Giving strangers 50 EUROS if I don´t speak their language

[@WouterCorduwener]

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[@sherintv478]

❤❤.

[@dbuc4671]

nice, but i feel ur a bit overbearing at times, like ur talkiing really fast and just basically saying anything and everything that comes to ur mind and never pausing, not really paying attention to what _they_ are telling u. for example sometimes ur like "oh hi i can speak (language), what part of (country) r u from, i really want to go to (country) as well and i want to try out (food), the weather is so nice today i really want to keep talking to other people, actually i want to practice speaking in (language) with u more before i go" all without pausing. u could actually try and learn some language more in depth insteead of focusing on 29 languages all at once. no malice intended, just pointing out some things u could improve on.

[@tritonwe8937]

​@Ansaphone89lmfao

[@paholainen100]

so true. He could actually learn how to have a proper exchange or conversation instead of just mumbling phrases. That's not a conversation.

[@dbuc4671]

@@paholainen100 exactly! he could do a lot better. his conversations are wayyyy too one sided, its like he's practicing talking to himself in front of a mirror or something instead of an actual conversation with someone, and a lot of the time what he says isn't even correct. I know because I speak mandarin and his mandarin is relatively intelligible, like he gets the message across, but overall still needs work. Idk, I might be totally wrong, but I feel like he tries to dominate conversations because he only wants to discuss topics that he actually _knows_ how to speak and doesn't want people to ask him something he doesn't know how to say yet, and he speaks fast so it seems like he knows a lot. but who knows if he's actually saying everything correctly or not, most people don't want to be rude, and out of politeness, aren't willing to correct him on the spot like that. as long as he gets the basic message across, they praise him.

[@paholainen100]

@@dbuc4671 agreed. I like the point about only saying things that he is able to talk about. He doesn’t seem to allow questions in. This kind of style doesn’t impress me anymore. I prefer longer videos speaking in one or two languages in order to demonstrate quality and depth in language. That’s what I’m trying to do. What country are you from ? Is mandarin your native language ?

[@AndrewLiuthisisstupid]

How to be a KZbin polyglot 101

[@thetragicghostking]

Wrong korean translation. Horrible grammar. Saying the same things over and over again in all the videos. Claims to speak the 29 languages

[@AnishBhethanabotla]

I dont like how he claims to speak 29 languages in these videos, but he clarifies properly in other videos that he really speaks about 10 fluently and then a few more conversationally and the rest are very basic -- pretty much recited lines and ability to understand a bit

[@DatuSumakwel7]

Javanese is a language, just not an official language. If you consider Hiligaynon/Ilonggo to be a language, the same should be said for Javanese as well.

[@TKDragon75]

He literally said it was a language

[@khairilsaid3551]

javanese is not a dialect lol, it is a language i do speak it tho i am not indonesian. it is the most widely spoken in indonesia

[@Gigusx]

I don't speak either and I'm not from region, but Indonesian has far more speakers than Javanese. What do you mean Javanese is the most widely spoken language there? (or was it a typo lol)

[@khairilsaid3551]

@@Gigusx "most widely spoken". do u even understand what was that mean?. i bet u dont.

[@Gigusx]

@@khairilsaid3551Lol. Did I pull a nerve or something? 😅Indonesian is spoken by nearly everyone in and throughout the country as well as being the language used in schools. Javanese is spoken by less than half the population. What do you think it means for the BREADTH of the speaking population?

[@khairilsaid3551]

@@Gigusx what i mean was that as a regional language javanese is one of the most spoken language after indonesian. LOL. most widely spoken doesnt mean it is the national language. LOLLLLL

[@ivanmolero7829]

Leichtathletik= athletics (running, jumping, throwing the javelin, etc.). That's what the German girl was doing.

[@NoirHammer]

Thumbs up to the Latvian speaker for asking about the pigeons. Shows his sensitivity to wildlife that no one cares about.

[@lxportugal9343]

Pigeons are a pain 8n thw a...

[@tritonwe8937]

​@@lxportugal9343plague infested birds

[@smearpipe]

I ate all the pigeons

[@Gigusx]

@@smearpipe 😂

[@enekaitzteixeira7010]

We should all care more about wildlife.

[@mainlineto5988]

I have been waiting for a Latvian speaker to come on your videos for so long! His Latvian was very good!

[@papilgee4evaeva]

The whole "that's a dialect, not a language" thing is disappointing.

[@benjeyemanp1742]

Yeah fr, it's a shame how they're misrepresented and their culture/history feels validated in that sense when people misuse the word dialect

[@chicha400]

Yet he gives the fraudulent Latin speaker €50😭

[@TKDragon75]

The video is about languages, and he literally corrected it 2 seconds after clarifying Javanese is a language not a dialect.

[@TKDragon75]

And he does speak Javanese so she didnt get money for it.

[@papilgee4evaeva]

@@TKDragon75 whether the comment comes from Wouter or someone he speaks to (as in this case), it's disappointing either way.

[@vinibi90]

7:38 this guy speaking in Latvian didn't say what's written in the subtitles, hahahahah... He said this: "I have to run to lectures, let's talk quickly, we have to talk quickly"

[@kilanspeaks]

5:38 Thanks, Wouter. I guess the girls don’t know this because they’re not Indonesian, but Javanese is a separate language, it’s not a dialect of Indonesian. As a language, Javanese has its own dialects. ꦧꦼꦭꦗꦂꦭꦒꦶꦱꦶꦔꦏꦺꦃ 🇮🇩 🍻 🇸🇷

[@MatthieuPiquemal]

Do people still write Javanese in that script or do they mostly use the Latin alphabet nowadays?

[@kilanspeaks]

@@MatthieuPiquemal mostly Latin alphabet.

[@TKDragon75]

Yes he was aware of this. He didnt pay them for it cause he understands Javanese. Not cause it's a dialect or language.

[@randygroseclose7539]

Sji tok, mi ben breti yere di m' ark' a swit' sarnang tongo f' mi. 🇸🇷 En tru tori tak a Jampanesi f' a meit ben de echt bika na wan her tra tongo, ya tok. Ma lek fa wan tra sma taki k'ba, a man e tak eng ooktu, dus a san regel. Swit tori dja yere. Un waka switi mi sarnang stamang. 🇸🇷

[@havenisse2009]

Wouter, make a collaboration with Q's Greenland: travel to Nuuk and learn some sentences in Inuit language. Very few polyglots have done that.

[@DatuSumakwel7]

@0:23 she said they’re from the Philippines, NOT “….it’s nice in the Philippines.”

[@bexactlyyy]

Wouter, the way you can so quickly fluctuate betwern languages is an art itself! I can speak English, bogan and a bit of French. Ari inspired me to learn mandarin and I'm so stuck with numbers and dates! I dont know how you do it all!

[@akakaa5951]

Wouter, what's happend with your patreon page? everything disappeard...

[@VOL7AGE55]

I bet i could get a free 50 Euro speaking Maori.

[@HinemotuIhaia-wm4zh]

Hahaa I was just thinking this lol! Waiting for someone to speak Te reo to him 😂

[@BAND_7]

اتمنى لو تضع ترجمه عربيه لكي يشاهدوك العرب وانا من السعوديه واحب مقاطعك جدا لكن للأسف لا يوجد ترجمه عربيه 💔😢

[@lucasblocher8405]

Javanese is a language

[@TKDragon75]

Guys in the video when he realized they were speaking Javanese, he never said it was a dialect he corrected their notion of it being a dialect as it was a language. But its they only get payed if he doesnt speak it and hes previously shown to at least speak Javanese a bit.

[@TKDragon75]

Also that's pretty solid Latin, so quit saying the guy barely can speak it. Latin is barely spoken anymore, to speak that much is not bad.

[@bahasaplease]

5:07 mereka berbahasa Jawa tapi tidak mengerti Bahasa Indonesia karena mereka adalah keturunan orang-orang Jawa yang lahir di Suriname sehingga tidak mengerti Bahasa Indonesia, mereka lebih tahu bahasa Suriname karena memang sudah jadi warga negara Suriname 😊

[@EasyVietnamese4u]

If i had been there , i would have won 50euros from you haha😂😂😂😂😂

[@Deblow6]

I definitely win this challenge 2 times Sylhety Bangla English Hindi Assamese

[@ladypronyma1074]

always tagalog is in his videos. if you understand that language, you will know his subtitles are wrong he clearly doesn't understand much of it he is a very beginner level haha.

[@patviravouth867]

That Chinese lady was very ill-mannered. "I also don't like that I can't have 50 Euros". Sure, she doesn't have engage in a lengthy conversation but there are more polite ways to exit out of a conversation. She even seemed disappointed that he spoke Chinese which is also very unusual behaviour. Do better.

[@NightgaleYunaxx]

She did politely exit out of the conversation. She didn't immediately walk away. She only got upset because she realized that she couldn't win the 50 euros because he knew Chinese. I think if she spoke with a different dialect she could have won the 50 euros.

[@V1CTOR07]

Muito bom gostei muito quando chegou na parte do português você falou muito bem 🇧🇷👍

[@hoorkhan8325]

i wonder if he speaks in pastho. kinda curious

[@Victor-lo6uq]

latin 💀

[@jcle5672]

Those memorized Tagalog phrases/sentences are tiring to hear. Obviously he isn't fluent in Tagalog nor hold a basic conversation.

[@megalodon_attack]

Anybody knows if the guy who speaks Latin really speak it?

[@DancingButterfly123]

The words were correct, but he had a very heavy Spanish accent on his Latin, I could tell Spanish was his native language immediately

[@midtskogen]

Yes. It was bit off, but he has definitely studied the language and he made perfect sense.

[@jojojo78930]

Yes Mandarin definitely can’t count as you being able to speak it. Am a Native Mandarin Speaker and though I’m able to understand you due to the context but pronunciations are totally off point.

[@Yvissinee]

Pfff eindelijk hast een keer gjin kald tshirtsje oan! Praatst ek Frysk Wouter?

[@eenpretverderver8345]

tink het net

[@yongkiatlee3450]

Chinese..cant win 50 euro...wanna go off...

[@JoshPecks500lbDad]

your chinese isnt shit mate but it needs improving

[@CamzMagic]

Thats not latin, basque-catelina, i cant spell in english🤣

[@jamesgekas9904]

German girls were cute❤❤❤

[@noizekiller]

Засмущался латыш, когда про русских в Латвии заговорили.

[@عليمسلم-ق4غ]

اريد اشاهد الترجمة العربية 😢

[@thiagoxaviersoutricolor8260]

Le langues relient le gens, bonne semaine

[@enriqueshockwave]

Yo somone has to get this man to a barber Why he look like he just rolled out of bed

[@AndrewLiuthisisstupid]

he's had personal issues lately

[@cyprianusl.krismantoro4069]

actully is not the dialect of Indonesian, it its own languange called Javanese, the 11th largest speakers in the world. The largest unofficial language in the world. Even we have our own script.

[@jessy8974]

2:18 the first time you encountered someone from luxembourg ? 'cause his dialect was awful xD - no offense

[@ismaelsedoc4947]

Make more videos

[@ABpluseAB]

🇸🇷🇸🇷❤

[@thijsjudejong]

Als Nederlander, ik vraag me af of hij de echte underdog Fries kan (ik kan nergens vinden of hij hier al op getest is)

[@marciobraga4745]

Brasileiro está em todo lugar, very cool. Impressionante o rapaz falar Luxemburguês.

[@chrismartinez5711]

We need more people to stump Wouter with archaic languages

[@bayusetyawan9550]

5:00 Javanese here 🤚🏼 from Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@waaa-v7t]

انت انسان عظيم وبنفس الوقت لطيف ومساعد جدا وانا حبيتك لانك انسان طيب جدا

[@uuuu281]

He can't understand ex bf in Chinese.

[@NOAHRTFM]

What about haitien creole 😢😢

[@marciobraga4745]

Wouter estou aprendendo mandarim

[@jenny_northsea]

Wouter spreek je ook Esperanto?

[@sherintv478]

Wonderful video sharing 👍💙💕👍💜💚💛💗🦋❤

[@timandmonica]

Giving you a sympathy like for all the money you spend making these for us--thank you!

[@jackt5080]

Pretty surprising that the Korean woman spoke in banmal when first talking to him...

[@SALA7FF]

السلام عليكم اخي ممكن ترد علي هاذا شرف كبير لي

[@TheGrindelwald]

Do you speak Turkish? I speak a bit Turkish. I speak a bit Turkish but I am Dutch. Yes. Wouter, your Turkish never passed simple sentences. The translation is not even correct. And your sentence structure is very basic and it is not like how Turkish people speak Turkish. It’s like you would speak English with Turkish words. 50% of Turkish is grammar. So your way of learning words does not help much.

[@evakalikova4096]

He is learning! It's impressive enough that he speaks 29 languages

[@TheGrindelwald]

​ @evakalikova4096 different things can be important in communication. And Wouter is mainly interested in the ice breaker. I.e. “I can say something in your language”. It’s not bad to know a few words and phrases in some languages. It’s actually quite fun. But there is still much room for improvement. Myself, I’m very interested in languages. I learn words and phrases in many languages because I enjoy it. But it takes time and effort to take a language beyond basic greetings and simple words. Languages are also related to each other. Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are very closely related to each other. I can speak Swedish in Denmark and Norway and they understand me. I can understand them as well in most cases. To understand people I don’t need to learn much more than that. I can practice some of the vocabulary that is specific for danish and norwegian, but it’s not necessary. English has almost the same grammar. So learning English in Sweden is easy. It’s just about vocabulary and many words are already closely connected. Same goes for German, another Germanic language. The grammar is a bit different. But words are very similar. Germanic languages have been exposed to Latin languages during a long time in recent history. That makes many words easily understood. But it’s not like the Germanic languages. The way of speech is different and also the word flow and spelling is different from Germanic languages. Then comes a variety of other languages. Turkish happens to be the languages I know the best from other language families. And Turkish languages structure their sentences much different from the ones already mentioned. Words change depending on the person you refer to. Verbs end up last in the sentence. Because there are many affixes to Turkish words, you most often omit pronouns in sentences. Wouter very often start Turkish sentences with the word for “I”. But besides it’s repetitive it is also not necessary and even sounds strange. If it’s you who is doing something, this will show as an affix on the verb so we don’t need to say it several times. In many languages Wouters skills exceeds my own. But I see his supposed Swedish and see it’s just a development of his supposed danish. It’s the pronunciation that distinguishes these two. But his pronunciation is not good for either of the two. In Turkish, his skills are so limited that he can have some 15-30 second talks. He can say he speaks some, that Turkish is difficult and that he wants to travel to Turkey. He can hardly understand questions. He cannot express easy things that an A1 speaker would be able to do. Several of the languages in his videos are languages he can cross over to in a few seconds or minutes, but he cannot use them for a longer time. He cannot make 29 10-minute videos where he speaks every individual language freely. Even the variation of topics will be difficult for him. He speaks about languages and food in his videos. He has started to use topics like exercise for variations. And he seems to use animals as a joke. Crabs, dogs and ducks can be part of absurd sentences as easy jokes. He has put much time to languages. But he could also put effort to speak longer for example if he wanted to get something out of a conversation more than taking to new people. During the years I’ve watched his videos he has not improved most of his languages. His focus has been on the number of languages. The more languages he tries to speak the harder it becomes to maintain the ones he already lists as languages he “speaks”. Maybe that’s why 29 languages seems like a limit to him. Not many languages improve. He focuses even more on the gimmick of speaking in many languages together with challenges. The videos are easy to watch. But the communication he makes has very little content. He used to go to restaurants and eat there and speak languages. In a recent video he just went to restaurants and spoke some languages. Then he returned to his normal life. Maybe his motivation is gone.

[@start9749]

En azından bu dili öğrenmeye çalışıyor ve bu kolay değil. Türk dilleri çok zordur

[@TheGrindelwald]

@@start9749 aymen. Gerçekten Türkçe konuşuyor mu ama? Bence değil. Kelimler öğrendi. Benim Türkçe de henüz güzel değil. Türkçe anlıyorum ve cümle yazabilirim. Türkçem gramer hala en iyi olabilir.

[@semprefidelis76]

@@TheGrindelwaldwhere are you from originally? As a Turkish IMO Wouter gerçekten başarılı. Türkçe grameri süper zor diğer dillere göre. Greetings from Los Angeles

[@ismaelsedoc4947]

First

[@AndrewLiuthisisstupid]

you killed off your patreon project sir

[@AndrewLiuthisisstupid]

@Ansaphone89 how do you know?

[@adibou9262]

@Ansaphone89what happened!