YouTube Polyglots Must Be Stopped

[@LivingIronicallyinEurope]

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[@Lacigany.]

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[@tylerredforge5563]

im gay

[@druzbamoralis]

If that asian girl is Inga then do sideways and call me Stacey

[@FedeTL]

@@tylerredforge5563 holy shit a 🇬🇷!

[@Markyboyplaysgames]

I LOVE YOU

[@LanguageSimp]

I agree. I must be stopped.

[@benjaminsfiligoj6348]

I love your channel

[@WaterFruitTree]

But he cannot be stopped

[@svedenska4535]

But would you lose?

[@holoduck.1]

Only Language Simp can stop Language Simp. Only Language Simp can stop Language Simp from stopping Language Simp.

[@abderrahmanhamdi6595]

lets agree to disagree

[@clouds-rb9xt]

I love Language Simp. He just parodies everything about these polyglot channels

[@nightvision999]

Yeah, I think he should get a pass

[@saheedthegreat6770]

he the goat fr

[@leserb9228]

Yeah, but thanks to him, i learned the Ancient Albanian Sign Language.

[@tadesubaru1383]

The only hyper polyglot gigachad who is attractive to every woman And man in the planet

[@K00LSP00L]

I was gonna comment that

[@markwuahlbuargg4780]

I used to be impressed by those fake polyglot until I heard one absolutely desecrate my native language while claiming to be fluent.

[@DoofyGilmore1299]

lmao same thing here that guy should be allowed to speak my native language

[@Kurumiinho]

My native language is Portuguese and one of these "fluent in 69 languages" polyglots TRIED to speak it in a video. According to him, he was speaking fluent Brazilian Portuguese, but in reality it sounded like a Hindu native trying to speak BR PT with a Rio de Janeiro accent but ended up sounding like a retarded Portuguese lmao. Without mentioning the fake polyglot starter pack which is spamming people with random phrases to pretend he was fluent but all he was saying was "I like learning languages. Let's drink beer! Hi, how are you? I like learning languages. How are you? Let's drink beer. How are you?" 🤣🤣🤣

[@Catimixto]

I appreaciate when someone learns spanish as a foreign language but I've heard a few polyglots just pretending to be fluent for clout, I couldn't understand a word they said, especially in the video 2 polyglots speak 21 languages

[@angsern8455]

Who?

[@bendover-bz4bc]

I already knew those were fake. Learning more than 3 languages at full fluency is simply impossible. You cannot learn more than 3 languages. Of you can learn 4th language but only if that new language has any trace of previous languages you learnt. All those 8 language polyglot are fake. They just know few basic greeting in all other languages

[@calebdunlap7566]

I can speak 754 languages. 753 of them I just made up and they all contain 1 word. Checkmate polyglots

[@AntoineAUBERT-fb7tj]

What are the 753 words then ? ;)

[@jelletje8]

@@AntoineAUBERT-fb7tj a, aa, aaa, aaaa, aaaaa, aaaaa, aaaaaa...

[@platitron9143]

I haven't laugh that well in a long time oh lord

[@NelsonRX]

​@@jelletje8my favorite language is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@vanillabatcave5677]

I'm fluent in spanish, english, giddlegerb, ogledhag, mimbly, mimblie and many others.

[@DeepWater-rm8vo]

I remember when I did a language course in Russian and one girl there (who was from Montenegro) said “Yeah I’m fluent in Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin and Croatian besides English” and another guy in the course (Croatian) just replied “I admire that you can say this sentence with a straight face”. Only years later did I understand what he meant lol

[@mikiandfriends1820]

There is quite the difference, but you will sound like a peasant and use many coloquisam, which even natives likely do not know.

[@iamgoodfr]

that's kinda like claiming that you speak american , british , austrailian english XD

[@zivkovicable]

My friend is a professional translator. Some of his jobs involve translating between Croatian & Serbian. This is harder than it sounds because they are so similar. & i bet your Montenegrin friend was lying that she was fluent, and would slip up on slight differences in vocabulary and pronunciation. .

[@shelookstome8727]

@@zivkovicable Similar? They're basically the same language lol

[@oktopus14.5]

​@@iamgoodfr Oh I thought it was because those are languages of ethnicities that despise each other

[@theplasmaistplasma6613]

“White guy SHOCKS 🤯 Jesus by speaking PERFECT Aramaic at the McDonalds drive-through!😨”

[@goatgamer001]

Bruh😳

[@Teutius]

Fakecel Speaks Perfect Adamic God-Head Dialect to Truecel Saint 🤯🤯

[@abandonwareguru]

Wrong Jesus bro

[@Monkechnology]

​@@Teutius(Rare truechud dialect)

[@Vemberwost]

you don't even have to speak the language in those videos to know the "perfect" and "flawless" is probably bs 😂

[@andreaspersson1343]

Language Simp is satire on this exact topic and Luke Ranieri from polýMATHY is a Latin & Ancient Greek teacher. One of his later videos is 2,5 hours long and called "Greek Pronunciation in Ancient Rome: The Variants of Lucian Pronunciation". Not exactly Omegle polyglot clickbait with three memorized phrases. A few of his videos are him outside, trying out Latin with modern day priests in Rome etc. for fun. Not sure these two should be in this video.

[@samrodrigues3199]

Yepp, those two guys are great and absurdly talented in their own ways. Especially Luke, guy has a hell of a resume

[@zizzyballuba4373]

this whole vid is clickbait

[@hoi-polloi1863]

@@zizzyballuba4373 I mostly stayed just for the German anime girls. And hoping for more clips of Ranieri and his desperate quest to speak Latin to anyone who will stand still. I love that guy.

[@nicolaramoso3286]

He also speaks fluent Italian!

[@costakeith9048]

Yeah, but he uses a hideous reconstructed pronunciation which is just grating on the ears; so it doesn't matter how good he is, he's obnoxious.

[@AbbieAj1]

After learning German for a year and a half, I met a guy who was very fluent and said he had only been learning for about 2 months. It made me feel very inadequate and like I should have been further along. But then I find out, Its actually 2 months since he started RELEARNING the language after a 3 year hiatus, Before which he had studied for 10 years! It was very deceptive. Never compare yourself to other people, but also if something seems too good to be true it usually is.

[@danwetalex]

I learned German and reached a C1 level (and got the goddamn certificate) in 18 months. The thing is, it took a lot of drills, a deep forced immersion into the language, quit my job when I reached B1+ to be able to keep up, and a lot of general work and perusal of grammar and reference books. After that, I traveled to Germany. After not being able to understand anything for 1 week, I could adjust myself to the language and the people. It was a tough, yet enjoyable ride. To this day, I'm still learning it.

[@Mizionaree776]

ich lerne deutsche, ich benutze est mit ein Deutscher mensch. Und er sagte "ist mein deutsche gut oder?" "hmmm Nicht schlect" that was a big confidence boost

[@anak_kucing101]

I do the same 😃, I've been learning Japanese for 4 years, and there are months that I don't feel like to studying at all, so I distract myself by playing videogames instead of studying, after some days, I re learn what I already knew, and it works like magic, I remember a lot of things.

[@FransceneJK98]

I’m a native German speaker and I can tell you that he lied. No way he learned German to fluency level in 2 months. Not unless he studied it for a long time before that. Absolutely not. Don’t believe everything people tell you. I’m working on learning Dutch which is very similar to German and easy to learn for German speakers but not even I can learn Dutch in 2 months. Just doesn’t happen.

[@edwardelric5019]

​@@danwetalexBravo! Hier in Deutschland sagen wir oft umgangssprachlich "Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache" 😂. Vielleicht hast du schon mal von dem Spruch gehört 😂

[@anak_kucing101]

Being a true polyglot is so hard because you need to know the vocabulary of these fields: economics, politics, school, family, sports, videogames, computer science, religion, travel, poetry, romance, horror, etc.

[@Gobal-be5te]

@YetkhaPakoAson But the teens and kids are slowest than the adults on langauge learning, the only diference is the time but everyone can learn any language.

[@ppstorm_]

Nah u don't need to know those

[@darkforcekiller]

Thats why i always say that true polyglots are born, not taught :)

[@darkforcekiller]

@@Gobal-be5te In what world are teens/kids slowest in learning a new language? They learn on a much deeper level than adults because their brains are still being formed and developed. They develop a much more intuitive feeling on how a certain language works without having to painstakingly learn dozens of vocabularies. In some languages there are many pronounciations and grammar rules that you NEED to have grown up with, otherwise you can basically forget to ever be a native-level speaker of that language (chinese, german, japanese). Ofc you always have to distinguish whether you just want to talk about how your day was or whether you want to comment on a complex economical or political subject.

[@Gobal-be5te]

@@darkforcekiller Man, you speak other language?

[@OrientalPearl]

Agreed. I think the false fluency videos discourages people by making them think they don’t have the talent for learning a language because it’s taking them too long.

[@YaShoom]

Мне кажется, это наоборот вдохновляет. Где доказательства отпугивания?

[@EpicgamerwinXD6669]

A few years ago I saw a video by a polyglot claiming that French will be the new linga franka of the world since so many African countries use French as their official language. This statement aged extremely badly as now the French language is being purged from many nations in Africa after the series of military coups last year.

[@weiserwolf580]

don't worry, they will replace it with the language of their new masters, Russian

[@maavet2351]

Probably for the best​@@weiserwolf580

[@filiperosa7496]

Where is the language being purged?

[@filiperosa7496]

The coups that I see make the coup declaration in french

[@extrage3061]

@@filiperosa7496 bro just google it yourself, but I have seen this too.

[@rmanz123]

Ah yes, as someone with ex-yugo parents I enjoy being able to claim that I can speak 4 other languages other than English: Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian and Montenegrin

[@juannaym8488]

Every LinkedIn profile of an ex-yugo person has like 5 languages because they count their parent's language as 4 and put English there too

[@HeroManNick132]

Slovenian and Macedonian left the chat and if you include Bulgarian too.

[@lux_max.]

Yeah they all are basically the same with maybe some words different but they should stay different so that we can flex

[@hans7856]

It's funny how Chinese is considered one language, even though speakers from different parts of China cannot understand each other, while Serbo-Croatian is considered four languages, even though all speakers understand each other perfectly fine. A language is a dialect with an army and navy.

[@Puzomor]

​@@hans7856 funny how people see "serbo-croatian" being four languages as a bad thing, instead of finally celebrating the cultural and historic differences and accepting others for who they are. How is China a good example of dealing with differences of it's people is beyond me. Also, the standard language of China is Mandarin, not "Chinese". Trying to shoehorn differing cultures under one, discarding the identity and history of people in question is how you get revolt and breakup of Yugoslavia. If you're really interested in fair representation of languages, you'd be mad about "Chinese" not being treated the same as Serbian, Croatian and others, rather than pushing for the Serbo-Croatian agenda and admiring China for it's treatment of minority cultural groups.

[@Carloshache]

Janos is such a great polyglot, he even speaks Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Hercegovinian, Yugoslavian, Northern North-Macedonian, Serbocroatian, Southern Slovene and Slavic Kosovan!

[@hoi-polloi1863]

I speak English, American, and Canadian. In an emergency I can get by in Australian. However, I've never understood a single word spoken to me by a Welshman.

[@maxfeeldcomp]

I speak Austrian, Liechtensteinian, Northern-Swiss, a dialect similar to Luxembourgish, Far-East-Belgian, South-Danish, South-Tirolese, Alsassian, Pennsylvanian Dutch and even German!

[@lifeamateur2813]

@@maxfeeldcomp no shit you speak Pennsylvanian Dutch, it evolved independently for some 100-200 years and is alive in some weird religious communities so it definitely wasn't normalized to modern German like other things you mentioned ;)

[@iskanderaga-ali3353]

Don't forget Währing Viennese

[@PropagandalfderWeiße]

I am also a polyglot. I speak German, English, Standard High German, normal German, slightly posh German and not to forget every day German (ok, and I studied Japanese at University so I know a little of that as well)

[@pdxtran]

What people don't get is that foreign languages are skill courses. Saying "I took two years of Spanish in high school and still can't speak it" is like saying, "I had two years of piano lessons and still don't have a concert career" or "I've been swimming for two years, and I still have't qualified for the Olympics." The reason Scandinavians tend to speak such good English is that they start in elementary school and continue it throughout their school years, and at the same time, most of their TV is imported from English-speaking countries and is subtitled rather than dubbed. In other words, they get daily unconscious practice.

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

Plus their languages, (exept for finish of course) are related and very close to English

[@Cato_Minor]

What's wrong with Polymathy, he is properly fluent in Latin. It's wrong to include him along side the others.

[@Afrologist]

Yeah he lost me there, Polymathy actually has serious education in Latin & Greek.

[@pmarc87]

Exactly the comment I was looking for. Not even in the same universe as the others...

[@slowdownex]

Oh yeah I have seen that guy, hes awesome!

[@fuferito]

Yeah. Turned it off after that. This guy's annoying.

[@00bean00]

Who cares about depth and thoroughness of research. Above commenters talking about a channel swimming with those and making tons of subs and views by being similar *enough* to draw the same kind of viewers. Yes, it's partly parody but it's not straight and mingles.

[@-Faris-]

Of course I speak many languages! I speak English, British, American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, Jamaican, and Guyanese

[@norielgames4765]

You also speak Dutch

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

I know what the joke is but Jamaican and Guyanese are creole languages so you probably don’t speak those

[@zander_the_space_nerd]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 But with a little practice you can speak them, its not as hard as a new language

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@@zander_the_space_nerd oh ok

[@ForgotMyPasswd000]

​@@goldenfiberwheat238Creoles of any language are fairly easy for people who speak the standard dialect of a language to speak with some practice, it's just that they're noticeably more difficult to understand compared to other dialects. Still, dialects are easier to learn compared to new languages.

[@ATTP-YT]

Over the course of history, people have developed countless ways to torture themselves and others. One of them is learning Hungarian. Edit: holy moly thanks for 1600 likes!

[@nenadpopov3601]

I tried it and I almost cried before every lesson, I got to A2 lvl on my own and then I just got overwhelmed because I bit more then I could chew and I just gave up, but I know I will be back, if I don't learn it I will regret it for the rest of my life, I just feel angry to let it go when I already got to A2 on my own.

[@echowoods4869]

​@@nenadpopov3601 If you feel overwhelmed, it's okay to take a break. Sometimes the human mind needs time to process. It's already an honor to have foreign people show interest towards our undoubtedly hard and not very well known language. Cheers from Hungary ✌️✌️✌️! Sok szerencsét!

[@TamasCserhati]

As a hungarian I can comfirm, that we too get confused by our own language sometimes.

[@nenadpopov3601]

@@echowoods4869 Strange thing is after a year living in Hungary it was still very hard for me to separate the words when I listen to Hungarian, I only speak English as a foreign langauge but for example when I hear Spanish I can hear every word even I don't speak a word of Spanish but with Hungarian it's not like that, I have to tune in to the language and really feel it but I still haven't figured out how to do that because Hungarian is so unique, but one more reason I want to learn it, because nobody has the balls to try lol, köszönöm szépen barátom 😁

[@Xeridas]

there is only one way to learn Hungarian, yes i am a polyglot(Romanian,English,German,Spanish) trying to learn Hungarian (Beautiful women), use your left hand to write and get shitfaced every time u attempt to use the language, thus u can butcher the language constantly and no one will get mad(aka Simple Joe Style), since let´s face it, mastering Hungarian is IMPOSIBLE

[@MitchellEnglishTeacher]

Im an American who speaks five languages at least at a conversational level. From best to worst, I speak English, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and French. I’m working on adding Mandarin to that list, but it’s going to take at least a couple of years by my estimation. Everything you said here was spot on. I’m so glad I wasn’t exposed to the KZbin language realm before I started learning because this stuff is hard. I would’ve been so demoralized if I listened to these halfwits telling you that you can be fluent in 2 months with their ‘’secret’’ methods. The language-learning process is difficult enough without these liars actively misinforming you and giving you false hope.

[@nenadpopov3601]

I started learning Hungarian and after a year I started following some polyglots, so many of them are giving false hope that it's disgusting, the only true advice is SIT DOWN AND LEARN, there is no easy way out and there is nobody else who will learn it instead of you, many ppl need to understand this.

[@BaronvonLeon]

Wow, but do you really know russian better than spanish or french? И умеешь ли ты читать по русски или только разговаривать? Because I guess spanish is a lot easier to learn than russian 😅

[@feszoj]

Totally agree! Greetings from Perú!

[@djsaidez271]

@@BaronvonLeon it could be he spent a year with russian and one month with spanish so far

[@iamapokerface8992]

@@nenadpopov3601 but to be fair there are definitely better ways to learn a language

[@jay4496]

As a Korean, every single KZbin polyglot that claims to speak Korean do not speak in the MIGHTY NORTH KOREAN-KOREAN dialect, so they are DISQUALIFIED.(except language simp he's da goat)

[@Abcdefg-tf7cu]

North Korea is Best Korea

[@vitoc8454]

"I learned North Korean quickly by immersing myself in the culture. I stopped eating for 3 weeks and called the cops on my neighbors"

[@Vollification]

It would be more correct and ethical if they where just honest . Like "How to learn basic phrases in 6 weeks" or "Useful phrases for vacation" I tried to learn basic german once, almost all of the "introduction/basic level" stuff was "Shit that is useful when visiting the country" "I would like a plate of B", "how do I get to point X?", "What's the weather like at Y?", "Help me, I'm lost and starving." Things like that. That would be both useful and honest.

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

I agree that the only shortcut to learning a language is to be dropped into the middle of nowhere, where the people only speak that language and the only resource you have is a dictionary from 1986.

[@rb98769]

Pretty much. People cling to the whole thing about how toddlers learn languages fast, but they're in absolute full immersion mode with no other language of their own to cling to and huge incentive to learn so that they can communicate what they need. It's just hard to compare that to picking up a foreign language in any form.

[@dino.niichan1991]

This is how I experienced it. Went to two different places in my country due to life's circumstances and with the help of some locals, I slowly learned two of the dialects, which makes it four languages/dialects in my arsenal. But, being a normal person, not speaking the language with the natives is hard and would take me awhile again to relearn the language.

[@moonasha]

@@rb98769 by the time toddlers learn to speak at a very basic level, they have tens of thousands of hours of immersion. Anyone who thinks an adult can do that is a goof

[@Gobal-be5te]

@@moonasha The adults can learn other language fastest than a kid man, we can accelerate the process on many ways.

[@CarpeDiem13x]

@@Gobal-be5te No, science has proven the opposite. But hey, this is YT so share your OPINION, though it is SCIENTIFICALLY INCORRECT.

[@arandomwatcher8174]

Romanian here. French is harder than beating Satan to death

[@AnDrEi_aLeXaNdRu]

As another Romanian that is lerning french at school for nearly 7 years still Don't know shi t in french

[@mariogamer8391]

Romanian here, tried French for aproximately 5 minutes then switched to German and actually started enjoying my life

[@sergioochoa913]

Just croak bro. Is how you speak frog

[@DarkAsasin16]

Hungarian that lives in Romania here, me and all my classmates hate french

[@meelooxavier6502]

Mai non! Le Francais n'est pas tres difficile, frațică :))

[@Aadrian7]

I truly love the language learning community for spreading their passion and tools/resources, but sometimes, my God are they umbearable with their "Hack German in just 7 days" or "Shocking Chinese natives with FLAWLESS Chinese". It's even become a meme in its own right.

[@adamhercik581]

As someone fluent in German, yes, "hacking" German is complete buillshit. It's a very systematic language.

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

The funny is that people usually do the "shock natives" videos about chinese, japanese or korean because those people are well known for being kind and praising you even if you have horrible knowledge. So it's an easy content milking for those youtubers.

[@Aadrian7]

@@tovarishchfeixiao True, but I think the bigger reason is that eve ryone thinks of Chinese, Japanese and Korean as "the hardest languages ever". Arabic could be one of them, but there's no singular Arabic.

[@KaiserTwo]

@@tovarishchfeixiaoEspecially since nobody takes the time to really study Chinese 💀 so we shit talk people often without expecting them to respond. Also some of those mfers have the worst accent ever. Like my dude does not sound natural, it’s so stiff.

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

@@Aadrian7 Arabs not really known for the polite encouragement (which can look like shock/surprise for unexperienced people) as what east asians known for.

[@Kristoph-69-69]

One year of Duo lingo now i can ask for the bathroom in 22 languages. I'm pretty much a language god

[@cherubin03]

gotta say, learning english as a second language is easy as shit, the amount of content in the "english internet" is fucking scales of magnitude above the portuguese, it's like pandora's box were basically five times more stuff just unlocks itself, that alone is enough incentive to learn the language, it's also probably my biggest flex and I don't know If I'll ever learn another to see if the feeling is the same

[@pie.cinnamon]

Same i learned english by youtube, reels, netflix series and ph

[@thebamplayer]

​@@pie.cinnamon Where are whole Dialogs in ph?

[@pie.cinnamon]

@@thebamplayer in the ones with a story

[@leonardo9259]

You don't have much choice to LEARN English as a second language, you just kinda do by exposition

[@NEUVILLETTE500]

What about learning English as a THIRD language?:)

[@norielgames4765]

2:55 bro, Luke is a Latin teacher xD He speaks it fluently, and talks about all sorts of topics both with other latin speakers (catholic priests) and other scholars. He has tons of videos teaching you latin, which I've watched. He's the reason I can understand Latin reasonably well and even speak a few sentences. He also knows classical Greek, and has videos explaining the Greek origin of many words in science, and what they mean. He knows multiple variations of Latin, and has studied the different sound shifts from old Latin to classical Latin to vulgar Latin. He doesn't even claim to know anything wild, he's only ever claimed he speaks Latin, Greek and English, all of which I've heard him speak fluently for (not exaggerating) tens of hours. He's been featured in multiple other channels because he's an expert in the language. I've even seen him speak Italian Spanish and Romanian and since I'm a Romanian and Spanish native speaker I can tell you his pronunciation is quite good, yet I've never seen him claim he speaks those languages. If that's not humility nothing is. I demand that you kneel down and cry for forgiveness. Other than that I agree with everything said in your video.

[@NmLs42]

He does speak Italian, as he has lived in Rome for quite some time. He's appeared on a few Italian-speaking channels like Podcast Italiano, and his Italian is really good.

[@charles-thomasperron252]

Yes !! The guy doesn’t base his pronunciation on nothing btw, Andrea Calabrese, an Italian linguist, is the one he based is pronunciation on. The fact that he can speak live and have a conversation about basically every subject he knows something about is quite telling that he’s fluent

[@ReaperCH90]

Once you know vulgar Latin, you basically know almost-Italian.

[@norielgames4765]

@@ReaperCH90 and Spanish and Romanian. There's this guy Farya Faraji who has songs in vulgar Latin, and as a speaker of both Spanish and Romanian it feels like a mix between all of them.

[@norielgames4765]

indeed!@@charles-thomasperron252

[@GAIVSCALIGVLA]

The Latin guy was kind of funny tbh, he just went up to random Italians and spoke to them in Latin lol

[@andreaspersson1343]

Polymathy means the study of many things, so the name doesn't claim that he's a polyglot either. @@the55squad

[@FerenczAttila]

Yes, he's the only one in the video I felt sorry for. Watching his videos I had the impression that he's just a simple, decent guy who is really fond of the Romans and the latin language. Testing how much an italian speaker can understand from spoken latin, or how fluent the clerics in Vatican are in latin (where it's an official language) is actually a really interesting experiment.

[@hans7856]

I liked the video in which a Roman got angry at him for speaking Latin instead of Italian.

[@rb98769]

@@the55squad He also speaks Italian afaik. He's an actual polyglot, but I don't think I've ever seen him use this term to refer to himself.

[@norielgames4765]

​@@andreaspersson1343plus he's actually a geologist yet I've seen hours of his videos and he's nearly a latin and Greek scholar. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the author of some pretty neat papers. So yeah, also a polymath

[@stefan-simionsamfirescu6122]

Ancient Albanian sign language ☠️🇦🇱🦅

[@caseyjones5145]

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[@flameguy3416]

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[@ThePanEthiopian]

🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅🙅 I said Kosovo ështe Serbia

[@mr.jitterspam9552]

​@@ThePanEthiopianpolitical bait used to be more creative

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

@ThePanEthiopian I don't even know the language and yet I know what's written here

[@RidleyHolmes-sr2tw]

None of these polyglots ever get tested by professionals. They always tell you they speak the language based on their opinion and the few sentences they memorized.

[@curiositykillingcat3226]

I got fed up of xiaoma when he said he’d studied more languages than anybody. He’s 30 years old and was monolingual until he was 18.

[@vitoc8454]

"White guy SHOCKS Kenyans with Swahili!" Kenyan woman: "What are you studying?" Xioma: "Yes, I am in Kenya" (this conversation loops several times)

[@toonlink1723]

As a foreigner who’s been living in Japan, it’s BS that people would make a big deal that you speak Japanese, that doesn’t happen. If anything when you speak Japanese you get treated like a normal person rather the oblivious foreigner. And yes there is that running joke of 日本語上手, but realistically people never say that unless if you are kinda promoting someone to tell you that and they feel pressured to say that, and this is coming from someone who generally converses in Japanese and been learning it since their teen years.

[@fatilepk3]

That's so true! My Japanese is not the best but I can get around and when I was a tourist nobody gave a sh*t about me speaking Japanese or even reading basic kanji. If I were ordering or asking something nobody stopped like in those videos to tell me how awesome I am they were just answering like they speak to a normal person.

[@toonlink1723]

@@fatilepk3 yeah, the biggest reaction I’ve got really is just when people get curious when they realise you speak Japanese. That’s the most that will ever happen. Usually it’s just like okay, just an acknowledgement that we can understand each other. its not a bad thing because people usually assume you don’t speak it, but it’s not this narcissism that you see everywhere that we love promoting. And honestly I really hope that someone Isn’t trying to do that kind of thing in Japan because they really value humility, so trying to force a reaction or 日本語上手 is not just narcissistic but is extremely embarrassing. And it probably encourages a lot of people that would be good willed and good faithed to become envying, resentful arse holes which already plagues discourse of living in Japan as a foreigner a it will further promote the idea that no one can ever live a normal or good life in Japan.

[@POLO9999]

The funniest scene i got was in a restaurant near Ueno. I were invited by a Japanese local where i do converse in English (as i always do for practical reason rather than botched Japanese or French, my native language) as i do only went for vacations. As soon as he enters the waiter served the English only menu to my friend who got almost insulted for such a rude welcoming because the dude just saw me, a pure gaijin tourist, and thought that we both English speaker. When he spoke in non-accent, Tokyo-version Japanese... The face of the waiter went totally blank and just cries in apologizes 😂.

[@deanchur]

@@POLO9999 I'm a tall white Australian and was in Japan with a Taiwanese friend. When we were out together Japanese people would start speaking with them and avoid me, at which point my Taiwanese friend would look at me and I'd translate what they were saying...much to the embarrassment of the Japanese person.

[@toonlink1723]

@@POLO9999 It reminds me, I’d always go to a certain izakaya with my mates, and because this specific group of housemates were all foreigners (me, an Englishman, and some Chinese and Russians), at first we were always allocated to what we called “the foreigner table”, which was near the door lol. Eventually tho I guess the workers just realised who we were and just stopped putting us on that table

[@wojtekpolska1013]

The only "quick" way would be when you are dropped into a country where nobody speaks the language you do, and now suddenly you are basically learning every second you are awake, because this new language is suddenly the only one you have contact with. and it still will be painful and take months to get to the conversational level

[@lifeamateur2813]

and painful with the total immersion, your brain will be overloaded with new words and other things so you will have troubles even to have a normal sleep

[@neurotoxic1830]

Thats how I learned German. Painful. Quick tho. Still suck at grammar and I gotta write exams in that silly language.

[@heinrich.hitzinger]

​@@neurotoxic1830Unsere Sprache ist nicht ,,silly", sondern selig. :)

[@daemfbesity]

@@heinrich.hitzingeryeah nobody knows what you said bro

[@Vitorruy1]

I live in the country but I still have to go out of my way to read books and videos in the language. Going to the library without internet really helps.

[@faesk]

A good example of this I remember was when Xiomanyc was challenged by the biggest news company here in Norway to learn Norwegian in 2 weeks, naturally, his Norwegian was shit and he understood very little of what was being said which you could see in the whole interview published by VG, however when this video came out on Xiomas channel he had polished it to make it look like he learnt a pretty good basic foundation of Norwegian while only learning a few words and phrases with broken grammar and bad pronunciation

[@zerquex4520]

I remember that, I've had 3 years of Swedish in a Estonian high school and even in the edited "propaganda" video he posted, it just sounded mega off. It's just fucking weird because his Mandarin is impressive, why ruin your reputation by pretending that you can learn something in 2 weeks, idk just fucking weird.

[@tachankat2485]

@@zerquex4520 His mandarin isnt even impressive though. Its just average.

[@faesk]

@@zerquex4520 Yes exactly, obviously you can't get that far in 2 weeks and that shows in his pronounciation which sounds like he never had norwegian in his life and 80% of the grammar being wrong. However he acted like it's all good and he's doing it right even though he's not. One thing he did point out was that in the other videos where he's just in a resturant etc he just has to learn that dialouge while he didnt know the questions in the interview, however the interview was very very basic with slow pace Oslo dialect (which he subtitled as fast pace native norwegian) lmfao

[@dozenbuzzard2662]

tbf it was 2 weeks and he mightve polished it a) for views, yt is his job after all and b) not todiscourage new language learners away from the langauge

[@faesk]

@@dozenbuzzard2662 Yeye ofc but when he makes it seem he learns a language at a basic level in 2 weeks he makes people have some unrealistic expectations

[@zsomborsuto5574]

Dude, as a linguistics student myself, I am so fed up with these youtube “polyglots” and their nonsense methods. Thanks to your video, I havent lost faith in humanity though

[@Zephiias]

English is my second language since 5th school year; and I watch + read almost everything in English. But I still dont consider myself being able to pronounce everything right nor do I know every common vocab. Additionally I took 8 Semesters of Japanese at University in my free time, but Im not even able to have a proper conversation in Japanese without a dictionary. Seeing those "Polyglots" on social media make me kinda mad spreading false Information and such.

[@Nazinsky]

English is so prominent online, I feel most just learn via exposure. If only it was similar with other languages!

[@lizlearnsserbian]

People sometimes hear me speak Serbian and say, "wow, you must be so gifted at languages." The reality is that I spent 4-5 hours of my day, every day in Serbian classes, watching online KZbin videos, making cue cards DURING corona when I had a lot more time, and I had to do this consistently for 6 months. I had the illusion that I was conversationally fluent because I was able to have classes all in Serbian but my perception and confidence was absolutely destroyed when I moved to Serbia and realised that I could hold a conversation for about 30 mins and then I was basically rendered retarded for the time, which left me with a huge fear of speaking Serbian with strangers. This took almost 2 additional years of classes, self learning and forcing myself to speak Serbian with friends and then also travel around the Balkans to reach a level where I was confident that I could speak to anyone about anything and occasionally even on podcasts, on stage and on television (which was a separate obstacle but equally challenging if not more challenging), but it was FUCKING HARD WORK and not assisted by the fact that I have a memory like a goldfish. I have 0 aspirations to become a polyglot because Serbian was hard enough and maintaining an additional 5 languages sounds like a nightmare. Anyway, too much emotions on a KZbin comment that no one will read 😅 ćaos 👋

[@hans7856]

And you are a native speaker of Croatian, right?

[@morvran9074]

@@hans7856 Vojvodinian xD

[@SerbAtheist]

Your Serbian skills are awesome. I believe that is one of the biggest stumbling blocks when learning a language, the fear of making a mistake. Especially in a relatively complex language with many inflections like Serbian. However, this is really unavoidable. Making a mistake and getting corrective feedback is the quickest way to learn a language. I'm forcing my children to have conversations with me in English where they're not allowed to explain in Serbian what they want to say and it has really paid off.

[@ThebelgiumgamerFTW]

meanwhile I am learning Serbian while my first language is a germanic one, just to also move to Serbia

[@stefantopuzov6140]

The weird thing about Serbian is that it is 95% curse words.

[@DennisE-f1u]

Xiaoma and his consequences have been a consequence for language youtube I'd like to mention though, the Luke Raineri (the person you showed going to Italy and speaking latin) isn't some youtube hack like the rest of the examples you showed. Luke has spent years learning Latin and Italian formally and has put a great deal of effort into his content about linguistics and history.

[@BakerVS]

I thought the same thing, Luke's a good guy!

[@UmamiPapi]

Didn't start with Xiaoma. Started with that black guy who died recently and whose name I can't remember.

[@Vitorruy1]

@@UmamiPapi Laoshu?

[@UmamiPapi]

Yeah.@@Vitorruy1

[@mattmanncan]

Xiaoma can actually speak Mandarin really well though right? ​@@UmamiPapi

[@reitswornaw]

Luke from polymathy doesn't belong in this video

[@gergopahollo]

I was always amazed by how many viewers are apparently unable to spot this. Like... Sure, I can learn "I can speak [language] very well, and can also understand [other language], and [other language 2]" in Spanish, Danish, Japanese, Chinese, and fucking klingon too but that's just memorizing sound patterns that I make with my mouth. These folks don't "speak 14 languages fluently" but rather they "speak IN 14 languages" or maybe "can say the same few sentences in 14 languages with little to no accent". I always thought that the majority of these people's viewers were non-ESL people. If you had to learn English as a second language; you probably know how much work it is to attain a decent conversational ability in a language (both in writing and in speaking) so you wouldn't fall for the ol' 6-week bit.

[@McFilA]

As an American who’s been focusing on Greek for a while, this is a great video and I appreciate you making it. A big part of staying focused I find is learning things to love about the culture and history around a language as well, because there are times where you’ll hate the process but love for culture/food/history can keep that interest and motivation up. Immersion is also really tough, especially in North America, but it’s super awesome when people are willing to share and talk about their culture and language, and when people (not the French) are excited about other people learning their language (not French), and willing to have conversations in that language with people who are struggling and not immediately (French) switch to English just to save themselves the trouble.

[@Zakkious]

I wonder... may i pry and ask if you could possibly have had problems with the french in the past? lol

[@Vitorruy1]

@@Zakkious it's not just him, everybody says that. Basically French people think their language is sacred and speaking with anything short of perfection is heresy, even if you're a foreigner.

[@lucasclain1821]

​@@Vitorruy1But why do people always generalize this kind of behavior from French people ? I am sure this "overly proud feeling" concerns a minority of people.

[@worldofgreenhell]

It took me 10 years to understand 95% of english, spoken and/or written. And 12 years in total to speak fluently. Also Győzike? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gmdFrame]

Good. Now you can learn other languages.

[@Dragoncam13]

It's like that for native speakers as well with the speaking it properly and knowing proper grammatical features since we have to learn it for years through elementary

[@elegathor4251]

Győzike engem is meglepett xD

[@MattiAntsuK]

I never wanted to learn English. I never saw it fit me. Until I started playing games and realized everything was in English. I would say 90% of my learn't English is from video games.

[@worldofgreenhell]

@@MattiAntsuK I'm hungarian, grammar and vocabulary is completely different for us, but I just love english language, and similar to you, as I was a TV series addict I just learned the language by just linstening to it and reading subtitles. Also I've spent 3 years of learning english in highschool, where I became familiar with basic grammar and such. But still was a pretty hefty amount of time to be on the level I am right now

[@Hamiltonianmcmc]

ScorpioMartianus is actually a fluent Latin speaker so I don’t know why he is cited as an example in this video.

[@norielgames4765]

My thoughts exactly

[@bazingapuzza]

Because he is salty that he is unskilled lol. Is true that some of people that he talked about were fake, but some other were legit. I say that because I do speak 5 languages fluently and I have lived in those countries where the language is spoken. ( And im only 27 years old ). And people are generally impressed with me, but I think is just the method that Does all the job. I don't think I'm a genius. And the point is, that even after I can prove people that I speak 5 languages in real life, and I KNOW IT. people online still cry and Cope and say that im fake, because " other people are like this ". Okey other people fake that are rich, doesn't mean that rich people don't exist. So I think is just a way to express his own insecurities. Keep in mind that I actually studied very little and languages are not even my main job or hobby. If I would spend 2 hours a day, everyday, to learn a new language. I could easily learn a new language every year, and be fluent. Because I really mean it when I say, 90% of the work is the method that you use. The difference is that I don't care about it so I don't keep learning languages forever, and I don't need them. Right now in learning business and marketing and other stuff. But there are nerds that are addicted with languages and they do spend hours everyday learning languages. There are experts in every Field.

[@norielgames4765]

@@bazingapuzza a human can learn tonnes of languages. I don't even know what the limit is. But a big problem with that is if you don't use a language you slowly forget it. I know this because I'm forgetting my mother tongue. I made efforts to keep it from eroding away but it's not recovering to the same level of skill I used to have because I don't use it enough. And it's my mother tongue. So just imagine if I spend a year or two learning Korean and then never use it. I'd lose the language in less time than it took me to learn it.

[@abinjjaimon]

I don't think Scorpio Martianus falls into the "polyglot hack" KZbinrs because he only prioritizes Latin and Roman history on his channel. From what I gather from the guy, he doesn't have any "quick fix" guide to learn Latin in literally 30 seconds, as many of the KZbinrs shown in your video do, but empazise hard work, rather than a quick fix.

[@alanguages]

Because Luke is not a fake like many other KZbin polyglots. This video for some reason bunched him with frauds, and was character assassination.

[@IkarusKommt]

"Learning Latin" is an oxymoron. Latin is dead, you cannot study it anymore. All those people are just making an effigy of Latin from straws and playing around it. Same with Ancient Greek.

[@europ_everi_nice]

I love that at 1:34, you just casually put the ending "r" to the next row. XD Love from hun, keep it up!

[@olfrud]

Learning Japanese intensely for a year now. I have experience with Chinese and Vietnamese as well. And watching the so called "Polyglots" on KZbin is just frustrating. It's just a scam honestly. After a year I am able to have a basic conversation with Japanese people and they tell me I speak on the level of a 5 year old. And thats ok.

[@Vitorruy1]

that's pretty fucking good for 1 year

[@olfrud]

@@Vitorruy1 thanks, but in that year I also spent half a year in Japan alone and almost exclusively spent time with Japanese people. That's just an insane booster. But still, there are language-tuberes around who claim they've reached fluency in Japanese in only half a year, which is straight up lying. Maybe some insane genius can do that...

[@AlexG3Z]

I swear these "White man speaking to Chinese people" is always so obscure and feels very scripted. As a Chinese mainlander I never get congratulated that I speak english when I go to a McDonalds, where is my views? "Chinese mainlander surprises McDonalds employee by speaking perfect english" where?

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

That actually would be a good content if you know how to make it as funny as the title. :D

[@AlexG3Z]

@@tovarishchfeixiao Yeah but I would not get any reactions from the cashier, I never get any. Yet I have spilled so many tears on learning this language, to say, English is a hard language

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

@@AlexG3Z Yeah, sadly people nowadays expect everyone to speak english like as if it were a very basic thing. Especially very hard for any non-indo-european speaker (i'm saying this as an Uralic speaker).

[@dice3809]

Yea, there are thousands of Sinology students around the world that don't feel the need to make these videos and most of them probably speak better mandarin than these KZbinrs. I guess English is just expected of everyone nowadays.

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

@@dice3809 Exactly. You did hit the nail on it's head with this comment.

[@pals_312]

Lingualizer is f***ing shaking right now

[@FedeTL]

WAAR IS HET FEEST?? HIER IS HET FEEST

[@pals_312]

JAAAAAAA

[@t.f.r287]

Indeed, i am annoyed of this dutch single liner of his. Like dude, don't you know how to speak any other sentences in the respective language.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@t.f.r287 He knows only few languages but his native ones are German and Bulgarian (yes, because he is actually Bulgarian, born in Austria).

[@redexlol2129]

his channels dead af anyways💀

[@Randomstuffs261]

A Polyglot? Is that what you're calling me now? I'll have you know I'm STRAIGHT.

[@nickgreu4ever]

I remember a while ago, I commented on one of Lingualizer’s videos about a recurrent guest that he had, that claimed to speak 20+ languages. Literally this guy learned a few basic phrases in all of those languages but claimed fluency. The way I was attacked by angry Americans on the comments, that I’m judging him, I’m jealous etc, was insane 😂

[@PetraStaal]

That Dutch guy Wouter Corduwener? He's so annoying!

[@zerquex4520]

@@PetraStaalthat guy is the ceo of fake polyglots, he learn the same fucking sentences in every language with the worst pronounciation possible

[@nickgreu4ever]

YES!! the guy who's like this 👁👄👁@@PetraStaal

[@sebastiant.3588]

Great video man! I study linguistics and education and, like you, all of these KZbin polyglots have been grinding my gears. I remember being impressed by things like this a few years back, but actually studying languages as a career makes you realize the immense bs that these videos actually are. Allow me to make an exception for Mr. Ranieri from Polýmathy though, he's great!

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

I disagree with you on one thing, Luke on Polymathy is actually a linguist scholar who does speak Ancient Greek and Latin. I think that's the only part you should take back

[@AmyBalot]

He produces a variety of good Latin learning videos, he does podcasts and gives speeches in Latin, he has been honest about the amount of time he's spent on these things, too so he doesn't belong here in this video. I can't comment on the Ancient Greek stuff since I don't know it but he is legitimate when it comes to learning, and the only thing he's guilty of, as far as I can tell, is knowing how to create a thumbnail that gets more clicks than others and editing videos in a fun way. He also never does the nonsense of pretending that you can learn a language in 6 weeks. He's a guy who seems to genuinely love languages and who is better at KZbin than I am, and I respect that. That being said, the bit about him speaking Latin to the Pope and triggering the apocalypse was funny to me. I am only pointing out that he's not a "fake polyglot" grifter in my view.

[@calebu31]

Gonna jump on the bandwagon and tell you that LanguageSimp gets a pass. Also, polymathy/Luke is a good channel for actual linguistics and info on Latin/greek and some modern languages, too. He's a good one.

[@tacobellappreciater]

exactly. Those two are valid

[@finnbarrett3845]

I’m learning Chinese, it doesn’t take 5 weeks it takes blood, iron and steel

[@YamiyugiXenith]

Im learning Chinese too

[@Designed1]

and chronic arthritis too

[@anak_kucing101]

その際、日本語を勉強します。

[@klbn6]

@@anak_kucing101 ive only been studying for 2 years but this shit is machine translated

[@anak_kucing101]

@@klbn6 It was written by me. 自分で書かれたそれは

[@JoãoBernardoDias-w4n]

One time I went out with a group of friends I had met recently, one of whom was a "polyglot" who spoke 14 languages. After one of my friends asked which languages she was fluent in, she said a few, one of which was my native language. Then I proceeded to talk to her in said language and she struggled to form any useful sentences saying a bunch of generic stuff you'd learn in an introductory class.

[@Flying_Raccoon-b7u]

There is one thing. One thing is learning a set set of phrases, and another is actually learning similar languages. I personally think for example Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegran count as different languages, because most everyone I know views them as such.

[@maycontainnuts3127]

"Samnite Shocks Lombards with FLAWLESS Etruscan"

[@sebastiant.3588]

Emperor CLAVDIVS absolutely SHOCKS Etruscans by compiling THEIR OWN VOCABULARY and GRAMMAR!!!

[@johnprager662]

um ACKSHUALLY the Lombards didn't settle what is now called Lombardy until centuries after the Samnites and Etruscans ceased to exist. In their time it was called Cisalpine Gaul.

[@Blabimir]

@@johnprager662 all the more reason for Lombards to be shocked; I know I would be if I saw a time traveling Samnite speaking Etruscan to me.

[@Cat_DeGaulle]

The fact that I got an ad on this video talking about how you "can learn german in 30 days" is crazy.😭😭💀

[@Mizionaree776]

lmao

[@iamapokerface8992]

ok

[@MegaJani]

2:33 Not many people know about Bao-Zer, you have great historical knowledge!

[@iamapokerface8992]

and where u know that not many know about him? and cringe that u are implying that your historical knowledge is great but saying that u also know him

[@owleyes5923]

4:12 As a Bavarian, it physically hurts me how this dude just spelt "Bayern"

[@moxellex]

Beiern, ja ? 🤣

[@FluoFalI]

there are some polyglots that do speak alot of languages fluently, massive respect for training years . but i do agree most of the 'polyglot speak 30 languages real!' videos are so dumb

[@maximk9964]

Lingua Latina non реnis canina (est) I could totally speak Latin to the Pope

[@piscisaurum]

Certe, hoc valde delectet pontificem maximum

[@bgggsht]

Durex latex sex latex Ahhh....so easy

[@kostakole9876]

I hate the fact that Latin might actually have a tiny reason to fucking exist.

[@deckie_]

Aquila non captat muscas! And also Uuh In vino Veritas! But don't forget Asinus non... lapidem... du- duos... duolingo.... latinam... twice

[@quuaaarrrk8056]

Quamvis sint sub aqua, sub aqua maledicere temptant.

[@finnbarrett3845]

It’s easy I learned ancient Egyptian in 5 minutes while blindfolded by simply talking to the Pharoh

[@FransceneJK98]

I learned how to read hieroglyphs one one month : 👁👄🇪🇬🧢😂😈💩🤡 and basically am fluent 😂

[@FedeTL]

Im italian, i know 8 italian dialects (9 if you count corsican), and only english as my foreign language Jho sù leal' au patrié 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

[@GAIVSCALIGVLA]

Good to see another Italian here. Viva Il Duce 🇮🇹🦅🤚🏻

[@841Takis]

I gotta ask is Corsican a dialect or a language?

[@bighillraft]

​@@841Takis Corsican and most other Italian dialects are considered separate languages by linguists but are called dialects by Italians (no doubt this was encouraged for political reasons) The line between a dialect and a language is pretty fine anyway, Serbian and Croatian are usually called separate languages but they are much more similar than, say, Venetian and Neapolitan It is important to note however that since Italy became a country in the 1860s, a Standard Italian language was created (mostly based on the Tuscan language) that is now spoken by most Italians, when I say "Venetian" or "Neapolitan" I am talking about the languages spoken in different parts of Italy before unification (which were similar but different from each other), these are in decline for the most part as most Italians just speak Standard Italian now. Corsican is an "Italian language" but since Corsica has never been part of the country of Italy, most Corsicans speak the old regional language instead of Italian

[@vedrancorluka2196]

​@@bighillraftOh trust that croats then have split up on 3 dialects which are mostly just differentiated by some terms and the way they say "what?" For example you have chakavian who ask "ča?" Kajkavian who ask "kaj?" And Štokavian who ask "Što?/Šta?"

[@nenadpopov3601]

@@bighillraft I don't understand how is the difference between dialects so big since it's the same country, Serbs and Croats understand each other without any problems, maybe 6 or 7% language difference.

[@tishaw.8254]

My fav is Langfocus. Subbed for YEARS lol. He’s just a lot better as far as going in depth in languages and even accents

[@TheForeignersNetwork]

THANK YOU for calling them "so-called" easy languages. I'm a fluent Spanish speaker but it is not my native language. The number of times that I've seen a native English speaker say that they "speak Spanish" and then proceed to speak Spanish with dog shit pronunciation and/or vocabulary and grammar is just off the charts. There are *certain aspects* of Spanish that are easier for English speakers to understand, but there are other aspects of the language that are incredibly foreign to those same people. So foreign, in fact, that many native English speakers never truly understand them. It's not easy to become fluent in any language. Anyone who says otherwise is probably trying to make some money off of you.

[@anak_kucing101]

Heyy, ¿qué tal? Mi idioma nativo es el español, y sé inglés también. Soy de El Salvador 🇸🇻, ¿te gustaría practicar inglés-español conmigo?

[@jnicasio]

I really needed to read this comment. It’s hard not to get frustrated with myself because my Spanish pronunciation is so poor (not super poor compared to the average American, but not where my partner would like it to be). I try to practice pronunciation with my partner but sometimes it feels like I’m endlessly banging my head against a wall.

[@TheForeignersNetwork]

@@jnicasio I would not be too down on yourself about that--Spanish phonology is usually the hardest thing for native English speakers to master. The mouth posture is completely different in Spanish and there are several consonant sounds that are not present in English. It takes several years to learn, and in my opinion, you also need to live in a Spanish-speaking country in order to master it completely. Living in Argentina was what really allowed me to master pronunciation because you are completely immersed in the sound of the language at all times

[@Chris-zi1we]

Language simp is the goat

[@myztikmixxa]

i can confirm that forgetting a language because you haven’t used it in a while is true, and especially since i live in the u.s., i forgot all of my Hmong as soon as i went to school.

[@Bear-c4x]

You’re in Canada. Not the US.

[@LordFlexton]

Ah, man, you have no idea how much I've wanted to hear this. I used to watch Xioumac ~3 years ago, when I was learning German in school. I thought his mandarin was good because I didn't know any better, but he started coming out with the "I learned German in 30 days using Google translate" videos around that time and I thought the same as you, it misrepresents how easy it is to learn a language and to what level. This video does a much better job making that point concise and clear, it is a shame that he is still gaining popularity, to the point where he is even in U.S. recruitment ads.

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

Well, american recruitment ads are basicly a joke.

[@LordFlexton]

@@tovarishchfeixiao This I do not dispute, but it was even worse to see him.

[@part9952]

Finally. Finally someone calling them out! I always think to myself that they probably all prepare what they are going to say for the video rather than actually improvising. I‘ve been learning Russian at my own pace, sometimes more sometimes less for about 5 years now and recently started to actively and fluently use it at work, with russian speaking collegues. Also besides that I learn croatian and greek, I‘m far from fluent in those still but progress is being made. Its annoying how so many people claim to be „polyglots“ like thats the only reason to learn languages rather than doing it so meaningfully connect with other cultures and for yourself out of passion.

[@hywodena]

My own grandmother forgot her first language, Italian, by the time I was born. When she moved away from new York and her entire family after marrying a German, she just never used it. My mother never even heard her speak Italian. She still knew a few phrases, but for the most part she'd forgotten everything.

[@erbaelektronix25]

Üdv János, gratulálok a vidihez. Egésszen jó lett. Csak így tovább. Üdvözlet Szerbiából

[@liveforever141]

Putting Xiaomanyc (for his mandarin skills, for other languages I agree, that he "learns" them for clout) and Luke Ranieri (he's legit scholar Phd at Latin and Greek, and do not claim to be some super polyglot) with all these clowns is uncalled for.

[@SerbAtheist]

Yeah, but Xiao dishonestly piggy backs of his native-like fluency in Mandarin to imply he is equally fluent in all the other languages as well.

[@EskiltheWanderer]

@@SerbAtheistYea I think he's genuinely interested in language learning and part of his strength at it is that he's willing to try even if his north american accent distinctly comes through, but he shouldn't represent the degree to which he's proficient in these various languages as being "fluent" or "having learned" the language. The notion of "learning a language" in 24 hours is absurd. I don't doubt, however, that he has a process by which he creates a scheme in his mind in as short as a day that enables him to begin the learning process in immediate conversation. People's perspectives of standards shifts around throughout time. The people (mis)representing themselves as "polyglots" may not be doing so with ill intent, but they're probably full of something that I can say in three or four languages (but being able to say shit in multiple languages doesn't mean you're a polyglot).

[@zerquex4520]

That Xiao dude only knows Mandarin, other than that he's a total fraud. The biggest example of this was when he pretended to learn Norwegian in 2 weeks, and tried to edit his video to make him sound less bad.

[@billster7424]

Xiaoma also has the tendency for propagating for the Chinese government multiple times per “I spoke PERFECT Mandarin to _______” episode.

[@Pallethands]

Xiaoma went to Ireland to speak Irish and then didn't go to the places where Irish is spoken. He did a similar thing in Wales.

[@izpodpolja]

And I thought that with "Nem táncolunk úgy ahogy Brüsszel fütyül!" I mastered conversational Hungarian

[@andrasjuhasz5064]

Sajnos csak kevesen értik ezt😁😅

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

Nope. You need to master "te tetted e tettetett tettet te tettetett tettek tettese te" and "megszentségteleníthetetlenkedéseitekért" on a level that if someone wakes you up you can instantly say them without any mistake. That will be the conversational level.

[@mrpseudonym893]

A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal!

[@enysuntra1347]

2:50 I am sorry, but Luke Ranieri doesn't claim to be a "Polyglot" or to "have learned" Latin and Ancient Greek "in 6 weeks", but is proficient in both langueges due to long experience. If you had watched one of his videos, you'd see that he doesn't do some telepromter crap, but converses with Latin speakers, eg from Radio Vatican, in a way and with unquestionably competent people that would be hard to fake. His "clickbaity titles" aren't to belittle those he talks to, but he does what eg the BBC did with Frisian and Old English or a lot of other broadcasters since as far back as the 1960s: He tests out mutual intelligibility of his languages - so far I have only seen him do this with Latin, as Greek is more of an island phenomenon - in a respectful manner. I am really, REALLY annoyed by most "KZbin Polyglots" also, but you singling out Luke Ranieri (Polymathy, Scorpio Martianus) is absolutely uncalled for.

[@weeblol4050]

Im a polyglot. I speak Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and English. So I must be stopped.

[@TheLandBeforePrime]

Can you speak Shakespearean and Gen Alpha too?

[@Robespierre-lI]

Yeah. They are very annoying. Some of us like learning languages because, well, we just like languages. I've never once felt the need to go on a webcam and record myself switching between languages. Oh and language Jones! He's my hero... and super-handsome.

[@iamapokerface8992]

the worst part is how they are only talking the basic smalltalk

[@Cronkna]

Polymathy is actually an expert in Latin though

[@MurakamiTenshi]

Right, he has a secondary channel that is strictly in Latin.

[@Nazinsky]

How do you even learn Latin??

[@mirceagogoncea]

There is no universe in which Language Simp belongs in the same group as those other language youtubers you mentioned.

[@punished4890]

xiaomanyc too

[@ionutbirsan1139]

The most honest guy living ironically in Europe I've ever seen

[@Rylinx.]

I seen this video from wouter saying "This girl can speak 13 languages at 13" and a year later he posted "this girl can speak 21 languages at 14" like how is that possible

[@Aleksandar292]

I am 16 years old and i am going to Cooking high school in Serbia. I am fortunate that my profession has a high demand in the tourism sector, so learning every new language for me means improving my career. In my free time, I learn Italian to make it easier to learn terminology that is in regular use while working in the Kitchen.. And since I have the right to Croatian citizenship (because my father voluntarily emigrated from Croatia when he was 17 years old during the breakup of Titoslavia) I believe that the Italian language is just another key that will open many doors for me in my future job. My sources are YT channels like Italy made easy and my friend from music school who has Italian as a subject (I'm copying from his book)

[@timon2134]

I love this, i personally like learning new languages but i dont go around and tell people that i am fluent in them, also as a slavic person i can confirm i do like understanding so many languages despite not being fluent, keep up the fantastic work

[@compatriot852]

There's a reason why actual fluent polyglots have been in high demand for centuries, because it's extremely hard to become one. My grandfather for example had the British and American governments all over him during ww2 after finding out he was a polyglot with years of experience.

[@Mizionaree776]

does it necessarily require fluency to count as being able to speak the language, or does it have to be even at a conversational level for it to count?

[@twelvetoes-e9n]

This video is CLUTCH. Thanks for saying what needs to be said.

[@CostaCola]

YEEESSSSSS!! I'm from New York. I speak some Mandarin but am not Chinese (also some Spanish and some French). I'm decking the next person that sends me a xiaomanyc video. His, "WATCH ME SPEAK MAYAN!!" video is painful. Canned phrases and responses but no cultural awareness. Not to have a huge stick up my a** but the Mayan people have historically been discriminated against in Mexico. Speaking the government language, Spanish, in public situations is something that was pretty well beat into people until not too long ago; same as many minority groups around the world from the Bretons to the Hakka. He rolls up with a crew and camera to some unfortunate lady selling food on the side of the road and she explains, visibly uncomfortable, that she can speak Spanish. "WOw!!! LOOk hOw sURpRiSeD thEY aRE!" Next our hero pulls up on a confused mestizo gentleman who, confused, nods and smiles to the canned greeting in a language he doesn't speak. Cue the usual, "HE IS SHOCKED SPEECHLESS THAT I SPEAK HIS LANGUAGE!" The whole thing was disingenuous.

[@enduser8410]

Actual polyglots beyond two languages are really rare on KZbin. Xiaoma is the most famous but he only knows English, Mandarin, and maybe Yiddish/Hebrew iirc. Oriental Pearl and Stuart Jay Rag are the only big Polyglot KZbinrs I've seen with demonstrable fluency in multiple languages.

[@Vitorruy1]

Chris Mix Lewis is also good

[@leventevas]

First time seeing Győzike. Im proud of you János.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Thank you so much for this. As an American, I was getting very unsure. I should have figured most of the comments under those types of videos also had no idea what they were talking about when throwing non-stop praise.

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

And most of them very likely just bots. Because those praise comments usually very genericly phrased.

[@n3rdy11]

@@tovarishchfeixiao Great comment, I also love to lead a happy live! ❤❤💯👁👄👁

[@george.vasilev.reyner1916]

13:04 I actually went insane at my 9-5 job as I was trying to use my free time to devote to my hobby and learn a bunch of more languages. I'm already a linguistics student and work as a salesman AND translator (Bulgarian to Romanian and vice-versa) at my job. I got so burned out I got on meds. Don't go crazy with that shit, folks! Like senpai said, there's other important stuff in life also! Don't get FOMO cause you're not "one of the cool kids". Chances are most of these kids ain't even as cool as they make themselves seem.

[@aceproductions5734]

As a Bilingual speaker of Japanese and English it took me years and I mean almost a decade to get my Japanese to where it is now. I started learning at around 14 and I'm in my mid 20s now still studying, but I can actually converse in it a bit fluently now. I've always had major trouble believing polyglots especially when they say they can speak a language that is unrelated to their native tongue, because I've learned a language the complete opposite of my native tongue and know how difficult it is.

[@csabagalambos1461]

That Heroes 3 victory music tickled my callous, blackened heart. Thank you.

[@DimaMuskind]

13:02 Oh my god, how have you even got to this state in _Papers, Please_ , poor family

[@roban2799]

Thank you. I've been struggling with learning Hungarian since I was a teenager. Its not something my family has prioritized and we never spoke it back home. With my only resource being Duolingo, KZbin, hungarian music and the website Hungarian Reference, it's been a slow and inconsistent process. Getting a job hasn't really given me any more time to study either. This video perfectly describes my frustration with this kind of flexing and made me feel a little bit less dumb.

[@bazsamester]

Sok kitartást, előbb utóbb menni fog💪🍀

[@ylsageyr]

I used to be trilinguale but when my family moved back to iceland i just forgot danish because i didnt watch any danish media. We had been living there for 5 years!!!!! I am extremely upset aspecialy because in iceland we have to learn danish in school but now i dont speak the language any more😮‍💨

[@chaosking911]

Thank you for making this video! I can relate to the frustration on seeing such obvious lies about the process, I'm also absolutely infuriated by the heartless scamming culture we have out of control now.

[@davidmajer3652]

Thanks for another great video, you really pick relevant topics, and present them in a serious and entertaining way.

[@caseyjones5145]

Language simp is a great channel!

[@ConlangKrishna]

Nice, and entertaining video! Having grown up in Luxembourg, where virtually everybody speaks four languages (often Luxembourgish, German, French, English) in everday life, I had to spend about HALF of my secondary school time learning German, French, and English. Yes, I could have studied in any of these, but it took a LOT of effort. And I started learning all of them before puberty hit, and my brain began to change dealing with new languages. Additionally, these languages are closely related and influencing each other. Still, I do not sound like a native in two of them... Language skills need practice, practice, practice. There is no was around it.

[@MVM.7]

I know 3 languages. It’s hard as is to keep them fresh in my mind to say. Watching news or reading. I couldn’t handle another language. 😂