Great topic. I have experienced that "happiness" of talking and understanding another language. It's like a second chance at life. Thanks for bringing this up.
We all, sort of, put on /adopt a new personality while speaking a foreign language. It has a lot to do with how we see the native speakers of that language. For example, when I speak English, I'm more emotional, I'm all like : "Yeah! I love it.! Oh, no, I'm absolutely gutted...", whereas when I speak in my mother tongue I'm more level - headed and the words carry more weight, if it makes sense
You are the first Italian to hear that speaks Eng as a native speaker. I got astonished. My mother tongue is Greek and I am trying to speak Eng as a native speaker too. Congrats! Keep up the great work! Thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for your comment! 🤩🤩 And sorry for my late reply but I try to take a break from my channel over the weekend. Careful: If you say to me 'you are the first Italian TO hear', that means that I am the subject of 'hear', so I hear. But you want to say that YOU hear, so you need to say 'you are the first Italian (THAT) I hear....' 😉 Also, we don't GET astonished, we ARE astonished 😉
Thank you for your amazing comment and I'm really glad you can relate to the video! 🤩😉 I love the quote! I'm 100% sure there is something psychological behind my dislike of Italian. I've been thinking about it a lot over the years and I think it has to do with the fact that back home I couldn't fully be myself as a gay guy: that's the best explanation I can give myself. I know everyone loves Italian and they are all gobsmacked when I say I don't 😜 the one thing I like about it as a language is that we have some great voice over artists with beautiful voices. If you have a chance, look up the Italian voice of Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy or the mother in Gilmore Girls 🤩
Great video, Sam, as always. I totally agree about switching personality when switching language. My own languages are AmE, BrE, French, and German, and I have quite distinct personalities in each: Introverted and argumentative in German, charming and bubbly in French, high-brow and conservative in BrE, and cheerful and generous in AmE. Perhaps it's because we're unconsciously mirroring the people from whom we picked up a language?
Thank you Ernest! 🤩 I'd never thought about the impact the person we learn the language from could have on our personality. I don't think it applies to me specifically, but I'm sure it definitely does to others and that there is some truth in it 😊 I love how your personality changes!
Most people learning a second language only learn fairly formal vocabulary and usually won't be versed in the vernacular and cultural nuances. For example, French people think I'm very polite because I don't know how to be sarcastic in French. It's not my personality that changes when I switch languages, it's my ability to fully express myself.
I loved this video! Thank you, Sam! I love how you take every opportunity to teach people new - and useful! - vocabulary. I can so relate to your feeling of immense pleasure when you're listening to (other people speaking good) English. I thought it was only me but I'm glad that I'm in such a good company :) As for your speaking Italian vs English, what I've noticed is that your voice is deeper when you speak Italian (at least, it seems so to me), which corresponds to my theory that the voice changes depending on the language someone speaks (I think that my voice is slightly higher when I speak English).
Hi! Totally agree with you. My mother tongue is Spanish, argentinian actually. I'm learning right now Italian, and I love to use it when we play an argue at class. Love to use my voice and my hands too! 😅 However, is absolutely delicious to hear you, Sam, speaking English as well as Italian. The tenor and the "baritono" inside of you ❤
@@veronicadominguez851 Thank you, Verónica, for the compliment, too 🤩 Haha yes, Italian comes with all sorts of hand gestures 😜 Careful: it's 'argument', not 'argue' 😉
Me still sound like an east european who has just moved to EU though 😅 or like from those tik tok videos)) Thank you, Sammy!❤ Why are you learning German - Wanna move there? Excellent theme 🙌🏽👍🤩
