hey guys i hope you're doing all right
last year i shared a conversation i had
with my grandma where we went through
her life story and how she's able to
speak so many languages
she's a huge inspiration for me and
clearly i'm not the only one because
that video went quite viral several
weeks ago i returned to the us
got vaccinated and i was able to capture
another really cool conversation with
her where this time
we answered your questions and she gave
her advice on language learning and a
few other subjects
she's fun to talk to you know she'll
tell me these really weird
language jokes that no non-language nerd
would ever find funny but we do it's
like every time i talk to you i feel
like i'm discovering something new like
for example
we were on the phone a few months ago
and i discovered for the first time in
my entire life that you know words in
ladino
yes we i didn't even know that for the
first video that we were recording
you want to laugh you know how you say
bring it bring it yes like bring it yes
in latino no
you're laughing because it's similar
it's like a weird version of spanish
yeah i feel like somebody who's not a
polyglot would not find that funny
what can i say for those of you
interested in language learning i have
created a class with
everything that i know and i'll leave a
link to that in the description below
but in the meantime consider this a part
two to our last conversation
and i hope you enjoy entonces
okay
everybody was asking me certain
questions and i wanted to ask you
finally
okay dude
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um
speaking in english is totally different
english speakers are not the same at all
it's almost like i have a personality
change kind of
in each language do you feel that way no
no no
no no no when i speak with italian i
feel like
i i belong to it italy i belong to the
place
wow if i speak with the french person i
belong to that place
wow that's incredible yeah i traveled a
lot
in different places and i lived in
different places
that helped a lot a lot yeah a lot
and i didn't live only one year or two
years no no
your entire life do you have any
expressions that or words that you
really love from a specific language
that you can't translate
into another language like in in hebrew
well some saying are
different yeah if you want to translate
them you can't in french you say
chapel in ebro you say kolakavot
it's a little bit different kolaka what
is my honor
in italian bravo yeah yeah it's
completely different but
a phrase a long phrase
you can't translate them but they they
don't come
exactly the same i love the expression
in spanish
yeah yeah yeah like break a leg yeah
break a leg exactly
exactly exactly the all these all the
expressions that are professional you
know
when i heard that for the first time i
said how you can wish to a person please
yeah yeah yeah yeah
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is
how much do you read i read a book every
two weeks
not too much now because it's a lot a
book every two weeks every two weeks
okay
don't don't be afraid yeah don't be
throw yourself into it
yes
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sir
do you enjoy the process of learning a
new language yes i enjoy it
isn't it incredible what the brain does
yes where it's like
okay you're going to decode this now
yeah everybody's telling me
do you translate from one language to
another one when you speak
when you change the language no yeah no
no
no no have
how should i put this like a little bit
of ego was there ever a little bit of
ego like
you know it's sometimes it's difficult
to accept when somebody's correcting you
you know what i mean was that everything
everybody accepted yeah exactly i accept
it because i want to learn
a big part of this is that you're really
good at listening
yeah i think people struggle with that
they don't listen they're like i can't
speak
but they're not listening yes and i love
how you put it about belonging to a
certain place it's like you're saying
i'm going to learn your language out of
respect
and i belong to you exactly
yeah dude it all comes from this desire
that you seem to have about
wanting to learn as much as you possibly
can yeah if you want to learn you're
going to learn
be curious what you're saying is be
curious exactly exactly
and it's nice when you know a language
and you hear the language
it's nice to understand what they're
talking about yeah and every language
that i mentioned to you
i mentioned german and you start you
start
saying words on facebook not too much
you're just like
i find it incredible that you know words
and phrases in a dying language
do you realize that there may not be
that many people that speak that
language in the future
that you're kind of holding on to
something from the past only the old
people
what can you say in ladino
godrigamine
how is it that you know how to speak
latino is it because it was spoken by
your family
yeah yeah i'm just very young so
confused though like
your family spoke french and latino and
arabic because we knew the arabic in uh
we used to live in egypt and then
italian when i moved to italy so
yeah i had every time i had one language
everywhere i went
yeah i add more language so but at home
though you were speaking french
french and we used to mix with ladino
with ladino
with italian if i was in italy with
french with arabic you know
yeah do you speak any portuguese at all
no no no no
it's amazing that this sort of interest
and this desire to learn
it's like a it's a human thing you know
yeah we're different generations we grew
up in different worlds
right but i feel like we've had so many
similar experiences through our
linguistic adventures
you know it's amazing how much you can
accomplish when you believe in yourself
right now
this is
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okay so as you can see i have my lav
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watching
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you