I have been in situations where I had to switch from portuguese to spanish to french in a couple seconds and I can tell you that it is really wierd and you kind of talk in a different way unintentionally
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.
@@Ezox2408 Even my French sounds better (I'm Dutch and in middle school we need to learn French and I'm now in the third year). but our first year french was about: 'le petit cochon et le grand mechant loup. Et marie et l'extraterrestre.' now we're finally learning something that's really useful. And I definitely don't have a Dutch accent (I never have a Dutch accent (seriously) because I listen to it very often and I can easily pick up kind of like an accent)
It was definitely the guy on the left who I assume made this video. I can't say much because I only know English, but I'd assume it's damn near impossible for a non polygot to put the subtitles in
@@smeshdoggo1954 think it's the bald guy since his wife was filming edit: just read the description. everything links to the guy in the left. mustve just had the wife film for convenience sake.
@@pablojp3498 absolutely not. Everyone can learn to introduce themselve in a foreign language in less than 10min. Gettingfulent take thousands of hours
I feel like theyre 2 npcs and the player is just scrolling though available languages while theyre spitting out their pregenerated dialogue over and over again.
@@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.
Well it is. I'm pretty sure about the size of 2 body parts of those guys: What is big is their brain, what is small is their... Well... Let's say they gotta compensate a lot
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, 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
Holy shit I am German and the bald guys German was so good. His pronunciation was pretty much perfect and he didn't even speak this textbook kind of German you would speak in a school environment but his way of speaking was rather lose like the way you would talk to a friend. Absolutely amazing to me
@@eaglenoimoto ich persönlich konnte ihn sehr gut verstehen und finde, dass er so spricht wie jeder Deutsche den ich kenne also sei mal leise brudi. Can you speak German or Dutch? If not then please just be quiet (ich bin Deutsch btw)
Basically revolved around greetings and occasionally trailed off into some easier convos with languages that come naturally. Went off in German and Dutch easily. Arabic or Chinese not really.
lmao, u just gotta emphasize a interests that seems small to all but important and interstesing to you that you base that as your main motive to learn the language, then grab ya self a notebook for words to write with thier meanings, study that ish, write down a sentence of your own gains of what u got so far, go to Google translate with having to paste thelanguage u wanna learn to translate to usual langauage. hope this makes sense, helps yall, I'm doing this with french being my 3 language then its off to another
I think a lot of people here missed the point, "unique encounter in 21 languages", they were able to keep a basic conversation with basically full comprehension of what the other person was saying. The glasses-guy made key points; he didn't speak many of these languages for years and is not practicing to switch back and forth. Also he can not find the words in certain languages for speaking, but he has comprehension of even 50+ languages. Some polyglots in history have spoken 100+ languages throughout their life, it doesn't mean they could switch between them all at once. They could "activate" a given language in a few days if they had to travel somewhere specific. That in itself is magic.
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.
@@deanm1424 you can definitely hear the difference between different languages you don't speak. Maybe you don't notice the difference between different languages in the same family (Dutch and German or Korean and Japanese) but you can hear the difference between Thai and Arabic.
@@kresant1507 it is still valid, but you neglect the "walking past part". If you stood there listening then you may well be able to tell. but if someone had heard neither language before then what was spoken would be noise both times.
@Philippe Demptos that is not true, when he spoke croatian he was forming complex sentences and if he can do that in croatian i highly doubt their knowledge in more immportant languages like french or spanish is basic
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 😂
Litetally in spanish - hat guy: i wanna hear argentinian accent - bald guy: of course, there is no problem - bald guy: its so hot on Mexico - hat guy: youre handsome too
@@realtek12345 what the fuck are u saying? Im spanish and guapo means the same in every spanish accent. If not tell me what guapo means in argentinian spanish please. Youre polish dude what the fuck are you gonna know about spanish more than a spanish?
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
Bald guy clearly has a higher standard of what counts as knowing a language or not. The other guy only learns "Yeah I speak X language, i would like to go to Country of Language one day. I have friends who speak this language." Occasionally he will throw in a "can i have a hug?" Or "can we be friends?" But thats it lol hardly knows 90% of the languages he claims to know.
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 ".
That’s the polyglot curse. You only know so much but it’s a flood of words to learn when you’re surrounded by native speakers. Mastery is seldom amongst polyglots beyond one to three main languages.
Sebastian Awick They both probably were very well versed in the language having a bit of cultural immersion (especially bald guy) so it was probably easier for them to wax poetic since they knew a lot more, and were more used to conversing auf Deutsch
There was a study conducted (or concluded) recently on how different languages transport a different amount of information per syllable. Japanese and Spanish for example convey very little information while German is on the other end of the spectrum, that's why Japanese and Spanish are spoken much faster than German such that the infomation flow is pretty much constant for all languages. That might be why they seem to speak so much more calm. Grüße aus Deutschland =)
I'd spike an egg on the ground directly between their feet then run away without saying a word, only to turn around, begin laughing hysterically, then sprint back and spike a second egg on my forehead as I got in between them once more.
This video is pure linguistical chaos the camera work, these guys meeting for the first time over and over again while in front of a windmill everything
Add one more, cause I,m sure you didn’t know this one 🇦🇲 (Armenian): Thank you=շնորհակալություն Pronounced as: [sh’nor-ha-ka-lu-tyun] Also used the french variation: մերսի (merci)
As a Brazilian Portuguese speaker (native) is funny to see they speaking in Portuguese because the accent that they use is from Portugal and they mix the Spanish accent too but is very impressive what this guys can do and speak in several languages at the same time. Awesome!
I'm European and I recently visited a Brazilian restaurant here in the UK. I'm not confident enough with PT yet, but of the few words I used to communicate such as please and thank you etc. the waiters all initiated full-on conversations with me because I have a Santa Catarina, BR accent as opposed to a Portugal accent - they assumed I was fluent. Embarrassing because I swiftly reverted back into English when they bombarded me with 30 PT words I couldn't process 😂
@@SeahorsesJayPortuguese is definitely one of the hardest languages to learn. The grammar is so fucking hard; that in conjunction with the pronunciation and certain rules, makes it one the top 5 hardest languages to learn imo.
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.
@Alexa Tri not much, well the bald guy is very good at portuguese from portugal but the owner of the channel is kinda bad... (At least he can speak it though)
@@rtsa4633 it's not minecraft numbering system, it's called binary. Binary alphabet has only two numbers (0,1) so instead of using 10 power numbers like the decimal system (10,20,30) it uses two power numbers (2,4,8,16). 256 is one of them.
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.
gastone paperone how can you tell? I noticed some italian at 10:50 but the guy with the hat didn't seem to understand (Edit: ho letto solo adesso il tuo nome😂😂)
I speak 8 languages, i can tell that they aren’t fluent when speaking to foreign languages. The struggle in learning different languages is writing and reading. 😂
@@RichieLarpa I'd rather know the basics of 20 languages than being fluent in 5. Knowing the basics of a lot of languages seems more useful, and it's easier to get better at a language when you already know the basics (that was the case for me when I was learning English)
@@Margherita_Dolcevita_Languages si, anche io l'ho sentita, é anche ho capito tutto. Io non sono italiana, sono catalana, ma parlo italiano dopo di stare due mesi in Roma in 2016.
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
Not really, it is clear that he only knew very little things to say and couldn’t really carry on a meaningful conversation. Those very little phrases can help him improve, however. I’ve had several encounters with people that say they want to practice their Spanish and the only phrases they know are generic friendly phrases like: “Hola, amigo” and “me gusta tus zapatos” or “yo hablo un poco Español” which isn’t bad at all if you really want to learn they are great stepping stones to build up from there.
@@4TailedScorpion Spanish is easy because its unadulterated and has clear and present rules. Once you get those language structure basics the rest is just learning (expanding) your vocabulary.
Comment section is people that are calling them fake Polyglots because they had a wrong accent on 2 out of 21 languages. They might not be fluent in everything but it’s still damn impressive.
As a croatian i was really impressed, If I heard him I would think he is native, and he wasn't speaking like school croatian, he was speaking the way we would actually speak. Really amazing.
Dobro je pričao hrvatski (i automatski srpski lol) jer je izgleda Makedonac i zna oponašati srodan jezik, ali navodno je pol tih jezika naštrebao, govornici drugih jezika tako tvrde. I stvarno smijurija što srpski i hrvatski smatra različitim jezicima čisto da napumpa broj jezika koje navodno priča.
@@lolollhe3361 Nacije poliglota, svi znaju sve, lol. Starije generacije Makedonaca i Slovenaca su morali uz svoj jezik još i učiti i srpsko-hrvatski tako da ti ljudi pričaju i jedan jezik ekstra, baš apsurdno. Zapravo, u slučaju Makedonaca, bugarski je jako sličan jezik, neki tvrde skoro pa isti jezik. Recimo bugarska vlada ne smatra makedonski odvojenim jezikom već inačlcom bugarskog tako da je ovaj lik u videu odmah mogao za sebe tvrditi da je poliglot, i onda je još vjerojatno kak spada naučio 2 strana jezika (ne računajući engleski) i naštrebao nekoliko fraza na njih još 20 pa sad odjednom kao priča 30 jezika.
Y'all got to stop hating on them bruh. Only a couple of people on the entiee planet can do what they just did, yes maybe the quality and efficiency wasn't up to par but the fact is they still tried and they still have the passion to keep learning/exploring and improving each and everyday, which is alot more than majority of the people who watched this video are doing......
Garrett Leong !!!!!!!!!!!!! The passion is there and their effort is very rare! The fact that they can even open up this interesting dialogue in the comments where everyone’s discussing their thoughts on the different languages/their accents/what they could work on is so special!
Man.. his croatian was sleng based, with little things like "eating" letters, like "kuiš" which is short for "kužiš" which is informal "razumiješ".. he could learn that only from a lot of conversations and not from courses on internet. We have 7 grammatical cases for each word and he didn't miss any.. Listening to him as a native I wouldn't think he's foreigner, just a guy from some hood from outskirts of Zagreb..
Wow nice. Looks like he mattered Russian and the slavic. I know both Arabics were iffy and require talking to people to get it right and correct them. But looks like he mixed with people in Croatia
On the beggining, when I heard his accent, I thought he's Serb or Croat, When he spoke Croatian i was 99% that he's Croat. Even if it was slang it sounded so natural and not foreign
i think he actually is from balkans somewhere, he said his name is Zoki, typical balkan name, now we can just guess whether it is Serbia Croatia Macedonia Bosnia or who knows XD
marqy Jr maybe It’s not that difficult but you need to take time to learn it anyways, In my opinion it was impressive how they could at least maintain a basic conversation in a lot of super different languages!
I actually met the guy with the hat 3 years ago! This is filmed at the Zaanse Schans in the Netherlands, where he works and sells his paintings. I was there with Chinese Exchange students. He suddenly started speaking Chinese to them! He is an amazing dude!
@@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".
όσες γλώσσες και να ξέρεις, τα ελληνικά σαν Έλληνας ποτέ δεν θα τα μιλήσεις, τόσο δύσκολη γλώσσα είναι, και προσωπικά είμαι περήφανος που ξέρω μια τόσο σπουδαία γλώσσα
Yep... didnt make any sense. I did my Erasmus in Greece in 2006... I can speak better than this and I dont put Greek in my CV in the list of languages that I speak. I guess I should.
I'm currently learning Italian at school but I think it's not real Italian because we're 1 year into it and we haven't picked up on the hand gestures yet
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.
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.
Yes 🙄 I wonder how many he's actually fluent in. I'd love to claim to be a polyglot but I'm not gonna do that until I can speak 3 languages fluently. Others do 5 hours of Duolingo in 12 languages and claim to "know" 12 languages
@@RoyalGuardEziode Yeah it's pointless. It's much more impressive for someone to speak one language (aside from their native one) to fluency than to know one sentence in 30 languages
@@RoyalGuardEziode Yeah honestly, the only fluent polyglots that I've seen on RUclips are probably Laoshu and polyglotstories, but laoshu's accents are bad, Chinese is the only language in which his accent is perfect. However polyglotstories is the real polyglot, she has the perfect accent in every language
Korean converstation is a little bit weird: - How are you? - Oh, Nihongo (Japenese)? - Yeah, Korean - Are you korean? - I'm Zoki - You can speak Korean - Yeah, yeah, I can - Where do you live? - Amsterdam - Let's be friends? - Yeah, let's be friends - I learned from Korean people - Thank you (*he said it wrong) - Nice to meet you - Thank you, *Good NIGHT!*
Well I strongly doubt a person may speak 21 languages correctly. It's quite impossible, unless they spend their entire life making practice everyday. They probably have an entry lvl in many of them, nothing else.
Bruh you really think that he can speak corectly among all these words and languages, some of them he speaks well some of them not really, but he can clearly understand korean. Its just insane to have all these sentences in your head.
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?
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.
Jonas Fernades Well it depends if you wanna talk smalltalk without knowing hardass grammar and you have a good ear for languages, I don’t think it’s to hard tbh. I grew up in southeast Austria near the Slovenian border and growing up I spend a lot of time in a Serbian-Croatian Diaspora, learned Latin and Spanish at school, Greek(also writing) some Turkish some Slovenian and Croatian from friends. If you speak a little Serbian or Croatian you can also communicate with Bosnians and now im taking chinese classes in university (where I also learn Kanji the japanese Chinese alphabet and now I teach myself some japanese in my free time). So I can pull of a hey how are you let’s get a beer convo in about 12 languages but I only really know 2 (Austrian German and English)
So the bald guy isn't just a polyglot, but he's also polylectal (had to research this term if it even exists hahaha). Two guys: "Let's be friends! (handshake) (keeps hugging)" Wife holding the camera: "this is kinda awkwar..................................................................d"
It's like you're joking, but that is actually a legitimate step that you should take. This isn't the only path, but it is a path. 1. Learn to introduce yourself and have very brief conversation in several languages, especially taking note of the name of each language you want to speak in each language. I hope that makes sense. 2. Of the languages you have learned your likely broken conversational skills, choose the one you like the most (for whatever reason: convenience, how much it makes sense to you, how much it will be useful in the future, how many speakers of that language will also speak other languages you want to learn.) 3. Strive to improve your chosen language, either to the point of conversational adequacy, or even fluency if you so chose. 4. Choose another language to improve upon. 5. Not really a step, just a note: if you are in a location where many languages are spoken, many people will take note of your interest, and they may help you to learn something new. Just like the guy in this video does, by answering questions in languages that Wouter does not speak, but is able to partially understand. I think a lot of people overestimate the difficulty, and underestimate the importance of that first step. Before I really became fluent in Spanish (my 2nd language) I was very concerned that attempting to learn Portuguese would confuse me as I was studying French at the time, since we all know these languages have much in common. But I made up my mind to just learn some basic conversational skills to introduce myself, buy a beer, ask someone for help, and especially ask people if they speak a language I'm closer to fluency in. I've been able to do this in 4 languages where I'm not fluent (at varying levels,) and I'm just waiting on the opportunity to try the 4 I haven't had a chance with in person. It's actually easier I think, the more languages I learn even rudimentary things about, the better my ear gets at picking things up. An extra edit because why not: There are a LOT of ways to study languages. Consuming media in that language, a tutor, an online class, an app. Everything works differently for everyone, but I heavily recommend that you find native speakers who you can voicechat with about a mutual interest. There are a lot of online communities out there. Like Italian? Like trains? There's some Italian people out there just dying to talk about trains. Well I assume, I haven't checked into Italian Train communities specifically.
@@jonasfernades241 Eu aprendi um pouco de portugues. Acho do brasil. Quero entender um pouco. I speak Spanish and a little French. Facilita a compreensao And an edit: I don't really want to learn Portuguese, because it seems that a lot of Portuguese speakers speak English or Spanish. I do find Portuguese interesting, but my motive for learning Portuguese is to be able to introduce myself, and hopefully understand more than I can speak myself. I'm more interested in learning Mandarin and Arabic, because I can communicate with more people who don't speak languages I already know.
Actually if you learn: Mandarin English Hindi Spanish Arabic You are set for life. You can speak to almost 80% of the world population. Granted their specific dialects might throw you off but you're basically set.
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.
The Duolingo bird is very proud of these two
Yes, their families are spared.
Lmao
This is what happens when you take his threats seriously.
Joseph Havens you don’t?
Jason Matiteeb I do, but nowhere near as seriously as them!! Lol
Title should’ve been:
Two guys flexing for 12 minutes straight
LMFAOOOOO
nαmєgod honestly
Very trueee
Best
For reals obnoxious... would have been more impressive if they werent trying to one up.
It's like every time they switch to a new language they become new people and have to shake hands again xD love it
Orgil Learns there's a saying " When people learn about a new knowledge, they became a new person" and stuff. Who's knows lol.
Because they mostly know basics.
Yeah it's because greetings are one of the first things you learn in a language, so they become the easiest for you to remember too
Now: speak Finnish!
I have been in situations where I had to switch from portuguese to spanish to french in a couple seconds and I can tell you that it is really wierd and you kind of talk in a different way unintentionally
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 😂😂😂
As an english speaker, I can confirm they did that section correctly.
Sergey Udruzhev yea
Russian was also not bad
Spanish very good
@@dani_jimenez a ver la diferencia entre los acentos yo no lo veía la verdad
Portuguese it was good
How my mom feels after saying “Gracias” to the Japanese waiter:
Or saying xie xie at Panda Express or gracias at Taco Bell
Mrs Worldwide
If she ever goes to Spain, the correct way to say "thank you" would be "Viva Franco, coño", it's a cultural thing.
@@techmasterkat9048 Franco! Franco! Franco! Franco !
French 101
These dudes introduced themselves about 25 times. Really hope they're the best of friends now.
🤣🤣
HAHAHAHAHA
These are the guys that needa become spies and go undercover in Russia or something 😭💀
Funniest comment ever!
Gotta use the phrases they memorized after all.
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
The bald dude didn't speak a lick of chinese
@@Ezox2408 Even my French sounds better (I'm Dutch and in middle school we need to learn French and I'm now in the third year). but our first year french was about: 'le petit cochon et le grand mechant loup. Et marie et l'extraterrestre.' now we're finally learning something that's really useful. And I definitely don't have a Dutch accent (I never have a Dutch accent (seriously) because I listen to it very often and I can easily pick up kind of like an accent)
"Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary."
XD
😂😂😂
And non of them speak Hungarian :D
@@medikitkatful Hungarian is the orphan surrounded by Indo-European languages ;) I understand
"YES!!!! THAT'S HOW IT FEELS!!!!"
Massive props to the person who did all the subtitles holy shit
I'm pretty sure its both of them too
It was definitely the guy on the left who I assume made this video. I can't say much because I only know English, but I'd assume it's damn near impossible for a non polygot to put the subtitles in
Let’s be honest , it’s probably *people* ahhah
@@smeshdoggo1954 think it's the bald guy since his wife was filming
edit: just read the description. everything links to the guy in the left. mustve just had the wife film for convenience sake.
I can vouch for their english, understood every word
Dutch was fine but what was supposed to be flemish did not sound like it at all (coming from a flemish person)
😂
Mike B guy in grey shirt's Spanish was great, guy with the hat had some grammatical errors but still understandable
Their french was pretty bad though, sounded like an american trying to remember the sentences he learned by heart from college.
3 people didn't get the joke 🙃
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 is like watching Sims interact with each other
😂🤣😂🤣
Bruh 💀💀💀😭😭
Boats 😂😂😂💀🗿🌚
😂
Literally is 🤔🤣
I don't care what anyone says this is just two high level spies who met each on the street
The white dude is for sure a spy.
Two sleeper agents that's just waiting for the call since the fall of the Berlin wall.
@@balbonits "Mr. Dalliard! Mr. Dalliard! We've been activated!"
LoooL haha ... You never know though....
You are right they could qualify for the job.
I feel like theyre 2 npcs and the player is just scrolling though available languages while theyre spitting out their pregenerated dialogue over and over again.
Pencilbender
Yes this is very relatable
Lol actually true
It'll go through all its diologues even from other languages
or kinda like switching audio languages on netflix lol
Omg so true
Hahaha very nice one!😂
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.
This feels like one big flex off between the two
Exactly.
Well it is. I'm pretty sure about the size of 2 body parts of those guys: What is big is their brain, what is small is their... Well... Let's say they gotta compensate a lot
Marc Helmberger jealous
@@marchelmberger7790 or maybe some people just like sharing their rare talent with other people you prick
@@marchelmberger7790 Jealousy
Normal people: "What languages do you speak?"
Polyglots: "What languages don't you speak?"
Its not funny what a looser 🤣
Daniel kostic “looser”
@@danny86x *Loser
@@danny86x bro you're subscribed to the cocomelon nursery rhyme channel, your oppinion doesnt count
@@howdah7223 got em
I feel like I am stuck between two wizards and I hope they don't notice me.
Jay P
move your finger, it's on the lense
😂😂😂
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 😂
I like how they greet each other every time they change language
The right guys portuguese was kinda lacking it made little sense especially the accent
El mundo, pre pandemia.
Crazy 😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
Pink floyd is a badass band
It's like a warmup
Can’t tell if friendly embrace; or intense rivalry ultimately settled by blood.
Etan Plan fight to the death
These guys can speak 21 languages while the camera person can't film without putting their finger in the way
J M Hahahahahah
J M you had to ruin it for me
You put a camera in woman's hands, you deserve this footage.
the world isn't perfect
@@blazbohinc5735 bru
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.
The bald guy with glasses was a teacher at my old school, he taught us German and French, this is really funny to see him here😂😂
Dude are you serious
@с у х о й The Netherlands :)
@@MC-wy9rv yeah why?
Cool
He is CIA
Holy shit I am German and the bald guys German was so good. His pronunciation was pretty much perfect and he didn't even speak this textbook kind of German you would speak in a school environment but his way of speaking was rather lose like the way you would talk to a friend. Absolutely amazing to me
He sounded like a not very smart pre-teen... most Dutch speak German at a much higher level.
@@eaglenoimoto So?
Im learning german and Der dis das is killing me.
@@heriander_ 😂😂😂 Es ist schwer, english einfach nur the 🤣
@@eaglenoimoto ich persönlich konnte ihn sehr gut verstehen und finde, dass er so spricht wie jeder Deutsche den ich kenne also sei mal leise brudi. Can you speak German or Dutch? If not then please just be quiet (ich bin Deutsch btw)
I cant even hold a conversation this long in one language
that's because saying, " hi, I like you, let's be friends" is creepy if you say it more than once in the same language.
Scott Caine best comment, thanks for the laugh
@@scottcaine4514 hahahahahahahahahahaha
i can't even start a conversation bruh i am a n.e.e.t
Basically revolved around greetings and occasionally trailed off into some easier convos with languages that come naturally. Went off in German and Dutch easily. Arabic or Chinese not really.
Someone should start telling people that knowing 3 sentences in a language doesn't make you speak it nor be fluent in it.
One starts speaking German the other Japanese.
American and British people: ah shit here we go again...
J MB underrated comment 😂😂
Guy walks by and compliments the guy on his hat in italian
@@JDuzzle woooosh
* "Tora! Tora! Toraaa!", Kamikaze Intensifies*
🅁🄾🄵🄻
Me: think I’m special cuz I’m bilingual
Them: *laughs in 21 languages*
_true_
lmao, u just gotta emphasize a interests that seems small to all but important and interstesing to you that you base that as your main motive to learn the language, then grab ya self a notebook for words to write with thier meanings, study that ish, write down a sentence of your own gains of what u got so far, go to Google translate with having to paste thelanguage u wanna learn to translate to usual langauage. hope this makes sense, helps yall, I'm doing this with french being my 3 language then its off to another
Me: laugh in 6 languages
Probably a good part of earth is fluent in 2 languages or more, this is absolutely not special except if you live in USA haha!
Me: Laughs in 5 languages
I think a lot of people here missed the point, "unique encounter in 21 languages", they were able to keep a basic conversation with basically full comprehension of what the other person was saying.
The glasses-guy made key points; he didn't speak many of these languages for years and is not practicing to switch back and forth. Also he can not find the words in certain languages for speaking, but he has comprehension of even 50+ languages.
Some polyglots in history have spoken 100+ languages throughout their life, it doesn't mean they could switch between them all at once. They could "activate" a given language in a few days if they had to travel somewhere specific.
That in itself is magic.
Lisztomaniac
that's *deep*
Nerd
Well said
His German was absolutely perfect, his pronouncing was so good that he has to be native German speaker like holy crap
@@martensamulowitz347 His Yugoslav languages where also really really good !
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.
Imagine passing by and hearing these 2 guys casually switch from Dutch to Mandarin
If the person walking past speaks neither language, they wouldn't notice the difference. it would be simply noise both times.
@@deanm1424 you can definitely hear the difference between different languages you don't speak. Maybe you don't notice the difference between different languages in the same family (Dutch and German or Korean and Japanese) but you can hear the difference between Thai and Arabic.
@@deanm1424 I don’t speak either and I would definitely know the difference. So your comment in invalid.
@@kresant1507 it is still valid, but you neglect the "walking past part". If you stood there listening then you may well be able to tell. but if someone had heard neither language before then what was spoken would be noise both times.
@@janhetjoch Korean and Japanese are not in the same family
Every language is a diff personailty so they have to introduce themselves again
@Philippe Demptos that is not true, when he spoke croatian he was forming complex sentences and if he can do that in croatian i highly doubt their knowledge in more immportant languages like french or spanish is basic
Philippe Demptos you cant be a native speaker of two languages.
gestucv olonor it really is, it’s hard to understand until you know more than one language 😁😁
Will Mccauley You totally can specially if one or both your parents come from different countries
@@baki2469 Same in German
In Mandarin
A: Are we friends?
B: It’s delicious, it’s delicious...
我也发现了这个说话 哈哈哈哈哈
lol so true. Still impressive tho.
@@KiyoSonoda 这两个人明显就是攀比心理比较重，略会多门语言还不如精通于2，3门，对吧？
to native chinese speakers, how was their accent?
@@jems3732 not trying to be mean but not good to be honest
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 😂
When you change the langague in the game and restart the scene.
Lmfao
I love it when games do that... a few games do that today but not as much as earlier days
wait no... I take it back... a lotta games do it today
こんにちは
Litetally in spanish
- hat guy: i wanna hear argentinian accent
- bald guy: of course, there is no problem
- bald guy: its so hot on Mexico
- hat guy: youre handsome too
Guapo in Argentinian means something diferente mate ;)
@@realtek12345 what the fuck are u saying? Im spanish and guapo means the same in every spanish accent. If not tell me what guapo means in argentinian spanish please. Youre polish dude what the fuck are you gonna know about spanish more than a spanish?
lmao im a spanish speaker and i started dying when i heard that section
Decían oraciones en español que no tenían sentido, pero bueno no se le puede reprochar nada a ninguno de los dos, porque hablan muchos idiomas jajaja
@@randommoth2933 ok, but don't cry
Welcome to another episode of: where quarantine leads me today.
Ahaha
LOL
good one !
Jei Del Rosario It’s weird, I am just here because I’m usually on youtube, I am not in quarantine so I can not relate to you guys :(
je'suis Elle - Ok.
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
When you have taken the first lesson in 21 languages in duolingo
HAHAHAHAHAA EXACTLY. THEIR WORDS ARE MOSTLY INTRODUCTORY AND SMALL TALKS
but still very impressive
😂😂😂
ABSHEJ
Hahaha but duolingo is really useful if you want to start learning a language I think .
Bald guy did an excellent job on the Slavic languages, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarus etc.
It was a good job, but not excellent
Yea, it made me realise just how similar they are. once you pick up one it should be much easier to pick up another
@@edg6779 Serbian, Montenegrian, Croatian and Bosnian are the same language, only accent and a small amount of words are different.
Bald guy clearly has a higher standard of what counts as knowing a language or not. The other guy only learns "Yeah I speak X language, i would like to go to Country of Language one day. I have friends who speak this language." Occasionally he will throw in a "can i have a hug?" Or "can we be friends?" But thats it lol hardly knows 90% of the languages he claims to know.
@@adnans3222 I've noticed that, btw do you have any advices for learning phrasal verbs, where to find something about that?
What languages do you speak?
Them: yes
Si
Ja
Да
是
Oui
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
This is literally an endless cycle of oh you can speak [insert language]
You are very good
Maybe, but the accent and pronunciation are very good, at least in Russian and German.
Ksenia Lucas yes of course 😂
@@xmova7185 Russian... no, they sound like typical foreigners learning my language lmao. They over-emphasise everything
That’s the polyglot curse. You only know so much but it’s a flood of words to learn when you’re surrounded by native speakers. Mastery is seldom amongst polyglots beyond one to three main languages.
@@xmova7185 German is like nearly perfect... Respekt!
Like how calm and serious they get when they start speaking German. 😂
Sebastian Awick They both probably were very well versed in the language having a bit of cultural immersion (especially bald guy) so it was probably easier for them to wax poetic since they knew a lot more, and were more used to conversing auf Deutsch
There was a study that was done a while back that people really will adopt different personalities for different languages
@@MrDaAsif that's true. Happens to me at least... Btw I absolutely LOVE your nickname. ♥️
@Parma zyxwvu Dutch is not Deutsch
There was a study conducted (or concluded) recently on how different languages transport a different amount of information per syllable. Japanese and Spanish for example convey very little information while German is on the other end of the spectrum, that's why Japanese and Spanish are spoken much faster than German such that the infomation flow is pretty much constant for all languages. That might be why they seem to speak so much more calm.
Grüße aus Deutschland =)
As someone who doesn't speak any languages I can confirm that the subtitles were 100% correct
@@leewilson77 lol😊
Then how did you read them?
You write in English fluently?
@@shebagemini yes if you could READ in English correctly then you would understand that I said: SPEAK any languages
@@lightlyfriedfishfillets8117 are you mute (deaf)?
As a person i can confirm they are 100% talking
As a commenter I 100% confirm.
As an youtuber user I can confirm it's their video
cringe
so unfunny
As someone I can say.
Imagine being one of the people walking down the path and seeing two guys just casually having a conversation in like 20 different languages
They'll think the matrix has a glitch.
@Debora Chung The switch from european languages to chinese was pretty noticeable ruclips.net/video/t3H5D-XxPrI/видео.html
Dave Nogas Yeah I was hoping someone on the street would have turned around and went the other way to hear that difference
Bonjour je vois que tu a un drapeau de france, je parle un peu francais
I'd spike an egg on the ground directly between their feet then run away without saying a word, only to turn around, begin laughing hysterically, then sprint back and spike a second egg on my forehead as I got in between them once more.
Teacher: How many languages would you like to learn ?
Them: *YES*
Awesome reply!!!!!
Teacher: *switches seat with them because teacher is now student*
How many languages can you teach?
redragorflag 6/10 joke rating because the beginning was fine but you’re supposed to make the “yes” lowercase for the best effect.
They said they wanted to be friends and travel together hella times. Bet they exchanged emails and never talked again.
Yeah, shit happens.
Kkkkkkkkkkk
Es muy triste.
@@MrMikkyn yeah,it would be awesome to see them more
@ same bro. When u there it feels like your brothers but when real life kicks in its different ahah
This video is pure linguistical chaos the camera work, these guys meeting for the first time over and over again while in front of a windmill everything
I feel like they are having rap battle but in knowledge of languages
Epic Rap Battle of Geography
I can say "Thank you" in 22 languages.. so there.
You know about as much as these two then
ruclips.net/video/Yt6-iky4Jqw/видео.html
I can say thankyou in 40 languages
JamesTavRule Yeah, honestly bro 😂
Add one more, cause I,m sure you didn’t know this one 🇦🇲 (Armenian):
Thank you=շնորհակալություն
Pronounced as: [sh’nor-ha-ka-lu-tyun]
Also used the french variation: մերսի (merci)
Me: Reading the English subtitles when they speak french.
I'm french
De ouf haha
Same here with German!😅
2:23 "insamblé"
I think you NEEDED the English subtitles to understand them tbh
@Skraft j'ai mal à la tete
@Skraft mdr
As a Brazilian Portuguese speaker (native) is funny to see they speaking in Portuguese because the accent that they use is from Portugal and they mix the Spanish accent too but is very impressive what this guys can do and speak in several languages at the same time. Awesome!
I'm European and I recently visited a Brazilian restaurant here in the UK. I'm not confident enough with PT yet, but of the few words I used to communicate such as please and thank you etc. the waiters all initiated full-on conversations with me because I have a Santa Catarina, BR accent as opposed to a Portugal accent - they assumed I was fluent. Embarrassing because I swiftly reverted back into English when they bombarded me with 30 PT words I couldn't process 😂
Portuguese is such a beautiful language
@@SeahorsesJayPortuguese is definitely one of the hardest languages to learn. The grammar is so fucking hard; that in conjunction with the pronunciation and certain rules, makes it one the top 5 hardest languages to learn imo.
@@lucassullivan2109 people never get the accent right too, i can clearly tell if Portuguese isnt their mother language
@@lucassullivan2109nah
In Chinese:
Left: Can we be friends?
Right: Taste good, taste good
REKT
I though I misheard, but I think too he said 好吃好吃 :D
SteeveBlack 我觉得他想说“好说好说”😂
哈哈哈
Haha Chinese is still the hardest to learn, but good job to them! 俩老外的中文口音真浓嘿 上海=全南方 LOL
I took 6 years of French and can count to 39.
Un
Deux
Trois
Quatre
Cinq
Six
Sept
Huit
Neuf
Dix
Onze
Douze
Treize
Quatorze
Quinze
Seize
Dix-sept
Dix-huit
Dix-neuf
Vingt
Vingt-et-un
Vingt-deux
Vingt-trois
Vingt-quatre
Vingt-cinq
Vingt-six
Vingt-sept
Vingt-huit
Vingt-neuf
Trente
Trente-et-un
Trente-deux
Trente-trois
Trente-quatre
Trente-cinq
Trente-six
Trente-sept
Trente-huit
Trente-neuf
Quarante
[…]
Cinquante
[…]
Soixante
[…]
Soixante-dix or Septante
[…]
Quatre-vingt or Huitante
[…]
Quatre-vingt-dix or Nonante
[…]
Cent!
Same here !
Quarante
3*(9+1)+3^2
You are so talented man
If i knew all that languages i’d post a meme in each language everytime
kkkkkkkkkkkjj vii zedek lenda
Nunca pensei que acharia vc em um vídeo assim KKKKKKKKKK
I would do the same
u could jus google translate and post the memes
@@rinaldomeoli8634 my specialty is voiceover and dubbing
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.
Me: reading english subtitles while they talk portuguese
I'm brazilian
What do you mean? Like... If they were correct?
I was reading the subtitles and just after they finished talking in portuguese I realized they were speaking portuguese
Lol
@Alexa Tri not much, well the bald guy is very good at portuguese from portugal but the owner of the channel is kinda bad... (At least he can speak it though)
Arabic and French were not good either ...
Y’all gangsta until he starts spitting Minecraft enchantment table.
Stolen
This has 256 likes and I just found that funny as a nerd because of minecraft numbering system.
@@rtsa4633 it's not minecraft numbering system, it's called binary. Binary alphabet has only two numbers (0,1) so instead of using 10 power numbers like the decimal system (10,20,30) it uses two power numbers (2,4,8,16). 256 is one of them.
BullRed07 wasnt it from a commander keen game?
@@boemboemize Yeah it's the Standard Galactic Alphabet from Commander Keen.
Right: Mexico is really hot!
Left: You're handsome too.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
hahahah
Bobby Tp I noticed that too! But it's an honest mistake because he took "calor" which means hot to mean "caliente" which is hot or hot as in sexy.
Psuculento
Visual One Studio eres caliente mi hijo
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.
How to shake hands in 21 languages
dude you nailed it
I can't stop laughing that's so true
they're clearly italians
Serafim B best comment in the comment section
gastone paperone how can you tell? I noticed some italian at 10:50 but the guy with the hat didn't seem to understand
(Edit: ho letto solo adesso il tuo nome😂😂)
They never claimed to be fluent in 21 languages , they are just doing what they can because it's cool
The guy in the hat can speak 18 languages. He can speak partial bits of other languages, and understand other well.
I speak 8 languages, i can tell that they aren’t fluent when speaking to foreign languages.
The struggle in learning different languages is writing and reading. 😂
Not fluent in their arabic, bit hard to understand but still good.
Quality beats quantity, everytime!
How cool is that you can speak 20 languages, when you know just some basics from 70% of those languages?
@@RichieLarpa I'd rather know the basics of 20 languages than being fluent in 5. Knowing the basics of a lot of languages seems more useful, and it's easier to get better at a language when you already know the basics (that was the case for me when I was learning English)
Italian: the forgotten language...
Jack Dee ad un certo punto però qualcuno ha parlato in sottofondo in italiano 😂😂
@@Margherita_Dolcevita_Languages si, anche io l'ho sentita, é anche ho capito tutto. Io non sono italiana, sono catalana, ma parlo italiano dopo di stare due mesi in Roma in 2016.
Nikoi ne mu puka za shibaniq italqnski
@@judna1 Brava Judith👏
10:50
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
He really wants to be his friend
Crueller thanks
@@giorgiomarrama6555 and to drink !
Not really, it is clear that he only knew very little things to say and couldn’t really carry on a meaningful conversation. Those very little phrases can help him improve, however. I’ve had several encounters with people that say they want to practice their Spanish and the only phrases they know are generic friendly phrases like: “Hola, amigo” and “me gusta tus zapatos” or “yo hablo un poco Español” which isn’t bad at all if you really want to learn they are great stepping stones to build up from there.
Lewis Wolfe you haven’t watched his channel then
@@4TailedScorpion Spanish is easy because its unadulterated and has clear and present rules. Once you get those language structure basics the rest is just learning (expanding) your vocabulary.
Comment section is people that are calling them fake Polyglots because they had a wrong accent on 2 out of 21 languages. They might not be fluent in everything but it’s still damn impressive.
Yea people are weird.
I am learning english lenguage, and todays word was damn
@@israelb2035 damn
I mean i think it's more that they're saying super basic sentences with not much variety in vocab and often completely wrong pronunciations
yea VERY impressive. Mind blown dude.
It's like a conversation between 2 guys with Alzheimer
lol.....that made me laugh
Yeah. 'Cos they keep introducing themselves.
Actually they'll never get alzheimers knowing that many languages. Don't wooosh me
Do u speak scottish
Dark Void I thought this was funny as well. And rather factual.
As a croatian i was really impressed, If I heard him I would think he is native, and he wasn't speaking like school croatian, he was speaking the way we would actually speak. Really amazing.
On i jest hrvat 😂😂
Ne, Skopje
Dobro je pričao hrvatski (i automatski srpski lol) jer je izgleda Makedonac i zna oponašati srodan jezik, ali navodno je pol tih jezika naštrebao, govornici drugih jezika tako tvrde. I stvarno smijurija što srpski i hrvatski smatra različitim jezicima čisto da napumpa broj jezika koje navodno priča.
@@davorbrijacak Hahahha pa da onda mi svi možemo reći da pričamo 5-6 jezika. Hrvatski, Srpski, Bosanski, Crnogorski, Engleski...
@@lolollhe3361 Nacije poliglota, svi znaju sve, lol. Starije generacije Makedonaca i Slovenaca su morali uz svoj jezik još i učiti i srpsko-hrvatski tako da ti ljudi pričaju i jedan jezik ekstra, baš apsurdno.
Zapravo, u slučaju Makedonaca, bugarski je jako sličan jezik, neki tvrde skoro pa isti jezik. Recimo bugarska vlada ne smatra makedonski odvojenim jezikom već inačlcom bugarskog tako da je ovaj lik u videu odmah mogao za sebe tvrditi da je poliglot, i onda je još vjerojatno kak spada naučio 2 strana jezika (ne računajući engleski) i naštrebao nekoliko fraza na njih još 20 pa sad odjednom kao priča 30 jezika.
Russian:
- you speak very good Russian, brat.
- thank you, brat, you too
- really, brat?
- da, brat
bro same bro
Da brat 😂😂😂
Брат да брат
Держись брат
Broooo
That's probably the weirdest flexing I've ever seen
bojazzl max but ok
Y'all got to stop hating on them bruh. Only a couple of people on the entiee planet can do what they just did, yes maybe the quality and efficiency wasn't up to par but the fact is they still tried and they still have the passion to keep learning/exploring and improving each and everyday, which is alot more than majority of the people who watched this video are doing......
Garrett Leong !!!!!!!!!!!!! The passion is there and their effort is very rare! The fact that they can even open up this interesting dialogue in the comments where everyone’s discussing their thoughts on the different languages/their accents/what they could work on is so special!
He told me that he learnt most of this by speaking and listening to tourists
It sounds like they just know "Hello friend" in every language
pretty much, they know the first section of duolingo in 50 language
Man.. his croatian was sleng based, with little things like "eating" letters, like "kuiš" which is short for "kužiš" which is informal "razumiješ".. he could learn that only from a lot of conversations and not from courses on internet. We have 7 grammatical cases for each word and he didn't miss any.. Listening to him as a native I wouldn't think he's foreigner, just a guy from some hood from outskirts of Zagreb..
Wow nice. Looks like he mattered Russian and the slavic. I know both Arabics were iffy and require talking to people to get it right and correct them. But looks like he mixed with people in Croatia
On the beggining, when I heard his accent, I thought he's Serb or Croat, When he spoke Croatian i was 99% that he's Croat. Even if it was slang it sounded so natural and not foreign
Daaa, znaci baš prirodno zvuči kad govori
i think he actually is from balkans somewhere, he said his name is Zoki, typical balkan name, now we can just guess whether it is Serbia Croatia
Macedonia Bosnia or who knows XD
He did say "ljudi su sami po sebe..." Instead of sebi, but that's just nitpicking.
People dont even understand how sick this is. This is not easy.
bastien rambaud . I guess you gotta sacrifice good accent to know 21 languages of even more
bastien rambaud yeah but 900 times 10 is 9000 so that’s 9000 words you need to know. And plus it’s a lot more they are saying
@bastien rambaud they know much more than 10 words
That's actually impossible for normal people
marqy Jr maybe It’s not that difficult but you need to take time to learn it anyways, In my opinion it was impressive how they could at least maintain a basic conversation in a lot of super different languages!
I actually met the guy with the hat 3 years ago! This is filmed at the Zaanse Schans in the Netherlands, where he works and sells his paintings. I was there with Chinese Exchange students. He suddenly started speaking Chinese to them! He is an amazing dude!
Haha so cool. Thanks for sharing your story :) I'm glad to hear that you liked it there.
Where's he from?
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
These are two soldiers fighting in a war against the duolingo bird and his army
Their actual conversation in the Greek part was:
- When are we going?
- I don't know
- This means now or tomorrow?
- ok
Phoenix ahahaha
όσες γλώσσες και να ξέρεις, τα ελληνικά σαν Έλληνας ποτέ δεν θα τα μιλήσεις, τόσο δύσκολη γλώσσα είναι, και προσωπικά είμαι περήφανος που ξέρω μια τόσο σπουδαία γλώσσα
Yep... didnt make any sense. I did my Erasmus in Greece in 2006... I can speak better than this and I dont put Greek in my CV in the list of languages that I speak. I guess I should.
χαχαχα ναι και πέρδεψε τα ελληνικά με τα ισπανικά αυτός σίγουρα δε μιλάει ελληνικά...
Aha I understood it too
I'm currently learning Italian at school but I think it's not real Italian because we're 1 year into it and we haven't picked up on the hand gestures yet
Why are you learning italian? Is it because of the place you live or you just like the language? :)
The hand gestures are the harder part :D
the hand gesture it’s easy mate
the difficult part is understanding all the grammar 😵
Dio can
You stupid foreigns italy isn't just gestures, pizza and spaghetti.
Returns to your ignorant countries without culture and go eat some fastfoods
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.
Bro they're just flexing on each other the whole time
NasIsLike Are you good in the head?
Replicate Extinction, chill 😂😂 It’s just a joke.
lol
It’s like two male lions sizing each other up.
Na they flexing on us 😂
This looks and sounds like sims talking to each other
Austin Acton that's exactly what I though hahahahahahahhahahahaha
For sure man lmao
lmao
🤣🤣🤣
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA the guy on the right looks like a character I madea few times
the bold guy absolutely nailed German. he sounded like a native and german is a hard ass language. props to you man
German is not hard if you're a German...duh
@Konstantin Bäumer-Bruhn I know I'm German and it was a sarcastic joke...smu
@Konstantin Bäumer-Bruhn you were too early
@Matus Kovacik doch ist es! Und seine Aussprache war wirklich Haargenau, was wahrscheinlich für die meisten Niederländer am schwierigsten ist.
Agreed. I spit more than I speak in german. The more I learn, the more difficult it becomes.
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.
So basically he learned, "do you speak _____"
"Let's be friends"
and
"Lets eat a lot together" in 21 languages.
Yes 🙄 I wonder how many he's actually fluent in. I'd love to claim to be a polyglot but I'm not gonna do that until I can speak 3 languages fluently. Others do 5 hours of Duolingo in 12 languages and claim to "know" 12 languages
@@RoyalGuardEziode Yeah it's pointless. It's much more impressive for someone to speak one language (aside from their native one) to fluency than to know one sentence in 30 languages
Hahahahahahahaahahaahh
@Josip yeah it's super bad
@@RoyalGuardEziode Yeah honestly, the only fluent polyglots that I've seen on RUclips are probably Laoshu and polyglotstories, but laoshu's accents are bad, Chinese is the only language in which his accent is perfect. However polyglotstories is the real polyglot, she has the perfect accent in every language
plot twist: they never became friends
They became mortal enemies
They ended up being more than friends
The bald guy dumped his wife and started dating the guy with the hat
Lol!
But they did bum eachother
Korean converstation is a little bit weird:
- How are you?
- Oh, Nihongo (Japenese)?
- Yeah, Korean
- Are you korean?
- I'm Zoki
- You can speak Korean
- Yeah, yeah, I can
- Where do you live?
- Amsterdam
- Let's be friends?
- Yeah, let's be friends
- I learned from Korean people
- Thank you (*he said it wrong)
- Nice to meet you
- Thank you, *Good NIGHT!*
Right!! When I heard the korean conversation I was a bit confused
Well I strongly doubt a person may speak 21 languages correctly. It's quite impossible, unless they spend their entire life making practice everyday.
They probably have an entry lvl in many of them, nothing else.
Bruh you really think that he can speak corectly among all these words and languages, some of them he speaks well some of them not really, but he can clearly understand korean. Its just insane to have all these sentences in your head.
Mandarin is sometimes wierd
Other then few mistskes is it good yes.
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
The hebrew was barely understandable but these people are just insanely talented so you can't really criticize anything
The portuguese as well but yh i agree with you
Sorry but that was brazilian portuguese. For their effort in spanish they dont know euro portuguese.
@@theartemisgland sou carioca vivendo em portugal tenho noção dos 2 tipos de português
Same for their french, but again, amazed at how many languages they can speak.
Just because someone is talented doesn’t mean they can’t be criticized.
The old lady near the start was actually about to interrupt and tell them she can speak 32 languages but they blanked her
Where?
Doodles 0:22
Nah they were in the middle of the path
You can read her lips
She says " 'scuse me"
Big woooosh
Two guys: *flexing*
The person who did subtitles: *laughs in 21 languages*
GOLD
Yo where r u from? Ur nickname reminded me something
@@Dilem413 Ukraine
@@mykhailohoy7787 oh ok thx :)
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.
Nobody:
Wouter: wE cAn EaT a LoT tOgEtHeR
😂😂😂
I have lots of friends who like to eat together and we can learn many languages.
How to be a Polyglot:
1. Learn how to say _Lets be Friends_ in at least 15 languages and 7 local dialects;,
2. *a a a a a a a a a a a*
Jonas Fernades Well it depends if you wanna talk smalltalk without knowing hardass grammar and you have a good ear for languages, I don’t think it’s to hard tbh. I grew up in southeast Austria near the Slovenian border and growing up I spend a lot of time in a Serbian-Croatian Diaspora, learned Latin and Spanish at school, Greek(also writing) some Turkish some Slovenian and Croatian from friends. If you speak a little Serbian or Croatian you can also communicate with Bosnians and now im taking chinese classes in university (where I also learn Kanji the japanese Chinese alphabet and now I teach myself some japanese in my free time). So I can pull of a hey how are you let’s get a beer convo in about 12 languages but I only really know 2 (Austrian German and English)
So the bald guy isn't just a polyglot, but he's also polylectal (had to research this term if it even exists hahaha).
Two guys: "Let's be friends! (handshake) (keeps hugging)"
Wife holding the camera: "this is kinda awkwar..................................................................d"
It's like you're joking, but that is actually a legitimate step that you should take. This isn't the only path, but it is a path.
1. Learn to introduce yourself and have very brief conversation in several languages, especially taking note of the name of each language you want to speak in each language. I hope that makes sense.
2. Of the languages you have learned your likely broken conversational skills, choose the one you like the most (for whatever reason: convenience, how much it makes sense to you, how much it will be useful in the future, how many speakers of that language will also speak other languages you want to learn.)
3. Strive to improve your chosen language, either to the point of conversational adequacy, or even fluency if you so chose.
4. Choose another language to improve upon.
5. Not really a step, just a note: if you are in a location where many languages are spoken, many people will take note of your interest, and they may help you to learn something new. Just like the guy in this video does, by answering questions in languages that Wouter does not speak, but is able to partially understand.
I think a lot of people overestimate the difficulty, and underestimate the importance of that first step. Before I really became fluent in Spanish (my 2nd language) I was very concerned that attempting to learn Portuguese would confuse me as I was studying French at the time, since we all know these languages have much in common. But I made up my mind to just learn some basic conversational skills to introduce myself, buy a beer, ask someone for help, and especially ask people if they speak a language I'm closer to fluency in. I've been able to do this in 4 languages where I'm not fluent (at varying levels,) and I'm just waiting on the opportunity to try the 4 I haven't had a chance with in person. It's actually easier I think, the more languages I learn even rudimentary things about, the better my ear gets at picking things up.
An extra edit because why not: There are a LOT of ways to study languages. Consuming media in that language, a tutor, an online class, an app. Everything works differently for everyone, but I heavily recommend that you find native speakers who you can voicechat with about a mutual interest. There are a lot of online communities out there. Like Italian? Like trains? There's some Italian people out there just dying to talk about trains. Well I assume, I haven't checked into Italian Train communities specifically.
@@bigian4649 Então quer dizer que você quer aprender português? Primeiro de tudo, do Brasil ou de Portugal?
@@jonasfernades241 Eu aprendi um pouco de portugues. Acho do brasil. Quero entender um pouco.
I speak Spanish and a little French. Facilita a compreensao
And an edit: I don't really want to learn Portuguese, because it seems that a lot of Portuguese speakers speak English or Spanish. I do find Portuguese interesting, but my motive for learning Portuguese is to be able to introduce myself, and hopefully understand more than I can speak myself. I'm more interested in learning Mandarin and Arabic, because I can communicate with more people who don't speak languages I already know.
Wow.
#respect
Imagine how huge their world is!
Wonderful. I'm so jealous!
Just learning Chinese and English will let speak to half the worlds population
@@username-wm4bs if you count Russian and Spanish in, you cover (I guess) at least 70% of people
@@BLithosa what about hindi or arabic?
@@g-unit0744 To much coverage... :D But yeah these could be almost language overkill
Actually if you learn:
Mandarin
English
Hindi
Spanish
Arabic
You are set for life. You can speak to almost 80% of the world population. Granted their specific dialects might throw you off but you're basically set.
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.