Polyglots Aren't Real

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Perfecting an Accent
1:35 Why do I study Languages
2:15 The word "Polyglot"
4:01 Voice/Personality change
4:53 What Language do I Think in
5:52 Which Languages Will I Learn Next

[@DoctorLazertron]

The people who “learn a language” in 24 hours or 30 days, from what I can tell, are just using phonetics and memorizing phrases - which, don’t get me wrong, is fun and impressive .. but it took me 3 years of listening and reading Japanese before the barrier really faded and I felt like the language I was hearing was actually a human person speaking their thoughts. I’m definitely not fluent, and have a long way to go, but when you can really catch on to another language it’s like seeing people’s souls come through and very different from just hearing words and consciously translating them.

[@AZ-1003]

私も同じだ! 4年くらい頑張ったでもまだ完璧じゃない 🥲

[@DoctorLazertron]

@@AZ-1003 うん、私はあんまり人と話したりしないから変な言い方がめっちゃあって。日本の音楽大好きで、日本語でカバーやりたかったからよく話さなくてもそれでいいと思う。

[@TheLily97232]

Omg I though it was just me 😂😂😂 it's like you're hearing sentences, not people

[@alanespaguetiis2460]

I stopped reading when u said "took me" XD like, idgaf how much took u bro, honestly, why people got to be this mad about the accomplishments of others? I personally met people that learned a full language in a matter of few months, cuz they put full effort, dedicate long hours everyday, and not just complete 1 session of Duolingo lul, and, there's also a lot of methods to learn languages, some people do it by the classes at school and only that, which is one of the slowest ways tbh, and that's probably your case, u gotta stop being so negative about the topic bro, for real, "took me" lol like ur experience speaks for every single human in the planet XD

[@AZ-1003]

@@alanespaguetiis2460 a few months is believable but not 24 hrs or a week lol definitely impossible

[@emmahallows]

When I was studying linguistics at University I read somewhere that “you are as many people as languages you speak” and that has unequivocally stuck with me throughout my language journey.

[@TheLily97232]

That's VERY VERY true ! My voicr is different in every single one of them

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I am trying to learn all the pretty languages, and focusing mostly on the prettiest ones, and, I highly recommend learning the most alpha and prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish as they are way too pretty not to know, and, I would also recommend learning Slovene and Latvian if one wants to learn a Slavic language, which can also be learnt together with the aforementioned heavenly languages, instead of trying to learn non-pretty languages such as Japanese and Chinese languages and most other languages that exist - I know (and am learning) multiple languages, being writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish, which are my first two languages that I have been learning passively since childhood, and, advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and German and Swedish, and also, mid intermediate level in Welsh / Danish / Portuguese / French / Italian, and beginner level in Gothic / Latin / Gallo / Latvian / Galician / Hungarian / Old English / Forn Svenska / Middle English / Irish / Manx / Gaelic / Estonian etc and most of my other target languages, though I am still in the process of learning and am not native speaker level or writer level in my newer languages yet, but I shall be fluent in many of them in a few years, as it takes years for one to get to a native speaker or writer level, so the more target languages one starts learning, the more years it saves, and the more fun it is, so I would recommend starting learning all target languages in the first year of study! (However, C1 and C2 are just advanced and upper advanced levels, so they aren’t native speaker level or writer level, but, I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created to a writer level, by learning at least over thirty thousand base words automatically, and, one has to know over one hundred thousand base words in English to be truly fluent, as English has way more base words and idioms and slang than any other languages, and also, how other ppl think is not related to languages, actually, as each language that was made after the first language ever created Proto European, which was made from scratch by a dude of germanic origin together with the first writing system, was made by a dude / linguist by modifying the spelling rules of previous languages and by creating new words, so each language is actually a reflection of its creator’s views and the ideas that were included in his mind by the one that made this environment as a test, and, the pretty languages were all inspired by nature, being works of art, which should be learnt for their gorgeous words, including the heavenly Norse, which is one of the greatest works of art of all time!)

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Some fun sentences / words in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are... Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse) Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse) Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse) Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic) Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch) Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc! (The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Danish and English and Norwegian and Faroese and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska!)

[@krisztoth8475]

Now that I started to use English more than my mother language(Hungarian) I feel like I know 2 languages but I don't know any of them I constantly forget words in both languages even tho I know the words in the opposite language

[@penguiyebass]

Igen, tényleg egy kicsit furcsa

[@pretzelx]

i have this problem with 3 languages 🙃

[@TurkistanSeneti]

I have the same problem with 5 langauges😂😂

[@kora4185]

Mom’s Brazilian, dad’s Italian, but they mostly l communicate with each other in Spanish, so I grew up speaking these three languages equally, never had a single trouble mixing them up as far as I could think.. Problem began when I started to learn English and German in school though.. Since then it’s like I keep on forgetting everything unless I don’t spend a lot of time with each and every language everyday. Just like musical instruments: if I spend one day not playing guitar and piano hard, the next day I’m not as good anymore (and the moment I start to become really great at one of them, is because I neglected the other, therefore I’m back at being sh!tty at one of them 🤦🏼‍♀️).

[@RobbieStacks90]

English is the only language I need. I also happen to know Old English and Middle English too, so I have English completely mastered, and I had a near perfect score on the verbal section of the GRE. I'm still trying to completely master Latin, but it's fine if I never do. English is the most important language in the world and will continue to be the world's universal language for millennia to come.

[@Kusdream]

I can really relate to the "high" you may feel when speaking a foreign language, this happens to me a lot when I'm shooting videos as well. Being a French native and mostly speaking Mandarin and English where I live, I barely get to speak my native language here and it's really rewarding every time you get a reaction out of a joke or a well spoken sentence. 加油！

[@Love.Mina-]

Ayyyy mandarin!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I am trying to learn all the pretty languages, and focusing mostly on the prettiest ones, and, I highly recommend learning the most alpha and prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish as they are way too pretty not to know, and, I would also recommend learning Slovene and Latvian if one wants to learn a Slavic language, which can also be learnt together with the aforementioned heavenly languages, instead of trying to learn non-pretty languages such as Japanese and Chinese languages and most other languages that exist - I know (and am learning) multiple languages, being writer level in English and native speaker level in Spanish, which are my first two languages that I have been learning passively since childhood, and, advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and upper advanced level in Dutch and upper intermediate level in Norse and German and Swedish, and also, mid intermediate level in Welsh / Danish / Portuguese / French / Italian, and beginner level in Gothic / Latin / Gallo / Latvian / Galician / Hungarian / Old English / Forn Svenska / Middle English / Irish / Manx / Gaelic / Estonian etc and most of my other target languages, though I am still in the process of learning and am not native speaker level or writer level in my newer languages yet, but I shall be fluent in many of them in a few years, as it takes years for one to get to a native speaker or writer level, so the more target languages one starts learning, the more years it saves, and the more fun it is, so I would recommend starting learning all target languages in the first year of study! (However, C1 and C2 are just advanced and upper advanced levels, so they aren’t native speaker level or writer level, but, I highly recommend learning the prettiest languages ever created to a writer level, by learning at least over thirty thousand base words automatically, and, one has to know over one hundred thousand base words in English to be truly fluent, as English has way more base words and idioms and slang than any other languages, and also, how other ppl think is not related to languages, actually, as each language that was made after the first language ever created Proto European, which was made from scratch by a dude of germanic origin together with the first writing system, was made by a dude / linguist by modifying the spelling rules of previous languages and by creating new words, so each language is actually a reflection of its creator’s views and the ideas that were included in his mind by the one that made this environment as a test, and, the pretty languages were all inspired by nature, being works of art, which should be learnt for their gorgeous words, including the heavenly Norse, which is one of the greatest works of art of all time!)

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Some fun sentences / words in the heavenly languages Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Dutch are... Ek heiti Freyja ok ek em at læra Norrænu því ek elski (elska) hana! (Norse) Hann ǫrninn vissi ekki hvaðan kemr Sólin... (Norse) Ek veit alt er þú veizt ekki! (Norse) Ég hef talað Ensku síðan þegar ég vas (var) tveggja eða triggja ára! En ég get líka talað Hollensku og Norsku og Spænsku og FornNorrænu! Ég get talað Íslensku reiprennandi og ég em (er) ekki með neina hreim! Ef ég gæti lært annað mál, hvað væri það? Það væri auðvitað Danska! Ég em (er) að hugsa að það er mikilvægt að læra að minnsta kosti eitt erlent tungumál, eða flest fallegu tungumálin! Svo ég valdi Íslensku og ég héld áfram að læra hana... Ég læri það í samhengi... (Icelandic) Hvíslaðu að svaninum! En ertu frá hinum hlutanum? Þegar ég segi Ísland, hvað er það fyrsta sem dettur þér í (hug) hugi? Als ik Ijsland zeg, wat is het eerste wat naar boven komt bij jou? (Dutch) Some of the prettiest words in Gothic are namo, þein, hunds, þatist, ik, weis, eis, qen, driusaima, wairþan, ains, sinteina, nist, imma, twais, eisarn, swikn, uhteigo, brunna, faíraþro etc! (The words in these heavenly languages are just so pretty and so poetic and so cool, they are true works of art, so I definitely wish I had learnt them in childhood, and I highly recommend learning them all together, as they are way too pretty not to know and so magical, as pretty as Danish and English and Norwegian and Faroese and Welsh and Breton and Cornish and Forn Svenska!)

[@FrozenMermaid666]

Learning pretty languages is one of the best hobbies ever, plus it can also be used as a job in the future!

[@stousis_0]

I'm learning Russian and its hard😫 but also fun because of the accent😅

[@Volerichka]

О, привет

[@alizhan8989]

why do u think that the accent is fun?

[@stousis_0]

@@alizhan8989 the way they speak it. That's what put me into learning Russian

[@oumaryyub1443]

Russian is such a melodic language, in my conception. Really beautiful sonority and smooth pronounce, in a bunch of sentences.

[@hevy_metal]

I am slav, so it is easier to learn other slavic languages 🤘

[@pashaleibowitz7063]

Rafi is so smart and good at learning different languages! I’ve watched your channel for a long a time now and I have loved seeing you grow as an individual. Whenever I speak Chinese, I also get a little high on that because it’s fun to learn and speak it.

[@dinahkamal7458]

I really loved what you said about perfecting an accent! It is absolutely so important to not let yourself get worked up about certain things, at least not in the beginning. It's best to keep moving forward, and if you are passionate and persistent enough you'll learn the rest in time! Also, I loved the video!! Can we get a video on how the languages you learned to speak started to become more and more natural, and how your response time in answering questions/understanding them fastened over time?

[@sabrina3138]

I always get so hype and excited when I see someone that has the passion for learning languages. Its like this connection when I find them. I love your humility as well

[@luckyelfo8280]

Que legal, concordo com exatamente tudo que você disse. Aprender idiomas novos é realmente algo muito prazeroso e divertido. E assim como você, eu também não gosto de não conseguir ler algo kkkkkkk. Vídeo bacana, continue assim.

[@mgcuniverse9037]

i''m raised by polyglots, it's was a necessity due to the fact that they often traveled to different islands where they spoke different languages and dialects, in addition to them moving to the united states as adults

[@OndrejChlup]

I have always wanted to speak another foreign language apart from English and my native Czech. Over the years, I tried German,Spanish and Russian and now, I have started to learn Polish. I wanted something close to my native language, but still far enough so it is actually meaningfull. Your videos give me a lot of motivation. Thanks

[@joseortega8260]

you can learn slovak it's very close to czech

[@konrad1345]

Dasz radę!

[@ksdzvx3163]

I'm a Pole and recently i've started learning Czech. All these slight differences and unobvious similarities between our languages are so interesting. I don't often see Czechs learning Polish, so feel free to ask me if you need any help.

[@czechistan_zindabad]

Slovak? it's the closest to czech

[@lincolngray4362]

Slovak?

[@ariannabarona799]

I loved this video!! It's fantastic learn and understand another lenguaje, and how this influences your personality

[@cleangelimanunes8346]

Eu sempre fico feliz ao ver um estrangeiro que fala português ou está tentando aprender, sei que muitas pessoas tentam aprender, mas não é a mesma coisa que acontece com o interesse mundial pelo inglês, por exemplo. A gente se sente bem mais conectado com uma pessoa quando ela se interessa pela nossa língua materna 😊 E sobre o termo poliglota, na minha opinião o termo aprendiz de idiomas é bem melhor 😁 Thanks for the video

[@Uniacoty]

The most annoying part for me is that I have an non-langauge accent. So even when I speak English, my native language, I have an accent and it's common for people to think I'm from another country instead of US. So of course when I'm learning new languages, it impossible to perfect any accent since it will always collide with my natural one.

[@craftah]

you can practice and you won't sound like you are from your country. you can sound american or german you just need to practice. i personally dont think sounding like an american or british is cool. you can even have mixed accent and its ok

[@juanesgiraldo5795]

@@craftah you're right, I know many people that got to point where they sound like a native just from practicing so much

[@craftah]

@@juanesgiraldo5795 I mean u can sound like a native but not sounding like a native isn't something bad. Especially when it comes to English. There's so many different English accents

[@Jimmy-vu8dj]

Let your environment change your accent

[@zoeywyllie1411]

I had similar when german went from the foreign language segment if my brain to being more natural i.e natural code-switching, rarely having comprehension etc. The german accent I spoke with (hamburg/hannover) started to leak into english when returnint to the UK from a germany visit. I had to relearn how to talk in my normal accent 😅

[@RvGeral]

That's impressive, not for once I thought you were not american, your accent is just on point. I'm brazilian and I'm learning japanese as well. Agree 100% with you when it comes about the fluency level needed to call yourself a poliglot. Very inspiring your content man

[@mohamadmusa3978]

the way how you introduce topics the music the edit everything on this video is on completly new level, i can see the hard work behind it.

[@danielkrajcar9660]

If you want little advice about the last point, start with azbuka it's pretty big chance that you will understand more than half of every sentence since you're Czech 💀

[@rafipuff]

hahah yeah that's exactly why i wanna learn it, it's so useful

[@craftah]

@@rafipuff si cech? myslel som si ze si zo svedska alebo aj z ameriky lol kde si toto video natocil?

[@marktingle1347]

Well done and well said. Very inspiring and insightful.

[@davidknizek2852]

This video was very clean 🧖 I really love watching this. I can feel that you like doing these videos especially this one. And I agree with your opinion with using term „polyglot“ most of these guys from KZbin are using it literally in every video but after all its understandable 😂

[@sasukesarutobi3862]

Great video, especially the part about picking up accents based on the local accent when you lived somewhere or from your teachers being from somewhere. I'd never thought about it before, but it's a great way to help square identity issues that people have when trying to develop a "native-like accent". Krashen and Kaufmann recently spoke about it in a livestream, but your approach is a really nice way to address it.

[@pault9544]

I've been learning Chinese for over 10 years. A few years in between, I wasn't studying diligently but I at least had typically one person to practice my Mandarin with. For many years, my listening was pretty good, and my street conversational skills was pretty good, but I struggled to having more in depth conversations that would require me to utilize vocabulary and expressions related to more complex topics. I started to do things to increase my vocabulary, started reading Chinese novels and would watch a lot of Chinese youtubers. These videos weren't necessarily meant for educational purposes but I wanted to expose myself to content that native speakers watch themselves for their own consumption. I would watch videos in any and every topic, news, medical, travel vlogging etc. Often I would replay the same video over and over over a series of weeks to months until I could understand almost everything that was said. Then, i would either repeat the words, phrases, or sentences i heard and also practice talking outloud like i was presenting on a topic. I know that sounds meticulous to almost the point of obsession maybe, but I found these methods really helped me to brake past that barrier of just being a skilled passive listener to actually being able to express the majority of what i'm thinking in Chinese. Language learning, though en4joyable, is a long process. That's why I just can't with these youtubers that upload their videos saying they're fluent in a language with one month of learning. I understand their enthusiasm but it is just showing off imo. Even after studying Chinese for so long I never claim to speak "perfect" Chinese (such as many clickbait titles do, just saying) and still want to keep on improving.

[@rutviktopkhanewale8335]

Thank you for making amazing content Rafi! Much love from Canada :)

[@beatrizmsrodrigues]

adoro seus conteúdos, parabéns e obrigada por continuar fazendo.

[@thedani2818]

Watching your videos always haves a clue and a motivation to keeping learning Thank you :)

[@thomas-allen]

you are awesome. I follow you here and twitter and you always make it work and so effortless. Even your earlier videos and the languages, they all work like you've done it forever.

[@lud3269]

Hey Brazilian here, awesome video man I completely understand the pleasure of speaking and understanding someone in another language, I'm still learning English I'm not fluent yet but the moment I was able to understand someone speaking English felt like magic it was amazing I simply can't describe the feeling, I still have to learn a lot of things in English but I already started to learn Russian which will be my next target. Again awesome video and I hope your channel will grow fast.

[@tereza8074]

I really like how you view learning languages. I hope that one day I can learn many languages too and be passionate about them just the way you are! (note: 한글 is designed to be easy and the whole learning process is quick, then you just need to practise(just like with any other language haha). i really enjoyed studying 한글 tho. good luck in the future with all the learning and perfecting your skills in all the languages!🖤

[@karelmuller3503]

I was fully unaware of the fact that you're Czech, that's so cool, this made me even more motivated! Thanks!

[@vittoriolazzaro1138]

Yeah I agree with everything , especially with the changing of the voice , when you are speaking another language your personality changes and you become a completely different person ,and that wonderful

[@bluemoon4944]

Great video! I completely agree with all the points. I'm currently learning Japanese and I'm trying to learn Polish through English because lessons in Spanish (which is my first language) are rare. I must say I'm excited to see if I can learn another language after years of only studying English.

[@Novem-xt7dc]

It's 1:22 AM in my country right now, but I'm enjoying Raffi's latest video. Love you from Burma(Myanmar), Raffi.

[@Corredor1230]

Whoa, I've always felt about it this way, and never saw anyone who conveyed it in the same manner. The word "polyglot" nowadays mostly feels like a way to get easy clicks on KZbin and to make language learning more of a competition than just an average skill. I feel like many people see "polyglots" as superhumans who do something way too incredible, when in reality most people who speak many languages just dedicate their free time to it, or have lived lives that have led them to it. I think both you and I speak more or less the exact same languages (overall on similar levels funnily enough), but much like yourself, I never considered my language learning experience anything to brag about or all that awesome. To me it's no different than people who like to hike or to play football. Just something I do because I enjoy it. Great video.

[@Dhi_Bee]

I’m glad this was on my recommended, as I like studying languages as a hobby. I was surprised you were Czech, as I thought you were Filipino because your English sounds like Filipino English with an American twist (like you spent 1/2 your life there & 1/2 in the US). I hope you’re not offended as it isn’t my intention at all. Im definitely subscribing to your channel though!

[@ivanrumanek]

Totally agree with you on the over-use of the term "polyglot"!

[@languagetraveladoptee]

Great insights! I remember when I was hyper focused on sounding like a native in my first foreign language that I learned successfully, which was German. Now, I definitely speak French with a German accent instead of an American English one, which is my mother tongue! I also don't label myself as a polyglot, though I still put it in video titles. So weird that even 6 years ago my friends who didn't love learning languages had no idea about that term, and now they'd be able to recognize it anywhere

[@betealvarez]

Estou tentando aprender o idioma coreano e tem sido um desafio imenso! Também amo aprender idiomas, falo inglês e um pouco de francês e espanhol.

[@giuliamachado5539]

I agree with you that when we talk in another language, we change our way of express. My mother tongue is Portuguese, but when I talk in English my tone of voice changes and there are not so many changes in intonation. this is a little weird because in portuguese all the time we change the tone to ask a question or express indignation, surprise, anger.

[@jpgeccho]

I had to study French for 5 years at school and for the first 4 I really hated it, but around the last year I started seeing these videos on yotube of people speaking many languages and whatever and the idea of actually being able to speak one got me really excited so I ended up enjoying french and studying hard for it. Now I also have Japanese classes at college and have taught myself various levels of various other languages such as Spanish, Welsh and Norwegian.

[@rafipuff]

keep going king

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

top notch! amazing, welsh is a cool language to learn, thank you friend.

[@Ghost____Rider]

You can just tell how passionate this guy is about languages by the huge, beaming grin on his face throughout the video !

[@PlainPortuguese]

#plainportuguese Great video! Here are some golden tips for learning a new language: 1 - Find the best method for you. The "best" method is the one that gives you pleasure and the will to continue; 2 - Practice listening as much as you can. There is no shortage of options: music, podcasts, TV series, or KZbin channels; 3 - Talk to native speakers. Don't be afraid or ashamed to make mistakes> There are many applications for this and probably the interlocutor may be wanting to learn your language; 4 - Remember that there are no shortcuts. Persistence and patience are fundamental in this process and if you found your own method, that will not be the problem. Start now! You can do it!

[@Islandlifefornow]

I'm with you on this topic. I like learning languages and I grew up with a mother tongue but I just say I know English. Now if I ever to get to a near fluency then yeah maybe I can speak more than one language. Great topic!

[@bejka3823]

Love the Joji music in the background

[@jumarti96]

And a lot of Tyler, the Creator. Great!

[@olinakatamaran9271]

god your thoughts are so related to me especially about possibility to read something in languages what i even dont understand i just want to know how do they really think its possible to read it do they actually read it or just act like they really can understand this????? and when i can do it myself it just blows my mind like those are real letters wow what.... I admire your confidence to be honest, and your accent is really good!!!!English is my second language and mostly my whole online life is in English but im just too shy like I have never spoken to natives it seems so difficult....

[@McRoma2]

Am learning Greek because of family and faith, first thing that i notice is how many similarities there are to english, so many traits of the language make it easier to learn

[@bangjoeofficial]

I also get told my Indonesian accent sounds feminine and specific to a region in Sumatra. But yea I guess I learned a lot of the early things from women.

[@jmich7]

You are amazing!

[@IvanAldair15]

Thanks rafi for this

[@howir0n1c2]

6:15 im on the start of my language learning journey, I started out with spanish and french, but eventually, I decided I wanted to learn every major script first. I don't know if that was a great idea lol! I've completed learning all but chinese (and japanese kanji) but I already feel like I have forgotten some, such as the devangari script. Either way, you saying that you also wanted to focus on your scripts made me feel not so alone in this undertaking. Best of luck to you! P.S. I enjoyed learning the arabic script the most, as it is beautiful to look at, very easy to learn, and yet still very tricky to master.

[@oumaryyub1443]

I really identified myself with your targets and frustrations. Despite, the speech was sharp. Cheers!

[@davecole2561]

Well said regarding polyglot, sir. I completely agree. Let's call ourselves language lovers, perhaps... I chime with so much of what you said. I am on holiday in Northern Portugal and feel different when speaking (at a B1-B2 level, B2 on a good day). Funny that you don't count in Czech, as in my experience as an English teacher and learner, humans tend to revert to L1 or the native language when counting. Also, it's difficult to understand large numbers in a different language when spoken fluently and quickly. It's a question of TMI for the brain to process, unless you're very advanced and have lives in that country for a long time. Great video and your English is so perfect that I can't believe you're Czech! Where was that beautiful, lush background when you filmed this? I would happily subscribe and hear more from you. Good luck in your noble linguistic efforts.

[@midnight8294]

love always your videos. stay healthy 💙💙

[@languageswithcartoons]

Of course we enjoy when you make videos about them! You have very similar opinions about them as I do. Glad I found your video! My sub

[@rafipuff]

thanks a ton!!

[@nomarfobeatz9113]

Very Cold Instrumental choices in the video!

[@chocoerosion5658]

I can relate, I absolutely hate not being able to read certain texts just due to its script

[@nemuelvelazquez4652]

I agree on the last one, thought my vocabulary is growing I'm not in the level where I want it to be yet (don't get me wrong, I know how to read it, write it for the most part but it depends on the vocabulary words that I know). But the way you have to know it's has stresses in that language (it's not that hard once you know), so I understand completely, I do plan to be somewhere in the B2 and a lot of other stuff that's important to me in that level, I think you understand me from here. And if you want to know what it is, it's a Slavic language.

[@gothamuzumaki9804]

I had never commented on a video, but now I want to thank you for your video where you speak all languages you know thank you that video I started to learn Japanese and 1 year later I come back and I can understand the part when you speak Japanese and I really feel very happy I am very grateful having found this video (Pd. Mi lengua materna es español y de antemano pido una disculpa por mi ingles jajaj )

[@aarya4230]

Learning language is the best thing i can do i feel so happy when im learning language i speak 3 languages and i can read and write in korean and japanese i have very good memories of learning language and i will always keep learning languages i feel very happy that i found your channel i love your videos keep it up

[@amaranttribal2043]

I like studying Korean and Japanese side by side as they are so similar in a lot of ways with vocab, sentence structure and particle useage. I feel like both languages compliment each other in terms of studying them.

[@yondaime4798]

4:25 Eu entendo perfeitamente o que você quis dizer aqui, eu já reparei que quando eu estou falando inglês a minha voz fica bem feminina em comparação a quando estou falando em português kkkkkkkk

[@AdmiralKusnetsov]

bro all the music in this video was unnecessarily hard 💀 nice vid dawg

[@fabio6941]

Man i really feel you atm. When counting things i do it in italian because its easier to not lose count and its faster, yet when i take notes i take them in english. In my head i speak both 🤣

[@zoni.visuals4769]

damn rafi this video made my day and i really wanna learn japanese now

[@kinasho7339]

Haha I can really relate to wanting to learn scripts just to be able to feel like I'm on top of the world when I see something in another script and am able to read it.

[@mariajulialemos5286]

What a great video! I'm currently learning german, and I'm not so good at it now, but your words inspire me. It gives me more confidence. So, because of it, I have to thank you. Sorry if I made a mistake. English is not my first language. Greetings from Brazil :)

[@danone9671]

É sempre bom ver BR por aqui kkkkk

[@hugosoareslemos1638]

That’s so cool you speak Portuguese! Greetings from a Brazilian! 🇧🇷❤️

[@keka5059]

Idk why but I love to learn languages and now I`m learning Esperanto cause I watched the film "captain fantastic" and I was taken buy surprise cause I never saw anyone speaking that language before. It`s easy to learn and it would be very interesting if you made a video trying to learn Esperanto. Kisses from Brazil, love your channel

[@kylecheng3150]

love from China❤️❤️ ur doing such great job!

[@alexmoonstar7974]

I agree that to make the most progress in the beginning, focusing on pronunciation and accents isn't the most important. Its possible to make it over-important. However it is perhaps one of the most *critical* things to get down at some point because if you never focus on hearing and saying the says correctly, you won't be understandable. Some people never focus enough on it and so become unfluent later on and causes you to loose your motivation. However this is just from my own experience, with French. I can read and write in French, I've even read books in French but I still can't speak it for the life of me. C'est un grand Malheur.

[@SteveChiller]

English is my native language but heard lots of Spanish growing up but didn't speak it. I started learning Brazilian Portuguese a couple years ago by sorta accident, now I want to go visit! I had no interest before learning Portuguese. It's funny I was trying to find videos on Portugal Portuguese but theres a TON of Brazil videos so I started learning that sotaque. kkkkk :D

[@michellecavalcante5883]

I've heard that it's harder to find things to study PT-PT than BR-PT, simply because there are a lot more of us, Brazilians, than Portuguese.. Which kinda makes sense, since Brazil has a population of over 214 million and Portugal just over 10 million (just for you to have some notion, Brazil's biggest city, São Paulo, has a population of over 12 million, 22 million counting the metropolitian area as well). So, yeah, there are a LOT of content made in Brazilian Portuguese online, either being videos or books, so a lot of foreigners end up learning our version. Good study ;)

[@hazalmin7950]

Sorry if this sounds like odd or so BUT I'M SO IN LOVE OMGGG could u make more videos talking in the other languages ? I don't really have the possibility to go to the countries i wanna learn the languages from,, is there any language you learned without anyone's help or without speaking to natives ? I'm pretty good in learning languages but seeing you so motivated and just so happy really motivates me even more AND I AM SO IN LOVE WITH HOW U SPEAK JAPO N CHINESE :(((( this made my night so great now hehe tyyy i actually got the interest in learning Chinese by seeing how you're so good at it it makes me litteraly so happy >< keep going

[@FmcPearmaN]

Bro now I wanna learn a language been wanting to for a while, also good choice on tyler the creator beats

[@MR-bp8od]

i used to watch you ages ago when you barely had any subscribers, so i was so surprised to see you in my feed, wow

[@dashi3l]

I've been learning Japanese for about 2 years now and I can confidently say it was the best decision of my life. Learning languages is now one of my favourite things to do and makes up a large part of what I'm known for around the people I know. So far the experience has been a real ride and I'm planning to take the JLPT for the N2 next July. In the future I'm planning to learn Korean and Chinese as well.

[@Loldude-go9wp]

I mean at least you can watch anime without subtitles

[@dashi3l]

@@Loldude-go9wp I guess your right lol. But I still have trouble with more difficult anime.

[@yishihara55527]

After close to four decades of Japanese and being a full-time language professional for almost two decades now, I can say that it really wasn't worth it. I know that's now what people want to hear, but it's the truth.

[@MiguelSD]

hey can you give me help on how to start learning japanese? im already trying to memorize some hiragana characters and my hearing at these characters are a little bit good

[@dashi3l]

@@MiguelSD Once you learn hiragana move to katakana and after that there's really no specific guide because we all have different ways of learning. I would recommend maybe reading a grammar guide like IMABI's and you should also definitely use a program called anki for vocabulary and kanji. Just have fun and find your method of learning.

[@CultureJourney]

I totally get wanting to learn other scripts. Before I started learning languages I was obsessed with codes. Then I realized that foreign languages are like codes but better! But just knowing a script can be used as a code or just make it easier to learn in the future. Just have fun!

[@Veilure]

This is a really great video !! :D I was wondering who taught you all these languages/how you learned them. Are there any specific strategies you use ?

[@yasspanda2559]

I can fluently speak four languages mainly because I use them almost everyday. Living in a multicultural country does that to a person. I'm learning French and Spanish, but I'm having difficulty with them because I don't really use those two and I have no reason to, unless I visit countries that speak them and stay there for some time.

[@vaniabrusiguello8818]

Sou brasileira, estou aprendendo francês, e acho muito difícil.

[@Den-nu6pv]

Thanks for being honest I agree 100 percent.

[@paprikaghoul]

I‘m from Germany and when I spoke English for the first time last month in Japan I felt sooo much more open and expressive! Idk why that is but I really agree with you that each language you learn kinda creates a new „version“ of yourself. In Japanese I feel like I am the same way like you. More feminine and yasashii😆

[@MncMarcos]

You are right, there is some people who claim they are polyglot and they can only use the basics of each language with a bad accent and mistakes, there is a few people who are fluent in a bunch of languages in youtube, but a lot of people are just "conversational/basic" in their languages.

[@ynntari2775]

In my DID system we all have roughly the same voice in our native language but completely different voices in English. One of us have a super high pitch British voice and there are others with super low voices I didn't even know we could do, it's wild.

[@AUGUSTIN-MUSIC]

Joji - Cant get over you in the back round was fire

[@AzogDefilerFromMordor]

The biggest problem in learning languages for me is a lack of sources in my native language. So for instance if I wanted to learn Spanish there are only a few and quite poor sources (online) for it so I have to learn Spanish through English that is not my native language either. There is an app that connects people from all over the world that can help each other to learn their language. There are tons of native spanish speakers who wants to learn for instance English and vice versa and can help each other but guess how many native Spanish speakers wants to learn my language? About 3-4 and they were not even active. Damn

[@BoredAndSad]

Até um tempo atrás eu tinha problemas de maturidade falando o português brasileiro, e vendo tantas piadas de duplo sentido em tudo, porém hoje eu apenas aceitei que quando você sabe uma língua, você pode ver o mundo de um jeito diferente.

[@MiguelSD]

a qual é a sua língua nativa? eu sou brasileiro mas sei falar inglês e to aprendendo japonês

[@p.b.7719]

Oi

[@bhutchin1996]

Sometimes you've got to give yourself a break. Also, a language is like a muscle; if you don't use it, you lose it. Still, going back to a language you haven't had contact with for a while is like muscle memory. My first foreign language is Spanish. 2nd is French. I CLEP'ped out of 3 semesters of both languages when I was in college (at uni). I studied Brazilian Portuguese on my own for several years and even used it regularly in a relationship, at work, and even at a church I attended for a while. There's so much lexical similarity between Portuguese and Spanish that I had no problem switching to Spanish when I needed to. I studied 3 semesters of German and 2 years of Russian at uni, but those are my weakest languages. Doing about half of an Assimil course helped me improve my German. I can follow Udemy courses in Russian and German OK, but I won't understand every word, so context is important. Very recently I did Italian for 3 months on Duolingo and I was a bit surprised at how my Portuguese helped with it (cookie [American]/biscuit [British] = 'biscoito' in Portuguese, 'biscotto' in Italian, 'galleta' in Spanish). Netflix also helps. I recently started studying Turkish recently because there are a lot of Turkish (and Arabic) courses I don't have linguistic access to. Also, a Turk owns and operates a local restaurant and his English is minimal, just enough for him to serve food to the public. I've watched a few Turkish movies and TV series on Netflix and they're surprisingly good. I tried doing some Turkish on Duolingo, but there seems to be an expectation of you knowing a bit of the vocabulary first. Still, I'm enrolled in a fairly good Turkish course on Udemy where the instructor is good at explaining things even better than my L1 French (as the language of instruction) Assimil course does. As for my current approach, I think devoting 3 months to a language and then switching to another one for 3 months works for me, but your mileage may differ. Once I switch to Arabic, I think my limited Turkish vocabulary will help because Turkish (and so many other languages) have Arabic words as part of its lexicon.

[@renzojose6555]

Love the frank ocean background!

[@mravalik]

There are two things I want to mention. 1.) The adrenaline fueled 'high' feeling is relatable among most people who learn languages; like you and myself, that sense of connection you attain through speaking the others mother tongue, has a deep feeling of satisfaction. 2.) With the labeling of "Polyglot", I am very careful when using it, and generally tell people who I first meet that I am an 'aspiring hyperpolyglot', because although I have managed to learn the very basics of 31 languages (conversational in 11 of them), I emphasize heavily on the 'aspiring' part because I don't want to give the false notion that I speak them fluently whatsoever but rather I am in the continuous process OF obtaining fluency in those languages. (PS - I can read in Arabic and Farsi, but can read and write in Greek, currently learning to read and write in Armenian)

[@maximilianisaaclee2936]

I agree with you on the term "polyglot", I don't like using the word too, even though technically I'm qualified for it because I'm conversational in 5 to 6 languages, 5 of those were acquired since childhood, growing up in a multilingual environment, 3 of them can even be considered my mother tongues, I don't feel like I worked to achieve fluency on them, it just came organically. Only the 6th language did I actually work for it and still working on it, achieving at least a conversational level. Like what you mentioned, I feel that some people call themselves polyglot just to make themselves feel great, I prefer to call myself multilingual instead but that's actually how we've been calling ourselves, I saw the word polyglot only in recent years.

[@Mobik_]

Similar thing with me... I use English WAY more than my mother tongue (Spanish) which NO ONE uses English in Argentina... but still, I use it for work, internet and my everyday thoughts. My personality changes a lot in English and all the sudden I become way more confident, I do clever jokes and even I socialize a lot more than when I use Spanish. I'm also learning Japanese (a bit more than a year) and I start having dreams in English practicing my Japanese while sleeping LOL and trying to become super fluent as well.

[@rafipuff]

Thanks for sharing, that's so cool

[@Mobik_]

@@rafipuff thank YOU for being an inspiration as well ❤️ Love your videos

[@millamin1]

new video next week? bro's really getting consitent 🤠

[@gir4ff_flawless93]

frank ocean and joji as background music, had to stop cause i thought my playlist was still runnin lol

[@amphioctopus]

ur english accent is really amazing!!!i thought it was ur native language at first

[@johanmedrano1924]

Learning in general is so fun.

[@gogakushayemi]

Agree on concentrating on pronunciation early on is demotivating. I quit Chinese lessons because of over-emphasis. Then I spent like 5 months bingeing Taiwanese shows and now I speak well enough that people understand me. Totally agree on the word polyglot. I got my start in languages before KZbin (I am 40) and when I researched a word to talk about speaking a lot of languages, I came up with plurilinguist. Plurilinguist emphasises the ability to switch back and forth between languages. That feels like me. Later polyglot became popular, but I feel like the word has too much attahed to it. I still prefer plurilingual/ plurilinguist. And I also have different personalities in different languages. My Japanese personality is the most reserved. My Brazilian personality is always ready to party. My Mandarin is loud and happy.

[@ayszhang]

I would argue that nailing the pronunciation is necessary if you have specific goals in mind. If you just want to indulge in the learning process (which I love too), have some superficial conversations with natives or other learners, travel in that area, then not worrying too much about pronunciation is completely fine. Note, I would argue that with tonal languages you still need to focus on it because it is actually difficult to understand foreigners when they don't get the tone right. On top of that, the learner's grammar may be wrong so there is nothing to aid in guessing which character you are trying to say. My goals of learning a language is to assimilate. The experience becomes quite different when you sound natural to the native speaker, and they stop treating you like an outsider. Very different perspective.

[@ludmiladourado4542]

Tu é br?

[@gogakushayemi]

@@ludmiladourado4542 Não. Trabalhei nos jogos do Rio de 2016.

[@ldgaming4213]

日本語は話せますか？

[@gogakushayemi]

@@ldgaming4213 もちろん。14年間日本に住んでいる。

[@otakus1216]

Immaculate music choices Also, I really want to learn Arabic, Russian, French, and Japanese but they all would be very difficult except French Arabic and Russian just because I think they're really interesting languages French and Japanese because, my girlfriend (long distance relationship) is from Québec Canada so, I may possibly move there with her someday Then for Japanese, it's just because I grew up really liking the language and culture so I really hope to visit Japan someday I'm most familiar with French and Japanese and can slightly understand them when reading or listening but not good at all when it comes to speaking-

[@fcsolis]

Awesome.Thanks.

[@jadenfrazier9211]

My grandmother's immediate family, and then, her children, were polyglots. It wasn't hard for them though because they spoke English, Spanish, Yiddish, German, Italian and Portuguese and learned them as kids. Her parents moved around a lot and it was normal to adapt to different languages since birth. My mother didn't teach us all of those, however. She didn't think it was necessary since she planned to stay in the USA. Unfortunate because now we struggle to learn to communicate with extended family who come to visit. 😑

[@The1313cool1313]

On the last thing you said ... I'm interested in so many vastly different languages that I'm having a hard time limiting myself to just a few of them. I think if I were to learn every language I wanted to I'd be at about 20? I currently speak two. Yea ... I'll never be able to speak so many languages to a satisfactory level. And learning English was easy compared to trying Japanese. Though tbf I'm just really afraid of taking the next step and starting with Kanji as I go along. Anyhow. It's frustrating to start learning with "I'll never be able to achieve my ultimate goal."

[@Draveance]

Learning Multi-Language Is Hard Also Tricky* Thats Why I Respect Rafy Much, My Inspiration as Usual" Based in My Experience Learning* If You Wanna Get Fluent To Speak Certain language. Having Test Your Self Trying To Talk In Public With Local Citizen in Some Country IS Different From Just a Written Test, & Textbook or having Exam In a Class. I Find That having a Friend From Another Country With Different Language to Talk With & Try Go in Public Talk With Local People Have So Much Better to Learning Language Experience Rather Than Only Keep Sitting in Same Room/Class Learning Textbook, Cause Base on Rafy Said, If We Go On Field To Practice It, We'll Encounter Something That We Don't Usually Found in a Class, The Field Experience*, Enviroment*, Meeting People With Accent*, The Way They Talk & Personality* Each Person Is Different* That's at Least My Personal Experience *

[@o0...957]

As a perk of being an Indian, I already knew 3 languages by the time I was 2 years old, Bodo(my mother tongue), Assamese (because I am from Assam even though I find it hard to read written Assamese), Hindi which I picked up from movies). Now I fluently speak four languages, though I still have a bit accent in my English, and currently learning Japanese, I recently got started with N4 level.

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

cool, is bodo a dravidic language like Tamil?

[@o0...957]

@@miguelluissousadias1371 Bodo is a Sino-Tibetan language, mostly found in Assam.

[@miguelluissousadias1371]

@@o0...957 thanks, cool to know

[@o0...957]

@@miguelluissousadias1371 your welcome.

[@lol-ii1bd]

@@o0...957 I'm from Assam too but my mother tongue is Assamese or অসমীয়া

[@addisonparent4289]

2:03 exactly how I feel! well said my friend