What Language Will I Learn Next?
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Greek definitely stands out to me as not only a unique choice but also one that would make great content (e.g. explaining the alphabet, modern culture, etc.)
YES! I would like to know more about Greek...for historical, scientific, and cultural reasons. I love the popular music from Greece (especially 1980's-90's "eclectic") and try to learn a little something from the lyrics.
Yeah, just go for Greek!
@@pauleagle2856Yes! English is heavily saturated with Greek and Latin in all of the sciences. I love practicing Greek in random classes in college, writing all the originally Greek words in Greek in my notes.
I totally agree! He would have sooo much fun learning it and so would we learning alongside him with his videos that he would make with it as you say! I have been learning Greek for a while and I know how important and incredibly fascinating it is.
It would be a unique challenge to learn Greek. It's the only hellenic language so it shares little similarities with Italian, but there a few more with English too
Greek just seems like the perfect fit for you. You'll study what you enjoy, and as you already love Greek culture and history, it'll just keep you motivated even more.
As a native,I think Greek really fits you. Of course anyone can learn any language but sometimes a language just fits you a bit more than usual. I mean,I heard you describing your options and Greek was really the only one you seemed that much more excited and enthusiastic about. Don't get me wrong,I see your genuine interest Spanish and Korean,but I think you see Spanish as more of an easier language you can add to your belt and just be "done" quicker and also as kind of just an opposite to Korean. And,I'd say,the same goes for Korean,just the exact opposite(like you see it as more of a challenge you won't "finish" easily and sort of completing that East Asian language trifecta)
Greek broh, why ur pronunciation is just as my peninsular spanish accent?! Totally different language, same way to speak...
I am from greece. Sooo...You could assume my answer. Spanish Greek and Korean ara wonderful languages (I wish someday I would be able to speak Spanish). But I think Greek would be a challenge for you (for sure less of a challenge than Korean) and eventually will help you to study history from the sources.
But as I said I would love to learn Spanish and Korean as well.
Many regards and love from Greece 🇨🇾🇮🇹🇬🇷
As someone from a Mexican/Levantine family on the border of Mexico who speaks Spanish, I am learning Greek and I can’t tell you how much I agree. Greek would be the most useful to him out of all the ones he mentioned. Spanish would also be useful, but learning Greek is useful for gaining a profoundly deeper understanding of ALL Western languages of today. Not only that, but you will recognize scientific terms and what they mean even if you have never encountered that term before. I can’t wait to read your medical books if I can get my hands on one!
As for you learning Spanish, you should give it a try if you can! The sounds we use are almost the same as Greek ones. Learning Greek for me has been easier than most Anglophones because of my knowledge and experience with Spanish. If you want to see an interesting example of how similar the pronunciation is, look up a song called La Paloma sung by Trio Hellenique. (:
@@pandakicker1 I totally agree with you and I wish you to have your book as soon as possible. Thank you very much for you suggestion friend. I will!!
I have heard from no Greek friends that greek sounds like Spanish. And as you agree too, its seems true. I love your language, as many of my friends do, and I hope someday i will speak Spanish.
It sounds like you are heavily leaning toward Greek. I can see Spanish would be "too easy" lol, a cheat code. But definitely worthwhile. I was thinking Portuguese. My bias is that I am studying that one. It is a Latin-based language but has sounds that are not present in Spanish. But it might also be a "cheat code" language for a native Italian. I wouldn't know. Anyway, your enthusiasm is contagious!
Whichever language that you will learn next Korean, Spanish, Modern Greek, please share your knowledge with us. I'm interested in all those languages that you mentioned, especially modern Greek. When you know Greek you will defininitely be able to create even more historical videos for us audiences to learn. Thank you for what you've done, I agree with what you said about there can never be a limit for the number of langauges that you can learn.
I vote for Greek! So many people learn the big languages such as Korean and Spanish, so it would be super cool if someone like you learned a smaller one. If you end up making videos about it, perhaps it would encourage more people to also look at less ""mainstream"" languages so to speak, give your viewers more info about Greek and Greece and perhaps also give current Greek-learners some tips and tricks!
Oh my Gods, yes! I would be so grateful for that because there really aren’t a lot of resources for learning Greek and his take on this beautiful language will help me so much. I can only imagine what it would do for someone who wants to start learning Greek, too, but doesn’t know where to start. Greek is just as important for someone who reveres history and wisdom as Latin is!
@@pandakicker1 Exactly! I know ancient Greek obvs is different from modern Greek, but I think a history-nerd would find a lot of joy in learning modern Greek. Greece is filled with such awesome history and culture! What made you start studying it?
I would be interested in seeing you on a Modern Greek journey, as I have recently started Modern Greek from scratch, following your recent review of Duolingo! Also, while it's IndoEuropean, it's very different from both Romance and Germanic languages, so would be neither a monumental task like Korean nor easy street like Spanish but something in between. Έναν καφέ παρακαλώ
I think Greek should be at the top of your list because you express enthusiasm about it and it also has a tie to your other interests. Plus, it is one of those languages that just sounds nice.
But, I actually expected you to include Brazilian Portuguese in your list because you seemed excited about it in earlier videos. While Brazilian Portuguese has a very definite “coolness” factor to it, Spanish might prove to be more useful because it is more widely spoken throughout the world.
I any event, since you enjoy learning languages so much and are obviously very talented in that area, the world is your oyster and you may learn many more languages as time goes on.
By the way, it is a treat for me to see your videos - they are always interesting and insightful.
Disagree. If he learns Portuguese, just by association of his italian + the portuguese, he'll understand 90% of spanish. I speak spanish almost at native level, I'm Portuguese, took me a month to do so living there.
For practical reasons I'd say Spanish but as a CZcams language Guru, I think you'd get some fascinating new perspectives and frames of reference that would lead to interesting future content, with something like: Swahili, Hindi, Arabic, or at least a new language family like Slavic
Not as much as he would from Greek, but I agree! I think he’d be better off learning Greek and then the ones you suggest. 😊
@@pandakicker1 yes Greek has a different alphabet and a cool history, but if I grew up in Sicily, the landscape and weather would be too similiar, I'd crave something totally different, especially for interesting content.
My ranking for languages I think you should learn next:
1. Greek (due to connection with classical history and with Sicily/southern Italy. It would be nice to also collaborate with Luke Ranieri on Ancient vs Modern Greek)
2. Spanish and/or Portuguese/Galician/Catalan (due to all the listening/understanding videos you did on those recently, you seemed very excited about understanding a foreign yet familiar language)
3. Latin (you already know some thru Italian and what you've studied of it, and because it's the ultimate language for history, scientific terminology, roots for other languages)
4. Korean (like you said, why not another east Asian language? Maybe Vietnamese or Tagalog for the same reason.)
5. Sanskrit/Hindi (another historical language and a lot of cultural connection and a new challenge for you)
I am definitely biased in favor of classical languages because those are what I personally am most interested in, but that is my ranking for your next languages to study.
I’m a 62 y/o man who has recently started learning Italian. I recently spent a week in Greece and a week in Italy. I started thinking I would do Greek but landed on Italian because I’m of Italian (Sicilian) descent. After I can comfortably hold a conversation in Italian, I want to lean Greek. There is such wonderful culture and history there. I would vote on Greek as your next language for sure.
As a sicilian...if from the eastern part, you are a bit greek
Hello there my good sir, I just wanted to say first and foremost thank you for your wonderful content as always. If you were to have my vote, I'd go with modern Greek, why when you were describing it you were excited especially hearing it in your voice. I have been learning Russian for 2 years now, I have been studying Spanish for 11 years now. I am also interested in Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese actually. I can't wait to see what language you'll choose next.
I think Spanish is a very useful and fun language to pick up. Lots of movies have spanish audio and subtitles. The food is amazing too, and their is a ton of people that speak it both offline and online. It would be an easy pick with your Italian background. It could also be a good secondary language if you wanted to learn something else and use Spanish for a break when you want to switch things up from your main language you are trying to learn. I do this with Japanese and when I want a break I switch to Spanish. Best of luck!
Your eyes seemed to light up in a different way when you talked about Greek. So out of those 3, I would recommend modern Greek...or perhaps Creeks, as in both, modern and ancient versions of it. You mentioned before that you have also studied a bit of ancient Greek. As a linguist, it would be extremely interesting to get your input on the similarities and differences of those two. Plus, you would get to learn two languages, or at least two versions of a language, simultaneously.
I'd say Greek. Seems to be the most challenging of the 3 you've mentioned. Without knowing your options, i'd say Arab or Hungarian would be challenging languages to learn.
Keep truckin' man! I was almost 60 years old when I took up Tagalog and I'm now reasonably proficient. You're never too old to learn till dementia sets in and it's a great brain workout.
How about Portuguese, specifically Brazilian? I don't think I'd ever recommend this in a normal situation, but as others mentioned, you said you liked the way it sounds, and you could also enjoy the challenge. Usefulness is debatable, but I don't think that's what you're going after. As for me, if I ever get fluent in Japanese, I'd probably try Russian after it.
I suggest Czech. My mother is Czech; and she tells me if I want to learn the language (as I’m learning Italian which is my fathers native language), then good luck because the grammar is rough for a non-speaker. (But I know you’d be able to master the language in no time at all.)
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If he goes for a Slavic language it would have to be Russian. To do otherwise would be analogous to learning Okinawan instead of Japanese.
@@KinotaurusThat's some bullshit if I've ever heard it. Polish has over 40 million speakers, Ukrainian has over 30, Czech has over 10. Sure, they pale in comparison to the ammount of speakers Russian has, but they're still a more valid choice than some provincial language only one island speaks. And I can't be the only one who finds the implication that all the other slavic languages are at best "alternatives" to Russian quite offensive. I'd say the influence of Russian is unfortunate, because it overshadows multiple arguably better languages. And I don't think he cares solely about the ammount of speakers, anyway. Greek has only around 13 million. That's not impressive at all.
Metatron, would you mind sharing what you think about languages and AI? I recently came across an AI function that automatically translates whatever you say into any language and it even uses your voice tone, which makes very difficult to notice you're using it
You were born in 'Magna Graecia' where (classical) Greek was spoken centuries before Latin. Native Greek speakers in a few villages in southern Italy are ageing. Speaking Greek would be a way to connect with whatever living Greek cultural inheritance is still around.
Sicilian is indeed a language and your English is great! 🎉😊
The second most spoken language in the US is Spanish. The answer is Spanish.
I think you should definitely learn another romance language (I would recommend Brazilian Portuguese, but Spanish would be nice as well) and also Arabic (but I'm not sure if you would be as interested in learning Arabic as you are into the languages you've mentioned).
I'm Brazillian, obviously biased. But i'd recommend Brazillian Portuguese.
P.S. Videos of foreigners learning Portuguese are very popular here!
You've said you like challenges so Greek can be a good fit for you as a unique member of the Indo-European language family. I'd also suggest Germanic languages from this branch, or maybe a language from another, e.g. Uralic, Finno-Ugric, like Finnish, Estonian or Hungarian. There's one more language that comes to mind: basque, which is, as far as I know, the only language with no relatives at all. It definitely must be a challenge.
Greek is a really cool and unique language. If I were you, I'd say learning Greek would be the first thing to do, maybe learning Spanish later as it's really easy and wouldn't be a challenge. Plus point is the historical relevancy of the classical Greek, I like to think that it was the English of its time.
Turkish is a fascinating language full of intrigue. After starting to learn it it gave me more appreciation of Turkish History, Food, Culture... and how interwoven it is with multiple other languages; Greek, French, Persian & ancient Central Asian languages. Using Turkish at an airport to Speak with some tourists from Kazakhstan was surreal!
I don't particularly like religious stuff and found that unlike Arabic or Persian you could choose replacement Turkish (older Turkic) words to replace certain words you didn't like or didn't want to use! Was very liberating :)
You seemed excited about Brazilian Portuguese in other videos maybe try that. (totally not biased)
I’m curious whether you would find it fun to learn Spanish since you tend to like challenges. But I expect Spanish would be pretty easy and quick for you to pick up, and could probably be useful since it’s a pretty ubiquitous language. Spanish is my second language, and although I haven’t yet put in the effort to speak Italian fluently, I was able to start understanding a good 80% or so of Italian shortly after I started studying it, just from knowing Spanish. I think that for you, going from native Italian to Spanish, you would probably have very little issue becoming fluent in a pretty short period of time.
Spanish for you would be too easy, Brazilian Portuguese would be a step ahead same difficulty as French. Modern Greek is fantastic, I've been studying it from the last five years, I'm feeling stuck in my progress, your study would be inspiring.
Actually, French is much more difficult than Portuguese. It is much easier to adapt to Portuguese phonology, even more so if you already know Spanish.
I would recommend removing the in-text citations from Wikipedia when copy-pasting from it for descriptions, it makes it a bit hard to read.
Also, I think that Spanish would be interesting, just to see the differences.
Arabic, although hard is very beautiful and rich since it was standardized 1400 years ago and also it could be described as the Latin of the Middle East since many of the surrounding languages have borrowed a lot from it. Also it is a Semitic language and a cery conservative one at that so it helps understanding other Semitic languages like Hebrew etc. 😁😎
As a native Spanish speaker, I may be biased, but... I think learning Spanish might be a good idea. As you said, the lack of challenge could make it less appealing, but there's also some enjoyment you might find by observing the similarities and differences it has with Italian. It shouldn't take you a long time to reach fluency, and when you do... well, you'll be able to say you speak the three most commonly spoken languages in the world
Spanish or French would surely be the easiest for you at the end of the day. I used to live in Spain myself (for a year) and find the language immensely useful; it's one of the most common languages on the internet and it's spoken in 20 countries. It also helps 'immensely' with reading Portuguese, you could start doing that almost right away, as soon as your Spanish is adequate enough. If you want to learn to speak - that's harder, but doable too. French is honestly also still very useful, so I'd consider it too. Greek or Mandarin... probably the most interesting choices in terms of sheer fun! So, for me it's 1. Spanish 2. Greek 3. Korean
Spanish seems like it would be useful, culturally interesting, and almost like downloading a DLC for a game you already have.
If you want something a little more challenging than Spanish but still easy than you could try portuguese (European)
My personal picks: Gothic (in the gothic alphabet), Coptic, Mongolian (in the traditional script), Persian, Sanskrit.
As a fellow language learner and native Romance language speaker (I speak Spanish, Portuguese, English and Japanese), I'd encourage you to go the cheat coding way and learn Spanish. Just because why not. I've been dabbling in French and Italian for the past 2 years, and it's just really rewarding to see how much I'm able to understand from media that is completely opaque to most of my friends who've never tackled another language. It does indeed feel like cheating; I can tell you that
Greek would be cool, I started with Romanian this year mainly because I like it but also as a personal challenge to learn a language with gramatical cases (I've always found those hard), I've been using mainly Duolingo where I'm about to finish the first unit there
I think Greek would be best. Especially, since you have an interest in the classical period. I am trying to learn Polish because I have cousins who live in Poland.
Im learning Japanese but i also think of Brazilian Portuguese and for 2 reasons which is one there partying culture and also because Brazil does have a japanese community there so i can learn a little bit about the Japanese community in Brazil
I think Greek would be the best for you. As you mentioned, the cultural connections to the Ancient times and to Italy.
Korean is certainly an interesting choice, but you said you'd like a challenge and after the difficulty level of Mandarin you might find Korean "too easy". And Spanish would be definitely too easy for you. :D
Otherwise, if you just want a challenge, try Hungarian or Finnish. The grammar logic would be a nice challenge as it differs from all the languages you learnt so far - just to highlight the biggest difference.
PT-BR!
You won't regret it, trust me!
I'd suggest for you to continue the list of priorities, what you prefer sooner than later, and pick accordingly your order of learning. I'm native in my Semitic language and in English. Now I'm getting a reasonable level in Spanish (I learn it for fun and opportunities for communications), and then when I'll have more time, I'll come back to Mandarin from a break that I had. It took so long and I wanted another language to my arsenal fast, so I switched to Spanish then.
Honestly you should pick a language that you like the sound and is interested in the culture. I never picked up spanish because it is too similar to portuguese, but it has so many great shows in spanish that it is worth at least leaning to understand it. Anyway challengewise maybe korean , arabic or russian.
* whose sound you like and in whose culture you are interested :)
Hello Metatron, as a half Greek living in Greece, I would suggest you to start with Spanish, LOL. The reason I say this is because it will be much easier for you to learn Spanish than Greek and it will give you the ability to speak with so many more people compared to Greek.
After that, you can learn Greek. And since the vocabulary between the two languages is similar to an extend it will be much easier for you to move from one to the other.
I think you’re underestimating the epiphanies he would have from learning Greek. Epiphany, itself, is a concept first named by your wise ancestors. (;
Ohhh man! You MUST learn Greek! Loljk you don’t have to, I am just very passionate about it. Greek is the language I swoon over. You are so right about the depth of Greek in our culture, but you are only looking st the tip of the iceberg. I know you’ll enjoy learning the origins of the West just as much as I am! You’ll put so many pieces together in your head that you’ll be blown away sometimes.
I also hope you eventually get to a dialect of Ancient Greek, as well!
As for me, I have been getting sick of not being able to read Cyrillic, so I have been learning their script lately as I did with Greek years ago. It is horribly confusing and I am slightly annoyed, but I will keep pushing through it. Haha
I would use Cyrillic to learn all those languages eventually if I could.
Then, I am also about to start diving into either Latin or Italian. I will probably do both at the same time together to get the seed and the modern fruit together. 🌷🍇
I would recommend either greek or korean since they are not part of the family language tree among the languages you know how to speak.
Languages you know - language family tree
Mandarin -sinitic
Japanese- japonic
English- germanic
Italian and Sicilian, some french- romance
I’m in Corsica this week, I would love to hear your take on that language. It’s so much easier than French for me to understand as a Spanish and English speaker.
I vote for Korean - I've been struggling with Korean for four years now and misery loves company. And maybe you'll think of good activities that I haven't yet.
@metatronacademy I am not sure what your current list of known languages are so please forgive me if I am being a little redundant. I think as you talk through your thoughts in this video and some other videos you have done in the past, it seems to me you should finish what you started with French because you seem to come back to it a lot so I think it must be very intriguing to you the most at this current point in time. Perhaps after that, since you have done some tonal languages already, you can sharpen those a bit like your Mandarin then maybe try something a little different like an eastern European language like Polish or Russian for a little more challenge since the alphabet / writing changes. Of course Greek will be challenging in that regard as well and you seem to be interested a lot in that language as well.
If you want to notch up more languages at a faster pace, then maybe go for the "low hanging fruit" so you can knock them out in quick succession. Since you are living in the US, you probably have a lot of exposure to Spanish (Mexican and Puerto Rican varieties) and as you are from Italy, you probably heard a fair amount from nearby Spain. So you can compare and contrast the different variations and pick them up quick since they are romance languages like Italian.
If you like to follow world events and news, picking up Korean, Mandarin, Russian and others will allow you to listen to those types of news shows where you can get the perspectives of other people as it relates to world news. It might be fascinating to understand the point of view of other people from various parts of the world who's countries are on the world's stage and have a major influence on international diplomacy. You will also be able to engage with the people directly so you can get the "news behind the news".
Those are my thoughts. Whatever you decide, keep having fun with it! Oh, one more to toss in, since you are C2 English, I think German would be easy to pick up since there are some similarities.
What I admire most about you is the tenacity to reach fluency in a very difficult to learn language like Japanese. With your command of Mandarin Chinese probably on its way to reach a comparable level. Though I may be considered multilingual, I only reached fluency in a few languages of the Germanic and Romance groups.
i would honestly like an obscure language like maybe navajo and how you go about learning that.
Spanish for an Italian should be extremely easy to learn. You might even have time to learn another language.
After learning some German, I made a vow not to learn another Indo-European language, but then I followed it up with Dutch and Norwegian. So I'm not one to talk. But I think it's nice to explore other language families, so I think I would try maybe a Uralic language (Finnish or Hungarian, or better yet, Northern Sami), or Dravidian (Tamil) or Austronesian language (Indonesian or Maori). I've learned a lot about how language can work just by studying Finnish, because it's so different from anything else I'm used to.
In your case, maybe Korean would be best since it's not related to any other language you've studied, but it is in the same part of the world, so maybe that doesn't sound so fun. Greek is Indo-European, but it's off on its own, so maybe that's different enough to at least be challenging. But also, Spanish is nice and easy (for me) and pretty useful.
Maybe my suggestions are making it worse. Good luck!
Learning Greek (my mother tongue) can also unlock cheat codes in math and science because you will be able to recognize what a word means just by the looks of it. Greek Doctors are playing on easy mode.
One thing that I’ve noticed, when you talk about “Asian” languages you always talk about them from the East Asian POV because you speak Japanese and Mandarin, and it’s a pet peeve of mine as Asia is not a monolith and the Sinitic group doesn’t represent all of us. If you are to learn another Asian language, please consider something away from East Asia. Maybe Hindi, Persian, or Tagalog; anything that’s outside of your regular idea of what “Asia” is. Maybe not any of the tonal languages from Southeast Asia like Vietnamese or Thai either as it might still put you in the “East Asian” mind.
And as an Indonesian, I can help you if you decide to learn our national language. Indonesian is one of the easiest languages out there with no grammatical genders, tenses, etc. We write using the same 26 letter in the English alphabet with no special characters, with spelling and pronunciation that are also easy for Italian speakers. Just let me know. Just please, not another East Asian language.
Finnish （Suomi） will be my next language. I started a few months ago and I had to put it on standby. But I would love to learn it.
Same. I've thought "I should stop learning new languages" many times but I can't stop because I love it.
I've been learning Dutch this year and I want to learn next: Romanian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Japanese, Ukrainian, etc. (I know, many languages)
I'm recently trying to learn Guarani but I can't find enough resources yet, especially for grammar. I speak Spanish natively and I've already tried to find them in Spanish too (actually, most of the resources I've found are in Spanish).
Now about the languages you mention in your video, choose either Greek or Korean. If you want to learn the main Asian language trio, learn Korean. Its grammar will be very easy because you already speak Japanese and they have very similar grammar. I don't know that much about Greek but I think its pronunciation is very similar to European Spanish. Actually there's a region in Italy where people speak Greek. Spanish will be very easy because it's very similar to Italian and to a lesser extent French. I've learned both French and Italian and Italian is the easiest of them because of the similar pronunciation and grammar.
I vote for Spanish. It's always nice to take a small break from major tasks and besides there's a lot of Spanish learners that'd love to learn the language alongside someone like you
Focus on perfecting the languages you already know. Learning a language, even one's own, is a lifetime commitment. Then pick up Latin and Classical Greek back, languages you're already familiar with, to achieve spoken fluency, the way that guy Lucius from Polymathy does. Then you can work from Koine Greek to Modern Greek with less effort.
Languages you know: Italian, Sicilian, English, Japanese, Mandarin & French
What I recommend: Russian, Indian (Not Native American), *Korean or Greek.* Indian would be my recommendation for someone who likes a challenge, as its alphabet is least similar to the ones you already know.
Spanish might be "too easy", in my experience currently learning it and coming from a romance language myself I seldom feel like I make any progress, as words and grammatical concepts are so similar to my own language that once learned I falsely feel like I kinda knew them already.
Would be interested in hearing something from you regarding ancient Aramaic, juxtaposed against Modern Hebrew. Both are essentially spoken languages
Have you ever heard about Bahasa Indonesia? I'm curious if it's really easy for non-native to learn.
But considering your main channel, modern Greek may help in understanding Mediterranean history more.
I would love to properly Spanish someday, but if you want a challenge that's also something totally different, go for Finnish. It will definitely challenge you. I love the language, and it has given me so much.
Korean might be a fun challenge! But... Spanish might also be fun... and Greek as well... I can't help you pick just one 😅 Maybe that's because I'm also unable to pick another language to learn. I've dabbled in Scottish Gaelic for a while, so I know at least some basics, plus I've listened to tons of Gaelic radio stations for a while. Then again, picking up a tonal language also seems fun, and since an early ex was from Isaan in the northeastern part of Thailand (where they basically speak a version of Laotian), and since those few months with her sparked a neverending obsession with Isaan, Thai and Laotian cuisine in me, it seems like a good idea to start learning Laotian. On the other hand, for my work I am involved with Africa a lot, so it could be beneficial to learn either Tigrinya or Amharic, but I also did 2 years of Swahili (which I failed to learn, hence why I had to quit that BA program), so that might be easier to pick up again.
So many choices... It drives me insane 😂
Since you're living in US I WOULD suggest Spanish bc of relatively big Hispanic imigration, esp in certain states. So you'd have situations to practice it and the social aspect. Korean sounds cool too but also like a lot of time and maybe it'd be nice to...take on something 'easier' before tackling another language from a completely different group with a completely different alphabet. Greek is curious and fun bc I LOVE it when people invest in learning in the less 'widely spoken' languages such as Spanis or English or even Russian where you have different countries where the language is spoken and thus it's more 'wordly;' and people see it as more important or beneficial because it opens them up for job market ect. People often look at language learning as "what is the point of learning from a very practical perspective. what use of it will I have in my life, practically speaking" and thus the languages that are spoken in one or two countries that aren't some big superpowers seem like waste of time bc 'unless I go there for vacation, what's the use? and I can use english anyway".
If you really want a challenge, start Greenlandic or Navajo. Way more difficult than Asian languages and culturally very interesting at least to a fellow Hyperborean Finlander like me. Diné, Ket and Inuit languages are related and so are the stories of their common origin.
I suspect you could improve your Mandarin while also setting time aside to improve your Spanish, so in that sense I bet you could tackle both at once. Though I'm not so familiar with your methods to be certain that's feasible.
If you *can* improve your Mandarin while learning Spanish, the question comes down to Greek and Korean. I think Korean would be especially interesting, given its tentative relationship to Japanese, in terms of grammar. Greek would be interesting for its historical insights, especially.
But foe communication purposes, I would suggest whichever one lets you speak to others more readily, given your statement. Do you know any Korean speakers? Greek speakers? How often are you in contact with either/or?
Good luck, have fun 👍
Metatron, from the passion you talk about languages and communication I gauge you must be a Gemini like me. For me, it would be Greek - it sounds lovely.
Since you live in the States now and are interested in talking to people and learning about their culture, I would say learning Spanish is a great choice. Just because of the amount of Mexicans living there, this would be the variety of Spanish I recommend you learn first. Later on you will be able to understand more about other varieties.
I think you should learn German. Like English it's a Germanic language of course, but with the complexity of case. I do know that both Japanese and Korean have a limited case system. It would be interesting to see how you would progress in German as someone who is very proficient in English but don't have English as a native language. It might be a stepping stone to case heavy languages such as Polish and Russian.
Would be curious to watch you try 'conservative languages' that haven't changed much, such as Icelandic, Finnish, or Lithuanian. I'm myself learning Swedish at the moment since as a native English speaker, it's very 'familiar' with the vocabulary especially. I'm learning it as a hobby because I like how it sounds, not so much for any other reason, just sounds nice.
Greek is conservative too! I estimate that New Testament Greek is to the modern Greek speaker as Shakespeare is to the modern English speaker, and Classical Attic as Chaucer. English from NT times wasn't even English yet, and would be incomprehensible to modern speakers.
@@pierreabbat6157 Yea I'm aware that Greek is on par with the 3 I mentioned. I just noticed that in a lot of his videos he mentions Greek a lot so I figured, hmmm, maybe something just as difficult, but something he hasn't tackled yet.
You should learn Chinese Mandarin! It’s super easy and only takes a few hours to learn. Also the pronunciation is super easy.
(Im joking btw I know you already speak Mandarin)
Not funny.
I’m supporting your Korean journey! There are a ridiculous number of resources out there. Not forgetting all the shows and media and stuff, you can immerse yourself in the language easily. I recommend talktomeinkorean and billygokorean. Plus you’ll have advantages with some aspects from Mandarin and Japanese. I also think it’s easier than Japanese so maybe it won’t be as big of a challenge as that. xD
Definitely Spagnolo. There's 500 million Spanish speakers waiting to benefit from your content.
Armenian. As an Armenian speaker, i always find commonalitues with other Indo European languages plus the alphabet is amazing!
...or you could go REALLY profoundly adventurous and learn a language like Navajo. It is slightly tonal and has a phenomenally fascinating grammar.
You can learn whatever languagr you want, anyway I might learn Italian after I finished with learning Spanish and Mandarin.
For Korean, you mentioned you would enjoy the challenge. For Spanish, you mentioned you would enjoy learning an easy, for you, language fast. With Greek, you mentioned coffee, absentmindedly.
Greek seems to have struck a more personal chord with you, subconsiously, and you really sounded more enthusiastic when talking about it. I vote for Greek.
I'm obviously biased but i'd recommend Brazillian Portuguese, primarily.
Other than that, i don't know if you already speak any slavic languages, but Russian would be a great thing to focus on too, to start covering other linguistic origins as well and bringing them to the channel.
I'd say go for Greek, it's a language I've wanted to learn and seeing how you actually learn a language would be great since I'm struggling trying to learn my "second" language. I really don't know what I'm doing other than trying to brute force my learning and that doesn't work well. From an unbiased opnion, I'd suggest you try Hindi, it's one of the largest spoken languages in the world, next to Spanish, English, and Chinese, I believe, so opening up a whole new culture and group of people would be cool along with the rich historical components of India and the Vedas.
But, If you end up learning German at some point, I'd love a chance to work with you and see how you approach and tackle a new language. To me, it's aggravating trying to learn a language when the only touch stone you have for it is boring, ineffective high school standard-American classroom methods.
All great choices but go with where your heart is.
If you live in the US, Spanish will be the perfect choise, also because it will be easier to use in your daily conversations. I am going to pick up French. My level is only A2 and I want to improve it. Saluti dalla Toscana.
I’ve been told (I’m not sure of the research on this), that while Korean is ‘difficult’, it is much easier if you know Japanese. So many of the fences to jump Europeans meet when learning Japanese or Korean have already been jumped - most obviously with the structure. So it may be easier than you might expect. I’m putting it to the test now by starting Korean (still just a Japanese learner). Another advantage of Korean is that there is so much really interesting content to use for immersing.
While i know you have a methodology that works for yourself, out of pure personal interest I’d love to see you tackle a language by trying something different. I’d be interested to hear your opinion on the ‘Dreaming Spanish’ approach of pure input. Several people I know swear by it - and a Spanish teacher I know says she was impressed at how good some of her students were who used it before coming to her to reach a more advanced level. But I know others (including some very experienced learners) are sceptical of their approach.
How about Dutch. We've got some difficult sounds. Like our G. And the structure is, although Germanic, tough with all the exceptions.
I also love languages and history and really like your content. Spanish would be better for you to learn for the utility obviously but Greek would be cooler in a way, I think it would really suit you. You could even learn Spanish pretty easily in parallell probably. The problems start to arise when you have too many languages to maintain, I imagine. For example I already learned some german like 11 years ago and then lost almost all of my conversational abilty since I never practiced conversation, allthough it's coming back fast now.
I am from Sweden and learned Portuguese the last four years, being fluent already in English. I now work in Brazil and consider myself completetly fluent, although I still lack some vocab sometimes compared to a Brazilian. I also studied some Spanish and understand it quite well if there's not too much slang etc or some difficult accent. But when I speak it it turns into so called portonhol, extemely bad Spanish with a lot of portuguese words and pronounciation. I also udnerstand German quite well and am currently practicing to get to conversational fluency at the minumum, then I'll do the same with Spanish. I tried to learn some japanese but haven't gotten very far yet, I really would like to learn it though so have to commit a bit more, I feel it's so much more of an effort.
If you already speak quite good Japanese then I would definitely suggest you picking up Korean, the two languages are quite similar to each other especially in terms of grammar.
Given your foundation in Italian and English I think it would only take you a few months to get very comfortable in Spanish. I would suggest you tackle Spanish and only then go for the the challenging Korean.
Well, let's take a look at it, spanish will be rather easy for you as an Italian, pronunciation is almost identical and we share several similarities from a cultural point of view. Option B, Brazilian portuguese. Considering how much you enjoyed the sound and musicality of portuguese, that's a no brainer. From a gramatical view, is similar to spanish and Italian, perhaps the only challenge is the pronunciation, but it's not nowhere as challenging as french. Also, learning with Brasilians is like a never ending party. I did and I don't regret it for a second
I might be biased but now that you live in the USA maybe Spanish might be a good choice. There's a big Hispanic community in the states which you be able to use Spanish. So I suggest you start with Spanish, give it a year and see where it takes you. The positive is when you go to an actual Mexican restaurant (not fast good like Taco Bell) you be able to order in Spanish which is a nice thing to have in your belt.
oldest language also u will see similarly in old world story from Greek and Japan and also is good for understanding warfare, philosophy and lifestyle
Vai col neogreco! Iniziai a studiarlo anni fa, bellissimo ma, pur avendo studiato il greco antico, trovavo difficoltà a memorizzarne le costruzioni. Poi mi buttai sullo spagnolo...questioni di cuore. Ma se scegli il neogreco lo riprendo con te😉
In your situation, I'd go with Greek. Maybe you yourself won't have this issue, but for me, when I'm dealing with a language that is too close to my native one, to the point of being largelly mutualy inteligeable, the learning process isn't so satisfying because I can't distinguish if I understand because I'm learning, or because it's so close to the one I already speak.
It's interesting you didn't mention Portugese. You seem to enjoy it in the videos.
do mongolian for the challenge east asian and the vertical script is so cool
I vote for Modern Greek. I don't imagine Korean would be so useful, unless you travel there.
I would be interested to hear you speak Korean, I like the solemn intonation of this language, so to speak. Personally I have recently developped a soft spot for Slavic languages (currently learning Russian, also because of my liking for Tolstoy's War and Peace) and languages from the Middle East. I'd say Farsi is my favorite, Persian culture is underrepresented in our history books, usually depicting the Persians as "the bad guys", or "enemies of democracy", in a purely Greek point of view.