Your energy is infectious

I took an english language studies course in undergrad for a semester and all of this 100% made me appreciate the 'art' of language learning, in fact, I took up learning german and actually started enjoying it

lol. Love the pic of Pinker.

Thanks for talking about the ways that understanding linguistics can help with learning a language! Maybe language, teachers should do a better job, incorporating certain parts of linguistics in their lessons.

I'm learning Cebuano, the Filipino language of my parents. I start easy, then progress to harder, such as: I ate, I ate bread, I ate bread and fish, etc.

Your editing is fab 🦃❤️

I just found your channel today and I really like it. New subscriber!

@beccalevy1

7 ай бұрын

Welcome! Thanks for subscribing :)

Nice one!

That line about the polyglots hits hard haha. I think so many people get started into learning a language and watch their videos and they make it seem like they have the best way to learn a language when that new person should just start learning and realize that when you first start out you wont be at their level, and what works for them might not work for you. Just enjoy the journey and have fun.

Ipa symbols are about all you will get for learning langs from lingx, maybe also identifying which root lang to study eg sanskrit is more useful than latin.

I'm currently a first year at Emory, Oxford and thinking about studying linguistics. I am curious as to what math courses are required for the linguistics major? If none are required, what math related or quantitative reasoning courses help with the major?

Wow, I've spoken Spanish since I was a teenager and didn't know that native speakers don't differentiate between b and v! Spanish, Swahili, and Bosnian, what an interesting triad... Always have wanted to visit somewhere on the East side of the Mediterranean like Croatia or Montenegro. Don't know anything linguistically about the local languages, but always hear how different Slavic people are able to understand one another, but not necessarily both ways. Was this something you ever noticed in Bosnia? Having studied engineering and always being a language nerd on the side, I definitely noticed that more stuff stuck in my head during tests. Soviet scientists were easier to remember, physics made more sense when German words would come up (Entgegen and Zusammen for opposite and together when talking about cis/trans molecules), and Latin came in handy for taxonomies and biology. Chemistry nomenclature is a nightmare if linguistics is your enemy lol It's always fun to read the original titles of various seminal works written by their original authors. Linguistics was always a field I was drawn to but never actually pursued. I remember seeing Noam Chomsky's name on innatism and definitely thought that was an interesting concept to reframe when a machine processes the information. Resonated with learning languages just for the fun of it! I picked up an assortment of books in Arabic, Punjabi, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese to learn the writing system. When I learned Korean I never got too great at it, but I can still say 나의 한국말은 찐자 나쁜이예요. Which I'm not even sure if it's correct x) I love your content! Keep up the great videos :)

@beccalevy1

7 ай бұрын

Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, and Montenegrin in fact are so extremely mutually intelligible that they are essentially the same language. Other Balkan languages are also quite similar and can often be understood by speakers of each other :)

@pierreabbat6157

7 ай бұрын

I grew up with Spanish, and count it as my third native language. I do differentiate /b/ and /v/, but I've known since childhood (before I actually *spoke* much Spanish - I mostly overheard my mother on the telephone) to say "be de burro, ve de vaca". So although I pronounce "tubo" and "tuvo" differently, I'm used to people not making the difference. And some words I spell and pronounce differently: "vasco" with /b/ (there is no "v" in Basque), "venda" (he bandages) with /b/ and "venda" (he sell) with /v/, because you get bandages from a vending machine. Also, since my first language is English, which has /n/ and /ŋ/, I hear them as distinct, but since several accents, including my mother's, often pronounce /n/ at word's ends as [ŋ], I do too. The only close-to-minimal pair I've found is "amen" (often ['amεŋ]) and "amén" (always [a'mεn]), not because of the stress, but because it's from Hebrew. I've visited Prague, and Russian (my fifth language and second non-native language) came in handy. Advanced vocabulary is different, but basics like numbers (except 40, which Russian borrowed) and go on foot/in car/in plane are very similar, as is the grammar.

If ur into etymology learn chinese.

Que raro!!!