Polyglot Popes: What languages does the Pope speak?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2015
- What languages does the Pope speak? The Pope is known as the religious leader of the Catholic Church, but he is also an accomplished polyglot who can speak multiple languages. In this video I discuss Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope John Paul II and assess their polyglot skills!
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Pope John Paul II gave a full sermon in the indigenous tongue Quechua while visiting Perú. He spoke Creole in the Caribbean islands. He studied it before visiting. In the Philippines, he spoke Tagalog very clearly. He had the gift of tongues.
Come on, his French was just OK and he struggled with English.
He was very dedicated but he didn't have a knack for languages.
Benedict XVI was more legit.
Because when Benedict XVI visited Poland last 2006 he speak Polish to Polish pilgrims because his predecessor John Paul II teach him a Polish Language while he serve under him as Doctrine of the Faith
God Created us, we sinned (lying, stealing, adultery, and hate) and deserve hell because God punishes sin. But God, in his love sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and whoever turns from sin and believes in Jesus will not perish but have life after death.
@@Big-guy1981agree, his English was poor
Pope John Paul II also was fluent in Esperanto having learned it as a child in Poland and had given some masses in it.
+William Barker Is that right? Interesting. I didn`t know that was one of his fluent languages.
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_e_Chiesa_cattolica
My great uncle was the president of the Esperanto association for my country, he was really invested in that language, even naming his restaurant 'Espero'.
Miss him greatly.
ESPERANTO IS NOT A LANGUAGE STUPID. HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA
Joseph Mccracken Esperanto is a language. Where are you getting your information from?
John Paul II was very popular in the Netherlands because he would always thank the Dutch for their flowers at Easter. (Bedankt voor de bloemen)
Efje K. There are Catholics in the Netherlands?
About 1/4 of the population of the Netherlands is catholic, especially in the south of the country.
Vielen Dank für die Blumen... vielen dank wie lieb von dir !
Ik vil dik fikken froulein
@@roastedturkey2484 also we speak dutch in belgium too and we're a catholic country
Pope John Paul II inspired me as a American teenager. Having learned Latin, I also speak Italian, French, Portuguese and Spanish, but also studied German and New Testament Greek. The Catholic Church brings peoples together from all languages!
Tim Svea
latin?
cool
Good job Tim, I am Brazilian and I know that portuguese it is quite hard compared to other latin languages
Greetings from Indonesia brother 🇮🇩✝️
Tim Svea
Which of those can you speak fluently
in india priests have to be polyglots
So glad i found your channel
+SneakyScout What a great comment! Thanks! I`m glad you found it too. :)
*I'm
for 1 day i could correct him
God Created us, we sinned (lying, stealing, adultery, and hate) and deserve hell because God punishes sin. But God, in his love sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and whoever turns from sin and believes in Jesus will not perish but have life after death.@@Langfocus
God Created us, we sinned (lying, stealing, adultery, and hate) and deserve hell because God punishes sin. But God, in his love sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and whoever turns from sin and believes in Jesus will not perish but have life after death.@@fuccfeld778
Greetings from Poland. Very interesting channel. I like it very much.
ja dzisiaj trafiłam na ten kanał :D
Polacy łączmy się :D
Jestem z Brazylii, ale mam polskiego pochodzenia i lubię ten kanał też :)
Dobre określenie, łączmy się :]
Jest tutaj na pewno trochę rodaków, widać po awatarach lub nazwach użytkownikach. Niestety niektóre ich komentarze są nadzwyczaj bzdurne.
That short English in Seoul is so hilarious lol
+박정준 ARE YOU READY?
Why? Was it the accent?
+max hogan Situational irony of pope behaving so casually
박정준 Ah, I see
Sos un coreano envidioso, cuantas copas tenes? :v
From the start, I know that it would be John Paul II who would top this list. Everytime JPII spoke Tagalog, it gives us chills. For many Catholic Filipinos, it was like God was speaking to us through him in our language . I am now actually crying while writing this. This man is very dear to the hears of the Filipinos.
Of course, Francis is also beloved by Filipinos. So much that the largest attendance in a Catholic mass happened in our islands.
But he's currently in hell tho for being a catholic so there's that
@@Ricky_Evans1611 Shut islamic
Based!
John Paul II was brilliant, when visited my country, Guatemala, he talked in Quiché which is a Mayan descendant language. Very impressive guy!
God Created us, we sinned (lying, stealing, adultery, and hate) and deserve hell because God punishes sin. But God, in his love sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and whoever turns from sin and believes in Jesus will not perish but have life after death.
I don't blame the pope. I'm Irish and when I'm playing online games the Germans and french that speak English as a second language never understand me ;(
Dosh lol
cant say i blame them lol. it can be hard to distinguish the harsh accents from the UK
patrick gorski Ireland isn’t in the U.K. 😊🇮🇪
LOL, much why I've largely dropped my Cork accent :p
@Im wearing tights that I borrowed from your mum. I see that, and raise you French pepple when they speak Spanish!
do polyglot presidents or something like that.
BarbikaPahor I feel that he should just do polyglots in general and make a series out of it. I feel that something like that is far too specific.
My country's noble hero is a polyglot.
@Biracial Boy Well.... that's mostly true, although Herbert Hoover (to whom the Great Depression is unjustly attributed) had a good working knowledge of Mandarin, having lived in China. He also translated a number of Latin manuscripts (on the topic of mining) into English.
Presidents of where?
@@vulpes7079 of the world
1:48 Pope: "Arrrrrree yourrr rrrredyrrr" LOL
Best pronunciation I have Heard lol
Arrr yu rrredi tu sei ies?
I am not totally catholic (But still Christian, and Arabic speaker) .. And I love all of those who appeared in this video.. Specially the current pope Francis.
+friattmoooo It`s good to appreciate people`s good points, even if you have some different beliefs.
+TheBro An Arab Christian? I thought the Arabs slaughtered all the Christians of the Middle East more than 1000 years ago and crusaders went in to save the last remaining ones but failed also. Are you real?
+Anthony Juárez u regressed even more lol
+Anthony Juárez you exchanged one regressive religious system for an even worse set of religious ideas. Being that stupid is nothing to shout about! It's not progress in any objective sense, even if you've convinced yourself otherwise.
***** You're being presumptive. I know about Islam full well. The theological assertions it makes and supports are nonsense and without basis. If you use it in a liberal way to guide your life then that's one thing, any religion can do that. But you choose to convert so this indicates you've actually took the structural elements of the religion seriously. I do not. I don't believe in any revealed religion. There's no basis for it, especially the claims made about the Quran. Try and get a group of scholars to admit this was a totally human creation (they may think it but won't publicly say it) and that aspects of it aren't literal history. There's no length of time sitting in a mosque that can resolve that.
John Paul II also knew a lot of Polish dialects, like Mountianeer Polish, Silesian and Kashub which a lot of even Polish people have a hard time understanding...
Kashubian is a separate West Slavic language, not a dialect of Polish.
Silesia was part of Germany during his childhood and became Poland at the end of WWII and he learn’s Silesian after Silesia became Poland in 1945
@@DemanaJaire Donald Tusk a Polish Prime Minister has Kashubian roots
@@vernicejillmagsino9603 That doesn’t make Kashubian a dialect of Polish.
Hi! Nice video!
I'm from Argentina and the Pope is very famous here. He doesn't speak Portuguese, he said literally "I don't speak Brazilian" when he went to Brazil, and went on speaking just Spanish
I met JP2 a couple of times, once in Az where he said mass with Native people's of the west. He had an uncanny facility with languages.
You should do a vid on Christian Liturgical languages. That'd be so cool I mean, many of them are dead language, and are kept alive by their liturgical traditions to the point where clergy from different countries use their respective liturgical language as a lingua franca (Syriac for example). Or how Egyptian is still breathing thanks to the Coptic Christians, and so on.
still breathing because of copts?lmao
***** i am very interested in this topic. Do you think the Copts haven't preserved the language. I mean in their liturgy at least. I know they do not speak it at home. What I meant to say is that at least it remains somewhat alive.
by Egiptian you mean, not arab, but the old language of the Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Revert Revertz Egypt has been the hub of Arab civilization for the last 14 centuries.The millions of the copts in Egypt today speak a form of Arabic widely spoken in the middleast called Egyptian Arabic. They even consider Arabic as their native language now.No one forced them to speak Arabic and they still live in Egypt in the millions which is a reflection of the Islamic tolerance. i think they use the Coptic language in a ceremonial way like in religious gatherings and studies.
Yes that very language. Egyptian, like Greek, has evolved quite a bit since then. But the Egyptian language they use now is call coptic. They adapted the Greek alphabet for that. The understanding of the Hieroglyphs were lost, until Chameleon found the Rossetta. The stone had hieroglyphs, egyptian alphabet, with a Greek translation. From there, they were able to reconstruct the ancient language. It was written in very similar way Chinese is written now a days. A symbol for a word, or for a sound. Logographs is what this writing system is called.
Do a video about the Greek language
I'm not catholic but love Pope Francis! He seems to be such a loving person.
About his portuguese though, I'm brazilian, and he cannot speak fluent portuguese. He has some knowledge of the language, and we would say he speaks "portunhol" (português + espanhol).
I've found this interview (th-cam.com/video/wek6ZrGKwbU/w-d-xo.html) made in Brazil, where he's being interviewed in Portuguese but feels more comfortable answering in Spanish.
Great report, but my understanding is that Pope Francis also speaks Piedmontese, which is an Italian dialect of north-western Italy, considered by linguists to be a separate language from Italian. This was the original language of his grandparents and is still spoken by some people in the Piedmont region of Italy.
I've heard John Paul II was also Esperantist. Is that true?
He did give a few speeches in Esperanto.
Well he's polish.
Pablo de la Torre Gálvez He was polish god damn it 😒
John Paul II not only studied Esperanto, but also gave support to the use of this language in Vatican press and to Evangelize. But I never heard about him being an active esperantist, and I don't know if he wrote anything in the language of Zamenhof. Still Radio Vatican has a News section in Esperanto and according to their web page there are programs broadcasted in esperanto.
Yury Jakymec After all, it was a pole who created Esperanto.
I read an article about Pope John Paul II that he used to wake up and had to make up his mind what language he would be speaking primarily for the day.
That’s really cool!
St. John Paul II spoke Indonesian 🇮🇩 when he visited my country and East Timor 😇🙏
shat da fak up u gae
East Timorese people don’t speak Javanese (Indonesia colonized East Timor during 1970s-2000s independence in 2002) they speak Tetum and Portuguese
Are you rrrrrready? Pope francois is such a cute man :)
Dave Long Catholic church is lately promoting ecumenism which means making a common Christian identity and cooperation. John Paul was an important figure of it, he had many meetings with both Protestant and Orthodox priests. Catholics are also viewing Jews as "older brothers in faith" and I think everybody knows that Jesus was a Jew.
it's like our Arabic accent
😂😂🤣🤣🤣
@@bezwzglednypierozek7884 A Jew? Jesus was Polish.
(legit statement I have overheard)
@Iryno *Francesco, the meme is italian
I am not a Catholic, but Pope John II seems to be one of most kind of all popes.
One time John Paul was assassinated and ofcourse he didnt die.After the recovery he went back to jail and forgave his assassinator.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II_assassination_attempt
+Fafan By definition, if somebody is assassinated, they died. He had an assassination attempt
I'm glad to see such a level of tolerancy ( unfortunately really rare today)
Pope John II lived in the 6th century. And Pope John Paul (I) died within a few weeks after his inthronisation. We are speaking about John Paul II here, right?
@@baldimorgornest8872 I read a summary of his life on Wikipedia. He also apparently went to African countries to discuss religion with religious leaders of native faiths in a polite and respectful manner and also mended damage between Catholics and Islam.
He seems really cool. As a catholic myself, I support the equality of all faiths (and those who lack a faith).
Pope Francis also speaks Piedmontese fluently along with Italian. Even though in Italy it's still considered a dialect and not a distinct language, but still!
Probably, here in Argentina there are a lot of italian descendants, especially from Piedmont. My father's grandparents were from there. My father's hometown used to have some piedmontese speakers, but there aren't many left.
***** Sí.
+Walter Olivero Christiansen My curiosity: I've never seen Argentinians with ancestors from Rome (I checked a long list of italian american actors, none had great-granfathers from Rome). Romans hadn't the habit to emigrate? :-(
+Braschi Giovanni Angelo I've never came across any argentinian with roman ancestry. In the region I am from they're mostly from Piedmont. Although Mauricio Macri, our current president is son of a roman immigrant, but that's the only one I've known. I'm sure there has to be more, I just haven't seen many. Probably because most of the immigrants were people who came from more rural areas, I know my great grandparents worked the land in Italy, when they came here they got a piece of land and they did that until my father sold it. That seems to be the common story among italian descendants in the region I am from.
Walter Olivero Christiansen i found out the statistics:
Naples area 1,105,802 (27.4%)
Abruzzi and Molise 652,972 (16.2%)
Apulia 300,152 (7.4%)
Basilicata 232,389 (5.8%)
Calabria 522,422 (13.0%)
Sicily 1,205,788 (29.9%)
Sardinia 14,669 (0,4%)
I was right... Rome didn't give a relevant percentage to italians' emigration; by the way Macrì is a Calabrese name!
Hi, Paul. I really enjoy your channel. So much great information you made available to the TH-cam community. Thank you for that.
Regarding your video about Popes, I'd like you to notice one more language Pope John Paul II was able to speak: Romanian! I don't know if he could actually speak it conversationally, but back in 1999 he was able to give a long speech in my language, speech that everybody in Romania was able to understand word for word. Pretty accurate pronunciation too, with little (if any) foreign accent. Impressive feat, especially for a 79 years old person! It was a truly inspirational experience for me and many of my fellow Romanians.
Omg I am very proud of your channel! wish me luck with my polyglot journey : I speak portuguese spanish and english(not so fluent) but I am learning italian so wish me luck and god bless you and happy new year :3
Good luck, Desu! And Happy New Year!
Gained some new respect for Popes.
Yeah, I'm not a Catholic but I respect their skills and their drive.
I absolutely loved this episode and thank you for sharing this unique information. Love the popes too.
I was just wondering this yesterday! Thanks for making the video so quick for me! Lol.
+xLoloz Yeah, I read your mind! :)
Bless you brother. I found your channel accidentally. As a polyglot myself I really appreciate your efforts.
Which languages do you speak?
I am originally Hungarian, so my mother tongue is Hungarian. Apart from that I speak English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and German (from left/near native to right/basic). The plan is to bring them to near native (Spanish, French, Italian) and intermediate (Portuguese and German) levels respectively. After this my plans are: Tagalog, Russian, Croatian (until I reach intermediate level respectively). I also have 1 "tougher" language like Arabic or Korean on my bucket list. Of course this all will take a long time but I love languages, so I don't mind. How about yourself? Do you also learn a language/languages? I wish you all the best.
Well, i am brazilian so of course i know Portuguese, and english to some extent. I am currently working on Norwegian and then i think i will try German or French. Abraços, tudo de bom.
Parace razoável. Sounds like a good plan.:) Norwegian. Hm. Interesting choice (like my Croatian). I like when people chose some less popular/known languages. They also deserve to be learnt. Obrigado por tudo e tudo de bom também. Adeus!
@@canisjay har dere lære bokmål nå?
actually, pope Francis learned piemonteis from his parents which is an italian dialect, not italian. but i think he learned italian later when at the seminar.
Piedmonteis is a language not an Italian dialect
he spoke Italian in Argentina, which incidentally has the highest % of Italian speakers in South America
Fantastic! Man, you are a super start! keep it up Bro!! please go forward, in fact, backward, I'd love to see your analysis on Paul VI,, Pious XII and so on. What a great researcher you are. Thanks!!!!!!!
Paul, hats off to your channel. Keep up the good work.
John Paul II he was a man with principles, values, courage, a fighter for justice, he was a saint ... and he was also a genious who could really speak many languages
The way he said "ready" reminded me of that Monty Python scene with the bad dictionary.
Always wanted to know this! (BTW, amazing tunage in the background)
This was such a good, thorough in-depth answer to my idle question...thank you! So unexpected!!
Haha, I’m known for going deep into whatever topic I cover. I hope you check out some of my other videos too. 🙂
Man I have to say it again YOU ARE NATURALLY HILARIOUS
I've know a good number of catholic priests who spoke several languages. There are a number of reasons for that being the case. And, hey Latin is a very useful language to know, especially if you ever meet a 2,000 year old Italian!
Great video! Interesting to the bone and good sense of humor, what else could I ask for.
I don't know why, but I love the way you speak! Keep on doing wonderful videos!
Thanks, Hollande! I'm glad you like my speaking. I will definitely keep on making videos.
Great topic, Paul! I always admired the popes for that, especially by Latin. I hope one day I can study hard the Latin. I'm a native Portuguese speaker. It should not too complicated to learn it. Besides, It can still help me to improve my Italian and my French.
+Raphael Soares Hi Raphael. Thanks! I`m glad you like the topic.
Latin is interesting. I`ve learned French for a while, and when I look at Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese I see a lot of words I understand from French (and English). But when I look at Latin I don`t easily find familiar words, I have to look closely at individual words and think about whether they`re related to words I know. With modern Romance languages, I spot a lot of familiar words automatically.
Yes, I agree with you. Of course Latin is a dead language, but it is alive in other languages. I believe it still worth it. Thank you for the book recommendation.
Thank you!
You didn't list German as one of Pope John Paul II"s languages at the beginning, but you did at the end.
Wow that is impressive! All he'll need to know would be Latin and Italian, and his native tongue, to know all those languages is simply impressive and an inspiration!
Thanks for informing me on this Paul
keep working like this, i liked this video :D greetings!
Thanks, Gerardo! I'll definitely keep making videos!
so John Paul II wasn't just a wonderful person and a great leader? he was also a genious? no doubt why he's respected even between non-catholics
He's in hell right now for promoting deception and idolatry.
Here we go again with the pentecostalist hatred....
I'm not a Pentecostalist. Those are also heretics. Jesus has no denominations. Few go to heaven. Most go to hell. Jesus said many will call him Lord, but he will tell them to get lost.
BARBATUS 89 Are your arguments based on the Bible alone?
God says to test all things and keep what is good, so I can use anything that is good.
Noting that every pope seems to be multilingual, I have wondered whether the College of Cardinals takes that ability into account when selecting the next pope.
Yeah, I imagine it must be a factor. Because popes are expected to speak to Catholic audiences around the world, and speaking in their local language is a way to connect with them.
+Bud Savoie I do think so up to a point. Some American Catholics were expecting Cardinal Dolan (from NY) to be a good candidate. Outside the US though, he wasn't taken too seriously. I like the good Cardinal, but he is a bit too American I guess (nothing wrong with that) but also I think he isn't too fluente in other languages besides English, and maybe some Italian. I do not think he is too God at Spanish (which is a big language group of interest for the Church).
it is likely a consideration now, at least after John Paul I.
Ah! We can all dream, right? Love the video and love your channel. More please!
+sniff rat Thanks! I plan on making videos regularly, normally every week (though I uploaded this one late because I started back at work for the new semester last week).
I'm also glad I found your Chanle in want to learn Esperanto just because
pe Jean Paul II was the coolest pope ever!
no aramaic (Syriac)?
Are you planning to prepare an episode about the similarity of Polish language to Russian?
I'm from Poland . I'd love to see it ! Greetings!
Really a nice video!
Paul, Im just wondering, where are you from exactly? Because it seems like you might come from the states but your pronunciation/accent makes me think otherwise.
Vancouver, Canada.
ok just wondering because the way you pronounce your words sounds a but off, like with how you pronounce the hard T and your vowels as well
Cool video. I'm glad you've appreciated our polish Pope. Unfortunately he's being persecuted in our native parts of the Internet by the young generation. Nice to hear something nice about him, finally lol
He's not "persecuted" per se, as it is only the mindless personality cult Poles have over him that is being mocked. Doesn't help that the Polish Catholic Church acquired very bad reputation amongst young Poles in the last few years.
He was loved in my country
Why are they persecuting him? My homeland Croatia was close to his heart as well and he knew some Croatian.
@Товарищ LighTZY I understand now. How many believers are there among Polish young people? I admire Woytila so very much because he also admired my people Croats so very much and was a truly saintly man in general.
@Товарищ LighTZY Your theory sounds reasonable. I agree. Also the political left in Croatia is pro-communist, pro-Yugoslav and atheist.
Gracias Paul, por este video tan interesante, sigue asi.
I love how the background music changed when you began that little roast of Ireland but then it changed back afterwards xD
I feel like a special snowflake now because I'm from Poland, hahaha.
pope john paul studied japanese.. for his waifus
masaka!! papa waifu ga nai, baka
+jay fawn nice rōmaji, where are you from?
+jay fawn ha ha ha, this is very funny. However, "waifu" is a living thing, therefore the verb should be "inai" instead of "nai". Instead of waifu, I would rather say okusan. Papa is roumahouou. Therefore: roumahouhou wa okusan ga inai n desu yo! ローマ法王は奥さんがいないんですよ！
奥さんじゃなくて、ワイフって言われるよ！それに人々のワイフはたいてい架空なんで生き物じゃないので、在るという言葉はつかってもいいんだと思ってます。
jay fawn I understood what you said: It can't be! The pope doesn't have a waifu. I learnd some Japanese just by watching anime, isn't that awesome? For one year you watch anime in your free time, and then you can understand simple phrases in Japanese?
also happy finding this chanel , super !!!!
Great job Paul. How about extending this topic to cover other well known people and celebrities: I've heard Charo is multilingual.
@langfocus is there any episode for italian? i did search but seems there is no italian or it's just me who cant find it???
+Maniwald Not yet. I'll do one sometime, but I want to improve my Italian first before I make that one.
oh ok, i wanted to know how this Italian language created? it was from etroscan or it was vulgar latin or is the same? appreciate if u let us know how old italian ppl spoken.. regards.
It's essentially the Florentinian language, which comes from Latin.
There are many Vulgar Latin descendants, perhaps a bit more diverse than English dialects of British Isles (excluding Celtic languages). Basically, they may be grouped as - 'Gallo-Italic' (Northern dialects other than Venezia), Venezian, Friulian, Central Italian, Southern (Neapolitan and Sicilian). Standard Italian is based on Florentine dialect, which in turn belongs to the Tuscan group of Central Italian. It belongs to same Central Italian group with Rome dialect, but not too close (Rome and Tuscany is far from each other).
Given that Italy itself wasn't unified until 1861, I find it interesting that the language ended up with that name instead of, say, Florentine or just Roman.
Thank you Leonardo Dicaprio.
Can you do a video about the Greek language? I'd be so grateful. btw great channel
It is extremely touching though to hear accounts, not only as his part-countryman, of how deeply JP2 speaking to the faithful in their mother tongues while he traveled impacted them, and how they cherish these memories to this day and how much this pope meant to them because of it. I've heard such stories from friends from a few different countries and you can find similar accounts in this comments section.
Personally, I think that the Coptic language would make for an interesting video.
there's such a thing?
Yes, it's a language previously spoken in Egypt from the 2 or 3rd century up to the 16th century. It was mainly the ancient Egyptian language but written in the Greek script. Now it is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and is spoken by around 200,000 people worldwide.
***** I expected it to be spoken by the copts alright. Would it be spoken in ethiopia then and Egypt?
In my experience, I have known deacons, priests, and bishops who speak the language fluently. However, it's a well known fact that the Coptic pope (and the ones prior) can speak it very well. Personally, I would learn the language for my heritage but it would be nice to see a full scale revival of the language.
Yes!!! I have an Egyptian Christian friend whose Coptic! I'd like to show him the video!
I wish I had the brain of Dr. Jose Rizal who in his 30's could already speak fluently in 20+ languages that include Spanish, Portuguese, English, Latin, French, German, Italian, Mandarine, Japanese, Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, etcetera.
Rizal is not fluent on those languages. He can speak it but not fluently
Pretty sure not all languages were fluent. Conversational maybe, but as with most national heros we place them on a pedestal and mythicize their accomplishments a bit hyperbolically.
Mandarin and Japanese maybe not very fluent. But for the European languages I believe he wouldn't have any problem with being fluent because once you know latin, the other languages would be easier to master. And since he knew german, latin and french, so English isn't that very hard for him to master too. I believe he used English when he was in Hongkong because Mandarin would be hard to learn even for a genius like him. But he knew Chinese phrases for sure since he worked as a doctor there.
For Japanese though, how could he court a lady there if he couldn't speak Nihongo? Unless that lady is multilingual too. So I think he could really speak Japanese. If some Pinoys kids nowadays can learn Japanese through anime, I believe the caliber of Jose Rizal can learn it too.
I wish Jose Rizal speak Czech fluently as he learns from his Czech friend Ferdinand Blumentritt and English (English has influence in the Philippines since American occupation in 1898 just 2 years after Rizal died in 1896
correction: ex-Pope Benedict XVI is fluent in portuguese too. When he came to brazil he spoke portuguese with few acent and people found it amazing
I was actually wondering about this just the other day.
3:00 Hebrew is spoken in Israel.
Yeah, but the popes don't learn the speaking hebrew of daily life in Israel
Wow youre famous. However, Paul knows that Hebrew is spoken in Israel, but he was speaking about classical Hebrew not modern Hebrew
I'm Polish to 😊
It's kinda written into the job description. The Cardinals (who make the decision on who the next pope will be) come from all over the world, and of course they tend to favor a man who speaks a language they understand. So the most polyglot candidate automatically has a leg up on the others. It's just one consideration, of course, but it's pretty important.
Hello! I'm native spanish speaker and I can understand much better your speaking. Where are u from? USA? Sometimes I can't understand english speakers from Australia or others American States such as Texas.. I like this channel. Saludos desde San Salvador, El Salvador. Muy buen canal 👊🇸🇻🇸🇻
make a similar video about Orthodox patriarchs :D
That would be great :D
The Orthodox Patriarchs probably speak the language of their Church, such as Greek and Turkish for the Church of Constantinople, Russian for the Russian Church, Greek for the Greek Church, Arabic for the Antioch Church, Hebrew and Arabic for the Church of Jerusalem, etc.
The patriarchs in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are usually fluent in 4 languages: Arabic, Aramaic/Syriac, French and English.
Heck yeah! I found the fellow Orthodox in the comments section.
MSTVD Rev. 7:9
@@thefremddingeguy6058and some of them learn English
The current pope was soooooo cute as he spoke in English! xD
I love this channel!!!🌸😇
Whoa, sometimes I wonder how these popes acquired so many languages even before the later additional ones.
I live in Malaysia, a multilingual country, and I'm sometimes amazed by priests who can speak like three of four languages, also a usefulness to compensate for the shortage of priests, I guess.
But yeah, popes definitely have a heavier duty and to be a polyglot at the same time as theologian, teacher, pastor, that's really a feat.
Benedict XVI has been learning Polish. He can speak at least at basic level
He learns Polish from his predecessor John paul II who was his mentor, boss, and close friend
I'm Muslim but I must admit that they're really inspired me 💜 !!
I really love your videos
You should do a video about Polyglot Royals. Many Royals are polyglots. For example, Queen Silvia of Sweden speaks German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish, Queen Margrethe of Denmark speaks Danish, Faroese, Swedish, English, French and German and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg speaks French, Dutch, German, English, Russian and Luxembourgish.
Luxembourgish is German.
Pope John Paul's mother tongue is verrrry difficult to learn for a non-Slavic like me. I am Austronesian/ Malayo-Polynesian language speaker from The Philippines and I love Pope John Paul.
Well, I am Greek and I would say that Koine Greek is mostly intelligible by speakers of modern Greek. It is the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox Church and I suppose the vast majority of people can quite easily understand what is being said. Of course it is helpful to have some education is classical Greek, especially regarding some obsolete inflections or grammatical structures, but Koine Greek and modern Greek is basically the same language. I find this very remarkable for a span of more than 2000 years.
As far as classical Greek is concerned, I would say that in order for a modern Greek speaker to understand it, serious effort is needed. The word roots are more or less the same, even for Homeric poems written around 800 BCE, and you can easily get the general meaning without any special education. But of course a translation is needed in order to understand the details, especially for texts before 400-500 BCE. It is though more complicated because ancient Greek had many dialects and different kinds of literary works were written in different dialects. For example, ancient Greek tragedies used the Attic dialect (on which Koine and modern Greek are based) for the spoken parts and the Dorian one for the vocals.
From what I understand based on my experience with ancient Greek texts from school, most texts after around 300 BCE when Koine Greek started to emerge, are quite easily understandable by speakers of modern Greek with some minor effort. But earlier texts, especially in dialects other than Attic and its closely related Ionic, are becoming more and more difficult to understand without a translation. For example Plato's works (ca. 400 BCE) are not easily understood without major effort and a translation would be needed in order to understand the details. The more education one has in the modern Greek language, the easier it gets to understand ancient texts. As I mentioned previously though, it is quite easy to understand the context and get the general idea even for works 2500 years old!
Congratulations for your channel and please consider doing a video about the Greek language and its continuous history of more than 3500 years (first written records in linear B script around 1400 BCE). Maybe you could also mention its use as a lingua franca during the hellenistic period and after that as an official language of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire). It has also heavily influenced other European languages, while some of the most important literary works of Western culture have been written in Greek!
Great video as always :)
+Vishu Vicenta Thanks Vishu! I`m glad you like the videos! :D
+Langfocus I really enjoy your videos. You're an inspiration :) Can I know what resources you used when studying Bahasa Indonesia? Thanks :)
Vishu Vicenta I used a couple things. One was Bahasa Indonesia by Yohanni Jones (book one and two). It`s a great book but a little out of date and I couldn`t find the audio files. Another was Teach Yourself Indonesian, which was pretty good and had some audio content. And the thing I used the most was the Lonely Planet Indonesian phrasebook, which I used as a textbook of casual speech and studied grammar and sentence structure with it (I didn`t just read the phrases).
That was a long time ago, before the internet was so developed. Now I would definitely take some lessons through Skype, and watch to a lot of youtube in Indonesian, and probably start with a Pimsleur course. And I would probably still use the Yohanni book and the Lonely Planet phrasebook.
Thanks a lot bro for that detailed info. I'll try to get the book and go from there. I'm half way through Pimsleur Indonesian I. It's pretty decent so far.
Don't forget it, his family was not only used to speak Italian but also Piedmontese, cause they migrated to Argentina from Piedmont region in Northern Italy.
Wow i though that actually pope knew more languages hahaha
+Jose Vergara They probably learn a little of the language of every country they visit, just to touch base with the people.
Poland of relevant!
As far as I know Pope John Paul II graduated in Polish language and literature before entering seminary. So languages were his profession in a sense.
interesting video, thanks a lot.
I am not Catholic, but this is an interesting video on Polyglots with various languages. All the languages that Pope John II spoke was impressive and it is important to be able to communicate well to the masses. However, the ultimate language for anyone who has the power to help others should be the LOVE that comes from God. Pope Francis who is a "success-minded, driven, accomplished" person is motivated by LOVE for the poor, elderly, and children. Not everyone in our World who has a high I.Q. for languages or anything else is motivated by Love.
I was not saying whether the other Popes did or did not have love. Pope John Paul II did advise a Family who wanted to convert a Jewish child to Catholicism whose parents died in the Holocaust that they were caring for, but Pope John Paul II advised them to respect the Jewish parents wishes and send the child to American to live with his other relatives. As for having or not having love, no matter if the person is Pope, a Minister, a Rabbi, or any other Authority figure, in my opinion we should always have the right to give our opinions of whether we believe they have love or not. Remember all Authorities are just people like us and they not God.
+Wanting One Angel I apologize for commenting twice, but I meant to say at the end Remember all Authorities are people like us and they are not God.
SPQR+I was just trying to make a grammatical correction. If you read what I wrote, I said that no matter if that person is a Minister, Rabbi, or Pope or ANY Authority figure in my opinion we should always have the right to give our opinions. It is nothing against Catholic People. Some people in general can make ANY Authority figure a "god", no matter who that person is. Even though I am personally not Catholic, I do like both Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis because they both had good in them. Pope John Paul said, "Capitalism can not exist without a Conscience" and Pope Francis cares about the Poor. Like a Man from Brazil said, "The problem is that there are just not enough good people in the world". It is not about being Protestant or Catholic or any Religion, but it is all about learning how to love one another. For me, Christianity is just a road map to my Conscience.
Pope Frances' English is adorable!
Is there a list of those 57 languages or a video with all of them in it? I'd love to see it. :)
Paul, your vídeos are insteresting, I have an obssesive interest about languages and ethnology, a topic you could treat in a video is le relationship between ethnic groups and languages, you can explain the meaning of gruop or clusters of nations and tribes (like semites, slavs, turkish, bantus or australian aborigens), a nation (like germans, yorubas or sinhaleses) and tribe (like papuans tribes) from an ethnic point of view. Or fractión or part of a nation like the example of the majority of austrians and alssacians as part of Germán nation or the tribes of the zulu nation. All this connect with the languages and dialects, you can explain when a language is spoken by only an ethnic group or is spoken by many ethnic groups. And the concepto of lingua franca or contact's language. It's a suggest. Greetings and good luck.Pd: forgive my orthografy, english isn't my native language.
Well, yeah, English phonology is a bitch, being different from every other language (especially the vowels).
+ghenulo That's what happens when you mash five languages from three different group's into one language a thousand years ago, and then let it evolve over time.
It's so stupid, I swear. I feel bad for people that try to learn it by using rules, etc.
+PaperBrain what are those? Old English (also called Saxon), some kind of Scandinavian language, Norman French, and.what are the other two?
+Alexjandro Gonzales Gomez German, French, Latin, Dutch, and native British languages.
Learning English in Ireland is like going to China to learn French.
It's really no worse than going to the UK, outside of the South of England.
Paul, I liked your spoken Hebrew. Sent your Hebrew YT post to few of my Hebrew speaking friends, and they liked it too.
Interesting as always! And could you tell what music this is please?
May i point something out?
Use the correct apostrophy... ' not `
May I point something out? Use the correct spelling of apostrophe.
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apostrophe*
not apostrophy