How to become a HYPERPOLYGLOT genius FAST

[@Matt-jc2ml]

English to help with germanic? 😂 good one. They share similar roots but English is pretty different from most germanjc languages, especially german. Dutch and Scandinavian languages are pretty easy though. But I think spanish is a little bit easier. I'm around C1 in Spanish but I studied Norwegian in the past and it was pretty simple also

[@legitprowrestling6653]

Awesome video! I subscribed! This channel is going to be a huge success!

[@mathiascorriveau]

Thank you very much bro ! I am interested in the wrestling world ! I dream of being am intellectual but also an athlete ! I work out a lot to gain muscle mass.

[@fidel1295]

I am from Azerbaijan. Know:Russian.English.Turkish. Can read Arabic alphabet and words. Now I am learning Spanish.

[@mathiascorriveau]

wow that's amazing !!! Is it common to speak Turkish in Azerbaijan ? I know Russian is very widespread. I find the Arabic script hard AF. Good luck with Spanish ! You'll see that learning the differences between ser y estar and por y para is a bit tricky at the beginning, but you're smart, you'll figure it out !

[@fidel1295]

@mathiascorriveau Thanks for your motivation. I really appreciate it and you ways of learning languages are very beneficial for me. Of course, turkish language is very similar to the azerbaijanian language and is used in our country.

[@DobleD06]

This vídeo's given me a lot of perspective. Like, it made me see the big picture. I do wanna be a hyperpolyglot. Yet, Idk if I should learn 20 similar languages or 5 asolated languages. Both options are great tho.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Yes this was really the goal ! To broaden your horizon about what is possible, and that there are a lot of Europpean languages that are similar to each other. For my part, I am doing both ! I am learning similar languages (while following my 4 tips) AND isolated languages like Hungarian and Greek. In the future I am also interested in Finnish, Albanian and Asian languages. It adds up to like 30 languages lol. I'll do a video on how many languages I want to learn. You can definitely do both.

[@mitaccino]

All languages you mentioned are Indo-European, you should rather choose one - usually the oldest - language from every different language family :) It would be much easier in future if you make a great picture of the language as such then you can even create a new language if you like. It is all a mind game and you have to enjoy it ! Good luck

[@mathiascorriveau]

I mean even Farsi, Hindi, Latin are Indo-Europpean... yet Hindi and German have nothing to do with each other. As for Latin, (the oldest in Europe) I think it's a total waste of time, I met so many Germans that told me that they studied Latin "Latein" in high school and I guess they learn it because they think it'll help them learn the 5 Latin languages, but this is what I don't get, WHY DON'T THEY ALREADY START LEARNING SPANISH ?! I think it's 10x easier to go from Spanish to French, or to Italian, then from Latin to Spanish, etc. Why not learn the languages that are the most spoken, we learn languages to speak them with natives, I don't see the point of learning really old languages. That's just my opinion. What do you mean by "making a great picture" ? Can you please elaborate ?

[@chahailus]

On point, I can relate to everything you said. My languages are English, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Italian and Romanian. It's all getting easier by the day.

[@mathiascorriveau]

That's amazing ! Where are you from originally ? Are you African-American ? it's not every day that I see Americans studying Ukrainian and Bulgarian, heck 99% of Americans don't even know where those countries are exactly. My sincere congratulations ! I highly recommend also starting German one day, you have no idea how Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian are similar to it. Same story. However, Albanian, Hungarian and Finnish are the exceptions on the Europpean continent.

[@martinvasilev6099]

Сериозно ли? Колко време ти отне да научиш и 7-те езика? Също, колко време ти отне да научиш Български?

[@JohnnyLynnLee]

First thing I thought when I started watching the video was, "Those are all close languages, 3 families, all Europeans, kind of a ""cheat". But he was totally honest and was talking EXACTLY about that. As a Brazilian I started like that, English, then Italian but... then JAPANESE, and then VIETNAMESE (no, not close) and then now, only starting, MANDARIN (not even Cantonese).This guy is legit. I use to say that if I had kept with Latin languages I'd be fluent in ALL of them and had a good level of say, German (because of English) on the time it took me to be barely proficient at JAPANESE alone. And people often think it's arrogance. But it's not me, it's just how it works.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Yes thank for your comment. Yeah it doesn't matter how good I am at my Europpean languages, the day I start learning Mandarin and Japanese, I'll struggle so bad. I'll be literally like a toddler lol. You're right, languages that are similar ARE a cheat code.

[@mathiascorriveau]

just the alphabets in Japanese and the characters in Kanji and in Mandarin are a nightmare. Fuck that's more work than learning all the Germanic languages I'm sure.

[@JohnnyLynnLee]

@@mathiascorriveau Thing is I "got a thing" for it. I had a surgery, had to be lying down, belly up, for 3 months straight! I desperately needed something to occupy my mind. Maybe learning a language? But I failed Spanish for 10 years AND I AM BRAIZLIAN- I failed the closest language to mine. Than I searched for how to learn a language, discovered all of this of input, Krashen, Matt VS Japan and ANKI. Had nothing to lose. And LOTS of time. Then I started Japanese AND Italian, together. To vary if I ever got bored and because I thought that even if all of that was true maybe Japanese would be too much so I'd stick with Italian. Worked. So I decided to keep it like that: a difficult language and an easier one. On the "easier side" I'd do pretty much what you said. I tried Korean and French (which became Korean and Russian, and then only Vietnamese). French was the one I dropped the fastest. After proven to myself I COULD learn something like Japanese French was boring! Right of the bat I could understand some things, some words, at least reading it, much like Italian. While Korean, Russian and specially Vietnamese I couldn't understand S&&! Vietnamese I couldn't even understand the SOUNDS I was hearing. And I'm not even talking abut tones. The vowels, the consonants. How to differentiate them. Much like seeing kanji and seeing just random strokes and after years that becoming MEANING. I RESISTED at first. But having learned Italian I KNEW I could learn French. No doubt about it. And I could even predict HOW LONG it would take me. But Vietnamese was much like Japanese, "Is it even POSSIBLE that I can learn it at all since I can't even LISTEN to it and make any sense of it?" And then I was doomed. I became addicted to it! "Can I do it? is it possible to me?" If that enters my head, now I have to TRY the language. If I'm sure can I'm like "whatever!"

[@alexismtl]

I speak fluently 3 languages. French ( Since I come from Quebec too :) ), haitian creole, and English. Currently I am learning Spanish.

[@gelflingmusic9428]

Actually Japanese is not hard. It's actually my favorite. Japanese is extremely useful and Korean is a wee bit similar. I learned Spanish easy, main focus is Japanese but continuing German. This video is tempting me to learn more Russian.

[@mathiascorriveau]

I see Japanese harder than Korean and Chinese because of the grammar and the 3 alphabets. I don't know if Japanese is useful...it's only spoken in Japan, they have a population of 125million... I think Chinese is 10times more useful, simpler grammar, but difficult pronunciation and characters. Maybe a few sounds in Korean and Japanese are similar. I love German, and my goal for moving to Germany will be to take it from B2 to C2, which will take at least 1year of living there. Russian is my favorite language, it's so beautiful, and so useful, spoken in many countries, what a shame that the country has such a bad reputation.

[@gelflingmusic9428]

@@mathiascorriveau 3 alphabets? That threw me off at first but English has 2, 4 if include cursive. Japanese has 2 plus kanji. It has even surpassed my Spanish because the verb conjugation is extremely easy and only 2 irregular verbs and they follow the same rule. Takes less words to say things and they use alot of English words. No upper and lower case to worry about. Easier to read. It's an extremely popular language, it's one of the 7 major languages. But it is complex and can be hard sometimes.

[@metalsabatico]

Just based on the fact that you need to memorize the readings of 2000+ symbols in order to achieve standard proficiency, yes, Japanese is hard no matter what. Unless maybe if you were raised Chinese.

[@mathiascorriveau]

@@metalsabatico I can't imagine Mandarin gosh. I think everyone can agree that Korean is definitely the easiest of the 3.

[@JohnnyLynnLee]

Frist thing I thought when I started watching the video was, "Those are all close languages, 3 families, all Europeans, kind of a ""cheat". But he was totally honest and was talking EXACTLY about that. As a Brazilian I started like that, English, then Italian but... then JAPANESE, and then VIETNAMESE (no, not close) and then now, only starting, MANDARIN (not even Cantonese).This guy is legit. I use to say that if I had kept with Latin languages I'd be fluent in ALL of them and had a good level of say, German (because of English) on the time it took me to be barely proficient at JAPANESE alone. And people often think it's arrogance. But it's not me, it's just how it works.

[@evertonetf]

Isso aí, cara, parabéns pelo vídeo! Você seria um excelente linguista e contribuiria muito nos estudos das línguas naturais em todo o mundo. Pense nisso, pois ainda dá tempo. Sucesso, meu amigo! Bom trabalho!

[@mathiascorriveau]

Eu já pensei nisso e obviamente que também quero ser linguista como você ! Eu gostaria de escrever um livro com capítulos sobre cada idioma que aprendi !

[@evertonetf]

Isso aí! Seria muito interessante um livro assim, cara! Você é capaz! 😉

[@HowToExcelBlog]

Legit 100% enjoyed the video 😄

[@mathiascorriveau]

I am glad to hear that my friend ! What part exactly did you enjoy the most ? I am curious :)

[@HowToExcelBlog]

@@mathiascorriveau I enjoy hearing others thoughts on language learning. What you said makes sense if you want to learn the maximum number of language. But my desire to learn some of those languages would be quite low, and therefore I would likely be less successful than choosing a language I am really interested in.

[@mathiascorriveau]

@@HowToExcelBlog that's an excellent point. Without motivation to learn a specific language, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to learn it. Impossible. For example, I have zero zero interest in learning Hindi or Mandarin because I don't feel attracted to Indian or Chinese culture. In my opinion, the pronunciation sounds a bit ugly but that's just my opinion. Personal taste can't be discussed. Anyway, the opposite goes for languages like Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Russian, German, Romanian, etc. My motivation is through the roof and I will learn these languages or die trying.

[@Spark8295]

Hello Mathi, thanks for the video... When you will makje videos about your methods? Im super excited to see your routine, etc.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Yes it's my next video ! It's super interesting you'll see ! It's really a no brainer ! Where are you from my friend ? What languages do you speak ?

[@Spark8295]

@mathiascorriveau I'm from Argentina. Spanish is my native language. I speak English, German, and the basics of Russian, Italian, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, and so on. My issue is that I need a solid routine.

[@polyglotdreams]

Hi Mathais, I subscribed... Tim from Polyglot Dreams

[@mathiascorriveau]

Thank you :) I also subscribed to your channel a few weeks ago, but I had seen you maybe 7 years ago, you appeared on a video with Wouter, like sitting on the sidewalk, that's the first time I saw you

[@playleave7454]

As a portuguese native speaker i can understand spanish very well without studying, so i already have 2 languages, than i learned inglish watching content on the internet and games. So 3 languages and now i am learning german to become a polygolot and almost with no effort xd. Good video!

[@mathiascorriveau]

I agree with you but please be careful, it's not because you understand Spanish that you CAN SPEAK IT. It's 10 times easier to understand than to speak, 10x easier to read than to speak. If you meet a native Spanish speaker, and you can only speak Spanish to him, than you'll notice that it isn't that easy. The goal isn't to speak Portuñol, it's to speak very well. It's English, not inglish, eu sei quese fala inglês no pt, por isso acho que vc escreveu assim. Todo mundo no Brasil pode falar portunhol, mas poucas pessoas podem falar o espanhol sem erros e sem sotaque. German will require a ton of efforts tbh. I will never preach the message that learning languages is effortless, quick and easy, far from it. It takes years and hundreds of hours of studying. Sooner or later, you'll have to learn hard stuff like Genitiv und Dativ, trennbares Verben. But never quit German, because it can help you so much to learn other languages. Muito obrigado pelo seu comentário cara !

[@playleave7454]

​@@mathiascorriveau Eu sei que existem varias diferenças entre o Espanhol e o português, e sim, comecei por falar portunhol, mas cada vês mais noto que o meu espanhol está a melhorar, mas eu não estudo, melhoro porque é uma língua muito presente no meu dia a dia e gosto de ver conteúdos em Espanhol, além de que eu moro a 1h da Espanha. No ano passado conversei em espanhol com 2 pessoas de Valencia, que não entendiam português, eu fiz uma visita guiada de 1h, toda em espanhol, à empresa onde trabalho, foi a primeira vês que falei muito tempo com nativos espanhóis e fiquei surpreendido quando eles disseram que falava muito bem espanhol, até me convidaram para ir a Valencia e nos seguimos no Instagram, mas eu realmente nunca estudei sequer diretamente, foi um processo natural. O inglês aprendi também de uma forma semelhante, tive aulas de inglês obrigatórias na escola, mas eu era péssimo, e não foi lá que eu aprendi, foi nos jogos, youtube, filmes, series, instagram, X ... No inglês e no espanhol consigo comunicar com nativos apesar de nunca ter realmente estudado diretamente, claro que não sou perfeito, longe disso, mas falo e entendo bem... . No alemão sim é diferente, porque não esta presente no meu quotidiano, tive de aprender do 0, e agora sim eu necessito de me esforçar se quero comunicar com um nativo, ainda não estou perto disso e já estudo à 4 meses diariamente. Não tenho intenções de falar 20 línguas, por agora estou feliz se conseguir falar 4, mas admiro muito pessoas como tu. Escrevi em Português-Portugal :)

[@emmanuelgyenin9155]

I'm from Ghana and I speak English But I recently started with french. What's your advice.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Cool bro ! Everyday play 3 duolingo lessons, take screenshots of new things you learn and write them down in a notebook after, find a French tutor for your budget on Preply.com, 3 one-hour lessons/week, you can use my link for a 70% discount, then listen to audio stories in French on KZbin, write everything new to you in your notebook. Find French-speaking friends on Hellotalk, very good also. Here are my 4 best tips, the goal is to do smth you enjoy. Me personally, it's to have a contact with native speakers, to speak with them, that's the whole reason why I'm even learning the language in the 1st place. In summary, if you hear, read, write the language everyday, plus speak to a native speaker (your Preply tutor) then you are well on your way to learn the top 3000 most important words in the French language. Once you get there, get to 5000. Try to learn 20-30 words per day, download on the Internet a list of the 1000 words most important words and 100 most important verbs in French. Trust me, learning the colors, the animals, food, ain't that useful for an absolute beginner. Let me know how it goes :) PS. Don't expect this to be easy, not a single language is easy, not even English for French speakers

[@agenildodantas3560]

Very good 😅 , Hello I'm Nildo from Brazil and my dream to be a hiperpoliglot. I speak Portuguese , Spanish, English A1 and understand Italian. I want to be a inspiration for my son. Muchas gracias por Los videos e parabe'ns pelo sucesso.

[@mathiascorriveau]

very nice to meet you my friend Nildo ! any dream is possible with the right amount of commitment and dedication ! Good to hear that you are well on your way to become a quadrilingual ! to inspire your son might be the most beautiful motivation I have ever heard ! Obrigado a você amigo !

[@adreenainlove]

For me it’s easier to learn the harder ones first and then it’s easier to learn any language

[@langatu]

Hey! I've watched the video and I really appreciate the plan you've outlined and the approach to this. I was wondering about tip number 1: why not learning 2-3 similar languages if you already speak one language from this family? Later in the video you say it's normal you'll be mixing them so I'm assuming that cannot be the reason. I mean grouping languages can be a great way of noticing patterns not between 2, but 3 to 5 languages. Also, not sure if it's the best idea to discourage people from learning languages like Hungarian or Chinese. Hungarian is helping me enormously now that I'm learning Turkish. Chinese will help you in pretty much any Asian language (to different extent obvs). I get the point of language families but that's not the only similarity we should be after, actually. Thanks again for the video :)

[@mathiascorriveau]

This is the thing I enjoy the most about having a KZbin channel, when people write me pertinent and interesting comments to engage in a discussion ! First of all, thank you for reaching it to me ! Yes the reason is to avoid mixing them up, like I said, I speak like B2 Russian and recently I was studying Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Serbian all at the same time. I swear to God this was one hell of a bad idea...I was mixing them up so bad even tho my Russian is strong. In the same vein, I would never recommend to people to study Spanish, Portuguese and Italian all at the same time even if you're C2 in French.

[@mathiascorriveau]

you can group them, no problem, but not at the same time and all from zero...anyway we have our entire lives to learn languages, it's not like we need 10years to get to B1-B2

[@mathiascorriveau]

oh crap...the last thing I wanted to do was to discourage people to learn challenging languages... like I said...I will 100% learn Hungarian, Finnish, Japanese and Korean no doubt about it, but I know they'll take longer to learn compared to me learning Ukrainian for example

[@mathiascorriveau]

wait you speak Hungarian ?!?!? Are you a native speaker or you've studied it ? what level are you ? as for Chinese...honestly the pronunciation doesn't even sound a bit similar to Japanese or Korean..I think the only advantage would be the characters to learn Kanji in Japanese...I'm really not an expert on Asian languages tbh...

[@langatu]

@@mathiascorriveau Thanks for answering! You know, it's interesting, the fact about mixing languages because I speak Spanish and Catalan on a C1-C2 level and I'm learning Italian now and I do mix it. My theory is that you have to go throught this moment of mixing everything because you have to teach your brain how this language sounds exactly. To me it's all about having this "mental image" of how the language sounds - I strongly believe that's the reason why we stop mixing languages. However, if you take 3 languages from 3 different groups, you are definitely less likely to mix them between them as being new languages for you. Taking 3 languages, all from the language families I already know sounds indeed like an exciting thing to be doing because it's stimulating enough but also "easy" enough - after all you learn by comparing! As for Hungarian, I've studied it at the university, got the highest certificate (C1) and left the uni haha I'm definitely not as confident while speaking as I was when I was also living in Budapest but the language is still there! Also, out of curiosity, the approach you outlined in the video... are you going to follow this exactly? Not sure if I got it from the video. I think you only mentioned you were studying three different languages before, right?

[@Kurdedunaysiri]

You kept calling Indo-European languages as if they are from different language families.

[@mathiascorriveau]

The Romance, Slavic and Germanic language families ARE VERY DIFFERENT lol... Yes they all come from Latin, or what used to be spoken in Europe before that...

[@LibraMakeup]

​@mathiascorriveau they don't all come from latin. Check your linguistic knowledge a bit more.

[@mathiascorriveau]

@@LibraMakeup I know the Romance languages come from Latin, that's a fact, the Germanic languages are heavily influenced by Latin, especially German and English, as for the Slavic languages, I don't know where they really come from, anyway I am not a linguist, I don't care about the history of languages, I care about speaking them to native speakers. I don't understand linguists who don't want to learn languages. Please enlight me.

[@LibraMakeup]

@@mathiascorriveau I don't understand the last sentences. I am not a linguist, just casually learning my 5th language. I meant that if you are unsure about the linguistics background of a language then maybe it is better to not mention it because youtubers have a certain credibility and people will take your words as is- even if you are not right.

[@metalsabatico]

Actually Japanese shares a lot of its grammar structure with Korean. I've heard Koreans say that they find Japanese way easier than English. Chinese also shares a lot of vocabulary and many symbols with Japanese and to a lesser extent with Korean.

[@mathiascorriveau]

thank you for enlighting me about that ! I was unaware of it ! Can't wait to study all 3 ! English is weird for everyone lol. I didn't that Japanese and Mandarin had some similar vocab, they sound so different !

[@lizzethmancilla5197]

Hey! I've been learning english 5 months ago and i can understand the language quite well.I still can't speak or write very well ,but i was thinking if it is a good idea start to learning Italian , I'm a native spanish speaker and i can speak Portuguese too. Do you think its a good idea or should i focus only on englishh until i have a better level (Maybe B1 or B2)?

[@mathiascorriveau]

languages always have a capital letter in English, so it's English, Spanish, etc. I've been learning English for 5months or I started learning 5 months ago* cuando dices "yo" it's always I, not i, i doesn't exist in English, always capital letter It's difficult to say, yes you can learn Italian, there's no problem with learning 2 languages simultaneously, heck I'm learning 6 right now, AS LONG AS THEY ARE FROM DIFFERENT FAMILIES, now English and Italian have nothing to do with each other, so there's no chance for you to mix them, so yes you can start Italian, you'll find out that it'll be super easy for you because you speak Spanish and Portuguese

[@victorgtx5397]

I don't see anybody reaching B2 level in 3 languages in just 2 years. If it's possible tell me how -' This graphic is very unrealistic in the long run. 1st: Nobody who is starting to learn a language is gonna be able to manage 3 languages at the same time. 2nd: spanish, german and russian b2 in 2 years is not even possible. 3rd: even if someone have many hours a day to study and get to b2 level in spanish and german in 2 years ( I still think this is unrealistic for someone learning their first languages ), they would start portuguese and dutch, keep up with russian and find time to maintain spanish and german. Doing this would slow down the learning progress of Russian, this way the person would not reach B2 so easily in the language. 4th: portuguese and dutch would not be learned fast... because the person would need to keep up with spanish and german to maintain their level, focuss on Russian to one day reach B2, and all of this while learning portuguese and dutch. 5th: polish would be neglected because I doubt that the person would reach B2 in Russian since they're learning 2 new languages while maintaining the level of 2 old ones, because learning 2 languages at the same time is too demanding and you need to give a little more of attention to it at the beginner stages. 6th: Everyone has a life outside of language learning ( such an intense goal would never be possible to manage to the average man/woman ). I do think the person can learn a lot of languages in 10 years, but if someone try to do this method in the video and decide to learn 20 of them in 10 years, they're not gonna have a good level in the languages after those 10 years of learning.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Thank you for your lengthy comment my friend ! I am glad you brought this up, I was expecting it tbh I DO think it's possible to learn 3 languages, from different families, in 2 years ONLY IF you do what's needed. For example, if you live in the countries where the languages are spoken, if you take an intensive language course, if you listen and read 30min every day, if you learn 10-30 words/day, OF COURSE IT'S POSSIBLE TO REACH B2 IN 24 MONTHS, it's all about consistency and how many hours you put in. That's gonne be the topic for my next video. Like I said in the video, WHO CARES IF IT TAKES YOU MORE THAN 10 YEARS ?!?!?! No one gives a damn. Look, make it 20, 4 years to learn 3 languages.

[@mathiascorriveau]

German, Russian and Spanish are far from being the hardest languages ever to learn. If you said: Finnish, Hungarian and Arabic in 2 years, NOW I would agree that this is impossible.

[@mathiascorriveau]

I agree about maintaining and perfecting your languages, you are never done learning, I've been learning Spanish and English for 7 years, I'm a solid C2, yet I often learn new sophisticated words to enrich my vocabulary. Somebody shouldn't stop after 2 years. They should continue. Dude, this is just a video, it's more about inspiring people than being ultra-realistic. Like I said, make it 20years. At the end of the day, as a KZbinr, if I made my video saying become a polyglot SLOW, like 2 languages in 10years, I would've gotten 20views, and the YT algo would've never suggested it to other ppl like you...

[@mathiascorriveau]

I also agree about having a life outside of language learning. It happens to me a lot that life gets in the way but in my daily-life, I always use 3 languages (French, English and Spanish) and by moving to Germany, I know I'll speak Russian and Italian all the time also. My point is that I'm constantly learning, just by being at work for example. The videos I watch are in other languages.

[@AlessioIdiomas]

Estou aprendendo arabe e mandarim há 1 mes. Cada dia é um idioma. Pensando em começar alemao, mas acho que so vou ficar com esses dois por serem 2 idiomas bem dificeis. É muita loucura em aprender esses 2 idioma ao mesmo tempo ne? haha

[@LanguageswithErman]

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[@petrkostiha6544]

What about Lithuanian? For me it's easy because the grammar is a bit similar to Slavic languages and it has a few words from Slavic.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Very interesting !!! I am really unfamiliar with Baltic languages tbh. I know that Estonian is similar to Finnish because it's a Finno-Ugric language. It would br fascinating for me to take 2 years to learn both Latvian and Lithuanian. I heard that they're really different from Slavic languages even though you guys are neighbors with Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. I guess these 2 languages are really unique. Fascinating topic !

[@petrkostiha6544]

The Estonian and Finnish alphabets look exactly like those in German@@mathiascorriveau

[@WeShallOvercome_]

It's "X opens the doors (for you)" (not: X opens you the doors). Very good advice.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Ups my bad, I made this mistake because it's how we would say it in French: "ça T'ouvres les portes"

[@WeShallOvercome_]

@@mathiascorriveau You’re an inspiration. So keep doing what you’re doing 👍🏼

[@philippec-t6238]

Thanks bro Jvais être polyglotte mtn 🫣🫡

[@mathiascorriveau]

Ooooh nice bro ! Merci d'avoir regardé mon vidéo ! Comment tu l'as trouvé ?

[@arcticpolyglots]

Hey Mathias! Would you like to come to our language podcast to talk about your language journey? It would be interesting to share your story on our podcast.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Absolutely ! 100% down !

[@arcticpolyglots]

@@mathiascorriveau Great! I will send you email then and talk about the details.

[@kenneththorgren]

Bra jobbat Mathias! (y)

[@mathiascorriveau]

Tack så mycket min gode vän !

[@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt]

I'm interested in languages that I'm likely to visit India, Indonesia, Lebanon after México Guatemala Perú French Polynesian

[@mathiascorriveau]

Then I would learn Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian, Spanish and French Spanish and French are similar Indonesion is known to be one of the simplest and most straight-forward languages to learn, even for English learners Hindi and Arabic will be the hardest ones. The alphabets are beautiful but they are very different languages in every regards compared to Europpean languages, however it will help you to learn Turkish, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu and Punjabi in the future if you wish to.

[@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt]

@@mathiascorriveau currently I'm throwing down on the leaderboards of Spanish Portuguese Latin Esperanto and Interlinguae in the Clozemaster app. Not to brag too much but I think I'm going to finish out this week in the number one position in Esperanto and Interlingua a fifth-place finish in Latin and a 10th place finish in Port.

[@광동아재廣東大叔]

The next generation Steve Kaufmann... Much potential😂

[@mathiascorriveau]

thank you very much my friend ! Yeah I just have to post a lot more videos and it's so time consuming ! Are you Korean ? I've been learning the alphabet/script for a month on Duolingo very casually 5min a day, I'm getting good but this is a language that's really outside of my comfort zone (European languages)...I'm starting Japanese as well, just a tiny bit every day...I have my entire life to learn those languages, I'm not in a rush at all

[@mathiascorriveau]

what about you my friend ? what languages do you speak ?

[@masudulalam4855]

I am a Bengali native speaker. 1. English 2. Hindi 3. Korean and now learning German.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Good to hear. Do you live in the US ? 99% of all Indians, Pakistanis, or Bengladeshis I meet speak atrocious English, I mean with a huge accent, as if they were trying to speak English but with the sounds of the Hindi alphabet or smth. Very funny accent. I hope you are not one of those people. Usually the ones that were born in the US have no accent. I wouldn't be able to imagine a thick Hindi accent in German or Korean. Keep it up my friend ! You should do videos of you speaking them !

[@abrilmartinez8977]

Having an accent doesn't mean their English is bad, that's just the way they speak it in India and it's no less than an Australian or American accent.

[@mathiascorriveau]

@@abrilmartinez8977 I disagree. I am working on a video about it as we speak. One thing are dialects (ex: Amercan, British, Australian English) and the other is a speaker trying to speak English with the alphabet of his mother tongue, that's why they have accents. Here's a good debate: why do you draw the line between a really thick Indian or Spanish or Chinese accent and legit bad pronunciation ? If they're not pronuncing English correctly, does it mean it's bad ? I think yes, they are pronunciation rules in all languages.

[@JohnnyLynnLee]

I'm Brazilian too and yo are as crazy as me: English, Italian, Japanese. Vietnamese e now Mandarin. I only can read books in and really speak the first 3.

[@julielapointe9806]

Je trouve ton vidéo très dynamique. J’aimerais apprendre le grec et l’hébreu, sont elles difficiles à apprendre ?

[@mathiascorriveau]

Merci maman ! Oui hébreu et grec très difficiles et très différents de tout

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

J'ai appris l'hebreu et a mon avis ce n'est pas une langue tres difficile. Bonne courage!

[@Yihwa_G]

Personally, I prefer to learn five languages (the official languages of the UN, minus Mandarin, as it's my mother tongue) and be able to converse with people from all over the world and explore truly diverse cultures, rather than cramming related languages non-stop just so I can tell people I'm a hyper-polyglot. People are way too obsessed with wanting to be a polyglot. But I think whatever floats your boat. Not saying, that you are doing it for that exact reason though. If I want to learn more in the future I am definitely not going to pick them based on being easy to learn.

[@LibraMakeup]

Chinese is way easier than german or Russian. Speaking from experience. Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese have a lot of loanwords from Chinese, Japanese even have a whole writing system from chinese. So they can be just as helpful to learn. Let's not discourage curious people!

[@mathiascorriveau]

Well it really depends on what your first language is, what is yours ? Chinese characters and the 4 tones are very difficult for Westerners, and I can guarantee that German is easy for a Dutchman, Swede or Norwegian, and Russian is easy for a Slavic speaker. Both are hard for English speakers and speakers of Latin languages.

[@LibraMakeup]

@@mathiascorriveaumy first language is Hungarian

[@purjus]

And what are you gonna do with all these languages? How are you gonna even maintain them?

[@mathiascorriveau]

About what to do with them: Interesting question. But I think it's the wrong one. Somebody who is truly passionate about languages and only does it out of love and for fun will never ask himself that question. I never have. On the contrary, I don't ask myself why but how. Each language we learn is a positive experience. Why not accumulate as much as possible ? It's a no brainer. I don't think you are my right audience if you are asking that question. About maintening them: that's a great question. More of a technical one. I'll cut the bullshit. Unless you're super rich and you live in a castle with 20 hot women (one native speaker for each of the 20 language) and you can practice with them everyday, you'll inevitably lose a lot, that is perfectly normal. A language is a bit like a gf, it needs CONSTANT maintenance and attention. You could even start forgetting words in your OWN NATIVE LANGUAGE if you don't speak it at all for 1 year. All true polyglots struggle with thatwhile we work on certain languages, others suffer. The goal is to live in an environment where a lot of our languages are spoken, create a lifestyle around it, for example living in a very multi-cultural and multi-lingual city like Berlin or New York, and making friends from many many countries, and going to language meet-ups, etc....Let me give you a personal example: When I'm gonna move to Germany next year, I'm gonna work there as an English teacher, I only speak French to my Colombian gf, and she only speaks Spanish to me, and we'll make a lot of German, Russian, Italian, and Brazilian friends for sure, so on a daily-basis, we are going to speak between 4 and 7 languages. Spanish and French at home, English and German at work, Portuguese, Russian and Italian with friends. That's without all the immigrants that speak Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, etc. If I stay living in the French-Canadian country-side, no fuckin way I'll be able to maintain my languages. Thank you for asking those 2 interesting questions. They gave me ideas for new videos

[@purjus]

@@mathiascorriveau You're welcome, have fun!

[@MegaGaga99]

good video

[@mathiascorriveau]

thank you, I'm glad you liked it :)

[@mohamed-vm2qg]

I know just bisic of french and som english,and i want mor,thank you for this video❤

[@mathiascorriveau]

My pleasure my friend ! Can I correct you ? I JUST know BASIC French and SOME English, and I want to LEARN more. Languages always have a capital letter in English.

[@marianavytvytska6998]

You are Utopic and you discourage people. It is possible to learn many languages, but not everyone can be fluent in them all. Basically as an Ukrainian I have both Ukrainian and Russian. I understand Polish very well and can comfortable listen to it or write in it, but I would not say, that I know the language. The other slavic languages are more difficult. Yes, I understand them to different degrees, but I would never say, that I know them. I watch a lot of stuff in English and read some articles in scientific literature, but I am not ready to write a scientific article in English. and I am sure, that in this small message I have made some mistakes. I am studying currently in Germany and German is the main language that I use and I must say it`s really difficult. It`s difficult to write homeworks that sound native. The devil is in the small little things... Currently I am doing French and Spanish as hobbys and I can hardly read french novels. I have started, but I look for many unfamiliar words, because French is difficult. My Spanish is even more basic, but I am taking a A2 course from my university. It`s delusional to think, that a person can learn so much just in 10 years. It took me very long to learn my 7 languages and it would take even longer to master them. Furthermore, I notice how my foreign language influence my thinking in my mothertongue and sometimes I would say something, what the native speakers would never say. During a day I use normally 4-5 languages, but I have no idea, how one can useall of them everyday in order not only to maintain, but to master them. And how many time per day are you concidering normal for studying? Which level should a person have, to be concidered to know the language? What to do with the problem, when you potentially know the word, but you are not sure, whether it exists in the language. Does the word exist only in Ukrainian, or you kann use the same in Polish and Russian? So many questions to hyperpoliglots...

[@mathiascorriveau]

I never ever said that ANYONE can be fluent in all of them. I am sure I never said that, if so, please tell me where, I will remove it because it's simply not true, you are right.

[@mathiascorriveau]

the Devil is in the details* (that's the expression)

[@mathiascorriveau]

during a day = on a daily basis*

[@mathiascorriveau]

In English, you can't say "I do French" I don't know if you tried to say "Я занимаюсь французском и испанском"... you either say I study or I learn... I understand why you said that

[@mathiascorriveau]

I think one of the reasons you get discouraged is that you're maybe A2-B1 but you read content that is C2... no wonder you get discouraged... my video was about this: you can reach B2 in 3 years with 3 languages, it's 100% doable. Forget about novels, scientific literature, that's all C2. My first language is French and I GUARANTEE YOU that if I start reading that in French, I WILL SEE DOZENS of words I HAVE NEVER HEARD in 24 years of speaking French. It's ridiculous. You should never read that stuff to learn or to study. It's like trying to read Pushkin and you don't even know the 1000 most important words in Russian. I mean wtf. У меня есть подругa из Одессы и она всегда говорит со мной на литературном языке. Я сказал ей, чтобы она перестала говорить со мной так это обескураживает меня больше всего. She knows I'm like B1 but she uses C2 vocabulary. She wants to show off how rich Russian is. I told her: I DON'T CARE.

[@edustacja9186]

W Polsce nikt nie mówi " jak się masz ?" To jest kalka językowa z angielskiego . My mówimy " co slychać?"

[@ozzoakenshield7920]

So, no Celtic languages?

[@mathiascorriveau]

Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh are 100% on my list !!! But I think they are extremely different from English aren't they ? Maybe you can enlighten me

[@AdarshMammen3]

What about Sanskrit

[@mathiascorriveau]

Is Sanskrit spoken a lot in India ? I thought it was an old language that is the ancestor of Hindi. I think Hindi opens the door to Punjabi, Urdu, Farsi, what else ?

[@AdarshMammen3]

@@mathiascorriveau You're right, Sanskrit isn't spoken a lot anymore. Maybe the one exception is during Hindu religious ceremonies. Its similar to how Latin is to its derived languages with Hindi being its most popular one. I do believe you are right about Hindi being a good first base language, I had to learn it academically growing up and it definitely lets me kind of barely understand people who speak Urdu, Farsi, Punjabi. Here is what is interesting though, the North and South of India have totally different root languages that other languages are derived from. I am overgeneralizing here, but I think the root language in the North is Sanskrit and the root language in the South is Tamil (which is still spoken conversationally today even in metropolitan areas). Languages in the south like Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu are derived from Tamil which almost has nothing in common with Hindi. But ya, I would say Hindi and Tamil will get you around India but India is a complicated place, I had to learn 4 barely related languages (Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil) growing up in the South just to do basic things like groceries, fixing my bicycle, asking for directions. Here in the US, I totally get what you meant about root languages being a key to many, I started learning Spanish 5 months ago and I am already able to pick up stuff from the other Romance languages.

[@mathiascorriveau]

@@AdarshMammen3 yes I heard the same thing. The languages in the south have absolutely nothing to do with the languages in the north of India. It's sad to say but correct me if I'm wrong, English is more widespread than Hindi, the ppl of the south might use it to communicate because it's easier. I have met so many Indians who can't speak a word of Hindi. I really wonder how the country holds itself together with 2 root languages so different and ppl who can't understand each other. With that being said, that's a big obstacle to any foreigner like me who wants to learn one language to speak to all Indians. Here in Canada at least, the 20% of the population who speaks French understands English, and can speak it too, so the country is more united.

[@AdarshMammen3]

@@mathiascorriveau Exactly! In the south I would default back to English if I can't communicate and the reason is because the British tried to uniformize India at one point but it was not well adopted by the North. We grew up in the former British colony in India where English is pretty widespread. You may also be surprised to know that In certain regions of the South, people also speak French and Portuguese because of the colonists (but not Spanish). Definitely a rich history there!

[@navisnau3140]

You forgot about the Turkic langauge family, you can learn these languages

[@mathiascorriveau]

ok interesting ! can you please enlighten me about the languages in this family ? Turkish ? Mongolian ? Kazak ?

[@navisnau3140]

@@mathiascorriveau Turkish, Kazakh, Azeri, Turkmen, Uzbek, Tatar and Kazakh and Uyghur.

[@Hams1288]

Hello, I am from Saudi Arabia and I definitely speak Arabic, so I do not agree with you that the Arabic language is difficult for people who do not speak Arabic. Well, I see a lot of people who speak Arabic well, from China, Spanish and even Britain. So I don't think it's necessary for you to learn the rules. It will be easy if you keep learning..😅

[@mathiascorriveau]

maybe you do not agree because you saw a few foreigners who speak Arabic well, (Chinese I doubt it, 99% of 'em have a hard time with English) but everyone agrees that Arabic is hard, the alphabet with the changing letters depending on where they are in a word, and the biggest hurdle is the dialects, Lebanese people once told me that the dialect in Saudi Arabia has weird sounds, almost nobody speaks Standard Arabic, there's a levantine dialect, a gulf dialect, Egyptian dialect, Moroccan dialect, etc.

[@qwxfamily883]

How about Kurdish language? This language is mother of other Indo-European languages...

[@mathiascorriveau]

I have never thought about it tbh... it must be so hard for you guys to be squandered between Iraq and Turkey, and with both countries treating you so badly. Yesterday I saw a documentary about how Saddam Hussein slaughtered and gased so many Kurds. I don't think Kurdish is an official languages in either of those countries. Honestly I prefer official languages with that have an Institute.

[@qwxfamily883]

@@mathiascorriveau for languages you are thinking well. Good path.

[@LovepreetGill302]

I speak Indian 22 languages

[@adreenainlove]

Sorry Arabic shares lots of words with Hebrew Spanish and even Hindi lol

[@pseudoNAME1979]

Interesting video, but please ditch the burned-in subtitles next time.

[@mathiascorriveau]

Thank you for saying that, what exactly did you find interesting ? How did you find my video ? To be honest, I'm a little bit puzzled and unsure about the burned-in subtitles, I really tried to make a different more dynamic type of editing this time because my last 5 videos had a very poor performance. I invested in stock footage. And I tried the burned-in subtitles, they obviously take more time than normal subtitles...it's a lot more work...but I believe it made the video more dynamic. I think they attract a younger audience Idk... I'll see what I'll do for my next video

[@pseudoNAME1979]

@@mathiascorriveau The video came up in my recommendations because I have been watching a lot of videos at the moment related to language learning. I found it interesting because I am in awe of people like yourself who can speak many languages, and as someone currently trying to learn a new language myself, I was glad to hear your advice. I think the production values look pretty slick, with the stock footage and all, but I think the subtitles distract from all that, especially since they use very short blocks.

[@emperorarima3225]

I dont know. I think subtitles work well. Maybe use subtitles for emphasis/transitions if you wanna reduce it but i find subtitles to be cool.

[@ruslankokorin281]

10:49 - it's ok to DO mistakes :) We make mistakes but I think you made this one intentionally.

[@mathiascorriveau]

What mistake did I make intentionally ? I don't understand...

[@ruslankokorin281]

@@mathiascorriveau "do a mistake" - is a mistake. We say - "make a mistake".

[@adreenainlove]

Sorry Arabic shares lots of words with Hebrew Spanish and even Hindi lol