Or also known as, living in/visiting France.

or French C1

@@KateOBrienCreative this also works for the Netherlands

@@yaygya Portugal. Correction: they're switching to English in Portugal no matter what level you think you're at. Unless it's a Brazilian Uber driver.

Or in fact Germany at any level haha - the number of people who speak perfect English and switch to that immediately is mental

its so sad he didnt switch them

ah yes, X O P O W O

Gg

Yep, it is. Don't forget "pizdec te be" & "poshel nahui"

"suka blyat" is база

wtf how brazen of you to non chalantly use :D use :A

​@@_yuri the hostility coming from everyone here is astounding lmao

Honestly, the intro is so cringeeh, and I am the only Alpha / God and great and wife / gf / bride etc, but it’s true that most natives are not a C2 level, and C2 is probably around 15.000 / 20.000 base words, so it’s usually only the writers and scientists and bookworms or ppl that read a lot that are C2 - I am D1 only in Modern English + Scottish dialect + Middle English (writer level) and know 60k to 100.000 words + phrases and idioms and slang etc in all three combined, and am native speaker level in Spanish (between C1 and C2) as I know over 10.000 base words in Spanish since childhood + 1.000 new words that I learned since last year, and am advanced level in Dutch, knowing over 8.000 base words, and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / Portuguese, and beginner level in Welsh / Italian / French / German / Breton / Icelandic and most other Germanic / Celtic / Latin languages!

@@FrozenMermaid666 i'ma put you on r/iamverysmart if you don't shut up

@@FrozenMermaid666take your meds

You have just insulted a lot of linguists and language lovers.

I swear I just got offended😂😭 language learning is the funniest thing to ever exist for me

Yall in the replies getting offended for no reason. OP isn't saying language learning is boring ffs. He's saying LS is entertaining enough he could make ACTUALLY boring stuff entertaining. Use your brains holy shit.

@@mustzhrapethen ur life is sad

@@arctrix5031 periodt

He'll reach D2

Even E1

He will be no longer a language simp. He won't merely love a language so much, no, his skin will merge with the abstract words of the language, realities will shift, everyone of his cells will become a word. He won't longer simp for the language, he WILL BE the language

Z10000

Hi fellow lizard

It's sad i don't understand french even tho I'm native speaker of arabic

Moi aussi.

I think you mean spanish, the language indeed had a lot of arabic influences under moor rule

@@Amparito847 The influence of Arabic on Spanish is largely exagerated. After the end of the Reconquista there were national campaigns to purge most of these Arabic influences until we were left with a language with just a handful of Arabic words, mostly those that we couldn't find a reasonable alternative. Like Algebra, everyone in Europe calls it algebra why bother changing that one? Some words were tried to be removed but weren't, like aceituna, which should've been switched to oliva. The tree itself (olivo) and the forest of olives (olivar) did succeed in changing and is now the only word anyone remembers for calling these. But the name of the olive fruit itself, aceituna, stuck too hard. Some words instead came from the Arab world but were not from the Arabic *language* itself, those mostly remained as is. Like Almohada (pillow), it comes from a country/family that in English is called the Almohads.

I think Swedish is a better arabic language IMO

What if the horrific grammarist was speaking about the righteousness of plain croissants and coffee?

RIP for all A1 French learners!

make* a grammar mistake ;)

I need to try that. I play wordle in English, but crosswords seem much harder.

I cannot solve crosswords even in my native language man

​@@cherepizzza жиза

Bruh, great idea

I guess it depends on the nature of the crossword, but I think at that point cultural knowledge also comes into play, which is difficult to develop unless you're fully immersed in the world of that language.

Lol I am a C1

tabernacle ! moi aussi

osti de cris de tabarnaque que t'es fort wesh

​@Ionica Meseri honestly can't blame you! I teach French and it's a hard language to learn if you don't already know any other Latin languages (such as Spanish, Italian...)

@@ionicameseri8081 Oh well. It is tough to start but it’s fun. Although I have been learning since the age of 6, and I’m not even French or from any Francophone country.

When I was actively learning Chinese I had that feeling, but after a few months of doing about 300 words a week and doubling my vocabulary in that time I finally found peace at C1. Now Im back at the very frustrating A1 in Japanese where even 10 words a day feels crushing lol! Just keep grinding at the pace you find sustainable and It will definitely come

@@XPLaxative Is that a question for me or the other guy? LOL

@@Tehui1974 I said my languages so I'd imagine its for you, but if he sees this reply I use hellotalk for speaking/listening practice (don't recommend unless you can hold a basic convo in your TL), watch the news and youtube videos, used textbook PDFs and had an online tutor for grammar, used quizlet for learning new words and anki for review (still review even now). I still listen to pretty much exclusively Chinese/Taiwanese music. I also somewhat embarrassingly have seen wayyy too many horrible Chinese made anime. LOL, anyway sounds like you're doing well in your TL so if have any tips I always like hearing what works for other language learners!

@@XPLaxative I'm learning Māori (New Zealand). In regards to input, I commit to about 2 hours a day. I mostly read books in my target language, and listen to podcasts and interviews online when I'm in the gym or commuting to work. I speak the language every day to other speakers, but I'd like to increase my dedicated time for speaking.

I can relate. I studied German way back in the 1990s (still remember it! Maybe a B2 equivalent - CEFR wasn't in use much, much less in American universities - many use that scale now), and taking a 300 level class, it felt like my vocabulary was quite lacking. It probably didn't help that the 200 level was "grammar all day, everyday" with no actual speaking, or reading material.

I wish they did that to immigrants

What was china like lol

I was at a bar in France trying to order a drink in French, but the staff member didn’t understand me. Luckily the person next to me spoke English so they asked what I wanted then relayed it to the staff member in French which to my ear sounded exactly like what I had just said. So I thanked them, then asked, “Am I saying this correctly? (Repeated the phrase)” “Yes.” “… then why didn’t they understand me?” “Because zer accent eez sheeeet.”

One time I tried ordering a baguette in french but they refused to serve me for not saying "bonjour" first

@@3Faidonas3 I’m in favour of this, globally. I mean not specifically ‘Bonjour’, but…

That's the Indonesian people for you.. Even if you only say a simple "Terima Kasih", the reaction would be "wow you speak good Indonesian". *I am an Indonesian

This is true...the difference is that you actually realized how good/bad you were. It took me years to learn French and then I meet people who "speak" French and ten other languages.

i wanna learn indonesian

Smart a** does not mean intelligent

brazil is the same

d2 proficiency will land you an academy award for best screenplay by just writing a manzai script alone

日本語唯漢字大丈夫！

Pseudo-Chinese: Yes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Chinese

That's not for mortal humans. That's the level of angels in the sky. D3 is for the God Itself.

Level D2 is only available in Tagalog, Malayam, and some almost-extinct dialect of Eskimo. Sorry folks -- them's the rules.

Honestly, the intro is so cringeeh, and I am the only Alpha / God and the only great / attractive being etc and the only wife / gf / bride etc, but it’s true that most natives are not a C2 level, and C2 is probably around 15.000 / 20.000 base words, so it’s usually only the writers and scientists and bookworms or ppl that read a lot that are C2 - I am D1 only in Modern English + Scottish dialect + Middle English (writer level) and know 60k to 100.000 words + phrases and idioms and slang etc in all three combined, and am native speaker level in Spanish (between C1 and C2) as I know over 10.000 base words in Spanish since childhood + 1.000 new words that I learned since last year, and am advanced level in Dutch, knowing over 8.000 base words, and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / Portuguese, and beginner level in Welsh / Italian / French / German / Breton / Icelandic and most other Germanic / Celtic / Latin languages!

It’s so easy for me to say long compound words in Dutch because I usually know the smaller words they are made of - verzekerings + maatschappijen + medewerk - nemers + taking! Dutch really is as easy as English! And Dutch & English are the prettiest languages ever with the most pretty words - can’t wait to get to a C2 level (and then to a writer level) in Dutch!

@@FrozenMermaid666 Wow, with a person this confident in their languages, it is kinda sad you don't know that medewerk and taking are not Dutch words. LOL It's medewerkers (employees) + staking (strike, as in going on strike) I'll confess, medewerkernemers is a contamination (two words (medewerker and werknemer meaning both the same thing) accidentally thrown together). But the fact you didn't notice that? it makes me wonder how advance you Dutch really is. I don't expect much from people and I am humbled you learned my language, but you don't know the words staking and medewerker/werknemer? How? Also. I love the whole "I know X amount of words" thingy. How in hell do you know? Do you have a word list with 10 000 words in it? Is it a guess? You keep bragging on about it so much I do really wonder what you are doing to know the exact amount of words in each language your learning. Next to all of that, just to be clear, you're impressing no one with this list of languages. You feel like a real person, so I really wanna make this clear. Even if we are jealous of the amount of words you know in this many languages, you brag about it in such an annoying way we would never show you our jealousy. Lastly, don't bother getting to a writer's level in Dutch. As a native speaker, I tried, I felt like it, it's not wroth it. You'll end up with this list of Dutch words from the 17th century that no Dutch person, except the most posh and snobbish writers, ever uses. Dutch is one of those languages where you'll always keep learning, so just get to C1/C2 (idk, idc) and enjoy the result.

​@@TikoVerhelstDutch is German without the power.

​@@user-qd4td7yb8e If you want to tell yourself that because that's the only way you can feel proud/happy about your Germaness, so be it. Although it does make you look quite pathetic, just saying. You know, you can also be proud of the German language without punching down? Like, I love German. Not because "it's better than Dutch" but because it is a cool language with a cool culture attached to it! See, nowhere in that sentence did I go and bully another country/language. Just awesome German and awesome German alone. Not being a bully is not actually that hard you know. ;)

Right? I'm learning German cuz i'm dating a German guy and will move there, and he never knows what I am talking about when I ask about grammar. Especially the case system it's like he never heard those terms in his life and he claims to not have studied grammar in school which I find hard to believe lol.

@@ramblingmillennial1560 I guess it depends on people... Some of them don't remember school subjects at all. I was terrified when I knew my boyfriend doesn't even know what NOUN and VERB are😭 he would've never been able to help anyone with learning his native language lol

@@mustzhrape yeah you're right. Like my bf said he totally forgot how to do division on paper and I was so confused cuz it's so easy lol. I had to reteach him how to do it but school was honestly not a priority for him while I liked school growing up. Of course you can't remember everything from school but I assumed people retained the basics.

@@ramblingmillennial1560 gosh it's like we have one same boyfriend LOL! I retaught him how to do division on paper TOO! And he told same things about not caring about studying in school... The only difference is, mine isn't German XD

@@mustzhrape that's hilarious lol

XD

-z1 or -z2?

The non-French word for comprehension is understanding. Kennen is Germ- Ah shit, I just got the joke.

Да да, а то можно не сдержаться и джерк оффнуть

Чад энергия

After you do Spanish, try Greek

Hah, "writing the exam" instead of "taking the exam," so I guess there are things native speakers pick up on without knowing why

POLSKA GUROM

@@zzzyyyxxx dont u take an exam?

😇try french after...hehehe....

I can vehemently assure you that you are wrong

​@@ejovohaber, dime cual es el pretérito pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo?

@@jcvp2493 a ver

@@jcvp2493 zapato

El español es mi segundo idioma

As a french person, i agree. My only reation would be to judgementally raise my eyebrow like so : 🤨

At D1 you get French Nationality

Je ne suis même pas sûr que D1 soit suffisant pour écrire cette langue sans faire de fautes d'orthographes / I'm not even sure that D1 or even D2 for that matter would be sufficient to write flawless french 😂😂

@@Inconito___ déjà que nous on arrive pas a pas en faire alors les gens qui apprennent la langue ! 😂

@@Wiyu écoute. Comment te dire que t’es désagréable sans insulter tes grands morts…. C’est une tache plus que complexe !

Woman called Ирина has A1 in russian? Is it a joke?)

​@@ABVGDE546 Maybe her parents moved from Russia to France, when she wasn't born. Because why French - is her native language?

@@ABVGDE546 So you see how hard Russian is. In Russia, the language learns you.

@@ABVGDE546 тайна 😈

@@Holeintheearthhhhh тајна. -Јазик

Nonsense. Medical/ scientific vocabulary is all Greek and Latin. It's easier than regular everyday language.

same bro, when i was like 6yo, i remember watching minecraft lets plays in english, without even noticing that it wasnt my mother tongue

Yup. It was before UKposts, but little me just wanted to play video games and chat on forums which did the mass immersion bit really well. Most English lessons at school were completely useless. Wish they'd have taught weeb or something instead.

You're not a native American speaker, you have really bad grammar and vocab, I hardly believe you can actual talk about a variety of things and American isn't a language, it's English. Sorry to break it to ya.

Hola, ¿vos que opinás sobre la coyuntura socioeconómica actual de Sudamerica y los sucesos de índole política que ocurrieron estas ultimas semanas? (Particularmente con el magnicidio al candidato a presidente ecuatoriano y la victoria en las primarias del candidato de ultra derecha Javier Milei) Mucha gente dice que el chabón esta pirado, incluso llegan a especular que mantiene una relación insestuosa con su hermana. Para mi es cualquiera, los boludos le quieren ensuciar la imagen porq no tienen argumentos para desestimar su plataforma política liberal. Tienen cagaso de que les choreen sus privilegios y ‘ayudas’ estatales.

@@agme8045jumbo vipi hali habari yaku

how do you learn?

Why turkish? Why would somebody learn turkish?

​@@berkay6947çünkü çok güzel

he knows how to troll enough while giving us info on the topic

What's your native language?

@@GirlBarcateam English

@@sazji you have the B2 level in Vietnamese? Wow you answered really fast haha

@@GirlBarcateam I guess, though I need more time in Vietnam to have any hope of maintaining that! (I was reading other comments when yours came in. 😀)

the D level is a joke

You’re not alone, I’m also struggling it learn German, the case system is a bit complicated for me.

@@thedeutschman9905 I already went through weird sentence structure shit when learning English and now I have to learn another system again it's killing me

We are very alike you and I.

@@yrusb why don't you translate to English instead so I can know what you are saying nvm Google Translate did the trick. Yeah I am not expecting to speak German fluently within weeks or months Ive been going in with the mentality that this is gonna take years

Man, I'm also stuck at being a bilingual beta. Japanese is so fcking hard

That's currently me with french and spanish, but french in particular. I'm currently trying to fix that.

maybe if you practice counting to 阿僧祇 you can become a C2 gigachad

@@bobboberson8297その数は何ですか。数字で書いてください。

@@Williamatics it means it's time for you to install yomichan (real answer: it means a number so large it can't be counted to or 10^56 (except sometimes it means 10^64 instead))

When I worked at a library back in college, I would study my Tuttle kanji card during my free time (lots of it working the return desk).

I remember when I worked at a factory I would practice words and kanji in my head while cleaning the grease off the machine. I picked the language up again and can understand most stuff now, sometimes Im fluent, sometimes Im clueless. But the the clueless moments are slowling becoming more rare.

Где ты его учишь? И какие советы можешь дать

How do you get a "C1" in English, is it like a degree you complete? :d

@@Balequalm yep

@@b0dri4ok В ИСАА. Советы? Совет могу дать один. Как бы сложно тебе ни было в изучении чего либо, когда либо. Это не сравнится с изученим арабского. Нужно буквально этим жить примерно 2 года, дальше пойдет легче. Многие бросают... И не нужно кидаться на диалекты, выучишь фусху, а там и диалекты легко пойдут. Есть еще вопросы - задавай

@@reverendnon5959 спасибо за ответ, этого мне достаточно 👍🏻

You're definitely not a psychopath. But you are a cringe tryhard.

I was gonna comment the exact same thing. Getting a C2 in English is really not that big of a deal, considering people need to reach that level all the time because of work/study requirements. I took the cambridge C1 Advanced test, and got classified as C2 level, however i really don’t see the difference between that and C1. In my country you are good to go with a B2 anyway, thats like the minimum level any company or university will request. After that it’s more about specific goals you may have (migrating, studying abroad, working for foreign companies, etc).

​@@agme8045I tried the B2 test and they said I was C1. Regardless, I just needed at least a B2 on paper for practical reasons. I honestly don't plan on getting other certificates even if I'll learn other languages.

proof that he's attractive to every woman. and man on the planet

​@@elbretto6062 😂 But the man trying worth it. He will develope himself a lot by the time he meets the one.

I am learning Korean. Is your name pronounced like "seini"?

@@idealisticapybara ahaha yes. Thank you for your attention at my mother tongue, as well.

at first you wont be able to pronounce words you want to say but the more you speak the better you will get saying it from experience

I’d destroy him at chess

ne t'inquiete pas, en temps que Français je peut te rassurer. C'est très bien, n'abandonne pas et continue!

Tu parles le Tagalog ?

​@@eliomaster1761en temps que Français MDRRRRRR c'est le genre de faute de merde que seulement les natifs pourraient inventer *en tant que

There is nothing named Israel its just Palestine 🇵🇸

I'm learning Hebrew too! Been learning for almost 3 years and know almost nothing lol :/ :(

I worked with C1 books when I was in 10-11th grade. I made a really huge progress in grammar and vocabulary. Unfortunately my level of English can't be considered as C1 although I passed the national exam with 97 points out of 100. I still have a lot of difficulties especially when I speak to others. Ну и большой привет от native Russian speaker)

@@doomerbob5731 The most bad ass thing about it, when you correcting another person you becoming like a dog shit to them cause people don't like it, and they continue speaking wrong (That the trigger point for me). У тебя такое было? Типа ты говоришь челу, что правильно звонИшь, а не звОнишь или исправляешь склонение трудного числительного, а они продолжают говорить не правильно.

@@Slantishka да, постоянно

How do you speak English on native level, as English is not your native tongue? I assume you spoke Russian at home, so Russian would be your native tongue. You probably learned Kazakh at school, though I'm guessing one of your parents knew the language, so they helped you brush up on the language. But how did you learn English?

@@beaucaspar3990 idk I just learned english on my own, kinda acquired by watching movies, youtube, music, and talking to a lot of people n shit, and just got rid of my accent

@@soundtherapy426 I don’t believe you. I know that all people from Kazakhstan sound like Borat; thinking otherwise will give me an existential crisis.

​@@beaucaspar3990 хахаха

I realized this looking at A1/A2/B1/B2 samples of German - lots of things we didn't cover, and pretty much confirmed that I felt like my vocabulary was lacking. Granted, my German was in the 1990s, when cassette tapes and VCRs were still a thing, and the Internet was something you connected to a university system with a 300/1200 baud land line modem (uphill, both ways! ;) ).

How good would you say your Bri'ish is?

what do you use to learn

Слава Украине! Твоя страна, направде героическая защитника всей Европы. 🇮🇹❤🇺🇦

​@@serenissimarespublicavenet3945 чзх

American:

​@@TrolsakRovaloj assalamualeykum comarade, esta bien?

Це називається колоніальний спадок. Безліч країн Африки та, наприклад, Індія теж двомовні.

I believe this. I read a ton of Victorian novels as a kid and am frequently mistaken for rich.

I'm sorry I have to disagree with that about C2, also Voltaire was 18th century. And I just find it hard to believe you are a C2 English speaker by the fact you spelt "received" wrong. It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of

​ @Xcute PikaX So what level are you at? I could also point out the many grammar mistakes in your comment. But I'm not going to, because I'm not a grammar nazi. Being C2 doesn't mean you never mistakes. "You spelled receive wrong" Yeah, can you blame me? It's not like the English spelling rules are clear at all! What is the "one of the most quintessential English basic rules" behind the word receive? Because I can't imagine a rule beside 'just learn it' to explain that word. Think about it, recieve is the spelling that makes sense, not receive. And oh yeah, oh yeah, please try to argue against me, that's literally the only way all those grammar lessons from school about things I already just kinda did are going to finally come in handy. I really wanna see how much YOU know about the English language. >:) Because I had to do tons of boring exercises about this language, let's see if you did too. ;) Also, I said I wouldn't correct your comment, but just for once, "It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of" sweety, didn't they teach you in school 'correct English sentences' never end in a preposition?????? They taught me that. Do you know what they also said? It's only the snobs that care about that mistake. Most English people are fine with phrases ending in prepositions. If you're gonna be a snob in regards to English, I'm gonna be as well. (I hope your eyes haven't melted yet because of my use of words like "gonna" and "haven't". ;) ) The Voltaire thing was just a simile. And if you want to be pedantic about it; What does it matter if he's 18th century, doesn't mean it became illegal to read him in the 19th century! Also, if you really wanna know. I scored a final score of 221 on the Cambridge CPE exam which resultes in a official C2 grading. If you don't know which exam I'm talking about, I demand that you look it up or delete your comment. As I already showed; I have done it all. I have C2, and gone through the whole process of learning English as a second language to get to that level. I love finally having an excuse to brag about it. Thank you. :D I have not spent 8 long years learning English very thoroughly as a second language to be brought down this easily by some snob who thinks they know me based on one spelling mistake. If anyone wants it, I can give some more tips about what C2, C1 or any of the others are like (I have done them all, but remember C1 and C2 classes the best). All those boring classes are finally gonna get some good use helping the ones still going for that C2 certificate I already have!

@@TikoVerhelst oh henny, im a NATIVE english speaker xx, you're rlly mad 🤣🤣 You're embarrassing yourself, and you know the sentence "Where are you from?" That ends in a preposition, you can end sentences in a preposition, that thing you said was never a rule and is archaic. What would you like me to say instead?? " It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of, cunt. " Are you happy now? Just say you're envious of me because I'm smarter and because you'll never reach my English level, it's okay. I have also noticed quite a few grammar mistakes from that... comprehensive message! Don't worry, I won't point them out for you.😘 Anyways, you've annoyed me enough, I'm OUT.

That's very interesting. Actually never thought about learning greek. Is it difficult? I'm a native German speaker and I studied both English (I consider myself to be C1) and French (B1), as well as Spanish (B2) in school. Besides english, I haven't used them for several years now. Instead, I started learning portuguese (B1) at university. I am considering starting italian next semester, whilst also refreshing and improving upon the other languages I've already learned.