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Oxford, How Many Languages Do You Speak? | Jerry Registre | YouTubeToText
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how many languages do you speak how many
languages do you speak how many
languages do you speak how many
languages do you speak how many
languages are spoken here at Oxford
out how many languages do you speak
currently I speak two and what are they
uh English and mandrin and how did you
learn those both those languages uh well
English is a compulsory language in back
home where I'm from which is Singapore
and mandin is also compulsory because
it's my mother tongue so like everyone
is like different languages based on
their ethnicity back in Singapore yeah
so cuz I'm Chinese so I do mandin and do
you speak Mandarin with your family
still nah not really mostly with my
grandparents but my family know mostly
we speak English one and what's our
language English how did you learn
English parents spoke it growing up so I
went to English school it makes sense M
and are your parents from from the UK my
mom is my dad's from Nigeria but he
moved here when he was 12 how many
languages do you speak I speak English
and probably basic to intermediate
French basic to intermediate French
sounds really fun where did you learn
French I learned French in Primary
School firstly it started in year six so
I was about 11 um and then I carried on
all throughout high school and then I
took it for a levels which is advanced
level from the ages of 16 to 18 how many
languages do you speak I speak uh
English I speak ancient Greek I speak
German and I speak Spanish ancient Greek
sounds really fascinating all of those
are fascinating but can you tell us a
bit more about ancient Greek and if
you've had any experience exploring that
out at Oxford or in your recent academic
studies I got into speaking ancient
Greek because I mean it seems crazy you
know it's a dead language or whatever
but in reality if you're going for
language acquisition for ancient
languages and if you're like me like I
started taking ancient Greek my first
year of college it actually is very very
important to have every part of language
acquisition platea whether it's Reading
Writing or speaking or reading
composition or speaking so if you're
ever stuck on either of those two it's
because you need the third and just
because it's a dead language doesn't
mean you can't apply the uh the third principle
there how many languages do each of you
guys speak uh I speak three languages
English Hindi and telu I'm from India so
I speak Hindi and telu is where the
language of the state that I'm from
Telangana I also speak three languages
obviously English and then I'm from
Mexico so I speak Spanish and I went to
French school so I speak French how many
languages do you speak currently I'm
only really fluent in English um I speak
some Spanish a really tiny bit of
Japanese and Chinese um but I wouldn't
say I'm fluent in those three languages
I speak
2.5 so English and Hindi are one in one
and a025 to Sanskrit that's really cool
so how did you learn each of those
Spanish I first went to some classes in
India and then I got this Chrome
extension of called tuken whenever you
did a Google search or you were on any
website it would Place some of the words
on the web page with Spanish words so
you learn from Context Sanskrit I'm just
beginning to learn what I'm doing is
watching this YouTube channel called the
Sanskrit Channel they go through old
books explain the meanings in Sanskrit
how many languages do you speak um one
and a half which are the one and a half
uh Spanish and English I assume English
and Spanish and how did you learn each
of those languages well I was born in
England so I grown up speaking that and
and then Spanish I a level and then I've
done a couple of language coures on it
since coming to Oxford I really like the
way it sounds and know it's really fun
to speak even though I can't roll my
eyes I think it's so cool to know
another language and Spanish is a great
sounding one if you guys could each wave
a magic one and become fluent in one
additional language what language would
you choose I would go for Japanese
Japanese why
Japanese beautiful language great
culture love the food yeah definitely I
would say Chinese are Arabic because
those are the hardest languages to learn
so it start at the top and slowly he
kind of move downwards yeah exactly I I
I want to go for a Latin language which
would be easier for me just Japanese
would be impossible at this point what
is Portuguese a Latin language yeah yeah
Portuguese and Italian like I can pretty
much understand Italian fairly well and
Portuguese as well so yeah I like to do
Chinese cuz it's the hardest also so
many people speak Chinese be pretty
useful the phonetics are quite different
to anything I'm used to I felt a really
strong sense of connection to Japan
growing up up I traveled there a number
of times lived there for 4 months when I
was 4 years old so many of my like first
memories are are from Japan do you have
any that you hold fondly honestly there
are some smells that you only smell in
Japan I can't describe it right now mhm
but it would have to be that actually
Japanese homes are very different from
western homes like there are no beds for
example you sleep under the tummy um
which is like basically like a little uh
futon or mattress just on directly on
the floor they don't have traditional
bathtubs in Japan or Western bathtubs
like you have like a giant it kind of
looks like a a hot tub more than a
obviously probably choose Portuguese and
also I heard like Spanish people could
understand you as well so I feel like it
wouldn't be as hard to learn Spanish
from that yeah plus I really like Brazil
culturally um I think it's really
interesting I love the music culture
there I'd want to go there one day i'
never actually been but I think it'd be
a good place I feel like French would be
most useful French yeah why French I
live we live close to it and also my mom
speaks French so be nice to take little
trips to France with that I really would
like to have know Biblical Hebrew
because Biblical Hebrew is somewhat
different I've been told grammatically
from the modern Hebrew that's spoke in
Israel today I mean it's it's a
classical language for sure there's a
lot of detail um there's like
cancellations in Hebrew that help you
like understand like how to recite it
how to sing it which is very similar to
ancient Greek with the accentuation and
The rhythms in the in the meter it's
just overall like a very information
Rich language and not to mention the
mythological aspects of it German I
think it's useful and like a lot of like
the languages in Europe especially in
Switzerland and Scandinavia some roots
are from Germanic languages so I think
it'll be quite useful as a language to
learn if you could teach us a word in a
non-english language that you know thank
you I guess that's the that's also
really useful what which is CS CS yeah
you got it I like buddhi it's the same
word from which we get Buddha Gotham
Buddha the like Buddhism cuz Buddha
means the awakened one or the enlighted
one and buddhi is just a certain type of
intelligence that your brain contains
mhm that becomes active when you're
enlightened when you're the Buddha does
it have a direct translation in English
so I think Budd means awake
buddhi probably doesn't have a direct
translation in English because all of
the faculties so so Sanskrit has a lot
of words for different aspects of the
Mind mhm and they just have sentence
like translations I would say buddhi is
just deep awareness I would go with itas
which is the Japanese word for Bon and
use that whenever you're about to eat
yes yeah exactly so every time um you
sit down for me you say I would like to
teach Hindi because most of Indians
speak Hindi you just go up to someone
and Sayo which means how are youo quo
yes wow I like that uh okay then I'm
going to do something in Spanish uh I'm
going to go with Viva Mexico viax which means
means
we're in Mexico
yeah very selfish there yeah yeah
yeah also so yeah there you go there you
go I like the word m in in French it means
means
cute and it is kind of nice to say as
well I like the word aor in Greek a omon
ro aor is one of the Greek words for
heart yeah for hearts but fascinatingly
enough the Greeks never ever mention the
heartbeat until the 4th Century BC
pragas of C cosos is the first person to
mention it in a medical text of all
people they never mention the heartbeat
so I like aor because it's one of these
many many words that the Greeks describe
heart do you think it's still important
for people to study languages today oh
yeah definitely languages are the way we
communicate super useful if you if you
know the more languages you know the
more people you can communicate with
that's the best yeah I think language
learning can be so fun and so rewarding
everyone should give it a short I think
it helps you realize how flexible your
mind is and how much you can change the
way you think just by changing the words
that you use MH and I do think that
people should do that I think that it is
very important to learn other languages
because when you travel to places like
Japan you realize how few people
actually speak English and sometimes
Google translate really does not come to
the rescue actually there there's still
like big barriers um when it comes to
talking to people I think so definitely
I feel like if you go to like Poland or
like Sweden then you start speaking at
least saying phrases and stuff I know a
lot of people get really appreciative of
that that you've like actually C the
effort in can just be good for like
General connection this is a personal
mission for us all I think I think it's
crucial that you think of language as a
key to help perhaps unlock parts of
yourself that maybe you don't understand
fully learning a language is very
important because it's more than the
language it's about the culture itself
because usually languag is also culture
shaped languages and languages shaped
culture so I think that way is super
important and the business school has
been so nice and I mean I don't know how
to say it sometimes it can get
overwhelming but 99% of the times it's
just a beautiful experience we have
people from 60 different countries in a
cohort something like that yeah and then
we're all so close to each other as a
cohort so I think this experience I
won't get anywhere else English is not
my F language I wouldn't be here if I
didn't know it so yeah life changing
absolutely and yeah it's undescribable
the the whole Oxford experience is just
very magical we're here in meriton
college one of the oldest if not the
oldest I would say the oldest there's
two other colleges fighting for it this
college was built in 1264 one of the
best Oxford colleges if any of yall ever
come to University of Oxford do visit
Marton College the best and the oldest
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