14 year old American polyglot now speaks 21 languages!

[@Boet_w]

English speaker here, I can confirm she speaks English

[@klaytonsilva5890]

Stonks

[@OnlyInhuman90]

Non-English speaker here. I can confirm she speaks perfect Dutch

[@alexismandelias]

Such an original joke

[@Quatzelcoatl]

@@alexismandelias I hope he/she also recycles his/her plastic like this 😉

[@jomarelionardo7423]

@@klaytonsilva5890 você por aqui. Te vi num comentário do Gabriel Poliglota.

[@ChristopherBonis]

Cameron's dad finally let her talk to the bearded Dutchman alone.

[@keykeyta]

I thought the same loolll

[@40yearoldvirgil15]

He had to watch the edit back and read the subtitles to make sure everything was above board 😅

[@MacXpert74]

😂

[@sachah2400]

She is under-age. He is a good father keeping an eye on her online interactions with adult strangers.

[@Horneycorn]

@@tdotgizzunz1233 Please tell me where to find this video, I'm in for a good laugh and by the way you described it, it already made me giggle.

[@Fernando_Silveira]

I am Brazilian and I could understand everything she said.. she mixes it with spanish, but the most important thing is to make yourself understood! Congrats!

[@dallasjr7080]

A gente só entende porque o espanhol se assemelha muito com o português ,ela basicamente só fala espanhol kkkkkkk assim até eu

[@onepoko2898]

@@dallasjr7080 então fala outras 19 línguas ai pra nós ver

[@clinomaniac]

@@dallasjr7080 ela falou palavras em pt sim, mas acho que ela confundiu a maioria pq é muito parecido com espanhol

[@wagnernonato407]

A parte nasal do ão que eles não conseguem falar e misturando espanhol em alguns momentos mas eles estão de parabéns!!

[@pedropetiz1468]

eu falo espanhol, acredito que só entendi por causa disso, e por causa da legenda em inglês tambem, o portugeus dela é basicamente espanhol

[@emusauruswrex8488]

I can speak 4 languages: Australian American Canadian And British

[@joenuts9259]

Emu SaurusWrex Well I can speak Mexican, Spanish, Colombian and Venezuelan

[@emusauruswrex8488]

👏

[@jayasreejaya3550]

Oh!!! Then i speak Spanish, argentinian, chilean, colombian, mexican, paraguyan, Venezuelan, Ecuadorian,bolivian, panaman, costa rican, nicaraguan, el salvadorian, cuban, honduran😎😎

[@NovadaFarhans]

singaporean

[@maximusextreme3725]

If gibberish counts as a language I am completely fluent.

[@akunnie4414]

I think she focus more on the quantity more than the quality but she have a bright future

[@jaredwilliams6853]

I understand kids doing that because it’s a bunch of new perspectives and experiences which keeps it fun

[@miroslavblagoev5887]

she focuses* , she has*

[@TheDarthMauz]

I could speak Indonesian, Japanese and a little Korean (still learning the language), what I can say is eventough her Japanese grammar is pretty terrible, her Indonesian, Japanese and Korean pronunciation are pretty good. Her Indonesian is pretty courteous and I like it. And she's better on the 3 language than him.

[@tiktok_ets2]

I speak Spanish and her Spanish is really good

[@n.a4944]

Yeah

[@thanhson7261]

I’m Vietnamese and I’m here to confirm that we understand what she said, there are some points she didn’t speak like us but overall, she’s truly good

[@jangmisworld1810]

Do you agree: The more languages one learns, the easier it gets to understand languages which one didn't learn.

[@Leonholtkuile]

yes!

[@jackriver1999]

Yep, too. I am learning French but I found I can also understand Spanish comments in KZbin, even though I have never studied the language. I feel learning Spanish will be a piece of cake, with it being a romance language like French.

[@landsgevaer]

Klingon, Sindarin, Chalcatongo Mixtec and Silbo Gomero are next then... 🙂

[@asdocneter]

Sure. The more you learn, the more developed this area in the brain responsible for language acquisition becomes.

[@jeanpaul7673]

Oh please. Being a real polyglot - it is confidently know every language at a confirmed level not less than B1. Three weeks learned Vietnamese? No, man, you don’t speak Vietnamese, you just picked up basic phrases and simple sentences. To know a language is not only to be able to say "Hi, how are you?" but also to read articles, books, watch movies, use extensive vocabulary in speech. What they’re doing is more of a hobby, a pastime. Like, this month I’m learning Portuguese, then Italian, then Chinese. No, friends, you’re not polyglots, you’re just nice people who pick up the top of every language and pretend to "speak" so many languages. No, it’s not like that. I know four of the languages they use at the B2 level, and I can tell you that the level of some of the languages they use is unlikely to be confirmed by an A1 test.

[@Yashodhan1917]

Yeah they can barely speak these languages. They just know a few useful sentences and words.

[@justforrow]

I would rather only know a few languages (2-3) at maximum C2 level or at least very advanced C1 level than know 5-6 languages at below B1 level.

[@GabyaideSilveroSalazar]

You don't really know what being a polyglot is like, it is not necesary to have an advanced level in every language you speak, what you need is to be fluent and easily comunicate in different contexts, and it's not necesary to have c1 to reach that, there's people who don't know how to do a long speech with advanced vocab in their own languages, but I agree on the fact that you need certain level to consider that you speak a language, it is not Just like to pick up some useful phrases and say that you speak a language

[@Yashodhan1917]

@@GabyaideSilveroSalazar dude these people are not even A1 in most languages they pretend to speak

[@Southron-CiK]

@@Yashodhan1917extremely well said. If all you can say is “hello my name is ____, I speak this language, I like to learn languages, what’s your name, nice to meet you, I’m from ____” then you aren’t a polyglot. It’s a cool party trick but it isn’t something you could actually survive with in that country.

[@paulo0651]

She really got better with her Spanish. And, also, it’s incredible the Venezuelan accent that she has. 👌

[@Cantersoft]

I don't know Spanish very well but I did pick up on the fact that she seems to replace 'z's and 's's with a 'th' sound, which kinda sounds like Spain to me.

[@paulo0651]

@@Cantersoft She said that she had a Venezuelan friend, from whom she was learning Spanish, and, trust me, I'm a Spanish native speaker and I know what I'm saying. XD

[@laurisuurmaa2752]

Venezuelan accent originates by the way, from Canary islands.

[@zaharasajadi5972]

Yes I got that with spanish

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

I hope I can speak Spanish like her

[@kirbyy5920]

in japanese you dont have to say watashi so often since its conversation between you two I suggest just omitting the watashi as in its already know your talking about yourself based on the context, if you do say watashi so often it'll sound like you just want to talk about yourself and might sound rude

[@kidpolyglot]

ok! thank you for the tip 🙏🏼

[@bigh5446]

What she say when she asked “can you speak japanese”, it did not sound like日本語が話せますか nihongo ga hanasemasuka.

[@kirbyy5920]

@@bigh5446 true i also feel like the guy learned romaji instead of the actual pronunciation of the characters; if you plan on learning Japanese i don't suggest learning romaji as it can mess with your pronunciation and tones a lot, his Japanese is an example of that

[@blackf0rd]

I think this is caused by the fact that we need to use pronouns in most of the languages we speak and we are not used to not using a pronoun.

[@ジョウドなの筍]

@@bigh5446 Just to clarity she said: 日本語はんして出来ますか 悪い事やけど 俺ら何も 出来んやん

[@jonatha3353]

Her Portuguese is like a mix of Spanish and the Chinese tones

[@kidpolyglot]

Everybody tells me I speak Portunhol

[@wesleymxfreestyle]

Son idiomas parecidos y cambiar de uno a otro así no es fácil, seguro lo hablaría mejor si el video fuera todo en uno de los idiomas.

[@cipher3966]

It is easy to confuse Spanish and Portuguese. I think she may have gotten nervous and mixed them on the spot. Both were still pretty impressive for her age though.

[@Kolvatn]

xd

[@Kolvatn]

@@cipher3966 yeahhhhh that also happens to me :p

[@galenlee8856]

I just want to say that there is no better way to show love in this world, than through music and speaking someone else's native tongue. It is the human connection we need for all of humanity. you and the other polyglots are amazing. I can't help but smile, when I hear you guys talk. I don't have to understand the language, it is the excitement and love in your heart that shows more than anything. Keep it up. I want to continue to be impressed and astounded. Much love from me and my family.

[@thandizimmermann8275]

Another better way to show love to others is to volunteer your quality time, spending your time teaching others about our loving Creator, the Source and Originator of our precious life, teaching others what God's Word the Bible teaches about our life now and our future.

[@ibrahemh.7674]

Native Arabic speaker here, you can exclude Arabic from the list 😂

[@ジョウドなの筍]

😂😂😂

[@shysnicker7914]

😂 I'm dead

[@ZephyrGamingUK]

😂

[@jojibot9193]

"Egyptia" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@VibezzCb]

Frrr😂😂😂

[@HimSteven]

Language speaker here and I can confirm she is speaking a language

[@zepingchen1925]

People should realize that, quality is more important than quantity!!!

[@binokiri7946]

Absolutely accurate. It's just a pity that few people want to understand this...

[@gardal1250]

As a native Russian speaker: She does NOT speak Russian. What she demonstrated isn’t enough at all to count Russian as a language she knows. I, for example, can say few sentences in German but it doesn’t mean I SPEAK German. I’ve also watched other videos with her and her accent is reallyyyy bad, I hardly understood the most part of what she was saying, although our everyday language is very quick and has a lot of sounds that are indistinguishable. I don’t judge or blame her in any way, it was just my remark. Good luck Cameron and Wouter and others who are learning foreign languages!

[@irenehabes-quene2839]

She must have picked up her Russian by speaking to somebody but we all know that to become fluent takes time. I’m sure with her ability she would be fluent if she immersed herself in Russia for a few weeks and studied Russian vocabulary

[@entanglednerves]

​@@nathanbutler2439well there are people who do. Search for content on Timothy Doner, for starters.

[@asa8419]

@@nathanbutler2439You right.. and learning languages really takes times, even if you are mastering 30 languages you can’t! always remember all the words in that languages, and that girl i think she only knows the basic phrases and common sentences, if someone ask her to talk about some serious topic about climate change for example in every langauges that she speaks right now in formal way, i don’t think she can do it ( like a native) maybe she will nervous or stuttering speech.

[@eliash6256]

It's the same for her french. 3 words are not langage.

[@thefantasyreview8709]

@@nathanbutler2439 Steve Kaufmann just asked you to hold his beer.

[@Iza0187]

I love the comments where people are offering their help instead of being so critical. I find them both to be very honest about their levels in the various languages.. so enjoyable and motivating to hear this! Thanks both!

[@myvictory8294]

I can tell you for sure she does not speak Russian. I watched both videos and both times she said the same sentence in Russian:" I like Russian music. " Then she adds some untedectable word, then some phrase that makes no sense like " Russian music ..what..what music." Then skips to the next language for obvious reasons. In both videos.

[@theaarnaq1855]

ахахахах

[@soniairacisareri6076]

Then she said "я люблю русский музыка" instead of "я люблю русскую музыку" and instead of saying "какая музыка мне нравится?" (or какую музыку я люблю?" she sad "что музыка?" which literally means "what music?" (where the word "what" doesn't mean "which", but it has the same meaning as in the sentence "What's this?"). However we must understand that she's 14 years old and speaks so many languages. She's doing way more than great. Besides, we mustn't forget that she's still learning, so it's ok to make mistakes.

[@მემარივარ]

​@@soniairacisareri6076 Learning languages is a process that never ends, it has no end. Mistakes are and always will be made, even if the person has already learned the language. This is something that most people do not understand. *All Russian speakers who live in Spain and who have not grown up here after many years of living in Spain still make lots of mistakes in Spanish. (I say Russian speakers as I can say Lithuanians, Moroccans, Romanians, etc). On the other hand, knowing a language does not mean that we have to speak it as well as native speakers for a simple reason: We are NOT native speakers, so for obvious reasons native speakers know their mother tongue(s) much better than us. So, we should not be so demanding with those who decide to learn our mother tongue(s). We can not pretend others to know our mother tongue(s) as well as us.

[@soniairacisareri6076]

@@მემარივარ Yes, you're right, but of course if you've just started learning a language, you'll be more likely to make mistakes, rather than those who have been learning it for years. That's what I meant when I said "she's still learning, so it's ok to make mistakes".

[@capitainebonhomme1609]

French is my native language. Can't judge her proficiency in other languages, however, her French is non existent. Shouldn't be listed as one of the languages she can speak. However, kudos to her for her motivation to learn languages.

[@Nina-nn8ph]

IMPRESSIVE AF. I can speak Finnish, Swedish, English, French, Hungarian and German. These two are goals !! Would love to learn more languages, e.g. Sami, and one of the Canadian indigenous languages, Icelandic, Korean, Dutsch, Spanish. Respect. 😍👏

[@slumberinc]

If you know Swedish and German you know Dutch.

[@RubenStegeman]

@@slumberinc There is a pretty big difference between German and Dutch. A lot of words do resemble each other but a german person would definitely not understand me speaking Dutch. The grammar is a lot easier in Dutch as well. I am a native speaker btw

[@IllesEgri]

Magyarul megtanultál vagy az az anyanyelved? Ha megtanultál akkor csak gratulálni tudok. Jag kan prata lite svenska också :)

[@henleeh2987]

When one has so many different tongues, it is hard to look at the beautiful, diverse, and amazing world in the same way when oneself was monolingual. It just continues to get more and more beautiful and life changing. Long live multilingualism!!!

[@kidpolyglot]

Thank you!

[@lilylovesitaly3932]

HenleeH beautifully stated. I feel so motivated to learn languages based on your comment. Thank you.

[@thedarkyellowpages4016]

bien parli, 朋友。その意見は vraiment true.

[@asdocneter]

I'm fascinated and I have so many questions! I'd love Cameron to explain how she approaches a new language: do you cover vocabulary first? how do you teach yourself grammar? I'm an English teacher and I know what it takes to learn (and teach) a language...Having a friend who's a native speaker of the language you learn is not enough - you need to know the rules and how to teach them. In addition, if you wish to master 20+ languages, and given that you have only 24 hours a day (including sleep time), that leaves you with couple of minutes for each language... So how do you do it? What is your method? (I guess that you've improved your methods from the first language you started with till the more recent ones...)

[@phustrn1439]

She's improved Vietnamese better on this video than previous one.

[@MacXpert74]

This girl is amazing. She said she didn't speak Dutch very well, but the few things she did say in Dutch, actually sounded very good with only a light accent. Very impressive!

[@diatonix2]

Less and better would be more. I prefer quality over quantity.

[@Samu-ef9fm]

She is 14... give her time

[@nicholascroixet8089]

That is true, but she is still young. She will come to that realization when she is both older and wiser. The fact that she even cares enough to learn languages of such a diverse array is draw dropping in itself

[@hannofranz7973]

Of course, the criticism isn't personal and shouldn't demotivate her with all her passion for languages but it's also important to confront her or both with reality. Speaking a la language is much more than that.

[@kbee1735]

Wow!! You are so inspiring!! I just watched your first video with Wouter... awesome! 🇨🇦❤️

[@AndersonLima-ff8be]

i'm brazilian, and i can tell if they spoke portuguese well or not, and i say not very well because he confused some words by switching to spanish, but i know they are still learning

[@giulliagiorgetti]

exatamentee, they are still learning :) nós falamos "portunhol" ela tem todo direito de confundir também.

[@ジョウドなの筍]

書き続

[@ジョウドなの筍]

飢え！

[@ジョウドなの筍]

イングリッシュで話した方が良いと思いますぜ

[@pedrodasilva6869]

Ela realmente não foi muito boa no português, ela misturou espanhol com português e usou um pouco a entonação do chinês. Foi meio confuso

[@sherlockslinger744]

Indonesian speaker here, when you guys speaking Indonesian, I understand everything. I think you two don't have problem in term of pronunciation. Good job!

[@riqpaccala]

Even the pronunciation is better than the previous video

[@kidpolyglot]

Terima Kasih !!!

[@Sarah-ku3yl]

Exactly! I believe that Indonesian is the language they master the best with English and Mandarin.🤗

[@SarjanaMY]

@@kidpolyglot boleh lah cakap Bahasa Malaysia & Bahasa Indonesia sebab kedua-duanya rumpun bahasa MELAYU

[@davifontana545]

I'm a native portuguese speaker and I could understand everything she said, but she always mixes it with spanish, she was speaking more spanish than portuguese properly, the most important thing about learning languages is to be understood, so it's completely fine, I must say that she's amazing, she has an indredible future learning languages, she's very talented

[@abdusardar2269]

as a chinese speaker I confirm she doesn’t speak Chinese

[@haohoho35p94]

As a russian speaker a can say, that she can't say a sentence in russian.. She tried to say something about music, but the sentence wasn't full and correct. But she's really great at other languages! (maybe)

[@zagovenje]

да, я вообще больше половины не понял на русском. Понял только то, что ей вроде как нравится русская музыка. Но всё равно она большой молодец, т. к. несомненно выбрала путь саморазвития

[@haohoho35p94]

@@zagovenje согласна

[@myvictory8294]

Exactly my point. I watched their previous video together and in that one she also said she likes Russian music. Sounds like she cant say anything else at all.

[@myvictory8294]

And just like in the previous video she skips to the next language because she knows she doesn't speak Russian.

[@haohoho35p94]

@@myvictory8294 yeah, lol...

[@hotachicken]

When you 日本語上手 yourself

[@straymotions7586]

笑う😂😂

[@vladys5238]

I don't know what I expected since 21 languages is insane but the japanese was extrmeely basic and she was repeating herself

[@ジョウドなの筍]

🤣🤣

[@japanischergrovater2640]

韓国語と中国語の方がめちゃくちゃで、何言ったか全然わからなかった。ドイツ語の発音と言葉並び間違いだらけで、聞き取りずらい。 日本語は少なくとも「私は日本語とても上手ですから友達いっぱいいる」ような話していると理解していたので、母国語の英語以外に一番上手かもしれないね

[@japanischergrovater2640]

@@vladys5238 I can tell you her Japanese is way better than her mandarin and Korean. As a native speaker I couldn’t understand at all. As for her Japanese, at least I understood she kept repeating that her Japanese is superb.

[@wild0nez723]

Russian native speaker is here. So, I can say that she doesn't speak russian well. It's like when you try to say something in mandarin after a week of learning.

[@МурагерАкишев]

3 месяца

[@dontwheynoeko]

I just watched the first video where Wouter talks to her (and her father) for the first time. There she said that her goal is to speak 103 languages. By reading the comments a lot of different native speakers mentioned that for example her japanese, french, arabic, ect. is not realy good. I mean saying "hi, my name is" and "how is the wather" is not really speaking a foreign language isnt it? As a german native speaking human on this planet i can say that its the same with her german. So although i think that she is brilliant at 14 in my opinion she is only speaking spanish at a decent level. Please correct me if i am wrong but if she wants a job in translating (mentioning at 14:37) earning a lot of money she clearly has to improve some of those and not learn like 5 sentences in another languages and consider it as " i can speak 22 languages now".

[@benjaminoldenburg874]

I'm German... Her German is miserable. His is okay, but that's no surprise, as a lot of Dutch can speak German.

[@PierreMiniggio]

French native here. The few sentences she said in French are far from correct, but what she meant gets across. But yeah, that's awesome considering how young she is. At that age I was fluent in english and had (still have I guess) a terrible accent.

[@myvictory8294]

I also watched that video and I agree. At this point one can say she is curious about languages and might go far if she decides to focus on 1 or 2 of them to become proficient. I'm a native Russian and her Russian is non existent, it's a lot worse than her German. She can't even say the word "music" in Russian which sounds very similar in many languages. I'm not even talking about forming sentences. If I don't know she's trying to speak Russian, I wouldn't know. Another thing, in both videos when he starts speaking Russian, she responds with the same thing, that she likes Russian music, then says some words I can't even understand or guess what they mean.

[@gggg-az]

Same for russian as russian speaker she speak not too good on russian.

[@cryfier]

@@benjaminoldenburg874 Nah man, i think her German is kinda impressive.

[@artvandelay3495]

This gives me hope that not all kids out there just want to be tiktok stars. Cameron you are amazing and keep following that dream of travelling the world and learning all the languages you want. You can definitely do it! Travel enriches the mind and soul and the world can learn alot from you! ❤✌

[@고양이-w1h]

This is just showing off languages, this girl asked if he had a job and then she spoke Indonesian without him answering the question X.X

[@smk9320]

I think it's better to say, 14 year old American polyglot is learning 21 languages.

[@geo3098]

I know Russian 20 times better than both, but don't say that I know Russian, because to know is much more that some phrases🇷🇺 Like that I know French, Spanish and Italian too 😀🇨🇵🇪🇸🇮🇹

[@jaredwilliams6853]

Bruh exactly what I was thinking if I was a KZbinr I’d be a polyglot. They speak so proper it feels uncomfortable like I am at a bank or there trying to sell me something. And there speech sounds like a computer is reading it intonation is way off.

[@tramvajtramvajevic9247]

Чё-то не понял тебя

[@jackriver1999]

Bro, she's 14. By the time she hits 20 she will be a language beast. Give her time.

[@bigh5446]

Yes I remember the old video with her and her dad, this is a great mashup. Thanks you two 👍🏻

[@sunkkyu6135]

I thought I would lose confidence in my language skills bc I wanted to be able to speak many different languages but now I realize that speaking 5 fluently w good pronunciation is good enough for me;;

[@hanjoolee9205]

Native Korean speaker here. She can exclude Korean from her list.

[@ジョウドなの筍]

And Japanese

[@boxwhale5877]

and french, (im not native but im B1 - B2 level ik a shit french speaker when i hear one)

[@jojibot9193]

And Portuguese

[@HAYUNYANG]

그치.. 오글거린다

[@ZaneTropes]

Fluent a language and memories few sentences in a language is two different things

[@quirinoswensson437]

If you speak to someone in a language that he knows you touch his head. However if you speak to someone in his language you reach his heart.

[@leonidascross4525]

im so jealous at how fast she can learn languagesssss I've been trying to learn chinese for so long and I'm about her level...

[@saqibsheikh1517]

Native Hindi speaker here....please exclude the language from the list😂😂

[@albertfliknop7838]

I am indonesian, the way you both speak bahasa are awesome , even cameron tried aceh language damn so crazy, yes it is indonesia have so many languages like cameron said sundanese, javanese. And malay is root source of indonesian language both these have similarities in many ways. Love it. Keep it up guys🙌🙌👍👍

[@StockhausenScores]

Hi! I know "Indonesia Raya", the Indonesian anthem!

[@LPSilki93]

I only speak 6 of those, but unlike her I ACTUALLY speak them.. she'll get better with age I guess

[@jaredwilliams6853]

I speak 5 languages conversational as a teenager and would never say I speak more than just English cause if a native person talks regular speed with no context I’m not gonna understand 100% of what they say. But then again it’s the internet.

[@AlexandrBorschchev]

Here I am who can only speak 2 language 😞

[@ClingToFaith1]

@@AlexandrBorschchev That is still outstanding!! I only speak one..lol. English. My father speaks better spanish then english. Sadly i only speak my heavy ny accent english. .lol. Never to late to learn. I have hope in me 😃☺

[@demsyciu]

@@jaredwilliams6853 that's mean your confidence is low. Have a little bit self confidence for yourself. You speak 5 languages is awesome. You must remember if you're not a native, or at least live at the country origin of those languages, it would be impossible to be sound like native and fluently speak 100%. So this kinds of video all about, it's encourage people to start learning languages, perfection would come at the end, but at the process, mistakes are acceptable, because you learn form it to bring you into perfection

[@FC-BS]

I'm officially impressed. She's 14 and speaks more languages than me. I only speak Vietnamese (native), English, and a bit of Japanese and French

[@mapupupu9754]

1st video with this girl was quite impressive. As for Portuguese and Russian, these two languages that I speak fluently, were week. I was very interested to watch this new video to see the improvement. In fact there is none. Same phases, and it seems that they even have become worse. I know that it is very difficult to keep same level, especially with that quantity of languages. But maybe in this case it is better to claim that "I know some phrases" instead of " I know the language". Anyway, keep going!!

[@chitrung8681]

Her Vietnamese is ok. Although some pronunciations are not quite correct, I can fully understand her without the sub

[@ZhuangzisDream]

lol

[@ジョウドなの筍]

To be honest she speaks 6 languages at a good level

[@kkerrex3529]

Also good for a little girl like her

[@ジョウドなの筍]

@@kkerrex3529 I guess

[@boxwhale5877]

nope that's not true, at most she speaks 3 at a good level

[@ジョウドなの筍]

@@boxwhale5877 of course but I am talking about a good level

[@pedrodasilva6869]

at least she tried right? but it's really good, it's only in 3 or 4 languages, which is good, but 21 was a bit exaggerated.

[@Waldur22]

Some people here seem to be hypercritical. I speak German natively and while I agree some of her grammar was not perfect, it was no problem understanding what she said and her pronunciation was actually very good for the most part. I only speak German and English and understand a little bit of French. But even speaking two languages switching back and forth between them can be quite difficult and confusing at times. I cannot even imagine how it must be to switch between over 20 languages in a short time. Also, some mentioned that she did not perfectly pronounce country names and such, but I find this particularly difficult when switching languages because names are typically similar between languages, but rarely the same and sometimes even surprisingly different. In general, I think languages are there to communicate and I am confident she would be able to communicate well with many people all over the world. I can guarantee she would have no issue whatsoever communicating in German speaking countries.

[@larissasanttos9839]

She mixed Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, although they are similar languages, they are not the same thing. Her Portuguese still needs to be practiced, it's bad, we Brazilians wouldn't understand it very well.!

[@Pana1992-d8q]

Na verdade ela tem a vontade de falar vários idiomas mas "o problema"é que não se tem focado na fluencia dessas línguas isso não quer dizer que não seja impressionante pelo menos essa vontade de falar muitas línguas pra mim é impressionante (muito foda..)eu pelo menos com 4 idiomas ou cinco é suficiente kkk(aqui ,nativo do espanhol)

[@Shuhevi_ch]

Oi gente, aqui tá nativa de ucraniano. Acho que 5-6 idiomas é bem suficiente pra aprender. Eu falo fluentemente em russo, inglês e português e ucraniano é lingua nativa. Atualmente aprendo espanhol 👉🏻👈🏻

[@asalic1174]

hindi speaker here, both of them need more practice on hindi, she partially speaks hindi and some of their sentence don't make any sense but i think with more practice on sentence structuring and grammar she can improve a lot.

[@mashedpotatoes7202]

as someone who wants to speak many of the languages she speaks, some of these comments are very helpful to me lol

[@anrijupiter]

I only speak Japanese fluently and I do understand her Japanese but it’s a bit of a struggle. I admire her confidence and to be able to speak that much while learning so many other languages is just incredible. To anyone who’s learning Japanese, try to say “watashi (I)” less. We don’t really say nouns when it’s obvious what we’re talking about.

[@thefantasyreview8709]

using watashi wa a lot is normally a sign of someone new to Japanese, or teaching themslves out of a book rather than speaking to Japanese people.

[@eddieliusa]

Every time Wouter asked a question she wasn't able to answer, keep improving as this comes with time!

[@ジョウドなの筍]

実は逆だよw

[@JairSholo]

wouter can't understand neither when people speak kim I witness that

[@happyjourneylife]

OMG. Wouter, you know Kyrgyz Language. Good Job! I was not expecting.

[@wanballack1383]

Malay language pronounce a bit different with Indonesia, but indonesia and Malaysian can understand what you say, totally you speak Malaysian a sound like Indonesian Tq I enjoy your video,

[@demsyciu]

As an Indonesian, once i encounter a tourist from Malaysia, he said "'nak pusing-pusing dulu"... i just wonder what that means.. Than i got it.. Ah " Putar-putar dulu".. 😅 Because "pusing" In Indonesian means a headache lol

[@user-mo6dt9lw7g]

She is really great! I love it when she slips one word from another language in the language she is currently speaking, "muitos" for ""viele"", for instance. :) It's the story of my life. My partner and I interact in a language that is neither of our mother tongues, and this happens to us all the time. Usually, what replaces the "right" word in one of the languages is a faux ami' in the other. It requires a LOT of patience when we have to make split second decisions about important matters... Cameron is Amazing, and she will most definitely thrive in a career involving multiple languages.

[@taurica6522]

She speak Russian like this: *i love russia musica. i want? what good? what musica? i know too much musica.* LOL it sounds very unnatural, the sentence is incorrectly constructed, the declensions are incorrect with ends. She is certainly smart, but based on watching more than 10 different polyglots, I can confidently say that the majority of them know languages ​​extremely superficially. Is a basis of 300 words (so-called BASIC) enough to be a polyglot? Me encanta la musica espanol, tambien se unas 500 palabras en espanol, soy poliglota? Сok dilli miyim ben? Iki binden fazla biliyorum turkce kelimeler. Ana dili degilim ama anlıyorum ve bir az konusuyorum. Sorry, but I do not consider this knowledge of the language, but only a superficial understanding.

[@scho3111]

YES, it takes years to learn a language well, but it's easy to learn the basics

[@Kylie.jenner]

She said "i love russia musica" in the previous video too and also some meaningless phrases.

[@Xyriak]

agreed

[@Chengzi998]

Hi wouter! I have an advice for you! You can't say "저는 한국어를 조금 입니다" because the verb 입니다 in Korean means "to be", so if you speak like that, it literally means "i am a little bit Korean language"(yeah, it sounds strange 😂😅). You can say "한국어를 조금 할 수 있어요!" or it is even better to say "한국어를 잘못해요" (which means "i can't speak korean well). You also don't need to say always "저는", you can avoid to repeat it～ This is my advice, hope to see your progress in Korean and Chinese 😄 화이팅!

[@SparklesNJazz]

고마워.....ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@rakanalagili1608]

@Jose period queen

[@n.a4944]

네 맞아요 ... 정답입니다

[@bigbob5103]

저는 저는 저는 저는 저는 😂he should also work on his pronunciation even though i know its not his main focus...

[@keye1200]

i wish she would stop using youtube polygots as an example for herself and focus on fewer languages because ive showed this video to multiple friends who speak arabic, japanese, korean, vietnamese and most of this is not legit😭. their german is great and her spanish is very good though apparently. maybe its because they're the easiest for english speakers to learn? 🤔 i speak hindi and french and you can't call that fluency by a long shot. like i could not understand that hindi if i tried my very best. i dont understand why you have to get this surface level understanding in 20+ languages just to say you have that understanding. its sooo much more impressive if you can be fluent in less languages. wouter is really spreading a harmful jack of all trades master of none narrative. people who dont speak these languages just can't tell, so they go wow!! this is amazing! it is still EXTREMELY impressive that this girl is speaking even moderate amounts of so many languages, but it just feels wrong that shes going down the wouter path of "20 DOLLARS IF I CANT SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE" and then says 4 sentences in the language what ive noticed is in all of these languages they can only repeat basic phrases about how they have friends from different countries. ive also noticed that they NEVER use any tense other than present?? that isnt even *semi* fluent

[@w7f21]

As a native Chinese person her Chinese is really good for a foreigner really good I can understand a lot of things but the tones are sometimes mispronounced by a little but people can still understand her so it should be fine beside I barely know 3 languages meanwhile she knows 10+

[@thenaturalyogi5934]

Their inflections and accents are all over the place! But good for them for learning I just hope they don't stop and be satisfied and really get the tones correctly.

[@tommyluke5952]

I think you are either just being very kind or giving them brownie points for being white foreigners . I also think she doesn’t understand a lot of things he says but instead tries to jump in when she catches a phrase

[@informacionnatural7197]

You can exclude portuguese from the list

[@Shuhevi_ch]

Lol, the same with russian. Dude she said a shit :)

[@pepacabrera1811]

Amd half of them :)

[@lomasturbas1972]

You can count spanish out as well xd

[@joaofranco6094]

ok it's great you guys speak so many different languages, I do speak some different languages as well but anyway the reason for me to come here was just to tell you that when it comes to Portuguese it still needs some improvement mainly regarding the difference between masculine and feminine same as the adverbs because that sometimes gets difficult a native to understand exactly what you are trying to say but anyway congrats to you all .

[@hwaansswaanh3511]

I am an Arab from Algeria specifically and I am 16 years old, and I am fond of learning languages, I am fluent in Arabic as well as French and English because I learn them in school, and currently in this summer vacation I am learning Russian and German at the same time, knowing that my level is in Russian Better than German. And I want to learn a lot of languages, for example Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Persian, Maltese, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, Kurdish, Hindi.

[@bjorklikeskidneys8496]

I’m 16 too, if you ever want someone to speak Chinese with we can practice haha

[@hwaansswaanh3511]

@@bjorklikeskidneys8496 sadly I don't speak Chinese, but if you can speak any other language I am here

[@hwaansswaanh3511]

@@bjorklikeskidneys8496 I don't know why, but after four months I spoke German much better than Russian, and my level of Hebrew also improved, although I didn't learn it much, and it was easy because it is close to Arabic, and the same applies to Italian and Greek.

[@mistayuto]

I only speak English and Japanese. I am amazed at both Wouter and Cameron's language abilities. Congratulations and keep going!

[@millyyeasmin7904]

That japanese was so bad

[@coffeepot3123]

I can't stand these labels people give themselves when they are not fluent in the languages that they speak.

[@oliviasimpson1826]

exactly. wouter can introduce himself in few languages but hes not fluent 😂shes not fluent in these either, but she is definitely very good at them.

[@oliviasimpson1826]

OR WEHN THEY MAKE VIDEOS TITLED "I LEARNED XXX LANGUAGE IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS! *IM FLUENT*" and they can only say hi. thats literally a video title lmao

[@oliviasimpson1826]

i was on among us and somebody told us they were able to speak ten languages. to prove it, they said "hi" in ten languages. then they used *translator spanish* which is like, really formal and unrealistic, and it basically proved they just speak english lmao🤣🤣

[@oliviasimpson1826]

do u speak any other languages? sorry for replying so many times i just agree very strongly 😎🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️

[@samihaaraisa]

guys, I've been 3 months into learning korean, and bro even I can tell wouter's korean is not good at ALL. He pronounces shi as si (the si sound doesn't exist in korean :/) and his accent is also not good.

[@Border703]

Ich finde das der absolute WAHNSINN das Du schon sooo viele Sprachen sprichst.RESPEKT!!! DAUMEM HOCH! :)

[@stevenl5049]

stop interrupting him when he speaks :/

[@adimaralimuddin96]

she just spoke in mix Indonesian and Tagalog. she said ma gusta makan piza. i enjoyed watching them both speak Indonesian and Tagalog. it was funny though i'm not making fun of them. i just think that they're really cute and they just brought joy moment to us who speaks Malayo-Polynesian languages. they are awesome and amazing.

[@greywish8513]

Her Hindi isn't good! Still... she is trying to speak😇🙌🏻🙌🏻!!Great!!💜U r so confident😇💜💜!!

[@rheadhawan9573]

Her Hindi was definitely not good. She kept saying bahut for the verb to speak which threw me off. She still needs to work on the language. The other video she did with this guy she made the same exact mistake.

[@selindeverbij3393]

I only learned some very basic Hindi and even I can hear that she does not speak Hindi.

[@moa4955]

She’s amazing! I can speak Korean, Swedish, English and Spanish and although her Korean isn’t perfect her Spanish is actually great.

[@MarMar-nq9ii]

I speak 41 languages But I understand and can communicate only in five languages. Just like her.

[@BCCyotu]

Native Vietnamese here, you can exclude Vietnamese from the list.

[@Cyhcg5uhgb]

Same for Dutch for her. Wouter is a native Dutch speak but she was I don't speak it. And he went I think you do. She only said 3 sentences. By that logic I speak at least 20 languages. Also scratch Japanese from the list too while we are at it.

[@polywerden]

If your language learning goal is to focus on quantity rather than quality, by all means, go for it. But it's misleading clickbait to say that you "speak" 21 languages when you can really only say a few phrases. I don't mean to criticize her particularly, I'm just trying to comment on the KZbin "He SpEAkS 487 LaNGuAGeS" phenomenon. I would say that for people who don't have language learning experience, the definition of "speak" would be something close to "can communicate effectively amongst a wide range of topics." When you spread yourself so thin among an absurd amount of languages, your pronunciation, grammar, general ability to communicate effectively will suffer. Again, if you are satisfied knowing just a bit of 20 languages, be my guest! But don't misconstrue the learning process for others. Rant *over*

[@wolfie464]

He's really trying to make people believe, that he speaks more than MAYBE 3 languages (and he does it in a VERY miserable way). I have to say, that his Russian is so bad, that my ears are literally BLEEDING. Btw. I don't think that his goal is to truly "speak" those languages, he just wants to lie to people to get some popularity and profit from it financially. Very, very sad, and also cringey af. He can't even translate his own sentences correctly LMAO

[@polywerden]

I think as a Chinese learner the Chinese is the one that really gets to me…it’s just hard to listen to. And they really stretch the definition of “speak” lol, in most languages they really only know basic greetings, “I like ____”, “I want to improve this language” 😂 I don’t mean to hate I just feel cringey

[@polywerden]

omg the portuguese is bad too 😩

[@water1374]

@@polywerden The way she said Japanese is flat got to me. Mostly because it's a repeated myth that gets thrown around and ends up misleading less experienced learners.

[@Miskiraya]

I'm impressed how many languages they can speak. Omg but I'm proud I know Polish and they dont know it yet 😁😁 greetings 😎

[@masonharvath-gerrans832]

He's tried Polish. He doesn't know almost any of the languages he professes to know. I used to be impressed, but actually coming into contact with people who spoke the languages that they claim to speak and seeing how they react is a different story. I already knew that his Russian was bad (not to mention his Ukrainian), but how he can make these claims when actual native speakers of most of the other languages have already noted the numerous problems they have when speaking any language aside from their native tongue and/or English is absurd. If he so wishes to learn a language, he should give an actual effort and the time necessary. It is disingenuous otherwise. It also speaks of his inherent dishonesty and proclivity to lie. I know I sound like nay-sayer, and that really is what I am, I suppose, but I only say so with the best intentions to warn you of this guy.

[@tramvajtramvajevic9247]

Czy jest polski twoim językiem natywnym?

[@wolfie464]

POV: Może coś tam duka po angielsku i holendersku (być może nawet po hiszpańsku), ale w reszcie języków nie umie powiedzieć nic poza "Mam na imię X. Lubię kraj X. Mam dużo przyjaciół z kraju X.". Mogę to stwierdzić po tym, że ogarniam Mandaryński na jakieś A2, a Rosyjski B1 i moje uszy dosłownie krwawią. Jego umiejętność koniugacji i wymowy języka Rosyjskiego to jakiś żart. Pomijając jego (bardzo) ograniczony zasób słownictwa.

[@tramvajtramvajevic9247]

@@wolfie464 привет, да, согласен, говорить они фактически почти ничего не могут, что логично, учитывая сколько языков они "знают" и сколько они на каждый соответственно тратили времени. Впринципе, почти нереально быть полиглотом и каждый, ну или большинство из знаемых языков знать более менее полноценно

[@wolfie464]

​@@tramvajtramvajevic9247 Я полностью согласен! Хороший пример иностранца, неплохо говорящего по русски - Энтони Американец. Его канал действительно классный!

[@dropfggf2150]

Wow she sound so fluent in English 🙀

[@Nehauon]

Naaaaay almost, but you can tell her native Austrian-Thai accent is coming out

[@Themindofreyrey]

Both of you are very impressive, loved this video!

[@benjaminoldenburg874]

She doesn't speak German or Thai. And he has learned the Thai sentences only. I'm absolutely sure he couldn't hold a conversation in Thai, nor could she. What a joke..

[@40yearoldvirgil15]

You must be fun at parties

[@nils-lennartrieke1755]

Qualität > Quantität

[@demsyciu]

Wouter speak indonesian very well. Even for word "karena" He prounonces it like native: "karna". Btw, some tips: Instead using "bahwa" (that) , in that contex of your sentence, you can also use "kalau" (if). The word "bahwa" is a little bit sound to formal, in everyday conversation, "kalau" Is more natural. These 2 words, in DAILY spoken language has the same (equivalent) meaning, your partner would understand what you meant (depending on the context of the conversation) But in written form, sometimes you can find both words interchangeable, but sometimes the meaning can be ambiguous between "that" or "if". But sometimes is not ambigous , if the context is well written. Also in speech, "Bahwa" and "Kalau" in that context, just like in the written form. But "bahwa" Is more formal in its sense. The audience would be hear the speech so formal if you use word "bahwa".

[@NobleArch]

Good info, I thought Bahasa Indonesia leaning towards formal words in bahasa because Malaysian never use "bahawa" unless being used in literature or formal writing. Both of them indeed speak good bahasa Indonesia but they are still speaking it during bahasa Melayu conversation. Alas, they are intelligent, they will figure it out in no time.

[@AnezLang]

Their Indonesian gets better now

[@MatheusAnastacio-uq3tg]

When she talked in portuguese, se mixed with spanish and had a lot of very nasal sounds. But for a 14 years old girl she is going very well, imagine what she will be able to speak when she became 24

[@s.w.t.m.t.s.u]

12:48 actually, Japanese pronunciation isn’t relatively flat. Rather than it having tonal pronunciation, it’s spoken with with pitch/intonation.

[@nobitaname]

Thai language has many tones and each tone can depict the diffirent meaning, so it's super hard to speak fast, you guys are so amazing. สุดยอดครับ (Sud yod krab = amazing or giving thumps up)

[@zaharasajadi5972]

I don't speak spanish, but I could see how fluent she is in spanish more than any other languages she spoke. She had the most difficulty to speak german and also (french) But still it's interesting how she could manage to speak all of those languages!

[@official1]

she did not manage to speak french, she just said: yeah french i speak bit, no i not speak french good

[@sandradyck4542]

And her Russian is as bad as it was the last time. She just said. I like Russian music, do you like it and that was it. In the last video she said the exact same phrase, that she likes Russian music. 😅 Don‘t fall for her lies.

[@Der.Geschichtenerzahler]

​@@sandradyck4542 My native language is Portuguese and even though I understood her I have to admit that her pronunciation and conjugation of verbs was terrible. But it doesn't matter. She's only 14 and she can definitely speak many languages, but obviously with a low quality. I speak 5 and I know how hard it is to sound like a native, even after many years of study.

[@KayGee4319]

No Italian!?!? It is so fun!

[@MrLarrypaige]

「私の家族は東京に死んでいます。豊島区に死んでいます。」lol my condolences

[@ジョウドなの筍]

Looooolll

[@ジョウドなの筍]

面白過ぎた🤣🤣

[@ジョウドなの筍]

No she said 私のかあずきnot家族

[@JapanDaisukiTTS]

そうですよね！この女の子の家族は東京に住んでいるかわりに東京に死んでいます！

[@cimareco3617]

Her german is not good..she didn't even understand his question

[@curthayashida7985]

I would recommend that she do this: Give some long speeches in English on a wide variety of topics and then give those speeches in different foreign languages. Translate a foreign film into English and then translate an American movie into a foreign language. Read a book in English and then translate it into a foreign language. Read a book in a foreign language and then translate it into English.

[@regarrzo]

That is terrible advice as translation is a completely different skillset

[@TheZcarekrow]

I'm proud i've achieved to learn English, italian, to some extent danish, still working on it, started dutch and French then Germán, all with no teacher nor "friends", by myself.

[@rodrigosinquinistudio]

Her Portuguese is mostly spanish...

[@quenchtv5436]

Learning different languages are not easy but still shes amazing

[@WateGunz1]

Her Arabic wasn’t that good but I mean I can’t judge her she speaks many languages good

[@PodaProject]

I can say hello in twelve languages))))

[@mial.4328]

German: I feel like her German is pretty good. Yes she doesn't sound like a native speaker because of grammar errors, but still her German is pretty impressive she can form her own sentences and her accent isn't bad too. For her Korean I think it sounds pretty unnatural especially how she uses 당신 or 한국어 친구 it should be 한국 친구. Still her pronunciation is better than his pronunciation, which is pretty off. These are the only 2 languages I can comment on. They are both impressive for speaking so many languages, but there are definitely areas they can improve in and that's okay we are all humans and nobody is perfect from the beginning in a (new) language.

[@bigbob5103]

i completely agree with what you say about the korean since i dont understand much german. Her korean is really awkard to listen too... :[

[@ConyTrash]

I don't agree with what you wrote about her german, it's really hard to understand and being able to form one's own sentences is the bare minimum to speak a languange, that's not impressive at all. And those sentences are prob. sentences she at least though about before, so if one asked her smth on a different topic I don't even wanna know.

[@mial.4328]

@@ConyTrash Coming from a person who has clearly never studied a difficult language lol. Her German is impressive, considering it's such a difficult language and tbh there are people who have been living in Germany for 5+ years and don't know any German except Hallo and Dankeschön.

[@mial.4328]

@@ConyTrash And like I said her German doesn't sound perfect nor like a native speaker, but it's totally understandable

[@ConyTrash]

@@mial.4328 coming from a person who has clearly no idea what languages I have studied. I wouldnt be able to have a conversarion with her, she didn't even answer his simple question, so for me she doesn't speak it. Many friends of mine from different countries study german, and they were around her lvl after a couple of weeks.

[@letteracura]

You both are great. I think she is doing well insofar as she's focusing on learning many languages, since, being 14, she is developing a general language scheme to better absorb any grammatical variations and many sounds.

[@rafaeljanssen6691]

The amount of languages she speak is more then my braincells...huge respect 🙌

[@wyqtor]

Erm... most of them were at a basic level though. If my boss at work gave me money to hang around all day on Italki, I feel I could do better than her.

[@UATUNER]

I think speaking the language and knowing a few different phrases or similar phrases in few different languages is not knowing the language or speaking the language. Also in Russian I only heard one phrase about that she likes Russian music. Pretty much most People around the world know how to say Hello my name is …. And how are you ? And simple phrases in English doesn’t mean they speak the English language…..