Polyglot speaks 20 languages. Here's how he did it.

How to become a polyglot?

He looks happy and cheerful. I guess that attitude can’t hurt.

He doesn't though. Unless by speaking a language you mean 'varying levels of competency and knowledge depending on the language involved'.

Steve doesn't have any method. He just lived in the country. 😒😒

National treasure

Can you learn two languages at the same time? Let’s say my native language is Spanish, l’ve been studying English for a long time and I think I have an intermediate level. I would like to learn Italian also. Do I must dominate English first?

You can't call yourself a polyglot if you don't speak those languages well.

Love this! I hope I can learn more languages.

You have any idea how useless this is 🤣🤣

I speak 8 languages and it is not difficult to learn if you watch films and have fun

Language Simp is bether than you hahaha

They say that chinese is the easiest language to learn, is this true ?

He learned Arabic!! What the Heck! That’s is a difficult language to learn man!

Steve's an inspiration.

Try Polski 🇵🇱

One thing is for sure. The way they teach languages in school is a huge waste of time.

It's how babys learn to speak

I believe that someone learns more easily a language ,when these are similar...
For example, Latin languages such as Spanish, Italian, and French are learned more easily from someone who speaks one of these languages.....
The same happens to speakers of Scandinavian languages or to speakers of kyrilik languages.....

HE is an AI robot thats why ! 🤯

Beeindruckend! Aber sein Deutsch klingt nicht gut, und die Satzstellung ist falsch. Es heisst: Ich glaube nicht, dass ich die Grammatik lernen kann. Love from Germany

Goals

His swedish is spot-on wtf

Wonder what's " bunch" in those 20 languages?

I speak fine languages and my secret to that is reading lots of books and speaking. I'm not the best at grammar tests though😆🤦🏼‍♀️

I learned English watching Mr Tumble with Subtitles in English. By doing so I had the opportunity to listen to the pronunciation and how the word is written.

Yet I don't want to listen to him.

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Hi, Would you mind posting the title of that linguistic book? Thanks in advance!

I speak 4 languages fluently. I thought that was enough. I would have liked to speak Spanish and Portuguese as well, but I did not get the opportunity. There is one more point: if you "speak" say 10 or 20 languages, your skills will aways be superficial. This gentleman admits in his first sentence that his grammar in German is shaky. (which is normal as it is not his native tongue and German has a complicated grammar!) That is not my idea of mastering a language! I am still learning in the langages I already speak, but I am a perfectionist. It's a choice you have to make : either quantity or quality! Language is not something to exhibit : it's a communication tool...

That how I've been taught languages the past 60 years. Of course materials have developed, but at 6 yrs we sang and played, then we kearned to travel and read short stories. Now my aim is at level C2 and one is forced to read materials you're not so interested in, but articles, novels and such. Now I decided to do a new degree in a subject I live in my target language (my 7th foreign language) as I can't find classes anymore. But I love language classes, still.

I'm a polyglot and the way I start to learn languages is by imitating accents.

I didn't quite pick up on Spanish speaking but I did pick up sign language.
I don't understand people who speak excessively fast when speaking a language.

Romanian?? 😮

What about Kanji? I th ink a lot of channerls skip over this... Kanji is this massive stumbling block that I never seem to be able to jump over... People just say.. do heisig.. I did heisig.. I still fell over!!

I will say that flash cards are useful if you need to learn something specific in a short period of time. At work, I made a bunch of flashcards with statements I would often need to say to people in Spanish. Once your remember those and understand what you are saying your knowledge of the language sort of spreads out from it like roots.

My mother learned how to speak and understand Turkish by watching Turkish movies. I joined in on the fun and began learning Turkish with her. Our family conversations are a mix of English, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian and French. My grandparents were a diverse bunch. 😅

I’m 13 and I am learning 4 langauges which is not including my native langauge

Well, he's not fluent in German

with german like that, he shouldnt be considered a polyglot

This makes so much sense to me. When I was in high school I took a spanish class, the very first sentence our teacher spoke to us was in Spanish. He said "tus ojos son muy bonitos" and he smiled and paused to see if anyone would get it, but then he smiled again and said "your eyes are very beautiful", and then he promised every young man in the room that none of us would ever forget how to say that in Spanish 😂. He was right! I actually dropped the class a few weeks later, but now I'm 36 and remember it like it was yesterday, because it had meaning. That simple small sentence also opened the door for other Spanish words as well, like if someone were to "bonitos" or another form of that word I would immediately understand they're talking about something being beautiful and I would much more easily be able to figure out what the other words mean.

He’s an 👽

I'm fluent in English and know more words than my 30 years old daughter, who is born here in Canada, but I miss The, a (articles, commas, and who, which miss in the sentence

how do languages solidify? i know 3 languages including my native one, but for some reason im most adept at russian, why?
i even think in my native language but if i want to communicate with someone im much more confident in russian

I wonder if the languages start to overlap for him. what language is he thinking in? how is his communication affected? how can he even upkeep 20 languages? whats the cost of upkeep, you have consume information in every language?

Short answer: he can't really spill any of them lol

as a 20 year old i genuinely thought i was too old to start learning languages. i’m so glad i gained the determination to learn german out of the blue, i am 4/5 months in and i’m at A2 level speaking (high beginner) but definitely at an intermediate understanding. i love it and i truly believe it’s much easier learning languages as an adult. 100% i agree with what this video talks about.

I speak Afrikaans as well as english and i also know a bit of turkish and I know a few Arabic words I learned Turkish by watching dramas😂

quite interesting thankyou both!