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Hello everyone.
Welcome to the Lange Focus Channel and 

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my name is Paul today.
This is not a feature video.

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This is just a special video in which 
I'm going to make a little announcement 

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and then I'm going to answer some 
frequently asked questions that a lot of

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people ask me in the comments of videos 
and also in private messages.

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So the first announcement that I want to
make is that I have created a patriotic 

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account.
Now maybe you don't know what Patrion 

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is.
Patrion is a service that allows you to 

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basically support your favorite youtube 
creators by pledging to give them a 

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certain amount of money each month and 
amount of money that you decide.

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Now I want to say right away,
you don't have to do this.

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You don't have to give any money.
This is basically like a voluntary 

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subscription feed that you can pay if 
you want,

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but the amount is up to you so it can be
as little as $1.

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That's one of the cool things about 
Patrion is that everyone can give just 

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$1,
not everyone,

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but if you want,
you can give $1 and if a lot of people 

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give $1,
then that amount of money kind of adds 

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up in the creator gets,
you know,

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a significant amount.
So that's the cool thing about it.

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It's kind of a collective way to support
your favorite creators as a team.

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So the reason I'm doing that is because 
I've put in a lot of time and effort 

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into making the videos and basically 
that's a lot of time that I could be 

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putting into different work that pay 
money.

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I do get a little bit of money from some
advertising on youtube,

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but it's just a small amount.
It's not really a lot,

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uh,
because according to my statistics,

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about 70% of people use ad blockers and 
that's okay.

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I don't really mind if you do that.
That's up to you.

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Of course,
this is all voluntary.

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If you want to support the channel,
Patrion is a way to do that.

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Even if you like to use an ad blocker or
whatever,

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things like that.
Basically have a look at the Patrion 

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page that I've created.
If you think that Lang focus deserves a 

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little donation every month,
a dollar or whatever you want to give 

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them,
that would be highly appreciated.

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But if not,
then don't worry about it because I'll 

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still love you just as much.
She'll still be a valued viewer and all 

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of that,
so don't even stress about it.

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It's completely voluntary.
And the link to that Patrion page is 

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down below in the description.
So onto a few frequently asked 

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questions.
So the first frequently asked question 

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is,
Paul,

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how many languages do you speak?

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Now this is a strange question to be 
asked because it kind of feels like,

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because I'm making the videos that 
people think I'm a language master or a 

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language guru or one of those things,
and I don't think of myself like that.

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I don't think I'm a language master.
I'm just someone who's very passionate 

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about languages and very interested in 
them.

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And I'm also very passionate about 
learning because the teacher,

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but also I just love learning.
But I know why people are asking that 

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question.
So I'll try to give you my answer.

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I'll,
I'll tell you which language is that.

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I've basically invested a lot of time 
into studying that.

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I've studied in depth in that I have a 
significant amount of knowledge of it 

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doesn't mean I'm really advanced that 
those languages,

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but it means I put that time and effort 
into them.

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So the first one that I studied back in 
the day was Hebrew.

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In University I studied biblical Hebrew,
but in my free time I also studied 

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modern Hebrew.
I also studied biblical,

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Aramaic and university and at the same 
time I studied old English or Anglo 

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Saxon.
So we can throw that in there and it's 

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not a spoken language,
but I'll throw that in there.

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I've also studied Arabic,
I studied modern standard Arabic and 

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also some Arabic dialects,
specifically Palestinian and to some 

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extent Egyptian as well.
I've also of course studied Japanese.

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As you might know,
I live in Japan and I've been studying 

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Japanese for a long time.
I've also studied Indonesian.

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I've also studied French.
I've also studied tagalog.

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I've also studied Esperanto and I've 
also recently been studying Italian.

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So those are the ones I've really put 
time and effort into studying quite a 

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lot.
I don't know if I'm forgetting any,

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but uh,
that's probably the main ones.

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There are other languages that I've 
studied to a basic level,

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but I don't really know them enough to 
say that I know them.

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And there are some languages that I can 
also read.

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Like I have passive knowledge of them 
because I've studied related languages,

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but I've never specifically studied 
those languages themselves.

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So for example,
Portuguese and Spanish,

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I can,
I can often make sense to them when I'm 

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reading them,
but I've never studied them.

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There are also other languages that I've
just studied from a linguistic point of 

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view.
Like I want to see how those languages 

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work.
So I examined them and sometimes the 

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language profile videos I make are kind 
of like that.

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Like I'm just interested in those 
languages.

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So I examine them and study and learn 
about those languages.

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But I haven't necessarily studied those 
languages.

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Basically I consider myself a language,
enthusiasm,

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someone who loves languages.

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I don't call myself a polyglot.
I'm not going to make a video called 

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Canadian guys speaks 25 languages or 
something like that.

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Like that's not really the purpose of 
this channel.

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That channel is called Lang focus 
because I want to focus on the languages

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and not really on me and my own ability.
Another frequently asked question I get 

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is Paul,
what do you do for a living?

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Is it related to languages?
Well,

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yes,
kind of a,

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I'm an instructor at a university and I 
teach English as a foreign language to 

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students in Japan.
So originally part of the reason I made 

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the length focus channel was kind of to 
inspire my students so I have some 

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videos to show them and I could show 
them that my hobby is language learning 

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and I could give them some extra 
motivation to work hard to study English

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because they could see that their 
teacher is doing that to another 

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frequently asked question I get is Paul,
what's your educational background?

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Well,
I have two university degrees.

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My first university degree was in 
English with a linguistics focus.

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So it wasn't a literature degree.
It was a linguistics degree in the 

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English department.
So that means I studied the history of 

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English,
I studied English grammar,

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I studied English phonology,
I studied a dialectal differences in 

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English.
I studied all of those kinds of things 

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about the English language.
I also had a minor in religious studies.

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Basically all of my credits that went 
towards that minor where courses in 

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biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic.
I wanted to study those languages and I 

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figured out that I could get a minor in 
religious studies by just taking those 

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courses.
So that's what I did.

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I also have a second university degree 
that one is in education.

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So after I finished my first degree,
I went back to university and did a 

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second degree in education and that's 
what allows me to be a teacher and do my

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current job at the university.
So let's just a little bit about me.

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It seems like some of the viewers want 
to get to know a little bit more about 

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me personally.
If you're one of those people,

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you can check out my instagram too,
like gives you a little bit of a glimpse

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into my life,
my daily life,

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and you can follow me on facebook as 
well and all of those different social 

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media channels.
So thank you for watching.

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Have a nice day.