Polyglot speaking FLUENTLY in 4 languages | Japanese,Turkish,English,German🇯🇵🇹🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧

Hi, guys what's up? It's me Ruri. I am a first-year med student here in Turkey, and today we are doing a very basic video which is I’ll be talking in every single language that I know. Which are Japanese, Turkish, English, and German. I’ll timestamp every single thing as always that I mentioned down in the description below so that you can skip to the part that you are interested in. So let’s get started.

The first language is Japanese. When I decided to rumble in Japanese, I wasn't sure what to talk about. But, I decided to talk about lookism in Japan. After the summer vacation I spent in Japan, I came back to Turkey and my Turkish friend and I decided to meet. After coming back from Japan, I had that Japanese thought of “I had to look representable.” So, I did subtle makeup, did my hair, picked my outfit, and met my friend. My friend was like, “why you tried so hard (lol)?”

After that, I realized that I am in Turkey. In Turkey, it's common to be very casual even when you go outside. There are, of course, lots of women who wear makeup, but there are also plenty of people who don’t wear it. In Japan, most of the time women wear makeup for work, going outside, etc. Also, more men are starting to wear makeup these days in Japan.

But in Turkey, usually, women wear makeup for special occasions, special events. I think Turkish people are much more chill about appearance compared to Japanese. Usually in Turkey, when you meet your friend, you wear very comfy clothes like a sweatshirt, sweatpants, t-shirts, etc. And some people wear makeup, some not. Usually not. My friend was like, “why are you wearing makeup? We’re just gonna chill.”

After spending only a couple of months, I realized that Japanese lookism kinda affected me. When I am in Japan, every day I kinda care about my appearance much more compared to when I am in Turkey, and it makes me so tired to care so much about it. Even though I only stay for a couple of months and get exhausted, think about how much it affects people who live in Japan. But it has some good sides as well. Because of that, Japanese fashion, makeup, and skincare industries are so big, and you can find whatever you want.

Overall, I believe the most important thing is to be confident in your skin but also enjoy makeup, etc. So, makeup is fun but not a must. I guess it’s the healthiest way to approach it. It's not that I cannot go outside if I didn't wear makeup, it's more like I wear makeup because I love it and enjoy it.

So, the next language is Turkish. Today I want to share with you guys one of my favorite apps, which is Audible. This video is not sponsored at all. Like, why would it be right? Anyways, if you can speak English, German, or Japanese, I don’t know any other language than Turkish (because there is no content in Turkish yet), I would highly recommend Audible. What is Audible? Audible is an audiobook service. Somebody reads a book for you.

I looked up Turkish audiobooks, but there weren't any. I don’t know any other audiobook services out there, but if it exists, I would recommend listening to an audiobook. Let me explain how I use it. I use it when I am on a bus or a train or walking down on the streets or I don't know, whenever I do housework (which I don't do) or during the times I tidy up my room (which I don't do as well).

I put my earphones on. I would recommend Bluetooth earphones by the way. I speed up to 2.5 or 3 when I am listening. If there is something that I found interesting, I stop the audiobook and take a note on my iPad or on my phone. You can take notes on paper as well. Then I integrate the note into my Notion. In Notion, I have a book library. In this library, I rate the books that I have read, I write a summary, things that I learned, etc.

I don't only take notes, but I turn them into active-recall questions by using a toggle list in Notion. It makes things easier to remember, and also you can easily find whatever you are looking for. That's why I recommend using Audible and Notion together. I use Audible in English and Japanese. I don’t know, maybe I’ll start to use it in German as well. Download Notion as well. It's my all-time favorite app.

So we are moving to German. Let me explain why I can speak German. I visited a sorta international German-Turkish high school in Turkey (Cagaloglu Anadolu Lisesi). There we had a prep year in German where you only learn German intensely. Other years we had 8-15 German lessons per week. During the prep year, we had 40 lessons per week.

So, let me now talk about my exchange year in Germany. I did a 6-month YFU exchange in Berlin. I was staying at my host family's house, and that was an amazing 6 months in my life. I love the German and the German language so frickin much. German was my favorite subject back in high school. I hated every other subject during school, but I always enjoyed German lessons.

I went to a German high school during my exchange year. It is called German-Hauptmann Gymnasium. I was surprised that I could understand the lessons. I thought I couldn't. But I understood them and my math was very good. I think math lessons in Germany are not hard compared to Turkey. In Turkey, math lessons are so frickin hard like in Japan.

As everybody knows, in Asia math is pretty important, and we take very challenging math lessons. In Germany, you can use a calculator during the lessons. Like what? Then, of course, math becomes easier. Math lessons are easy peasy lemon squeezy in Germany ;) I always got good grades in math and the teacher was amazed by that. And also my host family was very nice to me, and my exchange year was excellent.

But I talked to my other friends who also did an exchange year and told me that they don't enjoy it. So, I guess it depends on who you ask whether they love Germany. But I love Germany and the language. I realized that my German skills are kinda getting worse because I haven't been able to speak them these days. I will read more books in German and listen to audiobooks so that I don't forget German.

So, the last language is English. I want to talk a little bit about the future of my channel. I will be filming lots of language-related videos in the near future for a couple of months, but my channel is not going to be all about language. This channel is not going to become a language channel. I will be filming a lot of productivity videos, med school-related videos, self-improvement, self-love, culture, makeup, skincare... about the things that I am interested in.

If you love those types of topics, please subscribe to my channel. I kinda felt like a YouTuber right now by saying that. But yeah :) I will be happy if you subscribe to my channel. If you don't feel like it, then don't. It's completely fine, but yeah. I am also really happy that you guys comment on my videos. I thought no one will comment on videos because I don't comment on videos when I watch on YouTube.

If I liked the video, I like it. If I dislike it, then I dislike it. If you dislike my video, it's totally ok. Because you give me feedback, and it's totally fine. But if you want to dislike it, I would be so happy if you comment down below why. So that I can improve myself. I would be very happy if you guys can give me feedback about my videos, maybe things that I can do better, maybe things that I can add, maybe some video ideas.

Even though I have plenty of video ideas that are coming in the near future, I would be happy if you guys give me some suggestions. So yeah, that was it for this video. I hope you enjoyed it. It was fun for me. If you have any further questions, let me know in the comment section down below. I guess that was it. Bye :)