@@robertluong3024 yep. I speak a lot of the languages he does in his videos because they are Common Slavic languages. He says word and phrases that move conversations in HIS way. And it’s always the same phrases in every language.
@@robertluong3024 I call bull on this guy. First of all, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian are very similar to each other and every Balkan person can understand all of it. Second, his version of Serbian was definitely taught without any deeper understanding cause here basically nobody talks like this, only some wanna be 90s criminals and tough guys from old jokes. I really find it hard to believe that anyone would find someone to practice with that idiotic accent
Yeah, for some languages, seems to know just a few basic sentences, "Like where do you live? Be My friend?" and anything beyond that he doesn't understand. He keep those conversations really short, and then switches to something he does know.
@@milosuz Slight correction, Croatian and Serbian are same language and Macedonian is similar language with partial mutuability. He's Macedonian so his Serbo-Croatian accent is good because of partial mutuability but like you said, it sounds like some 90s urban slang. That being said he's saying many words but without really going anywhere, without much substance. It would be like saying in English: "Well, ya know, I like people here bro, yeah bro, fucken A dude, yeah yeah, you understand bro, yeah, good, come on, lets go dude." Counting Serbian and Croatian as individual language just to artificially pump the number of languages he speaks is very dishonest but most people would never double check it. He can understand Serbo-Croatian better when listening just like I can understand basic Macedonian when listening too but it's different to actually have prolonged and complex conversation, best I can do is to memorize some slang stuff. If I had to speak Croatian and he had to speak Macedonian, we would understand each other for basic stuff for like a minute or so, but it would be so awkward and we would transition to English anyway.
@@pablojp3498 absolutely not. Everyone can learn to introduce themselve in a foreign language in less than 10min. Gettingfulent take thousands of hours
This has to be the weirdest interaction I have ever seen. Both guys trying to show off, but whenever they speak a language, they hardly communicate, its so weirdly scripted and robotic.
I really hate fake polyglots, but being fluent in 3 languages is already something interesting, if you know how much struggle and efforts takes to learn a language. Nevertheless, I understand that is nasty pretending to speak some languages you are not really fluent at, though.
@@AetherStreameragreed, its taken me over two decades to learn two additional languages and only in english am i actually fluent with no accent. If greeting and introducing yourself counts as speaking a language i think i can beat these two. Turns out i am a master polyglot 😂
I can't help but notice in all of these polyglot videos the two speakers aren't having an actual conversation, just making simple comments about their language abilities. It just doesn't seem very useful, but always manages to get lots of views. Jack of all trades, master of none.
That’s because they are frauds. They don’t actually “speak” any other languages maybe just one or two besides their native one. It has been well demonstrated that many of these RUclips polyglots stumble when the topic goes off certain basic things.
Many of their interactions were just greetings and introductions. I’m not sure you count as a polyglot if you have done one semester of many languages 😂
even if were not accounting for some of the languages, the definition of a polyglot is having a good understanding of 3-5 languages."d polyglots can speak several languages - usually having a grasp of at least somewhere between 3-5 languages. " Just having a grasp. and I would say a small understanding of the language and being able to introduce yourself would quantify as a grasp. Even if were not talking about just a grasp, they had a really good ability to speak french, dutch, english, russian, and german. which is 5 languages that they all have an amazing understanding in. Plus, how are you even one to talk when I know for a fact that at most you probably speak a little bit of spanish and english. so u cant be talking abt not counting them as a polyglot becuz they " only do introductions ".
How would you know I have heard that Arabic is spoken in so many countries and the difference is so big between some of them that it feels they speak something other than Arabic
@@LuchoCastle_11 you got that right, there are a lot of accents and whole dialects scattered around in every Arabic speaking country but almost every single one of them never uses the Classical Arabic accent/dialect (for anyone who grew up in an Arabic speaking language its really easy to know what accent/dialect the other person is using because they grow up watching movies and tv shows made by different countries so really you kind of pick on that just from watching stuff that your parents watch), the only time you would see that being used is when you are in school (and the students barely use any of it either unless they are directly responding/talking to teachers even the teachers don't use it among themselves, unless its a professional environment) or authorities addressing things in councils or on TV as well as cartoons aimed towards children (though i'd like to add that some of them even use accents and dialects of the country that's making the dubbing/made the cartoon, egyptian is most common if I had to say), although rewatching the Arabic segment it seems like Wouter Corduwener was altering between Egyptian Arabic and Classical Arabic which is a bit confusing to listen to, the translation at the bottom screen seem to be wrong as well it was written as "i want to drink something with you: coffee or tea" but what he really said was "I want to drink somethings with you: coffee and tea" so yea that's a little bit of a grammar oopsie there and another thing that got me a bit confused is that his accent is somewhat trying to be egyptian while solely using Classical Arabic dialect, after that sentence he said, when the other person responded I barely understood what he was trying to say, it could be that he meant "you perfected Classical Arabic" which would be in Classical Arabic "ant 'ahsant 'al fashaa" although in Classical Arabic that's not usually how its said and i'd like to add that he butchered the pronunciation of that sentence. the subtitles are exaggerated in the part that follows as well. I'd bet that's pretty much the case in every other dialogue they had but to translate literally what he said in the "i learned modern standard arabic at home with youtube videos and i have a friend" part it pretty much sounds like this in English "I study Classical Arabic home with RUclips and and and (first one is arabic the second two are english) friends" in Arabic "انا ادرس الفصحى البيت مع يوتيوب و اصدقائي" so yeah that pretty much what that was, i'd like to add that the other person barely spoke any coherent words and even the ones he did utter were all over the place like his last "thanks a lot" "thanks" was Classical Arabic Dialect. In contrast "a lot" was Algerian and Moroccan (those are in the North African region) sadly they only spoke Arabic in this video, they were about to speak Japanese so I would've liked to know how well they faired but they didn't. but yeah their Arabic was as awful as you would expect from a jack of all trades. Sorry about the essay but figured i'd at least explain this thoroughly for other people who are interested in learning more about this.
@@LuchoCastle_11 they could barely pounce the some letters and no substance (words not conjugated or pronounced properly) but you can understand it just like when a 3y old talks
So essentially: Two guys speak English to each other very well and then continue to present their ability to memorize the exact same 20 phrases in 20 different languages, with very good Dutch and German mixed in there. This is what I call being able to speak a language. I'm beyond impressed
Some dodgy bits. The Korean is basically, "oh Japanese?... No Korean... Hello, where do you live?Amsterdam. Be my friend?" - then they quickly switch to Danish!
Same in Spanish. Not only are the sentences weird and incomplete, th guy claims to speak 5 different accents but he can't even pronounce the word "accent" correctly.
Yeah, he speaks German not just fluent and with pretty good pronunciation but also in a very natural way. "Yeah Mann ich kann Deutsch sprechen!" is not who you would read it in a book xD
As a french speaker, they have a strong foreign accent and some parts were not really perfect in the phrase construct but they could totally have a conversation with french people nonetheless. It's really impressive to hear them talk in all these languages!
Honnêtement, j'ai uniquement compris leur français grâce aux sous-titres. C'est dommage, j'ai l'impression que leur objectif est de parler une grande quantité de langues sans trop de qualité. Dans l'absolu, bien sûr, c'est quand même génial d'arriver à communiquer dans autant de langues.
I'm french and I agree with you. The spanish and the portuguese were much better. I'm still astonished by that man. I speak only 4 languages but I can't switch them like they do. I need at least 10 to 15 minutes to be able to be fluent.
I am french and i lived 3 years in china (my girlfriend is chinese) and i can tell you guys that this guy doesnt speak french nor mandarin. He just said a couple of words with a terrible accents and didnt even succeed to make right sentences
was about to comment this. I'm french and I was wondering why they were basically speaking in unconjugated words. Can't really call himself a polyglot when you can't even speak it at the basic TCF level (Test de connaisance du français). loved the "J'ai un bon accent" bit in the vid. like, no. no you don't.
Anyone can be a polyglot, besides, they don't just know some sentences, they can also understand what the other person is saying. Believe it or not, it's really hard to maintain a coherent, complex conversation while constantly switching languages, that's why they revert to simple vocabulary. I myself, being bilingual, need a few minutes to fully switch my brain to speak in a different language.
@@alexzhukovsky8361yes anyone can be a polyglot if they’re fluent in at least 4-5 languages. You cannot claim to be a polyglot if you’re not fluent in at least 4-5 languages. Being able to say common phrases in 29 languages doesn’t make you fluent in those languages. If you can’t hold a conversation with a native speaker (speaking on a conversational level) you shouldn’t claim to speak that language. This guy is being dishonest as he’s not a polyglot and definitely doesn’t speak 29 languages. Anyone can learn a foreign language, but a lot of RUclips “polyglots” are being dishonest and claiming that they can speak all of these languages, when some of them can’t even hold a conversation with a native speaker and only know common phrases.
As someone who can speak both spanish and portugues the beginning was hilariously dumb and very awkward. The conversation was not nature at all they basically kept interrupting each other like it was a cringey competition. They repeated the same phrases over and over and responded sometimes before the other person finishes which made it seem unnatural. The guy that said he could do 5 spanish accents made a fool of himself. He has one accent which is gringo speaking beginner level spanish. Dude in the hat was a bit less cringey. Anyways, i stopped the video after portuguese because it was pointless.
Which spanish speaker who "speaks" in 5 different accents pronounce : "Acentos como aXentos ?" ... Casually the only two that pronounce it like that met randomly.
@@Vfulncchl Badly learning two sentences in many languages is done by plenty of people who sell stuff to tourists. These two just fool people, sadly even native speakers of the languages they "speak"
They spent more time describing accents than having a conversation. My Spanish isn't strong but I can hold a conversation longer than "I can pretend to be Venezualan".
That was really awkward, two very funny dudes speaking very superficially about trivial matters and pretending to speak languages they don't really speak.
Haha, that's not how we speak here at all lol. Their pronunciation was really flawed, and although I appreciate the effort, if I were them I wouldn't brag about it.
I speak spanish and french perfectly thanks to my parents and I can tell he doesn't speak any of these two language and I assure you that none of his sentences are correct
The accent is strong in several languages, like you can hear it's not a native chinese, native russian, or native spanish, but it's still crazy how they can speak this many and shift between languages so effortlessly
@@Satwikakul The fuck you are talking about? Yeah, a phrase or two. And they sound awful, had to rewatch multiple times on my native language only for them to sound like the average foreigner. Sorry, there is no way you can use that level of speech to call yourself a polyglot.
he gave himself away with a single thing. the fucking peanut mill. the serbian words for PEANUT and OIL are not even slightly close, however they are extremely easy to mix up whilst typing in google translate in english ;) props to the guy for being able to pronounce the languages, but it's evident he rehearsed phrases he previously ran through google translate.
Coming back to this video after 6 years, when i first watched i only knew english and spanish. Now im proficient in japanese and swedish too :) ill come back in 6 more years to update you all on my language learning process
I only speak English but language is so interesting to me and I would LOVE to learn more, but I can’t figure out how I’m supposed to start. What process do u follow to learn a new one?
Was that a shaved Richard Simcott❓He kinda tricked you btw. Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are pretty much the same language. It's got three names for political rather than linguistic reasons. For instance, they refer to all three of them as BKS in Germany
Extra: he speaks American, New Zealand language, Australian, Mexican, Argentinian, Peruvian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Serbian, Bosnian, probably Montenegrin. And if you live enough in Spain he can speak leonese and Asturian. And probably fala, Galician and gallegoportugués
I think this video is now most famous for being the most dodgy "polyglots speaking a lot of languages" video of all time. 2 guys just speak random sentences at each other, neither of them can understand the other person. Ridiculous.
Their Danish sounded a lot more like Norwegian. As a Norwegian I understood everything, but I'm not sure how easy it would be for an average Dane to follow them. The thing is that if you learn Danish from text books and don"t have a clue about the pronunciation rules, you could easily end up with this type of pseudo-Norwegian language.
More like “Unique encounter consisting of Wouter Courdwener firing off the exact same 5 canned memorized sentences in every language while being completely unable to understand anything and then quickly switching languages after he runs out of material within 30 seconds.” That’d make for too long and honest of a title though.
I can't believe ppl still fall for this, there's ton of videos exposing them, and even without naming anyone, you clearly know who are they reffering to
@@doncorleone653 I can assure you that German is much harder, for an English speaker. French and English are so similar: SVO word order, huge shared vocabulary, no cases. Where French is hard is the syllable timing and pronunciation.
This video is so obviously just a staged video of two guys introducing themselves over and over again in different languages using sentences they memorized, that it is used in practically every video calling out youtube polyglots
The Greek part: - When are we going? - (in Greek) Δεν ξέρω. ("I don't know") - Den ksero. It means now, or tomorrow? - (in Spanish) Si ("yes"). (in Greek) Εντάξει. ("alright") So the guy on the right either had a major socially-caused fumble, doesn't understand English or doesn't understand the phrase he himself used in Greek.
As someone who can speak Portuguese, Spanish, English and is studying Japanese... That is NOT impressive at all. They spoke Spanish and Portuguese pretty badly.
Haha all of their lines are like the classic beginner sentences you learn. “I would like to get coffee with you.” “Do you know where the library is?” Very nice to meet you, we should be friends” Still impressive but I thought it was funny
I don't speak as many languages as they do but can speak English, Spanish, and Korean way more fluent than them. I wished they didn't count Korean as one of the languages they could speak. It was literally horrible.
While speaking Greek he said "Δεν Ξέρω" which means "I don't know" and when the dude asked him if he said "now or tomorrow" he said yes you got it 💀💀💀💀
As an Arabic speaker, I can confirm that their Arabic was so bad i hardly understood any bit of it even while reading subtitles, however they were speaking the fus-haa which is the original tongue of Arabic which is definitely not easy to speak so respect, however no Arabs speak in the original tongue now we usually speak in dialects. I am learning Russian as of now and I can tell their level in Russian is 50 times better than mine and props to that as well.
So everyone knows...that "Mandarin" is UNFATHOMABLY bad. That's not "speaking" it. That's badly parroting things you can't even pronounce correctly rather than directly answering each other. Here's how it went: "Ni hui shuo zhongwen ma?" (can you speak Chinese?) "Wo jiao shenme mingzi is ok - What's my name is ok" (huh?) "Ni jiao shenme mingzi?" (what's your name?) "wo jiao?" (pointing to him - incorrect subtitle suggests he's asking HIS name but actually he - badly - says "I'm called?" which is not proper at all) "wo jiao Wouter ke shi wo de zhongwen mingzi shi "wo de"" (I'm called Wouter but my Chinese name is "mine", if you literally translate) "Shi, shi! de" (yes, yes - this is not how you'd express "ok, ok" - "shi ma?" would be maybe better to ask "oh it is?", but "shi, shi" doesn't MEAN anything by itself here) "ni hui shuo hen duo zhong guo hua *noises that even my native speaking wife can't understand follow" (you can say a lot of Chinese language *jibberish*) *makes weird noise in response - "shi...wo, wo, wo, wo shi " (am...I, I, I, I am...then he switches to Dutch) "women yi qi keyi shuo hanyu gen wo de zhong guo pengyou zai Amsterdam, wo you hen duo zhong guo pengyou" (we can speak Chinese with my chinese friends in Amsterdam, I have a lot of Chinese friends" - pronunciation issues aside, this is not proper grammar and he attempts a word order that you'd get with English and its related languages) "wo qu pengyou Harlem" (I GO to a friend Harlem? His pronunciation is SO bad that once again, both me and my native speaking wife - btw I live in China and have been speaking it for nearly 20 years - were perplexed) "Oh, hui shuo putonghua...uh...Shanghai kouyin haishi beifang kouyin" (the first part is eaten by the wind - then he says "can Mandarin, ***wind*** Shanghai accent or northern accent? - not too bad here) "Dui, shi de" (Right, it is/that's it) "zheme liihai" (so great) "yeah," "*wind* shi pengyou ma?" (are we friends?) "yeah, hao qi hao qi" (um....sure, buddy, if you want to pretend you said something you go right ahead...WAIT....was he trying to say "hao CHI?" as in, "tasty"? Your FRIENDSHIP IS DElICIOUS BRO" wtf, STOP PRETENDING! "wo feichang xihuan ni" (I really like you) "wo...eh...wo, xiang qu zhongguo yinwei wo xiang shuo putonghua *jibberish* hao...uh...he wo ya feichang xihuan hen duo difang zai zhongguo, uh, feichang hao kan" (I...eh...I want to go to china because I want to speak Mandarin good, uh, with, I ya really like many places in China, uh, very good looking" Then they switch to another language. Notice the issue here? The answers do not match up at all with the questions. It is very obvious that Wouter, while his Chinese level in this video is QUITE low - maybe HSK2, at best - with many grammar and pronunciation mistakes, is AT lEAST able to form some sentences where a Chinese speaker CAN tell what he's trying to say, but the OTHER guy is just speaking jibberish and it is instantly obvious that he has NO idea what he's hearing and is winging it. He sounds like someone who literally spent 30 minutes on Duolingo, while Wouter at least sounds like he spent a month or so on Duolingo. The other guy OBVIOUSLY cannot speak Chinese AT ALL, while Wouter can use some very elementary pieces of it (and he admits to the need to improve, so points for that). I just want people to understand EXACTly what is going on for those of you who have NO level in Chinese or are just starting out. The other guy is PRETENDING to respond with less than 10 words he picked up. In fairness he never claimed fluency but he's not having ANY sort of two-way conversation because he's incapable of understanding any of it, which means it was a pointless "conversation" to have. You have one side who is putting out questions and the other guy responds with nonsense non-answers like "yeah, right, that's right....uh, uh, I I I I ...I am...." That first part alone, OUCH. "Can you speak Chinese?" "What's your name is ok" - "What's your name?" "I'm called?" "I'm Wouter" - SO cringe, man. My POINT is, don't DO that if you don't really speak it - because it's GOING to be obvious to ANYONE with a real conversational level in it.
Great, I love this! I can speak french, english, italian, spanish, german. I also understand and speak a little portuguese. Now, with my german, I realised that I understand better germanic languages, I was at ease in Holland and Sweeden. I should stay in these countries for a couple of months, and I know I could speak a little. My dream: to speak arabic, chinese, russian, japanese like these guys! I will learn these languages for sure, all of them! Bravo!
Ah ça va bien? Я тоже говорю по-русски, watashi wa nijongo arimasen, por está canijo como el Chino también. But I will speak soon, ich spreche Deutsch aber es ist ...eh...très dificile. Obrigado, tlazocamati, dank u vel.
imagine two random guys speaking every languages at the sidewalk, it seems like the first meeting and everyone looks at them and say "what are they speaking?". i love this video as much as I can't believe it.
I'm trying to imagine their conversation based on some kind of theoretical discussion kind of "Et que est ce que tu penses de la situation economique actuelle de la France? followed by "¿Las corridas de toro siguen creando polémica en tu opinion? ¿Se deberían prohibir internacionalmente? and so on. 😂😂😂😂
These RUclips polyglots never cease to piss me off. They only know the absolute bare minimum and say they speak it. Y’all are fooled too easily
IKR it's like they speak 5 languages properly and then have learnt the most basic phrases for the rest. It's stupid lol
Don’t be so glass half empty. Even if they aren’t fluent en all these languages, at least they made the effort to learn some of each.
@@elainejones9299sure they put effort in to learnt them but you can’t say you actually speak them if you know a few sentences lmao
@@johnxina5126 not even that, their Spanish is horrible, and then claim they can speak five Spanish dialects 🤦♀
@@revertrevertz5438 5 dialects? Oh my God 😂😂😂
Bro doesn’t speak any other languages. He learns the EXACT same 5 sentences in a different language 😂
You can tell they said more than that right?
@@robertluong3024 yep. I speak a lot of the languages he does in his videos because they are Common Slavic languages. He says word and phrases that move conversations in HIS way. And it’s always the same phrases in every language.
@@robertluong3024 I call bull on this guy. First of all, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian are very similar to each other and every Balkan person can understand all of it. Second, his version of Serbian was definitely taught without any deeper understanding cause here basically nobody talks like this, only some wanna be 90s criminals and tough guys from old jokes. I really find it hard to believe that anyone would find someone to practice with that idiotic accent
Yeah, for some languages, seems to know just a few basic sentences, "Like where do you live? Be My friend?" and anything beyond that he doesn't understand. He keep those conversations really short, and then switches to something he does know.
@@milosuz Slight correction, Croatian and Serbian are same language and Macedonian is similar language with partial mutuability. He's Macedonian so his Serbo-Croatian accent is good because of partial mutuability but like you said, it sounds like some 90s urban slang. That being said he's saying many words but without really going anywhere, without much substance. It would be like saying in English: "Well, ya know, I like people here bro, yeah bro, fucken A dude, yeah yeah, you understand bro, yeah, good, come on, lets go dude."
Counting Serbian and Croatian as individual language just to artificially pump the number of languages he speaks is very dishonest but most people would never double check it. He can understand Serbo-Croatian better when listening just like I can understand basic Macedonian when listening too but it's different to actually have prolonged and complex conversation, best I can do is to memorize some slang stuff. If I had to speak Croatian and he had to speak Macedonian, we would understand each other for basic stuff for like a minute or so, but it would be so awkward and we would transition to English anyway.
I thiink that speaking fluently a foreign language is more impressive than being able to introduce yourself in 10 languages
Same my thinking
He speaks many languages completely fluent
@@pablojp3498 absolutely not. Everyone can learn to introduce themselve in a foreign language in less than 10min. Gettingfulent take thousands of hours
@@maevara_ he clearly does not speak 29 languages.
But for sure he speaks Dutch, English, German and French.
@@pablojp3498 I assure you he doesn't speak neither arabic nor french
This has to be the weirdest interaction I have ever seen. Both guys trying to show off, but whenever they speak a language, they hardly communicate, its so weirdly scripted and robotic.
Yeah they really flexed hard....on all the a1 speakers 😂
Here is the real title: "How to speak like an extreme beginner in many languages and fluent in 2-3" ...
"Watch me speak 19 languages at A1 level and 2 at B1"
@@aceproductions5734they’re so bad they don’t speak any at native
@@kylezdancewicz7346Jack of all trades master of none
Wouter is a hack
I really hate fake polyglots, but being fluent in 3 languages is already something interesting, if you know how much struggle and efforts takes to learn a language. Nevertheless, I understand that is nasty pretending to speak some languages you are not really fluent at, though.
@@AetherStreameragreed, its taken me over two decades to learn two additional languages and only in english am i actually fluent with no accent.
If greeting and introducing yourself counts as speaking a language i think i can beat these two.
Turns out i am a master polyglot 😂
I can't help but notice in all of these polyglot videos the two speakers aren't having an actual conversation, just making simple comments about their language abilities. It just doesn't seem very useful, but always manages to get lots of views. Jack of all trades, master of none.
That’s because they are frauds. They don’t actually “speak” any other languages maybe just one or two besides their native one. It has been well demonstrated that many of these RUclips polyglots stumble when the topic goes off certain basic things.
Many of their interactions were just greetings and introductions. I’m not sure you count as a polyglot if you have done one semester of many languages 😂
@@josedavidcortesgaray2495 Nope, I've spent my time learning 4 languages at a high level of mastery rather than 20 at a novice level.
Both of them have russian above the level of introductions. I can say you this much at least
even if were not accounting for some of the languages, the definition of a polyglot is having a good understanding of 3-5 languages."d polyglots can speak several languages - usually having a grasp of at least somewhere between 3-5 languages. " Just having a grasp. and I would say a small understanding of the language and being able to introduce yourself would quantify as a grasp. Even if were not talking about just a grasp, they had a really good ability to speak french, dutch, english, russian, and german. which is 5 languages that they all have an amazing understanding in. Plus, how are you even one to talk when I know for a fact that at most you probably speak a little bit of spanish and english. so u cant be talking abt not counting them as a polyglot becuz they " only do introductions ".
you try say that in 33 languages mate
Yeah their Korean don't count lol
Someone should start telling people that knowing 3 sentences in a language doesn't make you speak it nor be fluent in it.
As an Arabic speaker i can confirm they don’t speak Arabic 😂😂
تقييم ضعيف للغة العربية التي يزعمون انهم يتحدثون بها
How would you know I have heard that Arabic is spoken in so many countries and the difference is so big between some of them that it feels they speak something other than Arabic
@@LuchoCastle_11 you got that right, there are a lot of accents and whole dialects scattered around in every Arabic speaking country but almost every single one of them never uses the Classical Arabic accent/dialect (for anyone who grew up in an Arabic speaking language its really easy to know what accent/dialect the other person is using because they grow up watching movies and tv shows made by different countries so really you kind of pick on that just from watching stuff that your parents watch), the only time you would see that being used is when you are in school (and the students barely use any of it either unless they are directly responding/talking to teachers even the teachers don't use it among themselves, unless its a professional environment) or authorities addressing things in councils or on TV as well as cartoons aimed towards children (though i'd like to add that some of them even use accents and dialects of the country that's making the dubbing/made the cartoon, egyptian is most common if I had to say), although rewatching the Arabic segment it seems like Wouter Corduwener was altering between Egyptian Arabic and Classical Arabic which is a bit confusing to listen to, the translation at the bottom screen seem to be wrong as well it was written as "i want to drink something with you: coffee or tea" but what he really said was "I want to drink somethings with you: coffee and tea" so yea that's a little bit of a grammar oopsie there and another thing that got me a bit confused is that his accent is somewhat trying to be egyptian while solely using Classical Arabic dialect, after that sentence he said, when the other person responded I barely understood what he was trying to say, it could be that he meant "you perfected Classical Arabic" which would be in Classical Arabic "ant 'ahsant 'al fashaa" although in Classical Arabic that's not usually how its said and i'd like to add that he butchered the pronunciation of that sentence. the subtitles are exaggerated in the part that follows as well. I'd bet that's pretty much the case in every other dialogue they had but to translate literally what he said in the "i learned modern standard arabic at home with youtube videos and i have a friend" part it pretty much sounds like this in English "I study Classical Arabic home with RUclips and and and (first one is arabic the second two are english) friends" in Arabic "انا ادرس الفصحى البيت مع يوتيوب و اصدقائي" so yeah that pretty much what that was, i'd like to add that the other person barely spoke any coherent words and even the ones he did utter were all over the place like his last "thanks a lot" "thanks" was Classical Arabic Dialect. In contrast "a lot" was Algerian and Moroccan (those are in the North African region) sadly they only spoke Arabic in this video, they were about to speak Japanese so I would've liked to know how well they faired but they didn't. but yeah their Arabic was as awful as you would expect from a jack of all trades. Sorry about the essay but figured i'd at least explain this thoroughly for other people who are interested in learning more about this.
@@LuchoCastle_11 they could barely pounce the some letters and no substance (words not conjugated or pronounced properly) but you can understand it just like when a 3y old talks
@@LuchoCastle_11 bald guy barely said anything and what he said was mostly pronounced wrong, subtitles arent what was exactly said
So essentially: Two guys speak English to each other very well and then continue to present their ability to memorize the exact same 20 phrases in 20 different languages, with very good Dutch and German mixed in there. This is what I call being able to speak a language. I'm beyond impressed
Some dodgy bits. The Korean is basically, "oh Japanese?... No Korean... Hello, where do you live?Amsterdam. Be my friend?" - then they quickly switch to Danish!
One guy also finished with "Thank you. Sleep well!" 🤣
The 어떠십니까 also makes no sense, it's not "how are you" it's "what do you think? (about how it is)"
Same in Spanish. Not only are the sentences weird and incomplete, th guy claims to speak 5 different accents but he can't even pronounce the word "accent" correctly.
His german is fluently and so intuitive! What I also like is that he´s adapting accents and performs really good. What a great guy!
Yeah, he speaks German not just fluent and with pretty good pronunciation but also in a very natural way. "Yeah Mann ich kann Deutsch sprechen!" is not who you would read it in a book xD
@@hellfiend86 exactly what I thought, sounds like the typical conversation you hear in the Bahn
To be fair, both are from NL. So you almost have to speak it on a weekly base here in the Netherlands.
@@Goophy7Yeah but Mr Random Genius managed to overcome this accent NL people have.
@@Goophy7 The other guy isnt Dutch or if he is he isnt from the north or east for sure since he cant speak Dutch natively.
As a french speaker, they have a strong foreign accent and some parts were not really perfect in the phrase construct but they could totally have a conversation with french people nonetheless. It's really impressive to hear them talk in all these languages!
Their french and portuguese sucked. The bald guy spoke better Spanish.
agree, it sounds a bit like they learned french and spanish in the same class. Impressive though
@user-ee2tl2qr9x their Spanish was bad, but way better than their french and portuguese
Honnêtement, j'ai uniquement compris leur français grâce aux sous-titres. C'est dommage, j'ai l'impression que leur objectif est de parler une grande quantité de langues sans trop de qualité. Dans l'absolu, bien sûr, c'est quand même génial d'arriver à communiquer dans autant de langues.
I'm french and I agree with you. The spanish and the portuguese were much better. I'm still astonished by that man. I speak only 4 languages but I can't switch them like they do. I need at least 10 to 15 minutes to be able to be fluent.
I am french and i lived 3 years in china (my girlfriend is chinese) and i can tell you guys that this guy doesnt speak french nor mandarin. He just said a couple of words with a terrible accents and didnt even succeed to make right sentences
was about to comment this. I'm french and I was wondering why they were basically speaking in unconjugated words. Can't really call himself a polyglot when you can't even speak it at the basic TCF level (Test de connaisance du français).
loved the "J'ai un bon accent" bit in the vid. like, no. no you don't.
Same about Spanish. No big surprise there.
@@AuraDyer his "argentinian" was hilarious
Knowing 5 or 6 sentences in a language doesn't make you a polyglot. Anyone can learn this.
Anyone can be a polyglot, besides, they don't just know some sentences, they can also understand what the other person is saying. Believe it or not, it's really hard to maintain a coherent, complex conversation while constantly switching languages, that's why they revert to simple vocabulary. I myself, being bilingual, need a few minutes to fully switch my brain to speak in a different language.
Also anyone can learn a language, just saying
@@alexzhukovsky8361yes anyone can be a polyglot if they’re fluent in at least 4-5 languages. You cannot claim to be a polyglot if you’re not fluent in at least 4-5 languages. Being able to say common phrases in 29 languages doesn’t make you fluent in those languages. If you can’t hold a conversation with a native speaker (speaking on a conversational level) you shouldn’t claim to speak that language. This guy is being dishonest as he’s not a polyglot and definitely doesn’t speak 29 languages. Anyone can learn a foreign language, but a lot of RUclips “polyglots” are being dishonest and claiming that they can speak all of these languages, when some of them can’t even hold a conversation with a native speaker and only know common phrases.
As someone who can speak both spanish and portugues the beginning was hilariously dumb and very awkward. The conversation was not nature at all they basically kept interrupting each other like it was a cringey competition. They repeated the same phrases over and over and responded sometimes before the other person finishes which made it seem unnatural. The guy that said he could do 5 spanish accents made a fool of himself. He has one accent which is gringo speaking beginner level spanish. Dude in the hat was a bit less cringey. Anyways, i stopped the video after portuguese because it was pointless.
Which spanish speaker who "speaks" in 5 different accents pronounce : "Acentos como aXentos ?" ... Casually the only two that pronounce it like that met randomly.
I mean they spoke with decent grammar but the accents were not it. 😅😅😅.
As a hebrew speaker it was rly hard to understand them but they did technically speak the language
They spoke 2 simple sentences poorly.
That's not "speaking the language 😅
From their “danish” it seemed like he had prepped 2 sentences in “danish”, but the pronounciation was very very bad
@@Vfulncchl Badly learning two sentences in many languages is done by plenty of people who sell stuff to tourists. These two just fool people, sadly even native speakers of the languages they "speak"
They spent more time describing accents than having a conversation. My Spanish isn't strong but I can hold a conversation longer than "I can pretend to be Venezualan".
If I'd hear them speaking Dutch like this I'd switch to english
Bald guy didn’t know Chinese at all. He just nodded 😂
That was really awkward, two very funny dudes speaking very superficially about trivial matters and pretending to speak languages they don't really speak.
"Puedo hablar el Español de Argentina tambíen."
"You're really handsome. Let's eat a lot together."
Lol, what?
Haha, that's not how we speak here at all lol. Their pronunciation was really flawed, and although I appreciate the effort, if I were them I wouldn't brag about it.
I speak spanish and french perfectly thanks to my parents and I can tell he doesn't speak any of these two language and I assure you that none of his sentences are correct
Damn, the Mandarin was dreadful.
As an Arab, they brutally murdered my language
IKR
The accent is strong in several languages, like you can hear it's not a native chinese, native russian, or native spanish, but it's still crazy how they can speak this many and shift between languages so effortlessly
I mean, it is literally impossible to sound native-like in 21 languages within a lifetime…
@@leonardog.6027 well they only know a phrase or two in each one
@@roop-a-loopa phrase or two?? Did you watch the video
@@Satwikakul did you?
@@Satwikakul The fuck you are talking about? Yeah, a phrase or two. And they sound awful, had to rewatch multiple times on my native language only for them to sound like the average foreigner. Sorry, there is no way you can use that level of speech to call yourself a polyglot.
he gave himself away with a single thing. the fucking peanut mill. the serbian words for PEANUT and OIL are not even slightly close, however they are extremely easy to mix up whilst typing in google translate in english ;) props to the guy for being able to pronounce the languages, but it's evident he rehearsed phrases he previously ran through google translate.
I feel like they just memorized some basic phrases in many languages rather than achieving fluency.
Then can I say that I speak 20 languages if I learn greetings and two more phrases?
Coming back to this video after 6 years, when i first watched i only knew english and spanish. Now im proficient in japanese and swedish too :) ill come back in 6 more years to update you all on my language learning process
I only speak English but language is so interesting to me and I would LOVE to learn more, but I can’t figure out how I’m supposed to start. What process do u follow to learn a new one?
I hope to hear about your language journey in the future! 👍
@@graham9078 I speak Spanish as my main language (I'm from Spain), English, French I'm still learning..., and I'm also learning Greek
@@graham9078 Just chose a language and whip duolingo out and you're golden
哇哦，你好厉害啊
Did they intentionally go out of their way to find the busiest walkway on the planet to block while recording this
Fraud meets fraud
These dudes have learned more languages than women they’ve talked to. That’s impressive
I’m sure speaking so many languages is a major turn on
They only know a few phrases in each of those languages. These type of people drive me nuts.
they have the same accent in every language 💀
Was that a shaved Richard Simcott❓He kinda tricked you btw. Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are pretty much the same language. It's got three names for political rather than linguistic reasons. For instance, they refer to all three of them as BKS in Germany
I love how they're all sharing the same greetings and going out for coffee in all of those languages LOL
Extra: he speaks American, New Zealand language, Australian, Mexican, Argentinian, Peruvian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Serbian, Bosnian, probably Montenegrin. And if you live enough in Spain he can speak leonese and Asturian. And probably fala, Galician and gallegoportugués
Bro did not learn the 4 essential tones of Chinese fr 💀. That is not just an accent btw.
try to speak in one language for more than 20 minutes straight and you'll realize you don't really know it
I think this video is now most famous for being the most dodgy "polyglots speaking a lot of languages" video of all time. 2 guys just speak random sentences at each other, neither of them can understand the other person. Ridiculous.
As an afrikaans speaker, I can confirm they sound silly 🤣
Their Danish sounded a lot more like Norwegian. As a Norwegian I understood everything, but I'm not sure how easy it would be for an average Dane to follow them. The thing is that if you learn Danish from text books and don"t have a clue about the pronunciation rules, you could easily end up with this type of pseudo-Norwegian language.
Lmao literally Textbook page one Mandarin and Vietnamese and they can’t even that right. Salute to the subtitles for all the heavy lifting 😂
More like “Unique encounter consisting of Wouter Courdwener firing off the exact same 5 canned memorized sentences in every language while being completely unable to understand anything and then quickly switching languages after he runs out of material within 30 seconds.” That’d make for too long and honest of a title though.
I can't believe ppl still fall for this, there's ton of videos exposing them, and even without naming anyone, you clearly know who are they reffering to
You know sometimes i think subtitle is one of the greatest features..
I want them to have a back and forth one day with each response being a different language and the conversation evolving over time lol
As a french it is hard to understand them speaking french but they nailed all the other language (I think)
@@MishMashi Actually the Bald guy speaked well the Spanish
Oui ils ont pas parler beaucoup en français, sûrement la langue la plus difficile à apprendre lol
@@doncorleone653 I can assure you that German is much harder, for an English speaker. French and English are so similar: SVO word order, huge shared vocabulary, no cases. Where French is hard is the syllable timing and pronunciation.
To be honest their French was vraiment dégueulasse.. 😂
@@adrianjausseme8125 Yeah, especially the accent was atrocious.
This video is so obviously just a staged video of two guys introducing themselves over and over again in different languages using sentences they memorized, that it is used in practically every video calling out youtube polyglots
impressive, you guys are so good at saying that you speak many languages in so many of them!
For anyone wondering he is Macedonian from eather Ohrid or Skopje 🇲🇰
"Let's be friends" Wouter at least hide your scam. Why would you say this sentence ten times in a conversation?
So basically these guys learned a few mostly pre-rehearsed phrases in like a billion languages and know them all rather shittily
not sure if trolling or just stupid
It’s crazy how you can tell when one knows the language very well and the other is just barely understanding/able to respond
His German was just awesome, it's nearly as good as spoken by a native
These guys making the tower of Babylon by themselves
as a deaf person, i can confirm i have no clue what they sound like
As a Spanish speaker, they did quite bad with accents but I can confirm they speak well the language 👍
The Greek part:
- When are we going?
- (in Greek) Δεν ξέρω. ("I don't know")
- Den ksero. It means now, or tomorrow?
- (in Spanish) Si ("yes"). (in Greek) Εντάξει. ("alright")
So the guy on the right either had a major socially-caused fumble, doesn't understand English or doesn't understand the phrase he himself used in Greek.
the thing is that they don't know those languages, they are scams
As someone who can speak Portuguese, Spanish, English and is studying Japanese... That is NOT impressive at all. They spoke Spanish and Portuguese pretty badly.
They spoke poorly in Hebrew and I almost didn't understand anything they said.
Impressive but a strong feeling the guy on the left just spit random sentences he learned without understanding anything…
Not an incredible Spanish, but from people who talk more than 20 languages I must say that it is impressive to have at least this level.
fun fact is if you speak Croatian, it automaticly means that you can speak Serbian,Bosnian and a little bit of Macedonian!
Ok, we have found the administrators of the Babele tower.
In so much languages their vocabulary was poor there might only be like 3 or 4 languages that they were more comfortable speaking.
This is like the weirdest rap battle ive ever seen
The right dudes german is outstanding. If i didnt knew anything i would just assume he is german.
Haha all of their lines are like the classic beginner sentences you learn.
“I would like to get coffee with you.”
“Do you know where the library is?”
Very nice to meet you, we should be friends”
Still impressive but I thought it was funny
I don't speak as many languages as they do but can speak English, Spanish, and Korean way more fluent than them. I wished they didn't count Korean as one of the languages they could speak. It was literally horrible.
While speaking Greek he said "Δεν Ξέρω" which means "I don't know" and when the dude asked him if he said "now or tomorrow" he said yes you got it
💀💀💀💀
As a hebrew speaker, I can confirm, they fumbled those 2 "sentences" quite badly hahaha
This is what a conversation between my sims sounds like
As an Arabic speaker, I can confirm that their Arabic was so bad i hardly understood any bit of it even while reading subtitles, however they were speaking the fus-haa which is the original tongue of Arabic which is definitely not easy to speak so respect, however no Arabs speak in the original tongue now we usually speak in dialects. I am learning Russian as of now and I can tell their level in Russian is 50 times better than mine and props to that as well.
So everyone knows...that "Mandarin" is UNFATHOMABLY bad. That's not "speaking" it. That's badly parroting things you can't even pronounce correctly rather than directly answering each other. Here's how it went:
"Ni hui shuo zhongwen ma?" (can you speak Chinese?)
"Wo jiao shenme mingzi is ok - What's my name is ok" (huh?)
"Ni jiao shenme mingzi?" (what's your name?)
"wo jiao?" (pointing to him - incorrect subtitle suggests he's asking HIS name but actually he - badly - says "I'm called?" which is not proper at all)
"wo jiao Wouter ke shi wo de zhongwen mingzi shi "wo de"" (I'm called Wouter but my Chinese name is "mine", if you literally translate)
"Shi, shi! de" (yes, yes - this is not how you'd express "ok, ok" - "shi ma?" would be maybe better to ask "oh it is?", but "shi, shi" doesn't MEAN anything by itself here)
"ni hui shuo hen duo zhong guo hua *noises that even my native speaking wife can't understand follow" (you can say a lot of Chinese language *jibberish*)
*makes weird noise in response - "shi...wo, wo, wo, wo shi " (am...I, I, I, I am...then he switches to Dutch)
"women yi qi keyi shuo hanyu gen wo de zhong guo pengyou zai Amsterdam, wo you hen duo zhong guo pengyou" (we can speak Chinese with my chinese friends in Amsterdam, I have a lot of Chinese friends" - pronunciation issues aside, this is not proper grammar and he attempts a word order that you'd get with English and its related languages)
"wo qu pengyou Harlem" (I GO to a friend Harlem? His pronunciation is SO bad that once again, both me and my native speaking wife - btw I live in China and have been speaking it for nearly 20 years - were perplexed)
"Oh, hui shuo putonghua...uh...Shanghai kouyin haishi beifang kouyin" (the first part is eaten by the wind - then he says "can Mandarin, ***wind*** Shanghai accent or northern accent? - not too bad here)
"Dui, shi de" (Right, it is/that's it)
"zheme liihai" (so great)
"yeah,"
"*wind* shi pengyou ma?" (are we friends?)
"yeah, hao qi hao qi" (um....sure, buddy, if you want to pretend you said something you go right ahead...WAIT....was he trying to say "hao CHI?" as in, "tasty"? Your FRIENDSHIP IS DElICIOUS BRO" wtf, STOP PRETENDING!
"wo feichang xihuan ni" (I really like you)
"wo...eh...wo, xiang qu zhongguo yinwei wo xiang shuo putonghua *jibberish* hao...uh...he wo ya feichang xihuan hen duo difang zai zhongguo, uh, feichang hao kan"
(I...eh...I want to go to china because I want to speak Mandarin good, uh, with, I ya really like many places in China, uh, very good looking"
Then they switch to another language.
Notice the issue here?
The answers do not match up at all with the questions. It is very obvious that Wouter, while his Chinese level in this video is QUITE low - maybe HSK2, at best - with many grammar and pronunciation mistakes, is AT lEAST able to form some sentences where a Chinese speaker CAN tell what he's trying to say, but the OTHER guy is just speaking jibberish and it is instantly obvious that he has NO idea what he's hearing and is winging it. He sounds like someone who literally spent 30 minutes on Duolingo, while Wouter at least sounds like he spent a month or so on Duolingo. The other guy OBVIOUSLY cannot speak Chinese AT ALL, while Wouter can use some very elementary pieces of it (and he admits to the need to improve, so points for that).
I just want people to understand EXACTly what is going on for those of you who have NO level in Chinese or are just starting out. The other guy is PRETENDING to respond with less than 10 words he picked up. In fairness he never claimed fluency but he's not having ANY sort of two-way conversation because he's incapable of understanding any of it, which means it was a pointless "conversation" to have. You have one side who is putting out questions and the other guy responds with nonsense non-answers like "yeah, right, that's right....uh, uh, I I I I ...I am...." That first part alone, OUCH. "Can you speak Chinese?" "What's your name is ok" - "What's your name?" "I'm called?" "I'm Wouter" - SO cringe, man. My POINT is, don't DO that if you don't really speak it - because it's GOING to be obvious to ANYONE with a real conversational level in it.
As someone who has no idea what I am doing here, I can tell that the cameraman has a finger on the lens.
As a guy who speaks mandarin I can confirm the guy on the right knows some body language
This man used to be my german teacher in the netherlands in 2016-2017 he’s an absolute giga chadd
I speak hebrew and i barley understood what he was saying
כן אני הבנתי ערבית יותר מהעברית שלו. אבל הם עדיין מרשימים.
@@matejfele9971 לא יודע לא כזה מרשים הוא דובר איזה 3 -4 שפות וכל השאר הוא פשוט זוכר כמה משפטי היכרות כאלה
@@dr.j7321 אני מסכים , הוא לא דובר עברית מבחינתי.
Being able to understand languages they don't speak, shows the commonality between languages.
My impossible dream would be to understand, speak, write and read every language that has ever existed 😅
الدراري شكون ضرب على الصلع تعلم العربية من عند شي مغربي ضربت عليه كايقول "بزاف"😅😂😂
Great, I love this! I can speak french, english, italian, spanish, german. I also understand and speak a little portuguese. Now, with my german, I realised that I understand better germanic languages, I was at ease in Holland and Sweeden. I should stay in these countries for a couple of months, and I know I could speak a little. My dream: to speak arabic, chinese, russian, japanese like these guys! I will learn these languages for sure, all of them! Bravo!
Ah ça va bien? Я тоже говорю по-русски, watashi wa nijongo arimasen, por está canijo como el Chino también. But I will speak soon, ich spreche Deutsch aber es ist ...eh...très dificile.
Obrigado, tlazocamati, dank u vel.
I thought me speaking three languages was impressive. What a way to get humbled
I Feel like this guy wanted to share his wife with the other guy
The Arabic they spoke was formal, would get laughed at if they spoke like that on the street
I am sorry ,but their Spanish was very bad
The right guy speaks perfekt german... The left one can also speak well.
PuEDo hABlaR eN 5 *ACSENTOS*
"in serbian" procedes to do a more gangster croatian
They just know 5 sentences in 10 languages and 5 more accents and that's all. What they said in Greek was 2 words. That's just sad.
imagine two random guys speaking every languages at the sidewalk, it seems like the first meeting and everyone looks at them and say "what are they speaking?". i love this video as much as I can't believe it.
Was für ein guter Tag, um sechs verschiedene La zu sprechen
This seems to me like a language pissing contest 😂
As a german I can attest that they spoke good german.
It's got the same feeling as a confrontation lol
The 3rd section shouldn't be called Brazilian Portuguese. The guy on the left spoke like a brazilian, but the guy on the right like a portuguese.
I don't know if he knows the other languages he says he can speak, but he can't speak French or Arabic
I cant believe they have credit for speaking half of tye languages listed like wtf was the arabic one that wasnt arabic
I'm trying to imagine their conversation based on some kind of theoretical discussion kind of "Et que est ce que tu penses de la situation economique actuelle de la France? followed by "¿Las corridas de toro siguen creando polémica en tu opinion? ¿Se deberían prohibir internacionalmente? and so on. 😂😂😂😂
As a Portuguese speaker i can confirm they did speak it but at some points it was hard to understand because of the ascent
The Hebrew was fine by the left guy but the second guy clearly did not know it besides a few phrases like hello and good by.