@@Matthew-fj6eu My first language is German, my second is English, I'm currently learning French. I'm keeping it European so far. It's easier to learn languages that are related.
I was lucky enough to meet him in person when we visited Brussels with my university department, in October of 2019. A wonderful person, I had a brief discussion with him about dead languages (Latin, Anglo-Saxon etc.)
I noticed he spoke very slowly in Chinese, as I'm sure he wanted to get the tones correct. The hard part about Mandarin is not the learning, but speaking to peoples from all over China who speak mandarin with different accents and intonations.
Funny how everyone starts to say how one of his languages is kind of bad. His "..." was pretty bad, he didn't pronounce "..." properly. Like stfu, he speaks 32 languages, does he have to be 100% fluent in every one of them? Of the four languages I know, I understood everything he said, so I'd say that's already a good start. As long as people understand you, you speak the language. No need to be a poet to speak a language.
xd lasermonkey its normal that you dont speak it fluently but his dutch sounds like fucking arabic to me couldnt understand it not good，not great not fantastic really bad wasnt even dutch
Yeah, but maybe at least understandable to natives? If natives are finding it hard to understand his Dutch and Mandarin, then can he really speak them?
The difficulty of a foreign language is just a concept relative to our mother languages. For Japanese and Korean speakers, Mandarin is definitely not excessively complicated to learn at all. Being a Chinese speaker myself, I find European languages way harder than Asian ones.
Een trotse Nederlander People can argue both. A lot of English words have Latin roots, hence why it's easier for English speakers to learn French, Italian and Portuguese than most
The problem with learning so many languages is that you miss some small nuances and pronunciations that makes you noticeably different from the actual native speakers. Still impressive as fuck, though
Ayla Soares from what i've noticed greek and spainard spanish have pretty much the same sounds and have very similar accents, so it must be easier for him.
He's glad he has no schizophrenia. Do you see that angry German guy arguing with that Frenchman 😂 Mean while the shrink doesn't understand a word of Mandarin he is saying 😝
I think it depends on the topic he's thinking about. In my case (I'm german and learned french and english) it's like that: When I think, I often have conversations with an imaginary me or in most cases with other people in my head - and then it's usually the language I speak with those people.
Well I speak 5 languages and I think different depending on the language I speak. For instance thinking in German while speaking English is not really helpful and leads to vague sentences.
Jeff Lee sometimes when im talking in english, theres a word i forget or dont know, so my mind ends up thinking it in tagalog. its weird. like expressing ideas in another language is always so mch different in different languages
Most polyglots think in whatever language they're speaking at the time. When I'm around English speakers, I think in English; around French speakers, I think in French.
+Girl Online Well it depends on the language, my first language is Turkish and it's phonetic so if you can write a word you can pronounce it, or if you hear/pronounce a word you can write it. But most of the languages aren't like this, for example English. In English words can sound the same but can be written as different words. This will make the writing part harder to learn. Hope i knew more than these two languages :l
"If you speak to a person in a language they understand, it goes to their brain. If you speak to a person in their own language, it goes to their heart."
I don't think Chinese is the most complicated language. In my opinion, the difficulty of acquiring a language is relative. Mostly depending on what your mother tongue is....
It really depends on your current environment, personal variables and cultural background. Let's say you're Chinese, then Japanese and Korean will be relatively easier for me due to the "boxed writing style", speaking isn't really a problem if you're willing and would love to learn the language. But at the same time, languages such as Arabic, Latin and Russian will be fairly difficult. The same method can be applied to all languages really! The language that is the closest to your language may be the easiest to learn for most people. If you're introduced a language that is completely different from yours in every aspect then it'll be a bit of a problem. PS. The speaking part is fine if you're willing to learn. But the Chinese writing system definitely kills.
It really depends on what language/s you learned first. If you grew up speaking english and korean you would find most languages easier because korean and english are related to most popular languages
As a native Dutch speaker, I found it perfectly legible, although the grammar was way off. He said: "Ik leef mijn leven in meerderen spraken, in meerdere talen en niet maar in 1 taal."
Speaks polish with his husband is what surprised me the most. Because it's still a bit daring in Poland to be openly gay, Because of religious beliefs.😔 I support free people, who are who they choose to be👍🏻❤️
Also if I'm not mistaken in Greece they're pretty traditional and there's certain degree of homofobia in parts of the population. So really surprising having a Polish and Greek gay couple. Well, good for them.
Gloria Leyva mi primer idioma es el español y yo si le he notado acento extranjero y extranjerizado en lo único que ha dicho en español que es una frase. es imposible que sepas si su español es perfecto con una simple frase que ha dicho. IMPOSIBLE. Tendría que hablar más tiempo para poder juzgar su español. Solamente ha dicho una puñetera frase. No es nada difícil decir correctamente una frase en otro idioma. Lo difícil es cuando se va más alla de una frase. Hablar etc. Y el no ha hablado en español. Solamente ha dicho una frase. 😒😒😒😒. De todas formas no le resto nada de mérito. Bravo por el. xD. Es muy bueno en lo suyo. Un crack.
@@მემარივარ Lo que digas. Pero que te conste que no hay un solo acento español. Mas de 20 paises lo tienen de idioma oficial y cada uno de ellos lo habla con un acento distintivo. Que si no suene como a tu pais no quiere decir que no lo hable bien :)
The most difficult language is really a subjective question. In terms of pronunciation, Mandarin might be the hardest, considering not only the exotic phonetic system but also the tones, but grammatically it's actually one of the simples languages I've come across. In terms of grammar, Ancient Greek is probably one of the hardest I've had experience with. And, even though it's a dead language, Ancient Mayan beats Chinese out of the water in terms of script complexity.
Mandarin? Try Cantonese, 9 tones, they use traditional Chinese writing and HK uses a lot of slang. Have you ever heard of Xhosa? There are many difficult languages.
@Spacebar - Polytopia as a non native English speaker and someone who also has a bunch of non native friends it's actually mostly accepted that English is easy apart from pronunciation sometimes
Why does everyone feel the need to ask if he's gay? If he says he has a husband, that means he's not straight. Besides, it doesn't matter what his sexuality is.
A lot of people are saying his pronunciation is poor in many languages, but if you actually listen, his grammar is perfect and he uses natural sounding phrasing.
I wish i could learn languages easily too😭 totally agree with him on mandarin being difficult. Im chinese but english is my more dominant language and mandarin is so difficult because the grammar and structure is so different from english. To be honest though, i really could'nt understand what he was saying in mandarin cause his pronunciation is pretty bad. Also if im not wrong, he directly translated what he wanted to say in english in to mandarin and that kinda resulted in a weird sentence. :/
crazyabouthisrae HAHAHA yes he does need to work on his pronounciation and tones more. english is my dominant language too! but i use mandarin to communicate with my mom.
crazyabouthisrae Well its not that hard. You just need to be exposed to it and use it frequently. Like on a daily basis. My mom was from India so I learned her mother tounge without even meaning to because she spoke in it to her siblings and stuff
chinese grammar is not that different from english. yes, there are differences, like classifiers...but overall, its much more similar to english than korean and japanese, which are the completely grammatically different.
Μακης Ο. No. If he is a native Mandarin speaker and he does not understand what Joannis says in Mandarin , it.is not because he has not a brain, it is n because the Mandarin spoken by Joannes is bad. When a native speaker does not understand what you say in his/her language , that is a bad sign...xD.
he is such an inspiration, I'm at 5 languages right now, Romanian, French, English, Spanish, and Italian, and learning 2 others, Japanese and Korean, I really hope one day I will reach his level
I've heard that Mandarin is easier for English speakers because they can identify certain tones and syllables whereas he is Greek (native language being Greek) and because they have a different writing system, it would be harder for him to learn and pronoucne
Roi Daniel Ioannis's Mandarin is very hard to understand for me, and I'm a native speaker. Laoshu on the other hand, speaks it almost like a native speaker.
While I love laoshu, it's obvious that for some languages, he learns basic phrases like "I'm learning this language. I like this language. I can speak these other languages" but when he tries to do more he can't. Hope it doesn't sound like hate, just something I noticed. I'm curious if the guy in the video is the same.
@@nessie4215 that's just how laoshu starts off, he learns more after that, just those things first so he can start a conversation more easily and get experience listening and speaking
writofmandamus haha, Cantonese is easier for me, Mandarin really trips me up though, but it probably is because i grew up speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin
Cantonese is a language, not a dialect. Taishanese, Yangpingnese and the like are Cantonese dialects. ":P" The official language of Hong Kong and Macau is Cantonese.
PSA: To speak 32 languages fluently and maintain them is nigh impossible. *Maybe* you have learned them all to fluency at some point, but with that number there will likely be some left in the dust long enough that you no longer speak them well or at all. ("Use it or lose it.") Unless, of course, you dedicate your life 100% to maintaining all 32 of your languages. Which would be stupid. Besides, it seems several of the languages he spoke here weren't quite up to snuff. This guy probably speaks a lesser number of languages (who knows-could be 8 or 12 or 17) and has studied 32. ALSO: You do *not* need to travel to learn a language. People need to quit spreading that myth.
@Clementine's Thigh Gap his Chinese was shabby as well, I would say he talked like a guy who studied Chinese for a week at most. Edit: Even less, and Chinese isn't that hard tbh.
@@thatdinocalledvk5273 我现在不在中国。在印度. 有个人没有来。Depended on our choice, if we wanted to or not go back to our country. Had every help from the university to stay in quarantine.
No that's his own estimation of "fluent". The only real determination of fluency is having at least 3 native speakers not tell the difference between you and the other native speakers. If they can't tell then that is true fluency. Or, if you think that's too staunch then call it "native" level speaker and then true fluency is when 3 native speakers don't have to try to understand what you are saying when you say it. Plenty of people here have said his mandarin was bad, his dutch was horrific and who knows what else people would say about his other languages he "speaks".
Dude can speak 32 languages and most of the comments are more concerned with his sexuality? He’s clearly a very intelligent man, who cares what his sexual orientations are?
In all honesty, I didn't even realise he said husband until I read the comments. I guess my brain just thought, "yeah it's normal, the guy is in a loving marriage"
I absolutely LOVED the part where he went from Spanish to Russian!!! I grew up speaking Spanish and English and I studied Russian in college and I also spent a month in Russia a few years ago for a language immersion course. It felt so normal to me when he switched from Spanish to Russian! I didn't skip a beat and for a quick second I didn't even realize that he made the switch only because I understood him perfectly.I studied German at the same time I studied Russian and I just love both of those languages!!! I should make a TH-cam video about it.
Ioannis really makes me feel inspired to speak more Languages. Sure my family's language is a bit rusty sometimes but I'm still learning. Plus, I'm willing to speak others like my biggest goal for example, Japanese. And of course, a few European Languages as well.
a lot of non-chinese ppl say that they can speak Mandarin, but only a handful can actually get the intonation, articulation, and pronunciation right this is speaking from a Chinese person myself
@@alternativeaccount1072 Filipino is actually a different language. I tried using google translate with an ethnically Philipino co-worker once. It didn't have Philipino (the older constructed language) or Tagalog (the most spoken language there.) All the words he spoke in Tagalog got translated into different things than what he meant
His Mandarin is very wishy-washy. His sentencing & grammar are fine, but his accent is so thick that you can't ascertain which tones he is trying to use. Similar story with his Spanish - proper sentence structuring, subpar pronunciation. He needs to put down the books and pick up a laptop, download Skype and start talking to native speakers more often. Still, he is way more talented than me.
Birds_of_Dander With Spanish, the way you speak it doesn't really matter, it is more about clarity. But with Chinese, pronounciations are incredibly important, like if you mispronounce a word it can change its meaning. So I think it is more quantity over quality here.
Never ever doubted Mandarin to be the answer to that question. I roll my eyes whenever people will speak how hard learning English is when it's their only language. I can't imagine how harder it is if they learned a second one. 🙄
Yeah speaking the language often helps with memory, so far its English, Hindi and Marathi for me but my girl is Dominican so learning Spanish is the goal now.
I always feel so excited in these lot language videos, and he even mentioned hungarian language. But I always, always, every single time have to dissapoint in that because its never on the "popular country" list sadly. Which I can understand but bruh.. Nice video! And here am I struggling with single english language to learn xd
1:14 I am a native Dutch speaker, and he is not speaking Dutch. As other Dutch speakers have pointed out, he is incomprehensible. I don't believe for a second he speaks 32 languages with any level of proficiency, I don't think anyone does.
I've done my best to transcribe it: Ik leef mijn leven in meerderen spraken, meerderen talen, eh niet maar in één taal. There's a few mistakes. He says meerdere with an N, he says spraken first instead of talen. His accent is quite thick and so it makes it hard to understand properly.
"Powell Alexander Janulus (born 1939) is a Canadian polyglot who lives in White Rock, British Columbia, and entered the Guinness World Records in 1985 for fluency in 42 languages. To qualify, he had to pass a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each of the 42 languages he spoke at that time".
I think there's a number of languages a polyglot can learn after which the quality of each will start to deteriorate, considering the extreme amount of time you need to learn and maintain a language knowledge up to an upper intermediate level (where I myself consider that I have learnt the language). And 32 is way past that number. Judging from the comments from natives he is at lower intermediate level at best for some of the languages.
This guy both speaks thirty two languages and is homosexual. He is great. Edit: I'm sorry, I suppose I forgot that everybody on the internet reads way too much into everything. I didn't mean for my comment to make it seem like heterosexuals aren't talented, or that being homosexual makes you better. I was just very happy with the fact that he was clear about being gay - especially because the internet is filled to the brim with people who would do anything to cause a scene over that. I didn't mean to make anybody feel like your sexuality makes you better then anybody else - it doesn't. My apologies for that - I forgot how truly sensitive people are over the stupidest shit, yet when something that's actually bad or dramatic happens, nobody does shitall.
Cara Elias I watched the video, put down my phone, started drawing, then replayed it in my head and thought "wait what the heck" I totally missed the fact that he had a husband at first.
I noticed it immediately. I'm so happy that this channel actually features a homosexual person. Most news-ish TH-cam channels either gloss over the fact or ignore it completely.
Ok, I speak English and Spanish but duh who doesn't nowadays! So I'm perfecting my French and learning Mandarin, to hopefully one day learn as many languages as he does 😊👍
You are literally the one in hundreds of comments that are wholesome. The rest keep being mean to him because he got some mistakes. He speaks lot and people seem to not cut him some slack.😧 (sorry for bad English)
Ho Chi Minh also learned about the same amount of language at this man. He learned them by listening to the foreigners on the ship that he worked on. He is a legend to Vietnamese
*he is the assassin duolingo bird sends when you miss your lesson*
“Oh shit i missed my lessons!..” w-wwait, _Why do I hear Boss music??_
Lol
Diarrhea **surprised pickachu**
Id miss a million days of duo just to meet this legend
Wtf is that username tho
when you speak british, american, australian and canadian
Add new Zealand
It took me 30 seconds to realize that you can only speak one language.
And south african
@@TheMicroSpin .............u mean afrikaans/dutch/zulu/xhosa/khoisan/etc
@@williamchen8698 yes chill out man im not south afrikan so i dont know all that shit
"Bonjour."
"Your French is very good!"
"Gracias."
Lol
The return of Mr. Bean.....
@@melissa9905 lol true
😂
Mr Bean reference? 🤣🤣🤣 love it
The Duolingo bird is satisfied. His family will be spared.
Lmao
Funny😂😂😂
Greek because he is from Greek?
HE DOESNT KNOW HAWAIIAN SO HE SHALL BE PUNISHED
PLSS-
I said "Si" at a taco bell once
Oĺe!
Good for you!
Lol
You said if?
It’s pronounced _Sí_
I’m going to have to ask you to leave.
**escorts you out of Taco Bell**
*DUOLINGO BIRD WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
hahahahaha nice one
He is the duolingo bird
legends say that he is the only one to escape the duolingo owl
*its an owl*
I started using Duolingo for Russian (and a bit of Korean) a few days ago. I'm scared to miss a day so thankfully i did my lessons today.
Plot twist: He can't actually speak 32 languages and just memorized a few phrases for the video
Lmao
Alot of the polyglot videos have people know like the most basic words in a language
@Adam THERIN yes but hes a translator
Well his dutch was terrible to be honest
Nope he is the translator of the EU sooo nope 😂 also a few months ago many greek channels were talking about him
Him: "when I was 20 I had already learned 15 languages."
Me, 18yo: *cries in native language and broken English*
Me, also 18yo: *Cries in English, the only language I can speak*
I just turned 21, and am currently learning my third language.
@@jumpiestudios5265 Cool! I'm 21 too, what is your third language? Mine's German
@@Matthew-fj6eu My first language is German, my second is English, I'm currently learning French. I'm keeping it European so far. It's easier to learn languages that are related.
me: Cries in English and broken Native Language
he didn't even hesitate when saying Mandarin omg
Except for the fact that it really sounds robotic and weird. I had to slow down to understand what he's saying.
@@aurora7554 thats why he said it...
It’s true tho haha
I kinda expected it.
@@aurora7554 oh em gee. Yes. It doesnt sound natural
gotta admit im a little jealous lol
his dutch was really bad though :/ sad to hear that
Jade Nanarjain I was just about to comment that. I didn't understand a word lol
His pronunciation was horrible, but if you pay close attention what he says is actually gramatically correct.
sarah nasr iz
I'm over here struggling to learn one language at school
google translator in human form.
Brayan Guillen but better
But accurate.
But it's getting better over the time. A little scary.
not even his final form...
Tommy De Filippo Lol so true
I was lucky enough to meet him in person when we visited Brussels with my university department, in October of 2019. A wonderful person, I had a brief discussion with him about dead languages (Latin, Anglo-Saxon etc.)
Did you talk to him in latin/old english
Why should i believe someone named pepe frog(dead meme).
Nice 😎
@@branestron9521 Because why would someone make that up?
@@goldflower6892 exactly but the point is why not? people make the most senseless lies
Imagine him and his husband fighting over something, and he was there slurring 32 languages all mixed up, and his husband would be like, WTF!?
SUPER RAD husband??
SUPER RAD lol this comment has 32 likes
Zaur Hasanov he's gay
Kryptix Gamer now 64
No, he's not. His husband is.
Does that mean he can watch anime without subs?! Damn I'm jealous
anime is in japanese...
Ovillo Ronald idc I wait for subs I like to read
He said 32 language , japanese could be one of them
I was thinking about that too
Anime is in Japanese not mandarin, china produces something like...Xi Yang Yang, search that up on google, it's a goat
jesus christ dis dude speaks 32 languages while im here still trying to learn english (which is my first language)
lmao
I know 3 languages
I know three languages, four if I had not given up learning Mandarin. Though, I am now attempting a fourth language, Japanese.
@@CaptainNoch i know 4 languages and it gets harder to learn new ones the more languages you already know
He speaks 31 because his dutch was not.understandable
He reminds the duolingo owl to take his lessons
Top notch banter 👌
I noticed he spoke very slowly in Chinese, as I'm sure he wanted to get the tones correct. The hard part about Mandarin is not the learning, but speaking to peoples from all over China who speak mandarin with different accents and intonations.
Da Long Finally, someone said this! I only speak English, but I kinda figured that it was more to these languages that meets the eye!
对呀
Very true.
In my country also, all of our states have different languages and cultures. Even within states there are different accents and dialects.
Da Long billions of people with accents and intonations
Awesome! China is a big country so I would imagine the differences of dialects throughout your country.
I mean, he still can't speak Minecraft enchantments languange so...
Got 'em!
Checkmate!
Fun fact: the official name of the alphabet is "The Standard Galactic Alphabet".
And also, it's not a language, it's an alphabet.
@@deth9794 I see, thank you professor
or can he?
If you can’t read it you are useless
"So, How many languages you can speak
"Yes"
The reason it sounds unlike the languages he's speaking is he has an extremely thick accent
How ironic, lmao. The dude that speaks 32 languages has a fucking accent xd
Do you speak 30 languages? Doubt it.
@@Septiccatgaming I didn't say that, I was just pointing it out cus a lot of the comments say stuff like "It didn't sound like so & so language"
@@willwalker24601
Don't mind such people. They get offended by every little inconvenience and what not.
People like that aren't worth your time
@@jhin6181 no such thing as not having an accent lmao??
Funny how everyone starts to say how one of his languages is kind of bad. His "..." was pretty bad, he didn't pronounce "..." properly.
Like stfu, he speaks 32 languages, does he have to be 100% fluent in every one of them? Of the four languages I know, I understood everything he said, so I'd say that's already a good start. As long as people understand you, you speak the language. No need to be a poet to speak a language.
xd lasermonkey its normal that you dont speak it fluently but his dutch sounds like fucking arabic to me couldnt understand it not good，not great not fantastic really bad wasnt even dutch
Yeah, but maybe at least understandable to natives? If natives are finding it hard to understand his Dutch and Mandarin, then can he really speak them?
And I'll bet YOU do TO!
USMCVET78 _ hey marine don't you have some crayons to eat?
Maybe criticism didn't take anything away from him knowing 32 languages.
"They call me Mr worldwide"
Reinfield - Calamity 😂😂😂
I’m a hustler baby !!
*madman..?
Wow, if he makes lyrical music, it'd be super interesting
“yes sir he’s right there, the guy who ate the duolingo bird”
The difficulty of a foreign language is just a concept relative to our mother languages. For Japanese and Korean speakers, Mandarin is definitely not excessively complicated to learn at all. Being a Chinese speaker myself, I find European languages way harder than Asian ones.
YL lv True.
I mean if someone speaks an indo European language it is easier to learn them. I cannot make heads or tails of east Asian language 😂
Is that a real girl? English is a Germanic language, not Latin.
Een trotse Nederlander Yes it is, but it has so many words derived from latin
Een trotse Nederlander People can argue both. A lot of English words have Latin roots, hence why it's easier for English speakers to learn French, Italian and Portuguese than most
The problem with learning so many languages is that you miss some small nuances and pronunciations that makes you noticeably different from the actual native speakers.
Still impressive as fuck, though
I'm from Spain, and when I heard him speak... dude he speaks it perfectly, just amazing.
Juan Aguilera his Spanish was good. his Dutch on the other hand did not sound like Dutch at all... guessing some accents are easier then others
Yes, true, his french was not that good on the authentic accent side (me being a native speaker), but you know.... its 32 languages
Yeah I'm french too and it just sounds a bit off in the way he pronounces stuff
Ayla Soares from what i've noticed greek and spainard spanish have pretty much the same sounds and have very similar accents, so it must be easier for him.
Man: *Speaks 32 languages*
Google translate: alright, our job is yours now
Moochi UvU
Also google translate:
the bread is hot-> *my breakfast red spot*
Well Google translator is the WORST translator out there so everyone could take its job lmao
@@dianas7429 lol
Google translate is shit
@@moisttowlette1247 like you!
The real question is...
When he thinks, what language does the voice in his head speak in?
He's glad he has no schizophrenia.
Do you see that angry German guy arguing with that Frenchman 😂
Mean while the shrink doesn't understand a word of Mandarin he is saying 😝
Usually you think in the dominant language at that moment
I have learnt English and if I want to I can think in English! But sometimes if I want to speak Dutch again it is hard to think in Dutch🇳🇱😂
I think it depends on the topic he's thinking about. In my case (I'm german and learned french and english) it's like that: When I think, I often have conversations with an imaginary me or in most cases with other people in my head - and then it's usually the language I speak with those people.
Well, he said he dreams in all kinds of languages so he probably thinks like this too
Wait so what language does he think in????
Greek, because he's greek (I'm not sure)
Mau Pr not all the time u think in one language, sometimes u think in both. I speak Tagalog and I think taglish in my mind
Well I speak 5 languages and I think different depending on the language I speak. For instance thinking in German while speaking English is not really helpful and leads to vague sentences.
Jeff Lee sometimes when im talking in english, theres a word i forget or dont know, so my mind ends up thinking it in tagalog. its weird. like expressing ideas in another language is always so mch different in different languages
Most polyglots think in whatever language they're speaking at the time. When I'm around English speakers, I think in English; around French speakers, I think in French.
At what point does he consider a language "learned"?
EndohMiharu probably when he can speak it fluently
EndohMiharu Because as you probably already from posting that comment you can't really completely learn a language
Ayden Bopes only speak? What about the writing and reading skills?
EndohMiharu i think it'll be when he can listening to that language fluently like mother tounge ( and reading-speaking it kinda normally)
+Girl Online Well it depends on the language, my first language is Turkish and it's phonetic so if you can write a word you can pronounce it, or if you hear/pronounce a word you can write it. But most of the languages aren't like this, for example English. In English words can sound the same but can be written as different words. This will make the writing part harder to learn. Hope i knew more than these two languages :l
1:21
WHAT KIND OF MOUSE IS THAT?!
Evoluent Vertical Mouse 80,00$
You unlock it after learning your 15th language
@@DaviAreias 😄
it's an ergonomic mouse
A mouse that prevents carpal tunnel perhaps? Seen as it is an ergonomic mouse
"If you speak to a person in a language they understand, it goes to their brain. If you speak to a person in their own language, it goes to their heart."
I don't think Chinese is the most complicated language. In my opinion, the difficulty of acquiring a language is relative.
Mostly depending on what your mother tongue is....
Talking is fine, writing is when things hit the fan.
It really depends on your current environment, personal variables and cultural background. Let's say you're Chinese, then Japanese and Korean will be relatively easier for me due to the "boxed writing style", speaking isn't really a problem if you're willing and would love to learn the language. But at the same time, languages such as Arabic, Latin and Russian will be fairly difficult.
The same method can be applied to all languages really! The language that is the closest to your language may be the easiest to learn for most people. If you're introduced a language that is completely different from yours in every aspect then it'll be a bit of a problem.
PS. The speaking part is fine if you're willing to learn. But the Chinese writing system definitely kills.
It really depends on what language/s you learned first. If you grew up speaking english and korean you would find most languages easier because korean and english are related to most popular languages
this is exactly correct.
Mandarin, , vietnamese, cantonese and something similar to them (language with tones) are always the hardest to learn for me
uhm i am dutch myself and i didnt understand a word of what he said😂💀 1:14
Inderdaad, het leek meer op Duits haha
Susan - het leek op op geen taal😂
@@M0Kiiii lies
As a native Dutch speaker, I found it perfectly legible, although the grammar was way off.
He said: "Ik leef mijn leven in meerderen spraken, in meerdere talen en niet maar in 1 taal."
@@crasho ja, ik begreep ook wat hij zij maar het klonk zo als vele niet Nederlands talige proberen Vlaams of Nederlands te spreken.
So some people are more curious whether he's gay rather than how he managed to speak all those freakin languages lol people
Maybe being gay gave him super language powers
Jamie Franta ya i was shocked when he said husband lol
Jamie Franta he mentioned that he has a husband so of hes gay and why does that even matter
Well of course hes gay he stated in the video that he has a husband
Jamie Franta yeah he gay. Cuz he has a husband. Not a wife.
Imagine spending your entire life trying to master one language while this dude can speak 32
Quality over quantity, my boy.
I can speak 5: English, Canadian, American, Australian and New Zealand.
I'm so talented I know😂😂
Holly Wilkins Canadian's speak English and French. You should know French then
I'm a French-Canadian and I don't speak French.
I'm actually learning both Greek and sign language, and how to write and read Braille.
I'm learning Italian and Russian
French is literally a prerequisite in Canada. Not necessary in like BC but like if you are on Ontario you know whats up.
Holly Wilkins I can speak English Spanish Russian French and that's it
What I learned:
He has a husband and is gay.
Must be such an important thing for Arab people
I don't give a fuck about his orientations. He is so smart. you must have -IQ to laugh about this
So what? You lame
And I'm proud of him as a member of the LGBTQ community I appreciate this
@@Roody_Patootie I'm proud of him since he's from my country.
I'm from the Netherlands and I couldn't understand anything of what he just said..
Speaks polish with his husband is what surprised me the most.
Because it's still a bit daring in Poland to be openly gay,
Because of religious beliefs.😔
I support free people, who are who they choose to be👍🏻❤️
Also if I'm not mistaken in Greece they're pretty traditional and there's certain degree of homofobia in parts of the population. So really surprising having a Polish and Greek gay couple. Well, good for them.
He did not CHOOSE who he wanted to be. He is just who he really is.
He's gay, travels the world, works with the UN, and knows 32 languages, my new life goal has been set
with the EU;)
you can eff off then
The gay part is optional
lance lim 300th like XD
lance lim don’t be gay you would suck and be a stupid little Moron
Him saying "I speak to my husband..." cleared my skin, watered my crops and drew out the happiest sigh.
Hes gay andi noticed that too i was like what dafuq
Why?
Gay people we stan!!!!!! Unite!!!!!!
Yeah for me it like caught me off guard. So I disliked the video after he said that and stopped watching.
@@brikC thats rude
DANG HE TALKED IN SPANISH SO PERFECT👏
His dutch and his french were of intermediate level, not that great. But hey, at least he can use it.
LOL Nancy he talked perfectly. Venga! :)
verdad que si? creo que hasta tenia acento caribeño XDD
Gloria Leyva mi primer idioma es el español y yo si le he notado acento extranjero y extranjerizado en lo único que ha dicho en español que es una frase. es imposible que sepas si su español es perfecto con una simple frase que ha dicho. IMPOSIBLE. Tendría que hablar más tiempo para poder juzgar su español. Solamente ha dicho una puñetera frase. No es nada difícil decir correctamente una frase en otro idioma. Lo difícil es cuando se va más alla de una frase. Hablar etc. Y el no ha hablado en español. Solamente ha dicho una frase. 😒😒😒😒. De todas formas no le resto nada de mérito. Bravo por el. xD. Es muy bueno en lo suyo. Un crack.
@@მემარივარ Lo que digas. Pero que te conste que no hay un solo acento español. Mas de 20 paises lo tienen de idioma oficial y cada uno de ellos lo habla con un acento distintivo. Que si no suene como a tu pais no quiere decir que no lo hable bien :)
I am Dutch and I can't understand anything of what that guy is saying in "Dutch"
😂
Ik leef mijn leven in meerdere spraken, meerdere talen, niet maar een. Zoiets
Hahahaha same, I thought wtf is this.. Een dialect uit de achterhoek?
@@randysantana6147 must be his accent then
Hahaha yes i had that too, I couldn’t understand any words he prenounced
The most difficult language is really a subjective question. In terms of pronunciation, Mandarin might be the hardest, considering not only the exotic phonetic system but also the tones, but grammatically it's actually one of the simples languages I've come across. In terms of grammar, Ancient Greek is probably one of the hardest I've had experience with. And, even though it's a dead language, Ancient Mayan beats Chinese out of the water in terms of script complexity.
Lmao I study Latin and Ancient Greek in high school, I dropped Latin because I thought Ancient Greek was easier.
Upcoming Archeologist?
Mandarin? Try Cantonese, 9 tones, they use traditional Chinese writing and HK uses a lot of slang.
Have you ever heard of Xhosa?
There are many difficult languages.
@Spacebar - Polytopia You should differentiate. He was speaking Mandarin. I'd say Cantonese is much harder.
@Spacebar - Polytopia as a non native English speaker and someone who also has a bunch of non native friends it's actually mostly accepted that English is easy apart from pronunciation sometimes
And I am here like a potato that only can talk 2 languages
*speak in
Chicken Skateboard Thats already one more than an average person
Fler än mest!
No One No, it’s speak lol
I speak 3 Hindi, Punjabi, and English
Why does everyone feel the need to ask if he's gay? If he says he has a husband, that means he's not straight. Besides, it doesn't matter what his sexuality is.
upside down smile, IKR! People need to calm down.
upside down smile straight men don't have husbands, ever.
but hes gay
ZeckDoesStuff what if he's bi?
ZeckDoesStuff wait nvm I just read something about it
This is the man my dad wants me to be for no reason
This is what I want you to be for no reason. I believe you can do It! Also, I'm not your dad sorry kid.
don't be the one somebody wants you to be. be the one who you want to be
you can even be a serial murderer if thats what you like doing
A lot of people are saying his pronunciation is poor in many languages, but if you actually listen, his grammar is perfect and he uses natural sounding phrasing.
Nah he didn't even conjugate the verbs in Turkish
Mertiy ok sorry I don't speak Turkish so I couldn't catch that one
His mandarin was very good :)
his dutch was also horrible i couldn't understand what he was saying and I'm a native dutch speaker...
His Mandarin is pretty good, better than mine even
Greetings from Athens Greece 🇬🇷
Btw im half Greek and half Polish. All i need is 29 more languages!
I wish i could learn languages easily too😭 totally agree with him on mandarin being difficult. Im chinese but english is my more dominant language and mandarin is so difficult because the grammar and structure is so different from english. To be honest though, i really could'nt understand what he was saying in mandarin cause his pronunciation is pretty bad. Also if im not wrong, he directly translated what he wanted to say in english in to mandarin and that kinda resulted in a weird sentence. :/
crazyabouthisrae HAHAHA yes he does need to work on his pronounciation and tones more. english is my dominant language too! but i use mandarin to communicate with my mom.
crazyabouthisrae Well its not that hard. You just need to be exposed to it and use it frequently. Like on a daily basis. My mom was from India so I learned her mother tounge without even meaning to because she spoke in it to her siblings and stuff
chinese grammar is not that different from english. yes, there are differences, like classifiers...but overall, its much more similar to english than korean and japanese, which are the completely grammatically different.
His chinese is right.. he said "慢慢意识到了怎么*可*(才)能学习(到)好多外国语言 just replace the star with the bracket and you get the accurate sentence.. Lol
Oh your bilingual(think how you spell this) me too
Imagine if everyone in the world spoke multiple languages.
well then Americans like me would have a hard time
In India, multilingualism is very common...
Or if everyone learned esperanto
@@aaaaaaa6954 something interesting about Esperanto is that in Chinese is 世界语
世界＝world
语＝ language
So it means "The language of the world"
@@Manzar534 i know 5, is it considered multilingual?
The best part is when he said he spoke Polish to his husband.
Dionicio Baca
Agreed
😂
Siema kurwa byku jak tam
I'm chinese and I didn't really understand what he said 😂😅
Its because u have no brain, Jk xd I did not understand either ...
Μακης Ο. No. If he is a native Mandarin speaker and he does not understand what Joannis says in Mandarin , it.is not because he has not a brain, it is n
because the Mandarin spoken by Joannes is bad. When a native speaker does not understand what you say in his/her language , that is a bad sign...xD.
მე მარია hehe his accent was realllyyyy strong and hard to understand
@@მემარივარ I can't understand what you're saying cuz of the bad grammar
Its the same with the dutch, barely understandable but still a good try.
he is such an inspiration, I'm at 5 languages right now, Romanian, French, English, Spanish, and Italian, and learning 2 others, Japanese and Korean, I really hope one day I will reach his level
*top 10 rappers the duolingo bird was too afraid to diss*
Yeah, don't know about the rest, but his mandarin is pretty terrible. Still impressive i guess
I've heard that Mandarin is easier for English speakers because they can identify certain tones and syllables whereas he is Greek (native language being Greek) and because they have a different writing system, it would be harder for him to learn and pronoucne
It's pretty good in my opinion
Turkish is pretty bad too
It's definitely not the best but I think it's amazing considering how difficult it is.
His Dutch was eh... I’m Dutch and was unable to understand him without the English subtitles.
Ioannis Ikonomu: I speak 30 languages
laoshu505000: Hold my beer
Roi Daniel
Ioannis's Mandarin is very hard to understand for me, and I'm a native speaker. Laoshu on the other hand, speaks it almost like a native speaker.
While I love laoshu, it's obvious that for some languages, he learns basic phrases like "I'm learning this language. I like this language. I can speak these other languages" but when he tries to do more he can't. Hope it doesn't sound like hate, just something I noticed. I'm curious if the guy in the video is the same.
Jacqueline Liu to be fair, Mandarin is laoshus second language and he has said before it is his strongest language aside from English
@Boodha Aadamee (In Retrospect)
@@nessie4215 that's just how laoshu starts off, he learns more after that, just those things first so he can start a conversation more easily and get experience listening and speaking
Dang, if he said that Mandarin is the most complicated language to learn, that means he hasn't learned Cantonese.
writofmandamus haha, Cantonese is easier for me, Mandarin really trips me up though, but it probably is because i grew up speaking Cantonese instead of Mandarin
And his accent for Mandarin sucks.
Cantonese is a dialect, not a language :P
Cantonese is a language, not a dialect. Taishanese, Yangpingnese and the like are Cantonese dialects. ":P"
The official language of Hong Kong and Macau is Cantonese.
Okay I researched and there isn't a direct answer on whether Cantonese is a dialect or language. But it is considered a dialect in my country.
PSA: To speak 32 languages fluently and maintain them is nigh impossible. *Maybe* you have learned them all to fluency at some point, but with that number there will likely be some left in the dust long enough that you no longer speak them well or at all. ("Use it or lose it.") Unless, of course, you dedicate your life 100% to maintaining all 32 of your languages. Which would be stupid.
Besides, it seems several of the languages he spoke here weren't quite up to snuff. This guy probably speaks a lesser number of languages (who knows-could be 8 or 12 or 17) and has studied 32.
ALSO: You do *not* need to travel to learn a language. People need to quit spreading that myth.
You dont need to travel, but it is very effective to do that.
@Clementine's Thigh Gap his Chinese was shabby as well, I would say he talked like a guy who studied Chinese for a week at most.
Edit: Even less, and Chinese isn't that hard tbh.
@Clementine's Thigh Gap I am Indian and I speak far better, been living in Wuhan for 5 years now. Yes Wuhan 😁
3rdVoid Men 你还住在武汉吗？I thought they evacuated all the foreigners lmao
@@thatdinocalledvk5273 我现在不在中国。在印度. 有个人没有来。Depended on our choice, if we wanted to or not go back to our country. Had every help from the university to stay in quarantine.
His dutch was basically complete gibberish. Without the english subtitles I had completely no idea what he was saying. I am dutch btw.
His spanish was quite good i didnt like his turkish though it wasnt even mediocre
Si, su español tenía un acento un poco de ruso pero bién pronunciado
@@alventuradelacruz522 si exactamente pero su turco entendí nada
The one who rocks si si yo tampoco lo entendí.
How tf you know both langueges im turkish but his turkish was awful
@@birhancakar8825 ogrendim ahshshshsh ispanyada yasadim bir sure
He said one sentence in 5 languages. I want to know how many languages he can speak Fluently, not just the basics.
He speaks fluenlty 16 languages.He said that in an interview
bayern joan that’s pretty good
No that's his own estimation of "fluent". The only real determination of fluency is having at least 3 native speakers not tell the difference between you and the other native speakers. If they can't tell then that is true fluency. Or, if you think that's too staunch then call it "native" level speaker and then true fluency is when 3 native speakers don't have to try to understand what you are saying when you say it. Plenty of people here have said his mandarin was bad, his dutch was horrific and who knows what else people would say about his other languages he "speaks".
Dude can speak 32 languages and most of the comments are more concerned with his sexuality?
He’s clearly a very intelligent man, who cares what his sexual orientations are?
I do
Vagaba Assassina That says more about you, than about him.
That's internet for ya
I didn't see any comment about it.a
In all honesty, I didn't even realise he said husband until I read the comments. I guess my brain just thought, "yeah it's normal, the guy is in a loving marriage"
I'm Greek and this made me feel proud for some reason
I absolutely LOVED the part where he went from Spanish to Russian!!! I grew up speaking Spanish and English and I studied Russian in college and I also spent a month in Russia a few years ago for a language immersion course. It felt so normal to me when he switched from Spanish to Russian! I didn't skip a beat and for a quick second I didn't even realize that he made the switch only because I understood him perfectly.I studied German at the same time I studied Russian and I just love both of those languages!!! I should make a TH-cam video about it.
Ioannis really makes me feel inspired to speak more Languages. Sure my family's language is a bit rusty sometimes but I'm still learning. Plus, I'm willing to speak others like my biggest goal for example, Japanese. And of course, a few European Languages as well.
01:09 Most useless comment of the year...
Gosh yeah... sometime this serie's videos include poor comments...really poor ones...
The world is full of different comments and different replys.
a lot of non-chinese ppl say that they can speak Mandarin, but only a handful can actually get the intonation, articulation, and pronunciation right
this is speaking from a Chinese person myself
Very inspiring. Awesome guy😍
I'm currently trying to learn Japanese.
I only speak Dutch,Thai and English right now and I want to learn more!
Pobody's Nerfect 麦わら帽子 weeb
+Lolrunner really...😑
Got filipino, french, english, & german under my belt.
Got Javanese, Indonesian, English, and Arabic
@@alternativeaccount1072
Filipino is actually a different language. I tried using google translate with an ethnically Philipino co-worker once. It didn't have Philipino (the older constructed language) or Tagalog (the most spoken language there.) All the words he spoke in Tagalog got translated into different things than what he meant
I’m studying Mandarin in school
Kill me now
打架加油
ILiek Anime actually I'm eating Mandarin right now...
OK OK don't get it wrong I didn't mean anything rude...
Huang Yi Qing yeah😃
Huang Yi Qing 我是香港人，但是我的中文一點都不好。對我來說，寫中文是世界上最煩的東西。
blue 那您就得学习
His Mandarin is very wishy-washy. His sentencing & grammar are fine, but his accent is so thick that you can't ascertain which tones he is trying to use. Similar story with his Spanish - proper sentence structuring, subpar pronunciation. He needs to put down the books and pick up a laptop, download Skype and start talking to native speakers more often.
Still, he is way more talented than me.
同意
His Spanish wasn't bad to be honest
His Russian had a thick accent, hard to hear, but seemed functional.
His spanish is superb.
Birds_of_Dander With Spanish, the way you speak it doesn't really matter, it is more about clarity. But with Chinese, pronounciations are incredibly important, like if you mispronounce a word it can change its meaning. So I think it is more quantity over quality here.
Never ever doubted Mandarin to be the answer to that question. I roll my eyes whenever people will speak how hard learning English is when it's their only language. I can't imagine how harder it is if they learned a second one. 🙄
Anjelica Parana different group of people found different difficult to different language
Google Translator: I speak every language in the world.
This Guy: Hold my dictionary!
Kinda sad that Google translate doesn't have Cantonese
More like "I fuck up with every language in the world!"
Bro I study in Singapore and this guy's Chinese is better than some of my classmates no joke
Yeah speaking the language often helps with memory, so far its English, Hindi and Marathi for me but my girl is Dominican so learning Spanish is the goal now.
I always feel so excited in these lot language videos, and he even mentioned hungarian language. But I always, always, every single time have to dissapoint in that because its never on the "popular country" list sadly. Which I can understand but bruh..
Nice video! And here am I struggling with single english language to learn xd
1:14 I am a native Dutch speaker, and he is not speaking Dutch. As other Dutch speakers have pointed out, he is incomprehensible. I don't believe for a second he speaks 32 languages with any level of proficiency, I don't think anyone does.
im not dutch, but he might be speaking in a different dialect
I've done my best to transcribe it: Ik leef mijn leven in meerderen spraken, meerderen talen, eh niet maar in één taal. There's a few mistakes. He says meerdere with an N, he says spraken first instead of talen. His accent is quite thick and so it makes it hard to understand properly.
"Powell Alexander Janulus (born 1939) is a Canadian polyglot who lives in White Rock, British Columbia, and entered the Guinness World Records in 1985 for fluency in 42 languages. To qualify, he had to pass a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each of the 42 languages he spoke at that time".
He is fluent in 32 languages...while i would be hard pressed to even name 32 different languages
1. Mandarin
2. Cantonese
3. Korean
4. Japanese
5. Haitian Creole
6. Amharic
7. Greek
8. Spanish
9. Pig latin
10. Russian
11. Mongolian
12. Thai
13. Telugu
14. Hindi
15. Lao
16. Filipino
17. Swedish
18. German
19. French
20. Maltese
21. Ukrainian
22. Latin
23. Azerbaijani
24. Turkish
25. Polish
26. English
27. Albanian
28. Arabic
29. Persian
30. Italian
31. Swahili
32. Afrikaans
those were just what I could think of off the top of my head
Such a cool video ! This is really impressive!
I think there's a number of languages a polyglot can learn after which the quality of each will start to deteriorate, considering the extreme amount of time you need to learn and maintain a language knowledge up to an upper intermediate level (where I myself consider that I have learnt the language). And 32 is way past that number. Judging from the comments from natives he is at lower intermediate level at best for some of the languages.
He seems to be much lower than even "intermediate level" in these languages. His Dutch is plain incomprehensible to me, what he said made no sense.
This guy both speaks thirty two languages and is homosexual.
He is great.
Edit:
I'm sorry, I suppose I forgot that everybody on the internet reads way too much into everything.
I didn't mean for my comment to make it seem like heterosexuals aren't talented, or that being homosexual makes you better.
I was just very happy with the fact that he was clear about being gay - especially because the internet is filled to the brim with people who would do anything to cause a scene over that.
I didn't mean to make anybody feel like your sexuality makes you better then anybody else - it doesn't.
My apologies for that - I forgot how truly sensitive people are over the stupidest shit, yet when something that's actually bad or dramatic happens, nobody does shitall.
Cara Elias that's pretty gay
*****
How am I an idiot?
I commented on something I noticed and found interesting.
Cara Elias I watched the video, put down my phone, started drawing, then replayed it in my head and thought "wait what the heck"
I totally missed the fact that he had a husband at first.
I noticed it immediately.
I'm so happy that this channel actually features a homosexual person.
Most news-ish TH-cam channels either gloss over the fact or ignore it completely.
ijcn0jir3nvjn3fjcifn I don't think either of us understand what you're getting at here
His Dutch is not the best, but I would understand what he's trying to say. Amazing feat nonetheless
Impressive, especially considering that he can speak all thirty-two with a Greek accent!
I'm really proud that he is from Greece because I'm from Greece too
Emilios Ertecoglou me too
He forgot the greek accent when he said his name
hahahah
This man knows 32 languages been all over the world studied many cultures, and that's what you ask him, you could have googled that
Evan Westmoreland hes gay lmaoo
You have inspired me to learn more languages. Thank you sir!
When he started talking dutch he had a very thick accent but it seems like he can talk his way around fine though
Guy:Mandarin
Me:Luckily I’m Asian xD
Roland Seah ??? I didnt see the relation.
Not all Asians speak Mandarin.
I'm Asian and I don't speak Mandarin. What's wrong with you?
??? what the fuck does this even mean
I assume you can speak the language. How was his mandarin? Accurate or laughable?
Yes, but it was hard to understand his Dutch. Still super talented though, can’t say that of myself.
This person has a power that very few people have
Ok, I speak English and Spanish but duh who doesn't nowadays! So I'm perfecting my French and learning Mandarin, to hopefully one day learn as many languages as he does 😊👍
You are literally the one in hundreds of comments that are wholesome. The rest keep being mean to him because he got some mistakes. He speaks lot and people seem to not cut him some slack.😧 (sorry for bad English)
@Im Jia i don't speak Spanish and iam Greek, we mostly focus on learning as third language French and not Spanish, and iam really upset about that :(
@@cosmiclatte8716 Well atleast he speaks Greek as he's first language so i am not going to be mean xd
@@IamSome1 Lmao, nice.
Is there a list of the languages that he knows?
Actually where his finger was pointing in the book at 0:37 didn't match what he was saying in Chinese. 😅 Seems kinda fake to me..
Ho Chi Minh also learned about the same amount of language at this man. He learned them by listening to
the foreigners on the ship that he worked on. He is a legend to Vietnamese
His Dutch was 3 week immigrant level though 😂
I speak English and gamer
By his definition of “speaking a language” I speak 6.
Hé understands the world better because of his study of so many languages. Bravo, sir. Bravo. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾