@@Deadweight45 I’m sorry, that sounds like American English revised it to what was initially correct, but bias against it went “you don’t win this time, both stay”?
They also missed the nuance of the diagram. They thought the 0.8 meant that 8 tenths of Americans know a second language. Whereas it meant the average American only speaks a total of 0.8 languages (which implies they don't even speak their first language fluently). Obviously it was just in jest but obviously went right over their head.
In Norway it is basically mandatory to know 2 languages. We start learning English at the age of 8. Then we are forced to learn a 3rd language later on. VERY few people actually do though. On that 3rd one, we tend to just go for a passing grade.
Same in Finland. The country is bilingual, so you have mandatory Finnish and Swedish, then you need at least 1 other language and that's usually English. I think currently you can take courses in up to 4 different elective languages in primary school, but I'm not 100% positive on that. It could be more. Difference of course being to Norway that Finnish is such a tiny language with no connection to romance languages or North Germanic languages, that even Swedish is a big step towards understanding what the rest of the Nordics are saying
To be fair tho, the 3rd language doesn't necessarily have to be a language the student Wants to learn, because the specific school doesn't teach it.. The easiest way, possibly perhaps, to learn for example Icelandic or Scottish for an average Norwegian student, they'd need to go through the entire English-learning phase again from they were 8, and just switch the language?
Funny thing: I can understand almost anything in English and I can form the sentences in my mind, but the moment I start to speak, I stumble a lot. But put a song that I know, and I will (TERRIBLY OUT OF TUNE) sing it perfectly. Even with the accent of the singer.
Those numbers for hours required for language learning actually come from the US State dept and are used as guidelines for people they hire and intend to send to other countries as embassy staff or whatever who therefore need to learn a new language. They've been studied for decades as to how long the learning process takes, so the numbers are quite valid.
I’m amazed we haven’t already changed our classes of English to classes called ‘American’. We have changed the original language so much that it’s barely the same any more. That last skit was funny as hell.
I wouldn't say it changed that much on a basic level enough to be called a new language, but there are dialects that are pretty damn different and still called English. Check out Olly Richards for some pretty cool vids about accents and dialects. I swear some of it literally aren't even related to English, but is English.
My native is Arabic, and we start learning English as our first foreign language in kindergarten, and then choose between French and German to learn as our second foreign language in highschool, and they are trying to move it to middle school to extend the period students are exposed to the language, so they would stick to it more and not forget about it after highschool..
With learning English though, it really helps when majority of mainstream media and online Western sites are in English. So you get forcibly immersed in it even when you're not looking for it. You can find all kinds of websites and media in smaller languages too, but it takes a lot of digging. You generally don't just open the web and stumble head first into it.
lol when Jaby said "THAT'S NOT HOW YOU SPELL HICCUPS!" I immediately went oh no...and just thought of every time a European would say "you Americans are so uncultured and blah blah" 😂😭
@@Blinkptx I grew up in the U.S. for 98% of my life and have always seen it spelled hiccup for the most part but I've also definitely seen hiccough and learned that's how they spell it in the U.K.. It's one of those weird color vs colour, gray vs grey, neighbor vs neighbour, etc. type things. I knew flip-flops are thongs in Australia, cotton candy is candy floss in the U.K. but fairy floss in Australia. Any chance I get when I interact with foreigners I'm always trying show we Americans can be smart and cultured too!
As someone with friends and relatives of Indian descent I can testify thant many of them do like hearing Siri ask them to repeat themselves in English but its hilarious whenever they bother to engage with the AI.
As someone who comes from at least 8 different nationalities background, im telling ya, American English is the damn easiest language on the planet. If you think it's hard, well good luck try to learning Russian or Farsi or even Dutch. It blows your mind how in some languages, one specific word means 10 different things, in different situations.
I generally speak 5 langues 3 of them I'm fluent . my native langues aka somali and the second is arabic third is English and the two are hindi aka urdu and Ahmeric which is ethiopian .But the most complicated one is english cuz you don't read what is written unlike the others .
As an American editor, it bothers me how often the most interesting and versatile language in the world gets slandered because no one likes to do work. So I'm pleasantly surprised that Casually Explained is so pro-English.
syntell i grew up with Gallagher. by the way, how to pronounce his last name? i not good in school as a kid. back then no outreach or special education classes which i needed. any who, so, out of high school... i lost my street slang but no one else did from my block. so i became proud/confident that i read/wrote/spoke proper English. but these last decades i am disappointed in kids/teen who purposely type incorrectly over social media. p,s, you are included as well. twit or text... i get frustrated of older people than me who do not say anything to those misspellers/pronouncers. as they did to me by correcting with guilt/shame. side note: sports celebrities after decades in front of the camera still talk as if thier five yrs old. Barkley /Shaq / Vanilla Ice/ MM some English teaching has rules. you memorize or just go step by step to get it right. but if it is a different language then let it be. Spain use the English alphabet but does not pounce the letters the same. Example: T in Spain is pronounced like th in English. => TACO (THA KOO) OO->spool... USA education needs to input some foreign language pronunciations for foreign words used daily, Jose, Javier,Joaquin,Jesus,Juan,Julio is all names from Spain. character/letter J has a HW English pronunciation Mexico is a Spanish word.. In English letters one should say Mi Hee Koo Ooops went on... Oh by the way,,,,, I am like Anthony in that every thing irritates me.... i have try to tone down reactions and thoughts. laters gators .. as Moon Knight would say.
I’m russian and I have no problems with American siri. And with the “hard” words,no problems. Remembering how to pronounce some of them yeah, a pain in the ass, but I wanna see you try saying «ы» lmao
I was born in america but mexican descendant. Since I'm live in the south I speak with a heavy southern drawl that people have a hard time understanding me.
3:54 There are 2 Th sounds: Thorn (hard Th Þ) and Eth (soft Th Ð). Yes, these are actually letter. The word "ye" is actually "the," but was before the Th was invented to replace the thorn and eth letters.
As a Mexican its weird because i swear i can understand the entire western hemisphere because words are so similar, for example despite haveing 0 experience in french im 100% confident i could receive directions from a french person
I can do fairly well speaking reading and understanding English Telugu Hindi.... And still i wish to learn a few more languages.... So I started Spanish..... y estoy haciendo muy bien.....
the guy casually put assembly there 😂 edit 1: wait! why is no one talking about assembly!? the more i think about it, the more i think he’s calling americans dumb edit 2: ok it makes sense 🤣🤣🤣
And here I am sitting in India wondering how one survives without being at least bilingual. I don't know a single person who knows less than two languages. Three is pretty standard. And no one thinks knowing four languages is commendable! You just pick it along the way...
In the US you can more or less speak English to every single person in North America (which includes Canada, though they're "only" about 40 million people). We have the largest economy in the world, every climate type and biome available, and most of the country has to literally cross oceans to get somewhere that *doesn't* speak English and thus requires a 2nd language. Southern border with Mexico is the obvious exception, and also why Spanish is the most common language for those of us who are bi-lingual. This is also why so few Americans have passports. The US has "everything" without needing to learn another language or exchange our money, and international travel is expensive for us due to how our airlines are regulated, so it's simply convenient to stay "in-country" for both language and tourism.
Hiccough is a correct spelling. Apparently it’s more common in the UK than in North America.
More proof of Americans removing redundancies from words
it's like the word "cupboard" which i previously thought was spelled the way it sounds 😄
@@Deadweight45 I’m sorry, that sounds like American English revised it to what was initially correct, but bias against it went “you don’t win this time, both stay”?
They also missed the nuance of the diagram. They thought the 0.8 meant that 8 tenths of Americans know a second language. Whereas it meant the average American only speaks a total of 0.8 languages (which implies they don't even speak their first language fluently). Obviously it was just in jest but obviously went right over their head.
In Norway it is basically mandatory to know 2 languages. We start learning English at the age of 8. Then we are forced to learn a 3rd language later on. VERY few people actually do though. On that 3rd one, we tend to just go for a passing grade.
Same in Finland. The country is bilingual, so you have mandatory Finnish and Swedish, then you need at least 1 other language and that's usually English. I think currently you can take courses in up to 4 different elective languages in primary school, but I'm not 100% positive on that. It could be more.
Difference of course being to Norway that Finnish is such a tiny language with no connection to romance languages or North Germanic languages, that even Swedish is a big step towards understanding what the rest of the Nordics are saying
Bro in india we have to start learning English at the age of 5 ....preschool ABCD
@@souravmeena6808fair enough, but, do you learn the language in a Good and Understandable way? 😅
To be fair tho, the 3rd language doesn't necessarily have to be a language the student Wants to learn, because the specific school doesn't teach it.. The easiest way, possibly perhaps, to learn for example Icelandic or Scottish for an average Norwegian student, they'd need to go through the entire English-learning phase again from they were 8, and just switch the language?
@@norse_wolf5614You have to or you can't communicate allover the country
Funny thing: I can understand almost anything in English and I can form the sentences in my mind, but the moment I start to speak, I stumble a lot. But put a song that I know, and I will (TERRIBLY OUT OF TUNE) sing it perfectly. Even with the accent of the singer.
Simple. You need to speak more with people in English. I had the same issue in Spanish
Those numbers for hours required for language learning actually come from the US State dept and are used as guidelines for people they hire and intend to send to other countries as embassy staff or whatever who therefore need to learn a new language. They've been studied for decades as to how long the learning process takes, so the numbers are quite valid.
1:50 I think, there's a programming language (Assembly) there. 😂
I’m amazed we haven’t already changed our classes of English to classes called ‘American’. We have changed the original language so much that it’s barely the same any more. That last skit was funny as hell.
Try reading English from a thousand years ago. Completely different language. It's not even vaguely familiar like the Shakespearen English.
I wouldn't say it changed that much on a basic level enough to be called a new language, but there are dialects that are pretty damn different and still called English. Check out Olly Richards for some pretty cool vids about accents and dialects. I swear some of it literally aren't even related to English, but is English.
Nah american english isnt that different even from a dialect persoective let alone as a different language
I love how Jaby said “hits the head on the nail” while watching videos on our messy language, 😂😂
My native is Arabic, and we start learning English as our first foreign language in kindergarten, and then choose between French and German to learn as our second foreign language in highschool, and they are trying to move it to middle school to extend the period students are exposed to the language, so they would stick to it more and not forget about it after highschool..
With learning English though, it really helps when majority of mainstream media and online Western sites are in English. So you get forcibly immersed in it even when you're not looking for it. You can find all kinds of websites and media in smaller languages too, but it takes a lot of digging. You generally don't just open the web and stumble head first into it.
That IS how you spell Hiccough though... Lol
lol when Jaby said "THAT'S NOT HOW YOU SPELL HICCUPS!" I immediately went oh no...and just thought of every time a European would say "you Americans are so uncultured and blah blah" 😂😭
I've never seen it spelled that way. Lol It's hiccup over here in the US. Not my fault, that's just what I was taught.
@@Blinkptx I grew up in the U.S. for 98% of my life and have always seen it spelled hiccup for the most part but I've also definitely seen hiccough and learned that's how they spell it in the U.K.. It's one of those weird color vs colour, gray vs grey, neighbor vs neighbour, etc. type things. I knew flip-flops are thongs in Australia, cotton candy is candy floss in the U.K. but fairy floss in Australia. Any chance I get when I interact with foreigners I'm always trying show we Americans can be smart and cultured too!
As someone with friends and relatives of Indian descent I can testify thant many of them do like hearing Siri ask them to repeat themselves in English but its hilarious whenever they bother to engage with the AI.
“Not for me, I fucking nailed it”
As an English learner the word *queue" gave me headaches for ages just to find out it's pronounced "q"😅
A local car manufacturer here in Malaysia had to adapt the Google assistant in their cars to the local version of English.
As someone who comes from at least 8 different nationalities background, im telling ya, American English is the damn easiest language on the planet. If you think it's hard, well good luck try to learning Russian or Farsi or even Dutch. It blows your mind how in some languages, one specific word means 10 different things, in different situations.
as polyglot, 2-3 months is standard centell. YOU CAN DO IT! learned korean in 2 months
3:58 "I mean, not for me, I f***ing nailed it." Dude, you just used the 'th' as in 'thin' when saying 'the.' You did not nail it
Google assistant has it figured out though. For the most part atleast.
It picks up many accents based on your region/location and is fairly accurate.
Loic Suberville does some good funny vids on English & French languages like the last one in the vid 😅
I generally speak 5 langues 3 of them I'm fluent . my native langues aka somali and the second is arabic third is English and the two are hindi aka urdu and Ahmeric which is ethiopian .But the most complicated one is english cuz you don't read what is written unlike the others .
They actually have multiple versions of Siri for different regions. For different English dialects
As an American editor, it bothers me how often the most interesting and versatile language in the world gets slandered because no one likes to do work. So I'm pleasantly surprised that Casually Explained is so pro-English.
syntell
i grew up with Gallagher.
by the way, how to pronounce his last name?
i not good in school as a kid.
back then no outreach or special education classes which i needed.
any who, so, out of high school...
i lost my street slang but no one else did from my block.
so i became proud/confident that i read/wrote/spoke proper English.
but these last decades i am disappointed in kids/teen who purposely type incorrectly over social media.
p,s, you are included as well.
twit or text...
i get frustrated of older people than me who do not say anything to those misspellers/pronouncers.
as they did to me by correcting with guilt/shame.
side note: sports celebrities after decades in front of the camera still talk as if thier five yrs old.
Barkley /Shaq / Vanilla Ice/ MM
some English teaching has rules. you memorize or just go step by step to get it right.
but if it is a different language then let it be.
Spain use the English alphabet but does not pounce the letters the same.
Example: T in Spain is pronounced like th in English. => TACO (THA KOO) OO->spool...
USA education needs to input some foreign language pronunciations for foreign words used daily,
Jose, Javier,Joaquin,Jesus,Juan,Julio is all names from Spain. character/letter J has a HW English pronunciation
Mexico is a Spanish word.. In English letters one should say Mi Hee Koo
Ooops went on...
Oh by the way,,,,,
I am like Anthony in that every thing irritates me....
i have try to tone down reactions and thoughts.
laters gators .. as Moon Knight would say.
That's _always_ how I spell hiccoughs, as that is its _correct spelling...!_ 😄
Hiccoughs is the correct spelling (hic-cough).
Hiccup is the bastardized spelling of the word, like how doughnuts are trimmed down to donuts.
Nobody else caught the "Assembly" mention? _harumph!_
I was looking for that comment. :)
I’m russian and I have no problems with American siri. And with the “hard” words,no problems. Remembering how to pronounce some of them yeah, a pain in the ass, but I wanna see you try saying «ы» lmao
thank god i only realised how confusing English was after i was already fluent in it 😂😂
Hiccough is spelled that way in other parts of Europe
hiccup is singular hiccoughs is plural
Well, India has 350 million people who can speak fluent English. It's more than the population of the USA and UK.. Fun fact.
Google assistant and siri are a mess for non American users
Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi,English and a little Telugu...Yeaaah😎
I was born in america but mexican descendant. Since I'm live in the south I speak with a heavy southern drawl that people have a hard time understanding me.
Jaby saw a monkey when he was climbing on the tree.
Who is climbing tree here?
What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?
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I’m currently learning Russian, Siri understands my broken Russian, but can’t figure out my midwest English
I've been wanting to invent a language for the sake of being as sensibly basic as possible: C = Ch (chapter); X = Sh (shoe); Q = Zh (leisure).
3:54 There are 2 Th sounds: Thorn (hard Th Þ) and Eth (soft Th Ð). Yes, these are actually letter. The word "ye" is actually "the," but was before the Th was invented to replace the thorn and eth letters.
As a Mexican its weird because i swear i can understand the entire western hemisphere because words are so similar, for example despite haveing 0 experience in french im 100% confident i could receive directions from a french person
Tu en es vraiment sûr de toi ?
@@darkkforest im guessing either it means am i a vermin in the south or am I sure of being a vermin
@@Captianmex1C0 vraiment translates to "really". You shocked the poor dude so much with that guess he just gave up on you lol
You should see "finding the one"
Siri is consider the worst
There are some great videos of Scottish people trying to use Siri
scottish people cannot say "purple Burglar Alarm" without their head exploding
I can do fairly well speaking reading and understanding English Telugu Hindi.... And still i wish to learn a few more languages.... So I started Spanish..... y estoy haciendo muy bien.....
Now note that i only started learning so i couldn't even figure out how to say "have a good day",
Is it "tiene un día bien"?
Que bueno😂
@@darkkforest ha ha gracias 😁
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That's the spelling of hiccoughs...
Imagine the moment in the MCU when Thor figured out that the majority of humanity couldn't pronounce his name.
Yeah, a lot of languages just throw the "h" out and say Tor.
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Jaby talking about Hindi and tamil here lol Dont worry Jaby we are as toxic as anyone else
Um. When you set up iPhone you’re supposed to train Siri on your accent 🤷🏻♀️
Ill keep it simple.. can anyone pronounce പുഴ=purzha correctly
the guy casually put assembly there 😂
edit 1: wait! why is no one talking about assembly!? the more i think about it, the more i think he’s calling americans dumb
edit 2: ok it makes sense 🤣🤣🤣
So... Japanese is as simple as Assambly
Hit like it you call “Aloo” “Pututu”❤
He missed out all the Indian languages.
and then there is German :)
And here I am sitting in India wondering how one survives without being at least bilingual. I don't know a single person who knows less than two languages. Three is pretty standard. And no one thinks knowing four languages is commendable! You just pick it along the way...
In the US you can more or less speak English to every single person in North America (which includes Canada, though they're "only" about 40 million people). We have the largest economy in the world, every climate type and biome available, and most of the country has to literally cross oceans to get somewhere that *doesn't* speak English and thus requires a 2nd language. Southern border with Mexico is the obvious exception, and also why Spanish is the most common language for those of us who are bi-lingual.
This is also why so few Americans have passports. The US has "everything" without needing to learn another language or exchange our money, and international travel is expensive for us due to how our airlines are regulated, so it's simply convenient to stay "in-country" for both language and tourism.
Why cant Americans pronounce vehicle properly?! 😜😂😎🇬🇧Lol
Omg the video wasnt funny... It was racist... And m the good one to take humour.... But its complicated
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