19-year-old American polyglot can speak 15 languages [+SUBTITLES]

[@LanguageBoost01]

00:00 Spanish 00:16 English 00:54 German 03:08 Russian 05:52 Italian 08:57 French 12:10 Arabic 13:09 Spanish 19:33 Mandarin Chinese 22:16 Brazilian Portuguese 24:47 Farsi 25:10 Romanian 25:35 Slovak 28:17 Polish 29:51 Indonesian

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I highly recommend learning fluently the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / Dutch / English / Danish / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton / Cornish, as these languages are way too pretty not to know and they are the most enjoyable / fun to learn, plus there are so many great folk songs in these languages, which makes the learning process even more fun, and, Galician / Portuguese / Gallo / Latin / Venetian and Hungarian and Latvian / Slovene / Latgalian are also good options, and they can be learnt on the side! (By the way, I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and Danish and Swedish and German and Portuguese and mid intermediate level in Welsh and French and Italian and native speaker level in Spanish and writer level in English and beginner level in Gothic and Cornish and Faroese and Breton and Latin and Hungarian and Latvian and Slovene and in most of my other target languages, as I have almost 100 target languages, though I am focusing the most on the prettiest ones and learning about 30 languages at the moment, and I use the spaced repetition method to learn each word automatically and permanently!)

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Some fun sentences in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are... Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse) Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse) Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse) Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic) Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch) Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc! (The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Faroese and Danish and English and Norwegian and FornSvenska and Welsh and Breton and Cornish!)

[@aylazer23]

It's better to speak a few languages correctly than knowing 15 broken languages

[@RianRian-ek4pm]

Considering Bahasa Indonesia is the easiest language to learn, it's bad that he have to claim he can speak bahasa with 2 sentences

[@LanguageswithErman]

I think , he can speak 7 languages fluently , the others are in a1 level. Good job at all.Keep up the good work TJ...

[@athensxv88]

if his Spanish is considered fluent, most of y'all bar for fluency is set too low

[@sundivers]

they suck

[@pm2342]

@@athensxv88 No, you are the one that doesn't know the definition of fluency.

[@rafalkaminski6389]

​@@pm2342what's the definition?

[@memmedbaku4606]

what exactly 7 you mean? I am from Azerbaijan, and speak Russian as a native. I speak English, German, and understand Polish, Slovak, Czech, Ukranian, Bulgarian. I know very little Georgian, Armenian, ROmanian. I speak Hungarian. I speak Turkish fluently. This guy speaks fluently 3 or 4 and not 7. I just laugh at the notion of somebody speaking umpteen languages at the age of 20 something. It is a flagrant lie. He said in another video that he learned Armenian in two months. Yea, sure two months my ass. Long story short, go get a life! Ostura-ostura danışır, güc-bəla, deyir ki, mən poliglotam. 🤣🤣 Farsi kam baladam 🤣🤣 и по русски еле-еле два слова сказал, видите ли он профеесор. Иди гуляй Вася

[@Nicolethelinguaphile]

Can we say something positive about this kid who has such a great interest in connecting with people that he learns their languages? It’s not just an academic practice for him. He is really using the languages, which is why some of them he can speak better than others. Because he may not be using the weaker languages as much. But, I’m sure if he travels to the place or spends a few days speaking with natives, it will come back to him.

[@VesperCris]

Well his Spanish is not fluent and he also has a very strong gringo accent. Bu that's still impresive he can speak in all those languages.

[@klevens5496]

Does a “gringo” mean “American”?

[@chriz908]

@@klevens5496ye

[@HipixOFFICIAL]

​​@@klevens5496Can mean white/foreigner/American depending on the context lol

[@Lostsoul_111]

I love this! I aspire to speak many languages as well. Amazing at your age and with a great grasp on accents!

[@MT-eb9wl]

Russian : really bad French : ok Arabic : worse than Russian

[@Matt-jc2ml]

I'm always skeptical when I hear these claims, and I'm always proven right when I click on the video. At least for languages I speak, he was not fluent. Why this obsession with big numbers? I'm sure he speaks an impressive amount fluently, why exaggerate his level in some?

[@brunosantos7686]

Que sensação gostosa, quando começamos a traduzir as legendas!

[@JohnnySalami-jo4jh]

why do these guys look like they're interrogating this kid

[@salvadoralba8207]

😳

[@jamesharte8390]

Amazing how his accents change. Bravo!

[@screambeyond]

I LOVE all these people who learn some sentences in different languages, or some few notions (including the people who run this channel), and then they call themselves polyglots. I LOVE them because they make me LAUGH a LOT! Guys, try to focus on something, instead of craving for admiration and being so dispersed.

[@marlene6219]

Os entrevistadores falam muito bem o Português do Brasil.

[@MidsummerNightScream]

15 is stretching it, it's all just on one subject and his fluency gets worse and worst as the video goes on. Definitely cool he can talk a bit in 15 languages, but this title is such clickbaiting and I doubt he's good enough to use half of the languages.

[@mrgenetics4063]

True Only people who are born a Savant can achieve this ability Normal beings are not able to ….but he is definitely limited in many of these languages

[@arthurvanrodds2772]

Probably just another 'I memorise phrasebooks therefore polyglot' type of lad on KZbin

[@nbayern7000]

Where's your video then@@arthurvanrodds2772

[@michaelrabich9635]

Brighton Beach the name of the neighborhood with thousands of Russian speakers

[@amirradaneir]

I'm 🇸🇰 and I'm amazed by his Slovak language! 😊 Of course it's not perfect, but given that it's super difficult... Great job! I wouldn't even expect someone learning a language from such a little country Dúfam, že budúci rok aj ja pôjdem na toto stretnutie, pretože tiež milujem jazyky

[@mrgenetics4063]

Not many Slovaks would want teach this language and it is never used outside of Slovakia

[@evabandimatova]

fuuu no tá slovenčina teda nebola bohviečo :D akože super že sa učí, ale tá slovenčina znela skôr jak strašná ruština :D to ani A1 teda nebolo. Ale držím mu palce ;)

[@evabandimatova]

I would gladly teach it but it's very rare that somebody learns it@@mrgenetics4063

[@elpayex7760]

0:01 mayoría*

[@margedtrumper9325]

15 are a lot at his age. His Italian is extremely week a mix of other similar languages

[@НадеждаПопова-л9г]

Неплохой русский, очень даже👏 Далеко не идеальный, но хороший. Интервьюеры по-русски говорят превосходно, как русские.

[@jonallen7619]

Как иностранец, я уверен, что его неестественное использование языка режет слух носителей.

[@mikhail7587]

​@@jonallen7619не режет совсем, приятно и немного забавно слушать, но никаких неприятных эмоций это вызвать не может

[@TiberiiGrakh]

@@jonallen7619 У него ужасный русский и он его не знает совершенно Он знает набор базовых форм и слов но это не русский. наверное 1 уровень максимум Произношение у него не просто режет слух, его нет Дикий акцент куча неправильных ударений и почти каждое слово в не верной форме

[@farkaslaszlo2777]

@@TiberiiGrakh Я надеюсь ты знаешь что русский язык один из самых трудных языков? Я уже изучал русский 3 года и ещё я не считаю что я могу говорить хорошо. Несмотря моих ошибок люди которые я встречаю всегда очень рады что я говорю их родной язык.

[@emil2072]

А кто знает, интервьюеры русские? Реально так без акцента говорят)

[@BOLSONARONACADEIA]

OS DOIS ENTREVISTADORES SÃO BRASILEIROS??? SE NÃO FOR FALAM PERFEITAMENTE O PORTUGUÊS DO BRASIL😊

[@TCrocco]

Sim são brasileiros "hiperglotas". Lucas Bighetti e Fabrício Carraro

[@BOLSONARONACADEIA]

@@TCroccoVALEU PELA INFO.🙂👍🏾👍🏾

[@petrosstefanidis6396]

Este video es una paja mental. Очень хорошо! Να μάθετε και Ελληνικά, είναι πολύ όμορφη γλώσσα 😄

[@Patrick.Khoury]

Quando hai detto "Ya3ne halla2 feena ne7ke 3arabe", ho sorriso :)

[@KFrench1123]

What has Lucas been up to? We don't see him enough!

[@nbayern7000]

Learning languages probably

[@the-language-learner]

I am curious about his Georgian.... please make another video with Georgian

[@ThePlanetProject]

Filming docs in Georgia right now! I’ll have plenty Georgian there :)

[@danilock]

29:27 great observation .... same if you know russian and czech?

[@fidodido6992]

"Indígena" es la palabra adecuada en Latinoamérica, es "Indio" que es ofensivo

[@juliannaruffini]

he can also fart this is also a kind of communication

[@Ty_Djal]

Your French is impressive.

[@antoniobasiliobrito]

Maybe he is one the Cleopatra's reincarnation . She was the Queen of languages...

[@LoeZack]

His Italian level is just an A1, and not even well accomplished. Too many errors in genders and for sure totally unaware about auxiliaries rules in present perfect verbs... (those same rules you can find in French and German and where most of A1 students find difficult when they are Anglos or Hispanic)

[@arthurvanrodds2772]

Can same the same for Portuguese, his German is probably A2 at best

[@oleksandrhafurov3246]

German sounds at least like B1 / on the way to B2... pronunciation is for sure B2 at least@@arthurvanrodds2772

[@IElronMcBong]

@@arthurvanrodds2772 His German the first 3 Sentences are rly rly bad and it makes not much Sense.. and all they do is ahh there is a lot of this language this language there... basically so if i would be him i would just learn 1 language and thats what i do.

[@ultimatelifeform882]

He speaks every language badIy.

[@SpencerLowe-kg4rg]

Why do you have to be a gate keeper?

[@ultimatelifeform882]

@@SpencerLowe-kg4rg lying about speaking 40 languages is bad.

[@SpencerLowe-kg4rg]

Atleast he is motivating people in a positive way.

[@ultimatelifeform882]

@@SpencerLowe-kg4rg not true

[@SpencerLowe-kg4rg]

@ultimatelifeform882 it's still positive and uplifting for me.

[@uma21ft]

wow wow mashallah aleh

[@orangotango9231]

gennaio is january

[@JAMY_SPORTS]

increible, admirable!

[@annakoller5382]

Sein deutsch ist ganz ok, nicht fehlerfrei, aber man kann sich sicher mit ihm über vieles unterhalten.

[@sundivers]

As a native German speaker, they definetely do not speak German, its too broken

[@himacho8771]

Just as broken as your english, definitely.

[@sundivers]

@@himacho8771 Crazy how you're getting hurt by my comment when I, a native German speaker, am stating a fact. He does not speak good German. You can cry about that but his German sucks. He probably only uses some random catch phrases that he has learned.

[@himacho8771]

@@sundivers And I, a native German speaker, am just dunking on the spelling mistake you've made in English, no butthurting going on here. I don't even care about his German lol

[@sundivers]

Bruh you're hella weird. I don't care about that one spelling mistake I made but your logic is flawed. You cannot deduct my English proficieny by a single wrong letter. That would mean that all natives English speakers do not make any mistakes. Furthermore my comment was never addressed to you. I've written about the German language and you are replying with some weird comment about English. You did care about my comment. It hurt you in someway to write such off topic bs. " I don't even care about his German lol" So why are you even replying to me since I addressed a topic you dont even care for? Fix your logic.@@himacho8771

[@testingsomething5280]

​@@himacho8771As a native English speaker, nobody cares about a spelling mistake. You're just being pedantic

[@snake8312]

Impressionant !

[@TystaTankar]

No creo que hable español con fluidez porque comete muchos errores cuando hable. Yo no soy nativo, ni fluido y por eso yo también cometo muchos errores, pero no tantos como le pasa a él.

[@vespersubutex1987]

His Polish is just bad.

[@konradkozowski3445]

as a Polish native I'm usually quite encouraging towards people who try to learn my language and make an honest effort to speak it but I have to agree here, I wouldn't even bother trying to show my skills if I apparently had so little practice with a language as he does with Polish.

[@turkokarim580]

That boy’s russian is not so good. He makes a lit of mistakes, but anyway it’s acceptable for someone who speaks 15 languages, russians would understand him

[@wimdenherder]

Yes, he makes a lit of mistakes!

[@amirradaneir]

For a native English speaker, who's not used to declinations and conjugations, words constantly changing in the context, a lot of exceptions that Russian language has, as well as other slavic languages too, it's more than just good. Also, he's apparently working on the pronunciation and grammar and getting better and better every time. :)

[@arthurvanrodds2772]

Not only for Russian but also in Portuguese, German, and Italian probably just memorised a few sentences from a script

[@LockMacFly]

​@arthurvanrodds2772 There are people that are way worse on yt, plus the dude is basically still a kid. You jealous bstrd 😂

[@nikoaktas-vx9pd]

His German is acceptable and sufficient.

[@KatarzynaSargalska]

Good Polish beer on the table.

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

Fala bem português, cara !!

[@rafalkaminski6389]

Like an exam 😅

[@legitprowrestling6653]

Молодец 📣📣

[@jonathanemslander6896]

Wow the haters in the comments still strong in 2023.

[@alisapanayeva4938]

That is true… I world like to Know who of these haters could even try to speak other languages. …

[@angelochecklight6916]

​@@alisapanayeva4938 There are a lot of haters everywhere in the world and in the Internet as well. They are the same people here and there, around you or me. We can do nothing with it. Each person can try and fight an inner hater in himself.

[@mrgenetics4063]

Because he is American The world doesn’t like Americans and don’t want to accept this kid for his amazing ability 😂

[@arthurvanrodds2772]

Do you speak any of the languages he's spoken, or are you just bootlicking another 'I took a phrasebook and a few sentences in a script and I will claim that I speak the languages involved'?

[@jonathanemslander6896]

@@arthurvanrodds2772 yes I speak German and English which are 2 he spoke. Some mistakes in German but who doesn’t. And you must have seen some interesting phrase books chap!

[@Julkhairiahputri]

I think he just learned Indonesian, every word he says is clear and understandable, but he doesn't speak fluently

[@wimdenherder]

Give a like to this comment if you understood the complete video without subtitles

[@jbmaunier520]

His mandarin is 😅

[@НадеждаПопова-л9г]

Russians never think about Americans as enemies. We live so far from you! Just leave us along and let us live our life. That's all what America needs to do. Живот не надорвите, соревнуясь с нами!😂

[@nbayern7000]

На моих глазах мы можем быть друзьями-из американца

[@OmarObeidat-jw3xj]

The only language he can speak well is English

[@katzermetzela]

Ya arkadaş slovakça bile konuşuyorsunuz ama türkçe konuşmuyorsunuz ayıp

[@grazynamajka9978]

WOW hi is genius l speak only polish ltalian an English we are super .Hi speak olso my language polish. We speak very well polish for me is pleasure listening .

[@salvadoralba8207]

sorry it is so bad

[@natti6469]

how everyone wants to badmouth him just because they can't do anything...

[@ultimatelifeform882]

Neither can he.

[@fatamy8597]

@@ultimatelifeform882🤣🤣

[@ionizerable]

Nobody speaks Japanese🥲

[@himacho8771]

Polyglots never learn Japanese because its the most time consuming

[@中国杨]

Taiwan is not a country😂so let’s get this fact straight

[@zac3652]

Taiwan IS a country you jerk!!!🤦‍♂️🤬

[@mrgenetics4063]

Then why does it have a different name and not called China? 😂😂😂😂😂 and why does it have a different political system ?

[@scotthullinger4684]

It's the seriously rare person who knows a foreign language as well as his native language, and this even includes university professors who speak and teach the language along with its literature. The problem is that we have too many people like YOU pretending that your skill level equals that of a professor. At one time, I was very proficient in Spanish. I lived in Argentina for a few years, and I have a university degree in Spanish. These days, after decades of not being exposed to Spanish very much, I still consider myself fluent, but mostly on just a rudimentary level with regard to speech. I often do better with literature, but not always. Speech changes much faster than other forms of the language. Dictionaries keep up with changes in the written form, but there's not much access to active academic resources which document year-to-year changes in the spoken language. I believe the phenomenon is worse with English, because our entire language has become woke-i-fied in the extreme where many portions of our language are essentially meaningless.

[@Wawruto]

How did he even learn them 😨?

[@mrgenetics4063]

He travels abroad Most of these languages have very little resources online so you need to be in the country to learn them They are in Poland here so he is obviously traveling

[@arthurvanrodds2772]

He didn't, checking by some of the languages I speak and other comments his grammar is very poor in most of the tongues his has used

[@ultimatelifeform882]

He has no taIent. So schlecht.