Go to the Oceania Continent. Visit Suva (Fiji), Noumea (Nouvelle Caladonie OSST of France), Christchurch (New Zealand) , Katherine (Northern Territories, Australia), Port Vila (Vanuatu). I love that Continent. Hope to be there soon and forever. I'm from the US. I started my University studies at l'Université Laval (Saint-Foy Québec). I lived in a couple of Countries in Europe, as a Teen. Mexico (Puerto Peñaco) is a gem too. Love it there.
I get a different vibe of NYC everyone is just minding their business no one really cares about you When you go to places is just business It gives you suffocating freedom. If you compared to places where everyone is more sociable and open to conversations.
@@sakuraa2008 I see it as both. We mind our business when it is appropriate or are trying to get someplace (takes time to travel around such a large area!).. but many people will also strike up random conversations when the timing is right or opportunity is presented! I love both & live it every day!!
@@karalynne7616 exactly! New Yorkers are a social creature; it comes with riding the trains and brushing shoulders with so many different people. I moved here a year ago and never wanna leave!
I remember when I first moved to NYC, walking down Canal St, I heard primarily English, then Italian & Spanish, then Mandarin & Cantonese, all in the span of 1 mile. So many different languages and cultures; very much shows how special it is here
Actually now that I think of it, I'm not sure I got any Italian speakers in this video! Surprising, because I know that's a big part of the culture in nyc.
And of His (Allah's) signs is the creation of the heavens & the earth and the diversity of your languages & your colours. {Quran} :) 'Allah does not look at your bodies, nor at your appearance or wealth, but rather He looks at your HEARTS & ACTIONS.' {Prophetic Words}
@@michaelrabich9635 Yeah, and due to lower percentage of immigrants from Western Europe, and their kids not speaking their previous languages, languages such as Italian, Irish, German and Dutch are declining in the city for example
I speak Cantonese at home, used to speak to my wife, who's now my ex-wife, in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Vietnamese. I also used three of the four languages/dialects as part of my previous job. I used to interpret in Spanish for Chinese coworkers. I learned some Norwegian Bokmål as part of my trip to Norway. I learned Greek and Spanish in high school. I also learned some French while apartment -sitting for my grandparents and saw my grandfather's French grammar books. I was also somehow able to connect to a French music channel from Canada on my grandparents' TV way back when. I also learned some Tagalog when a high school classmate brought a Tagalog grammar book and showed me in school, so l learned some words. I also learned some Russian as part of some jobs. Had one high school substitute teacher who taught us Russian and another high school substitute teacher who taught us French. I also learned some African words from some people I worked with from Ghana.
I can speak Belarusian, Russian, Polish, English and I learn Swedish. It's so cool to be able to understand and speak different languages, it's like living several lives in one
i am a native New Yorker and am a professional translator. I am fluent in 5 languages and speak bits and pieces of another 10 or 12. That said, I have all the local merchants in my neighborhood (Brooklyn Heights) trained to teach me new phrases in their languages (when they are other than English). I do the same at my gym where I work out every day and which is exceptionally diverse. I love the linguistic diversity of NYC!
@@TheNewTravel - I live in Boston and Spanish is prevalent here as well. Prior to living in Boston, I lived in LA and there, one was more likely to hear Spanish or Korean (I lived adjacent to Koreatown), rather than English. While living in LA, I had neighbors from Russia, and I was able to speak some Russian with them. (I had three semesters of Russian at a university, and was able to use basic Russian, which is now mostly gone. Surprisingly I can still read Cyrillic, but very, very slowly.)
About 35 years ago, before I started traveling the world, I visited NYC with a friend from rural North Carolina. I was amazed by the many languages we could hear while riding the subways and that no one looked up as all the different words, and tones and rhythms came out. It was cleary nothing out of the ordinary for anyone. BUT WHEN my deeply Southern accented friend spoke up everyone on the train looked up from their newspapers & books (this was a pre-cellphone era) to see who was talking this strange language.
Great to see you’ve visited my city. Yes, Spanish is strong here, not as much as in Miami or El Paso but it still holds a significant presence. There are neighborhoods where it’s spoken more than English like Washington Heights, Inwood and Corona. NYC is 28% Hispanic/Latino and about a quarter of the city speaks it.
@@AlexNightOwl76 I read that Miami is 73% Hispanic/Latino and that 70% of Miami people speak Spanish. I’ve been down there a couple of times and that’s the impression I got. Many people don’t speak English and reply in Spanish if you speak English to them. In NYC, Spanish is prevalent only in the neighborhoods I mentioned above and even then, many Latinos are more inclined to speaking English. In Miami, Spanish is preferred over English even when people know how to speak it. It’s somehow part of the city’s culture.
@@jsphat81 I have worked in companies where you can clearly see the hispanic heritage in them. None of them speak to me in spanish nor I hear them speaking spanish. It depends where you go. I live in Broward County but I work in Miami Dade County. Spanish is probably preferred by old people that came from Cuba and never tried to learn. I have friends living in Minneapolis and they only go out with hispanics. Anyways, just my opinion.
I have lived in NYC almost all my life. You encapsulated the rhythm of the city that I am still in love with. Yes, one can be anonymous in the City, but New Yorkers have proved time and again to be there for you if you are in need.
I made it to the end and really love this video. The things these people say that they love about New York are the things I also love about it, especially the diversity. As someone who grew up hearing two languages, it was my goal as I grew up to learn as many as I could. Like the lady toward the end, unfortunately I don't have a chance to practice so I've lost much of the languages I learned. It was great to see this. Thank you for making this video!
growing up in the NYC area i never realized how linguistically diverse it was relative to the rest of the USA. It was only when I went away to university out of state and used certain slang words that are quite common back home that I found that out, as many of them weren't necessarily slang words but just loan words from other language groups in the NY area that became slang words.
Thanks for making a wholesome, positive video. So many travel-tubers have discovered that trashing a place with overtly nit picky negative comments and doom-splaning gives them views that it's rare to see content that it's just focus on what makes a city a city: the people.
Your channel is so simple in nature, but it becomes quite interesting to watch, and see all the different people going about the cities on any given day. I like it.
I've been to New York Yity only once, in February 2001. What surprised me - it was the New York City you see in movies and series, and it really was the same. I kind of felt like being home and was in awe. Such a long time ago! I'd love to visit again one day. Btw, I went from there to Montreal by bus to see a friend :) Loved Montreal too! but it was very cold in February, the river was frozen. Come to Berlin, my home at the moment!
Hope you come back to NY! I was born there and lived there as a child. When I go back I can instantly feel the place. My feet know it's my place. And NY can be ANYONE's place, that's the beauty.
I speak English, Lithuanian, Russian and Spanish. I live in Spain, and what happens that when I go abroad to a country I don't know the language of, something mixes up in my brain and I start using a weird mix of Spanish and some Russian words even if Russian was never the language I used a lot. It's a blessing and a curse at the same time. :D
Brilliant video! I am a native New Yorker, grew up only speaking English, though I can read some Hebrew, and studied Latin in high school. In college, I started learning Russian and have worked many years in Central Asia in the former Soviet Union (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Therefore, besides Russian, I learned intermediate Farsi (Persian)/Dari/Tajik (all very similar) and at one point I spoke intermediate Uzbek (Turkic language). When I was first learning Russian years ago, I used to stop people on the street in Manhattan if I heard them speaking Russian, so as to practice. Now, you can hear Russian on every street. However, I do stop people if I hear them speaking Tajik or Farsi, and if Uzbek or Turkish.
So many different languages, people from different countries, different cultures and they live together, next to each other, peacefully - I wish it could be like this everywhere in the world, because as you can see it's possible...
These people are all beautiful no mater what language they speak. The video reminds once again that we are all the same on this planet and i like it. Привет из Барселоны.
@@elpl.atwooelektromobilnosc6209 Что за ахинею Вы несётe? Pоссийский язык. 😅 Мы разговариваем на русском языке, а не на российском. 😊 ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA_%D0%B2_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
@@MILADA_2022 тьі в школе училось??? Страна (что) - россия. Язик (какой а не чей)- российский. Народ (какой а не чей) - российский. Я то понимаю, что вьі тупая челядь и досих пор сидите в рабстве мозгами. Свой язьік у вас не "какой" а "чей". Та и вьі сами не "кто" а "чьи"... - Чьих халоп будєш? Руский... Рабьі они ньінче до сих пор "чьи"...
Beautifully done Dan! I partly grew up in New York City and can agree about the amazing diversity of people. I then came back and earned a graduate degree from New York University. Wonderful city and school.
These videos are so interesting. I feel like an American outlier. I spoke French with my mom’s side of the family, German with my dad’s side, and obviously English in school and public. French helps to understand Spanish and Portuguese. I had a long term roommate from South Africa so learned some Afrikaans that helped with the bridge with German for understanding Dutch. My grandfather was stationed in Japan and taught me some Japanese. I took 1.5 years of mandarin. And had many Korean friends in high school that taught me some Korean. And tried to learn some Russian with DuoLingo. And I know some expressions in Arabic.
Did you grow up in Mongolia when it was a soviet satellite state? Forgive my curiosity, but that’s such a specific combination of languages that it instantly reminds me of the fact that many of the older Mongolians (from that time period) I am acquainted with went to Russian schools in Ulaanbaatar and thus are fluent in both Russian and Mongolian
@@australialife2153 The language and racial diversity in Aus is equal to, if not greater than, that of New York city. Ergo New York city is NOT "a unique place because of a (language / racial) diversity". I would expect 'australialife' to know that. Do YOU understand the meaning of the word 'diversity'?!
The Brooklyn accent has drastically declined, but if you go to certain parts of southern Brooklyn like Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, and Dyker Heights, you can still come across the Brooklyn accent speakers especially the Italian and Jewish communities. Northern Brooklyn, forget about it, the Brooklyn accent is all totally gone in those sections as they were replaced largely by African American, Caribbean, Latino, and Hipster populations; except in some parts of Williamsburg you may still come across some Brooklyn accent speakers from some of the remaining Italian and Jewish populations.
@@edbrown4800 sorry but it wasn’t just Italian. heavily influenced by Jewish and Irish and a few others. You listen to a Jewish kid from a blue collar neighbourhood in Brooklyn 30/40 years ago….
@Andrés Fernández people don't call it the Italian American accent because the dialect was just as widely spoken in Blue Collar areas of Brooklyn/NYC with Jewish and Irish communities. I would respectfully disagree that it was mainly Italian.
This has definitely been my favorite so far. Would love to see Chicago on one of these one day. Heard there’s a lot of Polish, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans in Chicago.
I've lived in Chicago for the last 33 years, and I've met many Eastern Europeans here. Chicago was attracting Eastern Europeans 130 years ago. However, Spanish is-by far-the most spoken foreign language in Chicago. This even includes a decent number of Spaniards.
New York City has tons of languages spoken other than English like Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, etc. just like Chicago, where I am from.
Chicago has the 2nd largest Polish Community outside of Warsaw. There's Ukrainian Village. Roger's Park and West Roger's Park has Indians, Ethiopians, many West African Country Men/Women. I lived in Chicago for 33 years.
During the 2020-2021 school year, ELLs in NYC public schools communicated in 151 languages other than English. Over 61% of ELLs are Spanish speakers, followed by students who speak Chinese, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Uzbek, French, and Tadzhik.
Being able to read and understand a new language feels great. I can read and understand Portuguese, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan. I know the very basics of German, as well. With the exception of German and Catalan, I can speak all the aforementioned languages if I'm allowed to commit lots of mistakes. 😂
Every other English speaking country is like that though. English is basically the world default language which is why a lot of native speakers don’t put much effort into learning a second language because it’s kind of pointless unless you’re moving to a non-native English speaking country. If so then yes, do your best to learn some said country’s language.
I’ve just subscribed because this was a wonderful video to share how diverse and interesting the human race is. I love languages as well and hearing the little snippets of spoken languages is wonderful. I like the surprises too, I.e. hearing about the skydiving. I love guessing which languages people speak before they say them too. 😁👍🏻 What a heart warming video of the human character. Well done. 🎉
me watching from a small a city in Iowa ..man i haven’t been to NYC hopefully one day ..but every-time i travel to other places im always amazed at how many people there are ..each with their own lifes and struggles.. that answer or reason the arabic speaking guy said really hit the spot
Arabic sounds like a beautiful language. I don't understand the Senegalese guy who speaks French and says that he struggles with Spanish. It was my understanding that French speakers had an easier time learning Spanish. Now, I'm a Spanish Speaker and for us Spanish speakers isn't that easy to learn French mainly because French pronunciation is kind of unique when compared to other romance languages.
i wouldnt know but i could see that being the case. i decided to learn spanish while my brother learned french and we can rarely understand much of what the other one says. that being said if i hear people speaking italian i can pick up a bit of what they are talking about. portuguese, not as much but i think its mostly because im not used to brazilian accents yet whereas i grew up around a lot of spanish speaking latinos and italians
This video was amazing! I am a native New Yorker and multilingual, and love languages. I love walking on the streets and hearing so many different languages, it's amazing!!
NYT did a piece on most international cities based on number of languages overheard while spending 2 days walking the streets and #1 was NYC (21) followed closely by Panama City, Panama with 19 different languages overheard
I loved this video! It shows that - if the people who spoke are typical - Americans are primarily and exclusively English speakers (no surprise given the dominance of English in most of the world). Great program!
That's myth. I don't live in NY and speak 3. What confuses people is that we can travel 2,500 Km and only use English. However, we speak more languages than people know.
Well it seems like my parents made the right choice for putting me in a trilingual school (🇬🇧, 🇨🇳, 🇵🇭) and me as well for learning (🇵🇹, 🇷🇺, 🇲🇫 ) so what I'm missing is Arabic. 😅 It sounds beautiful, so now I realized that I choose languages based on how pleasant they sound to me. Also where are the Filipinos at? 😂
You managed to get a good cross section of NYC. Besides English and Spanish i would say that Hebrew, French, Chinese, and Polish were the next most common. If you would have gone to Brooklyn you would have found many Russian speakers too.
I have tried to learn almost 20 languages throughout my life, mainly because I used to travel extensively before the pandemic. I am not particularly interested in touristy places, but rather in provinces and remote areas where major languages may be of little use. So I'd learned these local languages. Yet I can't say that I can speak all of these languages fluently. Sadly, if you don't use a language for a while, it just leaks. And, of course, I didn't have enough time to master all the languages perfectly; only to some extent, because it's just a hobby. So I believe that I can speak only 5 or 6 languages at a decent level.
@@adithiarjun6764 It depends on the language and its popularity. For example, I have taken courses in German, Italian, English, and Turkish. I learnt in school Ukrainian, Russian and English. However, when I tried to learn Belarusian, Macedonian or Albanian, there was no way to find any courses or even textbooks in my country (Ukraine). So I had to search for something on the internet and learn on my own. As far as I understand, you're probably from India. If I wanted to learn any of the languages spoken in your country, I could find some courses on Hindi and probably Bengali in Kyiv. For everything else, I would have to rely on the Internet. For the very beginning, Pimsleur audio courses are quite good.
@@adithiarjun6764 I think that's a good choice. In Spain, as well as in LA, many people don't know English well. Additionally, you'll be able to read Portuguese. In Germany, people may know English, but they may not like using it. So it would be beneficial to know their language.
I can barely speak one language decently but I can understand them 4 quite good with most of their accents and dialects except some obscure southern Italian dialects.
I enjoyed hearing from many type of ppl in NYC & seeing the different types of NYC nabes (midtown, Bryant Park, SoHo, etc.) I think I saw the street vendor that sells outside my bldg!
I'm not sure it was random. Montreal has a very high percentage of people who speak multiple languages. Unlike most cities, it's a place where you need 2 just to survive :)
@@TheNewTravel Agreed, however, I was referring to polyglots, id est: 3 or more languages spoken. Bilingualism here is practically the norm, in the greater Mtl area, so.... I may of course have a differing optic due to not being present, consequently, unable to assess all the facts.
@@luishenriquealmeidarocha7007pfv, estou querendo demais usar esse duolingo. A gente tem q pagar para conversar com os outros? E outra, realmente a gente aprende???? Eu preciso do francês por questões pessoais 🤦♂️
Agreed! I am learning Russian and even though I’m at a super beginner level, I can spot similarities between it and other slavic languages such as Ukranian. Very interesting to me since as a native speaker of English, there isn’t really a closely related language (I suppose Dutch maybe?)
I’d be interested to know how people learnt the languages. For example, at home, at school, through duolingo, by having lived in a different country etc.
Either you drastically in need to learn a new language or you're heartily interested to learn a new language; in both cases, it doesn't matter what opportunities you have at hand, you will find a way to learn the language. Off course, the methods and means of learning languages differs from person to person and have great dependence on age.
Either you drastically in need to learn a new language or you're heartily interested to learn a new language; in both cases, it doesn't matter what opportunities you have at hand, you will find a way to learn the language. Off course, the methods and means of learning languages differs from person to person and have great dependence on age. Besides other scientific methods, the easiest way is to have an environment where all of 5+1 senses are involved and you hear, you see/watch, you read, you write, you speak, and at last you think in new language.
I love when a lot of Brazilians say they can speak Spanish, too. Maybe "Portunhol"? 😅(Brazilians will understand me) I am not sure about that, but it is so nice that Brazilians abroad can speak more than two languages and some really are fluently in all of them. ❤ P.S. It's not just Brazilians who say they can speak Spanish, I've tried talking to some Americans in Spanish and the truth is that many aren't as fluent as they say. "Fluency in a language means speaking easily, reasonably quickly and without having to stop and pause a lot."
@@camillabarros8074but the accent is different and it's not always understood...my neighbor is from Brazil and when he speaks in spanish it sounds like portuguese and can barely understand
My mom is a New Yorker. I think a big reason the accent is going is because you don’t have the same immigrant populations anymore. You don’t really have as many first generation Jewish and Italian immigrants. Now it’s Latin American immigrants who are the vast majority and I think you can hear that just walking through NY.
As a Brooklynite born and bred, yeah, the type of Brooklyn accent that was from Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants is really mostly seen in older folks usually in South Brooklyn. Bensonhurst, Gravesend, etc. A lot of us Black and Latino immigrants have our own version of it that is mixed with whatever english dialect (as many of us Black folks are West Indian/Caribbean and us or our parents often speak whatever dialect of english from the island/country they originated from though younger immigrants will often speak in the aforementioned comboed Brooklyn accent) that our parents speak or language in some cases. I have a friend who is Bangladeshi and he speaks english in a strange Bangla accented Brooklyn accent.
You will get even more. They all.leave south America. To.go to the "promised "land...in a prepared.bed... And come with all.of there culture....that is the future. No it's and buts....its all okkkyyy
🐢. You just visited New York city, it's a beautiful, wonderful and comfortable city, isn't it? Visiting New York is probably my biggest goal I have in mind. It's the world's capital, it's the best city ever. There are so many foreigners who speak English confidently and other languages. In my case, I'm not fluent in English even though I have a good level at it. I can understand what I read and what I listen to about 80%. I almost always write through my device, hardly ever write on a piece of paper, but that's ok. I keep going. Lastly, I'd love to visit that city and overall the US, someday. ❤
@@torink8229 Well, that's your subjective opinion because we all know how big and important New York is, therefore it's the undisputed world's capital.
@@ernestorevollar3632 and to think NYC is not even the capital of the US, and is also not the capital of the New York state. Unlike London. That’s what is so amazing about NYC. It managed to rise to the heights of popularity and importance without being the national capital. When asked what they would consider to be the world capital, many people from many places around the world would say NYC, and they probably have not been to NYC.
Something interesting i noted is that if you compare United States and Brazil, for sure you would think Brazil has more fluent spanish speakers than US, but it not happens for a reason: we don't need to learn spanish entirely to understand each other, in fact most of the time we are speaking to a spanish speaker we use a mixture of the two languages. And this is not much like a two side way, because there are spanish speakers that cannot understand portuguese very well, some explain that this may happen due to the number of phonemes, portuguese has all variations of the spanish phonemes and a bunch more, this interferes the spanish-portuguese way because of phonemes that spanish don't have.
I notice this but as a Spanish person living in Portugal. Everyone starts speaking a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese with me but it's difficult for me to try to speak Portuguese.
@@danielg.1698 Foi o que ele disse, como o português e o espanhol são semelhantes nós no Brasil temos uma facilidade de entender o espanhol o que impede de nos aprofundar no idioma.
I am French but I am lucky enough to have a job in which I can also use english and japanese daily. I do think that learning another language not only helps with brain flexibility, it also broadens your horizons and gives you an opportunity to dive into a different culture. It's always fun to switch languages according to your moods and thoughts! Each one is highlighting different personnality traits... To me french is elaborate and passionate, english is fun and straight to the point, japanese is conventional and respectful.
Its interesting, how did you manage to learn them both? BTW I'm a fluent frensh speaker and I want to learn Japanese someday so I need some advices and thank you
@@karimsabrin1333Thank you for your comment! I've been learning english since I was 6 (I was part of an english learning club until junior high, then I had regular english classes). I began learning japanese at university. I lived below my means back then to save some money. That was fortunate because I was selected to be part of an exchange student program in Japan during my 3rd year at university, so I spent 6 months in Japan 12 years ago. Be persistent in your efforts and be creative to find all kinds of oportunities to learn more about the language! Do not hesitate to invest time (and money if needed) in it, do your best and then it's all about maintenance. Keep your goals in mind when it gets hard! When it comes to japanese, my number one advice would be not to be afraid to learn kanjis and to read as much as possible. If possible, it also helps to have native friends to talk to. Si tu décides de te lancer, je te souhaite bon courage dans ton apprentissage du japonais! Il faut s'accrocher mais je t'assure que ça vaut le coup!! :D
@@oONodokaOo merci infiniment! Je te souhaite un bon chance dans ton travail , your story was amazing you are capable and hardworking , ofc the key of success is to be creative and so open to learn anything , I will try to invest my time when I have it , thank you so much for advices ❤
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Go to the Oceania Continent. Visit Suva (Fiji), Noumea (Nouvelle Caladonie OSST of France), Christchurch (New Zealand) , Katherine (Northern Territories, Australia), Port Vila (Vanuatu). I love that Continent. Hope to be there soon and forever.
I'm from the US. I started my University studies at l'Université Laval (Saint-Foy Québec). I lived in a couple of Countries in Europe, as a Teen. Mexico (Puerto Peñaco) is a gem too. Love it there.
Bogotá, Colombia
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Everyone feels like a main charecter in NYC.
Haha so true!
I get a different vibe of NYC everyone is just minding their business no one really cares about you
When you go to places is just business
It gives you suffocating freedom.
If you compared to places where everyone is more sociable and open to conversations.
It feels kinda lonely I New York City
@@sakuraa2008 I see it as both. We mind our business when it is appropriate or are trying to get someplace (takes time to travel around such a large area!).. but many people will also strike up random conversations when the timing is right or opportunity is presented! I love both & live it every day!!
@@karalynne7616 exactly! New Yorkers are a social creature; it comes with riding the trains and brushing shoulders with so many different people. I moved here a year ago and never wanna leave!
I remember when I first moved to NYC, walking down Canal St, I heard primarily English, then Italian & Spanish, then Mandarin & Cantonese, all in the span of 1 mile. So many different languages and cultures; very much shows how special it is here
Actually now that I think of it, I'm not sure I got any Italian speakers in this video! Surprising, because I know that's a big part of the culture in nyc.
@@TheNewTravel previous generations are aging, their kids usually don't speak Italian
And of His (Allah's) signs is the creation of the heavens & the earth and the diversity of your languages & your colours. {Quran}
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'Allah does not look at your bodies, nor at your appearance or wealth, but rather He looks at your HEARTS & ACTIONS.' {Prophetic Words}
@@michaelrabich9635 Yeah, and due to lower percentage of immigrants from Western Europe, and their kids not speaking their previous languages, languages such as Italian, Irish, German and Dutch are declining in the city for example
I speak Cantonese at home, used to speak to my wife, who's now my ex-wife, in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Vietnamese. I also used three of the four languages/dialects as part of my previous job. I used to interpret in Spanish for Chinese coworkers. I learned some Norwegian Bokmål as part of my trip to Norway. I learned Greek and Spanish in high school. I also learned some French while apartment -sitting for my grandparents and saw my grandfather's French grammar books. I was also somehow able to connect to a French music channel from Canada on my grandparents' TV way back when. I also learned some Tagalog when a high school classmate brought a Tagalog grammar book and showed me in school, so l learned some words. I also learned some Russian as part of some jobs. Had one high school substitute teacher who taught us Russian and another high school substitute teacher who taught us French. I also learned some African words from some people I worked with from Ghana.
8:00 I think Danielle is the type of person who says I don't speak language X but then is able to hold a conversation in that language just fine.
I can speak Belarusian, Russian, Polish, English and I learn Swedish. It's so cool to be able to understand and speak different languages, it's like living several lives in one
My native is Russian, I can speak English, Italian, and now learning Turkish. Iyi sanslar!
if you don't speak spanish you miss out on the good life
@@going_to_the_river_NevaBravo bro,non sono molte le persone che sanno parlare l'italiano quindi ben fatto🗿
i really agree that metaphor, “it’s like living several lives in one”.
it’s so amazing experience to have several identities through language
@@going_to_the_river_Nevamy native is turkish but im learning russian and i know english dutch and arabic also. Russian is such a beautiful language!
It's amazing how all these people is very articulate with great social communication skill
I felt very lucky to have met so many interesting people!
I notice this about New Yorkers. People say they aren't friendly or personable but my (limited) experience with them is that they communicate well.
Of course ! They are New Yorkers ! 🩵
i am a native New Yorker and am a professional translator. I am fluent in 5 languages and speak bits and pieces of another 10 or 12.
That said, I have all the local merchants in my neighborhood (Brooklyn Heights) trained to teach me new phrases in their languages (when they are other than English).
I do the same at my gym where I work out every day and which is exceptionally diverse.
I love the linguistic diversity of NYC!
May I ask what languages you speak? Also, I have always heard that translators get paid very little.. Is that true?
@@Dah42 все о деньгах🤣🤣🤣👍
@@Dah42 YES! you can make good money but it means that you have to work your ass off, and I mean it!
Is it still worth is becoming a translator in the future ?
What languages you speak?
I think you make people feel heard, which helps bring out their voice in these short clips. Some cities I'd recommend : Beirut, Marseille, Sarajevo
Sarajevo was a really good experience.
Yes, Sarajevo, Mostar, Banja Luka
Marseille language: French, Arabic and Gypsy King
@@blanco7726so true ! Especially Algerian Arabic
Incredible how Spanish is much more important than I thought in New York. Even that it is my native language.
It really is the second language there! Common to see Spanish on signs around the city as well
Spanish is very prevalent in New York. Many of the ads around the city are written in Spanish.
@@jamesjohnson1050Not only in new york if you go to San Diego and texas you become crazy haha
@@TheNewTravel - I live in Boston and Spanish is prevalent here as well. Prior to living in Boston, I lived in LA and there, one was more likely to hear Spanish or Korean (I lived adjacent to Koreatown), rather than English. While living in LA, I had neighbors from Russia, and I was able to speak some Russian with them. (I had three semesters of Russian at a university, and was able to use basic Russian, which is now mostly gone. Surprisingly I can still read Cyrillic, but very, very slowly.)
Me gusta aprender espanol
About 35 years ago, before I started traveling the world, I visited NYC with a friend from rural North Carolina. I was amazed by the many languages we could hear while riding the subways and that no one looked up as all the different words, and tones and rhythms came out. It was cleary nothing out of the ordinary for anyone. BUT WHEN my deeply Southern accented friend spoke up everyone on the train looked up from their newspapers & books (this was a pre-cellphone era) to see who was talking this strange language.
Пхахаха))))))) очень смешно рассказал)))))
jaajjajjaja muy buena historia. Saludos desde Chile, aquí tambien tenemos nuestro propio acento sureño, aunque en español.
Hahahah, totally would still happen now!
That was funny
Yo that’s hilarious!! I can see that happening 😅
This is easily my favourite video about New York on RUclips. So easy-going and smooth, I feel like it really represents what the city is about
Great to see you’ve visited my city. Yes, Spanish is strong here, not as much as in Miami or El Paso but it still holds a significant presence. There are neighborhoods where it’s spoken more than English like Washington Heights, Inwood and Corona. NYC is 28% Hispanic/Latino and about a quarter of the city speaks it.
Miami is 60% hispanic but that does not mean they all speak spanish.
That's the misconception people have about Miami.
@@AlexNightOwl76 I read that Miami is 73% Hispanic/Latino and that 70% of Miami people speak Spanish. I’ve been down there a couple of times and that’s the impression I got. Many people don’t speak English and reply in Spanish if you speak English to them. In NYC, Spanish is prevalent only in the neighborhoods I mentioned above and even then, many Latinos are more inclined to speaking English. In Miami, Spanish is preferred over English even when people know how to speak it. It’s somehow part of the city’s culture.
@@jsphat81 I have worked in companies where you can clearly see the hispanic heritage in them. None of them speak to me in spanish nor I hear them speaking spanish. It depends where you go.
I live in Broward County but I work in Miami Dade County. Spanish is probably preferred by old people that came from Cuba and never tried to learn.
I have friends living in Minneapolis and they only go out with hispanics.
Anyways, just my opinion.
I have lived in NYC almost all my life. You encapsulated the rhythm of the city that I am still in love with.
Yes, one can be anonymous in the City, but New Yorkers have proved time and again to be there for you if you are in need.
The NY accent is alive & well buddy..
Come thru to Staten Island. We're holdin it down 🇮🇹 🇺🇲
Still alive in Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Manhattan!
"Tawlk, "Cawfee". ..
Yup. South Brooklyn and S.I still got it lol.
As a native French speaker, I'm very surprised by the fact that so many people can speak French in NYC, it's very interesting
I noticed that as well when I visited.
Yes, because if you knew which they were you could pretend not to understand them.
So many learned french, but don't have occasions for practicing. It seems declining.
they speak very little french for sure, but they are proud way too alot. this is just a broken amurican culture and education.
Я вас удивлю но даже в России знают францкзский и изучают его. Даже я немного знаю. 😊
You meet such nice people everywhere you go. That's an art!
I made it to the end and really love this video. The things these people say that they love about New York are the things I also love about it, especially the diversity. As someone who grew up hearing two languages, it was my goal as I grew up to learn as many as I could. Like the lady toward the end, unfortunately I don't have a chance to practice so I've lost much of the languages I learned. It was great to see this. Thank you for making this video!
growing up in the NYC area i never realized how linguistically diverse it was relative to the rest of the USA. It was only when I went away to university out of state and used certain slang words that are quite common back home that I found that out, as many of them weren't necessarily slang words but just loan words from other language groups in the NY area that became slang words.
@Finnbar I"m black but I use a lot of Yiddish words LOL! LIke "kvetch" etc....
Thanks for making a wholesome, positive video. So many travel-tubers have discovered that trashing a place with overtly nit picky negative comments and doom-splaning gives them views that it's rare to see content that it's just focus on what makes a city a city: the people.
Your channel is so simple in nature, but it becomes quite interesting to watch, and see all the different people going about the cities on any given day. I like it.
I love NYC beautiful city❤ I work there Every single day since I got here, I’m really Grateful with this country ❤❤❤
I've been to New York Yity only once, in February 2001. What surprised me - it was the New York City you see in movies and series, and it really was the same. I kind of felt like being home and was in awe. Such a long time ago! I'd love to visit again one day. Btw, I went from there to Montreal by bus to see a friend :) Loved Montreal too! but it was very cold in February, the river was frozen. Come to Berlin, my home at the moment!
Ich liebe Berlin!
Hope you come back to NY! I was born there and lived there as a child. When I go back I can instantly feel the place. My feet know it's my place. And NY can be ANYONE's place, that's the beauty.
7 months late
I’m so grateful to share earth with these people. So many different cultures that I get to experience, so cool
I speak English, Lithuanian, Russian and Spanish. I live in Spain, and what happens that when I go abroad to a country I don't know the language of, something mixes up in my brain and I start using a weird mix of Spanish and some Russian words even if Russian was never the language I used a lot. It's a blessing and a curse at the same time. :D
I’d love to hear your Runish. I mean Spassian! “Por favor, сука блять»
@@Nevesomo 🤣
Brilliant video! I am a native New Yorker, grew up only speaking English, though I can read some Hebrew, and studied Latin in high school. In college, I started learning Russian and have worked many years in Central Asia in the former Soviet Union (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Therefore, besides Russian, I learned intermediate Farsi (Persian)/Dari/Tajik (all very similar) and at one point I spoke intermediate Uzbek (Turkic language). When I was first learning Russian years ago, I used to stop people on the street in Manhattan if I heard them speaking Russian, so as to practice. Now, you can hear Russian on every street. However, I do stop people if I hear them speaking Tajik or Farsi, and if Uzbek or Turkish.
as-salamu aleicum bro
You are so talented
So basically you speak Soviet...
@@eliasziad7864 English, Latin, Hebrew, Turkish are not Soviet 🤣
Uzbek is my first language but unfortunately I have a hard time writing it because I moved from there when I was 7
So many different languages, people from different countries, different cultures and they live together, next to each other, peacefully - I wish it could be like this everywhere in the world, because as you can see it's possible...
These people are all beautiful no mater what language they speak. The video reminds once again that we are all the same on this planet and i like it. Привет из Барселоны.
И неожиданная вставка на русском ))
Теплый коммент🤍
@@chocoflakes_queenна рассийскам.
У вас страна рассия а значит язик рассийский и ви рассиянє. Или ви просто безграмотние и не можите в логику
I recognize your hello. I really miss learning Russian from a friend. I moved away.
@@elpl.atwooelektromobilnosc6209 Что за ахинею Вы несётe? Pоссийский язык. 😅 Мы разговариваем на русском языке, а не на российском. 😊
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA_%D0%B2_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
@@MILADA_2022 тьі в школе училось???
Страна (что) - россия. Язик (какой а не чей)- российский. Народ (какой а не чей) - российский.
Я то понимаю, что вьі тупая челядь и досих пор сидите в рабстве мозгами. Свой язьік у вас не "какой" а "чей". Та и вьі сами не "кто" а "чьи"...
- Чьих халоп будєш? Руский...
Рабьі они ньінче до сих пор "чьи"...
Beautifully done Dan! I partly grew up in New York City and can agree about the amazing diversity of people. I then came back and earned a graduate degree from New York University. Wonderful city and school.
These videos are so interesting. I feel like an American outlier. I spoke French with my mom’s side of the family, German with my dad’s side, and obviously English in school and public. French helps to understand Spanish and Portuguese. I had a long term roommate from South Africa so learned some Afrikaans that helped with the bridge with German for understanding Dutch. My grandfather was stationed in Japan and taught me some Japanese. I took 1.5 years of mandarin. And had many Korean friends in high school that taught me some Korean. And tried to learn some Russian with DuoLingo. And I know some expressions in Arabic.
And learned some Vietnamese insults lol
Amazing,so you know seven languages and understand three others,from what I understand 👏👏
You're really cool
Вы большой молодец , полиглот, так мы говорим
Bruh it's funny how none of the people knows Dutch in NYC while it was new amsterdam at some point. 😂
I speak Mongolian, Russian and English and live in New York City. I think it’s a unique place because of a diversity 😊
The (language / racial) 'diversity' of New York is FAR from 'unique'.
Do you understand the meaning of the word 'unique'?!
@@trueaussie9230do you understand the meaning of the word “diversity” ?
Did you grow up in Mongolia when it was a soviet satellite state? Forgive my curiosity, but that’s such a specific combination of languages that it instantly reminds me of the fact that many of the older Mongolians (from that time period) I am acquainted with went to Russian schools in Ulaanbaatar and thus are fluent in both Russian and Mongolian
@@australialife2153
The language and racial diversity in Aus is equal to, if not greater than, that of New York city.
Ergo New York city is NOT "a unique place because of a (language / racial) diversity".
I would expect 'australialife' to know that.
Do YOU understand the meaning of the word 'diversity'?!
That's interesting. How did you learn Russian? As far as I know, they don't speak Russian in Mongolia
The Brooklyn accent has drastically declined, but if you go to certain parts of southern Brooklyn like Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, and Dyker Heights, you can still come across the Brooklyn accent speakers especially the Italian and Jewish communities. Northern Brooklyn, forget about it, the Brooklyn accent is all totally gone in those sections as they were replaced largely by African American, Caribbean, Latino, and Hipster populations; except in some parts of Williamsburg you may still come across some Brooklyn accent speakers from some of the remaining Italian and Jewish populations.
I never understood why it’s call the Brooklyn accent, they just call it the Italian American accent because that’s main people who had that accent.
@@edbrown4800 sorry but it wasn’t just Italian. heavily influenced by Jewish and Irish and a few others. You listen to a Jewish kid from a blue collar neighbourhood in Brooklyn 30/40 years ago….
@@weekender8839 I said main people.
@Andrés Fernández people don't call it the Italian American accent because the dialect was just as widely spoken in Blue Collar areas of Brooklyn/NYC with Jewish and Irish communities. I would respectfully disagree that it was mainly Italian.
Yes i would have liked if the guy gave an example of the Brooklyn accent, for those of us outside the US!
This has definitely been my favorite so far. Would love to see Chicago on one of these one day. Heard there’s a lot of Polish, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans in Chicago.
I've lived in Chicago for the last 33 years, and I've met many Eastern Europeans here. Chicago was attracting Eastern Europeans 130 years ago. However, Spanish is-by far-the most spoken foreign language in Chicago. This even includes a decent number of Spaniards.
@@JdeC1994 definitely the polish are still here but they’re dying out partially.
Theres only Russians there.
We still here, but moved to many nearby suburbs instead of traditional Chicago enclaves
Little interruption here: Poland is in central Europe. Actually it's right in the middle, so not Eastern Europe
New York City has tons of languages spoken other than English like Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, etc. just like Chicago, where I am from.
Chicago has the 2nd largest Polish Community outside of Warsaw. There's Ukrainian Village. Roger's Park and West Roger's Park has Indians, Ethiopians, many West African Country Men/Women. I lived in Chicago for 33 years.
@@youtubeuserzzzz Don't forget Little Village, Pilsen, Back of the Yards and Humboldt Park also.
Arabic is the third most spoken language in New York behind English and Spanish.
During the 2020-2021 school year, ELLs in NYC public schools communicated in 151 languages other than English. Over 61% of ELLs are Spanish speakers, followed by students who speak Chinese, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Uzbek, French, and Tadzhik.
@@youtubeuserzzzz "Chicago has the 2nd largest Polish Community outside of Warsaw."
No way! That cliché is totally archaic. Just stop it.
Being able to read and understand a new language feels great. I can read and understand Portuguese, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan. I know the very basics of German, as well. With the exception of German and Catalan, I can speak all the aforementioned languages if I'm allowed to commit lots of mistakes. 😂
the endangered language alliance is so cool!! everyone should check it out
🐢 Your videos motivates me to keep learning languages 'cause I was born for this (I'm currently learning German and French) :3
you rock man!
weiter so!
Love this. New York seems scary to an outsider (me) but you met a lot of interesting people that make it seem less scary.
sou do Brasil,muito bom ver um brasileiro nos representando !
Achei!
Verdade👏
Por que muitos brasileiros sempre dizem que falam espanhol quando na verdade só entendem e nem tudo? Entender e falar são duas coisas diferentes.
É por que brasileiro é burro; e por causa de entender 6/10 palavras de frases simples, como comprimentos, acha que consegue entender tudo.
0:38 e o cara tem uma barba linda! 😅
Back in the 1930's you would have heard alot of Yiddish spoken in NYC like you hear Spanish today.
And that's why New Yorkers use so many Yiddish phrases!
Still today! And even more - it is spreading out around.
@@arielfidel how?
And german. Yiddish is an eastern European dialect. Of german. Schleppen...
Great video, love seeing the diversity and also how many Americans still only speak English. I live in Italy and am slowly learning Italian.
Every other English speaking country is like that though. English is basically the world default language which is why a lot of native speakers don’t put much effort into learning a second language because it’s kind of pointless unless you’re moving to a non-native English speaking country. If so then yes, do your best to learn some said country’s language.
7:29 you are so bright :)
thank you for the clip
The guy from Brooklyn is so funny, he still has the Brooklyn/NYC accent, and he thinks he lost it...
I’ve just subscribed because this was a wonderful video to share how diverse and interesting the human race is. I love languages as well and hearing the little snippets of spoken languages is wonderful. I like the surprises too, I.e. hearing about the skydiving. I love guessing which languages people speak before they say them too. 😁👍🏻 What a heart warming video of the human character. Well done. 🎉
me watching from a small a city in Iowa ..man i haven’t been to NYC hopefully one day ..but every-time i travel to other places im always amazed at how many people there are ..each with their own lifes and struggles.. that answer or reason the arabic speaking guy said really hit the spot
aww this is adorable. i particularly loved the arabic-speaking kid and the senegalese guy. ps you should visit bronx next. ; )
Arabic sounds like a beautiful language.
I don't understand the Senegalese guy who speaks French and says that he struggles with Spanish. It was my understanding that French speakers had an easier time learning Spanish. Now, I'm a Spanish Speaker and for us Spanish speakers isn't that easy to learn French mainly because French pronunciation is kind of unique when compared to other romance languages.
Arabic music is even better.
Arabic is in my opinion the most beautiful language. From the way it sounds to the way it looks.
i wouldnt know but i could see that being the case. i decided to learn spanish while my brother learned french and we can rarely understand much of what the other one says. that being said if i hear people speaking italian i can pick up a bit of what they are talking about. portuguese, not as much but i think its mostly because im not used to brazilian accents yet whereas i grew up around a lot of spanish speaking latinos and italians
Arabic is absolutelu beautiful language, in my opinion the most beautiful ❤
This video was amazing!
I am a native New Yorker and multilingual, and love languages. I love walking on the streets and hearing so many different languages, it's amazing!!
You are lucky ☺️ I love this beautiful city so so much (visited only once) so, yeah..❤
NYT did a piece on most international cities based on number of languages overheard while spending 2 days walking the streets and #1 was NYC (21) followed closely by Panama City, Panama with 19 different languages overheard
" it goes where everything go... Away" Brilliant!
Thank you so much for showing everyday people making the US great! I will simply leave it at that!
I loved this video! It shows that - if the people who spoke are typical - Americans are primarily and exclusively English speakers (no surprise given the dominance of English in most of the world). Great program!
That's myth. I don't live in NY and speak 3. What confuses people is that we can travel 2,500 Km and only use English. However, we speak more languages than people know.
@@daylightmoon7285, Knowing a little bit of an other language isn't speaking it fluently
Well it seems like my parents made the right choice for putting me in a trilingual school (🇬🇧, 🇨🇳, 🇵🇭) and me as well for learning (🇵🇹, 🇷🇺, 🇲🇫 )
so what I'm missing is Arabic. 😅 It sounds beautiful, so now I realized that I choose languages based on how pleasant they sound to me.
Also where are the Filipinos at? 😂
6 languages then, cool!!
Oo nga walang Pinoy.
New York City is so fascinating to me because it's the molting pot of people from all around the world in just one small area
Thank you for a nice video.
Hopefully back to NYC soon😊
Thank You i'm learning English with your videos !!
You managed to get a good cross section of NYC. Besides English and Spanish i would say that Hebrew, French, Chinese, and Polish were the next most common. If you would have gone to Brooklyn you would have found many Russian speakers too.
I have been living in Malta for 2 years already and I’ve been meeting people who speaks 6/9 languages. You should do one video here in Summer!
Nice upload. Great interview to a strangers asking them how many languages they can speak. Interesting to watch till the end. Tnx4sharing.
Brazilian here! I'm improving my english watching your video
🐢 Oh I miss NYC! But I think Montreal will be my next destination :p
I have tried to learn almost 20 languages throughout my life, mainly because I used to travel extensively before the pandemic. I am not particularly interested in touristy places, but rather in provinces and remote areas where major languages may be of little use. So I'd learned these local languages. Yet I can't say that I can speak all of these languages fluently. Sadly, if you don't use a language for a while, it just leaks. And, of course, I didn't have enough time to master all the languages perfectly; only to some extent, because it's just a hobby. So I believe that I can speak only 5 or 6 languages at a decent level.
@@adithiarjun6764 Well, in my perception, drinking beer in pubs or watching TV is a waste of time, but learning something new isn't :)
@@adithiarjun6764 It depends on the language and its popularity. For example, I have taken courses in German, Italian, English, and Turkish. I learnt in school Ukrainian, Russian and English. However, when I tried to learn Belarusian, Macedonian or Albanian, there was no way to find any courses or even textbooks in my country (Ukraine). So I had to search for something on the internet and learn on my own.
As far as I understand, you're probably from India. If I wanted to learn any of the languages spoken in your country, I could find some courses on Hindi and probably Bengali in Kyiv. For everything else, I would have to rely on the Internet.
For the very beginning, Pimsleur audio courses are quite good.
@@adithiarjun6764 I think that's a good choice. In Spain, as well as in LA, many people don't know English well. Additionally, you'll be able to read Portuguese. In Germany, people may know English, but they may not like using it. So it would be beneficial to know their language.
I can barely speak one language decently but I can understand them 4 quite good with most of their accents and dialects except some obscure southern Italian dialects.
Вы начинали учить 20 языков? А какие именно, интресно?
'She will teach me Thai tonight'😉That's the best part
love the pacing and the way you edited this!
Are you English fluent if yess can we friends i badly need English native friend😁
Very interesting, and people are cooperative answering your questions. One can feel the city
I enjoyed hearing from many type of ppl in NYC & seeing the different types of NYC nabes (midtown, Bryant Park, SoHo, etc.)
I think I saw the street vendor that sells outside my bldg!
Crazy! You randomly hit upon a slew of polyglots in Montréal, many more proportionally, than in NYC!
Be well & stay safe
I'm not sure it was random. Montreal has a very high percentage of people who speak multiple languages. Unlike most cities, it's a place where you need 2 just to survive :)
@@TheNewTravel
Agreed, however, I was referring to polyglots, id est: 3 or more languages spoken.
Bilingualism here is practically the norm, in the greater Mtl area, so....
I may of course have a differing optic due to not being present, consequently, unable to assess all the facts.
@@TheNewTravel It's not unusual to meet people who speak three languages in Montréal.
@André That's why Montréal is by far the most cosmopolitan place in Canada.
Montreal is a bi-lingual city and the only complication there is the many French speakers who speak only French.
4:16 - I watched this video just because of the thumbnail with this beautiful girl! I can identify these beauties from my country easily (:
If you see a white person with Asian features, he is definitely a Ukrainian
If you see an Asian person with White features, he is definitely a Kazakh
Та наших же за кілометр взнаєш
I spent a wonderful time watching this video.
Nice video!, I stumbled as a lot of my channel viewers seeing this channel: )
Great video!!🐢 It was fun to see how many people speak Hebrew in NYC❤
I like the sound of Hebrew
Not when they invade you
eu imagino um dia ser parada na rua por você kkkk
I speak two languages. Portuguese 🇧🇷 and English!
Eu já imagino falando "4 languages, english, spanish, french, and portuguese kkkkk
@@fabiorodrigues3x porra mano sou o mesmo! Meu francês tá meio vagaba mas o resto tá top 💪
Oi, estou aprendendo inglês no Duolingo, vc tem alguma dica para me ajudar no aprendizado? Obrigado!
@@luishenriquealmeidarocha7007pfv, estou querendo demais usar esse duolingo. A gente tem q pagar para conversar com os outros? E outra, realmente a gente aprende???? Eu preciso do francês por questões pessoais 🤦♂️
@@fabiorodrigues3x me too ksksk and italian, but at the time only portuguese and english but not fluently and a little of spanish
this video is produced beautifully dude thank you for putting out such quality stuff
slavic languages are so underrated...if you knew one of them, you would understand all other slavic languages 70-80%
Agreed! I am learning Russian and even though I’m at a super beginner level, I can spot similarities between it and other slavic languages such as Ukranian. Very interesting to me since as a native speaker of English, there isn’t really a closely related language (I suppose Dutch maybe?)
@@hearingninja Dutch and German are related to English.
факты
west slavic at least
bullshit. i speak Serbian and ich don't understand albania, russia, polish etc
5:11 great setup brother, you are a great wingman!
The guy at 4:36 looks so much like the Spanish tennis sensation, Carlos Alcaraz!
I am a New Yorker since 1997. I speak three languages. Serbian, English and French
It’s unbelievable how we people are similar and how we are different
I really enjoy seeing how intelligent and interesting these people are
Currently slacking on trying to learn (Brazilian) Portuguese. But vids like this help me wanna stay consistent
I’d be interested to know how people learnt the languages. For example, at home, at school, through duolingo, by having lived in a different country etc.
Either you drastically in need to learn a new language or you're heartily interested to learn a new language; in both cases, it doesn't matter what opportunities you have at hand, you will find a way to learn the language. Off course, the methods and means of learning languages differs from person to person and have great dependence on age.
Either you drastically in need to learn a new language or you're heartily interested to learn a new language; in both cases, it doesn't matter what opportunities you have at hand, you will find a way to learn the language. Off course, the methods and means of learning languages differs from person to person and have great dependence on age. Besides other scientific methods, the easiest way is to have an environment where all of 5+1 senses are involved and you hear, you see/watch, you read, you write, you speak, and at last you think in new language.
I love when a lot of Brazilians say they can speak Spanish, too. Maybe "Portunhol"? 😅(Brazilians will understand me) I am not sure about that, but it is so nice that Brazilians abroad can speak more than two languages and some really are fluently in all of them. ❤
P.S. It's not just Brazilians who say they can speak Spanish, I've tried talking to some Americans in Spanish and the truth is that many aren't as fluent as they say. "Fluency in a language means speaking easily, reasonably quickly and without having to stop and pause a lot."
Brasileiros sempre dizem que falam espanhol pra gente é muito fácil compreender essa língua, mesmo que não seja fluente 😅
@@camillabarros8074but the accent is different and it's not always understood...my neighbor is from Brazil and when he speaks in spanish it sounds like portuguese and can barely understand
My mom is a New Yorker. I think a big reason the accent is going is because you don’t have the same immigrant populations anymore. You don’t really have as many first generation Jewish and Italian immigrants. Now it’s Latin American immigrants who are the vast majority and I think you can hear that just walking through NY.
As a Brooklynite born and bred, yeah, the type of Brooklyn accent that was from Jewish, Italian, and Irish immigrants is really mostly seen in older folks usually in South Brooklyn. Bensonhurst, Gravesend, etc. A lot of us Black and Latino immigrants have our own version of it that is mixed with whatever english dialect (as many of us Black folks are West Indian/Caribbean and us or our parents often speak whatever dialect of english from the island/country they originated from though younger immigrants will often speak in the aforementioned comboed Brooklyn accent) that our parents speak or language in some cases. I have a friend who is Bangladeshi and he speaks english in a strange Bangla accented Brooklyn accent.
Germans were there too.....many.
You will get even more. They all.leave south America. To.go to the "promised "land...in a prepared.bed...
And come with all.of there culture....that is the future. No it's and buts....its all okkkyyy
@@dagmarvandoren9364where the dutch at though? NYC used to be new amsterdam
what a great watch. So candid and real.
You are an excellent interviewer.
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Love this series! Keep up the good work!
Maravilloso Nueva York! Gracias por el vídeo. Fue entretenido!!
🐢. You just visited New York city, it's a beautiful, wonderful and comfortable city, isn't it? Visiting New York is probably my biggest goal I have in mind. It's the world's capital, it's the best city ever. There are so many foreigners who speak English confidently and other languages. In my case, I'm not fluent in English even though I have a good level at it. I can understand what I read and what I listen to about 80%. I almost always write through my device, hardly ever write on a piece of paper, but that's ok. I keep going. Lastly, I'd love to visit that city and overall the US, someday. ❤
SOMEDAAAY, I know that 😿
London to me feels like the capital of the world
@@torink8229 Well, that's your subjective opinion because we all know how big and important New York is, therefore it's the undisputed world's capital.
@Ernesto Revollar This is true, however I probably feel this way because I frequent London and feel no connection with New York.
@@ernestorevollar3632 and to think NYC is not even the capital of the US, and is also not the capital of the New York state. Unlike London. That’s what is so amazing about NYC. It managed to rise to the heights of popularity and importance without being the national capital. When asked what they would consider to be the world capital, many people from many places around the world would say NYC, and they probably have not been to NYC.
Nice editing style, TY
This video made my day better, thank you so mutch from brazil 🤜
Eastern Slav girls can be seen immediately. And when they start talking in English, you already understand 100% where a person comes from😍🥰
Something interesting i noted is that if you compare United States and Brazil, for sure you would think Brazil has more fluent spanish speakers than US, but it not happens for a reason: we don't need to learn spanish entirely to understand each other, in fact most of the time we are speaking to a spanish speaker we use a mixture of the two languages.
And this is not much like a two side way, because there are spanish speakers that cannot understand portuguese very well, some explain that this may happen due to the number of phonemes, portuguese has all variations of the spanish phonemes and a bunch more, this interferes the spanish-portuguese way because of phonemes that spanish don't have.
I notice this but as a Spanish person living in Portugal. Everyone starts speaking a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese with me but it's difficult for me to try to speak Portuguese.
@@danielg.1698 No it doesn't. Less people speak Spanish in Brazil than in the US.
@@danielg.1698 That is exactly what I said
@@danielg.1698 Foi o que ele disse, como o português e o espanhol são semelhantes nós no Brasil temos uma facilidade de entender o espanhol o que impede de nos aprofundar no idioma.
@@decrox13 ele disse que por termos o idioma muito semelhante ao espanhol não nos aprofundamos na língua
I like when you ask people to say something in a language other than English.
Love your videos man. Thank you for representing Canada and our French language! Enchanté ✌️
3:11 That dude seems so chill. I'd definitely hang out with him for no specific reason. Just chill.
I am French but I am lucky enough to have a job in which I can also use english and japanese daily.
I do think that learning another language not only helps with brain flexibility, it also broadens your horizons and gives you an opportunity to dive into a different culture.
It's always fun to switch languages according to your moods and thoughts! Each one is highlighting different personnality traits... To me french is elaborate and passionate, english is fun and straight to the point, japanese is conventional and respectful.
It's so interesting how a language can reflect personality!
Its interesting, how did you manage to learn them both? BTW I'm a fluent frensh speaker and I want to learn Japanese someday so I need some advices and thank you
@@karimsabrin1333Thank you for your comment! I've been learning english since I was 6 (I was part of an english learning club until junior high, then I had regular english classes).
I began learning japanese at university. I lived below my means back then to save some money. That was fortunate because I was selected to be part of an exchange student program in Japan during my 3rd year at university, so I spent 6 months in Japan 12 years ago.
Be persistent in your efforts and be creative to find all kinds of oportunities to learn more about the language! Do not hesitate to invest time (and money if needed) in it, do your best and then it's all about maintenance. Keep your goals in mind when it gets hard!
When it comes to japanese, my number one advice would be not to be afraid to learn kanjis and to read as much as possible. If possible, it also helps to have native friends to talk to.
Si tu décides de te lancer, je te souhaite bon courage dans ton apprentissage du japonais! Il faut s'accrocher mais je t'assure que ça vaut le coup!! :D
@@oONodokaOo merci infiniment! Je te souhaite un bon chance dans ton travail , your story was amazing you are capable and hardworking , ofc the key of success is to be creative and so open to learn anything , I will try to invest my time when I have it , thank you so much for advices ❤
The Arabic speaking man just talks to my heart. I think we actually are soulmates haha
I went to NYC expecting to be able to use my Italian in Little Italy in the san Genaro's festival but no one spoke Italian haha
Wow! Super information. I speak English, Japanese, a bit of Korean, and now since the past 2 days working on French
Love what you do…interesting, entertaining and makes me happy to see the variety of individuals.