How Languages Work: A Quick Grammar Guide

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🧠 Ever wonder how languages ACTUALLY work? Unsure EXACTLY what an adjective does? Curious what the heck tones are? In this video, I spell it all out in clear, simple language.
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0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Parts of Speech
0:36 - #1: What is a Noun?
1:42 - #2: What is a Pronoun?
2:36 - #3: What is a Verb?
4:14 - #4: What is an Adjective?
5:19 - #5: What is an Adverb?
5:53 - #6: What is an Preposition?
6:24 - #7: What is a Conjunction?
6:42 - #8: What is an Interjection?
7:04 - #9: What is an Article?
7:43 - #10: What is a Particle?
8:35 - #11: What are Tones?
9:41 - #12: What is Pronunciation?
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@stevesmith291 Год назад

Mark Twain agrees with your advice on adjectives: "When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them-then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together."

@DomCOuano Год назад

i like this a lot because it's a list of the first things to learn in a new language, but it's also a list of the last things you'll forget in an old language.

@DavidMorris1984 Год назад

When I started doing languages again after about 20 years, I was only aware of the terms I'd learned in school. I only knew the terms past, present and future for tenses for example. When I did a bit of Latin and when I first started Spanish, I discovered a vast range of linguistic terms I'd never heard of. Everyone else seemed to understand them, but they were confusing to me. I hope you do more videos about linguistic terms because this is so incredibly useful.

@anandadaquino3604 Год назад

I'm Brazilian and I remember learning these terms in grammar classes, but I totally forgot 😂 it was good to remind me. Now I'm wondering how other people learn in school 🤔 I went to a good elementary school, so I'm aware not everybody needed to learn these things, but either I learned or I would repeat the year

@tohaason 9 дней назад

I learned a whole bunch of terms in school.. for just about everything. That didn't help though, because now all the tenses we learned changed names so I'm clueless anyway. Some bureaucrat somewhere decided this? I don't know. Made my previous knowledge useless though.

@RhapsodyinLingo Год назад

This is such an important video for people who didn't grow up studying languages 😍 I'll send it over the next time someone isn't sure what is and isn't a pronoun!

@kaleidoscopesoul6487 Год назад

I'm learning Spanish and Russian right now; this video was very helpful!

@franpolidor1581 Год назад

"Or dulce de leche to pretty much anything." Loved that specific part of the video! Keep it up Olly ! I truly appreciate your content. Cheers from 🇦🇷

@petersizirony2320 Год назад

Awesome! You summarized it perfectly. One must learn his/her language first, before learning a second language. Basically, the way they execute, all languages are same. Just learn the rules of what makes it a language then you are good to go.

@lunalui Год назад

Basically everything that is taught about grammar in elementary school (or used to be, at least in some countries) in 11 minutes: now that's a feat. You should make a similar video about syntax!

@APlusRussian Год назад

Thank you, Olly!! If I nerd out like that on _my_ channel, I don't think it would fly 😅 But you make it FUN 👏

@TomiPalese Год назад

_Or dulce de leche to pretty much anything._ I love it because it's true

@mariawesley7583 Год назад

When I was growing up in the 70's during Saturday morning cartoons in the States there was a series of educational cartoons called "Schoolhouse Rock". All the subject matter you just covered was set to some catchy tunes with cute animation that most Gen X'ers knew by heart. My favorite was the one on interjections because the music perfectly fit.

@annarboriter Год назад

Verb, that's what's happening! Had it not been for this series, I would have learned nothing about language from English teachers

@lisamarydew Год назад

❣

@nerd26373 Год назад

We appreciate your videos. Keep up the good work.

@deutschmitpurple2918 Год назад

❤❤👍👍

@klarissaclairiton9010 Год назад

With languages, the learning never ends when you consider that the average dictionary contains at least 30,000 words.

@polyglotsjourney Год назад

It is amazing how good you are at storytelling, Olly 😊👏🏻

@amaranthim Год назад

While learning Italian, I have discovered I am generally clueless about grammar. Therefore it is particularly hard to understand the explanations given to words (so that I can remember and learn the word). I somehow managed to get through college even without quite understanding the construction of the language and I have the same failing in Spanish which is my mother tongue.

@Roly679 Год назад

think this is perhaps the bit that I turned off to at school but perhaps 40 years later I now realise i'm missing, thank you

@AdamYLM Год назад

What an incredible video, its now in my list of most important videos, I will forward many people here when they ask me questions related the adverbs, adjectives etc. Maybe you should also make a part 2 and include things like Subjunctives etc.

@Lingo_Lore Год назад

I'm currently learning German (from English) and I can honestly say that the capitalization of nouns have absolutely thrown me. It's one of the more difficult things to learn for me 💫

@RhapsodyinLingo Год назад

Doesn't it make it easier? It's always clear what's a noun and you don't need to guess!

@stevencarr4002 Год назад

Really? That is a huge help when learning German, because then you can see immediately which are nouns. English rules for capitalising nouns are very weird. Planets, for example, get capitalised.

@irinaspalve8356 Год назад

I think even English has a lot of capital letters. For example, in Latvian we don't write nationalities or languages' names with a capital letter. We may sometimes emphasize the nation's/language's greatness or person's nationality. But usually we don't. But I guess it is a cool thing that each language has its unique features.

@irinaspalve8356 Год назад

@@stevencarr4002 Is it weird that planets are written with capital letters?

@ChapatiMan Год назад

How is that difficult literally just capitalise the first letter of a noun when you write it

@massmanute Год назад

Very nice explanation.

@eliotdurczak3362 Год назад

I will have my grammar test in some days and I absolutely didn't understood and loved grammar but now I fully understand it ! Thank you so much Olly ! Thank you !

@jaredmatute9188 Год назад

We really appreciate your content

@deutschmitpurple2918 Год назад

Excellent video like always

@kathryndavies7367 Год назад

Thank you . I need a video like this for a while now. I like learning a new language but I don't get all these linguist terms so this is really helpful.

@OSFUB Год назад

Love your videos mate, all of these reminded me of Esperanto, but I bet you already hear or know about it

@ledysgonzalez3142 Год назад

This video deserve to be applauded 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏............ Thanks

@brianquinayas2853 Год назад

Hl olly me encanta tus vídeo y tus recomendaciones estoy aprendiendo inglés y tus vídeos son muy entretenidos y con ese carisma con el que hablas me encanta

@foreverlearningfrench Год назад

Salut Alex ! C'est tellement bon de te revoir. Cette vidéo a été très utile.

@Miro.13 Год назад

Thank you for the great videos. It helps me to understand English native speakers better! And your content is really interasting.

@ioannishoeft1272 Год назад

That's a very nice video👌 keep up the good work. Greetings from Germany

@gulammohamed2541 Год назад

You are an absolute phenomenon. Sharing on LinkedIn, too!

@sebbyboi4255 Год назад

Cool

@CamilloCamus Год назад

I love your passion for language and languages. Your enthusiasm is contagious and inspiring. I have to say though, I find the image of your opened skull disturbing. It reminds me of an equally disturbing scene in Hannibal with Anthony Hopkins :)

@danielwolfram8046 Год назад

Nice

@sethaniel1 Год назад

I've waited for a video like this since before time had a name

@tjspeakslanguages Год назад

just bought your book

@paper2222 Год назад

2:00 more specifically _person pronouns_ "pronouns" itself cover more words like "what, how, one, that, this" "what is that, that is a thing, how are you, this is a sentence," etc. etc. with this in mind, you can go and joke around saying "my pronouns are this/that"

@oskayaltn4058 Год назад

wow

@sidgurjar Год назад

I feel that often people are discouraged in their language learning process because not enough attention is paid to the language mechanics. Without realising, language learners assume that the way their 1st or 2nd language works is the same way their target language works, which is most often not true. Before beginning to learn any language, I feel one must get familiar with as many language mechanics of the target language as possible.

@schwagecko5589 Год назад

Hi Olly. I was wondering if you could make a video on adapting textbooks/grammar books for your method? Just started watching your videos. At first I was very sad because I thought what the hell am I supposed to do with all these cool textbooks and grammar books that I bought? Then I remembered when teaching we learnt to use the textbook in ways other than it was intended. For example I was given an elementary book for beginner students and had to adapt it to their level. So instead of going through the textbook as normal I used the pictures and got students to describe them etc. Ignored the difficult grammar exercises and supplemented them with easier activities. How would you go about doing this as a language learner? I know how to do it as a teacher but am struggling on how to do it for myself. Also what activities do you think are worthwhile in textbooks? For example would you use vocabulary games? Do you completely ignore all grammar activities or do some?

@annarboriter Год назад

The collective term is adposition and English has both prepositions and a handful of postpositions. Particles are simply inflections or adverbs

@user-bi4eo3ys1f Год назад

Are "Yes", "No", "Not", "Neither", "Nor" _simply inflections or adverbs_ ?

@annarboriter Год назад

@@user-bi4eo3ys1f An inflection is any morphological change to a word so none of these are inflections. Neither, nor are conjunctions. Words are defined by how they function within a sentence. Not, therefore, can be an adverb or it can be used as an interjection. Yes and no are typically adverbs in the same manner

@user-bi4eo3ys1f Год назад

@@annarboriter I agree that "neither" and "nor" are conjunctions because "or" is a conjunction. But adverb is word which usually mean a feature of verb. to run (how?) quickly, (where?) towards, (when?) tomorrow. Can you run yes? Or do something other yes? Any word can be used as an interjection. Once I used as interjection the word "gnom!". But standard interjections are words like "oh!", "wow" or "ha-ha-ha". They express emotions. "Yes" expresses agreement, "no" expresses disagreement or absence, "not" expresses negation and may be qualified as a preposition like "without".

@annarboriter Год назад

@@user-bi4eo3ys1f I assure you that not is not a preposition. One frequent use of an adverb is that it can also modify an entire clause. This is why the arguments against hopefully are baseless

@annarboriter Год назад

@@user-bi4eo3ys1f I should also note that neither can also function as a pronoun

@genemw Год назад

Do you ever plan on making a video on Romanian?

@higanbanana Год назад

really not sure about the editing on this one, but great content

@brycemott138 Год назад

I’m trying to figure out how to translate the phrase “you become what surrounds you” into Latin but I can’t quite get it

@solarpunk_hive1306 Год назад

7:45 Coccodrillo bipete

@Xtkal2456 Год назад

@wild_insomnia Год назад

😃

@sardasjr Год назад

👍👍

@andrewprentice4096 Год назад

You didn't mention infixes, a feature of Georgian verbs

@solarpunk_hive1306 Год назад

8:36 Ecco da dove derva shish!

@kimballhansen2629 Год назад

Can you do a vid of this by breaking down the parts in Japanese so I can figure out how to understand it?

@Xtkal2456 Год назад

@Adam-vv9co Год назад

我在学习中文，我喜欢中文

@zowiephoebe Год назад

De-li-be-rate-ly 😂😂😂

@ruedigernassauer Год назад

German uses particles, too. It is these little words such as "mal", "halt" and "eben", maybe some more, that add nuances to one´s speech and that are skipped when translating into English.

@user-bi4eo3ys1f Год назад

Isn't "halt" a verb?

@rudigernassauer6075 Год назад

@@user-bi4eo3ys1f Yes, it's also a verb. And besides it's a particle.

@ellotheearthling Год назад

Video idea: Most useless languages to learn

@Adam-vv9co Год назад

Mandarin doesn't have tenses... best language ever

@callmeswivelhips8229 Год назад

Why do people believe it's impossible to learn new sounds??? I legit don't understand where this belief came from. How is it any different to learning new words?? Really?? We invented the IPA for a reason! Just take your mouth to the gym, problem solved!! Yeesh! Also, tense versus aspect versus mood is super important in language learning. You'll get confused otherwise.

@utopianforce7895 Год назад

Latin has three genders, like German. Masculine, feminine, and neuter. I wonder why Romance languages only have two, when their ancestor had three.

@zigsynx5364 Год назад

But, who’s in paris?

@just_some_guy_innit Год назад

fellas

@eliascsjunior Год назад

English capitalizing months and days of the week is kinda ????

@mrh4900 Год назад

Deez

@filipmadzia Год назад

Who's deez?😳😬💀

@Dandikbobrek Год назад

i love deez

@romsoul3101 Год назад

The author of this video has a such strong British pronunciation . really American is more comfortable to hear.

@roul4842 Год назад

He's British. That's just his natural accent. 😅😂 But nice to know you like my accent better.

@LesserMoffHootkins Год назад

Keep peddling false hope, Olly!

@JuneJ322 Год назад

Something I found interesting was how different "Pig-Latin or Gibberish" is in different languages. Like in Spanish: Muyfuy bifienfen, grafacifiasfas. machañachanacha.

@sbclaridge Год назад

Something that sounds like Spanish but is unrecognizable? That sounds like Greek to me! No seriously, I've heard about Spaniards who have traveled in and around Greece and found Greek to not sound "foreign" despite the words being totally different. Not to mention my own experience; I've been exposed to Spanish and its phonology by growing up around Hispanic people, and remembered the first time I listened to one of Anna Vissi's Greek songs, the cadence and sound of that language felt strangely familiar. Turns out that modern Greek and (especially Castilian) Spanish share many of the same sounds.