Hey thank you so much for stopping by! This is a channel where I'll discuss how I reached fluency in several languages, so that you too can improve your language skills and finally reach fluency in your target language. As a bit of background, I have a university degree in Asian languages, a C2 level from City and Guilds of London in English, and over a decade of experience as a qualified language teacher and expert, having worked through the EU fund of university and research. I hope I'll be able to help you make your language dreams come true! This is also my official second channel. Check out my main channel Metatron if you are interested in history, weapons and armour related content. Thanks!
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It's MASHEEN! Haven't you watched Idiocracy?
Grazie per la lezione!!! : )
But what is the meaning behind it, why do they have gramatical genders...why is a phone masculine or feminine, it's neutral, it's a thing, it doesn't have sexual organs.
Quick note: Romanina is not Latin. Latin is Romanina. You migh ask "how"? Tha Romanian language (more like Dacian) is from the roots where the original Latin has originated. (When the Roman Empire) tried to invate then know as Dacia, the people of Dacia spoke a totally different language ( Romans were like, "what language is that"???) Only Later after the conquest of Trajan of then Dacia, now know as Modern Romania, have the Roman churches have implemented the Lating Language. So you could say half or more was taken and adopted because if its actually different properties. They used it to keep secrets and also (have a new language". Hope that helps a little. Research if you dont believe me.
Most Japanese can’t write Kanji… they just use their smartphones. 😊 Same thing in China. I used to hate Kanji but I’ve come to appreciate it and realized that reading Japanese without it is horrible. The more I learn the more I like it.
That’s impressive! As a romanian I can safely say that romanian tongue twisters are the ultimate wizardry test. 🧙♂🪄 So, here’s your magical challenge: try saying “De gospodărit mă gospodăresc, dar de desgospodărit nu mă pot desgospodări, pentru că desgospodărirea este paguboasă.” (Setting up house I set up house, but unsetting up house I can’t unset up house, because unsetting up house is harmful.) “S-a suit capra pe piatră și a spart-o-n patru, de s-ar sparge capul caprei ca și piatra-n patru.” (The goat climbed upon a stone, so that the stone broke in four pieces; may the goat’s head break in four pieces as the stone broke in four.) “Bucură-te cum s-a bucurat Bucuroaia de bucuria lui Bucurel când s-a întors bucuros de la București.” (Enjoy yourself, as well as Bucuroaia enjoyed the joy of Bucurel when he returned joyful from Bucharest.) “Şase saşi cosaşi cosesc şase saci săseşti.” (Six saxon reapers reap six saxon sacks.) “Un vultur stă pe pisc c-un pix in plisc.” (An eagle sits on a plinth with a pen in the plinth.) “Rică nu știa să zică râu, rățușcă, rămurică.” (Rica - a boy's name - didn't know how to say river, duck, branch.) “Șase sute șaizeci și șase de sași in șase sute șaizeci si șase de saci” (Six hundred and sixty-six saxons in six hundred and sixty-six bags) “Ştiu că ştiu că ştiuca-i ştiucă şi mai ştiu că ştiuca-i peşte.” (I know that I know that a pike is a pike and I also know that a pike is a fish.)
Salve from Londinium. Has this chap got a Birmingham accent?
soy español me pasa con el italiano lo entiendo bien
As a spanish the same happens to me i understand many things and i can guess by context
My biggest problem with Matt was the he was way too big of a “fake it till you make it” type of guy in the first few years, and I think that is very detrimental when it comes to language learning. He would sound too confident about his language abilities while really not showing such skills in his videos, and would boost way too much about it to build up his persona online. I think that with time and moving to Japan he caught up and skilled up to become a very fluent speaker. But I do remember videos where he would boost about having perfect Japanese while having limited vocabulary and not being as articulated with the language. From there on, I could never go back to like the guy, despite knowing he improved. But yeah, I myself also just dislike the whole “white guy impresses Asian person with his perfect language skills”, it sounds very scammy. Sometimes I think it stems from not understanding the culture when you get compliments from locals. In my years living in Japan I’ve heard it many times: “Your Japanese is perfect”, “you speak better than Japanese people themselves”, but I’m fully aware they are just being overly nice and meaning “for a foreigner you’re really good”. So when I see foreigners claiming they’re just as good if not better than locals, I can only assume they’re either ignorant or have malicious intent. (One of the few exceptions being Joey “The anime man”, but he grew up speaking it as a half Japanese, and that’s why it makes sense)
But joeys Japanese isn’t perfect and you can tell he’s not native.
@@NitBeanTheMachine not perfect, but above all those other creators because he grew up speaking the language. And his kanji knowledge is above average even for Japanese people cuz he reads a lot. (Like a foreigner can have better English vocab than the average native speaker for a similar reason)
@@felipechaves6100 I’ve heard him make mistakes natives would literally never make. Of course he’s good but he grew up with a Japanese parent so I’m more inclined to judge harshly lol
@@NitBeanTheMachine fair enough! lol
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You look like furio giunta
It is improper to say Balkan because Romania is a Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic land. Because it is only by the CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS and ABSOLUTELY NOT THE BALKANS .
Also - here is my theory for the future of languages - they will merge! We are already seeing this happen with English words influencing a range of other languages. There are English words influencing Spanish which is a language I study and a large number of speakers of Welsh in my local area will speak Welsh with a heavy dose of English vocabulary, even basic words sometimes. This may be because they are forgetting the real Welsh words but there are a lot of Welsh words from 100 years ago which are not used at all any more and people will just use English words or a combination of similar Welsh words to convey the meaning. I think as English influences other languages in the online world more and more, other languages will become Anglicised over time. I even believe that this may be being encouraged deliberately by politicians/governments to try to elminate linguistic differences.
Hello Metatron, big fan of your work. Can you explain how we are able to tell how words used to be pronounced when we don't have any recordings from the time period?
Wow! It is real classical latin with the correct pronunciation, not late medieval revisitation. I really enjoyed a moment of cultural pleasure. Thank you so much.
There are some funny cases where a greek word makes its way to another language, is altered by that language and then comes back to Greece with this alteration. Example: The greek "χορδή/chord" was adopted in Latin "corde", it became "cordone" in modern Italian and then came back to Greece in the form "κορδόνι/kordoni" to refer to shoelaces
only a double V "VV" were said as W
Wow, I watched the entire video and only at the end noticed you're wearing something... historical?
They are a very great video compare the similar word between Sicilian and Arabic link to the video kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2mIp66glLmnnrg.htmlsi=Hm1UFTX_s4fKRkYQ
In a secondary school run by the Jesuits, I studied Latin for several years. I found it quite hard to learn. I especially had a problem with understanding Cicero. I would love to have you produce a video showing "Cicero" delivering at least part of one of his orations.
The question is: How do we know what classical Latin sounded like?
Very interesting. And what is your opinion on „interlingua“? Specialy as a lingua franca between speakers of Spanish, Portugues, Italian, Romanian, etc.?
When Italian-American say 'I am Italian', they are referring to ETHNICITY, not necessarily NATIONALITY.
Ciao ragazzo! :) Puoi scriverci a noi non italiani e pure non siciliani, (sono serbo io), il testo di quello che hai detto in siciliano? Grazie :) keep up the great job man. Very educational videos, and sopratutto, fun. Un saluto da Serbia!
Salve Metatron! Impressive as usual and actual fluent latin brings to me a sense of power and precision that we have lost in our modern Italian...
昔の日本語は緑も青も全て「あお」と呼んでいたんじゃなかったっけ？
Italy-Greek brothers!! 🇮🇹🇬🇷
ce n'est pas du latin c'est de l'ancien romain, le latin c'esr des lettres (un alphabet) ce n'est pas une langue.
I watched this video yesterday on this subject, I think it is wise. What do you think? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZWWrsMh7pNaWkdo.html
3:12 Fluency is around 2000?? What?! I know around 2500-3000 words in Japanese I'm pretty sure, and I can barely speak, nor can I understand much of what I hear. The only thing I'm decent at is reading manga and lighter novels.
Native greek, fluent english, trying to get fluent in japanese
you have kind eyes, I'll check your channel 🙂
The thing is... we, as Romanians can understand you more than you can understand us 🤗
It's very hard to me understand the Romansh, I come from North Italy (Lombardy) and I 'm pretty good at my dialect but Romanch, to my ears, sounds too close to some germanic languages...I can recognize some words, but not all the meaning of a sentence.
Ya music to my siclian ears
I would love to have a conversation with you in Sicilian help me reconnect with my roots it's been 25 years since i have had the privilege
The most beautiful language EVER created by humanity! So cool to hear this!
According to the Soviet Union, Moldavian(Moldovan) is a distinct language from Romanian. So by that logic, one could say that eastern Europe has two Romance languages. One could say, it's just an another West Eurasian Romance language but they are all "Eastern" from my perspective. None of them sound like Cherokee, Osage or Creek(I live in a city at the confluence of these 3 "nations" ). English sounds a lot like "American" 😂
I'm greek, living in Greece, going to Greek school, never been outside it, get good grades, yet I still struggle to find the correct words in Greek more often than not. My English is better 💀
Lingua latina indigena, sentio sicut fui in corpore maiorum meorum, intra tugurium prope Romam meditans.
Meglio sarebbero due frasi tradotte e spiegate che 20 delle quali non si capisce un c**** (sempre sia detto con rispetto ed apprezzamento).
brooooooooooooo i love watching your main channel. I am trying to learn Spanish and I typed in "the problem with duolingo" and I had no clue you had a whole dedicated channel for language learning. Hyped subbed spreaded (wings)
C is for cookie
I find all this soooo interesting 😊 Thank you.
English speaker, currently learning Catalan. The word for "both,"/ambos, in Castilian, is "with"/amb in Catalan. So just knowing that really helped me understand what these Occitans were saying.
I wonder if Northerners have the POTENTIAL of hostility partially because the Northern cities are more likely to be saturated by tourism and these tourists from America or England might give the most obnoxious and unwelcome representation of our peoples to the wonderful Italian people. The kind of "bougie" trust fund kids who go shopping in Milano for purses or rent a boat from Genoa, go truffle-hunting in Toscana. In the south though, while there is tourism, i wonder if more Americans actually go there to see the old towns their families are from. Like a coworker of mine visited Chieti in Abruzzo and i had never even heard of Abruzzo even as someone fascinated by Italian culture and history, and of course they went to Chieti because their family emigrated from there to America. There's something more warm and welcoming i think about going back to an ancestral home than taking a gondola ride in Venezia for internet clout.
As a Romanian native speaker I found out an interesant aspect while hearing Italian speakers from Puglia region speaking many old/region specific Romanian words that I could clearly recognise. But these words had a different meaning in the context of the sentence unlike the Romanian sister words.. So, I was greatly surprised by this finding.