You don't have actual conversations with most of these people. You just use a few lines you learned from a book or the internet, which causes really awkward situations. You haven't impressed anyone with this, tbh.
He’s not very good at korean but still impressive he could speak that many languages and actually tried to speak with the natives. I admire his confidence.
His Arabic :- 1. Hi 2. How are you? 3. How old are you? 4. Where are you from ? 5. I need drink water ( I know it's not related but still something in Arabic) 6. Bye This is one of 18 languages .. still good job 👍
@@irinaivanovna6380 yes, but as someone who is an actual polyglot and sworn translator (not yet arabic) I can tell, that the language itself is not THAT difficult. Just the writing. :D
Heey guys :) The video which you are watching now is is an older video of 2015. I improved 9 of the languages which I speak in this video and I made a video with my progress at the end of 2016. I want to recommend you to watch my video with my recent levels in these 9 languages: th-cam.com/video/T30AlXMJ6L0/w-d-xo.html. Of course I can handle criticism, but it's nice if you can criticize me after watching the video with my progress so far. Then you can also compare these two videos :) Cheers
As a native Danish speaker I think your understanding of the language is really good. listening and speaking Danish is really hard, but writing is easy!
This must be a talent to learn so many languages, I can only speak english but members of my family speak; dutch, french, Nijanja, fanti... etc. I cannot seem to learn any more languages then english so All I can do is to perfect my english. People say I am lazy, but it cannot Be that. I just can't seem to grasp these these other languages.
Russian part: "How's your mood?" "Well, don't have a born child yet so that's good" That made me laugh so fucking hard. It's like he's just literally saying anything he can
No, that wasn't a random stuff, that was actually really cool! In Russian, there is kinda rhyming slang reply "how are you" - "kak dela" - "poka ne rodila".
"das ist unglaublich cool" ja kam mir auch so vor ;) Aber der hat auch ein starken niederländischen Dialekt und der Heiopei der da über den Kindergarten spricht, spricht auch nicht grade flüssig. :/ Liegt bestimmt an der Anpassung seiner Sprache, wenn man mit seinen Gegenüber spricht.^^
Antoine Romijn sarcastic would be a better term to use as ironic doesn’t usually refer to speech but rather a fact such as a football player without feet
English is for talking with people about anything, programming languages are for telling orders to compilers. Here's one english sentence you can translate to C#: Enlish: "Move the bitwise logical or result of 22 and 44 to some temporary place. Store it as a integer please!" C#: "int x = 22 | 44;" How are they similar?
+My dream Well if we're talking not-fluent-language, then I speak about 8. Fluent however, is 3. Fluent for me is when you stop stuttering when ordering a sandwich with several toppings (no "euh...with the.eh- eh- eh- ehhhh- lettuce and the eh-eh-eh-what's it called, ehh..ehh..pickles..and-" ) and are able to direct strangers across town with 'left right, left at church, right at supermarket, trainstation etc.'-directions. If that goes perfectly smooth, and you can answer a couple of basic questions, I think you can say you're fluent. However, I personally put the bar higher for myself. I say fluent when I can ramble on about things, without having to stop and search for the words.
You speak a chunk of asian languages. I expected you to speak mostly European languages. You didn't include English because everyone knows it obviously, but I'm surprised that you speak Thai among all of them. I wonder if you know how to write in those asian languages, because it would be pretty dope.
I doubt it, he mostly learned from the streets. He seems poor, so he likely doesn't have the time/resources to learn how to write in all those languages
his thai is a weeks worth of practice.. i had a hard time understanding it because its a tonal language and he wasnt using the tones right at all and the words and grammar were wrong lol.. but yea i guess he was sort of speaking it a bit. but any foreigner who comes to thailand for a week can learn what he was saying without studying. i wonder how many of these languages he can read and write as well because thai he certainly cant read and write... but yea thats crazy he has those european languages down
The portuguese part was very funny, lol. I love your videos, and i don't understand why people are upset that you don't speak fluent. You held a simple conversation, and that's good for me. And also, you are very charismatic. Sou brasileiro, e estudei inglês por muito tempo. Mesmo sendo fluente, eu também não sei tudo. Um abraço, e já estou inscrito no seu canal. ^_^
People need to give this guy a break. The title of the video said that he's speaks several different languages, not that the guy speaks every single language perfectly 🙄 Don't listen to the complainers, guy. You did fantastic. What you've done is very impressive! I personally don't know anyone who speaks more than 3 languages. And some of them can't even really read or write them. They just speak 'em. Some of 'em really broken even, but my point is that they try. You did great!
+L BW thank you for saying this. He may only know basics but he clearly wants to learn to talk to people, which is a good model for any language learning
Dear subscribers/viewers, if you have any advice/requests for new videos, please share it here. I like to motivate other language lovers/learners with my videos. You can also say witch videos of my channel you like more. I hope I can make more videos for the right audience in this year.
+Wouter Corduwener Your video is funny. you are pretty good in french but I can see that you are weak in Arabic! you speak Arabic language with Algerian dialect, no? I hope that you can improuve it
Sorry, for my level in Arabic here. I know I have a low level now, but I will try my best to improve it. Each three months I'm trying to improve 1 of these languages to the same level as my French or Germen.
At 9:18 a turkish guy at the right wants to learn if he knows Turkish too with saying "Meraba abi" which means "Hello bro" I think. Lol that made me laugh so much xD
I mean, I know that he doesn’t speak most of these languages very well, but the fact that he knows them at all and is able to keep them straight is very impressive.
Denis Gabyshev yeah his Russian was not good, but remember he is just learning these from tourists and maybe the tourists have bad accents or something
He's amazing ,I love the fact that he just wanted to talk and talk and talk ,and just have fun and socialize! :D ,It's not a must to speak all those languages fluently ,the main purpose of learning any language is actually to make a bridge between you ,and their native speakers! ,your body language ,your sense of humor ,plus some cultural background ,they're all "extremely" help to pave that bridge ,and patch up any gaps as well!. :) ..I'm Arabic from Libya ,and I really appreciated his effort to speak in Arabic ,although it sounded odd and funny ! ,but I appreciate it because I know how difficult is Arabic for him . I should thank him ,he inspired me to rev up my "passion" for languages again!. :)
When he spoke Vietnamese, he tried to avoid answering to questions and instead only go for his separate stories in Vietnamese like it was pre-programmed. I think he is skillful either way but I just think that a lot of stuff he learnt was just preprogrammed and cannot adapt on the fly so well if they one he talks to switch the subjects to their likings...
Thats not a reality, thats a STEP in learning a language, he used to do the same with my language “spanish” and now he got waaaaaay better... first you learn a bunch of expressions then you go and have conversations to lose the fear of using the language and once that fear is over you start to absorb everything that the other person says which automatically starts to be on your vocabulary, for me this happened with bulgarian, english and mandarin so its absolutely normal
@@mattari97, what he did was very similar in that sense that he repeated exactly what he learnt by heart, a specific phrase - only. If somebpdy asked him a tricky question on the spot, then he would have a problem to answer since that was not what he learnt. He is not adaptable to the language. You can clearly see him dodging those tricky questions during Vietnamese part and instead went on with what he learnt like what a parrot would have done. You seem to have problem to understand this principle. I think Im talking to a wall right now.
I speak 1.English(advanced 2. Swahili(advanced (i moved to kneya 3. Somali.(advanced (mother tongue 4.Norwegian.(advanced (mother tongue (i was born in Norway 5. Arabic.(advanced (i learnt the quran together with arabic 6. Japanese. (Intermediate (self taught 7. Spanish(intermediate(self taught 8. Korean(intermediate (self taught 9. Chinese(intermediate(self taught 10. Italian( intermediate( self taught. I am learning Hindi, Turkish, Geman , Persian and Urdu( which is easy due to the similarity in Arabic) Portuguese ( which is the hardest so far).
I agree with you, with language comes culture. It's the culture we are truly struggling to understand. I suppose to understand Malay and Indonesia, English, Arabic, Thai, and few aboriginals from my place. I understood that you cannot speak the language if you don't understand the culture of it's natives speaker. PERIOD. This guy must watch endless videos to understand them and he is still goofy. I am too.
+Athousand Light Haha you refer to English as one language when really there are many variations American English, New Zealand English, England English. Although it may all be the same language the way words are said are different not to mention the accents and cultures and all of this is just from one language and not even going in depth.
+Athousand Light Haha you refer to English as one language when really there are many variations American English, New Zealand English, England English. Although it may all be the same language the way words are said are different not to mention the accents and cultures and all of this is just from one language and not even going in depth.
Thomas Dank engine Every main language have a variation accents and slang. Even my own. But the rules of the language mostly don't change. Thats why I said, we CANNOT SPEAK in a language before we understand the culture. All that accent and slang comes from CULTURE itself. Understand?
He spoke well, it’s not easy remembering the languages and mixing them, my French, Italian and Spanish always mix, English being my mother tongue, there’s people who don’t know their own language.! It means he could actually get through from country to country around the world a lot easier than most because local language-can go a long way.!
+Trius namespace MainNamespace { public class Girlfriend { public boolean niceArse; public Girlfriend() { niceArse = true; } } public class Main { public static void main(string[] args) { Girlfriend gf = new Girlfriend(); Console.WriteLine(gf.niceArse); // => true } } }
unbelievable. I met this guy and he speaks 35 languages. In this video we are practicing 15 languages which we have in common: th-cam.com/video/t3H5D-XxPrI/w-d-xo.html
Andre Vyent Ik spreek neit goed Nederlands, but I can only say a few things. Sometimes I can fool people who used to be so mean to me with speaking foreign languages in my text messages.
God, this is one of the worst comment sections I've seen on TH-cam. This is probably one of the coolest videos I've seen on this site and people are shitting all over this guy :(
Speaking all those languages wasn't those most impressive thing of this video, nor your speaking ability and nor your listening comprehension in my opinion even though all of that was great. The most impressive thing was that you had no hesitation in speaking whatsoever and that you were always motivated to talk with others throughout the whole video despite not being completely fluent. Truly inspiring , you got a new subscriber :)
+Julian Cowpurse Cheers and thanks. And you're right about I'm not fluent in a lot of languages. But no problem. Each month or two months I'm choosing one language to upgrade my level. At the same time I have the advantage that I can practice every day with tourists, so I will not forget my other languages. Soon there will be a new video like this, so be patience :)
I went to visit Holland when I was around 11-12 years old quite a few years ago now but I'm pretty sure you drew a caricature of me that I still have stored somewhere and just happened to vaguely recognize you and the fact you drew in me at Zaanse Schans. Could be wrong but I was a long time ago now haha
+Wouter Corduwener At about 10:10 the woman said "como esta", do you know the origin of this term? I'm rather fascinated that the meaning is the same as, and the word is hardly different than that of the Spanish language.
한국말은...좀 어색하는데 the korean was very awkward and at times impolite but its okay i know you are not fluent. Just..always use 존댓말 when meeting someone. You asked "한국 사람?" ("korean person?") but you should have said "한국 사람이에요?" with the 요 and that is "are you a korean person?" in a polite way. Also asking what type of girls he likes that is very...um....strange. dont do that ahahaha.
He cant speak at all the guy is repeating what he says who would say to a korean do you have many korean friends😅 also he didnt even translate the koreans answers properly he said i like clean and nice girls 😅
Very impressive. I can feel your passion towards language and you enjoy communicating with people. Thai and Chinese are both tone languages, but you know how to speak it properly. I think that's an aptitude.
Why is everybody criticizing him so much? It doesn’t matter that he’s not fluent because he never implemented that he was. I speak French & I also understood some of the portuguese and even tho he’s not great at speaking both the languages he took his time to learn some of their language which is amazing in itself.
@@bazingapuzza - Pas besoin de crier, connasse. Et pas besoin non plus d'être aussi aggressive non plus. Tout ce que Prettyass Alicée a dit c'est qu'il est capable de COMMUNIQUER et c'est ce qui importe, non??
That’s the thing about all the “polyglots” on TH-cam, they claim to be speaking 15 or more multiple languages (always adding a click bait title like ‘polyglot’) but their knowledge is only limited to phrases like ‘hello, I am learning .... language, I teach it myself, I love learning languages’ et cetera, but when it comes to real life situations they’re unable to express themselves
I think it's important to note that he doesn't say that he's FLUENT in all these languages, he just speaks a bit of each. For example, I speak Japanese, Okinawan Hougen, and English fluently. When I say fluent I mean I can understand an advanced amount of the language, and if I don't understand a word or phrase, I can have it explained to me in that language without having to revert back to my native tongue. But I do speak conversationally in Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, and Korean. So if I post a video of me speaking all the languages I know, 4 out of 7 are going to be with shaky grammar and pretty bad.
I speak 5 languages: really advanced Spanish (I was raised in Spain), English ( half of my family is english, it is also my mothertongue) advanced Galician (my dads family is from Galicia (place in the NW of Spain), intermediate Portuguese ( learnt it by hearing it and it is very similiar to Spanish and even more to Galician) intermediate French (I learnt it for 3 years at school but I have not practiced it much), intermediate Italian ( I have a fair few italian friends that I can practice with, it also has its similarities with spanish). Right now I am learning german and I am perfecting my Italian
As long as the message is sent and he's able to communicate with people in different languages, who gives a shit about his pronunciation? I mean, aren't languages supposed be tools of communication? P.S. I'm a piece of shit who speaks multiple languages, most of them really badly, hence my biased opinion which serves no bigger purpose than to make me feel less bad about myself.
I hate to say it but I don't think this guy really deserves the title of polyglot. To me, a polyglot is someone who was able to achieve fluency in say 4+ languages, and maybe has some kind of crazy natural ability. I have a friend who I would consider a polyglot; she speaks Polish, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, French and Mandarin with surprising fluency. I don't claim to know these languages, but hearing her speak with natives always sounded really natural and smooth. She speaks quite decent English, but says English is her weakest language by far. By the way, this guy's Japanese is a tad shite. I am no Japanese expert, but 私はカウボーイです is not a tricky sentence. He didn't conjugate any verbs, or use any complex grammar. AはBです(か) is page 1 of the simplest Japanese textbooks. I would say he doesn't speak Japanese.
I agree sir, he is no way a polyglot, it seems like he has no basic understanding of most of the 18 languages he claims to be fluent in (fluent is used here because he calls him self a polyglot), maybe he knows three or four languages well but he is another youtuber seeking quick fame. I cant judge his ability and he certainly knows way more than me but I can say that for my native language he is barely at a level capable of holding a normal conversation, and this seems the trend as many comments say this for other languages.
y w I felt the same when he talked in spanish, He only said: I painted these and repeated it twice, then he said I like “tortilla de patata” when he was asked the reason to go to Spain. I follow Moses as well and they both struggle so much with spanish, I wonder if it is the same with the other languages I can’t understand.
Yes its the same, I speak hindi Dutch german and french. His french is ok. His hindi is bad. His Dutch Amsterdam accent is very thick, which is probably why he has trouble with sounding authentic in other languages.
Oh for sure he speaks horrible Japanese, his pronunciation is way off, he doesn't know anything but the most basic sentences, and I suppose he doesn't know conjunctions of verbs at all. That's not considered even basic level, let alone speaking a language. And btw his Hebrew is also very bad, probably as his Japanese.
Man, that Brazilian women was gorgeous and that Italian dude was so energetic -- he was speaking with his hands and it was pretty cool to see/hear how Italians speak!
Wouter je bent fantastisch. Ik zelf spreek 9 talen en ik deel in je plezier dat je er aan ontleent. Taal is identiteit en de verdieping van je identiteit is een bron van oneindig genoegen.
Subs in Turkish! True, I literally stated in my comment that it wasn't perfect. He does need to work on his language skills but that doesn't mean that he's "bad." he may only be able to speak a few sentences even, that doesn't make him bad at that language. It just means he has to improve.
This guy's a genius. He learnt 18 languages only in order to be obnoxious and culturally insensitive to people from all the around the world in their own mother tongues!
rejoice5-HT To be fair what’s he going to say to a stranger whose language he barely knows other than “ Hello” “Goodbye” and “That painting is 28 dollars”? He’s trying to learn from these people by talking to them. I think he only meant to have fun with them by saying common phrases everyone knows like “Vodka” and “Spaghetti”, even if it was a little cringeworthy at times
Thanks so much. This Polyglot idea changed my life so much. Language is simply a key to soooo many things. It pushed me to an extend İ couldnt dream of before. And just by the way İ even learnt to love my native language German, which I didnt before.
Also, even if you knew how to speak it you wouldn't be able to have a conversation with anyone because even the most knowledgeable are able to say one sentence or so without having to cheat.
There are different kinds of Latin, guys. There is the more common "Roman-Catholic Latin" nowadays, which is actually spoken, but mostly in the Vatican as a form of tradition. There is also "Roman Latin" which has mostly made up rules, but still standardized in textbooks that are taught in schools that still have the language as a class. The language is only "dead" because the population that feasibly speaks it consistently is less than any other language, but it's still a language that people can speak.
Your Thai is pretty broken. You said "poot Thai nid noi", that is the same as saying "Speak Thai little bit". What you need to be saying is "Poot paa saa Thai dai nid noi" which literally translates as "speak language Thai can a little bit" but would be the same as saying "I can speak a little bit of Thai". You can also add "pom" at the beginning too as that means "I (for male speakers)" but pronouns are usually dropped in Thai if it is obvious by context. A good follow up after "saa-bai dee mai" would be "kun chue a-rai" which is "You name what" as a literal translation, but means "What is your name?" Keep at it
Amazing that you are able to speak so many languages wow! Even tho it's quite basic in some of them, it's still amazing! I'm only able to have conversations in Danish (first language), English, Korean and German - and the last two I'm still struggling haha. An advice I would give is to study the dialect and the speed of the languages you can speak so far. Your way of speaking is very similar when you talk in the different languages - you don't really change. Obviously I don't understand all the languages but I could especially see it with the Korean and Danish part :-)). If you nail that you'll sound much more fluent! Really cool tho!!
Thanks for your comment and advice. And yes, I have a basic level in most of the languages which I speak. Danish is really hard language and unfortunately there aren't a lot of Danish tourists. I have the same problem with Japanese. I will try to improve my accent in all languages. I'm meeting al lot of tourists every day, so I have great possibilities to work on my accent, grammar and knowledge of vocabulary. Good luck with the languages wich you are learning! Cheers
Hi I'm an Indonesian trilingual and wow man 18 languages that's impressive. I obviously dont understand all 18 except for English, Indonesian and Chinese. Here's what little advice I can offer you: For your Chinese, try to pay more attention to your shengdiao (intonations) as its sometimes hard to distinguish what you are saying (many chinese words sound similar and I think you know that). I recommend you to watch more chinese movies/videos and pay attention to the way they speak. They tend to speak fast but it is perfectly alright to slow down. For your Bahasa Indonesia on the other hand, try to speak in a different accent like what @frejamøller said and I also recommend reading books/online articles in Indonesian, so as to improve the way you structure your sentences and your vocabulary. You are definitely on track (atleast in learning Indonesian and Chinese). Keep up the awesome work!
Wouter Corduwener Hey you! :-). Danish is indeed a language that's very hard to learn - especially the pronunciation as you said in the video. Actually I'm studying at university right now and one of the things I'm studying is Danish as a second language, so how to teach Danish to others. I really admire people learning Danish after starting at university haha! You are truly great! Keep up the good work!
Average Joesson I never tried but I think it's harder. My french teacher was swedish (Yes that's weird) and sometimes she was saying something in swedish but I can't remeber that much.
Wind I'll search for a simple text online and I will try to understand it. :) EDIT: I read the Wikipedia article about Norway in Norwegian and it was actually very good to understand. I'm not bad at languages but although I never learned anything Norwegian it was possible. But I highly doubt that I could understand the spoken language due to the pronunciation.
I respect that you’ve learnt all these languages, you can really see the smile on the people’s faces when they see you speak there language! Much respect... I’m in Holland in July, I wanna come and say hello! Where abouts are you?
I have commented a lot lately about how I like your videos and I share a passion for language with you. And, I must tell you I enjoy you attitude and spirit, I will look you up when I get to Amsterdam. God bless bro.
He probably told the people that he'd have a little conversation with them on camera to ensure the whole camera-thing wouldn't be weird to them. Due to this, the conversation feels a lot more forced, and less realistic. The subjects don't really feel natural, either. He's very good at the languages, however!
Scott Holder it's not, I met him personally on a trip at the place with the wind mills. Not only did I see him verbally interacting with passerbys with their language, but he also tried to speak to me.
You don't have actual conversations with most of these people. You just use a few lines you learned from a book or the internet, which causes really awkward situations. You haven't impressed anyone with this, tbh.
ok you try using a few basic lines on 18 different languages with strangers..
Jae Park I really don't understand why you think it's such a hard thing to do.
darkaquatus, You should have more honest people like you in this world :) I wish there were more guys like you! Thanks a lot mate
darkaquatus, I'm waiting for your video :)
It looks like darkaquatus already has some subscribers for his new channel. If will definitely subscribe too. He sounds like a pro. :)
2:14 *having a serious conversation*
2:15 *blows whistle casually and softly*
@Federico Rubio same though
I love that the russian guy brought a gift from his country to give to a stranger he meets. That's really sweet.
I also noticed on that gift. Really sweet guy. 🥺
He’s not very good at korean but still impressive he could speak that many languages and actually tried to speak with the natives. I admire his confidence.
I can speak 10 languages . English and Binary .
AHAHAHAHA
Syahmi Amin to you that don't know the jokes, 10 means 2 in binary.
and I speak 11 so
Shafwan Dito wouldn't that make it 3 languages?
GianuGoes 1 is 1 , 10 is 2 , 11 is 3 , 100 is 4 .. and so on
I struggle with 3 languages, the fact that you can speak 18 is mind blowing.
Jeniko same, mindblowing
Same, which languages do you speak? I speak English, French and Japanese
produde24 English, spanish and polish.
I want to learn maybe russian or german in the future tho
Ya I would love to learn German too, or even Korean because of its similar grammar to Japanese
i also speak polish
It's obvious to anyone watching this video that Italian is indeed spoken with the hands.
I'm italian and I swear you're at least 90% right 😂
His Arabic :-
1. Hi
2. How are you?
3. How old are you?
4. Where are you from ?
5. I need drink water ( I know it's not related but still something in Arabic)
6. Bye
This is one of 18 languages .. still good job 👍
Arabic is really hard to learn :(
@@tonia6953 easy language
اللغة السهل
@@tonia6953 not really.
@@sam-r4t arabic alphabit is Hard actually
@@irinaivanovna6380 yes, but as someone who is an actual polyglot and sworn translator (not yet arabic) I can tell, that the language itself is not THAT difficult. Just the writing. :D
Heey guys :) The video which you are watching now is is an older video of 2015. I improved 9 of the languages which I speak in this video and I made a video with my progress at the end of 2016. I want to recommend you to watch my video with my recent levels in these 9 languages: th-cam.com/video/T30AlXMJ6L0/w-d-xo.html. Of course I can handle criticism, but it's nice if you can criticize me after watching the video with my progress so far. Then you can also compare these two videos :) Cheers
FINNISH! FINNISH!
Subhanallah.
My Danish is at the same level, but I improved the other languages. This year I want to improve my Danish.
As a native Danish speaker I think your understanding of the language is really good. listening and speaking Danish is really hard, but writing is easy!
This must be a talent to learn so many languages,
I can only speak english but members of my family speak; dutch, french, Nijanja, fanti... etc.
I cannot seem to learn any more languages then english so All I can do is to perfect my english.
People say I am lazy, but it cannot
Be that. I just can't seem to grasp these these other languages.
This is like watching the sims in real life interacting.
Brenden ahahahahah
Brenden so true
Brenden you deserve a like for your accuracy and creativity.
LOL. The accuracy, i can't... 😂😂😂
I love you
Russian part:
"How's your mood?"
"Well, don't have a born child yet so that's good"
That made me laugh so fucking hard. It's like he's just literally saying anything he can
No, that wasn't a random stuff, that was actually really cool! In Russian, there is kinda rhyming slang reply "how are you" - "kak dela" - "poka ne rodila".
The same with Arabic lol
Русский надо учить ещё однозначно. Но он очень трудный)
@@andrewjexel7187 здрасьте ! - пизду покрасьте!))
Саша Пиздоболов по моему там про забор или потолок обычно говорится, чувак
5:19 to a german that sounds sarcastic, it’s like saying “oh you work at a kindergarten? That’s... cool i guess”
"das ist unglaublich cool" ja kam mir auch so vor ;) Aber der hat auch ein starken niederländischen Dialekt und der Heiopei der da über den Kindergarten spricht, spricht auch nicht grade flüssig. :/ Liegt bestimmt an der Anpassung seiner Sprache, wenn man mit seinen Gegenüber spricht.^^
Well in Dutch “unglaublich” (which is ongelooflijk) is kinda sarcastic too :)
Sean Barry ironic*
Antoine Romijn sarcastic would be a better term to use as ironic doesn’t usually refer to speech but rather a fact such as a football player without feet
Sean Barry i
I know 18 Languages too
1. Assembly
2. Bash
3. Brainfuck
4. C
5. C++
6. C#
7. CSS
8. HTML
9. Java
10. Javascript
11. Matlab
12. Perl
13. PHP
14. Processing
15. Python
16. QBasic
17. Scratch
18. SQL
oh i get you
impossibru
English is for talking with people about anything, programming languages are for telling orders to compilers. Here's one english sentence you can translate to C#:
Enlish: "Move the bitwise logical or result of 22 and 44 to some temporary place. Store it as a integer please!"
C#: "int x = 22 | 44;"
How are they similar?
Akshay Aradhya
You cant code in brainfuck. Im calling bullshit
Who cares if he's not fluent in those languages... language means communication and comprehension... That's it!
My dream's To Get 3K Subs With No Video mate, he is able to communicate with those languages
Plus ...its hard to learn more than 2 language......FOR ME !!!!
My dream's To Get 3K Subs With No Video youre so wrong. its a culture
Well he can’t exactly communicate properly if he’s not fluent...
+My dream
Well if we're talking not-fluent-language, then I speak about 8.
Fluent however, is 3.
Fluent for me is when you stop stuttering when ordering a sandwich with several toppings (no "euh...with the.eh- eh- eh- ehhhh- lettuce and the eh-eh-eh-what's it called, ehh..ehh..pickles..and-" ) and are able to direct strangers across town with 'left right, left at church, right at supermarket, trainstation etc.'-directions.
If that goes perfectly smooth, and you can answer a couple of basic questions, I think you can say you're fluent.
However, I personally put the bar higher for myself. I say fluent when I can ramble on about things, without having to stop and search for the words.
Wouter: Your japanese is good
Japanese person: Thanks
lmao
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Just out of the blue when he was speaking in Arabic he said “I want water” wtf you just can’t spit any phrase you know man
Classic Arabic tolerance 👌
The guy can speak the languages, but he does have many grammar mistakes. Still much better than a ton of people. Respect.
Thanks mate
1.) English 0:00
2.) Mandarin 0:35
3.) Russian 1:28
4.) French 2:38
5.) German 4:48
6.) Thai 7:02
7.) Hebrew 8:03
8.) Vietnamese 9:13
9.) Tagalog 10:08
10.) Portuguese 11:11
11.) Korean 12:38
12.) Indonesian 13:43
13.) Spanish 15:09
14.) Japanese 15:34
15.) Arabic 16:14
16.) Dutch 16:55
17.) Italian 17:42
18.) Danish 18:46
***** obrigado
Jie Fu hebat ini orang..
Archive 2010 correction..
12) Bahasa Melayu
FU BRAIN you best dude
Ameer Salimi LOL
You speak a chunk of asian languages. I expected you to speak mostly European languages. You didn't include English because everyone knows it obviously, but I'm surprised that you speak Thai among all of them. I wonder if you know how to write in those asian languages, because it would be pretty dope.
English was at the very start
@Laris Don't mind me, but your profile picture Jisoo is 😍
I doubt it, he mostly learned from the streets. He seems poor, so he likely doesn't have the time/resources to learn how to write in all those languages
Brendan Berney he’s definitely not poor with a all the views he gets lok
his thai is a weeks worth of practice.. i had a hard time understanding it because its a tonal language and he wasnt using the tones right at all and the words and grammar were wrong lol.. but yea i guess he was sort of speaking it a bit. but any foreigner who comes to thailand for a week can learn what he was saying without studying. i wonder how many of these languages he can read and write as well because thai he certainly cant read and write... but yea thats crazy he has those european languages down
The portuguese part was very funny, lol. I love your videos, and i don't understand why people are upset that you don't speak fluent.
You held a simple conversation, and that's good for me. And also, you are very charismatic.
Sou brasileiro, e estudei inglês por muito tempo. Mesmo sendo fluente, eu também não sei tudo. Um abraço, e já estou inscrito no seu canal. ^_^
People need to give this guy a break. The title of the video said that he's speaks several different languages, not that the guy speaks every single language perfectly 🙄
Don't listen to the complainers, guy. You did fantastic. What you've done is very impressive! I personally don't know anyone who speaks more than 3 languages. And some of them can't even really read or write them. They just speak 'em. Some of 'em really broken even, but my point is that they try. You did great!
Thanks to your comment I can sleep now :)
L BW right on!
+L BW thank you for saying this. He may only know basics but he clearly wants to learn to talk to people, which is a good model for any language learning
Dear subscribers/viewers, if you have any advice/requests for new videos, please share it here. I like to motivate other language lovers/learners with my videos. You can also say witch videos of my channel you like more. I hope I can make more videos for the right audience in this year.
The videos on my channel. I like to research which kind of videos are appreciated more.
But you have a nice name :)
+Wouter Corduwener
Your video is funny. you are pretty good in french but I can see that you are weak in Arabic! you speak Arabic language with Algerian dialect, no? I hope that you can improuve it
Sorry, for my level in Arabic here. I know I have a low level now, but I will try my best to improve it. Each three months I'm trying to improve 1 of these languages to the same level as my French or Germen.
+Wouter Corduwener
good luck ;-)
At 9:18 a turkish guy at the right wants to learn if he knows Turkish too with saying "Meraba abi" which means "Hello bro" I think. Lol that made me laugh so much xD
LMFAOOOO
I know native turkish and yeah he said " Hello Bro" then continued walking without giving a f** lol
I mean, I know that he doesn’t speak most of these languages very well, but the fact that he knows them at all and is able to keep them straight is very impressive.
I'm from Russia. And for me very hard to catch his words clearly. I think Russian who talking with him just trying to be polite.
Denis Gabyshev yeah, that's what a lot of the people he was talking to were doing
Nah his german was pretty decent . I could easily understand everything
His french was very understandable
Denis Gabyshev yeah his Russian was not good, but remember he is just learning these from tourists and maybe the tourists have bad accents or something
i understood it without any problems tbh
Dude you're amazing. You're energy for life is contagious. The passion you have for other languages is quit inspiring. You get a sub.
He's amazing ,I love the fact that he just wanted to talk and talk and talk ,and just have fun and socialize! :D ,It's not a must to speak all those languages fluently ,the main purpose of learning any language is actually to make a bridge between you ,and their native speakers! ,your body language ,your sense of humor ,plus some cultural background ,they're all "extremely" help to pave that bridge ,and patch up any gaps as well!. :) ..I'm Arabic from Libya ,and I really appreciated his effort to speak in Arabic ,although it sounded odd and funny ! ,but I appreciate it because I know how difficult is Arabic for him . I should thank him ,he inspired me to rev up my "passion" for languages again!. :)
While this is really impressive, I love how his Dutch accent shows through all his languanges
Why are you telling people they speak good _____? It's their first/only language.
as a joke
Jeru Kim Terrible joke
i agree but they seem to enjoy it
Mcdanny lol Ikr I would be pretty offended if someone said "you speak good english". Like what did you think? I'm retarded.
His russian pronounciation was pretty hard to understand, but it's quite a hard language.
TheLatvianHamster Same for french
You can easily see, that he has never spent any time with teacher, but anyway he made a lot of work.
TheLatvianHamster I second that, I would've struggled to understand without subtitles.
But if he can keep a conversation, that's good enough ;)
His Chinese was that way too and his grammar and the translation in the video for the Korean segment was bad
TheLatvianHamster his Spanish was funny the girl even laughed at the end
When he spoke Vietnamese, he tried to avoid answering to questions and instead only go for his separate stories in Vietnamese like it was pre-programmed.
I think he is skillful either way but I just think that a lot of stuff he learnt was just preprogrammed and cannot adapt on the fly so well if they one he talks to switch the subjects to their likings...
Thats not a reality, thats a STEP in learning a language, he used to do the same with my language “spanish” and now he got waaaaaay better... first you learn a bunch of expressions then you go and have conversations to lose the fear of using the language and once that fear is over you start to absorb everything that the other person says which automatically starts to be on your vocabulary, for me this happened with bulgarian, english and mandarin so its absolutely normal
The title is "speaking 18 languages," not "being fluent in 18 languages"
@@mattari97, well in that case, I can also say "Hello" in 18 languages.
Amazing, suddenly I can speak 18 languages!
Thats not what he did so how is it relevant ?
@@mattari97, what he did was very similar in that sense that he repeated exactly what he learnt by heart, a specific phrase - only.
If somebpdy asked him a tricky question on the spot, then he would have a problem to answer since that was not what he learnt. He is not adaptable to the language.
You can clearly see him dodging those tricky questions during Vietnamese part and instead went on with what he learnt like what a parrot would have done.
You seem to have problem to understand this principle. I think Im talking to a wall right now.
I speak
1.English(advanced
2. Swahili(advanced (i moved to kneya
3. Somali.(advanced (mother tongue
4.Norwegian.(advanced (mother tongue (i was born in Norway
5. Arabic.(advanced (i learnt the quran together with arabic
6. Japanese. (Intermediate (self taught
7. Spanish(intermediate(self taught
8. Korean(intermediate (self taught
9. Chinese(intermediate(self taught
10. Italian( intermediate( self taught.
I am learning Hindi, Turkish, Geman , Persian and Urdu( which is easy due to the similarity in Arabic) Portuguese ( which is the hardest so far).
Bruh
Stfu liar
I'm Portuguese haha, good luck!
@@baderbhr1760 I really dont need you to believe. Polyglots are everywhere these days. What r u doing with life 🤣😂😂😂😂
@@joelgaspar830 the pronunciation of s and i and r and so many things. Its hard
Whether you like his language skills or not, he sure knows how to attract customers and make connections if you ask me.
Thanks for the motivation mate
Wouter Corduwener ..no thank you..for motivating me to at least become bilingual..the world could be a better...
Wouter Corduwener ...place if we followed in your footsteps..best of wishes to you friend
that dude is goofy...
people tend to be goofy when they speak a foreign language.
I agree with you, with language comes culture. It's the culture we are truly struggling to understand. I suppose to understand Malay and Indonesia, English, Arabic, Thai, and few aboriginals from my place.
I understood that you cannot speak the language if you don't understand the culture of it's natives speaker. PERIOD. This guy must watch endless videos to understand them and he is still goofy.
I am too.
+Athousand Light Haha you refer to English as one language when really there are many variations American English, New Zealand English, England English. Although it may all be the same language the way words are said are different not to mention the accents and cultures and all of this is just from one language and not even going in depth.
+Athousand Light Haha you refer to English as one language when really there are many variations American English, New Zealand English, England English. Although it may all be the same language the way words are said are different not to mention the accents and cultures and all of this is just from one language and not even going in depth.
Thomas Dank engine
Every main language have a variation accents and slang. Even my own.
But the rules of the language mostly don't change.
Thats why I said, we CANNOT SPEAK in a language before we understand the culture.
All that accent and slang comes from CULTURE itself.
Understand?
He just memerize the phrases download from google play app
He spoke well, it’s not easy remembering the languages and mixing them, my French, Italian and Spanish always mix, English being my mother tongue, there’s people who don’t know their own language.! It means he could actually get through from country to country around the world a lot easier than most because local language-can go a long way.!
I can speak 7 languages English, Spanish, Swedish, Catalan, C#, html and JavaScript
CRΔZY I speak English french German Chinese Japanese and Arabic +CSS and HTML
MarshMallow Monster Hola ¡como Estas!
I speak English, Bullshit, Sarcasm and a bunch of swear words from all over
+Trius
namespace MainNamespace {
public class Girlfriend {
public boolean niceArse;
public Girlfriend() {
niceArse = true;
}
}
public class Main {
public static void main(string[] args) {
Girlfriend gf = new Girlfriend();
Console.WriteLine(gf.niceArse); // => true
}
}
}
HAHAHAH
unbelievable. I met this guy and he speaks 35 languages. In this video we are practicing 15 languages which we have in common: th-cam.com/video/t3H5D-XxPrI/w-d-xo.html
only Russian it is impossible to speak without an accent, but you try. Just don't drink too much, it's bad
Hey Wouter you are so handsome and talented. Please make a video of you speaking entirely in Spanish.
Laoshu50500 speaks 50 languages hij is ook indrukwekkend
Andre Vyent Ik spreek neit goed Nederlands, but I can only say a few things. Sometimes I can fool people who used to be so mean to me with speaking foreign languages in my text messages.
Why does he looks like a sims when he starts moving 😂
I'm a native Hebrew speaker and it was so cool to hear you actually speaking it too.
it wasn't perfect but still very cool!
Right especially since Hebrew is somewhat a hard language to learn for native English speakers. A lot of them have trouble pronouncing the Chet sound
I speak a lot. English, Russian, Sarcasm, Bullshit, FSX Pilot
God, this is one of the worst comment sections I've seen on TH-cam. This is probably one of the coolest videos I've seen on this site and people are shitting all over this guy :(
Wow you can speak Tagalog straight. Damn you da best . Wow 😮😮😮 . You deserve my sub. Love from phillipines. Nice job 🤗😊
17:46 "You need to move like an Italian." LOL 😂
Can you open a duck?
ttobyg You need a key shaped like a knife.
ttobyg I don't even think his translations were correct. I speak Chinese myself and the duck part was totally different than what it actually meant.
the translation for duck is correct. bei jing kao ya means bei jing duck.
ttobyg h
ttobyg bb
Speaking all those languages wasn't those most impressive thing of this video, nor your speaking ability and nor your
listening comprehension in my opinion even though all of that was great.
The most impressive thing was that you had no hesitation in speaking whatsoever and that you were always motivated to talk with others throughout the whole video despite not being completely fluent. Truly inspiring , you got a new subscriber :)
+Julian Cowpurse Cheers and thanks. And you're right about I'm not fluent in a lot of languages. But no problem. Each month or two months I'm choosing one language to upgrade my level. At the same time I have the advantage that I can practice every day with tourists, so I will not forget my other languages. Soon there will be a new video like this, so be patience :)
I second this. And of course your unique, rather organic way of learning these languages is pretty amazing.
"The toilet is ok"
Good to know.
♦️I speak 6 languages
🔹Bahasa Indonesia
🔹Arabic
🔹Japanese
🔹English
🔹Javanese
🔹Sundanese
:v
in the korean one, kimchi is not seaweed, it's made with cabbage
i tot i was the only one that heard kimchi and saw the subs with seaweed😂
haha XD
holy these hebrew girls are really pretty
you mean girls that speak hebrew?
ok i mean israeli i guess
as pretty as them Arabics!
Calm down satan
.... that's Muslim women, not Jewish
I went to visit Holland when I was around 11-12 years old quite a few years ago now but I'm pretty sure you drew a caricature of me that I still have stored somewhere and just happened to vaguely recognize you and the fact you drew in me at Zaanse Schans. Could be wrong but I was a long time ago now haha
Do you speak these languages, or have you mostly studied introductory conversations in each of them?
He’s too young to master all of these languages
If you want to see me speaking some Mandarin while I'm doing a 3min/4min caricature, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/f1idryAzMYE/w-d-xo.html
+Wouter Corduwener German and Danish are similar to Dutch.
+Wouter Corduwener At about 10:10 the woman said "como esta", do you know the origin of this term? I'm rather fascinated that the meaning is the same as, and the word is hardly different than that of the Spanish language.
+WARIO TOAD 32 I didn't know that, thanks
+Wouter Corduwener hey which language you think it's similar to English language and is easy to learn?
+Rebo punk French. About 35% of English contains French vocabulary.
I admire his enthusiasm to learn and communicate with people in their own language, regardless of his skill level :)
+Nagel Khanisar (nagelkhaniar) Thanks, and you speak Japanese?
"Do you also have juice that is not fresh for half the price?" Yes, he's definitely speaking Dutch.
>speaks 18 languages
>still can't speak Polish
KURWA. Only thing you need to know
You know that word Kurwa is not only one word? ;]
wakurwakurwakurwakurwakur
Probably he doesn't see many tourists. But, I have a Polish friend and I have seen the grammar. It seems easier to learn some of 18 languages. ☺
or dutch
I'm dutch but I live in Amsterdam.... what???!!!!!!!
LOL. He might want to changed but to and..
Who tf asks what kind of girls do you like to a stranger ?
Mohammed Faizan or 'can you gut/cut/cook a duck?'
Mohammed Faizan 'is it a good toilet?'
Mohammed Faizan:
A pimp
Alexander Berg lmao
Seriously. I really enjoyed so many aspects of this video but I wish he didn't ask that creeper question.
한국말은...좀 어색하는데 the korean was very awkward and at times impolite but its okay i know you are not fluent. Just..always use 존댓말 when meeting someone. You asked "한국 사람?" ("korean person?") but you should have said "한국 사람이에요?" with the 요 and that is "are you a korean person?" in a polite way. Also asking what type of girls he likes that is very...um....strange. dont do that ahahaha.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅇㅈ
딴거처럼 여유롭게 못하고 그냥 아는거 일단 꺼내는 느낌임
He cant speak at all the guy is repeating what he says who would say to a korean do you have many korean friends😅 also he didnt even translate the koreans answers properly he said i like clean and nice girls 😅
4. French -> already drinking wine ahah
Just to be exact, the Filipina asked the guy what he thought of the weather/climate in the Philippines, NOT the typhoon.
Ksus Susk Filipina -> a at the end of the noun, presumably making it female, this rule comes from latin.
For some reason im cringing on how he pronounces the words. He emphasizes his voice on the wrong places.
Lqhua Lbwnkw I feel you
Very impressive. I can feel your passion towards language and you enjoy communicating with people. Thai and Chinese are both tone languages, but you know how to speak it properly. I think that's an aptitude.
Why is everybody criticizing him so much? It doesn’t matter that he’s not fluent because he never implemented that he was. I speak French & I also understood some of the portuguese and even tho he’s not great at speaking both the languages he took his time to learn some of their language which is amazing in itself.
@@bazingapuzza are you jealous dude ?
@@bazingapuzza - Pas besoin de crier, connasse. Et pas besoin non plus d'être aussi aggressive non plus. Tout ce que Prettyass Alicée
a dit c'est qu'il est capable de COMMUNIQUER et c'est ce qui importe, non??
That’s the thing about all the “polyglots” on TH-cam, they claim to be speaking 15 or more multiple languages (always adding a click bait title like ‘polyglot’) but their knowledge is only limited to phrases like ‘hello, I am learning .... language, I teach it myself, I love learning languages’ et cetera, but when it comes to real life situations they’re unable to express themselves
@@fatihpl Its called being conversational not fluent. Learn the difference then you would understand.
Nothing wrong calling out deceitful people with misleading titles.
The italian guy is so firee
Wow, that's really impressive. The accents just need some work on, but accents are always the hardest to develop naturally.
Knows 18 languages BRUH his accents off
Is a accent not something that develops naturally for everyone? Cause you said its the hardest thing to do. That makes no sense really.
I think it's important to note that he doesn't say that he's FLUENT in all these languages, he just speaks a bit of each. For example, I speak Japanese, Okinawan Hougen, and English fluently. When I say fluent I mean I can understand an advanced amount of the language, and if I don't understand a word or phrase, I can have it explained to me in that language without having to revert back to my native tongue. But I do speak conversationally in Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, and Korean. So if I post a video of me speaking all the languages I know, 4 out of 7 are going to be with shaky grammar and pretty bad.
Joshfromjapan In that case i speak 30 languages
r/iamverysmart
Yup!
Maybe because the title's suggests he is. "Polyglot"
he does way more than anyone commenting anything negative
The reactions from these people were awesome.
I speak 5 languages: really advanced Spanish (I was raised in Spain), English ( half of my family is english, it is also my mothertongue) advanced Galician (my dads family is from Galicia (place in the NW of Spain), intermediate Portuguese ( learnt it by hearing it and it is very similiar to Spanish and even more to Galician) intermediate French (I learnt it for 3 years at school but I have not practiced it much), intermediate Italian ( I have a fair few italian friends that I can practice with, it also has its similarities with spanish). Right now I am learning german and I am perfecting my Italian
As long as the message is sent and he's able to communicate with people in different languages, who gives a shit about his pronunciation? I mean, aren't languages supposed be tools of communication?
P.S. I'm a piece of shit who speaks multiple languages, most of them really badly, hence my biased opinion which serves no bigger purpose than to make me feel less bad about myself.
Korean was pretty hard to understand, but the guy he was talking to was really nice.
I hate to say it but I don't think this guy really deserves the title of polyglot. To me, a polyglot is someone who was able to achieve fluency in say 4+ languages, and maybe has some kind of crazy natural ability. I have a friend who I would consider a polyglot; she speaks Polish, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, French and Mandarin with surprising fluency. I don't claim to know these languages, but hearing her speak with natives always sounded really natural and smooth. She speaks quite decent English, but says English is her weakest language by far. By the way, this guy's Japanese is a tad shite. I am no Japanese expert, but 私はカウボーイです is not a tricky sentence. He didn't conjugate any verbs, or use any complex grammar. AはBです(か) is page 1 of the simplest Japanese textbooks. I would say he doesn't speak Japanese.
I agree sir, he is no way a polyglot, it seems like he has no basic understanding of most of the 18 languages he claims to be fluent in (fluent is used here because he calls him self a polyglot), maybe he knows three or four languages well but he is another youtuber seeking quick fame. I cant judge his ability and he certainly knows way more than me but I can say that for my native language he is barely at a level capable of holding a normal conversation, and this seems the trend as many comments say this for other languages.
y w I felt the same when he talked in spanish, He only said: I painted these and repeated it twice, then he said I like “tortilla de patata” when he was asked the reason to go to Spain. I follow Moses as well and they both struggle so much with spanish, I wonder if it is the same with the other languages I can’t understand.
Yes its the same, I speak hindi Dutch german and french. His french is ok. His hindi is bad. His Dutch Amsterdam accent is very thick, which is probably why he has trouble with sounding authentic in other languages.
Oh for sure he speaks horrible Japanese, his pronunciation is way off, he doesn't know anything but the most basic sentences, and I suppose he doesn't know conjunctions of verbs at all.
That's not considered even basic level, let alone speaking a language.
And btw his Hebrew is also very bad, probably as his Japanese.
Wow, he cant just TAKE somebody's food without asking
Other than the fact that the scenes with people were blatantly acted out, it's still impressive that you spoke that many languages.
THERE IS MORE TALENT IN THE 20 MIN VIDEO THAN MY ENTIRE LIFE HAS OBTAINED
Man, that Brazilian women was gorgeous and that Italian dude was so energetic -- he was speaking with his hands and it was pretty cool to see/hear how Italians speak!
I was like "Oh, I wish he could speak my language" *Danish as the last one* "OMGGGGGGGGG HE SPEAKS MY LANGUAGE!!!!!!"
Your Chinese still has a really strong Dutch accent bro, but was great to see! Keep it up
I have some problems with the tones, but I improved my Mandarin a bit. This video is a lot older, so invite you to watch my other videos too :)
That is the key with Mandarin, progress improves exponentially!
Which way did you learn Japanese?
The German didn't give a shit the dude could speak 15 languages lmao.
Typical Germans, really down-to-earth.
Wouter je bent fantastisch. Ik zelf spreek 9 talen en ik deel in je plezier dat je er aan ontleent. Taal is identiteit en de verdieping van je identiteit is een bron van oneindig genoegen.
Currently learning French and Portuguese and your videos always help me out, thank you Wouter!!!
Honestly I don't get why everyone is complaining that it wasn't "good enough," he's fucking amazing, even if it isn't perfect.
Thanks
Subs in Turkish! True, I literally stated in my comment that it wasn't perfect. He does need to work on his language skills but that doesn't mean that he's "bad." he may only be able to speak a few sentences even, that doesn't make him bad at that language.
It just means he has to improve.
This guy's a genius. He learnt 18 languages only in order to be obnoxious and culturally insensitive to people from all the around the world in their own mother tongues!
loooool
rejoice5-HT Hit it on the spot man.
rejoice5-HT To be fair what’s he going to say to a stranger whose language he barely knows other than “ Hello” “Goodbye” and “That painting is 28 dollars”? He’s trying to learn from these people by talking to them. I think he only meant to have fun with them by saying common phrases everyone knows like “Vodka” and “Spaghetti”, even if it was a little cringeworthy at times
That's how the Dutch are. Obnoxious and culturally insensitive to people.
Lol jk
Not really
lmfao
Wouter has a really have accent while talking Italian, I loved the Italian guy though he’s so nice
Thanks so much. This Polyglot idea changed my life so much. Language is simply a key to soooo many things. It pushed me to an extend İ couldnt dream of before. And just by the way İ even learnt to love my native language German, which I didnt before.
I mean...
I took Latin in highschool for 2 years, but I could never get to this level.
This is amazing.
Beemer That's because Latin is a dead language. The best way of learning a language is exposure to it and he definitely gets it :)
And it's because you probably didn't learn to speak in Latin, because nobody does, you only learn to translate from Latin to your own language
Also, even if you knew how to speak it you wouldn't be able to have a conversation with anyone because even the most knowledgeable are able to say one sentence or so without having to cheat.
There are different kinds of Latin, guys. There is the more common "Roman-Catholic Latin" nowadays, which is actually spoken, but mostly in the Vatican as a form of tradition. There is also "Roman Latin" which has mostly made up rules, but still standardized in textbooks that are taught in schools that still have the language as a class. The language is only "dead" because the population that feasibly speaks it consistently is less than any other language, but it's still a language that people can speak.
I thought it was called a dead language because it's no one's native language right?
this guy has to have such a high mental capacity
Portuguese is a very hard language but yours was good! 18 languages is absolutely crazy well done
Nah brah he sucked. Falsário do caralho, "eu não posso lutar capoeira pq eu bebo muita caipirinha", que porra de frase é essa. *F R A U D*
Monk ele fala muitas línguas diferentes e para alguém que aprendeu na rua o português falou bastante bem
Your Thai is pretty broken. You said "poot Thai nid noi", that is the same as saying "Speak Thai little bit". What you need to be saying is "Poot paa saa Thai dai nid noi" which literally translates as "speak language Thai can a little bit" but would be the same as saying "I can speak a little bit of Thai". You can also add "pom" at the beginning too as that means "I (for male speakers)" but pronouns are usually dropped in Thai if it is obvious by context. A good follow up after "saa-bai dee mai" would be "kun chue a-rai" which is "You name what" as a literal translation, but means "What is your name?" Keep at it
as a swedish guy i understood your danish, and i got to say, you are really good
i seriously understood his danish better than if someone was born in Denmark would speak with me haha. im also swedish
As a Dane, it sounded quite funny, although I understood him just fine, but I found it odd that he used a few German words instead sometimes.
Geir Broden
Ja men det är nog för att det inte låter som om han skulle ha gröt fast i halsen
Alle skandinaviere kan vel forstå hverandre? særlig hvis man fikser litt på språket for å få det til å ligne
Amazing that you are able to speak so many languages wow! Even tho it's quite basic in some of them, it's still amazing! I'm only able to have conversations in Danish (first language), English, Korean and German - and the last two I'm still struggling haha.
An advice I would give is to study the dialect and the speed of the languages you can speak so far. Your way of speaking is very similar when you talk in the different languages - you don't really change. Obviously I don't understand all the languages but I could especially see it with the Korean and Danish part :-)). If you nail that you'll sound much more fluent!
Really cool tho!!
Thanks for your comment and advice. And yes, I have a basic level in most of the languages which I speak. Danish is really hard language and unfortunately there aren't a lot of Danish tourists. I have the same problem with Japanese. I will try to improve my accent in all languages. I'm meeting al lot of tourists every day, so I have great possibilities to work on my accent, grammar and knowledge of vocabulary. Good luck with the languages wich you are learning! Cheers
Hi I'm an Indonesian trilingual and wow man 18 languages that's impressive. I obviously dont understand all 18 except for English, Indonesian and Chinese. Here's what little advice I can offer you:
For your Chinese, try to pay more attention to your shengdiao (intonations) as its sometimes hard to distinguish what you are saying (many chinese words sound similar and I think you know that). I recommend you to watch more chinese movies/videos and pay attention to the way they speak. They tend to speak fast but it is perfectly alright to slow down.
For your Bahasa Indonesia on the other hand, try to speak in a different accent like what @frejamøller said and I also recommend reading books/online articles in Indonesian, so as to improve the way you structure your sentences and your vocabulary.
You are definitely on track (atleast in learning Indonesian and Chinese). Keep up the awesome work!
Wouter Corduwener Hey you! :-). Danish is indeed a language that's very hard to learn - especially the pronunciation as you said in the video. Actually I'm studying at university right now and one of the things I'm studying is Danish as a second language, so how to teach Danish to others. I really admire people learning Danish after starting at university haha! You are truly great! Keep up the good work!
I thought Danish was your first language haha. Good luck with studying languages. Every language which you speak is a key to a new world :)
Wouter Corduwener It is. I'm learning how to teach other people Danish :). It's still difficult tho haha!
And thanks - you too!
Whats also impressove is how he recognizes which country each person is from
he’s such a genius that guy
It's funny that I can understand nearly everything he said to the danish person without knowing any danish just because german is my main language.
Average Joesson I never tried but I think it's harder. My french teacher was swedish (Yes that's weird) and sometimes she was saying something in swedish but I can't remeber that much.
his danish is ****
can you Norwegian? the writing is almost the same as Danish but we pronounce words diffrent
Wind I'll search for a simple text online and I will try to understand it. :)
EDIT: I read the Wikipedia article about Norway in Norwegian and it was actually very good to understand. I'm not bad at languages but although I never learned anything Norwegian it was possible. But I highly doubt that I could understand the spoken language due to the pronunciation.
Coming as I swede I find danish and Norwegian hard to understand when reading but fairly easy when speaking
His Filipino is quite good.
timdella92 when he was speaking Tagalog I was like OMG Spanish words lol
LOL me too i even looked again in case i confused with Spanish
I respect that you’ve learnt all these languages, you can really see the smile on the people’s faces when they see you speak there language! Much respect... I’m in Holland in July, I wanna come and say hello! Where abouts are you?
I have commented a lot lately about how I like your videos and I share a passion for language with you. And, I must tell you I enjoy you attitude and spirit, I will look you up when I get to Amsterdam. God bless bro.
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why does this feel so fake and scripted?
Scott Holder Because he's so unnaturally talented
He probably told the people that he'd have a little conversation with them on camera to ensure the whole camera-thing wouldn't be weird to them. Due to this, the conversation feels a lot more forced, and less realistic. The subjects don't really feel natural, either. He's very good at the languages, however!
conversation with russian guy was totally scripted, especially a gift part
Scott Holder it's not, I met him personally on a trip at the place with the wind mills. Not only did I see him verbally interacting with passerbys with their language, but he also tried to speak to me.
Scott Holder Does it matter?!?! He speaks 18 languages!
He’s Portuguese is for sure memorized every time the couple was asking something he kinda changed subjects he only knew abou caipirinha
Vai toma no cu aprende 19 línguas e ve se fala todas perfeitamente
when he speaks other language i dont really notice if he is not fluent but i realize it when i found my language