Polyglot Speaking in 8 Languages: How I learned each language
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
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I speak all of my languages back to back, and explain how I learned them.
Super excited because this is the first time I speak in all of my languages on camera. I know I've made a ton of videos on language learning, how to learn languages and being a polyglot. But I'm pretty sure this video (aside from my VRchats) is the first time where I put my money where my mouth is!
Let me know if you enjoy the video, want any follow up language learning tips, and be sure to sign up to my upcoming language learning app Fluyo.
0:00 - English (Intro)
0:30 - Japanese
2:31 - French
4:44 - Russian
6:15 - Mandarin Chinese
8:48 - Spanish
10:29 - Igbo
11:27 - Dutch
13:05 - Very Important (must watch)
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Hello, I’m an Irish-Nigerian-American language learning TH-camr hailing from New York!
I currently speak seven languages. Six of which I taught myself from scratch. By 2023, I aim to learn another five. The languages I currently speak are English, Japanese, Russian, Dutch, French, Chinese and Spanish.
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I speak all of my languages back to back, and explain how I learned them.
Super excited because this is the first time I speak in all of my languages on camera. I know I've made a ton of videos on language learning, how to learn languages and being a polyglot. But I'm pretty sure this video (aside from my VRchats) is the first time where I put my money where my mouth is!
Let me know if you enjoy the video, want any follow up language learning tips, and be sure to sign up to my upcoming language learning app Fluyo.
P.s. Save our kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/550782470/fluyo
Abum onye Igbo, anam asụ Igbo nkeoma
What did you study in university?
Great 2 c u r back
Word fluyo gratis
Please add Shona
It’s the language for Zimbabwe but there’s nowhere to learn it
What a CHAD
Der größte
The gigachad seal of approval
oui, du hast recht. Was machst du ici?!!🇩🇪 🇫🇷😂
He said "English" instead of "American"
@@HalalHarun OH NO
as a native Japanese speaker, what amazes me is he really doesn’t make grammar mistakes
sometimes his English accent appears but it is unavoidable,so nobody cares
his language skills are incredible tbh
But he makes grammar mistakes when he is speaking Russian
camon atleast he can speak 8 languages, wby?
@@36gradus81
The guy is not perfect, is he? It's impressive that he can even speak 8 of them decently @36gradus81
@@36gradus81
Same for Dutch, but I don't blame him for that.
Most Dutch people, especially people my/our age, are quite proficient in English.
His Dutch is much better than most international students speak, so I applaud him for that fact.
Despite his illness, Ikenna keeps rightfully declaring that he's the coolest polyglot on TH-cam. So cool to watch you transition from language to language. Plus I appreciate how you showed it wasn't effortless and took a second to switch from one to another!
He is amazing indeed!😍 There are couple of them I would describe as better in terms of number of language they can speak, such as Wouter Corduwener, Steve Kaufman, etc. But this is not a competition, at least I believe so. Ikenna is unique language enthusiast for sure.😊
The Time you need to switch languages actually depends on the person or rather if they grew up bilingual or not. For those who did it can be an instant transition depending on how good you speak the other language. Still impressive tho.
I totally agree with you. He is perfect
Not only learning, but maintaining multiple languages is really, really hard! Impressed by your dedication Ikenna! Wish you lots of luck with your new app ❤️
Thank you! 😃
i really wanna hear him speak more languages for a long time telling stories like this in another language, i find it enjoying and inspiring
It's so fascinating to hear you speak Dutch! I'm South African and it sounded like you were speaking Afrikaans (which is practically Dutch's child). Ek kan jou die hele dag kyk, Ikenna! You're a true inspiration.
so true I can also understand Dutch to a certain extent as someone who is decently okay at Afrikaans
als belg/nederlander kan ik afrikaans ook begrijpen
I’m from Belgium and it’s cool to see that I can understand you
@@jornptrn7248 I also am from Belgium, native French speaker, I learned a little bit of Dutch, unfortunately not enough and I'm so sad about it, I lost almost everything, but with my English and my little Dutch I also understand a little bit of Afrikaans, that's so weird! 😮
❤😊❤😊
I know it's not what video is about, but it's really cool to see you stand up. You are such an inspiring individual in many ways!
I second this! Way to go! I hope to see you do it again in another video possibly.
I love how you transitioned between the different languages, especially the segue to Igbo! Estoy muy orgulloso de ti porque recuerdo que hace unos años no podías hablar español con tanta confianza pero ahora hablas muy bien! Enhorabuena 🥳 y buena suerte para tu aplicación Fluyo!
Your Russian is awesome, I don’t speak it but I can understand a lot. My native Language is Polish and both my parents speak Russian fluently. You’re awesome 😎 keep up the good work!
I hope I can speak Russian like him
@@deutschmitpurple2918 смог научится?
Truly an inspiration, man. Your Spanish is quite good now. I remember you couldn't speak much just 1 year ago. BIG GRATS! Best of luck with Fluyo. I already signed up.
Thank you man! 🙏🏽
So glad to see you thriving and using you’re family language, you’re killing it bro ❤️
Haha didn’t expect the Chinese singing 😂 legend Ikenna!
I love how you switched languages with songs or memes 😂😂 love it. And I'm so glad that you stood up! Ikenna you're so inspirational. I mean you speak 8 languages!!! Polyglot master show us the way!! 😂 I'm so excited to use fluyo!
As a biracial woman (Ukrainian/African-American), French immersion school kid, East Asian languages uni grad, who listens to/dances to salsa, kizomba and samba, and also wants to learn Igbo to honor my Naija ancestry, I feel like you are my brother from another mother or male spiritual doppelgänger. I approve of your singing transitions. Mo Li Hua is my personal 中文 jam. Tuyo is also a bop.
I'm a Nigerian (100%) who's been trying to learn another language for the longest time! First I tried french, and now I'm trying to learn Arabic 😃.
I'm already bilingual (I'm Yorùbá😌) and I reeeeally want to add another language to my "language portfolio" if you could say😅.
Anyway, sorry for the rambling, but seeing comments such as yours motivates me! Thank you!
Interesting mix
That's sooo inspirational, Ikenna-san! 👏
I can imagine that the more languages you learn, the harder it is to keep them all. Especially in your case it's really amazing that you can speak so much in this difficult health condition.
I really admire you for facing any difficulties in a positive and strong way. Hats off to you. And I'm looking forward to the app!🔥
Kazuma👀..a big fan of u😁🤗
Ikenna! It was so nice to see you STAND UP for the Chinese song! You should be so proud of your progress - in all areas!
I love that you included the hiccups and the thoughts and pauses in your speaking, showing that it doesn’t have to be perfect! Thank you so much always an inspiration :)
Thank you Ikenna for making your app! I'm sure many other language learners like me have struggled with motivation. But thank you for making these videos! It's a big help
Estoy aprendiendo español, y muchas gracias por darme la inspiración para aprendiendo!
Started watching you when I first picked up English and you were making the VR chat videos. You got me into language learning and thanks to you I improve improve English and got my C1 in French. It's great to see you're doing better in terms of health, too. Much love from Spain, Ikenna!
Little note on the French - Make sure not to forget to make your adjectives agree with the noun. Example- La culture japonaise... mon histoire française, etc.
Glad to see you are doing so well, Ikenna! And I am super proud of the app you are developing. Excited to see what comes of it ☺
Great video, always impressive to see you move among the various language. Serious language goals!
As someone who's been watching you since years ago, I'm so happy to see you doing so well! You can even stand up and do a skit! Amazing! I'm so happy for you!
Thank you very much for being such inspiration, as someone who is also struggling to learn languages, your videos has been of great help...I'm patiently waiting for the lunching of your app 😁 keep going...
I actually learn English and Japanese. My english is far much advanced than my Japenese btw. But you and your content on YT motivated me to keep learning English, and also start to learn Japanese. And I fell in love with language learning. I actually speak fluently only my native language (French). But I'm able de communicate with people in English even if I'm not fluent, and it's juste so satisfying de be able to talk with peoples from an other country, understand even if not entirely videos or movies in an other language etc... . I know that after I'll get better in English and Japanese, I'll just don't stop learning languages. So, what I just want to say, is thanks you for your videos !
I just wanted to say this as a native english speaker: For not being fluent, your written comment wasn't too badly written. You made a few mistakes, but the message was pretty well done. Keep practicing and you will get there!
@@weirdsweetcoolplants Thanks you 🙏
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Het is zo leuk om mensen nederlands te zien spreken, en je uitspraak is ook heel goed! Bepaalde letters zoals de sch en g lijken mij moeilijk om te leren als je niet al van jongs af aan nederlands spreekt.
Im honestly happy ikenna is back and uploads videos quite frequently. I hope you are physically improving and I wish you all the very best with the app, cant wait for it.
we're super excited to try your app!!! 🤩🤩 great video!
It's great to see you smiling and doing what you love. Big up mate, look after yourself
Nice to see this kind of content coming back to the channel
So good to see you in high spirits. Can't wait for fluyo to kick off
It is awesome to see you are doing better 🙏
You are a great inspiration, keep thriving 😎🎉
c'était vraiment cool de t'entendre parler français, c'est la première vidéo que je regarde de toi et c'est impressionnant et motivant en tant que personne qui essaye aussi d'apprendre plusieurs langues! continue comme ça 😊
Your French is validated by me (a French native) some mistakes are made but I am proud of you and you can be proud of you for your skills
Hi Ikenna :) I'm a student currently learning Russian, and I've emailed you a proposal for an upcoming project I'm starting myself, as you are the reason I decided to start it. Thank you for all you're doing. It's a beautiful thing
You’re amazing ^^ I just want to learn Japanese and Spanish. I hope Fluyo helps me make a breakthrough.
ОООО я не ожидал что из Латвии так друзья появятся у тебя, несмотря на то что страна даже не на 2 миллиона населена! Я сам из Латвии и у меня такое ощущение слышать это, очень позитивное! Вообщем, это невероятно!
Тоже уделительно было, и тоже не ожидал то что так много комментариев будет на русском
@@dannylipatov6530ничего удивительного, русский язык второй язык интернета. 90% контента делают на английском и 5% на русском.
SIIIGGMAAA, muchísimas gracias por subir un vídeo de esto, me diste la motivación necesaria para aprender el inglés, muchísimas gracias y espero que te vaya super bien mi hermanoo
I love seeing this energy from you again. Makes me so happy. Hoping you continue to get better and thrive!
I'm in the middle of learning Korean, and even though I know it won't initially be on fluyo, I'm going to support the Kickstarter. I love the content and the journey, so I'll do my part to help make the app successful.
I am 14 and am trying to learn a language soon, you motivated me. I am also exited for fluyo
Bonne chance !
how'd it go?
I am glad you're back, love these videos, still impressive how you managed to learn all of these languages. I am from Russia and i am really proud of you.
It's awesome how you incorporated the music of the culture with each language
Ikenna ist zurück ❤️👑
Endlich!
Super excited about the app! You're one of the people who truly got me into language learning, and today I'm proud to say that I could understand all language talked in this video (to varying levels, ofc) except Igbo!
I also live in Blegium, so who knows, maybe I'll bump into you some day, I'd love to have a convo with you about just life and languages ^-^
Cheers man
Beastly, Ikenna! After all these years and still got it !
I'm so excited for this app and to see what all you have in store for us. You have came so far! Great videos!
Also, I wanted to add that your chinese is very good! All the languages that you speak sounds great. I am mostly excited to learn chinese and russian from Fluyo 😁 It would be so cool to see you partnering up with Xiaomanyc or Ryan Hale someday, they're great😂
Such a huge inspiration to all of us, keep it up dude!
I'm proud! I was able to understand almost everything you said in spanish! You are my inspiration.
aaaahh i didnt know you can speak dutch! as a dutch person i was so surprised how great your accent was lmfao that is geweldig! ga zo door man
i couldn't have learnt anything without u ikenna thank you for everything
Wat een toffe video!! Was ook ontzettend leuk om je van taal te zien wisselen (moest erg lachen om "jonge, jonge, jonge") :D En ik besefte me hoeveel verschillende alfabetten je ook nog hebt moeten leren (Japans, Mandarijn, Russisch) en pffff, mijn respect (ook voor hoe goed je Nederlands spreekt!)! Ik kijk ook ontzettend uit naar de app
Ik kijk ook erg uit naar zijn app
I love that you can speak Igbo , I love that for you
i‘m impressed about the motivation and success u have. Much love 🧡👑🔱💪🏻
wow Ikenna, the last time I watched a video of you learning/talking Spanish was moooonths ago and your imporvemnet is insane.
4:42 The only correct way to start a russian monologue: "блять" 💯
Man you're such a inspiration. I really want to pursue learning more languages.
I stopped trying to learn Japanese but recently i got a job as a cook (another super new thing to me( in a Japanese kitchen and now i want to REALLY do it.
So great to see you speaking 🤎
your videos and effort is really inspisering! I really wanna learn Chinese, Japanese and Russian! Can't wait for fluyo to launce! in the meanwile im going to get to my anki deck
Awesome video!
It was cool to see your Dutch become more correct as you went on with your story, you definitely have it in you still
Ton français est incroyable !! Bravo !! 👌🙏
Impresionante! Mis dos idiomas son el español y el inglés, pero me das inspiración para aprender el japonés también. Es difícil en esta parte del mundo porque no hay recursos para aprenderlo cómo español y inglés. Espero que Speakly va a agregar tarjetas de japonés para aprender palabras más fácilmente! Y también estoy emocionado para usar Fluyo!
Hola! Estudio japonés y a veces veo japoneses en TH-cam y Instagram que enseñan japonés en español. Sí, hay más recursos en inglés pero todavía es posible aprender japonés si prefieres.
Tengo un playlist de japonés (tengo MUCHOS vídeos 😅) y hay unos vídeos en español también.
¡Buena suerte y no te rindes!
Can you give me some books for learning Spanish that was written in English?? I'm wondering what books to go for!!
Es cómico, pero estoy aprendiendo español y me entiendo todo la conversación, te ayuda mucho jaja! Pero sobre japonés, puedes intentar que encontrar libros o ver videos en TH-cam. Especialmente que japonés es muy popular ahora. No sé dónde vives, pero muchas informaciones en línea es típicamente en inglés.
@@nhan156 a good textbook i work from daily for the most part is easy Spanish for beginners and short stories in Spanish for beginners (it’s a novel with guided questions)
Text book for understanding and granmar, and the short stories for comprehension
He will understand it anyway XD
We miss this type of video from you bro...nice one
You know nothing makes me happier than seeing you looking so healthy.
Ohhh je Nederlands klinkt prachtig!!! Ik heb je filmpjes vaker voorbij zien komen maar had nooit gedacht dat je Nederlands kon spreken ☺️ geen idee waarom hoor. Je app ziet er nu al prachtig uit! Engels is voor mij gelukkig niet zo een probleem maar ik begin met Turks leren en haak na 2maanden weer af! Vreselijk! Maar dit soort video's zijn echt weer een inspiratiebron! Dankuwel daarvoor! 😊 groetjes vanaf de bovenburen 🇳🇱
I was so funny that you switched from one language to another 😂😂😂 I couldn't see it in other polyglot videos
一年間ぐらい日本語を勉強していますので、Ikennaさんのチャネルが見つかれたからずっとその勉強方法を興味あります。動画を作ってくれてありがとうございます。
ооооооооооо , вы из Англии
Наконец-то, я ждал тебе записать такую видео)
YOur Videos motivate me and isnpire me when i start losing interest to continue :)
Wow you're an inspiration bro. Keep doing what you're doing.
O homem voltou!!!
Súper dope. I look forward to being able to speak 8 languages.
You're absolutely amazing. Your Japanese is awesome. I also have one video in my channel speaking several languages and it's a short one. I'm thinking of creating a much longer video. Anyway, greetings from Croatia!
I love this keep it up
Did I just see you standing up? What a pleasant surprise. So happy that your situation is at least getting better even occasionally.
I guess that as your native Nigeria is a multi-language country with English as its Lingua Franca, I am guessing that these English words popping up during speech may be an actual representation of Igbo too. I saw this many times in India and Philippines. An English word here and there during a dialogue in Hindi (or Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi etc) and Tagalog (or Cebuano, etc)
I'm from Nigeria🇳🇬 and I'm Igbo. And yes, you're correct, to an extent. We do borrow some words from the English Language. But the mixture occurs with people that are not exactly too fluent in the language yet.
A very fluent speaker can tell an entire story in Igbo, without having to mix in any English unless it's absolutely necessary. And the necessity would arise as a result of words that didn't previously exist until much later in contemporary times (and even those words are slowly developing Igbo alternatives). Ikenna is doing so good, I'm so proud of him. If he keeps at it; practicing it, and most of all, having conversations in the language with fluent speakers (his family), he'll keep getting better and better.
Added Bonus: This isn't related, but Ikenna means "Father's Strength". Very nice name 😊
man, please bring back VR chat videos, I love them all.
Я очень впечатлена вашему труду и таланту, которое вы вложили в изучение языков!) Продолжайте в том же духе, вы большой молодец💪
Not a Native Spanish speaker, but fluent and learning it for 3 years: your Spanish is much better now than it was when you first started it, so props! The only thing I’d say needs a bit of work is the pauses between words, but other than that, you’re really good.
I love seeing you sing a song to get into the language, I used to have set phrases in German that I'd run through to get me into that frame of mind, they were very necessary for me
You inspire me so much
This is amazing!! I just lit up with the Russian and Chinese. My grandmother was a polyglot, speaking several languages including Russian, Mandarin and Cantonese. She actually lived in Russia for many years, and was a professor at a Russian college near St. Petersburg teaching English to Russian college students.
She met her husband in Russia, and brought him back to the United States. I feel that I have aquired her passion for learning languages..I always had a strong interest in learning Russian and Chinese - even before I knew my grandmother could speak them.
I just love seeing these videos, I feel languages are the key to open new doors of connecting to new people and it's amazing to feel that connection.
Congratulations on learning Igbo! Such an awesome new way of connecting to your roots
OMG your Japanese is sooo good 😮 the choice of vocabulary is so upper level 🔥
saved the best for last :p
dat was geweldig nederlands, goede grammatica en uitspraak
het is altijd mooi om iemand te zien die half dronken nederlands probeerd te leren, want engels is ook gewoon dronken nederlands XD
maar erg goed gedaan
(btw een nephew is een neef in het nederlands)
I'm honestly surprised at your story and how similar it is to mine? I'm an American who both failed at spanish in school but for me I had to take two levels of a language class and pass, so I originally chose chinese for...whatever reason and aced it, then I moved schools and they didnt offer chinese anymore so I swapped to Japanese (also for anime!) and did not as well as in my chinese class but it was still fun! Right now I'm 22 and I'm still trying to learn everything but I was able to understand even a tiny bit of all 3 of those languages and it was so cool and such a huge motivation for me to keep going on my own language journey! It was also super refreshing to hear that such a wonderful polyglot was also like..."yea my spanish in school was REALLY bad" haha I hope to be able to even be a fraction as successful as you are in a few languages ideally Japanese, Chinese and Korean cause I love all 3 of the cultures surrounding the languages and I feel if I learn them I will be able to make so many cool and interesting friends and meet people!
I ALWAYS enjoy listening to people who speak any language (other than english) at all, so listening to you is super cool!
I currently only learn German and Spanish at school, so I'm not anywhere near good right now so...
Oh also I decided to listen to the spanish part without looking at the subtitles and I started wheezing at the 'School is shi-'
Omg I want to sing all the C Drama soundtracks especially Handsome Siblings, Omg there are SO many good historical dramas out now! Thank you Ikenna for an inspiring video
Cette vidéo était géniale! Fue interesante ver que tienes diferentes niveles de fluidez en estas idiomas. Inspiring. Do you ever happen to be confused between languages when you speak? I know it happens to me often
Hallo Ikenna, ik moet zeggen dat ik mis toch Nederlands bij Fluyo, maar ik begrijp ook dat je moet ergens beginnen, toch?
Nederlands is de derde taal dat ik leert, maar ook mijn lievelingstaal. Ik ben veel keer in UT geweest. Mijn Nederlands is nog niet zo goed als ik wil maar ik begint wel wat Hiragana te leren. Op deze video lijkt me dat je gezondheid beter is, en dat wens ik je altijd! Allerbeste!
I so much loved the igbo. Its not perfect but so impressive. I'm an igbo girl who speaks igbo and also speaks and learns a bunch of other languages. Kudos nwanne.
Man you truly give me motivation behind learning German, and you make me wanting to speak at least 6 languages... thank you so much!
I can already speak 3 languages (2 are very simillar (Czech, Slovak, English)) and then i wanna add German, Spanish and either Korean or Japanese
Thank you for the motivation!
I learned german It will take at least 5 years till you speak well
@@thanos1229 even tho i was born with some form of slow learning dissability, With the method i used to learn english to a level of a native speaker almost... i think that i can do it in 3 years or less... but yes it will take me around 6 to 7 years of constant using of the language to be close to native, and im glad i have lot of german friends, that are willing to speak to me or help me with it on the level im on at that moment
I was stunned how good your russuian is! Mostly no accent and one grammar mistake. Wow dude, you are really amazing!
International chat is so cool. You can meet so many friends and speak with it.
And polyglots is so beautiful people. I also learn English but I can’t speak fluently and I don’t understand some words.
Sorry for my mistakes
Have a good day/night ❤
So cool!
Jeg er så glad at se han nu ka' bare stå op og synge en sang og ikke bare sidde fast i hans kørestol! Det' et tegn på hårdt arbejde, tålmodighed, og udholdenhed :)
Undskyld hvis mit dansk var ik' perfekt, jeg lærer stadigvæk :)
I'm glad to hear your Japanese memories and looking forward to the app 🙏
So impressive and inspiring! I speak English, French and Greek, and I am currently learning Spanish! But I really want to learn Japanese, Russian and ASL in the future :) Hope I could be as cool as you one day!
I'm currently learning Russian, about 30 minutes a day. Between my job, family, and trying to get an apartment ready for us to move into, it's all I can do. Have no real reason to learn it besides, I have wanted to learn a language, and the last few times I have tried it's been Danish and French, and due to hobbies or interests that have faded, where as this has no reason besides doing something for 30 minutes a day regardless what it is.
I'm focusing solely on listening and speaking, though the letters aren't that difficult to me, the understanding of spoken Russian is most difficult for me. Besides the vocabulary, I've only been studying about 2 weeks now, and have always come back to your videos for inspiration with learning any one of them.
Спасибо, ты вдохновение
Apologies for Grammer but you probably understand.
Удачи в изучении!
Надеюсь то что вы не бросите учёбу. Русский отличный язык и я очень рад то что люди интересуются им!
* Спасибо, ты вдохновляешь!
you seem like you're having so much fun with languages
Much love bro