How Many Languages Does Elon Musk Speak?
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
- Elon Musk owner of Twitter (X), Tesla, Space X and others is South African and speaks English as a first language. But how does he speak English? And does he speak any other languages?
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2:04 Canada looks so much prettier now its annexed Alaska
As it should be.
The April fool's video came a month later I see
It's still about a fool so I'll allow it.
he's a polyglot from what I heard. Fluent in: scamese, slurred k-holese, cringese and English.
One correction when you zoom in on the languages map, the cluster of english speakers is northern johannesburg, and the afrikaans cluster is pretoria.
One could argue that Elon also speaks “cringe lord”
He’s the classic example of a dumb person’s smart person
@@prestondobbercompared to yourself of course 🤡
He speaks shit.
@@prestondobberAh yes, that's probably the best way to describe his role.
I only have one question for where is You're supercar You can't talk s*** when you aren't s***
Elon did not found tesla nor paypal.
Without Elon, Tesla would not exist
So, one, I guess... English...
Fluent in speaking bollocks.
Sounds like someone is jealous of his wealth. Cry more.
@@_Super_Hans_ What an asinine response. You're just showing your inability to recognise the bollocks that he speaks.
@@_Super_Hans_ nope.
Do we need Musk as clickbait to learn about South Africa? I only cared because it's on Hilbert's channel.
Also it would me more interesting to argue how many different cultures a person has explored in depth (e.g. through language) than counting how many people they could technically communicate with (but wouldn't)
Did you leave the cough in at the end on purpose? Or is it supposed to be some kind of commentary?
I've never understood why he re-named it "X". It is a ridiculous and meaningless name.
he wants to look edgy and cool.
He's obsessed with it. He tried to rename Paypal to that name and the board told him NO.
ambitious entrepreneurs tend to name their services after common nouns; so common nouns as we're using now and in future.
Word, for example.
@@masuo64 musk migth be ambitious but hes not realy an entrepeneur. hes just good at scamming investors.
Your opinion is meaningless because you are a nobody.@@Irobert1115HD
Elon's first language is Bullshitese.
South Africa has eleven "official" languages, as in these are recognized on paper, but people are forced to use English in official correspondence to an increasing degree. Essentially, we almost only have one actual official language sadly.
south Africa is basically an English speaking country all the other languages get ignored. i think you are more likely to find people who don't speak English in the usa and uk than in south Africa
Very metropolitan view, South African Rural areas often people don't speak English but rather Afrikaans is used as the Lingua Franca
thats the worst take ive heard all year
He's fluent in stupid too, don't forget that.
correction: Pretoria is a mostly Afrikaans city
So basically he's a monolingual anglo, and he's proud of it
i really hate the American-British flag to represent English. its very ugly and the American flag is obvious but the union jack it very distorted. i like the classic diagonal split.
I grew up in SA, also from Pretoria as a native english speaker. Growing up i hated Afrikaans class with a passion. Many people (including myself) plan to emigrate eventually and since Afrikaans is only spoken here we don't see a point in learning it.
He's proficient in Gibberish
YWNBAW
And technobabble.
@@deathrow1345 YSKYS
@@blubaylon Go -acky mode troon
Elon has said he learned Russian to learn as much as possible about rockets reading Russian books about it then knew enough Russian to try and buy an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) but the deal fell through. He appears to follow the Russian news channels.
Also fluent TechnoFash.
didnt realise F1 sponsered this video till the end
Media shows him as a great enterpriser but he grew up by his father's money
As a South African... I'm telling you those surveys are wrong. 14 million second language speakers is way too few.
Elon ma
I find the use of that flat design offensive to the UK - where English comes from. It should be more geared towards Britain, as that’s where English comes from.
06:06 - What!? That's the Formula 1 theme :p
Just add the 25m Dutch speakers to the 17m Afrikaans Dutch speakers then it's quite a sizeable number.
He’s really good at scammernese
Lmao @ the seething redditors in the comments because someone only speaks... english!
Of course he speaks English and Afrikaans
🤣 wrote exactly the same thing
no he doesn't speak Afrikaans
i would doubt that he speaks afrikaans. he went to one of those schools where afrikaans class is basically "Jan speel met die hond"
The English dot is Joburg and the green Afrikaans dot is Afrikaans in Ptetoria...
So in this video we learned that he speaks English...
We need another language flag video featuring German, French, Spanish, possibly Swahili as well
It is impossible for anyone to have grown up and gone to school in Pretoria (of all places) not to be fluent in Afrikaans.😆
After all these years you can still hear a little bit of the "Pretoria Boys High" accent when Elon speaks.
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And if we can add Dutch, we might as well add German! :D
I like how well you pronounce Afrikaans names and words
Elon Musk se gunsteling taal is Kak en hy is vlot daarin. Hy kan nie ophou om dit te praat nie.
Gosh, I thought this might surprise me positively about the man, but basically this entire video is about him being a monolingual English speaker who had some compulsory second language education he probably forgot about... bit boring, rather unsurprising.
yea kind of a pointless video i hoped this video would surprise us with him knowing Afrikaans or a random language like Spanish or mandarin. but he is very generic not even worth making a video about apart from maybe exposing the linguistic state of south Africa and how its pretty much just English speaking now the other languages are in decline
BRO F1 is enough no need for more anthems
just the one.... "Bullshit"
Oh, I guess he knows a bit of "snake oil vendor","shill" and drug fuelled egomaniac also
I'm not sure even he knows.
You never have to sort languages when you don't think before you speak!
It’s not nhosa it’s Xhosa
1:41 He didn't say nhosa, he was probably hesitant because he knew that there is this lateral click sound at the beginning of Xhosa, and he is very conscious of pronunciation.
He definitely didn’t pronounce it that way but that’s fine…
Granted he didn’t a full out lateral click, but that’s also an incredibly hard sound to make that requires practice if you’re coming from a very western language background.
Also a certain amount of click actually gets smoothed by good noise suppression sometimes as well
I'm from SA, I have a lot of friends from Musk's old school. Here in SA, second language Afrikaans is a joke, you can pass final year Afrikaans FAL without even being able to speak the language at all. I can promise you he can't speak it.
Hello Hilbert. Number = x?
1, tops
I know Afrikaans
Why are you covering Elon? As a South African, he gives us all a bad name
So… 6 minute video basically saying that he speaks only English, and a second language the same as 90% of other Americans… which is effectively not at all.
4:40 Can barely understand him
Don't give that narcissist any more attention.
So many salty people in the comments. Lot of jealousy probably.
He's fluent in pathological narcissistish.
Dog water content
yea i disliked the video
Sport
Bullshit is his preferred language.
Damn, what a waste of a video.
Fluent in manbaby as well.
I could see why he wants to replace language I don't think he has ever been an impressive communicator.
Why did you even waste your time making this video?
yea nobody cares about someone who only speaks english that is too common
he speaks corruption and goverment money
He's conversationly fluent in dumbasstechbroese
Elon Musk does not speak English 😂 wtf
Im guessing he is working on his Hebrew soon enough.
Prolly zero.
He primarly speaks hypocrite and apartheid.
Of COURSE Elon Musk only ever spoke colonial languages. Colonizer is his whole personality. I gave him too much credit thinking maybe he could speak some Zulu or Xhosa.
i know some zulu but i don't blame him for not learning it everyone in south Africa knows English its like the African version of Danish. he would be better off with Hausa or Somali or Lingala.
South Africa has 16 Million speakers of English and 27 Million speakers of Zulu according the latest numbers I've found, @@belstar1128. By "everyone" did you maybe mean "all the white people"? Or do you have a recent source showing a big change?
South Africa has 16 Million speakers of English and 27 Million speakers of Zulu according to census data and the book cited below, @@belstar1128. Curious about your source for "everyone in South Africa knows English."
_Language in South Africa: The role of language in national transformation, reconstruction and development_ by Victor Webb. ISBN 9789027297631
South Africa has 16 Million speakers of English and 27 Million speakers of Zulu according to the "South Africa Gateway", @@belstar1128. Curious about your source for "everyone in South Africa knows English."
South Africa has 16 Million speakers of English and 27 Million speakers of Zulu according to the "South Africa Gateway", @@belstar1128. Curious about your source for "everyone in South Africa knows English."
He also speaks a third, Shitposting.
You forgot BS. He talks lots of BS.
Can we send him back please?
Nah, he's all yours. Remember the draft, you get Elon Musk and South Africa gets Orlando Bloom.
@@Clark_Kent_ZA Why the hell did we agree to that?! We gave up a good actor for this shithead?!
As a South African who also lives in Pretoria, no thanks. He's denounced us and we denounced him. He's all yours.