Honestly, the intro is so cringeeh, and I am the only Alpha / God and great and wife / gf / bride etc, but it’s true that most natives are not a C2 level, and C2 is probably around 15.000 / 20.000 base words, so it’s usually only the writers and scientists and bookworms or ppl that read a lot that are C2 - I am D1 only in Modern English + Scottish dialect + Middle English (writer level) and know 60k to 100.000 words + phrases and idioms and slang etc in all three combined, and am native speaker level in Spanish (between C1 and C2) as I know over 10.000 base words in Spanish since childhood + 1.000 new words that I learned since last year, and am advanced level in Dutch, knowing over 8.000 base words, and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / Portuguese, and beginner level in Welsh / Italian / French / German / Breton / Icelandic and most other Germanic / Celtic / Latin languages!
He will be no longer a language simp. He won't merely love a language so much, no, his skin will merge with the abstract words of the language, realities will shift, everyone of his cells will become a word. He won't longer simp for the language, he WILL BE the language
The french-chinese reaction is so spot-on; I lived in both countries, and while in China I was idolised as if I was Confucius himself, in France they almost put me on fire for asking a croissant with a “not enough native” accent.
I was at a bar in France trying to order a drink in French, but the staff member didn’t understand me. Luckily the person next to me spoke English so they asked what I wanted then relayed it to the staff member in French which to my ear sounded exactly like what I had just said. So I thanked them, then asked, “Am I saying this correctly? (Repeated the phrase)” “Yes.” “… then why didn’t they understand me?” “Because zer accent eez sheeeet.”
Little you know, but his eyes looking in different directions sometimes because one is watching on camera and with another one he's learning a new language, true gigachad
Good summary. I'm in between B2 and C1 in my target language. Out of all the language levels, I found B1 to be the most frustrating. I felt like toddler who was crawling in the language, but was yet unable to walk.
When I was actively learning Chinese I had that feeling, but after a few months of doing about 300 words a week and doubling my vocabulary in that time I finally found peace at C1. Now Im back at the very frustrating A1 in Japanese where even 10 words a day feels crushing lol! Just keep grinding at the pace you find sustainable and It will definitely come
@@Tehui1974 I said my languages so I'd imagine its for you, but if he sees this reply I use hellotalk for speaking/listening practice (don't recommend unless you can hold a basic convo in your TL), watch the news and youtube videos, used textbook PDFs and had an online tutor for grammar, used quizlet for learning new words and anki for review (still review even now). I still listen to pretty much exclusively Chinese/Taiwanese music. I also somewhat embarrassingly have seen wayyy too many horrible Chinese made anime. LOL, anyway sounds like you're doing well in your TL so if have any tips I always like hearing what works for other language learners!
@@XPLaxative I'm learning Māori (New Zealand). In regards to input, I commit to about 2 hours a day. I mostly read books in my target language, and listen to podcasts and interviews online when I'm in the gym or commuting to work. I speak the language every day to other speakers, but I'd like to increase my dedicated time for speaking.
I can relate. I studied German way back in the 1990s (still remember it! Maybe a B2 equivalent - CEFR wasn't in use much, much less in American universities - many use that scale now), and taking a 300 level class, it felt like my vocabulary was quite lacking. It probably didn't help that the 200 level was "grammar all day, everyday" with no actual speaking, or reading material.
@@Amparito847 The influence of Arabic on Spanish is largely exagerated. After the end of the Reconquista there were national campaigns to purge most of these Arabic influences until we were left with a language with just a handful of Arabic words, mostly those that we couldn't find a reasonable alternative. Like Algebra, everyone in Europe calls it algebra why bother changing that one? Some words were tried to be removed but weren't, like aceituna, which should've been switched to oliva. The tree itself (olivo) and the forest of olives (olivar) did succeed in changing and is now the only word anyone remembers for calling these. But the name of the olive fruit itself, aceituna, stuck too hard. Some words instead came from the Arab world but were not from the Arabic *language* itself, those mostly remained as is. Like Almohada (pillow), it comes from a country/family that in English is called the Almohads.
You know you have really mastered a language when you can solve crosswords in it. I'm pretty good at swedish crosswords (my native language) but when I look at an english crossword i'm straight back to square one, even though I consider myself fully fluent in english.
I guess it depends on the nature of the crossword, but I think at that point cultural knowledge also comes into play, which is difficult to develop unless you're fully immersed in the world of that language.
Yall in the replies getting offended for no reason. OP isn't saying language learning is boring ffs. He's saying LS is entertaining enough he could make ACTUALLY boring stuff entertaining. Use your brains holy shit.
That thing he said about A2 is true. I've learned Indonesian to that level before a trip there and my wife was filming me ordering us food in bahasa Indonesia and everybody was like omg he is such a smart ass. Man I probably had less than 300 words in my head... Most videos of polyglots here are of the kind, probably
That's the Indonesian people for you.. Even if you only say a simple "Terima Kasih", the reaction would be "wow you speak good Indonesian". *I am an Indonesian
This is true...the difference is that you actually realized how good/bad you were. It took me years to learn French and then I meet people who "speak" French and ten other languages.
@Ionica Meseri honestly can't blame you! I teach French and it's a hard language to learn if you don't already know any other Latin languages (such as Spanish, Italian...)
@@ionicameseri8081 Oh well. It is tough to start but it’s fun. Although I have been learning since the age of 6, and I’m not even French or from any Francophone country.
I'd like to add a couple of notes/extra levels; B1 in German as a Dutch person combined with the 'good German accent' already makes you able to fit into German society without anyone noticing. It only works if you're Dutch though and think about a words like 'verzekeringsmaatschappijenmedewerknemersstaking' and 'Productivität' all the time. (Came up with this one because I have a really good accent in German as a Dutch person but only studied the language for three years in school. Then I got lost in a German village while on holiday with my parents. And while asking a German guy for directions to the camping, he tought I was the local. It tooks us five minutes to figure out we were both not form this part of Germany. LOL) Another one is B1/B2 in English for people form Scandanavia. The moment you speak to a native English speak and say 'I just speak a bit of English', you will in the next 5 minutes use a word the native speaker never heard before but is correct English.
Honestly, the intro is so cringeeh, and I am the only Alpha / God and the only great / attractive being etc and the only wife / gf / bride etc, but it’s true that most natives are not a C2 level, and C2 is probably around 15.000 / 20.000 base words, so it’s usually only the writers and scientists and bookworms or ppl that read a lot that are C2 - I am D1 only in Modern English + Scottish dialect + Middle English (writer level) and know 60k to 100.000 words + phrases and idioms and slang etc in all three combined, and am native speaker level in Spanish (between C1 and C2) as I know over 10.000 base words in Spanish since childhood + 1.000 new words that I learned since last year, and am advanced level in Dutch, knowing over 8.000 base words, and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / Portuguese, and beginner level in Welsh / Italian / French / German / Breton / Icelandic and most other Germanic / Celtic / Latin languages!
It’s so easy for me to say long compound words in Dutch because I usually know the smaller words they are made of - verzekerings + maatschappijen + medewerk - nemers + taking! Dutch really is as easy as English! And Dutch & English are the prettiest languages ever with the most pretty words - can’t wait to get to a C2 level (and then to a writer level) in Dutch!
@@FrozenMermaid666 Wow, with a person this confident in their languages, it is kinda sad you don't know that medewerk and taking are not Dutch words. LOL It's medewerkers (employees) + staking (strike, as in going on strike) I'll confess, medewerkernemers is a contamination (two words (medewerker and werknemer meaning both the same thing) accidentally thrown together). But the fact you didn't notice that? it makes me wonder how advance you Dutch really is. I don't expect much from people and I am humbled you learned my language, but you don't know the words staking and medewerker/werknemer? How? Also. I love the whole "I know X amount of words" thingy. How in hell do you know? Do you have a word list with 10 000 words in it? Is it a guess? You keep bragging on about it so much I do really wonder what you are doing to know the exact amount of words in each language your learning. Next to all of that, just to be clear, you're impressing no one with this list of languages. You feel like a real person, so I really wanna make this clear. Even if we are jealous of the amount of words you know in this many languages, you brag about it in such an annoying way we would never show you our jealousy. Lastly, don't bother getting to a writer's level in Dutch. As a native speaker, I tried, I felt like it, it's not wroth it. You'll end up with this list of Dutch words from the 17th century that no Dutch person, except the most posh and snobbish writers, ever uses. Dutch is one of those languages where you'll always keep learning, so just get to C1/C2 (idk, idc) and enjoy the result.
@@SiGa-i1r If you want to tell yourself that because that's the only way you can feel proud/happy about your Germaness, so be it. Although it does make you look quite pathetic, just saying. You know, you can also be proud of the German language without punching down? Like, I love German. Not because "it's better than Dutch" but because it is a cool language with a cool culture attached to it! See, nowhere in that sentence did I go and bully another country/language. Just awesome German and awesome German alone. Not being a bully is not actually that hard you know. ;)
5:30 that’s so true 😭 I’m learning Arabic in college & asked my mom for help cuz it’s her native, but she just told me the grammar rules in the textbook were wrong & didn’t make sense - even tho I swear she uses them herself without realizing it when speaking 😆
Right? I'm learning German cuz i'm dating a German guy and will move there, and he never knows what I am talking about when I ask about grammar. Especially the case system it's like he never heard those terms in his life and he claims to not have studied grammar in school which I find hard to believe lol.
@@ramblingmillennial1560 I guess it depends on people... Some of them don't remember school subjects at all. I was terrified when I knew my boyfriend doesn't even know what NOUN and VERB are😭 he would've never been able to help anyone with learning his native language lol
@@mustzhrape yeah you're right. Like my bf said he totally forgot how to do division on paper and I was so confused cuz it's so easy lol. I had to reteach him how to do it but school was honestly not a priority for him while I liked school growing up. Of course you can't remember everything from school but I assumed people retained the basics.
@@ramblingmillennial1560 gosh it's like we have one same boyfriend LOL! I retaught him how to do division on paper TOO! And he told same things about not caring about studying in school... The only difference is, mine isn't German XD
You failed to mention the D2 level, when just by willing it you can redefine the grammar, the vocabulary, create or replace words and all native speakers will instantaneously follow suit. If one reaches D2 level in japanese for instance, you can do away with all Kanji.
C4 is the most based level, and only available for the sigma male. However it has also the annoying setback of putting you at risk of spontanous explosion if you hear any mistake in that language (nuclear if you're french).
I'm enjoying your videos. You have a very elegant and cheeky sense of humour and that's just what I was looking for, so keep up the good work my man. Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷🙅🏿
After taking 18 months of online Polish classes and traveling to Poland where I could do things like order coffee and then immediately switch to English when they asked me if I wanted it to go I convinced myself I was at A2 and signed up for an online group "conversation" class where I thoroughly embarrassed myself before I dropped out in shame which caused much rejoicing on the part of my teacher and the other students.
As a person who was called braindead while trying to learn languages and only got English after years of internet conversations, after 2:25 I'm sure this channel is exactly the right place for me
thanks for helping me realise that I am definitely an A1 level in German. I feel like learning an new language has also made me realise how much I don't even know about the English language
Im Polish, 15, learned English, got a C2 Cambridge certificate, got all my vocabs though reading Patterson and Chernov, as well as listening to ... J. Peterson, Peterson single handedly expanded my vocabulary range tenfold. I actually enjoyed taking the exam. Been learning german for 3-4 years, id say im a B2 but i only owe that to the fact that i get to speak with lots of native speakers. Now learning español to fulfill my quest of becoming a super polyglot gigachad, wish me luck lads The trick lays im forcing yourself to constant exposure to the language, thus you are forced to learn, like a newborn child.
I’ve never watched any of your videos, but they seem to be a mix of accuracy and jokes. I like it. Subscribed I’m learning Spanish. I’m working on solidifying a B2 level, so I’d say I’m a solid B1 but a shaky B2. If my listening comprehension could get to c1 and my speaking at least at b2, I’d be happy with that :)
I have the “I used to be able to order in a language but was unable to introduce myself because God forbid The Owl taught me how to introduce myself first but it’s been about a year or two since I practiced so I forgot just about everything.” I also have the “With a bit of practice I can pronounce words pretty well but that’s only with the languages I’ve sang in in choir”😂
i speak 2 languages at a native languages which are Spanish and English, it is good to know that I will never be a monolingual beta but instead feel like a bilingual beta because I am struggling to learn German
@@thedeutschman9905 I already went through weird sentence structure shit when learning English and now I have to learn another system again it's killing me
@@yrusb why don't you translate to English instead so I can know what you are saying nvm Google Translate did the trick. Yeah I am not expecting to speak German fluently within weeks or months Ive been going in with the mentality that this is gonna take years
Hola, ¿vos que opinás sobre la coyuntura socioeconómica actual de Sudamerica y los sucesos de índole política que ocurrieron estas ultimas semanas? (Particularmente con el magnicidio al candidato a presidente ecuatoriano y la victoria en las primarias del candidato de ultra derecha Javier Milei) Mucha gente dice que el chabón esta pirado, incluso llegan a especular que mantiene una relación insestuosa con su hermana. Para mi es cualquiera, los boludos le quieren ensuciar la imagen porq no tienen argumentos para desestimar su plataforma política liberal. Tienen cagaso de que les choreen sus privilegios y ‘ayudas’ estatales.
Don't forget the negative levels, for example I am English so I absolutely refuse to learn French. In fact, sometimes I just start speaking German aggressively instead. so, I have a negative French compreh.... kennen.
I learned e̶n̶g̶l̶i̶s̶h̶ american by watching videos on youtube. No, not the "How to learn engl*sh in 5 minutes" videos, just regular content that I would've watched in my language and because of that sometimes I have no fucking idea why I said something the way I did. I just heard some dudes from youtube playing minecraft saying it that way so I just repeat after them. In conclusion I can definitely say that I am a native american speaker btw its really interesting that i managed to understand what the videos I was watching were about even at the age of 9 and with vocabulary of like 250-500 words
Yup. It was before RUclips, but little me just wanted to play video games and chat on forums which did the mass immersion bit really well. Most English lessons at school were completely useless. Wish they'd have taught weeb or something instead.
You're not a native American speaker, you have really bad grammar and vocab, I hardly believe you can actual talk about a variety of things and American isn't a language, it's English. Sorry to break it to ya.
I've seen some places talk about the unofficial D1/D2 level - basically a PHD that does a lot of medical/scientific research in that language. Yep, D level is clearly medical/scientific/legalese. A whole new level in any language! Same for grammar vocabulary - my biggest pet peeve learning any language. I have no idea what a "subordinate conjunctive" or a "passive infinitive" or a "transitive verb", much less trying to learn those when I have to translate from the word in the target language just to figure out what the word in in my NL, then go look that word up (only to get a definition like, "A subjective Clause is a type of subjection". O_o
I'd also argue that a C2 may not be the end all. IMO there is native, C2, and native/C2. In other words a native might be higher than C2 (in speaking skills and accent), but the C2 might have better grammar/writing skills/knowledge. Also I think you can be C2 and have a 20K vocab, but what is the difference between a C2 that has a 20K vocab and a 40K vocab? Yes, I think C2 is probably the highest level you can test for. But I think there can be a difference between C2s and in many cases a native will have better speaking skills than a C2 (and perfect accent). Many C2s that learned a second-language do not have native accents (they speak really well but have a noticeable accent).
I have A2 speaking level and B1 listening level, this is what they told me at the testing some time ago. I also learn my native Russian language and I have a bit more level in it than average Russian, I think so. Today I’ve learned my native language and I want to say: it’s so beautiful
Je ne suis même pas sûr que D1 soit suffisant pour écrire cette langue sans faire de fautes d'orthographes / I'm not even sure that D1 or even D2 for that matter would be sufficient to write flawless french 😂😂
The C2 part is pretty funny XD But maybe only applies to English native speakers learning other non-international languages. I'm not a native speaker of English but I'm classified as C2 level in the IELTS test, and I'm sure many non-native English learners also are in this level. It's not that strange to get to C2 level if it's a language you need to actively use on a daily basis, even if it's not your native language (without being a psychopath🤣).
I was gonna comment the exact same thing. Getting a C2 in English is really not that big of a deal, considering people need to reach that level all the time because of work/study requirements. I took the cambridge C1 Advanced test, and got classified as C2 level, however i really don’t see the difference between that and C1. In my country you are good to go with a B2 anyway, thats like the minimum level any company or university will request. After that it’s more about specific goals you may have (migrating, studying abroad, working for foreign companies, etc).
@@agme8045I tried the B2 test and they said I was C1. Regardless, I just needed at least a B2 on paper for practical reasons. I honestly don't plan on getting other certificates even if I'll learn other languages.
1:21 got me good :D. I learn cussing before learning how to greet someone, introduce myself, express gratitude and of course the alphabet and pronunciation (except the ones in swear words of course).
After studying a foreign language for 5 years at school and then not properly maintaining it for years after, I can confidently say I'm a shaky A2 at best 😌
If it was a British school then as someone who was also taught languages in British schools I can confirm that "shaky A2 at best" is probably picking up exactly where you left off after 5 years. This is not due to your own incompetence (probably) but because sitting in silence copying verb tables off the board is not in fact the perfectly optimised pedagogical approach that 20th and early 21st century British educators believed it was.
Hahaha, behind the humor, this is really pretty accurate. I'm definitely at B2 I'm Vietnamese now. I can muddle through what I need to do, and people are really impressed when I talk about things that particularly interest me, but then wonder why I can't understand them (much less give a comprehensible answer) once it gets into new territory. I think the important thing is having enough to talk around the things you don't have the vocabulary for and get there. Like walking up the long and torturous trail up a hill, and when you get there, you see the terminal cable car station. But hey, you've made the journey, and managed to drag innocent bystanders along too! Having been through this process in another language or two (though my cycle kinetic abilities are still lacking, even in Turkish after 14 years in Istanbul) it's fun to 1) recognize this level, and 2) be aware that all the work to get there paid off and you can keep progressing. To me, B2 is also the level where, if you're in the country where your target language is spoken, you start remembering all the vocabulary and structures that you have already seen, but which have been passive knowledge up to this point. You give it all a context and start actually using it.
As a native german, ive been "learning" the english language for about 8 years now (Im 14 (Yes in school we learn english from 6 onward)). Im probably C2 by now. Ive been considering myself fluent fluent (like native fluent) for 3 years now. Ive achieved this without any tools, just pure immersion. School taught me only like 10% of my grammar and 1% of my vocab.
by the time I got to C1 in english I forgot all the grammar "rules" and everything just comes naturally now,kinda like my native language. I started learning russian and I'd say I'm at level A2 for now,and surpirsingly I found it to be pretty similar to romanian (my native language)
I watched your description of A1 and the about knowing only greetings and profanity and I knew that’s where I was at in my second language. Didn’t need to watch any further. Well played sir :)
j'ai déjà atteint le niveau C1, et t'as raison, quand je l'ai atteint, je pensais que je pouvais parler couramment la langue, donc j'ai décidé d'en apprendre une autre. je peux aussi parler aux français (les étrangers) en français que je rencontre dans les sites touristiques ici dans mon pays, les philippines. mais maintenant, si on peut remarquer, mon français n'a plus l'air d'être C1. je pense que, parce que j'ai arrêté de l'apprendre et de l'utiliser, je l'ai rétrogradé à B2. et ce commentaire est une preuve de cette régression
As a native russian i'd say that leveling C1-native-C2 is really works. There is a lot russian people speaking their native language with a ton of mistakes (I think it's problem about exceptions and declensions in russian language). I think russian achieves C2 level when he make a good preparation to national russian language exam which is at the school graduation.
I worked with C1 books when I was in 10-11th grade. I made a really huge progress in grammar and vocabulary. Unfortunately my level of English can't be considered as C1 although I passed the national exam with 97 points out of 100. I still have a lot of difficulties especially when I speak to others. Ну и большой привет от native Russian speaker)
@@doomerbob5731 The most bad ass thing about it, when you correcting another person you becoming like a dog shit to them cause people don't like it, and they continue speaking wrong (That the trigger point for me). У тебя такое было? Типа ты говоришь челу, что правильно звонИшь, а не звОнишь или исправляешь склонение трудного числительного, а они продолжают говорить не правильно.
I'm at A2 in Japanese. I'm at the point where I can understand the gist of most sentences in Naruto, but my vocabulary knowledge is a bit weird. (Anki taught me words like "選手" and "経済" before "氷".) Occasionally I will think in Japanese, but only a few simple phrases, such as "何だ", "そうだね", and "「品物」はどこ". I have made it a habit to count the shelf numbers at work in Japanese, and I no longer struggle to count to 百.
@@Williamatics it means it's time for you to install yomichan (real answer: it means a number so large it can't be counted to or 10^56 (except sometimes it means 10^64 instead))
I remember when I worked at a factory I would practice words and kanji in my head while cleaning the grease off the machine. I picked the language up again and can understand most stuff now, sometimes Im fluent, sometimes Im clueless. But the the clueless moments are slowling becoming more rare.
and this is the point where I realise I'm firmly at the B2 level in French. Thanks for exposing past me over the last year and a half with the other levels, I took those personally. They were too accurate.
I'm born in Quebec and lived all my life in Quebec so I'm D1 in Tabarnak, D1 in french, C2 in Canadian and C2 in Bald Eagle per football fields English
@@b0dri4ok В ИСАА. Советы? Совет могу дать один. Как бы сложно тебе ни было в изучении чего либо, когда либо. Это не сравнится с изученим арабского. Нужно буквально этим жить примерно 2 года, дальше пойдет легче. Многие бросают... И не нужно кидаться на диалекты, выучишь фусху, а там и диалекты легко пойдут. Есть еще вопросы - задавай
I think the problem with learning a language and being proficient in it comes down to how technical and standardized the definitions are. Take the huge gap between a native speaker with and without any specific knowledge in technical terms (e.g. legalese or scientific words and so on and so forth). A spoken language is kind of an artform, and it's not always logical, that's why there always will be many gramatically and even sociologically perfect ways of saying the same phrase that will sound "off" to another native speaker from a different region. That's why "subconjugated" terms or 12+ different cases were invented to make the art of the specific language explainable. And the next thing is "connotations", as in different meanings behind the meaning of a word - in the English language the words to erradicate, to exterminate, to extinguish, to off, etc. can mean kind of the same thing, yet they don't although you'd find the synonym to put out or to snuff for each and everyone of them. ("Please, extinguish the fire" sounds kind of okay, but "Would you kindly exterminate the fire" sounds weird). Sry for any errors made, because this is not my NL.
5:32 except in Russia. If you had finished school not more than 8-10 years ago in Russia you'd probably remember most of the necessary rules to maintain the understanding of how things are written or spoken. Because studying russian language is mandatory in russian schools
Having recieved my English C2 certificate. I can tell you it's 100% true. The only way I could train/study for C2, and the tip I give everyone who wants to do C2, is literally reading Victorian novels and learning all the super grandloquent vocabulary. C1 was just; make sure you're English doesn't suck. But C2 was like; talk to me as if we are two rich people of nobility from the 19th century who have just read a work by Voltaire and are trying to show of our wealth through our words.
I'm sorry I have to disagree with that about C2, also Voltaire was 18th century. And I just find it hard to believe you are a C2 English speaker by the fact you spelt "received" wrong. It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of
@Xcute PikaX So what level are you at? I could also point out the many grammar mistakes in your comment. But I'm not going to, because I'm not a grammar nazi. Being C2 doesn't mean you never mistakes. "You spelled receive wrong" Yeah, can you blame me? It's not like the English spelling rules are clear at all! What is the "one of the most quintessential English basic rules" behind the word receive? Because I can't imagine a rule beside 'just learn it' to explain that word. Think about it, recieve is the spelling that makes sense, not receive. And oh yeah, oh yeah, please try to argue against me, that's literally the only way all those grammar lessons from school about things I already just kinda did are going to finally come in handy. I really wanna see how much YOU know about the English language. >:) Because I had to do tons of boring exercises about this language, let's see if you did too. ;) Also, I said I wouldn't correct your comment, but just for once, "It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of" sweety, didn't they teach you in school 'correct English sentences' never end in a preposition?????? They taught me that. Do you know what they also said? It's only the snobs that care about that mistake. Most English people are fine with phrases ending in prepositions. If you're gonna be a snob in regards to English, I'm gonna be as well. (I hope your eyes haven't melted yet because of my use of words like "gonna" and "haven't". ;) ) The Voltaire thing was just a simile. And if you want to be pedantic about it; What does it matter if he's 18th century, doesn't mean it became illegal to read him in the 19th century! Also, if you really wanna know. I scored a final score of 221 on the Cambridge CPE exam which resultes in a official C2 grading. If you don't know which exam I'm talking about, I demand that you look it up or delete your comment. As I already showed; I have done it all. I have C2, and gone through the whole process of learning English as a second language to get to that level. I love finally having an excuse to brag about it. Thank you. :D I have not spent 8 long years learning English very thoroughly as a second language to be brought down this easily by some snob who thinks they know me based on one spelling mistake. If anyone wants it, I can give some more tips about what C2, C1 or any of the others are like (I have done them all, but remember C1 and C2 classes the best). All those boring classes are finally gonna get some good use helping the ones still going for that C2 certificate I already have!
@@TikoVerhelst oh henny, im a NATIVE english speaker xx, you're rlly mad 🤣🤣 You're embarrassing yourself, and you know the sentence "Where are you from?" That ends in a preposition, you can end sentences in a preposition, that thing you said was never a rule and is archaic. What would you like me to say instead?? " It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of, cunt. " Are you happy now? Just say you're envious of me because I'm smarter and because you'll never reach my English level, it's okay. I have also noticed quite a few grammar mistakes from that... comprehensive message! Don't worry, I won't point them out for you.😘 Anyways, you've annoyed me enough, I'm OUT.
As a person who learnt english when i was very little so i'm at the you lucky sh*t level, i'm so happy that sombody finally understands that some people who speak the langauge don't understand the grammer to any level and that it isn't always necessary.
That was a big progress, Mr. Simp. Now you are able to offer educational information in your own comedy style. Keep it up until you get more girl fans than boy fans. (I like this channel but I am not a girlish woman at all and probably generous to this channel because I am a lot older than you are 😊)
U made me realize our schools are literally lying to us. They actually tell us we have A2 english proficiency at the end of middle school and B2 proficiency at the end of high school as long as you have passing grades. While I studied the language hard enough to believe I’m now at least C1, I’m not sure I was good enough to be considered B2 in high school based on your definition of it and I was years beyond most of my classmates. One funny thing about language classes at school has always been how heterogeneous classes are, you always have mediocre and native speaker in all classes. I used to compete with another internet self learned friend in english class just for fun, while I was watching the 1/4 german blood girl casually speak and not understand anything in german class.
I realized this looking at A1/A2/B1/B2 samples of German - lots of things we didn't cover, and pretty much confirmed that I felt like my vocabulary was lacking. Granted, my German was in the 1990s, when cassette tapes and VCRs were still a thing, and the Internet was something you connected to a university system with a 300/1200 baud land line modem (uphill, both ways! ;) ).
1:22 can confirm this is a real thing. As a monolingual beta the only russian I know by heart (spelt in with latin letters) is "Vodka" and "Blya' suka"
Im from Kazakhstan right so ig im lucky that I grow up speaking Russian and Kazakh so I speak both of them native, and I speak English on native level with like cholo accent, or maybe from new york really depends who I’m talking with, and I also speak dominican and puerto rican spanish on b2 level, but it’s crazy cuz apparently everyone think I’m native because of my thick accent, but I don’t speak it fluently yet ;(
How do you speak English on native level, as English is not your native tongue? I assume you spoke Russian at home, so Russian would be your native tongue. You probably learned Kazakh at school, though I'm guessing one of your parents knew the language, so they helped you brush up on the language. But how did you learn English?
@@beaucaspar3990 idk I just learned english on my own, kinda acquired by watching movies, youtube, music, and talking to a lot of people n shit, and just got rid of my accent
I finally tested A2 in Greek! I'm finally, officially a polyglot! Native English speaker, and tested C1 in French and at least B2 in Spanish (They weren't offering C1 when I took the DELE, and I've been too lazy to go back and take the higher level, but my Spanish has always been stronger than my French, so I'm probably C1 in Spanish.)
That's very interesting. Actually never thought about learning greek. Is it difficult? I'm a native German speaker and I studied both English (I consider myself to be C1) and French (B1), as well as Spanish (B2) in school. Besides english, I haven't used them for several years now. Instead, I started learning portuguese (B1) at university. I am considering starting italian next semester, whilst also refreshing and improving upon the other languages I've already learned.
06:57 всегда ржу с этого парня, который говорит на 50 языках, но использует одни и те же фразы, типа: "Привиэт, я тожэ говору па руски. Ти харащо знаиш руски? Я учил руски, пака ехал в автобусе и атлична гавару па руски, спасиба!"
@@gatosospechosop3 Español es más fácil que ruso y muchos otros. Es súper común que haya gente que hable nuestra lengua. Es la lengua europea con más hablantes nativos del mundo. Y la segunda más aprendida después del inglés.
@@crusaderACR Soy estadounidense jaja, también estoy aprendiendo español, y tienes toda la razón. No he intentado aprender el ruso, pero creo en la gente que dice que es un idioma bien difícil. Tiene mucho sentido aprender español por acá porque hay un montón de hispanohablantes que viven/trabajan a nuestro alrededor. Me encanta la lengua y igualmente las personas que he podido conocer durante mi aprendizaje. Que tengas un excelente día!
That "языкадумы" line had me positively chuckling 😂. I'm a new repatriate from Russia to Israel, I have a good command of English (native Russian, of course) and am currently learning Hebrew. That feeling when you have a vocabulary of a baby and have to be treated similar to one only to blurt out prerehearsed banalities is very accurately described, but I'm pushing through. Love the channel, Boss! Заебца видосы! 😎
I passed the B2 DELE Spanish exam last year and will be taking C1 in 2 months. So that's about where my level is currently. After I get that piece of paper that says C1 I'm going to start on learning Japanese
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-A is the level when you start speaking in a foreign language and the person you talk with switches to english.
Or also known as, living in/visiting France.
or French C1
@@KateOBrienCreative this also works for the Netherlands
@@yaygya Portugal. Correction: they're switching to English in Portugal no matter what level you think you're at. Unless it's a Brazilian Uber driver.
Or in fact Germany at any level haha - the number of people who speak perfect English and switch to that immediately is mental
As a polyglot that can speak around 20 languages at A0.1 level, this was a very informative video! Can't wait to reach A0.2! :D
wtf how brazen of you to non chalantly use :D use :A
@@_yuri the hostility coming from everyone here is astounding lmao
Honestly, the intro is so cringeeh, and I am the only Alpha / God and great and wife / gf / bride etc, but it’s true that most natives are not a C2 level, and C2 is probably around 15.000 / 20.000 base words, so it’s usually only the writers and scientists and bookworms or ppl that read a lot that are C2 - I am D1 only in Modern English + Scottish dialect + Middle English (writer level) and know 60k to 100.000 words + phrases and idioms and slang etc in all three combined, and am native speaker level in Spanish (between C1 and C2) as I know over 10.000 base words in Spanish since childhood + 1.000 new words that I learned since last year, and am advanced level in Dutch, knowing over 8.000 base words, and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / Portuguese, and beginner level in Welsh / Italian / French / German / Breton / Icelandic and most other Germanic / Celtic / Latin languages!
@@FrozenMermaid666 i'ma put you on r/iamverysmart if you don't shut up
@@FrozenMermaid666take your meds
Everyone gangsta, until Language Simp reaches level D1
He'll reach D2
Even E1
He will be no longer a language simp. He won't merely love a language so much, no, his skin will merge with the abstract words of the language, realities will shift, everyone of his cells will become a word. He won't longer simp for the language, he WILL BE the language
Z10000
Hi fellow lizard
The french-chinese reaction is so spot-on; I lived in both countries, and while in China I was idolised as if I was Confucius himself, in France they almost put me on fire for asking a croissant with a “not enough native” accent.
I wish they did that to immigrants
What was china like lol
I was at a bar in France trying to order a drink in French, but the staff member didn’t understand me. Luckily the person next to me spoke English so they asked what I wanted then relayed it to the staff member in French which to my ear sounded exactly like what I had just said. So I thanked them, then asked, “Am I saying this correctly? (Repeated the phrase)”
“Yes.”
“… then why didn’t they understand me?”
“Because zer accent eez sheeeet.”
One time I tried ordering a baguette in french but they refused to serve me for not saying "bonjour" first
@@3Faidonas3 I’m in favour of this, globally. I mean not specifically ‘Bonjour’, but…
As a native russian speaker, I confirm, that "suka blyat" is more essential than "My name is".
its so sad he didnt switch them
ah yes, X O P O W O
Gg
Yep, it is. Don't forget "pizdec te be" & "poshel nahui"
"suka blyat" is база
2:20 I agree. As a french person, the last time I saw an A2 level french speaker do a horrific grammar mistake he almost didn't come out alive.
What if the horrific grammarist was speaking about the righteousness of plain croissants and coffee?
RIP for all A1 French learners!
make* a grammar mistake ;)
@@jackfordon7735 I love this correction xD
Pronounce squirrel buddy boy
Little you know, but his eyes looking in different directions sometimes because one is watching on camera and with another one he's learning a new language, true gigachad
Good summary. I'm in between B2 and C1 in my target language. Out of all the language levels, I found B1 to be the most frustrating. I felt like toddler who was crawling in the language, but was yet unable to walk.
When I was actively learning Chinese I had that feeling, but after a few months of doing about 300 words a week and doubling my vocabulary in that time I finally found peace at C1. Now Im back at the very frustrating A1 in Japanese where even 10 words a day feels crushing lol! Just keep grinding at the pace you find sustainable and It will definitely come
@@XPLaxative Is that a question for me or the other guy? LOL
@@Tehui1974 I said my languages so I'd imagine its for you, but if he sees this reply I use hellotalk for speaking/listening practice (don't recommend unless you can hold a basic convo in your TL), watch the news and youtube videos, used textbook PDFs and had an online tutor for grammar, used quizlet for learning new words and anki for review (still review even now). I still listen to pretty much exclusively Chinese/Taiwanese music. I also somewhat embarrassingly have seen wayyy too many horrible Chinese made anime. LOL, anyway sounds like you're doing well in your TL so if have any tips I always like hearing what works for other language learners!
@@XPLaxative I'm learning Māori (New Zealand). In regards to input, I commit to about 2 hours a day. I mostly read books in my target language, and listen to podcasts and interviews online when I'm in the gym or commuting to work. I speak the language every day to other speakers, but I'd like to increase my dedicated time for speaking.
I can relate. I studied German way back in the 1990s (still remember it! Maybe a B2 equivalent - CEFR wasn't in use much, much less in American universities - many use that scale now), and taking a 300 level class, it felt like my vocabulary was quite lacking. It probably didn't help that the 200 level was "grammar all day, everyday" with no actual speaking, or reading material.
French is my favourite dialect of the Arabic language.
It's sad i don't understand french even tho I'm native speaker of arabic
Moi aussi.
I think you mean spanish, the language indeed had a lot of arabic influences under moor rule
@@Amparito847 The influence of Arabic on Spanish is largely exagerated.
After the end of the Reconquista there were national campaigns to purge most of these Arabic influences until we were left with a language with just a handful of Arabic words, mostly those that we couldn't find a reasonable alternative. Like Algebra, everyone in Europe calls it algebra why bother changing that one?
Some words were tried to be removed but weren't, like aceituna, which should've been switched to oliva. The tree itself (olivo) and the forest of olives (olivar) did succeed in changing and is now the only word anyone remembers for calling these. But the name of the olive fruit itself, aceituna, stuck too hard.
Some words instead came from the Arab world but were not from the Arabic *language* itself, those mostly remained as is. Like Almohada (pillow), it comes from a country/family that in English is called the Almohads.
I think Swedish is a better arabic language IMO
You know you have really mastered a language when you can solve crosswords in it. I'm pretty good at swedish crosswords (my native language) but when I look at an english crossword i'm straight back to square one, even though I consider myself fully fluent in english.
I need to try that. I play wordle in English, but crosswords seem much harder.
I cannot solve crosswords even in my native language man
@@chevchevir жиза
Bruh, great idea
I guess it depends on the nature of the crossword, but I think at that point cultural knowledge also comes into play, which is difficult to develop unless you're fully immersed in the world of that language.
i swear, this man could make content on the most boring subject on earth and simultaneously be funny and make the subject interesting to learn about
You have just insulted a lot of linguists and language lovers.
I swear I just got offended😂😭 language learning is the funniest thing to ever exist for me
Yall in the replies getting offended for no reason. OP isn't saying language learning is boring ffs. He's saying LS is entertaining enough he could make ACTUALLY boring stuff entertaining. Use your brains holy shit.
@@mustzhrapethen ur life is sad
@@arctrix5031 periodt
That thing he said about A2 is true. I've learned Indonesian to that level before a trip there and my wife was filming me ordering us food in bahasa Indonesia and everybody was like omg he is such a smart ass. Man I probably had less than 300 words in my head...
Most videos of polyglots here are of the kind, probably
That's the Indonesian people for you..
Even if you only say a simple "Terima Kasih", the reaction would be "wow you speak good Indonesian".
*I am an Indonesian
This is true...the difference is that you actually realized how good/bad you were. It took me years to learn French and then I meet people who "speak" French and ten other languages.
i wanna learn indonesian
Smart a** does not mean intelligent
brazil is the same
Your humour is so contagious, I don't know why I haven't watched your language reviews before) thanks for an entertaining and interesting content 😂🌺
This is legit more helpful and realistic advice for learning levels than anything I've seen before. It all makes sense now
I'm C2/D1 in french and i speak québéquois at a A1 level.
Lol I am a C1
tabernacle ! moi aussi
osti de cris de tabarnaque que t'es fort wesh
@Ionica Meseri honestly can't blame you! I teach French and it's a hard language to learn if you don't already know any other Latin languages (such as Spanish, Italian...)
@@ionicameseri8081 Oh well. It is tough to start but it’s fun. Although I have been learning since the age of 6, and I’m not even French or from any Francophone country.
I'd like to add a couple of notes/extra levels;
B1 in German as a Dutch person combined with the 'good German accent' already makes you able to fit into German society without anyone noticing.
It only works if you're Dutch though and think about a words like 'verzekeringsmaatschappijenmedewerknemersstaking' and 'Productivität' all the time.
(Came up with this one because I have a really good accent in German as a Dutch person but only studied the language for three years in school. Then I got lost in a German village while on holiday with my parents. And while asking a German guy for directions to the camping, he tought I was the local. It tooks us five minutes to figure out we were both not form this part of Germany. LOL)
Another one is B1/B2 in English for people form Scandanavia. The moment you speak to a native English speak and say 'I just speak a bit of English', you will in the next 5 minutes use a word the native speaker never heard before but is correct English.
Honestly, the intro is so cringeeh, and I am the only Alpha / God and the only great / attractive being etc and the only wife / gf / bride etc, but it’s true that most natives are not a C2 level, and C2 is probably around 15.000 / 20.000 base words, so it’s usually only the writers and scientists and bookworms or ppl that read a lot that are C2 - I am D1 only in Modern English + Scottish dialect + Middle English (writer level) and know 60k to 100.000 words + phrases and idioms and slang etc in all three combined, and am native speaker level in Spanish (between C1 and C2) as I know over 10.000 base words in Spanish since childhood + 1.000 new words that I learned since last year, and am advanced level in Dutch, knowing over 8.000 base words, and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / Portuguese, and beginner level in Welsh / Italian / French / German / Breton / Icelandic and most other Germanic / Celtic / Latin languages!
It’s so easy for me to say long compound words in Dutch because I usually know the smaller words they are made of - verzekerings + maatschappijen + medewerk - nemers + taking! Dutch really is as easy as English! And Dutch & English are the prettiest languages ever with the most pretty words - can’t wait to get to a C2 level (and then to a writer level) in Dutch!
@@FrozenMermaid666 Wow, with a person this confident in their languages, it is kinda sad you don't know that medewerk and taking are not Dutch words. LOL
It's medewerkers (employees) + staking (strike, as in going on strike)
I'll confess, medewerkernemers is a contamination (two words (medewerker and werknemer meaning both the same thing) accidentally thrown together). But the fact you didn't notice that? it makes me wonder how advance you Dutch really is. I don't expect much from people and I am humbled you learned my language, but you don't know the words staking and medewerker/werknemer? How?
Also. I love the whole "I know X amount of words" thingy. How in hell do you know? Do you have a word list with 10 000 words in it? Is it a guess? You keep bragging on about it so much I do really wonder what you are doing to know the exact amount of words in each language your learning.
Next to all of that, just to be clear, you're impressing no one with this list of languages. You feel like a real person, so I really wanna make this clear. Even if we are jealous of the amount of words you know in this many languages, you brag about it in such an annoying way we would never show you our jealousy.
Lastly, don't bother getting to a writer's level in Dutch. As a native speaker, I tried, I felt like it, it's not wroth it. You'll end up with this list of Dutch words from the 17th century that no Dutch person, except the most posh and snobbish writers, ever uses.
Dutch is one of those languages where you'll always keep learning, so just get to C1/C2 (idk, idc) and enjoy the result.
@@TikoVerhelstDutch is German without the power.
@@SiGa-i1r If you want to tell yourself that because that's the only way you can feel proud/happy about your Germaness, so be it. Although it does make you look quite pathetic, just saying.
You know, you can also be proud of the German language without punching down? Like, I love German. Not because "it's better than Dutch" but because it is a cool language with a cool culture attached to it!
See, nowhere in that sentence did I go and bully another country/language. Just awesome German and awesome German alone.
Not being a bully is not actually that hard you know. ;)
5:30 that’s so true 😭 I’m learning Arabic in college & asked my mom for help cuz it’s her native, but she just told me the grammar rules in the textbook were wrong & didn’t make sense - even tho I swear she uses them herself without realizing it when speaking 😆
Right? I'm learning German cuz i'm dating a German guy and will move there, and he never knows what I am talking about when I ask about grammar. Especially the case system it's like he never heard those terms in his life and he claims to not have studied grammar in school which I find hard to believe lol.
@@ramblingmillennial1560 I guess it depends on people... Some of them don't remember school subjects at all. I was terrified when I knew my boyfriend doesn't even know what NOUN and VERB are😭 he would've never been able to help anyone with learning his native language lol
@@mustzhrape yeah you're right. Like my bf said he totally forgot how to do division on paper and I was so confused cuz it's so easy lol. I had to reteach him how to do it but school was honestly not a priority for him while I liked school growing up. Of course you can't remember everything from school but I assumed people retained the basics.
@@ramblingmillennial1560 gosh it's like we have one same boyfriend LOL! I retaught him how to do division on paper TOO! And he told same things about not caring about studying in school... The only difference is, mine isn't German XD
@@mustzhrape that's hilarious lol
I swear this man is the top tier of Polyglot entertaining on the web
As an American I’m proud to have straight A’s, but I had to do some extra credit in my American class.
XD
I'm a D1 in English thanks to this channel. Muchas gracias (that's tacospeech for those of you not fluent in it)
Thank you, Великий Симп! Я пытался to watch other youtubers explaining that system, but yours is the best one, hands down (руки на стол)
Да да, а то можно не сдержаться и джерк оффнуть
Чад энергия
Never knew I needed your channel, but you've given me way more confidence and passion for getting back into language learning than anyone else has
You failed to mention the D2 level, when just by willing it you can redefine the grammar, the vocabulary, create or replace words and all native speakers will instantaneously follow suit. If one reaches D2 level in japanese for instance, you can do away with all Kanji.
d2 proficiency will land you an academy award for best screenplay by just writing a manzai script alone
日本語唯漢字大丈夫！
Pseudo-Chinese: Yes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Chinese
Level D2 is only available in Tagalog, Malayam, and some almost-extinct dialect of Eskimo. Sorry folks -- them's the rules.
was Shakespeare a D2?
C4 is the most based level, and only available for the sigma male. However it has also the annoying setback of putting you at risk of spontanous explosion if you hear any mistake in that language (nuclear if you're french).
Why did this actually make me feel better about my language abilities and actually explain it better than the real criteria I learned in college 😂😂😂
I'm enjoying your videos. You have a very elegant and cheeky sense of humour and that's just what I was looking for, so keep up the good work my man. Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷🙅🏿
You’re so entertaining! Definitely giving me a new perspective on languages and language learning. Merci beaucoup!
After taking 18 months of online Polish classes and traveling to Poland where I could do things like order coffee and then immediately switch to English when they asked me if I wanted it to go I convinced myself I was at A2 and signed up for an online group "conversation" class where I thoroughly embarrassed myself before I dropped out in shame which caused much rejoicing on the part of my teacher and the other students.
I was actually curious about the language levels, so this was pretty helpful thank you 😂👍
As a person who was called braindead while trying to learn languages and only got English after years of internet conversations, after 2:25 I'm sure this channel is exactly the right place for me
As someone who has mastered all 7117 languages to 屁1 level after watching this, I can confirm that this is the best way of learning languages
thanks for helping me realise that I am definitely an A1 level in German. I feel like learning an new language has also made me realise how much I don't even know about the English language
Englisch und Deutsch sind so ähnlich, des sollte ziemlich einfach sein zu lernen
Im Polish, 15, learned English, got a C2 Cambridge certificate, got all my vocabs though reading Patterson and Chernov, as well as listening to ... J. Peterson, Peterson single handedly expanded my vocabulary range tenfold. I actually enjoyed taking the exam. Been learning german for 3-4 years, id say im a B2 but i only owe that to the fact that i get to speak with lots of native speakers. Now learning español to fulfill my quest of becoming a super polyglot gigachad, wish me luck lads
The trick lays im forcing yourself to constant exposure to the language, thus you are forced to learn, like a newborn child.
After you do Spanish, try Greek
Hah, "writing the exam" instead of "taking the exam," so I guess there are things native speakers pick up on without knowing why
@@zzzyyyxxx dont u take an exam?
😇try french after...hehehe....
@@zzzyyyxxx gottemmm
I’ve never watched any of your videos, but they seem to be a mix of accuracy and jokes. I like it. Subscribed
I’m learning Spanish. I’m working on solidifying a B2 level, so I’d say I’m a solid B1 but a shaky B2.
If my listening comprehension could get to c1 and my speaking at least at b2, I’d be happy with that :)
5:53 Got my new alarm sound, thanks!
WHAA WHAA WHAA * ع*
I have the “I used to be able to order in a language but was unable to introduce myself because God forbid The Owl taught me how to introduce myself first but it’s been about a year or two since I practiced so I forgot just about everything.” I also have the “With a bit of practice I can pronounce words pretty well but that’s only with the languages I’ve sang in in choir”😂
i speak 2 languages at a native languages which are Spanish and English, it is good to know that I will never be a monolingual beta but instead feel like a bilingual beta because I am struggling to learn German
You’re not alone, I’m also struggling it learn German, the case system is a bit complicated for me.
@@thedeutschman9905 I already went through weird sentence structure shit when learning English and now I have to learn another system again it's killing me
We are very alike you and I.
@@yrusb why don't you translate to English instead so I can know what you are saying
nvm Google Translate did the trick. Yeah I am not expecting to speak German fluently within weeks or months Ive been going in with the mentality that this is gonna take years
Man, I'm also stuck at being a bilingual beta. Japanese is so fcking hard
English C2, Spanish C1, French B2, Mandarin Chinese B1, Japanese A2, Turkish A1. Thanks for explaining the system. It seems so simple when you say it.
Hola, ¿vos que opinás sobre la coyuntura socioeconómica actual de Sudamerica y los sucesos de índole política que ocurrieron estas ultimas semanas? (Particularmente con el magnicidio al candidato a presidente ecuatoriano y la victoria en las primarias del candidato de ultra derecha Javier Milei)
Mucha gente dice que el chabón esta pirado, incluso llegan a especular que mantiene una relación insestuosa con su hermana. Para mi es cualquiera, los boludos le quieren ensuciar la imagen porq no tienen argumentos para desestimar su plataforma política liberal. Tienen cagaso de que les choreen sus privilegios y ‘ayudas’ estatales.
@@agme8045jumbo vipi hali habari yaku
how do you learn?
Why turkish? Why would somebody learn turkish?
@@berkay6947çünkü çok güzel
Don't forget the negative levels, for example I am English so I absolutely refuse to learn French. In fact, sometimes I just start speaking German aggressively instead. so, I have a negative French compreh.... kennen.
-z1 or -z2?
The non-French word for comprehension is understanding.
Kennen is Germ-
Ah shit, I just got the joke.
I can assure you that if I took a language exam for level C1 in Spanish I would certainly fail that exam 🤣
PS: El español es mi lengua materna.
I can vehemently assure you that you are wrong
@jcvp2493 a ver
@jcvp2493 zapato
El español es mi segundo idioma
@jcvp2493creo que eso no existe xD
I learned e̶n̶g̶l̶i̶s̶h̶ american by watching videos on youtube. No, not the "How to learn engl*sh in 5 minutes" videos, just regular content that I would've watched in my language and because of that sometimes I have no fucking idea why I said something the way I did. I just heard some dudes from youtube playing minecraft saying it that way so I just repeat after them. In conclusion I can definitely say that I am a native american speaker
btw its really interesting that i managed to understand what the videos I was watching were about even at the age of 9 and with vocabulary of like 250-500 words
same bro, when i was like 6yo, i remember watching minecraft lets plays in english, without even noticing that it wasnt my mother tongue
Yup. It was before RUclips, but little me just wanted to play video games and chat on forums which did the mass immersion bit really well. Most English lessons at school were completely useless. Wish they'd have taught weeb or something instead.
You're not a native American speaker, you have really bad grammar and vocab, I hardly believe you can actual talk about a variety of things and American isn't a language, it's English. Sorry to break it to ya.
I've seen some places talk about the unofficial D1/D2 level - basically a PHD that does a lot of medical/scientific research in that language. Yep, D level is clearly medical/scientific/legalese. A whole new level in any language! Same for grammar vocabulary - my biggest pet peeve learning any language. I have no idea what a "subordinate conjunctive" or a "passive infinitive" or a "transitive verb", much less trying to learn those when I have to translate from the word in the target language just to figure out what the word in in my NL, then go look that word up (only to get a definition like, "A subjective Clause is a type of subjection". O_o
Nonsense. Medical/ scientific vocabulary is all Greek and Latin. It's easier than regular everyday language.
That's C2. You specialise the points in the area of your expertise and you can express them like a journalist.
I'd also argue that a C2 may not be the end all. IMO there is native, C2, and native/C2. In other words a native might be higher than C2 (in speaking skills and accent), but the C2 might have better grammar/writing skills/knowledge. Also I think you can be C2 and have a 20K vocab, but what is the difference between a C2 that has a 20K vocab and a 40K vocab? Yes, I think C2 is probably the highest level you can test for. But I think there can be a difference between C2s and in many cases a native will have better speaking skills than a C2 (and perfect accent). Many C2s that learned a second-language do not have native accents (they speak really well but have a noticeable accent).
@@mybestideas1 Agreed, and a PHD might be an expert in his/her chosen area and have only intermediate writing skills for example.
I'm A1 in russian, A2 in german, Native in french, B1 in spanish and C1 in english 🔥 Mashallah
Woman called Ирина has A1 in russian? Is it a joke?)
@@ABVGDE546 Maybe her parents moved from Russia to France, when she wasn't born. Because why French - is her native language?
@@ABVGDE546 So you see how hard Russian is. In Russia, the language learns you.
@@ABVGDE546 тайна 😈
@@Holeintheearthhhhh тајна. -Јазик
5:43 They got a lucky spawn!
*shows North Korea as said lucky spawn*
That eye drift before he says “and man on the planet” 😅
Greatly timed video! Well explained and entertaining
it’s scary how accurate this is
he knows how to troll enough while giving us info on the topic
4:06 As an A1.5 Spanish speaker, I know "pequeño" is "small".
I have A2 speaking level and B1 listening level, this is what they told me at the testing some time ago. I also learn my native Russian language and I have a bit more level in it than average Russian, I think so. Today I’ve learned my native language and I want to say: it’s so beautiful
6:12 I instinctively squinted right when you said "psychopath"
6:48 no way. You are exaggerating there is no way you would impress a french person with just D1
As a french person, i agree. My only reation would be to judgementally raise my eyebrow like so : 🤨
At D1 you get French Nationality
Je ne suis même pas sûr que D1 soit suffisant pour écrire cette langue sans faire de fautes d'orthographes / I'm not even sure that D1 or even D2 for that matter would be sufficient to write flawless french 😂😂
@@Inconito___ déjà que nous on arrive pas a pas en faire alors les gens qui apprennent la langue ! 😂
@@wiyu écoute. Comment te dire que t’es désagréable sans insulter tes grands morts…. C’est une tache plus que complexe !
The C2 part is pretty funny XD But maybe only applies to English native speakers learning other non-international languages. I'm not a native speaker of English but I'm classified as C2 level in the IELTS test, and I'm sure many non-native English learners also are in this level. It's not that strange to get to C2 level if it's a language you need to actively use on a daily basis, even if it's not your native language (without being a psychopath🤣).
You're definitely not a psychopath.
But you are a cringe tryhard.
I was gonna comment the exact same thing. Getting a C2 in English is really not that big of a deal, considering people need to reach that level all the time because of work/study requirements.
I took the cambridge C1 Advanced test, and got classified as C2 level, however i really don’t see the difference between that and C1.
In my country you are good to go with a B2 anyway, thats like the minimum level any company or university will request. After that it’s more about specific goals you may have (migrating, studying abroad, working for foreign companies, etc).
@@agme8045I tried the B2 test and they said I was C1. Regardless, I just needed at least a B2 on paper for practical reasons. I honestly don't plan on getting other certificates even if I'll learn other languages.
1:21 got me good :D. I learn cussing before learning how to greet someone, introduce myself, express gratitude and of course the alphabet and pronunciation (except the ones in swear words of course).
Epic. Just found this channel and I'm very happy about this.
I love how the Language Simp is able to roast all of his RUclips polyglot friends without causing any drama ❤
After studying a foreign language for 5 years at school and then not properly maintaining it for years after, I can confidently say I'm a shaky A2 at best 😌
That's currently me with french and spanish, but french in particular. I'm currently trying to fix that.
If it was a British school then as someone who was also taught languages in British schools I can confirm that "shaky A2 at best" is probably picking up exactly where you left off after 5 years. This is not due to your own incompetence (probably) but because sitting in silence copying verb tables off the board is not in fact the perfectly optimised pedagogical approach that 20th and early 21st century British educators believed it was.
Hahaha, behind the humor, this is really pretty accurate. I'm definitely at B2 I'm Vietnamese now. I can muddle through what I need to do, and people are really impressed when I talk about things that particularly interest me, but then wonder why I can't understand them (much less give a comprehensible answer) once it gets into new territory. I think the important thing is having enough to talk around the things you don't have the vocabulary for and get there. Like walking up the long and torturous trail up a hill, and when you get there, you see the terminal cable car station. But hey, you've made the journey, and managed to drag innocent bystanders along too!
Having been through this process in another language or two (though my cycle kinetic abilities are still lacking, even in Turkish after 14 years in Istanbul) it's fun to 1) recognize this level, and 2) be aware that all the work to get there paid off and you can keep progressing.
To me, B2 is also the level where, if you're in the country where your
target language is spoken, you start remembering all the vocabulary and structures that you have already seen, but which have been passive knowledge up to this point. You give it all a context and start actually using it.
What's your native language?
@@GirlBarcateam English
@@sazji you have the B2 level in Vietnamese? Wow you answered really fast haha
@@GirlBarcateam I guess, though I need more time in Vietnam to have any hope of maintaining that! (I was reading other comments when yours came in. 😀)
As a native german, ive been "learning" the english language for about 8 years now (Im 14 (Yes in school we learn english from 6 onward)). Im probably C2 by now. Ive been considering myself fluent fluent (like native fluent) for 3 years now. Ive achieved this without any tools, just pure immersion. School taught me only like 10% of my grammar and 1% of my vocab.
I am also a native german speaker (17).
I speak english not fluent but i have a russian and spanish b1 Level. I would guess my english is b2/c1
by the time I got to C1 in english I forgot all the grammar "rules" and everything just comes naturally now,kinda like my native language. I started learning russian and I'd say I'm at level A2 for now,and surpirsingly I found it to be pretty similar to romanian (my native language)
I watched your description of A1 and the about knowing only greetings and profanity and I knew that’s where I was at in my second language. Didn’t need to watch any further. Well played sir :)
Очень круто снято и смонтировано, я наконец-то понимаю чем отличается уровень.
Mr. Simp you made my day with your hilarously original explanation of CEFR levels. Never heard of D level though.
the D level is a joke
j'ai déjà atteint le niveau C1, et t'as raison, quand je l'ai atteint, je pensais que je pouvais parler couramment la langue, donc j'ai décidé d'en apprendre une autre. je peux aussi parler aux français (les étrangers) en français que je rencontre dans les sites touristiques ici dans mon pays, les philippines.
mais maintenant, si on peut remarquer, mon français n'a plus l'air d'être C1. je pense que, parce que j'ai arrêté de l'apprendre et de l'utiliser, je l'ai rétrogradé à B2. et ce commentaire est une preuve de cette régression
ne t'inquiete pas, en temps que Français je peut te rassurer. C'est très bien, n'abandonne pas et continue!
Tu parles le Tagalog ?
@@eliomaster1761en temps que Français MDRRRRRR
c'est le genre de faute de merde que seulement les natifs pourraient inventer
*en tant que
As a native russian i'd say that leveling C1-native-C2 is really works. There is a lot russian people speaking their native language with a ton of mistakes (I think it's problem about exceptions and declensions in russian language). I think russian achieves C2 level when he make a good preparation to national russian language exam which is at the school graduation.
I worked with C1 books when I was in 10-11th grade. I made a really huge progress in grammar and vocabulary. Unfortunately my level of English can't be considered as C1 although I passed the national exam with 97 points out of 100. I still have a lot of difficulties especially when I speak to others. Ну и большой привет от native Russian speaker)
@@doomerbob5731 The most bad ass thing about it, when you correcting another person you becoming like a dog shit to them cause people don't like it, and they continue speaking wrong (That the trigger point for me). У тебя такое было? Типа ты говоришь челу, что правильно звонИшь, а не звОнишь или исправляешь склонение трудного числительного, а они продолжают говорить не правильно.
@@Slantishka да, постоянно
C’était hyper informatif! Merci mec :D
This is seriously the best language learning levels explanation i have ever heard, unironically, and it’s hilarious too.
I'm at A2 in Japanese. I'm at the point where I can understand the gist of most sentences in Naruto, but my vocabulary knowledge is a bit weird. (Anki taught me words like "選手" and "経済" before "氷".) Occasionally I will think in Japanese, but only a few simple phrases, such as "何だ", "そうだね", and "「品物」はどこ". I have made it a habit to count the shelf numbers at work in Japanese, and I no longer struggle to count to 百.
maybe if you practice counting to 阿僧祇 you can become a C2 gigachad
@@bobboberson8297その数は何ですか。数字で書いてください。
@@Williamatics it means it's time for you to install yomichan
(real answer: it means a number so large it can't be counted to or 10^56 (except sometimes it means 10^64 instead))
When I worked at a library back in college, I would study my Tuttle kanji card during my free time (lots of it working the return desk).
I remember when I worked at a factory I would practice words and kanji in my head while cleaning the grease off the machine.
I picked the language up again and can understand most stuff now, sometimes Im fluent, sometimes Im clueless. But the the clueless moments are slowling becoming more rare.
and this is the point where I realise I'm firmly at the B2 level in French. Thanks for exposing past me over the last year and a half with the other levels, I took those personally. They were too accurate.
I remember in middle school i thought d1-d2 was a real thing and it was given to teachers of the language😂
6:56 the boyyyy. Sigma move giving Wouter a shoutout. Always good vibes with him and his skills are pretty underrated
I'm born in Quebec and lived all my life in Quebec so I'm D1 in Tabarnak, D1 in french, C2 in Canadian and C2 in Bald Eagle per football fields English
How good would you say your Bri'ish is?
thinking you’re either fluent or dogshit at a language is so relatable even though english isn’t my native language
As a native Russian, I have a C1 in English and i am satisfied with it, so I'm currently learning العربية and let me comment on that.
I'm dead.
Где ты его учишь? И какие советы можешь дать
How do you get a "C1" in English, is it like a degree you complete? :d
@@Balequalm yep
@@b0dri4ok В ИСАА. Советы? Совет могу дать один. Как бы сложно тебе ни было в изучении чего либо, когда либо. Это не сравнится с изученим арабского. Нужно буквально этим жить примерно 2 года, дальше пойдет легче. Многие бросают... И не нужно кидаться на диалекты, выучишь фусху, а там и диалекты легко пойдут.
Есть еще вопросы - задавай
@@reverendnon5959 спасибо за ответ, этого мне достаточно 👍🏻
I love you, this is actually informative AND with the classic Language Simp style.
6:31 underrated Bush reference
I love your method to provide videos , it’s very fun 😂😂
I think the problem with learning a language and being proficient in it comes down to how technical and standardized the definitions are. Take the huge gap between a native speaker with and without any specific knowledge in technical terms (e.g. legalese or scientific words and so on and so forth). A spoken language is kind of an artform, and it's not always logical, that's why there always will be many gramatically and even sociologically perfect ways of saying the same phrase that will sound "off" to another native speaker from a different region. That's why "subconjugated" terms or 12+ different cases were invented to make the art of the specific language explainable. And the next thing is "connotations", as in different meanings behind the meaning of a word - in the English language the words to erradicate, to exterminate, to extinguish, to off, etc. can mean kind of the same thing, yet they don't although you'd find the synonym to put out or to snuff for each and everyone of them. ("Please, extinguish the fire" sounds kind of okay, but "Would you kindly exterminate the fire" sounds weird). Sry for any errors made, because this is not my NL.
5:32 except in Russia. If you had finished school not more than 8-10 years ago in Russia you'd probably remember most of the necessary rules to maintain the understanding of how things are written or spoken. Because studying russian language is mandatory in russian schools
As an American who is roughly A2 in polish, I have been humbled
What level are you now
I'm so happy for Wouter Corduwener for achieving D1 level!
как же хорошо родиться в стране где люди говорят на двух языках с рождения
Слава Украине!
Твоя страна, направде героическая защитника всей Европы. 🇮🇹❤🇺🇦
@@serenissimarespublicavenet3945 чзх
American:
@@TrolsakRovaloj assalamualeykum comarade, esta bien?
Це називається колоніальний спадок. Безліч країн Африки та, наприклад, Індія теж двомовні.
Мы с тобой недавно встречались в VRCHAT. У тебя очень интересная подача! Хоть я и очень плохо понимаю английский язык смотреть очень интересно!
Having recieved my English C2 certificate. I can tell you it's 100% true.
The only way I could train/study for C2, and the tip I give everyone who wants to do C2, is literally reading Victorian novels and learning all the super grandloquent vocabulary.
C1 was just; make sure you're English doesn't suck. But C2 was like; talk to me as if we are two rich people of nobility from the 19th century who have just read a work by Voltaire and are trying to show of our wealth through our words.
I believe this. I read a ton of Victorian novels as a kid and am frequently mistaken for rich.
I'm sorry I have to disagree with that about C2, also Voltaire was 18th century. And I just find it hard to believe you are a C2 English speaker by the fact you spelt "received" wrong. It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of
@Xcute PikaX So what level are you at? I could also point out the many grammar mistakes in your comment. But I'm not going to, because I'm not a grammar nazi.
Being C2 doesn't mean you never mistakes. "You spelled receive wrong" Yeah, can you blame me? It's not like the English spelling rules are clear at all! What is the "one of the most quintessential English basic rules" behind the word receive? Because I can't imagine a rule beside 'just learn it' to explain that word. Think about it, recieve is the spelling that makes sense, not receive.
And oh yeah, oh yeah, please try to argue against me, that's literally the only way all those grammar lessons from school about things I already just kinda did are going to finally come in handy. I really wanna see how much YOU know about the English language. >:) Because I had to do tons of boring exercises about this language, let's see if you did too. ;)
Also, I said I wouldn't correct your comment, but just for once, "It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of" sweety, didn't they teach you in school 'correct English sentences' never end in a preposition?????? They taught me that. Do you know what they also said? It's only the snobs that care about that mistake. Most English people are fine with phrases ending in prepositions.
If you're gonna be a snob in regards to English, I'm gonna be as well. (I hope your eyes haven't melted yet because of my use of words like "gonna" and "haven't". ;) )
The Voltaire thing was just a simile. And if you want to be pedantic about it; What does it matter if he's 18th century, doesn't mean it became illegal to read him in the 19th century!
Also, if you really wanna know. I scored a final score of 221 on the Cambridge CPE exam which resultes in a official C2 grading. If you don't know which exam I'm talking about, I demand that you look it up or delete your comment. As I already showed; I have done it all. I have C2, and gone through the whole process of learning English as a second language to get to that level. I love finally having an excuse to brag about it. Thank you. :D
I have not spent 8 long years learning English very thoroughly as a second language to be brought down this easily by some snob who thinks they know me based on one spelling mistake.
If anyone wants it, I can give some more tips about what C2, C1 or any of the others are like (I have done them all, but remember C1 and C2 classes the best). All those boring classes are finally gonna get some good use helping the ones still going for that C2 certificate I already have!
@@TikoVerhelst oh henny, im a NATIVE english speaker xx, you're rlly mad 🤣🤣 You're embarrassing yourself, and you know the sentence "Where are you from?" That ends in a preposition, you can end sentences in a preposition, that thing you said was never a rule and is archaic. What would you like me to say instead?? " It's just one of the most quintessential English basic rules you learn that a C2 would never make a mistake of, cunt. " Are you happy now? Just say you're envious of me because I'm smarter and because you'll never reach my English level, it's okay. I have also noticed quite a few grammar mistakes from that... comprehensive message! Don't worry, I won't point them out for you.😘 Anyways, you've annoyed me enough, I'm OUT.
As a person who learnt english when i was very little so i'm at the you lucky sh*t level, i'm so happy that sombody finally understands that some people who speak the langauge don't understand the grammer to any level and that it isn't always necessary.
That was a big progress, Mr. Simp. Now you are able to offer educational information in your own comedy style. Keep it up until you get more girl fans than boy fans. (I like this channel but I am not a girlish woman at all and probably generous to this channel because I am a lot older than you are 😊)
proof that he's attractive to every woman. and man on the planet
@@elbretto6062 😂 But the man trying worth it. He will develope himself a lot by the time he meets the one.
I am learning Korean. Is your name pronounced like "seini"?
@@idealisticapybara ahaha yes. Thank you for your attention at my mother tongue, as well.
Thank you for clarifying that! I knew that my C2 is even better than some natives grammar errors!
U made me realize our schools are literally lying to us. They actually tell us we have A2 english proficiency at the end of middle school and B2 proficiency at the end of high school as long as you have passing grades. While I studied the language hard enough to believe I’m now at least C1, I’m not sure I was good enough to be considered B2 in high school based on your definition of it and I was years beyond most of my classmates.
One funny thing about language classes at school has always been how heterogeneous classes are, you always have mediocre and native speaker in all classes. I used to compete with another internet self learned friend in english class just for fun, while I was watching the 1/4 german blood girl casually speak and not understand anything in german class.
I realized this looking at A1/A2/B1/B2 samples of German - lots of things we didn't cover, and pretty much confirmed that I felt like my vocabulary was lacking. Granted, my German was in the 1990s, when cassette tapes and VCRs were still a thing, and the Internet was something you connected to a university system with a 300/1200 baud land line modem (uphill, both ways! ;) ).
1:22 can confirm this is a real thing. As a monolingual beta the only russian I know by heart (spelt in with latin letters) is "Vodka" and "Blya' suka"
4:55 "the sweet spot where you're not obsessing over the cringe details"
Don't go triggering Dogen like that.
The pronunciation of "psychopaths" at 6:12 threw me of my seat ... x'D
2:33 Babe, wake up, new meme template just dropped
The Bush reference was D1, major W.
Im from Kazakhstan right so ig im lucky that I grow up speaking Russian and Kazakh so I speak both of them native, and I speak English on native level with like cholo accent, or maybe from new york really depends who I’m talking with, and I also speak dominican and puerto rican spanish on b2 level, but it’s crazy cuz apparently everyone think I’m native because of my thick accent, but I don’t speak it fluently yet ;(
How do you speak English on native level, as English is not your native tongue?
I assume you spoke Russian at home, so Russian would be your native tongue. You probably learned Kazakh at school, though I'm guessing one of your parents knew the language, so they helped you brush up on the language. But how did you learn English?
@@beaucaspar3990 idk I just learned english on my own, kinda acquired by watching movies, youtube, music, and talking to a lot of people n shit, and just got rid of my accent
@@soundtherapy426 I don’t believe you.
I know that all people from Kazakhstan sound like Borat; thinking otherwise will give me an existential crisis.
@@beaucaspar3990 хахаха
I finally tested A2 in Greek! I'm finally, officially a polyglot! Native English speaker, and tested C1 in French and at least B2 in Spanish (They weren't offering C1 when I took the DELE, and I've been too lazy to go back and take the higher level, but my Spanish has always been stronger than my French, so I'm probably C1 in Spanish.)
That's very interesting. Actually never thought about learning greek. Is it difficult? I'm a native German speaker and I studied both English (I consider myself to be C1) and French (B1), as well as Spanish (B2) in school. Besides english, I haven't used them for several years now. Instead, I started learning portuguese (B1) at university. I am considering starting italian next semester, whilst also refreshing and improving upon the other languages I've already learned.
06:57 всегда ржу с этого парня, который говорит на 50 языках, но использует одни и те же фразы, типа: "Привиэт, я тожэ говору па руски. Ти харащо знаиш руски? Я учил руски, пака ехал в автобусе и атлична гавару па руски, спасиба!"
i love the side eye thing you do its hilarious
I’m finally not a detriment to society while speaking B2 Mexican Mexican, but I still suck ass with my A1 comprehension in Chilean Mexican 😢
nmms wey como aprendiste español wey
@@gatosospechosop3 Español es más fácil que ruso y muchos otros.
Es súper común que haya gente que hable nuestra lengua. Es la lengua europea con más hablantes nativos del mundo.
Y la segunda más aprendida después del inglés.
@@crusaderACR Soy estadounidense jaja, también estoy aprendiendo español, y tienes toda la razón. No he intentado aprender el ruso, pero creo en la gente que dice que es un idioma bien difícil. Tiene mucho sentido aprender español por acá porque hay un montón de hispanohablantes que viven/trabajan a nuestro alrededor. Me encanta la lengua y igualmente las personas que he podido conocer durante mi aprendizaje. Que tengas un excelente día!
@@gatosospechosop3 wow me has sorprendido, cuanto tiempo vas aprendiendo?
I really appreciated the bush reference, I had to subscribe
That "языкадумы" line had me positively chuckling 😂.
I'm a new repatriate from Russia to Israel, I have a good command of English (native Russian, of course) and am currently learning Hebrew.
That feeling when you have a vocabulary of a baby and have to be treated similar to one only to blurt out prerehearsed banalities is very accurately described, but I'm pushing through.
Love the channel, Boss! Заебца видосы! 😎
There is nothing named Israel its just Palestine 🇵🇸
I'm learning Hebrew too! Been learning for almost 3 years and know almost nothing lol :/ :(
I passed the B2 DELE Spanish exam last year and will be taking C1 in 2 months. So that's about where my level is currently. After I get that piece of paper that says C1 I'm going to start on learning Japanese