We asked trilingual children and their mums to talk to us in all the languages they can speak. In this video, you can see how the children switch from one language to another, depending on what they hear.
Yeah, actually im Turkish and thanks to my mother, it was easy to learn English. Now im trying to fight with French and gonna try to learn Russian this summer. Maybe Japanese after that...
@@-bitzy-as someone who also speaks 4 languages id say that its bc we usually grew with those and when u eg choose a language out of ur “language family” (romantic, germanic, slavic, etc) i think it’s easier to learn those too Good luck with learning those languages tho i hope u’ll succeed :)
@@WatchOnYT no I'm actually from north africa so I speak french, english, arabic (classical+algerien arabic) and amaziɣ (berber it's like viking language for Scandinavians but for Africans lol) and how did your exam go?
I wish I was lucky enough to grow up bilingual. I'm only about A2 with french at the moment even after many on and off years but there's something satisfying about the journey of language learning.
Me too, it would've made my life a lot easier when I had to learn Spanish while staying in the frickin US 😅 it's way easier to learn when you're fully immersed in whatever language you're learning, I can assure you
I was raised monolingually but my school system supports language learning and I'm very determined myself haha. So yeah, there's definitely hope for everybody. (For reference, my French is at least upper B144 (89/100 on the DELF B1 exam), my English is probably at C2 level, my German is probably just a little worse than my French and my Japanese is at about N5-N4 I'd say). I'm looking forward to becoming fluent in a dozen languages haha. My plan is to reach conversational fluency (in certain topics) for a few languages. Quality over quantity... Though in practice I'm striking that somewhere in the middle. (I'm also learning MSA, ASL, Korean and Mandarin)
In my village in Kenya, three mothertongues meet: Kibukusu (a Bantu language), Iteso and Kisabaot (two mutually unintelligable Nilotic tongues). Add in English and the lingua franca Kiswahili, and most kids here speak all five, often across conversations, by the age of five. Around our dinner table, when my kids have friends over, we often hear all five of these being spoken in different conversations at the same time.
Cool! When we speak together we often mix on a few words of a different language in too. Like when is speak Czech I sometimes add something in German or sometimes (quite often actually) all three or four together. (I can speak English, German, Czech, Norwegian and am currently learning Spanish :) )
In England most children can speak maybe 1 and a half languages unless their parents are not native to England. Unfortunately most children in England consider learning a second language a waste of their time, because the English language is spoken around the world.
Interesting - language is like another dimension. I can speak Nyanja, Bemba, Portuguese, English and some words in Tumbuka and understand some more conversation in Soli & Zulu I am from Zambia.
Ahh I'm so jealous, I wish I had the opportunity to learn other languages when I was young! Not a soul in my family speaks anything other than English. I used to study Korean, and got quite good but not fluent (lower B2 level), and I've also studied German, Gaelic, BSL and Japanese, all to about A2 level. I just hope that one day I can confidently say, "YES, I speak two languages!! :)"
You might be surprised to know how many people claim to speak one or more other languages when, in fact, they may only know about 50 words or so of that or those other language(s). There are many 'polyglots' who make very exaggerrated claims and look stupid when caught out so it is wise of you to under-rate your linguistic skills. Good luck with your studies and stay modest hehe.
@@david2804me Yeah i dislike those people XP I'm Dutch and here we learn English, German, French and some ppl learn even more languages in school (I dropped French) But my English speaking ability is very bad so i just say i'm fluent in Dutch and English but have a accent... I also learn Korean at the moment as hobby but it's so basic that i just say i'm learning it XD And about German i say it's just basic lvl and that i'm also still learning it in school... I am half Indonesian but my mom didn't learn me anything.. Maybe because she is raised in the Netherlands so her Indonesian isn't good either... Shen only speaks half Indonesian half Dutch with my grandma and sometimes aunty.. Well, i don't live with my mom anymore because i moved to my dad and my Vietnamese step mom... Maybe i'm gonna learn a bit Vietnamese too in the future... She says she can speak Korean and Japanese since she worked at an international market in Saigon but i doubt it XP She can read hangul tho but that isn't so hard... Why am i telling my whole life story XD Okay i go eat BBQ now, bye! :))
@@user-no9im9px6e Interesting story and it sounds like you dabble in many languages. My only input to that would be for you to consider whether it would be more useful for you to speak fewer languages to a better standard or have some knowledge of a greater number of languages. I cannot offer an opinion on your circumstances but, in my case, I focused on two languages, other than English, for very practical reasons....French because I went to live and work in Belgium and now Spanish because I now live (much of the time) and work in Spain. My French is fluent but, sadly, not my Spanish although I can hold a conversation. I hope the BBQ was nice.
@@david2804me Well, there’s nothing to choose from 😂 I already dropped French in school so i can’t drop more languages (not that i want to) and Korean is the only language i’m learning now outside of school, i said i might wanna learn Vietnamese in the future kkkk And yes, the BBQ was delicious :P
I’m trilingual, but I can’t speak my 3rd language (Spanish) unless I’m actually speaking with someone. I can’t do an oral or anything, it has to be an actual conversation. I actually had problems integrating school in kindergarten because I couldn’t speak the school’s language very well. I manage pretty well, I only have an accent in Spanish (despite it being my second language, it’s the one I struggle with the most). My sister learned mostly our first language, but developed knowledge of the second by me because I didn’t stop speaking English and a bit of the 3rd by my grandma. Still, she mostly speaks our first language. Growing up I saw people impressed because I was trilingual. Here it’s not rare for someone to be bilingual but trilingual was a bit harder to find. I just thought of it as normal. I was raised multiculturally and so had the knowledge of 3 languages. Sometimes I wish I knew Spanish better but I know that for languages, I’m doing quite well. But it’s INFURIATING when I know a word in 2 languages but the third is just whoosh and that’s the language I need at that moment-
I feel you! I'm trilingual too, and I struggle a lot to speak Italian if it's not in a conversation, it may be because, in my case, I only used it at school and then at home my family only spoke Spanish (our first language) so I got use to only speak it with another person. It was not the same with English tho, I got super used to speak it whenever I want, I think that it's because we can easily find people and stuff that are in English
you're not trilingual if you cant express yourself fully in one of the three languages. you're bilingual because you're fluent in two but it doesnt mean you cant speak a third language very well according to the situation. you speak 3 languages but you're bilingual 🥸
@@oyasumilunlun I wouldn't go that far. By the way they described it, it's pretty much the same scenario of a lot of bilingual kids that grew up speaking mostly English and some other language with their parents. They may understand everything but struggle to speak if it's not a conversation with another person because that's all the input and output they ever got in that language, the rest was always in English. But that doesn't mean you aren't bilingual, it just means that it is not your first language, you shouldn't go around telling people how to label themselves. Especially when it comes to language learning, that can be kind of hurtful and insensitive to some people.
Can I ask how you learned other languages? did u have someone speaking the languages to you or was it non stop self study? I'm currently self studying and I'm tryna see if there's anything I could do to make it go faster.
@@nobody1747 nope.. I knew 3 languages when i was even 3 yo. But later on i learnt 12 more. 2 in 1 year, 3 in next and 5 in the other. Like that. I didn't have any one to learn thru basically just me and a few websites yk where like i could interact wid ppl native to that lang. For ex - i used to go on some website i was learning persian and arabic that time. So i would find ppl to talk to and then let'em correct me. I also brought books and all. Still learning a new one. And i did the same thing for those 12 other lang (except the 3 i already knew). Now im learning Korean. Hope it helps. Keep working hard mate :)
@@neptune0909thank you that was helpful, also I have one more question do you know japanese? If so do you know how long it took to grasp it? I wanna see if I need to be applying myself more. Its crazy you're this young and able to communicate in that many languages you have a really bright future and im rooting for ya
@@nobody1747 actually i learnt mandarin. It took me around 3 months to be fluent in that due to change in vocals and also writing habit. I will prefer to get slowly to the remark using all the different methods i told you they r really helpful. Coz sometimes we think we r fluent or doinn great but when we actually hold a convo it becomes difficult to stand by words.. I didn't think about Japanese much tho but I'm surely gonna give a try after my korean ends.. Best wishes you'll be able to make it just be consistent.. Even one day gap can cause distress in the starting. The first 2 months are the most crucial. Also do look out on other language learning patterns or make your own.. Learn by importance not by system. That's it. Adios :)
The problem with skill talking in several languages is sometimes there's word existed in one and none in other. That kinda frustate me because I can't express myself clearly in certain language lmao
I relate. English is not my first language, but it is my preferred one for self expression at least, it has about 40 times as many words as my native Danish. I think Spanish is much more beautiful though, but I'm not fluent enough for self expression, only simple questions and answers. and German and french has the funniest sounds.
@@doggytheanarchist7876 wait dude we be in the same predicament altså dansk er lidt shit det kan vi være enige om English just feels good to talk in because even if you forget a word you have several replacements
@@hanne7121 Ohh... Jeg lærte det i gymnasiet engang. Kan desværre ikke huske den præcise kilde, det er mange joints siden. Jeg kan se jeg var lidt vel snapp i min sidste kommentar. Det er omkring 4 gange så mange 😅 ord. Ikke 40. Og de er i grundform så bøjninger og andre nuanceringer tæller ikke med.
haha i’m in ib right now in high school and can only speak english but everyone around me can speak like 3 languages each! i find it so impressive and i hope my future kids can learn more than just english
yes the environment matters a lot. I am not sure what language I should speak to my children, if I ever even have any lol. maybe I could enroll them in a dual language setting since it would be a lot easier if everyone around them could speak the languages.
Learn A language now, while you are young, the older you get, the harder it is to Integrate new languages into your thinking patterns and it's extremely difficult to become fluent in a language you learn for the first time as an adult. When you are under 10 it's almost automatic and under 25 still totally doable with some immersion and effort, but then the brain becomes less flexible and you might never pass the stage of conscious translation of the new languages. While fluency means, you don't have to translate in your head, the words just mean something to you. I dunno if I'm expressing this clearly. But the message is: learn a second language now. :-) And good luck on the exams.
I was so confused by the title of this video. I thought it was insulting how few words the children knew. Instead, it's using 'little' to mean young children.
I grew up trilingual too. English (my dad), German (live there and school and such) and Czech (my mom). I also learned Norwegian and am currently learning Spanish :) Edit: Oh and I have Latin in school, but I don't know if that really counts 😂
I wish I could speak more than one language these kids are amazing and all of these people in the comments saying they can speak like 10 languages. I learnt French for 5 years in school and couldn't tell you a whole sentence. As soon as I passed my exam it all went out my head 😂
I was the same with French at school. Then after not speaking it for nearly 25 years I started studying again a year or so ago and it all came back very quickly. The knowledge is still there in your brain you just need the confidence to use it.
You either need to be with people you can use it with regularly, or spend time living in the country, to have the best chance of absorbing it in a way that you will always remember it. I did French at school for 7 years, Spanish for 4 years and Italian for 2 years, but I spent time living in France ( over 30 years ago) where I became fluent, but didn't do the same with the other 2 languages. Consequently I can still speak French very easily but not so much the other 2, without having to think about it more ( I can understand them better than speak them, and can also understand some written Portuguese, which is similar) It's something you never really forget, if you have used it regularly for some time.....worked for me anyway.
I wish I was lucky enough to grow up like this. I could've learned Italian, German, and Spanish, but my great grandparents were too ashamed of their languages to pass them on to their kids. I've tried to learn all three but it's just so hard. Xenophobia is a terrible thing. Great on these parents for fighting that.
uau impressionante, por que você se interessou por essas línguas e como você aprende/estuda elas? wow impressive, why were you interested in these languages and how do you learn/study them?
These kids are so adorable! I speak German and English, but I live and am from the United States. My parents, meaning my dad and biological mother are from Germany, and my brothers, biological brothers are both older than me and are also from Germany. Although I lost my biological mother when I was nine years old, my stepmom does not speak German but she is still very nice. My biological mother passed away from a liver disease…
@Unholy Lena outliars, but yeah ..a huge chunk of the world knows a minimum of two languages because mother tongue+English or mandarin or some other language, I've found that most commonly it's Americans or Britishers who don't
True . As someone who comes from a multicultural country I grew up knowing four languages and currently learning my fifth and sixth . When i was little i found it weird knowing there are people who know only one language , but now as an adult its understandable 😅
Well, in South America, where I live (Argentina) we just know how to speak Spanish, and we learn English in the school (Kindergarten, Middle School and High School). The most part of the people just know one language. It's sad :(
@@madhuramazumdar6652 I wouldn't call 20% outliers lol. It's clearly not a major but certainly not outliers and when you think of the amount of ppl 20% is its a lot
I’m fluent in 3 languages, only 2 of which is my native language and am able to converse in Chinese. Currently learning Japanese and I want to learn my grandparent’s language, hokkien and cantonese. Language learning is so fun but I’m always amazed by how different languages can be constructed in so many distinct ways
I'm from Taiwan and I think I speak what you called hokkien(we call it Taiwanese and it's similar) but there's almost only the elders speak it, it's a nostalgic language for me
@@giuliasantoro496 it's a local language from Fujien, province of China. Also spoken in Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore... it's related to Mandarin but not the same language :)
I would hope that babies learn ASL while growing up to increase communication. The learn the basic languages or the most spoken ones as well. I was taught how to speak Spanish, but wasn't properly taught how to write it. I can read it, and now I learn French for school, I'm teaching myself ASL, and will learn further languages. Communication is everything, and it can lead to great things. 💜❤
I’m so happy to hear more and more people trying to learn ASL! It brings me hope that my Deaf and HoH friends will feel more included in the future and be able to live comfortably. If you ever need help with learning parameters or grammar structure, let me know!
SAME! I’ve been learning ASL on and off for about 4/5 years now and I’m 75% fluent. I LOVE ASL ever since I was a little girl because of the scene in the 1994 Miracle on 34th Street when the little girl Sami was signing the song Jingle Bells. It’s been a favorite language of mine ever since. I’d like to be a polyglot tbh
ASL is American, its best to learn the sign language of your country/area (for me it would be BSL, British sign language) There are many sign languages and it is certainly not universal
I spoke 3 languages by the time I was 7 and now I speak 4, English, Italian, Spanish and French. At my school it is obligatory to learn 2 new languages as well as your mother tongue and you can learn up to 6 languages.
I was lucky to grow up in the US with French speaking parents. So school in English, then French at home. We then moved to Belgium and were put in French speaking school, then we moved to Italy and we went to local Italian schools. After that we all went our own way; I went back to US, learned Spanish, then back to Belgium, and learned the basics of Flemish/Dutch, my sister is fluent. I learned some Portuguese and German along the way. So we all speak 3-5 languages in our family. My daughter graduated Belgian/French high school and I always spoke to her in English. She learned some Spanish and understands Italian. Life was good for us in traveling the world!
Interesting to watch! most kids I knew have grown up as trilingual, fluently speaking Bangla, Hindi and English. I now additionally speak French at B2 and Spaish at A1, I also understand bits and pieces of Telugu and Marathi. Learning languages is my absolute love, and I love it when little kids, like the ones here speak many languages.
*I just wanna share my family's little 'tradition' :* Meet my family who normalized teaching us 5 languages ever since we were kids, English is my 4th language. The first language I learned is Chinese because we lived there, second is Spanish coz my grandma is spanish, third is Japanese because my father is a Japanese language teacher and 4th English, international language, 5th is Russian. Unfortunately, They didn't teach us Korean when I'm more into KPOP than any other, but I'm starting to learn now.
I’m learning Japanese and Spanish and I will for sure teach my future children at least one of those languages when they’re still young. I’m 14 and I’ve always had trouble learning languages. I wish my parents would have taught me at a young age. I mean, my dad is fluent in Spanish, so I have no idea why I was never taught it.
I'm a 16yo pure-bred Chinese Singaporean (Chinese is my mother tongue) but my English, German and Danish is better than my Chinese :\ I'm also learning Icelandic, and in the future I will learn Faroese and Luxembourgish My parents are Chinese and they speak different dialects which I am unable to understand at all :')
Hi there, great video, I just wanna say that 'small multilingual children' instead of 'little multilingual children' might be better to put in your title next time. I just read "you won't find a better example of how little [they] talk" the first time I read the title, which gives exactly the opposite impression of what you can see here xD
my fathers trilingual (spanish, english, italian). He speaks all three languages he knows with ease. Because of that, I know english, as well as a dash of iltalian and relearned spanish.
I was raised speaking one language with my dad and another one with my mom. To keep me from mixing them up, I wasn't allowed to switch (not that my mom spoke my dad's language all that well) and now I stick a mental "language label" on everyone I interact with.
I was only brought up speaking one language but I’ve been taking mandarin for a few years now. Still not even close to fluent but I’d like to be one day. I’m also learning Japanese and some day in the future I intend to learn Russian
I grew up speaking 3 as well (Italian, Persian and english) and as I got older my mother started speaking french to me too, so now I speak 4 languages fluently :)
Any parents reading this if you want your child to learn another language I highly recommend doing it while their young I am currently studying this and children learn a lot while they are young as they are very curious. One way I’ve seen a family teach their kid two languages is where one parent speaks a language and the other speaks another language. For example, mother communicates with the child in Spanish everything no English and the father strictly communicates in English. Even watching shows in that language helps!! Trust me your kid will thank you when they are older just read the comments everyone wished their parents taught them their native language!
I'm trilingual too (spanish, english, french) and my husband bilingual (english, cantonese). We are still contemplating which languages to teach our children in the future. We plan to homeschool so the acquisition of language will need to happen within our household.
My daughter spoke 3 languages at 3 years old (French from my side, Persian from my husband, German, where we live). At 4 she started watching English cartoons and could speak it within a few months. Now soon 10, she also speaks Russian and a bit of Arabic
Most people in my country grew up learning 3 languages. The official language, regional language, and english. The Chinese here that I knew, even learned Mandarin so some people even grew up learning 4 :D
Me: *sees the title* Me: *is jealous and wishes to be trilingual* Me: *realizes that I am a trilingual* LMAO i think the word trilingual made it sound that 3 languages is a lot to speak, undermining the essence of my own ability to actually speak 3 languages
@Miss Cute I speak English, obviously, and since I'm from the Philippines, I speak Tagalog and Cebuano (Which is, for someone reason, considered as two different languages instead of dialects). I also speak basic spanish porque yo también estudio español (lol idk if that's correct)
They remind me of myself as a kid, At the age of four I could speak English and Italian and by the time I was five I could speak Spanish as well. when I was little I went on a 3 year trip to Italy to see my cousins, aunt and uncle (my mums side of the family is British and my dad moved from italy at a young age to the uk with my grandparents, aunts and uncles and after settling in, my dad had to go to a boarding school due to the pollution where they lived as my dad had very bad asthma and there was also eight kids so they simply didn’t have enough room in the house, then he went on to get into football and ended up playing for Birmingham and Man City, due to my dads money income we went on quite a few holidays where I picked up certain languages as I am a very quick learner. My dad retired when I was around five and now I’m playing for man city academy). By the age of eight I already knew English, Italian, Spanish and french. And now I also know how to speak German which is handy because I go skiing in Austria every year.
@Burger Kang well I’ve always lived in Britain my whole life, that’s my main language. I picked up Italian from around my grandparents and just went on from there.
This is so unique to watch because I was raised quadlingual and is this how I was like when I was younger? My parents are bilingual, the country that I was raised in taught my parents another language and the school taught me that same language as they didn’t know much when I was younger. Then, I learned another language in school when I was younger as it was a mandatory class. So now to this date and age I can speak 4 languages and I have no trouble switching in between them but I have trouble speaking while constantly mixing the 4 languages together as I keep talking. My brain will think in 2 languages but speak another. If that makes sense. And when I have dreams at night, they are always in different languages. Weird right?
My parents were bilingual, but only taught us English as kids. As an adult keep trying to learn Spanish, but not very good at it. I do have an ear for Spanish because heard as a child, which must be from the exposure as a child. Lucky kids. Had friend who learned Polish, French, and English as a child.
Me fascina aprender otros idiomas. Amo el inglés, el español y mi lengua materna, el portugués. Pero quiero aprender francés. Me fascina aprender outros idiomas. Amo inglês, espanhol e minha língua nativa, português. Mas quero aprender francês. It fascinates me to learn other languages. I love English, Spanish and my native language, Portuguese. But I want to learn French.
The way they just switched lenguages and kept the conversation going is very funny to me, im also trilingual (romanian, spanish and english, a bit of valencian but we dont talk about it) and things like these is what i love its just awesome
Polish is like the world's hardest language or at least in the top few. That language is crazy and a 3 year can speak that and two other ones as well. it just goes to show you that babies truly are the masters of language
In my country (Belgium) most people speak 3 languages because we have Dutch and French and also a small German part but no one really cares about that but everyone also speaks English.
I would have loved growing up bilingual, it really is a huge chance! My grandfather is Portuguese, came to France when he was around 18 and married a French woman but never spoke to his children in portuguese because he wanted to be more "integrated" in the French society. Therefore, the only Portuguese my dad knows he got from going to Portugal every summer when he was a kid, so he has never spoke to me in Portuguese. I've always felt a little sad about it cause it's like a part of my identity that doesn't feel really "complete" (and also let's face it being a polyglot is effing cool lol). Still now I'm fluent in English, speak pretty good German and now live in Poland so Polish is a work in progress so i guess i didn't end up too bad lol
I speak fluent English and French and I’m pretty good in Spanish I’m also trying to learn Gaelic since I’m Irish, and I want to learn Italian and Japanese.
I am Brazilian and all my family speak only Portuguese. But when I was 12 I started to study Spanish, siempre me ha gustado, especialmente porque mi tío vivió en España por 1 año (I've always loved Spanish, specially because my uncle lived in Spain for 1 year). Now I am 19 and I am studying English since last year and improved a lot my skills, I am in an intermediary level (I am proud about it because to be bilingual or trilingual in Europe is very easy, I want to see someone bilingual in America Latina, we don't have any support and no one knows more than basic English). One of my dreams is seeing Brazil using Spanish as main language together Portuguese, because we would have a better communication with our brothers Latinos.
@@onlythebrave9031 Don't worry about it :) It's similar to German, but it's mainly spoken in a European country called The Netherlands, which is where my family is from :D
@@onlythebrave9031 its spoken in the Netherlands and half of Belgium, its also spoken in Suriname because the Netherlands colonised it. It’s also very close to South African because colonies.
i was raised trilingual (english, french, romanian) but i had to speak therapy because i would get to confused but now i’m so glad i was forced to learn them
I'm from Hungary, I can speak English fairly well, because of my internet addiction and my High School teacher. I've learned Russian for 4 years at high school, but I can't really speak it well. I know basic sentences, like introducing myself, saying my favourite color, what I did yesterday, foods, furniture, family members, some animals and stuff. But, the thing is, if I think about words, in Hungarian, I have a word for everything and there's barely anything I can't understand (mostly those words are old and rarely used), in English, I sometimes struggle to find the right word, but I usually manage to do so, but sometimes I'm trouble with understanding synonymes. In Russian, however, I'm glad that I can call my room a kabinet, but I can't say it differently, even if there's a word. I can't give directions, except "to the left" "to the right", so I'm awful at it. For university, I'm planning to go learn about tourism and catering. I'll have to learn 2 languages and have exams from them. My choices would be German and Spanish. I'm afraid, this will be hard for me. I heard, Spanish is not that difficult, but German is. I kinda regret, that I haven't started it before (when I was in 1-5th grade, I wanted to start, but my mom stopped me from it, because she believed I will confuse it with English & after that, when we learned about Hitler, I became kinda racist and I just disliked the thought of speaking that language), it was like 2 or 3 years ago, since I've started to feel like, I need to speak German, because if I'll have a Bachelor's or a Master's degree all the high paying jobs in the tourism industry will look for employees with good language skills, in Hungary, most tourists from abroad are Germans (speaking German), Austrians(also speaking German) & Russians (who's language I speak horribly) Also, I'm a slob, but I've tried to learn Frisian, French even Chinese (from a cartoon when I was like 6-8) and Japanese (for karate and weeb reasons) I even tried to make a language for my imaginary planet, Ojalünd, however, the language doesn't have a name and proper grammar rules yet, just some words, sentences and pronouns reflecting Hungarian kind of🤷♀️
I believe, German is not that hard if you really want to learn it. I was learning it for 4 years in my high school and I liked it since i am a slavic. Maybe for you it will be hard to learn it because you come from another language fam. But don't give up! German is not so comlex as it seems, it is one of those languages where you struggle at the beggining and once you learn the basic your knowledge just expands naturally. Also speaking to other native German speakers helps a lot. 😉 I wish you all the best! Fighting💜 Lots of love from your neighbour🇸🇮
@@pikni4827 Oh, thank you kind Slovenian person💙💙💙 I think German and English are both Germanic languages (at least my grammar book says so), maybe that will make a difference🤔 With Russian, not neccessarily the language itself was a problem, the environment I learned it was. The people there were so un-enthusiastic, the first teacher gave up on teaching us after a while, then 2 others came, one was perfect, good humour, nurturing, kind, genorously corrected our mistakes, the other one, however, was very impatient, made us do tests (which made my average go down) and this impatiant teacher was what we got for the last year. Idk how many stuff I will remember, I already forgot a lot of things, luckily, both my studenst's books and excercise books are here, with my notebooks, so I can revise, if I want.
I want to know more languages because I think they're so fascinating. I currently only speak English and Spanish and have tried learning French for very little time and have been trying to learn Swedish with no luck :( I'm trying to use an app to learn Swedish, but I only know basic things like Hej, jag är en flicka och jag talar inte svenska. If I could instantly learn new languages, I would do it in a heartbeat. If anyone has any tips on learning new languages or if you know Swedish, comment below cause im so curious!
I would recommend the App Duolingo :) I learned a lot of Norwegian, and currently Spanish and it led me to learn even more. So it's a good start. Good luck with Swedish 😃🍀
I don't know if you've tried this method but learning the most common 3000 words in any language will get you super far. Learning 3000 words off by heart will teach you around 90% of the language you want to learn. I would recommend an app called Lexilize for this (it has a fox in the logo) - it's a flashcards app and you can actually pick a language and learn from their own database, but i would recommend starting your own folder and putting in all the flashcards yourself. First Google the most common 1000 words, put them into Lexilize, and once you feel confident that you know them, Google the 2000 most common words, do the same, then the 3000 most common words. Once you have learnt them, just emerse yourself completely in your target language, read novels, watch TV and RU-vid etc in the language you want to learn and you will find you understand so many of the words that you can piece together what they're saying. After a while you won't have to piece together what they're saying, you will just understand the language! :)
also, if you want to go that extra mile, I'd use something like DuoLingo alongside this, as it will teach you specifics and might speed up the process of fluency. Good luck friend! you can do this! I believe in you.
@@SaeSaeyoungyoung Do you mean Duolingo? Well it was a good start for me at least, because then I moved on to watching films, read books and hold conversations in Norwegian
I was so very close to being bilingual (English and French) when I was little, only we never used French anywhere once we left Belgium, where we'd been living and where I had gone to school, and so I've forgotten it. I do remember having a discussion with another kid at the school, though. My memory is in English but we would have been speaking French, and because I don't remember much French, my memory has code switched permanently to English.
I grew up bilingual, Vietnamese(first) and English(second). I learned English and school and expanded my vocabulary(words, phrases) there but with Vietnamese my only exposure I had were my parents. My speaking skills aren’t that great regardless of language. I am fluent in both Vietnamese and English. Well, partially in Vietnamese. I understand what people are saying even if I am unfamiliar with the vocabulary being used but I cannot write. I wasn’t taught how to write but I did learn through Vietnamese texts in church songs. I strive to expand my understanding of my mother tongue to the extent where I am able to write academic essays but for now, I think I’m content with my level. I also had a nanny who spoke Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese and I did end up picking up some words in Chinese but that was ages ago. At school, a lot of my peers were of Spanish descent therefore they spoke a lot of Spanish during school hours. I admit, I would listen in to their conversations and pick up things here and there. Some of my peers decided to teach me how to speak Spanish but they never really carried through because I was extremely shy and stubborn. When they finally forced some Spanish out of me, they were genuinely surprised because of my good pronunciation. I suspect that they expected me to use hard English pronunciation... I’m currently learning French with all the phrases, writing, conjugations, etc and it’s a super fun language! (The French r comes naturally now, too naturally...) I’m not too good with languages but they do fascinate me to the extent where I end up researching about the histories of specific languages along with finding ways to differentiate dialects. Note: I feel the need to address some self-proclaimed polyglots, but not by any means by accusation. But I do have extreme doubts about being able to learn a difficult language, such as Mandarin, in a matter of 3 months. Fluency as it is defined, is being able to speak the language easily and well, but I do think that the definition is a bit loose. “Well” isn’t exactly measurable but I suppose it’s supposed to be that way. Perhaps we’ll just have to take the person’s word for their fluency but I would like to challenge their knowledge of languages.
I have lots of bilingual people in my family because my grandpa's generation married people who are also Belgian but from the French-speaking side or people from other countries. We have people who are bilingual in French and Dutch, in German and Dutch and also some in Swedish and Dutch. My grandmother was British so my dad and his brothers could have been raised bilingually in English and Dutch too but they weren't. We all speak English well either way though, like many people.
You can't beat Belgian and Dutch kids when it comes to languages. As well as Flemish/Dutch, they switch effortlessly between English, German, French, and often some Italian and Spanish as well.
In some places it’s really easy to become triligual. In Belgium this is expected of you. My family is from the French speaking part, so I’ve always spoken French at home, but we live in the Dutch speaking part, so I’ve always went to school in Dutch. I learned English by watching tv with subtitles, watching RU-vid and social media. Dutch is not a widely spoken language, and so not many movies or shows, except for kids are dubbed over, instead everything is subtitled. But even on kids tv channels, everything after 5pn was also subtitled. If I didn’t learn all these languages by myself I still would have learned them in school. Belgium was 3 official languages (Dutch, French, German, but only very little people speak German). In Flanders they already familiarise children with French starting in kindergarten in a playful manner with songs and a puppet that speaks French all the way until 5th grade and that’s when you get formal french lessons when you learn how to speak/ read/ write and listen. And you have these mandatory french lessons until you graduate secondary school. Then when you start secondary school (at 12 years old) you get English lessons also mandatory until you graduate (most children already have a good base because of television and other media). I chose a scientific path in secondary school so I always had the bare minimum of languages, but I still had 4 hours of Dutch, 2 hours of English and 3 hours of french every week for 6 years. Too bad I already spoke all 3 languages haha
When I see this I think of The Return of Superman Na Eun and her family. I plan to learn many languages, and raise my kids to at least be bilingual. And if my husband speaks another language as well, then at least trilingual. Language learning comes so naturally at a young age. I would speak one language to them, hubby would speak a second, and they’d speak English in public. I’ve seen many families do it and I find it fascinating and wish I was exposed to a second language as a child.
I was also raised trilingual but my parents could only speak one language (Italian) so I learnt Italian at home with them. I learnt French because I went to an International French school from the age of 2 to 12 so French is like another native language. I learnt English by watching English tv when I was young and I am going to a British school now for the last year of high school. Spanish I only started learning 6 years ago, I was about 11 so I am not fluent yet but I can definitely have a conversation with someone
@L. Ricardo Thank you! I found it very useful to watch tv in English and of course it helps a lot when you are young (around 5) but 9 years old is also good. When I was really young my dad made me watch "Baby Einstein" which he had on DVD and it's a cartoon that teaches English for very young kids/toddlers. And then when I got older (5-12 years old) I watched Disney Channel so stuff like Jessie, Wizards of Waverly Place, Good luck Charlie. I also loved watching the Harry Potter movies. They were harder to understand at first because of the British accent but eventually they helped a lot. I even have a bit of an British accent when I speak because of that lol. And yes, RU-vid is also very useful I am sure there is stuff like Baby Einstein on RU-vid as well since DVDs are not as common anymore. But I think RU-vid is a great place to learn tbh. I hope this helped!
My first language is Spanish but my family moved to Italy when I was four and I learnt Italian too, now I'm fluent in Spanish, Italian and English and I'm learning Korean, I want my future kids to learn all this languages but I really don't know how, just, I just have to talk to them?
Another example would be Naeun (or Aiden) from the korean show "return of superman" To those who don't know, this show is about celebrity dads taking care of their baby and/or toddlers while the moms take the day off. Naeun is a little girl with a korean dad and a german mom, she speaks korean to her korean family, german to her mother, spanish to her grandma, and english once in a while.. the show is korean and her tone is exactly like the average korean children and when i saw the german people's reaction, they also said that when she speaks german, her choice of words and tones are exactly like the common german children
I wasn’t raised bilingual or trilingual but since I was 12 I wanted to learn more. So I started with Korean. I now speak Korean and bcz of that love kpop, but I also bcz of learning korean am learning Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai. I am fluent in Korean, getting there in Mandarin and Japanese, still learning Vietnamese and Thai. Wanting to learn, German, Indonesian & Malaysian. I love languages.
Filipinos could relate. Speaks the national language, international language, tribe dialect (both parents side) plus fan of kpop and anime helped for more language haha
this reminds me of eden naeun park. a kid with a swiss mom and a korean dad. she managed to learn to speak 4 languages at the age of 3 or 4 years i believe. she spoke korean to her dad, german to her mom, english to her younger brother, and spanish to her abuela (her mom's mom). that kid is amazing and her dad also knows japanese and they read japanese books so i bet she'll be able to learn more as she grows up. she's only turned 6 years old this year
All the Chinese kids in my country are trilingual. They speak Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese) at home, English at school and native country language for everything else.
I really wish I were born somewhere else (Cuba, just badly spoken Spanish everywhere). I have learnt English almost by myself and now I can read fluently and watch whole series and movies without needing subtitles, but none of my friends can so its a bit lonely. Also learning French, Japanese and Russian just ´cause I love learning.
I grew up bilingual if that counts- I learnt English when I was around 4 years old because I lived in America at the time and I speak Swedish because I am from Sweden (I still usually speak English with my brother and sometimes w my sister, but whenever I talk with my parents i speak in swedish)
You won't grow up bilingual, but don't let it stop you. I just learned English at school, but consider myself bilingual nowadays. Just pick a language where you can get a lot of exposure somehow. Like, I just read random books and watched movies and TV series until I was 17yo. Then I spent a couple years in the UK and that was enough.
Yes got raised like that aswell! I learned serbocroatian, then english and then german & swissgerman, so you could say almost fourlingual haha I had french in school and now I am learning japanese and korean
I speak English & Arabic, and am currently learning Spanish & Chinese-hope to eventually be able to connect with over half the globe! (~4.5 billion people)
