_ David _ doesn’t matter. What matters is the connections you make with people. You’re one of those polyglot haters who only values fluency which is completely pointless unless you’re a translator or teacher. Get the fuck out of here
Gotta appreciate the fact that even if he doesn’t speak the language at least he knows how to shift to the nearest language, like Javanese to Indonesian, Marathi to Hindi, Belarusian to Russian...
it's kinda the point the languages anyways to be a lingua franca for Indonesia and India's tons of regional languages, so he did right by shifting to it
@@jesshymc9054 they may be non-primary, but Javanese and Marathi ranks very high in the most spoken languages of the world, with literally more native speakers than Indonesian, Thai, Tagalog and Dutch. Plus he speaks Cantonese which is kinda non-primary too
Wouter: looks like you think YOU are the one teaching here, your birdies are in my house, coordinates *bleeeep* if you don't want them to die, start to learn your French, and you'll see your kids for two hours
Or maybe to balance out the universe, he really really really sucks at Mathematics.... (I almost wrote 'maths' instead of 'mathematics' but then realised the Americans wouldn't understand what I'm talking about... with their 'math'... an' all)
In Thai the verb for “to live” and “to be” (as in place) is the same. I think he was asking where he lives and it was not translated correctly in the subtitles.
@@behindtheeye Actually it was translated correctly, he did say where are you in thai. If he was goin to ask where do you live, he should have said: Baan khun yuu tii-nai.
S-02 it’s really sad that people are talking shit about some one when the person does no understand him if they can’t tell it people in the face they should shut up
Im english but i live in thailand. My whole family speaks fluent thai and often foreigners do not speak thai at all which means we can get in some very funny situations where people are having a weird conversation loudly assuming no one else in the room understands and when we are about to leave we just say goodbye hope u have a great day or something like that in thai. And their faces are priceless.
Happened to me many years ago. I'm English, and so was my missus at the time. We were travelling from Italy back to England (I used to live in Italy). The missus and I were being silly about some purchases we made in the duty free shop, and a couple of old ladies, in italian, suggested we should not behave so stupidly in public. I simply turned around and said "Wouldn't it be a pity if someone understood you?". They went bright red and pretended I didn't exist. Fuckign beautiful.
@@Shrektopuz the tower of Babel is a story in the Bible. The people wanted to build a tower reaching into the sky, so they could be higher than god. Then God made them speak different languages, so they couldn't coordinate or communicate any longer and the project was abandoned. If the people there had had him, they would have been able to use him as a translator
As a person who knows Turkish, it's really easy for me to communicate with a person who speaks Azerbaijani. They are really similar. We can understand 80 percent of the words we say.
This video shows how rewarding it can be to make the effort to at least try a few words or sentences in someone’s else’s language. You don’t need to be fluent, all that he does here is using basic sentences that often come up during first conversations with strangers, but just look at the smiles, he’s making everyone’s day.
I mean it seemed obvious he wasn't a fluent speaker of all the languages he tried in this video. In Portuguese,for example,which is my mother language he struggled a bit to build sentences up, but I still find it very impressive because it seems to me he was not trying to show off, he just wanted to have fun and practice. And it's very nice he has interest in knowing all those languages. Nice video!
@@sexyangel072 nah bro i bet u r not native spanish because his spanish was like his portuguese, u can understand it but the sentences and the pronunciation are not so good
I mean.. I am British (never been a tourist, never even been out the country) but I have pretty much no reason to ever want to learn a different language 🤷♂️ there are a few foreign people around here but they almost always know English, as they should if they're moving to an English speaking country.
@@rh6657 arabic is clearly not the second hardest language to learn. there are types of chinese, japanese , basque and some other things i cant remember
I don't know about him, but as a Portuguese speaker, sometimes I find myself having a hard time with Spanish exactly because it's so similar to Portuguese. Like, often I won't know if I'm actually speaking Spanish or just Portuguese in a Spanish accent lol
It's mostly the pronounciation and grammar rules in german. Even I mess them up sometimes. But I wouldn't necessarily say that it's difficult for most dutch people since a majority of them speaks it, but different people have different weaknesses and strengths.
@@wawacat6568 I understand. But Dutch is a germanic language, like german. Som why does he learn completely unrelated (and difficult) langugages like Thai and Ukrainian but complain that german is diffcult? 😂
Crazy how many languages he knows but still lost to a lot of people. That just shows how many languages random people we pass by on the streets know, which is amazing. A lot of very uncommon languages too.
4:00 For non Dutch speakers: She asks if he also speaks Dutch and Wouter proceeds to talk in very broken Dutch, like a foreigner would talk if he just learned a few sentences. Then at 4:16 he says he's also Dutch and proceeds to talk Dutch normally
Paloma Canedo A friend of my dad‘s studied linguistics in Harvard and is a polyglot mastermind as well. He once was on a train with two Russian dudes who kept talking about him and being racist (he’s black) and insulting for hours, he just sat there quietly reading his newspaper and thanked them for the nice conversation in immaculate Russian before he got off.
Man that would be crazy you know how much money that person would be able to make His jobs would be endless and he would be in high demand He would be able to spy on every country and every country would probably want him
that happened to me too....i always blamed the people who cant understand what im saying in my own language....but i can explain it well in english....but then they cant understand english....so then i gave up😂
I loved how you gave 5 Euros to the Hungarian woman without even trying to talk to her. 😂❤ I am also from Hungary and what you are doing is impressive! Keep going! 😊
Hearing him speak Tagalog made me so happy! I studied the language for about 3 years and lived in the country for around 4 months. I love the people and the language!
When he said "I know a bit" he wasn't lying. The phrases he uses are just textbook examples, and the way he speaks is rushed for the sake of appearances of being fluent, so often times it just comes off as clumsy. So, technically he CAN speak those languages, but as far having a whole conversation I wouldn't be so sure.
Polyglot: I speak many languages. Eastern Europe: We'll see... Asia: I'm about to end this man's career. Africa: I'm about to end this man's career and remove all evidence of its existence.
He actually knows a lot of East Asian languages, but yeah Eastern Europe he'll have trouble, but since he knows Russian and some Ukranian and Polish, he can easily study them to a point of small conversation.
5:43 "sopo jenengmu" it means what's your name. it is Javanese language, and Javanese language is not only one, each region is different way of pronunciation and words. such as Central Java and East Java, and is still subdivided in each region. I can't explain more because I'm confused where to start because I am Javanese and I speak Indonesian, if you are interested, maybe I can help in the comments. sorry for my bad english, I use google translate, have good day🌹
As a German ,I can say, his German isn’t perfect but you can understand him well, in Germany people actually wouldn’t have a problem with understanding him
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
I do NZSL and had the same thought - i'd be very surprised if he knew that one as well. All SL are not universal but I find them all very adaptable as they are very illustrative in nature. Ie: A tree is likely to be similar sign in ASL, Auslan, Swedish or NZL.
Nuka's Nook Ooh! I’m learning NZSL! At the moment I know emotions, alphabet, days of the week, months of the year, numbers and a couple other things. :)
@@mrsamqi No... He said Javanese. Not Cantonese. Anyway, Each Chinese tourists bus usually speak one single language, coz they all come from the same provinces. But if u meet different group of Chinese tourists, good luck.
This is why I love living in Europe! I speak 5 languages with a high degree of fluency (deeper conversations, large vocab) and maybe 5 or 6 more casually or for travelling. My best achievements have been speaking mandarin in Italy, French in Hungary, Turkish in England, Japanese in Turkey
people complaining about his accent but can barely write a good essay in their mother language 🥱 edit: ok I got it you all are languages experts now if you are still going to argue make sure to call me Gostosa, it is a respectiful vocative on my language bye.
@Alex Znas Well it was, but it clearly had a strong Dutch accent. And to be fair learning German for a Dutch person should be harder than vice-versa if English and some German dialects are also understood, though it's also not free for the taking for me to get fluent in Niederländisch. When I was in the Netherlands even with broken English back in 2010, I still could understand most of what was written. Though a banner saying "Steig huren?" (maybe it was "Steiger huren?") near the redlight district of Amsterdam definitely made my German mind think of something different than "Gerüst mieten?" or "Rent a scaffold?" in English. 🤣 Sometimes I read instruction manuals in Dutch and it just feels like some drunken mixture of German and English most of the time. This is not meant as an offence, it's just the truth. Intelligibility is similar with Afrikaans obviously (the British also had their say in colonization, you know).
@@MagicMason1000 lmaoo, apparently there was this guy that learned languages by messaging the native speakers and using their responses with other speakers. Basically had two strangers conversing without them knowing
@@sta5348 I wonder wonder how well he'd do with Swiss German dialects. Germans usually can barely understand it, if at all. Sure he speaks Dutch, that might help a little bit. But the overall structure of the dialects is different from standard German. In addition to that per dialect it's usually about 500'000 ppl, it's not used in any other way than in everyday life.
@@emilstorgaard9642 as he said, he only knows a bit of thai. He didn't even bother on changing the subtitles when he said "where are you? So the thai guy wouldn't look bad replying with "I'm here". Memorizing phrases of 50+ languages, I can't even think of another person doing that just for a video. He even spoke my language very well, I don't think memorizing phrases can lead to someone speaking your language very well.
Imagine speaking a made up language and he responds back fluently.
I'd love to speak Sindarin xD
ikr
swedish
Jaxon Klaus NANI
Jsosh jsbsr yiyx lon frespibja dhdbe pabs
Nxndnd woksb djdjow fh doobf jhbrs
Imagine talking in sims language and he responds back.
Sul Sul :oD
lol
😆🤣😂
Lol
@@kali6753 I like the people that come up to him and just start talking see if he responds correct lol
This guy eats the Duolingo Bird for breakfast
Lol
I'M YELLING WTF AHSHHAHS
Ahahahaha
_ David _ doesn’t matter. What matters is the connections you make with people. You’re one of those polyglot haters who only values fluency which is completely pointless unless you’re a translator or teacher. Get the fuck out of here
@_ David _ like you could do better
Someone: **sneezes**
This guy: **answers in fluent sneezlish**
Magyarul tud vajon?🤔
well, in lithuanian sneezing > thank you (Ačiū)
Sneezlish is such a cute word
that whole country is a warzone in covid time
langauage*
What amazes me is how many languages were spoken in a seemingly small area
Amsterdam is one of the most diverse cities on earth
It's a tourist area and he approaches tourist so it makes sense.
area has less thing to do with it
Thats amsterdam for you
Come to India .... around 1100 language spoken
"i speak Hungarian"
Guy hands her 5 euros without saying a Word
Hát ha még egy szót se tud, akkor nyilván :'D
Nagyon kevesen beszéljük
@@elizabereczki5542 Csak 10millióan :c
En
Szia
Csatlakozok a magyar gárdához!
“Where are you?”
“I’m here”
Language 100
Lmaao
Ahahhaahhahahahahahhaha
The power of translation
He said he lives here but the caption damnnksksksksks
its the truth tho... he was indeed there
Gotta appreciate the fact that even if he doesn’t speak the language at least he knows how to shift to the nearest language, like Javanese to Indonesian, Marathi to Hindi, Belarusian to Russian...
underappreciated comment.
it's kinda the point the languages anyways to be a lingua franca for Indonesia and India's tons of regional languages, so he did right by shifting to it
Its not against the rules but they kinda hustled him by speaking the non primary language of their countries lol
@@jesshymc9054 they may be non-primary, but Javanese and Marathi ranks very high in the most spoken languages of the world, with literally more native speakers than Indonesian, Thai, Tagalog and Dutch.
Plus he speaks Cantonese which is kinda non-primary too
@@RadenWA Marathi ta khoob loka boltat Maharashtra ani Mumbai madhe je India cha sarvat motha shahar ahe
*Aliens passes by earth*
Wouter: aksjdaljslsjfajf
Aliens: Wai- what!? how'd you know?!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No euros for them
🤣
Lmao
😂😂😂
Duolingo bird: looks like you did your lessons, your parents are safe today.
For now
I got a duo lingo add pop up right as I read this
Wouter: looks like you think YOU are the one teaching here, your birdies are in my house, coordinates *bleeeep* if you don't want them to die, start to learn your French, and you'll see your kids for two hours
Scottish person: *Speaks English*
Woulter: "Here's your 5 euros"
this made my day😂😂😂
Brad Ley Good one! 😂😂
hhahahaha
aye xD
Lmao 😂😂
It’s impressive that he don’t mix them up.
I would have been like “speacen sie English, señorita?”
This made me crack up lmaooo
Si, Ich Shitemasu
Here in Latvia we say goodbye in 3 language - Labi davaj čau (everything together)
It's in Latvian, Russian, Italian
this is me all the time with spanish and japanese
Yes das ist très SIUUUUUU
The only reason he didn’t say how many languages he speak is because he doesn’t even know himself
Honeslty, he only knows when someone starts speaking it and he’s like “ah yes I speak that” 😭
Also, by not stating how many languages he speaks, no one can know their odds of winning.
Or maybe to balance out the universe, he really really really sucks at Mathematics.... (I almost wrote 'maths' instead of 'mathematics' but then realised the Americans wouldn't understand what I'm talking about... with their 'math'... an' all)
I speak six languages and am learning the seventh. I thought it was already good. Now I'm depressed...
@@RioMuc No need to be depressed, 6-7 languages is super impressive.
"what language do you speak?"
"sign language"
"here your 5 euros"
Now listen here you little shi-
How would he even understand the question?
@@naisudesu1049 people who can hear/talk can also learn sign language
Zerul but they responded in english not sign languge
@@naisudesu1049 people can read lips
Him:- Speaking 11 languages.
Me:-Speaking native language with 11 mistakes.
Dont worry, he made lots of mistakes in most of the languages he spoke.
Hahahahahahaahaha
@@whyisgamora4191 yeah, he just know the basic, i recognized that too.
WHY IS GAMORA?! That’s still impressive regardless
Donzterio Marquinus could’ve said speaking 11 words....
What I understood:
"You speak Japanese?" "No japanese." "Oh japanese, I thought you said japanese"
*maximum confusion*
This comment's gonna rise up.
The man actually said javanese I was confused too
ok you made me laugh i admit here you go!
+69
hahahahaha me too for a moment
It's Javanese. It's one of regional languages in Indonesia
me, an intellectual asking sign language because you can't speak it
LMAO big brain
I was literally about to say that I would’ve started aggressively signing in French Sign Language 😂 now GIMME MY 5 EUROS!
I can "speak" a little bit of sign language.
ASL, that is.
@@justyourlocalbernana1823 *proceeds to say an essay of his life*
Bruh imagine his dreams. Like one second everyone is speaking Spanish and then randomly everything switched Thai or some shit
That happens to me and I barely speak Spanish
I had a dream that was in Spanish once and didn’t understand any of it, it was also black and white
Blaphlafagus u sure it wasn’t just gibberish?
I had a dream that was in sign language but i was blind
@@Blaphlafagus If you don't understand it, then how could you dream in Spanish?
"Hungarian"
**Instantly gives her the money**
Yeah, that was funny and a bit sad, I was looking forward to him speaking Hungarian 😊
Jogos
Im just gonna leave my comment here
Polish
@@Hbik06 nie das ist sehr hart vor mich
@@Hbik06 same
"I speak a little Dutch" this man is Dutch, he couldn't speak more if he tried.
Idk, not sure. He has a foreign accent imo. But I'm not sure since I'm Flemish anyway lol
It's definitely a Dutch accent lmao
I like how he speaks these languages with people and they light up when they hear him. It’s like he’s making friends from around the world.
Do you know Nelson Mandela's quote about languages? It's exactly about what you said 😊
I made it 1K likes
"Where are you?"
"I'm here"
That sounds logical.
In Thai the verb for “to live” and “to be” (as in place) is the same. I think he was asking where he lives and it was not translated correctly in the subtitles.
MulleDK19 i got your point
behindtheeye you didn’t get his point
Ahahahah
@@behindtheeye Actually it was translated correctly, he did say where are you in thai. If he was goin to ask where do you live, he should have said: Baan khun yuu tii-nai.
imagine being in a place e.g. airport where someone is chatting shit about him in a different language and he answers back
S-02 it’s really sad that people are talking shit about some one when the person does no understand him if they can’t tell it people in the face they should shut up
Seb Br4un that means they scared, else they would say it in the same language
Im english but i live in thailand. My whole family speaks fluent thai and often foreigners do not speak thai at all which means we can get in some very funny situations where people are having a weird conversation loudly assuming no one else in the room understands and when we are about to leave we just say goodbye hope u have a great day or something like that in thai. And their faces are priceless.
😂😂😂😂
Happened to me many years ago. I'm English, and so was my missus at the time. We were travelling from Italy back to England (I used to live in Italy). The missus and I were being silly about some purchases we made in the duty free shop, and a couple of old ladies, in italian, suggested we should not behave so stupidly in public. I simply turned around and said "Wouldn't it be a pity if someone understood you?". They went bright red and pretended I didn't exist.
Fuckign beautiful.
I'm learning Javanese too. But I can't decide if I should learn python or C++ next.
Oo cool, why Javanese ?
Hahaha nice one
😂
🤣
You got me in the first half, not gonna lie.
*speaks Hungarian*
him: just take the money.
pontosan, nem is vártam
@@pietdezwart2271 pontosan-->proud ? In croatian it's ponosan btw.
@@petarfranic5988 pontosan means "exactly"
@@AllrondSoul oh. interesting!
@@petarfranic5988 pontosan IS hungarian and it means 'exactly'
he says “I understand a little” but can establish a whole ass conversation wow
¿Qué significa *_whole ass_* ?
johnpopo2 it’s an expression
I’m the same way with Spanish😆,understand a lot of it just not confident
@@melenia6308 And what does that expression mean ?
@@johnpopo2 same as "entire" conversation. Significa que puede establecer toda una conversación! Es una expresión exagerada
Wouter: Speaks dozens of languages fluently
Me: Doesn’t even know when he switches from English to another language
Yellow Cat hahah for reals, i will be speaking english and out of nowhere im finishing in spanish haha
I'll be speaking English and suddenly I'll be switching to german or french without noticing it.
Yellow Cat ngl i didn’t either
He doesn't speak most languages fluently, but well enough
Me: only speaks English
If Babel would have had this guy, we’d be a large tower richer.
Lmao. Underrated comment😂
I watched the show, but don’t get it.
Edit: Frick this comment is humiliating. Those who get what I meant, please ignore this.
@@Shrektopuz the tower of Babel is a story in the Bible. The people wanted to build a tower reaching into the sky, so they could be higher than god. Then God made them speak different languages, so they couldn't coordinate or communicate any longer and the project was abandoned. If the people there had had him, they would have been able to use him as a translator
@@DiiAM00NDx3 Ah alright, I was about to say "who the fuk is Babel?" but I know now.
Him: Goes to the United States
Natives: it’s time boys.
Oh but just await the day when he actually visits the Tied States.
Wut
*U n t i e d* States
@@clove1941 lmao
ope i just realized i said untied states 😂😭
The woman who went throught 3 different languages. Lmao get your coins sis
@War Angel 14 she doesn't know Arabic... She butchered her "hello"
I think they meant the girl who spoke azerbaijani, turkish and german
she was from Luxembourg, most people in Luxembourg speak at least 4 languages, that's normal for us haha
@@noone-lp7tr lmao at least!!! That's incredible :)
@@noone-lp7tr I'm absolutely surprised &_&
As a person who knows Turkish, it's really easy for me to communicate with a person who speaks Azerbaijani. They are really similar. We can understand 80 percent of the words we say.
Plot twist: hes the duolingo bird and hes gonna come after your family if he doesnt know your language
i legit didnt wanna like because it was at 420
Lmaooo
😂
This video shows how rewarding it can be to make the effort to at least try a few words or sentences in someone’s else’s language. You don’t need to be fluent, all that he does here is using basic sentences that often come up during first conversations with strangers, but just look at the smiles, he’s making everyone’s day.
I mean it seemed obvious he wasn't a fluent speaker of all the languages he tried in this video. In Portuguese,for example,which is my mother language he struggled a bit to build sentences up, but I still find it very impressive because it seems to me he was not trying to show off, he just wanted to have fun and practice. And it's very nice he has interest in knowing all those languages.
Nice video!
Same for french, he could make himself understood but he couldn’t make proper sentences
Well he did say I can speak a little Portuguese.
I speak Spanish and his Spanish was good. So maybe it’s the different levels that he knows
O cara até q fala português bem, já fala um monte de língua, nn dá pra ser 100% fluente em todas
@@sexyangel072 nah bro i bet u r not native spanish because his spanish was like his portuguese, u can understand it but the sentences and the pronunciation are not so good
@@sexyangel072 ehhh the spanish and portuguese were pretty shabby
"So how many languages can you speak?"
This guy: Yes
Grizxly laughing way to hard at this😂
In a job interview imagine this guy telling to the boss "try me" GOD
when he doesnt know the language*
to the camera man*
Write that down...
write that down
5000 Subs for Pizza Charles the French 😂😂
@anonymous Hey, have you tried DMT?
Love how the British tourists said "nah we don't speak any other language "
hmm it would probably just be english tourists, britan as a whole has welsh and irish also
@@beccasn8725 yes but they are still called british
Thank God there were no Americans. We'd be like wot n tarnation he's speaking in tongues!
I mean.. I am British (never been a tourist, never even been out the country) but I have pretty much no reason to ever want to learn a different language 🤷♂️ there are a few foreign people around here but they almost always know English, as they should if they're moving to an English speaking country.
The arabic is hard is to nail for people who arent native arab speakers. Good effort.
News that matter well it’s the hardest Language because غ،ح،ص،ط،ج،ع،
MrDXB Oh God yes. I’m trying to learn Arabic and I’m still not exactly sure how to properly make those sounds
MrDXB ض؟ that’s the letter that’s actually exclusive to us
_ÆMÅR_MøRÅ_ o2 people forget and ظ
Hailey Todd it takes superpowers to learn arabic, but you can do it lol
"Hungarian"
Gives up immediately.
well that's the magic mushroom of all languages so gotta try ;)
Szia, hogy wagy. Bosz Mag. I know a few Hungarian phrase 😂😂
@@EmpireTVDragon as I see, the more useful ones! :)
Attempted to learn Hungarian, it's crazy difficult :/
@@cardguy2000 "Szia" is right, the second one is spelled "hogy vagy", and the third is "baszd meg", but not bad
"I'll give you 5 dollars if i can't speak your language"
-starts beatboxing
Bahahahahahaha 😂😂😂
Then he comes back with a better beat😂😂
Lmao
Hahahahaha!
Haha 🤣
Javanese people : I'm goin to end this man's whole career
*Laugh in javanese*
Wong jowo pak
Aowkwkwk ada orang Jawa disitu, kaget gw
I'm an aceh person if I'm there: hmm this is a free real estate
Sopo jenenge
Him: I speak it a bit
Then proceeds to have a large fluent conversation with them using some unusual words
He was joking, he is dutch lol
I was surprised he knew Arabic that well. Sure, it's popular, he's bound to know it, but it's also the second hardest language to learn.
Royaa Ramy whats the first hardest?
SilverFaelingXoe7 the first is Mandarin Chinese
@@rh6657 arabic is clearly not the second hardest language to learn. there are types of chinese, japanese , basque and some other things i cant remember
love how he dropped the fiver immediately when he heard "Hungarian"
Am 😂😂😂
@@mateszegedi8972 ejj te! Magyarnak lenni jó! *RIA RIA HUNGARIA*
greG Szeretek magyar lenni❤️
Kár érte, kiváló ügynök volt!
@@bluebull852 Fogd be a szad, hagyd hogy a fonok beszeljen.
Me when I saw the title:
Mmm he probably doesn't speak Dutch
Me when he starts talking: ahh shit he's definitely Dutch
Yup. The accent is so telling.
At the start of the video he says hes dutch
@@fearmorpiercemacmaghnais7186 must have missed that part.
Je kan het ook zien aan zijn naam
Fear Mór Pierce Mac Maghnáis you’re irishhhh
Why is german ”very difficult” for a native dutch speaker with a CRAZY ear for languages? 😂
I find German pretty easy and it’s the first language I’ve learnt lol
I don't know about him, but as a Portuguese speaker, sometimes I find myself having a hard time with Spanish exactly because it's so similar to Portuguese. Like, often I won't know if I'm actually speaking Spanish or just Portuguese in a Spanish accent lol
It's mostly the pronounciation and grammar rules in german. Even I mess them up sometimes. But I wouldn't necessarily say that it's difficult for most dutch people since a majority of them speaks it, but different people have different weaknesses and strengths.
@@wawacat6568 I understand. But Dutch is a germanic language, like german. Som why does he learn completely unrelated (and difficult) langugages like Thai and Ukrainian but complain that german is diffcult? 😂
dude the only reason I know german is because of Rammstein, Eisbrecher, Ost+Front and my dad xDD and yeah it's SOOO easy
him: What language?
Her: *Hungarian*
* immediately hands money *
Well Hungarian is like a normal language but spoken backwards :D
A Magyar nyelv a legszepeb.
you have been visted by safety doggo was waiting for 🤣
Ya, it’s hard
@@janosvarga962 na! csak decensen.
Crazy how many languages he knows but still lost to a lot of people. That just shows how many languages random people we pass by on the streets know, which is amazing. A lot of very uncommon languages too.
Аlex Nelson in a major European city, yeah. A major US city? Not so much.
@@user-sx4yu3nw4jhave you ever been to a major us city? Lots of different languages dude
yea i doubt hes even heard of tuvalu (island I'm from) no hate though
@@n0wsinn oh sick do you speak Tuvaluan
@@oywiththepoodlesalready1790 yes sir
Him: I speak so many languages
Eastern Europe: I’m about to end this mans whole career
Ahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
you forgot india
Dejan Vujicic found the eastern european
So true can he speak polish? 😂😂😂
@@kenjisingh2015 not that hard
4:00 For non Dutch speakers: She asks if he also speaks Dutch and Wouter proceeds to talk in very broken Dutch, like a foreigner would talk if he just learned a few sentences. Then at 4:16 he says he's also Dutch and proceeds to talk Dutch normally
he was making a joke because he's from the netherlands
Imagine being able to understand everyone's gossips o.o
Paloma Canedo A friend of my dad‘s studied linguistics in Harvard and is a polyglot mastermind as well. He once was on a train with two Russian dudes who kept talking about him and being racist (he’s black) and insulting for hours, he just sat there quietly reading his newspaper and thanked them for the nice conversation in immaculate Russian before he got off.
@@ToastbrotRaver Omg lmao
Man that would be crazy you know how much money that person would be able to make
His jobs would be endless and he would be in high demand
He would be able to spy on every country and every country would probably want him
I understand everyone in my nation as were homogeneous😊😂
you realize how racist everyone arround you is lol
4:59
"Where are you?"
"I'm here"
Well that was really a good conversation
Thats litteral conversation in Bosnia you hear every day
We ask where are you even if we are in front of the person
@@MrKruska11 but why....
@@kindlethrive i don't know hahahaha
In Bosnia it goes something like this:
A: E đes' brate.
B: Evo me đes' ti.
And I think that's beautiful 😂😂
@@MrKruska11 That's funny 😁 And do you speak/understand any other languages aside from English and "Bosnian" 😝
Him: speaks almost every language
Me: *can't make a proper sentence using my first language*
Feelsbadman
Same
Same I can understand everything but I only know how to speak some words and I can read more words than speak them
I can hear Chan singing “rubber duckie,you the one~” AND NOW ITS STUCK IN MY HEAD :CC
that happened to me too....i always blamed the people who cant understand what im saying in my own language....but i can explain it well in english....but then they cant understand english....so then i gave up😂
I loved how you gave 5 Euros to the Hungarian woman without even trying to talk to her. 😂❤ I am also from Hungary and what you are doing is impressive! Keep going! 😊
This guy literally called me ignorant in 2 thousand different languages
true
"Why do you learn so many languages?"
"I have a funny video idea"
I'm your 1000th like!
@@Broodrooster44 im your real dad
@@Alex-xt2gn Im your real mom
Alex B I’m your kid from another woman, where’s her child support?
@@axcolleen Im Joe
Her: "I speak Hungarian."
Him: *No, thank you.*
Ákos Kulcsár tudom xd
Ilyen ez...
Mire számítottál? 😂 😂
bazmeg
oh my god, I tried to learn it because my grandfather is hungarian but it is such a hard language
Hearing him speak Tagalog made me so happy! I studied the language for about 3 years and lived in the country for around 4 months. I love the people and the language!
he says “i know a bit” then has a whole conversation in that language and i can barely ask one question after learning spanish for 6 years
When he said "I know a bit" he wasn't lying. The phrases he uses are just textbook examples, and the way he speaks is rushed for the sake of appearances of being fluent, so often times it just comes off as clumsy. So, technically he CAN speak those languages, but as far having a whole conversation I wouldn't be so sure.
@@B3RyL Ok, thanks for letting me know
Tu puedes :)
Uno
Que pasa ?
Polyglot: I speak many languages.
Eastern Europe: We'll see...
Asia: I'm about to end this man's career.
Africa: I'm about to end this man's career and remove all evidence of its existence.
Dude if he comes to India he will get destroyed , every state has its own language and never even come to dialects
@@madtitanoboa462 ikr it's like Nigeria but in Asia and with more people and almost as many languages
Imagine he goes africa, he will have to pay monopoly money then
He actually knows a lot of East Asian languages, but yeah Eastern Europe he'll have trouble, but since he knows Russian and some Ukranian and Polish, he can easily study them to a point of small conversation.
@@eddieliusa true
Him: "I will give you 5$ if i dont speak your language"
Me: *Laughs in morse code*
Lol that doesnt make any sense and its so damn funny
HA HA HA HAAA HAAA HAAA HA HA HA
.... .- .... .-
ℝ𝕦𝕟𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖
*chuckles in minecraft enchantment table*
I am a Filipino and his Tagalog is excellent. It sounds so good, he doesn't have a foreign accent. Unlike other foreigners who tried to speak it.
Everybody gangsta till he find a dude that speaks Enchanting table
sadly that isn't on duolingo
Still he finds someone that speaks alien language
⎅⍜⍀⟟⋔⟒
⏃⍀⟒ ⊬⍜⎍ ☊⍜⋔⟟⋏☌ ⏁⍜ ⏁⊑⟒ ⏁⍀⟒⟒?
BUT I CAN WRITE IT😂😂
Did you mean this? സുഖം ആണോ മുത്തെ
Oop😳
He just learned “I know a little bit” in every language
Ive barely seen anyone speaking kannada language or tulu(not telugu)
@Cameoman yup
There are a lot of curse words in tulu...theres a saying...if someone curses you in their language then swear em back in tulu😂😂😂
@Cameoman oh😂 it isnt my mother tongue..but it suits thr bro code😂😂...my mother tongue is havyaka...similar to old kannada
No way, he was holding small conversations and responding to new questions. I dunno why this has so many likes lol.
Me: speaking backwards
He: speaking backwards too
The pedestrians: demons
Huh
Ivy Edwards uoy tsuj tnod dnatsrednu 🤦🏻♂️
Snomed !
@@mobmusik9209 wow
- ROMEOCRAFT - ᴡʜʏ ᴅɪᴅ ɪ ᴛʀʏ ʀᴇᴀᴅɪɴɢ ᴛʜɪs ʙᴀᴄᴋᴡᴀʀs?😂 ?sʀᴀᴡᴋᴄᴀʙ sɪʜᴛ ɢɴɪᴅᴀᴇʀ ʏʀᴛ ɪ ᴅɪᴅ ʏʜᴡ
If i could have a superpower, it would be to speak this many languages. I'm so impressed it must be so cool to know all of these languages.
I really thought that "Luxembourgish" guy was making it up lol
Well, the more you learn
M Soares Nah its a funny language that for me sounds like a mix of dutch and french. Its called Flämisch i think.
It’s not called flämisch, that’s the dutch they speak in a part of Belgium. Luxembourgish is called luxembourgish and lëtzeboiesch in luxembourgish
@@sandyweinand4731 Thank you for this correction
german was perfectly smooth too but that is kinda easy as a dutch. still really impressive
bruh
“I'll give you 5 euros if I can't speak your language."
*Hmms in Villager
😂
*hmms back
I ONLY SPEAK THE UNIVERSAL ALPHABET
**enthusiastic HMM**
HAHAHAHAHA
Him: Speaks 12 languages perfectly comprehensible.
Then there's me: I can be quiet in 12 languages.
And I can be confused in all languages
Him: Welp, looks like I owe you several hundred euros
Laoshu: Thank you good sir
Hope you don't mind, I am going to steal this humorous line for my next social gathering.
5:43 "sopo jenengmu" it means what's your name. it is Javanese language, and Javanese language is not only one, each region is different way of pronunciation and words. such as Central Java and East Java, and is still subdivided in each region. I can't explain more because I'm confused where to start because I am Javanese and I speak Indonesian, if you are interested, maybe I can help in the comments. sorry for my bad english, I use google translate, have good day🌹
Him: “ What do you speak? “
Girl: “Hungarian”
Him: 😮 “ Here’s your 5 euros, bye “
The nicest and hardest language :)
This is all I came here for hahaha
It's a very difficult language. That means also a beautiful one !
I speak Hungarian XD
Fast one 😂
This guy is the Duolingo owls only fear.
Charli Fiona hahaha indeed
He's a threat to Duolingo indeed
what about tim doner??
I do not know that fellow, but yes, he would probably be a threat as well
person no no no. Tim and the owl are very close and are actually part of a team.
I mean the polyglot thing is cool, but it’s even more awesome that he saved those peoples lives in the beginning lol
They were in danger bc they were talking to him lol
lol first he stopped them on the tracks so he could pull them off after
They were never in danger, trams aren't trains. They have brakes and have to abide to traffic laws in NL.
Nice try, @@Sauron.... Everyone knows that trams in Amsterdam will only break and ring the bell after they hit you.
They weren't near the track. They were in no danger.
As a German ,I can say, his German isn’t perfect but you can understand him well, in Germany people actually wouldn’t have a problem with understanding him
I can speak your language
*Starts throwing gang signs at him*
Suuwoooo blood what’s yo name slime✋🏿
Abraham Lincoln shout out my mucus
Hmmm would ASL count as a language??
Take this W for making my day
*throws them up back*
“Hungarian”
*just hands the €5 doesn’t even try*
“Oh cheers!”
Én magyar vagyok! :D
@@saltyboi9317 Nem vagy egyedül
BOJLER ELADÓ
Ezert neztem vegig a videot hogy lesz-e benne magyar 😂
KoDan mennyi ért?!
Everyone gangster till the homie who knows Klingon shows up
I’d love it if someone strolled up and started speaking Dovah or something.
I have a feeling he knows a bit of Klingon
im very sure he doesnt speak quenya (LOTR high elves language)
Jack B LMAO
@sheldon cooper
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
Him: What language do you speak?
Me: *Makes up a language*
hungary
I should either try Klingon or High Valryan
@@bintangramadaniputra7705 legit options....
hahahaha
Bullshitese
Hint: People should communicate in sign language so they can get free money.
I speak swedish sign language, as it's not universal :)
I do NZSL and had the same thought - i'd be very surprised if he knew that one as well. All SL are not universal but I find them all very adaptable as they are very illustrative in nature. Ie: A tree is likely to be similar sign in ASL, Auslan, Swedish or NZL.
sebastian s how the cock do you manage to speak sign language
Nuka's Nook Ooh! I’m learning NZSL! At the moment I know emotions, alphabet, days of the week, months of the year, numbers and a couple other things. :)
Oh, sign language is spoken now... Does it sound like Latin?
I guess he also doesn't speak flags, binary, Morse.. Can't even dance his name.
"the goal is that I don't lose too much money" - waiting for the encounter with a chinese tourist bus. xD
liquidminds 5:45 actually it’s Cantonese lol
@@mrsamqi No... He said Javanese. Not Cantonese. Anyway, Each Chinese tourists bus usually speak one single language, coz they all come from the same provinces. But if u meet different group of Chinese tourists, good luck.
Angus Mills @@locacharliewong No, at 5:45, Wouter asked, in cantonese: "Are you speaking Cantonese?", only for the guy to reply Javanese
@@mrsamqi It's Javanese actually, and one of language in Indonesia...(and my native language, Lol)
That's why he replied using Indonesian....
@@TheMigider Im HKer... Yet, I didnt know what he says in Cantonese. LOL
This is why I love living in Europe! I speak 5 languages with a high degree of fluency (deeper conversations, large vocab) and maybe 5 or 6 more casually or for travelling. My best achievements have been speaking mandarin in Italy, French in Hungary, Turkish in England, Japanese in Turkey
The doulingo bird finally feels happy that someone is doing their Spanish lessons
BB-9E , spanish or vanish love
I really don't know the only one I actaly do do is Javanese
OMG thanks for all the likes that if the most I have ever gotten in my life
Wouter: If I don’t speak your language you get €5
Me: I’m about to end this mans whole career
Me: *speaks gibberish*
Owenrutgers05 gibberish is a real language, And it’s not that to learn as well
I can speak a little french a little spanish, i can speak very well portuguese english and italian.
nah nah im about to end his career wouter probably dont even know the language "Malay"
Maddie Bell ya. I know that. th-cam.com/video/0vM2r5WcU0M/w-d-xo.html
Hungarian*
Everybody gangsta until one person speaks Latin
isabeltjuuuh so do I but it’s not a international language
My time to shine
Sereena Blake ok boomer
Him be like:
Ahhhhhh dicis Latin?
Caecilius est in horto
Mastered the skill of speaking every language fucking awfully lol
I'm waiting for him to run into a Star Trek nerd that speaks Klingon.
Or the minecraft / warframe lang.
or an esperanto nigga lmao
kalel33 or LOTR elvish
You can learn Klingon and Esperanto on Duolingo.com
Now THATS funny right there. I don't care who you are.
5:00 "Where are you?"
"I'm here."
That's deep
underrated comment. Lmao
How is that deep
lmao
@@nawlins.s r/whooshhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I felt that
people complaining about his accent but can barely write a good essay in their mother language 🥱
edit: ok I got it you all are languages experts now if you are still going to argue make sure to call me Gostosa, it is a respectiful vocative on my language bye.
Ouch
@Luke Perret oh so how many languages do u speak??
@Alex Znas Well it was, but it clearly had a strong Dutch accent. And to be fair learning German for a Dutch person should be harder than vice-versa if English and some German dialects are also understood, though it's also not free for the taking for me to get fluent in Niederländisch.
When I was in the Netherlands even with broken English back in 2010, I still could understand most of what was written.
Though a banner saying "Steig huren?" (maybe it was "Steiger huren?") near the redlight district of Amsterdam definitely made my German mind think of something different than "Gerüst mieten?" or "Rent a scaffold?" in English. 🤣
Sometimes I read instruction manuals in Dutch and it just feels like some drunken mixture of German and English most of the time. This is not meant as an offence, it's just the truth. Intelligibility is similar with Afrikaans obviously (the British also had their say in colonization, you know).
his Russian accent is pretty funny too. Like you can barely tell he's talking Russian
theres 666 likes... no one fuck it up
Girl: speaks hungarian
This guy: immediately gives her 5€
"I'll give you 5 dollars if i can't speak your language"
Me: Hold my ракија и ћевапи са црни лук
Что за язык?
@@vladoshka9014 сербский.
Lol bra’o
Hahaha
Better hold my գարեջուր i am coming
Him: speaks 12 language
Doulingo owl: aight imma head out
Someone: What language do you speak?
Wouter: Yes
I wonder if he knows Romanian, if he knows Ukrainian and Russian I might've hit one of the few languages in Europe which he might not know
Exactly
@@clashthegamer4873 try more upscure ones like low German. But he can speak Dutch and English so he probably could speak low German OK.
Except Hungarian because baszodj meg, that's why.
Whos wouter?
Imagine speaking Dothraki and Valerian to him and he responds fluently 😂
This was probably just his way of figuring out which languages he *hasn't* learned yet.
We can expect a '€10 for each language I don't know' if he ever does it again. It's more difficult for us to win and beneficial since he's practicing
He could've just use Google
@@MagicMason1000 lmaoo, apparently there was this guy that learned languages by messaging the native speakers and using their responses with other speakers. Basically had two strangers conversing without them knowing
@@sta5348 I wonder wonder how well he'd do with Swiss German dialects. Germans usually can barely understand it, if at all. Sure he speaks Dutch, that might help a little bit. But the overall structure of the dialects is different from standard German. In addition to that per dialect it's usually about 500'000 ppl, it's not used in any other way than in everyday life.
Employer: "So, how many languages do you speak?"
Him: "Yes."
Really how is this funny
@@perswainryder2845 omg. it's funny bc he speaks them all....almost.
@@perswainryder2845 it's hilarious.
@@LepszyNizWczoraj Agreed. Funny!!!
Employer: I'm sorry, but for our junior position we require at least 100 languages, 50 of them must be of lost ancient civilizations.
We’re afraid of the Duolingo owl
And the Duolingo owl is afraid of him
Duolingo Owl:
I fear no man...
But *that* thing....
I T S C A R E S M E.
He is duo's sleep paralysis demon
Wouter, the only guy who is even capable of speaking binary with computers...😱
„Where are you“
„I‘m here“
The best conversation you can have with a person standing in front of you
😅
I'm quite sure he was trying to say "where are you from" but he just couldn't say it properly
@
Nope, he just memorized some phrases lol
@@emilstorgaard9642 as he said, he only knows a bit of thai. He didn't even bother on changing the subtitles when he said "where are you? So the thai guy wouldn't look bad replying with "I'm here". Memorizing phrases of 50+ languages, I can't even think of another person doing that just for a video. He even spoke my language very well, I don't think memorizing phrases can lead to someone speaking your language very well.
INAZUMA ELEVEN!
Anyone: What language do you speak?
Him: Yes.
No. That's just girls in general. That's why you taught of it 😅
Well I can speak 5 languages
American
British
Australian
English
Canadian
@@grzmotgaminglover6894 what is english english?
yes say no more 😅
PillowMaster New Zealand too ?)
This guy: I bet you five euros I speak your language.
Me: *Furious hand movements*
He speaks Italian...
Kermos the Mad Frog nobody ever seems to account for the SLs huh?
*Naruto theme song in the background*
@@nautifella this reply its even BETTER than the comment!! Nice!
as soon as i saw this video i was like “i bet i could beat him with my asl naruto skills”
5:43 the man said "sopo jenengmu", and the meaning is " what's your name". It's Javanese language, one of many languages in Indonesia.