Brain power, language learning, and the learner mode!!.AVI

[StoicTwo]

Mathematics is an language!

-Stoicone!

[alkantre]

This is a cool video, you really hit the nail on the head.

Today I spend about 3 hours studying Turkish. There was something going on inside my head all the time, something like an electric storm full of sudden flashes of epiphany. Like a Turkish sentence, in its totally or Gesalt, will suddenly strike my consciousness like a lightning bolt. This is going on even though I'm more than half a century old. It seems more like an electric storm of youth. Wow! who needs narcotics? Just do langs!

[ichimaru378]

@alkantre yes sir! :D wow that is inspiring. thanks for the comment!!

[alkantre]

@ichimaru378 But unfortunately most people aren't really in touch with their brains, so they can't experience the beauty and excitement of it all. But that doesn't mean they can't get back in touch.

[nihongonojonathan]

The reason why I learn languages is to learn about the world in different views as you mentioned. Good video !

[ichimaru378]

@nihongonojonathan yup i agree. its one of the most rewarding things you can do. thanks!

[loki2504]

We could go on and on:

Turkish don't need the verb to be in the present tense: Ben öğretmen != I teacher= I'm a teacher

The word order in agglutinate languages are the opposite of the romance languages !

Some scripts do not use short vowels:arabic,hebrew

Some scripts have more than 150 letters/combinaison of letters: in Nigeria !

The world is too interesting to limit ourselve to english !

[ichimaru378]

@loki2504 i totally agree! we want to be universal human beings. everyone has different experiences and language is part of how we share that with other and get to know one another. i love it!! thanks

[loki2504]

Maaaaaaaan ! This video is very very very 面白い !!!!!!!!

I arabic they have 15 pronouns whereas in english: I,you, ...they =>8 pronouns because they have 2 kinds of plurals: the dual and the plural for more than 2 persons !

In chinese we don't have plural =)

In french, we have "mon" "ma" "mes" for one word in english: "my"

In polish you have 17 ways to say "two": dwa, dwoch, dwich...

In japanese: as you know they mix 3 writting systems !

In russian you don't say "my" but you "to me there is"

[ichimaru378]

@loki2504 yah in the case of arabic as well as a few others they also divide the language into masculine and feminine, hence the 15 pronouns as you mentioned. but yah i didn't know about the others, i assumed all languages contain specific defferences that make them unique and deffinitely worth learning. so if its possible i wanna learn them all just for that reason alone! thanks for the comment!!

[loki2504]

@superfacetpiotr My polish is very bad, but I read on a website that you've 17 ways to say "two" in your language, maybe you forgot some: 1. dwa 2. dwie 3. dwoje 4. dwóch (or dwu) 5. dwaj 6. dwiema 7. dwom (or dwóm)  8. dwoma 9. dwojga 10. dwojgu 11. dwojgiem 12. dwójka 13. dwójki 14. dwójkę 15. dwójką 16. dwójce 17. dwójko

[superfacetpiotr]

@loki2504

In polish you have 17 ways to say "two": dwa, dwoch, dwich...

Really? I'm Polish and I never heard about it...

It is only 7 ;)

dwa, dwaj, dwie, dwóch, dwóm, dwoma, dwiema