When I saw four languages instead of fifteen in the title I finally believed that someone can actually speak these four languages and not only say 1-2 sentences and claim to speak certain language fluently lol
@@samykiani944 I guess it depends why you're learning languages. For some poeple it might be more valuable to know how to say "hello" in every languages in the world rather than being fluent in a few languages.
It is so interesting how one’s personality “changes” after switching languages. You’re very cute in Italian. Your French is also good. You sound also good in Portuguese. I would believe if you told me you were born in Lisbon (Brazilian Portuguese is my native language). I’m learning Hebrew and Croatian now.
Thanks! Yes - this is such an interesting point about how your personality changes! It never changes completely, but I'm far more likely to act a certain way through the things I say in some languages over others - of course I notice it most in Italian. For me I think it has something to do with the main person/circumstances you learn the language in :) Wow! what an interesting mix of languages - good luck!
Your skills are SO impressive. Keep doing what you do!! I thought it was so interesting that even though I can't say hardly anything in Italian, my Spanish (C1) and French (B2) made it so that I could understand probably 80% of what you said in Italian. It's so exciting to see other people who love languages and culture :) You rock
Thanks Quinn! That's really kind. Yes, once you start to learn romance languages, if you can get your head around the pronunciation of another one, it means you can really start to understand it! I'm sure you'd have very little trouble picking up Italian - the only annoying thing is getting words/grammatical structures mixed up. Keep practising your languages, and you're right: it's a great way to learn about different cultures! :)
If you know one of the romance languages, when reading you can guess a lot of what is said in any of the other romance languages, because the grammar is very similar.
Ton français est vraiment très bien! Ne doutes pas de toi, les gens qui se moquaient de toi pendant ton stage étaient jaloux! Je vis et j'étudie en Angleterre à Brighton et j'ai commencé un petit business en ligne pour devenir nomade digitale comme toi! Je touche au but et j'ai hâte d'apprendre plein de langues comme toi! Continues comme ça, c'est toujours un plaisir de regarder tes vidéos :)
Merci Angélique! C’est vraiment un plaisir de parler avec les autres personnes qui choisissent un mode de vie pareille, et j’apprécie bien tes mots aimables 😍 Bon courage pour ton business! C’est quel type de business? Je suis bien curieuse 😄
C'est une boutique sur Etsy ou je vends de la papeterie de mariage éditable par le client. Je crée les produits, invitations, programmes, pancartes, etc..., et les clients éditent et impriment de chez eux! Comme ça, pas de soucis d'envoi et de stock, et je peux gérer tout ça de n'importe où :) J'ai pour but de devenir nomade digital d'ici un an/un an et demi, quand j'aurai fini ma dernière année d'étude et que le business sera bien solide, alors en attendant, je regarde tes aventures et j'apprends :)
Ahh wow! C’est une bonne idée. Moi je ne réussissais pas à commencer mon travail de freelancer quand j’étais encore à l’université, c’était un peu trop pour moi - donc félicitations, vraiment! Et bon courage 💪🏻🙌🏻
You inspire me so much. I speak English, Portuguese, and some Spanish. I want to pick up Italian too. I just want to say that I am Portuguese American and your Portuguese is AMAZING!!!!! Keep practicing and you’ll be speaking like a native speaker. You just motivated me to get serious about Italian.
Wow! Thanks for your kind message, Elizabeth. It really made me smile 😊 good luck with your italian! I recently filmed a languages tips video which I’ll publish in the next few weeks. Keep up the practise, and just find someone you can speak with. That was the most fun way for me 😊😊😊 in boca al lupo!
This was like watching the same person changing to 4 nationalities in 10 min... amazing 👏🏼 your Portuguese pronunciation is super good even though you are not fluent yet
I’m learning French at school and I’ve been learning for about three years now. I was able to understand 70% of what you said. Your French is very good. Also, is very easy to understand you in French and English. Good work!!
For the Italian part You can say "che il francese", it's correct (I think you weren't sure about it) And "cambiare *da* una lingua" not "di" Your Italian is really good btw :D
I speak danish (native), enlish (basic fluency) and german (A2-ish) and then i just picked up spanish (A1) :) languages have just begun last year to be something i am really passionate about and that i spend a lot of time with.
Thanks for sharing! Your story is impressive and hopefully will poke me to get back into studying Italian myself again There is much still to learn but it's good to have a glimpse of the possibilities of persistence.
That’s cool! Yes, Italian is a lot of fun. I think studying languages when you love the culture always makes it easier ;) I think studying in a way that feels right to you rather than how you think you SHOULD study is important too :)
I’m learning French by myself and I think I’m somewhere between A1-A2 level but I’m so happy that I could understand like 90% of what you said in the video😊
Samy Kiani But when I listen to native speakers it doesn’t feel the same, I had a real hard time figuring out what they said haha. I guess it’s because she speaks quite slowly and clearly in this video that’s why it’s easier for me to understand her
@@tishigtuoi That's because us native speakers contract words more often than you'd hear in english for example, and we use a lot of slang that isn't taught when you're learning the language. Like idk if you ever heard of "verlan", but that's used daily, especially by the younger generations. And verlan is quite a challenging concept you guys will have to wrap your head around to be able to recognize the words that are said and figure out if the "verlan" 'ed words has the same meaning as the original one (and for the most part, they do), or if they don't. It's so engrained in the language now that I think it should be taught a lot earlier to french learners.
Your Italian is so good! Many polyglots don’t treat Italian with the attention it deserves. They usually learn other Romance languages and just throw together very basic Italian vocabulary, give it a Spanish accent, and claim to speak Italian. You actually know it, though. Molto figata!! Complimenti!
@@emanuelfer456 Nope, I know French but I cannot understand Portuguese nor Italian nor Spanish. In the future, I may learn either Portuguese or italian.
@@williamjames4031 for me as native Portuguese, it was pretty easy to learn Italian, french and Spanish. Maybe i understand about the opposite not being true because Portuguese is hard to understand and speak but it's interesting that for us it's easy to understand the other languages
I am BLOWN AWAY. By your talent, your accents in also these languages...mine is definitely so shit in French compared to yours girl! Love this video so much so fascinating
¡Hola! Que interesante, me encanta cuando tu hablas italiano, portugués y francés😍 no entiendo mucho cuando tu hablaste francés pero cuando tu hablaste italiano y portugués lo entiendo un poco más :) soy de noruega y puedo hablar inglés, noruego y español❤️ o ahora aprendo español ahaha he aprendido español por 2 años pronto, y es difícil todavía pero estaré más fácil a todo días❤️
Great job! Keep going! I'm from Poland: My skills: English and Germn on C1-level, Italian B1, and French-Beginner. I love learning foreign languages like you.
Impressive! Very well done! I don't speak these languages, but you sound definitely fluent in all of them. I learned so far 3 languages (English, German, Hebrew) besides my mother tongue (Hungarian) and I would love to speak all the languages on Earth!(-: Good luck with the Portuguese!
Caspita, il tuo italiano è quasi perfetto!! Complimenti, non è da tutti. Molti anglofoni non riescono a eliminare il loro accento nemmeno dopo tanti anni che vivono qui, invece la tua pronuncia è davvero buona e non si capisce che la tua lingua madre è l'inglese! Spero che avrai altre occasioni di venire in Italia e continuare lo studio della mia lingua :)
Awesome video, tbh I was surprised when you started speaking well my language cuz most of the british don´t actually care much about portuguese or italian but usually start to learn spanish because it´s more influential on the world market, if you will . And as a brazilian I gotta say your portuguese is perfect. J'aime votre français, vraiment. C'était simplement incroyable et je pense que vous parlez cette langue couramment. Continua assim, teu sotaque está bem parecido com o português de Portugal, mesmo, e, pelo que eu percebi, não cometeste nenhum erro, motivação total para os outros poliglotas haha
I actually find it really hard to switch from a language thats not my native language, to a language that I have a lower level in that's also not my native language. I feel like the stronger language interferes with the weaker one. Cool video btw! :D
Yes, me too! The first times I tried speaking French when I was in Italy, for example, I was shocked at how Italian with a French accent was coming out of my mouth even though I was trying hard to speak in French. I've improved a bit now, but I can always speak a language best when I've been immersed in it for a few days! :) Thanks for your comment - looks like you're a fellow polyglot, thanks for stopping by :D
I sometimes have the feeling that the weaker also interferes with the stronger one. Sometimes when I try to form a Spanish sentence only a Russian word comes to mind and the other way around.
I think that mostly depends on how similar the languages are. I'm currently learning chinese through english, and I won't see how I could mistake english and chinese since they're completly different languages. I also plan to learn italian through spanish (in fact I already started and spent a few hours on this, but might as well consider it at not started yet since it's just the begining and chinese takes priority atm). And I can see how I'd confuse the 2, since the basic grammar of these 2 languages is mostly the same.
I loved it 💘💘 yeah, funny that your voice changes with the languages, I mean that’s normal cause that’s how you are with every different language a different personality as well. Your Italian accent it’s so accurate 💖 I love it!
Thank you! And yes - for me it’s definitely also how I change my voice to facilitate the sounds. My boyfriend for example really likes my voice in English/Portuguese, but a few people find my Italian voice a little abrasive 😂
Ton français et italien sont super bien! Tu gères, girl!😍 As for english, I’m not british but I like your accent, especially the cockney one. Keep going and never stop learning languages.❤️
Your Italian is excellent!!! Your French is quite good too. You mentioned that you are not sure about your French accent. It's great! I've lived in France and Belgium and I was able to understand you perfectly well. It sounded very natural. Great!
Thanks so much. This Polyglot idea changed my life so much. Language is simply a key to soooo many things. It pushed me to an extend İ couldnt dream of before. And just by the way İ even learnt to love my native language German, which I didnt before.
4:50 "Je me suis rendu compte" is 100% correct here, you could have said your sentence this way : "Je me suis rendu compte que mon Français n'était pas du tout au même niveau que je le pensais".
This is inspiring! I grew up bilingual (American English and Mexican Spanish) and I am currently trying to master Italian! I love the country and the culture (I'd say I'm upper intermediate.) My next goal is Portuguese (I don't know which one yet). These romance languages are beautiful and interesting to me so of course I'd like to learn French and perhaps Romanian. 😁 I've learned to not be afraid or shy to speak! That's how you learn!
Sis, recommend you try one Asian language (do pay attention to the writings). All four languages you speak are European, highly correlated. I am fluent in Chinese, English, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia-Melayu and living in four different countries, thanks to my international trading job. Got an assignment in W.Africa. Guess need to kick off French learning soon.
I have so many things to say about this video that I don't even know if you'll have the patience to read everything. lol But let's do it anyway! 1) I really loved your video. I always enjoy watching videos of polyglots and how they are able to just "switch" from one language to another. I am not one of them so I needed to read the subtitles to understand what you were saying, but you sounded so natural in all of the languages you spoke. Maybe you have some accent and a native can notice right off the bat but I don't see any reason to people make any kind of fun of you because of it. I bet that most of them don't know how to speak four languages. It's really impressive. 2) I am a native Portuguese speaker, but I'm from Brazil, which makes your accent really different than mine. Nevertheless, I was perfectly able to understand everything you've said in Portuguese. Which means that you don't have a "heavy" accent. It's funny because I met some Portuguese people who I couldn't be able to understand a single word they were saying (crazy, isn't? The same language but because of the speed and the accent that were really heavy I needed to ask for them to repeat exhaustively). In your video, though, I was perfectly able to understand you! 3) I don't speak English fluently (yet), but I'm at a pretty advanced level. However, I usually have some difficulty to understand the English/British accent because I'm way more used to the American accent. But, again, in your video, I understood everything you said in English without any subtitles. Your speech is just so clear that it makes easy to understand. 4) You are so inspirational because as a native Portuguese speaker I feel that languages like Spanish and Italian are not that hard for me to understand. I say that because there were some parts where you were speaking in Italian and I could understand even without subtitles. This makes me want to learn those languages, you know? And, I might be wrong, but I kinda feel that sooner or later Spanish is going to be the next one for you! hahaha Which leads me to one question: as a polyglot do you think it's better to learn a language and master it before learning another one? I really wanted to learn Spanish, French and Italian but I don't feel that I should try it until I really master English (which is my priority at the moment). *I promise I'm finishing* I don't know if you are interested, but I recently posted on my channel my first video speaking in English. It would make me really happy to see some feedback coming from you. That's all! I apologize for that unfinishable comment! hahaha
Hi Rafael, thank you for taking the time to leave such a long comment! I promise I appreciate it and read it all :) This is true - when I was teased about my languages I did not speak 4, but these are perhaps the little bad memories I can really start to let go of now ;) And I know what you mean about Brazilian and European Portuguese. My boyfriend has Brazilian friends who had real trouble understanding his Porto accent when they first met. I'm still a beginner in Portuguese, but I'm learning so much about the huge changes in accent and even grammar between the two versions of the language. Yes - I think once you learn one romance language (particularly if you are a native) it's going to help you so much in learning another one, to the point where you can even understand the language at times without having ever learned it! THat's why I'm progressing the way I am with Portuguese with relatively little effort I would say :P and yes - I'm fairly certain Spanish will feature somewhere down the road for me, too! To answer your question, I think it really depends. Getting to 80% fluency is the hardest, and you're going to put in just as much effort, if not more, to reach that final 20%, so I would really recommend not obsessing over it, and it's fine to pick up a new language at this point. Especially since from your written English, you sound VERY proficient to me. And yes - I will check out your video and leave you a comment! :D Thanks again, and have a great day :)
Muito obrigado pelo seu feedback, Emily. Não só por aqui, mas também no meu vídeo. Estou te respondendo desta vez em português que é para ajudar um pouquinho a praticar seus hábitos de leitura (não que você precise, mas é sempre bom). É engraçado que encontrei seu vídeo por acaso, mas já me tornei fã graças a ele. Espero, sinceramente, acompanhar cada vez mais seu progresso no português em vídeos futuros, mas também aprender um pouquinho das demais línguas e das culturas dos países que você visita. Espero um dia poder ter o privilégio de conhecer a Europa, mas enquanto isso não é possível você o faz por mim! :) Ah, e talvez isso possa soar muito "íntimo" pra você, mas brasileiros costumam se despedir com mensagens de afeto. Por isso, beijos! :)
Você falou em todas as línguas muito bem. Português é minha língua nativa, e estou aprendendo agora Inglês, Francês e Italiano, além de Espanhol e Coreano. Recomendo que você aprenda também Espanhol, que é muito semelhante ao Português e ao Italiano!
I studied 4 years of Russian and 2 years of ancient Gree k, but it has been some 20 years since then. I have been studying German, Spanish, and French on my own now. I started the Summer Language Club with my grandchildren, and we are having a great time on Zoom. We started this by having Russian tea every week. That was mostly culture. I am hoping to do more language with them.
I've been teaching myself Portuguese recently and always search polyglot on youtube when I need inspiration. When i was watching I thought, hang on I recognise this woman... then the penny dropped. We were in a school play when i was like 13/14 and you were in sixth form i think? Absolutely crazy how small this world is! Great video btw production quality is top notch
Such a small world! Yes, I thought I recognised your name from your comment. Thanks for stopping by and for your lovely comment :) and good luck with the Portuguese, I'm still working on it and studying ;)
I’m a native french speaker, your french is really good, of course the pronounciation could be better but there are almost no grammar mistakes which is quite tough in french (even for us lmao) I learned english mostly by myself (at school it helped a bit as well but mostly from the internet), I also learned german for 12 years at school (but somehow I still can’t make a sentence fluently), and finally italian by myself as well (tho it could be improved by far) I’m now learning swedish because I’ll be going there on holiday, and Finnish because I find it nice. Would love to learn more languages like portugese, dutch (mostly for flemish in belgium), maybye a slavic language too but I don’t have time for all that x)
Hello Emily i´m a native speaker of portuguese, i´m from Brazil, and i can say your portuguese is wonderfull, really, is amazing see a gringo speak a language like portuguese hahaha. I love your channel, you won more one subscriber and also i recomend you try study brazilian portuguese
You speak just perfectly beautiful all those languages. You motivated me to learn even more, to get myself emmersed in this beautiful world of ours, that is the poliglot one. Merci Beaucoup, gracias, gazie, obrigado moça! Thank you!
Amazing ☺️ I wish I could speak four languages. I’d like to learn Italian + Norwegian this year. I wish the uk’s education system pushed for multi-lingualism like continental Europe. Pls include more language content on this channel :))
I would have loved to be able to learn more languages at school! Ooh exciting - Norwegian sounds like fun, very different from any of the languages that I’ve learned. And thanks so much for the feedback! I’ll certainly think about more ways I can incorporate more language content - I’m totally open to suggestions! 😄
Emily Stoker Maybe you can make videos about how you learn languages bc to some people, especially those raised in monolingual countries, it’s an alien concept. Like the process you take, the grammar + exercise books you recommend, tips to practice your accent (even if that’s just a 2 min vid), how you learn + remember vocabulary, how you get your head around tricky sentence formations or certain verbs, ermm reccomendations on books/music/films/podcasts/ in x language. I’d love to see things like that :-).
Emily Stoker ooh also random question but do you find that you can now access insider knowledge about certain cultures due to knowing the language? For an example, i’d like to learn Italian to be able to read Italian cookbooks & food blogs to learn how to cook Italian meals from natives/from the source. If I learnt Italian fluently from a young age, I would have liked to gone to an Italian university to study Italian architecture as I’m absolutely in love with Italian + classical architecture.
You definitely get "insider knowledge" on a culture when you can communicate with the people in their mother tongue! It's often the little details in a culture that someone from the country might not even think to tell you, because they don't realise how specific it is to their culture, that you pick up on from speaking to people! I learned more about Italian cooking from watching and helping my Italian friends cook than I did from reading books/watching TH-cam videos about it :)
I’m 20 and I can speak Arabic,English,French,Spanish and I did understand all that you’ve said in Italian and just a little bit of Portuguese cuz it’s so close to Spanish
Eu sou também poliglota, mas em muitos casos não foi por ter aprendido na escola (simplesmente porque nasci numa cultura diferente). Consigo falar português (nativo), galego (mais ou menos, mas não necessitam, já que eles entendem perfeitamente o português e eu também os entendo), espanhol (nunca estudei, mas sou fluente), francês (um pouco, mas consigo o básico) e inglês (como é óbvio, é a língua franca). Continua com os estudos! O teu português está fantástico. Qualquer dia falas como uma nortenha! :)
Sentire la qualità della tua pronuncia (per una madrelingua inglese è molto difficile) è impressionante, oltretutto dopo soli 5 anni di studio, immagino non tutti vissuti in Italia, sei veramente brava; conosco moltissimi americani e inglesi che vivono in Italia da anni, gente che lo comprende alla perfezione e riesce a parlarlo (relativamente) bene, che non si avvicina minimamente alla tua pronuncia, complimenti.
That was a very delightful talk. You seem to be a very sympathetic person with a communicative enthusiasm for multilingualism. Keep on the good work for at only 24 you have a fairly good command of the three languages you chose to take on. Others will follow I guess. Multilingualism is a never ending path and your are on good tracks. People laughing at foreign accents, along with those telling you that you are "lucky" to be a multilingual person (regardless of the years of commitment it takes to achieve such a goal) can sometimes grind you down. But you should not not pay so much attention to them. To the contrary your accent should let people remember how hard one has to work to be able to express oneself in a foreign language. Ecouter ce qui pour toi a été le "déclic" vers l'envie d'apprendre des langues m'a particulièrement touché car j'ai eu une expérience assez similaire. A onze ans mes parents se sont installés en Côte d'Ivoire et je me suis retrouvé en contact quotidien à l'école avec des enfants parlant certes le français mes aussi d'autres langues que je ne comprenais pas (le baoulé, le bété, certains l'arabe aussi etc...). Cela me donnait souvent l'impression frustrante d'être un peu stupide. Je décidai alors de ne pas rater l'occasion d'apprendre sérieusement les langues au cours de ma scolarité. Ce furent d'abord l'anglais et l'espagnol, que je parle couramment, et le russe, langue assez difficile mais dans laquelle je peux avoir des conversations basiques. Avevo 24 anni cuando ho iniziato imparare il giapponese dopo di avere incontrato mia moglie in Francia. E la lingua giapponesa che mi ha fatto davvero attraversare la soglia del multilingualismo. Adesso 42, vivo nel questo paese e ovvio, a forza di praticarlo tutta la giornata, il giapponese è diventato la mia seconda lingua. Ma davvero, potere parlare almeno 4 lingue falicilita molto l'aprendimento di lingue suplementari. Pertanto ho iniziato studiare da solo l'italiano (non molto difficile se gia capisci il francese e lo spagnolo), il tedesco (e le sue declinazioni adjectivali tanto problematichi!) e piu recentemente l'olandese. Lavoro in un centro d'informazioni turistiche, una posizione che mi permette praticare tutte le mie lingue nel quotidiano. E realmente una grande opportunita per gente come noi. Bruxelles è una città molto internazionale e spero che vivere qua ti aiutèra anche a trovare delle opportunità similari. E spero ovviamente che l'esito della crisi in Gran Bretagna non ti impedisca di continuare a vivere i lavorare in Europa. Mais, entendo, leio e falo tambêm um pouco de português mesmo que tenha menos experiênça pratica. Acho que você fala melhor que eu. Talvez as proximidades linguisticas do Italiano e do Espanhol incomodam um pouco. Mas por algumas razoes profissionais, preciso continuar de melhorar meu nivel. O prefeito da cidade onde fico esta procurando desenvolver relaçoes culturais con Portugal e è muito possivel que algum dia eu tenha de fazer o interpreta. Por as mesmas raçoes trato de aprender as linguas dos paises vizinhos do Japao como o chineso ou o coreano. Foi muito interessante de ouvir você. Muito obrigado e mais outra vez, Parabens !
Je suis anglais moi-même et je suis si content que vous ayez appris tant de langues ❤️moi je parle français, allemand et je viens de faire mon examen GCSE en espagnol. Bonne continuation 🎉
Wow, as I native french speaker, I'm really impressed with your French! Great job! Keep it up, you didn't even make any bad mistakes that I would correct... Continue ainsi! T'es vraiment sur la bonne voie! Salutations de Belgique xx
My story because you asked for it: I am a native Dutch speaker. It's my mother tongue and I don't think I will ever lose it. My dialect, Limburgish, is also sort of a language of it's own. We will put it between brackets for now, because it's not an official language. Next, as you can read, I'm fluent in English. I realised that not speaking English in a connected world is like gonna make my life impossible, so I practiced and practiced and practiced. Because I live at the border with Germany, I had German classes for 4 years. My listening is very good, my speaking is okay and my writing needs some practice (especially German grammar, help!). Since November, I've been practicing Spanish. It's the world's 2nd language after Mandarin Chinese, and not many people realise that. I am internationally minded and I NEED myself to know Spanish for Latin/South American countries. Side note: I am 17, so I hope to learn 1-2 more languages
Emily, you have a great talent, really you do! Amazing! Not to detract from you incredible skill but I would love to see you venture out of your Latin comfort zone and have a go at some languages from outside that group to find your true potential. I hope you do not see this as a criticism, it’s not! You are brilliant at what you have so much potential in areas that you have yet to explore! 😊
Thank you, Robby for your lovely comment! Yes, I was actually wondering the other day what other languages outside of the Latin family I might be interested in studying... I’m sure a new language group would be a completely new challenge with completely different rules and patterns 😊
Emily Stoker - I would recommend Dutch, Swedish, German, or Norwegian for a Germanic language, or Finnish for whatever language group Finnish is a part of.
Liked the video very much. I'm not so much into language learning myself, but I find that these polyglot videos definitely deepen my understanding of etymology of the languages I know, which is great. As an ex musician I was even more fascinated by the timbre of your voice. Has anyone ever told you you would make a fine singer? I think you might. If I'm not badly mistaken, your voice type may be what is called dramatic soprano.
Hello Emily. This video is awesome. :) I really enjoy listening to your italian accent as well.. :) I'm an audio engineer and I noticed that when you are speaking there is a natural click at times when you speak. It is very hard to explain but maybe someone with better audio skills can help me explain this concept much better. But either way, it is super cool and your voice is very relaxing as well. I'd love to hear an update video as well. Also I love your articluation as well.
Very inspiring! Thank you for sharing, makes me want to add another language to my studies. You should definitely learn Spanish next, there are so many Spanish speakers all over the world and since you already know Italian, French, and some Portuguese it should be very easy to pick up!
Awesome! I have an English friend living in Portugal for more than 25 years and his spoken Portuguese is less than half of yours!! Keep on going! Lucky boyfriend:-)
Italian sounds so pretty but I haven't tried to learn it because I can't make the roll/trill noise on some of the words. I have the same issue with Spanish. Great Video!
Phantomx79 don’t force it on the top just do it lightly so there touching but not too lightly that they aren’t. Try all areas of the roof of your mouth.
I just wanted to say that your Portugese sounds great! I like it better than Spanish. It almost sounds delicate the way you pronounce it. It intrigues me.
Hey! Just came across your channel because I want to travel or even move abroad whenever it's possible again. Obviously I also like languages and would like to practice them again! My mother tongue is French so it is kind of a blessing because I do not have to go through the hassle of learning it 😅 I also speak English, although German was my first foreign language at school. My 3rd foreign language was Spanish, which I also learned at school. Then I took Italian at the university but I only stayed there for about three weeks before leaving studies altogether. Fast forward to 2 years later I restarted learning Italian online and I also had an impromptu 3.5-month stay in Lisbon last year which allowed me not only to discover Portuguese, but also to practice my other languages on a regular basis in language exchanges (You may know the place called Anjos70?) I remember at first it was truly difficult to switch between Italian, Portuguese and Spanish but I eventually got used to it. Obviously I still sometimes get mixed up but I am eager to go back to Portugal because I miss it... And Italy is a strong contestant!
wow!! Il tuo italiano è molto buono! sono italiano quindi ti posso assicurare che sei molto brava! ma anche il tuo francese è molto buono! love u girl💗
Ton français est très bien. Il faut te faire confiance car tu t'es repris 2 fois alors que tu n'avais pas commis de fautes. C'est sûr que tu as un accent mais c'est très dur de parler une langue étrangère sans accent rendu à un certain âge. Mais l'important, c'est qu'on comprenne bien ce que tu dis et on te comprend bien. Beau travail. Félicitations ;) Et, tu vas rire. J'ai compris partiellement ton portugais sans même le parler car je parle français et espagnol (intermédiaire)
Félicitation pour cette vidéo. C’est vrai ce que certain ont écrit à l’effet que la personnalité se modifie un peu selon la langue parlée. Je le constate. Personnellement, je parle français, anglais et espagnol (ce qui me permet de comprendre 70% de la partie en italie et 50% de la partie portugaise). J’apprend presentement l’allemand avec des livres et l’internet...ca va prendre du temps, mais je vais y arriver!
Adorei sua experiência e simpatia. Minha língua nativa é português (Brasil), I'm studing english for a time, and my bigger dificulty is grammar rules, I feeel that speak is better than write for example. Yo tengo curiosidad con espanol e compreendo una cosa más, se ablas despacio. Portuguese, Native. English, intermediate. Spanish, basic. I guess pretty good who have your habilitie
When I saw four languages instead of fifteen in the title I finally believed that someone can actually speak these four languages and not only say 1-2 sentences and claim to speak certain language fluently lol
I take speaking four langugaes at a decent level over speaking only some bits in 15 languages.
@@samykiani944 I guess it depends why you're learning languages. For some poeple it might be more valuable to know how to say "hello" in every languages in the world rather than being fluent in a few languages.
It is so interesting how one’s personality “changes” after switching languages. You’re very cute in Italian. Your French is also good. You sound also good in Portuguese. I would believe if you told me you were born in Lisbon (Brazilian Portuguese is my native language). I’m learning Hebrew and Croatian now.
Thanks! Yes - this is such an interesting point about how your personality changes! It never changes completely, but I'm far more likely to act a certain way through the things I say in some languages over others - of course I notice it most in Italian. For me I think it has something to do with the main person/circumstances you learn the language in :) Wow! what an interesting mix of languages - good luck!
Se voce quiser praticar português posso te ajudar e voce me ajudar com o seu ingles!
Bravissima, that's amazing. The main difference I can see when you speak foreign languages it's your hand gestures, like a real italian :)
Im bosnian and its pretty much the same as croatian and serbian except the accent is a bit diffrent and some of the grammar is diffrent!!
Are you from Lisbon?
Brava. Don't give up, one day your english will be at the same level of your italian....
😂😂😂 a girl can dream! 😉
Omg your Italian accent is gorgeous👌 it sounds so melodic, has a nice rhythm to it
😍 thank you so much!
O teu Português está muito bom. Continua assim é brevemente serás fluente! 😊
Muito obrigada Patricia 😄😍 espero que sim!!!
I am learning Portuguse and I really love this language
Sim, nota-se que está a um nível ainda médio, mas com o tempo chega lá. Qualquer dica estou disponível para ajudar.
Your skills are SO impressive. Keep doing what you do!!
I thought it was so interesting that even though I can't say hardly anything in Italian, my Spanish (C1) and French (B2) made it so that I could understand probably 80% of what you said in Italian.
It's so exciting to see other people who love languages and culture :) You rock
Thanks Quinn! That's really kind. Yes, once you start to learn romance languages, if you can get your head around the pronunciation of another one, it means you can really start to understand it! I'm sure you'd have very little trouble picking up Italian - the only annoying thing is getting words/grammatical structures mixed up. Keep practising your languages, and you're right: it's a great way to learn about different cultures! :)
If you know one of the romance languages, when reading you can guess a lot of what is said in any of the other romance languages, because the grammar is very similar.
Ton français est vraiment très bien! Ne doutes pas de toi, les gens qui se moquaient de toi pendant ton stage étaient jaloux!
Je vis et j'étudie en Angleterre à Brighton et j'ai commencé un petit business en ligne pour devenir nomade digitale comme toi! Je touche au but et j'ai hâte d'apprendre plein de langues comme toi!
Continues comme ça, c'est toujours un plaisir de regarder tes vidéos :)
Merci Angélique! C’est vraiment un plaisir de parler avec les autres personnes qui choisissent un mode de vie pareille, et j’apprécie bien tes mots aimables 😍 Bon courage pour ton business! C’est quel type de business? Je suis bien curieuse 😄
C'est une boutique sur Etsy ou je vends de la papeterie de mariage éditable par le client. Je crée les produits, invitations, programmes, pancartes, etc..., et les clients éditent et impriment de chez eux! Comme ça, pas de soucis d'envoi et de stock, et je peux gérer tout ça de n'importe où :)
J'ai pour but de devenir nomade digital d'ici un an/un an et demi, quand j'aurai fini ma dernière année d'étude et que le business sera bien solide, alors en attendant, je regarde tes aventures et j'apprends :)
Ahh wow! C’est une bonne idée. Moi je ne réussissais pas à commencer mon travail de freelancer quand j’étais encore à l’université, c’était un peu trop pour moi - donc félicitations, vraiment! Et bon courage 💪🏻🙌🏻
You inspire me so much. I speak English, Portuguese, and some Spanish. I want to pick up Italian too. I just want to say that I am Portuguese American and your Portuguese is AMAZING!!!!! Keep practicing and you’ll be speaking like a native speaker. You just motivated me to get serious about Italian.
Wow! Thanks for your kind message, Elizabeth. It really made me smile 😊 good luck with your italian! I recently filmed a languages tips video which I’ll publish in the next few weeks. Keep up the practise, and just find someone you can speak with. That was the most fun way for me 😊😊😊 in boca al lupo!
What part of Portugal do you come from originally?
This was like watching the same person changing to 4 nationalities in 10 min... amazing 👏🏼 your Portuguese pronunciation is super good even though you are not fluent yet
That's really kind, thank you Lucia! Your comment has put a big smile on my face 😀
Emily Stoker you’re welcome glad it did ☺️ keep up with your work! greetings from Spain :)
I totally agree with you. She is great
I’m learning French at school and I’ve been learning for about three years now. I was able to understand 70% of what you said. Your French is very good. Also, is very easy to understand you in French and English. Good work!!
13:04 I agree, these things are amazing ♥
For the Italian part
You can say "che il francese", it's correct (I think you weren't sure about it)
And "cambiare *da* una lingua" not "di"
Your Italian is really good btw :D
Damn prepositions 😉 Thank you!
I speak danish (native), enlish (basic fluency) and german (A2-ish) and then i just picked up spanish (A1) :) languages have just begun last year to be something i am really passionate about and that i spend a lot of time with.
Thanks for sharing!
Your story is impressive and hopefully will poke me to get back into studying Italian myself again
There is much still to learn but it's good to have a glimpse of the possibilities of persistence.
That’s cool! Yes, Italian is a lot of fun. I think studying languages when you love the culture always makes it easier ;)
I think studying in a way that feels right to you rather than how you think you SHOULD study is important too :)
Hi I’m planning on moving abroad next year! Your videos have been very helpful ❤️
I’m learning French by myself and I think I’m somewhere between A1-A2 level but I’m so happy that I could understand like 90% of what you said in the video😊
Yay! Félicitations :)
If you understand 90% you must be very close to B1.
Samy Kiani But when I listen to native speakers it doesn’t feel the same, I had a real hard time figuring out what they said haha. I guess it’s because she speaks quite slowly and clearly in this video that’s why it’s easier for me to understand her
@@tishigtuoi That's because us native speakers contract words more often than you'd hear in english for example, and we use a lot of slang that isn't taught when you're learning the language.
Like idk if you ever heard of "verlan", but that's used daily, especially by the younger generations. And verlan is quite a challenging concept you guys will have to wrap your head around to be able to recognize the words that are said and figure out if the "verlan" 'ed words has the same meaning as the original one (and for the most part, they do), or if they don't. It's so engrained in the language now that I think it should be taught a lot earlier to french learners.
Your Italian is so good! Many polyglots don’t treat Italian with the attention it deserves. They usually learn other Romance languages and just throw together very basic Italian vocabulary, give it a Spanish accent, and claim to speak Italian. You actually know it, though. Molto figata!! Complimenti!
You should learn Spanish too, it's beautiful! :)
Florian H. Wave I learn Spanish from home without teacher, and I like it :)
She already knows Portuguese, Italian and French so this means she can understand Spanish.
@@williamjames4031 If you learn 1 you understand all basically 🤣
@@emanuelfer456 Nope, I know French but I cannot understand Portuguese nor Italian nor Spanish. In the future, I may learn either Portuguese or italian.
@@williamjames4031 for me as native Portuguese, it was pretty easy to learn Italian, french and Spanish. Maybe i understand about the opposite not being true because Portuguese is hard to understand and speak but it's interesting that for us it's easy to understand the other languages
Amazing! Your Italian is really good :) I'm currently studying Russian and French, hopefully in a few months I'll be able to speak 4 languages as well
I am BLOWN AWAY. By your talent, your accents in also these languages...mine is definitely so shit in French compared to yours girl! Love this video so much so fascinating
à la Parisienne it’s not talent it’s work💯
Aww thanks, lovely :) I always love your little French comments in your videos!
Nice! I am an Indian, learning Japanese, French, and German and your video is quite encouraging!
¡Hola! Que interesante, me encanta cuando tu hablas italiano, portugués y francés😍 no entiendo mucho cuando tu hablaste francés pero cuando tu hablaste italiano y portugués lo entiendo un poco más :) soy de noruega y puedo hablar inglés, noruego y español❤️ o ahora aprendo español ahaha he aprendido español por 2 años pronto, y es difícil todavía pero estaré más fácil a todo días❤️
Great job! Keep going! I'm from Poland: My skills: English and Germn on C1-level, Italian B1, and French-Beginner. I love learning foreign languages like you.
Brava, I do speak Italian, Spanish, English and now I'm learning Brazilian Portuguese and I love it 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙈🙈, good job Girl 🙌🏽🎉🎉👏🏽👏🏽.
Impressive! Very well done! I don't speak these languages, but you sound definitely fluent in all of them. I learned so far 3 languages (English, German, Hebrew) besides my mother tongue (Hungarian) and I would love to speak all the languages on Earth!(-: Good luck with the Portuguese!
Caspita, il tuo italiano è quasi perfetto!! Complimenti, non è da tutti. Molti anglofoni non riescono a eliminare il loro accento nemmeno dopo tanti anni che vivono qui, invece la tua pronuncia è davvero buona e non si capisce che la tua lingua madre è l'inglese! Spero che avrai altre occasioni di venire in Italia e continuare lo studio della mia lingua :)
Grazie mille per il bel complimento! Continuerò a praticare. E quando si potrà viaggiare di nuovo, non esiterò a fare altri viaggi in Italia :D
Awesome video, tbh I was surprised when you started speaking well my language cuz most of the british don´t actually care much about portuguese or italian but usually start to learn spanish because it´s more influential on the world market, if you will . And as a brazilian I gotta say your portuguese is perfect. J'aime votre français, vraiment. C'était simplement incroyable et je pense que vous parlez cette langue couramment. Continua assim, teu sotaque está bem parecido com o português de Portugal, mesmo, e, pelo que eu percebi, não cometeste nenhum erro, motivação total para os outros poliglotas haha
Btw, congratulations, you got a new sub :D
I could listen to Portuguese all day. The language is like music
Are you Portuguese?
I speak Brazilian Portuguese and that accent from Portugal makes it sound like a whole different language
I actually find it really hard to switch from a language thats not my native language, to a language that I have a lower level in that's also not my native language. I feel like the stronger language interferes with the weaker one. Cool video btw! :D
Yes, me too! The first times I tried speaking French when I was in Italy, for example, I was shocked at how Italian with a French accent was coming out of my mouth even though I was trying hard to speak in French. I've improved a bit now, but I can always speak a language best when I've been immersed in it for a few days! :) Thanks for your comment - looks like you're a fellow polyglot, thanks for stopping by :D
Yup, I'm a fellow polyglot! Anytime and keep up the good work :)
I sometimes have the feeling that the weaker also interferes with the stronger one. Sometimes when I try to form a Spanish sentence only a Russian word comes to mind and the other way around.
I think that mostly depends on how similar the languages are.
I'm currently learning chinese through english, and I won't see how I could mistake english and chinese since they're completly different languages.
I also plan to learn italian through spanish (in fact I already started and spent a few hours on this, but might as well consider it at not started yet since it's just the begining and chinese takes priority atm). And I can see how I'd confuse the 2, since the basic grammar of these 2 languages is mostly the same.
I loved it 💘💘 yeah, funny that your voice changes with the languages, I mean that’s normal cause that’s how you are with every different language a different personality as well. Your Italian accent it’s so accurate 💖 I love it!
Thank you! And yes - for me it’s definitely also how I change my voice to facilitate the sounds. My boyfriend for example really likes my voice in English/Portuguese, but a few people find my Italian voice a little abrasive 😂
Emily Stoker and you don’t think on learning Spanish per example? Maybe one day?
Ton français et italien sont super bien! Tu gères, girl!😍 As for english, I’m not british but I like your accent, especially the cockney one. Keep going and never stop learning languages.❤️
I’m Greek and I’m learning Italian and your Italian is really clear and makes perfectly sense
As a portuguese girl, I must say I loved your portuguese accent, congratulations :)) all the other accents sound pretty good too!
Muito obrigada 😄
Your Italian is excellent!!! Your French is quite good too. You mentioned that you are not sure about your French accent. It's great! I've lived in France and Belgium and I was able to understand you perfectly well. It sounded very natural. Great!
I have really admired your story. You are so wonderful person
Thanks so much. This Polyglot idea changed my life so much. Language is simply a key to soooo many things. It pushed me to an extend İ couldnt dream of before. And just by the way İ even learnt to love my native language German, which I didnt before.
4:50 "Je me suis rendu compte" is 100% correct here,
you could have said your sentence this way : "Je me suis rendu compte que mon Français n'était pas du tout au même niveau que je le pensais".
This is inspiring! I grew up bilingual (American English and Mexican Spanish) and I am currently trying to master Italian! I love the country and the culture (I'd say I'm upper intermediate.) My next goal is Portuguese (I don't know which one yet). These romance languages are beautiful and interesting to me so of course I'd like to learn French and perhaps Romanian. 😁
I've learned to not be afraid or shy to speak! That's how you learn!
Your Portuguese is amazing, I was really impressed with your accent and other aspects (even the grammar). Just keep carrying on!
Sis, recommend you try one Asian language (do pay attention to the writings). All four languages you speak are European, highly correlated. I am fluent in Chinese, English, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia-Melayu and living in four different countries, thanks to my international trading job. Got an assignment in W.Africa. Guess need to kick off French learning soon.
You French is so so good ..I dream speaking English like you.....and your accent is beautiful
What a sweet voice, mama mia! And yes it is really easy to understand you English for me a Brazilian English student, congrats.!
Bravissima con l'italiano! Sei una delle pochissime inglesi che ha una pronuncia delle vocali e delle "R" perfetta
Your portuguese and your italian are great! Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷💕
Thanks, Giovana! 😄
Awesome!
I have so many things to say about this video that I don't even know if you'll have the patience to read everything. lol
But let's do it anyway!
1) I really loved your video. I always enjoy watching videos of polyglots and how they are able to just "switch" from one language to another. I am not one of them so I needed to read the subtitles to understand what you were saying, but you sounded so natural in all of the languages you spoke. Maybe you have some accent and a native can notice right off the bat but I don't see any reason to people make any kind of fun of you because of it. I bet that most of them don't know how to speak four languages. It's really impressive.
2) I am a native Portuguese speaker, but I'm from Brazil, which makes your accent really different than mine. Nevertheless, I was perfectly able to understand everything you've said in Portuguese. Which means that you don't have a "heavy" accent. It's funny because I met some Portuguese people who I couldn't be able to understand a single word they were saying (crazy, isn't? The same language but because of the speed and the accent that were really heavy I needed to ask for them to repeat exhaustively). In your video, though, I was perfectly able to understand you!
3) I don't speak English fluently (yet), but I'm at a pretty advanced level. However, I usually have some difficulty to understand the English/British accent because I'm way more used to the American accent. But, again, in your video, I understood everything you said in English without any subtitles. Your speech is just so clear that it makes easy to understand.
4) You are so inspirational because as a native Portuguese speaker I feel that languages like Spanish and Italian are not that hard for me to understand. I say that because there were some parts where you were speaking in Italian and I could understand even without subtitles. This makes me want to learn those languages, you know? And, I might be wrong, but I kinda feel that sooner or later Spanish is going to be the next one for you! hahaha
Which leads me to one question: as a polyglot do you think it's better to learn a language and master it before learning another one? I really wanted to learn Spanish, French and Italian but I don't feel that I should try it until I really master English (which is my priority at the moment).
*I promise I'm finishing*
I don't know if you are interested, but I recently posted on my channel my first video speaking in English. It would make me really happy to see some feedback coming from you. That's all! I apologize for that unfinishable comment! hahaha
Hi Rafael, thank you for taking the time to leave such a long comment! I promise I appreciate it and read it all :)
This is true - when I was teased about my languages I did not speak 4, but these are perhaps the little bad memories I can really start to let go of now ;)
And I know what you mean about Brazilian and European Portuguese. My boyfriend has Brazilian friends who had real trouble understanding his Porto accent when they first met. I'm still a beginner in Portuguese, but I'm learning so much about the huge changes in accent and even grammar between the two versions of the language.
Yes - I think once you learn one romance language (particularly if you are a native) it's going to help you so much in learning another one, to the point where you can even understand the language at times without having ever learned it! THat's why I'm progressing the way I am with Portuguese with relatively little effort I would say :P and yes - I'm fairly certain Spanish will feature somewhere down the road for me, too!
To answer your question, I think it really depends. Getting to 80% fluency is the hardest, and you're going to put in just as much effort, if not more, to reach that final 20%, so I would really recommend not obsessing over it, and it's fine to pick up a new language at this point. Especially since from your written English, you sound VERY proficient to me.
And yes - I will check out your video and leave you a comment! :D Thanks again, and have a great day :)
Muito obrigado pelo seu feedback, Emily. Não só por aqui, mas também no meu vídeo. Estou te respondendo desta vez em português que é para ajudar um pouquinho a praticar seus hábitos de leitura (não que você precise, mas é sempre bom).
É engraçado que encontrei seu vídeo por acaso, mas já me tornei fã graças a ele. Espero, sinceramente, acompanhar cada vez mais seu progresso no português em vídeos futuros, mas também aprender um pouquinho das demais línguas e das culturas dos países que você visita. Espero um dia poder ter o privilégio de conhecer a Europa, mas enquanto isso não é possível você o faz por mim! :)
Ah, e talvez isso possa soar muito "íntimo" pra você, mas brasileiros costumam se despedir com mensagens de afeto. Por isso, beijos! :)
Você falou em todas as línguas muito bem. Português é minha língua nativa, e estou aprendendo agora Inglês, Francês e Italiano, além de Espanhol e Coreano. Recomendo que você aprenda também Espanhol, que é muito semelhante ao Português e ao Italiano!
I studied 4 years of Russian and 2 years of ancient Gree k, but it has been some 20 years since then. I have been studying German, Spanish, and French on my own now. I started the Summer Language Club with my grandchildren, and we are having a great time on Zoom. We started this by having Russian tea every week. That was mostly culture. I am hoping to do more language with them.
I've been teaching myself Portuguese recently and always search polyglot on youtube when I need inspiration. When i was watching I thought, hang on I recognise this woman... then the penny dropped. We were in a school play when i was like 13/14 and you were in sixth form i think? Absolutely crazy how small this world is! Great video btw production quality is top notch
Such a small world! Yes, I thought I recognised your name from your comment. Thanks for stopping by and for your lovely comment :) and good luck with the Portuguese, I'm still working on it and studying ;)
Awesome video ♥ Such an inspiration!
I’m a native french speaker, your french is really good, of course the pronounciation could be better but there are almost no grammar mistakes which is quite tough in french (even for us lmao)
I learned english mostly by myself (at school it helped a bit as well but mostly from the internet), I also learned german for 12 years at school (but somehow I still can’t make a sentence fluently), and finally italian by myself as well (tho it could be improved by far)
I’m now learning swedish because I’ll be going there on holiday, and Finnish because I find it nice.
Would love to learn more languages like portugese, dutch (mostly for flemish in belgium), maybye a slavic language too but I don’t have time for all that x)
Hello Emily i´m a native speaker of portuguese, i´m from Brazil, and i can say your portuguese is wonderfull, really, is amazing see a gringo speak a language like portuguese hahaha. I love your channel, you won more one subscriber and also i recomend you try study brazilian portuguese
You speak just perfectly beautiful all those languages. You motivated me to learn even more, to get myself emmersed in this beautiful world of ours, that is the poliglot one. Merci Beaucoup, gracias, gazie, obrigado moça! Thank you!
Oh thank you so much! I wouldn’t say I’m perfect, but that’s part of the fun 😄 good luck with your language journey!
Sua pronúncia em português é ótima, continue estudando e você avançará muito!
I'm 17
I can speak Arabic(native speaker), French, English and Spanish.
That’s pretty cool! When I was 17 I was probably an intermediate at French, and that’s about it :)
I'm 17 too but I only speak English, Spanish. My French is at an intermediate level
@@octaviorivera1661 Im 17 too, Im Mexican, and I speak Spanish, English, and Romanian, Im learning French now (A2 level)
I am pretty sure you're Tunisian then 😁
I’m 20 and I can speak Arabic ,English,French ,Spanish
Amazing ☺️ I wish I could speak four languages. I’d like to learn Italian + Norwegian this year. I wish the uk’s education system pushed for multi-lingualism like continental Europe. Pls include more language content on this channel :))
I would have loved to be able to learn more languages at school! Ooh exciting - Norwegian sounds like fun, very different from any of the languages that I’ve learned.
And thanks so much for the feedback! I’ll certainly think about more ways I can incorporate more language content - I’m totally open to suggestions! 😄
Emily Stoker Maybe you can make videos about how you learn languages bc to some people, especially those raised in monolingual countries, it’s an alien concept.
Like the process you take, the grammar + exercise books you recommend, tips to practice your accent (even if that’s just a 2 min vid), how you learn + remember vocabulary, how you get your head around tricky sentence formations or certain verbs, ermm reccomendations on books/music/films/podcasts/ in x language. I’d love to see things like that :-).
Emily Stoker ooh also random question but do you find that you can now access insider knowledge about certain cultures due to knowing the language?
For an example, i’d like to learn Italian to be able to read Italian cookbooks & food blogs to learn how to cook Italian meals from natives/from the source. If I learnt Italian fluently from a young age, I would have liked to gone to an Italian university to study Italian architecture as I’m absolutely in love with Italian + classical architecture.
Thanks for the suggestions!
You definitely get "insider knowledge" on a culture when you can communicate with the people in their mother tongue! It's often the little details in a culture that someone from the country might not even think to tell you, because they don't realise how specific it is to their culture, that you pick up on from speaking to people! I learned more about Italian cooking from watching and helping my Italian friends cook than I did from reading books/watching TH-cam videos about it :)
I’m 20 and I can speak Arabic,English,French,Spanish and I did understand all that you’ve said in Italian and just a little bit of Portuguese cuz it’s so close to Spanish
Your French is very understandable and clear, that is saying something, because I am still learning French.
Eu sou também poliglota, mas em muitos casos não foi por ter aprendido na escola (simplesmente porque nasci numa cultura diferente).
Consigo falar português (nativo), galego (mais ou menos, mas não necessitam, já que eles entendem perfeitamente o português e eu também os entendo), espanhol (nunca estudei, mas sou fluente), francês (um pouco, mas consigo o básico) e inglês (como é óbvio, é a língua franca).
Continua com os estudos! O teu português está fantástico. Qualquer dia falas como uma nortenha! :)
Sentire la qualità della tua pronuncia (per una madrelingua inglese è molto difficile) è impressionante, oltretutto dopo soli 5 anni di studio, immagino non tutti vissuti in Italia, sei veramente brava; conosco moltissimi americani e inglesi che vivono in Italia da anni, gente che lo comprende alla perfezione e riesce a parlarlo (relativamente) bene, che non si avvicina minimamente alla tua pronuncia, complimenti.
That was a very delightful talk. You seem to be a very sympathetic person with a communicative enthusiasm for multilingualism. Keep on the good work for at only 24 you have a fairly good command of the three languages you chose to take on. Others will follow I guess. Multilingualism is a never ending path and your are on good tracks. People laughing at foreign accents, along with those telling you that you are "lucky" to be a multilingual person (regardless of the years of commitment it takes to achieve such a goal) can sometimes grind you down. But you should not not pay so much attention to them. To the contrary your accent should let people remember how hard one has to work to be able to express oneself in a foreign language.
Ecouter ce qui pour toi a été le "déclic" vers l'envie d'apprendre des langues m'a particulièrement touché car j'ai eu une expérience assez similaire. A onze ans mes parents se sont installés en Côte d'Ivoire et je me suis retrouvé en contact quotidien à l'école avec des enfants parlant certes le français mes aussi d'autres langues que je ne comprenais pas (le baoulé, le bété, certains l'arabe aussi etc...). Cela me donnait souvent l'impression frustrante d'être un peu stupide. Je décidai alors de ne pas rater l'occasion d'apprendre sérieusement les langues au cours de ma scolarité. Ce furent d'abord l'anglais et l'espagnol, que je parle couramment, et le russe, langue assez difficile mais dans laquelle je peux avoir des conversations basiques.
Avevo 24 anni cuando ho iniziato imparare il giapponese dopo di avere incontrato mia moglie in Francia. E la lingua giapponesa che mi ha fatto davvero attraversare la soglia del multilingualismo. Adesso 42, vivo nel questo paese e ovvio, a forza di praticarlo tutta la giornata, il giapponese è diventato la mia seconda lingua. Ma davvero, potere parlare almeno 4 lingue falicilita molto l'aprendimento di lingue suplementari. Pertanto ho iniziato studiare da solo l'italiano (non molto difficile se gia capisci il francese e lo spagnolo), il tedesco (e le sue declinazioni adjectivali tanto problematichi!) e piu recentemente l'olandese. Lavoro in un centro d'informazioni turistiche, una posizione che mi permette praticare tutte le mie lingue nel quotidiano. E realmente una grande opportunita per gente come noi. Bruxelles è una città molto internazionale e spero che vivere qua ti aiutèra anche a trovare delle opportunità similari. E spero ovviamente che l'esito della crisi in Gran Bretagna non ti impedisca di continuare a vivere i lavorare in Europa.
Mais, entendo, leio e falo tambêm um pouco de português mesmo que tenha menos experiênça pratica. Acho que você fala melhor que eu. Talvez as proximidades linguisticas do Italiano e do Espanhol incomodam um pouco. Mas por algumas razoes profissionais, preciso continuar de melhorar meu nivel. O prefeito da cidade onde fico esta procurando desenvolver relaçoes culturais con Portugal e è muito possivel que algum dia eu tenha de fazer o interpreta. Por as mesmas raçoes trato de aprender as linguas dos paises vizinhos do Japao como o chineso ou o coreano.
Foi muito interessante de ouvir você. Muito obrigado e mais outra vez, Parabens !
Je suis anglais moi-même et je suis si content que vous ayez appris tant de langues ❤️moi je parle français, allemand et je viens de faire mon examen GCSE en espagnol. Bonne continuation 🎉
Wow, as I native french speaker, I'm really impressed with your French! Great job! Keep it up, you didn't even make any bad mistakes that I would correct... Continue ainsi! T'es vraiment sur la bonne voie! Salutations de Belgique xx
merci :D :D
My story because you asked for it:
I am a native Dutch speaker. It's my mother tongue and I don't think I will ever lose it. My dialect, Limburgish, is also sort of a language of it's own. We will put it between brackets for now, because it's not an official language. Next, as you can read, I'm fluent in English. I realised that not speaking English in a connected world is like gonna make my life impossible, so I practiced and practiced and practiced. Because I live at the border with Germany, I had German classes for 4 years. My listening is very good, my speaking is okay and my writing needs some practice (especially German grammar, help!). Since November, I've been practicing Spanish. It's the world's 2nd language after Mandarin Chinese, and not many people realise that. I am internationally minded and I NEED myself to know Spanish for Latin/South American countries.
Side note: I am 17, so I hope to learn 1-2 more languages
Emily, you have a great talent, really you do! Amazing! Not to detract from you incredible skill but I would love to see you venture out of your Latin comfort zone and have a go at some languages from outside that group to find your true potential.
I hope you do not see this as a criticism, it’s not! You are brilliant at what you have so much potential in areas that you have yet to explore! 😊
Thank you, Robby for your lovely comment! Yes, I was actually wondering the other day what other languages outside of the Latin family I might be interested in studying... I’m sure a new language group would be a completely new challenge with completely different rules and patterns 😊
Emily Stoker - I would recommend Dutch, Swedish, German, or Norwegian for a Germanic language, or Finnish for whatever language group Finnish is a part of.
Liked the video very much. I'm not so much into language learning myself, but I find that these polyglot videos definitely deepen my understanding of etymology of the languages I know, which is great. As an ex musician I was even more fascinated by the timbre of your voice. Has anyone ever told you you would make a fine singer? I think you might. If I'm not badly mistaken, your voice type may be what is called dramatic soprano.
Hello Emily. This video is awesome. :) I really enjoy listening to your italian accent as well.. :) I'm an audio engineer and I noticed that when you are speaking there is a natural click at times when you speak. It is very hard to explain but maybe someone with better audio skills can help me explain this concept much better. But either way, it is super cool and your voice is very relaxing as well. I'd love to hear an update video as well. Also I love your articluation as well.
Very inspiring! Thank you for sharing, makes me want to add another language to my studies. You should definitely learn Spanish next, there are so many Spanish speakers all over the world and since you already know Italian, French, and some Portuguese it should be very easy to pick up!
A very very nice poliglot video! Thumbs up ;) !
Awesome! I have an English friend living in Portugal for more than 25 years and his spoken Portuguese is less than half of yours!! Keep on going! Lucky boyfriend:-)
Your portuguese is really good!!greetings from Brazil.
Italian sounds so pretty but I haven't tried to learn it because I can't make the roll/trill noise on some of the words. I have the same issue with Spanish. Great Video!
Phantomx79 I can make that noise and am learning Italian from English. The way I do it is put my tongue on the roof of my mouth and blow.
@@vortexosumania5404 lol when I do that my tongue doesn't move.
Phantomx79 don’t force it on the top just do it lightly so there touching but not too lightly that they aren’t. Try all areas of the roof of your mouth.
I just wanted to say that your Portugese sounds great! I like it better than Spanish. It almost sounds delicate the way you pronounce it. It intrigues me.
Nunca mais falo inglês contigo. Só português! Estás a ir muito bem. Beijinhos
😬 hehehe obrigada! Continuo a praticar. Beijinhos 😘
It's amazing, how i don't even know Italian but i understood a good 70% of what she was talking about.
I am proud and happy about you my dear daughter
You are amazing.
I really like your italien accent it's so much good. Amazing ♥♥
I loved your Portuguese...... So good.. congratulations 😁 I'm from Brazil....
Your French is excellent, I'm French and I study Portuguese in Lisbon.
Just amazing!!
Hey! Just came across your channel because I want to travel or even move abroad whenever it's possible again. Obviously I also like languages and would like to practice them again!
My mother tongue is French so it is kind of a blessing because I do not have to go through the hassle of learning it 😅
I also speak English, although German was my first foreign language at school. My 3rd foreign language was Spanish, which I also learned at school. Then I took Italian at the university but I only stayed there for about three weeks before leaving studies altogether. Fast forward to 2 years later I restarted learning Italian online and I also had an impromptu 3.5-month stay in Lisbon last year which allowed me not only to discover Portuguese, but also to practice my other languages on a regular basis in language exchanges (You may know the place called Anjos70?)
I remember at first it was truly difficult to switch between Italian, Portuguese and Spanish but I eventually got used to it. Obviously I still sometimes get mixed up but I am eager to go back to Portugal because I miss it... And Italy is a strong contestant!
Tienes que aprender el Español, yo aparte de mi lengua materna hablo portugues de Brasil, ingles nivel intemedio y estoy comenzando con el italiano...
Estás começando muito bem com o português! Seu sotaque/acento é bem lisboeta! Abraços do Brasil
Well done! Your Italian is really good!
Complimenti!! Il tuo italiano è perfetto! Dall'accento non si capisce che sei inglese, ottimo!! La mia lingua preferita è inglese. Ciao!
Lovely italian. Bravissima davvero 😍
I love it how you pronounce ''du tout'' 😍 Good luck, with 5 languages, my German is a bit weak too, thank you for this inspiring video 📹 :)
Les anglais qui prononcent les sons "u" et "ou", c'est toujours très drôle :P
thank you Emily
Mi peace molto la tua pronuncia in Italiano, "ascoltare la musica", mia cugina vive a Padova. Ho imparato italiano per 3 mesi e è molto facile
@Ollie Martinelli haha, è vero ma si impari tedesco è un saco più difficile di italiano
Omg i love this video haha, your italian is so cuuuutee
wow!! Il tuo italiano è molto buono! sono italiano quindi ti posso assicurare che sei molto brava! ma anche il tuo francese è molto buono! love u girl💗
Ton français est très bien. Il faut te faire confiance car tu t'es repris 2 fois alors que tu n'avais pas commis de fautes. C'est sûr que tu as un accent mais c'est très dur de parler une langue étrangère sans accent rendu à un certain âge. Mais l'important, c'est qu'on comprenne bien ce que tu dis et on te comprend bien.
Beau travail. Félicitations ;)
Et, tu vas rire. J'ai compris partiellement ton portugais sans même le parler car je parle français et espagnol (intermédiaire)
You should consider studying Catalán! It is a Romance language and a great mixture between Spanish and French!
Félicitation pour cette vidéo. C’est vrai ce que certain ont écrit à l’effet que la personnalité se modifie un peu selon la langue parlée. Je le constate. Personnellement, je parle français, anglais et espagnol (ce qui me permet de comprendre 70% de la partie en italie et 50% de la partie portugaise). J’apprend presentement l’allemand avec des livres et l’internet...ca va prendre du temps, mais je vais y arriver!
Quando falas português tens um sotaque bem italiano. Tão giro haha. Continua a praticar, estás no bom caminho 😉
Adorei sua experiência e simpatia. Minha língua nativa é português (Brasil), I'm studing english for a time, and my bigger dificulty is grammar rules, I feeel that speak is better than write for example. Yo tengo curiosidad con espanol e compreendo una cosa más, se ablas despacio.
Portuguese, Native.
English, intermediate.
Spanish, basic.
I guess pretty good who have your habilitie
That's crazy, I'm a native portuguese speaker and also love the word cogumelo. Sounds satisfying to say for some weird reason.
Pra quem já sabe o francês e o italiano fica mais fácil, continue assim! :D
Sim, é verdade. Obrigada!
:( I wish i knew your channel long time ago , you are the definition of : Beauty