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That was brilliant. You sounded much more natural during that last interview. Using the flapped 't' in common words like 'gotta' and 'better' is natural for lots of southern English speakers in fast speech and no one will bat an eye if you use the vowel in 'cat' for a word like 'ask' instead of the usual RP vowel as a very large number of British accents do that too. We're used to hearing mixed accents so don't worry too much about that. I think you need to use a less open schwa because that certainly contributes to your sounding German 😂 Your O in 'go' is sometimes very High-RP so it would be good to work on a more true English O in the diphthong instead of the textbook /eu/. The only other thing I'd say is the final T sounds. Less aspiration or even doing an unreleased T is better than saying it too clearly! Amazing effort though! I'd give it an 8/10 for sure but I'm northern so I have less experience with hearing the Modern RP accent 😁 Love the channel, Paul ❤ xxx

Интересно, автора уже внесли в "Миротворец"?

9:44 corrected 試験の勉強をしなくても大丈夫です。 It's ok if "you" don't study for the test. It's true that the sentence doesn't have a subject (you), but it feels strange for a native Japanese speaker to think that "I" make this statement. That's why Japanese is difficult.

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It's fascinating: the easier the japanese phrase, the less chinese understand. The more complex the written words, the easier is for a chinese to understand the sentence. I read somewhere, the (younger) japanese folk hardly can read and write kanji.

Semetic Languages are written from right to left, including Farsi. Arabic and Farsi alphabets are 90% identical. There are many words that both languages share. To say Farsi has no relations to semetic language is not correct. Many Persians want to identify with the European race, which is not totally correct because in general depending what parts of Iran one is from determines ancestorical lineage. KHUZESTAN (Ancient Elam/Babylonia) is disputed lands between Arabs and Persians going back 1000's of years and one of the reasons for the Iran/Iraq war. In conclusion Farsi is 50% Semetic and 50% Indo European due to migrationing populations settling from neighboring countries.

Me: *studies Surinamese Dutch*

Mesopotamian hieroglyphics

marathi hindi konkani and english , i speak all of them fluently

Is it easy for continental Chinese people to read traditional characters, or for Taiwanese people to read simplified characters?

this language came as linguistics question in my entrence exam

14:33 That's a little complicated to write "their own country" as "jibuntachi", doesn't seem natural to me. Simpler to just say "自国" (jikoku). Unless it was intentional to make it hard, because I think the Chinese would sus out "self" and "country" quickly.

14:05 Wow, chinese really simplified what Japanese keeps as "kaeru".

In archaic Japanese, it does indeed mean "the figure of a man/great man".

11:15 Actually, Russian does have a structure that functions as a pluperfect: "Я читал было эту книгу..." (or "Я было читал эту книгу...") You just use the imperfective verb in its past tense, but you also add this "было". In isolation, it would be the past singular neuter form of "быть" (to be), but in this case, it fuctions as a particle (since it's not conjugated at all) that indicates pluperfective aspect. Yes, this is pretty much the same as Ukrainian: "Я читав був цю книжку..." Russian: "Я читал было эту книгу..." In fact, Old Church Slavonic's plusquamperfect tense was like this! It also featured the verb meaning to be and the verb conveying lexical meaning; albeit "be" was conjugated (and, as far as I know, the second verb could also be in its aorist or perfect form). 15:05 In Russian, instead of "потому что" you can also use its synonym "ибо" (which I believe is a cognate with Ukrainian "бо", since both share a remarkable amount of similarity to Old Church Slavonic "бо" that meant "because"), although it'd feel either dated or pompous. Or both. This word isn't used in Modern Russian anymore, even in written language.

Watched this very interesting video sone years ago and then again today. I have just now noticed the background pictures you have used, two of which are in my region. 6:51 is Mount Pelion and 12:41 is Dasia, an islet off the coast of Skopelos, both in Magnesia Prefecture of Greece.

i dont find the "i can tell it's ai" argument reasonable. it doesn't have to sound like a "native speaker", it still makes communication possible in the first place. i know for a fact that people that have learned a language later in life tend to (TEND TO) use odd sounding phrasing, words, sentence structure, they sometimes use idioms that only make sense in their main language. i don't see how that's different from ai translations sounding a bit weird. just because machine translation is not perfect yet doesn't mean it's not extremely useful.

So we're just gonna ignore the fact that he used the American Flag with the 51st Canadian Star throughout the video ? 💀

At the end of the day they will speak English in the big cities..

What's interested to me is that Proto-Indo-European is thought to have used a root system as well. However the reconstructors of that proto-language often write the vowel and it also often has a consonant cluster making it four consonants anyways. What's even more interesting however, is that because PIE only has two pure vowels and each only has a length variation that can be derived from grammar and the semi-vowels can be read as consonants or vowels but reveal which to use easily by context, and the laryngeals are essentially a forced consonant vowel cluster so they could just be represented with letters like how x is used in Latin and in many cases in other PIE descendants for a shortening of ks combos. In other words, I'm suspicious that PIE could be written with an abjad alphabet like almost all of the Afro-Asiatic languages like the Semitic family. Now I know there isn't enough information available currently with currently available methods of study to say whether thats features of a common ancestor language or a spachbünd (speech region) effect. But it's still interesting to see that.

At 16:30 when you switched to your "canadian accent" you did not sound Canadian at all. How many generations Canadian are you? I would bet you were raised in a household where there were many non-native english speakers. I enjoyed this video, but you should really disclose your cultural language influences, because you do NOT sound like a Canadian. Not even close.

So this means that Iran, Tajikistan and the dari speaking afghanis have a historical connection to each other right?

i think its better tobe a germaniic language

As a brit you sound South African to me.

I HAVE LIVED HERE MOST OF MY LIFE AND I EQUATE QUEBEC FRENCH SLANG TO FRANC'S FRENCH AS CLOSE TO BRITISH OXFORD SPEECH TO ANYONE IN NORTH AMERICA SAYING I SEEN AND I AIN'T. REX HARRISON SANG IT BEST IN "MY FAIR LADY" ON THE TRACK, "WHY CAN'T THE ENGLISH LEARN TO SPEAK"!!

Old Persian cuneiform is loosely inspired by the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform; however, only one glyph is directly derived from it - l(a) (𐎾), from la (𒆷). (lᵃ did not occur in native Old Persian words, but was found in Akkadian borrowings.)

I think the japanese word "manto" might have come from the portuguese word "manto" since it's pronounced the same and even means the same. There's a lot of japanese words that come from portuguese

Very interesting and entertaining!

Literally no one uses Ta'lim is very old fashioned

When I moved to the US from Iraq, what got my attention is rather a cultural similarity between the majina and decorations of Muslims in Ramadan and the trick or treating and decorations of Halloween. Halloween originated back in Ireland. Both traditions use uncannily similar laterns and have their children dress up and go around neighborhoods for goodies while saying their respective catch phrases Also, there is a weird similarity in some Americans and Muslims of believing in Ghosts, geenies and all that...

Took me about 9 minutes to give up on armenian

This is literally the coolest thing, I have just found out. LIKE HOW URDU AND HINDI ARE THE SAME LANGUAGE I would've never thought it, though I was already wondering why they both sound so familiar. Well, it explains itself. Thank you so much for this awesome video! Just amazing. A friend of mine speaks Urdu, so I was thinking to look into the language. Crazy how rich and intertwined everything is.

i think 大丈夫 in japanese originally means the same in Chinese, like if you break your head, people ask "are you alright", you say "大丈夫(real man)", real man's never hurt, you know, then the sense of words change

As a Chinese speaker, I sometimes do understand what an individual Japanese word in a sentence cause it’s the same

Great information, I did not know this!

1:26 Actually the word “试验/試驗” also exists in Chinese and also means test/exam. It's also commonly used. Also the difference in simplification won't matter much to native speakers if both characters keeps the basic structure of the glyph.

Lots of Yiddish speakers were in Britain especially East London with its large Jewish population

I'd say typical American accent from the start to the end

Paul I have a question if there is 3 writing system in Japanese and each one use in specific thing, can a word be written in kana but it supposed to be in Kanji, for example let's say that we have a character in Kanji represent the word go can this word be spelled also in kana ?

As a person who has learned simplified Chinese characters since childhood and now knows a little traditional Chinese characters, learning Japanese kanji is very interesting.

As an Austrian this relly reminds me of the differences in gernan german and austrian german. I would love to see a video about it

thanks

I am Galician, an we have our own lenguage, so I sai Catellano, for my the "Spanish" doesn't exist, because in Spain there are so many lenguages.

Do Arabic and Persian languages

Maybe not many peoples know that “Fan” or 扇风机in japanese sound like “vagina” in Fujian Dialect.

Nice one

great video!

I was very aware of the importance of English in today's society where globalization is accelerating. So, I was curious about how English became the world's common language, so I looked for this lecture. I learned a lot about the process through which English became the world's common language from a historical perspective.

Esperanto might be a better Lingua Franca than English

" Hold on, now we can start" really made my day LOLOL😂