Can Wouter Corduwener ACTUALLY Speak Russian?

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  • Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024

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  • @lifeofyama
    @lifeofyama  Год назад +15

    After filming this, I realized I was a too harsh on Wouter's Russian and I think a rating of A2 would suite him better, thanks for understanding :)
    После того как я снял это видео, я понял что я был слишком суров с ним и я считаю что А2 более правильное, спасибо всем)

  • @sovkamazur1291
    @sovkamazur1291 Год назад +16

    Я думаю, что его иногда сложно понимать из-за того, что он учит не только русский, но и другие славянские языки. Мне кажется, что в некоторых его видео, я слышала от него украинский и польский. На 3:01 у меня сложилось полное впечатление, что он смешал славянские языки, например я услышала "нема" на украинском, что значит "нету", но я все же в этом не уверена
    Немного с опозданием посмотрела видос, большое спасибо за твои старания :з

    • @lifeofyama
      @lifeofyama  Год назад +5

      хаха спасибо что снова здесь. Я даже не заметил что он использует украинский, ты совершенно права :)

    • @sovkamazur1291
      @sovkamazur1291 Год назад

      @@lifeofyama ^^

    • @mvxenda
      @mvxenda Год назад +1

      Да и сербохорватский jezik у него проскакивает порой. Хотя, может быть, это из-за его акцента, кто знает

  • @Kinotaurus
    @Kinotaurus Год назад +13

    Also this guy speaks almost exclusively about (a) who's from where; (b) language-learning. No other topics...

    • @PetraStaal
      @PetraStaal 10 месяцев назад

      And food!

    • @FrozenMermaid666
      @FrozenMermaid666 8 месяцев назад +2

      I know right! 😂 It’s like, a few sentences memorized in each language about how the language was learnt and about having friends that speak that language 😆 and about the language or grammar or pronunciation being difficult etc! I always laugh a lot when I hear those things! 😂 Apparently, one needs to have a lot of friends in many countries to be able to learn 30 languages! Lol!

  • @Leon.Stanic
    @Leon.Stanic Год назад +2

    Omg you actually listened to me!! 😉 Can't wait to watch the video

  • @petercampbell882
    @petercampbell882 Год назад +5

    I would like to see you assess the Russian level of Laura from Couch Polyglot. I don't speak any Russian but she seems pretty good.

  • @little_engine_goes_to_Thailand
    @little_engine_goes_to_Thailand Год назад +1

    Wow ! Your English is fantastic. Well done

  • @FediJone
    @FediJone Год назад +4

    На Джона Уоррена реакцию сделай, я никогда не слышал, чтобы иностранец так хорошо говорил

  • @michaelrabich9635
    @michaelrabich9635 Год назад +2

    I agree with you on Wouter, as far as impressive Russian speakers, one is Dutchman @arigovoritporusski, the other is Brazilian ​@vem a mim lingua russa, both of these guys speak with basically no accent, and easily hold conversations. I was born in USSR came here at age 9, i speak well and read well, writing for me in Russian is a problem.

    • @jonallen7619
      @jonallen7619 Год назад

      Both of those guys are ok but they clearly lack a lot of knowledge.

    • @amandai.1334
      @amandai.1334 Год назад

      @@jonallen7619 elaborate with ari. he has some of the best russian for a foreigner

  • @backseatgaming2145
    @backseatgaming2145 Год назад +46

    I cannot believe Gordon Ramsay has a youtube channel

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund Год назад

      Well, fuck me!

    • @rlupara
      @rlupara Год назад

      Это младший Гордон или юниёр

  • @wattey
    @wattey Год назад +4

    He never really seems to work on his accent in any of the languages he studies at all, he probably overestimates how difficult it it to get a somewhat decent accent.

  • @RyanMcK19
    @RyanMcK19 Год назад +2

    1:25 I'm really curious, in your opinion, how would you describe your own vocal placement when speaking russian?

    • @МарияИванова-у9к2д
      @МарияИванова-у9к2д Год назад

      He speaks perfectly. As a Russian I can tell u it for sure

    • @МарияИванова-у9к2д
      @МарияИванова-у9к2д Год назад

      What I can't say about the man he is making video about unfortunetly. Like he is obviously struggling a lot

    • @RyanMcK19
      @RyanMcK19 Год назад +1

      @@МарияИванова-у9к2д oh it seems like my question make people confused. I was not being sarcastic or critical at all. Just out of my pure curiosity. I'm currently learning russian so i'd like to hear how a native speaker would describe their own vocal placement, so that i could improve my accent just a little bit. In the video, he was commenting on Corduwener's placement, and that's why i came up with the question. There is no doubt that he's fluent in russian.

    • @МарияИванова-у9к2д
      @МарияИванова-у9к2д Год назад

      @@RyanMcK19 Oh I guess I misunderstood you completely lol sorry😅😂

    • @МарияИванова-у9к2д
      @МарияИванова-у9к2д Год назад

      @@RyanMcK19 Do u have someone to practice with btw? Where are ypu from? I'm always curious about people who are willing to learn Russian. Like it's such unusual choice. Good luck to you bro😇

  • @0815Snickersboy
    @0815Snickersboy Год назад +5

    He claims to speak like 30 languages or what and is around 30 years old. There is no way he can actually have a high level in all of these

    • @FrozenMermaid666
      @FrozenMermaid666 8 месяцев назад

      I think one can learn 20 or 30 languages fluently in about 10 years if one only learns pretty and easy languages (the languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve are all pretty and easy category 1 and category 2 languages with Irish and Scottish Gaelic being the only category 3 languages on my list) and if one learns them all or most of them at the same time and if one focuses mostly on vocab and if one revises each word at least 30 times over a longer period of time and watches every video and movie with subs in the target languages, one shall learn all those words automatically, and, in a few years, the languages that were prioritized the most will get real fluent, as languages that were properly learnt tend to get better over time!
      I have over 50 target languages, and I started learning half of my target languages since I started learning languages on my own about fifteen months ago or so, and my Dutch is already upper advanced level and my Norwegian is advanced level and my Icelandic and Norse and German are upper intermediate level, plus I am also mid intermediate level in Welsh / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian, and in English I am writer level and in Spanish am native level as these two are my first languages that I’ve been passively learning since childhood, and in the other target languages I am beginner / mid beginner / upper beginner level!
      I don’t think yt ppl in general know many languages fluently tho, and only seem to know two and sometimes three languages fluently, including English and the first language that they were made to learn, but when it comes to most other languages, they usually seem to only learn the basics and the words that are used in conversations the most as well as a few sentences that they memorize in each language, but true fluency means knowing at least 15 thousand to 35 thousand base words in each language automatically!
      However, learning so many hundreds of thousands of words automatically takes a lot of time and dedication and going through a lot of vocab videos with hundreds and thousands of words over 30 times on different days and watching tons of videos on grammar and sounds and pronunciation etc and learning many lyrics and watching every videos with subs in the target languages etc, and not many learners are willing to do that as it’s a lot of hard work!
      But I am actually trying to do that as a full-time learner, so learning new languages and watching videos with subs in target languages in all I do all day every day, as I am really obsessed with learning languages and I am extremely obsessed with the Norse languages and the modern Celtic languages at the moment, so, I have to learn and know these languages, there is no way around it, so one who is truly obsessed with pretty languages and truly wants to know the words well for their prettiness and artistic / poetic value would have the dedication and motivation to learn all those words, as pretty words and pretty languages are naturally motivating, but most learners that only see languages as a way to communicate and that aren’t looking at the artistic value of the pretty words from pretty languages tend to only learn one or two languages to a B1 level, but usually most learners tend to give up on learning a language after a while, as most learners are also not willing to do the hard work and learn all those words automatically, since most ppl are always trying to find shortcuts that do not exist, so when they realize that there are no shortcuts to true fluency, they lose motivation and give up on learning that language!

    • @FrozenMermaid666
      @FrozenMermaid666 8 месяцев назад

      By the way, my list here contains most of my target languages, and, at the moment I am...
      - upper intermediate level in Old Norse and Icelandic and German
      - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish
      - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian
      - mid intermediate level in Swedish and Portuguese and French and Italian and Welsh
      - beginner level in Breton and Hungarian and Gothic and Latin and Faroese and Galician and Danish and Slovene
      - total beginner in Cornish and Manx and Irish and Scottish Gaelic and Yola and Scots Doric and Aranese and Elfdalian and Gallo and Limburgish and Occitan and Luxembourgish and Catalan and Urkers and Hunsrik and East Norse and Ruhrpöttisch and Alemannic and Ripuarian and Swiss German and Pälzische Deutsch and Austrian German and Waddisch and Palatine German and Westföälsk Sassisk and Austro-Bavarian and PlatDeitsch and Greenlandic Norse and Friulian and Pretarolo and Sardinian and Neapolitan and Sicilian and Venetian and Esperanto and Walloon and Ladin and Guernsey and Norn and Burgundian and Sognamål and West Frisian and North Frisian and East Frisian and Yiddish and Afrikaans and Finnish and Latvian and Estonian and MīdEnglish and Ancient Dutch and Ancient English and Ancient Icelandic and Ancient Faroese and Ancient Norwegian and Ancient Danish and Ancient Swedish and Ancient Welsh and Ancient Breton and Ancient Cornish and Ancient Manx and Ancient Irish and Ancient Scottish Gaelic and Mīd Icelandic and Mīd Faroese and Mīd Norwegian and Mīd Danish and Mīd Swedish and Mīd Welsh and Mīd Breton and Mīd Cornish and Mīd Manx and Mīd Irish and Mīd Scottish Gaelic etc (and the other languages based on Dutch and German and Norwegian and Italian and French that haven’t been officially recognized as a language yet, even though they are different languages with different spelling etc, and, the words that were different in Ancient French etc)
      (The prettiest languages ever Norse and Icelandic and Dutch and English and Norwegian and Gothic and Faroese and Welsh etc are definitely a must-know!)

  • @aMessvv
    @aMessvv Год назад +11

    Is he claiming to be fluent in Russian or just being able to speak it?
    I mean even in his bio it says “29 languages on different levels” and he seems to be able to hold a conversation in Russian.
    I guess the answer is he’s telling the truth? 🤷‍♀️

    • @timothydouglas9474
      @timothydouglas9474 Год назад

      I agree with you. Wouter doesn't claim to speak 29 languages fluently, or even well.

    • @franciscoriordan9595
      @franciscoriordan9595 11 месяцев назад

      That “different levels” qualifier is new, he’s toned down his claims

  • @strongman3355
    @strongman3355 6 месяцев назад

    Honestly speaking, your rating regarding the determination of his English level is quite wrong. As for me and many others I suppose, his level is actually B1 or close to B1. I reckon he is able to speak Russian albeit with grammar and pronunciation mistakes. If he were a A2 learner, his sentences would be much shorter and simpler. However, in the grand scheme of things, I agree with your language assessment in terms of his accent, mistakes and the moments when he sounded off, too long and difficult to understand, which by the way, is totally acceptable and understandable. Having many pauses while communicating is a common occurrence among language learners. It will disappear once you start improving your language skills on a daily or constant basis.

  • @neverlanddeepinside7273
    @neverlanddeepinside7273 Год назад +4

    Я посмотрел еще одно видео и честно говоря твой русский звучит со слышимым акцентом и твоя компоновка слов на тонких моментах выдает тебя:
    00:21 «я говорю на русском/я знаю русский» фраза русскоязычный человек режет слух
    02:08 раньше
    03:54 «достаточно хорошо» фраза достаточно впорядке выдает тебя
    04:00 обособлено
    05:15 простые фразы
    твой русский прекрасен но я бы сказал что ты из прибалтики если бы заговорил с тобой где-то случайно, я написал этот комментарий только из за того что крайне экспертно рассуждаешь, наверное так и звучит лингвамарина для нейтивов

    • @iwannabeyourdog4195
      @iwannabeyourdog4195 Год назад

      русские сами не могут говорить по-русски, честно, у меня были проблемы с беглым чтением того же Достоевского или Чаадаева из-за витиеватого слога

    • @neverlanddeepinside7273
      @neverlanddeepinside7273 Год назад +2

      @@iwannabeyourdog4195 не могут? русский на самом деле уникальный язык в том что в нем фактически нет диалектов, люди со всей рф и даже немного за ее пределами говорят на одном и том же русском.
      если сравнить его с украинским то читать текста написаные та тем же Шевченко порой очень сложно из за диалектов и старых слов, часто можно просто не понять прочитанного лол, никогда не сталкивался с трудностями чтения старой русской литературы, не знаю почему но этот язык словно застыл во времени

    • @iwannabeyourdog4195
      @iwannabeyourdog4195 Год назад

      @@neverlanddeepinside7273это скорее потому, что украинский язык только 100 лет назад начал создавать литературную норму, но мне всё равно почему-то кажется, что язык русской классической литературы другой и я часто вижу там старые слова, например из французского или просто вышедшие из потребления

    • @Kinotaurus
      @Kinotaurus Год назад +1

      Много кальк с английского; напр. перевод "hiccups" как "икота", хотя по контексту надо было "запинки".

    • @soniairacisareri6076
      @soniairacisareri6076 Год назад

      Что не так с фразой "Я говорю на русском" ? Я не понимаю.

  • @b2savage.
    @b2savage. Год назад +2

    great video man, do you speak any other languages?

    • @lifeofyama
      @lifeofyama  Год назад +4

      Yes, currently studying French and Spanish ✌

    • @guerreromendieta
      @guerreromendieta Год назад +2

      ​@@lifeofyama please consider speaking a little spanish in a video 🙏

  • @Alessandro_Batistuda
    @Alessandro_Batistuda 9 месяцев назад

    Как бы звучал русский язык, если бы у него была грамматика как в английском?
    Звучал бы так, как говорит Яма)

  • @milanhrvat
    @milanhrvat Год назад +5

    A1... this is basically, saying my name is. I am from... and I eat, I look, I sit, I talk etc. A2.... this is when you learn because I want... I eat because I need to... I learn German so that I can find a job. In honesty, your rating system is wrong. I studied German to C1 in Germany via Goethe Institut and started at A1 and did 1000+ hours of study, italki and courses.... To be realistic, he speaks A2-B1. Find real A1 speakers and you'll realise that you're being too harsh on Luca.

    • @melaniegrace7707
      @melaniegrace7707 Год назад

      But this isn’t Luca

    • @milanhrvat
      @milanhrvat Год назад

      @@melaniegrace7707 that was a reference to the other video. Of course I know this is not luca. He basically thinks luca is slightly better and the difference is super massive

    • @melaniegrace7707
      @melaniegrace7707 Год назад

      @@milanhrvat ah ok my b

  • @bigtombowski
    @bigtombowski Год назад

    White Christmas?

  • @barkingtaco
    @barkingtaco Год назад +5

    More like a B1

    • @lifeofyama
      @lifeofyama  Год назад

      he could be, explanation?

    • @jsantiago.b
      @jsantiago.b Год назад +1

      ​@@lifeofyama A1 is mumbling level, you cannot actually construct many sentences.

    • @lifeofyama
      @lifeofyama  Год назад +7

      @@jsantiago.b I don't disagree, he is definitely not bad at Russian but from his grammar, word choice, and accent, he doesn't seem to be as confident as someone who is B1 in Russian (ex language simp). Maybe I was too hard on him and A2 would suite as a more accurate rating.

    • @jonallen7619
      @jonallen7619 Год назад +1

      @@lifeofyama language simp only does rehearsed monologues. His accent and general ability in a natural conversation would be pretty bad lol.

    • @trainerred6582
      @trainerred6582 Год назад

      Damn, is Russian that easy? I’ve studied Chinese for 4 years, and only passed the old HSK 3! Passing above it is difficult, HSK3, it’s not enough to say you’re B1!

  • @heatherb2307
    @heatherb2307 Год назад +2

    I think that it's cool that he's trying. You've got to get if anyone props for trying to learn language!
    It's funny that he use была in the past tense; he probably didn't realize that he was using the feminine gender to talk about himself. Oopsy!

    • @mep6302
      @mep6302 Год назад

      Past tenses have gender? What??

  • @senchaholic
    @senchaholic Год назад +1

    He, like many of the others, never claimed he's an expert in all languages that he speaks. He's better with a few languages and speaks like a 6 year old in others. I think he's fun and we get to see how he essentially practice languages on tourists. I don't get what's so controversial.

  • @albert4153
    @albert4153 Год назад +2

    "Один из языков, который Уолтер говорит, что он умеет говорить на". Автор, Вы же понимаете, что эта фраза калька с английского?
    Прослушал несколько Ваших видео и удивлялся, вроде автор говорит по-русски хорошо, но есть мелкие грамматические ошибки, невозможные для носителя, и есть лёгкий акцент.
    Думаю, что русский для Вас не родной.

    • @Rudolf_santaclaus
      @Rudolf_santaclaus Год назад +2

      Насколько я знаю, автор родился в Канаде, но, в русской семье, то есть, при нем говорили на русском, однако, в остальное время он говорил на Английском.
      Поэтому, создается впечатление того, что он не является носителем Русского языка.

  • @jonallen7619
    @jonallen7619 Год назад +2

    Hey dude, you should do Энтони Американец. Watch his interview with steve kaufman. He claims to be fluent but you can tell his knowledge is very limited.

  • @robij3475
    @robij3475 Год назад +1

    You should review the russian proficiency of the brazilian youtuber @vemamimlinguarussa