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I never heard about this in school, thank you! I got to say, Dacia had it coming and deserved it. I get that Iulius Caesar wanted to conquer Dacia but man they just couldn't leave a grudge. Are we talking about Dacians or Dwarves from Lord of the Rings?

Just know more than 90% of our lexic does not come from the romanisation ( romanizarea ) of Dacia or the nowadays Romania. Story goes like this the wolf ( all the tracian tribes ) lost to the roman empire who got fed by the wolf ( romulus și remus ) you get it? the last standing people of all the tribes that shared similar names for the regions/tribes gathered in Dacia the capital where they made their last stand. SO do a video on that if you really have so much to say about my country s origins. Kissya.

Thanks for the forecast! Could you help me with something unrelated: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

Well said. my friend. Enoch also spoke Punjabi ,and fought for bus drivers in Birmingham to ware the turban . And you are so right to warn Ben. RESPECT!!

A mention for singer Petula Clark who is fluent in French and as well as English has recorded songs in Italian, German and Spanish and has a strong knowledge of those languages. Also Irish singer Enya, who records in English, Irish, Latin as well as invented literary fantasy languages. I believe Enoch Powell learned Urdu to easily communicate with the large number of Pakistani origin constituents he had in Wolverhampton.

Impressive spiritual journey..

About the rabbit: In German, it is Kaninchen, similar to the Welsh version.

What about Dante Alighieri? He spoke provencal, italian, latin and, if I am not wrong, even french

You forgot to mention Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus, a polygot of epic stature.

I'm from Turkey. Fatih Sultan Mehmet, also known as Mehmed II or Mehmed the Conqueror would certainly make into this list as he spoke 7 languages. Turkish: As the ruler of the Ottoman Empire, he naturally spoke Ottoman Turkish, the administrative and literary language of the time. Ottoman Turkish was influenced by Persian and Arabic, with a significant vocabulary derived from both languages. Arabic: Arabic was the language of Islam, the religion of the Ottoman Empire. As a devout Muslim and ruler of a large Muslim empire, Sultan Mehmed II was proficient in Arabic, especially in its religious and scholarly contexts. His knowledge of Arabic was essential for reading Islamic texts, including the Quran and other religious works. Persian: Persian was an important cultural and literary language in the Ottoman Empire, especially for the elite and intellectual classes. Sultan Mehmed was well-versed in Persian, which was often used for poetry, literature, and diplomacy. Persian influence was particularly strong in the courts of the Ottoman Empire during his reign. Greek: Given his conquest of Constantinople and his deep connection with the former Byzantine Empire, Mehmed II was also proficient in Greek. This was crucial for his diplomatic efforts and for interacting with the Greek-speaking population of the Byzantine territories, as well as understanding the rich Byzantine heritage he inherited. Latin: Mehmed II's education also included Latin, which was the language of scholarship, law, and diplomacy in medieval Europe. Latin was used in the formal correspondence with European powers and in understanding classical texts, which were important for his intellectual pursuits. Italian: As part of his extensive diplomatic efforts, especially with the city-states of Italy like Venice and Genoa, Sultan Mehmed II learned Italian. This was particularly useful for diplomatic negotiations and trade relations, as Italian was a common language for commerce and diplomacy in Renaissance Europe. Other Languages: Some historical sources suggest that Mehmed II may have had a working knowledge of other languages such as Serbian and Slavonic, as he interacted with various Slavic-speaking peoples in the Balkans, which were part of the Ottoman Empire.

Madison, Cleopatra and probably Enoch Powell would have spoke Biblical Hebrew. I used to teach Biblical languages.

Ptolemaic - Tol-uh-may-ick Hope that helps.

Good narration...I've enjoyed it..ty!

My haplogroup is I2a, the oldest and only native european haplogroup, thats the ancestirs of the blonde swedes haplogroup with I1. We are hunter gatherers, relatively tall and gracile, but can grow very tall like in Serbia where I2a makes the tallest europeans ( taller than R1b but more gracile). My haplogroup got out from under the Black Sea when it was formed by a flood at the last ice age and the original blue eyes are on my genes but i have brown eyes. Only 10% of I2 has blue eyes. I look like Clint Eastwood phisically, thin,because my ancestors used to run a lot to chase pray 😂. The farmers haplogroups are more stocky.

This is fascinating, thank you! ( and for your encouragement -'You'll get it', love this!)

Herbert Lewis Hardwick aka Cocoa Kid was a boxer from the 40s spoke multiple languages , So did Ezzard Charles . Some of my inspirations to learn multiple languages

I will add another person: Pope John Paul II - he spoke 7 foreign languages fluently and in 4 other could speak.

Ben. You mention Lombard! It means a lot to a native speaker of a neglected and looked down upon minority language as Lombard, that you did it. Ta a lot) Another amazing video. diolch yn fawr iawn.

My vote is for Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, he could speak 30 Languages but also found time to discover the source of the Nile, translate Eastern classics, Spy in India, British ambassador in Brazil, search for minerals in Iceland, a book on sword fighting, stop a massacre in Damascus, kidnap the wrong Nun, carried on fighting with a Spear embedded in his Jaw, oh and was probably a source for Bram Stoker's description of Dracula. Cheers from Mercia. ps first non Muslim to enter Mecca

Entirely right regarding Enoch Powell, a good, decent and brilliant man; but prepare yourself for a lot of flack from those who prefer their prejudices over demonstrable fact. 👍

Greetings Ben. And thank you for another video. I am romanian, born/raised and still living in Romania, Transylvania to be more precise. To me, learning hungarian wasn't even a challenge, I grew up with hungarian-speaking kids, now it's like a second language. French, as it was mandatory since second grade, and being close to romanian, turned up to be an easy pick, as well. German, well... hard to crack but I still can handle myself. Some russian, I can read, write but my vocabulary is lacking, and I'm not planning on improving that. Turkish... that could be an easy achievement, considering the strong hungarian base already available. Once you have the roots of a language, you can master it. My worst challenges were danish and arabic. We all have a limit, eh? Thank you for your videos, if you could do a series on aramaic/hebrew I would be most grateful.

Such a lier man bro didn't tell the history of bloody massacres between jews and Christians and who allowed the jews for entering Jerusalem isn't it was umar ibn al khatab were the Christians have butchered every single jews they have founded such lier this guy is

Belarusian is a language I never learned but I speak it quite well. My mother tongues are Russian and Ukrainian and I grew up in the northern part of Ukraine at the border with Belarus. Belarusian and Ukrainian are highly mutually intelligible languages and it wasn't hard for me to figure it out by simply listening and reading in Belarussian. Living in the one big empire, we all spoke Russian but in rural areas, people still spoke their native languages. I also speak German ein bisschen. For some time I lived in Germany at the border with the Netherlands, I used to go to Eindhoven on weekends. Dutch is very close to English and German, but unfortunately, I didn't pick up some Dutch. Can't say I tried hard, tho. Most Dutch people I met spoke English.

Such a biased video

Can you guess my view of the world and political alliances? 😄 My foreign languages: English, German (C1), Russian, Spanish (B2), Mandarin (A2/B1), Persian (A2). My mother tongue: Slovak. I also understand Polish and Serbo-Croatian much better than my compatriots (I´ve been exposed to them ​​and, to a lesser extent, I have also actively studied them - can follow political discussions in Polish, for example). I would also like to learn some other languages like Quechua or Georgian. Seriously, the fact that Engels spoke Irish really caught my attention. I did a quick search on Wikipedia and apparently he was involved with the Burns sisters, both of whom were active in the Irish nationalist movement. Although they were born in Manchester, they likely spoke Irish. I thought Engels might have learned Irish from them, but then I found this article by Kaan Kangal: "Marx and Engels as Polyglots". It says: "...Engels was also studying Dutch, Frisian, Celtic, and Irish by the end of the 1860s, the last one of which was particularly important to understanding older kinship relations, customs, and legal structures in northern Europe." This guy was remarkable in his efforts. On the other hand, multilingualism is not that rare. Let's take the Roma in the south of my country, Slovakia. Some of them speak Romani (mother tongue), Hungarian (widely spoken along the southern border where ethnic Hungarians live), Slovak (official language, school) and English (if they lived or possibly still live in the UK). So some of them speak 4 quite different (!) languages ​​even though they may have only finished primary school.

Magnificent! Diolch yn fawr! I'm glad you included E. Powell--accidentally offering him a (linguistic) apology...:) A friendly note: Transylvanian Saxon is (and was) more similar to Flemish/Dutch or Luxembourgish, than literary German. So in order to be precise I would call it just that, i.e. Transylvanian Saxon.

Great video, very interesting, thanks!

Passionating subject !

Regretfully I can only speak English and German. I can however understand Welsh, French and Italian sufficiently well to enjoy radio and TV programmes in those languages. Recently I’ve started to learn Latin. I think that’s due to your influence. Maybe one could argue that the variety of German spoken in Switzerland is a separate language . I think could pick it up if I lived there and also Dutch if I lived in the Netherlands. Languages are fascinating. One time I found myself having to act as interpreter to a couple of Scotsmen; one was a Glaswegian and the other an Aberdonian. Lots of great videos lately! Diolch y galon.

Greetings from România

6:27 indeed, une culte... Marx was inspired by his crystal ball

Problems with your theory: 1. One problem with an Iranian homeland is about agriculture, if it was before agriculture, it would contradict the few agricultural terms in PIE but if it was after agriculture PIE would have to have more agricultural terms, which is not the case; instead a better area that fits with the weak agricultural terms in PIE would be the Pontic-Caspian steppe in the Chalcolithic. Another thing is that the Caucasus hunter-gatherers were only deeply related to Iranian hunter-gatherers 2. There are wolves in the Pontic-Caspian steppe, and according to Wiktionary the Hindi and Welsh words shown are from substrates 3. You're probably the first person I hear saying Kelteminar was IE, I find no reason for that at all and I've seen Kelteminar more often linked with Uralic, though I also doubt this link 4. There's no reason for Tocharian to be derived from Botai, instead Tocharian can be traced to the Afanasievo culture which descended from Repin, was genetically identical to Yamnaya, checks out for contacts between Tocharian and Siberian languages and we know that the cultures succeeding Afanasievo migrated southwards, eventually reaching the Tarim Basin 5. Armenian is not Anatolian, it is clearly part of the core group 6. Poltavka descended from Yamnaya, and Arkaim belonged to Sintashta 7. Yamnaya didn't derive from outside the Pontic-Caspian steppe, it was a descendant of the Repin culture (which was basically just an early stage of Yamnaya) and before that the Sredny Stog culture in Ukraine which started in around 4500 BC 8. Sintashta appeared a millennium after Yamnaya and it derived from Corded Ware 9. Proto-Indo-Iranian wasn't spoken that far south as it had contacts with Balto-Slavic and Uralic, which clearly push Proto-Indo-Iranian further north 10. Italo-Celtic didn't derive from the Yamnaya migration to the Danube, but from Corded Ware as the Bell Beaker culture's main Y-DNA has been found in Corded Ware and for a while Italo-Celtic was part of a Northwest Indo-European continuum alongside Germanic and Balto-Slavic, which you admitted to being Corded Ware-derived 11. The Paleo-European substrate in Germanic is overestimated, and Germanic was actually a quite conservative dialect up until 500 BC Additional note: I know that you're skeptical in relating language and Ancient DNA evidence at all, but while language cannot be directly seen from the DNA, a certain genetic phenomena can be tied to the spread of a language family if a spread attested in Ancient DNA fits the linguistic evidence, and it does for Indo-European and supports the Steppe hypothesis which also has linguistic and archaeological evidence

Cardinal Mezzofanti, head of the Vatican library, lived in the 19th century, spoke 40 languages and understood 60 others. See Wikipedia about him.

As a Buddhist it’s actually quite saddening how you portray Islam as this evil force that relies on subjugation when Christianity and other religions in this video have done such things at points of their history as well. It’s ahistorical and blatantly just shows you have this bias towards other religions compared to Islam, I’ve grown up with Muslims and they are some of the most amazing people you will ever meet, I pray that your mindset on the religion changes overtime

Kernow bys vyken- fucking English

Mexican flag for Spanish. Blasphemy. ;-)

16:10 words (language) are unnecessary 😂😂😂 By the way (RHCP), Đoković can speak also more that five languages (I can bearly speak my own 😂😂😂)

Enoch Powell is a poor example. He was a hypocrite and pseudo intellectual . He understood little or nothing ,as he invited mass migration from the Carribbean as a minister. I'm proud to have gone on my first demonstration against Powell as he appeared at a Tory meeting in Wembley. As an American you have no ability to judge a humourless fraud like Powell. A good example of a polyglot that made little sense in any of them. Disappointing that your research has failed you in this instance. You may have spoken to too many Smithfield porters and the Tory subservient press that constantly rewrites facts and history. Did you know for instance that the only UK power cuts of the 1970s , were under the conservatives? I lived through it in London and Manchester. Your championing of Powell does you and your excellent channel a disservice Powell never experienced combat and felt guilty for having survived, writing that soldiers who did so carried "a sort of shame with them to the grave" and referring to the Second Battle of El Alamein as a "separating flame" between the living and the dead.When once asked how he would like to be remembered, he at first answered, "Others will remember me as they will remember me", but when pressed he replied, "I should like to have been killed in the war".

LOL @ your statement that Powell was right

French and Welsh? I'd love to hear you dip your toes in Breton one day. Also Jackie Chan speaking Welsh would be awesome!

Another great video. Just wondering, do you think you will ever learn any of the Goidelic languages, also are you planning on making any video for focus on the Goidelic Languages?

Something wrong with this guy.