fluently Arabic,hungarian,english,mongolian,and turkish

[@whydoievenhavesubs3317]

@@mo.wi1558 i dont know my dad is turkish my mom is mongolian and i live in hungary so idk

[@meri-tuuli]

500 lil krises with no vids ? I speak Finnish, Swedish and English

[@noaddedsugar2930]

500 lil krises with no vids ? how did you learn Arabic?

[@Septomnia]

500 lil krises with no vids ? Oh really I am from turkey ! 🇹🇷

[@andrejpaskalov3398]

селам, би шемки татарча! i can also speak english, macedonian and butchered serbro-croatian :P

[@BBP-OMO]

YAAAY!Now we can wait 3months again.

[@robertderkinderen8928]

True

[@Yuunarii]

-REEEE HOW DARE YOU THIS VIDEO ONLY TOOK ME 1.5 MONTHS- Yeh probably... Though I'm gonna aim for 1.5 months

[@BBP-OMO]

@@Yuunarii Okey take all the time you need just remember to sleep and have life ya know,and don't over work ya're self k? P.S.Don't kill me i beg ya!!1

[@alexg.9250]

Honestly,this is really relatable to any person who is not an english native speaker,IMO. Im romanian,and I had the same experiences with watching cartoons and not growing up with english video games(or well,I did grow up with some ps2 games,because I had a friend whose dad bought him a ps2 from abroad.Thing is,since neither of us knew english at the time,we had NO IDEA what all the text meant,we basically just had to guess based on context clues what we were supposed to do next/what was the plot,and,as you can imagine,that very often lead to being stuck and having no idea what to do next )

[@DJTrainR3k]

I personally love the new art style and animation.