Asian Americans Try To Speak Their Native Language 

Me with English and Vietnamese. Dear lord I understand like 90% of what they are saying in Vietnamese but my response sounds much better in my head than when I try to actually say it and I just end up getting slightly frustrated and defeated and just answer in English. Makes me really sad but trying to keep up my learning of my language

+DonutLe Sameee, like I understand the language, it's just when I have to say something, my mind blanks

+DonutLe SAME! I'm Vietnamese American and I struggle with the same thing. I end up understanding than just speaking. It sucks.

+Lois v actually, knowing more than one language means you're more likely to experience the "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon. you're not alone :p

+Silviegold same. i try and learn a word a day lol

In actual terms, we become alien to our own culture.

@Vijay Surya but, what he says is right......you do become alien to your own culture, i'm an asian-american and it's hard to speak my native tongue to my grandmother and family, i don't even know family traditions because i was born in America going to American schools and learning about American ways, you're rambling on about Americans in different countries but Americans really don't have their own culture, it's really just borrowed from different places of the world, and i don't see why a country WOULDN'T allow another tradition other than their own inside the country

@Vijay Surya Vijay Surya my elders were forced here, it's not like they had a choice, war in their home countries forced them out, i'd absolutely love to go to my home country to connect with my people and learn my tradition, you don't have to mention anything about you being attacked because that's not the topic here, comforts and freedom are not in every corner of America, just like i've never been to Inida, you've never been to America, you don't know a thing about it, it's only the textbooks and articles online you read that inform you, but only your own two eyes can tell the truth other than words from another person

And gain a piece of other cultures. The fact is, cultures doesn't matter.

@Gleb B. / Глеб Б. Are you sure? Because, hundreds years ago, the culture and the tradition was hunting witches, enslave African american and killing heathens. And that disappeared, through time. We forget our culture, to create a new one. Even the culture isn't the same inside a lot of families. (e.g. religious parents and emo-gotics sons). So, in fact, it doesn't even matter what kind of culture do you have. You are you, no matter what.

In her RU-vid she speaks it.

@@IvanPlayStation4LiFe wait...what?

IvanPlayStation4LiFe Where?

@@ralphcarino5672 her youtube is Michelle Khare

AnnaBananaLovesPuppies 123 I know, I mean which video.

Potato ·_· same but I’m russian

幸亏我的母亲也是, 不然我就会像我那几位朋友一样, 完全不懂得说普通话

me too but for serbian

you really are... i can barely speak hindi but i completely understand if someone talks to me in it..

我的中文很不好 haha, 可是我很喜欢中文 :). Trying to learn it every day :D

Probably raised in an Americanized community. They also probably didn't speak the language with the parents because they might have not taught them or some other reason

It's easy to forget your native language if you aren't constantly surrounded by it.

english is not their native becuz (ugh i cant describe it but i know what it is...)

+Teenage thinker ok well think of a reason before you comment

+Teenage thinker its their native language

@The Internet yes it does make sense. If people start forgetting their native languages through generations it will become obsolete and replaced by for example, only English

I know my native language Spanish plus I also know English I can translate and speak and write both langagues perfectly fluently.

@@IvanPlayStation4LiFethat's great!

I wish I had people in my family speak their Native language :( They all speak English with accents

I hate my language

Same ;(

me too

Me too

What how... If you understand the words can't you form a sentence with them?

+Katrine Jensen ohhh alright, so can you read your language?

Bts

@@ralteh3390 yes bts😂😂

Fully agree with you❤️❤️

Agreed ^_^

Agreed ^_^

Fatima Tariq it is, but you have to 'practice' every day or they forget LIEK ME... I understand Telugu though so and can say some basic words

Fatima Tariq+ You are right, My Parents are from Pakistan and India (Father from India and my mom from Pakistan) I can speek both languages fluently ya and i know Hindi and Urdu are almost the same. I can also speak little bit Marathi.

Sana Khan that's cool dude

There's only so much a parent can teach you when nobody around you speaks the language

I agree and it's not that their bad parents, it's just something they overlook as not important.

Yeah, must be hard though with time already gone when she could have used the language if some of her family members passed away.

+Negus_Nark she can talk to them in heaven now! 😇

Well she did go to Dartmouth which is an Ivy League school

it sounded like fake crying

+Madeline b her grandfather died recently and she went to India for his funeral, so thinking about not knowing his native language is probably what has her tearing up.

TheonlyHoneyBadger It's the primary language in Mumbai. It's called "Marathi".

+Talin Antarkar good for you!!!!!!

XShadowshot thanks!!!!!!

good for you. Sometimes I feel like I'm too hard for keeping our language but I hope they some day will appreciate it

you are amazing!

@Vanarkc watch indian movies and listen music . you will never forget your own language

@@vishaldairan6100 i don't watch movies at all indian music is very great but i don't sing at all with language if you dont speak you forget faster and one day i will forget every thing for sure :( but it is what it is

@@ワーナー-p8t why no movies tho ??, They've been getting better lately, much, more than "boy- girl- romance -fighting" stuff

I am trying to learn Japanese Maybe we can help each other I'll help you Learn Hindi and you help me with Japanese!?

तुम्हे यह कमेंट हिंदी में लिखना चाहिए था, अब्भ्यास के लिये।। 😄😅

They probably want their kids to speak English well because they tried so hard to speak it properly and get the opportunities that comes with that

I know for my friend (mom is off the boat Italian, dad is polish) her mother didn't teach her Italian because she didn't want her father to feel left out or isolated because the children knew Italian and he didn't, so she never taught them. Sad

me too, it's sad

+Gabbi S ya

+Bridget Carta i love italians and polish omg that's cool

Cider your Summer🌌 i see an indian once?!💛

Chanyoel’s toes, Nope I'm French-Korean :)

Cider your Summer🌌 I’m Arab/Russian/Korean

Cider your Summer🌌I'm Moroccan/Persian/Mongolian

Hindi and Urdu words are so similar.

Jacky Tang self hating Asians?

Yes their parents have taught them to become submissive to the country and culture they have arrived to. Very sad, and weak if u ask me🤣

People who can speak another language don't usually care what others around them are thinking. I think they are ashamed because they can't pronounce the words, so then just say the language that they can say, which is English. How many times have we heard young people attempt their parents' language, stutter and mispronounce, then just use English? This is why I think people, not just young people, are afraid to use a foreign language.

u worded that weirdly "will look down on them especially people from the third world countries"

BlueMoonLightDreams sorry that you only speak one language

OMG YAH!! I speak Hindi and I understand EVERYTHING but cant speak it :(

sAmE

For me I sound like the same 11 year old. Idk enough to have conversations on serious subjects, usually just day to day stuff!

I see your name is 박지민, I understand my native language(Korean)... It was my mother tongue even tho I was not born in Korea.... Hope you learn it as well

@@firstnamelastname1773 I'm also korean (my name is an idol's name since I'm not comfortable sharing my native name), how did you end up staying consistent in learning korean? I have a hard time trying to balance it out as I have more English speakers in my family (at least to who I talk to) and also korean friends who only speak english to me?

It usually results in trying too hard "to fit in."

that's amazing

exactly

Sometimes its the environment. Everybody's talking in English there so who are these people going to practice with? Especially that Laos guy.

Stewie Griffin Me too!!!

same

+Dianna Kensington what same?

+Lily Lawrence we were all wrong ._.

+gabriellatful BAHAHAHAH

Same here

Larisse Amany I'm really confused I live in the UK and I have never heard of Englandish

lmao xD you crossed a line.... in this case.... a country 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Please tell me this is a joke.

UltraMarioLegendz it is lmfao.

Mad Movie Maker yeah, wierd right?😂

I would probably do that too. Just kidding. But i would never accept that my kids don't want to learn their mother tongue. I just can't

Hi army :) 💜💜💜

@@LaLa-ig5jf hi💜

@@ishratjahan2999 SKKS..I WOULD TOO IF I GOT MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN I MEAN

Mine too. More like we wouldn't be able to talk. Lucky both my parents spoke to me in their native languages

+Zazsuran Hoshuko ftw!

My mum forced me to go through shoo-gakkou and chuu-gakkou at my Japanese Saturday school, I hated that, but now that I've graduated, I feel like I should have paid more attention in writing classes, and I shouldn't have taking it all for granted 😅

I wish I had Japanese classes before because I'll be visiting my grandparents in Japan on November, unfortunately I can barely speak Japanese.

+RW it will definitely be worth it in the long run! I'm not going to lie, my mother and I often got into arguments [but what teen doesn't argue with their parents once in a while?] but I'm in my 30s and very few of my friends can speak/read/write. It's definitely the reason I have a pretty strong bond with my mother :)

Omg I go to Japanese school on the weekends as well! I have it tomorrow ^_^

*because

Same here with my mom. She makes me go to Chinese school every Sunday to learn how to speak, write and read Mandarin. I use to find it annoying but I'm more open/willing to learn more of the language now that I took an interest in learning a different language; Korean! I find the language very interesting and because of my interest in Hangul, I've realised it's important to have your native language at heart since it is part of your heritage in which you should embrace it. I know Mandarin, Cantonese and my real native language and wish to further enhance them. Fortunately I'm still young and there's still many more things to learn. Hopefully I'll continue to learn more languages.

Languages are actually easier for adults than kids to learn but whatever

Yup. For a child, learning language is part of their brain chemistry. They are literally built to absorb information; they do this in an unconscious state of mind, like they’re learning and they don’t even know it. They are live sponges, soaking up information. Adults and older children, on the other hand, have to consciously learn the information which makes it harder because when we learn that way, information sometimes gets lost or disassociated. And for kids, they're not afraid to mispronounce things and they learn from their mistakes.

Korean? Im learning to speak it...its pretty hard😅

Hey I speak Bosnian too!! Are you from there? :)

+AnaBanana no I'm not but my mum is, however I learnt it by living there for approx a year

+Amalija Schofield Cool. I have a question. Can Bosnians understand Serbians? Are there any similarities like in Portuguese and Spanish.

I speak Arabic :D

+-KiwiGaming- where u from? ;3

Dont worry dude it's the same issue with me.Trust me many people face this problem too

And I am an Indian born and raised in Nepal and I know both the languages fluently..😁 thanks to Bollywood and Indian television

Hi army :) 💜💜💜💜

@@LaLa-ig5jf hlo fellow ARMY 💜💜💜

You should learn nepali never forget you culture, your language your tradition for anything.

+*insert username* Yes, I do know what that's like. I, too, am Indian-American and never spoke anything other than English. This definitely was overdramatic.

+*insert username* yeah i know how that feels like actually. Well i was never feeling ''guilt-ridden'' though.

+bigp132 When I said "through their experiences" I also meant their personal experiences - we don't know what the language barriers meant for them. My brother went through the same thing and he hated it. And, while it may be okay for you, it's not for them.

+bigp132 It means more to them than it does to you. That's all that says

+Uchiha Hohua Thank you.

I agree lol... i was wondering who else felt this way.. and im an indian american too

+PigToots idk, you can't really say that if you don't understand their situation.

+Emily Mack I mean, she chose not to learn it, she was acting as if her family was too underprivileged to learn the language.

why are y'all being so hateful lol

+Ejay Reyes We are just saying, She was too Dramatic

ye

+Jayvee Robrigado Well, if ancestors means only two generations ago, sure. But these people grew up with parents and grandparents who did speak the language and didn't pass it on.

+Jayvee Robrigado Yes, well, my father's grandparents spoke 4 different mother tongues and then there my mother's side.....These are pretty close to me but this means I am the only one who was raised in English and my "ancestors" from 14 different European nations (I know my family tree quite well) spoke too many languages that I can dream to learn. I am bilingual only in English and French and can get along in German or Italian but this is about it. No real knowledge of Russian or Greek or Gaelic (Scotland) or Serbo-Croatian or Romanian......and I have no clue whatsoever in Bulgarian, Breton, Welsh, Yiddish or Norwegian.........

I learnt that americans are really tied to their ancestry, for example the fact fhat most of them say that they are Italian, Irish, Japanese etc. while here in Europe (at least for my personal experience) we tend not to do that even if we have migrant ancestors, so I think that saying "native" can be accepted in this case

+山崎六郎 they should have passed down the language and culture , one should not forget their even if they are not born there.

Thanks 😭

Define "Native Language"

+cmiller8492 Not true. I have a friend from greece, born in greece, with two greek parents, who no longer speaks greek. When you move to a different country and you only speak this new language, you no longer are actively using that other language, and you slowly forget how to speak it because you don't use it. Another friend I have was adopted from a russian orphanage, at the age of two, was brought to america. Both are still natives, both was still born in in another country and still is considered an immigrant. Both no longer speak the language they learned as a child. This isn't just them, many people who move to foreign countries lose their native language. There's a youtuber who was canadian who as an adult moved to japan. After living there for 10 years, she now has trouble speaking english because she doesn't need to know it. So in an attempt to practice and keep herself fluent in her native language she used youtube as a space to retain that side of her. If you don't use it, you lose it. Same with anything that is learned. Like how parents look at their child's algebra homework and can't remember how to solve the problem even though when they took the same class. When you get out of school, algebra isn't used in everyday life, so it's forgotten about. It's not even just language. When people move, even across the united states, accents and dialects slowly rub off on the travelers and they will start talking in the dialect of where they're currently located. It's part of the way our bodies adapt to our surroundings for survival. No one really knows exactly why this happens in speech as well, but it's been proven to happen consistently to travelers. It's part of absorbing other cultures. These people could of easily spoken their native language until kindergarten, and they had to adapt to the culture they were thrown into. You could do your own research as well.

cmiller8492 I tend to use heritage language for cases where it's immediate family that speaks it. They're only one generation displaced; to me at least, 'ancestral language' implies that it stopped being spoken several generations before.

Asians can't help tht there brown or yellow right? No matter how u put it we would feel comfortable speaking our own native languages thts a fact Unless u have no sense of discomfort living in a white society what's so ever

+Jaclyn Lizzi thank you Jaclyn, finally someone with a sound answer.

+Michelle Tabisz Well said!

I live in Germany and my parents are Vietnamese and we talk in German most of the time, because when I was younger my dad had a hard time finding a job in his department with his broken German, so he liked to practise it with his family. As a result my parent's German is pretty good and the rest of my extended family in Vietnam thinks I'm a disgrace for not speaking Vietnamese very well. lol

Aber für eine Vitnamnesin siehst du sehr hübsch und attraktiv für meine Befürfnisse als junger Typ. :P Falls du das auf deinem Profil wirklich sein solltest.

Danke :'D ist ein seehr altes Foto

+Laura that happens to a lot of vietnamese families here in London

Laura Ich weiß ja nicht ob es dir aufgefallen ist, aber in Düsseldorf und Frankfurt gibt es die meisten Vitnamnesinen, Japaner, Koreaner, und Chinesin. Wusstest du das ?

same...

yea...I can feel ya. Writing and understanding is easy but then for speaking, there like a weird slang in it

It's called a tone

I feel you sometimes but I find that it's okay, try practising. I also occasionally pronounce words wrongly though but I do correct myself after.

Xavi Xiang I totally understand...

yeh I am billungual

In most of the non western world it's extremely common.

*if you live in America

Blackmesh and isn’t an immigrant

@@BlackM3sh If an American is monolingual is by choice. Some elementary schools have bilingual options. It is just Spanish, but still. So many language classes here and we have access to free content these days. I learned French in high school. Most high schools offer language classes and universities. I got lucky that my French teacher was so good at teaching us. I took Japanese classes before and doing self study now. Will take Korean classes next year. I found out that they teach them at this university tuition free to everyone. Just 40 dollars registration fee. So it is all up to the individual if they want to stay monolingual. And the library is a good resource. I get my Japanese books there to practice my reading :)

watch my video on the same topic (How china people speak english ) very funny video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sHUiCrBKg_w.html watch my website for more updates: www.faaltu.in

And still to this very day, Natalie Steel is weeping.

Natalie Steel the last chick was a horrible actor 😒

They're not actors though O-o

lmfao i ment i was cryin then when i wrote the comment im dead asf

TAEYONGIEEEE!!!! ❤❤❤

+Jiminiex ♥ chim chim

JIMIN!!

+jiminiepabo Hi Jimins 😂

+Amitha Alex same...

+Kaiser William -maybe the same reason my family doesn't speak Polish or Celtic? i mean, the last 2 generations born in the US and therefore speak English in everyday life. i don't know... just a guess. but if you were born in the US, the likelihood of needing to know a language other than (maybe) Spanish is pretty low.

+Stephanie B well i am indian. Commonly in my state people speak marathi or Hindi. My mother tongue is a dialect of Konkani spoken by about only 50000 ppl. Among many of my friends one parent speaks konkani and other doesnt but they still speak it quite fluently. Even if u live in a state where ur native language isnt the main language people still speak their mothertongue at home irrespective of where they live.

Half of my family has stayed in Washington DC for over 3 generations now- They still speak Odiya (A 5000 year old language spoken by only 3% of India's population in the state of Odisha), They speak American English, Little tidbits of India's most spoken language- Hindi. As for my family- We have never stayed in the state of Odisha in India- We stayed in Mumbai where the official language is Marathi and English. Yet I ended up learning Odiya,Marathi,Hindi,English,Japanese,Mandarin,Korean and several local Indian languages. It's not a big deal.

+Sagar Mahapatra 👏👏👏

Thank you for expressing this, I agree it's not funny. My grandmother's health has turned for the worst and I cannot communicate with her, it makes it really awkward and I feel disappointed in myself. I wish I had worked harder at learning Vietnamese when I had the chance.

Haha and British too XD btw hi army :) 💜💜

Lol for a second I actually thought you could speak 4 languages

I can speak 3 languages Odia,Hindi and English

i. can speak english american australian canadian british ......😂 then malayalam tamil and hindi..

Jungkook Kookie I speak BRITISH and New Zelandi

This, exactly. I'm not crying. Not at all, this is rain on my face right now.

Ashish Pradhan Common in Yankee documentaries.

😂😂😂

Lol idk why that girl was crying. My parents never taught me their native languages (spanish/Armenian) and while it sucks it’s not that crazy

DXmaryoOD well, it’s different for everyone. i get sad sometimes because my grandmother only speaks twi (ghanian language) and i don’t understand, and it sucks to translate. it’s embarrassing (to me)

ffion williams same and then it ended up being a sob story lol

same here..

Allister N That is so sad. Oh my God. :*-(

Why did you think this was doing to be funny?

Ikr damn

Abh Ghu non genuine.

she has been on buzzfeed for such a long time now, how can you even think what she said was genuine 😂

저 한국에서왔어요

don't worry, we have lots people over here to keep culture alive. NRI(non resident of India) always get over dramatic about India when they are in other country. At instant they land here start complain about own country.

Abh Ghu proud that though she's an invader, she has not been influenced beyond repair by her occupied territory? You have to go back.

Right.

I can't agree more.

Exactly

Yep

Okay so I don’t think it’s that deep but you’re right

How lmao I'm not even close to white and I'm wondering that myself???

I'm asian. Crying for this is stupid

I'd say ignorant not neccessarily white. If someone wants to cry about something Let them cry! I'm sure everyone single person has cried over something someone else thought was stupid. Sheesh.

+Jxnnys lol like white people only spoke English and no other languages

I'm not white and I don't understand why the heck they are crying.

Me 😂😂😂

+Jonghyun's Trash 가비 me too haha

Me

Me too

LMFAO that's why I was scrolling through the comments

Yvonne Myers no. I can understand mandarin dialects but I dont speak it.

Saaame

ayyy ghana

same here... i can understand my mom's borneo language but i can't speak it... 😂😂

Yvonne Myers no

I thought that means “Hope your day goes good”

@@killrate3432 well yeah that is also true

@@killrate3432 It should've been "hope your day goes *well" but that still sounds awkward in English. Literal, word by word translations don't work all the time, even more when the two languages are barely related. "Have a nice day" would be the closest translation.

@@vivy-kun3510 agreed

Hindi

Miyah Rose I'm exactly like you but with kabyle (berbère) and I feel bad for that :c

I'm sure muscle memory will kick in and help you learn quicker

Miyah Rose hai

depending on where you live in the US, there is a chance you can connect with other Japanese-Americans. But Japanese is definitely spoken in the US, albeit not by everyone! maybe when you ask and look around you can connect with young people in a similar situation who also want to connect with their native tongue again. good luck! and if anything else fails, you could still check Japanese classes for beginners at your high school/college, I'm sure you'll beat all those non-Japanese people learning it as an entirely new language to them.

If you live on the west coast or Hawaii, you can find Japanese people to talk with. It's really nice for me here in Hawaii, and even though I'm in a "white school" 14 out of 20 kids are Japanese, the rest are Chinese and white

+Claire B actually, it's because some, if not most, of them chose to not learn it when they were young. I have cousins who can no longer understand or speak our native tongue because they were ashamed to even speak our native tongue when we were little. Now they are ridden with guilt and regrets because they could hardly communicate with our dying grandparents. And how could one even claim to be of a certain ethnic descent when one cannot even speak, least understand, the language? They brought it upon themselves..

+Phil Lux Some of them did, yes - and that's why they feel so guilty in the video.

+Phil Lux um... I didn't choose to not learn, my mother did. She never taught me and I resent her for it because now I can't communicate with a majority of my family.

Yup I agree

+Phil Lux I just feel you can be part of that ethnicity even if you weren't able to learn the language. As long as you respect where you come from and not insult it. I think we shouldn't hate or think of them less for not knowing the language of their ancestors...

i love your username. if there's a chogiwill, there's chogiway :v

Chogiwa x ikr even tho im not korean

dude!!! same!!!

im not sure if i should be proud of it though lmao

Yes. i wanna know who she is

@@MrZeGrave Michelle Khare

exactly lol

I hate it when people don't learn their native language... You can learn English incredibly easily once you go to school.

I learnt my home language at 16. It's possible. I wish they wouldn't make their lives seem so difficult and instead make some effort to pick up the language. It can be done.

Exactly. There is a simple solution to all this: learn the language.

+Sophie K maybe some people don't feel the need to. Why is that so bad?

Earth Is Not Flat yea it wasn’t that deep

it wasnt deep at all. they're just buzzfeed cucks

I’ve cried before for not being able to speak Tagalog. As an American who has never been to the Philippines and never got to have a relation with my relatives there.. I wish I could speak Tagalog. As my Filipino family keeps passing away before I get to meet them.. it’s tough. Tagalog would bring me so much closer to my ancestors and heritage. It’s just a missing part of me and these people too.

+Deeco Draven criiiinge. you sound like a 12 year old lol

Earth Is Not Flat I saw you somewhere else on youtube

+samana1fromsomalia awwww thats nice

I came to America when I wasn't even born

Yeah Somalia

zingzong4067 it's not like anyone is dying to meet you in Mogadishu.

Charles Bronson Who said I'm Somali?

What if u got 5,000 likes?

@@भारतीय-झ1ब no u r wrong every state has a different mother tongue

Hindi English Urdu Bengali Sanskrit 😊

How strong is your Spanish?

Not all Indians in India know Hindi.

dude... you learn 3 different language... me gusta senorita. lol jk but seriously... teach me how to have parents with diff country. I want to learn other language too..

Shafwan Dito That's the sad part, it's all luck :( *****​ Dzieki, ale nie ma co podziwiac- to wszystko szczescie! Lepiej podziwiac tych co sie sami nauczyli :)

Coffee The Bunny That's a really cool combination! How did that work? Both my parents are pure nationalities

raziell​ I'm currently studying Korea and learning the language :) 

I speak Uranese, I'm from Uranus.

Angie H English is probably one of the easiest languages to learn.

Dreamer Girl I guess thats how it would seem for someone who knows english

XxBySNiPxX ikr it sounds easy but its actually not

Angie H Yup.I mean i see many people struggling with English

XxBySNiPxX that's true and I'm one

that's sad.

:/

That's more in the north in the south not knowing your mother tongue is a huge taboo

+ranga bharadwaj That's only cause the government isn't even putting Punjabi as the main language to learn their replacing it with Hindi and English

Yup even a little while ago i hated my native language and focused on talking in English and having a good accent in tht but there is nothing so special in having a good accent we make up our own accent or pick it up. Who give a f about our accent as long as we can speak a foreign language properly it is all well.

Wow way to go, you're amazing! Love your determination! Lots of love from India:))

lalisa in your area well, if u go to an English speaking school, FULL of pple speaking English at a young age, then when ur older, you will start to forget ur mother tongue. u learn best in languages when ur young, once u get older, it may be too late n more difficult. don't blame anyone. u saying it is making them feel more guilt.

The parents are sort of to blame I guess...

Tracy Aung that's exactly what happened to me

They do so for better “assimilation.” Especially if you live in suburbia, maybe the South, or far from a heavily populated US city there’s more discrimination against minorities. My parents moved us to predominantly white preppy areas and always saw it as necessary to have a strong command of English to be taken seriously. They even took speech classes to improve upon their accents. It’s a hard life. My parents fought so hard in their highly competitive careers battling and competing against discrimination in the workplace. Unfortunately there are many Asian-American people like me who became brainwashed to think that our ethnic background deemed us “inferior.” Now as a twenty-something and trying to understand myself and where I come from, I find it so important to have pride in my heritage. Filipinos are some of the most nurturing and welcoming in culture and are not lesser people. Also, English is my native language. Tagalog and Bisaya are not native to me, but native to my parents. I speak English. The title is very incorrect.

Speaking as an Asian-American and observing other families like mine, most if not all immigrant parents will continue speaking to their children in their native languages. That doesn't automatically mean their child will grow up *speaking* the language, they'll only be able to understand it. It's up to the child *themselves* to show interest in their native cultures and learn the language of their parents, which thankfully, I chose to do. I can't imagine not being bilingual and having a language barrier that could've easily been avoided.

i thought Irish spoke english!!

Doge I lost in the west of Ireland and thankfully where I live Irish is still pretty widely spoken. it's a language I love an a language I'll teach my children ❤

Same. I'm Irish and I really hope the language would get more attention

I love celtic languages so im trying to learn irish

C K N Ireland's primary language now is English. For majority of us our first language is English, we learn through English. Irish is taught in our schools yes but just the basics and even then it's not taught well because I learned how to speak it was through my grandparents...unless you're speaking it every day then it's very hard to speak it fluently. Aswell as that Irish is a very old and very difficult language to grasp so unless it's being spoken in someone's every day language I wouldn't judge someone for not knowing it. Whether they were Irish or otherwise

weeaboo

merc - Weaboo is someone who thinks they are Japanese but they are not. OP just likes anime and this doesn't make him/her a weaboo at all

I was thinking all she has to do is just watch anime and she'll learn her language.

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Found the weeb, they are so proud on the Internet

@@lialia2263 Lol no. It's not.

I can speak Hindi, English, a lil Japanese. I used to speak Bengali too but after 7 years I forgot

It’s not ‘an Indian thing’ lol like that’s ridiculous. Half the world is multilingual lol. I know you guys are proud of being Indian and that’s fine by me just don’t make stuff up.

@@steviedavidson5130 it's that's fine "with" me

@Ashwini M P lol 😂

The gozaimashita is a more formal way of saying arigato

I did ANIME!!!! XD

Angel remot ore wa oh chin chin daisuki nandayo

Angel remot akito and anime

im pretty sure to make it more formal, you would add domo to the front of arigatogozaimashita

jae bi I agree

Andres Leon she said ethnicity and american is not an ethnicity but indian and chinese are ethnicities

Andres Leon ethnicity is decided by nature but natinality is decided by humans... You cab change ur nationality but can't ur ethnicity... Thats what i am saying... U should know where u belong

jae bi no they shouldn't they're supposed to assimilate

I'm Sri Lankan -Indonesian, i learned english and then indonesian, and then i tried to learn sinhala from my father, but i gave up coz that is very difficult🙃

seriously. like if you want to learn, then learn. nothing is holding you back but yourself.

Je parle français, espangol, et anglais. Je sui un américain de parents pérouvien et espangol. Et oui, Apprendre idiomes différents C'est très important

Mes parents sont anglais et americainne, donc j’ai été élevé seulement parlent 1 langue. J’essaie apprendre le français, l’arabe etc maintenant mais il est plus difficile. Si tu as les parents qui ne parle pas anglais, apprend d’ils. c’est util pour toi

You know..indians breaks down easily, very sensitive 😂😂😂

Atleast you're multilingual and many of your countrymen are not! It's always better to have a broad look at things. :)

Elena JK I'm proud of you! I started studying in France last year. I don't see any people who act against Asian people because I and they came of age already and are University student. I understand what you experienced and I don't expect I can get over that situation if I was you. But you kept learning your mother tongue. That's not easy. Super.

Elena JK I'm black and me and my parents visited South Korea for BTS and when we was walking on the street people will just stop and stare at us like we were outsiders or something

Elena JK 20 and already masterd 3 languages... Arigatou for the inspiration!

oml same here, serious langauge barriers between my parents so i grew up without knowing languages as a child and now i'm trying to learn to reach out to my family

tae tae and his tea 👀

I believe it too, he cant understand easy words like "you" in laos LOL that's pretty sad. I mean at least he should know how to say "you" "me" in laos. he didn't even recognize it LOL

j j , because he didn't learn the language. i don't think its something to laugh about tbh

xiusthetic oh I'm not laughing at him, he just did a fake laugh

i didn't say it to you, i replied to j j who said that its pretty sad that he doesn't even know "you" in laos and he didn't even recognize it. i mean, how could he if he never learned the language?

That's TOTALLY right. I'm bilingual and before I went to school my parents spoke to me only russian (I'm half russian and half italian) and only when I started kindergarten I started to speak italian , just because of the kids that surrounded me

Illinois Patriot my parents only spoke Spanish and Tagalog to me before I started school. I’m filipino but I live in America

My mom speaks malay to me n my dad speak english to me so i can be better in english, i live in my native country so yeah..

I live in America and was born here as well. My parents make my brother and I speak ONLY Vietnamese when we get home from school. They said that in order to keep my native language, we all speak Vietnamese at home. I'm proud of who I am and the language I can speak.

@@cyberpanda3 That's true. If you grew up in America, English is spoken here. I've lived in the Philippines and loved it... Including my bride of 30+ years and our 'pamilya'. Learn Tagalog! It's never too late! I learned some of mine in 'ang simbahan' (Church!) Kapayapa'an sa iyo!

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

진짜? 나도 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

I understand you at a spiritual level......

Same

You know that feeling, where have to say a word from your native language, and then you had to switch back to English to explain what it meant, but because you switched to fast, you said it with an inarticulate accent? I once had to explain what "stupid" meant, and when I switched back to English, I spoke in English-Carabao... English-Carabao is English, but it's very inarticulate, and wrong grammar... Yee ;-;

I don't even know why lol, I'm half chinese and it's not even that bad not being able to communicate to other chinese ppl! WE HAVE GOOGLE TRANSLATE

+Emily Rocks maybe these people want to actually retain knowledge about the language instead of just communicating through a robotic voice that doesn't carry as much meaning as human intonation and pronounciation???

Eric Wright Why would I want attention from random people on the internet who don't know me? Think before you type.

+Eric Wright ahaha yes

Eric Wright Eric you make no sense, please explain why I want attention from online strangers?

Oh my god, yes! I knew how to speak Khmer (Cambodian) until I had to learn English in elementary school also. Now, I'm taking Khmer classes to regain my native language again. 😊

+Auxafly Reports In order to speak more clearly at school, my parents were asked by my speech coach to speak only English for a long period (about 2 years or so?). Now the only Spanish I know is what I've picked up from my extended family, and I can just get by with short conversations.

I used speak Spanish very well and as I began to learn English, I began to refuse to talk in Spanish anymore, so now I'm learning the language again 😕

same

Yeah same. I used to speak Tagalog (Philippines) well, but when I went to elementary school they discouraged me from speaking it, I stopped doing it because I was made fun of for my accent and how I spoke when I tried. I was so embarrassed of being Filipino it's sad to think about tbh. My mom is always urging me to learn it again but it's harder now that I'm older.

Sarah Duncan I started to learn Spanish this year :D And I speak German, English and French xD

Marina 😦 That's awesome! Germans pretty hard but once i started to practice it got easier.

Sarah Duncan okay, I wish you good luck with it :)

Oh and it's my native language, if you have any questions maybe I could help you😊

Marina Coolio. Thanx! 😁

You rejected your mother religion, but you speak a language which was spoken by them. Bengali is derived from Prakrit which was derived from sanskrit which was derived vedic sanskrit which was used to write vedas. "Vedas" means knowledge. The book of knowledge. Have you ever read it ?

@@justrandomhuman3781 go preach your religion in the religious section guruji. Also a name doesn’t indicate someone's religion. I have a cousins named Miara, rayn, nora and sooha and yanli. These names come from different origins. My ancestors shed blood for my mother tongue so you have no right to look down upon me because the origin of my faith is different.

@@ishratjahan2999 Sorry! Chill. I didn't mean to offend you. Calm down.

@@ishratjahan2999 you should focus on arabic or urdu

@@rakeshsinghbisht3623 she's Bangladeshi Her mother tongue is Bengali why should she? Religion has nothing to do with language bro

I cant read or right either.

aw, that's sad... I am Nepali too, but my parents only ever replied to me when I talked in Nepali, so I had no choice but to speak it, and I am still fluent. I hope you can learn how to speak it, if not read and write.

loveamazingstuff12 thx for the suport it really motivates me i have been taking classes with my nepali friends

You really shouldn't be so hard on yourself. As kids, we'd always want to be more social and like our friends, so it's really understandable that you're not fluent, given that you've grown up with English-speaking surroundings. It's good to hear you're currently taking classes to improve that, so don't feel like a disgrace. In fact, think of it as earning your language. That's what I'm currently doing with one of my native languages too, so as a kindred spirit, I wish you luck!

That's the exact same with me about nepali

They tend to start at a younger age when it's easier for the brain to absorb it.

Hyosomoo "it's easier to learn young" is a complete and stupid myth. I learned basic french in 3 months and spanish in only a month and a half last year. Spent zero money along the way as well.

+Fred Bucao The more you know. But congrats to you! Not everyone is the same. Luckily I don't seem to struggle with Spanish unlike my peers.

Fred Bucao It Isn't a myth. When you're younger and learning new things neutrons in the brain create new pathways, that's why it's important to have kids try a variety of things growing up. As you get older new pathways are more difficult to create which is why it takes longer to learn new things. You must be something of a savant if you're able to learn languages so easily.

I think it's really hard to learn it as an adult or trying to teach yourself is so hard!

Wow someone that actually thinks Indian girl is nice?? Damn. Usually they get all the hate lol

@@ruggsparch2787 IKR!!!!!!!!!!!! Most people think that we are ABCD's. I'm not confused. I'm confident. Besides that, I can fluently speak Bangla, and am learning to write and read it.

YES SHE IS

@@anandisarkar8549 did you learn it or it’s your first language ?

Bethany M just a prop

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it has support on its nose

Morpheous

He must have a tight head.

So true. I had Sunday school to learn Chinese Never spoke a word of English to my family

same :'DD

Same with Vietnamese, it's a must to be able to speak in Vietnamese families

+Angela Carlsson my aunties used to get so annoyed when I couldn't speak Vietnamese very well

Wolf Kittie So you speak fluent Mandarin or Cantonese?

Burmese - That's Mexican isn't it?

Burmese - Then what i should say being a Colombian kiubo parcero 😂

Exactly. I personally find this video offensive because it implies that any ethnic person in america has to have some ties to their "roots" or whatever. I'm african american and like most other african americans, we have no idea where we came from in africa and have been here since the slavery days so does this mean we're "frauds" for not knowing whatever our supposed "native" language even is? I was born in america so english is my native language.

@@thelonercoder5816 this video really isn’t about you guys though. it’s about people who’s parents come from a different country , but being a child up in the united states. so yeah, they still have a right to their culture and it can be sad when they don’t know how to speak the language because if such continues, then their culture will be lost

​​@@Ισαβέλα-ψ7τe a mesma coisa c**** Sem falar que tem muitos na África que também tem parentes da escravidão vem falar besteira não tá. Nasceu nos Estados Unidos sua língua Nativa em inglês não tem essa p**** não seu pai pode ser Congo pode ser Jamaica nasceu nos Estados Unidos você tem a língua primeira como inglês

Also, both languages happen to have similar (if not the same) word for Mother and Father, which I love about both of them, it makes them both happy haha. c:

Missmethinksalot1 Well, THEYRE parents knew each other, and introduced them both. :) I resemble my Mum more, however nit exactly, as I still show a mix of my Father. I've got smaller eyes, medium fair skin and quite big lips so I don't really look like either to be honest. :) I guess the fact that I am a female is why I resemble my Mother more. On the other hand, my brother looks more like my father, unlike me and my sisters.

Thanks for replying...that is soooo cool, best of both worlds! :) have a lovely day ^_^

Omg that's such a cool mix! I'm full Bengali but since I don't speak it at home I've almost forgotten how to... on the other hand I've learnt Korean and I'm almost fluent now... kinda sad haha

+ririroxdaworld Aha I am absolutely broken in Bengali and probably worse at Korean? but the thing is, I may be horrible at speaking, I understand it perfectly fine!

😂 prime example of Asian parents being so supportive right here. My friend's mom laughs at how I use chopsticks.

My dad laughs whenever I try to speak in Navajo. :/

+Sarah Kim dude i feel that. this is why I don't try speaking Urdu in front of my parents. the laughing is not encouraging!

+Sarah Kim It's so hard when they laugh and mention the accent, like damn, I'm trying!

SAME! It brings me down and makes me not want to try anymore if i'm getting laughed at.

That was weird lol

Exactly

Kewae aeriol po ykow demikola 😄👍🏻

เขาพิมพ์ภาษาประจำชาติกันเหรอคะ?

kisne dance kiya

I'm 18 and I speak and I'm learning french as my 5th Spanish (my native tongue) English Italian Portuguese

I'm 16 and I can speak English Hindi Tamil (my dad) Kannada (my mom) Korean (learnt) French (learnt) Almost finishing my courses in 2 languages : Chinese Spanish I'm sorry if anyone found it offensive or as if I'm showing off i wanna be a lauguage interpreter so I'm learning with interest 😄

@@sensorcato I'm sorry,is that supposed to be funny?

@@khione07 u can actually speak so much of them? Thats cool man 👍

@@shailesh5514 Thank you so much ❤️😭 , I've always been interested in learning languages , I'm thinking of opening a channel to teach or give tips on languages ...

finally! someone said it.

Thank you. Thats nice to hear

Where I grew up there wasn't a community of Chinese speakers, but I am very fluent in Chinese because my parents spoke to me in Chinese. I agree that if you learn the language later in life, finding a community where you can use and practice the language really helps.

Fern Lin-Healy I don't know you so this will all be hypothesis, but one thing is that individual linguistic capabilities definitely vary, so you might find learning and keeping a language a relatively an easy task, but there are plenty of people who find it more difficult to learn and keep multiple languages. People's different growing up environments definitely can affect this ability, but from my observation there were definitely just inherent individual characteristics. Also, the family situations might vary. Again, I don't know your situation, but for families where there is a person at home most of the time who speaks that language, it's gonna be easier to teach children the language. However, some people grow up with all the adults gone for work and they're left with their siblings at home, and after they start school and English becomes easier for them, of course they're gonna be speaking English to each other and eventually forget to use their family's language.

Now folsk have skype and youtube and can check out free language cds from the library.

For most parents, it's usually because they or either too busy or their children can't learn the other language without getting in the way for their learning. It happened to me, it happens to others. It's not much of their choice.

In my country, children who speak another language at home often have troubles speaking proper swiss-german and german (im from Switzerland). The chance of them getting through school is lower and the chance of finding a job, too. Of course, many are well integrated and dont have much trouble. But if your friends are children of foreigners and you and them only speak a foreign language at home, chances are, that your grammer and accent is not the best for finding a job later in life. And i mean, we swiss also learn english and french in school (mandatory), so thats a lot of language. And german isnt easy as well, because our swiss-german (the tongue we speek in) is quite different from german (the tongue we write in)

Rafaela Scheiwiller funny you say that, I'm from Switzerland and my parents are immigrants and I am trilingual and speak another 2 languages semi fluently. Also all the immigrant children I grew up with did just fine for themselves, despite being put down by Swiss teachers on a regular basis. Ich weiss nöd wo du ufgwachse bisch, aber bi eus redet d schwiizer fast schlimmer als d uslender. Anyway I suppose it's up to the individual but I believe it's a parents duty to teach your child about your culture and to give onto them the knowledge you have

More so to the original post, my mom when she moved the the states from Germany found her children learning English to be of higher priority (especially with my older sister being born with autism). I would not judge those parents so harshly; it is hard trying to teach your kids a language different from the world around them, especially if you are the only one on your community who speaks it. My sisters and I are all learning German now, and it is fun practicing with her and my relatives. But we do not bring up why she did not raise us bilingual. She feels quite sad that we are not as connected to German as she is, and she regrets her decision..but at the time she only thought she was doing what was best for her kids.

It's probably due to the circumstaces and jobs. Some parents work day and night and the children grow up eventually forgetting their native language.

me 2 i have to speak my mole people language because they cant understand surface people

its tragic rly

RightBlader lmao i c what u did there 😏 #kimmyschmidt

Me too. Whenever I speak English in my house, my mom and dad would probably be like, "HUH? I NO SPEAK ENGLISH!"

it's not their native language, it's their ancestral language. your native language is the language you grew up speaking in, like english.

aww, I'm half thai and half norwegian. But unfortunally I can't speak or understand thai xC I can speak norwgian and english (a little spanish too). I feel like a failure

+amalieaco that's still impressive you can speak multiple languages . I'm sure if you practice you'll be able to understand and speak Thai soon 😊

Ah, you can speak multiple language, that's still amazing! Don't worry, Thai is not that hard to learn, though the words differ for formal and informal speech greatly. If I were you, I'd try and speak more formally. It is never too late to learn, though, always remember that. Some simple phrases/something to get you started a little: (If you are a female) Sawadee kha = Hello/goodbye (If you are a male) Sawadee krap = Hello/goodbye *Note: The r in krap is not very noticeable, so don't worry to much about pronouncing it Speaking of kha and krap, those are what you say at the end of sentences to sound polite/show respect. For example, if you bump someone on the street, instead of saying "Kor toht"(Sorry/excuse me), you'd say "Kor toht ka/krap." On their own, krap and ka just mean yes. This may not seem like much, but krap and ka are important to speaking Thai, because they are spoken so often and without them, you would sound rude. Hope this helps and good luck!

I hope you all success in learning to speak your original language or to be multilingual.

that is me with my language

+Eunmi24 I'm also learning korean and Talk To Me In Korean is a very useful site! I also learn korean by listening to the music and watching shows.

Eunminim fighting!~

+Eunmi24 Korean, Arabic and Mandarin are the most difficult languages for English-speaking people to learn. It only takes about 600 hours of study/practice to learn French, Italian or German, but it takes three to four times longer for those languages!

+chillchillpill Actually, korean is not that hard for english speakers 👀

I'm also trying to learn Korean as well (even though I'm not Korean) but currently I only know how to read & write it but I can't understand it well

I'd like to mention your picture and how sad I feel every time I see that drawing.

Woah Japanese and PuertoRican?? That's such a mix, that's so cool 😄

salma ramithe what a cool, interesting mix haha

that's awesome!

私は日本とプエルトリコのミックスを一度も会ったことがない！うわー！ ❤️

In Djibouti(it's a country) people speak Arabic and French, in Somalia people speak Arabic and Somali.

majority of somalis (this includes djiboutians) don't speak arabic. A lot know how to read and write because of the Quran but thats it. Most Somalis who live outside the Middle East don't know how to speak it.

They 1st language of many djiboutians is Somali, end of. It's not Arabic nor French.

Warsame Warsama My parents did actually but the with the time I grew up, I had to learn german since I'm living here. When I got into kindergarten I still messed up the two languages a lot. But in elementary school I only spoke german and forgot how to speak turkish. Now I understand everything in turkish, but can't speak it for some reason and when I try I get really embarrassed...

Exactly. It's all about the parents. Toddlers are sponges, if the parents never took that oportunity is not the kid's fault

In any other country, the descendants of immigrants speak the national language and not the language of their immigrant ancestors. This is completely natural. It has nothing to do with the "culture of America".

"It is truly sad that there's such ignorance in the USA." No. You are ignorant, not the USA.

Dimitris Athanasopoulos This is kind of false. For one, the USA specifically does not designate English as their official language. Pretty much all big businesses have some form of translation or translator. All governmental transactions have paperwork translated into various languages. Most schools have a foreign language requirement if not in High School then in college. Various Tv shows are in different languages, and there are dual language immersion in some public schools. In other words the USA doesn't force anyone to learn English and get rid of your culture, it is a choice. Most of the people who are against multi-linguism are racist white people who are usually the conservatives from the south and middle America who wants the country to go back to pre-civil rights era. In Europe, you either speak the language or it's too bad. The USA is more accommodating. A lot of ethnic minorities lose their language only because English is easier if you were born or raised there, simple as that.

This is very untrue. These people happened to be raised in surroundings where everyone speak English so they didn't bother to learn the language their parents speak. The reason the U.S is so diverse is because there are immigrants bringing their culture and languages in the first place.

Dimitri: I'm an American but my ancestors were English, Dutch, Norwegian, German, Scots-Irish, Danish, Welsh, Irish. Even my New York City Dutch ancestors have been speaking English for hundreds of years. I guess I don't respect my background enough as the only other languages I've learned are Spanish and Latin. Gimme a break.

Serela Haxhillari What language is that if I may ask? :)

Serela Haxhillari HAHAHA HOW? THATS SO SAD

BTS hater? You got no jams 可能是你周围没人说中文的原因？

why is it that I relate to this so much? I can understand the conversation but when I reply the only words I can only come up is English sigh

xi chen 你答对了。我住的地方有很少的人说中文

Arent Israelis asian though

@@ericktellez7632 Not culturally or racially. Maybe geographically

+Negin K speak Persian then ?

rohit narain yes that's what i do

Negin K alright cool

you're so cool. hope many parents will be like yours...

+Negin K I speak Persian too :)

Jade Lescure you are the one behind Google translate aren't you?

Exactly! I had similar thoughts when I read the title of this video.

In my experience it was my first language, but after I moved to America, I learned English and slowly forgot Tagalog since everybody around me only spoke English and I felt hella embarrassed speaking it.

cedeelbe Same. I hate how I sound in Tagalog

cedeelbe just how old were u when u moved to the us? 3? how could u 'forgot' ur first language?

Yeah but if they left a piece of them behind who are they anymore?

I can be your filipino friend who speaks tagalog ;))) Bilingual ako rin pero mas dominant ako sa English kasi pinanganak ako sa abroad huehue

Sana talaga may isang maimpuwensya na tao sa Pilipinas tulad ng Pangulo na maging daan upang magsalita tayo ng tuwid na Tagalog dahil ang sagwa talaga pakinggan kapag inihahalo ito sa wikang Ingles na animo ay nagsasalitang banyaga.