To speak so many languages so naturally is something rare and special. This video is inspirational, and a testament to hard work paying off. Richard and Luca are the reason that I have been inspired to post videos about language learning on youtube..
Luca, I've seen most of your videos now and thus have had quite a bit of exposure to your American accent. While among the best of any foreigner I have heard, and certainly laudable, it was still subtly foreign. During this last question, however, your accent was almost perfect! I say this with very critical ears. You two are inspirations to all of us who wish to learn multiple languages. Thanks for taking the time to upload this interview!
Hello, luca, I must say I'm amazed by/at your way to speak every language, but what I look up to you the most is your capability and feasibility of switching from a language into another with no problems as if you were a machine that works very well. I'm a native spanish speaker, and I don't notice any piece of foreign accent on you, Sorry for my English, I'm learning it, and feel passionate about the language for now but sometimes, I get so down mostly for not understanding everything.
You guys are really inspiring! I am 22 years old, and I speak portuguese, english, and spanish. I just finished my bachelors in my major business, so it did not give me much time for languages, and dammit my interest in languages came a little late too. The next in my top list are mandarin, french, and italian!
You guys are very inspiretional Spanish is my mother tongue , then English & Italian i learn both at my teen years in East L.A.since my next door neighbors were Italians & Juliana Armenti one of the family members was exactly my age we spoke all day in spanish & italian french i met Laura Rouselle a native french speaker & was very fortunate to work with her at East L.A. college as college language tutors & we both had the opportunity to speak & practice French & Spanish portuguese was the language that i had the chance to speak with a beautiful carioca girl from Rio De Janeiro since 2014 & the languages i can say that i have an advance level C1 are Spanish , English & Italian portuguese & french had taken language level tests several times in the last 6 yrs & had portuguese at the end of b2 & french b2 but fail twice French delf until finally passed. it 4 yrs ago ! Spanish , English & Italian have been speaking for the last 47 yrs in three last Vegas strip major hotels...
impressive stuff luca, being a polyglot myself (fluent in english, german, dutch, swedish, norweigan, danish, russian, ukranian, korean and japenese) i know you have worked hard to get to where u r
.I´ve recently started a new language journey,in which I´m learning Swedish and after the first 6 months it turned out that I fell in love with the language and the Swedish culture.Well,I just wanted to have this opportunity to show a little bit of me to you and hope to hear from you soon! Tchau/Bye/Hej då!
Thank you for your answer. I was curious though do you "think" in each language or do you always think in your original language? When you dream what is the language?
Caro Luca. Innanzitutto complimenti vivissimi per il tuo Talento. Sapresti per caso indicarmi un sito o un libro in cui viene indicata la trascrizione fonematica IPA del Turco? Grazie in anticipo.
I speak 4 languages, but I understand pronunciation of close to 10 languages. English is my first language. So language is something that I understand, I just haven't given much time to actually learn. Luca, your english is actually fantastic and ALMOST perfect. Only on certain words have an accent, which makes you sound like you moved to USA when you were very young. I am very impressed by your pronunciation of english specifically, and also french. Keep up the impressive work!
I think so many people have commented on his accent being "native sounding" because it's like 99% there and he'll go on for long stretches sounding completely American. Then he'll do something like start making his /o/ sound flat or something. It's just *so* close (especially for never even visiting America) that it makes it seem possible for an adult learner to get a native accent which is exciting for some people. If his accent was just okay, like 90%, then no one would even comment.
HI, Luca.I hope I can get answer about this question. I watch a lot of your videos about how to learn a language, and I remember you said that reading is useful for learning language. Do you mean read aloud?
el castellano de los dos es espectacular! hey luca estoy aprendiendo italiano.se me esta haciendo facil hasta ahora ya llevo 1 mes aprendiendo y se me esta haciendo facil.no es dificil pero tampoco es tan facil como muchos lo dicen.que me recomiendas? para serte franco tengo rosetta stone y un libro de gramatica en ingles-italiano...aparte escucho mucha musica italiana pero solo a artistas que han cantado en espanol como laura,gianluca,eros y veo tv....que otros artistas y libros me recomiendas?
l'italiano di Richard è impressionante, mai sentito prima un madrelingua inglese parlarlo così. Soprattutto mi ha colpito il suo accento leggermente del nord :)
Ok please answer this. When you speak so many languages, do you think in each language? Or do you translate speech you hear to your primary language and then translate back when you speak?
Hola Luca buenas tardes, empezando este 2013 me encuentro con tus videos y tu canal. Para empezar no quería perder la oportunidad de comentarte y saludarte, soy mexicano y comparto tu gran gusto por los idiomas (pero lastimosamente apenas y logro comunicarme en inglés). Muchas felicitaciones por tus videos, noto que sabes lo que dices y me sorprende tu habilidad y técnica para aprender idiomas. Salutti desde México mio caro amico, molte grazie por tu cátedra. bendiciones.
Jullie Nederlands is enorm goed! Jullie uitspraak met name. Sommige woordjes kloppen niet helemaal zoals fluent. Dat moet vloeiend zijn :) verder extreem goed gedaan. Fantastisch
Luca, I was truly AMAZED by your French! No accent, no hesitation, very fluent and correct speaking. You speak better than me (a native speaker!) congratulation! I even think your French is better than your english accent-wise.
Ustedes dos son mi gran inspiración para seguir aprendiendo idiomas. Estoy aprendiendo: sueco, alemán y creole haitiano. Bendiciones para ambos y muy buenos sus vídeos. Saludos desde Venezuela
Me too. Wow! This is the best video I've scene starting the new year. I would like to know what is C1 B2 basically the letters with numbers sounds interesting to know what level you're at. What website can I find more info on that topic? Also the sound quality was excellent. Btw where can I learn to add subtitles like that Luca? What is your methods,and daily routine to sound beautiful in those languages you were speaking in this video? If you can send me the link I would really appreciate it.
Muchas gracias amigos por seguir inspirar y motivar a todos que quieren experimentar esa alegria de hablar otro idoma con libertad y fluidez. What is so beautiful about both of you is that you guys are very modest, despite the fact that you have amazing skills. Skills that require years of practice and are the best evidence of richness of your character. Vielen Dank, dass ihr die Moeglichkeiten uns zeigen! Pozdrowienia z Polski dla obydwu wspaniałych poliglotów. Do zobaczenia na żywo! Michał
I wish I could say something about this. At themoment the only language I can speak with any problems is my mother language (Spanish), however, i've been learning english for more than 6 years (and is not perfect yet, in fact, I feel I still have a lot of work to do), also french, german and italian, and only one year ago I decided to start learning dutch, russian and japanese. Perhaps is this one of the biggest problems I have to deal with, I always expect to do everything perfect from the beginning, but making mistakes is an important part of the learning process.
Thank you for the wonderful video. It contains a great deal of interesting information for language learners. You guys both are great ! And I wish Richard best of luck with my mother tongue - Polish. Serdecznie Pozdrawiam Rysiek
This is one of the most inspiring Polyglot videos I have seen online great work. I also use film to learn like right now I'm watching the movie Scarface with Italian subtitles. Learning a lot of good conversational talk with that.
Brilhante!!É uma inspiração para todos aqueles que estão estudando novas línguas.Como amo estudar línguas estrangeiras sempre vejo os videos de vocês.O português de vocês é muito bom,com a pronúncia europeia.Parabéns!!!
Leuke video, jullie twee! Onder Skypies ken ik natuurlijk de taallevels van Richard in de talen die ik ook spreek en hij kent de taallevels van mij en ik ken ook veel van zijn opvattingen. Dus sommige dingen zijn bekend voor mij maar andere zijn nieuw. Jullie Portugees begrijp ik zonder problemen. Het boeit mij om jullie Zweeds te horen praten, jullie gebruiken ook Deense woorden zoals "aldrig". Dit geeft mij een goede indruk van de Zweedse taal en zo kan ik het Zweeds beter inschatten. Fasulye
I know it's a random question not really about languages, but I overheard Richard say he grew up on the border between England and Wales. Am I correct to presume that he's from Bristol? I can hear it in his accent as well.
@poliglotta80 I was just at your blog a few hours ago. You have great information. I will Google that software. I was at Richard's blog reading several blog post prior to visiting yours. Both of you of really a true inspiration to us beginners tapping into the different cultures. I love what you wrote: “who learns another language, acquires another soul” Soon I was continue watching more of your videos, also I subscribed to your blog. Thanks for everything you do for the world, Joshua Merced
Good observation! (non parlo) I like to observe how others (or myself) speak their native language with slowness or pauses that, in a foreign language, would be interpreted as weaknesses.
Hi,Richard! How´s it going? Well,I´m Diego,from Brazil and I´m a huge fan of yours as well as Luca´s and a few other gifted polyglots.I´m also a language enthusiast who dedicate most of my day to language studying and practicing.I´m an English teacher here in Brazil and I have never taken any English courses or traveled abroad to any English-speaking country.
Increíble español. Increíble acento. Sois los primeros guiris que conozco que hablan el español perfecto y con acento de España, hasta tal punto que pensaba que sería un hoax! jajaja sonáis como yo y mis colegas cuando hablamos de lo que sea. Si con el resto de idiomas habláis con la misma fluidez, llegaréis muy lejos. Enhorabuena desde Barcelona.
It unbelievable! The Spanish is perfect!. Listening to Luca, I cannot distinguish from native people. Richard speaks with a very neutral accent, a mixture between spanish from Spain and spanish from south-america.
@Scallonesi Thanks, I found that out, also is their any way to see samples on PDF files of each level A1-C2. Basically the table of contents. Thanks again Scallonesi, Joshua Merced
jullie Nederlands is gewoon super goed heb er geen ander woord voor, hoor heel weinig foutjes en grammaticaal is echt perfect! und gleichfalls für Deutsch!
Luca and Richard, you're amazing, I'd like to talk to you one day!! Congratulation, because not everybody can do that, I mean that not everybody has that attitude, that especial attitude to learn. You motivate me to learn languages, congratulation and keep doing what you really love which is languages!!!
Much respect for you guys! As a dutch I speak 5 to 6 languages, which is quite few actually, since almost everyone learns 4 languages at highschool here. Especially Richard: you're dutch sounds so fluently as if you were raised with it, incredible. I'm wondering: you're from 2 countries were on average there are few multilingual people. Some British people might speak some French, the average Italian might speak a bit of English (rarely fluent), so where does the interest come from?
luca tu sei una persona della mia stima! IO sono un madrelingua arabo, però parlo anche italiano perché vivo in italia da quando ho 2 anni, parlo perfettamente inglese e spagnolo, ho iniziato da poco con il francese e tra poco inizierò anche con il portoghese e l' ebraico, spero di arrivare ai tuoi livelli un giorno :D
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Nothing to say, as usual these 2 guys keep inspiring me, and making me feel so ignorant :D You're the definition of the word "polyglot"
Good job guys! I'd wanted to say, à propos the issue about people who say they speak up to 30 or 40 languages. Don't forget that even though in a western european perspective, this might be fairly impossible, there are people in other parts of the world who communicate in many different languages in their everyday life and, in particular, during their whole life span. I believe, are to be found in various parts of Africa, south of Sahara, or in the India-region.
@bburago9 Yes, he has a very clear accent to me, at the very first sentence I had to look up what country he was from. I don't see him ever being mistaken for a native speaker. That's only a matter of pronunciation though, his command of English seems excellent.
Richard is extraordinary too, they both speak German, Italian and English with almost no accent at all! And the longer they speak, the more native they sound! Richard is English mother language and Luca Italian mother language I figure out, okay -- anyway, it's formidable all the same. I mention these idioms 'cause they are the only three I approximately know... (-:
Lol! The best line of the whole conversation; "da's wel gaaf hoor" Het is echt TE grappig om jullie Nederlands te horen spreken. wat ik me afvraag; is het Nederlands accent moeilijk om aan te leren? Want jullie zijn in mijn opinie de beste polyglots op youtube, maar jullie Nederlands klinkt zeker niet als een "native speaker'. Terwijl jullie spaans en frans nagenoeg perfect is. Ook zag ik dat veel andere polyglots het ook moeilijk hadden met het Nederlandse accent....BTW no disrespect at all!!
Il suo italiano è davvero ottimo, ma un difetto che riscontro in tanti madrelingua inglese è la traduzione "practice"->"praticare", che noi italiani non utilizziamo in quel modo.
@TheTrieutran Really?? Are you a native speaker of English? Because from the very first two words "Hello everybody" it was immediately obvious to me that he's not a native speaker. I had heard less than a second of him speaking before deciding to scroll down to see what country that accent was from.
It's very close, though. Sometimes it's just a word spoken a little differently (which could sometimes have even been picked up from someone of a differect dialect, though his accent is USA). I've never heard someone who has learned English as an adult speak with less accent so, as you said, his accent is "brilliant." The first video I saw of him I assumed he was American without paying attention.
@TheTrieutran I noticed within two words that he was not a native speaker. This is how the great majority of native speakers respond to hearing someone speak with an accent: You don't take a full minute to decide. Either they have an accent, or they do not. It makes no sense whatsoever to suggest another minute of listening makes any difference once you've already detected the accent.
I am not a polyglot, but I can imitate languages easily. Now here is the connection (may be): I am also pretty good at listening to people and imiate them. I mean their voice especially. Sound, timbre, intonation etc. I wonder of you guys can do that too? You've been praised enough, so a critical note. Your Dutch sounds foreign (the "r" and "-lijk", your Portuguese too. Richard: make the words a tad longer and work on your "lh". It is one sound. Luca: it is "ão" and not "an". Critical mode out!
Yeah, I remember from your first videos speaking American English that people said to you that you could be mistaken for a native speaker easily... and I remember in your very first video you made while visiting Barcelona that you were amazing at Spanish... It was crazy, I couldn't believe you were not a native Spanish speaker... So I guess, based on that, that achieving a native like or near-native like accent is not that impossible... Am I right? Please give me some hope.. haha
Madre mía, es flipante como hablais. Si os escuchara sin saber que no sois españoles no me lo creería jeje es que no teneis nada de acento ni italiano ni inglés. Sois unos máquinas
Un grand polyglotte, j'ai compris tout ce qu'il disait en fr, en, es, it, et la plupart du portugais. S'il y avait eu l'espéranto ça aurait fait une langue de plus comprise.
I grew with 2 basic languages (english mother tongue and the german language where I live), and 2 other languages (greek father tongue and french in school). I often had the feeling that the first three languages are each stored in a different area of the brain, but not the fourth. It turned out that I sometimes confused greek and french words. I don't know if this theory about languages stored in different parts of the brain is true, but I think it probable.
I want to learn russian and german, initially I wanted to learn, Russian, german French, Italian, portuguese but seems to much for me. Maybe I will study them after I finish high school.
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To speak so many languages so naturally is something rare and special. This video is inspirational, and a testament to hard work paying off. Richard and Luca are the reason that I have been inspired to post videos about language learning on youtube..
Wow, l'italiano di richard nel 97% delle cose che ha detto è PERFETTO!! Mai sentito uno straniero parlare così l'italiano!
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Luca, I've seen most of your videos now and thus have had quite a bit of exposure to your American accent. While among the best of any foreigner I have heard, and certainly laudable, it was still subtly foreign. During this last question, however, your accent was almost perfect! I say this with very critical ears.
You two are inspirations to all of us who wish to learn multiple languages. Thanks for taking the time to upload this interview!
we have been waiting for a video like this since you visited richard...it was well worth the wait. thanks guys.
Hello, luca, I must say I'm amazed by/at your way to speak every language, but what I look up to you the most is your capability and feasibility of switching from a language into another with no problems as if you were a machine that works very well. I'm a native spanish speaker, and I don't notice any piece of foreign accent on you, Sorry for my English, I'm learning it, and feel passionate about the language for now but sometimes, I get so down mostly for not understanding everything.
You guys are really inspiring! I am 22 years old, and I speak portuguese, english, and spanish. I just finished my bachelors in my major business, so it did not give me much time for languages, and dammit my interest in languages came a little late too. The next in my top list are mandarin, french, and italian!
Wow. I'm 21 and i also speak the same languages
Jag måste säga att det finns ingen andra personer som pratar bättre än Luca. Tack ohh tjäna!
Such a brilliant interview! Thanks for the upload Lucas/Richard
You guys are very inspiretional Spanish is my mother tongue , then English & Italian i learn both at my teen years in East L.A.since my next door neighbors were Italians & Juliana Armenti one of the family members was exactly my age we spoke all day in spanish & italian french i met Laura Rouselle a native french speaker & was very fortunate to work with her at East L.A. college as college language tutors & we both had the opportunity to speak & practice French & Spanish portuguese was the language that i had the chance to speak with a beautiful carioca girl from Rio De Janeiro since 2014 & the languages i can say that i have an advance level C1 are Spanish , English & Italian portuguese & french had taken language level tests several times in the last 6 yrs & had portuguese at the end of b2 & french b2 but fail twice French delf until finally passed. it 4 yrs ago ! Spanish , English & Italian have been speaking for the last 47 yrs in three last Vegas strip major hotels...
impressive stuff luca, being a polyglot myself (fluent in english, german, dutch, swedish, norweigan, danish, russian, ukranian, korean and japenese) i know you have worked hard to get to where u r
.I´ve recently started a new language journey,in which I´m learning Swedish and after the first 6 months it turned out that I fell in love with the language and the Swedish culture.Well,I just wanted to have this opportunity to show a little bit of me to you and hope to hear from you soon! Tchau/Bye/Hej då!
Thank you for your answer. I was curious though do you "think" in each language or do you always think in your original language? When you dream what is the language?
Caro Luca. Innanzitutto complimenti vivissimi per il tuo Talento. Sapresti per caso indicarmi un sito o un libro in cui viene indicata la trascrizione fonematica IPA del Turco? Grazie in anticipo.
I speak 4 languages, but I understand pronunciation of close to 10 languages. English is my first language. So language is something that I understand, I just haven't given much time to actually learn. Luca, your english is actually fantastic and ALMOST perfect. Only on certain words have an accent, which makes you sound like you moved to USA when you were very young. I am very impressed by your pronunciation of english specifically, and also french. Keep up the impressive work!
Simply AMAZING! Both of you always impress me, keep up the great work!!
Ps, er svenska är extremt bra ;)
I was really impressed with your french Luca, your accent is better than mine actually... and its my mother tongue -_-
I think so many people have commented on his accent being "native sounding" because it's like 99% there and he'll go on for long stretches sounding completely American. Then he'll do something like start making his /o/ sound flat or something. It's just *so* close (especially for never even visiting America) that it makes it seem possible for an adult learner to get a native accent which is exciting for some people. If his accent was just okay, like 90%, then no one would even comment.
Really exciting video, Luca!
I already enjoyed you two at Facebook.
I love this change from Italian to Dutch most, ha!
HI, Luca.I hope I can get answer about this question. I watch a lot of your videos about how to learn a language, and I remember you said that reading is useful for learning language. Do you mean read aloud?
el castellano de los dos es espectacular! hey luca estoy aprendiendo italiano.se me esta haciendo facil hasta ahora ya llevo 1 mes aprendiendo y se me esta haciendo facil.no es dificil pero tampoco es tan facil como muchos lo dicen.que me recomiendas? para serte franco tengo rosetta stone y un libro de gramatica en ingles-italiano...aparte escucho mucha musica italiana pero solo a artistas que han cantado en espanol como laura,gianluca,eros y veo tv....que otros artistas y libros me recomiendas?
l'italiano di Richard è impressionante, mai sentito prima un madrelingua inglese parlarlo così. Soprattutto mi ha colpito il suo accento leggermente del nord :)
Ok please answer this.
When you speak so many languages, do you think in each language?
Or do you translate speech you hear to your primary language and then translate back when you speak?
They think in the language.
Hola Luca buenas tardes, empezando este 2013 me encuentro con tus videos y tu canal. Para empezar no quería perder la oportunidad de comentarte y saludarte, soy mexicano y comparto tu gran gusto por los idiomas (pero lastimosamente apenas y logro comunicarme en inglés). Muchas felicitaciones por tus videos, noto que sabes lo que dices y me sorprende tu habilidad y técnica para aprender idiomas. Salutti desde México mio caro amico, molte grazie por tu cátedra. bendiciones.
Es ist sehr schön, so was zu hören!
Jullie Nederlands is enorm goed! Jullie uitspraak met name. Sommige woordjes kloppen niet helemaal zoals fluent. Dat moet vloeiend zijn :) verder extreem goed gedaan. Fantastisch
Luca, I was truly AMAZED by your French! No accent, no hesitation, very fluent and correct speaking. You speak better than me (a native speaker!) congratulation! I even think your French is better than your english accent-wise.
Ustedes dos son mi gran inspiración para seguir aprendiendo idiomas. Estoy aprendiendo: sueco, alemán y creole haitiano. Bendiciones para ambos y muy buenos sus vídeos. Saludos desde Venezuela
Me too. Wow! This is the best video I've scene starting the new year. I would like to know what is C1 B2 basically the letters with numbers sounds interesting to know what level you're at. What website can I find more info on that topic?
Also the sound quality was excellent. Btw where can I learn to add subtitles like that Luca? What is your methods,and daily routine to sound beautiful in those languages you were speaking in this video? If you can send me the link I would really appreciate it.
Muchas gracias amigos por seguir inspirar y motivar a todos que quieren experimentar esa alegria de hablar otro idoma con libertad y fluidez.
What is so beautiful about both of you is that you guys are very modest, despite the fact that you have amazing skills. Skills that require years of practice and are the best evidence of richness of your character.
Vielen Dank, dass ihr die Moeglichkeiten uns zeigen!
Pozdrowienia z Polski dla obydwu wspaniałych poliglotów. Do zobaczenia na żywo!
Michał
I wish I could say something about this.
At themoment the only language I can speak with any problems is my mother language (Spanish), however, i've been learning english for more than 6 years (and is not perfect yet, in fact, I feel I still have a lot of work to do), also french, german and italian, and only one year ago I decided to start learning dutch, russian and japanese.
Perhaps is this one of the biggest problems I have to deal with, I always expect to do everything perfect from the beginning, but making mistakes is an important part of the learning process.
What do you think about Luca's english? Does he have accent?
Luca, tu acento español es PERFECTO. Te lo dice un español. Jamás he oído un acento extranjero tan similar al nativo.
How do you know when you are finished studying a language?
You never finish studying a language ;-)
Thank you for the wonderful video. It contains a great deal of interesting information for language learners. You guys both are great !
And I wish Richard best of luck with my mother tongue - Polish.
Serdecznie Pozdrawiam
Rysiek
This is one of the most inspiring Polyglot videos I have seen online great work. I also use film to learn like right now I'm watching the movie Scarface with Italian subtitles. Learning a lot of good conversational talk with that.
Brilhante!!É uma inspiração para todos aqueles que estão estudando novas línguas.Como amo estudar línguas estrangeiras sempre vejo os videos de vocês.O português de vocês é muito bom,com a pronúncia europeia.Parabéns!!!
Both of you are fantastic.
Leuke video, jullie twee! Onder Skypies ken ik natuurlijk de taallevels van Richard in de talen die ik ook spreek en hij kent de taallevels van mij en ik ken ook veel van zijn opvattingen. Dus sommige dingen zijn bekend voor mij maar andere zijn nieuw. Jullie Portugees begrijp ik zonder problemen. Het boeit mij om jullie Zweeds te horen praten, jullie gebruiken ook Deense woorden zoals "aldrig". Dit geeft mij een goede indruk van de Zweedse taal en zo kan ik het Zweeds beter inschatten. Fasulye
I know it's a random question not really about languages, but I overheard Richard say he grew up on the border between England and Wales. Am I correct to presume that he's from Bristol? I can hear it in his accent as well.
No, near Chester or Crewe I think. He sounds slightly scouse.
great vid. keep up the good work.
@poliglotta80 I was just at your blog a few hours ago. You have great information. I will Google that software. I was at Richard's blog reading several blog post prior to visiting yours. Both of you of really a true inspiration to us beginners tapping into the different cultures. I love what you wrote: “who learns another language, acquires another soul” Soon I was continue watching more of your videos, also I subscribed to your blog.
Thanks for everything you do for the world,
Joshua Merced
Супер! С огромным интересом просмотрел это видео! Спасибо вам обоим за интересное содержания разговора и за субтитры :-) Амир.
Good observation! (non parlo) I like to observe how others (or myself) speak their native language with slowness or pauses that, in a foreign language, would be interpreted as weaknesses.
Hi,Richard! How´s it going? Well,I´m Diego,from Brazil and I´m a huge fan of yours as well as Luca´s and a few other gifted polyglots.I´m also a language enthusiast who dedicate most of my day to language studying and practicing.I´m an English teacher here in Brazil and I have never taken any English courses or traveled abroad to any English-speaking country.
Increíble español. Increíble acento. Sois los primeros guiris que conozco que hablan el español perfecto y con acento de España, hasta tal punto que pensaba que sería un hoax! jajaja sonáis como yo y mis colegas cuando hablamos de lo que sea.
Si con el resto de idiomas habláis con la misma fluidez, llegaréis muy lejos.
Enhorabuena desde Barcelona.
It unbelievable! The Spanish is perfect!. Listening to Luca, I cannot distinguish from native people. Richard speaks with a very neutral accent, a mixture between spanish from Spain and spanish from south-america.
@Scallonesi Thanks, I found that out, also is their any way to see samples on PDF files of each level A1-C2. Basically the table of contents.
Thanks again Scallonesi,
Joshua Merced
Bella intervista, complimenti.
Wow. This is impressive. Their Dutch is unbelievably good.
Luca's face. It's staring into my soul.
You guys inspire me :) I'm 16 and when i'm older I want to be just like this. I'm already working on Spanish French and Russian! :)
Grazie mille Luca
jullie Nederlands is gewoon super goed heb er geen ander woord voor, hoor heel weinig foutjes en grammaticaal is echt perfect! und gleichfalls für Deutsch!
Luca and Richard, you're amazing, I'd like to talk to you one day!! Congratulation, because not everybody can do that, I mean that not everybody has that attitude, that especial attitude to learn. You motivate me to learn languages, congratulation and keep doing what you really love which is languages!!!
Much respect for you guys! As a dutch I speak 5 to 6 languages, which is quite few actually, since almost everyone learns 4 languages at highschool here. Especially Richard: you're dutch sounds so fluently as if you were raised with it, incredible.
I'm wondering: you're from 2 countries were on average there are few multilingual people. Some British people might speak some French, the average Italian might speak a bit of English (rarely fluent), so where does the interest come from?
gostei muito do teu sotaque nativo de Portugal Luca ... :)
Richard's italian is perfect!! ^_^
Madre mía, Luca..... ¡cada vez hablas mejor! ¿Cómo lo haces?
luca tu sei una persona della mia stima! IO sono un madrelingua arabo, però parlo anche italiano perché vivo in italia da quando ho 2 anni, parlo perfettamente inglese e spagnolo, ho iniziato da poco con il francese e tra poco inizierò anche con il portoghese e l' ebraico, spero di arrivare ai tuoi livelli un giorno :D
Nothing to say, as usual these 2 guys keep inspiring me, and making me feel so ignorant :D
You're the definition of the word "polyglot"
es impresionante enhorabuena a los dos , sois dignos de admiración .
Un saludo
Good job guys! I'd wanted to say, à propos the issue about people who say they speak up to 30 or 40 languages. Don't forget that even though in a western european perspective, this might be fairly impossible, there are people in other parts of the world who communicate in many different languages in their everyday life and, in particular, during their whole life span. I believe, are to be found in various parts of Africa, south of Sahara, or in the India-region.
Luca... eres de Madrid? xD Video muy interesante, me anima a seguir con más ganas mis clases de aleman e ingles
amazing both of them
Your english is better than people who were born in America! Believe me!
jullie spreken heel goed Nederlands! echt knap
madre mia, español PERFECTO.
O teu português é muito bom!
@bburago9 Yes, he has a very clear accent to me, at the very first sentence I had to look up what country he was from. I don't see him ever being mistaken for a native speaker. That's only a matter of pronunciation though, his command of English seems excellent.
Richard is extraordinary too, they both speak German, Italian and English with almost no accent at all! And the longer they speak, the more native they sound! Richard is English mother language and Luca Italian mother language I figure out, okay -- anyway, it's formidable all the same. I mention these idioms 'cause they are the only three I approximately know... (-:
That Spanish to Italian transition didn't miss a beat did it? You've got to warn people before you do that! At first I thought I was going deaf.
Lol! The best line of the whole conversation; "da's wel gaaf hoor" Het is echt TE grappig om jullie Nederlands te horen spreken. wat ik me afvraag; is het Nederlands accent moeilijk om aan te leren? Want jullie zijn in mijn opinie de beste polyglots op youtube, maar jullie Nederlands klinkt zeker niet als een "native speaker'. Terwijl jullie spaans en frans nagenoeg perfect is. Ook zag ik dat veel andere polyglots het ook moeilijk hadden met het Nederlandse accent....BTW no disrespect at all!!
Il suo italiano è davvero ottimo, ma un difetto che riscontro in tanti madrelingua inglese è la traduzione "practice"->"praticare", che noi italiani non utilizziamo in quel modo.
is it "esercitare"?
@@nonamed56 yes
Professor Argüelles isn't just a language enthusiast. He's near-native (and better read than most natives) in several languages.
@TheTrieutran Really?? Are you a native speaker of English? Because from the very first two words "Hello everybody" it was immediately obvious to me that he's not a native speaker. I had heard less than a second of him speaking before deciding to scroll down to see what country that accent was from.
Haha goed gedaan Luca!
8:20 is about Moses McCormick
It's very close, though. Sometimes it's just a word spoken a little differently (which could sometimes have even been picked up from someone of a differect dialect, though his accent is USA). I've never heard someone who has learned English as an adult speak with less accent so, as you said, his accent is "brilliant." The first video I saw of him I assumed he was American without paying attention.
Wow! Euer Deutsch klingt so gut, mann könnte meinen dass es eure Muttersprache ist!!! :)
@TheTrieutran I noticed within two words that he was not a native speaker. This is how the great majority of native speakers respond to hearing someone speak with an accent: You don't take a full minute to decide. Either they have an accent, or they do not. It makes no sense whatsoever to suggest another minute of listening makes any difference once you've already detected the accent.
I am not a polyglot, but I can imitate languages easily. Now here is the connection (may be): I am also pretty good at listening to people and imiate them. I mean their voice especially. Sound, timbre, intonation etc. I wonder of you guys can do that too?
You've been praised enough, so a critical note. Your Dutch sounds foreign (the "r" and "-lijk", your Portuguese too. Richard: make the words a tad longer and work on your "lh". It is one sound. Luca: it is "ão" and not "an". Critical mode out!
Yeah, I remember from your first videos speaking American English that people said to you that you could be mistaken for a native speaker easily... and I remember in your very first video you made while visiting Barcelona that you were amazing at Spanish... It was crazy, I couldn't believe you were not a native Spanish speaker... So I guess, based on that, that achieving a native like or near-native like accent is not that impossible... Am I right? Please give me some hope.. haha
Madre mía, es flipante como hablais. Si os escuchara sin saber que no sois españoles no me lo creería jeje es que no teneis nada de acento ni italiano ni inglés. Sois unos máquinas
These guys are me real life heroes
I can understand english, french, german, italian and spanish (my mother language) , the rest of them , ????
Nick Deisler I understand English, French, Spanish, Russian, and a bit of Italian.
Jullie Nederlands klinkt erg goed!
wow l'italiano di Richard è spettacolare!
perfect accents.bravo!
Un grand polyglotte, j'ai compris tout ce qu'il disait en fr, en, es, it, et la plupart du portugais.
S'il y avait eu l'espéranto ça aurait fait une langue de plus comprise.
The portuguese part was so short :(
me gusta el medio acento andaluz de richard
I grew with 2 basic languages (english mother tongue and the german language where I live), and 2 other languages (greek father tongue and french in school). I often had the feeling that the first three languages are each stored in a different area of the brain, but not the fourth. It turned out that I sometimes confused greek and french words. I don't know if this theory about languages stored in different parts of the brain is true, but I think it probable.
How does he sound Northern European? He sounds American to me.
I want to learn russian and german, initially I wanted to learn, Russian, german French, Italian, portuguese but seems to much for me.
Maybe I will study them after I finish high school.
he sounds perfectly native to me
Italiano mostruosamente impeccabile, in ogni senso!!! :O
It's not a big step from netherlands to german.
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