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Amazing interview Steve, it was amazing seeing the more serious side of LanguageSimp! As a fellow Vancouverite and language enthusiast, I would love to get in touch with you, feel free to check out our language channel and see if it peaks your interest :) All the best!
I have sent and replied to many polyglots. I have posted over many websites enough to fill a 300 page book. What have I written. The continuing failure of the clear majority of people to learn or acquire a new language. I failed over 13 years to be able to be conversationally fluent in Tagalog. I failed at a cost of $5,000 to learn through conventional tutoring. I then failed with 1,500 hours of storytelling though I keep have them read. After a few months nothing improved using LingQ. Of course the cost for storytelling and LingQ just ads to the disaster. I stopped speaking to those not helping here in Metro Manila. My 25 year relationship is also damaged. I stopped attending Filipino gatherings of any kind since it was extremely depressing ending up alone among others not translating or helping me learn or acquire. So what is the secret I am convinced exists that polyglots are not telling to help acquire a new language? I was not a math major but when I returned to college it struck me why others just were defeated and struggling with algebra. My discussion with them about personal feelings of math then teaching the most difficult concept simply solved the problem. But this language is a severe problem. I must state that I see the Tagalog language culture as severely broken. Engaging them in talk is impossible. They giggle and ridicule. So that is one factor encouraged by polyglots not possible here due to thus childish and rude action. It just creates humiliation and anxiety for me.
It was a pleasure meeting you Steve. Your Ancient Albanian Sign Language needs work, but you are truly the GOAT in this community. I am crying tears of joy right now.
We are going to add Ancient Albanian Sign Language to LingQ. Just waiting for someone to translate the mini stories and record them. Seriously, I was very impressed with your seriousness. Thank you for your enthusiasm.
Born too late to speak Sumerian, born too early to speak binary, born just in time to watch Steve Kaufman post a video with the words "gigachad" and "simp" in the title
I loved both interviews so much. Language Simp also has a TON of useful content in his Patreon. I suggest looking at it, too. He gets a bit more serious like in this interview!
@Ben-tn4qzYeah for sure, so it means in 5 years he must have studied a lot (in hours), but even then, being that good in so many languages seems quite incredible. We don't really see him having a real conversation very often so I wonder how he'd do with his language skills in those situations. In my opinion, that's probably the hardest part of any language learning process (speaking + listening at the same time).
I had some Italian ladies laugh at me because I didn’t know how to ask where the atm was and just said dove el banco automatico. They burst into laughter and tears and so did I. It must have sounded ridiculous. I found out they just say atm. Lol.
I hope you didn't take offense from it.😅😅 they probably laughed because it sounds "cute". In Italian "banco Automatico" sounds a little bit weird even though spanish and Italian are similar, some words differ a lot. We usually call it "bancomat".
I like how much he emphasized language learning as a hobby you can enjoy rather than some mission that you fail if you slip up on it or aren't totally fluent, we need more people with that sentiment. Also don't knock linguistics! xd
I was one of his first subscribers as I happen to come across one of his first videos he ever made. He's such a fun creator and inspires me to keep learning language a well.
I've been doing Greek for 3 months now and recently started dabbling in Japanese. Greek is definitely my main focus but I find it helpful to dabble in Japanese and slowly learn a kanji here and there so that when I am farther along in Greek I will already have a major head start in Japanese. Really enjoying language learning. It has replaced gaming for me. Same sense of achievement only I am getting so much out of it.
@@athensxv88 More actually. Gaming required me to be home on my playstation or at my computer. I even replaced my mobile games with Lingq and other language learning apps. Lingq is my main though. I am excited to play some games in my target languages when I am further along.
I am native Greek and learning Japanese. The funniest thing is that the ancient Greek I was taught in school actually helped me understand the て form in Japanese 😂 Good luck with your Greek journey! 🇬🇷 Καλή τύχη με τα ελληνικά!
@@tsakeboya Ευχαριστώ πολύ. Και ξέρεις η αγγλικά πάρα. I am jealous. It is funny that we are learning the same 3 languages in a different order. はじめまして
@@maceawilder oh thank you man! A couple of corrections I think you'll appreciate as a learner: In Greek, languages are neuter plural, so you should use "τα Αγγλικά". If you want to say "very well" you can't use just "πάρα" by itself, as this word is only used to modify "πολύ" if it's used to exaggerate. So you would say "...και ξέρεις τα αγγλικά πάρα πολύ καλά" Your Greek is at a very good level for just 3 months. Keep on and you'll understand the beauty of this language!
I had to look at the video title several times and check the channel because I thought it was a trap or I had a mistake in my eyes. Excellent video. Thanks to both of you. Greetings from Colombia. 😊
I saw your gig first on Language Simp's channel and came here to see your version. You are very encouraging. I'm 68 and learning my third language (French) on your LingQ site and loving it. Thanks for the great work you put into LingQ.
Really nice collab. It's nice to remind myself that learning languages is a hobby. I'm currently learning Norwegian as my fifth language, but it's been a couple weeks where I haven't really done much... I have an exam coming up this month that I can only take now that I'm in Norway, and I might never come back... But!! It's fine!! I started studying for fun, I signed up for the exam for fun... It should never be a source of stress.
A phoneme isn't quite a sound. For example, the 'a' in 'bath' is two different sounds when spoken by north British accents and by south British accents. But they are the same phoneme because the meaning is unchanged. But the vowel change between 'pitch' and 'peach' does change the meaning, so they are two phonemes.
It's difficult as an American to learn a language with the thought in your mind that you speak English and that English is all you'll ever need (NEED) being the key word. But when you realize that people from other countries see you as a smarter person because you speak something other than English.. it's a good feeling and you can develope good friends
I suppose people who dont speak English often get along pretty well in their communities. Most Japanese people can barely go beyond "Herro, Naisu to meet you", but they get jobs, make friends, have families, play games, watch movies and all that good stuff. Of course they're trapped in that language bubble, and to be fair, no Japanese person will ever get a chance to consume and absorb EVERY BIT of Japanese content, so that bubble is fine, but still they won't experience being outside the bubble without a crutch (subtitles/translators) We English speakers are also trapped in a (bigger) bubble and i think THAT is what i think of when the idea of need comes up. You enjoy watching gaming? Maybe u could settle for Markiplier but there is a Korean youtuber out there that is probably miles more entertaining. China seems like mysterious and incomprehensible country? Sure you could watch the news or you could talk to Chinese people themselves. The ones not affluent enough to speak English well and travel abroad. Maybe you just admire the Finns for some reason. You can pretend to Brazilian online to be part of the memes. The bubbles you're in get oh so bigger 😁. Which is why i need to reach fluency in Chinese to access that 1.4 billion people sized bubble 😂
I find it's very easy for our human brain to subconsciously convince us that we don't need another language, even if you speak a language other than English. It's perfectly possible to live your entire life only needing Spanish, Russian, Portuguese or any other widespread language. Heck, I know a fair few people who are totally fine living in a global world knowing only Finnish. All you need is to accidentally construct a bubble around yourself where you can get by in Finnish, English, Spanish or any other language and you won't even realise there's so much you're missing out on.
@@MrMattpnk ❤️ from an American point of view (or my point of view at any rate) It's nothing when someone speaks English.. it just feels so normal you know.. but when I write to Brazilians they're like WOW.. a gringo learning my language!? 🥺 It's just not the same when someone learns English :/ It's especially cute when they ask if I live in Brazil and I tell them no, I'm in the states. And they're just like 😮 I don't believe you! 😂 I can't to go to Brazil and watch their eyes light up when I Converse with them in their native language and see them shocked 😊
I think the word 'need' is key here, as you already pointed out yourself. Imagine if we only spent our lives doing things that NEED to be done. Why bother learning an instrument, getting to know new people if you already have friends, or going to the cinema?
One thing that give me hope and that I think many people forget is that most native speakers go to school for majority of their childhood and teenage years to learn their language and are still not masters of it. For example in the US we have english classes every year of school and often the first semester of college as well. So you shouldn't feel disheartened if you can't pick a new language in a few months or even a year or two. Everybody learns at different rates and you don't need to be near the level you would perceive you need to be to have a conversation or to read in another language.
I loved this video, listening to Steve talking, so straight forward made me think how things used to be back then, no bs involved, no pretending, loved it, also I love seeing language simp out of character just excited to be talking to one of his inspirations, this video and the glossonauta collab with language are my favorites.
It's a bit of semantics but I think it's helpful to distinguish learning about a language and learning a language. Learn about a language can stop at any point without being a failure, any amount of grammar or words or expressions you learn constitutes learning a little more about the language than you knew before. Learning a language, and people looking for information about learning a language is a completely different ballgame and does have failure states, disappointments and stakes. Because on some level what it fundamentally means is acquiring a level of performance in the language that you can use it at the level of an adult. We can argue endlessly about what it means to use a language but everyone who wants to learn a language has a dream in their mind of getting close to native ability, especially in terms of ease of understanding and communication. Their dream is probably not asking directions or being competent in one very specific topic. I encourage anyone to start out just learning about a language, it's fun and interesting and not very time consuming. But if you do that long enough, eventually you probably will want to take it out of the glass case, and oh boy is it a commitment of your mental and emotional resources.
The word simp is NOT a Gen Z term. We been using it in black hoods since the early 90s maybe sooner than that. I’ve been been hearing it since I was a child. But anyways great video. My two favorite language related RU-vidrs!
Thank you! White GenZ always steals words from Black Millennial, Black GenX, and Black GenZ culture and then claims they came up with it. It's so annoying and disingenuous. They need to learn to give credit where credit is due!
@@boristheviewbot6056 kinda. Because when you simp for someone you’re basically just being a tool for them but can’t see it because you’re so infatuated with them you’d do anything for them at the drop of a dime.
@@illhomemadetcg3218that’s actually very close to the current use of the word, just mr. Simp here simplified the meaning it for Steve. Thanks for sharing this as well, as I wasn’t aware either.
Every video with Simp is a comedian show! The way he talks,make jokes and at the same time teach us a new language is amazing! I love that guy videos! Thank you Steve for providing so much high-quality content!
I watched both your channel & his & this was awesome! Thank you for blessing us with this. You were also such a good sport in playing along with Language Simp’s goofiness in his interview too😂
Actually, the word “simp” DOES come from “simpleton” and traces back to the early 1900s. It became more popular in the 80s and 90s when it was used in rap songs and became hip-hop slang.
Loved seeing you and Language Simp do a collab! Just one thing that's not that important, I don't think Danish has the largest phonemic inventory. I know some of the Caucasian and Khoisan languages have some of the most phonemes in the world, and English and Hindi have the same amount of phonemes as Danish if not a little more (depending on the accent of English).
Standard Danish, English and Hindi share a 4th place in the number of phonemes ranking according to wikipedia, along with Hamer and Wambule at 44 phonemes. Above them Nemi, Norman and Kosraean have 48, 48 and 47 respectively.
@@XGD5layer That's the list I looked at as well, but it doesn't feature that many languages. The Taa language doesn't have a commonly accepted number of phonemes but there are estimations of 20-31 vowels. I don't think Caucasian languages feature at all, which have a very large phoneme inventory (largest inventory without clicks). It really depends on how well known the language is, the dialect, and the amount of research, so you can't have precise numbers, but Danish does indeed have a serious amount of vowel phonemes.
10:50 might be Jodie Foster but I have not heard her make gender mistakes in French. I only remember her speaking with an upper class accent and an amazing fluidity.
IDK if anyone will read this comment, but hey there! I am one of the people that had struggled immensely with being strung out / stressed / upset about being imperfect, people switching to English, etc. After a few very emotionally difficult experiences, I had self-reflected a lot about the root causes of this stress, and for me it basically came down to feeling like I am unworthy unless I am perfect. I started feeling much better, and genuinely having fun learning, after accepting 2 truths: 1) I will be always be imperfect. Perfection is unattainable because it's a moving target. Instead I will aim for excellence. Excellence is not the absence of imperfection, but the addition of strengths. 2) I am worthy as a language learner and human despite my imperfections. It does not feel threatening when I make mistakes or others switch to English, because my self worth is not on the line. If you're reading this and struggling like I did, I hope that you can learn to be compassionate with yourself and have fun. You deserve it :)
I have 2 ideas which help me to relieve. 1: Concentrate on the IMPROVING not on the PERFECTION. 2: I don't need to be perfect. I'm a foreigner after all and have the right on mistake, moreover even a native speakers aren't perfect. They also make mistakes and have from time to time misunderstanding and troubles between each other. So, relax, stay calm and the let the language learning process be enjoyable for you. Don't chase a language. Go towards it
Great to see you two in a video together! Can you please do a video where you talk about language interference, or perhaps show me a video where you have talked about that previously? I have been learning spanish for 5 years, until recently when I found out I was going to go as an exchange student to Italy, so I therefore started learning italian. Now I am in Italy, but I have spanish room mates. Whenever I try to speak spanish with them, I constantly find myself thinking in italian instead of spanish. It is as if all my spanish knowledge has been overwritten by italian.
Something about this was so... wholesome! God bless both of these incredible people. 🙌 P.S. Mr. Kaufmann is nearly at 900K subscribers!!! 🎉 Truly deserves much more, but that is amazing.
We were in a language exchange gathering yesterday in Austria... and there was a woman from the US, so I said "Hey listen, she is not allowed to speak English" and all started to laugh. There were people from Brasil Colombia (me) China Sudan Tanzania Ucraine Germany Italy Hungary Good Party 🎉 🌍🌎
Wow, great collab!! I'll have to check out Language Simp's channel. Hearing how Steve and Language Simp had experience learning multiple languages at once is encouraging. I need to work on my Japanese, but I also want to keep up with my Spanish and Russian. AND I kinda want to learn Korean, because I love BTS (I'm wondering if I can continue Japanese and start Korean at the same time, since their grammar is almost the same, and there are some common roots between the two). I'll have to give it a go!
Wow, I loved that explanation of what a language simp was at the very beginning of the video. I actually never really thought about what it meant. You can never fail if you simp after languages. I love it!
Some day I want to know so many languages that I can go almost anywhere and understand what someone is talking about. Not to listen to their conversations.. but just being able to understand.. being able to tell people you speak X amount of languages.. ❤
Almost subscribed to LingQ but having read the numerous and ignored comments about dodgy/unscrupulous business practices I have had a "Buyer beware" moment.
Steve (like Luca and others) has 2 different abilities; [1] learning, and [2] teaching/analyzing. I learned this when I danced. I was a very good dancer, but not a good teacher. A teacher can figure out HOW and WHY, rather than just doing it. They can help others improve. Steve's videos help us understand and show us other methods. He isn't just a inspiration.
I'm working to learn 6 besides English. I love travel and want to be able to go to Europe with minimal English and/or translations. Realistically, I'm only trying to get them all to the A2-B1 area. That's enough to travel
“but in the case of languages even I'm not speaking the language well and I'm struggling, i can just have fun in any level you know. I don't need to be perfectly fluent. You don't need to be the best, you just have to have fun with it" I'll keep that in mind, instant sub to both channels.
Thank you, Steve, you did good - with a good collab video! For everyone who really wants to know: A phoneme is an abstract luguistics term that describes a class of sounds that differentiate meaning. If similar sounds don't differentiate the meaning, they are called allophones of the same phoneme. E.g., r and l are different phonemes in most "western" (indo-european) languages like English, i.e. "right" and "light" have different meanings. This is different for, say, Chinese, Japanese and Korean: People sometimes erroneously think that there is no "r" sound in Japanese. This is strictly speaking not true, rather, there is no difference in the meaning whether you use one sound or another. E.g., "raisu" and "laisu" would both be understood to mean the same thing: rice. As a consequence, the Japanese writing systems don't differentiate between those sounds although they exist, depending on their position in a word or even on different dialects. Now, this technical knowledge isn't important to a language learner, but the concept behind it can have consequences when the language you are learning has sounds that are different phonemes in that language but that don't make a difference in meaning in your own. In this case, you need to pay attention to your pronunciation in order not to cause confusion. For a Japanese learner of English, differentiating between r and l will be difficult in the beginning, but knowing this difference matters is important for them to get ahead.
Buen video! Estoy de acuerdo en que si tienes voluntad es una ventaja, pero a mí (y creo que a muchos) me falla un plan de estudio o exposición al lenguaje.
Language Simp and Steve together in one video. That is like Walter Payton and Tom Brady in their primes on the same team. I was blown away. Personally I like to dabber in French, Spanish, Hebrew, and Russian. Some day maybe Italian and Hungarian.
