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Im 32 and have been studying world languages since I was 7. Unfortunately as an American that means studying by myself with nobody to talk to. I fully plan to move to some European country and forget English. Rest assured I wont be speaking English at all, and I will correct those who do. I DEMAND conversations in languages other than English.

As a native speaker of English learning Italian and then going on later to learn Spanish, is there an advantage to learning Argintinian Spanish when my ultimate goal is to maximize my understanding of Spanish and being understood in my travels around the world? If not, what dialect of Spanish is most easily understood worldwide?

Whenever I speak Spanish, I end up drifting into Italian pronunciation. I find this to be frustrating. I think this is because I’ve studied both to a degree. Has anyone else experienced this?

I think the next 200 or so years, especially for American English, I think a lot of Acronyms, especially Acronyms around computer and network stuff is going to be very widely used and a lot of terms that we would have no idea what they are...same with "Curse" words too, except for the "George Carlin 7 words you can't say on TV", I think there will be a whole slew of new ones that will make no sense to us. Lord knows in a 1000 years if we could even understand each other. I think society and language and communication are going to radically change as technology becomes more and more advanced....

i cant speak italian or siciilan but its cool

Molto Bene ...

I am Iraqi and I understood the Maltese lady to some extent 😊

Occitan is not only in South East France (Italy and Spain), but more generaly all South France. From Est to West we have (main dialects, because you can go in more detail) : - Vivaroalpin - Provençal - Auvernhat - Lengadocian - Lemosin - Gascon The more you go to West, the more occitan is different from latin. Catalan has a lot of similarities with Gascon and Lengadocian, but has little to compare with Lemosin or Auvernhat. But, even if people are desagreeing about the unicity of the Lenga d'oc, there is for a fact intercomprehension between all dialects, but I need to say that if we speak about culture, there you can find a lot of differences (about History, way of speech, way of thinking, morals, in politics, etc.) You said a very fact that is unfortunatly true ; occitan has a little number of speakers despite the large geographical area (South France, Val d'Aran in Spain - where occitan is official, and some Italian vallees in the Alps). I am one of these rare people, who was born in a speaking familly, and fortunately, I see a little success for occitan because there are more people who are speaking it now than 10 years ago (but we are very far from done). PS : the third video (with the manifestation) both people are speaking occitan from Gascony (more precisely from Bearn). The gascon is probably the occitan dialect the more complicated from a latin point of view, because there are a lot of specificties (explained by the romanization and latinization who arrived later than the rest of Roman world), so gascon keeps a lot of pre-latin words, and more so pre-indoeuropean words for the Novempopulania part of Gasconny (the more you go to Pyrenees, the more is apealing ; you can find the old roots with basque). Gascon is also different by the phrase construction ; there is the "que" who is a particle unique in all Europe, and we can only find particles like these only in native american languages.

The difference is so slight that, objectively, they will each take about the same amount to learn to get to C1.

I think short/long vowels are not sufficiently emphasized.

1:38 "Arrimo un piccioto" or something like this. We speak something really similar were im from (Recife, Brazil). We often say pixoto to refer a little boy, pixota to a little girl. This is in severe disuse in past decades.

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It's MASHEEN! Haven't you watched Idiocracy?

Grazie per la lezione!!! : )

But what is the meaning behind it, why do they have gramatical genders...why is a phone masculine or feminine, it's neutral, it's a thing, it doesn't have sexual organs.

Quick note: Romanina is not Latin. Latin is Romanina. You migh ask "how"? Tha Romanian language (more like Dacian) is from the roots where the original Latin has originated. (When the Roman Empire) tried to invate then know as Dacia, the people of Dacia spoke a totally different language ( Romans were like, "what language is that"???) Only Later after the conquest of Trajan of then Dacia, now know as Modern Romania, have the Roman churches have implemented the Lating Language. So you could say half or more was taken and adopted because if its actually different properties. They used it to keep secrets and also (have a new language". Hope that helps a little. Research if you dont believe me.

Most Japanese can’t write Kanji… they just use their smartphones. 😊 Same thing in China. I used to hate Kanji but I’ve come to appreciate it and realized that reading Japanese without it is horrible. The more I learn the more I like it.

That’s impressive! As a romanian I can safely say that romanian tongue twisters are the ultimate wizardry test. 🧙‍♂🪄 So, here’s your magical challenge: try saying “De gospodărit mă gospodăresc, dar de desgospodărit nu mă pot desgospodări, pentru că desgospodărirea este paguboasă.” (Setting up house I set up house, but unsetting up house I can’t unset up house, because unsetting up house is harmful.) “S-a suit capra pe piatră și a spart-o-n patru, de s-ar sparge capul caprei ca și piatra-n patru.” (The goat climbed upon a stone, so that the stone broke in four pieces; may the goat’s head break in four pieces as the stone broke in four.) “Bucură-te cum s-a bucurat Bucuroaia de bucuria lui Bucurel când s-a întors bucuros de la București.” (Enjoy yourself, as well as Bucuroaia enjoyed the joy of Bucurel when he returned joyful from Bucharest.) “Şase saşi cosaşi cosesc şase saci săseşti.” (Six saxon reapers reap six saxon sacks.) “Un vultur stă pe pisc c-un pix in plisc.” (An eagle sits on a plinth with a pen in the plinth.) “Rică nu știa să zică râu, rățușcă, rămurică.” (Rica - a boy's name - didn't know how to say river, duck, branch.) “Șase sute șaizeci și șase de sași in șase sute șaizeci si șase de saci” (Six hundred and sixty-six saxons in six hundred and sixty-six bags) “Ştiu că ştiu că ştiuca-i ştiucă şi mai ştiu că ştiuca-i peşte.” (I know that I know that a pike is a pike and I also know that a pike is a fish.)

Salve from Londinium. Has this chap got a Birmingham accent?

soy español me pasa con el italiano lo entiendo bien

As a spanish the same happens to me i understand many things and i can guess by context

My biggest problem with Matt was the he was way too big of a “fake it till you make it” type of guy in the first few years, and I think that is very detrimental when it comes to language learning. He would sound too confident about his language abilities while really not showing such skills in his videos, and would boost way too much about it to build up his persona online. I think that with time and moving to Japan he caught up and skilled up to become a very fluent speaker. But I do remember videos where he would boost about having perfect Japanese while having limited vocabulary and not being as articulated with the language. From there on, I could never go back to like the guy, despite knowing he improved. But yeah, I myself also just dislike the whole “white guy impresses Asian person with his perfect language skills”, it sounds very scammy. Sometimes I think it stems from not understanding the culture when you get compliments from locals. In my years living in Japan I’ve heard it many times: “Your Japanese is perfect”, “you speak better than Japanese people themselves”, but I’m fully aware they are just being overly nice and meaning “for a foreigner you’re really good”. So when I see foreigners claiming they’re just as good if not better than locals, I can only assume they’re either ignorant or have malicious intent. (One of the few exceptions being Joey “The anime man”, but he grew up speaking it as a half Japanese, and that’s why it makes sense)

I ATE DA NORTH

You look like furio giunta

It is improper to say Balkan because Romania is a Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic land. Because it is only by the CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS and ABSOLUTELY NOT THE BALKANS .

Also - here is my theory for the future of languages - they will merge! We are already seeing this happen with English words influencing a range of other languages. There are English words influencing Spanish which is a language I study and a large number of speakers of Welsh in my local area will speak Welsh with a heavy dose of English vocabulary, even basic words sometimes. This may be because they are forgetting the real Welsh words but there are a lot of Welsh words from 100 years ago which are not used at all any more and people will just use English words or a combination of similar Welsh words to convey the meaning. I think as English influences other languages in the online world more and more, other languages will become Anglicised over time. I even believe that this may be being encouraged deliberately by politicians/governments to try to elminate linguistic differences.

Hello Metatron, big fan of your work. Can you explain how we are able to tell how words used to be pronounced when we don't have any recordings from the time period?

Wow! It is real classical latin with the correct pronunciation, not late medieval revisitation. I really enjoyed a moment of cultural pleasure. Thank you so much.

There are some funny cases where a greek word makes its way to another language, is altered by that language and then comes back to Greece with this alteration. Example: The greek "χορδή/chord" was adopted in Latin "corde", it became "cordone" in modern Italian and then came back to Greece in the form "κορδόνι/kordoni" to refer to shoelaces

only a double V "VV" were said as W

Wow, I watched the entire video and only at the end noticed you're wearing something... historical?

They are a very great video compare the similar word between Sicilian and Arabic link to the video ruclips.net/video/95TELgdVAnU/видео.htmlsi=Hm1UFTX_s4fKRkYQ

In a secondary school run by the Jesuits, I studied Latin for several years. I found it quite hard to learn. I especially had a problem with understanding Cicero. I would love to have you produce a video showing "Cicero" delivering at least part of one of his orations.

The question is: How do we know what classical Latin sounded like?

Very interesting. And what is your opinion on „interlingua“? Specialy as a lingua franca between speakers of Spanish, Portugues, Italian, Romanian, etc.?

When Italian-American say 'I am Italian', they are referring to ETHNICITY, not necessarily NATIONALITY.

Ciao ragazzo! :) Puoi scriverci a noi non italiani e pure non siciliani, (sono serbo io), il testo di quello che hai detto in siciliano? Grazie :) keep up the great job man. Very educational videos, and sopratutto, fun. Un saluto da Serbia!

Salve Metatron! Impressive as usual and actual fluent latin brings to me a sense of power and precision that we have lost in our modern Italian...

昔の日本語は緑も青も全て「あお」と呼んでいたんじゃなかったっけ？

Italy-Greek brothers!! 🇮🇹🇬🇷

ce n'est pas du latin c'est de l'ancien romain, le latin c'esr des lettres (un alphabet) ce n'est pas une langue.

I watched this video yesterday on this subject, I think it is wise. What do you think? ruclips.net/video/31wNfBts0aw/видео.html

3:12 Fluency is around 2000?? What?! I know around 2500-3000 words in Japanese I'm pretty sure, and I can barely speak, nor can I understand much of what I hear. The only thing I'm decent at is reading manga and lighter novels.

Native greek, fluent english, trying to get fluent in japanese

you have kind eyes, I'll check your channel 🙂

The thing is... we, as Romanians can understand you more than you can understand us 🤗

It's very hard to me understand the Romansh, I come from North Italy (Lombardy) and I 'm pretty good at my dialect but Romanch, to my ears, sounds too close to some germanic languages...I can recognize some words, but not all the meaning of a sentence.

Ya music to my siclian ears

I would love to have a conversation with you in Sicilian help me reconnect with my roots it's been 25 years since i have had the privilege