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Can anyone become a polyglot? A polyglot is a person who speaks 5-6 foreign languages. But do you need to have any special predisposition to successfully learn languages? For whom is it easy to learn foreign languages, and who needs to make great efforts? We understand the nature of the superpowers of polyglots using the example of our heroes.
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These people claim to have phenomenal abilities. Extraordinary people. They came to us to prove the strength of their abilities. But will they pass the test of our expert scientists? Which of the participants will truly surprise our experts? Will the finalist's superpower pass the ultimate test? Is it innate and acquired ability?
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I'm so impressed when I hear that people know more than three languages. I'm currently learning Greek and I've put my Spanish 2 level language on hold. I don't practice every day but I cram as many random words and sentences as I can on the days I feel like learning until I start to feel a headache coming on. It works for me.
thanks for your input!
What languages do u know?
@@banamakajabrawlstars5145 English, Spanish and Greek
@@mmm-3737 i was planning to study a bit of spanish in few weeks. I can help you with greek in exchange with Spanish:)
@@banamakajabrawlstars5145 How much of Greek and Spanish do you know?
If they can speak without making mistakes? That’s a very unrealistic expectation. Because guess what? Even when people speak their native language, they still sometimes make mistakes .
So judging them based on wether they did not make any mistakes, is asking them not to be human. Perfect is not a reasonable goal.
Actually, the third dude seemed quite fluent, the first two not so much, and the last test made no sense, honestly! Anyways, I am writer level in Modern English + Scottish dialect + Middle English (60k to 100.000 words in all three combined) and advanced level in Dutch (over 8.000 base words learned in about 4 months of focusing on Dutch or about 300 hours of study) and native speaker level in Spanish (over 10.000 base words learned 100% passively in childhood by watching a lot of TV series and movies in Spanish and by listening to a lot of songs with lyrics in Spanish) and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / German / Portuguese (over 3.500 words in each, but I can understand almost everything in Portuguese because I know Spanish) and beginner level in Welsh / Icelandic / Breton / French / Cornish / Gallo / Hungarian / Irish / Manx / Italian / Scottish Gaelic / Luxembourgish / Old Norse / Limburgish / Gothic / Latin / Galician / Norn / Catalan / Faroese / Old English and the three Frisian languages (West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian) and the other Italian-based languages! All these languages that I’m trying to learn and the languages that I know are pretty languages, so I highly recommend learning them, and Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest ever with the most pretty / poetic words, so they are very easy to learn, because one’s hern tends to remember prettier and more distinctive words faster!
Dutch words are just so gorgeous, as pretty as the English words - too pretty not to know! Great for poetry and lyrics! 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek etc!
What about Hungarian, bro? I've been learning it and my mind is almost exploited 😢 @@FrozenMermaid666
I hate that this is all dubbed over. Just subtitle it! We're here because we like to hear other languages!
I agree! I hate that too
I stoped watching it because of that!!
Seriously tho. I always hate watching anything that is dubbed coz the lips movement and the sounds doesn't match, looks so unnatural.
In my case it works, because i'm learning English lol
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It is not a phenomenon it is hard work. practice, practice, and more practice. Almost anyone can learn a new language just it takes time and hard work.
more or less
Short tests, varied for each person. I find this very haphazard. This wasn't close to what I expected, and the scientist in me screams. Why did I even watch this shit? It says nothing at all.
I agree with you. Besides, at moments it seemed to me they were trying to give answers matching an agenda.
Non entertaining entertainment!
OMG I'm French and when I listened Artym speaking in french, I felt in love with his french : sounds so french, without any real accent or any appearent difficulty. Well done to ever one of them ! They are all impressive and it motivates to learn new languages !!
Anyone can become a polyglot when they know how to learn languages!
Very true
Sure. Anyone can become a sprinter when they know how to run (and buy the right sneakers)!
@Vincenzo Kellen definitely, been using instaflixxer for since november myself :)
so WBU?? How many languages can you speak or at least master in 200 words???
Actually, the third dude seemed quite fluent, the first two not so much, and the last test made no sense, honestly! Anyways, I am writer level in Modern English + Scottish dialect + Middle English (60k to 100.000 words in all three combined) and advanced level in Dutch (over 8.000 base words learned in about 4 months of focusing on Dutch or about 300 hours of study) and native speaker level in Spanish (over 10.000 base words learned 100% passively in childhood by watching a lot of TV series and movies in Spanish and by listening to a lot of songs with lyrics in Spanish) and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / German / Portuguese (over 3.500 words in each, but I can understand almost everything in Portuguese because I know Spanish) and beginner level in Welsh / Icelandic / Breton / French / Cornish / Gallo / Hungarian / Irish / Manx / Italian / Scottish Gaelic / Luxembourgish / Old Norse / Limburgish / Gothic / Latin / Galician / Norn / Catalan / Faroese / Old English and the three Frisian languages (West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian) and the other Italian-based languages! All these languages that I’m trying to learn and the languages that I know are pretty languages, so I highly recommend learning them, and Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest ever with the most pretty / poetic words, so they are very easy to learn, because one’s hern tends to remember prettier and more distinctive words faster!
whenever anyone tells me that they speak German, I immediately switch to German. Usually they don't speak German very well🙄People like to say that they speak German, Spanish, and English fluently, when they almost always have a conversational fluency level in each language, if at all. This language fluency thing is a weird flex, and I think it's overblown by social media. It takes a significant amount of time and effort to be fluent in a language, and frequent practice is necessary to maintain high levels of fluency, even with your native language. 3 or 4 is usually what I see most people can manage to speak well, including my own experience. Even so, it still requires me to practice constantly, having to switch language for specific tasks.
thank you for being rational. I hate it when someone claims they speak a language when they don't.
I’ve met many people who speak 3 or 4 languages to native level, but it’s rare.
@@StillAliveAndKicking_ how can you have met many people, and simultaneously claim that it's rare? I've personally met a few people who speak 3 languages natively (Arabs, Africans, and Persians living in the West). However, I've yet to meet any who spoke all 3 languages at high level. Native just means that you learned the language passed the intermediate stage, prior to age 12. At the latest, possibly 14. This type of native language acquisition is common in Western countries that receive lots of immigrants. They bring their kids.
@@madewithrealdiamonds Firstly I’m 60 and I’ve met a lot of people in my life, probably many thousands. Secondly I did my PhD at Cambidge, which attracts a lot of people from around the world, and these people largely come from well to do backgrounds, so they may live in many countries and speak with people in many languages. A Luxembourgoise grew up in Luxemburg where it is normal to speak Luxemburgish, French and German. She went to a private school, then studied at the Sorbonne, then at Cambridge. An Indian grew up first in Bombay, was educated at St Pauls in England, and lived some time in America. She could speak English with a standard accent, an upper class accent, and an American accent. And she spoke several Indian languages. I know an ethnic Chinese woman who speaks fluent Cantonese and another Chinese language, as well Malay and English. She grew up with those. She lived for many years in Austria and also France so learnt those languages. A friend grew up in England, his mother is French, he was born in Spain, he speaks all three languages fluently, and German to B2 level. These people speak three or more languages to native level, meaning they can hold intelligent conversations, discussing science or whatever. Basically they speak better than many native speakers. These are people who’ve lived in a country for years, or maybe a few months at a time over many years. I’ve met a lot of bilingual people, that’s not uncommon. Look at Luca Lampariello, he has a C2 level in five languages. Richard Simcott knows 20+ languages, with a high level in 6 or more. I worked with a Berber who spoke Berber, Arabic, French and English all to a high level. I knew a woman in Montreal from an Italian family, completely fluent in Italian, French and English. Those are just the ones that come to mind. Obviously if someone writes a PhD dissertation in English, they might struggle to express it in French or German, and if they rode horses in Germany, they might not know the names of horse riding equipment in French.
But there are different level of fluency. Conversational skills is the equivalent of basic fluency, I think.
Why would you dub what the participants say?
Being a polyglot there is no way I won't watch this in it's original in Russian even if it is just to feel cool... Its "Сверхспособности. Полиглоты". Also on YT.
Study the brain. Neurology is the key.
New neural pathways and synaptic connections can and are created simply by speaking an idea audibly and vocally. There are videos that show it happening live action and in real time.
"Third times a charm", and as the bible states, "the power of life and deathare in the tongue."
Can you give me a link for one of the videos?
@@xexwxw5538 just use keywords. Can't give uany links but their definitely on youtube.
@@TheDaydreammaster okay thank you I guess
Your comment makes me hopeful
Who defines "polyglot"? "Poly" is the Greek word for "many." Is two _many?_ I think not. How about three? Probably not. I'd go with four as the minimum number to call someone a "polyglot".
But what about relative competence? I tend to think that a polyglot is someone who can function well amongst people of the languages that he or she speaks. Not that they can speak without errors -- even native speakers will not perform in their own language always without mistakes. I can function in German-language areas, though I am not of native competence in the language. I am not a polyglot, of course, but I would say that I am a bi-glot.
There’s no point knowing more than 3 languages. It’s better to be able to speak almost perfectly fewer languages. The point is not just to have a conversation like blah blah blah I like my green cat. It’s to be able to express yourself with no limits. By being able to choose the right words in any situation.
I’d say, if you’re a native non-English speaker learn it very well. Learn idioms, phrasal verbs and common expressions so you can speak like a Native American. Trust me, this part of the learning process will take you more time than learning a new language by reaching the B1-B2 level, but it’s really going to be worth it.
If you’re a native speaker I suggest you learn either French or Spanish.
For me, the motivation is not really about the language itself, except for the part about knowing more than just one language. It’s mostly about being able to communicate effortlessly.
I’m sure it depends on the personal goals of each person. Mine are to speak French and German well, with near native level comprehension. So I aim to speak correctly, with a good but not perfect accent, and a reasonable vocabulary, maybe like a 14 year old child. So not like an academic or expert. But I’m not an extrovert, so I’m not comfortable making lots of errors while speaking. But someone could appreciate a culture with a modest B2 level.
One way of learning for me is using the word with emotion what I mean is when i learn something I also practice how I would say it if I were using it as a reaction to a situation Idk like if a word is usually said when angry like a swear word I'll imagine feeling angry and then Every time I'm angry that word I learnt comes out easily Idk it's weird but it's how learn words like it's my first language.
Good tip. I should try to do it as well. :)
@@DepoverS I hope it works for you. Good luck
Mine is matching the similiar sounds to the language I already know and made up a colleration about that sound and the meaning 😂 works for me.
@@Thewisdomofsheera that's good. I should try that
wow as a polyglot itself, this kind of video and those tests are entertaining but also tiring to me,, what an awesome video!
If you're referring to yourself, it would be "as a polyglot myself" may I ask how many languages you speak?
@@almadi8370 hi dear, I come from a country where there are a thousand languages, I can speak at least 4 languages in the traditional language and one in our nation's language, for foreigners language, we learn English and Arabic at school, Japanese at university, and I also learn Korean, Spanish, French, from youtube..maybe not all of them I'm perfect on it, but least I can use them for communication when it's needed,
@@hottestarlight understandable, i hope my comment wasn't rude. Are you indian?
@@almadi8370 same to me sir, I hope I didn't sounds show off,,
No dear, I'm not Indian person,
The language rating of ease or hard, is a variable. Indoeuropean langs are easy. Asian + arabic + slavic langs harder to learn. Knowing 3000+ words of a lang is 80% of the battle. Very interesting vid. Mr. Petrov may have spent most time study. Russians are very competitive opponents:)
slavic languages are Indo-European lol
Indoeuropean languages are easier for speakers of an indoeuropean language, not for Chinese, Japanese etc. It’s all about the difference from your own language.
It basically comes down to hours of study/input and number of words known (it is a given people will know at least enough grammar to connect the words they know meaningfully). So, if a person studies or is immersed in a language for 500 hours with the best teachers, best methods, best use of this time possible, he'll probably become a good intermediate speaker/reader of that language that may sound close to how natives sound. If he stops learning that language after 10 years, he'll forget most of it after 5 or 10 years (regaining the ability to speak a language you forgot is quite fast though). On the other hand, if he lazily absorbs a second language for 1 or 2 hours a day for a period of 20 years totaling 10 thousand hours of input, he will most likely have a great accent, a great vocabulary and know hundreds of idioms in that language. In the end, 20 lazy-hours of language study beat the heck out of 1 magablaster-gigachad-hour of language study.
I can speak, read and write Surigaonon, Cebuano, Tagalog and English. Recently, I started learning Nihongo にほんご(Japanese Language).
Go for you!
There is a mistake, when she was suppossed to read the text in spanish, they put the shot from when she was reading it in some other language (definitely not spanish).
I am from Azerbaijan. I can speak English. Turkish. Farsi. Arabic. And I'm learning Swedish. Romanian. Greek. Polish.
What’s the point? Are you C2 in most of these languages?
@@urbanistgodC2 is academic level
B2 is enough if someone not wanting to join University in the country where those languages spoken
Nice so far cuz I didnt find that many documentaries on languages at all. I think it is a bit strange tho, for that this video is more than two years old and still nobody, or at least none I did see, cringed when they showed the scientific sentences in the respective languages. I think experts should do better.
For example at 09:45 they show the German one:
"16 April, im Rahmen des Experimenten, die Wissenschaftler
haben die Entwicklung des Embrions
im speziellen Inkubator geschafft. Die
angewandte Technologie wird in der
Zukunft es erlauben, die vorfristig
geborenen Kinder zu retten."
Translation with an adequate amount of mistakes:
-> April 16th, within the course of the experiments, have scientists done the development of the embryo within the special incubator. The used technology will in the future allow it to save too early born children.
This actually is wrong in grammar, context and syntax all the while sounding pretty unnatural.
In German this would actually look like:
"16 April. Im Rahmen eines Experiments haben Wissenschaftler die Entwicklung eines Embryos in einem speziellen Inkubator erfolgreich durchgeführt. Die angewandte Technologie wird es in der Zukunft erlauben, zu früh geborene Kinder (durch eine künstliche Reifung der Lunge) lebensfähig zu machen."
Im not sure if this would count as "scientific" but at least it has more qualities thereof than what the Russian "experts" did to that language. I know German is quite difficult to learn for nonnatives but if you dont speak the language fluently, why call yourself an expert and use it for a test.
They do it by virtue of having a superior memory for new vocabulary.
They do it by hard work and constant exposure.
Not only
That exercise is a bit stressing, the thing is if you keep focusing on 1 image, you lose the next one. The more stressed you get, the more images you lose
idiotic documentary, completely missing the point
for those who actually want to learn about the topic - please go read Michael Erards book Babel No More
I read it. Good stuff. Just one quick conment: there's not anything surprising in learning multiple languages other than the great effort, commitment, passion and strategic action in learning them.
I really don't think it's fare to find out who's better by using fake languages because it's obviously harder for them both due to the fact that the languages don't exist which means they've never even heard them before
So what does this actually prove?
I think this was poor as a test, as each person had different tasks in the first section. What we did see was astonishing. The young lad’s English and French were impressive though he was not really pushed i.e. the language was straightforward. All were in truth impressive. However, the young lad learnt his languages in only 4 years or so, now that is outstanding. What would be really interesting is to know the methods he used. The last section was interesting. I’m learning French and German, and the huge barrier in German is memorising the words. My memory is poor. I can figure out grammar, and the accent, but without words progress is slow. I’m intelligent as I have a PhD in physics. So I suggest that these people have above average memories, and that is their secret, alongside hard work and effective learning strategies.
stop dubbing!
a "planet" word is not "планета" in Kazakh. It's "ғаламшар"
I speak 5 langs, and it will be 6 langs by 2025. But I am definitely not a super genius.
How people suffer efficently.
I like the flash cards game from spanish and French, where can I find it?
This is so dumb, you give each different tests????
All is translated to English….
I can speak chavacano, bisaya, tagalog, spanish, english and i am learning chinese, french and arabic right now
Kamusta ka po. 怎么样
Naol
@@filipino437 tara mag aral tayo ng espanyol
@@Altowner ayos lang lods
@@soypinoy5251 di pa ako focus dyan, Vietnamese, Swedish at Indonesian ako ngayon
well his german wasnt impressive