A demonstration of my languages (German, French, Italian, Russian, and a bit of Hungarian)

[@danielhadida3915]

That moment when you start speaking Italian and BAM : can't speak Italian without the hands.

[@Cubance]

Need an updated version ;)

[@surelygettingthere]

Your russian pronounciation is actually really impressive.

[@stanislavgeyko154]

Yep, you sounded good. But it wasn't perfect. If you still pronounce Russian in this way, you have to work on it. Is there a newer video in which you demonstrate your ability to speak Russian?

[@laurenguza5105]

Hi, Stanislav. Gabe doesn't have a more current demonstration up right now, but he may post one in the future. Thanks for watching! ~Lauren, Gabe's assistant

[@Konuvis]

Impressive man, just a slight accent in French but you got the intonation and inflexions of all of these down.

[@juliastain1677]

Since I watched your Speech at TEDX I feel free from worries and fears of making mistakes in speaking French. And suddenly instead of feeling pressure of progressing I have a wonderful curiosity when each time I come across a word, in English or French, I don’t know, I look it up. I try to learn conjugation, which became interesting. I used to hate it because it seemed too difficult to retain. Thank you! I haven’t even received my FF book yet , which I ordered last week. Imagine what it will do to me :-) I will be fluent in French! I now believe it. I am listening to the de Gaulle press conference.

[@FluentForeverApp]

Hi Julia, That is so great to hear. The most beautiful experiences are guarded by fear. Keep going at it and you will succeed! All the best.

[@hmsDEBBE]

Awesome!! Could you take a video with your grandmother speaking "crazy number of languages"?? I would love to watch it :)))

[@mixedbruh]

Gabriel, I'm half Hungarian and I was happy to hear your reasons for learning the language. It's not easy that's for sure but, like in my situation, on a personal level it feels rewarding since its part of who you are. Good luck and hopefully you're keeping it up.

[@stirrup27]

It was so exciting for some reason when you spoke in Hungarian! I'm a native speaker (sorta. I learned Eng. and Hun. at the même temps) and your pronunciation sounded pretty good to me. I love your book "Fluent Forever" and I think your videos (especially for IPA) are great. Hungarian will get kinda rough when you get into deeper grammar topics but you are definitely capable :) You are so inspiring to me to keep learning languages. -Ash

[@lepredator189]

crudnix at the same time = en même temps.

[@justcallmesteve9123]

I've met a few foreigners speaking Hungarian, but not one of them was close to convincing, even after years of learning. You, after just two months, are better than most of the people I know. I am for the first time, convinced you could master our language. One advice, speak with native Hungarians. The reason is the phrasing is sometimes not according to proper grammar in everyday speech.

[@Wampire1994]

Very impressive! Good luck with Hungarian and if you need a native speaker to practice, just let me know!

[@Kraibi]

Your pronounciation of Italian is dialectal, I like it!

[@ZipfelmannKD]

speaking 20 seconds in a language isn't really a demonstration

[@valeriebluteau3612]

you do it then 😊

[@LiborSupcik]

Hi Gabriel what accent /melody+rhythm/ do you aim for when learning? I think that your Italian and German are good enough to choose some native region as a muster.

[@sighisoaraa]

Kicsit többet beszélhettél volna, de azért örülök, hogy még vannak olyanok is akik magyarul tanulnak. Csak így tovább!

[@jeanenviedapprendre]

Je ne parle ni l'allemand ni le hongrois, mais tu me sembles très fort aux autres, bien qu'une vidéo aussi courte ne réfléchit que peu. Bonne continuation !

[@theartofcareerfreedom]

I can say the same things in Russian but still have a long way to go towards actually saying everything I want to say! Let me know if you have any tips for getting better at grammar

[@theartofcareerfreedom]

I've been wanting to try this, but Anki keeps deleting my cards. Do you sell your English-Russian decks ready made?

[@piturnah4972]

Anki keeps deleting your cards? Are you still having this problem?

[@obedotto4465]

That's pretty impressive

[@FluentForeverApp]

😀

[@jemthompson2019]

Impressive show, though I can only comment on the French which sounds nowhere near C1 (and is spoken with a kind of Spanish/Italian accent).

[@freddiehorst7118]

All these languages are very beautiful!

[@helenclark7436]

I am an English speaker and I know conversational Spanish. I am just starting in Italian and I find it close enough to Spanish that I find myself occasionally reverting to a Spanish equivalent when looking at flashcards. Do you have an easy way to keep your languages separate before they come traipsing out of your mouth? ...frustrated

[@piturnah4972]

I am also interested in an answer to this

[@lepredator189]

You gotta totally forget that you learnt Spanish. Kinda like acquiring a new identity long enough for Italian phonetics to sink in. Your Spanish will suffer as a result, but so be it; that's the price for becoming a polyglot in adult life.

[@barzinio92]

Joli travail, Gabriel. Est-ce-que t'as aussi un intérêt pour les langues non-européennes ?

[@johnsmith-qx8fv]

Your Russian is pretty great. Could you make another demonstration of languages and speak more?

[@mhacker84]

Отдельный респект за комплименты русскому языку!) Да, произношение "ш" в слове "что" очень натурально)

[@MaryLouUK]

wow!! i'm really impressed! ur verytalented with languages! i speak all of these languages xept for hungarian aswell and i have to say i couldnt do better!!

[@costakonar]

Ваш русский язык звучит превосходно! ) Как начать обучаться по Вашему методу? Через сайт?

[@belleoftheball2night302]

Wow that's hot. My husband said you speak EXCELLENT German.. I had to play back a few times still learning German. I feel so dumb around you but thanks for your IPA stuff. WOW you're BRILLIANT.. I love it. Thank you for sharing.

[@putinsays]

Agreed. Your Russian pronunciation is quite good and pleasant to listen to.

[@jonathonharbeck7287]

Coming at this from my perspective Benny's "street cred " video had subtitles and country flags yours is a good demo but needs to be redone and edited

[@Earbly]

There are subtitles just need to turn them on. and is it really hard to pick up what language he is speaking? They are all quite distinct.

[@jawad544]

What happened with your startup ? i am looking for the app

[@screamtoasigh9984]

jawad harvard it's on Kickstarter. I think largest investment on Kickstarter or something similar. Also has more languages/kits, word lists etc available. All on fluent forever site to buy and download.

[@fabriziolongo3158]

Hai un'ottima pronuncia in italiano!

[@megynleroi6220]

Очень хороший русский! :)

[@igronomicon]

сильный акцент

[@zojnik]

@@igronomicon не сильный

[@kryptonitiko]

@@igronomicon почему ты говоришь сильный? У него немецкий акцент?

[@natarous]

Хороший русский. Есть акцент, но слушать приятно. Удачи!

[@JohnBastardSnow]

You have a little bit of accent in Russian, but it's good.

[@williambudd2850]

I don’t want a demonstration. Anyone can read a script. You don’t even have to understand what you are saying! Show us the test results that prove you are fluent in those languages. That is what I want to see.

[@dadec5972]

Well done: German grammar was perfect, pronunciation nearly perfect! Sehr gut: Die deutsche Grammatik war perfekt, die Aussprache fast perfekt!

[@sprax8962]

nicht schlecht

[@AkshayBAKAYA]

Hi Gabriel, I'm the author of the Michel Thomas Hindi (a.k.a Urdu) and Michel Thomas Insider's French courses. It would be fun to have you do some Hindi, and exchange notes. I live in Paris, let's talk on Skype, you'll find me online. I see you've been learning French too for about 8 years. Let me know what you think of the "Insider's" series. Indeed, in the first lesson you can check out "manquer" that you used here. "Il me manquait 4 points" (in your French test) would be better, or "Il ne me manquait que 4 points", rather than 'J'ai manqué que de 4 points.' But of course if you miss, say, the first 5 minutes of a movie, you could say "J'ai manqué les 5 premières minutes du film." Or even "j'ai raté", in Insider's French (I even got the French actors to produce all the insider French noises French, from Pfffff (scoffing) to "Rhoooo !" (appalled, indignant), and "Prrrrrp" (God knows!). All best for your efforts at learning many more languages !

[@rosemooncrystal3687]

Ich lebe auch in Wien! :D

[@MaherBaba]

pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good

[@ginociambotti4186]

What about Spanish?

[@lepredator189]

He's getting married to a Spanish speaker, I think. He'll pick that up too.

[@Zaebitsu]

He said like one sentence in Russian(and still managed to make a mistake) and now he's fluent? Open your eyes people

[@rebeccahicks4949]

"Now he's fluent", I don't know what his Russian is like now, but considering that over four years have passed since this video, yeah, he very well might be.

[@lepredator189]

Gleb Golubev open my eyes to what, to the fact that you're a fucking idiot?

[@HingYok]

Fluency and accuracy are two different concepts... You can be fluent but still make mistakes. That's why linguists suggest language teachers to focus more on fluency first and accuracy later.

[@ЕкатеринаЧуракова-щ3ь]

Unfortunately, I don't understand all these languages except English, but I can tell your Russian is pretty good, in spite of your accent it's easy to understand the words :) By the way, it's amazing to be able to speak in many different languages! :) Good luck :)

[@roydollins]

I really like your German, it's very natural. In your French, try to keep closed vowels as /o/ in aussi and /e/ in parlé really closed and tense, and try speaking with a stronger 'singing' intonation. Russian sounds very good too.

[@musical_lolu4811]

There's no such thing as a 'singing' intonation, you gotta be more specific with the phonological terms.

[@lucasm4299]

And Europeans say that all Americans/English speakers don't learn any languages. Lol.

[@lepredator189]

Anyone will learn who is interested enough to.

[@musical_lolu4811]

Yeah, they don't. Except the ones that do.

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

Some Americans are incredibly well educated. Most are not. Same in Britain I guess.

[@subliminals5825]

well the grammar is the hard in hungarian

[@tinesifethoughts3453]

So late 30s guy who wants to learn Spanish and hated all his English classes in school. Is this a deal breaker? Asking for a friend.

[@musical_lolu4811]

Not in the slightest. I suspect you hated school classes due to the focus being more on technical jargon than on in-the-wild language use. Look for ways to learn Spanish for actual use (a utilitarian approach) if that's your goal, rather than becoming a syntactician or something. Mucha suerte, hermano.

[@Sal0Alo]

Not bad Italian at all :)

[@jeffreyd508]

Russian is always the weakest language of polyglots. Most speak East Asian languages better, even thoigh they are rated as more difficult.

[@MrCODEmaster999]

I liked the Russian accent; I couldn't differentiate you from a native speaker like President Putin. Second best is German.

[@OrangStefan]

The German pronounciation is pretty good, but you have to work a little more on German grammar. lol

[@welldone1877]

His French is not remotely a C1 (and I highly doubt it ever was) he is lacking VERY basic vocabulary and is difficult to understand because of this, you get the gist of what he is saying don't get me wrong but the mistakes cause confusion, 'je parle au moment' does not mean anything in the context in which he is speaking, you can say 'au moment de' but that basically means when and I think he is wanting to say now....'you can say 'en ce moment'' but that is more akin to 'at the moment" you have to say 'je parle actuellement' for now; at least I think that's what he wanted to say'). To not know how to say the word now in another language is pretty basic stuff .....the fact he even tried for a C2 displays an arrogance which is quite staggering, his actual level I would compare to my students just finishing high school, more like a low B1. He can just about hold a basic conversation. Seems like he learned French from Duolingo or something. Wonder if his other claims to languages are as over-exagerated.... Not to be unfair his accent on the other hand is OK, it's clearly english but that doesn't impede understanding. I bet he's making a mint of just being a slick saleman, . Welcome to the world of the superficial guys, nothing these days goes more than skin deep and every one is trying to sell you something. I would be ashamed to have that level in a language and say I was fully fluent.

[@musical_lolu4811]

Boo hoo.

[@Boooboobo1990]

The same with Russian. He said 4 very basic sentences and still made a couple of mistakes misusing some words.

[@SM-sg8iq]

Ашалеть

[@denib2171]

A magyar jó nyelv

[@Bagfullofcrabs1]

Seems like you speak very good Russian, but your speech was too short to tell for sure =)

[@Emile.gorgonZola]

Meh