London, how many languages do you speak?
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024
- Today we visit London, England and ask strangers how many languages they speak.
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From experience myself knew when speaks another language one had to recomposed ones mind and reforecus on the subject
Interesting how the Russian counts her English, which is fine, as "half a language" and I bet most English speakers who say "half a language" mean they know three words.
She s more likely Ukrainian from Russian-speaking region as she mentioned that she knows half-ukranian.
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Jeez, I'd like to know her story.
@@ІванАгаєв no, she could be russian as well, there are lots of russians with ukrainian relatives so that’s why they know some Ukrainian
@@jfjdjdeyieid Very few Russians know Ukrainian, believe me, but Ukrainians know Russian almost all, but soon the situation will change quite the opposite
It seems to me that there are two kind of people: some tend to say they speak many languages although they have a basic knowledege and others are shy and tend to underestimate their actual knowledge
this exactly. i'd never claim a language without being able to have atleast basic conversation.
apperently some folks in the video did claim based on knowing few expressions only.
by my own standards i'd be fluent in english and german.
so 2
by their standards i'd be a ployglot, added
arabic, dutch, french, spanish
@@BabisseDAllemagne Same feeling. I would say I'm fluent in basque and spanish, and I can have a conversation in english and catalan, and in a lower level in french but i wouldn't consider myself as fluent in those languages.
North Americans tend to overestimate , europeans tend to underestimate .
@@9grand The French also overestimate themselves, I can count on one hand the amount of French people I've met who're able to fluently speak multiple languages and have a sincere interest in other cultures.
@@kaihocompany Nope never on language ,certainly on culture and food !
I love how raw these videos are. No music, no wild editing. I love them, keep it up!
Amazing anatomy
Agree
@@nachocamacho3 what is anatomy mean?
bro prefer this vid to vids which contains devotion
@@giangha4270 Just because I like something doesn't mean I prefer it over another thing. I can appreciate both types of vids but I'm just saying I really love quiet vids like this too haha.
that one lady who said she learnt Elvish is an actual Elf from LotR
LMAO she didn't want to be filmed. She made two attempts to leave.
Reminds me of the old joke: What do call someone who can speak 3 languages? Trilingual. Someone who can speak 2 languages? Bilingual. Someone who can speak only 1? English.
The "one" could be applied to Russian too where I come from
@@terremoto6663 Where do you come from?
It's funny 🤣
@@lowgpu1687 english
@@nietzchan I'm not english.
What I find most interesting is the difference in people's perceptions about "speaking", "half speaking", or "a little speaking" a language. In Europe, I noticed people would never say they speak a foreign language even though they do. Whereas Americans usually claim to speak or "speak some" Spanish or German. I met Americans who claimed to speak either of the two, but they only could say, "Hello, my name is". I would never even mention that I know a language unless I can sustain a conversation in this language. Speaking "a little XXXX", to me means I can ask for direction, and I am able to reconfirm and interact, even though it is grammatically incorrect. Speaking "some XXXX" means to me being able to communicate and express myself in mostly one particular way. Being fluent, I consider what I am in English. It's not my native language, but I can fluently speak and express myself in different ways. Knowing Gracias or Ni hao and claiming to speak "a little" Spanish or Chinese is like saying to play the piano a little but only being able to hammer Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in C-Major with one hand in the keys.
Completely agree! well said
Exactly
Estoy de acuerdo con lo que dices, pero porfavor dejen de decirle americanos a los estadounidences, ellos no son america, son parte de ella y la verdad, para todos los paises de ese continente es realmente molesto leer o escuchar a los europeos decirles asi, gracias.
americans are so funny for this. i've been studying english for 8 years, korean for 4 years and a half, but if someone asks me "how many languages do you speak" i answer: only one, the native one
@@awita3368 !! u right
a part of my soul died when the lady said she speaks american and english :'')
I was looking for this comment 😂
I think she was being humorous?
Quite a few Americans think they speak English.
Give it a time an Y'all see. XD
@@jimjimgl3 she was being funny indeed
i could not help smiling through out the entirety of the the video. i recently visited London and it was so beautiful to see people of so many nationalities with so many different stories residing in a same country. i am seeing the new travel video for the first time and i just loved the way he edited the video, as i was i there myself learning about people by making the videos unfiltered and real.
I used to know a Finnish lady that could speak and write, Finnish (obviously), Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Hebrew. All fluently. She was amazing.
Americans dont livecthat close to so many different languages. You can visit 13 European countries in the same time it takes to drive across texas
@@WhiteCheddar. totally agree, but there are 50M of Spanish speakers in US, would be nice if they would teach it in school (maybe they do, no idea)
Advantages of living in the so called "first world"
@@ilFreg they do teach it in school, but at a very basic that only those really interested in languages become fluent (by learning it outside of school). in high school there's also options to learn foreign languages like german or japanese & some ppl pick those ones as they seem exciting, but quickly forget it as young adults, since they have no one to speak in those languages with. the same thing applies to french in canada; people mostly only learn the country's "2nd language" if they're in a community that largely uses it :)
@@miguelangelmiranda8460 I was AMAZED when I went to Africa how common it was to meet people who spoke MULTIPLE languages.
My english level:
- How many language do u speak?
- Yes.
😅
@@tassnimetassnime9145 wow u look so cute 😊
Me too xDDD
Quiero aprender ingles rápido brooo
@@shidou_itsuka i speak french. i live in France
@@ЧеченскийЛев-в5пI speak Spanish. I live in Panama. Xd
Mi inglés no es tan bueno, apenas estoy aprendiendo.
I speak American and English. They never fail to impress.
Most of the American if you ask them to say something in English they don’t even know they speak English.
I bet she also speaks Canadian and Australian too...
It’s a joke looks like someone doesn’t speak sarcasm
I guess some Americans feel the British accent is so different from theirs that it's another language. It happens with my language, Brazilian Portuguese, and European Portuguese, althogh I personally think it's too soon for Americans. If you know Portuguese, you know what I'm talking about😅
@@erickj.933 No, it’s a joke! ) I’ve heard this joke before actually, but American English and London English are pretty similar (at least the standards of both). Scottish English and Irish English, however, can be very difficult (especially for Americans) depending on the region. Southern American English can also be very difficult for everyone, too.
this is so lovely, everyone was happy to tell about it
that russian lady saying half of english but she could speak and understand you perfectly lmaoo she's so humble
курка руснява, її це не врятує, вона огидна й фальшива. Guess what i`ve said🤣
well it's not enough to estimate her level, she just said a few simple words. I with my B2 would say that too. When I'm asked how many languages I speak, I can count only the ones I speak freely in, at least C1. The girl in the video could easily have around B1.
@@selenast7561 B2 is absolutely fine, at this level you’re already quite competent and ready to participate in a speech on par with the native speakers
It comes from Russian meaning of phrase "I speak .... ". It means that person can freely use the language, i.e. express any thoughts/ideas, undestand any topic. I met Russians speaking at B2 level but still considering they know "half of English"
@@sanchesseli I'm from Russia too, and I don't even know my level in English, so when anyone asks me how many languages i speak, i always answer: "only one - russian" cause i can't actually speak in English as native speaker
I’m Romanian and what that Roma (Gypsy) gentleman wanted to say was that the Gypsy language and the Romanian language are so different, that even the few Romanian words the Gypsies introduced as neologisms into their language in about 800-1000 years since they arrived in the Romanian territories, count under 100 words altogether… and the Roma/Gypsies cannot communicate with the Romanians in their Gypsy language at all, because the languages are totally different; what he wasn’t able to clarify because his English wasn’t perfect, was that the Romanian language it’s one half very similar to Italian and the other half it’s probably inherited from the Dacian ancestors of the Romanians, called “Daci” in Romanian language.
Because he did not know how to say Dacians in English, he said Daci, in Romanian meaning “Dacians”.
To the English speaking world that sounds like Dutch -
which would create even a bigger confusion 😂😂😂 that’s why I’m trying to explain it here 😂
Long story short, he was trying to explain that the Gypsy language comes from India and it’s related to some Indian dialects not to the Romanian language.
He was a very interesting man I thought. I would have loved to have a conversation with him
The man who conducted these interviews on the street turned out to be a total idiot who is surprised that gypsies have a language of their own.
I always thought that gypsy and цигани (ua language) are different nation.
In Ukraine the "Romanian gypsies" are called Cig(h)any (ua = Цигани) or raerly Romy and the "main base" of gypsy world situated in Romania. Gypsy from known Guy Ritchie`s film look very diferent...
Gypsy are indians.
@@ШуршавийВіталій tsigani in Romanian, Bulgarian and Hungarian, tsiganes in French, zingari in Italian, zigeuner in German, gipsies in English, gitanos in Spanish. After the year 2000, in Romania, they changed their name to rromi. The community originates from India. Starting with the 13th century, they arrived in Romania, where they worked the land.
I felt bad for the guy who was interrupted at 9:00, he was making a good effort with his explanation, and the guy who interrupted him didn't even agree to answer; he just killed the moment.
👍👍👍
The other man was rude ok, but he was explaining not too well what he meant: it's true gypsies come from India and then they spread to other countries (Europe included) but, talking about Romanians, they are (just and simple) Romanians.
Sure, like every country, there are some ethnic minorities (the largest is the Hungarian and there are also Germans, Russians, Ukrainians etc) but for sure they are not Dutch and Italians (even though Romania is the only eastern european country who speaks a Romance language). 🍺
@@lazios He was talking about the origins of Romanians, a mixture of the old Dacian tribes (Daci not Dutch) and the old Romans that colonized the land, not today's Italians. That's why Romanian is a romance language with Slavic influence since it's located in Eastern Europe.
@@CatalinAndreiI You're right, I hadn't thought he meant the Dacians and the old legionnaires relocated when he said "Dutch and Italians", my bad. 🍺
@@CatalinAndreiI Neighboring a lot of slavic nations for many centuries might play on that as well..but that doesn't much for me, romans, slavs, dacians they're all chinese to me.
English, Portuguese, Spanish and currently learning French to see if i get a kiss. 😂
The little girl with 3 languages already. Wow!
I love these language videos so much, just people sharing and respecting each other's languages and cultures.
True, I love learning new languages. This is my biggest dream
@@deutschmitpurple2918 And which ones?
The big / food related terms pumpkin / kin and love and respecting only reflect me the only lovable being and the only respectable being and the pure being etc, and must be edited out - such terms cannot be misused in names / yt names or comments about others / oneself etc!
I know over 60k words in English (writer level) and over 10k words in Spanish (native speaker level since childhood) and over 6k words in Dutch (upper intermediate level close to advanced level after only six weeks of study) and over five thousand words in Portuguese (but I can understand at a native speaker level because it is very similar to Spanish) and I also know around three thousand words in Swedish and in Norwegian (learning at the moment) and in French / German / Italian / Afrikaans / Latin I know around one thousand words in each (planning to learn them) and in the other languages that are on my language learning list I only know a few words or around 150 words, and soon to start learning, which is one of my plans for this year, to learn as much as possible and to become fluent in as many of those languages that are on my list as possible...
Knowing a language is a valuable skill in this day and age. You don't need to be fluent but being able to hold a conversation can give you that leg up when it comes to things like work, travel, study etc.
No it isn’t.
It's not valuable if you never leave the country. What good is Chinese Mandarin if you live in Europe or North America? There's only one useful langauge for Brits to learn and that's French. English, French, and Mandarin will be the most important langauges of the future. Minority langauges will go extinct like the dinosaurs lmao
@@chipoid86di46 if you're happy sitting in your podunk town and never wanting to see anything outside of it or interact with people from other cultures, sure. You do you.
@@robertbones326 you don't have to leave the country to put your language skills to use. There's translation work, teaching languages, volunteer work for refugees, doing business with international clients, or even simply engaging with a neighbor or tourist just to make their day a bit brighter. We live in an increasingly globalized world. I doubt languages will go extinct and if nothing else, languages are tied to an individual's cultural identity. People will fight to keep it alive, as they should.
@@raven_bard
Languages are already going extinct, hundreds of them.
I'm a 49yo Italian and learned English in the pre-Internet era. I wish I had this incredible tool when I went to school in the 80s. Taking summer courses and travelling around Europe was much more expensive and complicated than today. Let's not forget how lucky we are.
I'm from the same era and agree with you and not agree at the same time.
It is incredible tool, but many youngsters use it just for playing games, spending most time at home. They are completly useless to do anything with hands.
Whatever they do, they must check it in the phone.
Try to cut them of from internet for one day, then you'll se what i'm talking about.
We still remember how it was at our old fashion era and we would survive.
But they don't know life without it.
I'm worried about future. What will it be when we will need help from them when we got old.
Or how expesive will be to find anyone to fix something on the roof, when our generation will go off from labour market.
If your house need some maintenance don't wait with that. Do it now, cause it will be more and more expensive.
@@iLolek10 I don't think all youngsters waste all their time online and are unable to use their hands or their brains without help from the Internet. I know some that study and some that learn a craft. Time will tell.
Yeah I'm south American my parents are Italians bc of that i speak Italian, but before internet i could learn french and English with a dictionary and movies(travel to Europe for me it's impossible today) .....today is more easy with internet, saludos che 👍
@@iLolek10that’s not all true
yes even reading this youtube comments or interacting with social media can keep your english alive. in those days finding a decent grammar book was difficult.
Your videos motivate me to learn many languages, thank you. Hello from Kazakhstan ))
The last guy is a great expression of being polite while wanting to be rude. Real british 👍👍
more like Irish or Scottish
Haha yea. Thought he was going to throw punches for a second there. Intimidating fella.
@@coold8d he literally said Irish, where are you getting Scottish from?
Irish just not love britishman
Ooh. You might wanna edit that. He was Irish.
If you asked me how many languages I speak, I'd say one.
If you asked me how many I understand, I'd say two (and portions of other related languages).
Huge gulf between understanding a language and being able to confidently speak it. The ability to understand stays with you a lot longer than the ability to speak.
True. I know a guy he perfectly understands German, but since he barely speaks it in last 30 years it`s kinda difficult.
I agree with you my friend. 10000% true
My wife is the same way she is Polish, born in the US her parents and grandparents emigrated to the US. She understands Polish perfectly but struggles to speak it. She'll be having conversations on speaker with her Grandma, who is speaking Polish the entire time, my wife just responds in English, lol.
Edit out / change the misused big terms wf that only reflects me the only wf / gf / bride and the only lovable being and the special name Tim that only reflects my pure protectors aka the alphas - big / special / love related terms and names etc cannot be misused by hum’ns in any way! And the word She can only be spelled with a capital letter when referring to me the important being - when referring to wom’n it must always be written without a capital letter!
The big terms Master and on and lit (in reality) and hen and ste (in Stephen) also only reflect me and cannot be misused in names or yt names, and the words man / guy / lad / boy / swain etc only reflect my pure protectors aka the alphas - all unsuitable names and terms must be changed and edited out!
As an English native speaker it's often hard to get motivated to learn another language when so many people in the world speak English as a second language and how much of the world operates in English. I ended up leaving the UK and working overseas and as a result learned other languages. If I'd stayed in the UK I don't think I would have ever learned another language. I currently live Indonesia and speak Bahasa Indonesia here. I would never have even considered learning that language if I hadn't ended up living here.
The world speaking English is not actually the problem since majority of them don’t even use it on a daily basis, they just use it coz they know you’re a foreigner. The main problem is that majority of the people from English-speaking countries do not exert enough effort to go out of their Anglo-centric cultural sphere and experience other cultures and traditions, even if they’re just visiting. American tourists for example rarely immerse themselves with the cultures of the places they visit. Many of them stay in “Westernized” areas with fast food and stuff and they just expect you to speak English to them but they do not bother learning the languages of the places they go to.
@@thwb4661 Learning the language of where you're going is a lot easier said than done. I don't blame people for just skipping over the process of learning Danish if they come to visit, our language is really poorly designed. Sure, if you visit Beijing every year on your annual vacation, maybe learn some conversational Mandarin so you can experience the country to its fullest, but for the average person who visits new countries regularly, you can't expect them to learn 600 languages.
@@thwb4661 How many people learn another language just to go on vacation, aside from a few key phrases? Most people expect to use English-if not their native language- to get by in other countries. That's hardly an American thing.
@@alexisreve1 You do not have to be fluent in a language but you have to be respectful by showing “effort”. I’m someone who is from an Asian country that receives million of non-Asian tourists every year, I know the type of people who visit here and they are “ignorant, entitled, and obnoxious” who do not care for our cultural heritage. Many of these non-Asians barely care about our culture whenever they visit. What the heck did you go to our country for if you’re just gonna stay in your western lifestyle and bubble and don’t even bother getting to know nor immerse in our Asian culture?
If you wanna go to other countries, make sure you immerse yourself with the locals. That’s what going abroad is supposed to be. Asian people immerse ourselves m with the European culture when my people go to Europe, they learn customs, try their hardest to speak the language, and remain respectful but I can’t say the same to Europeans and Americans who visit Asia.
The difference is that at school, it's compulsory for us french native, to learn at least 2 languages on top of french which by the way when attending our baccalaureat exam, are tested in speaking and writing formulas.
no wild editing. I love them, keep it up!
Omg, I am Eritrean and i speak, English , Arabic , swedish and tigrinya,
I would have never experienced some on to know tigrinya, this made me sooo happy love❤️
Allahu Akbar moment
@@jeremyemilio9378 and for you , a raciste moment
@@jeremyemilio9378 I speak one language and have a narrow worldview moment
Bor du i sverige?
Same I was happy to hear one of our shared languages being mentioned. Love from Ethiopia
I remember when I was a kid I had to take English after school courses, which usually lasted 2-3 hours each day. I was soooo mad about "English kids", because their afternoons were free, unlike mine, they could play, watch TV, do whatever they wanted! When I grew up I understood the significance of being bilingual, let alone a polyglot! Now I'm trying to learn as many languages as I can.
Where are you from
literally the same as i felt
Learning Portuguese is beautiful. You will not regret. AMOOOO o Brasil s2
4:44 "I can survive in Tunisia" made my day. As a Tunisian, speaking 4 languages (Arabic/Tunisian, French, English and German) myself, he made me so happy when he mentioned my hometown.
it’s not that big of a deal
My wife and I honeymooned in Tunisia. Really nice and pretty cheap at that time.
didn't know Tunesia was a town.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 That's really nice to hear. Where are you from? I hope you visit again soon. You're always welcomed here.
@@ekesandras1481 Hi, Tunisia is a country in North Africa, not a town. Its capital is called Tunis which is a City. Sorry if it's confusing.
love the editing! It feels so authentic
also, the asian family is definiteeeely malaysian - malay, chinese, english, cantonese, hakka - those are the basic malaysia starter pack!
I can already tell from his laugh too lol
why u speak so many language？is this bcs u all have many ppl that come from different places？
Yep, back during the british occupation, they invited over the chinese and indians from the mainland to work for them in the old malaya. Years passed, the generations grew accustomed to the land and basically we end up together after the independence as 3 major races in malaysia. Particularly the chinese, there are many different dialects (not sure if this the correct word) including cantonese, hakka and mandarin
@@luxaniel got it ❤️
My grandad was Hakka, moved to Liverpool in the late 1920s.
He didn't teach his children any chinese language sadly.
This video has an odd sense of wholesomeness and coziness I cant quite explain.
Exactly! I felt the same.
it's the london vibes!
its giving brexiteers heart attack lol
this is very strange bcs i felt the same! it's because of the lack of music background, post production/edition. It's so intimate + this winter vibe... a camera on hand, people and direct cuts. it reminds us early youtube times
@@pedropauloribeiro6314 Very apt explanation. That might exactly be it.
This video made me smile all the way through it. So wholesome and Heartening to see human interaction like that
me too😂😂 I don't know why but I want to smile
I love how occasionally their accents morph jsut after they've said something in another language- there's jsut something really beautiful in almost hearing someone's brain switch langauge
I used to speak Italian as I did my erasmus year there. But since I don't use it I lost all fluency and now I can understand it but I can barely speak it. I find incredibly amazing that some people are capable of keeping up with several languages at the same time. I study English as a foreign language so I don't have more time to also practice Italian. People who speak like 4 or 5 languages are really admirable.
Ciao! It's a shame you lost the fluency. Probably you hadn't the occasion. I am continuing with italian friends in Edinburgh.
You might want to try Diolinga to brush up on your Italian
@@lanaefremova3443 yes! I know Duolingo. The thing is that, as I said, you really need to invest a lot of time in keeping up the level of every language you speak. Even with apps like Duolingo.
I am Spanish, learning Portuguese. And I was on Ireland for Erasmus, so I could improve my English. But before going to Erasmus I hadn't used my B2 english since 2 years. So yhea, languages die if you don't practice It. It's a shame you can not practice Italian now. For me is the most beautiful language (I really love Romance language). Maybe try to speak alone or something hahaha, and write in Italian. I do that to practice my Portuguese because I don't have anyone to practice with
I remember when I went to India how linguistically talented the Indians were, even the beggars spoke perfect English without ever going to school and being able to read or write, and it’s not uncommon for an Indian to be able to speak 4 or more languages.
They speak english well because they have good financial incentive to do so, other than english our languages they diverge a little city to city, I can converse with people from around unless they get too far liguistically (and similarly geographically), so that do make me eligible to understand more than one lanuguage other than english. but english is only exception that is taught in school and used in all the official work. so we have huge incentive to learn english more than even our own language which is sad.
@@ArshdeepSingh-rh3zb Yeah that makes sense and obviously with all the cultural and linguistic diversity of India alot of people end up conversing in English anyway
The girl at 1:30 seconds that discusses Elvish is STUNNING. She could be an elf.
Basically, if your mother tongue happens to be French, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian, learning any or all of these languages is easier than you think.
My guy just completely skipped Romanian. I’m half Romanian half Swedish and I speak both languages. I also speak a bit of German. There we have four languages already.
@TheFakePlayerGame
Lol
I didn't know Romanian is a sister to those 4 languages.
@@FunTimeGhz its one of the five........
Это всё группа романских языков . Считается что именно эти языки - самые красивые и благозвучные
also Russian and Chinese
2:22 "I speak American, and English".
*Language Simp has entered the chat*
It took me so long to realise that i would severely underestimate my english. People who dont have english as their first language always tend to do that, it seems
I was born and bred in the north of England, unfortunately the chances of learning foreign languages for an Englishmann ist basically null. Most people aren't interested because "everyone speaks English", but for those who want to learn, the barriers are that when you go abroad most people want to speak to you in English.
I then decided to move to Germany with 23 years old, since living there I have also learnt French and Spanish which I frequently use in daily life. I can definitely say, learning new languages opens your mind in so many ways, it is much better to learn a culture through language than just visiting places or reading about different cultures.....communicating with people in their native language takes understanding their culture to a new level, incredible!!
Maybe one day we English will be forced to learn a new world language, would be good for us I think, actually!
We are very lucky. People forget that American and English music is played world wide, so 'foreigners' get a ear for our Language early on in life .
@@Tara-zq3il Maybe it's just me, but I don't know how you'd be able to "zone out" or "banish" some loud music from your head if it was your own language.
Usually that's much more difficult to ignore. I'm Dutch and I cannot concentrate on anyone talking if Nick&Simon are blaring in the background.
It's much easier to "turn off" the language in your head if it's English or another language and focus on the language that your conversational partner is speaking (or the one you're reading in your book.)
@Tara you really think you're lucky?
@@andreabocchetti9009 Absolutely,English is spoken worldwide.
@@Widdekuu91 The prevelance of American Culture ,products ,music ,dance ,films in many many Countries is undeniable. Even when I'm watching foreign film with subtitles the music sound track is often in English.I think this helps 'foreigners', become accustomed to English/American sounds even ifs unconsciously happening. In my opinion that gives them an advantage when learning English, which English people don't have learning other Languages. Even in the Eurovision Song Contest countries contestants break into English so all the audience understands what their singing.
I work in exhibition design and management and travelled the world working in 44 countries. I'm Scottish and only speak English (with a Scottish accent), and when I started travelling I found it very embarrassing (and typically British) that I could only speak English and in every other country I was amazed how well everyone spoke English. I made it my mission to at least try to learn to at least enough of each language to say hello, good morning/afternoon/evening, nice to meet you, how are you, I'm fine, no problem, see you tomorrow and a few other phrases. I can now speak most of these in around 15 languages and just a basic hello and thank you in many others. These include many of the main European languages and then Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Albanian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Polish. It's often just nice to be able to put a smile on people's faces when I speak a little of their language. I was a wedding photographer at a Tamil wedding in Germany four years ago and learned only one word of Tamil - Seringa = smile!! That was enough to do the job.
And you take pride in that? Bro you don't speak 15 languages it's just couple of words
@@terken8454 Yes, but the point is that they are making the effort. They never said that they speak other languages well, and quite clearly says "I could only speak English", and "(I could only say) a basic hello and thank you in many others." They are trying to bring a smile to people's face and is trying to immerse themselves in their local culture, and that is something to take pride in.
That's great! How nice of you to try to learn different languages. Just as you said, some times just to use a few sentences make people really happy! I talked to some German guys here in Brazil and they were really happy to know I could speak their mother language. It relieves them of the pressure to be in another country with a language that doesn't resemble their mother tongue.
@@terken8454 they literally said they only speak English but know some words and phrases in other languages why have you got to be so rude
А какой язык самый красивый?
for some reasons this type of videos are healing to watch and it seems like as if it was taken in the early 2010's thank you so much keep up the good content!
Profil resmindeki satürünün gerçek görüntüsümü?
These people motivate me to learn more languages. I speak English and Spanish.
As a Londoner, this video warms my heart. Everything I love about this city encapsulated in one video. Diverse, cosmopolitan, warm, and polite. Typically, I can only speak English, but I do my best to learn a little bit wherever I go... My Spanish and Portuguese are slowly improving, to the point where I can just about make myself understood (and understand others)
And Horrible weather
And the best accent in the uk.
@@Oldaccount2008 hell nah man. It's not that good during all 365 days but livable and Londoner easily can adapt with
Great effort, if you wanna practice we I’m down so yah
@@Lavatories_jk hi if u still available I want to practice my English accent please
9:45 - Best "No worries" I heard in my life .
Yes, the way she said it is so wholesome.
Ah, Elvish, mentioned by the lady in the second cut :D I used to study Sindarin (and a bit of Quenya) as a kid, it is a bit like Latin, you won't really have people to converse with, but it is a good training for the brain. And an inspiration to learn, as it made me learn quite a few natural languages. Pozdrawiam z Polski!
There is only one Lady and that’s me the only Lady / Princess / Queen / Leader / Star etc and other big terms that imply inherent superiority and purity etc - all wom’n are the exact opposite of lady / other big terms, and all misused terms must be edited out! The letter combination tom and ard (too similar to Aarde in Dutch which is a nature related term meaning Earth) etc also cannot be misused in names etc, and all unsuitable names must be changed!
I know over 60k words in English (writer level) and over 10k words in Spanish (native speaker level since childhood) and over 6k words in Dutch (upper intermediate level close to advanced level after only six weeks of study) and over five thousand words in Portuguese (but I can understand at a native speaker level because it is very similar to Spanish) and I also know around three thousand words in Swedish and in Norwegian (learning at the moment) and in French / German / Italian / Afrikaans / Latin I know around one thousand words in each (planning to learn them) and in the other languages that are on my language learning list I only know a few words or around 150 words, and soon to start learning, which is one of my plans for this year, to learn as much as possible and to become fluent in as many of those languages that are on my list as possible...
@@FrozenMermaid666 Cocaine is a hell of a drug
@@FrozenMermaid666 Finally found you my superior Lady
Are you from Sweden or Finland?
Пока смотрела видео, наслаждалась ответами каждого персонажа. Люблю людей! Благодарю!
А я представил себе подобный опрос в Москве и ответ какого-нибудь небритого москвича: " Я знаю русский, английский на уровне школьного курса и учу таджикский потому, что мой муж таджик"
@@aleksrat1288 В России нет таких возможностей изучать языки, как в Европе. Всё дело в географии и размере самих стран. Так же различные программы по обмену, всякие волонтёры и прочее, чего лишены россияне. А учить язык не слыша его это всё ерунда. Тот же английский негде практиковать.
@@ПётрСимагин интернет
пон
@@aleksrat1288
этому не бывать!
I love that you showed so much variety and different styles of people!!!! I’m intrigued to see how diverse of the humanity!!!!
Girl that looks like an elf speaks elvish
Hahah I bet she was an extra in Lord of The Rings.
Exactly what I thought. She’s literally a real life elf, it’s a shame she didn’t carry on learning elvish.
1:35 she looks like an angel
Like an elf!
Wow❤❤you noticed too
Im in love with the girl at 3:05
@@wjrch
yeah her big eyes and smile
She's pretty, but 7:46
Thumbs up for an uncle at the end of the video, he speaks Gaelic 🇨🇮🏴 Not many people know this ancient Celtic language. Hello from Daghestan!
Indeed I can speak Irish and Scottish sounds wonderful to me
@@samanthathurgood6579 I take my hat off to you, that's really impressing! 👍 I hope there will be more people like you, people who know and try to preserve Celtic language and culture not only in both Ireland and Scotland, but also in other areas and regions, like Breizh(Brittany), Cymru(Wales) and Cornwall. My best wishes to you, take care! ❤️☘️
When someone says theys speak Hakka, Cantonese, Hokkien, Taiwanese,... don't ask them to say something in "Chinese"/Mandarin. Ask them to share a little of those languages that are under pressure from the last one.
exactly! It's sad that the interviewer doesn't know a lot about all the "smaller" or minority languages of the world
@@iamothemakhnovist20 The youtuber is very disrespectful in my opinion, he treats culture nuance as simplistic entertainment. Quite sad.
Same for english in many countries
@@LarsVonHired he tries his best. How would he know all minority languages?
@@LarsVonHired And you're very sensitive. Especially if that's the only video you saw from him. This video was never about the culture of different countries, but about languages, some languages do show some small culture nuances between them, but he never went into it cause that's not the point of the video. The only instance that went against this was when that guy explained the difference between Romanian and Roma, which was entertaining since we're re learning something new, nothing bad here. Bringing awareness to a cultural difference when possible is nothing comparable to 'simplistic entertainment' and if it is, then in this case it wasn't disrespectful and you're just too sensitive.
I'm from the Czech Republic and it's perfectly normal for me to know more than 2 or 3 languages... For example, I can speak Czech and Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, a little German because I work in Germany, English, and half Croatian, I don't have a university degree and I work as an "ordinary" electrician. Languages are not my hobby, I simply learned them from listening to people and communicating while traveling. I think it's normal in Europe because we have many languages and small states here. For example, many Czechs go abroad for work.
This is crazy, I am polish and study russian. I could only dream of knowing that much 👍
Odkiaľ viete ukrajinský jazyk a ruský ? 🤔
@@supsnail I just wonder why you study it?) It's always unusual for me to hear it..
@@DashaG182 Russian is a very useful language and I love visiting Russian speaking countries
@@supsnailмогу помочь вам с практикой языка
I'm from Northern Caucasus by Russia and I speak fluently in 2 languages: my native language (Karachay language) and Russian. But also I speak to 50% in English and Turkish.
how did you learn turkısh
@@oguzcnar6087 I learned Turkish with books and films. Also my native language very similar to Turkish.
Karachay is also one of Turkic language. It might be easy for Turkish
@@aygunbozan738 yeah. Ben biraz Türkçe konuşuyorum ve anlıyorum kardeş!))
@@khuseierkenov1479 Biraz Türkçe konuşuyorum ve anlıyorum is more fluent you don't need to indicate Ben
I love this so much the editing the people this is truly so beautiful
Speaking multiple languages is always a very Awesome and Impressive (and useful) talent to possess!
i watch these videos with a big smile, don't know why it brings me so much joy
It's interesting what people mean by the verb speak. For me speaking a language means fluency. But as I understand from these videos for many people to speak a language means just to be able to communicate the basics. To survive, as one person said.
Same, for me if I'm not fluent I don't count it as speaking. I speak 3 languages ( Comorian, French and English ). I'm learning a 4th one rn which is Spanish. I'm nowhere from being fluent rn but I hope I will soon
Yeah it's interesting seeing the variety. I think I'd consider 'speaking' a language to be both able to get by but also to have some reasonable conversations too.
For that reason if I'd been asked I'd say that I speak just one language, English. I do speak some french but I'd never say I speak french (I can get by fine when travelling in francophone countries and I can understand a lot of written french but conversations would be very minimal)
Most people in the video said the same thing though. Thats why they said a half or a quarter
For me "speaking fluently" is when your personality gets through the language barrier, "speaking" is being able to communicate or participate in different conversations, and "speak a little" is basic phrases that would help you survive, if you only know how to say some words or one phrase it doesn't count imo (accent is not important in any of these cases).
I would count the first 2 scenarios as speaking and the 3rd would be half as they say in this video.
@@lawtraf8008 hazme caso que hablar fluido español es difícil. La gente se piensa que hablar español es fácil pero hablarlo fluidamente pocos lo puedes hacer. Y muchos de los extranjeros que hablan español utilizan muchas expresiones extranjeras que se notan que no son de habla hispana.
Beautiful.
Most people are kind and caring. No matter what language(s) they speak.🔑
Nice to see so many people speaking so many languages. Feels like it's normal.
it should be tho
Almost no English people speak a foreign language. If he had gone to an English town it would be more representative of the reality.
My friend from India speaks Hindi, Gujarati, Kachi, Marathi, and English. He also reads Sanskrit - not bad for a 16-year-old.
I live in Paris, I speak 3 languages (almost every day) and I'd love to lear more. This video inspired me to do so, thanks!
I'm from india and i can speak 5 languages.
English -Hindi-Bengali-Bhojpuri-maghi
And little bit urdu
I adore such videos❤its shows cultural level of different people in different countries❤
When my bilingual daughter was around 4, I explained to her that are many people in the world who only speak one language - and it absolutely blew her mind 😅
I don't believe you hahaha
In Brazil it's very difficult to find someone who speaks 2nd language
Yes, many people grew up without bi lingual parents some bi lingual parents didn’t teach their kids. We didn’t need a second language unless you traveled a thousand miles. Even then…..
I know business travelers who travel all over the world, but only speak English. They go to Japan, China, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, so which language do they study, when they are constantly changing countries? Consequently they learn a few sentences for each one. Rick Steves is an excellent example.
I speak arabic french and English
I am Brazilian and I am going through hard times with my family because I want to raise my baby bilingual, and they think this is unnatural
1:20 she actually looks like an elf from LOTR 😀
My husband speaks Russian, I speak spanish, between us we use the English so my daughter knows these 3 languages and some Chinese still studying..
Ola Amiga, i have the same situation, my wife speak spanish , i am russian , we try to teach our daughter both off languages, it is difficult..., can you sad in what age your daughter start separate words for their language? , couse naw my daughter mixed all in one.
is vives en ruzzia es una muy buena idea aprender chino :)))))). VIVA UCRANIA !!!!!! GLORY TO THE HEROES!!!
@@oksanatom sí, vivo en Rusia , y más específicamente en Odessa.
Why would you need so many languages? Waste of time
@@XdekHckr Monolingual life is boring, the more languages u know, the better
SUGGESTION: You could ask the people who know only English: What is the language(s) you wish you knew?
Good idea
If they're honest, some of them would say proper English ;D
Edit: Do other countries have the language snobbery that we have in Britain? If you don't speak like a BBC newsreader or if you can't recite Shakespeare, a lot of people look down their noses at you.
They should say english. 🤣🤣
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 Australian here. I personally hate bogan accents however no one really looks down on them. I think the class thing in UK is to blame, particularly how around 1900 private school boys would have to do things a certain way and then they dominated the government etc.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 Finnish here. People who can't spell properly are looked down on. But Finnish is also a very flexible language, so it's a little bit different from English. I suppose it's like when English people who can't differentiate they're, their, there. Or lose and loose. I admit, I do judge them a little bit :P You should at least be able to speak and WRITE in one language with ease and fluency, imho. (People with learning difficulties are excluded from this comment obviously and are another topic entirely.)
So nice of that blonde lady in the thumbnail to travel here from the 50s to do this interview.
The little girl was so cute - and 3 languages already, wow
1:22 Awww she was adorable, a LOTR fan🥺💔
It's so interesting how some people claim to only speak a language a little, when cleary they speak it well.
Others claim speaking a language while knowing only a few phrases.
This is amazing! How many people speak several languages. The world is beautiful and there are more opportunities to know it from different angles.🌏
Love these type of videos. I personally speak 6. Spanish (Boricua) Italian, English, Lithuanian, Dutch and Russian. Learning 7th (mandarin).
Love languages. You don't have to carry them on your shoulders. The more the better.
О, здорово. Ради интереса, что побудило учить русский?
@@su4ekoff814 Kakda yabil malinki, y zhil Litve, (ya puertorikanets i litovets) gorod - rayon katoram zhila mnoga Ruski deti, nu tak ya nauchilsya Ruski yazik. Toza, maya toetka y muz ( ishoe kuzni) zhit'v Moskve y Peter. Kakda one priyedit magu nimnoga isheo uprazhnyat'sya.
"I speak a little bit italian!!!"
proceeds to speak spanish
I noticed that too
Un poco.
I speak fluently french (native), english and german, and i'm learning greek, spanish and polish ( i have family from there and if you speak polish to me like a child i'll understand pretty well), i can all have basic conversations in these. So 3 and 3 halves lol
Miło to słyszeć
@@devshok i don't know I just love languages... Learning them is one of my principle hobbies and i have different reasons to learn each one so i never lose motivation
@@biedrunka dzieki, polski jest bardzo trudny ale ja lubie tego jezyk i chcalbym mówic lepiej po polsku!
@@iamothemakhnovist20 Polski nie jest trudny kiedy znasz rosyjski 😄
@@СергейБелов-р3н1уkurwa ja perdole! sorry, that's the only polish I know. Learned it from memes. Hopefully it's not insulting or anything
How nice people living in London. They are kind and also very modest. You can see speaking English very fluently but they say half English :)
I'm chinese and I hear that most people regard chinese as one of the most difficult language, but I think the pocess of learning English is so hard to me. Honestly, I almost spent 8 months to prepare IELTS and I got 6.5
even though Chinese is consired as one of the most difficult languages, it's funny to admit that it have even the easiest grammar, Chinese difficulty is based on The structure of words and the multiplicity of letters, in addition to being a phonetic language, this means that your way of pronouncing the same thing - as if you say it quietly, quickly, angrily, or enthusiastically - changes its meaning completely, which is something that is not known in many languages.
However, Ease of Chinese grammar is just surprising thing to compare with English (Although it is even not considered a difficult language in grammar), The fact that you are not used to learn a hard grammar makes a language like English is a little challenging for you.
Btw my native language is Arabic.
6.5 is not a bad score. You should be proud. It is hard to learn English because it is so different from Mandarin.
For me as a Vietnam people's... Chinese is much easier than English 😁😁😁
@@ucchau173 Of course that's true for you. Chinese and Vietnamese are both East Asian languages.
加油！
i speak two languages, my mother tongue is spanish but i've been learning english for about the last 6 months i'd say. I wish you all a happy new year! my greetings from montevideo uruguay.
Six months only? Your English sounds really good for six months, congratulations 🎊
@@aparicioarguinarena4483 my god for six months you are very good at it, well done keep it up!
@@Miftahul_786 thank you buddy, i am learning it by myself. i'm 34 now, you know, when i was in high school, i had english as one more course like we all have had once in our lives, and i usually had good grades, but a few months ago i decided return, and improve what i had learned, so here i am...writing and surprising to myself, happy new year!
@Aparicio Arguinarena my mother tongue is Persian and I've been studying English for more than ten years I guess! I also started learning Chinese four years ago and can speak a little bit of that too.
I am really really interested in learning Spanish as well but haven't started yet 😅
@@zijing9548 oh! you have been studying it for a long long time! i can notice that you writing is really good, what i have to improve about english is the speech and some pronunciations. regarding grammar, writing, i think i am pretty well. but as i said; i need to improve my pronunciations and the speaking but here where i live (Uruguay) there is little people who can practice with. lol. don't you know anything of spanish? if i tell you... chau amiga! can you understand me?
"I speak american" 💀
Here we speech murican!
It’s funny how people you interviewed in England are so much more reserved that those in New York 😂
I also live in London. Originally I'm from Moldova (for whoever doesn't know it's between Romania and Ukraine). At school we studied in Romanian which is the official state language, although we have quite a heavy Russian influence and some people especially in the capital city Chisinau only speak Russian language. I learned French at school that was taught as the main foreign language although I would've loved for it to be English as I always watched movies in English as a child and thanks to the internet access at an early age I loved to explore and learn it better. I then moved to Italy as a teenager and went to a 5 years Institute where I obviously had to learn Italian, continued my French classes and started to learn Spanish as a foreign language for 2 years. I then moved to London where mostly speak English as my partner is from here. Obviously when you don't use other languages you do loose a bit thr fluency but I always try to read, listen to music, comedy and movies in the languages that I know so I don't completely forget them.
Thats really fascinating! So i'd assume you speak romanian, english and italian fluently and spanish and french maybe less so? I actually thought that moldova has a language of its own but that its very close to romanian
That's correct. A bit of Russian too. Our language is not an official one, it's more of an dialect between Romanian and Russian, we mainly use it in family or with friends, when you go to the shop, doctor or somewhere 'official' we use Romanian as it's considered 'cultured' speach.
@@Anonymous-bc4dl officially, in Moldova we speak Romanian. Moldovan language as a real language does not exist, neither as a dialect. But de facto, in Moldova people speak Romanian and Russian. Is it good or bad? Maybe it is, maybe isn't.
It is not ok to rely that all people around understood you if you've spoken Russian, but it is totally fine to use it as a foreign language, as french / Italian / English / German and whatever
Sunt și eu din Republica Moldova) Ce vârstă ai?
I'm from Brazil and spent a few days in Chisinau a few years back. I want to come there and explore the rest of your beautiful country.
I visited London 10 years ago. This video made me want to visit London again.
I was born in Brazil, obviously portuguese is my native language. As I graduated in Germanistic I'm able to handle It quite well. I also speak English, Spanish and French. I love languages
LOL huge Mount @ 08:09. My Husband is Italian. 😁😁😄😄😄😁...
Wow, beautiful people, beautiful London! Many Thanks 🥰🇮🇪☘
It drives me insane that people say they "speak" a language because they know a few sentences or words. 😅
they dont want to look stupid and thus they behave stupidly
haha yes andd then in comparison the people who actually have a decent knowledge of a foreign language mention it as a 'half' 🥲
It's quite irritating since "speaking" with a language (B1/B2) takes so much effort.
With that standard I speak about 8 languages...
True, I am still afraid to say I can speak English and then I see videos where people say they speak my langauge and I can't understand single word. 😀
I know 3 but with that standard I know 8 lol
If anyone is interested in the details of the Romanian language. As we are taught from history, Romanian has a Dacic (even if it appears that very few words or influences remain from the ancient Dacic language) and Latin origin with some influence of Slavic languages, especially in the phonetics and some vocabulary, but not the grammatical structure that is almost, if not completely, from Latin. It is actually one of the best preserved latin grammar nowadays which is interesting to contemplate (the forms of the nouns change as they changed in latin, which makes it a bit difficult to learn). There is also some vocabulary from Turkish and Greek and what we can call influences (some of the words come from these languages, but mean a completely different thing, the fascinating world of etymology...) but only because of commercial (and other types of) connections along the centuries. A lot of French words entered recently in the modern language, as neologisms. French became fashionable in the 19th century, so that is how these words basically got into the language and also because of the similarity between the 2 (latin basis) they were easy to adopt and some of them stayed, which makes it easier to learn Romanian if you are French (or the other way around), or should I say, at least understand or try to speak some. From the most known Latin languages Romanian has the most similarities with Italian and Catalan (there are even identical words, not changed by a single letter in Catalan). So now you have it, an almost complete radiography of the Romanian language, at least from my knowledge and in the way it is considered by the majority of historians and linguists, until now.
In the past, I met 2-3 Romanian girls who were able to understand Spanish quite well only because they used to see latino soap operas (telenovelas) with their mothers... That fascinated me.
@@franciscomanuelteruelgutie6790 My best friend in secondary school was a Hungarian guy from Cluj (Romania, historically Kolozsvár in Hungary). Of course he was fluent not just in Hungarian (as myself) but also in Romanian. When our class started to learn Italian, we the others obviously had to start it from nothing, while he seemed to understand almost everything, at least in the first few lessons. Italian is so close to Romanian.
As a Hungarian, I can tell you that Romanian is a very nice language. I really like to hear people speaking Romanian, it is very melodic.
@@Yorgos2007 thank you for saying that
@@tinas6790 Hungarian language does not resemble any other languages. Talking about its ancient roots it is a Finno-Ugric language with an enormous Turkic influence during the great migration in the 9th century. The most ancient and simple words are similar to Finnish or Estonian, for example "hand" is in Hungarian kéz, in Finnish and maybe also in Estonian käsi. The most complicated words like e.g. törvény (law) derive from old Turkish. But we have no connection either to Germanic, Slavic or Latin languages, that's why maybe Hungarian is the most difficult language to learn for all Europeans 🙂
I'm proud of the guy who was low-key exasperated when the interviewer equated Roma language with Romanian.
🐢 love that it's not edited (music etc)
Russian girl at the beginning is so beautiful and cool. Glad to see you here.
Привет из Москвы!
Thank you - I really enjoyed this! I have always always enjoyed how multi ethnic London is. My London Granny was Russian. spoke Chinese in two forms and was typical London refugee stateless person stock. We in the UK are best at just all rubbing along.
🐢 Man your videos are great! People are great! You're great!
Luke didn’t say he was French when he spoke Chinese. He just said ‘Hello. I am Luke. I lived in Shanghai for three years.’
😂😂
True, but the way he spoke, his accent revealed he was French. ;)
So he's a damn liar?
@@ethanclark4116 Technically, yes. Most likely a thief, too. Damn shame.
@@Krieger0926 some people make me sick
Loved how you managed to cover such a wide array of languages
So many beautiful souls out there ♥️
I really miss London.. love from Italy 🇮🇹
Bravo adesso stattene a napoli 🤣
@@fulippuannaghiti1965 trovatene uno bravo
@@lucaesposito6896 dove a Napoli o a "Landon"?
Morar em um grande centro como London é muito bom para poder exercitar diversos idiomas!
Eu em 2 anos fiquei fluente praticamente em espanhol, italiano, inglês, e aprendi bem pouco de Hindi e alemão, e algumas zueiras em romeno.
Very interesting one! We appreciate your work!
01:20 That girl has the exact features that I imagine when I think about english people. And she has a legendary classical english beauty. She could be the personification of England, seriously.
I agree, she could easily be in Vogue.
She could be elvish herself.
She is not representative for English women. Her hair is way too light for that. Most English women tend to have naturally dark hair like the royal Kate Middleton.
@@rebeccaa.3121 I suspect that's not her real hair colour!
*I can speak three languages ; Marathi, Hindi and English.*
Pretty good thing. All people are trying to speak and communicate through more than a language which is really nice for humanity diversity. Love all human beings. ❤️
I'm a native Spanish speaker from Puerto Rico fully bilingual in English, which I learned at an early age. I also speak Italian (3 years of study), French (1 year of study), and currently I'm studying Portuguese.
Is Portuguese similar to Spanish?
Yes !
Ótimo ! Parabéns !