How to improve your pronunciation of foreign languages Watch your Language 2020-03-26 | Links:What actually makes a language easier/harder to learn? youtu.be/Qhs8cjlIxT8 How to read the IPA charts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE Omniglot Writing Homepage omniglot.com/writing The song I used to demonstrate mouthwatching youtu.be/EYn84uEOxUM WIRED videos relevant to the subject: youtu.be/oa6cHEJIjYI youtu.be/5aXmNle560k youtu.be/XKuPfZpzEHg youtu.be/KEmd6GyTzho youtu.be/NvDvESEXcgE Corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=827sTranslations:5:04 (Spanish) [bdg] lenition between two vowels; [n] agrees with the next sounds; [s] almost disappears before a consonant; others depending on the dialect5:08 (Hebrew) [those 3 letters] change sound; the vowels around [those 2 letters] change; Hebrew’s system is so historic that I don’t know how to show the allophones without breaking the rules, because everything depends on the letter.5:10 (French) R loses its voice; If you’re wondering why I didn’t write the silent letters at the ends, it’s because they still appear at the ends in other cases (feminine words), so just like in Hebrew, the system is too historic.5:12 (Arabic) All vowels change to... ; I couldn’t do the formatting with more IPA characters or [the formatting] would be weird.5:13 (Swedish) All front vowels (3x)5:15 (Russian) Reduction (2x); Fricatives lose their voice at the ends [of words]5:16 (Dutch) The “L” thing from earlier; on the ends (3x)5:18 (Portuguese) The “L” thing from earlier; in the middle positions; before [i]; reduction6:31 (Hebrew) My brain when I speak Hebrew6:49 (Spanish) Uhhh, I don’t wanna try7:04 (bad Spanish) And then uhhhhh, my dad picked me up from the airport and like, brought me home.7:50 (Hebrew) I have no rights to these images, I’m not claiming ownership of them, and there’s no copyright infringement intended. The images that will appear will be used only for educational purposes, and in fact, this is free advertisement for the creator, because I’m a fan of him.
Predictions about the future of several languages Ive studied Watch your Language 2024-09-10 | Links:How to make predictions: youtu.be/pQIj-B1bepo?si=iScEw5PqI7aT9j09 Future American: youtu.be/F2Jw2ILRBVk?si=CCXi0-Ln1QXdKv8c Video about laryngeal theory (timed link): youtu.be/7My8EnkJEDU?si=FChjS7Xcoelq8wUE&t=200 What Genghis Khan’s Mongolian sounded like by NativLang: youtu.be/HEoi6CpaUWw?si=SgQSxNRqH2mFQiL3 Language Overview: French youtu.be/jq-dDCQ2Awg?si=Nldo-SIHnM-QmM1T Paper about vowel harmony: phonrochester.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/nguyen-fagyal-2008_acoustics-vowel-harmony_french.pdf Language Overview: Arabic youtu.be/GDPC65IzfO8?si=9As_Ah4xPl-Ia1rE Language Overview: Dutch youtu.be/rWtfl6ZVjjA?si=_1uSAHh9p_raqEvC Linguistic Glossary: Nouns youtu.be/rty_oYYY_lk?si=mDjMDg1qXkjCGrqf Paper about Amharic gender: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/rtk8/Gender%20in%20Amharic.pdf Translations:2:53: (Spanish) I can has vowel length distinction? (It’s the “I can has cheezburger” meme)4:12: (Hebrew) I think I forgot something; If you forgot, then it wasn’t important; Yeah, you’re right; *The letters alef, hey, and ayin*6:43: (Hebrew) How are these consonants different from all other consonants? (iykyk)10:40: (Arabic) “I don’t hear the difference”; “Just use the vowels”11:00: (Arabic) “I can help”11:58: (Dutch) Adjective inflections? (Spanish) GONE! (I really didn’t want to translate “afuera”, as the statement would lose all its authentic oomph)12:11: (Dutch) Plural nouns? (Spanish) GONE!12:21: (Dutch) Plural conjugations? (Spanish) GONE!
How to predict the future of a language Watch your Language 2024-08-12 | Links:Predicting Future American: youtu.be/F2Jw2ILRBVk?si=jDLhIoRKNErLgV-D Germanic sound shifts: youtu.be/zrXwzVquCWA?si=jIhMJsM7lYes0z3G Romance sound shifts: youtu.be/fm4MHQWbbwU?si=iJlkKMW0tMEnAC1n Translations:10:05: (Proto-West Germanic) (Left) Thank Odin the Roman Empire is falling! (Right) There are three of them now!10:22: (Proto-West Germanic) I can use this…10:24: (Proto-West Germanic) (all lines) {word} will become {word with sound shift}10:30: (Proto-West Germanic) Maybe also at the beginning? (and then the same stuff from above)
Language Overview: Dutch Watch your Language 2024-07-24 | Links:Germanic sound shifts: youtu.be/zrXwzVquCWA?si=3B8WcecGcH3xPzgc Germanic grammatical evolution: youtu.be/SedljsNi0oA?si=PIryRNlj55kL-2OE Romance sound shifts: youtu.be/fm4MHQWbbwU?si=Lt_FRw76OqhKA2Me Language Overview: Swedish: youtu.be/WhdhxqS7E98?si=tGVr7KjVS0rXgXFw Things to look out for in grammar: youtu.be/zreDUVmMc0c?si=Vgw35IUbA6cerfoV Translations:0:19: Every Dutch speaker outside of Amsterdam because I’m now talking about their dialects1:34: (Afrikaans) We don’t speak Dutch here!2:02: (Left) Vowels; (Right) Consonants2:06: Types of headache; Migraine; Hypertension; Stress; Trying to linguistically analyze Dutch phonemes3:02: Me wanting to say that [z] is an allophone of /s/; Words beginning with [s]3:10: How I feel needing to include /z/ in the Dutch phoneme count6:38: (Spongebob) Me; (Poster) Languages that show vowel length7:47: (French) Plagiarist!9:14: Dutch sentence structure now shifts into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE9:16: *Dutch verbs* I am speed.11:43: *Cases* I don’t want to play with you anymore.14:08: (Left) Singular common definite article “de”; (Right) Plural definite article “de”17:02: (Dog) Dutch adjective suffixes; (Halloween-looking thing) When to add the suffix20:43: When he’s talking about the -en suffix again21:14: Say the line Bart!; The language is Germanic, so it has a lot of irregular verbs in the past tense.21:36: Me when I discovered the regular patterns within the irregular verbs; “It’s beautiful.” “I’ve looked at this for five hours now.”25:43: Me; That video:: Me; This video
Linguistic Glossary: Nouns and Pronouns Watch your Language 2024-06-11 | Links:How to read IPA: youtu.be/eFRU_3azxP0?si=RqXhPHbt4WTGEpm5 How to start arguments between linguists (timed link to the section on cases): youtu.be/ODHpfm0c6AI?si=zFElM1fLellxoi_q&t=189
Summarizing Romance sound shifts Watch your Language 2024-05-01 | Links:Germanic sound shifts: youtu.be/zrXwzVquCWA?si=Y4EzNdkha_8npRfN Emperor Tigerstar’s map of Ancient Rome every year: youtu.be/w5zYpWcz1-E?si=l20u0fx7UtqnfFvG Xidnaf’s video with the dialect continuum example (What even is a language?): youtu.be/zP-PV9ryXM4?si=KbOalCxSb265bkwi Swedish language overview: youtu.be/WhdhxqS7E98?si=USRjwCeudj82HV8_ K Klein’s video about Italian sounding like Swedish: youtu.be/ni3Kv4wZh6E?si=XBAO5BcNw4siT--U Translations:0:54: (Latin) I am your father.7:06: (Spanish) Well now I am not doing it.9:11: (Proto-Slavic) Can I offer you a nice sound in this trying time?19:44: (Italian) A part of him lives within me, doesn’t it?
Language Overview: Telugu Watch your Language 2024-03-18 | Links:LingoLizard’s video about lesser-heard-of, highly spoken languages: youtu.be/DwSnPJJCVdA?si=P905RWyPgfvE60xY How to start arguments between linguists: youtu.be/ODHpfm0c6AI?si=Y4hhlkcz5iZ9zu1K Translations:0:05: Every language you’ve explained has been European or Semitic. Now you’re doing Telugu?4:15: (Elephant) Retroflex; (Penguin) Aspirated; (Hybrid creature) [ʈʰ] and [ɖʱ]; “What the hell is this?”5:05: Telugu letters6:02: (Top) *the obsolete rolled R character*; (Bottom) *the combined rolled R character*6:54: Are these vowels? *Other resources* “Yes.” *Me* “No.”7:07: Word: *Ends with a vowel*; Telugu, until very recently: “Wait. That’s illegal.”7:27: So loanwords are the only way a Telugu word can end in a consonant? “There is another.”9:16: If I explained how Telugu does recursion now *Visible confusion*9:48: (Patrick) Telugu; (Squidward) Us; (Watermelon) Verbs10:21: Telugu gender system: *Women* Am I a joke to you?14:45: When you remember that the Telugu gender system also works like that15:50: You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.18:08: Agglutinative language; It still has stem changes:23:00: “Infinitive”
How to read IPA ***REMAKE*** Watch your Language 2024-01-09 | Links:Xidnaf’s IPA video: youtu.be/00pHrQo-0R4?si=zBGKGD8slD2Ixy2N Language Overview: French (timed to the liaison part) youtu.be/jq-dDCQ2Awg?si=QdvOlNW3dpnPR7TJ&t=271 Omniglot writing: omniglot.com/writing
Explaining polyglots: What we mean when we say we speak X languages Watch your Language 2023-12-05 | Links:Polyglot Gathering: polyglotgathering.com/2024/en
Proto-Indo-European Ablaut explained Watch your Language 2023-11-20 | Links:Prequel about PIE *(s) and laryngeals: youtu.be/7My8EnkJEDU?si=WL2WVeXDxjS1TUbp Timed link for Umlaut: youtu.be/zrXwzVquCWA?si=mdsKtLvCqGuB9nGq&t=797 Simon Roper’s video about PIE having two vowels: youtu.be/oJE3Ium5Q7Q?si=TTWvNYPK1lrPm1Ix
Language Overview: Polish Watch your Language 2023-10-10 | Bardzo dziękuję moim kolegom Mateuszowi i Jarosławowi za ich pomoc!Links:This one very comprehensive and very helpful website I kept turning to: courseofpolish.com Language Overview: Russian youtu.be/DFCFZV0lVNs?si=aOVc6WBQRbOWgjSU Translations:0:04: I am speed1:50: Me: Hard and soft consonants; Them:2:06: (Below) Typical Slavic palatalization; (Above) Polish palatalization3:35: How non-Polish speakers see Polish:4:15: (Joker) Voice matching in clusters; (Taxi) Devoicing at the end of words5:09: Everybody stay calm!6:48: How many consonants are there in Polish? IT’S OVER 9000!8:02: (Poster) Polish orthography; (Spongebob) Me8:14: Polish sentence structure be like:8:40: Word order is flexible *I sleep*; Adjective placement is flexible *real sh*t?*13:47: Oh Neptune.16:15: *Polish* *Us* (Below) *Repeated pronouns*18:45: *Us* *Cases* (Below) F**k21:18: Virile form: *ends with I*; Polish adjective: *Ends with I in the singular*; Virile form: Well now I am not doing it22:30: Barnacles, what could be worse than needing to conjugate every verb?!; I know!; Two verbs for every verb!23:41: (Soldier) Me; (Kid) Y’all; (Artillery) Additional aspects24:19: One does not simply squeeze every verb in a language into one video24:42: (Russian) Sorry…24:44: I think I forgot something; If you forgot, then it wasn’t important; Yeah, you’re right; *-ować verbs in the other video*27:25: Words with “łi”: *exist*; Polish: Wait. That’s illegal.31:20: Us: Please just zero more things to talk about; Polish: Three, take it or leave it.31:23: Live look-in at our brains
One word, two concepts: Vocab that may be more specific in your target language Watch your Language 2023-08-15 | Links:This video’s prequel about grammatical differences: youtu.be/zreDUVmMc0c Himba tribe color experiment: youtu.be/mgxyfqHRPoE Russian language overview (timed link): youtu.be/DFCFZV0lVNs?t=1365 Translations:4:34: (Hebrew) Bro what????5:21: (Russian) We need to fix a bone in the foot
Summarizing Germanic grammatical shifts Watch your Language 2023-07-19 | Links:This video’s prequel, Germanic sound shifts: youtu.be/zrXwzVquCWA NativLang video about sentence structure: youtu.be/6YIz1HXDbCI RobWords video about English gender loss: youtu.be/bKaVI-IStNE Translations:2:52: (every language except English) Traitor!5:48: (Russian) You see, I pulled a sneaky on you.7:56: (Dutch) Since it sounds like the word “het”, we should write them the same!9:12: (Proto-Germanic) My job11:56: (probably terrible Old Norse) Can I offer you a nice word in this trying time?12:54: (definitely terrible Proto-Germanic) Showing definiteness through articles… Showing definiteness through adjectives16:40: (Swedish) We don’t do that here.
Language Overview: Portuguese Watch your Language 2023-05-09 | Links:Danza Kuduro: youtu.be/7zp1TbLFPp8 Language Overview: Spanish: youtu.be/hl2AdqP_QXo Language Overview: French: youtu.be/jq-dDCQ2Awg Translations:0:11: *Brazilian Portuguese* *European Portuguese* -*Me*0:33: Me1:29: Roman influence1:51: Treaty of Zamora2:35: When you rank fifth in the world by native speakers and French ranks sixteenth *laughs in Portuguese*3:01: Wait it’s all “ão”? -Always has been3:12: Unstressed vowels: *exist* -European Portuguese: “Absolutely F***ING NOT”3:40: Saying all the vowels in a word? Ain’t nobody got time for that!5:48: (on arms) *Acute* *Circumflex* (on hands) Indicating irregular stress7:00: What would happen if I explained the grave before any grammar *visible confusion*7:13: I don’t want to play with you anymore.7:34: When I mention in a video about a Romance language that C sometimes sounds like S “Ahh sh*t, here we go again”9:42: Hi I’m Saul Goodman. Did you know you have options on object pronoun placement? Portuguese grammar says you do.12:28: *Preposition* *Article*12:48: What the hell is this?13:00: (on SpongeBob) Me -(on poster) The Portuguese article system13:50: Someone help!14:27: (on Squidward) Spanish with only conmigo (with me) and contigo (with you) - (on SpongeBob) Portuguese with almost all the possible varieties15:36: *Us* -*-ão*16:51: Doubt17:06: Us: How many past tenses do you have? Portuguese: “Three, take it or leave it.”17:21: My past viewers when they hear how I worded that phrase -“Hey, I’ve seen this one!”18:59: What can I say, I enjoy a bit of confusion22:15: Me after making those charts22:19: Looking at y’all, French and Italian23:29: (Spanish) What happened to the haber (haver) cognate?
How to start arguments between linguists: The most contentious topics in the field explained Watch your Language 2023-03-09 | Links:Language Overview: Hebrew youtu.be/-_7K2UBwTzs Language Overview: Arabic youtu.be/GDPC65IzfO8 Translations:3:56: (Hungarian) Your “specifications” are stupid8:10: (Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Telugu) It seems like Spanish
Super challenging Proto-Indo-European concepts explained: S in parentheses and Hs with numbers Watch your Language 2023-02-07 | Links:Predicting Future American: youtu.be/F2Jw2ILRBVk Indo-European sound laws (Wikipedia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_sound_laws This video’s sequel about Ablaut: youtu.be/vw-Ow0DJEI4?si=FqHNj8GX_aFYTxv7 Translations:1:53: (Dutch) where n2:11: (Probably terrible PIE) When two words end and start with the same sound: “WHERE DOES [s] GO?!”
Language Overview: Swedish Watch your Language 2023-01-20 | Links:Summarizing Germanic sound shifts: youtu.be/zrXwzVquCWA Understanding the Swedish Pitch Accent: youtu.be/lXp7_Sjgm34 Small grammatical details to look for when learning a language: youtu.be/zreDUVmMc0c Translations:0:02: (on the snow) This language; (on the antenna or whatever that is) Us0:19: *Stockholm dialect* I am inevitable1:30: Wait, so are you Modern Swedish? “Well yes, but actually no.”1:39: Formality2:04: (in front) Swedish consonants; (in back) Swedish vowels3:27: (on the person) Me; (on the balls) “Uvular” “Retroflex”4:41: Pitch accent; non-Swedes6:51: How I, an American, see the letter Å8:23: Conjunctions; Adverbs8:54: You thought the genders were masculine and feminine10:46: What would happen if I explained the articles before the nouns *Visible confusion*11:15: The singular common article -en; The plural neuter article -en12:18: (Swedish) Say the suffix in Swedish; (Danish) Don’t say the suffix in Danish; (Both languages) Me12:35: One does not simply go to someone’s house to ransack the fridge15:25: (on the golden retriever) Verbs in Swedish; (on the gargoyle-looking thing) Verbs in other languages15:59: When you learn that the verb classes can’t always be determined by the infinitive16:09: Gives present tense suffix; Doesn’t say which person it’s for16:11: Language nerds16:12: Everyone else18:18: What is “supine”? I only know “past participle”18:30: When the past tense form is irregular, but the supine is regular; “See, I pulled a sneaky on ya”20:14: (in front) Me; The other video; (in back) Me; This video22:37: where pitch accent
Ranking genres of music by usefulness for language learners Watch your Language 2022-12-04 | Links:The video about listening comprehension: youtube.com/watch?v=roQuK2M6DwY Multilingual Let It Go playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU&list=PLnLeK30ZhTk9iazN9mfufFFhNeaMxC9JG The five Israeli songs from that one demonstration in the same order as my list: youtube.com/watch?v=D3hMFAjV1EM youtube.com/watch?v=ZTNmNJnvdzc youtube.com/watch?v=n6ox4UhBBfc youtube.com/watch?v=94BIxqTYJzU youtube.com/watch?v=58lTTPq9PCM
Summarizing Germanic sound shifts Watch your Language 2022-11-08 | Links:Video about i-Umlaut: youtu.be/-NuZ1FmCewg This video’s sequel about Germanic grammar shifts: youtu.be/SedljsNi0oA Translations:15:27: (French) Can I offer you a nice phoneme in this trying time?15:55: (Polish) Can I offer you a nice phoneme in this trying time?16:54: (Danish) Sorry, I had to... y'all understand - Also now I'm hungry, this potato looks really good.
Predicting Future American: Sound changes in American English that could possibly happen Watch your Language 2022-09-14 | Sorry I sound unfluent in the ending monologue, I was literally reading IPA off my script of a language that doesn’t exist yet and tryna make it sound natural lolLinks:Language Overview: English (timed to the phonetics): youtu.be/h9BfWHYnC5I?t=194 How some words get forgetted: youtu.be/tFW7orQsBuo
Language Overview: Arabic Watch your Language 2022-08-11 | شكراً لكل أساتذتي العربية في جامعة بيتسبورغ!Links:The other video about Arabic: youtube.com/watch?v=9KGCQ9TLcvU Translations:0:07: What will happen if you see this video without having watched the other one [Visible confusion]0:15: Yo dawg I herd you like languages so I put some languages inside of yo’ language3:12: Arabic pronunciations shift into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE3:18: I don’t wanna say all that3:28: Me when it’s time to describe the rare phonemes in Arabic3:50: How many rare phonemes does Arabic have? IT’S OVER 9,000!4:20: Never let them know your next move6:38: So nothing about the other dialects.6:53: Vowels? Ain’t nobody got time for that!6:57: Sorry I don’t speak that language7:36: You are in this abjad, but we do not grant you the rank of letter.9:54: When you can’t even talk about sentences without complications due to the dialects11:28: (Predictable grammar) This is brilliant. (Long lists) But I like this.14:05: Why is it, when something happens, it’s always you three? (First root, second root, third root)14:07: Live look-in on an Arabic noun pluralizing15:17: Oh, you thought you were safe with the feminine nouns? Think again.15:32: I’m watching y’all… feminine nouns17:27: Two men (not using the dual)... Two men (using the dual)18:35: Don’t worry guys, Arabic will help y’all19:55: Thinking you have a break from Arabic’s confusion21:37: The wilderness must be explored!22:12: But wait, there’s more22:55: The example verbs will be…25:06: Just deal with it28:12: Infinitive verbs… The gerund or present28:42: Me after trying that sentence28:54: Lions aren’t human? I’ll eat you. (The adjective “human” is written as though lions are people, for the joke)
Why is Arabic so difficult to learn? Watch your Language 2022-06-06 | شكراً لكل أساتذتي العربية في جامعة بيتسبورغ!Links:The rant about prescriptivism: youtu.be/QJS3SHQLLy0 Langfocus channel bc I can’t link the video I want: youtube.com/c/Langfocus Translations:2:27: (Late Middle English) Good morning, I hope you’re having a nice day, and I want a tall coffee with cream, please.6:58: (Arabic) You’re studying Iraqi [Arabic] now?
Small grammatical details to look for when learning a language Watch your Language 2022-03-29 | ¡Muchas gracias a Carmen por su ayuda con una oración!Translation:10:43: (Catalan) This is brilliant (A half). But I like this (Two quarters).
Language Overview: French Watch your Language 2022-02-01 | Links:NativLang video about the evolution of French phonology: youtu.be/a2TWBBxwhbU Lawless French page about when not to do liaison: lawlessfrench.com/pronunciation/forbidden-liaisons Lawless French page about silent letters: lawlessfrench.com/pronunciation/silent-letters Stromae - Papaoutai youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc Maître Gims - J’me tire youtube.com/watch?v=F_rEHfLgdcY Translations:0:03: (Water) This language - (Scubadiver) Us0:14: Don’t worry - This video isn’t replacing a French language overview2:39: “What the hell is this?” (Elephant) Morphology - (Penguin) Phonology - (Penguephant) Morphophonology4:34: Quit writing silent letters - They’re useless4:38: Me, ignoring silent letters - Liaison4:51: (Trumpeter) Liaison - (Girl) The silent letters that don’t do it7:03: (Bridge) This video - (Truck) The part about C and G7:33: Me right now7:37: You thought we’d finished it7:58: After French writing8:33: (Hands) Le/la/les - (Left-side bicep) Pronoun - (Right-side bicep) Article10:39: (Henry Cavill in front) Us - (Jason Momoa in back) Liaison11:13: One does not simply go to someone’s house to ransack the fridge12:31: When people start talking about the tens in French “I think we all know where this is going”12:53: When they say they make better cheese and chocolate but you remember that they need a calculator just to say ordinary numbers *laughs in Belgian and Swiss*12:56: People who know how to count in French14:13: When it’s time to talk about verbs in whatever language “Ahh shit, here we go again”14:21: (Homer in the tub) Competence at conjugation - (Bart with the chair) Irregular verbs15:32: Doubt15:42: The example verbs will be…16:20: Letters -ent at the end of a word: *exist* - Verbs:17:25: When you’d spent a good amount of time with the composed past and you learn that there are verbs that don’t take avoir19:15: “Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.” - “They’re the same picture.”20:09: Don’t breathe too much20:27: (Water) French irregular verbs - (Fred with the mop) Me during this video20:56: where destination20:58: When you leave out the destination from a French sentence “WHERE IS IT?!”21:53: Mentions elision - Never addresses it22:04: Us: *about to do something with an initial vowel* - H aspiré: ABSOLUTELY F*CKING NOT22:09: One uses elision when they need to in writing.22:11: I use elision in speech wh’n’I feel like’t’s appropriate22:14: Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
Language Overview: Hebrew ***REMAKE*** Watch your Language 2022-01-11 | Translations:0:02: Looking at the mistakes in the Hebrew language overview like2:12: “Does anyone here speak Yiddish?” “Or Arabic?” “No, but we all speak Hebrew!” “So that’s our answer!”2:35: “I couldn’t speak fluently until I was four, thanks Dad”3:53: Don’t worry guys- Hebrew’s got y’all4:50: One letter represents [j] and [i]- I can see that4:53: How can a letter representing [v] also represent [ɔ] and [u]?!5:13: I get it now- A sound change happened to Hebrew5:34: (On the phone) Hebrew- (On the charger) Hebrew script5:39: “Hey, that’s my job!”5:46: “We’re the exception!”6:51: One does not simply begin a Hebrew word with a vowel9:17: You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention14:10: Let’s go14:15: Why is it, when something happens, it’s always you three? (First shoresh, second shoresh, third shoresh)16:20: But wait- there’s more21:42: (One verb for say) (The other verb for say)22:12: Reviewing all the derivations separately? Ain’t nobody got time for that!
How to improve your listening comprehension in foreign languages Watch your Language 2021-05-25 | Links:Video on pronunciation: youtube.com/watch?v=nZaybs2oXe8
Unbrainwashing yourself from false language rules; An informative anti-prescriptivist rant Watch your Language 2020-12-29 | ...
Language Overview: Russian Watch your Language 2020-08-01 | Much thanks to my mans Ethan for his help in the video!Link to his channel (about engineering): youtube.com/channel/UCcNNVsVY6sgB12IeWm5OxRg Translations:0:04 I’ll just assume that y’all can read0:07 How it feels after you study Russian1:27 Ex-Soviet countries when there’s still Russian inside their borders- “A part of him lives within me, doesn’t it?”2:25 “Palatalization creates new phonemes!” “No, it’s merely a suprasegmental feature!”2:51 “Doesn’t look familiar to me”3:28 Russian vowels can decide how their reduction works for themselves. It’s not uniform across the whole language.3:53 “Where’s your strength, weak peasants!”4:14 Learners of Russian- Mobile stress4:20 Russian writing- Uninformed people4:23 Them: Russian seems impossible to write. Me: rUsSiAn SeEmS iMpOsSiBlE tO wRiTe6:04 Russian sentence structure, doing whatever it wants6:32 This is brilliant [pro-drop language].- But I like this [pronouns].6:58 From now this video’s about to shift into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE10:04 “I’m a regular person.” “What does that mean?” “It means he’s afraid of cases.” “No it doesn’t!” “6 cases!” “Stop it Patrick, you’re scaring him!”11:15 When it’s time to explain the Russian genitive plural form- “Ah shit, here we go again.”11:34 When you learn that even Russian doesn’t allow certain consonant clusters- [visible confusion]11:56 Me, right now12:23 After Russian nouns13:46 “So no third person.”17:04 “Barnacles! What could be worse than having to memorize every verb?!” “I know!- Two verbs for every verb!”19:31 One does not simply fit every verb in a language into one video19:41 And now we have the starting lineup for your RUSSIAAAAAAN VERRRRRRBS!!!!!21:40 Me explaining aspects in the past- “Hmm. Yes. The floor here is made out of floor”24:17 “I fear no man. But that thing… [Russian mobile stress]... It scares me.”25:02 Long Russian words- Non-Russians25:06 This phrase- Me
Corrections on the first 9 videos Watch your Language 2020-05-21 | Translations:2:55 (Hebrew) Jerusalem2:56 (Hebrew) Tiberias3:48 (Hebrew) What’s there? I don’t hear anything… 11:02 (Arabic) Hey, I’m here with my pharyngeal sounds!Links:Xidnaf youtube.com/channel/UCByBOwwOU5tKddYpsrHiUUw Langfocus “Why is English spelling so damn weird?!” youtu.be/EqLiRu34kWo
סקירת השפה: אנגלית Watch your Language 2020-01-06 | טעות: ב2:00, כתבתי מילה בספרדית. המילה שם בטח קולוניאליזם, סליחה.קישורים:רשימת הווידאו הזה youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlc1cqkjB2AvSJwHu7PurJKlo5FOSBr-1 למה כמה קשה לאיית באנגלית? (באנגלית) youtube.com/watch?v=FC6UJfZX0Jw& אפ"ב (באנגלית) youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE&תרגומי תמונות:0:10: כשהווידאו על שפה אחרת הוא בשפת אם שלך- "stonks" (רקב מצחיק ממילה "stocks", שנאמר "מלאיים")0:11: כשסקירת השפה רק בשפה שהיא עליה3:18: "אני חושב ששכחתי את משהו" "אם שכחת, אז זה לא היה חשוב" "כע, אתה נכון"3:41: מלצר: האומצה שלך, אדון. נדירה מאוד. אני: וואו, זו כן נדירה.5:50: אנגלית מצווה בזה שכל תנועות לא מודגשות מתבטאות [ə] או [ɪ]. - חריג: כש[i] או [ɞu̯] היא התנועה האחרונה במילה, שומרת את הערך המלא שלה ולא מופחתת.6:53: אותיות באנגלית8:24: אזהרה: אותיות תנועות מתקרבות8:26: יא כולם בואו נחליט העתיד של האייות האנגלית חחח8:52: E שתלטנה: תגידי השם שלך!9:00: E שתלטנה: לא אתן, אתן תישארו קצרות.9:04: hav וgiv! - זה have וgive! - השלי מתאימה עם החוק! - השלי לא נגמרת בV! - למה משנה??9:51: כשמתחילים לדבר על ביגרפי תנועות באנגלית10:06: כששתי תנועות הולכות, הראשונה מדברת [בצורה ארוכה]."10:27: אייות אנגלית10:30: הקלת לחץ בדרך זו11:07: אני טיפה חשוב14:11: תקחו גלולה מרגיעה אמריקאית!16:18: עם מדרום הארצות הברית: y’all - עם מצפון הארצות הברית: *כעס*16:24: דנדון, דעתך לא נכון17:43: "אלה שפות מבלבלות"19:58: כמה פעלים חריגים בעבר באנגלית24:32: "על" "ב" "מ"24:55: כזה אנחנו עושים את זה (שיר שכולם מכירים אותו לאיזו סיבה)
Aperçu de langue: Anglais Watch your Language 2020-01-06 | Liens:Playlist de cette vidéo: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlc1cqkjB2AvSJwHu7PurJKlo5FOSBr-1 Pourquoi est-ce que c’est tant difficile épeler en anglais? (en anglais) youtube.com/watch?v=FC6UJfZX0Jw&t=1s API (en anglais) youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE&t=48s Traductions des images:0:13: Quand la vidéo sur une autre langue est en ta langue native- “stonks” (une corruption drôle du mot “stocks”, qui veut dire “actions (financières)”)3:53: “Je crois que j’aie quelque chose oubliée” “Si tu l’as oubliée, alors ça n’était pas importante” “Oui, tu as raison”4:16: Serveur: Votre steak, monsieur. Très rare. Moi: Génial, c’est rare.6:38: Anglais décrète par la présente que toutes voyelles inaccentuées soient prononcées [ə] ou [ɪ]. - Exception: Quand [i] ou [ɞu̯] est la dernière voyelle du mot, elle conserve sa valeur pleine et n’est pas réduite.7:48: Lettres en anglais9:29: Avertissement: Lettres voyelles en approchant9:31: Hé mes amis décidons l’avenir de l’orthographe anglaise hahaha10:04: E autoritaire: DIS TON NOM!10:12: E autoritaire: “Vous non, vous restez courtes.”10:17: Hav et giv! - Have et give! - Le mien correspond à la règle! - Le mien ne finit pas en V! - Pourquoi est-ce que çela importe??11:09: Quand ils commencent en parlant des digraphes voyels en anglais11:25: “Quand deux voyelles promènent, la première parle [en forme longue].”11:47: Orthographe anglaise11:51: Soulagement de stress en cette direction12:48: Je suis un peu important16:22: Prenez pilule calmante américaine! 18:38: Gens du sud des États Unis: y’all - Gens du nord des États Unis: *colère*18:44: Ding dong, ton opinion n’a pas raison20:10: “Celles-ci sont des langues déroutantes”22:46: Tants verbes passés irréguliers en anglais28:00: “Sur” “à” “de”28:27: On le fait comme ça (une chanson que tout le monde connaît par quelque raison)
Resumen de idioma: Inglés Watch your Language 2020-01-05 | Enlaces:Lista de reproducción de este video: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlc1cqkjB2AvSJwHu7PurJKlo5FOSBr-1 ¿Por qué es tan difícil deletrear en inglés? (en inglés, con sutítulos opcionales en español) youtube.com/watch?v=FC6UJfZX0Jw&t=1s AFI (en inglés, sutítulos indisponibles) youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE&t=48s Traducciones de imágenes:0:12: Cuando el video sobre otro idioma es en tu idioma nativo- “stonks” (una corrupción cómica de la palabra “stocks”, que quiere decir “existencias (financiales)”)3:59: “Creo que yo olvidase algo” “Si lo olvidaste, entonces no importaba” “Sí, tienes razón”4:24: Camarero: Su bistec, señor. Muy raro. Yo: Ay, qué raro.6:43: Inglés decreta por presente que todas vocales inacentuadas se pronuncien [ə] o [ɪ]. - Excepción: Cuando [i] o [ɞu̯] es la última vocal en la palabra, retiene su valor lleno y no se reduce.7:48: Letras en inglés9:26: Aviso: Letras vocales abordando9:27: Eyy chicos decidamos el futuro de la ortografía inglesa jajaja9:56: E mandona: ¡DI TU NOMBRE!10:05: E mandona: “Ustedes no, ustedes se quedan cortas.”10:08: ¡Hav y giv! - ¡Have y give! - ¡El mío cabe con la regla! - ¡El mío no termina en V! - ¿¿Por qué importa??11:00: Cuando empiezan hablando de los dígrafos vocales en inglés11:16: “Cuando dos vocales caminan, la primera habla [en forma larga].”11:39: Ortografía inglesa11:43: Alivio de estrés pa’ cá12:32: Tengo mucha importancia16:01: ¡Tomen pastilla relajante estadounidense! 18:27: Gente del sur de EUA: y’all - Gente del norte del EUA: *enojo*18:33: Din don, tu opinión no tiene razón20:01: “Estos son idiomas confusos”22:35: Tantos verbos pasados irregulares en inglés27:54: “En” “a” “de”28:23: Lo hacemos así (una canción que todos conocen por cualquier razón)
Language Overview: English Watch your Language 2020-01-05 | Corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=757sLinks:Playlist of this video youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlc1cqkjB2AvSJwHu7PurJKlo5FOSBr-1 Why is English so hard to spell? youtube.com/watch?v=FC6UJfZX0Jw&t=1s IPA youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE&t=48s
Complications of learning potential extraterrestrial languages Watch your Language 2019-08-08 | Translations:1:07 : (Spanish) “What’s y’all’s land called?” 1:14 : (Spanish) “Well, there’s our answer.”1:17 : (Spanish) “But let’s translate it?”1:24 : (Spanish) “Eh, the damage is done.”
What actually makes a language easier/harder to learn? Watch your Language 2019-06-09 | Big thanks to my friends Sitora and Ethan for their help and advice!Corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=732sVisuals translations (all Russian):1:05 : “In Soviet Russia, language learns you”1:30 : “WHAT IS THIS????”1:44 : “My Russian writing has improved recently, but conversations are still hard for me because I can’t understand [speakers]. Luckily, I remember Russian words easily because I talk [in Russian] a lot with my friends.”Link to my first video, which I said I'd link to in the description, regarding English spelling exceptions: youtube.com/watch?v=FC6UJfZX0Jw&t=81s If you need to learn what the symbols in slashes are: youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE
Language Overview: Spanish Watch your Language 2019-01-27 | ¡Muchas gracias a Carmen por su ayuda en producción!Este video es dedicado a mis estudiantes y profesoras de español en mi escuela donde soy ayudante a la profesora/tutor de pares. Corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=697sTranslations:0:49 : Hi, my name is…1:27 : Seeing the Spanish phoneme inventory1:29 : Because accents exist1:34 : Getting it the next part of the video1:37 : It’s just because I speak it3:41 : April, July, December, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Spanish, Portuguese, French7:32 : What do the Spanish adjectival suffixes mean?8:05 : Spanish verbs shift into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE8:28 : Conjugation skills… Irregular verbs8:48 : Perfect tenses?8:50 : It’s a family thing…8:52 : (Hebrew) Y’all still have too many verb tenses, WHAT are y’all smoking??8:57 : You’re mine.8:57-9:00 : *breathe* boi9:25 : Doubt12:59 : (Portuguese) I can’t wait!15:19 : Y’all have options16:13 : Ain’t nobody got time for that!17:55 : Just us!18:00 : This sentence should be read excitedly!18:04 : Oh s**t I read it wrongIf you need to learn what the symbols in slashes are: youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE
What to do about French writing//Ce quil faut faire de lécriture française Watch your Language 2018-09-17 | For those confused by the last section: No, I’m not saying I’m a native French speaker. “Among us” in this case is “among the human race”.Corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=681sMeme translations0:05: Here I’m writing some words in French to represent French writing. I’m continuing with the undisputed fact that this language is very complicated.0:06: Doable/Undoable0:08: Don’t worry- this video isn’t replacing a French overview0:25: When you learn the rules of French writing0:27: ~100% certainty (with some exceptions like fils /fis/ and fille /fi/)0:46: But wait- there’s more!0:52: *breathe*... BOI1:02: Insert something here (the word used depended on what gender I was describing)1:28: How would we know?1:36: “I speak really fast without stuttering because I’ve always spoken French and it’s the language I think in. Everyone has that language, it’s just the magic of native languages.”1:52: Organizes French orthography- Puts stuff in there that doesn’t matter2:13: Organizes French orthography- Adds necessary letters2:52: “I admit it, I’m not perfect.”3:27: Me at that time3:45: 404 phoneme not foundIf you need to learn what the symbols in slashes are: youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE
How to read the IPA Charts ***old version*** Watch your Language 2018-05-17 | This video has now been remade to be more accurate: youtu.be/eFRU_3azxP0?si=h3e0m63o0hkWVTzS Special thanks to Ethan and to my dad for their parts in helping me produce this video.Corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=552s
Language Overview: Hebrew ***old version*** Watch your Language 2018-02-03 | Remake of this video (watch this instead): youtu.be/-_7K2UBwTzs?si=Y9gAO0vOhYhz3sBo Most significant mistakes I made in the video:1. Numbers 20 and above don’t agree with gender.2. The infinitive form of “can” is לוכל (lukhal).3. The passive form of להתכונן (l’hitkonen) is מוכן, just like להכין (l’hakin). What I said, מכוון (m’khuvan), is of להתכוון (l’hitkaven), which means “intend” (the passive form means “intended”).4. In the end, I said מוחים (mokhim). It’s actually מוחות (mokhot).All corrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=155sTranslations from video:0:00 “Hi”0:51 “‘Anyone here speak Yiddish?’ ‘Or Arabic?’ ‘No, but all of us speak Hebrew!’ ‘So there’s our answer!’”1:12 “‘I couldn’t speak fluently until I was 4, thanks Dad” (sarcastic)2:29 “But still in Hebrew”2:31 “When someone reads [God’s name] phonetically’”2:54 “‘That’s not it, idiots, wash all the sin out y’all’s mouths!’”3:48 “‘Don’t worry guys, Hebrew’s got y’all’”3:57 “Non-Jews keep thinking that Hebrew is written in the same direction as English”Crypt at 4:05: “To an English speaker with no prior knowledge, this is essentially what reading Hebrew would be like. Good luck. But it’s not actually that difficult when you understand the patterns and have a lot of practice.”4:18 *Just a list of singular masculine present tense conjugations*4:50 “‘One letter represents /i/ and /j/.’ ‘I can see that.’”4:56 “How can a letter that represents /v/ also represent /o/ and /u/?!”5:19 “I understand now- a sound shift happened to Hebrew”6:00 Samekh (the letter that makes only the /s/ sound): “Hey, that’s my job!”Any Mongols meme: “We are the exception!”6:57 “‘Does Alef exist?’ ‘Ya, clearly.’”7:15 “One does not simply begin a Hebrew word with a vowel”9:13 Stamp: “Always”9:37 Top: “Feminine gender” Bottom: “Words”10:23 Stamp: “Just some of the time”13:43 “Yalla (C’mon!)”18:08 Stamp: “Easy”20:48 “Give me more suffixes!!!”If you need to learn what the symbols in slashes are: youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE
Why is English so hard to spell? Watch your Language 2017-10-29 | To learn more about how the Latin/English alphabet formed:youtube.com/watch?v=OGeIzmu9DSACorrections: youtu.be/ZeEv6_rPGE4?t=60sIf you need to learn what the symbols in slashes are: youtube.com/watch?v=c9suxf0mWXE
