“Progress in the world has come from people being curious about things wanting to learn things, it’s a natural sort of instinct that we have. We wanna understand things, we wanna learn things.”
I am learning Japanese and one reason I am excited to learn is that I want to know about the history and culture that doesn't make it over the language barrier. So many internet phenomena, memes, jokes, stories that either haven't or cannot be translated. Another reason is the music being made is just so good. To be able to experience the music and have it emotionally resonate on a lyric standpoint is really exciting.
Yo terminé la preparatoria y decidí tomarme un año entero para mejorar mi inglés y por lo menos alcanzar un buen nivel de comprensión en otros 5 idiomas, dos de ellos romances. Contrario de lo que muchos podrían pensar aprender idiomas no es algo muy difícil, se necesita tiempo pero, si lo disfrutas y si permaneces constante cuando menos lo esperes empezarás a entender cada vez más. Me gusta demasiado tu contenido steve porque básicamente lo que usted dice comprueba demasiadas cosas que me encuentro en el largo camino del aprendizaje de idiomas. Gracias Steve!!
Learning a language has felt like unlocking bonus levels in the game of life. I might get to the end just fine without those levels, but it ads depth to enjoying my time while playing.
My friend studied Japanese. It's a very difficult language and that's why he decided to move to Israel from Russia and learn Hebrew, which I think is also difficult. I can't subtract English since childhood, I still use a translator. It seems that I understand the speech by ear, but I can not express my thoughts myself 😀
My main motive is that i see learning languages as part of a more wholistic approach to the acquisition of knowledge, as not every work of literature, history, philosophy, science, etc will be translated to English and while nothing is “untranslatable” there are interesting ways that languages differ in the way they express and even conceptualize various phenomena and thoughts which might be difficult to translate in both an efficient and natural-sounding way I do not relate to the social aspect, though; I am an asocial language enthusiast
Language learning has been so useful to me. i can't even mention all the reasons i could fill an entire book with it. but i don't even know how i lived while only knowing 2 languages. things are so much better now. every day i have moments where me knowing languages like Spanish or Russian or Hindi or even smaller ones like Albanian or Catalan or Hungarian helps me with a lot of things in daily life. the world is becoming more multilingual.
I'm learning english, and i'm amazed at the things that have improved in my life because of it. For those who have english as their mother tonge, maybe don't seen much in learn another one, even so it's certainly something that will change your life for ever.
English is my native language but I think much of that feeling that a lot of English speakers get is an illusion-as in, we think since English is such a commonly spoken language, we don’t need other ones. In fact, most native English speakers seem to feel the world revolves around English. When you start opening yourself up to other languages and cultures though, you see how untrue that is!
One reason I always tell people when they say things like "what's the point? Everyone speaks English now" is that if you are speaking to somebody who speaks your language as well as their own but you only speak your own then you are always going to be dependent on the skills of others to compensate for your own lack of skills. That gives the other person the upper hand because you are dependent on them in an almost childlike way. Also, whether it's conscious or completely unconscious, it makes the other person feel they have the upper hand over you. They have the greater skills, you are dependent on them so they are in a stronger position. If you both speak each other's language then it doesn't actually matter which language you use, you are on an equal footing and they will regard you more as an equal.
For the opportunities languages bring to you, English allowed me to go on a two semester Erasmus in Ireland. I met two people that are now close to me. The thing is that they are Hungarians and so for the fun of it I decided to move to Hungary for maybe a couple years. I now live with my male friend and my female friend trapped me here by becoming my girlfriend 🤣 I was a nerdy boy who wanted to grow in this world and normal things were frightening to me, this experience in Ireland changed me, I''m much more confident, I have a job, a very good friend and a lovely girlfriend. All of that is because of language learning, without English this would not have happened. Now I'm learning Hungarian and I'm sure it will bring me other fantastic opportunities.
No doubt about that. Knowing different languages is incredibly profitable. My little sister who recently moved to the US while already spoken English, Spanish, French and Creole landed her a career in the banking industry with Wells Fargo. Same story with me who self-taught English at an early stage. I worked for the US Embassy in my country. Currently I am studying Spanish for more opportunity in the US😅
I cannot tell how big source of inspiration you are Steve. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. I would only maybe add one more point and that is the following: most of the people appreciate if you speak "their language". In a way you are giving credits to those persons by putting the efforts to acquire their language. 😊
Awesome video and I totally agree! One thing I would like to add about learning languages is that you really do learn about yourself. There are many instances where there just isn’t a way to translate something directly but when you learn a language well you learn how to express things about yourself that you couldn’t before. You discover new ideas and ways of being, especially when you immerse yourself in not just the language but the culture. This is one of those things that may not seem profound as a reason until you experience it for yourself, but I personally have found it very rewarding.
The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3Wyq6um My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com What are your main reasons for wanting to learn a new language?
On my first day of my freshman comp class in college, my professor wrote this quote on the board: "The limits of my language are the limits of my world" - Ludvig Wittgenstein This quote has strongly influenced my interest in learning languages throughout my life. I also enjoy the idea of "cracking codes" and learning new alphabets. I have wanted to learn the Cyrillic alphabet for many years. A friend at work recently told me that the Cyrillic alphabet was phonetic and I just jumped into it! Then, I realized there are several other languages that also use this alphabet (especially Ukrainian, which I am also sampling a bit). I have recently started thinking of the idea that learning the same word in many languages is basically just learning another synonym of that word. I just have to line up all the right words together to speak a certain language.
I want to be able to speak with my inlaws. I don't see them very frequently though, so I think I use that as an excuse to not make it a priority to learn. Now we're going deep into Mexico in less than 2 months from now and I've not even begun to learn. Where to start??
What a wise man! I live in Venezuela. I fell in love with English from the moment I started learning it. Everyone knows that it's an important language, but I have lived it! I love British and American culture. I have made American friends, and it has expanded my world. I'm not sure whether I'm going to venture to other languages or not, but learning this language has made me very happy!
I've always been interested in languages. I've always loved the sound of Spanish, but I've forgotten most is what I learned in school. Hopefully someday I can learn it fluently. I'm also working on improving my German because of my heritage, and I hope I can learn my family's language too. My first real self-study language, though, is Finnish. I started learning it 7 years ago because of music (one of my absolute favourite bands is Finnish), and it has brought me so many wonderful friends and experiences. For that, Finnish will always be special to me.
Although I am a geologist for decades, the most useful and interesting subject .I have ever studied was ‘Latin’ starting at the age of 13. Mandatory in our Montreal school. I kept studying it through it the school years when we moved to Europe ( once through correspondence) and have pursued it on and off over the decades. For every 00 kids ‘forced’ to take piano lessons, only a couple learn to love it. It’s the same with Latin. I’m privileged to be one of the few. Thank you M. Lemaire , my grade 8 Latin teacher, for your inspiring Latin lessons over a half century ago.
Ooo central Asia. I am from Uzbekistan. Yeah you are absolutely right in this way. Learning language might be great opportunity to attain a set of goals
I had dream to learn Turkish and now im starting this is great step in my life, you are right learn language help you to make freindship its kind of travel and you will have good oppurtunities in your life,
All these reasons are quite sound, of course, although I should add something to the last reason. Yes, it helps to make friends and connect with others, but only if you yourself are someone who people want to get acquainted with in the first place. A foreign language is just an extention of who you are as a person. If all you do is learn languages and do literally nothing else and can barely talk about anything, nobody would really care because the only thing you have to share with others is that you speak other languages, but to what end? What can you talk about? The more you can talk about, the more likely you can find common ground with natives and therefore build connections and relationships with them. It's grounded in something besides the fact you share a language in common, and the more common ground there is, the better.
Video Idea Suggestion: I have been studying German diligently over the last 3 months or so, and i completely digested the 60 mini-stories, but right now i feel kinda lost, i don't know what content to work on, I enjoyed the mini-stories because I felt I was hand-walked through, in other words I was well guided, I had a finish line in mind which was the 60th mini-story, I knew what to do, but now I feel lost. What would you recommend for someone who has completed the 60 mini-stories and is on the cutting edge of the B1 level, I think it's worth a video : "What to do after finishing all the 60 mini-stories". Another Video Idea : Since I have been studying Finnish over the last 6 years inconsistently, I have been struggling to find good and guided content to work on, so a good video idea would be "How To Study For Rare Languages When You Don't Have Good Resources", because that's been my biggest struggle in Finnish, but I made my way through and right now I can confidently say that I'm at the B2 level (after 6 years of struggle), by the way I started learning Finnish right around the time u started learning Greek
Ich glaube nicht, dass man nach dem 60 Mini stories schon b1 ist. Aber für Deutsch gibt es auf lingq einiges an Inhalt, den man durcharbeiten kann. Es gibt eine Sektion mit Kursen, geordnet nach Level. Such dir einfach den nächsten Kurs aus, der wenig neue Wörter hat und arbeite ihn durch.
More than half the world speaks two or more languages. It’s natural for our brain. I agree that it’s not difficult, just time consuming. I speak English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, and German, the first four at B2 level, despite being American. I have made so many friends through language learning. It’s fantastic for your social life!
Este video de Steve debería ser tarea en las escuelas y en los colegios. El comparte sus ideas y hace historia en el mundo hermoso de ser políglota. Todos pueden serlo, pocos se lo creen, menos lo logran. Doy fe de todo ese video me ha pasado.
Learning language is enjoyable, l've been learning japanese for couple of weeks, despite l don't understand much , but at least I can recognize people's names which is still exciting .
Well done Steve, thank you for this stream and video. All of the above-mentioned are relevant points of interest in the world we live in and maybe if the aliens do come, they will see the rich societies of languages and cultures in which we live in and appreciate its histories good and bad and see our humanity.
I have a question. I have a learning disability and it's been difficult to learn Japanese for my education. Is there any advice that you would suggest I do?
My father is a bilingual, he speaks Russian and Romanian. I suggested him to study English 3 months ago, and I was surprised when he came to me stating that his swimming skills improved due to his English studies. So how did he improve? 3 months ago he couldn't swim completely underwater an entire swimming pool (25meters), and after these 3 months he reached his goal of swimming completely underwater the entire pool, and he is 63 years old..so for me the benefits are obvious
There are do many languages to learn. I may never get around to Kurdish, but thank you. Kurds are a major influence in many countries and in world history, that I know.
For some reason this video wasn't available/shown on your profile yet it says it was published 4 days ago. I feel pity for Joe Rogan and I'll laugh at his face when French become the international language (as it's expected to replace English). I must say Steve, so many people and also Luca Lampariello... have had a deeper connection with their couples, their better half, soul mate, etc... by speaking each other's language. Don't know your take on this topic though I did hear from you your wife is native to Cantonese and Costa Rican Spanish (cool you have a slight connection to my culture) both languages you speak. You've also shared with us you've been married for a long time which shows language learning goes beyond it's difficulties.
@@goblinoide Not soon of course. The Francophone population in Africa is growing exponentially and the continent has so much potential. One important thing is that they may not be the focus of attention economically speaking but if they do succed at making Africa strong, I'm afraid English will take second place.
@@marcoarrieta4983 The same is true with Latin America, but I'd argue that even if they do succeed, they'll probably be picking up English or Mandarin because those are the established superpowers. No way they could replace us, our languages, or our cultures on a global scale. It's too deeply ingrained.
If it wasn't for the internet, I would say that French had a chance to become the lingua franca again, but it has a historically unprecedented hill to climb.
Yea while i don't think French will dominate the world is becoming way more multilingual. in the 2000s i only needed English and maybe French because of my region but now there is a lot of info that is not in English online and in real life things get more diverse too. anime is now very popular and people watch it in the original language. Korean movies too Spanish tv series Turkish tv series even Indian movies are starting to become popular world wide. 20 years ago only American and uk movies got popular internationally. if you wanted to use a computer back in the day you had to know basic English but now they have translated everything. but its unclear what country will dominate in the future the countries with the strongest armies. USA china Russia all have huge issues .and the more stable countries don't have strong armies japan and south Korea have shrinking populations. i guess it would be India then but they are a multilingual country so that would be interesting.
O humanity! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may know one another. Surely the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous among you. Allah is truly All-Knowing, All-Aware. [49:13]
Hello Steve and friends, I'd like anyone's thoughts on language guilt, letting go of languages and being okay with it - I know people like yourself Steve and maybe others really love having so many languages you actively study at the same time. Me, I struggle because I just can't let go of a language without the guilt and it's really frustrating. I feel obligation to keep every language i've ever studied in the past. how could i remedy this? I'd really like to know people's thoughts.
"In Alzheimer’s disease, as neurons are injured and die throughout the brain, connections between networks of neurons may break down, and many brain regions begin to shrink. By the final stages of Alzheimer’s, this process-called brain atrophy-is widespread, causing significant loss of brain volume." - National Institute on Aging. I don't like Joe Rogan either, but a lot of what you've said in regards to criticising him is simply not true. It seems like you dislike this person more because of their political views, and you are criticising them under a sort of veneer/guise of language education. PS: I really dislike Joe Rogan, but I also dislike thinly veiled attacks on people under the guise of education / informing people. It's so disingenuous and is the type of thing that drives many to people like Joe Rogan.
Mostly I dislike people who are in the position of influencing others who use language poorly, don't speak coherently, use foul language and make simplistic statements based on little or no evidence. I have no idea what Rogen's political views are. His anti-science views re the covid vaccine and Ivermectin are not political, just anti-science and wrong. As for language learning and Alzheimers the situation is more nuanced. news.las.iastate.edu/2021/01/28/study-shows-learning-a-second-language-thwarts-onset-of-dementia/#:~:text=In%20the%20study%2C%20Grundy%20notes,dementia%20until%20later%20in%20life. Through a meta-analysis of the data, the researchers discovered that the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are halted by up to five years, on average, in people who fluently speak more than one language. The study did not substantially show that bilingualism deters Alzheimer’s disease incidence rates; only that it helps to delay symptoms. “Bilinguals and monolinguals eventually show the same number of Alzheimer’s disease cases, but bilinguals tend to be able to stave off those symptoms for longer,” Grundy said. “That’s fascinating to me. Maybe the most surprising thing about the study is the consistency of the effect. It’s a very robust finding.” In the study, Grundy notes that bilingualism does not prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s disease. Instead, it’s a form of cognitive reserve, like a demanding career or exercise, that strengthens and reorganizes the brain’s circuits, helping to fight off the initial symptoms of dementia until later in life. The authors state that bilinguals rely on the posterior and subcortical regions of the brain for more efficient processing of information than monolinguals, who depend on the brain’s more demanding frontal circuits as they age, thus exacerbating the onset of dementia.
@@goblinoide I also wanted to learn more but the truth is that the more you spread the less focused you will be, you can be C1 in a couple of languages or B2 in a multitude.
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Beside learning English, I'm learning Spanish as well because I make a new friend from spain or latin America. In my opinion is fun and good for our brain
I absolutely love your content! To thank you so much for everything that you do! And of course an idiot like Joe rogan would think everyone would be better off If everyone spoke the same language but what he means by that is his language and no one else's. He makes my brain hurt!
Lobe your content, but you often mention Joe Rogan is scum. The antithesis of what most language learners are, open to differences, passionate about learning, curious aboutvother cultures etc.
“Progress in the world has come from people being curious about things wanting to learn things, it’s a natural sort of instinct that we have. We wanna understand things, we wanna learn things.”
I am learning Japanese and one reason I am excited to learn is that I want to know about the history and culture that doesn't make it over the language barrier. So many internet phenomena, memes, jokes, stories that either haven't or cannot be translated. Another reason is the music being made is just so good. To be able to experience the music and have it emotionally resonate on a lyric standpoint is really exciting.
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Japanese is 90% puns. Enjoy
Im learning Japanese too!
gambarimasu yo..
Learning Japanese was a big help when I lived in Japan. Hope you enjoy getting used to the language as much as I did and still do.
Yo terminé la preparatoria y decidí tomarme un año entero para mejorar mi inglés y por lo menos alcanzar un buen nivel de comprensión en otros 5 idiomas, dos de ellos romances. Contrario de lo que muchos podrían pensar aprender idiomas no es algo muy difícil, se necesita tiempo pero, si lo disfrutas y si permaneces constante cuando menos lo esperes empezarás a entender cada vez más. Me gusta demasiado tu contenido steve porque básicamente lo que usted dice comprueba demasiadas cosas que me encuentro en el largo camino del aprendizaje de idiomas. Gracias Steve!!
Learning a language has felt like unlocking bonus levels in the game of life. I might get to the end just fine without those levels, but it ads depth to enjoying my time while playing.
Im currently learning Japanese because of you and I’m excited to get to a speaking level 😊
My friend studied Japanese. It's a very difficult language and that's why he decided to move to Israel from Russia and learn Hebrew, which I think is also difficult. I can't subtract English since childhood, I still use a translator. It seems that I understand the speech by ear, but I can not express my thoughts myself 😀
I am a Nigerian who have lived in India for just a year and can now speak and understand Hindi by using your principle. Thank u Steve
My main motive is that i see learning languages as part of a more wholistic approach to the acquisition of knowledge, as not every work of literature, history, philosophy, science, etc will be translated to English and while nothing is “untranslatable” there are interesting ways that languages differ in the way they express and even conceptualize various phenomena and thoughts which might be difficult to translate in both an efficient and natural-sounding way
I do not relate to the social aspect, though; I am an asocial language enthusiast
Language learning has been so useful to me. i can't even mention all the reasons i could fill an entire book with it. but i don't even know how i lived while only knowing 2 languages. things are so much better now. every day i have moments where me knowing languages like Spanish or Russian or Hindi or even smaller ones like Albanian or Catalan or Hungarian helps me with a lot of things in daily life. the world is becoming more multilingual.
I'm learning English and you are part of my motivation
I'm learning english, and i'm amazed at the things that have improved in my life because of it. For those who have english as their mother tonge, maybe don't seen much in learn another one, even so it's certainly something that will change your life for ever.
English is my native language but I think much of that feeling that a lot of English speakers get is an illusion-as in, we think since English is such a commonly spoken language, we don’t need other ones. In fact, most native English speakers seem to feel the world revolves around English. When you start opening yourself up to other languages and cultures though, you see how untrue that is!
One reason I always tell people when they say things like "what's the point? Everyone speaks English now" is that if you are speaking to somebody who speaks your language as well as their own but you only speak your own then you are always going to be dependent on the skills of others to compensate for your own lack of skills. That gives the other person the upper hand because you are dependent on them in an almost childlike way. Also, whether it's conscious or completely unconscious, it makes the other person feel they have the upper hand over you. They have the greater skills, you are dependent on them so they are in a stronger position. If you both speak each other's language then it doesn't actually matter which language you use, you are on an equal footing and they will regard you more as an equal.
For the opportunities languages bring to you, English allowed me to go on a two semester Erasmus in Ireland. I met two people that are now close to me.
The thing is that they are Hungarians and so for the fun of it I decided to move to Hungary for maybe a couple years.
I now live with my male friend and my female friend trapped me here by becoming my girlfriend 🤣
I was a nerdy boy who wanted to grow in this world and normal things were frightening to me, this experience in Ireland changed me, I''m much more confident, I have a job, a very good friend and a lovely girlfriend.
All of that is because of language learning, without English this would not have happened.
Now I'm learning Hungarian and I'm sure it will bring me other fantastic opportunities.
And what's your mother language
Such positive reasons to learn! I also think you can "see" or understand so much more from world history through different eyes, I love that.
No doubt about that. Knowing different languages is incredibly profitable. My little sister who recently moved to the US while already spoken English, Spanish, French and Creole landed her a career in the banking industry with Wells Fargo.
Same story with me who self-taught English at an early stage. I worked for the US Embassy in my country. Currently I am studying Spanish for more opportunity in the US😅
I cannot tell how big source of inspiration you are Steve. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. I would only maybe add one more point and that is the following: most of the people appreciate if you speak "their language". In a way you are giving credits to those persons by putting the efforts to acquire their language. 😊
It’s a form of travel. Yes, learning a new language can open a window of a new world.
The understanding of the world when you learn another language is totally different, you see everything differently.
Awesome video and I totally agree! One thing I would like to add about learning languages is that you really do learn about yourself. There are many instances where there just isn’t a way to translate something directly but when you learn a language well you learn how to express things about yourself that you couldn’t before. You discover new ideas and ways of being, especially when you immerse yourself in not just the language but the culture. This is one of those things that may not seem profound as a reason until you experience it for yourself, but I personally have found it very rewarding.
You said everything ! Language can open up ways never found before and it's exciting to participate as part of it.
Thank you Steve. I'm trying to share my experiences with languages on RUclips on my RUclips channel. You is my inspiration.
The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3Wyq6um
My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com
What are your main reasons for wanting to learn a new language?
On my first day of my freshman comp class in college, my professor wrote this quote on the board: "The limits of my language are the limits of my world" - Ludvig Wittgenstein
This quote has strongly influenced my interest in learning languages throughout my life. I also enjoy the idea of "cracking codes" and learning new alphabets. I have wanted to learn the Cyrillic alphabet for many years. A friend at work recently told me that the Cyrillic alphabet was phonetic and I just jumped into it! Then, I realized there are several other languages that also use this alphabet (especially Ukrainian, which I am also sampling a bit).
I have recently started thinking of the idea that learning the same word in many languages is basically just learning another synonym of that word. I just have to line up all the right words together to speak a certain language.
I want to be able to speak with my inlaws. I don't see them very frequently though, so I think I use that as an excuse to not make it a priority to learn. Now we're going deep into Mexico in less than 2 months from now and I've not even begun to learn. Where to start??
What a wise man! I live in Venezuela. I fell in love with English from the moment I started learning it. Everyone knows that it's an important language, but I have lived it! I love British and American culture. I have made American friends, and it has expanded my world. I'm not sure whether I'm going to venture to other languages or not, but learning this language has made me very happy!
Great video, Steve! I'd say for me the biggest driver usually is that I just find it so interesting/fun.
I’m fascinated by your passion in learning not just languages, but the history and culture behind the languages you learn. Love it!
I've always been interested in languages. I've always loved the sound of Spanish, but I've forgotten most is what I learned in school. Hopefully someday I can learn it fluently. I'm also working on improving my German because of my heritage, and I hope I can learn my family's language too. My first real self-study language, though, is Finnish. I started learning it 7 years ago because of music (one of my absolute favourite bands is Finnish), and it has brought me so many wonderful friends and experiences. For that, Finnish will always be special to me.
Although I am a geologist for decades, the most useful and interesting subject .I have ever studied was ‘Latin’ starting at the age of 13. Mandatory in our Montreal school. I kept studying it through it the school years when we moved to Europe ( once through correspondence) and have pursued it on and off over the decades. For every 00 kids ‘forced’ to take piano lessons, only a couple learn to love it. It’s the same with Latin. I’m privileged to be one of the few. Thank you M. Lemaire , my grade 8
Latin teacher, for your inspiring Latin lessons over a half century ago.
Ooo central Asia. I am from Uzbekistan. Yeah you are absolutely right in this way. Learning language might be great opportunity to attain a set of goals
I had dream to learn Turkish and now im starting this is great step in my life, you are right learn language help you to make freindship its kind of travel and you will have good oppurtunities in your life,
All these reasons are quite sound, of course, although I should add something to the last reason. Yes, it helps to make friends and connect with others, but only if you yourself are someone who people want to get acquainted with in the first place. A foreign language is just an extention of who you are as a person. If all you do is learn languages and do literally nothing else and can barely talk about anything, nobody would really care because the only thing you have to share with others is that you speak other languages, but to what end? What can you talk about? The more you can talk about, the more likely you can find common ground with natives and therefore build connections and relationships with them. It's grounded in something besides the fact you share a language in common, and the more common ground there is, the better.
Excellent reasons to learn a language! I'm motivated to go study right now🙌
It's so cool to see the world through someone else's eyes!
Thank you.Great motivation to continue and persevere in leaning languages.
whatever u want to learn,finding reasons for it is very important.
How interesting!!
Your channel helps many people to motivate themselves ,thank you and good job.
Video Idea Suggestion:
I have been studying German diligently over the last 3 months or so, and i completely digested the 60 mini-stories, but right now i feel kinda lost, i don't know what content to work on, I enjoyed the mini-stories because I felt I was hand-walked through, in other words I was well guided, I had a finish line in mind which was the 60th mini-story, I knew what to do, but now I feel lost. What would you recommend for someone who has completed the 60 mini-stories and is on the cutting edge of the B1 level, I think it's worth a video : "What to do after finishing all the 60 mini-stories".
Another Video Idea : Since I have been studying Finnish over the last 6 years inconsistently, I have been struggling to find good and guided content to work on, so a good video idea would be "How To Study For Rare Languages When You Don't Have Good Resources", because that's been my biggest struggle in Finnish, but I made my way through and right now I can confidently say that I'm at the B2 level (after 6 years of struggle), by the way I started learning Finnish right around the time u started learning Greek
Ich glaube nicht, dass man nach dem 60 Mini stories schon b1 ist. Aber für Deutsch gibt es auf lingq einiges an Inhalt, den man durcharbeiten kann. Es gibt eine Sektion mit Kursen, geordnet nach Level. Such dir einfach den nächsten Kurs aus, der wenig neue Wörter hat und arbeite ihn durch.
Kann ich dich frage, wo die 60 mini stories sind? Ist die auf LingQ?
You should go on Joe Rogan
i know arabic.french. English. now I'm learning Portugais and Spanish I hope one day I will be like you. I want to communicate with all the world 🥰
you pay too much attention to Joe Rogan, he's a former MMA fighter, it's like paying attention to Justin Bieber and what he thinks on this same matter
Thank you for sharing this video, Steve. İt is so useful for me
More than half the world speaks two or more languages. It’s natural for our brain. I agree that it’s not difficult, just time consuming. I speak English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, and German, the first four at B2 level, despite being American. I have made so many friends through language learning. It’s fantastic for your social life!
Americans don't use the european B2 designation. Good try bud.
@@Frankybeanselevators Duolingo does. Nice try petal.🙂
Again, many thanks.
Este video de Steve debería ser tarea en las escuelas y en los colegios. El comparte sus ideas y hace historia en el mundo hermoso de ser políglota. Todos pueden serlo, pocos se lo creen, menos lo logran. Doy fe de todo ese video me ha pasado.
I’m learning English , Chinese, Thailand it’s very hard but i wanna know things and I wanna have more friends
I am from Uzbekistan. It is situated in Central Asia
Great points! I agree 100% Many thanks :)
Learning language is enjoyable, l've been learning japanese for couple of weeks, despite l don't understand much , but at least I can recognize people's names which is still exciting .
Eu gosto muito, pelo fato de saber sobre os costumes e as diferenças entre as nações 👍 Ficou muito bem explicado ✍️
Thank you Mr. Steve🙏
You are definitely right.
Always ❤️ ya Steve!!
I wanna improve one and learn 2 or 3 more next year.
Well done Steve, thank you for this stream and video.
All of the above-mentioned are relevant points of interest in the world we live in and maybe if the aliens do come, they will see the rich societies of languages and cultures in which we live in and appreciate its histories good and bad and see our humanity.
I have a question. I have a learning disability and it's been difficult to learn Japanese for my education. Is there any advice that you would suggest I do?
My father is a bilingual, he speaks Russian and Romanian. I suggested him to study English 3 months ago, and I was surprised when he came to me stating that his swimming skills improved due to his English studies. So how did he improve? 3 months ago he couldn't swim completely underwater an entire swimming pool (25meters), and after these 3 months he reached his goal of swimming completely underwater the entire pool, and he is 63 years old..so for me the benefits are obvious
It is a great video, commendable effort.
Hi Steve
I am Kurdish and I wish(actually I recommend😊) you could learn Kurdish
You can count on me
Nice done
Carry on
There are do many languages to learn. I may never get around to Kurdish, but thank you. Kurds are a major influence in many countries and in world history, that I know.
@@Thelinguist Persian or Farsi is my second language ( no one can recognise me as an non native Persian speaker)I wish I could help you
Thank you Steve
Only monolingual betas say that it would be good if we had only one language.
My travels to France have been more enjoyable since I can communicate with the locals!
Its sad that Joe Rogan has such a huge platform. What he said just reinforces the biases of some people to never learn another language
For some reason this video wasn't available/shown on your profile yet it says it was published 4 days ago.
I feel pity for Joe Rogan and I'll laugh at his face when French become the international language (as it's expected to replace English).
I must say Steve, so many people and also Luca Lampariello... have had a deeper connection with their couples, their better half, soul mate, etc... by speaking each other's language. Don't know your take on this topic though I did hear from you your wife is native to Cantonese and Costa Rican Spanish (cool you have a slight connection to my culture) both languages you speak. You've also shared with us you've been married for a long time which shows language learning goes beyond it's difficulties.
I really don’t see how French could possibly replace English as the global language.
@@goblinoide Not soon of course. The Francophone population in Africa is growing exponentially and the continent has so much potential. One important thing is that they may not be the focus of attention economically speaking but if they do succed at making Africa strong, I'm afraid English will take second place.
@@marcoarrieta4983 The same is true with Latin America, but I'd argue that even if they do succeed, they'll probably be picking up English or Mandarin because those are the established superpowers. No way they could replace us, our languages, or our cultures on a global scale. It's too deeply ingrained.
If it wasn't for the internet, I would say that French had a chance to become the lingua franca again, but it has a historically unprecedented hill to climb.
Yea while i don't think French will dominate the world is becoming way more multilingual. in the 2000s i only needed English and maybe French because of my region but now there is a lot of info that is not in English online and in real life things get more diverse too. anime is now very popular and people watch it in the original language. Korean movies too Spanish tv series Turkish tv series even Indian movies are starting to become popular world wide.
20 years ago only American and uk movies got popular internationally. if you wanted to use a computer back in the day you had to know basic English but now they have translated everything. but its unclear what country will dominate in the future the countries with the strongest armies. USA china Russia all have huge issues .and the more stable countries don't have strong armies japan and south Korea have shrinking populations. i guess it would be India then but they are a multilingual country so that would be interesting.
But i would like to know which companies un I can apply for a job for example un US!!
Merhabalar sizi severek izliyoruz her konuştugunuz yabancı dillerin orenilmesi için bildiğiniz dillerde yapabi;irmisiniz teşekürler.
Steve Kaufmann vs Joe Rogan. The most unexpected internet feud.
سلام چطورهستید؟استادارزشمند شماگفتید فارسی میدانید این بسیارعالی است
Exactly 👌
Have you considered Bulgarian? It's a Slavic language but without declensions. Also it has articles.
I haven't tried it but it is available at LingQ
Sans apprentissage de français j'aurai pas connu la chaine de Lèo Urban qui pratique le parcour primal. Ça valait le coup！
O humanity! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may know one another. Surely the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous among you. Allah is truly All-Knowing, All-Aware. [49:13]
I hope to learn English and leave fascist z Putin's Russia
Great dream！Greetings from Ukraine！
@@andrewshepitko6354 Hold on. I hope this nightmare ends soon
I learned Japanese to connect with people, so if there's anyone who would like to learn with me, let me know.
Sir please learn Pashto also!!
Hello Steve and friends, I'd like anyone's thoughts on language guilt, letting go of languages and being okay with it - I know people like yourself Steve and maybe others really love having so many languages you actively study at the same time. Me, I struggle because I just can't let go of a language without the guilt and it's really frustrating. I feel obligation to keep every language i've ever studied in the past. how could i remedy this? I'd really like to know people's thoughts.
Would you like to learn hindi...
"In Alzheimer’s disease, as neurons are injured and die throughout the brain, connections between networks of neurons may break down, and many brain regions begin to shrink. By the final stages of Alzheimer’s, this process-called brain atrophy-is widespread, causing significant loss of brain volume." - National Institute on Aging.
I don't like Joe Rogan either, but a lot of what you've said in regards to criticising him is simply not true. It seems like you dislike this person more because of their political views, and you are criticising them under a sort of veneer/guise of language education.
PS: I really dislike Joe Rogan, but I also dislike thinly veiled attacks on people under the guise of education / informing people. It's so disingenuous and is the type of thing that drives many to people like Joe Rogan.
Mostly I dislike people who are in the position of influencing others who use language poorly, don't speak coherently, use foul language and make simplistic statements based on little or no evidence. I have no idea what Rogen's political views are. His anti-science views re the covid vaccine and Ivermectin are not political, just anti-science and wrong. As for language learning and Alzheimers the situation is more nuanced.
news.las.iastate.edu/2021/01/28/study-shows-learning-a-second-language-thwarts-onset-of-dementia/#:~:text=In%20the%20study%2C%20Grundy%20notes,dementia%20until%20later%20in%20life.
Through a meta-analysis of the data, the researchers discovered that the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are halted by up to five years, on average, in people who fluently speak more than one language. The study did not substantially show that bilingualism deters Alzheimer’s disease incidence rates; only that it helps to delay symptoms.
“Bilinguals and monolinguals eventually show the same number of Alzheimer’s disease cases, but bilinguals tend to be able to stave off those symptoms for longer,” Grundy said. “That’s fascinating to me. Maybe the most surprising thing about the study is the consistency of the effect. It’s a very robust finding.”
In the study, Grundy notes that bilingualism does not prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s disease. Instead, it’s a form of cognitive reserve, like a demanding career or exercise, that strengthens and reorganizes the brain’s circuits, helping to fight off the initial symptoms of dementia until later in life. The authors state that bilinguals rely on the posterior and subcortical regions of the brain for more efficient processing of information than monolinguals, who depend on the brain’s more demanding frontal circuits as they age, thus exacerbating the onset of dementia.
I want to learn 7 languages.
Good start, but why stop at 7? 😄
How many do you already speak?
which ones?
@@goblinoide I also wanted to learn more but the truth is that the more you spread the less focused you will be, you can be C1 in a couple of languages or B2 in a multitude.
Knowing 5 foreign languages is the definition of hyper polyglot, be a Gigachad and reach that level!
Une bonne journée pour tout le monde ici 🖖
ここまでみんなの素晴らしい一日 😆
आज हम सभी के लिए 👀
Wielkim dniem dla wszystkich tutaj. 🤚
Lá iontach do gach duine anseo 👌
모든 사람에게 좋은 날
يوم عظيم للجميع هنا 🙂
Beside learning English, I'm learning Spanish as well because I make a new friend from spain or latin America. In my opinion is fun and good for our brain
Do you reckon learning languages are psychological or academic?
I see no signs of atrophy :). You have more capable working memory than me (before 40).
He should have become a diplomat.
This app is free?
"Learn languages" As if learning one language won't take up your entire lifetime.
I absolutely love your content! To thank you so much for everything that you do! And of course an idiot like Joe rogan would think everyone would be better off If everyone spoke the same language but what he means by that is his language and no one else's. He makes my brain hurt!
one more .Learn a new lenguage is a medicine agains depression
You should go on the joe rogan podcast and teach him a lesson
8:25 you should see someone about that
Lobe your content, but you often mention Joe Rogan is scum. The antithesis of what most language learners are, open to differences, passionate about learning, curious aboutvother cultures etc.