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As a westerner I am completely oblivious when it comes to Chinese characters so please bare with me. According to one source Chinese kids have to learn 3000 symbols before they enter highschool. As a kid I learned the alphabet of only 26 letters when I was 6 and I basically mastered reading and writing only a year later. Granted I was quite early for my age but still. Almost all kids will be able to read and write by the age of 9. Assuming Chinese middle school also starts at the age of 12 that means the kids there take about 3 years longer to learn to read and write a random text. 3 years is a long time in a kid's life. Wouldn't it be simpler if Chinese adopted some kind of phonetic script? It doesn't even have to be the latin alphabet but it just as well might. The Vietnamese did it so they might be a good example to study. Or look at Thai with its unique alphabet. I stay in Thailand currently and kids here are pretty young still when they master their writing system. Why the trouble of learning thousands of symbols when simplified could mean so much more? (Or should I say less?) I get the historic reasons of course. But just for the sake of efficiency why stick with the symbols? Happy to learn all about it.

Meanwhile the japanese people use the traditional letters still 😭

For Czechia and Slovakia, we both understand each other everything, so you can pick up what seems better for you, for that russian and hungary percentage on Slovakia, i do not recomend start speaking that, czech is better, also if you are good listener, you can understand polish if you know czech or slovak. English is too relevant for most people.

Look I'm getting sick of finding this bullshite everywhere in language channels - the United Kingdom's Flag DOES NOT represent the ENGLISH language. the UK is NOT England. get your thumbnail fixed. or I flag you for disinfo and hatred against minorities. - the UK contains SEVEN distinct NATIVE cultures in FOUR *NATIONS* united by a crown - we are NOT a mono-culture OR a single nation. the UK has FIVE native languages of CELTIC origin and ENGLISH is NOT EVEN one of them, it's language of the Invaders descendants. - Nor is the Union Jack THEIR flag. The Flag of England is the St George Cross. the Jack represent Four Nations and three 'protectorates' containing no less than seven native cultures, five of whom , as I said, have retained their own languages. People in YOUR field above all really ought to know better.

Probably more realistic to say Russian sounds a little bit like Japanese, seeing as Russia is the far newer language.

To me german and russian soud simmilar

"Ny" is the most common non-English sound as in:onion

just wait until this mf finds out japanese also sounds like spanish

I've got no right to complain since I also mess up foreign phones all the time, but as a native Czech speaker, I've gotta say that your pronunciation of /c/ sounds extremely wrong. Additionally, I cringe every time someone says that /c/ sounds like /k/ followed by /j/. I'd understand saying that it sound like /t/ followed by /j/, but I may be biased due to how we write /c/ as ⟨ť⟩ in Czech. The video is very fun though. I just felt the need to get this off my chest. EDIT: Reading LingoLizard's note got me to think about whether the palatal phones in Czech are actually alveolo-palatal rather than purely palatal. I guess that would explain why I think of our /c/ as closer to /t/ rather /k/.

i've never heard someone sound so cute in russian

1:04 I can add that what "древо" (drevo) there is also in Russian, but it is older, and it is used much less often than "дерево" (derevo)

stod sounds like speaker received punch to the belly

It seems like French, Russian, MSA, and Spanish have some of the greatest utility.

Long time ago there was a russian lady who was so much in love with Poland that she took from them above 3700 of polish words and in return she gave to Poland 2700 of russian words so that they could communicate better.И можем дружить.

Literally AMAZING video, thank you, i love you

How similar are Indonesia and Japanese ???????????????????????????????????????

what about brummese

I feel like Spanish and Japanese are really related interms of prononciation, im starting to forget spanish words really easily and quicker than I used to because they get merged into japanese and also merged into the japanese meaning, sometimes I'll merge japanese in the middle of a spanish sentence

You skipped Slovakia and Slovenia...

0:27 "мгновение" isn't "instant", only "moment". "Instant" is "мгновенно".

!Xóõ sound like one of those southern chinese dialects

Limburgish having tone is like the biggest twist ever

You're grasping at straws

26:20 i disagree with this assessment. Firstly, if you're judging past them for not knowing the dictionary would come out, i blame PRESENT you for not knowing that yet another book has come out, canonising 2 more words, su (name of the book) and majuna (old). The language is meant to have no "common compounds" and if they exist, their meanings can be intuited. like, sitelen tawa musi is a common compound, but fun moving drawings is pretty clear to me. In fact, you literally make this point yourself at 27:05!! one quantity above life towards would actually be something like "nimi wan nanpa lon sewi pi ale tawa" good foam food would be "moku ko pona", the pi there is ungrammatical Also, the country names aren't meant to be treated as a "oh you have to memorise these". You derive them instead. In fact, i have found many inaccuracies in the document you pulled up, such as the fact it doesn't even have all the countries (small island nations are ommited, but also large ones like mongolia, kazakhstan, qatar, north korea, drc or roc, the list goes on) it has some decidedly non-countries (like gujarat) adn some of the tokiponizations (ways to derive the names) are just wrong.

As a Japanophone, words cannot describe how much the vowels being listed "ah, eh, í, oh, ú" hurt my brain.

Russian for me is English if it was recreated in Asia

Mi madre es brasileña, mi padre es italiano y yo nací en Colombia. Mi madre es traductora de español y portugués y mi vida ha sido internacional, entre Latinoamérica y el Mediterráneo europeo. Los países en los que viví son Brasil, Italia, Colombia, México, Portugal, Argentina, Paraguay y España. Y mi padre nunca habló otro idioma que el italiano en casa. El portugués, el español y el italiano son mis idiomas nativos. Hablo guaraní, francés, catalán e inglés de forma intermedia, el que más me cuesta es el guaraní, seguido del inglés y luego el francés. Hablo mejor catalán porque mis padres tienen casa en Girona y fue la única ciudad en la que viví en España, y el idioma tiene mucho español, un poco de italiano y mucho francés, del cual hice un curso.

rusian not slavik!!!

that's the best "ы" sound I've ever heard from a foreigner, good job comrade

You absolutely obliterated that [ɕ], it's not [sj]

Palatalization! No English speaking people I've ever met have been able to pronounce my given name. Their pronunciation is invariably ree-oh or ree-yo. When Russians do the same, I point out "You can do it" and write down « рё » on paper and then they immediately start to pronounce my name correctly. The same palatalization does occur in English (few vs foo) but not nearly as systematic in English as in Russian, Japanese, or Korean.

I think maybe there is some confusion between the voiced velar fricative, and how people from northern Dutch-speaking regions pronounce their G's. Northern G sounds way harsher.

One moment of the Vötgil episode that I love and that not many people seems to talk about is when jan Misali demonstrates their proposed simplified phoneme inventory. Eet wuud saoond samseen laeek zees. Eevan zaoo eet maeet saoond shwans, eet eez steel almaoos kampleelee andastandabal too naeeteev eengleesh speekaz! Also one nitpick you missed is that Zamenhof's native language would've probably been either Russian or Yiddish, not Polish, which he learned later.

Accurate spelling One(Wun) Colonel(Cernel) Phlegm(Flem) Cough(Cof) Eye(Ai) Wednesday(Wenzdey) Queue(Cue) Thorough(Therow) Women(Wimin) Halfpenny(Heypnee)

Baoao of waoah Choozdey

New letter Theta ABCDEFGHIJKLMNÑOPØRSTUVWXYZ Sounds:a(ah),b,ch,d,e(eh,ae),f,g,h,i(ee,ih),j,k,l,m,n,ng,o(oh,au),p,th,r,s,t,u(oo,uh),v,w,ks,y,z

Bulgarian "Ъ" actually makes a sound

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Palestine doesn't exist, the people keep refusing Statehood while demanding Statehood.