Asian Americans Try To Speak Their Native Language
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When you lose your language you lose a piece of your culture.
In actual terms, we become alien to our own culture.
@Vijay Surya but, what he says is right......you do become alien to your own culture, i'm an asian-american and it's hard to speak my native tongue to my grandmother and family, i don't even know family traditions because i was born in America going to American schools and learning about American ways, you're rambling on about Americans in different countries but Americans really don't have their own culture, it's really just borrowed from different places of the world, and i don't see why a country WOULDN'T allow another tradition other than their own inside the country
@Vijay Surya Vijay Surya my elders were forced here, it's not like they had a choice, war in their home countries forced them out, i'd absolutely love to go to my home country to connect with my people and learn my tradition, you don't have to mention anything about you being attacked because that's not the topic here, comforts and freedom are not in every corner of America, just like i've never been to Inida, you've never been to America, you don't know a thing about it, it's only the textbooks and articles online you read that inform you, but only your own two eyes can tell the truth other than words from another person
And gain a piece of other cultures. The fact is, cultures doesn't matter.
@Gleb B. / Глеб Б. Are you sure? Because, hundreds years ago, the culture and the tradition was hunting witches, enslave African american and killing heathens.
And that disappeared, through time. We forget our culture, to create a new one. Even the culture isn't the same inside a lot of families. (e.g. religious parents and emo-gotics sons). So, in fact, it doesn't even matter what kind of culture do you have. You are you, no matter what.
How is it their native language if they can't speak it? English is their native language, it's the only one they even know.
Probably raised in an Americanized community. They also probably didn't speak the language with the parents because they might have not taught them or some other reason
It's easy to forget your native language if you aren't constantly surrounded by it.
english is not their native becuz (ugh i cant describe it but i know what it is...)
+Teenage thinker ok well think of a reason before you comment
+Teenage thinker its their native language
When the Indian girl said. I love you. She actually spoke correctly. Cuz on screen they had it written for masculine gender but she used feminine gender by herself. Makes me think she knows Hindi a little.
In her RUclips she speaks it.
@@IvanPlayStation4LiFe wait...what?
IvanPlayStation4LiFe Where?
@@ralphcarino5672 her youtube is Michelle Khare
AnnaBananaLovesPuppies 123 I know, I mean which video.
*suddenly realized how lucky I am that my mom taught me Chinese and always spoke it with me*
Potato ·_· same but I’m russian
幸亏我的母亲也是, 不然我就会像我那几位朋友一样, 完全不懂得说普通话
me too but for serbian
you really are... i can barely speak hindi but i completely understand if someone talks to me in it..
我的中文很不好 haha, 可是我很喜欢中文 :). Trying to learn it every day :D
me: im bilingual
also me: *stutters in both native language and english *
Me with English and Vietnamese. Dear lord I understand like 90% of what they are saying in Vietnamese but my response sounds much better in my head than when I try to actually say it and I just end up getting slightly frustrated and defeated and just answer in English. Makes me really sad but trying to keep up my learning of my language
+DonutLe Sameee, like I understand the language, it's just when I have to say something, my mind blanks
+DonutLe SAME! I'm Vietnamese American and I struggle with the same thing. I end up understanding than just speaking. It sucks.
+Lois v actually, knowing more than one language means you're more likely to experience the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon. you're not alone :p
+Silviegold same. i try and learn a word a day lol
me: *can understand the language but can't speak it*
me: *sobs*
Same ;(
me too
Me too
What how... If you understand the words can't you form a sentence with them?
+Katrine Jensen ohhh alright, so can you read your language?
when you speak to someone with their native language it directly hits the heart..
Bts
@@ralteh3390 yes bts😂😂
Fully agree with you❤️❤️
Agreed ^_^
Agreed ^_^
i was born in india and now i live in japan its been a while since i came to japan almost 14 years and i speak japaneses with all my friends
i only have one friend in india who speak hindi with me and its getting hard because he and my big brother speak hindi with me and i am forgetting words slowly
i dont want to forget my own language its sad now
@Vanarkc watch indian movies and listen music . you will never forget your own language
@@vishaldairan6100 i don't watch movies at all
indian music is very great but i don't sing at all with language if you dont speak you forget faster and one day i will forget every thing for sure :( but it is what it is
@@user-yp6wm1qq2p why no movies tho ??, They've been getting better lately, much, more than "boy- girl- romance -fighting" stuff
I am trying to learn Japanese
Maybe we can help each other I'll help you Learn Hindi and you help me with Japanese!?
तुम्हे यह कमेंट हिंदी में लिखना चाहिए था, अब्भ्यास के लिये।। 😄😅
but knowing your native language is very important or else the languages will get lost
@The Internet yes it does make sense. If people start forgetting their native languages through generations it will become obsolete and replaced by for example, only English
I know my native language Spanish plus I also know English I can translate and speak and write both langagues perfectly fluently.
@@IvanPlayStation4LiFethat's great!
I wish I had people in my family speak their Native language :( They all speak English with accents
I hate my language
I was the polar opposite growing up. My parents used to try and speak English to me at home and I would reply in my mother tongue, "No. English is for the outside. At home we speak our language." I'm glad I did that. Now I can speak fluently with all my non-English speaking relatives.
TheonlyHoneyBadger It's the primary language in Mumbai. It's called "Marathi".
+Talin Antarkar good for you!!!!!!
XShadowshot thanks!!!!!!
good for you. Sometimes I feel like I'm too hard for keeping our language but I hope they some day will appreciate it
you are amazing!
I do understand my native language but when it comes to speaking I forget everything and end up stuttering
OMG YAH!! I speak Hindi and I understand EVERYTHING but cant speak it :(
sAmE
For me I sound like the same 11 year old. Idk enough to have conversations on serious subjects, usually just day to day stuff!
I see your name is 박지민, I understand my native language(Korean)... It was my mother tongue even tho I was not born in Korea.... Hope you learn it as well
@@firstnamelastname1773 I'm also korean (my name is an idol's name since I'm not comfortable sharing my native name), how did you end up staying consistent in learning korean? I have a hard time trying to balance it out as I have more English speakers in my family (at least to who I talk to) and also korean friends who only speak english to me?
I'm Nepali raised in India whenever I meet my grandmother it's really hard for me to communicate with her 😢
Dont worry dude it's the same issue with me.Trust me many people face this problem too
And I am an Indian born and raised in Nepal and I know both the languages fluently..😁 thanks to Bollywood and Indian television
Hi army :) 💜💜💜💜
@@LaLa-ig5jf hlo fellow ARMY 💜💜💜
You should learn nepali never forget you culture, your language your tradition for anything.
I also don't understand those parents who just refuse to speak in their own language to their child but just speak English.
They probably want their kids to speak English well because they tried so hard to speak it properly and get the opportunities that comes with that
I know for my friend (mom is off the boat Italian, dad is polish) her mother didn't teach her Italian because she didn't want her father to feel left out or isolated because the children knew Italian and he didn't, so she never taught them. Sad
me too, it's sad
+Gabbi S ya
+Bridget Carta i love italians and polish omg that's cool
She's crying because she got good grades while it was important, instead of learning a language which she can do whenever she gets her live on track(like it is now)
Yeah, must be hard though with time already gone when she could have used the language if some of her family members passed away.
+Negus_Nark she can talk to them in heaven now! 😇
Well she did go to Dartmouth which is an Ivy League school
it sounded like fake crying
+Madeline b her grandfather died recently and she went to India for his funeral, so thinking about not knowing his native language is probably what has her tearing up.
DONT BE ASHAMED IF YOU DONT KNOW YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE it’s okay and you always have a chance to learn it’s never too late to start :)
Thanks 😭
Define "Native Language"
My mom would disown me if I don't know my native language.
I would probably do that too. Just kidding. But i would never accept that my kids don't want to learn their mother tongue. I just can't
Hi army :) 💜💜💜
@@LaLa-ig5jf hi💜
@@ishratjahan2999 SKKS..I WOULD TOO IF I GOT MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN I MEAN
Mine too. More like we wouldn't be able to talk. Lucky both my parents spoke to me in their native languages
I think that it's the parents' responsibility to teach their kids their native language
Fatima Tariq it is, but you have to 'practice' every day or they forget LIEK ME... I understand Telugu though so and can say some basic words
Fatima Tariq+ You are right, My Parents are from Pakistan and India (Father from India and my mom from Pakistan) I can speek both languages fluently ya and i know Hindi and Urdu are almost the same. I can also speak little bit Marathi.
Sana Khan that's cool dude
There's only so much a parent can teach you when nobody around you speaks the language
I agree and it's not that their bad parents, it's just something they overlook as not important.
Let's give a hug to the Indian-American girl 💟
Cider your Summer🌌 i see an indian once?!💛
Chanyoel’s toes, Nope I'm French-Korean :)
Cider your Summer🌌 I’m Arab/Russian/Korean
Cider your Summer🌌I'm Moroccan/Persian/Mongolian
Hindi and Urdu words are so similar.
The Indian-American is so beautiful my gosh
Yes. i wanna know who she is
@@MrZeGrave Michelle Khare
To everyone reading this
आप का दिन अच्छा जाए
Aapka din acchha jaaye
(Have a good day)
I thought that means “Hope your day goes good”
@@killrate3432 well yeah that is also true
@@killrate3432
It should've been "hope your day goes *well" but that still sounds awkward in English.
Literal, word by word translations don't work all the time, even more when the two languages are barely related.
"Have a nice day" would be the closest translation.
@@vivy-kun3510 agreed
Hindi
I hated my mother for putting me through Japanese school on the weekends [in addition to regular grade school Mon-Fri] but now that I'm an adult I'm SO glad she made me keep it up. I have several half Japanese friends who didn't learn/their parents didn't stress it and they wish they'd learned now that they have children of their own. While I'm not 100% fluent, I have no accent when I speak Japanese, and it's one of the things I'm truly grateful to my mother for.
+Zazsuran Hoshuko ftw!
My mum forced me to go through shoo-gakkou and chuu-gakkou at my Japanese Saturday school, I hated that, but now that I've graduated, I feel like I should have paid more attention in writing classes, and I shouldn't have taking it all for granted 😅
I wish I had Japanese classes before because I'll be visiting my grandparents in Japan on November, unfortunately I can barely speak Japanese.
+RW it will definitely be worth it in the long run! I'm not going to lie, my mother and I often got into arguments [but what teen doesn't argue with their parents once in a while?] but I'm in my 30s and very few of my friends can speak/read/write. It's definitely the reason I have a pretty strong bond with my mother :)
Omg I go to Japanese school on the weekends as well! I have it tomorrow ^_^
I'm sorry but, This is just a tad to dramatic [ from 0:28 to 00:42]
-.-
I agree lol... i was wondering who else felt this way.. and im an indian american too
+PigToots idk, you can't really say that if you don't understand their situation.
+Emily Mack I mean, she chose not to learn it, she was acting as if her family was too underprivileged to learn the language.
why are y'all being so hateful lol
+Ejay Reyes We are just saying, She was too Dramatic
I can speak English, American, Australian and canadian
Haha and British too XD btw hi army :) 💜💜
Lol for a second I actually thought you could speak 4 languages
I can speak 3 languages Odia,Hindi and English
i. can speak english american australian canadian british ......😂 then malayalam tamil and hindi..
Jungkook Kookie I speak BRITISH and New Zelandi
As a cambodian girl, I have not seen a lot of cambodian representations in videos like these. I feel like cambodians are looked over in a way so this means a lot to me. THANK YOU THANK YOU! ❤️
no idea why people dont want to speak their native language
i am glad i can speak/write/understand/read korean
It usually results in trying too hard "to fit in."
that's amazing
exactly
Sometimes its the environment. Everybody's talking in English there so who are these people going to practice with? Especially that Laos guy.
Stewie Griffin
Me too!!!
Same I was born in England and I moved to USA now I never learned Englandish so sad.
Larisse Amany I'm really confused I live in the UK and I have never heard of Englandish
lmao xD you crossed a line.... in this case.... a country 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Please tell me this is a joke.
UltraMarioLegendz it is lmfao.
Mad Movie Maker yeah, wierd right?😂
This title and the terminology this video is using is wrong. Their native language is English. The video is referring to their heritage language. if they don't know the language, it cannot be called a native language.
Right.
I can't agree more.
Exactly
Yep
Okay so I don’t think it’s that deep but you’re right
I love learning different languages. Actually I’m Nepali and my Nepali is really good and since I was little I learned Hindi just by watching indian movies and tv show that’s why my Hindi is good too. And now I’m trying to improve my English and learn Spanish too
Wow way to go, you're amazing! Love your determination! Lots of love from India:))
Many people feel ashame to speak their native languages in the western world because they afraid people will look down on them especially people from the third world countries, on the other hand the westerners go to different countries speak loudly their native languages and feel proud of it. Do you know why? Think about it yourself.
Jacky Tang self hating Asians?
Yes their parents have taught them to become submissive to the country and culture they have arrived to. Very sad, and weak if u ask me🤣
People who can speak another language don't usually care what others around them are thinking. I think they are ashamed because they can't pronounce the words, so then just say the language that they can say, which is English. How many times have we heard young people attempt their parents' language, stutter and mispronounce, then just use English? This is why I think people, not just young people, are afraid to use a foreign language.
u worded that weirdly "will look down on them especially people from the third world countries"
BlueMoonLightDreams sorry that you only speak one language
When I was entering middle school, I began to forget how to speak my native language, which is Korean. And although I found it so annoying back then, I will forever be grateful for my mother, who made me speak Korean at home so that I wouldn't forget the language. I feel as if I would have so many regrets if I hadn't learned Korean back then became it is so much harder to learn languages as you age. Thank you so much mom ♡♡♡
*because
Same here with my mom. She makes me go to Chinese school every Sunday to learn how to speak, write and read Mandarin. I use to find it annoying but I'm more open/willing to learn more of the language now that I took an interest in learning a different language; Korean! I find the language very interesting and because of my interest in Hangul, I've realised it's important to have your native language at heart since it is part of your heritage in which you should embrace it. I know Mandarin, Cantonese and my real native language and wish to further enhance them. Fortunately I'm still young and there's still many more things to learn. Hopefully I'll continue to learn more languages.
Languages are actually easier for adults than kids to learn but whatever
Yup. For a child, learning language is part of their brain chemistry. They are literally built to absorb information; they do this in an unconscious state of mind, like they’re learning and they don’t even know it. They are live sponges, soaking up information. Adults and older children, on the other hand, have to consciously learn the information which makes it harder because when we learn that way, information sometimes gets lost or disassociated. And for kids, they're not afraid to mispronounce things and they learn from their mistakes.
Korean? Im learning to speak it...its pretty hard😅
Remember people being bilingual is a privilege
yeh I am billungual
In most of the non western world it's extremely common.
*if you live in America
Blackmesh and isn’t an immigrant
@@BlackM3sh If an American is monolingual is by choice. Some elementary schools have bilingual options. It is just Spanish, but still. So many language classes here and we have access to free content these days. I learned French in high school. Most high schools offer language classes and universities. I got lucky that my French teacher was so good at teaching us. I took Japanese classes before and doing self study now. Will take Korean classes next year. I found out that they teach them at this university tuition free to everyone. Just 40 dollars registration fee. So it is all up to the individual if they want to stay monolingual. And the library is a good resource. I get my Japanese books there to practice my reading :)
Omgg!!! I know 4 languages : Hindi, English, Sanskrit and maithili.... completely an Indian thing cuz I'm still in highschool....
@@lialia2263 Lol no. It's not.
I can speak Hindi, English, a lil Japanese. I used to speak Bengali too but after 7 years I forgot
It’s not ‘an Indian thing’ lol like that’s ridiculous. Half the world is multilingual lol. I know you guys are proud of being Indian and that’s fine by me just don’t make stuff up.
@@steviedavidson5130 it's that's fine "with" me
@Ashwini M P lol 😂
As a multilingual I'm so happy to to see them try. Bosnian Arabic and English all fluently
Hey I speak Bosnian too!! Are you from there? :)
+AnaBanana no I'm not but my mum is, however I learnt it by living there for approx a year
+Amalija Schofield Cool. I have a question. Can Bosnians understand Serbians? Are there any similarities like in Portuguese and Spanish.
I speak Arabic :D
+-KiwiGaming- where u from? ;3
I thought this would be funny with people laughing at how badly they mess up pronouncing words
same
+Dianna Kensington what same?
+Lily Lawrence we were all wrong ._.
+gabriellatful BAHAHAHAH
Same here
It scared me. I never want my children to forget their mother tongue. I can't even imagine that. As a bangladeshi bengali, my mother tongue is so important to me. It's hard for me to just accept that my cousin's kids who are living in Australia can not read bengali.
You rejected your mother religion, but you speak a language which was spoken by them. Bengali is derived from Prakrit which was derived from sanskrit which was derived vedic sanskrit which was used to write vedas. "Vedas" means knowledge. The book of knowledge. Have you ever read it ?
@@justrandomhuman3781 go preach your religion in the religious section guruji. Also a name doesn’t indicate someone's religion. I have a cousins named Miara, rayn, nora and sooha and yanli. These names come from different origins. My ancestors shed blood for my mother tongue so you have no right to look down upon me because the origin of my faith is different.
@@ishratjahan2999 Sorry! Chill. I didn't mean to offend you. Calm down.
@@ishratjahan2999 you should focus on arabic or urdu
@@rakeshsinghbisht3623 she's Bangladeshi Her mother tongue is Bengali why should she? Religion has nothing to do with language bro
Languages I know---
1st Language: English
2nd Language: Hindi
3rd Language: Sanskrit
4th Language: Bengali
5th Language: Spanish
6th Language: Korean
7th Language: Japanese
8th Language: Urdu
9th Language: Arabic
10th Language: Chinese
11th Language: French
12th Language: German
I know you won't believe but in India most of the people know three languages which are English, Hindi and the Language of their state.
I have to know 12 languages because I travel across the world a lot.
Every like is a new language added to my list 💓
Edit: Well thanks for the 100 likes guys 😄😄😄 I learnt 5 more languages: Urdu, Arabic, Chinese, French and German. And 100 languages is pretty hard so I am gonna say that for every hundredth like I'm gonna learn more 5 languages.
What if u got 5,000 likes?
@@user-ez5bl6ii8j no u r wrong every state has a different mother tongue
Hindi English Urdu Bengali Sanskrit 😊
How strong is your Spanish?
Not all Indians in India know Hindi.
When the last girl started talking abiut her grandma and the nursery rymes i lost it i am still crying rn
watch my video on the same topic (How china people speak english )
very funny video
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And still to this very day, Natalie Steel is weeping.
Natalie Steel the last chick was a horrible actor 😒
They're not actors though O-o
lmfao i ment i was cryin then when i wrote the comment im dead asf
Technically it's their ANCESTORS' native language.
ye
+Jayvee Robrigado Well, if ancestors means only two generations ago, sure. But these people grew up with parents and grandparents who did speak the language and didn't pass it on.
+Jayvee Robrigado Yes, well, my father's grandparents spoke 4 different mother tongues and then there my mother's side.....These are pretty close to me but this means I am the only one who was raised in English and my "ancestors" from 14 different European nations (I know my family tree quite well) spoke too many languages that I can dream to learn. I am bilingual only in English and French and can get along in German or Italian but this is about it. No real knowledge of Russian or Greek or Gaelic (Scotland) or Serbo-Croatian or Romanian......and I have no clue whatsoever in Bulgarian, Breton, Welsh, Yiddish or Norwegian.........
I learnt that americans are really tied to their ancestry, for example the fact fhat most of them say that they are Italian, Irish, Japanese etc. while here in Europe (at least for my personal experience) we tend not to do that even if we have migrant ancestors, so I think that saying "native" can be accepted in this case
+山崎六郎 they should have passed down the language and culture , one should not forget their even if they are not born there.
Love the Indian American girl. She's also beautiful
Wow someone that actually thinks Indian girl is nice?? Damn. Usually they get all the hate lol
@@ruggsparch2787 IKR!!!!!!!!!!!! Most people think that we are ABCD's. I'm not confused. I'm confident. Besides that, I can fluently speak Bangla, and am learning to write and read it.
YES SHE IS
@@anandisarkar8549 did you learn it or it’s your first language ?
*when ur multilingual*
English friend: did you know, bla bla bla bla?
Me: *accidentally speaks in korean*
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
진짜? 나도 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
I understand you at a spiritual level......
Same
You know that feeling, where have to say a word from your native language, and then you had to switch back to English to explain what it meant, but because you switched to fast, you said it with an inarticulate accent? I once had to explain what "stupid" meant, and when I switched back to English, I spoke in English-Carabao...
English-Carabao is English, but it's very inarticulate, and wrong grammar... Yee ;-;
Not being able to speak the native language, to me, is so terrifying. If I didn't learn Vietnamese since I was younger, I would not be able to connect to my parents, grandparents and other family members on a deep level. My family refused to talk to me in English at home because they know I would be able to catch up with English in school. The amount of family jokes and stories that I would miss out on would be such a shame if I didn't understand Vietnamese.
I live in Germany and my parents are Vietnamese and we talk in German most of the time, because when I was younger my dad had a hard time finding a job in his department with his broken German, so he liked to practise it with his family. As a result my parent's German is pretty good and the rest of my extended family in Vietnam thinks I'm a disgrace for not speaking Vietnamese very well. lol
Aber für eine Vitnamnesin siehst du sehr hübsch und attraktiv für meine Befürfnisse als junger Typ. :P Falls du das auf deinem Profil wirklich sein solltest.
Danke :'D ist ein seehr altes Foto
+Laura that happens to a lot of vietnamese families here in London
Laura Ich weiß ja nicht ob es dir aufgefallen ist, aber in Düsseldorf und Frankfurt gibt es die meisten Vitnamnesinen, Japaner, Koreaner, und Chinesin. Wusstest du das ?
I feel uncomfortable speaking Chinese cause people won't understand me since my pronunciation is so bad that in chinese if you make a different pronunciation the word changes completely and then they start laughing...
same...
yea...I can feel ya. Writing and understanding is easy but then for speaking, there like a weird slang in it
It's called a tone
I feel you sometimes but I find that it's okay, try practising. I also occasionally pronounce words wrongly though but I do correct myself after.
Xavi Xiang
I totally understand...
the fact that most of these people can actually pronounce their mother tongue correctly signifies how they're still capable of posessing their language. This just shows how important it is to retain a native gift. It's better to learn late than never, because the talent could get lost.
it's not their native language, it's their ancestral language. your native language is the language you grew up speaking in, like english.
Native languages or ancestral languages. There is a difference.
Exactly. I personally find this video offensive because it implies that any ethnic person in america has to have some ties to their "roots" or whatever. I'm african american and like most other african americans, we have no idea where we came from in africa and have been here since the slavery days so does this mean we're "frauds" for not knowing whatever our supposed "native" language even is? I was born in america so english is my native language.
@@thelonercoder5816 this video really isn’t about you guys though. it’s about people who’s parents come from a different country , but being a child up in the united states. so yeah, they still have a right to their culture and it can be sad when they don’t know how to speak the language because if such continues, then their culture will be lost
Everyone : "they're so dramatic omg"
"Tf why they crying 😂"
Well gee, unless you've been through their experiences, I don't think you can say anything. Do you know how it feels to be guilt-ridden, when you and a relative don't even know how to communicate with each other? How it feels in family reunions, when you're the only one there who has no idea what's going on? Or when your relative dies and you never even spoke to them, even though you had several chances to, because you didn't learn your parents' native language?
Honestly. Ppl these days.
+*insert username* Yes, I do know what that's like. I, too, am Indian-American and never spoke anything other than English. This definitely was overdramatic.
+*insert username* yeah i know how that feels like actually. Well i was never feeling ''guilt-ridden'' though.
+bigp132 When I said "through their experiences" I also meant their personal experiences - we don't know what the language barriers meant for them. My brother went through the same thing and he hated it. And, while it may be okay for you, it's not for them.
+bigp132
It means more to them than it does to you. That's all that says
+Uchiha Hohua Thank you.
why do people think its funny not knowing your native language. it is our culture how can we not feel like preserving it.
+Kaiser William -maybe the same reason my family doesn't speak Polish or Celtic? i mean, the last 2 generations born in the US and therefore speak English in everyday life. i don't know... just a guess. but if you were born in the US, the likelihood of needing to know a language other than (maybe) Spanish is pretty low.
+Stephanie B well i am indian. Commonly in my state people speak marathi or Hindi. My mother tongue is a dialect of Konkani spoken by about only 50000 ppl. Among many of my friends one parent speaks konkani and other doesnt but they still speak it quite fluently. Even if u live in a state where ur native language isnt the main language people still speak their mothertongue at home irrespective of where they live.
Half of my family has stayed in Washington DC for over 3 generations now- They still speak Odiya (A 5000 year old language spoken by only 3% of India's population in the state of Odisha), They speak American English, Little tidbits of India's most spoken language- Hindi. As for my family- We have never stayed in the state of Odisha in India- We stayed in Mumbai where the official language is Marathi and English. Yet I ended up learning Odiya,Marathi,Hindi,English,Japanese,Mandarin,Korean and several local Indian languages. It's not a big deal.
+Sagar Mahapatra 👏👏👏
Thank you for expressing this, I agree it's not funny. My grandmother's health has turned for the worst and I cannot communicate with her, it makes it really awkward and I feel disappointed in myself. I wish I had worked harder at learning Vietnamese when I had the chance.
The indian girl made me cry even just at the beginning 😢💔
I love speaking my native language I speak filipino and I try to always to find friends that speak the same language and its so sad that my pilipino friends don't want to speak tagalog
I can be your filipino friend who speaks tagalog ;))) Bilingual ako rin pero mas dominant ako sa English kasi pinanganak ako sa abroad huehue
Sana talaga may isang maimpuwensya na tao sa Pilipinas tulad ng Pangulo na maging daan upang magsalita tayo ng tuwid na Tagalog dahil ang sagwa talaga pakinggan kapag inihahalo ito sa wikang Ingles na animo ay nagsasalitang banyaga.
I can speak my language but can't read or write lmao
TAEYONGIEEEE!!!! ❤❤❤
+Jiminiex ♥ chim chim
JIMIN!!
+jiminiepabo Hi Jimins 😂
+Amitha Alex same...
Heritage languages, not native languages. It's not your native tongue if you don't speak it XD
+cmiller8492 Not true. I have a friend from greece, born in greece, with two greek parents, who no longer speaks greek. When you move to a different country and you only speak this new language, you no longer are actively using that other language, and you slowly forget how to speak it because you don't use it. Another friend I have was adopted from a russian orphanage, at the age of two, was brought to america. Both are still natives, both was still born in in another country and still is considered an immigrant. Both no longer speak the language they learned as a child. This isn't just them, many people who move to foreign countries lose their native language. There's a youtuber who was canadian who as an adult moved to japan. After living there for 10 years, she now has trouble speaking english because she doesn't need to know it. So in an attempt to practice and keep herself fluent in her native language she used youtube as a space to retain that side of her. If you don't use it, you lose it. Same with anything that is learned. Like how parents look at their child's algebra homework and can't remember how to solve the problem even though when they took the same class. When you get out of school, algebra isn't used in everyday life, so it's forgotten about.
It's not even just language. When people move, even across the united states, accents and dialects slowly rub off on the travelers and they will start talking in the dialect of where they're currently located. It's part of the way our bodies adapt to our surroundings for survival. No one really knows exactly why this happens in speech as well, but it's been proven to happen consistently to travelers. It's part of absorbing other cultures. These people could of easily spoken their native language until kindergarten, and they had to adapt to the culture they were thrown into. You could do your own research as well.
cmiller8492 I tend to use heritage language for cases where it's immediate family that speaks it. They're only one generation displaced; to me at least, 'ancestral language' implies that it stopped being spoken several generations before.
Asians can't help tht there brown or yellow right? No matter how u put it we would feel comfortable speaking our own native languages thts a fact Unless u have no sense of discomfort living in a white society what's so ever
+Jaclyn Lizzi
thank you Jaclyn, finally someone with a sound answer.
+Michelle Tabisz Well said!
I am 17 and i can speak 4 languages.
1. Haryanvi (my mother tongue)
2. Hindi
3.punjabi( i can speak except some difficult words)
4. English
Looking forward to leanr some more languages.
I'm 18 and I speak and I'm learning french as my 5th
Spanish (my native tongue)
English
Italian
Portuguese
I'm 16 and I can speak
English
Hindi
Tamil (my dad)
Kannada (my mom)
Korean (learnt)
French (learnt)
Almost finishing my courses in 2 languages :
Chinese
Spanish
I'm sorry if anyone found it offensive or as if I'm showing off i wanna be a lauguage interpreter so I'm learning with interest 😄
@@sensorcato I'm sorry,is that supposed to be funny?
@@khione07 u can actually speak so much of them? Thats cool man 👍
@@shailesh5514 Thank you so much ❤️😭 , I've always been interested in learning languages , I'm thinking of opening a channel to teach or give tips on languages ...
My mom sang me that Japanese nursery rhyme when I was little ;-;
Wow I didn't know it was going to be emotional
Earth Is Not Flat yea it wasn’t that deep
it wasnt deep at all. they're just buzzfeed cucks
I’ve cried before for not being able to speak Tagalog. As an American who has never been to the Philippines and never got to have a relation with my relatives there.. I wish I could speak Tagalog. As my Filipino family keeps passing away before I get to meet them.. it’s tough. Tagalog would bring me so much closer to my ancestors and heritage. It’s just a missing part of me and these people too.
+Deeco Draven criiiinge. you sound like a 12 year old lol
Earth Is Not Flat I saw you somewhere else on youtube
I feel blessed that my mom talked Tagalog to me and my dad talked Spanish to me 😊🙏
Burmese - That's Mexican isn't it?
Burmese - Then what i should say being a Colombian kiubo parcero 😂
one thing about speaking in your native language: IT IS NICE TO CURSE WITH IT
is it weird that i have like three native languages (/dialogs) and i dont remember any one of them?
edit: Im indian so Hindi ofc, my mom's language, Nocte (NE india, Arunachal Pradesh) and my dad's language, Assamese (NE, India)
You should at least learn one of your native language. I think you should learn assamese first.
When you are an Indian there are layers of tradition, languages, custom, rituals.
Sorry for my english I m indian half punjabi and half hindi speaking with a local area language ,😊😊😊😊
Lol i live in Mumbai in 5 languages its common in Mumbai fr ppl to speak 3-4 languages
I'm so glad I grew up with my mom (polish) and dad (italian) and they both spoke to me in their languages until I was 6, then I dropped italian because my dad left but he still taught me it for 6 years! He doesn't know any other languages so I still talk to him in Italian, and well, of course I know Polish to talk to my mom. I'm glad that I had this opportunity, and I'm sad when I find out about people that didn't get it. You should totally learn your language! :)
dude... you learn 3 different language... me gusta senorita. lol jk but seriously... teach me how to have parents with diff country. I want to learn other language too..
Shafwan Dito That's the sad part, it's all luck :(
***** Dzieki, ale nie ma co podziwiac- to wszystko szczescie! Lepiej podziwiac tych co sie sami nauczyli :)
Coffee The Bunny That's a really cool combination! How did that work? Both my parents are pure nationalities
raziell I'm currently studying Korea and learning the language :)
I speak Uranese, I'm from Uranus.
the Indian girl seemed to genuinely and deeply repent not being in touch with her culture and its language...her voice cracked right from the start ...her parents should be proud of her ...
Abh Ghu non genuine.
she has been on buzzfeed for such a long time now, how can you even think what she said was genuine 😂
저 한국에서왔어요
don't worry, we have lots people over here to keep culture alive. NRI(non resident of India) always get over dramatic about India when they are in other country. At instant they land here start complain about own country.
Abh Ghu proud that though she's an invader, she has not been influenced beyond repair by her occupied territory? You have to go back.
When i was young i envy those kids who grew up in US and speaks English everytime they visited the Philippines. Now i feel proud that i can speak both my native language and English fluently. Knows and converses a little arabic and on my way learning my fourth which is Turkish. They say it’s harder to learn a new language if you only learned one growing up. Its never too late to learn your native language tho 🙂🙂🙂
I appreciate the intro, there are not many videos with people that are part Lao and I am really proud that this video includes my culture as well
I used to speak Japanese when I was little but then my family moved to America because of my dads job and I stopped speaking Japanese ever since. I can understand Japanese I just can't speak it. I am trying to learn now
Miyah Rose I'm exactly like you but with kabyle (berbère) and I feel bad for that :c
I'm sure muscle memory will kick in and help you learn quicker
Miyah Rose hai
depending on where you live in the US, there is a chance you can connect with other Japanese-Americans. But Japanese is definitely spoken in the US, albeit not by everyone! maybe when you ask and look around you can connect with young people in a similar situation who also want to connect with their native tongue again. good luck! and if anything else fails, you could still check Japanese classes for beginners at your high school/college, I'm sure you'll beat all those non-Japanese people learning it as an entirely new language to them.
If you live on the west coast or Hawaii, you can find Japanese people to talk with. It's really nice for me here in Hawaii, and even though I'm in a "white school" 14 out of 20 kids are Japanese, the rest are Chinese and white
Is it weird I can't speak my mother and fathers language but I can understand all of it 💜💜💜🇬🇭💜💜💜
Yvonne Myers no. I can understand mandarin dialects but I dont speak it.
Saaame
ayyy ghana
same here... i can understand my mom's borneo language but i can't speak it... 😂😂
Yvonne Myers no
Whenever I’m in public with my cousin, we speak in Gujarati, and at school when we see someone that one of us or both of us hate, we trash talk them in Gujarati, as long as we say it with a smile, they think it’s a compliment when really I’m calling them a two faced snake with a voice of a two year old on a sugar high.
haha😄.
જ્યાં જ્યાં વસે એક ગુજરાતી ત્યાં ત્યાં સદાકાળ ગુજરાત ✌️.
Greetings 💙
@Pooja Patel lol same
That's same with me & my sister but in Bengali lol
You guys are toxic. Glad I don't know any of you
Learning your language is a beautiful thing and it should never be forgotten.
That forced background music trying hard to create an emotional impression but failed completely.
This, exactly. I'm not crying. Not at all, this is rain on my face right now.
Ashish Pradhan Common in Yankee documentaries.
😂😂😂
Lol idk why that girl was crying. My parents never taught me their native languages (spanish/Armenian) and while it sucks it’s not that crazy
DXmaryoOD well, it’s different for everyone. i get sad sometimes because my grandmother only speaks twi (ghanian language) and i don’t understand, and it sucks to translate. it’s embarrassing (to me)
When you can mildly understand Korean by the amount of kdramas and kpop videos you've watched
i love your username.
if there's a chogiwill, there's chogiway :v
Chogiwa x ikr even tho im not korean
dude!!! same!!!
im not sure if i should be proud of it though lmao
I'm half Asian (Thai) and half Israeli and grew up in America and my parents spoke Thai and Hebrew to me since I was young. Due to this, I've been trilingual since a very young age. It's sad to me that many people don't teach their children their native tongue.
Arent Israelis asian though
@@ericktellez7632 Not culturally or racially. Maybe geographically
To my fellow Asian Americans, I believe that the knowledge of your own native language is not lost. Deep inside your memories, that ability is waiting for you to unlock once more. I’m Hmong American, and I can relate so well with your struggles. Most of the time, I understand the white Hmong dialect, but reading, writing, and speaking it is another matter. My pronunciation of my native language isn’t as great, but I know if I immerse myself again, I get better at it. Just saying those few words is just the beginning. 🙂
"I don't even think I can count past 10" **nervous fake laugh**
tae tae and his tea 👀
I believe it too, he cant understand easy words like "you" in laos LOL that's pretty sad. I mean at least he should know how to say "you" "me" in laos. he didn't even recognize it LOL
j j , because he didn't learn the language. i don't think its something to laugh about tbh
xiusthetic oh I'm not laughing at him, he just did a fake laugh
i didn't say it to you, i replied to j j who said that its pretty sad that he doesn't even know "you" in laos and he didn't even recognize it. i mean, how could he if he never learned the language?
Jeez I thought this was gonna be a funny video
ffion williams same and then it ended up being a sob story lol
same here..
Allister N
That is so sad. Oh my God. :*-(
Why did you think this was doing to be funny?
Ikr damn
Whenever I watch this video it always makes me so happy that my family never gave up on teaching me Cantonese
Ugh this hits me so hard. I moved to the west when I was 3 and pretty much grew up speaking English. However, when I was around 9 I came back to my home country, not knowing how to speak my native language and attended an English speaking school instead. There is so much hostility towards people that cannot speak the native language in my home country that it kind of demotivate me to learn
Englishero
don't shame kids/adults for not getting the chance to learn their language. as adults it is even more difficult even if they really wanted to. whats the point of showing off how you know these languages when all you're gonna do is shame thise who only know one
+Claire B actually, it's because some, if not most, of them chose to not learn it when they were young. I have cousins who can no longer understand or speak our native tongue because they were ashamed to even speak our native tongue when we were little. Now they are ridden with guilt and regrets because they could hardly communicate with our dying grandparents. And how could one even claim to be of a certain ethnic descent when one cannot even speak, least understand, the language? They brought it upon themselves..
+Phil Lux Some of them did, yes - and that's why they feel so guilty in the video.
+Phil Lux um... I didn't choose to not learn, my mother did. She never taught me and I resent her for it because now I can't communicate with a majority of my family.
Yup I agree
+Phil Lux I just feel you can be part of that ethnicity even if you weren't able to learn the language. As long as you respect where you come from and not insult it. I think we shouldn't hate or think of them less for not knowing the language of their ancestors...
I am lucky! I come to the United States when I was a little older; at 10 years old. I spoke fluent Somali and keeping my language, heritage and culture has been a priority.
+samana1fromsomalia awwww thats nice
I came to America when I wasn't even born
Yeah Somalia
zingzong4067 it's not like anyone is dying to meet you in Mogadishu.
Charles Bronson Who said I'm Somali?
1:09 so true man, my family always tells us this, but we never listen...
@3:00 my great grandmother was from sicily and she too had severe dementia prior to her death. She didn't even recognize me towards the end but when I would repeat to her sicilian phrases she had taught me when I was young I would see that same flicker in her eyes that momentarily brought her back to earth
I'm also mixed. I didn't want to speak French when I was little, but when I got older I understood how important it was to learn several languages. Thanks to that I can speak with my family in Tunisia and France. I haven't learnt Arabic, but French is good enough. I don't think you should cry about it. Instead you can study your parents languages. If you really want to learn.
seriously. like if you want to learn, then learn. nothing is holding you back but yourself.
Je parle français, espangol, et anglais. Je sui un américain de parents pérouvien et espangol. Et oui, Apprendre idiomes différents C'est très important
Mes parents sont anglais et americainne, donc j’ai été élevé seulement parlent 1 langue. J’essaie apprendre le français, l’arabe etc maintenant mais il est plus difficile. Si tu as les parents qui ne parle pas anglais, apprend d’ils. c’est util pour toi
You know..indians breaks down easily, very sensitive 😂😂😂
Instead of crying why not go learn it 😅
exactly lol
I hate it when people don't learn their native language... You can learn English incredibly easily once you go to school.
I learnt my home language at 16. It's possible. I wish they wouldn't make their lives seem so difficult and instead make some effort to pick up the language. It can be done.
Exactly. There is a simple solution to all this: learn the language.
+Sophie K maybe some people don't feel the need to. Why is that so bad?
I cried.....
I feel this deeply.
I understand that our parents wanted us to adapt to being American but I feel like a lot of us were completely robbed of our culture and heritage. I'm Filipino-American....
I know little of the country my ancestors come from. I know a few Tagalog words and songs. I always try my best to understand even if I can't.
reclaim your heritage language like Native Americans do with their heritage languages!
I don’t know why I get so emotional watching this but I can totally relate to them. Fortunately I can speak my native language, not brilliant but it’s enough to talk to my grandparents and parents. I love that my parents talk to me in our native language although I speak another language with my sisters and friends. I’m proud of growing up bilingual!😊
I dont understand why some parents prefer to speak to their child in english than in their native language. Its not like they would forget english just because they use their native language lol.
I personally think that it is an advantage to know your native language. Just so if you went back to your country, you wouldnt feel left out because of language barrier.
lalisa in your area
well, if u go to an English speaking school, FULL of pple speaking English at a young age, then when ur older, you will start to forget ur mother tongue. u learn best in languages when ur young, once u get older, it may be too late n more difficult. don't blame anyone. u saying it is making them feel more guilt.
The parents are sort of to blame I guess...
Tracy Aung that's exactly what happened to me
They do so for better “assimilation.” Especially if you live in suburbia, maybe the South, or far from a heavily populated US city there’s more discrimination against minorities. My parents moved us to predominantly white preppy areas and always saw it as necessary to have a strong command of English to be taken seriously. They even took speech classes to improve upon their accents. It’s a hard life. My parents fought so hard in their highly competitive careers battling and competing against discrimination in the workplace. Unfortunately there are many Asian-American people like me who became brainwashed to think that our ethnic background deemed us “inferior.” Now as a twenty-something and trying to understand myself and where I come from, I find it so important to have pride in my heritage. Filipinos are some of the most nurturing and welcoming in culture and are not lesser people. Also, English is my native language. Tagalog and Bisaya are not native to me, but native to my parents. I speak English. The title is very incorrect.
Speaking as an Asian-American and observing other families like mine, most if not all immigrant parents will continue speaking to their children in their native languages. That doesn't automatically mean their child will grow up *speaking* the language, they'll only be able to understand it. It's up to the child *themselves* to show interest in their native cultures and learn the language of their parents, which thankfully, I chose to do. I can't imagine not being bilingual and having a language barrier that could've easily been avoided.
I'm personally waiting for the koreaboos and weeaboo To come up and rejoice how much Korean or Japanese they know and how they're more Asian than the people in this video
Me 😂😂😂
+Jonghyun's Trash 가비 me too haha
Me
Me too
LMFAO that's why I was scrolling through the comments
I feel all emotion.. big hug for all
My great-grandfather was from China and lived a very long life and I had the privilege of having him around to teach me Chinese and be in my life up until I was 4. That time was always special to me and I'm the only one of his kids, grandkids and great-grandkids who can speak Chinese fluently now. The others either forgot, weren't interested or weren't around while he was still alive. I think about him every time I speak it and hope he's proud of me ❤
I'm South Korean but I live in Paris since I'm 4. When I was in elementary school, I was the only Asian with my sister and the other children looked at us as if we were creatures in a circus. They always asked to me to speak in Korean and laughed at how it sounded. Sometimes, I didn't know the word in French so I said it in Korean and again, people were laughing at me and it was frustrating. So slowly, I rejected my Korean culture because of what people reacted to that. In my last year of middle high, I couldn't talk a lot with my family because of the language barrier. So I put some efforts to learn Korean. Now, I'm 20 and a fully bilingual French/Korean. Plus, I can speak English, a little bit of German and Japenese. Just to say : yes, it is our fault for not being able to speak our native language. But it doesn't mean that we are not victims.
Atleast you're multilingual and many of your countrymen are not! It's always better to have a broad look at things. :)
Elena JK I'm proud of you! I started studying in France last year. I don't see any people who act against Asian people because I and they came of age already and are University student. I understand
what you experienced and I don't expect I can get over that situation if I was you. But you kept learning your mother tongue. That's not easy. Super.
Elena JK I'm black and me and my parents visited South Korea for BTS and when we was walking on the street people will just stop and stare at us like we were outsiders or something
Elena JK 20 and already masterd 3 languages... Arigatou for the inspiration!
oml same here, serious langauge barriers between my parents so i grew up without knowing languages as a child and now i'm trying to learn to reach out to my family
im pretty sure many of you knew what arigatogozaimashita meant :D
The gozaimashita is a more formal way of saying arigato
I did ANIME!!!! XD
Angel remot ore wa oh chin chin daisuki nandayo
Angel remot akito and anime
im pretty sure to make it more formal, you would add domo to the front of arigatogozaimashita
I am so happy my parents made an effort in teaching my native language and few others it did open up my world and how I think and perceive life around me in general. Knowing my native language allowed me to be able to communicate to my grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins back home and understand how they feel and think etc.
I'm a Chinese Canadian 🇨🇳🇨🇦 girl and I can relate to this video because I can only understand half of the Chinese from my family but I will go back this year and take Chinese classes to improve it
All my cousins speak Greek when we get together and I'm here just smiling like an idiot trying to understand them
even in india many ppl hav strated replacing their mother tongue with english. there is a significant culutural change happening in india
that's sad.
:/
That's more in the north in the south not knowing your mother tongue is a huge taboo
+ranga bharadwaj That's only cause the government isn't even putting Punjabi as the main language to learn their replacing it with Hindi and English
Yup even a little while ago i hated my native language and focused on talking in English and having a good accent in tht but there is nothing so special in having a good accent we make up our own accent or pick it up. Who give a f about our accent as long as we can speak a foreign language properly it is all well.
I am so thankful that my parents spoke to me in Vietnamese. Even though I was born here, I am fluent in Vietnamese. Although I work as a Vietnamese teacher, I’m married to a Korean so we try this method called OPOL (one parent one language) so my daughter can speak both Vietnamese and Korean. I would love to send her to a trilingual immersion school (English, Mandarin, and Spanish). That way, my daughter will become multilingual, which is the greatest privilege anyone can have!
I am very proud of and thankful for my Cambodian heritage and Laotian heritage. Thank you to the Cambodian guy and Laotian guy for representing our people. And, thank you to all of the Asian Americans in this wonderful video. It is an amazing tribute to our amazing and diverse cultures.
I thought i was the only one. I grew up speaking mainly English and i could speak and understand Nepali but i refused to speak it because i wanted to be like my friends who spoke only English and then it became a habit and i never speak Nepali cause i'm to embarrassed to speak it. Refusing to speak it is one of my biggest regrets in life cause it really effects my rep to the other Nepali families and i feel like a disgrace to my country.I don't even speak to my parents. But at least i know i'm not the only one. It really sucks cause I have never in my life had a convo with my Grandparents my cousins in Nepal my uncles in Nepal and a lot of friends in Nepal ever for the 12 years i have been alive. :(
I cant read or right either.
aw, that's sad... I am Nepali too, but my parents only ever replied to me when I talked in Nepali, so I had no choice but to speak it, and I am still fluent. I hope you can learn how to speak it, if not read and write.
loveamazingstuff12 thx for the suport it really motivates me i have been taking classes with my nepali friends
You really shouldn't be so hard on yourself. As kids, we'd always want to be more social and like our friends, so it's really understandable that you're not fluent, given that you've grown up with English-speaking surroundings. It's good to hear you're currently taking classes to improve that, so don't feel like a disgrace. In fact, think of it as earning your language. That's what I'm currently doing with one of my native languages too, so as a kindred spirit, I wish you luck!
That's the exact same with me about nepali
i'm vietnamese and I was very good at speaking it until i went to elementry school when i had to learn english. T_T has this happened to anyone else?
Oh my god, yes! I knew how to speak Khmer (Cambodian) until I had to learn English in elementary school also. Now, I'm taking Khmer classes to regain my native language again. 😊
+Auxafly Reports In order to speak more clearly at school, my parents were asked by my speech coach to speak only English for a long period (about 2 years or so?). Now the only Spanish I know is what I've picked up from my extended family, and I can just get by with short conversations.
I used speak Spanish very well and as I began to learn English, I began to refuse to talk in Spanish anymore, so now I'm learning the language again 😕
same
Yeah same. I used to speak Tagalog (Philippines) well, but when I went to elementary school they discouraged me from speaking it, I stopped doing it because I was made fun of for my accent and how I spoke when I tried. I was so embarrassed of being Filipino it's sad to think about tbh. My mom is always urging me to learn it again but it's harder now that I'm older.
I’m glad that my parents taught me Chinese, it’s a source of pride whenever I’m around ABC’s and I speak really well lol :)
Everyone else : being a bilingual
Me : *trilingual*
uhmm ok??
Hiiii!!
I can speak 6 languages
Me: Trylingual (actually my parents and grandparents were born in Australia, I’m trying to speak the language of my wife)
@@Anonymous-qg8nn same
I'm Irish and the Irish language is slowly fading away
I don't even know half the words and nobody I know in Ireland can write in Gaelic. The only person who I knew who could write in Irish was my grandfather and he is away in a better place at the moment.
Irish is a beautiful language and I hope it will stay fluent to most people.
i thought Irish spoke english!!
Doge I lost in the west of Ireland and thankfully where I live Irish is still pretty widely spoken. it's a language I love an a language I'll teach my children ❤
Same. I'm Irish and I really hope the language would get more attention
I love celtic languages so im trying to learn irish
C K N Ireland's primary language now is English. For majority of us our first language is English, we learn through English. Irish is taught in our schools yes but just the basics and even then it's not taught well because I learned how to speak it was through my grandparents...unless you're speaking it every day then it's very hard to speak it fluently. Aswell as that Irish is a very old and very difficult language to grasp so unless it's being spoken in someone's every day language I wouldn't judge someone for not knowing it. Whether they were Irish or otherwise
The moment you realize you been watching to much anime is when you know how to say exactly what the Japanese girl wanted to say
weeaboo
merc - Weaboo is someone who thinks they are Japanese but they are not. OP just likes anime and this doesn't make him/her a weaboo at all
I was thinking all she has to do is just watch anime and she'll learn her language.
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Found the weeb, they are so proud on the Internet
This is really relatable. I really wish I could speak to my grandparents
i've watched this video a really long time ago, but seeing that so many more people have shared their language story i'd like to do the same.
i'm canadian-bangladeshi. i was born in bangladesh and lived there until i was three and moved to canada. in bangladesh, i was a very literate child for my age, and my bengali speech level was beyond the expectations at that time. but, a three-year-old like me had no experience whatsoever in the english language.
when i came to canada in september 2010 and started school a month after, i spoke to everyone in bengali at kindergarten. it was frustrating learning english, and i wasn't a fluent speaker until mid grade 1. after that, however, my english met standards, and i no longer needed assistance.
my entire school life was in english, and i now lived in an english/french speaking country (though where i lived english dominated french). obviously, my bengali skills faded drastically, and i lost so much of my fluency. in fact, the languages switched roles. i exceeded the english expectations for my grade and my bengali skills plummeted.
it's really sad to hear from my parents that i could speak so much better when i was THREE compared to now, or that i could write the whole alphabet and now i can't even write a single letter. it honestly makes me feel ashamed of my above average english skills at one point, if they're only reminding me on how bad i'm becoming at my other language.
now, i'm learning japanese (personal choice) and french (academical requirement). i consider myself at an intermediate level at both. however, it's kind of humiliating that i'm somewhat (or just a little less) proficient in those languages compared to my own mother-tongue that i was once fluent in.