How Italian Polyglot

[@storylearning]

Hungry for another method breakdown on an equally impressive polyglot? Learn how Lindie Botes taught herself over 12 languages, including Korean and Japanese 👉🏼 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoCrl6mogMZ2mKc

[@LucaLampariello]

Thanks for making such a nice and informative video about my and my language learning philosophy Olly! =)

[@sundog8772]

@@perfectionpersonified0 Which Dr Peterson? Jordan? If so then no he doesn’t sound like him at all.

[@Hide_and_silk]

I had a pivotal language experience but it was VERY negative. We started learning French in early junior school back in the late sixties. I think it was an experimental thing. I loved it. It was my favourite lesson. I learned all the songs and all the vocab. Then my lovely teacher had a bad accident and the much disliked geography teacher took over. He just put tapes on repeat, screamed at us when we didn't understand, threw things at us, hit and shook us. I was terrified of language lessons, convinced I was stupid and would never learn. In high school I wanted to study science so languages weren't an option on the curriculum. Fast forward 44 years. We moved to France last year and I started to try to re-engage with French. I'm now on the advanced level of Speakly, able to converse easily with French friends and neighbours and hating my old language teacher even more...a teacher who has deprived me of nearly a lifetime of language learning. Now planning which language is next!!

[@AndreaAvila78]

OMG poor you! Your teacher was horrible. How lucky you are now, learning French in France!!! I feel so jealous! Green with envy here!

[@raedshmaia8972]

trust there is divine timing in your life

[@Hide_and_silk]

@@AndreaAvila78 He really was horrible - and in my older and more enlightened opinion - had a very unhealthy interest in the boys at school. I'm sure wouldn't be allowed to teach in modern schools. But that was a different era. Lot's of 'stick' (the day started with the public caning in assembly of the previous day's miscreants!) and very few 'carrots'. France is wonderful. We love it. It was the prospect of a language test to renew my residence permit that finally forced me to start learning again and I'm so glad I did.

[@AndreaAvila78]

@@Hide_and_silk I'm so sorry you had that traumatic learning experience at school. Nowadays things have reversed and kids are horrible to teachers. They torture them now. I'm glad you're enjoying French and your new country. I've only been to France once, just to Paris and people were lovely to me when I attempted to speak the language. I loved it. 🥰

[@Hide_and_silk]

@@AndreaAvila78 I agree. I have friends and family who are teachers and they've had some awful experiences. The pendulum has swung a little too far in the other direction...all rights and no responsibilities 🙁. I hope you get to go to France again. It's a beautiful country.

[@jemand8462]

in short: You need to WANT to learn the specific language. Everything else is secondary.

[@zahleer]

It's completely true. I remember French in highschool and how I never paid attention to it. Then how I speak fluent Italian outside of school on my own

[@Mobferklopfer]

I guess that is basically the key to learning most things. that and the fact that motivation often comes after you start simply because you can only have successes/ accomplishments after you start.

[@gogakushayemi]

Luca's method is very very different from mine, but I also enjoy his philosophising. PS, My mission is to, one day, be featured on Olly Richards as a plurilinguist. "How Yemi learns languages."

[@storylearning]

❤️

[@christopherellis2663]

The word is polyglot

[@paper2222]

@@christopherellis2663 or multilingual/linguist

[@Tehui1974]

I like Luca. When it comes to languages, he's very skilled but also very modest.

[@Thing-vc2qm]

Once again, the secret is daily work and long-time commitment. Somewhat disappointing, yet rather reassuring.

[@storylearning]

And explains why so few people achieve it!

[@gabrielcarmn]

For me Luca is a Real Polyglot , he is at least b2 in all the languages he speaks , no like this fake polyglots speaking 20+ languages and only know 5 words .Although if you wanna know 5 words in 30 languages that's ok too 😂💁

[@花仔-d1h]

At first i didn't believe any of the polyglot mainly because language learning is time consuming as i can understand how i learn in school.I was wrong when i had seen some of his video in different languages which is truly amazing.

[@walteradant7401]

Not in Japanese. He’s not B2 in Japanese.

[@TWolf317]

It's so interesting to me how many language learners / teachers say that speaking will come later after you have had enough input and others say just the opposite. I'm sure we've all heard the teachers who insist you "must speak from day one!" and that speaking is absolutely the most important part. I've only recently become serious about language learning and I fall in the camp of input-input-input and the speaking can come later. Since I've started to build my routine around input, I am amazed at how much more quickly I am able to understand things in my target language (Dutch). I've still got a long way to go, but I'm excited about the journey now.

[@evalinacesarcassule5097]

I don't know why you're so surprised 🙄. We,as humans,learn our native language not by learning the grammar or by speaking first, we EAR the language first

[@yesno9637]

Im alsi learning durch

[@polyphoniac]

Lampariello's bi-directional translation approach is reminiscent of the method Benjamin Franklin employed to improve his English prose. According to his autobiography, he took from a volume of the Spectator articles whose elegance of expression he admired "and making short Hints of the Sentiment in each Sentence, laid them by a few Days, and then without looking at the Book, tried to complete the Papers again, by expressing each hinted Sentiment at length and as fully as it had been express'd before, in any suitable Words that should come to hand".

[@cameronhubberstey6039]

One day, I will speak 9+ languages fluently, starting with Italian (+Tagalog on the side)… then I’m off to learn Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, French, Greek, Japanese and Mandarin

[@museoo]

good luck!

[@JA-jh5gr]

Some tips and how can I contact you? If possible

[@cameronhubberstey6039]

@@JA-jh5gr You can contact me, you’ll find a method if you go to the info on my section of KZbin. Sorry for the late reply

[@stevencarr4002]

The obvious question is how many years Luca agreed to spend in Hades as part of a deal to grant him the ability to pronounce Polish words?

[@storylearning]

😅

[@kevinbarth]

😄

[@AndreaAvila78]

Luca Lampariello es brillante! Habla español con un acento hermoso! Me impresiona escucharlo. Me da un poco de envidia también. Como quisiera hablar varios idiomas!!!

[@thecosplaycrafter8017]

A mí también jaja. Hablo español, francés e inglés pero también quiero aprender idiomas como italiano y noruego.

[@AndreaAvila78]

@@thecosplaycrafter8017 Hablas un montón de idiomas 🤯! Excelente!

[@thecosplaycrafter8017]

@@AndreaAvila78 ¡Gracias! Actualmente estudio noruego con Duolingo pero estudié un poquito de gaélico escocés, irlandés y japonés también.

[@AndreaAvila78]

@@thecosplaycrafter8017 Todos idiomas hermosos! Pero que difíciles!!! 🥰

[@Boss_Scaggz]

@@thecosplaycrafter8017 Soy un hablante nativo de ingles, pero estudio español y japonés y ya me he enseñado alemán también. Sí, japonés es muy difícil, especialmente los kanjis, pero la pronunciación de español no es cosa de broma. ¡Considérate afortunado! 😋

[@bernardopercia]

You're a great inspiration, Olly! Thank you for such valuable info. Um grande abraço do Brasil!

[@storylearning]

Obrigado você

[@Marcelo-m6f]

"when you learn a new language it becomes bridges not barrier anymore" that was a awesome perspective

[@ameenahsf]

This is so cool. The fact that he didnt just master the language but the accent as well! #Goals haha

[@MannyWalks]

Luca is something else 🔥🔥🔥 mamma mia che legenda assoluta! 😎 La cosa che più mi affascina è il focus che ripone sull'accento e l'intonazione della lingua target, tanto che lo puoi scambiare come native speaker, quasi proprio da rasentare la perfezione! Answering your question: I definitely get massive input in English (from books, YT videos, TV series etc), while at the same time though for Swedish I'm struggling a bit, and so there are days in which I'm on fire and hyped to get started the new lesson or listening interesting audio materials, and days instead in which even listening 5 minutes of my fav podcast is a total struggle. I need to find some balance here 😬 Great video as always Olly 😎

[@storylearning]

Thanks for the comment!

[@balumfull]

Thank you for the great video. Luca's english is unbelievable good. I would have just assumed he was born and raised in canada or america and that English was his only language.

[@davidcarvajal4137]

I wanted to thank you kindly for this video. It confirmed me that polyglots are above all, philosophers. In the etymological sense of the word. Knowledge lovers, for how can you learn anything if it is now out of passion and dedication.

[@swxldblob6285]

Omg im italian and I know how hard for an italian is to have no accent when soeaking english, and his english its like 100% as that of a native speaker 😱

[@storylearning]

It's fantastic!

[@jeremyh9033]

I wonder if he's lived in the US? Honestly I never would have known he's not American. Amazingly good accent.

[@mikereisert2803]

@@jeremyh9033 no he hasn't. As far as I know he hasn't even been there once

[@Boss_Scaggz]

Yeah, he's never lived in the US. His accent isn't perfect, but it's pretty damn close! It probably would be perfect if he didn't have 10 other languages to focus on lol

[@jeremyh9033]

@@mikereisert2803 wow, even more impressive.

[@Aknight292]

Working towards polyglot status. Native English speaker, fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, and learning Egyptian Arabic now. Probably want to move to Spanish or Italian. Eventually want to learn Greek.

[@Nomihc]

AK92, that’s awesome! I’m learning Brazilian Portuguese as my third language right now (3 months in). I speak Assyrian and learned English when we moved to the US some 20 years ago now. Any tips you could offer for Brazilian Portuguese? Recommended books, websites, KZbin channels, resources etc.? Anything for beginner-lower intermediate level would be very helpful. Cheers!

[@Aknight292]

@@Nomihc try watching Novelas from Brazil. I recommend some like A Dona do Pedaço, Avenida Brasil, and A Força do Querer for some authentic Portuguese like how people actually talk in Brazil. If you look up GloboPlay you can find these online pretty easily. GloboPlay should include a lot of things from sports to movies to Novelas to even news cast i believe. Tips, i can think of try to copy everything you hear and try to imitate it as close as possible to what you heard. Read books out loud. Make sure you get probably around 10-30 new vocab words to learn every day. Basic stuff.

[@Nomihc]

@AK92 Thank you for the advice! I’ll check out GloboPlay. I’m currently watching a series I found on KZbin from 2002 called Malhação. It’s entertaining and I find myself understanding a little more with each episode. My main thing is improving my listening comprehension which I’m sure will happen with more time. Again thanks for the advice and best of luck with your language studies!

[@aliaflow6877]

Do you speak Italian?

[@Aknight292]

@@aliaflow6877 no. I understand some. But don't speak much

[@antoinemoore2332]

I think you are quite the language philosopher yourself Olly. I think your channel has gotten to be progressively better and clearer over time. Congratulations. And thank you.

[@sadhbh4652]

Luca is brilliant. Luca we love you ahhh

[@julialianjosecarrera5649]

Luca Lamperiello and Robin Macpherson are my favourite polyglots out there

[@VioletEnds]

1:12 Looks like Matt from "Matt vs. Japan" got himself a makeover 🤣

[@teamjipper2495]

Great stuff! You and Luca are great. The bidirectional method is what Assimil does.

[@Varangian2494]

I love Olly's quirky shirts 😩. Luca is amazing his pronunciation never cease to astounds me.

[@fernandocupil.6463]

Me encantó el video. Quisiera ver en el futuro un video exclusivo en donde Olly muestra todos los idiomas de los que es capaz de hablar😎

[@lmusima3275]

I’ve followed Luca for the last 12 years on KZbin when I was working hard to improve my language skills in Italian. He’s very much like my great uncle who was a hyper polyglot in almost 20 languages. My origin is west African, Cameroonian and Nigerian. On my Cameroonian side my great uncle learnt the main European languages like German, Spanish, French, Greek, Russian, along with the many languages spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria. At school i hated foreign languages. It didn’t interest me. I was forced to do French then Spanish. It wasn’t until age 22 I began taking foreign languages seriously. Now I’m at level B-C in Italian, B in Greek and A on German. Luca’s methods have been so helpful.

[@blakeharvard5841]

He's a genius.

[@nendoakuma7451]

Luca is one the the greats. I admire him greatly.

[@uneuroalafois9313]

If I may add something I feel like the importance of the quality of the source is never mentioned but is crucial. at least for me. I watch a lot vlogs here on youtube and I feel like if you rely only on them to learn. That would be difficult to speak properly. But It is a excellent tool to make the language enjoyable and work on things like vocabulary, oral comprehension, accents, with an immersion like experience.

[@alissong.]

Best channel NO CAP.

[@m3talhe4d72]

WHAT how does he speak English that well? I almost thought that he was English for a moment. That's amazing that he can learn so many languages. My complete idol lol

[@aliaflow6877]

He doesn't speak it well

[@johnbon4272]

The EASY LANGUAGES channels are great for compressible input. They have a lot of different languages to choose from.

[@AngloSaks666]

Tut tut! 14:48 It's seven little words.

[@DecodingWordswithAndrew]

To me, finding comprehensible input that I find interesting is half the battle. If I can manage to find fascinating content in a language, I know I'll make good progress. If I'm having trouble finding it, it's usually going to be long battle.

[@relyks5670]

So, I speak English and italian fluently, and I’m looking to learn a new language. Im stuck between choosing Spanish and French. I took a little French in high school, but would one be easier than the other? Im assuming Spanish, since it’s closer to italian. Thoughts?

[@frigginjerk]

¿Por qué no las dos? If you want to focus on one, and you really don't feel pulled toward one more than the other... I guess the (annoying and repetitive) question is why learn either, and what do you want to do with it? My guess is that you'd have more opportunities to make use of Spanish than French, although that could change if you live down the street from an expat community or you plan on visiting Paris anytime soon. I've been working on Spanish for 25 years, and French only within the past year or two in any serious sense. I'm surprised as how quickly French is coming to me (so far). Maybe it's just the Latin-based discount I'm getting courtesy of Spanish: verb conjugations and tenses, reflexives, personal/object pronouns, how to use negation and time-adverbs like "now" or "often"... that's all pretty much the same on a conceptual level between Spanish and French. Not to mention the huge overlap in vocabulary. Often the specific words are exactly the same, or at least close enough that you know they came from the same Latin root. I'm assuming the same would generally hold true for Italian, too. French has that reputation for difficult spelling/pronunciation, which I guess is true compared to Spanish, but compared to the house-of-horrors that is English orthography, that might not be saying much. For me personally, that reputation seems over-hyped. As long as I don't unintentionally try to apply English rules to French pronunciation, it's not so bad. There are some general patterns to it, and I've developed an intuitive "feel" for it with a relatively small amount of exposure.

[@relyks5670]

@@frigginjerk yes true. And I live in Ca so it definitely makes more sense to learn Spanish. Atleast first . 👍🏼

[@PuffPuff279]

Yes since Spanish is very close to Italian. @Luca Lampariello even mentioned years back in one of his videos, how he didn't even really need to Spanish in Spain, it just sort of rubbed off on him.

[@arthemas8176]

You could pick up Spanish since you speak Italian fluently. After reaching a good level of Spanish you can dedicate to learn French properly since it's a bit more complicated in promunciation. :)

[@lemattbox]

Olly I think you made an editing mistake at 1:13, the card for Matt vs Japan comes up instead of Luca's

[@gogakushayemi]

Completely random... You, me and Luca are the same age. The early 80s were great for linguists. lol

[@Kevflar]

Awesome video. For my Spanish learning, I've switched from Duolingo and some other stuff on the side to comprehensible input. I keep track of all the input in a sheet.. I'm on day 31 now. On average I'm getting in 123 minutes per day. I also try to switch up the level of input. Many of the things I really like can be a bit too hard still. So I'm watch series in Spanish with Spanish subs (pretty hard), Spanish vlogs for learning Spanish (intermediate) but also Pepe Pig in Spanish. Ofc the last one is easy and I couldn't stand to watch it 2 hours per day. But children programs are really awesome for your vocabulary in my opinion.

[@7Soldier_of_God7]

¿Cómo te fué es tu Español ahora compadre? ¿Sigues aprendiendo?

[@Kevflar]

@@7Soldier_of_God7 Hola! Buena pregunta, gracias. Mí español está mejorando cada día. Todavía estoy escuchando y leyendo todos los días y me encanta el idioma. Desde unas semanas intento practicar mi forma de hablar también. Aunque me falta mucho!

[@joshcoup6440]

As I've recently begun teaching American accented English...i must say his accent is impressive. Like raised in the US impressive.

[@foreverlearningfrench]

Luca est très intelligent et inspirant !

[@ErnieV76]

The real question is, when is the interview!? I’ll pay to watch. 😁

[@tammiesterling4631]

I wanted the answer to your question..what does Luca know that we don’t know?? Thank you Oily

[@storylearning]

Now we know!

[@christopherellis2663]

This method is used in the Slavonica edition of Georgian. I am a minor polyglot. Yep, watching the movie with the transcription is how I got into Croatian, but I also had Standalone BSC to go with it. Newsfeed in several languages is a good thing. PS, I could kill the idiots who misrepresented the Romanian vowels ă and â/î... think o' and u' from Vietnamese.

[@一本のうんち]

I used somewhat of a bi-directional translation method myselef when I was writting my dissertation. Put wikipedia page into google translate from english to russian, then back from russian to english. Then spend time trying to rewrite and paraphrase the newly broken version of original. Never got flagged for any plagiarism, lol.

[@wingedhussar1117]

Hello people, I have the ambition to become a polyglot, too. I am 34 now. My languages are: German (native), English (at least C1), Spanish (B2~C1), Polish (B1~B2), French (B1), Italian [A2], and Russian [A1]. I do not consider myself a polyglot yet, since my language skills are still a bit too mediocre, but I have the desire to reach at least a B2 level in Spanish, Polish, French and Italian before I hit 40. I do not plan to learn more languages except maybe Russian in the far future, since it is already difficult enough to maintain five foreign languages with a full-time job and a family, but would you say that my goals are realistic or maybe I am a bit too over-ambitious also considering my age? (Unfortunately I am not such a genious like Luca, so I will never speak 11 languages lol)

[@yogurtmale1862]

eyy good job though

[@omegacardboard5834]

"There is no magic fountain that gives you perfect comprehensible input" *Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata has entered the chat*

[@budekins542]

The more input the better. Comprehensible input. Common sense!

[@stevefox4757]

im dying to learn spanish german french and chinese now

[@lislearnitalianwithsongs]

I have a dart board with Luca’s face on my bedroom door. He’s so darn good at all those languages! I’m so envious and mad! Dang Luca Lampariello, you dang polyglot, you! Ma un giorno prenderai UN BEL GIRO D’ARIA e ti andrà via la voce. Ha! E voglio vedere chi parlerà tanto bene in Cinese, Uzbeco, ugrofinnico e antico alto tedesco quel giorno lí! Di sicuro non Luca Lampariello, veh!

[@agnivochowdhury1157]

1:12 why did matt vs Japan popped up?

[@storylearning]

It was an interview on Matt’s channel. We’re crediting him

[@agnivochowdhury1157]

@@storylearning oh. I just misunderstood. By the way, your story learning method is making me fluent day by day in italian. I also have your book of short stories in italian. Thanks

[@Adal_CV]

No he visto el video, pero espero que hayas aprendido español para que puedas saber que te quiero

[@rodrigoramos4071]

I'm a huge fan from him.

[@PuffPuff279]

Me too, for many years. 😊

[@GarnetsWeb]

The thumbnails used be to be "zero" and then however many languages they speak now, I guess it's going to be their native language now, which would make more sense.

[@kralece]

may i ask you something. after what degree you automatized about if the subject of sentence is plural or singular. i am still thinking too much about this -s suffixes and other stuff. this is a bit tiring.

[@AvioftheSand]

His English voice is so different from his Italian and German. Interesting that, despite being European, he decided to use an American accent as his way of communicating English.

[@JuanPablo_RDM]

🇪🇸 Me gusta el portugués. 🇵🇹 Eu gosto de italiano. 🇮🇹 Mi piace il francese. 🇫🇷 J'aime l'anglais. 🇬🇧 I like German. 🇩🇪 Ich mag Spanisch.

[@TakeitSpanish]

Cuando oigo a Luca solo tengo dos opciones: o rendirme porque nunca llegaré a ser como él o motivarme mucho porque al menos un idioma debería ser capaz de aprender... si él ha aprendido 11, ¿cómo no voy a poder con una?

[@aliaflow6877]

¿Qué idioma estás aprendiendo?

[@TakeitSpanish]

Ahora mismo solo portugués, ¿tú?@@aliaflow6877

[@TakeitSpanish]

@@aliaflow6877 Ahora ninguno nuevo... el año pasado empecé con portugués, peor me he mudado a EEUU (=USA) y quiero perfeccionar mi inglés :D

[@anonUK]

It would be interesting to know the difference in Brexit voting behaviour between people with A-level or better in one or more European language (especially if foreign to them) and those who know little more than "Una cerveza por favor". I think we can guess the answer...

[@Osafune2]

What does membership of a supranational trading block have to do with enjoying languages? It may be a shock, but there are valid reasons to be against the EU and there are numerous intelligent leave voters

[@alfonsohshk8998]

Too many ads in this video making it difficult to pay attention to it. I just surrendered in the middle of the video

[@arturodiaz8018]

Mi héroe ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@over2166]

he made a funny mistake in German... he said auswenden instead of anwenden...

[@Akab]

yeah, even though otherwise his pronounciation is pretty much flawless! ^^

[@bluebaum2.7.16]

His German pronounciation is actually insane

[@oleksijm]

It also helps that Luca most likely has an IQ of 120+ coming from a family of mathematicians (or physicists, or both, if I recall correctly). More of a sarcastic comment, sorry. I love both of you guys' content.

[@yogurtmale1862]

it’s ok man, he is a genius 👀

[@barak363363]

17:05

[@petarilic8695]

My god! He can pass as Russian native speaker, easy!

[@stevefox4757]

"feed your brain"..it started

[@bruno_sales]

Make a video about Gabriel Poliglota please

[@chadvader974]

Olly. I am trying to cancel my free trial of your Japanese course (nothing to do with the content, its just my level is above the content of the course). However, I am unable to do so because nobody will reply to my cancellation emails! I don't want to be charged and have sent multiple emails over several days. Can you please respond to me. Thanks.

[@lisanarramore222]

❤

[@jishnu5451]

He sounds like Micheal Scott.

[@jesusbustillos1266]

Martin aquiere un jardín

[@lvp1732]

Chat gpt can generate stories in multiple languages and can write them at different language levels *wink *wink just an idea

[@josmith5419]

❤️

[@autodidacticseaturtle7955]

Every time I watch these videos, I end up taking several brakes to practice my French.

[@eugeneboichuk]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@traskcan]

This dude doesn’t even have an Italian accent

[@howir0n1c2]

He sounds like Jordan Peterson

[@doriendespiegeleer5752]

OMG you're right 😅

[@thegahd]

im sorry but this is so wrongly presented. For me I watched animes for years and learned nothing in regards to speaking. Started using textbooks a year ago and now I can make sentences and understand animes and japanese dramas

[@wadimwadimow5439]

Tipps ANwenden und nicht AUSwenden.

[@blub11984]

auswenden??? anwenden, bruder

[@bigboss3051]

Hey Olly maybe you could turn the lights off in the background as they're wasting electricity... since we're both interested in keeping the planet alive, as I can see from your shirt. Also don't ship T-shirts across the world, walk to a charity shop. Thanks ! :)

[@cabiria0]

This is entirely uninspirational. Being a language nerd and dedicating your entire life to the study of languages is a complete and total waste of time. The Italian polyglot is surely a very gifted man, but part of that gift derives from a particular life choice, which is making language learning the central aspect of your life. You need extraordinary amounts of time, money and resources for that and not everyone is fortunate in those areas. Being a polyglot is an unrealistic fantasy that will never be achieved by people who are trying to earn a living, establish families and pursue social relations in their local community. I did learn French, read many French books but never met a French person and unfortunately have very bad speaking skills in it. And I am sure "nonpolyglots" have similar experiences: their language skills are largely determined by their concrete life contexts. So why are you showing people whose lives organized around learning languages at a high level? That is a very specific and rather uncommon form of life! Are they engaged in intelligence services? What is the gain or recognition that you get when you speak like a native? What is the use? In general terms what are you doing in this channel? Language entertainment??? If I were you I would be teaching the language and not going around expecting us to be impressed by polygots