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They say you always hate something if you are forced to do it, I was forced to do Rosetta for my Portuguese class as part of the grade, at first it was like yay easy grade, but it became tedious real fast. Might try it later with another language but I burned out on it

I'm also combining linguistics with economics

Am totally agree with you. Thanks Rosetta stone, now I am a fluent Russian speaker !

By what metric is Noam Chomsky the most well-respected linguist in the world?

Really? The people at L’académie française aren’t linguists? Prescriptivist linguistics is a kind of linguistics. It’s bad and harmful, but it’s linguistics.

Wow! I’m fluent in Argentine Spanish. I learned Spanish in my 20’s, going to language school and studying when I got to the country. I spent eight years in Argentina. I want to learn Italian, French and Portuguese. Your review was very helpful. Thank you.

as a chinese people i should tell you there's no vaule to learn chinese at all in nowdays world, because japan is the future in east asia , we all learn japanese and english as harder as possible, china has no future because of ccp

interest is the best teacher for learning

😂 try learning cantonese

Well the good thing about Japanese it actually does have a lot of loan words too. I would say there are a lot of european countries that have less english loan words. But yeah there are allso a lot of words that are entirely different in Japanese where as many words in other languages then english often are at least a tiny bit similar.

Loved this video, it its so helpful. Thank you so much!❤

It teaches you how you learn as a child - so you have to just trust the process and and learn through association which I absolutely love as then you don’t convert from your mother tongue you learn to think in the language you’re learning

I think the reason why Japanese people don’t speak English is that the order of English words is completely different.

For me(Japanese), Learing English is hard. Even if we learn it at least for 6 years, Most of us have difficulty speaking it. I think this is because English is completely different from Japanese,so English for Japanese and Japanese for native English speakers is almost the same. It's interesting to compare different languages!

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In fact, it depends not only on the simple difficulty, but also on the abundance of teaching materials English is the most abundant, and Japanese is probably the most comparatively abundant too

You actually badmouthed Duolingo? You went there?

I don't really have time to properly study yet another language right now as I've got my hands full with Japanese, but I've dabbled a bit in Mandarin and Korean using Rosetta Stone. Originally I was just supposed to test the Mandarin course in Rosetta Stone for the company I was working at (alongside some other apps), but ended up liking it so much that I bought the lifetime access. What I think is crazy about Rosetta Stone is the retention rate: I feel like I can still remember like 70% of the Mandarin I learned over a year ago. Vocabulary, pronounciation, grammar - the whole package. Granted, the similarities with Japanese help a lot, and I've had some outside exposure to Mandarin since then. If I was going to get started on a new language, or get serious about Mandarin or Korean, I'd most likely start with Rosetta Stone first to get a good feel for the language, and then probably move on to LingQ. It doesn't necessarily do great in every aspect, however. Since the lessons build on previous lessons to introduce new concepts, it can be hard to skip ahead even if you have pre-existing knowledge. In fact, I think it become an utter snoozer if you already know a fair bit of the language but just want a refresher for example. The content in exercises are just super repetitive and unengaging when you're not trying to figure out new words and patterns. Also, their stubborn stance of no translations and explanations can be just hilariously ineffective sometimes. For example, they give you the Korean phonetic alphabet with example sounds and just expect you to figure it out like it's a puzzle. If you start with no idea how it works, you could probably spend weeks or even months figuring it out on your own, when it could be taught in about 5-15 minutes. Or something like throwing irregular verbs at beginners because they just happen to be the same verbs they use in every language, with 0 mention or explanation of the irregularity, which can be really confusing at the start when you're trying to figure out patterns. I'm also not necessarily a huge fan of them pushing speech exercises at you straight from the beginning, before you get a good idea of how the language sounds and how the words are pronounced. Maybe after the 3rd lesson or something would be better. But you can just turn them off or skip so it's not that big of a deal.

Qué buena review.

I was hoping to hear a sample.

Doe's Tower of BABYLON RING A BELL IN YOUR MIND'S?

Duolingo is really addictive. I'm finishing 2 out of 6 units in Spanish and I can listen to conversations in public and understand parts of it. All these language learning apps are like college professors. different teaching/learning styles work for different students.

Working really well for me! I’m actually hearing spoken Japanese well now! My speaking is still a little slow and clumsy; however my reading has significantly improved! I’m on week 5

Hello Becca, do you work with textual data analysis? Do you conduct sentiment analysis for a bank?

I wondered if Taylor Swift's use of French at the beginning of "You Need to Calm Down", using a negative portrayal of French people, was a jab at France because her albums and singles have not done as well there as in other countries for some reason. Her discography on Wikipedia used to include her chart positions in France but they were always significantly lower than other countries. France has since been removed from those webpages. Even in Switzerland (in which French is one of its official languages), her chart performance is not as strong. There might be something about her songs or what they express that is not translating well into the Francophonie world?

So let's assume that one gets a major in Applied Linguistics, being a native speaker of English. And then an employer appears, demanding that you take a "language proficiency" test, which proves that the level of your English (!) proficiency can be estimated as "somewhere between pre - intermediate and intermediate". Yup, having your language proficiency tested by someone, who have had NOTHING to do with linguistics/philology in their life sucks like a vacuum cleaner.

the first time i see uu i falling in love hhhhh

What are the outcomes of this major? Currently I’ve been taking biomedical science; I loved biology and I’m miserable. I’ve been learning Japanese for 3 years now, and I wrote a paper on the bilingual brain last semester, and it was the most fun I’ve ever had. I don’t know what to do

this is barely 1 semester of sociolinguistics. you should be given your money back. also noam chomsky lol this is early 2000s high school myths, dont tell me thats what they still teach you in college in the US????!!!!

Hey! Good video becca, glad I found your channel, hope to see more in the future!

It works for Russian, too.

Fun!

Ha. I have a B.A. in Japanese.

I once stopped by the State Dept. Language School in Falls Church VA and it is the wokest place on earth. I was giving a demonstration on SQL and for some reason there were dip dunkers in the room with us. I used the phrase "garbage data in, garbage data out" and one the 0343 series, a black girl, nearly lost her mind at that comment.

Thank you so much for telling me I could get rosseta stone for free from my library. I was just about to buy it ❤❤

I would disagree. I would say Chinese is far and away much more difficult than Japanese.

Japanese is easy for me font know why and all I do is watch anime in Japanese with no subtitles

naw not my white american ass learning chinese (i've been learning it for 5 years on and off and i still suck)

man how can i relate so much with a course 0_0 Every single thing u said bout the couse, the subjects, are always things that i think and ponder when i'm alone bout portuguese, english, spanish and french. The only problem is that i don't know if i would be able to pursue a carrer here in Brazil with a linguistics major

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I'm not going to even try learning asian languages. I'll stick to the four I already know. 😅

3月1日は日曜日で祝日、晴れの日でした。 1st of march was sunday, holiday and sunny day. Sangatsu tsuitachi wa nichiyoubi de hare no hi deshita. All 日 have different pronunciations.

In my mind Japanese is far easier than Chinese. I'm Spanish (same sounds) and have watched a lot of anime with original sound; maybe that's why. I even did one month of Chinese and I probably know more or less the same about both languages without taking Japanese classes, just from hearing things over and over.

Well hiragana is easy NOT kanji more katakana Japanese

Turkic languages are harder in my opinion. I did Japanese in 300weeks and did it very well

There is no ranking technically cuz it's like matching one language to other one 😊 Depending on which one u speak, it changes the Difficulty of learning new language. Ex. I found in comment. Korean - Japanese is easier. English - Japanese is harder. Japanese - German is harder. English - German is easier. Japanese - Chinese is slightly easier. Spanish - Chinese is like wtf 😂 There r crazy hard language starting from the most famous Japanese as this video says, there r Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese. But there is always a details in "Why or How is it difficult" As a Japanese, I notice Japanese Speaking easy, Writing Hard and Listen is same for everything else but JUST GET USED IT 😢 Language is pretty much about how comfortable r u with the language like some kinda adaptation or finding a pattern of language 😊 So don't worry, and never expect from anything and anyone but YOU😊 Last thing I advice is speak the language u want to learn not only with people but also in ur brain 🤯 Everytime u speak ur mother language, think how would u say that in the language you r learning 🤗 (This way u don't have to waste any time and this doesn't require money or people to talk to 😊) But my secret recommendation is AI. It's like Voice message or making a phone call with AI to practice any language u like 🤐 Enjoy ur learning advanture!!! And Iet's exchange culture oneday! (Pls come to Canada or Japan, I want more global friends lol)

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If you speak Chinese, you can learn Japanese with half of the time usually needed. In fact, you can understand at least 50% of written Japanese without spending a minute learning.

If you know Korean, Japanese is EASY