YouTube Alex Conley here today and I got another video for you this video is from the disadvantages of learning a new language so some of you might be wondering disadvantages oh I thought it was all good to learn
another language and there are tons of advantages I discussed some of them in my previous video advantages of learning a new language but this video I'm going to talk about some of the downsides so the first two most
obvious one is you might not like what you hear sometimes if people perceive you to not understand their language they can say some ugly or main asti things and your presence that you're not familiar with you can check
reddit for some of these stories there's some really funny and sad stories of people assuming that another individual does not speak their language and then being really embarrassed or shocked when that individual does speak their language so right
off the bat you know some people just say disrespect for our nasty things and assume well they don't know any better that they can't understand me oh they're American you know they don't speak whatever language that I speak
but in fact you might so if you do speak another language understand another language comprehend another language you may start to hear things that you don't like and you wish you hadn't understood I mean yeah there's all kinds
of directions I can go in and conversely you know sometimes the things aren't always negative sometimes you'll hear something that's humorous and you'll be glad you understood but you might hear some things you don't like so something to
consider before you learn another language next you may not understand the written language so if you're an English speaker and you're learning like German or Spanish yeah you'll probably be able to figure out you know the written language
relatively easily but if you're talking about like Japanese like a kanji or hiragana good luck it's gonna take you a lot of careful hard work patience and effort to even begin to understand some of the written language much
less complex structures like books and religious texts and and similar things so I keep in mind that just because you understand the spoken language you may even learn the intricacies of the spoken language that's not going to always
translate to the written language and you may feel like you're back at square one trying to learn the characters and and how to comprehend the nonverbal communication basically so while you can learn another language it's not going to
change your ethnicity so i'm part japanese but in japan by most people's standards part Japanese as non japanese basically unless you are totally Japanese you're in some regards just not considered Japanese I mean I've read stories of people
that are half Japanese that have lived in Japan their whole lives that have a hard time getting an apartment because of a negative bias toward foreign people and if you're half you know and you have a Western name
that's definitely I'm going to set off some alarm bells immediately just because sometimes in Japan if an individual a Japanese individual has had negative experiences with foreign people they may get the they may make the assumption that all
foreign people are going to act similarly to to the negative experience or negative encounter so keep in mind that even if you understand a new language you're not going to change the physical perceptions and some of the biases
that people may have in their own minds toward people of your background so when I was in Japan I mean I'm a fourth Japanese but I would just tell people I'm half Japanese because trying to explain that I'm
a fourth Japanese just starts to get really convoluted and even then people still you know you know treated me like a foreigner so which you know I was born in the United States so technically even though I'm nicly
part of Japanese I am an American and so I was generally treated like an American which in Japan can be a good and a bad thing and the good part is they don't hold you to the same standards
as they would a Japanese person the bad thing is they tend to not have very strong expectations of you which some people might be good but you know it can definitely it can definitely be a little bit disheartening
when when you get the impression that people expect you to do do the wrong thing and actually I was raised by my Japanese grandmother so I'm actually pretty familiar with many of the social rules the intricacies of Japanese
culture so I actually did not break the rules too often but you know that's something to keep in mind that if you even if you learn some basic Japanese like even though I know some basic Japanese and I'm
still not going to be regarded it's an ethnically Japanese person so multilingual people lingual people tend to be weaker in both languages so there's this perception like oh if you learn another language you'll be smarter and there may
be some benefits as far as cognitively speaking but you're your original language will tend to suffer and your new language will not be as strong as a native speaker because you're swapping between the two because you may use
one a lot more than the other it just doesn't it doesn't seem to work as well that's it seems like for the most part if you do learn multiple languages that it's gonna hurt both your original language and
your new language might where there makes a comment often that with her Japanese friends she has stronger English but weaker Japanese and they often have stronger Japanese but weaker English so she doesn't she's never said oh we all
speak Japanese in English perfectly it just it's not it's not the case so keep in mind that if you're wanting to learn another language make sure it's make sure you have intentions of making use of the language as
you're learning make sure that you have intentions and it being worth your while because it would not be good to have the drawbacks that you didn't realize so yeah just keep in mind being multilingual does have some disadvantages
if you're looking to be in a career or position where you primarily use one language you may just stick to that language and try to use translation apps hang out local friends that are multilingual and kind of get
around it that way don't necessarily feel like you have to learn another language finally so this is kind of the last point that I want to make keep in mind that if you're learning in their language this new
language may be limited in use so I've mentioned Japanese Japanese is predominantly spoken japan and is pretty rare outside of japan there's not tons of japanese people living outside of japan there's some there's certainly some japanese people living
outside Japan but Japan's a nice place to live it's in generally speaking it's a nice country to live in it's modern there's clean water accommodation is a strong standards there's public transportation that food is good there's not a
whole lot of reason to leave Japan especially now now during the world war two hours a little bit different story but so so outside of Japan you're probably not going to use Japanese a whole lot so you may
want to learn Japanese and Japanese is a beautiful language is a wonderful language I have some interest in possibly living in Japan at some point so I look at you know I look at it occasionally and I really
enjoyed my visit to Japan but I'm talking to speaking of this fully knowing that outside of Japan the language you might not be super useful whereas if you're talking about Spanish or Mandarin or English these are somewhat global
languages these are some languages that are spoken around the world that you're not going to just have one country but that language is spoken and you know kind of following up on that Japan has around a hundred million
people so if you learn Japanese there's roughly that many people like you can communicate with with English English is kind of a universal language most people around the world that are engaging in business that are engaging in education
they're going to learn at least a little bit of English Mandarin is is the primary language of China and similarly people that are wanting to do business in China it would behoove them to learn some basic Mandarin with
Spanish Spanish is prevalent throughout the United States it's prevalent in Spain prevalent in Mexico it's also a good language that is not limited to one country but if you're talking about Japanese or like say Thai you know there's
67 million people in Thailand so your language you know while it's a beautiful language while it has plenty of utility in the country of origin it may not be the most valuable on a large scale unless you plan
to live there for a long time and if you plan to live in a certain country for a long time the usefulness of using it in your day to day life will override the obscurity of that language or
the niche factor of that language but don't feel like you need to learn you know a ton of words in this niche language if you're just going there on vacation if you're just visiting keep in mind that it's
a big time investment to learn a new language it can be a financial investment because you're gonna want to make use of it but I say visiting that country if you look far from that country air travel can
be expensive it can be expensive to take a lot of time off work when you consider wages salary and all that so I hope these have been helpful I do think there are some a disadvantages just learning a
new language I don't think it's all negative but I don't think it's all quite positive either so let me know what you think down in the comments if you are multilingual if you speak multiple languages tell us about
your experiences I want to hear more and to kind of share these types of things with the viewers the audience and see what they have to say so appreciate you watching and if you enjoy this video give me
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