1 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,466 Hey guys, in this video I'm going to be talking with my boyfriend in 4 languages. 2 01:00:06,466 --> 01:00:11,233 We are going to be discussing about language learning topic. 3 01:00:11,233 --> 01:00:13,466 How, why we learned these languages. 4 01:00:13,466 --> 01:00:16,566 And how fun it is to learn languages. 5 01:00:16,566 --> 01:00:20,099 I hope you all have fun and let’s go!! 6 01:00:20,099 --> 01:00:23,933 Ok, so I know 4 languages: English, Spanish, Thai and Portuguese. 7 01:00:23,933 --> 01:00:24,966 But you know 10 languages, Right? 8 01:00:24,966 --> 01:00:25,866 Yea 9 01:00:25,866 --> 01:00:28,033 So why do you like learning languages so much? 10 01:00:28,033 --> 01:00:33,300 I love learning languages because it brings me to places I’ve never imagined I will get to go, 11 01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:36,066 things that I never imagined I will get to do. 12 01:00:36,066 --> 01:00:41,000 And also, I love communicating with people and, like, learning about them. 13 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,733 Yea, that’s something I’ve noticed. For example, I remember one time in Thailand, 14 01:00:44,733 --> 01:00:48,099 you saw this French couple and they were speaking French, 15 01:00:48,099 --> 01:00:55,366 and you were learning French for like a few months by then and you just went up to them, 16 01:00:55,366 --> 01:00:57,000 you approached them and started speaking with them. 17 01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:03,233 Yea, aha. Because I think in order to learn languages and speak well, 18 01:01:03,233 --> 01:01:08,666 you have to get rid of your fear and think of languages as just a tool. 19 01:01:08,666 --> 01:01:12,433 So I don’t really care, I don’t care at all if I make mistakes or not. 20 01:01:12,433 --> 01:01:16,699 It’s not like I try to not care but I don’t think about it at all. 21 01:01:16,699 --> 01:01:20,599 Because the most important thing is your story and their story. 22 01:01:20,599 --> 01:01:24,066 And, like, creating good relationships, you know. 23 01:01:24,066 --> 01:01:26,300 Creating an image that you want to know about that person, 24 01:01:26,300 --> 01:01:29,333 that you are an interesting person through the language. 25 01:01:29,333 --> 01:01:35,033 Language is nothing but a tool for you to have fun in this life, seriously. 26 01:01:35,033 --> 01:01:39,333 Yea, that’s something I’ve learned from you..to not care about making mistakes. 27 01:01:39,333 --> 01:01:43,599 It’s something I kinda struggled with when I started learning Thai but now it’s like … 28 01:01:43,599 --> 01:01:47,400 I think about you and like… when you speak Spanish.. 29 01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,133 and like…when you speak Portuguese and make little mistakes you just keep talking. 30 01:01:51,133 --> 01:01:53,166 It doesn’t phase you. 31 01:01:53,166 --> 01:01:58,599 So now we will talk in Spanish. How did you learn Spanish, Grace? 32 01:01:58,599 --> 01:02:06,400 I learned Spanish online in Thailand when I was working full time in a company. 33 01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:19,966 I started learning with books and also on youtube. Then I found a teacher online from italki. 34 01:02:19,966 --> 01:02:22,533 Then I started to learn with him. 35 01:02:22,533 --> 01:02:30,466 And why did you start learning Spanish? Because I know that Spanish is used in many, many countries. 36 01:02:30,466 --> 01:02:39,133 In Latin America: Colombia, Chile, Ecuador…in many countries 37 01:02:39,133 --> 01:02:43,099 And what is the first Spanish-speaking country you have been to? 38 01:02:43,099 --> 01:02:48,166 Colombia. Yea? yea. with my boyfriend. 39 01:02:48,166 --> 01:02:54,533 And we were just traveling for only one month. 40 01:02:54,533 --> 01:02:57,633 You started learning Spanish before knowing me, right? 41 01:02:57,633 --> 01:02:59,566 One month before knowing you. 42 01:02:59,566 --> 01:03:07,466 I remember during this time, you were learning with a Spanish accent from Spain. 43 01:03:07,466 --> 01:03:15,333 And after you know me, you started to learn with the latin American accent, right? 44 01:03:15,333 --> 01:03:23,000 Yes, because your parents are Colombians and I want to “Do what the Romans do”. 45 01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:26,233 Do exactly what the Latin Americans do. 46 01:03:26,233 --> 01:03:33,533 Because of this I started to learn, I changed all the learning materials and started to speak, 47 01:03:33,533 --> 01:03:37,033 more or less, like the latin americans. I hope so :) 48 01:03:37,033 --> 01:03:39,366 And you also learned Thai, right? 49 01:03:39,366 --> 01:03:47,199 Yes, I have been learning Thai for about 4 years already. 50 01:03:47,199 --> 01:03:50,733 I started learning because I went to travel to Thailand with my Thai friend. 51 01:03:50,733 --> 01:03:54,566 And his family couldn’t speak English. 52 01:03:54,566 --> 01:04:00,800 So when I got back to America, I had a goal to learn Thai. 53 01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,900 Then you looked for teachers. 54 01:04:02,900 --> 01:04:08,166 I looked for online teachers and found Grace. That teacher is Grace. 55 01:04:08,166 --> 01:04:14,733 And I studied with Grace for one year. Then I went to Thailand to travel. 56 01:04:14,733 --> 01:04:17,533 But then we met up, right? 57 01:04:17,533 --> 01:04:19,633 Yea, we met up. 58 01:04:19,633 --> 01:04:23,500 We were still in a teacher-student relationship. 59 01:04:23,500 --> 01:04:36,033 Yea, we met up, traveled together, ate together. I met Grace’s friends, Aim and Mike. 60 01:04:36,033 --> 01:04:45,699 And we went to Kanchanaburi. And in Kanchanaburi we started dating. 61 01:04:45,699 --> 01:04:50,933 If you couldn’t speak Thai, we might not be able to get to this point 62 01:04:50,933 --> 01:04:53,966 because you will not be able to meet my parents. 63 01:04:53,966 --> 01:05:02,233 Now I get to talk to them. And talk to Grace’s friend’s that don't speak English. 64 01:05:02,233 --> 01:05:05,466 Therefore I think languages are very important, Right? 65 01:05:05,466 --> 01:05:11,766 Because you get to see my friends and create a good relationship with Thai people, with Thailand. 66 01:05:11,766 --> 01:05:15,566 For example, I can speak Spanish, so I could talk to your parents. 67 01:05:15,566 --> 01:05:23,933 Yea, because if you couldn’t speak Spanish, you wouldn’t don’t know my parents well. 68 01:05:23,933 --> 01:05:31,233 Yea, but now I’m really close to them. Two days ago, I talked to Edgar’s parents for an hour. 69 01:05:31,233 --> 01:05:33,366 Almost everyday. 70 01:05:33,366 --> 01:05:37,933 Yea, I talk to them almost everyday. When I cook, I always call Edgar’s dad. 71 01:05:37,933 --> 01:05:42,099 Edgar’s dad is a humorous guy. I really like him. 72 01:05:42,099 --> 01:05:44,533 And you also speak Portuguese too, right? 73 01:05:44,533 --> 01:05:49,533 Actually we started learning Portuguese together, right? 74 01:05:49,533 --> 01:05:50,866 How? 75 01:05:50,866 --> 01:05:54,066 We started(learning Portuguese) because we went to Brazil. 76 01:05:54,066 --> 01:06:00,666 And there, we had an opportunity to use Portuguese everyday. 77 01:06:00,666 --> 01:06:08,766 Because we rented a house. It was a private room in a house from Airbnb. 78 01:06:08,766 --> 01:06:17,833 And there, we get to know a Brazilian family. We talked everyday in Portuguese. 79 01:06:17,833 --> 01:06:26,733 And the first 2-3 months we watched videos about Portuguese (language). 80 01:06:26,733 --> 01:06:33,533 We found blogs on the internet and read about grammar in Portuguese. 81 01:06:33,533 --> 01:06:40,433 But after 3 months we … because we also know how to speak Spanish... 82 01:06:40,433 --> 01:06:41,733 Yea, it helped a lot 83 01:06:41,733 --> 01:06:50,099 So later, we just talked a lot with friends, with people on the street, with the family in the house. 84 01:06:50,099 --> 01:06:55,866 I think we learned very fast. 85 01:06:55,866 --> 01:06:59,966 In 9 months, I think I could already understand almost everything. 86 01:06:59,966 --> 01:07:03,733 We had a lot of experiences there, right? 87 01:07:03,733 --> 01:07:14,400 We went to hospitals, we went to outdoor markets, many restaurants, and beaches. 88 01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:19,166 So we had a lot of experiences talking about many things. 89 01:07:19,166 --> 01:07:26,199 Yea..But I think the only problem that we have is the accent. 90 01:07:26,199 --> 01:07:32,133 My accent too. I want to talk like the Brazilians but it’s so hard. I don’t know why. 91 01:07:32,133 --> 01:07:38,400 We tried but I think it’s because of our Spanish. 92 01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:41,699 But I think Grace has a better accent than me. 93 01:07:41,699 --> 01:07:44,033 I don’t know. 94 01:07:44,033 --> 01:07:47,566 The taxi drivers said so. 95 01:07:47,566 --> 01:08:03,733 But Edgar looks more like Brazilians so strangers always think that I’m a foreigner. 96 01:08:03,733 --> 01:08:07,666 But Grace passes for Japanese, right? 97 01:08:07,666 --> 01:08:12,566 Yea, because there are a lot of Japanese in Brazil. 98 01:08:12,566 --> 01:08:16,766 You also speak other languages. 99 01:08:16,766 --> 01:08:20,666 Actually I know a few words. 100 01:08:20,666 --> 01:08:24,066 Turkish and Chinese. 101 01:08:24,066 --> 01:08:28,366 Why did you learn them? How did you learn them? 102 01:08:28,366 --> 01:08:42,300 Turkish, because we went to Turkey, so I studied for about a month. But now, I don’t remember much. 103 01:08:42,300 --> 01:08:48,000 Do you remember some words like let’s say, “easy”? 104 01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:49,166 Starts with “K” 105 01:08:49,166 --> 01:08:51,533 Kolay 106 01:08:51,533 --> 01:08:58,866 Let’s say, a sentence. “I want to go to Turkey”. 107 01:08:58,866 --> 01:09:02,600 “Türkiye'ye gitmek istiyorum” 108 01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,699 Woo woo! 109 01:09:04,699 --> 01:09:09,433 What about, “I like Turkish, the language”? 110 01:09:09,433 --> 01:09:13,366 Turkçe seviyorum 111 01:09:13,366 --> 01:09:15,933 “Seviyorum”, yes I like. 112 01:09:15,933 --> 01:09:18,000 What about Chinese? 113 01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:22,800 Chinese, I also remember a few words and I think I studied for one month. 114 01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:25,933 I actually studied for one month before we went to Turkey. 115 01:09:25,933 --> 01:09:32,533 And then I switched to Turkish. Well after that we went to Brazil so then I just learned Portuguese. 116 01:09:32,533 --> 01:09:38,366 But I think you have a very good memory because you memorized all this without practicing. 117 01:09:38,366 --> 01:09:45,866 So how do you say my parents...my mom and dad are Colombians. 118 01:09:45,866 --> 01:09:55,699 “Wǒ de bàba māmā shì gēlúnbǐyǎ rén” 119 01:09:55,699 --> 01:09:58,399 “How do you say I’m American”? 120 01:09:58,399 --> 01:10:01,966 “Wǒ shì měiguó rén” 121 01:10:01,966 --> 01:10:04,000 I probably have a horrible accent. 122 01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:09,266 One more, I can speak Chinese. Can is huì 123 01:10:09,266 --> 01:10:16,566 “Wǒ huì shuō hànyǔ” 124 01:10:16,566 --> 01:10:18,466 I’m kind of impressed. 125 01:10:18,466 --> 01:10:25,066 Grace taught me for one month of Chinese and also one month of Turkish. 126 01:10:25,066 --> 01:10:32,133 Yea, that’s when we travelled and I kind of let it go. But I’m definitely going to pick it back up. 127 01:10:32,133 --> 01:10:36,333 So Grace, you know 10 languages but do you still want to learn more? 128 01:10:36,333 --> 01:10:43,633 Yea, I want to learn...I really want to learn...what’s that...Russian and Arabic. 129 01:10:43,633 --> 01:10:49,633 The reason is because it’s used in many, many countries. Like Spanish, used in so many countries. 130 01:10:49,633 --> 01:10:54,600 So I will have more opportunities to use it with more people. 131 01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:59,766 Actually today, in Quito, Ecuador, we met a Lebanese family 132 01:10:59,766 --> 01:11:03,633 and we were like we really want to learn Arabic right? 133 01:11:03,633 --> 01:11:06,800 That’s like something that happened really often with us. 134 01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:10,766 We want to learn, like, every language we come across. 135 01:11:10,766 --> 01:11:15,000 But I think it’s good because it really motivates us to learn. 136 01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:16,566 Yea, true. 137 01:11:16,566 --> 01:11:20,800 And you..you want to learn...what is your next language? 138 01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:27,533 I want to continue with Chinese mandarin but I also want to learn Korean. Well, yeah, I’m lucky because… 139 01:11:27,533 --> 01:11:30,466 I can help you 140 01:11:30,466 --> 01:11:32,399 Yea, I haven’t decided yet. 141 01:11:32,399 --> 01:11:37,800 Alright so final question. So out of these 4 languages, which one do we normally speak in? 142 01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:44,833 Actually we normally speak in English and Thai. Two languages. 143 01:11:44,833 --> 01:11:50,766 So Thai, usually outside of the home, and inside we speak English. 144 01:11:50,766 --> 01:11:59,366 Actually we try to speak Thai most of the time but we always forget to and end up just speaking in English. 145 01:11:59,366 --> 01:12:02,933 So, yeah, learning languages is difficult. And it takes time. 146 01:12:02,933 --> 01:12:09,033 But if you stop thinking about time and just enjoy the process, I think you will get there one day, right? 147 01:12:09,033 --> 01:12:10,866 Yea, that's something I learn from Grace a lot. 148 01:12:10,866 --> 01:12:15,500 Because before I met Grace my only goal was to learn Thai. 149 01:12:15,500 --> 01:12:19,699 And now, after knowing Grace, I want to learn 10 languages like her too. 150 01:12:19,699 --> 01:12:21,100 Yea, it’s super fun. 151 01:12:21,100 --> 01:12:24,333 Yeah, we spent hours every day studying. 152 01:12:24,333 --> 01:12:27,533 Yeah, at least an hour studying. 153 01:12:27,533 --> 01:12:29,300 Especially Grace. 154 01:12:29,300 --> 01:12:33,100 It became my habit to study, you know. 155 01:12:33,100 --> 01:12:35,600 So thank you guys so much for watching. 156 01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:41,199 So if you have any questions feel free to ask...to write in the comment and ask us. 157 01:12:41,199 --> 01:12:44,833 And Edgar will be there to answer and also I will be there to answer. 158 01:12:44,833 --> 01:12:48,500 So thank you so much and I will see you guys later, bye.