Note: The woman who won the cake speaking bengali is actually speaking a local dialect called "Sylhetty", and it is very different from standard bengali, even local bengalis have hard time understanding it.
Here in the UK, Sylhetis are the vast majority of the Bengalis here! There is even a direct flight from London Heathrow to Sylhet, which I think is the only international flight to Sylhet!
The cute greek girl actually asked some good questions for Wouter. He's too used for those standard answers/phrases, good he got shook abit :D Love your videos btw
He speaks basics . Level of 4 years child. This is not even A1 for most of the languages he would-be speaking. I know, I know this is just a show and he's not a polyglot.
You are so talented and sweet you let them choose the cake. I just guessed that the lady on the phone with me was Turkish and then I proceeded to speak some with her. I told her that there are some similarities thanks to the Mongolian influence.
Bonjour. Il est préférable de dire « Apprendre une langue demande du temps. » Ou : « Apprendre une langue demande beaucoup de temps ». Il ne faut pas dire « Ça coûte du temps ». Tu pourrais dire « Ça prend du temps ». J’aime bien vos vidéos. :-)
Hmm, well, how many languages makes a polyglot? My wife speaks Tagalog, English, and is okay at Japanese. The only Spanish she knows are the words they share with tagalog.
I do not deny the fact that speaking 29 languages is way over the standars for an hyperglot, but we would have to see in detail if between those languages there are some which are only dialects, and secondly, if he is really fluent at them: most part of the time he is only using common phrases or simple answers like "I love to speak the language x". However, it would be interesting if he could go deeper or maintain a little bit more difficult conversations. For exemple, his French is terrible, not even a A2. If we do this reduction, he will probably speak the half of the languages he is affirming, which it continues being amazing, but I think he is not enough humble at this point. By simple saying he can REALLY speak 10-15 languages, and showing it, this would be not only the truth, but also as much as amazing as the exageration of 29. To say "I speak a language", you have at least to have a B-Level competency. Like, for exemple, I speak fluently (from B2 to C2 official diplomas) 5 languages (French, Spanish, German, Italian and English), which I used at work everyday. But, would I consider myself to be a "plyglot"? Nah. I think that switching from Spanish to Italian is almost a joke, while be very good at German coming from the French is really hard and you need years of traning. Apart from that, I have lived in 7 countries (where I spoke these languages). So, my personal case is reallistic, but I would not say for exemple that I speak Dutch or Portugese (because my understanding are 75% and 95% by reading or listening, because I am fluent at German and Spanish), but I will not say: I can speak 7 languages, this would be presuntuous. And, as a final note, I think is decisive to make the difference between rooted languages like Italian-Spanish-Portugese and German and Chinese. If there is a guy being fluent at German and Chinese, it will definitely way more impressive than my personal case, where only German and English are not rooted with Italian-French-Spanish, but even whith that, they are not SO FAR AWAY one from each other. Conclusion: this guy is enough hyperpoligot and it seems innecesary to be so presuntuous exagerating as he does.
First of all, I would absolutely consider you a polyglot. Five distinct languages, regardless of how similar they are, is enough to satisfy those requirements. Second, you're right in your suspicions of his claims. I love his videos, but throughout the years I always see variations of the same phrases in his subtitles. "I want to learn this language." "I want to be your friend." "It is not a problem for me." "My name is...." "I love to practice this language with you." etc. He seems to go quantity and not quality. Thats not a bad thing in of itself, but like you i think he is playing loose with the claim of speaking that many languages. As far as actually being fluent, I would guess his real number is closer to 10 or so, maybe less. I can at least verify that other than english, he's good at tagalog.
Yea he is talented no question about that. But I can at least confirm that he doesn't speak Cantonese or Japanese at all. Barely being able to say "how are you" with an unbelievably thick accent doesn't really count imo.
I speak 4 languages, but don't consider myself a polyglot. It is not that impressive, 3 of them are Germanic languages and while they are quite different, it gives you an advantage anyway. And I have some basic understanding of 4 other languages, but more that is more at a tourist-level. But that is nit speaking a language. But with 75% of understanding a language like you do with Dutch you can have proper discussions and when you don't know, you can ask. Sadly I have refugees in my neighbourhood who live here 10 years and don't speak 1 word Dutch, at least 80% of them said they didn't want to learn it. I don't get that, would be a nightmare for me not understanding the people around me.
In my humble opinion I feel like dialects should be allowed as long as you have a very very hard time understanding it, for example Sichuanese is arguably a dialect of Mandarin (unlike other chinese dialects such as Hokkien, Fuzhounese, Cantonese etc.) but if one has a tough time understanding Sichuanese then Sichuanese should win in the challenge. The buffer zone between dialect vs distinct language is very murky. Edit: I take back what I said here, what Wouter said as a reply is very reasonable, please check that out instead.
I'm confused, Wouter didn't give a free cake to the guy who was speaking Andalusian because he was speaking a dialect, yet he gave a free cake to the woman who spoke creole Haitian which is a dialect of French. Now, I speak Spanish as a native language and I couldn't understand what that guy was saying when he was speaking Andalusian , it reminded me of Chilean Spanish, he was speaking very fast the way many Chileans speak Spanish.
@@Dah42 Haitian Creole may be a French-based creole, but it's absolutely classified as a different language from a linguistics perspective. Many of the other langues d'oïl spoken in mainland Europe are more mutually intelligible with French than Haitian Creole.
Hello there, thanks for the feedback and I appreciate it. I just want to tell that I want to use clear rules for my challenge. In my title I use the word language, not the word dialect. If it would be about dialects, it would mean that I should also give cakes to people from the Netherlands for example, even when Dutch is my native language. Dialects like Limburgs and Twents are really hard to understand, even when you are a Dutch native speaker. So just telling, when it would be about dialects, I would have to give a cake to almost everyone. I'm not sure if that's the type of content you would enjoy.
Yo soy español del pais vasco y NO entiendo a los andaluces. Hablan muy cerrado, es muy extraño, no parece ni español. Me cuesta entenderlos jajajaja Buen video como siempre wouter Hugs from spain!
When the guy said Assyrian I immediately thought of the extinct language! Wikipedia says there are two forms of modern Assyrian, so is this language he is speaking Turoyo or Suret?
As a native your greek is barely A1 level, not just pronunciation-wise, she should’ve gotten that cake. Not hating or anything just making a statement 👍 Keep learning man! 😄
I didn't hear you speak Haitian Creole, she deserves a cake, come on. :P I have a feeling you understand her language from French though, my family speaks French and Mauritian Creole so I understand Haitians somewhat (not everything but a lot).
Really talented guy for sure! I wish I could speak those asian languages. Mais son français n'est pas terrible désolé. Behöver även jobba på sin svenska. Det är nästan omöjligt o låta som en svensk, uttalet är svårt bra jobbat ändå!
I understand your point, but still I need clear rules for the challenge. Otherwise it's not clear when people can win. I do agree with the fact that some dialects can be so different from eachother that they shound like completely different languages.
@@WouterCorduwenerCorrect me if I'm wrong, but haven't you admitted defeat to people speaking swiss german before? Though this is rather a gray area and some call it a language on its own, some only a dialect
@@WouterCorduwenerSpeaking of dialects, since you know some Swedish you should listen to Österbottniska. It's a dialect of Swedish spoken in Finland. It's very different from standard Swedish
Note: The woman who won the cake speaking bengali is actually speaking a local dialect called "Sylhetty", and it is very different from standard bengali, even local bengalis have hard time understanding it.
ha yaar me bhi sochu ye konsi bengali h.
I am from west bengal!!!
Bengali is my mother tongue !!!
I didn't realize she was speaking in bengali !!! 😂
Here in the UK, Sylhetis are the vast majority of the Bengalis here! There is even a direct flight from London Heathrow to Sylhet, which I think is the only international flight to Sylhet!
I have heard Bengali my whole life from West Bengal. That's not a standard bengali dialect. That's basically another language.
@@harisadu8998 agreed 100%
It sounded more like arabic to me !!!
Crazy how u ran into someone you used to play COD with lmao
The cute greek girl actually asked some good questions for Wouter. He's too used for those standard answers/phrases, good he got shook abit :D Love your videos btw
i guess that would be the same for Jaraneseat least :p unless he sees my comment! :D
She was really eyeing him out
He speaks basics . Level of 4 years child. This is not even A1 for most of the languages he would-be speaking. I know, I know this is just a show and he's not a polyglot.
If ive meet wouter i will speak latin
Ego quoque
ill do norwegian
I'm gonna break out some Chaucer
I'll do yoruba
Doesn't a dead language count?
Wow your german sounds really good, I was impressed which words you chose, for example the typical "ich würde...", awesome!
Is this the first time encountering Tibetan on this channel? I haven’t seen it before on here! Very rare language
You are so talented and sweet you let them choose the cake. I just guessed that the lady on the phone with me was Turkish and then I proceeded to speak some with her. I told her that there are some similarities thanks to the Mongolian influence.
Thanks for the compliment. When it's about cakes, there should be a choice.
@@WouterCorduwener You are amazing. 😍 I truly good person, indeed.
love these videos they always get me interested in learning languages again
Wouter's strategy is flawless: learn every language or go bankrupt 😆
vrai 😂😂😂
True
hahaha wat geweldig dit!! Leuke video weer Wouter!💪🏻
Bonjour. Il est préférable de dire « Apprendre une langue demande du temps. » Ou : « Apprendre une langue demande beaucoup de temps ». Il ne faut pas dire « Ça coûte du temps ». Tu pourrais dire « Ça prend du temps ». J’aime bien vos vidéos. :-)
what a Legend playing black ops 1 zombies!!!!
It's funny when someone thinks that a polyglot doesn't speak spanish.
Hmm, well, how many languages makes a polyglot? My wife speaks Tagalog, English, and is okay at Japanese. The only Spanish she knows are the words they share with tagalog.
idk the official terms but isn't that trilingual@@TheMacC117
@@garorade Some people say 3 or more is polyglot.
Finnish, Hungarian, German, Romanian, Slovakian, Russian, (bit) Estonian. 🤷♀
I do not deny the fact that speaking 29 languages is way over the standars for an hyperglot, but we would have to see in detail if between those languages there are some which are only dialects, and secondly, if he is really fluent at them: most part of the time he is only using common phrases or simple answers like "I love to speak the language x". However, it would be interesting if he could go deeper or maintain a little bit more difficult conversations. For exemple, his French is terrible, not even a A2. If we do this reduction, he will probably speak the half of the languages he is affirming, which it continues being amazing, but I think he is not enough humble at this point. By simple saying he can REALLY speak 10-15 languages, and showing it, this would be not only the truth, but also as much as amazing as the exageration of 29. To say "I speak a language", you have at least to have a B-Level competency. Like, for exemple, I speak fluently (from B2 to C2 official diplomas) 5 languages (French, Spanish, German, Italian and English), which I used at work everyday. But, would I consider myself to be a "plyglot"? Nah. I think that switching from Spanish to Italian is almost a joke, while be very good at German coming from the French is really hard and you need years of traning. Apart from that, I have lived in 7 countries (where I spoke these languages). So, my personal case is reallistic, but I would not say for exemple that I speak Dutch or Portugese (because my understanding are 75% and 95% by reading or listening, because I am fluent at German and Spanish), but I will not say: I can speak 7 languages, this would be presuntuous. And, as a final note, I think is decisive to make the difference between rooted languages like Italian-Spanish-Portugese and German and Chinese. If there is a guy being fluent at German and Chinese, it will definitely way more impressive than my personal case, where only German and English are not rooted with Italian-French-Spanish, but even whith that, they are not SO FAR AWAY one from each other. Conclusion: this guy is enough hyperpoligot and it seems innecesary to be so presuntuous exagerating as he does.
First of all, I would absolutely consider you a polyglot. Five distinct languages, regardless of how similar they are, is enough to satisfy those requirements.
Second, you're right in your suspicions of his claims. I love his videos, but throughout the years I always see variations of the same phrases in his subtitles. "I want to learn this language." "I want to be your friend." "It is not a problem for me." "My name is...." "I love to practice this language with you." etc.
He seems to go quantity and not quality. Thats not a bad thing in of itself, but like you i think he is playing loose with the claim of speaking that many languages. As far as actually being fluent, I would guess his real number is closer to 10 or so, maybe less. I can at least verify that other than english, he's good at tagalog.
Yea he is talented no question about that. But I can at least confirm that he doesn't speak Cantonese or Japanese at all. Barely being able to say "how are you" with an unbelievably thick accent doesn't really count imo.
I speak 4 languages, but don't consider myself a polyglot. It is not that impressive, 3 of them are Germanic languages and while they are quite different, it gives you an advantage anyway. And I have some basic understanding of 4 other languages, but more that is more at a tourist-level. But that is nit speaking a language. But with 75% of understanding a language like you do with Dutch you can have proper discussions and when you don't know, you can ask.
Sadly I have refugees in my neighbourhood who live here 10 years and don't speak 1 word Dutch, at least 80% of them said they didn't want to learn it. I don't get that, would be a nightmare for me not understanding the people around me.
In my humble opinion I feel like dialects should be allowed as long as you have a very very hard time understanding it, for example Sichuanese is arguably a dialect of Mandarin (unlike other chinese dialects such as Hokkien, Fuzhounese, Cantonese etc.) but if one has a tough time understanding Sichuanese then Sichuanese should win in the challenge. The buffer zone between dialect vs distinct language is very murky.
Edit: I take back what I said here, what Wouter said as a reply is very reasonable, please check that out instead.
I'm confused, Wouter didn't give a free cake to the guy who was speaking Andalusian because he was speaking a dialect, yet he gave a free cake to the woman who spoke creole Haitian which is a dialect of French. Now, I speak Spanish as a native language and I couldn't understand what that guy was saying when he was speaking Andalusian , it reminded me of Chilean Spanish, he was speaking very fast the way many Chileans speak Spanish.
@@Dah42 Haitian Creole may be a French-based creole, but it's absolutely classified as a different language from a linguistics perspective. Many of the other langues d'oïl spoken in mainland Europe are more mutually intelligible with French than Haitian Creole.
Hello there, thanks for the feedback and I appreciate it. I just want to tell that I want to use clear rules for my challenge. In my title I use the word language, not the word dialect. If it would be about dialects, it would mean that I should also give cakes to people from the Netherlands for example, even when Dutch is my native language. Dialects like Limburgs and Twents are really hard to understand, even when you are a Dutch native speaker. So just telling, when it would be about dialects, I would have to give a cake to almost everyone. I'm not sure if that's the type of content you would enjoy.
@@WouterCorduwener I see. That makes sense, thanks for explaining.
@@WouterCorduwenermy man knows a lot of languages, but here he chose the language of facts
Wouter you are the best motivation for every language learner! Je ben de beste!
Yo soy español del pais vasco y NO entiendo a los andaluces. Hablan muy cerrado, es muy extraño, no parece ni español.
Me cuesta entenderlos jajajaja
Buen video como siempre wouter Hugs from spain!
You are such an inspiration wow!
man your Cantonese and Japanese... they deserved a cake😂
Thak you for sharing this great video. 💙
Aye the girl at 6:00 was really impressed 😂
😂
When the guy said Assyrian I immediately thought of the extinct language!
Wikipedia says there are two forms of modern Assyrian, so is this language he is speaking Turoyo or Suret?
How can I find contacts of that girl from Greece???
When I lived in Chicago, I made a lot of Assyrian friends. They taught me how to say "I love you." It's "Era goureshokh!" 👍😃
that women didn't spoke bengali,she used local dialect accent "slyhetty"after all
its the part bangladesh
As a native your greek is barely A1 level, not just pronunciation-wise, she should’ve gotten that cake. Not hating or anything just making a statement 👍 Keep learning man! 😄
Time to upgrade the Cantonese Wouter.
NEEDS TO BRUSH UP ON HIS ROMANIAN 🇷🇴 ASAP 👍👍
Love it 😍
Great video
I would have won a cake for sure: I'm an alien from another galaxy.😊
I'd love to randomly meet a friend from the CoD zombies times 😂
My thoughts exactly 😂
That COD zombie guy was swedish, his swedish dont get more fluent than that.
Another thing though, how did you know her boyfriend was French? I didn't hear you discuss him in your conversation previously.
I didn't hear you speak Haitian Creole, she deserves a cake, come on. :P I have a feeling you understand her language from French though, my family speaks French and Mauritian Creole so I understand Haitians somewhat (not everything but a lot).
I don't understand your comment. I gave her a cake, I let her even choose the cake.
@@WouterCorduwenerbtw, Wouter, do you want to learn one more slavic language?
Now say "Sorry Wouter, I didn't watch the rest of the video so I didn't see the part where you gave her the cake." and everything will be alright.
I can’t wait to meet him when I go to Netherlands haha you be able to speak my languages 1million percent haha
Love the Haitian Creole
Love❤
Why are they all called This? That’s a weird name.
Imagine. This is my brother and That is me xD
Italian and catalan girl, so positive:)
To study in japanese is "Benkyoo", not "bienko", that doesn't even sound similar-ish, you made that mistake ages ago already :p
😍😍😍 the andalusian guy was so prettyyyyyyy
Walter speak Brazilian portugueses hehe
Muito bom
nei da, snakk norsk, hn kan ikke snakke norsk
@@Amomoo Han kan snacka danska men han sa att han förstår norska och svenska
Can you speak Vietnamese?
Wouter still can’t beat Romanians 😂🇹🇩
der Reaktionsboss
Free cake?!? Now you’re talking my language! 😂
مستوى متقدم و مدهش
FREE CAKEEEEE 😋😋😋😋😋😋😋
The vibe of that andalusian guy cracks me up🤣
thanks bro its me haha
the bengali one was not bengali
Mluvis cesky?
Really talented guy for sure! I wish I could speak those asian languages.
Mais son français n'est pas terrible désolé. Behöver även jobba på sin svenska. Det är nästan omöjligt o låta som en svensk, uttalet är svårt bra jobbat ändå!
მგონი ყველა ვიდეო ვნახე ამ კაცის და ერთი ქართველი როგორ არ გაეძრო ამხელა ამსტერდამში. იქეთ ზაფხულს ჩამოვალ და მოვიგებ რამეს
that looks beautiful. it's georgian, isn't it?
There was a Georgian girl in one of the old vids (COVID time?)
If i was there i would definietly win. Cause i speak Persian
He speaks Farsi…
5:44 😍😍😍
From Egypt ❤❤
jaja el andaluh hablando to cerrao pa llevarse el pastel
I’ll speak Basque and Nahuatl 😊
If I met him, I will speak Armenian or Georgian
Wouter corduwener can speak 29 languages
bhai log me thumbnil pr jo ldki thi , usko dekha kishi ne pure video me. mene usi k chakkar me pura video dekh liya
12:07 😭
Every time he meets Indians :- Oh Shit! here we go again
i need to know greek girls @
Play omega pliss prenk
Wyh you didn't accept to speak andulus? You accept Basque, Valencian, Catalan as a dialect but andulus not? Why?
😂😂😂 very good
that greek girl is cute af
Apakah anda bisa bahasa Indonesia? Jika tidak, berarti saya memenangkan kue secara online 😊😊
he does
You recognize Cantonese but you don’t know Qingtian language and fuzhounese that’s unfair 😡😮
Not surprising considering how many HK films there are
to be fair he knew some of it because he had friends from hong kong, its a lot harder to come across people from those specific parts of china
@@splooey2151 to be honest that's probably just a learned phrase anyway lol
Did you run out of €€€ ?
I bet he doesn't speak Amharic.
He doesn't
Jesus is king ❤
I'm sure he doesn't speak Talmudic Aramaic 🤣
Dialects are often languages of their own
I understand your point, but still I need clear rules for the challenge. Otherwise it's not clear when people can win. I do agree with the fact that some dialects can be so different from eachother that they shound like completely different languages.
@@WouterCorduwenerI once saw you give somebody money for speaking Brabant dialect, which is mutually intelligible with standard Dutch.
@@WouterCorduwener I agree
@@WouterCorduwenerCorrect me if I'm wrong, but haven't you admitted defeat to people speaking swiss german before?
Though this is rather a gray area and some call it a language on its own, some only a dialect
@@WouterCorduwenerSpeaking of dialects, since you know some Swedish you should listen to Österbottniska. It's a dialect of Swedish spoken in Finland. It's very different from standard Swedish
كنت مشترك في قناتك لاكن عندما رأيت علم كيان صهيوني ألغيت الاشتراك لأنه لا يوجد دولة إسمها إسرائيل🇪🇭🇪🇬🇩🇿🇮🇶🇯🇴🇱🇧🇱🇾🇲🇦🇵🇸🇶🇦🇸🇩🇸🇾🇹🇳🇧🇭🇦🇪
Finally I see Armenian here
Εμπ1 χαλαρά.
If I ever meet you I will speak African languages I bet you can’t
syrain is arabic looooooooooool😂
🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🙌🙌
🇭🇹
Armenian yayy
If I meet him I will speak assyrian neo aramaic.