The_world_s_easiest_language_is_NOT_what_you_expect(240p)

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00:00So on my journey to learn all of the languages in the world, the easiest addition wasn't French or Spanish,

00:03but rather surprisingly, it was Indonesian.

00:05Despite how different it is from English, once you try learning this outrageously elegant language,

00:08you will very quickly be asking yourself,

00:10Why do all languages work like this?

00:11In most languages, verbs change a lot.

00:13So in English, we have I eat, but we also have I ate.

00:15And in supposedly easy languages like Spanish, you have literally dozens of conjugations per verb,

00:19which all need to be memorized.

00:20But in Indonesian, there's only one form per verb.

00:22But how will I know if something happened in the past or present if the verb doesn't change based on context?

00:26Rather than saying, I am working tomorrow, or I worked yesterday,

00:30you simply say, I work tomorrow.

00:31Aku bekerja besok.

00:32Or, I work yesterday.

00:33Aku bekerja kemarin.

00:35And somehow, despite verbs not arbitrarily changing dozens of times for no reason,

00:38hundreds of millions of people in Indonesia are able to understand each other without a problem.

00:41And so many other things about this language make words ridiculously easy to remember.

00:44Indonesian doesn't have grammatical gender, so he and she are the same word,

00:47and you don't have two different words for friend, like amigo and amiga in Spanish.

00:50You don't need to learn different plurals like mouse versus mice.

00:52Mice is just mouse mouse, or a lot of mouse.

00:54And best of all, Indonesian is a super phonetic language where the words are written exactly as they're spoken.

00:58So no Indonesian spelling bees.