Learning 7 languages this year was GENIUS

[@daysandwords]

Thanks for watching! Part 2 of this video with the answer to the question that has plagued literally four people for the last week is due VERY soon! In the meantime, don't miss out on StoryLearning's AWESOME Black Friday deals! learn.storylearning.com/menu?affiliate_id=3626911

[@bland-g154]

you are killing me!

[@Alex-my4ir]

Could you be learning Turkish Lamont?

[@ladykookosmile]

Well here is one more very curious person, can't wait to see which language it is!

[@Lexie810-b5r]

Can't wait!! Please drop.the video ASAP, it's so cruel to leave us on such a cliffhanger!!! My guess is German...

[@mirunapopescu]

Măăi....e frumos să lași oamenii în ceață?? :((

[@matt_brooks-green]

The suspense! Great video dude. Must have taken a huge amount of work. Well done 👍

[@daysandwords]

THANK YOU. This is my favourite comment just because so few people appreciate the effort that goes into these haha. Although I am going to do more like this because it's more fun.

[@matt_brooks-green]

@@daysandwords the planning on this video alone… *chefs kiss* I have much to learn 🤯🤣

[@sweetlolitaChii]

I'm also dabbling in Arabic, Spanish, and Swedish after getting better at French. It's been hella fun and great when I get tired of the same language day after day week after week

[@KatSchlitz]

A cliffhanger that was for you and from you and from...deibus gallica et suecica ... the Gods of Swedish and French, love it.

[@runningriot7963]

Gods? Google translate said Days, which makes more cense considering his channel name. But I gotta admit I like your version more. )

[@jasonschuchardt7624]

You swapped the e and i I think. I think it says "diebus gallica etc suecica".

[@canchero724]

Is the Latin at the end a clue to it being a romance language? Your french knowledge may actually make mastering this new language easier if it's indeed Italian or Spanish or any of the other Latin descendants.

[@morbidsearch]

I guess it's Portuguese since Spanish is too obvious, Italian was mentioned in the video and Romanian wasn't in the story app. Unless his son is going a competition in Vatican City...

[@pragmatix1777]

@@morbidsearch There is latin on story learning... which has a very limited set of languages to choose from.

[@israellai]

I'm just going to assume it's actually latin because of storylearning lol

[@bunnyteeth365]

This year I dabbled in Finnish. I didn't get too far. I just learned a tiny bit of vocabulary and improved my listening comprehension. At least my motivation for my main target language sort of came back. It was getting a bit low.

[@norma94]

That ‘you are alone’ part 🤣 caught me off guard that I rewatched it a few times 😂😂

[@RorinoTheGreat]

He's right. Duolingo's study did find Duolingo effective. Really nothing to dispute there!

[@saiminayatullah6620]

I'm guessing Italian. Italian is the only language on your storylearning screen that shows a "start course" button rather than the number of courses available, which means that you had your mouse hovering over that button (about to enter the course?).

[@daysandwords]

😟the shame of being so careful, only to be undone by that!

[@coremitsi922]

@@daysandwords I thought it would've been either chinese or Japanese since you've said in the past that you'd be interested in learning a language with a different script.

[@norma94]

@@daysandwords Italian! That’s awesome!!

[@TheCudlitz]

@@coremitsi922 I think it's Korean. It looks like his kid does rubik's cube competition, and apparently the international competition in 2023 will be in Seoul.

[@AbdulLatif-ob5ju]

For me it was his son's Super Mario shirt that gave it away

[@clairejoy1053]

You bastard!! You're getting good at this keeping us hooked thing.

[@codyscott8687]

“Shut up and leave me alone” “You are alone” UNDERRATED JOKE, that was so hilarious 😂

[@nova4476]

1:09 I relate to this heavily! My first language is Spanish and I can’t pick up any romance languages without being immediately bored. I’ve been in an on and off again relationship with Brazilian Portuguese for a solid year now. I (very) recently tried to pick up German but it sounds too similar to English and is starting to lose its charm on me. I took Japanese classes for a couple years and want to get into it again since it’s completely different from the languages I’m already fluent in.

[@mimosveta]

complete opposite for me. my native language being Serbian, I made least progress trying to learn Russian - learn to speak, not learn to understand, cause I got buried underneath a mountain of negative transfer

[@Charlotte-ti2yk]

Argh! I can’t believe how invested I was in that video! You could give the show runners at HBO a run for their money… When you mentioned Turkish at the start I was really excited. I have a ‘can get by’ level in French (but actually don’t like it so never had the motivation to continue), and like you have been invested heavily in Swedish. Met a guy from Turkey a few years ago and have been dating him ever since, but was fully invested in Swedish and didn’t want to distract myself from that. But now I figure I’m good enough at Swedish that I can start to learn one of his languages (he’s a Kurd, so it was a toss up between Kurdish and Turkish). So, you can imagine, at the start I was thinking we were going to be language twins! I’m even half way through Olly’s course in Turkish! 😂 I’m guessing that’s not the language you’ve chosen (proximity to Australia wise, because I can’t imagine a club or organisation forking out long distance fees, I’d guess Japanese… your son could be a master chess player or something though so what do I know?), but still. I can’t wait for the second instalment!

[@matlynch83]

So, I must have missed that video. I have been checking your channel for the last few months and thought you had basically had a change of heart and weren't going down the language content path anymore. This was a great vid. I will also use the link and try the StoryLearning Japanese course. Hopefully its easier to use than Linq, more productive than Duo, and more fun than Anki.

[@stevencarr4002]

Everything is more fun than Anki......

[@daysandwords]

Not really sure what videos you watched that made you think I wasn't doing language content. The closest I got to that was my Volvo video, but it was still language related.

[@abhinavchauhan7864]

Linq is hard to use?

[@razsego]

If it's italian, you're in for a fun time. That's what I am currently studying and I enjoy it very much. As usually with my language learning, I start out with Duolingo until about half-way, before I go over to other sources like "Easy -- Insert language here --" on KZbin, books etc.

[@daysandwords]

It's not but I think your comment still applies.

[@falkowskaaga1]

I do exactly the same

[@tyronneframpton8163]

Dude it's like watching lost all over again. Gripped all the way through and left on a cliff hanger. Mate your driving me nuts. Give us the next video, it feels like my chest is going to explode. Congratulations for your son mate.

[@IowaLanguages]

Please make the reveal soon? 😢 I can’t bear it.

[@HoneyBeeofficiall]

I passed an A2 exam yesterday after 4 months of learning Spanish. My goal is to be a B1 conversationally by the end of this year, and pass a C1 exam in 3-4 years…. Once I do that I know I want to learn a third language. I’ve been going back and forth for a while ALREADY on which one it will be.

[@falkowskaaga1]

How many hours per day have you learnt every day?

[@HoneyBeeofficiall]

@@falkowskaaga1 No idea. I havent even studied. I just go to spanish church, spanish restaurants, barber, I have spanish employees, and ended up with a spanish gf about a month into studying. I just am around the culture and language a lot.

[@Alex-my4ir]

I have a feeling you might be learning Turkish? You said in one of your previous videos that's you'd happily swap your Swedish ability for the same ability in Turkish. You referenced at 1:40 a part of that video.

[@patchy642]

This cracked me up! Hilarious! The bit about the difference between an experiment and a plan was PRICELESS! To the point where soon I was laughing at stuff that wasn't even in it! When he got to the bit about travelling to the mysterious language's country, the video playing on my kitchen table and me over at the sink, I said out loud "NO WAY!", & immediately misheard him saying "YES, WAY!" as he finished up. I was buckled up! Now I've no idea what the language is, but I reckon I'll probably go and learn it, too.

[@vanessameow1902]

"shut up and leave me alone!" "you are alone..." im sry but this exchange had no damn business taking me out💀✋

[@daysandwords]

I'm glad it worked because initially it was longer, where the "bad guy" points out that he's just talking to a camera and no one is even going to watch the video, but the tone was jarring because it was too dark, and I even found the way it ended up to be a bit jarring, so I'm glad someone liked it anyway!

[@joshcalandrella3887]

I followed the 2 month language flirting experiment this year. My maintenance language is Spanish and I'm actively learning Classical Hebrew full focus and Yiddish soft focus. I flirted with Italian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, Aramaic, Arabic, and Japanese. I've studied Arabic, Italian, and Japanese before, but this year i gave it a short go for the experience. I'm thinking about focusing on Portuguese next year because there are a couple books I want to read in the original language. This might keep my interest!

[@alicelopes6698]

I'm brazilian and can say that learning portuguese is worth it!! Brazilian literature is super rich and you lose a lot of it when reading a translation

[@austin4768]

There’s 8 story learning courses and of those, I’m ruling out Turkish and French. You said Turkish was too niche to gain much of a YT audience, and you already have enough of a background with French that I think you’d choose something else to dabble in. I’m going to guess Japanese because 1. I think you want to take all your newfound language learning skill and apply it to something difficult to see how it goes 2. It’s the most popular refold language so there’s crossover potential 3. Japan just seems like a country where they’d host some kind of crazy international robotics competition (or similar, I don’t know that it’s robotics). Could be way off but this is my best working theory. Of course Mandarin also fulfills these 3 criteria so *shrug*. You’ve made this very difficult, Lamont! Edit: Final answer Japanese because it's the only red and white flag (besides Turkish, which he's not doing)

[@floppyearfriend]

Great to hear your son will be competing in the Roman Empire!

[@CalicoShoes]

Or Vatican City?

[@gd4844]

based on the book cover & typography location, its the spanish edition of the book. the english, portuguese and danish versions of this book have their type set differently, and the german, polish, korean and swedish ones are slightly different. I don't know of a japanese or chinese translation.

[@daysandwords]

Swedish it could never have been anyway. How could my "new" language be a language I've been learning for like 5 to 6 years? (My name's not Nathaniel Drew!) But you missed a few editions there. 😉 (alsoimayormaynotjustbeholdingtheneglisheditiontotrolleveryone)

[@BozhkAble]

Book at 7:01 looks like "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon. I feel like it is Spanish version of the book cover, but not sure. So my guess is that he is going to pick Spanish as a new language.

[@linguaEpassione]

Benvenuto fra noi, caro Lamont! ;D (is my guess correct?) :D

[@grapepale8446]

AHHHHHH i need to know!!!!

[@anna7276]

Ohhh you have built up wicked suspense!!! So exciting!

[@AmbassadorSoriano]

I would guess Japan, since you're in that region. It wouldn't be Russia (for obvious reasons), and you've already mentioned Turkish and Italian. You've already done French.

[@ADHDlanguages]

That was my thought, or maybe Korean.

[@AmbassadorSoriano]

That was my second choice. But then I checked Story Learning, and Korean is not available.

[@ADHDlanguages]

4:31 ??

[@AmbassadorSoriano]

You're right it's available. I was looking at the page for Black Friday sales, and it is not available there.

[@Aadrian7]

Definitely not Japanese. The book he bought looks like it starts from the left to the right. It's likely Italian or Portuguese.

[@claireabadie3981]

Oh no, I am so curious now, when is the answer coming?

[@daysandwords]

It's here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3VqKCjapueo7s&

[@SS-wi4tm]

Would love to get more of your detailed reviews on language apps as a beginner/interview. I don't trust anyone else's reviews

[@kjeinm]

1:05 is very true. I thought I was the only one who had this problem 😂

[@jz4901]

“You are alone.” So suddenly sinister. I wondered if I was watching Fight Club.

[@medusa3592]

I'm going to guess you're going to visit Italy or Switzerland (where Italian is one of the official languages) in 2023. So, which country is it? Will you tell us?

[@milosm9280]

Idk he is learning Latin so it is probably Italy

[@medusa3592]

@@milosm9280 The word "suecia" made me think "Switzerland"...but I checked it translates to "in French and Swedish days"..."Helvetia" means Switzerland. You're probably right.

[@daysandwords]

@milosm9280 As Willy Wonka once said, you do seem confident. 😉

[@sicko_the_ew]

Icelandic would give you sagas for stories (plus the nation that writes more poetry per capita to this day than any other, I've heard), and give you some added depth to go with things like the Swedish and even English, maybe. So my guess would be Tagalog.

[@JustinArmstrongsite]

If it turns out to be Latin, I definitely could recommend an efficient reading plan. The typical internet advice of just reading through the textbook Lingua Latin per se Illustrata - Famila Romana is OK but incomplete. I have a spreadsheet with reading material ordered in a somewhat optimized way.

[@JustinArmstrongsite]

@@AN-ke2uz If you search for 5 months progress latin, my update video has the link in the description.

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

I might do this sometime. :P

[@languageswithjosh2435]

LAMONT HOW COULD YOU LEAVE US HANGING LIKE THAT

[@zheltovsky]

Très bon choix de musique ! :-)

[@neesiecieslak7869]

You made me laugh! Thanks for your authentiscity.

[@Speechbound]

Your language journey is very entertaining, thanks for sharing! If you ever want to exchange some language ideas or do a collab, give us a shout! Never give up :)

[@burgular_the]

Lol this is so good 😂👏👏👏

[@susanc1179]

Did you tell us why you decided not to continue with French? Or did you reach your desired level

[@Komatik_]

Apparently it felt like cheating on Swedish and wasting time that could've been spent on getting good at Swedish.

[@susanc1179]

@@Komatik_ oh. I would think the answer to the next language would be obvious given the channel name but maybe French just didn’t keep his interest. It happens. Why force himself?

[@daysandwords]

Well my dad was living in France when I started learning it. He was back in Australia when I stopped.

[@susanc1179]

@@daysandwords That makes sense. Learning another language takes long term motivation. Without your dad living there, you probably wouldn’t have chosen French as your 3rd language. Looking forward to seeing what you’ve chosen.

[@arealnowhereman8255]

3:51 As a student, that hurt.

[@daysandwords]

Haha as a student I didn't even go as far as pasta, I just ate prepackaged garlic bread. 😬

[@jeffreybarker357]

Jeez. I WISH I had your addiction and your “issue” about understanding it too easily lol. I’d like to see you do an in-depth recap of everything you’ve done to get to that point in Swedish and how many hours everything took.

[@mep6302]

I'm doing this. I'm learning Dutch and on the weekends I dabble in Catalan. Why Catalan? It's an easy language for me because I speak the most popular romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian) and I don't want to be stressed by learning a much more difficult language. It works for me

[@tomsettle1]

Scotland?

[@abacaxi.maldoso]

If you said overseas, it's not in Europe. Kids teaming up means basically videogames, so either you are talking about Korea, Vietnam or Brazil.

[@daysandwords]

It's annoying that one of your guesses is right despite literally all of your logic being wrong.

[@abacaxi.maldoso]

@@daysandwords Amazing the way my brain works haha

[@sicut-lux-aurorae]

If it does turn out to be Latin, you just made my day. Would love it if the language I most want to learn and your channel had another connection. But, I guess, you foreshadowed back when you bought Harry Potter in Latin.

[@daysandwords]

Dang it how do you guys remember all this stuff! 😂

[@sicut-lux-aurorae]

It’s lodged in that place in our brains where “where did I park today” really should go.

[@anirudhkrishna396]

Hey Lamont, how much of Norwegian can you understand with your current level of fluency in Swedish?

[@duckmasterflex]

Such a good channel

[@Stephanie-gv8rh]

Oooh evil cliff hanger! 😆 another brilliant video with brilliant insights! I’m going to guess Japanese. 🤔

[@Skiis44]

Gambling shopping for books. Hit me again. I’m in heaven. I’m getting comfortable with Spanish so it’s time to start another.Romance or Russian

[@YaroslavaRussian]

02:42 Brilliant! my thoughts exactly! I just can't stand Russian Duolingo :( I'm working on a short fun video+pdf about how I would learn Russian if I had one week (lol) and if you are willing to give the language one more try - I'd like to send the materials to you and even if you won't learn anything, that could make you laugh hopefully! Super intriguing video! Happy to hear the story!

[@YaroslavaRussian]

@polyglotmotivacion2324 of course! I plan to post it in a week or two (depends on my motivation lol)

[@YaroslavaRussian]

@polyglotmotivacion2324 Hey! I know it been ages and very likely you are already fluent in Russian. But if you are not, the video is out :))

[@mammoth1542]

Languages in the story learning listed under the video that are not common in Sydney are french, Spanish, German and japanese. French is ruled out as this is a new language. Your son "builds things" for competition and I know someone who worked at an illegal Korean daycare centre the taught kids to make basic robots. So japanese seems most likely. Latin words are probably just a red herring. Turkish are everywhere around aurburn, Italians are everywhere Chinese are everywhere. I guess there are some japanese in Eastwood but I don't think there are many in Sydney.

[@AlinefromToulouse]

if one guesses right, it is a coincidence, because there are many clues and any of them can be misleading. The form of the letters at the end you talked about in your answer to a comment? Gothic so German, plus I checked, there was a competition of "Cube" earlier in 2022 'German Mini Open B', but who knows...

[@daysandwords]

That's not quite true. There were clues within the clues to suggest how serious they were. Someone got it properly and I explain how in the newer video.

[@LisaMarie-eh7up]

4:32 ~ I think you’re going with Italian.

[@deezplace]

"PAID OFF BEUTIFULLY!" ... ;)

[@FramedDiablo]

My bets are on Spanish. At 04:05 the Italien flag turns Mexican for one Frame, it is on the story learning site and you did not mention Spanish in the hole Video.

[@vjones5646]

Cliffhanger! Ugh! Please tell us before Olly's sale ends! My guess Turkish

[@sevret313]

Do you have plans for a preemptive review of Storylearning before the sale is over? The full course is $300, the $100 is just for beginner section. Spending $300 dollar on a hunch is not a good idea.

[@daysandwords]

To be honest, a proper review is a way off, because those take AGES. But they've got a pretty good money back policy.

[@daysandwords]

@sevret313 - actually I found a REALLY excellent review (good channel in general actually): kzbin.info/www/bejne/joPXdoqopbGSas0

[@sevret313]

@@daysandwords Thanks, review look promising as they're recommending it despite not liking the worksheet and the speak early encouragement. Yeah I know these things take a lot of time, sorry about that. Better to try it out myself than relying on your first impressions.

[@daysandwords]

Nah you are fine. It's not at all unreasonable to expect that I have thoroughly tried something that I recommend, and I must admit "thoroughly" is not how I'd describe my testing of StoryLearning, however, I have known Olly for a long time and I have read his "Short stories" series which basically turned into StoryLearning, and they are really very good.

[@alguien4u]

😂😂😂 you are hilarious!!!

[@daysandwords]

Cheers.

[@Hackbridge1963]

Yep! The suspense is tangible. Creators like you know to to string out the story line, so we're left wanting more 😳. C'mon! Spill the beans! I want to know more! Great video! 👍🏾🙏🏾🇬🇧

[@DaveMiller72]

I was about to swear at the end of this video, but I stopped myself and had a think. Hmm... (me thinking) Latin reference. But you mentioned a lot of south-east European languages at the top of the video. So my best guess is Romanian. While I'm here, I should note that it's your fault that I have been dabbling with French, Korean and Ukrainian this year on top of my main language effort (such as it is) with German. So thanks for that, it's been a lot of fun!

[@DaveMiller72]

OK, scrub that... there's no Romanian StoryLearning course (d'oh). So maybe it's Italian. Who knows. Enjoy, whatever it it.

[@TheStickCollector]

I want to be this successful

[@daysandwords]

Wait, I read that word order incorrectly. I thought it said "I want THIS TO BE successful" which would suggest you want the new language endeavour to be successful, but "to be this successful"... Wait, which part of this is so successful that you want it? The Swedish learning part maybe... but my work life balance? Definitely not haha. 😂

[@TheStickCollector]

@@daysandwords it would be nice to learn 7 languages at once, but I can't even learn one now so it will be a lot of work and expertise

[@daysandwords]

Oh right, no, I didn't learn 7 at once. 😆

[@brianmills5417]

How many books did you bring home from the Book Fair? More importantly what kind of books did you select? Lots of cheap books in Spanish for sale online but which ones to get and which are not worth the postage; that is a never ending struggle.

[@daysandwords]

I got about 5 in Spanish on that first day, for the very reason that you mentioned (about postage). I didn't think I was actually studying it at that stage, so $18 seemed fair... but then when I went back on Sunday I got some more because they're always half price (half whatever cheap price has already been decided) and by then, I knew for sure that I would be learning Spanish, so I got maybe 4 or 5 more (although of course there are fewer left).

[@sameerk6306]

My guess is Bangkok, Thailand!

[@adamclark1972uk]

I've decided only to learn languages that I know someone who speaks them in real life. I used to learn whatever language I fancied, eg. Hebrew, but then it dawned on me that I don't actually know anyone who speaks Hebrew. What I do instead now is learn the languages of my colleagues, which at the moment is Bulgarian, Hindi and Romanian, and it works much much better.

[@daysandwords]

Interesting. "In real life" could be tricky for my new one. I do know people who speak it, and I've met them in real life... but do they speak it in real life? It's a tree falling in the woods situation.

[@austin4768]

@@daysandwords Based on this, and the comment where you hinted you have access to languages in beta, I thought for a bit that it might be Latin - but I didn’t think your son was going anywhere near the Vatican. Now that I know what your choice really is, I’m really struggling to understand what you mean by this comment - unless it’s just absurdist humor…

[@gaymer5697]

Is that a cheeky unlazyway clip at 1:50?

[@daysandwords]

Yep!

[@runningriot7963]

Great video as always Days of ... 'n' Swedish

[@jonaskeepauthor1935]

"Guess where" Since the Italian flag momentarily changed to the Mexican flag (assuming that's a hint), I'm guessing the event is in Mexico and you're learning Latin American Spanish. If so, welcome! I'm learning that too.

[@daysandwords]

Hey - thanks for getting involved. You're a bit late for your answer to count as correct, since the answer was revealed like 3 weeks ago but yes that it correct.

[@jonaskeepauthor1935]

@@daysandwords That just tells me you have more videos for me to enjoy :) It would be nice if youtube's notifications were more consistent but it is what it is. I'm making good progress with ouino thanks to your recommendation, pimsleur and baselang are also proving very helpful in my studies.

[@michellebates528]

I translated the last phrase... Sad it's not Turkish... But I guess it's fortuitous for your channel.

[@daysandwords]

The last phrase is the existing name of the channel, so there's no change there. Perhaps the form is the clue?

[@Alfruna]

Is it German? Because there's a lot of translations from the English market being translated into German every year. And it's on storylearning lol. I personally still hope it's Turkish bc that's the language I am currently learning

[@julbombning4204]

Vatican state?🤨

[@sagaronyoutube]

It has to be a storylearning language. Through some rough elimination (Turkish French Italian) I’m circling around Japanese/Chinese rn hmm. There’s a Panda & “soup of the day” so I’m really leaning toward Chinese. Wonder if “convergence of events” is something as well. Can’t figure out the book cover at all. But otoh it’s not common for folks to go to China so that makes me lean toward Japan. But Chinese. I pick Chinese.

[@runningriot7963]

You know story learning recently added Latin, and he has latin in his outro, plus Latin (was) spoken in Rome and Italy, so it's possible.

[@emg7350]

There's a good chance of it being mexican spanish, since at 4:03 the italian flag switches to the mexican flag just before it cuts.

[@runningriot7963]

@@emg7350 You're right I didn't notice that!

[@sarnia7559]

It’s a shame it wasn’t a competition in Sweden. After all those years learning you’ve got to come to Sweden at some point!

[@daysandwords]

I will get to Sweden at some point, no rush.

[@sarnia7559]

@@daysandwords Awesome that you’re so laid back about it, I’d be so impatient to go and use it if I was you. I’ve got to say that once you can speak to a decent level the Swedes are great to talk to in Swedish in my experience. They really appreciate it when someone’s put in the time and effort to learn their language. Despite what everyone says they’d much rather speak Swedish than English. I still feel like slapping myself to wake up sometimes when I have an in-depth conversation with someone. Learning a language is an incredible and often surprising journey. The improvement just kind of creeps up on you. After 1 1/2 years of full time school learning Swedish I’ve only got a month left, then after all that I’m likely to end up getting an English speaking job.

[@bland-g154]

Haha, that's the video you told me about

[@paulwalther5237]

I was multi tasking and got the end of the video wondering... wait did he do a whole video on what his next language is but not tell us? Nah.. I'll watch it again.. damn.

[@stevencarr4002]

I can't see a whole load of Japanese books suddenly appearing in a book fair, and it might be tricky for you to spot that there was among them a translation of an English book you had always wanted to read. So I'm guessing Spanish, as it is usually easy to guess the name of the original book from the Spanish title, if you can also see the author's name and you know what books he, she or they had written. Oh, and that 'You are alone' gag is genius.

[@daysandwords]

Japanese is a LOT more likely than Swedish and Swedish happened... Also the author's name is normally written in Roman text, on the back or the spine or both, sometimes the original title too.

[@ajaynandur9325]

I will guess Turkish. Turkish seems like an underated language that will be hard to guess. Also Turkish is surprisingly big.

[@daysandwords]

Turkish is ABSOLUTELY an underrated language! Here is the answer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH3VqKCjapueo7s

[@mimosveta]

I speak Serbian, which uses identical grammar, and about 30% of same words as Russian, and I couldn't do duolingo Russian course, it's that bad. It literally got me frustrated instead of learning, I think I knew more Russian prior to starting duolingo. I don't like their Chinese, Korean, Japanese, as they force you to learn to write, and those language all sounds so weird (well, maybe not Japanese) that they should focus you more on getting used to weird sounds than to writing system. I passed entire German, and can't say a word of German, and am now on Spanish, and I feel like it's the first good one where I'm actually learning something. I'm yet to start thinking in Spanish, which, from my personal experience with language learning is crucial step, you can't speak if you can't think, and if you are translating, just throw the baby away with the bath water, you're wasting your time. Now, how to think in certain language, when you don't know that language. Just do it. Sure, you won't know all the words you might need, but that doesn't matter. You can think of a thing w/o thinking of a word for that thing. You just try to put words or thoughts rather, in right order. as you learn more words, you'll start to be able to actually speak it, and not just translate. Translate is opposite to speaking. duolingo teaches you to translate. unless you intend to work as a translator, it's useless skill. so, thinking is what you have to do. and movies and tv shows in target langue, if you can't go there and speak to people.

[@annakobuk3618]

Uzbek? 😉 Or Turkish? Hard to tell.

[@JDawg-4]

Dammit I was hoping Korean because my son is going to the Seoul competition as well (I’m taking him) and I’m feverishly trying to learn a little Korean. But I don’t know how to find a “part 2” video from 7 months ago to confirm…🤦🏽‍♀️

[@daysandwords]

Look for the video called "Y'all were wrong".

[@lvp1732]

So it's Latin?

[@joelkelly4154]

There aren't many books that have been translated from English into Latin

[@torreyinwi]

Portuguese?

[@joelkelly4154]

Diēs gallicae sueciaeque linguarum (unless someone with better Latin wants to correct me)

[@daysandwords]

I may or may not correct you in a year.

[@axelgroth]

Why Swedish?

[@londubh2007]

I think we can definitely rule Russian out. We can also rule French out and probably Turkish too. Since the Latin is a German style font, I'm going to guess Germany. Then there's the Adidas jacket while you are holding the obscured book.

[@daysandwords]

Hmmm. They speak with wisdom. On the other hand, it is an Australian cricket jersey afterall. 🇦🇺

[@WeiShiQiang]

Hmm given the clue at the end and looking at the StoryLearning courses available, I'm gonna guess you're learning Latin, and you're going to the Vatican city!

[@njwhum]

I change my mind.. the flag change at 4:03 to the Mexican flag makes me think it's Spanish. Spanish isn't big in Australia, which fits the book fair narrative. But it's got tons of content which I think is what you want. Also, it seems likely you could go to Mexico or another Spanish speaking country for a competition. I don't think you would have mentioned Turkish that much. No signs of Finnish. And I have a feeling it's not Mandarin. Spanish I guess. Please release the next part and free me from the suspense!

[@njwhum]

Also the book cover of "Un pequeño inconveniente"

[@wojwesoly]

1:20 what app is that?

[@daysandwords]

That's Glossika. I don't recommend it.

[@wojwesoly]

@@daysandwords Yeah I saw your Glossika review after this video. So i assume they didn't fix anything? It's a shame Glossika is the way it is as it is the only app I know that shows you the IPA transcription. (I know it's quite a niche thing but it's useful for me)

[@kastanie7445]

Are you going to the Robocup Junior Section in Germany and will you hence learn German?

[@kastanie7445]

Eh, France, it'll be in France. So French, then. Somehow I'm convinced your offspring is into making little robots idk why xD

[@daysandwords]

The people who have picked up on the robots thing are getting too close to working it out. It's a bit obvious if you think about where would have a robot competition. 🙄

[@kastanie7445]

@@daysandwords Animeland? 😁

[@hyggemcb06]

Turkish ?

[@IanBourn]

Your son is competing at the Rubik’s cube world championships in Seoul, so the language is Korean!

[@vincytvholic]

If I ever get to this level of Japanese, I plan to use it to learn Korean.

[@LincolnVOS]

OMG! You're going to compete in Tijuana.

[@daysandwords]

Given that I had to look up where that was, it's not likely. 😬

[@Neandertaleslanguageadventures]

Days of Dutch 'n' Swedish!?

[@kbxbrdr]

I’m not old to the channel but I’ve already seen every one of your videos, hhh. So I guess I’m somewhere in the middle :)

[@Tighris]

lemont, is it turkish?