 What's up guys, EvilDeer here and today I want to speak to you about something that's been driving me insane for a while But before I jump straight into that and just give you a little bit of history as you know I speak Esperanto, but before I learned Esperanto. I really didn't care about languages in general. They were just words or just Text on paper like I did not even think about them really the only point reason I really actually learnt Esperanto in the first place is because I wanted to speak a foreign language and feel Sophisticated kind of cultured and maybe use it to pick up a girl down at the club That was about it and I figured you know I'll learn Esperanto because if I can't learn the easiest language in the world Then I'm pretty much screwed and funnily enough I learned it and I can speak it pretty well now But then something else happened as I got further and further into the language There's this change that kind of happened in me and the next thing I knew I'd find myself at my friend's house Trolling through his old books looking for articles on linguistics and different languages from around the world And he'd come along and he's like can I help you and I'll be like back off I'm occupied. Can't you see type of thing and next thing after that? I've got like all these language apps on my phone I'm buying all these books from different languages and stuff my bookshelf is filled with books on Esperanto on different languages from around the world There's way more there than I could ever read but I just had to have them like the other day, okay I found while I was stumbling along like the random language articles online I came across this website about this um Aboriginal language called guppa poña and basically it's got 350 native speakers left and besides that the language is basically dying and there's like this one basic language course that exists And you can see that no one's ever really brought this because it's there and there's a comment section It's been there since like 2007 or something and no one's commented So you think if someone brought it that at least leave like a comment or something and most normal people would go Yeah, that's pretty cool. And then they'd move along. Nope. Not me. I had to buy the whole goddamn set Why would I do that? Why would I buy an entire set on a language that hardly anyone speaks and then? Actually start practicing it like who does it makes no logical sense, but I can't help it Like literally I'm also learning Chinese for my missus and for her family now that makes sense And I find myself walking around books like this Chinese foot dummies and as you can see this book is nice It's quite nicely used. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah now It looks like a crazy person's been at it because I've just been writing through the whole goddamn book like literally every page Has got something on it from where I've just kind of scribbled and written and random stuff from like cool things I've noticed and stuff about Chinese in general and it's not just Chinese or good for when you I find my sake You know, most people when they're at work and they're being a little bit dodgy They want a little bit of spare time They look around as a boss looking type of thing and then they open up like a website on cars or on maybe a makeup Depending if it's a female or gaming or something like that. No, not me I'm sitting here surfing Wikipedia looking up like rare and bizarre languages from around the world conlangs and real languages and All sorts of like Linguistic articles and stuff and I'll just be completely fascinating. I'll just like completely reading into it My mate come along. He's like, dude. What are you researching? I'm like nothing. Just go away. You're interrupting my moment This is me time. This is me time and I'll just keep going at it and then the same people that will go downstairs I'll have a smoke-o break. They'll talk about world politics about someone killing someone. No, not me I'll be sitting here do a lingua or some other random app on my phone Just practicing some language. Like I can't help it. Like it's just I I cannot stop. I it's help me I don't know what to do like right now. I'm actually got an article on my computer open about Cornish because I've got this real Fascination recently with Cornish and its revival movement and all that type of stuff I don't know why there's something about it that gets me like I'm not Cornish heritage or anything And then I found out the other day because I got a tiny bit of marry in me That could possibly go to New Zealand and get like some free tuition at the universities there And I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna go to New Zealand learn marry because Yeah, I'm never gonna use it here in Australia, but you know, I have to learn it It's just one of those things like another time I was I was in Fiji and I started harassing this waiter about all the different Fiji in words for different things about Table and stuff like that and the guys like yeah, we normally just teach Buller and that's about it and I'm like no teach me more. I must know more the hell your verbs formed Okay, do you have case markers? Do you do this? Do you do that? Can't help myself. So yeah, I don't know what's going on here I don't know if this is just me or if it's like language geeks or if it's people learn Esperanto become language geeks Or if it's just like a random side effect. I don't know help me out guys Give me your input. Tell me your experiences. That's pretty much it from me if I keep going on I'm just gonna go on about languages in general and about different languages. I can't help it So yeah, if you've liked this video, give it a like share it around with your friends and subscribe to my channel If you haven't already and I'll see you in the next video And if you're not there, I'm just gonna assume you're on Wikipedia looking up some bizarre language out of Africa And that's totally cool because I'm going straight back there myself. Have a great day