As spaniard I promise, his spanish with italian accent was closer to actual spanish pronunciation than the regular english speaker pronunciation. I'm truly surprised.
In principle Spanish should be easy to pronounce as it has fewer sounds than English or German (for instance) - I only realized after starting to learn Spanish how much we 'Germanics' love a vowel. However I think we judge how much 'accent' someone has by a select few sounds that typify the speech of a native, obvious ones being the Spanish rolled 'double r' and the ubiquitous 'schwa' in English.
Yeah this guy is legit. He streams his learning sessions in which he constantly chats with viewers in their languages. You see the process with mistakes and all. He is picking up very quickly, true talent right there.
As someone who has a lot of Polish coworkers, it does sound Polish... but let's not forget that Italian musician who made that song that sound like English, but has not a single English word in it.
I agree with this so much! My personal pet peeve is people who have videos like "I became fluent in Japanese in Four Months!" - and then if you search back, you see they've actually been studying for like seventeen years. But for whatever reason, they want people to believe they became as good as they are in four months. So dumb. How many people have gotten discouraged when they're not fluent after four months and quit learning?
Sometimes they tell the true, becoming fluent is not the same that studying, in my case I became fluent in english living during 2 month in Ireland but I had being studying it for at least 10 years.
Language Jones is one of the biggest douches on the internet. "Native Speaker is a racist term", "The word Spooky is problematic as it may upset black people", "Ebonics has far more complex grammar than RP". What a tosser.
9:09 the other thing I see is they take advantage of politeness in language cultures. I've been learning Korean sporadically for 11 years. I consider myself an "advanced beginner", mostly because I don't practice very often anymore. But Koreans always compliment my Korean. When I hear a Korean say, "Your Korean is so good," I've been around long enough to know that they are mostly expressing polite surprise that an American black man would speak any Korean at all. But one of these YT Polyglots would gladly monetize those interactions as proof of their abilities for people who don't know better. My Korean is much better than many of theirs! But I know it's not worth parading around and making grand promises about.
Thanks for all your language videos, Metatron. I’ve only recently discovered them, but I’ve been binge watching a bunch of them and enjoy the laughs and the education. I hope you’ll do more on Italian and the other regional languages from there (Neapolitan and Sicilian especially) since I’m focusing on Italian these days. Cheers!
American English speaker here…I was fortunate to have been sent to language schools (DLI, FSI…for Spanish, Indonesian, and French) during my 25 year U.S. military career. I also studied Spanish and German in high school (1980s). Near the end of my 7 months of learning French at FSI in 2000/2001, one of my instructors said that I was speaking Tijuana French…because my accent in French is not an American English one but rather a Spanish one. Even while posted to (and traveling) in French-speaking West African countries, many people had difficulty in discerning what my native language was and what country I was from (obviously, those who knew I worked at the US Embassy, knew I was from the US). People would ask me if I’m Spanish or Portuguese.
You should absolutely react to his Italian language review. All of his language reviews are great. He mixes real factual information with satire and sarcasm, but carefully doesn’t explain which is which.
If you get a chance check out one of his livestreams. He's impresive, especially switching between languages to respond to comments in his chat, he really puts the youtube "polyglots" to shame.
His shtick is that his Latin is outstanding but the Latin community knows it’s not true at all. As for his other languages, well sure he’s a bit of a linguist for an American, but here in Europe there are millions of polyglots milling around who wouldn’t even think of calling themselves polyglots. As for his Latin he still requires help reading through Virgil or Horace, perhaps even Ovid - and by help I mean help from a second or third-year college student. There are tens of thousands of trained Latinists around the world who know the language better than he does. So yes the internet is full of scammers of all colours and stripes.
Oh and yes I follow the Metatron and I would consider him to be extremely gifted at languages. His mastery of English is superb. And I understand he is a polyglot though he doesn’t seem to make such a big fuss out if it.
Several years ago when I was taking Spanish classes there was an Italian guy in the class and when he spoke Spanish, it was like he was speaking Italian.
When he was speaking 'Italian' for some reason it reminded me of the anime called, Hetalia and specifically the nation of Italy saying, "PASTA!", LMFAO!
True. The Italian-stereotype is one of the most successful ones, in that show (from my limited exposure to the show). In fact, Mussolini even tried to ban pasta, because wheat was too expensive, at the time. Didn’t work out. 😅 *EDIT:* I’m probably getting the _Cosa Nostra_ after me, for this comment; but, if it makes you guys feel any better, the Finnish-stereotype is very inaccurate: It’s something you’d probably get, if you took a 10-year-old Savonian kid with ADHD, gave him, like, 2 grams of frickin’ Molly, and made an anime character out of the result 😅.
Italian is the most common ancestry in Argentina. There are more people or Italian descent in Argentina than any other ancestry group. This is also why Argentinian Spanish has such a heavy Italian influence.
One of my favorite things about his channel is that it's so tongue and cheek and funny but it's hard to tell when he's being serious so certain language speakers will comment on his stuff in a way that is so sincere on things that are so hilariously not meant to be sincere on his side
I know two languages, learning a third and understand bits and pieces of a few more. More than enough for me thanks. Language simp is far more talented than I'll ever be.
Mate, I don't know what you're talking about... I learnt how to speak ǃXóõ in about a week. 164 consonant phonemes, 31 vowels and four phonemic tones? No problem! I just used my absolute favourite language learning technique... It's so good that I don't even have to learn how to apply it. It just has to be applicable on the listeners end. I call it "Ignorance."
Birra is also said in Spain :p it comes as a loanword from italian, and italian has it apparently from German or some germanic languages. Idk about Argentina, but here it is used as a more casual way to say beer.
I've gotten to B1 in Mandarin in 3 years... and I don't have a job or go to college plus I listen to Chinese music every day and while I did have a job, I'd listen to the music at work
Hi! I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoy your videos and that your English sounds very native. Before finding out that you‘re italian, I thought you were from the UK 😅 I would really like to see you learn German, because I‘ve heard you pronouncing certain words and your pronunciation is incredible for not having studied any German. And because the pronunciation is one of the hardest parts of my mother tounge for foreigners, I think you would do an excellent job learning it. Saludos desde Alemania
This so true. Learning languages is very hard and time consuming. What is worst, even if you have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours learning and you stop speaking a language for few years, it turns passive and you cannot speak well anymore without training. I have studied six modern and four classical languages but speak somewhat fluently only two. I read texts quite fluently on eight and have published academic translations from one to my mothertongue. I have a master's degree of filology and work daily with languages studying and analysing them but I would not dare to think that I could ever speak fluently even four as active language.
I'm Mexican and grew up with California Spanish. I took French in college from an honest to God French woman. She told me I spoke French like a Mexican. I said NO SHIT.? I AM A MEXICAN!! I dropped the class.
Acaba de mencionar a los argentinos y decir birra. Este hombre se merece mi like automatico. Metatron, si vienes a Argentina dejame invitarte unas buenas birras.
@@wilgefortisohlin568I'm pretty sure this was his way of mocking the stereotypical way people perceive Polish without even attempting to familiarise themselves with it. Or perhaps I'm reaching, and he's just doing a dumb little skit with no depth.
Just found your channel. I love you already in the first 60 seconds. It's too bad that people do this. I've spent many, many hours studying different languages at different times of my life. I would say, I'm "lucky" and I have good auditory memory and I'm crazy and love to study verbs, but I still have to put in thousands of hours of studying...
It took me 15 months of living in Argentina to consider myself slightly near fluency. I still wouldn’t consider myself fluent after staying two years in total in Argentina
5:23 I literally just had an ad, asking: ”Wanna learn Hebrew, in 2 weeks?”. I skipped and blocked it (although, the blocking doesn’t really do Diddley Gopnik Squat). 😅
Dude, I took 2.5 years of German classes in highschool, and I wasn't even close to fluent. Ten years later I decided I wanted to learn Dutch, and figured I could learn German on the side for funnsies. I've only spent 2 weeks learning these two languages and I'm only refreshing my German, and mainly learning basic Dutch, which is mainly spending hours listening to videos of a man named Thomas on a TH-cam channel teach me specific words and to get the pronunciation of their words down (I'm STRUGGLING with their r pronunciation) as well as being on Duolingo, unfortunately. Yes, I've learned a good amount of words, yes I have a German background understanding of sentence structure, but I also understand it takes TIME. And if I ever want to speak either of those languages it's going to take more than a few months. Best case scenario I can at the very least hold a conversation in German for a little bit after about a year of learning, even better if I can in Dutch, but it's most likely going to be in German since I'm more familiar with that language.
6:20 Well; that, actually, *_IS_* 2 years. Having a full-time job, kids, going to school, etc.; that is not 2 years. That’s like 4,8 months, a.k.a. 4 months and 24 days. 😅
Language Simp is absolutely hilarious. And, judging from his reviews and little details here and there, he does have working fluency in about 10 languages.
Once more , great reaction video! A long dream of mi e was to learn French. I speak Spanish (primo language) and English as secondo, over the years I kept attempting and finally gave up because I got older. Yet, three years ago decided to use that goal to exercise my brain ( so, not to learn It completely but to keep my brain healthy). I decided to use Duolingo for that. Only because it reminded me of the way I learned English: repetitive phrases in the language. To build the base knowledge and later practice. Now Theee years later my understanding and speaking has improved, plus gave the encouragement to learn others: German, Portuguese, Esperanto, and lately Italian. My goal is still brain heath but I’m happy to understand (speak a little) the languages in movies. Who knows? Maybe one day communicate if needed.
I speak some Spanish; I can understand a decent amount, but I struggle to have a conversation. And that's after 3 years worth of high school classes and attending a Spanish Bible study on a regular basis. Learning a language requires work, time, and consistency. You can't do it in a month. You MIGHT be able to reach basic conversational fluency in a year (or maybe a bit less) IF you are making the language your full-time job. I also have a few friends who moved to other countries and started businesses there, and it has taken them years to reach worldview-level fluency in the local languages. I know someone who served in the US army, and met a Green Beret who had lost track of exactly how many languages he knew, but it was around a dozen. But this was a man with a career in SF, with excellent resources and incentives to learn languages, and it didn't require anywhere near native-level fluency, just enough to train and arm guerillas who will most likely end up using that training against America, if not all of NATO. Furthermore, everything credible that I have learned says that each language is easier to learn than the previous one, so by the time one has learned that many languages, it should be pretty easy to pick new ones up. These fake polyglots are spitting in the faces of those who have actually put in the work.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH 😂 I’m a polyglot, but not to the level of Metatron or the featured video, but I still hear people plug that language app and make these claims and I roll my eyes every freaking time.
hey man! your are an inspiration to countless foreign language aficionados... I dunno, if this post reaches you... but i'll give it a shot. mastering chinese and japanese is quite a fit placing you among a chosen few... no doubt... try a language, so different that it is in its own leage... Georgian Language ( goes by an endonym - "kartuli ena - ქართული ენა" ). just a teaser, the whole sentence like - I did not want to eat it but it was so delicious that I ate the whole thing... could be conveyed with a single word in Georgian. .... good luck... 🙂
Language Simp's French accent isn't just "pretty good", it's super impressive (my only beef is he knows like three slang phrases which he brings up each and every time he speaks French, it's kind of annoying).
Mandarin requires many, many years. It is very deep! I have been doing it for 23 years, and I still haven't fully mastered it. I can type it quite well using pinyin and my character recognition abilities, but I never learned to write above 1st grade level! LOL
It's possible to pick up decent fluency in a fairly short time, but it requires immersion. LuoDingo won't help you there. You need to either embed yourself in a community where the language is spoken, or take a language course and be lucky enough to get a *good* teacher that refuses to speak anything but the language being taught during lessons. Out of 5 to 7 languages (depending how you count) that I've taken courses in, I've gotten sufficiently lucky once. And I've only once in my life had the opportunity to embed myself in a language community to the necessary level either (twice if you count learning English as a baby 😂).
The Internet Standard language learning method nowadays is "I started watching native material on day one and now i magically know the language! It's just like how kids learn!"
I speak 3 languages and the bit about the duolingo app is very accurate. Its hilariously bad. It recommends phrases and words that a native speaker would never use. The reason I know 3 languages is because Ive been exposed to all 3 my entire life. Also language is more than just words and some things are difficult to fully translate.
I must admit that when I speak Italian, occasionally a Spanish word slips through because it is my 7th language and Spanish is my 6th. However, this is preferrable to not being able to speak Italian at all because I spend time with Italians who only speak Italian and Sicilian. It is only my languages 1 to 5 that I would dare use for business talk or customer support or claim that they are B2 level or higher.
This is why I hate all the hype around famous people - they have time, they have money! Zuckerberg can literally spend his whole day just learning Mandarin - I can't do that. I need to work, so I have 8 hours from my schedule already cut off - they don't. Time is a huge factor and I am not speaking about; learn X language in a month! I'm saying about actually having time and spending it on learning a language. And it takes a lot of time to do it to a decent level.
I switched from learning Brasilian Portuguese to Italian for personal reasons earlier this year... I've been using DuoLingo for the basics, then stretching by listening to and reading here and there. I will say, Italian is so far my second most-hated Romance language -- it's infuriatingly inconsistent and contradictory.
I tried to learn everything I could of French within 30 days because I had a college party with exchange students from France. I locked myself in my room for the entirety of that month, only leaving it to workout, and completely immersed myself: I watched hours and hours of french videos everyday, wrote diaries, practiced with native speakers in Discord, listened only to French music and changed my cellphone's language to French. Did it work? Well, kinda. My french was shitty because I had little (useful) vocabulary because this can't be brute forced, but pronunciation and listening skills were reasonably good, especially because my native language also from the romance family. Anyways, it paid off because I was able to hook up with a cute French girl. *PS: by "useful vocabulary" I mean words to describe deeper topics from our lives. A considerable part of my vocabulary at the time could be described by "poetic and lyrical". An example of things I knew how to say: (translated) "I sometimes have these strange dreams of green landscapes where the sun pierces the clouds like a supernatural cohort of immense birds from heaven and hear a distant prayer that carries the winds of the evening" This is far from anything useful in a normal conversation
The fake polyglots truly are greedy, in more ways than 1. I’m perfectly content in the fact that I only speak 3 languages: My native Finnish, English (or American, if you prefer), and K-Holian (or ”Əəəə əə əəə ə əə”, by its own name, which roughly translates to: ”The Way You’d Speak in the K-Hole”) 🙃.
I grew up Speaking Spanish and English, and when I visited Italy, I had no trouble reading Italian and being understood when I spoke Spanish. Having taken 4 years of High School French probably helped.
I've been learning Spanish with Duolingo for the last 40 days, an hour a day and it feels like I'm making good progress. For me it works, but I have ADHD and those elements of gamification and competition really get to me. Sometimes I'm spending two or three hours a day too. And sometimes I even learn in the middle of the night, but that's ADHD for you.
When they changed to the current path format it became a lot harder for those of us with ADHD. I recommend getting a good grammar reference like Baron's and a book of verb conjugations.
I find that the more I use a language, the more difficult it is to answer the "how long have you been learning it" question. I don't think a lot of the languages I've learnt required "serious work and effort" though, not even English (the first foreign language I started to learn, and the only non-Slavic one that I'm fluent in). Sure, I've been using it a lot, but.. is playing pokemon "work"? Is watching disney (and other) movies "work"? Is chatting on social media "work"? Or listening to music? It's not like I did any of these in order to learn English - learning English was a byproduct. And sure, I had it as a school subject as well, but I hardly needed to put in any effort to get top grades, and I was usually ahead of what we were covering anyway. The other languages I speak comfortably are all from the same family as my native (i also have 2 native languages - 4 if you consider each dialect separately from the standard), AND my area of study is slavic historical linguistics, which means I have some pretty good head start (without studying a specific language, I already have a decent level of comprehension if given time to think, and the tools to help me learn faster - when I study a language, I am constantly on the lookout for parallels with all others I speak, whether it's phonetics, vocabulary, or grammar. A lot of it is second nature at this point). It's also difficult to say how well I speak some of these languages, because in a lot of the cases it's like "well I don't speak it currently but give me a week of regular interaction with natives and I'll be at least A2 by the end". Finding a method that works for the combination of learner and language is also a skill. I have a personal method for Slavic languages pretty well worked out - but when I started Hungarian, that all went through the window. It's like having to learn HOW to learn a language all over again.
when it comes to unrealistic expectations about learning a languish noting beats my platoon sergeant telling me I have 3 days to teach the platoon Russian. Not some useful phrases just the entire thing.
Man, I forgot about Language Simp. Back when he started people were getting so upset because they thought he was serious. He was saying things like how American was a storage language from English and Australian.
Let's start a movement to call out fraudsters. Earlier today, I challenged someone who claimed they could achieve fluency in a language in just 30 days. What saddened me was how many viewers congratulated him on his hard work and dedication. It makes me upset to think that I could have been one of those people not long ago. I am currently two months into an intensive Spanish immersion program, and before this experience, I wouldn't have known any better. Now I do! The claims being made about quick fluency are misleading. Achieving fluency requires a significant amount of time and effort, and becoming fluent in just 30 days is simply not possible. What is truly offensive is this need to lie for admiration and acceptance. This highly narcissistic behavior not only undermines the authentic desire to learn but can also discourage others. If someone believes they can learn a language in 30 days, and then, after that time, they still cannot form a simple sentence, they may lose their passion for learning. This is especially tragic if they have put their trust in such misleading claims.
I like playing with languages, but I’m also explicit avec the processes et les méthodologies at play. It’s a fun practice and so long as one is ethical about it (no attempts to deceive, transparency about what’s happening between my ears and their ears), it’s perfectly ok. And it’s useful for calling out charletans.
Now I'm speaking Spanish in a weird way, so you will think I can speak Brazilian Portuguese. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 And best part there was he just said "in a weird way" in English.
As spaniard I promise, his spanish with italian accent was closer to actual spanish pronunciation than the regular english speaker pronunciation. I'm truly surprised.
He is actually quite fluent in Spanish
Why would you be surprise that a latin derived language speaker would be better at speaking another latin derived language than an English speaker?
Cause he's a native English speaker...
@@pedroventura2180 because Spanish has Greek pronunciation. Our tonne and pronunciation is closer to the Greek than italian
In principle Spanish should be easy to pronounce as it has fewer sounds than English or German (for instance) - I only realized after starting to learn Spanish how much we 'Germanics' love a vowel. However I think we judge how much 'accent' someone has by a select few sounds that typify the speech of a native, obvious ones being the Spanish rolled 'double r' and the ubiquitous 'schwa' in English.
Yeah this guy is legit. He streams his learning sessions in which he constantly chats with viewers in their languages. You see the process with mistakes and all. He is picking up very quickly, true talent right there.
As a polish I'd say his pronunciation is spot on.
When he said "bzzrz brzbzzbrz bzzrbrzrbz" I felt that.
@@Pining_for_the_fjordsFor real, it gave me chills.
(buzzes in Polish intensify)
As someone who has a lot of Polish coworkers, it does sound Polish... but let's not forget that Italian musician who made that song that sound like English, but has not a single English word in it.
@@livedandletdie You mean Adriano Celentano?
You should DEFINITELY watch his Italian language review, it's HILARIOUS!
Definitely 🎯!
I was foaming from the mouth and doing backflips while I was watching that video.
Agree
i second the motion! ... also, carthago delenda est!
@@alexejfrohlich5869uhh Tip when Doing English we Generally Don't Do This " ¡( whatever the word is)!" So we do this !
I agree with this so much! My personal pet peeve is people who have videos like "I became fluent in Japanese in Four Months!" - and then if you search back, you see they've actually been studying for like seventeen years. But for whatever reason, they want people to believe they became as good as they are in four months. So dumb. How many people have gotten discouraged when they're not fluent after four months and quit learning?
Almost all of them used up to four or eight years to become so-called fluent, XD.
The titles are just clickbait. If you watch the video, they always give more context to the four months.
Sometimes they tell the true, becoming fluent is not the same that studying, in my case I became fluent in english living during 2 month in Ireland but I had being studying it for at least 10 years.
I picked up Sentinelese in 12 days, through full immersion. That’s, how I avoided getting eaten alive by the natives. 😎
I love that when he speaks "French" he went out of his way to speak it like a wannabe thug, complete with the obligatory English and Arab words.
"Je parle bien français parce que chuis mieux que toi, wallah" always kills me
it s funnier to me cus im french and its so accurate
we love using wsh 😂
4:11 "Bolsonaro is very very very very very hot!!"
I fucking died 🤣
Yeah, same here. :)
Do you mean "[redacted]"?
@@IIARROWS Yeah
Mano fui pego de surpresa total 😂😂😂 caguei de rir do nada! 😂😂😂😂
"Language Jones" is another TH-camr who absolutely savages this genre of content, but from the standpoint of an academic linguist.
He's amazing
Language Jones is one of the biggest douches on the internet. "Native Speaker is a racist term", "The word Spooky is problematic as it may upset black people", "Ebonics has far more complex grammar than RP". What a tosser.
Hes annoying arrogant and boring tho
@@idkybutwutever No, he's humorous, flippant, and glib. He admits as much out loud.
@@economicist2011 I dont see him as such but if you enjoy his videos, thats your prerogative.
9:09 the other thing I see is they take advantage of politeness in language cultures. I've been learning Korean sporadically for 11 years. I consider myself an "advanced beginner", mostly because I don't practice very often anymore. But Koreans always compliment my Korean. When I hear a Korean say, "Your Korean is so good," I've been around long enough to know that they are mostly expressing polite surprise that an American black man would speak any Korean at all. But one of these YT Polyglots would gladly monetize those interactions as proof of their abilities for people who don't know better. My Korean is much better than many of theirs! But I know it's not worth parading around and making grand promises about.
Annyeonghaseyo. Calm down ladies one at a time
Ah yes, Polish bee language. They don't even do the weird little wiggle dance thing, they just fly in place and are understood :D
He should try that other Polish insect. Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie.
Language Simp is awesome! Very good for a quick laugh. Legendary channel.
Yes. I love Language Simp.
I already had a bunch of conversations with him in french and spanish on discord. I can tell you that this Guy IS a Real polyglot
Watched some of his Livestream snippets and he actually studies the languages with everyone watching which is pretty cool.
Wow! He speaks fluent Indonesian!
Source: Indonesian
Thanks for all your language videos, Metatron. I’ve only recently discovered them, but I’ve been binge watching a bunch of them and enjoy the laughs and the education. I hope you’ll do more on Italian and the other regional languages from there (Neapolitan and Sicilian especially) since I’m focusing on Italian these days. Cheers!
American English speaker here…I was fortunate to have been sent to language schools (DLI, FSI…for Spanish, Indonesian, and French) during my 25 year U.S. military career. I also studied Spanish and German in high school (1980s). Near the end of my 7 months of learning French at FSI in 2000/2001, one of my instructors said that I was speaking Tijuana French…because my accent in French is not an American English one but rather a Spanish one. Even while posted to (and traveling) in French-speaking West African countries, many people had difficulty in discerning what my native language was and what country I was from (obviously, those who knew I worked at the US Embassy, knew I was from the US). People would ask me if I’m Spanish or Portuguese.
4:36 as a Pole, I can confirm that he's saying "Everyone is generously petting restrained bees".
OMG FINALLY GOODNESS IVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER FOR ANOTHER VIDEO
You should absolutely react to his Italian language review. All of his language reviews are great. He mixes real factual information with satire and sarcasm, but carefully doesn’t explain which is which.
If you get a chance check out one of his livestreams. He's impresive, especially switching between languages to respond to comments in his chat, he really puts the youtube "polyglots" to shame.
I find his live streams of language learning very impressive. That ability to concentrate for so many hours on end and continue to learn is amazing.
Luke from Polymathy is a true polyglot, along with Jackson Crawford and obviously Metatron
Luke is aweaome. He's always sincere as he can be and at the same time there is la ot of humor to the vids. I'll go see work of Jackson as well.
notice people who actually speak multiple language rarely if ever call themselves "polyglot"
And language simp too
His shtick is that his Latin is outstanding but the Latin community knows it’s not true at all. As for his other languages, well sure he’s a bit of a linguist for an American, but here in Europe there are millions of polyglots milling around who wouldn’t even think of calling themselves polyglots. As for his Latin he still requires help reading through Virgil or Horace, perhaps even Ovid - and by help I mean help from a second or third-year college student. There are tens of thousands of trained Latinists around the world who know the language better than he does. So yes the internet is full of scammers of all colours and stripes.
Oh and yes I follow the Metatron and I would consider him to be extremely gifted at languages. His mastery of English is superb. And I understand he is a polyglot though he doesn’t seem to make such a big fuss out if it.
"Unique polyglot encounter in the desert" is a fantastic video as well, I highly recommend you watch it if only for a good laugh
También llamamos "birra" de forma coloquial a la cerveza en España (EN: We actually say beer colloquially as "birra" in Spain)
Tb chamavamos de "birra" em São Paulo, Brasil!!!
Several years ago when I was taking Spanish classes there was an Italian guy in the class and when he spoke Spanish, it was like he was speaking Italian.
When he was speaking 'Italian' for some reason it reminded me of the anime called, Hetalia and specifically the nation of Italy saying, "PASTA!", LMFAO!
There is trying no escape from Hetalia 😂
True. The Italian-stereotype is one of the most successful ones, in that show (from my limited exposure to the show). In fact, Mussolini even tried to ban pasta, because wheat was too expensive, at the time. Didn’t work out. 😅
*EDIT:* I’m probably getting the _Cosa Nostra_ after me, for this comment; but, if it makes you guys feel any better, the Finnish-stereotype is very inaccurate: It’s something you’d probably get, if you took a 10-year-old Savonian kid with ADHD, gave him, like, 2 grams of frickin’ Molly, and made an anime character out of the result 😅.
Many Italians moved to Argentina, like the Pope’s family and that’s impacted their Spanish.
Italian is the most common ancestry in Argentina. There are more people or Italian descent in Argentina than any other ancestry group. This is also why Argentinian Spanish has such a heavy Italian influence.
I can confirm. I had a manager who was from Buenos Aires. When he spoke with the spanish employees, it was weird to me hearing it spoken like that.
One of my favorite things about his channel is that it's so tongue and cheek and funny but it's hard to tell when he's being serious so certain language speakers will comment on his stuff in a way that is so sincere on things that are so hilariously not meant to be sincere on his side
I know two languages, learning a third and understand bits and pieces of a few more. More than enough for me thanks. Language simp is far more talented than I'll ever be.
Mate, I don't know what you're talking about... I learnt how to speak ǃXóõ in about a week. 164 consonant phonemes, 31 vowels and four phonemic tones? No problem! I just used my absolute favourite language learning technique... It's so good that I don't even have to learn how to apply it. It just has to be applicable on the listeners end. I call it "Ignorance."
Birra is also said in Spain :p it comes as a loanword from italian, and italian has it apparently from German or some germanic languages. Idk about Argentina, but here it is used as a more casual way to say beer.
I've gotten to B1 in Mandarin in 3 years... and I don't have a job or go to college plus I listen to Chinese music every day and while I did have a job, I'd listen to the music at work
4:05 as a native brazilian portuguese speaker, that one broke me, lol
You definitely can say Birra in regards to beer in Spain too. It is just more colloquial.
There's a subtle difference though, birra is mainly used for foreign beers, while cerveza is all the rest
4:04 I kind of know beginner level Italian and it made that sound so much cursed and funny lol
Hi! I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoy your videos and that your English sounds very native. Before finding out that you‘re italian, I thought you were from the UK 😅 I would really like to see you learn German, because I‘ve heard you pronouncing certain words and your pronunciation is incredible for not having studied any German. And because the pronunciation is one of the hardest parts of my mother tounge for foreigners, I think you would do an excellent job learning it.
Saludos desde Alemania
””Infinity Wars” is the most ambitious crossover, in history.”
”Metatron meets Language Simp”:
This so true. Learning languages is very hard and time consuming. What is worst, even if you have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours learning and you stop speaking a language for few years, it turns passive and you cannot speak well anymore without training. I have studied six modern and four classical languages but speak somewhat fluently only two. I read texts quite fluently on eight and have published academic translations from one to my mothertongue. I have a master's degree of filology and work daily with languages studying and analysing them but I would not dare to think that I could ever speak fluently even four as active language.
Definetley watch his video on the Italian language it’s awesome
Pedantic⁴?
4:53 The rate, at which Language Simp is able to move his mouth, there, is honestly unsettling 😮.
I'm Mexican and grew up with California Spanish. I took French in college from an honest to God French woman. She told me I spoke French like a Mexican. I said NO SHIT.? I AM A MEXICAN!! I dropped the class.
Fucking french amirite? 😂
Man hahahaha. That's funny and fucked up 😂
thin skin taco
I mean... would you prefer she lie?
Paying for college to learn a language you will never use.
What a bright idea 💡.
Well, his Polish was spot on... if he intended to do a drunken bee impression ;)
My original language is lost to me, been too long since I spoke it.. But I am fluent in English. My first language was baby-speak. That counts, right?
well, some of these gurus try to sell you: learn like a baby/child so I think it counts.
Woah you're fluent in Sarcasm too!
Acaba de mencionar a los argentinos y decir birra. Este hombre se merece mi like automatico.
Metatron, si vienes a Argentina dejame invitarte unas buenas birras.
would totally watch you review his review of Italian lol
The fact that I got a Duolingo ad after this video is hilarious
Of course, react more to Language Simp
3:37 As a Polish speaker, I say it actually sounds more like Czech.
I’d say it straight up sounds like bees buzzing 😂 He didn’t even put in the effort to show all the funky consonants and sounds we can make!
I just want to tell you I don´t like you.
@@Czechsarge Fair. Stop Czech hate.
@@wilgefortisohlin568 Irony :-D, I like his joke.
@@wilgefortisohlin568I'm pretty sure this was his way of mocking the stereotypical way people perceive Polish without even attempting to familiarise themselves with it. Or perhaps I'm reaching, and he's just doing a dumb little skit with no depth.
That is most definitely a lovely, well timed screenshot.
"I know 28 languages!"
*Hello how are you in the 28 languages*
Just found your channel. I love you already in the first 60 seconds. It's too bad that people do this. I've spent many, many hours studying different languages at different times of my life. I would say, I'm "lucky" and I have good auditory memory and I'm crazy and love to study verbs, but I still have to put in thousands of hours of studying...
Language simp is based
It took me 15 months of living in Argentina to consider myself slightly near fluency. I still wouldn’t consider myself fluent after staying two years in total in Argentina
5:23 I literally just had an ad, asking: ”Wanna learn Hebrew, in 2 weeks?”. I skipped and blocked it (although, the blocking doesn’t really do Diddley Gopnik Squat). 😅
Dude, I took 2.5 years of German classes in highschool, and I wasn't even close to fluent. Ten years later I decided I wanted to learn Dutch, and figured I could learn German on the side for funnsies. I've only spent 2 weeks learning these two languages and I'm only refreshing my German, and mainly learning basic Dutch, which is mainly spending hours listening to videos of a man named Thomas on a TH-cam channel teach me specific words and to get the pronunciation of their words down (I'm STRUGGLING with their r pronunciation) as well as being on Duolingo, unfortunately. Yes, I've learned a good amount of words, yes I have a German background understanding of sentence structure, but I also understand it takes TIME. And if I ever want to speak either of those languages it's going to take more than a few months. Best case scenario I can at the very least hold a conversation in German for a little bit after about a year of learning, even better if I can in Dutch, but it's most likely going to be in German since I'm more familiar with that language.
6:20 Well; that, actually, *_IS_* 2 years. Having a full-time job, kids, going to school, etc.; that is not 2 years. That’s like 4,8 months, a.k.a. 4 months and 24 days. 😅
Language Simp is absolutely hilarious. And, judging from his reviews and little details here and there, he does have working fluency in about 10 languages.
Once more , great reaction video! A long dream of mi e was to learn French. I speak Spanish (primo language) and English as secondo, over the years I kept attempting and finally gave up because I got older. Yet, three years ago decided to use that goal to exercise my brain ( so, not to learn It completely but to keep my brain healthy). I decided to use Duolingo for that. Only because it reminded me of the way I learned English: repetitive phrases in the language. To build the base knowledge and later practice. Now Theee years later my understanding and speaking has improved, plus gave the encouragement to learn others: German, Portuguese, Esperanto, and lately Italian. My goal is still brain heath but I’m happy to understand (speak a little) the languages in movies. Who knows? Maybe one day communicate if needed.
3:59- I had a teacher with the last name, Degregorio, and the word for beer in Spanish is cerveza
I speak some Spanish; I can understand a decent amount, but I struggle to have a conversation. And that's after 3 years worth of high school classes and attending a Spanish Bible study on a regular basis. Learning a language requires work, time, and consistency. You can't do it in a month. You MIGHT be able to reach basic conversational fluency in a year (or maybe a bit less) IF you are making the language your full-time job.
I also have a few friends who moved to other countries and started businesses there, and it has taken them years to reach worldview-level fluency in the local languages.
I know someone who served in the US army, and met a Green Beret who had lost track of exactly how many languages he knew, but it was around a dozen. But this was a man with a career in SF, with excellent resources and incentives to learn languages, and it didn't require anywhere near native-level fluency, just enough to train and arm guerillas who will most likely end up using that training against America, if not all of NATO. Furthermore, everything credible that I have learned says that each language is easier to learn than the previous one, so by the time one has learned that many languages, it should be pretty easy to pick new ones up.
These fake polyglots are spitting in the faces of those who have actually put in the work.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH 😂 I’m a polyglot, but not to the level of Metatron or the featured video, but I still hear people plug that language app and make these claims and I roll my eyes every freaking time.
That's a crossover I wasn't expecting
Indeed 😅.
Watching all this stuff on polyglots has fostered an intense hatred of polyglots within me
hey man! your are an inspiration to countless foreign language aficionados... I dunno, if this post reaches you... but i'll give it a shot. mastering chinese and japanese is quite a fit placing you among a chosen few... no doubt... try a language, so different that it is in its own leage... Georgian Language ( goes by an endonym - "kartuli ena - ქართული ენა" ). just a teaser, the whole sentence like - I did not want to eat it but it was so delicious that I ate the whole thing... could be conveyed with a single word in Georgian. .... good luck... 🙂
Yes, please do a reaction video to Language Simp's review of Italian. Per piacere, mille grazie!
Challenging them could help them actually learn other language
Challenging anyone wouldn't do anything, they aren't bound to accept anything. Get real.
Language Simp's French accent isn't just "pretty good", it's super impressive (my only beef is he knows like three slang phrases which he brings up each and every time he speaks French, it's kind of annoying).
Mandarin requires many, many years. It is very deep! I have been doing it for 23 years, and I still haven't fully mastered it. I can type it quite well using pinyin and my character recognition abilities, but I never learned to write above 1st grade level! LOL
It's possible to pick up decent fluency in a fairly short time, but it requires immersion. LuoDingo won't help you there. You need to either embed yourself in a community where the language is spoken, or take a language course and be lucky enough to get a *good* teacher that refuses to speak anything but the language being taught during lessons. Out of 5 to 7 languages (depending how you count) that I've taken courses in, I've gotten sufficiently lucky once. And I've only once in my life had the opportunity to embed myself in a language community to the necessary level either (twice if you count learning English as a baby 😂).
In many parts of Spain people say "birra" all the time in an informal way.
The "Italian" hand gestures were hilarious 🤣
Another video on this channel, nice.
The Internet Standard language learning method nowadays is "I started watching native material on day one and now i magically know the language! It's just like how kids learn!"
Do the Italian review reaction!
I have been "studying" Japanese on luo dingo😂 for about a year now and then feel like i can barely string the simplest sentences together.
I speak 3 languages and the bit about the duolingo app is very accurate. Its hilariously bad. It recommends phrases and words that a native speaker would never use.
The reason I know 3 languages is because Ive been exposed to all 3 my entire life. Also language is more than just words and some things are difficult to fully translate.
I must admit that when I speak Italian, occasionally a Spanish word slips through because it is my 7th language and Spanish is my 6th. However, this is preferrable to not being able to speak Italian at all because I spend time with Italians who only speak Italian and Sicilian. It is only my languages 1 to 5 that I would dare use for business talk or customer support or claim that they are B2 level or higher.
This is why I hate all the hype around famous people - they have time, they have money! Zuckerberg can literally spend his whole day just learning Mandarin - I can't do that. I need to work, so I have 8 hours from my schedule already cut off - they don't.
Time is a huge factor and I am not speaking about; learn X language in a month! I'm saying about actually having time and spending it on learning a language. And it takes a lot of time to do it to a decent level.
3:41 ARGENTINA MENTIONED, ANOTHER GLORY CORONATION, MUCHAAACHOOOOS🇦🇷🇦🇷⚽🏆🏆🏆
I switched from learning Brasilian Portuguese to Italian for personal reasons earlier this year... I've been using DuoLingo for the basics, then stretching by listening to and reading here and there. I will say, Italian is so far my second most-hated Romance language -- it's infuriatingly inconsistent and contradictory.
Let me guess... the first one is French ?
French is terrible. I like it, but it's terrible. Ffs there's no word for 70 or 90
I tried to learn everything I could of French within 30 days because I had a college party with exchange students from France.
I locked myself in my room for the entirety of that month, only leaving it to workout, and completely immersed myself: I watched hours and hours of french videos everyday, wrote diaries, practiced with native speakers in Discord, listened only to French music and changed my cellphone's language to French.
Did it work? Well, kinda. My french was shitty because I had little (useful) vocabulary because this can't be brute forced, but pronunciation and listening skills were reasonably good, especially because my native language also from the romance family.
Anyways, it paid off because I was able to hook up with a cute French girl.
*PS: by "useful vocabulary" I mean words to describe deeper topics from our lives. A considerable part of my vocabulary at the time could be described by "poetic and lyrical".
An example of things I knew how to say:
(translated)
"I sometimes have these strange dreams of green landscapes where the sun pierces the clouds like a supernatural cohort of immense birds from heaven and hear a distant prayer that carries the winds of the evening"
This is far from anything useful in a normal conversation
Ti prego, devi assolutamente fare un video reazione sul video del Italiano del tipo. Fa morire dal ridere.
The fake polyglots truly are greedy, in more ways than 1. I’m perfectly content in the fact that I only speak 3 languages: My native Finnish, English (or American, if you prefer), and K-Holian (or ”Əəəə əə əəə ə əə”, by its own name, which roughly translates to: ”The Way You’d Speak in the K-Hole”) 🙃.
I grew up Speaking Spanish and English, and when I visited Italy, I had no trouble reading Italian and being understood when I spoke Spanish. Having taken 4 years of High School French probably helped.
Been learning Japanese for over a year now and I'm still learning.
3:49 What most excited me about Francis becoming pope was that I'd finally find out how an Argentinian man speaks Italian
2:50 aiya ni genwo yiyiang ye shuo hanyu a!? bangji le! nide fayin ye tai hao
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He speak Indonesian only using "Apa Kabar?" Bruh... Tis guy, seriously...
I've been learning Spanish with Duolingo for the last 40 days, an hour a day and it feels like I'm making good progress. For me it works, but I have ADHD and those elements of gamification and competition really get to me. Sometimes I'm spending two or three hours a day too. And sometimes I even learn in the middle of the night, but that's ADHD for you.
When they changed to the current path format it became a lot harder for those of us with ADHD. I recommend getting a good grammar reference like Baron's and a book of verb conjugations.
I find that the more I use a language, the more difficult it is to answer the "how long have you been learning it" question.
I don't think a lot of the languages I've learnt required "serious work and effort" though, not even English (the first foreign language I started to learn, and the only non-Slavic one that I'm fluent in). Sure, I've been using it a lot, but.. is playing pokemon "work"? Is watching disney (and other) movies "work"? Is chatting on social media "work"? Or listening to music? It's not like I did any of these in order to learn English - learning English was a byproduct. And sure, I had it as a school subject as well, but I hardly needed to put in any effort to get top grades, and I was usually ahead of what we were covering anyway.
The other languages I speak comfortably are all from the same family as my native (i also have 2 native languages - 4 if you consider each dialect separately from the standard), AND my area of study is slavic historical linguistics, which means I have some pretty good head start (without studying a specific language, I already have a decent level of comprehension if given time to think, and the tools to help me learn faster - when I study a language, I am constantly on the lookout for parallels with all others I speak, whether it's phonetics, vocabulary, or grammar. A lot of it is second nature at this point).
It's also difficult to say how well I speak some of these languages, because in a lot of the cases it's like "well I don't speak it currently but give me a week of regular interaction with natives and I'll be at least A2 by the end".
Finding a method that works for the combination of learner and language is also a skill. I have a personal method for Slavic languages pretty well worked out - but when I started Hungarian, that all went through the window. It's like having to learn HOW to learn a language all over again.
when it comes to unrealistic expectations about learning a languish noting beats my platoon sergeant telling me I have 3 days to teach the platoon Russian. Not some useful phrases just the entire thing.
Man, I forgot about Language Simp. Back when he started people were getting so upset because they thought he was serious. He was saying things like how American was a storage language from English and Australian.
Oh yes, please look at his Italian review video. I recently watched it. I want to see you watch it now. He packed in a lot.
Let's start a movement to call out fraudsters. Earlier today, I challenged someone who claimed they could achieve fluency in a language in just 30 days. What saddened me was how many viewers congratulated him on his hard work and dedication. It makes me upset to think that I could have been one of those people not long ago.
I am currently two months into an intensive Spanish immersion program, and before this experience, I wouldn't have known any better. Now I do! The claims being made about quick fluency are misleading. Achieving fluency requires a significant amount of time and effort, and becoming fluent in just 30 days is simply not possible.
What is truly offensive is this need to lie for admiration and acceptance. This highly narcissistic behavior not only undermines the authentic desire to learn but can also discourage others. If someone believes they can learn a language in 30 days, and then, after that time, they still cannot form a simple sentence, they may lose their passion for learning. This is especially tragic if they have put their trust in such misleading claims.
Not even mentioning that teaching a language is immensely harder than speaking it fluently..
3:10 the word the word "fucking" made this so much funnier
00:20 Yay! New crusade incoming! Please, please, please play Sabaton's: "The last stand" while we're on the battlefield!
I like playing with languages, but I’m also explicit avec the processes et les méthodologies at play.
It’s a fun practice and so long as one is ethical about it (no attempts to deceive, transparency about what’s happening between my ears and their ears), it’s perfectly ok.
And it’s useful for calling out charletans.
Now I'm speaking Spanish in a weird way, so you will think I can speak Brazilian Portuguese. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And best part there was he just said "in a weird way" in English.
The actual fast polyglots have special memory abilities