Meet The Man Who Speaks 15 Languages!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- Alex Rawlings is a polyglot - someone who speaks a large number of languages fluently. Find out how he became such a linguistic master!
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Finally a polyglot that actually sounds accurate
agreed!
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Forn Svenska which are the most refined and most poetic and most heavenly languages ever that are way too pretty not to know, and I highly recommend learning them 2gether, as one can learn many pretty and easy languages at the same time, which is the most efficient and the most fun way to learn languages!
I have over 50 target languages, and am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and upper advanced level in Dutch and advanced level in Norwegian and mid intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian and intermediate level in Welsh and writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish, and am learning 15+ languages at the moment, and am also learning Slovene and Hungarian and Gallo etc, and I have the pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!
By the way, I highly recommend listening to all the Skáld songs like Rún and Gleipnir and Óðínn and Trółł Kałła Mik and SæKonungar etc and the others and the folk songs in Icelandic and Faroese etc, which are the best introduction to Norse / Germanic / Nordic languages, as they have epic pretty melodies that perfectly fit these heavenly languages!
Norse and Icelandic are the most alpha languages ever, definitely a must-know for every learner...
Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára!
En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu!
Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim!
Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska!
Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin!
Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana...
Ég læri það í samhengi...
Hvíslaðu að svaninum!
En ertu frá hinum hlutanum?
Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá!
Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi?
Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana!
Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou?
(These are some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail - the words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
By the way, I am upper intermediate level in both Old Norse and Icelandic, and I have the right Norse pronunciation, which is the most logical, and by the way, I will use DH for the TH sound in the English words this and that, which is the approximant of D and not the approximant of T like the TH in the English word think, and I will use AO for the ‘closed’ A sound that is like an A and O sound said 2gether in one sound (similar to the A sound in Hungarian) that melts into a soft O sound!
For example...
- hvat sounds like hvat or vat or kvat
- mæra sounds like mera
- ávast sounds like avast
- nágrindr sounds like naogrind:r
- líkligr sounds like liklig:r or likliguhr
- frænda sounds like freinda or freoynda or frenda
- þat sounds like that
- ræðir sounds like reidhir
- hárr sounds like haruhr or har:r (could have also been har / harr)
- gæfr sounds like gev:r or gevuhr
- hverfa sounds like hverva or verva or kverva (any of them or all 3 could’ve been used)
Also...
- hæll sounds like heyl
- saltr sounds like solt:r
- mæla sounds like mala
- drápa sounds like drapa or dropa
- kæra sounds like kaera or kaira
- ferr sounds like fer:r
- jafna sounds like yavna
- hœgri sounds like heoyri
- girðing sounds like girdhing
- hádegi sounds like haodegi
- ørendislaust sounds like eorendislaust
The word...
- verr sounds like ver
- ekki sounds like eki or ehki
- þverra sounds like thverra
- gegna sounds like gekna
- vefja sounds like vevya
- yfir sounds like ɪvɪr as in Icelandic
- ætla sounds like etla
- ofn sounds like ovn
- náliga sounds like naoliga
- sauma could have been pronounced either saima or seoyma like in Icelandic or both or even sauma as it is written
- ofleti sounds like ofleti
The emphasis of stress in Norse languages such as Norse and Icelandic etc is always at the beginning of the word - for compound words made of multiple smaller words, one should add a bit of stress at the beginning of each word that the compound word is made of and the most stress always at the beginning of the compound word...
I don’t think there was any fixed way of pronouncing the diphthongs, and it’s most likely that the pronunciation of diphthongs such as AU would differ depending on the word, including pronunciations such as ai / au / ao / eoy / oy / ey etc, and it may have also differed depending on the region and accent, and the Æ in Norse can have many pronunciations, depending on the word, so it can sound like e / ei / a / eoy / oey / uey / ai / ea / ae etc, depending on what sound sounds best and the most natural and easiest to say in each word, so one should use one’s intuition a lot in Norse...
The Rs are always different depending on the region and depending of the speaker in every language, but in Germanic languages, a soft normal R is usually used by most speakers and by younger speakers, and I highly recommend using a soft normal R in Norse and in all other languages that aren’t English as soft Rs have the best and most refined sound, soft Rs that are pronounced as fast as possible being the types of Rs that truly suit such refined languages as Norse and the other Germanic languages, whereas hard or prolonged or thrilled Rs sound very harsh and unrefined...
By the way, it’s also important to know that in Norse and Icelandic the G is usually pronounced like a K sound, especially at the end of the word, and in many words the G is pronounced K even in the middle of the word, and there are also some words where the G is pronounced as a K even when it is at the beginning of the word, so it is normal to hear a lot of K sounds when there is a G in spelling - for example, lots of speakers of Icelandic will pronounce even the G in góðan (góðan daginn) as a soft K sound, without even realizing, and this pronunciation rule comes from Norse!
Here are some of the most important sounds + pronunciation rules in Icelandic, as Icelandic has one of the easiest / prettiest / coolest pronunciations ever, having a category 1 pronunciation with super cool modern sounds! - the eth letter ð is an approximant of the letter D (a less obvious D similar to the D in the Spanish word nada and like the TH in the English words this and that) and the thorn letter þ is an approximant of T (a less obvious T that’s sort of lisped, and it is the same sound as the TH in the English words think and thing, though it sounds closer to a normal T sound in Icelandic)
More pronunciation rules and sounds in Icelandic...
- the HV is pronounced KV
- the NN is pronounced as a TN if it comes after Æ and after EI / EY and after a long vowel such as Á / É / Í / Ó / Ú (but it is a normal N sound if it comes after the short vowels A / E / I / O / U and in inn word combinations, and I recommend adding a very soft breathy H sound to the ‘inn’ word ending in masculine words to make it a bit different from the word ending ‘in’ which is the feminine word ending, like I do, as I pronounce the inn more like ihn in masculine nouns and masculine adjectives that have the inn word ending, which represents the definite article in nouns, tho there are also three articles that aren’t added to the noun, namely hinn and hin and hið, so, one can say hinn stormur or stormurinn and hinn storm or storminn as both mean the storm in nominative and accusative)
- the LL is usually pronounced TL in most words and if the LL is at the end of the word it sounds more like a weak T sound
- the RN is pronounced with an extra soft ‘nasal’ T sound between the R and the N (so a word like þarna sounds like thartna)
- the FL / FN letter combinations are pronounced PL / PN (so F becomes a P sound if it’s before an L or an N)
- the G is ultra soft in short words like ég and mig etc, so it is pronounced more like an H sound (so ég sounds like yeh) and the G in the middle of the words is kinda soft (in words like segja / saga / segir etc it is a soft G that is still a G sound and not an H) and the Gs and GGs can also sound like Ks in many of the words if they are at the end of the word or even in the middle of the word and sometimes even at the beginning of the word (same as in Old Norse) tho Gs are usually pronounced like a normal G sound if they are at the beginning of the word (except for a few words)
- the KK / TT etc is pronounced more like HK / HT as a soft breathy H sound is included before the K / T sound when there is a double consonant and even when there are two different consonants (for example, ekki sounds like ehki and óútreiknanlegt sounds like outreihnanleht etc)
- the letter F is usually pronounced like a V if it’s in the middle of the word or at the end of the word (so leyfa sounds like leyva) and it is pronounced like a normal F sound if it’s at the beginning of the word or very close to the beginning of the word (for example, if a words starts with af, the af is pronounced af, not av)
The diphthongs and umlauts and vowels in Icelandic...
- AU is pronounced EOI (normal e sound + normal o sound + normal i sound said 2gether fast in one sound)
- EI / EY are pronounced EI / EY (same as they are spellt)
- the Æ / æ is usually pronounced ai in most Icelandic words (but hvenær seems to be pronounced kvenar and not really kvenair, so it depends on the word)
- Ö is an EO sound (normal e sound + normal o sound said 2gether in one sound, like the œ in the French word cœur)
- Ó is usually pronounced OU
- O is usually pronounced UO and sometimes as a normal O sound aka oh (depending on the word)
- Ú is a normal u sound (uh)
- U is a more rounded YU sound (like the u in the French word mur and it is also the same sound as the Ü in Hungarian and German and the same sound as the UU in Dutch in words like muur and duur) tho in some words it is pronounced like a normal U sound (especially at the beginning of the word in words like ungur, and when there are multiple Us in the same word it’s usually the last U that is pronounced like YU and most other Us are pronounced like a normal U sound in that kind of words)
- Á is an AU sound in almost every word (there are only a few exceptions)
- A is a normal a sound (ah) and the A before NG / NK is pronounced like an AU sound just like the Á (so að ganga sounds like ath gaunga and it means to walk)
- É is an YE sound (normal i sound + normal e sound)
- E is a normal e sound (full e sound aka eh)
- Í / Ý is a normal i sound (ih)
- I / Y is a half i sound (this sound is very similar to how the i is pronounced in most English words like fit and chips and this, so it’s sort of like a weak i that goes more towards an e sound, but it isn’t a full e sound, and it isn’t a full i sound either, so it’s right between an i sound and an e sound)
Once I heard him speaking Hungarian, it was perfect, too!
oh my god his german and spanish pronunciation is flawless!!!
He does have a funny accent when he speaks German
@@kocerikocerili1891 In german he said that the world becomes your home when you know many languages, in spanish he said that he likes to understand when people talk about him, ahahah
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Forn Svenska which are the most refined and most poetic and most heavenly languages ever that are way too pretty not to know, and I highly recommend learning them 2gether, as one can learn many pretty and easy languages at the same time, which is the most efficient and the most fun way to learn languages!
I have over 50 target languages, and am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and upper advanced level in Dutch and advanced level in Norwegian and mid intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian and intermediate level in Welsh and writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish, and am learning 15+ languages at the moment, and am also learning Slovene and Hungarian and Gallo etc, and I have the pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!
By the way, I highly recommend listening to all the Skáld songs like Rún and Gleipnir and Óðínn and Trółł Kałła Mik and SæKonungar etc and the others and the folk songs in Icelandic and Faroese etc, which are the best introduction to Norse / Germanic / Nordic languages, as they have epic pretty melodies that perfectly fit these heavenly languages!
Norse and Icelandic are the most alpha languages ever, definitely a must-know for every learner...
Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára!
En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu!
Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim!
Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska!
Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin!
Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana...
Ég læri það í samhengi...
Hvíslaðu að svaninum!
En ertu frá hinum hlutanum?
Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá!
Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi?
Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana!
Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou?
(These are some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail - the words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
I heard him speaking in a greek interview, his accent is near perfect
(Απ)όψεις...
I think he is half Greek but boy oh boy fantastic accent. I am half Greek and wish I could speak that well!! Bravo Alex xxx
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Forn Svenska which are the most refined and most poetic and most heavenly languages ever that are way too pretty not to know, and I highly recommend learning them 2gether, as one can learn many pretty and easy languages at the same time, which is the most efficient and the most fun way to learn languages!
I have over 50 target languages, and am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and upper advanced level in Dutch and advanced level in Norwegian and mid intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian and intermediate level in Welsh and writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish, and am learning 15+ languages at the moment, and am also learning Slovene and Hungarian and Gallo etc, and I have the pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!
By the way, I highly recommend listening to all the Skáld songs like Rún and Gleipnir and Óðínn and Trółł Kałła Mik and SæKonungar etc and the others and the folk songs in Icelandic and Faroese etc, which are the best introduction to Norse / Germanic / Nordic languages, as they have epic pretty melodies that perfectly fit these heavenly languages!
Norse and Icelandic are the most alpha languages ever, definitely a must-know for every learner...
Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára!
En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu!
Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim!
Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska!
Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin!
Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana...
Ég læri það í samhengi...
Hvíslaðu að svaninum!
En ertu frá hinum hlutanum?
Ísland er ekki eitt sjálfstætt land ennþá!
Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi?
Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana!
Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou?
(These are some sentences in Icelandic / Norse / Dutch that I tend to revise a lot and analyze in detail - the words in these languages are just so pretty, they are áddìctive, and so poetic, I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood!)
He speaks greek very well. Μπράβο σου!
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Forn Svenska which are the most refined and most poetic and most heavenly languages ever that are way too pretty not to know, and I highly recommend learning them 2gether, as one can learn many pretty and easy languages at the same time, which is the most efficient and the most fun way to learn languages!
I have over 50 target languages, and am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and upper advanced level in Dutch and advanced level in Norwegian and mid intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian and intermediate level in Welsh and writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish, and am learning 15+ languages at the moment, and am also learning Slovene and Hungarian and Gallo etc, and I have the pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!
By the way, I highly recommend listening to all the Skáld songs like Rún and Gleipnir and Óðínn and Trółł Kałła Mik and SæKonungar etc and the others and the folk songs in Icelandic and Faroese etc, which are the best introduction to Norse / Germanic / Nordic languages, as they have epic pretty melodies that perfectly fit these heavenly languages!
Incredible, Alex!
Su Español y su Aléman es muy bueno :0. Quede muy asombrado!!!
omg his Russian is perfect
he failed to say a negative sentence. he said ты нигде чувствуешь себя как турист though he needed to say ты нигде НЕ чувствуешь себя как турист. You do have double negations in Russian sometimes.
Interesting story!
From Vietnamese love. Hoping You to master more languages, catching up with the Professor mastering 56 languages🥰🥰🤩🤩
Ek het al gehoor hoe goed is jou Afrikaanse uitspraak! Hou so aan!
His Spanish is perfect
Complements from a lady polyglot. Your accents are awesome, contratulations
Hai
He's handsome
1:34 "anguage"
very cute man🥰🥰🥰🥰
Howard Caine, AKA Major Hochstetter from Hogans Heros, spoke 32 languages
Learnt 1 new language since last year
@@kocerikocerili1891"a translator app can't"
Parli giapponese?
Nice
which is the hungarian polyglot he speaks about please???
any ideas?
sabeis de que poliglota habla porfi ?
Kató Lomb
@@Michael-jh9fd thanks you so much I m going now to research about cheers KÓSÓNÓM
How could you learn hungarian?
Hungarian is an easy mid category 2 language, so it’s easy to learn Hungarian words!
I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Icelandic / Dutch / English / Norwegian / Gothic / Faroese / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Forn Svenska which are the most refined and most poetic and most heavenly languages ever that are way too pretty not to know, and I highly recommend learning them 2gether, as one can learn many pretty and easy languages at the same time, which is the most efficient and the most fun way to learn languages!
I have over 50 target languages, and am upper intermediate level in Icelandic and Norse and German and upper advanced level in Dutch and advanced level in Norwegian and mid intermediate level in Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian and intermediate level in Welsh and writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish, and am learning 15+ languages at the moment, and am also learning Slovene and Hungarian and Gallo etc, and I have the pretty languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!
By the way, I highly recommend listening to all the Skáld songs like Rún and Gleipnir and Óðínn and Trółł Kałła Mik and SæKonungar etc and the others and the folk songs in Icelandic and Faroese etc, which are the best introduction to Norse / Germanic / Nordic languages, as they have epic pretty melodies that perfectly fit these heavenly languages!
"learning a *anguage*..."? On a video about language, you don't spell check your own question cards?
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15 lingvoj kaj eĉ ne Esperanto! :0 estas malesperige...
@@betos-08 Amikejo... Kion vi volas diri per tiu dirmaniero ?
@@betos-08 Dankon por la informo. Mi jam estis aŭdinta pri tiu teritorio sed mi forgesis poste.
Ĉu vi jam iris tien ?
Pity about his amateurish article on the Afrikaans language on BBC Future 15 May 2020....... Lazy piece of journalism, badly researched! Back to the drawing board, dare I say!
I checked out his article because of your comment, and I am afraid that I have to agree. He rehashed every tired stereotype and trope about racism; and, for an article on the future of Afrikaans, it is staggering that he made no mention of the mass exodus of Afrikaners or of plaasmoorde.