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Steve's Language Learning Tips, Should English Be the Lingua Franca? | @EnglishWithVeronikaMark (1)

Should English Be the Lingua Franca? | @EnglishWithVeronikaMark (1)

Hi, today I am speaking with Veronika Mark.

I've spoken to her before and, uh, she is a bit of a globe

trotter, as we will soon discover.

And we are going to talk about English as an international language.

And, uh, Veronika...

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Hi Veronika.

Nice to see you again.

Yeah, hi thank you.

Thank you for inviting me here.

All right.

So, uh, let, first of all, let's catch catch up on your history

since the last time we spoke.

So many of our listeners won't realize just by listening to you that you're

not a native speaker of English.

Your English is phenomenal, but of course you're not a native speaker of English.

You're an example of international English.

And, which is gonna be the subject of our conversation, but update us on, on what

has happened to you since we last spoke.

Yeah.

So since we last spoke, I moved to a different country because um, yeah,

last time I was living in Russia, in Moscow, I was actually learning Chinese.

I was still a college student.

Right now, I'm not a college student anymore.

I graduated from college and, uh, I'm just working on YouTube, making

videos for people to learn English.

And, uh, right now I live in Mexico City.

Yeah.

So a lot has changed.

Yeah, what is the, uh, name of your YouTube channel?

So I have two YouTube channels.

The one where I teach people English is called English with Veronika Mark.

And uh, the second one is just Veronika Mark, just my name.

and what, what's different between the two channels?

The difference is, uh, English with Veronika Mark is focused on teaching

people English, so I share tips on how I manage to improve my English.

I help people improve their English, and Veronika Mark

is just lifestyle, basically.

I speak English there too, but it's more like, oh, I went traveling there,

you know, follow me or I did this.

It's more like lifestyle content.

Okay, so, and you said you were learning Chinese.

Are you still learning Chinese and are you learning any other languages

or do you speak other languages?

Um, no, not anymore.

Actually, when I graduated from college, I stopped learning Chinese just

because I, I had to move to a different country, Mexico, and I didn't speak

Spanish at all at first, so now I'm learning Spanish, like every single day.

So this is definitely my goal to learn, uh, Spanish.

how good is your Spanish right now?

If you go out into the street, if you need, uh, you know, help in finding

your way, or you walk into a store or perhaps friends that you have, are

you able to function in in Spanish?

Yeah,

I'll be okay.

Yeah, my Spanish is not amazing.

Definitely not.

I've been learning for like six months now.

, Uhhuh, but yeah.

Yeah, I, I know my way around it, I would say.

. Oh, good.

Okay.

Now, it's interesting, uh, I was just chatting with someone and how

the most commonly spoken languages in the world are, of course, the

languages of the imperialists, call it.

The empires, you know?

Why do people, so many people speak English, French, Spanish,

Portuguese, Russian, uh, Quechua even in Latin America, which

was spread by the Inca Empire.

So, uh, empires tend to spread their language.

uh, but perhaps no language has become as dominant as the English language.

So, because for me, English is, it's essentially my native language.

Although I was born in Sweden, but since the age of five I've lived in

Canada, so as a non-native speaker of English, what is the attitude

of the person learning English?

Do they learn it out of necessity?

Do they learn it out of interest?

Uh, what's the attitude towards this idea that this language above all others, a

language which is no better than any other originally spoken by people who live on

this foggy island in the North Atlantic?

Why do we have to learn English?

Like what is the range of feelings that people have when they are

confronted with having to learn English?

I think right now it's mostly out of necessity because uh, even when

it comes to your hobbies, if you're interested in, um, cooking, there

is so many recipes in English.

If you're a professional athlete and you wanna like advance in your career,

you will have to learn English just to be able to travel, to communicate

to different coaches, for example.

So I think right now, Even if a person is just like, oh, I like English.

I'm interested in English.

But one day they will have to, they will con...

like they will have to, um, I would say they will, they will be

in this situation where they will like, okay, like I need English.

I need English for work, for, um, Studying.

I wanna study at a better university, or I just wanna move to a different

country and I need English.

Yeah.

Now the sort of learning out of necessity, that's not necessarily a great motivator.

It's at least it's not a positive motivation.

It's almost a negative motivation.

So does the average, from your experience, and you have a lot of

people who follow you on YouTube, are people able to find some positive

motivation, something positive about learning English that encourages

them, encourages them along the way.

Yeah, that's, uh, very interesting actually, because I feel like this

is something that I'm experiencing with Spanish right now because I

started learning Spanish because of necessity, because I had to, in Mexico

City, yes, you can just live with English, but it will be very difficult.

So I would say that yes, it's not enough of a motivation to learn

in languages because of necessity.

And I think, uh, people who follow me on YouTube or Instagram, most of them

learn English because of necessity.

But I think what makes the journey a lot more enjoy...

enjoyable is finding resources that they like.

For example, um, what helped me, I learned English because of necessity,

because of my, um, education in college.

I had a lot of subjects in English, so I would, at home, I would

like watch YouTube in English.

And for me that was something that would give me a lot of enjoyment

and pleasure and satisfaction.

I'd be like, oh, I love it.

This is the way I like learning English.

So even though for most of my subscribers, yes, it's like, I

need English because of my work.

However, the paths they take are often like different.

Some people are like, oh, I only wanna focus on business English,

but are the people like, no.

Like I'm okay with exploring different subjects, different,

using different resources.

So I guess it just depends on the person.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I would say too, that if you really try to just focus on business English,

you won't succeed in other words.

We have to have a general, broadly based sense of the language before we can start

focusing in on, on business English.

I, I always laugh when people are, we're gonna teach you business English.

There's English.

There's English.

You've gotta learn English.

Um, and it, it's quite true that, that in every language, you know, if you're in

the beginner material, a lot of the people who write textbooks try and push stuff

at you that they think you should know.

You should know these Japanese festivals.

You should know, you should be interested in this or that people might be interested

in something completely different.

So nowadays you're able to find stuff of interest and uh, you know, I always

quote the French expression ... the appetite comes with the eating.

And once you get into a language, then you discover things

that are of interest to you.

But it remains that English is the language with perhaps the greatest amount

of content available on the internet.

Spanish is not bad, is very good.

Russian, by the way, has a lot of stuff.

Uh, you know, and, and particularly for me that I enjoy 19th century

literature, you can find books for free.

Yeah.

And, uh, excellent quality audiobook produced in Russia.

And so different languages...

on the other hand, Persian and Arabic is a lot harder to find stuff.

And, um, it, it is important and it's very helpful when there's an abundance

of, of content, hopefully with audio and text available that something in

there is gonna be of interest to you.

Another subject on English, you know, sometimes you hear, well, you know

this Anglo-Saxon imperialism and everybody speaking English is no good,

so we should all learn Esperanto.

I have trouble with that because I personally find Esperanto, like I've

never met a native speaker of Esperanto.

Now people are coming on oh, yes I know so and so, he raised his kids

on Esperanto, but that's not true.

Uh, there's no culture there.

There's no food, there's no place called Esperanto land.

So we're kind of, we're we're left with English.

And if you get on a plane, as happened to me, I was in Brazil flying from

Iguazú to Rio, and the fellow sitting beside me was a Ukrainian who had been

living in Brazil and we spoke Ukrainian.

You're, you're not gonna sit beside, you're far more likely to find

someone sitting beside you on an airplane who speaks English than

just about any other language.

And so, like it or not, you know, we're stuck with English and it is kind of

useful, uh, but I can see where people who are not native speakers feel it unfair.

Do you sometimes think it's unfair that everyone has to learn English?

Why doesn't everyone learn Spanish or Russian, or Chinese?

Oh, well, this question of whether or not it's unfair, I just think

that life is unfair in general.

Like when people try to be like, oh, it's fair, or it's unfair.

I mean, it is how it is and there is nothing we can do about it.

If you just sit there and say, oh, it's unfair, like we have to learn English.

Why not my native language?

Well, you either just sit there and whine about it, or you actually

go and learn English, because English will always be there.

People will always be learning English and uh, Yeah, that's it.

Like unfortunately, that's the reality we'll live in.

So you either learn English or you don't learn it.

I mean, it's your choice.

You miss the point.

Yeah, and, and it's not really a political statement either.

If a, if a Japanese person meets someone from Brazil, they're gonna speak English.

It's just a practical matter.

This is, how else are they gonna communicate?

The Brazilian is unlikely to speak Japanese.

The Japanese person is unlikely to speak Portuguese.

So it's, they can use their hands and, and gestures, or they can speak English.

So, yeah, I agree with you.

It's, it's a practical solution.

There are regional languages like, but even there, I think in Latin America...

yeah they can speak to each other in Portuguese and Spanish, and they

more or less understand each other.

So that's, that's okay too.

Yeah.

So what are your plans now?

You're going to continue with your platform on YouTube.

And you're gonna learn span Spanish.

When you become as fluent in Spanish as you are now in English,

are you gonna start, uh, YouTube channel for learning Spanish?

Um, I haven't thought about it yet to be completely honest.

Uh, when it comes to English for sure, I wanna continue making videos because I

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Hi, today I am speaking with Veronika Mark. ||||||Véronika| ||||||ヴェロニカ| ||||||Weronika Mark|

I've spoken to her before and, uh, she is a bit of a globe |talked||||||she|||||| |||||||||||||trotamundos |||||||ona||||||światowa podróżniczka Ich habe schon mit ihr gesprochen, und sie ist ein bisschen wie ein Globus. I've spoken to her before and, uh, she is a bit of a globe 前に彼女と話したことがありますが、ええと、彼女はちょっとした地球人です 我以前和她谈过,她有点像个地球仪

trotter, as we will soon discover. trotter||||| |||||find out trotador, como descubriremos||||| kłusak, jak odkryjemy||||| Trotter, wie wir bald feststellen werden. 私たちがすぐに発見するように、トロッター。

And we are going to talk about English as an international language. ||||||||||global|

And, uh, Veronika...

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Hi Veronika.

Nice to see you again.

Yeah, hi thank you.

Thank you for inviting me here. Danke, dass Sie mich eingeladen haben.

All right. Also gut.

So, uh, let, first of all, let's catch catch up on your history |||||||rattraper||||| ||||||||ponernos al día|ponernos al día||| Also, lassen Sie uns erst einmal Ihre Geschichte aufarbeiten.

since the last time we spoke. depuis|||||

So many of our listeners won't realize just by listening to you that you're ||||||zdać sobie sprawę||||||| Viele unserer Zuhörer werden gar nicht merken, dass Sie So many of our listeners won't realize just by listening to you that you're

not a native speaker of English. kein englischer Muttersprachler ist.

Your English is phenomenal, but of course you're not a native speaker of English.

You're an example of international English. Sie sind ein Beispiel für internationales Englisch.

And, which is gonna be the subject of our conversation, but update us on, on what Und das wird das Thema unseres Gesprächs sein, aber bringen Sie uns auf den neuesten Stand, was

has happened to you since we last spoke. |||||||nous avons parlé was Ihnen seit unserem letzten Gespräch widerfahren ist.

Yeah.

So since we last spoke, I moved to a different country because um, yeah, Seit wir das letzte Mal gesprochen haben, bin ich in ein anderes Land gezogen, weil... ja,

last time I was living in Russia, in Moscow, I was actually learning Chinese. ||||||||||estaba|de hecho|| Als ich das letzte Mal in Russland, in Moskau, lebte, lernte ich gerade Chinesisch.

I was still a college student. Ich war noch Studentin.

Right now, I'm not a college student anymore. Im Moment bin ich keine Studentin mehr.

I graduated from college and, uh, I'm just working on YouTube, making Ich habe das College abgeschlossen und arbeite nur noch auf YouTube, mache

videos for people to learn English. Videos für Menschen, die Englisch lernen wollen.

And, uh, right now I live in Mexico City. Und im Moment lebe ich in Mexiko-Stadt.

Yeah. Ja, ja.

So a lot has changed. Es hat sich also eine Menge geändert.

Yeah, what is the, uh, name of your YouTube channel? Ja, wie lautet der Name deines YouTube-Kanals?

So I have two YouTube channels.

The one where I teach people English is called English with Veronika Mark. Die Seite, auf der ich Leuten Englisch beibringe, heißt Englisch mit Veronika Mark.

And uh, the second one is just Veronika Mark, just my name. Und das zweite ist einfach Veronika Mark, einfach mein Name.

and what, what's different between the two channels? und was ist der Unterschied zwischen den beiden Kanälen?

The difference is, uh, English with Veronika Mark is focused on teaching Der Unterschied ist, dass sich Englisch mit Veronika Mark auf den Unterricht konzentriert.

people English, so I share tips on how I manage to improve my English. |||||des conseils|||||||| |||||||||radzę sobie|||| Deshalb gebe ich Tipps, wie ich mein Englisch verbessern kann.

I help people improve their English, and Veronika Mark

is just lifestyle, basically. |||w zasadzie ||estilo de vida|

I speak English there too, but it's more like, oh, I went traveling there, ||||||||||||voyager| Ich spreche dort auch Englisch, aber es ist mehr wie, oh, ich war dort auf Reisen,

you know, follow me or I did this. ||śledzić||||| Sie wissen schon, folgen Sie mir oder ich habe das getan.

It's more like lifestyle content. Es handelt sich eher um Lifestyle-Inhalte.

Okay, so, and you said you were learning Chinese. Okay, und du hast gesagt, du lernst Chinesisch.

Are you still learning Chinese and are you learning any other languages Lernen Sie immer noch Chinesisch und lernen Sie noch andere Sprachen?

or do you speak other languages? oder sprechen Sie andere Sprachen?

Um, no, not anymore. Ähm, nein, nicht mehr.

Actually, when I graduated from college, I stopped learning Chinese just Als ich mein Studium abgeschlossen hatte, habe ich aufgehört, Chinesisch zu lernen.

because I, I had to move to a different country, Mexico, and I didn't speak weil ich in ein anderes Land, Mexiko, umziehen musste, und ich sprach nicht

Spanish at all at first, so now I'm learning Spanish, like every single day. |||à|||||||||| Ich habe anfangs überhaupt kein Spanisch gelernt, und jetzt lerne ich jeden Tag Spanisch.

So this is definitely my goal to learn, uh, Spanish. Das ist also definitiv mein Ziel, Spanisch zu lernen.

how good is your Spanish right now? Wie gut ist Ihr Spanisch im Moment?

If you go out into the street, if you need, uh, you know, help in finding |||||||||avez besoin|||||| Wenn Sie auf die Straße gehen, wenn Sie Hilfe brauchen, um

your way, or you walk into a store or perhaps friends that you have, are |||||||||quizás||||| oder Sie gehen in ein Geschäft oder haben vielleicht Freunde, die Sie kennen, die

you able to function in in Spanish? Sind Sie in der Lage, auf Spanisch zu arbeiten?

Yeah,

I'll be okay. Ich komme schon klar.

Yeah, my Spanish is not amazing. |||||Tak, mój hiszpański nie jest świetny. Ja, mein Spanisch ist nicht besonders gut.

Definitely not. Definitiv nicht.

I've been learning for like six months now. Ich lerne jetzt seit etwa sechs Monaten.

, Uhhuh, but yeah. ouais|| うんうん|| Mhm, ale tak.|| Aha, aber ja.

Yeah, I, I know my way around it, I would say. |||||manière|autour|||| ||||||por ahí|||| Ja, ich kenne mich damit aus, würde ich sagen.

. Oh, good. . Oh, gut.

Okay. Ja.

Now, it's interesting, uh, I was just chatting with someone and how |||||||rozmawiałem z|||| Es ist interessant, ich habe mich gerade mit jemandem unterhalten und wie

the most commonly spoken languages in the world are, of course, the ||najczęściej||||||||| die am häufigsten gesprochenen Sprachen der Welt sind natürlich die もちろん、世界で最も一般的に話されている言語は、

languages of the imperialists, call it. |||języki imperialistów|| Sprachen der Imperialisten, nennen Sie es. 帝国主義者の言語、と呼んでください。

The empires, you know? |les empires|| |Imperiów, wiesz?|| Die Reiche, wissen Sie?

Why do people, so many people speak English, French, Spanish, Warum sprechen so viele Menschen Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch,

Portuguese, Russian, uh, Quechua even in Latin America, which |||quechua||||| |||Quechua w Ameryce Łacińskiej||||| Portugiesisch, Russisch, Quechua, sogar in Lateinamerika, das

was spread by the Inca Empire. ||||インカ帝国| |rozprzestrzenione przez Imperium Inków|||Inkowie| wurde durch das Inkareich verbreitet.

So, uh, empires tend to spread their language. |||||rozprzestrzeniać|| Imperien neigen also dazu, ihre Sprache zu verbreiten.

uh, but perhaps no language has become as dominant as the English language. äh, aber vielleicht ist keine Sprache so dominant geworden wie die englische Sprache. ええと、でもおそらく英語ほど優勢になった言語はありません。

So, because for me, English is, it's essentially my native language. |||||||w zasadzie||| Für mich ist Englisch im Grunde meine Muttersprache.

Although I was born in Sweden, but since the age of five I've lived in Ich wurde zwar in Schweden geboren, aber seit meinem fünften Lebensjahr lebe ich in

Canada, so as a non-native speaker of English, what is the attitude Kanada, also wie ist die Haltung eines Nicht-Muttersprachlers der englischen Sprache?

of the person learning English? der Person, die Englisch lernt?

Do they learn it out of necessity? ||||par||nécessité Czy||||||konieczność Lernen sie es aus der Not heraus?

Do they learn it out of interest? ||||||zainteresowanie Lernen sie es aus Interesse?

Uh, what's the attitude towards this idea that this language above all others, a Wie stehen Sie zu der Idee, dass diese Sprache vor allen anderen, einer ええと、この言語が他の言語よりも優れているというこの考えに対する態度は何ですか?

language which is no better than any other originally spoken by people who live on Sprache, die nicht besser ist als jede andere, die ursprünglich von Menschen gesprochen wurde, die auf 生きている人々によって最初に話された他のどの言語よりも優れていない言語

this foggy island in the North Atlantic? |brumeux||||| |mglista||||| diese neblige Insel im Nordatlantik? 北大西洋のこの霧の島?

Why do we have to learn English? Warum müssen wir Englisch lernen?

Like what is the range of feelings that people have when they are Wie ist die Bandbreite der Gefühle, die Menschen haben, wenn sie 人がいるときの感情の範囲はどうですか

confronted with having to learn English? damit konfrontiert, Englisch lernen zu müssen?

I think right now it's mostly out of necessity because uh, even when |||||surtout||||||| Ich denke, im Moment ist es hauptsächlich aus der Not heraus, denn selbst wenn

it comes to your hobbies, if you're interested in, um, cooking, there Wenn es um Ihre Hobbys geht, wenn Sie sich für das Kochen interessieren, gibt es

is so many recipes in English. |||przepisy kulinarne||

If you're a professional athlete and you wanna like advance in your career, Wenn du ein Profisportler bist und in deiner Karriere vorankommen willst,

you will have to learn English just to be able to travel, to communicate Sie müssen Englisch lernen, um reisen und kommunizieren zu können.

to different coaches, for example. zum Beispiel an verschiedene Trainer.

So I think right now, Even if a person is just like, oh, I like English. Ich denke also, selbst wenn jemand nur sagt: "Oh, ich mag Englisch.

I'm interested in English. Ich interessiere mich für Englisch.

But one day they will have to, they will con... |||||||||arnaquer |||||||||oszukać Aber eines Tages werden sie es tun müssen, sie werden...

like they will have to, um, I would say they will, they will be wie sie müssen, ähm, ich würde sagen, sie werden, sie werden sein

in this situation where they will like, okay, like I need English. in einer Situation, in der sie sagen: "Okay, ich brauche Englisch.

I need English for work, for, um, Studying. Ich brauche Englisch für die Arbeit, für, ähm, das Studium.

I wanna study at a better university, or I just wanna move to a different

country and I need English. |||ai besoin|

Yeah.

Now the sort of learning out of necessity, that's not necessarily a great motivator. ||||nauka|||konieczność|||koniecznie||| Nun ist das Lernen aus der Not heraus nicht unbedingt ein großer Motivator.

It's at least it's not a positive motivation. Zumindest ist es keine positive Motivation.

It's almost a negative motivation. Es ist fast eine negative Motivation.

So does the average, from your experience, and you have a lot of Das gilt auch für den Durchschnitt Ihrer Erfahrung, und Sie haben eine Menge von

people who follow you on YouTube, are people able to find some positive Menschen, die Ihnen auf YouTube folgen, sind in der Lage, einige positive

motivation, something positive about learning English that encourages Motivation, etwas Positives am Englischlernen, das ermutigt

them, encourages them along the way. und ermutigt sie auf ihrem Weg.

Yeah, that's, uh, very interesting actually, because I feel like this |||||en realidad||||| Ja, das ist eigentlich sehr interessant, denn ich habe das Gefühl, dass diese

is something that I'm experiencing with Spanish right now because I ist etwas, das ich im Moment mit Spanisch erlebe, weil ich

started learning Spanish because of necessity, because I had to, in Mexico ||||||||tenía que||| Ich habe aus der Not heraus angefangen, Spanisch zu lernen, weil ich es in Mexiko musste.

City, yes, you can just live with English, but it will be very difficult. City, ja, man kann auch mit Englisch leben, aber es wird sehr schwierig sein.

So I would say that yes, it's not enough of a motivation to learn ||verrais||||||||||| Ich würde also sagen: Ja, es ist nicht genug Motivation, um zu lernen.

in languages because of necessity. in Sprachen, weil es notwendig ist.

And I think, uh, people who follow me on YouTube or Instagram, most of them Und ich denke, dass die Leute, die mir auf YouTube oder Instagram folgen, die meisten von ihnen

learn English because of necessity. Englisch lernen, weil es notwendig ist.

But I think what makes the journey a lot more enjoy... ||||rend||||||agréable Aber ich glaube, was die Reise noch viel angenehmer macht...

enjoyable is finding resources that they like. ||trouver|ressources||| Es macht Spaß, Ressourcen zu finden, die sie mögen.

For example, um, what helped me, I learned English because of necessity, |||||||||par||nécessité Was mir zum Beispiel geholfen hat, ist, dass ich Englisch aus der Not heraus gelernt habe,

because of my, um, education in college. wegen meiner, ähm, Ausbildung am College.

I had a lot of subjects in English, so I would, at home, I would Ich hatte viele Fächer auf Englisch, also habe ich zu Hause

like watch YouTube in English. wie YouTube auf Englisch zu sehen.

And for me that was something that would give me a lot of enjoyment Und das war für mich etwas, das mir sehr viel Freude bereiten würde.

and pleasure and satisfaction.

I'd be like, oh, I love it. Ich würde sagen: Oh, ich liebe es.

This is the way I like learning English. Auf diese Weise lerne ich gerne Englisch.

So even though for most of my subscribers, yes, it's like, I ||bien||||||||| Auch wenn es für die meisten meiner Abonnenten so ist, dass ich

need English because of my work. Ich brauche Englisch wegen meiner Arbeit.

However, the paths they take are often like different. ||chemins|||||| Sin embargo||caminos|||||| Die Wege, die sie einschlagen, sind jedoch oft sehr unterschiedlich.

Some people are like, oh, I only wanna focus on business English, |les gens||||||veux|||| |||||||chcę tylko|||| Manche Leute sagen: Oh, ich will mich nur auf Wirtschaftsenglisch konzentrieren,

but are the people like, no. aber sind die Leute wie, nein.

Like I'm okay with exploring different subjects, different,

using different resources. unter Verwendung verschiedener Ressourcen.

So I guess it just depends on the person. Ich denke, das hängt von der Person ab.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I would say too, that if you really try to just focus on business English, Und ich würde auch sagen, wenn Sie wirklich versuchen, sich nur auf Wirtschaftsenglisch zu konzentrieren,

you won't succeed in other words. ||réussir||| mit anderen Worten, Sie werden keinen Erfolg haben.

We have to have a general, broadly based sense of the language before we can start ||||||généralement||||||||| ||||||ampliamente||||||||| ||||||szeroko pojęte||||||||| Wir müssen ein allgemeines, breit gefächertes Gefühl für die Sprache haben, bevor wir anfangen können

focusing in on, on business English. mit Schwerpunkt auf Geschäftsenglisch.

I, I always laugh when people are, we're gonna teach you business English. Ich lache immer, wenn die Leute sagen: "Wir bringen dir Wirtschaftsenglisch bei.

There's English.

There's English.

You've gotta learn English. |musisz|| Ihr müsst Englisch lernen.

Um, and it, it's quite true that, that in every language, you know, if you're in Ähm, und es ist ganz richtig, dass in jeder Sprache, weißt du, wenn du in

the beginner material, a lot of the people who write textbooks try and push stuff das Anfängermaterial, viele der Leute, die Lehrbücher schreiben, versuchen, die Dinge

at you that they think you should know. die Sie ihrer Meinung nach wissen sollten.

You should know these Japanese festivals. Diese japanischen Feste sollten Sie kennen.

You should know, you should be interested in this or that people might be interested Sie sollten wissen, dass Sie sich für dieses oder jenes interessieren könnten

in something completely different. in etwas völlig anderes.

So nowadays you're able to find stuff of interest and uh, you know, I always |||capaz de||||||||||| Heutzutage kann man also Dinge finden, die einen interessieren, und, wissen Sie, ich habe immer

quote the French expression ... the appetite comes with the eating. |||||apetyt|||| zitieren Sie die französische Redewendung ... der Appetit kommt mit dem Essen.

And once you get into a language, then you discover things Und wenn man sich erst einmal in eine Sprache eingearbeitet hat, dann entdeckt man Dinge

that are of interest to you. die für Sie von Interesse sind.

But it remains that English is the language with perhaps the greatest amount ||reste||||||||||

of content available on the internet. der im Internet verfügbaren Inhalte.

Spanish is not bad, is very good. Spanisch ist nicht schlecht, es ist sehr gut.

Russian, by the way, has a lot of stuff. Russisch hat übrigens eine Menge zu bieten.

Uh, you know, and, and particularly for me that I enjoy 19th century Äh, wissen Sie, und, und besonders für mich, dass ich das 19.

literature, you can find books for free. Literatur, können Sie Bücher kostenlos finden.

Yeah.

And, uh, excellent quality audiobook produced in Russia. Und ein in Russland produziertes Hörbuch von hervorragender Qualität.

And so different languages... Und so unterschiedliche Sprachen...

on the other hand, Persian and Arabic is a lot harder to find stuff. |||||||||beaucoup|plus difficile||| Bei Persisch und Arabisch ist es dagegen viel schwieriger, etwas zu finden.

And, um, it, it is important and it's very helpful when there's an abundance |||||||||||||obfitość Und, ähm, es ist wichtig und sehr hilfreich, wenn es eine Fülle von

of, of content, hopefully with audio and text available that something in |||con suerte|||||||| von Inhalten, hoffentlich mit Audio und Text verfügbar, die etwas in

there is gonna be of interest to you. ||va||||| wird für Sie von Interesse sein.

Another subject on English, you know, sometimes you hear, well, you know Ein weiteres Thema zum Thema Englisch, wissen Sie, manchmal hört man, na ja, Sie wissen schon

this Anglo-Saxon imperialism and everybody speaking English is no good, dieser angelsächsische Imperialismus und dass alle Englisch sprechen, ist nicht gut,

so we should all learn Esperanto. also sollten wir alle Esperanto lernen.

I have trouble with that because I personally find Esperanto, like I've |||||||personnellement|trouve||| Ich habe Schwierigkeiten damit, denn ich persönlich finde Esperanto, wie ich schon

never met a native speaker of Esperanto. |rencontré||||| |conocido||||| noch nie einen Esperanto-Muttersprachler getroffen.

Now people are coming on oh, yes I know so and so, he raised his kids ||są|przychodzą||||||||||wychował|| Jetzt kommen die Leute und sagen: "Ja, ich kenne diesen und jenen, er hat seine Kinder großgezogen.

on Esperanto, but that's not true. auf Esperanto, aber das ist nicht wahr.

Uh, there's no culture there. |||de culture| Dort gibt es keine Kultur.

There's no food, there's no place called Esperanto land. |||||||Эсперанто| Es gibt kein Essen, es gibt keinen Ort, der Esperanto-Land heißt.

So we're kind of, we're we're left with English. Also bleibt uns irgendwie nur Englisch.

And if you get on a plane, as happened to me, I was in Brazil flying from ||||||avion|||||||||| Und wenn man in ein Flugzeug steigt, wie es mir passiert ist, war ich in Brasilien und flog von

Iguazú to Rio, and the fellow sitting beside me was a Ukrainian who had been Iguazú|||||||||||||| イグアス|||||||||||||| Iguazú do Rio|||||||||||||| Iguazú nach Rio, und der Kerl, der neben mir saß, war ein Ukrainer, der

living in Brazil and we spoke Ukrainian. die in Brasilien lebten, und wir sprachen Ukrainisch.

You're, you're not gonna sit beside, you're far more likely to find Jesteś|jesteś||||obok|||||| Sie werden nicht daneben sitzen, Sie werden viel eher

someone sitting beside you on an airplane who speaks English than jemand neben Ihnen im Flugzeug sitzt, der Englisch spricht, als

just about any other language. so gut wie jede andere Sprache.

And so, like it or not, you know, we're stuck with English and it is kind of |||||||||utknięci z||||||| Ob es uns nun gefällt oder nicht, wir müssen uns an die englische Sprache halten, und das ist eine Art

useful, uh, but I can see where people who are not native speakers feel it unfair. |||||||||||||||injusto |||||||||||||||niesprawiedliwe nützlich, äh, aber ich kann verstehen, dass Menschen, die keine Muttersprachler sind, es als unfair empfinden.

Do you sometimes think it's unfair that everyone has to learn English? Finden Sie es manchmal ungerecht, dass alle Menschen Englisch lernen müssen?

Why doesn't everyone learn Spanish or Russian, or Chinese? Warum lernt nicht jeder Spanisch, Russisch oder Chinesisch?

Oh, well, this question of whether or not it's unfair, I just think |||||||||injuste||| Nun, die Frage, ob es unfair ist oder nicht, ist meiner Meinung nach einfach

that life is unfair in general. dass das Leben im Allgemeinen ungerecht ist.

Like when people try to be like, oh, it's fair, or it's unfair. |||||||||Justo||| Zum Beispiel, wenn die Leute versuchen, so zu tun, als ob es fair oder ungerecht wäre.

I mean, it is how it is and there is nothing we can do about it. ||||||||||rien||pouvons||| Ich meine, es ist, wie es ist, und wir können nichts dagegen tun.

If you just sit there and say, oh, it's unfair, like we have to learn English. Wenn man einfach dasitzt und sagt, oh, das ist unfair, wir müssen Englisch lernen.

Why not my native language? Warum nicht meine Muttersprache?

Well, you either just sit there and whine about it, or you actually |||||||vous plaindre||||| |||||||quejarse||||| |||||||narzekać||||| Nun, entweder sitzt man einfach nur da und jammert darüber, oder man ist tatsächlich

go and learn English, because English will always be there. gehen und Englisch lernen, denn Englisch wird es immer geben.

People will always be learning English and uh, Yeah, that's it. Die Leute werden immer Englisch lernen und, ja, das ist es.

Like unfortunately, that's the reality we'll live in. Das ist leider die Realität, mit der wir leben werden.

So you either learn English or you don't learn it. Entweder man lernt Englisch oder man lernt es nicht.

I mean, it's your choice. Ich meine, es ist deine Entscheidung.

You miss the point. Sie verstehen nicht, worum es geht.

Yeah, and, and it's not really a political statement either. ouais||||||||| ||||||||declaración política|tampoco Ja, und es ist auch nicht wirklich eine politische Aussage. ええ、そして、それは実際には政治的な声明でもありません。

If a, if a Japanese person meets someone from Brazil, they're gonna speak English. Wenn ein Japaner jemandem aus Brasilien begegnet, wird er Englisch sprechen.

It's just a practical matter. ||||cuestión práctica Es ist einfach eine praktische Angelegenheit.

This is, how else are they gonna communicate? Das heißt, wie sollen sie sonst kommunizieren?

The Brazilian is unlikely to speak Japanese. |||poco probable|||

The Japanese person is unlikely to speak Portuguese.

So it's, they can use their hands and, and gestures, or they can speak English. |||||||||gesty rękami||||| Sie können also ihre Hände und Gesten benutzen, oder sie können Englisch sprechen.

So, yeah, I agree with you. Also, ja, ich stimme Ihnen zu.

It's, it's a practical solution. Das ist eine praktische Lösung.

There are regional languages like, but even there, I think in Latin America... Es gibt regionale Sprachen, aber selbst dort, ich glaube in Lateinamerika...

yeah they can speak to each other in Portuguese and Spanish, and they ja, sie können miteinander auf Portugiesisch und Spanisch sprechen, und sie

more or less understand each other. ||moins||| verstehen sich mehr oder weniger.

So that's, that's okay too. Das ist also auch in Ordnung.

Yeah.

So what are your plans now? Was sind nun Ihre Pläne?

You're going to continue with your platform on YouTube. Sie werden mit Ihrer Plattform auf YouTube weitermachen. YouTube でプラットフォームを継続します。

And you're gonna learn span Spanish. ||||nauczyć się| Und du wirst Spanisch lernen.

When you become as fluent in Spanish as you are now in English, Wenn Sie so fließend Spanisch sprechen wie jetzt Englisch,

are you gonna start, uh, YouTube channel for learning Spanish? Wirst du einen YouTube-Kanal zum Spanischlernen starten?

Um, I haven't thought about it yet to be completely honest. |||pensé||||||| |||pensado||||||| Um ehrlich zu sein, habe ich darüber noch nicht nachgedacht.

Uh, when it comes to English for sure, I wanna continue making videos because I ||||||||||continuer|||| Wenn es um Englisch geht, will ich auf jeden Fall weiter Videos machen, weil ich