I know Arabic,Turkish, English and Spanish and I learn Russian, Chinese , Japanese and German I hope to get a time to learn Hindi and Swahili. As you said actually these languages are opening up a whole world to us you get understand people better. I love languages, cultures, literature and poetry so languages are combining them
@@haniyeh-hfp for me the dialect of gulf states especially Saudi Arabia is the most understandable and similar to the standard Arabic(Fusha)because pure Arabic is actually in that region.
Hello, polyglot army ❤ I have self learning languages like Mandarin, Turkish,Urdu, Korean, Japanese and a little bit of Spanish and French and Italian and It feels so awesome. Being bilingual from a younger age now I know about 12 to 13 languages Including my mother tongue Bengali and Hindi and English, I am also working on an ancient language like Sanskrit.
Thanks for making this video on gateway languages. I know many are confused sometimes where to start. Myself included. With this video there is a direction and these languages do have the largest amount of resources available if anybody is interested delving deeper into the families mentioned in the video.
Thank you sir for all videos. I'am from Indonesia and 33 years old. For now I learning english since September 2023. I hope my english will be better in this year.
Oublier la langue française dans les dix premières langues du monde est complètement dingue. Cela montre un parti-pris incroyable ainsi qu'un manque de culture historique et littéraire.
Thank you for sharing this video. It's very useful. I am learning Japanese now. I am really thankful to you that your videos keeps me motivated to learning languages. Your videos are amazing.
Your videos are awesome. I have started to learn Japanese....my 7-old year old son came up with such an idea, because he likes games from Japan. Starting is hard but step by step it will be a.nice adventure.
Thank you for another great video Tim. I''ve studied all of those except Japanese. I've found Spanish, Mandarin and Russian to be very useful. I really struggle with Arabic - I'm off to Morocco in two days time and know that my MSR will not be understood but luckily I can speak French 😂.
@@polyglotdreams I totally agree I'm Moroccan and our dialect is a little bit difficult cause we have french words and Spanish words also due to colonization I think foreigners learn Egyptian Arabic maybe it's the easiest for them also Moroccan people can understand all the other dialect but others found some difficulties to understand ours so obviously it difficult for foreigners as well
An extra criteria could be the countries english literacy level. Norwegian is an enticing language until you go there and discover they speak better English than natives.
Dziękuję for your inspiring videos! Every time I think of quitting to learn "po polsku", because I cannot wrap my brain around it as a German, I watch one of your videos and keep on. The start is easy, then grammar almost kills you, but once you start speaking it gets better.
Recently learning languages became my hobby so I just started to learn Spanish first to move to Spain one day, then I'll learn all the major languages first and then we'll see. Good luck to everyone who're learning foreign languages, I know you can do it guys🤝
The one drawback to learning Hindi is, oddly enough, that English is the main business language in India, and is becoming used increasingly in daily life such that "Hinglish" is what is referred to as what many people speak in Northern regions of India nowadays, particularly amongst the younger generations.
Obrigado por fazer esse vídeo. Eu gostei muito. Especialmente a ideia dos "Gateway languages" porque quero aprender muitos idiomas! Também foi bem legal ter na lista uma língua de cada família. Eu gostaria de entender o maior número possível de línguas e a sua lista me ajuda decidir por onde começar.
I am also a big Hermann Hesse fan. I will put japanese maybe on my list for next year because my teenage daughter thinks about learning it and then I follow along a bit.
Hi, this is a brilliant work done here. I can't imagine the research time taken to accomplish this. Just a quick note, for Spanish you need to add also the country of Guinea Equatorial, the only african country that speaks Spanish. Thanks.
I fear this video needs a warning “Not suitable for French people: side effects may include raised blood pressure, palpitations and shortness of breath”. I understand why you listed Spanish rather than French, presumably due to South America, and it is also easier for English speakers to learn, with regular gender. And yet French is such a beautiful language, and a definite must for British people, assuming they weren’t frightened away from language learning at school. Ten languages to learn, wow! I speak French and I am learning German. English and French are so similar, they are almost dialects. And yet despite English being classed as a West German language, English and German are so different. German idioms are so weird, and the way they use all those little words like doch, mal, schon, mehr etc is utterly bizarre. But it can sound nice, contrary to stereotypes.
I have found French really useful, not just when in France, but I meet a lot of people from DRV and Cameroon who I enjoy speaking French with. I'm going to Morocco in two days time and know that I'll be speaking mostly French.
French is an official language in 27 countries and is spoken across all continents. French is also one of the most geographically widespread languages in the world, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. Most of these countries are members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the community of 54 member states which share the official use or teaching of French. French is also one of six official languages used in the United Nations. In 2015, approximately 40% of the francophone population (including L2 and partial speakers) lived in Europe, 36% in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean, 15% in North Africa and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas, and 1% in Asia and Oceania. French is the second-most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. Of Europeans who speak other languages natively, approximately one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language. French is the second-most taught foreign language in the EU. All institutions of the EU use French as a working language along with English and German; in certain institutions, French is the sole working language (e.g. at the Court of Justice of the European Union). French is also the 16th most natively spoken language in the world, fifth most spoken language by total number of speakers and is on the top five of the most studied languages worldwide (with about 120 million learners as of 2017).As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, French was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Most second-language speakers reside in Francophone Africa, particularly Gabon, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritius, Senegal and Ivory Coast. French is estimated to have about 76 million native speakers; about 235 million daily, fluent speakers and another 77-110 million secondary speakers who speak it as a second language to varying degrees of proficiency, mainly in Africa. According to the OIF, approximately 321 million people worldwide are "able to speak the language", without specifying the criteria for this estimation or whom it encompasses. According to a demographic projection led by the Université Laval and the Réseau Démographie de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, the total number of French speakers will reach approximately 500 million in 2025 and 650 million by 2050.[17] OIF estimates 700 million by 2050, 80% of whom will be in Africa. French has a long history as an international language of literature and scientific standards and is a primary or second language of many international organisations including the United Nations, the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the World Trade Organization, the International Olympic Committee, the General Conference on Weights and Measures, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked French the third most useful language for business, after English and Standard Mandarin Chinese.
Pour info, J'ai trouvé toutes ces informations concernant la langue française sur Wikipedia. Personnellement, j'aurais également ajouter le portugais et le bahassa Indonesia à votre Liste. Bonne journée à vous tous !
Tim Keeley I challenge you to take the Clozemaster 10 languages 10 questions each challenge. Try 10 languages in 10 questions each in whichever languages you either are and or are not familiar with video it and inspire us. Set the question limit to 10 questions each and turn the audio vocals on. Whenever you make the thumbnail and the title be sure to include the 10 flags of each of them. This video could possibly go viral if you choose to include language tags to the countries which you are respectively quizzing in. It will be both fun and inspiring! Buenas suerte Carpa diem שלום עליכם
Consider including Interlengua or Esperanto in the challenge for all the conlangers to be inspired and because global recognition. Because there's just not enough people who know about Interlengua and Interslavic.
@@polyglotdreams They would probably love to do a sponsored video with you. I'm hoping that Dr Jones (language jones) will take the challenges also. I could see this becoming a trending thing where everyone (and or polyglots) videos themselves taking the Clozemaster 10 languages 10 questions challenge. And then that would become a file of its own of people just taking the challenge. I plan on taking the challenge and posting the results as soon as I get a good enough camera and stand. When I initially took the challenge I was very surprised at how I scored a 10 out of 10 in Turkish Indonesian and Russian although I don't speak any of those and have studied only very little through RU-vid. One of the hacks that I did was to pick the shortest answer when I was not sure intuitively what would be the right answer of multiple choice.
Learning gateway languages is like gateway drugs. Once you start, you are hooked and you can't stop. Yes, language learning is a drug...just look at my library! 🤦🏼♂
Alot to unpack ( as the modern saying goes). There's many ways to look at this ( Sir, I think you encapsulated many). There's Pro.Arguelle's 6 languages one could consider. Which sector you're working/ interested in, e.g, horology- French & German ; fashion- french & Italian but now Mandarin ( English is always in this question) for that market? The British Council lists , for the UK , French, Spanish, German, Arabic & Mandarin although Dutch, & Italian coukd be advantageous & lesser spoken for important markets.
I agree with everything you said. But you didn't mentioned something I christened to "Language Sacrifice". You said what worth to learn but I have an another point of view as well. If you are near the polygloth level(4-5 languages) you can make a Language learning Sacrifice and learn languages which from you maybe won't profit. 1st Type - Languages which are too small and/or Endangered. I choose Hawai'i. 2nd Type - Dead languages . I choose Latin, Egyptian and Babylonian. 3rd Type - Artificial and/or Fantasy languages, like Esperanto, Elvish, Volapük,Toki Pona,High Valyrian and so on. I choose Esperanto. You don't have to learn any of these languages, but if you are that much into languages you can sacrifice your time in languages you may never use,never profit from. Saving an endangered Language from extinction could be a mission to any language fan.That's why I learn Hawai'i. (2000 native speaker). Some says I should be writing books instead,but still I left lot of things unsaid. 😊
My native language is Armenian and I've been studying English and Russian for a long time. Now, I guess, it's time for a new language. So excited that can't choose between Spanish, German and French. Can't choose in the objective perspective: which is more beneficial career wise.😁
Thanks for video. It is the most objective video about global languages I have seen, free from passions. Obvious dominion of English as lingua franca. Saludos desde España. 😊😊
I can't help the fact that less important languages atract me more 😂. I'm Polish but I speak also English (luckily sth useful 😂), Norwegian (I was working there for some time), Bulgarian (because of my ancestors). Other languages that I want to learn are Hungarian, Romanian and maybe Italian. After all I might end up as fluent behind the iron curtain. 😅
I've studied english for a long time, but I can't say a single word. I can understand many words but I can't understand spoken english. Now I think I can't be fluent in english 😅 I can even understand economics, philosophy lecture in english. Nowadays I want to learn japanese and chinese - close to my native language. And malay-indonesian. Btw your video is very informative and useful. Thx
Saluton ! Kiel vi fartas ? Quite a choisir une L.A.I.C je pense que l'interlingua est une bien meilleur option que l'Esperanto car bien qu'elle ne soit parlée que par quelques centaines d'individus elle a le mérite de pouvoir être comprise facilement par des centaines de millions de locuteurs de langues romanes. Même chose pour l'interslavic
Agreed with most of what you said except that Japanese can serve as a gateway language to Chinese and Vietnamese. IMHO Japanese can only serve as a gateway language to Korean since the two share a very similar grammar; both are SOV, both lack tones, and both are agglutinative, to name just a few of their commonalities. Whereas with Chinese and Vietnamese the differences are too huge and too many when compared to Japanese.
The Sino vocabulary in Japanese helps with learning nothing Vietnamese and Chinese.... and the head last structure of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese is the same. Please watch my video on the East Asian Cultural Sphere 🙏
Very good presentation. I guess that language learning for most isn't worth it, too much effort for little compensation. So what you call "subjective factors" shokld dominate.
Bulgarian is the reason why all Slavic Languages have an alphabet. Ukraine or Poland were the first to speak Slavic, even though Poland is slavic, but you use the Latin one
My list of 10 is Spanish, French , Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Indonesian and Turkish. The reason I chose Dutch over German was because Dutch gives you the capability to later learn Indonesian and Afrikaans so it is a gateway language and once you learn your Indonesian it will take you to Tagalog because it has cognates and Loan words with Arabic Hindi and Dutch. In addition to these languages I would say a good move for you next would be to include Interlingua and Interslavic as they can round out all of Europes and the Slavic languages greatly improving your capability with languages that you otherwise would have lesser experience in. Turkish is kind of a Gateway language because combined with Russian Cyrillic alphabet it can give you a foot in the door on Mongolian.
I like the enthusiasm about Dutch, but as a fluent speaker of indonesian, I can tell you that learning Dutch just gives you a little bit of vocabulary. It is true that interslavic is widely understood by most slavic speakers. But very few people actually speak it, and if you only know Interslavic, it won't be easy to understand quite a few of islamic languages.
The so-called Russian language is an artificial language. It is used only in the former territories of the non-existent “union”. Although interest in an artificial language can only be within the framework of “you need to know the enemy’s language.”
My languages for 2024 are Japanese and Ukrainian. Japanese because I like the melody of the language, I want to pass JLPT N2 in the future and read among others Haruki Murakami in the original language. Ukrainian because I would like to help Ukrainian refugees with translations in the future.
My 2024 pick is German. Being fluent in several latin languages and speaking Serbo-Croatian and Russian to a conversational level, I had considered starting Romanian this year, but I felt like I should challenge myself with something radically different. Not an easy one, though. Anyway, this concept of "Gateway Language" is actually very important (and rarely pointed out). Thanks for the video!
Hi mate, Im from De la india 🇮🇳 i speak Hindi bengali telugu and fluent español as a traditional guy i love spanish too much. You must also learn some indian languages like bangla hindi..
I wonder you put Japanese in top 10 languages Mystery.....howabout replacing her alternatively BAHASA INDONESIA. Japanese is exclusively used in Japan, further more Japanese can not be regarded as a Gateway language. Japan is geographically isolated island, no chance to stay connected with other bothering countries. Swahili can be in some sense acceptable though....wa i forgot you had a Japanese citizenship.... I respect your Subjectivity though!!! Thank you.
@@polyglotdreamsyou already had English yet still included german I understand that german isn't mutually understandable with English, but the same is true for french french is hard for other romance speakers to understand, so learning spanish will help you speak with portuguese, catalan, italian speakers but not french speakers
Don't forget, guys; English isn't the easiest language in the world, the easiest language in the world will depend on what language is your mothertongue. For a Spanish native, italian is easier than English. For a Russian native, Bielorrusia and other slavic languages are easier than English. That thing of English being the easiest language is pure propaganda. 😉
Thanks Sir, but you don't really need to explain the number 1, as if we don't know this number 1 language, we would simply have no way to understand what you are talking about 😅
Nice video BUT the most important aspect, the elephant in the room, is learning a language for earning more money, thus having a better lifestyle. Let's be honest: we need it more than we want it. So it would be much appreciated to talk about what language is better to learn especially in Europe, job related, for 2024.
French seams like it should be in the top 10. Presumably it was left it off to not have 2 romance languages, but he has 2 west germanic languages in English and German.
