I NATIVELY speak ENGLISH, and I am fairly good with OLD ENGLISH. I learned some of Tolkien's Quenya ELVISH. I have been studying LATIN and Seek to achieve FLUENCY in it. I also desire to learn HEBREW and then ANCIENT GREEK so I can read the Bible in its original language.
Ciao, sono italiana come te. Studio inglese dalle scuole medie e tra libri, film e serie tv da una parte e il mio lavoro dall'altra (informatica) ho un buon livello in lettura e medio/buono in scrittura. Mi sto esercitando sulla comprensione orale (in questo ascoltare i tuoi video mi è utilissimo). Sul parlato ho qualche difficolta in più, ovviamente perche non ho quasi mai modo di esecitarmi con un madrelingua. Trovo i tuoi video (sia in questo canale che in quello principale) molto interessanti, ben argomentati e senza i toni urlati da "detentore della Verità" che spesso qualificano in modo negativo molti youtuber. In più, come dicevo poco sopra, ti ascolto per esercitare la mia comprensione dell'inglese, dato che hai una pronuncia chiara e assolutamente comprensibile, anche alla normale velocita discorsiva. Ti faccio i complimenti per la qualita del tuo lavoro. Un saluto
Hi, my name is Vinicius, I'm brazilian and I speak english and portuguese. I've been following your work since 2014 if I'm not mistaken. At the time I was 17 years old, today I am 26. I can say that I am very grateful for your knowledge passed on to all of us and I appreciate not only your work but also your charismatic personality that often took me out of moments of sadness.
was biligual from birth. My parents spoke English to me, and my Grandmother (who we lived with, spoke a Calabrian dialect). I would love a video (or a few) on some obscure Italian Dialects, or as I like to call them, Regional Languages. I also speak Spanish to a great degree, but not fluently. Thank you for your fantastic videos which I have been enjoying for quite awhile now. Your English is amazing, by the way!
I am a native English speaker who knows some Irish and German. I am currently studying Japanese and this is the language I am prioritizing for reaching fluency. I originally started to learn Japanese because I consume a lot of media that is originally in that language and wanted something productive to do in my spare time, but I came to really love the phonology and grammar, and am really enjoying the learning process.
I'm there with you. At a certain point it ceases to be a headache and daunting task and transforms into a really fun game to see how much you understand, can imitate, and what cultural references you can comprehend compared to before. Japanese is also good because they have so much culture and media to consume that you'll never really run out of learning material. I've probably watched my favorite godzilla film like 40 times in the last year just to see how much more I can understand. Never stops being fun.
I'm a native speaker of Vietnamese. Right now I'm studying in Japan, so I have been trying to learn the language for a while and got the N2 this year. I've also tried to learn some German. I am also really interested in ancient languages like Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, mostly because I want to read classical texts written in those languages. I am also studying to become a linguist as well and I find that the knowledge acquired from linguistics has been a great help on my journey of language learning. edit: I somehow forgot to talk about the language I am using right now 😅 The school system in my country has compulsory English education, but let's just say that the quality is not so good, at least not good enough for students to be able to hold a conversation with an English speaker. I was lucky enough to have an amazing tutor, who had studied abroad in New Zealand before, and the lessons she gave me set me on the right path for English learning. I also have been consuming tons of content in English so I was able to progress significantly faster than my peers. Right now, I believe I am almost at the native level.
I'm a native Bulgarian speaker. I work with English and Spanish and have decent skills in Italian. I have studied many languages such as Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Hebrew, etc. Currently, my primary focus is Swedish, which I'm aiming to bring to a work level sometime in the near future.
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Argentinean here. I teach English for a living, and Though I had Russian lessons for a year, I'll go with Italian next (my kids go to a main Italian school, so I want to be able to help them). But I love how you bring out tips both for teaching and learning. I will continue to push you to go through more Argentinean Spanish (its my main take on this channel), but I'm glad I discovered it. Your content is awesome. Keep up the good work!!
I am a native English speaker, I speak Spanish at an intermediate level and am currently studying Spanish daily for around an hour. I am actively looking for ways to increase my speaking opportunities in the language. I love learning about how languages are interconnected and being shown and experiencing that whether that be Dutch spoken slowly and purposefully with more English cognates or when I listen to Catalan or Italian and understand the meaning and full phrases due to my Spanish training, I find all these things very interesting. The A-Ha moment when a link between languages is shown i.e. -um in Latin going to -o in Spanish or an English etymology unfolding to show the rich history of entwined languages (which mind you English does very well with English having massive swaths of vocabulary being Norse, French, Latin, or directly germanic rooted with shifts from to systematic changes). I also enjoy seeing how grammar rules play out to create interesting patterns which to a speaker of the language convey subtle changes in meaning like the habitual "be" in AAE or different levels of formality in Spanish using the subjunctive "ara"/"iera" form in place of the conditional due to it's historic link to Latin (while the "iese"/"ase" can not because it doesn't have that root). With Spanish, I started to study it simply because of school and carried it on beyond it I have dabbled in other languages be that German or Italian but I've never been comfortable enough with my Spanish to dedicate all my language-learning time to them. However Spanish is also a language that I really enjoy learning because of it's massive cultural influence, thousands of dialects, and massive speaker base. I want to reach a higher level of fluency and understanding of the Spanish language before going for other languages and I hope to achieve that ASAP because having German friends I'd love to be able to show my appreciation for that culture and also to communicate with them in a passion of theirs. I also go to Spain quite regularly for the last few years I have been going annually in the summer but I don't have a spare year to go live there but that may happen in the future.
I am an English speaker; I studied Spanish for 4 years in middle and high school, and I plan to continue my studies in college. My main goal is to reach fluency in that language, since I know a LOOOOOOOT of Spanish speakers (I'm an American from a city), but I also want to parlay that into learning Italian (MAYYYYYYBE Portuguese but probably not, also maybe French), and then also learn German (plus Dutch), which I have some experience with (I visited Germany and Austria when I was 12 and my parents bought me an Introduction to German course, plus my family has German friends, which is why we took that trip there) and some Scandinavian, since I might be going overseas to Norway. I have been to Spain on vacation, and it worked out not too bad. Hoping to go to other Spanish speaking nations!
Hello mate. Long time watcher of yours. I’m English, but learnt German, Italian and Russian at school/college/university. I later travelled in Russia and have been to Italy around 20 times or more now - four of which to Palermo. In 2011 I visited Brazil for the first time, and began learning Portuguese. I never studied it at all, but it is now my strongest language due to I’ve travelled quite a bit and know some basic phrases in Asian languages such Japanese and thai, cantonese etc. I’m a Japanese games geek like you too, plus I’m big into my history. Keep doing what you do. Grazie Metatron
I'm German, but spent several years of my childhood living in England, so British English therefore is my second language. After I returned to Germany with my family as a teenager, during my last years at secondary school, I became increasingly interested in various cultures and unsucessfully attempted to learn Farsi. When I was 18/19 years old, I spent a year living in Quito, Ecuador, doing social voluntary work with street children. thank's to that immersion, as well as my prior basic knowledge of French and Latin, I became conversational within 3 months of living there and recently spent another 6 months in the country for an internship At the moment I'm about to graduate in Latin American studies, I'm obviously completely fluent in Spanish at this point. After several years of prioritizing Spanish in my social and media life, I have even started to forget some English. Also, the Native American Quechua language has become a big passion of mine (the Ecuadorian Kichwa variant of it), and want to improve it. It can be challenging to find speakers to practice it, whovere, as it is sadly declining sharply in this generation. Also, want to learn to properly learn Portuguese (I already understand around 70% of spoken Brazilian Portuguese). Beyond that, I am considering to improve my highschool French or maybe other languages as well. For some reason, I always had motivational problems with French back at school. I found your episodes trying to understand different varieties of Spanish and Portuguese very intriguing, also found Romanian highly interesting. However, beyond Spanish and Portuguese, I am struggling at deciding what other languages to learn next. After giving up on Farsi with its arabic alphabet, I might take a try at Tajik, as I find it a lot easier with the cirillic script.
My native language is French (Belgium). I also speak English. I can have basic conversations in Dutch (school), Spanish (school), and Italian ( family, personal interest). I would like to master Italian and live in Italy.
Hello Metatron! My first languages are German and Portuguese. Im fluent in both since I was born in Germany, raised in Portugal and my parents are each native to one of the countries. Plus I lived in both countries for over 12 years each. The first language I learned in scholl was French and although I understand it to an extent I never, to my regret reached fluency. I'm pretty fluent in english, mostly because of movies and games but I also used it frequently as I often interact with people who are not fluent in the local language. I am currently learning Japanese at a very basic level although my vocabulary is a bit more expansive because of my weeaboo existence 😂. Let's see how far duolingo takes me before I need an actual teacher. I'd like to reach a higher level of fluency in french and I would like to reach at least a conversational level in Japanese. I'd also love to learn Italian since it's kinda close to Portuguese! I mean I can understand Spanish to a similar degree you understand it without having ever studied it so I'm confident about Italian aswell. There are other languages I'd like to learn but I already have a few on the plate and this is getting long 😅 sorry about that and thank you for always bringing us quality content!
Hello! Thank you very much! Here´s my info: My name is Juan Carlos González and my first language is: Spanish. I´m fluent in 3 languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. I have been studying english, portuguese, French and Latin. I would like to learn Italian. Context: I´m from Colombia so my native language is Spanish. I began to learn english at school (is common here in Colombia to learn english as a 2nd language). Then, my family and I moved to Brazil, because my father studied there and I lived +3 years in São Paulo. We returned to Colombia and during my university years I studied French. However, I am not fluent in this language. Then I have had a lot of contact with Latin, specifically with ecclesiastical Latin because I am Catholic and I normally attend the Traditional Holy Mass. Recently I am interested in learning Italian. I am also interested in the future to learn german and standard arabic (My wife´s family is from Lebanon). Thank you very much, you´re so kind. God bless. Best regards,
I'm a native English speaker and it's the only language I have a high level of proficiency in. I am currently studying Latin and French, and previously have tried to learn Arabic and previously studied French at school, did badly then forgot it all. I used to struggle a lot with language learning as I suck at memorising anything (I'm neurodivergent) however since discovering various language channels and comprehensible input videos on you tube and books, I've found that I can learn languages through exposure and comprehensible input - and also that everyone struggles with the grammar/translation method because it's not how humans learn language. One thing channels like yours do that is extremely valuable is give good quality information about how to learn languages and mistakes to avoid - if I'd known that back when I studied French at school I would have done so much better and also not felt bad about failing to memorise conjugation tables because I would've thrown them in the bin in favour of reading French books and listening to French TV and radio and trying to communicate. (Note: I know that many people are good at memorising and find it useful, but it does not work for me at all.) Reason for studying Latin: I've always been interested in Roman history and love the idea of being able to speak a 2000+ year old language but never tried learning Latin before because I thought it would be too difficult. I'm really enjoying learning it through comprehensible input videos and books (you know Luke Ranieri's Scorpio Martianus channel - that and LLPSI is where I'm learning from and what got me started with Latin but there are various other books and channels that I'm also using). I went back to French as well recently, using comprehensible input, because I want to revive what I forgot from French at school and also learn it better than I ever did back then, and also I feel like I can succeed at it now that I know what learning methods work for me. When I get proficient enough at French and Latin I'll start studying another language although I'm not sure which... going back to Arabic is a possibility, but so is Japanese or German... so many languages, so little time! Please keep on promoting good practice for successful language learning :) there are lots of people out there that think they suck at language learning because they did badly at school and blame themselves not the teaching methods.
I'm a native English speaker with a degree in linguistics. I'm fascinated by lamguage change through time, and in particular by Indo-European languages. I've studied Spanish, French, Latin, Greek, German, and Old English but am not fluent in any of them. I would love to learn more, but specifically I'd like to get to the far end of the Indo-european map (Tocharian.) And I'm always interested in the reconstruction of the PIE protolanguage and how different daughter languages preserve different aspects of it.
English is my first language, I’m am American in Kansas, I have taken Spanish classes (not by choice) I have been attempting to learn Italian on my own and desire to reach fluency some day. Why? Because I love the Italian language, and because I feel the Italian spirit in my soul.
I'm a native speaker of Spanish and Catalan, as I was born in Barcelona. I know English, French, Italian and a bit of Latin. I'm currently studying Italian, as I'm currently living in Palermo for an Erasmus. I'd love to learn Lithuanian; I love Lithuania's history (the most extense political entity of the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods) and I find the language itself to be very intriguing, just as its family, the Baltic languages. Lithuanian is often said to be the closest language to Proto-Indo-European.
First and only fluent language is English. I took three years of French in high school along with one year of Spanish, in which class my Spanish teacher would ask me a question in French and I’d need to answer in Spanish 😂. I would love to be fluent in both Fr and Sp…but also Italian, Gaelic (my maternal grandparents were Manx), Portuguese, Romanian…so many! Polyglot…or mega-linguist 🤷🏼♀️ whatever I’d be called!! I love when you’ve explained how to enunciate sounds…like the ‘sh’ in Mandarin vs ‘sss’ in English. I love both of your channels. Thank you!
Hello Metatron. I am a native English speaker who learned Latin during my time in Catholic school. While my proficiency in Latin has declined over the years, I am still capable of reading and writing in the language. However, my spoken Latin skills are limited. I could engage in a conversation if it were a matter of utmost importance. Additionally, I have been actively studying the German language due to my deep appreciation for it and my fascination with German history. I will say though my Latin has helped me with a lot of Italian pronunciation I have thought about learning Italian but not sure if I should study two languages at once.
Grew up with American English as well as Colombian Spanish. My Spanish, while I would say is very good-I can have a pretty detailed discussion on certain advanced topics such as history, politics, etc.-it could always be better. I studied Italian in high school for all four years (much to the chagrin of all my friends telling me I should've just taken Spanish for an easy grade) and I chose to study it for a pretty unique reason: I loved the game Assassin's Creed 2 which was set in Italy, and I just fell in love with the scenery, the in-game language, and the history of the region. Combined with growing up in New York and my love of Italian food, it was almost a foregone conclusion that I should want to learn Italian. Having already known Spanish, a lot of the Romance rules were already familiar to me, which made it much easier for me to pick up from scratch. Unfortunately, in recent years (especially during college) I fell off of it and I regret deeply not continuing to pursue it as consistently. What perfect timing that I find this channel and you make this video, as I would like to re-kindle my interest in learning Italian, now that I've a much better appreciation for the unique history of Italy, especially for the Roman Republic & Empire. I've always wanted to visit Italy someday (whenever I have the time and money) and I want to go prepared. Vi ringrazio per il tuo lavoro, Metatron!
I'm Romanian, interested in romance languages, I enjoy Latin-related content but also other languages such as Japanese and Greek. I loved the video where you listened to spoken Romanian and read it, without much prior knowledge about the language, that's where I found your channel. More content like that would be really fun of course.
English is my first language. I grew up around Spanish and French (and am still reasonably capable in both) but, I pick up languages fairly easily once in a country and I can say basic stuff in most languages. I studied Spanish, French, Japanese, and German in high school and added Mandarin and Arabic in University (I have lost a lot of those over the last 20 years though). I Want to be fluent in Mongolian as Mongolian history and culture has been my favorite since I was a child; and, visiting there only made my love for Mongolia greater. I’ve learned most of the things I know in various languages from my semi-nomadic lifestyle and world travel over the course of about 16 years. The travel made learning languages and culture easier and far more exciting and meaningful but I have always had a passion for history, languages, and cultures and would (as I still do) study them even if I had not travelled a day in my life.
Hello Metatron... Thank you for your accuracy and so precise study of languages. I'm a native portuguese, born and grown in Lisbon. Portuguse father. half spanish mother, so I learned spanish with my grand mother, portuguese, naturally... and, curiously french even before portuguese for I attended the Lycée Français Charles Leppierre since I was 3 years old and then took my masters in Design Architecture in Paris. I also used to go to Southern England (Kent) for summer hollidays. My father working for TAP - Air Portugal, my mother working for Radio Free Europe, we used to travel a lot around the world. I' am also a perfectionist when mastering pronunciation and still have quite an accute ear. So, to keep it short: Portuguese and French are both my native languages and then Spanish and English. I also perfectly understand and can read Italian quite well (I'm shy to speak it for, as I said I'm too much of a perfectionist). I even started studying Japanese ( I was an Aikido practitian for quite a long time) and I spent three weeks in Japan, country and culture that I love. Communication and understanding are a privilege of the human species, and if we want to understand this amazing world we live in, well... we need to dive in every civilizational detail and rules. Thank you for your channel, the Force will be with You, Always... best regards, Luís
My native language is Serbian and I am fluent in English. Learned a lot of it through osmosis from cartoons, video games and kids' shows, and have been building up from there. I have also learned some German in school and Japanese through self-initiative. I consider myself to be at an upper-intermediate level in both of those languages at this moment. Currently I am doing my studies in Japan and I'm working on reaching fluency in both of them through internet and communication with native speakers. On top of that I've also had an interest in Latin ever since it was taught to me in high school, as well as European Portuguese, simply because it is very useful, and I also like this dialect's phonetics and grammar. For now I am primarily focusing on Japanese and German, but sometimes I switch to learning some Latin or Portuguese to break from the tedium. I hope this has been useful.
Thank you for what you do, Metatron! My first language is American English. I took German and Latin classes as a teen and have maintained an interest in both ever since. However, I've never had the opportunity to speak either. I'm 69 now and to keep learning new German words I regularly read German magazines and articles in two areas that interest me (stamp collecting and ancient cultures). Latin comes up with my interests in botany and etymology and for these same interests I would like to also know more Greek vocabulary.
i’m a native English speaker, and my second language is Swahili (C2) after living in East Africa. i’m currently studying French (A2) on my own but hope to achieve fluency one day. i have yet to live in a Francophone country, so it’s more slow going than my Swahili was. 😊 thanks Metatron!
I was born in Mexico. I have been in Canada, Mexico and the US. I speak Spanish and English. I started studying English since age 6 because in Mexico it is seen as a need. I wish I could speak French, Latin and Greek.
hello 👋, I‘m a native speaker of german, but grew up speaking luxembourgish 🇱🇺outside of home. Growing up in Luxembourg, we had to learn german and french since we were little. English came much later. I am half danish since my father is from denmark, but I never got to learn danish and my parents never taught me. my wish is it to reach complete fluency in danish and also at some point live in denmark (to be able to call myself a dane)
Ciao Metatron, I am native English speaker that is conversational in Scottish Gaelic and is currently learning Italian. I lived in Italy for two years, but I was in a university program that was taught through English so I was unable to totally immerse in Italian and my language learning suffered as a consequence. I no longer live in Italy but the language and culture have made a lasting impression on me. I have also studied Spanish and German but my levels in both of these languages are quite low and have been put on pause.
Hello! My first language is Spanish. I'm fluent in English. I studied German before English but I didn't keep studying it. I've also delved a bit into Italian, Portuguese and French. I know some Latin and classical Greek. I'm currently studying Japanese and I'd say I have a n5-n4 level with it. I'd like to reach fluency in Japanese for now. I've not had any experience abroad. I study other languages because it's almost like getting another point of view, I've experienced that mainly with literature. Thank you for creating all this interesting content!
Native English, I know some German, Some Italian, Some French, Some Spanish, Some Polish/Russian, Some Japanese/Chinese I want to learn Latin and Ancient Greek and become Fluent in German & Japanese. I'm studying to become an Archaeologist who specializes in Classical Rome & Greece, so knowing how to read Ancient Greek and Latin would be a great boon to my future career if I can manage it. I also just love that period of history so being able to read about it in the native language of the era would be quite incredible.
My native language is the American variety of English with no particular accent as I grew up as an army brat moving from one duty station to the next across the different parts of the country. I don't speak any other languages and I would say that I have zero experience learning another language. I want to start learning Japanese. I initially wanted to learn Japanese because of my love of anime, but the more I consumed the more I grew to enjoy the culture and want to learn more about it as a whole. There are other reasons, but I don't think it is too important to mention them. Thanks for the terrific content as always Raff!
Hello, I'm from Algeria, so my first language is Arabic. However, the "Algerian dialect" differs significantly from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It's interesting to note that it shares some similarities with the Arabic used in the Maltese language. I also speak French, which has been taught to us since elementary school. Additionally, I've learned English through movies, CZcams videos, and other media. Currently, I'm in the process of learning Italian because I'm captivated by the beauty of the language. My goal is to achieve fluency in both English and Italian. I haven't had the opportunity to travel and interact with native English speakers, so while I can understand the language perfectly, I do encounter some challenges when it comes to speaking it confidently. In the future, I plan to learn Spanish once I have established a solid foundation in Italian. Thank you !
Native English speaker (U.S.) I am confident in German, clunky in Ancient Latin (thank you for helping my pronunciations), a dullard in Ancient Greek, Japanese and a few Philippine dialects. I have always been fascinated by these cultures and loved the sounds of these languages. I find both of your channels informative and FUN!
Hello! I’m an American whose native language is English. I grew up hearing both English and Polish spoken in my home, as well as Italian spoken among my extended family and neighbors. I took 2 years of Spanish in High School and then 2 years of Italian in College. I will admit that I only did so because it was a requirement. I’ve been to Spain once, and was able to understand a slight bit, but that was years ago…I basically have retained some words, but no conversation. I have recently become very interested in cooking AUTHENTIC Italian foods, and I find myself watching many Italian language instructional videos, which I have surprisingly been pretty easy for me to follow. I would love to become conversational since my bucket list trip would be to Italy, and I would love to be able to embrace the people as well as the food and culture. Thank you for your wonderful content. You’re really very interesting and pleasant to listen to.
Isle of Tenerife, Spain, Africa. Irish Gaelic and Irish English from my native County Mayo, in the British Isles. Then as a young man (22) I went to Europe to quickly learn French and Spanish, and then came to Africa to learn the Whistle Language, all of which I now teach on Italki. Then there's my kid brother Neil who followed me with French and Spanish, but then became obsessed with The Italian Marches, where his wife's from, and he learned those two local languages, as well as Italian. But surely the most contextually relevant language in danger of extinction (desertion and over-dilution) is now Frisian, right? Why don't you join me in learning it, and thereby thereafter easily pick up Old English in a very Krashenish manner, don't you reckon? Keep up with your amazing channel, always great content. I'm hoping you'll soon do something on Frisian, and maybe on Whistle Language. Best wishes, Patchy.
I am Romanian 🇷🇴 living in the UK 🇬🇧 for close to 20 years by this point. My native language is Romanian, although my fluency in English, my second language, is basically nigh-on perfect. I am currently learning Latin and Greek and would love to reach fluency level in both languages. What drove me to these languages is my passion for ancient Roman and Greek history. I am especially interested in how Koine Greek differs from Attic Greek and how I can learn it today due to an obsession I have developed recently with Ptolemaic Egypt. This may sound unconventional but I usually prefer to consume media and entertainment in foreign languages (i.e. foreign music, foreign films etc) as a starting point and learn from there. I understand that this strategy may not always be the most viable but I suffer from autism/Aspergers Syndrome, so I find that this approach usually suits me best.
Koine greek is basically the evolution of attic greek which derives from the ionic dialect but it also includes idioms and peculiarities from the other hellenic dialects(mainly from the doric one).
Hello Raff, as requested in the video: LANGUAGES I KNOW My native language is Bulgarian, I speak it at academic level and also know my region's dialect which has many differences. I also know English with proficiency of B2 to maybe C1 depending on the topic. LANGUAGES I HAVE STUDIED German - 2 years in highschool, I'm at level A2. Russian - 2 years in highschool, I'm at level A1. Italian - 1 month with a tutor, I'm know basic stuff. Polish - 1 week by myself, know how to read, nothing else. Turkish - 1 week by myself, know basic stuff. LANGUAGES I WANT TO LEARN I want to learn Turkish to the point I'm indestinguishable from the natives. I want to bring my Italian to level B1, study Spanish to B2, and then focus on Mandarin Chinese - mainly reading, since I want to read Chinese philosophy. Overall I know two languages - Bulgarian and English. And I want to study Turkish > Spanish > Italian > Mandarin in this order depending on my time, so it could be that I end up learning only one of them, but surely I want to learn at least one more foreign language. If you make videos on this channel about Italian and Mandarin which are popular choices, you will make a lot of us happy! Forza signor Urbani!
My native language is English. I started learning Latin a decent amount of time ago and the reason I started learning it is simply because I just loved how it sounds and I just think it's a cool language overall, that's pretty much the reason. I love how it sounds like a mix between Italian, Spanish, Greek, a little bit of Portuguese, and of course its own unique sounds as well. My goal is to get as fluent in Latin as I possibly can, this includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Will I end up reading some classical works or something once I get to a high enough skill level? Probably, but that's FAR from the reason why I started learning the language, my reason for learning the language is, I just simply want to be fluent. I also want to learn Spanish at some point as well, but I want my Latin to be at a fairly high level first before I start learning Spanish.
I first started learning Latin as early as 3rd grade because I went to a school that had Latin classes from 3rd-10th grade. I learned that I enjoyed learning languages, even if I didn't necessarily enjoy Latin specifically. In highschool I briefly considered the idea of Iearning Japanese because I discovered anime back then but realized it was a big investment and moved on to just focus on finishing highschool. I would then pick up German and Russian in college taking the two foundational classes in both. I felt though that I wasn't really connecting to the cultures in a way that inspired me to keep improving even though the languages were cool. After Russian, I did return to being interested in Japan as a whole, their history, culture, and art kept pulling me back in. I didn't learn any Japanese, just enjoyed English content about Japan for the rest of college. I later came across Matt vs Japan's channel about 3 years ago and learned about how to properly utilize immersion and SRS and realized that did have the ability to actually improve my Japanese to a proficient level. That's were I am now after studying for nearly 4 years now. I'm still surprised with myself for achieving so much in learning a language like Japanese, which I was told would be extremely hard. It's very different, but I went into studying it knowing it could be challenging so it wasn't as painful as I thought it might me. After a year-ish the immersion was just me enjoying Japanese content and that content being in a challenging language I kind of understood was just a background detail. I found it so cool that I could watch anime and listen to Japanese music and actually understand even half of it. It's even more fun now that I can understand 99% percent.
I'm 60, and have lived in Alabama almost all of my life, except for a year in Washington DC. I've never been overseas. The farthest away I've been is Last Vegas, last year, when we went for our older daughters wedding. I only speak English, and I did take a year of Latin in high school, but I don't remember any of it. I can probably say the Ave from memory, but that's it. I am here because I am a history nerd and I enjoy your other channel. I find information about languages interesting, and I would enjoy learning one, but I don't have any idea where I would use it. My grandparents on my Dad's side moved here from Sicily, so Sicilian or Italian would be of interest to me, but no one in our small town speaks it and I wouldn't ever use it. My mother's parents have Scotts Irish and Cherokee ancestry. I ordered a course on Scotts Gaelic through the mail, in the 90s, but it was just overwhelming. Basically, I don't know what I want to learn, or if I even will try. I'm open to suggestions. (Off topic, but i think you should do a video with Andrew Gold, who is a journalist and speaks many languages. He mainly makes videos about other topics but has been wanting to make some about languages. I also suggested to him that he should do an interview with you)
Honestly, I'd love to learn more about Latin. I'm trying to learn several latin based languages, but if there was other info/insight/history around Latin you wanted to present, I'd watch those videos from you. You've earned my trust, so I'd be interested to hear what you had to say. Thank you for all you do! ❤
Hi Raff, I am a native Greek speaker, I speak English fluently, French intermediate level and I am currently learning Italian through Duolingo because I love the way they sound! Love your videos, keep up the good work! 😉
My native tongue is Polish, I speak English at upper-intermediate level but I also have some experience with Germanic and Romance languages. I'm interested in all Indo-European languages as well as Finno-Ugric languages and Japanese. I think it would also be interesting to watch some videos about linguistics in general.
I am Portuguese and Angolan, (Angolan by birth and Portuguese by citizenship through my dad), so my first language is Portuguese. English is my second language which I first learnt by the Portuguese school in Angola, and then refined it by studying and living in South Africa from age 13 to age 33. I would LOVE to lean Japanese and French. I have tried learning Japanese first through a very basic pc program when I was 22 and then life got in the way. Stopped learning due to being too busy. More or less 2 years ago I completed only the first stage of French in Rosetta Stone when I had a chance to work for a large French speaking organisation. When the job went to somebody else I tried to continue but it sort of deflated my resolve. So yeah. Thanks for the video mate.
Hello Metretron I speak Spanish Italian English and Learning Greek and Turkish i enjoy your channel very much. Both your history videos and language videos are fascinating. I used to live in Catania and Naples and iItalian was very good, almost fluent. I would like to get back to that . I love the comparison and comprehension between different languages. Complimenti. Keep up the good work. Ciao!
Greetings Metatron! I am a native English speaker of mixed Thai/Anglo descent, when I was a child, Thai used to be my mother tongue, but throughout years of not using it I have lost the ability to speak that language. I have a degree in Linguistics so language has always been a major passion of mine, with history being my second love. I am currently studying Japanese with hopes of one day living in Japan and working in Japan. I have many reasons for liking Japan, ranging from modern media to the rich history of Japan (and of course their culinary arts :D). I find this small island nation so fascinating, despite being a relatively small player in it's humble beginnings, it turned into a massive powerhouse that all of Asia can look up to as a role model. As a newly baptized Roman Catholic, my confirmation name happens to be a Japanese Christian who was martyred, so this bond I have with my patron also drives me to learn more about his home country, and I would absolutely love to travel to Nagasaki one day to see the rich history that was left behind their. The ancient Chinese trading ports to the large Portuguese churches that were constructed, as well as the Japanese castles that I would love to be able to study up close! I suppose the final reason is that I simply find Japanese to be a pleasing language to hear, with syllables typically ending with a vowel (though not always), the language has quite a singsong characteristic to it.
I have a theory that if you genuinely like the way a language sounds, you’ll end up speaking it with decent accent. What do you think? How’s your Japanese sound?
@@paulwalther5237 I feel there are quite a few factors that would go into this, due to my innate ability to do alveolar taps and trills, I have not had much of a problem with pronunciation of the phonetic sounds in Japanese. However, one thing I do struggle with is pitch accent, simply because I do not know the pitch accent for most words as my textbooks don't give me a great representation. Of course, as Metatron pointed out in a previous video, there are several pitch accents in Japan depending on the area, so right now I am learning the typical Tokyo dialect and pitch accent, which I think I do decently well, as my Sensei has previously told me I sound quite close to native. Yes, I do somewhat think that by liking a language, one would subconsciously try to imitate the accent they find attractive, and thus attempting to sound more natural in that language. Unless of course you find a specific person's accent to be attractive, then you will end up trying to sound like that one person, who may be an outlier when it comes to other native speakers. For example, Tsuda Kenjiro is an extremely talented Japanese voice actor with an incredibly deep voice. Trying to copy his way of speaking will not necessarily make someone sound more native, as Mr. Tsuda sounds vastly different from 99.99% of the Japanese population. I supposed it would be quite entertaining for a foreigner to sound like that though!
Dear Metatron and Team: from birth in England I learned 1 English from my mother's family and 2 Italian and 3 Emilian (dialect) from my father's family. I then began 4 French with my Italian grandfather (who had lived in Paris for 10 years) and 5 Spanish from my father (who was a seaman and sailed for many years on the England-Buenos Aires route: live meat (immigrants) out, dead meat (beef) in). I did some 6 Latin at school in England. with a teacher who was more interested in modern Italian. I then met my wife, from Galicia in Spain, which started me off in 7 Galician and 8 Portuguese, although we adopted Spanish as our common family language. We then permanently moved to Italy where I continued using all these languages as a professional translator. first in a US multinational corporation, which involved periods of work in many countries, and later as a freelance, working mainly for Switzerland (Lausanne, Geneva, Lugano and Zurich, in that order). In recent years, I have been concentrating on *Brazilian Portuguese*, because my eldest daughter went to Brazil as a teacher of English (and Italian). She now lives and works in England, but her son remained in Brazil, so I now have family ties with that country (São Paulo, Mato Grosso and Tocantins states). Lastly I became interested in 9 Catalan and have spent more half a year in Catalonia in the last few years. Last but not least, I am interested in is 10 Romanian, which apart from being related to Italian, is also the language of the largest immigrant group in Italy. Apologies for talking about myself, but you asked for it. :-)
Hello! I’m a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker and I’m fluent in English (lived in the UK for a while). I studied French when I was in school and reached B1 level, and I have just got back to my studies after watching your videos. I have also started to learn German from scratch. I’d like to become fluent in both of these languages! Love your channel!
I'm a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese, though I moved to Switzerland at the age of seven and thus learned German (and Swiss German) to such a high level of proficiency that I might as well be considered a native German speaker. Afterwards, I learned French (C1), English (C2), Italian (B2) and finally Spanish (C1). Yeah, I know those CEFR levels seem highly impressive, but those are also closely related languages, so it's perhaps a bit less impressive than it sounds. I mostly learned these languages through school and online immersion, though I did spend two and a half weeks in England, a week in France and a few days in Italy on small language exchanges. And I go on vacation to Spain quite often where I usually try to use as much Spanish as possible. I'm not currently studying any new language, though I'd love to learn Japanese at some point, simply because I really like the language. My priority right now, however, is to improve my proficiency in languages like French and Spanish, where despite me being C1 in them, I still see lots of room for improvement.
I'm a native English speaker with some German I learned during high school, uni, and a uni exchange semester in Germany. I was almost fluent, but it's very rusty now, as I haven't had much reason to keep it up or interest in doing so. At 35, at the start of this year I started studying Mandarin seriously. It's much more intrinsically interesting to me than German. (Or French, which I was also dabbling in before I committed to Mandarin.) I'm especially fascinated by the semantic/conceptual relations between the characters and their components. It's a challenging language, but that's part of the attraction and is itself motivating. It's also a language I have more opportunity and reason to use where I live (Australia). And I'm increasingly more interested in Asian culture than European culture as I was before. I would love to see more videos on Mandarin and Asian languages/culture generally! Of all your videos so far, I especially enjoyed your Mandarin-Japanese difficulty comparison. Thank you, Metatron ❤
I feel the same way about Mandarin. It's just so interesting as a language. I would even call it a "language lover's language". lol Or maybe a "semiotic lover's language".
I am thrilled to be part of this community/little/big/project. My native language is Slovak, I speak English at a good level, I would say, though, never enough to realise I never know enough. I used to teach English as a secondary language to teenagers and adults and at university and my specialisation was similar to yours. Other than that, I lived and worked in the UK for 13 years, but not any more. I can make myself understood in Italianan and somewhat in German, but no where near the level of English. What I like most about other languages is the sounds and pronunciation, different accents and - really, everything. I love enunciation and musicality of my chosen languages. I would like to speak some other languages too, but my priority is to perfect those few I speak. I also have sort of two groups, those languages the sound of which I am drawn to and react to , e.g. Italian, Latin, English, Greek, Russian, Hungarian, Hindi and Finnish and the rest of them that I am impartial to. I am fascinated by language in general at times, one may say. I am Gemini too, if it matters. Upon watching your videos I was telling myself I wish I could partake on them too or just have a further conversation about them.
Hello Metratron, I'm venezuelan, spanish speaker. I learned to speak italian living in italy, I was traveling to Belgium, had to stop in Fiumicino, but.... ended uu staying in Italia...so... I HAD to learn italian. I already spoke english, VERY POOR english😅, I can understand it almost perfectly, like 98%, but when I wanto to speak or write I just don't find the words, I learned it by my self. I'm currently living in Brazil, so I speak prtuguese as well, thing is, I've never studied any of these languages, I just had to. My biggest difficulty is, it's almost impossible to me to translate, it's so hard, 'cause I just understand the meanings without needing to translate them in my head, so when someone ask me "what is he saying?" I found it difficult to make an accurate translation. When I listen to italian, portuguese and english, I don't think in the spanish meaning of those words, I just see images, or actions... it's hard to explain, is that normal? I'd like to improve my capability to speak english, and I'd love to become fluent AGAIN in italian but i don't have anyone who I can speak in italian to...🙂
I'm a native Hungarian speaker, also fluent in English. Originally I decided to learn English around the age of 5 or 6 because I wanted to understand the cartoons I saw on Cartoon Network that were in English 🥲 English of course ended up very useful in life, as I use it for virtually everything now. I find languages intriguing, especially romance languages. I'm a bit jealous of the experience of more or less understanding another language that's related to yours, as there's nothing out there related to Hungarian to that extent. That said, sometimes I'm surprised that I'm able to understand some basic Spanish or Italian just because of all the Latin words I know from English. That's one of the reasons your videos on understanding romance languages are interesting to me, and I feel like I even passively learned a few things while watching.
Greetings, noblest one! 😁 My native language is actually Georgian. I speak Russian, English and German fluently. German, Spanish and Italian are popular languages to learn in eastern Europe, if you're participating in exchange programs. I'm currently studying Italian and Japanese. So this channel is a god-send. I think Japanese will be the most requested language from your repertoire. People also learn Mandarin, but they're discouraged by others on the internet, for its little use. China is notorious for its lax business laws (a.k.a scammers breeding grounds) and open xenophobia. I believe, expanding towards the history and cultural background of the languages is the best course for the channel. cheers!
Metatron! My fellow language lover, I just wanted to say first that I appreciate your content from the bottom of my heart, on both channels. I’ve enjoyed your contact for years, and I am so happy that this spin off channel dealing specifically with language, learning and linguistics has grown to the point that it has. And as someone who has been a language coach, and an academic tutor for foreign languages, I absolutely love your approach. So my personal language background: I am a native English speaker from the United States, my grandparents were from Hawaii, and the Philippines, before Hawaii became a state. My grandmother spoke Hawaiian Creole, English, my grandfather spoke Tagalog, and was fluent in English, as a result, I can understand both without a lot of effort. My production skills in Tagalog are rather bad, but I understand it . Oh, I thought myself, Spanish to fluency as an adult, then I went on to study Latin for the historical linguistic enrichment of Spanish, during Covid I learned Esperanto for fun, I also know American Sign Language, and I’m currently working on reaching fluency in Japanese, I’m also studying that particular language in an academic setting, as well as personally in my off time. I can read both Portuguese and Italian fairly well, but I don’t speak either of them very well at all. I hope this information helps you and I can’t wait to see the direction that this channel takes, again thank you so much!
1. Native Language: Persian 2. The language that I have learned: English 3. The language that I am studying: Japanese 4. Languages that I Want to eventually learn: German, French, Italian, Spanish & Arabic I live in, and have never been outside of Iran. I can't be in a target language country anytime soon.
Hey! I'm a native English speaker from the Midwest US. I have been fascinated by languages since... Well, as far back as I can remember. Even as a kid I was reading Wikipedia articles on differences between dialects of English & the similarities between various Germanic & Romance languages. I am also able to write, read, and speak/understand (to a lesser degree) Spanish as I've been studying it off and on since I was about 20 (~8 years). I also have studied French but not to anywhere near the extent of my Spanish. However due to a long and strong passion for linguistics & etymology, I have spent a lot of time learning and studying linguistics from an academic standpoint and therefore have been exposed to Latin, Greek, German, & various Romance languages. My primary interests are within the Germanic & Romance language families and studying their development from PIE to their current state, the interactions with each other, the interactions with other Indo-European language sub-families, and with other unrelated language families (ie. Afro-Asiatic & language isolates like Etruscan, Basque, etc.) I find cognates incredibly interesting and seeing the same word root evolve through the development of various languages and re-entering languages as loans creating doublets & triplets (eg. Chief/chef & Hostel, Hospital, Hotel). A lot of this interest has to do with being an English speaker and encountering Spanish regularly, seeing the cognates and their differences due to English having received the word via French (old French, anglo-norman, etc.) Or via Latin. This has turned into a giant read, so apologies for that, but I've been a long time viewer of your main channel (back when you did lots of language vids there, but also because I'm a history nerd with an interest in Medieval Europe and the Classical period) so I jumped at the opportunity to sub to this channel as well. And I've been loving the content thus far. Keep making the great, informative videos! If I had any notes (or rather wishes) it'd be that I'd be interested in any kind of historical linguistics or language-interaction topic. But honestly, if you keep making great language-related content like you have been, it'll be great as well. Grazie!
My first language is Malayalam (a South Indian Dravidian language from my home State of Kerala) and I know english and hindi and I won't say I know Tamil or speak it well but can understand alot of it (mostly due to expoure through moives and it being close to my mother tongue like Italian and Spanish for example) And now I am studying Spanish on duelingo for not really any particular reason other than I like it and Spanish being one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and I want to travel to those places in the future and I have 49 day streak on duelingo currently and know about more than 270 words in a month and half of Spanish learning And sorry for making this too long 😅
Native English speaker. Took French in school and I'm decent at it, but I think a bit too slowly to be native conversant. My wife is Jewish, though, so I probably need to learn Hebrew at some point to speak with my brother in law in Israel. I took Hebrew myself as a kid (raised Jewish, now atheist), but have forgotten basically all of it.
Native American English. Fluent in Brazilian Portuguese. Studying Classical and Medieval Latin, Italian, French, Spanish. Goal to reach basic conversational proficiency in each, in order to more easily live and travel throughout southwest Europe. Goal to more easily do historical research about various European cultures during and after the fall of the western Roman Empire. Lived and worked in Brazil, Belarus, Russia, Egypt, Israel.
Native English speaker. know smatterings of a few languages. Took German when young. Learned Italian age 40..as my BF was Sicilian and I wanted to understand his culture and language. I tried to learn some French, but can only count to 5.took Russian for 8 weeks. interesting language. I am now 66 anni and enjoy the Italian language the most..German 2nd. So many language roots in these languages.
Native English speaker here, I speak some Spanish, enough to be understood but not fluent by any measure. I learned Spanish in high school (UK, idk what it would be in USA but 11 to 16 years of age). I had the choice between Spanish and French, I chose Spanish because my father speaks a little, it's easier than French and I hated French in primary school (forced to learn, although I've forgotten all of it now). Right now I'm trying to learn Polish (because the country has very cheap alcohol and pretty woman) Afterward I'll learn Cymraeg (Welsh), because I'm half Welsh on my fathers side. Cymru am byth! Y ddraig goch ap brythoniad am byth! Maybe after that Ill get around to learning some Japanese... but that would be a while off. (Again to talk to pretty woman)
My first language is Brazilian Portuguese, I have attained a good level (I believe) in English. I'm also currently studying Spanish and hope to Mandarim, Latin, Hebrew and Ancient Greek in the future if possible
I was born in Uruguay and grew up in Australia. I speak, read and write both Spanish (Rio Platense) and English fluently and can fumble my way through understanding Portuguese, Italian and to a lesser extent French. I gues I'm most fascinated by the non-Latin languages. Languages like Germanic, Slavic and Asian languages fascinate me because they are so far removed from what I grew up learning and speaking. Living in Australia, we have large populations of different types of Asian people, from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi to Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian and Chinese. Love your work and all of your channels. Keep up the good work!!!
I wasn't sure how to put this comment together, so I apologize in advance for the long format. Also, thank you, this sounds interesting! I'm a native speaker of Finnish. I'm fluent in English, and I'm fairly confident in my Japanese, at least when it comes to topics I know well (I have passed the JLTP N2, but reading is probably my weakest point at the moment). I have also studied Swedish at school (it was compulsory, but I had very little interest in it, so it didn't stick), and would probably like to study Korean at some point in the future (the writing system seems interesting, and I would like to understand Korean cinema more deeply as well). I was in Japan as an exchange student for a year during high school, then focused on other things for about 10 years, and started taking Japanese seriously again around 2020. I was originally interested in Japanese because of Japanese comics, animation, music, and video games, and honestly, this hasn't changed much. The year in Japan did make me appreciate the culture and the people more as well, though, and I would like to make more connections there, and perhaps even work there (in the game industry, which I already have experience in) in the future. As a bonus, I really like how Japanese sounds as well. As for English, my main motivation since starting it in 3rd grade was "I want to understand video games" (this is literally what I wrote in a school form that asked my motivation for wanting to study English :D). There were, and still are, very few video games translated into Finnish, and I wanted to understand what was going on. I also couldn't find a translation of The Tamuli by David Eddings, so I started reading it in English, which was quite the task, since I was nowhere near fluent at that point, and the three books together are over 1000 pages long, but I managed and had a lot of fun! I've recently also really started to appreciate how much can be lost in translation (especially since there are many aspects to Japanese that simply don't exist at all in either Finnish or English), so these days I try to consume things in their original language as much as I can (if it's a language I know, of course).
Hey, been following you for some years now, and I love the language channel, my native language is Portuguese, been born in São Paulo Brazil, being fluent in English ever since middle school pretty much, since I've always loved Japanese culture I have studied for a long time now, I'm even having full on classes with teachers who have lived in Japan and studied the language, my level would be something like high intermediate, I can understand Spanish up to like 99 per cent both written and spoken, but I cannot speak it since I don't remember the specific words from memory, I've also been studying Italian for a while, since practically my entire family is of Italian origins both from south and north Italy, I'm almost finished with the process of getting my Italian citizenship too thanks to my Italian blood, I love the language and would love to not only visit but perhaps move to Italy too, so content in Italian and Japanese would be the most welcome for me, regardless everything you've been doing is very interesting I would also love more ancient language analysis like classical Latin, maybe you could look into ancient Japanese just for the fun of it? Anyway, thanks for the content from a soon-to-be Italian fellow, lol.
Great concept and idea for this channel! I've been a longtime viewer of your main channel and have really been enjoying your content on this one as well. My first language is English, having been born and raised in the US. I also have a fairly good grasp of Spanish as I studied it all throughout my schooling and it tends to come in handy in my geographical location in the US currently. I also am semi- fluent in German as my father is fluent and spent alot of time overseas on business using it. I like to consume alot of German movies and TV as well as music (Neue Deutsche Härte ist meine lieblingsmusik). I am currently studying Latin, inspired by several youtubers including you! And I am also starting to study Turkish, although I am only a few weeks in at this point. I would like to be able to enjoy Turkish media including movies and TV as well since there is quite a wealth of that. As for Latin, I hope to be able to incorporate the Latin language into my musical compositions in the future as it is so lyrical and rhythmic, especially when using proper phonemic vowel length. Anyways, thanks again for doing this and keep up the good work!
Hi Metatron. I'm a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker, and I'm also fluent in English (first secondary language) which I learned from entertainment and from applying it to work and other activities. I also studied some Japanese back in the day, and it's currently still the language I'd like to learn the most (and become fluent in). I've travelled a little bit as well, but only for short periods (Europe and the US). The reason I learned English and the reason I want to learn Japanese is because I'm interested in both cultures. I'm also interested in other cultures/languages as a whole, and I'm always reading and watching stuff about that (I also became somewhat interested in classical Latin after watching your videos). Hope this helps! Keep making great content for your channels!
Hey Metatron. Been watching for years and am excited for you, your success, and your growth. Thank you for your hard work and I look forward to every single video. To answer your questions, my mother language is Chilean Spanish, but English is my most fluent. I speak a small amount of Italian having been to Italy (and once to Sicily) several times now, though it sometimes feels like cheating since its remarkably similar to Spanish. I found that when I didn't know how to say something in Italian, most Italians could at least understand Spanish. With the exception of "burro" (which was a hilarious real life lesson of a "false-friend" in an Italian supermarket), Italian and Spanish are quite similar. Also, Italian sign language is beautiful and I'd argue is at least as important as speech. I took Japanese formally for two years in college. Like you I was really into anime and Japanese culture when I was younger and always meant to make it to Japan one day. A few years ago, I did finally make the journey for a full month in late 2019. I discovered quickly that the two years of Japanese I took, while not totally useless, did not help much at all. It focused a lot on reading and writing, but very little speaking or listening. As a result, in conversation, I was essentially lost. At the very least I could read signs if they were written in kana. In some ways, my education mirrored how the Japanese tend to learn English in their education - years of study, but very few practical takeaways. It felt as though I had wasted my time, and was one experience that taught me that how you learn is absolutely critical to acquiring any skill. In the case of language, the priority needs to be in comprehension and in speech first, just like we all learn our first languages. My friends have been using Duolingo to learn Spanish, but despite the years they've been using it (they always brag about how long their streaks are), they cant formulate anything coherent, let alone have a basic conversation with me - they just know a bunch of (very basic) vocab. I haven't found it to be a good tool [by itself] for a comparatively easy language, so decided to look elsewhere to refresh Japanese since I will be returning to Tokyo for a full month soon. Some months ago I picked up Pimsleur and have already made it through to level two (about 32 30min lessons in). In this short time I've learned to understand and say far more than I did in college. While there's comparatively little reading and writing (its mostly listening and speaking), in a month I can confidently say and understand more than I thought possible in such a short time. It also uses your microphone to test your grammar and pronunciation which I have found to be invaluable, especially with holding long vowels (imas います vs iimas 言います), using the correct particles (the dreaded de で vs ni に), and stopping for pauses (chotto ちょっと, mikka みっか, isshukan いっしゅうかん, etc). I do teach a few different subjects, and like you, agree that customizing lessons to your students' learning styles and needs is most effective way to help improve. But to your point, on a platform such as this and to an audience as large as it has become, this is not possible. Perhaps instead of comments on here, maybe it'd make better sense to set up a poll somewhere? Thank you for all you do and continue to do. Cheers.
Just want to say I love this channel, and really appreciate the content you put out. I’m a native English speaker just beginning on my language-learning path. I’ve studied some Mandarin Chinese as a child and would love to come back to it someday, but I’m currently trying to learn Dutch.
Hey Metatron! I am a native English speaker. I studied German for 4 years in school and learned French as well. I spent several weeks in Germany as an exchange student. I also spent 2 years in various parts of northern France and Belgium. In University, I received a bachelor’s degree in English, and I have really enjoyed the depth of understanding that studying etymology allowed me. I am able to communicate my thoughts decently well in French, although I would love to reach a higher level of communication ability. I have a number of friends in France, and I would like to speak with them more frequently and with a higher level of understanding. I recently began studying German again, and feel that I am very much a beginner with that language. I have German heritage and want to be able to read the historical documents about my ancestors in their original form. Beyond that, I have fallen in love with their culture, customs, architecture, etc. Thank you so much for making this channel.
I’m an Italian and Albanian native speaker, I’m pretty confident in my English skills so I’d consider myself fluent. I’m currently starting to learn Japanese once again for the 50th time I think, I’ve always struggled with it, I’m only able to say the most basic stuff(watching anime does help I guess lol) and know how to write like 30 Hiragana’s and that’s about it, but this time I feel more motivated than I’ve ever been. I’ve always been interested in Japanese since my childhood, I remember trying to translate some words from Italian to Japanese on Google Translate. I’m also very much interested in starting to learn Chinese, I just love the way it sounds.
My native language is Hindi/Urdu. I'm fluent in English. Currently trying to learn Japanese and Sanskrit. I wish to learn ancient languages like Vedic Sanskrit, Old Latin and Ancient Greek. Also learn interesting languages like Korean, Basque and Kashmiri.
I'm English. I lived in Spain for one year and began to learn and speak Castillano and a little Catalan. I would like to continue to learn "Spanish" so I can communicate easily in the future as I plan to visit South America. I am also currently actively learning Russian. My partner is Russian and I would love to be able to communicate with her and her family in their native tongue
Hi Metatron! I really like all that your doing on this channel! I speak English and know a little French. I hope I can be fluent in Italain, French and Mohawk. In particular I would very much love to learn more and be fluent in Sicilian as my Dad's side of the family comes from there Thank you for everything you do! Wishing you all the best
Howdy, Raff! Spanish speaker here. Varying degrees of fluency in Catalan, Swedish, English, Italian, Portuguese, French - in this order, probably (?) Can (barely - but still!) make myself understood in Norwegian, Danish, German (so probably Dutch too?) Have basic knowledge of Arabic, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Hindustani. Ideally, I'd like to one day be able to make myself understood in the last 6 languages mentioned + various minority languages here in Sweden. I learn languages for the intellectual challenge + to connect with new people from different cultures! < 3 PS: (((currently mainly focusing on improving my Korean and French)))
Greetings from Australia .Hi. I’ve been following your channel for a while. I’m a language enthusiast and English teacher . English is my native tongue but I also grew up with Italian. In addition I studied German for 15+ years and can read and write and speak quite well. I have started learning Korean and want to reach a higher level in that as well
I'm a native English speaker. I'm studying Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican/Spain Spanish, French. I would like to reach fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Japanese, Moroccan Darija, Italian, Catalan, Greek & Dutch. I have zero experience abroad. I chose to study Portuguese because of the extroverted culture and multi-ethnic history. I chose to study Spanish because I want to be able to interact with the rest of the western-hemisphere. I chose to study French because I listen to French music (Melody's Echo Chamber), the movie Blue Is The Warmest Color, and because of Nostalgia. I learned French to an intermediate level in highschool, French allows me to reconnect with my high-school experience. I like Spanish-language and French-language movies a lot. And to be honest, I really enjoy dating girls from a "latin-descended" culture.
My native language is US English. I previously studied Latin, German, Spanish and Russian. I only took 1 semester of Spanish and Russian. Russian was a Chemistry/Biochemistry requirement (two other choices, way back then). I couldn't get another semester of Spanish before I had to quit taking classes at the University of Texas at Austin. Russian didn't work out, both because it was hard, but even more so because the professor didn't care. He was just teaching since it was required. I took several years of German, but the later two years were taught by a lousy teacher in high school. I have forgotten it. I started studying Latin in high school. I was too good at learning languages to not get bored by how slow everyone else was. I continued to take it at the University, but I, well, partied way too much. I'm 53 now. I am trying to learn both Latin and Russian. Life has been very difficult for years now. I live with my elderly father. We are just starting to settle into place and buy the things we had to do without for about ten years. It has been start, stop, restart, repeat bad cycle. However, I take powerful seizure medications and opioids for pain. Both cause a tremendous brain fog. I have just recently discovered that creatine monohydrate, which most people take for fitness ( and most don't understand the chemistry of what it offers ), but it also helps with brain chemistry. The fog has been lifted! So I now expect that I can actually get this done with that handicap reduced. Although I am not exactly ready for a reading list, yet, I would certainly like some suggestions for things to read in both Latin and Russian that are interesting. Not books necessarily, but smaller suggestions and sources to find them at. I found Caesar in Gaul to be rather boring. The history is fascinating, but it was a bit too much of a political story in Latin. Thanks, this channel is looking really good. I subscribed to it as soon as you started it.
Native Spanish speaker from Argentina. Fluent in English, studied German. Somewhere between B2 and C1 in Portugese (Brazil's around the corner), Italian, Catala and French due to exposure within my family, tough I never studied them (the advantage of Romance languages.) I'd love to study Polish, Russian, Japanese, Arabic and Swahili at some point. Maybe I'm being too optimistic. I'm too intimidated by tonal languages and not even sure if I could handle Japanese pitch. Btw, about your content, I personally enjoy your videos in general. Listening to a reasonable, informed, intelligent person ramble about anything's always nice. Whichever path you choose, I'll probably stay around.
L1 Spanish, L2 English (English teacher) and my target language is Japanese, currently moving to Japan in a few months. Love linguistics and this channel does already fit so well with me! Love your passionate nerdy approach to linguistics and language learning. With headphones on I might as well be watching a nerdy talk about D&D and stuff 😂
Russian - native; English - C2 (I have 2 university degrees in that language); Italian - high B2 (purely for cultural fascination and holidays; would love to achieve fluency in it one day). German - probably around A2/B1; I haven't touched it in many years. Following your review of Duolingo, I've started refreshing / building up my German and have also started Modern Greek from scratch (as I love visiting Greece for holidays). Finally, I'd be keen to learn the basics of Sicilian, or specifically of the Salentino dialect as I'm very much into the pizzica music.
I am a native English speaker and learned French from kindergarten in an immersion program. I managed to achieve a reasonable level of fluency there. I learned how to speak German to a barely conversational level because I wanted to understand what Rammstein were saying and I'm still working on that. I have also begun a journey into the mysteries of the Finnish language. My grandparents were from Finland and I want to learn to a level of fluency where I can go to a family reunion and be understood.
Native English speaker. Canada Target languages French and Portuguese. I have a general interest in the whole romance tree. I can read in and speak french but not "fluent". Can read and speak russian but not "fluent". Can read and speak german but not "fluent". My family immigrated to Canada from Germany, Russia/Ukraine, and France. So, I was exposed to those languages growing up. I have traveled all over Canada and the USA. Hope to live in Brazil for a couple of years in the future. Love your content.I've been following your work for... forever. :)
I will try to answer as much as I can haha! I’m fluent in only my native (American) English. I’m learning Italian and Spanish. My Italian is half decent, I’ve just started Spanish. Obviously I’d like to reach fluency in them. La lingua Italiana perché sono d’origine Italiano. Español por que mi novia es de El Salvador y quiero hablar con ella y su familia. Also I find it very cool when you talk about gli accenti Italiani (specificamente Romanesco) because there isn’t much content or material available about them! Thanks and keep up the great work!
My first language is Russian and Latvian, I also speak English, German, Swedish, French and Polish. I have moved a lot during my young life of 21 years and would like to reach fluency in French and Arabic and learn some Aramaic to better understand and learn Maronite Catholic songs and prayers.
Native English Speaker from Washington DC here. My second language is Spanish because I had a crush in middle school and was surrounded by Salvadorans so I remember being the only one who paid an inordinate amount of attention I spanish class. I'm around C1 level. I got to travel to Mexico and Puerto Rico last year for a few months each. I later became fascinated by portuguese around college due to its similarity (B1). And I have a fairly weak comprehension of french and greek I've been learning both for several months. I want to become fluent in greek portuguese and maybe farsi before I die.
My native language is British English, northern dialect. I consider myself conversational in Japanese but not fluent. the languages i'm currently making an attempt to study are Finnish, Thai, and Tagalog, but Swahili, Khmer, German and Guarani are also on my radar
Hello Metatron. I am from Yorkshire in England. I grew up speaking dialect at home and English at school, with kids who had parents from all over the Commonwealth. I lived in a street with people from all over Europe. I learned French at school from age of nine then German from thirteen years old. I was fascinated how the dialects were like mixes of standard languages and how this fitted into history, having an old atlas which showed 1930s boundaries and one map showing pre 1914. I came to this channel via your other channel, for history content. I studied science at university, to get a job, but always loved history. I also wanted to keep my language skills and went on the school trip to Germany, despite having stopped studying it at school, as my friends tended to be still studying it, not in my science classes. I toured Europe between school and university with my friend with Pakistani family and picked up some Urdu. At university a Greek friend said she was surprised I could read Greek and Russian letters, useful for my wargames figure painting. I explained that we were both science graduates and the Greek letters were used in formulas. I later toured US and stayed a month with a family in Texas. They had ancestors there before the English speakers and the father was embarrassed that my Spanish, picked up from knowing French, was better than his kids. He took us to Cuidad Juárez. My girlfriend, who I met back home soon after, had parents who then moved to Valencia province in Spain, where I realised Valencian was like Catalan. At the time I worked for a company with head office in Netherlands. I tried to pick up some Dutch watching RTL4 but the accent defeated me. I could read it on their Wheel of Fortune, for example, but that was it. I also like watching History With Hilbert who does buts on language History and I enjoy when Scotland History Tours channel does Scots language items.
Well this will be insteresting. My first language is Brazilian Portuguese, I'm fluent in English, Have a reasonable understanding of Japanese, and am currently studying Italian for my job. Plan on learning Chinese in the future because I love kanji. Keep up the good work, Metatron. I'm looking forward to seeing what you'll bring next!
English/idiomatic Australian. Thought about learning Gaelic once upon a time, and I like the sound of Italian. No experience abroad. 3 months each of French, German and Japanese in high school and have not since studied. I have little facility for languages, yet it’s intriguing how other languages are put together, ie what goes where in a sentence compared to English. You have a broad range of interesting topics, so I subscribed. Thank you.
I’m a native Spanish speaker and also have a C1 in English which for me has been one of my greatest achievements ever. Currently I’m interested in French, I cannot say I’m studying it but I have a decent understanding as I took some courses some time ago. I’m planning on visiting France in the short-term future and I’d like to increase my level so I can go there to understand and be understood, your channel has been a huge help for me to keep my interest alive.
I'm Portuguese so obviously my native language is Portuguese (Lisbon accent). My second language is English which I speak quite fluently; it's a mandatory subject in school here in Portugal. In fact, English has always been my favorite language, specially the British accent. I also like slavic languages. I find the way they sound really interesting and so different from what we're used to see on Romance languages. I wish I could learn some of them.
Native speaker of Slovak over here. I studied English through elementary school and highschool. Had bit of french in highschool and, now, since I am studying law, I am trying to learn latin.
A native English speaker, I did French and German at school in England (not very well). I learned Afrikaans fairly fluently in 5 years in South Africa. in the 70s. I learned Tok Pisin and a little Motu in Papua New Guinea in the 80s, and did some courses in Mandarin in Australia. Probably a little above beginner level. None of htese ever get a workout now, so very rusty. I decided about 20 years ago to concentrate on German, and I'd call that my second language now. I read and understand well, but I lack speaking confidence, mainly due to lack of opportunity. Via mediaeval martial arts connections, and a former company, I visit Denmark quite often, and have many Danish friends, so I decided a couple of years ago to put a bit more formal effort into learning it - I've been doing Duolingo's course for a couple of years. A relatively easy language for an English speaker from the point of view of grammar, vocabulary, word-order etc., it has an absolute nightmare of a sound-system! Other Scandinavians struggle with it.
I love this interactive idea 💡 I'm a semi-lingual native English speaker. I am learning German and Dutch at the moment. I have taken a few Welsh lessons, too. I probably won't be helpful as I have zero romance language skills, lol. I just love language and am eager to learn all I can ❤
Hi Metatron, I’m a 62 year old who is a native English speaker. I studied Spanish and French in high school and college. I did terribly in both. I studied theology for my masters and learned to read biblical Greek and Hebrew. I’m now learning Italian and want to reach fluency in it. I’ve been studying it for about 4 months. I’m studying it because I am of Italian ancestry and want to live there for some time in retirement. I, also, want to study and become conversational in modern Greek. I’d, also ,like to spend time living there as well. I really enjoy what you do on both your channels. Keep up the good work.
I NATIVELY speak ENGLISH, and I am fairly good with OLD ENGLISH. I learned some of Tolkien's Quenya ELVISH. I have been studying LATIN and Seek to achieve FLUENCY in it. I also desire to learn HEBREW and then ANCIENT GREEK so I can read the Bible in its original language.
Ciao, sono italiana come te. Studio inglese dalle scuole medie e tra libri, film e serie tv da una parte e il mio lavoro dall'altra (informatica) ho un buon livello in lettura e medio/buono in scrittura. Mi sto esercitando sulla comprensione orale (in questo ascoltare i tuoi video mi è utilissimo). Sul parlato ho qualche difficolta in più, ovviamente perche non ho quasi mai modo di esecitarmi con un madrelingua.
Trovo i tuoi video (sia in questo canale che in quello principale) molto interessanti, ben argomentati e senza i toni urlati da "detentore della Verità" che spesso qualificano in modo negativo molti youtuber. In più, come dicevo poco sopra, ti ascolto per esercitare la mia comprensione dell'inglese, dato che hai una pronuncia chiara e assolutamente comprensibile, anche alla normale velocita discorsiva.
Ti faccio i complimenti per la qualita del tuo lavoro.
Un saluto
Hi, my name is Vinicius, I'm brazilian and I speak english and portuguese. I've been following your work since 2014 if I'm not mistaken. At the time I was 17 years old, today I am 26. I can say that I am very grateful for your knowledge passed on to all of us and I appreciate not only your work but also your charismatic personality that often took me out of moments of sadness.
was biligual from birth. My parents spoke English to me, and my Grandmother (who we lived with, spoke a Calabrian dialect). I would love a video (or a few) on some obscure Italian Dialects, or as I like to call them, Regional Languages. I also speak Spanish to a great degree, but not fluently. Thank you for your fantastic videos which I have been enjoying for quite awhile now. Your English is amazing, by the way!
I am a native English speaker who knows some Irish and German. I am currently studying Japanese and this is the language I am prioritizing for reaching fluency. I originally started to learn Japanese because I consume a lot of media that is originally in that language and wanted something productive to do in my spare time, but I came to really love the phonology and grammar, and am really enjoying the learning process.
I'm there with you. At a certain point it ceases to be a headache and daunting task and transforms into a really fun game to see how much you understand, can imitate, and what cultural references you can comprehend compared to before. Japanese is also good because they have so much culture and media to consume that you'll never really run out of learning material.
I've probably watched my favorite godzilla film like 40 times in the last year just to see how much more I can understand. Never stops being fun.
I'm a native speaker of Vietnamese. Right now I'm studying in Japan, so I have been trying to learn the language for a while and got the N2 this year. I've also tried to learn some German. I am also really interested in ancient languages like Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, mostly because I want to read classical texts written in those languages. I am also studying to become a linguist as well and I find that the knowledge acquired from linguistics has been a great help on my journey of language learning.
edit: I somehow forgot to talk about the language I am using right now 😅 The school system in my country has compulsory English education, but let's just say that the quality is not so good, at least not good enough for students to be able to hold a conversation with an English speaker. I was lucky enough to have an amazing tutor, who had studied abroad in New Zealand before, and the lessons she gave me set me on the right path for English learning. I also have been consuming tons of content in English so I was able to progress significantly faster than my peers. Right now, I believe I am almost at the native level.
I'm a native Bulgarian speaker. I work with English and Spanish and have decent skills in Italian. I have studied many languages such as Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Hebrew, etc. Currently, my primary focus is Swedish, which I'm aiming to bring to a work level sometime in the near future.
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I studied latin for a while, it's something I regret putting down. Perhaps I'll pick it up with Greek at some point? Good luck! ;)
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Argentinean here. I teach English for a living, and Though I had Russian lessons for a year, I'll go with Italian next (my kids go to a main Italian school, so I want to be able to help them). But I love how you bring out tips both for teaching and learning.
I will continue to push you to go through more Argentinean Spanish (its my main take on this channel), but I'm glad I discovered it. Your content is awesome. Keep up the good work!!
I am a native English speaker, I speak Spanish at an intermediate level and am currently studying Spanish daily for around an hour. I am actively looking for ways to increase my speaking opportunities in the language. I love learning about how languages are interconnected and being shown and experiencing that whether that be Dutch spoken slowly and purposefully with more English cognates or when I listen to Catalan or Italian and understand the meaning and full phrases due to my Spanish training, I find all these things very interesting. The A-Ha moment when a link between languages is shown i.e. -um in Latin going to -o in Spanish or an English etymology unfolding to show the rich history of entwined languages (which mind you English does very well with English having massive swaths of vocabulary being Norse, French, Latin, or directly germanic rooted with shifts from to systematic changes). I also enjoy seeing how grammar rules play out to create interesting patterns which to a speaker of the language convey subtle changes in meaning like the habitual "be" in AAE or different levels of formality in Spanish using the subjunctive "ara"/"iera" form in place of the conditional due to it's historic link to Latin (while the "iese"/"ase" can not because it doesn't have that root).
With Spanish, I started to study it simply because of school and carried it on beyond it I have dabbled in other languages be that German or Italian but I've never been comfortable enough with my Spanish to dedicate all my language-learning time to them. However Spanish is also a language that I really enjoy learning because of it's massive cultural influence, thousands of dialects, and massive speaker base. I want to reach a higher level of fluency and understanding of the Spanish language before going for other languages and I hope to achieve that ASAP because having German friends I'd love to be able to show my appreciation for that culture and also to communicate with them in a passion of theirs. I also go to Spain quite regularly for the last few years I have been going annually in the summer but I don't have a spare year to go live there but that may happen in the future.
I am an English speaker; I studied Spanish for 4 years in middle and high school, and I plan to continue my studies in college. My main goal is to reach fluency in that language, since I know a LOOOOOOOT of Spanish speakers (I'm an American from a city), but I also want to parlay that into learning Italian (MAYYYYYYBE Portuguese but probably not, also maybe French), and then also learn German (plus Dutch), which I have some experience with (I visited Germany and Austria when I was 12 and my parents bought me an Introduction to German course, plus my family has German friends, which is why we took that trip there) and some Scandinavian, since I might be going overseas to Norway. I have been to Spain on vacation, and it worked out not too bad. Hoping to go to other Spanish speaking nations!
Hello mate. Long time watcher of yours. I’m English, but learnt German, Italian and Russian at school/college/university. I later travelled in Russia and have been to Italy around 20 times or more now - four of which to Palermo. In 2011 I visited Brazil for the first time, and began learning Portuguese. I never studied it at all, but it is now my strongest language due to I’ve travelled quite a bit and know some basic phrases in Asian languages such Japanese and thai, cantonese etc. I’m a Japanese games geek like you too, plus I’m big into my history. Keep doing what you do. Grazie Metatron
I'm German, but spent several years of my childhood living in England, so British English therefore is my second language. After I returned to Germany with my family as a teenager, during my last years at secondary school, I became increasingly interested in various cultures and unsucessfully attempted to learn Farsi. When I was 18/19 years old, I spent a year living in Quito, Ecuador, doing social voluntary work with street children. thank's to that immersion, as well as my prior basic knowledge of French and Latin, I became conversational within 3 months of living there and recently spent another 6 months in the country for an internship At the moment I'm about to graduate in Latin American studies, I'm obviously completely fluent in Spanish at this point. After several years of prioritizing Spanish in my social and media life, I have even started to forget some English. Also, the Native American Quechua language has become a big passion of mine (the Ecuadorian Kichwa variant of it), and want to improve it. It can be challenging to find speakers to practice it, whovere, as it is sadly declining sharply in this generation. Also, want to learn to properly learn Portuguese (I already understand around 70% of spoken Brazilian Portuguese). Beyond that, I am considering to improve my highschool French or maybe other languages as well. For some reason, I always had motivational problems with French back at school. I found your episodes trying to understand different varieties of Spanish and Portuguese very intriguing, also found Romanian highly interesting. However, beyond Spanish and Portuguese, I am struggling at deciding what other languages to learn next. After giving up on Farsi with its arabic alphabet, I might take a try at Tajik, as I find it a lot easier with the cirillic script.
My native language is French (Belgium). I also speak English. I can have basic conversations in Dutch (school), Spanish (school), and Italian ( family, personal interest). I would like to master Italian and live in Italy.
Hello Metatron!
My first languages are German and Portuguese. Im fluent in both since I was born in Germany, raised in Portugal and my parents are each native to one of the countries. Plus I lived in both countries for over 12 years each. The first language I learned in scholl was French and although I understand it to an extent I never, to my regret reached fluency. I'm pretty fluent in english, mostly because of movies and games but I also used it frequently as I often interact with people who are not fluent in the local language. I am currently learning Japanese at a very basic level although my vocabulary is a bit more expansive because of my weeaboo existence 😂. Let's see how far duolingo takes me before I need an actual teacher. I'd like to reach a higher level of fluency in french and I would like to reach at least a conversational level in Japanese. I'd also love to learn Italian since it's kinda close to Portuguese! I mean I can understand Spanish to a similar degree you understand it without having ever studied it so I'm confident about Italian aswell. There are other languages I'd like to learn but I already have a few on the plate and this is getting long 😅 sorry about that and thank you for always bringing us quality content!
Hello! Thank you very much! Here´s my info:
My name is Juan Carlos González and my first language is: Spanish.
I´m fluent in 3 languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.
I have been studying english, portuguese, French and Latin. I would like to learn Italian.
Context: I´m from Colombia so my native language is Spanish. I began to learn english at school (is common here in Colombia to learn english as a 2nd language). Then, my family and I moved to Brazil, because my father studied there and I lived +3 years in São Paulo. We returned to Colombia and during my university years I studied French. However, I am not fluent in this language. Then I have had a lot of contact with Latin, specifically with ecclesiastical Latin because I am Catholic and I normally attend the Traditional Holy Mass.
Recently I am interested in learning Italian. I am also interested in the future to learn german and standard arabic (My wife´s family is from Lebanon).
Thank you very much, you´re so kind. God bless. Best regards,
I'm a native English speaker and it's the only language I have a high level of proficiency in. I am currently studying Latin and French, and previously have tried to learn Arabic and previously studied French at school, did badly then forgot it all. I used to struggle a lot with language learning as I suck at memorising anything (I'm neurodivergent) however since discovering various language channels and comprehensible input videos on you tube and books, I've found that I can learn languages through exposure and comprehensible input - and also that everyone struggles with the grammar/translation method because it's not how humans learn language. One thing channels like yours do that is extremely valuable is give good quality information about how to learn languages and mistakes to avoid - if I'd known that back when I studied French at school I would have done so much better and also not felt bad about failing to memorise conjugation tables because I would've thrown them in the bin in favour of reading French books and listening to French TV and radio and trying to communicate. (Note: I know that many people are good at memorising and find it useful, but it does not work for me at all.) Reason for studying Latin: I've always been interested in Roman history and love the idea of being able to speak a 2000+ year old language but never tried learning Latin before because I thought it would be too difficult. I'm really enjoying learning it through comprehensible input videos and books (you know Luke Ranieri's Scorpio Martianus channel - that and LLPSI is where I'm learning from and what got me started with Latin but there are various other books and channels that I'm also using). I went back to French as well recently, using comprehensible input, because I want to revive what I forgot from French at school and also learn it better than I ever did back then, and also I feel like I can succeed at it now that I know what learning methods work for me. When I get proficient enough at French and Latin I'll start studying another language although I'm not sure which... going back to Arabic is a possibility, but so is Japanese or German... so many languages, so little time! Please keep on promoting good practice for successful language learning :) there are lots of people out there that think they suck at language learning because they did badly at school and blame themselves not the teaching methods.
I'm a native English speaker with a degree in linguistics. I'm fascinated by lamguage change through time, and in particular by Indo-European languages. I've studied Spanish, French, Latin, Greek, German, and Old English but am not fluent in any of them. I would love to learn more, but specifically I'd like to get to the far end of the Indo-european map (Tocharian.) And I'm always interested in the reconstruction of the PIE protolanguage and how different daughter languages preserve different aspects of it.
English is my first language, I’m am American in Kansas, I have taken Spanish classes (not by choice) I have been attempting to learn Italian on my own and desire to reach fluency some day. Why? Because I love the Italian language, and because I feel the Italian spirit in my soul.
I'm a native speaker of Spanish and Catalan, as I was born in Barcelona. I know English, French, Italian and a bit of Latin. I'm currently studying Italian, as I'm currently living in Palermo for an Erasmus. I'd love to learn Lithuanian; I love Lithuania's history (the most extense political entity of the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods) and I find the language itself to be very intriguing, just as its family, the Baltic languages. Lithuanian is often said to be the closest language to Proto-Indo-European.
First and only fluent language is English. I took three years of French in high school along with one year of Spanish, in which class my Spanish teacher would ask me a question in French and I’d need to answer in Spanish 😂. I would love to be fluent in both Fr and Sp…but also Italian, Gaelic (my maternal grandparents were Manx), Portuguese, Romanian…so many! Polyglot…or mega-linguist 🤷🏼♀️ whatever I’d be called!! I love when you’ve explained how to enunciate sounds…like the ‘sh’ in Mandarin vs ‘sss’ in English. I love both of your channels. Thank you!
Hello Metatron.
I am a native English speaker who learned Latin during my time in Catholic school. While my proficiency in Latin has declined over the years, I am still capable of reading and writing in the language. However, my spoken Latin skills are limited. I could engage in a conversation if it were a matter of utmost importance. Additionally, I have been actively studying the German language due to my deep appreciation for it and my fascination with German history.
I will say though my Latin has helped me with a lot of Italian pronunciation I have thought about learning Italian but not sure if I should study two languages at once.
Grew up with American English as well as Colombian Spanish. My Spanish, while I would say is very good-I can have a pretty detailed discussion on certain advanced topics such as history, politics, etc.-it could always be better. I studied Italian in high school for all four years (much to the chagrin of all my friends telling me I should've just taken Spanish for an easy grade) and I chose to study it for a pretty unique reason: I loved the game Assassin's Creed 2 which was set in Italy, and I just fell in love with the scenery, the in-game language, and the history of the region. Combined with growing up in New York and my love of Italian food, it was almost a foregone conclusion that I should want to learn Italian. Having already known Spanish, a lot of the Romance rules were already familiar to me, which made it much easier for me to pick up from scratch. Unfortunately, in recent years (especially during college) I fell off of it and I regret deeply not continuing to pursue it as consistently. What perfect timing that I find this channel and you make this video, as I would like to re-kindle my interest in learning Italian, now that I've a much better appreciation for the unique history of Italy, especially for the Roman Republic & Empire. I've always wanted to visit Italy someday (whenever I have the time and money) and I want to go prepared. Vi ringrazio per il tuo lavoro, Metatron!
I'm Romanian, interested in romance languages, I enjoy Latin-related content but also other languages such as Japanese and Greek. I loved the video where you listened to spoken Romanian and read it, without much prior knowledge about the language, that's where I found your channel. More content like that would be really fun of course.
English is my first language. I grew up around Spanish and French (and am still reasonably capable in both) but, I pick up languages fairly easily once in a country and I can say basic stuff in most languages. I studied Spanish, French, Japanese, and German in high school and added Mandarin and Arabic in University (I have lost a lot of those over the last 20 years though). I Want to be fluent in Mongolian as Mongolian history and culture has been my favorite since I was a child; and, visiting there only made my love for Mongolia greater. I’ve learned most of the things I know in various languages from my semi-nomadic lifestyle and world travel over the course of about 16 years. The travel made learning languages and culture easier and far more exciting and meaningful but I have always had a passion for history, languages, and cultures and would (as I still do) study them even if I had not travelled a day in my life.
Hello Metatron... Thank you for your accuracy and so precise study of languages. I'm a native portuguese, born and grown in Lisbon. Portuguse father. half spanish mother, so I learned spanish with my grand mother, portuguese, naturally... and, curiously french even before portuguese for I attended the Lycée Français Charles Leppierre since I was 3 years old and then took my masters in Design Architecture in Paris. I also used to go to Southern England (Kent) for summer hollidays. My father working for TAP - Air Portugal, my mother working for Radio Free Europe, we used to travel a lot around the world. I' am also a perfectionist when mastering pronunciation and still have quite an accute ear. So, to keep it short: Portuguese and French are both my native languages and then Spanish and English. I also perfectly understand and can read Italian quite well (I'm shy to speak it for, as I said I'm too much of a perfectionist). I even started studying Japanese ( I was an Aikido practitian for quite a long time) and I spent three weeks in Japan, country and culture that I love. Communication and understanding are a privilege of the human species, and if we want to understand this amazing world we live in, well... we need to dive in every civilizational detail and rules. Thank you for your channel, the Force will be with You, Always... best regards, Luís
My native language is Serbian and I am fluent in English. Learned a lot of it through osmosis from cartoons, video games and kids' shows, and have been building up from there. I have also learned some German in school and Japanese through self-initiative. I consider myself to be at an upper-intermediate level in both of those languages at this moment. Currently I am doing my studies in Japan and I'm working on reaching fluency in both of them through internet and communication with native speakers. On top of that I've also had an interest in Latin ever since it was taught to me in high school, as well as European Portuguese, simply because it is very useful, and I also like this dialect's phonetics and grammar. For now I am primarily focusing on Japanese and German, but sometimes I switch to learning some Latin or Portuguese to break from the tedium. I hope this has been useful.
Thank you for what you do, Metatron! My first language is American English. I took German and Latin classes as a teen and have maintained an interest in both ever since. However, I've never had the opportunity to speak either. I'm 69 now and to keep learning new German words I regularly read German magazines and articles in two areas that interest me (stamp collecting and ancient cultures). Latin comes up with my interests in botany and etymology and for these same interests I would like to also know more Greek vocabulary.
i’m a native English speaker, and my second language is Swahili (C2) after living in East Africa. i’m currently studying French (A2) on my own but hope to achieve fluency one day. i have yet to live in a Francophone country, so it’s more slow going than my Swahili was. 😊 thanks Metatron!
I was born in Mexico. I have been in Canada, Mexico and the US. I speak Spanish and English. I started studying English since age 6 because in Mexico it is seen as a need. I wish I could speak French, Latin and Greek.
hello 👋, I‘m a native speaker of german, but grew up speaking luxembourgish 🇱🇺outside of home. Growing up in Luxembourg, we had to learn german and french since we were little. English came much later. I am half danish since my father is from denmark, but I never got to learn danish and my parents never taught me. my wish is it to reach complete fluency in danish and also at some point live in denmark (to be able to call myself a dane)
Ciao Metatron,
I am native English speaker that is conversational in Scottish Gaelic and is currently learning Italian. I lived in Italy for two years, but I was in a university program that was taught through English so I was unable to totally immerse in Italian and my language learning suffered as a consequence. I no longer live in Italy but the language and culture have made a lasting impression on me.
I have also studied Spanish and German but my levels in both of these languages are quite low and have been put on pause.
Hello!
My first language is Spanish. I'm fluent in English. I studied German before English but I didn't keep studying it. I've also delved a bit into Italian, Portuguese and French. I know some Latin and classical Greek.
I'm currently studying Japanese and I'd say I have a n5-n4 level with it. I'd like to reach fluency in Japanese for now.
I've not had any experience abroad. I study other languages because it's almost like getting another point of view, I've experienced that mainly with literature.
Thank you for creating all this interesting content!
Native English, I know some German, Some Italian, Some French, Some Spanish, Some Polish/Russian, Some Japanese/Chinese
I want to learn Latin and Ancient Greek and become Fluent in German & Japanese.
I'm studying to become an Archaeologist who specializes in Classical Rome & Greece, so knowing how to read Ancient Greek and Latin would be a great boon to my future career if I can manage it. I also just love that period of history so being able to read about it in the native language of the era would be quite incredible.
My native language is the American variety of English with no particular accent as I grew up as an army brat moving from one duty station to the next across the different parts of the country. I don't speak any other languages and I would say that I have zero experience learning another language. I want to start learning Japanese. I initially wanted to learn Japanese because of my love of anime, but the more I consumed the more I grew to enjoy the culture and want to learn more about it as a whole. There are other reasons, but I don't think it is too important to mention them. Thanks for the terrific content as always Raff!
Hello, I'm from Algeria, so my first language is Arabic. However, the "Algerian dialect" differs significantly from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It's interesting to note that it shares some similarities with the Arabic used in the Maltese language.
I also speak French, which has been taught to us since elementary school. Additionally, I've learned English through movies, CZcams videos, and other media. Currently, I'm in the process of learning Italian because I'm captivated by the beauty of the language. My goal is to achieve fluency in both English and Italian.
I haven't had the opportunity to travel and interact with native English speakers, so while I can understand the language perfectly, I do encounter some challenges when it comes to speaking it confidently.
In the future, I plan to learn Spanish once I have established a solid foundation in Italian.
Thank you !
Native English speaker (U.S.) I am confident in German, clunky in Ancient Latin (thank you for helping my pronunciations), a dullard in Ancient Greek, Japanese and a few Philippine dialects. I have always been fascinated by these cultures and loved the sounds of these languages. I find both of your channels informative and FUN!
Hello! I’m an American whose native language is English. I grew up hearing both English and Polish spoken in my home, as well as Italian spoken among my extended family and neighbors. I took 2 years of Spanish in High School and then 2 years of Italian in College. I will admit that I only did so because it was a requirement. I’ve been to Spain once, and was able to understand a slight bit, but that was years ago…I basically have retained some words, but no conversation.
I have recently become very interested in cooking AUTHENTIC Italian foods, and I find myself watching many Italian language instructional videos, which I have surprisingly been pretty easy for me to follow. I would love to become conversational since my bucket list trip would be to Italy, and I would love to be able to embrace the people as well as the food and culture.
Thank you for your wonderful content. You’re really very interesting and pleasant to listen to.
Isle of Tenerife,
Spain,
Africa.
Irish Gaelic and Irish English from my native County Mayo, in the British Isles.
Then as a young man (22) I went to Europe to quickly learn French and Spanish, and then came to Africa to learn the Whistle Language, all of which I now teach on Italki.
Then there's my kid brother Neil who followed me with French and Spanish, but then became obsessed with The Italian Marches, where his wife's from, and he learned those two local languages, as well as Italian.
But surely the most contextually relevant language in danger of extinction (desertion and over-dilution) is now Frisian, right?
Why don't you join me in learning it, and thereby thereafter easily pick up Old English in a very Krashenish manner, don't you reckon?
Keep up with your amazing channel, always great content.
I'm hoping you'll soon do something on Frisian, and maybe on Whistle Language.
Best wishes,
Patchy.
I am Romanian 🇷🇴 living in the UK 🇬🇧 for close to 20 years by this point.
My native language is Romanian, although my fluency in English, my second language, is basically nigh-on perfect.
I am currently learning Latin and Greek and would love to reach fluency level in both languages. What drove me to these languages is my passion for ancient Roman and Greek history. I am especially interested in how Koine Greek differs from Attic Greek and how I can learn it today due to an obsession I have developed recently with Ptolemaic Egypt.
This may sound unconventional but I usually prefer to consume media and entertainment in foreign languages (i.e. foreign music, foreign films etc) as a starting point and learn from there.
I understand that this strategy may not always be the most viable but I suffer from autism/Aspergers Syndrome, so I find that this approach usually suits me best.
Koine greek is basically the evolution of attic greek which derives from the ionic dialect but it also includes idioms and peculiarities from the other hellenic dialects(mainly from the doric one).
Hello Raff, as requested in the video:
LANGUAGES I KNOW
My native language is Bulgarian, I speak it at academic level and also know my region's dialect which has many differences. I also know English with proficiency of B2 to maybe C1 depending on the topic.
LANGUAGES I HAVE STUDIED
German - 2 years in highschool, I'm at level A2.
Russian - 2 years in highschool, I'm at level A1.
Italian - 1 month with a tutor, I'm know basic stuff.
Polish - 1 week by myself, know how to read, nothing else.
Turkish - 1 week by myself, know basic stuff.
LANGUAGES I WANT TO LEARN
I want to learn Turkish to the point I'm indestinguishable from the natives. I want to bring my Italian to level B1, study Spanish to B2, and then focus on Mandarin Chinese - mainly reading, since I want to read Chinese philosophy.
Overall I know two languages - Bulgarian and English. And I want to study Turkish > Spanish > Italian > Mandarin in this order depending on my time, so it could be that I end up learning only one of them, but surely I want to learn at least one more foreign language. If you make videos on this channel about Italian and Mandarin which are popular choices, you will make a lot of us happy! Forza signor Urbani!
My native language is English. I started learning Latin a decent amount of time ago and the reason I started learning it is simply because I just loved how it sounds and I just think it's a cool language overall, that's pretty much the reason. I love how it sounds like a mix between Italian, Spanish, Greek, a little bit of Portuguese, and of course its own unique sounds as well. My goal is to get as fluent in Latin as I possibly can, this includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Will I end up reading some classical works or something once I get to a high enough skill level? Probably, but that's FAR from the reason why I started learning the language, my reason for learning the language is, I just simply want to be fluent.
I also want to learn Spanish at some point as well, but I want my Latin to be at a fairly high level first before I start learning Spanish.
I first started learning Latin as early as 3rd grade because I went to a school that had Latin classes from 3rd-10th grade. I learned that I enjoyed learning languages, even if I didn't necessarily enjoy Latin specifically.
In highschool I briefly considered the idea of Iearning Japanese because I discovered anime back then but realized it was a big investment and moved on to just focus on finishing highschool. I would then pick up German and Russian in college taking the two foundational classes in both. I felt though that I wasn't really connecting to the cultures in a way that inspired me to keep improving even though the languages were cool.
After Russian, I did return to being interested in Japan as a whole, their history, culture, and art kept pulling me back in. I didn't learn any Japanese, just enjoyed English content about Japan for the rest of college.
I later came across Matt vs Japan's channel about 3 years ago and learned about how to properly utilize immersion and SRS and realized that did have the ability to actually improve my Japanese to a proficient level.
That's were I am now after studying for nearly 4 years now. I'm still surprised with myself for achieving so much in learning a language like Japanese, which I was told would be extremely hard. It's very different, but I went into studying it knowing it could be challenging so it wasn't as painful as I thought it might me.
After a year-ish the immersion was just me enjoying Japanese content and that content being in a challenging language I kind of understood was just a background detail. I found it so cool that I could watch anime and listen to Japanese music and actually understand even half of it. It's even more fun now that I can understand 99% percent.
I'm 60, and have lived in Alabama almost all of my life, except for a year in Washington DC. I've never been overseas. The farthest away I've been is Last Vegas, last year, when we went for our older daughters wedding. I only speak English, and I did take a year of Latin in high school, but I don't remember any of it. I can probably say the Ave from memory, but that's it. I am here because I am a history nerd and I enjoy your other channel. I find information about languages interesting, and I would enjoy learning one, but I don't have any idea where I would use it. My grandparents on my Dad's side moved here from Sicily, so Sicilian or Italian would be of interest to me, but no one in our small town speaks it and I wouldn't ever use it. My mother's parents have Scotts Irish and Cherokee ancestry. I ordered a course on Scotts Gaelic through the mail, in the 90s, but it was just overwhelming.
Basically, I don't know what I want to learn, or if I even will try. I'm open to suggestions.
(Off topic, but i think you should do a video with Andrew Gold, who is a journalist and speaks many languages. He mainly makes videos about other topics but has been wanting to make some about languages. I also suggested to him that he should do an interview with you)
Honestly, I'd love to learn more about Latin. I'm trying to learn several latin based languages, but if there was other info/insight/history around Latin you wanted to present, I'd watch those videos from you. You've earned my trust, so I'd be interested to hear what you had to say.
Thank you for all you do! ❤
Hi Raff,
I am a native Greek speaker, I speak English fluently, French intermediate level and I am currently learning Italian through Duolingo because I love the way they sound!
Love your videos, keep up the good work! 😉
My native tongue is Polish, I speak English at upper-intermediate level but I also have some experience with Germanic and Romance languages. I'm interested in all Indo-European languages as well as Finno-Ugric languages and Japanese. I think it would also be interesting to watch some videos about linguistics in general.
I am Portuguese and Angolan, (Angolan by birth and Portuguese by citizenship through my dad), so my first language is Portuguese.
English is my second language which I first learnt by the Portuguese school in Angola, and then refined it by studying and living in South Africa from age 13 to age 33.
I would LOVE to lean Japanese and French. I have tried learning Japanese first through a very basic pc program when I was 22 and then life got in the way. Stopped learning due to being too busy.
More or less 2 years ago I completed only the first stage of French in Rosetta Stone when I had a chance to work for a large French speaking organisation.
When the job went to somebody else I tried to continue but it sort of deflated my resolve.
So yeah. Thanks for the video mate.
Hello Metretron I speak Spanish Italian English and Learning Greek and Turkish i enjoy your channel very much. Both your history videos and language videos are fascinating. I used to live in Catania and Naples and iItalian was very good, almost fluent. I would like to get back to that . I love the comparison and comprehension between different languages. Complimenti. Keep up the good work. Ciao!
Greetings Metatron!
I am a native English speaker of mixed Thai/Anglo descent, when I was a child, Thai used to be my mother tongue, but throughout years of not using it I have lost the ability to speak that language. I have a degree in Linguistics so language has always been a major passion of mine, with history being my second love. I am currently studying Japanese with hopes of one day living in Japan and working in Japan.
I have many reasons for liking Japan, ranging from modern media to the rich history of Japan (and of course their culinary arts :D). I find this small island nation so fascinating, despite being a relatively small player in it's humble beginnings, it turned into a massive powerhouse that all of Asia can look up to as a role model.
As a newly baptized Roman Catholic, my confirmation name happens to be a Japanese Christian who was martyred, so this bond I have with my patron also drives me to learn more about his home country, and I would absolutely love to travel to Nagasaki one day to see the rich history that was left behind their. The ancient Chinese trading ports to the large Portuguese churches that were constructed, as well as the Japanese castles that I would love to be able to study up close!
I suppose the final reason is that I simply find Japanese to be a pleasing language to hear, with syllables typically ending with a vowel (though not always), the language has quite a singsong characteristic to it.
I have a theory that if you genuinely like the way a language sounds, you’ll end up speaking it with decent accent. What do you think? How’s your Japanese sound?
@@paulwalther5237 I feel there are quite a few factors that would go into this, due to my innate ability to do alveolar taps and trills, I have not had much of a problem with pronunciation of the phonetic sounds in Japanese. However, one thing I do struggle with is pitch accent, simply because I do not know the pitch accent for most words as my textbooks don't give me a great representation.
Of course, as Metatron pointed out in a previous video, there are several pitch accents in Japan depending on the area, so right now I am learning the typical Tokyo dialect and pitch accent, which I think I do decently well, as my Sensei has previously told me I sound quite close to native.
Yes, I do somewhat think that by liking a language, one would subconsciously try to imitate the accent they find attractive, and thus attempting to sound more natural in that language. Unless of course you find a specific person's accent to be attractive, then you will end up trying to sound like that one person, who may be an outlier when it comes to other native speakers.
For example, Tsuda Kenjiro is an extremely talented Japanese voice actor with an incredibly deep voice. Trying to copy his way of speaking will not necessarily make someone sound more native, as Mr. Tsuda sounds vastly different from 99.99% of the Japanese population. I supposed it would be quite entertaining for a foreigner to sound like that though!
Dear Metatron and Team: from birth in England I learned 1 English from my mother's family and 2 Italian and 3 Emilian (dialect) from my father's family. I then began 4 French with my Italian grandfather (who had lived in Paris for 10 years) and 5 Spanish from my father (who was a seaman and sailed for many years on the England-Buenos Aires route: live meat (immigrants) out, dead meat (beef) in). I did some 6 Latin at school in England. with a teacher who was more interested in modern Italian. I then met my wife, from Galicia in Spain, which started me off in 7 Galician and 8 Portuguese, although we adopted Spanish as our common family language. We then permanently moved to Italy where I continued using all these languages as a professional translator. first in a US multinational corporation, which involved periods of work in many countries, and later as a freelance, working mainly for Switzerland (Lausanne, Geneva, Lugano and Zurich, in that order). In recent years, I have been concentrating on *Brazilian Portuguese*, because my eldest daughter went to Brazil as a teacher of English (and Italian). She now lives and works in England, but her son remained in Brazil, so I now have family ties with that country (São Paulo, Mato Grosso and Tocantins states). Lastly I became interested in 9 Catalan and have spent more half a year in Catalonia in the last few years. Last but not least, I am interested in is 10 Romanian, which apart from being related to Italian, is also the language of the largest immigrant group in Italy. Apologies for talking about myself, but you asked for it. :-)
Hello! I’m a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker and I’m fluent in English (lived in the UK for a while). I studied French when I was in school and reached B1 level, and I have just got back to my studies after watching your videos. I have also started to learn German from scratch. I’d like to become fluent in both of these languages! Love your channel!
I'm a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese, though I moved to Switzerland at the age of seven and thus learned German (and Swiss German) to such a high level of proficiency that I might as well be considered a native German speaker. Afterwards, I learned French (C1), English (C2), Italian (B2) and finally Spanish (C1). Yeah, I know those CEFR levels seem highly impressive, but those are also closely related languages, so it's perhaps a bit less impressive than it sounds. I mostly learned these languages through school and online immersion, though I did spend two and a half weeks in England, a week in France and a few days in Italy on small language exchanges. And I go on vacation to Spain quite often where I usually try to use as much Spanish as possible.
I'm not currently studying any new language, though I'd love to learn Japanese at some point, simply because I really like the language. My priority right now, however, is to improve my proficiency in languages like French and Spanish, where despite me being C1 in them, I still see lots of room for improvement.
I'm a native English speaker with some German I learned during high school, uni, and a uni exchange semester in Germany. I was almost fluent, but it's very rusty now, as I haven't had much reason to keep it up or interest in doing so. At 35, at the start of this year I started studying Mandarin seriously. It's much more intrinsically interesting to me than German. (Or French, which I was also dabbling in before I committed to Mandarin.) I'm especially fascinated by the semantic/conceptual relations between the characters and their components. It's a challenging language, but that's part of the attraction and is itself motivating. It's also a language I have more opportunity and reason to use where I live (Australia). And I'm increasingly more interested in Asian culture than European culture as I was before.
I would love to see more videos on Mandarin and Asian languages/culture generally! Of all your videos so far, I especially enjoyed your Mandarin-Japanese difficulty comparison. Thank you, Metatron ❤
I feel the same way about Mandarin. It's just so interesting as a language. I would even call it a "language lover's language". lol Or maybe a "semiotic lover's language".
I am thrilled to be part of this community/little/big/project. My native language is Slovak, I speak English at a good level, I would say, though, never enough to realise I never know enough. I used to teach English as a secondary language to teenagers and adults and at university and my specialisation was similar to yours. Other than that, I lived and worked in the UK for 13 years, but not any more. I can make myself understood in Italianan and somewhat in German, but no where near the level of English. What I like most about other languages is the sounds and pronunciation, different accents and - really, everything. I love enunciation and musicality of my chosen languages. I would like to speak some other languages too, but my priority is to perfect those few I speak.
I also have sort of two groups, those languages the sound of which I am drawn to and react to , e.g. Italian, Latin, English, Greek, Russian, Hungarian, Hindi and Finnish and the rest of them that I am impartial to. I am fascinated by language in general at times, one may say. I am Gemini too, if it matters. Upon watching your videos I was telling myself I wish I could partake on them too or just have a further conversation about them.
Hello Metratron,
I'm venezuelan, spanish speaker. I learned to speak italian living in italy, I was traveling to Belgium, had to stop in Fiumicino, but.... ended uu staying in Italia...so... I HAD to learn italian.
I already spoke english, VERY POOR english😅, I can understand it almost perfectly, like 98%, but when I wanto to speak or write I just don't find the words, I learned it by my self.
I'm currently living in Brazil, so I speak prtuguese as well, thing is, I've never studied any of these languages, I just had to.
My biggest difficulty is, it's almost impossible to me to translate, it's so hard, 'cause I just understand the meanings without needing to translate them in my head, so when someone ask me "what is he saying?" I found it difficult to make an accurate translation.
When I listen to italian, portuguese and english, I don't think in the spanish meaning of those words, I just see images, or actions... it's hard to explain, is that normal?
I'd like to improve my capability to speak english, and I'd love to become fluent AGAIN in italian but i don't have anyone who I can speak in italian to...🙂
I'm a native Hungarian speaker, also fluent in English. Originally I decided to learn English around the age of 5 or 6 because I wanted to understand the cartoons I saw on Cartoon Network that were in English 🥲 English of course ended up very useful in life, as I use it for virtually everything now.
I find languages intriguing, especially romance languages. I'm a bit jealous of the experience of more or less understanding another language that's related to yours, as there's nothing out there related to Hungarian to that extent. That said, sometimes I'm surprised that I'm able to understand some basic Spanish or Italian just because of all the Latin words I know from English. That's one of the reasons your videos on understanding romance languages are interesting to me, and I feel like I even passively learned a few things while watching.
Greetings, noblest one! 😁
My native language is actually Georgian. I speak Russian, English and German fluently.
German, Spanish and Italian are popular languages to learn in eastern Europe, if you're participating in exchange programs.
I'm currently studying Italian and Japanese. So this channel is a god-send.
I think Japanese will be the most requested language from your repertoire. People also learn Mandarin, but they're discouraged by others on the internet, for its little use. China is notorious for its lax business laws (a.k.a scammers breeding grounds) and open xenophobia.
I believe, expanding towards the history and cultural background of the languages is the best course for the channel.
cheers!
Metatron! My fellow language lover, I just wanted to say first that I appreciate your content from the bottom of my heart, on both channels. I’ve enjoyed your contact for years, and I am so happy that this spin off channel dealing specifically with language, learning and linguistics has grown to the point that it has. And as someone who has been a language coach, and an academic tutor for foreign languages, I absolutely love your approach. So my personal language background:
I am a native English speaker from the United States, my grandparents were from Hawaii, and the Philippines, before Hawaii became a state. My grandmother spoke Hawaiian Creole, English, my grandfather spoke Tagalog, and was fluent in English, as a result, I can understand both without a lot of effort. My production skills in Tagalog are rather bad, but I understand it .
Oh, I thought myself, Spanish to fluency as an adult, then I went on to study Latin for the historical linguistic enrichment of Spanish, during Covid I learned Esperanto for fun, I also know American Sign Language, and I’m currently working on reaching fluency in Japanese, I’m also studying that particular language in an academic setting, as well as personally in my off time. I can read both Portuguese and Italian fairly well, but I don’t speak either of them very well at all. I hope this information helps you and I can’t wait to see the direction that this channel takes, again thank you so much!
1. Native Language: Persian
2. The language that I have learned: English
3. The language that I am studying: Japanese
4. Languages that I Want to eventually learn: German, French, Italian, Spanish & Arabic
I live in, and have never been outside of Iran. I can't be in a target language country anytime soon.
Hey! I'm a native English speaker from the Midwest US. I have been fascinated by languages since... Well, as far back as I can remember. Even as a kid I was reading Wikipedia articles on differences between dialects of English & the similarities between various Germanic & Romance languages. I am also able to write, read, and speak/understand (to a lesser degree) Spanish as I've been studying it off and on since I was about 20 (~8 years). I also have studied French but not to anywhere near the extent of my Spanish. However due to a long and strong passion for linguistics & etymology, I have spent a lot of time learning and studying linguistics from an academic standpoint and therefore have been exposed to Latin, Greek, German, & various Romance languages. My primary interests are within the Germanic & Romance language families and studying their development from PIE to their current state, the interactions with each other, the interactions with other Indo-European language sub-families, and with other unrelated language families (ie. Afro-Asiatic & language isolates like Etruscan, Basque, etc.) I find cognates incredibly interesting and seeing the same word root evolve through the development of various languages and re-entering languages as loans creating doublets & triplets (eg. Chief/chef & Hostel, Hospital, Hotel). A lot of this interest has to do with being an English speaker and encountering Spanish regularly, seeing the cognates and their differences due to English having received the word via French (old French, anglo-norman, etc.) Or via Latin. This has turned into a giant read, so apologies for that, but I've been a long time viewer of your main channel (back when you did lots of language vids there, but also because I'm a history nerd with an interest in Medieval Europe and the Classical period) so I jumped at the opportunity to sub to this channel as well. And I've been loving the content thus far. Keep making the great, informative videos! If I had any notes (or rather wishes) it'd be that I'd be interested in any kind of historical linguistics or language-interaction topic. But honestly, if you keep making great language-related content like you have been, it'll be great as well. Grazie!
My first language is Malayalam (a South Indian Dravidian language from my home State of Kerala) and I know english and hindi and I won't say I know Tamil or speak it well but can understand alot of it (mostly due to expoure through moives and it being close to my mother tongue like Italian and Spanish for example)
And now I am studying Spanish on duelingo for not really any particular reason other than I like it and Spanish being one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and I want to travel to those places in the future and I have 49 day streak on duelingo currently and know about more than 270 words in a month and half of Spanish learning
And sorry for making this too long 😅
Native English speaker. Took French in school and I'm decent at it, but I think a bit too slowly to be native conversant.
My wife is Jewish, though, so I probably need to learn Hebrew at some point to speak with my brother in law in Israel. I took Hebrew myself as a kid (raised Jewish, now atheist), but have forgotten basically all of it.
Native American English.
Fluent in Brazilian Portuguese.
Studying Classical and Medieval Latin, Italian, French, Spanish.
Goal to reach basic conversational proficiency in each, in order to more easily live and travel throughout southwest Europe.
Goal to more easily do historical research about various European cultures during and after the fall of the western Roman Empire.
Lived and worked in Brazil, Belarus, Russia, Egypt, Israel.
Native English speaker. know smatterings of a few languages. Took German when young. Learned Italian age 40..as my BF was Sicilian and I wanted to understand his culture and language. I tried to learn some French, but can only count to 5.took Russian for 8 weeks. interesting language. I am now 66 anni and enjoy the Italian language the most..German 2nd. So many language roots in these languages.
Native English speaker here, I speak some Spanish, enough to be understood but not fluent by any measure. I learned Spanish in high school (UK, idk what it would be in USA but 11 to 16 years of age). I had the choice between Spanish and French, I chose Spanish because my father speaks a little, it's easier than French and I hated French in primary school (forced to learn, although I've forgotten all of it now).
Right now I'm trying to learn Polish (because the country has very cheap alcohol and pretty woman)
Afterward I'll learn Cymraeg (Welsh), because I'm half Welsh on my fathers side. Cymru am byth! Y ddraig goch ap brythoniad am byth!
Maybe after that Ill get around to learning some Japanese... but that would be a while off. (Again to talk to pretty woman)
My first language is Brazilian Portuguese, I have attained a good level (I believe) in English. I'm also currently studying Spanish and hope to Mandarim, Latin, Hebrew and Ancient Greek in the future if possible
I was born in Uruguay and grew up in Australia. I speak, read and write both Spanish (Rio Platense) and English fluently and can fumble my way through understanding Portuguese, Italian and to a lesser extent French. I gues I'm most fascinated by the non-Latin languages. Languages like Germanic, Slavic and Asian languages fascinate me because they are so far removed from what I grew up learning and speaking. Living in Australia, we have large populations of different types of Asian people, from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi to Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian and Chinese. Love your work and all of your channels. Keep up the good work!!!
I wasn't sure how to put this comment together, so I apologize in advance for the long format. Also, thank you, this sounds interesting!
I'm a native speaker of Finnish. I'm fluent in English, and I'm fairly confident in my Japanese, at least when it comes to topics I know well (I have passed the JLTP N2, but reading is probably my weakest point at the moment). I have also studied Swedish at school (it was compulsory, but I had very little interest in it, so it didn't stick), and would probably like to study Korean at some point in the future (the writing system seems interesting, and I would like to understand Korean cinema more deeply as well).
I was in Japan as an exchange student for a year during high school, then focused on other things for about 10 years, and started taking Japanese seriously again around 2020. I was originally interested in Japanese because of Japanese comics, animation, music, and video games, and honestly, this hasn't changed much. The year in Japan did make me appreciate the culture and the people more as well, though, and I would like to make more connections there, and perhaps even work there (in the game industry, which I already have experience in) in the future. As a bonus, I really like how Japanese sounds as well.
As for English, my main motivation since starting it in 3rd grade was "I want to understand video games" (this is literally what I wrote in a school form that asked my motivation for wanting to study English :D). There were, and still are, very few video games translated into Finnish, and I wanted to understand what was going on. I also couldn't find a translation of The Tamuli by David Eddings, so I started reading it in English, which was quite the task, since I was nowhere near fluent at that point, and the three books together are over 1000 pages long, but I managed and had a lot of fun!
I've recently also really started to appreciate how much can be lost in translation (especially since there are many aspects to Japanese that simply don't exist at all in either Finnish or English), so these days I try to consume things in their original language as much as I can (if it's a language I know, of course).
Hey, been following you for some years now, and I love the language channel, my native language is Portuguese, been born in São Paulo Brazil, being fluent in English ever since middle school pretty much, since I've always loved Japanese culture I have studied for a long time now, I'm even having full on classes with teachers who have lived in Japan and studied the language, my level would be something like high intermediate, I can understand Spanish up to like 99 per cent both written and spoken, but I cannot speak it since I don't remember the specific words from memory, I've also been studying Italian for a while, since practically my entire family is of Italian origins both from south and north Italy, I'm almost finished with the process of getting my Italian citizenship too thanks to my Italian blood, I love the language and would love to not only visit but perhaps move to Italy too, so content in Italian and Japanese would be the most welcome for me, regardless everything you've been doing is very interesting I would also love more ancient language analysis like classical Latin, maybe you could look into ancient Japanese just for the fun of it? Anyway, thanks for the content from a soon-to-be Italian fellow, lol.
Great concept and idea for this channel!
I've been a longtime viewer of your main channel and have really been enjoying your content on this one as well.
My first language is English, having been born and raised in the US. I also have a fairly good grasp of Spanish as I studied it all throughout my schooling and it tends to come in handy in my geographical location in the US currently.
I also am semi- fluent in German as my father is fluent and spent alot of time overseas on business using it. I like to consume alot of German movies and TV as well as music (Neue Deutsche Härte ist meine lieblingsmusik).
I am currently studying Latin, inspired by several youtubers including you! And I am also starting to study Turkish, although I am only a few weeks in at this point. I would like to be able to enjoy Turkish media including movies and TV as well since there is quite a wealth of that. As for Latin, I hope to be able to incorporate the Latin language into my musical compositions in the future as it is so lyrical and rhythmic, especially when using proper phonemic vowel length.
Anyways, thanks again for doing this and keep up the good work!
Hi Metatron. I'm a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker, and I'm also fluent in English (first secondary language) which I learned from entertainment and from applying it to work and other activities. I also studied some Japanese back in the day, and it's currently still the language I'd like to learn the most (and become fluent in). I've travelled a little bit as well, but only for short periods (Europe and the US). The reason I learned English and the reason I want to learn Japanese is because I'm interested in both cultures. I'm also interested in other cultures/languages as a whole, and I'm always reading and watching stuff about that (I also became somewhat interested in classical Latin after watching your videos). Hope this helps! Keep making great content for your channels!
Hey Metatron. Been watching for years and am excited for you, your success, and your growth. Thank you for your hard work and I look forward to every single video.
To answer your questions, my mother language is Chilean Spanish, but English is my most fluent. I speak a small amount of Italian having been to Italy (and once to Sicily) several times now, though it sometimes feels like cheating since its remarkably similar to Spanish. I found that when I didn't know how to say something in Italian, most Italians could at least understand Spanish. With the exception of "burro" (which was a hilarious real life lesson of a "false-friend" in an Italian supermarket), Italian and Spanish are quite similar. Also, Italian sign language is beautiful and I'd argue is at least as important as speech.
I took Japanese formally for two years in college. Like you I was really into anime and Japanese culture when I was younger and always meant to make it to Japan one day.
A few years ago, I did finally make the journey for a full month in late 2019. I discovered quickly that the two years of Japanese I took, while not totally useless, did not help much at all. It focused a lot on reading and writing, but very little speaking or listening. As a result, in conversation, I was essentially lost. At the very least I could read signs if they were written in kana. In some ways, my education mirrored how the Japanese tend to learn English in their education - years of study, but very few practical takeaways. It felt as though I had wasted my time, and was one experience that taught me that how you learn is absolutely critical to acquiring any skill. In the case of language, the priority needs to be in comprehension and in speech first, just like we all learn our first languages.
My friends have been using Duolingo to learn Spanish, but despite the years they've been using it (they always brag about how long their streaks are), they cant formulate anything coherent, let alone have a basic conversation with me - they just know a bunch of (very basic) vocab. I haven't found it to be a good tool [by itself] for a comparatively easy language, so decided to look elsewhere to refresh Japanese since I will be returning to Tokyo for a full month soon.
Some months ago I picked up Pimsleur and have already made it through to level two (about 32 30min lessons in). In this short time I've learned to understand and say far more than I did in college. While there's comparatively little reading and writing (its mostly listening and speaking), in a month I can confidently say and understand more than I thought possible in such a short time.
It also uses your microphone to test your grammar and pronunciation which I have found to be invaluable, especially with holding long vowels (imas います vs iimas 言います), using the correct particles (the dreaded de で vs ni に), and stopping for pauses (chotto ちょっと, mikka みっか, isshukan いっしゅうかん, etc).
I do teach a few different subjects, and like you, agree that customizing lessons to your students' learning styles and needs is most effective way to help improve. But to your point, on a platform such as this and to an audience as large as it has become, this is not possible. Perhaps instead of comments on here, maybe it'd make better sense to set up a poll somewhere?
Thank you for all you do and continue to do. Cheers.
Just want to say I love this channel, and really appreciate the content you put out. I’m a native English speaker just beginning on my language-learning path. I’ve studied some Mandarin Chinese as a child and would love to come back to it someday, but I’m currently trying to learn Dutch.
Hey Metatron!
I am a native English speaker. I studied German for 4 years in school and learned French as well. I spent several weeks in Germany as an exchange student. I also spent 2 years in various parts of northern France and Belgium. In University, I received a bachelor’s degree in English, and I have really enjoyed the depth of understanding that studying etymology allowed me.
I am able to communicate my thoughts decently well in French, although I would love to reach a higher level of communication ability. I have a number of friends in France, and I would like to speak with them more frequently and with a higher level of understanding.
I recently began studying German again, and feel that I am very much a beginner with that language. I have German heritage and want to be able to read the historical documents about my ancestors in their original form. Beyond that, I have fallen in love with their culture, customs, architecture, etc.
Thank you so much for making this channel.
I’m an Italian and Albanian native speaker, I’m pretty confident in my English skills so I’d consider myself fluent. I’m currently starting to learn Japanese once again for the 50th time I think, I’ve always struggled with it, I’m only able to say the most basic stuff(watching anime does help I guess lol) and know how to write like 30 Hiragana’s and that’s about it, but this time I feel more motivated than I’ve ever been. I’ve always been interested in Japanese since my childhood, I remember trying to translate some words from Italian to Japanese on Google Translate. I’m also very much interested in starting to learn Chinese, I just love the way it sounds.
My native language is Hindi/Urdu. I'm fluent in English. Currently trying to learn Japanese and Sanskrit. I wish to learn ancient languages like Vedic Sanskrit, Old Latin and Ancient Greek. Also learn interesting languages like Korean, Basque and Kashmiri.
I'm English. I lived in Spain for one year and began to learn and speak Castillano and a little Catalan. I would like to continue to learn "Spanish" so I can communicate easily in the future as I plan to visit South America. I am also currently actively learning Russian. My partner is Russian and I would love to be able to communicate with her and her family in their native tongue
Hi Metatron! I really like all that your doing on this channel! I speak English and know a little French. I hope I can be fluent in Italain, French and Mohawk. In particular I would very much love to learn more and be fluent in Sicilian as my Dad's side of the family comes from there
Thank you for everything you do! Wishing you all the best
Howdy, Raff!
Spanish speaker here.
Varying degrees of fluency in Catalan, Swedish, English, Italian, Portuguese, French - in this order, probably (?)
Can (barely - but still!) make myself understood in Norwegian, Danish, German (so probably Dutch too?)
Have basic knowledge of Arabic, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Hindustani.
Ideally, I'd like to one day be able to make myself understood in the last 6 languages mentioned + various minority languages here in Sweden.
I learn languages for the intellectual challenge + to connect with new people from different cultures! < 3
PS: (((currently mainly focusing on improving my Korean and French)))
Greetings from Australia .Hi. I’ve been following your channel for a while. I’m a language enthusiast and English teacher . English is my native tongue but I also grew up with Italian. In addition I studied German for 15+ years and can read and write and speak quite well. I have started learning Korean and want to reach a higher level in that as well
I'm a native English speaker. I'm studying Brazilian Portuguese, Mexican/Spain Spanish, French. I would like to reach fluency in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Japanese, Moroccan Darija, Italian, Catalan, Greek & Dutch. I have zero experience abroad. I chose to study Portuguese because of the extroverted culture and multi-ethnic history. I chose to study Spanish because I want to be able to interact with the rest of the western-hemisphere. I chose to study French because I listen to French music (Melody's Echo Chamber), the movie Blue Is The Warmest Color, and because of Nostalgia. I learned French to an intermediate level in highschool, French allows me to reconnect with my high-school experience. I like Spanish-language and French-language movies a lot. And to be honest, I really enjoy dating girls from a "latin-descended" culture.
My native language is US English. I previously studied Latin, German, Spanish and Russian.
I only took 1 semester of Spanish and Russian. Russian was a Chemistry/Biochemistry requirement (two other choices, way back then). I couldn't get another semester of Spanish before I had to quit taking classes at the University of Texas at Austin. Russian didn't work out, both because it was hard, but even more so because the professor didn't care. He was just teaching since it was required. I took several years of German, but the later two years were taught by a lousy teacher in high school. I have forgotten it.
I started studying Latin in high school. I was too good at learning languages to not get bored by how slow everyone else was. I continued to take it at the University, but I, well, partied way too much.
I'm 53 now. I am trying to learn both Latin and Russian. Life has been very difficult for years now. I live with my elderly father. We are just starting to settle into place and buy the things we had to do without for about ten years. It has been start, stop, restart, repeat bad cycle.
However, I take powerful seizure medications and opioids for pain. Both cause a tremendous brain fog. I have just recently discovered that creatine monohydrate, which most people take for fitness ( and most don't understand the chemistry of what it offers ), but it also helps with brain chemistry. The fog has been lifted! So I now expect that I can actually get this done with that handicap reduced.
Although I am not exactly ready for a reading list, yet, I would certainly like some suggestions for things to read in both Latin and Russian that are interesting. Not books necessarily, but smaller suggestions and sources to find them at. I found Caesar in Gaul to be rather boring. The history is fascinating, but it was a bit too much of a political story in Latin.
Thanks, this channel is looking really good. I subscribed to it as soon as you started it.
Native Spanish speaker from Argentina. Fluent in English, studied German. Somewhere between B2 and C1 in Portugese (Brazil's around the corner), Italian, Catala and French due to exposure within my family, tough I never studied them (the advantage of Romance languages.) I'd love to study Polish, Russian, Japanese, Arabic and Swahili at some point. Maybe I'm being too optimistic. I'm too intimidated by tonal languages and not even sure if I could handle Japanese pitch.
Btw, about your content, I personally enjoy your videos in general. Listening to a reasonable, informed, intelligent person ramble about anything's always nice. Whichever path you choose, I'll probably stay around.
L1 Spanish, L2 English (English teacher) and my target language is Japanese, currently moving to Japan in a few months. Love linguistics and this channel does already fit so well with me! Love your passionate nerdy approach to linguistics and language learning. With headphones on I might as well be watching a nerdy talk about D&D and stuff 😂
Russian - native; English - C2 (I have 2 university degrees in that language); Italian - high B2 (purely for cultural fascination and holidays; would love to achieve fluency in it one day). German - probably around A2/B1; I haven't touched it in many years. Following your review of Duolingo, I've started refreshing / building up my German and have also started Modern Greek from scratch (as I love visiting Greece for holidays). Finally, I'd be keen to learn the basics of Sicilian, or specifically of the Salentino dialect as I'm very much into the pizzica music.
I am a native English speaker and learned French from kindergarten in an immersion program. I managed to achieve a reasonable level of fluency there.
I learned how to speak German to a barely conversational level because I wanted to understand what Rammstein were saying and I'm still working on that.
I have also begun a journey into the mysteries of the Finnish language. My grandparents were from Finland and I want to learn to a level of fluency where I can go to a family reunion and be understood.
Native English speaker.
Canada
Target languages French and Portuguese. I have a general interest in the whole romance tree.
I can read in and speak french but not "fluent".
Can read and speak russian but not "fluent".
Can read and speak german but not "fluent".
My family immigrated to Canada from Germany, Russia/Ukraine, and France. So, I was exposed to those languages growing up.
I have traveled all over Canada and the USA.
Hope to live in Brazil for a couple of years in the future.
Love your content.I've been following your work for... forever. :)
I will try to answer as much as I can haha! I’m fluent in only my native (American) English. I’m learning Italian and Spanish. My Italian is half decent, I’ve just started Spanish. Obviously I’d like to reach fluency in them. La lingua Italiana perché sono d’origine Italiano. Español por que mi novia es de El Salvador y quiero hablar con ella y su familia. Also I find it very cool when you talk about gli accenti Italiani (specificamente Romanesco) because there isn’t much content or material available about them! Thanks and keep up the great work!
Hey just a tip, that "por que" you used there should be a single word "porque" since it means because (I think that's what you meant there)
@@nicogutyfranco ah muchas gracias!
My first language is Russian and Latvian, I also speak English, German, Swedish, French and Polish. I have moved a lot during my young life of 21 years and would like to reach fluency in French and Arabic and learn some Aramaic to better understand and learn Maronite Catholic songs and prayers.
Native English Speaker from Washington DC here. My second language is Spanish because I had a crush in middle school and was surrounded by Salvadorans so I remember being the only one who paid an inordinate amount of attention I spanish class. I'm around C1 level. I got to travel to Mexico and Puerto Rico last year for a few months each. I later became fascinated by portuguese around college due to its similarity (B1). And I have a fairly weak comprehension of french and greek I've been learning both for several months. I want to become fluent in greek portuguese and maybe farsi before I die.
My native language is British English, northern dialect. I consider myself conversational in Japanese but not fluent.
the languages i'm currently making an attempt to study are Finnish, Thai, and Tagalog, but Swahili, Khmer, German and Guarani are also on my radar
Hello Metatron. I am from Yorkshire in England. I grew up speaking dialect at home and English at school, with kids who had parents from all over the Commonwealth. I lived in a street with people from all over Europe. I learned French at school from age of nine then German from thirteen years old.
I was fascinated how the dialects were like mixes of standard languages and how this fitted into history, having an old atlas which showed 1930s boundaries and one map showing pre 1914.
I came to this channel via your other channel, for history content.
I studied science at university, to get a job, but always loved history. I also wanted to keep my language skills and went on the school trip to Germany, despite having stopped studying it at school, as my friends tended to be still studying it, not in my science classes.
I toured Europe between school and university with my friend with Pakistani family and picked up some Urdu.
At university a Greek friend said she was surprised I could read Greek and Russian letters, useful for my wargames figure painting. I explained that we were both science graduates and the Greek letters were used in formulas.
I later toured US and stayed a month with a family in Texas. They had ancestors there before the English speakers and the father was embarrassed that my Spanish, picked up from knowing French, was better than his kids. He took us to Cuidad Juárez.
My girlfriend, who I met back home soon after, had parents who then moved to Valencia province in Spain, where I realised Valencian was like Catalan.
At the time I worked for a company with head office in Netherlands. I tried to pick up some Dutch watching RTL4 but the accent defeated me. I could read it on their Wheel of Fortune, for example, but that was it.
I also like watching History With Hilbert who does buts on language History and I enjoy when Scotland History Tours channel does Scots language items.
Well this will be insteresting.
My first language is Brazilian Portuguese,
I'm fluent in English,
Have a reasonable understanding of Japanese,
and am currently studying Italian for my job.
Plan on learning Chinese in the future because I love kanji.
Keep up the good work, Metatron. I'm looking forward to seeing what you'll bring next!
English/idiomatic Australian.
Thought about learning Gaelic once upon a time, and I like the sound of Italian.
No experience abroad.
3 months each of French, German and Japanese in high school and have not since studied.
I have little facility for languages, yet it’s intriguing how other languages are put together, ie what goes where in a sentence compared to English.
You have a broad range of interesting topics, so I subscribed.
Thank you.
I’m a native Spanish speaker and also have a C1 in English which for me has been one of my greatest achievements ever. Currently I’m interested in French, I cannot say I’m studying it but I have a decent understanding as I took some courses some time ago. I’m planning on visiting France in the short-term future and I’d like to increase my level so I can go there to understand and be understood, your channel has been a huge help for me to keep my interest alive.
I'm Portuguese so obviously my native language is Portuguese (Lisbon accent). My second language is English which I speak quite fluently; it's a mandatory subject in school here in Portugal. In fact, English has always been my favorite language, specially the British accent.
I also like slavic languages. I find the way they sound really interesting and so different from what we're used to see on Romance languages. I wish I could learn some of them.
Native speaker of Slovak over here. I studied English through elementary school and highschool. Had bit of french in highschool and, now, since I am studying law, I am trying to learn latin.
A native English speaker, I did French and German at school in England (not very well). I learned Afrikaans fairly fluently in 5 years in South Africa. in the 70s. I learned Tok Pisin and a little Motu in Papua New Guinea in the 80s, and did some courses in Mandarin in Australia. Probably a little above beginner level. None of htese ever get a workout now, so very rusty.
I decided about 20 years ago to concentrate on German, and I'd call that my second language now. I read and understand well, but I lack speaking confidence, mainly due to lack of opportunity.
Via mediaeval martial arts connections, and a former company, I visit Denmark quite often, and have many Danish friends, so I decided a couple of years ago to put a bit more formal effort into learning it - I've been doing Duolingo's course for a couple of years. A relatively easy language for an English speaker from the point of view of grammar, vocabulary, word-order etc., it has an absolute nightmare of a sound-system! Other Scandinavians struggle with it.
I love this interactive idea 💡 I'm a semi-lingual native English speaker. I am learning German and Dutch at the moment. I have taken a few Welsh lessons, too. I probably won't be helpful as I have zero romance language skills, lol. I just love language and am eager to learn all I can ❤
Hi Metatron, I’m a 62 year old who is a native English speaker. I studied Spanish and French in high school and college. I did terribly in both. I studied theology for my masters and learned to read biblical Greek and Hebrew. I’m now learning Italian and want to reach fluency in it. I’ve been studying it for about 4 months. I’m studying it because I am of Italian ancestry and want to live there for some time in retirement. I, also, want to study and become conversational in modern Greek. I’d, also ,like to spend time living there as well. I really enjoy what you do on both your channels. Keep up the good work.