I’ve learned 20 languages: what keeps me going?

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In this video, I reflect on my language-learning journey and discuss the importance of various types of connections: linguistic, emotional, neural, and more.
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[@Thelinguist]

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[@masterentful]

you should try Thai

[@zhihe-iw4br]

how to make conversation with you?

[@zhihe-iw4br]

@@ayak4799 i m a Chinese and how about you

[@lindah.611]

You are an inspiration. I've started learning new languages in my 50s.

[@mariefrenchtutor3180]

Same here. I saw a video of Steve explaining he learned many languages after 50. So I decided I was not too old after all. 😊

[@tobikrutt]

I started learning Spanish when I was 60. It took me about 3 years to get to a pretty solid intermediate level. Now I'm 68 and I started learning Italian about a year and a half ago. After studying for exactly a year, I went to Italy and studied at a school in an immersion program for a couple of weeks, then traveled around for another 3 weeks. I picked up Italian a lot faster than Spanish. My Spanish speech is still much better than my Italian, but I can understand a lot and can have conversations in Italian. I chose to learn both of those languages because I've always loved the sound of them... both sound like music to me. I love traveling in Spain and Italy, and the ability to speak to people in their language completely changes the travel experience. Learning a language is a real challenge but it doesn't matter because I'm not attending school or being graded, I just do it because I enjoy the process and I think it does help keep my brain sharp.

[@PurpleDrac]

isn't he though?! everything he says when put into perspective is so undeniably accurate his acute sense to language learning is so unique. Very seldom do you ever meet someone who has actually acquired this on such level (English speaking anyway) and still ventures into other languages you'd think once they'd conquered their target language they'd stay with that language but Steve is just so awesome at what he does realistically speaking having that skill and ability to latch onto new words and phrases not something just anyone can do. as he said takes lots of practice and proficiency in that language. like it takes a considerable amount of commitment and persecution. Very rare that someone actually achieves either of these outside their native language so to speak but not for Steve. he really goes above and beyond to get what he's after in the completion of learning other languages and is so skilled based. like it really takes someone of that multitude to actually achieve this and put it to use. and that's with all languages it's 💀hard! 😖😖

[@tahall5646]

I am learning Mandarin at 64.

[@Paulo34343]

Fun fact: whether you learn Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian or Montenegrian, you will be able to speak in any of the four given countries. These four languages are 95% similar. 🙂

[@matthewpiquemal]

It's one single language, not four.

[@gasparalexandermancillawul8244]

Captivating, thank you

[@joejo4549]

95% similar, 5% hate

[@Paulo34343]

@@matthewpiquemal You could say that aswell.. Although they differ in some aspects with word pronnounciations and dialects.

[@matthewpiquemal]

@@Paulo34343 Not only is it the same language (Serbo-Croatian), but each standard is even based on the same dialect (Shtokavian).

[@wolfxlover]

Wow! It's awesome seeing you when you were younger! Thanks a lot Steve, you're a great inspiration for me!

[@mdavid55]

C'est la video la plus intéressante sur les langues que j'ai entendu à ce jour. Votre expérience que vous nous transmettez est extraordinaire !

[@dariapetrushenko1293]

Your example is really inspiring! Now I want to learn 20 languages, too)

[@annarboriter]

French is perhaps the ideal first foreign language for native English speakers to study and/or acquire. Even when they only manage to acquire a modicum of its utility, knowing French (and Latin to some degree) really improves one's understanding of English

[@greenytaddict]

Yes, I went from Spanish to Italian, French, Korean, Vietnamese and finally decided to just settle and improve my French and learn Dutch. French because it is such a beautiful language and Dutch because of its similarities to English.

[@johnnoon9999]

If you only speak academic newspeak yeah. If you on the streets or in the backwoods you aint gonna be usin alot of french and latin words.

[@annarboriter]

@@johnnoon9999 The word, street, i derived from the Latin, stratum. Latin and French are so diffused into English that we don't readily recognize their influence. So yes, even yokels are indebted to Latin and French vocabulary

[@johnnoon9999]

@@annarboriter Street came from Latin into old Germanic and then into old English. Thats like pickin a daily use word that came from Indo-Aryan way back when and saying English is pretty much Farsi. The latinization of English is heavily overstated. But of course the Roman empire left its relics in all kinds of European speak.

[@annarboriter]

@@johnnoon9999 I appreciate your having provided even more evidence to support my assertion

[@grafvonkartoffel1455]

I always enjoy your travel photos ❤

[@lukejm5721]

Absolutely brilliant. And great to hear a bit about your journey, Steve

[@rafaelnogueiradelucena8375]

What a wonderful explanation! Absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing that so rich pathway!

[@tmrb7600]

Amazing story! Very motivating

[@brain_respect_and_freedom]

Thank you for your insights👍

[@WolfusMandrago]

Very cool! I have watched your channel for 6 years but I've never seen those old pictures of you in Asia! Hoping to see your videos for another 6 years!

[@peterlaws1653]

thanks that was great

[@manfredchan]

我而家都係鍾意學語言，多謝你嘅視頻❤

[@danielgarciasaenz9468]

I challenge you to learn Basque!!! I believe It would be a real challenge for you or any polyglot!

[@johnnoon9999]

I started meddling with Basque not long back. So far I dont think its so hard or complex. But I understand alot of people will automatically think a language is hard if it doesnt have alot of similar words to your native language.

[@RubyDuran]

I admire how you have learned 20 languages. I can't even imagine myself taking on that many in my lifetime, but certainly enjoy the ones I continue to learn 😊 always cool getting to learn about other peoples journey. Thank you so much for sharing!!!

[@vyli1]

he hasn't learned 20 languages though. He has been learning 20 languages. There's a difference. In most of the languages he's claiming he has learned, his skill level is so low, that no honest person would claim he has learned them. He reaches A1 or at most A2 level in most of the languages he's claiming to have learned. That's far from being able to claim he's learned them. I only claim I have learned a language after I reach at least a C1 level in that language. Those that are on B2 level I don't claim to have learned. And that's already way above Steve's level in most of the languages he's claiming to have learned. Granted, Steve has learned a few languages on a very high level. But those you could count on fingers of a hand.

[@RubyDuran]

@vyli1 I admire the fact he has taken the time to learn that many languages, regardless of his skill level 🤨 any person who takes the time to even learn A language, regardless of level, is admirable. Language learning like with anything is a journey, and for anyone to take the time to learn one language or several is admirable because it requires so much time, energy, and dedication.

[@vyli1]

@@RubyDuran Sure, but what is not admirable is dishonesty. That's the issue. He's using a dishonest claim to sell you his product.

[@Leo-54ly]

​@@vyli1You only claim to have learned a language after you reach C1 level, I wonder how many languages you have learned and how many you've been learning. I assume steve's claim is based on the general polyglot climate on KZbin. I doubt his intention is to sell his app. It's more about his OK-plateau and definition of polyglot rather than dishonesty. I'd say it's more constructive to provide better advice to achieve high level than judging others. He's encouraging and inspirational. Every native of each language he learns knows his level in that language, but feels totally OK. What makes you so upset?

[@vyli1]

@@Leo-54ly what makes me upset is it sets absolutely false expectations in those people who need to learn a foreign language. They would think they can't only learn one language properly, yet here's a guy on KZbin who can speak 20 languages and then they'll start doubting their abilities to learn a language. Perhaps some of the people would be falsely led to believe, that LinQ will help them learn a language (it will not). And you're saying that he's not trying to sell LinQ to his audience? Are you not watching his videos? Every single one of them has a mention of LinQ. That's no coincidence. He's describing features of LinQ in almost all of his videos with a backhanded comment here and there. He's ABSOLUTELY trying to sell the product to his viewers.

[@timmymorris91]

In order for language acquisition to work, there needs to be some LingQages.

[@aleksei-kari-ochi]

You're amazing 💪 the biggest inspiration

[@sanazintheuniverse]

Thank you so much

[@ktdoty9921]

I had never seen him without white hair before today 😮

[@robertklose2140]

Acquisition of one's NATIVE language / NATIVE languages is a NATURAL process, because it is an imprinting where no other language yet exists; but acquiring a language later in life is not natural, because such languages are learned through the lens of our native language(s) and it therefore takes a hell of a lot of work.

[@lidiiag]

Thanks for sharing with us! Спасибо, всегда интересно узнать что движет такими неординарными людьми и как они строят процесс своего обучения!

[@emmazafiro-kt7lu]

Muchas gracias, saludos desde Nicaragua 🇳🇮 💖.

[@NUVERAU]

Que bueno amigo

[@simoneverodimarrow]

Dear Kaufmann 🙌✨

[@kcc879]

I found Vietnamese easier than Cantonese. I did learn Mandarin first and felt it did help significantly with Vietnamese. My first language was Bahasa Indonesia and loved it. Now I'm finally learning my first European language - Spanish.

[@ytsangatsu]

First time I hear someone say Portuguese sounds like Russian. Funny, 'cause that's also what it sounded to me when I was listening to a multicultural radio station in Montreal more than half a century ago.

[@joejo4549]

My friend (who grew up in Spain) walked in while I was watching José Mourinho and asked "who's this Russian guy?"

[@dowith9405]

I am studying Portguese and I have a Russian girlfriend, and I have never noticed any similarity at all between them. Oh well.

[@ytsangatsu]

@@dowith9405 I think the reason I felt both languages "sounded" similar was that I had just started to study Russian and did not "understand" Portuguese at all, whereas you can probably understand both.

[@marcos1993arantes]

As a brazilian, I think russian people have an incredibly good accent when speaking portuguese, so I think although the grammar and vocabulary are completely different, they do have very similar sounds

[@johnnoon9999]

i also think they are similar in accent.

[@fossaflute]

Can you imagine "Echo of Moscow" was liquidated in 2022 as well as all other independent media... my father even worked for a couple of years in the regional branch of "Echo" in Siberia.

[@TK-ox6mg]

So discouraging!😢

[@anti_middle_ages]

And the chief editor of "independent" "Echo" have helped to falsify the election)

[@russouomo]

Представляете. Russia today ликвидировали в Европе и США.

[@anti_middle_ages]

@@russouomo Фейкомётов ликвидировали, неужели)

[@fossaflute]

@@russouomo этого бы всего не случилось, если бы не война, которую начала РФ. Ваша любимая симоньяша тудей до сих пор бы вещала🤷‍♀️ интересно, зачем ватники учат английский...

[@rogeriomoraes5246]

Hello Steven!! Achei interessante citar que o português parece o Russo e é verdade!! Os Russos tem o mesmo sotaque do Português-Brasileiro, assim como o Português de Portugal tem o mesmo sotaque do Alemão. Eu ja estudei na escola o Francês inclusive tive o meu sotaque elogiado por uma idosa francesa. Estudo o Alemão, também o Mandarim, Coreano e o Árabe. Agora o mais difícil para mim é o idioma Japonês!! Primeiro começa que eles tem três alfabetos. Estudos mostraram que é a língua onde os nativos falam mais rapidos no mundo. E ainda tem o regionalismo local 😮!! Fora que eles tem as regras próprias que acabam com a lógica de qualquer raciocínio!! Para comparar: O Mandarim e o Árabe eu aprendi em uma semana, claro o conteúdo de uma semana, agora o japonês fazem 3 anos e o proguesso é quase nada...

[@TatianaRacheva]

Prediction before I watch it based on the title card: lots of coffee?

[@paulblissett1674]

Steve, great engaging content as always 🙏 interested to hear your thoughts on how school education could adopt a more aquire based learning approach or if that would be even possible with the limited classes and exams to work towards etc?

[@spage80]

The difficulty is not resources, it is grading. Testing grammar, vocabulary, writing is easy. Testing the ability to speak is much more difficult. If language learning in classroom were changed to being ungraded it would promote the use of the language more

[@Sinologist-uq7pv]

Steve, at about what level would you say you are in each of your languages?

[@tahall5646]

Sr. kaufmann es un hombre con consejos excelentes.

[@Gingerredhair]

Great video Ginger out

[@jordanthomson8675]

Hi Steve, do you have any recommendations on where I could find some reading material for Russian or any language other than English and French here in Canada I live in Hamilton Ontario if that helps for local Thanks Jordan Thomson

[@namelessbeast4868]

I'm a native (Brazilian) Portuguese speaker and I just started learning Spanish because of the fact that most of the American continent speaks it. Even though I just started learning it last week, it's surprising how much Spanish I can already understand just because both languages are close to one another. Once I'm finished with Spanish, I'll definitely try my hand at learning Italian too. Good luck to everyone learning a new language!

[@bentrayford6132]

This is completely off topic, but I never realised until now how much Steve sounds like Smithers from The Simpsons! (except more Canadian of course!)

[@Fco.JavierLemus_deElSalvador]

Este hombre ha dedicado toda su vida al aprendizaje de idiomas principales de cada región del planeta. Quizá pueda lo podríamos considerar como una especie de experimento humano de cómo adquirir lenguas, pero no como ideal en la vida. La vida es mucho más que conocer lenguas y culturas.

[@BarbaraCreating]

WOW! Thank you for sharing! I was wondering if you ever also made it to my mother tongue German? That was the only language I was missing;-)

[@Thelinguist]

I left the Germanic languages out of of this. Here I am in German kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5Szfquwrc6oqsk and another Germanic language Swedish kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoTcpKSjaZiiiqM

[@puppypancakes2.0]

I’m studying mandrain Chinese (:just taking a small break from Japanese my kanji knowledge did help with Chinese (:

[@user-tr3qf4pg4d]

To be honest these all languages and their families really interesting for study because I really interested in Turkish family in my opinion languages in this family really awesome particularly with beautiful sound, also I would like mention different language like to Finnish, Polish and another my favourite language is Estonian these all languages really best for me and currently I'm learning Turkish and Finnish together with this improving English and in the future I plan start to learn Estonian 🇪🇪 because I consider that the family in which location this language and Finnish language 🇫🇮 that really wonderful family among different other families of different languages

[@rickstryper881]

Another interesting video as always, Steve. One comment, bring back the moustache lol

[@seren7173]

now chatgpt and other AI chat tools become the newest ways for us learning new languages.especially for poor people cant have language teacher. and aparts form that, those AI tools also can be very efficient translators. however I still started learning my third language, japanese. If I fully depend on translator to read NHK or other japanese website or talking with japanese in video games that will be not a natural process. I need to copy them on translators.

[@DawidSolovev-tj7vd]

Hey Steve! Can you make a new video about ChatGPT? There are some new functions, for example now you can talk and have a conversation with it. Add some useful promts for language learning 😄🙏

[@thescorpion575]

I think I'll never forget many words because of the emotional connection For example: when I saw that "Strand" means "Beach" in English I didn't think about the verb "to be stranded", I thought about a game I played called Death Stranding that was all about death and beaches

[@squaretriangle9208]

You make it sound so easy😂, I would suggest you turn to Albanian as it is in the Balkans, and although it has been influenced by Serbian and Greek it is a unique language with no visible connections to any other European language and as you are interested in both history and politics, Albanian and Kosovar history is intriguing!! All the best from Vienna😊

[@user-tw3zl5pm1y]

Спасибо Вам, Стив. Вы делаете МИР лучше, показывая, что все культуры и нации интересны и многогранны. Если бы обычные люди больше интересовались культурой других народов, то политикам было бы сложнее вовлекать их в войны, делая своими сторонниками. Эмпатия необходима не только по отношению к другому человеку, но и по отношению к другой нации.

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

Давно вас тут не было. Как вы? Как поживаете?

[@krystsinamarozava4355]

Вітаю! Будзе прыемна, калі вы зацікавіцеся яшчэ і беларускай мовай. :)

[@oiseau_libre]

Sadly, even Belarussians are not interested in their own language, which is already on the verge of extinction. I met hundreds of Belarussians outside Belarus, and they don't make any effort whatsoever to preserve the language of their country, but they speak the language of the occupiers, even when there's no threat to their life. Their children do not even UNDERSTAND Belarussian!!. That's sad and.... extremely embarrassing.

[@krystsinamarozava4355]

@@oiseau_libre I only have three questions.: 1. Who are you? 2. Why are you trying to answer a question that doesn't concern you? 3. Do we have a history class? Я размаўляю на сваёй мове (і калі трэба - на іншых мовах) і не вам мне расказваць, што і дзе акупавана. Ок?

[@kennethwdc]

Where in Czechoslovakia were your parents from?

[@peterpark6020]

im korean i respect you.

[@Salah_-_Uddin]

Do you speak Hindi? If you speak, you should create a video about Hindi because there are masculine and feminine genders.

[@lugo_9969]

Steve, you must learn irish.....its fascinating

[@afonsoscrinn]

Steve, how would you learn a language with few resources, such as minority languages?

[@flashgordon6510]

italki tutor?

[@NUVERAU]

Usted habla como los españoles su manera de hablar es muy atractivo #MULTILINGUAL ❤

[@volopa5]

What I find more impressive than learning 20 languages is this. Once you've learned a language to a certain level, you need to spend some time every day to maintain the acquired knowledge at that level. Let's say, half an hour per language. 20 languages x 0.5 hours = 10 hours not including breaks😲 That's 1.5-2 full time jobs! Imho, THIS is amazing, not the initial 2-5 years to learn each new language to a practical level.

[@djonombob8186]

What is the different thing that is common between all languages? I'm Djamel Eddine

[@paladinsorcerer67]

Do you think that you will ever learn Esperanto?

[@Thelinguist]

no

[@krusriyad8267]

هل تستطيع ان تكتب لنا الترجمة الى العربية

[@sergeykomarov2203]

Dear Steve, why are French and English languages so close in origin, so difficult for English and French speakers to pronounce?

[@ice4142]

There are a lot of loan words in English from French but they are not similar. French is a romance language and English is Germanic

[@sergeykomarov2203]

@@ice4142 I have often been to France and noticed that the French are embarrassed to pronounce English words because they think their pronunciation is funny. If you start explaining to the French that your pronunciation is perfect, they immediately start swearing why we should speak English at all.

[@spage80]

English and French are not that close. English is a Germanic language while French is a Latin language.

[@sergeykomarov2203]

@@spage80 Friend, I understand your sentiment. But here's what science says: more than half of English words (58%) are borrowed from either Latin or French Of these, 29% are net borrowings directly from French.

[@draiggoch88]

I know the question is for Steve Kaufman, but I'll try to help, while English is Germanic and French is Romance, King Harold of England lost during the battle of Hastings in 1066, William the conqueror was a Norman French and ruled over England as William I, French was the official court language of England for 400 years, many French words became part of the English language, the old English by then became middle English, there are also influences from Latin in the English language as well, but so has French. Words in both modern English and French can be hard for both sides to pronounce, especially if not used to the language and knowing how to pronounce them.

[@polymloth]

My answer to the question would be that it’s because the more you learn, the more you trust your own ability to acquire a new language. If you’ve already learned, say, 5000 words in some foreign language, you can surely learn 5000 more. You’ve done it once already, after all. Your brain clearly has the capacity for it and wasn’t the process fun too? It’s like mountain climbing. The first time feels always really intimidating and the process is tough. But once you’ve conquered one mountain, there’s nothing stopping you from conquering more!

[@jacksonamaral329]

That's it. I learned english (on) my own.

[@BrMark-cu9ih]

Bravo 🎉👍🏽. I’m a baby steps language learner, but English is my mother tongue. What you put in your comment is understandable, but can I offer you a small suggestion? Instead of “…by my own.” You should say “… on my own.” If you were say building your own house for example, you could say: ‘I built it by myself.’ I’m not sure from a grammar standpoint why we’d use ‘on’ vs ‘by’, I just know which is better suited for which sentence/case. I hope this helps you ❤. What is your native language?

[@jacksonamaral329]

@@BrMark-cu9ih Good. Now I remembered that I interchanged the words there.

[@MrAtomicPig]

Has anybody seen his speaking abilities in any language other than English? (Besides his probly A2 tops Persian)

[@Thelinguist]

You can find videos in different languages on my channel playlist.

[@MrAtomicPig]

@@Thelinguist My bad, sorry, indeed, there're no samples in the main/home folder, and there's plenty in the playlists. My appologies

[@minik1okul]

I am a Turkish teacher I wish I could speak english

[@massimorolandi8268]

Kind of disappointed you didn't mention Hindi..😊

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

European Portuguese is Russian 😂 I've been studying Brazilian Portuguese for almost 3 years (still difficult) but I don't study European. Before I started I actually thought it was Russian 😂 I was like wait.. Russian sounds a bit different 😂

[@isfet5149]

Coffee?

[@serverindonesia9960]

Learn indonesian next

[@jairosouza7994]

It's easy learning languages when you have money to travel 😢

[@loozy7951]

you were handsome

[@0beyzayilmaz]

Turkish is not a middle eastern language. Just because there are many loan words from Arabic or Farsi it doesnt mean they're familiar or related. There are also many loan words from France but no one can consider Turkish as a Latin language right ? Turkish is a Turkic language and as grammatical screcture and word order is much more familiar to Korean Japenese and Mongolian (besides other Turkic languages ofcourse)

[@john43397]

I think that it is referred to as "near middle east language" by some language schools. The Turkic region being near to the middle east.

[@amal2755]

8:03 Put the flag of Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 because they pronounce the full letters, unlike the rest, and the greatest book in the Arabic language was revealed in it, and it contains these commentaries. Before that, neither Egypt nor Iraq nor North Africa spoke Arabic until after the Islamic conquest of the Arabs who left the Arabian Peninsula in an area called today Saudi Arabia.

[@success607]

انتى ح تستفيدي اييه من كلام ده ؟

[@amal2755]

@@success607 لأن الأصل لان في سعودية نزل القران و وفيها المعلقات وأنتم تم تعريبكم بالفتوحات فتحكم الصحابي من مكة 🕋 🇸🇦 عمرو بن العاص رضي الله عنه اللغة العربية أصلها جزيرة العرب اي السعودية يا قبطية وتكتب انتِ وليس أنتي

[@success607]

@@amal2755 روحي ارعى الجمل ومارسى اللواطة يا جاهلة سعوديين اكثر شعب متخلف على مستوى الكون ما زلتم في عصر الجاهلى ولاكن لا تعرفون

[@mrs3002]

عمان و اليمن هم اساس شبة الجزيرة العربية من قبل الاسلام و قبائل عدنان اصلهم من العراق اما الحجاز خليط الاحباش و هنود قليل من قبائل عرب مهاجرين الى الحجاز بختصار نجد و الحجاز مستعربين هاذي حقيقه كلنا نعرف و شكرا ي مستعرب

[@amal2755]

@@mrs3002 كذبت اصلنا أصلنا مكة هذا اولاً ونحنا الأصل من الحجاز انطلقت الفتوحات والعربية الفصحى القران بلهجة قريش الحجازية

[@BrainInAVat7]

You skipped German and Swedish!

[@beastclipsar]

Try to learn Georgian ;)

[@TheHaining]

Not sure I understand what you mean by 'I've learned', Steve? Very nebulous term. I know self-proclaimed polyglots tend to criticise the CEFR definition, which has numerous shortcomings, but it would be useful to know how you assess your own knowledge of 20 different languages.

[@Thelinguist]

All languages we learn are works in progress. If I have been able to have at least a limited conversation, and have around 5-10,000 words I understand, I have started to learn that language. There is no end point.

[@bruceli8837]

How many people here are English learners? 😂

[@user-no4ij8lx6w]

حلم 💭 حلم 💭 حلم 💭 حلم 💭 حلم 💭 حلم 💭 حلم 💭

[@user-nm3ug3zq1y]

"I've learned 20 languages" is misleading. How many of them do you know to read, write, speak, and listen to on a C2 level? I'd guess it might be 4 or 5, including your native tongue.

[@mariefrenchtutor3180]

In any given language, C2 is is the level of the intellectuals. Not every native speakers master their own language to that level! Steve did not make that claim. Being a French speaker, who teaches French, I can tell you that Steve's French is very advanced. Maybe C2 level. And his accent is quite good. But he does admit (in other videos) that not all the languages he's learning are at that level. He is learning for fun, and to connect with other cultures. I do not believe C2 is the ultimate goal (at least not for everyone). I do not have a C2 level in English. And unfortunately I have a big French accent. But I can still enjoy conversations in English, watch movies and listen to talks on about any topics. That's enough for me. I'd rather learn other languages (focussing on Spanish for now) than spending the next few years trying to get a C2 level in English. But everybody is different. If C2 is your goal, go get it Tiger!

[@user-nm3ug3zq1y]

@@mariefrenchtutor3180, yeah, I'd suppose German, Chinese, German, French might be the languages he's good at. What about the others though? C1? B2? Less? Seriously, any language you haven't reached an actual B2 at isn't even worth mentioning. I wouldn't be surprised if half of his languages haven't even reached B1.

[@vyli1]

Fun fact. You didn't learn 20 languages. Most of the languages that you claim you have learned are at best at A1 or A2 level. I have seen your videos where you claim to speak those languages, and truth be told, some of the languages were horrible and not worthy of a claim that you have learned those languages. It's dishonest to claim, you've learned 20 languages. Sure, with some languages I agree that you learned them, but for most of the 20 you claim to have learned it's a stretch.

[@dowith9405]

He's the first to admit he only speaks 10 languages quite well. But his speaking of the other languages is still impressive.

[@vyli1]

@@dowith9405 10 would also be a stretch ;-)

[@Vino3437]

This Videos is completely useless. The title implied that there is something that can help one to learn language

[@xiubin3342]

Turkish is an asian language. Its grammer is the same with Korean and Japanese these three are altai language. If you compare turkish to these languages you will see it. Yes maybe there are lots of persian words in turkish but it doesn’t make turkish middle eastern language.

[@Starstreak170]

You didn't learn 20 languages. You can speak some well, but in many cases you just know basic A1-A2 material. I don't consider that learning a language. If you can't go to a bar and have a spontaneous fluid conversation with a native in their own language (B2 and above), you don't really know that language.

[@gagebrewer1415]

Wow, pretty elitist take. If he knows 10k words plus the conjugation tables or case system for the language; what would you call that other than "learned the language"? I understand the perspective of watching these youtube polyglots that can only say the same introductory phrases in 18 languages, but I don't think that's what he's doing here. In fact his app is almost entirely for reading. Hard to be able to read 10k some words and verb forms and still claim to "not have learned the language"

[@vyli1]

@@gagebrewer1415 except he doesn't know 10k words and conjugation tables or case systems for those languages 😀😀😀 And just because his LinQ says that he does, that means absolutely nothing. That only means, that he has seen 10k words, on LinQ. Seeing a word even a 100 times does not mean you have learned it, especially considering that it's probably mixed in with other words that you don't understand yet. I'm reading a lot in foreign languages and I can tell you that even if the same word is 10-20 times in the same book, I sometimes don't even remember the meaning of the word in the same reading session. It's obvious wherever he puts out a video where he speaks some of those languages he claims to speak. His level in most of those languages is not enough to have a normal conversation. He's just trying to sell you his product - LinQ, which doesn't really get you anywhere with language learning (and Steve is a living proof of that, despite using LinQ exclusively for the past few years, he has not learned a single language by using LinQ). He's not honest about his language skills. But I don't think he's dishonest just to the audience. I think he's dishonest to himself. I think he really believes this claim, that he has learned 20 languages. Which is of course bullshit.

[@dowith9405]

He's the first to admit he only speaks 10 languages quite well. But his speaking of the other languages is still impressive.

[@Leo-54ly]

Don't underestimate the impact of inner growth in languages. Going to a bar and having a spontaneous conversation only demonstrates colloquial language proficiency, not necessarily overall language mastery. A native 5-year-old could engage in such casual dialogue if allowed in a bar, but that doesn't mean their conscious command of the language matches that of a linguist who has studied the language extensively, even if the linguist has poor oral fluency. Likewise, what Steve reads is likely way above an A2 level in most languages he has been learning. Xiao Ma, on the other hand, appears to focus more on the communication aspect and could easily fool someone into thinking he is at a B2 level based solely on bar conversations, when his actual ability may be very confined within a small range of topics. But even that fluency requires a decent amount of training that is worth respecting. If you don't have an equally extensive and rich experience, you can only see what your eyes can reach instead of spotting the depth beyond the obvious.

[@dekosta9474]

@@Leo-54lyconscious command (=just knowing fancy grammatical structures) means nothing. Being able to speak a language is being able to speak a language, it’s about reading books and listening to music and talking with natives. Isn’t this authentic connection what languages, and all fields of humanities are for? Being able to write a paper about how the accusativus cum infinitivo gave way to periphrastic constructions in the transformation perioid of Late Latin to Proto-Romance is not speaking a language.

[@Patrick.Khoury]

Clicked for the Lebanese flag.

[@simoneverodimarrow]

😂

[@gesm392]

I give up, I quit on languages, total waste of time

[@yaboiNOCTURNAL]

it is if you are doing nothing else. Language learning is deeply tied to learning culture. If you travel to foreign countries and try living your life there you'll naturally acquire new languages, new perspectives in culture and life. But if you are just self studying, anything past the basics is like a waste of time cause you'll never get good without practice and the value you get vs your time put in diminishes exponentially

[@mansionbookerstudios9629]

Steve do you know Jesus if you do not we can talk about it no judgment I case about your eternity and everyone else’s!

[@Felixxxxxxxxx]

You know that he is Jewish right? No idea if he is religious or not and honestly, could not care less. You should be ashamed of yourself for spamming religion like this.

[@xtaltheo170]

jesus d you kno?

[@mansionbookerstudios9629]

@@Felixxxxxxxxx maternity matters because you’re not here long and it is pushed because life is short whether you’re old or young what 5 five compared eternity everyone must keep Jesus to get into heaven when died it your if you will follow him!

[@BenjaminBanklin69]

1. Religion does not fit here 2. youre wording is weird and confusing 3. you having a clash of clan base as your pp while bashing out religious paroles

[@mansionbookerstudios9629]

@@BenjaminBanklin69what did you believe happened after we died

[@krusriyad8267]

Thank you so much