How Many Languages Do I Speak?

[@boce9478]

How many languages can you speak? -Metatron: Yes

[@adamuss]

i could count 7

[@artugert]

Seven, at various levels.

[@VladimirosJohanson]

I'm Greek and I gotta say that your Greek pronunciation is almost perfect. There are foreigners that have lived here for more than a decade and they still speak Greek less fluently than you. I bet that if you decide to spend just a few months in Greece your pronunciation would be indistinguishable from a native's one.

[@VictorLdVS]

It's not that difficult to pronounce Greek words correctly if you're from Italy or Spain, we share phonology.

[@melinaouzouni6151]

I agree some months and he 'll be perfect!

[@limbiateshitposter]

@@VictorLdVS especially with spain,the phonology is the same as european spanish

[@CuFhoirthe88]

Una faccia; una razza.

[@fnansjy456]

I'm a polyglot I speak English, American ,Canadian,,London, Australian and New Zeelandish

[@magyarbondi]

Verigud máj frend! Áj ken ónli szpík ísztörn jurópien inglis! Du jú ándörsztend máj ekszent? Áj hóp szó! Inglis iz en internesönál lengvidzs! Ví szpík it evriver in dö vőld!

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

Canadien? Vraiment! Moe je parle aussi!

[@mrtrollnator123]

🤣

[@fnansjy456]

@@jeffkardosjr.3825 Bonjour Mon Ami , J'adore le Baguette et la Singe rouge

[@joundii3100]

Je suis polyglotte, je parle Congolais, Québécois, Togolais, Béninois, Malien, Burkinabè, Sénégalais, Algérien, Marocain, Tunisien, Nigeran, Tchadien, Camerounais, Malgache, Mauritanien, Guinéen, Haïtien, Monégasque, Belge, Suisse, Burundais, Rwandais, Gabonais, Ivoirien, Centrafricain, Libanais, Équatoguinéen, Comorien, Santoméen, Luxembourgeois, Mauricien, Seychellois, Djiboutien, Vanuatais, Neo-Brunswickois, Louisianais et Andorran. (En incluant uniquement mes langues maternelles)

[@yohanreview6721]

I'm a Spanish speaker but the thing I like the most about watching your videos is the fact I can understand everything you say because your pronunciation it's the best. I'm still learning but I improve a lot just by hearing you.

[@DimitrisTziounis]

You speak greek perfectly and your accent is very good. Greek is not a romance language because it didn't occur from latin however I think that grammatically and syntactically it is more close to the romance group in comparison with the other groups of the indo-european family. I'm saying this because I tried to learn a bit italian and was surprised because its grammar along with its syntax structure made absolute sense to me. As a native Greek speaker, my impression is that the vocabulary is actually the difficult part in learning italian but it's really a beautiful and alive language as much as the greek one.

[@300fusionfall]

As a Greek your pronunciation is really good

[@skeptigal4626]

I’m American, but had a Spanish speaking grandmother, studied Spanish in school and used it at work, so I ended up being quite fluent. Fast forward a few decades to the lockdown when I decided to learn Italian. It came very easily, but with a lot of interference from Spanish. Recently I have been so diligent in my study of Italian that when I intend to speak Spanish, Italian words come out or I unconsciously add an Italian article. These days if I hear Italian or Spanish spoken in a random situation I just understand it, but don’t usually realize which language is being spoken at first. A few times when I have heard Brazilian Portuguese, I’ve understood it without realizing it wasn’t one of my target languages. Very weird.

[@brittakriep2938]

All described languages are descendant of Latin, so related.

[@AngelesBustamanteM]

Makes sense that you get brazilian because their variety of portuguese has a lot of italian influence :)

[@JacobvsRex]

I envy your proficiency. I don’t know how many languages I’ve studied but I’ve studied Spanish, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek fairly intently without reaching much in the way of proficiency. But in the end the reason I do it is I love the challenge anyhow. The journey not the destination and all that.

[@LeNguyen-cf5nw]

In one of Metatron's previous videos, he also mentioned how he studied Spanish in school. I think he also said he had a lack of interest in becoming fluent in that language because it's too easy for an Italian speaker. Funny how prefering challenges can also be detrimental at times :D

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

The Ottoman Sultan choosing to invade eastern Hungary instead of marching to the capitol because it was too easy.... We all know how that ended 🤣🤣🤣

[@Avram_Orozco]

Maybe this is why he doesn’t speak fluent Italian yet

[@00RoxPink]

I am a Spanish learning English native speaker, obviously English is not as similar to Spanish as Italian is, but there are quite a lot of similar words. It IS a bit of an eyeroll when at times Spanish is too easy. Like dang teach me something new!

[@DanSolo871]

Greek seems like a fascinating language to learn.

[@wildemthefem5773]

I LOVE hearing Japanese and Italian. The other languages, and your pronunciation of them, are incredible as well, I just prefer J&I. It was all fun to hear though!

[@AlexFeldstein]

I speak three very fluently (Spanish, English, Portuguese and three more I understand but have to work to speak (Italian, French, Hebrew). Latin is not one of these but I am learning it from Luke, so I understood 70% of your Classical Latin. I do love your Roman toys. Wow!

[@corinna007]

The only language I consider myself fluent in is English, my native language. But I can speak some Finnish and some German, and I understand Mennonite Low German (more or less). I would love to learn Spanish someday, and I feel as a Canadian that I'm obligated to learn at least some French; the French classes I had to take in school were useless in terms of conversation and I've forgotten most of it, but if I could actually speak to French speakers in French, I'd be willing to give it another try.

[@sparrow420500]

One of the smartest guys I ever met was a Polish dude I knew in the Marines. He spoke fluent polish, German, Russian, French, Spanish, and English. He was also raised Jewish, meaning he spoke Hebrew and Yiddish as well. Very smart guy!!

[@juliannaruffini]

raised jewish doesnt mean one speaks automatically

[@smokeydogg6275]

You do know that yiddish is just slightly different german right?

[@Markov092]

As teen, I used to hate learning languages. In school I had to learn 3 foreign languages, one of them was German. Growing up and now traveling, going on business trips, communicating with Germans, I do not regret it at all. Those languages now fascinate me. Few years ago I studied Mandarin exactly for same reasons as Metatron - it is challenging and can show off to friends, that I struggled with it.

[@lydiaschicklin5978]

Coucou ! Je suis très impressionnée par votre niveau de maîtrise dans toutes ces langues! Bravo de la part d'une française moitié sicilienne et moitié andalouse ! Bisous d'Alsace des 3 Frontières ! 🥇😁😉

[@saarthel8532]

I'm a native Latin speaker and your pronunciation is near perfect! Tbh, I'm impressed by your Japanese. I'm sure that if you keep practicing, your French will be great too.

[@saarthel8532]

@kaczanas born in Vaticano

[@adamuss]

when he speaks japanese he sounds too robotic, it's as if he learned from google text-to-speach

[@Nehauon]

@@adamussthat’s literally how Japanese people speak 😂

[@Nehauon]

@@adamussthey have a very shy, and closed-off culture

[@shawnotoole1421]

I am fascinated by Nahuatl as it was spoken in the Aztec Empire. The Nahuatl still spoken in Mexico is several languages, none of them like the original. I would have only a few scholars I could speak the language with.

[@TheOtherMwalimu]

Jambo! Vizuri sana. Nilikuwa nafikiri, ingekuwa nzuri kabisa ukishirikiana na Polymathy na kuzungumza naye kwa KiLatin. Kisha kufanya ufasiri. Kuona watu wawili kupiga chat kwa KiLatin, ningeshangaa! (This is KiSwahili and Google Translate translates it well)

[@yulong29]

That's so inspiring. One of my wishes in life is to learn multiple languages. I'm Brazilian and I have English as my second language. I still make a lot of mistakes in English but I'll keep improving. I plan on learning Italian or Japanese next.

[@CZuskia]

Your English is excellent! I speak English as my mother-tongue, but learnt Bosnian and Serbian easily. Spanish is a struggle, though. Any tips?

[@shapesnatch1341]

I'm quite jelous. I speak English and a little bit of Irish. I can barely converse ás Gaelige despite learning it since I was 4 years old. I had to learn German in school but I'm even worse at that than Irish. I was never good at the language subjects in school (except English, which I study in college) but you've inspired me to try and learn Irish properly, if anything so I can talk to my mother ás Gaegile, as she loves speaking Irish.

[@pleclerc1]

Impressive, your french is pretty good mate, well done. I am French Canadian, so I speak the old French, and English as I lived in the USA for a out 30 years. I love ancient history, especially enythjng Greek, so I plan on learning ancient Greek. There's a few courses I found that seem legitimate. If you have some advice on where/how to best learn ancient Greek, it would be great appreciated.

[@nathanc939]

The French we speak in Québec isn't exactly older. It did change a bit less, but mostly it is from a different group of people than the one which took over in France. Nouvelle-France did not have nobles, so there only really was lowborns/peasants, they spoke Low Middle French, while the Nobles spoke High Middle French, then you can had local differences, especially in the Low variants of French as High French was more centralized. Middle indicate the era from which it is, we say Middle French, because it isn't Old/Ancient French, nor Modern French and we make the distinction when French start being uniformed under the Kindgdom of France, a little later. So Québec's French isn't Old French, because it comes from Middle French and it is different in part because unlike in France, High and Low French never merged here, while they did after the French Revolution in France. Old/Ancient French is significantly older. Also, there is no clear cut between when the switch between the different French happened, nor do scholar agree on the actual overlaps.

[@Zenocius]

​@@nathanc939 Quebecois is just simplified French

[@nathanc939]

@@Zenocius Maybe you should actually study the language before writting such statements.

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

​@@nathanc939 So Middle Low French and Middle High French are distinguished by social class? In Germany, we have two predominant languages which are High German and Low German, though they're named after the regional landscape of their origin. High German rose in southern Germany, Austria, Südtirol, and Switzerland. All of which are very mountainous and have many steep hills and the ground elevation is quite high. But in Northern Germany, it's the opposite. On a side note, it's where much of Germany's farms are because of how flat it is, so we call the German spoken there Low or Flat German. And the differences between the two are extreme to say the least. It's very hard to understand Low German for me in some cases due to its accent and vocabulary and especially its grammar 😂

[@nathanc939]

@@Jürgen_von_Schumacher In French it is about sophisticated vs non-sophisticated speech, today, but historically it was about social classes, yes.

[@MysticMan357]

Loved it, listening to your Mandarin you could really hear the enforced speech tones of the language. I've always been fascinated with the African Nguni click pronunciations. I grew up annoying people with those sounds and they use them to communicate. Amazing.

[@JacobvsRex]

I also have a musical background. I’ve always thought that was an interesting correlation there. I’ve never done a tonal language but I think with any language having had musical interests teaches you how to listen very closely and reproduce those sounds or when you are not reproducing those sounds

[@LaJokanan]

I also studied Latin and Classical Greek, only to O Level (age 16 approx) but they were such a useful foundation for learning other languages later on. As a native English speaker, the disparate roots of our language are endlessly fascinating to me. As an adult, I lived and worked in several European countries and was able to learn French, Spanish and (to a lesser extent) German without much problem. There are some people with a natural aptitude for languages (Metatron, for example) but in my experience most of us are capable if we apply ourselves. And it's literally mind-expanding; when you immerse yourself in another language you're changing the way you think, as surely as you would if you dropped a tab of LSD.

[@grahamzvi3293]

@@LaJokanan Jaouisi Yes we see. Eye sea ewe. LSD

[@grahamzvi3293]

@@LaJokanan Do U C I

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Some truth behind that! I speak 5 modern languages. I play 5 instruments. After being buried in choirs and other music groups as a backing singer, I can sing lead vocals. Music especially Western music uses Italian 🇮🇹, French 🇫🇷 and German 🇩🇪 terms. Spanish 🇪🇸 enters when classical guitar 🎸 is in the music. The context of the music (religious or secular) determines other languages.

[@kaizokujimbei143]

Εγώ με το ζόρι καταφέρνω να αποστηθίσω μερικές χιλίαδες Ιαπωνικές λέξεις από το λεξικό των πιο συχνά χρησιμοποιούμενων λέξεων της γλώσσας (A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese). Πώς κατάφερες εσύ να τα μάθεις τόσο εύκολα;

[@boristhethoughtdodger3162]

I like Metatron a lot and I always watch his podcasts. But! There is something I must take my mind off: "Effffing show off!!!!". Thank you for attention, I feel better. 😜

[@Dante19883]

Amazing!! You are an inspiration!! I speak English as my mother tongue. But I can speak Italian with a good level of fluency, French and Spanish quite well, but I’m now trying to perfect them. I’m also now learning Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. There are days when I get down because it is a lot, but this video has really inspired me. You are a true citizen of the world my friend. And that is what I aspire to be myself!

[@gryaznygreeb]

I didn't grow up bilingual but I grew up living with my Italian/Sicilian great grandmother who sometimes spoke what may have been either Sicilian or Italian around me, and I still remember "Vive bene spesso l'amore di risata molto" hung on one of the walls in her house. I also grew up in Baltimore where I basically had to switch between "normal" American English and ghetto ebonics English in order to be understood by schoolmates vs my family and friends. I legitimately had kids who spoke in an urban ebonics type way tell me that I wasn't speaking English when I spoke to them in a way I would consider "normal" English, so I had to learn to speak like they did which was entirely different from my usual way of speaking. I think these two things led to my love of foreign languages. I tried to study many foreign languages as a child but ultimately settled on Russian about 5 years ago. I'd say I'm at an intermediate level now, and that's with infrequent informal study and never having visited a Russian speaking country. I have spoken to local Russians though and I try to consume as much Russian media as I can. I try to think in Russian, hence my username despite English being my native language. I might try to learn Korean next. I gave up on Mandarin and Japanese due to the character system but maybe one day I'll try again. Maybe Korean will help me bridge the grammar and vocab gap without yet tackling a character based system?

[@magyarbondi]

You know how the old saying goes, mate: visit Russia before Russia visits you. 😁

[@tohaason]

I don't know how much it will help, but Korean and Japanese have a very similar grammar system (and totally different from Mandarin), despite having very little vocabulary in common. Langfocus did a video about this some years ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHOVi3aXZ8alp6M

[@emanueleanselmi7631]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot, Metatron ;) Ps: can't wait for the next video about the connection of learning music theory and languages!

[@WineSippingCowboy]

I am not counting "dead" languages: Latin ✝️, Biblical Hebrew ✡ or Biblical Greek 🇬🇷. My 5 modern languages: English 🇺🇸, Spanish 🇲🇽, French 🇫🇷, German 🇩🇪, Tagalog 🇵🇭. I am contemplating 🤔 among Malay 🇲🇾/ Indonesian 🇮🇩, Tamil 🇮🇳. Mandarin 🇨🇳, Cantonese 🇨🇳 or Vietnamese 🇻🇳 as my next modern language.

[@Eudaimonia239]

love your videos I speak spanish and english but currently learning korean, but I am impressed by the number of languages you speak, suddenly I have an interest on learning different languages than just spanish and english and embarking into this language learning path now (by myself ).

[@sasharama5485]

You are such an inspiration. As a fellow italian i also grew up surrounded by Italian and my regional language, sardinian. In my teen years i started learning english as everybody else, then i picked up some german and lately I've been learning japanese and some basic korean. Language are such a fascinating topic and a very important part of life.

[@JoMomma]

1:17 thank you for confirming that saying the same thing with different words is a foundation for the aptitude for learning new languages.

[@Perceval777]

I'm so glad you're finally uploading language videos! Those were really missed! Good that you have a separate channel dedicated to languages now. (^-^) この2つ目のチャンネルでも堂々とした達成になりますように願っています。

[@BGM16]

That was amazing man, my respects, you're an example for anybody who wants to learn a new language or anything new in life for that matter.

[@kyramilenin9766]

I study french nearly by my self, with a course book, daily small clips of "karambolage" produced by ARTE and by reading short stories and small articles. I understand pretty much of spoken and written French by now (guess B1) but nobody believes me because I can't speak at all. I simply never practice producing french by my own. Not only that, but I even struggle to introduce myself in French. I think it is fascinating because it shows that language input and output are requiring different skill sets.

[@RogerRamos1993]

I can teach you French, if you want. What country are you from? Around 10 dollars per hour. All you need is someone to ask you questions and give you time to scramble for the words you akready know, only has never produced in speaking. All a matter of practice and have someone to guide you and correct you when necessary.

[@Azurias2]

Love these language related videos

[@riccardolachioma]

Very, VERY impressive! Ho appena preso servizio al conservatorio di Palermo venendo dall'Abruzzo e non ho potuto non pensare al mitico Metatron. Sei un GRANDE

[@justlikethesimulations6895]

Would love to get Metatron as a Roman General or main character for a movie in full Latin because I love his Latin pronunciation.

[@c0mpu73rguy]

Wow! You speaking french really threw me off guard, your voice sounds very different in that language. You speak it pretty good actually... Better than some natives may I add...

[@VoodooAngel63]

I speak English, Spanish, German and French to various degrees of fluency. I do know a little Latin (mostly from singing Latin hymns) and I learned a great number of Greek and Latin roots in studying medical terminology. My original plan was to serve in the army as a linguist but an injury to my leg kept me from serving so I just enjoy being able to understand different languages.

[@jaysterling26]

1:06 - nice Irish flag ; or is it Côte d'Ivoire ( i forget which way..(?) I'm glad to be at the bottom of the English speaking varieties.

[@regarrzo]

Amazing! Although a few parts of your Mandarin pronunciation are a bit inaccurate: 2:58 It's wu3lin2, but you say wu2lin2 3:01 you say "wo3 jue2de fei3chang1hao3" when it should be "fei1chang2hao3" 5:33 and a bit later too: Your 史 sounds like she3 "zai4 zhong1guo2 li4*she3* ..." Asides from that it sounds really good. Sometimes, the tones are a bit off, but as a fellow Mandarin student I know how easily this can happen.

[@Eanghil]

È sorprendente come io riesca a seguire i tuoi video in inglese non perdendomi una singola parola (veramente nessuna) ma quando assisto i video di altre persone nate e cresciute in USA o UK o Australia ecc. incontro parecchie difficoltà. Per non parlare di assistere film in tv

[@martinsenoner8186]

First language German (and Bavarian variant of German), second language Italian (C2); firth language English, 4. language Spanish. Other languages I studied: Latin . Ancient Greek, classic Hebrew, Ladin Gardenese

[@iberius9937]

Sono felice di essere suscritto a la tua accademia! Grazie mille! Mi piacciono molto i tui video delle lingue e dalla storia!

[@helRAEzzzer]

My cousin's husband is Greek. I only heard him speaking Greek once - it was the first time I had ever heard it spoken before in my life. Despite only hearing it once, I'm not surprised that is your least skilled language. Had you not said it was Greek, not knowing Greek but understanding what Italian sounds like and a few words (mostly Spanish cross-over words), I would've thought you were just speaking Italian. I remember getting freaked out hearing George (my cousin) speaking Greek because it sounded so incredibly alien to me. I might send his kids (whom I know much better than George as he is almost never in the states) this video. I'm curious on their opinions on your accent. I love accents, even without understanding the languages. The different ways people speak is so fascinating! I'm pretty shit at doing accents in my native language - English - but i get double takes when i try pronouncing things in different languages. I can only speak English and bits and pieces of a few other languages - mostly a little Japanese, very little French, and even less Spanish and then just a word to a handful of words in a bunch of other languages - but for French and Spanish I've had people think I speak it depending on how often i hear the words or phrases ive used around speakers of those languages. I saw you mention in a video that musicians tend to be pretty good at learning to sound native. No matter how much i practice, i struggle with my Japanese pronunciation despite knowing this language the best (no where near fluency, but i held my own with a native speaker as if i was a Japanese toddler to kindergartener, so im proud of it).

[@martindiaries]

Leaving a comment in order to boost KZbins algorithm, go ahead Raff, I really wish for this channel to grow so I can get daily language videos 😀😀😀

[@HyperManSP]

So glad you made this channel! I really want to see that video about defining a "polyglot" because I honestly don't know what the official definition is (if there is an official definition, cuz I haven't found it yet). I hesitate to even use the term because I don't know what is required to be considered a "polyglot".

[@FlagAnthem]

Every Italian is born a polyglot: Mama dialect Daddy dialect Grandma dialect Standard Italian Vernacular Italian

[@HyperManSP]

@@FlagAnthem lol, unfortunately I am only half italian and my mother doesn't even know italian.

[@_____E______]

What languages don't you like? I never much cared for Spanish and I could never understand why.

[@Zongooo]

When I listened to a Metatron video for the first time I couldn't place his accent. For a few minutes I thought he might actually be a native speaker from perhaps South Africa. Then I decided he wasn't a native speaker but I still had no idea where he was from. Now I hear he learned English from Cockneys in London. The accent is Cockno-Sicilian!

[@captainkirk9691]

You should learn Hungarian it's pretty challenging but rewarding to know

[@yuugen999]

I can only speak for his French and Japanese, which are remarkable. Mandarin also sounds pretty legit (I don't speak it but I've watched a lot of Chinese shows and Chinese content).

[@sonodiventataunalbero5576]

I once read that while opening the skull of a (living) person to do some kind of neurological testings because she had some kind of health issue I can't recall anymore (a brain tumor?), they found out that there were different parts of it firing depending on which language she would use. Note that the woman was "bilingual" using a dialect and the standard version of a same language. It means her brain would treat them as two separate languages same as a "true" bilingual person. There was than research made on the subject, but I can't give you any reference to it.

[@workingmothercatlover6699]

I recognized some of the classical Latin words! Thanks for using the Latin words in videos about Roman armor.

[@nazarnovitsky9868]

Thank you very much for this interesting video !

[@yudjerthen]

First of all, salve metatron I'm a big fan of yours for years now As an Algerian who speaks 5 languages including french, i can give a little comment on your pronunciation of french it is really the less identical to the mother pronunciation in all of the 8 languages you've demonstrated and my comment stems from my very experience trying to speak a language which is too close to your mother tongue "with the native pronunciation" is really difficult I've noticed that with Tunisian 'cause for my basic point of view it is too easy for one to understand a closer language but rather complicated to completely embrace it's native pronunciation, for me it'll be easier for me to maintain a firm pronunciation of English or French than to do the same for Tunisian (Tunisian Arabic) or Egyptian Arabic for that matter. This is a mere observation that is not to be held as a rule

[@jyden.64]

This man speaks English better then me, a native English speaker but gotta love the way he pronounced Aussie as “oar-ze” lmao

[@sekeriyasharif6593]

Learning Italian wish me luck

[@xiaofei89]

I speak Portuguese, English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, and Japanese.

[@aliciagc2539]

Each language has a distinct personality. So interesting.

[@bhutchin1996]

"You're not a true polyglot if you don't speak 30+ languages!" I myself am happy to speak less than a dozen languages. I think you're a great example of Alexander Arguelles' 6 recommended languages to learn as you speak a classical language as well as 2 exotic languages. I know some Latin, but it needs a lot of work. I like how Thai sounds, but I'm going to have to modify my approach to learning an Asian language with tones. Years ago I read Barry Farber's book on learning languages and he gave some mnemonic tips on how to learn vocabulary that he in turn learned from Harry Lorayne's book on memory. Context is important but I'm going to learn vocabulary individually along with tones and writing before I start using my Assimil Thai book and audio, which seems to use IPA characters. I just finished their 1998 New French With Ease course. Last year I finished their German B2 course. The Thai word for 'pig' is 'moo' with a falling and rising pitch. The mnemonic device I'm using is "The pig says moo like his cow friend." If I'm not mistaken, I think 'mucca' means 'pig' in Italian. Either that or 'cow'. I learned how to play guitar in my teens, and I think that has helped in my own language learning.

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

I'm German American. Naturally I have a deep love amd connection to Germany so I've been learning German for I don't even know how many years. I've gotten a decent accent, I'm very good at pronunciation, I can read German semi fluently. But my deepest issue is grammar. I can go off in German for 10 minutes but it'd all be in English grammar, which really sucks. It's hard for me to master grammar but I sound fluent when I speak German. I have a German professor at my welding college and we speak in High German and we understand each other, which is the best practice and way to learn a language in my opinion. I just need to start speaking it daily and get some books to help teach German grammar

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Polyglot= trilingual or speaks more than 3 languages fluently. Metatron qualifies! 😃 So do you and I! 😃 Hyperpolyglot = speaks 6 or more languages fluently. 30+ St. Pope John Paul II. Barry Farber. Others.

[@gregoriomarzano2628]

cea mai buna cunoastere lingvistica ce eu am niciodata simtit, eu vorbesc bine sapte limbi, dar toate latine, Dvs sunteti cel mai bun lingvist ale lumii, Pride of Calabria is Metatron Accademy

[@cnervip]

If you only speak english learn german, if you speak english and spanish learn french if you know portuguese learn spanish or italian, if you speak chilean learn spanish

[@iberius9937]

I am learning Modern and then eventually Ancient Greek. Decided to put my Latin and my Hebrew on hold.

[@sleepytabby9113]

Your thoughts and advice on learning a language for people with dyslexia would be helpful, particularly in relation to short term memory issues.

[@LocrianDorian]

Wow I'm impressed by your Greek pronunciation, there's only the slightest hint of an accent, I had to do a double take.

[@darkyboode3239]

The answer is 8, if you also decide to include Sicilian and consider it a separate language from standard Italian.

[@Chercheure_Indépendante]

8 languages, (Japanese, Francais, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Sicilian, Modern Greek, English, Classical Latin) that's better than me. I only perfectly master two. (French, English)

[@someoneontheweb4303]

Great to have even more content of you! thanks mate!

[@TyrionLannister83]

I only speak three languages, German, English and French. By swiss standards i'm considered a moron. I'm able to read (and sometimes understand) italien, spanish and dutch.

[@markhorton3994]

With your knowledge of Mandarin and your awareness of Italian dialects on an intellectual basis you could add Cantonese to your list. Not without effort but easier than starting from scratch.

[@DifficultGreek]

Χαίρομαι που μαθαίνεις ακόμα ελληνικά Ραφαέλο 🙂

[@ewoudalliet1734]

I studied Old Greek and just because I'm interested I'd like to know if what I understood from this is correct (I won't throw it in some translator). I'm happy how you learn/know the Greek language, Rafael. "Χαίρομαι": Χαίρειν in Old Greek, conjugation would be different (this -ομαι is passive conjugation instead of active) "μαθαίνεις": I guess this in Old Greek is μανθανειν (so very similar); conjugation seems to be the same "ακόμα": a wild guess that this means language, due to a mix of context and the verb for "to listen" Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@DifficultGreek]

​@@ewoudalliet1734 You're all correct, apart from ακόμα, whose etymology is a bit wild and you can't guess really. The sentence means: "I'm glad you're still learning Greek, Raffaello" The adverb ακόμα means "still", but it can also mean "yet" (either when referring to time "not yet", or as an intensifier "better yet", "yet more"). It comes from ἀκμή, you can actually check the etymology of both on Wiktionary. And no, ακόμα isn't related to Italian "ancora", although they have similar meaning and pronunciation 😅

[@ewoudalliet1734]

@@DifficultGreek Oh, that's interesting. So, I checked my dictionary (Prisma: Old Greek - Dutch) and it says ἀκμήv - adverb; still, yet though ἀκμή (without the v) apparently means (a lot of things) point, scharpness, strength, core of army, full strenght, crisis etc. Maybe it's a typo And it does indeed sound very similar to ancora. Thank you for your comment. I learned something new 👍

[@MitchKarajohn]

Your Greek was very fluent, bravo. I can still hear the Italian there 😛 but still, very fluent! Listening to foreigners speak Greek, especially so fluently, always feels weird to me. Good weird that is, because it's not very common, it's a nice surprise, I can't explain it precisely. Do English speakers feel the same when they hear foreigners speak English?-- considering it's a much more common phenomenon.

[@skeptigal4626]

I would say that English speakers are used to every level of fluency from foreigners. As for myself, I like foreign accents and love to figure out where the people are from.

[@thealexanderbond]

No, because there are already so many different variations of English accents and dialects all around the world even without all the foreigners speaking it, we just grow up hearing a multitude of different accents. It's a fun linguistic game to see how quickly I can pinpoint someone's geolocation based on their accent, usually within a few words.

[@silverbackag9790]

I (a white dude) was weirded out for a month or two after living in Korea for many years and ended up in Orange County California near a Korea Town and dealt with 2nd/3rd Korean Americans speaking perfect English. Lol. I was just used to communicating in broken English, broken Korean (me), and Kanglish.

[@culturecanvas777]

I've had guessed: mandarin, japanese, italian, classical latin, maybe spanish, and a bunch of italian dialects.

[@justinian536]

So an Italian youtuber living in America speaking English but also Classical Latin, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, French, and Sicilian

[@UtentessaMascherata]

Mi ha ammazzato il tuo Mandarino perché anche io ho studiato la pronuncia standard e sono stata a Pechino, e sono feels :') Ai tempi ho imparato il grosso del mio parlato a Pechino stessa, il parlato di tutti i giorni specialmente da laoban dei taxi e dei negozi - quindi persone di 50-60 anni. Mentre lavoravo in una gelateria qua in Italia - qualche anno dopo l'esperienza Pechinese - ho avuto una cliente Malese che parlava Mandarino e mi ha detto che sembravo scortese. Io son morta dentro, ma poi ho capito che il parlato Pechinese è molto più sbrigativo e viene percepito come un po' cattivo da chi lo parla fuori! Flabbergasted

[@magnusosmond1835]

I’ve always thought it would cool to know a lot of languages and I am a proud Scot so started learning Scottish Gaelic then a little bit of German but found a KZbin channel called rob words and learned how to read German because it’s close to English when it comes to sound both being western Germanic languages so you can swap letter like T’s for th like mutter is muther aka mother and a lot of other letters then I learned how to read French a little by understanding French from the time of William the conqueror most the French words we use is English are from him in a way such as Hôpital the hat accent meaning they dropped the s so hôpital is hospital or the name William is a Normandy way of saying it in Paris at the time it would have been Guillaume because they didn’t use w’s or just not a lot I would highly recommend rob words channel

[@carnivorecaveman]

Well, if you like challenges, then I recommend that the next language you learn should be Hungarian! Many people say that it is among the most difficult languages ​​in the world. As a native speaker of Hungarian, I don't think it would be much more difficult than any other language, but for a person whose mother tongue is English, or any language of Latin origin, it can be very unusual and therefore difficult for him. However, I'm sure that once you've learned Japanese, Hungarian won't take much longer either. In addition, the writing system of the Hungarian language is based on Latin characters, and its spelling is extremely simple, especially compared to that of English.

[@helRAEzzzer]

Your accent in French sounds like you're an English speaker who learned Parisienne French. It was very trippy to hear. You have a semi-thick Italian accent when you speak English, so that caught me off guard. France, is that what an Italian accent sounds like in French??? There are a few words that I can hear the same Italian characteristics that he uses when speaking English, too, but most of it (in the first clip) sounds like, to my English speaker ears, that he is a native American-English speaker who became proficient in French.

[@ruiseartalcorn]

Awesome! Great stuff! :)

[@baronvonboomboom4349]

Great video, can't wait to learn more!

[@MasterPeibol]

Have you thought of giving a try to Spanish, Portuguese or Catalan?

[@Leprutz]

If I would have learned correctly at school, then I'd be speaking Latin and Ancient Greek too. In the end I'd be speaking 7 languages. You do speak 8 if I counted right. I still want to learn Italian, Russian and Mandarin. But I was just lucky because I grew up with 3 languages at home and in my teens by moving into another country I picked up two more necessary languages. I will try my best.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

Tu sei eccezionale, specialmente nel panorama italiano che è famigerato per la difficoltà con le lingue straniere. Io manco il dialetto bustocco ho imparato a parlare, morta mia nonna il mio ramo materno ha smesso di parlarlo. Madre lombarda e padre pugliese, un po' il tuo contrario. Italiano standard, qualche espressione in dialetto, inglese lontano dalla tua fluency (e con accento americano, non britannico), latino solo scritto, e mi consideravano quasi un latinista allo scientifico!, spagnolo studiato a metà in università, senza fluency manco per sogno, abbastanza da capire... non molto i latinoamericani. Poi capisco un buon numero di parole e riesco faticosamente a "leggere" qua e là afferrando il senso in varie altre lingue, dal tedesco al russo... Mi sono persuaso negli anni di essere totalmente NEGATO per l'apprendimento delle lingue, ma mi interessa molto la linguistica come campo e leggo spesso "paper" anche di una certa complessità.

[@andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928]

The first challenge I faced during my first day at primary school, when I had to learn that it doesn't go "Isch bin wedder de Boom g'rennt" but "Ich bin gegen den Baum gelaufen".

[@davidbraun6209]

Woher kommen Sie?

[@andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928]

@@davidbraun6209 Kurpalz

[@UsielX]

my god this is amazing!

[@chabis]

I should definitely practise more but then I should manage 5 languages. 6 when counting Swiss German as a distinct one. From French, Italian and Spanish I could venture on into Portuguese, Latin and Rumantsch. From German and Swiss German into Yiddish (just getting in trouble with the Hebrew letters), maybe Dutch, Platt and into Scandinavian languages... looks like there are some projects if I get bored. And if I mess and mix it all up I claim it's Esperanto. P.S: I can already understand Yiddish, but not read it, read Dutch, Platt, Portuguese, and some Rumantsch but not uderstand it when spoken. And in Latin I can grab some words since I had some lessons 25 years ago.

[@davidbraun6209]

Können Sie Hochdeutsch und Schwyzertütsch, so haben Sie "mama-loshn" (Jiddisch) mehr als halb gelernt.

[@fabledredeyes]

Metatron speaking east asian languages sounds 300% more calm and polite

[@LucasFMelo-op4rg]

I speak English, portuguese and I can understand 80% of spanish just for being a native portuguese speaker

[@angel8fingers]

Long time sub on the main channel new sub on this one. I only speak American English. I’m interested in languages, but more in a mechanical sense than wanting to speak multiple languages. I’d be fine with just learning to read foreign languages.

[@RogerRamos1993]

Do that. I can speak Portuguese, English, French, and Italian. I may be able to speak some Spanish, but I can read it well. I can also read Catalan, but not speak it. Now, learning German and Romanian for becoming able to read and understand. Speaking is something you can always learn if it is necessary. If you understand the language and can read it, 10 or 20 conversarional lessons or a month where it is spoken and you'll be speaking it effortlessly.

[@monalisadavinci7076]

Wow, your language skills are impressive! I've met many Europeans who speak 2, but you're obviously also a natural at it. As a English only speaker, the other European language I most want to learn is Italian. As for Asian languages, I'm not interested, but if I was it would be Japanese.

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

Europeans generally speak 2-3. National language, dialect, and English. That's been my experience with most Europeans

[@brittakriep2938]

@@Jürgen_von_Schumacher : Depends on age. My parents, born 1938 and 1942, only know german. Standard German when writing and reading, Swabian Dialect when they speak.

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

@@brittakriep2938 I met a Saxon and his grandparents only knew how to speak, write, and read Low Saxon. Most Saxons I know can speak Low Saxon, I've met very few, if any, who can read or write it though. And then they speak High German and English. That's my experience with Saxons at least.

[@Xarmutinha]

2:49 merhaba Tarkan 😂😂

[@grafinvonhohenembs]

Caspita! Metatron, sei incredibile! Credo di avere qualche anno più di te, ma da grande voglio essere come te! XD Forse in futuro farai qualche video in italiano? Guarderei i video anche nelle altre lingue, però. Anche a me piace tantissimo imparare lingue straniere. Quest'anno miglioro il mio olandese parlato. Da qualche mese imparo finalmente e seriamente il sansrcrito, e l'ultima settimana ho ricevuto come regalo da un amico qualche libro per imparare la lingua norrena. Ho molto da fare! XD Grazie mille per la motivazione!

[@iberius9937]

Looking forward to your upcoming dedicated video on polyglots!

[@Emielio1]

I enjoyed that compilation of you speaking all of those languages! I majored in Italian when I studied for my bachelor in European languages and cultures, so I can understand pretty much everything Italian (speaking it is harder for me, but it gets easier whenever I immerse myself by visiting Italia). Furthermore I studied French for about 7 years back in high school (did a few different levels, hence the long time), but I have the same problem (I understand virtually everything but speak very little unless I'm in France for a while). I also speak a few words Swahili back from when I studied African languages and cultures (I unfortunately failed after 2 years), but I'd like to get back into that. Other languages I studied (1 year of Celtic languages and cultures) were Irish Gaelic, Middle Welsh (the Welsh spoken around 1400) and Old Norse, but nearly all of that has faded away. I know a few words of Scottish Gaelic from personal studies, as well as a bit of Russian. My knowledge of Italian also helps me to sort of understand Spanish. Next, I understand German with ease but I am not able to speak it, even though I studied it back in high school for a few years. Last but not least there's my English, which I'm (obviously) fluent at, although I hate the fact that I can speak with a posh Oxford accent when I'm alone, yet I sound very Dutch whenever I'm speaking with native English speakers. I absolutely love languages, and I would like to learn Hindi and maybe some strange, smaller African language as well one day :)

[@teresamerkel7161]

You almost answered a question I have which is if you study several languages how do you keep your brain from bringing up a word in an incorrect language when you are trying to say something. Thank you for your work.

[@jw-ws8dz]

Damn, your Japanese pronunciation is actually very good. It's a popular language to be picked up by wannabe polyglots to diversify their linguistic repertoires, but even though it supposedly has simple phonetics most wannabe polyglots still butcher the pronunciation. Your Chinese is also not bad. I'd say your consonants and vowels are perfect, but the tones are sometimes incorrect. Still extremely impressed, though, especially for someone who learned it as an adult.

[@StergiosMekras]

If the rest of the languages are half as good as your Greek, you're solid.

[@metatronacademy]

Thank you, very kind

[@RobotTanuki]

Alternate title: Metatron flexes for 10+ minutes :D And all well deserved!