Did you hear of the tragedy of the language called Polish? Or Belarussian? Those people were under occupation for a simmilar amout of time, yet Ukrainian got the credit for being the langugage of resilience. Why so? (Propably not because of something that is happening today)
Also, maybe a video on which languages people regret learning. I use the term 'regret' loosely as in wishing they could of learned a different secondary language instead. So, far I have no regrets other for any of the languages I am learning other than wishing I started sooner.
I think that a lot of these languages are considered boring as they are common languages to learn in school. Nothing is fun if you are forced to learn it.
I've been studying Norwegian and I'm having a great time finding all the commonalities with English. Sure, not a lot of people speak Norwegian...but If "usefulness" and utility were the most important thing for me, I would have learned Spanish long ago. Learn what you like
Learn what you like, totally agree! Also, defining the "usefulness" of a language is very tricky to begin with. Going by the number of speakers would be fine if we were playing a game where you're randomly assigned to talk to a person from anywhere in the world, but that's not life. Your own surroundings and circumstances can easily turn a language that's generally considered useful rather useless and vice-versa.
German is so underrated for being "ugly". Personally, I find it goofy and kind of cute. Very enjoyable to learn. The only language I tend to think of as "boring" is Spanish... I'm sure I could learn to enjoy it, if I applied myself, but in the US it just seems like such a default language to learn. Schools have ruined it.
My mother language is German and I think German is a very boring language in daily conversations German can be fun if you like reading complicated ass texts from philosophers I swear they’re such a challenge to understand even for me But other than that German is pretty boring and it doesn’t even sound good But Spanish Lord if I could speak Spanish Every time I watch some Mexican cartel shows I get multiple orgasms in my ears and in my brain It just sounds so fucking COOL so powerful the way you PRONOUNCE WORDS and the R SOUND Also Mexican music is fucking dope In short , Mexican is Sigma to me and German is kinda meh not ugly not beautiful just meh
That's the thing here, most boring languages according to who? and what makes it boring? I'd bet a kidney most of those answers from "the internet" are mostly from US or other english speaking countries.
@@bera2856 A perfect example of why English is not boring. I am a native speaker, and yet, while I understand all the words in it, I have absolutely no idea what this comment means. (I am old - that might have something to do with it.)
As a brazilian, i relate to the english speakers that think germanic languages are boring, for a long time i refused myself to try to learn spanish because "It is too similar to portuguese, therefore it is useless". Turns out, i was a massive idiot,my spanish learning experience has been great so far.
damn it, this turns out similar to me, i think it isn't a great idea to learn portuguese because its similar to spanish, though some people around to me, they have said that learning potuguese could make worse my time , its interesting find this situation from a portuguese speaker, greetings!
I completely disagree with the statement that "similar languages to mine are boring"; in the case you're a romance-language-native, is very fascinating and even exciting finding other romance languages similar to yours, like when you're a child and discover that are other countries that "quirk a language like the one you speak in a very different and interesting way".
As a brazilian and Portuguese speaker I gotta admit that I find romance languages pretty lame (yes, pls don't kill me I just find them too similar to Portuguese), but this is not the case with French. Differently from other romances languages, French is not really boring. This language is the most unique and different romance language and can be really entertaining and curious sometimes, this make me continue to constantly study French, everyday I learn something special. Btw the other romance languages are just so similar to Portuguese (like Italian), I have almost no desire to learn them even though I want to. I already speak Spanish since my mother is from Bolivia (a Spanish speaking country in south america), but it is so boring for me, I just find it a really easy language and it is not "rare" cuz it's related to Portuguese.
@@CrysolasChymera2117 I find it way more similar to other romance languages than French, romanian still shares more things in common with Portuguese and Spanish (both are my mother tongue) than French. Romanian grammar and vocabulary are not that different. French vocabulary has something similar but also unique for me. And French grammar is something that differs from other romance languages: even tough it maintains the same bases it has it's secrets and weird things
This, I'm an spanish speaker learning portuguese and find it pretty fun. Also thinking of taking up catalan at some point, both are similar and still find them interesting. On the other hand Greek sounds really fun too.
This probably cause those are typical languages that people learn. When I started learning Hungarian people were like: WHAAAT?! You are learning Hungarian? Wow, you are special.
@@annacsek3508 Hungarian is just very different. The vocabulary is different and the grammar is different. When you actually start studying it, it's not that complicated. Most of the so called 'cases' are just like putting a preposition on the end of a noun and the grammar rules are very regular with few exceptions. But it's the difference that makes it so enjoyable. The opposite of boring. But the best thing is going to Hungary and saying things in Hungarian to Hungarians. Their faces light up, they encourage you and they tell you you're great even if you've just made a mistake. I love Hungary so much.
I used the "boringness" of Spanish to my advantage in school. I was basically able to test out of my language requirements by using Spanish's proximity to my native Portuguese
Maybe they're not as fun to learn to speak, but I've always found Dutch and Afrikaans interesting to listen to. As an English speaker, you can understand a lot without ever studying the languages.
I agree, i think the German languages are the coolest in my opinion. I'm a native English speaker( and Italian speaker) who has been learning German for 20 years. Nothing gives me more joy than speaking or writing in it. Dutch and Afrikaans sound cool too
As an Afrikaans speaker I always found Afrikaans boring in school because we learned Standard Afrikaans which is more like white Afrikaans and I speak Coloured Afrikaans. White people tend to speak slower and more monotone which makes it sound boring and coloured people speak faster and louder so it's like the Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish dialects
I don't know if I'm just coping with the lost 10 years I was forced to learn Swedish, but I think it's a pretty cool language. Especially with all the variation between dialects in Sweden *and* Finland.
I'm learning Dutch. The reasons why I enjoy learning this language are: It's a challenge for me, however not so much compared to learning Russian or Mandarin Chinese It's similar to a language I already know (English) It's not a typical language that people learn It doesn't descend from the same language family my language does (Spanish). I've had struggles but I've also made progress. Learn what you want instead of what you think you should learn. Maybe that's why people find these languages boring. Because they're the most popular ones. I learned French and I did enjoy it because I wanted to learn it.
@@lorie76yt Nederlands is een heel interresante taal ik heb it gelerent omdat het tamelijk geleijk als duits is. Ik maak nog fouts wanner ik schrijve maar ik vind dat is dat gekompliceerendste van de taal. Vertalen en spreken is eenvoudig
My native language is Faroese, and I absolutely _hated_ learning Danish in school. It was a required subject from the 3rd to 9th grade. I liked learning English a lot more. This is even though we use a lot of Danish in our own language, but the Danish we “borrow” follows Faroese grammar and pronunciation. I think it’s called “code-switching”? Now I live in Denmark and have to use Danish every day 😂 I actually quite like Danish now, but it’s pretty difficult to speak, even though the grammar is pretty easy.
Hi, is Icelandic easy for you? Do you understand a lot either via sound or written ? I'm intensely intrigued about their linguistic familiarity. Thanks
@@deguonis It’s very difficult for Icelanders and Faroese people to understand each other when speaking. We share a lot of words, but the pronunciation is often (but not always) so different that we usually can’t get the context of a longer sentence. I would say the pronunciation is even more different than it’s between Swedish and Danish. It’s much easier to understand when reading, because we have similar grammatical rules and we share a lot of words. If I read an Icelandic text I can usually understand what it’s talking about, even though I might not understand every word. I wouldn’t say it’s like learning a new language when learning each other’s languages, but more like learning 1/2 or 1/4 of a language, lol. It’s mostly just getting used to the differences than learning something completely new.
As an native English speaker studying German, I always find it fun to find a German word that’s very similar or identical to English. It’s a nice feeling to see a word you already know in a language, especially since most of the time you already know how to pronounce it (if the pronunciation isn’t different), because after trying to pronounce words like Die Geisteswissenschaftlichen (the humanities), it’s always a nice change of pace to get a more familiar word. German has been really fun to study, so for me, it’s not boring at all!
Good video, I don't think there's such thing as a boring language. I wouldn't trust the internet with advice on this subject. Seems all very subjective to me. In addition, I actually find the German language interesting and quite charming. People who criticize it tend not to know much German.
If you ask me, capitalising all nouns doesn't make the language easier at all. Maybe you can read a little bit faster but it makes writing a lot more difficult. That's because you don't only capitalise regular nouns, but also nominalised verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions ... (basically any word can be nominalised) That's even difficult for native speakers. I am currently taking German lessons again in university (a course for native speakers) and it drives me CRAZY! But if you want to learn German, don't worry too much about it because unless you need to write formal texts, people won't care that much and probably wouldn't even notice mistakes as long as you capitalise all the regular nouns. And in very informal settings like on social media or text messaging it's common to not follow these rules at all.
my native language is Spanish, and I was so bored in my Spanish class in high school that I got a "02" grade for the whole year. in my country, it is from 0 to 20... 20 is A+, 19=A, 11=D-, 10=F, 08 or less=shame. when I got older and moved to another country I started to like and study Spanish grammar.
As someone very interested in Sanskrit, I'm afraid you've fallen for some Indian nationalism. The idea that Sanskrit is ideal for AI according to NASA came to be because one scientist at NASA once did a paper talking about both. However, this has been debunked many of times by both linguistics and other people working at NASA. As a language nerd I love how passionate many Indian people are about their languages, but this has also caused a lot of misinformation about certain languages and their importance or supposed supiriority, this is one of those cases.
I don't find any language boring. 🧐 They all have interesting things, historical connections to other languages and beautiful ways of describing the world.
Imo English has a different culture depending on the country. In the same way Spain, Mexico and Chile (for example) all have different cultures despite all being Spanish speaking, the UK, the US, and Australia all have different cultures. I can understand Americans and American culture because of the amount of American media that's available but the culture in the UK isn't the same. We have different humour, different spelling, we can be more cynical and sarcastic on the whole. Culture is more than language - it's history, politics and societal values.
As always, schools teach the same languages, leaving other interesting and unique languages up to yourself to learn. Being different reaps all the rewards, when you speak to someone in a language they never expected you to know.
I agree with French and Spanish as they are the go-to languages whenever a noob wants to learn a new language. Strongly disagree with Swedish, for the same reason in that it's a language that isn't studied all that often.
Swedish has been my favorite to learn. German I'm having a blast with. Swahili might take the top spot so far it's incredibly fun. Italian got boring for me not sure why tho.
Seriously pedantic comment coming up: Nobody spoke proto-Germanic, or indeed any other proto-language, because they're like photo-fit images of what we think such a language might have sounded like. I'm not complaining about the idea you're trying to express, I'm complaining about the use of the indicative - and I'm fully aware that everybody does it. I think this may be a use-case for subjunctive mood, or at least some degree of irrealis. I realise that attempting to dictate usage is futile at best and I need to get used to the fact that people use the indicative to express conjecture. Caesar believed in unicorns after all
i'm an italian mothertongue and to me english is like crackers with dark chocolate, german is like Dark Nutella with Chli pepper sauce,Dutch is like Hazelnut PAste/Peanut Butter and a tiny sprinkle of honey, and scandinavian languages are roughly like an hybrid between After Eight (norwegian) Jaffa Cakes (Danish/Swedish) and Chocolate-Blueberry Ice Cream (icelandic) all of those share this murky,sandy,rough,earthy undertone i cant put my finger on but i could never label them as "boring" to be fair
would disagree with all these languages aside English, i mean English would make a rule and literally go against those rules in every aspect of their grammar. i mean french is kinda like English in breaking their own rules, so would agree to disagree in the case of french.😆😃
As a Turkish person I can say that English sounds like a game of word bending. It sounds so feminine in a perspective of our culture. We learn it in school but many people can't fully understand the language because it is inconsistent unlike our language. I think, if you don't have enough letters to write, then you should create more letters or change the way you write the words to make your writing system phonetical, just like we did to our alphabet a hundred years ago. It would be really easy for everyone to learn it.
To english speaking people Turkish is a very difficult language to learn. It may have phonetic spelling but what do these strange words mean? Also almost all words in Turkish are not similar to ANY other european language. So it can be real struggle too as the grammar is completely different than English. And the way sentences are made, like backwards.
@@russelldavidsen7669 Yes, Turkish is a little bit diffrent from other European languages because it's word order is S-O-V, we use suffixes instead of prefixes, we have vowel harmony so the vowel in a suffix changes according to the last vowel. But we have many foreign loan words from other languages too. And I don't think that Turkish is hard because when you learn how to read, you can read anything unlike in English. Maybe suffixes are new for other people but it is just the way we make new words like: Göz=Eye Gözlük=Glasses Gözlükçü=Optician Gözlükçüler=Opticians Gözlükçülerde=At the Opticians Gözlükçülerden=From the Opticians Gözlükçülerden mi?=Is it from the Opticians? Gözlükçülerden misiniz?=Are you from the Opticians? I hope it helps for you to understand the logic. You can find videos about Turkish in this channel.😊
@@Mert_Ozfirat Same thing applies to German. As long as you learn the umlaut ü, ä and ö, the difference between ie and i, z=ts, j=y, v=f, w=v and so on, you're basically good to go.
You asked about the cultural identity of English? For me it looks like that: A small house of stone in a flat, greem dale covered by grass. It is windy, a little bit rainy and it feels cold outside. You go into the hut and hear the voices of the people. They eat fish, meat, bread and beans and they drink beer. The folks there speak English. Despite it is English, you have problems to understand it. They still use "thou" and have many glottal stops in their speach. You hear many words that you, as a speaker of Standard English or American English don't know, but that are familiar for speakers of Frisian, Dutch or German. They talk about their day, how many fish they caught and how the shepherding was. This is, how I imagine the identity of the English language and for me, it's very beautiful
I personally don't find any languages boring. Some are less interesting to me than others, but it's mainly due to lack of interest in the culture associated with that language. But once I develop in an interest in that culture, or a desire to visit the place, (or if I want to flirt with a someone from there, hehe) the language is suddenly interesting to me. And also, like he said, there are just some cool-ass traits in certain languages. Like animacy, which I think is really cool, but we have almost no animacy at all in English.
I'm guilty. I think English becomes boring after a while. The main reason is exposure. We're exposed to this language everywhere. What's the first foreign language taught at school? English. What's the language we use if we don't know each other's native language? English. I can't deny how useful English has been for me as a non-native speaker but getting bored was one of the reasons why I decided to learn other languages.
I startet to perceive English as boring as I started to learn Spanish, after 2 years of Spanish I start with Japanese and I am not that passionate about Spanish anymore... So I think you are right
English does have culture! To learn a language is to learn a culture, and English is no different. I’d say however, that English has several cultures that are regional. For example, in the southern US (where I’m from) people tend to be long-winded (as I’m about to prove.) However, a lot of other English speakers have a “get on with it, say what you’ve got to say and move on.” which is interesting considering English is often considered the language of business and entertainment (an oxymoron in my opinion because many Americans hate long movies. Like the entertainment isn’t efficient enough or something. Sorry… you’re being entertained too much?). Many native English speakers don’t appreciate how difficult it is to even become bilingual. I do think this contributes to the “lazy” stereotype because many people say they’d like to visit say, the Philippines, france, India, Mexico, etc. but the thought is “oh I’ll just find someone who can speak English.” But how many Filipinos have the luxury of saying “oh I’ll visit India and just find someone who speaks Tagalog.” That being said, English has the culture of being the language of opportunity. I have friends from South America who moved to the US saying “if I can just learn English, and find work here, I’ll be able to make life for myself and my family better.” No offense, but not many people are saying that about many other languages. Like my grandpa says, “Fish where the fish are.” That’s why those immigrants were able to make great lives for themselves in the US. We do have some things to work on, but to say English has “no culture” is simply not true
I think perhaps the problem is that English has too many cultures - it's quite confusing to try to "plug in" to such a bewildering array of them if you didn't grow up with the language. And of course you're right about the laziness aspect. As someone from a country with several languages, I can't decide who's worse with the Anglo laziness/arrogance - the British or the Americans.
@@caeruleusvm7621 Im American and i try to be conscious of this flaw we have. Sadly though, sometimes it feels like I’m in the minority 😅 I can say though, that language learning makes you grow as a person. Very much for the better. It’s hard work though. I wish I could get more of my friends into it. Good luck with whichever language(s) you’re learning!
@@caeruleusvm7621 sort of being "default" language and it lacks originality and uniqueness. Small price to pay for being english as main international language.
I don’t think my language, Japanese, is « boring » because it’s soooooo différent from English. 😊and knowing some French, I find English verb conjugations pretty « boring ».😉
Well, I learn Castilian Spanish not Mexican Spanish. This Dominican artist I like Natti Natasha I can understand most of her Spanish in her song Me Gusta. But Farukko I think, he is Porto Rican I am like, what? The same when I hear Bad Bunny sing.
Spain:Spanish Mexico:Spanish,but American accent Argentina:Spanish,but German accent Philippines:Spanish,but Chinese accent Mozambique:Spanish,but Swahili accent
In my opinion, Zpanish, Arabic are agressive languages! Boring, Dutch/Hollandish, Danish, in Europe!Funny, Asian-Chinese/ Mandarim, African-Swahili, Amerindian - Quéchua and Tamil!
Wow that's really weird. Swedish is to me among the top 5 most beautiful and interesting-sounding languages, the way the consonants and vowels are pronounced sound soft and elegant, but not in a "motononous" way as that of French (sorry, I know it's one of the favorites out there, but just not to my liking), it's full of ups and downs and sudden changes of intonation. Anything but boring. German is also not boring, but next to Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian or English I don't know why, but something makes it sound like a hyperformal and very carefully enunciated language, almost like something learned only at school, without the usual careless flow of natural languages. The plus for me is that German has such clearly demarcated words, clean vowels (none of the extremely variable and weird shifts of English vowels) and strongly pronounced consonants that I can often distinguish what words someone is saying even if I have no idea what they mean.
5:53 True. I could only find one German comic book that I didn't have to pay for. Of course, I have your two German short stories books (Der Ungeheuer im Wald, irgendjemand?). How come you apparently have an intermediate Japanese short stories without a beginner one?
I can understand English being boring, as a native speaker of it myself...but that's why lol. It's essentially a language most people speak and/or are learning. Tho...it is well that it's no longer as complex as it was when it was Old English. If it still was, the grammar would cause people to take longer to learn it anyway.
Germanic Languages are boring because they sound similar to English? That's like me saying I don't wanna learn any other Turkic language because I know Turkish.
I do not look at if languages are boring, but If I do I think I do it the next way: it is only boring if the words do not have enough variety AND if it does sound blend, if one of these two not apply for me it's not boring, So swedish is not boring,french also ,and spanish is my favourite language, espechially the canarian variety Further I more look at how languages sound,
Ngl if you think English is boring you should go to Scotland. A very colourful use of language, lots of new and fun ways to use words you thought you knew inside and out.
English has an animacy distinction in pronouns. The word "it" is generally inanimate, or at least non-human, and using it sounds insulting enough to refer to humans with "it" that people had to use "they/them" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun for humans, generalizing it's singular indeterminate use.
yeah bro, make a video on sanskrit. its a very spiritual ,old and mysterious language in the world. I persoanally tried learning sanskrit myself but had to give up really soon. i feel that its really really hard to understand its grammar and broo the words in sanskrit are soooooo big, i was like WTH, it was almost like 45-70 romanized letters for each word in sanskrit i have no idea how some people can understand it and use on daily basis. although in all honesty i find sanskrit very spiritual and really interesting, i mean it was one of the oldest languages in whole world, it also shows how indo-european language was created and how ancient people overtime migrated and settled in india........... i just wish that i could learn the language too one day but i am scared by just looking at so many long words and difficult pronounciation.
As a German I have to say collectively assigning a gender or no gender to a new invention never gets boring. And our intellectuals are still not tired of putting words together to describe complex things more easily.
My mother language is Spanish and yeah, sometimes it is difficult to understand Latin Americans hahahaha we speak so fast, but German and French aren't boring, those are amazing languages with its tough parts but amazing and I hope someday I could learn Swedish
German speaker here: I do not know "boring" languages, I know languages that suck. And about all languages I more or less know suck. In German you must always define gender, number and time, a thing you can drop in Vietnamese. Vietnamese with its head-first word order is also great at combined words. But Vietnamese still has no standard pronunciation and in its accents many sound mergers. That sucks, too! English gives you an easy start (if you are German), but the words never end with a vocabulary beyond one million words. French has silent letters and derivations going back to Latin. Boring? No, but it sucks and most people just speak to certain degree by my experience (I´m fluent in French). Mandarin Chinese has just 371 syllables (counting also the tones). Most syllables have different meanings that are clarified by the context or if you add a redundant word. Therefore they did not get rid of their hieroglyphs, that have one sense. Thus here are three difficulties: You have to listen to the tone and guess the right meaning and have to learn thousands of hieroglyphs. Turkish seems easy as it is regular but it is incaple of making combined words and thus ends gobbling up thousands of loanwords. By the way: The same with Russian! How about those Khoisan languages: With more than 100 phonemes including click sounds they´ll be pretty interesting! So, how do you say "computer virus" in their languages?
To be honest I'd agree that spanish is boring. It's not difficult and there's nothing special about it. Also, as a German native speaker I think that some dialects are boring and weird (especially those of the north and east). I prefer the dialects of the south. like palatine
I was surprised to see the person who complained about my native language (Spanish from Mexico) was a fellow Mexican too. How could you betray your own country and language
In my perspective any language gets boring at some point but once you get over the boring hump, it's very interesting! Especially eavesdropping on people!
Me; a Swede often pleasantly exhausted after engaging in lots of small talk with my fellow people. Some days, small talk just drains me completely and I simply do not have the time because life. But this is universal. Everybody has those days. I’ve chitchatted with so many interesting, nice and fun people of all sorts during decades of traveling 🥰
"If you speak a Romance language natively, it's normal you find other Romance languages boring." False : I'm a native French speaker, but I love other Romance languages. Maybe because I can understand them better than the other ones.
Swedish deserves to be on this list in my opinion. I live in Finland where we're all forced to study it in school no matter what. I despise it. All Swedes I've spoken to have always been able to speak English with me. I've therefore never had any inclination or motivation to study it. The teachers have always reassured us that Swedish is a useful language to know and insisted that studying it is life-enriching. Despite all that, I still haven't taken particular pleasure in studying it or put any effort in learning anything in Swedish classes as evidenced by my bilingualism (I can only speak English and Finnish). I just don't find it useful or intriguing in any way.
That’s how I felt about French because I was forced learn growing up but giving it another chance. And heard the same thing from a few Americans about Spanish. However, I have found Swedish to be useful for having some shared vocabulary from French, Russian, German, and other Germanic languages.
Personally, I find Swedish to be my favorite language out of every language I've studied thus far. I've never really enjoyed Spanish that much, even during the time when I was living in México and was using it every day. I just never found that deep love and passion for the language. Unfortunately it always felt like a chore for me and I found it to be very limiting when it came to explaining deeper emotions and feelings. I also have a similar disinterest in other romance languages. However, when it comes to Swedish, I always feel so excited to study and it brings me so much joy. I also feel the same way about Georgian. 💙🇬🇪
I'm in the same boat as you girl...never really cared for Romance languages myself. Germanic languages are pretty nice to learn and sound more unique vs. the Romance languages and their lacking of interesting consonants and vowels (aside from French and Portuguese but they still have that Romance tinge).
@@jayc1139 As a native spanish speaker, I did feel that French was the most interesting out of the other romance languages, and the first I learned, currently learning Portuguese, but also German, however in defence of Romance languages, I find interesting our conjugation nuance and the way we play with our sentences and word order, something germanic languages don't appear to have, phonetics may be simple, but other aspects of romance languages are quite rich.
@@patax144 can you give an example what is interesting about your conjugation nuance and what exactly you mean? And also about play with sentence and word order? I can't speak spanish so I don't know. I can only say that in german you can play quite alot with word order.
Imagine calling a language boring because it is too similar to your native language. What inferior life forms! If anything, I would learn it even sooner, because it is easier to learn than other languages! As a matter of fact, after I study Russian, I plan to learn German followed by Dutch and Afrikaans. German, Dutch, and Afrikaans are all Germanic languages, but they are far from boring. All three languages have a sound that sounds as if you are choking on a cheeto puff which has to be my single most favorite phoneme. I'm not even joking when I say that. Or, if you want an extra interesting Germanic language, try learning either Yiddish or Luxembourgish. What I have to say about French isn't very similar, though. With french, I can kind of see why people would find the language boring. Although I don't view it as highly as languages such as Danish, Russian, Afrikaans, Polish, Georgian, and others, I still think it would be very cool to learn and I would certainly learn it one day. It also sounds really beautiful! But again, there are better ones out there. In short, I wouldn't blame anyone for viewing other languages higher than French. Same thing for Spanish. As for English, because of how unusual (and bad) it is in comparison to other languages, that not only makes it more unique and special, but even cooler and more interesting as well! The language is also hard to master with its distinctions between who and whom, its grammatical exceptions around every corner, its spelling, and more. It is challenging, but that is what makes it fun! Its history is also super neat! I would definitely consider learning English as a second language one day! It totally isn't my native language and I totally don't speak it at a C2 level or anything. Also, programming languages are the true boring ones. They aren't even actual languages! >:( It is more of a bunch of abbreviations from other languages with tons of punctuation thrown in there. No lexicon, no word order, just code. Talk about boring. 🥱
Also, I might be heavily biased when I say this, but the most boring languages to me are Indonesian and Korean. But remember, my opinions aren't your opinions, so you can enjoy either (or both) languages even if I don't.
Hur vågar ni säga att mitt språk är tråkigt (svenska). Ni pratar ju trots allt det vanligaste språket i världen. (Just joking, do not take this seriously)
In general I have rather eclectic (or perhaps just ornery) taste and don't tend to take interest in things just because they're trending. One big exception to that is Spanish (and yes, Mexican Spanish at that!) Though I've lived in California for the majority of my life, the ubiquity of Spanish doesn't make it seem less desirable to me. Rather, I feel lucky that there are so many opportunities to learn it. I really do love the sound.
Same here. I've just never really enjoyed Spanish and even when I was living in México and speaking it every day, I never found that deep love for the language. It always felt like a chore for me and I found the language very limiting when it came to trying to explain deeper emotions and feelings. But then when it comes to Swedish or Georgian, I get excited to learn and study and it makes me incredibly happy.
@Ludwig Schwartzkopf fully agreed , if anything I much prefer the sound of German ironically and learning German grammar and word order to me is so intriguing But my main interests are that of Russian and East Asian languages
Boring languages? I beg to differ! Check out this non-boring language 👉🏼 ruclips.net/video/SyUdxD_mvy0/видео.html
Did you hear of the tragedy of the language called Polish? Or Belarussian? Those people were under occupation for a simmilar amout of time, yet Ukrainian got the credit for being the langugage of resilience. Why so? (Propably not because of something that is happening today)
English is the most boring language. Change my mind
Yes, please tell us more about Sanskrit and Nasa!
@@Вродебычеловек Yes! Language of the gods? Perfect for AI? I want to know more!
Also, maybe a video on which languages people regret learning. I use the term 'regret' loosely as in wishing they could of learned a different secondary language instead. So, far I have no regrets other for any of the languages I am learning other than wishing I started sooner.
I think that a lot of these languages are considered boring as they are common languages to learn in school. Nothing is fun if you are forced to learn it.
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That's why I know so many people who find English (as a foreign language) boring. You MUST know English, wether you like it or not.
That's why i dislike learning French because i was forced to learn it.
This deserves more likes. So true
I somehow didn't get any language classes in school and still think French is boring
I've been studying Norwegian and I'm having a great time finding all the commonalities with English. Sure, not a lot of people speak Norwegian...but If "usefulness" and utility were the most important thing for me, I would have learned Spanish long ago. Learn what you like
Lykke til med norskstudiene.
I'm surprised this topic was even discussed to be honest. We're talking about languages not music or movies.
Learn what you like, totally agree! Also, defining the "usefulness" of a language is very tricky to begin with. Going by the number of speakers would be fine if we were playing a game where you're randomly assigned to talk to a person from anywhere in the world, but that's not life. Your own surroundings and circumstances can easily turn a language that's generally considered useful rather useless and vice-versa.
as a Swedish learner I fully agree
Norwegian was actually the first foreign language I ever attempted to learn. I don't remember why I quit
German is so underrated for being "ugly".
Personally, I find it goofy and kind of cute. Very enjoyable to learn.
The only language I tend to think of as "boring" is Spanish... I'm sure I could learn to enjoy it, if I applied myself, but in the US it just seems like such a default language to learn. Schools have ruined it.
it is not more boring, if you every word direct translate but the word order keep. I mean german.
My mother language is German and I think German is a very boring language in daily conversations
German can be fun if you like reading complicated ass texts from philosophers
I swear they’re such a challenge to understand even for me
But other than that German is pretty boring and it doesn’t even sound good
But Spanish
Lord if I could speak Spanish
Every time I watch some Mexican cartel shows I get multiple orgasms in my ears and in my brain
It just sounds so fucking COOL so powerful the way you PRONOUNCE WORDS and the R SOUND
Also Mexican music is fucking dope
In short , Mexican is Sigma to me and German is kinda meh not ugly not beautiful just meh
In Latin America English is "boring" for the same reason. School. So we forgive you if you do too 🤪
That's the thing here, most boring languages according to who? and what makes it boring?
I'd bet a kidney most of those answers from "the internet" are mostly from US or other english speaking countries.
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They most certainly are. Because he wrote the question in the search bar in english. But because it's subjective anyway it doesn't matter.
I’m Norwegian and will say that Swedish is NOT boring! It’s a beautiful language and some dialects sounds like music.
stop the cap bro
@@bera2856 A perfect example of why English is not boring. I am a native speaker, and yet, while I understand all the words in it, I have absolutely no idea what this comment means. (I am old - that might have something to do with it.)
swedish is a ripoff of danish
@@Mongol_animations 😁 That’s what they say in Denmark about Norwegian and Danish.
To my ears, Danish sounds like a French guy attempting to speak Norwegian.
As a brazilian, i relate to the english speakers that think germanic languages are boring, for a long time i refused myself to try to learn spanish because "It is too similar to portuguese, therefore it is useless". Turns out, i was a massive idiot,my spanish learning experience has been great so far.
damn it, this turns out similar to me, i think it isn't a great idea to learn portuguese because its similar to spanish, though some people around to me, they have said that learning potuguese could make worse my time , its interesting find this situation from a portuguese speaker, greetings!
I found that learning german as an english speaker rather pleasant as I'm easily able to pick up the similar words
I completely disagree with the statement that "similar languages to mine are boring"; in the case you're a romance-language-native, is very fascinating and even exciting finding other romance languages similar to yours, like when you're a child and discover that are other countries that "quirk a language like the one you speak in a very different and interesting way".
As a brazilian and Portuguese speaker I gotta admit that I find romance languages pretty lame (yes, pls don't kill me I just find them too similar to Portuguese), but this is not the case with French. Differently from other romances languages, French is not really boring. This language is the most unique and different romance language and can be really entertaining and curious sometimes, this make me continue to constantly study French, everyday I learn something special.
Btw the other romance languages are just so similar to Portuguese (like Italian), I have almost no desire to learn them even though I want to.
I already speak Spanish since my mother is from Bolivia (a Spanish speaking country in south america), but it is so boring for me, I just find it a really easy language and it is not "rare" cuz it's related to Portuguese.
@@DaviFigueiraChavez And do you find Romanian similar to the other romance languages?
@@CrysolasChymera2117 I find it way more similar to other romance languages than French, romanian still shares more things in common with Portuguese and Spanish (both are my mother tongue) than French.
Romanian grammar and vocabulary are not that different.
French vocabulary has something similar but also unique for me. And French grammar is something that differs from other romance languages: even tough it maintains the same bases it has it's secrets and weird things
I am a Portuguese Native speaker and find Spanish boring. It is too similar to Portuguese. I like Italian and French though.
This, I'm an spanish speaker learning portuguese and find it pretty fun. Also thinking of taking up catalan at some point, both are similar and still find them interesting. On the other hand Greek sounds really fun too.
This probably cause those are typical languages that people learn. When I started learning Hungarian people were like: WHAAAT?! You are learning Hungarian? Wow, you are special.
Hungarian is very beautiful.
Nice to see you were learning our language, it's so great. How difficult did u find it?
@@wirti94 Very. But after 7 months it is (kinda) possible. Still hard though
Whaaat you're learning Hungarian?? All my respect for you, as a native speaker I don't think I would be able to learn it as a foreign language 😂
@@annacsek3508 Hungarian is just very different. The vocabulary is different and the grammar is different. When you actually start studying it, it's not that complicated. Most of the so called 'cases' are just like putting a preposition on the end of a noun and the grammar rules are very regular with few exceptions. But it's the difference that makes it so enjoyable. The opposite of boring. But the best thing is going to Hungary and saying things in Hungarian to Hungarians. Their faces light up, they encourage you and they tell you you're great even if you've just made a mistake. I love Hungary so much.
I used the "boringness" of Spanish to my advantage in school. I was basically able to test out of my language requirements by using Spanish's proximity to my native Portuguese
Maybe they're not as fun to learn to speak, but I've always found Dutch and Afrikaans interesting to listen to. As an English speaker, you can understand a lot without ever studying the languages.
Same, as a native dutch speaker i had a blast learning English when i was younger and i still enjoy learning new things about the language.
I agree, i think the German languages are the coolest in my opinion. I'm a native English speaker( and Italian speaker) who has been learning German for 20 years. Nothing gives me more joy than speaking or writing in it. Dutch and Afrikaans sound cool too
@@sheikh_goku sorry I meant * the Germanic languages in general*
Agree. I always found Dutch so cute to listen to.
As an Afrikaans speaker I always found Afrikaans boring in school because we learned Standard Afrikaans which is more like white Afrikaans and I speak Coloured Afrikaans. White people tend to speak slower and more monotone which makes it sound boring and coloured people speak faster and louder so it's like the Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish dialects
I am learning Norwegian, I wouldn’t say it’s a boring language it’s a fun language like all languages are cool especially ones what interest you.
Imagine learning to read Sanskrit telephone books.
I don't know if I'm just coping with the lost 10 years I was forced to learn Swedish, but I think it's a pretty cool language. Especially with all the variation between dialects in Sweden *and* Finland.
Swedish isn't boring! I really enjoy learning it!
I hope we all find things that spark curiosity and a desire to learn with abandon!
I'm learning Dutch. The reasons why I enjoy learning this language are:
It's a challenge for me, however not so much compared to learning Russian or Mandarin Chinese
It's similar to a language I already know (English)
It's not a typical language that people learn
It doesn't descend from the same language family my language does (Spanish).
I've had struggles but I've also made progress.
Learn what you want instead of what you think you should learn. Maybe that's why people find these languages boring. Because they're the most popular ones.
I learned French and I did enjoy it because I wanted to learn it.
I love Dutch - there’s something about the sound of it that sounds adorable to me :D I mean “Snopje” (snohp-yeh) how cute is that 🧸
@@lorie76yt Nederlands is een heel interresante taal ik heb it gelerent omdat het tamelijk geleijk als duits is. Ik maak nog fouts wanner ik schrijve maar ik vind dat is dat gekompliceerendste van de taal. Vertalen en spreken is eenvoudig
@@lorie76yt look up blaasoppie from afrikaans, translates literally to blowuppy haha
@@isaac-p6126 je kan jezelf er in elk geval al erg goed mee uitdrukken! Chapeau ❤🎉
My native language is Faroese, and I absolutely _hated_ learning Danish in school. It was a required subject from the 3rd to 9th grade. I liked learning English a lot more. This is even though we use a lot of Danish in our own language, but the Danish we “borrow” follows Faroese grammar and pronunciation. I think it’s called “code-switching”?
Now I live in Denmark and have to use Danish every day 😂
I actually quite like Danish now, but it’s pretty difficult to speak, even though the grammar is pretty easy.
Hi, is Icelandic easy for you? Do you understand a lot either via sound or written ? I'm intensely intrigued about their linguistic familiarity. Thanks
@@deguonis It’s very difficult for Icelanders and Faroese people to understand each other when speaking. We share a lot of words, but the pronunciation is often (but not always) so different that we usually can’t get the context of a longer sentence. I would say the pronunciation is even more different than it’s between Swedish and Danish.
It’s much easier to understand when reading, because we have similar grammatical rules and we share a lot of words. If I read an Icelandic text I can usually understand what it’s talking about, even though I might not understand every word.
I wouldn’t say it’s like learning a new language when learning each other’s languages, but more like learning 1/2 or 1/4 of a language, lol. It’s mostly just getting used to the differences than learning something completely new.
As an native English speaker studying German, I always find it fun to find a German word that’s very similar or identical to English. It’s a nice feeling to see a word you already know in a language, especially since most of the time you already know how to pronounce it (if the pronunciation isn’t different), because after trying to pronounce words like Die Geisteswissenschaftlichen (the humanities), it’s always a nice change of pace to get a more familiar word. German has been really fun to study, so for me, it’s not boring at all!
Good video, I don't think there's such thing as a boring language. I wouldn't trust the internet with advice on this subject. Seems all very subjective to me. In addition, I actually find the German language interesting and quite charming. People who criticize it tend not to know much German.
If you ask me, capitalising all nouns doesn't make the language easier at all. Maybe you can read a little bit faster but it makes writing a lot more difficult. That's because you don't only capitalise regular nouns, but also nominalised verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions ... (basically any word can be nominalised) That's even difficult for native speakers. I am currently taking German lessons again in university (a course for native speakers) and it drives me CRAZY! But if you want to learn German, don't worry too much about it because unless you need to write formal texts, people won't care that much and probably wouldn't even notice mistakes as long as you capitalise all the regular nouns. And in very informal settings like on social media or text messaging it's common to not follow these rules at all.
my native language is Spanish, and I was so bored in my Spanish class in high school that I got a "02" grade for the whole year. in my country, it is from 0 to 20... 20 is A+, 19=A, 11=D-, 10=F, 08 or less=shame.
when I got older and moved to another country I started to like and study Spanish grammar.
Venezuelan?
Swedish is so Cool. I’m sad to see it on this list. It’s the language I’ve been working on for a long time. I don’t find it in any way boring.
Computer languages are fun! Fortran, Pascal, PL/1, DG/L, Algol, Fortran-77, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python...
Every language could be boring when you are learning it, becuase it's exhausting to hear something you want to understand but you can't
I'm german, living in France, speaking english ( or trying to)...I feel like the most boring person existing.
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As someone very interested in Sanskrit, I'm afraid you've fallen for some Indian nationalism. The idea that Sanskrit is ideal for AI according to NASA came to be because one scientist at NASA once did a paper talking about both. However, this has been debunked many of times by both linguistics and other people working at NASA. As a language nerd I love how passionate many Indian people are about their languages, but this has also caused a lot of misinformation about certain languages and their importance or supposed supiriority, this is one of those cases.
I guess the next video will be "The most exciting languages to learn (According to the internet)"?
I don't find any language boring. 🧐 They all have interesting things, historical connections to other languages and beautiful ways of describing the world.
Hi Olly! I’m waiting for the “Is Arabic hard to learn” video 😊
5 second video where he just says "Yeah, that one's pretty tough."
if you are native english, it is one of the hardest
I don't see how German is boring. Or Spanish. German has so many fun words, and Spanish is so beautiful.
omg I'm native spanish speaker and learning (swiss) german
@@Wahrheit_ Swiss German is especially beautiful to me (an Austrian) even though I do have a hard time understanding swiss people at times 😅
@@JF-wp2rz Ich finde Österreiches Deutsch auch sehr schön, aber Schweizerdeutsch ist total unverständlich für mich als Deutschlerner.
Olly I'm expecting a Sanskrit video from you. Who else agrees with me ?
It seems that I only speak 'boring' languages. French, Swedish and Dutch !
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Vilket språk är ditt modersmål?
Well, do you have any short stories in Scot Gaelic? That would help me… 😊
When I was in grade school I thought Spanish was such a boring language
but now its my favorite language in the whole world
A language from 5000 years is the most compatible with computers? Hmm... indeed the language of the gods. Or more like language of the damn aliens 👽
Olly: "Germanic languages all use the same alphabet..."
Yiddish: "Am I a joke to you?"
Imo English has a different culture depending on the country. In the same way Spain, Mexico and Chile (for example) all have different cultures despite all being Spanish speaking, the UK, the US, and Australia all have different cultures. I can understand Americans and American culture because of the amount of American media that's available but the culture in the UK isn't the same. We have different humour, different spelling, we can be more cynical and sarcastic on the whole. Culture is more than language - it's history, politics and societal values.
As always, schools teach the same languages, leaving other interesting and unique languages up to yourself to learn. Being different reaps all the rewards, when you speak to someone in a language they never expected you to know.
I agree with French and Spanish as they are the go-to languages whenever a noob wants to learn a new language. Strongly disagree with Swedish, for the same reason in that it's a language that isn't studied all that often.
Swedish has been my favorite to learn. German I'm having a blast with. Swahili might take the top spot so far it's incredibly fun. Italian got boring for me not sure why tho.
I only think French is boring because I have to take a French class this semester.
Seriously pedantic comment coming up: Nobody spoke proto-Germanic, or indeed any other proto-language, because they're like photo-fit images of what we think such a language might have sounded like. I'm not complaining about the idea you're trying to express, I'm complaining about the use of the indicative - and I'm fully aware that everybody does it. I think this may be a use-case for subjunctive mood, or at least some degree of irrealis. I realise that attempting to dictate usage is futile at best and I need to get used to the fact that people use the indicative to express conjecture. Caesar believed in unicorns after all
i'm an italian mothertongue and to me english is like crackers with dark chocolate, german is like Dark Nutella with Chli pepper sauce,Dutch is like Hazelnut PAste/Peanut Butter and a tiny sprinkle of honey, and scandinavian languages are roughly like an hybrid between After Eight (norwegian) Jaffa Cakes (Danish/Swedish) and Chocolate-Blueberry Ice Cream (icelandic) all of those share this murky,sandy,rough,earthy undertone i cant put my finger on but i could never label them as "boring" to be fair
That's SUCH a fun way to describe languages 🤣
would disagree with all these languages aside English,
i mean English would make a rule and literally go against those rules in every aspect of their grammar.
i mean french is kinda like English in breaking their own rules, so would agree to disagree in the case of french.😆😃
My native language is Brazilian Portuguese and my favorite language is Spanish. So I don't agree with The internet. 🇧🇷🇲🇽
I think every language can be fun
As a Turkish person I can say that English sounds like a game of word bending. It sounds so feminine in a perspective of our culture. We learn it in school but many people can't fully understand the language because it is inconsistent unlike our language. I think, if you don't have enough letters to write, then you should create more letters or change the way you write the words to make your writing system phonetical, just like we did to our alphabet a hundred years ago. It would be really easy for everyone to learn it.
To english speaking people Turkish is a very difficult language to learn.
It may have phonetic spelling but what do these strange words mean?
Also almost all words in Turkish are not similar to ANY other european language.
So it can be real struggle too as the grammar is completely different than
English. And the way sentences are made, like backwards.
@@russelldavidsen7669 Yes, Turkish is a little bit diffrent from other European languages because it's word order is S-O-V, we use suffixes instead of prefixes, we have vowel harmony so the vowel in a suffix changes according to the last vowel. But we have many foreign loan words from other languages too. And I don't think that Turkish is hard because when you learn how to read, you can read anything unlike in English. Maybe suffixes are new for other people but it is just the way we make new words like:
Göz=Eye
Gözlük=Glasses
Gözlükçü=Optician
Gözlükçüler=Opticians
Gözlükçülerde=At the Opticians
Gözlükçülerden=From the Opticians
Gözlükçülerden mi?=Is it from the Opticians?
Gözlükçülerden misiniz?=Are you from the Opticians?
I hope it helps for you to understand the logic. You can find videos about Turkish in this channel.😊
@@Mert_Ozfirat nicely put
@@Mert_Ozfirat Same thing applies to German. As long as you learn the umlaut ü, ä and ö, the difference between ie and i, z=ts, j=y, v=f, w=v and so on, you're basically good to go.
Well for me english is boring because i have to learn ...not because i want. And spanish ...i prefer my language (portuguese)
You asked about the cultural identity of English?
For me it looks like that:
A small house of stone in a flat, greem dale covered by grass. It is windy, a little bit rainy and it feels cold outside. You go into the hut and hear the voices of the people. They eat fish, meat, bread and beans and they drink beer. The folks there speak English. Despite it is English, you have problems to understand it. They still use "thou" and have many glottal stops in their speach. You hear many words that you, as a speaker of Standard English or American English don't know, but that are familiar for speakers of Frisian, Dutch or German. They talk about their day, how many fish they caught and how the shepherding was.
This is, how I imagine the identity of the English language and for me, it's very beautiful
I love Mexican Spanish. Caribbean Spanish sounds like your tongue is covered with soars.
Oof
I personally don't find any languages boring. Some are less interesting to me than others, but it's mainly due to lack of interest in the culture associated with that language. But once I develop in an interest in that culture, or a desire to visit the place, (or if I want to flirt with a someone from there, hehe) the language is suddenly interesting to me.
And also, like he said, there are just some cool-ass traits in certain languages. Like animacy, which I think is really cool, but we have almost no animacy at all in English.
German is one of the most poetic languages i have ever learnt. Think pure English
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; ) Güten âbend
Estoy de acuerdo
Purity isn't a concept you want to raise in Germany
@@sadhbh4652 بیا رابطه جوجو😘😍💌
@@sadhbh4652 lmao :D
Yes, a video about Sanskrit please.
I'm guilty. I think English becomes boring after a while. The main reason is exposure. We're exposed to this language everywhere. What's the first foreign language taught at school? English. What's the language we use if we don't know each other's native language? English. I can't deny how useful English has been for me as a non-native speaker but getting bored was one of the reasons why I decided to learn other languages.
I startet to perceive English as boring as I started to learn Spanish, after 2 years of Spanish I start with Japanese and I am not that passionate about Spanish anymore... So I think you are right
Could you make some chat gpt videos where you ask chat gpt some language questions?
English does have culture! To learn a language is to learn a culture, and English is no different. I’d say however, that English has several cultures that are regional. For example, in the southern US (where I’m from) people tend to be long-winded (as I’m about to prove.) However, a lot of other English speakers have a “get on with it, say what you’ve got to say and move on.” which is interesting considering English is often considered the language of business and entertainment (an oxymoron in my opinion because many Americans hate long movies. Like the entertainment isn’t efficient enough or something. Sorry… you’re being entertained too much?). Many native English speakers don’t appreciate how difficult it is to even become bilingual. I do think this contributes to the “lazy” stereotype because many people say they’d like to visit say, the Philippines, france, India, Mexico, etc. but the thought is “oh I’ll just find someone who can speak English.” But how many Filipinos have the luxury of saying “oh I’ll visit India and just find someone who speaks Tagalog.” That being said, English has the culture of being the language of opportunity. I have friends from South America who moved to the US saying “if I can just learn English, and find work here, I’ll be able to make life for myself and my family better.” No offense, but not many people are saying that about many other languages. Like my grandpa says, “Fish where the fish are.” That’s why those immigrants were able to make great lives for themselves in the US. We do have some things to work on, but to say English has “no culture” is simply not true
I think perhaps the problem is that English has too many cultures - it's quite confusing to try to "plug in" to such a bewildering array of them if you didn't grow up with the language. And of course you're right about the laziness aspect. As someone from a country with several languages, I can't decide who's worse with the Anglo laziness/arrogance - the British or the Americans.
@@caeruleusvm7621 Im American and i try to be conscious of this flaw we have. Sadly though, sometimes it feels like I’m in the minority 😅 I can say though, that language learning makes you grow as a person. Very much for the better. It’s hard work though. I wish I could get more of my friends into it. Good luck with whichever language(s) you’re learning!
@@caeruleusvm7621 sort of being "default" language and it lacks originality and uniqueness. Small price to pay for being english as main international language.
I speak French, German, English and have learned Russian and Spanish. Most boring? Definitely German.
Oh my gosh this is such a cool video.
I don’t think my language, Japanese, is « boring » because it’s soooooo différent from English. 😊and knowing some French, I find English verb conjugations pretty « boring ».😉
I'm an English speaker, and I find Japanese very interesting. It is so different from English.
@@tedc9682 I’m very glad to hear that 😊
Well, I learn Castilian Spanish not Mexican Spanish. This Dominican artist I like Natti Natasha I can understand most of her Spanish in her song Me Gusta. But Farukko I think, he is Porto Rican I am like, what? The same when I hear Bad Bunny sing.
I'm from latin america ( Venezuela) and I can't understand Bad Bunny either.
Spain:Spanish
Mexico:Spanish,but American accent
Argentina:Spanish,but German accent
Philippines:Spanish,but Chinese accent
Mozambique:Spanish,but Swahili accent
In my opinion, Zpanish, Arabic are agressive languages! Boring, Dutch/Hollandish, Danish, in Europe!Funny, Asian-Chinese/ Mandarim, African-Swahili, Amerindian - Quéchua and Tamil!
I know you’ve done a video on ASL, but I’d love you to do a video on BSL. 😮
Wow that's really weird. Swedish is to me among the top 5 most beautiful and interesting-sounding languages, the way the consonants and vowels are pronounced sound soft and elegant, but not in a "motononous" way as that of French (sorry, I know it's one of the favorites out there, but just not to my liking), it's full of ups and downs and sudden changes of intonation. Anything but boring. German is also not boring, but next to Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian or English I don't know why, but something makes it sound like a hyperformal and very carefully enunciated language, almost like something learned only at school, without the usual careless flow of natural languages. The plus for me is that German has such clearly demarcated words, clean vowels (none of the extremely variable and weird shifts of English vowels) and strongly pronounced consonants that I can often distinguish what words someone is saying even if I have no idea what they mean.
5:53 True. I could only find one German comic book that I didn't have to pay for. Of course, I have your two German short stories books (Der Ungeheuer im Wald, irgendjemand?). How come you apparently have an intermediate Japanese short stories without a beginner one?
I can understand English being boring, as a native speaker of it myself...but that's why lol. It's essentially a language most people speak and/or are learning. Tho...it is well that it's no longer as complex as it was when it was Old English. If it still was, the grammar would cause people to take longer to learn it anyway.
"The official language of the EU is Bad English."
Herman Van Rompuy, former president of the European Council
we did it language simp family! we did iiiitttt
Californian English...eeew gross. I'm from Montana. Haha we be judgemental
Germanic Languages are boring because they sound similar to English?
That's like me saying I don't wanna learn any other Turkic language because I know Turkish.
I do not look at if languages are boring, but If I do I think I do it the next way: it is only boring if the words do not have enough variety AND if it does sound blend, if one of these two not apply for me it's not boring,
So swedish is not boring,french also ,and spanish is my favourite language, espechially the canarian variety
Further I more look at how languages sound,
Ngl if you think English is boring you should go to Scotland. A very colourful use of language, lots of new and fun ways to use words you thought you knew inside and out.
English has an animacy distinction in pronouns. The word "it" is generally inanimate, or at least non-human, and using it sounds insulting enough to refer to humans with "it" that people had to use "they/them" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun for humans, generalizing it's singular indeterminate use.
yeah bro, make a video on sanskrit. its a very spiritual ,old and mysterious language in the world. I persoanally tried learning sanskrit myself but had to give up really soon. i feel that its really really hard to understand its grammar and broo the words in sanskrit are soooooo big, i was like WTH, it was almost like 45-70 romanized letters for each word in sanskrit i have no idea how some people can understand it and use on daily basis.
although in all honesty i find sanskrit very spiritual and really interesting, i mean it was one of the oldest languages in whole world, it also shows how indo-european language was created and how ancient people overtime migrated and settled in india........... i just wish that i could learn the language too one day but i am scared by just looking at so many long words and difficult pronounciation.
Excellent video ❤️❤️❤️
I would vote for Scottish to referee English. Very amusing pronunciation.
As a German I have to say collectively assigning a gender or no gender to a new invention never gets boring. And our intellectuals are still not tired of putting words together to describe complex things more easily.
How a beautiful language like Swedish can be Boring 😮😮😮
My mother language is Spanish and yeah, sometimes it is difficult to understand Latin Americans hahahaha we speak so fast, but German and French aren't boring, those are amazing languages with its tough parts but amazing and I hope someday I could learn Swedish
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Someone found Language Simp's channel 😂
These polyglots all know each other 😉
I mean Italian and Spanish does sound probably the least interesting to me, very meh, and talked about alot
Funny that 2 of these "things said by the internet" was said by Laungage Simp
Who knows.... but that's exactly what is meant by "the internet" ;)
I find French painfully boring but thats because I had to study it in school
German speaker here: I do not know "boring" languages, I know languages that suck. And about all languages I more or less know suck. In German you must always define gender, number and time, a thing you can drop in Vietnamese. Vietnamese with its head-first word order is also great at combined words. But Vietnamese still has no standard pronunciation and in its accents many sound mergers. That sucks, too! English gives you an easy start (if you are German), but the words never end with a vocabulary beyond one million words. French has silent letters and derivations going back to Latin. Boring? No, but it sucks and most people just speak to certain degree by my experience (I´m fluent in French). Mandarin Chinese has just 371 syllables (counting also the tones). Most syllables have different meanings that are clarified by the context or if you add a redundant word. Therefore they did not get rid of their hieroglyphs, that have one sense. Thus here are three difficulties: You have to listen to the tone and guess the right meaning and have to learn thousands of hieroglyphs. Turkish seems easy as it is regular but it is incaple of making combined words and thus ends gobbling up thousands of loanwords. By the way: The same with Russian! How about those Khoisan languages: With more than 100 phonemes including click sounds they´ll be pretty interesting! So, how do you say "computer virus" in their languages?
To be honest I'd agree that spanish is boring. It's not difficult and there's nothing special about it. Also, as a German native speaker I think that some dialects are boring and weird (especially those of the north and east). I prefer the dialects of the south. like palatine
Reading Shakespeare sonnets is fresh and totally different. Not something the average non native English speaker does.
I was surprised to see the person who complained about my native language (Spanish from Mexico) was a fellow Mexican too. How could you betray your own country and language
There's no such thing as "boring" languages. There are boring people, mind you. If you don't enjoy a language, just pass by it
In my perspective any language gets boring at some point but once you get over the boring hump, it's very interesting! Especially eavesdropping on people!
As a native English speaker I have to agree that I find other Germanic languages extremely uninteresting.
Me; a Swede often pleasantly exhausted after engaging in lots of small talk with my fellow people. Some days, small talk just drains me completely and I simply do not have the time because life. But this is universal. Everybody has those days.
I’ve chitchatted with so many interesting, nice and fun people of all sorts during decades of traveling 🥰
"If you speak a Romance language natively, it's normal you find other Romance languages boring." False : I'm a native French speaker, but I love other Romance languages. Maybe because I can understand them better than the other ones.
Swedish deserves to be on this list in my opinion. I live in Finland where we're all forced to study it in school no matter what. I despise it. All Swedes I've spoken to have always been able to speak English with me. I've therefore never had any inclination or motivation to study it. The teachers have always reassured us that Swedish is a useful language to know and insisted that studying it is life-enriching. Despite all that, I still haven't taken particular pleasure in studying it or put any effort in learning anything in Swedish classes as evidenced by my bilingualism (I can only speak English and Finnish). I just don't find it useful or intriguing in any way.
Swedish is an official language in Finland.
It’s quite Democratic, paying respect to the Swedish minority.
That’s how I felt about French because I was forced learn growing up but giving it another chance. And heard the same thing from a few Americans about Spanish. However, I have found Swedish to be useful for having some shared vocabulary from French, Russian, German, and other Germanic languages.
Swedish is beautiful
This is prob the reason the language is here, this is basically a list of students hating to study their school languages xD
Personally, I find Swedish to be my favorite language out of every language I've studied thus far. I've never really enjoyed Spanish that much, even during the time when I was living in México and was using it every day. I just never found that deep love and passion for the language. Unfortunately it always felt like a chore for me and I found it to be very limiting when it came to explaining deeper emotions and feelings. I also have a similar disinterest in other romance languages. However, when it comes to Swedish, I always feel so excited to study and it brings me so much joy. I also feel the same way about Georgian. 💙🇬🇪
I'm in the same boat as you girl...never really cared for Romance languages myself. Germanic languages are pretty nice to learn and sound more unique vs. the Romance languages and their lacking of interesting consonants and vowels (aside from French and Portuguese but they still have that Romance tinge).
@@jayc1139 As a native spanish speaker, I did feel that French was the most interesting out of the other romance languages, and the first I learned, currently learning Portuguese, but also German, however in defence of Romance languages, I find interesting our conjugation nuance and the way we play with our sentences and word order, something germanic languages don't appear to have, phonetics may be simple, but other aspects of romance languages are quite rich.
@@patax144
can you give an example what is interesting about your conjugation nuance and what exactly you mean?
And also about play with sentence and word order?
I can't speak spanish so I don't know.
I can only say that in german you can play quite alot with word order.
Are you a native English speaker?
@@LOKI77able Sí.
Imagine calling a language boring because it is too similar to your native language. What inferior life forms! If anything, I would learn it even sooner, because it is easier to learn than other languages! As a matter of fact, after I study Russian, I plan to learn German followed by Dutch and Afrikaans. German, Dutch, and Afrikaans are all Germanic languages, but they are far from boring. All three languages have a sound that sounds as if you are choking on a cheeto puff which has to be my single most favorite phoneme. I'm not even joking when I say that. Or, if you want an extra interesting Germanic language, try learning either Yiddish or Luxembourgish.
What I have to say about French isn't very similar, though. With french, I can kind of see why people would find the language boring. Although I don't view it as highly as languages such as Danish, Russian, Afrikaans, Polish, Georgian, and others, I still think it would be very cool to learn and I would certainly learn it one day. It also sounds really beautiful! But again, there are better ones out there. In short, I wouldn't blame anyone for viewing other languages higher than French. Same thing for Spanish.
As for English, because of how unusual (and bad) it is in comparison to other languages, that not only makes it more unique and special, but even cooler and more interesting as well! The language is also hard to master with its distinctions between who and whom, its grammatical exceptions around every corner, its spelling, and more. It is challenging, but that is what makes it fun! Its history is also super neat! I would definitely consider learning English as a second language one day! It totally isn't my native language and I totally don't speak it at a C2 level or anything.
Also, programming languages are the true boring ones. They aren't even actual languages! >:( It is more of a bunch of abbreviations from other languages with tons of punctuation thrown in there. No lexicon, no word order, just code. Talk about boring. 🥱
Also, I might be heavily biased when I say this, but the most boring languages to me are Indonesian and Korean. But remember, my opinions aren't your opinions, so you can enjoy either (or both) languages even if I don't.
The Scandinavian languages are interesting.
Hur vågar ni säga att mitt språk är tråkigt (svenska). Ni pratar ju trots allt det vanligaste språket i världen. (Just joking, do not take this seriously)
I do have a preference for European portuguese, so your story learning is sadly not for me :(
1:31 Olly: Germanic langauges all use the same alphabet
Yiddish: Am I a joke to you?
In general I have rather eclectic (or perhaps just ornery) taste and don't tend to take interest in things just because they're trending. One big exception to that is Spanish (and yes, Mexican Spanish at that!) Though I've lived in California for the majority of my life, the ubiquity of Spanish doesn't make it seem less desirable to me. Rather, I feel lucky that there are so many opportunities to learn it. I really do love the sound.
Personally, I’ve always had people tell me that I’m weird for thinking this, but I’ve always thought that learning Spanish was so incredibly boring
But on reflection that might me due to the fact I already learnt french
Same here. I've just never really enjoyed Spanish and even when I was living in México and speaking it every day, I never found that deep love for the language. It always felt like a chore for me and I found the language very limiting when it came to trying to explain deeper emotions and feelings. But then when it comes to Swedish or Georgian, I get excited to learn and study and it makes me incredibly happy.
@Ludwig Schwartzkopf I’m the same as well but probably because I was forced to learn it in school so now I hate it
@Ludwig Schwartzkopf fully agreed , if anything I much prefer the sound of German ironically and learning German grammar and word order to me is so intriguing
But my main interests are that of Russian and East Asian languages
Same here. Terrible. This just reminds me of the boredom I felt in school when having Spanish as a mandatory foreign language.