The 10 Most Widely Spoken Languages in the World

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • This video is about the ten most widely spoken languages in the world, measured in two ways: by the number of native speakers, and by the total number of speakers (including second language speakers). I hope you enjoy it and learn something from it!
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Комментарии • 9 тыс.

  • @Langfocus
    @Langfocus  4 года назад +150

    Hello everyone! Are you learning a language? One great resource to check out is Innovative Language podcast programs: langfocus.com/innovative-language-podcasts/. If you click the link, you can read my description of the Innovative Language approach, or just scroll down to find your favorite language below the article.
    Have fun!

    • @bitanmandal977
      @bitanmandal977 4 года назад +4

      I'm learning Spanish coz I wanna talk to Nadal in his native language

    • @pokechan3117
      @pokechan3117 4 года назад +3

      India , pakistan and bangladesh was a same country (bharat)in the past , after 1947 it divides into 2 country india and pakistan and later in 1971 pakistan divides into 2 countries pakistan and bangladesh

    • @pokechan3117
      @pokechan3117 4 года назад +2

      In india there more than 1000+ official languages speaks

    • @pokechan3117
      @pokechan3117 4 года назад +1

      And i think that spanish and portugués is same

    • @pokechan3117
      @pokechan3117 4 года назад +1

      *Bangladesh🇧🇩 99% population speaks bengali but there is only 20% of bengali and in pakistan🇵🇰 45% of population speaks punjabi but there is less than 1% punjabi*

  • @cynthiabell512
    @cynthiabell512 5 лет назад +2302

    The fact that I'm Chinese, but I live in France and I learnt English and Spanish at school. I can speak 4 of the 5 main languages in the world wow
    Maybe I should learn arabic now?

    • @ahmad3906
      @ahmad3906 5 лет назад +158

      You will enjoy

    • @hail9794
      @hail9794 5 лет назад +198

      grammer is a bitch even for native speakers.

    • @najiibofficial6400
      @najiibofficial6400 5 лет назад +31

      Really same too but i don't know Chinese wow may be I'll learn

    • @fariduddin5426
      @fariduddin5426 5 лет назад +71

      My native language is Bengali.
      I know English, Urdu/Hindi, Arabic.
      Currently started to learn Mandarin.

    • @jackdaniels4282
      @jackdaniels4282 5 лет назад +58

      I've learned to kiss more than a 100 language speaking girls.

  • @robertaldridge4472
    @robertaldridge4472 6 лет назад +1519

    If you speak English, Spanish and Hindustani, you can converse with 3/4 of the earth's population. Amazing.

    • @briandesjardin9381
      @briandesjardin9381 5 лет назад +155

      My wife and I both speak English and Spanish, which should be good for close to half??? But we still can`t seem to hold a mutually intelligible conversation, hahaha!

    • @briandesjardin9381
      @briandesjardin9381 5 лет назад +48

      @@m.h.a.2404 I guess that depends on why you want to learn the languages or where you want to go. French and Arabic would be a wonderful combination for roaming around Africa, though probably not very useful in the few (large) countries where Hindustani is a lingua franca.

    • @TheLordeHenrique
      @TheLordeHenrique 5 лет назад +41

      Thats not exactly true, there is a sobreposition of the speakers of those languages. The number of non speakers is greater than 1/4 because of that

    • @justtheletterV274
      @justtheletterV274 5 лет назад +11

      Robert Aldridge well I speak only to English and Hindustani( Hindi&Urdu) so I can only converse with 2/4 :( except if I learn Spanish

    • @lincolnabraham4695
      @lincolnabraham4695 5 лет назад +27

      Robert Aldridge can someone explain this? I got 1.5+.5+.5=2.5 billion...that’s only about 1/3? I found that even with all ten of the most spoken languages, you still couldn’t talk to 3/4 of the population but rather 71.5%

  • @lissam956
    @lissam956 4 года назад +455

    I speak English and Spanish, and when I went to Paris, 2 years ago, people would rather talk to me in Spanish than English, in all of the tourists places, I was able to survive with my Spanish, not English. Not to mention Italy, every time I wanted to ask questions in English people would say “No comprendo” but if I say Spanish, they would smile and talk to me in Italian. But definitely, English is the language if you are traveller or businessman or woman.

    • @lucario2188
      @lucario2188 4 года назад +57

      i mean is evident they would understand you.
      Italian is a romance language.

    • @DoctorDeath147
      @DoctorDeath147 4 года назад +59

      Spanish will only be very useful when in the Americas or in Romance speaking Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Romania) but it won't do much in Asia or Africa.

    • @lissam956
      @lissam956 4 года назад +36

      Maybe so, but I heard a lot of Koreans are learning Spanish, also you can see a lot of Korean you-tubers speaking in Spanish, it must be something new and I don’t think you can survive with only Spanish wherever you go, but my experience in Paris was like that, and that is why I was impressed.

    • @lissam956
      @lissam956 4 года назад +16

      PESARO PESARO: there was no need for me to speak English in Spain as I am a native Spanish speaker.

    • @DoctorDeath147
      @DoctorDeath147 4 года назад +36

      @@lissam956 It's one of the reasons I'm learning Spanish; you get to communicate with other Romance speakers which is beautiful. I live in Asia, unfortunately, so it won't be very useful here. Not even in my country which used to be Spanish-speaking (Philippines).

  • @pulkitindora
    @pulkitindora 3 года назад +441

    Being an Indian and fluent in Hindi, English and Punjabi, I already feel I can communicate with half of the world.
    *cries in World Dominance*

    • @seid3366
      @seid3366 3 года назад +21

      Learn Belarusian and become a true language god

    • @Invictus_Mithra
      @Invictus_Mithra 3 года назад +3

      From my understanding, Punjabi is practically identical to Hindi, isn't it?

    • @pulkitindora
      @pulkitindora 3 года назад +46

      @@Invictus_Mithra no my man. They do sound similar and some of the words are same, but they are totally different. They even have different scripts.

    • @walnut9472
      @walnut9472 3 года назад +14

      @@Invictus_Mithra Nope , Only Dogri and kangri languages are similar to punjabi and they too have many differences

    • @suhridguha2560
      @suhridguha2560 3 года назад +6

      I speak Hindi, bangla and English, I can also understand punjabi, Oriya, Assamese and nepali

  • @MegamikazeMoriko
    @MegamikazeMoriko 5 лет назад +525

    alphabets used among most total # of speakers
    latin alphabet
    1. english
    3. spanish
    7. portugese
    8. malay
    10. french
    han chinese characters
    2. mandarin
    perso-arabic abjad
    4. hindustani (urdu)
    5. arabic
    indic abugidas
    4. hindustani (hindi)
    9. bengali
    cyrillic alphabet
    6. russian

    • @shakibahmed4582
      @shakibahmed4582 5 лет назад +7

      Bangla is fourth.

    • @fernandavago2364
      @fernandavago2364 5 лет назад +25

      Latin: Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian!

    • @ashton622
      @ashton622 5 лет назад +23

      Bengali and Hindustani(Hindi) has different scripts.hindi uses devnagari script while Bengali uses it's own Bengali script.

    • @MegamikazeMoriko
      @MegamikazeMoriko 5 лет назад +15

      @@ashton622 i was kinda lazy and grouped all indic/brahmic-based alphabets into one family
      but yes you are correct, hindi and bengali do use different alphabets

    • @ashton622
      @ashton622 5 лет назад +7

      @@MegamikazeMoriko and also Bengali Grammer is totally different from hindi.although some words are common in Hindi and Bengali.

  • @FlagAnthem
    @FlagAnthem 4 года назад +405

    - Top 10 languages spoken on the internet
    - Top 10 languages spoken on youtube
    I expect results could be interesting

    • @zaragozamoralecione9846
      @zaragozamoralecione9846 4 года назад +6

      U can find answer in wikipedia as I've done

    • @FlagAnthem
      @FlagAnthem 4 года назад +9

      @@zaragozamoralecione9846 r/wooosh

    • @elvisquartey6226
      @elvisquartey6226 4 года назад +2

      @@zaragozamoralecione9846 tell me

    • @barittos5585
      @barittos5585 4 года назад +13

      Of course English

    • @belalabusultan5911
      @belalabusultan5911 4 года назад +11

      Internet : Arabic, because porn :P
      Yourtube : it's an American company, so English.

  • @ryan_cy
    @ryan_cy 5 лет назад +190

    I am a Chinese living in Malaysia. I speak Mandarin as my mother tongue, speak Malay as the official national language and speak English as the world's lingua franca.
    I am very glad that I could communicate with most of the people in the world when doing my solo backpacking travel!

    • @CalanYes
      @CalanYes 4 года назад +1

      Ryancy_94 大马人?

    • @MrMattpnk
      @MrMattpnk 4 года назад +6

      You need to learn Spanish!

    • @its_kataraaa
      @its_kataraaa 4 года назад +3

      @@CalanYes hii from punjab , and wants to learn Chinese as 4th language 😄

    • @stephenchan8939
      @stephenchan8939 4 года назад +5

      @Saiful Pulau besar Yes, he is. 25% of Malaysian citizens are Chinese and most of them can speak Mandarin except someone who only accepted English education.

    • @kwangmyongsong4887
      @kwangmyongsong4887 4 года назад +2

      Shouldn't your mother tongue be hokkien?

  • @ahmedalzahrani9633
    @ahmedalzahrani9633 4 года назад +130

    I think all the languages are important, but the English language has a lot of support more than others languages, because it is the language of Computers and Technology that most people in the world are touch with.

    • @PSH558
      @PSH558 2 года назад

      amoz 999 ,Yeah. It is so overrated.

    • @HailWoden18
      @HailWoden18 2 года назад

      @@PSH558 "Overrated" what the fuck does that eve mean? Lol. Shut the hell up.

    • @alienlatino2945
      @alienlatino2945 Год назад +7

      Yep English should be and it is the International Language that everybody is familiar with, all pilots are required to learn it to communicate with all the towers in different countries.

    • @Agent-ie3uv
      @Agent-ie3uv Год назад

      ​@@alienlatino2945 latino crirs in spanglish😂🤣

  • @ceastarmartin3871
    @ceastarmartin3871 4 года назад +140

    I can speak chinese,Bengali,hindi,English & urdu.
    Proud to be a Bangladeshi🇧🇩🇧🇩

    • @TechnicalAshesh
      @TechnicalAshesh 3 года назад +11

      Excellent from Kolkata India 🇮🇳❤️

    • @humble_man30
      @humble_man30 2 года назад +1

      A myth

    • @indian4470
      @indian4470 2 года назад +4

      It makes you proud.not bangladesh

    • @vat513
      @vat513 2 года назад

      Don't lie . Lier . You say you speak Chinese ?? Chinese is not even a Language , it's just a Language family name 😂😂 . Lol lier . Bengali people always lie in most of the things

    • @Pain53924
      @Pain53924 Год назад

      How did you learn Mandarin?

  • @Vampire__Squid
    @Vampire__Squid 8 лет назад +966

    So thats the reason why its so rare for Native English speakers to be bilingual?

    • @BigBad-Wolf
      @BigBad-Wolf 8 лет назад +458

      Yeah, they often think that EVERYONE speaks English EVERYWHERE.

    • @Vampire__Squid
      @Vampire__Squid 8 лет назад +350

      Big Bad Wolf That is kinda the case. Like Paul said, English is the international language. Sure they might not be fluent or speak it on a daily basis, but they probably still know the basics.
      But regardless, that just makes English speakers look dumb and arrogant. We gotta find a way to encourage English speakers to become bilingual or beyond

    • @ShineVendor
      @ShineVendor 8 лет назад +95

      I'm a native english speaker and I wish this wasn't the case. It would be rad as hell if, say, spanish was the global lingua franca, or any other language. It would be easy to pick a language then. :p

    • @Guimaster127
      @Guimaster127 8 лет назад +91

      Native Spanish speaker here.
      Believe me, having English as the international language makes choosing a language to learn SO MUCH easier xD
      That way i know I must learn English, and French if I want (maybe German if you are european, like me)

    • @Vampire__Squid
      @Vampire__Squid 8 лет назад +11

      Guillle77 Gran Turismo

  • @pratikshachandorkar4050
    @pratikshachandorkar4050 4 года назад +542

    I am Indian and I can speak Hindi, English, Marathi, And now I am learning Japanese 😉🇮🇳

  • @maykesalco4323
    @maykesalco4323 3 года назад +52

    I speak
    English ,Spanish and Portuguese
    Living in both USA and Mexico but travel to Brazil, to visit family 👪 ❤.

  • @carlitoxb110
    @carlitoxb110 8 лет назад +3435

    The most important language in the world is: sarcasm

    • @bobmendoza2450
      @bobmendoza2450 7 лет назад +57

      Carlitox b
      another one that is nowadays gaining a lot of power is: memes.

    • @carlitoxb110
      @carlitoxb110 7 лет назад +21

      And gossip the third language

    • @Dan_1022
      @Dan_1022 7 лет назад +9

      I speak better German than sarcasm Tbh... I suck at German i can barely make a sentence..

    • @pthiago_s5075
      @pthiago_s5075 7 лет назад +3

      Carlitox b Lmao totally right

    • @_rafael_fr
      @_rafael_fr 7 лет назад +3

      Carlitox b I agree 👏👏

  • @oscarsantiago2117
    @oscarsantiago2117 8 лет назад +210

    Spanish FTW! I'm glad I speak it. Greetings from the bankrupt island, Puerto Rico

  • @timotius7776
    @timotius7776 4 года назад +87

    My First languange (national) : Indonesian
    My second Language (international): English
    My third languange (school) : Mandarin
    My fourth languange (learn by myself) : Spanish
    So I can talk to more than 2 billion people

    • @baperparah9351
      @baperparah9351 3 года назад +2

      Add Hindi and you might be able to speak to 80% people in the world

    • @rumbleice9467
      @rumbleice9467 3 года назад +1

      My first language is Mandarin
      My second language is Fuzhounese
      My third language is English
      My fourth language is Spanish
      My fifth language is French

    • @rubyayala1794
      @rubyayala1794 3 года назад

      Damm :O

    • @Randomguy-ny4jz
      @Randomguy-ny4jz 3 года назад +1

      Is mandarin compulsory in Indonesia ?

    • @nowhereman4619
      @nowhereman4619 3 года назад

      @Ben Raymond what languages can you speak?

  • @dianam.3179
    @dianam.3179 4 года назад +72

    Yo soy de La República Dominicana y me encanta ser hablante nativa del español. Estoy aprendiendo inglés y más adelante me gustaría aprender italiano.

    • @sauteedgarlic3237
      @sauteedgarlic3237 3 года назад +9

      Estoy aprendiendo Español por 8 meses ahora y entiendo todo en tu mensaje. Mucha gente habla Inglés porque es importante pero Italiano es tan bello hablar. Suerte con tus idiomas!

    • @dianam.3179
      @dianam.3179 3 года назад +6

      @@sauteedgarlic3237 ¡Me alegra mucho que estés aprendiendo español! Y sí, en mi país la mayoría escogemos inglés como segundo idioma por la cercanía a USA, y además que es un país turístico y muchos escogen inglés para poder trabajar de eso; pero el italiano es un idioma muy hermoso.

    • @Baian79
      @Baian79 2 года назад

      Suerte

    • @jw-ws8dz
      @jw-ws8dz 2 года назад +2

      Ojalá hayas progresado mucho en tu aprendizaje de los idiomas. Empecé a aprender español hace 6 años, aunque había una época en que dejé de estudiarlo. Ya que mi pareja es de España, volví a aprenderlo hace unos meses, y conversamos casi enteramente en español (con poco inglés). Por cierto, soy de usa. Good luck with your language learning!

    • @VTSifuSteve
      @VTSifuSteve 2 года назад +2

      @@jw-ws8dz Lo has hecho bien, compa. No es nada fácil aprender español viviendo aquí en EEUU donde todo el mundo habla pura inglés. Saludos desde Arizona.

  • @88caym
    @88caym 5 лет назад +121

    Hands up who can speak 3 languages or more :) 🤚!! Amo los idiomas ❤️ C'est bien d'apprendre plusieurs langues ☺️

    • @keikoauddy
      @keikoauddy 4 года назад +1

      Puedo hablar nueve 😀

    • @ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО
      @ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО 4 года назад +1

      Puedo hablar quince👊

    • @keikoauddy
      @keikoauddy 4 года назад +1

      @@ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО ¿eso tan? Cual idiomas entiendes

    • @ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО
      @ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО 4 года назад +2

      @@keikoauddy Hola, soy indio, asi que sé la mayoría de los idiomas índicos que pertenecen a las familias Aryan y Dravidian. Sé 10 lenguas arias y 4 dravidianas además del español y el inglés. Actualmente estoy aprendiendo francés y árabe. Y después de eso planeo aprender chino, japonés, ruso, coreano, persa, indonesio, Italiano, portugués y alemán. No es para nada profesional, sin embargo, es mi pasión.

    • @keikoauddy
      @keikoauddy 4 года назад

      @@ДЖОЗЕФКРИСТО Puedes escribir arabe? Y... Si estas Indio, por que no sabes Hindi? Y si tu lo dices que entiendes cuatro dravidian linguas, yo puedo decir que yo se 5 mas idiomas desde este del India, Assamese, Chakma, hajong, Nagamese y bishnupriya manipuri.

  • @peek_a_boo4168
    @peek_a_boo4168 4 года назад +435

    Tourist perspective: Chinese and Germans are everywhere

    • @stefcarvalho6416
      @stefcarvalho6416 4 года назад +26

      And Brazilians too

    • @efxnews4776
      @efxnews4776 4 года назад +2

      Yeah, go to Miami and see the magic happen!

    • @preetams124
      @preetams124 4 года назад +17

      Indians also

    • @anushkaa28
      @anushkaa28 4 года назад +3

      And INDIAN 😂

    • @canaldoschreen977
      @canaldoschreen977 4 года назад +6

      @@stefcarvalho6416 and if you learn Brazilian Portuguese most Brazilians will love you

  • @geminix365
    @geminix365 7 лет назад +450

    Funny Spanish sentence:
    ¿Cómo como como Como?
    That can mean "how how how how"
    Or "how do I eat like Como?" :)

    • @semideiadoqpor5772
      @semideiadoqpor5772 7 лет назад +38

      geminix365 in portuguese there is some cool sentences in this style, is pretty cool

    • @rafaelpascoaliczerniej297
      @rafaelpascoaliczerniej297 7 лет назад +51

      in portuguese its similar, but without the "ó" in the first como,so its "como como como como?"

    • @ImAFanboy
      @ImAFanboy 7 лет назад +5

      Lmaooo

    • @dandanmist
      @dandanmist 7 лет назад +4

      lol
      Thanks for sharing

    • @psf12345
      @psf12345 7 лет назад +37

      one way this joke could be told in Portuguese would be:
      -Pó po pó? (Posso por pó?)
      -Pó po. (Pode por)
      -Can I put the powder?
      -You can.

  • @pureheartforever
    @pureheartforever 4 года назад +15

    I am focusing on learning the 6 Official Languages of the United Nations: English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Russian and Arabic. I am an American English speaker with a M.A. in Linguistics and focus on 3 areas when deciding what languages to learn: population growth, economic growth, and colonial empires. Population Growth: French [19 African nations], Arabic [Egypt], Hindustani [India, Pakistan], Bengali [Bangladesh]. Economic growth: Mandarin [China - Manufacturing], Indonesian + Malay [banking +business], Portuguese [Brazil], German (strongest economy in the E.U.), and Japanese (very industrious), and Colonial Empires (despite their faults, provided common trade languages): British/Americans -English (English has huge growth in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, and the Philippines) Spanish Empire (Mexico is the largest Spanish speaking nation), French Empire (growth in Africa), Portuguese Empire (for Brazil's huge population+ Angola and Mozambique), Arab Empire 600-1200 (that moved Arabic through North Africa all the way to Spain), Russian [USSR] bridging Europe & Asia, Mandarin as the language of the CPC [remember China has nearly 300 languages]. Best of luck to all language learners!

  • @EriAirlangga
    @EriAirlangga 5 лет назад +470

    I am currently learning Java
    and C#

  • @yuta4539
    @yuta4539 5 лет назад +316

    1 中文
    2 Español
    3 English
    4 हिंदुस्तानी
    5 عربى
    6 Português
    7 বাঙালি
    8 русский
    9 日本語
    10 ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

    • @faetech6235
      @faetech6235 4 года назад +56

      বাংলা not বাঙালি
      বাঙালী means people who spoke Bangla

    • @its_kataraaa
      @its_kataraaa 4 года назад +6

      From Punjab 💓

    • @btsindiana.r.m.y2906
      @btsindiana.r.m.y2906 4 года назад +7

      Punjabi💜

    • @ammaraslamhirai6549
      @ammaraslamhirai6549 4 года назад +13

      1-Punjabi پنجابی
      My native tongue-ماں بولی
      2-Urdu-اردو زبان
      My co-second language with;
      3-Pakistani English-Angrezi.
      4-Dari-Farsi/دری فارسی (Afghan Farsi)
      Can read & Understand but not fluent in speaking.
      5-Seraiki-سرائیکی/Multani

    • @geobuster8824
      @geobuster8824 4 года назад

      @@faetech6235 Bengali :D

  • @Jakromha
    @Jakromha 8 лет назад +530

    I think the most important languages are West-Frisian, Romansh, Welsh, Gaelic, Greenlandic and Faroese.

    • @antwanarmstrong5987
      @antwanarmstrong5987 8 лет назад +5

      Greenlandic or Icelandic? I thought Greenlandic was a extinct language.

    • @Jakromha
      @Jakromha 8 лет назад +30

      Antwan Armstrong People in Greenland speak Greenlandic.

    • @christopherthr
      @christopherthr 8 лет назад +43

      Greenlandic is a living Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Greenland; it's not a Germanic language like Icelandic or Old Norse. The native peoples of Greenland and their language are related to the Inuit peoples of Canada.

    • @EmeteCT
      @EmeteCT 8 лет назад +12

      Greenlandic is a Inuit language. The extinct language you are thinking of is the Greenlandic Norse, which is a Germanic language.

    • @antwanarmstrong5987
      @antwanarmstrong5987 8 лет назад +1

      +Sjælefred Herm thanks for info

  • @ritiksinghjangpangi8968
    @ritiksinghjangpangi8968 4 года назад +398

    The most important language:- money

    • @joshuahagan1797
      @joshuahagan1797 4 года назад +1

      Dinero

    • @kylefitz.2639
      @kylefitz.2639 4 года назад +19

      Too bad I don't speak Hebrew...

    • @toy326
      @toy326 4 года назад +10

      And it is an international language too 😂😂😂🌚

    • @roeyjevels
      @roeyjevels 4 года назад +2

      Money is my love language.

    • @marganzamaharail7936
      @marganzamaharail7936 3 года назад

      That's why MANDARIN is the first

  • @AwesomePossum510
    @AwesomePossum510 8 лет назад +203

    The huge geographical area in which Russian is spoken and also the mutual intelligibility between it and other Slavic languages makes it one of the important world languages in my opinion.

    • @Thindorama
      @Thindorama 8 лет назад +25

      No one west of Poland cares

    • @AwesomePossum510
      @AwesomePossum510 8 лет назад +21

      Your point is? (I live west of poland btw)

    • @Thindorama
      @Thindorama 8 лет назад +2

      +Rowan Vermeulen If you live west of Poland and care then you're just a west hating contrarian I guess.

    • @AwesomePossum510
      @AwesomePossum510 8 лет назад +53

      Thindorama Why do I suddenly hate the west? I just made the point that Russian is an important language according to several criteria.

    • @Aaa-qb6nr
      @Aaa-qb6nr 8 лет назад +2

      What does Rowan mean?

  • @chicknorton8839
    @chicknorton8839 7 лет назад +574

    I think all languages are important and just because it hasn't a lot of speakers, doesn't mean they should be lost.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 лет назад +109

      I agree!

    • @lucasm4299
      @lucasm4299 7 лет назад +20

      Chick Norton
      But it also doesn't mean they are important internationally. That's the truth.

    • @samguy7654
      @samguy7654 7 лет назад +37

      Chick Norton I agree, but sadly, I think many languages (and also many beautiful dialects) might be lost in the future because of standardisation and the necessity for an international language.

    • @dandanmist
      @dandanmist 7 лет назад +4

      Totally agree!

    • @chicknorton8839
      @chicknorton8839 7 лет назад +4

      Awwwww guys thanks! Man I love yee lot!

  • @Dominion_Hawks
    @Dominion_Hawks 8 лет назад +241

    Esperanto lovers? Wow, those 2 guys might be mad now

  • @pedrod6768
    @pedrod6768 4 года назад +80

    When my English teacher said us to see this video and is the only one homework that I enjoyed :v
    Hi from Spain 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

    • @yeetermcskeeter3499
      @yeetermcskeeter3499 4 года назад +6

      ¡Hola! Deberías ver unos pocos de los vídeos en tu tiempo libre. Son interesantes y informativos. Soy de los EEUU pero me encantaría vivir en España. Me gusta muchísima el dialecto de español de España.

    • @carloshoces7602
      @carloshoces7602 4 года назад

      Hiii how are you ? Nah jaja es broma de qué parte eres?

    • @yeetermcskeeter3499
      @yeetermcskeeter3499 4 года назад

      carlos hoces soy en el parte del estado del medio oeste y para ser más específico: Chicago, Illinois. What about you?

    • @carloshoces7602
      @carloshoces7602 4 года назад

      @@yeetermcskeeter3499 de Granada en España ; do you speak spanish?

    • @chaneroschupawebos3678
      @chaneroschupawebos3678 4 года назад +1

      @@carloshoces7602 ey yo también soy de Granada bro XD, saludos vecino :D

  • @gilangp2011
    @gilangp2011 4 года назад +189

    Me here in Indonesia learns Sundanese (local), Indonesia (National), English (international), and Arabic (Religion).
    One day I will learn Spanish and Urdu-Hindi. Insya Allah...

    • @manikrsanyal
      @manikrsanyal 4 года назад +6

      @@akari959 bengali and hindi are relatively similar

    • @justtheletterV274
      @justtheletterV274 4 года назад +4

      Fun fact, this video is outdated, there are about 88 crore Hindi-Urdu speakers (880 million)

    • @edgardojaviercanu4740
      @edgardojaviercanu4740 3 года назад +6

      Arabic has an growing importance. The religion factor united a lot of people with it. The number of Islam believers is increasing strongly, from China to North America.

    • @adfr3d470
      @adfr3d470 3 года назад +2

      It will be easy to you to speak Spanish because English and Arabic is close to it!

    • @edgardojaviercanu4740
      @edgardojaviercanu4740 3 года назад +3

      @@adfr3d470 Beautiful! It is hard to me to speak English and Arabic because they are far away from my awful ear.

  • @abeldnite
    @abeldnite 8 лет назад +425

    I think that the most important languages are:
    WEST: English, Spanish, French.
    EAST: Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese and Russian.

    • @sebastianmunozochoa1485
      @sebastianmunozochoa1485 8 лет назад +33

      what about Portuguese?

    • @corhydron111
      @corhydron111 8 лет назад +49

      Nobody actually speaks Portuguese in Asia anymore, in Macau only several hundred old people know it.
      Also, I think Japanese is redundant in Abel's list, seeing that it is only spoken in Japan and Japanese people usually learn English. Mandarin, Arabic and Russian are still useful in a lot of places though.

    • @darklight9674
      @darklight9674 8 лет назад +28

      +corhydron111 Portuguese is also spoken in Malaysia( Malacca) and in some parts of India but also it's an official language of Timor-Leste!

    • @Fatortu
      @Fatortu 8 лет назад +76

      The problem with Indian languages is that foreigner don't need them, Indian people speak English.

    • @abeldnite
      @abeldnite 8 лет назад +32

      Fatortu Exactly. I didn't put Indian languages in the East list because many Indians understand English and use it on a daily basis, therefore those languages are not that big compared to the other eastern languages that I mentioned. In the case of Portuguese, that language is practically only spoken in Brazil and Portugal. In the other hand, Spanish is spoken in the whole American continent and Spain, and French is spoken and studied in many parts of the Americas and Europe. Portuguese is big but I think that French is slightly more popular.

  • @valevalevale3333
    @valevalevale3333 8 лет назад +23

    i speak spanish, english and mandarin
    i'll conquer the world, at any time....

    • @alexn.2901
      @alexn.2901 8 лет назад +6

      But you won't conquer a part of Africa ;)

    • @valevalevale3333
      @valevalevale3333 8 лет назад +5

      +Alex N. Sorry Africa, i don't like french, you'll miss my conquer :(

    • @espanolplanetario25
      @espanolplanetario25 8 лет назад

      +Valentina Villanueva jajaja

    • @geliumschatten5452
      @geliumschatten5452 8 лет назад +1

      +Valentina Villanueva me uno a tu campaña imperial a cambio de que me nombres duque de Europa. Estudio alemán y francés así que te puedo ayudar a conquistar África.

    • @izzy7778
      @izzy7778 7 лет назад +3

      well, I speak malay, english, german, arabic, french, spanish and jappanese. guess I'll be conquer the world😂😂

  • @AhmedAbbas-ug8bt
    @AhmedAbbas-ug8bt 2 года назад +5

    I'm an Egyptian; my native language is Egyptian Arabic; I learnt at school Fernch, English and Modern Standardised Arabic; then after graduation I learnt Italian; and now I'm learning Urdu
    Learning Italian was very easy as I'm fluent in French; and Urdu was a bit challenging at first but I'm progressing in it as it's easier than Arabic; I tried to learn Persian, Turkish and Spanish but postponed them as I needed to focus on mastering Urdu and practicing more and more Italian; love this channel

    • @ivanovichdelfin8797
      @ivanovichdelfin8797 Год назад +1

      Pero si sabes inglés, francés e italiano, entonces en un mes podrías aprender el español. Como español nativo, puedo decirte que el italiano tiene un especie de mezcla de español con francés. Por tanto, no te resultará nada difícil.

  • @linguaphilly
    @linguaphilly 8 лет назад +152

    I think English, Spanish, French and Russian are the most important, since together they cover most of the surface area on earth and I'd like to travel everywhere. Oh, european imperialism...

    • @TheBongoJeff
      @TheBongoJeff 8 лет назад +29

      add Mandarin and you will be an Language speaking Overlord

    • @Hadrianus01
      @Hadrianus01 8 лет назад +17

      What about Arabic and Islamic imperialism? loll

    • @TheBongoJeff
      @TheBongoJeff 8 лет назад +8

      aortablue no1 in europe cares

    • @adwaye
      @adwaye 8 лет назад +10

      +TheBongoJeff they will soon as Arabs/Islam will takeover and then ruin Europe.

    • @linguaphilly
      @linguaphilly 8 лет назад +4

      adwaye sigh

  • @mattbarrett3618
    @mattbarrett3618 8 лет назад +912

    5 esperanto speakers disliked this video

    • @SG-ql7gq
      @SG-ql7gq 8 лет назад +60

      I am a native Esperanto speaker from the Czech Republic and I liked this video :)

    • @zhl8412
      @zhl8412 8 лет назад +12

      Saluton al vi)

    • @pawel4099
      @pawel4099 8 лет назад +15

      +Pigger Saluton el Pollando! Tre interesa! Mi estas komencanto ĉe Esperanto kaj mi lernis ĝin per Duolingo-kurso (Mi finos la arbo baldaŭ). Mi loĝas en Pollando :D

    • @TheBongoJeff
      @TheBongoJeff 8 лет назад +3

      +pawel4099 lol. i understood what you were saying

    • @TheBongoJeff
      @TheBongoJeff 8 лет назад

      +pawel4099 lol. i understood what you were saying

  • @awbinn3377
    @awbinn3377 6 лет назад +302

    A mi me gusta español. Es la lengua no1 de mi corazón! Y también es muy exitoso! Vivo en Polonia y hace unos 20 años el español era algo como ''un idioma exótico'' que casi nadie conocía. Luego, se presentaron las primeras telenovelas, peliculas, la música latina entró y... BANG!!! Hoy en día es una de las más populares lenguas extranjeras, cada escuela de idiomas ofrece clases de español.

    • @ejames80
      @ejames80 6 лет назад +26

      Es interesante conocer que el espanol tenga adeptos en polonia.

    • @albcev1511
      @albcev1511 5 лет назад +2

      Saludos hermano

    • @Ghonzhalez
      @Ghonzhalez 5 лет назад +9

      Me alegro que te guste el español :). Se siente muy satisfecho cuando sabes que puedes hablar español :)

    • @gabs8653
      @gabs8653 5 лет назад +4

      Que bien que te guste!!❤ Saludos desde 🇪🇨

    • @martincito1977
      @martincito1977 5 лет назад +10

      Gran eleccion amigo, en Latinoamérica estamos felices de que en Europa del Este quieran aprender el español por las telenovelas, canciones y otras cosas mas, esto me pone feliz y orgulloso por tu desicion

  • @genia662
    @genia662 4 года назад +33

    I'm Indonesian, my second language is English. And now i'm currently learning Spanish

    • @faizariffin4660
      @faizariffin4660 4 года назад +4

      I'm Malay, My second language is English. And I'm still learning English.😭😭

    • @imskiiet
      @imskiiet 4 года назад +2

      @@faizariffin4660 do you want English lessons? :D

    • @relaxwhc
      @relaxwhc 4 года назад +1

      Chinese would be more useful in your country LOL

    • @komikuslucu785
      @komikuslucu785 4 года назад

      @@faizariffin4660 same bro😥keep spirit💪

    • @komikuslucu785
      @komikuslucu785 4 года назад +1

      @sunny autumn kamu juga bisa Bahasa daerah ta?

  • @noone-vv9ex
    @noone-vv9ex 5 лет назад +58

    South america:
    Brazil - 47%
    Other countries - 53%

    • @finder4235
      @finder4235 5 лет назад +6

      Yes but in Paraguay French Guiana, suriname etc.. People don't speak Spanish, and in Brazil 100% of the population speak Portuguese as L1 so Portuguese is the most spoken language in South America

    • @2x2leax
      @2x2leax 5 лет назад

      @@neyougogo9923 Nobody cares of a Creole language of Latin called "Spanish".

    • @ronki23
      @ronki23 5 лет назад +4

      I thought Portuguese and Spanish are very similar and you don't need to really learn it. People say Italian is similar but Italian culture is different to Spanish/Portuguese

    • @LaBucci
      @LaBucci 5 лет назад +7

      Finder almost everyone in Paraguay speaks Spanish

    • @wlliamp4382
      @wlliamp4382 5 лет назад

      @@2x2leax more people than you think;) what's your mother tongue?

  • @pauloferrer5000
    @pauloferrer5000 5 лет назад +9

    I speak American English and Mexican Spanish. I love it . I'm so fortunate to speak both of them.

  • @billalkaka8705
    @billalkaka8705 5 лет назад +83

    انا جزائري يا لي عربي تحياتي له

  • @leviathandiabolo6296
    @leviathandiabolo6296 4 года назад +5

    I grew up in Punjab, India and I am well versed in Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi and English. I am aiming for Persian, Korean and Japanese in the next 5 years.

  • @gustavofacincanidourado6375
    @gustavofacincanidourado6375 7 лет назад +46

    I am Brazilian, I speak Portuguese, Spanish, English and I'm learning French

    • @TheSkum
      @TheSkum 7 лет назад

      too easy. Learn hard languages like Chinese and Arabic

    • @yangruikang
      @yangruikang 6 лет назад

      Gustavo Facincani Dourado come on man! Be quadrilingual!

    • @ryantheroman4331
      @ryantheroman4331 6 лет назад +3

      MrSkum No use for Mandarin unless you travel to China. It depends what type of Arabic you learn. Moroccan Arabic is very different from eastern Iraqi Arabic

    • @maqtalsamatarsalah9699
      @maqtalsamatarsalah9699 6 лет назад

      @@TheSkum i know i speak both togetger with korean and japanese but only speak french and english from her choices

    • @maqtalsamatarsalah9699
      @maqtalsamatarsalah9699 6 лет назад

      @@ryantheroman4331 china is starting to be taught in school. It is very influential at the moment

  • @hovhanneshovhannisyan3777
    @hovhanneshovhannisyan3777 7 лет назад +23

    Currently learning my fourth language(Spanish),and I fluently speak Armenian,English and Russian.

    • @rogerwang4553
      @rogerwang4553 5 лет назад

      Hovhannes Hovhannisyan I fluently speak Burmese Chinese English and currently learning Japanese

    • @bryniac5
      @bryniac5 5 лет назад

      hey, how similar are Armenian from your own experience?

  • @fractalinfinity1750
    @fractalinfinity1750 3 года назад +32

    As a Russian speaker,I can speak Russian fluently as my native language. Besides,it's not a big challenge for me to speak English as I've been learning this language since the first school year. Spanish is also familiar for me as the second foreign language I started learning two years ago. So,I can speak all three of them in conclusion. To be honest,it's absolutely fantastic to understand what foreigners talk or write about.This impressive feeling really relieves my study and makes it more interesting!
    P. S. Regarding to the question,in my opinion,the most important language is still English cause a huge portion of the Internet information is in English.However,I don't exclude the probability of Spanish and Chinese becoming the new international languages which will be learned worldwide in future.

    • @denizsincar29
      @denizsincar29 2 года назад +1

      many russians don't speak english. и это полный ппц. все просят руссификации к игре, а ж*пы поднять и выучить английский не хотят.

  •  4 года назад +29

    Loved the second list, I'd like a top 20 on this second one:
    1. English
    2. Mandarin
    3. Spanish
    4. Hindustani
    5. Arabic
    6. Russian
    7. Portuguese
    8. Malay
    9. Bengali
    10. French

    • @wolfgangk2824
      @wolfgangk2824 4 года назад +1

      English is used in India. French is used in Quebec, Canada, but NOT widely used in Europe.

    •  4 года назад +3

      @@wolfgangk2824 about French: it's also spoken in Belgium, Luxembourg, French Guiana, etc... Je parle Français :D

    • @nurinjazlinarazali7613
      @nurinjazlinarazali7613 4 года назад +4

      I can speak Malay as my mother tongue, english and arabic as it were taught in schools and basic spanish since the language system is similar to English, so it easy for me to learn. Looks like I need to learn 6 more languages to understand the whole world.😊

    • @renatoantunes4988
      @renatoantunes4988 4 года назад

      @ french guiana, belgium, luxembourg and france are too small, mainly luxembourg. So basically it's still little.

    • @sylhetbangladesh3850
      @sylhetbangladesh3850 4 года назад +1

      Bangla language my mother tongue

  • @sudipto1969
    @sudipto1969 4 года назад +7

    I have watched some of your blogs and wish to express my gratitude to you. Your explanation is very easy going and is easily understandable. Thank you.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  4 года назад +2

      Thank you, my friend!

  • @krishnapalsinghsisodiya9678
    @krishnapalsinghsisodiya9678 4 года назад +9

    I speak my regional language, Hindi English , Urdu and also know Punjabi, Bengali. Now I wanna learn Espanol, and Russian.

    • @user-il1su2dg1z
      @user-il1su2dg1z 3 года назад +1

      до сих пор, что вы узнали

  • @SadSeraphim88
    @SadSeraphim88 3 года назад +8

    This is an awesome and interesting video! Can you make this a “regular” update? It may not change every year but every few years could be fascinating. Thanks for what you do and keep it up! ☺️

  • @sunilsarkar2800
    @sunilsarkar2800 4 года назад +6

    Proud to be a Bengali from Kolkata, India

  • @veritasardens6547
    @veritasardens6547 5 лет назад +4

    Langfocus, my go to RUclips channel for information about languages, you are doing a great job Paul!. You also inspire people to learn new languages through your videos particularly in the video about anglophones being lazy in that they do not wish to learn other languages and you exhort them to learn new languages - that encouragement is a good thing and I appreciate that! :)

  • @TheMohammadDanish
    @TheMohammadDanish 4 года назад +41

    Languages List.
    India - Oh Yeah. bring it on.
    3 languages from India in the list Hindustani, Bengali, Punjabi...
    And these numbers could have been higher if we didn't have 22 scheduled languages and around 1000 spoken dialects.

    • @dominiquehudson8077
      @dominiquehudson8077 4 года назад +4

      I believe that the Dialects are counted or else languages like English would not be that high.

    • @sandhujatt3886
      @sandhujatt3886 4 года назад +3

      Shows greatness of india🇮🇳🙏

    • @justtheletterV274
      @justtheletterV274 4 года назад +1

      Mohammad Danish , आप का नाम ब्रो.

    • @TheMohammadDanish
      @TheMohammadDanish 4 года назад +1

      @KyPlayz true. And Punjabi is also spoken in Pakistan...and I think Urdu is included in Hindustani.

    • @TheMohammadDanish
      @TheMohammadDanish 4 года назад +1

      @@justtheletterV274 kya hua bro???

  • @JaxTheCartographer
    @JaxTheCartographer 8 лет назад +114

    Hola estoy tratando de aprender español en Estse momento yo sólo sé un poco, pero espero aprender todo pronto.

    • @andresmora5192
      @andresmora5192 8 лет назад +23

      Excelente, ten confianza, algún día tu hablaras el idioma español.

    • @ichide7
      @ichide7 8 лет назад +4

      Ve despacio amigo júntate con gente latina o hispana y hazle conversación, normalmente son gente muy amigable.

    • @strayobject5672
      @strayobject5672 7 лет назад +3

      Jaxson Davis72 I want to learn spanishhhhhh I am starting but iwant to know why there are some word variations like come comes (?) como etc. (sorry if I dindt spell it right!O-O) iam guessing that it depends on the words like nosotros los el etc I really wanna know spanish!!! ^_^

    • @jen16445
      @jen16445 7 лет назад +2

      Buena suerte!!

    • @ericgonzalez3641
      @ericgonzalez3641 7 лет назад +4

      Vas muy bien

  • @pentameteriamb6196
    @pentameteriamb6196 3 года назад +2

    I agree with you Paul. I taught ESL in a few countries around the world so I can speak from experience. Your channel is by far the most interesting!!

  • @constructioncentral464
    @constructioncentral464 5 лет назад +149

    Having traveled throughout the world I can attest that English is by far the most useful language from a universal standpoint. If a non-English speaker is looking to learn a a second language, English is a good choice. It will give you better access to the rest of the world., and English is only getting more popular. As long as you speak English you can travel easily.

    • @benhatto
      @benhatto 5 лет назад +21

      And if you already speak English you can be lazy and you don't have to learn another one.

    • @itsbritney1013
      @itsbritney1013 5 лет назад +6

      Well, I can speak Spanish ans English currently, so I can travel around the world without any trouble :)

    • @shadeerahmed4685
      @shadeerahmed4685 5 лет назад

      You are right brother.

    • @marcmoulin7342
      @marcmoulin7342 5 лет назад +15

      @lvan Big Nob French is dying? Lol
      Official language for 450 million people , first foreign language at school in English-speaking countries ( except in the USA) in Maghreb, Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana ( pretty soon official language there) Nigeria, Kenya, Flanders, German-speaking Switzerland, Lebanon ; second studied foreign language in many other important countries such as the USA, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Angola, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal Colombia , etc...

    • @marcmoulin7342
      @marcmoulin7342 5 лет назад +1

      @@neyougogo9923 Arabic is an important language but useless outside the Arab World , what's more never studied outside as a first, second or even third foreign language.
      Arabic has just been dropped as an official language in Israël , the same in South Sudan while Berber je nos official in Morroco and Algeria.
      Kurdish co-official too in Iraq so that globally Arabic is losing ground everywhere..

  • @JairoOrtizT
    @JairoOrtizT 8 лет назад +203

    Eu sou falante nativo de espanhol mas agora estou estudando a língua portuguesa e só posso dizer una coisa, ese idioma é maravilhoso. Espero que vocé faça um vídeo sobre as semelhanças entre o espanhol e o português.

    • @vinyziks323
      @vinyziks323 6 лет назад

      dAVID
      Russo? Não entendi a piada

    • @ryantheroman4331
      @ryantheroman4331 6 лет назад +9

      VinyZiks a piada é que o Português de Portugal não é tão bonito como o de Brasil. Então parece como o Russo que não é uma língua bonita.

    • @ryantheroman4331
      @ryantheroman4331 6 лет назад +9

      Eleazar Ortiz Yo soy hablante nativo de Português y estoy estudando el español. Es el inverso, no?

    • @vinyziks323
      @vinyziks323 6 лет назад +5

      Como assim ninguém acha Russo bonito? kkk eu acho uma das línguas mais bonitas, junto com frances, alemao e árabe.
      Eu moro em Portugal, sou brasileiro, mas eu acho o portugues de portugal mais bonito que o nosso, aliás, o portugues original mesmo é o de portugal

    • @baiserlesprincesses7300
      @baiserlesprincesses7300 6 лет назад +9

      VinyZiks se ksksks parece que os portugueses engasgaram um ovo na garganta quando falam

  • @derinse772
    @derinse772 7 лет назад +36

    4:21 : "Sorry Esperanto lovers ~" made me laugh so much :D

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  7 лет назад +12

      I like to tease the Esperantists a little. :) But really, I respect their interest in Esperanto.

    • @guilhermehx7159
      @guilhermehx7159 6 лет назад +2

      Kkkkkkkkkkk (laugh)

  • @yonpanyalai6221
    @yonpanyalai6221 4 года назад +5

    You are smart and knowledgeable. love from Indonesia and Malaysia.

  • @RR-qv8uz
    @RR-qv8uz 5 лет назад +6

    English and Spanish speaker here !!! Two in the top 3!!! F yeh !!!!
    How good is that !!!! Woohoo 🙌🏽 Though technically Australian isn’t really English 🤣🤣 and Latin American Spanish isn’t European Spanish BUT that doesn’t matter coz I can speak them fluently and can converse in either language with millions of people ☺️
    Thanks Paul for the stats !!!
    Jamás pensaba que nuestro idioma humilde iba sobrepasar a tantos idiomas mundiales ! Es un tremendo dicho y me siento muy orgulloso de haber mantenido esta habilidad después de más de 30 años de vivir en un país tan lejano de los hispanoparlante!!
    Recuerdan que Australianos en general solo hablan el idioma inglés!! Además, haberme educado en este país significó no tener razón por qué hablar un idioma extranjero!! Hoy en día veo qué hay millones de ventajas por ser un ser humano bilingüe!! ☺️🤔🤓✌️

  • @TalalAlMughrubi
    @TalalAlMughrubi 6 лет назад +78

    I would like to thank you for the informative content that’s you are sharing with your audience, I think in my personal opinion - it depends on the purpose of learning the language what determine the needed new language to learning, if I have interest in making business in china I rather learn mandarin, but if I intend to make my business in South America then I rather learn Spanish.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  6 лет назад +11

      Thanks for the comment!

    • @hectorhuerta3331
      @hectorhuerta3331 5 лет назад +4

      Marhaba. Entebe. Not all South American countries speak Spanish. As a matter of fact, the largest country in square kilometres, population, and Gross National Product in the sub continent of South America is Brazil, a Portuguese speaking nation. In the sub continent of South America you also find other non Spanish speaking countries, Suriname, for example. Masalama.

    • @davec.9894
      @davec.9894 5 лет назад +3

      @@hectorhuerta3331 esos son países pequeños a excepción de Brasil... Pero igualmente, los brasileños se adaptan a hablar Español. No hay de otra manera, se habla más Español que portugués.

    • @umcaraaleatorio4760
      @umcaraaleatorio4760 5 лет назад +2

      @@davec.9894 Sí, nosostros podemos entender Español muy bien, desde que ustedes hablen com calma, y el oposto es verdadero también.

    • @davec.9894
      @davec.9894 5 лет назад +3

      @@umcaraaleatorio4760 Así es. Estoy de acuerdo con vos! 👌 ¡Saludos! 👍

  • @nirajachari9850
    @nirajachari9850 5 лет назад +29

    Love Spanish ❤️
    Learnt it and now I’m trying to differentiate between the various accents. Absolutely love the Argentinian accent and slang ❤️
    Spanish is truly unique and beautiful

    • @ivanovichdelfin8797
      @ivanovichdelfin8797 Год назад

      Me alegro que te guste. El acento es muy fácil, solo tenemos 5 vocales y pocas consonantes. Es uno de los idiomas más fáciles de aprender y la pronunciación es realmente sencilla.

    • @endovelicus74
      @endovelicus74 Год назад

      @@ivanovichdelfin8797 Espanhol é mais simples que o Português foneticamente, isso é verdade.

  • @ihsansar4270
    @ihsansar4270 4 года назад +39

    Bahasa spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, south Thailand, south philipines, Brunei, and singapore. Indonesia have 250 m people.

    • @rathole36
      @rathole36 4 года назад +1

      -_- no, no its Bahasa Indonesia

    • @日向-k8c
      @日向-k8c 3 года назад

      Bahasa is spoken everywhere, it means Language, Idiot!.

    • @kg_wanimal7216
      @kg_wanimal7216 3 года назад

      You mean Bahasa Melayu right?

  • @intervortex8201
    @intervortex8201 5 лет назад +109

    From a European perspective, GERMAN is a very important language.

    • @finder4235
      @finder4235 5 лет назад +17

      Almost nobody learn German outside of Germany Austria and Switzerland, in France everyone take English and Spanish at school only French and English are important in Europe

    • @Jon-mh9lk
      @Jon-mh9lk 5 лет назад +21

      Only English. Nobody learns French.

    • @finder4235
      @finder4235 5 лет назад +8

      @@Jon-mh9lk maybe in your country but In the world it's the second most learn language. The first in Africa, Canada, and the second in Europe and USA

    • @longball756
      @longball756 5 лет назад +16

      I was surprised it wasn’t on the list.. German is like Latin, Greek, Hebrew.. they are scholarly languages and knowing them in fact can supplement your English! Obviously German is an incredible language on its own

    • @nietzschescodes
      @nietzschescodes 5 лет назад +15

      @@finder4235 you are wrong. plenty of people from eastern Europe learn German as a second language. In countries like Poland, Czech Republik, Hungary, Romania, Latvia and Russia German is a real popular option as a 2nd language, even sometimes over English.
      As for North America, (USA, Canada) German is really a popular choice in High Schools and Universities when you need to pick a second language,

  • @demetrio3351
    @demetrio3351 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you for your videos Paul. I enjoy your reviews. Greetings from Italy

  • @soubhagyakhan2950
    @soubhagyakhan2950 5 лет назад +20

    Proud to be an Indian Bengali.I can understand and speak English,Hindustani and Bengali.

  • @abdurahim8819
    @abdurahim8819 4 года назад +8

    English
    Spanish
    French
    Russian
    Arabic
    Are Spoken in many countries. I think these languages are very importants.

    • @martinezlunagiovani3330
      @martinezlunagiovani3330 2 года назад +1

      End chinese

    • @ivanovichdelfin8797
      @ivanovichdelfin8797 Год назад

      El problema es to know if realmente es worth deserved to learn Chinese, pero claro, aprender chino solo para visitar China, looks to be muy inútil.

  • @amit.eee.12
    @amit.eee.12 4 года назад +13

    I can speak 4/5 of these, at least to some extent. These are Bengali (native), English (fluent), Hindi and Urdu (fluent), Japanese (survival level) and a little bit of Arabic.

  • @TheCinnamondemon
    @TheCinnamondemon 5 лет назад +4

    nice video. i would also love to see a list ranking languages by how spread apart the speakers are. for ex, a language may have a lot of speakers, but concentrated in 1 or 2 countries. I would love to see which languages are the most widespread so I can know which is most practical to learn :)
    EDIT: omg you addressed this at the end 💕

    • @sarmadqureshi4945
      @sarmadqureshi4945 5 лет назад

      Absolutely. That would be more interesting to know.

  • @brandonbohr.7301
    @brandonbohr.7301 8 лет назад +23

    Español mi lengua ❤️ .

  • @arunnakshatra1003
    @arunnakshatra1003 4 года назад +38

    Iam Proud to be iam Bangladeshi hindu 🕉🇧🇩
    Jai Bangla jai Bengali.. জয় বাংলা জয় বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ হাসিনা। ।🇧🇩🕉🕉🕉🚩

    • @justinrozario2003
      @justinrozario2003 4 года назад +11

      That's cool, my parents are Bangladeshi while I was born and raised an Indian and am thinking of converting to Hinduism soon.

    • @vellagang678
      @vellagang678 4 года назад +1

      Jai Bangla
      Amar Sonar Bangla aami tomai bhalobasi
      Love from West Bengal

    • @Aditya-te7oo
      @Aditya-te7oo 3 года назад +1

      Arun Bairagi যদি বাংলায় কথা বলতে পারতাম যেরকম RUclips-এ English-এ সবার সাথে কথা বলি, তো খুব ভালো হতো। আমার English-এ কোনো problem নাই, আমার languages ভালো লাগে কিন্তু মাঝে মাঝে মনে হয় যদি সবাই বাংলা বুঝতো English-এর মতো তো, ভালো হতো।

    • @adityadutta4984
      @adityadutta4984 3 года назад

      Bhai ami o bangali hindu kolkata e thaki, bangladeshi hundu der life kamon?

    • @MomoMomo-zq4ef
      @MomoMomo-zq4ef 3 года назад +1

      I am from bangladesh and I am a proud Muslim😌

  • @zohilvilla
    @zohilvilla 8 лет назад +30

    Finally!!! I was waiting for your correction. Spanish killing it 😎😎😎😎

    • @MindOFAlfie
      @MindOFAlfie 8 лет назад +1

      Estoy de acuerdo amigo

    • @soywaz6645
      @soywaz6645 8 лет назад +3

      ¡Viva español! El mejor idioma del mundo

    • @demarcomixon
      @demarcomixon 8 лет назад

      Never surpass English.

    • @zohilvilla
      @zohilvilla 8 лет назад +2

      +Soy Waz viva!!!

    • @zohilvilla
      @zohilvilla 8 лет назад

      +Alfred84 👌

  • @ernestarmstrong7187
    @ernestarmstrong7187 4 года назад +12

    In the late 1970s I travelled around the world as an English speaker and barely got by. Today I am amazed at how much the use of English has grown. Truly it is the language that is allowing people from everywhere to communicate. This is something for all humanity to celebrate.

  • @violetalar5387
    @violetalar5387 5 лет назад +20

    Many schools in Spain have started to teach Mandarin as 3rd language, replacing French and German, which were the only two options until very recently. English remains the compulsory second language.

    • @violetalar5387
      @violetalar5387 5 лет назад +2

      @Mary Contrary I don't know about that prediction, but if that happens to become true, we will be there right in time. Besides, there are thousands of chinese immigrants in Spain and almost none from other Asian countries. We don't do this only to adjust to international economical needs, but to understand ourselves.

    • @mrpythagoras7079
      @mrpythagoras7079 5 лет назад +6

      @@violetalar5387 The fact there are thousands of Chinese in your country is not something to be proud of.

    • @Mipeal
      @Mipeal Год назад

      You guys cant even speak English. You should focus on that first

    • @kapuzinergruft
      @kapuzinergruft 9 месяцев назад

      You will be able to be more obedient towards your new 中国的 masters... good submissive move!😅

    • @jeantrancene953
      @jeantrancene953 Месяц назад

      Chinese won't remain a long time as a second foreign language in Spain.

  • @محمدمحمود-ز1ج1ف
    @محمدمحمود-ز1ج1ف 4 года назад +24

    l'm arab🇩🇿. How many people love arabic language here 💖

  • @MedLund
    @MedLund 5 лет назад +5

    I live in Northern Norway, where various variants of "Sami" is being spoken. There are efforts to promote learning of the biggest variant, called Northern Sami. There are also efforts to keep the other variants alive, but the smallest one, called Pite sami, only has about 25 speakers (L1 + L2) left. In total there are 4 types of Sami language used in Norway (Northern, Souther, Lule and Pite)

  • @wangxinglongsimon
    @wangxinglongsimon 5 лет назад +40

    I am Chinese. I live in USA . My second language is Spanish .
    if you live in USA
    1 English
    2spanish
    3chinese (Mandarin )
    4 Arabic
    I learned Spanish in Ecuador I love Spanish so much . it is so beautiful language and very useful language in USA . Everywhere I go I can speak Spanish with some one from south American country .When they know I can speak Spanish they like me so much . Almost everyday I have chance to speak Spanish . If I can speak Arab I think there are so many Arab people can talk with me . And Chinese will become very important too .In the future China will become the number economy I think who ever want do business they should learn Chinese .

    • @alishouman8486
      @alishouman8486 5 лет назад

      4

    • @aleyzeeo-aleyzee2101
      @aleyzeeo-aleyzee2101 5 лет назад

      How many Chinese live in US?
      And why there is no French on your list?

    • @thankuslay6766
      @thankuslay6766 5 лет назад

      Lol. Spanish contains rhotic 'R', eastern asian cant even pronounce it!

    • @amajeet
      @amajeet 5 лет назад

      A chinese....who knows spanish? Chinese can barely spring an english sentence together.

    • @buenvidanadz1969
      @buenvidanadz1969 5 лет назад

      A. Stab "R" for us Filipinos is easy though

  • @gumpert5888
    @gumpert5888 5 лет назад +11

    I'm from Ukraine, my second language is Russian, my third language is English. Also I want to learn Español, Deutsch, Chinese and Japanese

  • @DanGR023
    @DanGR023 4 года назад +9

    The most important languages in the world are (in my opinion)
    English, Spanish and French, because they are the most widely spoken languages and are used in a lot of countries and very important institutes

    • @gaspersnakes
      @gaspersnakes Год назад +3

      as a african i can totally understand my country is English and the neighbors are French and Italian
      But Spanish is in my heart iam learning for weeks and its doing and one day i wanna go Spanish countrys like mexico colambia and chile honestly i find it the best but yeah English and French are important also

    • @cristianrodriguez5116
      @cristianrodriguez5116 2 месяца назад

      ​@@gaspersnakes
      Te esperamos en México 🇲🇽🤙🏼

  • @fabiovjs
    @fabiovjs 5 лет назад +62

    4:09 "Sorry, Esperanto lovers" 😂

  • @xtcntr
    @xtcntr Год назад +4

    Comments be like:
    I am an alien from Jupiter and I speak 200 languages so I am planning to dominate the world.

  • @MrSoldierperson
    @MrSoldierperson 5 лет назад +203

    In Chicago the most spoken languages are English, Spanish and Polish.
    Lol

    • @raestera
      @raestera 5 лет назад +31

      Hello, hola, cześć!

    • @arachnid5206
      @arachnid5206 5 лет назад +33

      There’s a large minority of Polish people? Didn’t know that

    • @MrSoldierperson
      @MrSoldierperson 5 лет назад +11

      @@arachnid5206
      Yes there is.

    • @foxy126pl6
      @foxy126pl6 5 лет назад +7

      @Lord Takyon no there is more poles in chicago than in warsaw

    • @perun5984
      @perun5984 5 лет назад +10

      Polish is second most spoken language in Ireland, UK and Iceland

  • @caroledevlin4436
    @caroledevlin4436 2 года назад +2

    I speak many languages, English, Canadian, American, Australian, to name a few.

  • @mysteriousDSF
    @mysteriousDSF 5 лет назад +55

    5:52 in Equatorial Guinea they speak Spanish, I think it was included by mistake. However Cape Verde & São Tomé and Príncipe are lusophones

    • @newagetapes
      @newagetapes 5 лет назад +5

      They also speak portuguese

    • @mariajoaob3614
      @mariajoaob3614 5 лет назад +1

      Guiné Bissau speaks portuguese

    • @an_impasse
      @an_impasse 5 лет назад +3

      mysteriousDSF Yeah, it’s always Latin American Spanish vs Castilian Spanish but I’m often wondering how Equatorial Guinean Spanish compares and contrasts with them too, considering it’s _non-existent_ in terms of when it has been talked about in my Spanish courses, LOL.
      It’s far away from both regions, I know, that’s probably why they don’t talk about it, but...I suppose I would like to know. Maybe I will find out for myself, then.

    • @robertomartinez9834
      @robertomartinez9834 5 лет назад +3

      @@an_impasse Equatorial Guinean Spanish is very similar to Castilian Spanish

    • @ThrE3-GeS
      @ThrE3-GeS 5 лет назад +3

      Guniea Bissau speaks portuguese. Equatorial Guniea speaks spanish and portuguese. They joined the lusofonic commonwealt recently. But they are two diffrent countrys. Don't confuse!

  • @hectora.peniche6706
    @hectora.peniche6706 8 лет назад +10

    For me Arabic, French and Russian can be really good language to learn if what you want is to comunicate easily in a lot of different countries. Excellent video.

    • @hectora.peniche6706
      @hectora.peniche6706 8 лет назад

      +Blake Kaveny Thank you, I still have a hard time dealing with English. Later I am gonna try French but the phonology is too complicated for me.

    • @xXIceShowerXx
      @xXIceShowerXx 8 лет назад

      If you learn latin I think it's very easy to learn european languages...

    • @hectora.peniche6706
      @hectora.peniche6706 8 лет назад

      Güral19 Yeah, learning romance languages must be relly easy knowing the Latin.

    • @cevinzeke5110
      @cevinzeke5110 8 лет назад +3

      +Blake Kaveny French isn't too bad, grammar isn't the most complicated, the pronunciation is what really gives me trouble.

  • @204sammy
    @204sammy 4 года назад +40

    First of all, i'm a Bangladeshi and proud to see our mother language Bengali enlisted here...... 🇧🇩❤
    I can speak 6 languages and they are Bengali, English,Hindi,Urdu, Arabic and Turkish. 😇❤
    I think its enough to communicate with the people around the world using these languages.... ❤❤

    • @esrakoz9888
      @esrakoz9888 4 года назад +1

      Do you really know turkish?I want to learn it

    • @agahbeyoglu707
      @agahbeyoglu707 4 года назад

      Çok güzel, Türkçe bilmene sevindim :)

    • @neemiassilva5884
      @neemiassilva5884 4 года назад +1

      Congratulations! I believe that in South America and Central America as wel) you couldn't communicate with the people here. In my country for example (Brazil) almost no one speaks English the others countries in continent have the same problems.
      That's very impressive, I speak only 4: Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

    • @sheshystar9380
      @sheshystar9380 4 года назад +4

      I speak Bengali, English, Hindi/Urdu, Arabic (only formal Arabic), Korean, Japanese (can only speak, not read or write), Taiwanese (Hokkien). Can understand Assamese and Odia, but can’t speak it yet.

    • @kidzeeplier2468
      @kidzeeplier2468 4 года назад +1

      @@sheshystar9380 wow

  • @Gelre1542
    @Gelre1542 Год назад +5

    One of the most underrated ‘minor wide spreaded’ languages is Dutch. It is spoken as lingua franca in The Netherlands 🇳🇱, Belgium 🇧🇪 (Flanders, with its capital Brussels, which is also the capital of the EU), Aruba 🇦🇼, Bonaire 🇧🇶, Curaçao 🇨🇼 and Suriname 🇸🇷. Furthermore it is used by many groups of Moroccan, Turkish and Indonesian immigrants in the Netherlands and it is studied on more than 150 universities world wide. Dutch immigrants and their relatives in the US (Holland, Michigan) speak Dutch as their home language.

    • @Agent-ie3uv
      @Agent-ie3uv Год назад

      Dutch people are proficient in english but still uses dutch online. Unlike indian and philipinos 🙄

    • @Gelre1542
      @Gelre1542 Год назад

      @@Agent-ie3uv The fact that the Dutch are proficient with foreign languages, not just with English, does not mean that they give up their language blindly. In fact, there is a movement against the Anglicization of society, because language colonialism is seen as an interference that has nothing to do with inclusiveness.

  • @acspeter7
    @acspeter7 5 лет назад +6

    Thank you for great videos, greetings from Hungary

  • @juanvillalba539
    @juanvillalba539 5 лет назад +15

    Hi! It all depends on where you live or your cultural approaches.
    For instance, I am Colombian. I speak Spanish (obviously), English, and Portuguese. Those are the main languages spoken in the Americas. I am also learning Russian as well.

    • @Oquadrinheiro
      @Oquadrinheiro 5 лет назад +1

      Eu falo portugues, entendo espanhol, e ingles

    • @marlene97280
      @marlene97280 4 года назад

      Try to learn French !
      It will be easy for you !😉

  • @ConstancioRosellini5873
    @ConstancioRosellini5873 8 лет назад +234

    Somos el segundo idioma mas hablado del mundo, Excelente Viva el idioma Español !!!!!

    • @andresmora5192
      @andresmora5192 8 лет назад +56

      “Hablo en italiano con los embajadores, en francés con las mujeres, en alemán con los soldados, en inglés con los caballos, y en español con Dios.”
      REY CARLOS I DE ESPAÑA Y V DEL SACRO IMPERIO ROMANO GERMÁNICO

    • @ConstancioRosellini5873
      @ConstancioRosellini5873 8 лет назад +18

      Una frase muy famosa del rey Carlos I de España

    • @mauriciomunoz6959
      @mauriciomunoz6959 7 лет назад +3

      Tienes razon !!!

    • @bobmendoza2450
      @bobmendoza2450 7 лет назад +1

      Idioma**

    • @alexandersalazar242
      @alexandersalazar242 7 лет назад +4

      hablo castellano xD

  • @kazht
    @kazht 4 года назад +7

    I believe it's not only me who feels good when Pole says "Have a nice DAY"...

  • @Pengalen
    @Pengalen 5 лет назад +54

    I think the Chinese writing system is generally going to limit it from becoming widely important outside of Chinese culture. It isn't very exportable.

    • @RD-ht6go
      @RD-ht6go 4 года назад

      So what?

    • @jsil_
      @jsil_ 4 года назад +17

      RD4590 lol what do you mean "so what?" It's not an alphabetically written language, and because of it there is a serious obstable in its use. Even native Chinese speakers say it's impossible to know all of the Hanzi, it's impractical. Beautiful and gracious as I believe it may be, it is far less sought after for this reason alone. Should Chinese adopt a written structure like the Hangul of Korea, the language would surely boom. But that would never happen, they deserve to hold pride in that beautiful language.

    • @RD-ht6go
      @RD-ht6go 4 года назад

      @@jsil_ Can you remember all the English words in the dictionaty?

    • @foxymetroid
      @foxymetroid 4 года назад +12

      @@RD-ht6go Don't need to learn new characters to learn a new English word.

    • @RD-ht6go
      @RD-ht6go 4 года назад

      @@foxymetroid Can you remember all the English words in the dictionary?

  • @joseluissileboriaco7603
    @joseluissileboriaco7603 8 лет назад +17

    In Equatorial Guinea they don't speak Portuguese, they speak Spanish

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  8 лет назад +11

      +Jose luis Silebo Riaco Yes, but it's an official language there.

    • @joseluissileboriaco7603
      @joseluissileboriaco7603 8 лет назад +4

      +Langfocus is one of the officials languages. But the main language is Spanish

    • @GrosPointRouge
      @GrosPointRouge 7 лет назад +4

      - They speak Spanish because Equatorial Guinea is a former Spanish colony.
      - They speak French because of the Guinean immigrants (43% of the total population) who once lived in Gabon in the 1980's and then went back to Equatorial Guinea.
      - They speak Portuguese because of their proximity with Sao Tome and Principe. Also, many Sao Tomeans live in Equatorial Guinea.

    • @br3menPT
      @br3menPT 6 лет назад

      lol hey speak portuguese because portuguese is relevant in that african region...and equatorial guinea was a portuguese colony...the spanish arrived later

    • @br3menPT
      @br3menPT 5 лет назад +1

      @@neyougogo9923 Portuguese were the first there..they gave to Spain in 1777..have you ever hear about Bioko?

  • @brianmillsaps8144
    @brianmillsaps8144 7 лет назад +19

    I'm glad that we agree on the 4 most beneficial languages to learn. I speak English and Spanish, but recently decided to begin learning French and Arabic. Of course, it's different for everyone, depending on their travel plans.

    • @hajaralshar9144
      @hajaralshar9144 6 лет назад

      Why you decides to learn Arabic! Thanks

    • @dennismedina4338
      @dennismedina4338 6 лет назад

      I speak english and spanish too

    • @AnImperialGod
      @AnImperialGod 6 лет назад +1

      I also speak Spanish and English. My next goal is going for the French!

    • @jguillermooliver
      @jguillermooliver 6 лет назад +3

      I speak English, Spanish and beggining with French. I´m not sure about which is best comparing Arabic or Chinese but Arabic is a beautifull Language.

  • @Silkroute
    @Silkroute 2 года назад +1

    Thank you Paul , for making such informative videos and sharing them. You have a real passion for languages and inspire others as well. Kind Regards Ehsan

  • @cactojuice
    @cactojuice 5 лет назад +24

    I'm learning Spanish as my second language!

    • @orchidsblossoms
      @orchidsblossoms 5 лет назад

      what is your first language?

    • @hdg2004ify
      @hdg2004ify 5 лет назад

      @@astraluna4889 español*

    • @twisted9285
      @twisted9285 5 лет назад

      Devan Martin si estás en un celular tú puedes hacer tu “keyboard” español. Solo vas a settings, y al “keyboard” (no se la palabra)

    • @gilkelismeneses3368
      @gilkelismeneses3368 5 лет назад

      Español es mi primer idioma, podemos ayudarnos :)

    • @elqueobserva7663
      @elqueobserva7663 4 года назад +1

      @Jarif Chowdhury Too bad, then you'll remain without knowing the 21 countries that speak Spanish

  • @AliShah-ir9by
    @AliShah-ir9by 4 года назад +8

    Learning more about the Eight Great poets of Persian with lockdown these days, it's noted that Persian lost its significance after 1979-1980. Clergy took over Iran & Soviets took Afghanistan.
    Yet it sustained the moments & evolved after conquests of Alexander, Arabs & Mongols.
    A language very soothing to listens.

    • @maaz87
      @maaz87 3 года назад

      Khomieni apka imam

  • @inuitatsumi
    @inuitatsumi 6 лет назад +51

    I noticed that there was a Spanish speaking country in the every group of the 2018 FIFA world cup. Is it a coincidence...?
    A: Uruguay (the others are Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt)
    B: Spain (Portugal, Morocco, Iran)
    C: Peru (France, Australia, Denmark)
    D: Argentina (Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria)
    E: Costa Rica (Brazil, Switzerland, Serbia)
    F: Mexico (Germany, Sweden, South Korea)
    G: Panama (Belgium, Tunisia, England)
    H: Colombia (Poland, Senegal, Japan)

    • @razzmatazz1974
      @razzmatazz1974 6 лет назад +5

      i think is because the South American federation is quite big and most countries qualified to enter. There is also at least 1 country from Europe in each group.

    • @Direktor225
      @Direktor225 6 лет назад +2

      This is a very good remark but that doesn’t surprise me much because there is 5 teams from south America that qualified for the world cup, so it’s already 1 spanish speaking country in half of the groups (teams from the same confederation cannot face each other and brazil is a Portuguese speaking country) plus Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico who regularly qualifies and the newbie Panama. Now it is true that Spain or Mexico could have faced a south American team in a lot of different scenarios, that’s why this scenario is unique but still fairly plausible.
      The same way we could also imagine a world cup with one french speaking in every groups, with 5 teams from African french speaking countries, let’s say Côte d’Ivoire Cameroon Algeria Tunisia Morocco plus 3 uefa teams like France Belgium Switzerland or 1 concacaf team instead of 1 uefa team like canada 😂😂

    • @pranavmisra155
      @pranavmisra155 5 лет назад

      Awesome observation.

    • @BiglerSakura
      @BiglerSakura 5 лет назад +1

      Ha! It would be also true to say that there were Arabic speaking countries in each group ;)

    • @pranavmisra155
      @pranavmisra155 5 лет назад

      @@BiglerSakura Nope.There are only four such groups.There are no such teams in C,D,E,F.

  • @davestrasburg408
    @davestrasburg408 2 года назад +3

    ls there a chance of making clips on the languages of Thai, Czech and Yiddish? And what about the small minority languages of Europe, such as Wendish, Sardic, Languedoc, Breton, Romany and the Lapp (Saami) languages?

  • @AXimab
    @AXimab 3 года назад +5

    I'm a native speaker of English, semi-native of Tagalog, learned French, German, and Spanish in high school, Russian, Mandarin, and Japanese in college (I started off a linguistics major then ended up a Chinese major), and Indonesian and Dutch for grad school. I wish I'd invested more in Spanish abd definitely Mandarin seeing these figures.

  • @abdulkarimhan1266
    @abdulkarimhan1266 5 лет назад +140

    Malay including L1 and L2 more than. 300 million speekers .
    Indonesia - 260 million (official language)
    Malaysia - 32 Million (official language)
    Singapore - 7 Million (official language)
    Brunei - 500 Thousand (official language)
    Southern Thailand - 10 Million
    Southern Philippines - 10 Million

    • @intanhisyam
      @intanhisyam 5 лет назад +6

      I have Same thingking

    • @joyhavana7785
      @joyhavana7785 5 лет назад +7

      0M in the Philippines. We don't speak Malay. We have our own dialects in Southern Philippines lol.

    • @safuwanfauzi5014
      @safuwanfauzi5014 5 лет назад +4

      ​@@joyhavana7785 In Moro mean same ethnics with Sabah, Brunei people they share same culture.
      Malay old Writing script.
      images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aB83Xn2_700b.jpg
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      Malay Architecture.
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      Malay City.
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      Malay Architecture compare to Thai Architecture.
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      Malay Traditional Costume.
      luhakkepenuhan.com/foto_berita/18peradilan.jpg
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      Malay Traditional Weapon Keris and Body Armor
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      Malay Army/Tentera Melayu.
      Post Melaka(Pasca Melaka 1511 ke 1880s) Johor and Perak
      i.imgur.com/DcjKC87.png
      Melaka 1400-1511
      i.imgur.com/tENc4qA.png
      Perang Saudara Klang(Selangor) 1868-1874.
      / Klang civil War
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      3.bp.blogspot.com/-htivHlhe6sA/UKibFsYeCYI/AAAAAAAAAVI/sUJh7K-TmNo/s1600/Klang_Kota_Raja_Mahadi.gif
      Gedung Raja Abdullah sampai skrang masih ada berdiri teguh.
      blog.fairy-park.com/wp-content/uploads/01068.jpg
      image.slidesharecdn.com/project1preliminaryinvestigation-150705055221-lva1-app6891/95/project-1-preliminary-investigation-26-638.jpg
      Zirah Melayu Semenanjung, di Muzium Negara Kuala Lumpur Malaysia/Peninsular Malay Body Armor in National Museum Kuala Lumpur.
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      Gambaran pahlawan Melayu memakainya/Illustration Malay medieval/feudal warrior.
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    • @erectustesticulus3191
      @erectustesticulus3191 5 лет назад +1

      No. It’s not important in the west to know malaylam

    • @syukriabdrahman49
      @syukriabdrahman49 5 лет назад

      Joy Havana en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_language_in_the_Philippines

  • @khairulmukhriz7667
    @khairulmukhriz7667 8 лет назад +124

    i'm malay and actually quite pleasantly surprised my native is on the list :O

    • @danielyo7232
      @danielyo7232 8 лет назад

      iya, bahasanya para Indon melayu sohai yang bermental babu pengemis. hahahaha

    • @kwahju
      @kwahju 8 лет назад

      +Daniel Yo long live Najib and his empire! lol

    • @aimananderil
      @aimananderil 8 лет назад

      +Kemal Wahju long live najib(sulawesian descendant)

    • @ariwijaya85
      @ariwijaya85 8 лет назад

      gilak

    • @ariwijaya85
      @ariwijaya85 8 лет назад

      HIDUP ANWAR CONGO!!!!