I think they do it also with non native speaker because it is even more difficult to recognize the language when it is not well pronounced. Or it could just be because they didn't find native speakers for some languages...
It was really impressive to see how you broke languages down. I don’t think the average person really understands just how much time and effort went into you being able to do that. Thanks for sharing.
It was definitely interesting but I expected him to do better tbh. He definitely speaks more languages than me but I could guess them faster than him. Maybe because I had more exposure to more international people.
The reason hes so good at language is he is very accepting and doesnt resist or make things difficult in his mind, he just accepts things with ease. It's a great mental trick. Naturalize and embrace.
It's easy to hear those words when you already know it's that language because the video said so... it's another thing to have to guess. You can think you hear a certain word, but in reality, it was something else in another language, or it's a word that is common cross-linguistically and you can't rely on it. I'm sure quite a few languages could have an instance of something sounding like "suomi" and it not being Finnish at all (because of the (C)V syllable structure that is very common in languages). "suomi" is a clue, sure, but personally, I wouldn't rely on that word alone; I would also rely on phonetics and syllable structure (double consonants, double vowels, presence of /y/ and ö, /h/ at the end of syllables, etc. are a lot more reliable to me). As for "Vietnam", it is pretty common cross-linguistically, and the person could have been saying "Vietnam", yet actually speaking another language than Vietnamese, maybe to try to mislead the guy. I could say "J'ai des amis qui viennent du Vietnam"; that doesn't mean it's Vietnamese and not French. You have to rely on how the rest of the language sounds in any case. And I think по-русский sounds like how it would sound in other Slavic languages, but for that one, I'm not entirely sure. So yeah, those words are clues, but I wouldn't call them "dead giveaway".
I speak neither Russian, Ukrainian or Finnish but all three of those gave it away. Russian/Ukrainian speaker said both 'Russki/Ukraina' out loud and the Finnish started out with him saying Suomi which is the word for Finland in Finnish. Bosnian was a superb guess though. I cant believe that!
@@ummeali4764 Bosnian is the name for Serbian because Bosnian muslims have problem to use a Serbian name for language they speak. There is no Bosnian people, culture or language. Bosnia is just a geographical term.
I've always noticed that similarity between Russian and Portuguese too!! No one ever agrees with me lol It's awesome to finally hear it coming from someone else :D
Same here! When I went to Brazil and visited the Iguazú Falls, the tour guide started speaking Spanish and it took me a moment to figure out that this man was NOT russian but Portuguese
(1) By time (2) Indeed, mankind is in loss (3) Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience Nice efforts of knowing all of these languages for sure But this is the right translation for the Arabic verse of the Holy Quran.
That's pretty god damn impressive. I can't think of any other skill that breaks down barriers between people and builds relationships more than learning foreign languages.
this is so fascinating - i'd love a whole series of these! not even necessarily with people, somebody could pick out some online audio excerpts for tim to guess.
This was so great. I didn't realize Tim had started uploading again. I subscribed and clicked the bell so fast. Tim was who inspired me to start learning language in the first place, and I now speak/understand 6, so... Thank you for returning!
@@violence8550 . I'm fluent in English and Spanish. Native fluent in both. Now I'm learning Italian. Its only been about 1.5 months since I started learning Italian but I can already understand a lot watching Italian films. I can put together many sentences with proper grammar as well but I'm not conversational yet. I'm hoping to be at an intermediate or conversational level within 2-3 more months. Then I'll start learning another language (undecided which). You?
@@MrSupernova111 I'm fluent in English and Greek (my native tongue). I've been teaching myself Spanish for around one year and a half and I am at a pretty good level of apprehension. The grammar is similar to the Greek one so it's easy for me. The languages I've just started are Russian, German, Chinese, Korean and Arabic. They're intensely challenging and I'm at a very low level, but I love all of them and with everyday practice progress will come naturally.
@@violence8550 . That's very cool! Its interesting that Greek has similar grammar to Spanish. Then you would learn Italian easily once you know Spanish. I grew up with both Spanish and English which is why I speak both fluently. I'm hispanic and lived in Texas most of my life. The other languages that I'm considering are Russian and Chinese but its intimidating as they are completely different than romance languages. An alternative would be to learn French which would be a lot easier but I never cared too much about it - same with Portuguese. Maybe I'll try Japanese. Overall, I would like to be conversational in 4-5 languages and know some basic phrases to get around in a few others. Ideally, I want to use my new linguistic skills to travel the world and meet people from all over. I can't imagine visiting Italy for example to just look at stuff.
This video had such great potential but could have been so much better. Just needed better camera angles, better production, better sound recording, more native speakers
Well that was surprisingly fascinating that he knows it’s Quranic Arabic, but i have a comment about what he said about Surat Al Asr, it’s: By time (Allah swears in time) • Indeed mankind is in loss • Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds(not prayer الصالحات وليس الصلاة) and advised each other to patience.
@@rowanmohamed8517 Jesus said "beware of false prophets". No prophet would ever murder, rape or pillage, sell slaves or marry a child. Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the light".
@@pneron2032 we do believe in Jesus and love him . We respect Christians so please be polite and show some respect to us , don't say lies and wrong things with no knowledge and remember that you can't insult any religion that's not good manners I have nothing to tell you except peace , don't spread hatred ,be respectful
Сегодня на уроке английского, мы обсуждали все связанное с языками, в том числе и о полиглотах. Тогда моя учительница показала нам видео с тобой на канале THNKR, там тебе было всего 16 и ты уже говорил на 20 языках мира. Я очень рада, что живу в одно время с такими невероятными людьми, как ты, Тим с:
If Mark Zuckerberg means Facebook then Timothy Doner means languages. That's the level of dedication this man has. As a language learner, I am a huge fan of Tim
10:50 you got it wrong here It's (الصالحات) which mean good things(righteousness) not (الصلاة) which mean praying , also in 11:00 It's (تواصو) which mean (advice each other) not (تساوى) which mean be equal
Im a 19 y.o girl from Iran studying medicine ,we speak "farsi/persian" ...he is amazing , so talented & hard working, BC of him I started learnig more & more languages English,Arabic& French to be a poly glot ...I hope one day he travels to Iran ... he speaks farsi very wellllllllll😎
That's a Old Germanic word(Kuningas) ! Tim knew this and was expecting him to say it but he obviously messed up and used the wrong word. Which is why he couldn't guess it.
I'm swedish and know close to no finnish, however I'm familiar with the sound of the language because of finnish-swedes and finnish channels on tv and it didn't sound like finnish to me. The only reason I knew was because he said suomi which was a dead giveaway lol
سلام تیم من از ایران هستم و دیروز تازه با خودت و توانایی هات آشنا شدم و بسی لذت بردم . خیلی دوست دارم روزی باهات فارسی یا انگلیسی صحبت کنم چون درحال یادگیری انگلیسی هم هستم. تو هم فارسی و هم انگلیسی رو خیلی سریع ، تند تند حرف میزنی ، موفق و پایدار باشی 🌺
It's really cool to know that he can speak Indonesian since 2011, his language is quite fluent and can be understood by Indonesians, it's just that his accent is not too similar to Indonesian people, talking to Indonesians will help a lot.
You're my Inspiration, i wish could have your brain, but I conform with i had it, I loved the way you see the life, you're greatest person i never ever seen before, grettings from Colombia, I'll hope see you soon. Tim 😊
@@brooklynsimmons9499 Que bonito conocer otras personas en Colombia interesadas en el mundo de los idiomas. Yo soy de Bogotá pero vivo en Armenia hace un tiempo, y también me encanta el mundo de los idiomas.
hey Tim I would like to offer a request to you. Would you like to help as not native speaker of Persian to make a course on Duolingo ? Just want your opinions on how the course is better to be as foreigner what should come first and what should be thought last?
I like this person 👍 I want to meet him someday 💁🏻♂️ I always want to speak many language when I was 16 I start learning language's now I'm 19 years old now I can speak (Arabic 🇸🇾 "my language" - Turkish 🇹🇷 - French 🇫🇷 - English 🇺🇲 - Kurdish - Spanish 🇪🇸 - Russian 🇷🇺 ) and I'm still learning more, I Have to say it was so Hard but When I saw him, I wanted to speak many languages like him 2 , wish me good luck ✌️
Hi Tim I am zeinab from Iran and I knew you just last night . I enjoyed your speaking Persian very much. But you speak very very fast both English and Persian and 100% other languages 😁👌 be steady
This dude is insane. The mandarin one can be quite tricky because the speaker was speaking with a thick Taiwanese accent. Tim nailed it by quickly switching from his Beijing accent (he mentioned that his chinese teacher is from Beijing) to a taiwanese ish accent. He is perfectly aware of the subtle differences across accents..I am from Beijing and I am shocked! 太厉害了！
Hey i just watched your Indonesian language video have you improved alot ever since you posted that video ? I also can speak bahasa Indonesia if you're wondering.
I'm aware the pronunciation for non-arabs is quite challenging. However, the guy reciting verses of the Quran needs to work on his understanding and not only pronunciation. The first word means "evening", as Tim said, (("By the time" can be a more precise translation in light of the context)), and it's easily distinguishable from the other word meaning "siege". Additionally, he confirmed to Tim that the word "Salehat" meant :prayer (=Salat). In fact, it meant "good deeds". The list goes on: "Tawasso" has nothing to do with equality in rights but rather advicing acts. By the way, I'm not even muslim :D Not sure if many of you know about Arab world christians
I don't think he needed a blindfold for this. It wouldn't have helped him guess any more or less lol. I think there should be more videos of this kind! Loved the concept.
9:35 Translation of surah Al-Asr: By Time -- man is most surely in a continuous state of loss -- except those who believed and did righteous deeds, and enjoined upon one another keeping to the truth, and enjoined upon one another patience. --
@@Thekiko2501 May I take you up on this offer? I'd appreciate the help greatly as I am a Portuguese learner myself. Claro posso-te ajudar com o teu inglês se precisares da ajuda!
Guys im currently learning german in the a2 level and i also want to try learning dutch since it is so relevant to german. would it be inefficient to learn two languages at once? Sorry for the question unrelated to the video..
Guessed all of them pretty much immediately, except the first one, never even heard of it..!? :D I was lucky though, since they happened to only have languages to which I have been exposed. Finnish was too easy, since I'm Swedish and it's a neighbouring country, but that's really impressive for him to guess. The question he correctly posed himself is if it could be another Baltic language, which is difficult to distinguish unless you have heard lots of one of the languages. Portuguese totally sounds like a Russian speaking Spanish, completely agree :) Ukrainian and Russian were easy since my wife is Ukrainian and speaks both. My Russian is def much more advanced than his but then again, I don't speak lord knows how many other languages he does :D The only tricky one was the Yugoslavian one, for the reasons he explained. He also mentioned "Slovenian" but that is actually not too similar. Serbian and Croatian are practically the same with very small differences. The Bosnian dialect is pretty much the same too but a bit more noticeable with the Islamic influence. He should have asked what the words for "bread", and "soup" (bread is "hleb" in Serbian and Bosnian and "kruh" in Croatian, soup is "supa" in Serbian but "juha" in Croatian, quite distinct) are and "two coffee", since the genitive case of "two" and "coffee" differ between the languages. Love how he was culturally aware enough to know to ask for "marhaba", i.e. the Islamic influence on Bosnian, great detective work! Generally, I would have gone with Bosnia anyway since they emigrated a lot during the war since they suffered so greatly, it seems more likely to find one living in other countries.
A bit surprised that such a talented fellow Polyglot could not distinguish between Finnish and Hungarian... the two sound completely different, but I assume comrade Tim analized more the grammar than the sound of the language :)
Здравствуйте! Я вас очень уважаю! И хочу стать полиглотом как вы. Вы моя мотивация, каждый день усердно изучаю языки. И хотела задавать вопрос можно ли изучать 3 языка одновременно? Я сейчас изучаю Корейский (уже на 3 уровне) и английский и турецкий.
Tim is a freak of nature and a genius, but some of these languages weren't that hard to guess for many folks with a passing interest in languages. I speak no Arabic at all but could immediately detect the distinctive sound. Of course, Tim not only detected it as Arabic from the Koran but even translated it. Same thing with the Slavic languages - I could have identified all three Slavic languages as Slavic and also identified the Russian as Russian (I have a very basic know;ledge of Russian). Portuguese was a dead giveaway, most people could have correctly identified Japanese and Chinese too just from the sounds - though not the dialects - but Vietnamese? no - that would have been impossible for me. Of course, there were some languages most folks not from that region would never have been able to identify - like the West African ones. Even the Pashto, Farsi etc. - I might have vaguely guessed middle Eastern but that's about it. Indonesian, Finnish and some others - no chance,
They should have done this with native speakers.
Alanna Carlson I think some of them were native speakers
@@sunbeam42 yes but most of them weren't and it was obvious.
I know! I heard the twi and was like "aahhh... good effort but major gaps and heavy accent!"
Tim: Say "I eat food."
Guy, in twi: "I eat."
Me: :/
I think they do it also with non native speaker because it is even more difficult to recognize the language when it is not well pronounced.
Or it could just be because they didn't find native speakers for some languages...
It was really impressive to see how you broke languages down. I don’t think the average person really understands just how much time and effort went into you being able to do that. Thanks for sharing.
It was definitely interesting but I expected him to do better tbh. He definitely speaks more languages than me but I could guess them faster than him. Maybe because I had more exposure to more international people.
@@kagi95 or maybe because it tells you the language right before the person speaks
I have been watching this guy for years. He is a pure diamond
And I have been watching him since he learnt my language.
The reason hes so good at language is he is very accepting and doesnt resist or make things difficult in his mind, he just accepts things with ease. It's a great mental trick. Naturalize and embrace.
Hard not to guess Vietnamese when the dude says VIETNAM!!!
and the finnish guy says "suomi" lol that was a dead giveaway
@@kagi95 and the ukrainian said he also speaks "po-russki"
It's easy to hear those words when you already know it's that language because the video said so... it's another thing to have to guess. You can think you hear a certain word, but in reality, it was something else in another language, or it's a word that is common cross-linguistically and you can't rely on it. I'm sure quite a few languages could have an instance of something sounding like "suomi" and it not being Finnish at all (because of the (C)V syllable structure that is very common in languages). "suomi" is a clue, sure, but personally, I wouldn't rely on that word alone; I would also rely on phonetics and syllable structure (double consonants, double vowels, presence of /y/ and ö, /h/ at the end of syllables, etc. are a lot more reliable to me). As for "Vietnam", it is pretty common cross-linguistically, and the person could have been saying "Vietnam", yet actually speaking another language than Vietnamese, maybe to try to mislead the guy. I could say "J'ai des amis qui viennent du Vietnam"; that doesn't mean it's Vietnamese and not French. You have to rely on how the rest of the language sounds in any case.
And I think по-русский sounds like how it would sound in other Slavic languages, but for that one, I'm not entirely sure.
So yeah, those words are clues, but I wouldn't call them "dead giveaway".
why did he say that
@@radixvinni I think he said that he knows that Tim knows it too, so that's probably why
I speak neither Russian, Ukrainian or Finnish but all three of those gave it away. Russian/Ukrainian speaker said both 'Russki/Ukraina' out loud and the Finnish started out with him saying Suomi which is the word for Finland in Finnish. Bosnian was a superb guess though. I cant believe that!
There is no Bosnian language.
@@DejanGrubesic then which...?
@@ummeali4764 Bosnian is the name for Serbian because Bosnian muslims have problem to use a Serbian name for language they speak. There is no Bosnian people, culture or language. Bosnia is just a geographical term.
To be exact in Ukrainian he said "країна", which means just "country", but it happens to sound similar to the name of the country "Ukraine", yeah.
@@DejanGrubesic Religion is also a culture. So, there are bosnian people and bosnian culture
It's a pity they didn't mike the other speakers - it's hard to hear the language
0:16 Twi
2:42 Japanese
2:54 Vietnamese
3:46 Bosnian
6:24 Ukrainian
7:11 Russian
8:11 Chinese
9:33 Quranic Arabic
11:24 Finnish
12:33 Portuguese
Thank you!
The Portuguese one is horrible, she sounds very asian, and she mixes it with spanish.
João Ferreira and the Finnish
DUDE! I've said for years that Portuguese sounds like a Russian speaking Spanish... hahahha
I've always noticed that similarity between Russian and Portuguese too!! No one ever agrees with me lol It's awesome to finally hear it coming from someone else :D
kinda agreed
@@BERRUEZA I am Brazilian and study a bit o Russian for no reason but, i noticed the pronunciation of Russian words is very similar to Portuguese.
Same here! When I went to Brazil and visited the Iguazú Falls, the tour guide started speaking Spanish and it took me a moment to figure out that this man was NOT russian but Portuguese
@@zoet6714 I had the same experience in Phuket, Thailand.
(1) By time
(2) Indeed, mankind is in loss
(3) Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience
Nice efforts of knowing all of these languages for sure But this is the right translation for the Arabic verse of the Holy Quran.
I'm so glad to see you uploading again
That's pretty god damn impressive. I can't think of any other skill that breaks down barriers between people and builds relationships more than learning foreign languages.
this is so fascinating - i'd love a whole series of these! not even necessarily with people, somebody could pick out some online audio excerpts for tim to guess.
So glad you started posting videos again 😊😊🥰
How I didn't notice your new videos for whole 2 months!!! I waited so long it😄I am so thankful for your new videos😊😊😊
This was so great. I didn't realize Tim had started uploading again. I subscribed and clicked the bell so fast. Tim was who inspired me to start learning language in the first place, and I now speak/understand 6, so... Thank you for returning!
I'm trying to get to three. I'm inspired now too!
Which languages do you speak/understand guys?
@@violence8550 . I'm fluent in English and Spanish. Native fluent in both. Now I'm learning Italian. Its only been about 1.5 months since I started learning Italian but I can already understand a lot watching Italian films. I can put together many sentences with proper grammar as well but I'm not conversational yet. I'm hoping to be at an intermediate or conversational level within 2-3 more months. Then I'll start learning another language (undecided which). You?
@@MrSupernova111 I'm fluent in English and Greek (my native tongue). I've been teaching myself Spanish for around one year and a half and I am at a pretty good level of apprehension. The grammar is similar to the Greek one so it's easy for me. The languages I've just started are Russian, German, Chinese, Korean and Arabic. They're intensely challenging and I'm at a very low level, but I love all of them and with everyday practice progress will come naturally.
@@violence8550 . That's very cool! Its interesting that Greek has similar grammar to Spanish. Then you would learn Italian easily once you know Spanish. I grew up with both Spanish and English which is why I speak both fluently. I'm hispanic and lived in Texas most of my life. The other languages that I'm considering are Russian and Chinese but its intimidating as they are completely different than romance languages. An alternative would be to learn French which would be a lot easier but I never cared too much about it - same with Portuguese. Maybe I'll try Japanese. Overall, I would like to be conversational in 4-5 languages and know some basic phrases to get around in a few others. Ideally, I want to use my new linguistic skills to travel the world and meet people from all over. I can't imagine visiting Italy for example to just look at stuff.
I love the way you break down the languages, and listen out for the little keywords and triggers to identify them
This video had such great potential but could have been so much better. Just needed better camera angles, better production, better sound recording, more native speakers
Harry Nguyen , Tim and speakers make cool this video even without these staff. He is inspiration😍😍😍
Doner is a great person! I really happy for saw him. Thank you!!!!!
I love this guy, he inspires me a lot!
Damn, Tim Doner really is the James Bond of languages!
Wow. Said well👍
I hope to aspire to be just like Tim in the future ! ❤️
Glad to see Tim back!
please come back i miss you :( you inspire me a lot
You inspire me a lot,I wish you would post more regularly like other polyglots ;(
من دوسِت دارم تیم،تو فوق العاده ای داداش💗
Well that was surprisingly fascinating that he knows it’s Quranic Arabic, but i have a comment about what he said about Surat Al Asr, it’s:
By time (Allah swears in time) • Indeed mankind is in loss • Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds(not prayer الصالحات وليس الصلاة) and advised each other to patience.
Quran is hard even for Arab to understand without studying
He did great job. That was really incredible
Thanks to declare the meaning of verses ❤
Jesus is Love.
@@pneron2032 yes he is ❤, as Muslims we love him more than ourselves ❤❤❤peace be upon all prophets ❤❤❤❤
@@rowanmohamed8517 Jesus said "beware of false prophets". No prophet would ever murder, rape or pillage, sell slaves or marry a child. Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the light".
@@pneron2032 we do believe in Jesus and love him . We respect Christians so please be polite and show some respect to us , don't say lies and wrong things with no knowledge and remember that you can't insult any religion that's not good manners
I have nothing to tell you except peace , don't spread hatred ,be respectful
Welcome back, Tim!
Сегодня на уроке английского, мы обсуждали все связанное с языками, в том числе и о полиглотах. Тогда моя учительница показала нам видео с тобой на канале THNKR, там тебе было всего 16 и ты уже говорил на 20 языках мира.
Я очень рада, что живу в одно время с такими невероятными людьми, как ты, Тим с:
You are incredible.
OMG.... i cant express how impressed i am
That was great! In the Quranic Arabic section, it was not "Husr" حصر that means seige. It was "Khusr" خسر, which means loss.
At first I was like "Are you kidding me? That's gonna be so easy for him"
Was surprised to see how much he struggled.
I wish I had a brother like you, I'd be so lucky.
I loved it. Beautiful ❤️
If Mark Zuckerberg means Facebook then Timothy Doner means languages. That's the level of dedication this man has. As a language learner, I am a huge fan of Tim
This is dope, and I love the fact that they had someone named Ken Adams, f.r.i.e.n.d.s fans will understand😂
THATS WHY IT SOUNDED SO FAMILIAR HAHAHA
When you try guessing so hard your arm disappears 3:58
Coming from Ghana and is super proud of Twi🤍🇬🇭
10:50 you got it wrong here
It's (الصالحات) which mean good things(righteousness) not (الصلاة) which mean praying , also in 11:00
It's (تواصو) which mean (advice each other) not (تساوى) which mean be equal
and also he said حسر instead of خسر
@@aliabassi8045 I'm just surprised that he knows the quran
@@saajiddaya2152 he did say qur'anic arabic
Bro, you need to keep making these videos man
Should do this again, was interesting
Hi Tim. I'm from Indonesia and I'm a big fan of you :)
Semoga kamu sehat selalu.
God bless you.
I want a fool the expert part 2 please
Tim reminds me of Matt Murdock from Daredevil with the blindfold lol.
Blindfolded to understand the language. Zmart.
Im a 19 y.o girl from Iran studying medicine ,we speak "farsi/persian" ...he is amazing , so talented & hard working, BC of him I started learnig more & more languages English,Arabic& French to be a poly glot ...I hope one day he travels to Iran ... he speaks farsi very wellllllllll😎
That's amazing!! Good luck!
Very cool, Tim. TH-cam loves challenges! 😂😂
The finnish speaker wasn't native and the word for king wasn't even right (it should've been kuningas), I couldn't even understand what he said
yeah, i've studied finnish for 2 years and there is no way he is finnish :L his pronounciation was awful and lack of translation for basic nouns
I mean I can't blame him for not guessing it but "Suomi" is a dead give away lmao! He studied at Harvard and even I know that lol!
That's a Old Germanic word(Kuningas) ! Tim knew this and was expecting him to say it but he obviously messed up and used the wrong word.
Which is why he couldn't guess it.
I guess Tim hesitated because of the non-native accent of the speaker. And yeah, he was waiting to hear "Kuningas"...anyway he guessed it.
I'm swedish and know close to no finnish, however I'm familiar with the sound of the language because of finnish-swedes and finnish channels on tv and it didn't sound like finnish to me. The only reason I knew was because he said suomi which was a dead giveaway lol
سلام تیم من از ایران هستم و دیروز تازه با خودت و توانایی هات آشنا شدم و بسی لذت بردم . خیلی دوست دارم روزی باهات فارسی یا انگلیسی صحبت کنم چون درحال یادگیری انگلیسی هم هستم. تو هم فارسی و هم انگلیسی رو خیلی سریع ، تند تند حرف میزنی ، موفق و پایدار باشی 🌺
This old guy's Finnish was so off! That makes it even more impressive that he got it right. Soap is SAIPPUA and king is KUNINGAS in Finnish.
it's not impressive at all because in his first phrase the old guy says is SUOMI
Gigantisch. Was für eine Leistung.
Yas Tim bring it! I wish they had more native speakers available!
I speak 4 languages and I thought I was good but GOD DAMN
Hi Tim what advice can you give me as I am doing this for Starbucks new Zealand
Wowwww he speaks Vietnamese very well😮😮
hey timothy you are amazing, can you recommend listening to hebrew podcasts while still on ground 0 in hebrew?
Petition to get this guy on the Jubilee "guess my language" videos
13:09 "Portuguese either sounds to me like a very sad Spanish speaker or a very happy Russian speaker."
Gonna remember that one haha
It's really cool to know that he can speak Indonesian since 2011, his language is quite fluent and can be understood by Indonesians, it's just that his accent is not too similar to Indonesian people, talking to Indonesians will help a lot.
Tim I would realy love to start learning Russian what do you use to learn all the languages?
I wish I was as good as Tim, oh my god 🙏🏻😂
First one was mindblowing!
You're my Inspiration, i wish could have your brain, but I conform with i had it, I loved the way you see the life, you're greatest person i never ever seen before, grettings from Colombia, I'll hope see you soon. Tim 😊
You're name does not sound Colombian hahaha :)
@@cristianchavez5674 😂😂😂 I know, I like the U.S.A Culture, so it is will be my American name or nickname
@@brooklynsimmons9499 Que bonito conocer otras personas en Colombia interesadas en el mundo de los idiomas. Yo soy de Bogotá pero vivo en Armenia hace un tiempo, y también me encanta el mundo de los idiomas.
@@cristianchavez5674 Yo soy de la Costa, Antequera - Cesar, pero ahora estoy viviendo en Bucaramanga la Ciudad Bonita.
@@brooklynsimmons9499 Genial genial
hey Tim I would like to offer a request to you. Would you like to help as not native speaker of Persian to make a course on Duolingo ? Just want your opinions on how the course is better to be as foreigner what should come first and what should be thought last?
Hello Tim I'm 18 Currently learning my third language which is Russian how did you go about learning it ?
I like this person 👍 I want to meet him someday 💁🏻♂️
I always want to speak many language
when I was 16 I start learning language's now I'm 19 years old
now I can speak (Arabic 🇸🇾 "my language" - Turkish 🇹🇷 - French 🇫🇷 - English 🇺🇲 - Kurdish - Spanish 🇪🇸 - Russian 🇷🇺 ) and I'm still learning more,
I Have to say it was so Hard but When I saw him, I wanted to speak many languages like him 2 , wish me good luck ✌️
This man is a beast
Danish is a complex and weird languish, the history of how it has formed is really interesting :)
Hi Tim I am zeinab from Iran and I knew you just last night . I enjoyed your speaking Persian very much. But you speak very very fast both English and Persian and 100% other languages 😁👌 be steady
Perfect👍💯
This dude is insane. The mandarin one can be quite tricky because the speaker was speaking with a thick Taiwanese accent. Tim nailed it by quickly switching from his Beijing accent (he mentioned that his chinese teacher is from Beijing) to a taiwanese ish accent. He is perfectly aware of the subtle differences across accents..I am from Beijing and I am shocked! 太厉害了！
Hey i just watched your Indonesian language video have you improved alot ever since you posted that video ? I also can speak bahasa Indonesia if you're wondering.
Doner more videos please
I'm aware the pronunciation for non-arabs is quite challenging. However, the guy reciting verses of the Quran needs to work on his understanding and not only pronunciation. The first word means "evening", as Tim said, (("By the time" can be a more precise translation in light of the context)), and it's easily distinguishable from the other word meaning "siege". Additionally, he confirmed to Tim that the word "Salehat" meant :prayer (=Salat). In fact, it meant "good deeds". The list goes on: "Tawasso" has nothing to do with equality in rights but rather advicing acts. By the way, I'm not even muslim :D Not sure if many of you know about Arab world christians
You seem like a very interesting guy!
How many and what languages do you speak?
I don't think he needed a blindfold for this. It wouldn't have helped him guess any more or less lol. I think there should be more videos of this kind! Loved the concept.
StarFlower Sunz
The blindfold gives the appearance of a challenge.
@@stevied3400 you can tell hints from the facial expressions.
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Why did you tag me? You should have tagged the guy above me.
3:56 thought it was just my wifi lol
It's not traditional Chinese(Mandarin) but with strong regional accent. Tim reacted normally when he heard that.
Yeah it's a Taiwanese accent
9:35
Translation of surah Al-Asr:
By Time --
man is most surely in a continuous state of loss --
except those who believed and did righteous deeds, and enjoined upon one another keeping to the truth, and enjoined upon one another patience. --
Being portuguese I enjoyed the last clip very much 😆
Oh and I also volunteer as a portuguese teacher if need be 😂😂
@@Thekiko2501 May I take you up on this offer? I'd appreciate the help greatly as I am a Portuguese learner myself.
Claro posso-te ajudar com o teu inglês se precisares da ajuda!
Is there any chance we can see a more in depth look into your learning methods?
Genius
Time Donor?
but thank you for the good video, we appreciate your efforts:)
Quranic Arabic is a whole another level but he did ok and I am proud of him
Damn you are genius
Guys im currently learning german in the a2 level and i also want to try learning dutch since it is so relevant to german. would it be inefficient to learn two languages at once? Sorry for the question unrelated to the video..
in my opinion, it's better to reach a B1-B2 level at least in one language before starting another one. specially if they are close to each other.
تحياتي من العراق 💕💕
أنت شخص رائع حقاً ❤
你好 Tim。Please upload a new video if it is possible. Maybe a new: Polyglot speaks 20 languages new version how you improved. Greetings🇦🇹
Guessed all of them pretty much immediately, except the first one, never even heard of it..!? :D I was lucky though, since they happened to only have languages to which I have been exposed. Finnish was too easy, since I'm Swedish and it's a neighbouring country, but that's really impressive for him to guess. The question he correctly posed himself is if it could be another Baltic language, which is difficult to distinguish unless you have heard lots of one of the languages. Portuguese totally sounds like a Russian speaking Spanish, completely agree :) Ukrainian and Russian were easy since my wife is Ukrainian and speaks both. My Russian is def much more advanced than his but then again, I don't speak lord knows how many other languages he does :D
The only tricky one was the Yugoslavian one, for the reasons he explained. He also mentioned "Slovenian" but that is actually not too similar. Serbian and Croatian are practically the same with very small differences. The Bosnian dialect is pretty much the same too but a bit more noticeable with the Islamic influence. He should have asked what the words for "bread", and "soup" (bread is "hleb" in Serbian and Bosnian and "kruh" in Croatian, soup is "supa" in Serbian but "juha" in Croatian, quite distinct) are and "two coffee", since the genitive case of "two" and "coffee" differ between the languages. Love how he was culturally aware enough to know to ask for "marhaba", i.e. the Islamic influence on Bosnian, great detective work! Generally, I would have gone with Bosnia anyway since they emigrated a lot during the war since they suffered so greatly, it seems more likely to find one living in other countries.
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Я в захваті від мовних можливостей Тіма і його відношення до людей. Тім - ти Сонечко 🌞
A bit surprised that such a talented fellow Polyglot could not distinguish between Finnish and Hungarian... the two sound completely different, but I assume comrade Tim analized more the grammar than the sound of the language :)
سلام شما یک ساله که ویدئو درست نکرده اید چرا؟
Здравствуйте! Я вас очень уважаю! И хочу стать полиглотом как вы. Вы моя мотивация, каждый день усердно изучаю языки.
И хотела задавать вопрос можно ли изучать 3 языка одновременно? Я сейчас изучаю Корейский (уже на 3 уровне) и английский и турецкий.
Cool. I'm learning Russian and I'm from Cyprus.
It seems like Tim tastes a lot of different cakes with the same flavor. He has to define and say their names without mistakes.
Tim is a freak of nature and a genius, but some of these languages weren't that hard to guess for many folks with a passing interest in languages. I speak no Arabic at all but could immediately detect the distinctive sound. Of course, Tim not only detected it as Arabic from the Koran but even translated it. Same thing with the Slavic languages - I could have identified all three Slavic languages as Slavic and also identified the Russian as Russian (I have a very basic know;ledge of Russian). Portuguese was a dead giveaway, most people could have correctly identified Japanese and Chinese too just from the sounds - though not the dialects - but Vietnamese? no - that would have been impossible for me. Of course, there were some languages most folks not from that region would never have been able to identify - like the West African ones. Even the Pashto, Farsi etc. - I might have vaguely guessed middle Eastern but that's about it. Indonesian, Finnish and some others - no chance,
You made a translation mistake there: 11.05 It means, "..except those who suggest each other the truth/the right path and to be firm/patient."